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Dr Sylvia Earle (USA) is perhaps the best known woman marine ecologist and conservationist in the world. She is a powerful campaigner for the seas and strongly encourages people to change their attitudes to the sea as expressed in her wish when awarded the prestigious TED prize in 2009. Read more here
Peter van Kets is a passionate conservationist, one of South Africa's top adventurers and international keynote/inspirational speakers and one of the judges in the 2013 SST photo competition. Read more here
Mr Misaki Miyaji (Japan) is the mayor of Tobetsu-cho and a senior corporate advisor for Mitsubishi and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Until recently, he also served as an advisor to four presidents in Africa. Read more here
Prof Derrick Schwartz has been intrigued by the sea since he was a boy. It was this fascination and his recognition of the value of marine sciences that encouraged him to promote the seas, marine life and oceanography at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Read more here
After 25 years of working seven days a week on films, internationally acclaimed documentary film-maker, Craig Foster, has returned to the beloved golden forests of his youth, the icy waters and kelp forests of False Bay. Read more here


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Radek Kozel and Daniel Kutka are great friends who we paired up. We find them sharing a book and discussing it, but soon they forget about the book and start to kiss. Daniel is very eager to do more and pulls Radek's jeans down, exposing his cock and big, heavy balls. Daniel moves so that he can lick those balls. Then he starts to suck on Radek's cock which quickly grows big and hard. Daniel's mouth works hard on Radek's rigid cock, then he stands up and wanks himself, inviting Radek to suck him. Radek eagerly obliges, taking the dick in his mouth and sucking it until it is rock hard. They kiss again and take more turns on each other's cocks. Daniel then lays down and lifts his legs in the air, presenting his ass to Radek who gets down and starts to rim the hole. He gets that hole nice and wet and then rubs his cock against it before sliding it deep inside. He fucks Daniel with long, deep strokes. Daniel's dick is nice and hard and Radek is able to reach down and suck on it as he fucks his buddy. The guys are really into each other and soon they move, so that Daniel can sit of Radek's massive cock and ride it up and down. He slides all the way down on the cock and rides it real good, then Radek takes over and fucks some more. Changing position again RAdek continues to fill Daniel's ass with his cock, sliding it in and out. Daniel loves how it feels and wanks himself at the same time. Soon he is creaming all over his belly and Radek leans forward to kiss him. Then he starts fucking again building up, faster and faster until he is ready to cum too. He pulls out and shoots all over Daniel before leaning over for a final kiss. What a lovely scene from two great guys.
Zdenek Tlucek is aged 22 and lives in Jihlava. He works as a carpenter and enjoys sports, fitness and football. What a fine looking guy Zdenek is. He certainly looks very good as he sits on the bed for his interview, in just his underwear. When the interview is over Zdenek starts to feel his body, running his hands over his lovely chest. His muscles seem well defined, with his biceps showing clearly as he reaches down to his slipys. A hand goes inside and feels his cock. When he pulls his cock out it is nice and hard and Zdenek is wanking it. With his head leaning back and eyes closed as he wanks Zdenek is clearly enjoying the feeling. Then he removes the underwear, so that we can also see his balls. Moving his feet and bending his knees also brings a nice tight ass hole into view as he wanks. Then he drops the cock and uses both hands to spread the ass cheeks so that we get a better view of his hole. We get a great close up of that hole as Zdenek pulls it open. Then he starts to wank againa as a helping hand arrives. The hand drips some oil onto Zdenek's hot body and begins to massage it all over. Zdenek continues wanking himself and, as the helping hand reaches down to play with the balls a huge squirt of cum erupts from the hard cock. Then Zdenek goes of to the shower to clean up after a very nice shoot.
In Scene 4 of Inside Jirka Gregor, fully remastered, we have Jirka with Roland Volker. We find Jirka and Roland petting a horse and her foal. Then Roland leads Jirka into a barn and they stand by a window and enjoy a kiss. Then they move over to a stairway and Roland begins to undress Jirka. He does it slowly, revealing Jirka's hot chest and then his hard cock. Roland kisses on Jirka's body and moves down to suck on his dick. Jirka leans on the stairs as Roland devours his cock, sucking it real good. Jirka wants some too and he is soon sucking on Roland's dick. It is big and hard and Jirka's mouth closes tight around the head and sucks really well. Roland grabs Jirka's head and fucks his cock into his mouth. Then they move to 69, with Jirka hanging upside down on the stairs and Roland leaning over him. Both are working on each other's cocks taking them deep in their mouths. Then they move again with Jirka on his knees so that Roland can rim his hot ass. Roland's tongue searches for the pucker hole and laps at it. Then he is ready with his cock, to fuck that ass as deep as he can. He slides it in and begins to fuck Jirka, who reaches back to pull him further inside him. A further move has Roland on his back with Jirka sitting down on that big cock and riding it. He takes it very well and soon they move into missionary position. Roland is fucking that ass as deep as he can, as Jirka wanks himself. He moves so that he can suck on Roland's big dick again and as he sucks he shoots his own load. Roland quickly follows suit, dumping his cum all over Jirka's chest to end a wonderful scene.
Viky Scot is aged 23 and lives in Dubnica, Slovakia. He is currenty unemployed and enjoys playing football and going to the gym. What a great looking guy he is. Clearly he does a great deal of work in the gym as his body is very well defined. We see it perfectly as he strips off and poses for the camera. He also shows us his soft cock and his balls as he poses. Then some lovely views of a very sexy ass. When Viky gets his cock hard it really stands proud, pointing skywards as he stand and poses. He is certainly a very sexy guy, with a hot ass and nice pucker hole. He does a great job in this stills shoots. I have big hopes for his erotic video when it comes online.

