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Apple Found to Have Colluded on E-Book Pricing
A federal judge found Apple colluded with five major U.S. publishers to artificially drive up the prices of e-books in the months ahead of its entering the market in 2010. Ashby Jones discusses the details on MoneyBeat. Photo: Apple.
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Rated: R for sadistic brutal violence including a rape and disturbing images, language, nudity and some drug use.
Release Date: 2009-03-13
Starring: Adam Alleca, Carl Ellsworth
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Official Website: http://www.thelasthouseontheleft.com/
'The Last House on the Left' is as uncomfortable a film as I have ever seen. Uncomfortable because the movie possesses elements that blur the lines between violence, abuse and entertainment. Cinematically, the film is arresting through and through due the high caliber of the production, the reliable and convincing acting performances and its engrossing premise to boot. But how can one recommend a movie that possesses a barbaric rape scene, as a good cinematic selection? It is a complex response, but ultimately, you need to be the judge.
This is the third remake of 'The Last House on the Left'. In 1972, the first feature effort of Wes Craven, was a reworking of Ingmar Bergman's 1960 picture, The Virgin Spring, which won the 1961 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. This third version, is more reminiscent to the 1972 edition. The story takes place after the kidnapping and butchering of two female teenagers. The guilty gang unknowingly finds refuge with the parents of one of the victims, hosts who devise a gruesome revenge.
Women be forewarned. If you have never been privy to scenes of sexual abuse, this is not the film to get acquainted with it. The rape scene images seen here are some of the most gruesome, disturbing and down right reprehensible ever committed to a Hollywood film. I'm not sure many will be able to withstand it and walking out of the theater just might be your best option. But if you can cover your eyes and get through it, there is a redeeming third act that will quench your thirst for revenge.
After seeing the entire film, I must say, Greek director Dennis Illiadis was a fantastic director who maintained a level of dread, suspense and retribution throughout the whole film. This is not a horror movie but a highly intense thriller that works the mind to feel contempt in its first half then vindication in its denouement.
'The Last House on the Left' is not a "pretty" movie, but it does challenge the boundaries of entertainment, and hopefully with an open mind, you'll be the one entertained.


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GTA02 sysfs
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Current being drawn from battery (+ve) or pushed into battery during charging (-ve) in uA
Current being drawn from battery (+ve) or pushed into battery during charging (-ve) in uA
Coulomb Counter's estimate of the capacity of the battery measured in
Coulomb Counter's estimate of the capacity of the battery measured in . It roughly means that if full, for one hour it could supply current at this rate. I saw 1197913 reported on mine, so it estimates it can provide 1.2A for an hour.
This is the battery temperature reported by the Coulomb Counter chip that is part of the physical battery. It is in Celcius * 10, so 251 means 25.1 degrees.
This is the battery temperature reported by the Coulomb Counter chip that is part of the physical battery. It is in Celcius * 10, so 251 means 25.1 degrees.
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Latest revision as of 20:53, 27 October 2009
NOTE: These only apply to Linux kernel 2.6.24, 2.6.28 has different paths (see below)
[edit] GTA02 Kernel sysfs highlights
sysfs is a filesystem that is mounted on /sys which contains various fake "files" that are actually filled by a variety of drivers and other kernel subsystems. You can often also write stuff into these "files" using
echo 1 > /sys/blah...
to change settings and behaviours of the kernel and drivers dynamically. (When doing this, take care you have a space before the redirection operator > or the shell will do something completely different with your command.) However[1], one should use Dbus device APIs!
[edit] USB Host / Device
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode
- Defaults to 0, GTA02 USB hardware is configured to be a device, no power is generated for USB, charging is enabled and host 15K pulldowns are removed from D+ and D-
- Set to 1 to put the GTA02 USB hardware into host mode, so it starts to generate 5V power, disables charging from USB, and applies 15K pulldowns to USB D+ and D-
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode
- Defaults to "device", it means the USB peripheral in the CPU is logically configured for device mode
- Set to "host" to logically configure the peripheral to act like a host for other USB devices to be plugged into it
Normally you set these two guys at the same time for the same mode, but there is a trick possible to select logical host mode but leave the power arrangements as if it was in device mode and apply external power. You need to externally add 15K pulldowns on D+ and D- if you do this, because we did not enable them the normal way. With this, you can have a USB device attached to GTA02, and use external power and charge the battery at the same time.
[edit] GSM Subsystem
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/power_on
- Defaults to "0", GSM power OFF
- Set to "1" to enable power to GSM logic
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/reset
- Defaults to "0", no reset
- Set to "1" briefly after power applied to reset GSM logic
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/download
- Defaults to "0", no insane clicking sound
- Set to "1" to drive yourself crazy and enable serial access to GSM chips down headphone socket / once a second loud clicks / chirps
[edit] Resume Reason
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-resume.0/resume_reason
If you cat this you get a list of possible resume sources in text with one or more * at the left of the active source that woke us. You need a recent U-Boot to get the * set.
[edit] MEMCONFIG
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-memconfig.0/BANKCON0 .. 7
For extreme meddlers (I salute you), these let you control the wait states and other characteristics of the memory regions of the FreeRunner. Information and warnings about how to use these are here:
[edit] FIQ and HDQ
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/sc32440_fiq.0/fiq/count
FIQ is used to provide precision interrupt service in order to implement the HDQ protocol used to the battery couloumb counter. This shows how many FIQ interrupts have been run since the kernel started. It's turned off unless it is required.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/gta02-hdq.0/hdq/dump
If you cat this, you will see the raw contents of HDQ device register space. This is the bq27000 couloumb counter in our case.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/gta02-hdq.0/hdq/write
This allows you to write to raw HDQ registers, using "<decimal register index> <decimal value>"
[edit] power_supply battery information
Most of these are coming from the coulomb counter over HDQ dynamically, but the bq27000 does not update a lot of its registers any more often than once per 4 seconds. Therefore a lot of this info can be a bit stale or averaged over that period.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/uevent
All informations about battery.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/type
Just says "Battery"
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/status
This will summarize what goes on generally with the battery
- "Not Charging" - there's a charger in, but right now it isn't charging us. Normal if you are fully charged and still powered.
- "Charging" - there's a charger in and it is charging the battery
- "Discharging" - we are running on battery
- "Full" - not normally given as a result (Not Charging used instead)
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/voltage_now
Battery voltage in uV, averaged. Obviously this depends on load and place on discharge curve, etc.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/current_now
Current being drawn from battery (+ve) or pushed into battery during charging (-ve) in uA
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/charge_full
Coulomb Counter's estimate of the capacity of the battery measured in uAh. It roughly means that if full, for one hour it could supply current at this rate. I saw 1197913 reported on mine, so it estimates it can provide 1.2A for an hour.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/temp
This is the battery temperature reported by the Coulomb Counter chip that is part of the physical battery. It is in Celcius * 10, so 251 means 25.1 degrees.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/technology
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/present
- "0" the battery is absent, or not one with a Coulomb Counter
- "1" the smart battery is present
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/time_to_empty_now
At current rate of discharge, estimate of how long we can run for. If battery is not discharging, it won't make an estimate and will return a magic value "3932100" meaning "no estimate". The coulomb counter averages the load and adjusts this value slowly to be its estimate of when we will blow chunks.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/time_to_full_now
This estimates how long until we are fully charged, at current rate of charging, in seconds. If we are not charging, it gives the magic value "3932100" meaning "no estimate".
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/capacity
This is the remaining capacity of charge in the battery in percent. This is probably the most useful figure here.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/online
- "0" no charger is present
- "1" A powered charger is present
[edit] PMU info
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/chgmode
- "enabled" means the charger is powered and willing to charge, although if you're full it might not be right now
- "disabled" means there was no power or not enough power supplied to charge
Looks like it may also report "fast" here. OlivierBerger 07:47, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/charger_type
Shows the detected charger type followed by the mode it is running in. So "charger 500mA mode 100mA" would be the case for non-enumerated USB connection, "charger 500mA mode 500mA" for after enumeration (or "host/500mA usb mode 500mA" as here OlivierBerger).
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/force_usb_limit_dangerous
This is added to allow the PMU to be told to take more current than the default rules allow. Use it only if you know your charger source can handle it. For example
echo 500 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/force_usb_limit_dangerous
will allow PMU to draw 500mA even though you are connected to a dumb charger where the limit is normally held at 100mA, since it didn't enumerate the GTA02. You can give 0, 100, 500 or 1000 here, but make sure your charger source can handle what you give here, otherwise it can exceed what is safe for your charging source to provide.
More details at Forcing_fast_charge_mode.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/dump_regs
cat this to get a dump of the I2C registers for the PMU, useful for debugging power problems.
[edit] Bluetooth
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-bt.0/power_on
- Default "0" no power to Bluetooth device
- set to "1" to enable power to Bluetooth
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-bt.0/reset
- Default to "0", no reset
- set to "1" to reset BT (needed after powerup)
[edit] GPS
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron
- Default "0" GPS unpowered
- set to "1" to power GPS section
[edit] Audio codec
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/soc-audio/codec_reg
cat this to get a dump of codec registers. Note they are 9-bit wide.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/soc-audio/codec_reg_write
You can write to any codec register by echoing "<codec reg index in hex> <value in hex>" to here
[edit] Glamo
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/glamo3362.0/regs
cat this to get a dump of selected Glamo regs. You can write the regs by echoing "<glamo reg index in decimal> <value in decimal>" here.
[edit] LED & Vibrator
(per: Jeff Tickle)
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-vibrator.0/leds/neo1973:vibrator/brightness
For the Vibration, my very limited testing indicates it will accept a range of 0-255, with 0 being off and 255 being full force. So, you can actually set the strength of vibration.
Keep in mind that the vibration will positively eat your battery, so use with caution!
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/gta02-led.0/leds/gta02-aux:red/brightness
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/gta02-led.0/leds/gta02-power:blue/brightness
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/gta02-led.0/leds/gta02-power:orange/brightness
For the LEDs, you can echo 1 for on or 0 for off to any of these files to control the state of the LEDs.
[edit] Accelerometers
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.0/power/wakeup
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.1/power/wakeup
Turns on accelerometers.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.0/dump
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.1/dump
Dumps accelerometers raw contents.
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.0/full_scale
[edit] /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.1/full_scale
Switches the accelerometers between 2G and 8G mode. Echo "9.2" into it for 8G, any other value for 2G (default)[2]
[edit] GTA02 Kernel sysfs highlights for kernel 2.6.28
(info from: http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1569863
Warning: this is still a work in progress, and things might still change in the future.
Here are the current /sys mappings for andy-tracking (which has Balaji's regulator PMU stuff). The reason virtually everything has changed is mainly due to the device tree changes to fix suspend - resume, many more things have a child relationship to the PMU now.
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode
[edit] new: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode
[edit] same: /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode
(from 901d73fe51f33032b34b2ae5612eb863ec90532a moved to /sys/devices/platform/s3c-ohci/usb_mode)
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/power_on|reset|download
[edit] new: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/...
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-resume.0/resume_reason
[edit] new: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-resume.0/resume_reason
/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/resume_reason (split into CPU wake interrupt and secondly PMU-specific reason)
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/sc32440_fiq.0/fiq/count|dump|write
[edit] new: /sys/devices/platform/sc32440_fiq.0/gta02-hdq.0/hdq/...
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat/
uevent|type|status|voltage_now|current_now|charge_full|temp| technology|present|time_to_empty_now|time_to_full_now|capacity| online
[edit] new: /sys/class/power_supply/battery/...
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/
[edit] new: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-mbc/...
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-bt.0/
[edit] new: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-regltr.6/neo1973-pm-bt.0/...
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron
[edit] new: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-regltr.7/neo1973-pm-gps.0/power_on
[edit] same: /sys/devices/platform/soc-audio/codec_reg|codec_reg_write
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/glamo3362.0/regs
[edit] new: /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-regltr.9/glamo3362.0/regs
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-vibrator.0/leds/neo1973:vibrator/brightness
[edit] new: /sys/class/leds/neo1973:vibrator/brightness
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/gta02-led.0/leds/gta02-aux:red/brightness
[edit] new: /sys/class/leds/gta02-aux:red/brightness
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/gta02-led.0/leds/gta02-power:blue/brightness
[edit] new: /sys/class/leds/gta02-power:blue/brightness
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/gta02-led.0/leds/gta02-power:orange/brightness
[edit] new: /sys/class/leds/gta02-power:orange/brightness
[edit] old: /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.{0|1}/


