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This bike was just waiting on a corner to be restored and sold. Next to it was an equally rusty lawnmower. That's the second Sears bike we've spotted. The first was much like the bike I rode when Evel Knievel was my hero.
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Talking 'Stand Up With A Twist' with Carson Kressley
Few knew what a cultural phenomenon "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" would become when it first aired 15 years ago. Yet this modest reality show, in which five gay guys representing different style disciplines would do a makeover of a straight guy, took off in unexpected ways, most significantly introducing many to gay culture in an entertaining and non-threatening way.
One of the breakout talents of the initial Fab Five is Carson Kressley, the fashion expert whose ebullient personality and quick-wit made him an overnight sensation. Kressley stayed with the show, which won an Emmy in 2004, for its five-season run. Since then he has been a frequent commentator on the red carpet at awards shows; the host and a guest on numerous reality shows, including his current stint as a judge on "RuPaul's Drag Race;" and as an eloquent spokesperson and supporter for numerous LGBTQ philanthropic causes, including The Trevor Project, The Human Rights Campaign, and The True Colors Fund.
This weekend Kressley will be trying something completely different: he will be appearing with pop music diva Kristine W for a pair of cabaret shows called "Stand Up With A Twist," first this Friday night at Manhattan's Joe's Pub, then Saturday in New Hope, Pennsylvania at the Rrazz Room.
EDGE recently caught with Kressley for a conversation about the show, whatever happened to nightlife culture, what he thinks of the revamped "Queer Eye," and just what his drag name might be.
Carson Kressley and Kristine W in a promotional photo for "Stand Up With A Twist."
EDGE: You are doing a new show - 'Stand Up With A Twist' - with Kristine W this Friday at Joe's Pub in New York City and this Saturday at The Rrazz Room New Hope, PA. How did the show come about?
Carson Kressley: Kristine and I have been friends for quite a while. If you have gone to a circuit party or 44 as I did back in the day, you would run into Kristine. After I started doing "Queer Eye," often we would be at the same benefits and became better friends. More recently when I was in Vegas I met with her and she said she wanted to do a cabaret show. I said I love cabaret shows. To which she said, 'Why don't you do it with me? We will do comedy and we will do music. It will be like an old-time variety show like Sonny and Cher and Donnie and Marie.' And we just said, 'let's do it.'
This has been my m.o. for my entire career; that is I agree to do things that I really am not equipped to do, then I show up and make it work. That's how you get things done, you push yourself. So here I am. I am pretty excited about it because I do love Kristine. Our community has really grown up with her music, and to hear her in a cabaret setting where you can really savor the feelings and the lyrics and the meanings behind the songs is a completely different experience than what you hear on the dance floor.
EDGE: Will you be singing in the show?
Carson Kressley: I don't know. I have been known to do a Broadway show tune, so you might hear me do a ditty.
EDGE: So most of what you will be doing will be commentary?
Carson Kressley: I will be doing stand-up, story-telling, such as talking about what was going on when certain Kristine W. songs came out. And where we were and my experience being part of the LGBTQ scene in New York and circuit parties and the club scene and my experiences doing "Queer Eye" and "Drag Race." I am relaying my personal stories, and Kristine will be jumping in as well because she is fun and funny. Both the rooms are really intimate spaces. I want to go out in the audience and reach out and touch people appropriately. I want them to feel that we are doing a private show for them.
EDGE: Will you be performing any political humor?
Carson Kressley: How can you not? You must look at the current political scene as humorous, otherwise, it is just sad and tragic; so I will but I hope in a positive and kindly way.
EDGE: What is going to happen with the show next?
Carson Kressley: I think the idea is to try this out and see if we like doing it and have a good response. If people like it, we would definitely do other cities.
Carson Kressley
EDGE: So much has changed since Kristine had her club hits. Now the club scene is gone or non-existence...
Carson Kressley: Oh, my God, yes. I should probably do a whole piece on that. I remember being a young gay man in New York City and leaving the Palladium at 7:15 on a Monday morning and going to a pay phone and calling in sick to work. Then I would hang up and immediately go back into the Palladium where "If Madonna Calls" would be blaring... those were the days. There were so many options back then. I feel sorry for the young people because there are not as many fun places to go. There are no clubs.
EDGE: What do you think happened to the gay club scene? Has it become a victim of LGBTQ assimilation over the past decade?
Carson Kressley: In New York it's all about real estate. You can knock down a 10,000 square foot space with a dance floor and put in a high-rise building. In the city, it is more a matter of economics. I do think across the country it is because of assimilation. Today the younger generation feels perfectly comfortable going to a non-specific club to dance. I do look back fondly at the days of the mega-clubs: the Roxy, Club USA, the Tunnel, and Limelight. It was really an experience that doesn't exist anymore, unfortunately. I don't remember most of the 1990s. I think I might have been over-served.
EDGE: Have you been watching the revamped "Queer Eye?"
Carson Kressley: I have seen a few episodes and all of us except Ted went to the Netflix launch party out in LA with the new cast.
EDGE: What do you think of it terms of the move towards LGBTQ acceptance that occurred since the show first aired?
Carson Kressley: It was definitely groundbreaking when we did it because it was so unheard of. There hadn't been a reality show comprised of out gay men. We took some criticism for being stereotypical, but at the same time, we were just trying to do this amazing work of making these guys look and feel better through the makeover process. And along the way, people got to know us as real guys, not stereotypical characters. It was the power of visibility in action because people realized we were funny and kind and doing great work. When people get to know you and like you, they become your ally. So almost subversively and without intention, we changed some people minds and hearts.
All along I was just trying to get them out of pleated khakis and get them to cut their mullets off. We didn't have loftier goals than that. But nowadays gay is so mainstream that the show had to be different, and I think they succeeded. It has always been about looking at people from a different point of view, trying new things and about trying new things and being the best version of yourself. While it might be a little bit lighter on the makeover experience, it is still a transformative show with gay guys coming in and trying to help straight guys and do it with heart and good intentions.
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EDGE: What was the impact of the original show on American culture?
Carson Kressley: Like I said before, we never had a political agenda with that show. We just wanted to do amazing work and make people look and feel better. It was about the makeover process, but as people got to know us as out gay men, they responded to us warmly. I would go out to airports and people would say to us, "you are the first gay guy I ever met." And I would say, "haven't you ever had your hair highlighted or ever been on a commercial airliner? How have you never met the gays?" But we were to some Americans the first gay guys they had ever seen and we pushed the needle forward. We didn't have political intentions, but sometimes the best way to be political is to be a little bit subversive. Just being visible and being yourself.
EDGE: Your other current gig is on "RuPaul's Drag Race?" The show has never been as popular, which led the New York Times recently to say that we are in a golden age of drag. Are we having that drag moment?
Carson Kressley: I always have been a huge fan of drag. Ever since I moved to New York in the 1990s I have been going to places like the Pyramid Club and seeing amazing drag shows. I think that since the show has become so mainstream, it really shines a light on an art form that was kind-of kept in the shadows. As gay people, we knew about it and love it, but it is an art form that was performed in the sheltered world of gay clubs and not everyone had access to it. I think these queens are so incredibly talented in so many ways, from costumes to make-up to hair to comedy to acting, and I think it is wonderful that the show has provided a platform for the art form. Now a lot more people get to experience it. My 80-year old dad watches it, probably because I am on it. He really enjoys it. It just shows the widespread audience we have. Especially young people, these tours that these queens do bring them out. I think we are in the golden age of drag right now as far as exposure is considered.
