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A nine-point deficit against an undefeated Murrieta Valley team is not how Rancho Cucamonga coach Nick Baiz wanted to start on Friday night.
But with their backup quarterback Angel Matute, the Cougars rallied to down Murrieta Valley, 34-19.
"Angel did a really good job," Baiz said. "He managed the offense, we only had one turnover on offense (an interception). But we didn't handcuff him, he made a couple of nice throws and he had a rushing touchdown."
Baiz said they have confidence in Matute, the Cougars' freshman-level quarterback last year.
"He came up (to varsity) for the playoffs last year and he got a small dose of varsity. But he had a great spring and summer. We had confidence in him," Baiz said. "But I think it was our best offensive line performance."
Baiz did not like falling behind 9-0 and sees improvements need to be made.
"The last couple of games, we've given up a long drive early," Baiz said. "We need to get started better. But when we were down 9-0, we didn't panic."
Down to the wire
Even if there had been overtime, Summit coach Cesar Villalobos said he would have gone for two.
Summit, which had trailed Rialto 21-0 earlier in the game, scored in the final 30 seconds to close to within 28-27. Often before nonleague games, head coaches are asked if they want to play overtime. For this game, neither coach was asked.
"If we were forced to play overtime, we would've done it," Villalobos said. "But in that situation, we have the ball on the 3. What better situation could you ask for?"
The two-point conversion try was a pass out of the backfield that was incomplete. Both coaches acknowledged there was contact between defender and receiver, but no penalty call was made and Rialto held on for the 28-27 win.
"I thought it was a good no-call," Rialto coach Gavin Pachot said.
"There was a little contact. That's the official's decision," Villalobos said.
After getting blown out by Summit last year, Pachot liked how his team held on.
"We knew things (in the game) were going to swing their way," he said. "I thought the best thing our kids did was be able to withstand some of that."
Javone Morgan had a good game for Rialto, completing 17 of 29 passes for 264 yards, with two touchdowns and one interception, while also rushing for 143 yards.
Ringing the bell
Apple Valley (3-1) won the Bell Game for the third straight time, downing Victor Valley 13-6 on Friday night. Apple Valley now leads the all-time series, 30-15.
"This is big for both schools," Pulice said. "This is my 24th Bell Game, 14 as the head coach, so I've been part of more than half of them. It seems like it (rivalry) is getting stronger again."
This one was a defensive struggle. The game was scoreless at the half, then Apple Valley went up 6-0 before the Jackrabbits tied it with both teams missing extra points.
Midway through the fourth quarter, Dianggello Guillory scored his second short touchdown run of the game to put the Sun Devils up. Then, with the Jackrabbits deep in Apple Valley territory late in the game, Guillory intercepted a pass to seal the victory.
For the second straight game, San Bernardino (0-3) lost a heartbreaker. Friday's 28-26 loss to Perris makes two losses in the last two games by two points or less.
In this one, the Cardinals lost a fumble at the Perris 1 in the fourth quarter. Then, when lining up for a winning field goal with about three minutes left, they were offsides, making it a five yards back, a 45-yard attempt.
Coach Jeff Imbriani was later told the kick was about three yards short.
But Imbriani was pleased with the play of sophomore running back Alex Mattison, who had 17 carries for 158 yards and two touchdowns. Quarterback SonnyBoy Orfiano completed eight of 16 passes for 130 yards and a touchdown.

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A reader directs our attention to the Intelligence Squared debate putting the proposition before the house: Better elected Islamists than dictators. For the affirmative are Reuel Marc Gerecht and Brian Katulus. For the negative are Daniel Pipes and Zuhdi Jasser.
Intelligence Squared provides the premise of the debate: "The popular uprisings of the Arab Spring have left a leadership void that Islamist parties have been quick to fill. A longtime supporter of former strongmen like Egypt's Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali, the U.S. now faces the uncomfortable result of Arab democracy—the rise of Islamist parties that are less amenable to the West than their autocratic predecessors. Will the Islamists, who once embraced violence, slowly liberalize as they face the difficulties of state leadership? Or will it mean the growth of anti-Americanism and radicalization in the region?"
The video runs nearly two hours, but after a ten-minute introduction, the debate is a fast-moving, entertaining and educational affair. Gerecht and Pipes in particular present a learned and spirited contrast from which one can learn.
I add three footnotes. First, allusions are made to a few books that warrant attention: Gerecht's book Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey Into Revolutionary Iran, written under the pseudonym Edward Shirley, and Pipes's book Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From. I believe reference is also made to Gerecht's The Wave: Man, God and the Ballot Box In the Middle East.
Second, Gerecht and Pipes should be on university faculties teaching students who have a contribution to make to our country. That they are making their living at think tanks is a sad reflection on the state of higher education.
Third, Intelligence Squared has posted the results of the vote on the debate here.


