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After years of controversy, a decision has been reached that will drain the lake by 8 feet, treat it with the poison rotenone, leave wetlands parched for up to a year. This is part of an effort to expel the invasive fish species tui chub and restore the dominance of the rainbow trout, a species treasured for its commercial value.
Diamond Lake is naturally a fishless lake. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) introduced fish in 1910, which began the economic returns from the lake. But Rainbow trout fisheries began to decline in the 1940's when another introduced fish, the tui chub, multiplied. Tui chub originate from Klamath Lake and have invaded or are naturally present in virtually every lake in the area. In 1954, Diamond Lake was poisoned with rotenone, killing every living thing in the lake. Because there were few pre-surveys and post-monitoring, it is unknown how devastating this treatment was to the rest of the ecosystem, though the Forest Service now believes that some plant communities, like Lesser bladderwort in the South Shore wetlands, were degraded when the wetlands were drained to draw down the lake in preparation for rotenone.
But the re-introduced rainbow trout did well. For some years afterwards, Diamond Lake enjoyed a boom in recreation dollars and fishing permits, even exceeding 100,000 anglers per year. Unofrtunately, the tui chub came back in 1992 and again made the rainbow trout more difficult to catch. Now ODFW is going to poison the lake again...
The failure of the past rotenone treatment should be a sign that something different needs to be done this time. It will be virtually impossible to keep tui chub out of the lake in the future because they are used as bait, or carried into the lake on boats or wildlife. No other lake is proposed for poisoning, only Diamond Lake. ODFW's economic goals for the lake are unrealistic. It forces the stocking of Rainbow trout and a goal of 100,000 anglers per year. The only apparent way to sustain this level of fishing is to re-poison the lake every few decades to keep it free of any competing species.
The Proposals:
The ODFW proposed action, Alternative 2, had the same goals with virtually the same management: rotenone the lake and restock it with a lot of rainbow trout (and some other species) with the highest possible profits from 100,000 angler days per year. Alternative 3 was a little better, and was the Forest Service's "preferred alternative." It proposed to rotenone the lake, but have a different stocking strategy. Instead of stocking with rainbow trout fry, they will stock with adult fish. Because mature rainbow trout feed differently, it will help maintain a higher water quality.
We favored Alternative 4, which would have removed 95% of the tui chub for 6 years, and attempted to keep the remainder of the tui chub in check with predacious fish, like salmon. This would have provided for the continuation of plenty of fishing and swimming.
Both Alternative 2 and 3 would have treated Diamond Lake and Lake Creek in a harsh and drastic way unnecessary with Alternative 4. To apply rotenone, Diamond Lake needs to be drained halfway. A canal will be dug so the lake can be drained into Lake Creek (which flows from Diamond Lake into Lemolo Lake). In October of this year they began to drain the lake. It will stay half full all through the summer of 2006. In October of 2006 they will put about 238,000 pounds of rotenone into the lake. They will also drip 375 gallons of liquid rotenone into Short Creek and Lake Creek (inlet and outlet to the lake) for 17 days. Because it is illegal to put pesticides directly into a creek, the Forest Service must temporarily relax their rules. After a couple of months, they will start to fill the lake again, and will immediately restock it with fish the next spring.
The alternative ultimately chosen was Alternative 5, nearly identical to Alternative 2. It differed in that liquid rotenone, not powdered, would be used "in the shallow, weedy areas of Diamond Lake."
The impacts:
The rotenone treatment is expected to briefly contaminate about 80 drinking wells of summer homes around the lake. Though drinking water will be provided to the residents, they must wash with the contaminated water.
For the bald eagles, osprey, and other fish eating birds, the Forest Service will have an 18-month supplemental feeding program. Rotenone-contaminated water and dead fish are not expected to kill any wildlife that drink and eat it.
When the lake is drained, it will dry up the surrounding wetlands. When the lake is filled, it will dry up Lake Creek. The cumulative effects of this treatment could mean the end of a Lesser bladderwort (pictured at left) population along the south shore because it is currently "only barely holding on." Other rare flora includes the California elfin saddle (pictured at right), Goblin's Gold, and Water Bulrush. Of the 30 plants in these sites, the Forest Service will try to save 10 by hand watering.The drying of the South Shore Wetlands and Lake Creek will negatively impact wildlife that depend on the water, such as bats, the rare Crater Lake tightcoil snail, pacific fisher, bufflehead, and numerous other waterfowl and shorebirds. The dewatering of the south shore wetlands could result in permanent changes to the wetland environment, potentially changing the rare plant communities that are adapted to them. In addition to fish, amphibians and reptiles (including turtles) are expected to be killed by the Rotenone.
Are we going to do this every 40 or 50 years? Poor Diamond Lake. It deserves a better, less greedy management plan.


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If there had not been a coach party in on the Sunday night there would not have been any food available!!! Very poor for a 4 **** hotel.
Rooms had good WiFi and were clean Was a little difficult to find as it is in a retail park. Not a place with much charm but practicle and plenty of parking.
We were just on our trip to England so just a stopover We were in room 310 and the air conditioning was
it was clean and the staff was great and very helpful it's location was terrible and they never advertised that they were not in Lorgroño. because of the location I would not reccomend this hotel.
Good practical hotel for an overnight stay. Clean, tidy rooms, good facilities in the area and overall good value for money. No fridge in the room and only one chair in a double room ?
The staff were helpful. I booked two rroms for two nights for my family and another. Both room rates were the same. However, the room which my family stayed in is much smaller than the other room. The other room has a sofa and a huge bathroom.
Very good value T V did not work.
As usual very high standards. This is our 3 year of staying on our way back to England and then back to Spain.
Helpful reception staff. Good-sized room. We arrived on a Sunday and were told that the restaurant does not open on Sundays. The hotel is in an out-of-town commercial centre and the only place to get a cooked meal was the burger bar in the bowling alley!
Parking not a problem Easy to find - on route from San Sebastian Beds were very uncomfortable. Only 1 pillow. Room very small - for a 4* Hotel
We were very disappointed in the situation of the hotel on a main road with little parking. It was exceptionally expensive and I would relate it more to a roadside motorway hotel. Rooms were small. It was however very clean. Breakfast was expensive.
Hotel is very interesting reconstruction of an old mill or as they call it flour factory. Combination of old and new is fantastic. it is situated along the river, nice bedding... I wish there were more signs to indicate the location Parking area is too small
Good experience.
Modern hotel inserted into old flour mill A bit overpriced for what you get.
Its cleanliness and superb staff made up for its lack of carparking and distance from the city centre. The hotel does not have sufficient car parking.
The design of the hotel and the staff were wonderful. It was out of the way.
Liked the modern feer and the quality of the bedroom and shower.
Good buffet breakfast, comfortable, well appointed modern rooms. Design hotel built into a former grain mill well decorated with riverside location. Staff friendly and helpful.
