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Thursday, March 7, 2013 | 2 a.m.
For well over a decade, art has been part of the planned rebirth of downtown Las Vegas.
The First Friday art walk, begun with 100 or so people meeting at the Arts Factory on Charleston Boulevard, was one of the first steps toward integrating art with redevelopment.
More recently, the Emergency Arts building, a refurbished medical clinic whose examination rooms now house art galleries, was born on Fremont Street.
So it came as something of a shock to downtowners a few weeks ago when Las Vegas Councilman Bob Beers suggested eliminating the city's Percent for the Arts program. Created in 2003, the program allows the city to collect "not less than 1 percent" of the city's annual capital improvements budget for the arts fund.
Since collections began in 2005, the city has put $1.3 million into the fund, 96 percent of which came during the first three years. In the five years between 2008 and fiscal year 2012, the fund collected just $83,000.
Out of that fund, the city spent $1.1 million on art projects, leaving a balance of about $200,000 as of June 30, 2011.
Some of the projects funded with the money include the Arts District gateway, which has 45-foot-tall metal and colored light paint brushes visible on Charleston Boulevard at Casino Center Boulevard and Fourth Street; $350,000 went to that project.
Other projects and costs include the Centennial Hills Leisure Center, $89,777; Casino Center Streetscape, $278,238; Urban Pathways, $30,000; Time Capsule, $21,500; Doolittle Senior Center sculpture, $66,500; Cultural Corridor bridge, $50,000; and Southern Nevada Police Memorial Sculpture, $214,188.
The metallic paint brushes received the most of any project, and that irks downtown businessman George Harris because the artist, Dennis Oppenheim, was not local. Oppenheim, a New Yorker, died of cancer in 2011.
Harris is co-owner of Mundo restaurant and Beers is his chief financial officer. Harris said he was a big supporter of the arts. Indeed, Mundo is within the World Market Center complex and benefits greatly from the traffic generated by the nearby Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
The former Clark County GOP chairman who also ran for mayor in 2011 said his only trouble with the city's art program was that the money doesn't always stay in Las Vegas.
"I'm all for getting rid of the program if the money is going to go to out-of-state artists," he said. "But I'm fine with keeping it if it is segmented for artists in Las Vegas."
Downtown businesses, though, aren't of one mind on this issue.
The Downtown Las Vegas Alliance, which represents downtown businesses, is taking a more circumspect view of Beers' idea.
"There's no doubt that when artists are attracted to a community, the community is uplifted," said Terry Murphy, alliance president. "But local government has extraordinary demands on its resources. Having a discussion about prioritizing resources is always a responsible course of action."
Local artist Ginger Bruner is less charitable in assessing Beers' proposal, which he announced Feb. 20 at the City Council's meeting. Bruner is co-founder of "Our Las Vegas," which has received about $20,000 in funding from the city Arts Commission over 2 1/2 years.
She ran into Beers downtown Tuesday afternoon, engaging in a friendly debate at the Beat coffee shop.
"I think (Beers) is just doing this for political gain," Bruner said. "Either that or he's a shortsighted person with no sense of style."
Beers said political gain had nothing to do with his proposal.
"This is not a publicity stunt at all," he said. "It's a common-sense approach to live with a set of legislative directives forcing us to spend more money every year to get the same level of service while revenue is falling."
A third-generation Las Vegan, Bruner believes downtown's revival would not be happening without art. And the art came first.
"Before First Friday, there was the Arts Factory and then there was the long struggle to try to get the Contemporary Arts Collective to move from near UNLV to downtown," she said.
"Everybody wants to cut the arts first, but the amount is so minuscule, why that needs to be cut is beyond me."
Joe Schoenmann doesn't just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group's embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.


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Tolls for Brisbane's unpopular Clem7 tunnel have been slashed further in a bid to boost its use.
Under the new discount, effective from July 1, cars will pay just $2 to use the tunnel.
Heavy trucks will pay $5.30, smaller trucks $3, and motor bikes $1.
The 6.8km road tunnel opened in March but traffic flows have been extremely disappointing.
Between 22,000 and 24,000 vehicles use the cross-city tunnel each day, well short of the 60,000 forecast.
The current tolls are $2.95 for cars, $1.48 for motor bikes, $4.43 for small trucks and $7.82 for heavy trucks.
"Our decision to reduce tolls is in response to feedback from Brisbane motorists that they are more likely to use the tunnel if the toll is set at $2,"
Mr Cleary said the new discount regime would remain in place for three months.
In early June, Mr Cleary urged shareholders to be patient, and denied the company was in financial strife.
At the time its stapled units were trading at around five cents. On Monday, the price was down 4.76 per cent to two cents.

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On the 16-hour flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the audio apparatus on my five-year-old son's seat was broken, so he climbed onto my lap to use mine, and together we watched Frozen for the first time.
And the second time.
And the third time.
If you are tempted to pity me, don't bother. I may be the last parent of youngsters in America to welcome yet another hearty rendition of "Let it Go," having willingly purchased not only the movie soundtrack but also the karaoke CD.
The context in which we first encounter a given work almost certainly shapes how we receive it, don't you think? Isn't there at least one terrible movie that you love because of how it evokes the circumstances in which you first saw it?
Even in the less-than-ideal viewing conditions — crummy screen, scratchy audio, trapped in a metal tube in the sky with a kid on my lap for hours on end — or perhaps owing to those conditions, and, even more so, the ones I was leaving behind, I was instantly and deeply moved.
We were returning from 18 months in one of the poorest countries in the world. For the entire (almost unrelentingly difficult) time, I felt myself to be under more or less of a gag order: conceal, don't feel, and put on a show.
No one donates money to whiny missionaries, after all. And American Christians are supposed to come back from Africa "changed" and "humbled" and all the rest of it. I, frankly, wanted to get a haircut, go to Macy's, and eat New York bagels with lox and cream cheese.
So when Elsa ascended the snowy mountain and let it go so beautifully, her pent-up talents — her very soul — spiraling in frozen fractals all around, I sobbed. That's exactly what I want to do: stop hiding everything that feels true, and make something beautiful from all this cloistered, silenced frustration.
To be told, even implicitly, that your sense of a situation — your intuition, your perception — is all wrong, or, if not wrong, then too shameful to be spoken of openly, does damage to a spirit. In concealing, in trying not to feel, I was successful — too successful. I could feel nothing.
Not hunger. Not joy. Not even, without effort, love. I found that in not telling the truth I had very little to say about anything else. Isn't that what happens when we numb out? In numbing pain, do we not also numb joy? In marking some truths as unspeakable, we may find that we lose our voices entirely.
This therapeutic language, this unabashed love for a Disney princess movie– these things do not come naturally to me. If pressed I identify as more or less Episcopalian, meaning that I've been lurking in Episcopal churches most of my adult life. I like speaking my faith through the responses in The Book of Common Prayer. I'm uneasy with anything that sounds too therapeutic.
I guess you might say I'm religious but not spiritual.
Or I wasn't, until the love of Frozen melted my Snow Queen heart. Or something like that.
Less than a week after that plane touched down in New York, I found myself at one of the larger gatherings of writers of faith, where I met several people who kept me from climbing into the balcony of the Muppet theater to join the curmudgeonly old hecklers who take nothing in earnest. And before I knew it, I was reading Brené Brown and doing a 12-step program aimed at "healing the artist within."
Being, as I said, religious but not necessarily spiritual, I'm embarrassed to admit this, but the program has been wonderful. As is almost always the case, my graduate education tags along behind me, telling me to interpret it (and Frozen, and Brené Brown) through various critical lenses that all but preclude the possibility of a heartfelt encounter that may actually change me.
But the 12-step program — The Artist's Way, for the curious — has done more to melt my frozen heart and helped me trust my own mind and sense of things than I expected. The backbone of the program is the morning pages. First thing in the morning (for me, that's first thing after the coffee) you sit down and scrawl out three pages, utterly unedited and unfiltered, by hand, making an effort to tell the whole truth. Sometimes you write three pages of drivel, but more often, there's some kind of embarrassingly honest confession in there, and you realize you have written the unvarnished truth as you see it.
(And then you look for a good hiding place for the notebook.)
What this program helps you do — through (admittedly corny) motivational quotes and probing questions about your childhood — is regain confidence in your own mind to trust your own voice and your own feelings. Much of it aims at advice that no less of an intellect than Marilynne Robinson has noted is one of the great impediments to writing. Trust your minds, trust your intuition, she urges her students. She herself has written and spoken eloquently of her attempts to free her mind from the constraints imposed from without and within.
Is it easier to hear and accept these words from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose intellectually rigorous novels sit on our erudite president's bedside table than to take them, albeit in a popularized form, from an originally self-published, self-help book? If you're a snob like me, of course it is, just as it's easier (for me, at least) to use my graduate school education to dismantle Frozen with a variety of critical tools instead of letting it melt my chilly heart.
Frozen, The Artist's Way, and Brené Brown — not exactly the conversational partners, much less the gurus, that this religious but not spiritual pseudo-Episcopalian skeptic would choose. But they found me, and I suppose I'm enough of a believer to regard that as providential.
If they should find you at a point when there's a chink in your armor, I hope (and heck, I'll even pray) that they'll help you "let it go' (whatever 'it' is), too.
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Dogma vs. Evidence: Singular They
I promised I would return to the vexed topic of using they or them or their with singular antecedents. Your holiday homework was to re-read the first act of The Importance of Being Earnest and comment. Richard Grayson (see the comments) saw the point immediately: Lady Bracknell remarks that at her last reception she wants music "that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when everyone has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much" (underlining is mine). Everyone is the subject; the verb form has shows singular agreement; yet the pronoun she chooses is they.
The conclusion I draw is that singular they is fully grammatical, at least with quantifier-like antecedents such as everyone, nobody, etc. If Lady Bracknell is not the most intimidatingly formal speaker of Standard English in all of literature, I don't know who is. We can't dismiss her for lack of breeding. If Lady Bracknell uses a construction, I say it's grammatical. (Or do you want to dismiss Oscar Wilde as unable to write grammatical lines for her to utter?)
One could say something similar about the real-life Lord Byron, who wrote contemptuously of Cambridge University: "Nobody here seems to look into an Author, ancient or modern, if they can avoid it." The -s on seems shows singular agreement with nobody, which is the antecedent of they. Do the pedants really want to say that Lord Byron couldn't make his pronouns agree?
One could go on. Shakespeare? Yes, he used singular they. Jane Austen? Large numbers of examples throughout her books. Who else? Perhaps the most telling example is that although Strunk and White's The Elements of Style preaches against singular they, when E. B. White got back to his own excellent writing he wrote lines like "But somebody taught you, didn't they?" (that's from Charlotte's Web).
What baffles me is how reluctant educated people are to take such facts as evidence. This is what I meant about Mary's reaction to my usage. I'm not arrogantly assuming personal authority (though the commenter who uses the name "clarity_please" thinks I am, and others agree). Remember, I'm the one who pays attention to evidence from Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron and Jane Austen and E. B. White and huge numbers of other fine writers, not the one who pig-headedly insists on unquestioned dogma.
I'm not bossing Mary around concerning how to use her native language (that really would be arrogant); she doesn't have to use they anywhere she doesn't choose to. I'm just commenting on her amazing unwillingness to take anybody's writing as evidence about what is grammatical, rather than as grounds for (however implausibly) calling the writer ignorant or careless. She clings to a sort of faith-based grammar: She thinks there are rules that we should follow even if native-speaking grammarians and fine playwrights and novelists disregard them—even if nobody in the world follows them (recall her remark: "No way shall I ever be convinced to change this in my writing or listening"). Why such a resolutely and hermetically theological view?
Some people clearly have an oversimplified misconception of the rule: "They must always refer to a group of entities" or something of the sort ("clarity_please" seems to have such a view). They write trying to explain to me, as if I were in elementary school, that "simple arithmetic" should tell me I am wrong. They seem not to realize that trying to suck grammatical truths out of naive conceptions of meaning is like trying to get blood out of a turnip. But they just stick with their misconceptions against all evidence, Wilde and Byron and Austen and White and Pullum be damned.
Some people may think I am pushing some kind of modern political correctness to avoid the apparent sexism of "Everyone should bring his own lunch," but they are simply uninformed: singular they antedates modern feminism by hundreds of years. What I'm saying here has nothing to do with expungement of the apparent sexism of putatively sex-neutral he. It's simply that I never cease to be amazed at such determined refusal to look at the evidence for English sentence structure the way we typically look at the evidence for, say, anatomical structure.
Normal people don't say "No way will I ever accept the existence of a furry creature with a beak": The discovery of the duck-billed platypus settles it against that opinion. When the topic is grammar, it seems that for some people nothing can ever settle anything.
[A brief update: For the people who have asked me why they takes plural agreement: "singular they" is an abbreviatory name, and it does not imply anything about agreement. They always takes the plural agreement form, regardless of its meaning; and everybody always takes the singular agreement form. That does not mean it's a contradiction for they to have everybody as its antecedent. Consider Everybody hopes that they are going to be the lucky one. The main clause subject everybody requires the singular form hopes; the subordinate clause subect they requires the plural form are; semantically, they expresses a bound variable; everything is as it should be. The sentence is fully grammatical.]Return to Top


