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Title:900 Hz coplanar resistivity of the Valdez Creek mining district
Authors:DGGS Staff, Dighem, and WGM, Inc.
Publication Date:1994
Publisher:Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
Comments:Superseded by GPR 2004-3-3A and GPR 2004-3-3B.
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DGGS Staff, Dighem, and WGM, Inc., 1994, 900 Hz coplanar resistivity of the Valdez Creek mining district: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 94-21, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360. http://doi.org/10.14509/2506
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A preliminary hearing began Monday morning for three suspects accused of killing a 22-year-old Marine wife last spring.
Fallbrook resident Brittany Killgore was reported missing in April 2012. Four days later, her body was found nude and mutilated in a ditch at Borel Road and Arosa Street near Lake Skinner.
Court documents later determined Killgore had been strangled to death. She also had injuries to her wrist and leg that court documents stated were "consistent with someone using a tool such as a saw [sic] an attempt at dismembering her."
Court documents revealed Killgore – who had recently filed for divorce from her estranged Marine husband, Cory Killgore, who was deployed in Afghanistan -- had been an unwilling participant in a deadly sex game, allegedly at the hands of three suspects practicing a sadomasochistic lifestyle.
Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt. Louis Perez, 46, was arrested in suspicion of Killgore's murder, as well as Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 37, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25. All three were charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, kidnapping and torture in connection with Killgore's death.
The three defendants pleaded not guilty.
Investigators said all three suspects lived together in Fallbrook at one point, at a home on East Fallbrook Street. That residence was searched by investigators, who found a room in the home that was set up to be an apparent sex dungeon, court documents stated. The suspects were allegedly involved in sexual behavior that included bondage, torture and master/slave role playing.
On April 13, 2012, investigators say Perez allegedly invited Killgore to a dinner cruise in San Diego. Minutes after he picked her up, Killgore sent a text message from her cell phone to a friend that read "HELP."
Killgore's phone would later be found in downtown San Diego, after a homeless man attempted to sell it to a stranger on the street.
Prosecutors said Perez allegedly took Killgore to his Fallbrook home on April 13 and then had Maraglino and Lopez join them, luring the Marine wife into a deadly trap.
Killgore's body was found on April 17, 2012, near Lake Skinner.
Nearly one year after Killgore's murder, Perez, Maraglino and Lopez were all present in court Monday morning for a preliminary hearing that is expected to last five days. A judge is expected to hear grisly details of Killgore's murder throughout the hearing.
Ultimately, the hearing will determine whether there is sufficient evidence for the three defendants to stand trial.
On Monday, several witnesses took the stand inside a Vista courtroom including Killgore's friend, Channy Tal, who spent time with Killgore on the day of her disappearance.
Tal is the friend Killgore texted "HELP" to on the night of April 13.
During her time on the stand on Monday, Tal said she had helped Killgore pack on April 13 because Killgore was moving back to Pennsylvania.
Tal said she remembered Perez stopping by Killgore's home that evening and begging Killgore to go to a dinner cruise with him.
Tal said Killgore did not feel comfortable with Perez's invitation, and did not want to go. Tal said Killgore ended up agreeing to go only after Perez promised he'd get five people to her her move the next day.
"He was having a conversation with Brittany, he was inviting her to go to the dinner cruise; she didn't want to go. He was very persistent about it," said Tal on the stand.
Killgore went missing that night.
Elizabeth Hernandez, who says she was Killgore's best friend, also testified in court.
Hernandez said she and another friend of Killgore's went to authorities the day after the Marine wife went missing.
Hernandez said she and Killgore befriended Perez, Maraglino and Lopez after Hernandez bought a fertility monitor from Maraglino.
Hernandez testified that Maraglino told them that she and Lopez had a sex-slave dominatrix relationship, and that Perez was the "master" of the house that the three defendants shared in Fallbrook.
Hernandez said the women would often walk around naked and that Maraglino would allegedly force Lopez to eat her food out of dog bowls.
Hernandez said both she and Killgore respected the group's lifestyle choices, but that neither of them ever participated in their practices.
In addition to Tal and Hernandez, two women who were part of that sadomasochistic lifestyle also took the stand.
Those two women described how Lopez, Maraglino and Perez wanted to recruit Killgore and Hernandez into their lifestyle.
Killgore's husband, Cory, sat in the gallery during Monday's preliminary hearing. Killgore's parents were also in attendance, at times weeping and shaking their heads as the salacious details of their daughter's murder case unfolded in the courtroom.
If convicted, all three defendants could face 25 years to life in prison in connection with Killgore's murder.

