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It is a splendid pick, the Avatar Pet Detective. Great job n idea, H.H..
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An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrisons Voracious Life
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Funny Jim Carrey Riding a Snail in a Rodeo
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super. maybe get rid of the white lines around his right hand for perfection,
Thanks Steve. Thanks for the Help, Master Jere ^^
GREAT work, Kris. i love the expression on his face. he seems to have a lot of fun. congrats on the gold.
very polished ,, Great work .. Congrats Krizzzz...
Thank you so very much for all the congratulations. It is good to see so many appeal to everyone. Thank you very much again Jere(the Master), Preemiem, Elegary, Hits the Hitman Master, Wanderer and MsgtBob ^^
Congrats on the gold, Kris. Wonderful FN homage too.
Funny Jim Parsons with a Small Face
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Funny Jim Carrey Elephant Cleaner
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I can't help thinking "That elephant's gonna... um... unload at any moment.
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Funny Jim Carrey
Canadian legend Jim Carrey turns the big 5-0 today. His most famous roles include The Grinch, Ace Ventura, Lloyd Christmas and Bruce Almighty. Carrey's movies have earned more than $2.3 billion, so some of Jim's friends lovingly call him "Hollywood Cash Cow". Here are some interesting facts about Jim Carrey: * Jim packed on over 50 pounds in preparation for his role as Curly in the "Three Stooges" film. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground and Jim had to lose the weight. * He has been a vegetarian for most of his life. * During the filming of Man On The Moon, Jim suffered neck injuries while recreating the scene in which Kaufman gets in the ring with professional wrestler, Jerry Lawlor. * Although he was a straight-A student, he dropped out of high-school to begin working in comedy clubs. "Some folks think I'm having a midlife crisis," Jim Carrey said in October. "But if I'm happy, successful, and more loving to my family and friends than I've ever been, whose crisis is it?" We wish Jim a happiest 50th birthday, and many MANY great roles ahead! To mark the 50th birthday of Jim Carrey, photoshop him any way you wish.
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Las Vegas, KronosWorks,
Today at KronosWorks 2015, The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated released the third book in its thought leadership trilogy aimed at developing and retaining a competitive and engaged workforce: It's All About Bob(bie) - Strategies for Winning With Your Employees. As seen through the eyes of frontline workers Bob and Bobbie, Strategies for Winning With Your Employees is a how-to anthology written by today's foremost leaders in workforce management, human resources, and human capital management for creating a virtuous cycle of employee engagement, customer loyalty, and better bottom-line results.
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- The real-world tips found inside Strategies for Winning with Your Employeesare divided into four main sections: Standardize, Streamline, and Simplify; Put the Best Team on the Field; Help Your People do Their Best Every Day; and Establishing a Vision for the Future.
- The forward was written by Jennifer A. Chatman, Ph.D., Paul J. Cortese distinguished professor of management at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
- Distinguished authors, who are also Workforce Institute Advisory Board members, include:
- David Almeda, chief people officer, Kronos Incorporated
- Bob Clements, senior principal, Axsium Group
- David Creelman, chief executive officer, Creelman Research
- China Gorman, consultant, speaker, writer, and former chief executive officer of Great Place to Work® Institute
- Sharlyn Lauby, The HR Bartender and president, ITM Group Inc.
- Joyce Maroney, director, The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated
- Susan Meisinger, SPHR, JD, and former president, SHRM
- Jeanne Meister, founding partner, Future Workplace LLC, with Kevin Mulcahy, partner, Future Workplace LLC
- Dan Schawbel, managing partner, Millennial Branding and partner and research director, Future Workplace LLC
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Infectious and parasitic diseases
Infectious and parasitic diseases – most of which are preventable and/or treatable – remain the primary cause of death worldwide. International attention is currently focused on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as on global health security. However, many other chronically endemic tropical diseases, which have a very significant negative impact on the lives of poor populations, are still very much neglected in the global public health agenda.
Most of these tropical diseases affect almost exclusively poor and marginalized populations living in settings where poverty is widespread and resources, or access to livelihood opportunities, are scarce. These diseases have an enormous impact on individuals, families and entire communities in developing countries in terms of burden of disease, loss of productivity, aggravation of poverty and the high cost of long-term care. They constitute a serious obstacle to socioeconomic development and quality of life at all levels. Improved control and prevention of such diseases would be a major contribution to poverty alleviation and in reaching the Millennium Development Goals. Despite the fact that many low-cost and effective interventions are available to control most of these diseases, the majority of affected populations do not have access to them.
Although the list is not exhaustive, WHO's intensified efforts will focus on the following diseases: Chagas' disease, dengue, leishmaniasis, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, trachoma and trypanosomiasis. For most of these diseases, effective tools and proven public health strategies exist.
Recently, WHO has led several initiatives to fight such diseases. Some of these programmes have pioneered new global and national partnerships, in some cases involving the private sector, to deliver specific interventions. The basic aims of such programmes are:
- to provide access to treatment for poor and marginalized populations;
- to strengthen existing health systems and their long-term capacity for preventing, screening, diagnosing and treating these diseases;
- to introduce innovative delivery channels to extend the health system's capacity for the packaging and delivery of a series of simple health interventions to those most in need;
- to develop community-based surveillance systems;
- to contribute to the development and dissemination of new tools for supporting surveillance and national programme management.
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- current extent and impact of tropical diseases;
- existing programme delivery mechanisms;
- current tools for the prevention, control and elimination of tropical diseases;
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Rhone Rangers
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
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Event Details
The Rhone Rangers are coming to Washington DC! Join the posse and come for a tasting of American Rhone varietal wines from our winery members, locals as well as those from across the country; choose from over 80 wines to taste from Viognier to Syrah, red blends, white blends and rosés.
The ticket price includes a selection of appetizers to pair with our wines. Ticket includes a selection of appetizers and 3 1/2 hours of tasting, $90 Advance (no day of ticket sales).
This is a 21-and-over-only event. Government issued photo IDs will be checked at the door. Please bring your printed ticket for admission. No refunds.
PARTICIPATING WINERIES Incude:
- Bonny Doon Vineyard
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The Rhone Rangers lead the way as America's largest non-profit organization dedicated to promoting American Rhone varietal wines. American Rhone-style wines are made from the same grapes that have flourished for centuries in France's Rhone River Valley, and their growing popularity in the United States speak to their versatility with food, wide range of rich flavors, and to the skills of American winemakers.
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Senate candidate Scott Howell to apologize for robocalls with pancakes
Middle-Conservative Provo, UTNov. 2, 2012 11:45 a.m.
@Rifleman, Well does that mean you're not voting for Hatch or Love either? I'll bet they've called you. They both have called me and shown up on my TV and in my mail.