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Visual studio's DataSet visualizer is ok but it's not that great :))
This one is excellent and if you do a lot of db development (which you do if you're reading blogs on SQLTeam :)) you need this.
You can get it here.
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As i saw this word being used with blittable and non-blittable datatype
i couldn't help but laugh... who comes up with this stuff??
Blittable types are datatypes that don't require conversion when passed between managed and unmanaged code while
non-blittable datatypes are represented differently in managed and unmanaged code.
Complete explanation here
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I've posted an article about WebDAV protocol and my use of it for accessing MS Exchange store. WebDAV is based on HTTP 1.1 and is based on sending XML requests to find, set, remove and search for item properties.
Microsoft recommends that Exchange access from .Net is made with WebDAV. This MS article explains more.
It also works with Office documents...
More here.
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you paste the code you want to display on the page and it creates the color coded html. preety cool...
there's even a source of the app that does the convert that you can view.
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Maybe i'm reinventing hot water but no matter. It's fun for me :)))
These 2 functions round the number up or down on the decimal position we specify.
create function dbo.FloorEx(@num decimal(38, 33), @decimalPosition int)returns decimal(38, 33)as beginif @decimalPosition < 0 set @decimalPosition = 0return floor(@num*power(10, @decimalPosition))/power(10, @decimalPosition)endgocreate function dbo.CeilingEx(@num decimal(38, 33), @decimalPosition int)returns decimal(38, 33)as beginif @decimalPosition < 0 set @decimalPosition = 0return ceiling(@num*power(10, @decimalPosition))/power(10, @decimalPosition)endgo declareselect @num decimal(38, 33), @decimalPosition int @num = 10.123456, @decimalPosition = 3select dbo dbogo @num, .FloorEx(@num...
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If you do a lot of managed/unmanaged code interaction with COM objects
then this is a page you must bookmark.
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I stumbled on an interesting thing yesterday while playing... :))
Seems that getting all data from a table is faster if we add a "phantom" where part
that forces a clustered index seek instead of a scan.
More here.
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I am a fourth year Latin student.
I do not know where to find appropriate translations. I am eager to find literature that is challenging, but at the same time not frusterating.
My portfolio of famous pieces I have translated includes:
Bayeux Tapestry, Carmina Burana, a little bit of St. Jerome, The Rape of Lucretia
Am I ready for Virgil?
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This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie—and started shooting. "I expect to be broke if I keep up the rate I am taking pictures," the budding 14-year-old photographer wrote to his Aunt Mary in San Francisco that summer. "I have taken 30 already."
He kept shooting for almost seven decades, until his death at age 82 in 1984, by which time he had become a world-famous photographer and a powerful voice for wilderness. Although he traveled far and wide, he returned again and again to the Sierra—"a noble gesture of the earth," in his phrase—for the adventure, artistic inspiration, friendship, and solace he found among its jagged granite peaks, snow-swept passes, and brooding skies. His uncompromising portrayal of these subjects still draws pilgrims to the wilderness that bears his name, deep in the heart of the High Sierra, in hopes of seeing what Ansel Adams saw there.
On a bright August morning, a group of Adams admirers emerged from the trees on horseback, making a cloud of dust as they came into view of Thousand Island Lake, at 9,833 feet a splendid prospect in the strong, slanting sunlight. The boulder-strewn lake, surrounded by lush alpine meadows, glittered under a flawless blue sky, with the black hulks of Banner Peak and Mount Ritter anchoring the scene. The horsemen picketed their mounts in a stand of pines, and one of them explained the object of this journey. "We're looking for Ansel's tripod holes," said Michael, at age 77 an ebullient internist from Fresno, now retired. He was joking about the tripod holes but not about his hope of finding the exact spot where Adams had made a memorable early image of the lake and Banner Peak—and surprised himself in the process.
"I made many drab shots and suffered some embarrassing failures," Adams wrote in his autobiography, recalling the 1923 trip to Thousand Island Lake. But one image proved an exception. "I can recall the excitement of the scene," he went on. "It seemed that everything fell into place in the most agreeable way: rock, cloud, mountain, and exposure … This picture still has a unity and magic that very few others suggested in those early years."
It was a defining moment for Adams, then 21 and still undecided over whether to pursue a career as a classical pianist or a photographer. "That trip in 1923 helped push him toward photography—he knew he really had something," said Michael, who had followed Adams's career closely, analyzing his pictures, absorbing his writings, and traveling to many of the places where he had worked. But Michael had never visited this corner of Adams country, accessed via narrow trails that climb the eastern slope of the Sierra to emerge in the wilderness.
"Well, I finally made it to Thousand Island Lake," crowed Michael, celebrating his arrival on the heights and seeming very much at home there. He wandered easily among the lakeside boulders in an old Stetson, and with his rugged good looks and white beard, he was the spitting image of Ansel Adams—for good reason: Michael Adams was the photographer's only son, here to reconnect with the old man and round out a footnote of family history involving Banner Peak.
"When my father made that picture," said Michael, "he was traveling with his friend Harold Saville. They had a burro to carry their equipment. Ansel took pictures, and Harold held the donkey. When the Banner Peak photo became famous, Harold loved telling everybody, 'I held Ansel's ass while he made that picture!' Harold loved that story. And now I can say I've seen the place where Harold held Ansel's ass!"
Michael was still chuckling over that one as he picked his way along the lakeshore, searching for the ass-holding place, while his son, Matthew, and I wandered up and down the lake, scrutinizing the scene, roasting in the unobstructed sun, and feeling deflated that none of the venues looked quite right. Finally we triangulated a couple of boulders with Banner Peak and nailed the location at 37° 43' N, 119° 10' W. The view was just as Ansel Adams had seen it, except for the absence of the feathery clouds that brushed his mountains and the presence of a pine on the right, which had insinuated its way into the composition since 1923.
"Otherwise, pretty much what my grandfather saw," said Matthew Adams, who continues the family interest in photography as president of the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park. Loose-limbed and rangy, Matthew is a young version of his grandfather, with his Roman nose and dark, arching eyebrows. He whipped out a pocket camera and snapped a picture of his father, who took off his Stetson and beamed by the lake that had caught Ansel's eye so long ago.
Mission accomplished, we saddled up and plodded back to camp on the sturdy, steady horses we had picked up in June Lake. We eased down one trail and up another, through high meadows bright with lupine and Indian paintbrush, past twisted junipers on the heights, and over the pass to the Clark Lakes, where our tent camp commanded a fine view of the mountains. The shadows lengthened, the stars popped into place, and the air chilled abruptly. We pulled our chairs closer to the fire, remembering the man who had brought us together.
"I think my father was happy that the Sierra Club and others put his work to good use," Michael said. He had been fiddling with a new Polaroid camera, which prompted the obvious question: Was he a photographer too? "No, I'm not," he said. "That's the first thing people ask me. The second thing they ask is what my father would think of digital photography. My answer is that he'd love it. He was always excited by the technical aspects of photography. He was always experimenting. So yes, I think he'd be very enthusiastic about digital, and he would find some way to use it."
To look at his photographs, you might get the mistaken notion that Ansel Adams was a severe man who viewed the world coldly, from a great distance and with little interest in humanity. In reality he was a gregarious creature with a salty sense of humor, a voluble style, and a sprawling network of friends who felt his death keenly.
Two such friends were William A. Turnage, then president of the Wilderness Society, and Alan Cranston, the California senator who rose to the position of Democratic whip in the late 1970s. When Adams died, Cranston wasted little time in calling Turnage to commiserate.
"What can we do for Ansel?" the senator asked. Turnage was ready with an answer: create a new Ansel Adams Wilderness area, which, along with the expanded John Muir Wilderness, would link two of the great High Sierra national parks, Yosemite and Sequoia. "This would thrill Ansel more than anything else could do—but it requires an act of Congress," Turnage recalls telling Cranston.
The senator readily agreed and ran with the idea. He persuaded his Republican colleague from California, Senator Pete Wilson, to cosponsor legislation that added 119,000 acres to the existing Minarets Wilderness and renamed it to honor their friend. Within months of Adams's death, the designation sailed through Congress with bipartisan support and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.
The campfire at the Clark Lakes was burning down. Michael Adams stared into the embers and spoke again of his father, now a permanent presence in the mountains all around us. "He'd be tickled to know that this part of the country has his name on it. He'd love that."