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Jenn Poggi: From the White House to RIT
A. Sue Weisler
Jenn Poggi joins RIT this fall as a visiting assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences following four years at the White House, where she served as a picture editor and deputy director of the Photo Office.
A native of Webster, N.Y., Poggi attended Syracuse University and graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She began her career in 1994 as a photo assistant with The Associated Press in New York City and later worked as a picture editor covering national, international and sports news. In 1998, she joined U.S. News & World Report as an assistant picture editor, handling national and political news. Poggi eventually went on to become the magazine's deputy director of photography.
In 2008, Poggi was awarded a John S. and James L. Knight Fellowship at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication, where she taught picture editing and completed her master's course work in multimedia and newsroom graphics management.
"Jenn is a great addition to our highly respected school and photojournalism faculty," says William Snyder, professor and chair of the photojournalism program in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. "We are looking forward to working with her and developing new curriculum around her expertise."
Q: Welcome to RIT. What will be your primary responsibilities as a visiting professor in SPAS?
A: I'll be teaching a number of core courses as well as strengthening our new areas of concentration—image editing and multimedia storytelling—while developing new curriculum that leverages my expertise. I'm really excited to be helping the juniors with their senior project proposals. I also helped William organize the senior trip to Washington, D.C., in late September.
Q: What makes the RIT opportunity attractive to you?
A: The talented SPAS faculty members have developed one of the great photojournalism programs in this country and there are many photojournalists out there who are alumni. It's their passion and fantastic work that is the best advertisement for the program. So the opportunity to join a team like this was a very attractive proposition.
The opportunity to work with students again was very appealing to me. I really enjoy teaching and feel there is great potential to work in innovative ways and for collaborative projects to be done on campuses. If that way of thinking is being instilled in students at the very beginning of their careers, there is no doubt it will have an influence on the future of the photo- journalism industry.
Q: What does today's photojournalism major need to know most about the current industry needs? Is the "multimedia photojournalist" the here, now and future?
A: My goal is to reinforce the importance of developing stellar documentary photojournalistic skills, which is already being taught to students in every photojournalism class they take here at RIT. If a student values and develops those skills, they can apply them in many different directions.
Sure, multimedia photojournalism is important, but my intention is not to turn every student in that direction. The program here at RIT seeks to expose these burgeoning photojournalists to all of the tools out there so they can decide how best to tell their stories. Like any pursuit in life, some students will find their passion in one area while others will go in totally different directions with their work.
Some of these guys may decide they are passionate about photojournalism but are much more interested in the editing and production aspect than actually shooting. So, showing them all the different kinds of jobs that exist within the photojournalism industry, along with tangible steps they can take to get these jobs, is also very important.
Q: Does any one memory or day from your four-year experience at the White House stand out?
A: There are many things that stand out from my time at the White House. How could there not be? From the important events and meetings taking place to the furniture in each room, literally around every corner there is history staring you in the face.
But I have to say it's the people that made the experience so special for me. The White House complex is a true intersection of humanity—a place where so many different kinds of people, from so many different places, who have experienced vastly different circumstances in life come together. Every day I was amazed by my colleagues—their generosity, dedication and hard work. It's really not unlike a college campus and that's one of the many reasons I'm excited to be here.
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We have many TurboGears applications deployed in our infrastructure. This SOP and the HaProxy SOP explain how TurboGears apps are deployed.
Contact Information
Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team
Contact: #fedora-admin
Persons: sysadmin-web, sysadmin-main
Location: Phoenix
Servers: bapp1, app1, app2, app3 and app4, app5, puppet1
Purpose: Provide In-House Web Applications for our users
Deploying a new App
These instructions will help you setup a load balanced turbogears application that runs on a URL of the form:
Configuration of the new application is done on puppet1. If you need to drop rpms of the application into the fedora infrastructure repository (because they are not available in Fedora), that presently occurs on puppet1.
Add RPMs to the Fedora Infrastructure Repo
This part may require assistance from somebody with access to the Infrastructure repo.
1. Copy the rpms to puppet1 2. Sign the rpms with the Fedora Infrastructure Key
rpm --add-sign foo-1.0-1.el5.*.rpm
3. Copy the rpms to the repo directory
mv foo-1.0-1.el5.src.rpm /mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/5/SRPMS/ mv foo-1.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/5/x86_64/
4. Run createrepo to regenerate the repo metadata
cd /mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/el/5/SRPMS/ sudo createrepo --update . cd /mnt/fedora/app/fi-repo/el/5/x86_64/ sudo createrepo --update .
Configure the application
First log into puppet1 and checkout the repositories our configs are stored in:
git clone /git/puppet
Create a module
1. cd modules; mkdir -p packagename/{files,manifests,templates} 2. create a file named manifests/init.pp with something similar to the following:
class myapp::app { include httpd::app package { "mypackage": ensure => installed, } file { "/etc/myapp/myapp.cfg": owner => "root", group => "root", mode => 0600, content => template("myapp/myapp-prod.cfg"), notify => Service["httpd"], require => Package["mypackage"], } # ... and similar setup for all files needed file { "/etc/httpd/conf.d/myapp.conf": owner => "root", group => "root", mode => 0644, source => "file:///myapp/myapp-app.conf", notify => Service["httpd"], require => Package["httpd"], } }
This defines a server class that we'll add to the app servers. The package definition uses the name of your application's rpm package to install from a yum repo and get required dependencies. If you are developing and building the application yourself and have control over when new releases make it to the yum repo, set
ensure => latest to automatically get the latest version otherwise set
ensure => present so we can vette the latest releases before installing them on the server.
3. Continue editing myapp.pp and add something like the following:
define myapp::proxy( $website, $path, $proxyurl ) { include httpd::proxy file { "/etc/httpd/conf.d/$website/myapp.conf": owner => "root", group => "root", mode => 0644, content => template("myapp/myapp-proxy.conf.erb"), notify => Service["httpd"], require => Httpd::Website[$website], } }
This defines a class that we'll add to the proxy servers to send requests to the application running on the app servers.
Now that we've defined the files and packages our app uses we need to define which machines the files and packages belong on.
1. cd ~/manifests/servergroups 2. edit appRhel.pp to include your myapp::app class.
class appRhel { [...] include pkgdb::app include myapp::app
3. Next edit the manifest for the proxy servers, proxy.pp:
class proxy { [...] myapp { "admin.fedoraproject.org/myapp": website => "admin.fedoraproject.org", path => "/myapp", proxyurl => "http://localhost:10014", }
That's it for the manifests, now we need to create the config files we reference in the manifest file.
Create the app config
1. cd ~/puppet/modules/myapp/files 2. create a myapp-app.conf that may look something like this:
WSGISocketPrefix run/wsgi # TG implements its own signal handler. WSGIRestrictSignal Off # These are the real tunables WSGIDaemonProcess myapp processes=8 threads=2 maximum-requests=50000 user=apache group=apache display-name=myapp inactivity-timeout=300 shutdown-timeout=10 WSGIPythonOptimize 1 WSGIScriptAlias /myapp /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/myapp/myapp.wsgi/myapp <Directory /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/myapp> WSGIProcessGroup myapp Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory>
Create the proxy config
1. cd ~/puppet/modules/myapp/templates 2. create myapp-proxy.erb.conf and put the following into the file:
ProxyPass <%= path %> <%= proxyurl %>/myapp ProxyPassReverse <%= path %> <%= proxyurl %>/myapp
3. Follow the HAProxy SOP to add your app there. This is the addres that you give for proxyurl in proxy.pp.
Application config file
The final piece is to create a config file template for your app. 1. cd ~/puppet/modules/myapp/tepmlates 2. edit myapp-prod.cfg.erb
You should look at other application's config files and the one you've been using for testing locally. A few things to note:
- This file is a template. So using:
<%= myappDatabasePassword %>
will substitute the password from the config file into the template. This keeps passwords out of the puppet repository and thus keeps them from being logged to a publicly readable list. Contact somebody in sysadmin-main about getting the password into the private repo.
Upgrading an App
First put the new packages in the infrastructure repo as noted above.
Then on puppet1 run:
sudo func '*app[1-6].fedora*' call command run 'yum clean metadata' sudo func '*app[1-6].fedora*' call yumcmd update APPPKGNAME sudo func '*app[1-2].fedora*' call command run '/etc/init.d/httpd graceful' sudo func '*app[3-6].fedora*' call command run '/etc/init.d/httpd graceful'
The first two commands upgrade the package on the app server.
The second two commands restart apache. We do it in two parts so that we always have some app servers ready to handle requests. This should avoid downtime. However, if the new package contains changes to the WSGI app or config, you may need to do a hard httpd restart.
After restarting the servers it may be necessary to clean the cache of static files. This is because javscript, css, and other static files are cached. If those reference things that are not available in the new server, then we will get errors. Cleaning the cache is done by rm'ing the cache on the proxy servers.
ssh proxy[1-5] sudo su - rm -rf /srv/cache/mod_cache/*
Troubleshooting and Resolution


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Philippines: Education that Knows No Boundaries
My relationship with the Philippine Department of Education's (DepdEd) Alternative Learning System is one of ignorance, humiliation and inspiration.
As a young economist joining DepEd back in 2002, I was full of ideas on how to improve the country's education system. I was coming in as a junior staff for a World Bank-funded project focusing on elementary education in poor provinces.
At around the same time, I had been hearing about this ALS program, which was providing basic education to out of school youth and adults, but I really paid no mind to it. All I knew about it was that it was largely non-formal, that it was conducted periodically through modules and that it was too small to make any significant statistical impact on globally-accepted education performance indicators.


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Sony proved to be quite proud of its PSP, boasting about its accomplishments and giving it quite a bit of love at the company's E3 press conference today. In addition to a ton of new titles for the fall, the company announced a new Ratchet and Clank bundle, featuring the PSP title, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters.
The family-friendly pack includes a silver PSP Slim, Ratchet and Clink: Size Matters, a copy of the UMD National Treasures 2, a downloadable voucher for echocrome, and a 1 GB memory stick for $199. The bundle hits this October.
With a holiday line-up including the likes of LocoRoco 2, Super Stardust Portable, and Patapon 2, and a bunch of video content soon available for the platform, it's looking like a great time for hold-outs to grab a PlayStation Portable.


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Arvest Bank is pleased to announce Deanna Wright has been promoted to vice president.
Wright, also a client advisor for Arvest Wealth Management (AWM), is a Certified Wealth Strategist® who holds Series 7, 63, 66 and 99 securities licenses, as well as an Arkansas insurance license. She has been in the banking industry for 10 years.
"This promotion is well-deserved," said Steve Burkhead, an AWM regional manager. "Deanna is a valuable member of our team and views her clients' individual situations from a comprehensive wealth perspective."
Wright earned degrees in business administration at Arkansas State University and Western National University. She and her husband live in Cave Springs with their two children. Wright is an active member of her community and is a member of Cross Church Pinnacle Hills.
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Police will closely monitor a planned Boxing Day protest outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but are not anticipating any major disruptions.
The Tamil Refugee Council is organising a 9am (AEDT) demonstration outside the MCG on the first day of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and Sri Lanka .
The group wants to boycott the Sri Lankan cricket team and raise awareness of alleged human rights violations.
Victoria Police Superintendent Rod Wilson says officers have met the group ahead of the Test series and discussed the planned protest.
"We'll have a separate policing operation to deal with that," he told reporters on Monday. "As long as they do it in a peaceful manner, there will be no issue for Victoria Police."
Police will also flood the stadium grounds and nearby public transit locations with officers to target drink drivers and anti-social behaviour.
But Supt Wilson said cricket crowds had steadily improved over the past five years, with the number of evictions at the Boxing Day Test continuing to fall.
"Cricketing crowds are getting it," he said. "There is a lot of police and a lot of security. We're very proactive with our evictions."
Cricket Australia executive general manager of operations, Mick McKenna, said most fans had got the message with only pockets of people still causing trouble.
Between 65,000 and 70,000 are expected to attend the first day of the Test.


