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Re: [SLE] SuSE kernel k_athlon 2.4.20-100 incompatible with aic7xxx (very old issue)
- From: Patriiiiiiiiiick <pat.suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:30:49 +0200
- Message-id: <3F983A79.3030201@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Bruce Marshall wrote:
The original install of 8.2 was working fine but later patches (security, ...) brought the issue back:
Thanks for your time!
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 19:21 pm, Patriiiiiiiiiick wrote:
I have an Adaptec Utra160 SCSI card and the system freezes when it
loads the aic7xxx module (both old and new versions). The issue is
described in the following threads:
So do I... never had any problems with it.
AMD 800ghz athlon
Adaptec 160 29160 board
Installed 8.2 with no problem using the athlon kernel. Compiled and ran 2.4.21 and now running 2.4.22.
The original install of 8.2 was working fine but later patches (security, ...) brought the issue back:
- It worked with the original 8.2 kernel but not with k_athlon
2.4.20-86 or k_athlon 2.4.20-100.
Thanks for your time!
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Fifth Freedom is a magic term in aviation enthusiast circles. Fifth Freedom enables us to fly on airlines without having to travel all the way to their home countries. One of the various non-European airlines with traffic rights between some European cities is Kuwait Airways. I had been interested in the carrier and its operations between Frankfurt and Geneva (A340-300) and between Rome and Paris (A300-600) for a long time. By the end of May I finally decided to book a flight on one of these routes. It soon turned out that flying times and fares were most attractive on the Rome-Paris run. Getting on the A300-600 was not a priority, but of course I wasn't unhappy about another ride on that meanwhile classic and more or less rare bird.
The next task was to find attractive flights to Rome and from Paris. One-way fares to Rome were insanely expensive, but I soon discovered a reasonably priced MUC-FCO-MUC round trip on Alitalia, operated by an Air One CityLiner CRJ900. In order to avoid fare increases and booking fees I quickly bought the tickets on Expedia and then started searching for a hotel and interesting return flight options.
Kuwait Airways would be my 98th airline and Air One CityLiner would be my 99th, so of course I tried to complete my itinerary with airline No. 100. Unfortunately, I didn't find any interesting and reasonably priced options between Paris and Munich. Then I decided to have a look at the Air France A380 service to London. I hadn't wanted to book a trip for the sole reason of getting on that bird, but why not add it to an existing itinerary? One-way fares were too expensive, but I found a round trip for 78 Euro and quickly booked it on Air France's website.
Now I needed to find a flight to Munich, but again I wasn't impressed by the available options at first. easyJet offered relatively low fares, but I didn't like the idea of a transfer from Heathrow to Gatwick. I finally was about to book an ordinary British Airways A319 flight, but then I suddenly discovered a well-timed connection offered by Austrian Airlines: bmi A320 to Vienna and Tyrolean Airways Fokker 100 to Munich. I wasn't amused about the price, but I couldn't resist to get on Tyrolean which would be my 100th airline. I booked the remaining flights on Expedia and finally reserved a room at the Ibis CDG Terminal hotel.
Part 1 can be found here: Fifth Freedom Tidbit: Kuwait Airways A300-600 (by PlaneHunter Dec 2 2010 in Trip Reports)
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Paris (CDG) - London (LHR)
Air France AF1980
10:05-10:25 (12:01-12:25)
Flying time: 00:47 (hrs)
Economy Class, Seat 93K
Airbus A380-861
Built in 02/2009 and delivered in 10/2009
1st flight on F-HPJA
3rd A380 flight
3rd A380 carrier
(status prior to flight LH380)
Photo © Zaninger Jonathan
Photo © Tim Easter
Photo © Ole Simon
Photo © Marc Jacobs
After logging several more registrations from my hotel room...
...I enjoyed the excellent breakfast buffet, checked out and took the CDGVAL to Terminal 2. I had already printed my boarding pass at home, so there was no need to stay in the Terminal 2E check-in hall.
It was my first journey on Air France after the company had introduced the automatic check-in for most short and medium haul flights. Whenever you book on www.airfrance.com you automatically receive the boarding pass 30 hours before departure. At the time of booking I hadn't been able to select a seat, but I had requested a window seat. Unfortunately, during the automatic check-in process, the system assigned me a window seat in the front section on the main deck. I had been seated on the main deck on Emirates and Singapore Airlines, so I really wanted to try the A380's upper deck this time. Some 28 hours prior to departure I checked the seatmap and found out that all window seats on the upper deck weren't available any more. So I chose seat 93K in the end, an aisle seat on the upper deck - not optimal, but still acceptable. I didn't check the seatmap again at the airport and went straight to security where I joined a long queue.
20 minutes later I arrived at the gate and was glad to find out that F-HPJA, the first A380 in the fleet, would operate flight AF1980. Unfortunately, taking good pictures was impossible:
Sister ship F-HPJB was parked at the adjacent gate:
I still had plenty of time left, so I walked to the front end of the concourse where I could enjoy great views of two runways, some taxiways and some gates. I and was able to log many new registrations within an hour, one of the most interesting birds was Air France 777-300ER F-GZNE in Skyteam colors:
Finally, it was time to return to the gate and I wasn't amused to find a large crowd there. I wasn't sure where I should line up at first, but then I noticed signs for both main deck and upper deck passengers. Apparently, numerous people had not seen or understood the signs and chosen the wrong queues. Anyway, boarding commenced early so it was obvious that all passengers would be on board for an on-time departure.
I had been expecting that Air France would also use the upper deck jetway for boarding, but the corresponding escalators were blocked off. Friendly flight attendants welcomed me at a main deck door and directed me to the stairs. Of course I took a picture of the famous "salon":
Business Class seats:
The 19-inch wide Economy Class seats are hard, but still comfortable...
...and the 34-inch seat pitch must be appreciated, too:
Welcome screen:
I really liked the low mood lighting during boarding:
Rear stairway:
Taking pictures through the windows on the upper deck isn't less difficult than doing so on the main deck. Air France 747-400, Aeromexico 767-200ER and Delta 757-200:
"Are you here for pleasure?" my seat neighbor asked me immediately after his arrival. "Pure pleasure", I replied and we started talking. After a few sentences he introduced himself as A.net user brightcedars and he was surprised when I introduced myself as PlaneHunter. Later we talked to the guy in seat 92L and found out that he was user babybus - what a coincidence to come together in that section without any planning!
Some time after boarding had been completed, the captain announced a flying time of 40 minutes, but also informed us about a slight delay due to a "last minute technical check". I was assuming that we would depart 15, 20 or maybe 30 minutes late, but I didn't think anything of it and we continued talking about past and future trips, aircraft types, orders etc. However, after not hearing any news for at least 30 minutes, we started wondering.
At 10:45, no less than 40 minutes after the scheduled departure time, the captain came back on the intercom. The first announcement was in French which I once learned in school. I don't remember much of that language, unfortunately, but I clearly understood a short term - and that was enough to know that something serious was going on: "Autorisation d'Airbus"
Before the captain repeated the announcement in English, brightcedars had translated the message: Air France was being faced with a technical problem and had to ask Airbus for authorization. I was shocked about these news considering that I had to catch a connecting flight at London. My bmi flight to Vienna would leave at 14:05 (London time) from Terminal 1 and I still had to pick up a boarding pass. There were more than four hours left, but I wasn't expecting an immediate departure of our A380.
My mood was getting worse when brightcedars told me that some flight attendants in the galley were already whispering about a possible cancellation. I knew well that I would be stranded at CDG in such a case. A rebooking to a later London flight would be useless, my connecting flight would be lost. I draw the conclusion that I would need to buy a new ticket to fly from Paris to Munich - and that would be very expensive.
brightcedars was concerned about missing his first A380 flight, but he had booked a same-day return trip on the big bird - so at least he wouldn't face a financial loss. I had flown on two different A380s before, but of course I also didn't like the thought that I may not be able to add the AF model to my log. Flight attendants passed through the cabin several times during the waiting time and offered water, but I didn't want to drink anything.
