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On a hot, dry July evening, a dentist named Mike Hurtado leads two biologists into a narrow, windy stretch of the St. Charles River canyon in southern Colorado. Hurtado grew up hiking around here, and he and his family still refer to this part of the canyon reverentially as "The Place." Its high granite walls usually echo with the sound of falling water, but the river is at the lowest point Hurtado can remember, and its waterfalls have turned to mere trickles. He and the biologists hope to catch a black swift, and the conditions don't look promising.
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Black swifts, Cypseloides niger, are among the most enigmatic birds in North America. Though the species has a huge range, breeding as far south as Honduras and as far north as Alaska, the birds' preference for nesting on steep, wet, cold rock faces—ideally behind waterfalls—means that students of black swifts need sure feet, steady nerves and an almost obsessive sense of mission. The birds' love of forbidding places also means that no one knows if the species is increasing or decreasing, or exactly what the birds need to survive and reproduce. With the help of amateur bird-watchers like Hurtado, biologists in Colorado and elsewhere have begun a multiyear search for black swifts, hoping to solve these mysteries.
As the light starts to fade, Hurtado and his two companions, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory ornithologist Jason Beason and U.S. Forest Service biologist Ron Torretta, reach a black swift nest site, a shallow cave in a dark rock wall. Since 2009, Beason and his colleagues have fit a few birds with geolocators—vitamin-size devices that record sunrise time and day length, data that can be used to calculate a bird's location within about 100 miles. The year before, Beason had attached a geolocator to a female bird from this cave. Black swifts are known to return to the same nesting sites season after season, and tonight Beason hopes to recapture both the bird and her data-filled geolocator.
Beason and Torretta grab butterfly nets and pick their way through the triangular entrance to the cave, turning their headlamps toward the back wall. Perched in shallow niches are three mossy nests, each no bigger than a teacup. In the highest nest, they see the top of a gray, feathered head. Torretta swings his net toward the wall, as if forehanding a tennis ball. A bird flutters into its narrow end.
It's not the female swift Beason is looking for, but an adult male—possibly her mate. Beason holds the bird gently as he inspects it, stretching out its long, tapered wings to measure their span. The bird looks out from under the fringes of gray feathers above its eyes, alert but still. Beason massages its throat, feeling the glob of insects it has collected to feed its solitary chick. Swifts lay just one egg per season, and both parents share in the onerous care and feeding duties; swift chicks don't leave their nests until they are around 6 weeks old, later than the chicks of similarly sized birds. With pliers, Beason attaches an aluminum identification band to one of the bird's legs, and sets the animal free. It flaps quickly back up to its nest, where a brand-new chick, naked but for a few bristly feathers, is waiting for a meal.
Beason and Torretta are happy to have seen and banded a new bird, but they're still thinking about the geolocator. Is the female close by, about to fly in for the evening? Beason, Torretta and Hurtado climb out of the cave and settle on a rock landing to wait, and Hurtado starts to reminisce about his lifetime of hikes in the canyon. As the stars begin to come out, the trio clambers back to the edge of the falls for a second try.
In 1857, a 28-year-old physician named Caleb Kennerly, who was also a naturalist with the Northwest Boundary Survey, shot a small black bird of a previously undocumented species on the shore of Puget Sound in northwestern Washington State. The bird wasn't easy prey, he reported: "A number of these birds were observed, for the first time, this evening flying near our camp; keeping for the most part near the edge of the forest, & so high as to be nearly out of reach of small shot." Later ornithologists commented on the flying skill of the black swift and for a time even classified it in its own genus, called Nephoecetes, or "cloud dweller."
Kennerly was the first in a long line of naturalists to be intrigued—and baffled—by the black swift. In the early 1900s, a handful of adventurous men and women found swift nests behind mountain waterfalls and in sea-sprayed caves on the California coast. In the 1940s, a college student named Owen Knorr began the first organized pursuit of the black swift. He scrambled up wet, mossy cliffs in the mountains of Colorado, balanced on slippery ledges and even rappelled into alpine waterfalls at night, banding birds as he dangled in the darkness from a climbing rope. He eventually identified more than 25 nesting sites throughout Colorado and reported nests in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
For the next half-century, ornithologists made sporadic efforts to learn more about black swifts, but no one chased the birds as Knorr had. In the mid-1980s, a devoted birder named Rich Levad tracked down Knorr's reports. When Levad retired from his high-school teaching job, he went to work for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and used Knorr's records to search for swifts. On a trip with a Forest Service technician, he peered over the rock rim of a 60-foot waterfall, fighting vertigo, and saw a nearly full-grown black swift chick on a nest, sheltered beneath a rocky overhang. Levad was hooked. He helped organize a new round of black swift surveys in Colorado, inspiring professionals and volunteers, and wrote The Coolest Bird, a book about black swifts and their generations of human fans.
In recent years, Colorado birders have documented that all but one of Knorr's original sites are still occupied by black swifts, and they have discovered 70 new nesting sites. In 2001, Beason located 13 new sites in the San Juan Mountains, beating Knorr's record for the most sites found in a single summer.


