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2001. Geological Survey (U.S.). This raster layer is a georeferenced image containing land cover data for the conterminous United States, in an Albers Equal-Area Conic projection ... National Geospatial Program, The National Map Small Scale.
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ATLANTA (AP) The most obvious matchup of strengths Monday night in the Chick-fil-A Bowl will be Clemson's high-scoring spread offense against Louisiana State's defense.
``These guys are top 10 in defense,'' Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. ``We're top 10 in offense. So it's pretty easy to get excited about that.''
A closer look shows No. 9 LSU's pass defense hasn't been so stingy lately.
LSU gave up more than 300 yards passing in three straight wins over Mississippi State, Mississippi and Arkansas to close the regular season. That sets the stage for a tougher test against Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd and receivers DeAndre Hopkins and Sammy Watkins.
LSU began November ranked fourth nationally against the pass. It has dropped to 11th - still a strong ranking. The exposed late-season vulnerability against the pass will be tested by No. 14 Clemson, which ranks sixth in scoring with 42.3 points per game.
LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis said Clemson has a ``very, very talented offense.''
``I certainly would rank it as high as any offense we've faced,'' Chavis said Saturday.
Chavis has plugged holes to have LSU eighth in the nation in total defense and 11th with its average of 16.9 points per game.
Defense was the strength for the 2011 LSU team that played for the national championship. Then cornerback Morris Claiborne and defensive tackle Michael Brockers were selected in the first round of the NFL draft, while safety Brandon Taylor went in the third.
An unexpected loss followed when star cornerback and return specialist Tyrann Mathieu, a 2011 Heisman finalist, was dismissed from the team.
Suddenly, LSU was forced to start freshman Jalen Mills at cornerback. A redshirt freshman, Jalen Collins, joins the defensive backfield on passing downs. Each has two interceptions.
Junior safety Eric Reid said Mills and Collins are young ``but very talented.''
``I have seen them develop and tried to help coach them,'' Reid said. ``They've come a long way. They're two guys we'll rely heavily on in the game. They'll play some very good receivers. I'm confident in them. I think they're going to do their job very well. And hopefully they can get some turnovers for us.''
Hopkins and Watkins combined for 126 receptions for 1,922 yards and 19 touchdowns, including 16 by Hopkins. Watkins was suspended for the first two games and missed another game with a sickness.
Watkins, a first-team All-America as a freshman in 2011, has had a decline in production this season but could be poised for a big bowl game.
``We expect Sammy to be Sammy,'' Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris said Saturday. ``We need him to play well and we're going to turn him loose.''
LSU already has proved it can beat a similarly talented quarterback and offense. The Tigers beat Texas A&M 24-19 on Oct. 20 while holding Johnny Manziel, the eventual Heisman Trophy winner, to 23 yards rushing and 276 yards passing with three interceptions and no touchdowns.
LSU linebacker Kevin Minter said Boyd ``may have a better arm, a little more accurate'' than Manziel.
``Other than that they're pretty much the same,'' Minter said.
LSU can't expect Clemson to play a one-dimensional game on offense. Senior Andre Ellington has 1,031 yards rushing with eight touchdowns. Boyd, a dual-threat quarterback, leads Clemson with nine rushing touchdowns and has almost 500 yards rushing.
``It's a great challenge anytime you play that kind of attack,'' LSU coach Les Miles said. ``A quarterback that can throw and very, very explosive receivers. You have to handle it in a variety of ways. Certainly changing coverages and an opportunity to rush the passer.''
Added Miles: ``We enjoy the matchup.''

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Herb Sutter is a bestselling author and consultant on software development topics, and a software architect at Microsoft. He can be contacted at www.gotw.ca.
Race conditions are one of the worst plagues of concurrent code: They can cause disastrous effects all the way up to undefined behavior and random code execution, yet they're hard to discover reliably during testing, hard to reproduce when they do occur, and the icing on the cake is that we have immature and inadequate race detection and prevention tool support available today.
The holy grail of the Consistency pillar is to make a concurrent program race-free and deadlock-free by construction. [1] "By construction" means to write our code in such a way that we can verify with confidence during development and testing that it does not contain races or deadlocks -- not just to rely on doing enough stress testing to get a probabilistic level of confidence, but to really know that there are no or deadlocks at all, at least for the shared data and locks that we control. I've written about some deadlock prevention techniques in "Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock." [2] This time, let's consider race prevention.
This article shows how to achieve the "race-free by construction" grail via sound engineering, with automatic and deterministic race identification at test time based on code coverage alone. Notes: For convenience, from now on I'm going to talk about just locks, but the issues and techniques apply to any kind of mutual exclusion. And although the example code I'll show will happen to be in C++, the techniques we'll discuss apply in any mainstream language, including C/Pthreads, C#, and Java.
The Problem
Let's say you want to use some shared data protected using mutexes:
// use table1 and table2 (both are shared) table1.erase( x ); table2.insert( x );
Quick: What locks should you take to make this code correct?
The answer is usually to look in some documentation or comment, because the connection between a mutex and the data it protects usually exists primarily in the mind of the programmer, and we rely on discipline to remember which lock to take.
Let's say that table1 and table2 are protected by two mutexes mutTable1 and mutTable2, respectively. Then we might write something like this:
lock mutTable1 and mutTable2 table1.erase( x ); table2.insert( x ); release mutTable1 and mutTable2 appropriately (e.g., in finally blocks, or using automatic dispose/destructor methods)
The trouble is that the programmer has to remember that mutTable1 and mutTable2 are the "right" mutexes to take to use table1 and table2. This has two main problems.
The minor problem is productivity: We're creating work for the developer by forcing him to look up which mutex to use, because in general he won't get automatic IDE completion/suggestion support to answer questions like, "Which mutex do I need to take to use table2?"
The major problem is correctness: We're relying on programmer discipline to make the code correct, and discipline can fail us because we will sometimes make mistakes. What can go wrong? We can fail to take the correct lock, in one of two ways:
- "Oops, forgot to lock." We can forget to take a lock at all, such as that in this example we might forget to take the lock on mutTable2.
- "Oops, took the wrong lock." We can inadvertently take a lock on the wrong mutex, either because of confusion about which mutex is the right one or because of a simple accident like a typo that misspells mutTable2 as mutTable3.
The trouble is, either way we'll end up writing a race condition with a horrible failure mode: The code will silently compile and appear to work during testing, only to fail nondeterministically in production -- typically in the form of intermittent, timing-dependent, hard-to-reproduce bug reports from customer sites.
The Goal
Instead of relying on comments and discipline, what we'd like to do is state in code which mutex protects which data, so that we can build our own guardrails to ensure we did it right. It turns out that this is a powerful approach, because it lets us turn a class of nondeterministic run-time failures into ones we can detect:
- automatically,
- deterministically,
- at test time, and
- based on code coverage alone.
Let's see how.


