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Just to get our mind off this miserable weather, has anyone heard if ASA is going to continue with their amateur class shoot downs this year?
No announcement yet.
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Originally posted by C.Roberts View PostJust to get our mind off this miserable weather, has anyone heard if ASA is going to continue with their amateur class shoot downs this year?
Excuse me elkie but I thought you told me you had to put your bow down because you had shot so much you had messed shoulder up again an was shooting 1 in groups at 50 yards I get to go an shoot 40 targets an u ride me like a Shetland pony o the Horror of it all ( just saying )
Between some kinda electronic pulse thingie my wife bought, and the bone cruncher my shoulder is probably back about 50% to 75% --- never will be normal. I lighted up my bow a tad, n' am only shootin bout 275fps now, but I can still shoot real good --- just don't have any idear how much a yard is. Youse gize been havin 3D shoots since early December, and when ya ain't got no shoots, or all week long durin the week yer shootin at yer range a targets at home. I can see me n' the misses is just hafta gonna sell the ranch down here ta either Carlos or Clawed n' move northward a bit, so we can git inta some a that early shoots action y'all got goin fer ya.
Then too, Carlos wouldn't hafta wade thru er shovel any snow ta git his mail, so he could see me in the tour guide twice.
NOTICE; South Georgia mini-ranch fer sale !!! 6 1/2 achers n' a beautiful home
Carlos --- please explain what "PEDs" are ??? When I was a kid we wore "PFDs" --- black n' white ankle hi tennies.The thingies are four diffrant sqwear patches, that got wires n' plug inta a box that ya turn on, and then the patches pulsate/vibrate, and losin up the muscle nots --- feeeeels gooood. I did glow one time tho when they pumped me fulla some kinda radioactive stuff to take a MRI on my leg when it was crushed n' broke up --- thats why I stagger when I walk --- that part don't bother me that much cause I staggered fer years a lotta years ago --- druuuunk agin !!!
After my oractice today I wished I was a bionic bowmeister --- what a disaster !!! --- made some changes n' fergot ta tune test it fore I shot, so now I got my work cut out for me Friday mornin.
I've been trying to re-visit my HT release thanks to Clawed leading the way. However I have come to the conclusion that I am gonna have to seek him out fof some personalized instructions... Since he seems to have become the HingeMiester for the Geezer set.
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Originally posted by carlosii View PostI've been trying to re-visit my HT release thanks to Clawed leading the way. However I have come to the conclusion that I am gonna have to seek him out fof some personalized instructions... Since he seems to have become the HingeMiester for the Geezer set.
Weather still the pits, I get out very little. Back tension...This works for index and thumb releases, but you gotta think "back tension" all the while aiming and aiming is what you're really doing as back tension is there (so long as you don't give up on it). Every so slowly the (back) tension "draws" up, creeps into that release side "R" muscle group (I thought there was only one muscle) and magically the release fires. The real problem is, you can say it easier than done.
So we had January thaw, short lived.... I get that back tension thing going a just hammering what I'm aiming at. Problem number 2; Really using back tension you shot impact changes location - so I adjusted my sight so I was hammering what I was aiming at. Problem number 3; Remembering to engage back tension when you practice again. Couple of shots a couple inches left doesn't help your attitude....Mmmm? Altitude? I was kind of "up in the air."
Problem number 4; Remember to remove safety crosspin the Stan MoreX hinge releases. Yeah, all set, I'm on, that miserable 12 ring is history and CLICK!
Again, Mother Nature has decided we need more snow and more cold. I finally get out and it's "startin' to learn day" all over again. And having the ole back aching from plowing snow ain't productive neither.....

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2014 was known as The Year of the Breach. It could be that 2015 will be known as The Year of the Really Big Breaches. Or perhaps it will be remembered as the year that mobile malware really began to make a statement or cyberespionage entered the American lexicon. If nothing else, the year that is ending was the one when everyone, from executives to the average citizen, became aware of how much damage a cyberattack can cause.
So what is on the horizon for 2016? Most experts expect to see continued growth in mobile malware and even more security breaches, especially in the health care and financial industries. The PIN and chip EMV standard is still too new and not well-enough implemented for anyone to have a good feel on what effect it will have on credit card security. We'll always have new strains of malware and innovative phishing attacks. Those are the easy predictions.
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Robert Wallace: The grapes of wrath
I go downstairs; my shoes muted by the gray-painted cement steps. The chair with its large cushioned arms faces the furnace, which, in winter, seems to run non-stop. I take a seat, remove my shoes, and plant my feet against the furnace. I open the paperback book and begin reading.
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently,
and they did not cut the scarred earth.
Thus begins "The Grapes of Wrath." I am 17 years old, living in the home of my grandparents, parentless since the age of 14. I sleep in the same room as my half-brothers. Allen is 4; Michael, 3.
At night, when I enter the bedroom, two hours after they have already been put to sleep, I sometimes lie in bed and listen to the rise and fall of their little boy chests. Sometimes one of the boys will have a bad dream and whimper and call out, and I will have to say "It's only a dream, go back to sleep," and they will roll over and begin snoring again. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, when both Mike and Allen are snoring softly; their peculiar breathing rhythms disturbing me, I'll leave the house and go outside and stand by the barn and look at the sky. There, in the quiet of the night, I'll count stars.
But back to the book. "The Grapes of Wrath" was published 75 years ago. I am currently reading it again; now 40 years later. Published in 1939, "The Grapes of Wrath" caused a stir. John Steinbeck's Oklahoma tenant farmers, devastated by Mother Nature and ruinous farming practices, travel west to California to find a better life. What they discover, instead, is avarice, on the part of big-time farmers and banks.
Steinbeck tells his story through the Joad family, a hardscrabble clan that despite a strong willingness to work, discover that a desire to make good is too often thwarted by forces beyond their control; often by men bent to exploit them for their own gain. The Joads discover, too, that thousands like them have made their way to "the land of honey."
There are many themes and motifs in "The Grapes of Wrath." It is full of mythology and allusions to Christianity; it can be read as a proletarian novel, a novel of realism, or an example of naturalism, much like Upton Sinclair. And then there is the concept of the organism; the individual "I" organism versus the collective "We." Ma Joad, more than any character, realizes that in order to survive she needs to keep the family together, and by the end of the book she comes to understand that the family is more than the Joads. She says: "Use' ta be the fambly was first. It ain't so now. It's anybody. Worse off we get, the more we got to do."
More stuff about stars. When I was a young man of 21, I spent a summer outside Chicago, working with seniors, first delivering meals to them for a few weeks in Chicago itself, and then, in late summer, taking two-week trips with seniors to the Illinois countryside. It was a way of getting them out of Chicago, in the summer, as this was before many in northern cities had air conditioning. The organization was called Little Brothers for the Poor. One night a woman asked me to push her outside so she could see the stars. She was in a wheelchair. I pushed her away from the house, in the dark recesses of the middle of the front yard, where the light from the house didn't reach much.
We gazed up.
"It's been decades since I've seen stars like this," she said. "You can't see anything in the sky in the city."
"Yes," I said.
"There are billions and billions and billions of stars," she said. "There are more stars than we can possibly fathom." And then: "It's beautiful. It's truly a gift to be able to see this. Thank you."
Now, early in the morning, in early March, in this year, while my wife and daughter sleep, and before the dog wakes, I go downstairs and out the backdoor. An owl hoots, and I wait for the response, but its mate is quiet. I think of the night as being much like the sea – this vast life that humans know so little about.
What does "The Grapes of Wrath" have to do with the stars? I don't know except to say that when the Joads crossed the Mohave Desert they did so at night.
The dusk passed into dark and the desert stars came out in the soft sky, stars stabbing
and sharp, with few points and rays to them, and the sky was velvet.
It was my grandparents and the old woman who waxed poetically about the stars that informed me that I wanted to become a social worker and help the elderly. And Steinbeck himself who taught me that there is unity in everything: the earth, all the living organisms, the sky, and the people. All the people.
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Anterior uveitis affects the front of the eye. It is often called iritis because it mainly affects the area around the eye's iris. Anterior uveitis is the most common kind of uveitis in children and adults making up 40-70% of all uveitis. It is usually acute (i.e. comes on suddenly and lasts for less than six weeks) and is associated with pain, light sensitivity and redness. Although it can be caused by a number of diseases which affect the body, such as Ankylosing Spondylitis or Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, most of the cases are of unknown origin.
