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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (AP) _ At Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, the conversation often centers on real estate. Once taboo details, home values and what people paid for their properties, are casually discussed, and there appears to be little shame in walking away from a mortgage or fighting the bank on a foreclosure.
With Florida's Republican presidential primary just days away, the talk has turned to politics. At the food pantry and throughout hard-hit Lehigh Acres, frustrations over the housing crisis and the federal government's seeming inability to help has turned into apathy at best, and rage, at worst.
"They destroyed Florida,'' said 69-year-old Bobbie Ruggieri, a food pantry volunteer.
Lehigh Acres is about 30 miles east of the Gulf of Mexico's sandy beaches in southwest Florida, slightly northwest of the Everglades. Once sleepy and rural, the area boomed high and hard between 2003 and 2007. The population doubled to about 65,000, mostly from service and construction workers living large off the success of the area's new housing. The fall came just as fast. By 2008, Lehigh Acres and the entire Fort Myers area had the nation's highest foreclosure rate. Currently, one in every 96 homes is in foreclosure.
Here and likely elsewhere, no politician is spared the fury over the housing crunch. Experts say neither President Barack Obama nor any of the Republicans who want to challenge him in November have solutions for falling prices, depressed construction and waves of foreclosures.
Obama said this week that he wants to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages. His GOP opponents generally say the government should not interfere in the housing market. But a growing number of experts are advocating a bolder approach to provide relief to the 11 million homeowners in the United States who owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth.
Republican candidate Mitt Romney stood in front of an empty, foreclosed home Tuesday and told a small crowd that he would encourage banks to work with homeowners. He also defended the banks, saying they also were hamstrung by the crisis.
"In this case, it's because of the banks,'' Romney said. "Well, the banks aren't bad people. They're just overwhelmed.''
Kit Bock, who owns a landscaping company, listened. He said his company has lost $10 million in business in the past decade. It once employed 160 people but now just 30 are on the payroll.
Bock said he thinks he'll vote for Romney because of his success as a businessman. But Bock said he's not wildly enthusiastic about any candidate.
"What I'd like to hear from a candidate is not how bad things are and how everyone else hasn't done their job. I'd like to hear specifically what they can do to change things,'' he said.
Food bank pantry manager Karen Balch was too busy handing out deli meat and bread to the needy to go see Romney. She wishes he or former House Speaker Newt Gingrich or any other national politician would drop by.
"They're all good people here,'' sighed Balch, who started volunteering when she lost her job at a flea market. "Hard-working people. It seems like everyone you talk to here in Lehigh is losing a home.''
Walt Romberg, another pantry volunteer, bought a $139,000 home with his wife in 2004. They put down $75,000 after selling a business. It took them a while to find jobs, then they lost them. They nearly went into foreclosure, and would have, if not for a nonprofit that's helping pay their mortgage for 18 months. The home is now worth less than $55,000.
Romberg said the nation's problems started under President George W. Bush, but he doesn't blame Bush entirely. He also doesn't blame Obama, but thinks Obama "hasn't helped all that much, either.'' Romberg said he was thinking of voting for Romney because he's "created some jobs, like Staples,'' referring to the office supply chain that Romney's former company, Bain Capital, financed.
Ruggieri, who also volunteers as a nurse at a free medical clinic with 200 people on its waiting list, said she won't vote for Romney.
"I'm mad that he blamed Obama for this,'' she said.
Ruggieri doesn't see the housing crisis as any one politician's or party's fault, although she does have some choice words for the banks. But she's one of the lucky ones in Lehigh Acres: She and her husband bought a foreclosed home for $33,000 in 2009, once worth $211,000.
Daniel Bozarth, who rents a home a few streets away from where Romney stood, applauded his remarks. The 26-year-old, who is collecting $160 a week in unemployment after losing his job repairing motorcycles and ATVs, also doesn't blame Obama. He also likes that Romney made millions during his career.
"If we were to have someone like that, that's what we need,'' Bozarth said. "We need someone to get us a lot of jobs. I think we've hit rock bottom.''
Another neighbor, Michelle Wheeler, a 44-year-old staunch Obama supporter, refused to attend Romney's event.
"This is not a situation that can get fixed in four years,'' said Wheeler, who was laid off from her job at State Farm insurance after injuring her knee. Without health insurance, she can't get surgery. Without surgery, she can't walk much or work.
She is angry that Republicans, and some Democrats, haven't supported Obama's ideas.
"I blame anyone who is opposing him,'' Wheeler said. "Just work with the president.''
Across town at Joe's Cafe, owner Joe Golio shook his head when asked whether any Republican candidates can help Lehigh Acres. Business has been tough the last four years and he can't afford to move. His home, worth $250,000 four years ago, is now valued at $67,000, he said.
His son, James, waits tables at the restaurant. His home is worth $27,000 and he owes $117,000 on the mortgage.
Neither man blames Obama. But neither really wants him to stay in office. And they aren't sure any of the GOP candidates would be any better.
"They're all cowards,'' James Golio said.
Added his father: "I don't like to listen to politicians. You hear the same thing from everyone. They're short on detail. I just want the truth, whatever it is.''


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There are two areas in which other OSes can take a part in OpenMoko. First, not everybody will use Linux on the computer to access their phones (including download and develop software); we call this the host OS. Second, some people may wish to run some other software than OpenMoko on their devices, and especially other Linux distributions should be viable.
Alternative host OS
Microsoft Windows
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Mac OS X
Covered elsewhere; see MacOS_X. They have dfu-util and ether-gadget working.
qemu-neo1973 works see Talk:OpenMoko_under_QEMU#FreeBSD_and_last_qemu.... Nothing else known. See FreeBSD
We have an experimental NetBSD/evbarm Neo1973 kernel booting on Qemu Neo1973 emulator on NetBSD.
The umodem(4) driver works with the u-boot console. When the umodem driver claims device 0x1457:0x5118, it becomes inaccessible to libusb-based applications such as dfu-util. The cdce(4) driver works "out of the box" with OpenMoko's ethergadget interface, so you can ssh in, run remote X clients, scp in or out, etc.
Ian Darwin has a port of dfu-util partly working (list works but not download).
Alternative software for the Neo1973 phone
The OpenMoko project has invested a lot of time & energy in making the OpenMoko software stack work nicely on the Neo1973 phone. But it is your phone and, unlike most providers, we will not stop you from running whatever you like on the "bare metal" of the phone itself. And some people are never satisfied with a device until they've flashed the firmware multiple times. Here are some alternatives.
Other Linux distributions
- JavaFX Mobile -- At JavaOne, Sun demonstrated JavaFX running in the phone. Although based on a similar Linux kernel, this is a completely different user-mode stack.
- Angstrom on Neo1973
- OpenedHand provides http://pokylinux.org/
- Trolltech provides Qtopia on Neo1973
- QuantumSTEP -- User mode GUI stack and SDK compatible to Mac OS X and Xcode/IB (based on GNUstep).
- LiMo (maybe) http://www.limofoundation.org/
Windows CE?
Windows CE runs on some Arm-based handhelds, so it is theoretically possible.
Other OSes?
Anything other than Linux or WinCE?
e.g. OpenBSD or maybe FreeBSD or NetBSD?

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McLellan Shares Perspective Heading Into Campby Staff Writer / San Jose Sharks
NHL.com's Q&A feature called "Five Questions With …" runs every Tuesday during the regular season and every other Tuesday in the offseason.
