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This is Baguette's first year in school, which means that we just had her first Spring Break. No, we did not take her to Mazatlan or South Padre Island or the Bahamas. We went to Mammoth with some friends! There, … Continue reading
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Back again from Santa Barbara, which has become our summer tradition. It's not that we aren't willing to travel anywhere else, it's just that Santa Barbara is so nice, and so easy–easy to get to, and easy to be in. … Continue reading
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Happy First Day of Summer, all! Last year I created my first Sand Pail List, and I think I can call it a rousing 50% success. This year's list has some similar items, but with a few changes: Go to … Continue reading
Ours started a day early, kind of. On Friday, Baguette's cast came off (huzzah!). What was her response to this development? Sock all gone. I got a foot! At the moment she walks with that foot turned out, and she … Continue reading
In May, I created my "Sand Pail List" of things I wanted to accomplish this summer. How'd we do? Let's take a look: Going to the park We did go to local playgrounds, but not nearly as often as I'd … Continue reading
The latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens (and with that, I am officially my mother–or, since she read Woman's Day and Family Circle, perhaps one of her close cousins) encourages people to make a "Sand Pail List" of things … Continue reading
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The pattern for this crochet elephant comfort blanket is available for free on my site. Please note that it is a comfort blanket or blanky, not a proper blanket.
It is only diddy. Using the hook and yarn specified, the resulting lovey (comfort blanket) will be about 24 cm x 24 cm (just over 9.5" x 9.5"). Perfect for a itty bitty baby to cuddle as he/she sleeps.
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NEW YORK — Police investigating a potentially devastating car bomb attack in Times Square were focused Sunday on finding a man who was videotaped shedding his shirt near the SUV where the bomb was found.
The video shows an unidentified white man in his 40s slipping down an alley on Saturday evening, taking off one shirt and revealing another underneath. In the same clip, he's seen looking back in the direction of the smoking vehicle and furtively putting the first shirt in a bag, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
The homemade bomb was made largely with ordinary items including three barbecue grill-sized propane tanks, two 5-gallon gasoline containers, store-bought fireworks and cheap alarm clocks attached to wires. If successfully detonated, police said at a minimum it would have sprayed shrapnel and metal parts over one of America's busiest streets, full of Broadway theaters and restaurants, on a Saturday night.
New York City police say they also found more than 100 pounds of fertilizer in the SUV but it was incapable of exploding, unlike the ammonium nitrate fertilizer used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
But the effects could have been horrifying.
Kelly said the bomb "looks like it would have caused a significant fireball" had it fully detonated. He said the vehicle would have been "cut in half" by an explosion and people nearby could have been sprayed by shrapnel and killed.
Federal authorities said the incident appeared isolated and that there was no evidence of an ongoing threat to the city.
"We are treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack," Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security secretary, told CNN, one of several TV appearances she made Sunday. The bomb itself was not a sophisticated device, she said on ABC's This Week. "Right now, we have no evidence other than it is a one-off."
A Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the failed attack in a 1-minute video. Kelly, however, said police have no evidence to support the claims, and noted that the same group had falsely taken credit for previous attacks on U.S. soil. The commissioner also cast doubt on an e-mail to a news outlet claiming responsibility.
The New York Police Department and FBI were examining "hundreds of hours" of security videotape from around Times Square, Kelly said.
Police released a photograph of the SUV, a dark-colored Nissan Pathfinder, as it crossed an intersection at 6:28 p.m. Saturday.
Duane Jackson, a 58-year-old handbag vendor from Buchanan, N.Y., said he noticed the SUV, parked with the engine running, hazard lights flashing and the driver nowhere to be found.
Jackson said he alerted a passing mounted police officer.
They were looking in the car "when the smoke started coming out and then we heard the little pop-pop-pop like firecrackers going out and that's when everybody scattered and ran back," he said.
Police said they had identified the registered owner of the Pathfinder, but hadn't spoken to him yet. The license plate found on the vehicle did not belong to the SUV; police said it came from a car found in a repair shop in Connecticut.
The Pathfinder was taken to a forensics facility in Queens, where investigators were scouring it for DNA evidence and hairs, fibers and fingerprints.
FBI agents and detectives from the Joint Terrorist Task Force were also trying to determine where the attacker bought the three canisters of propane and two red plastic five-gallon containers of gasoline.
Initially, investigators thought the last owner was in Texas and had donated the car to a charity in North Carolina, one official said. But they later learned that the owner was in Connecticut.
The license plate on the SUV was traced back to a different vehicle that was awaiting repairs in Stratford, Conn., where FBI agents and the local police awoke the owner of the repair shop at 3 a.m. Sunday.
The shop owner, Wayne LeBlanc, who runs Kramer's Used Auto Parts, said that the authorities seized a black Ford F-150 pickup truck. "We're trying to help them identify who took the plates," he said.
Investigators also were reviewing similarities between the incident in Times Square and coordinated attacks in the summer of 2007 at a Glasgow airport and a London neighborhood of nightclubs and theaters. Both attacks involved cars containing propane and gasoline that did not explode. Those attacks, the authorities believed, had their roots in Iraq.
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Can one retrieve only rows X to Y from a table?
