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Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has backed a fresh push from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia for full deregulation of electricity prices and privatisation of energy assets by state governments to boost the efficiency of the market.
CEDA on Wednesday released a report on Australia's energy policy options, that also called for time-of-use pricing in electricity for consumers, a measure also supported in the federal government's energy white paper, released last week.
"Our energy markets need to evolve to better serve consumers," Mr Ferguson said at a luncheon in Sydney to launch the CEDA report.
"A key aspect of this reform package will be supporting the states and territories should be move towards greater competition in retail pricing."
The minister said greater competition would drive innovation as retailers compete to offer consumers new services, while giving consumers greater choice about which tariffs they sign up to and options to minimise their energy costs. At the same time, strong protections need to be in place to protect vulnerable customers having difficulty paying their bills, he said.
The white paper backs the market-driven roll-out of smart meters that would provide households with more information about the cost of their power use and allow them to adjust it to help reduce their bills.
That should also help limit demand for power during peak periods, which is continuing to rise and which is requiring billions of dollars of additional investment in supply and transmission systems that are only used a few days a year.
On the issue of privatisation, which is in the hands of individual state governments, CEDA chief executive Stephen Martin said that if states don't sell off their network assets, then the regulatory oversight of those assets should be changed to take into account their ownership.
CEDA has also urged the government to review its opposition to nuclear energy and to take it into account in any strategy for Australia's future energy mix.
But Mr Ferguson reiterated his view that nuclear power is not needed for Australia given its abundance of low cost and reliable energy sources, both fossil fuel and renewable.
Only if "at some point in the future" Australia does not get a "breakthrough" on baseload clean energy, would the country need to think seriously about considering nuclear, he said.
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Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou: Family Park Fun
Making the most of a beautiful SoCal afternoon, Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou were spotted at Cross Creek Park in Malibu yesterday (November 22).
Joined by their kids, the happy couple looked to be having a marvelous time as they spent some relaxing time together, ignoring the nearby paparazzi.
And though she only recently gave birth to her third child Kenzo, Kimora says she's already thinking about having more kids.
"I'm scared because how could I do everything that I do on TV and how many more runways do I have to walk now pregnant, but I feel like it might be coming. I feel like it might be coming again. And I'm young, so why not?"
"I don't put a number on it, but I wouldn't mind – whatever happens. If it's four or five, I wouldn't mind. I think I've been blessed enough to take care of them and blessed enough to have the wherewithal to deal with them, and the mental capacity and the patience, so I don't see why I couldn't or why I wouldn't. I love it. It's the most rewarding thing of my life, and I think Djimon feels the same way."
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room in a house, and in that room Istanbul
A mirror in the room, and in that mirror Istanbul
The man lit a cigarette, the smoke of Istanbul
The woman opened her bag,
and in her bag Istanbul
The child threw a line into the sea, I saw
He began to pull it in, on the hook was Istanbul
What kind of water is this, what kind of city?
We walk it follows, we stop it stops
She on one side, I on the other,
in the middle Istanbul
Once you have loved, I realise
Wherever you go, there is Istanbul
If Umit Yasar Oguzcan, who speaks with such
passion about Istanbul in his poems, could have
lived to see the city dedicate itself to world
peace,love, friendship and joy, who knows what
else he might have added to the reflection of
this splendid city in the mirror.
And does Istanbul have any disadvantages? Only
perhaps insufficient confidence and encouragement.
Once the people of Istanbul are sure of the
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A youth in Corner Brook has been charged with multiple offences for operating an all terrain vehicle on city streets.
The Corner Brook Royal Newfoundland Constabulary reported making the charges under the Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-Terrain Vehicles Act Monday.
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Young people who help pay for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (CSHC) should not look forward to enjoying its generous benefits. Policy analysts say there is a strong chance the card will be abolished long before they retire, despite Coalition leader
John Daley, the chief executive of the independent think tank the Grattan Institute, told the Weekend AFR that pressure on the budget from the cost of health services, the age pension and superannuation tax concessions "means something has to give". He says: "The rising cost of existing policies in these three areas is so large they will be impossible to keep off the table. At some point, a future generation will fall on the wrong side of the line and miss out".
However, in his campaign launch on August 25, Abbott ignored his Shadow Treasurer
The consequences for younger people who fund the CSHC can be seen in the way it can let a retiree with an income from super of over $1 million a year to get heavily subsidised prescriptions for $5.90 compared with $36.10 for minimum wage earners on $32,354 a year. This is the same concessional prescription price as age pensioners receive, even though all CSHC recipients are above the $46,093 eligibility threshold for a part pension. These cardholders also receive an $852 Seniors Supplement plus other benefits.
Although there are almost five times as many people of working age as those 65 and over, concession card holders will cost the pharmaceutical benefits scheme more than $6 billion in 2013-14 compared with $1.7 billion for those without a card. Although concession cardholders are predominantly retirees, Abbott estimates his promise will extend the CSHC to an extra 20,000 among the dwindling proportion of retirees whose main source of income is outside super.
At the same time, governments are under intense pressure to include new generations of higher-cost drugs on the PBS list. Increasingly expensive medical equipment also adds to cost pressures. Neither of these phenomena is confined to the elderly, but they chew up more of the budget's health dollars as they live longer. As governments struggle to fund these improvements, they will find it hard to resist the policy logic of scrapping a card that lets retirees receive prescriptions for one sixth of the price for employees on lower incomes.
Despite repeated warnings that an aging population will impose a growing budget burden, a new study shows governments have increasingly redistributed income from younger employees to the better-off elderly. Three university researchers Alan Tapper, Alan Fenna and John Phillimore published their statistical analysis of the impact government taxes and spending since 1984 in the latest edition of the ANU journal Agenda.
They found net benefits for persons 65 and over increased in real dollars by $184 per week compared to $77 for all households. The figures underestimate what the authors call a "bias" towards the aged because the tax concessions on super are not counted as a form of imputed household income. The authors found that incomes for the elderly are now close to the average for all households, and that net worth is skewed in favour of older households. They also note that in 2009-10 those 65 and over paid less tax than in 1984, but a couple with dependent children paid 50 per cent more.
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The continuing bias towards the elderly ignores a succession of official Intergenerational Reports showing how the fiscal burden will become increasingly onerous for those still in the workforce. The key demographic projection is that the ratio of people aged between 15 and 65 to those 65 and over will fall from 5 to 1 today to only 2.7 to 1 by 2050. Many analysts agree the impact can be softened, but this requires tighter means tests, lower tax concessions and a higher age for accessing super and the age pension. The Henry tax review noted that around a third of superannuation savings are withdrawn before 65. Because super can now be accessed at 55, this increases age pension spending if balances are run down before 65. The Actuaries Institute wants to lift the age for accessing for the age pension then index it to increases in longevity.
The accounting body CPA Australia commissioned a recent study showing that borrowing in the lead-up to retirement has increased while super balances grow. Its chief executive Alex Malley says: "Lump sum super benefits are being treated as a windfall and being used to pay for the lifestyle that's being lived now instead of being put aside to provide income in retirement." Although the super industry strongly contests this finding, Daley supports the report's call for more controls on lump sum payments. He said super is meant to fund retirement incomes: "If people say they should be free to spend their lump sums, that's OK provided they pay back the tax concessions." Other options include taxing lump withdrawals at a higher rate, or limiting how much can be taken outside an income stream.
The Grattan Institute report "Game Changers" estimated that lifting the pension age from 65 to 70, instead of 67 as planned, and the preservation age for super to 70, would increase workforce participation rates by an additional 1.4 per cent, and increase economic growth by around $25 billion. Deloitte Access Economics' director Chris Richardson estimates an extra 3 percentage points of participation among workers aged 55 and over would boost to GDP by around 1.6 percent of national income. In a paper for the Centre for Independent Studies, Stephen Kirchner says: "Aligning the super preservation age with an increased age for age pension eligibility could mitigate moral hazard by reducing the scope for double-dipping (taking super benefits as a lump-sum to maximise age pension eligibility), while also benefiting labour force participation".
Daley says the rapidly growing cost to the budget of the tax concessions will also have to be confronted. Conservative projections based on Treasury figures put the combined cost of the age pension and the concessions at well over $110 billion in 2019-20, split roughly half and half. Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist
A former Australian Actuary of the Year, Darren Wickham, has calculated that it would be cheaper to abolish the concessions and give everyone the age pension. But he also wants radical surgery on the age pension. He told the Weekend AFR that no one should get the pension while still able to work. Instead, the unfit could go on the disability pension. Less radical proposals also accept that the present budgetary bias towards the aged can't continue indefinitely without inflicting sharp financial pain on younger people who have to foot the bill.
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Chatham, Mass. • In "Jaws," the fictional mayor tried to protect the summer tourism season by keeping a lid on reports of the man-eater lurking offshore. As sightings of great white sharks mount off Cape Cod in real life, however, businesses in the Massachusetts town of Chatham are embracing the frenzy.
Shark T-shirts are everywhere, "Jaws" has been playing in local movie theaters and boats are taking more tourists out to see the huge seal population that keeps the sharks coming. Harbormasters have issued warnings but — unlike the sharks in the movies — the great whites generally are not seen as a threat to human swimmers.