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There are two people running against me in the Republican primary for New Jersey's Ninth district and recently I had an interesting lesson in politics from both. Call me naïve, but I really thought we could have a primary where people respected each other and treated one another as friends. For that reason I invited my main challenger to my home for Friday night Shabbat dinner and sat him right next to me in a place of honor at our home. There were about 40 other guests that night, many of them members of the national media, so it was good exposure for this candidate as well. We had a rollicking time. We teased each other, we laughed, and, as happens on the Sabbath, we toasted each other's health and future. Many of our close friends who were in attendance asked me why I had invited him. He was my political enemy, someone who had already lost the Bergen and Hudson County Republican conventions to me but still decided to run against me. I answered that politics did not have to be dirty or unfriendly. We could run against each other as gentlemen, focused on the issues, disagreeing without being disagreeable. Besides, the man in question is a devout Catholic who had shared with me how central faith was to his life, which is one of the reasons he was running, to promote policies in accordance with his religious principles.
Little did I realize that one of those convictions must have been backstabbing and ingratitude. About two weeks later, during the Passover holiday, I received a call from my campaign manager that this same person had filed a motion to get me off the ballot by challenging the signatures on my campaign petition. Not content with just one avenue to get me knocked out, he actually went so low as to challenge the way my name was spelled on the ballot. MY campaign manager and attorney had to spend all of the next day in Trenton, New Jersey, responding to his claims and fighting to keep me on. Needless to say, we won, thank Gd.
OK, I was fooled. I thought politics could be elevated, especially when dealing with a religious man. So I wrote him an email where I asked how he could behave this way, especially since his challenge to my petition seemed intentionally timed to the festival of Passover, rendering me incapable of properly responding. He wrote, "These are also my holy days, too. Believe me, I will always remember this holiday weekend as the weekend I spent fighting for the truth at the cost of missing sleep and family time. It was a lot to give up. I hope that whatever happens, we can still be friends. Again, nothing personal. Whatever God's will is, is."
So, trying to knock me out of the contest made him into a crusader for truth. It's not his fault. He was just doing G-d's will. Indeed, he even had to give up time with his children in his noble crusade of knocking me out of the race. I wrote back. "You are no martyr so please stop the foolishness. You are someone who simply is prepared to win at any cost. People like you, in my strong opinion, are the problem with the political process. Actions like yours are what turn the public off of politics. I made the mistake of showing you an inordinate amount of trust, friendship, and respect. I have learned my lesson.
"Please do not insult me by writing to me of G-d's will. You and I revere the same Hebrew bible. G-d wants us to be above-board, ethical, honest, and righteous, to the best of our ability. You make a mockery of religion by your behavior. You compound your errors through your justification and excuses. I will defeat you G-d willing without these games and gimmicks. I am sorry that in your desperation you have chosen to forego your values. I ask that G-d give me the strength throughout this campaign never to repeat the kind of political ruthlessness you have exhibited.
"After all, what does it profit a man to win an election and lose his soul?
"Be a gentleman and do the right thing. Win based on merit. Or lose with dignity. It's not too late."
OK, a little melodramatic. But I made my point.
Then, at a campaign event where my other challenger appeared, I got up to speak and wished him the best in his candidacy, promising to support him fully if he won. I praised the family man he was and his readiness to serve. I was rewarded with him following me to speak, telling the audience that the last thing the electorate needed was a Rabbi representing them. He ended by publicly calling me an extremist.
Thanks, man. Really appreciated.
As a young Rabbi in Oxford, England, I remember spending a Saturday-Sabbath afternoon reading an incredible essay by Sir Isaiah Berlin, the great British philosopher, whom I would later come to befriend at the University. The subject was Machiavelli's The Prince where the Florentine political philosopher famously says that is better for a person in power to be feared rather than loved. Berlin explains Machiavelli's enduring influence by arguing that he forced a choice on us between power and ethics. Mind you, he never said which one to choose. If you want to be a nice guy living a moral life in the suburbs, minding your own business, that's your choice. But if you want to be in power, then stop fooling yourself. You're going to have to use ruthless methods to get into power and stay there.
I have thought alot about Machiavelli and Berlin since running for office. Was Machiavelli right? That without ruthlessness there could be no political success? Must we largely forego our values, get negative, and go on the attack to win? The New York Times did an interesting story a few months back about how Newt Gingrich was surging until Romney unleashed an avalanche of negative ads against him. Negative ads, all the studies show, work far better than positive ads. Gingrich was a sitting duck.
The public complains constantly that they want positive politics. They say they want inspiration but respond increasingly to mudslinging and attacks. Indeed, one of the things I've discovered since I started running is that a heck of a lot of people seem much more interested in defeating the other party than seeing theirs win. Some of the political experts who have consulted with me have urged me to go negative. I don't plan to. I know that every politician makes the same pledge. But every politician isn't a Rabbi. And my hope is to impact on politics rather than being impacted by it.
It's good that Hilary Rosen apologized for her comments that Ann Romney, who chose to be a stay-at-home mom to raise her five boys, had 'never worked a day in her life.' It took a day for Rosen to finally acknowledge that her comments were unhelpful, but she finally said, "I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended."
Now, I am opposed to the culture of offense where people look to be offended by some public comment. We all need to chill a little and stop pouncing on each other. People can express their opinions without it always leading to a culture war. But Rosen's comments are different and I'm saying that not as someone running for Congress but as someone who has counseled thousands of women, many of them stay-at-home moms.
Too many have told me that they already feel inferior. Their husbands get to go out of the house and have a change of scenery. They get paid for their work and therefore often feel more appreciated and have greater control of the family's finances and spending. Many stay-at-home moms still have to ask their husbands for money or are degradingly given allowances for the families needs, something I have always railed against. With rare exceptions, a couple's money should be equally pooled, as should most things in marriage. But too many husbands feel that they are the breadwinners and their wives have not earned their share of the family income. So why should they have equal say in how it is spent?
Not that Rosen doesn't have any validity to her points, either. Indeed, she is correct. Many moms would choose to be at home, but they can't. The family is desperate for the second income. But even so, Rosen's unnecessarily demeaning comments against stay-at-home mothers — and I'm happy to believe her that she never intended her remarks to be insulting — reinforce a negative stereotype that mothers who are at home are not pulling their weight or earning their fair share.
Let's turn the tables for a moment. There is a growing movement on the part of husbands to be stay-at-home dads while their wives go out and earn the bacon (I apologize for the deep offense I have now no doubt caused my Jewish readers). A 2008 US Census publication puts the number of married fathers who work in the home as their children's primary caregivers at approximately 140,000. Now, would Rosen have said the same thing about these men, that they never worked a single day in their lives, or would she, as have so many others, praised them for their maternal role in putting their children first? Would she have lauded their ability to get beyond the traditional macho-man role and prioritizing their family even before their careers? So if Rosen is going to rail against a war against women, then let's agree that a gender bias that praises men who put their kids first but punishes women for the same is an unfair assault in that battle.
For the record, I am actually an advocate of women having a profession even when they are near full-time mothers. It constitutes advice I often give unhappy wives who come to me for counseling. Get out of the house more and develop your career. If you don't need the money, volunteer for charity.
My wife and I are blessed with nine children. But my wife has always worked alongside me in everything I have done. And I have raised my six daughters to do all the things that I have done with my boys.
Women are the equal of men in all ability and professionalism and I believe in encouraging our daughters to be both moms and professionals, simply because human beings seek the dignity that comes with both.
We acknowledge, on the one hand, that we are links in a higher chain of existence and raise our children to continue that chain. But in addition, we are people in our own right and seek the maximum development of our individualism irrespective of our position in a family.
Still, this is my opinion. Others may disagree. And that's the whole point of the need for Rosen's apology. Rosen is a political consultant with two kids. G-d bless her. It's beautiful that she has chosen to do both. But it is not for her to judge other people's choices. Besides, if Rosen had had five kids rather than two — and Mormons, like Jews, have large families — she might have found it slightly more challenging to sustain her career.
The point is that everyone contributes in their own way, and it's time for us to all stop assailing and judging each other. Not only is it important to reverse the culture of taking offense, it's also important to curb a culture that gives it, too.
Written in memory of Machla Dabakarov, the mother of a dear friend of Rabbi Shmuley, who passed away last year.
Shmuley Boteach, America's Rabbi, is the international best-selling author of 27 books and has just Kosher Jesus. He is currently running for Congress from new Jersey's Ninth District. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
Hamid Karzai recently called the brave and selfless members of the United States military 'demons' who were guilty of perhaps '500' atrocities against the people of the Afghanistan. One would have thought that the American Commander-in-Chief would swiftly denounce this stunning act of ingratitude by reminding him that nearly 2000 American troops have given their lives for the freedom of the Afghani people. They are angels of mercy, not demons. But in remaining silent President Obama not only missed an opportunity to defend the honor of our brave men and women in uniform, but also missed an opportunity to remind Muslims the world over of the beautiful tenets of their faith that would never brook such shameful ingratitude. The Koran, Sura 14, says that those who are grateful will be given more by God. And the prophet Mohammad also said, "Gratitude for the abundance you have received is the best insurance that the abundance will continue."
The point is this: capitulation by Western leaders in the face of pressure or bullying from Islamic leaders who, with their misguided actions, betray a great world religion is bad for the West and bad for Islam.
For the last three years I banged my head against a wall called the City of Englewood – its Mayor and Council – cajoling, pushing, and nearly begging that they do something about the Libyan Embassy that is my immediate next-door neighbor. Tax it, fine it, do something to make life uncomfortable for the Kaddafi government who owned it so that the murderous regime would choose to sell it and return the millions of dollars invested in it – all in an attempt to make it comfortable for Kaddafi to stay for a short while – and return the money to the Libyan people to whom it belonged.
Now comes the unbelievable news that the city's inaction potentially endangered its inhabitants greatly, and not just me, its neighbor. We now know that the Kaddafi regime, under the concealment of diplomatic immunity, was using its embassies throughout the world to stockpile weapons like handguns, sub-machine guns, plastic explosives, hand grenades, and wiretapping equipment. In some embassies the equipment even included booby-trapped vehicles and rocket-propelled grenades.
All this was revealed when the weapons were discovered by representatives of Libya's interim government, the National Transitional Council who started taking over the embassies abroad.
When NTC Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdul Aziz was asked whether he thought that the weapons, which were shipped in diplomatic bags, were planned for covert operations by Kaddafi and his regime, he answered "I have no single doubt in my mind." Aziz revealed that the weapons discovered thusfar are just the tip of the iceberg and even included "chemical stuff."
I still have no idea if the Embassy next door to me has been searched after this information was revealed. Pretty scary for a small Jersey town or for the Rabbi who lives next-door with nine kids and a Synagogue on his property, or the Moriah Jewish Day School with a thousand Jewish kids that is also a next-door neighbor.
I had actually told city officials how worried I was that there might be arms in the Embassy. But like everything else it was just shrugged off. This led to a clash between me and Congressman Steve Rothman who publicly gave me and other Englewood residents advice to be "appropriately good neighbors" to the Libyans and followed up later, after I had publicly rejected his advice, with publishing a three page press release attacking me and defending the status quo of the Libyans living tax-free in Englewood, since the city had lost an earlier challenge nearly 30 years earlier.
But what we have learned from the brave Arab peoples of Libya, Egypt, and Syria in the courageous Arab spring is that there can be no capitulation in the face of oppression and terrorism.
BBC head Mark Thomson recently confessed – to the Oxford University research project known as The Free Speech Debate – to giving Islam a better media portrayal than Christianity out of fear, arguing that the media had to consider the difference between 'violent threats' in place of polite complaints if they pushed ahead with certain types of satire.
Thompson said: 'Without question, "I complain in the strongest possible terms", is different from, "I complain in the strongest possible terms and I am loading my AK47 as I write." This definitely raises the stakes.'
Thomson was commenting on a 2005 BBC portrayal of Jesus wearing a diaper, something they pushed ahead with even as 45,000 people complained the broadcaster about its irreverent treatment of Christian themes. Thompson belatedly accepted their argument that the BBC would not have ridiculed Islam in a similar fashion.
The idea that one of the world's foremost news organizations would capitulate to fear and intimidation is deeply disturbing, and not principally for Westerners but for Muslims. The more the West shows an unwillingness to bow in the face of fright and panic, the more our oppressed Muslim brothers and sisters who live in various totalitarian regimes will feel they have committed partners in confronting tyrants like Basher Assad of Syria, and the more Islam will be purged of a militaristic strain that is a betrayal of its core values.
Those who argue that Islam is an inherently violent faith, or anti-Jewish, deliberately deny history as when Sultan Saladin took back Jerusalem in 1187 and allowed all Christians to ransom their lives and the penniless to go free. The Christians had expected the same harsh treatment that they had meted out in conquering Jerusalem in 1099, when all Muslims and Jews were massacred. Saladin was also generous in his treatment of the Jewish community in his realm. In 1190, he called on Jews to settle once again within the walls of Jerusalem, since they had been banned from the city during the Crusader occupation. Maimonides, one of Judaism's greatest thinkers, was court physician to Saladin.
To assail Islam as inherently anti-modern is likewise to ignore how already in the ninth century Muslim rulers were prioritizing general education when few others were. Al-Mamun, Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, established state-funded academies that translated Greek and other works of antiquity, thereby predating European universities by some three centuries. The Abbasid Muslim Empire brought about agricultural innovations in the 8th century that would not be seen in the West until late in the twelfth century. Al-Razi of Baghdad wrote numerous medical books in the tenth century which included groundbreaking health treatments which the West would not match for another six hundred years. In the sixteenth century Muslim Sultan Akbar of India was renowned for cross-cultural political appointments and enacting laws that embraced religious tolerance and protection of women and children. He was also one of the first commanders to insist on humane treatment of captured enemy troops.
Islam today can experience the same kind of enlightened golden age it has in the past if it, along with the West, stands up to the murderers and bullies who betray a great world religion by daring to speak wickedly in its name.
No Holds Barred: It is high time that our warm allies in the Mormon Church cease the posthumous baptizing of any and all Jews.
My much-publicized dispute with Canadian TV host Michael Coren last week taught me valuable lessons about the Jewish community and the new relationship with our Christian brothers and sisters.
For those of you who missed it, I was invited on to Coren's Sun TV show to promote my new book Kosher Jesus, or so I thought. Within minutes Coren had made four very troubling suggestions. First, that Jesus completed Judaism, thereby emphasizing classical replacement theology which sees Judaism as a subordinate religion to Christianity. Second, that liberal Jews who strongly dislike Christians are involved in an effort to portray them as unsophisticated bumpkins. Third, proof that this is so comes from Hollywood, which Jews either control or significantly influence, so that they can portray Christians in any negative way they wish. Fourth, and finally, that unappreciative Jews have engaged in an effort to malign Pope Pius XII, the wartime Holocaust Pope whom the Catholic Church is currently seeking to beatify but who is known to the rest of the world as "Hitler's Pope."
(The full video can be found on YouTube and my two columns on our dispute on my blog at the Huffington Post.) Normally, any of these four insinuations would be seen as highly prejudicial against Jews and even anti-Semitic, something I called on Coren to apologize for. Instead, he disgraced himself further by launching into sharp personal attacks against my appearance, my name, coupled with slanderous allegations that are beneath contempt.
Now, Coren does not much matter, given his tiny footprint in the media landscape. But what happened next is instructive in terms of how desperate we in the Jewish community can sometimes be for allies. A Canadian Jewish organization came to Coren's defense, saying he has a long history of defending the State of Israel and friendship with the Jewish community, albeit, I assume, with right-wing elements thereof, seeing as he perceived "liberal" Jews to be poisonous in their outlook. I also received e-mails from Canadian Jews saying that while Coren's comments were repulsive, given that Israel has so few friends we have to be happy with what we have. We dare not alienate friends in the media.
For the record I do not believe Coren to be an anti-Semite and can of course accept that his protestations to friendship are genuine.
Indeed, we have a mutual acquaintance who now wishes to bring us together and I have extended an olive branch to Coren in the form of a respectful challenge to a professional debate on the record of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. I await his response. But there can be no question that his comments were slanderous toward Jews and furthered classic anti-Jewish stereotypes about world Jewish dominance, Jewish contempt for Christians, and the lying, unappreciative Jew who will even go after a saintly pope. Yet, in this age when Israel is so utterly marginalized and vilified we are prepared to overlook Christian brothers who look down at our faith and who only dislike some Jews – in this case liberals – to clasp at any hint of friendship.
I disagree. I believe passionately in the new Jewish-Christian alliance and wrote Kosher Jesus primarily to advance it. The book seeks to share the Jewishness of Jesus so that a theological bridge can exist between the two disparate faith-communities and I am proud of the global impact it is making on both Jews and Christians. But I do not believe in friendship at any cost. We need not seek the position of superiority vis-a-vis Christians that was humbly bestowed upon us by that most righteous of popes, John Paul II, when he referred to Jews as "our elder brothers" in the faith of Abraham. But we must insist on a relationship of equality, brotherhood, and mutual respect. We need not, we dare not, embrace Christian friendship toward Israel if it has any hint of condescension toward Jews and Judaism and, of course, from the vast majority of the world's Christians – including the current pope and outstanding friend of the Jewish people, Benedict XVI – it does not.
Yes, Iran, as it never ceases to remind us, is gearing up for a possible war of annihilation against Israel and, of course, we require every media voice possible to sound the clarion call against Iran's possession of nuclear weapons.
Likewise Israel needs every last media ally to remind the world of the existential threat it faces from Iran-funded Hezbollah and Hamas, not to mention the barbarous Syrian regime to the north. Christians in general and evangelicals in particular have become Israel's most stalwart allies. But that need not mean that we must tiptoe around the relationship, afraid to give offense, when any of those same Christian allies seek to proselytize Jews, as my friend Dr. Mike Brown, and many other Jewish converts to Christianity, still do. We must vigorously oppose them, which is why I have agreed to debate Mike next month in New York. Glenn Beck expressed it best at the Christians United for Israel dinner in Washington last year. Christian support for Israel should be based not on end-of-days theology or a desire to bring back Christ but on simple, unadulterated love for the Jewish people, just as we Jews must reciprocate with unadorned love for our Christian brothers and sisters who stand by the Jewish state through thick and thin.
To be sure, in Judaism action is much more important than intention, and whatever the reason for friendship and good deeds, they supersede the motivation. But Jews and Christians have come long enough and far enough to now engage in a mature relationship of mutual affection where we both respect the G-dly calling that each faith poses without engaging in games of one-upmanship.
It is for this reason that I also agree with my friend and hero Elie Wiesel that it is high time that our warm allies in the Mormon Church cease the posthumous baptizing of any and all Jews, once and for all. I have been close to the Mormons since my early 20s, have lectured in Utah to Church groups on countless occasions, and took Prof. Wiesel himself to lecture in Utah in 2006. Indeed, I once even believed that posthumous baptizing did not much matter given that it was a private ritual and the public friendship of the Church was much more significant. But friends do not just respect one another in public, they do so in private as well. And it is time that our evangelical, Mormon and Catholic friends respect and learn from the faith that was not only practiced by their savior and redeemer, as I detail in Kosher Jesus, but which he also said, in Matthew 5:18, would be in force for all eternity. That religion, of course, was not Christianity but Judaism.
The writer is the international best-selling author of 27 books and has just published Kosher Jesus. The London Times Preacher of the Year at the Millennium, he is currently mulling a run for Congress from New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District, running as a Republican. www.shmuleyforcongress.com.