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Not everyone's convinced of the value, but public CIOs must be involved in the decision.
When it comes to breaches in electronic data, and the compromise of citizens' private information, South Carolina has set the standard. In fall 2012, the state's Department of Revenue announced that some 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers had been exposed in a cyberattack.
It proved a pricey event. The state forked over $12 million for credit monitoring, $5.6 million for stronger encryption and $1.3 million to notify taxpayers. In all, the South Carolina Budget and Control Board approved a $20.1 million loan to cover costs associated with the breach.
Maybe there's a better way. Given the spate of cyberattacks in the private and public sectors, some municipalities have sought to inoculate themselves against such catastrophic loss through a vehicle known as cyberinsurance. Just as it sounds, cyberinsurance indemnifies a state, county or city against a range of losses caused by compromised technology.
Mesa, Ariz., Manager of Technology and Innovation Alex Deshuk believes in the value of such coverage. Since late 2013 the city has carried insurance for up to $20 million in cyberdamage, paying a few tens of thousands of dollars for the policy.
With 4,000 employees and about as many computers in use, the prospect of a breach of data or privacy can't be overlooked. "It is part of our general risk assessment to look at all our risks through all of our assets, and cyberassets are important," Deshuk said. "They have value just like any tangible asset, and there is always some risk to that."
While the nature of that risk may vary widely, there are some common elements among today's cyberinsurance policies. In most cases, such insurance covers:
Crisis management, which may include the expense of investigating an incident and remediating networks.
Notification, which would cover the cost of notifying all individuals potentially impacted by the loss of data.
Municipal loss such as theft of city or county funds, or fines and penalties assessed.
Third-party coverage to pay for issues like defacement of a website or loss of intellectual property due to an attack on the government's systems. This might include denial of service to a third party's systems or costs related to theft from a third party.
To gauge the potential loss for a single incident, consider a 2013 NetDiligence study. Looking only at the legal costs associated with 29 separate incidents, researchers saw defense expenses run as high as $10 million and settlement costs as high as $20 million. (Mean costs were $575,000 and $258,000, respectively.)
It takes a deft hand to estimate the amount of coverage one might actually need. How likely is a breach? How often? How widespread? What might be lost? Given the many variables, some municipalities will no doubt be challenged to determine the right amount of coverage.
"We took it from the worst-case scenario," Deshuk said. His team worked with the city's risk assessors to examine assets, possible threats and deployed defenses. In the end, they opted to insure against 10 percent of their estimated greatest possible loss. Certainly this leaves a big window for potential catastrophe, "but we felt that the likelihood of that kind of event is relatively low."
Some say this exercise in risk assessment may in itself be one of the great benefits of shopping for cyberinsurance.
As an in-depth asset exploration and process control, "the application process itself acts as a risk management tool," said Matt Prevost, Philadelphia Insurance Companies' product manager for cyberinsurance. As with most such policies, this insurer's cybercoverage includes first- and third-party coverage, loss of digital assets, business interruption, cyberextortion and even the impact of cyberterrorism.
To fully indemnify cyber-risks, civic leaders must consider more than just their digital assets. "For example, who you will be dealing with when breach time comes is a big question," Prevost said. "You need to know the right steps to take immediately. You want to have a response template built in as part of that insurance coverage."
To make that happen, all relevant players must come together to discuss possible scenarios. As a result, IT may find itself occupying a new seat at the table. "Planning for cyberinsurance brings the systems administrator and the CTO into the risk management conversation, which typically hasn't happened before through the insurance buying process. This is a big point in time where the IT team can join that risk management equation," Prevost said.
That coming-together effect is more than just a bonus. It's fundamental to government's efforts to secure what is still a relatively new form of coverage.
"We see applications that have been filled out by someone who is clearly not a tech expert, and that's where that squeamishness comes into play, just because they may not understand what they are reading," said Karl Pedersen, senior vice president at insurance brokerage Willis. "When we include somebody from the tech side of the house in our conversation, it tends to be much more productive."
Looking out over the landscape of cyberinsurance, Pedersen tells his government customers that not all policies are created equal. What are the key points of comparison?
Unencrypted media exclusion. Some insurers will decline to cover losses that come as a result of unencrypted media. Take for instance the all-too-common scenario of an employee who takes home a laptop or flash drive. As custodian of that data, government officials will want to indemnify their potential loss, whether or not the data is encrypted.
Timing is crucial. Many policies will pay only on losses that are reported during the period of coverage. In reality, you may not hear about a loss for weeks or even months after the fact. It takes time for these things to come to light. Look for a policy that has a retroactive date, with coverage beginning at least two years prior to the policy's effective date and extending out beyond the life of the policy as well.
Rogue employees. Suppose someone on the IT team walks off with the encryption keys, effectively compromising the whole network. Not every policy will recognize this as a cyberbreach. It is, and it merits coverage.
Paper — really? Data doesn't just live in the box on your desk or on a server. It also lives in a cardboard box in the basement. Paper records are data too, and they should be included in any policy that indemnifies against the loss of data. It may seem counterintuitive — a cyberpolicy that covers reams of 8.5 x 11 information — but a good policy will recognize it as all being on the same continuum. "People assume we are only talking about electronic data, but really this is about privacy, regardless of the format," Pedersen said.
For many at the state and local level, the quest for cyberinsurance has not yet come down to comparing the nuances of different policies: They're still at the starting gate. Despite the rash of high-profile digital attacks on national retailers, the reality of a cyberthreat has not yet hit home among all municipal leaders.
In Arizona, state IT leaders have successfully made the case for coverage, with insurance in place to protect against loss in a central state data center. Winning buy-in from other government leaders has taken some finesse, said Deputy State CIO Phil Manfredi.
"It's about outreach and training and education — not just the employees but the legislature as well," Manfredi said. "Security is extremely complicated, there are layers upon layers, so you need to have the kind of relationship with the legislature where you can communicate the importance in these areas."
Often this means IT must discipline itself to sidestep the gory technical details and focus on the big picture. "The challenge is that everybody is on different levels of experience. So I start with the threat landscape: Who is trying to attack us, why are they trying to attack us and how often?" said Arizona Chief Information Security Officer Mike Lettman. "That kind of conversation is always an eye opener, when they begin to see how persistent those people are in trying to get our data."
Some IT leaders, on the other hand, have yet to convince themselves of the merits of coverage. In Fort Worth, Texas, for instance, CIO Peter Anderson has been leading an exploration of the topic since mid-2013.
In principle, Anderson would like enough coverage to restore his data and systems, offset lost time and productivity, indemnify against a stolen laptop, among other things. He also wants to know he'd be covered against more than just hackers. "We know there have been instances across the country where folks have had damage to their systems caused by fire or flood. Even if you back up tape somewhere offsite, to recover those can be fairly expensive," he said.
So far he's priced such coverage at $2,400 to $7,500 a year. "To me, that range seems reasonable, given the potential risk and all the things that could happen, given the magnitude of what it could look like," he said. Still, he finds it hard to be confident in any price tag. Health-care insurance, auto coverage — these are known quantities, based on untold reams of data. "But for a city, there is relatively little historical data that you can look at from other cities."
Analysts say this lack of data is a crucial element in the cautious development of cyberinsurance across all sectors, including government. "Insurance pricing is not feasible without standards against which to measure conduct, as well as liability that arises from failure to meet those standards," the Heritage Foundation reports. "In the cyberdomain, neither is currently available. There are no generally accepted cybersecurity standards, and there is no generally applicable liability system in place to account for failures to meet those standards."
Despite such uncertainties, Anderson is pushing for a yes from the City Council. Considering the manifold risks in today's cyberenvironment, "from my perspective, we should do it," he said.
But wait. Perilous as the digital landscape may be, some municipal IT leaders are holding back. There may be risks, they say, but to pay for insurance is overkill.
Hillsborough County, Fla., Tax Collector's Office, Director of Information Services Kirk Sexton is happy to enumerate all the reasons why his office doesn't need cybercoverage.
His office encrypts credit card data at the point of scan.
There's a single data center with limited access.
Staff turnover is low, and everyone gets mandatory cybertraining.
The county collects tax on 600,000 parcels, moving $2 billion a year through all its various transactions, but it's a limited pool of individuals, far smaller than the tens of millions of Target customers — and the county knows where most of them live, should notification become necessary. "So when we look at our maximum exposure, we say that even if they got every single credit card, which is highly unlikely, the loss is going to be substantially less than in a case like Target," Sexton said.
His verdict: "Unless there is a class-action suit brought against us, we would not be that concerned about it."
So why pay the premiums?
For many, cybercoverage may turn on the question of money. Pedersen said a state will typically pay $15,000 to $20,000 for every $1 million in coverage. A typical state cyberpolicy may run $20 million to $30 million. You may want it, may even think you need it, but ultimately the arrival of cyberinsurance on the government landscape will likely come down to the same old question: Can you afford it?


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Return of the lyric: Leiter's path back to poetry
Sharon Leiter has come back to poetry, and she's bringing Charlottesville with her. Hers has been a circuitous journey, through total immersion in Russia, a stint in army intelligence, and a debilitating disease, to her current post as poetry editor of Streetlight magazine.
Poetry was Leiter's first medium in the '60s, when she attended poetry workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Then she moved to University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where her writing took a scholarly turn and she wrote about Ana Akhmatova, a 20th-century Russian poet silenced during the Stalin era.
Leiter and her husband, Darryl, an astrophysicist, moved to Charlottesville in 1976 when she was hired by UVA's Slavic Department. For seven years she taught– and wrote– in the academic style, publishing a book called Akhmatova's Petersburg, honored by one reviewer as "jargon-free," a distinctive accolade for a scholarly writer.
Then Leiter stepped off the well-worn path to join the U.S. Army as a civilian intelligence worker, putting her knowledge of Russia to practical use.
"It was a great job and an exciting time," she says. "Those were the days when Gorbachev was just coming to power, the time of glasnost." CIA coworkers planned undercover operations to penetrate the long-entrenched secrecy of the Russian government, but Leiter was greeted with openness and generosity.
"The country was full of idealism," she says. "Leningrad was becoming Petersburg once again. The Soviet Union was about to become Russia."
Then life took a dark turn as Leiter fell victim to scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease for which neither cause nor treatment is known. Tight scar tissue can develop on face, hands, and legs, even envelop internal organs. Acute scleroderma can be fatal.
At the height of her illness, Leiter, now 62, could barely function. She and her husband withdrew from their jet-set lifestyle in Washington, D.C. to Lake Monticello.
"I felt very sick, at night especially," she recalls. "One night, though, I had an entire intact poem delivered in a dream." Her return to poetry signaled a deep personal transformation.
Of poetry's power, Streetlight editor-in-chief Susan Williamson says, "It's the art we look to in difficult times. It offers us a place to anchor and a place to climb toward."
It has also helped Leiter with her disease. She still has scleroderma and will probably have it for life, but through medical attention and a life of poetry, the symptoms have abated.
Leiter's taste in poetry "tends to the elegant, the emotive, but also the restrained," says Williamson. "She's quick and deft when she addresses a poem."
In Charlottesville, Leiter notes, "We have the Pulitzer Prize-winners, and we also have a whole community of writers. Streetlight allows the writers to draw together."
The greatest value in the poetry she chooses for the magazine, Leiter says, is that "It allows us to see ourselves."
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The purpose of a 401(k) plan is to help you save for retirement. When you participate in the plan, you may be able to take out a loan against your 401(k) account balance, but you might not be able to take a 401(k) withdrawal.
Some plans will allow you to take out the money that you contributed in the event of a true hardship, such as high medical bills due to a serious illness in the family. Other hardship needs allowed by federal regulations, in addition to payments for certain medical expenses, are: costs related to the purchase of a principal residence; tuition and related educational fees and expenses; payments necessary to prevent eviction from, or foreclosure on, a principal residence; burial or funeral expenses; and certain expenses for the repair of damage to your principal residence. However, your employer may elect for all, some, or none of these needs to be eligible for hardship withdrawals from the 401(k) plan. Also, if you receive a hardship withdrawal from the 401(k) plan, you may not be able to contribute to your account for six months. These withdrawals will generally be subject to both income tax and a 10% tax penalty (for participants under age 59½), so they need to be used as a last resort in a serious emergency.
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The projector is one of the smallest and lightest on the market, and has been designed with on-the-go business people in mind.
While the projector employs Texas Instruments' DLP technology, according to a TI representative, Acer has opted not to use the company's Pico chip. Not that you would notice as the projector is tiny.
As you can see from our image, the width of the thing is smaller than your average pen.
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Performance-wise, the K10 utilises LED technology and will emit a brightness of up to 100 ANSI lumens. This all means that you will be able to project an image of 60-inches diagonal.
You can choose between 4:3 ratio and widescreen and a 1,000:1 contrast ration means that even in not-completely dark rooms, your PowerPoint will shine through.
One of the biggest perks of the K10 is its compatibility with Acer laptops and the like. The projector uses the same AC adaptor as the laptops, so you only have to pack one power source for two products.
The Acer K10 will be available in Q1 of next year, and will retail for £299 excluding VAT.