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The AIA named the winners for its highest annual honors in education and public service.
Robert Greenstreet, Intl. Assoc. AIA, won the 2013 Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, the AIA's top award for education work, in honor of Greenstreet's 20-year career as the dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Greenstreet, who received his architectural education at Oxford Polytechnic University in London, has served as an educator for a number of U.S. universities, including Ball State University, Kansas State University, and the University of Kansas. He is the author of seven books on architecture and planning and more than 150 internationally published articles and papers. In 2007, Greenstreet helped to launch a design-focused public high school in Milwaukee, the School for Urban Planning + Architecture.
"I have witnessed him act as mentor and friend to the most influential deans, and offer reassuring assistance to the most junior professor," wrote North Carolina State University College of Design dean and former AIA president Marvin Malecha, FAIA, in a recommendation letter. "I never met an individual more generous with his time and energy to our beloved architectural community."
Greenstreet has devoted more than 20 years to the development of Milwaukee, as chair of the City Plan Commission from 1993 to 2004 and as chair of city development, a post he currently holds. Community Design Solutions, a program founded by Greenstreet, connects Wisconsin-Milwaukee students with AIA members working on pro bono projects in the community. He also served as an adviser.
Among other projects, Greenstreet also conceived and executed a program called Community Design Solutions, which helps UWM students work with AIA members so that they can provide pro bono services to inner-city neighborhoods and community groups. Greenstreet also advised Antoine Predock, FAIA, on the design for the Indian Community School of Milwaukee. "His energy, enthusiasm, and scope are boundless" Predock wrote in a recommendation letter.
The AIA also recognized John D. Anderson, FAIA, with the Edward C. Kemper Award for Service to the Profession.
Anderson was president of the AIA in 2001 when the profession, and the nation, faced its gravest challenge since the country's founding. After the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Anderson shaped the AIA's response and worked closely with the New York chapter to coordinate local and national recovery efforts, in particular through the New York New Visions program.
"He is a person of great integrity, dignity, and humility; an exceptional leader who has devoted his lifetime to enhancing our profession through his service to the AIA, his city, and state," wrote George Miller, FAIA, and Joseph Aliotta, AIA, in their joint nomination letter on behalf of AIA New York.
The architect's Denver-based firm, Anderson Mason Dale Architects, has received more than 100 regional and national awards. He has served as an adviser and instructor for the University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning. As a member of the AIA, he encouraged the participation of women and minorities in the industry. Anderson was the first Coloradan to be named the president of the AIA, but his early agenda was interrupted by the 9/11 attacks—which dominated the rest of his administration. Anderson launched a compensation fund for victims and family members affected by the attacks.
Greenstreet will receive the Topaz Medallion at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture annual meeting in San Francisco in March, and both Greenstreet and Anderson will also be recognized at the 2013 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Denver in June.


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I wasn't sure what to expect when I loaded up Starr Mazer: DSP for the first time. I haven't played a shoot-'em-up game seriously since R-Type and Gradius III back on the SNES. After a surprisingly lengthy initial load, it booted ... read