The latest edition features San Jose Sharks coach Todd McLellan:
People are curious about what's going on in San Jose when Doug Wilson brings up the term rebuild. Can you explain the philosophy regarding what this offseason is about for the Sharks?
"We want to reset the hierarchy and culture in the organization, and that's really where the term rebuild came from. We feel we have a tremendous talent pool. We feel the players that are with our organization are part of the solution and not the problem now. As a staff, we talked about the ability to push and win as much as we can while we get younger, while we adjust the roles a little bit and give some of the younger players more responsibility. The term or the word used like that can be confusing at times. I think a lot of people, especially in the media, immediately went to, 'Well, they're going to trade Thornton and Marleau.' That's not the case. We believe that those two are part of the solution, not part of the problem. That got a lot of play media-wise. That's not what we were about. We think we have a very good hockey club and we think we need to tinker with a few things and continue to push forward."
You touched on this a bit, but can you see how it would get confusing when the term rebuild is tossed out there?
"Well, you know what, when I hear the term rebuild in the non-hockey world if you will, I think of something that gets torn down and you start rebuilding. I guess there's so many different terminologies that can be used for it. We have a plan. We know what we want to do. And we know who we want to be a part of it. As our team sits right now we'll probably head into training camp and continue working on what that plan is."
When you talk about the hierarchy and the leadership group and giving, I guess, more responsibility to players like Logan Couture, Joe Pavelski, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, does that change anything with the captaincy? Is Thornton still going to be the captain of this team? Is Marleau still going to be an alternate captain? Or do you evolve everything around that?
"Those will be some decisions that we'll make as training camp approaches, as players get back into San Jose and settle in. We'll sit with them and talk about that situation. I think we talked about this at the draft, if there was a new rule that came into the League and there weren't any 'C's and 'A's, would there be a leadership group that took care of the team and would the followers step in and contribute when they needed to contribute? I believe so. So, with that in mind we'll see what we do as move forward."
With Dan Boyle and Brad Stuart gone, do you amp up your excitement level to see what Mirco Mueller can do for you on the blue line?
"For me, excitement isn't a good word; opportunity is. He'll get the same opportunity that Taylor Doherty and Matt Tennyson and some of the young players that have put their time in in the American [Hockey] League over the past three years to come in and earn an opportunity to play on our hockey club. Mirco obviously is a very talented young man. He's grown. He's gotten stronger and there should be some focus put on him, but I would like him to be included with a group of players coming into training camp that have that opportunity. That opportunity has been created through some moves, and when you talk about a rebuild, that can be part of the rebuild itself. But it's not just about Mirco; it's about the individual who comes in and seizes that opportunity. That could very well be him, but it could also be others."
I remember last summer talking to Randy Carlyle and Dave Nonis from the Toronto Maple Leafs about what happened to them in the playoffs against Boston and what you have to do to flush it out of your system. Obviously you guys went through something very difficult in the playoffs last season against the Kings. How do you flush that away? Can you flush that away? Or is it already gone?
"I don't think it's gone. I don't think it will leave. That's a very simple answer for me. I hear the players from a distance talking to different media outlets saying the same thing. I believe that's a good thing. There are a couple of different ways of looking at it. The defeat was and still is, it stings a lot. We have to look at what we did well and didn't do well in that series and also the fact they won three Game 7s on the road against very good teams. So they were the champs. There is absolutely no doubt about it. That could mean we have a group that is close but still has to figure out a way to close the deal."
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HE has been an integral part of the Sharks' forward pack for the past four seasons, but second-rower Anthony Tupou admits he will be under pressure this year.
And that pressure will come from his peers at the Sutherland Shire club.
Internationals Chris Heighington (West Tigers) and Luke Lewis (Penrith) have joined the Sharks, bolstering an already fearsome back row that features New South Wales captain Paul Gallen, Wade Graham and Jayson Bukuya.
Then there is Sam Tagataese and Mark Taufua, who have previously split their time between the front and back row.
If that isn't enough, Tupou, 29, comes off contract at the end of this season, adding to his desperation to play long minutes in a star-studded forward pack.
"Of course (there will be pressure)," the NSW, Australian and All Star representative said.
"But I see it as more exciting than anything (having to play well to get a contract) and not knowing what could happen.
"I signed a five-year contract at the Sharks and knew where I'd be for a long time, so this could be a good thing and it could make me more competitive."
Tupou is in great shape after a horror past two seasons, where he underwent radical but ultimately successful surgery on both knees.
In 2011 he underwent liposuction on his stomach, with the stem cells inserted into the cartilage on his right knee.
Then last year he injured the other knee, and had many talking after he opted to have a dead person's Achilles tendon inserted in that knee to fast-track his recovery.
But after emerging fit from a difficult two seasons, Tupou is now ready to meet the challenges for his position head on.
"I couldn't do a full pre-season last year, but this year the knees feel good," he said.
In other news to emerge yesterday, the Titans re-signed Queensland and All Stars representative Ashley Harrison for two years.
The deal will see Harrison edge closer to the 300-game club, with the 31-year-old sitting on 247 NRL appearances.


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Product used: Unit: LCA8 series linear
Target is to check the presence of the spring in a contact pin and measure its force at a defined position.
This has to be done at two different positions:
- 1st position with fully compressed spring (~3.5mm from start position) to check the spring presence by measuring the force.
- 2nd position at mid stroke (~2mm from start position) and measure the force.
Problem/objective: Until today the customer was achieving this with pneumatic cylinders, external sensors and a weight on the top to simulate the force...and this without acceptable results. Their biggest problem being that they need 2 stations on the machine to make the 2 measures.
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- PM to 2nd position, measure force
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By Ken Valenti, Thompson & Bender, for NewYork-Presbyterian/Lawrence Hospital
May 20, 2015: Doctors from NewYork-Presbyterian/Lawrence Hospital told an audience of 80 people at the Bronxville Public Library on May 7 how the hospital's new cardiac catheterization lab will improve heart care in Westchester.
"Having this service available locally will absolutely improve the outcomes of patients having heart attacks and, plain and simple, will save lives," said Dr. Mark Apfelbaum, director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at NewYork-Presbyterian/Lawrence and a cardiology professor at Columbia University Medical Center.
Edward M. Dinan, president and CEO of NYP/Lawrence Hospital, welcomed attendees, and the presentation was moderated by Anthony Mercando, MD, a cardiologist with Lawrence Medical Associates.
Participants included a roster of top cardiologists and surgeons from ColumbiaDoctors, the faculty practice of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, several of whom are seeing patients at the new facility. They included Tamim M. Nazif, MD, associate professor of medicine, Anthony Pucillo, MD, director of cardiac operations, Allan Schwartz, MD, professor and chief of the division of cardiology, and Craig R. Smith, MD, professor and chair of the department of surgery.
Presenters discussed the causes of heart attacks and improvements in treating and preventing them. They emphasized the value of the new lab, which brings some of the nation's top physicians and services directly into the community.
Patients in Bronxville can now have the same quality of care as that provided by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and can be treated by the doctors at that hospital, which has the number-one rated heart program in New York State and the number-three ranked program in the US, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Eastchester resident Philip E. Parker said of the new lab, "It's a godsend." Had the lab existed years earlier when he first had a heart attack, he said, "I never would've had to leave my backyard."