Michelle Visage, RuPaul and Carson Kressley on "RuPaul's Drag Race."
EDGE: How do you see your role as a judge on the show?
Carson Kressley: I feel my role as a judge is to give structured feedback in a positive way because I think all of us on the judges' panel are fans of each contestant and want them to be the best versions of themselves. That is for me the crux of the show, people struggling to do their very, very best. And when people fail or rise, it makes for really compelling television. It is fun to judge and I guess it does get harder as the talent pool gets more and more talented, but what a fun job.
EDGE: If you were a contestant on the show, what would your name be?
Carson Kressley: I see drag names all the time. I am like that little kid in that M. Night Shamalayan movie, but I don't see dead people, I see drag names. My dad is a car dealer, not so long ago I went home to see my family. I was at my dad's office and I looked and saw painted on the window this phrase: "Lease A New Sonata." And I thought that's my drag name: Lisa New-Sonata. It just sounded good to me, like I am a working woman.
EDGE: Recently your colleague on "Drag Race" Ross Mathews was on "Celebrity Big Brother." Did you have a chance to watch him?
Carson Kressley: I have not had a chance to watch it yet. I have watched bits and pieces from highlights of the show. I knew he was going to do great because he is authentic and fun and funny and kind. I knew that was going to resonate. Then when Marisa won, I thought, hmmm. You never saw Ross and Marissa in the same room? Are they the same person? But then they were together for the finale, so that wasn't the case.
EDGE: If they did another edition, would you be on that show if they asked you?
Carson Kressley: Oh, gosh. I don't know. As much as I love being in front of the camera, I don't think I could deal with the lack of privacy. When would I masturbate? You would be harkening back to sleep away camp and have to do it under the sheets made by the little tent made by your knees, but I digress.
For more information about "Stand Up With A Twist" with Carson Kressley and Kristine W., visit this Facebook page. For more information about Carson, visit his website.


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President Obama's brain-mapping initiative, for which he has proposed $110 million in federal funding for 2014, will focus how on how the brain is affected by conditions such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and autism; how it produces memories and programs human behavior; and what treatments could lead to cures for post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer's disease and other neuropsychiatric afflictions.
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative is modeled after the Human Genome Project of the 1990s and early 2000s. In that effort, the federal government partnered with philanthropies and scientific entrepreneurs to identify and characterize the nearly 25,000 genes that make up human DNA.
But at $110 million, the pot of funds earmarked for the BRAIN initiative is minuscule compared to the Human Genome Project's $3.8 billion federal investment — and far smaller than earlier reports predicted the initiative would command.
Most of the money will come from private sector partners such as the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which together have promised to provide $168 million in annual support.


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Ben Stein is in the news today making comments in support for Senator Craig. He states "Senator Craig has been the victim of a police lynching. A party that believes in individual rights should be rallying to his defense, not making him walk the plank." Now I am a fully on board when someone is "really" being abused by the police, but come on, Lynching! That is so condescending to the thousands of Black men who were lynched in the name of racial hatred. I am appalled that Mr. Stein feels it is appropriate to use a term that was born out of horrible circumstances to describe something so freaking trivial. Next Ben will swear that the poor Senators who he feels are being unfairly judged by their obvious unsuitable behavior are now victims of some undercover gay senator holocaust or maybe genocide. Please Ben your killing me.
Then to say "a party that believes in individual rights… What fantasy land are Ben and Senator Craig living in that he was a victim of anything other than his closeted man lust. The Republican Party doesn't care for anyone's individual rights; well maybe that of big business, but if they did why then, do we have so many Black men such as Sean Bell being gun down by the police in a hail of fifty bullets. Now that is what I call a police lynching and where was the Republican Party to protect these victims who are the constituents under their supposed protection. What reason does the Republican Party as well as the Democrats get behind for these blatant cases of "real" lynching, well it was due to "contagious shooting," yep that crap actually flies with them. Maybe this is why the government took so long to get around to doing something about the people who were suffering after hurricane Katrina. They were too busy trolling around in men's restrooms and parks or underage chat rooms.
I don't understand Ben Stein's grievance he says "Here's the deal: Senator Craig went into a men's room at the Twin Cities airport. He entered a lavatory stall. He tapped his foot. He may or may not have reached his hand down under the lavatory partition to pick up a piece of paper or to make a signal. That's it. That's the whole thing. There was no sex act of any kind." Well I don't think that cops are supposed to engage in a sex act with the perpetrator in order to ascertain that he should be arrested for "soliciting" sex from the officer. I think it is the soliciting part that gives that fact away; which from what "my" dictionary says is to ask somebody for something or to offer sex for money. Now he did a combination of the two.
Ben also states that "If a police officer can wreck a man's career over this trifle, then we might as well not have a Constitution or a Bill of Rights." Uh, what? For one thing this statement would assume that the police officer knew that the man in the other stall was Senator Craig and he then put his Machiavellian plan into the works grabbing the Senator and so began to put the screws in. Then you also have to wonder if this cop was so gung ho on screwing up the man's career why then didn't he run this information right to the press after the arrest? Wouldn't that do more to ruin his career than to sit back in the shadows doing his job (and I am no fan of cops) and let the newspaper come upon the information two months later.
Wow, that cop was really hell bent on getting Craig alright. Come on Ben, I mean when Sean Bell was killed the cop claims they made eye contact and that was enough for him to know that Sean knew that he was a cop. Now if that was this officers story that he looked at him and somehow knew that the Senator wanted sex, I would be right there with you guys, but he went through a whole ritual of how you approach someone for a gay tryst. I mean would you come to a guy's rescue that saw a lady on the street, walks up to her and says hey pssst, then pulls out a twenty dollar bill and waives it at her. She pulls out a badge and waives it at him. Would Mr. Stein claim that this man should be left alone since there wasn't any sexual contact? Now Ben is this a modern day lynching of that poor man who is probably going to lose his wife, family, job, a gob of money and maybe his freedom? I think not, she didn't force him to solicit, so I guess he, you and definitely Senator Craig should do what you always want everyone else to do and take responsibility for your own actions.


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One of the few things Los Angeles mayoral candidates Kevin James and Eric Garcetti have in common is their mutual interest in sabotaging a leading rival, Wendy Greuel.
When James got the chance to question an opponent at a debate Wednesday night, he turned to Garcetti and asked if he saw any conflict of interest in Greuel's receipt of campaign support from a union for workers at the Department of Water and Power, an agency she monitors as city controller.
"When we see outside interests come in and try to buy elections, it is something for all of us to give pause and consider," Garcetti responded. For good measure, the city councilman added: "If people spend a lot of money on you in an election, they aren't doing it just because they love you. They want something from you."
The exchange exposed the downside of what was otherwise welcome news this week for Greuel: The powerful union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, was joining forces with Hollywood studio executives to promote her campaign.


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Around 6 p.m., a handsome guy named Donny walks out of the surf onto a secluded South Island beach. There are 10 people watching, and we can't help it; we all say "Ahhh!" -- Donny does that to people.
Although he's been known to stay out all night, Donny's usual habit is to show up right here on this beach, same time, same place, day after day, and stroll back to his house.
"Stroll" is probably not the best description of Donny emerging from the ocean. "Waddle" is more like it.
Donny is a yellow-eyed penguin, and he's been at sea, hunting for food, for the past 12 hours. Now, hidden in a camouflage blind, 10 humans watch as he heads for home by his well-worn path, across the beach, through the grass, over the dune.