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Seeking the Holy Grail
Access to your personal files anywhere, any time is the Holy Grail of the information age, but, until wireless communications improve, the next best thing is to carry your digital life in your pocket.
The 3.5-inch floppy disk holds a meagre 1.44MB, but the proliferation of tiny Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash memory storage devices has made it possible to carry around your entire My Documents folder in a device no bigger than your thumb. And with the size and cost of such storage devices falling, the hurdles to their widespread adoption are cosmetic rather than technological or financial.
It all boils down to a question of convenience: what kind of device are you prepared to lug around and how much trouble are you prepared to go to access it?
Considering most people already carry house keys, a USB flash memory stick small enough to fit on a keyring would seem a practical and convenient solution. Unlike a hard disc drive, flash memory has no moving parts and therefore is less susceptible to the knocks and bumps of everyday use.
USB sticks plug directly into a USB port and draw their power from the host computer, so you don't have to carry power and data cables or worry about data loss due to a flat battery.
Nor do you install driver software on the host computer if it is running a minimum of Windows 2000, Mac OS 8.6 or Linux 2.4.
The storage capacity of USB sticks ranges from 16MB to 2GB and, with high-capacity cards, it's worth spending the extra money for a USB2.0 interface with a 480Mbps data transfer rate. Optional features include radios and MP3 playback. They can also include the ability to password-protect and encrypt data, as well as a built-in fingerprint reader to restrict access.
USB flash memory storage devices come in a number of guises, such as hidden inside a pen, watch or other piece of jewellery. If you need only a small amount of storage, then a USB stick is probably your best option, but if you're considering paying about $300 for a 512MB USB2.0 device, you should take into account that, for the same price, an external hard disk drive will give you more than 100 times the storage space.
External hard disk drives contain a notebook or desktop PC hard disc drive holding up to 250GB and connect to a PC via USB2.0 or Firewire. Proprietary storage formats can hold twice as much. Optional features include MP3 playback and a multi-format memory card reader enabling digital photographers on the road to copy the contents of their camera's memory card to the external drive.
If you already have a spare hard disk drive, the casing costs about $100.
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A hard disk drive can also be placed inside a mobile rack casing, which retails from under $100. Mobile rack casings come with ATA or Serial ATA interfaces and slot into a receptacle installed in a computer's 5.25 inch drive bay. This offers faster transfer speeds than external devices, but the downside is you have to install a receptacle in any computer from which you want to access it.
Of course, none of these options matches the value for money of a removable storage disk, with rewritable DVD+/-RWs holding 4.7GB of data for about $5.
Removable storage disks are best suited for transferring data from specific locations, such as home to the office, where you have a computer with the appropriate drive installed.
Once you're on the road, you'll find DVD burners, or even CD burners, aren't as common as USB ports. Portable CD burners retail for under $200 and DVD burners under $350, but when you're looking at spending this much, you could buy an external hard disk drive that has a rechargeable battery and doesn't require you to carry around blank DVDs.
There are a range of proprietary removable storage formats available - such as Iomega's Zip and REV disks - but these also require you to lug around a matching drive along with power and data cables if you want to be able to access your data anywhere, any time.
A more portable option is Sony's Hi-MD, the next generation of the Mini-Disc audio recording format. Due to be released this month, Hi-MD recorders can be used as a "drag and drop" external storage device - holding up to 1GB of data on a small $10 disk - as well as an MP3 player and a high-quality recorder capturing audio from analog or digital sources. Running on AA or rechargeable batteries, Hi-MD recorders are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. They draw power from the PC when connected, but you still need to carry a data cable and, unfortunately, the drivers aren't built into Windows.
After your house keys and a wallet or purse, the next most common object in your average pocket or handbag is a mobile phone.
As telephones and handheld PCs begin to merge into hybrid devices, a growing number of mobile phones offer onboard data storage and memory card expansion slots. This means you don't need a computer handy in order to access your documents, but things become more complicated if you need to transfer them from the phone. Emailing documents from a phone is a slow and expensive exercise, but if you don't need this functionality, you can buy just a handheld PC.
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On Feb 13, 2012, at 5:56, Tom L <email@example.com> wrote:

Do not let someone into Noisebridge unless you are comfortable taking responsibility for their actions. This means that you should only let in someone you know and trust, unless you are willing to take the time to introduce yourself to them and them to Noisebridge, give them a tour, and teach them about our ways.

Anyone is welcome to become part of the Noisebridge community. This does not mean that everyone is welcome to come in at any time and do any thing, especially if their actions make the space less hospitable for others. There are some obvious sorts of actions that are unacceptable in any social space but few people act like that, and they are swiftly removed. The more general source of entropy is folks who aren't sufficiently introduced to Noisebridge, and don't understand what we're for.

We're open to any people who want to become part of our distinct micro society, but if you don't want to become part of Noisebridge's society, you are not welcome to continue using Noisebridge. The fact that many newcomers don't know this and aren't aware of our norms and decision-making processes is our fault. It's our fault for blindly pushing the buzzer and inviting people in without word or comment, giving the impression that Noisebridge is a place come and go as you please, and do what you want, without obligation.

This is not about trying to classify people into certain categories of desirable and undesirable based on how they look, it's about asking everyone to Be Excellent. Excellence is not a low bar; it is not merely the absence of living at Noisebridge, and resisting the ongoing urge to harm your fellow hacker. Excellence is treating Noisebridge as something to be treasured, working to be part of our community, and doing great things here.

If you silently open the door without teaching a newcomer how much you care for Noisebridge, and how incredibly important to you personally it it that they Be Excellent here, you are harming Noisebridge, and that is not Excellent, it's far, far from it.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:52 PM, jim <email@example.com> wrote:

 It seems you're presuming things about persons using
 the buzzer. How many people who use the buzzer should be
 let in? Seems like "most", to me, based on the people
 I've seen come in that way.

 How many people shouldn't? How can anyone say? Who
 knows who might "come around" to a hacker's head?
 And if they don't? What's bad?

 On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 17:12 -0800, Jake wrote:
 > This is exactly why it's easier to turn someone away by not buzzing the
 > gate open, than it is to let them in and come all the way up the stairs
 > and then try to turn them back.
 >
 > If someone presses the button at the gate and nothing happens, they have
 > no one to be mad at, and they have not already gone up two flights of
 > stairs toward their destination. No big deal, they will proceed to some
 > other place to hang out.
 >
 > -jake
 >
 > David Estes wrote:
 > > Right, and I am decidedly /not/ a big guy. Imagine me trying to have
 > > that conversation, but on the street outside the gate. I don't think it
 > > would have gone well.
 >
 > Rachel Lyra wrote:
 > I've done this, at 3am. someone sort of followed me there from a party
 > (incidentally one where they had to eject one of our homeless residents
 > for drunkenness). I'm a smallish female, although i usually wear baggy
 > clothes and boots. It wasn't fun but it worked out ok. I'm pretty
 > assertive though.
 >
 > Since our constituency of preferred users includes many people who would
 > be uncomfortable with this type of confrontation, we probably want to
 > help deal with that! I think that the more complicated it looks to get
 > in, the easier it would be to tell a person trying to follow you in that
 > they are not authorized for entry. By creating a ridiculous rube
 > goldberg of Entry we can create a Flying Spaghetti Monster type
 > authority to appeal to when denying someone entry. THE SCIENCE-DEITIES
 > OF ENTRY DENY YOU! I AM BUT THEIR HUMBLE SERVANT!
 >
 > R.
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Player Bullets:
- Trey Burke: More than any other player on the roster, Trey Burke makes good things happen when he's on the floor. He affected the game in so many ways that it's almost impossible to touch on all of them in one bullet. His final stat line today: 20 points, nine assists, two rebounds, steal, block and six turnovers. He was lethal in transition, penetrated Oakland's defense easily to create for himself (4-5 2p) and others and hit some huge three point shots (3-6 3p). He made a few huge second half plays including an NBA-distance three to break Oakland's zone, a great one-on-one block of Reggie Hamilton and then the huge assist to Tim Hardaway Jr. while falling out of bounds to ice the game. The six turnovers are a problem and a stern reminder of his freshman status but Michigan is a different team with Trey on the floor.
- Evan Smotrycz: Evan finally managed to stay out of foul trouble and he produced: 20 points on 7 of 8 (4-5 3pt) shooting with nine rebounds, two steals, one assists and two turnovers. This was the most complete game of Smotrycz's career and he was as efficient offensively as he was effective on the defensive glass.
- Tim Hardaway Jr.: Hardaway had just three points and two fouls in the first half but, as we've become accustomed to, exploded for 18 points in the second half. All it seems to take is one hot stretch from Hardaway for three or four possessions to completely change the complexion of a game. Hardaway was more effective outside (5-9) than inside (1-4) today and also had his fair share of turnovers (4).
- Zack Novak: He only took three shots but he left an imprint on the game: 5 points, 9 rebounds and 8 (!) assists. Novak is handling the ball with more confidence this year and his mid-range jumper continues to be a pleasant surprise.
- Jordan Morgan: Morgan looked tentative in the first half. He was beat for position around the basket, missed an easy look or two and never seemed to find a rhythm. He was a different player in the second half and it all started with two great defensive possessions to open the half: the first a big help side block and the second a drawn charge. His confidence grew from there as he continued to play well defensively and knocked down a nice mid-range jumper late. Morgan finished with nine points and eight rebounds in 27 minutes including four vital offensive rebounds.
- Stu Douglass: Douglass had a lackluster first half but hit some big shots in the second, finishing with 13 points on 4 of 7 (2-4 3pt) shooting including a transition dunk. He seemed to finally find some comfort with his shot in the second half and this was the sort of performance he can build off of offensively.
- Jon Horford: Horford still struggles catching the ball around the basket and looked tentative today. He's playing injured but the production wasn't there: five rebounds, three turnovers, one block and 0-2 s hooting in in 11 minutes.
- Eso Akunne: Akunne was thrown into as tough of a spot as we've seen with Burke and Novak sidelined with four fouls late. Unlike his earlier playing time this season, he didn't rise to the occasion – coming up with a turnover and a missed three.
- Matt Vogrich: Vogrich appears to be rushing his three point shots and also got back-doored for an easy basket. He did have a very strong take to the basket and finished through a foul.