Some time after the captain's announcement, when a flight attendant was walking by, brightcedars took the chance and asked her in French what was going on. She then told him that, apparently, a ground vehicle had hit a cargo door. After hearing this, I was almost convinced that the flight would be cancelled - and I started hoping that the worst case scenario would be announced soon so that I wouldn't lose too much time...
At 11:30, just after I had put back my camera, binoculars and other stuff to my hand luggage, the captain made a new announcement. I was prepared for jumping up, but then he said: "Good news!" According to him, Airbus had given go ahead to operate the flight and the crew was just waiting for some signatures.
All of us where relieved and we were now looking forward to the flight more than ever. However, nothing happened for another 30 minutes. Did a person in charge refuse to sign in the end?, I thought. My transfer time was shrinking and shrinking, only about two hours would be left after arrival. Transferring at LHR can be a pain and I was hoping that there would be an airside connection between Terminal 4 and Terminal 1.
Finally, exactly 1 hour and 56 minutes behind the scheduled departure time, the big bird started moving...PUSH-BACK!!!
Now I truly enjoyed the tail camera views:
The massive wings make this taxiway appear quite narrow:
At 12:24 F-HPJA finally turned onto the runway, quietly accelerated...
...and gently lifted off after a short take-off roll:
While climbing away from the runway we were hit by turbulence, causing the wings to oscillate - quite interesting experience.
Suddenly the tail camera was hit by bird strike - or whatever it was. Unfortunately, the camera was switched off before I could take a picture (see the landing pictures).
Interesting air show feature:
Due to the short flying time I quickly checked the IFE options. Main menu:
The Thales TopSeries IFE system offers a choice of about 100 on-demand movies, 300 audio CDs, 26 games and many more features. In my opinion, the live cameras and the interactive maps beat them all:
The flight attendants started offering drinks and snacks only a few minutes after take-off - there was no time to lose on that short hop. Before they arrived at our row I quickly made some more cabin shots. I didn't see an empty seat in the upper deck Y Class section:
Stairway blocked off:
I ordered a Pepsi Max and also got very tasty cookies:
We crossed the channel at 24,000 feet and started descending only 23 minutes after take-off. Final approach:
Tail camera view again - this time a bit different:
We touched down 47 minutes after take-off and I was hoping that the plane would taxi straight to its gate. However, the plane had to stay on the taxiway for some time and didn't arrive at the gate earlier than 12:25, exactly two hours behind schedule. It took another ten minutes until I was able to leave the aircraft, so I had 1 hour and 30 minutes left for the transfer. Last picture of F-HPJA:
I followed the connection signs and was relieved when I found out that there was an airside bus transfer to Terminal 1.
Sunday, 18 July 2010
London (LHR) - Vienna (VIE)
bmi BD427
14:05-17:25 (14:13-17:30)
Flying time: 01:53 (hrs)
Economy Class, Seat 27A
Airbus A320-232
G-MIDX (MSN 1177), STAR ALLIANCE livery
Delivered in 03/2000
1st flight on G-MIDX
34th A320-200 flight
35th A320 flight
61st A32X flight
Photo © Michael Brazier-Aviation-Images
Photo © Iain Fisher
About 20 minutes after leaving the AF A380 I arrived at a bmi transfer desk and picked up my boarding passes for the flights to Vienna and Munich. I had asked about a window seat in the rear section on the bmi A320 and the friendly female agent had kindly offered 27A in the last row. That was surprising considering that barely one hour was left until departure. Interestingly, the gate number wasn't even shown yet, so I had to "wait in lounge" some more time - that procedure at LHR never ceases to annoy me.
When I arrived at the gate some 45 minutes prior to departure I was happy to find G-MIDX there - the last remaining aircraft in the world wearing the old Star Alliance livery. Quite funny to see the Ansett, Mexicana and Varig logos on the fuselage:
I continued spotting as long as possible and stepped on board among the last few passengers. The flight was packed, but the middle seat in my row remained empty. The leather seats were quite comfortable, even though my seatback didn't stay in upright position:
Legroom was absolutely sufficient - definitely better than on the bmi A319 which I had flown on in early 2009:
Parked next to us was A321-200 G-MEDU, originally ordered and never taken up by BMed:
After boarding had been completed, the captain announced a traffic related delay of 15 minutes. I took the menu card from the seat pocket and was quite disappointed that only muffins and similar stuff would be available for sale - not even sandwiches. A friendly male flight attendant who was chatting with another passenger suddenly turned to me and said: "Sir, sir? It's free!" I was positively surprised to hear that. Drinks and snacks hadn't been offered free of charge on my first bmi flight between London and Dublin in early 2009. Apparently you only have to pay on domestic flights and other short services.
We finally left the gate eight minutes behind schedule and started taxiing to runway 27R. British Airways 777-200ER G-YMMI with anti-strike slogan:
After spending 16 minutes on various taxiways, G-MIDX powerfully accelerated. Climbing out of Heathrow is always a pleasure:
We stopped climbing for a while after breaking through the clouds:
Beautiful scenery:
Kent Airport on the left, the city of Ramsgate on the right:
26 minutes later we passed Brussels Airport:
The friendly flight attendants soon served an egg sandwich, an orange juice and black tea. Good to see that free range eggs were used:
I was really surprised about the high quality sandwich, it tasted very good. The black tea wasn't bad either.
Emirates 777-300 heading down to Dubai:
Cabin shot:
The remaining flight was uneventful - well, almost. The lady in the aisle seat was stressed for a while by her three kids who were seated in the opposite row. They were having a loud dispute and after the lady had failed to calm them down, she grabbed one of the kids and placed it next to me in the empty middle seat. The flight was almost over anyway...
Low clouds on approach to Vienna:
We touched down after a flying time of 1 hour and 53 minutes and taxied to a remote parking position:
I was very glad about that because I could take some more pictures of the plane which may get a new paint job soon:
After arriving at the terminal, I went straight to the rundown Hall B where my flight to Munich would depart from two hours later. I could have stayed elsewhere for a while, but I was neither hungry nor thirsty and viewing options in other airside areas wouldn't have been much better. I took a seat at my gate and kept reading a book and a newspaper while the whole area was getting more and more crowded.
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Vienna (VIE) - Munich (MUC)
Austrian Airlines OS117, operated by Tyrolean Airways
19:35-20:40 (19:43-20:45)
Flying time: 00:44 (hrs)
Economy Class, Seat 20A
Fokker 100
OE-LVL (MSN 11404), named "Odessa"
First delivered to American Airlines as N1421K in 07/1992
1st flight on OE-LVL
3rd Fokker 100 flight
4th Fokker 70/100flight
100th airline
Photo © Prok
Photo © Simon Brygg - Ostersund Photography
Former appearances as N1421K and C-GKZU:
Photo © AirNikon Collection-Pima Air and Space Museum
Photo © John Davies - CYOW Airport Watch
Boarding commenced on time, but we remained stuck in the bus for a while. There was a problem with someone's boarding pass and it took at least ten minutes to solve it. The bus finally brought us to OE-LVL, one of 15 Fokker 100s in the fleet:
Operated by Tyrolean - my 100th airline.
After being welcomed by a friendly flight attendant, I made my way to row 20. I'm not sure what to think of the green color, but the old-style seats were quite comfortable:
What I definitely didn't like was the tight seat pitch:
Seat 20A - which I had selected in advance on OS' website - was just perfect: Engine on the left, wing on the right:
Engine close-up:
We left the parking position eight minutes behind schedule and I could take one last picture of good old G-MIDX which was still here:
It took another 13 minutes until OE-LVL noisily lifted off into the gray skies. This is what I would call "field artwork":
Clouds + evening sun = beautiful scenery:
There was an announcement during climb, but I didn't understand a single word due to engine noise. So who knows what they tried to tell us.
After the flight attendants had started serving drinks and snacks, I quickly took a cabin picture. Not a single empty seat on this evening service:
I also went to the lavatory and soon found out that the door lock didn't work properly, but I managed to be back before the flight attendants arrived at my row.