Shaik Khaleel provided this solution to the problem:
SELECT * FROM ( SELECT ename, rownum rn FROM emp WHERE rownum < 101 ) WHERE RN between 91 and 100 ;
Note: the 101 is just one greater than the maximum row of the required rows (means x= 90, y=100, so the inner values is y+1).
Ravi Pachalla provided this solution:
SELECT rownum, f1 FROM t1 GROUP BY rownum, f1 HAVING rownum BETWEEN 2 AND 4;
Another solution is to use the MINUS operation. For example, to display rows 5 to 7, construct a query like this:
SELECT * FROM tableX WHERE rowid in ( SELECT rowid FROM tableX WHERE rownum <= 7 MINUS SELECT rowid FROM tableX WHERE rownum < 5);
Youssef Youssef provided this soluton: "this one was faster for me and allowed for sorting before filtering by rownum. The inner query (table A) can be a series of tables joined together with any operation before the filtering by rownum is applied."
SELECT * FROM (SELECT a.*, rownum RN FROM (SELECT * FROM t1 ORDER BY key_column) a WHERE rownum <=7) WHERE rn >=5
Please note, there is no explicit row order in a relational database. However, this query is quite fun and may even help in the odd situation.
select * from (select rownum
select * from (select rownum rm,t.* from fwlot t where rownum<=y) where rm between x and y
select * from (select row_number() over(order by 1) rm,t.* from t ) where rm between x and y
Query using MINUS returns 2 random rows
The above query that uses MINUS will return two rows, but since neither of the subqueries above or below the minus have an "order by" clause, the rows are random. You might as well use
select * from tableX
where rownum < 3;


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For all of his home runs, All-Star accolades and huge salaries, Alex Rodriguez finds himself in a most familiar spot this season.
A-Rod is an October lightning rod.
With every swing and miss, memories of his amazing run during the N.Y Yankees' championship season in 2009 fade even further. Instead, fans are becoming more and more vocal, calling for manager Joe Girardi to drop him from the No. 3 position in the lineup.
Rodriguez struck out to end the Yankees' 3-2 loss to the Orioles in Game 2 of their division series, leaving the best-of-5 matchup tied at 1.
He's fanned plenty of times – 5 in all while going 1 for 9 so far in the series.
"I feel fine at the plate," Rodriguez expounded after the loss. "I've just got to close at-bats. I'm getting good swings."
After their train experienced an electrical outage after the loss and turned a usual 2-hour, 15-minute trip to N.Y into a 5-hour journey, manager Joe Girardi was reluctant to address the Yankees' more pressing power problem.
"I think that we are going to do whatever is needed to win this 3-game series. Nothing that we do will be something that is merely a knee-jerk reaction," Girardi declared. "The great thing about this is I have a great group of men that's very unselfish, and they actually want to win. And that's what we're going to do, what we think is best to win."
Always protecte of his players, Girardi could be choosing to coddle Rodriguez after watching Joe Torre cause a fuss in 2006 by dropping the 14-time All-Star to 8th in the Yankees order against the Detroit Tigers in the 1st round.
"Sometimes it is just not as easy as just writing a name or taking a guy out, a pitcher out. You have got to consider the emotional part," Girardi related. "You always have to think that as a manager." Basketball betting lines
An enthusiastic fan of the numbers, all collected in his ever-present binder, Girardi need not look too deep to see the 37-year-old Rodriguez isn't the same player that has amassed 647 homers, fewer than only Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds.
The 3rd baseman hit only 18 home runs and had a .430 slugging percentage while driving in just 57 runs in 122 games this season, totally batting 3rd or 4th for the team that scored the 2nd most runs in the majors with 804.
Overall, Rodriguez is a career .271 hitter in the postseason with 13 homers and 41 RBIs since making his 1st playoff appearance in 1995 with Seattle. He's a career .300 hitter in the regular season with 1,950 RBIs. But Girardi insisted he likes what he sees from Rodriguez. He hit a sharp liner that Baltimore 2nd baseman Robert Andino stopped with a dive and singled before striking out twice as the N.Y Yankees tried to rally.
"He squared up 2 balls," Girardi asserted. "You look at the ball he hit in the 1st inning, he squared it up. And then he had the other hard single. Right now I haven't got any plans to make any changes."


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- Finance's response: does the government waste money in June?
- The Public Sector Informant: latest issue
Two years ago, Informant columnist Stephen Bartos cited the concerns of several senior public servants, who said excessive spending in the lead-up to June 30, 2013 was among the worst they had seen. Almost everyone in Canberra, whether in the bureaucracy or business, knows of this annual blitzkrieg on leftover budgets. For public servants, May and June is a time to spend; for businesses, it is a time to sell.
The goods or services don't really matter; they can be training courses, consultants' advice/research, stationery, computers, labour hire, office refits or graphic design services. The motivation is the "use it or lose it" approach to public sector budgets (though it happens in some large companies, too); the fear that, if an agency or program fails to spend its allocated funding, the Finance Department will cite the underspend as evidence it doesn't need that much money.
This problem's existence has always been officially denied ("Of course public servants don't waste money – that would be contrary to policy!"). So two years ago I tried to find some quantitative evidence of it. I downloaded about 150,000 government contract notices and then looked only at the short-term contracts (two months or less), which I figured were more likely to represent discretionary spending. (Complex, long-term procurements are obviously unlikely to be the fruit of alleged last-minute "splurges".) This test was imperfect but the outcome was stark: public service agencies approved more than three times as much spending in May and June as they did in other months.
