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Gigabyte Z87N-WiFi: Our Golden Mic Winner Takes a Bow
This year was the first year we have a Golden Mic winner in the motherboard category and it is time for this gem to shine. The Z87N is an mITX board build for the Socket 1150 or Haswell platform. It offers all the performance the Haswell platform brings in a small form factor package. Taking a cue from their excellent Z77N lineup, Gigabyte has kept the design along the same lines as the previous model and then added some nice new features.
(Quick apology to everyone, in my haste to get to the testing I seemed to have neglected to get board shots. Rather than take apart the system it is right now I will be using stock photos from Gigabyte.)
If this baord layout looks familiar to you, it should. The basic layout is pretty much identical to the H77N and Z77N boards from Gigabyte. This is actually a very good move for consumers and for Gigabyte. For consumers it means the design is one that is tested and proven to be reliable and stable. For Gigabyte it means they do not have to spend a bunch of money of developing a new design and this helps keep consumer costs lower.
For internal connections the Z87N has a USB 3.0 and 2.0 Header, Four SATA 3.0 connections as well as dual channel DDR3 slots, a PCIe x16 slot and two PWM fan headers. The board sports a full rear IO panel;
- PS2 port for either a mouse or keyboard
- Dual HDMI and a DVI for video connections if you choose to use the onboard Intel graphic
- full 7.1 surround sound options
- Wireless N support with a hi-gain antenna connection
- Dual Gigabit LAN Connections
- Two USB 2.0 and Four USB 3.0
To all these features Gigabyte was sure to include their particular extras Bluetooth connectivity and their ultra durable design. This design makes use of a modified PCB to increase durability, heat removal and even humidity protection. It also uses solid capacitors and the power system is designed to be more efficient and work cooler. Add to this a dual BIOS to make sure your protected from bad flashes or failures and you have a motherboard built the way we have come to expect from Gigabyte.
The bacos however come when we start using this motherboard. The first thing you will notice is that Gigabyte has designed their UEFI BIOS and it is a stunner. Do not adjust your settings this is the BIOS! The home screen as you can see offers a wealth of information including real time updates while you are making adjustments. This is an amazing improvement over the previous BIOS setup, so much so that I found myself spending double or more the time I normally spend in a BIOS just to admire it.
I could start doing screen shots, and yes it supports screen shots, of all the various screens but trust me when I say you have a wealth of options to choose from in tweaking this board.
Gigabyte also redid their in Windows tweaking software. This software makes it easy to see how the system is working as far as temps and voltages. It has a special section just to let you customize the various temp, fan and voltage alerts you can received, meaning you can have your system warn you when you think it should. The Fan controls software is similar to software we have seen other companies use for a few boards now but a welcome addition to Gigabyte boards. It will allow you to adjust how the CPU and System respond to temperatures in your system, meaning when you want it to be your system is all but silent.
Finally we come to the overclocking options using Smart Quickboost. you are given a number of options here. The basics for a light, medium and extreme overclock. You then get the options for the system to auto tune and advanced to allow you to manually adjust. One additional option that I have never seen before is for energy savings where it actually down clocks the chip.
For our testing we are using an Intel i7 4770K provided to us by Intel. With a Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme cooler hooked up I decided to see that the auto tune could do. This makes the system begin stepping through various overclock settings with stability testing being done at each step. The final settings for out setup was able to get to 5.0 GHz, that is letting the motherboard decide the settings.
Priced at $135 on Newegg, this is the lowest cost mITX Z87 board available, and at the same time one of the best made. Packed with features, a great new BIOS design, good software package and all these with a value pricing, the Z87N is a great choice for anyone building an Intel based ITX system. We got to look at quite a few motherboards this year with our efforts at small form factor building and this board stood a head above the other closest choice to win our Golden Mic Award for 2013.
- Good value
- Solid feature set
- good overclocking
- excellent construction
- amazing new BIOS interface
- great software tweaking pack
- Header placement all on one side of the board, could be hard to work with in some case designs
- Wish they would kill the dual LAN and PS2 ports to allow for more USB
Thank you Gigabyte for allowing us a chance to test this motherboard.
Review Segment as aired the weekend of August 17th.
Llano takes the Black
AMD has a history of filling a product line when they do a processor. I mean look at all the model and speed choices we got with the Phenom II and Athlon II. So when we looked at the A8-3850 6 months ago I fully expected us to see a full product line up of these value based Fusion processors to shortly follow. What followed however was 2 A6 and 2 A4 models and that was it, the line up seemed to stall there. This was really odd because as I said AMD is known for a full product line. However we now see two new A series chips, the A8-3870 and the A6 3670.
Both of these chips are 100 MHz bumps over the chips that preceded them, so it is hard to get excited about the performance bump. AMD however took the initiative and did something more, both chips are Black Edition, which means they are fully unlocked for overclocking. So while the 100 MHz bump is not all that exciting the overclocking holds the promise of more. For our testing AMD sent us the A8 3870K, so lets throw it into our Fusion system and see what we get.
A quick refresher the Fusion APU is a traditional CPU with a Parallel Co-Processor, or GPU on the same die. This extra unit means the chip can perform all the graphic functions the computer needs for display and is also fully usable by APIs such as Direct Computer and OpenAL for GPU computing.
The A8-3870 is the current flagship of the APU lineup clocked at 3.0 GHz with GPU portion running at 600 MHz. For defining the GPU performance level AMD has listed this as a 6550D. For our testing we used the same system as our original A series review, all we did was swap the processor and began our testing.
First we established baselines at stock speed in comparison to the A8 3850 and as expected the performance was so close as to be un-noticeable in difference. Remember though this was only a 100 MHz speed bump so stock performance was not were we expected to see a difference. This chip is unlocked however so overclocking should be easy. So we started by overclocking the 3850 we had and was able to achieve a stable overclock with no tweaking at 3.3GHz. Firing up the 3870 I was hoping for more but hit 3.4Ghz and would have been forced to start tweaking voltages and such to go further. The result was not as much as I had hoped.
