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Laguna's own "Antiques Road Show" rolled into town last week, and I wanted to get in on the action. Bonhams and Butterfields held its second art appraisal clinic at Laguna Art Museum, and for $5, professional appraisers mulled over everything from ceramics and statuary to oils.
I was dying to know more about a rather unusual ceramic vase that my partner, Sharon, had inherited from her grandmother. It's not pretty; in fact, it's pretty ugly. The 8-inch-tall black vase has horror-type masks, scowling faces and strange cigar-type figures randomly floating on it.
But I knew it was an "antique." It had stood on her grandmother's knick-knack table in her Santa Monica apartment since the mid-1950s. The fact that it was stamped "Made in Japan" did not dissuade me from thinking this might be a rare gem. I became more convinced that it could be valuable after a trip to the Getty Villa, where I saw Roman theatrical masks on black pots that were quite similar. Surely some artistry had gone into the making of this vase. I was convinced.
So I wrapped the vase in tissue and placed it in a paper bag to take to the appraisal, held in the main gallery at the museum. The room was filled with eager folks toting their own treasures: mostly paintings, some wrapped in paper, some in bubble wrap, some in beach or bath towels, and some not wrapped at all.
I got my number, 7, for the ceramics table. I found the table and sat down, thinking I would have some time to enjoy the hubbub around me, when immediately my number was called. I placed my item on the table for the appraiser, who picked it up, frowned and said, "Oh yes, I've seen these before."
She looked it all over, and at the "Made in Japan" stamp on the bottom and said, "This is a Japanese porcelain from the second half of the 20th century. It would be worth under $100 at auction." I thanked her, put the vase back into its bag and left, somewhat crestfallen.
I admit my high hopes were no doubt fueled by the experience of one of my relatives, who appeared on the real "Antiques Road Show" in 2008. She had brought a painting American Impressionist Charles Curran did of her grandparents — my great grandparents — dating from 1894.
A year later, the show was rebroadcast, and we were told not to miss it because Cousin Ellen would be on it. I hadn't seen Cousin Ellen in umpteen years. She was all the girls' favorite older cousin when we were growing up. We had to watch almost the entire program before Ellen finally appeared with the painting — a romantic couple in elegant garb overlooking the Lake Erie shore. The appraiser first exclaimed over the good looks of the couple and their beautiful clothes, then the unusual oval framing, and then, after a suitable pause, pronounced the painting to be worth at least $75,000. Poor Ellen was so flabbergasted she nearly lost her hat.
I suspect Ellen did not run out and put the painting up for auction; she is too passionate about family history. But she probably had to insure it for that much, an experience my late father also ran into some years earlier when he had one of several paintings of other family members by Curran appraised in the six digits.
That painting, "On the Porch," ended up getting sold because of the high cost of insuring it. (One of my paternal grandmother's cousins was married to the painter, and various of my ancestors are in a lot of his works, including the famed "Lotus Lilies," reported to be Nancy Reagan's favorite painting.)
So there's an upside and a downside to finding out you have a very valuable work of art hanging around.
One of the people I bumped into at the Bonham's appraisal was thrilled to be told she had a Guy Wiggans work worth $15,000 to $20,000. The painting — flowers "pour le boudoir" as was scrawled at the top — was painted by Wiggans for her grandmother many years ago, intended for her Sutton Place bedroom with its turquoise wallpaper. The appraisal firm took a photo of the painting, and she had high hopes for its sale. But after Bonhams and Butterfields looked further into the current market for Wiggans' work, she was told it might not sell at all, or only fetch $1,000 to $2,000. Hopes dashed.
Over the morning, the formal "appraisal clinic" took on the aspect of a street fair or flea market. One woman in a wheelchair unwrapped an unending stream of glassware and ceramic figurines before the wide-eyed appraisers, pulling them out of an enormous bag. One man intoned as I passed by, "I should have brought my Elvis painting on velvet."
This second event was, by all accounts, much better attended than last year's. Some 400 items were appraised, compared to last year's 150, according to museum spokeswoman Marni Farmer. The fees generated, an impressive $20,000, will be used for the museum's art education and exhibition programs. The museum plans to host the event every year, Farmer said.
Some of the other treasures uncovered at the event included:
•A painting by William Joseph McClosky of wrapped oranges, appraised at $150,000 to $200,000;
•An Indonesian painting, valued at $40,000 to $60,000;
•A Jasper Johns painting, appraised at $6,000 to $8,000; and
•A painting by Carl Benjamin, valued at $5,000 to $7,000.
As I wandered around the appraisal clinic I heard more than once the phrase, "Worth under $100 at auction." Even worse was the deadly phrase, "Decorative value only." Ouch. That one really hurts.
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Fortunately, not all of the Jewish holidays are heavy and one of the lightest by far is the celebration of Tu b'Av. Set on the 15th day of the month of Av, the holiday is a rather ancient one, tracing its roots to the days of the days of the Second Temple when this was the date that marked the symbolic onset of the grape harvest.
A truly light holiday on which unmarried young women would dress in borrowed white dresses to go out and dance in the vineyards. It goes without saying that the young unmarried men of the community joined them and it did not take long until the holiday became associated with match-making and weddings. That the holiday probably had its origins in pagan mid-summer solstice celebrations has long been forgotten by most but that the holiday has come to be known as "the holiday of love" still rules supreme.
In modern day Israel many families still go to visit the vineyards, on some kibbutzim the young girls will still do their white-dressed dances, and in the cities restaurants and wine bars feature sparkling wines as well as rose and white wines and fanciful meals, Considering the heat of the day and the coolness of the beaches in the evening hours, many of the celebrations take place at seafront tavernna style restaurants. A somewhat odd reality is that this is one holiday celebrated more by the non-observant than the orthodox. It has even been said that the best Tu b'Av parties take place at embassies where, although very few are Jewish, it provides a great reason to have a party.
This year (2008), the holiday falls on this coming Saturday, 16 August. My plans – blinis with crème fraiche and caviar and gravlax along with a sparkling wine yet to be selected, smoked salmon with capers for brunch and for dinner a roast beef (well coated with mustard before being browned and then transferred to the oven) and with that either a local red or a fine Bordeaux red. Dessert will be peches melba with an appropriate sweet wine.
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With the 2009-10 basketball season coming to a halt, Wiles captured the Atlantic Sun scoring title after averaging 17.6 points per game, while for the second straight season; Evans won the rebounding crown (10.9).
A year ago, Evans won both the scoring and rebounding titles; however, Wiles received the honor this season - becoming the fifth Lady Buccaneer player in program history to accomplish the feat. Wiles is now joined by current Lady Buccaneer associate head coach DeShawne Blocker, Nicole Hopson, Tiffani Mayes and Evans to win the title.
The dominate duo of Evans and Wiles compiled 84 total victories in their four-year playing career, while combining to score 3,332 points, grab 1,687 rebounds, dish out 569 assists and force 406 steals. Evans wrapped up her career ranking fifth all-time in scoring (1,829) and third in rebounding (1,116) - becoming only the third player in ETSU history to record over 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career. Evans also posted 54 career double-doubles in 126 games played.
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SeedFreedom:A mini spider-man busting a move? For a Spider-Man fan like me that's a Hell yeah! The only thing wrong is he seems really out of place in a forum about Anime,fansubs,etc IMO. 8/10
ÄCKLOPÄCKLO:Hmmmm IMO it's kind of plain too plain and that's a shame for a tease shot . 4/10 I'm just curious about who that's supposed to be. If I knew who it was it probably would have gotten an extra point.
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DingoEnderZOE2 - 6.5/10 - Border, man. Border.
