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Welcome to TenderTool Freight Sourcing. In this post, we are going to navigate for the first time through our cloud-based Freight Tender Platform and create a Freight Tender in just a matter of clicks.
Tender Managers and Logistics Buyers are always looking to streamline freight tender processes while saving time and giving you better results. In this video, we are going to show how easy it is to start a freight tender using our freight tender software in the cloud.
How t0 easily create a freight tender within 5 minutes
Before moving towards the video, we describe the first 4 steps we are showing in our tutorial video today.
Step 1 – Tender Name, Description and Currency
The first step in our freight tender process allows you to submit the title of your freight tender, a short description and very important, the used currency.
Step 2 – Non-Disclosure Agreement
Once completed step one, it's already time to secure your freight tender. In this phase, the tool will ask you to attach your NDA or not. Invited suppliers will receive this Non-disclosure Agreement, which has to be signed digitally in order to participate. In the company settings, it is possible to upload your standard NDA, which can easily be checked in the menu box.
Step 3 – Tender Documentation
With just a few clicks, the creator of the freight tender can upload additional information for suppliers. For example; Supporting documents, Terms and Conditions and standard documentation can be uploaded and are automatically attached. Just like step 2, this is optional.
Step 4 – Baseline, profile, Rate Card
The final step we are demonstrating today is, in fact an important step. This is where you can create the baseline for your freight tender in just a few clicks. Our tool allows you upload and CUSTOMIZE your rate cards online. It only takes clicking to create the perfect rate card.
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The fate of the Hahamongna Watershed Park Annex is once again on the agenda of the Pasadena City Council. This Monday, July 12th, they will likely decide once and for all whether or not to build soccer fields on park grounds. This has been a contentious issue for some time. Pasadena doesn't have an awful lot of park space, let alone space that is suitable for athletic fields, leading to chronic shortages not just for AYSO and the like but for adult soccer, rugby leagues and other sports. On the other hand, Hahamongna is a rare and beautiful place, one of only a few alluvial canyon habitats left in Southern California, and a sensitive ecosystem to boot.
There has been a great deal of public outcry in favor of preservation, organized in large part by the Arroyo Seco Foundation, which maintains SaveHahamongna.org. With the climactic city council meeting so close, the preservation-minded blogosphere is making a final push: Hahamongna Blog Day. Organized by Petrea Burchard of Pasadena Daily Photo, a number of bloggers have teamed up to talk about why they think Hahamongna should be left alone. See the full list here.
Regardless of the outcome, the fight for Hahamongna has been an encouraging exercise in local democracy. People are making their voices heard, and elected officials seem to be listening. If you haven't already, add your voice to the conversation, either at the council meeting on Monday or by contacting its members directly, here. The public meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. in City Hall.

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The Dutch striker has enjoyed a stellar start to his United career and took his goal tally to 11 in 14 games when he began United's latest comeback in Braga on Wednesday.
Yet Van Persie's contribution, after he had started on the bench, raised question marks over United's ability to perform without him.
Ferguson's team have won every game in which the 29 year-old has scored on their rise to the Premier League summit and qualification for the Champions League group stages with two games to spare.
The United manager does not view it as an issue though.
"I don't think it's a problem relying on Robin," he said. "Last year, we lost (the title) on goal difference. I don't expect us to lose on goal difference again."
There have been plenty of top strikers who have failed to match their billing following much-hyped arrivals at Old Trafford.
Not Van Persie, though. Indeed, his strike rate is better than that of fellow countryman Ruud van Nistelrooy, who took 19 games to reach the same figure following his transfer from PSV Eindhoven in 2002.
"Van Persie is experienced," said Ferguson. "He had eight years at Arsenal and that helps. He has come to us at the right time."
And he is being given excellent support from Javier Hernandez, who has scored five times in his last four games, rediscovering the form he showed during his debut campaign, and also Wayne Rooney.
"The way Javier has started this season, I'm certain he'll get to 20 goals plus," said Ferguson.
"Wazza will get there too, he'll get 20 goals plus I'm sure. It's a healthy combination we've got there."
The trio might get a couple of extra midweeks off now too.
Not only has qualification for the last 16 in Europe been confirmed, so has a top seeding, turning the final couple of games against Galatasaray and Cluj into experimental affairs.
As Chelsea and Manchester City - who meet immediately after the next round of matches - are sweating on their extended status in the competition, United clearly have an advantage over their rivals which they hope will strengthen their present position.
"I can utilise the squad in Europe now and it gives us good opportunity to offer anyone a rest who needs one.
"We still want to win the games but it is a good position to be in, not like last season, which had a definite impact on the mood of the camp."
No matter what the mood, a visit to Aston Villa usually brings a smile to United faces.
In 16 Premier League trips since their last defeat, United have won 11 and drawn five against the Midlands giants, the side Ferguson pipped to win the first of his 12 titles in 1993.
Since then, Villa's fortunes have faded. There was a brief revival under Martin O'Neill during Randy Lerner's initial time as owner.
However, following O'Neill's departure in 2010, the Villa manager's office has operated a revolving door policy, with first Gerard Houllier, then Alex McLeish lasting barely a year.
Paul Lambert is the latest incumbent, although Ferguson feels his fellow Scot has a tough job on his hands.
"It is a daunting task as Villa are not where everyone expects them to be," said the United chief.
"Paul Lambert has done well as a manager and is still young.
"But it does take time to change teams and you wonder if the managers changing has a big effect on the playing standards of the team because they have had quite a collection over the years."
United will be without Nani with a tight hamstring but are hopeful of Jonny Evans' recovery from a groin problem, which would mean Ferguson did not have to force Chris Smalling back into action so soon after making his season's bow in Braga.


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About Keidanren About KEIDANREN
KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation) is a comprehensive economic organization with a membership comprised of 1,376 representative companies of Japan, 109 nationwide industrial associations and 47 regional economic organizations (as of May 31, 2018).
Our mission as a comprehensive economic organization is to draw upon the vitality of corporations, individuals and local communities to support corporate activities which contribute to the self-sustaining development of the Japanese economy and improvement in the quality of life for the Japanese people.
For this purpose, KEIDANREN establishes consensus in the business community on a variety of important domestic and international issues for their steady and prompt resolution. At the same time, we communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including political leaders, administrators, labor unions and citizens. We encourage our members to adhere to the Charter of Corporate Behavior in an effort to establish and maintain public confidence in the business community. We also strive for the resolution of international issues and the development of closer economic relations with various countries through policy dialogue with the governments, economic associations of each country as well as international organizations.
The 70-Year History of Keidanren (YouTube)
Overview of KEIDANREN
- Name:
Ippan Shadan Hojin Nippon Keizai Dantai Rengokai
KEIDANREN or Japan Business Federation
- Objectives (Article 3 of the Articles of Incorporation):
- The objectives of Keidanren as a comprehensive economic organization are to contribute to the self-sustained development of the Japanese economy and the improvement of the lives of citizens, by drawing out the dynamism of corporations as well as that of the individuals and communities that support them
- Established:
- August 16, 1946
- Authorized as an incorporated association:
- June 29, 1961
- Transition to a general incorporated association:
- March 30, 2012
- Representative Directors:
NAKANISHI Hiroaki, Chairman
KUBOTA Masakazu, Director General
- Directors:
- 24 (Chairman: 1, Vice Chairs: 18, Director General: 1, Senior Managing Directors; Managing Directors: 4)
- Auditors:
- 2
- KEIDANREN is a corporation with an Accounting Auditor.
