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Why so many svchost processes??
I would really like to know why my process list has 13 instances of svchost running. Doesn't make a lot of sense. Can someone explain why this happens? What svchost is? Thanks.
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windows has a lot of background processes constantly running; they are called services and they perform various tasks, such as looking after your network, running windows update, diagnostics, drivers for your hardware, power policies and a load of other stuff.
windows uses the svchost program to host (run) these services, so many different services are running, using the same program.
this is a very simplified explanation, but i hope you get the idea.
this is perfectly normal behaviour, and nothing to worry about.
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each instance of svchost is a generic process that controls a different group of services, drivers, dlls, etc.. It's normal to have several instances running simultaneously but 13 of them would indicate quite a bit of bloat running on your computer (or a standard install of 7 ultimate, which for most users is overkill). You can get a general idea what each instance is related to by right clicking on it and selecting go to service(s) and a detailed report by running the resource monitor
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One thing I'm noticing is it takes FOREVER for my network connection to load. Maybe 20 seconds. I haven't timed it exactly. But basically, I see that blue lock for that duration, and when it goes away, I'm able to use my network. Is there any way to fix this? How would I know which svchost I'm looking for in this or is it a different process?
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W 7 64-bit Ultimate
Does it really take 20 whole seconds?
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Windows 7 64-bit Home
on a cold boot my network takes a good 8-10 seconds to connect, not 20 tho
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I haven't counted, but really, it seems like an eternity and it shouldn't. What I've found is that apparently the actual connection does occur, but the Blue Lock I was speaking of doesn't go away for a long amount of time. Yesterday, I was online despite having a Red X. I don't get it.
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|16 Oct 2010
Windows 7 Pro, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, Windows XP
If you want to get more details on your svchosts.exe processes, and what they are doing, head to Microsoft's site and check out the Sysinternals Suite.
Process Explorer is a tool that will reveal all the processes running on your system.
There are some great tutorials on the site for using the full power of this suite of tools - Download the full package, or just the tools you need...
Should help you understand what's going on in your system better.
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yeah.. agree with that, i've probably gone too far, but i do believe classical 4-elemental typeset is "non-pokemonish".
BTW, if there is a new typeset, i think it'd be great if each style has it's own strategy and specific attacks. I mean, if there's something i relly didn't like from gen V is the fact that EVERY type got attacks with almost EVERY base power... c'mon! in order to make it fun you need poison attacks to act slowly or normal attack (that are not strong against any type) to have the greatest base power or stuff like that. If that doesn't exist, strategy is reduced to type-against-type choices.
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Hi. I am Tom from Greyhound Games(the guy in the kickstarter movie). I am the developer for this game. I wanted to answer a few posts.
First for the above. The game is only inspired by Pokemon style games. An example of one of the many ways we stand apart is our combat system. Our battles are not 1v1 but instead we have much bigger battles. You normally have 3 monsters in play at any given time and you can bring a 4th in using a spirit totem mentioned in the original post.
To answer your question about elements, the elements perform a roll like in some tactical rpgs I have played. Each monster has an element which determines which monsters he is stronger against and which he is weaker against. These elements are:
Some of these form your typical rock paper scissors, but others have distinct roles. For example death monsters will perform better against almost all monsters except are totally destroyed by life monsters, while life monsters are weak against almost anything, except they totally destroy death monsters. So we have created roles for each of the elements.
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Brothers and sisters, please stand for the annual wintertime Liturgy of Economic Priority. You will see before you in the pew an Order for the Service of Bills as follows.
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Following the service there will be an Order of Remainders, which in most parishes is not considered to be canonical but is rather seen as Apocryphal, except on days of absolute obligation:
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I have been asked why I do not move into the grain tower, rather than attempt to survive the coming winter on top of it. Indeed it is a thing I have often contemplated. The trouble is, there is no actual inside other than the basement floor, which I would have to share with rats and expired pigeons. All else is open to the ceiling.
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The other morning I experienced a cultural shock. It was as though I had suddenly landed a parallel twilight universe in which Germany had won the war and then said sorry, the Indians discovered Europe, health insurance was a human right, the United Nations was headquartered in St. George, Owls Head had street signs warmly welcoming people to all its dead-end neighborhoods, and Rockland was the capital of the world. Yes, it was a shock of this magnitude.
It began when I showed a friend a joke photo (you may have seen it) featuring a doctored image of the "Star Wars" movie character Han Solo wearing a yarmulke, and a caption saying "Put the Han Back in Hanukkah."
She stared at the photo, and said I just don't get it. I was baffled to begin with, then astonished at her failure to immediately understand.
Come to find, this person whose name I will not reveal to protect her in her innocence, has never seen the movie "Star Wars." Never, not once, in her life. I had no idea there were such culturally destitute people left alive in America. The effect of this discovery upon me was as described above.
Nevertheless, in the space of five minutes I found two other women nearby who have never seen "Star Wars" either. "It's not exactly a chick flick," one of them told me, as though that explained anything.
Appealing to the others in the room, I found one gentleman who dates the unraveling of his first marriage to the day he dragged his first wife to see "Star Wars."
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I saw a man wearing his torn summer clothes on Union Street the other day. Later I saw a woman in the library wearing the thinnest of old summer shoes, carrying her possessions in plastic bags.
Where do the homeless go when the homeless shelter is shut and empty? It was not the best place to put a homeless shelter, out there in the empty Rockport countryside, but at least it was there even if operations did begin to unravel in these last years and the board members who were supposed to oversee things seem to have vanished into thin air.
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There has been much rumpus of late about the way the Supreme Court decided that corporations more or less have the same rights as human beings, including the right to pour huge wads of cash into electoral and legislative politics.
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Real people bleed.
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In my eternal vigilance over state government websites, I noticed recently that the Maine Film Office touts Portland Headlight as a potential location for making movies.
I presume the Portland Headlight is located somewhere at the front of the Portland Automobile? As a washed-up former newspaper editor, I could not avoid mentioning this.
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It would not be Christmas without Fabulous Bob wearing his corny old button, which consists simply of a letter L with a strike mark through it.
If you don't get the joke, and I have seen many people wrack their brains and scratch their heads in a vain attempt to crack this Yuletide Code, then maybe I'll explain it later.
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I was told last week that a certain baby being born in Manhattan this month cannot be visited for three weeks by anybody who has not had a full course of shots.
There is some fairly pointless debate about when exactly the Three Wise Guys visited our baby Lord and Savior, whether 'twas in the stable itself or some time later when the family had gone back home. Imagine if they had been obliged to line up for vaccinations before being let in to see the manger and give their presents.
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Speaking of that time long ago, the recent news of wanton death in Connecticut puts one in mind of the Slaughter of the Innocents, which is supposed to have been committed by a king anxious about his royal privilege and the threat that one tiny child was believed to represent.