That was enough for the Coalition's then finance spokesman, Andrew Robb, to demand a formal inquiry. With his party poised to win office a month later, Robb said: "This analysis is remarkable and damning. We will charge a commission of audit to look into this if we win government ... We will make it a priority." He said the commission would also investigate whether to give agencies greater scope to carry over funding from one year to the next, so as to eliminate this perverse incentive to spend rather than save, and whether to increase scrutiny on spending during the last quarter of the financial year.
It didn't happen. Robb was switched to the trade portfolio after the election. And Tony Shepherd's commission of audit reports didn't mention the issue.
So what does the latest data say? I refined the approach a little, so as to examine only contracts with a length of one month or less. That's 122,401 contracts over seven years, worth $9.9 billion in total. It's only 2.8 per cent of the value of all contracts (short and long-term), but it's a significant enough sample for the purpose of analysing discretionary spending. The results speak for themselves (see the graph). In 2014, the first full calendar year of the Abbott government, there was a June bias of 4.4 – that is, agencies were 4.4 times more likely to spend money via such contracts in June than in other months.
Yet as significant as this may sound, the June bias in 2014 was actually much lower than in the previous year. Bartos was right: 2013 had been a shocker. As the Gillard government rushed to its inevitable demise, agencies approved 12.7 times as much short-term spending in June as they did in other months of that year.
The results were highly uneven across the bureaucracy. Some departments – Health (28.6) and Human Services (24.9) – had extraordinary June biases in 2014. Others had no significant bias at all. However, if one examines the seven full years of contract data that Finance has made available, the average June bias across government is 5.5. In other words, this is no statistical blip: public servants, for whatever reasons, spend with an at-times manic urgency in June.
So what does Finance Minister Mathias Cormann think of what his colleague Robb once described as these "remarkable and damning" findings, and why didn't he tell his commission of audit last year to investigate them? Cormann wouldn't comment on the commission's omission, though he told the Informant he wouldn't tolerate waste (which is what any minister would say).
"Irrespective of when spending occurs, every departmental secretary is personally responsible to ensure taxpayers' money is treated with respect in their portfolio. We expect them to spend taxpayers' money wisely and to eliminate all waste," the senator said.
This is no statistical blip: public servants, for whatever reasons, spend with an at-times manic urgency in June.
"Since the election, we have worked hard to cut much of the waste and duplication across government which we inherited from Labor. We will continue to be uncompromising in the pursuit of waste and will not rest until any inappropriate expenditure has been eliminated."
Nor did Cormann respond to a question asking whether he would examine this issue further (I assume he won't).
His department took another approach: it argued there wasn't a problem. A spokeswoman for Finance said: "The narrow scope of your analysis offers no proper, direct and definitive insight into the quality of procurement activities and as a result cannot be used to assert that the government is undertaking irresponsible spending behaviours. Short-term contract dates cannot be used as a proxy for expenditure, as the amount of expenditure this represents is extremely small when considered against the full range of contract expenditure. The full data set [of contracts] demonstrates clearly that June is not the highest month by value; in fact it is only the fourth-highest month by value, for contracts to begin."
Which is true, but it misses the point that long-term contracts, which account for the vast bulk of government spending, are irrelevant when searching for potentially wasteful end-of-year spend-ups. Indeed, analysing contract start dates only makes sense if they're short-term contracts. (The department did make some useful observations about alternative methodologies to mine: read its response here, which comes to a different conclusion.)
So given that Finance denies that the bureaucracy tends to spend towards the end of the budget year, it didn't respond to a request for an explanation as to why this might happen. I can't fathom why the department insists that it can't see this particular elephant. Most ACT-based consultants readily confirm that May and June are when the floodgates of public money are opened; they regularly complain about (but also benefit from) the deluge of work that comes their way.
Bartos, a former deputy head of the Finance Department and a consultant, has seen the problem from both sides. He says that because "wasteful end-of-year spending has become a commonplace discussion among gatherings of public servants, there seems no reason for the government to pretend it does not exist".
"Some advisers still think that controlling all information, and only admitting to a problem if the government has already solved it, is the best political strategy. Indeed, one of the reasons to have a Finance Department is because bureaucracies everywhere tend to be budget maximisers, bringing as many resources under their own control as they can – it's known as a principal-agent problem," he says.
"While there can be exceptions, clearly there is a tendency there among some bureaucrats; there is a well-established economics literature on the topic. It is one of the important reasons for having a finance agency to look at departmental budgets and give ministers independent advice."
Cleary, this is advice neither Cormann nor his predecessor, Labor's Penny Wong, received.
While the Finance Department won't discuss why the June bias exists, several senior public servants did offer the Informant some reasons in private. Each acknowledged a tendency in some areas of government (not theirs, of course) to overspend before July, but they also argued the practice was less prevalent than it had been. One sound reason for spending late in the financial year, especially in straitened times, was prudence: a sensible financial manager holds off on approving expenses until they are certain they have enough money in their budget to pay for them, which might only be known by, say, as late as April or May.
