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When AMD first released the AMD Radeon HD 6950 GPU in 2012 the reference design had 2GB of GDDR5 memory. AMD allows their Add-In-Board (AIB) partners to alter the amount of memory on the card if they want and that is exactly what MSI did on the R6950 Twin Frozr III 1G/OC graphics card that they sent us to review. By reducing the frame buffer on the card they are able to reduce the price and for those that don't need 2GB of memory it should be an interesting card to look at. The AMD Radeon HD 6950 GPU has 1408 stream processors, so you know it will be able to deliver the gaming performance that users demand. Since the AMD Radeon HD 6950 video card has been around for a year and a card we have reviewed multiple times in the past, we'll get right to it and take a look at the MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III 1G/OC.
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noted that the metal fan shroud extends past the PCB, so the true length of the card is ~10.7″ in length and the height of the card up to ~4.3″ in
One of the main features of the MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III 1G/OC is the Twin Frozr III Heatsink. The cooler has two 80mm 'propeller blade' PWM fans to help keep the GPU and surrounding areas nice and cool. The fan blades have air channels located along the the edge of the fan blades that help increase the surface area. MSI says that this adjustment increased airflow by 20% compared to conventional fan. The GPU cooler also has a large nickel-plated copper heatsink base and five 8mm heat pipes to help to dissipate heat rapidly away from the GPU.
Here is a slide that MSI provided on the Twin Frozr III cooling solution.
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or any of the GDDR5 memory chips on the back of the PCB. The serial number sticker is the most important thing that is located on the back of the R6950.
The MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III 1G/OC has a pair of mini-DisplayPort 1.2 connectors, a full size HDMI 1.4a output for 3D video (Blu-ray 3D) support, a dual-link DVI-I and a single-link DVI-I outputs. This AMD Radeon HD 6800/6900 series supports up to six DisplayPort displays by "daisy chaining" them to two DisplayPort outputs.
The Radeon HD 6950 has two CrossFire interconnects and you can link up to four of these cards together for improved performance. The last thing we want to point out in the picture above is that a PCB stiffening bracket (the silver bar on top) is included to help stiffen up the card and keep the PCB from bending due to the weight of the GPU cooler.
The MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III 1G/OC has a fan profile switch along the top edge of the card that allows you to change between performance or silence fan profiles. This is a nice touch and can easily be adjusted without having to install or mess with any software. Our card came set to the performance fan profile and we left it that way.
The MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III 1G/OC video card has the same power requirements and connections as the AMD Radeon HD 6950 reference design. This means that the card has two 6-pin PCIe connectors located along the top of the PCB that need to be hooked up. AMD says that the Radeon HD 6950 requires a 500W or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCIe connectors.
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Hi Friends-
Planning on purchasing a new Rem 870 that will be shipped out to either SGT, VangComp, or ROBAR for final touches.
Which would be the better "base gun" to begin modifying? Is the Rem 870 Police Magnum a strengthened version as compared to the Rem 870 Express? What's different, aside from visible things like the synthetic stocks vs. wood?
Seems you can obtain the Police Magnum with an 18" barrel. Conveniently, it wouldn't have to be cut and crowned afterwards.
There is a considerable price difference, a basic Express starts around $250 here in the Northeast. The parkerized Police Magnum w/extended magazine tube runs about $420.
What are some of your feelings on the "essential modifications" to the shotgun that would make it a truly complete and effective tool?
I'm pretty experienced with pistols, but this shotgun thing is a new game for me! Your input and suggestions will be sincerely, sincerely appreciated. Thanks.
|May 27, 1999, 09:43 PM
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Hi Everyone-
Did some research on the outside to help the decision along, I'm comfortable with the Police Magnum for a few different reasons. It will be sent out for hop-up work. Thanks.
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Hey blue jay,
What did you find out? I looked into this awhile ago and only found 2 differences:
1) that the mag tube was threaded which facilitated an extension and
2) that the reciever was heavy duty and would take magnum loads
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FWIW: I am not particularly a shotgun person but was an LEO trainer up to retirement and managed shotgun qualifications as well. Our guns were the 'police' model 870s. We experimented around somewhat, putting ghost rings on, orange high-vis followers, etc., but found that other mods were not particularly useful for us. I recently decided to get a personal 870 and do some similar mods. The 'police' models are harder to get now. The gun that I got (today) was the 870 Express Deer, factory order #5565. It has a dull matte finish (not parkerizing), 20" improved cyl. choke, rifle sights, and a 'hardwood' (birch?) stock with a monte carlo comb. It also has the flexi-tab lifter. I understand--but have not verified--that it will NOT take 'law enforcement accessories'. Having tried most of them I am keeping the gun very stock so don't care about that. About the only things I will change--incrementally--will be to fit up ghost ring sights, an orange follower, and shorten the 14" pull of the stock which is a bit long for me. I will consider a big head safety and a sling in future, and perhaps a 'side saddle' ammo carrier. I paid $280 total for the gun and think it is every bit as good as the police models we used. I may even like it a little better with the monte carlo as it may not hit my cheek as hard.
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Blue Jays-
I would really like to know what you found out. I'm thinking about doing the same thing and I'm not quite sure what to do.
|May 30, 1999, 07:22 PM
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I have a Remington 870 Express Magnum. I purchased the Combo set which included a 20" fully rifled slug barrel and the 26" smooth bore with removable Rem-choke. I later bought an 18.5" cylinder bore barrel. I think this selection of barrels make it very versital and multi-purpose. The only thing I found to restrict it accepting LEO accesories was that it has 2 endentations on the end of the magazine tube ( right under the barrel collar ) that would prevent the addition of a magazine tube extension. These are easily removed by pressing them out with a barrel dent remover or by simply drilling them out.
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I have a old Remington 870 express that I'm planning on sending off to SGT or Van COmp. I just do not know what all I want done yet. This will be ny first shotgun for somthing other than shooting birds for food. What all options should I look at?????
Any help will be mucho apprecieated!!!!
|May 31, 1999, 11:29 PM
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Hello Tallison & Olazul-
From what I've learned, Olazul is correct plus some other small details:
* Parkerized finish
* Synthetic stock is standard equipment
* 18" barrel. Scattergun Tech, Vang Comp, or ROBAR will all cut and crown any barrel for a reasonable charge, I'm sure.
Police version tends to be a bit more expensive, so it makes sense to keep an eye on the used market. Thanks everyone.
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|June 1, 1999, 12:26 PM
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I am no expert by any means but here is what I want to do when possible. See Roberts post, FWIW I think he is right on. The list is in order of my perception of importance.
1) ghost ring sites and barrel work from Vang. I figure this is the minimum enhancement. with the ghost rings you get faster target acquisition and better accuracy and with the barrel work the pattern will be as precise as possible.