- Membership:
- Corporate members: 1,376, Group members: 156, Special members: 31,
Total: 1,563 members (as of May 31, 2018)
- Secretariat:
- Staff members: 229 (including temporary staff, as of April 1, 2018)
History of KEIDANREN
The Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) was established in August 1946, immediately after the end of World War II, with the aim of reconstruction and recovery of the Japanese economy. Keidanren's first Chairman was Ichiro Ishikawa (1946-56). In April 1948, the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) was launched with the objective of establishing appropriate relations between labor and management, with the motto "Employers, Be Righteous and Strong". Nikkeiren's first Representative Executive Director was Kanichi Moroi (1948-68).
Since then, the two organizations have contributed to the development of the Japanese and global economies through maintaining and stimulating a liberal economic model and taking on internal and external challenges that the business community faced, such as trade liberalization, promotion of free competition, measures for addressing energy and environmental issues, promotion of private sector economic diplomacy, wage negotiations, and establishment of stable labor-management relations. Keidanren's Chairman Taizo Ishizaka (1956-68) emphasized that the business community must take the high road of liberalization, and helped achieve capital liberalization.
In 1966, the original Keidanren Kaikan building was completed, and the organization continued its further development.
Keidanren Chairman Toshio Doko (1974-80) used his experience gained through work on the streamlining of production sites to streamline government (administrative reform). Since the tenures of Keidanren Chairman Doko, Nikkeiren Chairman Bunpei Otsuki (1979-87), and Nikkeiren Chairman Eiji Suzuki (1987-91), the major roles of Keidanren and Nikkeiren in contributing to administrative and financial reforms have been recognized by the Japanese people.
Japan, although having achieved high economic growth, then entered a period of trade friction. In order to overcome this situation, various concepts, such as "Philosophy of Endurance" by Keidanren Chairman Yoshihiro Inayama (1980-86); "Co-existence" by Keidanren Chairman Gaishi Hiraiwa (1990-94); and "Attractive Japan" by Keidanren Chairman Shoichiro Toyoda (1994-98); were established in an attempt for Japanese companies to be accepted by the international community as good corporate citizens.
Amid the trend toward a declining birthrate and an aging population as well as diversification in the mentality and values of the Japanese people, the reform of the social security system, employment and labor issues, and educational reforms have become policy issues with increased significance for corporate management. In 2002, Keidanren and Nikkeiren merged to form the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) as a new comprehensive economic organization. The first Chairman of Keidanren after the merger was Hiroshi Okuda (2002-06).
In 2009, the new Keidanren Kaikan was completed. On March 30, 2012, Keidanren changed its juridical status from an incorporated association to a general incorporated association in accordance with the reform of the public interest corporation system.
As Japanese companies engage in business activities on a global scale, Keidanren's activities are also expanding from within Japan to the world stage.


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The next rooms I visited at Tawhiti Museum were about the military history of the area, particularly The Musket Wars, and the story of Kimble Bent in the Taranaki wars of the 1860s.Normally this would be something I'd gloss over, but because of the intricacy of the scenes I found myself stopping constantly to read the information attached and peer closely at the details of the scenes.
The focus was very much on the stories of the people involved, and by the end of my time in this part of the museum I was keen to find out more about the history of New Zealand, as I realised it wasn't taught much when I was at school: instead we tended to focus on European history...
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Tawhiti: Life at war
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- Jodi Hippler said...
Just ~A~M~A~Z~I~N~G~ detail! They are wonderful! Reminds me of Night At The Museum - Imagine it all coming to life at night!!!
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This is a selection of images from a fascinating, rare collection of albumen prints documenting the construction of the extensive gardens built by the Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington. These gardens were opened in June 1861, for the occasion of Prince Albert's last public appearance in London before he died. The 1862 International Exhibition was held on this site. These gardens served as the public display garden for the Royal Horticultural Society from their opening in 1861 until they were abandoned in 1888.
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Neither Col. Dorsey nor any other confederate officer published an of- ficial account of the Mount Zion fight, otherwise it would be given here. But an intelligent gentleman, who was one of his command, and who was present during the engagement, informs us that on December 24, 1861, Col. Dorsey left Pike County, and on the 27th, at Grandview, in Boone County, which is near and west of the church, organized his forces, consisting of six companies, of about 350 men, not all armed. The officers in command were Col. Caleb Dorsey, Lieut. Col. Cole Kent, Maj. Thomas Breckinridge and E. W. Herndon, (now a citizen of Columbia), Surgeon. About 2 o'clock, P. M., of the 27th, this force took up the line of march, intending to camp at Mount Zion church. About a half a mile northeast of the church, the Federals came up and fired on their rear guard, wounding two of Dorsey's men, and then fell back. Dorsey pursued them, and three miles from the church overtook the retreat- ing force, and fired upon them. A ten minutes' skirmish ensued, in which one Federal was mortally wounded, and Capt. Howland (Fed- eral), was wounded in the thigh, and taken prisoner. Dorsey's sur- geon, Dr. Herndon, extracted the ball. None of Dorsey's men were killed or wounded. On the morning of the 28th, 'the engagement was renewed, the force under Dorsey being about 100 yards east of the church, in the brush and timber. The Federal charge upon them was with both infantry and cavalry, but was repulsed. They again charged, and were again repulsed, after which they made a third charge. The ammunition of Dorsey's command being exhausted, he determined to fall back to his wagons. The Federals advanced upon him, and took some ten pris- oners. They then marched on to the church, and seeing soldiers in the building, fired on it, whereupon two of the prisoners who were in the church, ran out and said: " There are no fighting men here; this is a hospital;" hearing which the Federal fire ceased
Gen. Prentiss then gathered up his dead and wounded, pressed teams and wagons, and returned to Sturgeon, leaving the Confederate wounded on the field, whom Dr. Herndon distributed among the farm houses in the neighborhood. Dorsey's loss: 5 killed; 35 wounded, and 10 prisoners. Prentiss' loss (estimated): 30 killed; 60 wounded, and 10 prisoners. The gentleman who makes this report to us, also desires it to be stated that Gen. Prentiss in every respect acted the gentleman and the soldier, in regard to the Confederate wounded, affording all the assistance in his power, and detailing a guard from his own command to keep soldiers out of the church. We learn from a different source that among Dorsey's wounded were Clifton Quisenberry, of Boone, Capt. Myers, of Lincoln, a young man by the name of Thurman, and a Mr. Swaydor, all of whom, except Capt. Myers, died - Swaydor at John Reed's, who lives near the church. One of the wounded also died at James Ful- kerson's. From another source, altogether authentic, it is learned that in the skirmish on the evening before the main fight at Mt. Zion, the fol- lowing men of Co. A, 3d Cavalry, Missouri Volunteers, were taken prisoners by the Confederates, viz. Capt. Jas. T. Howland; pri- vates Geo. Hipkins, Thos. J. Maggard, John W. Peak, A. J. Johnson, Wm. B. Hatten, W. J. Morton, A. J. Goodrich and Chas. Carna- han. Capt. Howland was badly wounded in the leg; Carnahan as struck on the occipital bone; Goodrich was the soldier mortally wounded, who died the same night. A few days after the fight an arrangement was effected between Gen. Prentiss and Col. Dorsey, commanding the Federal and Confed- erate forces respectively, for an exchange of prisoners. Capt. Hen- derson represented the Confederates and Col. Glover the Federals, and the exchange was made at Sturgeon. The following are the names of the Federals exchanged:
Capt. J. T. Howland, Co. A, 3d Mo. Cavalry.
Wm. Morton, Co. A, 3d Mo. Cavalry.
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Sergeant J. C. Miller, Co. C, 3d Mo. Cavalry.
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Bugler Thos. Orton, " " " " " "
Corporal Rhino, " "
Private Frank Murray," " " " "
Sergeant Isaiah Null, Flagg's Regiment.
Private Walter Scott 81st Ohio Infantry.