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"There are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics." Mark Twain most often gets credit for that gem, although it's also attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and several others going back to the mid-1800s.
Statistics is (and let's not get into the singular/plural argument) somewhat like the Bible, in that data can be used pro or con for almost any argument, depending on the particular bias of the arguer.
But it kinda stretches credibility the way the USDA, the Federal Reserve, the mainstream media, and even some farm organizations handle and report inflation data relating to food and energy.
Anyone who has exposure to grocery prices with any regularity knows what's been happening over the past few years — major supermarket sticker shock, as prices of fruits, veggies, canned goods, and packaged goods keep rising. Ditto for prices at the gas pump.
Yet the USDA's stats and media reports have brushed the increases aside as benign or moderate.
While the Consumer Price Index (CPI) does include the rising costs of food and energy, the Federal Reserve terms them "variable" or "volatile" and strips them out, calling what's left Core CPI Inflation. Which the media dutifully report.
Variable? Yes. Volatile? Certainly. But because food and energy constitute major chunks of every family's yearly expenditures, and they've been steadily going up, one can only wonder at the reasoning behind their being excluded in inflation calculations.
Maybe it's like blinders on a mule: If you don't see the cottonmouth moccasin to the side, it isn't really a threat.
The public went into a frenzy of outrage 25 years or so ago with predictions that bread, then selling for about 20 cents, could hit $1 a loaf. Today, it's difficult to find even store brand bread for $1 (the third quarter national average was $1.54).
Food and energy prices do indeed vary, often substantially due to weather, supply disruptions, etc., but when they retreat after a runup, more often than not they settle at a higher level than where they were originally.
As if food price increases were not bad enough, many manufacturers reduce package content volume (a 30-oz. "quart," a 14-oz. "pound"), while keeping the price the same or raising it.
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that food inflation is now about 4.2 percent, on an annualized basis — twice the overall inflation rate.
And the media are beginning to report on the escalation in food prices.
It's interesting that for almost 150 years, the Consumer Price Index wavered little. But since World War II, it has risen sharply, as has inflation.
In 1945, the CPI was 18, near where it had been for a century or more. In 1984, it topped 100 for the first time; in 2006, it was 201.6.
In 2006, it would take $11.46 to buy what $1 would buy in 1945.
What has not gone up is the farmer's share of the food dollar. That peaked 1972-74, when the USDA pegged it at 35 cents. Today, it's about 20 cents — which is worth only 5 cents in purchasing power compared to 1974.