During the presentation, he thanked Dr. Mercando, who treated two of his cardiac episodes in the past. "He has greatly extended my expiration date," Parker said.
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Suppose we have some compact hyperbolic 3-manifold $M=\Gamma\backslash\mathbb H^3$. Now we know that the hyperbolic volume of $M$ can be defined as (a constant times) the simplicial volume of the fundamental class $[M]\in H_3(M,\mathbb Z)$, which is a homotopy invariant.
Now the hyperbolic volume and Chern-Simons invariant $M$ are connected by the following definition: $$i(\operatorname{Vol}(M)+i\operatorname{CS}(M))=\frac 12\int_M\operatorname{tr}(A\wedge dA+\frac 32A\wedge A\wedge A)\in\mathbb C/4\pi^2\mathbb Z$$ where $A$ is any flat connection on the trivial principal $\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb C)$-bundle over $M$ whose monodromy is the isomorphism $\pi_1(M)=\Gamma$. This corresponds to a particularly natural homomorphism (based on a dilogarithm) in $H_3(\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb C),\mathbb Z)\to\mathbb C/4\pi^2\mathbb Z$ (see work of Neumann and Zickert).
This close connection between the two invariants $\operatorname{Vol}(M)$ and $\operatorname{CS}(M)$ motivates the following question:
Is there a definition of $\operatorname{CS}(M)$ within the framework of simplicial volume?


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VANCOUVER — That Gino Odjick's brain has signs of hockey-related trauma, 12 years after he retired from the National Hockey League, is no surprise.
For the first time in a public forum, however, the former Vancouver Canucks enforcer acknowledged that he has a mental illness, a condition he suspects is linked to the pounding he took as an NHL player. Odjick provided powerful testimony Tuesday at a sports-related concussion symposium at the Chan Centre for Family Health Education at B.C. Children's Hospital.
Odjick played 12 seasons in the NHL — including eight in Vancouver, where he was a fan favourite — and racked up 2,567 penalty minutes. By the time his career ended as a Montreal Canadien in 2002, Odjick admitted he had trouble finding the rink.
"I remember, in the last two years of my career, getting a concussion, going into Philly and walking around," Odjick explained. "People just looked like Martians. They looked like they were from another planet. I couldn't remember how to get to the rink for half the season. I was totally forgetful. I couldn't remember what time it was, what I was supposed to be doing. It was just one turn to the right, one turn to the left to get to the rink, but I got lost just going there. Everybody (players) wanted to play me in the simplest of card games because they knew they could beat me."
Odjick related how his hockey fights developed into a strange addiction. He craved the blows, both in delivering and receiving them, because it confirmed his worth as a hockey player.
"It's funny," he explained. "When you're designated as an enforcer, on a regular basis, there comes a time when you're addicted to hitting. When you don't get hit in the face for a while, it kind of bothers you. It made me feel alive, to get hit. It showed that I was involved, sticking up for my teammates. It was something I could never understand myself. I felt the need to get hit."
Odjick talked of spending seven minutes in the penalty box as a minor-league player "seeing nothing but stars." And he said he welcomed the pain when the Penguins' Jay Caufield caught him with an elbow in a February 1991 game that fractured his cheekbone because it partly masked the symptoms of the ensuing concussion.
"I was out (knocked cold) on the ice for a while," Odjick said. "That was a whole lot easier to take because I had the pain of the broken cheekbone. The pain kept me from focusing on what was happening to my brain."
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"When Gino said he was 'addicted' to getting hit, it really blew me away," admitted neuroscientist Naz Virji-Babul, one of the medical professionals who spoke at the symposium. "It tells you something about what's happening in the brain to crave that aspect, which would make you go back again and again. When kids get injured (concussions), we don't think about the long-term implications of mental illness. He (Odjick) totally understands that now."
While the timing of the concussion symposium was coincidental, it was scheduled on Jan. 28, marking Bell's fourth annual 'Let's Talk' day to raise awareness of mental health issues in Canada. As well, Winnipeg Jets players wore Rick Rypien jerseys during warm-ups for Tuesday's game against the Nashville Predators at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg.
Rypien, who spent six years in the Canucks' organization, took his own life in 2011 after signing a contract to play for the Jets.
Odjick, Marco Iannuzzi of the B.C. Lions, youth soccer player Ella Mahaffey and 10-year-old hockey player Alyssa Wellar were among the athletes speaking at the symposium moderated by Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Ken Dryden, who has become a powerful advocate for concussion awareness.
The Calgary-born Iannuzzi was aware of the potentially catastrophic and long-term effects of concussions, even before he joined college football ranks with the Harvard Crimson. In high school, Iannuzzi was a running back but he purposely switched to receiver in college because of the lessened instances of concussion.
"I knew that a running back had an average career of 2.8 years," Iannuzzi explained. "A receiver was six, seven or eight years. That's primarily because of head injuries. The decision was made early in my career to put myself on a path where I would be least susceptible for concussions."
On Oct. 12, 2012, in a game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, however, the Lions receiver — in the act of reaching for a pass — was given a cheap shot from defender Dee Webb. The ensuing whiplash, from striking the ground, caused Iannuzzi to black out. He passed the SCAT test (a baseline test to determine if a player has a concussion), but Iannuzzi knew, in his mind, that he was concussed.
He already had his own self-administered plan for recovery in place from concussion research he had studied at Harvard. The university is known for its proactive and accelerated investigations into the broad-ranging health problem plaguing professional, amateur and youth athletes.
"At any moment, I'm ready to pull the chute," Iannuzzi said. "If I have to stop playing, because I get a concussion, I'm ready to do that now, because of what I know."
Tellingly, Iannuzzi told the symposium he would find it difficult to place his son in football, if that was the direction he chose to go. Miles Iannuzzi, the couple's third child, is just three weeks old.
"My wife and I finally had our first boy," he said. "Everyone says, 'Aren't you so excited you have a boy, because now he can be a football player just like you?' Some part of me really wishes we had another girl, because it places me in a position of deciding whether he should play football down the road. From everything I've learned, it's a very difficult decision for me to make, knowing I've been lucky to this point. But who's to say he will be?"
The recent spotlight on brain trauma in professional football and hockey has captivated the sports media, but it's a public health issue that must be placed in proper context.
Young athletes with developing brains, particularly girls, are more susceptible to mild traumatic brain injuries and take longer to recover, as Mahaffey and Wellar explained in interviews documenting their long and difficult roads back from injury.
Symposium organizer Dr. Shelina Babul, of B.C. Children's Hospital, has developed a free, online training tool for players, parents and coaches — Concussion Awareness Training Tool — for what to do when an athlete suffers a concussion.
The tool will be released in March.
As for Odjick, he said he is coping with his condition by taking medication and looking after himself.
"I'm exercising, going to see doctors, trying to get on the right medication," he said. "I had a bad spell a while back."
On Nov. 2, Odjick participated in the jersey retirement ceremony of his friend, former Canuck sniper Pavel Bure, at Rogers Arena. A month later, Odjick was admitted to a hospital psychiatric unit in Quebec, where he had travelled after the death of his father. Previously, he had spent a few days in the psychiatric ward at UBC hospital in early September.


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I noticed on the post where it says the Game Threads will be suspended, it says 4-15- 08 until 5-15-08. Does this mean the suspension is for a 1 month period, or is the suspension indefinite?