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In the months leading up to the Normandy Invasion in the late spring of 1944, the U.S. shipped 1.6 million troops and 17 million tons of cargo to staging areas in the United Kingdom. If the numbers weren't mind boggling enough, to reach the British Isles, the troops and cargo had to cross the Atlantic under threat of being sunk by German U Boats. That buildup was just one of untold numbers of logistical feats during that enormous war, one chapter in an ongoing legacy of remarkable exploits that extends to the retrograde, the military's term for bringing all of our equipment home from Afghanistan.
For many good reasons, Afghanistan has been called a logistician's nightmare. It is landlocked and far from a working port. Much of the country – especially in the east where a great deal of the fighting has taken place – is covered with mountains and threaded by decades-old roads and questionable bridges. The easiest way in and out of the country is a geopolitical minefield and the other two routes are three times as expensive.
And yet, for twelve years, logisticians have supplied troops with the equipment — large and small — necessary to fight a war. They have airdropped pallets of food and repair parts on remote bases, tossed "Speedballs" — body bags filled with ammunition and water — out of helicopters to troops under fire. And along the way, extra equipment has piled up at bases around Afghanistan. According to a December 2012 report to Congress by the by the Government Accountability Office, there is the equivalent of more than 90,000 twenty-foot containers of equipment all over Afghanistan. All together, there is $36 billion worth of vehicles, weapons systems, repair parts and utter junk scattered throughout the country, and bringing it home will cost an estimated $5.7 billion.
Last month, I traveled to eastern Afghanistan with TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev to document how the American military will bring all of that stuff home from Afghanistan. The journey began at Forward Operating Base Altimur, a scrap of land at on a slope above a desert floor, deep in Logar Province. There, the paratroopers of Bull Battery, 173rd Airborne Brigade were busy tearing down much of the base. We met hardened veterans like Sgt. Mario Diaz, who was serving his third tour in Afghanistan and the second at FOB Altimur, which has both been his sanctuary from fighting and the site of some of the most difficult times in his 32 years. There were three privates on their first combat tour who were in third grade when the war began. They all joined up within two weeks of graduating from high school and met each other just before shipping out to Afghanistan.
When the troops are done packing their equipment, the destination for much of the gear is one of the yards at Bagram Airfield, the largest base in eastern Afghanistan. A quick drive around Bagram and you'll see yard after yard of twenty and forty foot container stacked two high, vehicles that cost $570,000 each lined up by the hundreds waiting to be washed four times before they can be shipped home. Then at the end of the line, especially in the winter months when most of the equipment leaves Afghanistan by air, the Port Dogs of the 455th Expeditionary Airwing load cargo planes with trucks weighing a dozen tons and pallets weighing 10,000 pounds that the push onto the airplanes by hand.
Along the way, there are troops who sort and separate, update records and pack containers. Most of the equipment will come back to the U.S. for repairs and refitting for use in future training. Much of it will be staged at bases around the world, waiting at the ready for the next unseen war. Logisticians have been moving thousands of people and tons of supplies under horrendous conditions since war began. The retrograde from Afghanistan is an enormous challenge, one that will likely be studied decades from now when logisticians have to make similar magic happen again. "The numbers look intimidating, but we're a big organization," says Brigadier Felix Gedney, a British exchange officer serving as deputy commanding general for transition in the 1st Infantry Division. "It's in the art of the possible that it's achievable."
Yuri Kozyrev is a contract photographer for TIME and was named the 2011 Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International competition.
Nate Rawlings is a reporter for TIME. He writes for the magazine's Briefing section and about politics, government and military affairs for TIME.com.

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HPV infection is more related to cancers of the anal region then rectum. Squamous cell cancers usually arise from the area around the anus and anal canal. There are several risk factors for these cancers. HPV is a risk factor and patients with anal warts, caused by this virus, should be treated and watched for any changes suggesting the development of cancer. Any chronic inflammatory condition also increases the risk for anal cancer. This includes Crohn's disease, an inflammatory disease of the GI tract. This is particularly true if the inflammation affects the anus, especially if there are fistulas. The same can be said for chronic inflammation such as from fistulas that are not associated with Crohn's. The risk is not very high, but is higher than those without these conditions. Also, patients with HIV are more at risk for developing anal cancers then the general population. In fact, patients that present with anal cancer should undergo testing for HIV.


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Sudan is arguably one of the most interesting countries when it comes to the variation of military equipment in use with its army, owing to its diverse range of suppliers ever since the country's independence from Great Britain in 1956. Originally trained and equipped by Egyptians and the British, Sudan then began receiving large shipments of Soviet military equipment, followed by Chinese deliveries of arms. In recent years, Sudan has bought large numbers of weaponry from nations such as Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, which along with the Chinese and Iranians are now the lead suppliers of weaponry in Sudan.
In addition to the countries already listed, Sudan has also received weaponry from nations such as Germany, Libya, Czechoslovakia, France, US, Saudi Arabia, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe, and of course, North Korea. Operating such a diverse fleet of armoured fighting vehicles is nothing short of a logistical nightmare, and specialists from several of these countries are present in Sudan at any given time to help maintain these vehicles. To help ease this process Sudan established an armour repair workshop and the Elshaheed Ibrahim Shams el Deen Complex, the latter of which is also involved in the production of several types of armoured fighting vehicles.
The armour repair workshop solely focusses on the repair of main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) however, and falls under the command to the Sudanese Army. This opposed to the Elshaheed Ibrahim Shams el Deen Complex, which is part of the Military Industry Corporation (MIC). The armour repair workshop is located in the heart of Khartoum, which is certainly an interesting location to set up such a facility.
While Ukrainian instructors became responsible for training South Sudanese soldiers on operating the T-72AV, it appears the country had no problem selling the rest of its T-72AVs to Sudan, which quickly deployed them in Southern Sudan against the SPLA-N. This deal led to a peculiar situation where during the plausible event of renewed hostilities both the Sudanese Army and the South Sudanese Army would deploy their T-72AVs with identical camouflage against each other, which will almost certainly lead to confusion and possibly friendly-fire incidents on the battlefield.
The Ferret armoured car is another British staple that has seen service in Sudan, and is one of the first armoured fighting vehicles to have served in the ranks of the Sudanese Army. This vehicle too has been repainted, and is missing its M1919 Browning machine gun. One of the front tires of the repainted vehicle has deep cuts, making it likely this vehicle is no longer intended for combat use. A row of seemingly decommissioned Chinese Type-62 light tanks can be seen in the first image, a few of which remain in active service.
A BMP-1 upgraded with a 30mm 2A42 Cobra one-man turret, replacing the ubiquitous 73mm 2A28 Grom armed turret normally installed on the BMP-1. A joint development between Belarus and Slovakia, Sudan also operates several BTR-70s upgraded with the Cobra turret. The coaxial 7.62mm PKT is missing on this example. One of Sudan's few BMP-2s can be seen in the background, which operate alongside a similarly small number of Iranian-designed Boragh Armored Infantry Combat Vehicles (AICV), itself a copy of the BMP-2.
Sudan operates an extremely diverse fleet of BTR variants, including the BTR-70, Belarusian upgraded BTR-70s, Ukrainian upgraded BTR-70s, BTR-80s, BTR-80As and BTR-3s amongst others. In addition, the Sudanese Army also has a large inventory of Chinese WZ-551s and WZ-523s APCs and what remains of the Czechoslovakian OT-64A fleet delivered in the early seventies. The turret of a BTR-80 can be seen being installed in the second image.
The Amir-2 was recently also showcased at IDEX 2017 in the United Arab Emirates, which led some to believe MIC was offering newly-build BRDM-2s for the international market. Despite MIC's confusing marketing strategies, the Amir-2 is actually an upgrade for the BRDM-2 for nations that continue to operate the vehicle. This upgrade sees the replacement of the BRDM-2's original 140hp GAZ-41 engine with the 210 hp Isuzu 6HH1 engine, which offers increased mobility and fuel-efficiency. Although several African nations continue to operate the aging BRDM-2, it is unlikely that any of these countries would be interested in upgrading these.
An instruction room filled with the weapon systems of various Russian APCs and IFVs in service with the Sudanese Army. Two 14.5mm KPVs with a coaxial 7.62mm PKT for the BRDM-2, BTR-70 and BTR-80 can be seen on the left while two 30mm 2A42/2A72s cannons for the BTR-80A and BMP-2s can be seen on the right. Also note the complete BTR-80A module for the training of BTR-80A gunners seen in the back. The Russian flag leaves no doubt on the Russian influence on the training of Sudanese crews.
Back from retirement, Sudan's MiG-23s take to the skies
Back from retirement, Sudan's BO-105s take to the skies
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I am thinking of buying a new kite so I have been lots of product review related posts over the past week. I am distressed to find how many people's posts are violently opinionated without having any factual justification. Even in posts that state an opinion ( which inherently cant be wrong...) there is no justification and the opinion usually involves slagging off brands or members.
Why cant people spend a little more time on their posts insuring that they; make sense, contain a resonable argument and are at least slightly considerate towards other members of the forums?