If you are walking th Camino, this hotel has one fabulous offering. If you give them dirty laundry by 5:30pm , they will have it cleaned (and pressed!) and back to you by 8:30. It is not cheap, at $20 for whatever you can fit into a small plastic bag. would like them to serve breakfast BEFORE 7:00 am. At least have coffee and rolls available - the weather when we hiked was VERY hot, so an early start was critical, and we would have like to have coffee early if possible.
The palacio was very nice decorated with a lot of attention to the details, the cook was very good and even made from the daily menu a gourmet. The restaurant was not open all days of the week.
Wonderful breakfast choice: excellent restaurant; well appointed rooms; complimentary mini-bar; beautiful architecture and decor of hotel. Our room was surrounded by the bathrooms of the other rooms and was quite noisy. I would certainly stay there again but would ask for a different room next time
Stunning hilltop location amazing mountain backdrop, restaurant was closed when we arrived but the concierge organised a meal for us. Interior of the hotel is beautifully designed and free mini bar was a nice touch. Tasteful colour schemes throughout and nice rooms. Galdeano is a very small village, there are no cafes or bars so you need to drive to get anywhere. Breakfast service was a bit slow.
Charming and elegant castle hotel in a small village. 12 km to the nearest town and not accessible with public transportation. Atmosphere was really tranquil and luxurious.
The bathroom was very spacious and had the image of a 4-star bathroom, very nice. The room itself looks quite new and was quite big for a 2- star hotel above a gasstation. Automatic airconditioning with remote control was available in the room, and also a lcd tv. Fortunatley enough we found the hotel very quickly, but if you are not so lucky it can be hard. It is hidden behind a big Renault factory and is located above a gasstation. Just follow exit 396 if you're coming from Madrid and follow the signs to the gasstation, than you can't miss it!
Everything available 24 hours a day. Friendly staff. Cleanness in general.
The hotel was conveniently situated for our journey and fulfilled very well all our requirements. Check in was slow because the hotel had not received our booking from the central office.
Cheap-friendly well placed good room (no more slow typist Your directions were confusing !!
We were travelling through and wanted somewhere to stay overnight. The hotel was initially a bit off putting as it is atatched to a large garage and petrol station and there where a lot of trucks outside. I was afraid it would be noisy and very basic. In fact the rooms where spotless and well appointed. The staff where very helpful, and good food was available either at the cafe or in a resturant. The rooms where air conditioned and double glazed and we had no noise from the trucks. Very good value. It was just off the main road but also set amonst lovely mountains. No. It is not the sort of hotel for an extended stay but very good for its purpose as a stop over.
I had no difficulties but those who do not speak Spanish could have problems.
Hotel was new, conveinent ,ate in the resturant found it good value.


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A rule of internal life will always promote the health of the man.
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Located, acting, or effective within the body.
Of, relating to, or located within the limits or surface; inner.
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Get an overview of this hotel3.5-star Cusco hotel in Cusco Historic Center with free breakfast
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Located in Cusco Historic Center, this hotel is steps from Santa Catalina Convent, UNSAAC Yale International Center, and Temple of the Sun. Qorikancha and Museum of Religious Art are also within 5 minutes.
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Along with a restaurant, this hotel has a bar/lounge and 24-hour room service. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Other amenities include a business center, concierge services, and laundry facilities.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a business center. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. For a surcharge, a shuttle from the airport to the hotel (available on request) is offered to guests.
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La Reunion TX connects art and artists to local and global communities.
We sustain and renew artists and our city by fostering dialogue between artist, process, nature and community through our residency, collaborative arts programs, and stewardship of the land.
LRTX was founded in 2006 in Dallas, Texas by Sarah Jane Semrad and Catherine Cuellar, who understood that art and artists are critical to a thriving community. They realized that artists, from time to time, need to recharge their creative spirit. To this end, the founders envisioned an arts residency program, designed to host artists, working in a variety of media, for periods ranging from one week to one year–giving each participant the chance to renew their creative energies.
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When your motto is "One Team, One Dream," one loss can seem devastating.
But maybe only for one day.
"I really hope so, " St. Ambrose senior volleyball standout Michael Neuner said following the top-ranked Fighting Bees hard-fought, 3-1 NAIA national championship game loss to Park University of suburban Kansas City, Mo., Saturday night at the P.E. Center. "It's a hard thing. We really wanted it. But 33-3 is not a bad year, if you ask me."
Certainly not. Behind standout fifth-year senior Fray-Luis Arteaga, a Venezuelan whose MVP championship match performance included 25 kills while pacing Park to a 25-23, 25-19, 19-25, 25-17 victory, Park may have been the better team on a night that saw a record 2,763 fans pack the arena.
But among the Bees 33 victories earlier this season were a pair of straight-set wins over the Pirates.
Coach Bill Gleeson's Bees spent all but two weeks atop the national rankings this season. And a second-straight national tournament runner-up finish on their own floor certainly points to a bright future for a program that Gleeson, Neuner and fellow seniors Dan Dowjotas, Hayden Grove, Matt Brahm and Joe Sponseller helped build into a national power.
Dowjotas is certain to be named an NAIA All-American for a third straight year in the coming week. Neuner was honored as NAIA Sportsman of the Year late Saturday. And Gleeson and St. Ambrose also hosted three of the most successful national tournaments in NAIA men's volleyball history, said 12th-year tournament director Paul Lawson, a former Marycrest head coach who hinted of a strong chance the event could return in the very near future.
Attendance during all three days of this year's tournament exceeded the record totals of the 2011 event and the arena was packed to the rafters Saturday with black-clad St. Ambrose enthusiasts. They were hoping to watch the volleyball team provide the second national team title in school history, as well as the second in as many days on the heels of a dance team championship won Friday in Florida.
These Bees had been pointing toward Saturday's opportunity since falling to California Baptist in the title game last year. Dowjotas, who was joined on the all-tournament team by junior Kyle Schwetz, said that singular goal made finding a silver lining difficult in the immediate aftermath of Saturday's loss.
But he could see that changing in a day or two.
"We put everything out there," the senior star said after leading the Bees with 12 kills. "It's just a little sad right now. I'm sure tomorrow will be a little better."
Gleeson said his Bees won't be the only ones to see a bright side soon.
"I said look at nearly 3,000 fans," he said of his post-game message to his team. "How can you not enjoy what this team has done? It has been an amazing journey and we can't let one game define their career or their season.
"Memories of being in this national championship and these national tournaments here at St. Ambrose are something not just our team is going to remember but nearly 3,000 fans as well."
Also in April: The St. Ambrose cheerleading squad finished fourth at the national tournament. Read about them here.
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The devil gave him a black witch for a wife; and these two demon daughters are their mystical progeny.
The black witch exercises the most potent magic; the white witch being vastly inferior in power.
Now as all Cornish folks know, there is a difference between a white witch and a black witch.
He was regarded by the people as a white witch, whilst the witch of Fraddam was a black witch and his antithesis.
