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City of Heroes players who exploit the new Mission Architect in order to power level their characters will soon find that crime doesn't pay in Paragon City, even if you play a villain.
In a post on the game's official forums, Matt "Positron" Miller addressed the issue of "meow farms", which are missions where enemies are gathered into groups near items like exploding barrels, where they can easily be dispatched en masse, giving the players rapid experience growth for very little risk. Miller brings the hammer down, threatening to ban players who exploit the system; remove access to characters power leveled through such means; and restrict access to the mission architect for those who continuously use it for evil.
While players are reacting positively to the news, the developers are being chided for how long it took them to address this issue, which has been a concern since the Mission Architect system launched with the Issue 14 update. Reader PratzStrike, who alerted us to the issue, wonders why other power leveling methods in the game have yet to be addressed.
You can read all about the situation in the epic thread on the City of Heroes forums, conveniently located at the end of the post. You can click it after you ponder the following question: Is power leveling evil, or should players be rewarded for finding ways around the normal progression?
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Thursday October 15, 2009
Amy Winehouse might have struggled with her own addictions, but she is determined to keep her god-daughter Dionne Bromfield on the straight and narrow.
Not only is the Back to Black star championing the 13-year-old singer's career – she signed her up to her Lioness record label - but she is also offering Dionne guidance as she enters the music industry.
"Amy tells me to stay on the right path all the time," Dionne - whose debut album was released this week - told the Sun.
"I wish she could have as well - but what she wants is right for me. And I also know what's right from wrong."
The pair, who appeared together on Strictly Come Dancing, were spotted out together shopping this week.
And all eyes were on the 26-year-old soul singer who stepped out in a pink shirt with the words 'Blake's Girl' embroidered over her left pocket.
Her wardrobe choice has sparked reports she is still in touch with her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil – a fact confirmed by his mother last month who said the couple speak on the phone every day.
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(US) An Exploration of the Countertenor in Rrecording From the 1960s to the 1980s -- Harmonia Early Music (30 Nov. 2009)
The countertenor voice is one of most unusual and alluring sounds heard in Western classical music. It is the highest natural male voice and one that has been heard in recording with increasing frequency from the middle of the 20th Century to the present day.
(TR) Magdalena Consort Concert at the International Istanbul Festivals (24 June 2010)
Presenting a programme of sacred and secular works by Händel and Bach for baroque lovers, the ensemble will appear at the Süreyya Opera House.
(US) Voices of Music --Photos from the Berkeley Early Music Festival and Exhibition, 2010 and misc.
Visit the Voices of Music photo albums of which you can find the following photo albums:
(US) All Bach Celebration, featuring the Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM) (26 June 2010)
The inaugural concert of the new group The Baroque Orchestra of Maine or 'BOOM' will take place on Friday, June 25 at 7:00pm at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono, and will be featured in two other concerts. This baroque orchestra will perform an all Bach program on period baroque instruments.
(US) Early Music Pub Crawl: San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV) Blogs the Berkeley Festival
Festivals, unlike single concerts, are full-immersion events with lots of possibilities to explore all at once. In an effort to bring the festival experience closer to our readers, SFCV sent two writers — Jonathan Rhodes Lee, an experienced early-music performer and writer, and Jessica Hilo, an arts writer with less connection to the early-music world — to "blog" for a full day (last Saturday) at the Berkeley Festival.
(UK) Women Players in England, 1500–1660, edited by Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin (Ashgate, 2008)
Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural production, even on the professional London stages that used men and boys for women's parts. English spectators saw women players in professional and amateur contexts, in elite and popular settings, at home and abroad. Women acted in scripted and improvised roles, performed in local festive drama, and took part in dancing, singing, and masquing. English travelers saw professional actresses on the continent and Italian and French actresses visited England.
(US) Call for papers: 2011 Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard (Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations) (1 Sept. 2010)
The Lyrica Society invites abstracts for its 2011 Dialogues at Harvard, themed "France the Lewd--France the Prude / France Erotique--France Pudique" scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 1-2. Six panels, organized by historical periods (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern) will juxtapose moral, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of religion and spirituality with sensual, sexual, and gendered eroticism in the confluence of French music and literature.
(UK) Colonial Counterpoint Music in Early Modern Manila -- D. R. M. Irving (Author)
In this groundbreaking study, D. R. M. Irving reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For some two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were firmly interlinked to Latin America and Spain through transoceanic relationships of politics, religion, trade, and culture.
(UK) Versailles and the 24 Violons du Roi (21-25 June, 2010)
In a stunning coup for the Royal College of Music, our Historical Perofrmance team led by Ashley Solomon are delighted to present the first appearance in 250 years of some very special instruments.
(IT) Con la mente e con le mani - Teaching and Learning the Art of Counterpoint on the Keyboard (1585-1671) (18-20 Nov. 2010)
The Conference will be focused on Counterpoint teaching and learning in the Early Seicento.We would like to explore the link between Music Theory and Practice on the keyboard. Improvisation is the working tool for learning music structures. Different scholars will confront themselves with the topic, mixing up various perspectives.
(IT) 17th Annual Conference of SIDM (29-31 OCT. 2010)
The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Italian Musicological Society will take place in Pisa in collaboration with Scuola Normale Superiore from 29 to 31 October 2010. On October, 30 all members will gather for their annual meeting.
(IL) International Intensive Seminar of 17th Century Music (22-29 Sept. 2010) (* A General Early Music Course 22-28 Sept. 2010 Directed by Drora Bruck)
Roberto Gini (Italy), Drora Bruck (Israel), Antonella Gianese (Italy)
A unique seminar in which students will undergo a total immersion in the theories and practices of a period that influenced enormously the development of music and musicians. The seminar will offer 7 days of intensive study, masterclasses and workshops in the lovely atmosphere of Felicia Blumental Music Center, in the heart of Tel Aviv.
(IE) 14th Baroque Biennial Conference, Belfast (June 30-July 4, 2010)
Since its inception in the 1980s, the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music has established itself as one of the largest and most important musicological meetings in the academic calendar. It attracts leading established scholars while fostering young and upcoming talent. Previously held in cities such as Dublin, Logroño, Manchester, Warsaw and Leeds, the event takes place for the first time in Northern Ireland.
(US) Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (WLSCM) -- Newly published works
We are pleased to announce the publication of two serenatas for solo voices and strings, both attributed to "Sig.r Scarlatti," in an edition by Marie-Louise Catsalis; see Nos. 17 of the WLSCM Catalogue. Two other editions are forthcoming in the very near future–please check back!
(US) Amherst Early Music Festival -- Baroque Ballet and Historical Dance (July 8-18, 2010)
This Year's Theme: "France: Source of European Music"
Baroque Ballet Intensive (July 8-18, 2010)
Historical Dance Program (July 10-18, 2010)
Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut
Dance Faculty: Dorothy Olsson, Director; Kaspar D. Mainz; Peggy Murray, Dance Assistant
Dance is an integral part of the Amherst Early Music Festival (a two-week early music festival with a vast array of musical offerings). For the 2010 workshop, classes will be offered in Baroque Dance, Baroque Dance Notation, Renaissance Dance, and Music of Charpentier and Lully. Participants are also entitled to attend many other events (including English country dancing, concert and lectures) in the evenings that are part of the Amherst Early Music Festival.
(FR) "Les cantates de J.-S. Bach : Textes, traductions, commentaires" -- Newly Published from Éditions Fayard (March 2010)
Long unknown to the general public of music lovers, the cantatas of Bach are today enjoying the excitement that justifies this incomparable treasure. Recording compendiums are increasing, as well as concert series have gained increasing popularity. The spiritual content of church cantatas, along with a complex German language and the multiple connotations of booklets have hampered access to an audience filled with the Passions and oratorios. As for the secular cantatas, they still remain separate from programs.
(FR) XII Festival Bach en Combrailles (August 8-14, 2010)
Bach en Combrailles' past 12 years, tells the true glory of Bach but we need more time to talk about his son. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, who passes, by all accounts of contemporaries, to have been the most gifted, born there exactly 300 years. We pay tribute to him in several of our programs.
(IT) XII International Early Music Course (Accademia del Ricercare) (July 26-August 2, 2010)
XII International Early Music Course
Accademia del Ricercare
July 26-August 2, 201
- - Concerts
- - Conference and exhibition of printed music and books by Musedita, publishing house directed by Alessandro Bares
- - Conference and exhibition of recorders by recorder maker Luca De Paolis
- - The European association of recorder teachers -- information about the aims and activities of the association
(UK) My Lady's Chamber - Summer Concerts 2010
Concerts In London Summer 2010
The following is the summer concert listing:
(IT) L'Humor Bizzarro. Intarsi di musica e danza antica (August 1-8, 2010)
L'Humor Bizzarro
Intarsi di musica e danza antica
9th early music and dance summer workshop
Artistic direction: Claudia Celi and Andrea Toschi
Roma (Italy) - August 1st to 8th, 2010
This year's edition of "L'Humor Bizzarro. Intarsi di musica e danza
antica" returns to the Eternal City, hosted by the historic Scuola
Popolare di Musica di Testaccio. Featured courses and workshops
(US) Recorder Names Timeline
Discover the various names of the word "Recorder" over the ages! This list has been generously compiled by Charles Fischer at Unicorn Music.
(EU) Antonio Vivaldi (The Vivaldi Link site)
That Antonio Vivaldi's name is know the world over can be attributed almost entirely to a single piece of music, The Four Seasons, first published in 1725 and still enjoying tremendous success today. Who would have thought that tucked away in the composers private library were hundreds of other pieces from his hand ranging from operas and sacred music to hundreds of concertos for one, two, three or more instruments. Most of it had not been published in his lifetime and was consequently forgotten after his death. Incredibly, this vast collection of music reappeared nearly intact in 1930 when it was purchased by the Biblioteca Nazionale in Turin, Italy, but it is only in recent years that this music has begun to be recorded and included in public concerts.
(IT) The courts in Europe. Musical Iconography and Princely Power (May 23-25. 2010) -- Call for Papers (June 30, 2010)
The courts in Europe. Musical iconography and princely power
Le corti in Europa. Iconografia musicale e potere principesco
Call for papers
The Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, in collaboration with the Regione Piemonte and under the patronage of the Società Italiana di Musicologia is pleased to invite scholars from different countries and from various disciplines to participate in the
International Musicological Society
Study Group on Musical Iconography
International Conference
Torino (Italy), Archivio di Stato, May 23-25, 2011
(US) Performance Practice Review (PPR) Volume 14 (2009) -- Available On-Line
New issue of Perf. Practice Review is available online.
Volume 14 (2009) includes:
- - JOHN BASS: "Improvisation in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Lessons from Rhetoric and Jazz"
- - ROLAND JACKSON: "Realizing the Continuo in Monteverdi's Lamento della ninfa and its Implications for Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Continuo Practice"
- - NOEL O'REGAN: "What can the organ partitura to Tomás Luis deVictoria's Missae, Magnificat, motecta, psalmi et alia quam plurimaof 1600 tell us about performance practice?"
- - STEWART POLLENS: "Some Misconceptions about the Baroque Violin"
- - ROLAND JACKSON reviewing Timothy Watkins, Performance Practice:Issues and Approaches
(UK) MY LADY'S CHAMBER CONCERT CANCELLED! (July 1st, 2010)
My Lady's Chamber July Concert Cancelled
Owing to circumstances beyond our control, My Lady's Chamber regrets having to pull out of our 1st July concert at 7.30pm at The Red Hedgehog, Highgate, UK, which was previously advertised here. My Lady's Chamber apologises for any inconvenience caused.Visit website for more information: My Lady's Chamber
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University of Houston senior diver Anastasia Pozdniakova defended her title Thursday afternoon, winning the 1-meter diving competition at the NCAA Championships at Purdue University.
The senior from Elektrostal, Russia finished the competition with 356.20 points to take the title for the second consecutive season.
"It was a pretty close competition and the girls were much better this year than they were last year," Pozdniakova said. "It was so awesome to win."
Pozdniakova was the NCAA Champion in the event after taking the title in 2009. She was also the runner-up in the 3-meter event and was ninth in platform a season ago.
She will continue competition Friday, March 19, in the 3-meter event. Lacey Truelove, also an NCAA qualifier, will compete in the platform competition on Saturday, March 20. The preliminaries will begin at 11 a.m. on both days.
Fans can follow all the live meet action by logging on to http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-swim/champpage/inc/div1/w-swim-div1-livediveresults.html.