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01 December 2010
Microsoft Windows 95 was released 15 years agoPosted by M. Barhanudin Sulaiman
Microsoft released Windows 95 on Aug 24, 1995, 15 years ago. It was developed internally as Windows 4 or under the codename Chicago. The whole operating system was designed to be a "ground up" improvement of Windows 3.1 including vast enhancements to the GUI, or "user interface". It was with this release of Windows that Microsoft became the computing powerhouse it became in the late 90s/early 2000s. It was also this success with Windows 95 and early versions of Internet Explorer that would lay the ground work for all of Microsoft's problems with the Justice Department about being a monopoly.
Windows 95 was the birth of Windows as we now know it today. The taskbar and Start button began here as well as "plug and play" compatibility, 32 bit processing and the Windows Explorer file management application. All of these innovations were included and remain in current versions of Windows mostly unchanged to this day. Internet Explorer 1.0 was available for the release of Windows 95, but not with the default installation, which didn't even install TCP/IP. You had to buy the Microsoft Plus! pack to get the brand new Microsoft browser as well as other features like themes and disc compression. Microsoft Plus! was mostly used in factory installs, so not many people used IE at first. Internet Explorer would become part of the Win95 installation with IE v2.0 several months later.
Above is a picture of the basic Win95 desktop. This still looks like many computer desktops today. You can see many basic Windows programs like Wordpad, Calculater, MS Paint and Windows Explorer that even today exist on current versions of Windows. Windows 95 was launched with Apple-like fanfare including people waiting in lines to buy a copy at midnight and a full on television ad campaign including a commercial featuring the Rolling Stones song Start Me Up.
To help users with the brand new interface, Microsoft created a 30 minute promotional video starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry.
All of Microsoft's ancillary programs were updated with the new 32 bit architecture and user interface enhancements and bundled into Microsoft Office 95, also released on Aug 24, 1995.
The standard lineup of MS Office 95 was Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Schedule. Microsoft Schedule was the precursor to Microsoft Outlook (which was released in 1997). The Professional version of MS Office also included MS Access. If you bought MS Office 95 Professional on CD-ROM (as opposed to like 10 3″ discs) you were also given MS Bookshelf which was Microsoft's version of a digital encyclopedia (it was a cheaper version of Microsoft Encarta).
It was this release of Microsoft Windows that pretty much cemented Microsoft as the operating system for the masses. So regardless of what you personally think of Microsoft, there's no denying that it is an essential part of our computing history.
Taken from : http://blog.paxholley.net/2010/08/24/windows-95-was-released-15-years-ago/
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Nov. 29, 2011 -- Scheduling infant immunizations in the afternoon may lead to an increase in the infant's sleep over the next 24 hours.
A new study shows that infants who received their vaccinations after 1:30 p.m. were more likely to sleep longer and have a small increase in body temperature in the 24 hours following vaccination.
A small rise in body temperature is an expected reaction in infants getting an immunization, and can be a sign of a good immune response.
Sleep also plays an important role in the immune response. Previous research in adults has shown that lack of sleep before or after getting a shot may lead to a weaker immune response to the vaccine.
"Given the importance of sleep for a healthy immune response, our findings suggest that the time of day of vaccine administration and sleep duration after immunization are important to consider," researcher Linda Frank, RN, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, writes in Pediatrics.
If the relationship between timing of immunizations and immune response are confirmed by further studies, researchers say afternoon immunizations should be recommended for infants.
Timing of Vaccinations
In the study, researchers compared sleep duration and body temperature in 70 infants about 2 months old in the 24 hours before and after their first immunization.
Half of the parents were also instructed to give their infant a dose of acetaminophen (baby Tylenol) 30 minutes before the immunization and every four hours thereafter for a total of five doses.
Researchers say there are conflicting recommendations about whether parents should give their infants acetaminophen before and after receiving immunizations to ease discomfort or help them sleep.
Overall, the study showed infants slept for an average of 69 minutes longer in the 24 hours following immunization than in the 24-hour period before immunization.
Researchers found that on average all the infants slept longer after immunization. Infants who got their immunizations after 1:30 p.m. and those who had elevated body temperatures in response to the vaccines slept the longest over the next 24 hours.
Researchers found acetaminophen was not a significant factor in sleep duration after accounting for other factors, such as fever or discomfort.


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Educators to discuss School Choice
Law allows certain amount of students to transfer to any school
The Arkansas State Board of Education will discuss School Choice -- a law passed this session allowing a certain number of students each year to transfer to any school.
The Public School Choice Act of 2013, or School Choice, allows parents to decide where their kids should go to school, regardless of district boundaries.
The law repeals The Public School Choice Act of 1989. The revised school choice policy allows school transfers regardless of race.
Some districts have already opted out of the school choice policy, though none are in Northwest Arkansas or the River Valley. For a list of those districts, click here.
Kathy Harmon, a grandparent in Springdale said parents should be able to choose where they send their kids to school.
"Should they choose - the parents, for whatever reason to place their child into another school and they accept the responsibility of getting that kid to that school, then they are to have that choice," Harmon said.
Some of the new law's critics said it could hurt struggling schools by allowing bright students to move to better schools.
Other parents like Crystal Downs said they aren't sure whether School Choice would help or hurt schools.
"You want your kids to get the best education possible," Downs said. "But you have these schools that I don't think get the equipment or the things necessary to teach your kids what they need to know."
The State Education Board meeting is at 9 a.m. Monday in Little Rock. To watch the live stream, click here.


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As a devoted follower of TV programs like the Antiques Roadshow, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, Abandoned, Salvage Hunters and that show where some hairy guys in dirty baseball caps find old relics with metal detectors, dig them up and sell them to antique dealers, I have learned to appreciate the patina of an object.
It can be a huge mistake to "clean up" or "restore" something. The uniqueness of an antique or collectible partly lies in how it's weathered over the years; the way an object has changed colour, even the nicks and scratches it's picked up are part of its allure.
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This extends to old photos in The Vancouver Sun and Province archives. Tucked away in our files are an estimated 250,000 old prints. Precious few are what you'd call "pristine": over the years, editors, graphic artists and the photographers themselves have chopped them up, marked them up and in some cases completely mangled them. But they've also given them a special patina that's unique to newspapers.
Don't take my word for it. On Feb. 15, Presentation House Gallery is mounting News!, an exhibition of vintage prints from the Sun and Province at its downtown Satellite Gallery in the old A&B Sound building.
Sifting through the photo files can be overwhelming, but curator Helga Pakasaar has spent the last month working with Sun librarian Kate Bird and me to pick out some of the gems.
There's a wonderful Glenn Baglo photo of some billboards on Granville in 1972 that captures the delightful clutter Vancouver council decided to erase with a new sign bylaw. A heart-rending Steve Bosch shot of elderly East Indian farm workers in their bare-bones accommodations. A Deni Eagland pic of Dorothy Stratten flashing a dazzling smile at Sun writer Lloyd Dykk, mere months before she was murdered.
Bill Cunningham's photo of police straining to hold back Beatles fans at Empire Stadium in 1964 is a rock 'n' roll classic. Ray Allan caught teen idol Bobby Curtola signing autographs amid a sea of young female fans in 1964. Believe it or not, there's a 1984 Sun photo of Michael Jackson descending the steps of New Westminster city hall, surrounded by policemen.
