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Spiny Lobster – Boca Chica Panama
On the Pacific coast of Chiriqui Panama is a small town known as Boca Chica. Boca Chica has great allure to people who want to dock their boats and take them out into the Pacific for fishing. This year the Panamanian government is continuing a project to pave the once almost impassible road from the Interamerican Highway to Boca Chica and that has made the town passable.
One recent fishing trip ending in mechanical failure when our boat would not start. Not to be dissuaded from an experience we went to the dock and encountered a local fisherman bringing in a load of Spiny Lobsters. A few minutes and some dollars later we found ourselves the proud owners of a dinner to be.
Daniel is holding one of the members of the dinner party.
A spiny lobster is a different animal literally from the wonderful succulent creatures available the NE US and Canada. The Maine Lobster is a creature with a sweet moist flavor that we cold not duplicate in with this dinner guest. The Spiny Lobster is literally an oversized Crayfish lacking the large claws of it distant cold water cousin.
Spiny lobsters are found in almost all warm seas, including the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Sea, but are particularly common in Australasia, where they are referred to commonly as crayfish or sea crayfish (Jasus novaehollandiae and Jasus edwardsii), and South Africa (Jasus lalandii). A new species, Palinurus barbarae was described in 2006.
Spiny lobsters tend to live in crevices of rocks and coral reefs, only occasionally venturing out at night to seek snails, clams, crabs, sea urchins or carrion to eat. Sometimes, they migrate en masse, in long files of lobsters across the sea floor. Potential predators may be deterred from eating spiny lobsters by a loud screech made by the antennae of the spiny lobsters rubbing against a smooth part of the exoskeleton.
Spiny lobsters usually exhibit social habit by being together. However recent studies indicate that healthy lobsters move away from infected ones leaving the diseased lobsters to fend for themselves.
This is a simple preparation for a broiled Spiny Lobster tail,
4 Spiny lobster tails
1/2 lb. butter
1 tbsp. chopped parsley
2 garlic cloves, smashed and chopped
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 tsp. Tabasco
2 tbsp. bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare lobster–split down back, NOT all the way through so can be butterflied.
Place butter, parsley, and rest in bowl. Blend. Spread mixture over tails. Cook 6-8 minutes in oven depending on size (large tails may take 15-20 minutes). Serve with rice. Serves 4.


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Abu Dhabi may acquire 33% of RBS
Abu Dhabi: The UK government has discussed selling some of its shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund as the authorities continue to look for ways to cut the state's stake in the lender.
A senior banker told Gulf News that the offer to own a third of RBS shares "is a strategic decision and it has been taken at the right time".
"The talks have been going on for six months, and nothing is likely to materialise for the next few months," according to Reuters, adding that Abu Dhabi could end up with a stake of more than a third, though it has not decided which of its entities would hold the stake.
Waddah Taha, financial adviser at Zarouni Group, told Gulf News that the UAE is diversifying its external investments in many countries.
"The three sovereign wealth funds in Abu Dhabi that are capable of taking this step are either Mubadala Development Company, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority [Adia] and the International Petroleum Investment Company [Ipic]," said Taha.
"Since Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi-based strategic investment and development company, has announced investing $2 billion (Dh7.35 billion) as primary investment in Brazil in exchange of 5.63 per cent in a form of preferred equity interest and since Ipic is interested mainly in oil investments, the most probable option will be Adia," Taha said.
He said that because the RBS has been incurring heavy losses for four years after the £45 billion (Dh266.85 billion) bailout in 2008, the UK government's stake rose to 82 per cent in RBS. "Therefore, any talk about 33 per cent of shares to be purchased by Abu Dhabi means that the UK government will be selling part of its shares in the bank," he added.
Reuters stated that the UK government has for months been negotiating with Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds and wanted a deal to be agreed by Christmas. Adia is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund with an estimated $627 billion of assets.

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any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces.
work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner.
Japans, a variety of decorative motifs or patterns derived from Oriental sources, used on English porcelain of the 18th and 19th centuries.
of or relating to japan.
verb (used with object), japanned, japanning.
to varnish with japan; lacquer.
to coat with any material that gives a hard, black gloss.
a glossy durable black lacquer originally from the Orient, used on wood, metal, etc
work decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner
a liquid used as a paint drier
relating to or varnished with japan
verb -pans, -panning, -panned
(transitive) to lacquer with japan or any similar varnish
an archipelago and empire in E Asia, extending for 3200 km (2000 miles) between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific and consisting of the main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu and over 3000 smaller islands: feudalism abolished in 1871, followed by industrialization and expansion of territories, esp during World Wars I and II, when most of SE Asia came under Japanese control; dogma of the emperor's divinity abolished in 1946 under a new democratic constitution; rapid economic growth has made Japan the most industrialized nation in the Far East. Official language: Japanese. Religion: Shintoist majority, large Buddhist minority. Currency: yen. Capital: Tokyo. Pop: 127 253 075 (2013 est). Area: 369 660 sq km (142 726 sq miles) Japanese names Nippon, Nihon
1570s, via Portuguese Japao, Dutch Japan, acquired in Malacca from Malay Japang, from Chinese jih pun "sunrise" (equivalent of Japanese Nippon), from jih "sun" + pun "origin." Earliest form in Europe was Marco Polo's Chipangu. Cultural contact led to japaning "coat with lacquer or varnish" (1680s), japonaiserie (1896, from French), etc.
Island nation in the northwest Pacific Ocean off the coast of east Asia, separated by the Sea of Japan from Russian Siberia, China, and Korea. The Japanese archipelago includes four major islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku) as well as many smaller islands. Its capital and largest city is Tokyo.
Note: Called the "Land of the Rising Sun," Japan is symbolized by a red sun on a white background.
Note: Another symbol of Japan is Fujiyama, also called Mount Fuji, a volcano whose symmetrical snow-capped peak has been the object of countless pilgrimages, poems, and paintings. It has not erupted since 1707.
Note: Imperial Japan was organized on a feudal system (see feudalism), characterized by the samurai (the warrior class, which eventually became landed gentry) and the shogun (the hereditary administrative leader). The emperor, believed to be divine, was the ceremonial leader. Japan is a constitutional monarchy today.
Note: Japan's ports were first opened to Western traders in the sixteenth century but were closed in the seventeenth century. Japan remained in virtual isolation until the 1850s, when an American naval officer, Matthew C. Perry, persuaded the government to reopen trade with the West.