"A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."
However I have resolved to say nothing more, nor even to engage in discussion, about this terrible thing. It is beyond my ability to say or do anything helpful, because it is already too late.
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A lengthy meeting last night heard contributions from across the party.
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A priority would be 'modernising the party in Dublin to make Fianna Fáil a campaigning organisation again', Mr Carey said.
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PROVO — Coming out of the Chicago Invitational Challenge, which ended with a loss to Wisconsin, BYU men's basketball coach Dave Rose wants his team to "D-up."
More specifically, he wants his team to play defense for longer than 20 seconds.
"It takes some real discipline to get better defensively as the shot clock gets deeper," said Rose. "It seemed as if we played our best defense (against Wisconsin) the first four or five passes and our worst defense the last drive or the last pass … hopefully we'll learn from that and get better."
Getting better on any aspect starts with practice and film study. Monday saw Rose direct a very physical and intense practice session as he's trying to instill a certain defensive style within his players.
The practice saw such players as Noah Hartsock and Stephen Rodgers unable to finish the session due to a turned ankle and a twisted knee, respectively, that Rose attributed to the increased intensity.
"We weren't standing around, we were flying around," said Rose following practice. "We were kind of anticipating the next pass and defensively we were very good. Offensively we weren't real good, but our effort was good."
Hartsock and Rodgers aren't expected to miss the Cougars' next game tonight against Northern Arizona.
Another facet that Rose is working on with his team is rebounding out of a zone defense, which has proven to be a challenge, particularly against Wisconsin.
While it's the frontcourt players that are usually expected to handle the rebounding responsibilities, Rose believes the key is with his backcourt.
"We have some real issues (with rebounding) and we need to get our guards more involved," he assessed. "Our big guys tend to get tied up with the big players and it's always hard to get a body on someone and to go get the ball, so most teams will send a guard or two back and get down the court early, so those guys are free and they need to get more involved."
COLLINSWORTH STILL AILING: Chris Collinsworth was able to practice this week, but only on a limited basis. Rose indicated that he will travel with the team, but that he's doubtful to play against Northern Arizona.
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Until last week, it was easy to describe relations between the H. J. Heinz Company, the world's largest tuna canner, and environmental groups trying to save dolphins tangled in tuna nets. ''We were the bitterest of enemies,'' one defender of the dolphins said.
But on Thursday, Heinz's Star-Kist Seafood Company said it would no longer buy tuna trapped by nets that kill dolphins. Within hours, Star-Kist's leading competitors, the Van Camp Seafood Company and Bumble Bee Seafoods Inc., announced similar policies of buying tuna from fisherman using ''dolphin safe'' methods. These moves will affect nearly 70 percent of the canned tuna sold in the United States.
Anthony J. F. O'Reilly, the chairman of Heinz, attributed his company's decision to both external influences - lobbying by environmentalists and a consumer boycott of tuna -and an internal corporate debate. ''There was an epic debate, almost theological in tone'' about whether to adopt the dolphin-safe policy, Mr. O'Reilly said in a telephone interview.
The consumer boycott, which included a growing number of schoolchildren, seemed to argue for a dolphin-safe policy.
But Star-Kist's internal marketing surveys showed a risk: only half of all consumers were willing to pay higher prices for dolphin-safe tuna. The other half presumably wanted the least expensive tuna.
The furor over dolphins arises because the playful and intelligent marine mammals swim above the delicately flavored, much-prized yellowfin tuna. When tuna fishermen set their nets on the fish, they also drag in the air-breathing dolphins, who often drown before the nets are hauled in.
Star-Kist officials say that under the company's new policy, tuna prices may rise 2 cents to 10 cents a can because of higher freight costs. Star-Kist is likely to buy more tuna from those who fish farther from the United States, where dolphins do not swim with tuna.
Still, ''the negative publicity of doing nothing would probably have harmed Heinz,'' said Pavlos M. Alexandrakis, an analyst with the Argus Research Corporation. ''Heinz would have looked like it was not being run by socially conscious people.''
The history of Heinz's decision is also a story of an unlikely network of people. There is the biologist whose film of dolphins drowning in tuna nets prompted a former fashion model to protest their deaths. There is her husband, a record company executive, who lobbied Mr. O'Reilly. And there is, above all, Mr. O'Reilly himself -chief executive of Heinz since 1979. A former rugby star, he possessed the media savvy that comes from being Ireland's leading press baron, controlling The Irish Independent.
Heinz under Mr. O'Reilly has a sterling reputation on Wall Street for squeezing handsome profit out of relatively mundane products - like Ore-Ida potatoes, 9 Lives cat food and, of course, ketchup.
Over a decade, the Pittsburgh-based company has nearly quadrupled profits and more than doubled sales. In the year ended April 30, 1989, Heinz earned $440 million on sales of more than $5.8 billion.
In the fiscal year ending this month, Heinz's Star-Kist tuna will post pretax income of $160 million, according to William Leach, an analyst with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. That is up more than 10 percent from $145 million a year earlier.
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But to keep Star-Kist profits growing is a challenge, said Keith A. Hauge, president of the Star-Kist subsidiary, which is based in Long Beach, Calif. Despite Star-Kist's well-known commercials with ''Charlie the Tuna,'' consumer's brand loyalty is low. Also, preparing tuna for canning, a process that is mostly done by hand, is so expensive that Heinz can do little to fatten margins with productivity gains.
That leaves the brute force of sales volume. On the supermarket shelf, canned tuna retails for about 89 cents for a 6.5-ounce can of chunk light tuna, but retailers often mark it down to 69 cents to entice customers into the store. The practice means that profit margins are so low that for anyone - fishermen, canners, or retailers - to make money, the volume of tuna caught and sold must be high.
Fishermen, who now receive about 44 cents a pound for tuna, have long used high-volume methods of harvesting the fish. In the 1960's they began to use huge circular nets, which also ensnared dolphins.
In 1972, a Federal law, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, set a ceiling of 20,500 dolphins that can be killed each year by American tuna fishermen. Federal observers are posted on the 65 American vessels that catch nearly all of the tuna sold in the United States. But environmentalists assert that enforcement has been lax, especially on foreign boats, 30 percent of which are also supposed to be monitored under the law.
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Consumer boycotts have rarely hurt a target company's sales. Star-Kist's revenue and profit actually grew during the two years of the boycott called by the Earth Island Institute, an environmentalist organization in San Francisco, and other groups.
For its part, Heinz believed that it was not effectively communicating its commitment to protecting the dolphins. Since 1970, officals said, Star-Kist had been helping reduce the number of dolphins killed by buying only from boats that used special nets and procedures that allowed more dolphins to escape.