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Anne and I have been married for coming up on 34 years. After being away in the big city or sometimes just because I feel like it, I still love to bring home a small bouquet of flowers to bring out Anne's beautiful smile and expressions of appreciation . . .
. . . and I still receive little personal messages as emails and sometimes even "love messages in the sand" from Anne.
When out with a couple of our friends enjoying ourselves around the beach last week
Anne and I were heading up to the Bruce Peninsula on Saturday to spend a weekend with our friends. It is beautiful countryside and many opportunities struck my eye as I drove along the 2 hour trek to our destination.
The main reasons that I didn't stop to grab pictures along the way, was because it was around noon when we were traveling - as well as the roads that we were taking are narrow, hilly and difficult to pull off to the side - and our friends were expecting us to be there for
During our 2008 Costa Rica Adventure - while wondering through the streets of Alajuela, I came across a fellow in a wheelchair, working on motorcycles in a small garage in amongst retail stores and homes on a side street. It was evident that he was dealing with customers at that time and so I kept track of the location and checked back a few times to see if I would be able to get a shot of him working.
It never happened. 2 or 3 times I went there and the place was closed.Then one
Some of you may have already been exposed to this thread on the forum - but it gets buried quite quickly there and I thought that it would be valuable content to have in the Blog. It is a post that really shows the value of the Olympus weather sealing that is part of the E-3 and several of the lenses in their line up. I really value this as I have destroyed non-Olympus cameras and lenses in the past by working unprotected in situations like this - and ones that were far less extreme.
I know that when I post images that show my raw unprocessed "before shots" or "all 1800 images from a wedding" - I am really making myself vulnerable and exposing myself as not being nearly as good photographically as some might presume that I am. The mystique of my images is gone!
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Feds file more charges in Tenn. armory shooting
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have added new charges against a Tennessee National Guard recruiter accused of trying to kill four superiors in a shooting at an armory northeast of Memphis.
A superseding indictment filed by the U.S. attorney's office in Memphis adds eight new charges against Amos Patton, a 14-year Guard veteran. He has pleaded not guilty to existing charges that he tried to kill four Guard members inside the armory in Millington on Oct. 24.
The new charges were filed after Patton's defense lawyer challenged prosecutors' legal grounds for charging Patton in federal court.
Prosecutors say Patton pulled a gun from a fanny pack and started shooting after he was told he was being relieved of duty and dismissed from active service for alleged misconduct. Authorities say three guard members suffered minor injuries in the shooting. A fourth soldier fought with Patton and helped subdue him after he fled the armory, authorities said.
The original charges said the victims were acting as officers and employees of the United States when they were shot.
The new charges filed April 2 specify that the victims were shot at Naval Support Activity Memphis "Northside," a base that is under the jurisdiction of the federal government. Patton assaulted Guard members with intent to commit murder on "land acquired for the use of the United States," the superseding indictment said.
The base is home to human resources operations and serves as headquarters to the Navy Personnel Command, Navy Recruiting Command, the Navy Manpower Analysis Center and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center. The armory is across the street from the main part of the base.
The additional charges were handed down after Patton's defense lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that the federal government has no grounds to charge Patton. Attorney Michael Stengel argued that the Guard members were shot while performing their duties as state officers, not federal officers.
The motion said that while members of Tennessee Army National Guard simultaneously enlist in both the Tennessee National Guard and National Guard of the United States, they are part of a separate state Guard unit "unless and until ordered to active duty in the Army."
"None of the alleged victims were in active federal service at the pertinent time," the motion said.
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A couple of weeks ago, I introduced you to the "Savor the South" series of cookbooks from the University of North Carolina Press. While the first cookbook in the series focused on buttermilk, the cookbook I'm featuring this week focuses on one of my favorite ingredients - pecans. "Pecans" is written by Kathleen Purvis.
Purvis introduces the subject of pecans by telling us that she keeps her pecans in the freezer. I, too, freeze my pecans in zippered freezer bags and use them throughout the year. I feel fortunate to live here in Georgia and have ready access to these versatile nuts.
"Pecans" starts out with a brief history of the evolution of pecans. The pecan is native to America and is a distant relative of the hickory. One of the most interesting facts is that "Pecan trees bear alternately, with a heavy year followed by a light year." As I can attest from the pecan tree in our yard, it takes ten to twelve years before the tree will yield pecans, but the tree will continue to grow for decades. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be one of those lucky people who lives surrounded by a grove of pecan trees?
Since I've been trying to reduce carbohydrates in my diet, I've learned to appreciate nuts as they are rich in nutrients, protein, and fiber. The author includes some helpful tips for cooking with pecans. Save time while measuring pecans. If a recipe calls for one cup chopped pecans, measure out one cup of whole, shelled nuts and chop them. There's no need to chop and then measure. Also, since pecans can easily burn, toast them in a dry skillet over medium heat instead of in the oven, stirring frequently and stopping at the point where they start to get fragrant.
Pecans aren't just for desserts. While this cookbook does contain recipes for classic sweets such as Pecan Pralines, Crispy Pecan Pie and Pecan Lace Cookies, it also has plenty of savory recipes that incorporate pecans. Pecans can be used in every course from appetizers such as Smoky Garlic-Mustard Pecans to main courses in dishes such as Buttermilk-Pecan Chicken, Pecan-Crusted Grouper, and Shrimp and Farfalle with Pecan Pesto. The recipe featured here, Roasted Broccoli with Browned Butter Pecan Sauce, is from the Salads and Sides section of the cookbook.
I'm pleased to have a cookbook devoted to pecans in my collection. It has helped me to think outside of the box, as in desserts, and find inspiring ways to incorporate more pecans into my diet. I'm looking forward to the next addition to the "Savor the South" collection which celebrates the food of the American South.
Roasted Broccoli with Browned Butter Pecan Sauce
1 large head broccoli
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
¼ cup chopped pecans
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Trim the stalk from the broccoli. Cut away any tough bits and slice the stalk into thin coins. Cut the florets into slices to create lots of flat sides.
Place the broccoli in a large roasting pan or rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with the oil, stirring to coat. Spread it all out with as many flat sides down as possible. Sprinkle with salt.
Place in the oven and roast for about 30 minutes, stirring once or twice, until the flat sides are a little brown and the broccoli is tender.
While the broccoli is roasting, make the sauce. Place the butter in a small saucepan or skillet over medium heat. As it melts, the butter will crackle as the water cooks away. Just as it starts to brown, add the garlic and reduce the heat to medium-low. Stir and cook a minute or two, just until the garlic is very fragrant. Stir in the mustard and lemon juice, mixing well, then stir in the pecans. Heat for about 2 minutes.
Remove the broccoli from the oven and pour into a serving bowl. Add the sauce and toss to mix well.