Bill Dennett photographed a view that no longer exists, an arm of False Creek that used to flow up to the foot of Columbia street, underneath the original Georgia Street Viaduct. Ken Oakes took a breathtaking colour photo of Granville's neon jungle in 1960. An unknown photographer took some striking photos of the down and out on Skid Road in the 1950s.
"What has struck me are the genres or themes that have risen up," says Pakasaar. "There are a lot of very beautiful images of shacks along False Creek and the waterways of Vancouver (from the 1940s to 1960s), we haven't seen a lot of that history.
"I'm also seeing a really interesting historical document in the amount of demonstrations and protests, how signage changed and group formations changed over time. And, of course, there are clearly singular images that are fantastic.
"The one that comes to mind is from the 1880s, a photograph that was taken (by Harry Devine) right after the Great Fire (of June 12, 1886). It almost looks like a painting – someone has painted in the trees that aren't there anymore.
"The fact that it was in the archive, I can't believe. And the raw state it was in, the qualities it has as a material object, are really amazing."
The physical print is important in art.
"It gives it its integrity," says Pakasaar. "That's what makes the picture. It's not just an image like we see on the screen of a computer, but actually the physical (object). How it fits in space, that's what we look for in the fine art world."
The vintage Great Fire print was once owned by Helena Berry, whose father was Vancouver's first postmaster. In the early 1900s, Berry owned the Vancouver World newspaper with her husband, longtime Vancouver mayor L.D. Taylor. When the Sun bought the World in 1924, it got the photo, one of several rare prints from the 1880s and 1890s that have been discovered in the Sun's files, and are in the Presentation House show.
Pakasaar is fascinated by the Sun and Province's old prints, whether they're from the 1890s or the 1950s.
'They carry so much history, just as artifacts," she says. "The images themselves carry a lot of history and memories, and are very complex in terms of how we look at them, just because of why they were taken, and what they recorded in our city."
She's also quite taken by the backs of the prints, "which are these amazing records of their journeys through the archives, and in and out of newspapers."
A good example is an old wire photo of the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. The print is quite battered – part of Stalin's stomach has fallen off, and the print is cut up, rippled and discoloured.
This didn't seem to matter to the Sun's editors, though. It ran in the paper in 1950, 1963, 1968, 1977, 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1992. Every time it ran, someone clipped out the cutline under the photo and attached it to the back. Hence we get "Josef Stalin, Prime Minister of U.S.S.R." in 1950, "Josef Stalin, dead 10 years" in 1963, "Josef Stalin, half-forgotten hero" in 1968 and "Josef Stalin, made pact with Hitler" in 1989.
The Stalin file also contained a trio of vintage 1943 prints of The Big Three (Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill), who were meeting in Tehran. One features a fabulous blue "grease pencil" outline above each leader's head, which was a guide to a layout artist on how the editor wanted the picture cut, or routed.
Editors could be quite callous with a photo, or its subject. Looking for a Lawren Harris photo the other day I found a shot of the Group of Seven painter at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1954. It was unusually narrow, so I looked on the back and discovered it was the left half of a photo of Harris with his fellow artist A.Y. Jackson.
Somebody must have been looking for a photo of Harris by himself, so they sliced the photo in two. I looked in the Jackson file, and voila, there was the missing half. So I taped them back together.
Newspapers started running photos regularly during the First World War, but the Sun doesn't appear to have hired any staff photographers until the 1930s. Before then, papers would buy prints off commercial photographers like Leonard Frank.
Frank's 1938 photo of a teardrop bus turning the corner in front of the old bus depot at Seymour and Dunsmuir is one of the best photos ever taken in Canada, and there's a vintage print of it in the files. We even have an old photo of Frank that he used to hand out as a business card.
Sadly, many of the photos you come across while scanning through the old newspapers have long disappeared from the archives. This put a bit of a crimp in the plan to have photos arranged by decades – there aren't that many old prints before the 1950s.
But then, out of the blue, I got an email from the granddaughter of Dave Buchan, who was one of the first Sun photographers hired in the 1930s. He seems to have been hired after winning first prize — $15! — in a Sun photo contest in 1935.
Wynn Nielsen never met her grandfather, who died in 1975. But when her mother died, she came across a box of old Dave Buchan prints from the late 1930s or 1940s.
"He seemed to specialize in streetcar accidents," she laughs. "The kind of photos where you look at them and go 'What beautiful composition, what lovely colour.' And then you (look closer and) go 'Eww!' There was a lot of blood in his streetcar photographs."
Indeed. For some reason, Buchan has hand-tinted a grisly photo of a car that's been crushed between two streetcars. A pool of blood – which he's painted red – lies on the ground.
The Buchan trove also includes a tres-1930s setup shot of a baseball player sliding into a base, a photo of some people betting at the long-gone Lansdowne Racetrack and a fabulous shot of a couple of 1930s cars that have been crunched in a brutal collision.
He really had a knack for accidents. When a milk truck got into a smash-up, Buchan climbed a nearby building and photographed the scene from above. The black and white image of the tipped-over truck, the cops, the crowd surveying the scene, and the milk spilled all over the street has a real film noir look. If the great New York street photographer WeeGee had taken it, it would probably be famous.
Pakasaar thinks there are "many potential WeeGees" waiting to be rediscovered in the Sun and Province archives. With the Presentation House show Vancouverites will get their chance to check them out for themselves.
John Mackie and Kate Bird will be giving a talk on the Accidental Archive of the Sun and Province at Satellite Gallery on Sat. Feb. 16 at 3 p.m.
Photographs from the Vancouver Sun and Province archives
Wed.-Sat., 12-6 p.m., Feb. 15 to March 30 | Satellite Gallery, 560 Seymour St.
Admission: FreeInfo: http://presentationhousegallery.org/satellite/


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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
|Band 6
Verdi: LA TRAVIATA: Ah fors'č lui excerpt: "A quell' amor, quell' amor ch'č palpito"... "delizia al cor"
Marcella Sembrich (?)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra--Luigi Mancinelli (?)
February 27, 1903 (?)
The identification of performers and date is based on the assumption that this cylinder is the one inventoried as No. 26 by Glackens and Bishop: "Sembrich-Traviata-Ah fors (Feb 27 1903)" and described in their commentary as "Pretty clear except for low notes, worth saving." Heat damage has rendered most of the cylinder unplayable; the recoverable forty-five seconds represent the end of the aria, no longer "pretty clear," alas. The recording evidently begins at the turn to the major in Violetta's aria; the first really discernible phrase is "dell' universo, dell' universo intero," at the beginning of which the singer deploys a simpler ornament than is heard in Sembrich's three recordings of the piece. Note that the speed does not match the "Sempre libera" cylinder of the same date (Side 5/Band 4)--nor that of the Melba excerpt on Side 5/Band 3, the only Traviata during the Mapleson years not sung by Sembrich.
A quell'amor,
quell'amor ch'č palpito
dell' universo,
dell' universo intero,
misterioso, misterioso, altero,
croce, croce e delizia,
croce e delizia, delizia al cor.
To that love,
that love which is the heartbeat
of the universe,
of the whole universe,
mysterious and proud,
a burden, a burden and a delight,
a burden and a delight, a delight to the heart.