2) a sling and big head safety
3) Mag tube extension, high visibility follower, and sidesaddle. Additional, easy to reach ammo is always nice.
Another option is to add the light. Ideally the light would be beneficial but more expensive. Since my "bump in the night" firearm is a beretta 92 with a handheld surefire light(ease of movement, opening doors, turning corners etc...), and I like the wood stock, this is not on my list. If you get the light you might as well get the speedfeed synthetic stock as well. Pistol grip will be a matter of preference.
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Hey everyone. I'm still new to python, and programming in general... I'm writing this bit of code that will ask for the user to input a 16 digit card number, and in return scramble the data in some manner... The scrambling isn't the part that is giving me trouble.
I'm using the list feature in python to create an empty list, then have the user input their credit card number, with each digit being a different element in the list. But I can't seem to make that happen. Whenever I then output the numbers, they appear as one long number in the list. I wanted so that each number is shifted individually Here's what I have so far.
#Credit Card Hash
Card_Number = list[] #Setting up the Card_Number variable as an empty list
i = (input( "Welcome. Please enter your 16 digit credit card number here: ")) #Sets the input from the user as i
Card_Number.append(i) # Adds the input from the user to the empty list of Card_Number
if i < 16 :
print ("Sorry, not enough digits provided. Please enter 16 digits")
else i >16:
print ("Sorry, too many digits provided. Please enter 16 digits.")
else i == 16:
print ("Thank you. Please hold...")
Now this is where I have trouble. How do I get the input to the list to be multiple items instead of just one 16 digit item on the list. For example, if they enter 1234567891234567 I want it to be entered into the list as [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,1,2,3,4,5,6,7] but when I run this, it becomes just [1234567891234567]. Any help is appreciated
If you see anything else wrong with the if statements let me know, I had some trouble with them as well. Sometimes the code never gets past the first if statement. Even if I enter a number that's over 16 digits. it still gives me the first if.


text: You know, most people make their first post in roll call, a forum that doesn't appear to support any type of reply. In a way, that is understandable. What I can't understand is the assignment of AP's just for saying hello. As an example, a group of soldiers just joined our community, and several are close to being banned just because of their nicknames. Sorry folks, but that is no way to treat people. I'm honestly beginning to think that the roll call forum has become a preferred method of 'balancing' APs, and I think that needs to change. We, as responsible members of this community, should have the patience to reserve our judgment of new members until they have made posts of substance and revealed their true motivations thru those posts. This is not a whine, but as another example...my own 'roll call' post got negged for being TOO POLITE! Thats a bunch of crap, and we all know it. If you guys want to neg me out of existence for saying this, then go right ahead...'cause if thats how things are here, I don't have any business being here anyway. We shouldn't slap people for saying hello or having a nick we don't like or understand....that borders on bigotry IMHO.


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Imagine that a couple of guys got together to dream up the least likely movie in the 21st century. It would be a silent film, in black and white, made in Hollywood by a French writer-director with two stars few Americans had heard of. Director Michel Hazanavicius may have had this conversation two years ago with his producer Thomas Langmann, thinking of a film about a silent-movie star, George Valentin. On Sunday night, their impossible dream reached fruition when their film The Artist conquered the 84th annual Academy Awards with five Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Score and Art Direction. "If George Valentin could speak," a giddy Jean Dujardin, the Best Actor winner, told the swells in the audience, "he'd say …" And here he shouted, "Merci! Formidable! Merci beaucoup! Thank you very much!"
In the most retro Oscar ceremony ever — a smooth show, with 63-year-old host Billy Crystal cracking jokes about his grandparents, the prostate medicine Flomax and the two 82-year-old stars (Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow) who were up for Best Supporting Actor — 10 of the 18 awards for which live-action feature films were eligible went to a pair of tributes to silent pictures. Matching The Artist's quintet were five statuettes for Hugo, Martin Scorsese's billet-doux to pioneer French magician-moviemaker George Méliès. Dominating the early evening with awards for Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects, Hugo tied The Aviator for the top Oscar haul of any Scorsese film. (The Departed, which won Best Picture and Director, earned just four.)
(PHOTOS: Oscars 2012: The Best and Worst Dressed)
Of the prizes left for old-fashioned talking pictures, only The Iron Lady won more than one award: for Makeup and, miracle of miracles, for Best Actress, given to Meryl Streep. Twenty-nine years and 14 nominations after her last Oscar, for Sophie's Choice, the Academy's most glamorous runner-up finally got to walk onstage a winner again. She provided the night's one big upset; Streep had been expected to lose to The Help's Viola Davis. Thrilled and flummoxed, she said with a laugh, "I really understand I'll never be up here again," before gazing into the audience and adding, "I see my life before my eyes — my old friends, my new friends." She recalled "the sheer joy we have shared making movies together." Her speech was among the show's emotional highlights. One of the others was Octavia Spencer's joyous, tearful acceptance of the Supporting Actress award for The Help, which triggered the evening's first standing ovation.
If Streep had a fellow wallflower at the Oscar prom, it would be Woody Allen, who cast Streep in one of her first films, Manhattan, and has been, like her, an Oscar nominee in five consecutive decades. Allen won two Academy Awards his first time out (for Annie Hall in 1978), but only one more among his 18 nominations until Sunday night, when his Midnight in Paris took Best Original Screenplay. (Averse to awards, or maybe just to acceptance speeches, Allen was AWOL from the proceedings.) The other writing Oscar, Best Adapted Screenplay, went to Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash for The Descendants, once the favorite for Best Picture and Best Actor (George Clooney).
(PHOTOS: The Year's Great Performances)
Often boasting that its show is seen by a billion people around the world, the Academy made this one of its most international shows yet, favoring winners from New Zealand (Bret McKenzie, composer of Best Song "Man or Muppet," for The Muppets), Ireland (Terry George for Best Live-Action Short The Shore), Italy (the husband-and-wife art-director duo of Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo for Hugo) and Canada (Plummer). The dapper octogenarian, who won for his role as a dying gay father in Beginners, held the statuette and purred, "You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?"
The Best Foreign Language Film award went to the Iranian drama A Separation, whose director, Asghar Farhadi, made a plea for peace between the citizens, if not the politicians, of his nation and the U.S. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, co-winner of Best Documentary Short, for Saving Face, about Pakistani women seeking plastic surgery after acid attacks, dedicated her prize to "all the women in Pakistan working for change. Don't give up on your dreams." The biggest international star — zillion-CD-selling Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman — was just offstage, playing in the Oscar superband fronted by Hans Zimmer.
