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Veteran wide receiver Steve Smith is moving up the career leaders list.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Steve Smith spent his childhood emulating NFL players and dreaming of playing professional football.
Now in his 13th season with the Carolina Panthers, Smith said it's still not enough.
"Now that I'm here, being here isn't satisfying," Smith said of his NFL career. "I want to be something special. I want to be one of those special guys."
Smith is entering special territory.
He needs 51 yards on Sunday against Tampa Bay to move past Hines Ward and Derrick Mason into 20th place in yards receiving. He ranks 25th in receptions, last week passing Hall of Famer Steve Largent.
"I look at Jerry Rice and to be, not in the same category, but on the same list... that's pretty cool," Smith said. "My agent told me I passed Steve Largent. I'm a huge Steve Largent fan. I respect the heck out of him. I think what he did was remarkable. I just passed him, and that's pretty cool.
"To see my name next to his, (above) his, that's pretty cool. It's humbling when I read it."
But it's still not enough for Smith.
Smith has 823 receptions for 12,033 yards, but said his goal is to finish his career with at least 1,000 catches and "close to" 14,000 yards receiving.
"I want to be in the top 10," Smith said.
It might take a couple of more seasons but Smith said that's fine. He remains productive and thinks he has a few good years left.
At 5-foot-9, 189 pounds, Smith has always been viewed as an undersized receiver. But what he lacks in height he makes up for in mental toughness and desire.
"It's his mentality that he brings into the stadium each and every day," quarterback Cam Newton said. "He's not a regular player. In cartoon world, he would be a super (hero). His mentality is different. His approach is different.
"What gets him going the most is when people say he can't. Him at the age he's at right now, he's still defying the odds on so many different levels."
There is nobody Smith respects more than his mother, Florence Young, who he said helped motivate him.
"My mom did such a good job with what she had," Smith said of growing up in inner city Los Angeles. "She drilled a lot of things into my head — positive and negative. She was always telling me about sports and my dreams of sports. She was like 'If this doesn't work out, you better have a backup plan.'"
That served as motivation of sorts for Smith.
He purposely didn't have a backup plan, saying "playing in the NFL is all I wanted to do."
Offensive coordinator Mike Shula describes Smith as ageless.
"He's just so tough to cover. Yeah, he's one of our bell cows," Shula said.
Smith had modest numbers 11 games into the season — 51 catches for 581 yards and three touchdowns — but so much of what he does can't be measured in numbers.
He blocks extremely well, draws double teams to free up teammates and often irritates defensive backs to the point where they're so frustrated they do something stupid. Two weeks ago against New England, Smith got under cornerback Aqib Talib's skin, causing him to get flagged for an unnecessary roughness penalty for grabbing Smith's leg and pulling on it after a play, and later for a defensive holding call.
Both resulted in Carolina first downs. The Panthers (8-3) would beat the Patriots 24-20.
Smith remains Newton's go-to receiver on third and fourth down situations, where he has a combined 19 receptions — perhaps none bigger than last week's 19-yard catch on fourth-and-10 on Carolina's game-winning drive against Miami.
"Steve wants to succeed in the worst kind of way," Panthers coach Ron Rivera said. "He has that 'it' factor that people talk about. He has the burning desire and drive. I think a lot of it had to do with the way he grew up and the way he wants to go forward. He wants to make a great life for his family."


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Try for Your Best Work
Make the square that launched Bridge City with tools found in most home shops.
By John Economaki
Pages: 28-33
From the October 2011 issue #192
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From 1977-1983 I made my living as a studio furniture designer and maker. In addition to making furniture, I found most of the hand tools available at the time so uninspiring and inconsistent with the craftsmanship values I was trying to impart in my furniture, that I made my own.
VIDEO: Watch our "5 Questions" video interview with John Economaki.
VIDEO: Watch a short clip of John teaching a toolmaking class.
BLOG: Read John's funny blog about furniture design and making tools.
WEB SITE: Bridge City Tool Works, John's day job.
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IN OUR STORE: "Metalwork for Craftsmen" by Emil F. Kronquist.
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Pac-12 Season Preview: Oregon State BeaversPosted by Andrew Murawa on October 17th, 2014
The Pac-12 microsite will preview each of its league teams over the next few weeks, continuing today with Oregon State.
Oregon State Beavers
Strengths. Well. Um. Geez. Yikes. Can I pass? Do I get a pass? Look, we're not here to tear down kids or rip coaches or make fun of programs, and certainly, at some point, this Oregon State team will have something that is a relative strength. But, goodness gracious sakes alive, there probably aren't many people outside of new head coach Wayne Tinkle and his staff who have a good idea what that strength might be. The most experienced player on this roster – junior Langston Morris-Walker – had career highs of 18 minutes and four points per game last season. The most anticipated new recruit is a JuCo guard (Gary Payton II) most famous for being the son of an NBA Hall of Famer. But in a way maybe that newness will turn out to be the strength of this edition of the Beavers. Gone are bad habits and underachieving and questions about the direction of the previous coaching staff. Now this roster – from the head coach on down – is filled with guys looking to prove that they belong.
Weaknesses. Many. Pick one. Their top two big guys (junior Daniel Gomis, sophomore Cheikh N'Diaye, and junior Justin Stangel) are most accurately described as "raw offensively." They've got a handful of wings with experience, none of whom have shown the ability to create for themselves and few of whom have shown an ability to handle their defensive assignments. The point guard spot will be held down by either Payton — who is still a work-in-progress perhaps best suited for the off-guard spot — or Malcolm Duvivier, who may be best suited to be a running back. Really, this season is just a building block for the future of the program, giving all of these guys a chance to show whether they can be a part of the second block in the foundation next season.
Non-conference Tests. Every game Oregon State plays this season will be a test. Whether that involves home games against teams like Oral Roberts, Mississippi Valley State, Grambling or even Corban, or more challenging contests against bigger schools like Mississippi State, DePaul or Oklahoma State (in the MGM Grand Main Event Tournament during the week of Thanksgiving), there are no sure things on this Beaver schedule. Read the rest of this entry »


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Adrienne Maloof Thinks Brandi Glanville Tried To Destroy Her Family
The 'Real Housewives' are at war: Find out what really happened between the bitter enemies — and the big secret Adrienne tried to keep hidden!
If you've been keeping up with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills this season, you already know how nasty things have gotten between Adrienne Maloof and Brandi Glanville, after Brandi revealed a yet-unaired secret about Adrienne and Paul Nassif's children. But a new report from Us Weekly claims the feud has gotten even worse, to the point where Adrienne believes Brandi is "trying to destroy" her family!
To make matters worse, a friend claims, Brandi has actually befriended Paul since his divorce from Adrienne!
"He's lovely, and we text occasionally," Brandi has apparently told the magazine.
Still, Adrienne's friend thinks "it's crazy that Paul can befriend Brandi after what she did to his kids."
Meanwhile, Brandi apparently doesn't think she did anything wrong by opening her mouth, insisting that "when you sign up for a reality show, everything you do in your life is fair game."
What Is Adrienne Maloof's Big Secret?
Though Adrienne and Paul were able to convince Bravo to censor Brandi when she dropped the major bombshell about their family, Us Weekly isn't beholden to such limitations.
According to the mag, Brandi revealed that Adrienne used a surrogate to have six-year-old twins, Christian and Colin, following her very difficult pregnancy with nine-year-old Gavin.
"Adrienne is furious," a friend tells the mag, explaining that she had planned to tell her twins the truth about their birth when she felt the time was right.
Yikes! It sounds like there's a lot more to Brandi and Adrienne's rivalry than we've seen on the show. We can't wait to see how the drama unfolds in the weeks ahead.
Watch our exclusive interview with Lisa Vanderpump to find out why she's Team Brandi, then vote and tell us whose side YOU'RE on:
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A chaplain in the army
After a long day of work in my hot-houses
After I got religion and steadied down
After I had attended lectures
After you have enriched your soul
A game of checkers?
All they said was true
All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me
Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeons knife!
As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me
As to democracy, fellow citizens
At first you will know not what they mean
At first I suspected something
At four oclock in late October
Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church
Bank broke and I lost my savings, The
Better than granite, Spoon River
Both for the country and for the man
Buzzards wheel slowly, The
Cooper should know about tubs, The
Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane!