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TaMiReS wrote:cotton wrote:Well some of our areas are worse then others.
Jim should've tweeted this story. It just happened the other day.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-teen-m ... d=18796777
I wish he would change the subject now cause I worry about him when he has so many people hating him
Cotton you said eveything. I'm so worried, we all know all the problems Jim had in the past and I don't want them to come back... I try to cheer him up in the only way that I can - Twitter - but there are so many tweets to him and just a few are good...
I have ways of getting in touch with him personally and I thought of telling him that we are still here for him and stuff but I am afraid to. I don't want him to think I am stalking him.


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It began with my husband and myself. Two surnames, adding our parents expanded the count to four. We're growing!
That is the point of genealogy isn't it? Growing your tree branch by branch. How does 2 names to 4 names grow to a total of 854 surnames?
My parents had 9 children, 8 of whom are married adding eight surnames to the count. My dad had one sister who added yet another surname. Her 8 children added more surnames. My mother had 4 siblings who married adding 4 more surnames to the tally.
I am doing a collateral tree and the fact that many of our ancestors came from families of 10 or more children is a major factor in surname spread. In the research I have done, religion, nationality, and culture do not seem to have had a bearing on family size. Farmers or shopkeepers, country or city dwellers, religious or not, the propensity for large families seems to be the same.
My parents grandchildren number 21 and 17 are married and have contributed a total of 20 grandchildren at this point. I don't see a shrinking of the family tree anytime soon!


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Sling Safety
Baby-wearing is safe (and healthy) if done correctly. If you have a sling, wrap, or backpack-style carrier and are unclear as to how to use them safely and effectively, here are some useful how-to videos
Photograph courtesy of www.sutemigear.com
Last week was a big one for baby-wearing in the news. The New York Times printed an article about the baby-wearing trend in their Fashion & Style section, of all places. And no sooner had I finished last week's blog did my friend Kate send me an email with the subject: Interesting, scary, and could be devastating for baby-wearing if not handled the right way. In the email she linked to an article announcing that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was preparing to issue a warning about the danger of baby slings. Inez Tenenbaum, head of the CPSC, does not single out specific slings in the warning, but baby-wearing experts are quick to point out that "bag style" slings are the most dangerous, as it is impossible to get the baby into an appropriate position — the "C curve" position baby takes in such slings can easily cause them to suffocate since their airway may become obstructed when their chin is pressed to their chest.
Like the proactive natural parenting advocate she is, Kate contacted her local news station, which visited her at her store A Child's Garden in Northampton to address safe baby-wearing. Click here to view the segment.
Baby-wearing is safe (and healthy) if done correctly. If you have a sling, wrap, or backpack-style carrier and are unclear as to how to use them safely and effectively, here are some useful how-to videos:
Ring Sling:
- Tummy to Tummy, with legs in for newborns — watch the Tummy to Tummy (legs in) demo
- Tummy to Tummy, with legs out — watch the Tummy to Tummy (legs out) demo
- Kangaroo Carry — watch the Kangaroo Carry demo
- Cradle Carry & Nursing — watch the Cradle Carry & Nursing demo
- Simple Front Cross Carry — watch the Simple Front Cross Carry demo
- Infant Insert Carry — watch the Infant Insert Carry demo
- Front Carry — watch the Front Carry demo
- Back Carry — watch the Back Carry demo
Mei Tai (Asian-style carrier):
- Front Carry — watch the Mei Tai Front Carry demo
There are countless videos on YouTube demonstrating the use of a variety of carriers in a number of positions — use your best judgment when consulting them for instructions. I chose the ones above for their clarity and accuracy based on what I have learned first-hand from baby-wearing experts. If you are still unsure how to use your carrier safely and correctly, contact the manufacturer directly for instructions.