Sony Pictures Classics has the American distribution rights to A Separation, but the indie-studio champ on Sunday night was the Weinstein Co.'s Grand Poobah, Harvey Weinstein. A Svengali of Oscar campaigning, Weinstein had last year's Best Picture and Actor (The King's Speech and its star Colin Firth), then trumped that with a clean sweep of this year's juiciest awards: Best Picture, Director and Actor for The Artist and Best Actress for The Iron Lady (and just because he could, Best Documentary Feature, the unabashedly inspirational high school–football movie Undefeated). Harvey godfathered so many Oscars on Sunday that he probably won't kill The Iron Lady makeup men who forgot to mention him in their acceptance speeches. Other neglected thank-yous: McKenzie to Muppets star, co-writer and balladeer Jason Segel, whose hopeful face the camera kept cutting to; and Ludovic Bourse, Best Original Score winner for The Artist, to the late composer Bernard Herrmann. (Bourse liberally swiped from Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.)
(VIDEO: Biggest Oscar Snubs)
Then again, the team that made The Artist must be blurry from this dream it has lived. Beginning with the film's world premiere at last May's Cannes Film Festival, where Dujardin also took a Best Actor award, The Artist's success grew and then exploded, and what was once chimerical became inevitable. Three months of accolades, from its first Best Picture selection by the New York Film Critics Circle on Nov. 29 through the Golden Globes and the U.K. BAFTAs, reached their apogee with this weekend's unprecedented trifecta: the French Césars on Friday, the U.S. Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday and Sunday night's Oscars. When the film's creators — along with Uggie, the scene-stealing Jack Russell terrier — stepped onstage to accept the final award, it was the realization of a fantasy that couldn't be more formidable.
List of 84th Academy Award winners:
Best Picture: The Artist
Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help
Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Foreign Language Film: A Separation, Iran
Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants
Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Animated Feature Film: Rango
Art Direction: Hugo
Cinematography: Hugo
Sound Mixing: Hugo
Sound Editing: Hugo
Original Score: The Artist
Original Song: "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets
Costume Design: The Artist
Documentary Feature: Undefeated
Documentary Short: Saving Face
Film Editing: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Makeup: The Iron Lady
Animated Short Film: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Live-Action Short Film: The Shore
Visual Effects: Hugo
Oscar winners previously presented this season:
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Oprah Winfrey
Honorary Award: James Earl Jones
Honorary Award: Dick Smith
Gordon E. Sawyer Award: Douglas Trumbull
Award of Merit: ARRI cameras
MORE: Pixar's Girl Story
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This is a busy time for all of us in the garden. Not only are weeds up, some of them are already blooming. I try real hard to keep weeds from spreading their seeds in my garden beds, so I am doing my best to pull them now before they bloom and make seeds. And there is so much else to do I'm not sure if I have time to write this column!
Apple and crabapple trees are blooming everywhere, which draws my eyes to them. I can't help but notice that so many need a little late pruning. What I keep seeing are root sprouts coming up alongside the trunk of these lovely trees, which is a distraction. And it only takes 5 minutes with a pair of loppers or a hand saw to remove those shoots.
While you're at it, you may wish to take off any little branches that are sprouting from the main trunk below the first scaffold branches (those larger branches that reach out and up, and that have all those blossoms on them). A nice clean trunk is much better than one cluttered with unwanted sprouts.
Then there is the vegetable garden. I know we will still have frost here in Cornish Flat, so all those tomatoes and peppers and squash that I have started by seed inside need to stay in their pots. What I can do now, however, is" harden off" those seedlings. Hardening off is the process of getting seedlings ready for life outdoors.
Each nice day I should (but don't always) carry all 12 trays of seedlings outdoors so my plants can work on their tan. That's right, seedlings are like us — they need to start with just a little sunshine and breeze each day. Two hours of morning sun is good for a start, then 4 hours, then 2 hours of afternoon sun, and so on, increasing exposure until their leaves won't burn or dry out even if they're in the sun all day. If you buy seedlings it's good to give them time to get used to the outdoors, too. Greenhouses do shelter seedlings considerably.
Right now I have thousands of forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica) blooming everywhere: in garden beds, in the lawn, in the vegetable garden. Even on the banks of my little stream (they love water). If you don't have this fabulous, exuberant flower, you should. I wish I could give every reader a clump, but I bet one of your neighbors will share some with you, as most everyone has it. I rarely see them for sale at nurseries, but a few of the better ones do. Many flower books say they are biennials, but I'm not sure that's true. Biennials only bloom in their second year, and then die. I have so many, it's hard to know if they are re-seeding or coming back from their roots. So they may be perennials.
While weeding a patch of daffodils recently, I decided to take advantage of the fact that I had thoroughly loosened the soil surface. I spread my favorite organic fertilizer, Pro-Gro, over the soil surface and scratched it in with my favorite weeder, the CobraHead. I had notice that those daffies were not flowering as previous years and decided to give the soil some extra nutrition and get rid of the weeds that were competing with them. Next spring I should have better blossoms.
Some gardeners like to divide big clumps of daffodils, though I generally don't get around to it. The problem is that by fall I don't know where those big clumps that need dividing are. The solution? Make some markers now and stick them in the soil. That works for marking places that need more bulbs, too.
It's past time to rake off that leaf mulch or straw if you covered your vegetable garden with mulch last fall. I just raked mulch off my beds and into the walkways last week. By exposing the soil to the sun I do 2 things: I let the soil warm up and dry out more quickly, and I encourage weed seeds to germinate. I want the weeds to germinate before I plant so that I can hoe them over or pull them out, killing them before I plant. I also have a flame weeder which will burn off dozens of small annual weeds with a single, quick pass. (Available at Johnny's Seeds or Fedco Seeds). But it does use propane, so is not as eco-friendly as hoeing.
Traditional gardeners grow their carrots, corn and cauliflower in narrow rows on flat ground. I don't. I have mounded up beds that are 3 feet wide and 6 to 8 inches higher than the walkways. Wide beds produce more planting space in a garden when compared to those with narrow rows because there are fewer walkways. The wide, higher beds allow roots to spread wider and deeper than in traditional beds, and dogs and kids tend to stay out of them.
But if you have a sunny, warm weekend, don't spend all day pulling weeds or working. Take time to sit and enjoy your flowers — and the butterflies, kids and dogs that love the garden, too.
Henry's Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com. It now has a search engine for finding any past columns you might have missed.
There's so much to do in your spring garden
This is a busy time for all of us in the garden. Not only are weeds up, some of them are already blooming. I try real hard to keep weeds from spreading their seeds in my garden beds, so I am doing my best to pull them now before they bloom and make seeds. And there is so much else to do I'm not sure if I have time to write this column!


