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Editor's note: This is the second of a three-part series looking at the opportunity of biofuels and new sources farmers can provide.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts tremendous growth in the use of biomass for fuel and power in the next 20 years — from less than 5 quadrillion Btu today to more than 9 quadrillion Btu by 2035. That means U.S. farmers stand to profit from a long-standing problem: ag waste. Still, the market for animal manure, trash trees, inedible grasses and the like is just getting started. Will this trend pencil out for farmers?
Consider these four points:
1. Maximize marginal cropland.
Critics of U.S. ethanol production decry the way it can cannibalize land for food crops. However, the emerging biomass market gives farmers the ability to leverage marginal farmland to grow switchgrass, miscanthus, king grass and other fibrous grasses. These perennial plants can be harvested with ordinary farm equipment. The biomass market also drives demand for otherwise-unmarketable timber (obtained via selective harvest rather than clear-cutting). Trash trees use up water, sunlight and soil nutrients. Selling them is a win-win.
2. Replace lost income.
Growing up on a farm, I knew farmers who cultivated 100 acres of tobacco or more. But this formerly lucrative crop is on the wane. In February, CVS Caremark Corp. announced it would stop selling tobacco products in its 7,600 stores. The U.S. surgeon general just released a 980-page report calling for stricter tobacco control. Some predict the end of smoking in the U.S. While farmers have been scrambling to find replacements, including chickpeas and stevia, the answer might be something simpler: ag waste.
3. Tap diverse markets.
Last month, we described how new energy technologies are boosting demand for all kinds of ag products and byproducts. Biogas recovery systems mean that animal manure, too, can make money for farmers. The list of buyers here is diverse and growing; already, multinationals such as Royal Dutch Shell, BP, DuPont and Chevron are teaming with tech firms to transform biomass into energy. Robust competition buoys prices. It means a raft of companies might compete for the right to locate biodigesters on a farmer's land. The farmer's job? Collecting on the lease.
4. Benefit from incentives and resources.
Concern about fossil fuels is at a fever pitch. Biomass production adds no carbon to the atmosphere. As a result, carbon credits for biomass energy will continue to spell opportunity for farmers. Indeed, the new farm bill sets aside $881 million over the next 10 years for the likes of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which gives money to farmers to help them produce biofuels from nonfood sources; the Biorefinery Assistance Program, which funds biofuels projects; and the Renewable Energy for America Program, which supports biomass, biogas and other alternative energy initiatives.
A parallel trend is the steady tightening of ag-waste regulations. Gone are the days when a farmer could burn waste products or endlessly dump manure on fields. Taken together, these "carrots" and "sticks" mean U.S. farmers and co-ops have ample reason to start turning their former trash into economic treasure.
Roy M. Palk, Esq., is senior energy adviser for LeClairRyan and the former president and CEO of East Kentucky Power Cooperative. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Bookshelf, 206 N. Main St., will host Grant Overstake, Troy Koehne and Marci Penner as they sign their books from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday during McPherson's Shop the Night Away event.
During Shop the Night Away, stores will remain open until 10 p.m. in downtown McPherson. The event includes family, theme-based activities and numerous food options. There will be a drawing for a $500 shopping spree, a free movie at the McPherson Opera House and entertainment for the whole family.
Grant Overstake
Grant Overstake will sign copies of the nationally acclaimed novel, "Maggie Vaults Over the Moon." His novel has been praised for its inspirational message, authentic sports scenes, and realistic depiction of life on a traditional family farm. The story features Maggie Steele, a gutsy farm girl from fictional Grain Valley, Kan., who overcomes family tragedy and soars to new heights as a pole vaulter.
"So few Kansas authors write about our mid-western youth," Linda Rounds of The Bookshelf said. "Grant writes straight from the heart about a quest that so many of us Kansans have followed."
A drawing will be conducted at Overstake's book signing for free copies of his novel. The grand prize winner will win a free adventure at the Tailwind Pole Vault Club. One girl or boy will be granted free admission to the Tailwind Pole-Vault Camp in August at the Tailwind Pole Vault Club in Jamestown, Kan.
To learn more about Maggie Vaults Over the Moon, visit www.MaggieVaultsOverTheMoon.com.
Troy Koehne
Hutchinson-based author Troy Koehne will sign copies of his book, "The Mission House."
A synopsis of the book is as follows: What is a loving God to do if you will not turn to him? Would someone you love have to die? Would a gun have to be put to your head? How far would God have to go to get your attention?
Tom spends much of his time at school harassing his classmate Jennifer about her strong faith in God. Eventually, she can't brush off his comments any longer, but instead of retaliating with cruelty, she dares Tom to read his Bible. That stormy afternoon, Tom is caught walking home in the rain. In anger, he dares God to prove he exists, only to remain drowning in doubts when he doesn't receive an immediate answer. But it's only a matter of time before Tom sees the Truth. Follow Tom as God opens up to him in a dream revealing the horrors of sin and consequences of refusing Jesus. Awake, Tom is faced with Milard, his mother's new boyfriend, and advocate of Satan. Will Tom turn to God and trust in him before it's too late?
Marci Penner
Inman resident Marci Penner will sign copies of her book, "The 8 Wonders of Kansas Guidebook." The work is a 272-page book filled with more than 800 photos of the 216 entries in the 8 Wonders of Kansas contests. It is certain to become a treasured Kansas classic whether it's used as a coffee table book or as a travel guide.
Marci has worked with all 216 entries to compile background information, location, contacts, websites and hours to make this spiral-bound book a handy tool when exploring Kansas.

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A BURGLAR who stole underwear from his female victim and left a pair of pants on a fence as he escaped has been jailed.
Connor Greenslade, 19, of Griffin Park Court, Porthcawl, appeared in Newport Crown Court on Friday charged with two counts of burglary. He had previously appeared at Newport Magistrate's Court where he pleaded guilty.
Recorder Malcolm Bishop heard Greenslade burgled his victim's house, in Pantside, Newbridge, on two occasions and attempted to burgle it on a third occasion.
The court heard that on January 11 the victim had secured her property and left to stay with a friend.
But when she returned on the January 12, a window had been smashed. She found items missing, including scented candles and underwear. She told police her bedroom had been searched and it looked as though someone had spent the night there, the court heard.
Police investigated and found fingerprints matching Greenslade. The second burglary took place on March 8, when the woman received a call telling her house had been broken into. She returned to find the same window smashed, underwear missing, muddy footprints leading to her bedroom and an underwear cupboard damaged. The court heard a neighbour had seen Greenslade leaving and recognised him, shouting : "Connor, I'm going to call the police", but the defendant climbed over a fence and ran off, leaving a ladies' underwear on the fence.
The recorder heard about an attempted burglary at the house on February 2, when he threw rock through the window, before the alarm went off and he ran.
The court heard after the incident on March 8, Greenslade called police and handed himself in.
In interview he told them he had been under the influence of alcohol and mephedrone but when he had 'come down' he felt an overwhelming sense of guilt.
The victim's impact statement said she felt there was 'something sinister' about the stealing of underwear.
The recorder told Greenslade: "As a result of what you did your victim has suffered more than is ordinary." Greenslade was sentenced to one year in prison and handed a restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim or attending her place of work.


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Understanding Bias in Coverage of Intelligent Design
Matt Nisbet
September 30, 2005
Follow-up on Columbia Journalism Review article and New York Times Series
Have the efforts of the intelligent design movement been thwarted by a secular and liberal news media? Across coverage of politics, many conservative leaders believe that the overwhelming majority of reporters, editors, and media producers favor a liberal point of view. In terms of evidence, however, conservatives rarely cite verifiable data indicating systematic patterns of liberal bias in coverage of public affairs. Instead, conservatives rely on selective anecdotes and examples as support for their claims. Still, over the past twenty years, the consistent drum beat from conservatives about the dangers of an allegedly liberal press, in combination with the news media's own tendency to critically reflect on such a possibility, have contributed to a growing belief among the general public that the news media is indeed biased.
Social scientists, however, have had difficulty in reaching a consensus about the ideological nature of political coverage. One group of scholars infer liberal media bias from surveys that indicate journalists favor the left in their political preferences, and are more likely than the public to vote Democratic in elections. Yet, as others point out, surveys of reporters' political preferences do no offer direct evidence of bias in coverage. In fact, it is more likely that professional norms that dictate balance and impartiality, combined with the need to maintain credibility with audiences, override the personal political preferences of journalists. Some scholars point to various methodological problems in reliably assessing ideological bias specific to social issues like abortion where it is difficult to define a clear objective standard by which to evaluate coverage.
