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By Jason Wilson
I've been off the blogging circuit for a while, but I simply couldn't resist posting about Carrier IQ. Only one link will do, and it's to Wired's Threat Level article on the subject. The long and the short of it is this: if you are a lawyer using a "smart phone" you probably don't know what kinds of contractual concessions you've made. In short, you're an idiot. And thus the title of this post, which is you're fucked.
Deride the luddites all you want, but they won't be crying when you're the first lawyer to find him or herself on the wrong side of a third-party subpoena because you were too lazy to read a 100-page EULA. The shit this kid Eckhart says (and shows) he found scares the crap out of me, particularly when I think about some software program tracking my login/passwords for secured accounts. If you, as a lawyer, don't see this as a problem for both yourself and your clients, then you're a fucking idiot.
Now, I'm not talking about spoliation violations here, like telling your client to clean up his Facebook page, but rather simple preventative measures, like not using a smart phone at all. Honestly, for lawyers I think there is more potential downside to smartphones than there is upside. I'm reminded of some well-known criminal cases here in Harris County, Texas where the clients phone call, if made by smart phone (read: time + location), would have been somewhat dispositive of the matter. The Carrier IQ business takes it to a whole other level as it relates to disclosure to third parties, and something I think lawyers should be concerned about.
But let's face it. Lawyers are stupid. Not in the sense that they can't research the law or try cases, but simply that they are like most consumers: they don't understand or care to investigate the implications of useful technology. After all, if it's good enough for consumers, it's good enough for me (them). Besides, I get to play Angry Birds while waiting for my case to be called!
Many lawyers and C-Levels are rushing to adopt mobile technology as some type of competitive advantage, and yet most don't even understand what it means to root a mobile OS and discover what hidden flaws are intentionally embedded in the systems. If this doesn't concern you, as a practitioner, then it should. The existence of Carrier IQ should bother you on both a moral and an ethical level, not just for your own security, but your client's as well. If you ignore it's existence, then you do so at your own risk.
You've been warned.
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The slo-pitch men's "D" league for the fall season at Mountain Vista Park begins Sept. 7 with games played on Wednesday nights.
The league will consist of eight teams and double-headers are played each week. There will be a single-elimination tournament at the end of the season. The website for the league is www.independentumpire.com.
For more information, contact Frank Angulo at (602) 882-0715 or email@example.com.

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Charles Franklyn Benninghoff III - #63634
Current Status: Resigned with Charges Pending
This member is resigned and may not practice law in California.
See below for more details.
Profile Information
The following information is from the official records of The State Bar of California.
|Bar Number:
Crown SEO, Ltd.
PO Box 2806
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91729
|Phone Number:
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|San Bernardino
|Undergraduate School:
|Univ of Southern Calif; Los Angeles CA
|District 4
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|USC Law School; Los Angeles CA
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|Admitted to The State Bar of California
Actions Affecting Eligibility to Practice Law in California
Overview of the attorney discipline system.
|Administrative Actions
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Copies of official attorney discipline records are available upon request.
California Bar Journal Discipline Summaries
Summaries from the California Bar Journal are based on discipline orders but are not the official records. Not all discipline actions have associated CBJ summaries. Copies of official attorney discipline records are available upon request.
September 18, 1999
CHARLES FRANKLYN BENNINGHOFF III [#63634], 55, of San Juan Capistrano was placed on interim suspension Aug. 9, 1999, following his conviction for conspiracy to falsify financial statements to a federally insured financial institution. He was ordered to comply with rule 955. He resigned from the bar Sept. 18, 1999.
July 4, 1998
CHARLES F. BENNINGHOFF III [#63634], 54, of San Juan Capistrano was suspended for 30 days, stayed, placed on one year of probation with conditions including restitution, and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order took effect July 4,1998.Benninghoff stipulated to misconduct in three matters.In the first case, he threatened to file a State Bar complaint against opposing counsel and to pursue criminal action against the attorney's clients if the attorney did not stop his efforts to execute a judgment against Benninghoff's clients.In another matter, he sent a written solicitation of employment to prisoners held in the San Diego jail. Written in Spanish, the solicitation, which was not identified as an advertisement, said Benninghoff could help prisoners apply for a transfer to a Mexican prison. It also implied he had a relationship with government officials in both Mexico and the U.S. which could help the prisoners. In the third matter, Benninghoff accepted $15,000 to help a Mexican prisoner secure a transfer to a Mexican prison. Several days after signing an employment agreement, the prisoner said he no longer wanted Benninghoff to represent him and asked for a return of the fee. Benninghoff provided an accounting of the work he had done, demonstrating that he had earned the full amount. Due to a communications problem, he charged for services performed after he was discharged.Benninghoff took the matter to arbitration and won, but refunded $3,000 to the prisoner's family anyway.In a separate investigative matter, Benninghoff was found to have accepted representation adverse to a former client, but his conduct did not rise to the level of a disciplinary offense.In mitigation, he has no record of discipline since his 1975 admission to the bar, and he cooperated with the bar's investigation.


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CUOM Upgrade License Requirements
I have a client that is on CUOM (version 2.3) and CUPM (Version 2.1). They want to upgrade to version 8.6 for both. I read from the Cisco docs on CUPM that no license upgrade is needed and as such the existing licenses will still be valid. However, I could not find this information for CUOM.
Do we need upgrade license for CUOM or will the current license still be valid when we perform the upgrade on the same machine. If upgrade license is required, does anyone know what is the part number for ordering?


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Rachael Taylor
Continuing their run of amazing original content, the team at Netflix is gearing up for the November 20th release of a new series called "Jessica Jones."
And earlier today (October 23) the popular web streaming service served up a two-and-a-half-minute full-length trailer featuring plenty of action and sass from star Krysten Ritter.
As the networks continue to announce their new pickups for the upcoming season, NBC greenlit five shows for the 2013-2014 television season.
Based on the novel and 2002 film, "About a Boy" stars David Walton and Minnie Driver and follows a bachelor man-child and a young kid who moves next door with his crazy single mother.
Putting together a glamorous evening in the Big Apple, the stars gathered together at Cipriani on Wall Street for the 22nd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday (November 26).
With comedian/actor Mike Birbiglia hosting, leading ladies on-hand included Amy Adams, Famke Janssen and Best Ensemble Performance winner Emily Blunt, who arrived on the arm of her "The Office" actor hubby, John Krasinski.
Offering a sneak peek inside "Loft," a new R-rated trailer featuring Karl Urban, Wentworth Miller, Isabel Lucas and Rachael Taylor has hit the Internet .
The remake of Erik Van Looy's Belgian original follows five friends who find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery after a dead woman is found in their shared loft that they use for their extramarital affairs.
Gearing up for the new fall season, ABC held its 2012 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills on Friday (July 27).
The network paraded out all their stars for the event, which included "Dancing with the Stars" cast members Cheryl Burke who wore a slinky black dress with heels and a gold cuff bracelet and Karina Smirnoff who posed in a cream-colored sequined dress. They were joined by new "DWTS" all star cast member Pamela Anderson.
It doesn't hit the airwaves until January 8th, but "Hou$e of Lie$" was in full effect during a screening in Los Angeles last night (January 4).
And it was a star-studded affair at the AT&T Center, with series stars Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell showing up and looking slick.
Joining in on one of the biggest nights in entertainment, Drew Barrymore was one of the many A-list celebs to present an award at the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night (September 18).
The "E.T." actress was alongside her "Charlie's Angels" cast members, Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh and Rachael Taylor, as the ladies graced the Nokia Theater LA Live stage to pass out a trophy.
From the people that brought the "Twilight" film franchise to the world, Summit Entertainment has released a motion poster for their new film "The Darkest Hour".
The promotional offering comes ahead of the movie's December 25th release date, with "Into the Wild" actor Emile Hirsch co-starring alongside "Juno" actress Olivia-Thirlby and "Transformers" beauty Rachael Taylor.
It doesn't hit theaters until December 23rd, but already "The Darkest Hour" is getting plenty of attention.