For the past 15 minutes we've been hustling along behind our guide, through a series of shoulder-high trenches, camouflaged by leaf-covered netting. Our small group of ecotourists stays out of sight because yellow-eyed penguins, the rarest of the 18 known penguin species, are shy, almost reclusive.
We're warned not to use flash cameras. If Donny sees us, or even suspects we're around, he'll waddle back into the ocean and stay there until he's sure we've gone away, back to wherever we belong.
Topping the dune, Donny pauses, scratching thoughtfully with one flipper. His narrow shoulders droop, and so does his head, as though all that fishing has worn him out and he'd love a quiet evening to himself with a good book.
Instead, he's met by his mate, Marie, and their chick, waiting for dinner. This cocoa-and-cream-coloured chick is almost as big as his dad. Covered with dense, down-like feathers, he looks like a plush toy. When he shows up at the blind, our group breathes another collective "Ahhh," and gets shushed, in case we scare him off.
Unlike his older and wiser parents, the little guy is curious, almost friendly, and as we huddle together in the blind, he waddles toward us to get a better look.
The chick has a voracious appetite, and waddles up to his dad, demanding his regurgitated dinner -- whatever Dad has managed to swallow headfirst. While the chick's favourite food is apparently squid, he's up for sprat, red cod, blue cod -- the kid isn't fussy as long as it's fish. When Donny turns away, signalling the end of dinner, the chick pursues him, sidling close to his dad, demanding more. Donny's fishing expedition has taken him anywhere from five to 50 kilometres off shore, where he's managed to elude sharks, fur seals, sea lions and whales, at least for today. Although he's capable of diving 120 metres, he probably averaged about 50 metres in short, consecutive dives, surfacing every three to four minutes for a quick breath.
In this small, protected colony, Donny and his fellow penguins have every comfort a yellow-eyed penguin could want. Simple V-roofed nest boxes offer privacy, shelter during breeding, plus protection from feral cats and other wildlife that consider penguins tasty morsels.
Staff at this ecotourism venture, known as The Penguin Place, continually work at keeping the blinds and huts usable, the predator traps set, and the landscape planted with suitable bushes and shrubs.
"Injured penguins and orphaned chicks are taken into sick bay, where we have a very high success rate," the guide explains. In one recent case, a male penguin was bitten by a barracuda. Hospitalized, his wound was treated with manuka honey instead of antibiotics, and he made a full and fast recovery.
In one viewing hut, penguin statistics are pinned to the wall. They feature drawings of individual penguins, name and mate's name, and illustrate their particular markings, which are quite distinctive and vary from one bird to another.
An ongoing research program records breeding success at The Penguin Place. It also helps to assess the impact of tourism and tracks this rare and fascinating bird throughout its life.
- Air New Zealand flies to Auckland from Vancouver. Dunedin, on the South Island, is the easiest point of access for this award-winning penguin sanctuary. It can be reached by air, or by crossing the Cook Strait by ferry and driving to Dunedin, where bookings can be made at the local tourist bureau (iSite). The Otago Peninsula, on the South Island, offers several ecotourism companies that will introduce travellers to the yellow-eyed -- in their natural habitat, as well as New Zealand fur seals and the amazing royal albatross.
- The Penguin Place is a no-frills facility with an excellent program in which profits go to penguin -A visit includes travel to the site in a bumpy old bus, and some moderately energetic walking in the trenches.
- For further information on viewing sites, contact the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust at email@example.com, or penguinplace. co. nz


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Tyra Banks to Ruin ANTM with New Judges, Voting Component
Okay, look: it's not like these are the glory days America's Next Top Model. If anything, the last few "cycles" of the endlessly-running reality modeling competition have been a long, dark shadow of the show's earlier seasons. ANTM has always been a joke: instead of functioning as a wise, supermodel mentor, Tyra Banks was a […]Read more


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I have been photographing a number of years with my Zeagle Ranger and loved it. Just recently switched to a SS Backplate and love it even more. I find it a lot easier getting the right trim with the backplate system.
Best BCD for New Underwater Photographers
Posted 10 April 2013 - 11:17 AM
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A lot of people are talking about all the benefits of the sidemount BC and Buoyancy in recreatinal diving. Does anybody has experience taking pictures with a sidemount ? Is it true that sidemount gives you more stability?
I am a sidemount instructor and have to say that I don t think sidemount is appropriate for photography anywhere near a fragile substrate, as the cylinder is now your lowest point. Any contact with the substrate will be lead by an AL80 rather than a your body which has completely different consequences.
Having said that I ll probably use sidemount for Sardine Run this year, simply because I can be in the water in less than 60seconds.
Sidemount has no stability advantages over backmount and actually requires more time playing with weighting to ensure perfect trim, as compared to a regular Hogarthian backplate and wings set up. This is particulary true where people insist on using steel stages rather than far more easily managable AL80s.
Sidemount is an added tool to your tool box, if you will. It comes with it s own set of advantages and disadvanatages, but for most people will probably not be a universal solution
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Another thing to mention would be the ease of taking off a hog styled harness boatside-
I clip off to a carabier to my harness top left D-ring on a short line tyed off to the gunnel rail, fully inflate the wing, unbuckle and slip out of the rig, leaving it in the water until I am back onboard then I swing it over the gunnel.
...lots easier then walking up the ladder at lest in a trailer boat, that has the deck level at water level. My camera I clip off to a rear bouy line and leave it in the water(few meters down) until the next dive to save it drying off.
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My new article on habeas corpus and the right to effective assistance of counsel is now out: Bypassing Habeas: The Right to Effective Assistance Requires Earlier Supreme Court Intervention in Cases of Attorney Incompetence, 25 Fed. Sent. Rep. 110 (2012). Here is the abstract:
This article considers the interplay between habeas corpus law and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. Certain peculiarities of federal habeas have given a schizophrenic character to recent Supreme Court decisions on ineffective assistance. At the same time that the Court has displayed a new willingness to extend Sixth Amendment protections to the plea-bargaining arena, the Court has also evinced a particular hostility to ineffective assistance claims arising in habeas. The present article identifies the roots of this schizophrenia in the Court's 2000 decision in Williams v. Taylor. The Court's trajectory from Williams to the present suggests that, absent a significant ideological makeover, the Court is unlikely in habeas cases to bring greater vigor and clarity to the right to effective assistance. The Court and advocates pushing the Court to adopt stronger Sixth Amendment protections should thus focus their efforts on cases emerging directly from state-court systems, rather than on collateral post-conviction challenges in federal court.


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Georgia beats Missouri 71-56, earns 10th SEC victory
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ATHENS, Ga. – Charles Mann scored 19 points, Marcus Thornton added 15 and Georgia won its second straight game with a 71-56 victory over Missouri on Tuesday night.
The Bulldogs (16-11, 10-5 Southeastern Conference) have won six of seven.
Jabari Brown and Jordan Clarkson each finished with 17 points for Missouri (19-9, 7-8 SEC).
The Tigers, coming off Saturday's dispirited loss at Alabama, might have hurt their chance of making a sixth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament.
Georgia, which went just 6-6 in nonconference play, began the SEC schedule by snapping Missouri's 26-game home winning streak on Jan. 8, is alone in third place in the SEC behind No. 1 Florida and No. 17 Kentucky.
Missouri dropped into a two-way tie for 10th place with Vanderbilt.
Georgia's Kenny Gaines, coming off career-high 27 points at South Carolina, finished with 10 points.