In light of Austrian's recent cost cutting measures I was expecting to get some crackers or probably a small sandwich, but the flight attendants served a salad box:
The mixed salad along with the dressing tasted very good - and the wholemeal bread wasn't bad either. Well done, Austrian:
Some 30 minutes after take-off we already started descending again. I would have preferred to keep cruising over the clouds some more time:
Allianz Arena:
Autobahn 9:
Only a few more moments to go:
OE-LVL touched down after a flying time of 44 minutes and quickly slowed down:
Privatair 737-800 operating for Lufthansa:
We stopped at a remote parking position five minutes behind schedule, next to Lufthansa A319 D-AILE:
One last picture of OE-LVL:
Some minutes later the bus dropped us off at the terminal and I felt sorry for numerous passengers who started running to get their connecting flights. Hopefully they made it. All I needed to do was to take the S-Bahn to the P81 car park. Three new airlines - including my 100th carrier - two flights on extraordinary widebodies and 123 new registrations for my spotting logbook - another PlaneHunting journey was successfully completed.
The delay on Air France was nerve-racking, but there's no reason to complain about the airline. The problem was caused by a ground vehicle and the captain kept us updated. As soon as we had left the gate, I enjoyed the time on AF's A380 which offers lots of seating comfort and a great IFE system. Ground staff members and flight attendants were friendly and I was also satisfied with the catering on that very short flight. However, I didn't like the automatic check-in. Anyway, it's just a matter of time until I will book a long-haul flight on AF's A380.
My expectations hadn't been high after a rather disappointing experience in 2009, but this time bmi surprised me with friendly ground staff members and flight attendants, comfortable seating and good catering. I would definitely choose the carrier again.
I felt a bit cramped on the Fokker 100, but the flight on Tyrolean Airways was still a positive experience due to friendly staff and good catering. I wouldn't hesitate to book Austrian Airlines again, but I hope that the airport's Hall B will be refurbished soon.
Best Regards,
P.S.: Just in case you missed them - my previous trip reports:
Fifth Freedom Tidbit: Kuwait Airways A300-600
Ship Vs. Plane: Porto Santo Line & Sata Air Açores
Awesome Approach, Splendid Scenery: LIS, FNC & TAP
Guernsey, Ash Cloud Alarm & Mostly Empty SQ 77Ws
Totally Thrilling: Scenic Flight On Lufthansa A380
Cirrus D38, Adria CRJ & Captain Niki Lauda On Duty
Monarch Hot Meal, E195 & More: PMI-ALC-MAN-MUC
Premium Meal & Palma Spotting: MUC-PMI, DE 757-300
The Dead Slow Transfer: PEK-MUC On Air China A332
Cancellation Brings Joy: HKG-PEK on Dragonair A330
A380 Cacophony, 777 Star Livery: DXB-SIN-HKG on SQ
The Next 5* Carrier? MUC-MCT-DXB, Oman Air A330
Turkey For 1.5 Hrs: Daytrip To AYT On Sky Airlines
CO Scores Again: ATL-IAH-EWR-FRA On ERJ, 752 & 764
Riding The Ultra Long-Haul Twin: Delta 777-200LR
Pacific Coast Jaunt: 3 Carriers, E120, E140 & Fog
The Ultimate 737: LHR-IAH-PDX On CO 777 & 739ER
Bye Bye, Hell! TRD-OSL-TXL-NUE - DY/AB/HE DH4
My Trip To Hell: NUE-CPH-OSL-TRD On Cimber & SAS
SFO-YUL-FRA: Map- & Sleepless On Air Canada's 77W
Sin City Gloss & Virgin America's Chic First Class
Seat Dilemma & Canyon Glamour: FRA To LAX, AC 763
On Par With Air France? DTW-AMS-MUC, KLM A330
Goodbye, Red Tails! DC-9-40/50 & Chicago Tour
Champagne & World Of Coke: Air France A340 To ATL
"Mission A380": Disappointing Legs On BA/BD/EI
Delights Of Doha, 773 & 77W: DOH-DXB-LHR On EK
A380 Really a Step Forward? LHR-DXB-DOH On EK
Quality & Style: HKG-LHR On Air New Zealand 744
Taiwan Trio: TransAsia, UNI Air And The Taipei 101
"The Wings Of Taiwan": EVA Air A332, 744 Combi
SHA-SZX, Shanghai 757: Delayed By The Military
PEK-SHA, China Eastern A330 & Shanghai At Night
Striking Newcomer: Berlin-Beijing On Hainan A330
Short & Splendid: MXP-MUC On Air Dolomiti's 146
3 Hours On Blue1: HEL-MXP On The MD-90
BCN-MAD-ZRH-MUC: UX Shuttle Meets Swiss Quality
MUC-MAD-BCN: Star MD-87 & The Pain Of Vueling
Low Fares, Lovely Island: AK & Best Of Langkawi
4 Stars Or 5 Stars? FRA-KUL-FRA, Malaysia 777s
First And Last Time? JFK-FCO-MUC, Alitalia 777
JFK For 1 Day: Transatlantic Hop On CSA's A310
Sardinian Sun, Shiny New 73Gs & Cramped Mad Dog
Top And Flop: KIX-HEL-MUC, Finnair A320 & MD-11
The 524-Seat Twin-jet: HND-ITM On ANA 777-300
Kobe For 1 Hour: 767-Quickie On ANA & Skymark
Rocketing To Tokyo: FUK-HND On JAL (ex-JAS) 777
Oddities & Okinawa: JTA 734 & JAL 744D(Domestic)
MUC To Nagoya: Finnair E170 & (Old) "New" A340
Mad Dog, A320 Tech Delay & Best Of Lanzarote
Canaries Prop-Hopping: Islas Airways & Naysa
Canaries And Confusion: LH CRJ900 & Spanair A321
Hubbing For 162 Miles: HOQ-FRA-STR Ret On IQ/EW/LH
BOS-JFK-AMS-MUC: SSSS-Check And KLM 777
ATL-PIT-JFK-BOS: FL B717, JetBlue E190 And Delays
MUC-AMS-MEM-ATL On NWA A332 And 40-year-old DC-9
FRA-BKK-FRA Via CMB: SriLankan A332 & A343
BNE-SIN-DXB-MUC On Emirates B772ER & B773
2 Hours In Paradise: Hamilton Island (JQ/DJ)
BNE-SYD-BNE: Domestic Run On QF's Oldest B747-400
Testing Qantas: SYD-MEL-SYD-BNE (B738, B763, A332)
Going Down Under: MUC-DXB-SYD On EK A332 & A345
9/11 Review: Failed Trip To LAX - Fuel Dump Pics
Surprised By NIKI's Newest A320 & Screw-up By AB
Leisure Vs. Full Service: Condor & SN Brussels
"betterFly" On LH: Business Class For 99 Euro
Weekend Transatlantic Trip (2): US A321 & B762
Transatlantic For A Weekend (1): MUC-DCA On US
[Edited 2010-12-25 11:54:43]

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Kareena Kapoor is the gorgeous Bollywood actress who is well known for her many facial expressions. If you snap her at any event, you can see self-obsessed Bebo giving too many expressions. However, Kareena Kapoor Khan looks stunning in most of her expressions.
Kareena's pout is very popular in the industry. Her buddy Karan Johar also learned the trick from her and he is the only male in the industry who gives a nice pout while posing in front of the camera. Apart from the famous pout, Kareena Kapoor also gives some funny and weird expressions which can be awkward at times.
Be it the shocked expression, the fake smile or an amazed look, Kareena has been clicked in various different moods. We decided to take a look at her different expressions that are cute, funny, weird and gorgeous.
Different Expressions Of Kareena Kapoor:
Kareena made headlines when she gave many weird expressions at the launch of a jewellery showroom.


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I bought this computer online from Palicomp, without a monitor or a keyboard, I was delightfully surprised after receiving the computer within couple of days & started to useing it. After only one day I had a personal e-meil from Palicomp, reassuring me with after sale, should I need them, something you never expect from a lot of company if not all. Now my child uses the computer for his homework without any problem & we know if there is a problem, nice to know, we are being look after by Palicomp. I like to thank every single personel of this company Palicomp.


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Meet the police
Kids Easter musical
Concord International Seventh-day Adventist Church
Easter musical, "Nic at Night" 3 p.m. April 19, 1655 West St., Concord. Musical play for kids. Free. 925-676-4111.