Did I follow Truth wherever she led
Did my widow flit about
Did you ever find out
Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon
Did you ever see an alligator
Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis
Do the boys and girls still go to Sievers
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo
Do you remember, passer-by, the path
Do you remember when I stood on the steps
Do you think that odes and sermons
Dust of my dust
Earth keeps some vibration going, The
Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard
Father, thou canst never know
From Bindles opera house in the village
God! ask me not to record your wonders
Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a swamp
Have any of you, passers-by
Have you seen walking through the village
Henry got me with child
He protested all his life long
He ran away and was gone for a year
Herbert broke our engagement of eight years
Here I lie close to the grave
Here lies the body of Lois Spears
Here! You sons of the men
Horses and men are just alike
How did you feel, you libertarians
How does it happen, tell me
How many times, during the twenty years
I am Minerva, the village poetess
I began with Sir William Hamiltons lectures
I belonged to the church
I, born in Weimar
I bought every kind of machine thats known
I could not run or play
Idea danced before us as a flag, The
If a man could bite the giant hand
If I could have lived another year
If the excursion train to Peoria
If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois
If you in the village think that my work was a good one
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men
I had fiddled all at the county fair
I had no objection at all
I have studied many times
I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk
I inherited forty acres from my Father
I know that he told that I snared his soul
I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you
I looked like Abraham Lincoln
I lost my patronage in Spoon River
I made two fights for the people
In a lingering fever many visions come to you
I never saw any difference
In life I was the town drunkard
In my Spanish cloak
In the last spring I ever knew
In the lust of my strength
In youth my wings were strong and tireless
I preached four thousand sermons
I ran away from home with the circus
I reached the highest place in Spoon River
I said when they handed me my diploma
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte
Is it true, Spoon River
I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor
I staggered on through darkness
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker
It is true, fellow citizens
It never came into my mind
I tried to win the nomination
It was just like everything else in life
It was moon-light, and the earth sparkled
It was only a little house of two rooms
I wanted to be County Judge
I wanted to go away to college
I was a gun-smith in Odessa
I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney
I was among multitudes of children
I was a peasant girl from Germany
I was attorney for the Q
I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour
I was just turned twenty-one
I was not beloved of the villagers
I was only eight years old
I was sick, but more than that, I was mad
I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams
I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins
I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge
I was the laughing-stock of the village
I was the milliner
I was the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia
I was the Sunday school superintendent
I was the Widow McFarlane
I was well known and much beloved
I was Willie Metcalf
I went to the dances at Chandlerville
I went up and down the streets
I who kept the greenhouse
I winged my bird
I won the prize essay at school
I would have been as great as George Eliot
I would I had thrust my hands of flesh
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times sake
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one
Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war
Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree
Mr. Kessler, you know, was in the army
My father who owned the wagon-shop
My lifes blossom might have bloomed on all sides
My mind was a mirror
My mother was for womans rights
My name used to be in the papers daily
My parents thought that I would be
My thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant
My wife lost her health
Neither spite, fellow citizens
No other man, unless it was Doc Hill
Not a youth with hoary head and haggard eye
Not character, not fortitude, not patience
Nothing in life is alien to you
Not in that wasted garden
Not, where the stairway turns in the dark
Observe the clasped hands!
Of John Cabanis wrath and of the strife
Often Aner Clute at the gate
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carolina
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers
On a mountain top above the clouds
Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist
Out of a cell into this darkened space
Out of me unworthy and unknown
Out of the lights and roar of cities
Over and over they used to ask me
Passer by
Passer-by, sin beyond any sin
Pine woods on the hill, The
Press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked, The
Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal, The
Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him
Rhodes slave! Selling shoes and gingham
Rich, honored by my fellow citizens
Samuel is forever talking of his elm
Secret of the stars,gravitation, The
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick
She loved me. Oh! how she loved me!
She took my strength by minutes
Silent before the jury
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring
Sudden death of Eugene Carman, The
Suppose it is nothing but the hive
Suppose you stood just five feet two
Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions
Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor?
Their spirits beat upon mine
There at Geneva where Mt. Blanc floated above
There by the window in the old house
There is something about Death
There is the caw of a crow
There would be a knock at the door
They brought me ambrotypes
They called me the weakling, the simpleton
They first charged me with disorderly conduct
They got me into the Sunday-school
They have chiseled on my stone the words
They laughed at me as Prof. Moon
They told me I had three months to live
They would have lynched me
This I saw with my own eyes
This weeping willow!
To all in the village I seemed, no doubt
To be able to see every side of every question
Together in this grave lie Benjamin Pantier, attorney at law
To this generation I would say
Toward the last
Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian
Very fall my sister Nancy Knapp, The
Very well, you liberals
Well, dont you see this was the way of it
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted
We quarreled that morning
Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens
We stand about this placewe, the memories
What but the love of God could have softened
What do you see now?
What will you do when you come to die
Whenever the Presbyterian bell
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came
When I died, the circulating library
When I first came to Spoon River
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely
When my moustache curled
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley
Where is my boy, my boy
While I was handling Dom Pedro
White men played all sorts of jokes on me, The
Who carved this shattered harp on my stone?
Whoever thou art who passest by
Why are you running so fast hither and thither
Why did Albert Schirding kill himself
Why did you bruise me with your rough places
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked
Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown
Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush
Ye who are kicking against Fate
Ye young debaters over the doctrine
You are over there, Father Malloy
You may think, passer-by, that Fate
You never marveled, dullards of Spoon River
You never understood, O unknown one
You observe the carven hand
You praise my self-sacrifice, Spoon River
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank
Your red blossoms amid green leaves


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The way Wayland Spruill figures it, attention to the little things make a big difference — in his farming operation and in his life.
Whether he's riding in his pickup checking fields for problems, pod-blasting peanuts to determine when to dig, or helping his wife Lucy tend to their brand-new infant son, Wayland is learning it's the little things that count in a big way.
"All the little things you observe out riding around make a big difference," Wayland says.
Paying attention to the little things that lead to profits has earned Wayland and his father, Hunter W. Spruill of Windsor, N.C., the 2001 Farm Press Peanut Profitability Award. The Spruills have a five-year average yield of 3,500 pounds per acre, mostly on dryland peanuts.
While driving by one of his fields, he spots standing water. He gets out of the truck, walks the waterlogged area and places flags to mark the spot. "This trench we're about to cut will improve the yield in this area," he says.
The list of profit-enhancing measures he takes on the farm includes the use of strip-till, the use of Irrigator Pro, the use of disease advisories as well as treating each field separately and, above all else, staying in touch with Billy Griffin, Bertie County Extension agent.
Driving by a nearby conventionally planted field of peanuts, Wayland discretely points out the difference in tillage practices. Four inches of rain in less than a week in the heart of North Carolina's peanut belt, however, tend to be more blatant. Water is standing throughout the conventional fields and is visible from the road.
There is little to none in the strip-till field. "The cost per acre of strip-till is about the same (as conventional-tillage), but there are other benefits you can't put a figure on or you can't measure," Wayland says.
Chief among those are savings of time, which is money in the field.
Wayland estimates it takes about two-thirds the amount of time to operate in a strip-till system as it does with conventional tillage.
"Six of us farm 2,000 acres. That would require eight to 10 workers if we were farming conventionally," Wayland says. "We would be running three disks, two bedders, and two planters." The Spruills have 400 acres of peanuts.
"The way I think of it is, we can spray 30 acres in an hour — so with two sprayers that's 550 acres a day," Wayland figures as he's driving the backroads around Windsor.
Wayland acknowledges he's trading herbicide applications for tillage, but he says it's a matter of priorities.
"In February and March we work 35 hours a week when some other folks are spending up to 90 hours a week preparing their land for planting," Wayland says.
Wayland and his father begin the process in the fall with one pass by stale seed bedding the cover crop on their peanut land. The $20 per acre cost of the bedding operation will make it easier for the two, four-row Ferguson diggers to dig more of the peanuts that matured on the vine at harvest.
Strip-tilled land also makes it easier for the peanuts to peg, even if it hasn't rained in a while, Wayland says. "The ground just doesn't crust over as easy."
Before emergence, if rain is in the forecast, he'll spray Roundup at a rate of a pint and three quarters with Dual. If rain is not in the forecast after emergence, he sprays six ounces of Gramoxone Max and one and one third pints of Dual Magnum, along with a half a pint to a pint of Basagran. "If rain isn't in the forecast, we'll hold off on spraying Dual because we don't want to throw the Dual away,"Wayland says.
"Then we come back and scout the fields and see which herbicides need to go where" From then on, it's IPM management.