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Visionary Award InvisiPac™ Tank-Free™ Hot Melt System
Graco, a leading manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, was awarded the Gold Visionary Award by UBM Canon's Packaging Group in a ceremony held at the EastPack 2013 packaging industry trade show in Philadelphia, Pa. The award recognized Graco for its design of the InvisiPac Tank-Free Hot Melt Delivery System, which was previewed at Pack Expo 2012 and launched in February 2013. Graco Global Product Marketing Manager Nicholas Long accepted the award on behalf of the development team.
"It is especially gratifying to be recognized for this innovation," Long said. "We developed the product in response to a set of specific customer problems within a relatively short time frame. The fact that we emerged with an award-winning, new technology for the packaging industry is a testament to the creative minds of a lot of people, including our first customer, Summit Brewing."
While traditional hot melt systems use large tanks to heat adhesive to liquid form, the InvisiPac system is tank-free and its compact melting chamber processes pellets in small batches. Because the adhesive spends only a short amount of time at high temperatures there is significantly less char formation than in traditional tank systems. Less char eliminates the possibility of plugged nozzles and greatly reduces overall system maintenance.
"Without a tank attached to the system, InvisiPac reduces char and eliminates nozzle plugging. Operators no longer need to go through the time-consuming process of tank scraping and cleaning. The system ultimately lowers the end user's maintenance requirements," said Long. "The end result is better line efficiency and less downtime, resulting in time and cost savings for the packaging customer."
The Summit Brewing Company of St. Paul, Minn. installed and tested two InvisiPac machines in the spring of 2012 and expects to install two more by the fall of 2013, converting their entire hot melt adhesive packaging operations to use the InvisiPac system. Many of the innovative designs included in the manufacture of the InvisiPac Tank-Free system are patent-pending.
About Summit Brewing Company
Founded in St. Paul, Minn. in 1986, Summit Brewing Company has stayed close to its roots, serving the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region. Summit's beers are currently available in 17 states including Minnesota, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Summit now produces 13 varieties of premium craft beer, including seven year-round, four seasonal beers, and the limited release Unchained Series and Union Series. Since its inception, the brewery has been a consistent pioneer in the craft beer movement.
About UBM Canon
UBM Canon, the leading B2B media company dedicated exclusively to the global $3.0 trillion advanced manufacturing sector, helps support the flow of information, commerce and innovation in sophisticated segments as medical devices
For more information
Chris Li Citra, Graco BVBA, +32 89 770 766


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Permitting for dredging of the Port St. Joe shipping channel got its official start last week.
Permitting for dredging of the Port St. Joe shipping channel got its official start last week.
With an agreement with the St. Joe Company addressing the local match on a state grant in place, the Port St. Joe Port Authority officially signed an agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation.
The agreement secures a $1 million FDOT grant, with St. Joe agreeing to provide the $250,000 local match, to fund the permitting of dredging of the shipping channel to its authorized 35 feet.
Collecting the data for the permit is already underway with Hatch Mott MacDonald engineering the permitting for the Port Authority.
Port director Tommy Pitts said a pre-application meeting, originally set for this week, was pushed back to Sept. 30 to allow for a more complete collection of data.
The key for the pre-application meeting � during which state agencies will provide input and insight on the direction of dredging � is to have as complete an application on the other side as possible.
�We want to be able to confine the requests for more information from state agencies to a minimum,� Pitts said.
Additionally, researchers were �in the water� beginning two weeks ago conducting a seagrass survey. The hope is that the survey can be completed and reviewed by the end of the month.
Outreach campaign
Port Authority board members put a sharper point on efforts to secure support, particularly financial, as the bottom line shrinks and development appears poised for takeoff in the coming months and years.
Port attorney Tom Gibson reported that feedback from a tax attorney indicates the donations to the Port Authority would be tax-deductible.
Gibson could not secure a written opinion due to cost, but board chairman Leonard Costin, a certified public accountant, said the information was identical to his understanding.
�I have no doubt in my mind it is tax deductible,� Costin said.
Costin reported he had already secured $2,200 in pledges to the Port Authority, which is trying to raise revenue to meet basic operational needs as a new budget year arrives the first of next month.
The Port Authority�s �bare-bones� budget for the coming year earmarks $2,640 per month for operations.
�We are trying to get the community involved,� Costin said. �We are going broke. We�ve got to get some people to support us.�
Costin received pushback from several board members about proposals to solicit funds in the community, including placing change jars at stores around town and seeking pledges from small businesses.
�The citizens here and the businesses here pay too much for the infrastructure here,� said board member Eugene Raffield.
Board member Patrick Jones disagreed.
He noted that there are �big pots� of money available from the state and feds to undertake dredging and other activities, but no money available for operations.
The plan was to watch every penny spent and the board will prioritize how funds raised are spent. But community buy-in for the effort, to maintain a Port Authority, presence, was critical.
�It is up to people to decide if it is worthwhile to participate in this effort,� Jones said. �To not ask is to not do everything.�
Raffield said he is working with state officials and agencies to secure support for the Port of Port St. Joe.
He said he has made inroads though was not in a position to outline specifics.
The focus, Raffield said, should be on soliciting help from state officials for two fundamental reasons: there are funds and port development represents a regional opportunity.
�We infrastructure here that has been paid for in the tens of millions of dollars,� Raffield said. �You have a major system here. We have been in a coma. We have to get out of the coma and walk together.
�It�s not about us, it�s about our future. We have a real chance, here. This is a regional issue.�
The cost of doing nothing, Costin added, would be continued rising poverty in the county, declining enrollment and funding for schools and negative impacts to the business community.
�The cost of not doing anything, what a cost regionally,� Costin said.
Raffield said Eastern Shipbuilding and the announcement from more than a year ago that the company would be coming to Port St. Joe to establish a ship-outfitting facility has �left a bad taste in people�s eyes� as the company has yet to come to Gulf County.
He said the company is filling berths in Bay County and will need to expand, but the fact the company has yet to do so, while failing to communicate a clear timetable � the proposed arrival of Eastern has been pegged several times only to be pushed back � was a sore point.
�I don�t know who the quarterback is on that without any update,� Raffield said. �We don�t know what is going on.�
County Commissioner Warren Yeager, present for last week�s meeting of the Port Authority, said Eastern continues to pay its lease with St. Joe and remains committed to moving into Gulf County.
�It is about timing,� Yeager said. �At some point it is going to happen.�
Yeager also suggested that the Port Authority speak to the Economic Development Alliance, Inc. about possible assistance the EDA could provide the Port Authority to meet operational expenses.
�It is critical to keep (local operations) going,� Yeager said.
Yeager also noted that the Board of County Commissioners had conveyed a resolution passed in support of port development onto other counties in the region for passage.
�Everybody is trying to help the port,� Yeager said. �They know this is a regional port.�


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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today is launching a drowning prevention campaign as part of an intensified initiative to prevent the tragic drowning of 250 children under the age of 5 annually in swimming pools. Among unintentional injuries, drowning has been the second leading cause of death to children under age 5, after motor vehicle incidents. In 2002, an estimated 1,600 children were treated in hospital emergency rooms for submersion injuries. Many of these deaths and injuries occur in residential pools.
"That so many young children drown each year is devastating," said CPSC Chairman Hal Stratton. "Each of these deaths is not only the pointless end of a promising life, but an overwhelming grief for the family that goes on for years and years. As a father, I cannot imagine having to endure the pain of such a loss."