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compre este vestido en color azul, el mismo dia que pague, quise cambiar el color, les escribieduran una semana todos losdias y no recibi respuesta alguna... me llego del color que no queria, pero lo mas grave de todo, es que en el total de la compra iba incluido el precio del envio, y cuando me llega a casa, correos me dice que tengo que abonar 24 euros de gastos de envio!!!! les volvi a escribir diceiendo que habia habido un error en el pago y no me han vuelto a escribir. no he recibido ningun tipo de respuesta. y para colmo, paypal nose hacecargo!!!
tengan mucho cuidado!!!
hubo error en el color que pedi, no lo quiero azul, lo quiero en color PLATEADO.
Can you please send me pictures of your version of this dress? in all the colors you have
I would love to be able to see this dress in watermelon, sage, royal blue, blue, light sky blue, regency, and fuchsia?
Thanks Emma
I would need this dress by November 19, 2011. Is that possible? Also, would you reccommend this dress in the color Watermelon?
Thank you,
Réponse de JenJenHouse 2011-10-31 00:11:09
Hi Stephanie,
Thank you for contacting us.
We can make it delivered to your place by 19 November if you place your order as soon as possible and choose expedited shipping. Also, the dress will looks nice in Watermelon. I would like to attach a picture of our color sample in Watermelon for your reference. Hope this helps.
If you have any other questions,please feel free to contact us.
Hi, could you please send me pictures if you have them, of this beautiful gown in champagne, hunter, ivory, and dafodil? I'm in love with this dress for a military ball! I just can't picture it in different colors. Thanks so much!
Réponse de JenJenHouse 2011-10-12 23:42:18
Hi Nikki,
Thank you for contacting us.
As we don't have all the pictures you asked for I have attached some pictures of it in hunter Green and pictures of some color samples for your reference. Hope they would be helpful to you.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us.
hi, i need a dress for an event in 2 weeks...guessing it can't be done? :/ would really love to have that dress!
Réponse de JenJenHouse 2011-09-05 23:28:49
Hi Lauren,
Thank you for contacting us.
Normally , we need at least 21 days to make the dress done and delivered to your place. So, 2 weeks are too urgent for us. I am afraid we cannot meet your in-handle-date this time. Hope you can shop with us in the near future.
If you have any other questions,please feel free to contact us.
Hello, I would like to see this dress in both brown and chocolate. Also, about how long does it take to recieve the order??
Réponse de JenJenHouse 2011-09-01 02:53:59
Hi Ann,
Thank you for contacting us.
I have attached some pictures of the dress in dark navy for your reference for we don't have pictures in colors you mentioned. Hope they can also help you in some way.Normally , we need 21 days to make it done and shipped to your place.Please know that.
If you have any other questions,please feel free to contact us.
Hi there,
could you send me a picture of this dress in champagne? Being the maid of honour at my sisters wedding, i want to make sure that this dress is the one =)
Réponse de JenJenHouse 2011-08-22 21:10:53
Hi Alexandra,
Thank you for contacting us.
Please check the attachment to see the pictures you requested. Hope they would be helpful to you.
If you have any other questions,please feel free to contact us.
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I purchased this mop direct from Thane after seeing the adverts on TV.
Good points: fast delivery
Bad points: steam cleans floors but leaves them sopping wet and I have to go over the floors to dry them!! I have tried adjusting the steam but it is still happening. Blue coral mop head was missing from pack and I called to report this was sent a replacement microfibre head instead!!! Handle is very flimsy and bends as you are using the mop I cannot see this lasting very long. Purchased the extended warranty and after reading the 'small print' it is limited to a single claim per purchaser and is terminated after 1 claim (how can this be called extended) I think this is probably one of the worst items I have ever purchased. Price £156.97 with extra mop heads and warranty.


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This is my favorite chai, largely because it has a variety of spices (and there are big chunks of them, as in the picture) but no pepper! The ginger is also on the mild side – cinnamon, cardamom, and clove are the strongest spice flavors. I also love the bit of sweetness from the maple sugar. I think it's the maple that gives this a really sweet fragrance in addition to the spice, too. The black tea isn't a strong flavor, but it gives a backbone to the spices, so that the overall impression is of a strongly flavored tea (much more so than spices alone – I've tried). I would drink this all the time if it wouldn't destroy my budget.
I've never managed to oversteep this (and I steep it like regular black tea, 1tsp/8oz, 3-5 minutes), but I might not notice because I always add milk. Seriously though, so much love!


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Don't worry guys, 'cuz I haven't changed a bit: I went away for a while and saw things—attack ships on fire/C-beams/Tannhauser gate . . . would you believe that the entire scene was extemporized? And I made sure to learn absolutely nothing because otherwise how would we relate so well? We got a good rut and I for one plan to take a nap in it.
ANYWAY: Madman Moon gives Ello Grilo her little touch of Nilsson in the night and Loma Lynda—that band who shot their own films then played their own music in front of the films which they themselves had shot; what a triumph of the individual's capacity to create—are back and evidently pissed at a lack of critical appreciation because they changed their name to PHILISTINE! and officially attached that exclamation mark to the end of it. Like a guy once said: No one understands my art pain! At Detroit.
Very Be Careful loves every torrid place: sings in Spanish over accordion corridos from south of Our Wall and then rhythm section/chicken-pickin guitar from Sound Dimension at Studio One. This is reggae/roots/and Spanish-alliterative-starting-with-'R' from the LA-area party band so accomplished at fun that they bung—rung + booze—in the new year at the most hardcore Ramada Inn lounge up in Hollywood, where the most intense shenanigans tend to transpire. Your dad still drinks beers and barbecues? Bring him out, too. He would like this. Plus, rumored kissing booth with DJ Dennis Goodfoot and bros. Chicks, bring gloss, and dudes, have the courtesy to shave, please. At Alex's with bucks off if you come in costume.
AND: Tash of the Alkaholiks soaks it up at The Roc, which used to be the Tiki Bar but which is now booking some pretty convincing hip hop; they sell Devo costumes at that Halloween store on the 5 and I bet you'd make a lot of new friends not really worth befriending if you wore that to the show at the Grove.
Halloween's real weekend and I am gonna send you out to see the Thermals. They haven't been the same since their first drummer took a constitutional, but Hutch Harris still makes a band that sounds like the Swell Maps stuck on the Nervous Breakdown 45 and that makes a band that has some righteous hate (whole new record is a curse-opera about Amerikkka done with more care and literacy than I could convey) and some true lil heart, too. I will never forget when I saw Thermals blow out on the last night of crummy SXSW and a whole ugly leather tangle of industry space-wasters remembered for about fifteen minutes how they used to be human and think the Ramones were romantic. At the Glass House with Cursive.