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My Friend, John Grant
My Friend, John Grant died on March 6, 2016. It was the 295th day of his 100th year. For years, we enjoyed a periodic day out. I hereby share those days with you. Also see the separate gallery - "Body Worlds / Titanic". It's first in the "Art" galleries.Read More
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With a wide range of interest and influences, spanning from bluegrass to high-energy rock-and-roll and jazz, his solo path has become his new focus.
Married and living with his wife just outside Montclair, New Jersey, Hobler is continuing to work his way into the music scene.
Hobler met with me for coffee at the Starbucks in Union Square last week to talk about his past bands, roots and his new focus on a solo career.
When did you first start playing music?
I originally played in a bunch of bands over the last 16 or so years. I started playing in bands in high school basically, but I essentially started singing for a weird reason that was not even remotely musical. I just wanted to hang out with a couple of friends that started a band. I said that I could sing, but I really couldn't sing.
But it turned out that your could, I'm assuming?
I could. I didn't know it, but I learned how to sing.
When did the guitar come into play?
With the band, I started as a singer. We kicked out our rhythm guitarist and then I became a guitar player as well. As soon as I started playing guitar too, I just got into writing and performing.
How did you meet these guys?
I was best friends with the drummer and he was going to a different school than me in high school and I was worried that we wouldn't be friends anymore, so I joined the band so we would hang out more.
How important has it been for you to be in groups with friends over the years?
In college, I was in a jazz ensemble, and we had this very egotistical piano player who thought he was better than everybody and just basically thought he was above it all. My band leader at the time said nobody wants to play with jerks. All the people I play with now, I would rather play with a C+ bass player who is an awesome dude, than an A+ jerk.
Did you ever take guitar lessons?
I started taking guitar lessons in college. I joined a jazz ensemble at NYU and my guitar teacher was actually a huge influence. He pushed me to be a band leader and to write out music and to be really prepared with a band and then I eventually took some voice lessons after that.
Were you in a band at that time, or were you just playing with the school?
I was in a band all throughout high school and into college. We had a decent run. We won a battle of the bands and we got to open for Wyclef Jean. It was very bizarre.
Did you feel like you made your break when you got to open for Wyclef?
It felt pretty cool. At the time we were stunned because we got to play for the college. I went to Fairfield University before I went to NYU, and there we got to play for the whole school, like thousands of people. And people didn't really know who we were, so they thought we were probably more magical than we actually were. It was fantastic, but it was all downhill from there.
But I'm still friends with them. I don't see them that often, but I like those guys a lot. They all kind of found a little bit of direction after that. But once we started learning and communicating, we all just went our separate ways.
What was your next step?
I got more focused on learning more. I felt like I was stabbing around in the dark in our first band – our name was Blue Collar Heroes – and anytime I wanted to do something I didn't feel like I was skilled enough. I started getting into more of the lessons and the theory. My guitar teacher in college really pushed me to get on top of all that stuff.
What do you do now?
Today I'm an audio engineer. I work as a post-audio engineer. My intention was to work as a music engineer, but now I work on commercials and sound effects and stuff like that. It was just what I gravitated towards.
Where did you find the band you're paying with now?
Well, my brother I've known all my life. He's always been involved and as soon as he got to college age we started collaborating. I had another band from like 2007 to 2011 called Sunroom, and that group is where I found the majority of my group now.
What happened to them?
Well we started off as this reclusive trio, pretty much in the style of The Lumineers and a lot of the popular bands like Mumford and Sons. Really stripped down acoustic bass, acoustic guitar and acoustic piano. We had a really naturalistic sound. We did an EP with six or seven songs that we recorded live in two days, with no editing involved – on one track we added tambourine. It was all performance.
That group just started going their separate ways. We had a couple of interviews here and there but we never got used to things. One of our members left, the piano player left and it was just me and the bass player. We continued and he wanted to move back to California and we just called it quits.
What was it like going out on your own?
It was really scary at first because I've always had that group support. There's no net, so it's all on me. I can't quit my own act. Well, I guess I could, but I wouldn't want to.
Did you start from scratch or did you have stuff to play when you went solo?
I wrote a bunch of songs with that group that I have since rerecorded a couple of those. I have like 16 or 17 songs that I've been screwing around with for a while.
So have you started working on an album?
Well what I think I'm going to do, I have enough material for an album, but I think we're going to do at least one song per month for like 12 months; all leading up to the album, and then the album would include some extra songs on that too.
Why release songs over the course of the year versus just putting out an album?
I think because the group of songs I'm working from runs the gamut, like thematically and stylistically, from different angles. The first four songs we're going to release, "Between You and Me," is this very ethereal, ambient rock tune. Then we have "She Came Along," and that song is just straight up, exuberant bluegrass.
Then we have an apocalyptic pop tune called "Got a Ways To Go." I think that is the first one we're going to release. That one's funny. It's just very indie rock but with this juxtaposed, happy major melody with these ominous lyrics.
Then there's this other one that's just very sweet endearing and compassionate love song called "Near You." That has this Ray LaMontagne kind of vibe. Each of them has this different feel so I wanted to release them in their own kind of environment, absent of an album and later pull them together.
Since nobody wants to pay for music anymore, do you think this might be the way to crack the code in the music industry right now?
Yeah, nobody wants to pay for it, but in a way I understand because it's all cloud-based now. I remember when I was a kid, I used to go to Sam Goody and I'd get a CD, or I would even buy a CD because I would just look at the cover. I'm sure my parents before me, going into a record store was even more meaningful. Now it's not even real, it's just a digital thing.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to make a living doing it, but the real reason I do it is not to make money, it's because I can't do anything else. I always felt compelled to write songs and craft my thought into some sort of song form.
Check our Ryan Hobler with his band and the Paper Swan, a Brooklyn-based production collective, at the Jalopy Theater, located at 315 Columbia St. in Brooklyn, on Thursday, December 5. Tickets are $5 and available on Ryan's website at www.ryanhobler.com.


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T.Boone Pickens commented today that the US is the "only country in the world that doesn't have an energy plan." In an article discussing natural gas prices, he spoke about his support for the bi-partisan NAT GAS act which is making it's way through Congress and will probably be vetoed by Obama. But it seems that criticizing Obama is not a popular move among people who have a lot to lose. So Boone Pickens was slow though to criticize Obama, saying that gas prices were not Obama's fault but were instead the fault of limited global supply.
That would be kinda like saying "The Jets bad year wasn't Rex Ryan's fault. They just had bad coaching last year."
Boone Pickens got another thing wrong. The US does have an energy policy. It is Obama's energy policy which is designed to increase the price of gas until the pain causes entrepreneurs like George Kaiser of Solyndra to invent new forms of energy and consumers like you and me to buy them. He enacted this policy again on Thursday when he lobbied Democrat Senators to ensure that they killed the Keystone Pipeline again. Driving up gas prices until we all stop using gas and save the planet is a noble idea, as long as stopping the specter of Global Warming is such an honorable goal that we are willing to sacrifice the poor on its altar.