Relative to election campaigns, though there are problems in accounting for incumbent and front runner status, it is methodologically easier to evaluate coverage by a standard where candidates should receive roughly equal time and fairness. Several large scale studies have found coverage relative to Democratic and Republican candidates to be neutral or balanced, but other studies have found instances where coverage favors Democrats and other cases where coverage favors Republicans. Hoping to resolve these apparent inconsistencies, in a published meta-analysis, one team of researchers compared statistically fifty-nine previous studies of Presidential election coverage, concluding that the accumulated evidence did not point to ideological bias in newspaper coverage, showed only a slight liberal bias in TV coverage, and actually indicated a slight conservative bias at the major news magazines.
Sources of Bias in Coverage of ID
For most issues, a dogmatic belief in a liberal press misses the mark. In many cases, there are biases in news coverage, but they have little to do with political ideology. Instead, skewed coverage is more likely to derive from the professional norms of journalists, and the market priorities of news organizations. In the cover article for the September/October issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, co-author Chris Mooney and I evaluate news coverage of intelligent design, and detail a leading example where the professional and organizational biases of a supposedly liberal and secular media actually favor directly the goals of religious conservatives.
In the article, we note that, for example, unlike the debate over abortion, there is a clear objective standard set by scientific consensus statements, the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and past court decisions that journalists can use in evaluating the scientific legitimacy of the ID movement. Yet, the news media often simply balances the claims of ID proponents against those of scientists, with little interpretation or context for the reader.
In the article, we note that as school boards, state legislatures, and the courts pay increasing attention to the claims of the ID movement, journalists rely heavily on the agenda of these political venues to guide coverage decisions. As a consequence, there is a rise in media attention to ID, but perhaps more importantly, as science is debated within these policy arenas, there is a transfer across news beats, with coverage no longer dominated by context-oriented science writers, and instead the subject of stories contributed by political reporters, opinion writers, and TV journalists. We reached this conclusion after systematically reading through seventeen months of recent news coverage at national and local newspapers, conducting an analysis of opinion page content at the papers, and reviewing relevant TV news transcripts.
As this shift in news beats takes place, coverage de-emphasizes the type of technical backgrounder favored by science writers. These context-oriented articles typically highlight accurately the overwhelming scientific consensus in support of evolution. In contrast, political reporters and television news correspondents are more likely to cover the issue through the lens of political strategy and gamesmanship. Though these types of stories provide important details about the tactics, fundraising, and communication strategies of the ID movement, they often also ignore scientific background, and instead carefully balance arguments from both sides, thereby lending credibility to the claim by ID proponents that there is a growing "controversy" over evolutionary theory.
Paralleling the rise in attention from political reporters is the increased discussion of ID in editorials, op-eds, and letters-to-the-editor. In the editorial section of newspapers, the content often reflects editors' wishes to publish a plurality of views, and is therefore readily accessible to the carefully packaged PR tactics of the ID movement. (If these trends in coverage of the ID controversy sound familiar, it's because they are roughly generalizable across several types of issues, as I have previously written about in reference to the stem cell and climate change debates.)
The New York Times Series
In late August, as we were finalizing author proofs of our CJR article, the New York Times ran the first of a three day front page series on intelligent design. The series was notable because it marked a climax in rising attention to ID across the summer, and served as a leading example of how different reporters are likely to define the debate in different ways. It also highlighted the important, but not always predictable influence the Times can have on other media including blogs and cable news.
The Sunday, August 22 article by national desk reporter Jodi Wilogren chronicled the political maneuvering of the Discovery Institute, the personalities and back story behind its founding, and the key donors financing the organization. If evaluated as stand alone coverage, though Sunday's article provided valuable details about the politics behind the debate, it suffered from a lack of scientific context, and would have been typical of the type of coverage by political reporters that we heavily criticize.
Yet it was clear from science writers Kenneth Chang's follow up article on Monday, and Cornelia Dean's article on Tuesday that the Times conceived of the series as marshaling the specialized expertise of its staff, covering the issue in a way that few other news organizations can match. In Monday's article, while opening with a detailed outline of the three-pronged ID argument against evolution, Chang also carefully noted that ID does not offer a rival theory but merely argues in the negative. Though he stopped short of outright dismissing intelligent design, (the Times saved this for an Editorial Observer column that ran the next day), Chang devoted considerable space to the details of evolutionary theory, contextualizing and countering the arguments of ID proponents. Dean's Tuesday reporting potentially broke new ground by spotlighting the views of prominent Christian scientists such as Francis Collins and Kenneth Miller, who although they both strongly reject ID, also feel it is important to speak out about their faith, even when faced with a dominant culture of agnosticism among their colleagues. As a denouement to the series, Dean's article seemed to convey an important moral lesson for the reader, a compromise interpretation that science and religion are not incompatible. (For an alternative take on the series, go here.)
Reaction from Scientists at Blogs
Despite the comprehensive nature of the Times series, misplaced journalistic balance is often in the eye of the beholder, and in response to the series, several blogs maintained by university scientists lit up with criticism, especially of Kenneth Chang's coverage. Responding to remarks that his reporting gave undue credibility to ID, in a post on PZ Meyer's Pharyngula blog, Chang shed light on the Times thinking in putting together the series: "As for why the Times is writing about intelligent design...it's because the I.D. people have convinced a handful of states to include aspects of it in their curriculum standards. That makes it newsworthy, regardless of the science. For those of you who are well versed in this debate and know everything that I didn't put in, here is a point I want to make: this article was not for you....Rather, the intended audience is the many, many people who...don't know what I.D. is or even care much about science in general. The idea was to provide these readers with an introduction to the subject at a level that they could comfortably follow from beginning to end. For these people, I don't think the impression that they come away with is that I.D. and evolution are on even footing."
At the blog Cosmic Variance, Chang again defended his work, noting that his article featured roughly 1400 words contrasting ID claims with deep background on evolutionary theory. In a follow-up post, Sean Carroll, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Chicago, and one of the five university scientists who maintain Cosmic Variance, responded to Chang by taking him to task for the lede paragraph of the article. Carroll argued that few readers were likely to read the entire Times article, and therefore, the following opening lines were especially misleading: "At the heart of the debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of the history of life include the actions of an unseen higher being?" Instead, argued Carroll, the Times should have framed the opening of the news article around the angle of epistemological authority, emphasizing that the debate really turned on the following question: "Should the content of high-school science courses be decided by scientists, or by religiously-motivated public-relations campaigns?"
Chang's subsequent reply to Carroll provides even more insight into the types of space, time, and editorial influences that often color how science is portrayed in the news: "O.K., I finally see what the hang-up over the beginning of the story is. In an early draft, the rhetorical question was quickly followed by Doug Erwin's quote, to make it clear that the standard scientific view is No, of course not. In the course of editing, other material was inserted between the question and the quote, and so that intended connection was lost. Perhaps I should have tried to insert as the second sentence something like, 'For most scientists, the answer is an obvious no, and that is the end of the debate.'"
The Secondary Impacts of the New York Times Series
Few news organizations can equal the New York Times coverage for quality and depth, and considering the agenda-setting influence of the paper, it is likely that an unintended consequence of the series was to simply boost overall media attention to the topic, furthering the attempts of ID proponents to achieve the illusion of scientific controversy. Moreover, in piggybacking on the Times coverage, it is not clear that accuracy was the first priority for many news organizations, especially for the cable news networks where entertainment, drama, and conflict are often prized.
As Mooney and I write in CJR, cable news is intrinsically adversarial; truth is reached only through argumentation. In fact, the format of cable news inherently favors ID's attacks on evolution by making journalistic "balance" inescapable. Much like a presidential debate, the arguments offered on these shows are usually not scored on substance but on performance and style. Moreover, the cable news talk show format assumes that an issue can be decided within a few minutes, and implies an image of two coequal, warring camps. For example at CNN, on the same Monday the Times series ran, Lou Dobbs featured a debate between opposing members of the Kansas school board. On Tuesday, Larry King Live, a program infamous for providing an uncritical forum for a host of fringe claims ranging from psychics to UFOs (go here and here), featured what King called a "three-on-three" panel of guests to debate ID that included Deepak Chopra, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, megachurch pastor John MacArthur, Discovery Institute spokesperson Jay Richards, U.S. Congressman Christopher Shays, and philosopher Barbara Forrest. The Discovery Institute's Richards used the recent media attention to his rhetorical advantage, communicating a certain self satisfaction: "We think teachers should be free to talk about this [ID], and frankly, I don't think that it can be suppressed. It's now very much a public discussion, evidenced by the fact that you're talking about it on your show tonight."