However the CPU portion is only the beginning, with the 3850 we where unable to get any overclock on the GPU portion but with the 3870 we where able to pull some nice boost. We where able to take the speed up to 775 MHz without any tweaking and this resulted in a 3D Mark 11 Performance score boost of about 28%, pushing it close to the Performance score of a 6570. Next we paired the overclock chip with a 6670 and watched the performance go up more netting us another 17% above the performance we saw with the stock speeds and the 6670 is Crossfire.
While the overclocking we got gave a nice little speed bump, overall it is a very limited overclock. These chips are just pushing the envelope with stock speeds it seems and overclocking them is a neat exercise but any real bumps are just not going to happen without a lot of effort. This is a bit disappointing considering how well other Black Edition chips have overclocked historically for AMD.
What does this mean for you? Well we where able to run Skyrim at High Detail at 1440×900 and it was butter smooth throughout our game play session. Further I could play Champions Online at max detail at 1440×900 and run pretty high frame rates, easily high enough to make lag from the hardware a none issue. This chip will not win any performance marks out of the game but take this chip with a sub $100 video card and you get some really solid performance that will easily meet a budget gamers needs.
The system when running the 6670 in crossfire can push into 1080 resolution game play but you need to start backing down some settings. I did most of my testing at 1440 because this is a realistic resolution for the price point with details levels as high as possible.
Sadly however this may be Llano's, the codename for this chip, last hoorah. Trinity based APUs were on display at CES in their mobile version and the desktop is likely not far behind. These next generation APUs will be based on Piledriver and be of a completely different architecture so the performance we will see compared to Llano is up in the air until we can get one. The 3870 and 3670 could very well be the only refresh we see on the first run of APUs.
If you are a hardware tinkerer and want to do a low budget build with some gaming potential the APU platform is really a must look at for your first choice. With even the onboard video and overclocking you can get fair performance for basic gaming at 1440×900. Drop in a low cost video card and you can game decent at 1080 or great detail levels at 1440. These unlocked APUs are a neat chip to look at but at the end of the day will be a minor blip on the APU radar as this phase of the APU is pushed out of the way by Trinity.
The FM1 Socket APU however has done it's job and made it's note in history. The first real APU design this chip has shown that an integrated graphics solution CAN be done and done well, not just basic functionality. The ability for it to be used outside the graphics area and as a full parallel co-processor is it's most important contribution in my eyes. So with my Fire and Ice reference I think it is fitting that instead of going quietly into that good night as Trinity comes along, Llano should go out with a last hoorah and take the Black. Heading to the wall to give us our start into a new kind of chip.


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Attack of the ATVs on rural TN
A brouhaha over ATVs on the roadways began last summer when Sheriff Anthony Lay announced impending enforcement of state laws, which prohibit ATVs on any public road. The uproar quickly faded, however, and any enforcement of laws regarding ATVs on public roads appears to have been short-lived. -- More.
Shhhhhhhh. Don't tell lawmakers. They'll figure out a tax for this. Say, do ATVs have a public road tax yet?

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Category Archives: SPRING 2012
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Just a quick reminder to make sure that you check the schedule in the Harder Studio for your 15 minutes of FAME! All reviews will be held in Harder. Please come at least 15 minutes before your scheduled review to set up your work. Good Luck!
Daniel Brag Presents
Daniel Brag Presents:
Mark Your Calendars!
Material Lists!
Click below to read the rest of the post to see the full list of required materials for each group. In addition to those lists, please replenish materials in your kits as they were for Fall semester.
While at home be on the look out for BOXES!
For your coLAB course, you will need to bring back one or more containers. Select something that is:
1. Rigid. It should be made of wood, plastic or similar materials. (no cardboard!)
2. Closes. It has an inside and an outside.
3. Can be altered, taken apart or adapted. Avoid something that you want to leave 'as is'.
4. At least one foot long in one direction, but can be larger!
5. It should be interesting, unusual, or distinctive and something you LIKE.
6. It should NOT be new. This should be purchased at a thrift store or garage sale or found in your parents basement! Please do not purchase a new box at a craft store!
You will need this on the FIRST day of class! You may want to bring a couple so you have choices!
PS. Check out http://www.greenecoservices.com/top-20-ways-to-reuse-old-suitcases/, a fabulous blog that shows the top 20 ways to reuse old suitcases!
This from Prof. Vadja!
Group A:
Students should fill at a minimum, a one cubic foot box with objects from home. I use the word "home" in the most general sense. A place or an area that you associate with as being where you and your family are from. Objects from your house and the surrounding area. Half the objects can be things you care about and the other half you need to be willing to permanently alter or destroy. MAKE GOOD DECISIONS!
Please consider the following:
Appearance: Color, texture, shape, scale, form
Man made (symmetrical) or from nature (organic)
Seed pods, plants, fungi
Photos or printed material
Soft objects and hard objects
Make sure you have an extensive variety objects!
Artist Materials: charcoal, charcoal pencils, erasers, masking tape, drawing boards


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We all watched as that duct-tape enforced balloon drifted higher and higher, and now we all shake our heads with disapproval as more facts come out about the Heene parents, who had appeared with their kids on "Wife Swap" and were hoping to score another reality-show breakthrough. As 6-year-old Falcon Heene vomited during media interviews and then stated on CNN's "Larry King Live" what appears to be the true crux of the ballooning story-"You guys said we did this for the show"-it became clear that his reality-show driven parents might actually be living in an alternate reality.