Cyz - 5.5/10 - Okay, I'm going to be blunt. That picture may have some meaning to you because you've watched that particular anime, but it is completely meaningless to me. It is simply a generic anime-head mugshot with an annoying animation (it's far too fast). If that's Pocky in her mouth, then it gets downgraded to a 5/10 for looking like a quizzical Mizuho from Onegai Teacher. Now then, for an actual suggestion: the animation should be either removed or slowed down. What I mean is that there should be a delay between head-bobbings. Maybe a second or two. If you choose to remove the animation, then leave her head tilted to the left side of the image because that frame looks the best.
Winter&Summer - 8/10 - Transparency is your friend.
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Ahhh forgot to rate. Wari, though I would have chosen to die >_<
Boney: Is that Inuyasha? Still looks good 9/10
W&S: That kinda looks like Gin and Ban from GetBackers, still YAOI >.< 8/10
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@ boney Deja vue? Well that one is probably the best one you've posted with. Maybe a new avi would fit in for a new beginning. ^^
@ 2ndHandOfTime It suit the sig pretty well. The concept is intresting too. I like your art. I hope you dont despise mine.
@ Itachikun I like watching Edo kicking that lizardman's face.
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JOJO: Haha, I like the whole avatar with the title match. 9.99/10
W&S: Lol, waiting for the brain freeze 9/10
Lilith: Duno where that is from but..... it looks nice 8/10
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Oh for the record, I didnt do that GIF. I dont like taking other peoples credit.
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Itachikun : love the Gif, The movement is Perfect and I dont ever get sick of looking at it, Plus Its Ed! ~ though you didn't Create the gif, You made a good choice on picking it
Lilith : Your username is a little different I think ^^ but you avatar is still the great same avatar, She has quite a nice pose, and the purple hair looks great too
Oh! I have to add one more person ^^
xris : Have you ever seen Such a nice big Smile/Grin on a Avatar before, I havn't ^^ In with the Chritmas Spirt as most of as here ^^, while I'd prefer Normal Ojisan; along with the Chirtmas hat, and Jacket you cant go wrong
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Itachikun: 9/10 - I definitely like the final results, meaning how you chose the frames, how you timed/looped them and overall how it does look like.
2ndHandofTime: 8/10 quite mystical, but I like the colors, since blue and azure are on my fav list
GATX207_Blitz: 8.5/10 : that eye is rather impressing and mysterious, also nice choice for bording it at top and bottom
Winter&Summer: 9/10 Very funny, too bad is too cold now to wish to actually eat an icecream
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JOJOS'STAR - Great AVA as usual seems like I have seen it before...hmmmmmmmm. 9/10
Pellissier - I am not to sure if that is intentional but the loop is way off. 4/10
Avaj - Now this is an original. Is it from the 2 X 2 Shinobuden Manga ? 9/10 (Needs Color)
Mine and my sig are just old ones from before Im to lazy these days to make any new ones.
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*notices now* Itachikun! :O What a nice surprise. <3 I see, so you didn't made it. But I agree with evil-samurai, good choice on picking it.
Oh and my icon is Lilith from Dark Stalkers. ^_^ A big thank you for anyone who rated me! *roses shower*
*is honored* evil-samurai~ You still remember me! XD;; Yes, I was [Lilith] before the disaster happened. <3 I love your border, and that color is my favorite. 8/10
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It's race week and we didn't have a Monaco thread yet, so I figured I would do the honors. Looking to see Ferrari bounce back this weekend.
It's race week and we didn't have a Monaco thread yet, so I figured I would do the honors. Looking to see Ferrari bounce back this weekend.
Disappointed Since 2010
New weekend, new hopes!!!!
Everybody is talking about Red Bull domination...
I'll say it once again.
Monaco and Canada are win or die.
We need to win both and at least one 1-2 finish.
Otherwise it's over for 2018.
2017 Monaco results
FP1: 1:13.425 (Hamilton)
FP2: 1:12.720 (Vettel)
FP3: 1:12.395 (Vettel)
Q : 1:12.178 (Kimi)
Monaco wasn't our happy hunting ground until last year, where we locked out a front row and scored one-two, leaving Sky to whine about team orders. Ferrari needs to win again now to stop the rot and hopefully put as much points between Vettel and Hamilton as possible. Having Red Bull between red and silver would be perfect. With longer wheelbase it will be a big test if we still have an edge on slow circuits. Canada looks good as well with our improved engine performance, as does Austria, it will be good to be in front before Paul Ricard and Silverstone comes along with special tyres and are expected to be Mercedes strongholds as well (they excelled on aero circuits like Silverstone and Austin last year).
I would say that win, even better 1-2 in Monaco is a must!
Stop talking rot the year is only young there are many twists and turns to unravel in this year's f1 calender the only 1/2 pressure is the one that you are applying to your selves the word must is to authorative and implies death if this is not achieved to strict relax .
RBR will be very strong, expecting some struggle for Mercedes with the HS,US tyres, but I might be wrong of course. Dont know about us, we have a high-rake with better power as RBR. Only time will tell.On paper with a longer-wheel based with it you can better, and faster manouver the car in the corners RBR should be the fastest car in this race, with Ferrari behind and then comes Mercedes.
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Thats a big call this early.
Something brewing again before the Monaco GP....???
Drive it like you stole it!
We need to outscore Merc by as much as possible. So technically a 3-4 with two Merc DNFs would be better than a 1-2 and a Merc 3-4. RBR will be very strong and if one can hope than a 1-2, a RBR 3-4 and a Merc 5-6 would be a dream result.
The 10 cm longer wheelbase this season will hopefully be negated by the hyper softs. We also have a more extreme rake this season compared to the last one.
Merc's bringing suspension upgrades to Monaco due to their LWB. I doubt it will help them. Looks to be a fight with RedBull.
Our drivers warming up before Monaco with an annual football match at 18:30 in Monaco. Seb, Kimi, Felipe, Giancarlo, Capelli all present. Of course Hamilton does not participate, he would rather be on red carpet.
Vettel: "For Monaco there will be a lot of changes in the car. But even if we are great in Monaco, we can't forget that we still have some work to do."
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what happened to Monte Carlo being a 'driver's circuit'?
now it seems it's all about the car
Typical no brains mercedes when they had 2 years start on ferrari and others in the hybrid era they were clever imagine if ferrari had the 2 years start now that we have caught up to them they will behave like little brats to gain the upper hand ferrari invents the others copy and cry.
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It will be a cold night, with lows ranging from the single digits below zero in the north, to the single digits above zero in the south. These cold temperatures combined with the blustery winds will result in dangerous wind chills of 20 to 30 below zero across the north.
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Snow is expected to overspread the area from southwest to northeast late Wednesday night into Thursday, before tapering off Thursday night. Accumulations of 4 to 8 inches seem possible over a large area.


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Two idols surged out of the indistinct, magnified skies of Music for Programming. They danced above and over the moors of January that we inhabit. We gazed at their dance.
The first idol was two, twin machine-birds of intricate composition: one drew in the grey the harmonic wave of a system in perfect order, the clockwork loop of the Newtonian Universe that soothes us into the sleep of stasis, and the dream of incoming truth.
The other climbed and barrelled and cut upon its own trajectory like the discordant doodles of that daughter of chaos who will inspire and vex mathematicians until the end of time.
We followed these two mismatching buddies raze the sky in their best impression of, say, Tango and Cash ultimately abstracted, and thanked silently whatever mad commander had thought a good idea to pair them together. Perhaps that'd be God, or whichever logic decrees that pure order is the state of death, and so it's its opposite, after a moment of gibberish.
