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Many people, upon hearing about organized stalking, struggle with the idea that something involving so many different people willing to victimize a single innocent individual can possibly exist. As a long-time victim of this evil, I can tell you with great authority that organized/gang stalking not only exists, but actually occurs openly and with shocking frequency. You too will be able to recognize it and spot it being done to people as you go about your everyday life, once you know a few of the basic things to watch for.
The quickest and most surefire way I know of to spot gang stalkers in action is to keep your eye on vehicles that drive with their lights on during the daytime (regular headlights, parking lights, or other--see below). I'm not saying all vehicles that do this are being used to stalk someone (although where I live, so many people participate in organized stalking that the percentages are far higher here than normal), only that the lights are a red-flag warning that they might be.
Once you spot a vehicle that's lit up at an inappropriate time, start watching it carefully. Is its driver following someone way too closely from behind and ignoring obvious opportunities to pass? Does the tailgating vehicle with its lights on eventually speed up, go around the car in front, and then turn its lights off immediately after the pass is completed? Ah, but I can hear skeptics in the crowd saying that drivers often tailgate and flash their headlights as a way of letting slow drivers know they want to be let by. In those cases, however, the vehicle in back can be expected to pass at the first safe opportunity, whereas stalkers won't pass no matter what (at least not for a while).
However, organized stalkers work in teams, so if you're witnessing road stalking, the vehicle behind will eventually pass the victim, turn its lights off, and speed away. Almost immediately, another vehicle will pull in behind the victim, turn their lights on, and take their turn, sometimes tailgating in order to insure that the victim notices them, and other times following at a safer distance so as to cause less alarm to non-involved drivers around them.
A common variant of the above can be identified when you spot one or more (it often involves several) vehicles pulling onto a highway or freeway entrance around the same time a victim's vehicle reaches the same spot. When you see the lights of all the vehicles that pull onto the same road behind the victim turn their lights on, while none of the vehicles in front of the victim's light up, you will know you are witnessing someone being stalked by a group. Then, as each vehicle behind passes the victim's in turn, you will see the stalkers turn their lights off. Only the stalkers behind the victim's vehicle will have their lights on.
Another commonly seen variation of this involves a stalker's vehicle being deliberately positioned out ahead of a victim's vehicle (keeping in mind that victims of organized stalking are usually under constant illegal surveillance). As the victim approaches, the stalker's vehicle begins driving extremely slowly and refuses to let the victim's vehicle pass. (Sometimes other stalkers' vehicles assist by blocking the passing lanes as well.) Eventually, the victim either finds a way to pass or is finally allowed to pass, but as soon as they do so, you will see the lights on the slow-moving vehicle turn on, and it will then often either turn away or speed off.
An additional technique you'll see used by stalkers is to park a vehicle along the side of the road ahead of where a victim will be passing. As the victim's vehicle approaches, you will see the lights on the parked vehicle turn on and remain on until the victim has driven completely past, at which time the parked vehicle's lights will suddenly be extinguished. This seems to be especially used by corrupt law enforcement officers, in which case the parked vehicles are often official patrol cars whose colored lights are also turned on and off as the victim's vehicle passes.
Stalkers in their vehicles also approach victims' vehicles from the opposite side of the road. In this case, you will see the stalkers turn off their lights just as they pass the victim's vehicle, so if you see multiple vehicles coming toward you with their lights on and these are all switched off as they pass a certain vehicle going the opposite direction, you are witnessing organized stalking in action.
You should watch for vehicles bearing bizarre custom license plates as well, because the drivers of these vehicles are usually actively stalking someone. Some Texas examples of these plates that I've seen in the past are: SET UP. STRYKE, and GLOCK U.
There are of course many ways to spot organized stalking in action that do not involve vehicles, but I wanted to discuss the signs of gang stalking involving vehicles first and foremost, because I believe these are the easiest and most obviously abnormal things for uninvolved people to watch for. However, there are obvious and important non-vehicular signs of organized stalking to look for as well. For example, if you see numerous people hanging around a particular residence at odd hours, especially if they have dogs and are standing in front of the residence or walking back and forth in front of it repeatedly, you can bet the people inside are stalking victims.
Other signs of organized stalking are people in neighboring houses or businesses who come out and make loud noises strictly for the sake of making noise (walking out of the house and banging two metal pipes together, for example, or turning off and on a mower, chain saw, blower, heavy equipment, backup beeping warning noises, or even first responder sirens or fake bird noises!) repeatedly for short periods of time, particularly when victims step outside.
A particularly important sign of organized stalking is seeing unauthorized persons coming and going from a house or business when you know the inhabitants are away. These stalkers will often be (or claim to be) legitimate repair persons of various kinds and will even have marked vehicles, but they will be installing illegal surveillance equipment, moving items around inside (to make victims think they're going crazy or just to let them know their property is not secure), or placing various toxins in places where victims will be likely to come in contact with them (food, water bottles, hair care products, cosmetics, and air ducts are favorite locations for this).
Especially ominous signs of organized stalking are seeing construction crews at a house when the inhabitants aren't there (so they can seal illegal equipment inside walls, ceilings, built-ins, etc.) and seeing people trespassing on the property of others repeatedly. Often the trespassers will be entering victims' homes even when they are occupied, since the stalkers usually know exactly where their victims are and what they are doing all the time because of the extensive illegal surveillance. Organized stalkers have a particular fondness for the roofs, basements, and garages of their victims, because these afford easy access through attics, sky lights, or less-used doorways.
If you had been following me around recently and knew what to look for, you would have had little trouble discerning that I am a victim of organized stalking. As I left for work (at an unusual time) yesterday, a woman dressed in a strange way (so I'd notice her) was standing in front of our house; after I took her picture with my camera phone, she ran onto my property and hid in some bushes. As I drove along the freeway, numerous vehicles entered and turned their lights on as I passed them. As I left for home that evening, a man in a small red car with Texas plate CXP7-X231 turned turned his headlights on and began tailgating me without passing. Eventually, he left, but his place behind me was taken by a succession of other vehicles with their lights on that were immediately switched off when they suddenly passed me after several miles. Farther along, I became stuck for several miles behind large truck with "ENGLAND" on the sides that was driven by a thin Caucasian man with long dark hair and glasses at a speed that was over 20 mph slower than the rest of the traffic was going. When I was finally able to get around this truck, its lights came on, and it left at the next exit. I got home in time to see strange people running up my driveway and on up to houses on the hill above us.
Very early this morning as I left for work, a vehicle identical to one owned by my ex-husband was waiting around the corner; as I passed by, it suddenly accelerated, went speeding by me, and blatantly ran a red light before tearing off. Tonight, it was a dark gray car with Texas plate BW3-X099 that began tailgating me with its lights on as soon as I left work and refused to pass me for quite some time despite having many opportunities to do so. Later, I was passed by a vehicle bearing a Texas custom license plate the read "CM 4 U".
Call the police, you say? Law enforcement won't do anything (and is usually actively involved in the stalking). Of course all this is illegal, but even the U.S. DOJ turns a blind eye. If that doesn't bother you, it should, because unchecked organized stalking is spreading like the plague.
See also http://www.theagencyinc.net/true_stories/gangstalking.pdf
Update: Another way to recognize organized stalking is to watch along limited access freeways for vehicles that enter the highway from an entrance ramp and then immediately leave via the same exit ramp. The victim in these cases will be in a vehicle already on the freeway that the entering and exiting vehicle will either pull up behind in the short time it's on the highway or will sometimes even go speeding around before immediately exiting. Sometimes the entering and exiting vehicle or vehicles (because there can be more than one!) will turn its headlights on briefly while it's behind the targeted vehicle as well; this is a dead give-away that organized stalking is going on.
Also watch for vehicles with asymmetric lights: e.g., a lit headlight on one side and a lit fog light on the other, or various other unusual arrangements of lit lights on vehicles (especially during the daytime, but also at night). [In the area where I live, a shockingly large percentage of vehicles have been modified so that one or both turn signal lights can be switched completely on and off deliberately by the driver, rather than blinking; that is, the vehicles are made into "stalker mobiles".] These patterns are very common on stalkers' vehicles. (The victim's vehicle will be somewhere in front of these vehicles if it's traveling in the same direction. Watch for the stalker vehicles to pass the victim and turn off their lights as they do so as explained above.) Any vehicle with a single small light lit on one side of the front of the vehicle during the daytime should be considered a stalker vehicle until proven otherwise.
At night, watch for "brighting": stalkers vehicles suddenly turning their bright headlights on and off at a victim while approaching from the opposite direction, or pulling up close behind and/or beside a victim and suddenly blinding them by turning on their high beams so they reflect off the mirror/s and into the victim's face. (Brighting is very dangerous and very illegal, having caused the deaths of numerous stalking victims, but of course stalkers care nothing about this.)
How do so many stalkers know the location of victims in advance so they can lay in wait for them? In Central Texas, this is often accomplished by a few stalkers with either access to illegal surveillance of victims or direct visual information on victims' whereabouts (co-workers seeing victims leaving for home in the evening, for example) sending out large group text messages to a great many people participating in organized stalking. Both the sending and receiving of these text messages is a crime under federal anti-stalking statutes, but Central Texas stalkers don't seem to care about this. (Perhaps they should, though, since Edward Snowdon has so helpfully pointed out that the NSA has records of everyone's cell phone records!)
This recent Topix post by my ex-husband discusses some of the things I've talked about in this post:
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Yes,'Gang Stalking','Community Mobbing','Workplace Mobbing' etc There are a few names jumping around. Basically, this is the harassment program created by the Elite families (I use Elite as that's what they call themselves, but they are the filth of humanity). Basically, using Freemasonry, including Jehovah witness, scientology, Mormons etc (the weak needy people)They are trying to harass people they know that will stand up to them. They Use car headlights on in the daytime as their main method. All it is is a few cars are tracking you on GPS or by foot/visual and they will drive with the lights on and most of the other cars have no idea they are targeting someone specifically, but simply turn on their lights when they get a text to do so. Thus giving an illusion that they are all watching/following you. Also, when you are driving they actually follow you without headlights on. These cars will have cameras on the back of the rear view mirror. Some will carry targeting weapons that heat you up while you drive. They will not have their lights on. They will try to get you in the traffic, and fire when safe to do so.If you keep moving they will not use it, so change lanes. The EU is actually trying to take over via the same Nazi and old USSR tactics. They are trying to remove opposition. The EU is basically the Nazi EEC.The same plan to unite europe under 1 nazi controlled Europe and head towards the NWO (New world order. The EU has tried to remove this by making only recent laws that new cars should have daylight lights. This however is pathetic as they can't account for all bikes and older cars 2010 models having their lights on. Nice try but you have fallen flat on you dumb ass! Also, these lights are only on and all turn off once the target is indoors. |