But there are ways you can keep your own kids from being impacted by reality television. As a psychotherapist and CEO of the Personal Growth Institute, a non-profit psychotherapy agency dedicated to helping individuals, couples, children, teens and families in Los Angeles, Dr. Foojan Zeine has some advice for how parents can keep their own children from being seduced by what they see on screen.
She says that parents need to teach kids the difference between "reality" and "entertainment," because for today's kids the line has become so thin. Whether it's "Jon & Kate Plus 8"/ "Kate Plus Eight" or "18 Kids and Counting," "Nanny 911" or "SuperNanny," "The Baby Borrowers" or "Toddlers & Tiaras," each episode passes off these larger-than-life shows as true-to-life.
The problem that Dr. Zeine sees most frequently in her patients is a disconnect between their lives and the lives they see on television. That's because reality shows have to have some kind of plot or excitement if they want to stay on the air, so the kids who star in them have to act up and practically become a caricature of themselves to make for interesting TV.
The kids who are at home viewing naturally compare the shows to their own lives, and often conclude that their day-to-day existence is pretty darn boring. They don't see kids on TV having any downtime, so when they, themselves have free time they're not even sure of what to do with it.
"It's a lot of stress for the kids on TV, but also it's a lot of stress for the people who are watching. Why? Because they also think, 'My life is boring, and I've got to constantly come up with something else,'" says Dr. Zeine.
She says that one way to solve that problem is for parents to sit down and watch the reality show with their child. That way, they can discuss the ways that kids behave and what's acceptable or not acceptable about what they're seeing, along with what's real and what's likely staged for the purpose of plot. This kind of open communication not only helps kids better understand the line between real and entertainment, it can also help strengthen your own family relationship.
"You open a dialogue with your children and then do your own parenting piece at that moment. So you can take the reality show and make it into an educational piece for yourself."
It's an easy enough solution for those of us on this side of the plasma screen, but what about the kids who are actually in the shows? Hopefully their parents have a decent therapist lined up. Because the children who have roles on the TV shows are in need of a reality check, says Dr. Zeine. Whereas child actors have always been likely candidates for the next "E! True Hollywood Story," she says that because of excess stress and unrealistic expectations, child reality show stars could actually be in for an even more difficult future.
"I think it's worse for the reality show group because they don't have to have any skills," she says. "They get it that they don't have to do anything, they just need to be on TV and be sensational. They have to exaggerate. They have to do something silly or weird just to get attention. So I think it's almost like the difference of gambling and learning a skill to get better at."In the case of the Heene family, that gambling didn't exactly lead to a jackpot. For the sake of Falcon and his brothers, let's hope that they've been grounded by the experience, in more ways than one.
--Article by Kate Silver for Parents.com
Related Links:
Almost Famous: Teens and Online Videos
Photo credits: Heene family image by ABC/Splash News; Gosselin family image by Kaysh Shinn


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Intel is offering the ability to test drive Oracle 10g on Windows 2003 and Red Hat Linux running on Itanium 2 processors. I can't think of a better way for you to find out about the performance for your application which will give you insight into the scalability of your application which can help you decide at least about acquisition costs. That's absolute concrete data to start.
HP has a TCO calculator for Oracle on HP with Linux as well that allows you to gain some insight into how a Risc/Unix (specifically Sun) might benefit from moving to the HP Proliant servers. It's obviously sponsored by a vendor but taking the source with a grain of salt I think it's a useful tool.
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WASHINGTON — Consumers lifted spending in February at the fastest rate in five months – a positive sign for the economy – though a good chunk of their cash went to pay more for gasoline.
Personal spending climbed a seasonally adjusted 0.7 percent last month, the Commerce Department said Friday. That was a notch higher than the estimate of economists polled by MarketWatch.
The increase in spending in January, what's more, was revised up to 0.4 percent from 0.2 percent in another sign that consumers are still feeling pretty good.
The speedy pace of spending in the first two months of the year indicates that first-quarter growth could snap back sharply to the 3 percent range or more after a lackluster 0.4 percent increase in the final three months of 2012.
"Despite the expiry of the payroll tax cut and higher gasoline prices, we're now likely to see the fastest quarterly gain in real consumption in two years," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
Yet the composition of spending also suggests some caution is in order. Virtually all of the increase in spending in February, for example, was devoted to perishable items such as gasoline and food.
Purchases of nondurable goods jumped 1.9 percent, likely reflecting the sharp spike in prices at the pump. The average national cost of a gallon of regular gas surged 13 percent in February, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Spending on durable goods was basically flat in February, marking the worst performance since last October. That's a category that bears watching: Consumers usually cut back on the purchase of big-ticket items if they feel any economic stress or the need to rebuild their savings.
While the savings rate edged up to 2.6 percent from 2.2 percent in February, it's still at a five-year low. A 2 percent increase in payroll taxes at the start of 2013 is one of the reasons Americans are saving less.
Yet spending was still fairly strong last month if perishables such as gasoline are excluded. What helped consumers in February was a 1.1 percent jump in personal income – the third strong gain in four months – after a 3.7 percent drop in January.
What's more, after-tax income adjusted for inflation rose a healthy 0.7 percent last month, partly shielding consumers from the effects of higher fuel prices.
What's unclear is whether that trend can continue. The increase in disposable income over the past year has barely kept ahead of inflation, leaving Americans little cushion given their low savings rate.
Many economists think consumers could take a break and rebuild their savings, but others point out that households have sharply reduced their debt since the end of the Great Recession. By one measure, household debt is the lowest in more than 30 years.
Consumer spending is critical to the nation's growth because it represents as much as 70 percent of the economy. When Americans buy more goods and services, businesses generate higher sales and profits and can afford to hire extra workers. Less spending results in slower economic growth.


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Mail-in ballots may be dropped off at any polling station until 8 p.m. today.