Coil – Red Birds Will Fly Out Of The East And Destroy Paris In A Night
The second idol was many, as many as there are rooms in a manor that is the carcass of a collapsed giant. We descended inside its abdomen and wandered. We did not dwell in those older rooms –rooms where the Mage and his mates pocked and picked at veils of lies like a coroner at his morgue, see, we are dwelling in them! Onwards.
Into a balcony gazing over an amphitheatre built before alien seas, populated by new people with other rituals. Here we found a music box whose melody was warm like the gamelan, but also like blood drawn with blade, its voice a dissolution in the universe, again peaceful, but a burial nonetheless.
Is it worth it?
The Mages have left this house, they can't tell.
The Threshold Houseboys Choir – Part Two: Intimations of Spring.
Coil were John Balance and Peter Christopherson. The Threshold Houseboys Choir was Peter Christopherson. They were getting at things that cannot be said or even understood, but we hear them in there, we feel them in there. They are there.
Red Birds Will Fly Out Of The East And Destroy Paris In A Night is included in Musick to Play in the Dark Volume2. Part Two: Intimations of Spring is included in Form Grows Rampant.
The incredible artwork is from printmaker Kenojuak Ashevak, who has algo gone somewhere else. Go to 50Watts for more wonders.


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In time for Christmas, I have for sale my 2005 Noble M12 GTO-3R, NUS0073, in Monza Red. I am the original owner of this M12 GTO-3R. I purchased the chassis and components from 1G Racing in Hamilton, OH, in the summer of 2004 and completed the build in the winter of 2005. It will be difficult to see it go. Of all the cars I have owned and built, including a 1932 Ford Coupe, Saleen Mustang, AC Cobra kit car, and two Dodge Vipers, this one has been my favorite. But it has gotten harder and harder for me to get in and out of, so I dont drive it enough.
This M12 GTO-3R has been driven approximately 8,150 miles and, other than a few small rock chips around the front splitter, is in mint to near mint condition. I would rate the overall condition of the car a 9 to 9.5 out of 10. It has never been tracked, wrecked, or damaged in any way. It has never been driven in the rain or snow and has always been stored in a climate controlled garage. The ECU has had the 400 bhp map since new. Other than the revised ECU map and a blow-off valve, the car is stock.
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Tags: los angeles, french new wave, lola, jacques demy
Description: Martin (Mathieu Demy) is a real-estate broker in his thirties living with his girlfriend Claire (Chiara Mastroianni) in Paris. Claire wants to start a family, but Martin can't seem to commit. When news arrives from the United States that his estranged mother is dead, Martin sets off with dual passport in hand to tie up the loose ends of a rocky maternal relationship he hasn't addressed since childhood, when he returned to France with his father in wake of his parents' divorce in California. Arriving in Los Angeles, Martin is greeted by his mother's best friend Linda (Geraldine Chaplin), who helps him navigate his inheritance and close up his mother's affairs in Venice. He finds himself immersed in uncomfortable memories from the past - in the form of real-life footage culled from veteran French filmmaker's Agnes Varda's actual 1981 film DOCUMENTEUR, in which Varda's son Mathieu Demy appeared as a child. Martin combs Los Angeles for his mother's mysterious friend and companion, Lola, finding no trace of her. Traumatized at the sight of his mother's body in the morgue, he steals Linda's convertible and drives to Tijuana in search of Lola, thinking she should inherit his mother's apartment. He finds Lola in a seedy strip club named Americano. But is she truly the woman who brightened his mother's life in Los Angeles - or is she a darker femme fatale, echoing the titular screen character from late French New Wave veteran Jaques Demy, Mathieu Demy's own father?
Genre: Drama
Studio: Bac Films
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- 1 Benefits of Psd
- 2 Supported Browsers
- 3 Setup and Installation
- 4 Using PSD
- 5 Caveats for Firefox and Heftig's Aurora ONLY
- 6 Support
- 7 PSD On Other Distros
- 8 External Links Mentioning PSD
Benefits of Psd
Running this daemon is beneficial for two reasons:
- Reduced wear to physical discs
- Speed
Since the profile(s), browser cache*, etc. are relocated into tmpfs (RAM disk), the corresponding onslaught of I/O associated with using the browser is also redirected from the physical disc to RAM, thus reducing wear to the physical disc and also greatly improving browser speed and responsiveness. For example, the access time of RAM is on the order of nanoseconds while the access time of physical discs is on the order of milliseconds. This is a difference of six orders of magnitude or 1,000,000 times faster.
Supported Browsers
Currently, the following browsers are auto-detected and managed:
- chromium
- conkerorAUR
- firefox (all flavors including stable, beta, and aurora)
- firefox-trunk
- google-chromeAUR
- heftig's version of aurora
- midori
- opera
- opera-nextAUR
- qupzilla
Setup and Installation
Profile-sync-daemonAUR is available for download from the AUR. Build it and install like any other package.
Edit /etc/psd.conf
Edit the included
/etc/psd.conf defining which user(s) will have their profiles managed by psd.
# List users separated by spaces whose browser(s) profile(s) will get symlinked # and sync'ed to tmpfs. # Do NOT list a user twice! USERS="facade happy"
Optionally uncomment the BROWSERS array and populate it with whichever browser(s) are to be sync'ed to tmpfs. If the BROWSERS array stays commented (default) then all supported browser profiles will be sync'ed if they exist.
Example: Let's say that Chromium, Opera and Midori are installed but only Chromium and Opera are to be sync'ed to tmpfs since the user keeps Midori as a backup browser and it is seldom used:
# List browsers separated by spaces to include in the sync. Useful if you do not # wish to have all possible browser profiles sync'ed. # # Possible values: # chromium # conkeror.mozdev.org # firefox # firefox-trunk # google-chrome # heftig-aurora # midori # opera # opera-next # qupzilla # # If the following is commented out (default), then all available/supported # browsers will be sync'ed, separated by comma BROWSERS="chromium,opera"
Using PSD
Preview Mode (Parse)
The 'parse' option can be called to show users exactly what psd will do based on the /etc/psd.conf entered. Call it like so:
$ profile-sync-daemon parse Profile-sync-daemon v5.24 Psd will manage the following per /etc/psd.conf settings: browser/psname: chromium/chromium owner/group: facade/users sync target: /home/facade/.config/chromium tmpfs dir: /tmp/facade-chromium profile size: 81M browser/psname: firefox/firefox owner/group: facade/users sync target: /mnt/data/docs/facade/mozilla/firefox/1Zp9V43q.banking tmpfs dir: /tmp/facade-firefox-1Zp9V43q.banking profile size: 5.9M browser/psname: firefox/firefox owner/group: facade/users sync target: /mnt/data/docs/facade/mozilla/firefox/obg67zqQ.proxy tmpfs dir: /tmp/facade-firefox-obg67zqQ.proxy profile size: 17M
As shown in the output and as stated above, if no specific browser or subset of browsers are defined in the BROWSERS array, psd will sync ALL supported profiles that it finds for the given user(s).
Running PSD to Manage Profiles
Do not call
/usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon to sync or to unsync directly. Instead use the provided service files.
Both a systemd service file and a timer are provided and should be used to interact with psd. Both should be invoked together! The role of the timer is update the tmpfs copy/copies back to the disk which it does once per hour. Failure to start the resync timer will result in the profile being sync'ed only on start up and shutdown.
# systemctl [option] psd psd-resync
Available options:
start Turn on daemon and timer. stop Turn off daemon and timer. enable Autostart daemon and timer on boot-up. disable Don't autostart daemon and timer on boot-up.
Start psd and its timer as well as set psd and its timer to start/stop at boot/shutdown (highly recommended):
# systemctl enable psd psd-resync # systemctl start psd psd-resync
Obviously, you must first close your browser before starting the service.