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51. Tourists always enjoyed ……………….. the setting sun in the Darjeeling hills.
(A) to watch
(B) watching
(C) in seeing
(D) seeing
Ans : (B)
52. The speaker did not properly space out his speech, but went on ………. one point only.
(A) stressing
(B) avoiding
(C) devoting
(D) decrying
Ans : (A)
53. A …………… of Japanese artists stepped off the coach amidst a warm welcome.
(A) troop
(B) troupe
(C) band
(D) gang
Ans : (B)
54. Today students should be reconciled ………….. the way things are changing.
(A) with
(B) to
(C) for
(D) at
Ans : (A)
55. Ramappa ……….. as the Mayor of the town and he will assume charge this Friday.
(A) elects
(B) elected
(C) is elected
(D) is electing
Ans : (C)
Directions—(Q. 56—60) In these questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and indicate corresponding to the appropriate letter (A, B, C). If there is no error, indicate corresponding to (D).
56. He ate (A) / nothing (B) / since yesterday. (C) No error (D)
Ans : (A)
57. An experimental vaccine (A) / has brought (B) / glimmer of hope for malarial researcher. (C) No error (D)
Ans : (C)
58. After making me wait for two agonising hours (A) / the great man called me in (B) / and asked me what do I want. (C) No error (D)
Ans : (A)
59. The ebb and flow of the tides (A) / are (B) / now understood. (C) No error (D)
Ans : (B)
60. The green paint on the wall (A) / provides a suitable contrast (B) / with the yellow doors. (C) No error (D)
Ans : (C)
Directions—(Q. 61–65) Group of four words are given. In each group one word is wrongly spelt. Find the wrongly spelt word.
61. (A) Submitted
(B) Admitted
(C) Comitted
(D) Omitted
Ans : (C)
62. (A) Brillient
(B) Valiant
(C) Salient
(D) Radiant
Ans : (A)
63. (A) Recuperate
(B) Regulate
(C) Reinstate
(D) Seperate
Ans : (D)
64. (A) Cease
(B) Seize
(C) Beseige
(D) Beseech
Ans : (C)
65. (A) Carrier
(B) Carreer
(C) Courier
(D) Barrier
Ans : (B)
Directions—(Q. 66–70) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word and indicate the answer.
66. Censure
(A) Criticise
(B) Appreciate
(C) Blame
(D) Abuse
Ans : (A)
67. Diligent
(A) Industrious
(B) Indifferent
(C) Intelligent
(D) Energetic
Ans : (A)
68. Contemplation
(A) Consideration
(B) Meditation
(C) Deliberation
(D) Speculation
Ans : (B)
69. Adulation
(A) Duration
(B) Argument
(C) Flattery
(D) Institution
Ans : (C)
70. Quiver
(A) Quarrel
(B) Quicken
(C) Waver
(D) Tremble
Ans : (D)
Directions—(Q. 71–75) Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word and choose the correct alternative.
(A) Love
(B) Lust
(C) Luck
(D) Loss
Ans : (A)
(A) Explanation
(B) Challenge
(C) Compromise
(D) Opposition
Ans : (C)
(A) Dull
(B) Dissuade
(C) Active
(D) Speed
Ans : (B)
(A) Educated
(B) Unscholarly
(C) Scholarly
(D) Possessive
Ans : (B)
(A) High
(B) Poor
(C) Rare
(D) Fluent
Ans : (B)
Directions—(Q. 76–80) In these questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and indicate the correct answer.
76. A few days before his death, he made a clean breast of everything.
(A) Confessed
(B) Took off his shirt
(C) Suffered
(D) Spoke ill
Ans : (A)
77. I am done for.
(A) Ruined
(B) Rewarded
(C) Answered
(D) Questioned
Ans : (A)
78. For a healthy and lasting friendship one must be on the level.
(A) Equally rich
(B) Mentally compatible
(C) Honest and sincere
(D) Ready for sacrifices
Ans : (A)
79. The foolish young man soon made ducks and drakes of the vast property his father left him.
(A) Squandered
(B) Distributed
(C) Spent
(D) Gave in charity
Ans : (A)
80. All his ventures went to the winds.
(A) Dissipated
(B) Spread all over
(C) Got speed of the winds
(D) Became well-known
Ans : (A)
Directions—(Q. 81–90) In these questions, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Indicate your correct answer—
Happy is the man who …(81)… the habit of reading when he is young. He has secured a lifelong source of …(82)…, instruction and inspiration. So long as he has his beloved books he need …(83)… feel lonely. He always has a pleasant …(84)… of leisure moments. He is the …(85)… of wealth more precious than gold. …(86)… indeed is the man who does not read and …(87)… is his life. …(88)… gives the highest kind of pleasure. When we are …(89)… it is a healthy recreation to lose …(90)… in the company of books.
81. (A) owns
(B) buys
(C) acquires
(D) takes
Ans : (C)
82. (A) pleasure
(B) satisfaction
(C) sadness
(D) dejection
Ans : (A)
83. (A) always
(B) ever
(C) sometimes
(D) never
Ans : (D)
84. (A) source
(B) occupation
(C) possession
(D) relief
Ans : (A)
85. (A) possessor
(B) loser
(C) master
(D) heir
Ans : (A)
86. (A) rich
(B) lucky
(C) poor
(D) bad
Ans : (C)
87. (A) full
(B) vacuum
(C) empty
(D) deep
Ans : (C)
88. (A) writing
(B) speaking
(C) listening
(D) reading
Ans : (D)
89. (A) weak
(B) fresh
(C) sick
(D) tired
Ans : (C)
90. (A) himself
(B) ourselves
(C) yourselves
(D) themselves
Ans : (B)
Directions—(Q. 91–95) In these questions, you have one brief passage with 5 questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer-each question out of the four alternatives and indicate the correct answer.
The public sector banks are witnessing in India a period of transition and are at crossroads, where they without giving up social responsibility, should also remain healthy. They need to undertake risky experiments. yet perform it innovatively in a way it does not fail. They should make forays into new areas which are rarely tread by them and lose no emerging opportunities. It should be understood that absence of any bad advance is no sign of efficient banking system. It only indicates immense. conservatism. However this is no guarantee for profit. There should be a balance between liquidity and risk. Past sins should be forgotten. Novel and pragmatic techniques should be adopted without which banks would be in danger.
91. What according to the author, are the public sector banks witnessing ?
(A) A period of profit
(B) A period of change
(C) A period of certainty
(D) A loss-making period
Ans : (B)
92. In addition to being socially responsible, what does the author want the banks to be ?
(A) Customer-friendly
(B) Able to attract foreign investors
(C) Financially healthy
(D) Senseless risk-takers
Ans : (C)
93. How can the banks take risks without risking a failure ?
(A) By being innovative
(B) By soliciting the help of the government
(C) By being financially healthy
(D) By being conservative
Ans : (A)
94. What does the absence of any bad advance indicate ?
(A) A penchant for risks
(B) Immense conservatism
(C) Financial independence
(D) A deep-seated social commitment
Ans : (D)
95. What would happen if novel and pragmatic techniques are ignored ?
(A) Will put the banks in danger
(B) Will undermine the banks' social commitment
(C) Will reveal the untapped talent
(D) Will result in inefficient portfolio management
Ans : (A)
Directions—(Q. 96–100) In these questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence and indicate the appropriate answer.
96. Simple, fast-spreading plant without flowers or leaves, which can often cause disease—
(A) Bacteria
(B) Amoeba
(C) Virus
(D) Fungus
Ans : (A)
97. One who is greedy—
(A) Voracious
(B) Avaricious
(C) Carnivorous
(D) Omnivorous
Ans : (B)
98. An area of land that is controlled by a ruler—
(A) Colony
(B) Dominion
(C) County
(D) Municipality
Ans : (B)
99. A place where Jews worship according to their religion—
(A) Cathedral
(B) Synagogue
(C) Chapel
(D) Demagogue
Ans : (B)
100. One who is indifferent to pleasure and pain—
(A) Ascetic
(B) Esoteric
(C) Stoic
(D) Sceptical
Ans : (C)
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1.1 Abstract This tutorial will demonstrate how to go about reformatting your USB flash drive. It will particularly show how to reformat it with a NetBSD FFS filesystem, but will work for any filesystem, including back to a MSDOS FAT filesystem. There are numerous reasons why one would want to do this. One example is that this is a key step in creating a NetBSD system installed onto and from a USB drive and boot from it (although there are a couple more steps involved in preparing the drive, most notably installing and activating the MBR). Another reason is that it offers a layer of security as if someone tried to steal and read your files on a Windows system, they might give up when Windows cannot recognize the file format. In the same light, do not do this if you need this to work on a Windows system, as Windows does not recognize Unix filesystems natively. Also, be sure to read the manpages for fdisk(8), disklabel(8), and newfs(8). 1.2 Create a new NetBSD partition The first step is to delete the MSDOS partition and create the new NetBSD partition. The USB drives are usually designated as sd0: Code:
umass0 at uhub6 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 2 luns per target sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SanDisk, Cruzer, 8.01> disk removable sd0: 7657 MB, 61260 cyl, 8 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 15682559 sectors cd1 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 1: <SanDisk, Cruzer, 8.01> cdrom removable Code:
# fdisk -u /dev/rsd0d Disk: /dev/rsd0d NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: cylinders: 61260, heads: 8, sectors/track: 32 (256 sectors/cylinder) total sectors: 15682559 BIOS disk geometry: cylinders: 976, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder) total sectors: 15682559 Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks? [n] n Partition table: 0: Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT (sysid 11) start 44, size 15679396 (7656 MB, Cyls 0/0/45-975) PBR is not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00) 1: <UNUSED> 2: <UNUSED> 3: <UNUSED> No active partition. Which partition do you want to change?: [none] 0 The data for partition 0 is: Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT (sysid 11) start 44, size 15679396 (7656 MB, Cyls 0/0/45-975) PBR is not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00) sysid: [0..255 default: 11] 169 start: [0..976cyl default: 44, 0cyl, 0MB] [RETURN] size: [0..976cyl default: 15679396, 976cyl, 7656MB] [RETURN] bootmenu: [] [RETURN] The bootselect code is not installed, do you want to install it now? [n] n Partition table: 0: NetBSD (sysid 169) start 44, size 15679396 (7656 MB, Cyls 0/0/45-975) PBR is not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00) 1: <UNUSED> 2: <UNUSED> 3: <UNUSED> No active partition. Which partition do you want to change?: [none] [RETURN] Installed bootfile doesn't support required options. Update the bootcode from /usr/mdec/mbr? [n] [RETURN] We haven't written the MBR back to disk yet. This is your last chance. Partition table: 0: NetBSD (sysid 169) start 44, size 15679396 (7656 MB, Cyls 0/0/45-975) PBR is not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00) 1: <UNUSED> 2: <UNUSED> 3: <UNUSED> No active partition. Should we write new partition table? [n] y fdisk -l . The main ones of interest for *BSD are:Code:
159 BSDI? 165 FreeBSD or 386BSD or old NetBSD 166 OpenBSD 169 NetBSD 183 BSDI BSD/386 filesystem 184 BSDI BSD/386 swap 1.3 Create the label for the new partition The next step is to create the disklabel slice(s). The standard partition letter for USB drives is 'e' in NetBSD. (At least my SanDisk Micro's are always 'e'). You can make this any letter from 'a' to 'p', except 'c' or 'd'. If you have another USB drive that you're using another filesystem on (say a MSDOS one for working with Windows machines) it may be helpful to choose another letter. If you want to delete a partition, just set the filesystem type to unset its start offset and size to 0. Note: The 'c' (NetBSD partition) and 'd' (whole disk) partitions are needed in NetBSD - don't delete them! Code:
# disklabel -i -I sd0 partition> i Filesystem type [?] [MSDOS]: 4.2BSD Start offset ('x' to start after partition 'x') [0c, 0s, 0M]: [RETURN] Partition size ('$' for all remaining) [61260c, 15682559s, 7657.5M]: $ partition> W Label disk [n]? y Label written partition> Q 1.4 Create a new filesystem on the new partition This will create and format the new filesystem on the partition created through disklabel. Code:
# newfs /dev/rsd0i 1.5 Modify any necessary system configurations to accomodate the new setup At this point, you can modify any system settings that you deem necessary. Probable changes will be a new mount point in /mnt, such as /mnt/usb_ffs. You might also want to add a new entry to your /etc/fstab. Such an entry might look like this (I have in another entry for a MSDOS partitioned drive) : Code:
/dev/sd0e /mnt/usb msdos rw,nosuid,nodev,noauto 0 0 /dev/sd0i /mnt/usb_ffs ffs rw,nosuid,nodev,noauto 0 0
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here's a link to a garden apron from Martha's website. This is the only photo of it-which doesn't look very apron-ish, but it is for an apron, I promise. The dishtowel apron is super cute, also from Martha's site and that pattern is here.
Kay sent me this great link to a free pattern for a knitted apron from Knitty. Thanks! And here is the free crocheted apron pattern that was in County Living Magazine last month. And another crocheted apron, this one is for gardening, here. Here is a pattern for a child's bonnet that turns into an apron. (boy, I need to come up with a better word than "here", will work on this, I swear.)