Yes fellow Conservatives lighten up for crying out loud. I swear there's Hatch surrogates on these comment boards...which is sad. People that support Hatch are a joke to me, especially coming from someone that proudly voted for every Republican except Hatch. He needs to be gone. I voted against every incumbent regardless of robo calls.
Anyways I just want some pancakes.
Rifleman Salt Lake City, UtahNov. 2, 2012 11:29 a.m.
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You're right of course. When we Republicans see the results of state and national elections next week a lot of us will lighten up. I'm predicting that Scott Howell won't do as well against Sen. Hatch as Corroon did against Gov. Herbert in 2010.
I M LDS 2 Provo, UTNov. 2, 2012 9:32 a.m.
As I said, some Republicans really need to lighten up... You give us a bad name!
Rifleman Salt Lake City, UtahNov. 2, 2012 6:17 a.m.
Re: I M LDS 2 Provo, UT
"The pancake idea is a great way to apologize for an accident."
There is a reason why we place our phone numbers an the "Do Not Call" list. We detest these kinds of calls, especially when the come from robots.
And yes, we understand that political calls are legal. We just note who made them and who not to vote for.
I M LDS 2 Provo, UTNov. 1, 2012 3:37 p.m.
Some readers need to lighten up... big time!
The pancake idea is a great way to apologize for an accident.
Howell has some class. It won't win my vote, but at least I'm not as wacky uptight as some Republicans on here.
alternate Salt Lake City, UTNov. 1, 2012 3:09 p.m.
Frankly, the calls should have never been setup in the first place. Mr Pugmire should trace everyone of the calls and personlly knock on the door and beg for forgiveness.
Robo phones, millions of dollars of trash mail and other advertising. Elections gone bad!!
funkonaut Salt Lake City, UTNov. 1, 2012 2:56 p.m.
Why is a Utah candidate for the US Senate using a New York company to place robocalls? Why doesn't he use his "grassroots" effort to get out the vote in his state? Why can't his campaign spend his money here in Utah instead of outsourcing it to another economy? Thanks for the pancake offer, Ho"We"ll, but we're not interested.
(Also, what's with his slogan, "End the political gridlock in Washington"? How is adding another liberal to an already liberal majority in the Senate going to end the gridlock that the liberals have put in place? They haven't even passed a budget in over 3 years. And not a single liberal in the Senate has voted for any of Obama's budgets! His slogan makes no sense whatsoever.)


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The last time Adombusiness asked the Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah about the Subah saga he said "this is purely an operational matter between GRA (Ghana Revenue Authority) and the telcos so go to GRA."
But a letter intercepted by Adombusiness indicate that the Minister is now seeking to understand the Subah saga after the release of the 'shambolic' Committee Report, which has come under heavy criticism since its release.
The letter, dated May 12, 2015 was from Ghana Chamber of Telecoms. It provides the background to the Subah issue. It states in the first paragraph that the minister requested to be better informed about the issues, months after it has been out in the public domain.
We hereby publish the full details of the letter, which provides the minister with the background to the Subah saga he requested for.
Ref: GCT/MOC/14/345
12thMay 2014
The Honorable Minister
Ministry of Communications
ATTN: Hon. Dr. E. Omane-Boamah
Dear Honourable Minister,
Following discussions at the closed-door Stakeholders' Meeting on May 2, 2014, and your request to be better informed on this subject by network operators, kindly find below a fact sheet for your information, please:
1. Mobile Network Operators were first introduced to Subah Infosolutions by a letter from Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) dated October 28, 2013. The letter, as attached, was addressed individually to operators and copied to the Chamber. (A copy is attached herewith.)
2. Subah Infosolutions had never previously approached any of our members with a request to install any equipment on their networks for any purpose whatsoever until November 2013.
3. No court action involving Subah has ever been initiated by any of our members, whether individually or collectively as a Chamber. However, on June 15, 2010, the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG)applied for an injunction (Suit Number HRCM/82/10) at the Human Rights Court against the installation of monitoring equipment by Global Voice Group (GVG)on the networks of mobile phone operators for purposes of monitoring international traffic, citing a potential threat to the privacy of subscribers. Mobile network operators were not the complainants. They were respondents, together with the National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Attorney-General's Department. AFAG subsequently discontinued the application on July 8,2010.
4. On July 19, 2010, three private citizens filed another application (HRCM/113/10) at the Human Rights Court for an injunction to prevent the installation of monitoring equipment by GVG,with the same respo~dents as listed above in the earlier suit.
5. None of our members have ever been challenged for under-declaring CSTrevenues, based on audits by Subah. Telcos had never had to deal or work with Subah under any circumstance until November 2013.
6. Increases in Communication Service Tax (CST) which, according to GRA,went up from GHC19 to GHC40 million per month on average between 2010 and October 2013 has been due to the growth in usage, as a result of the increase in the number of subscribers (approx. 7 million in 2007; 17 million in 2010; 27.5 million by October 2013).
7. Members of the Chamber are subject to thorough audits by GRA,and these have been carried out manually and regularly on site.
8. Members of the Chamber are currently co-operating with GRA and Subah Infosolutions to ensure compliance with the CST (Amendment) Act, 2013 (Act 864). A copy of the latest status report on telcos' engagement with GRA and Subah is enclosed for your information.
We hope that this background will help to provide the necessary clarification on this matter.
Please accept, Sir, the assurances of our highest esteem
Kwaku Sakyi-Addo
Chief Executive Officer.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero welcomed the move but emphasized that rebuilding the peace process would take time.
"The position of the government is one of caution and prudence. After so many years of horror and terror, it will be a long and difficult process," Zapatero said in an address to the parliament.
Three members of ETA, dressed in black suits with white hoods and black berets, announced the cease-fire on Spanish state television. A woman seated in the center of the group said, "ETA has decided to declare a permanent cease-fire from March 24, 2006. … The aim of [the cease-fire] is to promote a democratic process in the Basque country and to build a new framework in which our rights as a people will be recognized."
She called on the Spanish and French governments to "respond positively" to the cease-fire.
ETA, which stands for Euskadi ta Askatasuna or "Basque Fatherland and Liberty", is the most active group fighting for independence for the culturally and linguistically independent Basque region that is part of northern Spain and southwest France.
Bombings in the past have targeted members of parliament, judges, journalists, police officers, philosophers and intellectuals, business leaders and Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973.
ETA, labeled a terrorist organization by the United Nations and the United States, broke two cease-fires in the 1990s but many believe this latest effort may be different, coming nearly two years after al-Qaida terrorists killed 180 in a commuter train bombing.