If you plan to vote in person, you can find your polling place by entering your name and date of birth at
Browns Valley School-Multiuse Room 1001 Buhman Ave Napa (Polling place for Precincts 121152/121752)
Napa Valley Baptist Church- Gym 2303 Trower Ave Napa (Precincts 221571/221574/221575)
El Centro School-Multiuse Room 1480 El Centro Ave Napa (Precincts 221674/221675 )
Angwin Fire House 275 College Ave Angwin (Precinct 314701)
NVC Upper Valley-Library 1088 College Ave St. Helena (Precinct 332601/332603)
Calistoga Fairgrounds- Garden Room 1435 N Oak St Calistoga (Precinct 343701)
Silverado Resort - Beringer Room 1600 Atlas Peak Road, Napa (Precinct 411416)
Emeritus Villa Del Rey-Living Room 3255 Villa Lane Napa (Precinct 421424)
McPherson School-Activities Room 2670 Yajome St Napa (Precincts 421426/421427)
Springs Of Napa- Recreation Room 3460 Villa Lane Napa (Precinct 421471)
Bel Aire Park School-Multiuse Room 3580 Beckworth Dr Napa (Precincts 421571/421671)
Alta Heights School- Multiuse Room 15 Montecito Blvd Napa (Precinct 521223)
Canyon Oaks School- Multiuse Rm 475 Silver Oak Tr Am. Canyon (Precinct 561340)
Am. Canyon Middle School-Learning Center 300 Benton Way, Am. Canyon (Pecincts 561342/561343/561344)
Source: Napa County Elections Office
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The air is getting cooler. The colors are changing. The city is pulsing with great events going on this fall, offering a reason to celebrate the season. Enjoy!
Sign up for our e-newsletter here for upcoming events and travel-planning resources.
Fall packages are being designed with you in mind. Make your way to Nashville for a Fall Break to remember.
Browse Fall Vacation Packages.
We have Titans ticket & room packages available for all the home games! Book a Fall Football Getaway.
Just take a look at some of the exciting marathons happening this year. Nashville has it all this fall.
Keep that awesome mustache growing for the hairiest 5 K has come to Nashville. November 16, The Mo Run raises vital awareness and funds for men's health through their national charity, Movemeber. Join in the fun with family and friends.
Join Mayor Karl Dean's 5K Run/Walk on November 17th at Public Square Park in Downtown Nashville. Be part of the 5,000 Nashvillians who participate in Mayor Deans challenge to be more physically active.
Below is the list of special exhibits going on during the fall in Music City.
At the Frist Center for the Visual Arts:
At the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum:
Check out some of the hot concerts playing Music City this fall.
Kanye West
Will Hoge
John Mayer
Martina McBride: The Joy of Christmas
While Nashville has long been known for its expansive music scene, the talent and creativity of its culinary scene has recently put Nashville on the map. From Southern fare to haute cuisine to quite literally everything in between, Nashville's palate offers it all. With Fall festivals celebrating the food of Music City, and so many local restaurants shifting their menus to reflect the Fall bounty of ingredients, this season is an excellent time to explore Nashville's food scene.
Nashville's arts companies start their seasons in September and October.
The Nashville Symphonycelebrates their 2013/14 season with performances from Al Jarreau, Don Williams, Hugh Laurie, The Beach Boys, Chris Botti, Michael McDonald, The Irish Tenors, Roberta Flack, Ben Folds, Itzhak Perlman, Branford Marsalis and many more September-May.
The Nashville Opera presents The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The Barber of Seville, and Otello in the season's lineup. Performances are held at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center October-April.
The Nashville Ballet's 2013/14 season includes Nashville's Nutcracker, Attitude, The Ben Folds Project, Carnival of the Animals, Tennessee Jack and the Kudzu Vine, and Emergence, are among the productions held at TPAC October-May.
The HCA/TriStar Broadway at TPAC series brings Broadway shows to the stage in Nashville. Jersey Boys, We Will Rock You, Ghost, Sister Act, Wicked, Million Dollar Quartet, and War Horse are on the bill through June.
Thanksgiving weekend
Thanksgiving is a time for family, fun and togetherness. Nashville has a great landscape for all of it this Thanksgiving weekend. With a vibrant food scene, great shopping venues, and music around every corner, there is no reason not to visit Music City, this thanksgiving weekend. For a full list of events for Thanksgiving weekend click here.
Visit Music City This Fall!
With all of this going on - any time is a good time to visit Music City.
Book your Fall trip to Nashville today.
Stop by the Visitor Information Center in downtown Music City (in the glass tower of the Bridgestone Arena) where you can shop for souvenirs, get free maps and one-on-one assistance. Get your Music City Total Access Pass and see four attractions for one low price! Personalize your family vacation by letting everyone pick their top four choices from a list of 16 uniquely Nashville experiences.
For a complete list of events, take a look at our events calendar and see what's happening during your visit. There's always something going on!
Convinced that Nashville's the place to be this Fall? Book your trip now.
For up-to-the-second information on what's going on in Music City, Like Visit Music City on Facebook and follow @VisitMusicCity on Twitter!
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The Lime Truck, known for its popular tacos, nachos and carnitas fries, will open TLT Food on Nov. 1 in Westwood.
The 105-seat restaurant will be located at 1116 Westwood Blvd., the former location of The Stand, which closed in late September.
Daniel Shemtob, owner and soon-to-be head chef at TLT Food, told OC Weekly that customers "can expect creative recipes and local, organic and sustainably sourced ingredients that they'd find at The Lime Truck."
The food truck is a past winner of "The Great Food Truck Race."
View the new restaurant's menu here.
