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"Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come
And some of our men just in from the border say
There are no barbarians any longer.
Those people were a kind of solution."
North Africa is probably the only example of a province conquered directly from the Empire by barbarians, their occupation being recognised by a Treaty in 442. Even then, however, quite what that 'treaty' implied is not very clear. The Vandals acquired control of Byzacena, Numidia and Procunsularis but what did that mean, exactly? I'm not sure we actually know. More important is Huneric's betrothal to Eudocia, something which meant that, had they had any children by the time of Valentinian III's death in 455, they would presumably have been regarded by many as legitimate heirs to the throne of the Empire. The Vandals regarded their links with the imperial house very seriously and, furthermore, Vandal raids on the West stopped after 442, precisely until the murder of Huneric's father-in-law, Valentinian III in 455, when war broke out again. Geiseric wanted to place Huneric's Roman brother-in-law Olybrius on the throne, restoring the Vandals' legitimate Theodosian dynastic position at the heart of the Empire. This was finally achieved, and with it another treaty recognising their position at the heart of the Empire, in early 472. Only Olybrius' inconsiderate death, some months later, plunged the Vandals back into the cold, where they, like all the other factional losers in fifth-century politics, settled for a kingdom.
This serves as a very good example of fifth-century western politics, which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be characterised by struggles between defending Romans and invading Barbarians. Everywhere within the western Roman world, where we have any evidence, what we discern is the alliance between military and civilian élites, usually but far from entirely in the form of soldiers with barbarian identities and local provincial aristocrats, forming factions competing for power within the political structures established in the fourth century. Fifth-century history is one of repeated failures by various factions to consolidate a position at the heart of the Empire by re-establishing direct control over all the other regions and their factions. Such failures were by no means predestined: sixth-century history shows how dramatic the results of a single significant military success could be. Even as late as 471 it was far from impossible that the situation could be restored. However, successes were indecisive, and failure usually led merely to a retreat into de facto autonomy in the region where one's power base was located and frequently the assumption of the title of king: a pattern repeated over and over. This point matters. It suggests that the grand narrative of the attempts by barbarians to conquer lands and create independent kingdoms within the Empire is, fundamentally, empirically mistaken. I cannot find any support for the idea that kingship was the preferred aim of any 'barbarian' leader in the fifth century – and let's remember that most of the so-called barbarian leaders of the fifth century were actually born and raised within Roman territory.
But that grand narrative, of barbarian invasion, conquest and kingdom-creation, is hugely problematic. I have taught a Masters' Degree course called 'Renegotiating Rome' in which we look serially at different forms of data from the fifth century – settlements, burials, annalistic sources, literature, art – and compare the story those forms of evidence tell with the grand narratives of modern histories. What we have found (to an extent that I was quite unprepared for) is not merely that those narratives barely resemble modern reconstructions, but how another set of stories emerges. One is how little fifth-century contemporaries were actually interested in the barbarians – except in long-established rhetorical ways. The other - which makes a bigger problem for my own book on this period than it does for its competitors – is that the real fifth-century grand narrative concerns a shift in the way the world was divided up: from a system within which the ideal Roman male occupied the central position, with other identities – barbarian, female, animal – defined by their closeness to or distance from this single pole of attraction, to one in which the centre being competed for was defined by religious orthodoxy. Others were categorised by their distance from this. This is not incommensurate with the narrative of the break-up of the western Empire; it is crucial to that break-up. Nor is it incompatible with the fracturing of political identity into a series of identities based largely, though far from exclusively, around different barbarian ethnicities. But it does suggest that seeing the fifth-century in these terms is well wide of the mark.
Why, then, are people so wedded to the barbarians as the major cause for any and all change in the late antique west? For they are. Here is a, in a way quite minor, but nevertheless rather good, example that I came across in Paris a couple of weeks ago, of how anything and everything can be pinned on the barbarians, whether in terms of presence or absence. It comes from an article about antler-working in the towns of the Meuse Valley which, for those not in the know, is not conventionally regarded as in The Germanic World. "The Meuse valley sites, presenting continuous occupation from the Roman period into the Merovingian, show that the working of antler found its roots in the Germanic world." The author then moves on to explain that this is because early Romans didn't use antler very much but late Romans did, and the late Roman period was when the Germanic 'tribes' (the word used) were settled in northern Gaul. He then discusses why antler is actually a better material than bone for making combs… Why Romans can't just change to using a better material, within the Roman period after all, is left unexplained.
|Cookhouse of the 8th Hussars
Historians are not immune from similarly bizarre reasoning, of course. The counter-revisionist offensive against more subtle ways of thinking about the fifth century has been led by British historians from Oxford. Peter Heather has repeatedly deployed the notion that, because wagons, women and children are occasionally mentioned in sources concerning the barbarians, the barbarians must have been 'peoples' on the move. Here (right) is Roger Fenton's photograph of the cook-house of the 8th Hussars in the Crimea, probably in 1855. The British expedition to the Crimea is surely, uncontroversially, the movement of an army rather than a migration of people, in spite of the clearly documented presence here of A: a wagon, and B: a woman. Actually you can stay in the Roman period and find more than enough references to wagons, women and children in accounts of the Roman army. Such are the weakness and double-standards of the arguments in favour of the traditional narrative. You can list many more.
To this one can add the logical knots that traditionalist archaeologists tie themselves in, to maintain that things like furnished inhumation, for which there is no prima facie evidence to support a 'Germanic' origin, is the sign of barbarian settlement. Or the arguments in favour of the Grubenhaus being a similar index. The Grubenhaus is now known from all over western Europe within and without the Roman Empire's frontiers, in particular in North-Western Germany, northern France and in England. It is known in northern Gaul from the third century but only from the fifth on the coastal sites of the Anglo-Saxon homelands and in England. To make this a Germanic cultural artefact requires us to assume that two different Germanic groups with significantly different archaeology in their homelands moved to different parts of the Roman Empire, where they suddenly started producing settlements that were remarkably similar. In any other period, even in the early middle ages, the hypothesis would be that the 'grub-hut' was part of a common response to similar social economic crises in different areas of north-western Europe, with influences as likely coming from the Empire to barbaricum (indeed perhaps more likely in that direction given the overwhelming direction of cultural influences documented in that period) as in the opposite direction, from barbarian territory to Roman. Yet here we are supposed to see people's ethnic identity, related to their geographical origins, as simply manifested in these buildings, even to the extent that minor details of planning of SFBs are alluded to, to prove their 'Anglo-Saxon' credentials. Influence can't move from the Empire to barbaricum (even though it demonstrably did!) because the barbarians didn't move in that direction.
Thus far, I hope, I have shown that the barbarian invasions grand-narrative is, when moving from simple description to explanation, empirically dubious but that, inaccurate and misleading and mired in questionable preconceptions though it is, large numbers of archaeologists and historians continue to cling to it, to the extent of deploying some of the most absurd arguments to justify it. Why?
One reason is without doubt the weakness of the alternatives and responses to it. Some have moved perilously close to denying that migrations ever took place. A French amateur archaeologist called Alain Simmer indeed has said outright that there was no Germanic migration into Lorraine. One reason why the traditional narrative remains ensconced as firmly as it is is that these arguments have, if anything, frequently been at least as absurd as those in favour of the old style Völkerwanderung. Another is that most minimalist arguments do not, in fact, challenge the master narrative. The barbarians still conquered the various territories of the Empire and thus brought down the imperial state; there just weren't as many of them – they were a military élite. Sometimes this is descriptively a better reading, but it doesn't change the story except in its details and, because of that, the explanation can become less satisfactory. The 'late antique problematic' has a curiously schitzophrenic attitude to barbarians. For the last forty years or so, it has promoted – rightly on the whole – a view which sees the development of the Roman world (however defined) within the framework of specifically later Roman features, moving away from a sharp break in the fifth century. Longer-term trajectories are preferred, and the inheritance of Rome stressed. And yet, when it comes to the western Empire's demise, the late antique paradigm has evidently developed no alternative to seeing the West beaten down by waves of barbarians whom it couldn't keep out. Partly, I am sure, this stems from the largely Mediterranean – eastern Mediterranean – focus of late antiquity studies, and from their concentration on cultural and religious history. This ought to be an irony given what I said about the essentially religious master-narrative that our fifth-century sources actually tell. The last alternative is the 'Rome never fell' approach, now sadly more or less whole-heartedly subscribed to by Walter Goffart. This approach does not deny that there were barbarian migrations; it just denies them any significant role in history: utterly irrelevant features of a process which didn't actually happen anyway!
Thus we have a situation where, in many people's minds the choices before us are evidently, either, that nothing happened, or, that there was a huge catastrophe caused entirely by invading barbarians. This is still rhetorically presented as the only interpretative choice available to us by those supporting the traditional narrative but this is far from really being the case. Plenty of people other than me – most famously, Walter Pohl – have written about serious, dramatic change happening in the fifth century without blaming it on the barbarians and without denying that there were migrations in the fifth century. Yet this – if I dare call it such – third way seems nevertheless to be very much a minority position.
What do we get if we lift the veil of the barbarian? We are presented with a picture of a world where things were much messier, where the barbarians did not occupy a separate world, which existed in binary, frequently hostile, opposition to the Empire. Where a dominant culture has a responsibility to those it dominates within its world and where it becomes responsible for stress in that other part of the world which it dominates, including stress that results, unsurprisingly in migration towards and into the dominant civilisation's territory. Move the barbarian 'subject presumed to' and we have to face up to the historical reality of destructive stress caused by social inequalities, by self-serving rivalry amongst the political élite, rivalry – at base - to control more of the material and cultural fruits of the surplus generated by the empire. It is a picture where history unfolds as 'contingency, singularity [and] risk', to take a phrase from Roland Barthes – events occurring in chaotic constellation and kaleidoscopic sequence. This is not a comforting vision. Far better to hang the veil of the barbarian, the subject presumed to evade all the normal rules of history, between us and it. If the figure of the barbarian ruins everything no one can be blamed for that; no one can control the barbarian.
If we, as late antique historians and archaeologists wish to do something more than inhabit an airless ivory tower, if we want to take our responsibilities to society seriously, then the most important duty facing us today is to rip that veil away.