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Skip to comments.Coalition for British Reparations (groan alert)
Posted on 03/18/2007 10:01:20 PM PDT by sociotard
Here's a weird little organization for you to laugh at:
International Coalition for British Reparations
My only hope is that this is in some way a joke. Basically, they want Great Britain to pay the world for its imperialist history, to the tune of 31 Trillion Pounds.
Oh, wait, that's not all. They're also blaming Britain for the Industrial Revolution (it was bad for the environment) and for inventing Machine guns.
Well, maybe they need to be machine-gunned, on the "hair of the dog" principle.
Blair needs to admit that "mistakes were made", fire some underlings, invite his accusers to dinner, and pour trillions of taxpayer pounds to their causes.
Oh, wait a minute. I was thinking of Bush.
No reparations demanded from France or Spain?
...looks like a good bandwagon for Americans to hop on to, unless the Brits want to drop their campaign to impoverish the USA with canards about "global warming" being caused by us.
An American, Hiram Maxim, did. Britain merely bought them from him.
Well, I have to admit that I do agree with their central point: "Having spent the better half of the millennium turning the world into their personal litter box, where do the English get off blaming everything on America?"
This is a joke. They list bad hygiene and the Black Plague as grievances. They also say they plan to present their petition to the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Good luck with all that.
This Hiram Maxim had a son named Hiram Percy Maxim. I think he was the first Ham radio operator in America. His call sign was W1AW, the same call sign used by the ARRL station in Newington, CT.
Hiram Maxim was American Born but was a British subject when he invented the Maxim Gun which was developed by a British financed company (Vickers) and first used by the British Army.
Not exactly a large American component there...
The British should claim reparations from the Danes (Vikings) for the rape and pillage and extortion of Dane Geld (with interest), also from the Italians for the Roman invasion in 55BC and from the French (Normans) for the invasion in 1066.
Don't you think the British should at least get some credit for inventing the French Fry (God bless them)?
Other than the fact he was born here and didn't emigrate to the UK until he was well into his fourties anyway.
Whatever. The Brits can have Mr. Maxim. We had John Moses Browning.
The irony is ever juicier now that the Britons themselves claim that London has retaken the position of the world's capital in capital raising, etc. London itself claims as being the most cosmopolitan city in the world with all the unimaginable riches. Hey, they should have enough money to pay these reparations!
"No reparations demanded from France or Spain?"
Or Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland? Not to mention dear mother Ruska? China? Japan?
Bloody imperialists all!!
So I guess the British came up with the idea of sacrificing hundreds of people per day to Huitzilopochtli. Oh, wait, that was the Aztecs. When do the Mexicans get hit up for reparations?
Well the British have to pay for the African Slave Trade, except that the Atlantic Slave Trade would never have worked without African middlemen who actually acquired the slaves and traded them to the British. We'll just leave out the inconvienent fact that the creators of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade were the Portuguese. Portugal must be made to pay.
And let's not forget 700 years of "illegal occupation" of Spain by the Berber Muslims. Morocco needs to get their checkbook out so they can repatriate Spain. Reparations is such an asinine concept.
What a joke! The British should be charging them for semi-civilizing their sorry asses.
The website and the 'campaign' was set up by a self-publicising Advertising Executive called Steven Grasse who runs the following company:
He set it all up to publicise his 'book' about the same topic.
He is French. Enough said! :D
"The British should claim reparations from the Danes (Vikings) for the rape and pillage and extortion of Dane Geld "
Wasn't Eric the Bone Crusher involved in that one?
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Prepare to conqueror the Old Wild West ! Register the tournament until January, the 21th !
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=>Signed list of players<=
=>Match planning and results<=
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=>Teams registered<=
I wish a happy new year to all the Smokin'Guns community and of course to you, stranger !
Thank you all to be there ! You're our blood !
Few may have noticed, but I'm back on merging and synchronizing the ioQuake3 engine with our loved game. So expect some good news for this new year ! Don't expect a revolution, but I'm sure you'll continue to take loving care of your machine gun !!
Howdy everybody !
Even if we are not fully available to maintain this game, our community IS !
Lastly, a newcomer name NetBoot did a great work to provide MAC users a native installer. Thank you so much NetBoot !
We mirrored this installer in our download section or you can go and get it from NetBoot page on SourceForge.
Also Mac users are invited to thank NetBoot in our forum
No this is not an allucination !Smokin'Guns 1.1 is officially released today and you still can get it from our new official Downloads page. Yeahah !
You should also realize Smokin'Guns community owns now a great new site based on Drupal and it is launched with a great and smart theme thanks to Biondo, our good friend and talented web designer ! Thank you for all your investment Biondo !
So, new release, new site !! What else ! He he... some other nice news will come soon, but now it's time to thank Joe Kari for his efforts and his desire to push toward Smokin'Guns 1.1 release. You'll find nice new features exposed in his great Alamo II map !! I would like also to thank Torhu for the Windows exe installer and also Barto for his try in a generic Debian package !! And of course, thank you Red and Pardner for your priceless involvement !!!
I would also thank you all for your long time support ! And now my heart is just beating toward our old good friends who were around for years and who are just missing us today...
Thanks to Joe Kari efforts, we are kindly coming to soon release Smokin' Guns 1.1 !!
This time he packaged the Release Candidate 2 and you are pleased to download and test it !! yeeeeaahahah !!
Help us and report your feeling with this RC and don't forget to vote for it if think this is the right release !
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[Relates to Microsoft operating system]
If you've downloaded and installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) you are using Data Execution Protection (DEP) by default.
During installation of Windows XP SP2, the OptIn policy level is enabled by default unless a different policy level is specified in an unattended installation and by default, DEP is only turned on for essential Windows operating system programs and services.
What is DEP?
Data execution prevention (DEP) helps prevent damage from viruses and from other security threats that attack by executing malicious code from memory locations that only Windows and other programs should use. This kind of security threat causes damage by taking over one or more memory locations that are in use by a program. Then it spreads, and it harms other programs, files, and even your e-mail contacts.
Unlike a firewall or antivirus program, DEP does not help prevent harmful programs from being installed on your computer. Instead, it monitors your programs to determine if they use system memory safely. To do this, DEP software works alone or with compatible microprocessors to mark some memory locations as "non-executable." If a program tries to run code from a protected location, DEP closes the program and notifies you. This action occurs even if the code is not malicious.
Where are simplified DEP options?
Designed for end users.
You can find DEP options by right clicking, "My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Settings, Data Execution Prevention."
If either one of the two options shown are checkmarked, DEP is installed and running.
Of course there are conditions under which DEP is not installed and no options are available.
What other DEP options are available?
Designed for IT Professionals or ISVs.
System-wide DEP configurations can be modified/controlled using a few methods.
The Boot.ini file can be modified directly with scripting mechanisms (Group policy), manual configuration or with the Bootcfg.exe tool which is included as part of Windows XP SP2.
Windows supports four system-wide configurations for both hardware-enforced and software-enforced DEP;
1) OptIn
2) OptOut
3) AlwaysOn
4) AlwaysOff
Configuration for DEP is controlled through Boot.ini switches, /noexecute=policy_level where policy_level is defined as OptIn, OptOut, AlwaysOn, or AlwaysOff.
A sample configuration in boot.ini is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pro" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut
Option Explanations:
(default configuration)
On systems with processors capable of hardware-enforced DEP, DEP is enabled by default for limited system binaries and applications that opt-in,
With this option, only Windows system binaries are covered by DEP by default.
DEP is enabled by default for all processes. Users can manually create a list of specific applications which do not have DEP applied using System in Control Panel.
IT Pros and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can use the Application Compatibility Toolkit to opt-out one or more applications from DEP protection. System Compatibility Fixes (shims) for DEP do take effect.
This provides full DEP coverage for the entire system. All processes always run with DEP applied. The exceptions list for exempting specific applications from DEP protection is not available. System Compatibility Fixes (shims) for DEP do not take effect. Applications which have been opted-out using the Application Compatibility Toolkit run with DEP applied.
This does not provide any DEP coverage for any part of the system, regardless of hardware DEP support. The processor will run in Physical Address Extension mode (PAE) with 32-bit versions of Windows unless the /NOPAE option is also present in the boot entry.
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Bloody Sunday in Syria: At least 136 killed in military operations
At least 136 people were killed on Sunday, among them 100 in the city of Hama, when the Syrian military stormed several cities across the country, human rights activists said. Abdul Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights, said "100 civilians were shot dead Sunday in Hama by security forces."
According to AFP, Rihawi added that "five people were shot dead by security forces in several neighborhoods of Homs, whose residents took to the streets in support of the city of Hama." On his part, Ammar Qorabi, who heads the National Organization for Human Rights, said that elsewhere, "19 people were killed in Deir Ezzor in the east, six more died in Harak in the south and one in al-Bukamal," near the border with Iraq.
The official SANA news agency reported two members of the security forces were killed on Sunday by "armed groups" in Hama. "Two law enforcement members were martyred by armed groups in Hama who set police stations on fire, vandalized public and private properties, set up roadblocks and barricades and burned tires at the entrance of the city and in its streets," SANA said.
The Syrian Observatory said the army also launched an operation against Muadhamiya in the Damascus region. "Security forces launched an offensive at 5:00 am (0200 GMT) on Muadhamiya from the north, with tanks blocking the southern, eastern and western entrances to the town," Abdul Rahman said.
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A new police investigation into the Hillsborough disaster has been announced by the Home Secretary.
On the day when the High Court will rule whether or not to quash the original verdict of accidental death for the 96 Liverpool who lost their lives in the tragedy 23 years ago, Theresa May MP has confirmed that a new probe will be opened.
Former Durham Chief Constable Jon Stoddart will lead the new inquiry, which will be given new powers to investigate the circumstances surrounding the events before and during the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which caused the deaths.
The inquiry comes after the Hillsborough Independent Panel reported in September that there had been an institutional cover up at the time of the tragedy and in the ensuing years, something which prompted an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron in Parliament.
"The findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel were truly shocking, but while the families have now been given the truth, they have not yet received justice," May said.
"Jon Stoddart is a skilled and dedicated investigator who will bring a huge amount of policing experience to this demanding job.
"I am giving the IPCC new powers to investigate police misconduct, but this investigation will ensure no body with responsibility for fan safety at Hillsborough will escape scrutiny.
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Updated 4 p.m. A small fire in the boys bathroom at Ashland Middle School today — started in a paper-towel dispenser — appears to have been intentionally set, according to Ashland School Superintendent Juli Di Chiro.
Ashland Fire Department spokesman Chris Chambers declined to comment on the cause, saying the blaze is still under investigation.
The fire, which triggered alarms at 11:06 a.m., caused only smoke damage, not structural harm, and no rebuilding will be required, said Di Chiro, after inspecting the bathroom on the south wing.
"We have to look at it in more detail, though," she said.
The apparent arson has triggered an investigation by the school system, Di Chiro said, adding it melted the dispenser, which is made of plastic. Chambers said that when you look in the bathroom, it's entirely black all over from smoke.
Hundreds of students watched from soccer fields as firefighters knocked down the blaze in a matter of 15 to 20 minutes.
All smoke and hazards were "cleared" by 12:45, and students were let back into the new part of the middle school on the north campus, where they had lunch. Then students and teachers were let back into the farthest portions of the old building, Di Chiro said, and school went on as normal.
A new auto-dial alert system successfully called all parents, telling them of the fire either by voicemail, text or email. However, because they were evacuated, school staff said they weren't able to "push the go button" until they were let back in the building about 12:45.
Very few parents were upset or came to the school, they added, because the message told them the fire was out and everyone was OK.
-- John Darling
Updated 12:18 p.m. Ashland firefighters knocked down a small blaze at Ashland Middle School this morning.
A fire alarm in the school triggered the call shortly after 11 a.m. and sent four engines scrambling to the scene while hundreds of evacuated children watched from soccer fields.
A damage estimate was not immediately available.
Smoke was billowing from the roof when firefighters arrived and they quickly "knocked the fire down," said Chris Chambers, spokesperson for Ashland Fire & Rescue. "They're checking to see if there's any fire in the attic."
Ashland School Superintendent Juli Di Chiro, who rushed to the scene, said smoke was seen rolling out of a bathroom on the south end.
"It's old slap-dash construction from the '70s, with no crawl space and no sprinkler system, built for the rush of baby boomers of the day," she said.
She added that "we're keeping our fingers crossed that it wasn't started by a student."
Schools are required now to have sprinkler systems, but AMS isn't required to install one unless there's a major remodel, she said.
Battalion Chief Dana Sallee said, "We saw smoke billowing out of the roof when we got here."
It may take hours or even days to determine the cause and dollar amount of damage, said Chambers.
Walker Avenue was closed while crews worked, but has reopened.
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11:50 a.m. Fire crews are working at a reported fire at Ashland Middle School.
The fire alarm went off at 11:06 a.m. at the school at 100 Walker Ave., emergency dispatch records show. Firefighters arrived to see smoke and triggered a second alarm to call more firefighters and fire engines to the scene.
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Updated 4 p.m. A small fire in the boys bathroom at Ashland Middle School today — started in a paper-towel dispenser — appears to have been intentionally set, according to Ashland School Superintendent Juli Di Chiro.