In the season, scouting gives the Spruills a tool to cut costs "by determining which fields have grass troubles and which fields don't."
For example, last week Wayland scouted two fields in the same vicinity. One field had reached threshold and needed an application of Storm. In the other field, the weeds weren't at risk of getting out of hand. So Wayland waited a week on the second field in order to kill more weeds.
"Scouting is very important because you want to catch the weeds at threshold levels so you aren't throwing away chemicals," Wayland says.
Morningglory, sicklepod and day flower are troublesome weeds for Spruill. "The rest of the weeds we can knock out pretty easily."
On the disease front, Wayland faces Sclerotinia blight, web blotch, leafspot and Cylindracladium black rot.
At the same time he burns down the cover crop, he strip-tills the Vapam or Sectagon with a KMC strip-till rig at eight gallons per acre and 10 to 12 inches deep. "We don't use a fumigant on every acre where CBR is a problem — only where we have enough damage to justify the expense."
Even before the fumigant is applied, however, Wayland has been thinking about which varieties he'll plant where.
In areas where CBR is hot, he'll plant NC 12C. "12s are much more resistant to CBR than (NC-V) 11s," Wayland says. "We have different peanuts for different land."
He is also growing the new Perry variety this season. Experts are touting this Virginia-type as an up and coming winner because of its moderate level of resistance to Sclerotinia and good resistance to CBR. Limited seed was available this season. It is expected to be more widely available in 2002.
For leafspot control, Wayland goes with a four- to five-block spray program with Folicur, ending with an application of Bravo.
"We pay attention to leafspot advisories," he says. "Sometimes, when conditions are right, you can stretch it out 20 or 21 days versus 14 days. That's what's so nice about the leafspot advisory: You can decide when you can stretch the applications out and when you shouldn't."
By stretching out the intervals between sprays, Wayland can save a spray on the end of the program. Should a wet late August and September be in the forecast, he can spray a fifth time for leafspot.
With two center pivot irrigation rigs on the farm, he uses it to its full potential.
For the past several years he has been testing Irrigator Pro, an irrigation program developed by the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga.
The program makes recommendations based on a number of criteria, including variety, stage of growth, rainfall events and soil temperatures. The farmer plugs the various criteria into the program.
"It's really been wonderful knowing when and how much to irrigate,"Wayland says. "Billy Griffin (Bertie County, N.C. Extension agent) has helped us immensely with Irrigator Pro.
"He would just call and say, 'Okay, you need seven-tenths of an inch, or you need an inch of water on your peanuts now, or you need to think about irrigating next week if you don't get any rain,'" Wayland recalls.
This season he purchased the Irrigator Pro software. The Peanut Foundation markets the software, which is distributed through state peanut farmer organizations.
"Irrigator Pro is a great program," Wayland says. Irrigated yields consistently top two tons per acre.
But what he does at the end of the season is just as important as what he does while the peanuts are growing. No matter what time of the season, Wayland listens to his county agent.
For example, he brought his peanuts to a pod-blasting clinic last season and walked away a little wiser.
"We paid attention to the maturity profile of the board," Wayland says.
"We were about a week behind other people digging, but we had the finest grading peanuts anywhere around. We were digging peanuts with a grade of 75 percent meat."
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Hello, new member here also.
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As for anime, I don't watch them much, but I read mangas a lot especially my local licensed ones
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Hi there.
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I'm not a native speaker and still trying to learn English better ( by watching fan-subs )
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*wave* Hello there.
My name is Luurah... and I recently found this site some time ago. I like what I see so far, and I hope I can get to know you all more in the future.
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Im kinda new. I got here while i was downloading some pdf files of the newest Suzumiya Haruhi Light Novels. So i guess i don't have to write that i love the novels and the anime of Suzumiya Haruhi . If i do have to write it, well... i just did :P
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Hello there i'm Ryoga, I was bored so I decided to join this forum, because it looks pretty active and lively! I like anime and manga of course, why else would I be here? It's nice meeting everyone and I guess that's all.
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Hello! ^^ My name is Silus Ostrander, I'm fourteen years old, and I really love anime and manga. I used to hate it, but then this girl I really liked loved anime, so I started watching it, and I realized that it's not really that bad. Then, after a while, I decided that I LOVE it! I like Claymore, Elfen Lied, K-ON!, Death Note, MegaTokyo, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Spice and Wolf, and Desert Punk. I have a kind of broad liking of anime. I tend to like ones that revolve around high school, such as Haruhi Suzumiya or K-ON!, but recently, I started watching a few medieval ones, like Spice and Wolf, and Claymore, both of which I really love. I just finished watching Elfen Lied today, it was pretty great. I don't like very many Shonen, as many Shonen animes are just blank action ones, with very little character development, or at least to me. A few shonen, though, I do love, like Claymore, Desert Punk, and Death Note. I know MegaTokyo isn't an anime, or even a Japanese manga, but I really do love it. Oh, and I almost forgot about Azumanga Daioh! Azumanga is one of the best and funniest mangas I've read in a VERY long time! I haven't watched the anime yet, though.
Off of the Anime topic, I like RPG gaming, such as Final Fantasy, Golden Sun, The Elder Scrolls (Before Oblivion), and Mass Effect (the first one). I also love Minecraft, it's pretty entertaining, but I can't deal with the numerous bugs, so I'm taking a break from it until they're fixed. Another game I absolutely love is Conker's Bad Fur Day. That game...good memories ^^
I also like drawing Manga characters, even though I'm really bad at it. I'm pretty much still learning. Being an American, I have an urge to make the eyes be proportionally sized and placed, but manga/anime doesn't work like that. So I'm still having tough times learning how to draw.
Oh, and I also have a large passion for music. I listen mostly to heavy metal, all the subgenres of heavy metal appeal to me. But there's a little bit of Punk and even game soundtracks in there. I also play guitar.
I'm a very odd child, as well. I shaved off half of my hair. Oh, and I even cut it shorter than it was (Heavy metal length) last night. I'm quite weird, but I don't mind. I feel like I have something more to say, but this post is quite huge already. I think I'll just close it off now.
I hope to become a productive member of your forum! Thanks! ^^
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Interwebs
What's the haps, hep-cats?
I'm Annokano and I was introduced to this forum by my good friend John Doe. I've been watching anime for a couple of years now and I've been active on various forums for the past ten years, and I hope to make this site one of them.
I try to treat other people with respect and to play nice when possible, but if someone does annoy me for some reason -normally by being rude or by insulting my intelligence- I'll most likely retaliate but worse.
But that's only when I need to be; otherwise I'm pretty easy going. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone a little better, and thanks for making me feel welcome!
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Hello, my name's Rod, I'm a 16 year old student studying engineering subjects.
Just under a year ago a friend of mine told me I really should watch this show, Neon Genesis: Evangelion, now I was skeptical at first as I had bad experiences with children's anime which I found to be terrible, and asumed all anime was that bad, boy was I wrong. After I finished Evangelion, I went onto a few more anime's until I eventually became obsessed.
When looking for anime news I stumbled across this forum, which I found interesting and decided to look around. After being around for a week or two, I decided to register and join in.
As you might be able to tell, I really like neko-style anime drawings, it just makes characters even more cute
I do a bit of copying-drawing of anime characters, I don't really do it for the drawing itself, I just find it a good relaxing passtime, allthough it is allways nice to have a good drawing at the end of it.
Musically, I'm quite mixed and easily pleased, aslong as it's actual music and not just a progression of various noises someone recorded on their mobile phone [cough*dubstep*cough] I'm happy.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Our Guild on FFn.
Sup. Im the new guy and needs help getting on his feet.
Likes Animes Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Angel Beats, and Infinite Stratos.
Likes to RP.
Apprentice fanfic writer.
You can meet me at Roosterteeth.com under RomanHeretic if im not on this site.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Under The Shade Of A tree Listening to music in peace
Yup just another newbie here
looks like this place is pretty cool, hope in meeting interesting people here jaja
well just random question does anybody here speak spanish besides me?
it would be nice to know
well i guess that would be it
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Konichiwa! ^_^
Hi hi! I'm Fangirl335 aka Shel. Long time anime/manga fan. no stranger to fanfics or writing in general. I try to update as much as possible without making it all about my characters. I randomly add people, thats just the kinda person I am. I like new people, I don't bite. (until I know you well enough lol) but seriously I'm me, and nothin is gonna change that. Sometimes I'm a little in your face with things but that's just me. I dont want to offend anyone, so please feel free to give me a virtual smack if you don't like something I say. So...yeah
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Cabot Marketing Challenge Enriching Students, Local Businesses
- 04-10-2012
- By Jon Reidel
As owner of a local food service and catering company, Abbey Duke doesn't have a lot of time to develop in-depth marketing plans. She's busy enough with payroll, opening a new location and other aspects of running a small business. So when students in a marketing course offered to provide creative, cost-effective marketing strategies with financial support from Cabot Creamery Cooperative, she was more than happy to listen.