I noticed on the post where it says the Game Threads will be suspended, it says 4-15- 08 until 5-15-08. Does this mean the suspension is for a 1 month period, or is the suspension indefinite?
I think that is just the length of the announcement, but we should get further clarification from Boss/GIK or a mod...
I thought someone in the Chat said the GT would be coming back soon. I'm not sure though but I would like the GT to come back as soon as possible because losing the Game Thread didn't only affect those at the ORG but us Sundeck regulars that use the chat. For a while it was unbearable to go to the chat with 45 people in there. Now it's not so bad but I still like to read the Gamethreads every so often.
It's indefinite. We have selected new Game Thread Forum moderators, however, and are in the process of clarifying our rules in preparation of reopening the forum.
wow...i forgot about the chat.
i've been loitering around looking for something to do during the game and keep forgetting about the chat
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Brennemania runs wild on you!!
So, is it publicly known when the Game Threads are coming back? It's not that I miss them, but I miss the passion it brings out in RZ. Things have been pretty crappy around here lately...
I hope that we can get them back, or at least get some type of solution/compromise soon. There doesn't seem to be much to talk about when you can't discuss... games.
It's absurd that you can't talk about Reds games on a website about the Reds. I know there was a problem, but this has dragged on way too long.
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
With all due respect to the owners and mods of RedsZone... This is "The Best Online Web Site for Reds Discussion".
Seems to me like if some members hate the Game Threads so much, they can always ignore them and stay in chat.
There are plenty of well respected members who always enjoy and sometimes take part in Game Threads.
Noone is forced to read Game Threads and only ORG members can take part.
If any member gets so bent outta shape just because someone disagrees with them... maybe they should never have been promoted to The ORG.
I know that people are not going to like me writing this, oh well, we'll get over it, I think it is a good idea that the game threads are closed, especially when the Reds are playing really bad, the bad team and losing, well it tends to bring out the negative emotional dumping from many of us fans. Negative emotional reacts will be difficult to make rules for and will carry some latent negative effects that will not be realized until after the fact.
I suppose now that the new game thread policy has been announced, the Mods can close this thread if needed. I have had my questions answered in any event.
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Amy Winehouse's father thinks Lady Gaga would "be great" in a biopic of the late star's life.
Amy passed away in London last year following an alcohol binge. She was 27 and her father Mitch has repeatedly suggested he would like a movie of her life to be made.
Gaga has previously been linked to the film, a suggestion Mitch is keen on.
"There will be a biopic. Lady Gaga is welcome to audition for the part of Amy – she would be great. Ray Winstone will probably end up playing me," he told Heat magazine.
Gaga has previously praised Amy for opening the door for unconventional singers, saying she is the reason stars who don't "fit the pop mould" are now famous.
As early as last year there were rumours the American star was being lined up to portray the singer.
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Mitch is a big fan of Gaga and has even spoken to the flamboyant star's mother. He claims the 26-year-old is just an everyday girl when she is at home.
"She is actually a very sweet girl," he said. "Her mum tells me that when she gets home, there's no lobster on her head – she just wears tracksuits and slippers and slobs out on the couch."


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Another lie is the bailout of the insurance companies. The way it is being played is for the populace to be against it so that the dhimmicretina can say "the people don't want it". Then they can refuse to honor their commitment and bankrupt the insurance companies so there will be no alternatives to government run plans. Of course the death of the insurance companies will hurt a lot of 401(k) plans and move employees to be government union members.
The same people said you can keep your plan are saying they'll fix Obamacare. They won't.


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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The Atlanta Braves said Tuesday they will retire third baseman Chipper Jones' number and induct him into the team's Hall of Fame.
Jones, an eight-time all-star who won the National League MVP Award in 1999 and retired after the 2012 season, will be inducted June 28 when the Braves are scheduled to play the Arizona Diamondbacks in Atlanta.
His No. 10 will join Hank Aaron's No. 44, Dale Murphy's No. 3 and Greg Maddux's No. 31 among retired numbers on display at Turner Stadium. The team has also retired the numbers of Eddie Mathews (41), Phil Niekro (35), Warren Spahn (21), Tom Glavine (47), Bobby Cox (6) and John Smoltz (29).
"There's a lot of great names, lot of great numbers up there on that facade, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't dream about one day trying to get No. 10 up there," Jones told The Atlanta-Journal Constitution Tuesday.
Jones, 40, played his entire MLB career with Atlanta, finishing with a .303 batting average, 468 home runs and 1,623 RBI in 19 seasons.
"Chipper was a Brave from the beginning to the end of his career and his legacy will forever live in our record books," Braves President John Schuerholz said.
"You always dream about that stuff," Jones said. "When it actually comes true, there's just this wave that comes over you, kind of disbelief and reflection of, where has it all gone? It happened so quick. It's 19 years, but it seems now like it went by in a flash.
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Consumer Reports has come out with a list of smartphone applications geared at car and truck drivers that will appear in the August issue of the publication. Some of the apps CR tested for the major smartphone platforms are available for free.
Among the free apps is aCar. The Android-based tool reminds drivers when their cars are due for service once the user enters information about a car's maintenance schedule from the owner's manual. The app will also send a reminder when it is time for the driver to renew the annual inspection sticker and tracks fuel costs and mileage.
For both the Blackberry and the Android there is the Drive Safe.ly app, available for free or $13.95 for a premium version. While a car is in motion, the premium version reads e-mail and text messages out loud and will send a response message of up to 500 words saying the driver is unavailable. The free version offers up to 25 words per message. The app will also soon be available for the iPhone and Palm webOS.
iPhone users can also get the iWrecked app for free, which gives a driver a list of useful steps to take after a car crash, like getting insurance and contact information from the other driver and taking photos at the scene. The app will also call 911 and help the driver find a local police station, taxi, and tow truck service.
Another free app for the iPhone, and coming soon for Android, is RepairPal. This program will help drivers find a repair shop and get estimates. It will also find a tow truck if a car breaks down. Drivers need to enter their car's make, model, and some other details in order to get a variety of estimates in a matter of seconds, according to CR. The tool also keeps records and provides service reminders.
Car Finder is an app that is sold for 99 cents, and marks the position of a car when it is parked, using the phone's compass and GPS, and then guides the user back to it at a later time. Car Finder works on streets or in parking lots, but not in indoor garages because it needs the phone's GPS signal.
Among GPS apps they tested, CR said the Magellan RoadMate, Navigon Mobile Navigator, and TomTom are the standouts. The prices range between $70 and $80. Both Magellan and TomTom are available for the iPhone, while Navigon is available for the iPhone and Windows Mobile. "All are easy to use and have features found on better portable GPS navigators," CR said in a statement announcing the driver-related smartphone apps. Using a phone's contact list, all of these programs also let a driver route to an address. The downside, CR cautioned, is that they are fairly expensive and require a separate mount, while many new smartphones have free navigation capability already built in.
The August issue of Consumer Reports goes on sale Tuesday. The publication said it does not accept any advertising and pays for all of the products it tests.