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Let's say you're backed up. Do you have a go-to food or drink that you know will get things flowing again?
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i wouldn't say that i choose to drink beer to get things flowing (i actually don't ever get backed up, luckily!), but if i did get backed up and had to choose a food or drink to get things moving again, it would be beer.
i love poop.
i love poop.
Before i knew i have Hirschsprung's varient, i would eat prunes and drink the large bottle of prune juice. All it did was blow my belly up and give me killer stinky silent gases. Now i double up on the miralax, 2 scoops every two hours. Nothing food or drink wise is a cathartic for me.
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
oh yeah, twenty five years ago i would get a bag of licorice when i was backed up. Back then licorice gave me long ropes in a bucket. Five years ago, i would get a wendy's frostee. that would make me go a little juicy the next morning. i also used to eat gummy candies that had mineral oil in them to go poot when i was backed up. i voted other.
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
root beer really does the trick for me for some reason. One can of A & W, or maybe Barqs, and bam. I get this urgency to poop all of the sudden. Love it. And I love root beer.
I voted other, Metamucil drink mix gets me to dump some thick-ass toilet snakes.
I'm not a big beer drinker, so for me it's vodka. I'll be peeing out my ass all day the next day.
I also hear there's a tea called Super Dieter's tea that rivals ODing on Ex-Lax.
Typically beer for me too. Lately I have been noticing something rather counter-intuitive. Protein powder tends to push things along quite nicely. In the mornings I drink a 16oz protein shake (EAS Premium Protein, chocolate, 2 scoops in 16 oz of water) on my way to work. I finish the drink halfway there and by the time I arrive at the office I have that warm feeling in my belly. Walk up the 2 flights of stairs and drop my bombs.
I am fairly certain that it is the drink mix. Sometimes I quickly drink it right before I leave the house and about halfway through my walk I have the need. I stop in at the neighborhood grocery store, lay cable, buy lunch for the next few days, and walk the rest of the way to work.
Ah, the advantages of living in a city. There are 5 public restrooms that are all clean and on my direct path to work.
Number One . . . I order you to take a number two.
Number One . . . I order you to take a number two.
A quart or two of Mobil One Synthetic works for me.
The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.
"One of the founding members of the Front Page Hyena Pack, and runs as its alpha male when the urge strikes him, which is often." Daphne (one perceptive chick)
2 pints, 2 words. Ben & Jerry.
Hooters. Buffalo Chicken Sandwich, 911 sauce. Abolutely will cause a colon blow in 8 hours or less!
Not that I ever get constipated any more (and it was always a rarity, even before my high-water regimen and now the beta blockers), but I could always count on any of the following for a large, voluminous bowel movement:
Nuts: peanuts, cashews, almonds, or a mix; mucho poopo.
Soft drinks with carbonation, especially Coke or Pepsi: guaranteed explosive decompression.
Bran cereals, especially with raisins: large ploppy powdery poop.
Quiche lorraine, or more than a couple slices of pizza: large loose lava-like stool.
What I wish for these days is a large solid turd.
Muesli or Fruit 'n' Fibre cereal always gets me going eventually but I find that a nice bag of dried fruit like prunes, dates, apricots, even raisins, will make me shit like a veal calf who's just noticed a French farmer grinning at him.
Or a damn hot curry.
Or a donner kebab with extra chilli sauce.
Or a gutful of ale.
Come to think of it, there isn't much that doesn't make me crap myself empty.
A bucket of Theakstons Old Peculiar.
The voice of sanity
Indeed, Tbox, it will. And one can use the bucket again afterwards. But most of the readers of this 'ere site, being American, will find OP hard to come by, so any decent dark imported British ale in sufficient quantities should do an adequate job of doing to a chap's bowels what a steamboat would do to a beaver's dam.
I`ve just got back from a long weekend away and have quaffed down several buckets of Theakstons, Timothy Taylor`s and Copper Dragon`s fine ales over the four days.
My bowels have performed miracles in transforming beer into bowl filling anacondas.
The voice of sanity
Some good 'ol chips in salsa turns me explosive with some nice hot salsafied farts!
For me it is usually a nice salad, or something very greasy. Also, a cup of hot coffee usually gets things moving for me. The best thing is a McDonalds breakfast sandwich. Within a half an hour after eating one, I am on the toilet, having a very full and satisfying bowel movement.
In search of the ever evasive BM
In search of the ever evasive BM
I just buy one of those packages of cut up chicken, cut a small hole in the top and suck out the chicken juice with a straw. Usually by the time I get released from the hospital, my colon is as clean as a whistle and I'm about 15 pounds lighter to boot.
I just came back from a funeral, they had a coffee station with green tea packets. I drank two cups of it and within ten minutes I was shittin bricks in the basement bathrrom. Whew what a rush!
I assume no one in that funeral home basement complained about the smell.
Two things clear me out. My favorite is Trader Joe's Dried Peaches. A bag of those will make everything pass within 24 hours. Heck, my asshole is quivering at just the thought of it.
This second one I find a bit surprising: insomnia. If I have one of those nights where I can't sleep more than 3 hours, I guarantee you that at some point during the day, I will get the squirts and it will clear everything out of my system. I rarely get plugged up because, unfortunately, I'm a frequent sufferer of insomnia.
Lastly, a bottle of spring water from El Rio de Caca, direct from Tijuana, Mexico. I hear that they're coming out with a new Pork flavor too.
Yo quiero Taco Bell.
Yo quiero Taco Bell.
Very seldom have I experienced any constipation; it's usually problems with too frequent/too liquid that get me. If I were backed-up, I would just increase my fluid intake. Drink twice as much clear liquids: water, tea, gatorade, black coffee, etc. That would undoubtedly do the trick within a day.
I would not use OTC laxatives, but I might eat half a loaf of multi-grain bread with a side of wheat crackers and a half gallon of milk. Fiber in the intestine draws water into the poop for a delightfully fluffy and easy-to-pass crap experience! Try the fiber route, it should work for most people unless there exists a type of intestinal pathology that needs attention on its own (like Hirschsprungs disease, colonic stenosis or colon cancer).
----Captain Craptastic!!!
----Captain Craptastic!!!
Get the door, it's Dominos!
When I am backed up with the merde I eat the English food and drink scotch whisky, always works for me!!
Hey pnuttycorn... have done the Super Dieter's Tea. Make sure you are near a bathroom. It creeps up like a stealth bomber. A shit stealth bomber. And I would not advise it if you have a tender butthole. If you don't eat your roughage regularly, it can make you feel like you're shitting something akin to sand mixed with hot sauce. Yikes!!!
I am lactose intolerant so a hearty helping of any dairy product will get the feces flowing. But I rarely get backed up enough to need a food product. Usually a spreading of the cheeks and a good effort blasts the last couple dooks.
White Castle works for me!!
Je suis l'italienne. Je mange gelato pour le merde.
Buy my album!
What"s that, Carla. Your mango gelatin...i dont understand french.
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
It is difficult to understand Fench, and worse when its typed with an Italian accent.
The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.
"One of the founding members of the Front Page Hyena Pack, and runs as its alpha male when the urge strikes him, which is often." Daphne (one perceptive chick)
sittingpretty......Literal translation of Carla's post, "I am Italian, I eat gelato for shit."
Eat chilies and feel the burn!!
If I had two faces do you think I'd be wearing this one?
Je mange merde pour gelato aussi.
N'oublier pas, j'adore les hommes americain. Don't tell Nicolas!
Buy my album!
Pour faire poop vous pouvez utiliser de fort café aussi. Le français fait de bon café.
Your album sounds like bad poetry put to guitar plucking.
Love, Poopsy
Lol. Thanks Chief. Sorry Carla.Carla can you write in English. im not good at reading Italian (or French).
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
Damn, why do you fucking French insist on having a different word for every one of ours.
Nobody's French PD but Lol i finally got the joke.
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
Lorsque je laisse constipé Hulk Hogan a battu la merde de moi.
Eat chilies and feel the burn!!
If I had two faces do you think I'd be wearing this one?
Hulk Hogan? Il est fille. Il est un peu haricot vert. Il est un homo.
He is a grape smuggler with a sock in his crotch!
Poopsy are you and Chief saying Hulk Hogan is a homo in Italian. I hate being illiterate!
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17
Milk is a sure thing for me. The lettuce they use at Sonic is also quite the stool loosener!
Fold or Wad?
Fold or Wad?
16oz of carrot and beet juice. apples make it taste better.
(phonetically speaking)
Ya nikogda ni govorit' frantsuzkiy yazyk (zasun sebye v zhopu)! Moi lyubimmyi yazyk dlya govna: russkiy! Shire zhopy nye pernesh!
Translation: I never speak French (shove that up your ass)! My favorite language for shit: Russian. You can't fart wider than your ass. [popular expression]
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Frew's boys face basement-boys in Bromley
Barkingside are in Ryman North action tonight (Tuesday) with a trip to Bromley to face Cray Wanderers, on the back of a great win against Brentwood on Saturday.
Manager Matt Frew will be looking for more of the same from his squad. "It was a very feisty local derby on Saturday where we set the tempo, but I don't know too much about tonight's opponents.
"They play at a nice ground in Bromley, so I'm looking forward to my first visit there."
Side started the brighter on Saturday, and Calvin Poku found the net just after the 10-muniute mark to give them the lead.
Restricting their opponents to minimal chances,Richard Oxby found Poku again who doubled Side's lead with a left foot strike on 34 minutes.
"We'd restricted their chances, so I was delighted with our half-time lead," said Frew. "But they came out for the second half and got a quick penalty.
"Brentwood continued their period of pressure, and they equalised with a strange one. A long throw into the box went over our keeper and he just got a touch to it, putting it in for an own-goal."
It was then backs to the wall stuff until the manager decided to make what was to be a crucial change with about 15 minutes to play.
"I replaced John Bricknell with Chris Taylor and it paid instant dividends," said the manager, "he rose above the Brentwood defence to head home a Matt Gulfer corner, and we were back in front."
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Speaking about tonight's opposition, the Side boss said: "If people looked at the league table, they'd make us firm favourites to win, but it doesn't work like that.
"They'll be scrapping to get their first points of the season, but, if we can win we'll have nine points which I'd have snapped your hand off for at the start of the season.
Frew was keeping his cards close to his chest about team selection: "I may make a few changes to freshen things up," he said, "I've got 21 players to keep happy, but sometimes a little change brings a positive reaction.
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Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
March 2, 2012
In what the Wall Street Journal labeled "The Year of School Choice," 2011 saw the continued growth of one of the country's most prominent systems of school choice. The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
(MPCP) had already existed for several years before 2011 and was further expanded in that year to attempt to build on its benefits, says Patrick J. Wolf of the University of Arkansas.
Because numerous studies have been conducted to quantify the benefits of the MPCP, researchers at the University of Arkansas sought to analyze these final reports in an attempt to draw comprehensive and widely informed conclusions. Looking at 31 such studies, they found that the impacts of the MPCP were, almost without exception, either neutral (no effect) or positive.
- Enrolling in a private high school through MPCP increases the likelihood of a student graduating, enrolling in a four-year college, and persisting in college by 4 to 7 percentage points.
- Tracking MPCP and public-school students over four years, researchers found that MPCP outperform in reading and have similar results in math.
- Countering arguments that MPCP students are already high-achieving, researchers found that between 7.5 and 14.6 percent have a disability and many come to MPCP schools one to two years behind academically.
The studies found, on the whole, that most academic metrics were improved through gradually increasing participation in MPCP schools. This strongly suggests that this program can serve as a viable alternative to traditional, state-run schools for educational outcomes.
Simultaneously, the study found that the MPCP system brings numerous external benefits to the state.
- Students who remained in public schools were performing at higher levels due to competitive pressures from voucher schools.
- Because the state-provided vouchers are less than the average cost of educating a student, the government realizes education savings (nearly $52 million in fiscal year 2011).
- The MPCP has had no discernible effect on the racial segregation of schools or housing costs across neighborhoods.
- The MPCP system does not create barriers to school switching between public and voucher schools -- students continue to exercise high levels of educational mobility.
Source: Patrick J. Wolf, "The Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Summary of Final Reports," University of Arkansas, February 2012.
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Now that Christmas is over we do not have to give up color in our homes. There are many beautiful flowering plants that can be purchased and arranged in our homes for that "lively" look of spring. Plants available at this time of year include cyclamen, begonias, kalanchoes, azaleas, combination pots or baskets filled with an assortment of green, tropicals and blooming plants all mixed for that larger space. Peace lilies make a great tropical houseplant that is both green and usually filled with white flower spikes.
Through the magic of science and temperature games, greenhouses now have the capabilities of bringing many plants into bloom out of season. Some of these would include bulbs such as tulips, hyacinths and daffodils as well as hydrangeas and chrysanthemums. There is no rule that you must go and purchase all of these at one time, rather just get one or two at a time each month to keep your house looking fresh and bright and colorful all winter long. Your friends and neighbors and unexpected guests will admire your attention to detail when they see how you keep the place always looking its best.
Understand that most of these blooming houseplants are not salvageable and that after all of the blooms fade away, simply pitch the plant and move on. Nothing is more unrewarding than always trying to nurse dead plants back to life only to fail in the end. Please note that all of the top-notch greenhouse operations in the world only have and maintain good healthy plants at all times. That's why professional growers always feel satisfied in their world of growing plants.
The best part about these finished plants that you are buying is that you get to throw out the rulebooks on how to grow plants. They are already grown! You simply need to maintain the moisture level with plain 'ole water and never use any fertilizers. First of all, fertilizers are basically bad medicine during the winter months and, secondly they are only used during the growing process, not the "maintaining" process. Try to always water thoroughly but not often. Forget the old once a week advice, it never was any good as different plants dry out at different times. Only water when they are dry.
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By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. immigration courts are backlogged with nearly 400,000 cases, and experts say the Obama administration is to blame.
The 396,552 cases are a 22 percent increase over last year, according to Syracuse University researchers.
Not surprisingly, waiting times are up, too. The average case in Imperial, Calif., currently lingers 857 days before resolution.
BIG 10: View the 10 states with the largest backlogs
Richard Kelsey, assistant dean at the George Mason University School of Law and a longtime observer of immigration issues, said the problem starts at the White House.
"The president has telegraphed that he is going to take some kind of action (on immigration), so neither the courts nor the prosecutors are killing themselves to get things done," Kelsey told Watchdog.org in an interview.
"Anyone who thinks there's no correlation has their head buried so deep in sand they're not getting enough air."
Bob Dane, spokesman for the enforcement-oriented Federation for American Immigration Reform, sees other bad actors, as well.
"One reason the backlogs are building is that while illegal aliens who are caught crossing the border can accept a swift, no-fuss voluntary departure, most don't opt for it. And why would they? They're egged on to buy time by their immigration attorneys, local amnesty groups, the ACLU, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and La Raza," Dane told Watchdog.
Kelsey and Dane agree politics has gummed up the U.S. legal system.
"The process is rife with politics," Kelsey said. "If you got a minor nuisance ticket, you wouldn't wait 857 days for adjudication."
In the interest of justice, Kelsey said backlogged cases could be moved to courts that could handle them in a more timely fashion. Yet they're not moving.
"This is a deliberate political effort to slow down deportations," the former prosecutor charged.
Dane said the large and growing case backlog proves "that a massive amnesty requiring background checks on 5 to 6 million illegal aliens is sheer folly."
"It would be a rubber-stamped fiasco ridden with loopholes and national security threats because there are simply not enough bureaucrats from here to Pluto to manage the task," he said.
WHO AND WHERE? Interactive chart tracks court caseloads and nationalities of defendants.
Making the backlogged system even more dysfunctional, defendants often fail to appear for their court hearings.
"Unlike normal court proceedings where a notice of the hearing must be served … there is no legal requirement that these individuals actually receive notification — only that a notice be sent out to the address they have," said Susan Long, associate professor of managerial studies at Syracuse.
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New ACT results for Louisiana's high school students show how much work remains to be done in raising academic success across the state.
The composite average ACT score for public and private school students is 19.2, down from 19.5 last year and 20.3 the year before. Only Mississippi, North Carolina and Hawaii scored lower.
The national average for the ACT is 21. A perfect score is 36.
The ACT is a common test of readiness for college. Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White said the drop in the statewide average isn't surprising, since Louisiana is still adjusting to a new law that requires all high school seniors to take the test. States that require all high school seniors to take the ACT generally need a year or two to reverse the drops in composite scores after the new requirement is implemented. Widening the pool of test takers can initially bring in more students who were not fully prepared.
But White also pointed to poor overall performance in math skills among Louisiana's high school students. He said the results make the case that math standards have to be toughened.
We're heartened, as White is, by the news that an expanded pool of test takers has translated into a greater number of Louisiana students who might qualify for TOPS, the state program that funds college tuition for students who can meet a fairly modest standard of academic achievement. This year, more than 6,000 additional students scored at least a 17 on the ACT, the minimum score needed for some kind of TOPS scholarship.
Not everyone is a fan of the policy requiring all high school seniors to take the ACT. Critics claim the test is unnecessary for students with no plans to attend college.
But plans can change, and we're reluctant to dismiss students so quickly from the college option. College isn't for everyone, but the relatively low level of educational attainment in Louisiana comes from a long tradition of setting the bar too low. The goal shouldn't be to force every student into college, but to give young people as many options as possible. The ACT can help students clarify those options, and requiring all students to take the test is a good idea.