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The smartphone industry keeps claiming more victims. The latest is Japanese electronics giant, Panasonic, confirming that it plans to stop development of smartphones for the mass market in order to reallocate its resources elsewhere.
The news is hardly surprising. The company said in July that it planned to review its smartphone strategy after posting losses at its mobile phone business in the most recent quarter to June due to weak sales of smartphones in Japan, the only market where the company had any presence to speak of.
Panasonic said it plans to focus on manufacturing and selling feature phones – or the clamshell-type handsets that were a staple of the pre-iPhone era. Feature phones still maintain a loyal following in Japan, accounting for about 30% of all mobile phones sold. Needless to say, that figure is shrinking.
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Panasonic said it will continue to make smartphones for non-consumer markets – imagine, for example, if the company brought its Toughbook brand used by the military, police officers, and utility workers to smartphones – but it will suspend development of smartphones for consumer markets from October.
For all of its explosive growth, the smartphone industry hasn't generated much profit for companies other than Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., the duopoly currently dominating the market.
Panasonic's exit comes two months after another domestic rival, NEC Corp., announced its own retreat from the smartphone market and amid a flurry of deals that signal how past mobile phone performance is no indication of future success in the smartphone age.
This week, BlackBerry said it reached a preliminary deal with one of its biggest shareholders to take the company private for about $4.7 billion, a fraction of its peak valuation of $83 billion. It comes after Microsoft Corp. announced plans earlier this month to buy Nokia Corp.'s mobile phone business for $7.2 billion, a sharp decline for the Finnish handset maker which once dominated the cellphone market.


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The Distinguished Scientist
Richard D. Smith, Chief Scientist of the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, reflects on 40 years in mass spectrometry following his Distinguished Contribution award at ASMS 2013.
How does it make you feel to be recognized as making a "distinguished contribution to mass spectrometry"?
The field of mass spectrometry (MS) has grown greatly in importance in recent years, particularly for biological applications where MS is the 'go to' tool for many key -omics measurements – proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, glycomics. They are what I refer to as 'pan-omics'. I feel honored and humbled to be recognized as contributing to this endeavor, and also recognize that really this award extends to the fantastic set of colleagues, past and present, at PNNL.


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Susan Sarandon, GabrielByrne, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow and Roy Dupuis have signed on asleads in Emotional Arithmeticfrom Montreal-based BBR Productions and Toronto's Triptych Media. Budgeted near$5.8m, the long-gestating project begins production in Quebec's Easterntownships in October.
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The end for cricket in a bankrupt land
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Zimbabwe Cricket Union has buckled in the face of international condemnation. As far as the officials responsible for running cricket in that starving and bankrupt country are concerned, the game is up. It's over.
Once the ICC realised that the current dispute between senior players and their board was about something more important than pay it could not remain on the sidelines. Rightly the game's governing body rejected the moralising of those prepared to bomb women and children and to shake hands with Gaddafi. But they could not ignore spitefulness in their own ranks.
Heath Streak and company have not sacrificed their careers for money. They were not even protesting about the nasty and illegitimate regime imposing its will upon their country. Rather they were making a last-ditch stand against racism in cricket. Now it is up to Peter Chingoka, the long-standing Chairman of ZCU, and his supporters to join the struggle.
Pigs might fly to the moon. Zimbabwean cricket is finished. Everyone has been driven away and only youngsters are left. The ICC might as well withdraw recognition and funds. Cricket has been dragged into the quagmire by the same forces that have devastated a once prosperous land.
Chingoka is a suave and sophisticated man who has failed to resist the agitators in his ranks. Great things were expected from him. He was the first black prefect appointed at his school in Harare. Till now he has seemed capable of delivering on his promise. In the last few months his lack of backbone has been exposed. He is a mere time-server and now it is up to him to disprove persistent rumours about his close links with his government. His credibility is in tatters and angry denials no longer suffice.
Chingoka's failure to counter the influence wielded on his board by Otias Bvute has been the critical factor in the demoralisation of Zimbabwean cricket. Bvute is a swine who has screamed and shouted at black selectors and commentators and has a much lower opinion of white people. Hysterical fools are loose in his office and Chingoka has twiddled his thumbs and looked civilised.
Furthermore, he has tolerated the appointment as selectors of Steve Mangongo and Max Eprahim, a slippery customer incapable of advancing any cause except his own. Mangongo is a firebrand who had worked hard in the high density areas but lacks the experience needed to serve as a convenor of selectors.
Until the ZCU confronts its own cancer the country cannot be allowed back into the fold. The cat is out of the bag. Everyone hoped cricket could survive the bad times ready to rise again like a eucalypt after a bushfire. Most of the white players held on in the hope of better days ahead. Even Andy Flower and Henry Olonga were protesting about the death of democracy and not the conduct of their board.
Finally the players came to believe that there was no course available to them except confrontation. There was nothing left to lose. Their threat to take legal action was well calculated because senior officials will not want to have their behaviour exposed. Chingoka and Vince Hogg, his likeable CEO, may say they kept the politicians away as long as possible but they failed and that is the end of it. Now they must go and Zimbabwean cricket must go with them.
Cricket is a game of many colours and faiths and it must stand firm against prejudice of any sort. Every playing country is expected to work within these confines.
Chingoka and the ZCU cannot be allowed merely to cancel these matches. Much more is at stake than the belated reluctance of supposed leaders to send a bunch of boys into battle on their behalf. The work of a lot of fine men, black and white, has been undone.
Sean Ervine has moved to Perth. His dad was thrown off his farm but kept watching and coaching and hoping. Nor was the youngster easily beaten. Australians are familiar with his fighting spirit. Then came the arrogant sacking of Streak and the abuse that followed. Some members of the Board were pleased that Streak had gone. They wanted an all-black team. The ICC cannot allow attitudes like that to prosper.
Zimbabwe must be thrown out of the international cricket community. Only when ZCU reforms itself can it be allowed back. It's not going to happen.


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Through a Lens Darkly
When Actions Don't Speak Louder
We are, as philosophers and anthropologists alike will eagerly remind us, the products of our environments. Yet despite repeated encouragement, we rarely adequately recognize those most responsible for these formative environments, and the profound influence they have exercised upon every aspect of our future lives: our parents.
In A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the Chinese-American director Wayne Wang highlights that underappreciation. Based on the award-winning short story collection of Yiyun Li, the film is a meditative recounting of a retired Chinese scientist's visit to his daughter's home in the United States, and the gradual reconciliation that results as they come to understand the indelible fingerprints he has left on her life.
When Mr. Shi (Henry O) arrives in Spokane to spend a few weeks with his daughter Yilan (Feihong Yu), the ostensible reason for his arrival could hardly be more mundane: he is mesmerized by the idea of the American West, and he plans to explore this wildly improbable nation for as long as his newly-granted leisure will allow. But the true purpose for his journey is significantly less carefree—concerned and mortified by his daughter's recent divorce, he has made the long trek from Beijing in an attempt to forestall the "rebound relationship" she is contemplating, and to confront her over the abandonment of the traditional values he has tried to instill in her from birth.