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Once again, welcome to the expanded Mets Chat Room. I've linked up with Metsmerizedonline.com to bring you to the ground floor regarding chat rooms and blogs.
In addition to being hooked up to another successful Mets blog, we will eventually be linked to other blogs from around baseball.
To access, please click onto the Mets Chat Room icon to the left of this post. It will bring you to another page. At the bottom on the right is where you can click on to register. If you can use your same screen names that would be great. If not, do the best you can.
This is a work in progress. I am greatly optimistic about the future of this type of chat room.
Tonight, the sinking-like-a-stone Mets will send Mike Pelfrey to the mound. Pelfrey has rebounded from a seven-start winless skid, going 3-1 with a 1.20 ERA since.
Pelfrey said he's back to pitching as he did when he opened the season at 9-1.
"I got so far away from being myself and doing what I did early in the year and being successful. I've gotten back to that,'' Pelfrey said. "The next time there's some adversity or struggles, it shouldn't be from getting away from doing what makes me me.''
Pelfrey's continued improvement will be one of the things to look for in September.
See you online.-JD


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Hey all!
Pastor Mike wants to register atheists like sex offenders. While I'm sure he meant to be offensive when he tried the "chicken" approach — (paraphrased summary): "Oh, you don't WANT to be registered? Are you ASHAMED of your atheism?" — the fact is, he's offering to do something that could really benefit the atheist community.
I'm not ashamed, I'm out. And if someone were to register atheists, he could only register those who are openly out as atheists, anyway; so, it's not any sort of actual threat, but a childish ploy to try and evoke an outraged response by comparing atheists to criminals.
When a person tries to emotionally manipulate me in such an obvious way, though, I tend to respond by laughing, pointing, mocking. However, in this case specifically, I think Mike's registry idea would be an awesome assist to the atheist community. I'd almost beg for one, and that's what I tried to post to his blog, but (1) it's invited members only, and I wasn't one. And (2) the article keeps being pulled down and moved to other sites. Due to this, the best I can do is point you to an article about it (further below), not directly to it, because any link to the original would only be moved by the time you try and hit it. However, here is what I tried to reply. If you would also like to see the International Atheist Directory become a reality, you can thank Pastor Mike personally with an e-mail (provided below). I recommend every atheist who is "out" on the globe send a "thank you." I'd like Mike to get 100,000 messages showing the atheist community's gratitude, and asking him when it will be up and if it will be publicly available or paid subscription only and searchable? My response:
Will there be an annual yearbook published? Like a directory? I'm an "out" atheist, and don't want to miss out. Is there a fee to be included? Thanks for your efforts! I've been trying to get a comprehensive list of atheists in the global community for years now, and have been doing it the hard way apparently — collecting them slowly over years on social networks. But if you're willing to do the leg work, that would be awesome. You rock, Pastor Mike! Please make the list publicly available, we get a lot of letters from atheists asking where they can meet other atheists in their area. A listing like you suggest would be a big help!
Here is a link to a blog about the original article. This at least will be a stable place to see most of the content.
You can send your inquiries about the upcoming International Atheist Directory to Pastor Mike Stahl at email@example.com, if his e-mail account is still up and running. Someone gave me this address, and I Googled it, and it did lead back to his blog, which is now set to private. But I'm sure he would love as much feedback as possible from the atheist community — how else would we be able to send him our info for the Directory?