The bombing contributed to the Socialist Party takeover of the parliament and hardened the sympathies of the Spanish public toward the Basque separatists, who had not carried out a lethal attack since a car bomb in 2003 took the lives of two police officers.
ETA attacks since May 2003 have been infrequent, mostly confined to small non-lethal bombings used to extort Spanish-owned businesses.


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St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church was founded in 1991. At that time, Fr. David Moser moved into the Boise area with the blessing of Archbishop Alypy of Chicago and the Midwest. Although the move was necessitated by secular employment, Archbishop Alypy had also given a blessing to begin a new mission in Boise, Idaho. It was determined that Idaho was more properly within the Diocese of Western America under Archbishop Anthony of San Francisco. Archbishop Anthony confirmed the blessing of Archbishop Alypy for the founding of the mission.
Although there was already a well established Greek parish in the city, within a few weeks a small group of Orthodox Christians desiring a parish in the Russian tradition had gathered together and formed the nucleus of the new mission. This group, comprised of both Russians and Americans, dedicated their new mission to St. Seraphim the Wonderworker of Sarov. Our first liturgy was Aug. 4 1991, the Sunday after the summer feast of St. Seraphim, which became our parish altar feast.
At first we met in a private home, setting up a chapel in the living room every weekend. After about 6 months we were in a position to find a permanent home. After looking at a number of properties, we made an offer on a house near downtown that could be remodeled into a Church on one side and a hall on the other. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until the last minute when we discovered that a firewall would have to be built on one side of the house as it was too close to the neighbor. This added expense meant that we would be unable to purchase the building and so the offer was retracted. Later that same day, however, another building which had been built as a church by a protestant group came up for sale. It was just what we needed – still centrally located with parking already established and a zoning variation in place. To top it off the price was very reasonable and the former congregation (which had just built a new building) seemed willing to carry the loan until we could work out a regular mortgage. In the process of getting approval for this arrangement, they discovered that this would not be possible, and so to "make up" for losing this part of the deal, they offered to drop the price by $10,000. Glory to God! A bank was found that was willing to take a chance on a new, small Church and the building was ours.
Like many new missions, St. Seraphim's went through a series of ups and downs, starting with a "bang" and then dwindling to just a few. Growing again, the parish would thrive and then again go through a period of shrinking, but overall always gaining a few here and a few there – just enough to keep the doors open. Through the prayers of St. Seraphim, the core of the mission continued to grow and God provided all that we needed.
Because it had formerly been a protestant church, our building was completely unadorned – in fact one of our parishioners remarked that it looked like someone's living room. The first order of business was to construct a temporary iconostasis and altar which was done just before Holy Week and Pascha 1992. Our first Pascha as a parish was held in our own Church building. Over the years we continued to remodel, recovering and leveling the floor, redoing the interior walls, refining the iconostasis - eventually a beautiful red oak iconostasis with handpainted icons from Archpriest Theodore Jurewicz was installed to replace our original painted plywood structure. One of the founding parishioners had studied iconography at the Valaam monastery in Finland and offered to provide not only icons for our first iconostasis, but also frescos for the east and west walls. Over the years the Church that looked like "somebody's living room" has become a beautiful little Orthodox temple.
In 2000, Fr. John McCuen moved to Boise with his family to serve as our deacon. The McCuen family was a great addition to the parish with Fr. John serving in the altar and his daughters singing in the choir. This blessing was limited though and in 2002, Fr. John was ordained to the priesthood in order to take over a vacant parish in Arizona where he has been successful in pastoring a thriving mission parish there. St. Seraphim did not leave us shorthanded. Just about the time Fr. John left us, Fr. Luke Huggins moved to Boise from Alaska. Fr. Luke was received into the diocese by Archbishop Kyrill and assigned as the second priest for our parish. Fr. Luke served the parish until 2006 when he transferred to St. Juliana's parish in Sante Fe as the new rector there.
In 2005, St. Seraphim's put on our first Russian Food Festival. We started small, selling frozen pelmeni and borscht from the lobby of the Church building. Every year the festival grew and grew so that it now occupies the entire Church parking lot which is covered by tents. The festival offers not only frozen food to take home but hot food to eat there and a wide assortment of gift items. After only 6 years the festival has become a regular fixture in the Boise community events calendar.
The year 2011 brought about our 20th anniversary from the founding of the parish. Our rector, Archpriest David Moser also celebrated the 30th anniversary of his ordination to the diaconate. This double festival provided ample opportunities for celebrations and festivities. From here we can look back and see how far we have come with St. Seraphim's help, and look ahead to see where he will take us in the future.
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One great New Yorker cover…and the three rejects that come with it
The timely cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker celebrates President Obama's decision to make a very public stand in favor of gay marriage which he believed was important for him to "go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married." I think its long been clear which side SUNfiltered falls on this debate, which in my mind shouldn't even be a debate in the same way interracial marriage is no longer an issue. Bob Staake, the artist who created this cover remarked:
I am honored to be doing this cover. It's a celebratory moment for our country, and that's what I tried to capture. (I don't especially like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them.) I wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President's statement—a statement long overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the right side of history."
Cue Bob Marley's "One Love."
For every one New Yorker cover, there are more that are rejected for a variety of reasons. In a new book, the magazine's art editor Françoise Mouly leads a tour through the graveyard of rejected New Yorker covers. One reason that some of them are surprisingly risque is a result of Mouly's direction to the artists "to not hold anything back in their sketches." Check on this fascinating Q&A with the editor for an insight into the process of selecting the covers as well as examples of past rejected concepts and illustrations. Here are a few:
"When The New Yorker passed on this Art Spiegelman sketch from 1993, he and Mouly used it as their Christmas card instead."
"Barry Blitt drew candidate Palin brushing up on her political reading."
"In the wake of the 1997 assault of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, by white NYPD officers, Harry Bliss sketched then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's paranoid psyche."


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It is never easy to know which way a price is going to go with regards to a certain horse in Horse Racing as there are so many factors that govern price movement. The bookmakers, betting exchange traders and betting public will all be having an effect on price movements. As will the racing press as well as respected sources like the televised racing channels for example.
It is vital that you try and take the best available price if you are thinking of backing a horse and that you are even prepared to not have a bet at all if you do not think the price is right. The problem here is in trying to identify what is and what isn't a correct price and this isn't easy. But let us take two punters who both back the same horses and will call them Bob and John.
They each get five winners and five losers because they backed the same horses. But out of the five winners, John managed to bet 9/4 while Bob took the first price that came and that was 2/1. They each wagered ÂŁ100 on the their respective horses. After 10 races Bob was ahead by ÂŁ500 which takes into account his ÂŁ1000 profit on his five winning horses less his ÂŁ500 loss on his five losing horses which gives us a net profit of ÂŁ500.