PLUS: Abstract Workshop and L_ephunk plus Leprechaun in the Hood for the traditional HELL_EPHUNK hip hop/soul/funk/beats trick or treat at Detroit. Jud Nester goes live surely with some impressive costume—I could see this guy pulling out some seriously good and obscure '80s pop culture reference—and then it's Night Of The Living DJs with every name you'd want to see all in a long line. Recommended.
AND: Z-Trip at the Vault for beat people too beat to drive to OC; Spindrift does spaghetti/psych with top shelf instro band the Antarcticans and post-Mainframe New Order back-orderers Repeater at Prospector.
Poet and rocker and literate chick-bait Derrick Brown was so OC famous and then he left and a thousand polysyllabic females felt their hearts melt—no, wait, felt their hearts DELIQUESCE! His John Wilkes Kissing Booth/All Black Cinema/Sparks-meets-Sprockets Glock Und Spiel made the musical c.v., and he makes books too—word books—that made astute-r critics than this one say things like, "Derrick Brown, as every thirty-something woman in the county is aware, is yummy and he is fine. And his poetry is stupid-sexy,too." What up, Becca—come get some at Open in Long Beach.
PLUS: Ms. Fits at Alex's!
AND: If you want to see people wearing even more face paint and makeup, then you can go to Ladytron at the Glass House.
Delta Spirit are San Diego rock & soul controllers like the Dogs with more authority as they invite people to testify, or like the Make-Up without the irony or the makeup—but I do have to point out: although this name may innocently be intended to suggest the spirit of a place in the American south to which rock & soul music owe so much, it also sounds like one of those budget regional airlines where you see the pilots drinking in the bar while you're checking your baggage. And we already have Pilot Scott Tracy to do that. At Detroit.
How much horror for you today, gals and ghouls: the dead live again with the unfortunately scheduled Sublime Remembered troupe at the Galaxy, which is already in bad taste so it might as well go all the way to hideously injurious taste and have people in zombie get-up singing "Santeria" and auctioning off the deceased's personal effects for a good charity. The Germs and the Doors of 21st Century (sounds like the scammy pyramid scheme that books its sales reps on Delta Spirit) and the Sex Pistols should all get in on this too, and we'll finish with a big groupie sance just to make sure nobody is getting too much rest even if they are dead.
AND MORE TERROR: The pride of Oceania: Australia's top Pink Floyd tribute plays the Grove and wonders why all these Americans are dressed so crazy, or doesn't because they're an Australian Pink Floyd tribute band and too drunk and numb to even notice. We don't need no education and we never did, neither!
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AND YET MORE: 45 Grave is better than anything the Misfits are doing now so spot Dinah Cancer or dinah boredom from your own fault. At the Vault with Veruca Salt for some oddly scheduled reason.
Marianne Faithfull is more permanently associated with chocolate bars than Willy Wonka but ain't that unfair because she was better than Nico: sadder when she was sad and winsome-r when she was winsome and even as disco-credible as Yoko for that post punk late '70s comeback, too. This girl's life, man—other than that not-herself detour with Metallica, it's about enough to make your heart deliquesce. Lady sings the blues at the HOB.
AND THE LONG NIGHT NEVER LIFTS: John Tesh sucks your blood—vlah!—at the Cerritos Center, which he does once a year around this time as terms of the bargain he had to make to get the life he got. Vlah!
Swedeos make Blondie safer—it's the Scandinavian impulse to safen up their cars and their furniture and their wholesome credulous womens—and call it the Sounds, and it is the kind of dance party the fancy-haired people around here just love to love, dahling. At the Galaxy. Don't ever change, OC.


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This briefing paper charts the implementation controversial reforms to the probation service. Most offenders are now supervised by Community Rehabilitation Companies, which are mostly privately led. A new public sector National Probation Service manages high risk offenders. So what's the verdict so far?Jump to full report >>
This briefing paper charts the progress of recent reforms to probation services in England and Wales. It also brings together some of the commentary.
Under the Transforming Rehabilitation programme, the Coalition Government introduced major controversial reforms. These included:
In addition, an extra 45,000 offenders are being brought into the probation system. This is because, for the first time, those sentenced to less than12 months in prison are going to be supervised in the community upon release.
In late 2013, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) invited bids to run the new CRCs. Thirty bidders were shortlisted; eight providers were finally chosen. These are mainly led by the private sector working in partnership with voluntary sector organisations. However, one is led by a probation staff "mutual". CRCs will subcontract work to other organisations.
In June 2014, the new National Probation Service was launched, and the 21 CRCs were created. Staff employed by Probation Trusts were divided between the two parts of the service.
At first, the CRCs were publicly owned. However, from 1 February 2015, the eight new providers took ownership.
The CRCs started providing what are called "through the gate" services from 1 May 2015. The MoJ has established a network of resettlement prisons which house prisoners in the last weeks of their sentence. The CRCs provide resettlement services in those prisons.
A key part of the reforms was a "Payment by Results" mechanism in the contracts. CRCs receive funding in two parts:
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation has produced five reports evaluating the reforms as they have gone through. The most recent, published in May 2016, found improvements in joint working and communication between the CRCs and the NPS, particularly in dealing with breaches or increased risk of harm However, there were problems with court work, staff training and morale.
A National Audit Office report in April 2016 found that probation services have been sustained throughout a period of major change. However, there were concerns over caseloads, and also about ICT systems, which the NAO said were creating "severe inefficiencies". The report noted that the performance of the new probation landscape will not be clear until data on reoffending is compiled in late 2017.
The MoJ has emphasised the importance of the voluntary sector in the CRC partnerships; however, there have been concerns about lack of clarity for that sector about what their role will be. A report in May 2016 noted that the pace of change was slow and involvement of the voluntary sector in supply chains appeared low.
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Album Rating: 4.0Oh man. This album really gives me the feels. It feels so curt and concise in its pauses between songs and simplicity in its catchiness. And a 4 feels great for this.
Digging: Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
Album Rating: 3.5Cool stuff. 'No need for a leader', the end of 'one at a time' and 'so good at being in trouble' are all pretty sweet.
Album Rating: 4.0nice t1ts
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Album Rating: 4.0bro light a blunt and jam this shit. I would but im too busy killing myself at community college
Album Rating: 3.5yea, i liked this album quite a bit. Definitely an enjoyable listen.. So Good at being in trouble is stuck in my head still hahaha..
what is this? officially curious about this band.
Modern psych pop. It rules, check it out.
yeah I read that. got it queued up. m/
Dunno how else to describe it really.
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Album Rating: 4.0its like tame impala
Kinda. It sounds more like Pond's Beard, Wives, Denim actually.
such a nice album
to me every one of these songs sounds like a demo
i kinda like the style
Album Rating: 3.5pretty fuckin sweet album... very chill
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Austin Aztex to Host AC Milan in Friendly
Aztex add Copa El Mundo champs to preseason schedule
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6:16PM, Tue. Apr. 8, 2014
No, this isn't an extremely belated April Fools joke, but neither are Robinho and Mario Balotelli coming to town. The Austin Aztex announced today that they've added to their preseason schedule a game with local club AC Milan of the Liga Lempira.
