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The East Central University men's basketball team played its final game at the Kerr Activities Center for the 2012-13 season, falling to Southern Nazarene, 48-55, in Great American Conference action. Before the start of the game the Tigers (8-16, 5-13 GAC) honored their lone senior, De'mario Fountain.
ECU was led by freshman Braxton Reeves, who tallied nine points and three rebounds. Junior Gregory Ardister added eight points and five boards.
The Tigers opened the game with a 6-2 run in the first three minutes and pushed their lead out to seven points (16-9), with just over nine minutes left on the clock. That is when the Crimson Storm started to fight, going on a 6-1 run over the next two minutes to cut the deficit to two points (17-15). ECU pushed the lead back out to six over the next five minutes (29-23), but SNU finished the last two minutes of the half on a 5-0 run to cut the lead to one, 29-28, heading into the intermission.
The Crimson Storm hit a three, with 18:55 left in the second, as the first points of the stanza and both teams remained scoreless until the Tigers got their first points of the half, with 15:49 left to play to tie the game at 31. SNU got back into the scoring habit and went on a 7-0 run over the next two minutes to take the lead for good.
The Crimson Storm pushed the lead out to as many as 13, with 1:27 remaining on the clock. The Tigers scored eight of the last 10 points in the game, on two triples, but it was not enough to overcome the deficit and they fell, 48-55.
While ECU kept the stats close in the rebounding column, 33-35, the Crimson Storm used a clear advantage in overall and free throw shooting percentages. SNU made 42.9% of its overall shots and was 15-of-20 from the charity stripe, while the Tigers shot 32.1% from the field and went 9-of-16 from the free-throw line.
ECU will finish up the season on the road, with the first of two games at arch rival Southeastern Oklahoma State, Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Weatherford, Okla.


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Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — When Mitt Romney launched Bain Capital in 1984, he struggled at first to raise enough money for the untested venture. Old-money families like the Rothschilds turned down the young Boston consultant.
So he and his partners tapped an eclectic roster of investors, raising more than a third of their first $37-million investment fund from wealthy foreigners.
Most of the foreign investors' money came through corporations registered in Panama, then known for tax advantages and unusual banking secrecy.

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Business Recruiting Day hosted by Career Services
Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Student Union Apollo Room
Current Students
Event Webpage:
Fall Recruiting Days are for Wright State University students and alumni seeking co-ops, internships, and career employment.
•Read the Career Services last-minute-tips blog about Fall Recruiting Days
•Register for Fall Recruiting Days through The Wright Search database
•Do your homework by researching companies who will attend. Thoroughly read their website for starters! Lists of companies who will attend, and links to their websites, are available in The Wright Search.
•Bring your Wright 1 Card to the event for swipe-in access.
•Bring copies (note the plural) of your professional resume - Find tips to create a professional resume
•Dress professionally (wear a suit) - How to dress
•Create and rehearse your personal infomercial - Watch the video on CareerSpots Videos
Come to any event where there are employers who have opportunities for your skills and experience:
•Public Service & Creative Careers Recruiting Day, September 17
•Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Recruiting Day, September 18
•Business Recruiting Day, September 18
For details, visit the event website: Fall Recruiting Days


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Extend your computer power connection distance by 2ft. The PXT1002 2-foot Computer Power Cord Extension Cable can be used to connect your PDU or monitor to your PC, or as an extension cable for your existing computer power cord.
Expertly designed and constructed of high quality materials, the power extension cable (C14 to C13) features one computer power (female) connector and one hooded (male) power connector.


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Get directions to Wabash College Baxter Hall
Ecuadorian economist, Ramiro Crespo, will give a lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 23 in Baxter Hall, room 101. Crespo will be giving a lecture on the left/right movement in Latin America: "Does Chavez and Morales Represent the Latin American Future?"
Crespo is the general director of Analytica Investments Ltd., President of Analytica Securities C.A., and principal partner of AnalyticaFunds Management C.A. He was also president of ESFISA, Investban C.A. as well as general manager of Banco Universal S.A. (Unibanco). As a complement to his experience as stock broker and securities manager, he has performed professional assessorship in mergers and acquisitions.
He has worked for Citibank, National Westminster Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (one of 15 graduate students, selected from universities in the United States and Canada). He was president of the Association of Stockbrokers, member of the Board of Product Exchange and of the Chamber of Mining, as well as director of the Quito Stock Exchange, DECEVALE and CTH.
Crespo is a recognized economic and political analyst; he has been interviewed on CNN by Alberto Padilla, Reuters Television and has been quoted in Euromoney, the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the BBC, and other domestic and international media. He is an economic commentator for Radio Bolivar. He has been a professor and lecturer at various universities and international organizations.
Crespo's talk is free and open to the public.


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Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton homered in the same game for the first time this spring and combined for four of the Angels' 14 hits in a 9-6 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday in Maryvale, Ariz.
Kole Calhoun led off the game with a single and Trout followed with his fifth homer this spring, a line drive to left-center. Trout added a single in the third and is batting .426 with 16 RBIs.
Hamilton, playing his fifth Cactus League game after missing several weeks with a strained calf, hit a towering drive down the right-field line off starter Kyle Lohse in the fifth. Hamilton had two hits in five at-bats.
Chad Tracy put the Angels ahead with a three-run shot in the seventh.
Carlos Gomez hit a leadoff homer for the Brewers.
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Tanner Scheppers, who last season in his first full major league season was one of the game's top setup men, will this year open in the starting rotation for the Texas Rangers, The Rangers also tabbed former All-Star Joakim Soria as their closer. Alexi Ogando, another former reliever who has been a starter for Texas, likely will pitch in a setup role this season. … Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter said he expects All-Star third baseman Manny Machado to resume base-running drills today. Machado received clearance on his surgically repaired left knee from Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Thursday, but had yet to resume base-running drills because of a calf strain in the same leg. Showalter said once Machado resumes running, the first two sessions will be good indicators of whether Machado could be back in time for Opening Day. … Julio Teheran, who was 14-8 with a 3.20 ERA last year as a rookie, will get the opening day start for the Atlanta Braves on March 31 in Milwaukee. The Braves didn't have much choice after a string of injuries this spring. Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy are sidelined because of elbow ligament transplant surgery. Ervin Santana, who signed late as a free agent, and Mike Minor (shoulder) won't be ready to join the rotation until mid-April. … Ron Roenicke has a contract to manage the Milwaukee Brewers through next year after the club exercised its option for 2015. Roenicke is entering his fourth year in Milwaukee. He has a record of 253-233, and the Brewers won the 2011 NL Central title and a franchise-record 96 games his first season. … Cincinnati Reds utility player Skip Schumaker dislocated his left shoulder and will miss about a month. He left the game between the Reds and Royals on Friday after making a diving attempt to cut off a line drive hit by Angel Franco in the left-center field gap in the seventh inning. … The Cleveland Indians released veteran outfielder Jeff Francoeur, who was signed to a minor league contract on Jan. 6 and invited to major league training camp.


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…so it looks like Alice has decided which sweater I won't be wearing today.
Shalom makes quite the cozy bed!
I have this problem with all my sweaters if I leave them out. It's so ridiculous.
Oh Alice, are you collaborating with my cat to steal all my clothes?
that cat looks so comfortable and cozy. i don't think you'll ever get that sweater back!
Must be a sign that it is a great sweater!
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Presenters discussed the benefits and challenges of various approaches to science ethics training, in formats such as traditional classrooms, online training programs, virtual worlds, service projects in developing countries, and international engineering contests.
Several young scientists also discussed student-led efforts to promote ethics training and action through organizations such as Student Pugwash and the Graduation Pledge Alliance. Museum-based informal science educators from the NISE Network (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network) were on hand to discuss Nano Days and showed several videos and hands-on exercises used to engage the public in
What became clear from the two days of discussions was the difficulty of integrating ethics education modules into highly structured science and engineering programs, particularly at the graduate level. In an environment where productivity is measured by number of publications and patents, having students take time away from their lab work to think about the societal impacts of their work can be seen as something that is at best a nuisance, at worst an impediment to achieving their own and their lab's goals. Even those faculty and students who are enthusiastic about participating in societal impacts education programs can face difficulties justifying their participation to peers and superiors in the University. So one takeaway from the conference is that if universities care about producing ethically responsible nanocience graduates, they need to restructure their incentive systems to recognize and encourage the importance of this training.
Another takeaway from the meeting was the point made by several speakers that language counts. Talking about "ethics" or "ELSI"(ethical, legal, and social implications) education sounds abstract to science students and their faculty mentors, and can be a turnoff. Some conference participants noted that framing these issues as being "policy"-related was a more effective way of getting attention. As much university-based research is government-funded, scientists and engineers are attuned to the importance of understanding the policy process and are willing to learn more about it.
Overall, the Congress was a stimulating two days spent in the company of people who care passionately about the roles played by science and technology in bettering social relations and the quality of life. Their dedication to helping the next generation of researchers use their knowledge and skills to advance the societal welfare was inspiring.