However, Bartos doubts that prudent management explains anything other than a small portion of the trend. "If it were, you would expect the trend to be reasonably uniform across major departments, assuming they have roughly equivalent standards of management, but it varies widely between agencies. It also does not seem to correlate in any way with what other evidence – for example, audit reports – suggests are the better-managed departments."
Of course, just because public servants spend more in June doesn't mean that those purchases are unnecessary. But the scale of the June bias suggests something is awry. There is other evidence, too, that this spending is likely to be wasteful. Five years ago, two American researchers – Jeffrey B. Liebman and Neale Mahoney – wrote a paper, Do expiring budgets lead to wasteful end-of-year spending? Their study wasn't necessarily analogous to Australian government contracting – e.g. it examined US government spending on IT alone.
However, the researchers were able to compare the time of spending with separate data on the quality of spending. They found that "spending spikes in all major federal agencies during the 52nd week of the year as the agencies rush to exhaust expiring budget authority. Spending in the last week of the year is 4.9 times higher than the rest-of-the-year weekly average". More importantly, "average project quality falls at the end of the year. Quality scores in the last week of the year are 2.2 to 5.6 times more likely to be below the central value".
In other words, end-of-year spending was demonstrably wasteful in at least one study of government procurement. Decades of anecdotal reports suggest the same is almost certainly true of end-of-year spending in Canberra. What will it take to convince a government to even scratch the surface of this problem?
Update: For an alternative take on this issue, I encourage you to read Finance Department senior executive John Sheridan's article "Mythbusters: does the government waste money in June?".
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Cottage Grove administrator a finalist for Eden Prairie job
Cottage Grove's longtime city administrator is a finalist for the city manager position in Eden Prairie.
Ryan Schroeder, the city's administrator since 1997, interviewed with Eden Prairie City Council members on Saturday and was named one of three finalists for the city manager post that evening.
Schroeder said in an interview Monday that the Eden Prairie position presents "exciting opportunities."
"I haven't been looking to move on, but this (job) seemed like it was something that I had to consider," he said.
Eden Prairie, located in the southwest Twin Cities metro, has almost 30,000 more residents than Cottage Grove. In Cottage Grove, Schroeder's annual salary is $116,196; former Eden Prairie City Manager Scott Neal was paid $137,675 per year before leaving to take an equivalent position in Edina last October.
The Eden Prairie finalists will meet with city department heads this week, and next week will take questions from a panel of civic leaders Jan. 19 and the public during an open house on Jan. 20, according to the Eden Prairie city clerk's office.
A hiring decision will follow a second round of city council interviews on Feb. 3.
Schroeder notified Mayor Myron Bailey of his status in the Eden Prairie search on Saturday.
Schroeder said Monday he has not sought any other positions.
"I am continuing to enjoy my position in service to the Cottage Grove community and we have some very exciting projects that will occur here in the next couple of years," he said in a written statement.


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Theron Snowlocke
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|Theron Snowlocke
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|Black with a snow white streak
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|Light Blue
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Theron Snowlocke (tair:on snow:lock; born Year -10, Day 233) is currently a freelance pilot under contract with Sienar Technologies. Born on Tatooine, Theron grew up among the various freighter pilots and other colorful denizens of the spaceport. In Year 1 he left his homeworld, signing on as part of the crew of a small freighter in order to travel the galaxy. Eventually he left its service and wandered for a time ending up on Gand where he contracted with Alissma.
Theron Snowlocke was born in Year -10, Day 233 on Tatooine. Son to Inyri, a dancer at The Bold Spacers Cantina, one of Mos Espa's less seedy establishments. His mother never told him anything about his father, and he never asked. The fact that he was not around was all Theron needed to know. His mother did the best that she could to provide for him, working in the Cantina as well as in a local traders shop. This meant that the time she could spend with him was limited, something he never faulted her for. The blame, in his mind, lay squarely upon the shoulders of his absent father. Growing up, Theron was left to his own devices for the most part. He had no formal education or training and spent his days either wandering the streets of Mos Espa with friends, or hanging around the spaceport and other places frequented by the multitude of spacers and the like. Hours would be spent listening with fascination to the stories of harrowing space battles, descriptions of far off worlds and strange, exotic races. These stories fueled his dreams of travelling through the stars and taking part in adventures much like the ones he had heard. His days of wandering the streets and alleys of Mos Espa served to hone his survival skills, provided an education in street smarts, taught him to be self-reliant and to think on his feet. Whenever he was able he would beg, borrow and sometimes even steal data pads, studying them and learning all that he could about the galaxy beyond his dusty home. His many experiences on the streets of settlement, both good and bad, also led to the development of his own personalized code of conduct.
When his mother suddenly died in Year 1, when he was just eleven years of age and having no other family, Theron made the decision to strike out on his own. He signed on as a 'cabin boy' aboard the first ship that would have him, a Class VI bulk freighter, named The Vagabond Trader, which plied the Outer Rim trade routes.
The Vagabond Trader Years
Theron's duties for the first couple of years aboard The Vagabond Trader consisted of menial ship board chores, in between which he would learn the various aspects of operating a star ship from the rest of the crew. Over time he was given more and more responsibilities, first training as a kind of apprentice under the ships engineer, then as an assistant to the ships second officer. Finally, at the age of 17, Theron was made a full member of the crew, becoming the new second officer when the previous second officer died during a skirmish with pirates. Over the next three years he served executing his duties to the best of his abilities. It is during this time that Theron began to experience strong feelings of wanderlust. He began to realize that the life of a crewman was not for him. He relished his privacy and felt better when relying on himself. Eventually at the age of 20, in Year 10, he decided to leave the ship which he had called home and set off on his own with the goal of making a name for himself and finding the adventure he sought.