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State cuts hit everything from combat pay to Mystic Aquarium
Among the $170 million in "rescissions" - cuts to the current fiscal year expenditures budget - announced Wednesday by the Malloy administration are many that will affect local programs, schools, social services, and arts and tourism.
Administrators in those agencies talked Wednesday about what the cuts will mean to their clients and customers.
Veterans and the military
State Veterans Affairs Commissioner Linda Schwartz said the $177,000 cut to her department means she will not be able to fill some of the open positions or help reimburse families for the cost of setting up government headstones for veterans. There will be less funding for support services for veterans but, Schwartz said, veterans' service organizations help with those expenses and activities.
The Military Department, which includes the Connecticut Army and Air National Guard and state personnel who support the Guard, will receive nearly $16,000 less for its honor guard, which renders honors at military funerals, and $8,000 less to pay the $50-per-month bonuses for time served in a combat area.
Col. John Whitford, spokesman for the Connecticut National Guard, said there was about $320,000 in the honor guard account at the start of the fiscal year. The department will look for federal funding and assistance to help offset the cut, he said.
Whitford said the department still should have enough money to pay the bonuses but will monitor it closely. The most each Guard member may receive is $1,200.
The Office of Military Affairs, which was created after the Naval Submarine Base was nearly closed in the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment process, will receive about $23,000 less. Executive director Bob Ross said contingency funds were allocated to the office in case of a BRAC, but he doesn't foresee another round happening in the near future.
University of Connecticut
President Susan Herbst issued a statement saying that the $10.3 million in cuts to the university will effectively mean a $15 million reduction in state support, but that her policy will be "to protect what is most vital to us: our core academic missions of teaching, learning, and research, including the much-needed faculty hiring initiative that is underway. We will not halt our faculty hiring plan, and will keep building our research infrastructure."
She said "painful cuts" will have to be made to many nonacademic areas.
Cuts include a $7.1 million reduction for community and technical colleges statewide and $1 million in cuts to Priority School District funding.
Three Rivers Community College President Grace Jones said she didn't know yet how much of the Norwich-based college's $38.5 million budget would be affected.
"We know it's not anything we can do easily," Jones said.
Norwich public school Superintendent Abby Dolliver said she, too, is trying to learn details of how the $1 million in statewide cuts to Priority School District funding would affect Norwich. The city expected to receive $1.1 million in Priority School District funding this year.
The money covers, among other things, salaries and benefits for instructional coaches in every school, officials said.
New London Science and Technology Magnet School Director Louis Allen said Wednesday that it's "premature" to discuss how the $2 million cut to magnet schools will affect New London.
"It's so new to the magnet school office," Allen said. "They're just trying to look at the overall budget and see how they're going to absorb that (cut)."
State Department of Education spokesman James Polites said in a statement: "The Department is currently analyzing the impact of the actions taken, and we will work with our partners to minimize the effects upon our public schools and upon the implementation of our education reform initiatives."
The Judicial Branch would need to reduce its $482.5 million budget by about $5.7 million - 1.1 percent. Exact figures were unavailable Wednesday because the $5.75 million figure cited in the governor's letter includes both the Judicial Branch and the Division of Public Defender Services, a separate agency.
"The Governor's office reached out to us; we know we need to be part of the solution," said Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, program manager of communications for the Judicial Branch, in an email. "We are working out specifics of the plan, so we are not yet in a position to provide details."
Under the rescission plan, the Division of Criminal Justice, a separate agency that employs state prosecutors, will reduce its $49.5 million budget by $745,747, 2 percent. The largest cut, $600,000, would be to "personal services," which is payroll.
Other cuts include $53,131 from a new shooting task force program that targets violence in Hartford, New Haven and New Britain; $45,000 from the prosecution of Medicaid fraud; and $17,773 from the unit that investigates cold case murders.
Ed Dombroskas, executive director of the Eastern Connecticut Tourism District, which is losing $27,000, said the number was in line with expectations of a 5 percent reduction.
He said the district, which has a budget of about $540,000, would hold off on filling a vacant marketing assistant position and likely would cut back on tourism advertising next spring.
"The real question isn't so much how much is going to be cut this year, but how much will be cut next year," Dombroskas said.
Mystic Aquarium
Mystic Aquarium, which receives approximately $620,000 in state funding, is slated to be cut by $24,804.
Steve Coan, president and CEO of Sea Research Foundation, the aquarium's parent organization, released this statement: "We are confident that the Governor continues to be a strong advocate for tourism and for attractions and cultural institutions."
Shutdown reaches Day 28 as Trump, Pelosi feud heats up again