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Alvin Plantinga is among the preeminent philosophers of his generation. After a long career, chiefly at Calvin College and the University of Notre Dame (where he is emeritus John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy), Plantinga has formally retired, but he hasn't been idle. In his new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Oxford University Press), he sheds light on a subject that is often obscured by posturing and superficial polemics. John Wilson, editor of Books & Culture, spoke with Plantinga about the underlying harmony between scientific and religious accounts of reality.
Most of your book is taken up with the proposition that there's superficial conflict but deep concord between theistic religion and science.
In certain areas, the right word would be alleged conflict. For example, I argue that there's no real conflict between evolutionary theory—that is, the scientific theory of evolution apart from any naturalistic spin—and what C. S. Lewis called "mere Christianity." There's no real conflict, even though conflict has been alleged by people on the Right as well as on the Left. Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and a host of others claim that there is outright conflict between evolutionary theory and belief in such a person as God, who has created and designed the living world. At the other end, there are Christian thinkers, too—like Phillip Johnson—who think there is irreconcilable conflict between the scientific theory of evolution and Christian belief.
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Gucci continues to focus on strengthening the values upon which its enviable reputation has been founded for its almost 90-year history: exclusivity, quality, made in Italy, Italian craftsmanship, and fashion authority. Setting it apart from its competitors, Gucci is able to claim a unique duality in its brand positioning pairing modernity and heritage, innovation and craftsmanship, trendsetting and sophistication.
At the beginning of the new decade, the Florentine House launched two relevant projects which are united by a common philosophy of respect and care towards others, values that have been part of Gucci's DNA and that of its employees since the company was founded: a worldwide eco-friendly program to reduce its impact on the environment, and the launch of Gucci's first children's collection, which further highlights the brand's reputation for quality and relevance by being exclusively made in Italy.


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America's hidden treasures: exploring our little-known national parks
National Geographic Society, Apr 1, 1997 - Travel - 200 pages
Relax. Linger over the national parks you'll visit in this book. Seven maps and 129 photographs will take you there. In the northern Cascade Range in Washington State, you'll hike amid snowy crags and alpine meadows. In Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park, you'll cruise among lakes once plied by fur trappers. In the badlands of North Dakota, you'll dodge bison, and off California's coast, you'll discover an isolated wildlife haven in the Channel Islands. In the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, you'll explore an exposed portion of a 400-mile-long marine fossil reef. In Florida, you'll snorkel among the coral islands and reefs of Biscayne National Park, and in Alaska, you'll hike in the wilderness park of Katmai.
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Two Gaston businesses are among the state�s most disreputable, says the Better Business Bureau.
Two Gaston businesses are among the state�s most disreputable, says the Better Business Bureau.
One of those, MZ. Auto Inspections appears to have closed.
But the nonprofit group puts Gastonia-based Home Appliance Repair at the top of its �Dirty Dozen� list for the second year in a row.
Appliance repairman Michael David Henderson is a repeat offender whose customers have filed 26 complaints against him since 2000, the Better Business Bureau said. Those included 12 in 2012.
The organization also said the man has operated under 10 different business names in the past 12 years.
No one answered at the telephone number listed for Home Appliance Repair on Wednesday, and an automated message occasionally said no one was available at the number.
Messages left in writing and on voicemail at the Coachwood Lane home where the business is registered were not returned.
Unsatisfied customers have had similar trouble contacting the repairman, said the Better Business Bureau.
�According to complainants, Henderson determined that (a) broken appliance needed a part, collected the money for the part, but then didn�t return to install it,� said organization president Tom Bartholomy in a media release.
�With his frequent business name changes, he is making it difficult for consumers to track him down to obtain a refund.�
Some clients also said Henderson did work at their homes but did not fix the problems he was supposed to repair. People reported paying the man amounts varying from $150 to $927.
Complaints against Home Appliance Repair came from Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Iredell, Cabarrus, Union and York counties.
Also making the Dirty Dozen this year was former Belmont garage MZ. Auto Inspections.
The South New Hope Road auto repair center closed, but new owners have taken over the location, now Ms. Ds Auto Service.
Co-owner Dawn Horne says MZ. Auto owner Elizabeth Williams is in no way affiliated with the new shop. Still, she said the former company�s bad reputation has been a hurdle to operating in Belmont.
The Better Business Bureau also heard plenty about MZ. Auto, which previously had at least two other locations in Mount Holly and Gastonia.
The garage had five unanswered complaints in 2012 and seven total complaints since 2010.
Those alleged poor work and a lack of follow up.
The Better Business Bureau considers a grievance unanswered after it sends the matter to the business three times without getting a response.
The Better Business Bureau�s Dirty Dozen for 2012
1. Home Appliance Repair
For the second year in a row, Gastonia-based Home Appliance Repair tops the BBB�s list with 12 unanswered complaints in 2012. Consumers from seven counties in North and South Carolina paid Michael David Henderson for appliance repairs that they allege were not done properly, if at all.
2. Waterford Square Apartments
Nine residents of this apartment complex filed complaints with the BBB in 2012, all of which went unanswered by the apartment manager. Since 2001, Waterford Square residents have filed 36 complaints with the BBB, citing maintenance, management and repair issues.
3. The Handyman Co.
In 2012, eight homeowners from six counties (Catawba, Burke, Lincoln, Union, Mecklenburg and York) filed complaints against The Handyman Co. Complaints focus on poor quality work and lack of follow-up. Owner Chris Robinson did not respond to any of these complaints.
4. Historical News Journals
This company sells old newspapers online at www.historicalnewsjournals.com. In 2012, 25 customers filed complaints, which focus on orders not fulfilled and refund issues. Owner Chip Dolfi blamed financial problems caused by employee embezzlement in response to some of the complaints, but he has not answered eight complaints.
5. Carolina Color Solutions
Owned by Todd Engel, Carolina Color Solutions had eight unanswered complaints in 2012 and 15 total complaints since 2008. Complaints focus on poor quality work and lack of follow-up.
6. Southend Car Store
This auto repair service had eight unanswered complaints in 2012 and 26 total complaints since 2006. Complainants allege that they were quoted lower prices than what they were charged and that the repairs took longer than projected.
7. Appliance Repair
Benny Hilliard Stafford had five unanswered complaints in 2012 for appliance repairs that were allegedly not done properly, if at all. Since 2006, Stafford has used 18 business names, 18 telephone numbers, seven aliases and has had 56 total complaints filed with the BBB. He also made the Dirty Dozen list in 2011 and 2007.
8. Advantage Debt Solutions Inc.
Advantage Debt Solutions claims it will settle past-due debts for clients. Owned by Anthony Edward Krysinski, the debt relief service had five unanswered complaints in 2012 and 17 total complaints since 2008. Complainants cite lack of documentation to show how the money they paid to settle their debts was paid toward balances owed and lack of response from the company.
9. Aryca Solutions LLC
Fort Mill, S.C.
Aryca Solutions is a debt collector for online payday lending services. The company had nine complaints filed against it in 2012, of which five complaints are unanswered.Complainants cite lack of documentation of debt owed or money paid.
10. MZ. Auto Inspections
This auto repair service had five unanswered complaints in 2012 and seven total complaints since 2010. Complainants allege poor quality work and lack of follow up.
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Travis Gumbs (left) and Joshua Kissi—two of our favorite photographers, stylists, travel journalists, fashion historians and the masterminds behind globally influential men's interest blog Street Etiquette—are always up to something.
This time around, it's a travelogue/lookbook in cahoots with Australian brand Zanerobe (progenitors of some of the best jogger pants in the biz, along with next-level shirts, shorts, jackets and more). The photographic essay, titled On the Road, took them out of their standard stomping ground of New York, and up the West Coast—hitting Los Angeles, Portland and our hometown of Seattle along the way.
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How Martin Freeman Became Immortal Through Legos
In the countdown to the return to Middle Earth on Dec. 14, The Colbert Report has decreed this week Hobbit Week. Bilbo Baggins himself, Martin Freeman, stopped by the show last night to recount hobbit goodness with Stephen Colbert and showed off one of his proudest achievements: his own Lego figurine. Forget industry awards, you know you've made it once your likeness is cast in Lego (and can make a Legolas joke like no other)!