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World leaders are preparing for three days of meetings in Canada at the G20 summit, where the major theme will be the state of the world economy.
Is the globe looking at a second recession that might require another burst of government stimulus? Or is the economy safe enough so that world leaders can begin to rein in their budget deficits to calm financial markets?
These will be two of the major questions discussed starting Friday when world leaders meet in Canada – first the Group of Eight (G8), comprised of the major industrial nations such as the US and Germany, and then the G20, which includes such countries as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
"The theme that will dominate both the Toronto G20, and probably the G8 Muskoka Summit as well, is governing the global economy at this precarious time," says John Kirton, director of the G8 Research Group in Toronto.
On one side of the table, the United States is set to argue that now is not the time to slow or even contract government spending on such things as roads and employment programs. On the other side are nations, such as Britain and Germany, intent on reducing budget deficits to avoid the financial market turmoil that beset Greece, which was forced to cut its spending and then saw riots in its streets.
The two approaches are sure to result in some lively debate – if not a conclusion.
"The big story here is that they cannot identify what the problem is – not enough fiscal stimulus or too much," says Jeffrey Kopstein, a political scientist at the University of Toronto. "You can't agree on a solution if you can't agree on the problem."
Obama's message to G20 colleagues
In a letter to his G20 colleagues June 16, President Obama wrote, "Our highest priority in Toronto must be to safeguard and strengthen the recovery." What that means, he wrote, is "we should reaffirm our unity of purpose to provide the policy support necessary to keep economic growth strong."
Less than a week later, the United Kingdom's new Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, presented a budget that dramatically shrinks government spending and raises taxes. Some major UK programs could shrink by 25 percent if the budget is adopted.
Mr. Cameron's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, called it an emergency budget. The emergency? The UK is borrowing one pound for every four pounds spent, he explained.
The danger for Mr. Osborne: The belt-tightening in the UK could sap economic growth when the spending cuts and tax hikes go into effect next year.
However, Jay Bryson, an international economist at Wells Fargo Securities, says he doubts it will drive the country into a recession. In a report issued Thursday, he notes that other Conservatives in the past (notably Margaret Thatcher) have cut the deficit and then watched the economy grow.
Behind Mr. Obama's request for other countries to hit the gas pedal once more are concerns that the global economy may shrink.
Aside from less fiscal stimulus by other European nations, the Chinese government is trying to deflate a real estate bubble. "The big fear is that the government's effort to bring real estate prices down to more realistic levels could result in a hard landing of the Chinese economy," writes Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass.
At the same time, some parts of the US economy are beginning to wobble. The US housing market is contracting again now that tax benefits for first-time home buyers have expired, consumers are still being careful about their spending, and the financial markets are jittery.
However, as Mr. Kirton notes, the global economic picture is not completely negative. The economies of Brazil and India are booming. "They could offset the sluggish performance from one or two countries," suggests Kirton.
Neither is the US picture all negative.
US economy 'not in free fall'
"At this point, the base case still sees continued growth," says Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James & Associates in St. Petersburg, Fla. "It's just that the pace is a little lower than we thought a few months ago and the risks are more to the downside. The good news is that we are not in free fall."
Nevertheless, the risk of a global double-dip recession has risen slightly from 15 percent to 20 percent, estimates Mr. Behravesh, who assumes the euro crisis does not become worse and the Chinese economy has a soft landing.
Behind the shrinking European budgets is concern that the euro will continue to fall, as the currency did when Greece was unable to borrow more money. The falling euro could present a risk to standards of living.
The problem of global debt is something that will not be resolved at one G20 summit. World debt, both public and private, now amounts to $222.5 trillion, equal to 362 percent of global GDP, writes David Rosenberg, an economist at Gluskin Sheff, a Toronto wealth management firm.
"The bottom line is that all levels of society, and across most countries in the industrialized world, have far too much debt and far too much debt-servicing costs in relation to income," he writes in a recent report on the company's website.


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France 0-1 Belarus FT
Yes very nice that one.
Chuffed Adam Johnson scored. Stops the idiots have a go when he's got the opening to do what he did instead of trying a stupid pass like Ashley Cole did in the first half. Just wide with one and scored with the other. Didn't try and break the top corner of the net like some of the donkeys tend to do.
Rare to see an England team that actually does the basics. Players that actually use both feet - it's amazing how rare that is.
Still got he odd bit of usual rubbish with Rooney trying his Hollywood chip. I mean he hits it perfectly and the keeper still saves it... what's the ****ing point. Hit a proper shot perfectly and he scores. Hit it pretty well and he may score. Bloody irritating. All that ability he has running forward and he's still going for 0% bull**** like that.