At first, Yilan is content to hold her father at an emotional distance, glibly dodging his attempts to uncover the details surrounding her failed marriage. But his gentle persistence and unswerving confidence in the correctness of his beliefs proves too much for her. Unwilling to confront the issues he raises, she eventually resorts to physical avoidance, abandoning him to the unfamiliar solitude of her apartment complex and the friendly-but-disinterested nods of its English-speaking residents.
Setting aside his daughter's distance, Shi quickly acclimates to his unfamiliar surroundings. Despite his broken English and humorously inconvenient fascination with Communism (at one point, he proudly boasts to a pair of young Mormon missionaries that "you remind me of myself in 1948, when I was becoming a young Communist") his kindness and genuine interest in others wins him numerous friends—chief among them, an Iranian matron he knows simply as Madam. Her imperfect English is only a temporary impediment to their friends, for the two displaced retirees share a similar suffering: Madam's son, a wealthy young émigré, has abandoned the traditions of his native land as thoroughly and unshakably as has Yilan. This forges a powerful bond between the two wounded parents, but a series of unforeseen circumstances robs Shi of his greatest ally at his moment of greatest need.
Stirred to action by the discovery that Yalin is carrying on an affair with a married Russian professor, her father decides to confront her once again. In the heat of their ensuing argument, Shi is rendered speechless by his daughter's admission that the dissolution of her marriage was a result of her own infidelity rather than her husband's discontent. Even worse, she reveals that her long-festering childhood bitterness over a supposed affair of her father's, combined with his absence during the most formative years of her life, served as justification (and even motivation) for many of her actions.
Joseph Susanka has been doing development work for institutions of Catholic higher education since his graduation from Thomas Aquinas College in 1999. He blogs at Crisis Magazine, where he also contributes feature articles on a variety of topics.
Susanka's column, "Through a Lens, Darkly," is published every Tuesday on the Catholic portal. Subscribe via email or RSS.


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Hey i am looking for a tool or maybe some type of feature in BT4/ linux that i can scan my network and find out the password complexity of users that are using windows. If i crack there passwords it not a big deal as long as i doesn't change them. Just want to see if our users are using strong passwords (btw i dont wanna do anything that will harm my network)
Do you really expect us to believe you ?
From what you have told us, you have a LAN with users so that means you or someone must be the Administrator. These are basic knowledge for a LAN Administrator which clearly you do not have.
And still even if you do not change the passwords or do any hard it is still illegal.
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
Do not take a look at the: Forum Rules !
If you were the system or network administrator you would have set the standards for choosing a strong enough password as well as when that applicable password would expire and have to be replaced. That information is usually in the security policy or passwords policy.
At least he didn't say it was for a school project that his professor gave him.
yo sickness..i want one too! would you settle for a sticker?
Last edited by gunrunr; 07-07-2010 at 10:24 PM. Reason: added security policy comment
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Summercon, Toorcon, Defcon, Bsides, Derbycon, Shmoocon oh my
Come hang out with hackers on twitter @gunrunr556
NOT to comment on the OP's legitimacy in any way...however, that just isn't true. I'm a hired gun for some gov't thingee with a bunch of letters in its name and have a quarterly deliverable to do exactly that. Approximately 5-7% of all local accounts that are non-AD (and therefore outside the scope of GPO) are chosen for password auditing to verify compliance with complexity requirements. Graphs are drawn, reports are filed, executives point and grumble, the whole gig.
try email all users with this question
Q1 What is your password?
you can advise your clients to use strong complicated passwords instead of sniffing them
you can also enforce password policies on the OS itself as in min password length and complexity
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
Do not take a look at the: Forum Rules !
haha ok i defiantly started some controversy here maybe i did word that wrong.. There are password complexity enforced through GP but this doesn't mean the password are strong. I found a tool on msdn that if you put the password it tells you what level of complexity it is weak, strong ect.. (this what I am kind of looking for)
I shouldn't say i want to know the users password but maybe something that can scan and say user1 password weak user2 password strong like that.. I know Linux is extremely powerful and I though there might be some tool that can do this.
Sorry for the bad wording I know how to get passwords that actually easy but in this case i don't want that i just to see if the users are using strong passwords, Because if they aren't means i have to change the policy to have longer characters and you know how people are when it comes to change and have to show auditors that we are enforcing this policy..
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Review DateMarch 20, 2012
Overall Rating 4 of 5
Value Rating 3 of 5
Reviewed by: john(Unregistered User)
Summary:I'm on my second legend and am totally happy with it. Very responsive, lightweight, and snappy, it has a very solid feel in all conditions and in all settings. Great at high speed or in the bumps, my first Legend is now my rock board, but it's still going strong (the core shots in the base are too much to repair now - so I went out and found another one just like the first, only newer).
Customer Service:Not much in the way of CS around here (Connecticut). No nearby dealers (they all sell Burton stuff anyway).
Similar Products Used:Rode a couple of older Burton's (Craig Kelly model from the 90's and then a Cascade that I rode into the ground, but once I demo'ed a Legend, I was hooked. Very versatile.
Review DateMarch 10, 2009
Overall Rating 1 of 5
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Reviewed by: rdubach
Summary:My wife and I have ridden Nideckers for 10 years and used to love them. My wife rides a princess and I rode a legend. The rail of my legend separated from the core of the board after only riding it 12 times. Coincidentally I had a tiny wax scratch (the kind you get from running over a small stone) directly by the damage, which Nidecker said voided the warranty.
Expensive boards, poor customer service, faulty product. I wouldn't buy it again.


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Dry Mouth
What do I need to know about dry mouth?
Dry mouth is the feeling that there is not enough saliva in the mouth.
Everyone has a dry mouth once in a while -- if they are nervous, upset or under stress.
But if you have a dry mouth all or most of the time, it can be uncomfortable and can lead to serious health problems. It can also be a sign of certain diseases and conditions.
Dry mouth...
Dry mouth is not a normal part of aging. So if you think you have dry mouth, see your dentist or physician -- there are things you can do to get relief.
Symptoms include:
Why is saliva so important?
Saliva does more than keep the mouth wet.
Without enough saliva you can develop tooth decay or other infections in the mouth. You also might not get the nutrients you need if you cannot chew and swallow certain foods.
What causes dry mouth?
People get dry mouth when the glands in the mouth that make saliva are not working properly. Because of this, there might not be enough saliva to keep your mouth wet. There are several reasons why these glands (called salivary glands) might not work right.
What can be done about dry mouth?
Dry mouth treatment will depend on what is causing the problem. If you think you have dry mouth, see your dentist or physician. He or she can try to determine what is causing your dry mouth.


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I'm a web engineer turned account manager living in Massachusetts, and working at Bocoup; a technology company that helps move the web forward by contributing to open source technologies, training the community, and consulting.
