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v911 was my main radio too. and you had that devo hack to change ids. i had no custom tx but lucky to have two 9x, two t6, a v929, and over thirty v911 (thanks tmart!). ive got less convenient access to the 200 and some bought for the school and dozens friends and relatives with 9x, x1, v9xx, etc. thats probably why theres more opportunity for me to find incompatibilities.
ive developed several alternate methods that appear to work better: 16 byte table instead of 256 and also algorithmic instead of lookup. mostly because there was no room for 256 byte table in my t13 based 150mg diy version. they do all the radios but theres still a code space issue there so it would be interesting to see if a more efficient method exists.
anyway ill repeat that i never would have got anything working w/o this thread so thanks again.
It is confusing and nobody explained properly.
1. The A7105 ID is sent 0x2AC57554 - LSB first
2.The TX ID aka ThieryRC TX ID is sent 0x30000006 - LSB first.
New York
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alternate number systems, specially hex, can be confusing unless people decide on a standard to communicate. hard enough for us with 3 native languages involved. little endian or big endian but not both at the same time. maybe separate the bytes to show how it comes out of the tx or, if for some odd reason you want to depict as a single number, use 0x. so to be proper:
06 00 00 30 = 0x30000006
54 75 c5 2a = 0x2ac57554
ps looking at the sample "avr program" you posted a while back i see theres room for improvement. again, suggest blinking led and hello world as good first steps instead of spi and a7105 ids. if youre serious about coding i suggest a new thread titled "do you want to learn avr assembler?" so this one dont get cluttered with noobness and windbags like me going on and on.
Regarding the hex number I know hex numbering, I was only copy and paste from thierryRc post was too lazy to write the numbers myself.Anyway you are the master of "Gobbledygook" jargon and ..........you know that.I didn't find other word and this one sound cool.
About languages I know also 4 and I want to add more.
Secondly ,that is not all the code.It is only a sample and I know there is room for improvement in fact this advice is valid for everybody.
Don't worry. I' ll finish the code soon, I'm almost there,at least for the binding part.Avr assembler is not so complicated and I learned(almost 70%) it in less than one week,it was the less difficult part .It was a little more difficult the understand A7105 data sheet(still learning) and now to understand the flysky protocol.
About new thread,this is an RC forum so is not the right place to start with.Secondly even on the right thread ,they advise the same as you at the beginning,and that kind of advice I don't need atm.
However, don't worry I'll never ask you anything here or there ,about avr assembly,In fact I don't need it atm,I have very good resources for that and where to look for.Sorry for ask you about that ,it was a mistake,I was too lazy at that time to look for myself.
If you want to have a bet with me ,if I finish my code in avr assembler and tested working.........??
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calm down. i do want to thank you for all the questions youve allowed me to answer last couple years. its been a privilege. anyway atm my opinion is based on that code you just posted. maybe i underestimate you. maybe not. seriously: you are obviously smarter than me learning in one week what took me two years. and i only know one language. no bet on flysky ppm code (i cant wait til retirement to collect. lol!). but i would like to see your avr asm blink and hello world. not copied but original versions. and functional stand alone...not snippets. you must know they are both critical debugging tools for your current project so must already be done.
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I'd suggest learning a real programming language, like C. It's a basic requirement for any serious programmer.
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i did get a kick out of your advice that homemade copper soldering tips are better than even the $1 ebay iron clad. and the guy you told to regulate his high current app with a voltage divider. i think that pretty much says it all.
and regarding avr c for jobs like a7105 rx/tx ill bet you cant even do a blink program. probably cant even get the tools up. and if you do manage it will be at least an order of magnitude bigger than an asm version. source AND bin.
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Joined Dec 2012
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swapf id0 then andlw 0xF0 = swap low/high nibble of id0 so bit0..3 became bit4..7 and vice-versa and then only keep bit4..7 = (id0 & 0x0F)*16
That works with the first 16 sequences.
I check with oscilloscope (gio pin) that receiver gets all tx packets (looks like a square wave, period =1.46ms or 685Hz) and it is just fine.
Dave when you say that you have tested home made RX with different TX, you mean you have tested the RX I have done ? (I remember you said that you ordered some pics and a pckit3 prog/debuger).
If the answer is yes then there may be two reasons to have troubles:
1 - I just implemented the first 16 hopping sequences so if tx id0 > 16, it does not bind.
2 - I have allready done and tested 3 RX (1x 6ch old version, and 2x 7ch version) and the last one was sometimes missing packets ! the trouble was that 1.5ms time-out (see pic code) between 2 successive packets is two close to 1.46ms ! I think cheap TX or/and pic internal oscillator is/are not so accurate. So I changed time-out to 2ms and now it works fine...
I could send you a rx if you are ready to do tests. Would be cheaper for me than buying hundreds of tx
btw I ended TX code and tested it connected to the module connector (ppm out) of an optic6 tx. To do so you need a resistor in series and a 3v zener diode in parallel to ch1 in order to limit ppm voltage input (I fried my 6ch prototype because I thought that with just a 10k resistor in series pic could't not latch-up but it does! so don't forget zener diode) So yesterday I played with quadcopter after midnight (I was happy but my wife was not so happy...) It was more pleasant than with original TX... I have to do range tests...
Let me clean pic code and I'll do updates soon
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i was going to ask you to sell me one and willing to reimbure you. i have just been hired to design and build a batch that have both 8ch servo and 4ch motor/actuator capability. i plan to make some extra for myself so can send you one of those. in any case ill pm my address and am very curious how it behaves with some of the "problem" ids.
New York
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i do know the old 90sxxxx avrs would latch and cook if you powered down and up again with 12v inputs even with 2k series resistor. so atmel fixed that long ago and im surprised to hear microchip hasnt. guess i should stop making fun of the guys who build those complicated level shifters and protection circuits.
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I'm surprised you still haven't realized you're wrong about the iron tips. Maybe it's easier for you to waste money on crappier iron tips, but not everybody is so lazy.
Copper conducts heat much better and tins better. FYI, that's the main job of a soldering iron tip. There's plenty of other advantages to them also. Being too lazy to use a better tip, too lazy to shape your tip with a couple swipes of a file, and too lazy to save money for your operation... just isn't a good excuse for many people.
In any case, sorry to everyone for taking this thread off topic.
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6 Badass Spacecraft Landings Humanity Totally Nailed
NASA recently won gold medals in long jump, shot put and being awesome forever by landing the Mars Scientific Laboratory. We've dispatched a laser-armed nuclear robot to another planet, because modern scientists grew up watching sci-fi movies and are determined to shoot first. Or they grew up watching sci-fi movies and have decided to surrender other planets to the robots in advance.
Dammit, Bob, did you program them to surround us again?
Landing on alien worlds is already the most impressive thing the species has ever done. Which makes these six blatant action-movies-that-actually-happened even cooler.
#6. The Armageddon Probe
The NEAR Shoemaker (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous/very cool scientist) was launched in 1996 but didn't enter orbit around asteroid 433 Eros until 2000. This meant it had time to watch Armageddon as an in-flight movie and become possessed by the spirit of Bruce Willis.
The lower scientist is reinforcing the probe's balls.
After a year of orbital study, the probe was at the end of its operational lifespan, and controllers decided it might as well go out with a bang. Of science! They used the last of the propellant to start a slow dive toward the surface, to take as many pictures as possible on the way down and to teach these Near Earth asteroids that they're not the only ones in the solar system that can go around slamming into things. As an orbiter, NEAR Shoemaker had less landing gear than a fish and was even less likely to survive. They'd only slowed it down so they'd know exactly when to high five and aim middle fingers at the sky.
This is for the dinosaurs, asshole!
So when NEAR Shoemaker sent signals asking "OK, I'm down, what's next?" they had to think of something very quickly, to make sure the unkillable spacebot didn't work out that they'd just tried to murder it. NASA begged extra time from the Deep Space Network communications array, otherwise the probe would have come back to find out why they stopped returning its calls. A gamma ray spectrometer designed to work at a range of kilometers was reprogrammed for the slightly more in-your-face 10 centimeters. NEAR Shoemaker continued to send unprecedented data for another 16 days, and spent the whole time wondering when they'd let it deploy the drills and nuclear warheads.
It worked so well that NASA designed another probe to ram a comet on purpose. And just to take the piss out of movies that weren't as cool as what they do, they called it Deep Impact.
#5. Project Blow Up the Moon
The LCROSS investigated the possibility of water on the moon the same way Arnold Schwarzenegger investigates the location of his missing daughter. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite "sensed" by slinging a Centaur rocket booster into the moon at 6,200 miles an hour. That's why rocket scientists hand you an adamantium pelvic girdle when telling you they're a sensitive lover. No matter which genders you both are.