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POACHING MADE BIG BUSINESS by Ruthless Gangs of Killers (Oct, 1933)
POACHING MADE BIG BUSINESS by Ruthless Gangs of Killers
HIDDEN among the P's of the dictionary, you find: "Poacher, One who takes game or fish illegally." To this time-honored definition, recent events have given a new twist. Outlaws are invading the forests and exploiting the game resources of the country. Organized criminals are' dealing in illegal furs, fake bounty scalps, out-of-season game birds.
The government's battle against this 1933-type poacher forms a thrilling and comparatively unknown story.
Under the direction of the U. S. Biological Survey, federal agents and game wardens are making a concerted, coast-to-coast drive. Already, fatal duels, attempts at ambush, running gun fights, have marked the struggle.
On the flats of the Sangamon River, in Illinois, recently, two United States game wardens, K. F. Roahen and M. A. Charlton, were cornered by duck-poachers and in an ensuing battle barely escaped with their lives. Hearing heavy shooting along the river, they had headed for the sound. As they were creeping through the woods, they stumbled on a case of shotgun shells and several sheep-lined overcoats. They had hardly stooped to examine them, when a gangster lookout, hidden behind a tree twenty-five yards away, fired both barrels of his shotgun. The sound brought the other poachers on the run.
Fighting Indian style, the wounded men dodged from tree to tree as the gang closed in. Flying shot tore through the leaves and thudded against the trunks around them. Charlton was bleeding badly from wounds in both arms, hips and one leg and Roahen had been hit in the stomach, face, and hands by the time
they fought off their assailants and escaped. Weak from loss of blood, they had to tramp five miles to their boat, row across the river and then drive twenty-five miles by motor car before they could reach medical attention.
Soon after Roahen was released from the hospital, the ruthless gang sought to blow up his patrol boat while he was asleep on board, to wreck his automobile, and, subsequently, to murder him from ambuscade in revenge for his activity.
In Louisiana and in Iowa, other government agents were killed in cold blood by poaching gangsters. In Virginia, two out-of-the-season duck hunters fought a gun duel with federal agents that ended only when both poachers were killed. In Missouri, a U. S. game warden was attacked and seriously wounded from ambush and not far from Memphis, Tenn., another was shot at a dozen times with a high-powered rifle while he was examining a sandbar in the midst of the Mississippi River.
The game racketeers along the Mississippi and its tributaries, sell their bootleg birds to special dealers in Chicago, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, O., Detroit, Mich., Cleveland, 0., and other mid-western cities. From $6 to $10 a pair is the price paid by hotels, restaurants, and clubs for such out-of-the-season delicacies. One ramification of the activity of a notorious Chicago liquor ring is reported to have been the large-scale disposal of wild game during closed seasons. High-speed trucks often transport the birds from the shooting ground to the ice-boxes of the crooked dealers.
Time and again, the government agents have traced ducks to the refrigerators of such dealers. But, in every case, they have failed to obtain a conviction. In court, witnesses would testify that the game birds had been shot by sportsmen during the open season and had been left to "age" under refrigeration at the dealers where the birds were found.
In bagging the birds, the duck bootleggers use blinds, sink-boxes, motor boats, and even airplanes. Five-shot pumpguns are most commonly employed although some of the poachers use automatics with special extensions attached to the magazines to increase their capacity to nine shots to a single loading of the murderous gun.
During the last few years, government officers have confiscated a veritable arsenal of firearms from men engaged in illegal hunting. They range from single-barreled rifles to enormous punt or swivel guns, twelve feet long and requiring several men to handle.
These heavy artillery pieces are found most frequently along the Atlantic coast from Long Island to the Chesapeake Bay and the Back Bay of Virginia. They weigh several hundred pounds, have from one to fifty barrels and shoot a pound of powder and two pounds of shot at each pull of the trigger. Anywhere from fifty to 125 ducks are slaughtered by a single blast from these gigantic scatter guns.
Usually, they are used at twilight when flocks of ducks are feeding on the water. The gun is mounted on a recoil block at the bow of a motor boat so it can be swiveled from side to side. Floating down upon a flock of birds, the poachers get into position and fire. Then, as rapidly as possible, they retrieve the dead ducks and speed away. Half an hour later, they repeat the performance, miles away and with similar results.
What happens when a government patrol boat hears the roar of the big gun and races to the spot, was illustrated recently almost on the doorstep of the nation's capitol. Down the Potomac, not far from Washington, a gang of duck poachers was operating a swivel "cannon" with deadly effect. When a government boat overtook the craft of the outlaw hunters, they found no gun, no ducks, nothing suspicious. The law requires that both the gun and the illegally killed game must be captured before the arrest is made. Temporarily baffled, the officers retraced their course to the place from which the sound of the shot had seemed to come. As they we're cruising about, one of the men noticed several corks standing still in the current of the river. They investigated and uncovered a clever ruse.
When the crooks had seen the patrol boat speeding toward them in the distance, they had thrown all the ducks overboard in weighted sacks with light lines and corks attached to them. The swivel gun had been dumped overboard in similar fashion. Later, when the government boat had left the vicinity, they planned to return, locate the game and the gun by means of the cork bobbers and retrieve both under the cover of darkness.
Duck bootlegging is but one of several types of poaching with which government agents must battle.
Along the Canadian border, for instance, illegal beaver trapping is a constant source of trouble. These animals are now nearing extinction and in states where they are found are protected by law. But the fur poachers, laying their traps at night and disposing of their catch by stealth, have been reaping a rich harvest of contraband pelts.
One loophole in the American law aids such gangs. The beavers, in felling trees and damming streams, sometimes do considerable damage. Consequently, most of the states with beaver laws have also passed legislation which allows their state game commissions to issue permits for trapping the animals where they are causing damage. On such permits, obtained under false testimony, fur bootleggers and their agents are trapping large numbers of the animals during closed seasons.
A gang of four men in Michigan was recently caught after it had carried on extensive operations in trapping beavers, mink, and otter out of season. For one shipment of furs, the leader cashed a check for $10,000. The country banker who received the check became suspicious. He shrewdly guessed how the money had been obtained and notified the government. Federal men traced the check to a St. Louis fur dealer and brought the operations of the poaching gang to light.
In addition to their illegal trapping, these men had been hijacking the furs of other poachers while they were on their way to market. The contraband pelts are frequently run by fast motor truck or motor car to New York, St. Louis, or Kansas City markets. Rival gangs wait near filling stations where these machines are known to stop regularly for gas and oil. After they have held up the drivers and stolen the cargoes, they race for the same markets and, not uncommonly, sell the furs to the same crooked dealer with whom the original gang had intended to do business.
Recently, half a dozen large-scale attempts to smuggle beaver pelts into the United States from closed-season areas in Alaska have been exposed at ports along the Pacific coast. Customs officials at Seattle, Wash., not long ago, discovered 1,200 pelts hidden under a shipload of dried fish. Another time, they confiscated $15,000 worth of beaver skins which had been cunningly secreted behind false bulkheads in the hold of a vessel, and a third time, they made a haul almost as valuable when they found the furs concealed between decks on a tramp steamer.
SCIENTIFIC detective work, not long ago, uncovered a smooth-running "underground railroad" operated by fur poachers in several eastern states. This gang of trapper outlaws had worked out a system of slipping the pelts north across the Canadian line, putting bogus brands upon them, and sending them back to New York and St. Louis as Canadian furs. The law then required every beaver pelt, shipped from a Canadian province, to carry a special brand formed by tiny perforations produced by an apparatus similar to a check protector.
In Washington, experts set to work with high-powered microscopes, comparing the perforations of the real and the bogus brands. Minute differences, visibly only to the eye of the magnifying lens, gave testimony that broke up the "fake brand" method of marketing the furs. A resulting change in the Canadian laws now requires that all beaver pelts shipped to the United States must carry consular certificates identifying them as real Canadian furs.
In western states, another racket has gained rapid headway. Gangs are preying upon fur farmers. They toss poisoned bait into dens of foxes and then cut their way into the enclosures and carry off the animals as soon as they are dead. In a number of instances, they have drugged female foxes and taken them alive to be sold in other parts of the country for breeding purposes. The owners of such farms are installing alarm systems and in some cases are encircling their pens with electrically charged wires to hold off the fur thieves.
BOUNTY faking is another activity of the outdoor gangsters. In many parts of the country, a bounty is paid for the scalps of predatory animals, such as wolves, wildcats, coyotes, and mountain lions, which prey upon livestock and poultry.
One gang in Kansas is said to have reaped a profit of nearly $150,000 from fake coyote scalps. It worked in collusion with several unscrupulous Missouri fur dealers, who supplied synthetic "coyote scalps" by the thousands at twenty-five cents apiece. Operating in eighty different counties, where a bounty of a dollar a scalp was offered, the crooks cleaned up a fortune. In many cases, they substituted dog scalps for coyote scalps.
In another instance, a gang was caught collecting bounty on the same scalps over and over again. It worked with dishonest county clerks as partners.
BECAUSE there is no standardization of bounty payments, each state setting its own price, crooks are able to defraud the government in another way. They trap the predatory animals in states where they are abundant and where the bounty is low and smuggle the scalps into the states where the bounty is high and the animals few.
For example: New Hampshire counties pay twice as much for wildcats as do Vermont counties next door. South Dakota has an eight-fold higher bounty on wolves than North Dakota. Colorado pays $50 for mountain lions while California pays $30, Montana $20, Wyoming $15, and Nevada $5. In Texas, four counties pay $50 apiece for wolves. This hodgepodge of conflicting fees has made the work of the bounty bootlegger comparatively easy.
What happens is illustrated in Wisconsin.
This state offers a standing bounty of $30 for each mature timber wolf killed within its borders. The neighboring states of Michigan and Iowa have no bounty at all upon these animals. Consequently, scores of scalps are smuggled in from other states.
One crook, who had been defrauding this state systematically in this manner for some time, was recently caught and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. Every few weeks, he appeared at the county clerk's office with two or three scalps, which he had taken from a supply obtained in Canada, and collected from $60 to $90. Officials finally became suspicious. They checked up on his movements and discovered that he had hidden his cache of scalps where he thought no one would ever find them—in the pulpit and parsonage of a country church.
ANOTHER form of bounty plundering • made its appearance recently in the Pacific Northwest. Several of the states in this region had banded together to exterminate wildcats. A special bounty was offered for each one killed. To protect against fraud, hunters were required to bring in the right forefoot of the animal when they collected their bounty money. This worked all right until one clever ring of crooks discovered the similarity between the foot of the wildcat and that of the ocelet, a small predatory animal of Southwestern and Central America. This gang began smuggling large numbers of ocelot feet into the counties where the fees were paid and collected a small fortune before the deception was discovered.
The federal government in Washington has been opposed to the bounty system ever since its inception. The contention of the government experts is that often the paying of such fees actually increases the number of predatory animals.
In recent months a number of states have been revising their bounty and game laws, seeking to cope with the activity of poachers and bounty fakers. Pennsylvania, for instance, now requires the presentation of a signed affidavit, as well as the delivery to the state game commission of the unmuti-lated skin of the predatory animal, before any bounty payment is made.
In the meantime, Federal agents and state game wardens are pushing ahead in their concerted drive on the gangsters of the open who are trying to defraud the government and exploit the wild life of the country.