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She lies on the bed. Face inches from mine, bodies parallel, limbs intertwined. Beneath her eyes you can see faint lines, the lines which in a decade or two will wrinkle and droop and betray her youth. Lines nobody but me and her have seen. Her pores glisten in the overhead light. Tiny traces of make up and sweat and soft microscopic hairs dot the contours of her cheeks and nose. Her eye make-up is meticulous. I wonder what she thought about as she put it on tonight. She is beautiful. For me.
Music from my laptop ambles on in the background, unnoticed and merciless, the only object anchoring us to time. Moments are hours and hours are moments. Smile meets smile. Eyes devour each other. For all I know, I had been lying with her my whole life.
"What are you thinking about?" she asks.
The age-old question. I tense up and create an awkward smile. Even after all these years, relinquishing my most intimate thoughts meets immediate resistance. But I force myself through.
"I'm thinking about how I would write this moment."
Her eyes lighten. She smiles. She loves my writing. Even though it's hard for her to read it.
"And how would you write this?"
Her accent stresses the vowels in unexpected ways. Even two months later her vowels are still unexpected and beautiful. I fidget for a moment. I'm shy and insecure about my writing.
"Tell me," she says.
I take a deep breath and tell her. The lines beneath her eyes. The pores around her nose — "What are pores?" — I explain in words she understands what pores are — "Oh, OK." — How I imagine she puts her eye make-up on. What she thinks about while she puts it on.
Before she can respond, I instinctively defend myself. "I know it may not sound romantic, but those are the things I think about in moments like this." My insecurity.
"No," she says. "I like it." She beams. She really does. A smile and a kiss. "It's very real," she says.
When a person falls, they never notice the cause until after it happens. The step that's slightly higher, the chair leg sticking out too far, the patch of invisible ice. The crash. The pain. The hard smack of reality against your face. Then you look back and see the moment. The inflection point of horrible serendipity, unknown and unavoidable.
A moment passes and she asks an unrelated question. This one is different. A simple answer. Her eyes begin to withdraw, suddenly skeptical.
"But why?"
"I don't know," I finally say.
The adoration in her eyes morphs into hurt and then into tears which spill and stain the bed. Explanations. Apologies. Resignations. Then silence.
Words fail, as they often do, but this time they fail in two languages. The drop is sudden and the ground is hard. The music is merciless. And the words fail.
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Dutch necromantic death metal act, AntropomorphiA, are ready to unleash their new album 'Rites Of Perversion' upon mankind! Click HERE to check out the cover art and to stream the first single 'Nekrovaginal Secretions'!Read More
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Swedish Viking black metal-tinged act, King of Asgard has released their new album 'Karg' today via Metal Blade Records. The album has received high critical praise and a great reception.Read More
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Grateful Dead
Me and my left-ear tinnitus couldn't handle that sort of strife these days.
Hey Folks:
Looking for deadheads in NZ for a catch up on old times. Also, I do a little bit of Dead-inspired music when I have spare time with two upcoming shows in Wellington and Masterton (have a look at richardleschen.com).
If you can't make it to a show thats cool, maybe we can meet for a coffee while I'm on the road...
see ya, R
Here's a tip for my fellow Melbourne souls:
Vegetable pakoras, $5; Madhumoti, 95 Irving Street, Footscray.
Most often the pakoras I find in Melbourne - especially at the cheaper end of the spectrum that Bennie and I favour - are variously greasy, too spicy and tough as old boots.
Not these.
These are heavenly
For your five bucks you get four good-sized patties deep fried just right, non-greasy but crunchy and full of juicy veges, with sweet onion to the fore. Yummo!
I'm still finding my way through the longish menu for the other good hits at this newish, clean friendly, cheap eatery that is on the corner oppositie the Dancing Dog Cafe.
Then again, maybe we could meet at: Motorhead @ The Forum, October 19.
OK - a question for my fellow Melbournites: Anyone you can tip as playing around Melbourne these days who does GD-type thing?
For the past couple of years, after three decades of incessant gig-going, I've been laying pretty low and doing other stuff. And the decade before that was mostly jazz at Bennetts Lane and elsewhere, so I'm singularly ill-informed.
The Paul Williamson Hammond Combo plays every Monday night (free) at the Rainbow Hotel in Fitzroy and are fantastic. Straighahead jazz/blues/R&B in their own fashion, but they groove as hard as anybody. And every week they have sit-in guest which always makes it interesting.
I think the clearest GD trip I've ever experienced regularly came froma now defunct outfit called Diana Kiss, which - like the Hammond Combo - had a long-running residency at the Espy. Lineup: Ross Hannaford (gtr), Peter Jones (dms), Jex Saarelaht (keys), Russell Smith (keys/tpt), Stu Speed (bass). Monster grooves all 'round and a Dead-like way with cover versions, same as with the Hammond Combo. And I reckon it could even be said that Hannaford is Australia's version of J Garcia.
Then there's a band called Checkerboard Blues Lounge - i suspect they, too, inhabit a jammy world, although they don't play too often.
Any suggestions?
BTW, I reckon a Monday night at the Rainbow would be a great time/place for a first-up Melbourne Deadhead gathering. Any Monday, all Mondays!
Hey all, happy to see other Melbourne Deadheads, I knew you guys were out there! A Deadheads Club as mentioned or any other contact sounds great.
greetings fellow deadheads from down under been on the bus for 40 very odd years and ain't
getting off till the end.
cheers from oz!
Fascinating - thanks for filling me on that bit of Dead lore.
Personally, I can relate to "Those damn hippies couldn't concentrate too long on anything much" more than other explanations.
"didn't work too well" is probably overstating the case for the sceptics. From the report on the experiments in the Fortean Times:
The Dream Laboratory's report on the experiment noted: "The average evaluation of the two judges was computed for each pair of dream transcripts and target pictures. If coincidence, rather than ESP, had been operating, the judges' evaluation of the correct transcript/target pairs would have been higher than all other pairs one time out of six. For Miss Parise, one correct pair obtained the highest rating. In the case of Mr Bessent, the judges gave the highest score to the correct pairs four times out of six… Thus, for Mr Bessent, the ESP hypothesis is supported. Further, some support is given to the position that the agents must know who the target is to be transmitted to and where he is located for telepathy to occur."