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Flirting alone is a sign that someone likes you. People often send these signals by interacting physically or emotionally to your body language and verbal communication. For instance a person may touch you lightly on the arm, or ask questions about your background, or give you compliments. These are signs that there is an interest. The actual sign would depend on their personality and level of confidence. Some people are very subtle while others are very forward. If someone shows interest of any kind they may be sending you a signal. Our need to get personal is a good sign in your favor. We often show interest by asking personal questions or briefly touching a person to show a desire for intimacy. Everyone is different.

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Video-game industry sales are continuing to slump in the US, with NPD figures for May released this evening showing a 23 per cent drop year-on-year, with falls led by hardware sales.
It's hard to imagine any improvement till the holiday season, barring early price cuts for the consoles. Major game releases also seem to be "back-end loaded", compared to last year, when there were big hits earlier in the year, such as Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA). Read more


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building a rainbow {5 days of color}: brown or grey/
We're building a rainbow!!!
Create art in one color each day this week: an art journal page, a sketch, a doodle, a painting, a mixed media work, embroidery, crochet.
DECEMBER 8: PALE PINK or SALMON
DECEMBER 9: LEMON YELLOW or CHARTREUSE
DECEMBER 10: PERIWINKLE or LAVENDER
DECEMBER 11: BROWN or GREY
Our color hostess is Carlene, so go check out Carlene's intro.
my page for brown, in the 5x8" moleskine, with pitt pen and watercolors
tried to create a variety of browns by mixing varioius colors
Nathalie has been crowned Queen of Grey today, so go check out her intro.
watercoloring over pitt pen in the 5x8" moleskine... i used payne's grey, black and a touch of indigo