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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Oracle Corp. are asking a Delaware judge to order an insurer to pay $20 million to cover attorney fees related to the proposed settlement of a shareholder lawsuit.
The lawsuit challenged Oracle's 2011 acquisition of Pillar Data Systems, a company majority-owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
Shareholders alleged that the deal improperly benefited Ellison at the expense of other Oracle stockholders. Ellison agreed to forego virtually all the payments he stood to receive, based on Pillar's future performance, to settle the case. Those payments initially were estimated at upward of $500 million but more recently valued at zero.
The shareholder attorneys are seeking $19.9 million from Oracle's officer and directors as part of the settlement, but an insurer covering the officers and directors has balked at paying.


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- March 1st, National Pig Day-To celebrate National Pig Day, go out and buy some bacon or a ham and pig out. Everybody give a shoutout OINK! OINK! OINK! Or if you're from Arkansas....SOOEEE!
- March 2nd, Name Sake Day
- March 3rd, National Anthem Day-Go out to a sporting event and listen to an anthem....Just as long as Christina Aguilera isn't singing it...If she is, might want to give her the words to it!!!
- March 4th, Dentist's Day- Go out and get a new toothbrush. If you have a Dental appointment on this day, remember....rinse then spit!
- March 5th, Name Tag Day
- March 6th, U.S. Snowshoe Day
- March 9th, False Teeth Day-Go to Grandma and Grandpa's house and hide their teeth. Or you can say a solemn prayer of thanks to George Washington, the father of false teeth.
- March 10th, Learn What Your Name Means Day
- March 11th, Paper Day- What day goes by when we don't use paper? How about a don't use paper day or save a tree from the paper mill day.
- March 14th, Potato Chip Day-This will be a big day for all of the snackers around the world.
- March 15th, Buzzards Day-This holiday should coincide with road kill day.
- March 16th, Lips Appreciation Day-Pucker up honey, I'm gonna plant a nice wet kiss on you today.
- March 17th, St. Patrick's Day-Don't forget to wear something green and don't drink too much. If you don't drink, go out and have a nice dinner of corned beef and cabbage! I will also be having a story about the history and folklore of St. Patricks' day coming soon....so stay tuned.
- March 18th, Rubber Band Day-Get your child a rubber band gun and let him wreak havoc on your pets and his siblings.
- March 19th, Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day
- March 20th, Kiss Your Fiance Day-It could be a nice day to kiss your wife today also!
- March 22nd, International Goof off Day-I always look forward to a day where I can goof off and not have to ask permission to do it! YYYYYAAAA!!!
- March 23rd, Near Miss Day-A good day to almost get a traffic ticket.
- March 24th, Kick Butts Day
- March 25th, Letting Go of Stuff Day- The day that every hoarder refuses to celebrate.
- March 26th, Make Up Your Own Holiday Day- Isn't that how we get all of these other non-national holidays? We just need something to celebrate 24/7/365 days of the year!!
- March 27th, Viagra Day- For all of the older people in the world....just don't hope a STIFF wind starts blowing.
- March 28th, Weed Appreciation Day-Oh those poor, poor weeds.
- March 30th, Doctor's Day- Help your doctor out and go get some kind of exam today...so he can pay his bills.
- March 31st, National She's Funny That Way Day-The only time of year that we need to laugh at our significant others jokes.
Week Long Celebrations in March
The first week in March is National Author and Illustrator Week. Be sure to visit the library and check out some of your favorite authors and illustrated books.
The first week in March is National Shoe Week. As winter is coming to an end and spring is just around the corner, go through your closet and get rid of those worn out shoes or if you have children, they are probably growing out of some. Give those to a charity for the less unfortunate.
The third week in March is National Bubble Week. Celebrate with a bubble bath for you, your kids or maybe that dog in the family that hasn't had a bath in about 2 or 3 months.
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March is Let's Go Fly a Kite Month, National Umbrella Month, National Frozen Foods Month and National Crafts Month. So many celebrations, so little time to do them in.


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After four days of blue and white interiors, I am ending this week with an exterior room - the ultimate in backyard living!
If any of you watched Million Dollar Decorators on HGTV this winter, you will remember the California decorator, Mary McDonald. This is her own private back yard and dining pavilion with her collection of blue and white ceramics.
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I also don't like the fact that they dropped the whole plot of Robb legitimizing Jon Snow and naming him his heir...that was a pretty big deal. I still think that that will come up in Book 6 (if he survives the stabbing process)
....I think that Melisandre may use that same power to bring back Jon.
Is there any chance Robert is Jon Snow's father?
What are the chances of Prequel books to ASOIAF? I think lots of people would love to read about Robert and Ned and the TargaryensMartin does a really great job of giving some history of Westeros but there could be so much more, it doesn't even need to be written by Martin as the story is already fleshed out
The Hound (he is purportedly dead, but no body no proof)
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The California Department of Public Health, the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health, The California Endowment, and Kaiser Permanente were pleased to host the nation's largest, most influential collaboration of professionals dedicated to combating pediatric obesity.
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I have a good lesson on goal-setting in my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, and I'm beginning to organize another one. As part of that process, I've begun to collect video clips on goal-setting, and I'm hoping readers will help me out.
This list is a companion one to The Best Posts On Students Setting Goals.
Here's an initial list. What I'd really like are sever very short video clips from popular movies and television shows. There are plenty of nauseating "self-help" goal-setting videos out there that would be fairly useless in a high school classroom.
Here's what I've found so far — I hope you can suggest others:
Here's the famous basketball scene from The Pursuit Of Happyness:
Next, The Dog Strikes Back: 2012 Volkswagen Super Bowl Commercial:
The first three minutes of this Lou Holtz clip (thanks to Vicki Davis):
This next one is okay, though I don't really know most of the people quoted in it:
Here's one from astronaut Chris Hadfield:
"I shall either find a way or make one" has been attributed to Hannibal, though he probably didn't say it.
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By Tessa Raebeck
Coming off one of the best vintage years Long Island wine has ever seen, three of the region's leading winemakers will share what inspires them – and allow others to taste that inspiration.
On Friday, the Parrish Art Museum presents "How Do You Bottle Creativity?" a winetasting and interactive conversation with Barbara Shinn, owner/viticulturist at Shinn Estate Vineyards in Mattituck, Kareem Massoud, winemaker at Paumanok Vineyards in Jamesport, and Christopher Tracy, winemaker/partner at Channing Daughters in Bridgehampton.
Long Island's moderate maritime climate, long growing season, concentration of small growers and proximity to the giant wine market of New York City have enabled the farmers in pursuit of their primary goal: making delicious wine. Long overlooked by connoisseurs and locals alike, Long Island wine is proving itself in tasting tests and on restaurant menus; three of the last four years have seen exceptional vintages across the island.
"It was really a beautiful year and we're seeing that right now in the barrel," said Ms. Shinn of the 2013 vintage, which many local winemakers heralded as the best they've seen.
"I think the adjective 'epic' really applies here," agreed Mr. Massoud. "It was a truly epic vintage here, it was amazing. I already bottled six wines from 2013 and they're all delicious. They're all some of the best we've made."
"Both the science and the hedonistic sides line up in a region like ours to allow for great diversity of varieties and styles of wine, which is somewhat unusual in North America," explained Mr. Tracy.
Mr. Tracy came to Channing Daughters from a family "that drank wine and food and traveled and exposed me to those things," and eventually purchased a California vineyard. Having attended school for performing arts and philosophy, he changed direction after exploring the Long Island wine region in the mid-'90s, returning to wine via "life's crazy circuitous route."
A background in art and philosophy may not seem relevant to winemaking, but Mr. Tracy's love for creativity and appreciation of beauty have enhanced his craft.
"The two things are deliciousness and reflection of our place," he said of his priorities. "It's important that we make things that are delicious that people want to drink and enjoy and excite them and their senses. And that it reflects the climate, terra, the place, the culture where we're growing our grapes and making wine."
"If we can provide that something that's actually delicious and actually tells the story of the little piece of land where we exist and where we grow grapes and make wine, that's pretty awesome," he added.
The island's first second generation winemaker, Mr. Massoud learned the trade from his parents, Ursula and Charles, who founded Paumanok Vineyards in 1983 and still own and operate it today. Named after the Native American name for Long Island, Paumanok Vineyards is "very much a family affair," Mr. Massoud said, with his brothers Nabeel and Salim also working at the vineyard.
"My orientation as a winemaker, in terms of what inspires me, is not unlike what a chef probably experiences in a restaurant – and that is to just produce the most delicious wine that I can, it's pretty much that simple," he said. "It's always about making the best wine and what does that mean? It means the most delicious."
His inspiration also stems from the excitement of being a winemaker on Long Island these days, when recognition is rising for the region's wines.
"Honestly, the quality of the wines in many cases has been there for quite some time already, but more and more people, I think, are beginning to sort of catch on to the reality that world-class wines are being made right in their backyard," he said.
"We fancy ourselves artists as winemakers," he added. "We basically have, on Long Island, a very broad palette of colors to choose from…It's a lot of fun to be able to do all these different varieties and different styles and pair them with the local produce that the East End is so rich with."
Having earned a master's degree in fine art, Ms. Shinn also views her craft as an extension of her art, farming using holistic practices and keeping the farm "in tune with the subtleness of nature."
"When David [Page] and I moved to New York City," she said of her partner and co-owner at Shinn Estate Vineyards, "I was beginning to question making art and hanging it on a wall. When we brought this land and were deciding to plant a vineyard, I was so inspired by these 20 acres of land that had not been planted in vines yet. And the moment the first vine went into the ground, I was so inspired and this huge creative rush has just stayed with me ever since."
"Quite frankly," she added, "my art is now off the wall…it's in the vineyard and it's in every bottle of wine that we produce. It's just incredibly inspiring to me."
Hosted by the Parrish Business Circle and co-presented with Edible East End and Long Island Wine Council, "How Do You Bottle Creativity?" is Friday, March 21 at 6 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway in Water Mill. $20 for members and $25 for non-members, tickets include a one-year subscription to the Edible title of your choice. Space is limited. To make reservations, call 283-2118 or visit parrishart.org.