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Thirty top breweries, 100 rare and specialty beers, 1,500 attendees. It takes a full-fledged suds town to pull off an event like Brewvival, and last year's inaugural shindig proved Charleston is just that. This February 26, favorite craft breweries—such as New Belgium, Bell's, and Terrapin Beer Company—will again converge on the grounds of Coast Brewery, giving locals a chance to indulge in hard-to-find beverages plus food, music, and talks by industry pioneers.
"Brewvival showcases extraordinarily high-quality brewers who are revealing special creations not normally available," says Scott Shor of The Charleston Beer Exchange, which teamed up with Coast to produce the event. "The festival's atmosphere embraces beer geekery, appealing to both seasoned beer enthusiasts and novices."
And this year, in addition to pours of American Wild Ale and Imperial IPA, attendees can enjoy a wider food selection, shorter lines, and a greater number of portable toilets. So bring a lawn chair, a refillable water bottle (to stay green and hydrated), and a designated driver for an afternoon of liquid artistry.
Saturday, February 26, noon-6 p.m. Coast Brewery, 1250 2nd St. N., North Charleston. $50; $10 designated driver. www.brewvival.com


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For this week's hack, [Dino] was working on a mechanical cat toy, but the project fell apart towards the end for some reason or another. With time running out, he had to come up with something on pretty short notice, using whatever he happened to have on hand. Luckily he picks up some seriously weird stuff at the local thrift store and had a disembodied doll's head kicking around for this last minute project.
Taking a cue from Toy Story's [Sid Phillips], [Dino's] doll's head hexapod is as creepy as it is simple. He had a remote controlled hexapod from RadioShack sitting around, and thought it would be fun to combine it with the doll's head. He replaced the dolls eyes with a handful of LEDs, which are green as the hexapod retreats, but glow a bright red as it advances towards you. The only way it could be any creepier is if [Dino] added a voice box that plaintively called for "mommy" as the doll crawls around!
It's a relatively goofy project, but it gave us a good chuckle. The most disturbing highlight of the build is when [Dino] removes the doll's eyes using a wood drill bit around the 6:00 mark.
If you're looking to kill a few minutes, be sure to check it out – [Dino's] work is entertaining as always.