AC Milan just won the 25th annual Copa El Mundo, a four-team multi-league invitational put on by the local Spanish-language paper El Mundo. The game will be up at Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex, 10211 W Parmer Ln., on Sunday, April 13 at 4pm.
That'll be the Aztex' third preseason game; they play Incarnate Word this Friday, April 11, at 6:30pm at Ray Thomas Fields in Georgetown, after opening their preseason last Friday by beating Southwestern University, 2-0. With just 16 players on the current roster, and only a few of those available until college ends next month, the Aztex have a lot of prospects trying to make an impression on new coach Mario Buentello in these games.
The PDL title defense begins at House Park on Saturday, May 10 against the Houston Dutch Lions.
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"We're able to see trends, see degradation and are able to see things that allow us to get started on remediation or avoidance and reducing the outage itself and, in fact, avoiding it," says Mark Hansard, VP of systems and security for Virtela.
By using predictive analytics, Virtela can offer service level agreements (SLAs) to its customers that set the actual-time-to-repair (ATTR) for a network problem, as opposed to the industry standard mean-time-to-repair (MTTR), says Mark Weiner, VP of marketing for the company. By seeing potential network problems before they can cause problems, Virtela also claims it can deliver a five-fold reduction in network downtime and a 30 percent reduction in support and operating costs for customers.
As IT becomes more complex, combining cloud and on-premise systems, and companies face growing compliance demands and cost pressure, businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on so-called remote IT management services (RIMS) from companies such as Virtela. Other RIMS providers include large global players such as IBM, HCL and Wipro, as well as telecommunications companies such as AT&T.
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The present invention relates to an optical apparatus used for a laser device for operation.
A laser knife for medical use condenses rays of laser of high output, for example, such as rays of CO2 laser, and, by utilization of high temperatures then produced, vaporizes or solidifies a composition composed of protein or the like to effect operation. Since such laser knife for medical use possesses several advantages noted below, it is now increasingly used in field of surgical treatment.
(1) It offers styptic effects.
(2) Micro-surgery can be effected.
(3) Influence on those other than the affected part is minimal.
(4) Non-contact surgery can be effected.
In view of further advantages such that the diameter of the condensed beam of laser is very small and that the rays of laser may be introduced by the optical system into a deep part in a state of non-contact, micro-surgery laser operating apparatus, which is safety and easy in handling, has been demanded in the fields of cranial nerve surgery, otorhynoloaryngologist, and obstetrician, who must operate the deep part of the body.
To fulfill such demands, a few processes have been proposed lately. A first process is that rays of laser condensed by an infrared ray transmission lens are introduced to the affected part by a plane reflector fixed frontwardly of an objective lens of the microscope, and the sight of the laser beam is adjusted by moving the entire microscope up and down, right and left, and back and forth.
A second process is that rays of laser condensed by an infrared ray transmission lens are introduced to the affected part by a light introducing 45░ reflector, which is designed so that it can be moved slightly in front of an objective lens of the microscope, and the sight of the laser beam is adjusted by varying an angle of the 45░ reflector. This process is described in detail in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 8085/1974, entitled "Stereoscopic Laser Endoscope".
However, according to the above-described two processes, the rays of laser are commonly condensed by the lens and therefore, they are unavoidably sufferred from out-of-focus of the condensed spot resulting from a slight transmission loss of the rays of laser and spherical aberration. Also, in the first process, in which the entire microscope is moved, there poses problems such that it is difficult to effect fine or slight movement if manual operation is employed, and that a large apparatus must be used if power operation is employed. Even in the second process, in spite of the fact that a mechanism, by which the angle of the introducing 45░ reflector positioned in front of the objective lens is varied without impairing the range of field through an eyepiece, becomes complicated, it was impossible to allow the 45░ reflector to effect its elevation movement and horizontal rotation in a completely independent manner when the reflector is shaked thereabout. This means that the sight of a laser spot cannot smoothly be adjusted to the target position by operating a single stick (a maneuvering lever). For example, it poses a problem such that even when the stick is moved laterally, the laser spot will move not only laterally but vertically.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope which can minimize loss of rays of laser, produce no put-of-focus of the condensed spot, and afford a good maneuverability.
This and other objects have been attained by the laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope according to the present invention, which comprises a laser beam introducing 45░ reflector arranged between two optical axes so as not to impair the range of vision frontwardly of a binocular telescope for operation, a parabolic mirror with a surface displaced from an axis for condensing introduced beams of laser and serving as an objective lens of the microscope, a plane reflector driven by motors to direct the condensed beams of laser and an optical axis of the microscope, and a maneuvering mechanism including a stick for operating said motors.
In accordance with the laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope of the present invention, the introduced laser beams are condensed by the parabolic mirror with a surface displaced from an axis, and for this reason, the loss of rays of laser can be minimized and the out-of-focus of the condensed laser beam and the optical axis of the microscope may be directed towards the target by means of the plane reflector driven by the motors through the operation of the operating stick, and hence, the laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope, which is excellent in maneuverability, may be provided.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of a laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side view in section of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a plan view in section of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1; and
FIG. 4 is a circuit representation showing one embodiment of a servo-control for moving a plane reflector used in the apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
An embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of a laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope in accordance with the present invention; FIG. 2 is a side view in section thereof, and FIG. 3 is a plan view in section of the same. Rays of laser 10 generated by a laser generator (not shown) enter a housing 14 through a laser ray introducing portion 12 and are reflected by a 45░ reflector 16 and then condensed by a parabolic mirror 18 with a surface displaced from an axis, and the rays are then reflected by a plane mirror 20 towards the outside and incident on the affected part P'. Visible rays of light 22 from the affected part P' are reflected by the plane mirror 20 and formed into parallel rays of light by the parabolic mirror 18, and the rays of light pass by the opposite sides of the 45░ reflector 16 into a magnification varying optical system 24. In a prism system 26, an inverted image is formed into an erect image and the affected part is observed by an eyepiece 28. The magnification varying optical system 24 serves to vary the magnification of the microscope while maintaining a working distance in constant.
The parabolic mirror 18 with a surface displaced from an axis is a mirror of which reflection surface is a partial surface displaced from main axis (axis-Y) of parabolic surface formed when a parabola taking an original point O with a focal point at P in the X-Y plane in FIG. 2 is rotated about the axis-Y.
Such a parabolic mirror has already been used for an astronomical telescope or the like, which is easily available. The parabolic mirror 18 reflectes rays of light incident in parallel to the main axis and condenses them at the focal point with no-aberration. Since the rule of reflection is established irrespective of wavelength of light, no aberration is produced with respect both to rays of CO2 laser having the wavelength of 10.6 μ and to visible rays of light for observation.