Plant sale
Markham Nursery plant sale 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 19, 1201 La Vista Ave., Concord. Tomatoes, irises, geraniums, more. Free admission; free class 10-11 a.m. 925-681-2968, markhamarboretum.org.
Stroke support
Prescription take back
Drop off unused, unwanted, prescription drugs 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 26, Concord Police Department, 1350 Galindo St., Concord. Anonymous. No syringes. 925-671-5067.
Wood shop fundraiser
Mt. Diablo High School Architecture, Construction, Manufacturing and Engineering wood shop sale 10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 12, 2450 Grant St., Concord. Enter East Street side of school across from John Muir Medical Center. Student handcrafted items. Benefits benefit ACME. 925-682-4030, ext. 3425.
Book signing
Gary Peterson signs "Battle of the Bay," 1-3 p.m. April 14, Rocco's Pizzeria & Ristorante, 2909 Ygnacio Valley Road, Walnut Creek. Look-back at 1989 baseball season, A's, Giants Bay Bridge World Series. Books $16.95 plus tax, totaling $18.39; cash, checks. firstname.lastname@example.com.
Disaster preparedness
CERT. basic training 6:30-10 p.m. Tuesdays, through May 13 (no class April 22), Contra Costa County Fire Training Center, 2945 Treat Blvd., Concord. Make-up class available. Learn to care for self, family after emergency. 925-603-5933, concordcert.org.
Blessing of the cars
St. Agnes Car Show & Blessing 11 a.m. April 28, St. Agnes Catholic Church, 3966 Chestnut Ave., Concord. Classics, hot rods. Car blessing noon. email@example.com. Purchase food, drinks. firstname.lastname@example.com.
Career fair, workshops
Bay Area Career Fair, workshops 9 a.m.-2 p.m. April 11, Cal State East Bay Concord Campus, 4700 Ygnacio Valley Road. For veterans, professionals. Resume building, interview techniques, veterans resources. Register firstname.lastname@example.com, 925-602-0166.
Taming of the brew
Bay Area Craft Beer Festival noon-4 p.m. April 12, Martinez Waterfront Park. Microwbrews, live music, food for sale. Free shuttle at North Concord BART, Best Western John Muir Inn. $35, $40 at door. 925-228-3577, email@example.com.
Festival of Tables
Clayton Valley Woman's Club ninth annual Festival of Tables and Fashion Show 11 a.m. April 26, Concord United Methodist Church, 1645 West St., Concord. Fashions by Chico's, luncheon. Proceeds benefit club, charities, scholarships. $40. 925-672-3490, www.claytonvalleywomansclub.com.


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Blake Shelton Pines, Johnny Cash Walks The Line – Today In Country Music History [VIDEO]
Blake Shelton pined about a lost love in 2008, Shania Twain was certified platinum in 1999 and Johnny Cash walked the line in 1956.
Here's the list for Today In Country Music History for 21 July, 2011.
- Brad Paisley, Charley Pride and Alison Krauss + Union Station performed for President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C. in 2009.
- Blake Shelton's single "She Wouldn't Be Gone" was released to radio in 2008.
- Big & Rich's "Lost In This Moment" went to the top of the Billboard country chart in 2007.
- Charley Pride received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999.
- Shania Twain's longform video Shania Twain Live was certified platinum in 1999.
- Anne Murray's "Shadows In The Moonlight" hit Number One on the Billboard country singles chart in 1979.
- Michael Martin Murphey's single "Wildfire" was certified gold in 1975.
- Jeanne Pruett joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1973. She was the last artist added to the cast before the show transfered from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium to the Grand Ole Opry House.
- Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" went to Number One in 1956. It was his first record to top the charts.
- Lefty Frizzell joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1951.
Here's a quick video of Johnny Cash at 23 years old. Back when country music songs were less than three minutes long!
Not near a radio? Click here to listen to Lonestar 102.3 online.
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Phew! DC Fab tells us the good news: The "Real Housewives of D.C." Is Still On
We Love DC does not love fellow Washwords' alumni Tony K. Tony Kornheiser Hates Cyclists Yah, maybe he went a little overboard but it is bad that uh… I kinda hear what Tony means?
Bread for the City delivers more than food to needy clients since the DC bag tax Beyond Bread: We Got A Bunch Of Bags
Parker Gray Growl (with help from The Old Town Crier) tells you The Rest of the Story about the neighborhood.
The Arugula files announces a Food Bloggers Meet Sports Bloggers Happy Hour March Madness baby!
Washington DC Metblogs (and lots of others) are going to see "CoCo" live in person. I Just Made The Biggest Impulse Buy Of My Life: Conan O'Brien Is Coming To DC


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It's not about the physical appearance, but the heart.
Goodness, kindness, patience and tolerance are foundation to have a good life.
True beauty is having a beautiful mind & heart, not a beautiful body or face.
Kindness reflected the other person. We are like a mirrors!
It's about our inward appearance. Characteristics of a genuine kind person: they are tender, benevolent and useful to others; every action and every word they do or say will have the flavor of grace in it; they will come to someone's aid without expecting anything in return; they are kind to everyone; they minimize judgment; they do not expect perfection, because there's no such thing; they are always present and are good listeners; they are optimistic and will look at every angle of the situation; they are grateful people; they do random acts of kindness; they are, friendly, generous, polite, compassionate and always have a SMILE on their face.~ Laura Toma
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This is where you can let your creativity loose. You have lots of options here; you can change the size of the gadget, the flyout, the undocked gadget as well as defining your UI and styling. Go crazy...
As I haven't got much creativity, I've stuck with something fairly simple. I've kept the default sizes defined by the project template and I'm just going to add some simple styling and UI. Let's start with the overall look and feel.
Let's imagine our gadget is a Technorati search gadget (it might be a Technorati search gadget but I haven't written the code yet so I'm keeping my options open). We want to give it a distinctive UI so people can spot it easily on the Sidebar. I created some images to use as backgrounds for the docked / undocked gadget and the flyout (the undocked is really poor as I just upscaled the docked version for the sake of time).
Grab the images below (make sure you get the "full" image by clicking through as the image size is critical). Note that the size of each image matches the size of the element it's going to act as background for. So the docked image is 120x100px, the undocked 400x400px and the flyout 350x550px (you can find these sizes defined in default.css, utils.js and flyout.html).
We need to add the images to our gadget project. The easiest way to work with our gadget is to open the copy we created in the gadget folder. That way we don't need to keep copying our changes back and forth.
- Open Visual Studio
- Hit Shift+Alt+O (open web site)
- Paste in the path to the gadget folder
- in my case that's C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\VistaSidebarGadgetCS1.gadget
- A quick tip for you, if you hold down the shift key when you right-click on a file/folder in Vista you get an option to "Copy as Path" which copies the full path of the file / folder to the clipboard
- Hit the "Open" button
- Your gadget should open in Visual Studio
- Changes you make will be reflected when you re-add the gadget to the toolbar
- Right click on the images folder
- Select "Add existing item" and add the three images to the folder
To make these images the backgrounds for their respective elements, we just need to set the CSS background-image property for each. Let's do that for flyout.html first as, in our case at least, it's a static property. We can modify the markup in flyout.html thus (I've also removed the text):
For the docked / undocked images, the styling is done dynamically. When the gadget transitions between docked and undocked states the dockGadget() / undockGadget() functions are called. These already set the body width / height properties so we can simply set the backgroundImage property here as well. eg in the dockGadget() function:
oBody.backgroundImage = "url( '../../images/Docked.png' )";
We should probably set the property in the default.css file as well for completeness (for the docked state).
I've added a little bit of UI to the gadget so we have a textbox and a button to perform a search. Gadget.html now looks like this:
And the following CSS (in default.css) positions things in roughly the right place:
We should now be in a position to see the effects of our changes. A few things to remember before you go through the hair-pulling exercise I went through:
- If you've just changed the markup, JavaScript or CSS in your gadget, re-adding it to the Sidebar will allow you to see the changes
- If you've changed images, you will have to restart the Sidebar to see the changes
- If something isn't working and you want to have a play around without having to add your gadget to the Sidebar over and over (eg your HTML or CSS isn't right) you can always right-click on the HTML file in Visual Studio and select "View in Browser".