Reducing the rate of drowning deaths is one of CPSC's strategic goals. To help achieve this goal, CPSC is holding two public hearings to explore strategies to prevent drowning deaths. The first public hearing will take place in Tampa, Fla., on June 21, 2004, and the second hearing will be in Phoenix, Ariz. on July 27, 2004. "We want to find new solutions and try to create new awareness about this hazard," Stratton said.
Additionally, CPSC is broadcasting a video news release nationwide to promote pool safety, CPSC field staff is participating in local pool safety events, and the agency is promoting drowning prevention on its Web site at www.cpsc.gov.
One of the most tragic aspects of drowning deaths is that they are preventable, but there is no foolproof method of prevention. CPSC recommends using layers of protection. This includes, constant supervision of young children; placing barriers such as a fence with a self-closing, self-latching gate around your pool to prevent access; and being prepared in case of an emergency.
"We believe that using multiple layers of protections can prevent many of these deaths, but still too many children are dying," Stratton said. "We are conducting these public meetings to find out what has worked around the nation."
With Memorial Day coming and many people readying their pools for the summer, now is the time to redouble efforts to prevent drowning deaths. Many of the swimming pool deaths occur in summer months.
Close supervision of young children is vital for families with a home pool -- and not just when outside using the pool. A common scenario is that young children leave the house without a parent or caregiver realizing it. Children are drawn to water, not knowing the terrible danger pools can pose. Also, just because children know how to swim, doesn't mean they are safe. All children should be supervised every second while in and around the pool.
The commission offers these additional tips to prevent drowning:
-Fences and walls should be at least 4 feet high and installed completely around the pool. Fence gates should be self-closing and self-latching. The latch should be out of a small child's reach. Keep furniture that could be used for climbing into the pool area away from fences.
-If your house forms one side of the barrier to the pool, then doors leading from the house to the pool should be protected with alarms that produce a sound when a door is unexpectedly opened.
-A power safety cover -- a motor-powered barrier that can be placed over the water area -- can be used when the pool is not in use.
-Keep rescue equipment by the pool and be sure a phone is poolside with emergency numbers posted. Knowing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be a lifesaver.
-Don't leave pool toys and floats in the pool or pool area that may attract young children to the water.
-For above-ground pools, steps and ladders to the pool should be secured and locked, or removed when the pool is not in use.
-If a child is missing, always look in the pool first. Seconds count in preventing death or disability.
-Pool alarms can be used as an added precaution. Look for alarms that meet the requirements of the ASTM standard. The commission advises that consumers use remote alarm receivers so the alarm can be heard inside the house or in other places away from the pool area.
-To prevent body entrapment and hair entrapment/entanglement, have a qualified pool professional inspect the drain suction fittings and covers on your pool and spa to be sure that they are the proper size, properly attached, and meet current safety standards. If your pool or spa has a single drain outlet, consider installing a safety vacuum release system that breaks the vacuum to avoid potential entrapment conditions.
Additionally, CPSC offers three free publications consumers can use to help prevent child drowning: Safety Barrier Guidelines for Pools (PDF), How to Plan for the Unexpected (PDF) and Guidelines for Entrapment Hazards: Making Pools and Spas Safer (PDF). Copies of these publications can be obtained by going to our Web site at www.cpsc.gov, by calling our Hotline at (800) 638-2772, or by writing to "Pool Safety", U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, D.C., 20207.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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Updated graph predicting how many games Freddy Sanchez will play in 2012
May 15, 2012
Sometime in March, Nerdy Nerd crazycrabbers.com developed this little graph below predicting how many games Freddy Sanchez will play this season.
As usual, the pro-Baer blogger Crazy Crabbers was way off. After several setbacks and bad news regarding Freddy's recovery, it's time to update this puppy and break the bad news to all of you Giants fans.
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A new mapping tool from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Boston design firm can calculate rooftops' capacity for solar energy. The mapping tool has been used to show which of the 17,000 rooftops in Cambridge, Mass., are best suited for PVs by determining the amount of direct sunlight they receive.
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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Officials reported another large section of land was swallowed up by the giant sinkhole in southeast Louisiana.
According to the Assumption Parish Police Jury, a chunk of land about 30 feet by 50 feet fell in on the southeast side of the sinkhole in Bayou Corne. That's about the size of a small three bedroom house.
Many trees and even part of the road collapsed into the massive "slurry."
Officials said it happened near the area where crews with Texas Brine are working.
They added the road that was damaged was built to park excavators while cleanup activities are taking place.
The police jury noted this area has never sloughed in before, as opposed to other areas that have sank into the hole.
Crews are continuing to run tests in the cavern of the abandoned salt dome below the sinkhole.
Officials said a bubbling spot was noticed in Pierre Part and DEQ will take samples to determine if it is natural gas (swamp gas).
OEP monitored the area and detected no harmful risks. We're told there will be another community briefing Saturday, September 29th at 10:00 a.m. at the command post.
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Each player will control their own individual faction and try to take over the galaxy for reasons best known to themselves, by figting each other, the empire and the Rebellion. You will have some money, that can be earned as well, to build fleets and armies and send them out to attack your enemies. Each planet will have certain bonuses that will mostly help you if you control it, but may work in the enemies favour. It will also have more options than Empire at War because you can choose to do things like enslave Wookies if you control kashyyyk, which may increase your production there and give you more soldiers but might also make them rebel against you. All of the things that you do will be through PMs. You can upgrade all of your troops, ships and vehicles for some credits.
If I get at least 3 people wanting to join this I'll make it, but it won't be up for a while because I need to plan out how I would do it completely.
I forgot to mention that you don't have to have a stronger army to win the game, you can try to control planets politically.
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It's an MMORPG based on the universe of monsters. You start the game by creating your unique monster with an initial pallet of customisation tools, similar to spore but, not gay. While creating your monster you chose from a number of monster types which will effect the way in which you play the game. It's sort of inspired by that cartoon called "AAAAAAAH Real Monsters".
You earn the majority of your experience by scaring humans, each human will have a fear threshold which will be based on their age, profession and personal interests. For example, during the low levels of the game you will spend your time scaring children, weather it be hiding under their bed, coaxing them into an abandoned house and toying with them or teaming up with a group of other monsters and raiding a school or something. At higher levels you will be scaring military officials and sci-fi nerds. To reach the fear threshold effectively you need to build up tension and atmosphere, it is also possible to simply run up to humans and scare them with your range of abilities. However, each monster has a health bar and humans may attack you if you fail to scare them and become outnumbered. The amount of experience you receive will also be based on the effectiveness of how scared the human(s) is/are.
The other way to earn experience is through competing with other factions of monsters. When you start the game you will be given a number of Monster schools to choose from, each of them are competing with each other and you will earn rewards by scaring the other monsters or beating them in scare-a-thons.
Much like every other MMO you will earn abilities as you level up as well as further customisation for your monster.
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Will Ferrell's promotional tour for "Anchorman 2" has taken some unusual directions, including in-character appearances on "Conan" and a series of ads for Dodge Durango, but his strangest to date happened Saturday night in Bismarck, N.D., when Ferrell co-anchored the evening news on CBS affiliate KXMB.
Ferrell never broke character as he read the actual local headlines alongside regular anchor Amber Schatz. The latest developments in Bismarck, population 64,751? A trash fire in the parking lot of a local Sam's Club and holiday shopping updates from local merchants.
Around the edges of the actual news, Ferrell worked in bits of his character while the local on-air staff worked heroically to keep things moving along professionally. He leaned into shots and even noted the weatherman's possible recent weight loss.
Schatz told the local newspaper, the Bismarck Tribune, that Ferrell's appearance was kept hush-hush by station management and revealed to her only a few days before it happened. She did say the crew was given a quick rehearsal with Ferrell before the actual newscast.
