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|April 24, 2006, 11:25 PM
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Valuable lesson
Last night I learned a valuable lesson. My family and I slept on the couch on the first floor of my house. At 4 am I awoke to what I initally thought was someone knocking on my door but I quickly figured out that it was actually shots being fired. Just a few rounds at first and then a sudden burst of rapid fire lasting 5 to 6 seconds. This happened twice within a 25 to 30 second period. I estimate approx 40 rounds were fired and that it was about 50 yards away. The first thing I did was wake my girlfriend up, I told her to take Kade (our 4 month old) up stairs to our bedroom and stay there until I told her otherwise. I reached under the couch to grab my S&W model 60 that I keep in a concealment book wherever I sleep but it wasnt there, I had left it upstairs beside my bed. My next reaction was to grab my 12ga coach gun that I had sat just inside my front door after coming in from a little weekend outing but then I remembered that ALL of my 12 ga shells were in the back of my vehicle I thought about running upstairs to grab my S&W but I wanted more firepower than just 5 rounds of 357 so I ran to my dining room and opened my safe. I grabbed my beretta 96d since I knew that it is the only firearm that I keep loaded in case of emergency and proceeded to load 3 more magazines. I looked out all of my windows for the next hour trying to find out what was going on but I saw nothing due to the surrounding houses. I heard on the news tonight that it was a cigarette store robbery attempt gone wrong and that the suspect had opened fire on officers while fleeing which resulted in a massive shootout.
I always thought that I would be prepared in a situation where I would have to protect my family but last night I wasnt. This fella could have easily seen my house as a place to hide from the police and if he had.... I most likely would have been in the process of opening my safe or asleep unarmed on the couch. From now on, I'll be prepared
|April 24, 2006, 11:55 PM
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First, let me say I am very thankful that none of you were hurt in this incident. Second, I like the title of your post; sounds like you are indeed learning a valuable lesson, and all the better, recognize the opportunity without having had to endure any tragedy. Third, I'll offer just a bit of advice and caution. As you replay this scenario (or other similar ones) in your mind and look for improvements, may I suggest that since your 96D is intended as your "go to " only loaded in case of emergency weapon, plan on going to it first every single time, and practice doing so under all conditions. Come what may after that (need to develop this plan further if you haven't), but at least then you will have your emergency, loaded pistol with you if needed. Now, as far as being prepared, I suggest you don't overeact and create a potentially dangerous situation down the road by having multiple, loaded weapons around that a soon-to-be toddler may find and pick up. I have more than a little experience here (father of four, two still in diapers) and am myself constantly evaluating best practices to keep defensive firearms available to me but away from little ones. Since you have a safe, utilize it to it's full potential, and if you need other smaller ones, get them. Yes, multiple safes can be expensive, but they offer more options and I haven't yet seen one that costs more than the life of a child. Stay safe, keep thinking, and you'll do OK.
|April 25, 2006, 12:25 AM
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The first step to being prepared is getting a good house alarm. You can have 500 loaded guns in your house and without an alarm someone can easily enter your home and shoot you in your sleep. Guns don't do you any good when you're sleeping.
|April 25, 2006, 05:49 AM
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I'll second GodBlessAmerica and say glad you and your family are ok. I had a sorta similar incident a couple weeks ago where I was at work (I work nights) and my wife was at home on vacation. Around 1 in the morning she said someone started trying the doorknob on the front door. She went to the front door and looked out the peep hole. The guy at the door seemed rather confused and kept looking around, but kept trying the door handle. She grabbed her phone and was on the way to the bedroom to get my pistol when it stopped. She went back to the door and he was being let in the apartment across the hall. She told me this when I got home and we figured Friday night, guy was drunk had the wrong apartment, didn't think to knock or maybe our neighbor had told him just to come on in when he got there who knows. The things that bothered me was this 1.Had the door not been locked (which 99% of the time it is,even during the day) dude would have walked right in. 2. When she went to get my pistol she couldn't find it I had bought a holster the week previous and put it in my nightstand instead of the hard case under the bad and she didn't know. So after that we ran a drill of what she would do if someone ever REALLY tried to get in the apartment, but I was proud she got her phone and went for the gun. She's not big on guns, but she can shoot and knows what to do. Point of all this is saying I think in both these situations a little bit more preparedness would have helped if an attack was imminent. Best of luck to ya and be safe.
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|April 25, 2006, 06:19 AM
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When you mention sleeping on the couch it felt like a brick hit me on the head. On those nights where the little woman is tossing and turning I will occasionally get up and move to the couch. I just realized that I do not bring my Taurus out of the night stand and into the living room. We only have a one level apartment but my night stand and the couch are on opposite ends of the apartment. No little ones running around yet so I can just leave it under the couch or on the coffee table. Thanks for the heads up and glad nothing happened to you and yours.
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|April 25, 2006, 07:02 AM
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I'm also glad to hear you guys are ok. Can't really add much more than the previous posts. My personel security practices are basically, have my Glock on my at all times, work or play, night or day, sleep or wake. Along with a small utility bag for end of the world days, I'm set.
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I'm glad to hear that you are OK.
I see a couple of problems. First.... your girlfriend and baby should have sought cover on the bottom floor, on the floor, with as many walls/solid objects between them and the direction of the gunfire as possible. Stray bullets are a huge risk, especially if the criminal had been using something like an AK variant. The gunfight could have come down your street with bullets flying wildly. By going upstairs to hide in the bedroom, they placed themselves at greater exposure to stray bullets. There are few trajectories for stray bullets going down, many for them going up. The ground is your friend. The bottom floor position also retains the option of a ground floor window for escape if need be. Never go up.
Second.....You no doubt already realize how you could have done better yourself. A locked away Beretta with several full capacity magazines is no match for an armed and motivated intruder. My best advice is to get or construct an 18 inch 12 gauge pump shotgun with a sidesaddle of low recoil 00 Buck, in addition to a full magazine. With that shotgun, all you need to is take cover and wait. If anything comes through your door without body armor, you have the means to stop it immediately.
I'm glad that you are OK and learning from the experience.
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Former Berlin man to be sentenced April 1 for credit union robberyBy DEBRA THORNBLAD
Special to the Union Leader
December 17. 2013 11:36PM
BERLIN — A former Berlin man arrested for robbing the Guardian Angel Credit Union two years ago was convicted in U.S. District Court last week on a charge of armed robbery.
Daniel Ray Hufstetler is in custody pending sentencing, which is scheduled for April 1, 2014. He is facing up to 20 years in federal prison.
The armed robbery occurred Nov. 14, when Hufstetler entered the credit union just before 3 p.m. wearing sunglasses, white cotton gloves and a black hat. He went up to a teller, pulled out a pistol and demanded money. He made off with $3,450.
Witnesses were able to tell police he got away in a dark blue Chevy Cavalier driven by a dark-haired, heavy-set female in her 20s to 30s. Hufstetler and Sheena Craig, believed to be the getaway driver, were taken into custody a couple of days later.
Police believe the motive for the robbery was to get money to pay rent. Hufstetler, who had recently been laid off from Steel Elements, and Craig, along with two children, had been living in an apartment on High Street and were about to be evicted. Just 17 minutes after the robbery, $925 in back rent was deposited in the landlord's account.
Hufstetler had been charged with armed robbery and Craig with conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Hufstetler had felony convictions for assault, burglary and theft in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Craig had no prior record.
