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As you know, I have a HUGE comic book collector. I got books ranging from Golden Age - Current. Some of them are pretty high dollar (Iron Man 1), some are just crap I like (the entire run of Howard the Duck), but I love it and it is what I do in my past time (much to my girlfriend's chagrin). But as far as my collection goes, there are only 2 Holy Grail books that I need in my collection: Amazing Spider-Man 129 and Daredevil 1. And this week, I finally get to check off one the boxes I've been waiting to check for a long, long time.


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Did you know that we have, on average, 3,000,000,000 DNA bases in our genome? How about if you unwrapped the DNA in all your cells it would reach to the moon 6000 times? Or that 99.9% of our DNA is the same as that of every other human?
I love genetics. In fact, I almost continued my biology and anthropology schooling to take Ancient DNA Studies. While I didn't keep up with my studies in it, simply leaving with a Bachelors of Honors in Biology and Anthropology, my writing often takes a scientific turn.
In 2000 a rough draft of of a map of the entire human genome was completed; and then in 2003 the final draft was complete. While there are things we still don't know about what genes do what, this map has made it possible to better understand the causes and functions of disease, as well as create better preventative medicines.
In Hunting the Shadows, my writing is heavily influenced by genetic manipulation. Using a virus as a vector, the scientists in my book create mutations (with the help of radiation) to reawaken locked up psychic abilities.
From Wikipedia: A viral vector is a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic material into cells. This process can be performed inside a living organism (in vivo) or in cell culture (in vitro). Viruses have evolved specialized molecular mechanisms to efficiently transport their genomes inside the cells they infect. Delivery of genes by a virus is termed transduction and the infected cells are described as transduced.
I love that anything can be possible. Yes, there are restraints, but writing paranormal means that I can stretch those limits a bit more. In the case of my characters, well, these abilities are a part of their daily lives and I try to explain as much as possible how that affects them. Their strengths as well as their problems. It's not something they can learn over night how to control. It takes years of hard training...and sometimes, that's not enough.
What do you think about psychic abilities? If you could have any ability, what would you want?

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In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasions, cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.
A CIA agent's wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeter, a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling story: weary human rights workers, lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angel's kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits.
In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is planned, a heartbreaking mystery involving Angel's own family unravels, and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angel's beautiful cakes as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angel's life and the lives of those around her in the most astonishing ways.
©2009 Gaile Parkin; (P)2009 Random House
"NOT Ladies' Detective--Which is okay!"
This book presented a little bit of a challenge as an audiobook, since I had no context: was it supposed to be serious? Humorous? Sociological? Was it written by a Rwandan? How long was it?
Right off, I was struck by its "wanna be No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" flavor and its slightly awkward style, but before long I had gotten over those characteristics, and I began to enjoy the story and the interesting perspective that Parkin gave on life in Rwanda after the genocide in the 90's: this is not an "Africa in Peril" story, I am happy to say, but it gives the reader (listener) a sense of what it's like to live in a country that has undergone such a slaughter; where AIDS is rampant; where a cutting ceremony for a young girl might be a reality. While I do think there is a strong debt to Mma Ramotswe and Alexander McCall Smith here, this novel (and, possibly, series? Though this was published in 2010 and I haven't seen any others) digs more deeply into the social issues in Rwanda than Smith's books do.
The book is a pleasant and interesting read; while Parkin's writing can be a tad awkward in places, she's at her best when she tells less and shows more: for example, when she makes the off-handed comment that the name written on the christening cake for a baby girl is not, in fact, "Good Enough," as the parents originally wanted, but, instead, "Perfect." Go, Angel Tungaraza!
"Wonderful slice of life in modern Africa"
Finished last night on the way home. The reader did a marvelous job with the many characters and accents!
Absolutely lovely slice of life in modern Africa (the Rwandan city of Kigali), in a series of vignettes that unfold as people come to Angel to order a cake for some occasion in their lives. From the wife of the Tanzanian minister, to American aid workers and educators, a Rwandan soldier who was pressed into the conflict as a boy, an Indian professor and his germaphobe wife, Kenyans, South Africans, and more, you get a sense of the polyglot nature of the city, a soft-focus picture of what all of these people have witnessed, and a sense of the hope and renewal they are feeling.
Angel herself, not well-educated but with an instinctive wisdom, plays consultant, matchmaker, peacemaker, negotiator of water bills, and mother to her five orphaned grandchildren, as well as the rest of her neighborhood. She doesn't seem to realize that she is the beloved center of her community.
I loved the humor and tone of this book, and the chance to see into Africa in this way. I loved the snippets of languages (people in Kigali, even the least educated, speak multiple languages at least in part, in order to interact). There is Swahili, Kenyawandan, English, French, Africaans, and a host of funny-sweet-sensible colloquialisms which are easily understood, such as Angel's assurance to her clients of confidentiality "because I am a Professional Somebody."
And there is cooking! Each of Angel's cakes is as unique as the person who ordered it. The family's excitement over scoring a bag of freshly-caught grasshoppers, and preparation of them for an evening feast (remove the legs, boil for a few minutes, then coat and fry) reminds me of a soft-shell crab or shrimp fry in the U.S. and actually made me want to try them.