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AITP has awarded its Life Achievement Award to Region 1 President Norbert J. Kubilus and Vice President-Operations Charles ("Chuck") Brown. Beth Pirrie, AITP Executive Vice President and 2010 President-Elect, presented the Awards during the Region 1 Conference on June 27th in San Diego. As Beth noted in her presentation, "Norbert and Chuck are being recognized for the contributions they have made over three decades to the success of the Association, efforts on behalf of fellow members and development of their professional status." Norbert J. Kubilus, CCP MBCSNorbert is a career technology executive and a national technology leadership consultant. His experience as a senior executive includes: Senior Vice President & CIO for Sunterra Corporation; Vice President, Worldwide Operations & CIO for The Leading Hotels of the World and Prima Hotels; President & COO of DataLEAD Communications; Vice President & CIO for BCM Inc.; Vice President & CIO for Educational Testing Service; and Vice President & COO of the Network Services Division of National Data Corporation. Norbert's consulting experience includes private practice as well as having been a Technology Leadership Partner with Tatum LLC, Director of Consulting Operations for Stellcom Inc., and Vice President & CTO for Optimal Solutions.A graduate of Seton Hall University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Norbert is a Certified Computing Professional, having earned his CDP in 1979 and CSP in 1984. He is author of over 60 publications on technology issues affecting business and a frequent conference speaker. Norbert has served on editorial advisory boards for CIO Decisions, Software Magazine, Reston Publishing Company, and Education for Management. He was also a Faculty Fellow and Computer Science Professor at The College of New Jersey, where he taught software engineering and project management. Computerworld named Norbert a Premier 100 Technology Leader in 2007.Norbert joined DPMA in the Lakeland Chapter in 1979. He is a Past President of the San Diego Chapter and a Chapter Director, and he chairs AITP's Legislative & Regulatory Affairs Committee. Norbert became Region 1 President in June 2008 and an Association Director for the Western District in May 2009.Charles L. Brown, MPA CCPChuck is an enterprise application architect and IT manager. He began his career as a programmer, working his way through San Diego State College (now University). After graduation, he worked for the County of San Diego, pioneering development of on-line, real-time Criminal Justice applications. He ultimately managed all law and justice applications. His experience also includes Manager of IT at SDG&E, Director of IT at Community Care Network, Principal at Applied Information Management Consulting, and Project Manager with Sierra Systems, Inc. Chuck is currently Manager for Integrated Justice Applications, representing the San Diego County Sheriff's Department in regional, state and federal data sharing initiatives. These projects revolve around on-line data access, integration and security. Chuck's applications development and management experience spans the private, public, and academic sectors, including pharmaceuticals, managed care, public health public utilities, and local government.With bachelors and masters degrees from San Diego State University, Chuck has been a Certified Computing Professional since 1982. He has been a speaker, panelist, and organizer for local, regional and national conferences. Chuck published Comparative Operating Systems, a text and lab manual for Coleman College, when he was its Computer Information Science Department Chair.Chuck joined DPMA in 1980 and is currently a member of the San Diego Chapter Board of Directors, where he has held every position on the Board. He is Vice-president?Operations for AITP Region 1. Chuck has been Region Secretary and Director, and he has also served on Association committees for membership, chapter operations, and the Research and Strategies Advisory Group.
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Do you ever find yourself wondering what happened to Michael Keaton. First he was Beetlejuice. Then he was Batman. Now he's nowhere to be seen.
I'll always remember Keaton from the 1983 classic "Mr. Mom," which was one of my all-time favorite movies growing up. But I bet if you showed "Mr. Mom" to an audience of 8-year-olds today, they might not get any of the jokes.
Fatherhood has changed a lot in the past 30 years.
Nowadays, television commercials show dads doing laundry and packing lunches. "Don't forget the Go-Gurt, Dad!"
But in 1987's "Three Men and a Baby," Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg had us cracking up over their inability to even change a diaper.
That wouldn't be very funny now. In fact, it would cause a modern-day leading man to lose dream-worthy status with women across America. (I'd like to think that Brad Pitt knows exactly what to do with Desitin.)
There are lots of Mr. Moms in Snohomish County, but these days they are called Stay at Home Dads. They do everything Stay at Home Moms do, plus mow the grass.
I also know plenty of working fathers who find time to volunteer at their child's school, inside and out. A generation ago, dads were sometimes involved with field trips, but they weren't showing up every Thursday to run a math group.
But to be fair to 1980s fathers, I'm not sure teachers even thought about asking dads to volunteer on a regular basis back then.
Oh, how times have changed.
Last year, I organized a needlepoint craft project for a first- and second-grade classroom. My assigned volunteer was a dad who had never sewn before. He learned the finer points of plastic canvass in about two minutes. Then he spent the next three hours teaching kids to cross-stitch.
In 1983, Keaton could have turned that incident into high comedy. But in 2013, it's just a typical day of fatherhood.
Take kids to the bus stop, go to work, swing by the grocery store on the way home and fold that pile of laundry on the bed. Whose day am I describing?
Dads in the 1980s who learned to change diapers were pretty rad. The ones who learned to cook were even more awesome.
But, dude. Dads of today? Have a happy Father's Day. You've totally earned it.
Jennifer Bardsley is an Edmonds mom of two and blogs at teachingmybabytoread.com.


text: There have been a lot of requests recently for help in cancelling PPI on loans. This post provides a sample letter which you could tailor to your exact circumstances. It is simple to cancel PPI on credit cards: although sometimes they do try to talk you out of it, all you have to do is insist. But with loans, the premium for the PPI insurance over the whole term of the loan is calculated at the beginning and often added on to the loan amount so you are even paying interest on the PPI costs. Banks often say that you are not entitled to cancel the PPI after 30 days, but what they do not tell you is that you should be able to cancel the PPI from this point on and get a partial refund. And there are also some circumstances in which you should never have been sold the loan in the first place. In these cases, you might as well ask for a refund of all the money you have so far paid in PPI. But even if the bank refuses this, you should still be able to cancel the PPI from this point onwards.So, the sample letter is as follows:Complaints departmentBank's name & addressRe: account 999999999999999999999COMPLAINTDear Sir or Madam,I took out the above loan for £x,000 on dd/mm/yy. When I took it out, I signed up for Payment Protection Insurance. I phoned up on dd/mm/yy to ask to cancel it and was told that this is impossible. I am writing to complain.Put in any of the following which apply:[When I took out the loan, I was told that I would not have been given the loan if I did not take PPI. I have since been told that this is not true, and that you are not allowed to make PPI a condition of taking out the loan unless you include the costs of PPI in your quoted loan interest rate, which you did not do. I therefore consider that I have been mis-sold this expensive insurance, which I do not need and which I said that I did not want.][I am self-employed/work as a contractor/unemployed and therefore will not be eligible for any payments from the PPI if I cannot get work or am sick. My situation was known to the person who sold me the loan, however he/she did not point out that the insurance was virtually useless to me so I think that I have been mis-sold the insurance.][When I took out the loan, I said I did not need the PPI as my employer provides generous illness and redundancy benefits, but I was told I should still take it out. As this is not correct, I consider that I have been mis-sold this expensive insurance, which I do not need and which I said that I did not want.][I wish to cancel the PPI because since taking out the loan, my employment situation has changed. I am now self-employed/work as a contractor/unemployed and therefore will not be eligible for any payments from the PPI if I cannot get work or am sick.][I wish to cancel the PPI because I now have sufficient alternative insurance cover from my employer and other sources.][I wish to cancel the PPI because I am in financial difficulties and cannot afford it. I enclose a Statement of Affairs which shows this.]I have been advised that I should be able to cancel the PPI contract at any time and receive a partial refund of the premium that I have paid. I would like to do this. [And in view of the way I was mis-sold the insurance, I would like to ask for a full refund of the whole premium.]I would appreciate a reply to this letter within fourteen days. If you reject this complaint, I would be grateful if you could explain whether you provide an internal appeals process. If you do not, please supply me with a final response letter, so that I can take up the matter with the Financial Ombudsman Service.Yours faithfully,nb There is no reason why you have to be able to prove that you cant afford the PPI before you cancel it, so in theory you should not need to send an SOA. However, I think it helps because it puts the bank morally in an even worse position if their PPI is causing you hardship.How to compalin to the Financial Ombudsman Service is explained in detail here: http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/consumer/complaints.htm.I would love it if anyone who uses this letter reports back here to say what success they have had!manzanilla