Hufstetler was later arrested on federal bank robbery charges. At that time the state charges against him were dismissed. Charges against Craig were dismissed without prejudice by Coos County Superior Court after the Coos County Attorney's Office failed to indict her within 90 days.
Although the U.S. Attorney's Office looked into filing charges against her, none were filed. According to a press release from U.S. Attorney John P. Kacavas' office, the investigation involved the cooperative efforts of federal and local law enforcement entities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the N.H. State Police, the Berlin Police Department, the Coos County Sheriff's Office and the N.H. Drug Task Force. The case was prosecuted by assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Farley.

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ANTIOCH — Two homes on Buchanan Roadwere damaged after a car reportedly lost control and slammed into them late Friday.
Police said the car was traveling at a "very high" speed just before midnight when the driver, only identified as a 21-year-old man, lost control of the vehicle in the 1400 block of Buchanan Road, near San Jose Drive.
The car went over the center divide into oncoming traffic, knocking out a pad-mounted electrical transformer, before going through the side of a garage and then landing on its roof in the yard of a house next door.
No one in the car or in either of the homes was injured, police said.
Alcohol and drugs were not believed to be a factor in the crash, and the driver was not arrested, according to police.
The crash knocked out power to about 350 residences, according to a PG&E worker.
The damage to the homes was contained to only their exteriors, police said, but a damage estimate was not available.
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The Collaborative Alliance for Semiconductor Test (CAST), a SEMI special interest group, has elected new leadership to advance their mission to develop, accelerate and support industry-wide advances in semiconductor test. Elected by a unanimous vote of the CAST Steering Committee was Chris Portelli Hale, Manufacturing Test director at STMicroelectronics, as CAST chair, and Octavio Martínez, senior director of Engineering, Qualcomm, as vice chair.
"Important and exciting developments are occurring in semiconductor test — many of them identified and inspired by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors," said Chris Portelli Hale. "My objective is to help CAST focus on areas that today are identified by the ITRS as 'challenges' for which no known solution is existing or for which solutions are desirable. I see the CAST role as helping get the technical and industry leaders together to discuss and prioritize common needs, investigate options, define guidelines leading to standards, and undertake and sponsor pre-competitive initiatives."
CAST was formed in 2008 by semiconductor device makers and test industry suppliers to engage in and resolve common industry issues related to higher test equipment utilization, lower costs, and greater return on investment. CAST members include a range of semiconductor industry leaders from fabless semiconductor companies, automated test equipment (ATE) companies, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies. In 2009, CAST became a SEMI Special Interest Group to develop, coordinate and direct all SEMI services for the semiconductor test community.
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Meet The Muffs: All About the Big Muff Pi and the Muff family! (EXCLUSIVE NEW STORY!)
From Jimi Hendrix to the first Muff, From New York to Russia, from Pink Floyd to the White Stripes...here's the story of the world's favourite fuzz pedal, and a look at the whole Muff family available today!
The Muff family...bringing vintage fuzz tones to the world. IN STOCK NOW!
If today distortion pedals (such as the Boss DS-1 and DS-2, Pro Co RAT etc) are usually the most popular, in the 60's it was all about fuzz. Once Dave Davies made the fuzzy guitar sound popular with The Kink's "You Really Got Me", the gates were open for a new - and louder - era in rock'n'roll!
Some of the first fuzz boxes to become popular were the Maestro Fuzz (used by The Rolling Stones on "Satisfaction"), the Tone Bender (used by Jeff Beck in The Yardbirds) and the Fuzz Face, made famous by Jimi Hendrix.
The First Muff
In 1968 Mike Matthews founded Electro-Harmonix, and amongst their first inventions was a tiny fuzz box called the "Muff Fuzz". The Muff Fuzz was the original Muff, and is today incredibly collectible.
The first Muff: Muff Fuzz
The box couldn't be simpler: an on/off switch and a gain control. Watch demo here
The Muff Fuzz has been reissued by Electro-Harmonix, in the shape of the nano Muff Overdrive. This simple and affordable pedal offers a pure vintage sound and is a faithful reproduction of the original Muff.
Even better, is the Double Muff, which brings together, in one box, two Muff Fuzz circuits, meaning double the sound! On "double mode", with gain to the max, the Double Muff can do a good Big Muff impersonation, very White Stripes-y. This pedal is already a classic in its own right, and, alongside the Muff Overdrive, they are only new Muffs not inspired by the Big Muff, but by the original Muff Fuzz.
The Muff Overdrive and Double Muff are great for simple, vintage fuzz tones, with no tone control - raw, loud, with a silky overdriven tone. Because of this, they'll work much better on valve amps.
The Arrival of the Big Muff - 1971
The Big Muff starts to take shape...Axis Fuzz (left) and Foxey Lady
Contrary to myth, the Big Muff was not used extensively by Jimi Hendrix and, in fact, production models were not available until 1971, a year after Hendrix's death in 1970. But Big Muff creator Mike Matthews has claimed that Hendrix used a Big Muff prototype in some sessions prior to his death and he was reportedly impressed enough to want to use it on his next album. Hendrix played an integral part in the making of the Big Muff, as Matthews has often stated that Hendrix's guitar sound was the inspiration for the creation of the Big Muff.
An earlier EH pedal, the Axis fuzz (picture above) was also manufactured by EH for the Guild guitar company as the Foxey Lady and used a similar chassis as the early Big Muffs but had a simpler two-transistor circuit. You can see by the picture that the Electro-Harmonix Axis Fuzz had a similar chassis to the modern Big Muff, but only two knobs (volume and fuzz) like all the classic fuzz pedals of the sixties.
With the introduction of the Big Muff the Axis was discontinued and the Foxey Lady pedal became a rebranded Big Muff. It was available at least until the mid '70s.
Amongst the first Big Muff users we can mention David Gilmour, Carlos Santana, John Lennon, Frank Marino and others.
The inventor of Big Muff: Mike Matthews, we salute you!
The first version was a chrome bent-sheetmetal box 4 1/2 w by 6" long with a black finished aluminum bottom. The angled top featured three knobs (volume, sustain, and tone) in a triangular pattern and an on/off switch for the battery in the upper left hand corner. Jacks were on the far end; graphics were minimalist, silk screened in black. By 1973 or early '74 the size had been increased to 5 1/2 " x 7", the knobs were now in a straight line across the top, and the battery switch was moved to between the jacks.
Graphics were jazzed up and screened in red (rare in blue). This variation also has a goofy face in the lower right-hand corner; sort of a Tolkienesque thing with hair that looks like ivy. This has been referred to as a "sheep's face" but sheep around here don't look like that....
Circa '76-'77 the Big Muff made its final costume change; the logo was now inch high red letters with a shadowed effect. Control function type was in black; there was also a large black, solid block of ink around the foot switch (this was dropped from the design on some of the last big muffs made around 1984).
The first pedals with this design had the battery switch but soon a switching input jack was used and the switch became a bypass for the tone control. Around 1978 some B-Muffs were made with a circuit using 741 Op-amps instead of the usual four transistors. This design had one less gain stage, losing some essence of Muff and was discontinued after a couple of thousand were produced.
Big Muff Pi Today
Today the Big Muff is the world's most popular fuzz pedal, no question about it! In the late 80's and early 90's, it became *the* grunge pedal of choice: it inspired the title of Mudhoney's debut album 'Superfuzz and Big Muff' and was used by bands such as Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth and Nirvana.