But John is ahead by £625 simply because he got on at better prices. They were both betting on track and Bob bet straight away when the market opened and took the 2/1 on offer. John on the other hand had been watching the early market movement on the exchanges and seen this horse fall hugely in price. He didn't expect any more downward movement and so was expecting it to drift through a lack of interest at the opening 2/1.
So he waited and watched the price rise to 9/4 and it then touched 5/2. He was hoping that it would reach 11/4 but it came back down to 9/4 instead and he stepped in at that price before it came back down to where it had opened up at which was 2/1. So by being prepared, John had obtained a better price than Bob simply by watching the betting market beforehand and getting 9/4 instead of 2/1.
It is imperative that you try and obtain the best possible price that you can when you place any bet as your long term chances of survival basically depend on it. This is what the overwhelming majority of novice punters fail to do, they are so thrilled to be at the racecourse and betting that they simply take whatever price is on offer at the time.
It is easy for the bookmakers to make money from these people as they are unsophisticated in their betting and will take any price. It is for this same reason though that bookmakers need to be very cognizant of price movements within the market otherwise they will be swamped with liabilities that they really do not want or can afford.


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.- The president of the NGO Pro-Vida, Roberto Castellano, warned that what happened this week in Uruguay, where the Senate legalized abortion, confirms the existence of a strategy to establish an organized agenda against human life in Latin America.
According to Castellano, the case of Uruguay—added to similar episodes in other countries—"reveals that at the regional level there is concerted and systematic pressure to impose an agenda against human life based on the promotion of contraception, the liberalization of abortion, surgical sterilization and the dismantling of the traditional family composed of a man and a woman by making same-sex unions equivalent to marriage."
"To what has occurred in Uruguay we must add local projects with the same purpose: the legalization ordered by the courts in Colombia, as well as the law recently approved—by a narrow margin—in Mexico City," Castellano said.
He also recalled that in Chile the government has made it "official policy to force pharmacies to sell the morning-after abortion pill, as is the case in our country. Similar initiatives to those of Uruguay exist in Paraguay, and recently Brazil's president Ignacio Lula Da Silva has expressed his intention to advance the recognition of legal abortion despite public acceptance of the practice being at historic lows."
Castellano said proof of the international anti-life strategy can be seen from "the presence and pressure that the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) carried out for such purposes in Uruguay recently as well as the assistance that the Ford Foundation has given to pro-abortion groups."
"The statements made by Giselle Carino, director of IPPF's 'Safe abortion Division' about the Senate's decision are public. The IPPF has central offices in New York and London and is the main provider of abortions worldwide through its network of abortion clinics," he added.
Castellano said anti-life policies are explained by the need of international centers of power to control demographic growth, "especially in areas of the world that are rich in prime materials and burdened with heavy debt. Thus these centers ensure two things: the supplying of the resources they need and the payment of external debt [creating]… the need for social investment to reduce the regional fertility index," he said.
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.- The president of the NGO Pro-Vida, Roberto Castellano, warned that what happened this week in Uruguay, where the Senate legalized abortion, confirms the existence of a strategy to establish an organized agenda against human life in Latin America.


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On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against North Carolina's new voter suppression law. According to DOJ, the law violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 by discriminating against minorities.
Last week, the League of Women Voters joined fellow civil rights groups and activists from across the country in gathering at the Lincoln Memorial for the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1963 March on Washington.
North Carolina Politicians Target College Students' Right to Vote
League of Women Voters Calls on Department of Justice and Congress to Act without Delay
On Monday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed the most suppressive voting law in decades.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This guest blog post was written by Nelda Holder, a board member of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina.
This week, both the Senate and House of Representatives held hearings to discuss the future of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Late last month, the U.S.
In its ruling on Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court erased fundamental protections against racial discrimination in voting that have been critical in protecting our democracy for more than four decades.
Editorial Note: This blog post is written by Andrea Kaminski, Executive Director, League of Women Voters of Wisconsin.
Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau came out with its much-anticipated data regarding voter participation in Election 2012. See the data set here.
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Thirty seconds into the first track, and I find myself reaching for the CD case to make sure I had not mistakenly hit Play for a Yngwie Malmsteen CD - alas, no mistake made; it's not Yngwie, but I forgave myself very quickly for thinking so. The US band The Reign of Terror may well be familiar to guitar shred fans, but were, until this here CD "Sacred Ground", released in 2001, not on my radar.
Instead of Yngwie doing the mad shredding, the axe wielder in this band is Joe Stump. We have 12 tracks, and two of them are the requisite instrumentals (guitar and keyboard atmospherics in one, acoustic guitar for the other); on the other ten tracks Joe Stump is backed by his band (vocals, bass, drums, keyboards). The other reason for my earlier mistake became clear after looking up this factoid: the vocalist here, one Michael Vescera, has in the past performed the same duties for none other than Mr. Malmsteen.
To be honest, while I occasionally enjoy this kind of music, it is not my favorite genre - there is just too much super-fast guitar noodling, which, while certainly impressive, also tends to become monotonous after about 5 tracks. The song structures are also similar enough to make the songs quickly blend into each other. "The Unknown" was the only song that made me look up the song title - the others were all one big morass of guitar-overloaded metal.
If you're into this kind of metal in the first place, you will certainly enjoy this CD - I'll keep it handy if I feel the need for maximum notes-per-minute metal.


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Facing your mortality after a deadly-force incident
One police officer's 5 lessons learned from a harrowing "triple whammy" incident in Hillsboro (Ore.)
When Shawn Schumacher's roommate came home one Thursday last November, Schumacher peppered him with a barrage of questions that just "weren't normal," the young man later told detectives from the Hillsboro (Ore.) PD.
"Did you see the secret police outside?" Schumacher demanded to know.
"Did you see the little green gargoyles on the wall?" Schumacher asked.
"Did you survive it?!" Schumacher exclaimed.
Too, too weird, the roommate concluded. He hurried to his room, locked the door, and shoved his dresser in front of it. He was scared for his safety, he said later, because he knew Schumacher had at least one gun in the house — a .50-cal. Desert Eagle, so powerful that it "rocked him back" when he fired it.
The next morning, Schumacher seemed "relaxed but jittery." His eyes were "extremely dilated and he was very alert." The roommate asked if he was going to work. "I don't have to work anymore," replied Schumacher, a meat cutter.
"Why, did you win the lottery or something?"
Schumacher said, "Just wait and see..."