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Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2004, Manuel Kasper wrote:
>>On 16.05.2004 18:59 +0200, Adam Nellemann wrote:
>>>Is there ANY chance that you will find a workaround to this ipfw
>>>limitation? Would it perhaps be possible to avoid this issue if the
>>>check was done on the IP instead of the MAC?
>>None of my business really, as I didn't code that feature! But we
>>could just extend the "Allowed IP addresses" functionality to handle
>>both IP addresses on the captive portal subnet ("source") and
>>elsewhere ("destination" - status quo).
> it wouldnt be difficult to extend this at all. however, from a policy
> perspective, would it be alright to do so ?
> my thoughts are that if an IP was always going to be punched thru the
> captive portal, why would it be sitting behind the captive interface ?
> wouldnt it be better to place that server/client on another interface ?
> the line of thought i'm going thru is that the captive portal would be
> used to allow access to guests in an organization/enterprise or perhaps to
> implement some sort of hotspot/public access where a user would have to
> agree to ToS and and AUP (the portal page) and authenticate (when i'm done
> with radius support) before being allowed thru. an Allowed Source IP would
> bypass this and not explicitly agree on the ToS/AUP.
> what are your thoughts on this line of reasoning ?
> if it's overwhelming in support of Allowed Source IPs, i'll add them in
> over this week and pass them over to manuel for inclusion into his next
> beta release by the coming weekend. i'm hoping to finish radius
> authentication for the captive portal by then as well, with thanx to Jason
> Grimm who has kindly provided a radius server to test against.
Well, I can only speak for myself of course, and I'm probably not your
typcial captive portal user/admin! I run m0n0wall on my home network,
and would like to use the captive portal partly as a gimmick to
impress my WLAN guests, and partly to discourage abuse of my WLAN/WAN
by making sure any "intruders" are at least shown a few lines of legal
mumbojumbo (and a warning about their IP being logged) before being
allowed to (ab)use my WAN line. Later on I might even elaborate on the
concept with some kind of added security and/or authentication.
For this use (and yes, I realise this isn't what the captive portal
was meant for) it would be nice if I could allow some specific hosts
(ie. my own) to bypass the portal, without having to add a seperate
interface to my m0n0wall box, for just this purpose (after all
wireless devices, especially standalone APs, aren't THAT cheap!) This
is only really usefull, however, if these hosts have no restrictions
on their WAN access (including not having to do a http request to get
access, thus my request for something other than the MAC list!)
Also (and this might actually be a real argument, even for serious
users of the portal feature), using a separate interface for
non-portal users will entail running two wireless devices on top of
eachother (assuming a setup where both portal and non-portal users are
using wireless access). This might not be optimal for any number of
reasons (including, but not limited to: interference, added security
risks/overhead, increased costs, increased number of parts that can
break down and so on...) In fact some of this even holds for
non-wireless use of the portal (at the very least you'd need an extra
switch and some added patching, which might be a problem if the
physical location of the two types of users change frequently!)
I wouldn't say any of this is "overwhelming", so perhaps you should
wait to hear from other users as well before deciding. On the other
hand, I can't see any harm in adding this feature (that's assuming you
have nothing better to do with your time, of course?) If left unused I
assume that everything will be the same as before security- and
Thanks for your time helping Manuel with this feature!


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Boca Raton, Fla. - The Penn men's swimming team rang in the new year with easy victories on Wednesday over Florida Atlantic and Brown in a tri-meet held at the FAU Aquatic Center. The Quakers defeatedFlorida Atlanticby a score of 179-99 and Brown by a count of 177-104.
Penn got out to a lightning-quick start, as the team of Dillon and Brendan McHugh, Rhoads Worster and Peter Amos combined for an easy win in the 200 Medley Relay, coming in at 1:34.37. The next event provided one of many Quaker highlights on the day, as the Red and Blue had the first five to the wall in the 1000 Freestyle. Cam Hood won the event with a time of 9:44.08, while Stephen Carroll (9:47.72) and Alex Elias (9:58.04) were behind him in second and third.
The McHugh brothers were busy throughout the day, as Dillon took home a title in the 100 Backstroke (52.22) and a second place finish in the 200 Backstroke (1:54.41),while Brendan turned in a typical performance with victories in the 100 Breaststroke (56.58) and 200 Breaststroke (2:06.38).
Jeff Cragg cruised to a win in the 1-meter diving competition as well, finishing 35 points clear of second place with a score of 301.45.
Next up for Penn is an important tri-meet on January 14, facing Yale and Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. The men's meet follows the women's meet and is scheduled to begin at approximately 3 p.m.
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According to Cosmopolitan magazine, watching porn together can be a great way to spice up your sex life. I've found watching pornography with girls to be a mixed experience, at best. Even when it's her idea it's still an emotional minefield. I find it's better to let her pick the video because I know that when it's my turn to find a two minute internet clip I will be judged based on my selection. First and foremost, the featured performer should not be of a different ethnicity or have larger breasts or different colored hair than my lady friend. In fact, it seems that it should look exactly like her. Really, it ought to just be a video of somebody else having sex with her. Otherwise I run the risk of provoking, "Oh so that's what you really want to see? Some Asian girl with big tits?" which, of course, is exactly what I wanted to see.