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Nov. 19, 2012
How can you tell when an animal is bored? Researchers have found that mink housed in boring conditions
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I've used Milani cosmetics in the past, so I've been a fan for a while. Back in the day, it was my go to brand since other brands didn't really have a foundation that would match me perfectly. I'm a strange milk chocolate mixed with dark chocolate and a hint of burnt pumpkin color, lol. Some companies that tried to make powders for dark skin would either make a coffee color powder and that would be their darkest, or they'd have a powder that was the tone of a dark chocolate Hershey bar...what about us in between women?
Milani filled a void for me. Not only did they have a decent selection, their makeup was affordable, of good quality and easily accessible. Sold in the beauty supply stores or drugstores, which means, no unnecessary trip to the mall. Thankfully today most brands cater to any complexion, so we all have options.
Although I've used their foundations and liners, today was the first time I have ever tried their lipstick.
Aside from the color, what makes me like a lipstick is if it slides smoothly on my lips and leaves my lips looking and feeling moisturized. I have owned lipsticks that caused my lips to move with the stick, lol. I also made bad choices with some that didn't spread evenly and left small bits on my lips and I'd have to rub my lips together 20 times just to smooth it out. That's one reason I really like colored glosses. This lipstick spreads nicely and has a light gloss so no need to apply a touch of Vaseline. This is one of my new favorites, so I will be buying more!
BTW: I realized I buy the same color pretty often! Although it's different brands, completely different packages and different color names...by the time I try them at home it comes out pretty much the same shade! Lol. I guess I'm attracted to this color!
I need to start looking at orange hues!..........
Anyhoo, what do you think of this color on me?
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All this week, I have been seeing stuff about an FBI wiretap. I even saw something about it on your message board, but I'm still not sure what the whole deal is with it. Can you explain it a little more for us? Thanks!
You know, I've been seeing stuff about that all week too and I just haven't had the time to really check it out. But since you asked so nicely, I knew it was time for me to sit down and research this. There have been a few posts on our message board about this from some of our loyal members and their information has really been helpful as well. So, thanks to all of you! Now, on to what I found out!
Monday, May 14, 2007 was designated "Wiretap the Internet Day" all over the place. As of that date, all cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite Internet companies and a few universities are now wired with all the new FBI-friendly surveillance equipment. May 14, 2007 was the official deadline for when this project had to be done for all the parties listed above.
This requirement was put in place to comply with the FCC's expanded version of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). This Act was first developed in 1994 to help the FBI with the new digital telecom technology. It basically required phone companies to make their phone networks easier to wiretap. It has helped tremendously in shortening the time it takes to start up a wiretap. For instance, the police can now start listening to a wiretap in less than one day's time. That's amazing!
Now, the CALEA is requiring that this go into effect with the Internet as well. The debates on that started way back in 2002 and although the court votes varied, it was still put into action. It did take five years to get it going, but at least it finally is.
All the computer companies listed above had to submit an FCC form saying that they were on schedule with the update or explaining why they weren't. Again, the deadline for that was this past Monday. Now, if you're just an average computer user, you don't really have to worry about this, but if you're an Internet provider, etc., you do have to comply with these regulations. (If that's the case and you're behind in getting your form submitted, you can find a lot more information online about what you can do now that the deadline has passed).
I know you may be wondering why this new surveillance is so important and the best answer I can give you is that it will make investigations go along much faster and easier when dealing with computers, etc. It will help the FBI rule out some of the "old fashioned" police work as well.
Like I said, this new development doesn't really affect you unless you're an Internet provider, etc. I just wanted to give you the information at hand, so you know you're in the loop. You ask, I answer!
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This boat is designed for people who need something easy to store and/or transport. I wanted something I could chuck in the back of the car and be on the water pretty quickly and also something that could go on/in a VW camper. The Yakka straps nicely to the bike rack on the camper and fits in the car with a seat folded flat. It sets up in a few minutes and if paddled without accessories is really quick to get from car to water (including unfolding and pumping up its still quicker than unstrapping a SOT from the roof and fitting seats etc). So off the water it does what its meant to. I find it OK to paddle without extra seats etc.
On the water its surprisingly fast. It's not a Sea Kayak but it's definitely quick and straighter to paddle than you'd expect. I paddled it on a club trip and everyone was surprised how quick it was. Older reviews about water coming in the joint don't seem to apply now as the ride is pretty much bone dry. Due to the inflatable sides its almost like a mini canadian-canoe really. The inflatable bit is out of the water so even if it pops mid trip you'll stay afloat.
Criticisms- no rivets to attach thigh straps to and it really needs them, after 4 uses one of the hinge screws broke but on the plus side BIC sent me (via the retailer) a new boat within a week so customer service excellent. The inflatable sides shrink when they cool so come a bit loose and may need pumping mid trip. Not a huge problem but you look a bit nuts doing it in the middle of the sea. Due to lack of thigh straps its not easy to keep stable in surf/chop, however its easy to re-enter in water.
So in summary: the Yakka 120 has some great points and some weaknesses. It needs pretty careful handling when folding/unfolding. Mainly for flat water use I'd say or in a very slight sea would be fine (I use it for lazy rivers and sea fishing). There's nothing on the market like it or in that price range for folders. If it suits your transport needs get one and you'll be pleased with it, but wouldn't be my first choice of SOT otherwise, which to be fair is what its made for! Overall a great but slightly flawed niche product.