Intermediate uveitis is inflammation of the ciliary body, the front end of the retina, and the vitreous. The vitreous body is a clear gel-like substance that fills the inside of the eyeball between the lens and the retina. Intermediate uveitis is the least common type of uveitis, making up only 7-15% of cases. It is also known as cyclitis, pars planitis or vitritis. In most of the cases, the cause is unknown. Symptoms include floaters and blurry vision. People with intermediate uveitis are more likely to have chronic inflammation. Chronic uveitis is defined as uveitis lasting longer than six weeks.
Posterior uveitis is inflammation of the choroid, retina and optic nerve. The optic nerve is the path that carries images from the retina to the brain. It can be seen in 15 to 22% of uveitis types. Generally it is chronic (long standing – can last weeks to months to years), recurrent (in which a patient has multiple flare-ups between periods of a quiet eye) and affects both eyes. The underlying cause is often a result of an abnormal immune disease. Infections caused by the organism toxoplasmosis are the most common cause of posterior uveitis.
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Clashes, gunfire in Cairo as Mohammed Morsi's supporters take to streets
Armed supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi fought pitched battles Friday near Tahrir Square with crowds that had favored Morsi's overthrow, in a worrisome sign of open conflict between the two sides.
Scores of people were injured in the hours-long clash, which began as the sun set and didn't end until around 10 p.m., when soldiers and police arrived to impose order.
Elsewhere, Morsi supporters and the military also battled as his backers in the Muslim Brotherhood rallied to the streets in what their leaders called "Friday of rejection," demanding Mori's return to power two days after he was deposed by the military.
The military shot at least one pro-Morsi demonstrator dead outside the headquarters of the Republican Guard, the elite military unit assigned to protect the president. The shooting occurred as Morsi supporters converged on the guard's headquarters, where many think Morsi is being held. Guards and police opened fire as the crowd approached. A video of the incident posted online showed a man fatally shot in the head, just in front of the guards.
The Health Ministry said 12 people had been killed in Alexandria, the country's second largest city.
In the Sinai, jihadists armed with advanced weapons smuggled from places such as Libya attacked military checkpoints in the early morning hours and battled Egyptian troops throughout the day. At least five soldiers were killed.
In Zagazig, Morsi's hometown, about an hour north of Cairo, supporters and opponents clashed on the street, injuring dozens.
There were reports of Muslim Brotherhood members being arrested and crackdowns on the news media. Khairat el Shater, the deputy Brotherhood leader, was arrested, state media said. CNN also reported that while it was covering the clashes in Cairo, the military stole a camera during a live shot.
It was difficult to gauge the extent of violence nationwide or even how many Morsi partisans had turned out for the protests. The Health Ministry announced that 30 people had been killed and 790 injured across the country. But the military had shut down at least four television stations sympathetic to Morsi, blacking out what was happening in much of the country.
Still, there was little doubt that anger was high among Morsi's supporters over the way his presidency had ended.
Mohammed Badie, the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was thought to have been arrested Thursday, re-emerged Friday and offered to engage in talks with the military. But such talks would happen only after Morsi had been reinstated as president, he said, something that seemed highly unlikely.
The country's new president, Adly Mansour, the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, put on an air of normalcy, announcing who would be his legal and political advisers. He also dissolved the Islamist-based smaller chamber of Parliament, the Shura Council. The lower house of Parliament had been dissolved last year.
Tension was high throughout the day as pro-Morsi demonstrators gathered in pockets throughout Cairo.
While their numbers were far fewer than the huge throngs that had turned out for three days to demand Morsi's resignation, their emotions were intense, and many here worried that the military's decision to open fire, the exchange of gunfire near Tahrir Square and the Islamists' willingness to go on the offensive and vow holy war seemed to portend a lengthy period of instability and, perhaps, Egyptians killing Egyptians.
The first violence in the capital came at around 3 p.m., when pro-Morsi demonstrators surged toward troops stationed behind barbed wire and tanks at the Republican Guard headquarters, according to witnesses and video posted of the incident.
Gunshots rang out and the crowd retreated, leaving behind one man lying on his side with a gunshot wound to the left side of his head. Witnesses said he'd been carrying a Morsi poster.
Others clearly had been injured. In Rabaa, the Cairo district that's been the gathering place for Morsi's supporters, several people who'd fled the Republican Guard headquarters violence were drenched in blood, either because they were victims of pellet shots or they'd helped carry out the roughly 100 wounded.
Walid el Halali, 33, a Ministry of Investment employee, was among them. He said police and Republican Guards had fired on the crowd. He struggled to talk, a victim of four pellet shots, including one to his mouth.
"People have died. I saw someone's brains on the ground," he said.
The clash near Tahrir Square began when a group of Morsi supporters who'd been marching toward the headquarters of state television and radio, known as Maspero, broke off and moved toward the square, the home of the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and where Morsi opponents have been since Wednesday.
Witnesses said the Morsi demonstrators opened fire with small arms on the anti-Morsi crowds, which responded by firing back and launching fireworks at the Morsi supporters.
The two sides battled for hours. Ayman Ahmed, 26, a banker, said he'd seen people fall to the ground during the confrontation, though he couldn't say whether they'd been injured.
Later, after the military and police arrived and separated the groups, bloodstains could be seen along the 6th of October Bridge over the Nile, and rocks and broken glass littered the streets. Four army tanks had been stationed outside the Maspero building.
Sheikh Ahmed el Tayeb, the head of Al Azhar institute, the premier center of Sunni Islamic learning, issued a statement as troops arrived, saying Muslims shouldn't be killing each other and urging both sides to seek a peaceful resolution.
In the Sinai, jihadists, who weren't big fans of Morsi, said the decision by the military to remove him from office was an act of war. They attacked several military checkpoints in the early morning hours, killing at least one soldier and injuring three others, according to Dr. Abdel Wahab, the manager of Arish hospital, near the scene.
"They are against the military rule and will not forget the brutality of the police who tortured them and detained their wives and children, during Mubarak and the military's rule," said Sheikh Ibrahim al Menei, tribal leader of Swarkeh, who witnessed the overnight attacks.
"Morsi represented a buffer between them and the military and in a way pitied them and understood their plight," Menei said. "Now these Salafi jihadi groups feel betrayed furthermore by the coup and have vowed to continue attacks on the military and Israel until he is reinstated."
According to Gen. Sameh Bishady, the head of North Sinai security, clashes began around 2:30 a.m., when attackers armed with heavy weaponry – including mortars, anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickups, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns – lunged toward the military checkpoints. Military aircraft began flying overhead around 3 a.m., and the situation remained tense throughout the day.
Bellicose talk was common. Mohamed al Zawahiri, a prominent Salafist and brother of al Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahiri, said he wouldn't be surprised if other radical Islamists followed the Sinai example.
"We never believed in democracy or ballot boxes, and according to our Shariah, such a Western-tailored system is never acceptable," he said, using the Arabic word for Islamic law. "Many Islamists went with this so-called democracy and beat the liberals fair and square at their game. Then the military, backed by the U.S., turned the table with this coup, which will blow up the country beyond belief, and the region."
Despite the rampant violence, the newly named technocratic civilian government attempted to move forward. Mansour announced that a fellow judge, Aly Aoud Saleh, would serve as his constitutional adviser and another judge, Mostafa Hegazy, would advise him on politics.
But the government faced setbacks outside Egypt. The African Union suspended Egypt's membership, citing a "military coup."


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Argument from locality
The argument from locality states that every religion that has ever existed, or will ever exist, had an origin at a specific time and place within a specific culture. Any god or gods who truly wanted all humans to follow them logically could have started their religion at the very instant that the human race appeared and would have informed all cultures, not just one, thus giving all humans who would ever be born an equal chance at joining. The fact that no religion has ever done this shows that no religion is the "correct" one — or, at least, that no religion so far has had a "rational" deity.
Tenets of the argument[edit]
- Any god who wanted all humans to follow him/her would have revealed themselves to all humans at once, not just one culture or race at a time.
- If rewards and punishment are given for belief and nonbelief respectively, then any god who waits hundreds or thousands of years before revealing itself to humans is unfair, since the people who lived and died before this revelation didn't have a chance to believe.
- If believers are rewarded for their belief then it is unfair for only a specific group of people to receive more evidence than others.
- And vice versa: if nonbelief is punished then it is also unfair for some people to receive less evidence than others (or no evidence at all).
- Any religion that strongly reflects the beliefs and thoughts of the time in which it was created is not the "true" one.
The argument and Christianity[edit]
- God revealed himself only to the Jews at first. He was the god of the Jews and no one else. It wasn't until Christianity came along that he became the god of the world.