Eye-opening, rewarding read and an enjoyable treat. Highly recommended.
"Wonderful stories in a beautifully written book!"
This book was recommended to me (otherwise, I don't know if I would have found it!) and I am so pleased that it was! It is a hidden gem!
The narration was perfect for this book, which is really like a collection of stories centered around a colorful group of people living in Rwanda. It ended too soon - I wanted to hear more about these people, who feel like friends and neighbors now! The author did a nice job of introducing cultural, societal, and economic ideas - things that can divide us as a society, but Angel is able to unite all those she touches with her wisdom and her cakes!
I hope we hear more from Gaile Parkin!
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A woman has been jailed for three years and three months for stealing from care home staff.
Toni Templeton, 33, from Willenhall, near Coventry, admitted one charnge of conspiracy to steal and one of conspiracy to commit fraud.
The charges relate to a care home in Rutland, where three members of staff reported thefts from their purses and bags, and subsequently reported fraudulent activity on their bank cards. This happened in December 2013.
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Dept. of Defense Invites Ted Spain to Gove. Workshop
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DOD Invites Breaking Iraq Author to Workshop Participation
Book subject of Post-Conflict Policing in Program
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ted Spain, co-author of Breaking Iraq: the Ten Mistakes that Broke Iraq has been invited to participate in a workshop co-sponsored by the Dept. of Defense and other governmental agencies concerned with post conflict governance on April 30 and May 1st. Col. Spain will be speaking on May 1st providing the Operational Commanders Perspective.
Col. Spain commanded the 18th Military Police Brigade in Iraq during the invasion of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the year following in Baghdad. His book Breaking Iraq which has been praised by many officers in the military for his forthrightness, focuses on the mistakes made in the initial planning of the invasion and the failure to provide for occupied citizen security. Spain has also been praised for his honesty in accepting responsibility for his own failures in Breaking Iraq which he wrote as a suggestive to those who may someday find it necessary, in the fast changing world, to plan another occupation.
Since publication of Breaking Iraq on March 19, 2013, Col. Spain has received numerous speaking engagements most recently at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia where he spoke on Leadership, the subtext of Breaking Iraq. You are the leaders of tomorrow, he told the cadets You will be leaders in the Army, Marines, Air Force and Navy and your owe it to the men and women serving under you complete concern for their welfare and their lives and the respect you get from them can only be earned. And you must be ready to tell those commanding you what they must hear, not what they would like to hear.
Ted Spains Breaking Iraq: The Ten Mistakes that Broke Iraq was published by History Publishing Company LLC on March 19, 2013. It was co-authored by Terry Turchie, retired FBI Special Agent and Asst. Deputy Director. It is available in Barnes and Noble bookstores, Books a Million stores, and independent book stores across the country . It is also available on Bn.com and Amazon.com and internet outlets internationally.
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To finance their troops, the Tigers are mainly relying on a Diaspora dispersed among the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and France, which became one of their most important back up. Indeed, at the beginning of the revolt and above all after the anti-Tamil riots of 1983, many inhabitants of the North and of Colombo fled from the country. What was first a problem for the Tigers, who feared they could not recruit any combatants anymore, turned to their own advantage when they started imposing their revolutionary tax on these exiles. To do so, the movement established a very structured system.
by Jérôme Pierrat
(June 06, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Chinese do not have the exclusivity of ethnic gangs phenomenon. Another Asian community, Tamils from Sri Lanka, also has its own gangs. And there again, their appearance during the second half of the 1990's would be mainly linked with the development of illegal immigration networks to France1.
But when the Chinese teams only have a few members, the Tamil gangs include tens of them, or even many more. They would be eight of them sharing the Île-de-France market where up to 30.000 to 50.000 Tamils would be gathered, i.e. the major part of the community. The biggest of these gangs, the Mukkapola (or Mukkala or Mukkapulah) would include – according to police intelligence services – about 400 members, and a wing of young people called the Bad Boys, for which there is no exact figure. This gang would also have structural links with the Viluthu, aka New Boys, with 50 henchmen. Then come the Minnale and its 40 gangsters, the Vennila and its 30 members, the Shankar and the Tsunami, for which the number of members is unknown, and finally the Snakes with 20 people.
If we believe policemen, the Tamil gangs are said to be involved in racketeering, burglaries and other chopping up of illegal immigrants or shopkeepers, as well as drug trafficking and possessing stolen goods. But the biggest worry for the intelligence services is the link some of them have with the French wing of the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Sri Lankan separatist guerrilla. The "Tigers" indeed had the monopoly of "mafia-like practices" within the community until the gangs appeared, with racketeering at the top of the list.
Established in 1976 in Sri Lanka in the view of creating a Tamil independent State in the North-East third of the island, the movement is considered as the best organized guerrilla in the world, with about 15.000 fighters, among which the Black Tigers commandos in charge of the suicide attacks (about 168 operations since 1987), a navy wing (the Sea Tigers) and an air wing that appeared on 26th March 2006 when two civil planes bombed an air base of the Sri Lankan Army after they took off from a strip hidden in the jungle.