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Hey Seasoned! How are you? I so enjoy reading your advice. So if I ever need any advice...can I bother you for some?
Thanks! Hugs.
I just wanted to say you are very smart and all your advice is spot on. Your husband is very lucky.
Just paranoid, futilist, almost nihilist, always on lookout for obvious threats, preffer creating them out of pattern recognition. Trying to neutralize my powers? Lewis
Caught. Nabbed. "I spy." Have a nice day on patrol. Lewis
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Saying more funding is needed to save wild areas in Silicon Valley amid steady development pressure, the board of the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority has placed a parcel tax on the November ballot.
The board of the agency, based in San Jose, voted 7-0 Thursday night to put the $24 annual tax up for voter approval. If the measure wins a two-thirds majority, as required under state law, it will raise $120 million over the next 15 years to buy development rights to preserve farmland, build trails for bikes, hikers and horse-riders, and add roughly 15,000 acres of additional open space preserves in Santa Clara County.
"The health of our open spaces, habitats, creeks and streams is tied to the health of our communities," said Andrea Mackenzie, general manager of the Open Space Authority. "This revenue stream will ensure that our children and all future generations will continue to experience the benefits of open space and nature that we enjoy today."
The agency, established by state law in 1994, currently collects a $12 annual benefit assessment from property owners who live inside the district's boundaries. That area includes San Jose, Santa Clara, Campbell, Milpitas and most of unincorporated Santa Clara County.
Over the past 20 years, the open space authority has preserved 16,075 acres, much of it located around Henry W. Coe State Park, Calero Reservoir and the hills east of San Jose. The agency also helps fund city parks and trails projects.
In 2008, the state Supreme Court invalidated a previous $20 per-parcel assessment the agency put in place in 2001. Responding to a lawsuit from the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, the court ruled the fee was an illegal tax under Proposition 218 because the agency did not obtain two-thirds approval from Santa Clara County voters, as it now seeks to do.
The taxpayer organization says it will oppose this measure, contending that a majority of Silicon Valley residents don't use the preserves or parks. Environmental groups are expected to support it.
In June, voters in southern San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara County approved a $300 million bond act to buy more redwood forests, wetlands and meadows for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, based in Los Altos. The two open space districts do not overlap.
Paul Rogers covers resources and environmental issues. Contact him at 408-920-5045. Follow him at Twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN


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Added Nov 9, 2012
by b. boop
Charente Maritim...
When i found the Burda pattern 09/12, i really had a crush for this cute pinafore dress !
The style, low-waisted & low-cut, pockets, everything !
I put a burgundy satin bias on pockets & hem, hem that i sewed manually ( which is not my favourite !!)
I love it and i am wondering if i would not make it again in other colors and /or with other material, because it is so comfortable to wear and easy to make !
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Apr 8, 2013, 05.41 PMby MissMaddiePi
I love this – you did a phenomenal job with the sewing as well as the styling and photos – I just want all of it! (Well, I've got the boots ;-)) I've been contemplating this pattern for a while; a friend gave me some GORGEOUS (and probably $$$$$!) lightweight wool that I am dying to sew up into something I can wear a lot. But i am truly a novice sewist and I'm terrified I'll pick something too difficult, get frustrated, and leave it in an ever-growing heap of half-finished projects. … okay for bargain bin and thrift store fabrics but not for this delicious stuff. But maybe this I could make – and wear with everything…Thanks for the inspiration and review!
Nov 10, 2012, 05.40 PMby mixtlii
Superbe! Le patron ne m'inspire par contre pas du tout, est-ce que tu l'as modifié? Est-ce que ton tissu est élastique?
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Nov 14, 2012, 01.39 PMby b. boop
je l'ai juste repris aux hanches j'ai enlevé à peu près 2cm ;j'ai utilisé un jersey de laine donc assez souple et legeremnet extensible
Nov 10, 2012, 10.13 AMby Mary Athey
Fab dress and its great on you x
Nov 10, 2012, 09.34 AMby jojokitten
Love it…. Now I'm looking at this pattern…hmmm!
Nov 9, 2012, 03.07 PMby asperge11
J'adore ! Et portée comme ça, avec les bottes et le collant, vraiment jolie !
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Nov 9, 2012, 03.26 PMby b. boop
merci ;)
je l'ai aussi portée avec du beige et des bottes marron ca change à chaque fois !
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Abreu's first two HRs among six for White Sox in rout
DENVER -- No-decisions have been the norm for White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana, the bane of his brief Major League existence, really. Jose Abreu made sure Quintana would escape that fate again Tuesday by belting a three-run homer on a 12-pitch at-bat in the seventh that blew the game open for the White Sox.
They pounded the Rockies, 15-3, at Coors Field, scoring 11 runs in the final three innings and belting six home runs, including the first two of Abreu's career.View Full Game Coverage
DENVER -- No-decisions have been the norm for White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana, the bane of his brief Major League existence, really. Jose Abreu made sure Quintana would escape that fate again Tuesday by belting a three-run homer on a 12-pitch at-bat in the seventh that blew the game open for the White Sox.
They pounded the Rockies, 15-3, at Coors Field, scoring 11 runs in the final three innings and belting six home runs, including the first two of Abreu's career.View Full Game Coverage
Quintana has 28 no-decisions dating back to the 2012 season, the most in the Majors and a total that includes his first start this season. However, he was able to savor a victory Tuesday night thanks to his teammates' slugging onslaught.
The White Sox fell one short of the club record for home runs in one game (seven in 1955 against the Kansas City Athletics). The last time they hit six was June 24, 2009, against the Dodgers.
In addition to Abreu, a Cuban defector whom the White Sox signed for $68 million in October, Avisail Garcia also hit two home runs. He and Abreu became the first pair of White Sox players to each homer twice in a game since Paul Konerko and Juan Uribe did it June 8, 2004, against the Phillies.
Garcia and Tyler Flowers homered off Franklin Morales in a three-run second. Abreu, who had five RBIs, fell into an 0-2 hole before fouling off six straight 2-2 pitches in his 12-pitch encounter with Chad Bettis, who was brought on to face him. Abreu eventually lofted a three-run homer into the tunnel down the left-field line that put the White Sox ahead 7-2 in the seventh after the Rockies cut a four-run deficit to two.
"That at-bat was very, very important to me," Abreu said through translator Lino Diaz. "I feel like I fought for that, and it gave me a lot of confidence to that. But definitely an at-bat that obviously changed the result of the game. It kind of gets you in the right set of mind, the right momentum."
Bettis said, "You have to take a lot into account, especially when he's fouling everything off. I had one pitch he hadn't seen, which was the curveball. He's fouling off six pitches in a row. At that point, you're trying to look at anything, something that's leaning to what he's looking for. The changeup before the curveball, it could have been a little bit better pitch. That curveball four inches further down, it's a completely different result."
Garcia, who had a career-high four hits, homered in the eighth for his first career multi-homer game, and Alexei Ramirez followed with a homer.
It was the first time the White Sox hit back-to-back homers this season, both shots coming off beleaguered Rockies reliever Wilton Lopez, who gave up eight hits, including three homers, and six runs while retiring just two of the 10 batters he faced in the eighth.
He gave up a two-out single to Marcus Semien, who had a career-high four hits, and Abreu followed with a two-run shot, this time to right-center.
"That's something I wasn't looking to do," Abreu said. "The pitch took me that way. But that is something I'm going to have to do to face all the pitching. They're going to pitch me in different places, so I have to be able to hit the ball to all parts of the field."
Abreu hit three homers in 56 at-bats in Spring Training. He went without a home run in his first 29 at-bats in the regular season before dramatically ending that drought against Bettis.
"We should never press for things," Abreu said. "I always give myself a little bit of time. I don't like to feel pressed. I feel like we always have time to do things."
Troy Tulowitzki's one-out double in the sixth scored Brandon Barnes, who had singled, to cut Chicago's advantage to 4-2. But Quintana, who gave up a solo homer to Michael Cuddyer in the fourth, got him to ground out, and third baseman Conor Gillaspie snared Wilin Rosario's low liner just before it hit the infield dirt to end the sixth.
Quintana gave up five hits and two runs in seven innings and got 14 outs on ground balls.
"Q pitched great," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said, "especially in this ballpark to be able to do that."
And at Coors Field, where home runs are somewhat commonplace, the two Abreu hit were notable, the focus required before ending that 12-pitch at-bat for his first home run followed by his opposite-field shot.
"He's more than a slugger," Ventura said. "He's proven to us when he's been in Spring Training, his approach is a little more middle, the other way. But he can pull it. He hits it a long way if he gets a hold of it. Most of his stuff is [that of a] professional type hitter. It's not just go up there swing as hard as you can. He's just a good hitter."
Jack Etkin is a contributor to MLB.com.