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February 25, 2014 -Sandy Recovery- DCA Commissioner Constable Addresses Sandy Recovery Before Senate Legislative Oversight Committee
DCA Commissioner Constable Addresses Sandy Recovery Before Senate Legislative Oversight Committee
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February 24, 2014
Chairman Gordon, Vice-Chair Weinberg, and members of the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee, thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. Seated with me is my Deputy Commissioner Chuck Richman. I am happy to update you on the State's progress helping New Jersey families and communities rebuild after Superstorm Sandy.
As you know, the Administration recently held three public hearings throughout the state. My cabinet colleagues and I presented the State's plan for spending the second tranche of federal Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery funds. And we listened to comments from dozens and dozens of affected residents and stakeholder representatives.
The frustration during the public hearings was palpable. Residents – especially applicants for the RREM program – are tired of waiting. I hear their frustration. And I understand it.
I intend to bring you up to date on the progress of the State's housing recovery programs. I will describe our efforts to help homeowners cut through a cumbersome federal maze. I will also address many of the questions and concerns raised in the previous committee hearing by members of advocacy groups.
But before I tell you about where these programs stand today, I'd like to tell you about how we got here.
The Christie Administration fought hard for federal aid, but unfortunately partisanship in Washington slowed the process down. After Congress enacted a $60 billion Sandy aid package in January 2013, it wasn't until late May that the first round of the $1.8 billion in federal funds began arriving. Delays getting the resources on the front end, have inevitably led to delays getting the money to people in need.
Now, I know that various advocates have complained that not enough money has gone to certain causes: to homeowners or renters; to low-income or middle-class families; to local governments or statewide infrastructure projects. And you know what – they're all correct. That's because HUD has allocated for New Jersey significantly less than warranted. While we are grateful for the $1.8 billion in initial aid, the reality is there are more needs than resources to go around. Sandy caused nearly $37 billion in damage in New Jersey and $42 billion of combined damage in New York State and New York City. But by comparison, New York (State and City) has been awarded a total of $7.1 billion in CDBG Disaster
Recovery funding, while New Jersey has only been awarded $3.2 billion. That $4 billion difference would go a long way here in New Jersey.
Notwithstanding funding disparity, New Jersey is rapidly moving forward with our recovery efforts. In fact, by all objective measures, we are outpacing other Sandy-impacted governments in getting our CDBG allocations to Sandy-impacted residents. We launched 17 CDBG recovery programs within three months of HUD approval. And, nine months after HUD released funds to New Jersey, we have obligated more than $1 billion of the $1.8 billion of recovery funding, with more than 70 percent of the housing funds awarded to low-to-moderate income (LMI) households.
Chief among our early successes is the Homeowner Resettlement program. These funds provide an incentive for homeowners in the nine most impacted counties to remain in their existing home or in their home county. All of the 18,000-plus applicants who met the program's eligibility requirements have been approved for a $10,000 grant, and the State has mailed out more than 95% of these checks.
The State has been able to rapidly distribute Resettlement checks to New Jersey families because there are fewer federal mandates requiring high levels of documentation and environmental reviews. By contrast, the RREM Program, which is a construction-based CDBG recovery program, is highly regulated by the federal government and, as a result, takes longer for grant awards to be finalized and disbursed.
I'm sure many of you heard an earful about these requirements. It was the subject of much consternation during the public hearings. Homeowners are required to: produce income verification to demonstrate they meet program income requirements; provide information on other rebuilding funds so as not to violate federal duplication of benefits laws; obtain a Substantial Damage Letter so we can ensure that our limited federal funds are targeted towards homeowners with the greatest damage; submit receipts for any rebuilding work performed after the storm, as HUD will only reimburse work they consider "reasonable and necessary;" and wait for exhaustive, federally-mandated environmental and historic inspections.
Even with all those steps, more than 5,100 families have received preliminary funding awards. We have completed RREM grant award signings with more than 1,500 homeowners, committing approximately $160 million in grant assistance, including having paid nearly $30 million in reimbursements.
We understand the RREM process is daunting. This is why DCA is constantly working to simplify its many steps, improve customer service, and minimize administrative expenses.
For example, we allowed homeowners to use their own contractors, which has expedited the rebuilding process for many families. Additionally, we were able to obtain approvals from HUD to exempt certain properties from painstakingly slow historic and architectural reviews, reduce the paperwork needed for income verification, and speed up the process of approving reimbursements.
We have also taken direct responsibility for the training and supervision of front-facing staff such as the Housing Advisors that work at the nine Housing Recovery Centers.
Recognizing that many RREM grantees are choosing their own contractors, the RREM program is transitioning from three to two project management firms, and will ultimately go down to one.
And DCA extended the time for applicants to appeal ineligibility determinations for both RREM and Resettlement.
Given pervasive misinformation, I would like to explain the appeals process in detail. Every single applicant deemed ineligible to receive a Resettlement or RREM grant received a letter outlining the reason. There were six reasons for which a homeowner could have been deemed ineligible. I'm holding up those six different letters right now.
Applicants who believed their ineligibility determination was made in error were given 30 days to submit a written appeal, inclusive of supporting documentation. DCA staff then reviewed all incoming appeals and informed applicants of their final determination.
I know that much has been made over the FEMA data that the State used to verify one of the main eligibility criteria. This was the requirement that households must have suffered at least $8,000 in structural damage or one foot of water on the first floor.
The State used this FEMA data because that is exactly what HUD instructed us to do. More to the point, I would like to read from the March 5, 2013 Federal Register, Page 14349. This notice contains instructions from HUD to Sandy-impacted states on how to award CDBG disaster recovery funds. The notice reads, and I quote, "The core data on housing damage for both the unmet housing needs calculation and the concentrated damage are based on home inspection data for FEMA's Individual Assistance program." It goes on to say, and again I quote, "To meet the statutory requirements of 'most impacted' in this legislative language, homes are determined to have a high level of damage if … they have a real property FEMA inspected damage of $8,000 or flooding over 1 foot."
Once our application period closed, we sent out ineligibility letters to those that, according to FEMA's inspection data, failed to meet the damage threshold. Almost immediately, hundreds of households that received initial ineligibility letters on $8,000 of damage appealed, claiming that they had more damage than FEMA reported. Back in July, as soon as DCA saw that FEMA data was a problem, we immediately enacted a policy change within the HUD rules to broaden the definition to include SBA inspection data on every applicant before making an ineligible determination. And further, we submitted to HUD for approval an Amendment to our Action Plan to allow us to take into account other third-party validating information, such as an insurance appraisal or a flood plain manager assessment. HUD approved our request.
Once we stopped relying solely on FEMA inspection data for the damage threshold determination, we were able to make thousands more eligible for both RREM and Resettlement grants.
As for the 7,000 households currently on the RREM waitlist, DCA recently sent a second round of letters to let them know that due to limited federal funding, the State cannot guarantee that all eligible homeowners will be funded. We also informed them that all applicants who want to know where they stand on the waitlist can simply call 1-855-SANDYHM, and we would let them know.
Before I move on to summarizing some of the State's other initiatives, I would like to address an irresponsible and offensive allegation about the State's housing recovery programs. That is the suggestion that race somehow played a role in determining applicants' eligibility.
Let me be 100 percent clear about this: eligibility and qualification for the housing recovery programs were approved by the Obama Administration, are objectively based, and do not take race or ethnicity into account.