Sync at More Frequent Intervals (Optional)
The package provided timer syncs once per hour. Users may optionally redefine this behavior simply be creating their own timer with whatever interval is desired. The example below syncs once every ten minutes:
[Unit] Description=My own profile resync After=psd.service Conflicts=psd-resync.timer [Timer] Unit=psd-resync.service OnUnitActiveSec=10min
See `man systemd.timer` for additional options.
Caveats for Firefox and Heftig's Aurora ONLY
The way psd keeps track of browser profiles and sync targets requires users to have a unique name as the last directory for all profiles in their respective $HOME/.mozilla/<browser>/profiles.ini files. Psd will check when it is called to run for this and refuse if this rule is not satisfied. The following is an example of a BAD profile that will fail the the test. Note that although each full path is unique, they both end in the same name! Again, the user must modify the profiles.ini and the corresponding directory on the filesystem to correct this in order to use Psd.
$ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0 for user facade] Name=normal IsRelative=0 Path=/mnt/data/docs/facade/mozilla/firefox/myprofile.abc Default=1 [Profile1 for user happy] Name=proxy IsRelative=0 Path=/mnt/data/docs/happy/mozilla/firefox/myprofile.abc
Post in the discussion thread with comments or concerns.
PSD On Other Distros
Psd is a simple bash script and should therefore run on any Linux distro. Below is a list of distros known to package psd, and a link to download their respective packages. As noted above, these are unsupported by the author due to their own, unique init scripts:
To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Debian (tested on squeeze) system, and to install psd:
# echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu quantal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list # echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graysky/utils/ubuntu quantal main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graysky.list # apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys FF7F9516 # apt-get update # apt-get install profile-sync-daemon
Fedora 18
To add the PPA (personal package archive) to your Ubuntu (packages available for Lucid and newer) system, and to install psd:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graysky/utils $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install profile-sync-daemon


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There's been a lot of discussion lately about availability issues: Will THE EXILE be available as an audiobook? Is there a Large Print edition of the books? Why can't you get an unabridged audiobook of THE FIERY CROSS or A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES? Why can't you get the OUTLANDER: The Musical CD from amazon.co.uk?
I don't have answers to _all_ the availability questions, of course, because I don't actually publish and distribute everything out of my garage {g}; I have contracts with a great many different publishing companies, all of whom deal with those issues in their own territories, and usually I have No Idea. But I can answer _some_ questions!
1. The Audiobooks. OK, follow me like a leopard here. Back in the day, nobody had any idea whether audiobooks would amount to anything; it was new-fangled technology, nobody was familiar with the concept as anything beyond the material for the blind that the Library of Congress's Talking Books program does, nobody was sure it would ever be worth anything—and it cost a lot to produce one.
That being so, when Bantam-Dell (a subgroup of my US publisher, Random House) contracted with us (me and my agent) fifteen (or so) years ago for audiobooks, they did so very cautiously—and only for the rights to make an abridged version, because the thought of anyone being willing to listen to (let alone pay for) an unabridged version of something the size of OUTLANDER was laughable.
Now, in my naivete, I had no idea that "abridged" actually meant, "butchered into little bloody shreds, one-quarter of which will then be scraped up into a pile and kind of patted into the rough semblance of a story, rather like a sculpture made of raw hamburger." I did, though, insist on keeping the Unabridged rights, having faith that at some far distant date, someone might be willing to take the gigantic gamble of recording the Whole Thing, down to the last word.
Bantam-Dell fussed about this—publishers hate to give up _any_ rights, whether they know what to do with said rights or not; they might come in handy someday, after all—but eventually gave in, since they were positive that the unabridged rights were worthless. They did, however, insist on a non-compete clause in the contract, just in case: to wit, that if anybody _did_ ever do an Unabridged version, this version could not be sold in retail outlets where the abridged version was sold. (They reasoning—correctly—that if anybody saw the two versions side by side on a shelf, they'd instantly realize that ¾ of the story had been omitted from the abridged version. (Not kidding, here; the FIERY CROSS abridged audiobook contains only 23% of the original book's text. Just so you know…))
OK. A few years later, I happened to meet some representatives of Recorded Books, Inc. (well, actually, I engineered an "accidental" meeting at a librarians conference, having ascertained that Recorded Books was the biggest of the only two companies who even did unabridged books), got them interested (though they were a little goggle-eyed at the sheer tonnage involved; OUTLANDER was the longest book they'd ever done), and…well, Bob's your uncle.
Recorded Books has done a magnificent job with the Unabridged audiobooks. They found marvelous readers (the hugely talented Davina Porter, who reads the OUTLANDER novels, and the equally talented Jeff Woodman, who does the Lord John books), and have risen nobly to the challenge of getting the audiobook versions produced more or less simultaneously with the print versions (no easy job, given how close I always come to the pub date in delivering the manuscript).
Now, going back to the original Bantam-Dell contract for the abridged audiobooks: my agent (who was an excellent agent) reasoned that since no one actually knew how the audiobook market might develop, he didn't want to lock me into the usual sort of semi-permanent contract that we'd do for a book (i.e., you essentially grant the publishing company the right to publish your book as long as it sells. Only if it stops selling and they allow it to go out of print, can you get back the rights to it), and instead sold the audiobook abridged rights on a ten-year license. Meaning that we gave Bantam-Dell the right to produce an audiobook of each title (six books were covered under the original contract; they weren't all written then, but were all under contract as print titles) for a period of ten years, from the date of publication of each title. So the license for VOYAGER, for instance, expired in 2004, as that book was originally published in 1994. And so on. We could then, if we liked, renew the license for an additional period. Or not.
Well, having seen what a travesty the abridged books are (meaning no offense either to the reader or the production team; there's just no way of doing a good version of a book from which you've essentially omitted every other word), the answer was a resounding NOT, and we've been canceling those licenses the instant they come due. (Bantam-Dell is allowed a certain period post-cancellation during which they can still sell whatever stock they have on-hand, but they can't produce any more.)
Result being that we've pretty much stamped out the abridged versions of OUTLANDER, DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, VOYAGER, and DRUMS OF AUTUMN. But THE FIERY CROSS was published in 2001. Which means that its license doesn't expire until 2011. Which (hahahaha!) happens in a month!! So we'll get to cancel _that_ license Right Soon, leaving only ABOSA to go.
But that's the reason why you haven't been able to get FIERY CROSS or A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES from Audible.com—it's considered a retail outlet that sells the abridged versions. [I'm putting the following in caps, because I keep telling this to people, but they often don't seem to notice or understand:]
YOU _CAN_ GET THE UNABRIDGED VERSIONS OF FIERY CROSS AND ABOSA!! You just can't (yet) get them from Audible.com, which is most people's default supplier of audiobooks. You totally _can_ either rent or buy the unabridged audio of both books, right here (and here). But I admit that it will be much more convenient for everyone when the license on ABOSA expires as well, and all the Unabridged audios can be found on Audible.com.
(You can get AN ECHO IN THE BONE and all the Lord John books in Unabridged form on Audible now, because none of these books were covered in the original contract with Bantam-Dell, and thus no abridged version of them has ever existed. It's not going to, either, I can tell you that much….)
2. Well, no, I really don't think there will be an audio version of THE EXILE, unless it's made by Recording for the Blind or the Talking Books program (in which the reader describes all illustrations for the benefit of a visually impaired reader). This book is a graphic novel. And while I was quite surprised to discover that there are a lot of people (judging from the one-star reviews on Amazon.com) who have never heard the term "graphic novel" (and didn't bother to find out what it meant, or to scroll down far enough in the product description to see what it meant, and thus were shocked—shocked!—to find that it was A COMIC BOOK! (and thus concluded that this was calculated fraud on my part…people are Very Strange on occasion))—a graphic novel is, in fact, a comic book. For adults, but it is a novel told largely in visual images.