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Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
The protohistoric site of Bat lies near a palm grove in the interior of the Sultanate of Oman. Together with the neighbouring sites, it forms the most complete collection of settlements and necropolises from the 3rd millennium B.C. in the world.
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Sites archéologiques de Bat, Al-Khutm et Al-Ayn
Le site protohistorique de Bat, au voisinage d'une palmeraie de l'intérieur du sultanat d'Oman, constitue avec ses sites annexes l'ensemble le plus complet de zones d'habitat et de nécropoles du IIIe millénaire av. J.-C.
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المواقع التاريخية في بات والخطم والعين
يشكّل موقع بات الذي يعود إلى عصور ما قبل الكتابة والمجاور لبستان النخل داخل سلطنة عمان، مع المواقع المرتبطة به، المجموعة الأكثر كمالاً في مناطق السكن والمقابر الكبيرة في الألفية الثالثة ق.م.
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Археологические памятники Бат, Эль-Хутм и Эль-Айн
Доисторические памятники Бата расположены рядом с пальмовой рощей во внутренней части султаната Оман. Вместе с близко расположенными памятниками они образуют наиболее целостный, из всех существующих в мире, комплекс поселений и некрополей 3-го тысячелетия до н.э.
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Sitios arqueológicos de Bat, Al Khutm y Al Ayn
Cercano a un palmeral situado en el interior del sultanato de Omán, el sitio protohistórico de Bat y los sitios arqueológicos vecinos constituyen el conjunto más completo del mundo de asentamientos humanos y necrópolis del tercer milenio antes de nuestra era.
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Archeologische steden Bat, Al-Khutm en Al-Ayn
De protohistorische site Bat ligt in de buurt van een palmentuin in het binnenland van het Sultanaat van Oman. Samen met de naburige plaatsen vormt de plek de meest complete verzameling nederzettingen en begraafplaatsen ter wereld uit het 3e millennium voor Christus. De necropolis van Bat bevindt zich op een begrensde en coherente plek en toont karakteristieke en unieke eigenschappen van de evolutie van begrafenispraktijken tijdens de eerste bronstijd op het schiereiland van Oman. Er zijn twee archeologische vindplaatsen: de toren van Al-Khutm, 2 kilometer ten westen van Bat en de groep graftombes van Qubur Juhhal in Al-Ayn, 22 kilometer ten zuidoosten van Bat.
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Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
The protohistoric archaeological complex of Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn represents one of the most complete and well preserved ensembles of settlements and necropolises from the 3rd millennium BCE worldwide. The core site is a part of the modern village of Bat, in the Wadi Sharsah approximately 24 kilometres east of the city of Ibri, in the Al-Dhahira Governorate of north-western Oman. Further extensions of the site of Bat are represented by the monumental tower at al-Khutm and by the necropolis at al-Ayn. Together, monumental towers, rural settlements, irrigation systems for agriculture, and necropolises embedded in a fossilized Bronze Age landscape, form a unique example of cultural relics in an exceptional state of preservation.
Seven monumental stone towers have been discovered at Bat and one is located in al-Khutm, 2 km west of Bat. The towers feature a circular outer wall about 20-25 m in diameter, and two rows of parallel compartments on either side of a central well. The earliest known tower at Bat is the mud-brick Hafit-period structure underneath the Early Umm an-Nar stone tower at Matariya. The latest known tower is probably Kasr al-Rojoom, which can be ceramically dated to the Late Umm an-Nar period (ca. 2200-2000). All of the stone-built towers show dressed blocks of local limestone laid carefully with simple mud mortar. While conclusive evidence of their function is still missing, they seem to be platforms on which superstructures (now missing) were built – either houses, or temples, or something else entirely.
The vast necropolis at Bat includes different clusters of monumental tombs that can be divided into two distinct groups. The first group is Hafit-period "beehive" tombs located on the top of the rocky slopes surrounding Bat, while the second group extends over a river terrace and includes more than a hundred dry-stone cairn tombs. Another important group of beehive tombs is located at Qubur Juhhal at al-Ayn, 22 km east-southeast of Bat. Most of these tombs are small, single-chambered, round tombs with dry masonry walls dating to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE. Others are more elaborate, bigger, multi-chambered tombs from the second half of the 3rdrd millennium BCE.
As in many other ancient civilizations, monuments in ancient Oman were usually built with regularly cut stones. Unique of Bat and al-Ayn are the remains the ancient quarries from which the building materials were mined, and the many workshops that attest to the complete operational procedure, from the quarries, to the stone-masonry, to the buildings construction techniques. The continuous and systematic survey activities constantly increase the types and number of monuments and sites to be documented and protected, which include villages and multiple towers, quarries associated with the Bronze Age stone-masonry workshops, Bronze Age necropolises, an Iron Age fort, Iron Age tombs, and two Neolithic flint mines connected with workshop areas for stone tool-making.
Criterion (iii): The area encompassing the settlements, the necropolises and the workshop areas of Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn is the most complete and best known archaeological complex in Eastern Arabia for the 3rd millennium BCE. Cuneiform texts of ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq), dating to the end of the 3rd millennium BCE, tell us that the country of Magan (Oman) was at the time the principal extraction centre of copper, which was exported overseas to Mesopotamia to the northwest, and possibly to the Indus Valley in the east. Archaeological evidence for the appearance of a more hierarchical and structured social organization is attested at Bat in both the settlements, where circular monumental structures contrast with rectangular houses, and the necropolises, where the arrangement of funerary space increased in complexity and the grave goods testify to higher living standards and social changes mainly due to the introduction of a long-distance trade economy.
Criterion (v): In a restricted, coherent space, the necropolis of Bat bears characteristic and unique witness to the evolution of funeral practices during the Early Bronze Age in the peninsula of Oman.
The archaeological sites of Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn encompass the most unique ensemble of 4000-5000 year-old burial monuments, towers, and remains of settlement in the Arabian Peninsula, representing an extraordinary example of the unique response of the ancient people of Oman to the pressures of an increasing population and to the input from contacts with other civilizations.
The actions of time, erosion and weathering processes, has slightly damaged some structures, but in general, the sites at Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn are very well preserved and they continue to express their exceptional cultural value and incredible monumentality.
Bat and its surroundings represent a mosaic of intact, authentic monuments of great antiquity, represented not only by villages and funerary buildings, but also by the many monumental towers and irrigation dams. For centuries, the tombs were used and reused, thus preserving their original function and meaning.
Protection and management requirements
The archaeological complex of Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn are protected by the law for National Heritage Protection of the Sultanate of Oman (1980), and they are studied and preserved under the control of the Ministry of Heritage & Culture and its Department of Excavations and Archaeological Studies (DEAS). The Ministry of Heritage & Culture is presently developing a new "Management Plan" and a new "Memorandum of Understanding", focusing on the following three points:
(I) to protect the site from destruction by regulating access to and development of specific parts of the site; (II) to promote understanding of the meaning of each site and monument through scientific study of archaeological remains and the contemporary landscape; and (III) to promote the dissemination of these studies through the development of an interpretive programme oriented for local and international tourism, including the creation of one or more interpretation centre at site.
To answer these goals, the following elements are under way or planned: Since 2004 the Ministry of Heritage & Culture there has started a comprehensive international project in close collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia, USA), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan), the German Mining Museum (Bochum, Germany), and the University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany), for the documentation, the study and the conservation of the archaeological complex of Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn. Research have been concentrated on tombs (German Mining Museum and University of Tübingen), monumental towers (University of Pennsylvania Museum), local settlement patterns (University of Pennsylvania Museum and University of Tübingen), and quarries (German Mining Museum). In 2009, the Department of Explorations & Archaeological Studies of the Ministry of Heritage & Culture excavated the monumental tower at al-Khutm.
The continuous collaboration and interaction between all teams involved in the study of the archaeological complex of Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn, under the constant supervision of the Ministry of Heritage & Culture, has resulted in the creation of a more detailed typology for the tombs and the monumental towers. Moreover, this research strategy has led to an increasing understanding of the social-cultural and environmental contexts that eventually resulted in the foundation and the development of such a complex mosaic of villages, necropolises and hydraulic structures still visible at Bat, al-Khutm and al-Ayn. In light of recent discoveries at al-Ayn, it might be worth considering an enlargement of the boundaries of the property for the re-inscription of Bat, Khutm, and al Ayn to include also the row of tombs locally known as Qubur al-Jehhal, situated near the modern village of al-Ayn.
Plans are being developed to begin the restoration of the best preserved monumental tower, the so-called Kasr al-Rojoom.
A local inspector has been entrusted by the Ministry of Heritage & Culture to monitor the construction and the development of modern infrastructures and any potentially destructive access to the sites.
The main cemetery site was already partly fenced off from vehicular traffic, but the construction of a complete fence began in 2009.
The area surrounding the sites will be tested by means of non-invasive geophysics techniques (e.g. magnetometry and ground penetrating radar) to find an appropriate place for building a visitors centre, a museum, the car park, and all the facilities requested to enhance the public fruition of the sites.