It's hard to find a band who's never used a Big Muff: from Black Keys to Muse to Red Hot Chili Peppers, from U2 to The White Stripes, everyone seems to love the Big Muff, and the wide range of artists of all styles who play the Big Muff displays this pedal's tonal versatility. It's simply superb...and, best of all, it's still quite cheap!
Electro-Harmonix thinks one Big Muff is not enough, and recent new models subtract or add to the classic Big Muff design, offering features to fit all kinds of players. Here's a look at the new versions of the Big Muff:
Little Big Muff
The Little Big Muff uses the same circuitry of the Big Muff. If you like the Big Muff, you'll like the Little Big Muff! The only difference is the size...you get the same power of the Big Muff, but in a smaller, die cast package. If you don't care about the classic Big Muff look and needs more space in your pedalboard, the Little Big Muff is your choice. By no means it's a "lesser" pedal. In fact, some top artists such as Jamie Cook of the Arctic Monkeys, started with a Big Muff and switched to the Little Big Muff.
Bass Big Muff Pi
A smoother, creamier Big Muff, in part inspired by the sough-after green Russian Big Muff, by Sovtek. However, this new model has been tailored for bass and has stereo outputs and a bass boost function. There was simply no way the Bass Big Muff could go wrong, and its instant success is proof of that. It's a well known fact that Big Muffs work great with bass guitars...and this new Bass Big Muff is definitely the best option, finally giving bassists a Big Muff made specially for them. About time!
Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker
This cool, white Big Muff is already incredibly popular, adding new features to the classic Big Muff sound. You can switch the tone knob off for a purer fuzz sound, or use the wicker to boost the treble a bit...a good feature for those who think the tone of the original Big Muff can get too "muddy". The Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker sounds like a true Big Muff...but offers much more!
Metal Muff
The Big Muff of choice for metalheads! For heavy metal, shredding rock'n'roll gods, no Big Muff will sound better than the Metal Muff. Why? It offers more EQ possibilities than any other muff (hi / mid/ low) and also a top boost feature. For maximum power onstage, nothing will beat the Metal Muff...it's the ultimate pedal for heavy metal distortion! Check the product page and watch the demo!
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|December 26, 1999, 04:47 AM
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Greetings. Let me first thank everyone here of all of the great information that you guys post! It is extremely beneficial to a newbie such as me.
Since I am unable to find a rifle that fits my original druthers (20-22 inch 6-6.1/2 pound 30.06 with *good fixed sights* for $4-500) I am considering the Savage Scout 10-110. (10FM) My caliber choice in that configuration is either 7mm-08 or 308 Win.
I am in GA. I will be hunting White-tail,boar
but would like to have enough stop to be able to use the gun for some larger game when the opportunity presents itself. I am pretty new
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Any advice greatly appreciated!
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Hi Jon,
The ballistic differences between the two rounds are pretty academic. The 7mm is .28 caliber and the .308 is, duh, .30. So, IMHO, .02 is pretty much unmeasurable.
Practically, the .308 gives you a couple of advantages. One, I see it in every Wal-Mart. Not sure you can say the same for 7mm-08. Two, you can find surplus ammo for a very reasonable price. I found some of the British stuff for $160 per thousand and it shoots very well. Practice, they say, leads to perfection.
The Scout concept is great and I own one. If I was looking for a pure hunting rifle I would think about a Savage 110 simply for the scope mounting ability. A good Leupold 3 x 9 will give you better light gathering. My primary deer rifle has the Ching sling ala a Scout, but a full size scope sits on top. For stalking or GP the scout gets the nod, but for sitting in a stand the '-06 with a 3 x 9 is it.
You may have the flexibility to mount different scopes on the Savage, I did not notice when I looked at one.
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|December 26, 1999, 02:23 PM
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Thank You Gizmo99. That is exactly the kind of info I seek. Heck, why not find out what works from those that have "been there done that?!"
At some risk, I ask the following:^)
With what size game would you feel undergunned had you say, a 308 scout?
I am trying to figure out the limits of the various hunting calibers and ballistics by themselves
don't really tell me what I need to know.
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|December 26, 1999, 04:11 PM
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The 7mm-08 would give better trajectories with ligher bullets than the .308--but not a lot. The .308 would allow a bit better use of heavier bullets--but not a lot.
Off-hand, I'd say the .308 is a better all-around cartridge. Just not a lot.
I'd venture that the short barrel of a Scout-type rifle would limit one's safe-kill range on larger game like elk. But I don't want to get into that particular argument; some folks never seem to see one inside of 400 yards, and others keep stumbling over them.
I guess the summary is that with 150-grain and 180-grain bullets, the .308 will handle almost any "normal" hunting you're likely to do...
Good shot placement solves a lot of ballistic problems.
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|December 26, 1999, 05:28 PM
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Thanks, Art.
I realize that my question borders on some age old arguments about caliber vs game size vs shot placement etc.. but I am just trying to get some general information such as you gave me.
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Are all mailboxes equal? Not when it comes to advertising mail, which seems to invoke three critical factors normally associated with real estate – location, location, location.
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March 10. 2014 11:21PM
Revised lice policy gets cool reception from some at Manchester school meeting
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — The Board of School Committee is willing to take a closer look at revising its head lice policy, although several members remain steadfast in maintaining the district's "no tolerance" approach.
The school board voted at its meeting Monday to send to committee a proposal backed by the city's public health director and the district's administration; it would no longer send students home immediately who are found to have head lice or nits.
Citing the latest recommendations and research by health authorities, the administration proposed a similar change last year, but it was overwhelmingly rejected by the school board's Coordination Committee.
City Public Health Director Tim Soucy told the board Monday that the policy of pulling students suspected of having lice out of school and sending them home was outdated.
"I think there are a lot of myths about head lice. I think there's a lot of undue concern. I'm not saying it doesn't happen and it doesn't cause stress," he said. "But our goal is to keep kids in school ... We believe this is in line not only with the state of New Hampshire, but around the country."
The relaxing of "no-nit" policies has been advocated by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of School Nurses, as well as the state Department of Education.
"'No nit ' policies contribute to the stigma created around lice," the DOE notes in guidelines it recently adopted. "This over-emphasis on case-finding can lead to unproductive use of time by school staff and parents, missed classes, unnecessary absences, and parents missing work."
Still, several school board members on Monday reiterated their opposition to relaxing the lice policy.
Ward 10 board member John Avard, who has been outspoken in defending the no-nit stance, noted the city has gotten tough on bed bugs in recent years.
"They're both blood-sucking parasites. We don't allow them in the schools."
Ward 9 board member Art Beaudry said based on the feedback he had received, there was very little support for relaxing the policy.
"I respect what you're saying, but I respectfully disagree," he told Soucy. "I think the current policy should not only be retained, but made stronger."
Others signaled more willingness to alter the head lice policy.
Ward 3 member Chris Stewart noted that changing the policy was backed by the city's own health director, as well as health experts from Harvard Medical School.
"So there are a lot of smart people who want this policy?" he asked Soucy, who nodded.
Ward 8's Erika Connors said she had done some research and found that several districts, such as Boston and New York, have policies that distinguish between lice and nits — the eggs that often can be misidentified or inert.
In the end, the board voted to back a motion from at-large board member Kathy Staub, to have a school nurse come in and provide a presentation to the Coordination Committee.