Developmentally, I'm interested in finding simple and elegant ways to solve complex problems and streamline work flows. Being able to explain technology to non-technical people is one of my greatest strengths.
I'm interested in clean code, security, and a successful, healthy deployment process. I believe truly great ideas require an amazing team and a strong DevOps foundation.
I love helping people push machines around!
I've had the benefit of working in many different environments with incredibly talented people over the course of my career. I've worked at a creative agency producing interactive pieces for multinational brands, helped support an Alexa top 500 website (TMZ.com), helped to build an amazing web based design studio for interactive storytelling on a remote global development team, and worked in network administration and IT support for small businesses and educational institutions.
You can email me.
You can follow or just shout @ me on Twitter.
You can check out my development blog
You can see some of my projects on GitHub
You can download my PGP key from keybase.io/mattsurabian or from S3
But you can't find me on FaceBook or LinkedIn, cause I'm afraid of them.


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by Staff Writers
New York NY (SPX) Sep 16, 2008
BrickHouse Security has unveiled the groundbreaking BrickHouse Alert at last week's national AARP convention in Washington, D.C. The BrickHouse Alert is a combination of the most requested security needs by AARP members and functions as part personal emergency response system, part home alarm and part GPS tracking bracelet. The new BrickHouse Alert was in high demand and all the rage amongst AARP attendees.
The new BrickHouse Alert offers the most complete, and comprehensive emergency response coverage in North America with trained live personnel 24/7 ready to assess any situation and spring into action.
Disruptive Technology Displaces Old-Fashioned Security
BrickHouse Alert has managed to combine all these technologies into an affordable package for seniors for a low monthly fee, while providing the equipment on loan free of charge.
"There are three major dangers for seniors: Falling and being unable to call for help, wandering due to Alzheimer's Disease, and medication errors," said nationally known seniors care and "Nana" technology expert Andrew Carle.
"We were honored to launch BrickHouse Alert at the AARP National Convention," said BrickHouse Security founder Todd Morris.
"BrickHouse Alert was created to protect our families at every stage of life, giving them the freedom to live independently without being alone while addressing the major dangers for seniors. BrickHouse Security continues its commitment to be a trusted source of personal security, safety and protection."
The in-home/on the go BrickHouse Alert coverage includes:
Tele-Assist "In-The-Home" Fall Alert and Inactivity Detection
The first of its kind features include:
+ Fall Alert
+ Automatically sends for help if the wearer falls and can't push the panic button or call out for help
+ No Activity Alert
+ Tracks body movement and calls for help if expected activity is not sensed
+ Intruder Alarm
+ Automatically lets police know if intruders are detected
+ Live Personal Reminders and Caring Personal Assistant
+ A live person will remind them of events, medication, doctors appointments and even wait for them to take out the trash
+ Emergency Alert Pendant
+ Worn around the neck to alert help and used to answer any incoming call if the wearer is unable to get to the phone
Mobile GPS Bracelet with Wander Alert
The Mobile GPS Bracelet features include:
+ GPS Location Aware
+ In an emergency, BrickHouse Alert can find the wearer and send help anywhere
+ Safety Zone Wander Alert
+ Family and emergency personnel will get notified via e-mail or cell phone upon wandering outside of geographic zone
+ Built-In Speakerphone
+ Live 2-way communication with emergency personnel, friends and family
Dedicated Professional Monitoring Service is on call 24/7 with live operators standing by to assist anyone in need. BrickHouse Security's Dedicated Professional Monitoring Service currently monitors over 900,000 people nationwide. BrickHouse Security's skilled operators are heavily trained in Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) and Intruder alarm to provide seniors with the highest quality of service.
BrickHouse Alert can evaluate any situation and notify police, fire or ambulance at a moment's notice, as well as contact family members.
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The Arithmetic Coda 2 Plugin allows you to convert simple arithmetic in to numerical values. I originally coded it for speeding up creation of CSS — for example: if you have an element that is 342px wide and you need to pad it 4px on the left and 7px on the right and want to quickly caluculate the new width, simply type as follows:
.element {
width: 432-4-7px;
Select the sum 432-4-7 and then press CMD+ALT+SHIFT= or select 'Arithmetic' from the Plug-ins menu, and the correct value will be completed.
As I say, I coded this for quick calculation of Padding, Margin, Border etc… in CSS, but it may have many other uses.


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Under Armour to Buy MapMyFitness in Embrace of Sports Tech
Under Armour is buying the popular workout application company MapMyFitness for $150 million, putting the sports apparel maker in charge of one of the biggest social sports communities on mobile devices.
The Baltimore-based company–known for products that include "moisture-wicking" shirts and athletic shoes–says it agreed to buy the app maker to broaden its existing digital offerings and augment plans to become a premiere sports company.
MapMyFitness, which was launched in 2007 and is based in Austin, Tex., counts 20 million registered users–nine million of which use its service on a monthly basis and 700,000 of which use it daily.
"Athlete biometric measurement is a new business we're just getting behind," says Kevin Plank, Under Armour's CEO.
He added that the appeal of MapMyFitness was an open platform that works with more than 400 devices, and is steadily growing with about 200,000 new customers signing up each week. He declined to say whether the company is profitable.
"I wouldn't consider this an app company rather than a community first and foremost," he says.
MapMyFitness ranks fifth among the top developers of sports fitness apps, according to research conducted by IHS Electronics & Media in April, which puts the number of app installs among the top five at 83 million. Other top apps include Runtastic and Azumio.
Under Armour's acquisition vaults the apparel maker into the growing world of fitness technology. Other companies, such as Nike, Adidas, Jawbone and Fitbit have rolled out proprietary wearable technology, offering devices with sensors, companion apps and, in some cases, a social network to integrate sports even further into the technology industry.
The market for these devices is still nascent and relegated largely to techies and fitness fans, but growing quickly. Sales of fitness devices, apps and services are expected reach $5 billion by 2016, according to market research firm Gartner, jumping more than threefold from an estimated $1.6 billion this year.
A variety of companies are looking at the industry as a next leg of potential growth, ranging from titans such as Google, Samsung and Apple to startups like Pebble Technology building wearable devices with a range of sensors and biometric abilities.
"Wearable electronics are effective products to increase brand loyalty," Gartner analysts wrote in a recent report.
Nike in particular has been successful with its Nike+ social platform launched in 2006 that now stands with 20 million members worldwide. Individuals can access the platform in tandem with Nike devices, including its FuelBand fitness tracker and SportWatch GPS running watch, or through its mobile app.
Under Armour, meanwhile, has built one device, a chest strap called the Armour39 that can monitor heart rate, calories burned and other details. The device, which costs $150, works with either a smartphone app or specialized watch.
Plank, Under Armour's CEO, says he first began using MapMyFitness two years ago, and began talking to the company around August. He says his company's executive and board carefully considered the purchase–its first acquisition and a company far outside its historic business.