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Phew, 7pm and I'm exhausted. Here's a summary of my activities today:
The twins – yes, I said twins, look good. I'm not quite as far along (only by a couple of days) as I would have thought, and this is an agonizing alteration to my pregnancy "schedule." What I mean is that as a loss momma, that last thing I want to be doing is backing up in time… adding MORE time into the 1st trimester.
Both babies are measuring about the same size. Both babies' heartbeats were easily detected and measured right around 130 which is good for 6 weeks 4 days or so. We were so thankful to see those sweet flickers again.
My husband and I found out definitively about the twins about a week ago. A nurse at the RE's office recommended a scan because my HCG numbers doubled too quickly. At about 5-1/2 or 6 weeks we were able to see two sacs and even visualize the heartbeats for both babies. I call them my little flickers.
Health Reform: I was thrilled to have been invited to attend a local health reform meeting to represent consumer concerns. I introduced myself as an University professor and a professional opera singer which of course got a couple of laughs. Then, I continued by saying that I'm a consumer advocate and come to this gathering as a woman with a scarred uterus. The main concerns I articulated as a cesarean mom were:
- A high local cesarean rate (around 31%); a low VBAC rate (about 1%) at the hospital
- A lack of support for the local birth center
- Decrease in numbers of CNMs locally
- Insurance and health care costs
- Insurance company driven health "care"
Additionally, it alarms me that even with my supposed "good" health coverage, I am struggling to pay last year's medical bills. The bills are overwhelming, so they pile up, and my credit score is suffering as well.
Arts Advocacy: I am one of the educations outreach directors for a new opera company. We had a meeting today to help prepare for the next board meeting and our upcoming educational outreach program.
I even managed to mop the floors. I'd say it was a pretty darned productive day.


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Suzan E. Jaffe, PhD
If someone comes into my office and tells me that they suspect their partner has a sleep disorder, the first thing I do is ask when they first noticed the partner's sleep symptoms. I like to know if the partner has shown symptoms for a long time or if the person is only noticing the issue now. Why? Because sometimes I find that people who realize their partner has a sleep disorder after years of living together could be dealing with sleep issues of his or her own.
Take for an example, a married couple with a husband who snores. If the wife goes through a bout of insomnia – she may suddenly take notice of the snoring because she can't sleep.
Usually, bed partners get into a comfortable routine – they may even get used to sleeping with a snoring partner. Each partner has to take into consideration if there has been a change in the norm. If you've been together for years and all the sudden you have a problem – it may be treated differently from a new couple that has never been able to adjust to a sleep issue.
Out of respect, if the problem is causing your partner to sleep in another room or get injured (bed partners who kick or move a lot when sleeping) – you should see a sleep doctor. Snoring shouldn't be ignored – especially if it is loud with frequent pauses in breathing.
There are some couples that choose to have separate bedrooms. It works for some people, happily. They may go to one bedroom to watch TV, read or have sex and then go to sleep in their respective bedrooms.
You could also try to train a person to sleep on their side or stomach, which may help prevent snoring. You can prop pillows in a position so the snorer is on his or her side or stomach and can't flip onto


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Terrell Owens was at the AXE Fix party on Saturday night for the Sundance Film Festival, and he appropriated one of the feathery red masks that was lying around, because… well, because he's Terrell Owens, and he might not have gotten enough attention otherwise.
I spoke to T.O. at the party (my full report from Sundance is here). I'm hesitant to admit that, because I had been slamming whiskey and Cokes for a couple hours before I was introduced by a PR rep who wrangled me past T.O.'s mountain of a body guard. I wasn't exactly what you might call "prepared to conduct an interview." But Owens assured me that he would be back with the Cowboys "for sure" next year. (Because players have all the say in the NFL, and no one ever gets cut for cap concerns. I ask great questions.) And Wade Phillips? "Oh he's cool, he's cool."
Yeah… great story, Uff. Anyway, it was after that that he put on the mask and got on the dance floor. And air-humped his body guard, who just stood there stoically. I tend to have that effect on people.


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Pistorius cancels all future races
Oscar Pistorius' management company have withdrawn the Paralympian from all engagements up until May as he faces a charge of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The 26-year-old was contracted to race in Australia, Brazil, United States and the Manchester City Games in May.
Last week, Pistorius was charged with the premeditated murder of Steenkamp and he will return to court on Tuesday for a bail hearing.
Pistorius intends to dispute the charge of murder "in the strongest terms" and his family and management company say he now has only one focus.
"I have decided that following these tragic events that we have no option but to cancel all future races that Oscar Pistorius had been contracted to compete in to allow Oscar to concentrate on the upcoming legal proceedings," Pistorius's manager Peet van Zyl said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, a friend of Pistorius told Beeld newspaper that the athlete nearly shot him in the foot at a Johannesburg restaurant.
Kevin Lerena, a mutual friend of Pistorius and Steenkamp, said he had been dining with the couple and other friends when the gun went off by mistake.
"I must emphasise that the gun belonged to one of Pistorius' friends. Oscar just wanted to look at the gun, and it sort of snagged on his pants, releasing the safety catch," Lerena told Beeld. "A shot went off. I wouldn't call him negligent, it was just an accident.
"He apologised to me for days afterwards. I got a huge fright, because the bullet hit the ground just centimetres from my foot ... but it really was just a freak accident."


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Using Microsoft Document Connection on a Mac
Microsoft released Service Pack 2 to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac earlier this week. Once you have installed Service Pack 2 you may notice the new Open from Document Connection File menu item for office applications, or you may notice the new application called Microsoft Document Connection located in your /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008 folder. These are all part of Microsoft's overall Software+Services strategy: provide a cloud type of environment that is able to sustain the software that you purchase from them. In this case it could be a private document storage "cloud" running on a SharePoint server or it could be a more public environment running in the Office Live environment. We'll cover SharePoint integration some other time, but for now, let's look at the Live environment. Before you setup your computer, first login to your Microsoft Live account at home.live.com. Once you are signed in, click on the More menu and click on Office Live. If you see a button for Get Started for Free, click it; otherwise you should be looking at a screen with an icon in the left column for New Workspace. Click it and then type something that indicates a project or a group of documents you might upload. For example, I'll just type Mac OS X Security 2nd Edition. Now that you have a workspace, open up the Microsoft Document Connection application in your Office directory. From here, click on Add Location… and then click on Sign In to an Office Live Workspace… At the dialog box, enter the name and password you use to log into Microsoft Live, clicking Save when you're done. Now you should see the name of your live account in the Document Connection screen, along with any workspaces you've created. You can drag documents into this screen, double-click them to open or control-click them to edit (and you can edit from non-Microsoft applications). At this point you have something similar to Jungle Disk or another application you use to access a cloud service from a Mac. But Document Connection isn't just about one user accessing documents. It supports sharing documents between users, commenting on documents and even document check-in and check-out. The portal is where you setup most of the Sharing: use the share button, type the address of who you want to share to, they can then access via the portal or using Document Connection with their own account. Commenting is also available in the portal, much as with a solution like Final Cut Server. Document check-in and check-out seems to require SharePoint and not be a feature of Office Live, but I'll let you know if I can find a way to do it. Overall, this is a great addition. Some other products are more mature, but as usual, Microsoft has taken the best from a number of competitors and made an extremely simple to use and intuitive sandbox. The uploads and downloads fail at times. The portal relies on constant communication from Silverlight so sometimes it throws an error. But those are minor issues. This is a great new product that I look forward to integrating into a number of environments. I'll get to the SharePoint side in the next few days and do a write-up on it as well!