In addition to the Resettlement and RREM Programs, New Jersey is taking bold steps to spur the development of affordable rental housing. The Administration earmarked nearly $400 million from the first CDBG-DR tranche for programs specifically designed for low-income renters and Affordable rental property owners. These funds will increase the stock of affordable rental housing in Sandy-impacted counties, repair affordable rental units left uninhabitable by the storm, and provide options for residents with special needs.
As a result of our investments, the State anticipates that more than 7,000 new affordable housing units statewide will be created over the next two years.
Much media attention has been focused on one of these affordable rental programs, the Fund for Restoration of Multi-Family Housing Program (FRM).
These projects, selected through an open and transparent application process, will rapidly increase the supply of affordable housing stock in the nine most impacted counties. The housing will benefit low-to-moderate income renters while ensuring that funds are spent within two years, a federal reconstruction requirement that, if not satisfied, could require the State to return unspent funds.
The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) scores and ranks applications to the Sandy large multi-family housing program using the same system it has utilized for decades in financing affordable housing developments. The HMFA board selects projects during open public meetings where every project is discussed and voted on. Projects must be "shovel-ready" so construction can begin quickly. Developers – not municipalities – need to proactively apply for these Sandy recovery funds, and must have the support of a municipality to move forward.
A note about transparency: citizens who want to see how our first round allocation has been spent should visit www.newjerseyrebuild.org. Since October, 2013, DCA has hosted this transparency website that tracks the status of the CDBG Disaster Recovery funds and expenditures in the three sectors of housing, economic development, and infrastructure/public services. The website is sortable by county, municipality, and even legislative district.
In addition, all contracts related to Sandy procurement are posted on the State Comptroller's NJ Sandy Transparency site.
And detailed FAQ's regarding DCA's Sandy-related housing programs are available on the ReNewJersey Stronger website.
So yes, there have been great challenges to executing housing recovery following the worst natural disaster in our state's history. New Yorkers are going through a similar challenging experience post-Sandy. The Gulf Coast states are not where they wanted to be some eight years after Katrina. But New Jersey is working hard to get these very limited funds to the residents and communities that need them.
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Insomniac lives up to its name by completing a sequel to last year's top intergalactic character actioner in what seems like a nanosecond. Locked & Loaded is the follow-up to Ratchet & Clank, one of the must-play titles of 2002 and, although the time between projects feels somewhat brief, the end result is a pleasingly polished and well-rounded adventure that improves upon just about every aspect of the original.
Picking up the story soon after where the original left off, Ratchet & Clank 2 sees the heroic duo settling back into normal life, making the odd appearance on celebrity talk-shows, basking in the glow of having saved the world from the evil Chairman Drek, that sort of thing. But when the pair is summonsed by MegaCorp CEO Abercrombie Fizzwidget to embark on a mission of 'dire urgitude!' (sic) in the Bogon Galaxy, the diminutive side-kick Clank is less keen than his long-eared pal Ratchet to get involved. After all the excitement of the pair's first adventure, Clank has decided to cash in his chips and become an accountant. It's up to Ratchet to convince the number-crunching robot to jack-in the job and join him on another galaxy-saving quest.
Ratchet & Clank 2 may be a sequel, but the gameplay feels fresh as a daisy, thanks to a complete overhaul by the Insomniac team. The standard platform-friendly scoring has been swapped out for an RPG-style 'hit points' system, and the onus is now on gaining experience by fighting enemies. The more bad guys you take out, the more your health increases, and the same principle goes for your weaponry too. Every time you use your guns, you'll earn experience which, once you've earned enough, can be used to upgrade to bigger and better weaponry. And speaking of guns, you'll no doubt be pleased to note that there are 20 new weapons making their debut in R&C2, and they're as inventive and enjoyable as the last lot. Amongst the enhanced armoury on offer you'll find: the 'Chopper' - a cunningly-monikered device that launches razor sharp discs at any objects or enemies in your path, the 'Sheepinator' for transforming irksome enemies into bleating livestock in a trice and the 'Lava Gun' - a neat bit of kit which propels hot molten matter in the direction of any bad guys.
As with the original, Ratchet & Clank 2's gameplay is a blend of various styles, and you'll find yourself jumping from traditional platform-style exploration to gladiatorial arenas, from space combat to unique 'spherical worlds', all in the blink of an eye. Ratchet's various modes of transport have expanded too, to include a Glider and Gravity Boots that allow him to run up walls. There are all-new Maxi Games for earning extra experience and rewards; take part in hoverbike races and interstellar dogfights to earn more of those precious bolts - the intergalactic currency of choice. As well as all the nifty new touches that have been added, the main thing you'll notice about Ratchet & Clank 2 is the sheer size of the game; it's over 50% bigger than the original title, with 20 huge levels to play through. It's an absorbing experience which manages to blend a range of diverse gaming styles into one seamless whole, with a wry, comedic script that carries the action along brilliantly.
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Investigators Take Action Following Heathrow Fire
Investigators Take Action Following Heathrow Fire
Nearly one week ago, a fire erupted inside a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 at London's Heathrow Airport. Thursday, the British Air Investigation Branch issued a bulletin urging the deactivation of an emergency transmitter on all 787s. The British investigators stopped just short of blaming the Emergency Locator Transmitter for the fire. But they did recommend that the Federal Aviation Administration order the deactivation of beacons on 787s under FAA authority. Melissa Block talks with NPR's Wendy Kaufman.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
This afternoon, a Japan Airlines 787 flying from Boston to Tokyo was diverted back to Boston after a maintenance alert indicator went off. Initial reports suggest a problem with a fuel pump. But the bigger 787 news comes from London. British investigators are trying to figure out what caused a fire this past Friday on board a Boeing 787. It was parked at London's Heathrow Airport. Today, investigators urged airlines to temporarily disable a device on all 787s called an emergency locator transmitter. The move follows two serious battery incidents earlier this year that prompted a worldwide grounding of the 787 fleet for more than three months.
NPR's Wendy Kaufman is following this story. And, Wendy, first off, the name gives a pretty clear indication of what it is, but why don't you walk us through what an emergency locator transmitter does?
WENDY KAUFMAN, BYLINE: It does exactly what you would think.
BLOCK: Yeah.
KAUFMAN: They're called ELTs for short. They are battery-powered emergency beacons. And they're activated by a pilot or upon impact in the event of a crash. And they help rescue crews find an airplane. Now, the device on the Ethiopian Airlines 787 at Heathrow was made by Honeywell. It is powered by a lithium-manganese battery.
BLOCK: And why are British investigators now focusing on these transmitters?
KAUFMAN: In short, there was a fire and it appears this device was somehow involved.
A bit of background here: The jet had been parked at the airport tarmac for about 10 hours when a very hot fire that produced dense smoke in the cabin erupted. The fire was hottest where this battery-operated ELT and the associated wiring is located, which was near the top of the rear fuselage on the left-hand side. British officials say there is no other system in that part of the plane that contained enough stored power to initiate such a fire if there was no power going to the plane, and ground power had been turned off, though the power cord remained attached.
Having said that, investigators have made it very clear that they still don't know if the fire began with a release of energy from the transmitter's battery or if it was something else, say, an electrical short.
BLOCK: Now, you mentioned that the transmitters are powered by lithium-manganese batteries. But the incidents on the two 787 jets earlier this year involved lithium-ion batteries, not lithium-manganese. What's the difference? What's the distinction there?