And thanks to the newly-released teaser trailer, sci-fi movie fans everywhere can get a taste of what's to come this Christmas.
She's gearing up for the debut of her new TV series "Charlie's Angels," and Rachael Taylor displayed her true beauty in the August 2011 issue of Vogue Australia.
Striking a range of sexy poses for a glamorous spread, the 27-year-old Aussie actress also chatted with the magazine about her career and her role in the "Charlie's Angels" reboot.
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"I used to come down here and look at these stars and I could never quite figure out what you were supposed to do to get one," said the 51-year-old star.
"Time has passed and now here I am doing this," said Willis, adding "And I'm still excited to be an actor."
Willis was joined by his mother, children and ex-wife Demi Moore.
Moore was accompanied by her new husband, actor Ashton Kutcher.
Fellow actors Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Syvester Stallone and Billy Bob Thornton also attended the ceremony in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
Willis, who came to public attention with his role in the 1980s TV series Moonlighting, is currently filming the fourth Die Hard film, Live Free or Die Hard, due out in the US next June.
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To Mount Zion
Because of our new position, our worship is more than just a collection of earthly believers or the offering of a single individual. Rather, when we worship in Spirit and truth, we join the great throng already surrounding the throne ...Read More
They Could Not Endure
It is easy to get caught up in our day-to-day lives and forget the tremendous benefits we have living under the new covenant. Unlike most of old covenant Israel, we have access into the very presence of God Himself. Take ...Read More
What May Be Touched
We have not come to the earthly copies of the heavenly realm but to heaven itself. Our position as new covenant members is far better than that of old covenant believers, and, therefore, our responsibility is far greater. Thank God ...Read More
No Chance to Repent
John Owen tells us that Esau is a clear example of the truth that "no one knows where deliberate sin may lead." Unrepentant, deliberate sin should cause us to question whether we are saved at all. If you are engaging ...Read More
Not Like Esau
Sanctification is a process. We do not become holy all at once, but we manifest righteousness slowly and imperfectly. When the Spirit is at work in us, we begin to become more and more sorrowful over our sin and more ...Read More
No Root of Bitterness
Take some time to examine your life, and ask yourself whether there is any bitterness in your heart toward God or toward others. If so, go before the Lord in prayer, and ask Him to heal you of such bitterness ...Read More
Make Straight Paths
As you press forward toward Christ, do you find yourself growing weary? Do you find that your knees are growing feeble and that you are swerving back and forth on the path toward the finish line? If so, spend some ...Read More
The Fruit of Discipline
One of the reasons that discipline is so difficult to endure sometimes is that we cannot see the future. We cannot see the good that God will produce in us as a result of today's discipline. Yet we are ...Read More
For Our Good
The discipline that the Lord sends to His people will not last forever. It lasts only long enough to achieve God's purposes and will cease entirely upon our glorification. If you are being disciplined, remember that it will not ...Read More
Illegitimate Children
A wise man once said that we are not really mature Christians until we look at how the Lord may be disciplining us and thank Him for it. Discipline may be as simple as conviction for sin or may manifest ...Read More
Treated As Sons
Good earthly fathers always love their children even though they may become displeased with them at times. So too does God always love His elect though we may sometimes displease Him. Look at your life, and see if your job ...Read More
The Father's Discipline
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Consider Jesus
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Preliminary Results of Biopsy Point to Return of Cancer in Tsongas
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Published: November 26, 1992
Preliminary results of a biopsy show that a lump in former Senator Paul E. Tsongas's abdomen is cancerous.
Mr. Tsongas, an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination this year, said he had not received a final report on the biopsy and other tests performed on tissue that was removed in an abdominal operation last Thursday.
Mr. Tsongas, 51 years old, has been battling a type of cancer known as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a slow-growing but potentially lethal cancer of the lymph system, since 1983. Issue in Campaign
Mr. Tsongas made the battle an issue in the campaign, frequently talking about his triumph over the disease. But doctors who said he remained disease-free after a bone marrow transplant in 1986 later conceded that they had treated him a year later for a recurrence of lymphoma.
In an interview yesterday from his home in Lowell, Mass., Mr. Tsongas said that he expected his doctors to provide him with full test results over the Thanksgiving weekend and that he would discuss them on Monday at a news conference in Boston.
"I feel very positive about this," he said.
Mr. Tsongas said a chief reason for holding a news conference next week was to reassure friends and the public that his condition could be treated.
Despite pain from a large incision from the operation last week, Mr. Tsongas's mood was upbeat in the telephone interview.
"I must say I was not quite prepared for the size of the surgery," he said. "I have a seven-inch cut in my abdomen, my stomach, and for someone who likes to laugh, it is really a great inconvenience."
"This hurts," Mr. Tsongas said, adding that the pain had eased over the last two days. "I am better now. I can drive myself. I can walk around the block and climb stairs."
"I have had a lot of medical treatment but never had been cut open before, and my heart goes out to people who have been through this, boy," Mr. Tsongas said. Phone Call From Clinton
Mr. Tsongas, who was interviewed just after receiving a call from President-elect Bill Clinton, joked that the surgery was "really just a ruse to get phone calls from people I have not spoken to in a while: Bob Kerrey, Ted Kennedy, Joe Kennedy and Al Gore."
Mr. Tsongas had been well and not suffering from any symptoms of cancer or other illness before the surgical biopsy was performed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
The procedure was undertaken because of an abnormality detected in recent months on two tests that were performed as part of routine checkups since the bone marrow transplant that he received at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
One test, a CT scan, involved X-rays of the abdomen. The other was a radio-isotope scan in which gallium was injected in a vein. The gallium tends to concentrate in lymph nodes that are inflamed or cancerous.
The suspicious area, presumably an enlarged lymph node, first showed up on a gallium scan on Aug. 3, Mr. Tsongas's doctors said earlier this week in a statement to the press. A CT scan in August showed no abnormalities. Scores of lymph nodes are scattered throughout the body.
The disparity in the two tests led the doctors to repeat them this month.
On Nov. 2 another CT scan showed an abnormal area in the abdomen. A gallium scan on Nov. 9 confirmed the abnormality, the news release said.
Mr. Tsongas told The Sun in Lowell on Monday that if the abdominal abnormality turned out to be a recurrence of the lymphoma, it could probably be treated with radiation. The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Mr. Tsongas was facing a new battle with cancer.
"I have been through these battles for nine years, so I feel quite confident," Mr. Tsongas said.
Mr. Tsongas said his doctors "have told me what it is, what it isn't." He said he would "go into details on Monday" at the news conference.
Radiation and drug therapy can shrink lymphomas, but they tend to recur. Nevertheless, treatment can enable patients with incurable lymphoma to live for years.
Because initial efforts with standard chemotherapy and radiation failed, he underwent a bone marrow transplant in 1986. But a year later the lymphoma recurred in a lymph node in his arm pit, and he underwent additional radiation. His doctors failed to disclose the recurrence in a number of interviews with many news organizations during the campaign.
Lymphomas tend to recur at unpredictable times. The type of cell can also change, making the cancer more aggressive. Sometimes, a new cancer develops in individuals who have been treated for lymphoma.
Barry White, a law partner of Mr. Tsongas, said he had talked with Mr. Tsongas about his surgery but had not discussed the findings. "He is in good spirits. He is a fighter. He was talking about resuming work."


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Yadera II was the second planet in an unspecified system located in the Gamma Quadrant.
Yadera II was named after Yadera Prime, homeworld of the Yaderans. It became the refugee Rurigan's new home after the Dominion invaded his homeworld of Yadera Prime in 2340. With the help of a hologenerator, he created sentient holographic lifeforms on the planet. (DS9: "Shadowplay")
The planet's name is not from the episode. Rather, it is from StarTrek.com and the Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 568).
According to the script, the pronunciation for Yadera was "yah-DER-ah". [1]
According to the Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 75, Yadera II orbited a Class K star. It had a magnitude of +7, which was 1/10 as bright as Sol. Yadera II was a destination in the Gamma Quadrant Bio-Survey (2369-75).