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It's weekend and time to master yet another skill! I'm in love with the winged 60's cat eyes but to master these you kind of need to go all "starwars-ish" where you simply need to use "the Force" basically you need talent or loads of practice, note here that I myself have no "symmetry talent" whatsoever and second to that patience is not on my list either.. But behold, there is still hope! I collected my favorite tutorials, the straight to the point tutorials that are perfect for starter catty-eyes and a perfect base for those of us who are ready to move on to the more advanced winged looks as seen in the collage (and uhm yeah, make tutorials so I can re-post them on my blog!)
1) Easy Cat-Eyeliner Tutorial
Indian Vanity Case brings us this great tutorial, I basically skipped the whole eyeshadow part and went straight to the liner starting at the outer corners like directed! Still practice is needed.
2) the Winged Cat Eye
I'm just in love with the illustration and the directions given are easy to follow, I guess when things are made to look easy it feels much better to take on! I found out that many people like to use a white brow liner, a pencil, folded tissue or even Scotch Tape easy to use for making the Wing when not having a steady hand!
3) 60's Cat Eye
Sadly this is one of those images that went viral on Tumblr and in the process the original source got lost! Real bummer since I'm actually high on credits! Non the less, I think this cat eye is perfect in its own bold minimal way! Slack on 1000 layers of eyeliner creating a thick line (almost impossible to fail here) and add the wing/tip last.
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Hollywood Noir's post gives use direction in products plus a great video tutorial, showing us how to do the cat-eye using a white pencil as a stencil tool!
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Hardware-software co-design and integration of custom logic with microprocessor systems. Lab-based course covers effective design and testing techniques, implementation of hardware-software systems, interfacing I/O devices to microprocessors, and design for FPGAs.
Intel PCs, Xilinx XUP FPGA board, Xilinx and Mentor CAD software, LCD displays, video cameras.
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Engineering Design: 100%
Course Goals and Objectives
This course is an elective for computer and electrical engineering majors. The objective of the course is to provide students with an in-depth microprocessor-based design experience, teaching them how to interface very large-scale integrated chips to microprocessors and how to design control software that integrates functions on the host microprocessor and peripheral devices. The course is project-oriented, with students completing three predefined machine problems and an open-ended design project during the semester. The three predefined machine problems are of increasing difficulty and address different issues in microprocessor-based design, preparing students to design and implement systems of their choosing in the design project portion of the class. The predefined machine problems change on a regular basis to keep up with the rapid pace of technology. The implementation of all lab projects is based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), providing students with exposure to this increasingly popular technology and allowing implementation of hardware/software co-designed systems in reasonable amounts of time.
Currently the predefined machine problems are:
1) Implementation of a PS/2 keyboard reader on the FPGA and one other simple (open-ended) design on the FPGA.
2) Implementation of a SoC in a hardware/software co-design fashion.
3) Design and implementation of a video capture and display system using the FPGA board, a camera and a VAG monitor.
For the final project the students may use any of the I/O interfaces provided on the FPGA board and the boards and peripheral devices available in the lab to implement a system of their own design.
Instructional Objectives
A. By the end of the first machine problem (PS/2 Keyboard Interface), students should be able to:
1) Use CAD tools to translate a hardware design, specified in VHDL, into a bit file, and download the bit file onto an FPGA for execution (k)
2) Implement basic designs as state machines in VHDL (a) (k)
3) Use functional simulators to debug their designs and use a logic analyzer to debug and correct their hardware implementations (k)
4) Implement the PS/2 keyboard protocol in VHDL for execution on an FPGA (k)
5) Successfully demonstrate a working PS/2 keyboard interface on the FPGA board as specified in the project assignment (g)
B. By the end of the second machine problem (SoC implementation) students should be able to:
1) Become introduced to the EDK environment of Xilinx which simplifies the implementation of SoC designs that use hardware components and software modules running on PowerPC/Microblaze processors, all connected around the IBM CoreConnect bus architecture. A small hardware module needs to be completed by the students. (e)(k)(j)
2) Use the EDK environment to build a user interactive system which uses PowerPC to receive/display data from/to the user and a custom hardware module to process the data. Design of both the PowerPC software and the hardware module is completed by the students. (c)(d)(e)(k)
3) Become familiar with the use of operating systems on embedded systems by running Linux in the PowerPC and designing a Linux driver for the communication of PowerPC with the hardware module. (c)(d)(e)(k)
C. By the end of the third machine problem (Video Capture and Display System), students should be able to:
1) Design and implement a VGA controller that reads RGB data from the board DDR and sources them to the VGA interface of the board along with correctly timed VGA synchronization signals. (c)(e)(k)
2) Design and implement a YUV-to-RGB converter for on-the-fly conversion of the video input interlaced image to VGA compatible pixel data (fed to the VGA controller). (a)(c)(e)(k)
3) Design and implement an I2C controller for the video decoder which converts the analog camera input signals into YUV data (for use by the YUV-to-RGB converter). (a)(c)(d)(e)(k)
D. By the end of the design project, students should be able to:
1) Design a complete hardware/software system involving computation, interfacing with an external device, and digital logic (a)(b)(e)(j)
2) Read and interpret specification sheets for integrated circuits sufficiently well to use the integrated circuits in their designs (e)
3) Plan and carry out a six-week design and implementation effort (d)(e)
4) Demonstrate and explain their completed system, including a discussion and justification of design choices (g)
Laboratory Objectives
Laboratory projects are done using a combination of the Mentor design framework, VHDL simulation tools, and programming under the Linux operating system. This provides students with experience in a number of the tools and development systems used in industry.
Lab reports are graded according to design correctness, design style, and documentation quality. Points are taken off for design errors, unnecessary complications, excessive parts, and vague documentation. Machine problems 2 and 3, as well as the design project, are done in small teams. Students are responsible for the division of effort within each project, but each student in the team is required to demonstrate each project and to answer questions about the design to ensure that all of the students on a team participate in each project.
Two of the three machine problems incorporate open-ended design components to give students experience with design prior to the major design project. The design project is graded based on the final project report, an initial design document, which is turned in before any work on the project begins, and an oral presentation on the design.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The former head of a company where workers forged signatures on mortgage documents pleaded guilty to a federal charge in Florida on Tuesday, the same day a plea agreement on related state charges was announced in Missouri.
The agreements were reached with Lorraine Brown, 56, of Alpharetta, Ga., who was an executive for DocX LLC. Prosecutors said workers who weren't authorized to sign mortgage-related documents forged and falsified signatures, at the direction of Brown and others, allowing DocX to create and file more documents and therefore earn more money.
More than a million fraudulently signed and notarized documents from DocX were filed with property recorders nationwide between 2003 and 2009, during which time DocX generated about $60 million in gross revenue, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Prosecutors said Brown concealed the practice from clients and DocX's parent company, Lender Processing Services Inc.
"The robo-signing practices of DocX were the worst in the country, the most notorious in the country and crossed the threshold into criminal activity," Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said.
Koster said the Missouri plea deal calls for Brown to plead guilty to felony forgery in Boone County and to perjury in Jackson County, with a prison sentence of between two to three years. Sentencing will be delayed pending the federal case.
According to federal court documents, Brown pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Florida to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. The maximum federal sentence is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain.
Her sentencing date has not been set in the federal case.
Her attorney, Mark Rosenblum, said Tuesday in a statement that negotiating a legal settlement will allow Brown to begin moving on with her life.
"Lori didn't expect to be in this position. But now that she is, she's facing it with grace and dignity," Rosenblum said. "Without doubt, this is a difficult day for Lori, but it's also a good day."