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I bought a rag quilt kit a while ago and have now cut the squares for it. Being new to quilting, I did not ask if there was backing and now I know there is not! I want to continue this project and I know the quilt store won't have the fabric anymore. It's winter themed, green, cranberry (with printed greenery) and off white (with printed holly) Would you consider using demin for the back?
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Just before the great war called the Civil War today, once known down here as the War of Northern Aggression, the first white settlers tried to settle the land where Rick Perry was born. Those people were either killed by Indians, both Kickapoo and Comanche. The land was quiet again until well after the war. After the Comanche were finally subdued and the rest of the tribes sent up to the Indian Territory, later stolen from them and renamed Oklahoma, northwest Texas was finally settled by white folks. And they were white folks, there were very few freed slaves or what were then known as Mexicans.
The land was mostly arid plains with just a few creeks flowing into the forks of the Brazos. Cattle was king back then, the small farms were impractical, the water wasn't there. And that's the way it stayed until they dammed the river. This brought practical irrigation in with cotton replacing cattle in places. There was also some oil discovered not long after the turn of the Twentieth Century.
Somehow places were named with no regard to Twenty-first Century ideals, the nerve of those oldtimers! A pasture of a cattle ranch was named "Niggerhead, after a particular rock. Later the rock had that name painted on it. Years, decades after that a northwest Texas farmer and Democrat politician leased that pasture for hunting. That Democrat was Rick Perry's dad. Eventually Dad Perry painted over the offending name. Please bear in mind that Dad Perry did not own the rock and may have well gotten in trouble over painting over the name, had the rancher who did own that rock so chosen. The rancher did not, although the lawsuit would have been interesting. Still, had the rancher complained, loudly, that still would not have satisfied the pearl clutchers at the Washington Post.
Later Dad Perry even turned the rock with the offending overpainted name over, further hiding the offending name. Still, the Grandees of the Washington Post are flipping their aprons in front of their faces in horror. If only Rick Perry had not got in that time machine and rode it back to the Nineteenth Century and forced those ol' boys to name that rock so offensively! Or something. I
m really having a problem figuring out why this is a news story. We already knew folks in the past did things and used words that we do not do or use anymore. Well, mostly. Slavery does not exist here anymore although it is still extant in some Muslim areas. We do not use the term "Nigger" much anymore although it is still in use in the black neighborhoods. Funny that.
I would probably do better ignoring this, like I would probably do better never noticing anything that comes from the Washington Post.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Up On The Clear Fork
Labels: Liberal Idiocy
3 comments:
- pamibe said...
I'm so sick of b.s. like this; non-stories by idiots who try to throw the worst light possible on people who had absolutely nothing to do with the manufactured crisis!
Politics - blech!
Out of curiosity, I would like to know who dug up this moldy bit of info and gave it to the news media.
- Peter said...
Mary, we'll never prove this but It's the Soros/Obama attack team that handed this to the Wapo. Obama really wants to stand his record on jobs against Perry's record, right?
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The Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry degree provides formation for pastoral ministers to serve in a variety of parish, hospital, education and diocesan ministries. The program is designed to engage and complement the unique gifts of experienced pastoral ministers through graduate level theological and ministerial formation in the Catholic tradition. The degree offers a strong foundation in theological, ministerial, and spiritual formation that is sensitive to the unique needs of the local Church. Instituted in 1995, the program is offered in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
Many potential ecclesial ministers, either by reason of distance from theological schools or of full-time employment, cannot participate in standard resident degree programs. In response to this challenge, the MAPM degree program is conducted on-site in each location by Aquinas faculty members who conduct both weekend intensive sessions and weekly learning exercises on the Internet. The diocese selects qualified candidates for the program and, together, Aquinas and the diocese cooperate to form and evaluate candidates for ministry.
In the spirit of Dominican itinerancy, Aquinas Institute in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City meets the needs of the diocese for well-trained ministers and the needs of individuals for excellent theological education and formation through the on-site MAPM degree program.
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Admission to the MAPM requires a bachelor's degree, three letters of recommendation, the Miller Analogies Test, and an autobiographical essay. The essay should include a history of your religious development and a resume of previous experience in ministry or other professional work, as well as a personal assessment of strengths and weaknesses for ministry. Candidates for the Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry must participate in entrance interviews with the local Program Director and Formation Coordinator and any other admissions requirements set by the diocese.
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The MAPM degree is a 48 credit hour program consisting of 15 courses in academic theology and ministry, including a four-month, two-semester intensive in the supervised practice of ministry (field education). In addition, there are four 1-unit seminars in spiritual and personal formation that run concurrent with the academic portion of the degree program. The MAPM degree is designed to offer the student an integrated experience of academic theology, field education, and spiritual formation for ministry. In the spirit of the Dominican tradition, moreover, the individual components of the program come together in the context of community-and, specifically, that of the student cohort of learners who matriculate together, and remain together through the entire program. The cohort experience serves as an integrating feature of the various components of the MAPM degree.
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Australia's economy continues to struggle to find its legs.
The mining-driven economy got slammed as soon as its emerging market export partners like China slowed down.
And despite a pick up in China, Australia has yet to see the benefits.
It's "a credit bubble built on a commodity market built on an even bigger Chinese credit bubble," wrote strategist Dylan Grice in a note last year.
Earlier today, we got another round of ugly economic stats via the Australian Industry Group's January PMI report.
Its manufacturing PMI slumped to 40.2 January, down fom 44.3 in December.
Any reading below 50 signals contraction.
Here's a breakdown of the sub-indices. As you can see, exports are particularly horrific:
Here's a historical look at headline PMI:
Here are the key points (verbatim) from the latest report:
- Manufacturing activity contracted for an 11th consecutive month in January, with the seasonally adjusted Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI®) recording a level of 40.2, down from 44.3 one month ago. (Readings below 50 indicate a contraction in activity with the distance from 50 indicative of the strength of the decrease).
- The contraction in manufacturing new orders worsened, reflecting weak global demand and a softening Australian economy. The new orders sub-index fell 6.3 points to 39.4 in January.
- The manufacturing production sub-index remained firmly in the red, at 40.4 in January, down by 2.1 points from December.
- Only the wood & paper products sub-sector expanded in January, while the contraction in the other sub-sectors, except petroleum, coal, chemical and rubber products, eased.
- Survey respondents remained cautious about the outlook. They cited a range of inhibitors including: soft demand; weak confidence; and the strong Australian dollar.
- Wages and input costs continued to rise in January, while the decline in selling prices persisted, indicating that the profits for manufacturers remain under pressure.