Shots Fired
The next day at nearly 1330 hours, Officer Kurt Van Meter, 34, an 11-year street veteran and force-and-tactics instructor, was patrolling westbound on the main drag through Hillsboro's busy downtown commercial district when he heard a sergeant come on the air and blurt that he'd heard six shots fired in the general vicinity of their department's West Precinct headquarters, just a few blocks east of Van Meter's 10-20.
Van Meter whipped his car around and sped toward the gunfire. He was heading, he soon discovered, right into a triple whammy: an ongoing active shooting, a hazardous high-speed pursuit, and, ultimately, a fatal officer-involved gunfight. "Any one of those alone could be considered a critical incident," he recently told PoliceOne.
He believes that the harrowing experience — including its aftermath — drove home invaluable "lessons learned" that he feels are important to share with officers and agencies everywhere.
As investigators were able to reconstruct events, the ordeal began when 28-year-old Shawn Schumacher, shirtless and barefoot despite the chilly weather and driving a northbound green 1997 Honda Civic, rammed into a pickup truck in heavy traffic two blocks south of the police station. He backed up with a squeal of tires and smashed into two other cars. Then he angrily and randomly started pumping .50-cal. rounds from his Desert Eagle semi-auto into vehicles around him.
A middle-aged HVAC repairman, riding as a passenger in a Mazda hatchback traveling in the opposite direction, was hit in the head and killed. Still shooting, Schumacher tore off, weaving crazily through traffic.
Sgt. Matt Shannon, chatting with Detective Becca Venable in the precinct station parking lot, heard the gunfire and called out the initial "shots fired" report that activated Van Meter. Officer Daniel Mace, who happened to be driving near the intersection of the crashes, heard the shots too and took off after the Honda.
Mace barked a description of the vehicle and the route of the chase into his radio. But unknown to him at that moment his messages were not generally heard. In the sudden excitement, he'd neglected to switch back to the department's open channel from the limited car-to-car channel he was talking on when the shootings erupted.
As he responded to the sergeant's call, Van Meter saw a speeding Honda flash past an intersection, followed by Mace's unit rolling Code 3. "The driver had his arm out the window firing at Mace, so the situation was pretty clear," Van Meter says, even though he wasn't receiving what Mace was urgently describing. "Every fiber of my being wanted to be there for him." Hauling ass, he joined the pursuit, along with Venable, who raced from the police station to catch up.
"The suspect was shooting back at us, and my pulse rate was through the roof," Van Meter says. "I started combat-breathing in an attempt to relax. I wanted to be extra calm on the radio to help keep other officers well-grounded, not sounding like al-Qaeda having a seizure."
High-Speed Chase
As the chase ripped at 70-80 mph against lights and through "the busiest part of Hillsboro," a Portland suburb with a population of some 90,000 people, "two overwhelming thoughts seized my mind," Van Meter recalls. He remembered that his son's eighth birthday was just two days away. And he flashed back to four years earlier when he'd been T-boned by a mini-van while clearing an intersection on a hot call (that time, injuries kept him off-duty for nine months).
Now there was the added risk that the suspect's continuing wild shooting would hit one or more of his pursuers, or civilian drivers and pedestrians he erratically fired at along the way as he sideswiped and bounced off of other traffic. Van Meter scooted low in his seat, trying to keep his eyes on things through his steering wheel and broadcast a running commentary as speeds zoomed close to 100 mph. "He was flying," Van Meter says. "Some of the holes in traffic we were weaving through were absolutely insane. But we felt we had to stop this guy."
The perilous chase ended outside Hillsboro's jurisdiction, about 8 minutes after it began — "8 minutes of pretty scary shit," as Van Meter puts it. In the small community of Cornelius, three miles west of Hillsboro, Schumacher, "driving recklessly and passing vehicles dangerously," collided with a Ford van he was attempting to overtake on the right in a sea of heavy traffic. His Honda veered into a curb. The impact knocked the left front wheel off its axle, and knocked Schumacher unconscious.
The pileup happened to occur at the intersection where the Cornelius Police Department is located. And a deputy with the Washington County Sheriff's Office, Daniel Charter, just happened to be stopped at that intersection in his patrol car.
"Cornelius and the Sheriff's Office don't share our communications channel," Van Meter says, "so the deputy had no clue what was really happening. He rolled up within about a foot of the Honda's bumper, thinking he was going to do an everyday crash report." Two Cornelius officers exiting the PD, Bill Russell and Craig Wellhouser, ran toward the scene as well. Almost simultaneously the pursuing Hillsboro units skidded up. Deafeningly loud rock music was blaring from the suspect vehicle.
Tombstone, Oregon
Suddenly, Schumacher came to life. "He jumped out of the Honda with the silver .50-calibre Desert Eagle in one hand and a black .45-caliber Desert Eagle in the other," says Van Meter. "He walked up to Deputy Charter, who was still in his car, and fired two shots at him at point-blank range. By some miracle, he missed. One round went just past Charter's chest and lodged in the seat. The second hit the roll bar on the passenger side.
"He started walking down the middle of the street like Tombstone, shooting both guns. One round grazed the top of Wellhouser's head. I remember seeing the suspect point one gun toward me. Things got really cloudy.
"I came up to shoot him and just as I was about to squeeze the trigger, a blurry patch of grey flashed in front of me. Thank God my brain picked up on that in time. It was Dan Charter's uniform."
Van Meter held his fire, but Charter and the two Cornelius officers had an unobstructed target. "They all opened fire at once," says Van Meter, who was less than ten feet away. "With nine rounds, they hit him eight times. He went down, twitching, and didn't get up. A chunk of his head had been blown out."
Amazingly, aside from the one mortally wounded victim, there were no casualties reported from Schumacher's marathon fusillade. Van Meter estimates he may have fired up to 100 rounds.
His motive for the violent spree has not been established. Detectives searching his residence found a makeshift lab and other evidence that he was a user of mescaline, a powerful hallucinogen extracted from peyote cactus and usually associated with "spiritual quests." It's believed he may have experienced excited delirium, which is frequently associated with illegal drug abuse. He was wearing only a pair of camouflage shorts and driving with his windows down despite inclement weather, suggesting that his body may have been over-heated, a physical phenomenon typical of EDPs.
Van Meter's Five Tips
Reflecting back on the encounter and its emotional impact, Van Meter offers these suggestions for other LEOs and departments:
1. As an agency or a single fellow officer, show compassion. Quickly after the shooting, Hillsboro PD, headed by Chief Lila Ashenbrenner, rented a hotel room for officers who'd been involved in the chase and its deadly climax. "They had pizza for us and grief counselors — guys who'd been through traumatic incidents. That was huge," Van Meter says. One of his fellow trainers, Officer Jeff Branson, "showed up and just stood beside me, not even talking really. It was so comforting just to have someone there that I respected."