The team from MapMyFitness, and in particular its chief executive Robin Thurston, are a critical part of the acquisition and will become a central part of any technology acquisitions going forward, Plank says. He plans to keep MapMyFitness running as a subsidiary in its current Texas headquarters.
Plank says he is not beginning an aggressive acquisition plan.
The purchase of MapMyFitness marks another way in which Under Armour, a relative newcomer to the U.S. sports apparel and footwear market, is striving to compete with the likes of Nike and Adidas. While those companies started out in the more lucrative category of footwear before moving into apparel, Under Armour first made a splash in the late 1990s with its popular line of microfiber activewear and has since moved into footwear.
Now, a third category— sports and fitness monitoring—is proving to be a new battleground for traditional sports retailers, with both Nike and Adidas unveiling new devices within a day of one another last month.
"The numbers are staggering on where all of this is going, whether it's smartwatches and regular activity trackers," says Thurston. "We're seeing new devices come to market weekly, monthly."
Josh Flood, an analyst for ABI Research, estimates that sports and fitness monitoring currently comprises about two thirds of the overall wearable tech market, which also includes the "crazy hot" market for smartwatches, a separate category.
Watch this video with Ian Sherr about the Under Armour and MapMyFitness Deal:
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I just picked up a stainless steel ruger 10/22 and wanted some input from those of you that have your own.
1. What upgrades would you consider must haves?
2. What upgrades would you consider worthwhile but not necessarily must haves?
3. Which upgrades would you do yourself and which would you have a gunsmith do?
4. For those of you that actually own and have midified one of these guns, which modifications have you completed and what kind of difference in performance have you noticed due to those upgrades?


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Advisory Opinions Relative to Judicial Campaign
Conduct and Fundraising
Board of Professional Conduct
Copies of these Advisory Opinions are available by clicking on the link to the opinion or calling the Board of Professional Conduct at 614.387.9370.
Op. No. 87-02 (May 7, 1987) - Use of the term "reelect" in judicial campaign
Op. No. 88-7 (April 25, 1988) - Judges should not engage in the business of consulting for political candidates
Op. No. 89-15 (June 16, 1989) - Use of the title "judge;" joint advertising and endorsements; independent fundraising activities
Op. No. 90-24 (December 14, 1990) - Judges and referees may make contributions to candidates and political parties; referees may not make direct or indirect contributions to judges of the court on which they serve
Op. No. 92-11 (April 10, 1992) - Judges and judicial candidates may sign nominating petitions for judicial and nonjudicial candidates
Op. No. 93-9 (October 15, 1993) - Participation in a parade
Op. No. 97-6 (October 10, 1997) - Creation of campaign committee by incumbent judge; expenditure of carryover funds outside the fundraising period
Op. No. 98-7 (June 5, 1998) - Termination by judicial candidate of a nonjudicial campaign committee and disbursement of nonjudicial campaign funds
Op. No. 98-8 (June 5, 1998) - Service on political party executive committee or county board of elections
Op. No. 98-11 (October 9, 1998) - Acceptance of campaign contributions from an elected clerk of court and employees of the clerk
Op. No. 01-1 (February 2, 2001) - Campaign conduct of a judge whose spouse is a candidate for public office.
Op. No. 02-3 (April 5, 2002) - Scope of a judge's permissible communication on proposed constitutional amendment regarding drug treatment.
Op. No. 02-8 (August 9, 2002) - Guidelines on scope of permissible judicial campaign speech.
Op. No. 02-13 (October 4, 2002) - Campaign activities by magistrates on behalf of judicial candidates.
Op. No. 03-8 (December 5, 2003) - Use of title and appearance in a robe by magistrates running for judicial office; use of campaign funds by judges, judicial candidates, and magistrates pursuant to Canon 7(C)(7).
Op. No. 09-11 (December 4, 2009) - Charitable contributions from personal or judicial campaign funds.
Op. No. 10-7 (December 3, 2010) - Judicial use of and participation in social networking sites.
Op. No. 14-1 (January 31, 2014) - Standard for disqualification when counsel is a participant in a judge's current campaign.
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Premier Ted Baillieu says he is disappointed that a stone memorial erected where Jill Meagher's body was found has been removed from the site north-west of Melbourne.
Melton City Council said it had taken the 50-kilogram granite slab from Black Hill Road in Gisborne South with the permission of Ms Meagher's family.
Stonemason Joe Trovato had laid the stone at the site in September in memory of the murdered Irish woman, whose body was found in a shallow grave beside the road on September 28.
The memorial carries the message: "In loving memory of Jill Meagher. September 2012. Loved by family, friends and many Australians whose hearts have been touched. Rest in Peace".
Mr Baillieu said he did not know the circumstances under which the memorial was removed, but said he felt disappointed.
"I feel very sad for all of those associated with Jill Meagher — friends, family, loved ones and indeed on a broader basis," Mr Baillieu told radio station 3AW.
"I don't know under what circumstances it has been removed. It was put there with love, affection and care, and I'm disappointed. If someone has indicated to the council they would rather it not be there, and that has come from family or friends, I don't know, but all I'd say is I'm disappointed."
Last month, the council said it was considering moving the floral tributes at the site in a compromise with locals who were upset about the ongoing attention and increased traffic along Black Hill Road.
The stone memorial will be sent to Ms Meagher's parents, who live in Perth.
Bruce Wood, who attends the site daily as its self-appointed guardian, said this week that he was struggling to understand the council's logic in removing the memorial.
"This was well off the roadside and obscured by two wattle trees. I'm shattered, disappointed, demoralised," Mr Wood said.
Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, of Coburg has been charged with Ms Meagher's rape and murder and is due to appear in court in January.


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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Intel and the Intel Science Talent Search
Years ago, I had a gig with Scientific American writing a weekly column for the website called "Where are they now?" This recurring feature looked at past finalists in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, later called the Intel Science Talent Search. It was a fun gig for me. Armed with a list of names of finalists since the 1940s, I'd Google them and see who I could find. Some people were easy to find (e.g. Ray Kurzweil) -- others were more obscure. I'd write about their high school projects, and their current careers. I was so taken with some of the stories that I later went back to several people (including Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann) to interview them for the career section of 168 Hours. I attended the finalists event in Washington DC once, where Colin Powell was the guest speaker (that was kind of cool). Anyway, from a PR perspective, it always seemed like a pretty good deal for Intel. Every one of the 40 finalists would be featured prominently in their local print and broadcast media. Many major national outlets (like the New York Times) did close-to-annual features as well. From a recruiting perspective, it probably didn't hurt to have 40 of the top young scientists have a very fond, perhaps even evangelical view of the company. All this for the price of the scholarships and administration -- a small chunk of change to a Fortune 500 company. So I was somewhat surprised to learn that Intel has decided to stop sponsoring the contest. According to this story in the New York Times, they're continuing for the next year or so, and then will be stepping back. No particular reason was given for why it's no longer seen as the right move for the philanthropic side of the company. It's possible some other corporation will step up (the Times article speculated about Google). I hope someone will. While there are other contests out there (for instance, the Davidson Fellowships!) it's never a bad thing to have young scientists rewarded. The existence of prizes and prestige encourages high schools to step up their scientific game, and give kids a chance to do independent research. Indeed, a number of high schools have established research programs precisely to get kids to become finalists in Intel and other programs such as the Davidson Fellows. Here's hoping this is a good thing that will continue.