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Subscribers include museum professionals, law enforcement officers, lawyers, academics, insurance underwriters, journalists, auction houses, among many others.
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To the Editor:
There is a criminal background check in Rhode Island for CNAs, homemakers and other aides, but they are only required to pass a state criminal background of offenses committed in Rhode Island.
The federal government gave Rhode Island a $1.3 million federal grant to set up a national background check system. Rhode Island has until Sept. 30 to implement the program or lose the money.
Representative Eileen Naughton, of District 21, introduced House Bill 5469, National Criminal Background Check; it passed the House, but the State Senate, for the second year in a row, sent the bill back to committee for further study. The bill again died in committee. This will apparently cause our state to lose the $1.3 million federal grant.
If, in the future, the federal government requires states to implement national criminal background checks for all caregiver employees, Rhode Island will have to come up with the funding.
What bothers me is the fact that our elected state senators let the bill, which would protect our elderly, disabled veterans and children (who require a caretaker) from caretakers who have criminal records in other states, die in committee.
John E. O'Hara
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BURLINGTON – State Health and Agriculture officials want Vermonters to steer clear of a common weed often seen along Vermont roadsides. The so-called "poison parsnip" packs a punch that can leave you with the equivalent of a second-degree burn.
Formally known as wild parsnip, these plants grow along roadsides and unmaintained areas throughout Vermont, with flowers that look like a yellow version of Queen Anne's lace.
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MONTPELIER — Invasive species are a constant and frustrating threat to Vermont's habitats. This spring and summer the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is encouraging the public to learn more about these invasive species and help combat their spread through a new program.
Landowners can play an important role in controlling non-native, invasive plants such as knotweed and buckthorn, while boaters and anglers can help prevent the spread of aquatic nuisance species such as spiny water fleas and Asian clams.
Invasive species have earned their bad reputations. English sparrows compete with native birds from Newfoundland to South America. Australian brown tree snakes are well on their way to exterminating every last bird from the forests of Guam. And I don't think anyone can fully predict how Colombia's rivers will change in response to drug lord Pablo Escobar's escaped hippopotamus population.
LEICESTER/SALISBURY — When the last ice melts off, the annual battle for Lake Dunmore will begin again. On one side: an army of volunteers, paid divers and milfoil specialists. On the other: an underwater invasive plant called Eurasian watermilfoil.
The population of milfoil in Lake Dunmore and Fern Lake has grown tenfold since 2009, and is expected to double again this season, according to Jay Michaels, a trustee of the Lake Dunmore and Fern Lake Association (LDFLA)
ADDISON COUNTY — With the invasive emerald ash borer knocking at the door, Vermont's ash tree population is in grave danger of being wiped out.
But if scientists and forest workers can identify the insect early enough, the profitable hardwoods might still have a fighting chance — by using the paralyzing powers of a native wasp to serve as an early warning system.
ADDISON COUNTY — Driving south down Route 30 one summer morning, Addison County Forester Chris Olson came across an out-of-state car parked along the side of the road. He drew closer and noticed a woman picking wildflowers that looked just like Queen Anne's lace, only yellow in color.
"As I whipped by I saw what she had in her hand," said Olson.
So he spun around, pulled up behind her, got out of his car and approached the woman holding a bouquet of the yellow flowers.
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Using Delegation To Get More From Attorney Time And Billing Software
Technology can be a two-edged sword. It can increase productivity but it can also distract you from your core purpose. For example just because CosmoLex law practice management software allows attorneys to handle billing themselves doesn't mean they should. Coordinated delegation is the key to using the software effectively.
Solo firms – The lone lawyer doesn't have much choice. A single lawyer actually has to do it all, but CosmoLex makes it easier. Spend less time handling administrative details and more time growing your business. However even solo firms often can afford to employ an assistant and that is where delegation becomes important. The assistant might handle the routine chores, like printing invoices, while the attorney handles more important matters such as trust administration with the built-in escrow software features.
Small firms – A small firm can be two or more attorneys, or a single attorney with a staff of paralegals who can handle some of the law-related work. Strict definition of boundaries is important. These qualified professionals might be able to handle sensitive issues such as reconciliation or retainer management, while the attorneys using the time billing software reviews the work and ensures rules are followed. The key is that the attorneys can start focusing just on law and leave office management to the support staff.
Medium firms – This is the level where a centralized practice management system can be a great tool…or a serious nightmare if there is no organization. Busy attorneys can't afford to waste time on administrative duties. CosmoLex makes it easy to set up the attorneys' rate tables so they can enter their fees, expenses and billable hours in minutes. At this stage pretty much all of the administrative functions should be delegated to support staff. There is no reason to have expensive lawyers doing cheap work.
Like any tool, CosmoLex attorney practice management software only works for you if you use it effectively. Create clearly defined areas of responsibility, give access to the software only to the personnel who need it, and you will find your practice runs more efficiently, whether you are a practice of 100 or a practice of 1. Keep reading this blog to discover more tips on how to get the most from CosmoLex.


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I'm VERY excited about this....
FINALLY we'll get to see some gametime adjustments on the Offense!
It's been a long 6 years watching lil Bri's inadequacy to adjust to opposing Defenses.
I'm just happy I'm not in jail, or dead, right now...
2012 is HERE!!!
Mere hours away. My body is ready.
I'll tell you one thing...it would be nice to start the season not needing any adjustments tomorrow...just an old fashion beat down where everything we do on offense works....
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Im drunk wooohooooooo Happy opening kickoff eve everyone!!!!!!!!!!! :drunk:
1:00 is taking ****ing FOREVER!!!!!!!
It's like Christmas Eve, lol. I know I'm gonna be dog tired come game time, but I'm just too anxious to sleep.
All I really want is a first quarter touchdown.
1. Get rid of the media hype about the pre-season failure to score a TD
2. Much more importantly, show that we are not the very slow starting unit we have been under Schotty. This team needs to take the other team by the throat early and jump to a lead. This defense will just be devastating playing with a lead.
Very excited too ... No more useless presnap motions all over the place that caused us more penalties and problems than our opponents ...