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A party on the patio business after hours sponsored by the Aurora Chamber of Commerce will take place July 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Mario's Cabin Restaurant. There will be complimentary appetizers and a cash bar.
Local residents are reminded that the All About Aurora drive-it-yourself tour will be July 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with prizes and giveaways from participating businesses.
The Chamber's Women in Networking group will meet July 29 for a "He Said, She Said" luncheon at ThornCreek Winery and Gardens on Treat Road.
Looking ahead, a business after hours is being planned for Aug. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Wildwater Kingdom, and a 3Chamber networking luncheon with the Solon and Twinsburg Chambers will be Aug. 21 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Twinsburg. At the latter, U.S. Rep. David Joyce will be the speaker.


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With eight minutes left and the game hanging in the balance, UNLV head coach Dave Rice toyed with a decision that most wouldn't have even pondered.
In a game that will most likely have MWC champion ramifications, two of UNLV's most acclaimed players, junior forward Mike Moser and freshman Anthony Bennett, found themselves as part of the cheering section on the bench for most of the stretch run.
Shortly after a 12-0 run mid-way through the second half by the Aztecs, the Rebels found themselves down for the first time since the latter stages of the first half. They were at a point with which many UNLV fans are all too familiar when the Rebels take to the road - the point of implosion.
With just under nine minutes remaining, Rice pulled Bennett, presumably for a last rest before the final minutes. But Bennett only returned for a minute and a half at the five minute mark with the Rebels up two points. When he departed for good after one of his two rebounds, the Rebels were tied at 73 with 3:43 remaining in the contest. Sophomore Khem Birch, who commanded the defensive post for the Rebels, replaced Bennett for the rest of the game. Bennett finished with nine points and two rebounds in 20 minutes of action.
Moser replaced Bennett with just under nine minutes to play and promptly missed two jumpers. Less than two minutes after re-entering the game, Moser took a seat on the bench and watched the game unfold. Moser finished with nine points and seven rebounds.
Rice elected to go with a mix of defensive minded and veteran players down the stretch - Anthony Marshall, Justin Hawkins, Khem Birch and Bryce Dejean Jones.
Though Marshall gritted the Rebels to the rare road victory at Viejas with a season high 20 points, eight rebounds and five assists, it was the defensive presence of Birch in the paint that turned the game. Credited with only five blocked shots, Birch altered far more shots than that. What's more, the Aztecs grew apprehensive of attacking the rim off the dribble. With SDSU hitting only 3-19 three pointers, their next best option was neutralized by the long-armed 6-10 Canadian.
In the last five-plus minutes of the game, the Aztecs only managed six points on two free throws, a Jamal Franklin layup and a Winston Shepard bank shot.
It's not often that a coach will leave himself so vulnerable to criticism by shelving two of his most powerful weapons, but it's a move that gave UNLV their first win at Viejas since 2008.


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Sears Holdings Corp. put its ailing Canadian arm up for sale last week, but the retailer's crown jewel may lie in a more unlikely place: its appliance and tools aisles.
Its iconic Kenmore home appliances and Craftsman tools generate an estimated $6-billion (U.S.) annually in sales in the United States and, in Canada, an estimated $700-million (Canadian).
Edward Lampert, the U.S. hedge fund manager who heads Sears Holdings, parent of Sears Canada Inc., has been struggling with a decline in business on both sides of the border, and has been spinning off real estate and other assets. He could sell the private-label brands for $2-billion (U.S.) or more, industry insiders say – a move that could reduce the appeal of Sears Canada since it would no longer be able to rely on the popular brands to draw in customers.
"Once he sells off his real estate and he's left with these brands, then there's an opportunity to sell those brands and get value," said Jamie Salter, chief executive officer of Authentic Brands Group LLC in New York, which buys rights to well-known brands in order to bolster, expand and license them to other businesses. He would consider purchasing the Sears trademarks if they went on the block.
Amid the general decline in Sears' fortunes, Kenmore and Craftsman have stood out as two relatively bright spots, analysts say. "The draw to the Sears stores are its private-label brands, Kenmore and Craftsman," said Gary Balter, retail analyst at Credit Suisse in New York and an ex-Montrealer. "Losing those brands would eliminate the majority of reasons people want to visit Sears, at least in the U.S."
Even so, industry estimates suggest that the brands generate almost 20 per cent fewer sales in the U.S. today than four years earlier. That suggests Mr. Lampert might be eager to cash in on their appeal, either with a sale or through expanded licensing agreements, before they lose more ground.
"The longer that Sears and Sears Canada deteriorate, I would think that the value of those brands deteriorates along with them," said David Tawil, president of hedge fund Maglan Capital in New York, which follows distressed companies. "It might be a way for the company to cut its losses a little bit by going ahead and beginning to distribute those [brands] widely."
Sears Holdings spokesman Larry Costello would not comment on the company's plans for the brands.
Mr. Balter has estimated that the brands (including the smaller DieHard label) rang up $6.45-billion in U.S. sales last year, down from almost $8-billion four years earlier. Kenmore merchandise represents by far the biggest portion of that revenue, accounting for an estimated $4-billion in annual U.S. sales. However, its revenues also likely shrunk the most, he said.
"You could see the potential for a licensing initiative in Canada once Sears U.S. divests itself of the Sears Canada holdings," Mr. Tawil said. Sears already supplies the Costco chain and others with Craftsman products to sell in U.S. stores.
In 2006, Sears Holdings created a separate business unit called KCD for Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard. In 2012, it hired a marketing firm to license and extend the brands globally beyond its U.S. Sears and Kmart chains and current product categories.
Sears Holdings currently owns 51 per cent of Sears Canada. If the U.S. company reduced its stake in its Canadian arm to less than 25 per cent, it could end Sears Canada's right to use the brands as well as the Sears name, according to company filings. During a transition period of up to seven years, Sears Canada would have to pay the parent a royalty for using the brands, something it doesn't do now.
Despite its troubles, Sears remains a top appliance seller, with Kenmore its key line. In Canada last year, Sears' major appliances' sales fell 6 per cent to $823-million from 2012, according to its filings. Sears's share of the U.S. appliance market has dropped as low as 23 per cent from 29 per cent in early 2013 and 34.6 per cent in 2008, Mr. Balter estimates.
Mark Cohen, a professor at the Columbia Business School in New York and a former Sears Canada CEO, said the brands are "damaged assets" that keep losing value and might struggle to find a buyer. He said home retailers such as Home Depot or Lowe's may be interested in picking up the Kenmore products, but would have to be willing to invest in developing the brand.