At this stage, hopefully you have a gadget that looks like this when docked. If you undock you'll get a bigger version of the gadget but with no UI (just a background image). I leave it to you if you want to thrash out the UI for the undocked version. (Of course you can always have the undocked version look identical to the docked version where it doesn't make sense to have a bigger UI when undocked). If you click the "Go" button, the flyout should appear with "Results" written in the black bar at the top.
Starting to look a little more presentable isn't it?


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The Mobicents Open Source project recently achieved certification of the JAIN/SLEE test suite. This open source project for next generation telephone networks that can be thought of as VoIP Middleware. JAIN/SLEE is gaining popularity with the telecom community, as I have heard from a number of users recently. This joins other commercial products like Open Cloud Rhino.
Ivelin Ivanov also recently wrote a blog entry that reviews some of the differences between JAIN/SLEE, SIP and OSA/Parlay.
We are encouraging debate to see these standards mature and hopefully arrive at a widely adopted standard that enables the next generation of IP based Multimedia Systems and Intelligent Networks. Any opinions on the best implementations?
Bob Bickel
Mobicents Open Source Project Achieves JAIN/SLEE Certification (0 messages)
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2013 Golden Globes After Party Looks: Hot, Hotter And The Hottest Celebs Rock The Night Out
For celebrities attending the 70th Annual Golden Globes–specifically for those who didn't win anything– the best part of the night are the after parties. After parties are the fun part of the night when outfits are more comfortable and sultry. Jennifer Lopez, Jamie Chung, Rachel Zoe and many more hit the town looking fabulous and we've got who they were wearing.
Check them out below and on the next page.
For The Weinstein Company's after party, Jennifer Lopez changed into a Zuhair Murad black silk crepe gown with dramatic black feather train.The stacked bracelets and watch add a great edge to the look.
Julianne Hough had a beautiful pink V-neck gown with beaded sleeve… that later ripped. Yea, not good.
Rachel Zoe actually looked very bland for the glamorous night. She wore a silver sequin gown with large cuffs and jeweled hoop earrings.
Ashley Tisdale wore a sleek Issa gown, Rousseau shoes, a ring and bracelet by Sylva & Cie, turquoise State Room earrings and an L. K. Bennett bag. The actress has definitely grown up and is proud to flaunt it.


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Shuttle Express(TM) will dramatically decrease overall cost and turnaround times for 0.13um and 90nm designs
UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today introduced its Shuttle Express enhanced prototyping program, an extension of the foundry's Silicon Shuttle(TM)* multi project test vehicle. Shuttle Express was created to help offset the inherent higher costs and longer turnaround times associated with silicon verification of system-on-chip (SOC) designs on advanced 0.13um and 90nm technology. This program offers UMC customers a new alternative for fast prototyping in addition to the normal Silicon Shuttle, enabling new 0.13um and 90nm designs that incorporate top 3 configurable metal layers to improve turnaround time by 60%~70% compared with conventional IC prototyping. UMC is the first foundry to offer this type of innovative service.
Ken Liou, director of the Design Support Division at UMC, said, "As part of UMC's overall foundry SOC solutions, UMC continues to introduce new programs that help today's SOC designers seamlessly bring their chips to production in the shortest time possible. We understand that cost and time-to-market issues are primary customer considerations when evaluating 90nm or 0.13um technologies for their new designs.
* Silicon Shuttle is a program that enables customers the opportunity to verify their advanced designs and prototypes in silicon at a reduced cost. Via the Silicon Shuttle offering, the mask cost is split among multiple customers as they can purchases "seats" on the same mask.
Shuttle Express can significantly lower these barriers and therefore open doors to more customers that wish to realize the true advantages of state-of-the-art process technologies."
The Shuttle Express works with any 90nm or 0.13um customer product designed with configurable top 3 metal layers. While manufacturing the first silicon run, UMC also produces a number of base silicon wafers within the same wafer lot. After the first run, further logic and/or design changes can be performed utilizing just the top 3 configurable metal layers, avoiding the time and costs spent for the re-taping and mask tooling of the entire design. The processing time to achieve second cut silicon is therefore drastically reduced.
The first Shuttle Express will be provided in November 2004. Customers may contact their UMC sales representatives for inquiries and reservations.
The original press release can be found here.
Explore further: UMC Expands Embedded Memory Portfolio to Target Fast Growing Smart Card Market


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President Bush evidently is fighting a very different war in his mind than the one that is going on in Iraq
Tonight on the News Hour, a discussion about the new US Iraq Commander, General Petraeus, with "two Army officers who have known and worked with him," Retired Army Major General William Nash, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. And retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, author of two books on Army transformation, now an independent businessman:
MARGARET WARNER: Let's look at Mosul more deeply here, because there he really — he had his men going into the neighborhoods, did he not, tried to use less force, more persuasion. He had, as I understand it, little precinct bases, much like — it sounds like what they're hoping to do in Baghdad. One, do you think, at least that the — I think your point that, after it ended, Colonel Macgregor, it didn't last — but do you think that the strategy and the approach itself worked? And can it be applied in Baghdad?
DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: No. First of all, in Mosul when he arrived with the 101st, there was no insurgency. That area was fairly pacific. I spoke with some soldiers in the 101st who'd been on patrol, and they talked about patrolling there over 30 days without any incident, until finally they were approached. And someone at marketplace walked up and, in perfect English, said, "Do you see a problem here?" And they said, "No." And they said, "Well, then, why are you here?" The next day, they had their first RPG attack on the patrol. Soldiers said, "We were not attacked — we did not patrol because we were attacked. We were attacked because we patrolled."
MARGARET WARNER: Take that to Baghdad now, because that's what we're looking at here.
DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: Well, if you go to Baghdad, and now you have an absolutely hardened population against you. We are hated in that country. The Sunni Muslim population has good reason to hate us, based upon how we've treated them over the last couple of years. But the Shiite population has joined that particular throng. We have no friends, if you will. Sending men with rifles in small numbers to go into these neighborhoods, to stay in these neighborhoods, is a very, very dangerous thing to do, in my estimation. We could end up taking very serious casualties. We don't know. We can't predict the future. But this is not the environment that General Petraeus found when he got to Mosul.
Jesus Christ!! There is nothing more "important at this moment in our history" than THAT????
BUSH: The people of Iraq want to live in peace, and now it's time for their government to act. Iraq's leaders know that our commitment is not open-ended. They have promised to deploy more of their own troops to secure Baghdad — and they must do so.They pledged that they will confront violent radicals of any faction or political party — and they need to follow through, and lift needless restrictions on Iraqi and coalition forces, so these troops can achieve their mission of bringing security to all of the people of Baghdad….My fellow citizens, our military commanders and I have carefully weighed the options. We discussed every possible approach. In the end, I chose this course of action because it provides the best chance for success. Many in this chamber understand that America must not fail in Iraq, because you understand that the consequences of failure would be grievous and far-reaching. If American forces step back before Baghdad is secure, the Iraqi government would be overrun by extremists on all sides. We could expect an epic battle between Shia extremists backed by Iran, and Sunni extremists aided by al Qaeda and supporters of the old regime.A contagion of violence could spill out across the country — and in time, the entire region could be drawn into the conflict. For America, this is a nightmare scenario. For the enemy, this is the objective.Chaos is the greatest ally — their greatest ally in this struggle. And out of chaos in Iraq would emerge an emboldened enemy with new safe havens, new recruits, new resources, and an even greater determination to harm America.To allow this to happen would be to ignore the lessons of September the 11th and invite tragedy. Ladies and gentlemen, nothing is more important at this moment in our history than for America to succeed in the Middle East, to succeed in Iraq and to spare the American people from this danger. (Applause.)
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"GPHH38", the new video from the Swedish rock "sensation" KOREA, can be viewed below. The song comes off the group's debut album, "For The Present Purpose", which as released on November 28 in Sweden and is due on January 19, 2009 in the rest of the world via ViciSolum Productions.KOREA was formed in Stockholm 2003 and produced a self-titled EP with the American producer Blake Althen. The band's sound can best be described as "a journey in different music styles with a Swedish melancholic spine," according to a press release. "In essence, a beautiful array of harmonies and melodies, combined with a heavy rhythmic section. Influences can be traced to acts like A PERFECT CIRCLE, TOOL, NINE INCH NAILS and RADIOHEAD."