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CBHEC helps teachers care for children with diabetes
Children with diabetes have more advocates in their classrooms, thanks in part to training provided by the Texas A&M Health Science Center Coastal Bend Health Education Center (CBHEC) to teachers and other school employees throughout the region.
Just a few years ago, some children with diabetes and their parents struggled with school rules that prevented students from conducting basic tasks to manage their disease. It can be a major challenge, as about one in every 400 U.S. children and adolescents has diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association.
"School faculty had limited access to information about how to care for a child with diabetes in schools and why children with Type 1 diabetes had to frequently go to the bathroom, check their blood sugars or have a snack," said Delia Martinez, interim program coordinator for the center's Diabetes Education Program.
However, changes began when House Bill 984 passed in 2005, regulating diabetes management of children in schools.
The law states that, in addition to school nurses, Texas schools must have at least one staff member with a basic understanding of diabetes management in children. Campuses without a full-time school nurse are required to train three employees to be unlicensed diabetes care assistants.
The Coastal Bend Health Education Center began filling the educational gap for South Texas schools in 2005 by providing diabetes training classes. Training guidelines were developed by several agencies, including the Texas Diabetes Council, American Diabetes Association and National Diabetes Education Program, and private vendors.
The educational sessions teach the school staff that students with diabetes should be allowed to have a snack when needed, go to the restroom, test their blood sugar during class time and visit the school nurse if they are not feeling well. Teachers also learn how to inject students with an emergency dose of glucagon, which can stabilize students in the midst of a blood sugar crash while they wait for help to arrive.
The curriculum for the one-day training also provides information about Type I and Type II diabetes, along with common medications, methods for checking blood sugar levels and diet recommendations. Participants must pass both the written and skills tests to be designated as unlicensed diabetes care assistants.
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It has been a big year for Nottingham Contemporary. After receiving a boost of notoriety by way of Mark Leckey's The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, the recently rechristened museum and its director, Alex Farquharson, immediately launched their most ambitious curatorial project to date: a traveling exhibition titled Aquatopia. Organized with partner institution Tate St. Ives, the exhibition comprises more than 150 artworks as well as performances,[…..]