Ergo, kind of hard to do as an audiobook, I mean. Reading just the dialogue part of the script might not be all that effective.
3. Large Print editions. Well….let's just think about the logistics here for a minute, OK? How much bigger is Large Print than the normal typeface? 50% bigger? Twice as big? Let's say 50%, just as a start.
OK. OUTLANDER runs about 700 pages, and that's the shortest book in the series, at 305,00 words. (FIERY CROSS is the longest, at 508,000, but A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES runs it a close second, at something like 498,00. Those two books are at the physical limit of how many pages you can reasonably bind between covers.)
To get all of ABOSA into one volume, the German publisher was obliged to print it on "Bible" paper—the thin, tough paper they print Bibles on.
So. Multiply those lengths by 1.5, and we're talking something the equivalent of 750,000 words (just the space that many words would take up, I mean). Chances are that you'd need even more space than that, because of the leading and kerning issues (those are the spaces between letters in a word and between the lines of print—all of which need to be magnified in a Large Print book), but leave that aside for now.
Even OUTLANDER, therefore, would have to be published in two volumes, for a Large Print edition, and several of the later books in the series would need to be done in three-volume sets. The cost of producing a book of X size remains the same, whether it contains _all_ the words in the original text, or only one-half or one-third of them.
So the cost of producing a Large Print edition of the OUTLANDER novels would be 2-3 times the cost of the normal book, the set would sell for 2-3 times the cost of the original ($50-75)—and how big a market is there for such an edition? (There's also the consideration that many people who might need a Large Print edition would have problems physically _holding_ books of this size.)
Beyond these economic considerations, there's the simple fact that if you have an ebook reader (and all my books are available in just about any ebook format—true, you need a Kindle app to read them on an iPad, but there _is_ one), the thing is light and easy to hold—and you can adjust the print to be whatever size is comfortable for you, including sizes MUCH bigger than any printed Large Print version could offer.
Anyway. Bottom line is that the only one of my books ever done as a Large Print edition was LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER, which I wrote under the delusion that it was a short story.
4. Amazon.co.uk. Well, now here I'm just reporting, because I have no relations with Amazon.co.uk myself. I do have some correspondence with Amazon.com, and everything seems to be running very well there.
However, Mike, the guy who handles the OUTLANDER:The Musical CD sales for the UK, established an Amazon.co.uk account for it, but hasn't had as much luck in coming to an agreement with them regarding price, or in having his other concerns addressed. So he's asked me to let y'all know that he's suspended that account for the time being, but that if any of you in the UK or Europe want CDs, you can get them here. (Scroll down a bit.)
5. Oh! This isn't really an availability issue, but fwiw, I was notified this morning that all my e-books are now available on google.books. No idea whether this is a Good Thing or not {g}, but there they are.


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After five years a lot of things have changed in the blogosphere. There are now a lot of us and most doing a much better job than me. It has been a long journey and it seems as you may have guessed by the posting rate that it has to end as my life has steadily taken new turns.
I've learned a lot driving the blog, one thing of interest is how google prioritises 'newness' over 'fact' – a very worrying find now that so much of our lives is driven by what google delivers forth on search or request.
Along the way, we've investigated the watch market, the grey market, shilling, how to get a deal, predicted a few pieces, dissected some designs, caught out IWC and JLC on their movements, seen appalling disloyalty, been plagiarised without credit and had also quite unbelievable, disgusting and threatening behaviour beyond belief from some senior watch executives. All because of my skaiwy lickle bwog? Oh and I like to think I had a bit of a hand in the rebirth of Polaris. ;-)
Yet, I've also learned many things from many patient and generous people - particularly former members of Watchrap such as SuitbertW and of course Dr Thomas M. Thanks also to supporters Dario, Chuck, Chris, A Fan, and others along the way. I have also been in receipt of quite astonishing graciousness and generosity from both JLC and AP. I thank you both.
Over the next few weeks I will cut down the content to the important minimum, so save what you will otherwise! I intend to keep things like comparison of JLC 1000 hours versus COSC test data, but anecdotal and diaryesque entries will disappear. Here's to you subscribers and your patience, I hope you appreciated that I deleted the ad feed to you. So for now adieu and A toute a l'heure.


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|Niagara Purple Eagles
|Wednesday, December 5, 2012
|7:30 p.m.
|Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
Game Data
Loyola University Maryland commences Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, when it hosts Niagara University in Reitz Arena for its first of 18 league games.
The Greyhounds and Purple Eagles will tip-off at 7:30 p.m.
Series History
Niagara holds a 34-17 advantage in the previous 51 meetings between the teams. Loyola has won two in a row, the regular-season game in Western New York last year and a meeting in the MAAC Quarterfinals in Springfield, Mass.
However, prior to those two Greyhound wins, Niagara had won nine of the last 10 games in the series, dating back to the January 12, 2007, when Loyola last won a home game in the series. That was a thrilling, 96-95, overtime victory in Reitz Arena.
In last year's MAAC Quarterfinals, Dylon Cormier scored 15 of his game-high 23 points after halftime, and the Greyhounds shot a season-best 63-percent from the field to top the Purple Eagles, 86-73. After the teams were tied, 37-37, at the break, Loyola went up by seven less than four minutes in to the second half, only to see Niagara rally to pull within two with 13:39 to play. The Greyhounds, however, gained separation with a 13-3 run capped by a Robert Olson three with 8:52 on the clock.
Last Time Out
Florida Gulf Coast never trailed, and the Eagles snapped Loyola's six-game winning streak with a 65-50 win in Fort Myers on Saturday night.
Jordan Latham scored a career-high 17 points, eclipsing his previous best of nine in less than 11 minutes of play, going 7-of-10 from the field. The rest of the team, however, shot just 26-percent (13-of-50) during the game.
In addition to Latham's game-best 17, Dylon Cormier scored 12 points and led all players with nine rebounds, while Robert Olson added 10.
The Greyhounds had a 41-37 rebounding advantage in the game, but they committed a season-high 17 turnovers.
Latham Breaks Out
Jordan Latham took little time on Saturday night to set a career-high in scoring, tallying his 10th point of the game with 9:30 to play in the first half against Florida Gulf Coast. He finished with a game-high 17 points to easily outdistance his previous high of nine set just a week prior at Rhode Island.
Latham made 7-of-10 shots from the field and 3-of-4 from the line while making his first start since November 11 at the University of Washington.
His strong play of late started when he logged a career-high 27 minutes off the bench before fouling out midway through overtime at Rhode Island on November 23.
Latham scored a then-career-best nine points and also had five rebounds, an assist and a block, and he was at his best late in the tight game.
He scored the first three Loyola points of overtime, on a layup and a free throw, after the Rams had jumped out to a 53-50 lead in the extra frame.
Last Wednesday at Coppin State, Latham scored just four points, but he matched his career-high with 27 minutes and had a particularly strong defensive effort. He grabbed six boards and swatted three shots against the Eagles.
Cormier's Career-High
Dylon Cormier had a career-high scoring night at Coppin State last Wednesday, tallying 27 points on 7-of-14 shooting. He made 11-of-12 from the line, 5-of-6 in the final five minutes of the game.
Cormier eclipsed his previous career-best of 26 set last season in a win at George Washington.
The junior guard also was one off his career-high in rebounds, grabbing eight boards for the second-straight game, and he dished out four assists in a career-high 39 minutes of action.