Note: Suffering from overcrowding, lack of natural resources, and the influence of powerful military factions, Japan pursued an aggressive policy of expansion in China during the 1930s, ultimately resulting in a military alliance with Germany and Italy to form the Axis powers in World War II. (See also Hiroshima, Pearl Harbor, and Douglas MacArthur.)
Note: Although a world leader in shipbuilding, electronics, and automobile manufacture, Japan's economy suffered a severe slump during the 1990s.
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MS KB977074 Update Problem
I ust installed this update and my system hangs/freeze at the windows bootup screen.
So, I use the system restore to resolve the problem.
Anyone else have this issue? and how to fix this
My Spec Dell studio xps 1645 Intel i7 q720 1.6ghz 4gb windows 7 professional 64 bit
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Very strange, there are other threads about problems with this update, too. I don't believe it's a hardware issue, as the quoted specs - at a first look - are too different for this. Do you have any detailed error messages (event log, reliability monitor...) that could help to narrow down the cause?
(In my case, just to offer a complete alternative, this update was installed without any of the problems you are reporting.)
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Hi Super Sarge,
You may update the BIOS and the hardware drivers first.
After that, I would like to suggest you disable the antivirus program and try to install the update KB977074 in Clean Boot manually again.
Here are the download links for the update KB977074:
Update KB977074 for Windows 7 32-bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=19e12856-4808-4fbf-b5c9-2dac4bbb48b6
Update KB977074 for Windows 7 64-bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=86B3EDE2-84EF-44A0-8084-D65AF65482BE&displaylang=en
Does it work?
Arthur Li - MSFT
I had the same issue on my brand new laptop. It worked fine until the auto update kicked in and installed an update. Started hanging and freezing after that. I tried to wipe the drive and reinstall a fresh OS but it kept hanging on the opening screen. Keep in mind, this is a top of the line Maingear laptop with a quad processor and 4GB of Crucial RAM and a Crucial SSD. I was baffled till I read something about SATA conflicts with Windows 7 64 bit. So I pulled out the extra SATA carriage, removed the battery, and plugged in and wiped the drive again and reinstalled. It worked! After that I was able to replace the extra SATA cage and boot up normally. That was a month ago and I have not had any freezes since but I have been afraid to try any Microsoft updates. I dont know if 7 really does have a SATA issue but I am still plagued with constant "not responding" delays in almost every program from Word to Photoshop and I am not sure if it is due to 7's logic regarding RAM or SATA or if it is isolated to 64 bit or does 32 have the same problems. One thing is for sure, many people have the same issue.
I too am experiencing the same problem. Windows Update installs the KB977074 update but after rebooting my system hangs. To be more specifical, the computer boots up and begins to start Win7...I then get a message to say that "Windows is installing updates...Do not turn off your computer...0 (zero) %"
Unfortunately it just stays on "0%" and the system seems to hang here. The only way to get around this is by cold reboot and system restore to before the update.
Im dual-booting Win7 on my 2009 Macbook pro 2.6Ghz (Unibody model). 4GB ram/320Gb sata.
My system is configured to receive automatic updates and this is the first problem I have experienced since installing Win7. There are a few other threads posted around the net concerning this problem so it seems Im not alone. For now I will just disable this update.
Since there are thousands of the different hardware and software configurations, it is hard for Microsoft to test the updates on all the different hardware and software configurations. However, please be assumed that our developers are improving the products.
For the people who installed cannot start the computer normally, it is better to wait for the next stability and reliability update.
Arthur Li - MSFT
- Edited by Arthur_LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:56 AM
Thank you for all the answer
hide the update at the moment
- Marked as answer by Arthur_LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:24 AM
- Unmarked as answer by Anthony_MannMicrosoft contingent staff, Owner Monday, February 15, 2010 5:34 PM
Hi, I also have the same problem on my IMac C2D (2006 Gen). After install it auto reboot then hang after I key in the password and try to load the windows7. Beside to wait for the solution, is there any way I can do in safemode? I tried to restore in Safemode but useless.I need to hang in my project in word format but now I just can do nothing.
When will KB977074 be fixed?
I also removed KB977074 which, fixed my problems.
At shutdown the PC often hangs with a message that a program is still running. Forcing program end does not work. The PC hangs for minutes until I press the PC's power button.
During one startup, a message came up indicating I needed to validate Windows 7. Therefore the PC lost the validation information. The revalidate succeeded.
Shutdown problems consistently occur after running media center.
Also have problems with recorded TV programs. Intermittently can't burn a recorded TV program to disc. After this failure occurs, a subsequent shutdown produces a hang 100% of the time.
My System
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 550 Processor, 3100 Mhz, 2 Core(s),
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F3, 6/24/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Hauppauge 950 USB Tuner
I have similar problems, however in my case the laptop (Acer Aspire 1690) doesn't resume from sleep mode. The laptop switches on and I get the logon screen, but after entering the password, the machine hangs on 'Resuming'. I can only hard reset the machine and restart Windows 7 in normal boot modus.
Mark (Netherlands)
I have similar problems, however in my case the laptop (Acer Aspire 1690) doesn't resume from sleep mode. The laptop switches on and I get the logon screen, but after entering the password, the machine hangs on 'Resuming'. I can only hard reset the machine and restart Windows 7 in normal boot modus.
Mark (Netherlands)
Does reverting to an earlier restore point solve the issue?
I'm getting the same problem. When I installed the update the log in time increased from 1-2 seconds to 20-30 seconds. Computer does nothing during that time no Hard drive activity. I have a dell XPS 420. The problem however went away for me after i ran a scf /scannow and rebooted. Running Win 7 Ult 64x Clean
My system froze on startup as well after installing this....but I got some error on reaching the desktop that "windows cannot enable something" and my theme changed to classic with no aero.....My system did not shutdown or restart..after a bit of searching the error on google I was able to resolve it by restarting the netsh......I restarted my computer and it works now as normal...and this update is listed as update succeeded..try reseting the netsh might work for you..