A condenser lens used in an optical system, which requires exact registration of the focal position of the observation optical system with the focal position of rays of CO2 laser as in the present apparatus, need to have an accurate focal distance as specified in design. However, since conventional focal distance measuring apparatus by means of visual light cannot be used for infrared ray of 10.6 μ, it is impossible to verify and correct the focal distance in the stage of polishing step. It was therefore, necessary to produce several different lenses to select one closest to the specification for user or to incorporate a complicated lens fine movement focus control mechanism into the apparatus. It is noted that parabolic mirror with a surface displaced from an axis in preferably utilized to provide a laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope, which is safety and simple in construction.
Rays of CO2 laser introduced from the outside advance parallel to the main axis with the aid of the 45░ reflector, which is positioned in the midst of a binocular optical system and secured to a position not to shut off rays of visible light for observation as described previously, are reflected and condensed by the parabolic mirror 18 and reflected by the plane reflector 20, and then condensed at pont P' which is in surface symmetry with the original focal point P. As a consequence, even if the plane reflector 20 is shaked, only the point P' will move whereas the focal point P will not change its position. Therefore, the rays of light from the moving point P' is always incident on the parabolic mirror 18 as if it comes out of the fixed point P. When the parabolic mirror 18 is moved to move the condensed point P' of beams of CO2 laser, the condition where the beams of CO2 laser are allowed to make incidence thereof parallel to the main axis fails to be satisfied to produce an aberration in the focal point of the laser beam and the observed image. In the laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope according to the present invention, it is designed so that the parabolic mirror 18 with a surface displaced from an axis is fixed but the plan reflector 20 is movable, whereby the disadvantages noted above may be eliminated.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the plane reflector 20 is mounted on a rotational shaft of a servo-motor 32 mounted on a vertical member of an L-shaped supporting bed 44, which has a horizontal member mounted on a rotational shaft of a servo-motor 30. A stick 34, which controls signals to the servo-motors, may be maneuvered to rotate the plane reflector 20 about the vertical axis by means of the servo-motor 30 and about the horizontal axis by means of the servo-motor 32.
FIG. 4 is a circuit representation showing one embodiment of a servo-control used in the laser optical apparatus for operation under a microscope to effect positional control of the plane reflector. In a stick mechanism 60, guide plates 62 and 64, which are made from metal plates each formed with an elongated rectangular hole or opening therethrough, the metal plates being bended into a semi-circular configuration, are crossed at right angles to each other, one end thereof being rotatably mounted on a case 66 whereas the other end being mounted on shafts of potentiometers 50 and 52, respectively, A stick 34 is inserted into a hole at a point of intersection between the guide plates 62 and 64, and the lower end thereof is fixed in universal-joint fashion so that the upper end thereof can be moved freely by hands.
In bridge circuits 36 and 38, when the stick 34 is in the middle position, resistance values of resistors R1 to R8 are adjusted so that voltages between a and b and between e and f, respectively, are zero (0). That is, equations R1ū R2=R3ūR4 and R5ūR6 = R7 ū R8 are established. When the stick 34 is displaced from the central position towards the direction A, the resistor R3 in the potentioneter 52 decreases to unbalance the bridge 38 and to produce a negative potential at point E. This negative potential is supplied to an amplifier 40 where it is amplified and then supplied to the servo-motor 30. When a negative voltage is applied to the servo-motor 30, the servo-motor 30 rotates rightwardly rotation of which is reduced in r.p.m. by a gear mechanism enclosed to slightly rotate the L-shaped supporting bed 44. As a consequence, the plane reflector 20 is slightly rotated in conjunction with the servo-motor mounted on the L-shaped supporting bed 44. A potentiometer 46 associated with the rotational shaft of the servo-motor 30 gradually increases in resistance R4 as the motor runs, and when the equation R1 ū R2 = R3 ū R4 is again to be established, the voltage between e and f assumes 0 to stop the servo-motor 30.
Conversely, when the stick 34 is displaced in the direction of A', the resistance R3 increases to produce a positive voltage at pont e and as a result, the servo-motor 30 runs leftwardly. Then, the resistance R4 of the potentiometer 46 decreases to balance the bridge circuit 38 and at this time, the servo-motor 30 stops.
When the stick 34 is displaced from the central position to the direction B or B', the resistance R7 of the potentiometer 50 varies in value and the servo-motor 30 causes the plane reflector 20 to be slightly rotated about the axis z rightwardly or leftwardly. When the stick 34 is displaced in a direction other than the direction A-- A' and B--B', two potentiometers 50 and 52 simultaneously run and the plane reflector 20 receives a combined motion of two slight rotations about the axes x and z. In this manner, since the shaking motion of a single stick 34 and the shaking motion of the plane reflector 20 are in the ratio of 1 : 1, the operator may easily maneuver the apparatus. In other words, by employment of such an electric process as described above, it is not only capable of remote-controlling the apparatus but also of establishing a linear correspondence as previously mentioned between the shaking angle of the stick and the shaking angle of the plane reflector. It will further be noted in the control by means of the electric process that the sensitivity of the amplifier may be changed over by means of a switch whereby even when the stick is greatly displaced, the plane reflector is moved only in a small amount for the performance of precise operation. As is apparent from the foregoing, since two motors may be driven by a single stick (a maneuvering lever), operation is not only simple but remote control operation is possible to be made by extending a cord. For this reason, in the case where the operator holds operating instruments or the like in his hands, his assistant, while staying is a position away from the operator monitoring a television, can adjust the sight of a laser spot to the target position as instructed by the operator in a condition where disinfection is not required. Moreover, the present invention employs a method for moving the plane reflector in order to simultaneously reflect rays of light for observation and rays of laser, and accordingly, the range of vision and the laser spot will move at the same time and no displacement therebetween occurs. It should be noted that a glass plate, in which a circle of the same size as that of the laser spot is depicted about a point of crossed lines, may be inserted into the eyepiece system to thereby clearly indicate the position and the size of the laser spot, which eliminates the provision of guide light heretofore required.
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I have the pattern for a blizzard quilt, but not a picture of what it looks like when it is finished. Any one have the picture of one? It is made with scraps. I need the picture.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I have the pattern for a blizzard quilt, but not a picture of what it looks like when it is finished. Any one have the picture of one? It is made with scraps. I need the picture.
Sorry I can't help you, I googled and found these instructions: http://www.oocities.org/heartland/fl.../blizzard.html
Is that the one you are talking about?
Since it's scrappy, the lengths will differ, hmmmm...I can visualize how it sort of looks, but I think it's one of those things that you just let go of control and sew without worrying about the end result.