The Blood Angels
After leaving the Vagabond Trader and over the next 5 years Theron served as an officer in a small mercenary group, (The Angelus Sanguinem or Blood Angels). The Blood Angels took part in mostly anti-pirate operations, occasional bounty collections and as private "security" for various wealthy clients.
Credo of the Angelus Sanguinem
What is your life? My honor is my life.
What is your fate? Duty is my fate.
What is your fear? My fear is to fail in my mission, or to let down my battle brothers.
What is your reward? Glory is my reward.
What is your craft? My craft is death.
What is your pledge? My pledge is eternal service. While the enemies of Corellia still draw breath, I can have no peace. While traitors hearts still beat, I can have no respite. While the wicked prey upon the weak and the innocent, I shall visit justice upon them."
The Motto
"We are the Blood Angels,the wicked should know fear when our gaze falls upon them, for our wrath is soon to follow."
The Wandering Years
Over the next several years after leaving the Blood Angels Theron was constantly on the move, travelling from system to system working on whatever ship would provide passage in trade for services rendered. From time to time he would stay on different planets, visiting some famous place or simply resting for a short time. Settling down permanently was never in the cards. After all, why stay in one place? The galaxy is full of wonder and opportunity and Theron wanted to see it all, the famous places, and maybe even discover something never before seen. In Year 15 on day 154 Theron arrived on the planet of Moobia. He met with a representative from Sienar Technologies and contracted with them as a freighter pilot.
Current Known Affiliations/Career
- Sienar Conglomerate as of Year 15 on day 154
- Sienar Technologies - Current Grade S3
- Transport Pilot
- Recruiter
- Sienar Technologies - Current Grade S3
Personal Information
Theron is a male Human stands 6'4" and weighs approximately 245 pounds with a slight, athletic build. He has smooth, fair skin, and is clean shaven. His hair, which often has a tussled appearance is dark brown except for a streak of snow white (from which his last name derives). His piercing, light blue eyes seem to look through whomever his gaze settles upon. It is obvious that his slim, aquiline nose has been broken at some point in time and his neutral expression seldom offers any hint of his true thoughts or feelings. He has a black corvus tattooed on his back. When he speaks it is with smooth, cultured tones.
His clothing choices are varied and are dependent upon his immediate situation and needs. When planet side (be it for recreation or business dealings) he is commonly attired in the fairly good quality civilian attire and when a formal event calls for a dress code, Theron has one or two pieces of stylish formal attire. Most of the time however, he tends to wear a standard flight suit both for comfort and to shield himself from the surrounding environment as necessary.
Personality and Habits
One of the most important things to Theron is his personal honor, in all of its manifestations. He keeps his personal appearance neat and is well groomed at all times. He always makes an effort to speak properly, seldom using spacer jargon or obscenities.
Theron has always preferred to keep his own company, over that of others. He is very self-sufficient and has learned to rely on his own abilities out of necessity as he grew up. But even though he tends to go his own way, he is willing to work with others when the situation dictates. But in the end, his ship is his sanctuary and the cockpit is where he feels most comfortable. He finds it comforting to set a course and ply the space lanes, alone.
In most instances Theron tends to be more practical than intellectual, trying to find the most direct solution to any problem. He believes a person should make all decisions in a cool, logical fashion. Choices should not be made rashly and one should never over complicate a situation with emotion. Emotion only serves to confuse things, making them more difficult and oft times leads to very bad choices or ill considered actions. He is however not a stupid person and likes to occasionally surprise friends and strangers alike by showing off his knowledge of a wide range of topics. He has always tended to be a quiet individual, choosing to observe his surroundings, gathering information. At times this makes him seem to be aloof or snobbish, or more often than not, it just makes people uneasy. This is just what Theron wants, because when people are uneasy and don't know how to react to him, it can give him the advantage. When he does speak however, it is because he has something important or relevant to share, he seldom engages in idle chatter or small talk. And even though people might consider him humorless, or too serious, he does have a good sarcastic, dry sense of humor and a quick wit.
Through necessity he has grown to be wary in his personal dealings, however he also places a good deal of stock in the fundamental decency of most people. This faith in an individuals' ability to do the right thing comes from the countless selfless acts he has witnessed in his travels. He prefers to deal with people on a one on one basis and judges each person according to their actual deeds. Clans, factions, governments, etc. don't make a person good or evil by default. Although he strives to keep his feelings in check, and often seems to be lacking in empathy, Theron can be a man of compassion with a strong sense of nobility and honor. He is very protective of his crew and fiercely loyal to his friends. His trust and friendship however are things which he gives out sparingly. When betrayed or made to look like a fool Theron seldom extends the hand of friendship again and is very slow to give a second chance. Once burned is one time too many.