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UFC Comments on Arrest of Fighter Jeremy Stephens
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The UFC is speaking out about the arrest of mixed martial arts fighter Jeremy Stephens.
Minneapolis police took the 26-year-old into custody Friday morning at a downtown hotel on a felony assault warrant from Iowa.
He was to fight Friday night in Minneapolis, but missed the nationally televised match because he was in custody.
UFC president Dana White said late Friday that he has been unsuccessful in his efforts to cut a deal to get Stephens out on bail.
White says there are two sides to every story and has accused Iowa authorities of waiting purposely until hours before the fight to arrest Stephens.
The UFC website says Stephens is from Des Moines and fights out of San Diego under the name "Lil' Heathen." He was still in custody Saturday.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Mint Crisp M&Ms (Indiana Jones)
Mars has a series of candies coming out with a marketing tie-in to the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. (Which is set to premiere in the US on May 22nd.) This is rather similar to the stunt last year with Shrek the Third and the Pirates of the Caribbean movie the year before.
The standard Milk Chocolate & Peanut M&Ms got a new skin: a fun shift in their colors and little Indiana Jones inspired icons on some of them. Then, of course, to really excite candy fans they've done something completely new, the Limited Edition Mint Crisp M&Ms.
It's not like they're completely new though, there were once Crispy M&Ms in the United States (go to Australia if you miss them) and the seasonal Mint M&Ms.
The package is one of the busiest known, rivaled perhaps only Pirate Pearls. There are lots of leaves all over the front, which at first I thought were mint, but turned out to be various palm and jungle-y things (I haven't the foggiest what's going on with Indy's arm and that big palm leaf though). We're encouraged to "Dig New Mint Crisp M&Ms" in the top left of the package and down in the lower right we're told to "Get M before they're Lost".
The Green M&M wearing a pith helmet is looking admiringly at Indy saying, "Treasure is a girl's best friend." At first I thought it was a little creepy that Green has the hots for Indy, then I realized that the Green M&M is actually a year older than Harrison Ford. (M&Ms were introduced in 1941, Harrison Ford in 1942.)
There's only 1.4 ounces in the bag, but that little bit of air inside each center does wonders to bulk them up.
I was really looking forward to these, though it's interesting to note that George Lucas has cautioned fans of the Indiana Jones movies not to build up their hopes to unreasonable levels. (And I think I know a bit about how much Lucas can let fans of a franchise down.)
They don't look so great, some are horribly bumpy and the size variations are pretty extreme, from rather sphere-like ones smaller than a regular M&M all the way up to large ones that could be mistaken for Almond M&Ms.
The little icons are themed shapes that include the letter M. There are pyramids, masks, a compass ordinal and even a hat like Indiana Jones wears. They're rather irregular as well, but more obvious on the themed Milk Chocolate M&Ms:
But shape and color aside, it's what's inside that counts, right?
The crispy shell gives one kind of crunch, then a layer of mostly semisweet chocolate strongly flavored with mint and then a bland crispy center that has a light kick of salt to it.
They're really easy to keep crunching away at ... a little chocolate, a little mint, a little crisped rice. Kind of like a Girl Scout Thin Mint.
I'd be happy to see these as a seasonal item, though I doubt I'd eat them as often as the Almond M&Ms. I suspect they'll be a huge hit.
Rebecca already got a hold of these and has a review of the Adventure Bar, too. I'll have the Snickers Adventure bar review soon. Thanks to Define23 for helping me to find them here in Los Angeles.
UPDATE: Sera at Candy Addict also has a review now & I have the Snickers Adventure Bar. These are also available as a limited edition in Japan, here's a photo I found by CindyC81 (you too can share photos in the Candy Blog Flickr Photo Pool).
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Joshua Liner Gallery's Art Auction For Tim Strazza on July 28, 2011
Photo courtesy of the Joshua Liner Gallery.
New York art lovers! Add to your art collection and help out a member of the community. On Thursday July 28, 2011 from 7 to 10 pm, The Joshua Liner Gallery will hold a silent art auction / fund raiser. The proceeds of the event will benefit its Assistant Director, Tim Strazza, who was recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. To help with Tim's medical bills, many gallery artists and friends of the gallery have donated artworks, including Shawn Barber, Jeremy Fish, Tat Ito, Chris Mendoza, Ron English, Jim Houser, Swoon, Josh Keyes, Swoon, Sylvia Ji, Oliver Vernon, Shepard Fairey and many others! The event will take place at the gallery from 7 to 10 PM and will include music, food and drinks.
You can see a preview of the works here.
Also, if you are not in the New York area and you feel like opening your heart for a good cause, you can donate any amount to help Tim Strazza here.
The Joshua Liner Gallery is Located at 548 W. 28th Street, 3rd Floor in Manhattan.


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Badu banned from performing in Malaysia
ERYKAH BADU has been banned from performing a concert in Malaysia after officials reportedly objected to a photograph of the singer sporting religious body art.
The R&B star arrived in the Asian country this weekend (25-26Feb12) ahead of a performance in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday (29Feb12), and a local newspaper ran a promotional photograph of the star with a number of Arabic and Hebrew symbols painted on her chest.
The picture caused outrage among notoriously conservative government officials, who have now forbidden the singer to take to the stage, according to the Associated Press.
Badu can reportedly remain in the country as a tourist, but her show at the KLCC Plenary Hall is not allowed to go ahead.
Razman Razali, boss of the Malaysian company behind the gig, Pineapple Concerts, has confirmed he is in talks with government officials in a bid to have the ruling overturned, and he reveals the singer is "worried and dismayed" about the dispute.
Other stars have previously run into trouble over gigs in Malaysia, including Rihanna and Black Eyed Peas star Fergie, who were ordered to cover up and tone down their raunchy routines, and Beyonce cancelled shows in the country in 2007 and 2009 after reportedly falling foul of Malaysia's conservative Muslim groups.