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The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development is currently awarding $130,000 to the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a liberal think-tank housed at the University of Wisconsin. The DWD is a state agency that is supposed to report to Governor Scott Walker. The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), although housed at the University of Wisconsin, is a heavily ideological organization led by Professor Joel Rogers, who has advised the Obama Administration on so-called green policies.
COWS receives free office space from the University of Wisconsin despite the ideological nature of its work.
In August of 2012, Secretary Reggie Newson of the Department of Workforce Development signed off on a multi-year grant from the agency to COWS, offering the liberal group $130,000 to conduct research on a state partnership program designed to encourage workforce education. The state of Wisconsin obtained money for the grant from the Joyce Foundation in Chicago. The Joyce Foundation has previously awarded grants to liberal groups who have done work to oppose policies implemented by Governor Walker.
According to the terms of the grant, Laura Dresser, the associate director of COWS, is the one responsible for making sure the think-tank fulfills the research it is being asked to conduct. Specifically, DWD is relying on COWS to provide vital information about the Regional Industry Skills Education II – RISE II – program.
Dresser is hardly a fan of the Walker administration, and as the second in command at COWS she has had ample opportunity to make sure her work on economic policy communicates her distaste for Walker. "The more people look at it the more it stinks," Dresser said in February 2011 of Act 10, the governor's collective bargaining reform legislation. Asked to explain what Act 10 was all about, Dresser declared it was, "A breathtaking, and extreme, and radical move to deny collective bargaining rights to public sector workers."
At the same time that the DWD and COWS were finalizing the grant last year, Dresser went on the radio on WTDY in Madison to complain about how the DWD released certain jobs data, although she did admit that the data released was accurate and positive news for Wisconsin. In the same interview, Dresser complained Governor Walker's polices led to a decrease in government workers and that is "a big drag on the Wisconsin economy."
The state budget this year actually hired new state government employees, but local government workforces have shrunk in some parts of Wisconsin.
Dresser's opposition to Walker isn't confined to just collective bargaining reform. She took the opportunity on Labor Radio to praise Wisconsin Jobs Now! and Citizen Action of Wisconsin for their efforts to orchestrate fast food worker strikes in Milwaukee this year. "In Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jobs Now! and Citizen Action and others have been leading the way," Dresser praised. Both of those groups actively opposed Governor Walker during the 2012 recall election and have aligned themselves with liberal interests opposed to many of the policies the Governor has been putting forward.
A believer in government stimulus programs, Dresser chastised Walker in the same interview for turning down federal funds. "At every turn when there is a chance to get federal money…we keep saying no to the money," she complained. Walker's policies are a move to austerity, she said and have led to a contraction of the Wisconsin economy.
But in the past few months Wisconsin has seen an increase in the number of jobs created, meaning the state's job market is doing slightly better now under Democrat Governor Jim Doyle.
In a recent op-ed that she penned for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dresser belittled the MacIver Institute, a conservative free market think tank based in Madison.
When DWD was asked about the grant and why the money had been channeled to a liberal organization, and apparently outside of the normal grant making process, Nancy Eikls of the agency responded by comparing COWS to a "state agency."
Since COWS, A UW affiliate, is a state agency, there is no RFP or procurement that is needed, by Chapter 16 procurement rules.
The grant is neither training, nor Convening, but is for $130,000 for research and data analysis.
While it is true that COWS is housed at the UW Madison, the organization pushes a number of liberal agenda and policy items very clearly aligned with liberal ideological causes. The organization functions in the shadows of the University's Sociology Department budget, but its funding mechanism as it appears now is murky as private funds merge with taxpayer funds and tuition fees in the departmental budget.
In addition to leading the project for which DWD awarded COWS a grant, Dresser and Sigrid Peterson, a graduate project assistant at COWS, sit on the DWD's Wisconsin Industry Partnership Leadership Team.
Aaron Nutting contributed to this report. It originally appeared on MediaTrackers.org.


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Critchfield Conference to explore the 21st century Marine Silk Road
Scholars from around the world will converge on William & Mary for the third biennial Critchfield Conference April 5-6 to discuss "The Indian Ocean Basin: Navigating the 21st Century Marine Silk Road."
"This year's Critchfield Conference deals with one of the most vital regions in the world for the future of human security and development," said Stephen E. Hanson, vice provost for international affairs and director of the Reves Center for International Studies.
"Due to our geography, Americans tend to analyze the world in terms of trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific ties, and we often neglect the vibrant cultural and economic interconnections among the nations around the Indian Ocean. Our conference will provide a comprehensive and in-depth look at the historical context and dramatic contemporary changes in this part of the world."
The conference will kick off on April 5 with a keynote lecture on "The Indian Ocean Basin in Global Context" by Robert D. Kaplan, foreign correspondent for The Atlantic, Chief Geopolitical Analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
Kaplan's 2010 book, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, provides an in-depth examination of the region and its relationship to American power and relevance on the world stage.
Three panels will provide the bulk of the conference schedule, with emphasis on the culture, history and politics of the Indian Ocean Basin; the resources, developments and shifting geostrategies of the region; and the challenges it faces in the 21st century. Scholars from around the region will be participating.
Michael C. Hudson, director of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore, will provide the luncheon keynote on April 6, discussing U.S. Geopolitical Interest and Policies in the Indian Ocean Basin.
"This year's Critchfield Conference is charting new territory. Reflecting historic and contemporary realities, the focus will be on integrating the Middle East into the broader Indian Ocean context," said Tamara Sonn, Kenan Professor of Humanities in the W&M Department of Religion and conference chairperson.
"For centuries, African, Arab, and Persian peoples have interacted culturally and economically with the people of South and East Asia. The conference will cover that background, and then lay out the challenges of global interaction in today's world, including food, energy, water and environmental security; sustainable development; and geostrategic concerns."
Yet more than just providing a scholarly examination of current topics, the Critchfield Conference also provides the opportunity for current students to become informed about the region and motivated to tackle its challenges in their careers and future positions of leadership.
"In keeping with William & Mary's long history of providing leaders in government, business and the military, the Critchfield Conference presents a unique insight into one of the most geopolitical issues and challenges affecting commerce, diplomacy and conflict in the twenty-first century, the Indian Ocean and its Marine Silk Road," noted Lois Critchfield, D.P.S. '13 , founder of the Critchfield Endowment for Middle East Studies and member of the Reves Center Advisory Council.
"We look on this conference as a launch pad to prepare today's students to meet these challenges and become informed leaders for our country in the coming decades."
The 2013 Critchfield Conference is free and open to the public. Registration is required, and will be available from the conference website, www.wm.edu/marinesilkroad from March 1 to 29.
The conference is sponsored by Aramco Services Company as well as William & Mary's James H. Critchfield Memorial Endowment, Reves Center for International Studies and the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) program. Student organizations including the International Relations Club, and the Middle Eastern Student Association will support this event.