After leaving Mt. Zion Church Col. Dorsey made his way west- ward into Perche township, and went into camp near Everett. Here he remained a day or two, when, pursuant to orders from Gen. Price, he ordered his command to "scatter," until such time as a concen- tration would be proper land could be effected. In February fol- lowing the major portion of the command crossed the Missouri and made its way to Price's army


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Number: 17
Title: Sleepers, Wake! A Voice Astounds Us
Composer: Trans. Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1982Attr. Philipp Nicolai, 1599 Harm. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1731
Author: Philipp Nicolai, 1599
Scripture: Matthew 25:1-13 I Corinthians 2:9 Revelation 19:6-9 Revelation 12:21
Theme: Advent
1. "Sleepers, wake!" A voice astounds us; The shout of rampart guards surrounds us: "Awake, Jerusalem, arise!" Midnight's peace their cry has broken, Their urgent summons clearly spoken: "The time has come, O maidens wise! Rise up, and give us light; The Bridegroom is in sight. Alleluia! Your lamps prepare and hasten there, That you the wedding feast may share." 2. Zion hears the watchmen singing, Her heart with joyful hope is springing; She wakes and hurries through the night. Forth He comes, her Bridegroom glorious In strength of grace, in truth victorious: Her star is risen, her light grows bright. Now come, most worthy Lord, God's Son, Incarnate Word, Alleluia! We follow all and heed Your call To come into the banquet hall. 3. Lamb of God, the heavens adore You; Let saints and angels sing before You, As harps and cymbals swell the sound. Twelve great pearls, the city's portals: Through them we stream to join the immortals As we with joy Your throne surround. No eye has known the sight, No ear heard such delight: Alleluia! Therefore we sing to greet our King; Forever let our praises ring.


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Group 91.Five, KJZZ's young professionals, and the Arizona Foundation For Women Young Professionals Group are hosting Women In Media August 11, 5:30- 7 p.m. at the Rio Salado College Conference Center. The networking event will feature a moderated panel discussion covering topics of interest to women pursuing a career in media. Panelists include:
Retha Hill - Former BET Vice President of content, former executive producer for special projects at washingtonpost.com, currently serving as executive director of the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
Paola Boivin, Arizona Republic sports columnist also published in New York Times, USA today and on 12 News Phoenix.
Mary Jo Pitzl - Arizona Republic government reporter covering Arizona Legislature, state policy and politics.
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Sarah Ventre will moderate. Ventre is senior producer for KJZZ's Original Productions, including The Show and Here and Now. Prior to coming to KJZZ, Ventre worked as a producer and editor at NPR. As a reporter, Ventre has been featured on NPR, WAMU and in the Washington City Paper, Phoenix New Times, SF Weekly and xoJane.
This event is free and open to the public. More information is available on the AFW Facebook Page.


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Hiking Apacheria
A Hike Through History
Revisiting some favorite sites in Apache country.
by Jerry Eagan
It's been a helluva year. Late in 2011, I developed what was a running diagnosis of: bronchitis… walking pneumonia… congestive heart failure… and then, in late January, a long cascade into Hell. I was in Gila Regional Medical Center, then Memorial Hospital in Las Cruces, followed by almost a month in Mountain View Hospital in Las Cruces, followed by the University of Texas Medical Center in El Paso and finally Nazareth Hall in El Paso, a rehabilitation facility. There, after two months that took me down onto a ventilator for two weeks, and with five weeks totally "gone" from memory, I emerged to learn to walk again.
|Cooke's Peak from the McKinn Ranch on Hwy. 35 in the Mimbres. (Photos by Jerry Eagan)
The tubes down my throat had also damaged my ability to swallow, so I underwent speech therapy and learned to swallow fluids heavier than saliva. When I left Nazareth Hall, run by the Sisters of St. Joseph, on May 18, I was wheeled to the car by my wife. I had, by then, learned to walk with a walker. Since returning home, I've progressed from walkers to a single-point cane. At home, I walk awkwardly without the cane due to "foot drop," the result of what may be permanent nerve damage in the left leg. I may never walk again normally. Right now, I have a prosthetic brace that allows my left foot to operate more normally — that is, more like it did before all of this trauma.
Alas, a separate side effect of meds and three months in hospital beds was dry gangrene on 8 of 10 toes. While the toes on the left foot have almost all healed, the damage on the right foot toes is more extensive. As a consequence, four of five toes will have been amputated either naturally or surgically by the time you read this.
At age 65, I've spent a total of one year plus three months in hospitals. The year was in 1966-1967, when I was badly wounded in a firefight in Vietnam, followed by malaria. The remainder of the time was, of course, this latest round of hospitalization. The difference between ages 19-20 and age 65 in terms of how I dealt with the hospitalization was significant. On the other hand, my wife Dorothy told the docs many times that I had been vigorous for years prior to this latest near-death experience, "hiking Apacheria" since 2002.
All of this has, of course, affected how I "hike Apacheria." I was reminded of a story in one of the many books I've read about the Apache of an Apache man who had been bitten by a rattler while out on a raid. As a consequence, he, too, developed "foot drop." The article mentioned that his utility as a warrior dropped dramatically and, in effect, he became a "ward" of the band.
Hills surrounding Fort Bowie from where Cochise launched the attack of Apache Pass in July 1862.
I've now wondered: How did HE manage to survive for any length of time in a mobile, semi-nomadic, warrior culture with such a debilitating problem? No prosthetics were available to him, certainly. He would've had to hobble around as best as he could (as the informant noted) and was forever on the "back bench" for warfare. Did he become a superb lookout? Sniper? Trainer of novices? His life-expectancy would have been reduced significantly, and I believe the informant indicated he died younger than most Apaches of the time.
As a place where I've hiked, I was also interested in the story a friend recounted of a herpetologist who'd been bitten by a black-tail rattler in Skeleton Canyon, south of Rodeo, where Geronimo surrendered in September 1885. I've been there three times on my own. It's a rugged drive in, and I basically walked two or three miles after I couldn't drive my truck any farther. Documentary filmmaker Brian Huberman, his wife Cynthia Wolfe and I were there three years ago and we saw several black-tailed rattlers. According to my source, the venom of the rattler bite spread quickly through the woman's body, and by the time she arrived at the hospital in Douglas, Ariz., a good hour-and-a-half walk and drive from the bite site in Skeleton Canyon, the neurotoxins had destroyed enough nerve endings in her leg that she, too, developed permanent "foot drop."
As some readers will remember, I fell on Providence Cone on Dec. 21, 2009, and broke my ankle. I had to reset the ankle three times using my knee pads and all of the duct tape I carried to crawl off the mountain and through cactus, back to my truck. I was able to reset the ankle once I got to the truck with a spare disabled-veteran license plate and the knee pads and more duct tape, in anticipation that I'd have to drive myself to the hospital in Deming — from Akela Flats, a good 30-minute drive to the hospital. As it turned out, Luna County sheriff's deputies and ICE personnel were able to provide me with support just at dark on that shortest day of the year, 2009, and one volunteer drove me to the hospital. (See "Slip-Sliding Away," February 2010.)
But Apaches went out all the time on forays to "look around" — for game, a new route, water sources, etc. What happened to them when they fell, broke an ankle or leg, and they were miles from home?
One old cowboy told me once that when he had broken an ankle out riding the range — albeit, with another rider — they packed his boot with mud as tight as they could, so he could remount his horse and ride back to the ranch headquarters. From there, he was driven to a hospital. And another Hidalgo County source told me that his family, who had lived for decades in Skull Canyon, south of Rodeo, lost two family members to appendicitis in the early 20th century. The jolting Model T Ford ride out of that place and all the way to Lordsburg, to the nearest hospital, had been too severe. Both died of simple appendicitis.
Apaches have appendixes, too. How did they handle such situations? I suspect they all died.