- Even though Christianity states that its god will save anyone who follows him, he still waited thousands of years before revealing this plan to humanity. Plus, the reason he suddenly decided to save all humans instead of just the Jews was never explained — thus making it unfair for the millions of non-Jews who lived before Christ, who never got a chance to be saved.
- The Christian god rewards believers. Thus, the fact that he only revealed himself to a small group of people in the Middle East 2,000 years ago and left it up to humans to spread his word is very unfair of him.
- Non-belief is punished as well, which reinforces the unfairness of only telling a small group of people.
- The Bible strongly reflects the beliefs and thoughts of the time (e.g. a flat earth, women being inferior to men, slavery, etc.).
Possible objections[edit]
William Lane Craig provided the following rebuttals in his debate with Christopher Hitchens:
- The population was not that large before Jesus
- Jesus appears just before the exponential explosion of the population
- The conditions were stable – Roman Empire, peace, literacy, law, etc.
Nevertheless, the above rebuttals fail to address the following:
- What happens to those who have never even heard of Christianity due to distance in time or space? What chance do they have in escaping damnation? Did they all go to Hell when they died, simply because God chose not to tell them the way to salvation? Or did they somehow get to Heaven without the redemptive powers of Jesus or even the Jewish law? And if so, if this is possible, then what was the point of sending Jesus or giving the law at all?
- Why does the Bible strongly reflect the beliefs and thoughts of the time? Why not something new?
- The above is a strong argument that any God which might exist is not omnibenevolent and is not just or fair as most Christians believe God to be. It is consistent with the near maltheist concept of God that Fred Phelps for example preaches though most Christians disagree strongly with Phelps.
Fortunately there is no reason to believe that the unjust, unfair -by human standards- God of the bible exists.
Maybe God has already expected that some people will not believe in him regardless of the evidence. Maybe God has his own standards to judge us. Maybe God wants us to explore the wonders of the world on our own. Maybe God wants us to develop our sense of morality on our own. Maybe God rewards us for using our critical faculty that he gave us and punishes blind faith.
Maybe. Yeah, maybe God does not exist at all!
See also[edit]
- The Argument from Locality at Ebonmusings
- If God Exists, DarkMatter2525, 18 Dec 2015


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koontz1973 wrote:Gillipig wrote:As others have said before me, remove the flies, grass and cow pat. They might be good for gameplay but try to justify how any of that would be on a butchers wall. It's impossible! I would like to see more of the wall and the bonuses made in a way that somehow fits a butchers picture of a cow. Maybe a minimap would be more fitting?
Instead of doing a mini map, try for a chalk board and instead of having bonuses, how about prices. So it would be
£6 Sirloin
£5 Rump
and so on.
Look at that suggestion Dana! It will integrate the bonuses nicely to the butcher theme!


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THE INTENT OF OUR REPORT is not to shock or blaspheme: the fact remains that in earthly affairs, the market, at its broadest and most inclusive, is the closest we are likely to come to the wisdom of the Almighty.
Yes, the market creates suffering for some; its decisions may appear harsh and cruel, but let us not forget the theological parallel to the market according to which 'God, supremely good, would never allow that there be evil in His works unless He were so powerful and so good that even from evil He could do good.'^1^
If capitalism can be said to possess an ontology, an essence, it is surely that the market, in its full sweep and scope, is harmonious and wise. Like God, it too can create good from apparent evil. From destruction it draws the betterment of humankind and the highest possible equilibrium of the whole.
The moment has come to put this ontology to the test. It is time to ask if the beneficiaries of the free market and the liberal system, including the Commissioning Parties, are prepared to accept the seemingly harsh consequences of their beliefs.
Can the environment and civilized society sustain present and future numbers? Should Western culture be represented by fifteen, then ten, then five per cent of humanity? Should the most productive individuals and nations sacrifice their well-being in the name of problematic gains for the least productive ones? Should now-powerful countries willingly relinquish their authority? Such are the questions our analysis obliges us to put to ourselves and to the Commissioning Parties; for our part, we answer 'no' to all of them.
We have dwelt at length on the likelihood of environmental collapse and social anarchy. We have spoken of the mirage of the universal welfare state and the illusion of universal human inclusion. We have warned against the folly of renouncing one's own power and culture in the bargain. As Machiavelli pointed out to the Medici long ago, the choice is to remain Prince and to do whatever is necessary to that end, or to cease to be Prince. We have no doubt that the Commissioning Parties will choose to remain, as it were, Prince. The great question thus becomes: 'What is necessary to that end?'
_If twenty-first century capitalism cannot continue to function optimally – or at all – under foreseeable demographic conditions, then those conditions must be altered._
Such a statement, should it be seized upon by self-appointed moralists, would doubtless be denounced as a declaration of intended 'genocide'. Not only would this betray a careless use of language, it is not what we intend. To begin with, we are not ideologically motivated and we harbour no hatred for any ethnic group, religion or race.
Such sentiments are puerile and unworthy. Secondly, we are not speaking here about some lunatic utopia ('the world will be perfect when all Jews/class enemies have been eliminated and the people/party purified'). Our goals are rather to:
• create an economic environment which will maximize individual chances for success and the pursuit of happiness • safeguard a liveable habitat for humans and other species • perpetuate civilized society and Western culture
The first goal – to create a favourable economic environment – requires that we determine under what conditions it is possible to ensure not some ultimate, ideal system but the greatest possible welfare for the greatest possible number. If the free market does not provide for 'pursuing happiness' more readily than some other alternative system, it deserves to lose its pre-eminent place. A system based upon competition should not fear it.
The liberal, market-based system does not now provide happiness, comfort and a measure of security for the majority of humanity; nor will it do so for projected populations in future: these are givens and must be recognized. We doubt that any other system could do so either, but in the context of this Report that is irrelevant. Even in the best-off countries, not everyone can possess and accumulate capital or succeed as a risk-taking entrepreneur; whereas the labour market is just that: a market, obeying market rules.
According to the founding principle of competition, the global market takes the best and leaves the rest. Today, although no-one knows for sure, the 'rest' are almost certainly more numerous than those whose talents, skills, education, moral qualities, birth, luck and so on have placed them inside the system. Even the International Labour Organization puts the numbers of those 'unincorporated' in the labour force at over a billion: add their dependants, and the enormous size of this category becomes apparent.
Our second goal – safeguarding a liveable habitat – is curiously akin to the views expressed by the so-called Deep Ecology movement. Although we are far from subscribing to all its premises, we note with interest the following statements from its Platform:
_The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible with a substantial decrease of the human population. The flourishing of non-human life requires such a decrease. Policies must therefore be changed._^2^
The Deep Ecologists do not say how or by whom the 'substantial decrease' might be achieved, nor which policies would have to be changed to achieve it. They simply state the obvious. To our knowledge, Deep Ecologists are not being held in custody for advocating 'genocide'.
Our third goal – perpetuating civilized society and Western culture – cannot be attained today in the same ways as it has been during most of recorded history. From the time of the Greeks and the Romans to that of the nineteenth-century colonists, sophisticated conquerors always sought to incorporate the land, resources, wealth and people of the conquered territory because they represented significant assets. The labour of the conquered population, often under the watchful eye and the heavy rod of a collaborating local oligarchy, was another source of riches and power. Today, the idea of holding colonies is faintly ludicrous: their assets can be better extracted through other methods; their populations are, for the most part, not merely useless but burdensome as well.
The Enclosure Movement in Britain was a harbinger of things to come, dispossessing thousands of small farmers and creating a floating population. However, until the machines of the Industrial Revolution put masses of traditional craftsmen out of work, the problem of excess populations never arose.
Until our own day, society could also count on various safety valves, first among them the celebrated Malthusian 'checks ' like famines. Surplus labour and social misfits could also emigrate to the new lands opening in North America and Australia. Fifty million Europeans did so in the nineteenth century. Colonies elsewhere, particularly in Africa and the Indian subcontinent, helped to take up the slack as well.
Armies conscripted and disciplined many otherwise antisocial youths. Families were expected to care for indigent members. Organized charity developed at the same time as the Industrial Revolution itself and dealt with many of its unsavoury consequences.
We no longer enjoy these luxuries. The world is full and there are no empty spaces left to settle or colonize. The notion that private charity or even public aid can deal with the full range of present social ills is absurd.
Just as physical rubbish and waste litter the landscape and threaten to overwhelm many cities and their services, so social rubbish and waste endanger liberal ideals and the market, though few dare to say so in public. Proper management and social control are impossible when all efforts to ameliorate the situation are immediately neutralized, indeed swamped by proliferating, poorly integrated populations.