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- Yadera II at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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The Master of Laws' Advanced Studies in Public International Law is an intensive, high-level postgraduate programme which will bring you to the doorstep of international courts and tribunals. As a student in one of the two specialisations of this programme, you will gain in-depth knowledge of the foundations of public international law and become familiar with the current debates in the field.
An important objective of our programme is to provide you with skills that will enable you to thoroughly analyse and interpret legal sources, literature, and cases, to research and formulate an independent opinion on international legal questions. You will also learn to clearly present your findings both orally and in writing to legal specialists as well as non-lawyers, to actively participate in academic debate, and to apply this advanced academic knowledge in public international law in a professional context.
The programme benefits from the proximity of the many international judicial and other institutions in nearby The Hague, such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
• law graduates or professionals in possession of a full law degree (offering access to legal practice), with sufficient knowledge of public international law;
• graduates who hold an equivalent degree and/or have sufficient professional experience in the field.
The programme caters for those already working in, or pursuing a career in international organisations, governmental institutions, international non-governmental organisations, or in academia.
"The programme, ideally located in The Hague, offers students the unique opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation with Judges and other people working in International Criminal Justice" (Judge Elizabeth Odio-Benito, International Criminal Court)
"This is an excellent programme. It is a pleasure to meet such dedicated professors and talented students from all parts of the world and to discuss criminal law and ICC procedure with them at the Court or at Campus Den Haag" (Judge Ekaterina Trendafilova, International Criminal Court )
For a detailed specialisation programme, see the e-study guide: Public International Law.
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Dear Class of 2012,
Congratulations! You've made it. After four years of postsecondary education, you now have a piece of paper suitable for framing, plus $27,889 in debt (give or take). You'll land a job, eventually. But your paycheque may not go far, especially after the $373 you'll be deducting every month for the next 10 years to pay back your student loans.
I hate to say this, but if your degree is in sociology, psych, art history or much else on the soft side, you are a dime a dozen. Have you heard of supply and demand? Sorry! You're on the wrong side of the equation.
Did anybody ever tell you about the job outlook for sociology majors, or what kind of salaries they make? I thought not. Most of our universities – the "soft" side, at any rate – are proudly disconnected from the job market. Our faculties of liberal arts and humanities believe that issues such as "relevance" and "employability" are, quite frankly, crass. The purpose of a university education is to cultivate critical thinking, not to churn out robotic, compliant workers for the postindustrial capitalist state. If our universities are producing three sociology and psych graduates for every job that actually requires a working knowledge of those fields, well, that's not their concern. Besides, look at it from the faculty's perspective. The higher the demand for sociology (etc.) degrees, the higher the demand for sociology (etc.) professors!
Here's some more bad news. If all you have is a measly bachelor's degree, your resumé won't get a second look. You are competing with people who have master's degrees. To be successful, you will probably need a master's too, even though the job you get won't actually require it. Degree and credential inflation are rampant. These days, you can't even be a gym teacher unless you have a degree in kinesiology.
Degree inflation is good for universities, which desperately need bums in seats. But it is not so good for you, because you'll have to spend another year or two in school and acquire another chunk of debt before you can even think of embarking on what's conventionally regarded as your adult life.
Sociology professors are always complaining that I pick on sociology too much. But really, I could pick on journalism too. Journalism schools have spread like mushrooms in May. Some of them are excellent. They also provide high-quality employment for aging journalists, including some very, very dear friends who, I hope, will think of me some day if I ever get laid off. What these schools do not provide is jobs in journalism. That's up to the job market, which, you may have noticed, is undergoing an epic tsunami.
I do not know what fraction of journalism students actually wind up in journalism. My impression is: not many. Journalism schools should be made to collect this information and post it prominently on their websites. Of course if they did, a lot of students might choose pharmacy instead.
I'm not saying that those of you who've majored in journalism or sociology have wasted your time. What I'm saying is that you've been sold a bill of goods. You deserved to have a better notion of how your considerable investment of time and money might pay off. You do not deserve to spend half your 20s in school in order to acquire expensive credentials that neither you nor your employer require. You certainly deserve a higher-education system that puts your needs first, rather than the needs of the faculty and the administration.
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Can't you just plug your m0n0 into a port on your current router? Ive
done this multiple times before and had everything working downstream.
As long as you dont dive too deep into port forwarding madness, it all
works. No real magic there.
Brett Krueger [ sigterm at rootednetworks dot com ]
[ http://www.sigterm.net ][ http://www.rootednetworks.com ]
Paul Rupp wrote:
> I am trying to integrate m0n0wall (built on generic PC) into my current network situation. The
goal is to provide community wireless access to my spare bandwidth without opening up my "internal"
wired/wireless network to everyone in the world. I'd like to do this with as little disruption to
the internal network as possible (I'm running servers, port forwarding, etc., already set up and
working!). Currently I have a standard LAN (Cable Modem -> Wired/Wireless). I have both wired and
wireless clients on the internal network.
> I can get M0n0wall working when I plug my Cable Modem into m0n0's WAN port, and my "outside"
Access Point into m0n0's LAN port, but of course that prevents my internal network from having
access to the internet.
> Essentially the question I have, is how do I share my Cable/WAN connection to BOTH my current
router, and also to the m0n0wall box? I might be able to add another ethernet NIC into the m0n0wall
system and "promote" m0n0wall to next in line after the cable modem, but would rather not. I'd
rather not do this to avoid adding another layer of complexity to my internal network (port forwards
already setup, etc.) and also I may in the near future purchase a dual-WAN router (for two broadband
connections) and this would complicate that scenario as well.
> In my current setup (described below), I can connect to the "external" Access Point, but don't
have Internet connectivity. Ideally my setup would look like this (but this doesn't seem to work):
> Cable Modem (External IP)
> |
> |
> Router/Wireless Network (Internal IP/DHCP Server 192.168.0.0)
> | |
> | ----- Internal Wired Network
> |
> ------(WAN IP from Router DHCP)-- M0n0wall (DHCP Server on LAN 10.0.0.0)
> |
> |
> |----- (LAN port IP from m0n0wall DHCP) AP
for "external" wireless Internet
> In the future I will incorporate at least Captive Portal technology, and possibly RADIUS
authenticated external users into the mix, so ideally any suggestions will allow for this. I've
searched the archives for two days straight, but maybe I'm not clear enough about what I'm trying to
do, or what search terms to use. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious; SOMENONE must have tried
to do this before! Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> - Paul


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Highway History Bibliography
State Highway Histories
The latest additions are in bold
Brindley, John E., History of Road Legislation in Iowa, Iowa Economic History Series, The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1912.
Campbell, Ballard, "The Good Roads Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1911," Wisconsin Magazine of History, Summer 1966. (Reprinted as part of the Wisconsin Stories series by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1980.)
Centennial Edition, California Highways and Public Works, September 1950. (This issue, over 160 pages long, covers 100 years of highway building in California.)
Corbett, William Paul, Oklahoma's Highways: Indian Trails to Urban Expressways, Oklahoma State University, December 1982.
DeLuca, Richard, Post Roads and Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut From Colonial Times to the Age of Steam, Wesleyan University Press, 2011. (A history of the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys that helped Connecticut grow.)
Directions: Maryland Transportation--a Historic Focus 1776-1976, Maryland Department of Transportation, 1976.
Fein, Michael R., Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956, University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Forsyth, Raymond, and Hagwood, Joseph, One Hundred Years of Progress, California Transportation Foundation, 1996. (Brief introductory essays accompany a photographic essay on the development of California's transportation system.)
Habegger, Arman J., Out of the Mud: The Good Roads Movement in Kansas 1900-1917, University of Kansas, 1971.
Historical Review: Arkansas State Highway Commission and Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, 1913-1992, Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, November 1992.
A History of Roads in Virginia, Virginia Department of Transportation, 1992.
A History of Wisconsin Highway Department, 1835-1945, State Highway Commission of Wisconsin and the Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency, 1947 (a second volume updating the history has been published as a part of two-volume set).