Outlook for Trends in ID Coverage
So what is the outlook for news coverage of intelligent design over the next few months? Generalizing about trends in media coverage is often difficult since coverage of any one issue depends also on many other competing issues and events. Absent the ability to forecast all of the possible major events that were in store for September, we predicted in our CJR article that the month would bring even more of the same type of troubling "he said, she said" strategy coverage from political reporters. Our prediction was based on the ID-related political events on the horizon, including a pending Federal court case and local school district referendum in Pennsylvania, and political trouble brewing across other states.
Yet, the media tsunami of Hurricane Katrina has washed most other political issues including ID off the media agenda. Similar to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina has made many of the issues that we considered important yesterday, seem comparatively trivial today. I suspect that heavy attention to ID during August was in part a product of the media attempting to fill the major news hole left by a vacationing President and Congress. By constructing ID into the latest social wedge issue, news organizations, especially cable news, sought to hold the attention of Americans during an otherwise slow news month. In any case, if the cycle of attention to ID has shifted into a downward phase, then science advocates are better off. In the meantime, there needs to be further reflection on the role of the news media in fanning the flames of this debate, and there needs to be more attention to how journalists can overcome professional and organizational bias to more accurately cover a political conflict like ID where there is a clear objective standard by which to evaluate many claims.


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The Mayhew Animal Home's Sponsored Dog Walk features as part of our annual Hyde Bark doggie day out in June.
We would love for more keen dog lovers to sign up to the walk and help us raise money for the hundreds of helpless dogs that come to us each year.
The sponsored dog walk around the beautiful Serpentine starts at 12.30pm and registration is just £10 per pooch, a great way to keep up the day of fun and fundraising!
Once youve registered well send out your special fundraising pack to you with lots of fundraising materials and helpful hints & tips on how to raise your sponsorship money most sponsored walkers aim between £50-£100.
The walk kicks off at 12.30pm and we set off in groups of 10 in our Im supporting The Mayhew t-shirts whilst taking in the beautiful sights of the iconic Hyde Park. With the finish line in sight, well be cheering you on and will welcome you with your well earned certificate and goody bag full of Lily's Kitchen treats and lots of other great freebies for you and your canine chum.
Please see this link for the Hyde Bark Event: http://themayhew.org/events/hyde-bark-2014/
Please use this link to sign up for the sponsored dog walk: http://themayhew.org/hydebarkwalk/
We look forward to seeing you there!


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Man sheds weight to donate liver to save mother's life
Man sheds weight to donate liver to save mother's life
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Man sheds weight to donate liver to save mother's life
BIDDEOFORD, Maine —
A woman from Maine is recovering in a Massachusetts hospital Tuesday night. Thanks to her son, the prognosis for Rose Bolduc is very good.
Her son, Brian, donated part of his liver to help save his mother's life. Before he could donate, however, he had to lose one-third of his body weight.


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August 3, 2010
Cop kills Bear-Bear at Arundel dog park: Justified?
Here's the full story of Bear-Bear that I wrote with Sun reporter Brent Jones, online now and set to appear in tomorrow's Sun, print edition. It's been getting a lot of attention online. Lots of folks appalled not only that this dog was shot in a dog park, but that police aren't going to charge the cop that shot him -- or even let the public known his name. Please share what you think:
Stunned dog owners and residents of a Severn neighborhood are shocked that authorities won't be charging a federal police officer who shot and killed a Siberian Husky Monday night at a community dog park.
Bear-Bear, a brown and white Husky that's about three years old, was playing in the Quail Run dog park at about 6:30 p.m., running off leash inside the fenced-in area, when the officer and his wife arrived with a German Shepherd, who was kept on a leash. When the dogs began to play roughly — the federal officer asked Bear-Bear's guardian, his owner's brother, to call off the dog. But before he could do anything, the officer pulled out a gun and shot Bear-Bear.
Bear-Bear, who belongs to Rachel Rettaliata, died of his injuries a few hours later.
"I've been bawling my eyes out since 7 p.m. last night," Rettaliata said. "It's grief mixed with anger. We're so angry this guy was able to take our animal for what we feel was no reason at all.
"We still don't believe that he's gone. We just want so badly to be diligent about this. [The officer] has to pay some sort of consequence for his foolishness."
A spokesman for Anne Arundel County Police Department said no charges will be filed and investigators found no evidence of criminal activity.
Rettaliata adopted Bear-Bear about two years ago from a Husky rescue. He'd been seized from a Delaware home where people had tied him up outside, largely leaving him to fend for himself in the elements.
Tiffany Greco, who fostered the young Bear-Bear and placed him with the Rettaliala family, said the Husky had led a hard-knock life, starved and neglected, with mats in his long fur the size of softballs. But even though he was mistreated, she said he never became aggressive around people or dogs.
"He was a very lovey-dovey happy go lucky guy," Greco said, adding that Bear-Bear at least had a little taste of a good life with the Rettaliatas. "All this dog wanted to do was curl up on top of you."
She said that Huskies have a rough way of playing that, to people who don't know them, can seem intimidating.
"They have a much different play style than other dogs," she said. "They're a rough and tumble breed. They're mouthy. Often people interpret that as being aggressive when it's really them just playing."
In the Quail Run community of townhomes, a number of residents have dogs that they walk over to the community dog park. Neighbors with dogs say the park is generally an easy-going place where well-mannered dogs play with one another.
Bear-Bear was a regular there.
Tarnna Hernandez saw Bear-Bear all the time. She lives two doors down from the Rettaliatas and Bear-Bear plays with her children and Marshmallow, her year-and-a-half-old Dalmatian/Australian Shepherd mix.
"I've never personally seen him be aggressive toward any dog or human or anything, for that matter," Hernandez said. "My two very young children love Bear-Bear and would attack him every time they saw him with hugs and love."
She can't believe Bear-Bear would ever do anything to deserve being shot.
"I have not seen that dog hurt anyone. Or snarl. He's never even barked," she said. "His only way was to get out a gun out and shoot him? Uh-uh. It's completely unbelievable."
Dorothy Pearce, the homeowner's association manager, was appalled that someone would fire a gun in the community dog park — at dinner time.
"This is tragic," she said. "A community of homeowners with children playing around should not have gun-crazy, off-duty policemen shooting in their area, especially a dog in a controllable situation."
Rettaliala said after the officer shot Bear-Bear, the dog didn't yelp or cry, he lay down in the grass, bleeding heavily. "He just went and laid down," she said. "I just can't get over it and I don't think it's being taken seriously because it was an animal involved."
Carolyn Kilborn, chairwoman of the organization Maryland Votes for Animals, based in nearby Annapolis, thought the authorities, at the very least, should be investigating the case thoroughly.
"The killing of the dog in Severn is a sad situation that should be investigated carefully to determine if the incident was caused by a dangerous dog or a dangerous person," she said. "Generally, our society has laws in place to deal with dangerous people --- although the grieving owner of the dog who was shot will likely not get justice nor proper restitution for his terrible loss."
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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I work in the service industry as a field tech and I have a saying which I think applies to the framebuilder/customer relationship as well. It is: "Customer service is like a dance, where the customer leads."ReplyDelete
You have a right to build frames according to your philosophy and to refuse customers if their desires don't match that philosophy. That's okay as long as you can afford the loss of business. There are some people that just aren't worth having as customers, as you alluded to in a prior blog post. You just have to remember that you're more than a framebuilder; you're a businessman as well and you need the people skills to either bring customers around to your way of thinking or detect that they're gonna be trouble and politely turn them away. It's the nature of any craftsman-like enterprise.
It's tough to be flexible and bend to a customer's wants if they contradict yours because you may feel you're compromising yourself. You just have to ask yourself how much you're willing to give in without feeling bad about yourself at the end of the day.
The reason it's usually easier to get what you want from builder "B" after a bad experience with "A" is you're able to tell builder "B" what "A" did that you didn't like. Now all "B" has to do is focus on not making those mistakes and they're golden.
You'll probably find that's the case when you start on my order soon!
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"Alex- can I have "Customers" for $100, please?"