In one interview Brian and Cynthia and I got from an old-time rancher/author, Tom Diamond, he informed us that bear grass was often used not only for "wiping" duties while the Apaches moved about like the wind, but could also be stuffed into a wound to serve as a compress to staunch the blood flow caused by a bullet wound. Of course, many Apaches, badly wounded in skirmishes with the Spanish, Mexicans and Americans, just crawled off somewhere to die. When I was shot in Vietnam, I had arterial bleeding and I doubt there'd have been enough jungle grass around to compress my blood letting. Bullet wounds then were caused by enormously destructive .45-.70 and other high-caliber rounds. Bones would have been shattered and exit wounds would have been massive.
When Brian and Cynthia visited this July, we went to the last few places they wanted to capture for the film they're making. Along with a friend, Randy Crawford, we hiked in the Peloncillos, the Mimbres and around Fort Bowie. We went to the Peloncillos the second day of filming. I wanted to show them the approximate location of the battle area (not the site), as the scenery is stupendous and as the site had become one of my favorites until I began to get sick. (See "In Loco's Footsteps," February 2011, and "From Water to Water," August 2011.)
Possible hearth of the McKinn homestead.
The Northern Peloncillo site of my hikes is essentially a long, six- to eight-mile-long massif, rugged, minimally vegetated, with miles of craggy rocks located south of Hwy. 78 and west of Hwy. 70. The Peloncillos stretch from this spot all the way south to Skeleton Canyon and even a bit farther south along the eastern flank of the San Simon Valley. It was a favorite mountain range of the Chiricahua Apaches, who had many rancheria up and down the range. Rancherias would have been located almost any place that had some source of water. The Apaches knew where every drop of water could be had from the northernmost crags of the Peloncillos all the way into Mexico. They knew where these water sources were just as we know where our own bank's ATMs are located.


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The Smith I/O Recon goggle has been difficult to find this holiday season... ADS Sports Eyewear still has a few left.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 17, 2012
ADS Sports Eyewear is expanding their prescription ski goggles inventory to include a new, high-tech ski goggle, the Smith I/O Recon. This ski goggle has the same easily interchangeable lenses as the other I/O Ski Goggles, as well as Recon Instruments' Mod Live technology. This technology includes a small screen in the bottom right corner of the frame that shows a variety of features including; speed, jump analytics, vertical distance, altitude, navigation, buddy tracking, music and Smart Phone connectivity.
The Smith I/O Recon Ski Goggle comes with a wrist mounted remote control to manage the applications of the I/O Recon. This allows the user to adjust the volume, switch songs and browse through the Recon tools. There is a standard power button on the side of the goggle, which makes it effortless to turn the Recon on and off. The goggle is battery operated and can be charged by plugging it into any USB plug. When fully charged, the battery works from 5-6 hours.
This Recon I/O Ski Goggle allows the user to identify and find friends on the mountain. By downloading the Engage application from any Smart Phone App. Market, skiers can be identified by any of their friends wearing this hi-tech ski goggle. Bluetooth allows the user to see text messages on a small screen inside the goggle. The display also provides a wealth of GPS-enabled information.
ADS Sports Eyewear uses Free-form Digital prescription lenses in most of their wrapped prescription sports eyewear. Prescription ski goggles can utilize this same digital technology that recalculates the curve at every point on the back of the lens. This provides the best clarity in every part of the lens, so the fishbowl effect traditionally associated with prescription lenses on wrapped frames is no longer an issue for skiers.
The Smith I/O Recon goggle has been difficult to find this holiday season. This is the first year that Smith has offered the goggle, and the demand for this perfect hi-tech Christmas present has been greatly underestimated. ADS Sports Eyewear still has a few left.


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Jilted Royalty: Import, Export!
Jay Read, the ex-convict, recovered heroin addict owner behind UK-based Jilted Royalty, has featured in a viral film to showcase the brand's SS14 collection.
'Import, Export!' follows the theme of an organised narcotics deal, which sees Read travelling from London to Los Angeles. However, rather than selling the illegal substances that plagued Read's real life youth, the Jilted dealer hands over boxes of the latest collection.
Creating a glamorous lifestyle image, the four-minute movie features a branded private jet, a model girlfriend and a yacht party set below the Californian sun. Jilted Royalty is worn throughout by both men and women, unveiling an array of apparel ranging from sweatshirts to bikinis.
In keeping with the label's dark and ominous motif, the SS14 line features a range of gun, knife and skull designs. The graphics are printed on a series wardrobe basic garments that follow a neutral colour palette, consisting of white, grey and black.
The 'Import, Export!' Film is not Read's debut in front of a camera. The label's owner recently travelled to Tokyo to be photographed by Paul Ward for an interview with Bread + Butter Berlin Magazine.
Jilted Royalty have kicked off the run up to the arrival of the new collection with a January sale. Discounted t-shirts, hats, hoodies and bandanas are available now at JiltedRoyalty.com


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IN ONE of the most refreshing displays of fashion and runway diversity, a young Australian designer has gone where not many have gone before.
Thomas Puttick has actually used 'older' models in his eponymous designer label show, on the first official full day of Australian Fashion Week.
Just before the show started at Carriageworks in Sydney's Redfern, the voice of designer Puttick explained why his choice of 'diverse' women. Or the models he called his 'muses'.
"The new series is a way for us to present empowered women who have a strong message, and who carry themselves," he said.
There were tall women, former models, shorter women and even women who weren't the traditional 'rake-thin'. Some of the names included Yvonne Tozzi, Nadine Bush, Dina Broadhurst, Nima Davif and Aminata Conteh-Biger.
Puttick's fashion pedigree is sound, having worked with the like of Alexander McQueen, Christopher Esber, Helmut Lang and Alexander Wang and his collection featured ethically sourced fabrics in soft and flowing pieces that really could be worn by many ages, shapes and sizes. Slip dresses, flowing coats, simple oversized black pants, white shirts and tube skirts gave the whole collection a relatable and wearable edge.
And Fashion Week designer @thomasputtick - young, of an impeccable pedigree - actually used REAL women - #muses - like young, old, tall, short & so it went. And showed an exquisite #designer collection in the process. #mbfwa - in support of #whiteribbon too @fashionweekaus @newscomauhq #fashion #fashionweek #sydney #fashioneditor @nadinebush @yvonnevanhoorntozzi #diversity #sustainablefashion
Also showing today was Alice McCall, who kicked off an early Monday morning with a rock- chick kind of show featuring combinations that could be put together if we'd all raided grandma's wardrobes and funked her pieces up with the addition of cool-school granny pants.
As well, Bianca Spender delivered an extraordinarily streamlined show in loose and layered pastel hued pieces — she really has inherited the understated and all-class gene from her fashion designer mum, Carla Zampatti. Bianca accessorised her pieces with some killer Dinosaur Designs jewellery and buckles.
Uncomplicated, clean, easy, chic and totally wearable - thanks @biancaspender - while totally different in her approach to design, she has certainly inherited her understated aesthetic from her mum, Carla Zampatti #mbfwa @newscomauhq @fashionweekaus #fashionweek #fashion #fashioneditor - brilliant jewellery from @dinosaur_designs ❤👍🏼
The incredibly cool new label from Mikey Nolan, Double Rainbouu and Karla Spetic will show today while Aussie model, 20-year-old Byron Bay-born Jordan Barrett is, allegedly, being paid $100,000 to 'walk' in a show from designer Justin Cassin today.
Red carpet favourite Steven Khalil is scheduled to show his exquisitely made extravaganzas on Monday afternoon while Zhivago and Sass & Bide will also wrap up day one of the annual fashion fiesta which runs until Thursday night, when Romance was Born wraps up the fashion week that was.