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The temps had just barely crept above 50 degrees when the motorbikes began buzzing up and down the streets. Suddenly, the cars that were driving around all winter with their windows closed have their windows wide open, music blaring, the pounding vibration of the beat rattling windows and nerves.
Pretty soon, as temps go even higher, we'll start hearing about loud house parties, where music pounds away until 2 or 3 in the morning.
In other words, people will start acting like jerks.
I like to call it the "jerk index," the percentage that one of your neighbors or someone on your block is likely to start acting like a jerk.
That's not to say that winter doesn't bring out its own brand of jerky behavior. There are a lot of jerks in the winter, from those that don't shovel their sidewalk to those who shovel snow into the middle of the street before the snow has even stopped falling.
But during the winter, most of your jerks stay indoors, mostly bothering their own family. As the temps rise, the jerks come out to play. For the next few weeks, as the temperatures climb, the jerk index will rise along with it. By the time we hit July the jerk index will skyrocket, hitting 100, meaning that there will be a 100 percent chance that one of your neighbors or someone on your block will act like a jerk.
Just like you can't avoid spring or summer, you can't avoid the jerk season, but you can take precautions. For example, you can try to deal with pesky jerks by calling 311 whenever they act up. That's a good start, but it's only effective if you take notes; make sure you keep all your 311 complaint numbers. You may need them later on if your jerk problem gets worse.
To deal with really bad jerk issues, you might need to see a specialist. In this case, your best bet is the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association. The WRBA has been battling jerks for over four decades. Over the last few years we've had some success dealing with all kinds of jerks, from those inconsiderate neighbors who make too much noise to the slobby jerks who don't clean up after their dogs.
Now that jerk season is here, you might want to consider getting involved with the WRBA, coming out to a meeting, finding out how to handle the jerks that aggravate you. The Woodhaven Residents' Block Association will hold their next monthly meeting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, March 15, at Emanuel United Church of Christ, 91st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard.
Come out and tell the WRBA what problems you have been having. We usually have the 102nd Precinct at our meetings, as well as elected officials and members of the local media. If you are having jerk issues or you are anticipating an issue with a jerk, a Block Association meeting is a great place to start getting help.
The WRBA will be meeting in two locations throughout 2014. Emanuel United Church of Christ is one and the other is the American Legion, 91st Street and 89th Avenue, behind PS 60. (See meeting schedule.)
We can't guarantee that we can resolve all of your issues, but we do have a good track record of dealing with the quality of life issues that can aggravate you. But you need to make the next move. Hope to see you this Saturday.
2014 WRBA Meetings
• Thursday, April 24 @ 7 p.m. – American Legion Hall
• Saturday, May 17 @ 1 p.m. - American Legion Hall
• Saturday, June 21 @ 10 a.m. - American Legion Hall
• Saturday, July 19 @ 10 a.m. - Emanuel United Church
• Saturday, August 16 @ 10 a.m. - Emanuel United Church
• Thursday, September 18 @ 7 p.m. – American Legion Hall
• Saturday, October 18 @ 12 p.m. - American Legion Hall
• Saturday, November 15 @ 12 p.m. - American Legion Hall
• Saturday, December 13 @ 12 p.m. - Emanuel United Church


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I just finished a giveaway at Tatertots & Jello & Jen was kind enough to let me guest post on her super blog!
Now I can very proudly add one of those buttons that goes......I was featured on;)
Well here is how to make Mini Lauren.............a trifolf credit card holder with a trigger clip:)
The Mini Lauren
4.5"(12cm) wide x 3.5"(9.5cm) high when closed
9"(23.5cm) long when fully open including the flap.
The slots are 3"(7.5cm) by 4.5"(12cm) each.
Material Requirement
· Exterior fabric – 11" x 11"
Cutting your fabric
From your exterior fabric cut
· One exterior panel 5"(12.7 cm) x 7.5"(19 cm)
· One lining panel 5"(12.7 cm) x 7.5"(19 cm)
From the fusible interfacing cut
· One exterior panel 4"(10.2 cm) x 6.5"(16.5 cm)


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Events Calendar
Dog Training at SVACA
- Date: 01/16/2019 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
- Location: SVACA
3370 Thomas Road
Santa Clara, California 95054
Drop-in weekly classes. For your first visit, arrive at 6:00 pm to register. From 6:00-7:00 you will receive an orientation, get answers to your questions, discuss your companion's specific needs, and receive instruction on and practice the first three exercises. Arrive at 6:15 for your next 5 visits; class ends by 7:15. Donna will also provide support via phone and e-mail.
$159 for 6 lessons.
For more information or to register contact Donna at 408-225-6042 or email@example.com.
Donna Johns is an independent contractor and is not employed by the SVACA.