I found out about this problem through ArsTechnica. I installed all the important updates through Windows Update until now (only after checking on a forum for issues), I even installed this one too. I will check once I am home. I didn't notice any problems, other than the ____ game (the one from 2002) crashing after I letf it running in the background and switched back to it; I only blamed it on the game, being so old. I am using Win7 Ultimate 64 bit. I read on ArsTechnica that 64 bit systems do not seem to as affected as the 32 bit version. It is not a big deal that this appeared, this was bound to happen anyway :) Let's just hope that there a fix is released soon :)
I have had this same problem with one of my Win 7 64 bit machines. For the past two weeks, the only way to start my system was to use F8 and "last known good configuartion". It gets all the way up to just prior to showing the account log-in screen, shows the mouse cursor and just sits there with the hard disk repeating the same patern of activity indefinately. I have let my system sit for an hour waiting for it to finish the install but it never does.
I have even reinstalled Win 7. It works until this update gets installed and then it hangs at the same spot all over again. I was about to give up on Win 7 and "upgrade" back to Vista 64 when I found this thread. I'll attempt some of the fixes described here to fix the issue.
I wouldn't care so much of this issue. First, you can hide this update if it causes problems. So, the next time it will not be re-installed automatically. Second, the update itself isn't THAT important. It solves some problems you probably never had (see the corresponding KB article). Third, it seems that the issue only appears in some hardware/software configurations that are difficult to reproduce. So far, I doubt that a general solution will be found quickly. Better wait for the next reliability update that (like twice in the past) will include previous improvements and hopefully not repeat this current problem.
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Hi All,
This issue has been reported. We are trying to analyze the log files and narrow down the causes.
Would you please send me the following information for analyzing.
• \windows\logs\CBS.log
• \windows\WindowsUpdate.log
• \windows\inf\Setupapi.dev.log
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Arthur Li - MSFT
Thanks for your reply. I have narrowed my particular issues down further and it turns out to not be directly related to this update. My problem which is identicle to the original poster's problem, is caused by my Hauppauge TV tuner card HVR-2250 drivers. When I disable the drivers, my system starts up fine.
I will be contacting Hauppauge with this issue.
Same issue experienced here with a Dell Inspiron 1420 running Windows 7 Home Premium. After the updates were applied, the system would hang during startup and try to do a system repair. This ran for a very long time and then said it was unable to perform a repair. It did have a detailed error message and one of the indications was bad driver. I was able to do a System Restore from an image prior to the updates and get the computer operational again. I then hid all February Tuesday updates and all is well. After seeing this thread and some others it does appear that the KB977074 update is the culprit. (I plan to unhide all the other updates and leave this one hidden). Oddly enough, my EEE 1000HE PC running Windows 7 Ultimate has not experienced any issues after applying all of the February Tuesday patch updates.
heres the system spacs :
Asus M3A32MVP-Delux (non wifi) 790FX + SB600
AMD Athlon x2 7750BE @ 2700MHz 1.25v (stock)
2 sets of Corsair Dominator Twin2x2048-8500C5D DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 CR2 2.10v
2x WD2500AAJS Raid0 boot, 3x Samsung HD502IJ storage
1x pioneer DVR212s 18x DVDRW, 1x Lite-ON 1693 SOHW 16x DVDRW
On-board Sound Analog Devices AD1988B SoundMax
HIS HD5770Fan 1GB 850/1200 1.2v stock Volt and clocks
all drivers are upto date as of last week
directX Feb 2010 redist, Catalyst 10.3, removed KB977074 marked hide and still I'm having an problem with dxgmms1.sys crashing my system whilst playing games that push my system ( doesn't crash at all with MS built in games or playing video/sound ) but does with the likes of FarCry 2 v1.03 and NFS Undercover from anywhere between 5mins play to 2hrs
I've had multiple BSOD's with varying exceptions but all pointing to dxgmms1.sys as the cause
I do wish that MS would hurry up and get this sorted


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According to Deadline, Michael Bay and the boys in the "Transformers" Boys Club (sorry, ladies, no girls allowed) have made it official: barring some unforeseen catastrophe, like the end of the world by way of meteorite or, God forbid, alien invasion, British Victoria's Secret supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley will be Megan Fox's eye candy replacement in "Transformers 3".
Previously, the choices were down to Whiteley and American models Brooklyn Decker and Sarah Wright, with Wright being the only one with any filmography worth bragging about. Word is that Bay is looking to help an unknown face break out, and Whiteley fits that bill. You wouldn't know who she was unless you spent any amount of time trolling the Internet by typing in "sexy Victoria's Secret supermodels" into Google, a pastime that I have, on occasion, been known to indulge in. Purely for research purposes, you understand.
Whiteley is not completely without thespian skills, though. Here she is acting her sweet little ass off. Tell me the girl doesn't have talent to spare. Ahem.


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Discussion in 'Basic Growing' started by Mr. Ganja, May 3, 2006.
What's a good rule of thumb for lumens per square feet?
You want at LEAST 5,000 lumens per square foot for a decent plant, although with mylar, you may get away with 3,000 - but dont expect brilliant yields, plus the buds will be fluffy and not that potent. Also it will take longer to veg and flower, and youll want to harvest the top of the plant first, then the bottom, unless you use some CFL's to light the bottom buds.
7,000 will give you some damn potent bud, but youll still want to harvest the top first then the bottom, unless you dont mind having some fluffy bud thats not as potent as the main colas. It will also be quite dense.
10,000 lumens is what you want ideally, IF you can control the heat, humidity etc. With 10,000 lumens per square foot, you can harvest the whole plant at once, with no noticeable difference in the potency of bottom buds - although they will be a little bit fluffier unless you get some extra lighting in for the bottom. Youre looking at rock hard buds, and it will be as potent as the packet describes. Also, you may be able to harvest a little bit earlier than normal, but only by a week at most.
Dont bother with anything more than 15,000 lumens per square foot, as the extra light is unusable by the plant. It can only absorb a certain amount, plus youll have to take care of the extra heat and electricity costs. For closet/stealth growers, either a 250w or a 400w MH/HPS will do the trick. Anything more than that and youll be wasting your money.
As many as poss
LoL. You just made me have an idea..
"As many as possible. All right!"
I could imagine someone trying to place a kilowatt of HPS on a square foot of space almost right up to the bulb; then try to put a fan between it and the light to solve the 'heat' problem only to come to realize it's actually the intensity of light turning the once green plant into a tanned pile.
As many as possible is right, but there is a limit. Although I doubt this scenario is remotely possible [ no one's that stupid ], it's still in the realm of possibility.