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1994 Ford F-150 Marriage ProposalPosted in Features on January 1, 2010
Anyone who's been through a wedding engagement can tell you it's not a relaxing process. There are decisions to make, appointments to keep, and most of all, expenses. Keith Sato of Brea, California, found himself in that very situation a few years ago. "I was getting stressed out about all the stuff we had to pay for," Keith related. "I was happy to be getting married, and I wanted Tricia to enjoy our engagement and our wedding. I decided I needed to do something that would make both of us happy." He came up with a quid-pro-quo deal and ran it by his fiancée. "I'll quit complaining about what this is costing," he offered. "But as soon as we're back from our honeymoon, I'm gonna build a truck." Tricia agreed, and the plans for the wedding and the truck moved forward.
The wedding and honeymoon were pulled off smoothly in a matter of months. Building Keith's newly-purchased '94 F-150, on the other hand, took a few years. The first parts of the build were done outdoors, and the record-setting rainfall of the '04-to-'05 winter hampered progress. Eventually the truck was moved into Keith's garage, which made it easier to work on.
Keith didn't build the truck alone. As one-half of Sato Bros. Racing, he had, his brother, Tony's talents available, as well. Matt Helton and other friends from the "Mojave Mafia" also lent their time and skills.
The resulting truck is amazingly street-able considering its off-road prowess. The headliner, carpet, and A/C are all in place and fully functional. The engine mods were kept mild so that street-legal status could be retained.
Once in the dirt, this F-1 bares its teeth. Custom equal-length I-beams, swing-set steering, Deaver leaf springs, a Blitzkrieg Motorsports axle housing, and a full arsenal of Sway-A-Way dampers see to it that bumps get swallowed whole in rapid succession. Chassis reinforcement and personal protection come courtesy of a full 'cage that was built using 1.75-inch, 0.120-wall DOM tubing.
Trucks must fit more than your off-road aspirations. They must also fit your life. For some, that means a mild build using bolt-on parts. For others, high-end, custom-fabricated everything is the norm. Wherever you are along this spectrum, take some inspiration from Keith: If you're planning to build a truck, you'll get much further if you first master the art of negotiation.
Vehicle: '94 Ford F-150 SuperCab 2WD
Owner/Hometown: Keith Sato / Brea, CA
Engine: Ford 351 Windsor with sequential fuel management, Clay Smith camshaft, Mac Performance equal-length headers, mild head porting
Induction: stock intake equipped with a UNI filter
Transmission: Ford C-6 with Art Carr shifter and manual valve body, Kevlar internal bands
Front end: Custom J-Beam built by Keith using kingpin beam ends and 4130 chromoly tubing, Autofab hubs, and Wilwood brakes.
Rear end: Blitzkrieg Motorsports fabricated 9-inch housing, Currie axle shafts, and Strange Race Case third member.
Suspension: Sway-A-Way 2.0 coilovers in front, Sway-A-Way 3.0 bypass shocks front and rear, and Sway-A-Way 2.5 bump stops at each corner. Deaver rear spring packs
Tires: 37-inch Goodyear MT/R
Wheels: BTR beadlocks


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Country music star Alan Jackson took the St. Joseph County Grange Fair by storm Saturday night.
The concert was "completely sold out," said fair Manager Bill Johnson. "Not a seat left."
Country music star Alan Jackson took the St. Joseph County Grange Fair by storm Saturday night.
The concert was "completely sold out," said fair Manager Bill Johnson. "Not a seat left."
Jackson's crew arrived early with semis carrying all it takes to put on a show including screens, lights and sound equipment.
Rather than use the grandstand stage, they set up a 50-foot stage in front of permanent stage, said Paul Leeth of the fair board.
"It makes it a lot closer to the crowd," Leeth said.
Bleachers were also set up on the track, east and west of the stage to accommodate the crowds and make for a better concert experience.
It rained off and on all day Saturday which made the track muddy, but excavators took of several inches of mud so it wouldn't be so slick, Leeth said.
The doors opened at
7 p.m. and "everybody is in and it's 8:08 p.m." he said. "I'd say that's pretty good."
Pretty good, considering it was a crowd of 5,200.
One of the last to get through the gate was Morgan Wilson of Battle Creek who brought her mom. "This is going to be fun," she said.
That was to goal of the whole event, which Leeth admitted took a "tremendous about of work" but said the whole thing was "very exciting."
When Jackson took the stage with a roar of approval from the crowd, months of preparation came to fruition.
He played hits such as "Gone Country," "Country Boy," "Summertime Blues" and fans of all ages sang along. On stage behind Jackson and his band were huge screens sometimes showing Jackson for those in the way-back seats, sometimes music videos and other times members of the audience.
The age range of the 5,000 fans was diverse. It would be hard to say whether any age group out represented another. Several fans mentioned it as they left the concert including Jody Cline of Sturgis and her 21-year-old daughter Courtney Cline, who added "I loved it."
That is probably because Jackson's hits include songs for all the phases of life such as "It's Five O'clock Somewhere" for the young rebelling against putting in a long work day, to patriotic numbers such as "Where Were You (when the world stopped turning)" which remembers 9-11.
Jackson has a newer hit, "As She's Walking Away" recorded with Zac Brown about a momentary crush and older hits like "Livin' on Love" about enduring love. He also plays "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" for a relationship that has ended and "Remember When" about young lovers who grew older together.
"I like real sad heart break songs. I don't know why," Jackson said, admitting he hasn't had a lot of heart break.
And if one song was slow and moving the next was something to dance to.
When he could, Jackson would substitute "Michigan" for the original phrase such as "Small Town Southern Man" where for the final line he sang "small town Michigan man." The crowd loved the personalization.
Between each number as cheers from the crowd died down, Jackson would say, "Oh, thank you so much," in a Georgia drawl as if he was truly moved that they liked the song.
At 9:20 p.m. during "Chattahoochee," his last song of the concert, rain which had stopped earlier in the day, started to fall again. A few audience members headed out, especially those not under the grandstand roof, but most didn't seem to mind getting wet to hear the encore.
It was "Where I Come From" and obviously Jackson's camera crews had hit St. Joseph County shooting footage of the community, the fair and all things Michigan.
Polly Krotzer of Kendallville, Ind., stayed to the end without the benefit of an umbrella. She had purchased a ticket for the show in March, the first day they were on sale and had no desire to miss a song.
"It was a long wait," Krotzer said, adding that the concert was more than she expected. "He put on an excellent show. It was worth the wait."


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British product designer Paul Cocksedge combines the material of yesterday's audio with the popularity of today's digital audio players, converting vinyl LPs into quite beautiful passive amplification accessories made through the simple process of shaping with heat...
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You can see a bit of the process of softening the LPs using heat and a molding stand to create the record speaker form factor above. Once finished, simply placing an iPod or similar small speaker digitial device results in a much more voluminous sound. Seems ripe for a DIY project, though you might want to hit up a thrift store for scratched, unwanted records instead of tapping into your own collection!
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Definitions of toll
v. t. - To take away; to vacate; to annul. 2
v. t. - To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole. 2
v. t. - To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. 2
v. t. - To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. 2
v. t. - To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. 2
v. i. - To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person. 2
n. - The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated. 2
n. - A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like. 2
n. - A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. 2
n. - A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. 2
v. i. - To pay toll or tallage. 2
v. i. - To take toll; to raise a tax. 2
v. t. - To collect, as a toll. 2
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TRONA — The Trona girls basketball team used a strong defensive effort on Wednesday night to deliver a second straight victory. The Tornadoes beat Mojave 38-20 at THS Gym, and pulled away by shutting out the Mustangs in the fourth quarter.
TRONA — The Trona girls basketball team used a strong defensive effort on Wednesday night to deliver a second straight victory. The Tornadoes beat Mojave 38-20 at THS Gym, and pulled away by shutting out the Mustangs in the fourth quarter.
"We don't shoot the ball particularly well, so what I try to do is make it a little bit of an ugly game," Tornadoes head coach Jeff Tuckness said. "It wasn't a very pretty game tonight."
Trona (2-2) used full-court pressure to race out to an early lead — after the first quarter the Tornadoes led 15-3. Both teams struggled offensively in the second quarter, and Trona led 19-6 at halftime after a period that saw both teams combine to score seven points.
"We were pressing them full court, and then we went into a half-court press," Tuckness said. "That seemed to work — it got us some more steals and it got us in transition."
Mojave (1-2) rallied in the third quarter, and slowly caught up as Trona's offensive struggles continued. The Mustangs scored the first 14 points of the period and took a 20-19 lead on a jump shot with 50 seconds left.
"We were stuck at 19 forever — I was thinking we were going to lose it if we didn't get it going," Tuckness said. "They really were doing a nice job trying to counter some of the things that we like to do, and they actually took the lead. It was frightening there for a little bit."
On the next possession, Trona forward Tia Renzelman made two free throws — the Tornadoes' first points of the quarter — to put the hosts back in front. Guard Sierra Fleishauer hit a bank shot with 12 seconds left that gave Trona a 23-20 lead headed into the fourth quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Trona stymied Mojave with a combination of half-court trapping and full-court press. The Mustangs went the entire eight minutes without scoring, and a six-point run by Renzelman gave the Tornadoes a commanding 32-20 lead with three minutes left.
"After the third quarter, I decided that we needed to try and speed the game up a little bit," Tuckness said. "We needed to do something, and we have a couple quick girls so we tried to do that — it really seemed to work. We needed to scramble a little bit more and try to get some layups."
The victory was Trona's second in as many days — on Tuesday the Tornadoes beat Lucerne Valley 43-21. Trona started the season with losses at Academy of Careers and Exploration (Dec. 3) and Sandy Valley (Nev.) (Dec. 7).
Renzelman finished with a double-double in the win, scoring a team-high 14 points and grabbing a team-leading 18 rebounds. The senior did most of her damage inside, and scored eight points in the fourth quarter to help Trona pull away. Fleishauer had eight points and eight rebounds for the Tornadoes.
Trona returns to action on Saturday against Beatty (Nev.) at THS Gym. Tip off is scheduled for 11 a.m.