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Great Gable Climber's Log
rgg - May 29, 2012 12:46 pm Date Climbed: May 23, 2012Hot and sunny
From a distance, Great Gable already looked impressive, but descending from Kirk Fell, I very much wondered how a hiking trail could lead me up there.
Earlier, I had met several people who assured me that I wouldn't even have to scramble, but even from close by, I couldn't make out the upper part of the route to the summit plateau and the terrain looked steep. I felt a bit tired already, and it was the middle of the afternoon on a hot day, but nevertheless I decided to start up the clear path on the scree, trusting that the trail would show itself when I got higher.
It did. Above the scree, the route reached a big boulder field, and was marked by cairns. It also was a lot less steep than what it had looked like earlier on. Before I knew it, I reached the summit plateau.
markhallam - Aug 7, 2011 8:21 am Date Climbed: May 5, 2008With Jake the Dog
Did a long day with Jake, 5 year old golden retriever, over Great & Green Gables then round and up Scafell Pike before long descent back to Borrowdale. Jake didn't like the rocks on top of Scafell and got very hot - aided by the odd stream we found. But he was so tired at the end, I nearly had to cock his leg for him.
Attila the Hun - Aug 11, 2010 5:42 am Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2010as part of Borrowdale Fell Race
a long slog up from Sty head as part of the above race.
AndyWhaley - Jul 30, 2010 4:19 pm Date Climbed: May 31, 2010Eagles Nest Gully
Climbed via Eagles Nest Gully in excellent weather. Went onto Kirk Fell & Pillar. Great day out.
Simnel - Mar 3, 2010 12:55 pmLots of times
Hiked scrambled and rock climbed lots of wonderful routes. One of my favourite mountains.
Andy_Hornung - Jul 19, 2008 5:36 am Date Climbed: Feb 19, 2010A great day off
Great winter's day with superb views of Scafell group from the summit
Also on July 28 1982, en route frm Buttermere to Esk Hause, part of a week long backpacking tour of the lakes.
mountainmanmark - Jan 26, 2008 2:56 pmMemories
Climbed this one a few times by various routes depending on the group. One fond memory is on a very windy day having one guy quite literally picked up and thrown down the path, quite spectacular
norm79 - Jan 6, 2008 4:23 pmVarious routes
Climbed it from Sty Head and Beck Head. Done the climbers traverse, threaded the Needle. Classic mountain experiences...
J Fox - Jun 26, 2007 11:09 am Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2007From Honister Pass
My wife, 8 month old son, and 10 year old dog all made it to the summit. We had a nice scramble up parts of the Northwest buttress and descended via Green Gable.
tphubbard - May 20, 2007 6:08 pmIn about 1994
- have'nt been up it since, though I am hatching plans to do the Mosedale Horseshoe then Great Gable, Great End and the Scafells as a run.
Nanuls - Apr 27, 2007 8:37 amGreen Gable, Great Gable, Allen Crags and Glaramara
Did it in on my own in winter, superb views could see for miles
munroitis - Jan 29, 2006 3:54 pmRoute Climbed: Grey Crag, Green Gable & Great Gable. Date Climbed: 16th July 2000
After going way over the top with a series of Ghyll scrambles I emerged onto the shoulder of Grey Crag totally soaked. From here a traverse over Green Gable was made and then a contoured path around the back of Great Gable was followed until we came across the rock playground. The scramble to the summit was a bit OTT and in hindsite I put myself into possitions I shouldn't have.
All in in all having returned home in one peice on a glorious day I couldn't complain.
Phillip Stasiw - Dec 9, 2005 10:21 amRoute Climbed: Scramble up a gully near the Needle Date Climbed: 30th November 2005
A very nasty day in that visability was down to 100ft,rain and snow did not help, and carrying a rack and rope for a climb that never looked on due to conditions being bad when we left the car,ever the optimist we thought we had a 50/50 chance it would blow over,it didnt!!! Still,it's all about character building on days like that! fine area,better luck next time....
fdoctor - Jun 14, 2005 12:01 pmRoute Climbed: Sphinx Ridge Date Climbed: September 2002
A great day out with an old friend not seen for about 20yrs. Considering he taught Alan Hinkes to climb I guess I've missed out a bit! Done lots of other routes over the years, some scambles from the Needle, others walks from Wasdale and Honistor pass.
mountainmanjohn - Jan 11, 2005 11:25 amRoute Climbed: Many Date Climbed: 1995
Have been up via a few routes. Great mountain with fine views. The Sphynx and needle should get a visit, they add interest to the day.
Andy Kennedy - Jun 13, 2003 3:07 pmRoute Climbed: Sphinx Ridge followed by Westmorland Crag Date Climbed: 5th May 2003
Bad weather put an end to our climbing ambitions for the bank holiday weekend (typical!), so we elected to go for a scramble up Great Gable.
Coming from Stickle Tarn we contoured round onto the face and ascended up to Napes Needle which we promptly threaded! All very wet and greasy it wasn't all that pleasurable but still an experience to be savoured. After all on a fine day there would be a queue at this bottle neck, as it was we didnt see a single person on our scramble!
We continued up to the Sphinx where we joined the ridge of the same name taking in some exposed positions. Luckily the rock was drying out a little and progress wasn't difficult. On reaching the end of the ridge we prolonged our enjoyment with a scramble up Westmoreland Crag to the summit.
We descended down to windy gap, crossing Green Gable before desending further to the waiting car!
Excellent day for bad weather enthusiasts!
Chamonix Man - Apr 27, 2003 1:08 amRoute Climbed: From Honister Pass Date Climbed: 26 apr 03
Start Point/ end Point: NY226135 - Honister Pass. Ascent from the North East via Grey Knotts, Brandreth and green Gable. Descent was to the west, down to Black Sail Hut and then up to the pass known as Scarth Gap. From there over Hay Stacks to Honister Pass.
Route was 15k and took 4.5 hrs (at a very leisurely pace!)


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(CNN) -- Restaurant chain KFC has launched a scholarship campaign that aims to keep it short and "tweet."
The chain is running a scholarship contest using microblogging site Twitter to reach out to a younger generation. Applicants use 140 characters or less to explain why they deserve the $20,000 scholarship.
High school seniors have until November 26 to enter the contest, the chain said in a statement. The tweet should include the hashtag #KFCScholar.
"KFC is asking college hopefuls to tweet why they exemplify Colonel Sanders' commitment to education and enriching their communities, and why they are deserving of a college scholarship," the chain said in a statement.
The winner will be announced December 1 and will receive up to $5,000 a year for four years to go toward a bachelor's degree at an accredited university.
KFC said it awards more than 75 scholarships annually.
"This year, through one of the hottest emerging forms of media, we want to offer students a creative way to realize their dreams of obtaining a college education," the chain said.
The tweets that came in ranged from ambitious to playful.
"17-year-old young lady raised in the rough streets of Newark NJ with little opportunities but a lot motivation and a big dream," user Quintashia tweeted.
Others wanted to avoid debt.
"I should be the recipient!! It will take me the rest of my life to pay off my student loan. WIthout your Help! I volunteer," said user Keri Pulliam.
But others were not as serious.
"The brain and bowl of chicken are terrible things to waste," tweeted Nana Banful.