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Archer Daniels Midland
What to do when you've been hacked
Experts run through a data breach scenario at the Mid-year Cybersecurity and Data Protection Legal Summit
The art and science of law
As Reese Arrowsmith, head of legal operations at Lincoln Financial Group, said in a discussion, "Lawyers still think of law as an art, not a science." He implied that that was a bad thing. But like everything at work (and maybe in life), it's both.
Innovation in the law department
The first day of SuperConference 2015 featured a keynote session entitled "Innovation within the Law Department: The Law Department of the Future."
Operational empowerment
Nowadays, with law departments being asked to do more with less, general counsel are focusing on initiatives such as analytics and spend management to drive efficiency.
Child labor probe in cocoa supply chain
Chocolate companies have recently faced the bitter aftertaste of government scrutiny, as Nestle, ADM and Cargill have been targeted in an investigation of child labor in Cote D'Ivoire.
Need benchmarking? Take the 2014 LDO survey
Now in its seventh year, it is the only survey dedicated to benchmarking the operations of legal departments in areas including staffing, technology, e-discovery, cost management, metrics/reporting, and relationships with outside counsel.
Tour of Duty: Archer Daniels Midland GC D. Cameron Findlay
In 2013, D. Cameron Findlay was given charge of the legal department at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of the world's largest food processing companies and the current No. 27 on the Fortune 500.
Archer Daniels Midland appoints new chief compliance officer
In light of these recent difficulties, ADM has appointed a new chief compliance officer, Benjamin Bard.
Top 10 corporate law movies
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Slideshow: Day 1 of SuperConference
Highlights from the first day of the 12th annual SuperConference


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Lions placed WR Nate Burleson on injured reserve with a broken leg, ending his season.
Burleson will undergo surgery, and will be sidelined eight months. That has him iffy for OTAs and next June's minicamp, though he should be 100 percent for training camp. Although Burleson has been a consistent producer since arriving in Detroit in 2010, he's lost a good deal of his burst, and adds little after the catch. Signed through 2014, it's doubtful the Lions have interesting in paying all, if any, of his $4.5 million 2013 salary.


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Week 7 HS football Thurs. night roundup: Skyline starts fast in rout of Samuell, goes to 7-0
Skyline scored touchdowns on its first three plays to coast in a District 9-5A victory, 54-0 over Samuell, on Thursday night at Forester Stadium.
Skyline senior receiver RaShaad Samples caught four first-half touchdown passes on seven catches for 144 yards. Skyline junior Ellis Onic scored on a return for the third consecutive week as he returned a punt 50 yards for a touchdown the first time Skyline (7-0, 4-0) got possession.
Skyline, No. 2 in The News' 5A poll, led, 14-0, after senior running back David Greene scored on a 42-yard run. Samples caught his first touchdown on a 45-catch from junior quarterback Devante Kincaide. Samuell (1-6, 1-3) was only able to get one first down in the first half in falling behind, 48-0. Skyline senior running back Darion Greene scored the only touchdown of the second half on a 9-yard run.
Denton Guyer 35, Saginaw 0
Sebastian Williams ran for 108 yards and three scores to lead Denton Guyer (5-2, 3-1 District 7-5A) over Saginaw (1-6, 0-4).
Williams scored on runs of 37 and 22 yards in the first half to help open a 21-0 halftime lead and added a 6-yard run early in the third quarter. Guyer amassed 393 yards in the game. Quarterback Jerrord Heard completed 12 of 24 passes for 184 yards and a score. His favorite target was Connor Crane, who made seven catches for 99 yards and a score.
Saginaw forced six Guyer turnovers but couldn't put any points on the board. It finished with 157 yards.
W.T. White 49, Sunset 34
Don Jones, Donald Snow and Jamarkus Smith led a W.T. White (1-3, 3-4 District 9-5A) rushing attack that finished with 510 yards and seven touchdowns in a win over Sunset at Sprague Stadium.
Jones finished with 184 yards and a pair of scores, while Snow had 128 yards and three touchdowns. Smith, who also passed for 99 yards, added 152 yards and one touchdown rushing in a game that featured 1,044 yards of offense.
Sunset (0-4, 1-6), which built a 12-0 lead, was led by quarterback Miguel Morales' 221 yards passing and three touchdowns. Jalen Mathews, his leading receiver, finished with 137 yards and a pair of scores on five receptions.
Daniel Rosales added 107 yards rushing, including a 70-yard touchdown for Sunset.
Sachse 59, Garland Naaman Forest 26
GARLAND — Senior quarterback Trent White threw for 326 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for two more to lead Sachse (6-1, 3-1) to a blowout 10-5A win over Garland Naaman Forest (1-6, 0-4).
Naaman Forest opened the scoring less than two minutes in on quarterback Justin Walker's 1-yard run. Walker's plunge followed his 86-yard completion to Marcus Perkins.
Sachse responded with three unanswered scores in the first quarter, including two by Jeff Guckenberg — a 27-yard pass from White and a 50-yard punt return.
McKinney Boyd 63, North Garland 3
GARLAND — Bryan Driskill ran for 205 yards and four touchdowns to lead McKinney Boyd (5-2, 3-1) over North Garland (0-7, 0-4) in a District 10-5A game at Williams Stadium.
Boyd scored on all but one possession in the first half while Driskill rolled up more than 100 yards. The junior scored on runs of 22, 23 and 5 yards, and Curtis Ladd added a rushing score as part of his 95-yard night on the ground. Boyd rushed for 457 yards and six touchdowns in the game.
Arlington 56, Arlington Sam Houston 0
ARLINGTON — Senior running back Tavarreon Dickerson and senior quarterback Josh Greer led Arlington High (4-3, 3-1) over Sam Houston (1-6, 1-3) in a District 4-5A contest at Wilemon Field. Dickerson followed last week's six-touchdown performance against Weatherford with three touchdowns and 173 yards on seven carries. Greer completed nine passes for 181 yards and two touchdowns.
Arlington piled up 578 yards against an overmatched Sam Houston defense.
Waxahachie 40, West Mesquite 33
MESQUITE — Robert Lowe Jr. rushed for 236 yards and four scores and accounted for 357 total yards as Waxahachie held off West Mesquite, 40-33, in a District 15-4A matchup at Mesquite Memorial Stadium.
Lowe gave Waxahachie a 40-26 lead with 1:38 remaining after a 3-yard run.
Shateek Nasir passed 24 yards to William Stanley as West Mesquite (6-1, 5-0) cut the deficit to 40-33 with 37 seconds remaining.
West Mesquite (2-5, 5-0) led 23-13 until the final seconds of the first half.
Roosevelt 27, Wilmer-Hutchins 20
Devin Johnson rushed for two touchdowns, passed for one and amassed 188 all-purpose yards as Roosevelt surprised previously unbeaten Wilmer-Hutchins.
Johnson, a sophomore tailback, scored on a 13-yard run midway through the third quarter and ran in the two-point conversion, giving Roosevelt (2-4) a 21-20 lead.
Seagoville 36, Pinkston 14
Seagoville remained unbeaten in District 11-4A, scoring touchdowns in every quarter in a victory over Pinkston at Kincaide Stadium.
Seagoville (5-2, 4-0 11-4A) got a team-high 72 yards rushing and a touchdown from Kailion Hughey.
Pinkston (0-6, 0-4) trailed 16-14 after a 31-yard touchdown catch by Dekendric Brown and a two-point conversion run by Chuck Oputa. But Seagoville closed the game out with 20 unanswered points.
South Oak Cliff 56, Adamson 0
Paul Franklin rushed for 200 yards and five touchdowns as unbeaten South Oak Cliff shut out Adamson at Pleasant Grove Stadium.
Franklin scored on all five of his carries, averaging 40 yards per attempt. His touchdowns came on carries of 1, 25, 89, 9 and 76 yards.
JaQuavis Jordan added 161 rushing yards, including 79 on a touchdown run, for South Oak Cliff (7-0, 4-0 District 11-4A), which totaled 479 rushing yards.
Bryan Adams 37, Hillcrest 3
Corey Walker rushed for 181 yards and three first-half touchdowns, leading Bryan Adams (3-4, 2-1 District 12-4A) to a victory over Hillcrest (3-5, 2-2) at Franklin Field.
Walker scored on first-half runs of 14, 58 and 2 yards. Bryan Adams' defense held Hillcrest to 130 yards of total offense and did not allow a third-down conversion until late in the third quarter. Darion Davis picked up a fumble and ran 30 yards for a TD.
Bryan Adams' Joshua Brown threw for 268 yards.
Carrollton Newman Smith 47, Carrollton R.L. Turner 20
CARROLLTON — Andy Wordlaw rushed for 159 yards and three touchdowns as Carrollton Newman Smith romped over crosstown rival R.L. Turner at Standridge Stadium.
Quarterback Shawn Holmes added 203 yards rushing as Newman Smith (1-6, 1-3 District 9-4A) piled up 442 yards on the ground. Holmes also threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Tripp Abbott and returned an interception 2 yards for another score.
Garon Goodspeed passed for 278 yards and three touchdowns for R.L. Turner (1-6, 0-4) but threw four interceptions, including three by Ben Higginbotham.
R.L. Turner running back Jahaziel Patterson was taken off the field on a stretcher with 5:33 left in the third quarter after suffering an apparent neck injury while being tackled for a loss. He was taken away by ambulance, and his condition was unknown at press time.
Lincoln 34, Conrad 28 (OT)
ADDISON — Quarterback Eric Neal threw two touchdown passes, including a game-winning 25-yard strike to Brenson Davis in the first overtime, as Lincoln rallied past Conrad.
Neal's scoring pass capped an impressive rally for Lincoln (3-4, 2-1 District 12-4A), which overcame a 28-20 deficit.
Neal (18-of-24, 328 yards) led his team on a 93-yard drive that he capped with a 1-yard touchdown run, then passed to Rodney Allen for the tying two-point conversion with 2:07 to play.
Lincoln then coverted on its overtime opportunity before Creon Seastrunk of Conrad (4-4, 2-2) fumbled following a 10-yard gain to end the game.
Spruce 48, Thomas Jefferson 6
Quarterback Janarius Warren, who had minus-35 yards rushing in his first six games, reeled off scoring runs of 66, 44, and 23 yards to lead Spruce (2-4-1, 1-2 District 12-4A) over Thomas Jefferson at J.R. Henry Stadium.
Warren, who led all rushers with 128 yards on 12 carries, threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to Lamont O'Neal with 24 seconds left in the first half to give Spruce a 26-6 lead.
Jefferson (1-7, 0-4) took a 6-0 lead on Robert Soto's 1-yard run, only the team's fourth touchdown of the season. Spruce's defense overwhelmed Jefferson the rest of the way with eight turnovers.
Madison 74, Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis 0
FORT WORTH — Jamon Brewers scored on a 90-yard run, Alex Gallegos caught a 25-yard touchdown pass and Derrick Edwards returned a punt 50 yards for a score as Madison (4-3) overwhelmed Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis (0-7) at Handley Field.
Derrick Smith caught a 33-yard touchdown pass from Terry Ross and ran in a 14-yard score to make it 14-0 just 5:10 into the game. Justin Edwards scored on runs of 29, 21 and 78 yards for Madison.
Richardson Canyon Creek 34, Waco Texas Christian 32
WACO — Leland Moorehead gained 108 yards on 16 carries and scored on a 23-yard run to lead Richardson Canyon Creek over Waco Texas Christian.