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Schirmer, Sherry Lamb and Wilson, Dr. Theodore A., Milestones: A History of the Kansas Highway Commission and the Department of Transportation, Kansas Department of Transportation, December 1986. (A second publication by a combination of authors, Milestones: A History of the Kansas Department of Transportation, takes the story forward from 1987 to 2001.)
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hi guys
in this ""cam-rec"" I simulated a "SIMPLE-SURREAL-SITUATION". Testing briefly some tools & ""{[((methods))]}""such as
arpspoof,dnsspoof,"fake-update-page", msfconsole(exploit / local / bypassuac with custom exe)...
I DO NOT know if I run everything correctly! (I don't think)
if you want to keep an eye on:
PS: In the video you can see in the "multi / handlers" some ""external influences-""because (i think)the backdoors prepared in advance based on EXTERNAL-IP and free-dynamic-dns (While the test took place in my internal-network)
PS2: THE video-QUALITY low!!


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I just found a posting on making a backup of the config.xml, adding
<mtu>1436</mtu> in between... but when going to the status window, my
three LAN cards are being given an MTU of 1500.
When loading this modified config.xml, the monowall reboots, loading
it's new settings... but somehow it doesn't accept them...
In status I still have 1500, and when downloading the config again, the
<mtu>1436</mtu> is still there... so it didn't clean out that parameter,
and I'm sure the config.xml is correctly uploaded to my system...
I also read another post about default MTU values and having PPTP or
VLAN on your system can give you troubles (that post even has the same
issue, he can reach google, and some others... but not enough to say we
have a working configuration :-) )
Anyway, I love monowall and all the possibilities I have... this is by
far, much more than any commercial product...
Note, that this isn't very important to me, my solution still runs on a
dual lan setup... but I just want to disable my second access point, to
make everything run through VLANs... that way I can reduce the wifi
signals around the house :D
Aaron Cherman wrote:
>> I'm running 1.3b12... I already saw a post about MTU values... but it
>> seems I cannot find this parameter anywhere in monowall ??
>> My wife always tells me, I am a lousy searcher... but I'm pretty sure
>> I didn't find it anywhere in the GUI... is this a parameter I should
>> alter in the shell somewhere ??
> When I moved to the 1.3b branch my MTU issues went away and I ended up
> with default settings. My changes were always made in the xml config
> itself - no the GUI. Someone like Chris Buechler may be able to help
> more.
> Aaron
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Apex Realty v. Schick Realty: Court Upholds Arbitration Award Without Stated Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law Because Such Findings/Conclusions Were Not Required by the Arbitration Agreement
The case Apex Realty, Inc. v. Schick Realty, Inc., heard Board and arbitrators appeal from interlocutory order of the New Jersey Superior Court (Law Division) requiring them to formulate written findings of fact and conclusions of law regarding their resolution of an issue of contract construction in favor of Apex Realty. The appellate division reversed the decision of the law division and reinstated the Board's order. The appellate division held that the lack of a statement of reasons in an arbitration award was not, in itself, ground for vacation of the award absent a provision in the parties' arbitration agreement requiring arbitrators to state their reasons for the award.
Apex Realty, Inc. v. Schick Realty, Inc., 242 N.J. Super. 494, 577 A.2d 534 (App. Div. 1990).


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Resale shops are riding a trend in Pacific, expanding in existing locations and moving into new quaters.
After a two-year learning period in another resale shop, Nancy Schlechter has opened Fancy Nancy's at 323 S. First St., a store that specializes in finding good-condition used appliances for customers.
"People who are out of work can't think about paying for a new refrigerator or new dishwasher," Schlechter said. "When the refrigerator goes out they look for an affordable replacement."
Schlechter started searching for specific used appliances for customers of Deanna Christine's resale shop two years ago.
The shop, operated by Deanna Christine and Jim Iden, Schlechter's brother, sells a variety of items, including furniture, sporting goods, basic household items, jewelry and licensed collectibles.
People kept coming into the shop looking for used dishwashers or stoves and Schlechter was assigned the task of calling other resale shops looking for just the right appliance. She became something of an expert in the need for used appliances and in the location and specialties of other resale businesses.
In one of her searches she found several new microwave ovens, still in the box, and bought them.
More and more Schlechter's activities looked like a business within a business. Because appliances take up quite a bit of space and customers want to walk up to them and open doors, Schlechter decided to open a shop that specializes in used appliance. She saw the small store for rent on South First Street that once held the UAW office, across the street from her brother's business.
With her husband Dean, a Rockwood School District bus driver who was off for the summer, and her brother Jim, they moved Schlechter's used appliances and other items she had collected through the year into the building.
On opening day, as they were carrying things in and transforming the small space into a store, she sold appliances as she unloaded them.
"Opening day was unexpectedly good," Schlechter said. "Several people came and bought appliances."
By Saturday other families had heard about the store and began trickling in.
Appliances Schlechter has found for customers include new and used microwave ovens, televisions, dishwashers, ranges, refrigerators, washers and dryers.
"If someone comes in looking for a dishwasher or a refrigerator and I don't have one in the store I begin to make phone calls to find one," she said.
Although she specializes in used appliances, Schlechter has created a resale shop that is fun to walk through.
The store aisles hold an eclectic collection of framed pictures, furniture, books and toys. Hutches and dining tables are lined with dishes. A tall picture frame holds photos of the three 19th-century lawmen brothers, Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp. Two American Girl dolls recline on a doll bed in the center of the store.
A mahogany music stand, holding a child's violin, is tucked into a corner at the entrance. A fire-engine-red faux leather tufted-back chair occupies a spot off the aisle that creates a walking path among the items.
"It's from the 1960s," Schlechter said, fingering the stitches on the arm. "You can tell this is the original cover by the little folds of leather at the seams."
Nancy and her husband Dean moved to Robertsville from the Ballwin area. She feels Pacific is a good place to do business. Because there are several other resale shops in the area, Schlechter says, people come here to look for bargains.
"I'm not new to the business," she said. "For the past several years I've been working at Deanna Christine's. You get a feel for what people might like."
Schlechter chose the South First Street building after driving past several times and saw the "For Rent" sign.
"It's a good location," she said. "It has good visibility."
Schlechter said she will also accept items on consignment in the store, but no clothing.


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JMS on Usenet
January 2001
J. Michael Straczynski posts regularly on Usenet. This page provides quick links to his posts from January 2001, with a brief description of each. Unless otherwise stated, all messages are from rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.
31 January 2001
Re: Boxleitner and JMS in EON - ATTN JMS
JMS explains how actors' residuals are calculated.
30 January 2001
Re: Boxleitner and JMS in EON - ATTN JMS
JMS addresses Bruce Boxleitner's comments to Eon Magazine.
Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Characters Still Talk to You?
JMS doesn't hear quite as many voices in his head anymore.
Re: ATTN. JMS: My name is Robert F ...
JMS responds to thanks for his participation in conventions.
29 January 2001
Re: ATTN JMS: Hollywood Reporter B5 Story
JMS adds nothing when asked about the Hollywood Reporter article.
Re: Anxiously awaiting Midnight Nation #5
JMS says the next issues of Midnight Nation and Rising Stars are still a few weeks away.
28 January 2001
Re: Attn. JMS, Was This Really From You?
JMS verifies that he is the author of the Straczynski post on the SCIFI.COM board that confirms the new Babylon 5 talks.
Re: Attn. JMS - Who At Warner Brothers Should I Contact WRT Licensing
JMS suggests that individuals shouldn't waste their time talking to Warner Bros. about licensing.
27 January 2001
Re: ATTN JMS: Complete Book Of Scriptwriting Question
JMS explains why The Complete Book of Scriptwriting does not have a chapter on writing comic books.
26 January 2001
Re: JMS: Appearances?
JMS describes how much work he does at conventions.
Re: ATTN: JMS question about favorite lines
JMS responds to a Babylon 5 quote with a joke.
25 January 2001
Re: JMS: Appearances?
JMS will be attending less conventions this year.
Re: ATTN JMS Is somone being optimistic?