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1Make an account at www.cellsea.com. It's fast, easy, simple, and free.
2Select the song you want as your ringtone. Go to a YouTube video with your song and copy the link
3Go to the "Make Ringtones" tool on cellsea.com. Paste the YouTube link to your song in the bottom bar.
4Type in the title, artist, and genre of your song in the required fields. Select which part of the song you want your ringtone to be.
5Save the ringtone to your computer.
6Send it to your phone through your email account. Your phone's email account is all 10 digits of the number, @, then whatever letters your carriers use. For example, Verizon uses vzwpix.
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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Bear smart: researcher urges involvement of ranchers
Officials in Kamloops, as well as other cities on the fringe of wild areas, encourage homeowners to keep garbage indoors in order to deter bears. In the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains in Montana, it's not quite so simple. And rather than just black bears, the population includes bigger and wilder grizzlies. But the concept of keeping people and bears safe, by keeping them apart, is the same. "The name of the game is minimizing attractants," said Seth Wilson, a visiting fellow with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. "It's not rocket science to minimize conflict with bears. But there are subtleties and complexities." It's those complexities as well as success in reducing conflicts between black bears, grizzlies, wolves and ranchers that Wilson outlined Thursday in a lecture to students in Thompson Rivers University's master's of environmental science program. In addition to his research responsibilities, Wilson is the wildlife co-ordinator for the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-led non-governmental organization in the Blackfoot River area in the Rocky Mountains in Montana. Prior to the Blackfoot Challenge taking on the problem of conflicts between ranchers and predators, Wilson said there were 77 of those conflicts in 2003. Last year, by contrast, there were 10 minor incidents - a 93 per cent decrease. The reduction in problem grizzlies came through a systematic reduction in things that attract them in known areas, including sick or dead calves...more
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One of our resident draft gurus @AArikian compiled some short analysis on the 49ers 2012 NFL Draft picks. The 49ers ended the draft with some good solid depth and a couple draftees have a shot to push for some serious playing time.
1. AJ Jenkins, WR Illinois
Positives: I'm confident that at the very least, he will be a good player. Someone with his speed, body control, route running and hands won't bust in the NFL. He gets open and offers the QB a comfortable window to throw the ball into. The best case scenario for him is to land somewhere in between a Mike Wallace and Greg Jennings.
Negatives: Adds another average-sized WR into the mix when we could've used the size of someone like Stephen Hill or Rueben Randle in the redzone. Not very strong at this point and will have to hit the weight room. Not going to break a lot of tackles. His value has been questioned by some and will compared with guys like Hill, Randle and Quick for the next couple years.
Grade: B+
2. LaMichael James, RB Oregon
Positives: Explosive, small RB who seems to cover 5 yards in the blink of an eye with those short, choppy steps. He will not run anyone over in the NFL, but the lack of size will help him tuck away behind our linemen and burst out for huge gains, similar to the way Kendall Hunter does it. Can catch the ball, return kicks/punts, and will infuse energy into the stadium every time he touches the ball. You can think of him as a Percy Harvin or Darren Sproles type of player who will make his impact felt even though he may never be a starter.
Negatives: Not the big, powerful back we envisioned taking to replace Gore down the line. Clearly though, the team has a different vision, with guys like Hunter and James carrying the load along with perhaps a goalline specialist in the future. The other thing with LMJ is his value will be defined by how good the coaches are at getting him the ball in space and giving him opportunities to make big plays. If he touches the ball only 3-4 times a game, this pick won't be worth it. We need to utilize him.
Grade: B (mostly dependent on usage)
4. Joe Looney, G/C, Wake Forest
Positives: Pretty thick-looking interior lineman who is smart and plays tough and has solid power, particularly in the upper body and in his hands. Loves to pull and does it well. Has seen some work at center in recent months and could project there, or at least play it if needed. A potential starter if can work on some of the issues mentioned next.
Negatives: Short arms and coming off a Lisfranc injury. He needs technique work in pass protection and has to make sure he keeps a natural bend and shuffle his feet enough to stay in front of the quicker pass rushers. Needs to get thicker in the trunk and not be so top-heavy…that'll help with some of these issues. A redistribution of weight would do him some good. Needs to cut his hair.
Grade: B
5. Darius Fleming, OLB Notre Dame
Positives: Stout build for his frame. Can set the edge in the run game and get after the passer when assigned to do so. A decent athlete. Could be a special teamer to replace Bowman on that unit. Has a chance to make the team as the 4th OLB and a special teamer.
Negatives: Nothing really special about his game. Lacks ideal height. Somewhat stiff. Likely to be no more than a backup/special teamer.
Grade: C-
6. Trenton Robinson, FS Michigan State
Positives: Good speed and quickness to help make him a solid cover safety. Has a good feel for the passing game and could serve as a specialty extra DB in passing situations as well as a special tamer.
Negatives: The media has him graded a lot better than what I would expect just from watching some of the clips of him. His tackling looks awful, which is not a good trait in a free safety. The lack of size is also bothersome as he's actually a shade under 5-10 and I'm not sure how he'd fare if he had to go up against an NFL tight end. Mel Kiper compared him to Bob Sanders, which I also don't see at all. I'm hoping I'm wrong, but I think even with the 4th safety position up for contention, he will have to battle a guy like Michael Thomas to make the team.
Grade: D
6. Jason Slowey, G/C Western Oregon
Positives: This guy became monsterously powerful in a shockingly short amount of time. He could only do 3 reps of 225 upon arriving at W. Oregon and ended up doing 38 at the combine, and said he's done as many as 45. That rate of development is outstanding and bodes well for his developmental arc. Looks quick in pass protection. Plays with a nasty streak and has functional power to drive opponents off the ball and into the ground. Looks to have great awareness and does a good job picking up his assignment on the fly. This is one of my favorite picks of our draft and he could be a starter at center in a year or two if things go well.
Negatives: Has added a lot of weight in his time at W. Oregon and still needs to add and maintain a bit more to be a nice-sized interior lineman, which sometimes poses a challenge. Will have to make a huge jump in competition. Needs to sink a bit lower and maintain a good base and overall refine his technique. Will need to learn the ins and outs of the center position which is not always easy to grasp.
Grade: A-
7. Cam Johnson, OLB Virginia
Positives: Very good size, nice explosiveness (35 inch vert) and flashes the ability to get after the passer. Can hold his own against the run and has solid technique when he's keyed in. Has a real shot to make the team as the 4th OLB/rotational pass rusher and would seem to do well if he specializes in that role. A better player than Fleming, all else aside.
Negatives: His biggest problem is the sickle cell. This has caused major issues with fatigue and difficulty maintaining a high level of effort down-after-down. Has also been said to have work ethic concerns, which you figure may also be driven by the sickle cell rather than a bad attitude. He is inconsistent and not likely to become a starter based on these issues.
Grade: B
Honorable mention (UDFAs):
– Chris Owusu has a chance to push Kyle Williams off the team if 6 WRs are kept. He has outstanding speed and explosiveness and knows the offense. He has severe concussion issues that started not too long ago, similar to Williams and it may be a battle to see who can stay healthy. The odds that we do keep 6 WRs seem slim to me given the crowded backfield, OL and TE positions, but I suppose it could happen. Randy Moss could also flame out and create an opportunity for someone like Owusu.
– Michael Thomas could push Robinson to be the 4th safety. He's not much bigger, but he is explosive (runs a 4.5 flat with a 38 inch vert) and knows Fangio's defense.


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"THE RED ROAD" Cast on Memorable Moments from Season 1
Do you have a favorite moment from THE RED ROAD Season 1? The cast does. We know it's hard to pick just one, but it might help to read up on the scenes that stuck with the series' stars. Martin Henderson (Harold Jensen), Kiowa Gordon (Junior), Tamara Tunie (Marie), Allie Gonino (Rachel Jensen), and Executive Producer Sarah Condon weigh in on what they loved about Season 1.