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Extracts and Sayings of The Fruits of the Contemplative Life
The first chapter below consists of Buddhist wisdom that relates to "The Fruits of the Contemplative Life" of ancient Buddhism. It is followed by sayings and extracts from The Roots of the Uposatha (Anguttara Nikaya 3.70) and some passages from Muluposatha Sutta. All three are ancient texts of Buddhism.
Most of these extracts and sayings are attributed to Buddha (563?–483? BC). After his yogic enlightenment he devoted 45 years to sharing his teachings. Some cornerstones can be rendered as "Suffering can be ended," and "Right livelihood favours contemplation" [well implied]. Today, estimatedly 300-500 million people profess a Buddhist faith. There are many variants.
Four "Steps" (Jhanas) on the Way Lightly Rephrased
1. Quite withdrawn a contemplative enters and remains in the first jhana, which is rapture and pleasure accompanied by directed thought and evaluation. The contemplative permeates this very body with rapture and pleasure [Mod Buddha]
2. With the stilling of directed thought and evaluation, the contemplative enters and remains in the second jhana, which is rapture and pleasure born of composure, unification of awareness, and internal assurance. There is nothing of the contemplative's entire body that is not pervaded by rapture and pleasure born of composure. [Mod Buddha]
3. With the fading of rapture, the contemplative remains in equanimity, mindful and alert, and physically sensitive of pleasure. He enters and remains in the third jhana, which is equanimous and mindful: he has a pleasurable abiding. [Mod Buddha]
4. With the abandoning of pleasure and stress the able practitioner enters and remains in the fourth jhana, which is purity of equanimity and mindfulness, neither-pleasure nor stress. He sits with a pure, bright awareness. Permeating the body with a pure, bright awareness is a fruit of the contemplative life. [Mod Buddha]
Buddhist TeachingsMost of these sayings and statements tie in with statements of Buddha as recorded in the classic Digha Nikaya. There is a link to it at the bottom of the page. - TK
A concentrated mind becomes mindful and more unperturbed
From developing a concentrated, pure mind one may wield manifold supranormal powers: Having been one he becomes many; having been many he becomes one. He appears. He vanishes. He goes unimpeded through walls, ramparts, and mountains as if through space. He dives in and out of the earth as if it were water. He walks on water without sinking as if it were dry land. Sitting cross-legged he flies through the air like a winged bird. [With Buddha]
Some priests and contemplatives maintain themselves by wrong livelihood, including lowly arts. [Buddha]
By directing and inclining his steadied, well concentrated mind to knowledge of the awareness of other beings, he knows the awareness of other beings, other individuals, having encompassed it with his own awareness. He discerns a mind with aversion as a mind with aversion, and a mind without aversion as a mind without aversion. He discerns a restricted mind as a restricted mind, an enlarged mind as an enlarged mind. And he discerns an excelled mind [one that is not at the most excellent level] as an excelled mind. He discerns a concentrated mind as a concentrated mind. [Buddha]
It is well to abstain from damaging seed and plant life. [With Buddha]
A good man dwells without covetousness. [Buddha] ◊
The good one abstains from running messages and errands for people. [With Buddha]
The noble one prefer a secluded dwelling, sits down, crosses his legs, holds his body erect, and brings mindfulness to the fore. [With Buddha]
With his mind thus concentrated, purified, steady, and unperturbed, he directs and inclines it to knowledge of passing away and re-appearance of things. [With Buddha]
A great man abstains from abusive speech. He speaks words that are soothing to the ear, that are affectionate, that go to the heart. [With Buddha]
Backing up an inward-turning, undisturbed, concentrated mind matters - it tends to clarify itself from inside
THROUGH pleasure the mind should become concentrated. [With Buddha] (3)
Abandoning restlessness and anxiety, we should dwell undisturbed, with our minds inwardly stilled. [Buddha]
A fine person abstains from watching vanity shows and from heedless and idle games. [With Buddha] ◊
It is very good to abstain from the taking of life for the welfare of all living beings. [Mod Buddha]
If there were a pool of water in a mountain glen clear, limpid, and unsullied where a man with good eyesight standing on the bank could see shells, gravel, and pebbles, and also shoals of fish swimming about and resting, and it would occur to him, "This pool of water is clear, limpid, and unsullied." With his mind thus concentrated and well purified, one directs and inclines the well steadied mind to the knowledge of the ending of the mental fermentations and the way leading to the cessation of fermentations.' [Buddha]
Focusing one's mind well brings about many pleasures, increase of alertness is one of many
A GOOD man lives not by stealth but by means of a self that has become pure. [With Buddha] (5)
By means of the heavenly eye, purified and surpassing the human eyes he sees beings and he discerns how they are inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate in accordance with their karma.
Endowed with this noble restraint over the sense faculties, the sturdy monk is inwardly sensitive to the pleasure of being blameless. [Mod Buddha]
Incline the concentrated mind well - and to knowledge. [Mod Buddha]
A fit man finds little interesting in philosophical discussions. [Mod Buddha]
For a monk, wrong livelihood includes such as consecrating sites for construction. [Cf. Buddha]
The fit one dwells with an awareness devoid of sloth and drowsiness, mindful, alert, percipient of light. [With Buddha]
Abandoning ill will and anger, the good man dwells with an awareness devoid of ill will, sympathetic with the welfare of all living beings. [With Buddha]
With his mind thus concentrated, he directs and inclines it to knowledge of the recollection of previous homes (meaning: past lives). He recollects manifold past lives, and in their modes and details. [Buddha]
The good man, abandoning divisive speech he loves concord, delights in concord, enjoys concord. [With Buddha]
Good health, not being in prison, freedom, a place of security, these make some people glad, nay, enraptured, nay, tranquil - and hence sensitive to pleasure. [With Buddha] ✪
It is well to abstain from forms of scheming and persuading. They include improper ways of trying to gain material support from donors. [With Buddha]
Having crossed over uncertainty, he suffers no perplexity with regard to skilful mental qualities. [Buddha]
The fine man acts with alertness: Going forward and returning, he acts with alertness. When looking toward and looking away. When bending and extending his limbs. When carrying his outer cloak, his upper robe, and his bowl. When eating, drinking, chewing, and tasting. When urinating and defecating. When walking, standing, sitting, falling asleep, waking up, talking, and remaining silent, he acts with alertness. [With Buddha]
The good man speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal. [With Buddha]
The fair man speaks words worth treasuring. They are reasonable and may be circumscribed. [With Buddha]
The fine man cleanses his mind. [With Buddha]
The good man abstains from false speech. He speaks the truth, holds to the truth, is firm, reliable, no deceiver. [With Buddha]
The great man cleanses his mind of covetousness. [With Buddha]
The great one abstains from idle chatter. [With Buddha]
Priests and contemplatives are to abstain from such lowly arts as forecasting defeats while living off food given in faith. [With Buddha]
The strong monk is inwardly sensitive to the pleasure of being blameless. [With Buddha]
With his mind well concentrated and inclined to the divine ear ---the contemplating one knows, "That is the sound of kettledrums, that is the sound of small drums, that is the sound of conchs, that is the sound of cymbals, and that is the sound of tom-toms." [Buddha]
A good man abstains from the use of false scales, deception, and fraud. [With Buddha]
The nobly content monk takes only his barest necessities along. [Buddha]
The proper monk is mindful and alert. [Cf. Buddha] (7)
The pure man, while living off food given in faith, abstains from collecting debts, making investments and loans, and bringing forth flames from the mouth. [Cf. Buddha]
He hears by means of the inner ear both kinds of sounds: divine and human, whether near or far. [With Buddha]
There seems to be little gain in talking about lowly topics and thoughtless debates. [Cf. Buddha]
From the Muluposatha Sutta
Abstain from false speech [Buddha].
Buddha is an expert with regard to the world [Mod Buddha].
By recollecting the Tathagata [Buddha], the mind should be calmed, and joy arise, and defilements of the mind abandoned [With Buddha].
It is owing to Brahma that one's mind is calmed [Buddha].
It should do well to abandon imposing seats and beds [Cf. Buddha].
Kingship over human beings is a meagre thing when compared with heavenly bliss [Buddha].
One should indeed abstain from fermented and distilled liquors that cause heedlessness [Buddha].
One should not tell a lie [Buddha].
One should refrain from the sexual act that is the villager's way [Buddha].
The defiled mind can also be cleansed by recollecting solid virtues and living with them [With Buddha].
The defiled mind ought to be cleansed through the proper technique [With Buddha].
The Sangha [Community] of the Buddha's disciples consists of those who have practiced well, straight-forwardly, methodically, and masterfully. Such disciples should be worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of respect, and merit [Mod Buddha].
Those who speak the truth and hold to the truth are reliable, and no deceivers [With Buddha].