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Gideon provides us with a great prophetic glimpse of how God brings revival to a nation. The lessons learned from his successes and failures offer wonderful insights for this present day move of God. Message Titles: "Getting Free From Oppression," "It Flows From the Revelation of His Presence," "Tearing Down Strongholds," "Reduced to Strength," "Have a Good War!," and "Spiritual Fitness for the Last Mile."
Revival Truths Discovered in the Life of Gideon


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The genus Eciton is part of the subfamily Ecitoninae, which is comprised of the New World army ants. All known species are nomadic group raiders. Morphologically the subfamily is characterized by having a distinct postpetiole (workers only); eyes absent or composed of at most a single ommatidium (in large workers the ommatidium can be fairly large, but is clearly composed of a single facet); and antennal sockets fully exposed with surrounding semicircular ridges. Workers are weakly to strongly polymorphic.
Ecitonine males are robust insects with elongate, cylindrical abdomens, and are often encountered at lights. They are strong fliers, and superficially resemble wasps. When captured and held in one's fingers, they make probing motions with the abdomen, as though imitating stinging motions of vespid wasps. They have large and heavily sclerotized genitalia, which are taxonomically useful for distinguishing genera and species. Queens are permanently wingless, always remain in colonies (reproduction is by colony fission), and are rarely seen.
The last synthetic revision of the New World army ants was Borgmeier (1955). This is a large work, in German, with over 700 text pages and 87 plates of figures. Watkins ((1976) provided a useful synopsis, with species lists, English translations of the keys, distribution maps, and compressed versions of the figures. Additional information on army ants can be found at Gordon and Roy Snelling's army ant pages, a site dedicated to New World army ants.
In Costa Rica there are four genera of army ants: Eciton, Labidus, Neivamyrmex, and Nomamyrmex. Eciton contains the largest army ants, and the most conspicuous. Workers are strongly polymorphic. The tarsal claws are distinctly toothed (distinguishing Eciton from Neivamyrmex); there are small but distinct spines or flanges on the posterodorsal margin of the propodeum (distinguishing Eciton from Labidus); and the scapes are relatively long and thin (distinguishing Eciton from Nomamyrmex). The soldiers have greatly enlarged, fish hook-like mandibles, which no other army ants have.
The trend over the past 50 years of ant taxonomy has been to eliminate the rank of subspecies, either raising subspecies to species or synonymizing them. But army ants show geographic patterns of character variation that lend themselves to subspecies recognition. Major structural differences in body shape and male genitalia separate major lineages with broad geographic ranges, while within those lineages more superficial characters such as color, pilosity patterns, or sculptural elements show a mosaic of discrete parapatric forms. The variation is not intrapopulational, nor is it a gradual continuum of geographic variation, sensu Mayr's polytypic species. The early ant taxonomists (e.g. Emery, Forel) made small phylogenetic statements by giving these geographic variants formal taxonomic names as subspecies or varieties. Borgmeier followed that tradition. The keys in Watkins do not include subspecies, but the taxon lists and distribution maps do. When relevant, this website retains subspecies status of Costa Rican taxa.
Literature Cited
Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720.
Watkins, J. F., II. 1976. The identification and distribution of New World army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas.
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LSI's Nytro MegaRAID Brings SSD Caching to SAS RAID Cardsby Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/2/2012 12:27 PM EST
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Jammrock - Monday, April 02, 2012 - linkhttp://www.fusionio.com/platforms/iodrive-octal/
Granted, a 5.2TB ioDrive Octal is $85k.
Oh, and Adaptec has had SSD caching for spindle RAIDs for a long time.
They also have hybrid RAID that allows you to mix SSDs and spindle drives in a RAID 1 or 10 to reduce costs on RAID with SSD.
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/_common/hybrid-raid/ Reply
somedude1234 - Monday, April 02, 2012 - linkThere's plenty of room in the enterprise PCIe SSD space for the LSI WarpDrive and Fusion IO line to co-exist.
The SAS2008 + Sandforce + NAND cards listed above appear to be a refresh of the previous WarpDrive line, nothing wrong with that.
Also, LSI previously had a software-based SSD caching options available for their existing MegaRAID controllers called CacheCade: http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/storagesw/Page...
The key point for the Adaptec software option that you list above as well as the LSI CacheCade software option is that both of these will improve read performance of your existing HDD RAID arrays by implementing a SSD read cache. Also, with both of these the SSDs aren't integrated with the card.
The apparent differences with Nytro MegaRAID are that the SSDs are integrated on the card itself (meaning you don't have to trade off HDD capacity for caching SSDs) and according to some of the press releases this is both a read and write cache, so it might be more advanced than CacheCade. This isn't clear but it's possible.
At any rate, it's nice to see LSI quickly coming out with products that leverage the SandForce acquisition. Reply
rrohbeck - Monday, April 02, 2012 - linkThank $DEITY that we have software caching that does the exact same thing with garden variety SSDs and HBAs. Reply
garadante - Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - linkThis is where I want to see SSDs going. Wider, current gen PCI-express interfaces, SLC memory so we don't sacrifice longevity or durability, and extremely appealing capacities and transfer speeds. 3.2 TB at 4GB/sec read and/or write?
Now my big question, is how long will it take for these to become consumer products. That 3.2 TB drive has to be upwards of 20-30 grand if not higher, but what would consumer mass production do for prices? A lot I'd imagine. I've been disappointed with the whole-hearted embrace of MLC technology in the consumer industry, as you're buying a product that won't last more than a handful of years before performance becomes unusable. SLC will give us drives that last decades (hopefully, and if the PCB/controllers can last as long) without significant performance degradation, so now they just have to become affordable!
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When the children start asking to install Opera browser, I'll know they are trying to get round content restrictions :)
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Dropbox is useful but have had some issues with links not working. American unfortunately.
Basecamp is a collaboration system that I find works very well and I use some of its features (not all) when I need long term access from a new client or during an extended sales discussion. Some can take years! Again American unfortunately.
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This is the way that Apple, twitterbook et. al. are privatising the internet.
If you want this android information, or any other information, get onto a web page and find it! With improved facility to keep favourites/bookmarks and sync them across devices, most browsers are much easier to use now when looking at the same site for updated info. DO use the web pages and keep the net open and working to modern standards. DON'T buy into closed access/walled garden systems.
So, what's the f**king difference between a Netbook and an ultrathin?
Sony won't be happy!
Now I know it's Friday and I promise I have not got the beer goggles on yet, but it looks like you forgot the UMPC category that Sony created for itself. In case you are not as old as me thats Ultra Mobile PC. Perhaps you need to find a new pub with bigger beer mats to draw the new chart on!