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Dove Creek baseball is back.
After pushing 4A Montezuma-Cortez to the brink last Thursday, the 1A Bulldogs bounced back in a big way.
Dove Creek trailed Utah rival Monticello 3-0 early Friday afternoon in the Montezuma-Cortez Invitational. But the Bulldogs' bats came alive and they scored eight unanswered runs in an 8-5 win.
Saturday was even sweeter.
Dove Creek played its No. 3 and No. 4 pitchers, and scored 10 runs off of eight hits in a comfortable 10-6 win over rival Dolores.
It's been a long time coming since the Bulldogs beat the Bears.
"It's nice," said fourth-year senior outfielder Tyler Ebberts. "The team works hard and we're pretty dedicated this year. I'm glad we have the win."
These two San Juan Basin League rivals will meet at least three more times this season. Although this game didn't count toward the league standings, Dove Creek has clearly sent a message that it's a title contender this year.
"That's what we want to do," said Bulldogs coach Ken Soper about making a case for being an early SJBL favorite. "That gives us momentum for when we do play in the league. It's a good win."
Dove Creek (3-1) took second-place in the Montezuma-Cortez Invite with a 2-1 record. The host Panthers won the tournament, going a perfect 3-0.
"This team had confidence before the season started," Soper said. "They were enthused about baseball, they had confidence that they were going to win. This definitely will help (with) the victories."
Dolores, on the other hand, fell to 0-4 after the tourney, struggling with its pitching.
The Bulldogs took advantage Bears starting pitcher Tyler Weir. He walked five Dove Creek batters in the first inning, which the Bulldogs converted into three runs. Weir was relieved after 1/3 of an inning. Chaz Thompson pitched the rest of the game and got the Bears out of the top of the first down 3-0.
Weir hit an RBI-single in the bottom half to get Dolores on the board down 3-1. But the Bears just couldn't stop the Bulldogs.
Dove Creek scored three runs in the second inning and tacked on four more in the fourth. The Bulldogs were able to use three pitchers in the game, due to having a large lead on the scoreboard. Soper was happy to get extended minutes from his other pitchers.
"Tyson Smith is only our third string pitcher. I thought he did a good job the first time he's ever pitched," Soper said about his winning thrower.
Ebberts led Dove Creek on offense, hitting 3-of-4 with an RBI. Senior first baseman Klancey Krafka batted 2-for-3.
"I've been working on my hitting a lot. I've been getting a lot of help from the coaches," Ebberts said. "We're pretty good. There's a lot of confidence right now."
Weir paced Dolores, going 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Dove Creek and Dolores will be in Farmington, N.M., Thursday through Saturday to participate in the Piedra Vista High School tourney. The Bulldogs play the Farmington junior varsity Thursday at 4 p.m.
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MS update gives some XP boxes the Blue Screen
13-update Patch Tuesday proves unlucky for some
Applying the latest patches from Microsoft can cause Windows XP machines to crash with the infamous blue screen of death.
Updating systems with the MS10-015 bulletin, which addresses "important" vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel, can cause machines to lock up when restarted before falling into a never-ending reboot loop. The problem is far from isolated, judging by a growing thread on the topic on an official Windows support forum here - though it's fortunately not commonplace either.
Restarting affected systems in Safe Mode reportedly doesn't seem to help. Suggested fixes for the problem involve booting from a Windows CD or DVD and starting recovery console before uninstalling the MS10-015 update. Uninstalling all 11 of Tuesday's Windows-related updates, as initially suggested by some users, now seems to be unnecessary.
The issue was first reported by security blogger Brian Krebs on Wednesday here. The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre began tracking the problem on Thursday afternoon. Microsoft is yet to comment on the issue but can be expected to publish some sort of updated advice before the end of the week, if previous form is any guide.
It's still unclear why affected systems throw a wobbler while other near-identical Win XP PCs chug along quite happily after the updates are applied.
Misfiring updates from Microsoft that cause more grief than the problems they are intended to solve are rare but far from unprecedented. The latest example, as some previous incidents we recall, happened when Microsoft issued an unusually heavy Patch Tuesday featuring numerous updates. Multiple tweaks and security fixes at one time creates a recipe for trouble, it would seem.
Security firm Sunbelt advises users to hold off the MS10-015 update. It also advises enterprises to consider applying updates in phases, just in case one of a large batch of patches turns out to be problematic. ®


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Council to Meet in October
Contact: Lynn Holton, Public Information Officer, 415-865-7740
Oct 24, 2011
Judicial Council to Hold Public Meetings In San Francisco This Week
Reports on Trial Court Allocations, New Criteria for Emergency Funds and Future of CCMS
San Francisco—The Judicial Council of California will hold a public business meeting on a wide range of issues affecting state court administration from 8:30 a.m. to 1:55 p.m. on Friday, October 28, 2011, in the Hiram Johnson State Office Building, Judicial Council Conference Center, Third Floor, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco.
An educational session on the California Court Case Management System (CCMS) will also be held from 1:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 27, 2011, at the same location. The chairs of the CCMS Executive Committee and the CCMS Internal Committee will review options for moving forward with CCMS within current budget constraints. These meetings are now open to the public.
Chaired by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the council is the administrative policymaking body of the California courts. The meetings will be audiocast live on the California Courts website at http://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-jc.htm. The meeting agenda and reports are now available at www.courts.ca.gov/15708.htm.
As the first order of business, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye will administer the oath of office to seven new Judicial Council members: Ms. Angela J. Davis, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice; Judge David F. De Alba, Superior Court of Sacramento County; Presiding Judge David Rosenberg, Superior Court of Yolo County; Judge David M. Rubin, Superior Court of San Diego County; Mr. Mark P. Robinson, Jr., attorney, Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc.; Mr. David H. Yamasaki, Court Executive Officer, Superior Court of Santa Clara County; and Judge Teri L. Jackson, Superior Court of San Francisco County.
Discussion and Consent Agendas
The consent agenda contains more than 30 reports, many proposing new and amended rules and forms required by state law. A summary of the discussion agenda follows:
Distinguished Service Awards: The chairs of three Judicial Council internal committees recommend that the council approve the winners of the four annual Distinguished Service Awards for significant and positive contributions to court administration in California.
Parliamentary Procedures: A Judicial Council working group recommends that the council adopt parliamentary procedures effective immediately. The procedures would provide guidance to the council about the conduct of council meetings and voting requirements on council matters.
Trial Court Audit Reports: The Advisory Committee on Financial Accountability and Efficiency for the Judicial Branch (A&E) recommends that the Judicial Council accept the audit report for the Superior Court of San Joaquin County. The audit report is recommended for the discussion agenda because there are a number of internal control deficiencies that the committee believes should be discussed. While the court has indicated that it understands the importance of addressing those deficiencies, it indicates that it has a "significant lack of financial resources" that impacts it in doing so. Three other audit reports for the Superior Courts of Alpine, El Dorado, and Napa Counties will be recommended for approval on the council's consent agenda.
Court Technology: The chairs of the CCMS Executive Committee and the CCMS Internal Committee will recommend that the council approve deployment of CCMS to at least two early adopter courts, with the council setting the direction for the current fiscal year within current budget constraints. The chairs will also make a presentation at an open educational meeting on October 27.
Special Funds Allocations: This report contains recommendations from the Trial Court Budget Working Group (TCBWG) about requests to rollover $7.610 million in unused allocations from prior years to fiscal year FY 2011–2012 from the Trial Court Improvement Fund, the Judicial Administration Efficiency and Modernization Fund, and the Trial Court Trust Fund. The TCBWG recommends rollover funding of $5.759 million for the Domestic Violence Order After Hearing project, Reserve for Workers' Compensation Tail Claims, and the Phoenix Financial and Human Resources Services program.
Criteria for Supplemental Trial Court Funding: The council will consider recommendations from the AOC and a representative group of trial court presiding judges and court executive officers on the process and criteria for supplemental funding for trial courts. At its educational meeting last August, the council asked AOC staff, in consultation with the trial courts, to review the current process and criteria and report back to the council at its October 28, business meeting.
Campaign for Justice Month: The State Bar Board of Governors has recognized October 2011 as Campaign for Justice Month and the last week in October as National Pro Bono Week, to increase both pro bono and financial contributions to legal services agencies. On October 3, 2011, the Judicial Council's Executive and Planning Committee took action on behalf of the council to adopt a resolution recognizing Campaign for Justice Month and National Pro Bono Week to continue the council's efforts to support increased attorney representation and to show appreciation for the valuable pro bono contributions made by lawyers throughout the state. (Information only; no action required.)
National Technology Award: The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) selected the California Courts Protective Order Registry (CCPOR) as one of two finalists for its 2011 NASCIO award for Data, Information and Knowledge Management. The CCPOR creates a statewide repository for restraining and protective orders, containing both data and scanned images of orders that can be easily accessed by judges, court staff, and law enforcement officers. It helps protect both victims of domestic violence as well as law enforcement personnel. (Information only; no action required.)
Reduction in Clerks' Office Hours: The 2010 Judiciary Budget Trailer Bill, Senate Bill 857, added a new section 68106 to the Government Code that directs (1) trial courts to notify the public and the Judicial Council before closing courtrooms or clerks' offices or reducing clerks' office hours on days that are not judicial holidays, and (2) the council to post on its website and relay to the Legislature all such court notices. This is the seventh report providing information about the implementation of these notice requirements. Since the sixth report, eleven courts—San Mateo, Mendocino, Merced, Humboldt, Nevada, Lake, Placer, Ventura, Kings, Fresno, and Yolo—have given such notice. Since the effective date of section 68106, October 19, 2010, a total of 19 courts have given notice. (Information only; no action required.)