The question for us is therefore not whether but how to achieve the goal of drastic population reduction. In this regard, we wish to state firstly some general principles:
• Although not entirely cost-free, modern population-reduction strategies must be cheap, requiring no special equipment and virtually no manpower. The 'Auschwitz model' is the opposite of what is required to attain the objective. It is also far more important to redirect spending than to raise new funds. • 'Victim' selection should not be undertaken by anyone but the 'victims' themselves. They will self-select on criteria of incompetence, inaptitude, poverty, ignorance, laziness, criminality and the like; in a word, 'loser-hood'. • The state should have relatively few duties to perform with regard to population management and in any case far fewer tasks than those connected with vast prison administrations, unemployment compensation, overall 'welfare' administration and the like. We advocate downgrading the present size and scope of the state and reducing significantly its role in people's affairs. We are thus consistent in recommending that the state take its cue from the private sector in the area of population control as well. • In the matter of visibility and public perceptions, we recommend two categories of strategies. 'Preventive' population control will centre on birth prevention, it will be visible and part of normal policy; whereas 'curative 'strategies will deal with those already born but will not appear to have any particular agency behind them. There are no villains in this scenario. • As a consequence, the question of opprobrium should not arise.
Properly thought through, with sufficient moral energy and financial commitment behind them, these strategies, taken together, could succeed. The task of the Working Party is to think them through; the energy and commitment must be supplied by the Commissioning Parties and their allies.
The twenty-first century must choose between discipline and control or tumult and chaos. The only way to ensure the greatest welfare for the greatest number while still preserving capitalism is to make that number smaller. We have arrived at this conclusion after carefully weighing the alternatives. If no action is taken, some future Working Party may still debate whether social anarchy will precede, follow or accompany ecological collapse, but the basic questions will have been settled negatively for civilization. We ask the Commissioning Parties to appreciate that our message is not merely that 'the ends justify the means', though this may well be so. It is, rather, that Western culture and the liberal market system must, in the twenty-first century, choose between the ends and The End.
The author unveiled
_The Lugano Report_ is actually a fictional work by the noted author and critic of globalization, *Susan George*. She tells us here why she wrote the book.
*What was the genesis of a fictional 'official' report?*
I was convinced that another book of analysis and criticism was pointless. I've spent the last 25 years of my life describing hunger, famine, debt and structural adjustment and what they are doing to people, and virtually nothing has changed.
So, I thought, why not make things really clear by taking the logic of the global system to its conclusion? I wanted to put the case clinically to show the horrific consequences of continuing down the economic road we're on.
*Why do you think the market model has such a hold on people?*
Backers of the global economic model are very clever at paying both hacks and legitimate scholars to spread their propaganda. If a decision were taken that there had to be two billion fewer humans in 2020 you'd soon see all sorts of people developing a new kind of ethics and a new kind of law, and you'd have them paid for. You would have a recasting of Malthus and it would be for everyone's own good, of course.
Norman McBeath
*Why do you reveal yourself as the author at the end? Doesn't that destroy the impact?*
When I first showed the book to a publisher in France they wanted to publish it anonymously but I thought that was too dangerous. Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think if you published this without a confession of authorship at the end and people believed it was real and were convinced that organized genocide was on the cards... Well, I didn't want to take on that big a responsibility. I insisted on an 'afterword' and an 'annex' which they didn't want. So they rejected the book.
*Is there any hope for challenging the élite system of governance you outline in the book?*
Definitely. The big battle for me right now is the World Trade Organization. It's a huge monolith and it's going to be an epic battle. If you're fatalistic you say that capitalism just rolls on like a juggernaut, crushing greater parts of humanity and the environment. But the system is fragile, with lots of cracks. We just have to get out there with our pick axes and work along the fault lines. I've sometimes been criticized for my pessimism, but I must say that I'm as optimistic as I have been in a very long time. I really think there are huge opportunities now.
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I knew my Nova's bobbin winder was wonky (yes, it is a technical term). Took off the handwheel and discovered the main long screw holding the spindle was loose. Yep, it was loose because a piece is missing and the main black cast metal part has a chip missing.
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Mark Massey traveled from Texas to Lipscomb University to play baseball from 1968-71. He didn't realize at the time he would stay in Tennessee after graduating with a bachelor's degree in Health and Physical Education. Like a lot of students at Lipscomb throughout the years he met his future spouse and eventually settled in her home county. Retired as an educator, Massey still works part-time for the Hardin County School System. He also serves as a city commissioner for Adamsville and closely follows the careers of his sons who are both high school coaches. He spent some time with Lipscombsports.com for this week's "Where Are They Now?" feature.
What sport did you play at Lipscomb? What years? Who were your coaches?
"I played baseball from 1968-71. I was an outfielder and relief pitcher. Ken Dugan was the head coach. Gary Davis was the assistant coach and Roy Pardue was the pitching coach."
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"Obviously, it would have to be going to the NAIA World Series in 1971. We were the first Lipscomb team to do that and we were within an eye lash of winning the national championship.
"We beat State College of Arkansas 2-1 in the Region 5 Tournament. That was the game when Butch Stinson struck out 17.
"I told the team on the bus as we were going to Bill Meyer Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.) that if we won I would throw my shoes over the right field wall. We won and I did throw my shoes over the wall. They were just about worn out anyway. I got a new pair for the World Series.
"Coming back to Lipscomb after we won the Area Tournament to put us in the World Series was a big thing. We were runner-up in the World Series and we were nicknamed the `Miracle Bisons' at that time. We were 44-18 that year. We had a good team. Going to the World Series (and earning a spot in the championship game out of the loser's bracket) kind of put Lipscomb on the national level in sports at that point."
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"There is no doubt that coach Dugan had the biggest influence on my athletic career. He was so disciplined and so tough. It was almost like being in the military. You had to have your hair cut. You couldn't have any kind of facial hair.
"He didn't give me many compliments. He just expected you to get the job done. If you didn't, you didn't play very long. He was very demanding. He told me one time I could pack my bags and go back to Texas.
"He always said, `buy good stuff, take good care of it and you can build a program'. That stuck with me more than anything else. He had a tremendous influence on me. I had more respect for him when I got out of school than I did when I played for him. When they dedicated the field to him he asked me to come back and speak on behalf of the players. That was a big moment for me."
"I didn't have a place to live after I graduated. He turned his house over to me when he and Diane went to West Virginia to see her parents. He was just a great guy. He was such a competitor. Outside of my parents and the Lord, he was probably the most significant person to influence me."
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"Finding my wife, Rosalind, at Lipscomb is the most significant thing for me at Lipscomb. We met in a physical education class. She had graduated from Freed-Hardeman when it was a two-year college and came to Lipscomb.
"There were a lot of people that cared about the students. There were a lot of people that cared about me and helped me along like Dr. Robert Hooper, Dr. Rodney Cloud, Dr. Duane Slaughter, and "Fessor' Boyce. They were really good people.
"Graduation was a significant event, especially for me. If it had not been for sports I wouldn't have been in college. My Daddy had an eighth grade education. He had to work hard of his life, Sports allowed me to go to college."
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"Coach Dugan taught me how to work, how to be committed and how to do the job. The first guy I worked for was a very demanding principal and I always say I couldn't have worked for him had it not been for playing baseball for coach Dugan.
"I couldn't have made it in the world as easily had I not had someone as demanding as coach Dugan. He put me on the right path.
"I enjoyed Lipscomb. It was just a great experience."
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"Dr. Cloud was one of my favorites. He was an excellent teacher in the Bible Department. He really loved baseball. He has as much to do with me spiritually as anybody.
"I had him for Ezekiel and Jeremiah. I could hardly spell those two names in college. I remember going over to his house to play ping pong. We talked about baseball. I made an A in both of those classes simply because he connected to me in such a way that I wanted to learn.
"In my major field Dr. Slaughter, Tom Hanvey, coach Dugan and 'Fessor' Boyce were all great guys and good teachers. Willard Collins was a significant person for me though I didn't have him as a teacher. I always appreciated him. I also enjoyed Dr. Hooper as a teacher."
Where do you live now?
"I have lived in Adamsville, Tenn., since 1974. My wife is from the lower part of McNairy County."
Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"Coach Dugan had brought me back to be an assistant basketball coach at Lipscomb and I spent a year there. I spent two years as a P.E. teacher at the elementary school. I started working on my Master's degree at Peabody and finished that degree at Memphis State (now University of Memphis) and what they call my plus-30 at Memphis State.