Consider this: I have an older car that gets about 28-30 mpg. I have already inflated my tires and it didn't seem to make gas prices go down. Obama may have labeled oil the "Fuel of the past", but if I put wind, solar, or algae in my gas tank, my car will not run. So my choices are to pay $3.75 a gallon for gas ($3.25 in states that have access to Canadian sands oil, like Colorado), or buy a brand new electric car or hybrid. A Chevy Volt costs about $31,000, and I'm pretty sure I don't get a discount even though taxpayers own a sizable portion of GM thanks to Obama's bailouts. I would have to take out a loan.
I'm doing OK. It's a good year for tax accountants since the code just keeps getting more and more complex and the IRS keeps getting worse and worse when it comes to customer service. I'm not rich by any means, but I could afford the payments on a Volt. But what about the single mother who has to work just to put food on her family's table? What about someone for who one Chevy Volt represents a year's wages? Chances are there are lots of people out there who can't afford $3.75 a gallon gas, but also can't afford a $31,000 Chevy Volt and are not those "qualified buyers" they always talk about in the commercials.
Obama's energy policy is: "Sucks to be you. Pray someone invents a cheap alternative that you can afford, and quick"
Here is the real kicker with Obama's failed energy policy: The people who are in a position to invent and bring to market an alternative to oil are not the same people who experience a motivating level of pain when gas gets up to $3.75 a gallon. Obama's strategy of hiking gas prices until it hurts so much that we invent an alternative will destroy the poor long before it ever affects someone who could actually accomplish that. Why do you think his tax subsidized green energy companies keep going bankrupt.
Boone Pickens and other energy moguls are not going to invest in natural gas, wind, solar, ethanol and other forms of energy because they can't afford to fill their tanks. They are going to do it to make a profit. This means they are going to do it when Americans can afford it and it makes sense as an alternative to oil. They are going to do it when Americans can afford to buy Volts, solar panels, and cars that run on algae. What Obama doesn't seem to grasp is that the very thing that will put Americans in a position to buy green energy is economic growth that can't happen when people can't afford to drive to their jobs.
Obama calls "Drill Here, Drill Now" a bumper sticker slogan, not an energy policy. It's sad when a bumper sticker is smarter than the President of the United States.
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EMITS is the European Space Agency's official electronic mailing system for handling its Invitation To Tenders (ITT) and relevant information for ESA procurements.
The EMITS (Electronic Mailing Invitation to Tender System) of ESA has been operational since the mid 1980's. Its primary objective is to guarantee the principle of fair competition and fair access to ESA's procurement at all levels.
Originally used exclusively by ESA for its own competitive procurement activities, over time the system has evolved considerably, gaining an interactive dimension by responding to the increasing needs of its users both inside ESA and outside. In the later case a number of public organisations have expressed their interest in using it or developing similar systems.
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James Anaya of "The Hellion Rocks" on Bleach Bangs Radio recently conducted an interview with KILL DEVIL HILL vocalist Jason "Dewey" Bragg. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.
KILL DEVIL HILL is the band featuring legendary drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL) alongside Rex Brown (PANTERA, DOWN) on bass, Mark Zavon (RATT, W.A.S.P., 40 CYCLE HUM) on guitar and Jason "Dewey" Bragg (PISSING RAZORS) on vocals.
The group's sophomore album, "Revolution Rise", sold around 2,150 copies in the United States in its first week of release.
KILL DEVIL HILL's self-titled debut CD opened with around 1,800 units. The effort landed at position No. 9 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
Released on October 29 via Century Media Records, "Revolution Rise" was produced by KILL DEVIL HILL and Jeff Pilson (DOKKEN, FOREIGNER, DIO) and was mixed by Jay Ruston (STONE SOUR, ANTHRAX, STEEL PANTHER). The cover artwork was created by Sam Shearon, who has previously worked with ROB ZOMBIE, IRON MAIDEN and FEAR FACTORY, to name just a few.
"Revolution Rise" track listing:
01. No Way Out
02. Crown Of Thorns
03. Leave It All Behind
04. Why?
05. Wake Up The Dead
06. Long Way From Home
07. Where Angels Dare To Roam
08. Stained Glass Sadness
09. Endless Static
10. Stealing Days
11. Life Goes On
Said Brown of the new album: "This new KILL DEVIL HILL record is definitely one of my favorite moments of my career — it's got balls, great melodies, awesome guitar riffing and a low end that'll set your ass on fire! The album far exceeds our wildest expectations and we can't wait to take this music out on the road and share it with all of our friends and fans. Buckle your seat belts, we're all in for one hell of a ride!"
KILL DEVIL HILL is taking its new material on the road for a headlining club tour that kicked off October 26 in Ramona, California and runs through the month of November with support from labelmates EYES SET TO KILL and GIRL ON FIRE, as well as BLACK WATER RISING.


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The Naked Gun returning as a social game
The prospects for a new Naked Gun movie without Leslie Nielsen may be slim but the franchise is coming back, re-imagined as an adventure game on social networks.
Without Leslie Nielsen, the prospects for a new Naked Gun movie are slim, but the franchise is coming back--as a social network game. Now before immediately dismissing it, the developer's plans sound an awful lot like the sort of adventure games Telltale has been making. The Naked Gun: International Crime Unit Police (yep, I.C.U.P.) will have players form squads to solve episodic mysteries.
The game is being built on GameCentric Media's 'Story Box' engine. In the announcement press release, GameCentric owner Paul Limon, whose resume includes a long turn at Blizzard in creative roles on games including Starcraft and Diablo II, said, "With Story Box we hope to deliver something that has yet to be seen in this arena. Since adventure gaming mechanics have proven to be highly successful in other casual arenas, it's a natural progression."
Working with Limon are Robert LoCash, who wrote and produced two to the Naked Gun films, and Nick Creature. Of working on the storied franchise, Creature said, "As a writer who grew up watching Police Squad and the Naked Gun films, I can't tell you what an incredible feeling it is to be able to put things in Frank Drebin's mouth." Uh, yeah, sounds like Creature at least has the shtick down pat.
No release date for the game was provided but given the typical quick turnaround time for social games we shouldn't have to wait long. In the meantime, a few characters can be seen on the GameCentric Media site, including Norberg. I hear OJ won't be reprising his role but the developers are after an equally intriguing celebrity to take over.
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DENVER, Aug. 14, 2013 (Lockheed Martin PR) – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has chosen three world-class companies to provide CubeSat integration for Athena launch services. Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems LLC of Irvine, Calif., TriSept Corporation of Chantilly, Va., and Spaceflight, Inc. of Tukwila, Wash. will provide turnkey CubeSat integration services for multi-payload and RideShare missions using Athena launch services beginning in 2015.
"We are very pleased to offer this significant enhancement for CubeSat customers using Athena launch services that leverage the proven expertise of these three companies to provide comprehensive, affordable, one-stop integration and launch services to customers worldwide," said Robert R. Cleave, president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services. "Working together, we are providing customers with efficient and affordable payload integration bundled with the launch service for the expanding range of CubeSat missions."