Getty (but really NASA when you think about it)
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The impact threw up a plume of material 10 miles high, and because the mission was apparently directed by Hollywood, LCROSS then dove through the exploding cloud, to scan it, before ramming the moon as well, to be awesome. This second explosion was observed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which unaccountably failed to explode in sheer harmonic awesomeness. This suicide science found that the shadowed crater walls contained 5 percent water, as well as hydrocarbons, sulfur compounds, mercury, ammonia, hydrogen and various other substances more chemically exciting than an entire rave because they're on the moon.
Rocket science is even more awesome in reverse.
This wasn't the first time science double outperformed Michael Bay (bigger explosions and physically possible). The Apollo 13 mission threw their empty Stage IVB booster on the moon to perform seismic measurements, and to make sure the moon didn't think it was getting away that easily. The impact was used to calibrate the lunar seismic sensors installed by Apollos 11 and 12, and was so cool that the next four Apollos did the same. Astronauts are so awesome, they can even turn throwing their empties out of a moving vehicle into science. This network recorded more than 13,000 seismic events to help map the interior of the moon. That's over a thousand events per IQ point of all the people who don't think we landed there. Put together.
The next time someone says science is boring, feel free to slap them.
#4. Real-Life Lunar Lander
Lunar landing was hard enough in 1979, and that was when you weren't playing from inside a machine that made dying literal. (You can legally play it online for free, because Atari is still awesome.)
We made these graphics a decade after doing it for real.
In 1969, Neil Armstrong beat every Lunar Lander player and everyone else who has ever held the controls to anything ever. Apollo 11 was on its way to becoming history when that almost became an action movie line instead of a dramatic one. First the lunar module computer started flashing up "executive overflow" errors, saying that it had too much to do and would get back to some of these calculations later. Since these were the "NOT crashing into the moon" calculations, it was a bit of a concern. Ground controllers saved the mission by heroically working out that this was literally a non-fatal error, while Aldrin and Armstrong saved the mission by stoically soaring toward the moon's surface anyway until they did that.
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin. No, no jokes; just look at some of the coolest people ever for a bit.
That's when Armstrong noticed that the jittery computer was about to pull a younger-sister Mario by relentlessly steering them to death. The programmed landing site had looked fine under telescope observation, but was full of lander-destroying boulders under "inside that lander" observation. With a few hundred thousand miles on the clock and less than a minute of fuel remaining, Neil was damned if he was turning the car around and going home. So as well as being the first person on the moon, he got to be the first person to save space by pulling manual override and steering the ship himself. With a life expectancy measured in seconds, he and Buzz calmly surveyed the surface of the moon and found the most important parking space in history.


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The Elkins-Randolph County Airport Authority met with a Davis &?Elkins College economics professor Jan. 13 to discuss the possibility of students assisting in the creation of a marketing plan for the airport.
According Professor Harry Henderson, he is willing to have students in his spring semester class participate.
Henderson told board members he seeks these kinds or projects for his students as a means of giving them "real life" experiences in economics.
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PLANNING — Davis & Elkins College Economics Professor Harry Henderson, right, explains to Elkins-Randolph County Airport Authority member Chuck Stivers, left, and Brian Huffman of Chapman Engineering, center, how it might be possible for his spring semester students to assist in creating a marketing plan for the airport.
"This is the type of project we look for, but we will have to wait until I've had an opportunity to talk to the students to see if they are interested," Henderson said.
If the students are willing to accept the offer, he said the Airport Authority would have to appoint a committee of board members to provide guidance and supervision for the students.
"One area the students might look at is possible revenue producers that the airport people may have thought about but haven't had the time to contact," Henderson said.
Authority members are actively promoting the importance of the airport's role in the area's economic infrastructure and looking for aviation-related businesses and industry that would be interested in expanding their business or starting a new one at the airport.
To make the airport more attractive to business and industry, the authority recently purchased an 11-acre parcel of land that will facilitate the extension of runway 14-32, the crosswind runway. The board is also hoping to purchase additional property in the near future that will permit extending the primary runway, runway 5-23, which, in addition to being used for most normal operations, is used for landing at night and in inclement weather conditions.
Other planned updates include the repainting of runway markings and a Airport Air Analysis Survey. This digital survey of the airport and the immediate surrounding area will identify and locate hazards to aircraft attempting to land in dangerous weather conditions. The hazards are identified on instrument landing charts used by pilots during the approach phase of flight and have a bearing on the minimum altitude to which a pilot may descend when operating in stormy conditions.
Once completed, officials hope that by using cutting-edge instrument landing technology, the descent minimums can be lowered permitting better access to the airport in rough conditions.
Other issues discussed during the meeting were the compensation package for Airport Manager Dick Chaney. Authority members agreed to seek information from other agencies to determine if the manager's salary is competitive with other county employees.
Jack Pappas agreed to contact officials of the Mountain State Forest Festival to explore ways of involving the airport during festival events.
Chaney said that arrangements are under way to hold a "street-ready drag race" at the airport on July 4.
"Details are still being worked out," Chaney said, "but right now it appears that there's a good chance it will happen."
Randolph County Commissioner Julia Elbon updated authority members on the county's efforts to find a tenant for the Automated Flight Service Building.
According to Elbon, the building has been vacant since July 16, 2007. The Federal Aviation Administration's Flight Service Station functions performed there from August 1992 until it was consolidated and moved to Ashburn, Va.
The FAA still occupies a portion of the building and negotiations are under way to share the building with a new occupant or find a new location for FAA personnel.
If the FAA were to move, the entire building would be available to a new tenant.


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Salsa Celtica is more than just a band: it's a way of seeing the world, a remarkably fluid intermingling of cultures that is as joyfully exuberant as it is ingenuous. Their new album (and U.S. debut) El Agua de la Vida features the eleven core Salsa Celts joined by a dozen or so guests, with participants hailing from such far-flung locales as Scotland, Venezuela, England, Cuba, Columbia, and New York. Their initial impetus – to fuse the aching modal sounds of Scottish traditional music with the rhythmic flexibility of classic Cuban salsa – has been brought to full fruition over the course of ten tunes, brimming with congas, tenor banjos, pandeiros and pipes in equal measure.
Something so audacious as Salsa Celtica's fusion of Afro-Latin grooves and Celtic sonorities does not just occur. The members of Salsa Celtica (who have played with such renown folk groups as Capercaillie, Old Blind Dogs, and Blazin' Fiddles) first mastered their own native musical traditions before setting sale for Cuba. Upon arriving, they spent many an hour in the presence of their favorite son and salsa groups, learning first-hand while freely exchange of Scotch whiskey for Cuban rum. Soaking in both the techniques and the emotional source of salsa, they returned to their home base in Edinburgh to conquer the world with their unique hybrid.
Beginning as local favorites of Edinburgh and Glasgow's Hispanic communities, Salsa Celtica took their sound all over Scotland and the British Isles. Rave reviews in U.S. Latino press brought them before a crowd of 6000 New Yoricans at Lincoln Center. After soaking in the sounds of Spanish Harlem and Dominicansville, the band dazzled audiences in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Halifax, and Ottawa. At each stop, their new twist on two timeless genres dropped jaws and moved feet.
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Kindl? Too good to be #6/#7? He has been given TONS of opportunity to take a spot, year after year, he has never been able to secure one, and now his #7 seems to be in jeopardy.... If Holland signs all three Quincey/Suter/Schultz....Kindl is out...I hope it's Quincey that is out, but even then, Kindl is still #7....
"Year after year"? That's a head-scratcher considering Kindl has only played one full season in the NHL.
Now I am totally convinced you have no clue what you are talking about. Obviously you didn't watch him since you think he's played "year after year" in the NHL, but he had a month stretch during injuries where he was an absolute beast. Not bad for his first full season in the NHL.
Needless to say, the kid is barely 25 and has played well. He looks better than an older Ericsson his full rookie season, and is younger. I'm really surprised how people want to ditch Kindl, who has been solid, and automatically replace him with a 21 year old with entitlement issues who never sniffed a day in the NHL and could be the biggest flop since Brunnstrom. No way Babcock coddles Justin Schultz like other coaches will be instructed to do. Your solution? "FIRE BABCOCK!!!! CODDLE THIS KID WHO HAS ATTITUDE ISSUES AND ISN'T A TEAM PLAYER NOW KENNY!!!11"
Dude, you are hilarious!
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A local campaign is being waged to persuade the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay members, and an Eagle Scout is leading the effort.
Matthew Wilcott, a 29-year-old Town of Tonawanda resident, says it became a matter of conscience for him to take a public stand in trying to influence a vote set for next month to allow openly gay boys and adults to be part of the Boy Scout experience that benefited him since he started as a Cub Scout in Cheektowaga.
"Sexual orientation shouldn't have any bearing. I have some friends who were Boy Scouts and were gay. It didn't change my viewpoint on them in whether I wanted to work with them or go on a campout. Some told me they were gay, and some I didn't know about until a couple years later," Wilcott said Thursday.