"I applied for the Adamsville basketball job and I got it in 1974. I coached there for five years. I became the principal for the next 18 years. In 1987 Adamsville was recognized as one of the top 10 schools in the state of Tennessee by Lamar Alexander and his Department of Education.
"I became assistant director of schools for McNairy County and served there for 12 years. I retired after 35 years in McNairy County in education.
"The last four years I have been working as a personnel director/supervisor part-time in the Hardin County School System. I am also a city commissioner in Adamsville."
Tell us about your family?
"We have two boys - Seth and John. Seth coaches basketball at Station Camp High School. Our youngest son, John, coaches basketball at Hardin County High School."
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Agritechnica is big, to deny that would pretty much make me certifiable, but it's also well laid out so the average visitor doesn't have to go to every building to see the latest agriculture technology for their farm. You see the manure handling tools are grouped in a building or two, components can be found in three buildings, and the majors - and there are more majors in Germany than there are back home - are aligned in buildings that make it easy to see them efficiently as well.
That makes this big agriculture technology show manageable. If you don't have cattle or pigs, you probably can skip those buildings with manure equipment; if you want to focus on precision agriculture just check out Building 17 where they've grouped a lot of technology in one place. It's a fair bet you can cover what you need to in a day. However, if you have a penchant for seeing it all, and you want to come to the show in 2015 follow these tips:
Comfortable shoes or die:This building is laid out on the largest event facility in Germany and the Messe has 42 hectares - that's 86 acres - devoted to display space.
Start early:No chance you want to mosey into this show late in the morning - you should be on hand when gates open so you can hit the ground running.
Plan ahead:The show website has super tools for sorting through the exhibitor list by category or company name - and for this show (and frankly for any) planning ahead is a must.
Skip the jeans:And I'll admit I was in jeans for day four due to an off-site event (you'll hear more about in January) - in Europe slacks and a nice shirt and sweater make for better show attendance wear. There's even a coat check if you want to wear a coat to the event but not have it on the grounds.
Bring cash:Restaurants in Germany are hit and miss on the credit card thing - but Euros spend easy.
Those are short tips but if you make the trip to Hannover you'll be rewarded in 2015 with a look at all tech going on around the world - given than 1,500 exhibitors are global at this event. Sure, much of what you find may never see U.S. shores, but it's interesting to check out the concepts to see what's up.
And enjoy the displays. The two pictures with this blog offer you a look at the kinds of things you can see at an event like this.
I plan to blog one more day from the show. Thanks for reading along - we're winding down our coverage but we've posted four galleries (see links below) and a blog every day since Monday. Hopefully we've given you a flavor for Agritechnica. If you have a question, drop it to email@example.com. Or make a comment below and we'll work on getting you an answer.
Gallery links:
Covering the territory of Agritechnica
Finding hidden treasure in the Agritechnica halls
Farmers crowd in for second day of Agritechnica
Blogs from this week at the show:
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota transportation officials have reopened all stretches of Interstates 90 and 29 that were closed due to a weekend snow storm.
The last closed stretch, on I-29 between Watertown and Sioux Falls, reopened Monday morning.
The storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of South Dakota. Transportation officials are urging drivers to use caution because many roads remain icy.
The American News reports that many schools in the Aberdeen area started classes late on Monday. Aberdeen got just under 8 inches of snow on Saturday, breaking a 51-year-old city record for the date.
The Daily Republic reports schools in Mitchell also opened late.
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Twin Cities residents buy about 350,000 new mattresses each year, according to the International Sleep Products Association. Of the old ones they replace, about half are reused or given away.
But the other half are discarded or dumped, causing problems when the mattresses -- designed to last, not biodegrade -- take up space without breaking down in landfills. Their sturdy steel springs are so difficult to compress that they can damage compactors, so entire mattresses end up getting dumped in landfills, where they tend to float to the top after other trash decomposes, dirty but intact.
Finally, in an age of increasing environmental awareness, mattress-recycling operations are beginning to crop up. Minnesota now has two, including one in southeast Minneapolis that's been fully functional since April.
"Welcome to Mattressville," Douglas Jewett said as he meandered through the basement of a Minneapolis warehouse on 15th Avenue SE., where dozens of mattresses stand on end, waiting to be stripped and gutted so the materials in them can be put to new uses.
A $200,000 start-up boost from Hennepin County helped Jewett -- chief operating officer for PPL Industries, a nonprofit that offers hands-on skills training -- start the service.
"Everything has to be recycled," said Jewett, who has a manufacturing background and has led recycling programs before. "The longer you wait, the more it costs to get it back."
And when mattresses are filled with materials that could have lives beyond their original uses, such as the steel innards and polyurethane foam, finding a way to redistribute those commodities for reuse makes sense, Jewett said.
The recycling process
In the Minneapolis facility, a custom-built machine crams and shapes the mattresses' bare steel skeletons into a bale, which is then weighed, tagged and picked up, sold and reused. So far, the steel is the most valuable part of a discarded mattress with the most reuse potential. A given mattress' steel is worth about $16 to PPL, Jewett said.
Many components of a mattress can be refashioned, if properly deconstructed. The steel and foam can be melted down, and the low-grade cotton shows promise for use in oil and storm water filtration, said Tim Hagen, research coordinator for the University of Minnesota Duluth's Natural Resources Research Institute. Hennepin County commissioned him in June 2008 to research new uses for old mattress materials and explore marketing those second-life products.
For now, the shoddy, outer fabric and wood are primarily used to generate heat, but that could change as a push for mattress recycling yields further research, Hagen said.
"Like any recycling process, you've got to separate the individual components and properly prepare them for the marketplace," Hagen said.
Jewett anticipates his program will reach the 40,000-mattress-a-year mark within two years, though he estimated it'll be about a decade before mattress recycling is integrated in the mainstream of refuse handling.
That's a reasonable goal, given the size of the metro area, said Greg Conkins, contributed goods manager for Goodwill Industries. He oversees the state's first mattress-recycling program operated by Goodwill in Duluth.
For each of the past two years, about 17,000 pieces have been processed there, largely drawn through partnerships with 10 counties and their waste management services.
Partners in recycling
The Minneapolis operation, which charges a $15-per-mattress fee, has already partnered with Hennepin and McLeod counties, the cities of Coon Rapids and Anoka, delivery service Suntrax Logistics and furniture retailer Room & Board, all of which bring discarded mattresses to PPL. Jewett expects more cooperation with counties and retailers as the program takes off.
People can bring mattresses to waste drop-off sites and the municipalities will transport them to the recycling plant. The PPL plant will not accept dropoffs from individuals.
Despite anticipated growth, there are still difficulties associated with the emerging industry, now in its infancy.
"Some of the recycling markets have been challenging, but they slowly but surely overcome that," said Heidi Ringhofer, operations and maintenance supervisor for Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, who since its beginning in 2004 has been involved with the Duluth mattress-recycling operation.
Still, overall the industry is a slow-growing one, Ringhofer said. That's partly because there's a limited number of mattresses discarded -- unlike the pervasive plastic bottles that people use and toss every day -- and partly because of the labor-intensive process of stripping mattresses of their many individual components, Ringhofer added.
"They are big items to recycle, and there are such specific items in there," she said. "It's not like when you can recycle glass to glass or aluminum to aluminum."
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Options narrow to avert fiscal cliff
Time is running short — and so are the options available to avert the fiscal cliff.
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) have just 21 days to resolve their differences over how to handle more than $500 billion in expiring tax rates and steep spending cuts.
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Although they met Sunday for the first time in more than three weeks — signaling a new, potentially more productive stage of the negotiations — there was no progress on the staff level ahead of that sit-down, according to Democratic and Republican sources.
The White House and Capitol Hill are now staring at a narrow set of options fraught with political and policy peril. The course they choose will set the tone for the 113th Congress, Boehner's speakership and Obama's second term.
Here is POLITICO's rundown of the most likely scenarios:
Go over the cliff
Yes, this remains a very real possibility.
"Oh, absolutely," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said when asked during an interview with CNBC last week whether Obama was prepared to take it that far.
With less than two weeks left before Congress is scheduled to break for Christmas, both sides are locked into their positions.
( PHOTOS: Fiscal cliff's key players)
Obama's stance has been steady: Boehner needs to agree that tax rates will rise on income over $200,000 for individuals.
But Boehner hasn't budged on taxes. Even when he does seem to indicate flexibility — as he did Friday, when he declined to rule out putting a small rate increase on the table — he pulls back.