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The hotel is nestled on a private lake in prestigious Deep Creek, it's a relaxing change from the ordinary interstate hotel. All rooms beautifully appointed with 32" HD Flat Screen TV's, refrigerators, microwaves, coffee and Hampton's Cloud 9 Beds. After a day of travel, you will feel at home with Hampton Hospitality. Our beds guarantee sweet dreams! Hotel features On the House hot breakfast, fitness/business center, guest laundry, and heated pool & select balcony rooms overlooking lake. Great location, short drive to Downtown Punta Gorda and Englewood. Centrally located between Sarasota and Ft Myers.
Once you arrive, our friendly staff can easily direct you to all the area offers. While numerous restaurants surround the hotel, including Applebee's across the street, there are over 30 chain restaurants, mall, and movie theatre just five miles away. Or you can head to downtown Punta Gorda, and fantastic waterfront dining. The Peace River is only 2 miles away, where the Nav-A-Gator offers old Florida dining and entertainment. They also offer boat rentals, kayak rentals, air boat tours,and fascinating sight seeing or educational tours. There is nightlife in this quaint town, including Visani's Comedy Club only 2 miles away. Visani's has earned local awards for their food, as well as being named the #1 Rated Comedy Club in FL.
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TAMPA, Fla. – In the first meeting between both programs, the University of Tampa registered a 9-5 victory over the MIT men's lacrosse team on Sunday night. Junior Gabe Blanchet (Hadley, Mass.) posted two goals for the Engineers whose ledger lowered to 2-2 on the year.
The Spartans opened the game with back-to-back goals while freshman Bill Kelleher (Pittsburgh, Pa.) buried a man-up marker to put MIT on the board late in the first quarter. Both sides traded goals throughout most of the second quarter until Tampa scored twice during the final 2:19 to enter the intermission with a 6-4 edge. Sophomore Ben Hessels (Laytonsville, Md.), Blanchet, and sophomore Elliot Sykora (Wilmette, Ill.) each found the back of the net and created a trio of ties during the frame.
The early stages of the third quarter were a defensive battle before Blanchet cut the Engineers' deficit in half (6-5) at the 7:39 mark. Just over a minute later, the Spartans began a three-goal spurt which continued into the fourth quarter and put the game out of reach for the visitors.
In addition to his team-high scoring performance, Blanchet added four groundballs. Senior Bryan Beller (Dix Hills, N.Y.) chipped in three groundballs while sophomore Joel Santisteban (Lawrence, N.Y.) totaled three groundballs and two caused turnovers. In net, junior Christopher Rullan (Wexford, Pa.) tallied 13 saves and nine groundballs.
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SCCC students complete health programs
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SCHENECTADY -- Schenectady County Community College students on Tuesday graduated from the Certified Nurse Aide, Home Health Aide and Dental Laboratory Technician training programs.
The programs are administered via Health Profession Opportunity Grants.
Quintin Bullock delivered the keynote address at the ceremony in the Carl B. Taylor auditorium.
Bullock is leaving SCCC to become the head of the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, Pa., SCCC trustees announced last month.


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Facebook Has To Waste Money On 750 IBM Patents Just To Ward Off Other Patent Lawsuits
from the play-the-game,-waste-money dept
What this really shows is just how broken the patent system is. Facebook basically just had to waste a large chunk of money on a bunch of patents that have nothing to do with innovation, which won't help Facebook provide a better product for its users and which will only serve to create more money for lawyers somewhere down the road. That's not a healthy system. That's not an efficient system, and it's not one that's good for innovation or economic growth.


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Vazhaipoo vadai (Banana flower Vada)
Banana flower has lots of nutrient value - Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Calcium and iron too.
Cooked banana flower eaten with curd or boiled banana flower mixed with buttermilk is considered an effective medicine for menstrual disorders like painful menstruation and excessive bleeding. Banana flower helps increase progesterone hormone which reduces the bleeding in women.
More medicinal info from the comments left by MenakaSury :
banana flower has a medicinal value for a number of chronic ailments including dyspepsia,hook-worms in intestines, menorhoea. When taken with panan kalkandu, it is a definite cure for dysentry. Vazhaipoo combined with pasiparuppu and karunaikizhangu made into a vada (as described by you) cures peptic ulcers. But one must be careful to use the right oil for deep frying.
I am not also exaggerating when I say that the plantain flower mixed with cow's milk and plantain fruit (taken once in a week) is a good antidote for obese women. When the flower is mixed with aamanakku oil and fried, it has a good anti-inflammatory effect.
The flavor is a little bitter,but when cooked with the right ingredients it tastes really good. I like the fragrance it imparts to the vada and hence made vada with it.
To clean the banana flower, first remove the outer purple leaves. You will find a bunch of creamish yellow flowers. From each flower remove the hard stamen(with a black tip or just a thick round tip) and the cut the flowers finely.
Channa dal (soaked in water for 1hr) - 1 cup
Red chillies - 3
Garlic - 2 cloves
Cinnamon - 1/4 stick
Cloves - 3
Saunf (fennel seeds) - 1 tbsp
Banana flower (chopped) - 1 cup
Onion (finely chopped) - 1/4 cup
Coriander leaves (finely chopped) - 1/4 cup
Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
Methi leaves (chopped) - 1/4 cup
Salt - as needed
Oil - for deep frying
Grind the soaked channa dal along with cinnamon, cloves, garlic, red chillies, saunf and salt to a thick coarse paste. Add very little water while grinding as this will make the vada's soak less oil while frying. After grinding add chopped onion, chopped banana flower, coriander leaves and curry leaves and mix well. Heat enough oil in a kadai (wok) for deep frying. Take a small lemon sized ball in your palm and pat it flat and drop it into the hot oil. Remove the vada's after they turn golden brown. Serve these with chutney of your choice. They also taste good with ketchup.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Matt Hasselbeck ran off the field holding a football over his head, celebrating both a win and his 36th birthday. Whether he gets to pass to Kenny Britt again this season remains to be seen.
Hasselbeck threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Daniel Graham with 4:24 left, and the Titans rallied for a 17-14 victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday after losing the AFC's top receiver in the second quarter when his right knee buckled underneath him.
Britt limped out of the locker room wearing a brace, and coach Mike Munchak said the receiver would have tests to determine the extent of the injury. Hasselbeck found other players to throw to, including Graham, whose first catch of the season came against his former team.
"The bottom line is it's hard to win in this league," Munchak said. "Any win to me is a good win, and 2-1 is a lot better than the alternative."
Hasselbeck passed for 311 yards and two touchdowns to lead Tennessee to its second straight win.
The Titans intercepted Kyle Orton twice, sacked him once and also stopped Willis McGahee on fourth-and-goal at the 1 early in the fourth quarter.
"At the end of the day on the road, fourth and not even a full yard, I'd do it again next week," Denver coach John Fox said. "We've got to be able to get that and get that in. Unfortunately, we didn't."
Denver (1-2) had a last chance, driving to the Titans 38 before Will Witherspoon sacked Orton. Two plays later, Jason Jones batted Orton's pass into the air, and Witherspoon picked it off with 1:39 left to seal the victory.
"There's not much you can do about it," Orton said.
A veteran signed to mentor rookie Jake Locker and to win now, Hasselbeck did just that as Denver held Chris Johnson to only 21 yards on 13 carries in his third game back from his contract holdout. Hasselbeck took control on the go-ahead drive that started at the Tennessee 5, completing passes to five different receivers, with the longest a 58-yarder to tight end Craig Stevens. He also tossed a 14-yard TD to Nate Washington.
Munchak said not many quarterbacks could've handled losing Britt along with the struggling run game.
"He came here to win," Munchak said of Hasselbeck. "He didn't come here to retire quietly. He came here to make a difference and win, and he's doing that for us."
Hasselbeck said seeing a teammate leave with an injury can deflate a team, and there was confusion in the huddle and on routes.
"As a player, there's nothing you can do about it to help him, so the best thing you can do is get that out of your mind and just be focused on what your job is, and your job is to play," Hasselbeck said.
Britt, who had 271 yards receiving coming into the game, was hurt with 5:55 left in the second quarter. He had just caught a swing pass from Hasselbeck, eluded a tackler and tried to turn upfield when he fell to the ground and lost the ball.
The Titans forced Denver to go three-and-out, then punter Brett Kern came up with Tennessee's longest rush this season on a 21-yard scramble after a low snap.
"He wasn't able to return, so we were fortunate to come out with a win," Hasselbeck said.
Denver called the Titans dirty a year ago after winning in Nashville. Tennessee racked up a season-high 11 penalties for 80 yards compared to just one for Denver on a facemask Sunday. Munchak said the Titans have to keep their emotions in check.
But Tennessee outgained the Broncos 333-231. Denver had Brandon Lloyd back on the field but didn't score a point off two fumbles recovered. That included a fumble by Hasselbeck recovered at the Titans 13 late in the third quarter.
At the end of that drive, Fox took a timeout, pulled kicker Matt Prater off the field and went for it on fourth-and-goal. Derrick Morgan, Tennessee's first-round pick a year ago, stopped McGahee for no gain. McGahee finished with 52 yards on 22 carries, and he said the Titans wanted it more than the Broncos.
"If we would have scored, we would have won, no doubt about it," McGahee said.
The Titans led 10-7 at halftime before Orton took control of the third quarter with a 16-play drive using up more than eight minutes. He converted four third downs with completions, the last a 5-yarder to McGahee for a TD and a 14-10 lead with 1:17 left in the quarter. Orton was 9 of 10 for 51 yards on the drive.
Denver rookie Von Miller sacked Hasselbeck, knocking the ball loose, on the ensuing drive. That gave Denver the ball at the Titans 13 and seemingly all the momentum.
Hasselbeck completed 10 of his first 11 passes for 125 yards and a TD. He even connected with Johnson on a 34-yard pass down the left sideline that Fox challenged to make sure the running back got both feet in on the catch.
Notes: The Titans snapped the Broncos' three-game streak in this series. … Washington finished with a career-high eight catches for 92 yards. … The 58-yard catch by Stevens is the longest of his career. … Titans CB Jason McCourty picked off a pass for a second straight week and has four for his career.