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Hello and welcome back! In today's article, I am going to talk about my experiences at Grand Prix Atlantic City last weekend. In particular, I'd like to go over some do's and don'ts of preparing for a tournament.
Currently, I am in a car en route from Atlantic City to Michigan with Michael Jacob, Jon Johnson, and Kim Logie. I've never had a laptop with enough battery life to last longer than twenty minutes, so getting to borrow one to write in the car is a fantastic treat for me because I get to write about my weekend while it is still fresh in my mind.
First of all, here is the deck that I played in the GP this past weekend. I got bit and caught:
Creatures (28)
- 4 Diregraf Ghoul
- 4 Dreg Mangler
- 4 Falkenrath Aristocrat
- 4 Gravecrawler
- 3 Knight of Infamy
- 4 Lotleth Troll
- 3 Thrill-Kill Assassin
- 2 Thundermaw Hellkite
Lands (24)
Spells (8)
I have never in my life seen a decklist that looked so good to me on paper but played out so poorly. The Zombie deck is full of cards that seem powerful and have a lot of synergies together, yet it didn't perform very well for me.
I started out 4-0 (with three byes) and then proceeded to lose the next five rounds to finish out 4-5 (but technically in matches actually played I was a dreadful 1-5!).
Because when you catch Zombie Fever, you die…five times…
My matchups were:
U/W Flash, Win 2-1
Naya Midrange (feature match), Loss 0-2
Mono-Red Aggro, Loss 1-2
Four-Color Staticaster, Loss 1-2
U/W/R Flash, Loss 1-2
U/W/R Flash, Loss 1-2
All in all, it was not a very good tournament for me. Mike Jacob also played the identical 75, and though he did better than I did with a record of 6-3, he also failed to make Day 2.
Pro Tip #1: No Sleep = No Win
One of the easiest things a player can do to improve their chances of performing well at a tournament is to GO TO BED the night before. Sleep is important, and our brains require rest to properly function, especially to perform all of the complicated calculations and high stress decisions we need to make during the course of a long card tournament.
I did not heed this important piece of advice and suffered the consequences, as I am very aware that I made multiple small and avoidable mistakes that cost me matches. In one of my matches, I tried to sacrifice a creature to regenerate my Lotleth Troll, much to the confusion of my opponent (how embarrassing)! When one is playing deprived of sleep and sacrificing a creature to regenerate a Lotleth Troll, it is pretty needless to say that MANY mistakes will be made throughout the day.
Sleeping is good, and I highly recommend it.
In the days leading up to the Grand Prix, I talked to eventual GP Atlantic City Top 4 player Ari Lax about playing his Mono-Red Aggro list and was pretty sure I wanted to play it in the event. Also, Jon Johnson (one of the guys in our car) was raving about the Bant Hexproof deck (popularized on Magic Online by Michael Jacob, who was also in the car with me for ten straight hours) the entire car ride down, and I didn't play that either. So I had information about three of the decks that ultimately made Top 4 of the event and decided not to play them. Why?
Initially, I was dismissive of the Hexproof deck largely because I didn't bother to play with or against it. I felt it was gimmicky, had bad mana, and that it would only good if people didn't know about it. WRONG! It turned out to be the breakout story of the Grand Prix, with two copies of the deck duking it out in the finals.
Once the tournament started and I got to watch people play games with the Bant deck, it was pretty clear that I had misjudged it. Hexproof wasn't a deck that threw a Rancor on an Invisible Stalker and attacked seven times—it played Geist of Saint Traft and killed people really fast. As it turns out, Hexproof was an actual, viable combo deck!
"A fun Magic card to play against…"
Without Phantasmal Image in the format to keep this wily Spirit in check, there are not many ways in Standard to deal with him. Also, when people consistently play him on turn 2 or 3 and then give him first or double strike, or pump him, or jump him, it is very difficult to survive Innistrad's "Ghost with the Most." The problem lies in the fact that the most reasonable way to interact with Geist is to simply block him and trade with him in combat. When a player is pumping or giving him evasion, that entire tactic goes right out the window as an answer.
"An unlikely combo enabler."
Silverblade Paladin is one of the cards that really impressed me in the deck, as for a fairly small investment it is capable of producing gigantic clumps of damage. When coupled with a pump spell that also provides trample, one attack is often all it takes to finish off an opponent.
"Selesnya smash!"
Pro Tip #2: Don't Dismiss Until You Have Played With or Against It
If I had bothered to play three games with the Hexproof deck, I would have played it in the tournament.
Not dismissing new or off the wall ideas is usually something that I am pretty good about, and I wonder how much "not liking" Invisible Stalker and Geist of Saint Traft as cards actually played in my decision to ignore the Bant deck. If it influenced any amount in my decision, even subconsciously, that is too much because liking or not liking specific cards or styles of decks is usually a bad criteria for choosing a deck to play in an event.
My decision to not play Ari's Mono-Red Aggro deck, in retrospect, was also pretty silly and unjustifiable. I thought that Mono-Red was well positioned, was confident that Ari's list was well tested, and was set on playing it the day before. On Friday night, I started looking over Mono-Red, B/R, and Jund decks and thought maybe a hybridization of them might work out really well. Which brings me to:
Pro Tip #3: 2 AM Is No Time to Brew
When we are tired, we make bad decisions. First of all, late night pre-tournament brewing deprives us of precious sleep. Granted, sometimes people are snoring so loudly that sleep seems impossible, and in those moments brewing may seem like a productive use of one's time—but it isn't. The other problem is that there simply isn't enough time to test these new and exciting ideas. Play something that has weight to it and has some evidence to support it doesn't suck.
Or, as Jon Johnson just pointed out, "Has proven it can win more than one round at a GP, snicker, snicker…"
In theory, what I was trying to accomplish with Zombie Fever was to build a B/R deck that was very much like Red Sligh but also like Jund in the sense that the cards are individually good in and of themselves. It seemed like a good idea in theory. "The speed of Mono-Red Aggro with the card quality of Jund," yet in practice, my deck actually had neither the speed of Mono-Red nor the card quality of Jund.
Late night brew for the loss.
Good decks rarely ever come out looking good on the first try—it takes time to figure out what the right cards are and in the correct quantities.