LIP and Swizzy are both right. Simulating the same environment the plant receives outside, light wise, is a good start with any grow.
The Earth-Sun distance tells us, on a cloudless day, that there will be roughly ten thousand lumens per square foot at ground level. Let's try to get as close to that number as possible, but don't exceed it by much -- that is, don't put more than maybe 12k lumens per square foot or there's a chance you're going to bleach the plant, and 12k may still very well be too high.
I've got a 150 watt HPS that can and will bleach parts of the plant that are immediately under the 16,000 lumen bulb [ well, 13,500 mean lumens ]. The damage isn't a result of the heat so much as it's a result of just being, well, bleached.
Well, your very right. Dont want too mant intensities. I supose if you had a 1k HPS you'd just have to have it about 5 metres above the plant lol!
Just wonderin
I have done a great deal of reading, and I have yet to see where it was suggested that you have 10,000 lumens per sq. ft. That would mean to have optimal growing conditions you would need 1000 watt HPS in a grow cabinet that measures 4 x 3.5 feet, roughly. Damn, how the hell would you keep that cool? If 10K per sq. ft. is the number, then all the hydroponic sites are dead wrong on their suggested coverage area per light, and advertising falsely. I wish some of the other experienced growers would shed some further "ight" on this (no pun intended).
I am just a noob idiot, but I love to read.
peace all,
Well, if you're looking to produce optimum growing conditions, you'll follow Mother Nature's example with the Earth-Sun distance. I myself use several thousand lumens per square foot, and I can still see room for improvement.
Cannabis requires a lot of light -- as much as we can provide. This means that we'd need to replicate the environmental conditions seen outdoors -- 10,000 footcandles/lumens per square foot on a sunny day. Three thousand, like what is suggested on some cannabis cultivation sites, is minimal and typically produces lower yielding plants of sometimes questionable quality [ i.e.: less dense buds ].
And a 4' x 4' SCRoG/SoG space under a 1000w HPS/MH isn't unheard of, even in cabinet grows. The key is ventilation, which includes good intake and definitely good exhaust, especially around the light.
Air-cooled hoods, anyone?
Erm... hes being a smartass by teaching you something new (telling you that you need fresh air coming in and the hot, old air going out) in order to maintain decent temps?
To me it looks like hes teaching you something... to which you start whining and being bitchy at him. Jeez, smoke a spliff, chill out.
The goal is to give the plant 10,000 lumens of the proper color light for the plants life cycle.
That said there is nothing wrong with more lumens either.
You can argue how you get it 10,000 lumens but that does not change the minimum goal.
I will aim for around 4,000-5,000 in my planned flower room. Thanks.
Will be excellent for a first grow. Ive got 7,000 lumens per square foot from a 250w HPS, and I would still use the 600w HPS but the heat that it generates just isnt funny. In the winter it would be fine, but my room would be bloody freezing because Id have to leave the window open. Get a few sheets of mylar aswell if you can, its dirt cheap if you shop around and worth every penny/cent.
Well, I wont be growing right now, but I'll be getting a house in about a year. Right now I'm just doing my homework and making blueprints. And I've got some money saved up solely for growing. I'm gonna devote a basement room to growing. A 10 x 10 x 8 should be good. I'll make partitions with wood, so I'll have a flower room, which I'm aiming to be around 25 square feet. The Veg room will be slightly smaller.
Sounds nice, Ganja
My flower closet/room will be 8'x4'x8', and my veg is going to be 4'x4'x8' high. I plan on having a clone cabinet also. Will you be using hydro or soil? I am hoping I can fit a 24 pot (http://www.hydroponics.net/items/details/multiflow.asp) << this one in my flower room/closet. If I cant get all 24 in, I am figuring I can run at least 18. Pots are only 9 inches in diameter, so it'll be close. I guess I'll go with Super Sun 2 1000 watt HPS (2 of them in flower cabinet). That will give me around 8100 lumens per sq.ft. I figure with 18 pots I can get at least a pound per harvest. Space is not an issue with me, I live alone in a 14 room house, but I am going to use a spare bedroom I can close and LOCK the door on.
good luck when you get started,
your question is vague... Even though you have been answered...Did you get the answer you were looking for?
What are you asking? do you want to know the minimum lumens per sf necessary to grow under?
Or, Do you want to know how many lumens to equal the sun's Output?
what rule of thumb are you asking about?
Glad to help, but didn't know what to tell you. lw:smokin:
My grow room is no where near my bedroom, but the lighting in there is SO hot it basically warms my whole house.. I havnt used the heating in ages.
Got my answer bro. I figure if I use the 2 1000 watt lights I will have enuf lumens per sq. ft. (32 sq. ft.)
Lip, I am going to be venting my heat outside bud, I have existing duct work that comes from basement I use to vent furnace with. I can easily tie into that with little problem. Will actually make furnace vent better because it will cause a draw since I am blowing the exhaust into it. Will check for outside noise, and if needed, I can add mufflers on the fans. But I am figuring (and this fucks me most of the time) but due to the length of the run, and I am going to use insulated duct, I should not have a noise problem.
the hydro lighting co's are telling you the maximum coverage area for a particular light with a reflector
1000w...8x8, they are not telling you that you are equaling the footcandles per sf. that the SUN puts out.
gotta go...will check back later. lw
i don;t know how anyone would grow with out venting it dude =) the cooler it is the more nutrishion your babys eat :smokin: the hotter the more water they go throu:smokin: Lip my be heating his house but his babys i bet could use more Co2 than Stale air:smokin:
Hellllll yeah...2-1000's...I like Zandor's answer...
If you want a real good lighting read. Aside from the good
info here @CDOT...then go to Weedfarmerdot.
I have 2 1000's in my flower room now 1mh agrosun gold
1hps eye horilux. that is as close to the sun as you'll get I suppose. goodluck lw
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CLEVELAND – First, the Cavaliers got LeBron James' word. Then they got his signature.
James signed a two-year, $42.1 million contract with the Cavs on Saturday, a day after he announced he was returning to play in Cleveland and try to end the city's 50-year championship drought.
The deal provides flexibility for the NBA's biggest star with the league's maximum salary expected to rise in the future.
A person familiar with the negotiations said James' contract includes an option for the four-time league MVP to become a free agent next summer. However, it is strictly "a business deal," according to the person who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because the team is not providing any details about the agreement.