Theron tends to take on whatever job he can get, no questions asked, so long as the pay is right. He is not a hardened criminal, but is also not above participating in the odd petty theft, making a smuggling run, contracting a questionable salvage operation, participating in intelligence gathering operations or even collecting on the odd bounty. He will often turn a blind eye to the legality of a job, so long as it does not go against his own moral code, which is colored by several shades of grey. There are no absolutes. Perhaps rules are not meant to be broken, but there is nothing saying that they can't be bent to the point of breaking. His word is his word, and once given it is more binding than the most elaborate contract. This does not mean however that he doesn't appreciate the advantage a carefully crafted lie can provide, especially when mixed with the right amount of the truth. His one non-negotiable rule is that he does not in any way profit off of the slave trade nor prey on the weak, those who cannot defend themselves. Slave traders, in Theron's' eyes, are the most contemptible of all criminals. Though he is not an advocate of needless bloodshed, Theron won't shy away from a judicious use of force. He is more than willing to shoot first and skip the questions; and oft times a "fair fight" just is not strictly a necessity. Wrongs cannot be allowed to go unpunished. After all, as he is fond of saying "If someone means to hurt you, you hurt them first and hurt them bad. Make sure they never want to be in the same solar system as you again."
Galactic Comm channels
- #cmg-sienar
- #Bart's-Bar
- #theron1187 (Personal Comlink channel)
Favorite Quotes and Sayings
"…Scoundrel. I like the sound of that."
"Behold the first and greatest commandment: 'Know the score.'
"Credits buy a man's silence for a time. A shot from a blaster buys it forever."
"If someone means to hurt you, hurt them first and to the point that they won't ever want to be in the same system as you again."
Potere attraverso la ricchezza spada e intimidazioni – Power through wealth the sword and intimidation.
Saltan valoramosa n telval mord = 'Assumption is the first step into a shallow grave.'


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A secret buried for centuries Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine years, King Tut suddenly perished, his name purged from Egyptian history. To this day, his death remains shrouded in controversy. The keys to an unsolved mystery Enchanted by the ruler's tragic story and hoping to unlock the answers to the 3,000 year-old mystery, Howard Carter made it his life's mission to uncover the pharaoh's hidden tomb. He began his search in 1907, but encountered countless setbacks and dead-ends before he finally, uncovered the long-lost crypt. The clues point to murder Now, in The Murder of King Tut, James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, Carter's files, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result is an exhilarating true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal that casts fresh light on the oldest mystery of all.
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James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans and their toys!The one with the most toys--diesThe top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He has been praised by the President, and is a national hero. But before he can savor his triumph, he receives an unbelievable shock that overturns everything he thought was true. Suddenly Hays is on the other side of the gun, forced to leave his perfect family and fight for his life. Now a hunted fugitive, Hays is thrown into a life he never dreamed possible--fighting to save humans everywhere from extinction. He enlists all of his training to uncover the truth that will save millions of lives--maybe even his own. James Patterson's Toys is a thriller on a hyper plane--with a hero who rivals both James Bond and Jason Bourne.
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Windows Phone Modern UI: do you like it?
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When you first take a look at a Windows Phone device you instantly get it - this is different. And it's different mostly because of the Modern UI…
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43. lubba (Posts: 1313; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
From what I gathered from Joe b'a presentation, he mentioned Android copying Apple. Now that's a clone.
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You are so dumb. wether you like wp8 or not, to call it an android clone is absolutely moronic.
52. carlosechev07 (Posts: 39; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
I repeat "Android Widgets vs WP Tiles".. tiles are a plain, basic and unicolor implementation of Android Widgets, wether you like Android or not, it's absolutely obviously that tile features (live and resize) are presents on Android Widget years ago...
Absolutely Moronic..!!
53. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
Your the moron here
First you think android invented the widget? No it didn't second the tiles are a better more uniformed way to have info at a glance.
Your just trying to ride with the hate of wp with your dumb comment
57. carlosechev07 (Posts: 39; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
You "Mr. Microsoft Lover", you are absolutly OK:
First Android do not invented the widget but is a Flag Ship funcionality very well exploted and implemented from the begining of Android..
Secodn, tiles are a perfect way to be uniformed, just one color, no 3D, no scrolling, no swiping, very well plain, and a few spaace to show content.
I no hate anything, but you hate all who do not like the WP8, I just wrote the true with "My Dumb Comment"..
60. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
Lmao again you must live in your own world, your like the idroid of the android world
One color.....no color can be changed and 3d, your android icons are 3d now are they do they project themselves into your brain too....get a grip
I dont hate all who dont like wp8 as i dont put myself on one side unlike you who thinks everyone has to be on a team.....i do hate though idiots like yourself who comment crap with no basis or sense
Just stop commenting as its tragic how small your mind is
63. carlosechev07 (Posts: 39; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
There are many 3D Widgets running on Android: Youtube, Photo Gallery, Books, Movies and many others. All of them implements swiping, scrolling and shows a decent portion of information, not just a couple of words..
Acept yourselft.. "Tiles are a plain, basic and unicolor implementation of Android Widgets"..
66. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
Seriously stop giving android credit for the widget, and live tiles are a step forward there clear optimised and refreshing. All you go on about is swiping and scrolling all you can do on wp8 plus that isn't real features,......scrolling is a basic necessity.
Your just another fan boy blindly slating something new, You give other android users a bad name.
70. Mobile-X-Pert (Posts: 565; Member since: 20 Dec 2010)
Man, don't feed the troll '' carlosechev07 ''...he's gonna keep coming back to bash WP.