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Cowboys Extra Points: Starters, Backups and Poison Ivy?
Duke Preston is on his way to Dallas, and pending a physical could be the team's new backup center behind Andre Gurode as reported by Nick Eatman on the Cowboys' official site.
Preston was released by Green Bay on Tuesday after being with the team since March. The veteran could provide depth to the O-line as he can play center, tackle and guard. Preston spent the last four years with Buffalo.
Possibly one of the biggest battles this preseason has been (as expected) between Mike Jenkins and Orlando Scandrick at cornerback. Wade Phillips said both are doing so well and it's a tough decision, one that he probably won't make until the season opener. Scandrick is expected to start this Saturday and Jenkins in the final preseason game.
Now here's a doozy… Bobby Carpenter did not participate in practice today. According to Tim MacMahon at DMN Carpenter got poison ivy in his eye and it was swelled shut.
Roy Williams continues to receive criticism from the media, including former Cowboy greats, but he isn't letting it get to him.
"It doesn't fuel me. Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders, Darren Woodson — I love it, I appreciate it.
"I appreciate it because if you sit around and have to hear how good you are all the dang time, you have to have that Jerry Rice mind-set of, 'I'm not good enough.
"When I have guys, especially NFL greats and the greatest that played here in Dallas, saying that I can't get the job done, and I'm not a No. 1, it makes me feel good.
"It makes me want to go out there and prove to them and everybody else across the world who listens to those guys because, obviously, everybody thinks they know it all, that I can do my job."


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Vanessa Hudgens: Love You All for the Letters!
Vanessa Hudgens texts away on her cell phone as she heads inside her Yoga class on Thursday (May 2) in Studio City, Calif.
The 24-year-old Spring Breakers star recently took to Twitter to thank her fans for their love!
"My mom @MamaGH brought me so many amazing cards & gifts from u guys! Im so thankful. Gonna post a blog tomorrow on tumblr w/pix. Love y'all!" she tweeted.
"Ugh I hate when then "@" symbol gets removed from tweets when you send from IG. #rude" Vanessa added earlier in the day.
FYI: Vanessa is wearing Electric Yoga pants.
10+ pictures inside of Vanessa Hudgens heading to Yoga…


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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! And Happy Diwali!!
Back from Vacation and working on updates. Looks like there should be an update tomorrow. :)
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Bullpen falters for Mets after Torres' solid start
PITTSBURGH -- Friday night, it was the Mets who chipped away at a two-run deficit, but ultimately fell to the Pirates in extra innings. Saturday night's buildup was the opposite, but the end result stayed the same in another bullpen battle.
Andrew McCutchen's game-tying solo homer in the sixth off David Aardsma and go-ahead RBI single in the seventh off Greg Burke sent the Mets to a 4-2 loss to the Pirates on Saturday night at PNC Park.View Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- Friday night, it was the Mets who chipped away at a two-run deficit, but ultimately fell to the Pirates in extra innings. Saturday night's buildup was the opposite, but the end result stayed the same in another bullpen battle.
Andrew McCutchen's game-tying solo homer in the sixth off David Aardsma and go-ahead RBI single in the seventh off Greg Burke sent the Mets to a 4-2 loss to the Pirates on Saturday night at PNC Park.View Full Game Coverage
The Mets' bullpen, which manager Terry Collins said is absolutely gassed, gave up three runs, five hits and two walks over three innings. The Pirates: 3 1/3 innings, one hit, no runs or walks.
"They're hanging, there's no doubt about it," Collins said of his 'pen. "Today we had a situation where we needed guys to get one out ... they're hanging for sure."
Burke could have worked out of the seventh unscathed with a little help from Ike Davis. The first baseman couldn't come up with a sharply hit Travis Snider ground ball. He then dropped a throw on a potential double play after David Wright snared Starling Marte's line drive and tried to double Snider off first. The ball skipped off the dirt right before his glove.
So with two outs in the seventh, Jose Tabata singled to right. Then McCutchen scorched a line drive just past a diving Wright to give the Pirates the lead. Josh Edgin then came in and walked Russell Martin with the bases full to score another. Gonzalez Germen, after giving up a walk-off single in his big league debut Friday, stopped the bleeding, forcing a Gaby Sanchez popout.
"It had some pretty gnarly spin on it, but I hope I make that [play the] majority of the time," Davis said of Snider's ground ball. "Nine out of 10 balls, I catch that."
"I do think, at times, our hitters ... when our bullpen gets in, there is a settling effect," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "Even I don't want to admit it, but I think there's something there -- they settle down."
Carlos Torres made his first Major League start since 2010 and allowed just one run and five hits with five strikeouts over five innings and left in line for the win for the Mets. He got the ball in favor of Matt Harvey, who has a blister on his right index finger.
Torres spent the last three weeks in the Mets' bullpen, allowing just one earned run in 17 2/3 innings. The 30-year-old spent the first two months of the season with Triple-A Las Vegas, starting 12 games there, and will replace Shaun Marcum in the rotation for now.
Torres left in line for the win thanks in part to Tabata. Garrett Jones led off the fifth with a double, then Jordy Mercer pushed a line drive to right to cut the Mets' lead in half. Three batters later, with the bases full and one out, Tabata grounded into a tailor-made 6-4-3 double play to keep the Mets in front.
"He pitched an outstanding game and he's going to be a good addition," Collins said. "I know we need to get him lengthened out a little bit more, but he threw the ball great."
"We were not able to draw a bead on Torres. He kept us off balance with his curve and slider," Hurdle said. "We had an opportunity to bust him and didn't, he got away."
Torres retired the first seven Pirates he faced and allowed just two hits while striking out five in the opening four frames. It then got dicey in the fifth, and Jordany Valdespin, who was optioned to Las Vegas after the game, pinch-hit for the righty in the sixth. Torres threw 80 pitches.
"I was just trying to get outs inning by inning. That fifth was a brutal one," Torres said. "So it was a good time. It is what it is."
McCutchen greeted Aardsma with a solo homer to right-center in the sixth, taking the second pitch he saw deep after almost taking a first-pitch fastball off the chin.
"I always tell people he's one of the guys I'd pay to see," Collins said of McCutchen. "And you've got to get him in situations where he can't hurt you. Again tonight, we got to get an inning, we got a ball up to him and he did what he does. He does damage."
Pirates starter A.J. Burnett allowed two runs, seven hits and four walks with eight strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings. Mark Melancon and Jason Grilli worked scoreless eighth and ninth innings for the Pirates.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis got the Mets on the board in the fourth with a line-drive double to right-center, scoring Marlon Byrd.
In the fifth, Byrd legged out an infield single to plate Daniel Murphy, who stolen third.