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Lynette Charters Creates Original Cover Art For New Adventure Series for Kids
The cover and promotional images of The Stolen Adventure, the first book in a new adventure series by master storyteller Mark A. Wullert, features original art by the acclaimed animation artist Lynette Charters Serembe. The Stolen Adventure, available through Amazon.com, is about a boy and his friends on a quest to discover the magical creations of an ancient inventor.
"It was great working with Lynette on this project. She has an incredible talent in bringing out a character's personality in her drawings," stated author and storyteller Mark Wullert. "Lynette's cover for The Stolen Adventure really captures the excitement of the story."
"Mark is an amazingly talented storyteller," said Ms. Serembe. "As soon as I read his rich and varied character descriptions and the escapades his heroes get up to, I knew I had to work on this series. Mark has great vision," she added, "you can picture it all as you are reading. You cannot beat a good action-adventure, it's exactly what kids want to read about and I'm very proud to be part of this project. The Stolen Adventures is a fantastic book series and a must read. It begs to be animated or filmed."
Ms. Serembe holds a Masters in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art in London, England. She has worked in the animation business for over 20 years for companies including Disney, Dreamworks and Warner Bros.
Mr. Wullert is a master storyteller. For decades he has been thrilling audiences, young and old, with tales of mystery, intrigue, adventure and comedic fun. These stories are now available in print form with the release of The Stolen Adventure series.
In addition to the cover art for the book, Ms. Serembe also created the artwork for The Stolen Adventure facebook page where viewers can see detailed images of the characters, as well as access behind the scenes secrets, additional stories and previews of upcoming books.


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MEMBERS of Oxford gym The Athlete Centre proved a force to be reckoned with after walking away with top honours in a gruelling competition.
Tucked away in the Osney Mead Industrial Estate, the gym aims to allow people to train like professional athletes.
To prove their prowess, members held a competition against other clubs to be crowned the UK's Toughest Gym.
Teams had to run, lift weights and use a range of gym equipment against the clock.
The Athlete Centre came top of the table in three out of four challenges.
Fitness fanatic and competitor Nick Brown, said: "You get hooked on things like this – you start to get itchy if you don't do it."
Mr Brown, from Wallingford, said it can take up to an hour to get to the centre.
He said: "It takes me ages, but it's worth it because it's such a good gym.
"Not only are the facilities absolutely excellent, but the people are experts – they really know what they're talking about. They're so driven and push you to train harder."
The 26-year-old has been going to the gym for eight years. He said: "Out of all the gyms in Oxfordshire this is the best one I've been to by far."


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Economic targets for China were announced during the National People's Congress of at least 6.5% annual GDP growth during the 13th Five Year Plan in 2016-20 and 6.5%-7.0% for 2016. Some Western economists claim such targets cannot be achieved. In fact, analysis of supply side factors, which will primarily be relied on to achieve these goals, shows clearly why China can achieve its 6.5% minimum growth goal.
The following article by John Ross, setting out why the Chinese economy will not have a hard landing, was previously published by Socialist Economic Bulletin.
Some US hedge funds, echoed by parts of the international media, are currently trotting out the perennially inaccurate myth that China's economy is about to suffer a "hard landing." This invariably incorrect prediction has been periodically repeated for decades since China launched economic reforms in 1978. The claim then was that by failing to privatize companies, not adopting what became known as "shock therapy" in Russia and Eastern Europe, China condemned itself to stagnation. Instead in 1978-2015, China experienced average annual 9.6 percent GDP growth - the fastest by a major economy in human history.
The following article by John Ross which evaluates the economic projections of the recent Chinese Communist Party congress, appeared in Global Times on 12 November.
The central economic goal outlined in General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Hu Jintao's report to the 18th National Congress of the CPC is achieving a "moderately prosperous society". This created discussion of whether this goal is realistic and in what time scale.
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Emeka Okafor will attempt a comeback to join a contending team in December or January.
Emeka Okafor is likely to delay his return to the NBA until next season in an effort to fully recover from the herniated disk in his neck.
The Mavericks are reportedly interested in bringing in either Emeka Okafor or Jermaine O'Neal to help fill the void left by Brandan Wright.
Free agent Emeka Okafor isn't expected to sign with a team until mid-season because he's still recovering from a herniated disc in his back.
The Heat have interest in picking up Emeka Okafor (back).
Unrestricted free agent Emeka Okafor (herniated disc) may miss the first few months of the 2014-15 season, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
Emeka Okafor (herniated disk) could be the centerpiece of the rumored Pau Gasol trade between the Lakers and Suns.
Emeka Okafor's herniated disk is "much more severe than initially anticipated," according to J. Michael of CSNWashington.com, and he "might be on the court again within three months."
Emeka Okafor has been traded to the Suns, according to ESPN's Marc Stein.
Emeka Okafor (neck) is not with the team and traveled back to New York.
Emeka Okafor (neck) has started his rehab but does not have a timetable to return, according to coach Randy Wittman.
Updating a previous item, Emeka Okafor (neck) is "optimistic" that he won't need surgery on his herniated C4 disk.
The Wizards announced that Emeka Okafor (neck) is out indefinitely with a spine injury.
Emeka Okafor (ankle) will not play in the season finale vs. Chicago on Wednesday.