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After a period of no communication about an account in arrears, the Bishop Police Department and Symons Emergency Specialties are currently in negotiations with the hopes of renewing the contract for the benefit of both entities and the community at large.
 Since July 1, 2012, BPD has contracted with Symons to provide emergency dispatch services on a per-call fee basis for the ambulance company in the Bishop area, Bishop Police Chief Chris Carter said at the Sept. 9 City Council meeting. This July, when the contract expired, Symons was thousands of dollars in arrears and unresponsive to the PD's efforts to collect payment.
Carter asked the City Council to approve a request to give Symons 60 days notice to terminate the contract for two reasons: failure to pay and unresponsiveness to collections attempts. At the original contract signing, both Bishop PD and Symons agreed that "the terms of the contract are more than reasonable" at $20,000 annually for "24/7" service.
Councilmember David Stottlemyre said Sept. 9 that the fact that no Symons representative was present "shows their lack" of responsiveness. City Attorney Peter Tracy said that 60 days notice would give Symons enough time to settle the account and give Symons and the city a chance to make the transition to a new dispatch service.
Carter said, "I have nothing but respect for Judd Symons, one of the most dedicated EMS personnel I've encountered" and although the contract is expired since July 2013, Bishop PD has continued to "dispatch in good faith."
City Council approved Carter's request. Accordingly, a Sept. 10, 2013 letter from Carter and Mayor Laura Smith to Symons owner Judd Symons was drafted. It states that as of Sept. 10, "your account with the City of Bishop is in arrears in an amount exceeding $8,000. Despite repeated correspondence and requests for payment you have failed to contact us or take any action."
The 60-day notice letter states that the PD will no longer provide dispatch services to Symons as of Nov. 11 and requests that Symons provide Bishop PD with a telephone number to which 911 calls and requests for ambulance service can be forwarded, "in the interest of public safety."
Symons responded and on Sept. 11, Carter said "the city has been corresponding with Symons representatives and efforts are currently under way to negotiate a renewal of the contract." Any contract renewal proposals will be submitted to City Council for approval and "we will keep the public informed on this important issue as more information becomes available," he added.
On Sept. 19, a Symons representative confirmed that negotiations are ongoing and that owner Symons had no further comment.
The city and Bishop PD recognize "the importance of ambulance service to the citizens of Bishop and are making every effort to reach an agreement so that this valuable service can continue," Carter said.


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Knight and Day
Director: James Mangold, 20th Century Fox, Rated M, 109 mins
'Walk the Line' director James Mangold's latest release is a fun filled, light hearted action comedy.
Full of spills and thrills, the movie brings together again action 'hero' Tom Cruise (Valkyrie) and the beautiful Charlie's Angels superstar Cameron Diaz after their initial pairing in Vanilla Sky (2001).
It is clear from the many action sequences in the movie that Cruise is endeavouring to reprise his Mission Impossible character by playing secret agent Roy Miller.
Miller happens to bump into June Havens (Diaz) at the airport, en route to her sister's wedding but her encounter with Miller is not exactly accidental.
Havens is used by Miller (whose name is actually Matthew Knight) to get a secret battery device (code-named Zephyr) that everybody wants past airport security.
She soon discovers that the charming and mysterious Miller is a ruthless spy who disposes of his assassins without any qualms and is being hotly pursued by both the 'good guys' and 'bad guys' alike.
One of the 'bad guys' who actually works for the same agency as Miller is rival agent Fitzgerald played by Rendition star Peter Sarsgaard, with the other being Antonio, an international arms dealer portrayed by Spanish actor Jordi Molla (Che).
Thanks to some careful direction, Mangold has managed to intersperse the brisk action with a number of enjoyable (and often hilarious) scenes featuring the two lead stars.
In particular, the chemistry between Cruise and Diaz is a real pleasure which is further complemented by some wonderful international settings.
The downside would have to be some of the editing and an illogical plot not to mention a few unbelievable scenes such as the motorbike ride by Cruise and Diaz amidst the running of the bulls in Spain.
Overall, 'Knight and Day' is an entertaining movie, containing plenty of funny situations that are a delight to watch, especially the scenes featuring Cruise and Diaz.
VIC'S VERDICT: 3 ½ Rubber Stamps
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Bible Study & Prayer
Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. ~Matthew 22:37,39
The Prayer Room
Located in the lower level of Kulp Residence Hall. This space is set aside as a place for prayer and meditation.
CMC Prayer Room
Located in the Church-Chapel building, this is another place set aside for prayer and meditation, open during the day.
Located on the lawn north of EastHall, this tool for prayer invites you to meet God as you walk its winding path to center and back. Learn more.
Witmer Woods
Located on the West side of SR 15 between the main campus and College Cabin is a wonderful 18-acre arboretum of native shrubs and trees. An excellent place to spend time with God in nature.
Bible study, prayer and support
Opportunities are available for students who are interested in meeting together in small group settings. For more information, contact Bob Yoder.
Campus Ministries Devotion Book
Devotions are based on the annual Campus Ministries theme of the respective year and connected to one of the five Goshen Core Values. Download the Campus Ministries Devotion Book 2007-2013 here
Discipleship Hour
This twice/month student-led gathering invites students to a moment of creative thought, worship, and faith. Watch for details or contact your Ministry Leader (ML).
Prayer Odyssey
Several days of round-the-clock prayer for our GC community, our families, our communities, and our world, in the Prayer Room in Kulp.
2013-14 Dates: Fall – Nov. 12-15;
Spring – Mar. 11-14.