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Funny coincidence: yesterday in work I was trying to find a way to express something simple enough in Java: I want a method map that takes a generic collection and return a collection of the same type (that is, passing a List should return a List, passing a Set should return a Set) with a different generic type. In Java you can have:
public <T1,T2> Collection<T2> map(Collection<T1> c,Mapper<T1,T2>
Where Mapper is an interface defining the method T2 map(T1 o);
There is no way I think in Java to express that if you pass a subclass of collection you get the same subclass back.
I tried things like <T1,T2,C extends Collection,C1 extends C<T1>,C2 extends C<T2> and other crazy things that my compiler didn't appreciate.
You have to duplicate methods, and that's what we've done in work:
public <T1,T2> List<T2> map(List<T1> c,Mapper<T1,T2>
public <T1,T2> Set<T2> map(Set<T1> c,Mapper<T1,T2>
And of course a colleague needed a Vector because he was using an old library still using Vectors...
And then today I found that blog post, that point to that PDF document. Apparently you can do this kind of things in Scala and Haskell... Do I need to convince my company to move to Scala?
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Java and higher order generics
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Cassell's Corner podcast host Tommy Cassell talks with Henry Weycker, the Wellesley Raiders' star baseball player, and the team's coach, Rob Kane.
Kane guided Weycker and his teammates to this year's Division 1 State Championship game. It was the first time the Raiders had ever competed at that level. The team fell to Taconic, but Kane and Weycker talk with Cassell about the high points of the season as well as looking forward to next year.
"It was an unbelievable experience from guy one to guy 25," Kane told Cassell in this week's episode.
In the final week of the 2017 regular season, the Raiders went 3-0 with wins over Needham, Natick (which clinched a postseason berth) and Medfield.
The Raiders prodded through the Division 1 South sectional with wins over Mansfield, Barnstable, Durfee, and Bridgewater-Raynham for the program's first sectional title since 2005.
"This year was unlike any other because of what we were able to accomplish in the postseason," Kane told Cassell.
Weycker, who just finished his sophomore year, is a left-handed hitter and pitcher. He is committed to play baseball at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, after he graduates from Wellesley. He talked with Cassell about the recruitment and selection process.
"I visited them in October. I loved the coaching staff," he said. "I got a couple of other offers. But in the end, in January, I decided I wanted to be a Hokie."
Weycker and Kane also talk to Cassell about what's next for Wellesley as they switch from wood to aluminum bats and as they strive to win the state title.
"There are not a lot of guys leaving," Kane said. "We're going to try to win that championship."
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A navy helicopter crashed Saturday in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster to hit Africa's most populous nation, officials said.
Nigeria's presidency said in a statement that the governor of the central Nigerian state of Kaduna, Patrick Yakowa, died in the helicopter crash in Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta.
The former national security adviser, General Andrew Azazi, also died in the crash, the statement said. Azazi was fired in June amid growing sectarian violence in Nigeria, but maintained close ties with the government. The other victims were aides to Yakowa and Azazi and the two helicopter pilots, it said.
President Goodluck Jonathan's spokesman, Reuben Abati, said in a statement that their loss was "extremely painful to the entire nation."
He said the president had ordered an investigation to determine the cause of the crash.
The crash occurred at about 3:30 p.m. after the navy helicopter took off from the village of Okoroba in Bayelsa state where officials had gathered to attend the burial of the father of a presidential aide, said Commodore Kabir Aliyu. He said the helicopter was headed for Nigeria's oil capital of Port Harcourt when it crashed in the Nembe area of Bayelsa state.
Aviation disasters remain common in Nigeria, despite efforts in recent years to improve air safety.
In October, a plane made a crash landing in central Nigeria. A state governor and five others sustained injuries but survived.
In June, a Dana Air MD-83 passenger plane crashed into a neighborhood in the commercial capital of Lagos, killing 153 people onboard and at least 10 people on the ground. It was Nigeria's worst air crash in nearly two decades.
In March, a police helicopter carrying a high-ranking police official crashed in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing four people.
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Zao Wou Ki was born in Beijing on 13 February 1921. He died on 9 April 2013 at his home in Nyon Switzerland.
Later after arriving in France, he will adopt the spelling ZAO for his name.
At age fourteen he enrols at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he remains for six years. His first exhibition demonstrates his influences: Renoir, Modigliani, Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso
In 1942, he organises an exhibition of works by Wu Dayu, his teacher, together with some of his own works.
Zao Wou Ki goes to France and reaches Paris April the 1st and spends the whole afternoon in the Louvre.
He attends the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and lives Rue du Moulin Vert nearby Alberto Giacometti's studio. He makes the acquaintance of Hans Hartung, Nicolas de Stael, Pierre Soulages, Viera da Silva, Sam Francis, Norman Bluhm and Jean-Paul Riopelle. They often gather at the Galerie Nina Dausset, rue du Dragon.
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Later on back in Aus I got my hands on some of the photos he took, however, I was trying not to dwell too much on all things crash related so I never really looked them over.
Only this evening did I remember them annd think, yeh it's time, let's have a squizz.
Well I had one squizz, followed by another, followed by the thought that I MUST post these photos; they are insane! Revolting on one hand, but fascitnating on the other. Frankly, I can't believe I did a 3 hour ride and a gym session yesterday. Out of all the rocky ditch crashes going round, I reckon I came off pretty lightly!
OK, now seriously, these photos are pretty rough, so you've been warned.
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Drool is excused under certain circumstances
Talk about skin-folds!
The rest are sitting at the start of my photostream, right here
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About the Museum Library's Rare Book Collection
The images you'll see in the Natural Histories exhibition are reproduced from volumes in the Museum's Rare Book Collection. Including more than 14,000 volumes, some dating to the 1400s, the collection is comprised of books that were scientifically influential at the time—and remain so today.
Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1667) depicted meticulous illustrations of a flea and other minute creatures that foretold a new chapter in natural history, in which organisms could be classified according to precisely detailed descriptions of their anatomy—even the tiniest.
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1839-1843), a five-volume work edited by Charles Darwin, depicted specimens Darwin collected during his travels on H.M.S. Beagle. (That journey, of course, would become a foundation for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.) In the exhibition you'll see an image of a Rhea pennata, a flightless bird native to South America, drawn by John Gould and reproduced as a lithograph.
During the course of the exhibition, various rare books—including works with images featured in Natural Histories and many never before seen by the public—will be displayed on a rotating basis outside the entrance of the Museum's Research Library on the fourth floor.