After scoring 19 on Monday night against Towson, as well, Cormier is averaging 23 points in the Greyhounds' last two games.
Through Nine Games
With its seven wins in nine games, the Greyhounds are off to their second-best start in school Division I history at 7-2. Only last year's team at 8-1 had a better mark through nine games.
Busy November
Last Wednesday's game at Coppin State wrapped up a stretch of eight games in 20 days during the month of November for the Greyhounds. The eight games are the most Loyola men's basketball has ever played in the month, and the seven wins are also the most during the 11th month of the year.
Previously, the team had played seven games during November just twice, 2007-2008 (4-3 record) and 2008-2009 (2-5).
Charm City Pride
Baltimore born and raised Dylon Cormier plays at or near his best when the Greyhounds face another team from the Baltimore area. The junior guard, who was in the last graduating class at the now closed Cardinal Gibbons High School, has scored 145 points in eight career games against teams from Baltimore and the surrounding suburbs.
Including his career-high 27 on Wednesday, Cormier has averaged 18.1 points against Coppin State (two games), Towson (two), UMBC (three) and Morgan State (one). He has four games with 20 or more points among the eight contests.
In the last year, Cormier has averaged 20.6 in five games against the teams.
Doubling Up
Anthony Winbush notched the first double-double of his career last Wednesday night at Coppin State, scoring 12 points and grabbing a game-high 12 rebounds.
His 12 rebounds represented the 12th time in his tenure at Loyola that he has posted 10 or more rebounds, and it was the fourth time he has scored 10 or more points.
He also set a career-high in rebounds, eclipsing the 11 he posted in his seventh career game on November 29, 2008, at Vermont. Winbush also set a career-high in minutes played (37) and matched his previous best in free throws made (five) and attempted (six).
Second-Half Defense
After ceding 30 points and a 3-point deficit in the first half, Loyola turned up its defensive pressure on Wednesday night at Coppin State and held the Eagles to 22.6-percent from the field (7-of-31) after the break. They also missed all 12 of their 3-point attempts after the break.
Loyola held Coppin State without a field goal for the first 5-minutes, 30-seconds and the final 6-minutes 6-seconds of the second half. In between, Loyola kept the Eagles without a field goal for a stretch of 4-minutes, 42-seconds.
Guards In Charge
Dylon Cormier and Robert Olson teamed for 34 points on Monday night against Towson, and they filled the box score in other ways. The duo combined for 14 rebounds, seven assists and three steals while not committing a single turnover in 75 combined minutes of action.
Each had a half with 12 points, Olson knocking down four 3-pointers in the first half and Cormier scoring 12 in the second.
Cormier All-Around
In addition to leading all players with 19 points on Monday night against Towson, Dylon Cormier paced the game with eight rebounds and four assists.
His eight rebounds were one short of his career-high set last year at George Washington, and it marked the second time in his career he has led the Greyhounds in rebounding. He also had eight to lead the team as a freshman on November 21, 2010, in a 73-59 win over Dartmouth.
This season, Cormier is leading the team in scoring (18.4 points per game) and steals (1.6) and is second in assists per game (2.5) and third in rebounding (5.1).
Shooting Start
Robert Olson came out of the gate firing last Monday night, scoring six the Greyhound's first eight points on his first two 3-point attempts of the game. He hit two more threes during the first half and was 4-of-6 from behind the arc at the break.
After Towson cut Loyola's 10-point halftime lead to six just over 90 seconds into the second period, Olson hit a three from the right side to push the Greyhounds' advantage back to nine.
In the last two games, Olson has averaged 17.5 points and made nine 3-pointers.
Taking Care Of The Ball
Loyola committed just 13 turnovers against Towson (7) and Rhode Island (6). The six were the fewest the Greyhounds have committed since they had only five in the 2010-2011 season-opener on November 12, 2010, at Drexel.
As a team, the Greyhounds are averaging 10.7 miscues per game this season through seven games.
Olson Comes Up Big
Robert Olson scored 20 points last Friday night at Rhode Island, coming up one shy of his career-high in scoring (21 at Iona in January 2012 and at Marist in January 2011).
The senior guard made eight field goals, tying his career-high, and his 16 field-goal attempts represented a career-high. He was good from 4-of-9 behind the arc, also the most 3-pointers he's attempted in a game, and his 39 minutes were the most he's played since coming to Loyola.
Olson has now scored 20 or more five times as a Greyhound, the last coming when he recorded 21 at Iona on January 13, 2012. He tallied 20 on two occasions and 21 once as a sophomore in 2010-2011. All four of his previous 20 or 21 point games came in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action, and all but one of his five have come on the road.
His game-tying three at Rhode Island was the second of his Loyola career that sent a game to overtime. He nailed a three, also from the left side, against Iona on January 30, 2011, to tie the game a 78-78 with 7.2 seconds on the clock in a game the Greyhounds would win, 88-85, in overtime.
Back To The Boards
After the first three games of the season, Loyola was outrebounding teams by an average of nine per game thanks to +14 and +17 performances against Binghamton and UMBC, respectively.
However, the Greyhounds have been outrebounded in each of their last three games by seven (Norfolk State), four (Albany) and five (Rhode Island), an average of 5.5 per game.
Loyola turned it around against Towson, a team that was outrebounding its opponents by nearly 12 boards per game in its first five contests. The Greyhounds and Tigers both had 41 rebounds, as four Loyola players – Dylon Cormier (8), Anthony Winbush (7), Jarred Jones and Robert Olson (both 5) – had five or more in the game.
Doubling Up, Part Two
Erik Etherly had his first double-double of the 2012-2013 season, the 14th of his career at Loyola. The Preseason MAAC Player of the Year scored 11 points and had 10 rebounds at Rhode Island.
He leads the team with an 8.0 rebounds per game mark and is second with 15.7 points per game. He is also tops on the team with 10 blocks and 10 steals so far this season.
Late Game Heroics
Loyola's games against Albany and Rhode Island, both wins, have each come down to the last four seconds of regulation (and then some).
On November 18, Albany tied the game with 3.1 ticks on the clock, Loyola Head Coach Jimmy Patsos set up an inbound play in a timeout. Graduate student Anthony Winbush threw a baseball pass 80 feet to Dylon Cormier who was inside the opposite foul line. Cormier caught the pass, laid it in with his right hand and was fouled in the process by Albany's D.J. Evans with 1.5 seconds left.
Cormier made the free throw to provide the final margin, and Albany's inbound pass went off the hands of Evans and out-of-bounds to secure the win.
Robert Olson then sank a 3-pointer with 3.7 on the clock at Rhode Island to force overtime where the Greyhounds would win by four.
Steady Performance
Erik Etherly turned in another 20-point game, his second of the season, against Albany, scoring 23 points on 7-of-12 from the floor and 9-of-12 at the line. He also tied Anthony Winbush for team-high honors with seven rebounds.
Etherly had his second 20-plus point game of the week and the young season after recording 22 in Loyola's Wednesday-night win over UMBC on November 14.
He has now scored 20 or more six times during his tenure at Loyola – hitting or eclipsing the plateau four times last year – and the Greyhounds are 6-0 in those games.
In Loyola's three wins that week, including a Saturday victory over Norfolk State in which he scored 12 and had nine rebounds, Etherly averaged 19.0 points and 8.0 rebounds. He made 22-of-28 (.786) free throws, as well, during the stretch.
Slowing Scorers
Albany guards Mike Black and Jacob Iati entered the November 18 game averaging a combined 34.75 points per game, but Loyola held the duo to just 18, including three on Iati's desperate heave to tie the game with 3.1 seconds left.
Black, who was averaging 18.25 points in four games was 3-of-8 from the field and scored seven points, while Iati went 3-of-7 after averaging 16.5 prior. They also committed eight turnovers in the game.