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Woman hit by L train after jumping onto tracks
A woman was struck by an L train in Williamsburg Monday morning after jumping in front of it, leaving her with serious but not fatal injuries, according to the NYPD.
The 29-year-old woman was at the Bedford Avenue and North Seventh Street stop when she was hit by the Canarsie-bound train at about 7:40 a.m., officials said.
Emergency workers pulled the woman out from underneath the train, and she was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she was expected to recover, officials said.
The NYPD said it was unsure why the woman jumped.


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The immovable object that is P.L. Travers meets the irresistible force of Walt Disney in the new movie Saving Mr. Banks, and the result is charming, more than a little sad but ultimately as uplifting as the best of Disney's own films.
It is not as lighthearted as trailers have suggested, turning quite somber, even painful at times. But even then it is carried on the broad backs of Emma Thompson as Travers and Tom Hanks as Disney. It is worth the price of admission just to watch them square off.
Travers, as you may know, was the author of a series of books about the formidable nanny Mary Poppins, which became the basis for the Disney movie starring Julie Andrews. Disney was determined to get the rights to Travers' character, contending — perhaps not accurately — that he learned of the book from his daughters. But Disney biographer Neal Gabler wrote that Travers, no fan of Disney's films, proved a tough sell, battling over compensation, music, casting and even minute details.
Saving Mr. Banks presents a series of battles involving Travers, Disney, his writer Don DaGradi and the Sherman brothers (composers of the Poppins music and other Disney hits) over the film. It also tries to explain Travers' emotional tie to her story in a series of flashbacks to her grim Australian childhood and her hard-drinking, banker father (played by Colin Farrell). Mary Poppins, as the Disney movie and this one acknowledge, was not about saving children but about saving their father — much as Travers wanted to save her own.
Much the way Travers in the film demands gravitas for the Mary Poppins movie, the flashbacks give Saving Mr. Banks a dramatic weight that goes beyond the bickering over moviemaking. Still, the movie wars are engaging on their own. The flinty Travers — and Thompson is handy with the flint — brings her idea of propriety fiercely to bear, for example by insisting always on being called Mrs. Travers. Hanks' Disney, meanwhile, is at once the affable, seemingly casual salesman determined to wear Travers down, and the steely-eyed businessman, especially when Travers offhandedly disdains his work.
Splendid cinematic confrontations ensue until Disney and Travers find common ground. (We all know that Mary Poppins gets made, and becomes a big hit.) Besides Hanks, there are fun moments with B.J. Novak and Jason Schwartzman as the Shermans, and Bradley Whitford as DaGradi. Paul Giamatti is also on hand as Travers' limo driver, who in his own way is part of the softening up of Travers. But we believe in that softening in large measure because of Thompson's performance — and those flashbacks.
The film pounds home its insights about Travers and Banks rather too hard, especially since the audience is ahead of the characters. And a climactic scene where Disney shares his own childhood is a little too long and obvious, however well Hanks sells it. But the movie as a whole works very well in getting laughs — and a few tears.
Hanks, by the way, is having a very good year between this and Captain Phillips. So good, in fact, that the "for your consideration" screener of Saving Mr. Banks — sent to Oscar voters — recommends him as a supporting actor for Saving Mr. Banks so as not to dilute any best actor votes he might get for Captain Phillips. (Early awards nominations have honored Hanks for Captain Phillips.) There's nothing here that tops Hanks' final scene in Captain Phillips, but he and Thompson make a fine match.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and Ohio.com including the HeldenFiles Online, www.ohio.com/blogs/heldenfiles. He is also on Facebook and Twitter. You can contact him at 330-996-3582 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Changing Post Order (Portfolio, Services, Highlights, Staff..etc)
One of the most common questions I get is in regards to re-ordering posts so they can show different posts above or below others. By default when you add posts they will show on your theme based on the loop arguments (personally I show all my posts in ascending order based on the post date) that means that new posts will show up first and the oldest post last. But changing the order is very easy and there are 2 methods:
Method 1: Change Post Date
The first method of changing your posts order is by simply changing the date in which your posts where published.
Method 2: Using The Post Type Order Plugin (Easiest + Recommended)
The second method is to download and use the "Post Types Order" plugin which gives you a drag and drop functionality for re-ordering the posts on your site. Check out the video below on how the plugin works so you can see how awesome it is!


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September 2010 Tampa Water Department News
Tampa's Water Use Restrictions Enforcement Returns To Normal
Know Your Days – Avoid A Fine
The City of Tampa will resume issuing citations on first observance for all water use restrictions violations at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, October 4, 2010. Residents and businesses are urged to make sure they are using the correct days to avoid receiving a citation, and a fine.
When the region returned to year-round twice-a-week watering allowances at the beginning of July, assigned irrigation days changed inside Tampa's city limits. Since then the City implemented a courtesy adjustment period during which warning letters, and not citations, were issued for first time observed day-of-the-week violations. The 3-month warning period ends on Sunday.
Water Enforcement Officers patrol throughout Tampa's city limits 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Violating Tampa's water use restrictions may result in fines ranging from $100 to $450 and a mandatory court appearance.
Tampa's year-round irrigation schedule is:
At addresses ending in 0, 1, 2, or 3: on Mondays and Thursdays;
At addresses ending in 4, 5, or 6: on Tuesdays and Fridays;
At addresses ending in 7, 8, or 9: on Wednesdays and Saturdays;
At locations with no address (common areas, entry areas), and locations with mixed addresses (office complexes, shopping centers): on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Irrigation between the hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. is prohibited. Micro-irrigation and other low-volume irrigation of non-turf landscaping are allowed on an as-needed basis, with no restrictions on days or times. There are also no day or time restrictions on the use of reclaimed water. More information on Tampa's water use restrictions is available online at
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His words, not mine.