CubeSats are cube-shaped satellites built to standard dimensions called Units or "U," measuring 10x10x11 cm (approximately 4 inches), and weighing less than 1.33 kg (3 lbs) per Unit. They can range from one to six Units in size. Athena deploys CubeSats in the 3U configuration using a standard Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD). Initially developed in 1999 with dozens currently in orbit, CubeSats are enabling many mission planners to re-think what can be done with miniature spacecraft. CubeSats are quickly migrating from being used by universities as projects for training future engineers and scientists to supporting a variety of space missions for government, commercial and civil customers worldwide, but with significantly reduced mission costs.
Athena can boost payloads ranging from 280 kg (615 lbs) to up to 5,900 kg (13,000 lbs) utilizing launch sites at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. and Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. Using ATK's flight-proven CASTOR 120® for Stage I and Stage II, the modernized launch vehicles feature a newly developed and flight proven CASTOR® 30 for the upper stage, and Lockheed Martin's modernized electronic systems. Both solid rocket motors are in production and are used on other launch vehicles. Athena's standard Orbit Adjust Module capability can perform multiple precise deliveries of CubeSats to unique orbital parameters, the initial phasing for constellation deployments, as well as deploying CubeSats in large or small groups. In addition, Athena RideShare missions planned for 2015 and 2016 from Kodiak Launch Complex can accommodate 24 P-PODs or a mix of 3U, 6U and 12U CubeSat containerized payloads, vastly expanding launch opportunities for these very small satellites to sun synchronous orbits.
For CubeSat integration services on Athena missions, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems LLC will provide engineering analysis, payload certification and final integration with the launch vehicle. TriSept Corporation will provide integrated CubeSat services contracts, including engineering analysis, payload certification and final integration to the launch vehicle. Spaceflight, Inc. will provide integrated CubeSat services contracts, including engineering analysis, payload certification and final integration to the launch vehicle.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 116,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. The Corporation's net sales for 2012 were $47.2 billion.
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Mysticism, modernity abound in Benin Voodoo fest
The deified residents of the Temple of Pythons, when released to find food, sometimes slither across the road into a Catholic church that once hosted Pope Benedict XVI. The local priest, the snake handlers say, is always good enough to call or bring the gorging reptiles back to their own spiritual home.
This is life in Ouidah, a mecca of spirits and gods worshipped by practitioners of Voodoo, a recognized religion in this former French colony in West Africa that is home to 9 million people. The religion has its own pope - or two, depending on who you ask - whose reign dates back to the 1400s and can be seen about town in his SUV.
This past Thursday, local banks and the post office closed as the town celebrated its annual Voodoo Festival, an event increasingly drawing curious foreigners. With its mix of beliefs and traditions, the Voodoo practiced here shows both a clash of cultures and the ability for ancient traditional beliefs to adapt to modern life.
"It is like we are sending all the evil in the country, on the continent, away," said Djabassi Manonwomin, a Voodoo priestess who leads others in the worship of a mermaid deity. "The people today are corrupt, we can see that. It is from the old days, but now more open.
"More people are hungry (for corruption). They put their bellies in front of themselves."
Voodoo, also called "vodoun" here, can be seen throughout the streets of Ouidah. One local school proudly identifies itself by the religion. Down the dusty street on a recent day one could see the decapitated head of a monkey, wrapped around a stick, a curse someone had placed near a shrine of a three-head man wrapped by pythons. While the curse was grotesque, Voodoo generally does not follow the images from movies and novels from the West, of zombies and possessions.
It borrows heavily from the mythology of Yoruba people of Nigeria's southwest. Gods and spirits of neighboring Togo and nearby Ghana also can be openly worshipped - and others much farther afield. At Manonwomin's own shrine, the walls bear images of the Hindu god Ganesh, as well as the image of an Indian woman praying. Outside, a small offering of bananas and biscuits, doused in perfume, could be seen by her gate outlined in chalk.
The chanting prayers include cries of "Power! Power!" Similar chants can be heard in evangelical Christian churches across Nigeria, including pastors' repeatedly shouting that enemies should be consumed by "fire!"
Though Benin appears to be where slaves brought to America and the Caribbean learned about Voodoo, the nation itself has a mixed history with the religion. Mathieu Kerekou, a one-time Marxist dictator turned elected president, banned Voodoo practices during the Cold War. However, he himself was said to have been so angry about losing a popular election for the nation's highest office that he put a Voodoo curse on it himself.
Now, the religion has its own national day Jan. 10. It coexists peacefully with Islam and Catholicism, the other major religions in the country.
As men prepared to slaughter goats as an offering at a shrine, foreigners raised their own cameras up to catch the moment when worshippers slit the goat's throat. Others giggled or looked uncomfortable as they let guides at the python temple place the snakes around their shoulders or atop their head as a reptilian scarf.
"You conjure up all kinds of images that Hollywood has sent us, but I did read up about it and learn that's not what it is," said Greg Fry, a tourist from Kamloops, Canada. "It made me interested to see how this functions, what part it plays in their society."
Material interests have entered the equation now as well. Peddlers selling African masks and other items surrounded those attending the festival. Daagbo Hanoun, the Voodoo pope, and his entourage also demanded payments from foreign journalists, despite their protests that the Vatican doesn't charge to cover Mass.
Some believe the fight over money launched a years-long insurrection by another man who claims he's the Voodoo pope by birth. That man celebrated his own Voodoo festival at a sports stadium in the city.
Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP .


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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Health reform will put insurance cards in the hands of tens of millions of previously uninsured Americans. Many will need physicals, immunizations, preventive screening tests and care for chronic health conditions.
So, how tough will it be to get a doctor's appointment?
Some experts worry that there could be longer wait times to see a doctor, particularly in rural areas and underserved markets where primary-care physicians are in short supply.
"The reality is there's going to be a potential primary-care crisis as health care is expanded," said Dr. John D. Goodson, an internist in primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
A primary-care practice is often a patient's first and ongoing contact with the medical system. Primary-care physicians are generalists trained in family medicine, general internal medicine or general pediatrics. They diagnose and treat acute and chronic conditions, provide preventive services and counseling, coordinate care and make necessary referrals to specialists.
Yet primary-care physicians make up only 35% of America's physician workforce, and the pipeline of fresh talent is tapering off. Fewer than 20% of U.S. medical students are choosing to practice primary-care medicine, according to the Council on Graduate Medical Education, which advises and makes recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress on physician workforce matters.
Studies project a shortage of 44,000 to 46,000 primary-care doctors by 2025 unless action is taken to lure more medical students into the field and retain experienced primary-care doctors.
And future demand for generalist physicians is expected to swell as the population ages.
"You can put people in the health insurance plans, but if you don't have enough providers to take care of these people, I think that the system will not work," said Janet Selway, president-elect of the American College of Nurse Practitioners, who sees an expanded role for nurses with advanced education and training.
Massachusetts experienced a shortage of primary-care physicians in the wake of the commonwealth's universal health insurance law, which was enacted in 2006. But it had only two years to prepare for the onslaught of patients. The full impact of the federal health reform law won't be felt until 2019.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- the sweeping health reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama in March -- includes a number of programs to strengthen primary-care. But is it enough?