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Rashad Hassan scored 19 points and Deven Williams had 18 to lead Savannah State to a 59-54 victory over Alabama State on Friday night.
The Hornets tied the game for the final time at 50-50 with 2:37 remaining on Stephawn Brown's 3-pointer from the top of the key.
Savannah State took the lead for good with just over two minutes to play and extended it to 55-51 with 1:18 left in the game on a 3-pointer by Williams. A three-point play by Joshua Freelove brought the Hornets (0-4) to within one at 55-54 with 55 seconds remaining, but the Tigers (3-1) held on for the victory.
Freelove led Alabama State with 17 points.
Savannah State led 9-2 and 19-6 in the first half, but Alabama State came back to within two, trailing 25-23 at the break.


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We recently announced our 2013 Ask-A-Mom (and dads)—our resident parent experts who provide their tips and tricks for a great trip to the lodge. Over the coming weeks, we are going to introduce you to each of them and give you a look at why they love Great Wolf Lodge. Today, meet Chris Lewis for our Traverse City lodge—father of two girls blogging about the trials and tribulations of living (and surviving) in a Divadom on a daily basis.
As a father I am always looking for experiences that will leave lasting memories in the minds of my daughters. Whether this is small day-to-day events, or big scale vacations—all are things that I work hard on so that they can look back on their childhood with fondness. What I love about Great Wolf Lodge is that it provides families of all income brackets the opportunity to get away on either a mini or extended vacation that will leave lasting memories. Whether you enjoy water and spending time in the waterpark, racing down waterslides and having tons of water dump on top of your head or you want to go on a magical journey battling dragons and hanging out with fairies, there is so much to do at Great Wolf. On top of all of this, Great Wolf employees are so down-to-earth and friendly and are there to make the experience magical, at least the ones that I have met have.
These are some of the larger scale things that stand out in why we love Great Wolf Lodge. I have to go further though and say that it is more than this—it is the smaller moments with the characters that make my children smile. It is the family oriented menu at the restaurant. It is seeing all of the kids coming together for a bedtime story or a morning trek which both educates and entertains. It is all of these things that make this resort special and one that I have constantly shared with all of my friends.
The final thing that I love about this resort is that for me, they are close enough that I can drive, but far enough away that it makes my whole family feel that we are getting away from home to a fun location.
So for me—a dad that makes it my aim in life to be present and engaged with my daughters—this resort, and its staff go out of their way to make it easy for me to bring something special and magical into their lives (outside of what I already provide at home). Also, the absolute joy shown on their faces when we arrive at Great wolf is simply priceless.


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Steven Herskovitz M.D. / EMG Lab
Phone: (718) 920-4930
Alfred J. Spiro M.D. / MDA Muscle Disease Clinic
Phone: (718) 405-8140
The Neuromuscular Division of the Department of Neurology is dedicated to the expert clinical evaluation, care, and research of neuromuscular disorders, and the training of residents and fellows in this field. The last two decades have brought enormous advances in the diagnostic evaluation and management of many of these disorders, as well as an understanding of their molecular genetic basis. We provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient consultative services for adult and pediatric patients with neuromuscular disorders, along with ancillary studies including electrodiagnostic, neuroimaging and neuropathologic testing, through individual practitioners or in our Muscular Dystrophy Association Muscle Disease Clinic.
Steven Herskovitz M.D. (Director, EMG lab): electromyography, peripheral neuropathies, entrapment neuropathies, peripheral neurotoxicologyAlfred J. Spiro M.D. (Director, MDA Muscle Disease Clinic): neuromuscular disease of infants, children and adults; muscle pathologyHerbert H. Schaumburg M.D. : neurotoxicology; peripheral neuropathies, animal models of distal axonopathyMichael Swerdlow M.D. : myasthenia gravis, adult general neurologyPhyllis L. Bieri M.D. : electromyography, neuromuscular junction disorders, chemodenervation with botulinum toxin, small fiber neuropathy (skin biopsy), pediatric EMGAnn E. Hanley M.D. : electromyography, general neurologyHoward L. Geyer M.D., Ph.D. : electromyography, movement disorders, chemodenervation with botulinum toxinMark J. Milstein M.D. : electromyography, consultative neurologyEmma Laureta M.D. : pediatric neuromuscular disease, MDA Muscle Disease ClinicFabreena Napier M.D. : electromyographyBeth Stein M.D. : neuromuscular disorders, MDA Muscle Disease Clinic, electromyography Eric Mariuma M.D.: intraoperative monitoring, electromyography Caroline Badeer M.D. : general neurology, electromyography Constantine Farmakidis M.D. : General Neurology & Neuromuscular Medicine/EMG
Joe Verghese M.D. : cognitive and gait disorders; aging and the peripheral nervous systemKaren M. Weidenheim M.D. : nerve and muscle pathologyJohn K. Houton M.D. : neurosurgery, spine servicePatrick Lasala M.D. : neurosurgery, nerve and muscle biops


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Business: Low-wage jobs cause more problems than they solveSource: Yahoo News
In the wake of strikes by Wal-Mart workers last week and fast food workers in New York City this past Thursday, the issue of low-wage work is slowly becoming more prominent. This is a timely, important and essential conversation. Continue reading