Later the department hosted a candid, multi-agency debriefing for all involved officers and mandated a confidential visit with a police psychologist for those from Hillsboro. "The department said we had to see the shrink but we didn't have to talk to her once we got there," Van Meter explains. "To be released from any obligation to talk made you want to talk, to be heard about what you were feeling and not be judged."
2. Counsel with others who've "been there." Van Meter's first phone calls were to his father and an uncle, both of whom survived shootings during careers in law enforcement. They talked about potential emotional and physical reactions, "not what I would feel necessarily but what they experienced after their incidents."
Both mentioned bad dreams, among other things. When Van Meter subsequently had nightmares of his own, including one in which he was relentlessly fired upon by four fellow officers during a call for service, he was better able to accept them as part of a normal brain/body readjustment from his adrenalin-fueled, life-threatening ordeal.
"You need someone you can reach out to 24/7 who understands what you're going through," he says. "One night a diaper commercial that showed babies peacefully sleeping came on TV and I just lost it. I'm a tough country kid, a bull rider! The first rule of rodeo is 'If it hurts, hide it.' But I couldn't stop bawling. My two little boys are my life, and that ad touched some raw nerve. I needed somebody I could call right then who would listen and convince me I wasn't going crazy."
He strongly recommends studying about body/brain reactions during and after massive stress before you are in a critical incident. "My dad's motto for survival has always been 'See it before it happens.' The more you understand beforehand, the better you can deal with it."
3. Revisit the event. After two weeks off, Van Meter was told to "ease back into the job" by riding his first shift back with a partner. He rode with Branson. "The first thing we did was retrace the path of the pursuit — a tremendous revelation." There were whole sections of the route that he didn't remember, and at the shootout scene distances as he recalled them "in my mind's eye" were radically different than they proved to be in reality. "That's the sort of discrepancy some attorney can tee off on later and to challenge your credibility," Van Meter says.
With the help of his training buddies, he also "revisited" the shootout itself one day, via a scenario reconstruction. "I felt such frustration because I hadn't been able to shoot the suspect," he explains. "He'd tried to kill me, and someone else gets to shoot him? I absolutely wanted to take him out myself! That may not be what society and the media want to hear, but it's how I felt. I had a need to finish the job."
At an unpopulated 15-acre warehouse site they had access to, Van Meter and the other trainers conducted a mock pursuit. A fellow officer played the suspect, "shooting" back from a "fleeing" car, while Van Meter chased in another vehicle, driving "under the steering wheel" just as he had in the real occurrence. "My emotional brain was right back there again,' he says. But this time when the suspect launched his final face-off, Van Meter put him down. "You'd be surprised at the psychological closure that gave me," he says.
4. Pursue non-cop passions. "You need interests that get you away from police work and especially from the critical incident you've been through," Van Meter says. For him, it's a burgeoning side-career as a country singer and songwriter.
"About the only thing I have left from my ex-wife is a guitar she bought me," he says. He'd fooled around a bit with amateur jam sessions at a local bar, then several months before the pursuit he started taking music more seriously, writing as well as picking. Since then, it's been a welcome way to clear his mind and escape for awhile to a totally different world. One tune he wrote and sang, "Daddy's Song," has gotten radio air time; another, "I Work with Heroes," is a tip of the hat to his profession, and he's working on getting an album together.
5. Face your mortality. "Any critical incident is a life-changing experience," Van Meter says. "I don't know that you ever get over it completely. It forces you to face the fact that you could die doing this job.
"That's a harsh reality. But once you really come to terms with that — and accept it — you gain a confidence that few civilians ever know," Van Meter concludes.
"I don't want to run toward gunfire. I don't want to shoot people. But if I have to, I know I will."


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Last week we did a piece where we took a bunch of articles that barely qualified as news and heaped them onto a single platter, calling it our End-Of-The-Week Garbage Plate. We even took the painstaking measure of the ingredients up on Wikipedia, in hopes of honoring the traditional dish with one hundred percent accuracy. Alas, the good people of Rochester, home to the renowned delicacy, have spoken out, letting us know that some of the ingredients were, in fact, incorrect. Well, at least two men, Eric and Michael, did. So here, with the omission of mustard sauce and sausage, is an all new installment of our End-Of-The-Week Garbage Plate. (I'm actually happy to leave those ingredients out since it was such slow news week at E!. I mean, only two women wore "shorts so short you can see almost everything.")
Ground beef: Someone wore a crop-top similar to one once worn by Kim Kardashian, but not exactly like it.
Macaroni salad: Taylor Swift got a haircut, but nothing too extreme.
Baked beans: E! Online thinks Google's Valentine's Day logos are so adorable that you should visit their web site instead.
Onions: Bethenny Frankel broke the news about losing her virginity roughly twenty-five years after the fact.
Home fries: According to someone in this building, there are exactly eight reasons to be happy that this dog won a dog show.
Egg: Mariah Carey will receive attention, and this time on Valentine's Day!
I looked up this place in Rochester called Nick Tahou Hots and, supposedly, they serve it with egg. Let me know what you think. And probably let Joey (below) know, too, when he's not licking Dorito shell taco crumbs off his car seat.


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Is It Okay To Like Azealia Banks' Strokes Cover Or Are We Still Mad At Her For Saying The F-Word?
Between all her various feuds and controversies, it's easy to forget that Azealia Banks is first and foremost a recording artist, but she is. And today, she reminded us of that fact by releasing a new song. A cover of The Strokes' "Barely Legal" off their seminal 2001 album Is This It, to be exact. Listen to it here:
She makes the song her own by singing it in her trademark style, and it oozes with that ineffably cool quality that made her a blog darling in the first place. (The Strokes X Azealia Banks = exponential coolness explosion.) Which makes me wonder: are we over her little f-word episode enough to enjoy this single with a clean conscience?
Here's the thing: I do not believe Azealia Banks to be a homophobe. I just think that she, like the dudes of Odd Future, has decided to vocally disagree with the common liberal tenet that "words matter." I think she really has thought about this, and I think she has come to the wrong conclusion. No one who is not a gay man is allowed to repurpose the word "faggot." However, I do believe she hit upon some essential liberal hypocrisies by pointing out that some offensive words are tolerated, while others are not.
I also think this whole thing is the result of a performer appearing to share some of the liberal blogosphere's values (she's smart, seemingly gay friendly, and progressive, and also, she likes indie rock!) but not others (politically correct language). You don't hear people getting on Lil' Wayne for calling women bitches and hoes, and that's because they never thought he was "one of us" to begin with. If you think I am implying the liberal blogosphere to be tacitly elitist in ways that have to do with class, race, and social capital, you are correct.