To finance their troops, the Tigers are mainly relying on a Diaspora dispersed among the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and France, which became one of their most important back up. Indeed, at the beginning of the revolt and above all after the anti-Tamil riots of 1983, many inhabitants of the North and of Colombo fled from the country. What was first a problem for the Tigers, who feared they could not recruit any combatants anymore, turned to their own advantage when they started imposing their revolutionary tax on these exiles. To do so, the movement established a very structured system.
Their international secretariat based in Kilinochchi, their headquarters in the North of the country, appoints representatives of the "party" in every country, operating through shield organizations: the committees of Tamil coordination and the local branches of the ORT, a humanitarian association established in 1985. They are systematically bleeding the local community, controlling among others the cultural and sports activities and even the loans to set up a business. Not to mention the collection of the "tax" by collectors who are paid with a percentage. When the "tax payer" pays off the required amount, an identity card of the Tamil Eelam is delivered to him, which he can use in his future relations with the movement, especially during trips back home for those who are not illegal immigrants.
Once home, before they enter the controlled zone, these "holidaymakers" indeed have to go to Nandavanan Centres (literally "flower gardens") established by the Tigers that gather information on expatriates. The "frontier guards" check thanks to the code number that the monthly or annual "taxes" have been paid in the country of residence. Otherwise, the bad payer is invited to sign an acknowledgement of debt mentioning his last address. The information is then passed on to the coordination committee of the concerned country, which will take great care in cashing the due amounts. If the extorted person persists on not paying, the members of his family who stayed in the country will suffer the consequences…
On 1st April 2007, France saw the first "anti-racket" operation led in Europe against the Tigers who are listed since May 2006 – with the breach of the truce introduced in 2002 – among the terrorist organizations of the European Union. The policemen arrested fifteen members of the Tigers in Paris and in Île-de-France, including the representative of the organisation in France, a man named Parithi, 44 years old, his second in command Petit Jeya aged 35, the financial manager, Metha the one in charge of the propaganda aged 45, as well as the ones handling the collect of taxes in each department of the Île-de-France supervising the ground-collectors. Except for the supervisor of the Hauts-de-Seine, Mugananthan, 35, arrested the day after as he was coming back from Germany. But above all, as they were carrying out their searches, they laid their hands on the whole secret accountancy of the movement in France.
In the headquarters of the Tamil Coordination Committee France, located rue des Pyrénées, Paris 20th, they found 67.400 euros (out of the 81.700 euros seized during the operation) in the office of the financial manager and even more interesting, hundreds of receipts for "donations" to be produced when entering the Tamil zone, hundreds of counterfoils of books bearing the LTTE initials, as well as hundreds of promises of "donations" with amounts varying from 100 to 6.000 euros. Other receipts of donations were found in a shop of the rue Louis-Blanc in Paris 10th, the heart of the "Little Jaffna" (the headquarters of the community in the neighbourhood of La Chapelle, from the name of Jaffna, the Tamil "capital city", as well as tens of handwritten and typed lists including the names of the "donors" and the amount paid and many cheques without any specified order. Finally, at the head office of the humanitarian front of the movement, the ORT, located rue du Département in Paris 18th, the investigators found jewels donated by families who were unable to pay the revolutionary tax, according to the confessions of an official during his custody.
And the icing on the cake, the man in charge of money collection in the 77 confirmed that the two leaders of the movement in France recently required 2.000 euros from each family of the community. While according to the intelligence services, the usual amount was rather of 500 annually and of 5.000 euros for shopkeepers. According to policemen, 6 million euros would have been collected in 20062.
While the fifteen persons were indicted – and fourteen of them handed over to the law – on the grounds of criminal conspiracy in relation with a terrorist undertaking and extortions in relation with a terrorist undertaking, five collection men were arrested in September 2007.
If the money collected by the ORT was transiting through the account of the association in the Barclay's bank in Paris, the cash was undoubtedly going straight to Switzerland and its banks, as it may be guessed from the seizure made on smugglers at borders. In February 2004, the customs officers of Ottmarsheim in the Haut-Rhin department arrested two men aged 44 and 35 together with a woman and two children carrying 200.000 euros in cash in their car. One of them acknowledged he already conveyed 5.4 million euros to a bank in Zurich during six trips he made in 2003.
Gangs engaged in "politics"
Racketeering among the community in France appeared in the beginning of the 1980's, and until the end of the 1990's, it did not encounter any resistance from the victims. The community, very discreet, was all the more docile since it is among the worst integrated in France with many members who do not speak French. Since a few years however, some of them are rebelling. To counter this rebellion, at the turn of the years 2000, under the leadership of Elango - their chief at the time - the Tigers elaborated a new strategy. In order to strengthen the links with the community, they discreetly used the gangs, killing two birds with one stone. Indeed, the appearance of these gangs had strongly impede the organisation that was seeing them as invaders of its sovereignty and its monopoly over "mafia" activities in the community: their had the situation back into hand when they put the Vennila and Minnale groups in charge of actions in which they did not want to appear, such as breaking into houses belonging to members of the community, the loot financing the cause afterwards. Then they doubly took advantage of the situation by warning the community of the harmful actions of the gangs but taking great care in not mentioning the names of those responsible and by telling people the neutralization of the gangs could only be achieved through a total collaboration with them.