Something an instructor taught us once was to play with crayons, sometimes sketching it out and colouring it in is enough to help those that can't picture it in their head. Hope that helps,
Yukon Territory, Canada
I found these links, the 1st one is actually a thread from here on qb...
When I am looking for specific pictures, I do a google search, but I click the image button..that way it brings up all the pictures..
Good luck to you,
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest~Mark Twain
I may be totally wrong, but for some reason I think of a blizzard quilt as being similar to this one. Bonnie Hunter calls this the String-X . http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/string-x.html
I think the directions I saw years ago had you sewing a long strip of the strings and then cutting them to length for your block.
But then again, maybe I just dreamed it, lol. Laura
From your previous post, someone posted this link - http://www.flickr.com/photos/indigocarole/2118689410/ - I think it is the best example of what the quilt might look like. It's just made up of scrappy rows of different heights, and within each row each "block" has a different width, depending on how much fabric you had of that block. Sort of like a jelly roll quilt, if the strips were all different widths and lengths, but the same width on each row (for easier sewing!). Sounds like a great way to use up scraps, and might work well for the back of a quilt as well as for the front.


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|babymajic0506 wrote:
|woooah, I just read...2 tablespoons is waaaaaaay tooo much to start her off on(in the bottle).
Do a lil at a time! Start with a tablespoon the 1st weeks and continually raise the amount little by little!
Reguardless, she'll be more rested between feedings cuz her belly will be fuller than with just formula!
|babymajic0506 wrote:
|yea, that's probably because she's stuffed! Lol...It's cool though.
I said that because it can cause severe cramping if they're over stuffed and I don't want .Kaylee to be hurting!
|foxy wrote:
|are you sure you meant two tablespoons or two teaspoons, cause two tablespoons in a 5oz bottle that would be too thick for her to suck out of a regular nipple.......She probably stopped after a few oz because her little jaws were tired from having to suck so hard
|melissa_20 wrote:
|she is one of the cutest babies i've ever seen!
|lil_blaze2004 wrote:
|i know a lot of people do it, but I have heard from numerous different people, not to put it in the bottle.
But she'll get used to it soon! She looks so cute!!
|octoberbaby06 wrote:
.Aww thank you so much .Can't wait to see pictures of your little one!
|babymajic0506 wrote:
october, if you have to puncture the bottles, then you're adding too much.
|michelle1981 wrote:
hehe!! Melly isn't pregnant
|octoberbaby06 wrote:
lmao, oops, I apparently got you & her mixed up!
|san54 wrote:
|i am going to butt in where I don't belong. On a recent dr phil show, he had a family of pediatricians. According to them, you should not feed cereal to babies until they are 6 months old, and rice cereal can damage the babies intestines if it is given too early. I am sorry if this angers some of you newer mothers. I just thought that you should know. My baby days are long over and I am not a grandmother yet.


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I knew it was going to be an action packed weekend so I waited until today to post it all in one report so here it goes
Thursday I went out with a buddy to my favorite WMA to set up my treestand and check my cam for the last time. I have been getting some good bucks on my cam but it was only taking a few pics of them so I decided to set it to the most sensitive setting. So when we checked the cam there was 2,700+ pics. Holy crap. Does this thing work? After only being able to read the first few pics I decided to pull the whole cam anyway. When I got home I began looking through the pics. Probably thousands of pics of hogs. There were a few different groups. Scattered in between was just what I was looking for!
Some other good pics-
After putting in for this hunt for 3-4 years and getting alot of messages from yall about how loaded this place is I was so excited to go we were the first ones in the gate waay early. We got to a spot where I have seen hogs before while scouting and it was still too dark. I couldnt wait to start hunting. As soon as I could see my sights we got up and began slippin. 5 mins later BOOM! right where we were stopped somebody else must have bagged one. Oh well. Shortly after here comes a hog splashin through the water... I take the shot and shoot right over his back. 10 mins in my first hunt of the year and all this action? I ain't worried about that one. We slip through the woods for another hour or so and we spot a few hogs. I setup on a fallen tree and I'm not missing this time. Drop one in his tracks and his partner stands there. I go to shoot him too- click. Eject that round and begin the chase I took another shot at him but he dodged left as I pulled the trigger. Miss. I was happy with just one anyway. Snap a few pics and begin the drag.
One good thing about it being flooded-
Come back out later that day and now its her turn. New area. Left the shotgun and brought the .30-06. About 30 mins in we hear one coming through the water. She saw the pig but had no shot, pig got away. I walked out into the knee deep water and head high dog fennel to try to find him or push him out. I hear more pigs coming so I get behind a tree and blasted one at 15yds. His buddy stood there and froze. I go to reload and my entire bolt slides out the rifle. Wth. I knew I should have brought my pistol. I began to chase this one while trying to fix my rifle. He ended up getting away. I get back to the downed pig and its more high fives and hell yeahs.
Saturday I pick a new walk via map, looks promising. Probably the worst thorn-vine walk I ever made. It sucked. Boy were the bucks thick in there! That made it worth it. It was the first time she got to see big bucks up close. Very cool. On the way back to the hunt later that afternoon I decide to stop to check on this BIG gator that we have tags for. I end up getting stuck. 4X4 breaks. Crap. Luckily a friendly grove worker stops and pulls me out. Now we are pretty aggravated and a little late but I keep my head up and push on. Walked a new area only seeing a few deer. About 5 mins of shooting light left she points out a hog maybe 150yds away crossing the road. I put the crosshairs on him but it was too late. I run up there and cant find him in the field.
This would be our last morning and we decided to take it easy since we were both exhausted. I picked another area out and we began another walk. Deer deer deer deer..... no hogs. I knew this area was hunted out so I wanted to go to one last spot but we would have to cross a good distance of waist deep water through the cypress. We made it through without getting eaten by alligators and 5 mins into slipping I hear some hog grunts. Game on. My girlfriend has been doing extremely well (better than most of my huntin buddies) being quiet and moving slow behind me this whole hunt. Instead of leading her up to the pigs I am confident she can handle this. I get comfortable and lay down in the grass and tell her go ahead, take your time. She begins the stalk about 50yds and she's doin great. I can't see the hogs but I can see her. I hear the hogs making noise and getting closer. Its about to go down. I am extatic that she got this far. Oh ***** she's aiming...BOOM! I see a hog floppin! Hell yes! She gives me the shh signal so I stay put. She racks the slide and fires again, 2 hogs down! Sweet! First kills ever, first time shooting slugs out of her new 20 guage and she drops 2 pigs. I am so proud of her. It was great to see her soo excited and happy to finally get something after many many hunts. This is awesome. Even though I had an almost 2mile drag to the truck with two 75lb hogs I didn't care, I was pumped. Just like before the high water made a small part of the drag easy. The rest of the drag was tough and she helped out too.