Ferrell flew into Bismarck on his way to Canada, where he will cover the Olympic curling trials in character. He'll also host ESPN's "SportsCenter" on Thursday.
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Lon Martin and a bunch of coworkers drove our radio station vehicles up to Seattle this morning to witness the Super Bowl Championship parade! They hit the road at 5 a.m. and endured freezing temperatures all day (despite the sunshine) to party with the 12th Man.
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Ok well not really, but I thought it would be nice to try and frighten a few people. hindsight 21/17 is ending, but at that time a new comic will be starting up with all the characters you know and love (well maybe not all of them, some might move on with other things in their lives...)
So what's the deal? Well as all of us go through new chapters in our lives, so do these characters. A lot of changes will be taking place in their lives, and I'd like to get a fresh start, and present this new story, as just that a New story. Of course knowing the background and characters will add more depth to the coming story, but mostly I just need to start fresh. I'm also hoping that I can use this opportunity to draw in new readers.
So here comes the contest part! I haven't yet settled on a name for this new comic, and I thought I'd offer any readers the chance to name the comic for me. Not only will you have the honor of naming my comic, but there will also be a small prize. Please be serious and considerate when you suggest names. Consider my naming conventions or characters, or other things about the story thus far. You may make as many submissions into this contest as you like, either post them here, or send them in an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The comic will still be at the same location (althought keenspace is changing it's name to toonspace or webcomics... or something but I'll let you know more about that later). And your favorite characters will still be around. The comic will probably be on a 3 or 4 day update schedule, we'll see.
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This match took place on Saturday January 23rd, 2010 from the Tokyo Korakuen Hall as part of "The Way of Shooto" show. Takeshi Inoue (16-3-0) faces American Gerald Lovato (9-6-0). This is from Shooto's first show of 2010. Also checkout the main event Shoot Pacific Tile Fight between Taiki Tsuchiya vs. Hideki Kadowaki and see the Flyweight battle between Hiroyuki Abe vs. Atsushi "ATCH Anarchy" Takeuchi.
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Otavalo is a small town in Ecuador.
Get in
If you come from Tulcan busses will probably drop you off at the Pan American highway, it's only a 10 minute walk to the center from there.
The Otavalo/Las Lagos bus company will drop you off at the bus terminal in Otavalo.
There is a small bus terminal northeast in town along calle Atahualpa & Jacinto Collahuazo and busses leave for Quito (2,5 hours) every 10 minutes.
Get around
Taxies will take you anywhere within town for $ 1,00.
You might have a better chance to do your shopping if you arrive early, as early morning good luck sales are valuable here, and vendors seem to become les interested in the mid afternoon. Check out the prices in nearby shops before buying on the market too, as surprisingly, they are often better value.
Typical market products: [4] Article about the market: [5]
Cuicocha Lake West of Otavalo at the base of Volcan Cotacachi and near Cotacachi Village. It is an eco reserve, with a lake in the crater of the volcano. Very pretty, with a lovely, but reasonably long, day walk around. Great views to Volcan Imbabura and Otavalo can be seen from there. To get there take a taxi to Cotacachi village, or take the bus from Otavalo terminal(20c), then hire a taxi from there.
Cotacachi Village
Each of the small villages around Otavalo and Ibarra general specialise in a particular craft. Cotacachi specialises in leather goods.
A local speciality is Helados de Paila, or sorbet icecream. With beautiful fruit used to make the sorbet, it is a must for any visitor.
Amazing walking, and a much quieter pace of life just a 15 minute bus ride from touristy Otavalo. This indigenous village is truly charming. There are over 100 shamans in Ilumàn´s shaman´s association. They are famous for two types of work, one traditional botanical medicine, and more spiritual advice. The bus from Otavalo goes every 15 minutes from the terminal, and costs 18c.
Other Villages
There are a large number of villages surrounding Otavalo, Ibarra, and Cotacachi. Each village tends to specialise in the manufacture of a one particular good, from the rugs, to Panama hats, to bronze busts.


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A lot of newer smartphones support reading (and replying) to text messages through a Bluetooth head unit (i.e. the one built in to a car, or a BT headset/speakerphone). This works on the MS with my Windows Phone. Probably better (from a safety perspective) than making you take your eyes off the road to read the message.
Usually reading out text message (text-to-speach or TTS) is accurate, although may sound artificial and not very intelligent as far as text abbreviations. Voice recognition is used to dictate an outgoing text message may have a recognition issue, specially in a noisy environment (audio on or windows rolled down).
Why don't you just call people and use your voice to communicate?
That really upsets everyone these days.
I am ornery and do not like talking to people. I am glad to see the rest of the world is catching up :)
Talking seems so much more efficent and less time consuming.
Texting and driving? Bad combination imnsho.
I find that the speech recognition in my Model S is inferior to my Prius' for some reason.
Siri recognizes what I'm trying to say 90% of the time in my Prius. In the Model S, maybe 70% or less.
I'm not sure if this can be improved through a software update? Or is it a(n inferior) hardware issue? (bad mic)
@rkang. Voice recognition is working fine for me. If anything, the problem that I am encountering w/ voice recognition, is user error. Somehow, I can't keep the "recording" button pressed while speaking. This is an odd requirement compared w/ other voice recognition systems that I have worked with.
In general, voice recognition can attempt to recognize keywords and ignore out-of-vocabulary words. i.e. in Google now, the engine is waiting to recognize "google", or some other keyword, and ignoring everything else, before it starts general voice recognition. For me this is ideal. On other systems, you are expecting to press a button, or provide some physical gesture (as in moving phone up) to initiate the recognition (as in Siri).
Sometimes I forget to turn down the Sound System when keying the microphone. That has caused me some problems with results.
I'm having periodic problems getting the voice recognition to work.
I've also had several people mention that the voice quality on my end of phone conversations isn't very good.
The two problems might be related - poor audio quality for the microphone.
My previous car (LS 460) had a diagnostics menu I accessed to fine tune the microphone volume control - and was able to fix a similar problem in that car.
To determine if you have this problem - a simple test is to call leave yourself a voice mail, while you are driving - and see how good or poor the voice quality is. If it's poor - and you're having problems with voice recognition, that's likely the cause.
As for turning down the sound system - in my car, the sound system turns off/pauses while the voice command button is pressed - so there shouldn't be any interference between the sound system audio and the voice commands.
I rented a Ford with Sync recently, and it has the text-to-speech for text messages built-in. That should be possible with the MS - with some additional software - and is hopefully on their "future feature" list.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Rivalries are often overrated. A few, though, are very underrated.
Example of an overrated rivalry: Twinkies vs. Ho Ho's. It made no sense. Both were made by the same company–which is now dissolving into a pile of gooey sugar debt. That will never happen with Apple vs. Microsoft, or Ohio State vs. Michigan.
Example of a very underrated rivalry: The 49ers vs. the Chicago Bears. The two classic National League Football franchises are not in the same division, so they don't face each other annually. But whenever they do meet, the two teams invariably produce gripping moments.
Expect more of the same Monday night. It's a quasi-historic event. Given the NFL scheduling formula and the pace of Santa Clara Stadium construction, this will likely be the final time that the two teams meet at Candlestick Park. The Bears won't mind. They haven't won at Candlestick since 1985 and are 0-7 in San Francisco since.
It says here, then, that a good old-fashioned smashmouth game could be at hand. The Bears (7-2) and 49ers (6-2-1) are leading their divisions. Jim Harbaugh, the 49er coach, has proclaimed that "the football world will be watching this one."