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Editor's note: For all each of us remembers about the day we now mark as 9/11, we have forgotten one thing: The utter shock of surprise. Disbelief has dissipated like dusty explosive smoke. Ever since those four moments of impact, we have had knowledge instead of innocence. We are like Adam and Eve driven from the garden.
Ten years after, the words I wrote on the morning of September 12, 2001, are the closest I can come to before. I offer them to you to read and remember.
Like all else each of us will do in the future stretching before us into infinity, this paper comes to you under the long shadow of the World Trade Center towers.
Like you, we entered September 11, 2001, enchanted by Chesapeake Country's autumnal sweetness, pleasantly preoccupied with vacations enjoyed and warm weekends to come, with feasts and fests, with births and babies, with the promise of the new school year, the contest of Annapolis' mayoral primary, the treats coming with a new season of community theater.
Before the making of Vol. IX, No. 37 of Bay Weekly could drive those preoccupations from our minds, we were hearing the numbing news.
Like you, we listened to a story whose tension was wrought as artfully to highwire the nerves as the fiction of Edgar Allen Poe, rising, ever rising, from bad to worse:
The unimaginable news of a jet plane hitting a tower of the World Trade Center ... inconceivably duplicated by a second strike — captured live on television and now burned into the memories of all the world ... bodies flung from 100 stories high ... a third hit, this time so close to home in the Pentagon ... the fall of the first Trade tower in a mushroom cloud of concrete dust ... followed, as if we had not seen it well enough, by the collapse of the second ... and then, filling us now and forever with wild surmise, the crash of a fourth hijacked jetliner into the Pennsylvania countryside ...
It will take a laureate poet to find words for all that was done and felt and seen.
Then the nerve-wringing drama of the news settled into the heart as we felt its human cost.
Like yours, our hearts cracked with each new image and imagining. Like yours, the toll on the firefighters — more than half of the original force of 400 dead — and police broke our hearts. Like you, we wept for the lost heroes who had come not by chance but by choice to explosive, billowing death. Like you, we blessed the doctors and nurses, the stretcher-bearers and the techs who laid their hands on the broken bodies. Like you, we felt helpless and benumbed.
In Chesapeake Country, the morning of September 12, 2001, dawned no less beautifully, though like you, we woke to a hangover of grief and the quick certainty that this was not a dream. An old moon climbed the blue sky alone. For the first time in many a lifetime, no airplanes shared that sky. Not a boat traced its way across the Bay. For a quiet moment, we savored the peace of isolation.
Then we remembered that, for good and ill, isolation is an illusion.
Our world changed yesterday. Like you, we'll be a long time plumbing the depths of this change.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – With 34 seconds remaining in regulation, sophomore Rebecca Smith (Verona, N.J.) knocked in a feed from junior Jane Dietrich (West Hartford, Conn.) to give visiting Gordon College a 12-11 victory over MIT in a non-conference women's lacrosse game on Tuesday night. Both Smith and Dietrich finished with two goals and two assists for the Fighting Scots (1-0) while seniors Laura Wacker (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.) earned hat-tricks for the Engineers (0-2).
Wright opened the scoring after 28 seconds elapsed but Gordon responded with four unanswered goals during the next four minutes. MIT countered with sophomore Emma Kane (Garden City, N.Y.) finding Wacker for a pair of goals which sandwiched a free-position strike from freshman Kristyn Berretta (San Diego, Calif.) to even the score at four with 12:05 left in the half. Junior Anna Blomberg (Simsbury, Conn.) generated back-to-back goals three minutes apart to give the Fighting Scots a 6-4 edge at the intermission.
Freshman Jessica Castelline (Concord, Mass.) was a factor in all three of Gordon's goals during the early stages of the second stanza. She found classmate Bailey Grinnell (South Hamilton, Mass.) for a pair of strikes before scoring one of her own to establish a 9-5 advantage at the 26:12 mark. In a span of three minutes the Engineers cut their deficit in half courtesy of a free-position blast by Kane and a goal from freshman Nadia Wallace (Rochester, N.Y.). The Fighting Scots gained some breathing room when Dietrich and Castelline found the back of the net 32 seconds apart to make the score 11-7 with 17:27 on the clock.
MIT slowly chipped away at the deficit as it eventually knotted the game at 11 with 2:08 left to play. Wright began the rally with a solo effort which was quickly matched by Wacker at the midway point of the frame. Less than a minute later Wright brought the Engineers within one but the game became a defensive battle down the stretch. MIT freshman Isabella DiDio (Jenkintown, Pa.) ended the stalemate by converting a free-position shot for the equalizer.
Blomberg picked up the ensuing draw control which later led to Smith's game-winning effort. On the next draw, Blomberg once again came away with the ball but the Engineers pushed her back into Gordon's defensive zone. The Engineers forced a turnover and made a charge at the net but they lost control of the ball in the arc. Graduate-student Krysti Leach (Naples, Maine) scooped up the loose ball along the near sideline during the final seconds to secure the victory.
Kane finished with one goal and two assists while DiDio posted one goal, one assist, and three groundballs. Berretta also collected three groundballs as freshman Kira Schott (New Canaan, Conn.) tacked on a goal for the Cardinal and Gray. Wright earned three caused turnovers while Wacker and Wallace notched two draw controls apiece. In net, freshman Paige Kennedy (Eastchester, N.Y.) generated six saves.
Blomberg tallied three goals, one assist, six draw controls, and four groundballs for the Fighting Scots. Castelline recorded two goals, two assists, and three groundballs as junior Stephanie Fitzgerald (Groveland, Mass.) compiled one goal, one assist, six draw controls, and four groundballs. Senior Alana Woods (Medford, Mass.) turned away two shots in the first half and earned the win in net while sophomore Julianne Kirkpatrick (Rochester, N.Y.) finished the night with three saves.
Next up for MIT will be a home game against Lasell College on Thursday, March 14 while Gordon continues its roadtrip on Thursday, March 7 at Simmons College.