JMS doesn't know anything about the rumor that Babylon 5 DVDs are expected in the Netherlands in the second quarter of 2001.
21 January 2001
Re: Sci-Fi Channel breaking news
JMS comments on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's use of the word "aborted" rather than the more common "cancelled" when referring to Crusade.
Re: ATTN: JMS - using your words
JMS gives a writer permission to use a very short quote from one of his columns in a story.
19 January 2001
Re: Att. JMS - Babylon 5 Short Stories - Please Put 'Em Together &
JMS believes Anne McCaffrey is a fan of Babylon 5.
Re: various from jms
JMS seems to enjoy the excitement that's brewing over his hints of a new Babylon 5 project.
18 January 2001
Re: Att. JMS - Babylon 5 Short Stories - Please Put 'Em Together &
JMS mentions authors who might be interested in contributing short stories to a Babylon 5 anthology.
Re: Att. JMS - Babylon 5 Short Stories - Please Put 'Em Together &
JMS suggests who fans should write to at Del Rey to request a Babylon 5 short story anthology.
Re: various from jms
JMS corrects an earlier message in which he said Midnight Nation 5 was out. He meant Issue 4.
Re: various from jms
A fan blames JMS for an expensive comic book habit.
17 January 2001
Re: various from jms - writing question
JMS responds to an essay on the merits of writing something and then discarding it.
Re: various from jms
JMS corrects another assertion that he was previously incorrect.
Re: Att. JMS - Babylon 5 Short Stories - Please Put 'Em Together &
JMS says he's talked to Del Rey about publishing a Babylon 5 short story anthology without any response.
Re: ATTN JMS: Fourth, or Fifth? (Tribulations)
JMS provides evidence to defend himself against the accusation of an error in Tribulations.
16 January 2001
Re: ATTN JMS: Your wife's reaction? (repost)
JMS says his wife, Kathryn Drennan, would be willing to write another Babylon 5 novel. He also comments favorably about the techno-mage trilogy.
Re: "Cabaret"-ish moment in "Into The Fire"
JMS brushes off another question about references to other works in Babylon 5.
15 January 2001
Re: Did your audio in "ItF" also sound flat?
JMS addresses an audio problem in the Sci-Fi Channel reruns of Babylon 5.
various from jms
JMS provides updates on several of his current projects including scripts for the Rising Stars movie and City of Dreams. He also hints again about upcoming Babylon 5 projects. (Yes, that's "projects", plural.)
Re: JMS...about being "left alone" on Spider-Man
JMS will have the option - but not the requirement - to refer to events in Peter Parker: Spider-Man.
Re: ATTN JMS: What would you make with...
JMS answers a question about what he would do with 200 million dollars.
14 January 2001
Re: ATTN:JMS In the Event..
JMS discusses the order of Crusade episodes for any hypothetical future showings.
Re: I'm Amazed
JMS comments on the lack of mainstream awards recognition for science fiction shows.
Re: Interview with Spider-Man artist
Back in the moderated Babylon 5 newsgroup, JMS corrects the same misunderstanding about his Spider-Man plans.
Re: ~Spider-man / JMS question....
JMS corrects a misunderstanding about his plans for Spider-Man.
13 January 2001
Re: ATTN: JMS Re: Bookface.com shutdown
JMS reminds readers that they can purchase Tribulations from DarkTales Publications amid news that Bookface.com has shut down.
11 January 2001
Re: JMS Top Secret Projects??? FROM JMS
JMS explains why he doesn't make a big deal about awards and honors.
Re: JMS Top Secret Projects??? FROM JMS
JMS acknowledges thanks for his online participation.
Re: NOW: MZB Book.WAS: JMS Top Secret Projects??? FROM JMS
JMS expands on his earlier comment about Marion Zimmer Bradley, who had to scrap a novel because of fan interaction.
Re: JMS: Thanks for everything
JMS reassures a fan who hopes that JMS won't cut back on his online presence.
Re: ATTN JMS: A Book That May Be of Interest to You
JMS receives a recommendation for I'd Hate Myself in the Morning, a book about the Hollywood Blacklist.
10 January 2001
Re: JMS Top Secret Projects??? FROM JMS
JMS rails against someone who violated the two cardinal rules of JMS' online participation: do not abuse the privilege of his public email address, and never send him story ideas.
09 January 2001
Re: Upcoming writers' strike
JMS itemizes the things he'll be working on during the writers' strike, including a new novel.
Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Bloopers For Sale on eBay
A concerned fan alerts JMS to illegal copies of the Babylon 5 blooper tapes on eBay.
08 January 2001
Re: Upcoming writers' strike
JMS explains what he can and can't do during the writers' strike.
05 January 2001
Re: ATTN JMS: Anna Sheridan
JMS doesn't have much patience for people who ask writers hypothetical questions about his creations.


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SANTA ANA – The Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana is hosting a food-pantry in partnership with Fellowship in Business and Pure Game.
About 10,000 pounds of food, much of it fresh produce, will be distributed, while kid will learn soccer skills and self esteem. The event takes place Wednesday, Oct. 30 from 2-6 p.m. at the club, 950 W. Highland St.
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"Not a problem," says Pat Quilter, water pelting his felt hat. "I'll be comfortable all day long."
You'd think Quilter was sheathed in Gore-Tex. But he's suited up, neck to toe, in deerskin hides stitched with animal sinew. His soiled garb is complemented by a Bowie knife and an untamed beard that screams I-just-came-out-of-the-woods!
Except Quilter is an audio engineer from surfy Laguna Beach, Calif.
It's precisely because his days and nights are crammed with high-tech gadgets that Quilter belongs to the American Mountain Men. This 35-year-old coast-to-coast brotherhood of 600 devotees celebrates a window of time — 1800 to 1840 — when fur trappers lived by their wits in the Rocky Mountains.
"This takes me out of myself," says Quilter, 57, who is single and dedicates much of his spare time to reliving history. "When I get home, I appreciate things so much more. A hot shower? Incredible. Cushions in my car? Pure luxury."
We've all got our hobbies, pastimes that help the workweek fade away. But for some, it's not enough to escape the house. They need to flee modern times.
So when mountain men get together (some wives and kids join in, but it's mostly men), the only concession to comfort is that colossus of inventions, toilet paper.
Thanks to the two Johns (Ford and Wayne) and countless other Hollywood acolytes, the Wild West endures as the defining image of America. (Just ask President Bush, a fan of Western imagery.) The nation is swarming with re-enactors dedicated to this period, and typical of the bunch are the Tombstone Vigilantes of infamous Tombstone, Ariz. The Vigilantes are men and women outfitted with just the right six-shooters and frilly lace, respectively, required to conjure up a time when Doc and Wyatt roamed their now- touristy streets. More information: tombstone1880.com/vigilante
"Our research shows that the trappers used grass, or maybe nothing," says George Thompson, 59, a retired utility company executive and the group's Western capitaine. (Organization terms, like many of the original trappers, are French.) "Truth is, they really weren't the cleanest guys around."
Which is how Thompson's wife, Elaine, decides how long she and their son, Daniel, will stick it out.
"I can do a couple of days, but any more than that it gets pretty challenging," she says, dressed in flowing skirts and deerskin leggings. "You need to remind the guys sometimes that we're here."
The mountain-man milieu is no Shangri-La. Tents must be made of cloth, so they're not exactly waterproof. Food often consists of homemade jerky, jerky and more jerky, unless a legal hunt is underway. Entertainment means playing period cards or singing songs like Home on the Range to the accompaniment of a four-string guitar made from a gourd.
You want a fire? Get your flint.
Need some buckshot? Forge it yourself.
Come on, are these guys nuts?
"Of course we're nuts. You'll never meet a crazier bunch of guys," says Terry "Two Bear" Fish, 64, a security specialist from Vista, Calif., whose nickname — almost every mountain man gets a nickname — is explained by his size (6-foot-5, 300 pounds) and ability to handle trouble (triple black belt and expert marksman).
"We all get together and let real life go," says Fish, the Southwestern region's brigade booshway, or leader. "Whether we're throwing tomahawks, shooting bows or just giving each other hell, the worst part of all this is packing up and heading back to the flatlands."