Russell D. Etzenhouser IV, executive director of the Greater Niagara Frontier Council, which includes units in Erie and Niagara counties, said he is aware of Wilcott's stance and respects him.
"He is someone who represents one side of the discussion, and I think he does it very well, and I certainly respect Matt as a member of our camp staff, and I appreciate his willingness to have a civil discussion," Etzenhouser said.
A total of 391 people have registered their support with his online petition at change.org, part of a national effort to influence some 1,400 to 2,000 voting members of the Boy Scouts' National Council. The vote is scheduled for May 23 at the annual meeting in Dallas.
Exactly what the resolution will state has not yet been determined, but it will be released April 23 for review. Scouting's Executive Council, which normally handles policy questions, was originally scheduled to vote on allowing local sponsoring organizations of Scouting units to determine if homosexuals could participate in their Scout groups.
That was delayed in February after the proposed action raised intense debate from those for and against the change. Now members of the National Council, made up of representatives from local Boy Scout councils and committees across the country, will decide the issue at its annual May meeting.
Wilcott, employed as a teacher at Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart in Eggertsville, remains active in Scouting, working as summer camp program director at the Greater Niagara Frontier Council's Camp Schoellkopf in Cowlesville. He stresses that his efforts to change the way Scouting treats gays are motivated from his personal beliefs.
Growing up in Scouting, he said, it had never occurred to him that the organization excluded gays, and it wasn't until a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring homosexual Scout leaders that he began to consider the issue, reflecting on those he knew as a Boy Scout and summer camp workers who were not heterosexual like himself.
Then last year, when he learned of a young man in California whose Eagle Scout application had been rejected because he was gay, Wilcott said he decided to take a public position.
"What I'm trying to say is, I have workers and they do great things, and it has never dawned on me that either sexual orientation, gender or religion has ever hindered my opinion of them as a worker," Wilcott said.
He began working at Camp Schoellkopf when he was 15 as a counselor-in-training and over the years advanced to his present post as second in command at the camp.
His experience as a teacher at different schools, he said, also instructed him on how difficult it can be for youngsters in coming to terms with their sexuality.
"As a teacher in schools and having seen young people struggle with being gay and trying to find a safe place to fit in, some of them have found the Boy Scouts as a safe place to fit in," he said. "I don't think it is right to deny them that opportunity or to take it away from them. A boy deciding to finally make that big moment in his life to come out and then to be denied membership is not right. They should be able to live openly, if they chose to, and be treated equally."
After Scouting's Executive Council delayed action, councils across the country began holding sessions with their local Scouting communities to obtain insight on how people felt. Wilcott said he attended one of three recent sessions and offered his opinion.
Executive Director Etzenhouser said of the three local meetings: "There is a large diversity of opinion. I wouldn't categorize either way."
The Greater Niagara Frontier Council, he said, will have four individuals eligible to vote in May and they are committed to representing the local Scouting community.
"We have gotten a lot of feedback. What they want to do is represent the sense of what our Scouting community in Western New York wants. They are very committed to that," Etzenhouser said.
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Yum - this sounds like a great recipe. They look delicious topped with the fresh mozzarella.
I use a jar of giardiniera in place of the tomatoes which also works wonderfully (and adds zest without spiciness)
Great picture! You can never go wrong with a hot toasted sandwich with melted cheese!
When I make italian beef, I'm chained to the kitchen, popping 5-6 buns with beef into the oven for toasting/cheese melting. By the time I get the second batch out, people are coming back for seconds and there's NO ESCAPE. I LOVE the idea of using whole loaves, slathering them with beef and cheese and calling it a day! Brilliant! Feed an army in one fell swoop and cast off the chains! Thanks for the idea.
Do you have any ideas for avoiding the beer? We don't drink, and I especially avoid cooking with alcohol in the crockpot since the alchohol is stuck in there. Thanks!
Hi Becca, you can use 2 1/2 cups of beef broth instead. But the alcohol does turn to vapor and leave the pot through steam-- no worries about that unless you're cooking something for not very long-- like the redwine poached pears.
There will be very minute trace amounts of the beer/alcohol left, but no more than you'd find with an extract or something.
I hope this helps a bit!
curious about the anise. If the under-taste is important, I could always sub fennel (which I have)
Stephanie, I've been following your blog for a couple of years, but don't recall where you are (if I knew). For gluten-free foods (and other foods), if you're west of the Mississippi, or even some places just east of it, you ought to see if Azure Standard ( http://www.azurestandard.com ) has a drop point near you--calling and asking is probably the best way to check. Azure is a co-op with pick-ups once a month. Think Whole Foods only better and much less pricey!
Steph I was cheering on the 49ers. I really was hoping for the brothers to coach against each other in the Super Bowl. Now I'm hoping the Pats beat the Giants this time since they messed up my vacation the last time they played. Love the sandwiches for the game. Anything I can pick up and eat with my hands is on my list. Half of what I'm serving ends up on a stick. These sandwiches of yours however won't last past the first quarter!
Just made this for dinner tonight. It was great. I added a bit of balsamic vinaigrette dressing - maybe a little less than half a cup - just for some extra zip. Husband loved it. Thanks for all of the great recipes. Keep up the good work!
Hey Steph,
Whole foods carries the Against the Grain loaves frozen :)
Just realized you used anise seed in the dish and not the liquid (extract?) too late now, mines been in since 10am, hope its ok!
This is something I would definitely make for a party or anytime. Looks like a movie night and these sandwiches in front of the TV may be in order for this weekend.
Making this today! yum It smells soooo great! We had to search several stores yesterday(even the ones listed on the website) for the rolls, but did finally spy them at WholeFoods.- They are in a different freezer away from the other GF Breads.. Why? I don't know.
Looking forward to making this on Sunday. Any suggestions for side dishes?
I am trying this tomorrow! Thanks!!
Hi Stephanie! I am totally going to make this! My Hubs will be sooo happy :) Thank you! Happy to have found your blog!
Great recipe Stephanie! Made this yesterday - minus the anise - and it was FANTASTIC! It was so delicious. The meat was perfectly flavored, moist, and once put on a hoagie roll and toasted - OUT OF THIS WORLD! Thank you so much for sharing.
I am curious about what kind of beer to use? My husband likes dark beer, so Black Butte Porter is what we have in the fridge right now. I hope that it still tastes okay!
Fantastic football food, or anytime really! Make sure to spoon lots of the juices over your bread, to make it even better! Yum!
This is what we do to your Korean Beef taco meat recipe!
thanks for this post ;)
"her three kids LOVED their sandwiches the next day. "
Sheesh... kids nowadays.
When I was a lad back in the 1960s if I wanted vittles I had to forage through down-town dumpsters seeking tossed-out left-over over-timed fast-food joint grub.
My favorite was the Weenie Hut dumpster.
The mustard dog was especially tasty.
The recipe does read as creating a yummy meal.
I am not a fan of tomato taste but due to the health benefits tomatoes provide I have been more accepting of using tomatoes instead of seeking a substitute ingredient.
This is on my list to try sometime! Today I opted for your peperoncini recipe - I had most of a 12 oz jar leftover and bought a 3 lb round roast last night and cut in half since it called for 2 lbs and a 16 oz jar of peperoncinis. I also cut a sweet 1015 onion(delish!) I did find that round is a LOT tougher - it cut and chewed fine but was not shredding with 2 forks tender. I added some beef broth - will see how it does at a 2nd eating(the first was awesome though I did taste the onion more than the peppers - I'm guessing the juice with teh peppers helped tenderize and added some flavor? wasn't too spicy and I could taste the peppers - next time I'll get a bigger jar of peppers and try the broth. I was going ot do this recipe but couldn't find a single can of beer(I don't drink)at the grocery store adn didn't feel safe at the nasty convenience store across the street so this recipe will be up later!
made this with no beer or broth... and used pepperoncinis. Was to die for. We ate leftover beef for at least two meals. I saved the leftover juices and pepperoncini veg and used it in the slow-cooker to cook boneless chicken breasts. Very happy combo and made for 4 meals.
Sound delicious! Not a big football fan here either... but I don't think the Broncos are from the east coast ;) They actually beat out the Patriots!
you're right, Rachel! I originally posted this a few years ago --- and I STILL can't tell you who was playing! :-)
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Who: Orchard Park Quakers (9-1) vs. V-Aquinas Little Irish (7-3)
What: Class AA football Far West Regional.
When: Today, 6 p.m.
Where: Robert Rich Sr. All High Stadium.
Tickets: $10 for three-game session.
Radio: WXRL (1300 AM), wxrl.com and nhsbn.com.
Television (recorded): Time Warner Cable SportsChannel, 9 p.m. Sunday.
Buffalo News large school poll: Orchard Park No. 3.
New York State Sportswriters Association Class AA poll: Orchard Park No. 8; Aquinas No. 12. Note: Canisius is No. 1.