In a "Perspective" article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in April, Goodson argued that, to avert a primary-care crisis, medical schools must prioritize and support primary-care training, and policymakers have to do something about the nation's lopsided physician reimbursement system, which favors specialists.
"The starting pay for a radiologist coming out of a training program could be $400,000 to $500,000 a year, whereas a trainee coming out of a general medicine program or a family medicine program could be $150,000 a year," he told HealthDay. "I mean, this is just patently absurd."
Goodson and other primary-care advocates also see the need for a better way to take care of patients' acute and chronic health-care needs without burning out doctors.
One potential solution is a team-based model of care called the "medical home." In a medical home, every patient has a personal physician. But instead of acting alone, the physician leads a cadre of non-physician providers. The team may include physician assistants, nurse practitioners and others who are responsible for coordinating patient care.
"In many ways, it's the ideal incarnation what you wish you primary-care physician -- what he or she -- would be able to do to support your care," said Susan Stuard, executive director of the Taconic Health Information Network and Community, a partner in the Hudson Valley Initiative, an effort to improve health-care delivery in six New York counties.
Stuard's organization has helped more than 600 Hudson Valley-area primary-care physicians, including a number of solo and small practices, implement electronic health records. Having information technology in place to coordinate care, avoid repetitive lab tests and ensure timely screenings is a key component of the medical home concept, she said.
Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, an early adopter of the medical home model, recently published results of a pilot program comparing the medical home experience at one clinic with its other practice sites. After two years, patients in the medical home had better experiences and better quality of care, and physicians reported less workplace stress. The study was published in the May issue of Health Affairs.
However, results of a two-year medical home experiment involving 36 primary-care practices across the country found small improvements in quality of care but not in patient experiences. That study appeared in a special supplement to the May/June issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
"The issue with the medical home is, how it can be done in a way that's really going to serve the needs of the patient best," Goodson said.
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Aoki takes trade speculation as compliment
PHOENIX -- Brewers outfielder Norichika Aoki has been the leadoff batter in 85 of the club's 94 first-half games and has enjoyed some success, batting .292 entering Sunday with 19 runs batted in and 10 stolen bases. That has the Texas Rangers interested in acquiring him, according to recent reports.
Aoki said he was aware of the reports and shed some light on the nature of baseball trades in his native Japan as opposed to Major League Baseball.
"Over here, teams trade for you because they want you," Aoki said through translator Kosuke Inaji. "In Japan, there's a negative aspect about getting traded."
As in, teams in Japan tend to trade a player because they do not want him on the team. But the perception is changing, Aoki said.
Aoki is happy playing for the Brewers but appreciates that his abilities are being noticed.
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It's the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Phillies are tied 2-2 in the fifth game of the World Series with a 3-1 lead. They're at home, the weather is fair, and the crowd will be pumped.
Seriously, it's in the bag.
Monday night should've been the wild party throughout the Delaware Valley we've waited 25 years to throw. The weather derailed that party for a short time, but here we are, pretty much in the same place we started, but in fact, in better shape.
The Phillies bring forth the best bullpen in Major League Baseball, from bell to bell. They have three more outs to play with than the Rays. The top of the order will get two turns, while the Rays could only see one with their big bats. Factor in the home crowd and already strong lead in the series, and guys, we're looking very, very good.
This is the night: October 29, 2008. I've seen this team do its job all season long. They've come out, focused, determined, steadfast. And they've won. Now they have 3.5 innings to play. Trust me on this one: The focus is there, this team is ready, and I swear, the Phillies are winning the world championship tonight.
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We've got some more games this afternoon so let the good times continue to roll with Sunday's second act, where all the craziness happens
Washington at St. Louis (FOX): I really hate to admit this but I thought the Sports Illustrated SURG3 cover was pretty clever. I am totally against "RG3," though. Everything doesn't always have to sound like some special edition sports utility vehicle. You'll note that that link is for an ebay auction for that issue of Sports Illustrated.
This magazine is brand new. There is an address label on it.
The magazine is currently going for $3.95 and $3.75 for shipping. So, if you're in the market for a semi-used, $8 magazine with an address label on it, you know where to go.
Dallas at Seattle (FOX): This is the first game for Dallas at Seattle since Tony Romo fumbled the snap on that Martin Gramatica field goal attempt in the 2007 playoffs. Let's relive it together.
Ahh. So many NFL hallmarks. Al Davis. John Madden. Bill Parcells. Tony Romo failures.
New York Jets at Pittsburgh (CBS): Revis being out for the Jets is like if an entire unit were on the injured reserve for another team. It sounds like Joe McKnight may get some work at corner, which won't be a colossal fuckscene at all. The Steelers will also be without key defensive contributors Troy Polamalu and James Harrison who I think should have some kind of nickname like "Hair Today, Scumbag Tomorrow," an obvious reference to Polamalu's ubiquitous locks and James Harrison's ubiquitous scumbaggery.
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A HOUSE OF MAGIC (Sep, 1954)
That is one ugly house of the future. What were they thinking with those slab doors on the third page? "How can I make my house look like a prison?"
By Thomas E. Stimson, Jr.
IN JACK FLETCHER'S new home, the windows close themselves whenever the wind blows hard for more than 15 seconds. They close automatically, too, when a rainstorm starts or when the outside temperature drops too low for comfort.
Guests never trip over the wires to a floor lamp in Fletcher's living room. The floor lamps in this "House of the 21st Century" have no electric cords. Their fluorescent tubes, in fact, could be burned out and still operate perfectly when placed over certain spots on the living-room floor.
Mrs. Fletcher's stove has an attractive hardwood top and she does her cooking over the stove, not on it. A concealed electromagnetic cooking element not only heats the pans but keeps them suspended in the air while the meal is cooking. There's no need for an "old fashioned" metal stove top.
If the children start quarreling in their play yard, Mrs. Fletcher can admonish them at once from the house via a loudspeaker attached to the play-yard wall. She sees the youngsters by means of a television camera that scans the yard area and is linked to TV receivers in the kitchen, living room and master bedroom. These picture tubes also receive standard TV programs.
In the Fletcher house you don't need to press a wall switch to turn on the room lights; they turn on automatically as you enter a room, then switch themselves off when the last person leaves. This "walk-a-light" switching system likewise rings the doorbell when a visitor approaches and serves as an alarm against prowlers.
To phone his office or various friends Fletcher presses a button opposite the name he desires, then lifts the receiver when a signal lamp shows the connection has been made. The actual dialing of the number is performed by a concealed rotary switch.
One of the fantastic features of Fletcher's house is that its fireplaces have no chimneys. The secret is that the flue doubles back down from above the fireplace opening, then runs under the floor to a central chimney in the middle of the house. It's an old Chinese principle, so ancient that it seems brand new when put to use.
When 23-year-old Jack Fletcher, ex hot-rod and custom-car enthusiast, got ready to build a house for his growing family he decided to make science go to work for him. A lot of well-known scientific principles, he reasoned, can be put to everyday use.
Together with his father, Frank Fletcher, one of the heads of Fletcher Aviation, and with John Scott Campbell of CalTech he set up a laboratory to turn his ideas into realities and to build the equipment for his new house which is in West Covina, Calif.