I'm glad MS came with WP, cause they're giving us something different, new and fresh. Innovation doesn't come without competion!!...Idk why it is so hard for people to understand that.
71. Mobile-X-Pert (Posts: 565; Member since: 20 Dec 2010)
''came up''
73. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
True should leave the troll to his sad little world
Exactly competition is what drives innovation, and god knows we need innovation. People seem to get into the mindset that what ever is they use is what there now apart of and all other OS's are labeled crap.......
IOS,android,wp8,bb,meego,firefox etc even the now unsupported symbian...theres room for more
72. carlosechev07 (Posts: 39; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
Yes you are ok again "WP Lover".. tiles are plain and refreshing, without "basic necessities" like scrolling.. Tiles don't needs to scroll internal content or swipe internal limited content..
Accept yourself, Tiles don't offers nothing new or innovative, just offers old features..!!
WP UI is very basic and plain. It's very well usable and have funny colors, but does not means that is the better in the market..
77. ChiX017 (Posts: 308; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
LmaO.....let the poll results speak..
40. lubba (Posts: 1313; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
wonder if kids corner is just more than for kids, you know, just a simple home screen for simple people to try out WP without having to sneak through your entire phone. I can't wait yo try it as my kids just love using my phone and also buying tons of apps without me knowing!!!!!
42. erick01 (Posts: 22; Member since: 10 Sep 2012)
"iOS: tiranny; WP: democracy and iOS: anarchy" heard somewhere. Totally true.
54. Mobile-X-Pert (Posts: 565; Member since: 20 Dec 2010)
You mean Android: anarchy.
61. shuaibhere (Posts: 1986; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
wp8 is little confusing with 3 size tiles........
64. wassup (Posts: 565; Member since: 23 Jun 2011)
WP's Modern UI is nice, but not for me. too un-useful IMO
not trolling, just stating an opinion, and if you think Android is cluttered, please visit mycolorscreen.com to see the true beauty of android.
76. ChiX017 (Posts: 308; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
1st saw the iPhone 5, wanted one, THEN I saw One and it was.....boringggg. N it was soo light kinda felt like a toy in my hand *truth
83. T12RYK (Posts: 114; Member since: 10 Jun 2011)
I've had both a Windows Phone 7 and iPhone for about 2 years now, and although I really like the Live Tile interface, I still find myself using iOS 90% of the time and the main reason for that is because they have a better eco-system and notification system. I don't like having to scroll through a full screen of live tiles too see which app has the notification because I missed the banner whilst it was in my pocket.
If they had a notification shade like most other platforms then it would be much better, Live Tiles are a great idea but having to search through 50 just to see which one has a number '1' on it just reminds me of iOS before they revamped their notification system.
84. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1583; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
The former metro tiles interface now known as Microsoft Modern UI MU is my term for it is a good developing interface. I have been using all 3 free Windows releases and like it but I think Microsoft is wrong in how they set it up fro desktop computers. IN the real world most people and Businesses do not have touch screen monitors these monitors are still expensive costing 100 dollars over the cost of a regular monitor a lot of businesses or individuals would not want rush out and buy touch screen monitors at that price point to use it on Windows 8. therefore the desktop mouse and keyboard interface are their only option. what windows 8 should have been programmed to do was to detect what type of monitor you had and if it detected a non touch screen monitor it would take the windows 8 Desktop/Laptop user directly to the windows 8 desktop and there would be icons for Modern UI apps and
Regular desktop programs right on the desktop for the computer user to access for use..
After a modern UI app is used the windows 8 program would take the computer user back to the desktop. If the Windows 8 OS detects you are using a touch screen monitor it would take you directly to the windows 8 modern UI start screen and windows 8 would operate as it is does today. I think Windows 8 would be accepted by everybody if it worked this way. Microsoft today is more or less forcing people to use the Modern UI start screen which many feel is best used on a tablet computer I can deal with Windows 8 as it is now but a lot of People can not. Microsoft I hope in Windows 9 will give people the choice to go Old desktop style if you do not have a touch screen monitor or Modern UI if you do have a touch screen monitor. Today a Person does not have that choice it always Modern UI start screen first. Microsoft will have problems because of this. Microsoft has good intentions but windows 8 will have it's haters I am not one of the Haters .
85. Miley_3d (Posts: 16; Member since: 02 Oct 2012)
I Love Windows Phone 8 OS,Because It's best in the World.


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A local mother is turning to social media and counting on the honesty of others to keep neighborhood children safe.
The effort comes after she said police responded to a number of incidents involving children in the Preston Trails and Sycamore Creek communities.
Jennifer Kevelder is a busy mother of two who lives in the quiet Sycamore Creek subdivision, a neighborhood where everyone keeps a close eye on their surroundings.
Kevelder said that a recent posting on the Neighborhood Block Watch page and police warning of a possible child enticement case inspired her to spearhead a "safe house" campaign.
Homeowners participating in the campaign would have to pass a police background check and then post "safe house" stickers on their homes. The stickers would let children in peril know that the house is safe if they are too far from home to get help.
"If my daughter is out riding her bike and someone is following her, she knows that that house with that sticker on the window is my safe place," Kevelder said. "I can't make it home, I can go there."