In the game following Albany's contest against Loyola – Tuesday at South Carolina State – Black went off for 23 points, making 9-of-11 shots. As a team, the Great Danes set a NCAA Division I record in that game by making 15 3-pointers, although they hit just five versus Loyola.
The Greyhounds did it again against Towson, limiting the then-reigning Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week Jerrelle Benimon to seven. Benimon entered the game averaging 16.2 per contest.
Hubbard Honored
Redshirt freshman guard Tyler Hubbard was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week last Monday after averaging 10.3 points in three Loyola wins last week.
Hubbard scored a career-high 17 on Wednesday night against UMBC and followed with 11 versus Norfolk State. While he scored just three in the Albany game, he was involved in several key defensive possessions for the Greyhounds at the end of the game.
Freshmen Produce
A trio of Loyola freshmen combined for 34 points and 15 rebounds against UMBC, as Tyler Hubbard (a redshirt freshman) scored 17, while Jarred Jones and Franz Rassman had eight and nine.
The group also had five assists, six blocked shots and four steals in the win.
Combined the three played 70 minutes against the Retrievers.
Brooks' Big Game
Julius Brooks provided 20 solid minutes in the post off the bench for the Greyhounds, recording eight points and a game-high seven rebounds versus Binghamton. Those numbers were not career-highs for the senior, but they were the best he's put up in some time.
Brooks saw limited action in 29 games last season, averaging just 4.7 minutes per game, but matched his career-high with 28 minutes. His eight points were his most since scoring a career-best 10 on January 31, 2010, as a freshman, and his seven boards were his high since February 25, 2011, when he had eight. Both of those games came against Niagara University.
He made his first start since February 2010, his freshman season, on Wednesday night against UMBC.
MAAC Preseason Poll & Player of the Year
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference unveiled its preseason coaches' poll and the league's Preseason Player of the Year on Friday night in a live Preseason Awards Show on ESPN3. Loyola was named the team to beat in 2012-2013, and Erik Etherly was tabbed the Preseason Player of the Year by the coaches. (Complete poll and All-MAAC teams at left).
This is the first time Loyola has been selected No. 1 in the MAAC preseason poll in 24 years in the league, nor had a Greyhound player been named Preseason Player of the Year prior to Etherly.
Three Loyola players were named to the various Preseason All-MAAC teams as voted on by the coaches of the league.
Erik Etherly earned an All-MAAC First Team nod, while Dylon Cormier and Robert Olson were named to the Second Team.
Classy Senior
Senior guard Robert Olson was named one of 30 candidates for the prestigious Senior CLASS Award last week. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
Olson was the Greyhounds' third-leading scorer last season with 11.1 points per game and enters this season Loyola ranked fourth at Loyola in 3-point percentage (138-of-336, .4107) sixth in career 3-pointers made (138) and eighth in 3-pointers attempted (336). Last season, Olson was one of four Loyola players to earn All-MAAC honors, picking up Third Team mention and later All-Tournament honors.
High Marks
The Loyola men's basketball team scored the highest amongst squads in the State of Maryland in the most recent NCAA Graduation Success Rate report. The Greyhounds checked in with a 91-percent GSR, tops among the state's nine Division I schools, for players who entered the school between 2002-2005.
Saint Peter's Game At The Meadowlands
The Loyola-Saint Peter's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game slated for Saturday, December 8, has been moved from the Peacocks' Jersey City campus to the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., at the Meadowlands complex.
The Greyhounds and Peacocks will tip-off at 12 noon prior to the second game of the doubleheader between Duke and Temple.
Loyola completed the turnaround from finishing the 2003-2004 season with the lowest RPI in NCAA Division I basketball. The Greyhounds finished that season with a 1-27 record the season before Jimmy Patsos took over as head coach.
Since then, Loyola has gone 122-123 and culminated the turnaround by winning a school Division I record 24 games in 2011-2012.
Patsos is one of only three coaches at the Division I level in the last 20 years to take over a program that had won zero or one game the year prior to then win 100 games at the school. He joins Steve Cleveland (BYU) and Pat Douglass (UC-Irvine) as the others.
Patsos Named Coach & Man Of The Year
Jimmy Patsos became the first Loyola coach to earn The Rock/Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors by a vote of his peers in the league.
Patsos guided the Greyhounds to a school Division I high 24 wins and a program MAAC record 13 victories. He earned his 100th career coaching victory in November 2012 and led the Greyhounds to the No. 2 seed in the MAAC Championships.
Later in March, Patsos was named the Skip Prosser Man of the Year award for his work on and off the court, an honor presented by CollegeInsider.com.
2012 All-MAAC Honors
For the first time since the league expanded to three All-MAAC teams in 1998, four Greyhounds received all-league honors, topping all teams in the conference. Erik Etherly was named to the All-MAAC First Team, Dylon Cormier to the Second, and Justin Drummond and Robert Olson to the Third.
Loyola led all teams in the MAAC with its four selections, just in front of Iona's three.
The Greyhounds' previous high was at the end of the 1997-1998 season when Mike Powell (1st), Jason Rowe (2nd) and Roderick Platt (3rd) earned All-MAAC honors.
Etherly led Loyola in scoring (13.7), rebounding (7.5) and blocked shots (50), while finishing second on the team with 63 assists. He shot .530 from the field, good for third in the conference
Cormier was second on the team in scoring, just back of Etherly, with a 13.4 points per game average while improving his field-goal percentage nearly 10 points from his freshman season to .461 as a sophomore.
Drummond has come off the bench in 29 of the Greyhounds' 33 games last year and is fourth on the team with 11.1 points per game. The guard as also third in rebounding (3.9), and he has scored in double figures 17 times this year.
Olson was one of the top 3-point shooters in the conference last year. He shot .431 from behind the arc, third-best in the MAAC, and averaged 11.1 points per game. The guard entered the month of January averaging less than nine points per game, but from that point forward, he was the team's second-leading scorer at nearly 13 a contest.
Century Mark
Head Coach Jimmy Patsos became the third coach in Loyola history to win 100 games when the Greyhounds defeated UMBC, 73-63, on the road last season. Patsos, who is now in his ninth season, took over a team that finished 1-27 during the 2002-2003 season. He won his 100th game in his 215th career game.
Last season, Patsos moved into third-place all time at Loyola in victories, trailing only Lefty Reitz (349 wins, 1937-44, 1945-61) and Nap Doherty (165, 1961-74).
|Loyola All-Time Coaching Wins List
|Lefty Reitz
|1937-1944, 1945-1961
|Nap Doherty
|Jimmy Patsos
|Mark Amatucci
|Gary Dicovitsky
Baltimore Bred And More From Nearby
Since taking over as head coach in 2004, Jimmy Patsos has put an emphasis on recruiting locally, and it has never shown as much as on this year's roster. Four players – junior guard Dylon Cormier (Cardinal Gibbons), junior forward Jordan Latham (City) and sophomore guard R.J. Williams and freshman forward Josh Forney (St. Frances) are products of schools within the city limits.
Six more players played in high school within 50 miles of Loyola, as the crow flies (thanks daftlogic.com): Jarred Jones, John Carroll, 20.5; Tyler Hubbard, Montrose Christian, 32.6 miles; Robert Olson, Georgetown Prep, 33.9; Anthony Winbush, T.C. Williams, 43.7; and Erik Etherly, Annandale, 47.9.
What's Next
The Greyhounds continue MAAC action with a game on Saturday, December 8, against Saint Peter's University. The contest will be played in East Rutherford, N.J., at the IZOD Center.