DocX's main clients were residential mortgage servicers that generally undertake duties for lenders such as accepting and recording mortgage payments, paying taxes and insurance from borrower escrow accounts and conducting or supervising the foreclosure process when necessary, according to the federal plea agreement.
The criminal charges in Missouri were filed against Brown earlier this year.
Koster said Tuesday he knows of no other senior executive facing a prison sentence because of actions during the country's mortgage crisis. He said Missouri's investigation demonstrated a criminal violation occurred.
Koster, who announced his plea agreement at his office in Jefferson City, said the case sends a signal to the financial services industry.
This summer, the Missouri attorney general's office announced it reached a legal settlement with Lender Processing Services that called for it to pay Missouri $1.5 million and another $500,000 to reimburse for the cost of the investigation.
Lender Processing Services spokeswoman Michelle Kersch said Tuesday that the company immediately stopped the practice when it discovered the surrogate signing, terminated Brown and shut down DocX. She said the company has remediated the documents and cooperated with all governmental investigations.
"LPS is committed to ensuring that all employees operate with integrity and compliance in everything they do on behalf of the company," spokeswoman Michelle Kersch said.
Robert E. O'Neill, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida, said buying a house is lengthy and intimidating and that consumers rely on others' integrity and due diligence throughout the process.
"When the integrity of this process is compromised, illegally, public confidence is eroded," O'Neill said. "We must work to assure the public that their investments are sound, worthy and protected.
Associated Press writer Gary Fineout contributed to this report from Tallahassee, Fla.


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A chance meeting at a dog park in 2011 led Josh Lucas and Jessica Henriquez on a whirlwind romance, with the two confirming their engagement in January and tying the knot in March as they announced they were expecting their first child.
But behind the newlywed bliss and their baby on the way, the couple were dealing with darker news: Henriquez had cervical cancer.
Originally diagnosed at the age of 25, the writer broke the news to her now-husband within a day of meeting him — he was the first person she told — and leaned on Lucas for support as she began battling the disease.
After two rounds of treatments proved to be unsuccessful, doctors asked her to consider a hysterectomy — at the same time Henriquez discovered she was pregnant.
"I hadn't thought about children. It wasn't my dream since I was a little girl to have a family," Henriquez tells the Huffington Post.
"But when a doctor looks you in the eyes and takes that option off the table, it immediately sets something off in you — this motherhood gene."
And while she admits "almost every oncologist would disagree with my decision," Henriquez chose to continue with the surprise pregnancy, despite being told that a hysterectomy could be the cure she needed. "I think that things happen in life that you have to pay attention to," she explains.
Following trying trimesters with fears of miscarriage and without treatment, Henriquez and Lucas welcomed son Noah Rev in June. And while the new mom has to once again deal with her diagnosis, she is at peace with her choices.
"I never thought I'd be a mom at 27, but I don't for a second regret anything — no matter what the outcome is," she says, explaining that while pregnant with her son, there was a possibility the cancer would worsen or spread beyond her cervix.
"If the cancer has progressed because I did nothing for a year to contain it or treat it, I don't feel any guilt, and I don't feel like it was a bad decision," says Henriquez. "Every morning that I wake up with Josh and Noah, I'm even more assured that it was the right decision for me."
And while doctors have told Henriquez that the cancer did not spread while she was expecting, it has advanced from stage 1A to stage 1B and she will continue treatment this fall. Still, the proud parents are counting their blessings when it comes to their son.
"When we were picking baby names, we specifically picked the name Noah, because it meant 'calm and restful,'" she explains. "We were like, 'Wow, that's what we need.' We need something in our life that's just going to be so peaceful, because we haven't had that since we've been together."
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Researchers present the first comprehensive study of the highly specialized mouthparts of a poorly understood group of arachnids.
Teaming Up to Monitor Asteroid Threats
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As agencies team up to monitor hazardousf asteroids, explore some of the Museum's resources on the subject, from permanent halls to podcasts.
Mapping Languages with Virus-Tracking Tool
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How a tool meant to track viruses is being adapted to map languages and much more.
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Carlo Ancelotti says his Paris Saint-Germain team do not need Mario Balotelli as Zlatan Ibrahimovic will do the same job for many years to come.
The Italian striker has been linked with several clubs across Europe following his training ground confrontation with Roberto Mancini, but the 53-year-old coach will not try to sign another forward.
"Today, with Ibra and his position, we are covered in attack for many years to come. I do not think we need Balotelli," Ancelotti told reporters.
"Balotelli is a great player, he and Ibra are compatible but that is not the question. We have [Ezequiel] Lavezzi, [Kevin] Gameiro and [Jeremy] Menez who are also compatible."
The Parisiens boss also gave his thoughts on the training ground bust-up involving Balotelli, and feels the situation was probably blown out of all proportion.
"I do not think it was as bad as the newspapers made it out to be. I cannot judge Balotelli as a person anyway, only as a player and for me he is a good striker."


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CNN: The Truth about Jonathan Pollard
Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman
CNN - International Edition - June 22, 2012
(CNN) -- As pro bono lawyers for Jonathan Pollard for 12 years, we continue to be amazed at how people opposed to executive clemency for our client invariably withhold, distort, and even fabricate facts to justify their position. The most recent manifestation of this phenomenon is the June 16 opinion piece by Roland Martin, "Israel wrong to demand release of American traitor."
Mr. Pollard is serving his 27th year of an unprecedented sentence of life in prison for delivering classified information to the state of Israel, a close ally of the United States.
Martin does a disservice to his readers by fabricating facts. For example, Martin refers confidently to Pollard's "trial," and says that during his "trial," Pollard was accused of attempting to pass classified information to Pakistan and other countries.
Perhaps Martin doesn't know that Pollard never had a trial. This fact could have easily been found through a Google search. And Pollard was never charged by the United States with passing (or attempting to pass) classified information to any country other than Israel, for the very simple reason that he never attempted to do so. Martin invents putative facts to support his opinion.
Likewise, Martin writes of Pollard's purported "treason." But he was never charged with (much less convicted of) treason. Nor could he have been, as treason requires aid to an enemy of the United States.
Martin notes gravely that "treason" is addressed in the U.S. Constitution. If Martin had bothered to read that document, he would have seen that the Constitution says that "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Israel is not an enemy of the United States. Once again, a basic check of the facts would have revealed that Pollard did not commit treason.
What should be equally disturbing to Martin's readers are the critical facts he withholds. Martin makes it seem as if it is mostly the people and leaders of Israel who want Pollard to receive clemency. Martin fails to mention that George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state at the time of Pollard's activities, has come out publicly in favor of clemency. Similarly, Robert "Bud" McFarlane, who was U.S. national security adviser at that time, has also come out publicly in favor of clemency.
It is safe to say that these gentlemen know more than anyone about Pollard's conduct. The fact that they have come out in favor of clemency speaks volumes. But Martin chooses not to mention this. Nor does he mention that numerous distinguished Americans have come out publicly in favor of clemency, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former Vice President Dan Quayle, former CIA Director James Woolsey, former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dennis DeConcini, dozens of members of Congress and many others.
Perhaps Martin claims to know more than they do about the Pollard case. Then again, Martin claims Mr. Pollard had a trial and committed treason.
Martin is entitled to hold any opinion he wishes. But his readers are entitled to an honest presentation of the facts, not a series of falsehoods buttressed by material omissions.
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Editor's note: Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, partners at the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, represent Jonathan Pollard.


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I was wondering if someone can straighten me out on some word ordering.