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21 Versatile Tops For Your Next Night Out
The going-out top will never go out of style, but new versions come out every season. As such, we've rounded up some of the best new takes on the closet staple. Click through to shop our favorites, and don't forget to call your girlfriends and plan your next night out, because these beauties deserve to be worn!
Alexander Wang Asymmetric Muscle Tank With Hidden Bra ($625) in Gummy
This top perfectly reconciles soft color with geometric design. Try it with leather pants and black pumps for an edgy yet feminine look.
Derek Lam Black Satin Twist Front Top ($1325)
This top goes with anything from jeans for a casual ensemble to a maxi skirt for formal events.
Alice + Olivia Aleena Ascot Silk Top ($297) in White
This white silk top will go perfectly with your favorite mini skirt.
Asos Tank With Frill Hem ($47) in Stripe
Since this tank incorporates so many colors, choose just one to focus on when choosing your skirt or trousers and accessories.
H&M Draped Top ($40) in White
Dramatic enough for a night out, but understated enough to wear to work with a blazer!
Diane von Furstenberg Avalon Diamond-Print Sleeveless Corset Top ($265) in Jungle Diamond Black
Wear this flattering corset top with boyfriend jeans for an unexpected contrast.
Isabel Marant Milo Lace Top ($895)
Try this gorgeous lace top with a midi skirt.
Mango Premium Watercolor Cropped Top ($50) in Petroleum
A statement necklace is the perfect accessory for this high neckline.
Kenzo Creased Georgette Acetata-Blend Top ($400) in Graphite
To balance this off-the-shoulder number, wear it with something high-waisted.
Line and Dot Cyber Leopard Crop Top ($88)
Trust us, this crop top is much easier to style than you think!
Missoni Short Sleeve Fringe Top ($700) in Black/White
This on-trend fringe top can also do double duty as a bathing suit cover-up.
Lover Full Bloom Floaty Silk Shirt ($495) in Ink Floral
Try this diaphanous button-down with a white lace skirt for an ethereal look.
Colorfast Crisscross Off-The-Shoulder Top ($34) in Black & White
Style this with a denim pencil skirt and heeled sandals for a less formal nighttime look.
Pixie Market Black Ellie Floral Lace Top ($38)
By swapping your nude bra for a black one, this lace top can take you from work to play.
Merritt Charles Bogota Tank ($191) in Coral
Wear this coral top with white jeans for a bright, spring-ready look.
Rachel Zoe Ashtyn Cropped Leather Top ($395) in Black
For a cool girl going-out look, try layering this with a white short or long sleeve t-shirt underneath.
Tibi Crepe Halter Top ($198) in Black
This halter will never go out of style, so invest in it now and enjoy it forever!
T-Bags Los Angeles Off The Shoulder Top ($141) in Navy
Go for a monochrome look by pairing this elegant off-the-shoulder-top with a navy pencil skirt.
Topshop Croc High Neck Cami ($56) in Pink
A leather jacket is ideal for toughening up this gorgeous silky top.
Victoria Beckham Twist Back Top ($325) in White
Your back is the only accessory you'll need with this top, so wear it with your favorite pair of jeans and simple heels.
Zara Top With Sequins ($60) in Taupe Grey
The typical sequin top gets a redesign with this neutral, boxy number.
Show us how you dressed for your night out by hashtagging your Twitter or Instagram photos #WWWNightOutfit!


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Edward Jay Epstein is incapable of writing a dull book. He is the author, for example, of several fascinating books on the Kennedy assassination and related intelligence issues. Among these books are Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald and Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. Also related to the subject are his ebooks Killing Castro and James Jesus Angleton: Was He Right? as well as his classic 1992 New Yorker article, "Epitaph for Jim Garrison: Romancing the Assassination." Three of his books on the assassination have been collected in The Assassination Chronicles. Ed wrote for us here this past January about the revival of interest in Deception, now available as an ebook.
Ed is also the author, most recently, of the highly recommended (by me) The Annals of Unsolved Crime, just published by Melville House and the subject of Michael Wolff's thoughtful review for USA Today. Ed sends along the following note:
In writing my new book The Annals of Unsolved Crime, I learned that even the most well-intentioned investigations are vulnerable to what social scientists call "confirmation bias." This phenomenon helps explains why criminal investigators tend more readily to accept evidence that confirms their initial working hypothesis and hold in abeyance evidence that undermines it.
While nowadays neuroscientists are actually able to observe such cognitive dissonance at work inside the brain with MRI scans, it has been long understood by philosophers. Francis Bacon summed it up eloquently four centuries ago when he wrote in Novum Organum that "The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion . . . draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects or despises, or else by some distinction sets aside or rejects."
Such confirmation bias limits even the most exhaustive investigations backed by all the resources of a powerful government, as I found in my reexaminations of inquiries into the anthrax attack on America, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and the JFK assassination. It also accounts for why in my view some of history's most intriguing mysteries remain unsolved.


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If you're anything like us, since you've had kids, you rarely put your camera down! While it's fun to simply snap away, I turned to mom and photographer Jennifer Little, founder of Fort Collins, CO-based Sugar Photography, to see what she considers to be the essential photos to take of her kids each month, ultimately creating a chronicle of her lil ones' growth. Keep reading to see what she includes on her list!
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He labels himself as "Venetophile," or someone obsessed with everything dealing with Venice.
No, not the city in California, but the water-locked city in Italy.
When Tim Reinard, owner of Sunset Gondola in Huntington Beach, was 11 years old, he stumbled upon a book his family owned with the picture of the Piazza San Marco on it.
The Long Beach native was immediately hooked and when he turned 19, he had the opportunity of visiting the city he had read about as a little boy.
"I enjoyed reading about the place and its history," Reinard said. "People would give me Venice-related gifts for Christmas."
After working in New York for a company that supplies tax software for accountants, Reinard decided to pick up and move back to Long Beach where he currently lives.
He had nothing but free time after paying off all his debts and picked up small jobs to keep busy.
Then 14 years ago, a friend who was a gondolier suggested he try rowing a gondola.
"I gave it a go and that was that," Reinard said about falling head-over-heels for a newly discovered passion. "Anyone who starts to row will be hooked for life and will be a gondolier for life. It just gets in your blood. There's no other thing like it."
That's when he decided to open Sunset Gondola in Huntington Harbour in 2006, where he now shares his love of Venice with the public.
Reinard has a fleet of four gondolas that travel 10 miles of waterway in the harbor.
Each vessel is authentic, meaning they were made in Venice under Ente Gondola guidelines, the governing body of gondolas worldwide.
They are made of 280 pieces, comprised of eight different types of wood and decorated with various bronze ornaments.
"If you go to different [gondola] companies [in the United States], they don't have the different carvings on the boat," Reinard said.
Each boat has its own name. There's Nelly, Michela and Fabio. But the gondola that has heads turning is his recently acquired Ducati red vessel, Rossa.
Large bronze seahorses can be found on the side of the boat while the white ferro, the front ornament, sits atop of the gondola's front tip.
The bright red vessel was purchased by Reinard who received it on Dec. 19. It had been part of an art exhibit called "Venice in Venice" in 2011.
The Getty Museum partnered with the Venice Biennale, a major art exhibition in Italy, for which each side sent art pieces to one another.
Rossa was one of those art pieces donated by the Getty. American artist Billy Al Bengston – based in Venice, Calif. – painted the traditionally black-colored vessel to its current trim.
Since the gondola was going to be painted a different color, clearance by Ente Gondola was needed, Reinard said.
"This is the only [gondola] that the Ente Gondola said could be red, just for the show," he said.
After the exhibit ended, Huntington Beach surfwear company Quiksilver acquired the gondola. Not knowing what to do with it, the company made an offer to Reinard and he gladly accepted.
He wouldn't say how much he spent to purchase Rossa, but said that an authentic gondola made in Venice costs an average of $100,000.
Though he was lucky enough to get a hold of the rare gondola, it wasn't quite ready to cast off into the water.
The planks on the boat had shrunk to the point where it was letting in too much water to even float after sitting in Quiksilver's warehouse for nearly a year.
Reinard let the gondola sit in the harbor, allowing the planks to swell and made the necessary fixes to get the boat ready.
His Ducati red gondola hasn't given any rides to Huntington Beach guests yet, but Reinard thinks the boat will be the main attraction for his business come Valentine's Day.
There are 22 authentic, Venice-made gondolas in the United States and Reinard said he is fortunate to have four to his name.
Helping Reinard with the rowing are his 100 freelance employees and a friend he met on the East Coast.
Rich Corbaley, 20, of Long Beach has worked for Sunset Gondola for about a year and a half after moving down from Oakhurst, Calif., a city outside of Yosemite National Park.
Like his boss, Corbaley was introduced to gondolas by a friend who was seeking a replacement and was just as eager to learn.
After taking three months to learn the basics, he became more confident in himself and fell in love with rowing.
"The first cruise went fine and everything went well. The people enjoyed it," Corbaley said. "Ever since then it's been a lot of fun. I've got to say that the people always bring me back."
Adam Alves, 20, of Providence, R.I., met Reinard at a gondola competition held by La Gondola Providence in his hometown last May.
Never having been in California, he was offered to come and visit and to stay with Reinard's family for a bit. Alves couldn't refuse.
"He offered me a place to stay and I said, 'Of course I would come down and visit you in California,'" Alves said. "I'm glad I was able to meet him and Rich and it's really a great experience to be out here."
He said learning how to row and steer a gondola is rigorous work and can't be learned overnight.
"It takes three months to learn to go straight, a year to figure out you don't know what you're doing and three to five years to get pretty good," Reinard said.
Rowing requires the gondolier to be focused at all times and is a major draw for Reinard.
"You can spend your entire life practicing and never learn everything there is to know about rowing," he said. "It's like a really great book that doesn't end."
Because not many people outside of Venice can row properly, those who can earn the respect of the natives.
"When some old [Venetian] local says you're the man, you can believe it," Reinard said.
Now 44 years old, Reinard still hasn't lost his enthusiasm for Venice and everything it stands for.
Having gone to the City of Canals many times, he tries to bring a slice of the city he fell in love with back to Huntington Beach.
"We don't have radios on the boat. Everything we own is a radio or a noise maker," Reinard said. "We sell piece and quiet."
Sunset Gondola is at 16370 Pacific Coast Hwy. More information is at sunsetgondola.com.
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It's exciting to see this project progressing: first, Joe Bowers sent us his Arduino-based note visualizer (it blinked LEDs in sequence with the game's notes). Now, he's grafted the Guitar Hero controller's board onto it. Joe mentioned having some difficulty sensing notes when the flame effects burst around the fret board. He's had pretty good success sampling the light sensors ten times per second and averaging the values. The bot can play Foghat's Slow Ride on expert mode with 94% accuracy! If this were mine I'd just sit and watch it play all day long.
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So, Mr Obama is assuming that because Iranians were the first to start a 'twitter' revolution, then giving them internet is the ultimate candy they need to overthrow the regime? IS HE INSANE?
On the NEW YEAR EVE? On the occasion of Norouz, he has the audacity to come before the camera, and address us and say "although we have imposed CRIPPLING sanctions (that are strangling Iran's ECONOMY and THUS ruining the middle classes who are the driving force behind reforms and democracy), but we are giving millions to communication propaganda and internet infrastructure so you can talk to us in our virtual embassy!"
Bloody hell!
Mister Obama, screw the virtual embassy, why don't you instruct those who are running Iranian's counsel affairs in Ankara, Beirut and Abu Dhabi, to facilitate such cultural exchanges by not treating like criminals, our brothers and sisters and old parents who want nothing but to spend a summer, spending their hard earned Dollars on the American economy!! could you be ANY MORE insincere than that? And do you really assume that you can FOOL us with this insincere message, and make us love and trust you? Forgive me, President, every time I listen to one of your little speeches, I am filled with disgust and distrust!
Don't you have proper Iranians who can GUIDE you how to write speeches? And didn't you listen to us when we said, last year, that you flopped?
And I am not alone in hating your speech. Here's what another Iranian says:
I translate and I BEG the White House to read this:
"Your Excellency, Mr president Obama, thank you for greeting us on the occasion of Norouz while you are full force busy with trying to break the economic back of the IRanians people, fully aware that these sanctions will have little impact on the policies of the Iranian government, just as it has been ineffective in the past too!! Thank you for rescuing our hostages while humiliating our nation with threat of war! Thank you for talking about the right of our people to access free internet and satellite without hinting at what is the cause of this problem! Is it not that you have ruthlessly, without attention to the cultural bed of other nations, have besieged them culturally and politically; and with a disproportionate media power are intent on winning the media war whether you are right or wrong? And why don't you mention why China and many other countries are forced to filter you out in order to not have to deal with the cultural and political prematurity of their countries? Why don't you mention why you don't let nations to evolve at their own pace, in a smooth bed and calmly; and why is tension what you seek for other nations most often? And why don't you pack up and leave the Middle East? Mister President, thanks for thinking of us, and from a list of different needs that we have in science, technology, energy, medicine and cancer drugs and many other essential things, whose sanctions is killing hundreds of Iranians, you are most concerned about our people's interactions with the world?!! ... and much more ... Go! God bless your father's spirit! Happy Eid to you too! Have a wonderful year! Say hi to Michelle and kids too!"