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VIM inline calculator
Map the F11 key to VIM's eval() function (I hope the Blogger will not eat any characters):
:map <silent> <F11> :exec "s!^\\([^=]\\{-}\\)\\( *=.*\\)\\=$!\\1 = ".eval(substitute(getline(".")," *=.*$","",""))."!"<CR>
Came up during lengthy analysis of log files and source code. Some calculators allow expression. Some support history. But all that is quite limited and often is mouse driven. Check into the VIM's :help :let + digging around pointed in direction of the eval() and thus the monster macro was born.
2 statements are at the core:
eval(substitute(getline(".")," *=.*$","","")) strip "= whatever" from the end of the string and feed it to eval().
:h eval()
:exec "s!!!" where we take everything from the line, save in \1 string before "=", replace the line with "\1 = " plus result of eval(). Requires
:set magic. Backslashes had to be doubled since
:exec looks for them.
After adding that to vimrc or executing in place, open VIM, type on empty line "2*2", press Esc and F11. You should see "2*2 = 4".
Edit1 Apparently, the eval() function isn't available in VIM 6.x. Equivalent using
:exec ":let":
function CalcX(line_num)
let l = getline(a:line_num)
let expr = substitute( l, " *=.*$","","" )
exec ":let g:tmp_calcx = ".expr
call setline(a:line_num, expr." = ".g:tmp_calcx)
:map <silent> <F11> :call CalcX(".")<CR>
Edit2 VIM 7.2 supports floating point numbers. Would be interesting to experiment with it, but I haven't bothered to upgrade yet.
Another little thing.
:echo too evaluates its parameters. Typing
:echo 2*2[Enter] would display 4.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A British citizen pleaded guilty in a U.S. courtroom Tuesday to charges of supporting terrorism in Afghanistan.
Babar Ahmad, 39, entered the plea in New Haven, Conn., although the federal judge in the case did not immediately say whether or not it would be accepted, the New Haven Register said.
Ahmad was charged with providing material support for terrorism by running a roster of jihadist-oriented Web sites from 1997-2002 that solicited funds for the Taliban as well as the conflicts in Bosnia and Chechnya.
Ahmad was charged in Connecticut because he used a Web-hosting company that purchased server and bandwidth capacity from a firm in Trumbull.
By pleading guilt, Ahmad presumably avoided exposure to as much as 30 years in prison had he been convicted in a trial, the Register said. Prosecutors agreed to drop several counts in exchange for his guilty plea.
Ahmad was tentatively scheduled for sentencing in March. His co-defendant, Syed Talha Ahsan, was also expected to enter a guilty plea late Tuesday.


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They're not exactly haute couture, but Lyon's new 2012/13 soccer jersey's are definitely haute—er, high concept. The clubs new threads—designed by Adidas—will be embellished with a 3D design in honor of Lyon's own Lumiere brothers, the pioneers of filmmaking in the 1890s.
Of course, like in the cinema, 3D glasses will be needed to see this design really pop. But that's assuming your seats are good enough to see the players at all. [Yahoo]


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W 51cm | H 80cm/45cm | D 57cm Weight: 6.9kg
High back, extra comfort. During Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, Swedish design furniture company Lammhults presents a new, exclusive version of the successful chair series Archal, designed by the Danes Johannes Foersom & Peter Hiort-Lorenzen. The new Archal model, with its higher back, offers even more comfort and is designed for meetings, offices and settings with very high demands on comfort, design and also our environment. With a frame of recycled aluminium, the Archal range is based on a new material for Lammhults. The aluminium used in Archal is 99,9% recycled and the material is supp- lied and moulded within 100 km's from the factory in Lammhult. It takes around 350 aluminium cans to create one Archal armchair. With this latest model, the Archal series, launched in 2011, now comes in three different heights , and ranges from a stackable, fine-tuned wooden chair to a number of upholstered versions, from a stackable 4-feet chair to a height-adjustable 5-star swivel base on castors – the possibilities with the chair are almost infinite. The wide range of options and executions make the Archal series suitable for almost any environment, as a visitor's chair, an office chair, in an auditorium, in a confe- rence room, for executive meetings etc. Of course, Archal fits equally well in home interiors. Together with Lammhults, the designer team behind the chair spent more than 3 years on product development, which shows the difficulties in a new chair, with new aspects. Archal is the essence of the knowledge Lammhults has collected in technology, innovation and design. CHAIR / ARMCHAIR Frame of cast aluminium, texture powder coated (NCS S1002-y white, alt. S8000-N graphite) or polished, in three different models. 4-leg frame, stackable with built-in stacking protection. Glides. Option: Felt glides. 4-feet swivel base, 360°, incl. glides. Option: Memory return and castors. 5-feet height adjustable swivel base, 360°, incl. castors. Armrests of cast aluminium, texture powder coated (NCS S1002-y white, alt. S8000-N graphite) or polished. Seat shell of ash, oak, wenge or Fineline oak veneer alt. white or black stained. upholstered seat, upholstered inside seat and back or fully upholstered. Upholstery: Fabric / Leather Options: Quilted upholstery. Armrest with inlays of black polyurethane. High back - completely upholstered with or without quilting.
To find the source of Lammhult Möbels highly-respected quality, you need only to travel 450 kilometers south of Stockholm to the village of Lammhult, in the heart of Sweden's "Kingdom of Furniture".