Boehner was asked directly about supporting a 37 percent top rate and didn't say no. But his office later put out a clarifying statement: "As I've said many, many, many times: I oppose tax rate increases because tax rate increases cost American jobs. That has not changed and will not change."
The speaker wants Obama to make a serious offer on entitlement reform, something beyond the proposed cuts to Medicare providers that Geithner offered two weeks ago. But that hasn't happened.
All of this adds up to gridlock — with massive real-world implications.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama: Cliff jump would sink economy)
Income taxes would rise on all Americans. Spending on the Pentagon and many domestic programs would be slashed. The tax rates on inheritance and investment income from capital gains and dividends would spike. Doctors who serve Medicare patients would see their payments sliced. Unemployment benefits would dry up. And the economy could spin back into recession, depending on how long the impasse lasts.
Democrats are less worried about breaching the cliff because polls show voters would blame Republicans, who would be seen as forcing rates to go up on everybody to protect breaks for wealthier families.


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Every golfer who's ever faced a critical putt - whether it was for a two-dollar win in your weekend nassau, to win a club championship or in Ernie Els case, to win the Claret Jug and his fourth major championship; knows how your heart rate increases and your hands can shake a bit as you prepare to make the stroke.
As Ernie Els stared down his 15-footer on the 72nd hole of the Open Championship, I couldn't help but think back to last month when I had a eight-foot birdie putt at the PGA Professional National Championship on the final hole. If I made mine, I'd have an invitation to play in the PGA Championship at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Resort next month. And though Els may not have known making his putt would win him his second Open Championship, I'm sure he knew that missing it would mean he almost certainly would not win.
There is perhaps no better feeling in golf than sinking a putt that you absolutely must have. But if you can't control your emotions and remember a few key points, you'll really struggle to maintain proper fundamentals and give yourself your best chance to sink the putt.
Here's a few key points to remember.
1.) Stick to your normal putting routine: This means going through the same motions as you do for any putt of course. Some people line up putts the same way for 17 holes or 71 holes in many tournaments, but then when the critical putt is at hand, they change everything around. This means more than not skipping steps in that routine, it also means not adding to it. If you line up a putt from behind and down the line, don't add four more angles to study. You have to convince yourself this is just another putt.
2.) Be confident: Way too players think about the consequences of a miss. This fills your head with doubt and makes yours stroke tentative. Picture the ball on the line you choose and it rolling in. Your mental strength is going to be one of your best assets in these situations.
3.) Get the ball to the hole: Did you see how much pace Els' putt had on the final hole? There was NO way that putt would end up short. On the 16th hole, Els left himself about 8 feet for birdie and left the putt one roll short. I'm sure he told himself on the final hole that leaving the putt short would be the greatest mistake he could make and gave it just a little extra speed to make sure it would get there. The worst is hitting an important putt right on line and seeing it stop on the edge. There is no penalty in this case for sending it 3 feet by. This was a do-or-die situation, don't leave it hanging on the lip.
As it turned out, I did make my putt at Bayonet Black Horse (though it turned out, the cut moved one number and so I didn't NEED it - still glad I made it!) and I'll be teeing it up with Ernie Els and others at the PGA in a couple of weeks. And because Els made his critical putt, he'll be sporting one more nice memento in his house.
It was a great end to one of golf's great gentlemen. And the way he hung in there and made his charge was a lesson in golf we can all learn from.


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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- An increase in humidity on Thursday has helped firefighters in southern California get a handle on the massive fire that has charred nearly 145,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes.
Firefighters prepare to defend a historic observatory atop Mount Wilson on Wednesday near Pasadena, California.
Firefighters have contained 38 percent of the Station fire, which has been burning north of Los Angeles for more than a week, fire officials said Thursday. They are making progress, particularly on the west side of the fire, but the blaze is still producing hot spots, including one that forced the evacuation of about 25 residents early Thursday.
Families in 11 homes were awoken at around 4 a.m. and given three hours to leave their homes near the Dillon Divide community.
Authorities are still trying to determine what caused the fire in Angeles National Forest. Despite reports that it was "human-caused" -- either accidentally or intentionally -- other officials insisted that the cause of the fire is under investigation and natural sources have not been ruled out.
"That information is not validated; that's why we're investigating," Angeles National Forest supervisor Jody Noiren said Wednesday.
Thousands of anxious Southern California residents have been displaced by the Station fire that had burned 144,743 acres by Thursday. Residents have fled from 10,000 homes along the edges of the Angeles Forest since the fire started on August 26. However, the majority of evacuees were allowed back into their homes by Wednesday. Watch as some homeowners say they're not ready to leave »
U.S. Forest Service fire chief Mike Dietrich characterized Wednesday as a "good day," as firefighters continued to increase their control over the massive blaze.
"We're fighting for every foot of containment we can get on this fire," Dietrich said.
He said firefighters have made progress controlling the northern and western parameters of the fire, but the top priority is to keep the southeastern corner of the fire away from areas along Interstate 210, including Pasadena, Arcadia and Sierra Madre. The blaze is headed toward the San Gabriel Wilderness Area of the Angeles forest. The San Gabriel represents the eastern edge of the fire, he said.
Nearly all of the fire was in forest land and the nearby foothill communities, including La Canada-Flintridge, La Crescenta and Acton.
"This is a very complicated situation, and it continues to be complicated as it moves east," Dietrich said.
Beth Halaas sifted through the ashes of her family's charred home in Los Angeles County, trying to find something to salvage.
"It's stuff. Hold on to some of it for traditions. But you've got to remember it's just stuff," she said on CNN's "Campbell Brown."
Noel and Marta Rincon had to evacuate their home in Tujunga, on the western side of the fire. Fire was actively burning in the Little Tujunga canyon area, according to fire officials.
"I thought that we were losing our home," Noel Rincon said of the residence where he was born and the couple raised its family.
When a Sky Crane helicopter doused the flames before they could reach the structure, the two were visibly relieved.
"It's very scary," Marta Rincon said, "but our captain over here keeps assuring us our house is very savable and that we are going to be fine." Watch how residents are trying to save homes »
The fire has destroyed 64 homes, three commercial properties and 49 outdoor structures, authorities said. See photos of the wildfire »
The state has spent about $27 million so far fighting the fire in the Angeles National Forest, Dietrich said. They expect to have the blaze fully contained by September 15.
Earlier, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the state's budget woes wouldn't affect fire fighting.
"I've made it clear that even though we have a budget crunch and we have an economic crisis and we just solved a $23 billion deficit, we will always have the money available to fight the fires because public safety is our No. 1 priority," Schwarzenegger said.
The governor said he insisted that the state budget he signed in July have a $500 million reserve for emergencies such as fires. California has had 5,000 blazes so far this year, he said.
He said 21 firefighters have been injured battling the Station fire, in addition to the two killed Sunday in a vehicular crash trying to escape fast-moving flames.
While temperatures remain high, the humidity level increased on Wednesday and Thursday, a boon to the firefighting efforts. Firefighters could get another break if temperatures cool off on Friday as expected.
CNN's Barbara Starr contributed to this report
All About California • Wildfires • Los Angeles


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Some time ago I got the S107 helicopter as a birthday present, and as I found myself with some free time, I got an Arduino board with the intent of flying it with my computer.
|Helicopter being tracked with webcam and speed adjusted
While waiting for the Uno, I started reading the basics and found this amazing tutorial on how Infrared works, and code samples on reading and emitting infrared signals.
The code in that tutorial was extremely helpful in getting me started, and understanding the basics of Infrared communications.
|Arduino Uno and IR emitter and receiver circuit
Following the arduino.cc first steps, I installed the software, and then tested out the board with the begginer examples it provides.
Later on, I built the ladyala emitter and receiver circuit, and its ready for work!
The schematics are identical to the ones here, but on an Uno board instead of the duemilanove version, but it shouldn't be a problem.
Before getting into the helicopter remote, I tried it with my audio remote control, which has only 3 buttons and seems simpler.
After decoding the pulse, I played around to make a program that graphics the pulses.
As the Arduino runs in the board, the communication is done through the serial port.
To communicate with it while it's running, it's done through the same serial port used to upload data to it.
Utilizing Processing language (www.processing.org) the program to graphic the pulse is quite simple.
On to the helicopter!
This is a little bit trickier, because once you're flying the helicopter it's a continuos stream of data from the remote to the helicopter, instead of a single burst of data.
We'll need to figure out how it transmits the data to the helicopter, that is, which protocol it uses.
Reading a bit more into IR protocols, I found a thread that depicted usual protocol pulses here.