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LAKE COUNTY — Lake County Wine Studio (LCWS) will host a wine tasting featuring wines from Noggle Vineyard & Winery with winemaker Michael Noggle and an artist"s reception with photography and home d?cor items by Sandy Cline, Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Feb. 2, 4 to 7 p.m.
Noggle Vineyards and Winery is a family-owned boutique winery in the Old Long Valley region of the Lake County appellation. The six-acre vineyard sits on a 1,500-foot bench below Round Mountain and above the north fork of Cache Creek. A combination of mineral-rich volcanic soils and warm daytime temperatures with breezy, cool nights promotes a slow, even ripening of the grapes and yields deep rich colors and complex flavors.
Cline has been a resident of Lake County for the past five years and has been honing her photography skills for the past decade. Inspired by the beauty of Lake County, her trademark has been capturing heart shapes within the viewfinder. "I am not out looking for hearts; they find me because they are everywhere," she said.
Beyond her Found Hearts series of photos and greeting cards, Cline has a Lake County scenes and landscapes collection that has been published in two books.
Cline also fashions home d?cor items from recycled wine barrels. Adding to that line of art, she recently acquired some dead old growth grapevines, which she has made into candle holders.
A wine sampler with paired appetizers by Cache Creek Catering will cost $12.50 per person ($10 for studio club members). The sampler will feature 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon with a Gruyere, garlic and onion bread pudding. The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon will be paired with a roasted fennel and root vegetable meatball dusted with coffee spice. Vegetarian requests will be accommodated with an RSVP to Susan by Wednesday at 293-8752.
To offer a complement of white wines at the evening events, the studio will pour the 2011 Sauvignon Blanc from Elk Mountain Vineyards in Upper Lake and 2010 Chardonnay from Cache Creek Vineyards with additional appetizers.
There is no charge to those who wish to view the artwork and meet the artist without partaking of the food and wine. Reservations are not required.
Lake County Wine Studio is both a gallery for display of arts and a tasting room, wine bar and retail shop for the fine wines of Lake County. Artist"s shows are held on a monthly basis with art and wine receptions held the first Friday and subsequent Saturday of each month. The Cline art show will be on display for the entire month of February.
Tickets to the upcoming Wine & Chocolate … and More to benefit Lake Family Resource Center are on sale at LCWS at the $35 discounted pre-event purchase price.
Beginning in February, LCWS will add additional open hours on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday hours are from 1 to 7 p.m. and Friday from 1 to 8 p.m. The gallery is located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake. For more information, call Lake County Wine Studio at 275-8030.


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Wednesday raiding - A good run
We had a pretty good run in our group last night. A shame the loot didn't reflect that. Isn't it funny how stuff drops in our raid that the other raid needs?
We have DE'd the Daggers from the dogs TWICE now. Roshii would love to have them but he's never even seen them. We had a few attempts at the dogs last night before we got it, but we all managed to get the Must Love Dogs achievement. A simple achievement, all you have to do is have a dog vanity pet out. I admit I thought of Tome of the Ancient when I first saw this achievement, because she does love dogs. Wowhead says the pets that can count as dogs are:
We can confirm that Perky Pug and Curious Wolvar Pups are counted because we used those in our achievement. We had 10 people alive at the end as well. Gutsy had some mouse issues on dogs, to which Slurs told us we should be using Grid and Clique. I dunno, I might give it a whirl, I might not. But for the whole night, all my failures in healing and positioning I said were due to me not having Grid :)
Next up was Feng and that was damned messy. Gara'jal was at least a one shot, but we had our secret weapon - a mod! The mod was awesome and Lushnek and Slurs could focus on doing their jobs instead of trying to figure out whose turn it was to go to the spirit realm. The mod would have been better if GUTSY learned to read, because he went when it wasn't his turn and he copped a mouthful from me. He died towards the end but we got it down and we were all really happy - Gara'jal is usually a bit of a poop for us. The Spirit Kings went down ok but it wasn't a brilliant kill - we had lots of dead people and we killed it RIGHT on the enrage - even I was doing LOLdps.
So in the last half hour of the raid we went to Heart of Fear and our healing was NOT so good as last Thursday. But we have tonight to work on it. I picked up 2 pieces of mainspec loot - Spaulders of the Divided Mind and Feng's Ring of Dreams. I had both of these loots from LFR already... I was really wanting the helm! I haven't been lucky with that from LFR or raid (Lushnek has it and Leesin has it from the other raid) but I now have the rep to buy it from Shado-pan. However, I decided to buy legs from Klaxxi instead of the helm because I'm cheap. Meta gems are expensive and I only JUST got a new helm last week and I don't really want to fork out another 1k for a new metagem. Legs however are cheap to enchant since I'm a tailor so I decided to go with that.
The other group was working on Elegon, and I'm not sure what drops they got in their group, but they 2 healed dogs and Feng. Bladewind is back so Shaman/Pally power will get them through :) I wonder who their extra person was...