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Golden Meadow residents' sewerage bills have more than doubled after an audit showed the town was losing money providing the service.
Golden Meadow residents' sewerage bills have more than doubled after an audit showed the town was losing money providing the service.
An audit report by the accounting firm Bourgeois Bennett was posted Monday to the Legislative Auditor's Office's website.The report shows the town has operating losses of about $85,000 in its sewerage fund over the past year.
The shortfall is caused from an increase in maintenance system after several breakdowns and an increased number of residents not paying their sewerage bills, Golden Meadow Mayor Joey Bouziga said.
"We weren't charging enough to cover the amount we were spending on our sewers," Bouziga said.
The losses have been gradually building up since 1984 but have been worsened by the breakdowns, he said.
The audit recommends raising the sewerage rate and stepping up actions to collect unpaid bills.
Bouziga said he agreed with the original audit. So he and fellow Town Council members increased the sewerage fee in April from $7.50 per month to $16 per month.
"That should help us sustain the expansion of our sewers," Bouziga said.
And the sewerage fund should now be self-sustaining instead of forcing the town to cover its losses with money from other accounts, he added.
He said the town is also making arrangements get tougher at collecting unpaid bills.
"We didn't have any leverage at all," Bouziga said. "There was no way to force them unless we brought them to court. But by the time we did that we were would be losing more money than what we would get."
The town's administration asked Lafourche Waterworks District No. 1 to begin billing and collecting sewerage on monthly water bills.
Once that happens, the town can cut off a resident's water service if he doesn't pay his sewerage bill.
"If you don't pay your Entergy bill, they come and turn your meter off," Bouziga said. "With sewerage, we had no way to put a stop to it."
The change will cost each sewerage customer $102 a year.
Some residents said they don't like having to pay for other people's wrongdoing.
"That's awful to always make the good people pay for the bad. Just cut their water off, and find a better solution," Chelsie Orgeron said.


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Smart Grid Standard 201P status check
To establish a common basis for electrical energy providers and consumers to manage and communicate about electrical energy consumption and forecasts, ASHRAE and the National Electrical Manufacturers Assn. (NEMA) are jointly sponsoring Standard 201P: Facility Smart Grid Information Model. The model will facilitate integration of objects and actions within the electrical infrastructure, such as on-site generation, demand response, load control, load shedding, submetering, load prediction, and energy storage. Ultimately, Standard 201P will promote the effectiveness of smart facilities, supporting optimal functionality of a national Smart Grid. The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, a private/public partnership originally established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is acting in an advisory role in the development of the standard.
A first draft of the standard was released by ASHRAE Standard Project Committee (SPC) 201 for an advisory public review in August 2012 to obtain informal feedback on the committee's initial work, drawing 70 comments. Since then, SPC 201 has been meeting on a monthly basis to incorporate the feedback and further develop the standard. This group of technical experts comprises individuals with backgrounds that include design and manufacturing of electrical distribution components, appliance manufacturing, utility generation and transmission, and instrumentation and controls.
While a significant amount of development of renewable energy sources, efficient end-use appliances, and other Smart Grid components (e.g., submetering) has been completed, a common communication model tying it all together is necessary for the success of the Smart Grid. This model must allow for the reliable, secure, and accurate information exchange between these technologies and the control systems of utilities and other electrical service providers. An understanding of sources and loads and how they interact is critical to fostering communications between them.
The most common types of building loads, of course, include lighting and HVAC. Yet in today's world of emerging energy sources and loads encompassing wind, solar, and electrical vehicles, the landscape of the energy grid and the very concept and framework of the Smart Grid continue to evolve. Many of these new loads actually represent both a sink and a source of electrical energy. This presents both demand control issues and safety issues for the operation of the electrical grid in terms of what the industry is accustomed to, where power flow has typically been a one-way street. Thus is the need for further standardization of measurement and control, and the basis of the ongoing work of SPC 201.
User education
To respond fully and most effectively to the need for more sophisticated demand and supply monitoring and control, certain aspects of electrical energy management must be addressed. Increased monitoring and reporting of actual demands and behaviors of the end users, as well as further educating the end users on the amount and pattern of their electrical usage, is essential. Without this knowledge, electrical energy suppliers delivering to the grid are challenged to meet demand or adjust to greater fluctuations in demand due to optimized facility operations or the variable nature of many of the distributed renewable energy sources being interconnected.
With a more sophisticated Smart Grid, concurrent data across users and generators will allow for additional demand control, adjustment, or curtailment, with the goal of changing behaviors of the end consumer. If users are better informed of the impact and cost of using energy during a peak time, they will be more inclined to adjust the time when they run a given appliance or charge such devices as portable electronics or electric vehicles. Indeed, Standard 201P envisions driving appliances or devices themselves to be capable of making load control decisions of this type automatically, given an appropriate information model.
Energy storage is another area of ongoing development directly related to the fluctuations in demand and available renewable energy sources. With many renewable energy sources being uncontrollable from a timing and supply capacity standpoint, it is necessary to further develop storage technologies, whether large-scale batteries, hydrogen storage, or other phase changing storage mediums that can be engaged using necessary information to automatically take energy during peak production periods and store it for use during periods of peak demand.
For example, it is common for peak wind generation times to not be aligned with peak consumption. A reliable grid must be carefully monitored and have the ability to adjust to an increasing and variable supply and demand to allow for these energy sources to be viable.
Information exchange
The extent of the Smart Grid and Standard 201P encompasses all facility types—including residential, commercial, and industrial facilities—as well as traditional and renewable energy sources. While each of these facilities and sources is unique and contains loads or equipment that others might not, the ongoing goal of the standard is to develop common blocks and management actions within a communication model that will allow facilities to share information with each other via the Smart Grid. This information sharing will allow for control and management of demand and supply in the ever-changing electrical grid discussed above. All of these sources, loads, and storage technologies have control systems of their own, some propriety and others utilizing more open protocols, such as BACnet. While the intent of the Smart Grid Information Models is not to force any one supplier into a specific protocol, it strives to develop standard objects and information packets that can be spoken universally across the Smart Grid and its varying components and facility types. Many existing protocols have blocks within them that incorporate nicely into the concept of the Facility Smart Grid Information Model.
For those who design and specify systems for construction of facilities and energy systems, this model lays the groundwork for better monitoring energy performance and for easier control and grid integration of a given facility with itself, with the neighboring consumer, and with the neighboring distributed energy source or the remote energy producer on the grid. With improved communication among these, the generation and consumption of the energy can be reliable, safe, economical, better forecasted, and adjusted. To do this, continued development of products and control systems will be necessary and project specifications will need to be enhanced to include these technologies. By doing so, facilities and the Smart Grid can be aligned with example case studies being included in the Standard 201P model currently being developed.