There is a Header followed by "bits". Each bit is a pair of on/off IR pulse. The 0 is a short on, short off, and the 1 is a short on, longer off.
With the decoding program loaded into the board, the output for the helicopter is the following:
(off / on)
-10072 – 1930
1880 - 330
250 - 370
230 - 350
590 - 320
640 - 330
640 - 370
210 – 370
So, the header is a 2000 ms on, 2000ms off, the 0 a 300/300 pair and the 1 a 300/600 pair pulse.
The separation between headers is between 32 pairs, so I assume the helicopter uses a 32bit pulse.
Modifying the receiver program to adapt to this format, and make it easier to figure out the protocol, the output now shows H for header, 0 and 1, in a 32 bit string:
The next step is the most tedious:
Detecting the changes when only one movement is done, to figure out which bits do what.
I recorded hundreds of combinations, and did a little program to eliminate the repeated ones.
The outcome:
Byte 1: Yaw
Byte 2: Pitch
Byte 3: Throttle
Byte 4: Yaw correction from Remote.
They all use the last 7 bits of the byte.
Throttle goes from 0 to 126, while pitch and yaw start centered in 63.
With all this info, it's time to create a processing program to test this, a program to transmit pulses with the decoded format.
Then some buttons to handle the increases and decreases, and off it goes!
The emitter program in the arduino to keep sending the same pulse, and the processing program to just notify the changes in the bits, instead of always telling the board what pulse to send, for timing purposes
(It uses a simple way of just sending one ascii character, and both programs know which bit it's referring to)
It works! But the IR Led seems to be quite underpowered compared to the one in the remote control, so the range is about one meter, then the helicopter drops dead.
One final test is to have the computer do some flying on its own.
As a proof of concept, with the jMyron library for Processing to handle video input, I want to make the program have the helicopter hover at a steady position.
Utilizing the input from the webcam, it adjusts the speed until the helicopter is in the middle of the screen.
If it goes too high, it lowers the speed. If it gets too low or is stopped, it slowly increases the upwards speed.
It works!
Any ideas on what to move on to next?
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NetVisible necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
****** Just under 4 hours left -- Who will meet the CHALLENGE?? ******* (p.s. we will be posting another one soon for a pharmacy...so get your thinking caps on)
*** UPDATE - 16HR challenge - for this last 16 hour run...I want to see what your creative minds can come up with when put under the gun. Here are your guidelines:
- Build a logo using the "G" of Grafton but still incorporate the word Grafton into the overall design. Then using that "G" as the primary anchor of the whole design, add in each of the venues letting it's own personality show (Hall = formal/wedding based -- Inn = semi-casual and relaxed -- Backstage = whimsical/fun/off the wall.)
Have at it!!
This is a single business with three different unique sections: Grafton Hall, the banquet facility, is primarily used for Weddings but also corporate holiday parties,etc. Grafton Inn, restaurant & bar, does occasionally have a DJ and Karaoke. Lastly, Backstage Grafton which uses the banquet space for things like a comedy club, dueling piano's and other special event during the off wedding season. Currently, they really don't have any type of branding identity. Each part of this business needs to have a separate identity but still be connected and identifiable as part of the whole.
We are looking for a primary logo that is identifiable throughout the branding of the 3 businesses, but then somehow or something that identifies each business unit. We want the logo to synergysticly connect the identities but seperates each visually (Inn, Hall, Backstage) to enhance the branding of this business. So no matter which business unit is sponsoring something, people look at it and say, "Oh, that's Grafton", but then some portion of the logo identifies which business unit is specifically is. These logo(s) will be used on a splash page as well as marketing literature. We are creating a completely re-designed website for the business so PLEASE do not use the current sites color scheme. Be creative! The winning design will dictate the theme of the new website.
- 1 Master Identity Logo - something/somehow that separates business units
- Clean professional look
- Colors that fit well for the venue
- Colors that can be used as theme for new web site
- 3 Totally opposite looking logos
- No cartoonish look or feel
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Holiday Guacamole
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, how was it? Did you have lots of food? I bet you have lots of leftovers. Make use of leftover cranberries (or cranberry sauce) with this Mexican-inspired dip. It's perfect for a light lunch. I'll post a sweet cranberry recipe soon.
Cranberries and lime juice give this chunky dip a kick. Serves 2.
- 1 avocado
- 3 heaping tablespoons fresh cranberries, chopped
- 3 heaping tablepoons raw jicama, chopped
- 3 heaping tablespoons baby carrots, finely chopped
- 1T lime juice
- 1/8 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/8 tsp. chile powder
- salt & pepper, to taste
Using a large spoon or fork, mash together the avocado, seasonings & lime juice. Stir in the jicama & carrots, adding the cranberries last. If it is too tart for your palette, reduce the cranberries or add more jicama.


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FL Maps
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> Fraxinus pennsylvanica or green ash, 1978
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Fraxinus pennsylvanica or green ash, 1978
Puzzle Directions:
Click on a puzzle piece and drag it where you want it. When you connect two pieces correctly, they will join together. This is an extra hard
puzzle. The same map is printed on both sides the pieces. Some of the pieces are turned over to the wrong side. To flip a piece over, hold down the "T" key and click on the puzzle piece.
Mix up
the pieces again.
View finished map
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Title: Fraxinus pennsylvanica or green ash
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Description: This is a map showing the distribution of the Fraxinus pennsylvanica or green ash in Florida. "Cape Breton Is., N.S., N.B., s. Quebec, and Maine, w. to s. and sw. Ontario, n. Michigan, Minnesota, c. Man., c. Sask., and se. Alta., s. to c. Montana, ne. Wyoming, extreme ne. Colorado, Kansas, and c. and se. Texas, and e. to nw. Florida and Georgia." —Elbert L. Little, Jr. For more information, read the
to the
Atlas of United States Trees Vol. 5 Florida.
Source: Elbert L. Little, Jr.,
Atlas of United States Trees Volume 5 Florida
(Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1978)
Map Credit: United States Government Printing Office
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The Chicken Thumb
Before I start, it is necessary for me to tell you a little something about Red. Red is one of them Barred Rock roosters. Thats the kind they take to them events called Cock Fights. Now Red was always doing things around the farm that were of questionable nature. To make a long story bareable, he did his job quite well: fertilizing that is. He done it so well that chickens no longer satisfied his insatiable appetite for fertilizing. Thats when the trouble begin.
At first it was Guinea hens that were the object of his desire. That was okay. Then next it was the ducks. That was a little odd but still bareable. It was when he moved up to geese that we began to take notice.
The day Hoopie woke up to Daisy, the milk cow, half mooing half screaming was the day that began as the end, or so we thought.
What happened next is about the craziest thing you ever did see.
Hoopie went running up to the barn to find Red eyeing Daisy in a way that makes your skin crawl, much like when you see a snake crawl up your pant leg. Hoopie commenced to chasing Red. We'll Red ran and ran and ran. Hoopie chased that darn rooster for two days. Meanwhile, the weeds were growing up in the fields and the cow was about to burst from lack of milking. Hoopie stopped to milk and weed then the chase started for another two days.
Something had to give.
Thinking ahead, Hoopie come up with a trap for that darn rooster. He went into his wife Maybelle's closet and picked out a right purty dress that he figured ole Red might find attractive. One thing led to another (you need to use your imagination here) and as Red tried to jump Hoopie, who now was the object of Red's desire, Hoopie swung around and grabbed that dab burn ole rooster around the gizzard.
There was feathers flying, necklaces flying, sqwaking and cursing. When the dust settled, Hoopie was sittin straggle legged on the ground with his wife's wig in one hand and Red in the other.
Hoopie gathered himself and immediately took action. He carried ole Red over to the wood pile where fate awaited.
Now Hoop had a few swigs out of the shine jug before he was able to get into Maybelle's dress and attire. Afterall, this was crazier than he could take sober. So, when the axe swung downward, aim being on the left rooster head instead of the right head, the axe blade cut clean through the fat thumb of Hoopie's left hand.
Red jumped up with just a knick and began crowing his success. Hoopie jumped up with a bloody stub for a thumb screaming for help. The rest of the thumb just laid there on the chopping block and stared blankly at the scene slightly removed from reality.
Hoopie scooped up the rest of his thumb and yelled for Maybelle. Off they went to the hospital with the thumb in a bucket of ice.
When Hoopie returned home from the hospital he was quite a sight. There he was with the thumb all bandaged up and Maybelle's dress and necklace for clothes with boots not to match. He was beyond mad at this point. All he could see were the looks of the people in the emergency room when he and Maybelle came running in with matching dresses and an apparent bucket of ice.