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The death of Abu Laith al-Libi will be a blow to al-Qaida, especially in Afghanistan, but will not by itself reverse the declining security situation there.
A Western official confirmed to United Press International that al-Libi was killed along with a dozen others in a midnight strike Monday in the Pakistani tribal agency of North Waziristan.
The death was earlier reported by one of the webmasters of an al-Qaida-affiliated password-protected online forum, Ekhlaas.org.
The official said al-Libi was one of "the top five or six" al-Qaida leaders, involved in "planning, recruiting (for) and directing" the group's operations in Afghanistan -- "but not just in Afghanistan."
Seth Jones, an expert at the RAND Corp., a think tank with historic ties to the U.S. military, told UPI that al-Libi's role was "primarily" directing operations against coalition and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. Jones added that he had "recently taken on a higher public profile," culminating in a video last November featuring al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, in which al-Libi announced the merging of his Libyan Islamic Fighting Group with al-Qaida.
"This is someone the Afghans and the United States have wanted for some time," he said.
Intelcenter, a contractor for the U.S. government that tracks al-Qaida media releases, said in a statement that audio of al-Libi had featured in that November video and others last year, but that the last video of him was from April 2007 -- an interview conducted by al-Qaida's media arm as-Sahab.
In a statement the firm said it expected a video eulogizing al-Libi, from Zawahiri or another al-Qaida leader, to be released soon.
Jones said the death would be "a significant blow (to al-Qaida) in the short term" but that the group had a pool of experienced fighters it could draw from to replace him.
"Targeting (individuals) is not sufficient," he said, "as long as (al-Qaida) continues to have safe territory" in the Pakistani tribal areas.
Shaun Waterman, UPI Homeland and National Security Editor


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MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-06-30.
Meadwestvaco Corp. has a market cap of $4.95 billion; its shares were traded at around $28.38 with a P/E ratio of 16.3 and P/S ratio of 0.8. The dividend yield of Meadwestvaco Corp. stocks is 3.5%. Meadwestvaco Corp. had an annual average earning growth of 5.5% over the past 5 years.
Highlight of Business Operations:On January 1, 2012, the company adopted new accounting guidance regarding the presentation of comprehensive income. The new guidance requires the presentation of items of net income and comprehensive income in either a single continuous financial statement or in two separate but consecutive financial statements. The company elected to present the items of net income and comprehensive income in two separate but consecutive financial statements. The impact of adoption did not have a material effect on the companys consolidated financial statements.
In December 2011, the FASB issued new accounting guidance regarding additional disclosures for financial instruments that are offset including the gross amount of the asset and liability as well as the impact of any net amount presented in the consolidated financial statements. These provisions are effective for fiscal and interim periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. The impact of adoption will not have a material effect on the companys consolidated financial statements.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, there were no other new accounting standards issued by the FASB that would have an impact on the companys consolidated financial statements.
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Hmmm, you guys obviously haven't heard of Liberia, where 70% of all the women have been raped at some stage in their life, and it's a predominantly (85%) Christian.
I wonder if the scuzzlum families were paid to pimp their daughters out to jihadi apes? How sickening. Where is the outrage in the scuzzlum world? where are the protests?
Nah they weren't paid – this is part of the standard Zakat (holy extortion) tax, of which one eight is portioned to go to jihadi activities – buying food, guns, virgins, etc for the muslims to go on an offensive and random jihad raid against the infidels at least once a year, as is mandated.
Well I suppose the camel has to have a day off now and again……..How can any Mother just stand by and allow this to happen to one of her own,or not even be outraged hearing about it happening to someone else's child? All Mothers in every species protects it's offspring but not these satan followers,they are all pure evil. "Choose life!" we are told in the Bible and these people have surely chosen death.
As I guessed, Muslims did not respond to this coz they cant defend this!!!!!
Christians, Jews, Buddhists do not do that to their kids. Only muslims.
Just goes to show that even the mothers have no souls.
Child-rape?! Probably just another reason Obama supports the FSA over Assad!
Mom needs a hysterectomy.
This has been going on over there even before the destruction of Sodom…remember the biblical story of Lot?
What sort of "religion" provides rationalization for a daughter to be pimped by her own father? Even the most pagan person who ever lived in times past would be disgusted by this sort of thing happening on earth. Islam is soul-rape, and it leaves people without the ability to make respectable and conscious decisions. This sort of thing just blows my mind, because I cannot imagine how a human being arrives to the point where they become complete inhuman monsters like the people in this story are.
This is what the islamists want for the American People. They seem to have only two things on their "minds" – Sex and Death.
Sex of one, half a dozen of the other!
the only ones who saved her was the Syrian Army (the bad guys) and the FSA (good guys to some) used this girl as a piece of meat
If the "rebels" win this thing, they will accuse this girl of prostitution, and she'll either be shot, hanged, or beheaded. Islam is the most despicable "religion" ever. It was borne out of the very mind of Lucifer.
What else are they to think?
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They are all animals. No matter which side they fight for, they are finally all Muslims and deserve the wrath of God and Men.
We'll bring the FSA animals to the U.S., it's an obvious trend.
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The wonderful world of islam…truly slaves. I guess the FSA must be running out of goats.
And Christian women.
Bible, Psalm 27:10 For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me up.
Thank you Merciful God for rescuing this child from MONSTERS.
Thank you merciful Syrian Army soldiers for rescuing this child.
Psalm 41:1 How blessed is he who considers the helpless; the LORD will deliver him in a day of trouble.
The vile, demonic FSA rebels that include Obama-George Soros' big favorites-Al Qaeda, have been armed and trained by U.S. forces. America's light once shone to the whole world. How dim that light has become. The light is almost gone now.
Obama-George Soros' immoral, EVIL war against Syria's INNOCENTS must stop now!
Amen, Linda.
Psalm 27;10 is excellent message. This is normative muslim atrocities. What kind of a sick and perverted monster would allow this to happen to their daughter? A monster muslim of islam.
They hate all things western, yet they are one of the sickest, most perverted cults on the face of this earth. What else can you expect from monsters who worship the devil himself.
And this is just one child…how many more are being sacrificed for this evil jihad in the name of that devil?
Poor, poor little kids. Their own mothers think it is fine for them to be treated like this and do nothing to protect them.
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Frigging Animalistic Practices this is not part of any normal religion!
Apparently it is, it is a part of a Sunni religion. Jihad Al Nikah is the fatwa of Muhammad Al-Arifi, very known Sunni scholar in Muslim world
Offensive Jihad is an intergral part of the Qur'an and most sahih two ahadiths. There have been quibbles over whether or not a Caliph is required to lead it, but then again "defensively" offensive jihad is allowed so long as ANY infidel troops occupy ANY "muslim" territories – anywhere in the world.
How many "FSA" rebels (Multi-National Terror Corps) will be relocated in the U.S.??
Soon these creatures will be spreading their filthy customs in a neighbourhood near you…and me.
Brave girl. She knew it was wrong what her father was allowing her to go through. Glad she got away.
My dad would have fought to the death to protect me from such harm.
Same here. I have threatened a paedophile in the past that I would 'do him in' if he came anywhere near any of my three daughters.


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The Japanese yen also fell against the dollar. Probably, the first push for the rally resumption was given by the message that the second GDP estimate in the 2nd quarter recorded an even greater reduction than it was previously stated. Further, the yen could be pushed by the prime minister of Japan economic adviser E. Honda statements who spoke about the new sales tax growth inexpediency which is planned for the next year.
There was the strong resistance level of 105.30 breakthrough.
The continuous trading in the uptrend direction has led to the upper bound at the level of 105.70 breakthrough. The upward trend continues to gain strength.
The price is finding the support at 106.30, the next one is at 105.70. The price is finding the resistance at 106.70.
There is a confirmed and a strong buy signal. The price is above the Cloud and it is above the Chinkou Span. The Tenkan-sen and the Kijun-sen show an upward movement. The upward movement will be until the price is above the Cloud.
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I smashed a lamp over my head. There was blood everywhere. And glass. And I took a picture.
I think my life is getting better because it used to be that I wrote everything. In order to cope. Now I can take pictures. So I have two coping mechanisms.