"I was excited to see what ideas the students would come up with and which ones would work," says Duke, owner of Sugarsnap, a farm-to-table eatery with three locations in Burlington and South Burlington. "They've had some great ideas that will hopefully increase business over time. The support of a successful company like Cabot that has grown by doing really smart, creative things over the years is a real benefit to both the students and me. I'm looking forward to seeing what sticks."
The Cabot Marketing Challenge, a new course offered through Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE), is the brainchild of Cabot marketing guru Roberta MacDonald, well known for her innovative and inexpensive marketing strategies. Designed with input from the School of Business Administration and CDAE, the course paired 18 students from various majors with five local business owners to work together to create an effective marketing strategy.
David Conner, assistant professor in CDAE, and adjunct lecturer Kate Finley Woodruff '89, G '07, who is also a marketing consultant for Cabot and other companies, had students read about all aspects of marketing and meet with experts in the field before developing their marketing plan in consultation with their respective owners.
"Each team developed a full marketing plan, presented it in class with the owners present and then received feedback," says Conner. "It's a great model because local businesses gain from the expertise of UVM and Cabot to improve their marketing practices and contribute even more to the state's sustainable community economic development. We have a great set of bright, motivated students and a great set of locally-owned, socially responsible firms."
Putting the vision into practice
By the end of the fall semester, many of the students' ideas had been implemented. Cynthea's Spa improved its signage and further developed its Farm-to-Spa product line. The Roen Financial Report, an alternative energy investment newsletter, rebranded itself to better capitalize on the vast knowledge, expertise and credibility of owner Harris Roen. Yogarama Athletica used elements of a redesign plan that included the renovation of its storefront in an effort to increase traffic by highlighting the unique, high-quality products offered there.
Tasked with developing more advanced marketing plans in the spring for two of the five businesses, students started meeting more regularly with Sugarsnap and Brown Dog Books & Gifts in Hinesburg. An element of reality entered into the mix when the two groups were given $10,000 to implement their evolving marketing plans, courtesy of Cabot. Although each of the student teams worked together and shared ideas, their marketing plans turned out to be quite different, evident in the way each group chose to allocate their budgets.
Students working with Brown Dog owner Natacha Liuzzi designed and placed advertisements in local media such as Kids VT and the Charlotte Citizen. They also implemented less expensive marketing methods, which included the creation of a monthly calendar of events with readings and book signings that they helped organize; a redesign of the store's layout by putting books into three defined nooks; and an increased online presence on Facebook and other social media.
"Sugarsnap and Brown Dog are very different businesses that require their own marketing strategies," says senior Ben Mervis, who is responsible for maintaining the marketing budget for his Brown Dog team. "We've spent a lot of time redesigning the store and trying to make it a real presence in the community. We're hoping to increase her limited but loyal fan base by holding promotional events and showcasing her inventory, which we hope will make the bookstore a primary resource for people in the area. "
Measuring success through sales
In an increasingly bottom-line world, measuring the effectiveness of the plans will be based heavily on sales. Liuzzi, who was convinced she was going to have to close her store last fall, says the enthusiasm and ideas generated by the students was timely and contributed to keeping her business. Convincing Cash Mob! Vermont, an organization that brings crowds of people to a local business to spend money, to come to Brown Dog, for example, resulted in a huge sales day and allowed Liuzzi to "pay a lot of bills."
"I was reluctant to try some things at first like redecorating the place, but it's really worked out well," says Liuzzi. "They've done a lot of advertising and publicity that has resulted in some new customers."
Duke says she has a very consistent customer base at her Riverside Avenue location, but would like to broaden it by attracting more students and potential customers who are unaware of it existence. She's hoping the May 2012 grand opening of Sugarsnap's ECHO Museum Café, which students have been promoting through advertisements and improved signage, will broaden her clientele. To that end, students added Sugarsnap to the growing list of local businesses that accept CAT$cratch, UVM's prepaid debit account linked to CatCards, or student IDs.
Senior Erin Christiansen, manager of the Sugarsnap budget, says she and her teammates have had no shortage of ideas, but have had to rely on some less traditional forms of marketing to stay within their budget. With this in mind, students constructed a float with a steaming bowl of hot soup atop one of Sugarsnap's delivery vehicles and drove it in a Mardi Gras parade in downtown Burlington. Accompanying the float was a human-sized pea mascot with a student inside waving to the crowd alongside a new banner, also made the students, that has since been used a various public events including a recent farmer's market outside the Davis Center.
MacDonald says she's pleased with the results so far and hopes to continue promoting connections between students and local business, ideally resulting in jobs for students after graduation and increased sales. "There's a lot of reciprocity going on," says McDonald, senior vice president of marketing at Cabot. "The hope was that the course would eventually benefit the entire community and to some extent it already has. We plan to improve it each year, but hopefully other businesses like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Magic Hat, Ben & Jerry's and Seventh Generation will join in and add their own art of marketing."
Note: Conner and Finley-Woodruff are currently seeking firms to partner with the 2012-2013 Cabot Marketing Challenge courses. Applications will be available beginning June 1, 2012 and accepted until August 1. Firms will be chosen and notified by August 25, 2012. For an application or to discuss participation, please contact David Conner, firstname.lastname@example.com, (802) 656-1965.


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Poets House Creates a Home for all Who Read and Write PoetryFounded in 1985 by poet Stanley Kunitz and arts administrator Elizabeth (Betty) Kray, Poets House has created a home for all who read and write poetry. The library was modeled on The Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London – England's national poetry library that is open to visitors – and established itself modestly in a New York City public high school. In 1986, the library officially opened with a collection of 600 books from Paul Zweig. Betty envisioned a place for poetry that would nurture poets and invite the public into the widest tradition of the art. She approached Stanley Kunitz and he said, "Let's call it Poets House. 'House' is so much bigger than any institution."
Poets House Grows and Moves to its Current Home in Battery Park CityFrom 1990 to 2008 Poets House was located in an intimate loft at 72 Spring Street in Soho. It was there that Poets House built its library collection, becoming a nationally and internationally recognized literary center and presenter of imaginative programs. The Poets House Showcase emphasized the partnership between publishers and poets in bringing books of poetry to their audiences, Poetry In The Branches was established as a model to help libraries create centers for the discovery of poetry at their own sites.
As rent increases began to make Soho an impractical location, Poets House was fortunate to be designated by the Battery Park City Authority as a rent-free tenant with a lease until 2069 in a new building on the banks of the Hudson River.
In the summer of 2009, Poets House moved to its permanent home at 10 River Terrace in Battery Park City and opened to the public on September 25, 2009. This 11,000-square-foot, eco-friendly "green" space features The Reed Foundation Library, Margo Viscusi Reading Room and Frank Platt Listening Center; Kray Hall, a state-of-the-art auditorium that opens onto a natural amphitheater in Teardrop Park South; the Cheney Chappell Exhibition Space, a glass-walled gallery space for poetry-related installations and archives; and the Constance Laibe Hays Children's Room, a whimsical children's poetry room with free programs for families and schools.
From modest beginnings, this "place for poetry" has become an 11,000-square-foot home for poetry with a collection exceeding 70,000 volumes and serving 50,000 people on-site each year and millions more nationally and online each year. A master list of all Poets House programs held from 1986 to the present can be found here.
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When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate
A few years ago, the walls of our brown-bricked town hall reverberated with the voices of citizens engaged in two of the region's most constantly contentious issues: water and growth. A proposed subdivision promised to stretch Paonia's water supply to the limit, and many folks thought that the town should not sell new water taps until it secured additional storage. Remember the summer of 1977, they warned, when a drought almost dried up the town's springs and the lawns all turned brown.
To one pro-development councilman, the memory of the drought was no reason to stop growing. In fact, it gave him the warm fuzzies. Sure, 1977 was a tough year, he said, but we all pulled together and got through. That's what people in the West do — cooperate.