Steven Petrella is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


text: Commodities Climb to Six-Month High as Oil, Corn Rise on Ukraine March 3, 2014 07:38 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Commodities advanced to the highest in almost six months as escalating tension in Ukraine fueled concern that energy and agricultural supplies will be disrupted while increasing demand for gold as a haven. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials climbed as much as 2.1 percent to 663.48, the highest since Sept. 9, and was at 658.87 as of 2:05 p.m. in New York. Crude oil jumped as much as 2.6 percent, wheat surged 7 percent, while gold increased 2.5 percent. Corn and gasoline also rose. "The uncertainty of how the Ukrainian issue will play out will continue to lift commodities across the board," Chad Morganlander, a Florham Park, New Jersey-based fund manager at Stifel Nicolaus & Co., which oversees about $150 billion of assets, said in a telephone interview. "Ukraine being a major supplier of grain has cast some doubt in the global markets." Demand for haven assets such as gold "will continue until there's a more diplomatic approach taken," he said. Russia, the world's largest energy exporter, seized control of the Black Sea region of Crimea in Ukraine, where tension has escalated since Russia-backed Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown as president on Feb. 22. More than half of Russia's gas exports to the European Union are shipped through Ukraine, which was forecast to be the third-biggest corn exporter this year, after the U.S. and Brazil, and sixth-largest in wheat. The GSCI measure of commodities has rallied 4.1 percent since the end of December, rebounding from a 2.2 percent drop last year. Gas Prices Earlier, natural-gas futures jumped as much as 2.8 percent in New York as Ukraine mobilized army reserves and amid speculation that a winter storm moving from the U.S. Midwest to the Northeast will boost heating demand. Prices erased the gain, and fell as much as 2.3 percent. U.K. natural gas, which is not part of the commodities index, jumped the most since September 2011. Russia, which provided 30 percent of Europe's natural gas last year, sends half of its supplies via Ukraine. So far, Russian gas shipments to Ukraine and the rest of Europe haven't been disrupted during the crisis. About 313,000 barrels of crude a day transited via Ukraine in 2013, according to the country's Energy Ministry. The southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline, which transports about 1.2 million barrels of Russian oil to Europe, passes through Ukraine on its way to refineries in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Export Monopoly OAO Gazprom, Russia's gas-export monopoly, may end last year's agreement to supply Ukraine at a cheaper rate unless it's paid $1.55 billion owed for fuel, the company said March 1. It's the first time since the overthrow of Yanukovych that Russia has directly used its position as Ukraine's dominant energy supplier to pressure the new regime. Wholesale gas in Europe surged in January 2009 after Russia halted pipeline deliveries amid a dispute over prices and transit terms. Brent crude oil advanced for a second session to $110.90 a barrel in London, while West Texas Intermediate crude climbed 1.7 percent in New York to $104.33. Crimea, home to Russia's largest overseas naval base, belonged to Russia until Nikita Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in 1954. "If the situation is not defused, it has the potential to spark wider economic turmoil through higher oil and gas prices, trade sanctions and a general ratcheting up of global tensions that could endanger the fragile global economic recovery," Edward Meir, an analyst at INTL FCStone Inc. in New York, wrote in a note today. Wheat Exports Corn futures jumped as much as 4.2 percent to $4.8275 a bushel in Chicago, the highest for a most-active contract since September. Wheat futures increased to the highest since December. Ukraine will probably export 9.5 million metric tons of wheat this season from 7.1 million tons in 2012-13, according to the International Grains Council. It was the fourth-largest corn exporter in 2012-13, IGC data show. The country may leapfrog Argentina this year, shipping 18.3 million tons through June from 13.6 million tons a year earlier, according to the IGC. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Ukraine today as western leaders seek to respond to the movement of troops into Crimea, where a majority of residents speak Russian. EU foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting today, while the U.S. warned of possible sanctions against Russia and the Group of Seven nations said it was suspending its participation in planning for the Group of Eight summit in Russia in June. Gold Momentum Gold futures reached $1,355 an ounce, the highest since Oct. 30, after rallies in January and February that were the first back-to-back monthly advances since August. "The Russia/Ukraine political uncertainty produces a bid for gold," Walter "Bucky" Hellwig, who helps manage $17 billion at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama, said in an e-mail. "With gold breaking through resistance levels, it is now attracting momentum traders adding to positions as the trend moves higher." The S&P GSCI rose 4.4 percent in February, the biggest monthly gain since July, led by a rally in coffee following a drought in Brazil, the biggest grower of the bean. 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It's dark, really early in the morning, and a commlink rings and buzzes on the nighttable.
A hand reaches out to pick up the phone.
A bleary female voice mumbles, "Who is it? Calling at this hour…"
"What time is it?"
"Around 4 am?… Yeah."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, Maz needs to get ready for work. He's meeting Carlito in 30 minutes."
"Work, what, why didn't you tell me last night?"
"Well between eating, you making sure Ashley and Connor were ready for bed, having some drinks and watching a few episodes of UCAS' Most Wanted, Maz never really had the chance."
"Come back to bed, Maz."
"Maz needs to get ready. That was Carlito calling. Maz is meeting him for a briefing over breakfast at the IHOP before going in to work."
Monica sits up in bed, the comforter falling to offer Maz a nice view.
"Mitchell, you can't just tell me you love me last night, spend the night, drop this news on me and then leave."
"Maz is sorry but Mitchell isn't here right now, he can't be. Mitchell needs to come back from work alive and Maz needs to see to that. Mitchell will see you tonight."
Maz bends down and kisses Monica on the forehead.
He heads out the bedroom down and down the hall, towards the entrance, he sees Ashley's face peek out from her door.
"Back to bed kid."
The face disappears quickly.
Maz didn't mean to sound so gruff.
Maz really is an ass, he should have just left Monica and her family alone, instead of involving them with another person who was going to end up splattered somewhere across Seattle's concrete. And did he need to do that right before X-mas. Now he had shopping to do. So Maz was an ass and stupid. Go figure.
He pulls into the IHOP, puts his helmet away and tells the bike to go home as he walks inside to meet Carlito.
Carlito is already seated at a booth to the side drinking coffee, he waves Maz over as he sees him come in.
"Hi Maz, thanks for join me."
Maz nods to Carlito, "Maz likes IHOP but hopes you have something useful to say. He could have used a little more sleep."
Carlitto gives Maz a run down of the changes Knight Errant has made and some of the important folks at HQ. "Oh, and after you fill in all the paperwork, they want you to go through a psyc evaluation.", Carlito finishes saying.
"Maz is guessing you thought if you started with that Maz might get up and walk?"
Carlito remains silent studying Maz's face.
"You can tell them I'll only talk with Dr. Jerry. You know like DJ MasterZ's song said `You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em`."
"I think that was a cover tune Maz. It was originally a country song."
"Which country? UCAS or the old USA?"
"I mean country and western, cowboy shit."
"Well I guess that's the last time I take advice from DJ MasterZ."
Well after the interview with some HQ stiffs in suits, Maz thought the interview went well…
"So Mr. Hendricks, why do you want to work for Knight Errant?"
"Wait what?", Maz stands up, "Carlito told Mazula you wanted him to work for you. Is this an interview? What's with the one way glass?", Maz puts his face right next to the glass and waves, "Hi Mom."
"No offense intended Mr. Hendricks, we just want to make sure you'll fit in with the culture here at Knight Errant."
"Well like Mazula's friend Sam once told the Stripper 'The only culture you have is bacterial'. After the tempo situation, the gang war and everything else, its pretty obvious that you need folks who know what's going down."
and filling in forms…
"Sign here, initial here, fill out this form in triplicate, sign there…"
"Triplicate? Wait can't I just tell you the crap you need and then give you my thumb print or some fragging shit like that?"
He sat waiting outside an office for the better part of an hour… he wakes just as Dr. Jerry opens the door.
"Ah, Mr Hendricks is it? Do come in?"
"Hi Jerry, How's the wife Alice and the kids? How's Julie?"
"The family is doing well."
Maz walks over to the table that contains 2 glasses and a jug of water with ice. He pulls a bottle from his jacket and pours a decent splash in each, reaches into the jug and pulls out some ice to throw in each glass. He picks up the 2 glasses, hands one to Jerry and drains the other.
"Its been a long day.", says Maz as he pours again and puts the bottle back on the table.
Dr. Springer looks from Maz, to the glass in his hand, to the bottle on the table and takes a sniff of the drink before taking a sip.
"So Mr. Hendricks, how are you feeling?"
Maz pulls out a small device, places it on the table and a holograph of a mostly naked Sitara pole dancing appears.
"Mazula's feeling much better now.", he sits in one of the chairs.
"And how does this make you feel?", Dr. Springer looks from the bottle of alcohol to the pole dancer, although his attention seems to linger more on the dancer.
"Maz feels relaxed for the first time since leaving bed this morning and you Jerry? How are you feeling?"
"You don't think this is inappropriate for both the workplace and for a psychiatric evaluation?"
"Are you projecting Jerry? Maybe you find it inappropriate, maybe Maz should find it inappropriate. Have you ever just stopped working for a few weeks Jerry?"
"You mean a vacation?"
"A vacation? No that's for rich people."
"You don't need to be rich to take a vacation. A vacation doesn't even need to involve travel."
"Oh don't take it wrong Jerry, Maz has travelled, Montreal, San Francisco, Mexico and that's just in the last year or so. He's been other places he's been trying to forget as well."
"Why is it that you need to forget?"
"Dead bodies don't provide much comfort, Jerry."
"Maybe you should think about a change of careers."
"Maz is not the sharpest tool on the tree. He is a man of action, and his skills are limited to areas requiring fire arms. In that line of work even the planners live with regrets.", Maz thinks about the planned execution of Cross-eyed Louie.
"And how does that make you… awww hell, shouldn't you… can't you…"
"Tell me Jerry, should Maz get married?"
Jerry looks shocked, "Mr Hendricks, I hate to tell you this but Julie has moved on, she is already engaged to be married."