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Open Universiteit
Open Universiteit Nederland is an independant government-funded institute for distance learning at university level. A new task for the Open University Nederland is to take a leading role in the solution of the problems caused by the shortage of teachers, especially in primary and secondary education. Since mid 2000 in the Netherlands full teacher qualification can be obtained in real life training trajectories 'on the job', by means of a tri-partite contract between a teacher/trainee, the school where the teacher/trainee will be working/learning and a teacher institute. In 2003 the Ruud de Moor Centre was established to support these trajectories on the job, especially by means of ICT based distance learning and support.
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Ancient Native Americans' Living Descendants Revealed – "Ancient people who lived in in Northern America about 5,000 years ago have living descendants today, new research suggests."
No single origin for agriculture in the Fertile Crescent – "Transition from foraging to farming occurred over the entire Fertile Crescent." – see also Early agriculture from Iran from dienekes.
Mental Retardation and Dadly Adaptations – from greg cochran.
Warning over cousin marriages: Unions between blood relatives in Pakistani community [in the u.k.] account for third of birth defects in their children – "Bradford research collected data on 11,300 babies involved in project. Rate in city is three times the national average of just under two per cent."
The Problem with Writing about Race – "One of the purposes of this site was to develop something called 'Liberal Race Realism,' which is a movement that I started. Admittedly, it hasn't gone anywhere at all. Actually, it has been a complete failure. But that is ok. Really what it shows though is just how messed up people, especially Americans, are about race." – from robert lindsay via hbdbibliography.
White skin privilege – "There is a widespread belief, particularly among proponents of whiteness studies, that notions of beauty are determined by power relationships…. This belief is so entrenched that little concern is shown for counterfactual evidence, such as the medieval trade in fair-skinned women for clients in North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia…. [T]his pattern is inconsistent with the belief that power relationships determine notions of beauty." – from peter frost.
Emmanuel Todd's L'invention de l'Europe: A critical summary – from craig willy.
Exposure to stress even before conception causes genetic changes to offspring – "A female's exposure to distress even before she conceives causes changes in the expression of a gene linked to the stress mechanism in the body — in the ovum and later in the brains of the offspring from when they are born, according to a new study on rats."
First baby born after full genetic screening of embryos – "Connor … is the first child to be born after his parents had the entire genomes of a batch of their IVF embryos screened for abnormalities, with the intention of picking the healthiest for implantation." – via hbdbibliography.
Economic growth and evolution: Parental preference for quality and quantity of offspring – from jason collins.
How Simple Can Life Get? It's Complicated
Genetic links between post-reproductive lifespan and family size in Framingham – via mr. mangan, esq.
Evolution, lifestyle, and diseases of affluence – from mr. mangan, esq.
'Lower BMI mark for ethnic groups' – "The standard test to see whether people are a healthy weight does not work consistently across different ethnicities, [u.k.] health officials have said." – via v.a.w.
Richard Lynn On A Century of IQ In Britain And The U.S. – see also steve sailer's Does IQ testing work or not work?
Children's diets worse today than in wartime: And now illnesses of 1940s are making a comeback – "Scurvy and rickets are on the rise amongst children who live on junk food." – what about brain development / behavior / iq? =/
DNA Markers in Low-IQ Autism Suggest Heredity – "A new study in the American Journal of Human Genetics finds evidence that there may often be a recessive, inherited genetic contribution in autism with significant intellectual disability."
Exercise reorganizes the brain to be more resilient to stress – via mike anissimov.
How Strong Is the Female Sex Drive After All? – "Women may be more sexually omnivorous than men, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're as hungry." – via jayman.
Cosmetic surgery to look whiter fails to boost women's self-esteem
Understanding Evil – interviewing war criminals.
bonus: witch-hunt and whining continue – UNM probe finds professor's [geoffrey miller's] tweet not part of project
bonus bonus: Tribalism and the War in Syria – via mark weiner.
bonus bonus bonus: BBC chief admits: We had a 'deep liberal bias' on migrants – no kidding! =/ ed west already said so [pdf].
bonus bonus bonus bonus: Egypt: Epidemic of Sexual Violence – "At Least 91 Attacks in 4 Days; Government Neglect Means Impunity Rules." – note that includes sexual assaults, too, so they're not all actual rapes.
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Review of "Detroit: An American Autopsy" by Charlie LeDuff – from foseti.
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: "Back To Europe" Movement – from heartiste.
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Cockatoos 'pick' puzzle box locks
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Vibrating genitals may Ward off Predators – wait. vibrating genitals??
(note: comments do not require an email. btw, we were all just a$$holes once. (~_^) )


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Thursday April 05, 2012
from Giant Step
The Touré-Raichel Collective – The Tel Aviv Session
Simply divine. The Touré-Raichel Collective is composed of the highly lauded Vieux Farka Touré (Mali) and Idan Raichel (Israel), who were brought together during a serendipitous encounter at a German airport.
The Tel Aviv Session is the product of an impromptu afternoon jam session that took place after the duo's performance at the Tel Aviv Opera House in November 2010. The entirely improvised acoustic recoding features Vieux and Idan, as well as Israeli bassist Yossi Fine and Malian calabash player Souleymane Kane. A little mind blowing to think that this was all off the cuff '" insane talent.
The entire album is streamable below, and we are pretty much beside ourselves here. A must listen. Be sure to catch these gentlemen on their North American tour as well.
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We here at Astroguyz love a good read about the secret history of astronomy… sure, everybody knows the exploits of Galileo and Copernicus, but how many have heard of the trials of 18th century British astronomer Richard Carrington? The Sun Kings, The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began, by Stuart Clark and out now by Princeton University Press is the fascinating tale of how the science of astrophysics and space weather truly began, and of how astronomers went from passively observing to truly analyzing data gleened from the universe around us. A truly rare and engaging breed of science history book, we were almost sad to finish it. It stands probably as the best read we've had since The Search for Planet Vulcan, and tells how these old-time astronomers operated.
The tale opens with the now infamous Halloween flares of 2003, some of the most powerful of the previous solar cycle. This represented the first time that some of our most cherished solar watch dogs, such as SOHO and the GONG network were on hand to witness the full fury of the Sun. The shock was even felt by our vanguards elsewhere is the solar system, such as the Ulysses, Voyager 2, and Mars Odyssey spacecraft, even burning out the radiation detectors on the latter!
But as with much in science, our interpretation and understanding took a long and torturous road. The book then whisks the reader back to late 18th century England, a time when William Herschel proposed an astonishing idea; that the observed 11 year sunspot cycle was linked to Earthly agriculture and commerce. Specifically, he noted that the price of wheat tended to fluctuate in a corresponding period, with prices at their highest and supplies at their scarcest during the solar minimum and the opposite occurring at the solar max. Of course, this was seen as the delusion of an aging astronomer and roundly dismissed by his peers. Herschel had discovered Uranus and the infrared part of the spectrum, but this third contribution was largely overlooked.
Enter Richard Carrington. He stands as the kind of guy you'd always root for, an astronomer of ambition and insight whose personal life was marred by tragedy. He's is now remembered mostly for being on hand and having the prescience to accurately record what he saw, but also made the right connections to what was going on around the environs of the Earth in late 1859. It was interesting to note that during the height of the electromagnetic turbulence, a telegraph operator in Portland, Maine noted that his transmission system worked better utilizing solely the charge on the line, with the batteries disconnected!
Carrington's prime ambition was to observe the Sun through the span of one complete solar cycle, but like many of us, his plan to pursue astronomy was continuously be-deviled by the pursuit of funding and that whole personal life thing. Perhaps he needed a blog…
First, the death of his father left him running the family brewery. Not that the title of Gentleman/ Brewer/ Astronomer is a bad byline… but his romantic exploits turned sour as well, when his marriage to an under class woman turned into a love triangle that pulls him into trial and scandal. The whole affair reads like a bad Jane Austin novel… unfortunately, the innocent Carrington took his life by overdose of chloral of hydrate mixed with alcohol shortly after the death of his wife Rosa.
As sad a fate as Carrington's life was, his insight sparked a vigilant monitoring of the Sun. In fact, in the late 19th century, the riddle of the Sun was the topic in astronomy, as scientists turned a battery of new toys on our nearest star, such as the spectroheliograph and that new fangled device, the camera.
Hereto unknown elements such as helium were first discovered in the atmosphere of the Sun. But the source of its enormous energy output had to remain and mystery until Einstein revealed the miracle of fusion in the early 20th century.
Enter Edward Walter Maunder, in many ways the intellectual predecessor to Carrington. From his early childhood, Maunder had been transfixed by the Sun, spying a naked eye sunspot as a boy through a low heavy fog. It must have been an astonishing sight to the young Carrington, who went on to lead an expedition to India in 1898 to photograph the elusive solar corona.
Images taken by his wife Annie, an expert astronomer in her own right, later confirmed the connection between the tenuous streamers seen and sunspot activity. Here finally lay the mechanism by which the Sun could reach out and touch the Earth.
But its for another fascinating theory that Maunder is now known. He noted during his historical research that large spans of spotless periods corresponded with eras of dramatic global climatic cooling; a famous stretch from 1645 to 1715 now bears his name as the Maunder Minimum. During this period, the Thames river froze annually, harvests were meager, and several years without a summer were recorded. At first, even Maunder himself was skeptical; he believed the apparent lack of sunspots could easily be explained away by the gaps in the chronological record. However, Maunder's research was revived by Dr. Jack Eddy in the 1970′s, who also combed through Chinese records of naked eye sunspot observations. Today, the existence of the Maunder Minimum remains hotly contested, as does the Sun's role and measure of effect in climate change.
Of course, today it is tempting and sometimes even fashionable to link the solar cycle to everything from fluctuations in the stock market to the cycle of global conflict over resources to the prevalence of bikinis on your local beach, and the list of dubious links could provide headlines for your favorite search engine for years to come. But Hershel was in fact finally vindicated; in 2003, Israeli scientists proved that the link between wheat prices and the solar cycle in the 17th century was real. Similar assertions for top vintage wine years beg for a similar study. Wherever you stand on the global warming issue, few can deny that the shenanigans of our Sun are tied up in the cosmic riddle.
The author ends on an interesting coda; in 2004, large gamma-ray burst tore through our solar system two days after Christmas. This was powerful enough to effect our upper atmosphere for several hours, and was even recorded reflecting off of our own Moon! The source; a magnetar, a bizarre sort of pulsar just recently identified, about 50,000 light years distant. This event shows the emerging realization that not only are we at the mercy of our local Sun's whim, but that there are much meaner beasties out there that can and do reach out and touch us. We owe the beginnings of this understanding to Carrington and his ilk, who proved, often amid controversy, that we are not immune or aloof from our cosmic environs. Read The Sun Kings and marvel at this largely unknown but fascinating chapter in astronomical history!