Orchard Park in the regionals: 3-7. After losing first seven regionals over an 11-year span (1996 to 2006), OP has won its last three, breaking through in 2007 (49-27 over Canandaigua), then going on to state titles after wins in 2008 (34-12 over Gates-Chili) and last year (42-35 over Rush-Henrietta, thanks to a 21-0 fourth quarter).
Aquinas in the regionals: 7-2. This is its 10th regional appearance in the last 15 years, which have included five state championships; all of those came in Class A before this year's elevation to Class AA. This is Aquinas' seventh straight regional, after beating Iroquois in 2006 (7-0), the next five came against Sweet Home. Aquinas won on its way to state titles in 2007 and 2010 (Sweet Home won on its way to state titles in 2008 and 2009); it also won last year before losing in the state semifinals.
Coaches: Orchard Park, Gene Tundo, 19th season (168-27); Aquinas, Chris Battaglia, 11th season at Aquinas (107-52-2).
Orchard Park key players (and statistics): Sr. QB Ben Holmes, 5-11, 175 (68-114, 1,228, 15 TDs, 3 INTs; 96-677, 7 TDs rush); Sr. RB Mitch Wilson, 5-9, 180 (148-1,512, 20 TDs); Sr. RB/DB Jett Modkins, 5-11, 190 (60-416, 7 TDs; 61 tackles, 2 INTs); Sr. WR/DB Austin Goltz, 5-10, 170 (33-617, 13 TDs; 6 INTs); Sr. WR Raphael Paglei, 6-0, 185 (24-339, 3 TDs); Sr. LB/TE Connor Eddy, 6-1, 220 (87 tackles, 3 sacks); Jr. LB Tucker Gamble, 6-0, 220 (50 tackles); Sr. LB Bobby Akinyele, 5-11, 200 (52 tackles, 1 INT); Sr. DL/OL Christopher Sanfilippo, 5-11, 220 (54 tackles, 2.5 sacks); Sr. OL/DL Michael Senn, 6-3, 300 (15 tackles, 1 sack); So. DB Jacob Dogal, 6-1, 180 (30 tackles, 2 INTs); Jr. LB Jason Dolce, 5-11, 215 (20 tackles, 2 INTs).
Aquinas key players (and statistics): Fr. QB Jake Zembiec, 6-2, 180 (75-132, 998, 6 TDs, 14 INTs; 26 for minus-43 rush.); Sr. TB/LB Billy Lombardi, 5-7, 192 (191-961, 16 TDs); Jr. FB/S Donato Clemente, 5-10, 160 (14-129, 1 TD; 11-183 rec.; 47 tackles); Jr. FB/LB Luch Pietropalo, 5-9, 202 (25-127, 1 TD); Sr. TB/S Ismael Cox, 5-9, 170 (28-92, 2 TDs; 3 INTs); Jr. WR/S/P Alex Bianchi, 6-2, 190 (28-346, 3 TDs); Jr. WR/CB Alonzo Turney, 5-9, 170 (16-265, 2 TDs; 3 INTs); Jr. WR/LB Al-tron Webb, 6-1, 180 (41 tackles, 2.5 sacks); Jr. TE/LB Charlie Rist, 5-11, 210 (77 tackles); Jr. G/DT Mike Holley, 5-10, 260 (58 tackles, 5.5 sacks); Sr. G/DE Alec Clanton, 6-3, 240 (9.5 sacks).
How they got here: Orchard Park avenged its only regular season loss, which came in Week Six at Jamestown, by closing the game with a 28-6 run against the Red Raiders in a 35-20 victory in the Section VI final. One week after edging season-long AA favorite and defending champion Rush-Henrietta (20-13) in the semifinals, the Little Irish scored the last 15 points — including a 12-0 fourth quarter — to beat Fairport, 15-14.
Pre-snap read: In this outstanding matchup of two of the state's best programs, Orchard Park is the favorite according to the state polls. However, this Aquinas team has won two straight that it wasn't supposed to win, riding its bull of a RB in Lombardi and strong defensive performances game planned by an outstanding coaching staff. Aquinas lost three regular season games in a row, to St. Joe's at home, at Canisius and at Cathedral Prep of Erie, Pa., while Lombardi nursed a leg injury that limited his ability to cut. Aquinas' passing has been inconsistent, but freshman Zembiec has hit big third- and fourth-down throws in the postseason. OP has put together two straight tremendous second halves to win at Lockport and to stiff-arm a challenge from Jamestown. OP put forth the best rushing performance in championship game history at The Ralph (476 yards), with Wilson leading the way with 276 on 24 carries. Quakers had three interceptions against Jamestown.
What's next: The winner advances to the state semifinals next Saturday at 6 p.m. at Sahlen's Stadium in Rochester. The opponent will be the winner of the Central Regional between state AA poll No. 3 Christian Brothers Academy (10-0) of Section III (Syracuse area) and honorable mention (outside top 30) Binghamton (8-2) of Section IV; that game is today at 6 at East Syracuse-Minoa.
At buffalonews.com: Live blog with play-by-play coverage; comment in the blog or via Twitter using the hashtag #preptalkscores. A PrepTalkTV video recap will follow.
In Sunday's News: Coverage of today's three championship games.
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The Pirates know it all too well.
Even with the addition of a second wild-card opening in both the National and American Leagues last season, it's still tough to make the playoffs.
The Pirates had a solid run at a playoff position late into the season last year, and for the second straight year, they faltered in August and September.
Team president Frank Coonelly, during a visit to Altoona this past offseason, termed the Pirates' stumble in 2012 "painful" to discuss.
The Bucs were in second place in the National League Central Division last Aug. 8 with a 63-47 record before 36 losses in their final 52 games left them with a 79-83 mark - their modern American sports record 20th consecutive losing season - and way out of both the division and both wild-card pictures.
Coonelly knows that the Bucs will have plenty of obstacles in their path as they try to reverse their two-decades trend of frustration in 2013.
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Bucs face tough road to topping .500
John Hartsock's capsule look at the biggest factors surrounding the Pittsburgh Pirates' 2013 season:
1. The schedule: It's a bear, rated as one of the most difficult that will be faced by any major league team. The Pirates no longer have the luxury of kicking the Houston Astros around 12 times, like they did last year. The Astros jump to the American League beginning this season. It says here that will cost the Pirates about eight to 10 wins this year. The Pirates play a total of 57 games - 19 games apiece - against tough Central Division rivals Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee. The interleague schedule is also rugged, with the American League West teams as the opposition this year. Three of those teams - the Los Angeles Angels, Oakland, and Texas - figure to be in the hunt for American League playoff berths, if not division championships. So will defending AL champ Detroit, who the Pirates play in back-to-back home-and-home two-game series in May.
2. Starting pitching: If James McDonald can pitch like he did in the first half of last season, Jeff Karstens can stay healthy, Wandy Rodriguez, Francisco Liriano and/or Jonathan Sanchez can lend positive veteran presences, and A.J. Burnett is anywhere near as good as he was last year, the Pirates could be in business. But that's a lot of "ifs.''
3. Will the bullpen be bullish?: Joel Hanrahan saved 76 games over the last two seasons for the Pirates. But he's now with the Boston Red Sox. Jason Grilli was as good in the eighth inning as Hanrahan was in the ninth last year. Now Grilli will be counted on to fill the closer's role. The Pirates' bullpen was one of the biggest reasons for the club's first-half success in 2012. It doesn't appear to be as good, or as deep, at this time this year as it was at this time last year.
4. Keeping the ball rolling: The Pirates displayed unexpected power last season - with Andrew McCutchen, Pedro Alvarez and Garrett Jones combining for 88 home runs. The Bucs will be looking for more consistency from Alvarez and McCutchen this year, and another banner-type season from Jones.
5. Bucking history: It appeared that the Pirates would be a lock to snap their onerous losing-season streak last July. Instead, they managed to extend it to 20. It's important for this organization to get that monkey off its back as soon as possible.
Prediction: 75-87, fourth place in the National League Central Division.
Comment: The Pirates could break their losing skid if everything falls into place. But the rugged schedule could cause the Bucs to take a couple steps back in the won-loss column from last season's 79-83.
In the Central Division alone, the defending champion Cincinnati Reds return the vast majority of their key players.
The second-place St. Louis Cardinals, who qualified for the playoffs as the second wild card, made it all the way to the National League Championship Series before losing there to the eventual World Champion San Francisco Giants.
The third-place Milwaukee Brewers have always given the Pirates fits, and the Brewers put together a sizzling second half last season to make a strong but unsuccessful bid for a playoff berth.
A look around the rest of the National League doesn't foster any more of a sense of optimism for Pirates' fans heading into this season, either.
In the National League East Division, the Washington Nationals had the best record in all of baseball last year, while the second-place Atlanta Braves made the playoffs as the league's top wild card team last season. Both are expected to be neck-and-neck for the East Division title this season.