At the time, the citizens weren't feeling very cooperative, and they shot down the subdivision. But new developments have been proposed since then, and, even as it promises additional water taps, the town has yet to figure out how it will provide water in a drought. It will likely take another 1977 to spur a real solution.
Of course, it's human nature to wait until the eleventh hour before collaborating. The good news is, collaboration does happen. Late in April, the seven Western states that use the Colorado River announced that they have come up with a way to give Las Vegas the water it needs to keep growing at breakneck speed, while providing enough water for everyone else, even during a drought. The plan is complicated, involving a new dam, new pipelines and new water-release patterns for the West's mega-reservoirs, lakes Mead and Powell. And it is the product of both contention and cooperation: Nevada had threatened to legally blow up the 1922 Colorado River Compact if it didn't get a bigger piece of the water pie. That, combined with the growing realization that drought may be a permanent part of the landscape in the coming decades, brought all the states to the table.
No one knows if the new plan will stand up to a mega-drought. But, as George Caan, executive director of the Colorado River Commission of Nevada, said, "Ironically, the level of cooperation and flexibility reflected in this plan would have been unthinkable in times of plenty."
In Arizona's Prescott Valley, where this issue's cover story is based, the eleventh hour has arrived, and cooperation and flexibility are in shorter supply than water. As Tony Davis reports, groundwater pumping is draining aquifers and reducing flows in the Verde River, but pro-growth leaders don't want anything to slow the building of tens of thousands of new homes for retirees and baby boomers. Unfortunately, the solution they have come up with — a pipeline that taps into a main aquifer feeding the river — is akin to eating your own young.
A coalition of local citizens, state officials and water managers from the Phoenix area, which has rights to some Verde water, understands the need for a more far-sighted solution. One can hope that they take a page from the Colorado River states' negotiations. Of course, if they decide to bring in additional water supplies from far away, they are likely to gore someone else's ox, setting off yet another round of fighting. Better yet, they could decide to do something no one in the West has ever done: Build a thriving economy that accepts natural limits.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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DonGenaro wrote:Hello everybody, my name is Edmur, I'm from Brazil and I have 27 years old. I had my first lucid dream around 2 years ago, with one month of effort. I found a book "lucid dreaming in 30 days" actually worked! hahaha!
Since then I had around 8 or 9 lucid dreams... Only!
I feel that I always return to the beggining. I tried so hard with so little results that I don't know more what to do. Actually, I know, I need to improve my dream recall which is, in this moment, reeeaaaalllyyy poooorr (in one month, just 3 pages on my diary; everytime when I had lucid dreaming I was in better position with my dream recall).
I don't know what I could do to boost my dream recall. When I wake up, it's been really dificult to remember anything about my dream, sometimes I remember a little fragment, try to organize this in my mind before write. Well, when i pick up the pen, everything blur in my mind. Sometimes blur even before I pick up the pen!
If someone have some idea about to improve dream recall, please, let me know! \o
Good dreams for all! (and sorry about my english, isn't so good!)
I personally find (I know this isnt the same for everyone as some find it helpful) that laying in bed trying to remember more to a vague dream can have me even further more forget it at times... "sometimes" its best for me to just immediately start writing down what I remember as often I find that as Im writing, my dream recall comes in more and more.


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The Experimental Mechanics Laboratory has approximately 1,200 square feet and accommodates 16-24 students. The lab is primarily used for classroom instruction and student projects. The projects range from required undergraduate class‐related projects to graduate student and faculty research.
Students learn basic mechanical testing and data acquisition practices in this lab. This includes safe experimental practices, understanding how loading, shape, and material properties affect stresses and strains, and familiarity with common laboratory protocols. Those who opt for elective or project work in the lab learn to develop a test plan and conduct appropriate experiments. Most will learn to create a representative model or prototype, specify signal conditioning for quasi‐static and/or dynamic tests, and link experimental results to product applications. Some graduates will use their experimental expertise directly. Others will use this knowledge for development of product specifications, acceptance testing criteria, or process control.
This laboratory serves:
- MET 211 (Applied Strength of Materials)
- MET 311 (Experimental Strength of Materials)
- MET 313 (Applied Fluid Mechanics)
- MET 317 (Machine Diagnostics)
Current research:
Professor Mark French and his graduate student are characterizing the various damping modes in guitar strings for guitar string manufacturer D'Addario. In a second project affiliated with the laboratory, Professor Nancy Denton and her graduate student developed a mobile data acquisition system and are obtaining continuous real‐time driveline loading data from Class 8 trucks.
Research results and application:
Past research has included the development of a wolf‐bite force meter for Wolf Park staff to measure bite forces. Many class‐based projects have been conducted to assist area companies as they address facilities and process concerns. Typically three-eight MET 317 (Machine Diagnostics) group projects per year are industry‐based.
Lab equipment:
- Universal test machines
- Fatigue test equipment
- Torsion test equipment
- Photo-elastic stress analysis equipment
- Electronic strain gauge instrumentation
- Vibration monitoring and analysis instrumentation
- Balancing instrumentation
- Sound level meter
- Data acquisition and recording equipment
- Oscilloscopes
- Function generators
- Accelerometers
- High-speed camera
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- Supporting computers
Outside funding and support:
Lab support for equipment has come from a number of corporations through donations. Occasionally this support has been through a research grant. Alcoa provided the funds for the laser alignment kit. PCB Piezotronics has donated many of the accelerometers, microphones, torsion sensors, and angular displacement sensors. Sentient Corporation contributed software packages required to drive the ZonicBook 68 data acquisition system as part of a research grant. IRD Mechanalysis (now part of Rockwell Automation) provided several educational demonstration test stands, accelerometers and other data collector peripherals.


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IUCN is pleased to announce that Dr Thomas Brooks will be joining the Secretariat as Head – Science and Knowledge Management in the Global Policy and Programme Group in January 2013.
Dr Brooks comes to IUCN from NatureServe in the US where he has served since 2010 as Vice-President for Science and Chief Scientist. Prior to NatureServe, he worked for The Nature Conservancy in the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies in the University of Arkansas, and then for 11 years at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, latterly as Vice President.
Dr Brooks is already well known to many in IUCN already through his various roles in the IUCN Commissions and Panels including the Species Survival Commission Steering Committee, Red List Committee, and Joint Task Force on Protected Areas and Biodiversity. He has also served on many IUCN delegations such as to the conferences of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Thomas has an impressive track record of publications in high impact journals and has presented his work in about 100 scientific conferences, seminars and workshops. He has carried out fieldwork in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Paraguay, and the bulk of his PhD research was conducted in Kenya, studying land use change and bird extinction. He has more than 20 years' experience of biodiversity conservation science overall and has an excellent track record in fund raising.
In his new position at IUCN, his main tasks will be to promote and support the scientific underpinning of the IUCN programme and knowledge products; promote learning, sharing and knowledge dissemination; serve as IUCN's science champion and facilitator; and manage and administer the Science and Knowledge Management Unit. He will cooperate closely with the members of IUCN's Secretariat, Commissions and IUCN Members and this will include both the natural and social sciences as essential components to achieving IUCN's mission.
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By Adam Rittenberg | ESPN.com
Maybe we'll look back on Nov. 10, 2012, as the day the SEC dynasty died.
The time of death: 6 p.m. The cause of death: An AJ McCarron pass intercepted by Deshazor Everett in the end zone. The surprise executioner: another SEC team (albeit a new one in Texas A&M).
Alabama's loss to Texas A&M on Saturday caused a seismic shift in the national championship race. The Tide dropped to No. 4 in the latest BCS standings, behind Kansas State, Oregon and Notre Dame, all of whom maintained their perfect records in Week 11. Although the SEC's dominance still shows in the standings as spots four through nine are occupied by its members, the sport's preeminent conference doesn't have a team in the top three for the first time since the initial standings in 2010, when eventual national champion Auburn came in at No. 4.
But don't sign the SEC's death warrant just yet. Kansas State, Oregon and Notre Dame all face challenges in the coming weeks. All it takes is losses by two of the three to vault No. 4 Alabama or No. 5 Georgia back into the title game. If a 1-loss team makes it to Miami on Jan. 7, it'll undoubtedly come from the SEC.
The polls are split on Alabama and Georgia, as the coaches have Georgia at No. 4 and the Harris voters have the Alabama at No. 4. The teams' computer numbers are close in five of the six rating systems. Georgia is heading to the SEC championship Dec. 1, and, barring an Auburn win against Alabama, the Tide will meet the Bulldogs.