Future goals
A specific date for the first full public review of Standard 201P has not been set, but it is anticipated to be available early in 2014. The public review will be announced in the ANSI and ASHRAE Standards Actions where followers can be informed of the most up-to-date status of drafts up for comment. Subscribe to a Listserv to follow a specific committee's work, learn of upcoming committee meetings, or review updated errata and interpretations of current standards.
Engineers and building professionals are encouraged to continue following the development of the Facility Smart Grid Information Model and contribute to its further development and goal of creating smart facilities supporting a national Smart Grid. Participation in meeting discussions is invited. Meeting announcements can be found in weekly updates to ASHRAE Standards Actions. Sharing a fundamental bond as consumers of electrical energy, we all have a stake in the future of our electrical infrastructure.
Kevin Krause is a principal at Affiliated Engineers Inc. With expertise in electrical systems for the energy and utilities and industrial test markets, he was the project manager and designer of the Research Electrical Distribution Bus at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Further reading:
- SGIP. 2012. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel PAP17 Review of SPC201P. Presentation made at SGIP Winter Meeting in Irving, TX, Dec. 3-6.
- Burns, Marty. SGIP. 2012. PAP17 Quick View. Presentation made to Business and Policy Domain Expert Working Group at SGIP Spring Meeting in Charlotte, NC, March 20-22.
- ASHRAE Standard Project Committee 201 (SPC 201) Facility Smart Grid Information Model Project Committee Site.
- NIST. ASHRAE SPC 201P Information Page.


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Katy Perry: Markus Molinari Birthday Party! (Exclusive)
Katy Perry has a grand ol' time at the birthday party of her best friend, jewelry designer Markus Molinari on Friday (May 18) held at SHOREbar in Santa Monica, Calif.
The 27-year-old entertainer attended the party hosted by the bar's owner John Terzian.
"Happy 23RD BDAY to my bestest most chicest friend @MDMOLINARI You're EVERYTHING" Katy tweeted to her bestie!
Also in attendance and pictured below: Katy's stylist Johnny Wujek, musician David Hudson (Katy's brother), radio personality Karli Henriquez, and actors Chord Overstreet, Shannon Woodward, Adrian Bellani, Skyler Shaye and James Van Der Beek with wife Kimberly. Check out the JustJared.com exclusive pics below!
FYI: SHOREbar, which was designed by Roetta Getty, is located on Channel Road between the Hungry Cat and Giorgio Baldi in the former Hideout bar space. The cocktail list was created by mixologist Vincenzo Marianella of the extremed craft cocktail haven Copa D'Oro.
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I'll soon be leaving the harbor for the winter, returning to Hendersonville. As I write this, the snow is falling. It's clearly time to leave, but as much as I love Hendersonville – and I do – I hesitate to leave this magical place.
I'll soon be leaving the harbor for the winter, returning to Hendersonville. As I write this, the snow is falling. It's clearly time to leave, but as much as I love Hendersonville – and I do – I hesitate to leave this magical place. I've often tried to pinpoint what makes the Arnes harbor and my fish plant and little house so very special.
My friend Danny told me the other day that the three weeks that he works for me in the fall, for free by the way, is the three weeks of the year that he has no unhappiness.
I think it's the water.
In 1949 two men built a fish plant here, drilling a well for water. Water is used for drinking, but also for cleanup in the plant. Dressing fish makes a mess.
The artesian well they dug has been flowing ever since, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 12 months of the year for more than 60 years. In the winter, a mountain of ice is formed, yet it continues to flow from a hundred feet below the surface of the ground. I've been told the water flows underground in this direction from the west for a hundred miles.
People come from up to 60 miles away to get this water. Some say they use it for their coffee, others for soup, making bread, or just to drink. "Best water ever," I've heard them say. "You should bottle it." I've thought of it.
I've never restricted access, though at times people are rude. Nor do I plan to, unless the well becomes contaminated. I pray that doesn't happen.
The cast of characters that visit this place ranges from vagabonds to politicians to scientists to ... you name it. I have one rule here, only one. Bring no trouble here. If you have an issue with someone else who is here, leave it at home.
"We love everyone here at Arnes," I have explained many times.
We use the water for everything. We wash up the plant, it comes out of our tap in the kitchen and we cook with it. We wash our clothes with it. We drink it. We shower with it – this magical water cascades over our bodies as we wash ourselves.
Arnes is a magical and unique place, and I've been lucky enough to own my operation here for 18 years. I was certainly lucky to get it, but I think it was karma.
Eighteen years ago, our neighbor in Gimli, Sylvia, approached me and asked me to give her son Justin a job. He was 16 years old and having trouble in school. The concerned look in her eyes precluded me saying no, so I hired him. My friend Ryan and I were fishing together back then (he has his own operation now) and we quickly grew fond of the lad. He was a sassy smart-mouthed boy with a great sense of humor. We loved the kid, and spent many a fun day fishing with him.
I still remember one pitch black morning. I was impatient when we went to pick up Ryan because he wasn't ready yet.
"Yeah, hurry up, Ryan, we're burning night," Justin said. The kid was funny.
At the time, I was using another fisherman's shed. I had no money to build my own. I can't speak for his motives in doing so, but one day this other fisherman was hugely disrespectful to our protege and I called him on it.
"You're being an (expletive deleted)."
He kicked me out of his shed, and I had no place to pack my fish. I looked frantically around for a new place to do my work and found Arnes. It was for sale for what is now a laughable price, but I had no money. There was a government program available to get funds, but it would take a month. The owner of this magical place where I now sit typing this agreed to sell it to me, getting the money in a month. Then someone else came along with cash, and he reneged on our initial agreement and said he wanted the money in three days.
Lost, I went to a banker friend of mine.
Two years before, he had refused to give me a loan, and at the time I wanted to leap over the desk and throttle him. I didn't. I did what I call my "Jean Luc Picard." In the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the captain of the starship Enterprise would let no personal insults or feelings deter him from his goal. Leaping over the desk would accomplish nothing positive, so I didn't. In the years following, the banker and I became friends.
Needing money yet again (will it ever end?), I went back to his office.
"I'll tell you what I'll do," he said, "I'll give you an overdraft to cover the money you need. It's way beyond my limit to do it, so don't tell anyone. I'd lose my job. And that money better be there in a month or I'm screwed."
I would not be here if I had throttled him. I would not be here if the fisherman had not disrespected the troubled kid years ago. But mostly, I think, I would not be here if I had not seen that look in Sylvia's eyes, and recognized it for what it was. It was in my power, what little I had, to help her, and I was rewarded, through a series of events, with my little slice of heaven with the magical water. I could not possibly have seen the outcome of giving the kid a job.