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An automated attendant (commonly shortened to auto attendant) is a software application included in many business phone systems. Auto attendants are also known as "virtual receptionist software," since these applications can perform many of the functions of a human receptionist.
Our buyer's guide will cover the following topics:
What Is Auto Attendant Software?
Auto Attendant vs. IVR
How Auto Attendant Software Is Packaged
Common Functionality of Auto Attendant Software
Programming Tips
You know those voice menus you get when you call a local business? "Press 1 for Suzy, 2 for Bill" etc.? That's an auto attendant.
The primary purpose of an auto attendant is to route incoming calls by listing options in a voice menu for callers to choose from (for example, "press 1 for sales, 2 for accounts receivable" etc.). Once the caller enters a number or symbol on her or his telephone keypad, the application automatically routes the call to the corresponding extension.
Auto attendants are NOT the fancy menus you get when you call your Internet provider to pay your bill, or when you call your credit card company to check your account balance. That's a separate kind of system known as an interactive voice response (IVR) system. Let's take a quick look at the differences in functionality between IVR systems and auto attendants to help you make an informed selection.
Auto attendants are commonly confused with IVR software. There are a number of distinctions between auto attendants and IVR systems:
Typically, IVR systems are used in dedicated call centers, while auto attendants are used by local businesses and businesses that just need directory routing, e.g., dentists' offices, law firms, consulting firms etc. IVR systems are both expensive and complex to program—they will be overkill for most small businesses, except small businesses that deal with unusually heavy inbound call volume.
IVR systems are generally sold on a standalone basis or they're packaged in specialized software suites for call centers. Auto attendants, on the other hand, are packaged differently, as we'll discuss now.
Auto attendants are generally included as applications within Private Branch eXchange (PBX) systems. A PBX system is the interface between extensions in a business directory and broader telecommunications networks (e.g., the traditional phone network and the Internet). PBX systems are applications that serve as the core of business phone systems: Indeed, in most cases, the term "PBX" is simply a synonym for "phone system."
The basic purpose of a PBX system is to enable routing control over both inbound and outbound calls. Most business phone systems are suites of PBX applications that include auto attendants alongside other applications, such as voicemail and call recording.
While most auto attendants are packaged in these PBX suites, some vendors offer them as stand-alone applications. Many of these standalone solutions also offer IVR functionality.
If you operate a call center, want to enable self-service options for inbound callers or want to place incoming calls into a queue, then you should consider a call center system. Smaller businesses can generally get by with PBX suites designed for their needs—many of which include auto attendants.
Unlike IVR systems, auto attendants are straightforward, easy-to-program applications. Auto attendants include the following standard functionality:
|Voice menu
|Allows you to record your own voice menus. Some vendors also offer professional menu recording services.
|Dial-by-name directory
|A special auto-attendant phone feature that allows you to reach employee extensions by spelling out the employee's first or last name with your telephone keypad. Particularly useful for larger offices.
|Introductory greeting
|Allows you to record a greeting that welcomes inbound callers and describes your business or brand.
|After-hours mode
|Allows you to program the system to offer different greetings and options based on your business's hours of operation (e.g., informs callers that your business is now closed when it enters after-hours mode). Can also be programmed to handle weekends and holidays.
The capabilities of auto attendants can be greatly enhanced by PBX call routing functionality, such as find me/follow me (which forwards calls from office phones to mobile devices after a fixed number of rings) and hunt groups (also known as ring groups; forwards calls to a group of extensions defined by business role, rather than to a single extension). Find me/follow me enables callers to reach employees on mobile devices as well as desk phones from the auto attendant menu. Hunt groups are useful for department-level options in the menu; for instance, when an inbound caller presses #1 for "sales," the desk phones of every employee in sales will ring.
By using hunt groups with an auto attendant, small businesses that have multiple employees dedicated to answering the phones can set up a very basic call center solution. You can choose to have all your agents' phones ring at the same time when a caller makes a selection in the auto attendant menu. Alternatively, you can have phones ring sequentially in a round-robin scheme (employee A gets the call first, and if s/he doesn't answer the call goes to employee B, then C etc.).
We've done industry benchmarking research to determine best practices for programming both IVR systems and auto attendants. Our design report on IVR systems can be found here, and our auto attendant report can be found here. We interacted with hundreds of IVR systems and auto attendants to determine the benchmarking standards detailed in these reports.
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Driver hits liquor store, charged with DUI
A man who struck the corner of the building at 143 Tunxis Hill Road and then fled the scene Monday night was drunk, according to police.
George Kelly, 58, was taken into custody when he arrived at his former wife's Euclid Avenue in violation of a standing criminal protective order, police said.
Kelly, who told police he also lives on Euclid Avenue, was charged with driving under the influence, evading responsibility, reckless operation and violation of the protective order. He was held on bonds totaling $12,500.
According to the report, police received two phone calls about Kelly, one from a motorist who said he saw a blue pickup truck driving recklessly and then pulled into the parking lot of the Tunxis Hill Package Store. When Kelly left the package store, he drove over the corner of the sidewalk and struck the corner of the building. The store owner also called police about Kelly.
Officers waiting at the Euclid Avenue house said they saw Kelly driving recklessly and at a high rate of speed in the middle of the street, and that he nearly struck two children playing in the street. At the home, according to the report, he steered wide of the driveway and drove over the curb and onto the grass.
Kelly apparently had been at the ex-wife's house earlier and took her pickup truck without her knowledge, police said. Under the protective order, Kelly is to have no contact with his ex-wife.
He failed field sobriety tests, police said. Inside the truck was an unopened bottle of vodka, police said, and Kelly told officers that he consumed a half pint of vodka before his arrest.
Kelly has a history with Fairfield police, including earlier arrests for violation of probation, disorderly conduct, violations of the protective order, interfering with an emergency call, sixth-degree larceny, second-degree threatening and interfering with a police officer. He was sentenced to 45 days in prison for the shoplifting in 2011 and 45 days for a 2011 disorderly conduct arrest.
For the interfering with an emergency call in 2009, Kelly was sentenced to one year, suspended, but with two years probation. For two instances of violating a protective order in December 2012, he was sentenced to five years, suspended, and given two years probation. Kelly was sentenced to one year, suspended, plus two years probation for the threatening arrest in 2008.


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Ignore the News. Buy These Stocks
Money manager Jim O'Shaughnessy joins Markets Hub argues that investors shouldn't be distracted by headlines but should focus on high-quality stocks. Photo: Bloomberg.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
The broad S&P 500 looked to snap a two-day slump on Friday in light trading.
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As of 3:18 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 61 points, or 0.39%, to 15606, the S&P 500 advanced 3.9 points, or 0.22%, to 1760 and the Nasdaq Composite slumped 1.4 points, or 0.04%, to 3918.
The S&P has receded from record highs in recent days as traders have grown more concerned about the prospects of the Federal Reserve tapering its giant asset purchasing program in December. Some analysts were looking to March as the beginning of the end of QE3.
Data from the Institute for Supply Management at 10:00 a.m. ET could shed more light on the economic picture. Economists expect the ISM PMI gauge to fall to 55 in October from 56.2 in September. Readings above 50 suggest the manufacturing sector is expanding, while those below signal it is contracting.
A regional report on the Midwestern manufacturing sector Thursday blew past expectations.
On the corporate front, JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) revealed in a regulatory filing the U.S. Justice Department and agencies from other jurisdictions are probing its hiring practices in Hong Kong.
Ford (NYSE:F) and Chrysler both posted double-digit increases in October U.S. sales. However, the gains were shy of expectations.
Chevron (NYSE:CVX) posted third-quarter profits of $2.57 a share on sales of $57 billion, missing expectations of $2.71 a share on revenues of $58.4 billion. Shares of the blue-chip energy giant were little changed.
In commodities, U.S. crude oil futures fell 55 cents, or 0.57%, to $95.82 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline dipped 0.54% to $2.573 a gallon. Gold fell $11.50, or 0.87%, to $1,312 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 fell 0.23% to 3061, the English FTSE 100 rose 0.03% to 6733 and the German DAX slipped 0.2% to 9016.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 slid 0.88% to 14202 and the Chinese Hang Seng edged up by 0.19% to 23250.