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Editors' note (September 25, 2013): The product reviewed here has been discontinued and replaced with a redesigned Kindle Fire HD.
There's never been a better time to be in the market for a sub-$200 tablet. Right now your choices include the $199 Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7, the $179 Nook Tablet, and the $159 Kindle Fire 2012 edition. In November we'll see the debut of the Nook HD and I have a feeling it won't be the last budget-priced tablet that's worth your time.
So what exactly is the 2012 Kindle Fire? Essentially, it's the 2012 version of the 2011 Kindle Fire with some hardware and software upgrades. It's not the best or most cutting edge tablet on the block, but for only $159 it's worth a look for media consumption-oholics and Amazon Prime members.
The Amazon Kindle Fire ($159 for 8GB) is, from a design perspective, virtually the same Kindle Fire that was released in 2011. It's still boxy; it still sports a rubbery back; and it's still a bit too heavy and a bit too thick, especially when put up against newer tablets like the Nexus 7. I also noticed that its outer protective shell is a bit more angular and less rounded than the original Fire's.
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In the middle of the bottom edge, from left to right sit a headphone jack, a Micro-USB port, and power/sleep button. At either side of the top edge is a single speaker. Volume buttons are still nowhere to be found.
Though 2011's Kindle Fire included a Micro-USB-compatible power adapter, for some strange, ill-conceived reason, Amazon chose not to include one with the Kindle Fire and instead supplied only a Micro-USB-to-USB cable. While the tablet will charge when connected to a plugged-in computer, it will do so very slowly and only when asleep. Thankfully, if you own the original Fire (or pretty much any Micro-USB-to-power adapter) its charger should be compatible with the new Kindle Fire.
Software features: The refining
Amazon has completely redesigned the Kindle Fire's interface. It's sleeker, more streamlined, and feels more mature, eschewing the toylike quality the original had. Fonts are sharper and light and dark images feel more contrasted thanks to the new interface's darker tone. The carousel interface is still here, but scrolls faster and smoother, with app icons rendered in less pixely forms. Apps can be removed from the carousel at will and/or added to favorites, which appear at the bottom of the screen, negating the need to scroll through your entire catalog to find the app you want.
Newsstand, Books, Music, Videos, Docs, Apps, and Web return as top-of-the-screen content tab options, and have now been joined by Shop, Games, Audiobooks, Photos, and Offers. Search returns as well and now allows you to search in Amazon's stores as well as your libraries and the Web.
Settings can be accessed with a quick swipe down from the top bezel and now features more options for social-network integration, more customization, and tighter security. Within each content tab, there are still the very useful cloud and device denotations at the top that help signify which pieces of content are on the Fire or currently in the cloud.
There are problems, though. The interface is periodically sluggish and as streamlined as the interface is, at times it serves only to illustrate how much better it could be. After entering a content tab, you can't travel directly to another and must instead tap back and choose a new selection. I would have loved to see a more elegant solution that allows carousel options to always be available onscreen.
Software features: The newening
The streamlined interface isn't Amazon's only accomplishment here; it has added several new features to further set its Fire line apart from other tablets.
With X-ray for books you can get more information about characters, terms, and historical figures mentioned in a Kindle book, and it also highlights exactly where (via page number and a graph) in the book those details are mentioned and can jump right to the appropriate page. Definitely useful, but the ability to search for specific terms should be at the top of Amazon's to-do list when the time comes to revise this feature.
X-ray for movies is frankly a lot less useful, as it's essentially an integrated IMDb feature that provides access to actor bios while you watch the movie. Just tap the screen while watching "The Hunger Games," for example, and a drop-down menu of the actors appearing in the current scene appears. Select whichever actor you're interested in, and as long as that person is actually listed in IMDb, you'll have access to his or her bio. Impressively, this works in real time, adding and removing people from the list as they enter and exit scenes. It's not compatible with all movies yet, and I've yet to see it featured in any of the TV shows I've watched on the device.
Immersion reading uses the audio and Kindle versions of a single book and combines them to create an experience currently not reproducible on any other tablet. As the text is read by the original audiobook reader, each word is highlighted on the Kindle book version, allowing you to follow along, bouncing-ball-style (well, sans an actual bouncing ball), with the story. It takes a bit of getting used to, but can be appealing for audiobook fans like myself who love to listen, but want to retain the experience of actually reading as well.
In addition, Whispersync for voice allows you to stop reading at any spot in the Kindle version of a book and then continue later at that exact spot in your audiobook and vice versa.


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How to Get A Medical Card in Cloverdale, CA
Who Can Use Medical Marijuana in California?
California law has several requirements for patients to be eligible to receive low-THC cannabis or medical cannabis. Since recreational weed is legal in CA, the program is voluntary and for the patients provides for tax free medical marijuana. This is a huge price difference compared to paying for recreational.
- A patient must have been diagnosed with a qualifying condition as stated above.
- A patient must be a California resident.
- If under the age of 18, a patient must have a certified caregiver.
- The physician that certifies in writing must determine the risks of using low-THC cannabis or medical cannabis are reasonable in light of the benefit to the patient.
- A patient must be registered with the Medical Marijuana Program and have received their registry ID card.
Qualified patients must be entered into the California Medical Marijuana Identification Card Program (MMICP). As a resident of the state, the process on how to get a medical marijuana card in Cloverdale is as follows:
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- You, the Patient, are diagnosed with an approved qualifying medical condition by a doctor or physician that is a licensed MD or DO in California. The doctor must determine that medical cannabis is an appropriate treatment.
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- Your Doctor certifies in writing that cannabis may ease your symptoms and that the potential benefits of using marijuana would likely outweigh the health risks.
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I see CBD Oils, Edibles, Topicals, & Gummies for sale online, in commercials and signs at specialty shops around town, is CBD legal in California?
- Hemp CBD oil which is derived from the hemp plant is legal throughout the United States. That is what is being advertised and sold in stores and online. More & more people are embracing the cannabidiol lifestyle choice and as a dietary supplement. You need a med card to legally get the cannabis derived low-THC high-CBD medicines from a local dispensary.
Will CBD products or Hemp Oil get me high?
- No. CBD is a product that has no THC if derived from hemp and very little if derived from cannabis and properly manufactured. THC is the chemical compound that creates the "high". CBD products are available for patients that have a need for non-euphoric treatment.
CBD for Pets, really?
- Yes, CBD for Dogs, CBD for Cats, and CBD for pets in general is becoming a popular treatment for caring for pets that have arthritis, chronic pain and other ailments. The efficacy and safety of CBD for dogs, cats, and other pets have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA only evaluates foods and drugs, not supplements like these products.
Where can I get CBD for pets?
- You can find CBD for pets online, at some pet stores, and at holistic shops.
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How Much Should I consume?
- We are not doctors and do not give medical advise. Please consult with an doctor before using.
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I have chosen this specific project because having worked with many panoramas before, I know how useful it would be to have a more powerful mask editing system built into Hugin. That being said I also believe that a large part of the masking process should still be left to the responsibility of the editor and see a great potential for making the process easier and quicker.
I think that the current cropping tool in Hugin has been lacking for quite a while now, and most of the time, even for very simple cropping, I have found myself having to leave Hugin to open the files in an editor in order to mask unwanted sections/vignetting. I understand that the automatic tools are designed so ghosting is minimised, but these tools cant catch everything so when these tools may fail, or when a more manual approach is wanted, I believe a polygonal editing built into Hugin would be very advantageous.
This will also greatly improve the number of panoramas which can be taken from source to finished image (as far at the stitching is concerned), completely in Hugin. I believe that once you can edit out sections of the source images in Hugin, you will be less likely to need to heavily edit the source images prior to stitching, and it will minimise the amount you will need to do afterwards.
Although a polygonal edit may be appropriate a lot of the time, I believe that in a huge number of cases, a gimp plug-in would be invaluable. Currently if you wanted to apply enblend after having Hugin stitch your panorama, it involves exporting all the layers then either using the command line or a GUI (e.g. ImageFuser) to blend them all together, which is very time consuming.
Being able to open up the multi-layer stitched output from Hugin and edit them completely in the GIMP would be extremely useful to a lot of people (myself included). I also believe that it will increase the general use of Enblend, because it will enable people to use the program in an environment they already know and use.
Time Organisation
I plan on working 40hrs+ for the duration of the Summer of Code. I will have finished all of my exams by the 15th May, so am free to invest my time accordingly. Also, as the Summer of Code finishes on the August 17th, and my term does not start until the beginning of October, I will be able to carry on working for another 6 weeks on a part time basis, either extending the work that I have done or contributing on other projects. I have been part of the Hugin community on the user side for some time now and am eager to join the developers community to continue improving Hugin.
A preliminary schedule for my work is as follows:
- Weeks 1-2: Developing the GUI for the crop section of Hugin to have it include a simple polygonal editing function
- Weeks 2-4: Modifying the appropriate sections of the Hugin codebase to accept the crop dimensions to be non uniform.
- Weeks 5: Testing, bug-fixing etc
- Weeks 6: Start work on GIMP plug-in. I have reserved this time to learn more about the ins and outs of the GIMP API and understand the internal representation of layers etc for the following stages.
- Week 7-11: Modify Enblend to accept image data from my plug-in.
- Week 12+: Testing, bug-fixing etc.