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Uncovering the Secret of Summer
As soon as school lets out, now that I have school-aged kids, I am reminded of some of the best times of my life, at my grandparents' farm. It wasn't that I went to a place where I was doted on, or taken to every amusement available. In fact, I don't think there was a whole lot to do out where they lived. But I was happy, with just Grammy & Paba, PBS, a garden, an orchard, and sometimes a dog or a friend.
Most of my time was spent in imaginative play: playing pretend in the garden, making mud pies, having adventures in the irrigation water, or playing dress-up in the spare room. I played with my mother's and uncle's old toys: a viewmaster, cowboys and indians, marbles and jacks. I made chalk driving courses for my matchbox cars. I created school lessons for my stuffed animals and sewed clothes for my collection of ponies. Once a week, I accompanied my grandparents in to "town" where they did their grocery shopping and perhaps a visit to the drug store. (If we visited Thrify Drugs, there was a good chance I would get a 10-cent ice cream cone!) Every day, my grandfather drove down the road to get the paper and check the post office box in "the village" and when it was open, he would take Grammy and me to the local branch of the county library, which was probably only open one day a week.
Looking at my own children, I think I've done the exact opposite. When they aren't in school, they are scheduled for camps and activities, and when those fail, we are off to the zoo, the science museum, or any other number of attractions available to us in our urban area. I wonder if I do a disservice to them by making these things "routine". I think it's time for them to learn to expect an ordinary day, and that ordinary need not be anything especially interesting.
Not that I don't want them to experience the awe of visiting National Monument or the beauty of great works of art. I remember very clearly all the trips my mom and I made to see National Parks and Landmarks across the U.S. and our visits to large museums in San Francisco and Los Angeles. But I was thinking, if those types of visits are routine, the magical quality may be lost in them, and therefore, the memories may not be as strong.
I think I can pull this off. And I do know that if we go absolutely stir crazy, we have many, many beautiful parks and playgrounds within 10 miles that are free and provide hours upon hours of entertainment.


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It was a drama filled end of the week as we headed into UFC 142 with the Anthony Johnson missing weight debacle, but the event delivered while Johnson failed to do so. According to UFC President Dana White, Johnson will be cut from the promotion after losing to Vitor Belfort via submission and missing weight for the third time in his UFC career. Be sure to make Pro MMA Now your home for post coverage of UFC 142, as well as your home for the upcoming UFC on FX show that will take place next week. See what you may have missed below:
- SportsFightX becomes the first MMA promotion to be granted liscense in Alabama
- We profile Rodrigo "Ximbica" Ribeirio who'll be fighting on the ONE FC card in Indonesia next month
- The UFC will return to Atlanta in April for UFC 146
- Exclusive interview with UFC 142 winner(by DQ) Carlo Prater
- The UFC Sweden card is shaping up nicely and will take place in April as well
- Tyron Woodley talks about his win over Jordan Mein from the Strikeforce show last week
- Greg Jackson talks about Jon Jones, Luke Rockhold vs. Keith Jardine and more
- UFC 145 card is updated with Njokuani vs. Makdessi and other fights added
- SFC 11: "Destruction" play by play and results
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Extremely close! There will be no room for extra mm.
The 2mm plate was the thinnest one we had at the fablab. A plate of 1mm or 1.5mm would be a better fit.
Thanks. I'll extend the backplate backwards 1mm then and see how it goes. If it works well I'll leave the plan up on Ponoko for others.
Here are the STL files for my improved 3D-Print Axoloti case. Those who design with Sketchup can use the corresponding design file for their own modifications. It also contains this useful AxolotiCore object: Good luck with the printing!
Oh, now that I like!
@aton that looks fantastic! nice job.
@Jens_Groh Thank you very much. Excellent job. I'll drive to my office right away and give it a go.
Hey @aton. Do you want to share your design too? Looks great!
First few minutes of printing the front panel. Looks promising!
Great! I have an Ultimaker2, too.
Front panel fits perfect!
Assembly hint for when you're done with the printing: Hold everything vertical, pre-assemble loosely. To fit them together, begin with the middle, not the latches! Base and top part fit diagonally in the fine grooves of the front and back parts. Hold them together with one hand, then work to the ends with the other, you will see the rest.
Printed!!!Many thanks!
I was quoted 124 GBP to have the 3-D Print Axoloti Case printed!!
That's probably because it will be printed on an industrial 3D printer. If you print it on a filament-based machine like the Ultimaker or MakerBot, the price will probably be around 5 - 12 GBP.
If you have a fablab in your city, go there to print it yourself. You usually only need to pay for the weight of the plastic.
3D Hubs is also a good option if you don't have access to a 3D printer. Just search for somebody close to your city that offers printing in general purpose material (PLA or ABS). https://www.3dhubs.com/
Thanks for the advice. I'll try 3D Hubs.
beyond all expectations Ive found a 3d hub relatively close to me (I live in a remote location :)) , so I thought Id give them a trial run.
it appears the 3d hub wants STL files, but is asking if they are in mm or cm... @Jens_Groh you stl files are they in mm/cc ... i cant really see ...
how do you view/create STL files? ( I can preview on mac, but it doesnt give me an dimension information)
Im reasonably familiar with sketchup(though only the free version, as Ive just used it for more planning/visualisation nothing too serious )
finally a couple of question, as never done this stuff before... material recommendations? seems of offers quite a few, and in either 100 or 200 microns.
I just want something pretty simple for now, might design a multi-core box later, if they work out well.(or perhaps just add some kind of interlocking system on to the single units, e.g. act as 'feet' in single mode, but then slide together to interlock if you have multiple cases... so kind of modular)
thanks for your helpMark
The STL files are in mm. Easiest way to see is to use the measuring tool Meshlab http://sourceforge.net/projects/meshlab/files/meshlab/MeshLab%20v1.3.3/
Material: PLA (Biodegradable plastic) or ABS (Lego Plastic). Both are cheap and good for technical parts.100 microns will give you the best looking result, but might be a bit more expensive since it will take longer to print.
You can also view with Netfabb Basic (free). Or Sketchup, it can import STL. (Maybe only with a plug-in installed? I don't remember.) BTW, I use the free Sketchup version, it's quite okay for basic 3D print design.A not-too-expensive print service here in Germany is fabberhouse.de, don't know if they are good.I printed mine in PLA with (luxury ) 0.09mm layers. I'd recommend heated print bed and/or glue to avoid warping, I had slight problems.Cool idea that stack case. Maybe for "shields", too, if we interpret the Axoloti I/O ports as a kind of bus system.


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Shocking Video Shows Student Shoving Elderly Teacher to the Ground
The number of violent incidents involving students and teacher seems to have risen over the past couple of months. Caught on tape, an elderly teacher was pushed down by a large student over a cell phone. In my Marvin Gaye voice, "What's going on?"
A 6 foot 3 325lbs student proved he has no respect for his elders. When a substitute teacher confiscated his cell phone in class, he responded by violently shoving her. While the incident was taking place, students laughed and were entertained by disrespectful moment.
The student quickly walked himself down to the principal's office where he was arrested by police. Student from the school are extremely disappointed by the incident. After watching the video, what should his punishment be?


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Dogs do it all for the military: sniff for bombs, detect narcotics and rescue hapless humans. But to recruit the best canine squadmates, the Pentagon's blue-sky researchers are working on a plan to scan their brains — and figure out how dogs think. Belly rubs won't cut it anymore.
According to a new research solicitation from Darpa, the project — adorably called FIDOS, for "Functional Imaging to Develop Outstanding Service-Dogs" — touts the idea of using magnetic image resonators (or MRIs) to "optimize the selection of ideal service dogs" by scanning their brains to find the smartest candidates. "Real-time neural feedback" will optimize canine training. That adds up to military pooches trained better, faster and — in theory — at a lower cost than current training methods of $20,000, using the old-fashioned methods of discipline-and-reward.