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Negovetich '01 Awarded Cole Alumni Prizeby Steve Charles • March 28, 2008 Share:
St. Jude's Children's Hospital Research Associate Nick Negovetich '01 felt honored Thursday to present his graduate work to students and his former professors. But he never expected to be honored so literally.
"I was shocked," Negovetich said of the moment Professor of Biology David Krohne announced that the 29-year-old scientist now studying avian influenza at St. Jude's had been named winner of the Thomas Cole Alumni Research Prize. The cash prize honors long-time Wabash biology Professor Tom Cole '58 and his encouragement of research by Wabash graduates.
"I think this prize is really a reflection of the Wabash faculty," Negovetich said. "My being recognized as having done high quality research in graduate school really reflects well on them. They provided the training. They set the foundation."
Negovetich received the award following a talk on the research he had conducted as a graduate student at Wake Forest University. The presentation focused on his study of trematode infestations of snails and his findings that suggested such infestations should be successful and safe in controlling the populations of snails that are carriers of the parasite that causes schistosomiasis, a disease suffered by more than 200 million people worldwide. Negovetich was the first to apply matrix population modeling to snails, and two papers from that research are being published in The Journal of Parasitology. Those who have read the papers have told the young scientist they'll be very well received.
That didn't stop Negovetich from being apprehensive about presenting his work to his former professors.
"I was really nervous," he admitted after the talk. "I'd look over and see Professor [Eric] Wetzel scribbling down notes, and I'd wonder what he was writing, what he was going to ask me."
Negovetich's former advisor, Wetzel also recommended him to Richard Esch, his own former graduate school advisor at Wake Forest, when Negovetich applied there.
"Nick's been doing significant research, and he's been on a short list of alumni for the Cole Prize for a while," Wetzel said. "I'm glad we were able to award it to him this year."
For last eight months, Negovetich has worked under the supervision of Dr. Robert Webster, one of the world's leading experts on avian influenza, at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. The move from snail studies to front-line bird flu research is unusual, but shows the agility typical of liberal arts science grads.
"In a liberal arts science education you're not just taking biology, I had all kinds of course outside of my major, and with that kind of background allows me to work with snail parasites at one place, then move to virology at the next," Negovetich said. "I'm willing to give it a chance, to see if it interests me. By being broadly trained, you should have an easy time jumping from one field to the next."
"I had heard from a post-doc at St. Jude that there might be an opportunity in ecology there," Negovetich explained. "Most ecologists wouldn't think of contacting a medical center, but I contacted them, said I wanted to learn some molecular techniques, and asked if there was any place they might use me. They told me about the avian influenza project, we started talking about transmission of the disease, and they invited me to come up and work there."
Negovetich's research now focuses how the HN5 virus survives in water outside of its hosts, a key to understanding how it is spread from bird to bird and where the virus comes from.
"There's a question of where the H5N1 virus is. It just appears in outbreaks. But where does it come from? where is it's hiding place. do wild birds hold the virus? It's an economic question, as well."
In addition to his own work, Negovetich attends weekly seminars where he hears from other scientists in Webster's team studying all aspects of the virus. He believes all that he's learning there is an important step to his long-term goal.
"I'm trying to build my career," the 2008 Cole Alumni Prize winner explained. "I want to come back and teach at a small college, like Wabash. I'd like to continue to do research, too."
Negovetich has fond memories of his Wabash days. And a painful one, too. One of his best-remembered moments as a student came during an immersion trip to Jamaica with Professor Eric Wetzel's invertebrates class. Negovetich was "bit," not once, but twice by an octopus. (Read about Nick and the octopus here.)
The experience didn't faze the young biologist. In fact, that trip provided an even more defining moment of his Wabash days and a clue to the direction and passion with which he would pursue a career in science.
"A bunch of the guys were going into town one afternoon, and I had the choice of going with them, or going out to the barrier reef with Dr. Wetzel and snorkeling," Negovetich recalled. He chose the latter, and spent hours at the reef, amazed by what he observed.
"The current was pushing us around, but we saw these huge rays—and an eagle ray—moving through it effortlessly," he said. "I was always glad I made that decision, that Dr. Wetzel gave me that opportunity. I knew I'd always have a chance to go to town and be a tourist. But to dive on a barrier reef—this was my one chance, and I was going to get out of it everything that I could."
In photos: (above) Negovetich catches up with his former advisor, Professor Eric Wetzel; receiving the Thomas Cole Alumni Research Prize from Professors David Krohne and Eric Wetzel.


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Barnes, David Alexander
1819–24 June 1892
David Alexander Barnes, judge and legislator, was born in Northampton County, the son of Collin W. Barnes and Collin's second wife and cousin Louisa Barnes. Collin Barnes, a native of Nansemond County, Va., had settled in Northampton and become a successful planter; he represented the county in the North Carolina Senate in 1829 and 1830.
Following graduation from The University of North Carolina in 1840, David Barnes entered politics and represented Northampton County in the House of Commons in 1844, 1846, and 1850. A member of the Secession Convention in 1861, he was during the war a member of the military council of Governor Zebulon Vance. In 1866, Barnes was appointed provisional judge of the superior court of the First Judicial District by Governor W. W. Holden; he served until 1868. The same governor appointed him trustee of The University of North Carolina in 1868. In 1872, Barnes moved to Murfreesboro; in 1873 he was a candidate for Congress but was defeated by C. L. Cobb. In July 1873, at the instance of the state board of education, a state educational convention was held under the presidency of B. F. Moore. Barnes was one of the vice-presidents of the convention, which met to discuss the reopening of the university. While still living in Jackson, Barnes was one of the thirteen persons who organized the Church of the Saviour in 1851 and later served on the vestry. He was well-regarded by his fellow citizens for his general manners and acquirements.
In 1872, Barnes married Bettie Vaughan, the daughter of Colonel Uriah Vaughan, a well-to-do merchant in Murfreesboro. They had one son, David Collin, and three daughters.
Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, 2 vols. (1907–12).
D. L. Grant, Alumni History of the University of North Carolina (1924).
John H. Wheeler, Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina (1883–84).
Benjamin B. Winborne, The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County (1906).
Additional Resources:
David A. Barnes Papers, 1806-1892 (collection no. 03484). The Southern Historical Collection. Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Barnes,David_A.html (accessed March 1, 2013).
Barnes, David Alexander 1819-1892 in WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-barnes,%20david%20alexander$1819%201892
Murfreesboro Historical Association Collection: Benjamin B. Winborne Papers, ECU Manuscript Collection: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0691-005/
Outhouse elevations, David A. Barnes House, Hertford County, North Carolina, NCSU Collections: http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/bh036802201
Biographic Information, UNC: http://docsouth.unc.edu/global/getBio.html?type=bio&id=pn0000096&name=Barnes,%20David%20Alexander
Excerpts from the Diary of David A. Barnes , February 10 and 15, 1840: http://docsouth.unc.edu/true/mss04-01/mss04-01.html
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Drive a little Save a Lot! Our Low-Haggle Price includes our $399 Destination and Handling (D&H) Charge. All vehicles are subject to prior sale - please call to confirm availability as our inventory changes daily. We reserve the right to make changes (including price changes) without notice and are not responsible for errors or omissions. This on-line price is a special one-day sale price; sale prices listed on-line expire at the close of business on the day they are published. Prices exclude government fees and taxes, finance charges, and emissions test charge if applicable.
Disclaimer: Prices do not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any electronic filing charge and any emission testing charge. Prices may not include Dealer Delivery and Handling Charges. We update our website inventory frequently, but our inventory changes with recent sales. Mileage may change slightly due to test drives. We are not responsible for any errors or omissions on this page. Please feel free to call us before you visit.