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My brother was recently shamed after stating his intention to not participate by "voting" in the 2016 election. Now mind you, he wasn't even responsible for bringing the topic up to begin with. But like many of us, we can't always avoid being put on the spot.
Predictably, he was given the tried and true line of "if you don't vote then you can't complain" nonsense. This False and oft repeated "truism" presents us at least two logical fallacies.
One, the fallacy of "false choices". That is, we have two choices, and to have a "say", we must therefore choose one. And two, the implication is that our only meaningful way of affecting our society is by participation in the "election process".
I would suggest that merely showing up to turn in a blank vote would satisfy the purpose intended by the ruling class. Just being seen at a "voting" location lends some sort of credibility to the system, at least from the vantage point of the average observer.
This is of course a nasty self-affirming and self-serving sort of dogma that the system has created for itself, only to be repeated by its subjects to each other throughout the ages.
My brother is always a cool customer, and also happens to be a lawyer. When confronted with this criticism, he didn't reply in a harsh or combative manner. On the contrary, he replied as follows:
--------------------------------------------The Great Bus Driver Election--------------------------------------------
Please imagine for a moment, a scenario whereby a crowd of people found itself voting on a bus driver. Among the group there were a wide range of opinions about where to go, and just how far to the right or the left it should go.
And so they held primaries and elected nominees to represent each party. After the nominees were in place, the two candidates debated and made promises about where they would take the crowd if elected. To make things easy, they dressed one candidate in a blue Driver uniform, and the other in a red Driver uniform.
During this process the crowd grew anxious over where they would be headed, and soon the upcoming election was the topic that dominated conversations and even caused some to become ill over the stress of the whole thing.
Finally, election day arrived and the bus riders went to the polls to cast their ballots. That evening, after carefully tabulating each vote, the results were announced. At last a Bus Driver had been duly elected, and the riders had spoken. The candidates gave their respective victory and concession speeches, and attempted to unify the crowd behind the outcome. They are in this bus together after all.
Soon thereafter, they all loaded the bus. Some were elated that their candidate had prevailed, while others were quite disappointed. But nevertheless, its a democracy after all, and their votes got counted.
So the blue/red uniformed driver climbed aboard and took his seat behind the wheel. Thankfully, the wall that divided the front of the bus and the passenger area was lined with televisions and 24/7 news coverage of the ride.
Soon there were debates and commentary on whether the driver was fulfilling his promises, and whether their situation was improving or getting worse. The voters were eagerly keeping a close eye on their favorite news outlets so they could stay informed and eventually hold the Driver's "feet to the fire" next time around.
But alas, what the passengers didn't realize, and could never see, was that their sad bus was being towed the whole time. In fact, the tow truck driver had his instructions well before any elections took place, and it mattered not who was elected. All that mattered was preserving the illusion of self-government.
So, tell me, does the passenger who refused to vote forfeit his right to complain?
Dear brother (if you read this), please forgive my paraphrasing, and any liberties I may have taken in recounting your demonstrative tale. But I think your point was well made regardless.
It is in that spirit that I offer this post on this "election day" of 2016.
[Note: Because presidential "elections" are merely illusions of self-government, and inextricably connected to all things concerning media fakery, I considered the above short story appropriate on this day. Mods- if this belongs elsewhere then please feel free to move it accordingly.]


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Low Level of Pollution after Chevron Fire
Despite a thick cloud of smoke covering a good portion of western Contra Costa County from a fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond on Monday night, the air quality was minimally impacted, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
The air district inspectors collected samples of the air and tested them in the district's lab, finding pollution levels well below the federal health standards, the air district said in a statement.
"Surface winds were light and heat pushed the smoke upwards where stronger winds helped disperse it," the statement said.
The Contra Costa County Health Services tests to track hydrogen sulfate and volatile organic compounds both came up negative, said a health services spokeswoman.
Air samples were taken by health services officials, but test results were not available as of 5 p.m., she said.
The three-alarm fire broke out at 4 Crude Unit at about 6:30 p.m. and was burning strong before it was contained just before 11 p.m.
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Note: if a browser returns "no" for .canPlayType(), it's an old implementation. The spec currently requires the empty string for "I know I can't play this" (because the empty string is == false, so testing for the value is easy).
The other two values, "maybe" and "probably", are indeed pretty weird, but they're a direct result of the weirdness surrounding audio formats and containers. To put it simply, it's nearly impossible to tell if you can actually play a given file without just passing it to your decoder and seeing if it throws an error.
So, at best browsers can offer a "probably" for when they're pretty sure a particular file is playable. "maybe" is for the even more uncertain cases, like when you specify the type as a container format without giving the codec. The browser may support decoding the container, but without more knowledge it can't give you an answer as to whether the file itself is playable.
So, yeah, it's kinda weird, but it's a good compromise with reality. Just remember that the "I know I can't play it" case can just be treated like it returned false, as long as you're not using ===. Something easy like "if( (new Audio()).canPlayType(type) ) {…}" will work fine.