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Project 18 of 20
These garments were made based on my end of year project at ESMOD 2003. Picture no 4 is my exams project. On this project I was cooperating with a french artist who makes leaf gold imprints on leather, Lucie Monin.
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Griffin Already On NFL's Cerebral QB ListPosted by on April 13, 2012 – 5:41 pm
With 13 days to go before the start of the 2012 NFL Draft, experts are already drawing unfair comparisons between players and handing out premature accolades to draft prospects.
'Tis the season, after all.
In a recent discussion of the NFL's "most cerebral" quarterbacks, Gregg Rosenthal of NFL.com made the argument that some signal callers in the NFL held a distinct intellectual advantage over their peers. It isn't scientific or formulaic in nature, but the players generally considered to be the best are being called the "most cerebral."
The list includes the Broncos' Peyton Manning, the Saints' Drew Brees and the Patriots' Tom Brady. Rosenthal gives credit to up-and-comers like the Bills' Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Packers' Aaron Rodgers and the Bengals' Andy Dalton. It even throws Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger under the bus for failing to make the list.
But it also includes the name of one soon-to-be NFL quarterback who is already considered to be among the NFL's "most cerebral." Whatever that means: Read more »
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Coach Gibbs Still A Proud Redskins FansPosted by on April 13, 2012 – 4:24 pm
There's a lot of talk in the NFL about how the sport is a business, and that players and coaches are little more than businessmen with athleticism and flair. While that may ring true for some, the greatest players and coaches have an incredible passion for the game, no matter where life may take them.
For Redskins legend Joe Gibbs, it was a passion that inspired three Super Bowl championship teams with three different quarterbacks. It was coaching 12 seasons in the same city and leaving on his own terms. It was returning 12 years later to fulfill a deep-seeded desire to coach. It was coaching for another four seasons, giving his team two more shots at the playoffs.
And it was being a lifelong Redskins fan, who still gets excited for his old team.
Gibbs was at Redskins Park earlier this week and caught up with Redskins Nation's Larry Michael to discuss what he's been up to, and what he's most excited to see about the Redskins for next season (via CSN Washington): Read more »
Tags: Joe Gibbs, larry michael, Redskins Nation, Super Bowl, washington redskins
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Jackson Brings The Hammer To SecondaryPosted by on April 13, 2012 – 3:31 pm
Tanard Jackson signs his new contract at Redskins Park on Friday morning.
After inconsistent play at the back end of the Redskins' secondary last season, the team made the decision to go in a new direction for 2012. With the additions of Brandon Meriweather, Madieu Williams and now Tanard Jackson, the Redskins are set to have revamped talent and depth at safety next season.
Jackson, 26, comes to the Redskins after being released by the Buccaneers earlier this week. In Washington, Jackson has an ardent supporter in defensive backs coach Raheem Morris, who was his head coach in Tampa Bay. Jackson also becomes the latest of a growing list of Redskins that hail from the DC-Maryland-Virginia area, having grown up in Potomac, Md.
Jackson brings a scary presence to the Redskins' secondary, and matches the fearsome playmaker that defensive coordinator Jim Haslett is seeking. Here are a few of his highlight hits in recent seasons: Read more »
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Andy Murray fans will face another nailbiting day as the British number one aims to repeat his Saturday night victory at Wimbledon on Monday.
The Scot takes on Croatia's Marin Cilic in the fourth round of the grand slam, scheduled second on Court One, although rain could disrupt play.
His match comes as Rufus the Hawk, who patrols Wimbledon, was found after being stolen on Thursday night.
The American Harris Hawk, used to deter pigeons from the SW19 club, was handed in to the RSPCA in Putney and is safely back with his owners.
His owner Imogen Davis, 25, said: "We have Rufus back, safe and well. We are ecstatic and so, so overwhelmed with all the lovely messages and help we have received."
Murray made history with his victory over Marcos Baghdatis on Saturday night with the latest finish Wimbledon has ever seen.
Fans feared the match would have to be finished on Monday, but Murray powered through to victory just after 11pm.
Cilic beat the clock himself with a five-set win over Sam Querrey that went to 17-15 in the decider.
The Croatian is on an eight-match winning streak on grass after benefiting from David Nalbandian's moment of madness in the AEGON Championships final at Queen's Club.
Cilic also ousted Murray in the fourth round of the US Open in 2009, but Murray got his own back the following year when he beat him to reach his first Australian Open final.


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D.C. Weather Forecast: Snow possible for parts of the D.C. area
Tonight: Scattered Showers, Chilly
Lows: 30s | Wind: NW 4-8 m.p.h.
Thursday: Rain to Snow
Temperatures: 30s | Precipitation: 2" - 4" D.C. Metro
Friday: Mostly Sunny, Cold and Breezy
Highs: Upper 30s | Wind: NW 10-20 m.p.h.
A WINTER STORM WATCH has been posted for the entire Washington area and points, west, south and east for the day tomorrow. In general terms, we are calling for 2"-4" of snow inside the beltway. Lighter accumulations are expected to the north and heavier accumulations to the south, east and west. These initial snow projections are subject to change as the storm develops and its track becomes more certain.
Related Blog: Snowfall in the forecast Thursday
Cloudy and cold weather continues with areas of rain continuing through this evening. Skies will remain cloudy tonight and tomorrow. And by this time tomorrow, snow will likely be falling over many parts of our area…especially areas south of a line from Leesburg to Annapolis. Even though we are less than 24 hours away from the first flakes, there is still a lot of uncertainty, in our minds, about how all this will work out. Snowfall totals are hard to describe in words. Refer to graphics on our website. I will say all signs point to a sharp gradient in snowfall totals from north to south with this storm system. The storm has not totally formed yet. It will pass far enough south of Washington, it will allow colder air to turn an initial period of rain to snow. This southern track will also keep the heaviest snow south of Washington. This sharp gradient, I mentioned, will mean that Frederick MD may only see 1 inch of snow while Fredericksburg VA may see 6 or 7 inches. Our snow forecast is based on a projected movement of the storm center. Any small change in track could mean a dramatic change in accumulation forecasts.
Whatever happens…clearing skies are forecast for Friday and lots of sunshine for the weekend. Much colder air will arrive next week.


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PPR Chief to Run Gucci Himself (NY Times)
"The French luxury magnate François-Henri Pinault said... he would personally take charge of Gucci Group as he reorganizes its parent company to focus on the most profitable businesses. Robert Polet, who has headed Gucci since 2004, will be stepping down in a few weeks... Mr. Pinault also said Paul Deneve would replace Valérie Hermann as chief executive of Yves Saint Laurent."
At Marc Jacobs, the Show Before the Show (NY Times)
"'Sometimes, I don't know how we got from there to here,' Mr. Duffy said, referring to the early days of his 27-year partnership with Mr. Jacobs, when the two of them constructed sets themselves and went around 'with a tin cup' to friends. 'Nobody has any idea what it takes to do all this,' he added."
Hermès Wants LVMH to Cut Stake to Free Up Shares in the Market (Bloomberg)
"Hermès wants LVMH to reduce its stake by more than half to free up shares on the open market... With the family controlling more than 70 percent of Hermès stock, 'it's not normal' that LVMH Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault should hold 20.2 percent of the shares, Bertrand Puech said in an interview in Paris yesterday. 'We want him to reduce his stake to less than 10 percent.'"
Cinderella Dreams, Shoestring Budget? No Problem (WSJ)
"If consumers can rent a movie by mail, or wheels on a whim, why not a couture gown should the occasion strike? That's the concept behind Rent the Runway, a website launched in November 2009 that promises to give 'every woman the opportunity to be Cinderella for the night'."
Cast Your Vote for Calgary (NY Times)
"Imran Amed, the founder and editor of the popular Web site The Business of Fashion, has teamed with the renowned British leather craftsman Bill Amberg to create a new line of unisex totes designed with the globetrotting fashion follower in mind."