Also watching will be Jay Cutler, the Bears' starting quarterback. He is out after sustaining a concussion last week, replaced by backup Jason Campbell. Alex Smith, the 49ers' starter, is dealing with his own concussion. But he's supposed to go.
Might not matter. Quarterbacks are frequently bit players in this rivalry. Same this time. The 49ers and Bears of 2012 both seem to rise and fall on their defensive performances. When you think about this rivalry, the thoughts usually involve hard hitting–and/or gum throwing. In 1987, former Bears coach Mike Ditka was so enraged by a 41-0 loss to the 49ers at the 'Stick that he hurled his chewing gum into the seats toward a group of fans that had been taunting him, striking one in the head.
I remember that cold December night and the hubbub that followed. San Francisco police confiscated the green wad that Ditka had allegedly tossed, saying they were contemplating charges against him. But in the end–despite evidence of "the telltale smoking gum," as labeled by cheeky Chicago columnist Bob Verdi–the legal system decided other things were more important.
The 49ers-Bears games, though, always traffic in such emotion. On the rivalry scale, I would even place it above 49ers-Rams. As proof, I present my hand-selected 10 most memorable games in the series:
–Sept. 24, 1950, Kezar Stadium. This was the 49ers' second game as an NFL team after four seasons in the old All-America Football Conference. As such, it was a huge deal. The AAFC was demeaned as a "minor league" by the NFL stalwarts. The Bears thought they'd proved the point with a 32-20 victory. But the 49ers won four of the next seven games in the series. From 1950 through 1966, the 49ers and Bears were in the same NFL division and played twice a season.
–Dec. 12, 1965, Wrigley Field. Gale Sayers, the future Hall of Fame running back, had his greatest game as a pro by scoring six touchdowns against the 49ers in a 61-20 victory. If you have seen any NFL Films production about Sayers, you have seen highlights of this game.
–Nov. 13, 1966, Wrigley Field. This was the only tie in the series, with a 30-30 final score. The 49ers' Ken Willard rushed for three touchdowns and John Brodie threw for 327 yards while leading the team to a fourth-quarter comeback after they trailed 30-20.
–Nov. 10, 1968, Wrigley Field. This might have been Sayers' lowest moment as a pro. He mangled his knee while being tackled during a 27-19 Bears victory. He was never the same. With today's medical technology, Sayers probably could have recovered to play well for many more seasons. Instead, he played his last NFL game in 1971 and retired at age 29.
–Oct. 28, 1979, Candlestick Park. Bill Walsh's first 49er team, which won only two games, nearly pulled off a third victory before falling to the Bears, 28-27, on a late touchdown pass from Mike Phipps to James Scott. But the near miss was a harbinger of Walsh's future success.
–Sept. 13, 1981, Candlestick Park. The 49ers had lost their season opener the previous week at Detroit, bringing back the mantra of "same old Niners." But in a 28-17 victory over the Bears, Joe Montana threw three touchdown passes and set the team on the path toward a 13-3 season and the 49ers' first Super Bowl title.
–Dec. 14, 1987, Candlestick Park. The gum game. See above. Chew on it a while. Then please dispose of the wrapper.
–Jan. 8, 1989, Soldier Field. On a frostbite day, the underdog 49ers laid a stunning and decisive 28-3 loss on the Bears in the NFC Championship game. I vividly recall Walsh's flushed and frozen face in the locker room afterward and the peeved countenance of Ditka.
–Oct. 28, 2001, Soldier Field. This might have been the start of the end for Steve Mariucci as head coach. The 49ers had a 28-9 lead in the third quarter, but the Bears roared back to tie the game and win in overtime, 37-31, on a 33-yard interception return by Mike Brown. Afterward, 49er receiver Terrell Owens implied that Mariucci had eased up with a big lead because of his friendship with Chicago coach Dick Jauron. The charge was preposterous, but the Mariucci-Owens relationship was never the same.
–Nov. 12, 2009, Candlestick Park. In a Thursday night game, Mike Singletary faced his former team for the only time as a head coach and won, 10-6, thanks to a Frank Gore touchdown, a Joe Nedney field goal and solid defense.
It would take a pretty unforgettable game for Monday's contest to break into that list. But it won't surprise me if it happens. With 49ers-Bears, the unforgettable often turns out to be very gettable.


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AUGUSTA — Maine heard from a kinder, gentler Gov. Paul LePage in his State of the State address Tuesday night.
Picking battles on his most common fronts — notably public education — and highlighting Republican-led reforms from the last Legislature, LePage struck an overall conciliatory tone, which Democratic leaders called encouraging.
"Maine families need help, and they are fed up with the partisan political rhetoric," he said. "They are asking for a lower cost of living and opportunities for the bigger paychecks. That's all Maine people are asking for. They'll do the hard work."
Still, LePage stuck up for his proposed budget for the next two fiscal years. Its most contentious element, cutting revenue sharing to municipalities for a more-than-$200 million hit over the two years, is seen by many as a political non-starter, even among Republicans.
"I do not take pride in this budget," LePage said in his address. "In fact, I do not like it at all."
But he pitched it as the best of many evils, saying he could suggest cutting welfare or schools, or raising taxes, which he asked the Legislature not to do.
After the speech, Democratic leaders called that an example of "rhetoric versus reality."
Assistant House Majority Leader Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, suggested that municipalities would have to make up for the loss of revenue sharing by increasing property taxes.
LePage spoke off-script for most of his speech, which lasted just over an hour, before a joint session of the Legislature in the House chamber.
He spoke of the need for job creation and "bold action" to increase investment in Maine.
He also introduced a smattering of policy initiatives, including saying he would fast-track development of natural gas, which he pitched as a far cheaper alternative to fossil fuel, because "we're killing ourselves with higher energy costs."
He also said that, in days, the state will unveil a website showing how "precious tax dollars are spent."
The most notable new proposal, perhaps, was for education. He said he's directing Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen to set up an A-to-F grading system for Maine's public schools, because they aren't doing what they must to help children.
He also continued his pitch for expanding the state's charter school system.
"If you believe the status quo is working, you are part of the problem," LePage said. "You are not part of the solution."
David Connerty-Marin, a spokesman for the Department of Education, said the grading system won't come with any penalties or incentives. It will incorporate performance and growth, and for high schools it will include graduation rates and won't be based on single test scores, he said.
"This is really just about reporting for transparency's sake," he said. "At the moment, it's just a broad set of parameters and it hasn't been finalized."
Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, said he needs more details on the grading system proposal to comment, but Jackson feared negative effects on rural schools.
"I'm very concerned about this ranking, how it's going to work and what it's going to do to the underserved children," he said. "Are they going to be asked to leave the school so they can get their ranking up? I feel all kids deserve an education, even the ones that don't perform as well."
LePage referred to his past as a homeless youth in Lewiston, saying education saved his life.
"I cannot accept children falling through the cracks and no one doing anything about it," he said, drawing applause from Democrats and Republicans.
He challenged the Maine Education Association, the teachers union, to set aside a portion of union dues to put "into the classroom," which he said he would match with a portion of money.
He said Maine has the highest per-pupil administrative costs in the nation.
U.S. Census data doesn't quite support that claim. In 2009-10, it says, Maine was behind Vermont and the District of Columbia, spending $1,220 per student.
LePage also urged legislators to support his plan to borrow money to pay the state's $186 million debt to Maine's hospitals. The borrowing would be repaid with money from a renegotiated wholesale liquor contract.