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David Morgan's ResourceInvestor.com has released a 4 minute clip with Ryan Jordan, author of Silver- The People's Metal on why modern portfolio's should hold tangible assets such as PHYSICAL SILVER rather traditional financial assets like corporate and government bonds and securities. Jordan points out that at the peak of the 1980 bull market in silver, the value of the world's silver bullion reached 10% of the market cap of the entire US stock market. In today's terms, this would put the value of the world's silver at over $1.5 TRILLION, or approximately $700/oz!
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"Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts, who was one of the first women to anchor ESPN's "SportsCenter" and "NFL Primetime," will be honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2013 ESPYS, ESPN announced on Tuesday.
The award is given annually to individuals whose contributions transcend sports. While Roberts is credited for blazing the trail for women in broadcasting, she has also inspired viewers by overcoming not one, but two life-threatening illnesses.
Also read: 'GMA': Robin Roberts Returns to Well-Wishes, Gift Basket From NBC Rivals
In 2007, two years after becoming co-anchor of "GMA," Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer and chose to turn the cameras on herself so viewers could follow her journey to beat the disease.
In 2012, Roberts announced on the air that she was suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a blood and bone marrow disease. She vowed to beat it and a few months later, once again turned the camera on herself while receiving treatment.
Also read: Robin Roberts Gets Bone Marrow Transplant on 'GMA' (Video)
Following a successful bone marrow transplant and 174-day medical leave from the ABC morning news programs, Roberts returned to work Feb. 20.
"Robin brings an amazing amount of energy, compassion and determination to everything she does. Those qualities made her an incredible asset during her time here at ESPN, and they have served her well as she battled the terrible health challenges that she's had to face," said ESPN president John Skipper. "Robin's accomplishments in so many areas — as an athlete, a broadcaster, a cancer survivor and more — demonstrate her ability to shine regardless of adversity and we could not be more proud to honor her as the recipient of this year's Arthur Ashe Courage Award."
The Arthur Ashe Courage Award is described by ESPN as the emotional pinnacle of the ceremony honoring athletic achievement. Recent winners have included Nelson Mandela, boxer Dewey Bozella and women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2011.
The ESPYS will be broadcast live from the L.A.'s Nokia Theatre on July 17.


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drubie wrote:familyguy wrote:Wow, $180. Is the Steelie-dex back on the way up?
There was an inevitability to it - nobody makes affordable steel roadie frames any more (the gazillion cheap fixie frames don't count) and anything which still has the original stickers is worth far more than something anonymous. I'm starting to think a $150 shogun or centurion is good buying, even the entry level ones like the Selectra are good riding and take modern parts, what's not to like?
Also, it's pink! That's worth at least an extra pineapple.


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Dave D'Onofrio's Patriots Notebook: When things look bleak, they just keep playing ... and winningBY DAVE D'ONOFRIO
Special to The New Hampshire Union Leader
November 25. 2013 8:51PM
A FEW DAYS EARLIER, Ravens coach John Harbaugh had made NFL headlines when he merely admitted to considered taking the wind, instead of the ball, before ultimately deciding to receive the kickoff that began his team's overtime period with the Bears in Week 11.
And that was against Josh McCown.
So when Bill Belichick opted to give possession to the great Peyton Manning, in exchange for a chance to play downwind and defend Gillette Stadium's north end zone on a blustery Sunday night, the choice perplexed many in the moment. Even his players.
"I mean, even the captains didn't know," said Patriots safety Devin McCourty. "We're like, 'Defer? Take the wind?' "It was obviously the best call. And it was a great call by him."
It became a great call because it worked. Manning's record-pace passing attack was rendered ineffective because of the conditions, and after two overtime drives apiece, the Pats were punting with the wind when a bounding ball bounced off a Bronco. New England's Nate Ebner pounced on the free pigskin, and Stephen Gostkowski kicked the winning field goal from 31 yards out.
But while it may have been his most controversial — or, at least, unconventional — choice of the night, the decision to initially defend in OT wasn't where Belichick's influence and ingeniousness was most evident en route to a 34-31 triumph that became the biggest comeback in franchise history because it required the Patriots to erase a 24-point halftime deficit.
In fact, they weren't most apparent in any single play or strategic ploy, but rather in the way New England remained poised as their climb steepened. In the way that they stayed mentally strong after a dreadful first half against what might be the best team in football. And in the way those characteristics have become more a perpetual signature of his Patriots than any particular system or style of play.
"Going through the game film," Belichick said Monday, "it's just more and more evident how tough and resilient our players were (Sunday) night and how they just competed down after down for almost five full quarters against a really good football team.
"They did plenty of things that gave us problems but we hung in there and battled with them all the way."
A more fragile team might have hung their heads, not hung in. The Patriots lost three fumbles in the first quarter and quickly fell behind by 17 points. On a bitterly cold night, they were being embarrassed before a national audience, while being booed off their own field at halftime, and the Broncos had run their record to 9-1 on the season even with a negative turnover margin — so they couldn't have felt too good about their chances after affording Denver three free possessions.
But the Patriots avoided the traps of despair, and stayed focused on the task. Though their physical efforts had been beset by turnovers, they never let the game get away from them in a mental sense, with several players saying afterward that there was no rah-rah speech, no fiery rant during intermission. They simply took the break to refocus.
"We're grown men, that's our job," said cornerback Aqib Talib. "We're not going to pout and cry. We know you've got to play two halves of football, so that's what we did."
In order to do that, a team must first and foremost trust that they are well prepared — even in spite of their early foibles. That the Patriots so often maintain that confidence is a reflection of the faith the players have in their coaches. It cuts out the frustration, and guides the focus forward in a way that gives a team a sense of urgency, but not desperation. When facing a big deficit, that's a big difference.
They never panic, which Sunday night enabled them to slice the gap to seven points by the end of the third before eventually go up by a touchdown in the fourth, and which has served them well at other points, as well. Last month they trailed the Dolphins, 17-3, before rattling off 24 unanswered points in the final 24 minutes. A week before that, they trailed the Saints in the final seconds before Tom Brady whipped on a winning strike to Kenbrell Thompkins, they'd previously beaten the Bills with a late drive, and they've fought to give themselves a chance in losses to the Bengals and Panthers.
They haven't made it easy, certainly — but an 8-3 record says a lot about their ability to overcome.
"I think one thing that we've shown is that mentally we have some toughness. We've been in some bad situations," Belichick said. "We've been able to hang in there, even when it hasn't always looked great."
Last year they trailed the 49ers 31-3 in the third quarter before battling back to even, while the year before (the previous time they'd been shut out in the first half) they beat the Dolphins by wiping out a 17-0 disadvantage.
And, conversely, they simply don't get blown out. Since December of 2006, Brady has lost only three regular-season games by more than one score, and none of them has come in the past three years.
Again, that's a credit to the way the way they're prepared. They're ready for the moment, McCourty said, no matter what that moment is, so rather than trying to figure it out on the fly they need only concern themselves with execution.
"Coach does a great job putting us in situations throughout the year," the safety said. "There's times in (offseason team activities) where the season's months away and we're out there playing and practicing in a downpour.
"Some people think that's not a big deal, but that goes a long way to just being mentally tough, so that's why when we get down, we don't think too much. We just keep playing."
And they just keep winning — in large part because they're confident in the way they've been prepared by a coach they trust. Even when they can't believe he doesn't want the ball.
"Bill," a smiling McCourty said, "is a genius."
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Patriots for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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At Comcast SportsNet, Dei Lynam produced a very strong video series titled "Almost Answered" which looks back at the 76ers 2001 NBA Finals team.
Warriors GM Larry Riley says that GSW is "not shopping" Monta Ellis.
It's not so fun being Allen Iverson lately. Last week he was begging his way back into the NBA via SLAM magazine and now Tawanna Iverson files for divorce – again.
Jrue Holiday's younger brother Aaron Holiday scored 54 points in his 1st high school game. Still we have to give their mom — a former D-I player and current HS coach — credit. After the game she told the local paper, "He still needs to learn how to get his teammates involved. He needs to work on his defense."
John R. Finger of csnphilly.com writes that Markieff Morris could be just what the Sixers need.
Kate Fagan has a recap of Morris' workout for the Sixers yesterday. Several "experts" have the Sixers selecting Morris. Among those "experts" who feel Morris is the Sixers man are the fellas at draftexpress.com as well as nbadraft.net. Draftexpress.com has a video breakdown of Morris and his game. Sixers.com also has a video interview with Morris after his workout on Wednesday.
However, Sam Amick of SI.com is NOT one of those writers drinking the Morris Kool-Aid. Amick projects the Sixers will grab Nikola Vucevic (7-foot & 260 lbs; USC). Here is Vucevic's interview after his workout for the 7-6.
Neither is ESPN.com's Chad Ford who believes the Sixers will go with Tristan Thompson (PF; Texas) at #16.
The Sixers Dancers are in China and they have a video diary of their trip. Also their auditions for the 2011-12 season are being held on June 21st. The entire Philadunkia staff would like to volunteer to serve as judges.
Via Twitter we learn that Jrue Holiday (@YaBoyJHo11a) is in Paris and he is NOT riding scooters. Of course Mo Speights (@MoSpeights16) maintains his hilarious Tweet status.