By only signing for two years, James can get another contract with the Cavs before the 2016-17 season, when a new television deal is expected to push the maximum salary higher. The max contract for next season is $20.7 million.
Until this deal, James had never been the highest paid player on his team in 11 seasons as a pro.
The Cavs did not provide any terms of the contract in a release, citing league policy.
James announced he was returning to the Cavaliers on Friday, picking Cleveland over Miami and reversing the decision he made four years ago to sign as a free agent with the Heat.
In an essay in Sports Illustrated, James indicated he will finish his career in Cleveland, and the Cavaliers are confident the Akron, Ohio, native is committed to them long-term.
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Review by Dave Maul
"OPM Were Right; Heaven IS A Halfpipe"
Gameplay: 9/10
It's hard to fault THPS2; the damn thing is a blessing whatever system it touches. But being on a handheld raises a few problems. Firstly, the control system. GBA only has four buttons, which makes it kinda hard to pull off some tricks easily. THPS pros will struggle for a while. Also, the fixed camera can be disorientating if you're used to the console versions. Apart from that little gripe, this game is amazing. It has a steady learning curve, but it hard to fully complete; especially if you're going to play through with all 13 skaters and find every gap…
Story: 8/10
There's no real plot to the game, you basically just skate around, beating challenges, earning money, building your stats, repeat. Some of the tasks are damn hard and you may find yourself stuck due to some unwise spending. And a few more levels would have been nice; there's 6 that you unlock as you go on, plus 1 very secret stage hidden deep in the tiny cart…
Graphics: 10/10
There's no easy way to say this, but… this game looks EXACTLY like the PlayStation and Dreamcast originals. Oh, except that the camera is in a fixed point of view. It scrolls around at a blistering 60 frames per second, but it won't turn around to face you from another angle. But look in your hands. It's a Game Boy Advance. A HANDHELD. It can be forgiven, easily. The menu screens look exactly the same as well, except lower resolution. The only real problem with the graphics is that sometimes (since the GBA has no backlit feature) they can be hard to see. But this is the same for all GBA games, so I won't detract anything from the score.
Sound: 9/10
It has a rocking MIDI soundtrack, but the songs from the console versions are gone. Yet, all the sounds of the wheels spinning and your skater groaning are here, and sounding just like the console versions. Seriously.
Ingenuity: 10/10
Look at it this way; is there another skateboarding game available for the GBA yet? No. And I doubt there will be one that matches this in all its qualities. That is, until Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Advance…
Replayability: 10/10
13 skaters (plus two secret), 6 stages (plus 1 secret), hundreds of tricks and a gameplay system that'll have you playing each stage over again to beat your top score. Enough said, this game has unlimited replay value.
Buy Or Rent?: Buy
Buy it when you get your GBA, it's the perfect showcase title for friends to drool over. Although multiplayer would have made it a great party game, you can only have so much at launch. It'll take you much longer than a few rentals to unlock Spide… err… I've said too much.
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It's time to tackle another crop of your questions. Today we have queries about drivers who left their teams after winning the world championship, pit TVs, and how to get work at the Abu Dhabu Grand Prix.
Plus, is there really a road named after Jenson Button?
Car numbers
We had some questions about number two drivers last time round – now SonyJunkie wants to know about ones and zeroes:
Is Nigel Mansell the only F1 world champion to have never raced (in F1) with a "1" on his car?
To answer the first question: no. Two other drivers won the championship but never started a race with the coveted number one on their cars, and both are tragic tales.
This first was Mike Hawthorn, who retired from Grand Prix racing after winning the 1958 world championship, and was killed in a road accident in January 1959. The second was Jochen Rindt. Rindt has the sad distinction of being the only driver to win the championship posthumously – he was leading the title race when he was killed at Monza in 1970.
Ther are 22 drivers to have started rounds that counted towards the world championship in cars bearing the number one who never won the world championship. Many of these were American drivers contesting the Indianapolis 500, when it counted towards the title from 1950-1960.
The most recent non-champion to use the number one was John Watson, substituting for the injured reigning champion Niki Lauda in the 1985 European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. At the first ever world championship race – at which there was of course no reigning championship, the number one car was driven by Juan Manuel Fangio. Which, as things turned out, was entirely appropriate.
SonyJunkie also asks:
Are Williams the team with the most world champions to their name that didn't race for them the next season and so not have the number "1" on a Williams? i.e. 1987 Nelson Piquet went to Lotus, 1992 Nigel Mansell went to CART, 1993 Alain Prost retired, 1996 Damon Hill went to Arrows (well he was sacked by Williams!!) etc…
He's quite right to single out Williams for the unusual distinction of failing to retain champion drivers. Here's a list of teams that failed to in recent years:
2007 – Renault (Fernando Alonso joined McLaren)
1997 – Willians (Damon Hill joined Arrows)
1996 – Benetton (Michael Schumacher joined Ferrari)
1994 – Williams (Alain Prost retired)
1993 – Williams (Nigel Mansell retired)
1990 – McLaren (Alain Prost joined Ferrari)
1988 – Williams (Nelson Piquet joined Lotus)
1978 – Ferrari (Niki Lauda joined Brabham)
1974 – Tyrrell (Jackie Stewart retired)
In the early seventies and before the practice of assigned driver numbers was less rigid. For example Emerson Fittipaldi started ti 1973 season as reigning champion, but used number two in the first round and number one thereafter.
In 1974 although Tyrrell's Jackie Stewart won the drivers' championship the previous year, the team used numbers three and four while Lotus, the reigning constructors' champions, had one and two.
Staying with car numbers, David wants to know:
Why is it not mandated that the numbers on a race car must be of a certain size and more legible?
I for one miss the large numbers that used to be on cars during the sixties and before. It made it very easy to determine who was driving. F1 is looking to build viewership, a small change like this will help.
Here's what the rules say about car number sizes:
Each car will carry the race number of its driver (or his replacement) as published by the FIA at the beginning of the season. This number must be clearly visible from the front of the car.
2009 F1 Sporting Regulations Article 21.2
No size is specified. To be honest, the most likely reason for this is so the teams have more room for advertising. And the FIA do mandate an easy way to tell the drivers apart:
In order that the cars of each team may be easily distinguished from one another whilst they are on the track, the on board cameras located above the principle roll structure of the first car must be predominantly fluorescent red and the second car fluorescent yellow.