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 25 penalized the Guam Waterworks Authority $57,000 for failing to fully comply with a stipulated order to make improvements to its drinking water and wastewater systems.
GWA was penalized for the continued failure to meet a Dec. 31, 2008 deadline for completing a condition assessment to determine the structural stability and soundness of steel tank water reservoirs that need immediate assessment, and for failure to complete a condition assessment of the remaining steel tank water reservoirs by Dec. 31, 2009. Some of the tanks have severely corroded exterior walls, roofs, or valves, or are missing tank parts.
"The penalties are a consequence of GWA's continued failure to meet the stipulated order requirements and complete the necessary improvements to provide reliable drinking water service to residents," said Alexis Strauss, Water Division director for the EPA's Pacific Southwest region. "These water storage tanks are a critical component of the GWA water system, as they help ensure water pressure and adequate flow throughout the system and prevent contaminants from entering the water supply."
The condition assessment of GWA water tanks was to be performed in two phases. High priority tanks were to be assessed by December 2008, and all other tanks by December 2009. Although GWA did an initial, visual inspection of all tanks in 2008, it has not completed the required, full structural assessments of any tanks to date. The $57,000 penalty assessed is the second imposed by EPA in response to GWA's failure to complete the tank assessment. On Aug. 17, 2009, EPA assessed a penalty of $19,000 for GWA's noncompliance with its duty to assess its high priority tanks through that date.
"Many of the tanks located around the island are in poor condition which underscores the need to complete the assessment and address the deficiencies as required by the court order," said John McCarroll, Pacific Islands Office manager for EPA's Pacific Southwest region. The order provides for penalties if established deadlines are not met and for additional penalties until the work is complete. It also requires upgrades and improvements to GWA's drinking water and wastewater infrastructure to ensure the proper management, treatment and delivery of safe drinking water, and proper wastewater treatment.


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ST:SS aired after watershed
German television has finally aired an episode of Star Trek, which was previously held from broadcast due to a Nazi theme that ran throughout.
Filmed in 1968 for the second season of the original series, Patterns of Force features Kirk and Spock dressed in Nazi uniforms, trying to blend into a planet overrun by aliens that look and act exactly like Hitler's henchmen.
The locals, taught Nazi order by a renegade Star Fleet officer in a bid to make the trains run on time, end up adopting the full spectrum of bad authoritarian behaviour, including intolerance, despotism and racism, and set themselves on a mission to destroy neighbouring planet Zeon. Hmm.
When Star Trek was first aired in Germany, TV channel ZDF held the rights and though there were no laws banning the episode's broadcast, the station decided Patterns of Force should not be shown.
Now, 43 years later, the same station has changed its opinion, broadcasting Patterns of Force dubbed into the local lingo. Even then, though, it was played after 10pm, with viewers strictly warned that no one under the age of 16 should watch it.
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The modern and vibrant city of Glasgow features a splendid monument dating back to the Middle Ages: the 12th-century Glasgow Cathedral, also known as High Kirk of Glasgow, St Kentigern's or St Mungo's Cathedral. The dark spire and green roofs proudly tower over the city's contemporary buildings. The tomb of the eponymous Scottish saint and the beautiful Victorian cemetery draw many visitors.
Sober and elegant, the Glasgow Cathedral is a must-see attraction. This Gothic structure boasts some interesting architecture, but what makes the cathedral truly special is that it is the only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland to have survived the 1560 Protestant Reformation. The largest part of the current building dates back to the 15th century, but some parts were constructed even earlier in the 12th century. The square in front of the Cathedral houses the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, which hosts exhibitions on international art from every religion around the world.
Despite its tall windows, the interior of the Glasgow Cathedral is quite dark, lending the church a romantic air of mystery. The stately Gothic arches draw your eye to the magnificent 32-metre-high wooden ceiling which has been restored on numerous occasions, with some of the panels dating back to the 14th century. Another impressive feature is the massive stone choir, depicting illustrations of the 7 sins. All stained glass windows were made after 1947 and are no less impressive. The door to the sacristy is right behind the choir, in the left corner of the church. This historic location is where the University of Glasgow was founded in 1451.
The most intriguing part of the Cathedral is located underground in the beautiful old crypt. Beneath the arches lies the tomb of Saint Kentigern, best known by his nickname Saint Mungo. This saint converted part of Scotland to Christianity in the 6th century. He is also the patron saint of Glasgow and that is why the symbols of Saint Mungo – a bird, a tree, a bell and a fish with a ring – are found in the city's coat of arms. The fish with the ring refers to a legend in which the saint found the queen's ring inside the belly of a fish, protecting her from the wrath of her suspicious husband.
On a hill next to the cathedral we find one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Europe. Most of the tombs date back to Victorian times, when Glasgow still boasted a booming industry and was known as the 'second city' of the British Empire. In those days, the city's rich industrialists commissioned extravagant tomb monuments designed by Scotland's best known architects who hired the best sculptors and craftsmen to carry out the work. You will also find many Celtic crosses in the cemetery. With its beautiful flowers and lush vegetation, the Necropolis is anything but sad or melancholy. Set on higher ground, the cemetery also offers a spectacular view of the city and the surrounding hills.