"Its not about your receptionist Jerry. Maz has met someone, he's known them for a few years. But would it be selfish to want that, knowing the possible consequences? Is it stupidity to deny it? Does Maz deserve a chance at happiness? I rescued a girl from an astral dragon but I couldn't prevent my best friend's death and now I want his wife? What's wrong with me Jerry?"
"Maybe Mazula is human after all."
"Maybe he is Jerry, maybe he is."


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Review: Memorex iTrek Mi3000 Portable Speaker for iPod
Company: Memorex
Website: www.Memorexelectronics.com
Model: iTrek Mi3000
Price: $100
Compatible: iPod 4G, 5G, mini, nano
Pros: The new benchmark for value in $100 portable iPod speakers, delivering nice aesthetics, impressive functionality, and great pack-ins for a surprisingly aggressive price. Includes digital FM radio, Infrared remote control, audio cables, and acceptable sound quality by standards of earlier $100 iPod speakers. Runs off of included wall adapter or self-supplied AA batteries for up to 15 hours. Great carrying case; well thought-out in virtually all regards.
Cons: Neither sound nor radio is as spectacular as one might expect from a system that concentrated less on doing many things well than doing a couple of things optimally. Remote doesn't offer access to radio presets, which are all but necessary because of oddly implemented radio tuner.
Temporarily putting aside the rating you see above, we wanted to give Memorex a quick round of applause for what it's being doing for the past year. We may not have been blown away by all of its iPod speaker releases, but the company has continued to catch our eyes repeatedly with reasonably priced, feature packed devices—the video player iFlip and clean clock radio iWake are only two examples.
Now the company has released the iTrek Mi3000 Portable Speaker for iPod ($100), which once again pushes the "what should you expect for this price" barrier beyond its established $100 competitors. Cosmetically, it looks like the child of Logitech's $150 mm50 and Altec Lansing's $200 iM9, a compact all-black unit with metal grilles that cover four total speaker drivers nestled alongside a pop-out iPod dock. Like the mm50, it has simple pop-out stands that let you prop the unit up, and like the iM9, the iTrek Mi3000 comes with a surprisingly nice armstrap-laden carrying case for easy use while you're traveling. (Notably, a version called Mi3001 does not include the case.) When placed next to Logic3's similarly priced i-Station 7, and actually many more expensive portable speakers, iTrek makes a very good visual first impression.
It also delivers from the standpoint of features. Memorex bundles an Infrared remote control, a number of Universal Dock Adapters, and a power supply with each unit; only a year ago, remote controls were impossible to find in $100 iPod portable speakers. This one's basically the same in performance as in other recent Memorex speakers, differing only in its included "mode" and "bass" boost buttons, and lacking radio preset toggles. That's right: unlike any other $100 speaker system we've seen, iTrek includes a digital FM radio. A little antenna telescopes out of the unit's top left side, and you tune the radio with a screen, manual and preset buttons found next to the antenna.
Other buttons provide a button to open the dock, track and play/pause controls for the iPod, plus power, bass, and mode switches to toggle between iPod and radio features. There's a headphone port on the top right side, as well as line-in, AV out, and power ports on the back. Memorex even includes the audio and video cables to use these ports. There's simply no way to fault the company on its pack-ins or the value equation here.
If you're keeping score at this point, you've probably realized that something has to give when all this stuff is in the box at such a reasonable price, and not surprisingly, the main answers are two familiar ones: speaker and radio quality. A simple way to put this is that iTrek, like i-Station 7, isn't quite an audiophile-quality portable speaker system; in fact, it's hugely similar to i-Station 7 sonically, with audio that's only acceptable given the low price and features you get for the dollar.
On a positive note, the sound's in true, properly separated stereo, and the system doesn't sound tinny or terribly distorted at standard volumes. While the bass button adds little to the sound, mostly just skewing the equalization towards the mid-bass, there is literally nothing bad about the default audio setting. It's just not as impressive as slightly more expensive speakers, such as Logitech's mm50, which delivers clearer, more lively sound that better represents the entirety of the audio spectrum—highs, mids, and lows. iTrek is flatter, and when heard next to a system such as mm50, sounds radio-like, even though it's really not that bad. Memorex's four drivers just aren't as impressive as Logitech's.
Similarly, the radio works, but it's not phenomenal. It tunes from 87.50FM to 108.00FM, bizarrely in .05 increments, which means that it takes four button presses to get from, say, 87.9FM to 88.1FM, whereas most speakers out there would require only one. In an attempt to be helpful, Memorex includes 20 presets and uses seek-only manual tuning buttons, which automatically lock on to new stations if you're holding the button down. The only problem is that you need to re-start the seek every time it stops at a new station, which combined with the slower tuner means that you'll be spending a lot of time moving from station to station, and therefore needing to establish those presets.
Radio reception is above average. Many stations come in with ease, but virtually never come in without a base level of static or a faint high-pitched sound, regardless of whether the antenna is telescoped up or left inside iTrek's chassis. In other words, you have a very good chance of hearing the station you're trying to tune in, but as with iPod music, you won't hear it with the clarity an audiophile would expect for the price.
There were a couple of other, smaller corners cut in the design as well. Because it's less expensive, you won't find the rechargeable battery pack of mm50 here; instead, you'll need to provide your own six AA batteries for roughly 15 hours of play time, a common limitation of today's $100 speakers. And the central iPod dock works, but feels a bit cheaply implemented, and might well not fit the upcoming iPhone.
In all candor, though we feel obliged to impartially deliver our performance findings, we feel hard-pressed to let them significantly undercut iTrek's final rating because of both the price, and some other nice touches in the design. Memorex's carrying case has iPod accessory pockets and a pop-out rear stand built in, enabling you to really use the case on the road; Logitech's mm50 case, while nice, seems comparatively miserly and impractical, and even Altec Lansing's similar $150 radio-plus-speaker dock iM600 ships without a case at all. We also affirmatively liked the unit's matte rubber back, which lets iTrek safely lay flat on any surface, and won't scratch as much as many of its all-glossy competitors.
For a $100 speaker system, it's obvious that iTrek had a lot more thought put into its features and design than many of the $150-200 offerings out there. Though our high recommendation is based primarily on the great value it delivers for the dollar, it's also a pat on the back to Memorex, which is trying harder than most other companies to redefine consumer expectations at various price points. Ideally, the company will take steps to bring future products' sound quality and radio functionality up to snuff with pricier competitors, but as-is, the iTrek Mi3000 will impress anyone save the pickiest listeners. Given its similar sound quality, the only reason some might prefer i-Station 7 at this point is its more aggressive $70-$80 street pricing.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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Harry Melges Interview On The Recent European Launch Of The New Melges 20 Sportboat
13 November 2008
The new Melges 20 had its eagerly awaited European launch in Italy a few weeks ago and Melges Performance Sailboats CEO, Harry Melges was there to gauge the first hand reaction to the latest addition of an already outstanding family of products. We caught up with him to find out how it felt to launch the Melges 20 in Europe. "It was really incredible introducing the new Melges 20 in Europe and sailing for the first time on Lake Garda. Without a doubt this is one of the most beautiful places in the world to sail and it was just awesome," said Melges.
It was clearly no accident that Melges Europe chief Federico Michetti chose the Fraglia Vela Malcesine as the base for the first public viewing of the Melges 20 and Harry was particularly impressed with the venue. "The people at the Fraglia Vela Malcesine have been fantastic. And what a location! With twenty-five knots in the morning, and fifteen to eighteen in the afternoon we were able to sail the new Melges 20 in a variety of nice conditions. We were really able to put the new boat through its paces. It was just a blast. Awesome sailing conditions and everyone on board took a turn at the helm. It was great to see all the crews driving and the competition between drivers on each boat was really fun."
So how does Harry feel about the performance of Melges's first three-person sportsboat? "The new boat exceeds our expectations in performance both upwind and down and is a pleasure to sail," he commented, but urged us not to take his word for it. Local sailing hero Daniele Cassinari of North Sails also boasted, "This boat is incredible to sail. I feel young again!"
This sort of comment is typical of those who have sailed the Melges 20. "So far the response has been great. People are impressed with how comfortable the boat is and especially how good the helm feels and how fast it is. It's really easy to sail and she is very responsive and forgiving."
Melges was delighted to see such a range of European sailors keen to try the Melges 20. "We're really targeting a very broad market. The boats are easy to sail for both men and women, especially youth. Since the boats are easily driven, the sheets have very little load on them. We are maintaining the 'category one' driver status to appeal to Corinthian sailors. We feel this is a great platform for sailors of all ages and genders to learn to sail sportboats at a high level."