There are a few large mountain-men gatherings each year drawing many associations, of which the American Mountain Men is perhaps the most difficult to join. The best-known rendezvous is held each Labor Day in Fort Bridger, Wyo., and typically attracts thousands of practitioners and fans.
But generally, the public and press are kept at rifle's length. The American Mountain Men made this exception, perhaps to ensure that members, who proudly call themselves "survivalists," aren't overtaken by a negative image born of secrecy.
"We are a survivalist group, but in the literal sense," says Thompson, after setting up a primitive camp here in the hills near the La Purisima Spanish Mission. "This is a period in history that is being forgotten. These are skills that are being forgotten. We want to keep it all alive."
The two dozen faithful who came here to drink cactus juice, hack at hanging pieces of venison and compete at archery are a mix of renegades and professionals, bikers and Boeing workers. Typical of the breed, all grew up steeped in the outdoors: Some were soldiers in the jungles of Vietnam, others were Scouts in suburban forests.
Once they park their trucks and cars, the group reverts to the past, marching up a steep, muddy grade with their belongings in their sacks and rifles in their hands. Deliberate or not, it seems like a reunion of body doubles: There's Kenny Rogers next to Willie Nelson next to Slim Pickens.
Adding to the atmosphere are two mules, Rosie and Della, and a horse, Shorty. As the rain falls, the animals munch on hay while their owners huddle around a fire.
"We celebrate a time when men relied on themselves and each other," says Jerry Zaslow, 50, a cable company technical trainer from Simi Valley, Calif. "They were called 'free trappers,' and they didn't have to listen to anyone."
What this seems to be, frankly, is a throwback to days when boys were boys. The weekend in the hills is filled with good-natured ribbing and keen competition. Dave Conte, the Slim Pickens look-alike, is a lightning rod when he refuses to put on pants for a passionate bow-and-arrow contest in which the men hunt hay bales draped with animal-print targets.
Do anything dumb around this lot and you'll never it live it down. Conte is known as "Road Kill," because he makes hides with his namesake. How a fellow called "Brown Hand" got his moniker is unprintable but predictable.
But altruism is as rampant as the teasing. Need something, and you'll get it before you can even ask — from a broken arrow that needs replacing to a rain-soaked camp site that needs evacuating.
The American Mountain Men Code elegantly captures the dueling nature of the mountain-man ethic: to "at all times consider another man's private life none of my business," while at the same time, "in a survival situation, to be willing to divide any food and water I have with people found in need."
All for one and one for all, except when the one doesn't feel like having the all in his face.
"Maybe we're misfits, sure," says the bare-legged Conte, 57, a gunsmith who lives in the hills near Atascadero. "Some of us prefer to stay away from people."
(Group members are busy raising money — dues and other such formalities aren't their style — to pay off 160 Colorado acres, bought "in case one day no one offers us their land for our meetings," Thompson says.)
Given their solitary nature, mountain men must possess a range of outdoor skills that pay tribute to their heroes. Initiates, who have to be sponsored by active members, have be able to do things like "track a man or animal under natural wilderness conditions," skin and clean an animal hide and be able to converse in Plains Indian hand signals.
OK, not wildly practical, but that's in addition to surviving off the land for up to five days. You'd better know your edible berries.
"Things are getting so soft these days, no one knows how to do anything themselves," says Steve McGehee, 49, of Santa Maria, Calif., who works for Boeing on classified military projects. "We teach self-reliance. It's not just about surviving in the forest, but about getting into a mind-set where you do for yourself, where maybe you do your own plumbing next time instead of instantly getting help."
McGehee has a fresh, damp elk carcass in his truck, which he offers to his mountain brothers. Do that at a company picnic and screams of horror would erupt; here, eyes light up, and visions of new coats dance in mountain men's heads.
"The great thing about joining a group where everyone shares the same interest is that instant bond," says Conte. "You know how you go to work, and most people annoy you? Here, we all get along."
And in that sense, the American Mountain Men group really is no different from the Junior League. Just like-minded souls bonding over a passion.
In one case, it's debating the best way to raise money for charity. In another, it's discussing the merits of smoking your elk-hide jacket so that if it gets wet, it doesn't dry into a hardened piece of armor like a neglected car-washing chamois.
As hobbies go, being a mountain man is obscure and not exactly a conversation starter. ("So, I was using the natural lanolin and tannins found in animal brains to soften up a deer hide the other day when ...")
But as member Tom Nichols says, "This is an art, it's a life" — one that, but for this die-hard bunch of outdoorsy eccentrics, would exist only in history books and Fess Parker reruns.
Besides, their outfits are far cooler than anything a bowling league would dish out.


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Leading sports doctor Nathan Gibbs today said the best-case scenario for injured athlete Jana Pittman was a return to running in seven days - leaving her precisely one week to prepare for the first race of her Olympics campaign.
That's the good news.
The bad news is ''her knee won't be perfect for four, six weeks'', according to Gibbs, the Sydney Swans club doctor and former Australian rugby league medical supremo.
''She won't be 100 per cent for six weeks,'' he said.
And, at just 21, Pittman faces a huge career decision after an MRI scan revealed the 400m hurdles world champion tore her lateral meniscus while warming up at the Zurich Golden League meeting for what would have been her final event before the Olympics.
The lateral meniscus is on the outside of the knee and protects the joint surface. It moves when the knee bends and sometimes it can lock the knee.
Gibbs said if it wasn't torn badly, the meniscus could be removed during straightforward arthroscopic surgery that would have Australia's great hope back in time to race at the Games.
The short-term gain would likely lead to some long-term pain in the form of arthritis 10 or so years down the track, Gibbs said.
''Sometimes it can be actually sewn back together and be repaired and sometimes, if it's badly teared, it can't be repaired,'' he said.
If Pittman had the choice, having it sewn back together would not only keep the meniscus intact, but reduce the chances of developing arthritis and probably lead to a complete recovery - but the surgery would sideline her for at least three months, destroying her dreams of Olympic glory in Athens.
''The dilemma for Jana is, does she just get the thing cut out for the short-term gain to go to the Olympics or does she look after her long-term future in athletics,'' Gibbs said.
Either way, the immediate prospects for Pittman don't look real crash hot.
Gibbs said although Swans defender Tadhg Kennelly earlier this year suffered the exact same injury and was able to play AFL just 10 days after having an arthroscopy, Pittman's predicament, as a runner needing to peak this month, was far more serious.
''The problem for her is that if Tadhg Kennelly was running 13 seconds for 100 metres before the surgery and then 13.5 after arthroscope, that's not going to affect a footy player,'' Gibbs said.
''But if she's doing the 400 metres hurdles and she's needing to run her absolute best ... she's going to be at least a second off the pace.
''That's not good for her chances.
''Either way, it's highly unlikely that she would be able to perform at a high level at the Olympics, which is shattering for her.''


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Denis made it into the Broughton Group this morning. It's interesting to look at his track. He's pretty much a point to point guy and the way he wound around it looks like he may have been ducking the wind. He crossed the mouth of Fife Sound near high slack and his path was deflected a bit, I assume by the wind. Maybe he was just meandering.
He is about two 15 - 20 mile days from Slingsby Channel which you want to cross on a flood. Mornings are flooding now which works well for that but forces him to work against current to get there. I suspect that he will stop at Skull Cove to set up for Slingsby and probably Burnett Bay after that in preparation for rounding Cape Caution.
....can't say that I have ever camped on that particular rock before. About 8 miles today in about 7 hours. I'm guessing it was snotty on the Queen. Tough go.
He has two major crux moves coming up in the next few days. Crossing Slingsby Channel and transiting Cape Caution / Kelp Head for cover in Smith Sound.
He probably didn't have much fun today.
....Denis was pinned on the rock by weather yesterday and set off in light conditions at around 6:00 AM this morning. Two hours later he had crossed Schooner Channel and was just off Skull Cove. He's stayed here before. Familiar waters.