The SEC isn't dead yet, but it needs help.
In a delicious twist of irony, the SEC's No. 1 assassin has become USC coach Lane Kiffin. His 18th-ranked Trojans still play Notre Dame on Nov. 24. And if USC wins this week against No. 17 UCLA, it could be heading to Oregon to face a potentially unbeaten Ducks team. Mike Slive had a Principal Rooney-Ferris Bueller-type relationship with Kiffin when Kiffin coached in the SEC. Now Slive would ride Traveler through the streets of L.A. if USC takes two teams out of the national title race.
And it's highly possible. If a team as talented as Alabama can look mortal in back-to-back games, other heavyweights can fall.
Oregon undoubtedly has the toughest road. The Ducks next host No. 13 Stanford, which overcame four turnovers Saturday to beat Oregon State for its fourth consecutive win. Oregon ruined the Cardinal's perfect season in convincing fashion last year at Stanford Stadium. David Shaw's team can do the same to the Ducks this week. If Oregon gets past Stanford, it must visit No. 16 Oregon State, another team that would love nothing more than to ruin perfection for its archrival. And there's also the Pac-12 title game against the aforementioned Trojans or a UCLA team with the nation's No. 13 offense.
Kansas State's path isn't smooth, either. Collin Klein and the Wildcats this week visit a Baylor team that ranks second nationally in both pass offense and total offense, and seventh in scoring. Although Klein should make easy work of the woeful Bears defense, a high-scoring opponent playing on its home field is always dangerous. Kansas State then finishes up against No. 15 Texas, which has won four straight since the Red River debacle and seems to have settled down on defense. The Wildcats will be at home, but how many times have we seen teams fumble away a spot in the title game before their faithful?
Notre Dame likely won't catch Oregon or Kansas State if both teams win out, so the Irish need some help. They also must handle their business on Senior Day against Wake Forest before the USC showdown. Notre Dame won its last game at the L.A. Coliseum but dropped six of the previous seven there against USC.
Alabama's loss shifts the spotlight away from the SEC and to the new Big Three. But the nation's top conference is lurking, waiting and watching for an opportunity to rise once
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(creepings sharia) via U.S., U.K. companies host Hezbollah-funded propaganda site | Washington Free Beacon.
A United States-based Internet company is currently hosting a propaganda website operated by the terror group Hezbollah, potentially in violation of a law meant to prevent Americans from providing material support to U.S.-designated terror groups.The Missouri-based GSI Hosting is granting server space to Al Manar TV, which is owned and funded by Hezbollah, according to research&provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).The U.S. has cited Hezbollah and Al Manar as terrorist organizations, a designation that makes it illegal for anyone in America to "knowingly provide 'material support or resources'" to the groups, according to the State Department.The U.S., Canada, France, and several other countries have also banned Al Manar, rendering its current dealings with both U.S. and British companies even more problematic to observers.Al Manar has been known to employ members of Hezbollah, which is committed to Israel's destruction, and routinely broadcasts anti-American and anti-Semitic propaganda.GSI Hosting, which is owned by the Texas-based Layered Tech, was notified last month by MEMRI that it was hosting Al Manar's website.The site was subsequently removed on Nov. 26, but reappeared on the company's servers on Dec. 6, according to MEMRI executive director Steven Stalinsky. Stalinsky has authored several reports detailing Al Manar's emergence on both U.S. and United Kingdom-based Internet servers.Two U.K.-based companies play host to Hezbollah's website: Coreix and ServerSpace Ltd in addition to GSI hosting.MEMRI has notified all of these companies that it could be violating the law by hosting the terror group's website."It is one thing for a company not to know who's on their servers, but after having a major terrorism organization on their servers and being notified it's unacceptable it has happened again," Stalinsky told the Free Beacon.Layered Tech, GSI Hosting's parent company, did not respond to a request for comment about its business dealings with Al Manar.It was still hosting Al Manar's website as of Monday.
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Hey all,
I'm setting up a server right now for my LAN, and I've got Apache going now, but I'm wondering about the FTP server.
Machine specs:
Compaq Presario 6000
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Processor operating at 2.13 GHz
512 MBs RAM
Floppy, ZIP, DVD, and CD-RW drives
Running Slackware Linux 10
Second box that may be used:
HP Pavilion (the first computer I ever bought, still serving me well)
Pentium 3 733 MHz Not overclocked
384 MBs RAM
43 GB HD (Yes, it's weird, but any OS Iput on here reports 43 GB)
Floppy, ZIP, DVD, and CD-RW drives
Running Slackware Linux 9.1 with all patches installed.
Now, I can easily do a google search and find out about secure FTP servers that are quickly set up, but I don't want to listen to some guy ramble on because he was paid, which is why I'm asking here, as I'm quite sure I'm not the only one who has set up multiple FTP servers before.
PureFTPD, ProFTP, and VSFTP are all what I have used before, and I really liked PureFTPd, and VSFTP, but what do you guys think about this?
Slackware has ProFTPd already, but I'm not looking for something already installed if it's not the best.
I won't listen to someone saying WU-FTP, that's just wrong.
Unless of course you can back up that, heh.
Anyway, what FTP servers have you guys set up and liked?
I'm thinking I will go with PureFTPD, but still, I'd like some feed back.
The server will be used to pretty much back up my LAN, and maybe be used to store things for internet users to download. the load might get high, because I have...Ummm, my paid for movies I've downloaded to back up, and on some days the server may be transferng up to 3 GBs a day, and sometimes more. Which is why I like PureFTPd, because I've used that on a SUSE server and gotten 15 GBs across my network in 3 hours without a porblem.
Also, NO ANONYMOUS. All users will have to have an account on the box.I don't want to set up anonymous at all. It's just for me and maybe friends like I said, and I want people to have to log in.


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This is the official website of Scottish musician Dick Gaughan, guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.
Inside you will find information about Gaughan, a Song Archive (with lyrics, stave notation, midi and mp3 files) a full discography with historical and biographical information, Reviews, Tour schedules, links to a wide variety of other sites, opinionated rants, an Absolute Beginner's Guide to Usenet, little bits of Celtic artwork and much more.
What you WON'T find are scripting languages, Flash, frames, pop-up windows, adverts or any of the other irritating gimmicks that just screw up your browser and waste your time. I built and maintain the site myself and all the things which piss me off about a lot of websites have been avoided here.
The site is strictly standards-compliant and the information here should therefore be readable on any platform. It is also built to be equally accessible to all visitors regardless of whatever abilities or disabilities they might have.


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February 17. 2014 7:12PM
Pelham police seek driver who hit bicyclist, left scene Sunday
– Police are seeking a hit-and-run driver who struck a bicycle rider on Mammouth Road Sunday night.
The bike rider, identified as Stacy Jones, 50, of Lowell, Mass., was returning home from Manchester when he was struck by the side view mirror of a car that was also headed southbound.
"We believe it is either a 2007 or newer GMC Acadia or a Saturn Outlook," said Pelham Police Sgt. Anne Periello. "It was definitely missing a passenger side mirror."
The SUV involved was described as being off-white, and because the mirror that was knocked off in the collision was heated, there may be wires dangling from the area of the car where it had been mounted.
The sound of the impact of the car's mirror against Jones was loud enough for a nearby resident to hear while working in her barn. Police said a motorist heading in the opposite direction turned around and tried to follow the vehicle that hit Jones, but the hit-and-run driver eluded him.
While Jones was riding with traffic and was adorned with reflectors, the bike did not have a light, police said.
The road in the area of the accident had very little shoulder area because of snow drifts, but police said Jones was riding right at the fog line at roadside.
He apparently sustained an arm injury in the incident.


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Biomass expansion would change the world
LINCOLN—Replacing foreign oil with domestically grown biomass would revolutionize world politics and economies, with states such as Nebraska emerging as potentially huge winners, says a former Clay County farm boy who's now one of the world's leading biotechnology scientists.
Jay Keasling, a professor of biochemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke May 8 on "The Bold Future of Alternative Energy," as the final guest in the 2011-12 Heuermann Lectures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Using 2009 statistics, Keasling said that of the 94.5 quadrillion BTUs of energy used in the United States, 83% came from fossil fuels. The U.S. now imports about half that oil, and those oil imports account for roughly half of the nation's trade imbalance. And, of course, fossil fuels emit high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Future oil shortages are predicted as China and India increase use at a time when oil production is leveling off and dropping. Prices could reach $200 a barrel, doubling the price of gasoline.