Though it's still very much in the research stage, the plan owes many of its underpinnings to several recent discoveries about the brains of our canine friends.
Last year, Emory University neuroscientist Greg Berns and his colleagues trained dogs to sit unrestrained inside an MRI machine, shown hand signals associated with a food reward, and then scanned. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the researchers noticed increased brain activity in the dogs' ventral caudate, a region of the brain associated with the neurotransmitter dopamine.
In their study, published last April in Public Library of Science One, Berns and his colleagues concluded that the activity was due to a "trained association to a food reward; however, it is also possible that some component of social reward contributes to the response." Anyone who's ever held out a piece of chicken to a well-behaved pup already knows that dogs like getting fed when they're good. And dogs are highly social animals, closely adapted to human behavior given a shared evolutionary history. But the Emory University team was the first to observe this specific brain activity using MRIs.
That seems to have perked Darpa's interest. (The researchers have even kicked around the idea of using machines to automate puppy training.) The agency believes it may be possible to screen "high-value service dogs … based on their neutral activation to specific handler training cues," Darpa notes in the solicitation. The idea is that dogs who show greater brain activity when given such cues will be "faster and easier to train" than dogs that show less activity. And instead of merely using approximations of something the dog wants, to make the dog do something else, handlers could fine-tune their techniques to more closely match the chemical responses happening inside the dog's head.
Neuroimaging may also help spot "brain hyper-social dogs." These very social dogs, once scanned and located, could be selected for use in rehabilitative therapy for soldiers exhibiting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.
One way to locate those pups, the solicitation suggests, is to scan dogs that show "neurophysiological markers of handler stress and anxiety." That hypothesis is roughly based on research showing that dogs can follow along to the human gaze and finger-pointing, and how dogs catch yawns from their owners at a greater rate than strangers — a possible hint of a canine theory of mind, or their ability to understand and interpret human intentions distinct from their own.
Thus, when a handler is showing symptoms of trauma in the form of stress, the dogs that sense it best could make for ideal therapy partners. And in all areas of military pooch-work, the particular breeds sought by the military — like the Belgian Malinois — are highly selective: a "scarce canine resource" that needs to be managed carefully.
Fortunately, getting dogs inside an MRI chamber shouldn't be too much of a problem, as pups can be trained in a few months to obediently rest inside, all cute and snugly-like.
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The story of "Anacapri: the Dream" is an intermix of ancient mythology, literature, science fiction, and freudian studies on dreams. You are invited to Anacapri to accomplish a very difficult task as an expert of the ancient civilizations.
All villagers are leaving the island under the threat of the malicious power of the forgotten Dark Obsidian Disk. "Find the Dark Obsidian Disk before it's too late!", everyone pleads to you. But what is the Dark Obsidian Disk? Why is it so dangerous? Quickly you will find out that what you think as reality is in fact an illusion - the truth is far beyond what you have imagined. And most importantly, that your destiny and the one of Anacapri are dreadfully linked together....
Anacapri: the Dream, is set in the upper region of the island of Capri - Anacapri. It will feature several thousands of breath-taking photographs, vivid dialogues with real-life characters, 180-degree panoramas as well as captivating animations.
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mountain and connects three ancient fortifications called the Three Forts.
Here a bloody war was fought two hundred years ago. Intermingled with these
unforgettable events, there lies the legend of the Obsidian disk. Watch out your
back! The ghost of an old British soldier may appear.... But don't be afraid, he
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" These screenshots belong to a remote and forbidden area of
called Cetrella. In Cetrella the gamer explores several mysterious locales
in order to find the Brown Monk and more important cues. But the journey
is still long and full of dangers, and the enigma of the Black Obsidian
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American Galvanizers Association
The American Galvanizers Association (AGA), is a non-profit trade association dedicated to serving the needs of after-fabrication galvanizers, fabricators, architects, specifiers, and engineers, providing technical support on today's innovative applications and state-of-the-art technological developments in hot-dip galvanizing for corrosion control.
The mission of the American Galvanizers Association is to preserve, enhance, and protect the existence of the hot-dip galvanizing industry throughout North America, and to fulfill the needs of the industry for technical, marketing, and other services.
The AGA provides information on the most innovative applications and state-of-the-art technological developments in the field of galvanizing. The AGA maintains an extensive technical library and provides multi-media seminars in order to educate and train the specifying community. The association celebrates over 65 years of preserving the past, enhancing the present, and protecting the future.
The following objectives outline the association's means to fulfilling the above mission:
- To inform and educate North American specifiers and end-users in order to maintain and expand the markets for the galvanizing industry.
- To develop a vertical-marketing approach.
- To develop a regional approach for the education of college and university professors and students.
- To measure the effectiveness of AGA programs.
- To ensure the long-term viability of the galvanizing industry by educating member galvanizers in the technical aspects of the galvanizing process and environmental engineering.
- To develop effective tools for the galvanizer to use to enhance processing efficiency, safety and quality.
- To gather and communicate information on the activities of the industry and those affecting the industry, so as to coordinate an effective and timely industry response.
- To be recognized as the authority for the industry, representing the industry on application, specification, processing, environmental, and regulatory issues.
- To attract new members from the worldwide galvanizing industry.
Dr. Langill has been with the American Galvanizers Association for 16 years as its Technical Director. He has been active in helping shape the research programs for galvanizing programs. Tom has contributed to the ASTM committees that deal with the specifications used by the galvanizing industry and is Chairman of three separate ASTM Subcommittees including the subcommittee that maintains the standards for the hot-dip galvanizing process. He has provided technical support for many specifiers and engineers who have technical questions about galvanized steel or its use in a particular environment. He writes a regular feature in the American Galvanizers Association magazine on problems related to hot-dip galvanizing. Tom has authored and presents a seminar series on Processing Details in the hot-dip galvanizing industry, the continuing education Galvanize It! seminar for architects and engineers, and the Inspection of Hot-Dip Galvanized Products seminar.
Melissa Lindsley is the Marketing Manager of the American Galvanizers Association (AGA) located in Centennial, CO. She received her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Kansas in 2003 and has worked for the AGA since August 2005. She started as a Marketing Coordinator, and was promoted to Marketing Manager in June 2007. Under the tutelage of Dr. Thomas Langill, AGA Technical Director, and Philip Rahrig, AGA Executive Director, Melissa has developed a comprehensive understanding of and passion for the hot-dip galvanizing industry. Melissa has helped author and teaches ThinkZinc, a series of Sales/Marketing courses, to member personnel to educate them on the uses, competition, process, technical aspects, and benefits of hot-dip galvanizing. She leads the marketing staff and has played an integral part in shaping the marketing initiatives of the AGA, including a 3-year marketing plan for industry growth. Melissa answers technical and application questions, while in the office and on the road at various industry tradeshows. She also writes AGA's marketing and technical publications, editorials for industry magazines, and the Marketing Guru, a regular feature in the American Galvanizer member newsletter.
Philip G. Rahrig has been the Executive Director of the American Galvanizers Association (AGA) for 16 years. His educational background is physics and business (Xavier University) and he has developed an expertise in the marketing of technical products. Phil has conducted hundreds of seminars on the topics of the galvanizing process, corrosion theory/mechanisms, painting over hot-dip galvanized steel, and life-cycle costing analysis. Extensive visits to numerous galvanizing facilities and hundreds of sites where hot-dip galvanized steel is used has given him a unique insight into the match of performance and intended use. He has the particular skills to explain the process, performance and uses of hot-dip galvanized steel to people of all levels of understanding.