The Philadelphia Phillies, like the Brewers, took off in the second half, and with a healthy Ryan Howard and Chase Utley for the entire season this year, the Phils will likely be much improved.
In the National League West Division, the Giants will be formidable again after winning their second World Championship in three seasons last year, and the Los Angeles Dodgers - who broke the bank with several high-profile midseason acquisitions last season - are picked as a league championship favorite by many this year.
Throw in the fact that the Houston Astros - who the Pirates beat 12 times last year - are now part of the American League, and the sledding looks challenging indeed for Pittsburgh heading into 2013.
"That's why they call it the major leagues,'' Coonelly said. "There are a lot of good teams out there. The Central Division often gets the short end of the [attention] stick, but two years ago, you saw two Central Division teams - (St. Louis and Milwaukee) - make it into the NLCS, and one (St. Louis) win the World Series. [In 2012], the Central had another team [St. Louis] make it into the NLCS. I think the National League Central is strong, and it will be strong again [in 2013].''
The Pirates - who open the 2013 season at 1:35 p.m. today against the Chicago Cubs at PNC Park - may be capable of making a run this season like the Baltimore Orioles and Oakland Athletics did last season. Both of those teams came out of nowhere to qualify for the American League playoffs in 2012.
The middle of the Pirates' batting order, especially with the offseason acquisition of catcher Russell Martin, who hit 21 homers for the New York Yankees last season, can stack up with just about any team in baseball. Martin should also help to shore up the Pirates' defense against opposing running games that went wild against the since-departed Rod Barajas and Michael McKenry last season.
Last season, the Bucs had three players - center fielder Andrew McCutchen (31 homers, 96 runs batted in and a league second-best .327 batting average), third baseman Pedro Alvarez (30 homers, 85 RBIs), and first baseman/outfielder Garrett Jones (a career-best 27 homers and 86 RBIs) - account for at least 25 home runs and 80 runs knocked in.
Factor in second baseman Neil Walker's 14 homers, 69 RBIs and .280 average in a season that was cut short nearly six weeks with a nagging back issue that the Pirates say he's since recovered from, and it's evident that the Bucs have plenty of pop in the heart of their lineup.
"With those guys in the middle of our lineup, we can match up with anybody,'' McKenry said.
There are plenty of caveats, however:
* McCutchen tailed off drastically in the second half for the second straight year last season. He had a .373 batting average in early August, but his average dropped an astounding 46 points in the last two months as he finished second to Giants' catcher Buster Posey in the National League batting race. McCutchen hit 14 of his home runs in June and July - seven each month - and earned NL Player of the Month recognition in both those months. His tailspin in August and September paralleled the team's descent in the won-lost column. The Pirates and McCutchen need to figure out a way to keep it from happening again in 2013.
* Alvarez became the power threat that the Pirates envisioned when they made him Major League Baseball's second overall draft pick in 2008. But buried underneath the home run and RBI totals last year was a .244 batting average and plenty of strikeouts - 180 in 525 at-bats, or more than one in every three plate appearances. Consistency was a problem for Alvarez, who could carry the team with the long ball for a week to 10 days, then go cold for even longer periods.
* Was Jones' big year in 2012 an indication of better things to come, or was he a flash in the pan?
Then there are the pitching issues.
The Pirates enter the 2013 season with a reliable veteran ace in righthander A.J. Burnett, who re-invented himself last year while winning 16 games. After that, there are plenty of question marks:
* Will the real James McDonald - an All-Star candidate in the first half last season who was demoted to the bullpen in the second half - please stand up?
* Can Jeff Karstens - who has shown flashes of excellence - manage to stay injury-free for an extended period of time?
* Will veteran Wandy Rodriguez and new veteran additions Jonathan Sanchez and Francisco Liriano - who broke his right arm in a household accident last Christmas Day and will start this season on the disabled list - be helps or hindrances this year?
* Can the bullpen survive losing closer Joel Hanrahan, and can veteran Jason Grilli - who is getting up in years - be as good in the ninth inning this year as he was in the eighth last year?
* How soon will 2011 top draft pick Gerrit Cole - who reached 100 mph on the radar gun last season with the Curve - be ready to contribute for the Pirates?
"We've got our work cut out for us,'' Coonelly said. "But what we won't forget is that for the first four months of last season, we were every bit as good as the teams in the rest of the National League.''
However, as the Pirates found out for the second straight year, playing four months of good baseball isn't enough to cut through a playoff chase that figures to be a feverish one year after year.
John Hartsock can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The major portion of the changes in the nation's health care law as it regards individuals are about to take effect. Do you know what's in it for you and how it will impact your premiums?
Those that chose "no" are probably Obama voters. Boy are they in for a surprise.
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I know what it will do, RAISE my premiums, because I am someone who has worked hard to better myself and not to put my burden on the rest of society, so why should I not be punished. I should raise my children to be lazy, sit back and go through life unburden and not worrying if they can afford anything. The government will use the hard worker of America to pay for them to have equal rights to everthing they have, they will pay for them to enjoy a stress free life. No need to go to college they will be indebt forever, never be able to repay the rising costs, and go through life paying for the less fortunate AKA lazy. This is the new American way. Granted legitimately sickly people do need to have the rights for affordable healthcare even if there is a preexisting condition, no argument there. I have no problem helping out there, but when is the government going to start forcing perfectly healthy people to better themselves and to stop pushing the burdens onto the hard working Ame
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Congress doesn't want it, Staffers on capital hill don't want it, Unions don't want it, why the heck would we want it? This is a terrible law and needs to be stopped. Pay the fine and don't sign up and it will fail for sure, why should hard working tax paying people have to pay for everybody who doesn't contribute to anything? More Obamagarbage, trash in, trash out!
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@VinceKnauff - I voted no, and I am not an Obama voter. I had to vote no because I have insurance provided through my job. I believe this will continue, but I'm not sure. I also don't know how much the portion I pay will go up (and I'm fairly certain it will go up), if it continues. Thus, the "no" vote.
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I see at this time there are 62% of the people polled don't know what "Obamacare" is about or how it effects them. The magic words for today are, "read the*****thing"it's on line and give "obamacare" a chance. If Orville would have said to Wilbur, it ain't going to fly and they didn't try, you'd be taking the bus!
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A lot of ignorant citizens on here are "sure it will raise their premiums" but admit to having absolutely no idea what the law is about or how it impacts them. No one cares how hard you have worked your whole life. If you don't know what you're talking about, any points you try to make are invalid. A huge percentage of the health care burden this country is saddled with is from people who have worked hard their whole lives, but outlived their coverage and savings. Are you suggesting you wouldn't want to be helped to die peacefully? Intentionally rallying people to ensure a government reform fails is shameful. I don't know if I would have voted for the law. I'm torn. But to sit on your butt at home, cleaning your shotgun and listening to Glen Beck while trying to tear down legislation that others have worked so hard on, without fully understanding that law yourself is anti-patriotic and seditious.
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I don't like green eggs and ham! Now that I've tried it...I love it!
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Sorry I made my whole statement up. I will go back to cleaning my gun now. State Rep. Stephen Bloom "President Barack Obama's malignant welfare state is growing aggressively, its hungry tentacles reaching deeper and further into the economic lifeblood of our country, systematically draining vital energy from the hardworking taxpayers upon which it feeds." "Masquerading as a source of improved health and quality of life, ObamaCare instead spreads escalating costs, unintended consequences and demoralizing confusion" "Obamacare is rapidly infecting what was once the most innovative healthcare system in the world with crippling mediocrity, simultaneously killing jobs and transplanting chronic dependency." "For example, one in six Pennsylvanians is now on Medicaid, and rising Medicaid spending has now spiked to drain a full 27 percent of our annual state spending of tax dollars." Worse, the prognosis for Medicaid recipients is often bleak, with some studies showing that
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the prognosis for Medicaid recipients is often bleak, with some studies showing that Medicaid patients suffer poorer health outcomes than patients with no medical insurance at all. Pennsylvania doctors exposed to Medicaid typically experience such severe bureaucratic overkill and anemic reimbursement rates that fully one-third of them now refuse to treat Medicaid patients. ObamaCare uses the troubled Medicaid program as a gateway to expanded welfare spending, bypassing states' heightened fiscal and moral defenses. Under the Obamacare law, states were to be forced to expand their Medicaid spending by enrolling not only the poor, but also people who earn up to 133 percent of the poverty level.
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"trying to tear down legislation that others have worked so hard on, without fully understanding that law yourself is anti-patriotic and seditious. "
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below quote from tacosalad- i think it is horrible that nobody was given the chance to read the stupid law, remember, we had to pass it to be able to find out what was in it and we had no time, it had to be voted on right away, like an emergency like everything Obumbler wanted passed.Thats unpatriotic!