You can find photos of Skull Cove on his site. http://denisdwyer.blogspot.com/2009/05/day-2-wednesday-may-28-shelter-bay-to.html
Denis paddled 20-some NM today from Burnett Bay, around Cape Caution, across Smith Sound and is camped at Open Bight, a long sandy beach tucked behind Cranstown Point. There is a small stream at the east end of the beach and it looks like that is where he has chosen to set up camp. It's a lovely place that is popular with the local Brown Bears.
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Nice paddle up the coast from Higgins Passage across Kitasoo Bay to Milne Island. Springboard to Laredo Channel, Aristazabal Island and the Great Bear Rain Forest. Looking at the track you can tell that conditions were very mild and he was probably using chart only as he had to make a U-turn at one point, or maybe he was meandering.
Milne offers some upland camping above Spring Tides with CMT's (Culturally Modified Trees). The "beach" in front of the campsite is a little rocky and best approached at high tide.
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Writer Brian Charles' piece "Noguez's roots" on page A1 of the Nov. 12 paper evokes a couple of comments.
His artsy description of Huntington Park's location as being on the west bank of the L.A. River is a bit much; geographically speaking, the city of Huntington Park is across the street from the city of Los Angeles.
Assessor Noguez is but one in a flurry of assessors who have felt the sharp edge of the ax, after somebody eyeballed their property valuations, which are based solely upon "reasonable" appraisals of the market values of specific properties; after which the assessor (most likely one of his deputies) places an assessed value (commonly called the AV) on the appraised valuation of the properties market value.
Sacramento has a decree that the maximum AV for a given property's appraised value cannot exceed 25 percent; however, there are no specific dictums in place which decide the property's minimum AV. And, again, it's a matter of judgment, specifically by an assessor's deputy (a professional real estate appraiser, and which is overseen by the deputy's superior, a senior assessor's deputy).
The elected top gun, the assessor, seldom sees these mechanisms in place yet his name goes onto the finished product, and if the ax falls, it falls upon the last guy who signed the document.
It's usually a rubber-stamp deal, but that guy is usually the elected assessor. The reality is that any number of deputies can and will have a part in setting the final AV on a given real estate parcel.
There is a final authority whose assigned tasks include overseeing the activities of the elected assessors, and that final authority is called the county Board of Equalization. And it may be interesting to know that, for about two weeks of a calendar year, the county Board of Equalization consists of the persons we know as the county Board of Supervisors. It seems odd that when the ax falls, it falls only on the shoulders of the elected assessor and the weight of the ax is not shared by the Board of Supervisors.
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Most Americans, while generally supportive of our troops, have no real idea of the sacrifices made on their behalf. Unit patches on some of these folks tell me their families dealt with fear every day because their loved one was in a bad place. How ironic to see this shortly after reading an article by Lawrence Korb saying we need to cut benefits for servicemembers and veterans because they cost too much. He forgets, or doesn't care, how much has already been paid by them.
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Hey Chaps, thanks for the comment. I never had the privilege of serving in the Armed Forces, though my oldest son served 4 years in the Navy. However, being a father and grandfather, I can certainly relate to the sacrifice of being away from your children. The tearful and happy scenes of these soldiers being reunited with their kids was almost too much. I love this video.
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Douglas Wood has been pilloried simply for speaking his mind, writes Miranda Devine.
DOUGLAS Wood survived his murderous terrorist kidnappers in Iraq so no doubt he will survive the sharks of public opinion in Australia. But the unrelenting nastiness to which he has been subjected reflects poorly on his country of birth.
Ever since Wood opened his mouth and said he was in favour of George Bush and John Howard's policies in Iraq, praised the Iraqi Army, called his captors "arseholes" and said "God bless America", the knives have been out from all those who disagree with an opinion he is probably more entitled to hold than most.
"I'm proof positive that the current policies of the American and Australian governments is the right one," Wood, 63, told reporters at Melbourne Airport.
Referring to the statement his kidnappers forced him to make on video, at gunpoint, pleading for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, he said: "Frankly, I'd like to apologise to both President Bush and Prime Minister Howard for the things I said under duress. I'm very committed to the policies of the two governments today."
Those words unleashed the full fury of enlightened folk, in newspapers, on radio and in the blogosphere. The engineer was likened to a "blustering buffoon" without "grace or dignity". He was not a real Aussie because he lives in the US. He was a "mercenary" and "spiv" for going to Iraq for "business opportunities".
Wood was "the new pin-up boy of the US-Australian alliance", sneered Richard Ackland in these pages. "What were the civil engineering works that engaged him and to whom was he contracted?" Meaning what, exactly? That he deserved to be kidnapped?
The Reverend Dr Vincent Zankin of Canberra, a prolific writer of baffling letters to newspapers, this week claimed in The Australian that Wood called his captors "arseholes" "because they are Muslims, whose dignity, religion and culture have been subjugated by Western civilisations for centuries".
No. Wood described his captors thus not because they were Muslim, but because they kidnapped him and kept him shackled and blindfolded for 47 days, kicked him in the head, and forced him at gunpoint to beg for his life on video.
Oh, and they also tortured and murdered two hostages, Iraqi men who had worked with Wood, Faris Shakir and Adel Farhaway Najm, before dumping their bodies at a rubbish tip last month. They also forced another hostage, Swedish oil broker Ulf Hjertstrom, 63, to watch "eight or nine" executions.
Hjertstrom, who told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet he spent a month locked up with Wood, said his captors often held a gun to his head, pulling it away just before pulling the trigger. Under the circumstances, "arsehole" is an understatement.
Nonetheless, J.S. Waddell from Horsham, Victoria, felt moved enough to write a letter to The Australian declaring: "Douglas Wood presently disgusts me. He goes from a pathetic whinger advocating a change in the course of Australian politics to save his own life to an extrovert full of bravado singing Waltzing Matilda once he has reached safer shores."
But the Greens took the cake, using the kidnapping to stage a protest outside the Prime Minister's office in April, demanding Australia cave in to the captors' demands and withdraw troops from Iraq.
Now Wood is home, they are lecturing him about money, saying he should reimburse the Australian taxpayers for the cost of his rescue from the filthy lucre he gets from selling his story, or give the money to Iraqi charities.
Then Labor's foreign affairs spokesman, Kevin Rudd, claimed Wood's statement in favour of Australian and US policy was "understandably emotionally driven" with the implication it was somehow not to be trusted - as opposed to the statement he made with guns pointed at his bruised head.
Wood has also been pilloried for saying, when he got off the plane, he might go back to Iraq because he has a business there. He sensibly retracted the statement within 24 hours, yet public condemnation continued for days.
He was derided as a greedy mercenary, a "privateer profiteering from war" as one letter to the editor put it, because he was using his expertise to rebuild Iraq and getting paid for it. Since when has making money for honest toil been a crime?
In any case, the term "mercenary" would more accurately apply to David Hicks, the Australian soldier-for-hire who happened to be discovered fighting for the wrong side in the war on terrorism. Hicks is being drawn into the Wood story in an attempt at moral equivalence by the Green Left Weekly and others demanding "the forgotten hostage" be similarly "rescued" from Guantanamo Bay where he is being held captive of the real terrorists, the US Government and its craven ally, Australia.
Barry Reece, of Valla Beach, summed up the situation in a letter to the Herald: "As it has proved possible to rescue an Australian, Douglas Wood, from Iraqi terrorists why is it proving so difficult to rescue David Hicks, another imprisoned Australian, from our American so-called non-terrorist, democratic, fair-playing and freedom-loving allies?"
As for the $10 million "reportedly" spent on Wood's rescue, no one in the Government has a clue where the figure came from. "We've never made an attempt to estimate the cost and never will," a spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, said. But the cost of flying personnel to Iraq and maintaining the emergency response team was nowhere near the amount quoted.
The $10 million is just another manufactured fact designed to elicit venom against Wood, a proud and courageous man whose crime was to speak his mind.
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The Vermont Telecommunications Authority is 14 roads closer to making sure every address in Vermont has an option for broadband Internet connection, thanks to a new set of grant rounds.