This manoeuvre also allowed setting the gangs one against another, especially the Mukkapola against the Vennila the Minnale, and some of their members were eliminated or arrested after many confrontations. The chaos reinforced, in passing, the alarmist lectures of the Tigers…
But this strategy started collapsing in November 2003, when the directorship changed and Elango was replaced by Parathi. The latter had a struggle to control fights between the gangs, especially because he was said to be personally "linked" with the Mukkapola, a few members of his family being part of the gang. In a nutshell, conflicts among Tamil gangsters increased a lot, which worried the community.
The beginning of the decline of the climate dates back to 7th February 2002. That day, members of the Mukkapola killed an opponent of the Minnale outright. At 10.30 pm, a Peugeot 205 comes out from nowhere on the Avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier in Bobigny, a deserted road lined with administrative buildings. The 23-year old Sri Lankan driving is being chased by about ten of his compatriots in three different cars. Just before he can reach the Court of Bobigny, his car is stopped by the cars of his pursuers. They get out of their cars, rush at him and slash him with knives and pieces of broken glass, before one of them finishes him up with slashes of sabre. A witness backs up the investigators suspicions, and they arrest three men aged 22, 20 and 27 in Stains and discover one of the sabre at the house of one of them. In the following weeks, there are more and more mugging and holding in the department, until the 18th March, when several members of the Minnale gang try to kill an opponent of the Mukkapola in Le Bourget. Four days later, seventeen people are arrested in two waves, eight in Paris and nine in the 93. This does not discourage the louts who keep on their brawls and abductions in the following months. Above all, as we said before, after the appointment of the new leaders of the Tigers in November 2003.
On 19th February 2004, at 10.00 pm, a member of the Mukkapola, well-known by the police, driving a car together with two of his associates, tries to kill a Minnale in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in Paris. After he runs him over, he drives back and runs on him, in vain. His enemy only gets a head injury. Return match on 17th May when Niranjan, the head of the Vennila, together with a member of the Minnale, kills a member of the Mukkapola in Paris 18th. Arrested, Niranjan is finally freed in April 2005, which irritates the Mukkapola and its allies - the Vinuthu, and the Snakes, these ones being at war as well with the Minnale but also with the tsunami – who attack their opponents in Sarcelles in the night of the 24th April. There are no victims, but for the first time ever, the Tamil gangs combined knives and firearms.
And yet, the Minnale and Vennila gangs did not break off their collaboration with the Tigers. In July 2005, the intelligence services indicate that when important representatives of the Tigers meet in a bar on the Faubourg-Saint-Denis, which they use as meeting point, accomplices of the Vennila keep an eye on the policemen of the police station just in front, only a few meters away. And, according to the same source, the two gangs would have committed several targeted burglaries in 2005 in Tamil houses in Sevran, Le Bourget, le Blanc-Mesnil, Garges-lès-Gonesse, Sarcelles, La Courneuve and le Thillay on behalf of the Tigers who would then finance their cause.
Rivalries between the bands do not stop for all that. During the second half of August 2006, confrontations took place on the Faubourg-Saint-Denis, apparently due to the death of a Tamil in Belgium on 14th August. And these acts of violence would suit the Tigers, since they draw the police and the justice attention and divert them from their activities. At least that's what they were thinking, until April 2007 and the arrest of their head Parathi…
Table of contents of the book
Introduction 7
These billions coming from Russia 11
The Caucasian jigsaw puzzle 103
The Baltic method 138
The Romanian laboratory 163
The Bulgarian networks and grupovkas 193
Serbia: Mafiosi in battle-dress 220
The Bosnian and Croat arsenals 242
The Albanian web 257
A mafia in the Bosphorus 269
In the shade of Colombian cartels 281
Nigerian channels 319
China: the Middle Kingdom in Paris 342
The iron hand of the Tamil Tigers 378
What about the Italians? 387
Conclusion 439
Back cover
Laundering, immigration networks, prostitution, arm and drug trafficking, counterfeiting, racketeering… For the first time, a book deals with the international criminality established in France since the 1990's.
The explosion of the Soviet bloc and the economy globalisation changed the dimensions of organised crime on our territory. Alongside the traditional "circles" and the big chiefs of deprived estates, you now have to take other actors of the criminal scene into account, such as these Georgian gangsters controlled by the biggest godfathers of the Russian mafia, or these Sri Lankan gangs killing one another in the Parisian suburbs. And new activities as well, from the sophisticated methods of computer hacking to data retrieval on bank terminals. The outlines of different mafias (Turkish, Chinese, Italian…) and other organized criminal groups (Colombian cartels, Russian, Caucasian and Balkan gangs) are taking shape in the shadow. Where are these organisations from and what are they doing exactly? How well are they established? Do they have links with the French organised crime? What kind of danger do they really embody?
Fuelled by confidential sources, the first feature investigation on the hidden face of the mafia planet on French soil.
Jérôme Pierrat is a journalist. He also wrote Une Histoire du Milieu (2003), Une vie de voyou (Michel Ardouin dit Porte-avions, 2005), La Mafia des cités (2006).
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One definition of the word "hero" is "a person admired for courage or noble qualities."