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Announcement of change in the total number of votes in AB SKF
2015 June 30, 08:00 CEST
Gothenburg, 30 June 2015: Due to a conversion of shares from Series A to Series B in accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, AB SKF confirms the following. As per 30 June the Company's share capital amounts to SEK 1,138,377,670 and the total number of shares amounts to 36,698,533 shares of Series A and 418,652,535 shares of Series B. The number of votes in the Company amounts to 78,563,787. AB SKF does not hold any own shares.
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As they navigate their first years of marriage, Jeff and Jackie Wald haven't had a manual to help them with important issues such as husband-wife communication, family prayer and child-rearing. But the St. Paul, Minn., couple have had real-time support from experienced mentor couples and peers via a two-year course designed to help young Catholic couples learn about marriage and how it integrates into the life of the Church.
"Casting a vision is a big part of what they do," Jackie said of the Community of Christ the Redeemer's Young Married Formation Program. "It's saying, 'Here's the vision. Here are the principles. This is what we did,' and then they share their testimonials. … You're encouraged, but free to make those decisions for your families because there's not going to be this rule book."
Helping newly married couples develop a strong bond is a form of evangelization, said Bill Coffin, a longtime marriage education advocate from Silver Spring, Md., who helped pilot Mastering the Mysteries of Sacramental Love, a Catholic marriage preparation course.
"The best way to do evangelization and celebrate our faith is to help couples, many of whom are struggling with lives of quiet desperation," he said. "They can't talk to each other; they don't understand each other. Of course, the best time to build those skills, those attitudes, that knowledge base is when they're newlyweds."
The Walds are among 60 couples who have completed the formation program at the Community of Christ the Redeemer, a Catholic covenant community, since 2007.
Program events include monthly talks by mentor couples at coordinators Ed and Leslie Gross's home and small group meetings. Topics range from marriage and sexuality, to spirituality, to finances and child-rearing.
"Marriage is a doorway for people who are engaged and marrying. … They're idealistic, they're hopeful," Ed said. "A lot of them realize it's one of the few times in your life when you realize, 'This is beyond me. I'm receiving a gift from God.'"
Experts agree that fostering healthy Catholic families means offering young married couples the spiritual, practical and relational tools to build strong foundations for their domestic church before they develop serious relationship problems.
The U.S. bishops called for continuing education and growth for newly married couples in their 2009 pastoral letter "Love and Life in the Divine Plan."
"While husbands and wives can cling to the unconditional promise that they made at their wedding as a source of grace, this will require persistent effort," the bishops wrote. "Maintaining the common courtesies — persevering in fidelity, kindness, communication and mutual assistance — can become a deep expression of conjugal charity. It means growing in a love that is far deeper than a romantic feeling."
Unfortunately, marital enrichment programs aren't available in many parishes, according to Lauren Gaffey, director of administration and programs for Chicago-based Charis Ministries, whose Ignatian-inspired retreat, Christ Alive in Our Marriage, offers couples in their first five years of marriage the opportunity to reflect on how to best live out their marriage vocation.
"They go through the Pre-Cana [engagement] process that varies by diocese, and then there's nothing after their wedding," she said. "'We'll see you again when you're ready to get your kids baptized.' There's nothing specifically for young couples."
Though retreats and programs are available in some areas, fewer than 15 percent of U.S. parishes offer a good range of resources for young married couples, according to one estimate by Illinois marriage expert Lorrie Gramer. And these programs are needed more than ever.
Though a recent study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University reveals that Catholics are less likely to divorce than non-Catholics, other data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that about half of first marriages end in divorce. Many couples who don't divorce early struggle for years before seeking counseling.
One problem is that many couples haven't had much catechesis and suddenly have a lot to take in as they are preparing for marriage, said Ed Hopfner, Marriage and Family Life director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Couples might need to be mentored again because of all the distractions before the wedding, Gaffey agreed, adding that this is why the Christ Alive in Our Marriage retreat is so effective.
Once they are married, "they have a vague concept of what the vocation of marriage was, what the sacrament means, what it means in life," she said. "[With] the engagement process there's a lot of other stuff going on competing for attention."
Just letting engaged couples know that they can find help from their parish can be reassuring, said Bethany Meola, assistant director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth. Meola manages the USCCB's website on marriage — foryourmarriage.org — which offers a range of spiritual and practical information about engagement and marriage at any stage, along with links to marriage-related contacts in local dioceses.
"Making it clear during marriage prep that the Church is a place they can turn to when they encounter difficulties — I think even just planting that idea in an engaged couple's mind can bear a lot of fruit," Meola said. "When they encounter that difficulty, and they realize maybe this isn't as easy as we thought it would be, they know who they can turn to."
Couples can learn the skills to handle those difficulties, Coffin said. "Most couples don't have a clue what do you do when you're hurt and annoyed and angry and disappointed," Coffin said. "It's like, 'What did our parents do?' How do you understand your partner when they see the world completely different than you do?"
Unfortunately, most pre-marriage programs don't prepare couples for the long haul, and many couples don't receive enrichment after they're married, said Greg Alexander, co-founder of San Antonio-based Alexander House whose Covenant of Love education and enrichment program for engaged and married couples is being used by 100 parishes.
"If you look at the vocations and professions in our society today, you'll find if you are a doctor or teacher or accountant there's always some kind of continuing education to satisfy," he said. "And here we have the vocation of marriage that we're called to live for a lifetime. We act as if the 'I do' at the altar should take us to 'death do us part.'"
For young couples, enrichment programs could help them turn a tolerable relationship into a really good marriage, Hopfner said.
A marriage may be working, "but I don't think God intended us to be 'fine,'" he said. "He didn't send his son to die for us just to be fine. That doesn't mean marriage is always going to be happy and peaceful, but I think the couples I know who have really good marriages are couples that work at it and know what they need to do to work at it."
Susan Klemond writes from Minnesota.
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Unlike owners of high performance and bass boats, houseboat owners frequently don't pay a lot of attention to their propellers until they have an encounter with an underwater obstruction. After their props get hammered back into shape, they frequently forget about them again until the next time they run afoul of a "skegosaurus."
But high fuel prices are just one reason houseboat owners might consider paying a little more attention to their wheels. Props that have been on a boat for a long time and even props on newer boats that look fine can reduce performance and lower efficiency which costs extra money at the fuel dock and also puts an added strain on the drive train.
Over time, the size and shape of a prop changes. Prop erosion from normal wear reduces a prop's diameter and the erosion is quicker and greater on boats that are frequently beached. A boat also undergoes changes over time so what was the right prop for a new boat may no longer be the correct prop as the boat ages.
Newer boats with Electronic Control Modules (ECM) also have a critical need for properly sized and tuned props in order to perform at their peak efficiency. One of the module's jobs is to make adjustments that protect the engine so when a prop is badly out of specifications, the module will make sure the engine is safe regardless of how that lowers efficiency.
Although propeller discussions can get incredibly technical, houseboaters need to understand a few basics. Props come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and materials and houseboats with sterndrives generally swing aluminum props but inboard-powered boats use naval bronze or brass propellers.
The crucial factors are the diameter and pitch and those are stamped on every prop with the diameter always being the first number. Larger diameter wheels are usually better for houseboats so correct pitch selection follows from there. The right combination allows the boat to run in the engine manufacturer's wide open throttle (WOT) revolutions per minute (rpm) range. WOT varies from engine to engine. Some older engines may reach WOT around the 4,000 to 4,400-rpm range while newer boats can peak around 5,000-rpm. At WOT, the engine produces maximum horsepower. If the engine turns at higher rpms, or more commonly, less rpms than the WOT recommendation, there is an overall reduction in power and efficiency at all speeds including the cruising rpm range. For every one-fourth of an inch a prop is short-diametered, for instance, the boat loses about 150-rpm so a boat propped one inch undersize will lose 600 rpms at WOT. Improper propeller pitch adds more rpm drop.
The process of propeller manufacturing, selection and repair has evolved significantly over the last few years due to the use of computerized equipment and sophisticated programs. Prop selection is no longer a trial-and-error-guessing-game but is done with computer programs that analyze data about the boat, engines, transmissions, gear ratios, and the existing WOT reading to determine what the optimum prop should be.
Boat manufacturers are increasingly building boats with higher performance standards so new props have to attain much higher standards than in the past. Highly accurate Computer Numerical Controlled milling machines can produce those tight tolerances. Many prop companies used to measure accuracy with their own standards but most now adhere to tolerances developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). A Class S prop has the tightest tolerances and props are increasingly less precise down to Class 3. Most factory props now meet Class I standards which allow a deviation of three-fourths of one percent and some even reach the higher Class S standards.
Computerized equipment has likewise greatly improved the precision of propeller repair. What used to be mainly a matter of the art and skill of the repairman with a drop gauge pitchometer, a mallet and pitch block has given way in a lot of repair shops to equipment like the Hale Measurement Recording Instrument Propeller Measuring System (Hale MRI) which is distributed by Michigan Wheel Corporation.
Don Jackson, Executive Director of the National Marine Propeller Association (NMPA) says he knows craftsmen who can achieve high repair standards without the use of computer-aided equipment. But he also says it would probably take them considerably longer than a computer-aided technician and spending the necessary hours to manually achieve extremely high tolerances may be cost prohibitive.
An MRI system shows how and where each blade is out of specification by determining deviation at hundreds of points. That information is plotted on a color-coded graph that also displays a curve showing how the prop should look. After repairs, the prop is re-scanned to gauge the results.
Gary Linden, of Linden Propeller Co. in Dubuque, Iowa has been on the cutting edge of the advancements in computerized repair technology for some time. He was the first in the Midwest to use a Hale MRI and now has pushed the envelope further by designing and using another piece of sophisticated equipment.
Linden and his uncle, Jack Linden, a retired mechanical design engineer and a boater, have built a bending table that uses hydraulic pressure to reshape props much more gently, quickly and accurately than banging on them. Called the Prop Press 360, they are close to receiving their patent and are now marketing the equipment to other repair shops.
The machine has caught the interest of the folks who make the Hale MRI. Randy Hale says they have designed a remote arm that will connect their MRI scanner with the Prop Press 360. That will eliminate the need to scan a prop on one machine then move it to another for bending before moving it back to the scanner for follow-up readings. With the two machines connected by the arm, a prop can be locked down, scanned, re-shaped, and rescanned without moving it. A repairman will be able to tune each blade to perfection before working on the other blades. That is a huge time-saver because to do it right Linden says, "we don't eyeball anything" so a prop might easily have to be tuned and re-scanned a dozen times.
When a prop comes in for repair, it is first stamped with a number that is used for inventory control and also has the shop's code. The imprints show how many times the prop has been repaired and who did the work. After getting a hydrochloric acid bath, oxidation is removed with an abrasive clean-up wheel so the prop can be easily inspected for pitting and cracks.
Linden determines each blade's diameter through an elaborate patterning process that begins with pounding down any damaged or curled edges to create the fullest degree of diameter. By scribing a series of arcs and using a pattern of a new blade to compare with the damaged blade, he determines where new material needs to be welded on to achieve the correct diameter. A tungsten inert gas (TIG) welder and naval bronze filler rods are used to build up the diameter. After cooling, excess material is sanded off.
From there, the scanner gives him a clear picture of where and how much each blade needs to be re-shaped. It also tells him if a blade has been knocked off center and needs to be re-spaced. That is common when the prop has had a significant impact.
The re-contouring and re-positioning process is the heart of the "black art" of propeller repair because even with high-tech equipment, it comes down to whether the technician has the instinctive touch, feel and knowledge to know how his efforts affect the prop. Maintaining the proper camber across each blade is one of the highly evolved skills that require practice and experience. The very best master technicians have such a finely honed sense of the blade's contours that it sometimes seems like they use a bit of magic.
After the prop is bent and re-scanned, the process is repeated until the results are satisfactory. With the Hale MRI, every pitch can be measured to five decimal points. The last step is to balance the prop.
Jackson says Linden is different from some other shops because he "is a bit of a finicky old lady about his work. He really cares about what goes out of his shop," which is why he personally does all the dirty, stinky, smelly and difficult work on bronze props and also inspects all props before they leave his shop.
For props with less than obvious terminal damage, deciding to repair or replace is best determined once the prop is scanned. Linden says he can re-size a prop by adding up to about one-inch in diameter and adjusting a pitch that is plus or minus the inches. Beyond those numbers, the cost of repairs gets prohibitive so the prop needs to be replaced but it can be re-sized and pitched as close as possible to serve as a back-up.
The cost of prop repair is a function of time and material. That is why, says Jackson, the use of a scanner and bending table, although not cheap equipment, can bring prices down for a boat owner by helping a repairman turn out more repairs with a greater degree of precision in a shorter period of time.
When considering re-propping a boat, Linden recommends an owner take some steps to ensure the data fed into the computer is as accurate as possible to avoid the "garbage in- garbage out" syndrome. The first step is to check the boat's tachometer readings against those from a portable photo tach reading of the flywheel, prop shaft or harmonic balancer. Make sure the carburetor linkage is allowing full fuel flow and then check the engine's timing. Verify that the maximum spark advance is being attained at the specified rpm and even check the fuel tank vents to make sure they are not clogged with critter or buffing pad debris.
While propeller repair is a mix of art and science, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand that poorly sized or tuned props can be a major problem for a heavy houseboat under load. Perhaps it is time to give a little more thought to the big wheels that move your boat through the water.
For more information:
Linden Propeller Co.
Michigan Wheel Corporation
Propeller sizing analysis, Hale MRI
National Marine Propeller Association
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With over six inches of rain in the past month in many parts of the Upper Midwest, farmers are enduring one of the wettest springs in years. Standing water, washout and hail damage have affected many areas. Some farmers have had to face replanting while others, with standing water, are concerned about the nitrogen that was lost. The big question is: how will the heavy rainfall affect yields?
According to Brad Weber, an account manager for Pioneer, loss of nitrogen and replanting are the two primary areas of concern. He says, "The heavy rain impacted a lot of areas where the water caused a loss of nitrogen from having saturated soils for an extended period of time. Also, anywhere with washout, or low-lying areas, may need to be replanted."
To replace the nitrogen that was potentially lost from standing water, Weber says, "Farmers can possibly do some rescue treatments with side-dressing by later applying nitrogen." Also, while replanting is a viable option, Weber says its effect on yields depends greatly on the weather. "With replanting, your total yield potential is less but, in general, it will depend a lot on the weather. We can still have a pretty good crop if we get it planted within the next couple weeks and the weather cooperates."