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How to combine some sweeping arpeggio runs with both one- and two-handed tapping licks.
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In Fig. 1 I wanted to start with a basic C major arpeggio starting on the 5th string. The basic idea for all these licks is to ascend with a sweep and descend with a combination of both left- and right-hand tapping. When I am sweep picking I like to hold my pick with the thumb and index finger and tap with the remaining three fingers. In this example, use your middle finger to tap all the notes. Each time we switch to a new string, we use a "hammer-on from nowhere," where you tap with a finger on your fretting hand without picking the note. You may notice I have added an extra note outside of the arpeggio on the 1st string. Experiment with other notes outside the usual arpeggio as well as different expressions such as sliding and bending to add a little extra character to the lick. For reference, check out the finale solo of the DragonForce track "Valley of the Damned" at 6:45. I used this same technique over C major and G major.
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We change things around a little bit with Fig. 2. This time we are in D minor and use a double tap with the right hand. Again, use the index finger for tapping but pay extra attention on muting the strings lightly with the palm or wrist of your right hand. Use the area in which your hand touches the guitar body or strings as the pivot point and tap using wrist movement. I tend to use the flesh of my left hand index finger to mute the high strings when doing descending runs.
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Once you have this down, you can also use the guitar pick to tap all the notes and gain extra speed when you are ascending or descending. Listen to the DragonForce tracks "Once in a Lifetime" at 4:31 and "Heroes of Our Time" at 0:19 where instead of sweeping down I tapped with a pick in both directions.
Let's get more fingers moving on the right hand by fusing the C major arpeggio with an A minor pentatonic pattern. In Fig. 3 we are using the same sweep-up and tap-down method but we are outlining a basic A minor pentatonic scale with our tapping hand. When starting out, use your index finger on your tapping hand for the first note and then your ring finger for the second.
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A good reason to use more than one finger when you tap multiple notes on each string—apart from looking cool—is to stop your right hand wrist from moving up and down the neck too much. Your wrist should be resting lightly on the lower strings to mute them when not being played. Less movement up and down means more efficient and less noise.
Make sure to alternate between the three fingers to help strengthen them. The pinkie is smaller so it is especially useful on the higher frets. Be sure to experiment and see what works best for you.
I love to hear your suggestions for future lessons and see you try these licks out on YouTube!
Herman Li is a founding member of the Grammy-nominated metal band DragonForce. In the last few years, Herman has established himself as one of the most recognized and influential guitarists of the new generation, winning numerous awards around the globe. Apart from touring with DragonForce, he has also given guitar clinics in four continents in three different languages. Find out more at dragonforce.com and hermanli.com.


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As the legend goes, there was a small town in Libya called Sylene. It was in a swamp near that city that a ferocious beast lived. The villagers were at the mercy of this dragon and unless they kept it constantly fed, it would ravage the town. So insatiable was the appetite of this creature, that the town's entire livestock had eventually been depleted, leaving only the townsfolk as a food source. The town, in fear of this creature, drew lots for the sacrifice.
A young Cappadocian knight named George was riding through Libya where he came upon the city just when the king's daughter had drawn the unfortunate lot. This young soldier made a deal with the king that he would slay the dragon in exchange for the entire town's conversion to Christianity. The king was quick to agree, not thinking that this young soldier had much of a chance; if nothing else, it would delay the inevitable with his beloved daughter. George was good to his word, slaying the dragon by lance. So too was the town good to their promise, as some fifteen-thousand were baptized.
Later in life, as the legend goes, Saint George defied a Roman Emperor who demanded that all Christian clergy make sacrifices to pagan gods. For this public defiance, Saint George was thrown into a dungeon, tortured and martyred around the year 304 A.D.


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It's been a very busy year for me, and it's probably going to be just as busy next year. This blog has not been updated since January of 2014, which just won't do at all - I miss writing for it, and I miss writing for ReelGood as often as I used to.
However, I have decided that after such a long break, a fresh start is what I need. I've exported this blog, and kept the posts I'm particularly happy with to start a fresh at my new blog: Splendid Film Reviews.
I'm looking forward to getting back into the writing game, and I hope to see you all there!