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I'm currently trying to get XAMPP to work so I can use it to help me revise for an university exam but it wont work. I know that the version of XAMPP works because it worked on university computers but for some reason it won't work on my laptop, I had this problem before but couldn't solve it even after reading forums online. The Apache side of XAMPP won't start, it just flashes on and then goes off straight away. It says its assigned to Port 80 so I have tried looking for what service is using port 80 and I haven't found anything.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,


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The Gross Expenditure on R&D (GERD) changes mentioned in the last edition of this newsletter have been implemented, and are therefore no longer published in a separate release. This year GERD estimates were published in an appendix to the 2012 release of the Research and Experimental Development, Businesses, Australia (cat. no. 8104.0) collection (Gross Expenditure on R&D (Appendix))."
More information is available in the Forward Work Program, 2012-13 to 2015-16 (cat. no. 1006.0).
The Census is conducted every five years, but preparation for the Census begins long before that, with planning for the 2016 Census already well under way. As part of the ABS's goal of on-going improvement of statistical outputs, the ABS has released a consultation paper inviting Australians to comment on the proposals around content and procedures for the 17th national Census. While the paper addresses content for the entire Census, of particular interest to I&T users would be the section relating to 'Internet access', which is currently under review. With the rapidly changing ICT industry and the wide-spread use of the internet, for the 2016 Census the focus of the topic is moving from 'type of connection' to 'personal use of the internet' (e.g. voice over internet and teleconferencing, e-Health services, home-based work, accessing government services, buying or selling goods and services, entertainment, study-related activities, social networking and general browsing).
Further information is available in the Census of Population and Housing: Consultation on Content and Procedures, 2016 (cat. no. 2007.0).
The ABS is continuously investing time and resources into the development of new products as technology improves and data requirements become more specific. As such, the ABS has developed ABS.Stat an interactive, free online tool that presents datasets in a searchable and dynamic way. Currently data is available on the ABS website in an excel, PDF or .zip format, but with the release of ABS.stat on the 14th of December, 2012, datasets can be viewed within the web browser and exported, or through a web service interface using Statistical Data and Metadata Standard (SDMX). This allows machine-to-machine mechanisms to access ABS data. Not only can datasets be viewed, but they can be customised and queried, as well as being able to view the associated metadata. This allows users to cut-down or expand datasets to their own requirements, as well as allowing them to explore related outputs.
Users should note that not all datasets are currently available on ABS.stat. Internet Activity (cat. 8153.0) was one of the first datasets to be loaded and as development continues new datasets will continue to be added following their release on the ABS website. If users do find any issues, please email them to email@example.com.
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I sometimes devote space in the first column of the year to making unreasonable and unreachable resolutions that I have no intention of sticking to even at the time I make them.
In the past I've resolved to lose weight, quit beating my wife, get some exercise and generally become a better person. Needless to say, I have pretty much struck out on all those lofty notions except the one about beating my wife and, as those of you who know my wife understand, that never happened in the first place. Proof of that is I'm still alive.
So, instead of embarking on such a ridiculous fool's errand as to make empty promises about improving myself, I've decided to make suggestions for how other people can improve themselves. Mark Twain once said: "It is noble to be good. It is even nobler to tell others how to be good, and much less trouble."
First, to the persons in Nigeria, Kenya, Sierra Leone or wherever, who keep sending me e-mail entreaties about providing my bank account number so you can deposit huge sums into it, forget about it. Please just wrap diamonds of equal value in a brown paper bag and send those along by regular mail. I'm more than willing to take responsibility of exchanging the jewels for cash as I need it in my retirement.
Also, whoever it is who finds it necessary to offer me Viagra at bargain basement prices via the Internet several times every day, please stop. I don't need it.
Ditto on hot stock tips. If the investments were that good my broker would have retired already.
Also, I have recently re-financed my house and do not wish to go through another blood-letting any time soon, so I'd just as soon you cull me from your list of prospective victims.
I have more than enough credit cards. So, all the banks, airlines, car companies, etc., who bombard me daily with offers of zero percent interest on all purchases through March, get over it and quit filling my mail box with junk. For goodness sake, save a tree.
Jet skiers, stay away from me. You might think it looks cool to splash water all over the place, but when I'm trying to coax a reluctant fish (and they all seem to be hesitant) to bite I really don't want to be washed into a rock wall. And tell your water ski buddies the same.
Door-to-door salesmen, front porch evangelists, survey takers, I'm not home. Go away.
Drive-in-window attendants, if I wanted fries with it I would have told you. And quit mumbling.
I don't read Russian, so I have little use for e-mail written in that language. I'm also a bit rusty in Japanese, Chinese and Arabic.
Television network executives, advertising companies, and companies that pay the latter and use the former to create and display stupid commercials, please stop. And car dealership owners who feel called to do their own commercials: hire professionals. You look ridiculous.
The list goes on. I didn't realize so many things annoy me, but Mr. Clemens was absolutely right. This is much nobler and a lot less trouble than trying to improve myself. Just figuring out where to start would take weeks.
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Blues for John Coltrane, Dead at 41
William Matthews
Although my house floats on a lawn
as plush as a starlet's body
and my sons sleep easily,
I think of death's salmon breath
leaping back up the saxophone
with its wet kiss.
Hearing him dead,
I feel it in my feet
as if the house were rocked
by waves from a soundless speedboat
planing by, full throttle.
Short Set for a Long Suicide
for Bill Evans
that left hand, with its little clusters of stars
the gentle drift of the right
..........sleepy stream slipping over stones
how could we know this dreamy sound
was a body floating face down
so always graceful, always calm?


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Aug. 23, 2005
Lipscomb's Lady Bisons will prepare for their drive for the 2005-2006 Atlantic Sun Conference basketball championship with a pair of games against Atlantic Coast Conference teams.
The Lady Bisons, directed by Coach Frank Bennett, are on the road Dec. 19 in Winston-Salem, N.C., against Wake Forest. On Dec. 30 they travel to Tallahassee, Fla., for a meeting with Florida State.
Rounding out the pre-conference road schedule are a trip to Ohio to play Kent State Nov. 18, the official opening game of the season, and the Ball State Tournament in Muncie, Ind., The tournament field also includes Georgetown and North Dakota State.
The Lady Bisons start the season with a pair of exhibition games at Allen Arena. On Nov. 7 they play Alabama-Huntsville followed by a Nov. 12th game with Spalding.
Memphis visits Allen Arena Nov. 29 to mark the official home opener. Savannah State visits Jan. 9 for the last non-conference game of the season.
Conference play begins on the road in early December with a visit to Kennesaw State Dec. 1 and a trip to Johnson City to face East Tennessee State on Dec. 3.
The rivalry with Belmont heats up again with the Lady Bisons making the short trip down the boulevard on Jan. 17. The Bruins visit Allen Arena Feb. 28.
A-Sun home games at Allen Arena include Campbell (Jan. 5), Gardner-Webb (Jan. 7), North Florida (Jan. 26), Jacksonville (Jan. 28), Stetson (Feb. 2), Mercer (Feb. 4), East Tennessee State (Feb. 16), Kennesaw State (Feb. 18) and the regular season finale against Florida Atlantic March 2.
The remaining conference games on the road are Mercer (Jan. 12), Stetson (Jan. 14), Florida Atlantic (Jan. 21), Gardner-Webb (Feb. 9), Campbell (Feb. 11), Jacksonville (Feb. 23) and North Florida (Feb. 25).