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Payless Shoesource Eastern Distribution Center
This project enhanced the owner's supply chain efficiency and cut labor costs through centralization and automation.
Payless Shoe Source, one of the world's largest family footwear specialty retailers, teamed with Forum and Clayco to design and construct their new order, processing and shipping facility. There is nearly 600,000 square feet of area for automated material handling equipment. The high-tech operation requires the most advanced fire protection, life safety and lighting integration to provide a processing environment that is safe, clean and easy to maintain.
The architectural design features an office and amenities space that breaks out of the main box of the warehouse in two angled volumes canted in and out at opposite directions. These masses are clad in sleek, high-tech metal panels. A glassy curtainwall base provides daylight and views to occupants.
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On 10/27/05, Cory Strobel <corys at medican dot com> wrote:
> If you do not have a system, you can try a pre-built image with the
> changes, I have modified them for my use with the PPTP limit increased
> (that is the only change to them), so you can download the one you need
> at:
Thanks Cory! I haven't had time to get around to updating those for
1.2 just yet (and have a bunch of emails requesting it).
now also available on a fast link here:
http://chrisbuechler.com/m0n0wall/downloads/ (newest 5 files if you
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The Hubble parameter H0 100 h km s-1 Mpc-1 remains uncertain, although no longer by the traditional factor of two. The range of h determinations has been shrinking with time (Kennicutt, Freedman, & Mould 1995). De Vaucouleurs long contended that h 1. Sandage has long contended that h 0.5, although a recent reanalysis of the Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) data coauthored by Sandage and Tammann concludes that the latest data are consistent with h = 0.6 ± 0.04 (Saha et al. 1999).
The Hubble parameter has been measured in two basic ways: (1) Measuring the distance to some nearby galaxies, typically by measuring the periods and luminosities of Cepheid variables in them; and then using these ``calibrator galaxies'' to set the zero point in any of the several methods of measuring the relative distances to galaxies. (2) Using fundamental physics to measure the distance to some distant object(s) directly, thereby avoiding at least some of the uncertainties of the cosmic distance ladder (Rowan-Robinson 1985). The difficulty with method (1) was that there was only a handful of calibrator galaxies close enough for Cepheids to be resolved in them. However, the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale has significantly increased the set of calibrator galaxies. The difficulty with method (2) is that in every case studied so far, some aspect of the observed system or the underlying physics remains somewhat uncertain. It is nevertheless remarkable that the results of several different methods of type (2) are rather similar, and indeed not very far from those of method (1). This gives reason to hope for convergence.