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Saturday, 25 January, 2003, 09:00 GMT
New era at Headingley
The broom sweeping through the corridors of Yorkshire County Cricket Club may be new, but it is being wielded by some old familiar faces.
After handing over total control of cricketing matters to Australian coach Wayne Clark two years ago, the Tykes have taken charge of their own destiny again.
Geoff Cope, Kevin Sharp and Arnie Sidebottom are the men who have been charged with supporting new captain Anthony McGrath, all former players from a period when the club enjoyed little success.
McGrath insists he and only he will choose the team and despite his easy-going nature, he is ready to take the difficult decisions.
A concern must be that Yorkshire means everything to these individuals and that can often bring too much pressure upon the side.
It was something Clark always feared and one of his main objectives was to allow the players to enjoy themselves in the belief that they would respond and win things.
So it proved in the 2001 County Championship in 2001 and last summer's C&G Trophy.
The club has introduced a new code of conduct for players, which suggests officials felt there was too much emphasis on fun last year.
Being better dressed and shaved in the mornings is hardly going to guarantee victories but McGrath, who must help implement this new disciplinary regime, wants eveything right off the field to negate one potential line of criticism if things go wrong on it.
Bringing the running of the club back in house will satisfy those members who viewed former skipper Darren Lehmann as too much one of the lads.
But his replacement is well known as a prankster and admits he will have to change "a little" in his new role.
At 27 years of age, he is the youngest person to lead the county since Brian Sellers, whose tenure during the 1930s brought six Championship titles to Headingley.
Unlike McGrath, Sellers never had to fend off accusations of being the phantom snipper who has terrorised the Yorkshire dressing room over the past five years by cutting up socks and ties.
McGrath strongly denies these stories, but is keen to maintain a good atmosphere.
Fear of failure can be crippling and the new captain must get the balance right. Players will support a popular leader and McGrath will be just that.
If things don't go well they must remain united. Too often in the past, if the chips were down fingers would start to point until someone took the blame.
Three different captains and a coach in two seasons is testament to that.
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Are You Happy?
The World Values Survey, a study released in December 2007, shows that among all of the 194 counties in the world, the United States ranks as the 23rd happiest nation on earth. Does that surprise you as much as it did me? I would have thought that a nation whose constitution guarantees its people the right to "the pursuit of happiness" would have ranked higher, wouldn't you? It can be hypothesized from the lower than expected ranking, that the U.S. is not as happy a nation as we should be; meaning that we have a relatively sizeable amount of unhappy people. With the freedom and prosperity we enjoy, this is somewhat puzzling.
So what are the keys to personal happiness? Where you live? How much money you have?
According to the study, these are not the key contributing factors. If they were, we would all move to Hawaii, right? Well, actually, Hawaii ended up in 2nd place among the happiest places in the U.S. to live (And you thought Disneyland was the happiest place on earth, didn't you?) In fact, the happiest people in America actually live in South Dakota.
Now, I suppose you would like to have me explain that one. Well, okay, here goes. We can only conclude from the results of this study that happiness has nothing to do with climate, material wealth, or fame and popularity. So there must be something else to it. According to Dr. Ron Inglehart, director of the World Values Survey, there is.
Dr. Inglehart has discovered 10 keys to happiness, as evidenced in the findings of the survey. They are:
1. Genetic propensity to happiness
2. Marriage
3. Strong friendships
4. Desire less
5. Do good
6. Have faith
7. Stop comparing
8. Make more money
9. Embrace age
10. Don't worry
Notice how far down making more money placed on the list? And since most of us have no idea whether or not we have a genetic propensity to happiness, we know can't control that (oh-oh, one more thing we can blame on our parents), however, we can focus on the other factors that appear to bring about happier lives. According to the study, the happiest people living in the U.S. don't just reside in South Dakota. Regardless of the part of the country in which they live, they are: married, have children, attend a place of worship regularly, and adhere to a set of moral values. And according to Dr. Inglehart this not only makes up happier, but also makes us healthier.
Case in point is a study reported in the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine, in which Dr. Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University examined happy people, sad people, and the connection of each to the common cold.
Dr. Cohen injected 334 participants with the rhinovirus, the germ that causes the common cold. Sad people got the cold while happy people had no change in initial status. Cohen's reasoning was simple: symptoms of a cold are caused by a release of chemicals that makes us sick; yet happy people naturally combat the release of these chemicals because of increased levels of so-called "happy" hormones which offset the common cold. According to Cohen's study, those who are happier are indeed healthier. Perhaps laughter is indeed the best medicine after all?
So, I'll go back to my initial question: Are you happy? If you are, then either you are tracking well with Inglehart's 10 keys (or you recently moved to South Dakota!). If not, and you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, then maybe it's time to pursue real happiness by pursuing those 10 keys.
Throw your energies into strong, significant relationships. Make do with less. Give more of yourself, and your resources, to the benefit of others. Embrace faith and your age – one will change you and the other you can't change anyway. Stop comparing and worrying – you cannot gain one good thing from either.
You have the right to pursue happiness, so go after it and live healthier, longer and with greater peace.
…or you could always check out those real estate prices in South Dakota.