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The journey had been long and difficult.
They stayed in Rome for seven years; then Flaccus decided to return home.
Flaccus returned to Venusia; Quintus left Italy and sailed to Athens.
Quintus stayed in Athens for a long time.
Could someone please help me translate these sentences as I can't really understand the cases etc in them and I have no other references.


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Price swings in U.S. stocks are narrowing the most since the Great Depression, a signal of reviving investor confidence that's fueling the bull market poised to enter its fifth year.
Average daily price moves for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have fallen to 0.43% in 2013 from an average 1.08% the past five years, the steepest decline for any corresponding period since the 1930s, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The last time the annual average was this low was 1995, when the S&P 500 surged 34% and doubled in the next four years. Stocks gain an average 17% during years when the gyrations are so small, the data going back to 1928 show.
The combination of declining volatility and the best start to a year since 1997 is prompting bears to warn that investors are growing complacent as the rally ages. Bulls cite smaller fluctuations as another reason to buy, on top of rising earnings forecasts, below-average valuations and the biggest deposits in equity mutual funds in nine years.
"Switching from net outflows to net inflows has been a big part of volatility being dampened," Michael Shaoul, the chairman and chief executive officer at Marketfield Asset Management, said in a Feb. 14 phone interview.
"There's net buying, so it's much, much easier for the market to stabilize," said Shaoul, who oversees more than $5 billion in New York and has beaten 96% of peers in the past five years. "Then you have a feedback loop with the retail investor, who sees a more sedate market and that encourages people to give more allocations to funds."
Best January
The S&P 500 climbed 0.1% to 1,519.79 last week for a seventh week of gains and the longest winning streak in two years. The benchmark U.S. equity gauge is up 7.3% in 2013 after the best January since 1997 and is about 2.2% below 1,565.15, the record reached in October 2007 before it retreated 57% through March 2009. The index rose 0.7% to 1,530.94 today.
The S&P 500 swung more than 1% on four days in 2013, down from an average of seven days a month during the past five years, Bloomberg data show. Volatility was that high for 122 days in 2008 as the housing market collapsed, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy and investor confidence was shattered by the plunge in U.S. equities that wiped out $11 trillion of market value.
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Price swings haven't been so narrow since 1995, when the S&P 500 rose or fell about 0.38% per day. The benchmark gauge's 34% advance that year, the biggest since 1958, set the stage for a five-year rally, the data show. Average daily volatility at 0.40% coincided with a 16% gain for the S&P 500 in 1972 and a 20% surge in 1967, according to the data.
Halliburton Co., FedEx Corp. and Textron Inc. are among the stocks that have seen their daily price changes narrow by at least 0.6 percentage point this year.
"The retail investor is swayed by the ups and downs of the market, especially after 2008," Eric Teal, chief investment officer at First Citizens BancShares Inc., which manages $4.5 billion in Raleigh, North Carolina, said in a Feb. 14 phone interview. "We haven't had a lot of external shocks to the market like we've had in the past years, so it's a little more encouraging for them and I would expect to see them keep pulling money out of bond funds and into equity funds."
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Nathan Creer, the father of Illinois starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase has been banned from campus for a year after being involved in a drunken fight at Saturday's game.
During the 42-3 homecoming loss to Michigan State, campus police responded to a report of a fight in the stands involving about 10 people. It apparently started when one person accidentally bumped another, and things escalated.
"From what I heard, somebody was intoxicated, words were exchanged, swings were exchanged. We got the parties separated. Some calmed down and went along with the program. Some did not," [deputy police chief Skip] Frost said.
Creer was one of those who did not. While being questioned by police, Creer allegedly tried to pull away from an officer, earning himself a trip to jail. He was charged with resisting arrest and released after posting bond.
As per school policy, Creer was banned from campus for a year. That includes Memorial Stadium, which means pop will miss the final two home games of Scheelhaase's college career.


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Crack the Case' Interview Workshop
Case interviews for consulting firms (and increasingly other corporations) don't have to be stressful. Knowing how to discuss and evaluate a problem or scenario is the key to helping the interviewer assess if you will be successful in their consulting environment. Plan now to join Ron Watkins (IMBA '03), Assistant Dean Business Career Services, former Director Illinois Business Consulting and experienced business consultant as he facilitates this interactive session to help students succeed during consulting recruiting. At the end of the workshop, students walk out with a high level understanding of the case-style interviewing process, a mental map of what they have to do to be successful and a path forward to be successful in their preparation. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to get skilled in this popular form of interview.


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Fraley: Without Joe Furukawa, Rangers' Yu Darvish must avoid 'temptations' that come with being a rock star in Dallas
Catch SportsDay On Air twice per week on Fox Sports Southwest, when Dallas Morning News experts discuss hot sports topics from the Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Rangers and colleges (check our TV listings for air times). Here are a few highlights from Monday's episode featuring Rick Gosselin and Gerry Fraley:
On Joe Furukawa no longer being Yu Darvish's full-time translator:
Fraley: "That's a huge change. Joe Furukawa I thought did a tremendous job. Imagine if you were 23 going halfway around the world to a culture you don't really know. You don't speak the language fluently. I would think you'd be lost. I'd be lost. I'm lost in this culture. But Joe Furukawa did a tremendous job helping him and keeping him on the right path. There were a lot of people reaching out for his time and Joe kept him on the straight and narrow. Joe did a good job. Yu's not going to have him so it's going to be a little bit of an adjustment. Now, Yu's smart but remember, he's still a kid. He's 24. A 24-year-old rock star in Dallas, there might be some temptations. I think he's mature enough to avoid them, but Joe certainly helped last year. He'll miss Joe."
On if Yu Darvish will continue to get overwhelming media attention:
Gosselin: "He's still a rock star in Japan. He's still going to have the Japanese media. Even Daisuke (Matsuzaka) even now is getting a large Japanese contingent to follow him. It could go down a little bit. I don't think every one of his starts will be broadcast like last year. But he's still Yu Darvish. He's still the biggest name in Japanese pitching maybe in history, and he's very important back there."


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Charitable Giving Up, But Still Less Than Pre-Recession Levels — Dollars and Sense
Money may be tight for lots of Americans, but that doesn't mean we've lost our spirit of giving. A new study says we actually gave more to non-profits and charities in 2011 than in the year prior — but we're still way off from the donations seen in 2007.
The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University reports we gave $298 billion to over a million registered charities and about 220,000 religious groups.last year, four percent more than in 2010.
Individual donations made up about three-quarters of the total amount, with the rest coming from corporations. Corporate donations remained flat at $14.5 billion, but foundations issued about $42 billion in grants — a slight increase — and gifts from estates went up 12 percent to $24 billion.
The $298 billion total is certainly a good chunk of change, but it's still about $10 billion less than the charitable donations made in 2007 before the housing bubble burst and the economy took a nosedive.
"The average rate of growth in charitable giving in 2010 and 2011 is the second slowest of any two-year period following all recessions since 1971," said Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.