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It's no secret that inns and hotels can be bastions of wastefulness, with the average guest discarding about two pounds of paper, plastic, cardboard and cans each day. Pat Maher, the green consultant for the American Hotel and Lodging Association, states "Right now, half a million of those little bath product bottles end up in landfills every day." Most are only 1/4 to 1/2 used, which sends a shocking amount of unused chemicals into our groundwater supply.
Another item that contributes to the amount of waste generated by the lodging industry is bottled water. "Each year, people are drinking 30 billion throwaway bottles of water," said the Sierra Club's Ruth Caplan. "If you put them end to end, it would go around the world more than 150 times." Four out of five plastic water bottles end up in landfills, but even before they get there, they've taken a toll on the environment.
In an effort to be more green and waste less, the Inn at English Meadows is implementing some new eco-friendly practices – water carafes have been added to each room, which cuts down on the number of plastic water bottles needing to be recycled.
To reduce the number of individually sized bath products that would contribute to the waste stream, the Inn is now using full-size pump bottles of (MALIN+GOETZ) rum hand (+ body) wash and neroli hand+body lotion. When guests leave, the pump bottles are refilled so nothing is thrown out. It is a wonderful marriage of offering luxury bath products while keeping an eye towards being good stewards of the environment.
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Because it trains muscles in the lower and upper back, abdominals, trunk, costal, and shoulders, a well-performed squat is an essential exercise, and will help develop your core. Don't overdo it with too much weight, and make sure to pay attention to your form to maximize the results and prevent potential muscle, ligament, or tendon strain.
1. Place your heels a little more than shoulder width apart and turn your toes outward 30 degrees.
2. Place the bar parallel between the base of your traps and on top of your delts, hands as close together as possible.
3. Balance the bar so it lines up above the middle of your arches.
4. Focus your eyes on a spot on the floor five feet in front of you; keep them on that spot through the whole squat.
5. Sink straight down with your upper body leaning forward at 45 degrees, pausing briefly when your hips drop just below your knees.
6. Don't stop at the bottom: Tighten your hip muscles, give a slight bounce, drive your hips up, and stand.


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Law School Admissions / Re: Transfering after first year?« on: August 04, 2009, 02:42:01 PM »
I just transferred from a T25 public university to a T5. Transferring is not easy. That said, transferring to Georgetown is not as hard as other t14 schools. They take 100 or so per year. From what I understand, you need to be in the top 15% or so to be in the running, but likely much more competitive if you try from GW or American. That said, firms know GU takes 100+ transfers per year, so you (1) are not that special, (2) and may actually not be as attractive as a job candidate relative to other transfers. if you are competitive enough to transfer from GW or AU to GU, it might frankly be worth it to stay there if you get Law Rev or something like that.


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Bpotter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a company that is located in Southern California. We have the desire to go national in the future. United States Solar is a company that does all sales, design and installation of the solar sysetm for residential and commercial buildings.
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text: Hey, Mt. Abe, buck up. Take the good with the not-so-good and make the best of up to $600,000 the federal government is offering in school improvement grants. That's not a lot of money spread over three years, considering the union school budget is $13.2 million, but what's not to like about the opportunity to assess the school's strengths and weaknesses and devise a "transformation model" that figures out ways to improve the weakest links?


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Eligible voters in 10 states including Texas do not have easy access to free IDs required by new restrictive voting laws and minorities would more likely to be disenfranchised in the process, according to a new study released Wednesday.
Republicans who support new voter ID laws dismissed as partisan the study by the Brennan Center for Justice, which has joined legal efforts to block the new regulations, as politically motivated.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and other state Republican officials insist that new laws like the voter ID law requiring a photograph does not disenfranchise voters.
But the study found that eligible voters who would need the free identification cards required by the new laws were less likely to have access to a vehicle and live further away from offices where the IDs are issued.
"Unfortunately, these free IDs are not equally accessible to all voters," the report said.
The Texas law would require voters to present an ID with a photograph from the Department of Public Safety – including free ID cards – the military, the federal government or a concealed weapons permit issued by the state.
A panel of three federal judges in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard testimony during a week-long trial earlier this month on the legality of the Texas law under the Voting Rights Act.
A decision by that panel is expected as early as this month.
The Brennan Justice Center sided with the Justice Department arguing in federal court that the Texas voter ID law should not be implemented.
South Carolina passed a similar law. It will go to federal trial here and heard by another federal court panel next month.
Eight states passed voter ID laws last year, following Georgia and Indiana for states establishing more restrictive regulations for casting votes.
Lawyers for Texas argued that the new rules were needed to protect the integrity of the ballot box, and presented evidence that felons, non-citizens and thousands of deceased were still carried on voter registration rolls.
But testimony by the Justice Department and minority rights groups showed that while there has been fraud with mail-in ballots, there are no recent convictions for voter impersonation at polling places.
"It's a solution in search of a problem," said state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, head of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus.
According to the report, 11 percent of eligible voters lack the required photo ID in 10 states requiring the new cards. Those are also the people most likely to have trouble obtaining free identification cards.
The report also found:
- Nearly 500,000 eligible votes without cards do not have access to a vehicle, and many live in rural areas without public transportation access.
- 1.2 million black voters and 500,000 eligible Hispanic live more than 10 miles from state offices issuing free IDs.
- People of color are more likely to be disenfranchised by these laws since they are less likely to have a photo ID than the general population.
- More than 1 million eligible voters in the states in the study fall below the federal poverty line in earnings and would be affected by the costs associated with purchasing documents needed to obtain a voter ID card – like a birth certificate which costs between $8 and $25.
"The result is plain: Voter ID laws will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of poor Americans to vote," the report concluded.
Rep. Francisco "Quico" Canseco, R-San Antonio, said people in his congressional district, which stretches to El Paso, routinely drive large distances for groceries and mail – and would do so to vote.
He said the real issue is faith in the electoral process.
"The voters need to have faith in the integrity of our electoral process," Canseco said. "It's what drives our democracy."


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