Years ago, we took our kids out to an island for one of their birthdays. I had planted "treasure" in three locations and made maps out of paper bags, burning the edges to make them look like authentic treasure maps.
In one of the locations were four pendants resembling silver with a simple word on them. Love, hope, prosperity, luck. The deal was they would share the treasure amongst them. One of the kids at the party, from a very troubled home, turned to me and asked, "Hey Bruce, can I have hope."
"Of course you can," I replied, thinking of how much the poor boy would need it in his life.
Perhaps that's what we gave Justin, a young man having problems in school who found acceptance with two grown men who accepted him as he was, and loved him for being him. Hope, that runs 24/7 from a hundred feet deep, coming from a hundred miles away. Who knows? It cost us nothing.
I'm looking forward to getting back to Hooterville, as Stephen Black called it. Another wonderful place to live. I'll miss the water here, but it will continue to flow until I return in the spring. It's eternal.
Bruce Benson is a Canadian writer and journalist who makes his home in Hendersonville. Reach him at email@example.com.


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March 29, 2006
Meet the "Boomerang Generation" — Children who go to college and then move back in with their parents after leaving the nest, sometimes multiple times. Dr. Phil shares advice for parents and their adult children who want to end this cycle.
Hidden Camera Experiment on the Audience
Before the show, audience members had the opportunity to take a freebie from a table set up backstage. A sign said Please Just Take ONE, but some audience members gave into temptation and helped themselves to more than a single giveaway. One woman caught on tape laughs and covers her face in embarrassment as Dr. Phil rolls the video.
Moocher Madness
Shair and Byron are facing eviction because three of their adult children — along with their families and pets — have moved back home. With a crowd of 13 under one roof, they say they are willing to do anything to get their children out of the house.
Dr. Phil's surprise for the family.
Freeloader for Life?
Kirsten, 36, has a great education, but has depended on her family to take care of her for the last 18 years, and she's still living at home with her parents.


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Kevin Duffy: Will NCAA resolve Facey's unique eligibility case fairly and rationally?
Early last summer, when Kentan Facey's recruitment began to take flight, he mapped out his path to the United States.
"In Jamaica," Facey said, "it's extremely hard to come out and go to college (without going to America)."
Facey grew up in Trelawny, where hoops take a backseat to track, soccer and cricket. Even with his wiry 6-foot-9 frame, he didn't pick up basketball until age 15. Eventually, he took part in the Jamaica Basketball Development camp, which helped land him at Long Island Lutheran high school.
He's now 20 years old, born in July 1993, according to UConn.
He's the top recruit in Kevin Ollie's freshman class, a springy forward who, if nothing else, can block shots and contribute on the boards for a loaded Huskies squad.
That is, if he's allowed to play.
The dilemma: The NCAA believes Facey's "eligibility clock" began ticking, a source said, while UConn thinks that clock started too early.
Per usual with NCAA eligibility reviews, details are vague. According to The Hartford Courant, Facey passed a standardized test in Jamaica before coming to Long Island Lutheran that could be considered the equivalent of graduating high school. If that's true, Facey, in violation of the NCAA's "delayed enrollment" rule, could be looking at a mandatory redshirt and the loss of two years of eligibility, per The Bylaw Blog, written by former NCAA compliance officer John Infante.
That's the worst-case scenario.
For UConn, the ideal scenario is that Facey is cleared, eligible immediately and for all four years.
And, from what I've learned about the situation, that's the correct solution. Of course, from what I've learned about the NCAA, the correct solution doesn't always come to fruition.
So this is the part where I blast the asinine NCAA rules, right?
Kind of.
The NCAA has some stupid rules, no question. But the essence of the delayed enrollment bylaw is valid: Following high school graduation, athletes are given a one-year grace period with no eligibility penalty (many basketball players use that year for prep school). After that, if the athlete isn't enrolled in college but is still competing in an organized sport, he or she loses eligibility.
Here's how Infante described it on his blog: "The penalty for delaying enrollment and competing past the grace period is that an athlete may not compete their first year enrolled in college and the athlete loses one year of eligibility for every year he or she competed after the grace period."
In an interview with CBS Sports last year, NCAA spokesperson Stacey Osburn said the rule was designed "to place a greater emphasis on academic readiness."
"Our member schools have passed rules that encourage prospective (players) to not delay enrollment for the purpose of improving athletically or to be discovered for recruitment," Osburn told CBSSports. "This rule was designed to avoid a negative effect for those prospects who immediately enroll in college."
Makes sense.
I'd hope, though, that the NCAA realizes each case is unique. The rule can only work with flexibility and logic, which, lately, hasn't been the NCAA's forte.
Here's what I can tell you about Facey's case: He comes from a farming family in Jamaica. Like many foreigners, he came to the U.S. for opportunity -- athletic and academic. He experienced a school system that differs from what we know in America, and as a result, he was placed in Long Island Lutheran's junior class as an 18-year-old.
It's true -- the placement (certainly old for his grade) gave him two years to be discovered by colleges. But there was no alternative.
When international students apply to Long Island Lutheran, their grade placement is "non-subjective," according to admissions director Barbara Ward. It's merely an issue of transferable credit.
"It's really very, very simple," Ward said. "We know how many credits a student needs to graduate our school and we can just work backwards from there. If we're admitting them into 10th grade, we know they have to have the credits to have graduated past freshman year. If we're admitting them into 11th grade, they would have needed to have completed half the credits."
Let's get this straight: Once Facey decided to come to the U.S., he had no choice but to enroll in 11th grade, which meant two additional years of basketball, which, at some point, got that eligibility clock ticking.
From his high school in Trelawny, at age 17, he couldn't possibly have gone straight to an American college. If his credits only amounted to that of an American high school sophomore, he wasn't anywhere near prepared academically. He couldn't have earned an athletic scholarship, either.
So, the question for the NCAA becomes: How could this have played out any differently?
What was Kentan Facey supposed to do?
With a summer session under his belt, Facey is back in Jamaica until the beginning of UConn's fall semester. He waits, hoping his eligibility review isn't botched like previous "delayed enrollment" investigations.
The examples: This past April, it was ruled that Montana State's Mohamed Fall, of Senegal, would forfeit his final year of eligibility because he played in two not-for-pay exhibition games four years prior. In 2012, Temi Fagbenle, a Harvard women's basketball player from London, was declared ineligible because she repeated her junior year of high school.
Neither is exactly like Facey's situation because -- remember -- each case is unique. Each deserves to be carefully examined, resolved with logic rather than a simple point to the rulebook.
Logically, Kentan Facey shouldn't miss any time for an unavoidable delay in enrollment. He's an international student bettering his life in America, which, last I checked, isn't a punishable offense.
Who knows if the NCAA will see it that way?
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