2009 F1 Sporting Regulations Article 21.1
The 'first car' is the lowest-numbered car. You can check the numbers for the 2990 cars here: 2009 F1 drivers and teams
Jenson Button street?
Ed Horan has been to Jenson Button's stomping ground and asks:
Visited Jenson's hometown, Frome, recently and accidentally came across a small street named "Button Street". Would be interested to know why it is so called?
Sure enough, here it is:
I doubt it's named after him as it doesn't include his first name, but I could be wrong.
There are other roads named after F1 drivers in Britain including Ayrton Senna Road in Reading. If you know of any others, please post details below.
Working at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
A very interesting question from Vinod Kumar:
Hi I am working in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City as a radiographer in the deptartment of radiology. I have basic life support. I want to be a part of the fF1 Abu Dhabi Gmedical team. Can u give me the contact no or mail id or instruct me how to apply for it?
My first stop would be the Yas Island Marina website – get in touch with them and they should be able to point you in the right direction. Do let us know how it goes Vinod!
TV in the pits
Last up is H K Idris who wants to know:
Could you please clarify what is lowered on to the drivers (TV screen-like) whenever they are parked in their garages in the pits? Especially during free-practice or qualifiers? What is it & what do the drivers use/need it for?
These monitors give drivers access to various bits of information. They can view detailed time screens similar to the live timing displays we see via F1.com, with breakdowns of their laps and their rivals, sector-by-sector. They can also watch live television pictures – you often see them using a remote control to change the screen view.
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software attacks and lost data on laptops surface regularly requires a lot of technology, but security
is still largely a people problem.
"Social engineering remains the most important thing about IT security and privacy," says Gregg Vesonder, Adjunct
Professor of Computer and Information Science in the Executive Master's in Technology Management program
and Director of the Communication Software Research Department at AT&T Labs Research. "Technology is just part of
it. Security is also about process, how humans are taught to interact and take responsibility. You can have the
best locked door in the world, but people get in if it's left opened."
The social aspect of security and privacy is a key takeaway from an 'EMTM Presents' lecture given November 16
by Vesonder in Washington, DC. Vesonder is a teaching a new course on security and privacy that will address
issues such as securing data, limiting access and setting up procedures that balance usability for the worker
with security based on business needs.
The course is timely, say EMTM alumni and students, who hail from companies such as storage company EMC, which
recently acquired security vendor RSA Security, AT&T and consulting firms such as IBM. Overall, security is a
balancing act between generating a return, complying with a host of regulations on the federal and state level
and protecting corporate and customer information. The approaches to security vary by industry and most
EMTM alumni viewed financial services and healthcare as sectors most focused on security due to a bevy of regulations.
But Vesonder notes that "all industries have security and privacy issues." Eric Hagen, EMTM'08, Solutions
Architect for storage giant EMC, says "heavily regulated industries such as finance and pharma have looked to
security solutions that will help them comply with regulators at the lowest total cost. However, new regulations
are starting to make other industries take a more proactive approach to their security as well."
Unfortunately, IT security and privacy policies and procedures are a lot like life insurance you don't
appreciate them until it's too late. In general, people tend to learn lessons the hard way. "The companies
most sensitive to information security controls are organizations that have already had breaches," says Atif Ghauri,
EMTM'08, Managing Consultant for IBM's Security and Privacy Services Practice. "Many companies react more
to security if they've been breached or hacked. The ones that haven't are not as cautious."
Here is a look at the key issues in IT security and privacy:
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The Balancing Act
Security has a series of trade-offs and one of the biggest is return on investment. Anthony Troy, EMTM'07, Principal
of Diamond Management and Technology Consulting, cooks the issue down to two questions: How much should I spend for protection
and how much is enough? "The answer to those questions is different for every company," says Troy. "It comes down to risk
percentages and putting a dollar value on the risk."
Of course that's easier said than done with budget constraints. "Industries today are squeezing costs everywhere and
some can't justify a lot of spending on technology and process until something happens," says Vesonder.
Usability is another key tradeoff. Procedures have to be designed so workers can use them. Too many restrictions mean
security procedures will be ignored. Ghauri says technology companies are working to make security more transparent to
the end user. If that transparency is achieved, security and privacy controls will run in the background unnoticed.
Ghauri adds that the use of biometric devices such as fingerprint readers, iris scanners, and smart-cards is becoming
more common because users avoid the need to remember so many passwords, which is often the weakest link in the security chain.
And finally there's a tradeoff between privacy and security. National identification cards, data mining and video
surveillance are all techniques that could improve security, but spark debate. "There are a lot of issues with the tradeoff
between personal privacy and security," says Vesonder.
The Processes
Those tradeoffs between security, usability and returns were recently managed by Michael Mira, EMTM'01, Director of Financial
Integrity and Internal Controls for AT&T's business division. Mira just completed a two-year project that tightened controls
around applications and created a system to verify access.
Mira's challenge: Create a process and tool that could grant access to multiple applications and leave a trail for auditors
to track. The project, which was prompted by the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, now allows workers to request access to applications
and be verified by gatekeepers. "We had to balance control, financial benefit and make sure the lock on the door wasn't too big,"
says Mira.
To tackle the problem Mira worked with program group manager Lisette Mendez, a 1990 graduate from Penn Engineering with a BS
in Bioengineering, to build a Web-based tool and processes that could provide access to the 1,400 applications in question.
The tool authorizes access, tracks requests and designates a manager to review requests. With the system, AT&T knows who had
access on a system, when and why. Another security perk: the tool cuts off former employee access.
Vesonder says processes are critical to restricting data access, especially since companies are pack rats when it comes to
information. "The problem is data is easy to collect and cheap to keep. The flip side is keeping all this data can get me in
trouble," says Vesonder. "For every bit of data there needs to be a policy for it."
"Traditionally, security has been a matter of building perimeters (like firewalls) around sensitive information," says Hagen.
"Although this kind of 'medieval castle' approach is a necessary start, it is insufficient. More and more organizations are
realizing that information is dynamic in order for it to have value, it will need to move between people, systems, and
organizations throughout the course of its lifecycle."
Progress thus far
So has security improved over the last five years? Ghauri says while information security programs have grown, so have
the threats and vulnerabilities, thus "you could argue we are more insecure now." The reason: Technology is so pervasive
that the areas ripe for attack have multiplied, he says.