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The first effect was the loss of our employer paid insurance, the 2nd effect was it will cost me nearly $600.00 per month more than what was originally being paid. The 3rd effect was my wages did not go up by the amount the employer was paying to pay for the cost. 4th the deductibles that I will now pay are 3 times higher than my previous. Welcome to the "Hope and Change".
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It was announced that our companies health care that we have been paying for 20 years will go up 70%. How is Obamma Care fair?? Obamma sold us a out right lie. There is no other way of looking at it. I hope its not too late to stop this unfair health care law.
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The day
of reckoning for Research In Motion has arrived. The long-awaited BlackBerry
PlayBook tablet hits store shelves today in the United States and Canada.
reviews for the tablet -- which lacks a dedicated email, calendar, and contacts
app -- have
been quite lackluster. (Example: The New York Times' David
Pogue: "RIM has just shipped a BlackBerry product that cannot do email. It
must be skating season in hell.") The reviews have been so lukewarm that
RIM's co-CEO's went
on the defensive last week to try to stem the flow of bad press. They
know that the PlayBook might be the Canadian company's last chance to win
consumers over, before RIM follows Palm into the sunset.
Reuters reports that about 20,000
stores will stock the PlayBook, and that it will also be sold directly to
PlayBook is launching in a Wi-Fi-only version today. It is available at Best
Buy in 16GB, 32GB,
an 64GB versions,
which are priced at $499, $599, and $699 respectively. According to Reuters,
cellular-enabled PlayBooks are slated for mid-year.
Apple's iPad dominated 2010 by moving almost 15 million units, a poll by Reuters of
18 analysts predicts that RIM will move 3 million PlayBooks in the same time
period for 2011.
not going to be in the same league as the iPad," IDC Analyst Al Hilwa
told Reuters. "The question is will it sell more than the
[Motorola] Xoom but less than the [Samsung] Galaxy."
quote: These tablets should be $150, $250 at most, with all the bells and whistles. For that reason, all these attempts are doomed to failure.
quote: Acer, HP, Dell and the rest of the usual race-to-the-bottom suspects will be in this market soon enough.


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Sources: The Wall Street Journal, Market Watch
quote: However the closest thing to a "perfect" display tech is OLED. Which doesn't really exist in a large size yet :(
quote: Tech is specs and price. Like I said, people aren't going into stores comparing displays and choosing the more expensive one with the lower IQ.
quote: BB or any other retailer doesn't have any reason to push one or the other.
quote: There IS more glare on plasma, by a large margin
quote: You said it first about something that sells in much higher volumes
quote: If there is any 1 of the 2 that no-one cares about its definitely Plasma
quote: LCD sells for a lot of reasons.
quote: As if none of us have researched this? He says burn-in isn't an issue anymore, yet every website out there admits that while plasma's are "better", the problem isn't completely solved in all sets. Image retention is a real issue, no matter what he claims.
quote: Also why do I get the impression he's comparing the best plasma's to the worst LCD's?
quote: I guess next he'll claim that Plasma's last longer than LCD's and use less power too.
quote: Oh another great "feature" of Plasma's is the audible high-pitch whine the sets make when they draw more power to display bright scenes. Oh and speaking of power, my god lol, a large plasma uses 500 to 600 watts!!!
quote: You have to love his logic as to why plasma's are dirt cheap and on their way out of the market basically. Gee you would think for such a superior premium item, someone would find a way to profit more from it.
quote: I mean I could go down the whole list.
quote: Thier LCD tv's are sweet. Who cares, other than almost everyone? Plasma is what no-one cares about.
quote: Who cares about plasma again? IQ Nazi's?


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The Dauphin County district attorney says investigators have made significant progress in the case of an 87-year-old woman who was stabbed to death inside a Derry Township home this week.
Investigators say they have identified a vehicle that they believe a potential suspect was driving. The DA's office released a photo of the truck (shown).
Joyce Roth, of Allentown, 87, may have interrupted a burglar, according to Derry Township police.
She was staying with her son at his home along Byron Road when she was killed early Monday morning.
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Explore Shops at The Del, a colorful bazaar of designer labels, fine jewelry, home accents, bath and spa products, inspirational pieces, eclectic brands, unique toys and games, antique treasures, soul-stirring books, nostalgic souvenirs and Del-inspired keepsakes.
Share a Del Gift Card with a loved one or friend, a thoughtful present which can be redeemed for shopping, dining, salon and spa services or accommodations.
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The Signature Shop (located in the lobby)
Our signature collection of apparel and gifts with the Hotel del Coronado logo including active sportswear from Greg Norman, Cutter & Buck, Gear for Sport and many more make this collection updated and stylish. Enjoy our luxurious robes, Signature bath and spa products as well as art and gifts from local craftsmen. We also offer a variety of wine, food and sundry items at the adjoining Marketplace to ensure your comfort. Enjoy your stay! Marketplace open 7am to 10pm. Signature Shop open 8am to 9pm.
The Mermaid Shop
Calling all Mermaids! It time to get your fins fit for summer. From now until Labor Day, The Mermaid Shop will be featuring shimmering mermaid tails, jewelry, and apparel for mermaid enthusiasts of all ages. Experience life under the sea as you make a splash poolside, or enjoy one of our fun Mermaid Fitness classes, your first class is free with the purchase of any new mermaid tail. Open 9am-8pm.
Enjoy sunny California days or balmy evenings in the perfect outfit from Weekends. Lady's active and casual sportswear, shoes and accessories designed for comfort and style. Open 10am-8pm.
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Browse through the Emporium and enjoy the collection of home decor, books, art and garden accessories. For the gourmet, see our unique selection of food and gifts. Everything for entertaining at home, California style! Open 10am-9pm.
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Spreckels Sweets & Treats
A delicious candy store full of your favorite sweets and treats: fresh fudge, specialty truffles, old-fashioned candies, gourmet chocolates and much more! Spreckels Sweets & Treats also carries a variety of gluten-free items, plus cookies and other treats from Divvies, which are nut-free, egg-free and dairy free. Open 10am-9pm.
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The history of the Hotel del Coronado comes alive in this shop featuring authentic items of historical importance alongside a collection of gifts reflecting times gone by. The shop also features display cases chronicling The Del's remarkable history. Open 9am-9pm.
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Travel in style and comfort. Business or pleasure, in today's world … we are always En Route! Stop by for a variety of fine quality luggage, handbags, business cases, men's and women's wallets, travel pouches and organizers, smart phone accessories/chargers and many other travel goods and needs. Open 10am-8pm.
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A fine jewelry boutique specializing in custom designed, gemstone, crown, and ocean-inspired fine jewelry. www.crownjewelscoronado.com. Open 10am-8pm. 1-619-522-9700
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Beyoncé Knowles beat out Kim Kardashian to become the top-searched person of 2013. Rihanna was a close third, while Madonna and Taylor Swift rounded out the top five. The results were mostly dominated by female musicians; the only men who made the list were Justin Bieber and President Barack Obama, at Nos. 6 and 10, respectively.
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9. Miley Cyrus
10. Barack Obama
In the battle for the hearts and ears of 2013, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's ode to frugality, "Thrift Shop," won out against Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" as the most-searched song of the year.
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6. Bruno Mars, "When I Was Your Man"
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Top Definition
A Prophylactic, or condom
be sure to wear a jimmy hat
by JBlaine September 25, 2005
Trending Now
Can you define these popular missing words?
A complex device that can help prevent both overpopulation and intercellular war. This device can come in many different varieties - such as slippery, bumpy, and strawberry.
In other words, a condom.
In other words, a condom.
Make sure you always wear a Jimmy Hat while wildly thrusting into the subject of your lust.
by Orange Dingo December 29, 2005
A jimmy hat is slang for a condom.
Before you dip your stick, put on a jimmy hat.
by Kahn.no May 25, 2005
This is another word for condom
"All the times I should have worn a Jimmy-Hat. All the times I said "what the fuck"" - nofx
by fatmike February 12, 2003
Another term for condom
Hey man, do you have any jimmy hats?
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A condom. Great word to use when asking a guy if he has a condom and you don't want the chick that you about to shack up with to know what you're talking about.
James put on a jimmy hat before he his girlfriend jumped on for the ride of her life.
Scott took off his jimmy hat before he skeet skeet skeeted all over her g-unit.
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Condom, rubber
The bitch looked kinda nasty so I made sure I was wearing my jimmyhat when I was fuckin' her.
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(With Valentine's Day arriving this week, we though we'd dig up some of our old romantic favorites and mix them in with some new stuff. Enjoy.)