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Too much food makes one obese, or at the very least flabby; too much revolution strips the credentials of those who want it, destroys the premises with which it is started, and undermine the cause. We have seen how rebellions cannibalise themselves. Bolshevism moved into bureaucratic stasis and murderous Stalinism; the French Revolution ended up, like Saturn, eating its children by first severing them on the guillotine after attacking the aristocrats. The finest example of this analysis remains Albert Camus' The Rebel (1951), a searing account about how rebellion can turn on itself.
That process is largely one of the utopian dreamer who dons the uniform of combat. The society makers, the dreamers, and the utopians strike in the hope that the next order is a more just one. The prisons are opened. The unjust institutions are either reformed or abolished. But disenchantment follows. As Camus observed, the atrocities that follow by means of terror are committed on the basis of a temporary emergency. You enslave people to free them.
The key to overcome this, suggests Camus, is the careful acknowledgment of transcendental values, be it the liberty of the subject, or the sanctity of life. Be aware of those who deny history, who demand the fresh start in a vacuum of intoxicated enthusiasm.
The narrative of justification behind the deposing of Mohamed Morsi is markedly similar. It was an engineered emergency, and one that argued that the revolution had been hijacked by Islamist enthusiasts and followers of Sharia. The democratic experiment fell into the hands of the "wrong people". (Oh, the trials and tribulations of a democratic system!)
This view is best expressed by Al Hayat's senior diplomatic correspondent Raghida Dergham, who thanked Egypt for restoring "to the Arab uprising its insistence on reform and freedom" and repudiating "dictates and despotism, in a spirit of rebellion, pride and perseverance." Notably, the military are but an instrument for Dergham's vision of reform, an enlightened body, in fact "the people's army" (Huffington Post, Jul 5). Generals, it seems, can be enlightened.
Morsi, in the words of Alon Ben-Meir of the Centre for Global Affairs at New York University, "worked tirelessly to consolidate his powers while doing next to nothing to save the economy from pending collapse" (Mindanao Examiner, Jul 9). Freedom of speech was assaulted; a constitution filled with Sharia law was implemented and "Islamic siege mentality and authoritarianism" embraced. For all that, Ben-Meir argues that "political Islam and democracy can work, but not by pushing for early elections." The time limit? Two years.
In 2004, Reuel Marc Gerecht claimed in The Islamic Paradox that such figures as Hosni Mubarak invariably fed fundamentalism, a process that might create fundamentalist critics. Secular dictatorships were not necessarily better than Islamic ones. Islamist rule was not necessarily incompatible with democratic tenets.
The coup (yes, let's call it that) also reveals a few foundational ideas. One is that Islam, or to be more precise, Islamic political governance, is incapable of democratic practice. "This is also a good opportunity for those who had wagered on a 'Turkish model'," argues Dergham, "to reconsider the application of such a model of religious rule in the Arab region."
This is a dangerous premise, for it is exactly one that some clerics and fundamentalists would have you believe. The work, in other words, is being done for the radicals by the very people who might oppose them. The Muslim Brotherhood, is other words, is being placed outside the tent rather than being accommodated.
The other dangerous idea is that democracy, by its very nature, can be abridged by military fiat should the need arise. The generals are the perceived guardians who can step in to rescue a sinking ship. A popular vote can be nullified.
One way of undermining a revolution preaching democracy is by despising the very principle of legality, by affirming a mythological supremacy that rejects the law book as it stands. To be legal, we need to undermine it. To be functional, the constitution needs suspension in order to be redrafted. This is the logic that Nazi Germany's most fluent and controversial jurist believed in: the law of the exception, argued Carl Schmitt, should be embraced, rather than rejected. Emergency decrees might be necessary to protect an order.
The offspring of this suspension, however, can be rather dangerous. In the case of Weimar Germany during the 1930s, democracy delivered a certain Adolf Hitler who stormed in while the democrats went to sleep. That particular "transitional" government lasted till May 1945. It proved a costly one.
Little surprise, then, that such governments as the United States have been tip-toeing around the term "coup". Whole states in the past have been delegitimised on the basis of the term. The script in Washington since the days of the Wilson administration was that an interruption of constitutional rule demanded severe international chastisement. Military aid would also cease to such a regime. Hence the need to call it something else.
The military, according to Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is "the one stabilising influence in Egypt that I think can temper down the political feuding that you're seeing going on now, and then help a process that will allow for multiple factions of parties and beliefs to participate."
Egypt again teeters. The Muslim Brotherhood will be thinking of past failures when the Islamic experiment won, or threatened to win in the polls but was felled by military involvement. Algeria in 1991 is the most potent example. Pro-Morsi supporters have already been slain. Civil war may be in the offing, though what is more likely is a return to the bloody cycle that defies accommodation in favour of despotism. The optimists will be hoping for a third way, one untidily wedged between, to use Ross Douthat's expression, "the minaret and the tank." So far, the tank is winning.
Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces proved to be influential on the formation of the punk rock and heavy metal genres.
With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has garnered six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. In 1994, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Three 6 Mafia Testin My Gangsta текст песни, слова песни Testin My Gangsta Three 6 Mafia
Three 6 Mafia - Testin My Gangsta
I comes from a city where they love to hate, especially on that Triple Six
They see we really got Bentley's and Benz's and they hate the shit
They try to come up over us, the radio even help em' at it
But yall ain't got no flows, so hang it up you silly rabbits
I'ma keep on hurting you boys, by making this motherfuckin' world rock
Side to fuckin' silence bitch for years and man we still ain't stop
Still ridin' clean, makin' cheese and carrying plastic glocks
And please don't try to test us cuz you know we'll let these bitches pop
On you hoes, you haters, you niggaz really like us
Cuz if you thank us, then you wouldn't try to sound so much like us
I'm the K-I-N-G of that M-P-H-M-S (Memphis)
H-C-P, to the E-N-D, others gone be less
Come prepared, man I swear they wanna be down with my team
Don't let the shit talkin' on them CD's fool you
That ain't what they really mean
The truth can hurt so bad so look in they faces when you play us
And watch how they look, and watch they jaw drop to the pavement
[Chorus: DJ Paul]
Why yall Test My Gangsta
These bitches Test My Gangsta
[Repeat 8x]
Cuz it's on now
Nigga yeah it's on now
[Repeat 4x]
[Verse 2: Lord Infamous]
Nigga don't you know that Lord can make your life a living hell
And I mean that literally, the place where demon spirits dwell
Empty all the buck-shot shells, make your fucking body smell
I can fuck you up somewhere, to where you were they cannot tell
Fuck me with me, you fucking with the best
Nigga so all you fucking with the wrong one
I will hit you with the milli-milli gun, got a millimeter gun
Blow out ya lungs
Like them old I-Tal-Ians, Mafia, devil son
When you see me coming, better run for fucking cover bum
(BLITE!) AK, SK, .44, Tre-8
This body kinda heavy, D.O.A., air away
Bitch you better take notes, 'fo you end up cut-throat
And ya on the ground bro', with your fuckin' shirt soaked
Ini-Mini-Miny-Mo, blow a nigga out his clothes
Come out the trench-coat with a Sawed-Off, and lay me down a hoe
So if you think ScareCrow ain't a gangsta come and test the waters
You will be de-slaughtered, the dearly departed
[Verse 3: Crunchy Black]
Why you niggaz wanna test my gangsta?
Don't make a nigga run up and shank ya
Or put some cement in yo shit and sank ya
Or make you shoot yourself and then I'm thankin' ya
Throw tile over round your throat and drag ya cuz
Get nothing from me, but gangsta love
No testin' me my nigga, have you laying in blood
Or dig you a grave, cut ya bitch ass up
[Verse 4: Juicy-J]
(Yeah Hoe!) [repeated throw the verse]
You niggaz be trying to test, I ain't no slouch
I squeeze my fuckin' fist, my nig', I break the law
I call out a hit my nig', I make the fall
The handle with the bloody trig', is all they saw
'Fo yo ugly face was down, on the ground
A barrel pointed at your frown, with hollow rounds
I bet ya wanna run and shit, it's too late now
You shouldn't have been runnin' ya lip, to make me clown


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Asus ZenWatch, likely the cheapest Android Wear device to date, due in October
Long-awaited smartwatch will be unveiled Wednesday as IFA kicks up
Asus is all set to fully reveal its first Android Wear smartwatch, now officially dubbed the ZenWatch, this Wednesday as IFA begins in Berlin, and some of the first details have started seeping out.
As promised, the ZenWatch is expected to be the cheapest Android Wear device on the market when it debuts, with a price under US$199 (~£120) planned. That's according to a report from the Central News Agency in Taiwan, which says the watch will be available in October.
The company has actually shown a fair bit of the wearable device via a teaser video and some sketches, which show off a rounded rectangle face and a brushed metal exterior. It will reportedly only come in one size at launch.
According to the CNA report, the watch "can be used alone" in addition to being paired with an Android device, though the extent of its standalone functionality remains to be detailed. It will launch with English voice control support, with Chinese support due by the end of the year.
Some features remain vague for now, but it won't be long until we hear more: Asus will livestream the official unveiling of the ZenWatch this Wednesday, 3 September at 10:30am GMT. Stay tuned for more as IFA's biggest announcements come pouring in later this week.
[Source: Central News Agency via The Verge]
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Here are some photos of what I have been working on the past weeks, months and there will be more to come. Do follow me on Instagram and Facebook Page on my latest musings and whereabouts.
A lot of you has given me tremendous support and having numerous query on what I offer, has driven me to sit down to think through my menu. Do note that my list will always be growing, where old flavours may be revised over time, and I will also be introducing SEASONAL flavours. Being a self proclaim foodie, there will be experimentation in the kitchen on new flavours. Who knows, you may have the first hand to savour some of my cakes?


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There are some good books in the Forgotten Realms library. Do you use cameo characters form these books? If so how do you balance them with your campaign?
I know there was a campaign that came with character sheets for the main members of house Do'Urden. But if you ask me they didn't match how those characters really were in the books.


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Nearly half of the septic systems in the county have reached their service life expectancy, and studies show that drinking water quality and availability are decreasing. Inspections over the first 18 months of the program revealed:
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The Washtenaw County Time of Sale Regulation was passed June 9, 1999 and officially went into effect January 1, 2000.
Homes with municipal sewer and water are not affected. Only homes serviced by an on-site well and/or septic system must be inspected. Homeowners are advised to contact a certified inspector as soon as possible before selling a home. This allows necessary repairs to be completed and prevents delays due to inspector or contractor scheduling. Approvals are valid for one year.
No. The Regulation clearly states that it is not intended to bring all systems up to current construction standards. Only those that are failing or in substantial non-conformance require corrective action.
The Environmental Health Division considers repairs under the concept of maximum feasible compliance for inadequate systems that cannot be brought into compliance, which means finding a solution that brings a system as close to current codes as site conditions will allow. Use of alternative sewage disposal technologies is encouraged on these sites. Property owners have the option of appealing the Environmental Health Division's decisions to the Health Code Board of Appeals/Public Health Advisory Committee.
Yes. Property transfers that are exempt from inspections include:
The program requires the Environmental Health Division to complete the inspection report review in 5 business days or less. This does not delay closings when the inspections are done in a timely manner. Some sales are delayed when the inspection is done after an offer is tendered. This is particularly true if corrections are necessary. Since inspection results are good for 12 months, homeowners are encouraged to start the process when listing the home.
The Environmental Health Division will approve the property transfer if the following is submitted to and approved by the Division:
Homeowners hire Washtenaw County certified private inspectors (PDF) to conduct these inspections. To become certified, inspectors must demonstrate competency based on training and testing. A standardized inspection procedure is used and reports are submitted on a standardized form.
The actual inspection prices are market-driven, and private inspectors set their own rates. The County does not regulate these rates and does not receive any portion of the inspection fees. The County does charge a fee to cover processing costs. This fee schedule is available on the website. Note that many inspectors include the County's fee in their pricing schedule, so be sure to ask your inspector for details.
The Environmental Health Division is committed to processing all submittals in a fair and timely manner. Reports will be reviewed in the order they are received. The County will send the owner a letter to authorize the sale or identify necessary correction in no more than 5 business days of receiving a complete report. If a report is incomplete or cannot be interpreted, the inspector will be contacted for clarification and asked to submit a complete report.