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Nigeria's Defence Headquarters has established a rehabilitation camp for repentant members of the Boko Haram sect. This was disclosed in a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, that the rehabilitation camp established under an exercise known as Operation Safe Corridor was designed to rehabilitate and reintegrate repentant members of the sect to the society.
According to him, the terrorists would be made to undergo vocational training under the exercise and empowered to make meaningful contribution to the society as a whole.
"In line with the Federal Government's commitment to the war against insurgency in the North-East and in furtherance of its efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate surrendered and repentant Boko Haram terrorist members, the Defence Headquarters has established a rehabilitation camp in an exercise known as Operation Safe Corridor.
"The main focus of Operation Safe Corridor is geared towards rehabilitating and reintegrating the repentant and surrendering Boko Haram members back into normal life in the society.
"The repentant terrorists in the camp would be taken through various vocational training so that they could be useful to themselves and be empowered to contribute meaningfully to the economic growth of their fatherland."
Abubakar also appealed to members of the sect still fighting to take advantage of the Federal Government's gesture and embrace peace so that they can benefit from the programme.
"The Defence Headquarters therefore wishes to appeal to other recalcitrant members that are still carrying arms against their fellow citizens in our nation to repent today and benefit from numerous opportunities offered by the Camp."
The Acting Defence spokesman stressed that the military would continue to intensify the onslaught on the Boko Haram until they were completely neutralised and appealed to the sect members to avoid an impending calamity from a military mop-up by surrendering to the security agencies.
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#ManiMonday: Ceramic Glaze Diamond Dust and essence Play with My Mint Nail Polish
I am so happy I have my little sister to help motivate me, drag me to the gym on lazy mornings and make me try on nail polishes in my stash I might have overlooked. Last week she pestered me for a whole day when I told her I never got the chance to try out Ceramic Glaze's Diamond Dust. I mean, sparkle has never been my thing… until I saw it on her nails.
I decided to pair a fun spring color with this top coat and I am kin love with the results. Essence "Play with My Mint" (okay….) is a gorgeous cream warm mint that needs a good two coats to get full opacity. The formula is absolutely great and the color is awesome, I'm just not sure about the name.
Diamond Dust has a galaxy of holographic particles perfectly suspended in it and they apply like a dream. The shimmer doesn't compete with the base color but rather enhances it in a very subtle way. The shimmer lifts any color and adds more dimension to the base color and it looks spectacular when it catches the light.
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Fatal Bus Crashes Prompt Bus Regulators to Seek Greater Authority
(WASHINGTON) -- In the wake of the recent deadly bus crashes, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is recommending Congress strengthen its authority.
The regulatory agency wants en route bus inspections, the ability to more quickly shut down companies acting improperly, an increase in the penalty for bus companies that operate illegally, full safety audits before a company receives passenger carrier authority, and regulation authority of bus ticket brokers.
"This year has been the worst period in recent history for motor coach safety with six crashes, resulting in 25 deaths and numerous injures just since January," Anne Ferro, the administrator of FMCSA, told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Monday.
"It is exceedingly frustrating that despite tighter safety standards and dramatic increases in the number of inspection and enforcement action that we're taking that the risk to passengers continues from a few bad actors."
Since January FMCSA has declared 18 bus companies unsatisfactory, pulling them off the roads. Another 15 bus companies with unsatisfactory ratings are currently under review and appeal. Although FMCSA has the authority under law to declare some companies a "severe risk," which immediately terminates operations, the agency often does not do so. Under law, a company that has been given an unsatisfactory rating can continue to operate for 45 days during an appeals process.
Safety advocates say that is much too dangerous, pointing to a deadly crash on I-95 May 31 in Virginia. Four people were killed on a Sky Express bus, even though regulators had been trying to shut down the company. A safety advocate told the House hearing that's outrageous.
"The Virginia crash that occurred last week has revealed a dirty little secret that safety advocates have revealed for years," said Jacqueline Gillian, vice president for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. "Giving motor coach companies with an unsatisfactory safety rating 45 days or longer to continue operating or carrying passengers is simply unacceptable,"
John Mica, R-Fla., the chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, called the hearing on Monday. The committee is drafting a bill that would make changes to regulations of bus operations.
Pete DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon on the committee, suggested deregulation of interstate commerce for buses has been a contributing factor for the increase in low-cost tour bus crashes. "The intention of deregulation was to bring about competition, but not to kill people," he said. "That's where a total deregulation environment fails us."
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Last month, Google announced the $50 million acquisition of Aardvark, a question answering startup.
Aardvark -- or 'Vark', is it is often known, as per its domain name -- describes itself as "a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends."
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Welcome to Brawlers Bar…
They said men only get better with age, distinguished and all that BS, but Archer "Bulletproof" Woods hadn't gotten better. At fifty-six he was still as much an asshole as he'd been in his twenties and thirties, hell, maybe he was worse. Being a bouncer at a bar called Brawlers suited him just fine and he even tolerated the rest of the crew who'd taken up residence in his house when they'd had nowhere else to go. He was big, growly and homely that kept the parade of men passing through Brawlers at arm's length for the past decade. One night changed all that.
What he'd thought was happily ever after turned into a nearly five year nightmare. Gregory Charles appeared to have it all, a successful business, sophistication, and a perfect marriage. His friend and best employee, Landon, begged him to come out to a friend's bar to celebrate Landon's anniversary. What could it hurt? A night without contemplating the hell that would come down on him the moment he served his husband with divorce papers would do him good. That is until he met the brooding older man staring into a whiskey straight ignoring everyone around him.
Watching for trouble was his job and Gregory screamed mistake as soon as the long, lean and handsome man sat down beside him. But he also knew when someone was in over their head and Gregory needed someone to watch his back. That someone was Bull, only time would tell if he'd have to fight Gregory as much as the man after him.
The Brawlers are back and Bull was the star of JM Dabney's third installment. Although each book can be read as a stand-alone, I highly recommend reading them in order to understand the full effect of the family dynamics.
Bull was the papa bear of the farm. Leading the charge for all those who lived under his roof and creating a social unite of gruff men, lovers, and extended family.
Gregory was a man in need of a new start and Bull was just the man to give him a new lease. Together Bull and Gregory were sexy and sensual.
Ms. Dabney characterizes her men with abundant personalities and enigmatic lives- true to form, the men live and love hard.
The secondary characters- no longer secondary- were an integral part of the story. Children, in-laws, and loving partners- Bull was a spectacular read holding my attention and making me fall more in love with the men from Brawlers.
Definite S.E.X.
A five handcuff review
~~~~~2017 ©Evelise Archer All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.


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(Beaumont, 2005)
So there I was wandering through Coop's classic blog post on the influences of the British Old School and I stumbled upon his shout-out to Iron Maiden, king of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Maiden fully deserve a future blog post in their own right, but to me, and particularly my adolescent self back in the mid to late 80's, they were part of the the Big Three M's of Metal, the other two being Motorhead (and I'm not even going to attempt to find a bloody umlaut) and Metallica. Whether I was reading gamebooks, planning D&D adventures, or playing boardgames, all these guys formed the background soundtrack.
When I hit University however, I quickly abandoned Metal in favour of cooler if more obscure indie, alternative and hardcore bands such as Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Rollins Band, Fugazi, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Killdozer, Godflesh, and local stalwarts The Mark of Cain. The sounds were more ferocious, the t-shirts more subtle and yet more disgusting, and there was no bloody spandex to be seen, praise Satan!
Fast forward half a decade and I'm in Vientiane, capital of the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Laos, and discover one of my buddies has all the early Metallica albums (I only consider the first four decent - the Black Album and anything beyond that are just garbage IMHO). To get me through the tedious hedonism of expatriate life in Indochine I compile a 90 minute mix tape of all my favourite Metallica tracks that I used to listen to, back when I was playing gamebooks.