LePage called it "embarrassing to work for a state government that doesn't pay its bills."
In a news conference, Democrats said they are committed to paying hospitals, but liquor money should be looked at in the context of the entire budget.
Despite many quibbles on policy, both sides praised the governor's tone in his speech.
"I think the governor struck the right tone of passionate advocacy for Maine children and families," House Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette, R-Newport, said in a prepared statement. "Our policies must, above all else, ensure that Mainers have bigger paychecks, lower bills, and our children have a brighter future right here in the state that we love."
The governor, wearing a blue tie, gave Alfond a one-armed hug near the House rostrum just before the speech. They have had a publicly chilly relationship so far this session.
After the speech, Alfond, fresh off a long-awaited meeting Monday between LePage and Democratic leaders, said he thinks bad blood may have subsided.
"In 24 hours, it's 'Kumbaya,' " Alfond joked. "Now it's time for us to do the important work that's ahead of us."
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It's here: Hygienic XXXIV
New London — Artists, art-lovers and revelers began to stream into the city Saturday night, drawn by the promise of Hygienic Art's annual art show, the venerable spectacle that remains the centerpiece of a host of ancillary events.
If the out-of-doors conditions were glacial, so, too, was the pace at first, a circumstance that changed soon enough.
By 8 p.m., Salon des Indépendants XXXIV — Hygienic art shows, like Super Bowls, carry Roman numerals — showed signs of fulfilling its promise, as patrons crowded into Hygienic's Bank Street gallery, where 326 pieces of art had been arranged on two floors throughout the day.
For the record, the number of entries in the non-juried show was "a little low," according to Sherry Stidfole, one of the show's organizers.
"It was actually quiet at one point this afternoon, and I don't remember that ever happening before," Stidfole said, describing the daylong dropping-off of the art. "It could be the weather."
Temperatures were heading into the teens, plunging the city in a deep freeze.
Up Union Street, though, the bands performing at The Rock Fix in the Crocker House Ballroom were heating things up amid "weird, trippy" lighting, in the words of one performer.
Rich Martin, Hygienic Art's managing director, sought a relatively quiet corner to lend some perspective.
"The goal is to expose people to all of the arts, all modes of expression," he said of the Hygienic show, which from humble origins has morphed into a two-week festival. "It used to be a one-day thing; now, since we've become a professional gallery, it's a little different.
"It's as much a good time as anything. If people are smiling, showing pictures on Facebook, then it's a success."
Over the years, the Hygienic art show had become known for the outlandishness of some of the art it displayed, but irreverence and poor taste seemed little in evidence Saturday. And then the motley fife-and-drum corps marched past the gallery, accompanied by pallbearers hoisting an empty casket and waving pink flamingo-tipped poles.
The mood was not exactly tame. And the Ice Carnival hadn't even opened yet in Hygienic Art Park.
"That was the press," Vincent Scarano, president of Hygienic Art, said, referring to the show's racy reputation. "To me, it's always been about great artists doing experimental work that you wouldn't ordinarily see around here. In the '80s, it was the days of Warhol and the emerging scene in SoHo, and then it got bigger and bigger."
How would he judge the success of this year's show, or any year's show, for that matter?
"We don't judge success," Scarano said. "We don't judge anything here."
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This module system was not designed as the be-all and end-all of Scheme module systems; it was only intended to help us organize the Scheme 48 system. Not only does the module system help avoid name clashes by keeping different subsystems in different namespaces, it has also helped us to tighten up and generalize Scheme 48's internal interfaces. Scheme 48 is unusual among Lisp implementations in admitting many different possible modes of operation. Examples of such multiple modes include the following:
The need to make structures and interfaces second-class instead of first-class results from the requirements of static program analysis: it must be possible for the compiler and linker to expand macros and resolve variable bindings before the program is executed. Structures could be made first-class (as in FX[9]) if a type system were added to Scheme and the definitions of exported macros were defined in interfaces instead of in module bodies, but even in that case types and interfaces would remain second-class.
The prohibition on assignment to imported bindings makes substitution a valid optimization when a module is compiled as a block. The block compiler first scans the entire module body, noting which variables are assigned. Those that aren't assigned (only defined) may be assumed never assigned, even if they are exported. The optimizer can then perform a very simple-minded analysis to determine automatically that some procedures can and should have their calls compiled in line.
The programming style encouraged by the module system is consistent with the unextended Scheme language. Because module system features do not generally show up within module bodies, an individual module may be understood by someone who is not familiar with the module system. This is a great aid to code presentation and portability. If a few simple conditions are met (no name conflicts between packages, and use of files in preference to begin), then a multi-module program can be loaded into a Scheme implementation that does not support the module system. The Scheme 48 static linker satisfies these conditions, and can therefore run in other Scheme implementations. Scheme 48's bootstrap process, which is based on the static linker, is therefore nonincestuous. This contrasts with most other integrated programming environments, such as Smalltalk-80, where the system can only be built using an existing version of the system itself.
Like ML modules, but unlike Scheme Xerox modules, this module system is compositional. That is, structures are constructed by single syntactic units that compose existing structures with a body of code. In Scheme Xerox, the set of modules that can contribute to an interface is open-ended -- any module can contribute bindings to any interface whose name is in scope. The module system implementation is a cross-bar that channels definitions from modules to interfaces. The module system described here has simpler semantics and makes dependencies easier to trace. It also allows for higher-order modules, which Scheme Xerox considers unimportant.
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Bryan360 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Bacon Powder
We sell bacon (yes - the pig bacon) in the form of powder. Great topping for (but not limited to) popcorn and eggs.
I really want a mascot that we can utilize in advertisements. Pig? Wolf? I'm counting on your creativity! See the attached images. The other is an illustration style I like. I want the mascot to be somewhat detailed / able to relate to - not just an outlined figure or symbol. I want the mascot in the design / emblem that carries the name. It seems I like illustrations that have eyes that you can look at. This product is for bacon lovers of all ages; however, we believe most success will be with males attending college who want the quick taste of bacon without the work. Interests will range from geeks to athletes - simply a passion for bacon. You can see what type of people like bacon by visiting: http://www.youtube.com/results?sear…bacon&aq=f . We need to fit well into the bacon culture!
Added 04/12/11 at 2AM EST - REQUIREMENT - The ultimate logo needs to work well on a spice bottle. I am partial to the way an oval background with some sort of ribbon over / around it looks. Some Inspiration (though definitely not as dark): http://www.mybacksplash.com/images/…Nutmeg.jpg
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I rooted the phone, i instaled Bluetooth PhoneBook trial app and i can download all contact from my device.
Afther that i instaled payed app but from this moment i can't download any contact from device or sim.
Can give me some advise what to do?
Sorry for my english.


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Mr. Rochester is Still Mr Rochester
Everyone else has had their names translated, it seems, in this very rare find brought to you by the indefatigable biedroneczka. This adaptation was produced in 1972 in Czech.
Jana Eyrová CSSR
A miniseries in four parts Directed by: Věra Jordánová
Cast: Marta Vancurová - Jana Eyrová
Jan Kačer - Edward Rochester
Mrs. Fairfaxova pours tea for Jana.
Mr Rochester meets Jana Eyrova in Hay Lane.
Mr Rochester tells Jana about Adele's mother Celine Varensova....Keeping warm.
Grace Poolova, who has been listening at doors!
Lady, Mary, and Blanche Ingramova.
He doesn't let the tear fall to the flag this time.
She doesn't talk like a gypsy...