Troy agrees. He says it's quite possible a security breach could start from a local coffee shop, given that many workers go
there to connect to the Internet. "It's really an arms race," says Troy. "We may be a bit safer, but the threats are evolving."
While the state of security is debatable, the stakes today are higher. What used to be a dozen stolen credit card numbers
obtained via carbon copies found in a dumpster today is now thousands of hacked numbers, explains Vesonder. On the bright
side, Vesonder says it's promising that awareness about security has increased. For instance, there are more high level
executives focused solely on information security. "It's better to have someone who has security in his face all the time,"
says Vesonder. "And with the CSO (chief security officer) there's one throat to choke."
Ghauri adds that changes in technology architecture also hold promise. Two key developments are layered security arrangements,
which would require a hacker to bust through five or six layers to get to data, and models that make it easier to manage
identities and passwords across multiple applications.
And then there are new developments such as biometrics, which promise to rid the world of having to remember multiple passwords.
But even if customers start using fingerprints to access computers and networks, there is no magic bullet, says Vesonder.
"Biometrics are better than passwords, but remember they are digitally encoded and can be hacked," he says. "It's not a slam
dunk on security."
In fact, there is no slam dunk. Hagen notes that there are plenty of low-tech ways around high-tech security and that's why
people and processes matter so much. For instance, a thief could walk off with a back up tape instead of hacking into a network,
especially if another worker left a door to a secure area open, says Hagen. "Creative people will always be able to find ways
around security perimeters, which is why it is so important to be able to provide security at the information level as well,"
says Hagen.
Meanwhile, security ultimately comes down to the computer user. Vesonder often asks his audiences of technology professionals
whether they back up their own data. In most cases, that answer is no. "And if they aren't doing it chances are pretty good
you're not either," he says.
EMTM Course: IT Security& Privacy
(Read the course description)
Companies need executive-level leaders who can manage complex decisions about security and privacy vulnerabilities
taking into account emerging technologies, existing information infrastructure, corporate policies and procedures, client
requirements and preferences and international law and regulation. EMTM's course is designed to elevate corporate competence
with security and privacy so that it brings value to a business.
"Social engineering remains the most important thing about IT security and privacy... You can have the best locked door
in the world, but people get in if it's left opened."
Gregg Vesonder
Adjunct Professor of Computer and Information Science
Penn Engineering,
Director, Communication Software Research Department
AT&T Labs-Research
"The answer... is different for every company. It comes down to risk percentages and putting a dollar value on the risk."
Anthony Troy, EMTM'07
Diamond Management and Technology Consulting
"We had to balance control, financial benefit and make sure the lock on the door wasn't too big."
Michael Mira, EMTM'01
Director of Financial Integrity and Internal Controls,
AT&T Business Division
"You could argue we are more insecure now."
Atif Ghauri, EMTM'08
Managing Consultant, Security and Privacy Services Practice
"Creative people will always be able to find ways around security perimeters, which is why it is so important to be
able to provide security at the information level as well."
Eric Hagen, EMTM'08
Solutions Architect
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Commercial and residential developers give Flower Mound poor marks as a place to do business, according to a recent survey conducted by the town.
The anonymous survey, conducted in April and May, invited comments from developers, brokers, commercial agents and other professionals. The town received more than 20 responses, including:
"Worst process in all of D-FW," wrote a developer who has had two projects in the town.
"Flower Mound makes a federal case out of every little thing that other cities can approve by email in one afternoon," wrote a retail and office developer.
"The town's regulations seem to cause delays versus facilitating," wrote a developer who said he had built seven projects in other communities in the time it has taken to build a single-family development in Flower Mound.
Many of the comments praised the town's staff members while noting their hands seem to be tied.
"The hired professionals seem to not be empowered to make independent decisions without worrying about negative repercussions from the elected and appointed positions," a residential and commercial developer wrote.
"My experience is that Council and P&Z micromanages everything and will not allow staff to have any authority," wrote a developer who has had two projects in Flower Mound ("my first and my last").
The report underscores a message delivered by candidates who waged successful campaigns in the recent Town Council election.
Council members Bryan Webb, Steve Dixon and Mayor Tom Hayden all campaigned on platforms that called for changing the anti-business climate in town.
They said Flower Mound had a reputation as a difficult place to do business, which they wanted to change.
Council members may begin tackling those challenges this week.
On Monday, the Council is scheduled to vote on Kroger's specific-use permit request to expand its store on FM1171 and FM2499.
The grocery chain's proposal was denied last year and the vote became a rallying issue in the May election.
The company wants to spend $14.3 million to expand the store by 20,000 square feet, add a fuel station and create 75 to 80 jobs.
The two council members who opposed Kroger's request — Al Filidoro and Steve Lyda — lost their seats to Webb and Dixon, respectively.
The request had Hayden's support, who was a council member at the time. Council members Kendra Stephenson and Mark Wise also were in favor of the request, which required a supermajority vote for approval.
After the May 12 election, Kroger resubmitted its application and company officials attended the June 4 council meeting to discuss their proposal.
Webb praised Kroger for coming back a second time.
"It's a real statement that they want to remain a part of this community's economic vibrancy," he said.
At a work session on Thursday, the Town Council is expected to appoint a committee to review the town's residential and commercial ordinances, compare them to surrounding communities' regulations and provide recommendations to the council.
"Rewriting the town's ordinances to make ourselves competitive is one of the most successful things we can do," Hayden said.
Stephenson said she hoped such initiatives would send a message that "we want to improve our process so we get quality development."
She found no surprises in the developers' survey. "It's what I've been hearing for a year and a half," she said. "I was pleased with the honesty. Change is needed."
However, she added: "Flower Mound has a unique character and look and feel. You want to preserve that without making our development process overly onerous."
Hayden agreed, saying Flower Mound instituted its smart-growth policy about 15 years ago to ensure the town had the infrastructure in place to accommodate growth.
Since then, the town has invested more than $200 million in building roads, sewer systems and other improvements. Now, Hayden said, smart-growth policies may be creating barriers that impede development.
"There are too many obstacles to overcome in Flower Mound," Hayden said. "We've got to hold on to the intent [of smart growth] without making it so difficult to come here."