Sometimes a person who doesn't claim to be anyone special steps forward and, in my opinion, becomes a hero, though not for doing anything really dramatic, such as saving a person from drowning or dragging someone out of a burning building.
I think a hero doesn't have to save someone's life in order to qualify.
Someone who takes on a challenge in order to save something significant to a community fits my definition.
Lately, one local woman has given considerable time and energy to do what she can to save something she sees as important to her community.
Who is the woman? What is her issue?
Teri Terrano is the woman, and saving Robin Hood Lanes, the bowling alley located at Westgate, is her issue.
Teri is determined to prevent a significant part of Edmonds history from disappearing, to be replaced by a chain drugstore. Another drugstore. One. More. Drugstore.
What I write in this column is opinion. Mine.
Yes, I know that the sale of the property is a business transaction and—technically—anyone outside the transaction has no business interfering.
But tell that to the citizens of any town in the land when a neighborhood institution is threatened, and many of them will rise up anyway. It's the American way.
Generations of Americans have spent family and adult leisure time at local bowling alleys.
Now I gather that Robin Hood Lanes is valued more for the land the business stands on than for the wholesome, traditional entertainment it provides year round —rain or shine.
If Teri prevails, though, Robin Hood Lanes isn't going anywhere.
I have a bit of personal interest in this issue, based on family history.
Around fifty years ago, I recall that my father sponsored bowling teams at Robin Hood Lanes, teams wearing rayon sport shirts with team members' names embroidered on them and BRADBURY'S TV emblazoned on the backs.
I wish I'd kept some my dad's bowling trophies--important history. My brother and I bowled at Robin Hood, too.
Of course, the Bradbury history at Robin Hood Lanes is just a tiny representation of all the local residents who have bowled there—and who still do and will continue to.
Although others have worked alongside her, Teri Terrano appears to be a major force, dedicated to seeing the process through.
I don't know her, but she is a force to be reckoned with—she is not giving up. And that's the American way, too. (So is business. So is money. So is respectful disagreement.)
Teri Terrano is showing us that speaking up, speaking out, might save a piece of Edmonds history. I'm proud of Teri—and, with many thanks to her, I won't be surprised if Robin Hood Lanes remains at Westgate for a long time.
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Ya good thing it was a 4 hour sesh, the first half of which we didn't have to deal with much of it and got most of our day's rides. The kook karnival didn't arrive until the last hour or two. Those offshores were pumping hard today too. Some gusts in excess of 20mph. Makes 60s air temp not so balmy. Still, not cold in 4 hours. Life is good.
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Apr 20, 2014, 02:55 AM #11
Man, I am a magnet for that behavior. I must have a sign on my back that says come and get me. Problem is I'm probably one of the most stubborn people in the water and once challenged I rarely give up until I win or my session is ruined. I see my buddies just sit back and laugh at these kooks and I wish I could do that. I think the wise thing is to let these people do their thing and realize there are more important things in life than catching the next mush burger but it's so damn hard. My answer is to have zero tolerance for crowds. I mean if someone I don't know is within 100 feet of me it's too crowded and I move. Sometimes the only answer is confrontation although it's a soul killer when it comes to that.
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Apr 20, 2014, 11:10 AM #13
paddle RIGHT behind them, give them priority BY JUST AN INCH, force them to commit to wave no. 1 of set,
stare at them, learn the head-fake, "fake" paddle around them, "accidentally" grab their leash.
Apr 20, 2014, 04:01 PM #14
Or you could just open your mouth and tell them that what they are doing is bothering you. Don't be passive aggressive. Tell them why you're mad bro
Actually it brings up a topic that has come up on here before...
who has the priority on a wave... my feelings are whoever is on the inside gets the wave. but there are people who think the first guy that makes a paddling move for the wave gets it and I think that's what this guy thinks.
Luckily for me I'm bigger than most people who surf and I've got no problems getting into a paddle battle if needed.... its just such a stoke drainer to be in that environment when there is no reason for it.
Apr 20, 2014, 05:02 PM #16
back up, I wanna know more about this Fitzpedo...and does it come with a cup holder?
I'll give it to you in a nutshell... I took some kid out that dropped in on me.... I yelled down the line I was going... he looked at me and just went anyway... ofcourse I caught up to him and we made contact. the great thing was that I had the video footage. so... the kid was 18 or 19 years old... possibly older. but by the time it had gone through pages and pages of debate the kid was now 6 years old and every parent on the site was talking about how they would kick ass if that was their kid.... it really spun out of control.... but I'm not sure who coined the name fitzpedo. lol.
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06 Nov 2006 -- IBM has been named on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters (BWC) from the FORTUNE 500 Companies list for the third year in a row. IBM ranked fifteenth on this year's list and was also named in the first two Top 20 lists in 2004 and 2005. The Top 20 employers on the list are ranked by the percentage of their total U.S. workforce eligible for outstanding commuter benefits that meet EPA's National Standard of Excellence.
Twenty-two IBM locations (the five new sites for 2006 are denoted with an asterisk) qualify as BWC sites including:
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BWC sites are required to offer at least one primary commuter benefit option at each qualifying work site such as employer-paid tax-free transit or vanpool passes, teleworking/telecommuting or parking cash out (enabling workers to trade free parking for its cash equivalent). Employers also agree to offer an Emergency Ride Home and three secondary commuter benefits (e.g., ridesharing or carpool matching, preferred or reduced-cost parking for carpools etc.).