Ethanol from corn already is making inroads into that dependence on foreign oil, but that's only part of the answer, Keasling said. Indeed, corn is far from the ideal biofuels crop, since it requires lots of water and fertilizer and also is important as a food and feed crop.
So, other forms of biomass are in development, including switchgrass, which can produce four times the amount of energy it takes to grow it, Keasling noted.
Keasling's research team at a firm he founded, the Joint BioEnergy Institute, is heavily involved in those efforts. Scientists there engineered a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel from biomass such as switchgrass, without the need of enzyme additives. His team now is working to increase the efficiency and speed by which its engineered E. coli strain can be cost-effective and economically competitive in quantities needed to meet the world need.
"We need to rely on dedicated energy crops" such as switchgrass, said Keasling, who received his bachelor's degree from UNL.
"This would be a huge change in our balance of trade, a huge change in world politics," he added, noting that the money now going overseas to purchase oil could be going into economies of farm states such as Nebraska.
Miscanthus giganteus is a particularly promising biomass crop. It's a perennial that grows 12 feet tall; it also fixes nitrogen in the soil. "It looks to be a great crop for the future," Keasling said.
Scientists like Keasling are focusing on making more efficient the process for getting energy out of biomass crops. Sugars—which comprise about 70 percent of plants' content—are the key, but extracting them and processing them is tricky. Goals are to develop plants that contain more of the so-called "good sugars," less of the bad, and fewer lignins, which are organic polymers in plant cell walls that make them rigid and woody.
Research efforts are focused on improving pretreatment processes to remove lignins and engineering plants to have less lignin. "This is a very exciting area of research," he added.
While bioenergy has successfully produced gasoline substitutes, future research also must produce diesel and jet fuel substitutes.
Keasling said he also expects biomass production to result in chemicals from those plant sugars to replace other substances that now come from petroleum.
Responding to a question from the audience, Keasling said government's role in this process will be a "steady hand ... steady policies over many decades" and not playing favorites among the different crops and technologies. "Government shouldn't be picking winners and losers. Let the marketplace do that."
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We're just 5 days into the free agency signing period and Eagles fans once again are having their annual March panic attack.
Oh my God. Dawk is gone. What are we going to do for a free safety next season? Somebody call 911.
Oh my God. Correll Buckhalter is gone too. If Andy Reid thinks he can go into '09 with Lorenzo Booker as his backup running back, he must be taking stupid pills.
Oh my God. These crazy SOBs also are letting left tackle Tra Thomas test free agency. What if they lose him too?
For crying out loud, calm down people. I understand your anger over the Eagles letting a beloved player like Dawkins leave. And while it certainly wasn't one of their smarter public relations moves, the bottom line is his departure is going to have a minimal effect on one of the league's best defenses.
Will he be missed in the locker room? Absolutely. Will they miss his leadership? Yes, but Jim Johnson's talented unit has plenty of others who will step up and fill the leadership void, including cornerback Sheldon Brown, safety Quintin Mikell and linebacker Stewart Bradley.
If you're an Eagles fan, you should be more concerned right now with the free agent reinforcements the Giants have brought in to strengthen an already potent defensive line. If you're an Eagles fan, you should be more concerned that, for some inexplicable reason, they never went after the best offensive lineman in free agency – center/guard Jason Brown – than that they let Dawkins take a hike.
But it's early. Too early to be making absolute judgments about this team. Too early to be suggesting, as some lunatic-fringe talk-show hosts have, that they're in a rebuilding mode.
Let's see what they do in the remaining months of free agency. Let's see what they do in next month's draft, particularly with those 2 first-round picks.
While many of the big names already have been plucked from the free agency market, there still are people out there that can help this team. There are some decent blocking fullbacks, including the Patriots' Heath Evans and the Cardinals' Terrelle Smith.
While there really isn't a free agent left tackle worth signing, there still are some good interior linemen available, in case the Eagles plan to move one of their 2 starting guards – Todd Herremans or Shawn Andrews – outside to left tackle.
And there still are some pretty good unsigned safeties that can be either a starting replacement for Dawkins or a backup to Demps if they think he is ready.
As for a running back to share the load with Westbrook, who will turn 30 before next season, they're going to have to address that in the draft, probably with one of those 2 first-round picks. Because there's only dreck left.
Here's a look at the best of what's left right now:
Kurt Warner, Cardinals
Byron Leftwich, Steelers
Jeff Garcia, Bucs
J.P. Losman, Bills
Rex Grossman, Bears
LaMont Jordan, Patriots
Deuce McAllister, Saints
Michael Pittman, Broncos
Cedric Benson, Bears
Dominic Rhodes, Colts
Heath Evans, Patriots
Leonard Weaver, Seahawks
Terrelle Smith, Cardinals
Lorenzo Neal, Ravens
Tony Richardson, Jets
Laveranues Coles, Jets
Marvin Harrison, Colts
Reggie Williams, Jags
Michael Clayton, Bucs
Miles Austin, Cowboys
Jerramy Stevens, Bucs
L.J. Smith, Eagles
Justin Peelle, Falcons
Tony Curtis, Cowboys
Robert Royal, Bills
Tra Thomas, Eagles
Mark Tauscher, Packers
Jon Runyan, Eagles
Khalif Barnes, Jags
John St. Clair, Bears
Mike Goff, Chargers
Cooper Carlisle, Raiders
Pete Kendall, Redskins
Chris Naeole, Jags
Elton Brown, Cardinals
Jake Grove, Raiders
Matt Birk, Vikings
Eric Ghiaciuc, Bengals
Jeremy Newberry, Chargers
Cory Procter, Cowboys
Igor Olshansky, Chargers
Bertrand Berry, Cardinals
Demetric Evans, Redskins
Kalimba Edwards, Raiders
Anthony Weaver, Texans
Tank Johnson, Cowboys
Grady Jackson, Falcons
Dwan Edwards, Ravens
Shaun Cody, Lions
John Thornton, Bengals
Ray Lewis, Ravens
Mike Peterson, Jags
Kevin Burnett, Cowboys
Nate Webster, Broncos
Napoleon Harris, Vikings
Marcus Washington, Redskins
Cato June, Bucs
Derrick Brooks, Bucs
Angelo Crowell, Bills
Clark Haggans, Cardinals
Bryant McFadden, Steelers
Leigh Bodden, Lions
Chris McAlister, Ravens
Jabari Greer, Bills
Eric Green, Cardinals
Mike Brown, Bears
James Butler, Giants
Sean Jones, Browns
Will Demps, Texans
Josh Bullocks, Saints
Jermaine Phillips, Bucs
Jim Leonhard, Ravens
C.C. Brown, Texans
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Byzantine Notation is neumatic system of musical notation traditionally used for rendering Byzantine Chant into written form. It is also called Chrysanthean Notation, named for Chrysanthos of Madytos, one of its inventors.
Chrysanthos of Madytos (ca. 1770-1846), Gregory the Protopsaltes, and Chourmouzios the Archivist (called the Three Teachers) were responsible for a much needed reform of the notation of Greek ecclesiastical music. Essentially, this work consisted of a simplification of the Byzantine musical symbols which, by the early 19th century, had become so complex and technical that only highly skilled chanters were able to interpret them correctly. Despite its numerous shortcomings the work of the three reformers is a landmark in the history of Greek Church music, since it introduced the system of neo-Byzantine music upon which are based the present-day chants of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Where is Byzantine Notation used?
Generally, Byzantine notation is used in churches whose musical tradition is Byzantine Chant, those near (or by people who are from churches near) Constantinople, generally the Greek Orthodox, the Church of Constantinople, the Church of Alexandria, and the Antiochian Orthodox. The Serbian Orthodox use a slightly different system of music; the Russian Orthodox use what is essentially Western notation and music. Also, it is worth mentioning that some Eastern Rite Catholics use Byzantine notation.
Byzantine Notation Compared with Western Notation
Byzantine notation is very different from Western notation in most ways. A comparison will be done for the benefit of most readers (who, it is assumed, do not know Byzantine notation, but are familiar with Western notation).
Western notation is based on a staff, where the pitch is determined from where the note is on the staff (regardless of the previous note). Byzantine notation, on the other hand, is relational; the note is dependent on the previous note and the symbol itself, which specifies how far the note is from the previous.
While there are differences in speed and in whether a certain note should be flat or sharp in Western music, Byzantine music has this down to a (very complicated) artform, using certain tones which always have a specific note being sharp or flat.