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Happy Monday. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper may be leading the state that legalized recreational marijuana use but he's advising his fellow governors to take it slow in any effort to do the same. While his state is raking in the tax dollars from legalizing weed, he says the jury is still out on the "social experiment." [
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It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a potentially deadly combination. A Purdue University study of 10 small Indiana airports found that animals can gain easy access to runways and infield areas, increasing the likelihood of planes striking those animals.
Animal strikes received national attention in January. Commercial pilot and Purdue alumnus Charles "Sully" Sullenberger was forced to land in the Hudson River after his plane hit a flock of Canada geese.
The study by Gene Rhodes, a professor of forestry and natural resources, documented that animals found ways through damaged fences or unfenced areas onto airport properties. Spotting deer, coyote and other animals in dangerous places was common.
"Just about every pilot we talked to at these airports said that during a landing they've had to pull up to avoid hitting an animal on the runway," Rhodes said. "With the size of planes using these airports, hitting a rabbit could flip a plane."
Rhodes' research was published in the fall issue of the journal Human-Wildlife Conflicts.
While Rhodes' study looked only at Indiana airports, he said there are thousands of airports all over the country that don't have the budgets to adequately fence their properties, endangering countless flights each year.
In the study, only four of the Indiana airports had fences around the entire perimeter, and even those had maintenance problems - such as holes dug under fences, access through culverts and holes in fences - that allowed animals onto the properties.
Despite the desire to keep animals away, Rhodes said airports often are a magnet for wildlife. Airports are required to own property around runways that is often rented to farmers. While that increases airports' meager budgets, those crops can attract animals looking for food.
"What you have planted affects what type of animals will be there," Rhodes said. "Even if you have certain grasses, you have small mammals that eat those, and those attract red-tailed hawks. A red-tailed hawk can bring down a small plane as fast as anything."
Previous studies cited in Rhodes' paper have shown that wildlife strikes cost more than a half a billion dollars each year and have been responsible for more than 350 human deaths in the last century. Travis DeVault, who co-authored the paper as Rhodes' postdoctoral researcher and is now a field station and project leader with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services, said wildlife strikes have become more common in recent years.
"Many of the most hazardous species are increasing in population size. For example, about two-thirds of the largest bird species have shown population increases during the past 30 years," DeVault said. "Also, air traffic continues to increase. More birds in combination with more flights leads to more bird strikes."
DeVault added that new technology means planes are quieter today, giving birds less time to detect and avoid being struck.
Rhodes' study suggests enclosing 100 percent of airport perimeters with partially buried fencing, which keeps animals from tunneling underneath. Frequent maintenance also is key because many of the animals observed during the study entered the airports through damaged fences.
"If airports can use this study to show their needs, it can allow them to go after federal grants they need to make improvements," Rhodes said.
The Joint Transportation Research Program of the Indiana Department of Transportation and the Aviation Association of Indiana funded the research. Rhodes said the next step is to determine viable economic uses that also will deter wildlife from the land around airports.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">   <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">   On 01/25/2010 11:28 AM, Arthur Koziol wrote:
 <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> On 01/25/2010 11:17 AM, Ian Robinson wrote:
1. update-part-list.sh:

 On Sat. Jan 23, 2009, Ian Robinson asked about a question about code in "update-part-list.sh" located at:
 > https://trac.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd/trunk/pc-sysinstall/backend-query/update-part-list.sh?order=date&desc=1
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 >Does line 93 need "umount" instead of "unmount"?

 The remainder of the post was difficult to read because of the links between the line # and the code.
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 86 # If we are on ZFS, cleanup after the mount
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 88 then
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 2. Good News -- KDE Update Pending

 Although Kris probably knows this already, KDE has released 4.4.0 RC2 today and the KDE Website says: "This release candidate will be followed up by the release of KDE SC 4.4.0 on February, 9th 2010." It is supposed to have a lot of fixes, improvements, and new features, including improved automount. (Sounds like it will be just in time for PCBSD 8.0-Release)

 Ian Robinson
 Salem, Ohio

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 Ian,

 KDE 4.4 is contingent upon QT 4.6 being released for BSD, which it is not.

 Arthur

 Ian,

 I take it back. Qt 4.6.1 was just released a couple of days ago!
 http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/qt4-phonon-gst/

 Is it me or did the KDE 4.4 release schedule get push WAY early recently? I thought it was going gold in late Feb?

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Police are investigating a suspected clan lab at the Paradise Motel in Busselton.
Chemicals found within the unit and in a car parked outside are still to be analysed, but police were concerned they may be volatile.
The two occupants of the unit, a male and female from Busselton, have been taken into custody and are helping police with their enquiries.
Read the story at the Busselton-Dunsborough Mail
Not sure what to do with the narnies starting to go brown in your fruit bowl?
Click here for five ways you can use those over-ripe bananas...
Three of the five mates who faked a kidnapping in West Leederville last year have been fined $1300 each in court today. Read the full story HERE. Got to say, based on the below photo of the trio, they don't look like they minded the attention.
Bad news for West Coast and Fremantle from the weekly Match Review Panel deliberations...Eagles skipper Darren Glass gets two weeks, Freo midfielder Nat Fyfe assessed with a week for kicking. Read the full story HERE.Back to top
Western Australia could not have kept open a second juvenile detention facility purely as a contingency for an event like the Banksia Hill riot in January, the Supreme Court has heard in final submissions regarding the relocation of young offenders to an adult prison.
It was also said that Hakea was the 'least worst' option for the juveniles.
Read the story HERE.
OK, so seeing that footage of the petrol robbery gone wrong from Brisbane reminded us of one of the all-time great YouTube clips...behold the best, worst pole vault EVER:
Earlier I posted a video of a robbery gone wrong in a McDonald's restaurant. Now we have footage of a petrol theft that ended in disaster for one thief in Queensland...
A man has been badly injured in a farming accident near York.
The RAC Rescue helicopter has sent to the scene of the incident in Ovens Road.
A spokeswoman for St John Ambulance said the man had injuries to his arm and would be taken to Royal Perth Hospital.Back to top
Our blogger Brad Hardie reckons the AFL's annual coaching merry-go-round could start spinning as soon as next month - and that Brad Hardie and Alastair Clarkson could be aboard it by the end of the season...
Have a read of Brad's piece HERE and let us know what you think.
More traffic delays on Wellington Street due to water main work. Meanwhile, take care on Marmion Avenue at Clarkson folks...
#perthtraffic: Marmion Ave southbound at Hester Ave, Clarkson - CAUTION ADVISED - fuel spill— Main Roads WA (@Perth_Traffic) April 29, 2013
This may not have been in a Perth restaurant but is gripping footage of a man holding up a McDonald's in Mulgrave, Victoria, only to be grabbed and pinned down after he put his gun down to pick up the cash...
Here's a case why the fine print is always important.
At first glance a $27 cup of coffee is pushing even Perth's outrageous prices to new limits.
Seems though that somebody at Fremantle's That Coffee Spot has a sense of humour and is giving a $24 discount to anybody mentioning the blackboard offer.
As the Fed Up Perth Facebook page posting says the coffee shop is offering both the cheapest and the most expensive coffee in town.
Here's a great video clip that's been around for a while but that has been shared today by our friends at The Vine.
It's the Top 5 failed marriage proposals.
If you're having a bad start to the week, the chances are it's not as bad as some of these guys...
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Here's an unbelievable story from overseas on the international AAP wire that's making the rounds this morning...
Reports suggest the oldest man in Saudi Arabia has died at the age of 120, leaving behind 24 children and 447 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Sheikh Awad bin Abdul Aziz bin Saifi Al Qarni died of "old age" at his home in the central village of Al Badadha, where he was the tribal chief for most of his life, the reports said without specifying when he passed away.
Born in 1893, Sheikh Awad had two dozen children with several wives.
His eldest son is aged 98 and his eldest grandson is 65, but it was not clear from the reports if they were the oldest of Sheikh Awad's many offspring.
The Sabq newspaper said Sheikh Awad was considered a "nice, wise and frank man" who was "loved by all."
"Royal hoax" DJ Mel Greig will appear at the British inquest of nurse Jacintha Saldanha later this year.
Ms Saldanha committed suicide in December after taking a prank phone call from Greig and her 2Day FM co-host Michael Christian.
Greig's announcement comes one day after the London Sunday Times reported that Ms Saldanha left a hand-written note blaming the DJs for her death.
"Please accept my apologies. I am truly sorry. Thank you for all your support," Ms Saldanha allegedly wrote to her employers at King Edward VII's Hospital. "I hold the Radio Australians Mel Greig and Michael Christian responsible for this act. Please make them pay my mortgage. I am sorry."
Cottesloe Beach has reopened after a four-metre tiger shark spotted earlier this morning has headed south.
Surf Life Saving WA have been tracking the shark after the Westpac Helicopter spotted it off the coast of North Cottesloe Beach before 10am.
Cottesloe Beach has been reopened. The #shark continues to head south about 500m from shore.— Surf Life Saving WA (@SLSWA) April 29, 2013
Take care on the roads...
#perthtraffic: Marmion Ave southbound at Hester Ave, Clarkson - CAUTION ADVISED - fuel spill— Main Roads WA (@Perth_Traffic) April 29, 2013
Australia will not fund the legal defence of asylum seekers charged with crimes in Nauru or Manus Island detention centres, the department of immigration has confirmed.
The government reopened the Nauru and Manus Island processing centres as part of its "no-advantage" policy designed to deter asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat.
Since August 13, when the policy came into effect, more than 16,000 people have made the journey by boat.
While the government will help asylum seekers detained on Nauru with their claims for protection under a memorandum of understanding with the island nation, it will not help people charged with crimes under Nauru's domestic laws while they are detained on Australia's behalf.
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Balloon hat record attempt comes up short in Mt. Lebanon
People attending Mt. Lebanon's ULTRAparty on Saturday night tried to break a world record for the most people wearing balloon hats in one location, but the effort came up short.
The current record is 4,017, set in 2007. Numbered wristbands were used, and the Mt. Lebanon Partnership, which organized the event in the Uptown business district, planned to send documentation to the Guinness Book of World Records if enough people donned hats.