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Afghanistan - Joint Patrol FDD Programm
A joint patrol of german military police and civil german police in the Marmal mountain range near Mazar-e Sharif. These "show of forces" patrols are part of the "Focused District Development"-Programm which metors afghan police.
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Each month this fall and winter I will devote one article to addressing transition management from my professional vantage point. Transition management is one of the top three issues facing agriculture and business worldwide. The following question came from one of our readers concerning transition management of the farm and ranch business.
"I have been troubled by a recurring pattern of difficulty for the owner parent transferring successful control to their offspring. There seems to be more interest by the younger generation in working on the farm than actually owning the farm business and accepting all the risks and stresses associated with it. Is this problem becoming more widespread? What kind of incentives can a father or mother use to inspire the next generation to take up the struggles and challenge of farm management and ownership?"
One of the major trends observed in my producer seminars is the number of young people under 40 years of age with an interest in agriculture. Also, I have noticed an increasing portion of women and minorities with agricultural interest in certain regions of the country.
How can a mother or father inspire in the next generation to step up to ownership and management of the family business? If the parents have an attitude of "you can't do," or "why would you want to?" and constantly communicate this to the next generation, their children will likely not be interested in taking over the business.
There are many ways to motivate and inspire the next generation to farm management, responsibility and ownership. Over the years, I have found that sometimes the eagle, i.e., the parents, must kick the children out of the nest before returning to the farm or ranch business. This period can range up to three years with one experience for six months to a year outside of the region, state or province, and one experience beyond the borders of the U.S. Frequently this will add confidence and allow them to learn new methods of production and management to add to their existing skill set. They will find that other occupations and businesses have risk and stresses, and the family business is the rule rather than the exception.
The younger generation will tell me in seminars that they want balance in life. That is, the balance between owning and managing the business, and having personal and family time. When they observe the older generation not scheduling time away from the business for family and personal activities, the thought of ownership and management is a low priority.
Another factor is the spouse or significant other. Famous management author Peter Drucker described that whenever you hire an individual, directly or indirectly you hire their spouse or family. The bottom line frequently is the son or the daughter gladly accepts being an employee, rather than an owner and manager, if their spouse is not on board with the additional risk, responsibility, time commitment and some of the imbalances that frequently occur in owning and managing a business.
Next month, we will continue this dialogue on family business transfer. Stay tuned!
Editor's note: Dave Kohl, Corn & Soybean Digest trends editor, is an ag economist specializing in business management and ag finance. He recently retired from Virginia Tech, but continues to conduct applied research and travel extensively in the U.S. and Canada, teaching ag and banking seminars and speaking to producer and agribusiness groups. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Gentoo is a species of small fast penguin, pronounced "jen-two".
Gentoo Linux is a fast, modern distribution with a clean and flexible
design -- in this respect, Gentoo may appeal to
The build
The .tbz2 minimal-system tarball only needs to be revised when there have been significant changes to the core Gentoo Linux system (such as baselayout changes, or a new profile), and as such .tbz2 updates are relatively rare. The .iso file tends to get updated whenever we discover that somebody has hardware that won't boot from our .iso. Since new kernel modules and patches are constantly being generated, this situation probably won't stabilise anytime soon.
Make sure the second IDE port is set to CDROM (it unsets itself if the device isn't
attached on boot) then do the following at the isolinux
boot: rescue ide2=0x180,0x386
If you are using a 1.0_rc5 or earlier boot CD, apart from thinking about downloading the latest iso,
When you use any optimizations beyond
The default password is blank; hit enter.
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Everyone seems to think that i shouldn't be using
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For security reasons, users may only
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If you're using 1.0_rc5 or greater, you don't need to do anything special to get
devfs working; it's already active (you did make sure that devfs was built into the
kernel, didn't you?).
However, if you are using a version of Gentoo Linux
Under Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6 and later, you can disable devfs by passing the
If you are using 1.0_rc6 or later, then you can just use
All other users need to edit
REGISTER ^misc/psaux$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink misc/psaux mouse UNREGISTER ^misc/psaux$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink mouse
If you are not using the devfs PS/2 mouse
During installation the grub boot files are copied
Disable MPS 1.4 (multi-processor-system) in the BIOS or switch this function to 1.1. By using this option you just switch the MPS version. The Multi-Processor-System will still work properly. Make sure to boot Gentoo Linux with the following boot option, noapic.
They exist in our portage tree as
In one sentence, because Portage is much better in so many ways. One of the design
philosophies of the
Portage features the best of apt and ports; for example, USE options, a full dependency system, safe installs and uninstalls, and a true package database. Think of Portage as the best of both worlds; a ports system with the sensibilities and safety of a Linux package management system built-in.
As of Portage 1.5 onwards,
YES! Type
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Yes, but it is not trivial. First do
If you're behind a firewall that doesn't permit
rsync traffic, then you can instead download the daily
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Edit the PROXY settings in
There's a program called unison that works under both UNIX and Win32, available from
Definitely. You can run
Yes, you can safely delete these files. But if you are on a slow connection, such as a modem, you might want to keep the archives if possible; often several ebuilds will be released for the same version of a specific piece of software - if you have deleted the archive and you upgrade the software it will have to be downloaded from the internet again.
The simplest method is to use anonymous CVS instead of rsync, and maintain your local ebuilds in /usr/portage/local. Here's how to do it:
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(if necessary)# cd /usr# cvs -d :pserver:email@example.com:/home/anoncvs login (hit <enter>)# cvs -d :pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/anoncvs get gentoo-x86 # cp /usr/portage/distfiles/* gentoo-x86/distfiles/ # cp -a /usr/portage/packages/* gentoo-x86/packages/ # mv portage portage.old # ln -s gentoo-x86 portage # mkdir /usr/portage/local # echo local >> /usr/portage/profiles/categories # cp /etc/make.conf /etc/make.conf.orig # sed -e 's/#SYNC="cvs/SYNC="cvs/' /etc/make.conf.orig > /etc/make.conf
This is most probably because your user account doesn't have a valid shell specified. Check
for your user entry in
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# chmod 1777 /tmp
Edit the
# chmod 0644 /etc/resolv.conf
You need to add
#!/bin/sh --login
This fix has been added to recent versions of KDE.
If your
ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo
Linux boot CD and run
To view multilog (Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc5 and earlier) timestamps, you need to pipe the
current log through the
# cat /var/log/syslog.d/current | tai64nlocal | less
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# tail -f /var/log/syslog.d/current | tai64nlocal
For bugs within a specific program, contact the program's author. Otherwise, use our
Bugzilla bug tracker at
New releases are announced on the
Head over to
Submit a new bug over at
Console beeps can be turned off using setterm, like this ;
# setterm -blength 0If you would like to turn off the console beeps on boot you need to put this command in
# setterm -blength 0 >/dev/vc/1You need to replace /dev/vc/1 with the terminal you would like to disable console beeps for.
The official Gentoo documentation can be found on
Yes! Fresh CDRs are available for $5 USD apiece from
There are also CDs for sale at
The mailing list administrators have decided to go with minimal munging
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altering headers to have replies go to the mailing list. There are various
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entire list receives notice of this every time that something is posted.
Most GUI based mailers have a "reply to all" function. This will ensure that
your reply goes to the mailing list as well as the original poster. Most
users of text based emailers already know the methods to use, but if you
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Sergio Pereira necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Chicago ALT.NET User Group
We are computer programmers that like our craft so much that we attend regular meetings to discuss and learn about our profession.
Our user group meets one evening per month in downtown Chicago.
Our members and the other programmers that we would like to reach are the kind of programmers that are never content with just the status quo. We are always on the lookout for better ways to get things done, be it better practices, better tools, better attitudes.
The majority of our members are highly regarded in their own teams and their colleagues look up to them for advice because they have the reputation of always being up to date and seeking self-improvement.
I'm not trying to say we think we are special or the cream of the crop, just that we share the desire to get better and we actively pursue that goal.
There are other .NET user groups in the Chicago are but we call ourselves "Alternative" because, differently from the other groups, our focus is on technologies that are not originated at Microsoft. We are not against Microsoft but we like to give non-Microsoft .Net technologies their deserved attention.
You can learn about ALT.NET in general at http://altdotnet.org/ and http://altnetpedia.com/.
Our current website is at http://chicagoalt.net (notice the lack of a logo :) )
The logo should look good in the existing website (http://chicagoalt.net) color scheme, which is mostly shades of red, but I'm not saying the logo needs to be just red/black/white, I'll leave that to your good taste and talent.
Logo size for the page will be 250x100 pixels. I'm not familiar with what kind of deliverable I'll receive but I'm hoping I can create much bigger sizes of that logo that don't look pixelated for printing on physical media too.
The logo should also work well in black and white print for other media such as flyers, tshirts, banners, etc.
The logo needs to have the words "Chicago ALT.NET" (no quotes) in it.
There's a popular logo for ALT.NET, shown at http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008…-Logo.aspx but I'd rather not base our logo on that one.
Well, maybe a brief hint with the scissors, or maybe not. Again, your good taste is what I'm counting on.
Ideas that it would help convey:
- professional
- alternative
- techie
- Chicago
- community
- inquietude
- collaboration
- enthusiasm
I'll be glad to give more details if needed.
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Procession Takes Officer Tom Decker Through the Towns He Served [PHOTOS]
COLLEGEVILLE -- A hearse carrying the body of slain Cold Spring Police Officer Tom Decker has left funeral services at St. John's Abbey Church in Collegeville.
The hearse is now part of a long procession of cars -- many of them law enforcement squad cars -- that will travel from Collegeville to Richmond to Cold Spring and finally to the St. Nicholas Catholic Cemetery.
Decker worked as an officer in Richmond and Cold Spring.
Hundreds of people are lined-up in those communities and along the procession route to pay their respects to the 31-year-old Decker, who was shot and killed Thursday night responding to a welfare check call in Cold Spring.
No one has yet been charged in his ambush killing.


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The International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do Federation (IOGKF) is one of the finest, traditional karate organizations in the world today. Under the leadership of our master, Sensei Morio Higaonna, 10th dan, the IOGKF is committed to preserving the intangible cultural treasure of Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do, which has been passed down to us in its original form from one generation to the next. Since its establishment in 1979, the IOGKF has attracted culturally diverse martial arts practitioners from around the world, who have joined the organization after recognizing the authenticity and excellence of the IOGKF and its direct karate lineage tracing back to Bushi Chojun Miyagi, the founder of Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do. Our members actively support our mission, objectives, and activities. The IOGKF sponsors interactive website forums, weekend seminars, and international martial arts events for its members to stay informed with news updates, improve their ongoing knowledge and skills, and develop life-long friendships. The IOGKF now has members in over 50 affiliated countries worldwide and is the largest Okinawan karate organization in the world. This website represents the membership of IOGKF-USA.
We believe that Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do training benefits all practitioners, regardless of their nationality, race, age, or gender. We have members as young as three years old up to those over 80 years of age. The IOGKF has a worldwide network of leadership groups and karate schools in different countries with highly-qualified chief instructors and dojo instructors to meet the needs of students and families. Training at their own pace, each IOGKF member will improve their mind (mental health, education, and language); body (self defense skills, physical fitness, flexibility, and endurance); and spirit (character, positive attitude, and contributions to society). It is our goal to improve the "quality of life" for all of our IOGKF members to help make a positive impact on the world. The IOGKF welcomes all potential new members to join our international karate family!