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Rally events span far beyond Sturgis
By Scott Feldman
Rapid City Journal
ROCHFORD (AP) — The small Black Hills hamlet known as Rochford is 20 miles from Sturgis and has a full-time population of less than 15 people.
Still, when the annual cycle rally arrives, Rochford begins to rumble.
Like other Western South Dakota cities, this tiny town has become known as a place for bikers to play well away from the big crowds and traffic in Sturgis proper.
Each year, the revelry from the rally reverberates far from Sturgis and into places like Rochford, tucked well into the Northern Hills. Other mini-rallies will pop up this week in Custer, Rapid City, Deadwood, Hill City and Hulett, Wyoming.
But Rochford has one thing those places don't: the Moonshine Gulch Saloon.
The Moonshine Gulch had already attracted more than 100 bikers and other patrons on Saturday afternoon, two full days before the official start of the rally.
Over the years, the rally has drawn people from all across the world to Rochford, said Mike Kohl, who traveled about 800 miles from Appleton, Wisconsin, to help saloon owner Betsy Harn cook food on the grill.
"I've seen people come here from Australia, Germany, Canada — you name it," said Kohl, who has come to Rochford during the rally for the past eight years.
Russ Kerstetter, of Kansas City, has been to the Sturgis rally 15 times and attended the annual party in Rochford the past eight.
This year, he came to Rochford on a 2003 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy, arriving with 15 friends to hang out in the small town because he prefers places that aren't on every tourist's itinerary.
"I like the little hole-in-the-wall places that are off the beaten path," he told the Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/1oCE4rD ). "Small bars in small towns have got more character."
He said it's more fun to be at a place like the Moonshine Gulch Saloon than some modern, cookie-cutter bar with no soul.
The Moonshine Gulch Saloon is the epitome of a simple, yet special, small-town bar in South Dakota. It's had the same owner for the past 37 years; the food menu is written on a whiteboard above the bar; it had no working air conditioner on Saturday; and it didn't have beer on tap (instead, most of the brews were served from a cooler on the saloon's porch on Saturday.)
It does have a lot of friendly people, an inviting atmosphere and the little touches that make the bar feel like it isn't just a building, but a living entity. Unique features include a signed dollar bill taped to the back of the bar about 15 years ago and the collection of baseball caps that hang from a wall.
All day Saturday, the bikers and regulars seemed to be having a blast. Some of the old-timers were swapping stories about past rides on the porch, while others were inside waving their brews in the air while singing along to a spontaneous rendition of Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville" by guitarist Donald Bachmeier, who has been coming from St. Paul, Minnesota, to the Moonshine Gulch for the past 15 years.
At one point, Kerstetter formed a smiley face in the middle of the road by performing a burnout on his 2003 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy, drawing applause from the crowd.
"Bikers are the nicest, coolest people in world," Kohl said. "I've seen one cranky guy in the past seven years."
There are plenty of places and parties across the Hills and beyond for people who want to enjoy the rally without staying in Sturgis the whole week. There's the Custer County Fair in Hermosa that runs from Thursday to Sunday, the Street Dance in Belle Fourche on Thursday, the slightly larger Ham N Jam in Hulett, Wyoming, and dozens of other events for people interested in exploring the small towns throughout the region.


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Been a crazy weekend, haven't been on here much. I'll try to catch up today. From a glance, looks like it's been pretty quiet on here too.
Csab - congrats on the PR. Nice job. I'll read your report sometime soon.
Kiwi - I would also love to see 12 weeks at 60+ again. I was 11 weeks at 60+ leadin up to NY, but I think I've averaged 50 since. Much better training for you now injury free, looking promising.
Philly - hope you enjoyed your cutback week, sounds like it's miserably hot down there.
Angel - how do you do hills? (like how many repeats, do you jog or walk back down, etc.) I've been thinking about adding hills occasionally to my training.
I only managed an 8 miler last night when it was supposed to be my long run of 12. Such a long weekend at work and with other stuff that came up, I just didn't have it. Ended up with 48 miles for the week.


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OK, Elissa McCracken didn't win the Miss America Pageant. Neither did Autumn Marisa, another Greene County young lady who competed before her.
But being one of 53 young women competing on one of the biggest pageant stages is an achievement nonetheless, and we salute her success.
Next month, the motion picture industry will honor the "best" in a host of categories with an Oscar statue, and from now until the Academy Awards are handed out, we can expect to hear many competitors say, "It is just an honor to be nominated." There are no doubt many who do feel honored, but we are not so naive as to not recognize that what they really want is to win.
This is not to suggest McCracken did not feel honored to qualify for Miss America by winning the Miss Ohio pageant. Surely she did, but the 21-year-old pharmacy major at Ohio Northern University has quite a future ahead of her, and it does not revolve around tiaras and sashes.
This former Miss Rain Day Queen from Waynesburg has shown she can compete in the big time, and not coming away with the Miss America title should in no way be construed as a "failure."
We would be hard pressed to find a county the size of Greene that has sent two women to this prestigious pageant. And moreover, we were heartened by the support the Waynesburg community showed her in her quest to win the crown.
McCracken was no different than any little girl growing up, dreaming about being Miss America. She came closer than thousands of other girls who held on to that same dream.
Dream. Dream big. Dreams do come true. What if you allowed yourself to believe in the possibility that every dream you have can materialize? It may sound crazy, it may sound like mystical or magical thinking, but it is not. No one embodies holding on to a dream more than McCracken, and that tenacity paid off in big dividends for the 2009 Waynesburg Central High School graduate.
After being named Miss Ohio, McCracken said, "It was really a dream come true. It still has not sunk in at all, but it's just an amazing feeling." The experience at the Miss Ohio Pageant was similar to other pageants McCracken has competed in, but she only compared being crowned Miss Ohio to winning Miss Rain Day.
"It was actually kind of very similar to the feeling I had when I won Miss Rain Day, just on a larger scale," she said. "The biggest dream I ever had was competing for Miss America … that's the most surreal part."
She had said she wanted to be Miss Rain Day since she was 3 years old, and after she won, she was quoted, "It's a wonderful feeling when you achieve a childhood dream."
McCracken competed for the Miss America title on a platform of stopping cyberbullying, and she has been invited to speak to student groups about her experiences. She describes her battles against bullies and the steps all student groups can use to become bully-free.
"Pageants have provided me with an outlet where I can express myself," she said. "I had little self-confidence, and I participated in these pageants to overcome that. I had to believe I was beautiful and intelligent."
If that doesn't define a winner, we don't know what does. And McCracken's journey has proven one thing: Dreams do come true in one form or another.
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Lovćen National Park known for its natural, cultural and historical characteristics. Located at the junction of two climate zones, the Mediterranean and continental, which caused the development of a rich biota with many endemic species. Among the 1300 plant species, accounting for 1 / 3 of Montenegrin flora, many endemic, relict, medicinal, aromatic and honey. Area of the park is home to many animal species, with numerous endemic and relict forms. In addition to mammals (wolf, bear, boar, fox, deer, rabbit, hedgehog bjelogrudi, Montenegrin voles, etc..), Here are a number of other animal groups, some 200 bird species, 11 reptile species, 5 species of amphibians, 85 species of butterflies , 100 ant species, 45 species of flower flies, 10 species scolytidae et al. Cultural heritage features memorial monuments, churches, traditional architecture and old roads. On top of Jezersko (1657mnv) is the mausoleum of the Montenegrin ruler and poet P. P. Njegos II. Lovćenska serpentine portion of the old caravan route from Kotor to Njegusi. Many churches are simple architecture and traditional buildings (stone house with stables, threshing floors, suvomeđe, ublovi and bistijerne).
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Congress Urges EPA to Consider Costly Gas Proposal
A proposed rule to reduce sulfur and other chemicals in gasoline, could reduce U.S. gasoline supplies. Last week, a bipartisan group of almost 70 lawmakers sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to weigh the costs and benefits of a costly proposed rule to reduce sulfur and other
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The fuel marketer renews and increases its card processing agreement to include Visa and Mastercard transactions. ConocoPhillips has signed a five-year contract with Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation's largest payments processors. Under the expanded contract, Heartland Network Services group will continue to authorize debit and credit card transactions and will now also begin
Breaking news: Getty Petroleum Marketing Files for Bankruptcy
Gas marketer Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc has filed for Chapter 11 reorganisation, Reuters reported. The bankruptcy filing comes a week after Getty Realty Corp. threatened to end its lease agreement with the gas-station operator for defaulting on payments. East Meadow, N.Y.-based Getty Petroleum Marketing is the largest tenant of Getty Realty, which owns and leases
Nice N Easy Debuts New Prototype
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Is Big Oil Losing its Drawing Power?
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Jiffy Mart, Tevis Propane Team To Fight Breast Cancer
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Breaking News: Sunoco Selling Refineries
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It seems even incredible, that any Idealist in any age could forget himself so far as to run his head against a post, merely because he found in his system, that no external world does exist, and that therefore nothing could be without to hurt him. [F.A. Nitsch, "A General and Introductory View of Professor Kant's Principles," 1796]
Earlier still, "one who holds doctrines of philosophical idealism" (1701).


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As anyone living through the last 35 years or so can tell you, the problem with technology is that we are not always certain how a new technology will be used and if it will have lasting value to those who use it.
Sometimes it comes down to how creatively the new widget is applied. Remember eight-track tapes? Vastly superior sound fidelity to the cassette (my opinion). Which technology won out? The one that fit into a car dashboard of course! VHS vs. Betamax videotapes. Both good quality, but the one with the four-hour tape won the day. Why? Manufacturers of both products didn't know when they started that VHS would win out because we were going to use them to play movies. Thirty-minute tapes wouldn't cut it.
Fast forward to today's pharma HCP marketers looking for a way to communicate their brand value and we have a new disruptive and potentially valuable technology in the gift from Apple, the iPad. We've seen early adopters benefit from the halo affect by implementing basic content on the device only to realize that what HCP's and Reps were excited about was the device. Once the device became table stakes the effectiveness waned. Marketers began asking themselves what was next. I can't count the number of conversations where the words "we're looking for WOW" were the goal for the next iPad "App". Trouble was Wow turned out to be difficult to execute and a bit more elusive than you would expect with such a great new device to display it on. Going beyond the basic print to digital and developing content in the form of "apps" became the next wave of effort for early and middle adopters.
For those who were able to find strong technical and creative partnerships effectiveness and interest soared. Unfortunately managing these complex and completely custom apps to display "engaging" content can be expensive and often takes too long to meet the pace pharma needs. And many Pharma marketers along with their IT department support teams found the work of managing the apps difficult and time consuming as well. Operating system changes by Apple and mandatory changes to content created the need to redevelop content, retest and redeploy, adding to time and cost.
What does this mean for pharma?
If deploying iPads to the field is going to really pay off for the long term they are going to have to rethink the once a year "app" program and start building an incremental strategy for delivering value to the HCP. Give them things they can use in their practice and have something new and particularly relevant to their specialty or situation each time the rep visits. Think value not message. This means having a system that can easily distribute and manage content in the field and one that is flexible enough to be used to build tools that help the physician and works the way the rep works.
Meanwhile, I am going to go see if I can find the tapes for my eight-track player now that I have wedged it our of my 1973 Chevy Vega.