By: Christopher Campbell
If you've ever had a bad first date -- and in the age of internet match-ups, it's all the more likely you've had at least a disappointing one -- you're not alone. Thanks to the awkwardness of getting to know somebody, and the nervousness that comes with that, it's a wonder any of us ever have good first dates. But as much as we end up fixating on the failure of a single bad date, we must remember that it's a part of life and has been since the dawn of man, when Adam had to deal with Eve ordering the forbidden item on the menu. Also, we must realize that it's all relative and there's always a worse date out there than the worst we've ever had. Often (and especially because it's Valentine's Day this Saturday), it's a good idea to look to the movies, and compare our worst first date to the worst first dates in cinema:
License to Drive(1988)
Imagine you're all set to get your driver's license, and the hottest girl in school has agreed to go out with you the night you pass the exam. But you don't pass the exam. Then you steal your grandpa's car. Then your date drinks too much and passes out for the rest of the night. Oh, and it only gets worse from there. License to Drive is just one of many films that shows us that a first date can be a crazy mix of Murphy's Law and the snowball effect. Also, like many comedies, it teaches us that an automobile can be destroyed many times over, and that it might be best if our first time driving, as well as our first time dating, be with a car that has little value.
em>American Pie(1999)
Forget about Corey Haim's escalating troubles in License to Drive. Think about poor Mercedes (Heather Graham) in that movie being photographed down her shirt without her knowledge. I wonder how many kids at school were shown those pictures taken by Corey Feldman. The sleaziness of it reminds me of poor Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) in American Pie being broadcast over the interweb for all her schoolmates to see. Never mind Jim's sexual embarrassment during that study date gone wrong, I feel much worse for any girl who unknowingly ends up a webcam victim. Of course, women can have far, far worse first date experiences than being exploited by voyeurism (see Higher Learning, Bully, American Psycho, countless TV movies).
Hard Candy(2005)
Men typically don't have experiences that compare. But Hard Candy comes close to showing us the worst that could possibly happen to a guy on a first date. Obviously no man should be making dates on the internet with 14-year-old girls, so it's not quite the same. We shouldn't feel bad for Patrick Wilson being psychologically (and seemingly physically) tortured by Ellen Page, but then it's also not the easiest thing for a male viewer to cheer on the castration of another dude -- no matter how despicable he may be.
Taxi Driver(1976)
Making a date with a minor is probably the worst dating idea a guy can have. But here is another stupid idea: taking a respectable girl to a porno theater. It was bad enough when Dustin Hoffman took Katherine Ross to a strip club in The Graduate. At least he got the girl in the end, anyway. There was no chance, however, of Cybill Shepherd falling for Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver after such a wrong choice in first date activities.
Pulp Fiction(1994)
Another bad idea is to take out the wife of your boss. Sometimes, though, it's the boss' idea. So, the best thing to do is just hope nothing goes wrong. Like, for instance, her finding your baggy of heroin and thinking it is cocaine. Then snorting it and overdosing. There's not much more of a date buzz-killer than having to plunge a syringe into your lady-friend's heart. Even if it kind of sounds romantic in a metaphoric sort of way.
Play It Again, Sam(1972)
When I think of awkward dates, I think of Woody Allen in the adaptation of his play, Play It Again, Sam. Consider it a lesson in why trying to act cool on a first date is just a set-up for disaster. Allen wants so hard to be Humphrey Bogart, and even (in his imagination) takes dating advice from the actor. But check out this hilarious clip to see how his trying to impress leads to slapstick clumsiness. The only dating scene that might be funnier and more awkward is this one from I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
Blind Date(1987)
No list of worst first dates is complete without Blake Edwards' comedy, even if it isn't that good, in which Bruce Willis experiences more of the old Murphy's Law and the snowball effect when he goes out with Kim Basinger, playing a woman who (like Mercedes in License to Drive) can't hold her alcohol. But worse: her jealous ex-boyfriend is following them around, and eventually Willis ends up in jail. Then also there is Mystery Date, a movie that isn't much better, in which Ethan Hawke goes out with his dream girl, Teri Polo, and everything goes wrong thanks to a case of mistaken identity. If I remember correctly, though, each of these dating disaster movies finishes with the guy getting the girl anyway.
So remember this on Valentine's Day: Just because a first date seems to go all wrong, it could really have gone all right.
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Cock blocking is not always a bad thing. Sometimes it is necessary to keep a friend from getting ass that he wouldn't normally go for, but he is to fucked up to know better.
Ben was so fucked up that he was trying to get with a fat ugly bitch, so we cock blocked him to keep him out of the nasty.
بواسطة Mike مارس/آذَار 31, 2003
An individual that prevents someone from hooking up intentionally or unintentionally.
Paul is a total cock blocker. That guy is like a giant cock blocking robot developed in a secret fucking government lab. I was about to hook up with Lily and he ruined all my hard work.
بواسطة Lightweight Nate أكتوبر/تشرين الأوّل 11, 2009
Someone who tries to interrupt you while you and someone are engaging in some sort of sexual activity, usually with something totally meaningless or pointless.
Ooooh, aaaah, hmmmm, unngh (me and my girl getting frisky, hehheh)
*knock knock*
Flatmate:"Wanna cuppa"?
Me:"Fuck off and leave me alone you cock blocker".
*knock knock*
Flatmate:"Wanna cuppa"?
Me:"Fuck off and leave me alone you cock blocker".
بواسطة Safecracker G أكتوبر/تشرين الأوّل 15, 2004
Someone or something that prevents a man or woman from getting fucked. Usually a cockblocker is a friend of one who is trying to get his/her fuck on.
Nick to Shelly: "Jesus is a cockblocker!"
بواسطة shelly سبتمبر/أيلول 27, 2004
a lesbo or capet muncher would not allow any men to get some ass from her friends
Jenny s a real cock blocker,she would not let her friends get any ass till she get some first.
A person who tries to stop a person from gettin some .
alonzo is a cock blocker. he introduced me to her only to try to go out with her a minute later
بواسطة Clinton o أكتوبر/تشرين الأوّل 18, 2008
Someone who likes a girl, but who isnt going out with her and he gets jealous and upset that you are talking to her.
James likes Trisha, but james isnt going out with Trisha. When Rob flirts with Trisha, James gets mad and jealous and tries to keep them apart.


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It started with a crooked land deal, when nearly $900,000 in tribal funds disappeared.
After that, a disbarred lawyer took a felony plea deal in federal court.
Then his alleged accomplice, a former Seneca Nation of Indians leader, was indicted and accused of engineering the theft. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have never been accounted for publicly.
Those are the main elements of the Hickory Stick Golf Course land fraud case, one that now roils next week's Seneca Nation elections because the lawyer and alleged accomplice were closely associated with presidential candidate Barry E. Snyder Sr., who was Seneca president and head of Seneca Gaming Corp. when the land deal occurred.
Thirty-three months ago, disbarred attorney Timothy J. Toohey stood up in federal court and admitted that he stole $202,000 from the Lewiston land deal involving Seneca Gaming.
A judge scheduled Toohey's sentencing for April 14, 2010. But the sentencing has been delayed seven times – each time at the request of the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The latest postponement, granted earlier this month, prompted Snyder's opponent for the Seneca Nation presidency to complain that the delays are preventing the Seneca people from getting full information about Toohey's embezzlement and how it happened.
Richard E. Nephew alleges that Snyder must somehow have been involved in a land fraud conspiracy that cost the Senecas nearly $900,000.
"It is well past time for Barry Snyder, who was president of the Seneca Nation and chair of the Seneca Gaming Corp. at the time, to finally come forward and provide a full and proper accounting of his involvement in the conspiracy," said Nephew, who presently is chairman of the Senecas' Tribal Council.
Snyder vehemently denies any involvement but says he feels badly that the theft "happened on my watch."
He noted that he was interviewed by the FBI and that he also testified before a federal grand jury about the land fraud case. If federal agents and prosecutors found evidence that he was involved in the scheme, they would have indicted him, he said.
But Toohey was a longtime friend and former personal attorney for Snyder, Nephew pointed out. Also, Bergal L. Mitchell III, who was indicted in the case last year, was a longtime Snyder aide, Nephew noted.
The Buffalo News has obtained a copy of an FBI report on its September 2008 interview with Snyder. According to the FBI document, Snyder insisted that he had "no knowledge" that the land price was inflated, or that money from the purchase was shared with Toohey, Mitchell or members of Mitchell's family.
Snyder told FBI agents that Mitchell was his good friend, golf partner and political supporter, but he also said that "there is no legitimate reason" why Mitchell would have received any money from the golf course deal.
The News also obtained a copy of a letter that federal prosecutors sent to Snyder's attorney, Andrew C. LoTempio, around the time of the FBI interview.
"[At] this time, your client is not a target nor a subject of this criminal investigation," the letter states.
More than four years later, Snyder has never been charged in the case.
Under his plea agreement, Toohey agreed to testify against Mitchell if Mitchell's case goes to trial. So far, no trial date has been set.