I've still got the tape (still have all my tapes being such a chronic Luddite), and I present its track listing here for your edification, so that if you too were absorbing the sounds of Metallica while battling your way through countless dungeons it may strike a chord of nostalgia. Otherwise, for those who are too old, too young or perhaps too cool, consider it a snapshot of a time fondly remembered but perhaps best forgotten...
Side A
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The Thing That Should Not Be
Jump in the Fire
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Orion (instrumental)
Damage Inc.
(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth (instrumental)
Side B
Fade To Black
Master of Puppets
Creeping Death
The Call of Ktulu (instrumental)
To Live Is to Die (edit - first minute only)
The Wait
Possibly the only thing I'd change these days would be to ditch For Whom the Bell Tolls and Pulling Teeth in favour of Metallica's epic cover of Diamond Head's Am I Evil?. Generally however, I feel that's a pretty solid selection of Metallica tunes, with the bulk of the material coming from their most excellent second and third albums, Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Rock and roll!
Beaumont, R. (2005, February 27). Fine writing and reasonable force. The Nation, p. 10A.


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While drving to the Adler a couple of days a week, I sometimes look past the final thirty minutes of morning rush hour traffic I always find myself in and notice all that painted steel, glass, plastic, and fossil fuel in motion is part of the grand cycle of life. Human beings are behind each wheel, heading north or south, going somewhere, presumably with purpose. Maybe not very fast. But with purpose.
The thought never lasts long because, well, there are taxis around, and if you've done much big city driving you know exactly what I mean. This is one reason why I have an aftermarket PIAA horn under the hood. It's much louder than the original and I figure at least ten times more effective. It's telling that since the school year began I've used the horn on my bus only once, and that was in our parking lot because I couldn't get to my radio fast enough to prevent a collision. Not so in my own car on the Kennedy or Lake Shore Drive during rush.
Honk if you love accident-free commutes.
Anyway, back to purpose. And something called the anthropic principle, which is the idea that the "seemingly arbitrary" constants in physics and chemistry: natural laws, elements, and quantum phenomena -- the fundamental building blocks and operational processes of the universe -- exist precisely to make life in the cosmos possible, and specifically intelligent life as represented by you, me, and our full extended family here on planet Earth. In other words, the universe is finely-tuned for making life, and if things had been just a little bit different here and there, life as we know it would be an impossibility.
Examples of this fine-tuning are impressive at first pass. Here's a sample from a book called God: the Evidence; The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World, by Patrick Glynn (1999):
"Gravity is roughly 10 [to the 39th power] times weaker that electromagnatism. If gravity had been 10 [to the 33rd power] times weaker than electromagnetism, stars would be a billion times less massive and would burn a million times faster
The nuclear weak force is 10 [to the 28th power] times the strength of gravity. Had the weak force been slightly weaker, all the hydorgen in the universe would have been turned to helium (making water impossible, for example)
A stronger nuclear strong force (by as little as 2 percent) would have prevented the formation of protons--yielding a universe without atoms. Decreasing it by 5 percent would have given us a universe without stars.
If the difference in mass between a proton and a neutron were not exactly as it is -- roughly twice the mass of an electron -- then all neutrons would have become protons or vice versa. Say good-bye to chemistry as we know it--and to life.
The very nature of water -- so vital to life -- is something of a mystery (a point noticed by one of the forerunners of anthropic reasoning in the Nineteenth Century, Harvard biologist Lawrence Henderson). Unique amongst the molecules, water is lighter in its solid than liquid form: ice floats. If it did not, the oceans would freeze from the bottom up and earth would now be covered with solid ice. This property in turn is traceable to the unique properties of the hydrogen atom"
But the anthropic principle raises some serious questions, too: Is the design intelligent, the product of a Creator? Cosmologists and others have varying opinions about this. If so, how does intelligent design impact science and our understandings derived through scientific methods? If not, can we accept that fine-tuning is completely accidental? And how do we get around the problem of circular reasoning? (If everything wasn't so-finely tuned, then obviously we wouldn't be here to make the observation that it is.)
Another problem: the anthropic principle theoretically allows for multiple universes -- a multiverse -- but we (presumably) live only in this one, so the existence of the others can't be verified by us using our science. We can say they're there, but there's no way to prove it.
If this weren't enough, there's also something called the "Goldilocks enigma," which says that in order for life to exist, planets can't be too close or too far away from the stars they orbit. They have to be in the "just right" zone, avoiding extremes of heat and cold. This seems right (and figures prominently in NASA's Kepler mission) but exactly how and why does it happen? How many Goldilocks planets are there besides Earth?
Cosmologists have been asking and writing about these questions ever since the anthropic principle was first described by an astrophysicist named Brandon Carter back in 1973, at a conference honoring the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copenicus. The irony of the event is that the father of modern astronomy transformed human thought by removing Earth from the center of the universe, altering its status as the focal point of creation; the anthropic principle gives back to Earth a unique status as that rarest of places in the cosmos: the home of life.
Meanwhile, people are writing books about what this all might mean. One of the latest is by best-selling author-physicist-cosmologist Paul Davies, often mentioned here on CB, whose Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life (2007) explores the anthropic principle and its implications in a very engaging and entertaining way. Davies suggests there are infinite universes, each one ever-so-slightly different than the next. Our cosmos and the life we know within it (so far confined to Earth) is a product of chance, a fortunate result of all the right variables combining in all the right ways at just the right time.
In short, we are the jackpot.
Contemplating all this fine-tuning is a pretty heady exercise. As Davies describes it:
". . . science is at last coming to grips with the enigma of why the universe is so uncannily fit for life. The explanation entails understanding how the universe began and evolved into its present form and knowing what matter is made of and how it is shaped and structured by the different forces of nature. Above all, it requires us to probe the very nature of physical laws."
OK. So maybe getting to the Adler on time and in one piece isn't so difficult, after all.
Next stop: Newberry Update: Are We Alone?
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Posts Tagged 'security'
Cracking OS X Lion Passwords
Mac OS X can't properly revoke dodgy digital certificates
After DigiNotar hack, many Mac OS X users are having a hard time properly revoking the company's digital certificates
A programming glitch in Apple's OS X operating system is making it hard for Mac users to tell their computers not to trust digital certificates, exacerbating an ongoing security problem with a Dutch certificate authority that was recently hacked.
AES proved vulnerable by Microsoft researchers
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219297/AES_proved_vulnerable_by_Microsoft_researchers"Show that algorithm underlying most all of today's online transactions can be compromised.
Their attack can recover an AES secret key from three to five times faster than previously thought possible, reported the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a research university based in Belgium.
Pakistan trying to outlaw SSL
Reports Claim That Pakistan Is Trying To Ban Encryption Under Telco Law.
And this at a time when they want to increase offshored labour for foreign companies. Bullet, meet foot.
Phil Zimmermann said it best in 1991: If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
Sniffer hijacks secure traffic from unpatched iPhones
Nine-year-old bug patched for newer iPhones, iPads, but older models 'perpetually vulnerable,' says expert.
Looks like all the iPhone 3G owners are screwed.
2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors
The 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors is a list of the most widespread and critical errors that can lead to serious vulnerabilities in software.
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Top of the list: SQL Injection!
OpenSSL timing attack allows interception of server private key
The researchers, Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri of Aalto University School of Science, focused their efforts on OpenSSL's implementation of the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA), and they were able to develop an attack that allowed them to steal the private key of an OpenSSL server.
"This paper describes a timing attack vulnerability in OpenSSL's ladder implementation for curves over binary fields. We use this vulnerability to steal the private key of a TLS server where the server authenticates with ECDSA signatures. Using the timing of the exchanged messages, the messages themselves, and the signatures, we mount a lattice attack that recovers the private key."