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Trina Alaniz @bagma posted in New Mexican Foodies!
Mar 24, 2012
Mar 24, 2012
Mexican Crab Tostadas (tostadas de jaiba)
Hello, my friends, just wanted to let you know that I will be posting a new recipe this week. It is an authentic Mexican recipe, given to me by a niece whom is a fabulous cook. She is originally from Mexico. This is delicious, fast and easy. Keep an eye out for it and try it, I know you will love it.


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Voters sound off on 'fiscal cliff'
In the nation's capital, and across the country, it's a new and negative phrase in our political landscape.
"I want 'fiscal cliff' to go flying off the cliff," says Mary Moran, visiting D.C. from Massachusetts.
The White House warns the lack of a deficit deal by year's end will hit taxpayers hard.
"If Congress does nothing, every family in America will see their income taxes go up," warns President Obama.
The fiscal cliff was designed to be almost like a doomsday scenario, an outcome so bad, that Democrats and Republicans would be forced to come to a compromise.
But it hasn't happened.
"It's not fair to the American people," says House Speaker John Boehner. "Going over the cliff will hurt our economy and will hurt job creation in our country."
If a compromise isn't reached by year's end, the average household would see a tax increase of about $2,000, the White House says.
An estimated $650 billion in cuts to Pentagon and domestic programs would kick in.
"The people I feel so bad for are the middle class, because they are going to get squeezed," says Anne Felix, from Massachusetts.
The latest White House offer includes $1.6 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years.
Also included are $50 billion in additional stimulus spending, and $400 billion in unspecified Medicaid cuts.
Put simply, the president wants higher tax rates on the rich.
House Republicans want entitlement reform, and no tax increases.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is among the Republicans who were sharply critical of the plan on Sunday.
"It raised $1.6 trillion on job creators that will destroy the economy, and there are no spending controls," Graham says.
But the administration argues it's presented a balanced mix of taxes and spending.
"It's roughly two-to-one spending cuts versus tax increases," says Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
"They (the GOP) are not prepared to see tax rates rise modestly for just two percent of the wealthiest Americans," he adds.
The endless debating, and the lack of consensus is turning voters off.
"Big joke, they're going to do what they want to do," says Bill Wallish of Silver Spring. "They can wait for a month and make everything retroactive. It's just a political game they're playing."
Even with the distractions of the holiday season, there is plenty of cynicism about the process.
J.P. Sherry, from Arlington, says "I've become so disenchanted, that I'm kind of ashamed to say I haven't followed it as closely as I should."
Many voters who spoke with ABC7 say with time running out, the country's elected leaders should stop arguing, and get back to work.
"Trying to throw each other under the bus, Democrats and Republicans, is not working," Leesburg resident Victor Ford says. "We've got to somehow get this thing fixed."


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I see you incorporated some of my recommendations (tooltips) into the new version
This motivates me to give some further feedback that hopefully help to make wybuild even better:
This is the information I get while building updates from the command line
wybuild.cmd.exe myProject.wyp /bu -vs="0.20" -ve="0.20" -add="myFileList.xml"
wyBuild Commandline Builder v18.104.22.168
Building updates: Failed
[Error]: The file 'xyz.dll' cannot be found on disk.
[Error]: The file 'xyz.bin' cannot be found on disk.
This output should be more informative IMHO. What I'm missing:
* the full path to the file that is missing
* the version(s) that is/are actually referencing the missing file.
Without that information it's a kind of hard to identify the place where the offending file is defined.
Thanks for taking my proposal into consideration.


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About "Attack of the VamDinoAlienZombie Thingy" by Raid71
Attack of the VamDinoAlienZombie Thingy
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They look so...happy. =]
I love this... please print $5
Those people kind of look like they enjoy being chased. It's funny!
great characters and illustration.
I like it. I'm guessing that the zombie aspect is the way the dino is walking. You know....the whole arms out in front of you stance/walk. The dino also looks like he has zombie eyes...as mentioned before.
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Two new Little Lake Fire Protection District firefighters were sworn in by Chief Carl Magann on Tuesday, April 9. Firefighters Tim Caldwell and Adam Seminoff passed their probationary service period in March and are now full-fledged volunteer Willits Fire Department firefighters.
Caldwell, the brother of driver/operator Cecil Caldwell, joined the department in February 2012, and has been "a very active member of the department while going through the mandatory year-long probationary period for all new firefighters," Magann said. He works at Sparetime Supply.
Seminoff also joined the department in February 2012 and was an active member of the department while working for the National Forest Service as a seasonal firefighter, Magann said. Seminoff is currently seeking seasonal employment with CalFire.
He recently graduated from the CalFire's Mendocino Ranger Unit Wildland Fire Academy, cosponsored by the Mendocino County Office of Education's Regional Occupation Program.
All potential fire district volunteers must go through "a rigorous probationary period after successfully passing a full background check for criminal history and completing a full pre-employment physical exam," Magann explained. "Members are graded on participation of drills, meetings, calls and extra drill time and must be at a level of proficiency in order to pass their probation."
Potential firefighters "are mentored by experienced fire department personnel and are reviewed and counseled by their officers several times during their probationary period," he noted.


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The Best Pictures From Sunday's Zydeco Marathon
Were you at the Zydeco Marathon yesterday? Or did you miss it altogether? Either way, we were lucky enough to find some great pictures posted by participants on Twitter and Facebook over the weekend. Looks like a ton of fun!
Have a picture you want to share? Upload it at the bottom of this post.
#1 just entering Bendel Gardens. #zydecomarathon. pic.twitter.com/rG2IChtUAO
— Alan Benit (@Rockyroo) March 30, 2014
#ZydecoMarathon pic.twitter.com/QPkuFDIZGv
— Amanda Shone (@amanda_shone16) March 30, 2014
No better place to finish my first half marathon than in Lafayette! I love my hometown! #ZydecoMarathon pic.twitter.com/sl6rwAZbGs
— Jasmine Stubbs (@Jas_Stubbs) March 30, 2014
What are you waiting for? Let's do this! #ZydecoMarathon pic.twitter.com/WunTfSkgkU
— Zydeco Marathon (@ZydecoMarathon) March 30, 2014
We changed locations, now we are at the end of the course. #ZydecoMarathon pic.twitter.com/yW9WvT9ELo
— M. Richard (@South_of_I10) March 30, 2014
Darth Vader and Spider-man cheering me on! #zydecomarathon pic.twitter.com/Z6HCXK1TYz
— Travis John Tolbert (@weege422) March 30, 2014
Such a cool medal! Awesome to be part of the first ever #ZydecoMarathon! pic.twitter.com/SdjHsxXCyR
— Aubrey (@ambegnaud) March 30, 2014
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Autostart in debian & psmouse
My system is Debian sarge, 2.6.10 kernel.
I've got some problems with psmouse module & debian autostart
First, my psmouse module doesn't correctly detect my Synaprics touchpad.
$ modprobe -r psmouse
$ modprobe psmouse
input:PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio4
$ modprobe -r psmouse
$ modprobe psmouse
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1....
I mean, I need to reload psmouse 2 times to get it detect my touchpad. Why?
And also, how to place this module to autostart? I need to load and reload it 2 times and start it before X.
Also, my kern.lof says:
"mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice"
Help please
Maybe I should include some parametrs to 'modprobe psmouse'?
Did you try putting "psmouse" in /etc/modules so that it is automatically loaded at boot time? You should see if that works first. It shouldn't need to be loaded twice.
Yes, I tryed, but it doesn't help
psmouse must be loaded and unloaded 2 times.. and also, I'm not only one with this bug :)
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I was just curious about why it is you think that the monster is in any way equal belief to other religions. Why exactly did you begin this religion (?), what were your thoughts? I can begin to come to my own conclusions on your thought process, but i wonder if you could exlplain it to me. This subject seems to be pretty important to you, but why would you spend so much time to take hope or beliefs away from others? Do you think that you are simply much more intelligent than the many brilliant men who have come to the conclusion that God exists, or have you simply discovered something they had no access to?
Please respond to this e-mail, this is the MOST important subject any person will ever face. I would appreciate a response.