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How to Hijack a Controller
Why Stuxnet Isn't Just About Siemens' PLCs
By Ralph Langner
So many speculations and hot air surround Stuxnet that it can't hurt to check for some hard evidence in order not to get lost in fiction and FUD. The best source for information is Stuxnet itself and the attack code that is loaded to the controllers.
Stuxnet's controller attack code is loaded on target controllers by the rogue DLL s7otbxdx.dll, which wraps the legitimate vendor DLL. It contains three 64-bit-encrypted Step7 code sets. These code sets are decrypted and loaded by the rogue DLL when connected to matching targets, where matches are found by digital fingerprinting.
The three malicious Step7 code sets can be further subdivided into two code sets that load on S7-315 controllers and one code set that loads on S7-417 controllers. For readers not familiar with the Siemens product line, the S7-315 is a small general-purpose controller with 256 KB of memory, while the S7-417 is the top-of-the-line product with 30 MB of memory. The latter is available in redundant and failsafe variants and is used, among other applications, in power plant turbine control. The two code sets for the 315 basically do the same thing and vary only in detail. Since they are so similar in structure and functions, they will be treated in this article as one routine. The 315 and 417 attack routines, however, are considerably different.
A Stealth Control System
In a nutshell, Stuxnet can be thought of as a stealth control system that resides on its target controllers along with legitimate program code. The ultimate goal of the attack is not the controller; it is what the controller controls. Attack code analysis reveals that the attackers had full knowledge of project, installation and instrumentation details. The attackers took great care to make sure that only their designated targets were hit. It was a marksmen's job. On target, the attack is surgical and takes advantage of deep process and equipment knowledge. The attack is not performed in a hit-and-run style, where it would be executed immediately after attaching to the controller or at the next best opportunity. Instead, the attack code carefully monitors the hijacked process for extended periods of time before executing the strike. Outputs are then controlled by Stuxnet, with neither legitimate program code nor any attached operator panel or SCADA system noticing. Stuxnet combines denial of control and denial of view, providing for the ultimate aggressive attack.
The 315 attack uses approximately 3000 lines of Step7 STL code and four small data blocks (DB 888...891). Rogue STL code is logically structured in function calls (FC). Two of these functions, namely FC 1865 and FC 1874, are injected into OB 1 and OB 35, respectively, which also check for the infamous "Deadfoot" condition that is returned by the FCs mentioned. (The attackers actually used the term DeadF007, but this appears to be leetspeak for Deadfoot.) On any S7 controller, OB 1 is the main sweep that is continuously executed. OB 35 is the 100-msec timer.
During the Deadfoot condition, which may take up to 50 minutes, control is taken away from the legitimate controller program by simply calling a conditional block end (BEC) directive instead of passing control flow on to legitimate code. In effect, execution of legitimate controller code is simply halted during the Deadfoot condition, which must have been unrecognizable to both the legitimate code and any attached SCADA software, and also to any human operators in the proximity.
Another noteworthy attack technique in the 315 attack code that tells researchers a lot about the attackers' capabilities is an intercept of the DP_RECV system function. On an S7 controller, this function is called to read the process image of a specific Profibus network. The 315 attack code hooks this function, which few people knew is technically possible, and monitors process variables from the attached devices by calling the original DP_RECV, which is renamed by the attack code. In addition to monitoring the values from up to 31 devices in up to six Profibus networks, they are passed along unchanged to legitimate code. Changing values during the attack is not necessary because the legitimate code is no longer in control anyway. During the attack—which, remember, can take up to 50 minutes—fixed values stored in DB 888 are written to the attached actuators.
The 417 attack routine is much more complex. It consists of approximately 12000 lines of Step7 STL code and accesses a total of 10 data blocks. Two of the data blocks (DB 8062, 8063) are statically loaded from the rogue DLL; one is dynamically loaded from the rogue DLL (DB 8061); and seven are dynamically created at runtime by the rogue STL code (DB 8064…8070). Especially noteworthy is DB 8063, with a size of 26,790 bytes, containing a 16-kbyte array. Again, rogue STL code is grouped into logical FCs. The entry point to these functions is provided by a code injection in OB 1, the main sweep.
Man in the Middle
The most noteworthy technical feature of the 417 attack is a full-blown man-in-the-middle attack on the controller. Rogue code intercepts physical I/O and provides the legitimate program running on the controller with "normal" input patterns that are actually pre-recorded by Stuxnet. It's similar to what you've seen in Hollywood movies. During the heist, the observation camera is fed with unsuspicious footage, keeping the guards happy.
This is not an analogy. It is exactly how Stuxnet does it. In order to do that, Stuxnet has changed the controller program at configuration time to disable automatic updates of input process and output process images—something that is configurable on S7-400 controllers. Add to that the fact that the input process image is read/write instead of read-only. Then you can conceive the most aggressive cyber attack on a controller: denial of control, combined with denial of view. The controller is no longer controlling I/O, but doesn't recognize that. The same is true for the HMI and for operators. In the meantime, Stuxnet writes to outputs at its discretion.
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Cotton prices should strengthen early next year as the world cotton industry comes to grips with a dramatic change in world fundamentals and huge investments into the market by commodity funds, said Peter Egli, analyst with Plexus Cotton Ltd., speaking at the Ag Market Network's December teleconference.
The changes started five years ago, "when we had a monumental jump in world production of nearly 27 million bales in just one season, going from 95 million bales to 122 million bales, a jump of about 30 percent in a single season.
"In the four seasons since, we have seen a leveling off, but production was able to stay near record levels of somewhere between 117 million and 122 million bales, with the current season in the range of 118.8 million bales."
Egli noted that because of the huge jump in production in the 2004-05 season, "mills really never had to worry too much about supplies. Stocks were plentiful and as a result, mills were patiently adhering to a hand-to-mouth buying pattern, which has pretty much continued to this day.
"Consumption, on the other hand, is much more linear and it's taken a while for it to catch up to this new production plateau. We have seen a gradual increase in consumption from about 98 million bales five years ago to the current USDA estimate of 128.3 million bales, which if correct would be about 9.5 million bales above production."
Egli believes USDA's consumption number "is a bit overstated, that the real number is closer to 122 million to 123 million bales. But the important thing to remember is that even at the reduced number, consumption would still be above production.
"Statistically, we have an inflection point as we're moving from a production surplus of ample stocks into a seasonal production shortfall which will require some de-stocking to take place. This scenario is likely to continue into the foreseeable future."
A gradual decline in the production surplus outside China is also a factor, noted Egli. The world outside China produced 21 million more bales that it consumed in 2004-05, 17 million bales in 2005-06, 13 million bales in 2006-07 and for the current crop, 10 million bales.
"If you believe that China will continue to have significant production gaps, it needs to import large quantities of cotton from the rest of the world. We are now at an important point. The world has to either start producing larger surpluses, or demand has to be suppressed by higher prices.
"How much China will import the rest of the marketing year remains to be seen, but even if they were to take only 10 million bales, they would still absorb the current seasonal surplus from the rest of the world. USDA is a little more optimistic, predicting that China will import 14.5 million bales in 2007-08. That means the rest would have to come from foreign stocks."
If more and more money continues to be allocated to commodity index funds, which seems likely, and if open interest continues to rise over time, Egli noted, "it's going to be more difficult for the trade to maintain its ever-increasing short position, especially when there is not that much cotton to be hedged anymore. By springtime, when supplies have been worked down considerably, it will become easy for spec longs to push past trade resistance, similar to what we saw last summer."
With competing crops rocketing higher, "cotton prices will have to start to rally soon to defend their acreage, or they will rally again next spring or summer because they lost the acreage."
Egli noted with a weak dollar, and with inflation expected to pick up considerably, "just about anything denominated in U.S. dollars will go higher in nominal value, and I don't think cotton will be an exception. All these factors point to a fairly optimistic outlook for cotton prices as we move into next year.
"The only negative factor would be a complete collapse of demand, which would have to come as result of a collapse of the financial system. I think this is an extreme view and the liquidity pumping should avert at the cost of dealing with higher inflation and lower currency."
Carl Anderson, Extension professor emeritus, Texas A&M University, advises growers with cotton from the 2007 crop, particularly in the loan, "to be very alert to getting cotton out of the loan when any kind of equity is possible. With these short-run technical moves up, there's always the possibility to pick up 2 to 3 cents above loan value.
"On the 2008 crop, with the uncertainty we're dealing with, we have to get into more complex strategies using options — and possibly futures to some extent — in setting prices.
"This kind of a market puts a whole new dimension on protecting your price. We are export-driven with uncertainties that we cannot predict. Prices for the new crop are likely to move up, yet I have trouble pushing numbers for an A-Index very much above 76 cents. It's going to take a sudden shock like less production in a big-producing country, or some shock with the outside funds."
Egli projects December 2008 cotton futures at between 71 and 85 cents; Mike Stevens Swiss Financial Services, 71-80 cents; economist O.A. Cleveland, a maximum of 75 cents; and Anderson, 72-78 cents.
"I like using the 72-cent floor on new crop," said Stevens. "But try to keep the upside open as much as you can."


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I have installed a versjon of Skolelinux (http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/index_html) with the profile for workstation. The install of Xampp 1.4.7 completed without errors, but when I start the Xampp with the command:
'/opt/lampp/lampp start'
the root-konsoll responsed with
'/opt/lampp/lampp: 10: Syntax error: "(" unexpected'
#4:# For RedHat (thanks to Sudhaker Raj):
#10:function testport() {
#11: if netstat -an | egrep ":$1 .*LISTEN" > /dev/null
#12: then
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#14: else
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#16: fi
I gess line 4 is the essensial here, but how can I solve this?
By the way, this is my first linux-installation ever!