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Defense Acquisition Acronyms and Terms (C) [Acquisition]
Defense Acquisition Acronyms and Terms (C)
C2 Command and Control
C3I Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
C3ISR Command, Control, Communication, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
C4 Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
CA Contract Award; Control Account; Competition Advocate; Certification Authority
CAAC Civilian Agency Acquisition Council
CAD Capabilities and Acquisition Division (J-8–Joint Staff); Computer-Aided Design
CADD Computer-Aided Design and Drafting
CAE Component Acquisition Executive; Computer-Aided Engineering (Obsolete—See CAPE (Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation))
CAIV Cost As an Independent Variable
CALS Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support; Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support
CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CAO Contract Administration Office
CAP Contractor Acquired Property; Critical Acquisition Position
CAPE Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (Office of the Secretary of Defense–Director, CAPE)
CAR Command Assessment Review (Air Force); Configuration Audit Review; Component Appointed Representatives (JCIDS)
CARD Cost Analysis Requirements Description
CAS Contract Administration Services; Cost Accounting Standard
CASB Cost Accounting Standards Board
CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering; Computer-Aided System Engineering
CAST Computer-Aided Software Testing
CAT Computer-Aided Testing
CATEX Categorical Exclusion
CATM Computer-Aided Technical Management
CBA Capabilities-Based Assessment; Cost-Benefit Analysis
CBD Chemical Biological Defense; Commerce Business Daily (Obsolete—See FedBizOpps (Federal Business Opportunities System))
CBM+ Condition-Based Maintenance +
CBO Congressional Budget Office
CBR Chemical, Biological, Radiological; Concurrent Budget Resolution
CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
CBS Cost Breakdown Structure
CBTDEV Combat Development (Army/Marine Corps)
CCA Clinger-Cohen Act; Component Cost Analysis (Obsolete—See CCE (Component Cost Estimate))
CCASS Construction Contract Appraisal Support System
CCB Configuration Control Board
CCD Category Code Directory; Contract Completion Date
CCDR Combatant Commander; Contractor Cost Data Report(s)/Reporting
CCE Component Cost Estimate
CCJO Capstone Concept for Joint Operations
CCN Configuration Change Notice; Contract Change Notice
CCP Consolidated Cryptologic Program; Contract Change Proposal
CCPO Consolidated Civilian Personnel Office
CDD Capability Development Document
CDR Contractual Data Requirement; Critical Design Review
CDRL Contract Data Requirements List
CE Cost Estimate; Current Estimate
CEAC Cost and Economic Analysis Center (Army)
CEC Civil Engineering Corps
CECOM Communications and Electronics Command (Army)
CEP Circular Error Probable; Contract Estimating and Pricing
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
CER Cost Estimating Relationship
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)
CETS Contractor Engineering and Technical Services
CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
CFE Contractor-Furnished Equipment
CFEN Contractor-Furnished Equipment Notice
CFM Contractor Financial Management; Contractor-Furnished Material
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFR Code of Federal Regulations; Contractor Funds Report
CFSR Contract Funds Status Report
CG Commanding General
CI Commercial Item; Configuration Item; Counterintelligence
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIC Critical Intelligence Category
CICA Competition in Contracting Act (1984)
CID Commercial Item Description
CIO Chief Information Officer
CIP Component Improvement Program; Critical Intelligence Parameter
CITA Commercial or Industrial Type Activities
CITIS Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service
CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CJCSI Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction
CJCSM Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Manual
CLIN Contract Line Item Number
CLR Contingent Liability Report or Record; Customer Liaison Representative
CLS Contractor Logistics Support
CM Configuration Management; Contract Management
CMC Commandant of the Marine Corps
CMIS Configuration Management Information System
CMM Capability Maturity Model
CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMO Contract Management Office
CMP Configuration Management Plan
CNA Center for Naval Analysis
CNAD Conference of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Armaments Directors
CNO Chief of Naval Operations
CO Change Order; Commanding Officer; Contracting Officer
COAR Contracting Officer's Authorized Representative
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
COC Certificate of Competency; Certification of Compliance
COCO Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated (Facilities)
COCOM Combatant Command
COI Critical Operational Issue
COMDT Commandant
COMMINT Communications Intelligence
COMOPTEVFOR Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force (Navy)
COMPT Comptroller
CONOPS Concept of Operations
CONUS Continental United States
COP Common Operational Picture
COR Contracting Officer's Representative
COTR Contracting Officer's Technical Representative
COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CP Change Proposal; Critical Path
CPA Chairman's Program Assessment (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff(CJCS))
CPAF Cost Plus Award Fee
CPAM CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) Program Assessment Memorandum (Navy)
CPAR Contractor Performance Assessment Report (Air Force)
CPC Corrosion Prevention and Control
C/PD Cost/Pricing Data
CPD Capability Production Document
CPFF Cost Plus Fixed-Fee
CPI Consumer Price Index; Cost Performance Index; Critical Program Information
CPIF Cost Plus Incentive-Fee
CPIPT Cost Performance Integrated Product Team
CPM Contractor Performance Measurement; Critical Path Method
CPO Civilian Personnel Office
CPPC Cost Plus Percentage-of-Cost
CPR Chairman's Program Recommendation; Contract Performance Report
CPS Competitive Prototyping Strategy
CPSR Contractor Procurement/Purchasing System Review
CPU Central Processing Unit
CQC Construction Quality Control
CR Change Request; Continuing Resolution; Cost Reimbursement
CRA Continuing Resolution Authority
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CRAG Contractor Risk Assessment Guide
CRC Control Reporting Center
CR-IPT Computer Resources-Integrated Product Team
CRISD Computer Resources Integrated Support Document
CRLCMP Computer Resources Life Cycle Management Plan
CRS Computer Resources Support
CRWG Computer Resource Working Group
C/S/A Commands/Services/Agencies
CSA Chief of Staff of the Army
CSAF Chief of Staff of the Air Force
CSB Configuration Steering Board
CSC Computer Software Component
CSCI Computer Software Configuration Item (also called SI (Software Item))
CSD Computer Software Documentation
CSI Construction Specifications Institute; Critical Safety Item
CSOM Computer Software Operator's Manual
CSP Critical Safety Process
CSS Contractor Support Services
CSU Computer Software Unit
CTE Critical Technology Element
CTEA Cost and Training Effectiveness Analysis (Army)
CTEMP Capstone Test and Evaluation Master Plan
CTO Chief Technology Officer
CTP Critical Technical Parameter
CUPS Council on Uniform Procurement System
CV Cost Variance
C-V-P Cost Volume Profit
CWA Clean Water Act
CWBS Contract Work Breakdown Structure
CY Calendar Year; Current Year
Hagan, G (2011) Glossary of Defense Acquisition Acronyms & Terms. Defense Acquisition University Press. Fort Belvoir, VA., 22060
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Index of Acronyms
Incoming search terms:prototyping strategies OR prototyping strategy
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