Pleased with the feedback from the sailors after their first taste of the Melges 20, Melges pointed out some key attributes. "The most important aspect of the Melges 20 development is the rig and sail plan. It was great to confirm that the new softer rigs are really sweet in a breeze and further refined sail shapes have improved upwind performance and handling in the higher wind ranges. The message we received in Italy was that these refinements have resulted in the Melges 20 being easy to sail no matter what the conditions."
The reaction of the European sailing community to the Melges 20 is phenomenal and Melges believes that the new class is in safe hands with Melges Europe. "Federico Michetti, Luisa Bambozzi and Giorgio Tortarolo form an incredible, dedicated team. Their energy level is contagious and most importantly they are passionate about their work. It has been a joy to be with them at the launch of our new twenty-footer."
Melges' overall aspirations for the Melges 20 in Europe is to build a circuit very quickly and found solid, one design fleets across multiple continents. "This really is a boat for everyone. We are always looking for new ways to engage the public and motivate them to sail more, have fun and enjoy the sport — especially youth sailors. Federico and Luisa have already had great success with selling the Melges 20 thus far. The interest level is incredibly high and is expected to increase as more people sail this evolutionary sportboat."
For more information about the Melges 20 or to arrange a test sail at Fraglia Vela Malcesine during November, please contact Federico Michetti or Luisa Bambozzi via e-mail at email@example.com or visit www.melgeseurope.com.
Additional product details and performance specifications can be found online at www.melges20.com.


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Hey all, used to play 4.5 tennis in Houston about 15 years ago but due to job, family & travel I have not been able to play much since. Probably at a 3.5 level now & a bit out of shape as I only play softball once a week now. Looking for anyone who would be open to hitting some for an hour or so once or twice a week in the evenings or weekends.I live in The Colony. Thx!
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Hi Tim,
I play at a 3.0/3.5 level and your hours of availability are close to mine. I play at the Lakes Tennis academy (Legacy/Lebanon) which isn't far from The colony. Spring season is around the corner and we could meet there to hit.
Thanks for the reply Kevin. I would love to meet with you. Just awaiting the restringing of my raquets (strings are 4 yrs old now!!!). Let me know your next availability.
So, haven't played much since I've been back in the area. I have checked out a couple of courts on occasion to see if by chance I could find someone to hit with but no luck. Where is a good place to go to find people to hit with on weekend mornings? BTW, my cell is [edit: please share private info via PM or Friend Request.]. Tim
Tim, what is your availability Tues. evening may 1
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At the end of April of last year, we blogged about the new Internet Explorer 7 User Agent string. Since our original blog posting, we have also posted two new articles on this topic to MSDN: Understanding User-Agent Strings, and Best Practices for detecting the Internet Explorer version.
I'd like to provide a quick update to this topic for the Beta 2 preview version of IE7.
For the Beta 2 preview, we've removed the "b" from the user agent string. We made this change early in order to help accommodate some sites which were mistakenly trying to cast the HTTPBrowserCapabilities.Version string property to a float. This cast throws an exception if the "b" is present in the string. (For completeness, we've also updated the MSDN documentation for this property to help clarify that this property cannot be blindly cast to a number.)
With the removal of the "b", most Internet sites are viewable in IE7, although there are a few sites which fail to recognize IE7 because they are performing exact string matches to look for specific IE version strings. Those checks will need to be removed or updated to accommodate IE7. The Best Practice document linked above provides suggestions.
If you need to be able to detect the IE7 beta version, you can still use conditional comments, because conditional comments do not evaluate the User-Agent header. Instead, conditional comments are evaluated against IE's Version Vector, which still contains the "b".
Hence, the following code will generate appropriate text, depending on whether or not the user is running a beta or final build:


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4. Cette fille parle ____. (petit)
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5. Elle voit ____. (clair)
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6. Le garçon parle ____. (bas)
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7. Ces sandales coutent ____. (cher)
(Theses sandals are expensive)
8. Il travaille ____. (dur)
(He works hard)
9. L'élève écrit ____. (mauvais)
(The student writes badly)
10. Elle s'arrête ____. (court)
(She stops short)
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Daelo has just given us some insight on how things will work with Ice Crown Citadel. It is a very interesting read, so if you haven't had the time to read over it, I would recommend giving it a gander.
I will repost one of the more interesting things in Daelo's post below:
The first section that opens will include the Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Icecrown Gunship Battle, and Deathbringer Saurfang encounters. Progress beyond that point will be prevented for several weeks. Then the Plagueworks will open with Rotface, Festergut, and Professor Putricide becoming available. After another period of time, the Crimson Hall will open and you can then fight the Blood Princes and Blood-Queen Lana'thel. The final Frostwing Halls unlock then occurs after that, making Valithria Dreamwalker, Sindragosa, and the Lich King available. We believe a staggered release of the content will allow players to experience Icecrown Citadel at a sustainable, measured, and ultimately more enjoyable pace.
There are other elements that gate access along the way. Players may not attempt any Heroic versions of 10 player encounters until they have defeated the Lich King in a 10 player raid. Similarly, players must defeat the Lich King in a 25 player raid before they can attempt a Heroic 25 player encounter. So players must master every normal difficulty encounter in Icecrown Citadel before attempting Heroic difficulty.
The Lich King may not be attempted until Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana'thel, and Sindragosa are defeated. Furthermore, the Heroic difficulty of The Lich King encounter may not be attempted in any week unless the three aforementioned encounters have been defeated in Heroic difficulty that week.
Interesting. So, Blizzard is going to be gating the content, similarly to how Sunwell and ToC were released. Not only that, but you won't be able to do hard modes for what appears to be months after the first batch of normal mode content was released. Blizzard is definately forcing a progression chain with this release format.
What do I think about it? Well, I think I like it. Maybe. I think that as long as the encounters are engaging and challenging enough to warrant an average progression raiding guild the amount of time given to clear the content it's going to work out very well. But I do have a fear: what if the content is as face-rolly as ToC was? What if it only takes us a night or two to clear everything. What are we supposed to do then, while we wait for the next portion of the zone to unlock?
In addition to the tiered release of the zone, we will be seeing a return of limited attempts:
The Ashen Verdict provides reinforcements and material for players to assault Icecrown Citadel, but this support is not endless. Raids will have a limited number of attempts total each week to defeat the four most difficult encounters in Icecrown Citadel: Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana'thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. As these boss encounters are unlocked, the number of attempts available per week will increase. The initial number of attempts provided for defeating Professor Putricide is only five. When Blood-Queen Lana'thel unlocks, the amount of total attempts remaining will increase to 10. Then when Sindragosa and the Lich King unlock, 15 total attempts will be available to defeat all four bosses. After a raid has exhausted their attempts for the week, the Ashen Verdict must withdraw their support and the four most difficult bosses all despawn and become unavailable for the week. The limited attempt system is a feature of both Normal and Heroic difficulty.
Ok, I'm going to start out now by saying I'm not a fan of the limited attempt methodology. I understand why Blizzard is implementing it, but I also pretty firmly believe that it hampers a good number of guilds that don't need this kind of artificial choke point. (Hi…we suck at faction champs, we know this, please punish our further progress in the zone because we can't PvP, thanks!). One thing that I am pleased about, and I think assuages some of my concerns with this system, is that as time goes on the available number of attempts increases.
I guess generally, I think the system is going to work well, if it's been done properly. I also think that Blizzard is absolutely buying themselves time with tiered release of the content. It definitely has the feel of Blizzard deciding when we will see things, and how long it should take us to get there. I don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing, per se, but if they have overdone it, I think people are going to be frustrated.
So…now the million dollar question: When is it going to be released? Well, here is my take on it. I 100% believe that the 3.2 protodrakes are going to be removed with 3.3, as new drakes have been added to the 3.3 content. Blizzard has already stated that they will give us a month's notice before removing the drakes. To date we haven't received that notice. Therefore, I think that it is highly likely that there is at least a month before we see 3.3 release. (Yes, I know the downloader is available already, but we've seen downloaders available well ahead of patch dates before). Of course that puts us right up at Christmas Holidays. Will Blizzard release a major content patch right before the Holidays? Your guess is as good as mine.
So, here is my best guess: The patch is either going to hit on December 22 OR not until after the New Year. I, personally, find it unlikely that they are going to unleash a major patch that will hinder their employees ability to enjoy the holidays. So I think we are going to see it some time around January 5, but I wouldn't take that to the bank. I've been wrong before, and I'm certain to be wrong again!