If I'd had more time to rebuild and play some games, my deck might have been improved to look like this:
Creatures (26)
- 4 Diregraf Ghoul
- 4 Dreg Mangler
- 3 Falkenrath Aristocrat
- 2 Geralf's Messenger
- 4 Gravecrawler
- 3 Knight of Glory
- 4 Lotleth Troll
- 2 Thrill-Kill Assassin
Lands (24)
Spells (10)
- 2 Pithing Needle
- 4 Huntmaster of the Fells
- 3 Vampire Nighthawk
- 2 Golgari Charm
- 3 Duress
- 1 Kessig Wolf Run
I don't actually think this deck is as bad as it performed for me, and in all honesty my tired play may have cost me more games than the my deck. Either way, I believe that the changes I've made are all to the benefit of the deck.
Notably, Thundermaw Hellkite was really bad for me because I had a lot of trouble casting him. He's expensive, and I often couldn't consistently acquire double red for his cost if I'd needed to play a Cavern of Souls earlier in the game naming something else. Most of the time, I discarded him to my Lotleth Troll, which was pretty miserable.
"Dragons are a Lotleth impressive when they are merely Battlegrowths."
The problem with the original list was that it was trying to do too many things at the same time. Mono-Red Aggro isn't good because it has high-quality cards, and that was the mistake I made in building this deck for the tournament. It is difficult, to say the least, to maintain the consistency and resiliency of Sligh when splashing two colors. I often stumbled with my mana and lost valuable windows to exploit advantages in tempo.
The other thing I noticed was that cards that "upped the card quality" also cost me in regard to raw speed and closing power. For instance:
"Spells you can't point at your opponent."
Being someone who doesn't play a lot of red decks, I poorly framed what was to be valued about specific cards I selected for my deck. For instance, Mizzium Mortars can always kill an opponent's Loxodon Smiter and for 3RRR dome their team. While those modes do offer a lot of flexibility, one form of versatility it didn't afford me was the ability to light my opponents on fire via direct damage. As a player who tends to play control or midrange decks, I very much underestimated how important closing games with burn spells could be.
With my classier creatures and more "versatile" removal, I reasoned that needing burn to close out games would be less of an issue. Not true—only having to deal twelve points of damage with creatures because an opponent played a shockland and I have six points of burn in hand is a really big deal and can't be understated.
Another thing that people trying to play aggressive decks in Standard need to take heed of is that Izzet Staticaster is a huge problem. Before the tournament, I thought about playing Pithing Needle but ultimately dismissed it. As it turned out, I played against decks with four Izzet Staticasters in half of my rounds and couldn't beat the card. I really regretted not having Pithing Needle against U/W/R and especially against the Nightshade Peddler deck. My assumption was that in an aggressive deck using a card and tempo to play an artifact that didn't deal damage would be wasting a card, but in reality, it would have fit right in with my Mizzium Mortars and Ultimate Prices as very good cards that don't deal damage.
"What Izzet going to name? Olivia, obv."
Pithing Needle was basically the card that I wanted to have access to the most over the course of the tournament, which leads me to believe that other people just like me who don't want to get crushed by Staticaster might also want to play with it.
So that is the story of how I went one level too deep and brewed up a Jund Zombie deck in the wee hours of the night before Grand Prix Atlantic City that didn't commit deeply enough to an aggressive plan to be a good red deck. Oftentimes, card quality isn't as important as synergy and positioning. What makes Mono-Red Aggro good isn't that it is full of fantastic cards; on the contrary, its individual cards are often mediocre on their own (Stonewright, Pyreheart Wolf, Frostburn Weird), but it doesn't matter because the whole point of the deck is to be as aggressive as possible. If your opponents are on the brink of death on turn 4 or 5 every game, they don't necessarily have time to extend the game and take advantage of their higher-quality cards.
"Who are you calling mediocre!"
Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens when one brews up a deck in the middle of the night and then plays it without any testing. It is also what happens when one doesn't take advantage of the amazing decklists that are gifted to him by friends and instead stubbornly (and unnecessarily) goes too deep into the tank.
Pro Tip #4: Don't Reinvent the Wheel
If you are like me, and in my experience many Magic players are, we both really want to win and are willing to go to a lot of trouble to improve our chances of winning. In most cases, a little elbow grease goes a long way and is a good thing; however, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it is possible to try to do too much or go too deep into the tank.
Going too deep into the tank is when in order to solve problems or perceived problems, we go to extreme lengths to fix problems that are not really problems or solve problems in unrealistic ways. The real problem is often that because we want to figure out how to fix bad matchups and to prepare for every contingency, sometimes we forget that certain decks are just bad match ups, etc.
For instance, an imaginary slow control deck has a bad matchup against a very fringe aggressive red deck, and instead of accepting that the deck has a bad matchup, we use our entire sideboard to be 40% post-sideboard so we don't "auto lose" to it. Using all of that space and becoming worse against everything else isn't worth essentially "losing less badly" to the red deck.
In the case of my Zombie deck from the GP, I "solved" the problem of Mono-Red Aggro having objectively low-quality cards by making my deck much slower, much less consistent, and adding two colors. Why do really terrible ideas always seem so appealing at 5 AM?
I'm pretty exhausted and should probably get some ZZZZZs.
From a car somewhere in Pennsylvania, cheers and thanks for reading.


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The ICC today sent a directive to this effect. The other umpire for the match would be Billy Doctrove from West Indies.
The South African umpire, who had wrongly adjudged Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara 'out' in a Test match against Australia, was replaced by Pakistan's Aleem Dar for Sri Lanka's upcoming Test against England.
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A few months back, Yahoo! Sports' Charles Robinson said that they had a "10 out of 10" scandal story, while the Tressel situation only garned a middle rating. Well, it's here, and it's an eleven:
In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports' 11-month investigation, Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and, on one occasion, an abortion.
The entire breakdown is unreal, as are the individualized player pages detailing the involvement of specific current and former players and recruits. Go and read it. (Though the Worldwide Leader seems a little slow on the take . . . .)
My questions are these: How do you stop this kind of thing, with some renegade booster running his own personal red light district? And for high school coaches, do you educate your players to try to avoid this kind of thing, both on recruiting trips and as players? Can you? (Note that the page for Orson Charles says it was his high school coach that took him to meet Nevin Shapiro.)
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The closing means that Pamela Ott, Pleasanton economic development director, and Laura Olson, executive director of the PDA, will start all over to find tenants for the large 11,000-square-foot building.
When Domus opened its Pleasanton store in September 1998, it was part of Smith's Las Gatos store. Then she sold the Pleasanton business to John Maloney and his wife Cathy, who were allowed to continue using the name. The Maloneys later closed their business to pursue other interests, and the building was empty for more than a year until Smith closed the Los Gatos store and reopened the Pleasanton store Aug. 27, 2011.
Smith said that although her business here has been flourishing, it was time to retire. Starting yesterday and in the coming weeks, all merchandise in Domus and even its fixtures are for sale.
During the time Ott and Olson were looking for tenants before, a problem they found was that the large Main Street building is either too big for most small retail businesses or too small for a drug store, fitness center or other possibilities that were considered. Banks also have become unsuitable tenants downtown with both the City Council and Planning Commission ruling that two of them can't be located on the same block and, in fact, discouraging any more from opening downtown.
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