Pickerington police said that they were in the very early stages of working with Preston Trails Block Watch on this issue.
Pickerington Police Chief Michael Taylor said that he believes they are on the right track, but feels there is still more work to be done in knowing who your neighbors are.
"Just because they get fingerprinted doesn't constitute them being a safe environment for the kid," Taylor said.
Taylor said that some background checks do not cover all bases and encouraged parents to be hyper-vigilant. He said that neighbors on the safe house list should be "like family."
"It takes all of us working together and watching out for each other," Kevelder said. "I hate to admit I don't know all my neighbors names."
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Restaurants with Short Wait Times Open New Year's Eve Around Owensboro
If you are planning on going out to dinner on New Year's Eve this year, you should consider stepping outside of the better known options and trying out something new. There are usually shorter wait times. Check out these options! – Kathleen Albin
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When I get stressed, I become a hermit. Suddenly I'm sleeping for 12 hours at a time, I retreat from the online world, writing becomes impossible, cooking is no longer fun, I quit answering the phone, and my little house becomes my space to just BE.
The last month I've slowly become a hermit, but this week it was there in full force until finally, I unplugged, went to bed, and didn't get up until 14 hours later.
Life has caught up with me. For the longest time I was able to ignore the un-bloggable things, explain them away, put my head down and push ahead but the other night I realized that no, I need a break. So this weekend, I'm taking one.
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-Walks with the hubs, with my camera. I should dig that out and take some photos for you!
-relaxing in my kitchen. There's a bunch of recipes I want to try, and I can't wait to cook. I don't know about you but the chopping, stirring, whisking, is my happy place. It takes my mind off of things that bother me and I have a whole fridge full of delicious things as a result.
-cleaning. Let's be honest, I hate cleaning, but it needs to be done. Somehow the mindless floor washing and vacuuming can be kind of therapeutic, too. There's all kinds of things around here that need organizing before the dust bunnies start multiplying.
-coffee with a friend. Always my happy place, and something I can't wait to do each week.
I have my fingers crossed that once I've been able to do some of that, my creative groove will re-surface because I've missed her. It's like once stress moves in, she takes a vacation.
Stress, begone. I don't want you around here anymore.
This weekend, I'm giving you the boot.
What do you do when you are stressed out?
PS..Food Revolution Friday is coming, albeit a bit later today. Keep posting your lunches on my facebook page, I have more of mine coming too!
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After giving a brief survey of (the) doctrines of sovereign grace, I asked for questions from the class. One lady, in particular, was quite troubled. She said, "This is the most awful thing I've ever heard! You make it sound as if God is intentionally turning away men and women who would be saved, receiving only the elect."
I answered her in this vein: "You misunderstand the situation. You're visualizing that God is standing at the door of heaven, and men are thronging to get in the door, and God is saying to various ones, 'Yes, you may come, but not you, and you, but not you, etc.' The situation is hardly this. Rather, God stands at the door of heaven with His arms outstretched, inviting all to come. Yet all men without exception are running in the opposite direction towards hell as hard as they can go. So God, in election, graciously reaches out and stops this one, and that one, and this one over here, and that one over there, and effectually draws them to Himself by changing their hearts, making them willing to come.
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Montana's senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus released the following statement today regarding the passing of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg:
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Baucus served with Lautenberg on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. At age 89, Lautenberg was the oldest member of the Senate and the last veteran of World War II serving in the Senate.
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MELBOURNE Storm coach Craig Bellamy believes that seeking revenge for a loss is a waste of energy.
The Warriors, Melbourne's opponents in tonight's game at AAMI Park, beat the Storm 20-12 at the same venue in last year's preliminary final, and that is not the only time they have been successful in Melbourne in recent years.
Bellamy sees it as a challenge to find a way to stop the trend continuing, rather than a desire to put the Warriors in their place.
''If you start thinking about revenge every time you get beaten in this game, you're going to be a very revengeful team. I don't think that really works that well,'' Bellamy said. ''Obviously it was really disappointing to lose the prelim final last year, but that's been put into the background now and we're concentrating on 2012.
''Last year they beat us here twice. They played better than us on both occasions and they got what they deserved and we got what we deserved. They played their usual brand of footy and really hung on to the footy well, and when a team plays like that - especially the Warriors - they're hard to handle.''
The Storm is the unbeaten competition leaders after seven rounds, while the Warriors, who lost the grand final to Manly, have won just three of their seven games and are in ninth place.
The Warriors have the second-worst defence in the competition, behind only last-placed Parramatta.
Bellamy said it helped that the Storm was a bigger team this year, with the return of second-rower Ryan Hoffman from a stint in England and the addition of veteran former Sydney Roosters and St George Illawarra prop Jason Ryles.
''We're a little bit bigger than last year and that was a little bit of issue,'' he said.
''It's great to have Hoffy back and Jason's doing a really good job for us.''
The Storm, who expect all its representative players to line up, has the opportunity to set a club record with eight wins to start the season.
Bellamy also said his team was honoured to have the opportunity to play on Anzac Day in front of what is expected to be its biggest crowd of the year.
■Willie Mason will play his first match for Newcastle this round.
Mason, who has signed with the Knights until the end of the season, was named on the bench by coach Wayne Bennett for Monday's clash with Penrith in what will be his first game since 2010.
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