One near-similarity is the scale. In Western music, Do (the start of the scale) corresponds to the Byzantine note Ni, which is a note below the start of the Byzantine scale.
Byzantine music has eight tones (or modes), sometimes associated with particular "moods" (though the notion that the music is designed to be emotional would certainly be distasteful to the saints who developed it). Also, much of Byzantine chanting can be done without use of written music, due to the use of original melodies (Greek, αυτόμελον) and improvisation. While there are tens of thousands of hymns in Byzantine music, they are all based on less than two hundred original melodies.
See Also
External links
- Reading Psalmodia An introduction to Modern Byantine Musical notation
- Psaltic Notes


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I'm not sure why, but I feel really paranoid about using my home computer network. I feel as if someone has gotten in, and I don't trust anything (wireless router firmware, notebook firmware, etc).
I am in the process of rebuilding my network. What order do should I build everything in? I know it sounds like a silly question, but let me elaborate.
I am going to setup a gateway with openbsd. I am going to install the OS, configure it as best as I can, but at some point I will most likely need additional software. I do not want to go onto the internet w/o having everything locked down. This leads me to a strange situation where I don't want to go onto the internet (due to fears), but I need to to grab software/documentation.
The only real solution I can think of is to download anything I need ahead of time and burn it onto a CD. I guess my real question is: what do you need to have in place in order to feel "safe" from being attacked? Is a firewall enough?
I know that there are such things as IDS, but they are only useful for reporting purposes.


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Log into Windows 2000 as a USER
go to command prompt
type netsh
go into ras
go to ipx
set access
you get "Access is denied. Access is denied."
same for
show config
How do you get around this?
How do you get around this?
Logon as Administrator?
Oliver's Law:
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Sir Dice is correct. The netsh command can only be executed by admins.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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netsh ras>ipx
netsh ras ipx>show config
RAS IPX config
Negotiation mode: allow
Access mode: all
Node number request mode: allow
Assignment method: autosame
IPX address pool base: 0
IPX address pool size: dynamic
netsh ras ipx>
Here is a link that will give you a great deal of NFOZ on netsh:
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DENVER (AP) — An attorney for New York reporter Jana Winter has asked her state's highest court to reject a Colorado subpoena seeking to identify her sources for a story about theater shooting suspect James Holmes.
Winter's attorney filed an appeal notice Wednesday with the New York Court of Appeals.
Winter of Fox News reported that Holmes sent violent drawings to a psychiatrist. Her story cited unidentified law-enforcement officials.
Holmes' attorneys said Winter's sources violated a gag order. They also said officials who denied being Winter's source might have lied, undermining their credibility as witnesses.
Colorado needs New York's approval to enforce the subpoena. Two lower New York courts have ruled the subpoena valid.
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Brent crude is poised to trade above $100 a barrel for a third consecutive year in 2013 as tension in the Middle East threatens to disrupt supply and global demand is buoyed by Chinese imports.
Oil will average $110 next year, according to the median of 30 forecasts compiled by Bloomberg, compared with about $111.70 so far in 2012, on course for the highest-ever annual price. Brent is more likely to overshoot the 2013 median than miss it as Iran spars with the west over its nuclear program and the conflict in Syria deepens, Morgan Stanley and UBS AG said.
"Risks are skewed to the upside, related to still-high risks of escalation or confrontation over Iran and deterioration in Syria," said Julius Walker, global energy markets strategist at UBS Securities LLC in New York, who predicts Brent will average $110 next year. "The biggest possible surprise for markets could be stronger-than-expected oil-demand growth."
Rising prices may pose a barrier to a recovery in the global economy amid Europe's sovereign debt crisis, U.S. budget disputes and signs of slowing growth in Asia. Record revenue for oil producers helped ensure supply stability this year, encouraging Saudi Arabia to pump at its highest rate in three decades, while financing shale projects in the U.S. that fostered the nation's biggest production increase in 50 years.
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The U.S. will probably seek to bring Iran back to international talks in the first quarter of 2013, renewing focus on the issue and adding to the so-called oil-price risk premium, Michael Wittner, the New York-based head of commodities research at Societe Generale SA, said in a Dec. 21 note.
Prices have also gained on signs that the uprising against Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad is heightening discord between Iran, a predominantly Shia Muslim nation that has given military support to Assad, and Saudi Arabia, a Sunni-majority kingdom assisting opposition forces. Refugees are fleeing Syria to neighboring states including Iraq, the fastest-growing oil producer this year among the 12 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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The Bank of Japan delivered its third dose of monetary stimulus in four months on Thursday in a prelude to more aggressive action next year, as it faces intensifying pressure from the country's next leader for stronger efforts to beat deflation.
It also signaled setting a higher inflation target at its next meeting in January, when a new government will be in place ready to negotiate with the central bank.
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Shinzo Abe, whose opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won Sunday's election by a landslide, has put the central bank's independence on the line by repeatedly calling for a binding 2 percent inflation target, double its current price goal.
Feeling the heat, the central bank expanded its asset-buying and lending programme by 10 trillion yen ($119 billion) to 101 trillion yen, a widely expected move that barely moved markets.
With the latest move, the BOJ has expanded asset purchases five times this year, the most frequent activity during a single year in a decade. The last time it eased so many times was in 2001, when Japan was battling a domestic banking crisis.
"The next step is inflation targeting. The BOJ will come up with something that's just enough to avoid criticism from Abe but probably not enough to avoid some sense of disappointment," said Masamichi Adachi, senior economist at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo.
"Abe is not even prime minister yet. If you look at how the BOJ is behaving, you could argue this is a loss of independence."
The BOJ now has a 1 percent inflation target in place, and defines a range of zero to 2 percent consumer inflation as a desirable level of long-term price growth.
The central bank said it would review that guideline next month. It will probably clarify that, after 1 percent inflation is in sight, it will aim to achieve 2 percent inflation.
The yen has fallen almost 9 percent against the dollar since September, as Abe's emergence as the likely next prime minister raised expectations of more expansionary policy and spending.
The dollar briefly edged up to around 84.39 yen after the BOJ's decision, but quickly slid back down as markets saw its action as lacking any surprises.
While Abe's prescription has had the desired market effect so far, pushing down the yen and driving the benchmark Nikkei stock average above 10,000 for the first time in more than eight months, analysts say pumping cash into the economy will only give it a temporary boost unless followed by efforts to lift Japan's growth potential and contain runaway debt.
Some in the BOJ, particularly officials close to the conservative Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, had wanted to delay any action until January, when there is more clarity on the new government's policies and when the central bank conducts a quarterly review of its long-term growth projections.
But that was too costly with business sentiment already slumping and companies delaying capital spending plans on weak global demand, adding to evidence that any rebound from recession early next year will be minor, analysts say.
"Japan's economy is weakening further and is expected to remain weak for the time being," the central bank said, offering a gloomy assessment of the world's third-largest economy currently enduring its fourth recession since 2000.
Speaking at an LDP meeting, Abe, who is set to take over as prime minister on December 26, said that he received a phone call from Shirakawa earlier in the day informing him of the central bank's monetary policy decision.
"I take it as that the BOJ is carrying out what we sought during the election step-by-step," he said.
Shirakawa has consistently argued that setting a 2 percent inflation target would be counter-productive in a country that has not seen consumer inflation exceed 1 percent for most of the past two decades.
But Abe made a rare, direct push for a higher inflation target when Shirakawa visited the LDP's headquarters on Tuesday, saying that the central bank must pay heed to the fact that he won an election campaigning for bolder monetary stimulus.
Abe also said that once he forms a cabinet next week he will instruct his ministers to begin working with the BOJ on setting a shared inflation target.
The LDP and its coalition partner, the New Komeito, together won a two-thirds majority in the powerful lower house that would allow them to overrule parliament's upper house in most matters, including on any bill to revise the law guaranteeing the central bank's independence from government interference.
Abe, who plans to compile a big stimulus package to revive the economy, may use that threat to nudge the central bank into buying bonds more aggressively to finance the costs.
Shirakawa, whose five-year term ends in April next year, also faced calls for bolder action from within the BOJ board.
Board member Koji Ishida, a former commercial banker, proposed - albeit unsuccessfully - scrapping a 0.1 percent interest paid to excess reserves financial institutions park with the BOJ, something Shirakawa has resisted doing so for fear of distorting proper market functions.
($1 = 84.2600 Japanese yen)
(Additional reporting by Stanley White, Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Alex Richardson and John Mair)