Some of the commuter benefits IBM provides to its employees at BWC sites may include commuter information kiosks, transportation coordinators, mobility stations, full service cafeterias, ATM machines, car rental services (pick-up/drop-off), credit union drop boxes. In addition, IBM's extensive 'e-commute' work-from-home options at these locations and across the U.S. make significant contributions to reducing employee commutation while also contributing to the work/life balance of its employees.
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More than one-third of IBM's global work force (over 100,000 employees) participates in one of these programs. In the United States alone, our work-at-home program has conserved more than 8 million gallons of fuel and avoided more than 68,000 tons of CO2 emissions in 2006. In addition, more than 4,000 tons of CO2 emissions were avoided by employees using other commute-choice programs such as carpooling, vanpooling, etc.
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I make test transactions with merchants before i massively publish them and I notice that with certain merchants (5/25 merchants) I do not get credit for. When I email them to claim credit, they claim if cj doesn't show it then the sale was not from your referral link and they can't credit it. What recourse do I have?
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Probably nothing. It is good you make these test purchases. I suggest you use a different merchant when you go "live."
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The debate over a key part of the federal health care overhaul heats up again at the state capitol.
GOP Sen. David W. Hann opposes the health care law and will hold a committee hearing Tuesday morning to discuss insurance exchanges.
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The Dayton administration could meet most of those criteria without authority from the legislature, said Fred Morrison University of Minnesota law professor and an expert on Minnesota constitutional law.
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Phil Mui, Google Analytics Group Product Manager, talks to Daniel Waisberg about some of the last developments on the product. He goes over the history of Google Analytics and its strategy.
Phil talks about the Google Analytics team and the secret to its fast development pace. He also talks about his earlier position as a Stanford researcher (working on the genome project) and how it is related to Analytics. Phil ends the interview talking about the future of the Analytics field. According to him:
I hope that in 10 years Analytics for any business will be like the air that they breath. Google Analytics or analytics generally should be helping marketers and business people make better decisions based on the data that inform them what's going on. Today Analytics is an isolated functionality that is used for operational or sometimes tactical matters, but shouldn't we aspire to something more? Shouldn't we aspire to every decision that we make should be based on solid data?
Dr. Phil Mui is the product management lead for Google Analytics. He has been PM'ing Google Analytics since the first year of Google Analytics. He has a Ph.D. (EECS) from MIT and a Masters (Management) from Oxford University where he was a Marshall Scholar. Prior to Google, Phil was a bioinformatics researcher in Stanford University. He was also the founder of an early European display ads company, which was sold in 2000 before Phil went back to graduate school. Phil regularly speaks about Analytics and online measurements in industry conferences (eMetrics, SMX, SES, ad:tech) and academia (Wharton, Berkeley, SFSU). You can follow him on Twitter @philmui
Daniel Waisberg is the Owner of Conversion Journey, a consultancy that provides insights on improving the performance of websites. He is also the founder & Editor of Online Behavior. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and member of the Advisory Council of the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit. You can follow him on Google+ or on Twitter @danielwaisberg.


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According to Dancing with the Stars judge Len Goodman, the competition is still "anyone's to win."
But ahead of Monday's finale – when the winner of the coveted mirror-ball trophy will be revealed – the three remaining couples were just happy to have made it so far.
Backstage after Monday night's show, NFL player Hines Ward praised his partner, Kym Johnson. "To be here in the final is just amazing, because Kym took a player who's never danced before and got us to the finals," he told PEOPLE. "I owe it all to Kym … Whoever wins it is going to be deserved. I don't think there's any animosity towards anybody."
Meanwhile, Disney star Chelsea Kane expressed her gratitude for new fans and new friends like Sugar Ray Leonard, Ralph Macchio and Kirstie Alley. "This was incredible," she said. "To make it all the way to the finals and have people really support me and really take on this whole new fanbase, it's awesome."
For her part, Alley, who is just behind the other two couples on the leader board, admitted she never planned on making it this far. "I didn't think I was going to be in the finals. I just sure wanted to be in the finals," she said. "I just did."
"Maybe if I just really work really hard, maybe I could win this," Alley added. "Because that's what I would like to do. Nobody signs up here to lose it, do they?"


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PARIS (THR) -- Ron Howard's "The Da Vinci Code" will open the 59th Festival de Cannes on May 17, two days before the film is released worldwide, the festival's organizers said Saturday.
Based on the best-selling thriller by Dan Brown and produced by Brian Grazer and John Calley for Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, the film, which will be screened out of competition at Cannes, stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina.
"Da Vinci," which uses the Louvre Museum in Paris as one of its main backdrops, is an esoteric whodunit linked to a sinister plot to conceal the true meaning of the Holy Grail. The book, which has sold more than 30 million copies in about 40 languages, has been denounced by the Roman Catholic Church and historians as pure fiction with little or no historical basis.