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Premier League: Everton 3 Swansea 2
Everton moved up to fifth place in the Premier League as a 3-2 victory at Goodison Park left opponents Swansea City winless in eight games.
Leighton Baines, Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley were on target to secure a 11th home league win for Roberto Martinez's men this season, moving them above Tottenham, who host Southampton on Sunday.
Baines opened the scoring with a penalty, maintaining his 100 per cent record from the spot in the Premier League, only for Wilfried Bony to pull Swansea level before half-time.
Lukaku and Barkley then found the net early in the second half to take the game away from the visitors and leave Garry Monk still searching for his second win since succeeding Michael Laudrup.
Ashley Williams pulled a goal back in stoppage time, but it was not enough for Swansea, who will be looking nervously over their shoulders towards the relegation zone.
The hosts began well and could have opened the scoring as early as the seventh minute.
Seamus Coleman played a neat one-two with Lukaku and rolled a cross to Barkley, but the midfielder skewed his effort wide of goal.
Baines made sure Everton did not have to wait long to move ahead as he emphatically converted a penalty following Chico Flores' foul on Barkley after 19 minutes.
John Stones released Barkley with a cross-field pass out of defence, and the 20-year-old headed straight for goal before being clipped by the Spanish defender just inside the area.
Swansea drew level on 32 minutes after Wayne Routledge showed fantastic vision to find Angel Rangel on the right of the penalty area. Rangel fired a low cross into the six-yard box and Bony was there to tap home.
Pablo Hernandez then went close to giving Swansea the lead two minutes before half-time, with a free-kick that took a deflection to wrong-foot Tim Howard but rolled narrowly wide.
After Sylvain Distin had missed a chance to put Everton back in front early in the second half, the hosts soon restored their lead as Lukaku fired home on 53 minutes.
The Belgium international found compatriot Kevin Mirallas, who played an inviting cross into the six-yard box for Lukaku to pounce at the near post.
Barkley made it 3-1 five minutes later following some poor defending from Swansea.
Mirallas was again the architect as his corner enabled the unmarked Barkley to convert a simple header.
Bony had a chance to narrow Swansea's deficit just after the hour mark, but the Ivory Coast international saw his header palmed away by Howard, before Coleman completed the clearance.
Howard was again on hand to deny Hernandez in the closing stages, but there was nothing he could do to stop Williams' injury-time header from a right-wing corner.


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RunsWithLegos wrote:what is wales like?
Yeah, we're all fine, but I've been busy as hell for the past three months. I've only just become a qualified baker/delicatessen worker in the co-op (along with being multi-trained/supervisor trained) and pouring all of my effort into work/final year of uni/the dissertation/the baby and the kids/Brikwhore and trying to keep everything rolling over for the christening plans and the wedding next year.
I'm hoping, but there are no promises that on good behavior/having the free time - I can hop back into the forums for the holiday season, post all of my bizarre ideas from the back of my head at once and then disappear again leaving everyone in a whirlwind of "Dubya tee eff mate?!" and then fucking off again until the next holiday.
So yeah, I'll be back (I think)
Warhead wrote:Cool, but you are allowed guns in America, yes? Surely the press only hounded him the once? Your mom is likely to have worked in the teaching or nursing profession then, it seems to be the way with cops for some reason. Mrs Warhead is in the Teaching Profession side of things.
RunsWithLegos wrote:Warhead wrote:snip
no the FBI was a banker and the mailman pounded her multiple times.
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Damage extensive at Wasatch Brew Pub
November 13, 2012
The Wasatch Brew Pub wants to reopen at least part of the Main Street establishment by Thanksgiving, the owner said on Monday, acknowledging that the damage from a Friday morning fire was extensive.
Greg Schirf, the owner, said sections of the Wasatch Brew Pub that were not damaged in the fire could reopen first. The restaurant and bar has been closed since the fire.
"We're doing OK. There's some pretty severe damage, but we're back at it," Schirf said.
Schirf did not provide details about what sections of the Wasatch Brew Pub could be reopened by Thanksgiving. He said he hopes the entire place is open by Christmas week, which is typically busy in Park City with skiers and snowboarders arriving for the holidays.
Schirf said between 25 percent and 30 percent of the Wasatch Brew Pub suffered damage that needs to be repaired. He said the space suffered fire, smoke and water damage. The worst damage is in the southeast corner, particularly in a bathroom and on a deck. The restaurant was drenched in the firefighting.
"It's disheartening to see something you built 25 years ago," he said about arriving at the scene after the fire. "It was pretty daunting."
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He said, though, the brewing section of the building was not damaged. No beer was lost.
Schirf hired a disaster-cleanup firm to assist. The smell of smoke remained strong inside the Wasatch Brew Pub midday on Monday. Inside some of the space was charred while other areas did not appear damaged by the flames.
Numerous fans were operating in an effort to ventilate the building while protective plastic curtains were put up in what appeared to be an effort to keep the smell of smoke contained. Glassware was seen stacked and the kitchen appeared to be intact. The men's bathroom suffered extensive damage. Installations were charred.
A sign on one of the doors facing the outside told customers the Wasatch Brew Pub is "closed due to a small fire." It said the restaurant-bar would be reopening soon and people could go to a sister restaurant, Squatters Roadhouse Grill, in Park City.
"We've got to get in, get it cleaned up first, catch our breath," Schirf said.
Schirf said no employees would lose their jobs as a result of the closure.
The fire broke out Friday morning, with the first call to the authorities logged at a little after 6 a.m. Firefighters in approximately 40 minutes put out the blaze and made sure there would not be a flare-up. Nobody was inside when the fire started.
The Park City Building Department investigated the fire, but the results of the probe were not immediately available. Schirf said last week the preliminary investigation focused on rags that were used by workers resurfacing floors spontaneously combusting in the men's bathroom that was badly damaged.
A dollar estimate of the damage was not available early in the week.
If Schirf is able to keep to the Thanksgiving timeline for at least a partial opening, the Wasatch Brew Pub would be open for the normally busy ski season, a time that is critical to businesses in Park City. The place would be open for the Christmas-to-New Year's week, when Main Street is typically jammed with visitors.
The Wasatch Brew Pub dates to 1989 and is among the best known of Park City's restaurants. Its brewing operation is billed as Park City's first since Prohibition. Schirf, meanwhile, has been one of the state's leading critics of Utah laws regulating alcohol.


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Jones fined by Sunderland
Sunderland striker Kenwyne Jones has been fined by the club for his sending-off against West Ham.
The 25-year-old, who will start a three-match ban with Saturday's trip to Tottenham, was shown a straight red card for raising his hands to West Ham defender Herita Ilunga during last Saturday's 2-2 Barclays Premier League draw at the Stadium of Light.
"That's the disappointing thing of the sending-off, not just dealing with West Ham last week, we have got to go into the next three games without Kenwyne," he said. "That's why he has been punished. The club has punished him."
He added: "We have got a standard disciplinary procedure which comes into effect. It's quite simple, it's there in black and white for them.
"Kieran Richardson was exactly the same two weeks ago. If you get sent off for two yellow cards or mistimed tackles, that happens, or you are the last man and you may get handballed or something, that happens.
"But something silly - we have all done it, we have all been there, the heat of the moment and you react.
"He will be a miss because the strike-force for me has been the reason why we are going the way we are at the moment, because we are a threat at the top end of the pitch.
"Being without Kenwyne, we will have to adapt."