In the end, I had a similar reaction to Azealia's f-word debacle to many, but I'm willing to look at the reaction in a critical way than some and concede that it might also have revealed some of my own shortcomings. Which is all to say: the new single is great, I will keep listening to Azealia's music until she gives me a real reason not to.
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Aquacraft Mini Alligator Tours Brushless Motor Conversion
Link to the Air boat on Tower website
The motor is a Power Up 400 Zoom from Heads Up RC. Nice thing about this motor is that it is inexpensive and it fits inside the stock motor mount. This makes the conversion so easy! All I had to do to the stock mount was "turn it around" and drill out two holes to match the motor mount holes. EASY! I used all the stock hardware except that which came with the motor (prop adapter, etc.), and some hex head screws for the motor mount.
The ESC is a large 40 Amp Turnigy Plush that I had lying around. I attached it to the side motor mount rail to make more room in the "battery compartment". The ESC ends are sealed to prevent water form entering the ESC.
ESC Update June 2016: Had a spare Thunderbird 18 ESC so I removed the 40A Turnigy. I was able to place this new ESC in the small space starboard of the rudder servo. Now the wiring and boat look so much better!
I also replaced the plastic cage, bit pricey, but think about how much it would cost to make one yourself.
== End of Update ==
The receiver is an OrangeRx R610 from Hobbyking.
2S gives a nice "beginners" speed, and 3S is very fast. The motor is capable of handling both. I bought a EMP 5x5 prop with the motor, I want to compare it to a APC should the prop I have now fail. APC has a 5.25x4.75 Electric Propeller I will try.
I programmed my transmitter ( I use an aircraft transmitter) so that both the rudder and aileron sticks turn the boat.
Power Figures:
Power Up 400 Zoom, EMP 5x5 prop, Plush 40A ESC
2S 1300mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 8.36v
Volts: 7.86v
Amps: 9.74A
Watts: 76.9W
3S 1300 mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 12.52v
Volts: 11.37V
Amps: 17.76A
Watts: 204.0W (WOW!!) She rips. Stays cool too, the ESC is not even warm, the motor does get a bit warm though, still within specs.
Update November 2014: Finally broke a prop, so I tried the APC 5.25x4.74 prop
2S 1300mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 8.34v
Volts: 7.93v
Amps: 11.03A
Watts: 88.0W
3S 1300 mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 12.58v
Volts: 11.40V
Amps: 19.40A
Watts: 223.2W
HobbyKing Swamp Dawg Airboat
Link to the Air boat on HobbyKing website
First thing, throw out the stock plastic servo mount/compartment divider. I don't know what the hell the designer was thinking. I also moved the servo to a location that would give excellent compartment room for the battery.
The stock motor is not very powerful. The stock prop hub is slightly out of balance. The motor mount also started to wobble soon after the boats first run. The screws on the mount are tight, but the socket mount is just a bad way to mount a motor. I have a Turnigy D2826-6 2200kv Outrunner Motor that I am replacing the stock motor with. The motor mount that comes with the motor will fit the stock motor mount arms (see image below). This will work well as long as you don't "slap" the boat around too much. If you do have to go nuts, I would fabricate a mount that will support the motor from all four mounting points.
The ESC ends are sealed to prevent water from entering the ESC.
The receiver is an OrangeRx R610 from Hobbyking.
The transmitter has been programmed so that both the rudder and aileron sticks turn the boat.
Image 8 you can see a water boot that was added to fix a very poor design flaw. How was the push-rod supposed to move smoothly through a fitted hole?
The seal around the outer edge of the boat hull came off almost immediately. The plastic is a hard one to adhere anything to. Fortunately, the hull is a two piece design that is attached with screws. I used a silicone sealant on the inside upper hull, that way, the sealant is held in place clamped between both hull pieces, instead of just applied on the outside like the manufacturer did. Oh, make sure you replace the stock scres with stainless steel screws, my screws started to rust almost immediately.
Power Figures: Stock motor and prop (5.5") with Uranus 18A ESC
2S 1300mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 8.34v
Volts: 7.81v
Amps: 10.20A
Power Figures: Turnigy D2826-6 2200kv motor and EMP 5x5E prop with Uranus 18A ESC
2S 1300mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 8.25v (not fully charged, but good enough for this read)
Volts: 7.79v
Amps: 10.97A
Watts: 85.5W
I tried the Turnigy D2826-6 2200kv Outrunner Motor with 3S:
Uranus 18A ESC
3S 1300mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 12.53v (not fully charged, but good enough for this read)
Volts: 11.23v
Amps: 19.00A
Watts: 214.5W
I will be using 2S for now because of the 18A rating of the ESC. A 30A or 40A ESC would allow 3S.
Update November 2014: Finally broke a prop, so I tried the APC 5.25x4.74 prop
Turnigy D2826-6 2200kv motor, 18A ESC,
2S 1300mAh Lipo:
Initial Battery Voltage: 8.38v
Volts: 7.93v
Amps: 11.61A
Watts: 92.6W
Turnigy D2826-6 2200kv Outrunner Motor Specs (From Turnigy)
Model D2826/6
Volts: 7.4-11.1v
Max Pull: 960g (2.1 pounds)
Weight: 50g
Shaft size: 3.175mm (1/8")
Max Power: 342W
Battery/Prop: 2S 7x4 prop, 3S 7x3 prop
Last edited by nioa; Jun 27, 2016 at 04:54 PM. Reason: Updates
My first airboat, as you can see I used 2 different kits 2 make my boat.
Thanks for all this info.
I recently purchased the same motor you upgraded to (for the Swamp Dawg) & noticed it is quite a bit heavier. I am concerned about tip-over in turns because of the added weight that high up. What has your experience been? Have you also found it to be tail-heavy?
Also, what prop did you find to be best for this application?
The slight extra motor weight doesn't really seem to affect the balance of the boat. I am not trying to race or push things too much so I'm satisfied with the stability. I can move my balance point around by moving the battery since I have set the compartment up to be roomy. No issues.
I am still using the prop in the article. I have not had much need to change it.
The Swamp Dawg is a fine little boat, but I do like the Aquacraft better, it has more stability and I can really jerk it around better when the mood hits.
HobbyKing Swamp Dawg Airboat MODIFIED
Hi Nioa, great job!
Please, could you tell us if is suitable, for "Turnigy D2826-6 2200kv Outrunner Motor Specs (From Turnigy)", a 3 blade prop (7x3,5) like this: http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...arehouse_.html ?
Many thanks!
I purchased a Swampi as well and it is a blast. I love it.