This was an awesome hunt and definately worth the 3 or 4 years wait for this permit. I felt privledged to hunt such a beautiful area with so much game. I forgot to ask what the total tally was for hogs but I am very satisfied with what we got! Thanks to all the forum members that messaged me and gave me the heads up on where to go. Hopefully I can post another thread like this since we have a deer quota this weekend! Good luck everybody and thanks for reading. Oh yea check this out-


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The final adventure in the Harry Potter film series follows Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) as they prepare for a final battle with Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), who is determined to destroy Harry once and for all. In order to defeat the powerful wizard, they must find and destroy Voldemort's last and most elusive Horcrux -- that is, the enchanted piece of soul allowing him to remain immortal -- before his nefarious plans come to fruition.


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University of Texas Arlington
Sonja Watson appointed new director of UT Arlington Women's and Gender Studies
Friday, March 7, 2014
Media Contact: Bridget Lewis
News Topics: faculty, liberal arts
The University of Texas at Arlington has named Sonja Watson, an assistant professor of modern languages and an expert in Spanish and Afro-Caribbean literature, as the director of the University's Women's and Gender Studies Program. She will begin her duties in August.
Watson joined UT Arlington in 2007 and served on the advisory board of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and as a faculty fellow of the Center for African American Studies. Previously, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in Saint Louis.
Watson earned her undergraduate degree in 1995 from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. She holds a master's degree in Spanish and doctoral degree in modern foreign languages with specialization in Hispanic literature/applied linguistics from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.
"Dr. Watson is a renowned scholar in Afro-Hispanic, Latin American, African diaspora and Caribbean studies, and a respected teacher whose cross-cultural research will help to provide critical understanding of women, gender and power in a global context," said Beth Wright, dean of the UT Arlington College of Liberal Arts. "She is committed to furthering knowledge about women, men, gender, sexuality and their many diverse lenses, and encourages the critical examination of traditional theoretical perspectives."
Watson is a recipient of grants from UT Arlington to create an online writing center for upper-division Spanish composition courses, and to interview hip hop artists in Panama for research on Afro-Panamanian identity and cultural performance. She received the Panamanian Council of New York award for having served as an exemplary scholar, advocating the message of ethnic dignity and socio-economic justice for African descendants in the Americas. Watson is the author of the newly published book, "The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention" (University Press of Florida, 2014), which deals with the forging of the Afro-Panamanian identity.
"I am honored by this appointment and excited about the opportunity it provides me to contribute to the field of women's and gender studies," Watson said. "Women's and gender studies is a key component to not only the humanities but also to other disciplines across campus and the community at large."
Watson acknowledged the tremendous growth that UT Arlington's Women's and Gender Studies Program has witnessed under past and current leadership, adding that she plans to continue this leadership by "promoting global women's issues such as economics, STEM and health disparities in conjunction with our established program."
Watson succeeds Desirée Henderson, who has served as director since 2010. Under her leadership, the program developed the women and gender studies curricula, and both the first Women's Studies Scholarship Endowment and the Student Association for Gender Equity were established. She will continue as a member of the English faculty.
The Women's and Gender Studies Program was founded in 1974 as the Women's Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts. It began offering an academic minor in 1991. Visit www.uta.edu/womens_studies/ for more information.
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LEITH, N.D., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The only black resident of Leith, N.D., says a white supremacist planning a takeover of the small town asked him for real estate advice.
Bobby Harper told CNN Friday he is uncomfortable about Paul Craig Cobb's vision of the future in Leith.
"If he can't love his fellow man, then we ask God to help him with something," Harper said. "Because I'm not very happy, and the people in this town aren't very happy."
Leith, on a railroad branch line abandoned in 1984, had a population of 16 in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau record show. Cobb, wanted in Canada on hate-speech charges, says he and his supporters have been buying property in the town.
Harper's wife, Sherrill, whose mother grew up in Leith, says Cobb asked her last year if she had any property to sell.
Harper said Cobb also came to him.
"He has the audacity to even ask me for information to buy land, and his intentions were to harm my way of life? ... That's very, very uncomfortable for me," he said.
The alleged takeover plot became public a few weeks ago, bringing Leith more publicity than it has ever seen.
Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, wrote Mayor Ryan Schock to tell him the group plans to be in Leith Sept. 22 and Sept. 23 to support Cobb. He said they have "a simple message that Craig Cobb will NOT be ousted from the community."


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Wilson returns, will resume closing Tuesday
Wilson returns, will resume closing Tuesday
Before the Giants' 12-5 win over the Rockies, manager Bruce Bochy said would look for "the right situation" to use Wilson and have him throw in the bullpen if it didn't arise.
Bochy said because of "the unknown factor," he wasn't going to use Wilson in a ninth-inning save situation Sunday but would return him to his closer's role Tuesday at Los Angeles when the Giants open a three-game series.
In the Giants' lopsided victory over the Rockies, Bochy found the ideal low-stress situation to use Wilson, who is 35-for-40 in save opportunities and 6-4 with a 3.15 ERA and had missed 30 games since he last pitched Aug. 15.
Wilson struck out Tommy Field, a rookie playing his sixth Major League game, and pitcher Jason Hammel and got Eric Young Jr. to foul out when left fielder Justin Christian leaped into the stands to make the catch. Wilson threw 16 pitches, including 10 strikes.
"He used all his pitches," Bochy said. "One thing we didn't want him to do was throw nothing but fastballs, pitch a little bit. He almost went the other way, but I thought he did a nice job."
The Giants have nine scheduled games remaining in the regular season. Bochy said it would be good mentally for Wilson to enter the offseason having returned to his closer's role following his long absence from the mound.
"I know he's anxious," Bochy said. "He feels he's ready. You always look at the risk vs. the reward theory there, but he feels like he's ready to go. He'd be disappointed going into Spring Training being on the DL for two months at the end of the year before. I don't think he wants to go through the winter like that."
While the Giants bullpen has done well in Wilson's absence and in particular Santiago Casilla, who went 5-for-5 in save opportunities with Wilson sidelined, Wilson's return allows Bochy to return his relievers to their usual late-inning roles at a crucial time. The Giants, riding a season-high eight-game winning streak, are trying to catch the D-backs in the National League West and the Braves in the Wild Card race and Wilson can help in that quest.
"There's a sense of urgency to get him back," Bochy said.


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Ausangate Headwall Route
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Route up the headwall on Ausangate, taken in mid-June 2011. This line is straightforward frontpointing on snow-ice, never more than 50 degrees steepness.
Local 'guides' had fixed a single thick rope way over to the left, anchored at the top of the wall and falling straight down steeper and rockier ground. We ignored this completely and climbed this easier and safer line as marked, downclimbing it on our descent.
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