KAUFMAN: Well, first off, the battery in the transmitter beacon is much smaller than the lithium-ion batteries that so badly overheated earlier this year. Also, lithium-manganese batteries are generally less volatile than lithium-ion ones. Honeywell, which makes this, of course, says it's produced some 6,000 ELTs of this design. They're on lots of different airplanes. And the company says this is the very first incident of this type ever.
There were, however, much less serious problems with a different version of a Honeywell ELT a few years ago. Those involved improper electrical grounding. So one obvious question for investigators here is: Was there a grounding issue with the 787 device, something that might have led to a short that prompted a fire? Or perhaps, is there something else about the integration of these devices into the 787 that's problematic? Or it's also possible that this incident is just a completely isolated and somehow easily explainable event.
In any case, British authorities made a second recommendation today. They want the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct a safety review of lithium-powered ELTs in other kinds of planes. The FAA says it's reviewing the matter.
BLOCK: Well, how big a deal is this, Wendy, for the airlines flying the 787s and also for Boeing, the company that makes the plane?
KAUFMAN: So far, at least, Boeing says this isn't a big deal. The company says removing the emergency beacon is a simple task. It should take only about a half an hour. As for Boeing's stock, you might think it would be going down through all this stuff. In fact, Boeing is at just about an all-time high. It started the year at $76 a share. It's now at 107.
BLOCK: OK. NPR's Wendy Kaufman in Seattle. Wendy, thanks so much.
KAUFMAN: Thank you, Melissa.
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SWEDE FEST™ PALM BEACH has new emcees for our renegade amateur film festival, since we had to gracefully bow out of our original date in order for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics to get decent ratings for NBC. They paid a LOT of money for this exclusive, and who are we to siphon off their audience on the very first broadcast.
Big of us, yes?
And even bigger is THE JOVE COMEDY EXPERIENCE, our new emcees for the festive night o'swedes, now FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd, at 7:00 PM at the Borland Center for Performing Arts at Midtown. Granted, it's not Sundance, Slamdance, or even the White River Independent Film Festival (that's in Vermont, population 2500). There won't be an celebrities (except in their own minds), overseas distributors looking to write checks, or paparazzi (unless you count parents with Canon SureShots), but there will be plenty of entertainment in the finest sense, because swedes are just funny, even if the film being sweded is dead serious.
The evening will be even more entertaining with emcees THE JOVE COMEDY EXPERIENCE. And just who are these highly gifted comedic talents? Frank and Jesse.
Oh, you want to know more? Okay, fine.The Jove is "Florida's Funniest Improvisation and Sketch Comedy." They take comedy seriously! Thus is the motto of The Jove, a creation of Frank Licari, Jesse Furman, and a third funny guy who is on hiatus while teaching at a college in St. Louis. The goal of The Jove is to provide a professional, unique, and hilarious comedy experience based on sketch and live improv.
When see The Jove, they want you to feel that you were part of an experience, and that you witnessed something you had never seen before. Their mix of sketch, improvisation, music, and video will hopefully leave you excited about the possibilities of live theater. If they don't live up to their goal, let them know…and heads will roll! Because they take comedy seriously…very seriously!
FRANK LICARI (Founder/Performer/Director) is a 20-year veteran professional actor, musician, and director with a Certificate in Theater from The American Musical & Dramatic Academy in New York. A member of the Obie and Drama Desk award-winning show "Blue Man Group" for close to three years, he also performed in over 70 stage plays in New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, and Florida. His TV credits include hosting the upcoming reality TV show Recreating A Legend, Law & Order, and CBS's short-lived Dellaventura starring Danny Aiello. His film work was featured at the New York, Los Angeles, Breckenridge, Brooklyn, and Milan International Film Festivals. His last film House of Heartbreak won "Best Short Film" at The Palm Beach International Film Festival, and just premiered at The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. His previous film, The Fallen – Letters From The Dead won "Best Picture" at The Milan and Brooklyn International Film Festivals and is available through Hollywood Video and Netflix. Frank is also an award-winning director and playwright and has won The Sears Drama Festival and Village Gate One-Act Festival (NYC). He is the owner/founder/artistic director of Atlantic Arts Academy and The Atlantic Theater in Jupiter, Florida for the past 11 years. Frank is also an accomplished singer and musician, playing piano, bass guitar, guitar and percussion. Some of his work has been featured on WFNX Radio, Boston's #1 alternative radio station. Frank has toured upstate New York and Ontario Canada with his music and has performed at Fleet Center in Boston and at Sunfest 2005 & 2006 with The Jeff Harding Band. Frank is a proud member of The Screen Actor's Guild adb the Actor's Equity Association. His upcoming 2012 projects include two new TV Pilots, a feature-length film, and directing a brand-new up- and-coming Broadway musical entitled Greenwood.
JESSE FURMAN (Founder/Performer/Director) has been an acting instructor with Atlantic Arts Academy for the past eight years. His acting credits include six years with The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, the Spotlite Players, and five years with Northstage.
Over the last eight years he had the privilege to assistant direct and perform with The Atlantic Theater, appearing in Misery as Paul Sheldon, A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley and as Huey in Italian American Reconciliation. His film credits include roles as Frank Drevin in Scary Tales 2, and as Prowler in Christian Soldiers and a lead role in the feature film Film Contest? Jesse lives happily with his wife Jen, his son Miles, and a farm's worth of animals.
Now you have even more reasons to buy your tickets to SWEDE FEST™ PALM BEACH today. Just $5, or be a big spender and spring for the $8 VIP Ticket and Limited-Edition Laminate Badge on a Lanyard, and look like a major big shot. Tickets are available for purchase online — the VIP Package is only available through midnight on July 20th — that's this coming Friday. The regular $5 tickets are available through August 1st. After that, they're $6 at the door. All the details are here.
Deadline for entries is at 11:59PM Friday night, July 20th. Yes, THIS FRIDAY. That's it, peeps. Then all you can do is ATTEND swede fest™ palm beach and watch OTHER PEOPLE'S SWEDES. Wouldn't that bite? Avoid all of this sturm und drang (you did study the post-war German oeuvre, yes?) and get your swede on already. All the submission info is right here, Herzog.


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The Anglo-Georgian Expedition first excavated at the stunning, multi-period site of Nokalakevi (in Samegrelo, western Georgia) in 2001, when a handful of British students travelled to a relatively unknown corner of Europe and were taught archaeological skills by an equally small number of British and Georgian professionals. Going from strength to strength – helped, it must be said, by the huge improvement in the stability of Georgia and its economy since 2001 – the expedition is now the longest-running international collaboration in Georgian archaeology, with a team this year of about 30.
The site itself is most well known for the surviving fortifications, dating to the 4th to 6th centuries AD, which still dominate the landscape. The eastern fortifications add to the impressive natural defences provided by a steep hill to the north, and a deep limestone gorge carved by the Tekhuri river which meanders in a loop around the west and south of the site.
Since 2001, the Anglo-Georgian Expedition has worked in six trenches. Complete sequences from Trenches A-C have revealed 3.5m of stratified deposits, with settlement at the site having begun at the latest by the 8th century BC, and some evidence that it was even earlier.
