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It is done. New Zealand's de facto prime minister and otherwise spiritual leader, Richie McCaw, has retired. So goes the career of the greatest forward rugby has seen and perhaps, if you ask anyone donned in black, the greatest player.
Few players in the game's history have been so widely lauded by home fans and rounded on by opposition supporters. No reflection of his career will be written without a mention of his on-field tactics. But mostly, he frustrated because he was so bloody good.
McCaw's exalted status in New Zealand can lead to hyperbole beyond anything Australia can serve up to its sporting heroes, given our tendency to elevate on one hand and tear down with the other. There will be none of that for Sir Richie, who will be painted as not only peerless but faultless.
At 34, he will finish rugby and turn his attention to another great passion, aviation, where he will continue to work towards a commercial helicopter licence. It seems extraneous given many were left with the impression he could already walk on water.
In any case, the numbers paint the McCaw picture. By anyone's measure, they are extraordinary. He played a world record 148 Test matches, ending with another Rugby World Cup victory just weeks ago.
He made 1805 tackles (add your own gag about how many of those ended up lazing around in a ruck) and galloped for 3041m. In 96 games as captain, he presided over just 11 defeats and two draws. In his era, winning was as regular as the morning sun.
He lifted every trophy world rugby could manufacture, most more than once. Throughout it all, his wondrous hair was ruffled only by Quade Cooper, who was in turn hated in his former homeland, as if he had executed Bambi live in prime time.
The news of McCaw's retirement will mean a great deal to Kiwis. It should also mean a great deal to the Wallabies, who find themselves rebuilding and rising just as their great foe experiences a seismic changing of guards.
Without McCaw, the All Blacks lose their cloak of invincibility, such was his presence on the field, a man largely defined by the undefinables.
With McCaw scheming around the ruck and moulding the game to his needs and wants, the All Blacks were always in the contest, regardless of the scoreboard. They knew it too, as did their rivals, who invariably lost even when victory seemed so tantalisingly attainable.
It's time to hang up the boots! It has been a hell of a journey over the last 15 years. I've been privileged to do what I love for so long. Here's to new adventures.Posted by Richie McCaw on Wednesday, 18 November 2015
It was all a bit like trying to chat up a supermodel in a bar, feeling like you were making progress, only to be nonchalantly dismissed as she was whisked away by the millionaire boyfriend. Blinding hope masked the sad predictability of it all.
From an Australian perspective, think of the Test team when Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath were in their prime. Regardless of the scenario on the scoreboard, the Australians were always in the scrap. More often than not, they found a way to win. That was McCaw's All Blacks.
No rugby nation has the depth of New Zealand and it would be short-sighted to think the All Blacks will suddenly regain their mortality now McCaw has traded the 'seven black' for the flight suit. Yet the void left will be galactic, psychologically well as tactically.
Wallaby coach Michael Cheika and his senior players must ride the wave of a quality World Cup performance and seize their moment to strike as the All Blacks shuffle the deck chairs. If the Bledisloe Cup can play the role of the supermodel (stay with me), they must hope she is currently in-between relationships and open to courting from a cashed-up tradie (that's the Wallabies).
On this side of the ditch, McCaw ... menacing and dressed in black ... was often seen by fans as rugby's Darth Vader, the leader of an evil empire that would do anything in his power to triumph, even if a few rules were bent along the way.
In that case, in his absence, the Wallabies could borrow one of the Sith Lord's famous lines as they try to win a Bledisloe that hasn't seen Australian soil for more than a decade: "There will be no one to stop us this time."