New Pics from today. Swamp Dawg with Decals in crystal clear water. Running videos coming soon.
I have a question maybe one of you can help me with. I converted my mini alligator to brushless with a futaba 3prk a Tx and Rx . I started with a 40 a esc rom a walkera heli. It all worked great the only issue was that the walkera esc is not programmable so I can not cancel the brake function.
I bought a Hobby Wing Pentium 40a esc( I already had the programing card) I soldered all the ends on and plugged the 3 wire throttle lead into the slot on the card an plugged in a battery and nothing. No tones form the esc and no lights came on, on the programming card. Next I attached the 3 wires to the motor and tried again. This time the esc made the correct tones to signal connection but still no lights on the program card and no further functions at all.
What am I doing wrong? I have used HW esc on helis and no problems at all. The card has always worked in the past as well. I am stumped and dry docked.
Here is my newest vid: Swampi with Onboard Camera
Last edited by Stereodreieck; Jun 29, 2015 at 09:04 AM.
Alligator Tour Mods
From an OE boat, I replaced motor with Traxxas Titan 380 18 Turn Brushed Motor. Added heat sink. Added three LED Light bar. Added 3 volt Running lights (Port & Starboard). Added rear flashing red position light and mast. Added 3 volt coin cell to control all with individual on/off switches. Using 7.4V 1300mah battery for power to motor.
I have ordered the APC 5.25x4.74 prop.
I'll be taking it to the pond tonight for a run,
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Windows 7 drivers for Realtek RTL8139 ethernet
I have installed Windows 7 32 bit to a Sylvania G Netbook, and am overall very pleased. Most devices work well, and Windows 7 seems to run stable, and reasonably quick.
There is one nagging problem with the above referenced ethernet driver (RTL8139). Using the newest drivers posted by Realtek (as of Nov 15, 2009) the drivers install, but the status of the driver is "code 31", and it does not work. Rebooting does not help.
Drivers posted here:
Another thing that strikes me as odd, is that until I install the driver, it does not show up in Device Manager. In the past, even unsupported devices would be detected, and would show up in Device Manager as "Unknown Device" until the drivers were installed.
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VIA C7-M processor
VIA chipset (CX700 I think)
VIA HD Audio
VIA S3 Unichrome Pro II IGP display
Realtek RTL8139 ethernet
Realtek RTL8187 WLAN
Realtek Card Reader
Mtron 32 GB SLC SSD (PATA ZIF interface)
EDIT: I have also tried installing the Windows XP drivers in Vista compatibility mode, which did not work, and in XP compatibility mode, which did install, but did not work. It still says under "device status" "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)".
There must be some problem with the RTL chip or rest of it, as I have a PCI version of that chip on hand. Its driver is built in.
I am accumulating more and more drivers, and I put them on DVD occasionally to send out.
Ethernet drivers are a big part of the intrinsic driver set. That and RAID cards.
Try this one:
Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe
Server: P4-2GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, Linux Server, need IDE/SATA disks for my chess siteWorkstation: Asus M2NBP-VM CSM, Athlon64 X2 4200+ 65W CPU, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA 8600GT, 320GB + 160G backup, Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
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Thank you for your quick reply. I should have mentioned that I have repeatedly uninstalled, and reinstalled Realtek's drivers. I have also tried running Windows update to see if it detects a better driver. I am beginning to think the chipset drivers are incomplete and therefore don't properly detect devices on the PCI BUS.
I think that VIA gave up on the C-7, it runs great with XP and Windows Home Server but not newer OS'.
If you did not already tried, log to Realtek TW Tech support and try the OEM drivers for Win 7.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).
Thanks all! After going back to XP (a fresh install), my ethernet port now works, but not my WIFI. Windows 7 Realtek drivers either killed my WIFI, or it was going bad anyway. (sigh!) Guess I'll get an external USB WIFI adapter to use up one of my 2 USB ports.
I really like Windows 7, but wish I had not tried it on this little netbook. My advice is: do not install Windows 7 on the Sylvania G Netbook.
Not to be all negative, I have installed Windows 7 on 2 other computers with no problems at all. Had to hunt down a couple drivers, but that was all.
Via is still in business, but I am unsure what is going on there.
Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe
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I did not say that VIA is out of business. Not evry one is as responsible as Microsoft and keep providing services many years after the product release.
It just seem that VIA abandoned the support for this specific product, C-7, a while ago.
Thus if one has C-7 mobo, One should not look forward for a trouble free Win 7 installation.


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History is filled with countless fictional stories delving into the tragic reversal of fortune - the painter who went blind, the musician who lost his hearing, the athlete who suffered a crippling blow. But what of the actual people who inspired the stories? The 2013 documentary Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq sheds some light on a real-world example from the realm of 20th century dance. It tells the story of Tanaquil "Tanny" Le Clercq, an expressive ballerina who had her career cruelly cut short by contracting polio.
Tanny Le Clercq was apparently a legend in her brief time as a dancer; this episode of the PBS series American Masters combines the reminiscences of friends with copious amounts of archival performances to explain why. Upon her arrival in the early '50s, Tanny's expressive face and graceful, elongated physique were an anomaly when most ballet dancers blended into the crowd. Adding to her mystique is the fact that she was intimate with two of the iconic choreographers of her era - George Balanchine (who made Le Clerq his fourth and final spouse in 1952-69) and Jerome Robbins (who was in love with her during the Balanchine years, although they drifted apart in later years). The film lacks interview footage with Tanny herself, although the combination of various friends' fond memories and her own correspondence read via an actress' voice-over make the subject appear as an enigmatic, spectral figure. Probably the highlight of Tanny's career came with Robbins' 1953 piece Afternoon of a Faun, a sensual pas de deux of two lovers observing themselves in a mirror. The documentary includes several clips from a television production of the ballet, along with glowing recollections from her dancing partner Jacques D'Amboise (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers).
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Kino Lorber's DVD edition of Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq is mastered with a crisp, pleasant look which preserves the detail and nicely saturated colors in the photography. Since there isn't too much in the way of excess, unneeded data taking up space on the disc, the 1.78:1 picture ends up looking relatively good for a standard-definition release. Archival clips vary in quality, with most of them taken off '50s-era kinescopes, although they are properly window-boxed in their original proportions.
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While it would have been fantastic to have the unedited versions of the performances included in the documentary as bonuses, disappointingly the disc only included a few Previews for other, similar releases from Kino Lorber.
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A documentary about an accomplished ballerina crippled by polio? Sign me up! Thankfully, Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq is not so much a massive bum trip as an intriguing and, ultimately, life-affirming portrait. This tidy film captures the indomitable spirit of "Tanny" so well. Recommended.
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