Compare the following two sentences (#5 and #7 from ex. 117)
English: "Another woman is calling her chickens (not her own)".
Key's translation: Alia femina eius gallinas vocat.
English: "The Gaul praises his arms (not his own)".
Key's translation: Gallus arma eius laudat.
In both cases we are using the non-reflexive possesive eius. However, in #5 the key places eius before the noun it possesses and in #7 it is placed after. Why the difference? Doesn't a possessive normally follow the noun it possesses? In other words, I agree with key's translation in #7 but not in #5.
Also, in #6 English: "The Gaul praises his weapons (his own)", the key translates this as Gallus arma sua laudat. In this case the reflexive is positioned after the noun it possesses. I would think it would come before (sua arma).
Does any of this really even matter?


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By a vote of 221-201, the House passed the bill, adhering to President Barack Obama's demand that it have no unrelated conditions attached. With House passage, the bill now goes to the Senate, where debate could begin on Wednesday.
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'Great Briton': Many praise Margaret Thatcher as Iron Lady who changed Britain, inspired world
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LONDON – Global leaders expressed praise and admiration Monday for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as news spread of her death. Today's British leader, David Cameron, summed up the consensus from friend and foe alike that the Iron Lady was "a great Briton."
"As our first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher succeeded against all the odds," Cameron said in Madrid as he cut short a trip to Spain and canceled a visit to France to return home to lead funeral preparations for the longtime leader of his Conservative Party.
"The real thing about Margaret Thatcher is that she didn't just lead our country, she saved our country," Cameron said, "and I believe she'll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister."
As flags across the United Kingdom were lowered to half mast, Buckingham Palace said Queen Elizabeth II would send a private message of sympathy to the Thatcher family.
Across Europe and the world, leaders lauded Thatcher for her steely determination to modernize Britain's industrial landscape — even at the cost of violent strikes and riots — and to stand beside the United States as the west triumphed in the Cold War versus the Soviet Union.
In Poland, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said his country should erect a statue of the British leader. In a tweet he praised Thatcher as "a fearless champion of liberty, stood up for captive nations, helped free world win the Cold War."
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who ousted the Conservatives from power seven years after Thatcher's resignation, conceded that Thatcher had been right to challenge labor union power — the traditional bedrock for Blair's own Labour Party.
"Very few leaders get to change not only the political landscape of their country but of the world. Margaret was such a leader. Her global impact was vast," said Blair, who credited Thatcher with being "immensely supportive" despite their opposing views on many issues.
"You could not disrespect her character or her contribution to Britain's national life," Blair said.
Discordant notes came from Northern Ireland and Argentina, where Thatcher's reputation for unbending determination received early tests — when breaking an Irish Republican Army prison hunger strike in 1981, then leading Britain into a 1982 war to reclaim the Falkland Islands from Argentine invaders.
Argentina's government offered no official reaction, but scores of Argentinians posted criticisms of her on Twitter, blaming her for the deaths of 649 Argentine troops during the South Atlantic conflict. Some 255 British military personnel and three Falkland Islanders also died.
Falklands lawmaker Mike Summers said Thatcher was "one of very few political leaders who could have mounted the expedition she mounted in 1982 to restore our freedom, and from a Falkland Islands perspective she will be forever remembered for that."
Britain's pop culture icons past and present also sounded off about the woman who dominated British political landscape through the 1980s.
"Thinking of our 1st Lady of girl power, Margaret Thatcher, a green grocer's daughter who taught me anything is possible," tweeted a former member of the Spice Girls band, Geri Halliwell.


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"They were shocked at the level of my business plan. I even had one venture capitalist ask me if I had the business plan professionally written and by whom!"Todd Pearson, Global MRO Products
In order to be successful in business, entrepreneurs need to be flexible. Flexibility may mean rethinking where you're getting your funding or being willing to give up all your free time for the sake of your business. Or it may mean planning for the future knowing that your plan is going to need to be adjusted over time.
Todd Pearson learned this early on his path to business ownership. After 11 years at the same company, Pearson decided to open his own distribution/import company. In 2002, he started Global MRO Products, which assists companies with the international procurement of MRO (maintenance repair operations) products. "Our clients are either manufacturers or distributors/resellers who then sell to manufacturing. What they have in common is that they need internationally manufactured parts for their factories' equipment," says Pearson.
When he started Global MRO, Pearson thought he'd be seeking funding from investors. "For this, I needed a business plan," he remembers. When he started working in Business Plan Pro 2002, he learned a great deal about his business. "It really puts things into the right perspective. Using the software made me answer questions that I had not really thought about in much depth. It made me take a harder look at some of my ideas."
After shopping his business plan around, Pearson determined that going the venture capital route wasn't the right fit for him. "I found out that unless I was willing to give away a large portion of my company to a venture capitalist or deal with bank rules and issues, my best bet was to use the equity built in both my partner's and my homes," he says. But he was impressed with the feedback he got on the plan he had been presenting. "They were shocked at the level of my business plan. I even had one venture capitalist ask me if I had the business plan professionally written and by whom!"
The work Pearson had put into the plan wasn't wasted just because he hadn't used it to secure funding, however. "Eventually, the plan was used more as a tool to gauge our success and to map out the next step" of his company, he says. Over the next few years, he found himself going back to Business Plan Pro, updating the numbers in his plan to reflect what was actually happening. "The results gave me a very good indicator of where we were headed compared to what we had projected," and allowed him to make adjustments as needed.
The difference between working for somebody else and owning his own business is like night and day for Pearson. "It is fun to come into work each day -- which, by the way, stopped seeming like work since it is my company -- and look for new ways to increase sales, customer satisfaction, or make my employees just a little bit happier!"
Pearson's company has been doing well, and he says doing what he loves is at least part of the reason why. "You will be married to [your business] and will be giving it all the spare time you have. It is taxing and until you reach a point beyond profitability, it sucks every extra minute out of your life. If you don't truly love what you're doing, it won't seem worth it." Pearson is also a strong advocate for having a business plan, which, he says, "will help you see where you are succeeding and where you need to perform better."
The one downside to his company's success, according to Pearson, is that it "cost me the time to continue the important practice" of revisiting and revising his business plan. "However, I now need to secure new financing to help support two new business ventures. Once again, I find myself needing one of the most crucial documents a business needs. Hello, Business Plan Pro 2009!"
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365 days in SPAAACE: An interstellar glance at 2012
Curiosity looks for Martians, we search for a habitable planet
How Mars is a lot like Earth
Following its brief stint as a DJ, the space-truck was ready for its first long jaunt across the planet, travelling 400m to Glenelg, where three types of Martian terrain intersect. During the journey, the rover was keen to try out some more of its equipment, including its robotic arm and the science instruments on the end of it.
Halfway to Glenelg, the rover got a chance to hit another rock with its laser beams, as well as blasting it with its Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer and getting a close-up of the stone with its Mars Hand Lens Imager camera. The rock was named Jake Matijevic after the JPL engineer who had worked on three Mars rover missions and died just two weeks before Curiosity landed. It turned out to be composed of a material that was a lot like a rare form of mineral found on Earth, which wasn't very exciting, but then the rover started to get closer to its primary mission.
NASA reported in September that Curiosity had found evidence of a fast-moving stream, the first potentially habitable environment. Boffins reckon that the water could have been between ankle and hip height, flowing around three feet a second. The ancient water course, found between the north rim of the Gale Crater and the base of Mount Sharp, might seem like the perfect place to look for microbes, but the rover's team still believed that the clay and sulphate on the sides of Mount Sharp were more likely.