What do you think? Do you like the tiered release? How do you feel about the return of limited attempts? What is your guess for a release? Inquiring minds want to know!


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Presently, Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC.AX) has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -72.02. The CCI technical indicator can be used to help determine if a stock is overbought or oversold. CCI may also be used to help discover divergences that could possibly signal reversal moves. A CCI closer to +100 may provide an overbought signal, and a CCI near -100 may offer an oversold signal.
Tracking other technical indicators, the 14-day RSI is presently standing at 42.70, the 7-day sits at 35.11, and the 3-day is resting at 20.17 for Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC.AX). The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a highly popular technical indicator. The RSI is computed base on the speed and direction of a stock's price movement. The RSI is considered to be an internal strength indicator, not to be confused with relative strength which is compared to other stocks and indices. The RSI value will always move between 0 and 100. One of the most popular time frames using RSI is the 14-day.
Moving averages have the ability to be used as a powerful indicator for technical stock analysis. Following multiple time frames using moving averages can help investors figure out where the stock has been and help determine where it may be possibly going. The simple moving average is a mathematical calculation that takes the average price (mean) for a given amount of time. Currently, the 7-day moving average is sitting at 0.12.
Let's take a further look at the Average Directional Index or ADX. The ADX measures the strength or weakness of a particular trend. Investors and traders may be looking to figure out if a stock is trending before employing a specific trading strategy. The ADX is typically used along with the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) which point to the direction of the trend. The 14-day ADX for Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC.AX) is currently at 10.44. In general, and ADX value from 0-25 would represent an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would support a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would signify a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would point to an extremely strong trend.
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NORWALK — Marisa Perez was trailing incumbent Ted Edmiston for most of the evening in the Nov. 6 race for a seat on the Cerritos College Board of Trustees.
Shortly after midnight, Perez pulled ahead to beat Edmiston, a 22-year incumbent, by just 100 votes.
With that apparent win — the votes are still being finalized — Perez became a part of history.
For the first time, voters elected three Latino members, while four out of five incumbents were swept out of office under a new trustee district voting system.
The change at Cerritos College is an indicator of what may come throughout California as a growing number of school districts, college boards and cities scramble to switch from at-large voting to electoral districts in an attempt to dodge lawsuits under the California Voting Rights Act.
"What we're seeing is the biggest and fastest change in local government since the early 1900s," said Douglas Johnson, president of the National Demographics Corp., a Glendale-based consulting firm that counsels cities and school districts on compliance with the California Voting Rights Act.
For the Norwalk-based Cerritos College Board, the elections brought a new face of diversity with three Latina representatives, a first for a board that serves a largely Latino population in southeast Los Angeles County.
Cerritos College President Linda Lacy said the board's decision to switch from an at-large system of electing trustees to seven trustee districts last year was a major catalyst for the change.
"I believe this is the biggest change we've seen on the board," Lacy said. "We've had several long-serving board members who have served this board very well, and their experience will be missed. Now we have a new group coming in who all seem very bright and qualified. It's a time for new ideas."
Signed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2002, the California Voting Rights Act prohibits local governments from holding at-large elections — in which the whole community elects members of a governing body — if that system impairs the ability of minority groups to elect candidates of their choice.
School boards and cities can be found liable if lawyers can prove the voting is polarized along racial lines.
The law gained strength in 2007 when the California Supreme Court deemed it constitutional following a claim from the city of Modesto that the act inherently favored people of color.
With the help of 2010 census data, lawyers across the state have targeted governing bodies who may be in violation, essentially changing the face of local elections.
Johnson said his firm has provided more than 250 demographic assessments for concerned cities and school districts in just the past 18 months.
"It's definitely an exploding field as jurisdictions try to get ahead of the lawyers," he said.
The majority of California school boards use at-large voting, as do many small cities. In district elections, candidates can run only in the district in which they live.
California Watch, an independent center for investigative reporting, has identified 70 school boards that have applied with the state Board of Education to switch to district-area elections since 2009. Most of them are located in Fresno, Kings, Madera and Tulare counties.
Southern California cities and school boards that have voted to make the switch include the city of Compton, Pasadena Unified School District and Downey Unified School District.
Robert Rubin, a civil rights attorney who co-drafted the law along with Seattle law professor Joaquin Avila, said he plans to target all school districts and city councils until they are in compliance with the law.
"Our ultimate goal is to ensure that Latinos and Asians in particular have full and fair voting rights," he said.
After focusing on regions in Northern California and the Central Valley, Rubin, senior counsel at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, said he's now taking a closer look at San Bernardino, Riverside and Los Angeles counties.
Cities like Bellflower, which has a 52 percent Latino population but currently no Latinos on the City Council, are potential targets.
"Bellflower is on our radar," he said.
Rubin said he's currently in a legal battle with the city of Anaheim.
Critics have argued that the law is a money grab for attorneys snapping up millions of dollars in legal fees. Proponents say the law is essential for equal voter representation.
Joanna Cuevas Ingram, a fellow with Equal Justice Works, a nonprofit dedicated to training lawyers in the area of public service, said more school districts and cities are moving to changing their voting system as a way to better serve their constituents.
"They're not just avoiding suits; they're looking to become more accountable to their communities," she said.
In the case of Cerritos College, the college last year was sued by lawyers representing a group of Latino residents who claimed the at-large system of voting left Latino voters underrepresented. College officials said the college had already started the process of switching to trustee districts when it was hit with the lawsuit.
The suit noted the district is more than 50 percent Latino, but the seven-member board had no current Latino trustees and had not had more than one Latino trustee at a time since 2003.
The college settled the suit out of court for $55,000.
Two of the plaintiffs, Carmen Avalos and Leonard Zuniga, also ran for seats on the board this month. Zuniga lost to incumbent and board president Robert Arthur, while Avalos beat out incumbent Tom Jackson, a retired faculty member who was first elected to the board in 2003.
Sandra Salazar, a local physician, also scored a victory, beating out incumbent Tina Cho with 58 percent of the votes. John Paul Drayer, a Bellflower educator, won a seat from incumbent Jean McHatton with 67 percent of the vote.
Avalos, the city clerk for the city of South Gate, said she had been pushing for years to get the college to change its voting system. Avalos previously served on the board from 2005 to 2009 and then lost a re-election bid.
Avalos, who immigrated here from Mexico with her family at age 3, said she faced significant hurdles as an undocumented immigrant. Despite the challenges, she went on to earn her bachelor's degree in biology from Cal State Dominguez Hills and a master's in education administration from Cal State Long Beach.
Now a 43-year-old mother of six, Avalos said she plans to work to provide the same educational opportunities for those who face similar struggles.
"I was concerned because we had no Hispanics serving the institution, our vote was completely diluted," she said. "Now I feel we have equity. We have a board that now resembles our community."
Area's population
The Cerritos College district serves a large and diverse area portion of southeast Los Angeles County, including the cities of Norwalk, Downey, Cerritos, Bellflower, Artesia, Hawaiian Gardens and portionsparts of Lakewood, Long Beach, La Mirada, Whittier and South Gate.
Here is a closer look at the populations of cities in the Cerritos College district, including the three largest ethnicities, according to the 2010 United States Census.
Population 16,522
Asian 37.1%
Hispanic or Latino 35.8%
White (non-Hispanic) 21.3%
Population 76,616
Hispanic or Latino 52.3%
White 19.5%
Black 14%
Population 49,041
Asian 61.9%
White 16.6%
Hispanic or Latino 12%
Population 111,772
Hispanic or Latino 70.7%
White 17.7%
Asian 7%
Population 14,254
Hispanic or Latino 77.2%
Asian 10.6%
White 7.3%
Population 80,048
White 40.9%
Hispanic 30.1%
Asian 16.4%
Population 48,527
Hispanic or Latino 39.7%
White 38%
Asian 17.8%
Population 462,257
Hispanic or Latino 40.8%"
White persons not Hispanic 29.4%
Black 13.5%
Population 105,549
Hispanic or Latino 70.1%
White 12.3%
Asian 12%
Population 16,223
Hispanic or Latino 81%
White 11.9%
Asian 4.2%
Population 94,396
Hispanic or Latino 94.8%
Persons reporting two or more races 3.7%
White 3.4%
Population 85,331
Hispanic or Latino 65.7%
White 28.3%
Asian 3.8%
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