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The Buoy Is Back In Town, Making Waves!
Reid Stowe has been smooth sailing the media waves after returning from his three-year wet dream to sail around the world without land stops. As he drifted to a dock for the first time in 1,152 days, he choked back tears, acknowledging his parents and greeting his 23- month-old son for the first time.
Reid Stowe broke the record at sea and took his place as water cooler conversation. Not since Captain Sully took on feathered evil doers and saved a plane full of lives landing in the Hudson has there been so much excitement on our oily waterways (oh right, except for that other record breaker this year, BP). The alerted press stationed and readied their cameras as Reid Stowe went from loner in water to wet wipes on land. No sign of a shell shocked man as he spoke for the cameras and united with his family. It's the good ending for a man that has the same look on his face as the charismatic and tragic bear lover/ bear dinner, Timothy Treadwell. And the resourcefulness of the young nomad, Christopher McCandless. His story, among others in the book Into The Wild, was later made into stinging recreation on celluloid. Read the rest of this entry »


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Rams Sweep Home Doubleheader over New Jersey City
Game 1
Farmingdale State, 7 New Jersey City, 3
Game 2
Farmingdale State, 12 New Jersey City, 1
Farmingdale, NY – The Farmingdale State baseball team (4-8, 0-0) swept New Jersey City (3-9, 0-0) in a non-conference doubleheader this afternoon in Farmingdale, NY. Rams senior pitcher Rob Savarese (Syosset, NY/Syosset) pitched six innings giving up five hits and one earned run, leading the team to a 7-3 victory. Senior captain Jesse Scott (Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa) received the win in the second game going 5 1/3 innings, giving up only one run.
In game one, the Rams were led by junior shortstop Brian Benvenuto (Dix Hills, N.Y./Dix Hills/Nassau). Benvenuto went 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Senior outfielder Anthony Mazzilli (North Babylon, N.Y./Nassau) contributed for Farmingdale by going 1-for-4 on the day with two RBI's and scoring one run. New Jersey City first baseman Jose Colon (Brooklyn, N.Y./LaSalle Academy) scored two of the Gothic Knights three runs in the game.
In game two, the Rams' offense exploded scoring twelve runs and racking up fourteen hits. Senior infielder Luis Feliciano (Bronx, N.Y./Park West) went 2-for-3 with two RBI's and three runs scored. Benvenuto added two more hits and three RBI's to his already impressive day. Senior designated hitter Mike Labrozzi (Sag Harbor, N.Y./Pierson) went 2-for-3 scoring two runs for the Rams. New Jersey City junior outfielder (Irvine, CA/Woodbridge) went 2-for-3 in the game to lead his team in hits. Farmingdale improved to 3-0 at home this season.
The Rams face Yeshiva on Tuesday, March 16th in a Skyline Conference doubleheader at 4:00 pm in Farmingdale, NY.


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Raise a Glass to Lower Cholesterol
Is this simply a highly sophisticated plot devised by Al-Qaeda operatives to weaken the bodies and workaholic tendencies of otherwise intelligent Americans? Can we even remotely imagine that something which provides profound hedonistic pleasure simultaneously benefits our physical well-being? Can't a physician have his license revoked for even insinuating such heresy?
Those are the queries being posed by serious gourmands everywhere who bear a personal history of guilt, denial, and compromise in response to the overwhelming evidence that any ingested substance that makes you happy is shortening your life. The half-life of a gastronome is measured inversely to his megabites of pleasurable tastes.
However, in 1991, the clouds parted perceptibly to reveal the "French Paradox," the curiously long lifespan of a Frenchman despite his daily consumption of a stick of butter and copious amounts of other saturated fats. Theories regarding the cause of this apparent anomaly span from "low stress levels produced by extraordinary self-esteem" to the possible evolution of a DNA strain that can withstand even traditional French cuisine. But, the most plausible theory appeared to be that the daily consumption of red wine by the average Frenchman had a counter-balancing effect to his rich diet, reducing the incidence of heart disease.
These early findings prompted an enormous amount of research into the composition of wine and which of its properties was possibly wielding the bayonets against those low-density cholesterol particles that cling to our arteries. Over the ensuing 15 years, this research has produced a myriad of favorable findings, much of which is only gradually, and somewhat tentatively, surfacing in the medical journals.
The current position is that the benefits are sourced in two major components of wine, alcohol and polyphenols, or phenolics. The favorable effects of alcohol appear to be produced in common by wine, spirits, and beer, and, when consumed in moderation, significantly reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes. Virtually every study has verified that the occurrence of coronary disease is highest among heavy drinkers and abstainers. Moderation is presently deemed to be 2 glasses of wine per day for men and one glass for women. Much more than that on a regular basis results in a steady decline of the beneficial effects and can have serious consequences to the liver, mind, et al.
Apart from the alcohol, there is a growing body of evidence that wine has certain healthful qualities beyond those of spirits and beer. In recent years, the research has identified the likely benefactors to be the phenolics found in heavy concentrations in grape skins and seeds. These are transferred into the wine during fermentation and exist primarily in red wine, due partially to the early removal of skins in the process of making white wine. Phenolics are naturally produced chemical compounds, some of which, including resveratrol and catechins, act as very active antioxidants. These help neutralize free radicals, the charged molecules that damage the body's cells and cause various cancers and heart disease.
The most profound findings have focused on resveratrol, which has been shown in laboratories to slow, or completely stop, the growth of cancer cells. Recent progress has now taken place in mice, with indications that resveratrol combats both the initiation and spread of certain prevalent forms of cancer. Research on humans is next on the agenda.
The most recent major study on the effects of resveratrol was conducted by Harvard Medical School, which published the results in Nature magazine in October 2006. It appears to confirm the same effects on mammals (in this case mice) found in earlier tests on fish and worms, that being the ability of resveratrol to extend life by negating the destructive impact of a high-fat diet (visions of Nirvana are creeping into my dreams). Those mice, which were given heavy doses of resveratrol and a high-fat diet, had a death rate 31% below those on the same diet without the supplement. The overall health of the treated mice, including the heart, liver, and other tissue, was almost identical to those mice on a standard diet (whatever that could be).
In its most simplistic form, this conclusion is the gourmand's Holy Grail. As always, however, our emotions are being reined in by the "preliminary findings" caveat. The dosage of resveratrol in the experiment was 300 times that in a glass of red wine, requiring a daily liver transplant for those expecting to replicate these results with only wine. (This reminds me of the alarming death rate of mice in a published experiment on the ingestion of heavy metals several years ago. It turns out they were force-feeding these creatures with the equivalent of a Hummer per week.) Nevertheless, it has generated widespread optimism among even skinny intellectuals around the world that resveratrol is the real thing, and that moderate wine drinking is a very good addition to one's daily regimen.
According to a Wine News article by Dr. Harvey Finkel, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Boston University, tests are showing that these antioxidants also benefit the cardiovascular system by impeding the artery-clogging attributes of LDL cholesterol and reducing the likelihood of blood clotting associated with heart attacks. A French study completed in 2002 found that moderate red wine drinkers produced higher levels of HDL (the good cholesterol) than non-drinkers, but didn't identify the reason.
On an ancillary issue, another inquiry producing scintillating results involved the conundrum of why the caloric content of red wine did not generate a corresponding gain in weight by the consumer. It was determined that partial responsibility for this wonderful disparity lies with the catechin phenolic, which was shown to stimulate the burning of body fat.
Despite the caution voiced by the relevant community of scientists, a reasonably optimistic soul can develop a warm glow from these reports and others. The situation doesn't warrant the abandonment of culinary discipline, but it sure is comforting to think that nature is once again trying to help us enjoy her bounty with impunity. Forever more, in my case, the thought of eating a sumptuous steak without a big red (phenolic-laden) wine will just seem downright irresponsible.
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, July 1965 - April, 1966
Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 561.
Date: 1966
Creator: Texas State Historical Association


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