When Mitchell allegedly stole $338,000 of the land deal proceeds in 2006, he was vice chairman of Seneca Gaming, which runs the Seneca casinos. His immediate boss, mentor and close friend was Snyder, who was then chairman of the gaming corporation and president of the Seneca Nation.
The Senecas paid a heavily inflated price of $2.1 million for the Lewiston property where the Hickory Stick golf course was built. According to court papers, more than $880,000 – including the money given to Toohey and Mitchell – was skimmed from the deal. About $350,000 of the skimmed money has never been publicly accounted for.
A shakedown, allegedly engineered by Toohey and Mitchell, is laid out in federal court papers filed when Mitchell was indicted last year.
"[I] do not wish to sound heavy-handed," FBI agents quoted Toohey as saying in an August 2004 email to a lawyer involved in the deal. "I have associates. … Their interests, in all candor, are not exclusively to get a golf property for the casino spa hotel. They are driven by more capitalistic tendencies."
Snyder told The News that if Toohey and Mitchell shook down anyone for money, he had no knowledge of or involvement with the crimes.
And Snyder's backers noted that the current Seneca president, Robert Odawi Porter, an attorney educated at Harvard Law School, was the Seneca Nation's attorney general at the time of the land deal.
"Rob Porter was part of the legal team that was supposed to research this land deal, and examine all the legalities and check what we were paying against the surrounding land values," said Maurice A. "Moe" John, a former Seneca president and Snyder supporter.
That is untrue, Porter said.
"I was representing the Seneca Nation. The land was being purchased by the gaming corporation, which is a separate entity," Porter said. "The gaming corporation's attorneys, not my group of attorneys, were responsible for doing the due diligence and vetting the contract."
Porter allies noted that ethical questions were raised about John's conduct in August 2009, when the Council suspended John from his position as treasurer of the gaming corporation. The Council said John and an aide were accused of misappropriating $120,000 in tribal funds. John denied any wrongdoing in the case and said the charges were politically motivated. He has never been criminally charged in the case.
Eight members of the Council who are loyal to Snyder sent The News a letter supporting Snyder's actions and criticizing Porter with regard to the Lewiston land deal.
"[To] accuse Barry Snyder Sr. of having any wrongdoing in the matter is simply false," Council Members Tracie Brown, Donald John, Susan Abrams, Llona Leroy, Tina Abrams, Arlene Bova, Todd Gates and Michael John wrote. "If anything, Rob Porter should be investigated for not conducting a thorough due diligence."
The U.S. Attorney's Office and the Buffalo office of the FBI declined to discuss the Toohey case, except to confirm that it has been delayed by pretrial litigation.
Toohey's attorney, Joel L. Daniels, said that it is not unusual for federal judges to wait until a cooperating witness, such as Toohey, has testified at trial before sentencing him for his crime.
"The government wants to see if Tim Toohey adheres to his plea agreement and testifies truthfully at trial. The government requested the delays, and the judge approved them," Daniels said. "It's normal procedure. No funny business. All routine."
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Any number of potential City Council candidates saw their plans thrown into turmoil in late 2008 when the City Council voted to extend term limits and allow incumbents, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to run for a third term in their respective New York City offices.
The move whittled away a number of challengers in District 25, which encompasses Jackson Heights, Corona and East Elmhurst. But two -- Daniel Dromm and Stanley Kalathara -- have remained in the primary race to challenge incumbent Helen Sears. With a spirited primary race underway, the conventional wisdom -- that an incumbent always wins -- might not hold true here. The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Mujib Rahman in November.
The diverse district faces an array of problems, including a lack of health facilities, development and overcrowded schools. While the candidates all seek to address those issues, their platforms emphasize different areas. Sears, who was first elected in 2001, is taking on the district's health care dilemmas; Dromm, a schoolteacher and union leader who is also a gay activist, is focusing on education reform; Kalathara, a lawyer and businessman, wants to clean up the neighborhood by improving the quality of life and attract dollars that would otherwise be spent in Manhattan.
The Hospital Closing
The fault line of this campaign is the recent closing of St. John's Hospital. When Caritas Healthcare, the company that ran St. John's Hospital and Mary Immaculate Hospital, also in Queens, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy early in 2009, the hospitals were unable to keep their doors open. Even before Caritas' bankruptcy, St. Johns had been plagued by a shortage of beds and outdated equipment.
Consequently, the 100,000 patients serviced in their emergency rooms must now go to other medical centers. Residents of Corona, East Elmhurst and Jackson Heights have to use the already strained resources of the two remaining neighborhood hospitals, Holliswood and Queens Hospital Center.
Sears' opponents hold her responsible for the closure of St. John's. Sears maintains that she moved quickly to keep the health center open. New York State extended money to the hospital, but said it could not make regular contributions.
"She only showed up at a protest at the very end. She should have started [taking measures to avoid this] since her election," said Dromm.
Kalathara said, "I am not going to play the blame game." But he cited his concern about the impact of any re-emergence of swine flu this fall, noting that the two remaining hospitals serving the densely packed district were already seeing a doubling in cases
Planning for the Future
Sears, a former healthcare professional, has spent a great deal of time defending her past two terms in local debates, rather than speaking of her aspirations for a third term. During her two terms, she said, the Corner Care Pavillion opened as a health center for neighborhood residents. Now she said, it will add a woman's health clinic. "This district is incredibly diverse -- every country in the world is represented here," she said. "A woman's clinic will bridge cultural differences and will provide and teach women how to seek healthcare."
Interviewed in a restaurant where the waitress speaks Spanish, Dromm cites his experience in advocacy and community affairs. "I recently organized a documentary screening about Muslim Sikhs to be shown in a Jewish center," he said.
His self-titled Dromm Plan vies to improve life for community residents with measures such as ending the self-certification practiced by real estate contractors and reducing noise pollution by pushing through legislation. He also proposes measures to help the area's many immigrants, such as addressing the employment scams which they too often face. "A center for day-laborers where they could meet potential employers would create safer situations and ensure union jobs by bringing immigrants into them," he said.
Kalathara, a self-made man who prides himself on his awareness of neighborhood difficulties, holds his interview in his neighborhood law office where the clientele are of Indian and Latino origin. He said he wants to address foreclosures, job loss and safety on Roosevelt Avenue and Junction Boulevard. "Installing lights, on stretches of blocks that often go without them is another plan to ease crime," he said.
He plans to push legislation to secure daily garbage pickup for his district and proposes the widespread use of charter schools to improve the education standards in city schools. "I will donate 10 percent of my salary to give funds to the most worthy community organization or school in this district," he said.
Kalathara extols his campaign as "a message of belief, opportunity." Holding himself up as an example of the American dream -- Kalathara worked his way up from an Indian immigrant-busboy to a lawyer -- he said, "I want to set an example for others." Indignant about the economic disparities between his district and many Manhattan neighborhoods, he said, "Queens is not a second class world. I want to make sure Queens citizens are treated first class,"
On the day of his interview, Kalathara was fighting to stay on the ballot. He sat, confident behind his desk in his Queens law office. "I've sent one of my lawyers to handle the case," he said. When questioned about the validity of the signatures on his ballot petitions, he said simply that Dromm, who had challenged them, "is a sour grape."
Votes for Immigrants
In this district of many immigrants, there is debate about Resolution 245, which would give non-citizens the right to vote in New York City elections. Dromm strongly supports the act, while Kalathara merely agreed. At a recent debate, Sears had no opinion to give, saying, "I'm here to tell you that I'm not sure where I'm on this. I haven't given it much consideration."
The passage of resolution 245 would have an enormous impact on the political landscape of New York City, particularly in this heavily immigrant Queens District. Estimates place those who are of age but cannot vote in New York City elections at 1.3 million, easily more than one-eighth of the city's overall population.
Explaining his support for the resolution, Dromm said, "There should be no taxation without representation. This is a basic American tenant, and it's the key to ones destiny."
The Anonymous Charges
On a far murkier level, controversy also has arisen over anonymous leaflets about Dromm that some have characterized as part of a "homophobic smear campaign." The leaflets reportedly allege that, as a 16-year-old, Dromm was arrested for prostitution. He has said he was simply kissing his boyfriend but that, in the 1970s, " being gay meant that you could be put away against your will in a mental institution."
Kalathra and Sears both condemned the attacks, although Sears has been criticized for not speaking out sooner and more forcefully against the advertisement.
Money and Support
Sears remains the campaign heavyweight in terms of budget. She leads with $128,493. Dromm is second in funds with $103,958 and Kalathara with $92,489.
Dromm has endorsements from the Working Families Party; Service Employees Union Local 1199, which represents healthcare workers; the United Federation of Teachers, as well as by local politicians including state Sen. Tom Duane and three City Council members from Queens.


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March 3, 2013, 04:22 PM
I was trying to get advice on what this stock may be for? It is about 42 1/2 inches long. Has the letters AAM on the left side, has a P just below the trigger, and a symbol with number 339 just after the magazine space. Thanks