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SOME of the state's professional bush firefighters could strike next month, during one of the worst fire seasons in years, if the Victorian government fails to sign off on a new enterprise agreement.
Workers and managers at the Department of Sustainability and Environment agreed to a new work deal last October but Finance Minister Robert Clark is yet to sign off on it.
The DSE has about 2000 full-time staff who work on fire and land management across the state, which includes controlled burns in the bushfire off season.
Australian Workers Union state secretary Cesar Melhem said workers were fed up with the way the government had treated them and unless the deal was finalised this week, members would consider protected industrial action in February, which would include bans and stop work actions.
''It's the last thing we want to do in the current environment, but the government is giving us no option,'' Mr Melhem said. ''The government has no excuse. Our members have had a gutful of the way the government has treated them.'' He said the overriding principle of any action was to not undermine the safety of Victorians.
Last week, Mr Melhem wrote to Mr Clark urging him to sign off on the agreement.
''It is unacceptable that the Baillieu government can sit in the creature comforts of Treasury Place whilst our hard-working members are swatting flies in a horse paddock filled with dung at Heywood; sleeping in tents that reach temperatures in excess of 50 degrees Celsius during the day; and being forced to spend time away from their families during the holiday period, whilst nothing happens,'' he wrote.
It is understood the government's assessment of the EBA will be completed soon.
A government spokesman said the statements made by the AWU appeared to be based on a misunderstanding of the relevant procedures for approval of EBAs that had applied under the current government and the previous Labor government. ''The proposed EBA needs to be assessed for consistency with workplace relations policy before the proposed EBA is agreed to by government.''
He said the assessment was under way and once an agreed EBA was approved by Fair Work Australia, the workers would receive the agreed pay increase backdated to the commencement date in the original agreement.
At the end of 2012, 46,000 hectares of public land had been burnt off as part of controlled burns by the DSE, which a spokesman said was twice the historical performance for that time of year.
The planned burn program target is 250,000 hectares in 2012-13, which is part of plan to scale up towards 390,000 hectares a year in future.