So it was then time for Curiosity to start digging around in the soil, dropping Martian dust through its chemistry and mineralogy instrument CheMin and SAM, its chemical analyst. Unfortunately, the soil sampled so far hasn't turned out to be teeming with microbial Martians. In fact, it's also quite a lot like Earth, specifically the basaltic volcanic soil of Hawaii.
The only interesting thing found in the soil were the random bright shiny bits that boffins reckon must be part of the dirt on the Red Planet. A single bit of shiny stuff that was spotted first was reckoned to be a bit off the rover, but when smaller bits kept showing up, the team decided they must be native.
Shortly after the shiny bits were announced, NASA started hinting that it had some exciting data that it needed to check again before it told the world about it. Usually when scientists say they need to check something again, they're about to announce something momentous, but unfortunately, NASA hadn't found evidence of life on Mars, instead it had found yet more evidence that its public relations are really, really terrible.
A week later, the agency got around to telling world+dog that actually, there was no news. None at all.
"Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect," it belatedly said, squashing all hope of any life-forms on the Red Planet for the time being.
The Goldilocks zone search
The excitement isn't all over yet though. Early this month, NASA admitted that SAM had picked up on some organic compounds in Martian soil, it just wasn't sure if they are native or not. Instead, the organics may have dropped off the rover, or could have been caused when the sample was heated for testing.
Whichever it is will have to wait until next year (or even longer) while Curiosity continues its exploration and NASA boffins keep analysing that data.
As well as searching for life on Mars, astroboffins spent the year searching for life, or a place for the human race to escape Armageddon, all over the galaxy. The quest for worlds in the habitable zone, aka the "Goldilocks zone" - where a planet could orbit its sun and potentially sustain water - was stepped up.
With the techniques for finding those worlds in existing and new data improving, those possible extraterrestrial homes got closer and closer to planet Earth. At the start of 2012, a six-year study said there were billions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, using the microlensing technique.
NASA's Kepler mission uses the transit method to look for dips in brightness of a star that would show a planet had passed in front of it. But PLANET, the Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, used one star as a "lens" to amplify the light from the star behind it.
The European Southern Observatory, using the HARPS spectrograph to examine 102 red dwarfs, then said that since around 40 per cent of those dwarf stars had an Earthlike rocky planet in their sweet spot, there were likely to be a hundred of them within just 30 light years of our solar system.
There are around 160 billion red dwarf stars in the Milky Way, leading the boffins to suggest that there may be tens of billions of habitable worlds in our galaxy alone.
Gas giants and super-hot planets have also been found in the right zone, although without much likelihood of life, but astroboffins are beginning to see more definite possibilities close to home.
Astronomers found a super-Earth orbiting a star only 42 light years away with a climate and atmosphere that could be just right to support life. Other scientists believe that worlds orbiting other Sunlike stars in the galaxy might actually be a tad nicer than Earth, with balmy subsurface temperatures. Seven spotted alien planets have made a new list of the confirmed worlds that could harbour life and most recently, an international team of astroboffins have found a planet in the Goldilocks zone of the nearest single Sunlike star, Tau Ceti, just 12 light years away.


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Dan Aykroyd is an established actor, singer, comedian and screenwriter. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live and an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi).
He received widespread recognition as co-creator, co-writer, and one of the lead actors in Ghostbusters I & II (1984 and 1989, respectively). The film's inspiration is said to have come from his fascination with parapsychology.
Aykroyd's most memorable film work has been in comedies from the 1980's, 90's, all the way up until present day. Some of his greatest performances can be seen in movies like The Great Outdoors (1988), Ghostbusters I & II, Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Christmas with the Kranks (2004), and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007).


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Tigard filmmaker brings macabre to fest
Low-budget filmmaker Edward Martin III is returning to H.P. Lovecraft festival
If you want to know what the folks at Hellbender Media do, its best just to ask them directly.
"We make things," their website reads. "Strange and wonderful things."
Thats putting it mildly.
The low-budget film studio in Tigard has spent the past 15 years making quirky, often bizarre films that defy explanation.
In 2007, the studio made its own version of The Lord of the Rings using doughnuts in place of actors.
The creative team has made supernatural stories, animated films and has been working on its zombie opus, Flesh of My Flesh for more than six years.
Thats the stone around my neck, said Hellbender founder Edward Martin III, sitting in his Tigard home. You dont want to know how long weve been working on that one.
Martin runs Hellbender Media, which mostly consists of himself and whatever friends and colleagues he can get together to help on a production, he said.
After years of working on Flesh of My Flesh, Martin said he wanted to make something just for fun.
We had gotten so bogged down by that project, this was a chance to shake out the tubes, he said.
The result is two short films, which will be screened at this year's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival on May 3, 4 and 5 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland.
The festival will feature more than 30 films either adapted from or inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, the early 20th century author who specialized in horror and the macabre.
Im really glad that were waking up and shaking out the cobwebs, Martin said.
Martin is no stranger to the Lovecraft Film Festival. Over the years, Martin has made several short films, which have played at the festival, and his first feature film had its world premiere at the cinematic event. In total, Martin has shown eight films there.
His last appearance was in 2009.
All-volunteer outfit
Martins two new films are part of a large collection of short films playing during the three-day festival.
Filmmaking has always been a labor of love for Martin, who makes instructional videos for a Portland software company by day.
Working with an all-volunteer cast and crew, its not uncommon to spend months, or even years, working on a particular project.
That was the case with Blood, one of two films Martin will be showing at this years festival.
Filmed in Estacada, the 8-minute film tells a deceptively simple story, Martin said: A group of pirates regale each other with adventure stories around a campfire one night. Ironically, the film took about three years to complete.
Crews were going to film the project in fall of 2010, Martin said, but it rained the day they were scheduled to get rolling.
It rained the next day, he recalled. And the next day. And the next day.
I swear it rained until July. It just plowed rain for almost a year, he said.
When the weather cleared, and the film was shot, it took another year of editing and post-production work before the film was completed, he said.
Since were a volunteer project, we kept having paid things coming in that we would have to work on, he said.
Martin came up with the idea for the film after writing a short story about a 13th century monk. But after meeting a group of pirate re-enactors from Portland who were looking to make a film, Martin updated the story to the New World at the turn of the 20th century.
The other film at the festival, Animo Korvoj, went much smoother.
With Animo Korvoj, I knew exactly what I wanted, and it was just me, he said. I plowed through it, and it was done in about two weeks.
Using footage of a California ghost town and spoken in Esperanto, the film tells the story of a mining town in the Old West, which uncovers something terrible deep underground.
Just for fun
When Martin was in grade school, he was bitten by the filmmaking bug, and hes never looked back.
He started writing stories in grade school and making short animated films by drawing onto strips of 16mm film.
I was drawing by hand, frame by frame, he said. It was terrible. I was drawing with a sharpie, so the stories were always just the adventures of a big smudge meeting another big smudge.
Martin has spent more than a decade making low-budget films and regularly hosts workshops across the Northwest, teaching aspiring filmmakers how to make their own films in a weekend using the equipment they have on hand.
It started out just for fun, he said.
Although Martin said horror films arent what he gravitates to the most, he has drawn inspiration from Lovecrafts work.
There are a lot of commonalities between what I think of as the universe and what Lovecraft draws on, he said. Its not so much that Im drawn to Lovecraft, its more that it feels like he sees what I see.