Well now, what happened next is only as predictable as the sun rising
in the morning. Hoopie marched up to the barn and cornered Red in the hay
loft. Red more or less knew that what was about to occur was destiny. So,
Red went the way of all chickens that meet up with the losing end of a
twelve gauge shotgun.


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When you compare us to the rest of the world, the international rankings show us performing badly. European and Asian countries have more postgraduates and graduates and, perhaps more importantly, produce a better trained workforce with math skills and considerable engineering experience. We struggle to build on the Head Start Program to keep the teaching at our schools and colleges on the highest possible level. The result is a slide in the work we can do and, with fewer jobs, we cannot have a better life.
Coming to you as an individual, this means you should always continue studying to improve your knowledge and expand the work you can do. As a teen, you should aim for the best possible grade point average (GPA). Just going through the high school experience is no longer enough. There's such competition for fewer jobs, you will struggle to find anything that pays a good wage. To get yourself better paid jobs you can get a bachelors degree to give yourself an edge, as long as you have a good GPA and SAT score.
Car insurance quotes for postgraduates
As a byproduct, the insurance industry has discovered people with a high GPA and both a degree and postgraduate qualification are less likely to be involved in a traffic accident. It seems people who are responsible when planning their education and future careers, are also responsible when they drive. This means the people who do best in educational terms not only get the best jobs, they also get cheap car insurance. It's a kind of reward for those who do well for themselves, and protect themselves and their families when they drive. For those that don't do well in their academics this may not appear to be very fair, although it is what it is, just like all the different factors that are used to set the car insurance quotes. Whether it is more or less fair that the factors used in a credit score is anyone's guess.


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Sorry that I can't be very helpful in my recollection of the graphic novel, but I really enjoyed it and my google searches for it have been unsuccessful, so hopefully somebody on here has read it and can get the title at me:
basically it's about a first generation Japanese-American, he has a transplant Japanese girlfriend, and its a pretty thick book with each chapter basically as a standalone short-story about his misadventures. The adventures are very stylized and modeled from anime/manga, except very exaggerated and metaphoric. In the first one, there is a giant monster that invades his town and captures his girlfriend, and he has to rescue her from it. In another, he has to fight a group of ninja assassins at the opera house. And in another story he and his boss (a sushi chef) go on a fishing trip to catch a colossal mythic fish.
Hopefully that is enough information for somebody who has read it to point me in the right direction.
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It's been 40 years since the Bee Gees released "Stayin' Alive," a hit that would popularize the disco era, make John Travolta a star and spawn a lackluster tribute at the Grammys on Sunday night.
Demi Lovato opened well enough with "Stayin' Alive," but when Tori Kelly jumped in with "Tragedy," it was clear this was going to be another weird Grammy mash-up by the most unlikely candidate. Enter Little Big Town crooning "How Deep Is Your Love?"
Barry Gibb clapped along in the audience, looking equal parts pleased and puzzled, hearing the music he played with his late brothers, Robin and Maurice.
The song is called "The Empty Chair," but Sting didn't even use one of those.
For a rendition of his and composer J. Ralph's tender folk ballad from "Jim: The James Foley Story" — about the journalist murdered in 2014 by members of Islamic State — Sting opted for a stripped-down approach at the Oscars, standing simply as he sang and played guitar.
The performance ended with a quote from Foley illuminated on a large screen behind Sting: "If I don't have the moral courage to challenge authority ... we don't have journalism."
He said he was here just to help out — and he was right.
On the red carpet before the Oscars, "Moana" composer Lin-Manuel Miranda told The Times that his role in a rendition of the movie's "How Far I'll Go" was merely a supporting one.
"My performance is entirely created to support Auli'i Cravalho, who is 16 years old and one of the most incredible young performers I've ever seen," the actor and songwriter said. "So really it's an alley-oop."
Justin Timberlake opened Sunday's Academy Awards with a typically spirited performance of "Can't Stop the Feeling," his Oscar-nominated song from the animated movie "Trolls."
But just in case anyone thought the former teen-pop star didn't belong among the grown-ups at the Dolby Theatre, Timberlake fleshed out the song with a bit of "Lovely Day" by the veteran soul great Bill Withers. (Worth nothing: The tunes' bass lines are crazy similar.)
"I know you know this, Denzel," Timberlake said as he pointed to Denzel Washington in the audience — I guess because the "Fences" actor and Withers are both black men?
Acclaimed guitarist Carlos Santana is retreating on his remarks about Beyoncé after aggressively poking the overly agitated Beyhive.
The rock icon was regaling singer Adele Adkins with more adulation following her record-breaking wins at the 59th Grammy Awards on Sunday, including her victory over Beyoncé's "Lemonade" for album of the year.
"I think that Adele won because she can sing sing .... With all respect to our sister Beyoncé, Beyoncé is very beautiful to look at and it's more like modeling kind of music -- music to model a dress -- she's not a 'singer' singer, with all respect to her," Santana, 69, told the Australian Associated Press ahead of his band's New Zealand and Australia tour dates.
Chance the Rapper, newly crowned best new artist at the Grammys, along with two other wins, was a gracious host at GQ magazine's Grammy party at the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood on Sunday night.
The "No Problem" rapper had complimentary baseball caps, ice cream and pizza at the ready at the epic bash (hosted in partnership with YouTube), good-naturedly posed for photos with fans and even hugged fans on their way out at the end of the night. Just par for the course for an artist who has consistently defied convention, building a career on positivity and artistic integrity in an industry that seldom rewards it.
By 10:30 p.m., the space looked to be at full capacity, just 30 minutes after the party officially kicked off. Chance was among the stars who turned up early, jubilantly dancing onstage, making his rounds and greeting guests who ranged from Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle to up-and-coming rapper Lil Yachty.
The 59th Grammy Awards had no shortage of major moments: Beyoncé's breathtaking performance and surprising loss in all major categories, Adele's flub, a Prince tribute from the Time and Bruno Mars that electrified the audience and then, of course, a victory lap from Chance the Rapper, winner for new artist.
But there was lots of action the cameras didn't catch.
Here's a few that caught our attention.
Beyoncé and Adele went head-to-head four times at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Both were nominated for album of the year, song of the year, record of the year, and best pop solo performance. In every category, Adele was awarded the Grammy. Every time, Beyoncé, the peerless pop music icon of our time, was told she was second-best.
This should be a shock. While Adele's singular voice, talent and devotion to her craft are undeniable, Beyoncé's "Lemonade" was as complete an artistic statement as we have seen in our fractured pop moment — a one-of-a-kind visual album composed of genre-crossing track after track, conceived and produced on a scale unrivaled by any artist, living or dead. It was also a pitch-perfect rallying cry for black women to get in formation, their allies behind them, and forge a way forward despite the human imperfections of the men in their lives.
It happened the year before that, too, when Beyoncé lost the Grammy for album of the year to Beck.
Like many people of color unsurprised by the election of Donald Trump, Beyoncé knows the ceiling is centuries thick.
Is this becoming a habit for Adele?
As you've surely heard by now, the young British singer went dramatically off-script at Sunday's Grammy Awards, halting her shaky performance of the late George Michael's "Fastlove" (presumably because she couldn't hear her accompaniment) and asking to start the tribute again.
But although the moment was shocking — at least by the tightly managed standards of televised awards shows — it wasn't exactly a surprise: After all, Adele experienced a similar mishap at the 2016 Grammys, at which she delivered a deeply pitchy rendition of her song "All I Ask" that seemed to disrupt the idea of Adele's vocal prowess.
After channeling a golden goddess on stage at the 2017 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé reappeared in red.
The songstress was wearing a number from designer Peter Dundas, who left Roberto Cavalli last year. In fact, Dundas was all over Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards this year, because the creator crafted not only this fiery look but her stage costumes as well.
Revealing the sketches for his "muse queen Bey" on Instagram, Dundas also announced the launch of the Peter Dundas Eponymous collection.
During her Grammy performance of "Chained to the Rhythm" with Skip Marley, Katy Perry had about as much political subtlety as a car with more bumper stickers than bumper.
There was the white pantsuit, supporting Hillary Clinton. There was the lapel pin, supporting Planned Parenthood. There was the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, seemingly supporting the entire set as it was projected on the backdrop at the end of the song.
And there was the shiny white armband emblazoned with pink sequins that spelled out "Persist" -- an apparent invocation of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's televised clash last week in the Senate, when she was shut down while reading criticisms of attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions' civil rights record, before he was confirmed.