That's not to say everyone else in the state enjoys a high-speed connection by today's standards, or that those 200 are the only places left without service. It's not even to say that all those addresses will actually be connected by Dec. 31.
They're simply the last known spots missing from anyone else's plans — whether federally funded initiatives or service provider's own business strategies — to build broadband infrastructure to reach them. VTA's mission is to fill that gap, said broadband outreach coordinator Caro Thompson.
"It could take an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to get (broadband) to two houses," Thompson said. "A provider is never going to get a return on that type of investment."
To make it worthwhile for companies to extend service to those hard-to-reach areas, VTA subsidizes some of the capital costs of building new broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved locations.
The latest grant cycle awarded $295,750 to FairPoint Communications and $135,804 to Southern Vermont Cable Company — funding that must be matched to some degree by the companies. Roads in Bennington, Brattleboro, Newfane, Putney and Wilmington are on the project maps. (See below for a more complete list.) FairPoint hopes to complete this set of projects by June, while Southern Vermont Cable may finish before the end of the year.
Two more grant applications, from ECFiber and National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, are still under review. A set of grants in 2012 to four service providers subsidized new infrastructure for 545 locations and 52 towns, for about $2.3 million.
The VTA, created by the Legislature in 2007, used capital appropriations to pay for the grants. The agency redistributes funding from a variety of sources to support its mission — building a complete, current and affordable telecom infrastructure in Vermont for both residences and businesses.
During Gov. Peter Shumlin's 2010 campaign, he pledged to usher in universal broadband by the end of 2013. VTA executive director Chris Campbell is "cautiously optimistic" that they'll at least have broadband solutions proposed for all remaining addresses by the end of this year.
Need for speed
All projects funded by the grants must meet a minimum combined speed of 5 Megabits per second (Mbps) — typically about 4 Mbps for download and roughly 1 Mbps for upload.
But speed is relative.
Three or four years ago, 5 Mpbs was really fast, said Jessamyn West, a Vermont-based library technologist and nationally touring speaker on bridging the digital divide. These days, she finds 5 Mbps "more or less normal" and often sufficient, depending on who's using the Internet in any one location.
The Federal Communications Commission's Household Broadband Guide classifies 5 Mbps as somewhere between "basic" (1 to 2 Mbps) and "medium" (6 to 15 Mbps). "Advanced" would be anything higher.
A couple at home using email or surfing the web, and streaming one high-definition video? Basic. A family of four, each with laptops and smartphones turned on, Skyping with grandma and playing online video games? Advanced.
The direction of Internet use is driving demand higher and higher even for single users, West says.
"As more and more is in the cloud — music, movies, and devices syncing with the cloud all the time — that cloud-enabled lifestyle is going to be hampered by that (5 Mbps speed) over time," she said.
Hampered, that is, if everyone really needs to connect. West compares Internet speed to water service. "In some houses, you can't have four people taking a shower at the same time," she said.
Although, West admits, translating that to Internet speed for five college students sharing an off-campus apartment might be a hard sell.
VTA's Thompson acknowledges that not everyone has equal access to Internet speed in Vermont, and 5 Mbps might not sound like a lot to some. But for people currently living or working in an underserved area, it can make the world of difference.
"What we have to do is get the basic service to everybody first. That has to be the highest priority," Thompson said. "Because if you're on dialup, it's almost impossible to run a business. It's just not adequate in any way shape or form."
New service areas
The Fairpoint award will bring DSL service to at least some, if not all, addresses on the following roads: In Bennington, locations on Mount Anthony Road are part of the project. In Brattleboro, addresses on Abbott, Akley, Gateway Farm Lane, and Melchen Roads are included. In Wilmington, Boonesboro Drive, Bossert Road, Haynes Road, Kirby Drive, Old Ark Road and Tessahok Lane will be part of the expansion project.
Southern Vermont Cable will be extending service in Newfane along all or portions of Newfane Hill Road and will reach onto Grout Road. In Putney, new service will be available on East Putney Ferry Road.
Check your service
Internet speed can vary from advertised rates — or from previous recorded rates — depending on the number of devices you may have running at one time, the leaf cover on the trees around your house, or the distance you are from a remote terminal, among other factors.
The website www.BroadbandVT.org offers a free and anonymous online service to check your Internet speed. You'll need to know your street address, but you don't necessarily need to know your Internet service provider. It just takes a minute to watch a gauge measure your upload and download speeds, and you'll also get a graphical comparison of how yours compares to averages in the rest of Vermont and neighboring states.
Report an unserved area
The public can help the state verify its service maps by reporting unserved addresses. Visit www.BroadbandVT.org to register your location if you don't have access to broadband Internet. Satellite or mobile cell phone access to the Internet does not qualify as broadband service at an address — so if that's all you have, then go online to register your location.
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SANTA ANA - A Long Beach Fire Department captain pleaded guilty Tuesday to drunken driving and other charges related to a hit-and-run crash that severely injured a cyclist.
John David Hines, 38, of Huntington Beach, pleaded guilty to a court offer to one felony count each of driving under the influence of alcohol, causing bodily injury, driving with a blood alcohol level of
.08 percent or more, hit and run with injury, and sentencing enhancements for causing great bodily injury and having a blood alcohol level over .20 percent, the Orange County District Attorney's Office announced.
As a condition of the court's offer, Hines has been ordered to serve 90 days in state prison for a diagnostic evaluation to determine his suitability for a prison sentence, according to a statement from the district attorney.
After the evaluation, Hines is expected to be sentenced Dec. 2 in Department C-55 of the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, the statement added. He faces a sentence ranging from probation up to six years and eight months in state prison.
Hines had been suspended from his position with the Long Beach Fire Department pending the outcome of the court matter, according to fire officials. Officials couldn't be reached Tuesday to confirm Hines' employment status.
On April 1, Hines became severely intoxicated at the Schooner or Later bar in Long Beach. At about 1:20 p.m., he drove erratically under the influence of alcohol eastbound on Westminster Avenue in Seal Beach in his Chevrolet pickup, officials said.
While driving, Hines lost control of his vehicle and suddenly swerved into the bike lane and dirt shoulder. Without slowing or hitting his brakes, he crashed into 47-year-old bicyclist Jeffrey Gordon. The victim was thrown from his bike over 70 feet and landed on the shoulder of the road.
Hines, authorities said, failed to slow or hit his brakes after crashing into Gordon, and fled the scene.
Two drivers who witnessed the crash followed the defendant and called 911. Hines drove to his Huntington Beach home, where authorities contacted him.
Hines displayed signs of intoxication including emitting a strong odor of alcohol, bloodshot and watery eyes, unsteady balance, and a strong odor of urine from his clothing, authorities said. About two hours after the crash, he had a blood alcohol level of .24 percent, they said.
The force of the impact from the crash caused by Hines left a blood splatter on the defendant's vehicle and resulted in major front-end fender and hood damage, authorities said.
Gordon was treated at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center for head trauma, severe lacerations and bruising to his head and body, and internal and spinal and vertebrae injuries. He was hospitalized for two weeks and continues to suffer pain, officials said.
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Micky Worthless and Double L (Topsville Geezers) – Its Official
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Following a high profile Twitter beef with X Factor winner James Arthur, Micky Worthless and Double L present their latest single "It's Official". Micky Worthless and Double L will be releasing an official project under the name "Topsville Geezers" and It's Official is the first track we've heard from the record. I will be shortly be blogging the official artwork, track listing, production and guest appearance credits from Topsville Geezers. However, you can listen to Micky Worthless and Double L (Topsville Geezers) – Its Official on the soundcloud player below.
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Titled a try out match (but far from it), here is the latest Dont Flop video from the TTTT (to the test ten) event in Leeds. Leeds-based Dialect is matched against Wolves based Double L in one of the biggest try out matches I've had the pleasure of watching live. I anticipate both artists to participate in further Dont Flop battles in the upcoming months, and look out for the other Dont Flop – TTTT (to the test ten) videos coming in the upcoming days. However you can watch Dont Flop – Dialect vs Double L on the youtube player below.
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