Lovecraft stories often use cosmic horror, Martin said.
When Lovecraft describes reality, its as a tiny island in this sea of chaos. There is a brutal coldness of the universe. It has no conscious, and that to me is far more chilling and terrifying and at the same time relieving. That feels more like reality to me.
The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival begins Friday, May 3, at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd., in Portland.


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Screening/Pawa Film Forum: How to Start a Revolution, Jul. 16 2014 @ Mageuzi Hall – Pawa254 Hub
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The documentary 'How to Start a Revolution' will be screening on the 16th July, 2014 from 5.00pm till 8.00pm.
Venue: At Mageuzi Hall, PAWA254 Offices
Entrance is FREE
How to Start a Revolution is a BAFTA award winning British documentary film about Nobel Peace Prize nominee and political theorist Gene Sharp, described as the world's foremost scholar on nonviolent revolution.
The documentary will be followed by a discussion.
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General Comments: Futures were higher on new speculator and consumer buying. The move and its timing created ideas of new Chinese demand as they are now back and working after the Lunar New Year holiday. Bears point to increasing certified stocks levels for reasons to be bearish. Demand bulls noted positive economic data in general and ideas of reduced planted area in the U.S. this season as reasons to buy. The current low new crop prices are bringing into question what farmers in Texas and the Delta and Southeast will plant this year. Some are wondering if planted area might be lower this year here in the U.S. due to weak prices against competing crops. The area lost would go mostly to Corn and Soybeans. Texas areas could get some significant precipitation in the next day or two. Delta and Southeast areas will see some significant precipitation late in the week. Ideas are that the market can continue to work higher overall.
Overnight News: The Delta and Southeast will see showers and rain on Friday, and the Southeast could see precipitation through the weekend. Temperatures will average near to above normal. Texas will get dry weather. Temperatures will average below normal. The USDA spot price is now 77.63 ct/lb. ICE said that certified Cotton stocks are now 0.288 million bales, from 0.258 million yesterday.
Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are mixed to up with objectives of 91.00 March. Support is at 81.70, 80.55, and 80.20 March, with resistance of 82.90, 83.40, and 84.00 March.
General Comments: Futures closed lower on speculative trading as Florida officials said that no real damage was seen in the state after a cold weekend. It was cool, but not cold enough for a long enough period of time to do any damage. Weather should improve in Florida this week. Temperatures will turn warmer in the state, and conditions are dry again. Recent dry weather is creating ideas that more fruit can be lost, but USDA did not really show that in its reports earlier in the month. Fruit is holding for now, and irrigation is being used by producers to hold crop condition. Harvest in Florida of mid- and early-oranges is continuing, and the Valencia harvest is underway. Weather in Brazil is reported to be good. Brazil is seeing near to above normal temperatures and dry conditions or scattered showers. Harvest is continuing, so an increase in supplies should be expected at this time of year.
Overnight News: Florida weather forecasts call for mostly dry conditions. Temperatures will average below normal.
Chart Trends: Trends in FCOJ are mixed. Support is at 123.50, 122.00, and 119.00 March, with resistance at 129.00, 132.00, and 135.00 March.
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The Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library invites the Barry community to special presentation as part of the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf series.
"The Quran and Feminism," with Rabia Karim Khan, MS Resident Scholar The Islamic Foundation of South Florida
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Time: 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library, room 308
Rabia Karim Khan will explore how the Quran addresses the moral, spiritual, and social responsibilities of women. Khan will discuss how it liberated women from unjust social norms of sixth century Arabia, providing spiritual and intellectual freedom.
Khan earned three master's degrees in Arabic language and literature, Islamic studies, and educational leadership. She is a resident scholar at The Islamic Foundation of South Florida, where she is the department head for Islamic studies for full-time elementary and middle school students. She has chaired the women's book club activities and continues to teach weekly adult classes at the foundation.
For more information, please contact Merlene Nembhard, Reference Librarian, at 305-899-4051 or email@example.com.
The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.


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RECAP: The Vikings failed their first character test of a six-game stretch drive, losing another game at Soldier Field to NFC North rival Chicago in ugly fashion.
The Bears opened an insurmountable 25-3 halftime lead and put a sleeper hold on the clock to defeat Minnesota at home for the 10th time in 11 games.
Quarterback Jay Cutler, returning after missing 1 1/2 games because of a concussion, roamed free behind his supposedly battered pass protection and toyed with an exhausted Vikings defense, winging short passes all over the field to convert first downs and keep defenders chasing.
He completed 23 of 31 passes for 188 yards and a touchdown, hooking up 12 times with wide receiver Brandon Marshall for 92 yards.
The Vikings converted a Matt Forte fumble into a 3-0 lead early in the first quarter. But an Adrian Peterson fumble set up Michael Bush's 1-yard touchdown run and the Bears were off and running.
Former Gophers tight end Matt Spaeth caught a 13-yard bullet from Cutler in the second quarter to complete a 25-point blitz — one play after Ponder was intercepted by safety Chris Conte after airmailing Devon Aromashodu in the middle of the field.
Peterson eclipsed 100 yards rushing for the fifth straight game, matching Robert Smith's franchise record.
MEANING: The defeat raises fair questions about the Vikings' inability to win away from the Metrodome and compete for a playoff spot that is theirs for the taking.
They fell to 1-4 on the road with games remaining at Green Bay, St. Louis and Houston.
Quarterback Christian Ponder (22 of 43, 159 yards) reverted to the scrambling, indecisive and inaccurate passer he was before a slump-busting performance against Detroit entering last week's bye.
A startling lack of urgency was evidenced by Jerome Simpson's two dropped passes and a passive pass rush that was gift-wrapped its only sack when Cutler tripped over one of his linemen — against an offensive line that had allowed the second-most sacks in the NFL entering the day.
Wide receiver Percy Harvin's absence was more pronounced against Chicago's ferocious defense and on Minnesota's non-threatening return game.
The pain was not limited to the score. Rookie safety Harrison Smith, who has emerged as a hard-hitting playmaker in the secondary, left the game early in the third quarter after suffering a concussion, and tight end Kyle Rudolph followed him to the locker room with concussion symptoms in the fourth.
The Vikings did not earn many breaks and couldn't catch a big one midway through the third quarter. Mistral Raymond recovered a Forte fumble and returned it 52 yards for a touchdown that would have pulled the Vikings within nine points only to have replay rule Forte down before he was stripped.
sKYLE RUDOLPH — Tight end broke loose in coverage to haul in five passes and his seventh touchdown catch before being injured.
s ANTOINE WINFIELD — Veteran cornerback nabbed third interception and finished with seven tackles.
s ADRIAN PETERSON — Fumble set up Bears' initial touchdown but gained 83 of his 108 yards in the second half.
t CHRISTIAN PONDER — Unproductive and uninspiring performance from the quarterback, whose lack of command allowed the Bears to dial up pressure and dictate tempo.
t JEROME SIMPSON — Underwhelming receiver dropped third-down pass in red zone that would have extended potential tone-setting touchdown drive in first quarter, then botched another one later.
t JARED ALLEN — Three straight games without a sack for the superstar defensive end, who likely faces a hefty fine for launching a head shot into Bears guard Lance Louis, who suffered a knee injury trying to block during an interception return.
QUOTE: "Our expectations are so much higher than how we played or what we showed." — QB Christian Ponder
UP NEXT: Vikings at Packers, noon Sunday, KMSP Ch. 9 , KFXN-FM 100.3
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