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NEW YORK, (Oct. 29)
A screening of the controversial film, "California Reich," was violently disrupted last night when over the Harold Clurman Theater, smashed the projector and ripped the film. Jack Garfein, director of the showcase on West 42nd Street, told police that the demonstrators terrorized the audience and assaulted stage manager Jerry Bihn.
The film, a documentary produced independently by Walter F. Paskes and Keith Critchlow, focuses an the thoughts, personalities and private lives of a group of American Nazis in California to try to determine why these people are drawn to the Nazi cult. It opened at the Clurman Theater last week as a companion piece to Eugene Ionesco's anti-Nazi play, "The Lesson."
According to Garfein, an Auschwitz survivor who lost his family there, the demonstrators paid admission and sat among the audience of about 70. As the film was about to come on, some of them leaped on the stage, shouting "Down with the Nazi party" and "Death to Fascists." They over-tu7rned sets. A second group raided the projection booth where they pinned Bihn to the wall while attempting to destroy the projector and film.
The vandals left before police arrived. Later in the vandals left before police arrived. Later in the evening an anonymous telephone caller to the Associated Press claimed responsibility for the incident for the "Revolutionary Socialist League and Committee Against Racism." The nature of the organization was not immediately known. The screening of "California Reich" was resumed after a 45-minute delay with a second print. The documentary is scheduled to be shown tonight on Channel 13, the Public Broadcasting System television outlet in the New York area.


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wvdial.conf vanished
About 40 minutes ago my wvdial.conf file just turned into 9 byte of linefeeds. Anyone have any idea what could have caused that to happen? It's a bit worring, hope I haven't been "owned". Knew I should have done that tripwire thingie...
I don't have any idea what happened but I have some doubts that somebody attacked you. That's because I can't imagine *why* an attacker would have any interest in your wvdial.conf file! Since it sounds like something might have glitched, it might be a good idea to check your filesystem(s). In days of old (on old RH systems before they split RHEL and Fedora), doing a
shutdown -Fr now
It does, at least on my box. You might also umount the partition in question and simply run (e2)fsck...
The only reason I questioned whether -F was an option is that, much to my surprise and horror, I discovered it was not an option on Ubuntu 6.10. Yet manually creating /forcefsck before reboot had the desired effect. Go figure ...
You're right with the mounted /etc, I overlooked that. But as I wrote, on SuSE -F works like it always did.
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Around when does it normally change? Or fall out?
I'm so scared Alani going to get my hair texture (VERY thick, course, tight curls...think typical biracial hair) & I'm going to have to fight with her to style it when she gets older. So far, the little bit she has is like her daddy's (soft, dark, loose curls) but I'm trying not get too attached!
My daughter's hair is already falling out and she's only 5 weeks :(But I think it can happen anytime in the first year or so..
My son's hair has yet to fall out or change
Quoting ..alexandria..:
my boyfriends two oldest childrens hair never fell out. his son now has hair half way down his back. i've heard a lot that if you wait a while to cut it, it should stay softer instead of changing. i don't know for sure, though, cause this is my first child.
Quoting brandi +1:
Quoting tiffaroo:
Averi was born with a full head of hair. It stayed but started to thin out as months past. Kinda became patchy for a while (thick in the back and thin on the front sides) but new hair was growing underneath. So now at almost 1 she has nice long hair w/ a mix of old and new. The bottom has a wave to it, which would show she has my hair (naturally wavy). We've already cut her bangs 2 times cause her hair grows pretty fast. Still cant figure out what color it is though. lol. :)
P.S. Your daughter is super pretty. She has the "you must love me" puppy brown eyes too!
I have 2 biracial daughters. My oldest is 2 and her hair is in between and very curly n dry. My youngest daughter's dad is mixed. She is 8 weeks old, and was born with a head full of straight black hair... it waves up when it's wet or humid, and I have to wash it at least every other day bc it gets real oily looking. I am wondering if her hair will change since her father is mixed too.


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2 billion rounds bought by feds!!!!
If your like me, wondering when cheaper than dirt, sportsman guide, or any other gun/ammo site, is going to offer the ol 5.56 round, or anything else for that matter, is over!!! The days of expecting ammo to be in stock, to be available to us, has been a specture of our imagination, for the last two months. The "non-military feds", have bought 2 billion rounds of ammo in the last ten months, according to "breitbart.com"; wow!! Is there a conspiracy here? Are you feeling there is something behind this? What is it people? The feds buying 2 billions rounds of ammo for training purposes, is a little suspicious, frustrating, and skeptical. The feds have bought enough ammo to sustain a 24 year war in Iraq/Afghanistan. The reasoning behind this, has been put forth to keep law abiding, respectable folks of this country, from buying ammo. They are attempting to keep us from protecting our great country, but most importantly, our families! Your reaction, your thoughts and feelings, what are they? What can we do?
This way only the bad guys have ammo AND guns!
No conspiracy folks.
This has been debunked a week ago.
Some natives hear the drums beating, and some refuse to. It has always been that way.
On the night of Paul Revere's ride, less than 3% listed at all, and about 1% did anything about it.
This begining to dive into conspiracy territory. There is a section for that. Please repost there.
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Alien Worlds v1 #4, 1983 - Jeff Jones contributes a story of a futuristic couple with irreconcilable differences. His drawings are deceptively minimal, but contain a surprising amount of emotional depth and sophistication. The issue's highlight is "Land of the Fhre", a beautifully drawn Al Williamson tale inked by Frank Frazetta and Angelo Torres. Intended for the 1950s series Buster Crabbe, it finally saw print in the fanzine Witzend #1, then Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1. In this first colored version, some finer details are less apparent than the original. Still, there's plenty of artistry to appreciate. Other artists in this issue include Bo Hampton, Ken Steacy and Dave Stevens (art & cover). This is number 2 of 3 Alien Worlds issues with Williamson art and/or covers, number 1 of 1 Alien Worlds issues with Frazetta art and/or covers and number 1 of 1 Alien Worlds issues with Jones art and/or covers. See today's posts or more Jones, Frazetta, Williamson or Alien Worlds issues. See also this blog's Williamson checklist, Frazetta checklist, Jones checklist or Top 10 Frazetta comics.
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|Al Williamson / Frank Frazetta
More Frazetta posts:
|Coo Coo Comics #40
|Ghost Rider #2
|Thrilling Comics #68
More Jones posts:
|House of Secrets #92
|Weird Tales... #1
|Vampirella #32