Director-producer-actor Howard, whose "A Beautiful Mind" won an Oscar for best picture in 2002, first came to Cannes in 1988 with "Willow." Other films by Howard which screened at the festival include "Far and Away" in 1992 and "Ed TV" in 1999.
Organizers said the "Da Vinci" will be released in France the same day it opens at the Cannes fest, which wraps May 28.
Shiraz Sidhva writes for The Hollywood Reporter.
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Idea Launches Idea Champion 299 Plan for Andhra Pradesh Postpaid Subscribers
Idea has launched new Idea Champion 299 Plan for its Andhra Pradesh Postpaid Subscribers at monthly rental of Rs 299. Using Idea Champion 299 Plan subscribers can make local on-net (Idea to Idea) calls at 20 paisa per minute and local off-net (Idea to other) at 30 paisa per minute tariff rate. STD and landline calls will be charged at 50 paisa per minute. Users will also get 600 free local minutes to any network, 600 free local and National SMSes and 1 GB free GPRS as additional benefit with this plan.
Detail of Idea Champion 299 Plan:
Monthly Rental: Rs. 299
Local Idea to Idea Calls: 20 paisa per minute
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STD and Landline call charges: 50 paisa per minute
Local SMS: 20 paisa per SMS
National SMS: 50 paisa per SMS
International SMS: Rs. 5 per SMS
Additional Benefits: 600 free Local minutes, 600 free local and National SMS and 1 GB GPRS
During roaming all incoming and outgoing calls will be charge at 70 paisa per minute tariff rate.
You can recharge your operator Idea mobile online with at our website easymobilerecharge.com. Before recharging, please check with the Idea customer care to make sure that the recharge value is applicable for your number.
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NEC Display Solutions of America (Itasca, IL) announced the extension of its MultiSync 70 Series with the introduction of the MultiSync LCD2470WVX 24-in. widescreen display, designed for enterprise and performance-minded users who need advanced technology, and exceptional brightness, color, and contrast.
TheLCD2470WVX monitor comes with No Touch Auto Adjust and NaViSetT software that allows for screen adjustments via the computer mouse. The unique Dynamic VideoMode has five settings (Standard, Text, Photo, Gaming and Movie), which allow the user to set the monitor to a specific setting to best meet the application needs.
Incorporating Ambix dual analog and digital input technology, the display is certified with Windows Vista PREMIUM and features Advanced Dynamic Video Mode.
In addition to featuring a thin bezel suitable for multiple-monitor configurations, the MultiSync LCD2470WVX monitor incorporates a four-way ergonomic stand so users can quickly adjust display height, tilt, swivel, and pivot orientation (from landscape to portrait) to suit preferences, applications, and environments.
The LCD2470WVX includes Ambix Technology, which supports digital and analog inputs; XtraView enables users to see an accurate image from off-axis viewing angles; No Touch Auto Adjust eliminates the hassle of adjusting screen controls when connecting the display to a new system.
Also, the MultiSync includes a four-way ergonomic stand including height adjustment, pivot, swivel and tilt, allows greater comfort and caters to individual preferences, ultra-thin frame bezel, a five-setting Dynamic VideoMode (DV-Mode) that enhances contrast and brightness, cable management that organizes and creates clean work space, Windows Vista Premium Certified HDCP for enhanced graphics and text, standard three-year limited warranty including backlight, and 24/7 NEC support.
For further details, contact NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc. http://www.necdisplay.com/protectyourimage.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.


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Two KC-130J cargo planes from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar have joined disaster relief operations in the Philippines, where America is flexing its soft power to support a long-standing ally in a region of increasing economic and strategic importance.
Thirty-eight Marines and a sailor from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 flew into the storm-struck archipelago Tuesday, joining the Marine-led Combined Joint Task Force 505. The international task force also includes the crew of the San Diego-based cruiser Cowpens deployed with the George Washington carrier strike group.
"As of today, our Marines have flown numerous missions in support of relief operations and transported hundreds of Philippine Marines and civilian evacuees within the disaster area," Maj. Casey Shea, operations officer for the "Raiders," said in a statement.
After Super Typhoon Haiyan struck Nov. 8 with hurricane-strength winds and a tsunami-like wave that killed thousands and displaced millions, the Okinawa-based 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade was among the first to respond.
"What better way to assure our friends and allies in the Pacific that we will do whatever it takes to provide comfort in the wake of disasters or provide security and stability in times of crisis," said Lt. Gen. John Toolan, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force headquartered at Camp Pendleton.
Toolan spoke Thursday to the San Diego Military Advisory Council on behalf of Lt. Gen. Terry Robling, commanding general of Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, who was waylaid for Philippine relief operations.
"The United States is an Asia-Pacific nation and our presence has underpinned peace and security in the region for centuries," Toolan said.
Now as wartime commitments in the Middle East wane, President Barack Obama has directed the military to pivot resources toward the Asia-Pacific.
Current plans for the military rebalance include Marine air ground task forces more widely dispersed throughout the Pacific, in California, Hawaii, Guam, Japan and Australia.
"Even before Typhoon Haiyan hit land, Marines and sailors on Okinawa and in mainland Japan were on their way," Toolan noted. "We need to ensure our naval forces are adequately resourced and capable of rapid projection, to be able to get there in hours when hours count."