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Grid Integration of Variable Renewables (GIVAR)
The IEA Grid Integration of Variable Renewables (GIVAR) programme aims to build understanding of the characteristics of energy systems and markets that hinder or enable the reliable, economic integration of large shares of variable renewables (VRE), and to use this knowledge to inform and further enhance IEA analysis.
At the 2005 Gleneagles G8 Summit, the IEA was tasked with assessing the challenges of efficient integration of VRE in power systems. This has marked the starting point for IEA analysis on the topic. Over the past decade, GIVAR established itself as an authoritative source of policy advice on VRE grid integration.
A Phase 1 report was subsequently prepared for the 2008 Toyako G8 Summit, entitled Empowering Variable Renewables, Options for Flexible Electricity Systems, which identified strategic elements to facilitate deployment of VRE. The GIVAR project was given additional impetus by the call from the 2009 IEA Ministerial, where delegates called on the IEA to carry out "a study of electricity security including the impact of electricity from variable sources".
Phase 2 of the project culminated in May 2011 in the launch of a new IEA book Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge, which presents a new method developed by the IEA to shed light on managing power systems with large shares of variable renewables. Written for decision-makers, it explores the twin challenges of variability and uncertainty from a technical perspective.
Phase 3 was concluded by the release of a landmark study The Power of Transformation – Wind, Sun and The Economics of Flexible Power Systems in early 2014. Building on the previous project phases, it includes a detailed economic assessment of the flexible resources (flexible generation, grid infrastructure, electricity storage, demand side integration) that can facilitate VRE system and market integration. The study confirms that integrating high shares – i.e., 30 percent of annual electricity production or more – of wind and solar PV in power systems can come at little additional cost in the long term. However, costs depend on how flexible the system currently is and what strategy is adopted to develop system flexibility over the long term.
The Power of Transformation - Wind, Sun and the Economics of Flexible Power Systems is on sale at the IEA bookshop.
To read Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven's remarks at the launch, please click here.
To see the presentation that accompanied the report's launch, please click here.
To hear the launch webinar, including the presentation, please click here.
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To see a fact sheet for The Power of Transformation, please click here.
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By Sgt. Lorne Neff, Indiana National GuardNovember 8, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2, 2011 -- Two Indiana National Guard Soldiers helped save the lives of more than 20 people on a September evening when the apartment across from where they live went up in flames.
Spc. Michael Conley was working on his truck around 7 p.m., in front of his apartment when he heard his neighbor scream from the pool behind him. At the same time, his roommate, Spc. Caleb Goldsberry, drove up returning from the store. Both went running toward the fire.
"You're trying to get there as fast as you can; do as much as you can," said Goldsberry. "So you've got the fear of failing, but you've got the determination to not fail because you know what's on the line."
Conley said most other people were contently sitting in their apartments.
"I can pretty much say nobody gave me any static about getting out of their apartment," said Conley. "At that point in time, my adrenalin was rushing about 99 percent, I came into the apartment screaming, they didn't argue with me much."
"Everybody wants to grab their mom's purse or little trinkets," said Goldsbery. "That stuff's nice to have, and yeah it might be really important to you, but it's not worth your life!"
The two ran from apartment to apartment, making sure everyone was out. Their clothes blackened from the smoke and soot, they joined the bystanders outside while the firefighters fought to contain the blaze.
"That's when everyone started thanking me," said Conley. "It was humbling, but at the same time, I felt a little 'weirded' out by it, because to me this had to be done."
"I don't consider myself a hero or anything like that," added Goldsberry. "I just feel like I did my job with some overtime."
Both Guardsmen belong to the 384th Military Police Company, headquartered in Bloomington, Ind. They have deployed to Iraq and were in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
"I think being in the Army National Guard and being an MP made me more willing to go into a situation where it could end up badly for me physically. I think it prepared me mentally more than anything," said Conley of his military police training and experience.
"I'm glad that I've had the training I've had," said Goldberry. "I'm glad I'm a Soldier. If I wasn't, I doubt would have responded the same way."
The Soldiers' commander praised their actions for helping their neighbors avert disaster.
"We talk to these Soldiers about living the Army values and we actually have people who truly live those values every day of their life, not just when they're on duty with the National Guard," said Capt. Jesse Carlton, 384th MP Company commander. "I was very proud of them. It was in the line of duty of being a citizen-Soldier, and I couldn't stop smiling. It was great."
As a result of their actions, no one was injured in the fire.


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- News: Tom Spurgeon lists 50 positive comics news stories from 2012.
- 2012 in Review: The Great Comic Book Controversies
- How did Hawkeye become Marvel's best comic?
- Neil Cohn, comics artist turned neroscientist, is studying how our brains treat comic reading like it has its own grammar.
- Peter Parker's Dead, But Spider-Man Will Live On (Sort Of)
- Why can't any recent Sherlock Holmes adaptation get Irene Adler right?
- Why do so many villains get caught on purpose?
- Interview: James McAvoy wants us to know that if any Hobbit prequels—say, The Silmarillion—ever get made into movies, he totally wants to be young Gandalf. So he's already played prequel-Sir Patrick Stewart, and now he wants to play prequel-Sir Ian McKellen.
- Interview: Jeremy Renner on "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters"
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- 11 Best Movie Characters of 2012
- Does It Matter If The Movie Spider-Man Doesn't Match The Cartoon Spider-Man?
- The Best New and Short Webcomics of 2012 [Via]
- A petition is going to save the USS Enterprise. Nnot the space ship from Star Trek, America's first Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier which was "seen" in Star Trek IV.
- Rumour: Universal plans Middle-earth theme park?
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- Ex Libris: Reading a Revolution
- Interview: Eve Myles talks about the future of 'Torchwood.'
- Interview: Jill Pantozzi was asked what 2013 will hold for the world of Whedon.
- Interview: 'Walking Dead' Creator Robert Kirkman Goes Virtual
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- Is the Sonic Screwdriver Overused?
- Science Channel put Firefly deleted scenes online! The Science Channel has released three deleted scenes (from the DVD) that aired on the November special
- "Something To Fight For" is a sort of amazing fan-made trailer for Doctor Who.
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