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Orlando Bloom: Kate Bosworth Opens Up About 2006 Break-Up
Orlando Bloom answers a call on his cell phone on Tuesday (October 18) in Los Angeles.
Earlier in the day, the 34-year-old actor's wife, Miranda Kerr, was spotted on the other side of the country getting out of her SUV!
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Orlando's ex-girlfriend Kate Bosworth recently opened up about their relationship, which ended in 2006.
"[The break-up] sent me into such pain, I think I had actual vertigo. I was like, 'Is this my new reality? Will anything be normal again?'" Kate said to the Sunday Times Style (via Us Weekly) about the hard break-up.
"You wake up and you think, 'OK, I'll never be the same, but I'll survive and I'll grow from it,'" Kate concluded.
Also pictured inside: Orlando leaving a veterinary appointment with his dog that same day.
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We will teach them not to mistake our kindness for weakness
A search for honesty is right before our hands.
and Ill do anything to inspire those who feel
brotherless. I Know this message will reach few.
But what can I do?
This is the only war I wage..
I am prepared to fight.
With everything I got.
Just to prove im right.
Youll grow a thirst for truth.
After tonight.
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Hardeeville Fire Station 81 could soon be renamed in memory of John R. Buckner.
Buckner, who died in 2004 at 80 years old, made an impact in the community after returning from the Army during World War II.
Buckner was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Germany. Luckily, he made it back to his hometown and was awarded the Silver Star, Purple Heart and Air Medal POW.
When he returned to Hardeeville, he served with the volunteer fire department when it was operating out of an old gas station near U.S. 17 and S.C. 46.
He served from 1958-83 in the department, most of those years as the fire chief. Buckner was fire chief when the present station 81 was built.
During Buckner's tenure, the city hired its first paid firefighter. Through his years of involvement, Buckner worked beside many young firefighters who made fire service their careers.
Former City council member and Hardeeville firefighter Bill Horton suggested council consider renaming Hardeeville Fire Station 81 after Buckner.
Horton joined the Hardeeville Fire Department shortly after Buckner retired. He heard many stories about the impact he made in the department.
"He served as a mentor and father-figure to a lot of the young men and ladies of this area and was instrumental in building the department," Horton said. "If you talk to old members of the fire department, he was basically one of the founding fathers. He was highly revered by young men in the community."
Horton had the idea to name station 81 after Buckner years ago during his tenure on council, but it never moved forward. In July, Horton became serious about finding historical information on Buckner and called Linda Nease, the "unofficial Hardeeville historian."
"She knows everything about Hardeeville and is great at finding written records and dates then putting it into words," Horton said.
Nease started researching and developed a packet about Buckner to submit for consideration to City Council.
"His whole life was serving that fire department and to have the station named after him would be an exceptional award that he deserves," Nease said.
Council members Sal Arzillo and Scott Ready said at their Nov. 7 meeting that council needs to approve the fire station's renaming at the next meeting.
Greater Hardeeville Chamber of Commerce executive director Ava Comer said the chamber would organize the ceremony and coordination of the fire station renaming event.
"We do have streets, buildings and rooms named after others, but this is easy decision for us," Mayor Bronco Bostick said. "It's something that was discussed in previous years and I'm glad it's brought up again. We're going to make it happen."
Station 81 is located at 29 Martin Street and station 82 is at 2573 Argent Boulevard. Hardeeville will soon build a third fire station in January at Hilton Head Lakes.


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Color App is Back in Full Effect...Under Facebook
Back in March (that's a looooong time in Tech terms) I wrote about the Color app because I thought it was a pretty cool concept - So did its investors that dumped a ton of money into the app and the gobs of buzz and fanfare it received by the tech community. For whatever reason, the app's buzz didn't last long and it moved off the front pages.
Now the app is back, for the first time with a host of new features but this time under the thumb of big-brother Facebook. The app was announced today at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference as a photo-sharing app that relies on FB's new Open Graph that lets users request a short live video from other users who have shared interesting pics from their current location.
In other words, I just got back from a wedding cruise where I threw up some images of the wedding on Facebook. Of course, people commented on how cool the images were. If the new Color app was around while I was on my trip, those same users could've requested that I shoot some live footage of the wedding. Several of them could watch the feed as the couple exchanged vows while I streamed it from my camera through Color directly to Facebook.
...Or something like that. I Don't have all the details because the app for iPhone and Android is in the closed beta phase, so we will have to wait to find out about all the other features the new Color App will have.
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SF Sketchfest is underway, and that means soon The Business will be too! Our two Sketchfest shows are this week: Thursday the 21st and Friday the 22nd! Thursday will most resemble a normal Business show, and Friday will find us sharing the bill with some lovely out of town sketch groups who will not disappoint.
That being said, Thursday will also mark the return of Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits to The Business, and possibly some fantastic drop-in guests. If you came to our New Year's Eve Eve show, you know we were joined by Moshe Kasher and Todd Barry, and it was a hell of a show. You can get tickets here:
If you come to one of our Sketchfest shows, we will give you a coupon for FREE admission* to another Business show! You can't lose!
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Yarnbombing and You
The drive behind this blog, Modern Knitting, is to monitor what's going on in the yarn bombing community. So, for this week—and for however long you'd like—we're asking you to submit links to your blogs or links to pictures that you've taken of your yarn bombing. Plus, we'll put you in our blogroll to help everyone find artists in their area. People want to connect with like minds, and Modern Knitting would like to help bring artists closer together.
If you don't have a link to share—and even if you do—we'd love for you to post what yarn bombing means to you. Let's keep up the energy and keep spreading the joy.
Yarn bombing to me means:
*Turning something plain into something eye catching and fantastic
*Sharing your love and hard work with others
*A smile on a stranger's face
*Surprise and delight
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The A8-4555M is a low voltage processor designed with mobile gear in mind, so it has a TDP of just 19W. Power consumption is pretty low as according to our measurements the VS8 consumed up to 38W under full load. This is a few watts more than the HD4, but all in all the results are very impressive, since it offers more performance as well.
The Edge VS8 comes with a new look and it's a bit more flashy than previous HD-series systems. It is still tiny and can be placed just about anywhere. It is also much quieter than the Edge HD3 and a bit quieter than the HD4, and is among the quietest mini-PCs out there.
The really big difference is the choice of CPU. The A8-4555M matches the CPU performance of the Celeron 847 used in Edge HD4, but its graphics performance is second to none. The Radeon HD 7600G is DirectX 11 capable and it allows for light gaming at low resolutions.
In terms of storage, it could be better. Just like previous HD-series systems, it features a sluggish, 5400rpm hard drive. If you choose to replace it, you will void the warranty. We believe Sapphire should have provided alternatives, such as SKUs with hybrid drives, or small SSDs. The Edge VS8 is available as prebuilt unit and a barebones rig, so we will soon run a few tests with an SSD, just to check out what it is really capable of.
It is also worth noting that the VS8 ships without an OS, which will undoubtedly put off mainstream consumers who are not tech savvy. Other shortcomings include the awkward placement of both USB 3.0 ports and the sharp desktop stand. The desktop stand could have been a bit better. Sharp metal and rubberized plastic don't mix and in case you are careless you will scratch the sides. What really bothers us is the fact that we are talking about minor details that could easily be addressed at little to no cost.
All in all the Edge VS8 is very good mini PC with a speedy CPU and killer GPU. It is more than just another alternative to Atom and Brazos based systems, in terms of performance it is in a league of its own. In spite of that, the power consumption is low, it is quieter than other HD-series systems and at €379 it isn't too expensive, either. In barebone flavour it costs €299, which means you could put together an SSD system for about €450.