The best way to judge someone is not by setbacks, but by bounce-backs. I am good at judging people this way. I think this is because I'm good at bouncing back. From stuff people think no one can bounce from. I can still bounce. Here's how:
1. Get perspective about what is big and what is small.
This is not the first time I have put a gash in my head on purpose. I did it when I had postpartum depression. The situation now is remarkably similar.
I told the farmer that he needs to take care of his hands better. That's where the fight started.
"I hate hand cream," he said. "It makes my hands greasy all day."
"It's dysfunctional to walk around with bleeding hands."
"This isn't normal. It's because I was so nervous around you and your mom fighting in New York."
"You have it all the time. All winter. You told me you do. It's your job to fix it. You have to take care of yourself. You have to be a better model for the kids."
He says, "I'm sorry I don't take care of my hands how you want me to."
I say, "Forget it. This is crazy. I don't care about your hands."
Then we talk about money. I spent too much money on our trip to New York. He is sick of me not being able to stick to a budget. And, to tell you the truth, I am sick of it, too. My inability to stick to a budget is like him not putting cream on his hands: Total incompetence.
The thing is that the money problems make me nuts, and they make him nuts. The hands, really, are not as big a deal.
2. Tell yourself a story of how you got to where you are, so it makes sense.
So we skip to the discussion of how I feel like I'm alone with the money problems because we agreed before I moved to the farm that he would not be responsible for the kids or the money.
Don't tell me it was a crazy agreement to make. It's water over the bridge. Or under. I can't remember the saying.
So I tell him I feel alone. I tell him that for maybe five minutes straight, because he is saying nothing.
Then we do our normal routine: I say I am lonely and feel like he's not really with me.
He gets angry because he thinks he's given up everything for me.
My abandonment issues flare even more when he is angry at me for saying I'm lonely.
I cry.
He hates me when I cry.
I hate myself for being with someone who hates me.
You can see the spiral, right? It's just a question of how much I hate myself.
Today it was a lot. I hate myself because I could have used the money I spent on the New York trip as a fund so that I could leave the farm. I don't even know how I'd leave. I mean, I know I'm capable of leaving, but I don't know what I'd leave to. What I'd go toward.
Those of you with empathy understand how it is such a short step to the lamp crashing into my head.
Then the farmer left.
3. Understand opposing points of view to your own.
People always ask how the farmer puts up with me telling our lives on the blog. What he really hates is that I get to tell the story. The story of us. Here are things he thinks you don't know. He thinks I leave this stuff out and it's not fair.
I am crazy. More crazy than you know from the blog.
I am very needy. I have abandonment issues and I never feel loved.
I am bad with money. Crazy bad with money. Great at earning it, terrible at managing it.
But I know you all know those things because I've already posted about them:
Craziness: Here's the post where I go nuts over a tweet some guy directed to me.
Abandonment issues: Here's the post where I describe the genesis of my neediness issues.
Money issues: Here's the post where my electricity gets turned off.
He feels sorry for himself that he got into this mess with me. He thinks he gave up everything for me and I'm totally ungrateful.
So I spent the day trying to avoid my ex, who spends Sundays at our house with the kids. Then, when the coast is clear, I traipse over broken glass and crawl into bed and hope I sleep forever. Not forever in a way that would mean my kids have no mother. But forever in a way where it sort of approximates death in an I-need-a-break way but then I'm still a good mom.
4. Compartmentalize. For sanity's sake.
Can you be a good mom and break a lamp over your head? Maybe that is the crux of this post. Or maybe it is "Can you be a good career advisor and still break a lamp over your head?"
Actually, I think the scary thing is that the answer to both questions is yes. Compartmentalizing in moderation is actually useful life skill. I know because I'm terrible at it.
But look at the CEOs who are never home with their kids. They are terrible parents but great at their career.
And look at the stay-at-home-baking-cookies moms who are addicted to shopping, or valium, or cheating on their husbands. It's entirely possible that these women could be great moms. Maybe you have until 3pm to be dysfunctional: What you do before school gets out can be separate from what you do after school gets out.
Anyway, here's some career advice: Try to keep your career on track and your personal life on track. You'll never have both, but your career is a sort of safety net. If all you have is your personal life then if it's going bad, everything in your life is bad. Your career isn't as important as your personal life, but it's a nice distraction.
See? It's working for me right now: I'd probably be bashing another lamp against my head if I didn't have a blog to maintain.
5. Protect the parts of your life that you can.
When the ex left, the farmer and I started fighting again. We had to fight around the kids. They watched CatDog and we argued.
He asked me if I'm cleaning up the glass. If this were a novel that you were assigned to read for school, there would be this essay question:
Compare and contrast the two knock-down-drag-out fights Penelope had with the farmer after he asked her if she is cleaning up glass.
If you were a good student, you'd remember the chapter where I break a window and end up at the police station.
Back to this time: I tell him I'm not cleaning up the glass.
I meant to tell him that I like the visual metaphor of broken glass surrounding our bed. But I didn't say that. I said, "I don't care. I'm tired of trying to do nice things for you."
It's hard to argue that cleaning up the glass is doing something nice for him. This might be supporting evidence for the farmer's contention that I am crazy. But in fact, I know from the last argument over broken glass that he cares about it way more than I do.
So I tell him that I'm not cleaning up the glass. And then, I don't know what happens. Well, first, the kids ask to watch another episode of CatDog and I say okay.
6. Re-use tools that have worked for you in the past. Abandon those that never work.
In the twenty minutes we gain from more CatDog, the farmer and I are able to establish that he is done with the relationship and he is going to sleep at his parents house.
I decide I have to keep him home. I don't know why. I mean, I guess my instinct is that if he runs to his parents when we have a fight then it's for sure that he is not really with me. I'm sort of like a fair-weather friend that he keeps around to supplement his relationship with his parents—which, I'm sure he'd say is more rewarding than his relationship with me.
Okay. So I panic that him going to his parents will solidify what I already know anyway. And I tell him I will not let him leave.
This immediately makes him want to leave more. The farmer's biggest worry in life is that I will control him.
He tells me I can't stop him.
I want to show him that actually, my specialty is keeping people from abandoning me.
Me: I'll leave the house first and then if you leave, it'll be child abandonment.
Him: I'll take the kids to child services.
Me: What will you tell them? My wife won't sweep up the floor in our bedroom so I can't stay in the house and I have to give the kids away? Really? Do that. I'm dying to see that. Should I pack the kids' clothes for them? Because if you do that, they'll go to foster care.
I know you think I sound crazy, but the farmer's way of dealing with me—his way to get me to shut up—is to threaten me. So I have taken to calling his bluff. I have noticed that almost every time it works. Like, just two days ago he told me he wouldn't talk with me in the middle of a long drive home unless I want to stop and get a hotel room for the night so we have time to talk. And I said fine. Let's get a hotel room. And he didn't want to.
Okay. So the kids do not go to child services, but I worry that he'll go to his parents house.
So I move my car to block in his car so he can't leave.
He could walk though. Or take the fifty other farm vehicles. And it's totally pathetic that I'm trying to force him to stay with me.
So the farmer is sleeping at his parents house. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here. With the kids. I'm in the middle of nowhere with no support system. I mean, if I wanted to sleep somewhere else I don't even have anywhere.
But I wouldn't want to sleep somewhere else. I traveled every week for a year. And I missed the kids. And I wanted to be attached to home and family more than my booming career. So I moved here.
But I don't know what I'm doing here. Scaling back. Scaling back a career so that all that's left is family time, and family values. It is not working.
I see all these new year's resolutions people are making:
Eat dinner as a family more often.
Go out to eat less frequently.
All these things are easy to do on the farm. I need a new year's resolution to make sure my career does not go to hell while my personal life has. I need a safety net.
The reason I started writing career advice is not because this is my dream job. I mean, who dreams of growing up and writing career advice? I became passionate about the advice, though, when it became apparent to me that each time I had a personal crisis, my career is what helped me rescue myself.


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Compassionate and attentive nurses and receptionists
A team dedicated to treating you as an individual
Your treatment plan explained in plain English
Spread the cost of treatment with finance options
Stage your treatment according to your budget
Maintain your dental health with monthly payments
Looking after you as we would wish to be looked after ourselves
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