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i've been with my boyfriend for a while, and I can tell we're getting close to having our first kiss. I'm 17, so its kinda about time I kiss somebody. lol but really, I seriously need advice here... I'm super nervous. I don't know how to kiss! I've never kissed anyone before. anybody have any advice or tips that would be useful? ~thanks! :D
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Report: Surprise… Two-Thirds of Camaros Are Sold With a V8 Engine
When the new Camaro came out, General Motors explained the very careful two-pronged approach for the car, with the high-volume V6 models appealing to lifestyle consumers, while the high-powered and more expensive V8 version selling to the limited enthusiast crowd. So imagine the surprise in the marketing and product planning departments upon learning that two out of three Camaros sold come equipped with a V8 engine.
GM even went to great lengths to make the V6 models attractive, equipping them with a 29 mpg highway rating, more than 300-hp and a starting price of just $23,530.
This news is a bit of a double-edged-sword for GM. The down side is that high sales of V8-powered SS models will hurt the company's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rating. The up-side, however, is that with V6 an V8 models costing almost the same to produce, the profit margins on SS models is much higher.
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American Cooks Win Prizes In England
Published: February 17, 1988
A team of student chefs from Johnson and Wales College, a cooking school in Providence, R.I., won 23 prizes in the British Open Cookery Championship in London. They were the first American team to enter the contest.
The six third-year students competed in the junior level, or under-21 division, at the event, which was held last month at the Olympia Exhibition Hall. It was a warm-up to the International Culinary Olympics, which will be held in Frankfurt next fall.
''Johnson and Wales did far better than any other team and had far more success in their competition,'' said Roy Perrett, the contest director in West Sussex, England. ''Other teams were averaging about 10 medals.''
The students won three challenge trophies, the highest possible award, in the avocado, egg, and pasta competitions. They also took four silver medals in the cook-and-serve category, which required teams comprised of a cook and a waiter to prepare and serve a menu chosen by the judges to two guests from the audience. The menu included a dessert of crepes suzette prepared at the table.
Noel Cullen, the director of operations for the Johnson and Wales Culinary Arts Division, manages the culinary team. He trained his students to cook in the European style in the eight weeks before the open.
''Our students had to learn and relearn many skills,'' said Mr. Cullen, who is certified as a master chef. ''They had to learn different ways of preparing meat, fish, and poultry. They were learning names like courgette for zucchini, mange tout for snow peas. The etiquette was different. There are different ways of using a knife. The basic butchery cuts are different.''
The British Open has been held every other year for the past century, and according to Mr. Perrett, it is the major cooking event in the United Kingdom. The teams compete for points in 108 categories, including table decoration; dishes featuring eggs, lamb and avocado, and knife skills. Contestants are given a limited amount of time to create one or more dishes in front of judges with whatever food and utensils are provided.
The person with the highest point total in a category is declared winner of a challenge trophy. Gold, silver and bronze medals are also awarded on the basis of points earned.
Wendy Geiler, captain of the American team, said in a telephone interview that the competition was very stressful.
''But we were very well prepared,'' she said, ''and it was more than we ever expected for never having gone there before. We didn't know what to expect and we had to trust what Noel Cullen told us. But he was right in every case.''
''London was a confidence booster,'' Ms. Geiler added. She said that although the Johnson and Wales team members were competing as juniors, Mr. Cullen had trained them as if they were entering the senior division.
''It was a pleasant surprise to everyone to see their high standards,'' Mr. Perrett said.
Most United States teams tend to direct their efforts toward the Frankfurt Olympics that are held every four years, Mr. Cullen said, which left Johnson and Wales the sole American representatives in the British contest.


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Hillary Clinton is the Secretary of State of the United States of America - and now for another sad joke.
Her Hillaryness is upset with the leaks of sensitive State Department documents by some lowlife man-purse toting liberal.
Maybe now Sir Hillary understands what it is like to have your secret documents open to your enemies.
Remember the stolen 900 FBI files on political opponents Hillary had squirreled away in your old White House haunts?
If she had been indicted and convicted of that crime instead of elected to the US Senate and appointed Secretary of State maybe, just maybe we would have secure sensitive governments in this country.
Hard to sympathize with complaints about someone stealing secret documents from the party of the 900 stolen FBI records, lost Pentagon laptops, and Sandy Burger/burglar.


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 630370
[abrt] NetworkManager-gnome-1:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13: raise: Process /usr/bin/nm-applet was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
Last modified: 2011-04-13 15:17:54 EDT
abrt version: 1.1.13
architecture: i686
Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: nm-applet --sm-disable
component: NetworkManager
crash_function: raise
executable: /usr/bin/nm-applet
kernel: 126.96.36.199-47.fc13.i686
package: NetworkManager-gnome-1:0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13
rating: 4
reason: Process /usr/bin/nm-applet was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
time: 1283658999
uid: 501
Error when I log in.
How to reproduce
1. Log in.
Created an attachment (id=443124)
File: backtrace
Are you able to reproduce or is that just an random error?
Looks like gdk/libxcb issue.
#5 0x04cc6e93 in gdk_x_error (display=0x8266200, error=0xbfa613ec)
at gdkmain-x11.c:466
buf =
"BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)", '\000' <repeats 15 times>, "\b"
msg = <value optimized out>
Closing; it's also very hard to identify these types of errors since the X protocol is async.


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Endogenous land use and supply, and food security in Brazil
Agriculture area and production has expanded greatly in Brazil during the last 40 years. The area of annual crops almost doubled, while the area planted for pastures and forestry tripled. However, the rate of deforestation has considerably reduced since 2004. In this paper we analyze the effect of slower forest clearing on food supply and the economy in Brazil, in the presence of increasing world food prices. A multi-period computable general equilibrium model, based on previous work of the authors, is used to analyze the importance of endogenous land supply for agriculture in Brazil. The model includes annual recursive dynamics and a detailed bottom-up regional representation, which for the simulations reported here distinguished 15 aggregated Brazilian regions. It also has 36 sectors, 10 household types, 10 labor grades, and a land use change (LUC) module which tracks land use in each state. The core database is based on the 2005 Brazilian Input-Output model. The LUC model is based on a transition matrix calibrated with data from the Agricultural Censuses of 1995 and 2006, which shows how land use changed across different uses (crops, pastures, forestry and natural forests) between those years. This transition matrix is used to project the deforestation rate (or the increase in total land supply) in the baseline scenario, for the period 2005-2025. Results show that a halt in deforestation would decrease Brazilian GDP by about 0.5% in 2025, compared to a baseline which allows deforestation to continue. But there are redistributive effects that policies may need to counteract: regional GDPs would decrease by as much as 6% for states on the agricultural frontier, and food prices rise by around 2%, slightly raising the cost of living for poorer households.
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