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With Wednesday's news of Ray Lewis' retirement following the Ravens' postseason, Sporting News is looking back on the career of the Ravens linebacker. Below is a conversation with Lewis printed in the October 26, 2009 issue of Sporting News magazine.
MORE: Photos through Ray Lewis' career | Players react to retirement news
'I want to be the greatest player ever'
Now that you know what drives the Ravens' 34-year-old linebacker on the field, wait until you hear what guides him off it.
It has been an up-and-down season already for 10-time Pro Bowler Ray Lewis, the definitive middle linebacker of his generation. Up came in September by way of a 3-0 record for the Ravens, with Lewis providing a momentous highlight in Week 2: a fourth-down mauling of San Diego running back Darren Sproles on the favored Chargers' final possession. Down came in October with a controversial defeat at New England (what's the penalty for breathing on Tom Brady?), a frustrating loss at home to the Bengals and a would-be defeat of the Vikings blown in the last seconds.
Cincinnati's Cedric Benson became the first player to rush for 100 yards against Baltimore in 40 games—ending a streak of which Lewis was immensely proud. (The Lewis-led Ravens also held runners without a 100-yard day for 50 straight games from 1998-2001.) But if that upset chipped away at Lewis' chances for a second Super Bowl ring in his 14th NFL season, it failed to claim a shred of his confidence, which was in full effect throughout a lengthy interview with Sporting News' Steve Greenberg.
SN: You seem older than 34—not the way you play but the way you carry yourself. Do you ever get that from people?
LEWIS: Yeah, I get that most of the time. I just think it's about how I was raised. My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. … There's always one way or another I'm trying to get better. It comes with an understanding of where I'm trying to go, not where I am.
SN: Are you still at the top of your game?
LEWIS: Easily. That's the beauty of it. Being at the top of your game means really feeling your influence over others, your influence over how you play the game, how your coaches grade you, how other players respect you. Not this or that outside source but inside the game. … That's what happens when you play amongst men who need you to be more than who you are. Your game changes. Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser. The game slows down. You don't have to waste energy anymore—it's now conserved because you're always in the right place.
SN: Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Brett Favre—everyone starts with them when talking about the best players of this era. Where should you fit into the discussion?
LEWIS: That's the thing—everybody just names quarterbacks. It's so easy to do that. "Ooh, he threw for 4,000 yards and so many touchdowns." That's the glamour of the game. I've always had one goal when I came into this business. I don't believe in the course of a game that a man can touch the ball 25, 30 times and get 100 yards on me. I'm the quarterback of the defense—that's my record. I'm talking about 50 straight games, and now another streak of (39) games. … Where do I rate? I only rate myself by my productivity and what I've been able to do. The 10 Pro Bowls and all that, a lot of it is personal, but I'm talking about (the numbers) of a great defense—that's what drives me and what pushes me. I'm talking about mastering the art of getting your players on the defense to understand that. That's the notch. I've lost coordinators, linebacker coaches, every other player on this defense. The thing I tell my mom all the time is, "No. 52 is gonna be right here." What I tell my teammates is, "Y'all do y'all's and don't worry about anything else—I got you. I got you!"
SN: Can a great middle linebacker truly be as valuable as a great quarterback?
LEWIS: They're equal in so many ways, but I will always give the edge to the middle linebacker. That person has to do everything. The same studying a quarterback does, he does that. The same read on the defense, he does that on the offense. But another thing he does that a quarterback doesn't do—that's the physical part. Down in that box, no one is seeing … the real hits that define who you are as a middle linebacker. But then they keep electing you to Pro Bowls because they say, "You can't run on him."
SN: You believe deeply that quarterbacks are overprotected by the rules, don't you?
LEWIS: That's the ultimate difference. There is no protection for us. The same game with the (roughing the passer penalties for hits on Brady), I had three guys, 300 pounds, come dive at my knees. Are you serious? I'm a man just like he is. I've got kids just like he does. (My knees) are going to pop—I'm not built for that. Just like the good book says, the Bible, all men are created equal. This game is so great and so respectful—don't let people stand out amongst men because all men are equal.
SN: Do you think anyone has played your position as well as you?
LEWIS: Well, you know, I'll tell you this, from Day 1—from college to this day—I've been chasing something. And not in a disrespectful way. I've never slowed down anyone else's path. I try to help guys like (the 49ers') Patrick Willis, (the Seahawks') Lofa Tatupu, (the Browns') D'Qwell Jackson. I mentor them. And I don't like to judge myself against anybody. But, at the end of the day, I want to be the greatest player ever to strap it on. Not just because I was able to make plays, but to do that and to influence men, the souls of men, the spirits of men, the willingness of men.
SN: Who is your successor as the game's next great middle linebacker?
LEWIS: I like Willis. But I use this example a lot: You don't ask Chuck Norris if he can beat Bruce Lee. Do you got great skills? Yes. Are you both deadly? Yes. But there's only one Bruce. I tell Patrick, "There's only one lion right now." I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him. That, for me, is the easiest thing about my game and football—they have to beat me as a man, and I just don't think anybody's working that hard.
SN: When people talk about the league's toughest players, your name always comes up. Well, yours and Brett Favre's. Are you the toughest guy in football?
LEWIS: Yeah, I play tough, and nothing really bothers me. Pain? No. I know my mentality is that on Sundays, I'm a free man. I will compete in any way possible. When you get me on that field, which is my gift as an ultimate warrior, I will lose my last breath out there. I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.
SN: Who's the best defensive player you've ever seen?
LEWIS: I saw so many great ones. Reggie White. Lawrence Taylor. One of the toughest ever was Ronnie Lott. Those guys make you appreciate that being a defensive player is totally different than offense. Great defensive players are construction workers, grinders. Their mentalities are different—there's a switch that comes on of always being (ticked) off. Don't ever challenge that lion when he's (ticked) off. I've seen a lot of great ones who carried that torch very well.
SN: When was the last time you felt as good on the field—as thrilled—as you did on that game-saving hit on Darren Sproles?
LEWIS: Aw, man. Incredible. You can take a million linebackers across this country—fast, strong, whatever—and they don't make that play because it all comes with the mastery, with years of studying, never getting comfortable, six, seven hours a day loading up the film. When that play (ended), I looked at my teammates and ran to them. It's like laying your greatest masterpiece on something that was already so great—like Bruce Lee and The Last Dragon. Oh, my gosh! That play took everybody who saw it on a quick rewind. Fourteen years! And he sticks him! I'm not going anywhere until the good Lord has me stop ticking. Then I'll walk away from the game willingly.
SN: Will you end your career as a Raven?
LEWIS: Absolutely. I won't do anything else. I wouldn't even consider it. No way. When you're embraced and a city loves me the way this city loves me … everybody knows it's my city. The Lord granted me this city. "You will be put here, you will serve here, build up this community, make sure they have something they never witnessed in their life—someone who will give everything up for hope, faith, love." The people here adore me, and I adore them.
SN: Are the Ravens a Super Bowl-quality team?
LEWIS: Yeah, this is definitely the best overall team I've been on in Ravens history. We're a very complete ballclub right now.
SN: We know you love quarterbacks. Just how good is Joe Flacco?
LEWIS: He is one of the reasons (laughs). He is a very, very special talent. Joe Flacco is going to be Joe Flacco—the essence, the Joe Montana-type release, the wherewithal to stand in that pocket at 6-6. He's way faster than people think, way bigger. The Lord blessed him: "You will be a quarterback." And anything else he was put on this earth to do.
SN: It's been over three months since your friend Steve McNair was killed. How much is he on your mind?
LEWIS: I don't forget him. I talk to his mom every Sunday, tell her, "You lost one son, but you've got another one here. We've all got to close our eyes someday. The Lord knew this day was coming and knew we were going to have these conversations." We talk. She tells me she loves me. She says, "Go do what you do." He never leaves my mind and my heart.
SN: It's going on 10 years since the night you were part of a violent scene in which two men were killed outside an Atlanta nightclub. All this time later, how do you reflect on that experience, and how did it affect your life?
LEWIS: You don't reflect on it. You move on. You do the same thing God did: Pray what you're going to pray and keep on rolling. You can't stay stuck in yesterday or you never see tomorrow. You can't let people keep you stuck in yesterday. The only perfect man who ever walked this earth was Jesus Christ. Don't let people keep recapping that. … It's mind-boggling that people so loosely write about an old story. Somebody's family is going to go across that and say, "Damn." It's sad that people take people through that. As their families have tried to move on, as my family has moved on … let it be so.
SN: What is Ray Lewis like outside of the football environment?
LEWIS: A clown. Probably one of the silliest people alive. I just love laughter, making people laugh. I love my family. My kids are freakin' awesome. I just love being Daddy, my daughter jumping on me, my sons punching me. I love laying in mama's house, being silly, scaring people, pouring water on people—that's one of my go-tos. You can't come visit me and doze off while everybody's sitting there. I have some classic footage on tape. I done got my mama, my daddy, everybody.
SN: Who are your heroes in and out of football?
LEWIS: My mom is probably my biggest hero. My grandmother. My grandfather, who passed. I had a roommate who passed who was one of my heroes. If I can choose another word, I call them my angels—people who really loved you for you and looked out for you and, when you didn't realize it, were praying for you. My high school coach (in Lakeland, Fla.), Ernest Joe—me not having a father at the time, he really stepped into my life and gave me direction. He said, "I see it in your eyes. You want something." … In my life now, I'm totally built to serve, built to lead men, serve this country, serve this world. I walk with who you are. I see a homeless person when I'm driving from Baltimore to Florida, I just stop. Whether they recognize me or not, it doesn't matter. I bless them, whether it's money or a word or laughter. People driving by me on the street, they don't realize it, but I bless them. Whatever you're going through, God's always God. Whatever we go through that has no internal effect, you might be the only Jesus they'll ever see. It's so captivating when people see two different sides of you. I'm a warrior on Sundays—don't challenge me. But off the field, I'm the nicest, coolest, hate-drama, hate-arguing, don't-like-confusion, don't-like-gossip guy. I like peace.
SN: Will a man of your powerful voice and leadership ability work for change in the community? Is that something you want to do with your life?
LEWIS: That's what I'm doing. I train the Baltimore police officers every Tuesday night. It's a huge camp about physical fitness. Mind, body and spirit. I work their behinds, and they look at me like, What the heck? I go where the gangs are to talk about their influence. I want to talk to people who write music: Stop writing about material things; write about love, hope, dedication, sacrifice. You've been given a table—what are you doing with it? If people are listening, are they striving to be a better person? It's the same thing when you're a public speaker. That's why I like going into the 'hood. I work out with these homeless men on Wednesdays. When they start getting tired, I'm like, "Look, success, or whatever you're looking for, ain't on the outside—it's inside!" I do so much people never know about, but I love it that way because it affects people differently.
SN: It's doubtful the Colts regret drafting Marvin Harrison at No. 19 in 1996, but how many of those other teams regret letting you fall to No. 26?
LEWIS: I remember that year, man. I watched all the big names go by. I can almost go through the whole first round. I said, "I will remember these things." Keyshawn Johnson one, Kevin Hardy two, Simeon Rice three, Cedric Jones five. (The Ravens selected offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden with the fourth pick.) At No. 20, I'm thinking the Dolphins are going to take me, then they take Daryl Gardener. I'm like, Man, they don't know what's inside me! I wasn't the biggest, the strongest or the fastest, but not one man was going to outwork me. So look at it now.