However, the U.S. does not plan to reestablish permanent military bases in the Philippines, Toolan said: "A U.S. footprint inside a country is intrusive. The reality is our presence in the Pacific is going to be more based on rotational forces," using nations such as Australia as training hubs and embarkation point for ship tours.
Natural disasters have killed an average of more than 70,000 people in the region annually over the last decade, Marine officials said.
U.S. and Philippine forces have rehearsed two years for a calamity such as Typhoon Haiyan, enabling the rapid buildup of disaster response forces, said Gen. James Amos, speaking to U-T San Diego during a visit Thursday to Camp Pendleton. "It's an example of being as ready as you can for something that is completely unpredictable."
The vast region "from Hollywood to Bollywood, from polar bears to penguins," as Robling says, is home to 61 percent of the world's population and seven of the U.S.'s top trading partners.
To overcome what Toolan called the "tyranny of distance," 22,500 Marines will serve west of the international dateline.
A rotational force in northwestern Australia that started last year with about 250 Marines will grow in April to about 1,300 and include an infantry battalion. Eventually, the Corps hopes to have 2,500 Marines in Australia.
About 9,000 Marines will be moved out of Okinawa.
Guam will get about 4,700, with the first units relocating in 2021 pending congressional support.
"The real pivot point is economic and political rebalancing. As Ronald Reagan said, peace is achieved through strength. That is what the military provides to the Pacific. But it is not the all-important rebalancing effort," Toolan said.


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Since World War II, the chemical industry has been churning out supremely useful, long-lasting, synthetic chemicals by the tens of thousands—as many as 80,000 compounds, most that could never occur naturally. Manufacturers have put billions of tons of them to use in myriad ways—preventing your mattress or sofa from bursting into flames when you fall asleep with a cigarette; keeping your coffeemaker, television, laptop and stereo from overheating and becoming fire hazards; helping your raincoat shed rain and your upholstery shrug off spills; providing lightweight, unbreakable jugs for your milk and squeezable tubes for your toothpaste; grease-proofing the liners of oily, bagged dog food, and keeping the kibble from turning rancid during the long months it may sit in that bag. The list is endless.
Only a very few of these chemicals are adequately tested for safety before being put into general use. Indeed, the free market system for judging new compounds seems to be "innocent until proven guilty." Thirty years after they first went into use, PBDEs are finally receiving appropriate scrutiny. The European Union has phased out the use of two of the three commercial mixtures of PBDEs in new products, and limited use of the third formulation. Manufacturers in the U.S. have voluntarily stopped producing those two and use is being phased out nationwide as stocks are used up. Unfortunately, manufacture and use of a third PBDE mixture is still completely unregulated in all states except Washington and Maine. And because sofas and televisions aren't something one replaces frequently, products containing PBDEs will be sitting around in our houses for many years to come.
The sad truth is that the typical American household is awash in synthetic industrial chemicals—as are you, and as is your dog. It's enough to make you want to bury your head in the sand. But who knows what's in sand these days? And pessimism won't get us far. Better to roll up your sleeves and apply a little elbow grease to the problem.
There's a lot you can do to reduce your household's burden of indoor pollutants. As you replace furniture and rugs, choose new ones made of wool, hemp, cotton and other naturally more flame-resistant materials, and check manufacturers' websites to find out whether these products have been made or treated with flame retardants and stain repellants. Frankly, this won't always be easy, but it should become increasingly more so as the market for such products develops.
Ditto electronic equipment: Some manufacturers' websites claim their products don't use PBDEs; consider these when shopping for electronics.
Here are a few more tips.
•Don't use pans with non-stick coatings. There's still a lot of controversy about this, but old-fashioned cast iron is looking better and better.
•Grease-proof linings on dog food bags may be a significant dietary source of PFCs. Look for dog food bagged with untreated aluminum foil liners, if possible.
•Toss those plastic dog dishes, especially the water dish, and replace them with stainless steel.
•Don't use pesticides, fungicides or herbicides, or use them only sparinglyand after all else has failed.
•Use nontoxic household cleansers and polishes.
•Look up the Maine and Washington state bills phasing out PBDEs and consider working to get similar legislation passed in your state.
•And here's the depressing finale: vacuum, vacuum, vacuum. While you're at it, experts recommend, dust once a week with a damp cloth. Less dust equals lower exposure for all household members, no matter how you cut it.
Because this isn't just about our dogs and cats—it's about all of us.
Some nonprofits have websites with useful information on chemical hazards and pets. For starters, check out the following.
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
Addresses a broad range of harmful chemicals; includes a tip sheet and the full report on the testing EWG undertook for toxic chemical burdens in companion dogs and cats.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Focuses on pesticides and has a downloadable pocket guide to safer flea and tick treatments.
Washington Toxics Coalition
Offers a number of very informative fact sheets on household toxics, including one on antimicrobials.
And don't forget your own hide. EWG's cosmetic safety database, Skin Deep, offers a search engine into which you can plug the name and brand of any personal care product or cosmetic you use and get an idea of how safe—or unsafe—your products are. On behalf of all family members, quadruped and otherwise, keep those nasty chemicals to a minimum.
Illustration by John Hersey
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