Electrical gadgets aren't the only innovations in the house. The Fletchers drew on their aircraft and engineering experience to work out some new basic construction techniques. The result is that Jack Fletcher's new home is an example of quality construction at relatively low cost.
The house includes three bedrooms and two baths and has a total of 1905 square feet of heated area. Heating is of the electrical radiant type, there being chrome-nickel wire buried in the concrete slab floor. Constructionwise, the house uses a post-and-beam . structural system to support the roof. All walls and partitions thus can be simple nonload-bearing curtain walls built up from short inexpensive lengths of material. The wall panels, in fact, were assembled at a temporary factory instead of on the job. They consist of one-by-six-inch vertical stiffeners nailed to two-by-four horizontal spacers. There are no vertical studs in the ordinary sense. Any scrap lengths of wood as short as 29 inches can be used.
This wall core is erected, then building paper and insulation are added, and finally the exterior and interior wall surfaces are applied. In Fletcher's home the exterior consists of redwood boards and bats. Wall-board paneling is used in the interior.
Steel-pipe columns support the roof beams. The beams are hollow and are built in accordance with aircraft design. A typical beam may consist of a two-by-six on top, a three-by-six on the bottom with 16-inch-deep walls of one-half-inch plywood and with an internal wood stiffener every eight feet. One of these beams will support a 25-foot span and can be nailed and glued together "by the mile" at less cost than solid timbers. For some shorter spans two-by-fours are used for the top and bottom of the beam.
To provide privacy, light and ventilation in his bedroom Fletcher used slab doors for one exterior wall, the doors being staggered to create a louvered effect. The space between each pair of door panels contains a narrow pane of glass for ventilation.
Patio areas outside the house have louvered roofs that screen out the sun and yet permit air to circulate. The patio-roof boards are set on edge, in slots, and may be removed when winter sunlight is desired.
Fletcher's self-closing windows are actuated by a "window brain" located on the roof. The brain is actually a metal box with rain-catching channels on each side and with a weather vane and anemometer on top. Inside the box is a bimetallic thermometer. When bad weather strikes, the instruments actuate an electric circuit. Solenoids beneath the windows trip locks to release springs which close the windows.
Mrs. Fletcher's mysterious stove operates by electromagnetic repulsion. Beneath the hardwood stove top are four main lifting coils that also heat the metal pan floating above it. Three adjustable stabilizing coils steady the pan.
To operate his cordless floor lamps, Fletcher buried induction coils at various points in his living-room floor. Contained in the base of each floor lamp is a secondary coil. The current flowing between the coils provides enough wattage to fluoresce the gases in the fluorescent tube at the top.
The walk-a-light switching system throughout the house operates on the capacity principle. The presence of a person's body changes the capacity of a plate
connected to a vacuum-tube circuit. A relay then switches on the lights. The same capacity effect operates the doorbell when a person walks onto the porch. It is used outside the house to operate lights and on a burglar-alarm system.
By the time you read this, Fletcher may have added some other improvements to his house. He and John Campbell are studying the feasibility of an outdoor air conditioner that would keep the large patio areas at comfortable temperatures even on the hottest days. And they are thinking about an invisible ultrasonic screen that would keep flies away.


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Here's some gameplay from the new Wii U game by development studio Platinum Games, currently titled "Project P100" (although that will likely change). There's some Pikmin in here, and a little bit of Platinum's Bayonetta, and the whole thing looks like a Pixar movie. Check it out!
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Tower Hexareme - Veteran LegionariesFrom a shipboard tower, all enemies become little targets to be potted at will.
All legionaries are effective fighters, veterans doubly so.
As centuries passed, naval tactics and needs changed across the Mediterranean. There was a move towards larger ships, partly as an expression of national or dynastic power: the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt were particularly fond of large ships to show their wealth and influence in a physical way. These 'polyremes', a term meaning many oared, were not suitable for ramming work in battle. In practice many of them had no more oars than smaller ships; what they had were more rowers per oar than smaller ships. A Roman hexareme or Greek hexeres would have a couple of banks of oars with three men per oar, and appear to be an over-sized version of a smaller ship. Even so, thanks to being tremendously heavy and strongly constructed, they were slow moving, and hardly capable of the quick turns needed to take advantage of enemy mistakes. Instead the large ships made use of their wide decks and plentiful carrying capacities and became fighting platforms for infantry and artillery. Boarding or long-range bombardment were the methods to be used to defeat the enemy; naval warfare had come full circle in terms of fighting methods, even if ships had grown significantly.
(Veteran Legionaries)
After a Roman legionary had finished up to 25 years in the army, he could be asked back to join the 'evocati', the ranks of 'those who are called'. Usually affiliated to their old commander or re-enlisting at the bequest of a particular Consul in times of need, veterans were afforded great respect and honour because of their previous service. As examples to the common soldier, they were often immediately promoted to centurion and given a pay rise. Crucially, veterans were exempt from the mundane and laborious tasks of legionary life such as digging latrines, building roads or making camp. During the civil war all sides called on old soldiers to swell their ranks and provide much needed experience, Pompey persuading a large number of evocati to join him against Julius Caesar by promising them promotion and more money to return. The veteran 'Praetorians of the Evocati Augusti' were held in especially high regard.
Unit NameTower Hexareme - Veteran Legionaries
Main Unit KeyRom_Vet_Legionaries_Lft_Aft
Land Unit KeyRom_Vet_Legionaries
Naval Unit Keyroman_lft_six
CategoryHeavy Ship
ClassMelee Ship
Custom Battle Cost1390
Recruitment Cost1390
Upkeep Cost278
├ Missile Weaponrome_pilum_heavy
├ Projectilepilum_heavy
├ Missile Damage20
├ Missile Ap Damage10
└ Base Reload Time15
Shots Per Minute4
└ Shiproman_six
Ship Speed5
Melee Attack59
├ Melee Weaponrome_gladius_marian
├ Melee Damage Base30
├ Melee Damage Ap5
├ Armour PiercingNo
├ Bonus vs. Large0
├ Bonus vs Elephants0
└ Bonus vs Infantry0
Charge Bonus15
├ Base Defence23
├ Shieldscutum_marian
└ Shield Defence25
├ Armourmail_improved
├ Armour Defence45
└ Shield Armour40
├ Man Entityrome_infantry_very_heavy
├ Man Health45
└ Bonus Hit Points15
Base Morale65
AbilitiesTower Hexareme
- Row Hard 30
Increases speed for 30 strokes.
Ship speed
- Attacking Testudo
The troops of this unit raise their shields above their heads in a defensive formation.
Protection against missiles
Limited speed
- Disciplined
This unit does not suffer a morale penalty when the general dies. It can also rally after routing more often.
- Formation Attack
The unit will try to stay in formation when in melee.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Strengths & WeaknessesTower Hexareme
- Very good hull strength
- Heavy crew
- Slow speed
- Strong ramming
- Very good boarding
- Poor missile combat
- Very good attack
- Average defence
- Average damage but low armour penetration
- Good morale
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|Required Technology
|Required Technology Cost 150 Upgrade From
|Required Technology Cost 300 Upgrade To
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