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Jeepster Resurrection Part 2Posted in Project Vehicles on September 1, 2009
Last installment we told this grand story of how Trasborg was going to take a Jeepster that hadn't run in five years, get it running,make it safe, and then wheel it for a week in Moab for the Easter Jeep Safari.
Let's just say that didn't work out quite as planned-but not from lack of effort.
After the Tierra Del Sol Desert Safari (TDS) in Southern California, there was roughly three weeks before Trasborg headed out to the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. Among the list of things to do: replace torn-off rear crossmember from a failed rescue, fix brake lights, fix parking lights, fix dash/turn signal lights, replace all four leaking shock absorbers, fix speedometer, find leak in brake system, replace dry-rotted brake lines, do something about balky 4WD shifter, make doors parallel to body, find and repair gas tank leak, and fix hard-to-turn steering column. Should be a piece of cake for three whole weeks, right?
Well, OK, maybe not a piece of cake, but certainly by wrenching during the daylight hours (and a night where needed) every day until EJS, it would be possible, right?
Riiiiight...what started as merely tinkering during daylight hours quickly turned into 16-hour-per-day wrench fests with up to five guys working on stuff and then we got to do wiring.
The Jeep made it to Utah with everything done, except for a decent bleeding of the brakes. However, in both the last story and this one, the carburetor wasn't addressed before going on the trip. The carburetor was rebuilt before Trasborg got it, and it ran great, so why bother? Read on about pulling the Jeepster's other foot out of the grave before dragging it 750 miles to the biggest event of the year, only to find out it needed a heart transplant. Here's the highlight reel and be sure to read the riot act of everything that was done to this Jeep in the three weeks before dragging it to Moab.
The Riot Act
As they say, hindsight is 20/20. The carburetor would have been rebuilt, if there was more time and the "simple" hoop build didn't eat five very full days. Nonetheless, here's all that was done to the Jeepster up to and including the week of Easter Jeep Safari.
sand contacts and generally clean instrument
cluster printed board
replace all lights in instrument cluster
rebuild rear taillight housings
fabricate new rear crossmember and receiver/recovery hitch
clean, patch, and resolder gas tank
repair battery hold down
fabricate gas tank skid with late CJ/Wrangler style mounts
weld rear bumper to new crossmember
replace brake lines
install new fuel filter and add pre-fuel-pump filter.
Later in Moab, replace both filters due to contamination
add actual fuel line to fuel filler (replacing radiator and garden hoses)
weld cracks in body between front floor and rear floor
build hoop and use to pull body together
swap bent stock fan for flex-fan off spare engine
swap/rebuild steering column
adjust/rebuild clutch linkage
adjust steering
build spare tire mount
install interior fuel filler cover
fabricate new metal rear body mounts
replace body mount rubber
cut off/re-weld a spring mount that was poorly "fixed" before - one inch too high and one inch too far from other spring eye
build bastard leaf pack
grease/replace speedometer cable
remove/reinstall seats and carpeting
cut access panels for B-pillar hoop feet
clean out bolt holes in top/replace broken bolts
have brakes power bled (in Moab)
replace upper and lower door seals (in Moab)
compound/wax Jeep (in Moab)
compound rear light lenses (in Moab)
fabricate front towhook mounts/install towhooks (in Moab)
replace fuel pump (in Moab)
rebuild carburetor (in Moab)
replace fuel pump again (in Moab)
Since Trasborg didn't have a bender, he went to a friend's place to build a simple hoop. Removal of the seats and carpet revealed a rusted floor from years of sitting near the beach and taking on water. Thanks to the shot floors, the top corner of the cab near the doors had bowed out about 11/4 inches from what it should be. So the tub was pulled back together and a bar was welded across to hold it while we cut out the floor and built the hoop.
A simple hoop install turned into new floors, new body mount rubber, adjusted clutch linkage, and these new rear body mounts. The stock body-side metal hat channels were crushed and ripped off the body. We built these from some scrap 1/8-inch-wall tube and the stock nutserts.
Four long days later, around 3 a.m., we finally had a hoop in the Jeep. It was designed to be reminiscent of the optional stock unit but provide more room. The hoop was tied in to the sides of the body to keep everything parallel. Note the new floors welded in with seat mounts relocated 2 inches farther back.
The gas tank leaked everywhere. There was radiator and garden hose for filler and vent hose. Someone thought it'd be a good idea to try to snot-solder the neck back to a rusty tank. End game was a lot of sheetmetal welding, coupled with some soldering, and some fuel-rated rubber for leak-free fuel storage.
It turned out the steering column issue was a failure of the top bearing. The parts Jeep had a good bearing, but a bad four-way switch, so the column was swapped in and the blinker switch soldered to the four-way switch for an easier-to-turn column with working blinkers.
After making the gas tank leak-proof, we built a skidplate for it with 1x2 tube and 1/8-inch plate. Also note the new 2 by 3 by 3/16-inch tube rear crossmember and the receiver that doubles as a recovery point and a stock bumper guard. We extended it out under the bumper to save the stock bumper when coming off ledges. For the few trails that the Jeepster ran for, it worked very well.
By the end of TDS, the Jeepster still stopped, but we aren't sure how. One side of the master cylinder was completely devoid of fluid. We refilled it and cleaned it, but couldn't tell where the leak was (it seemed like it was coming through the metal-there was fluid everywhere). We found the major leak right after a panic stop-from the stripped-out threads for the brake light switch. We got a new switch from Omix, PN 17238.02, but had to get the master cylinder from NAPA.
Now that we had the Jeep stopping, we needed to level it out. The extra metal, spare tire, and tools all conspired to drop the rear end about two inches, even with the multi-leaf springs. We robbed leafs from an XJ spring pack and created a five leaf bastard pack to level it out. It still rides great, too.
We aren't going full gonzo on this thing just yet-we are shooting to keep it stock looking, if nothing else. The best way we could figure to get back to stock was to replace the dry-rotted rubber Omix Ada brake lines, PN 16732.03 (front), PN 16733.01 (rear-it worked, but if you do this, ask for a longer one), S-shaped steel lines, PN 16732.03 and leaking and bent shocks, PN 18203.02 (front) and PN 18203.05 (rear).
Even after rebuilding the column and replacing the brake light switch, we still had no rear brake/turn lights. So we went out back and found cracked insulators shorting to ground, frayed wires, and busted taillight sockets. We used a new plastic piece from another light and swapped it in. Then we shattered the old insulation and re-soldered and heat shrank the connections.
When we got the Jeep, the speedometer worked, but by the end of TDS it didn't. We pulled the cable and found this, so we swapped in a freshly-greased cable from the parts Jeep. The speedometer worked for about half of Moab, and then died.
After running great for TDS and for two days in Moab through rain, sleet, and snow, the first sunny day on the first official day of Easter Jeep Safari the Jeep died. We never touched the carburetor (it ran good, so why bother?) and for the duration of Jeep Safari we regretted that fact. This rag was white when we started. The swapped-in fuel filters were bad too.
Now that we could stop and had lights so the Moab fuzz wouldn't pick us up, we turned our attention to the steering. There was a half-turn in the steering wheel before the tires turned, and a lot of that was in the bellcrank. We pulled the nut off of it, put a hogged-out washer on, and cranked it down. Steering wheel slop went down to quarter-turn either way. We are planning on going to a Saginaw setup in the future, so that is likely as good as it gets for now.
Damage, Inc
Trasborg is not known to accept failure. Even with the accelerator pump coming on after half-throttle, the Jeep not starting, and a dodgy fuel pump, he still wheeled this thing as best as he could, until the clutch fried. So, here's the list of injured Jeepster parts by the last day of Easter Jeep Safari.
leaking radiator thanks to much overheating (boiled 5-gallons out in two days)stripped fuel pump hole in block from many late-night fuel pump swapspoor running carburetor from quickie rebuild louder than ever valve tap from over-revving thanks to no power from poor running engine (altitude sickness)burned clutch thanks to lots of clutch slippage on an already weak clutch due to 23:1 crawl ratiosquealing throwout bearing


text: Vik Olliver put up a great tutorial about how you can successfully drill down the middle of a shaft using a standard drill press and cheap vise. To do this, you drill the part backwards, by putting the drill bit in the vise and the part in the drill press chuck. The trick is that you can line up the vise precisely by placing the drill bit into the chuck upside down, lowering the tool, then using it to align and clamp down the vise. Once the vise is secured, you release the drill bit from the chuck (but not the vise), and put the part in the chuck. Of course, a lathe might be preferable, but sometimes you have to work with the tools you have! [via Hack a Day]


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In the practice of all forms of Qigong, including the
various styles of Taiji, there are a few guidelines that
will give the most rapid growth and learning while helping
you to stay in the comfort zone.
These practices are all very mild, however, many
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back and follow these guidelines no matter what is happening
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