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REGION- State Rep. Frank Farina, D-Lackawanna/Wayne, will host two workshops for local first response groups on Feb. 20 at the Lackawanna County 9-1-1 Center, 30 Valley View Business Park, Jessup.
From noon to 3 p.m., Samantha Dorn, a senior grant consultant, grant writer and reviewer, will offer tips, advice and training for local fire companies and EMT departments that are looking for funding to reduce local costs and to acquire surplus equipment.
From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Fire Commissioner Ed Mann will answer any questions the local departments may have.
Light refreshments will be available.
"The search for grant money is more critical for these local groups than ever before," Farina said. "With the state looking to limit spending, and local governments trying to avoid massive tax increases, these groups need to supplement their funding elsewhere, and this workshop will provide great instructions as well as sources to assist them. Commissioner Mann will be able to follow up on any questions that arise from the earlier grant-writing session."
The workshops are free, but reservations are required. Interested first response organizations should contact Farina's constituent service office at 570-876-1111or email email@example.com to reserve a spot.


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Earth : Europe : Turkey : Aegean Turkey : Central Aegean : Selçuk
Selçuk is a town in Aegean Turkey.
Get in
To get in, you can either take the train, which is slower but more economical (*As on 09 October 2009, this service still suspended), or the bus (dolmus) from Izmir. In the otogar, which is located in the center of the village, you can easily go to Izmir, Pamukkale and other places of Turkey.
If you come from Pamukkale, you can take a 20 YTL bus in town easily. They serve with drinks and snacks as well.
By plane
There is a small airport in Selcuk but it is only for private planes. Use Izmir Airport, it is only 55 Km to Selcuk.
Izmir Airport
From Izmir airport you have two options. You can take the bus there, but the terminal is not located in the airport. You can take a taxi (10 lira) to the Selcuk Otogar Station. At the taxi tell them you want to go to Selcuk - Ephesus Otogar. Its about 2km away.
At the station, which really isn't a station you will see a bus stop and some benches. You want to get on the bus (in reality its like a big van) to Selcuk -Ephesus. This sign should be on the front of the mini van. Ask around as there is one person in charge who can help you. From here, it is 7 lira to get to Selcuk's bus station.
The ride will take roughly one hour. It will stop in many stops along the way (some in some remote areas), and just stay on till the very end.
Option two: Go by train. From the airport there is normally a connecting train station. As of January 2010, there are 4 trains per day connecting Izmir Airport to Ephesus/ Selcuk and points south.
Get around
There are mini-buses (dolmus) to Sirince and Ephesus. To go to the House of Mary you may need to take a taxi .
Rented motorbikes or scooters can be a fun way to discover the surroundings of Selcuk. If you rent a bike note that both Sirince and the House of Mary are up in the hills.
Selcuk is a good starting place for many excursions and visits in the area.
In the city center there are other very interesting spots:
A day trip to Sirince (8km out of Selcuk). Nestled in the hills, small little village, narrow winding streets, great wines and lots of small cosy wine bars to try them all out in. Beware staying there though as accommodation is very expensive (90euro)??
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If you're a parent of a little one and keen to meet other local families, then come along to Storytime!
Occurring on the second Friday of every month from September, Storytime will help you connect with other Elara parents in a relaxed setting, whilst your child enjoys sensory storytelling experiences that are sure to delight!
When: 2nd Friday every month
Time: 10:00 – 11:00am
Where: Livvi's Cafe. Elara Marsden Park, Elara Boulevard, Marsden Park
Cost: FREE
Places are limited so book your spot today! Participants must be registered to attend.
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A forum about Atari 16/32 computers and their clones. This forum is in no way affiliated with Atari Interactive.
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As well as with the test image.
ccarl84 wrote:The floppy emulator works on my TT. It no longer works on my MSTE.
I just reinstall it on the TT, it works.
ccarl84 wrote:I wonder if I should not re-install the distribution on the RPI2?
ccarl84 wrote:Another thing bizarre, but this may be from the beginning: on the MSTE when I click on a floppy image, it automatically mounts. When I do this on the TT, it considers the image as a read-only file. I have to mount the image by the program for the floppy disks.
ccarl84 wrote:I changed the cable ... it does not work.
I checked the connections ...
I do not know what to do.
Jookie wrote:Hello ccarl84,
sorry for not replying for a while, I've been busy with other things (other bugs and sick kids at home).
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Opinion: EPA Chief Announces Climate-Change Crusade
Wonder Land columnist Dan Henninger on EPA administrator Gina McCarthy's pledge to implement climate-change regulations without Congressional approval. Photos: Associated Press
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