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Wheat acreage is up across the upper Southeast, indicating an increase in double-crop soybeans in the 2008 season. By making some critical management decisions now, growers can increase their chances of a top crop this fall.
In South Carolina some growers have had great success growing early maturity group soybeans, but drought, timing of harvest and other production practices are likely to keep that trend on the decline. The vast majority of soybeans planted in the state are likely to follow this year's big wheat crop.
It just makes sense to double-crop beans behind wheat, says Clemson University Agronomist Pawel Wiatrak. From an agronomic standpoint, full-season beans will usually do better, but from a risk standpoint, having two crops makes a lot more sense than depending on one, he adds.
One of the first management decisions South Carolina soybean growers need to make is variety selection and buying seed. The drought last year created some problems for supply, but more importantly for seed quality.
"Growers may have some difficulty in getting soybean seed, especially finding a specific variety," Wiatrak warns. Making variety decisions and buying soybean seed early may provide big benefits later on in the season, he adds.
In fields with a history of nematode problems, growers should take special care to take good soil samples and identify the type of nematodes. In these situations the first criteria for seed selection should be nematode resistance and second should be yield potential.
Growers, Wiatrak says, should look at local results and compare these to statewide soybean variety results and make their variety choice based on yield potential. In South Carolina, growers can find the county and replicated variety results at www.clemson.edu/edisto/soybeans. Or, they can contact their county Extension office.
Getting double-crop beans planted by July 1 is critical, because research has demonstrated yield goes down approximately a half bushel per day for every day past mid-June. Of course, this is highly influenced by the weather, Wiatrak points out, but is still a good reason to get double-crop beans planted on time, and if at all possible, no later than July 1 in South Carolina.
If planted past July 10, he strongly recommends beans be planted with a grain drill, using narrow (7-10-inch) rows. This gives soybean plants a better chance to overlap and to make better yields, despite the late planting.
Regardless of when soybeans are planted, planting in optimum moisture is critical, as is good seed to soil contact. Using disk coulters to open up and clean up the row and row packers to press the seed into the soil is good insurance for good seed to soil contact, Wiatrak says.
If growers have problems with hardpan, they should use deep tillage prior to planting wheat, and do not need to use tillage prior to planting soybeans. Soybeans are also good scavengers of nutrients and will be able to find adequate nutrients.
A big problem in late June and early July for planting soybeans in the upper Southeast is drought. No-till and minimum-tillage systems typically help hold moisture in the soil, hence a majority of growers have gone to these tillage practices.
"If we get really hot weather and no rain in late June, despite the yield loss from later planting, I would still wait for adequate moisture," Wiatrak says.
"Under these hot, dry conditions the seed germination will be lower. There is a risk to waiting after July 1 to plant soybeans, because even under ideal conditions soybeans just don't have the yield potential."
How many seed to plant is also a major decision and one that directly affects the bottom line. Long-time North Carolina State University Soybean Specialist Jim Dunphy says in most cases less is better. Over the last five years, North Carolina soybean growers have been putting fewer seeds in the ground yet harvesting roughly the same amount of soybeans.
As a result of Dunphy's pioneering efforts, it is estimated that North Carolina soybean growers saved over $25 million dollars in 2007 planting less seed, compared to the seeding practices recommended in the early 1990s.
Using funding from the North Carolina Soybean Growers Association, Dunphy says 96 on-farm tests of seeding rates were done across North Carolina between 2002 and 2005. Those tests compared seeding rates ranging from 25,000 seeds per acre to 200,000 seeds per acre.
The on-farm tests showed growers could cut the number of seeds they put in the ground roughly in half without diminishing yield.
Typically, Wiatrak says growers will increase seeding rate in soils with heavy residual matter on the surface by 10-15 percent to insure a better stand.
Making many of these management decisions now, will allow growers to get a jump start on soybean production. Too often double-crop beans are planted during critical production periods for corn, cotton and other crops, and by making decision now, growers can position themselves to make better crop of soybeans.
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"Even with low counts some hunters will have excellent hunts and plenty of opportunities and others will be able to flush a bird or two and put one in the bag," said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife research biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. "The key is good habitat and good dogs."
The latest crop harvest reports indicate nearly half of the corn remains in the field. As more corn is harvested, pheasants will be concentrated in available habitat. Areas with excellent winter cover like cattails or switch grass have the potential to hold some birds, and currently, the best cover is primarily on public land.
"Hunters looking for birds and are flexible should identify public land with good winter cover in north central, central or northwest Iowa. Those regions have the better pheasant numbers," he said. Hunters can use the DNR's online hunter atlas to do some "online" scouting of these areas.
Also available is more than 7,500 acres of private land in 27 counties; to be utilized for public hunting through Iowa's Hunting and Access Program (IHAP). A list of areas and maps is available at www.iowadnr.gov/ihap
Hunting pressure will be highest during the first two weekends of the season, and then around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Based on the results of Iowa's upland game survey, hunters should expect to harvest 100,000 to 150,000 pheasants during the October 26-January 10 season.


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Guitar player Kris Allen auditioned for Season 8 of "American Idol" in Louisville. He didn't receive much airtime throughout the auditions and Hollywood Week, but Allen made it through to the semi-finals, performing in Group 2. America voted him into the finals.
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The wall itself was built in 1925 to replace an existing wooden structure built in 1914.
"One of my priorities when I came to office was to make sure the wall was replaced," said District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer. "I've been fighting for dollars from the city to make structural changes to it ever since. I would also like to thank the members of the beach community who have been working side by side with us. I remember when I first came to office and noticed the temporary patches with the exposed rebar."
Faulconer has been spearheading the efforts to replace the crumbling structure ever since.
He said the process for the repairs will include a bidding phase, which he believes will be completed by the fall of 2013. This would then be followed by the construction phase that will start with what Faulconer refers to as "the most damaged section of the seawall." This section is the 960-foot stretch between the public bathrooms next to Belmont Park to Ventura Place by the summer of 2014.
"The current seawall is not only a public safety issue but it is also an aesthetic issue, because when people come to visit, we don't want them to see a crumbling wall," Faulconer said. "So we want to rebuild, and it will look fantastic."