This season we are working in Trenches F and G. The first is revealing a large Hellenistic-period building, terraced into the lower slope of the hill where it begins to level out onto what we refer to as the 'lower town' area. Constructed in clay and timber, the bases of the walls consist of lines of unbonded limestone blocks – presumably providing a waterproof sill to prevent groundwater in this very wet and humid part of Georgia limiting the lifespan of the buildings. Having found fragmentary remains of Hellenistic-period structures in Trench A in 2007, this is the first time we have been fortunate enough to find an apparently complete structure. In the last few days a burial was found close to the structure, complete with ear-rings and a large number of intricate glass beads.
Trench G was only opened this season, and so far it has taken a great deal of effort to remove 1980s conservation deposits; overlying a large quantity of limestone blocks that fell from the fortifications once they ceased to be properly maintained. Having excavated through these deposits we have revealed post-medieval features, including part of a 'qvevri' – a distinctive variety of large ceramic vessel in which Georgian wine has been made for thousands of years, in a process now on the Intangible World Heritage list.
Trench G had one last surprise for us, however. Just as we were cleaning up ready to draw our sections in the middle of the last week, a coin fell out of the section and was spotted by Giles, one of our trench supervisors. Although it needs to be properly cleaned by our colleague Nino at the Janshia Museum laboratory in Tbilisi, it appears to be a 30 nummi coin of the late 6th century AD, probably dating to the reign of Byzantine Emperor Tiberius (578-582).
This year's 'Day of Archaeology' falls on our last full day in Nokalakevi before we head back to Tbilisi tomorrow after a month's excavating. Today we will be tying up loose ends, and protecting the archaeological remains with sheeting and backfill so that we can return to it next year.


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SPN News: 8 weeks down, 11 to go
The end is near!
Well, of course not really. On the show, the end was averted. And IRL, we still have months and months to go before the season premiere. Until September 24th to be exact! The CW was the first network to announce premiere dates, and unfortunately, our beloved show is the last one on the schedule.
But up in Vancouver, they're already shooting. Jim Beaver tweeted that they were beginning filming of Jensen Ackles' directorial debut on June 30. Whether that's episode 3 or episode 4 seems open to debate. Ausiello and Jim Beaver say it's ep 4, but other sources (including Jensen Ackles) said it's ep 3.
Does it really matter? :)
They're filming this episode first so Jensen can have his prep time without interference from or in the episodes that come before his. You can find details of the episode, titled "Weekend at Bobby's," here.
Is it September yet?
In other news...
Mark Pellegrino tells Fearnet (article via Digital Spy) that he would love to return to the show.
The Complete First Season of Supernatural was released on Blu-Ray (finally!) last month, so if you're a Blu-Ray user looking to complete your collection, now you can!
Spoiler TV has amalgamated some casting and behind-the-scenes spoilers about potential guest stars and the episode Jensen is directing at the beginning of the season.
Sun Valley Magazine has a article about "The Perfect Winter Wedding." The focus is on Genevieve, a Sun Valley native, but it has some beautiful photos of the wedding.
Ausiello announces the official word on Mitch Pileggi's return, with other casting news. Minor spoilery.
Going to Comic-Con? Warner Bros. announced their lineup, and the Supernatural screening and Q&A will be on Sunday, July 25, from 11:15 to 12:15. Eric, Ben, and Sera will join unnamed actors to present a sneak peak of season 5 DVD extras as well as season 6.
The CW Sourcies (fan awards) are currently being conducted. Keep track of them here and vote on Most Heartbreaking Moment, Best Villian, etc. Voting time frame for each category is short-lived, so check back often!


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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule Saturday.
The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the $10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.
"Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design," said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrow's bid for the X Prize. "It went really well and everything worked as it should."
Sheerin's group is one of more than two dozen teams competing for the X Prize, an international competition to fly a reusable three-person spacecraft twice in two weeks. Competing spacecraft must to reach an altitude of at least 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth to qualify for the $10 million purse and X Prize trophy.
Sheerin said his group is now about $2 million in funding away from putting Canadian Arrow on the launch pad. The group has spent about $5 million from sponsors and volunteers — including the value of worker-hours — to develop their vehicle, he added.
"We're still looking for a title sponsor," Sheerin said.
A nice drop
A helicopter dropped the crew capsule, equipped with instruments and cameras, from an altitude of about 9,000 feet (2,743 meters) about 2 miles (3 kilometers) offshore in Lake Ontario at about 9 a.m. ET.
Shortly afterward, the crew compartment let loose its 64-foot (9.1-meter) parachute and slowed its descent. It took between six and seven minutes to reach the water.
"The parachute came out fine and there was no swaying," Sheerin told Space.com after the drop test.
Arrow designers were concerned the compartment would tumble during descent and possibly tangle itself in the parachute lines. But while that concern was allayed, there was a brief moment when the capsule's parachute caught on an unexpected patch of air.
"It hit a section of air and started moving toward the shore," Sheerin said. "But after a few moments, it began to head back out again."
A team of London-based divers greeted the Arrow's crew compartment, and prepared it to be towed back to the National Yacht Club.
Flight tests ahead
The successful drop test paves the way for a series of flight tests for Canadian Arrow in upcoming months, starting with a launch pad abort and leading up to an eventual manned launch, team members said.
The first abort test is designed to prove its escape system, which uses rockets to pull the crew compartment clear of its booster during a launch pad emergency. Other flights include an abort at about 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) with both crew capsule and booster, and a high-altitude abort test that would reach space.
"I think we can do all that in the next four or five months," Sheerin said.
Since Canadian Arrow is designed to launch off a barge, team members are scouting areas around the Great Lakes region, specifically Lake Huron and Georgia Bay regions, as potential launch sites for powered flights.
Meanwhile, Canadian Arrow's astronaut team has been hard at work writing a training program that they, and hopefully passengers, will use to prepare for suborbital flights, Sheerin said.
The team is also shifting its London-based space center into a new facility built specifically for the Canadian Arrow effort.
"This test isn't over yet," Sheerin said of Saturday's drop test. "We still have to show we can dry these parachutes and pack them under two weeks."


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Second-half goals from Lee Barnard and Guly Do Prado secured a deserved win for the League One outfit, who also rattled the woodwork twice.
But Seasiders boss Ian Holloway, whose sole focus is surviving in the Premier League, made nine changes to his line-up and spared his established stars the long trip south.
Everton stated their determination to win the FA Cup by powering into the fourth round with an emphatic 5-1 win over Championship strugglers Scunthorpe.
Louis Saha and Jermaine Beckford got the Merseysiders off to a flying start at Glanford Park before Seamus Coleman, Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines made sure of victory.
Scunthorpe were completely outplayed aside from a brief spell at the start of the second half when Michael Collins threatened to spark a comeback with a superb strike.
Diomansy Kamara scored his first hat-trick in English football as Fulham proved they were serious about another crack at the FA Cup this season after sweeping past Peterborough 6-2.
Quarter-finalists for the last two years, the Cottagers resisted the urge to rest players despite their Barclays Premier League relegation battle and duly demonstrated the true gulf in class between the top flight and npower League One.
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The world famous Zippo Repair Clinic is on display via a huge glass wall in the museum (Zippo has produced more than 500 million windproof lighters, each backed by an unparalleled lifetime guarantee, since its founding in 1932).W.R. Case and Sons, founded in 1889, produces the most collectible knives in the world and the museum exhibits the world's largest collection of rare Case knives. See the mesmerizing "knife in motion" hologram, the 5′ Kodiak knife and the Case Wall of Fame.
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