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Guest Post by Franklin Steele: Petr Mrazek should start in net for the Detroit Red Wings when they take on the St. Louis Blues tonight. I don't know an awful lot about the young netminder, but I do know this one fact. It should be him and not Howard to take on the central division rivals in action this evening. The reasons for this are few and simple. For starters, our man Howard needs a rest. Sadly there is no trophy in the NHL awarded to goalies who play an obscene amount of games for their respective club, but if there were then Jimmy would be in the running. He's been one of the busiest guys around this year as everyone who could possibly back him up besides Mrazek are out with an injury. Logic would suggest that the Wings play their "better" goalie against a "better" Blues team while giving him the night off either against the Oilers on Saturday or the LA Kings on Sunday in back-to-back games. Breaking in Mrazek against the read 'em and weep Oilers or the "did we really win the Cup last year" Kings could be the way to go. Hit the jump for more. But I say bury the logic just this once and do something to shake this team up. If the powers that be refuse to make a "knee-jerk" trade to try and ice an actual NHL-quality hockey team, that's fine. At least do something to snap at half of this team out of their collective, if I was a Blue I'd die-la-de-da-da-da slumber. Mrazek goes in against the Blues in this game and suddenly no one is comfortable. No one is thinking "good ol' Jim has got our backs." No, now there is a variable somewhere in an very important game, and players may feel the need to step it up a bit. Hell, maybe they'd even consider playing a full three periods of hockey for the first time all season. Regardless of whether or not you think my reasoning is spot on or not is irrelevant. What you can't argue is the fact that this is a sleepwalking Red Wings team that wins when it gives a full effort, and loses when it doesn't. Babcock needs to do something a little out of the blue to beat the Blues and prevent losing three straight after dropping embarrassing loses to the Blue Jackets and the Flames. Or at least lock Kyle Quincey in a dark broom closet before the game, start Lashoff and scratch Dan Cleary while giving some random 12-year old-and-up fan a chance to take his place for one game. They couldn't be any more ineffective than Dan has been, and at least they'd be fired up for the game and show some heart. The same logic applies to Mrazek. Give him the start, get his heart going, and wake this team up before I need a second job to support my suddenly necessary anti-acid habit.
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) New York Islanders defenseman Radek Martinek left with an undisclosed injury in the first period, following a hard hit behind the net, and didn't return to the home opener Saturday night.
An Islanders spokesman said Martinek was being evaluated by doctors, but declined to give any information about the injury.
Martinek was skating along the end boards behind the New York goal and crumpled after being crunched by St. Louis center David Backes with 3:10 left in the period. He remained down on the ice for a few moments before skating without assistance toward the tunnel to the dressing room.
It is the latest injury to an already banged-up defense. New York, only two games into the regular season, is also missing Andy Sutton (hand surgery) and Chris Campoli (shoulder). Both are expected to be sidelined for several weeks.
The Islanders didn't miss any of them early on as they grabbed a 4-1 lead in the first period with backup goalie Joey MacDonald in net in place of Rick DiPietro.
For the second straight night, MacDonald got the start as DiPietro served as the backup while working his way back from offseason knee surgery.
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Chairman's Message
Kim Lancaster, CCE, CICP
CFDD National Chairman (2016-2017)
My theme for this year is Bringing Vitality to Our CFDD Organization. Webster's defines Vitality as an exuberance in physical and mental strength; to have a meaningful purpose or existence; to grow and to live; to be a force of one. Our continued growth requires an exuberance to maintain the spark for CFDD.
Here are a few things to think about as we begin a new year and a new journey. Why did you join CFDD? What were you looking for when you joined?
CFDD holds the key to your strength: Mentoring, Education, Networking and our Scholarship Fund support the growth of our membership. Local and national scholarships helped me build my own foundation in education.
We have all heard the saying "Bloom Where You Are Planted" or "Have a Servant Attitude". Our organization is designed for you, as a member, to give back. As I look at my own personal journey, the biggest gift I could give was my time to CFDD, both locally and nationally. I served on the CFDD-National board back in the 1990's and again on my present journey.
CFDD, my force of one, is now over 500 members strong. It will continue to grow, because each of you will share your meaningful purpose, your strength to be successful in your professional life, and by helping those who have helped you.
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