After James Storm won the TNA heavyweight title from Kurt Angle on last week's episode of Impact Wrestling, some reports started hitting the Internet that there were those in management that weren't too keen on his holding the title. Why? Because he's "too southern" and won't get over with a wider audience. He has appeal to a certain closed off segment of the fanbase, but that's relegated to one geographical region.
Storm, of course, has access to these same reports and decided to provide a response via his Twitter account. It's about what you'd expect:
"I think it's awesome that I'm to "southern". It makes me....ME. So to the people who don't like it... Sorry about you damn luck. And a little FYI it's not to southern, it's to redneck and the are beer drinking rednecks all over THE WORLD not just the south."
Well, that's one way to go about it.
If anyone is making complaints in TNA management about Storm being too southern, we can assume who exactly that would be and it's the kind of outdated thought process that handcuffs a company to failure. The unfortunate news for Storm is that his title win on Impact was the worst rated segment of the entire show.
Perhaps a harbinger of things to come? We shall see.
In the meantime, what are you thoughts on Storm as champion? A better option than Bobby Roode, who was also pushed out at the last minute? Or is he too southern for you like a few seem to think he is?


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Manufacturers, within their own brand will have many different sub-brands or ranges. As consumers and retailers we automatically understand this. If I was to buy something from the Berghaus Extrem or The North Face Summit Series ranges for example, than I would know that I would be buying a product primarily designed for active use in within a mountain environment. As opposed to products outside these ranges which I know will be made to the normal Berghaus/The North Face high standards, but have not necessarily been designed for mountaineering use.Related camping and outdoor news, reviews and advice:
After my last post explaining why we are doing a charity hike for St Rocco's Hospice. I thought that the next logical step was to look at how we are training. However it seems that events have overtaken me with our local paper taking up the story and sending down a photographer.
Making Headlines
It was quite a nervous experience on Tuesday (18th June) when arriving at our shop for the photo shoot with the Warrington Guardian. I was, being a "prima donna" disappointed to find that I had not been allocated my own changing room or make up artist, however I did remember the hairbrush to sort out the remaining few strands of my hair.
The photographer arrived and duly made myself, Martyn and Daniel pose with our St Rocco's T Shirts in front of a tent, holding rucksacks and walking poles, in a set up akin to early big game hunters. Indeed, all that was missing to create such an image was a couple of dead animals, although Martyn does his best by looking like he's just been stuffed! Paul the final member of the team managed to hide during all the fun, and missed out on getting his picture in the paper.
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As we launch our Charity Appeal aiming to raise money for St Rocco's Hospice in Warrington, Gareth takes a sideways look at the why's, what's and how's of our charity Yorkshire 3 Peaks Trek on the 21st July..
Rambling on to a Ramble..
I think it's human nature to moan, well that's my excuse! People moan when it rains and as soon as it is sunny they will be moaning that we need rain. Well my answer to that moan is simple…."at least you're not dead!"Related camping and outdoor news, reviews and advice:
Recently I read a question about the failure of waterproofs on an outdoor forum. The explanation was that the moisture had come from sweat due to the waterproofs wetting out in the persistent rain. I suggested cleaning & treating the waterproofs with Nikwax products, whilst another forum member suggested using a similar product from Aldi or Lidl.
This discussion concentrated my thoughts on the benefits of buying branded outdoor products instead of similar products from a supermarket.
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Recently Jez Ainsworth from outdoor gear brand Jack Wolfskin popped into our retail outlet in Warrington (238-240 Manchester Road, WA1 3BE) to tell us about some of the features in our current Jack Wolfskin range.
Jack Wolfskin @ Cheaptents
Jack Wolfskin has been part of our family for around 12 months, and the team here at CheapTents are really impressed by what we have seen throughout their outdoors range, whether it being little things such as paw print branding on zips to larger things such as the quality of their fabrics, Jack Wolfskin is a brand which will continue to grow in the U.K.Related camping and outdoor news, reviews and advice:
We're excited to announce that we are now stocking tents from the famous US camping gear brand, Big Agnes. Located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, their headquarters are in the heart of the Rockies, where they test out their award winning outdoor equipment. One possible origin of the company name is said to be that of a local mountain. It is also worth mentioning that Big Agnes are committed to the environment and ethical treatment of workers in their supply chain.
We've spent a lot of time in the local backcountry so we feel downright connected to it. We name our products after local history, places, peaks and rivers which is always a fun process. It brings back memories of trips both successful and epic and hopefully inspires you to come explore.
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Here at CheapTents we are pleased to announce that we are stocking a range of head torches from Black Diamond.
Best known for their climbing equipment, Black Diamond are a company of outdoor enthusiasts who use the products which they design and manufacture.
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We [Black Diamond] apply a single global standard to the manufacturing quality of our product and the environment in which our employees make it. This is our gear. We build it. We use it. We're damn proud of it.
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In April 1932 over 400 people participated in a mass trespass onto Kinder Scout, a bleak moorland plateau, the highest terrain in the Peak District.
In April this year we were delighted to announce that we had started stocking Jack Wolfskin tents. Now we are excited to be bringing in a great range of Jack Wolfskin products, including rucksacks, outdoor clothing and walking boots. Below is an overview, describing some of the gear in our new range, which can be purchased via our Jack Wolfskin outdoor gear shopping page.
Jack Wolfskin Rucksacks
Our rucksack range includes packs for hiking, mountaineering and cycling.
- Manufactured from robust lightweight materials, the Jack Wolfskin Alpine Trail 40 incorporates the ACS Tight Carry back system and is suitable for use on single and multi-day hikes.
The Lightwave T20 Hyper XT tent is a 2 man, 4 season tunnel tent weighing in at a respectable 2.25 kg. The T20 Hyper XT as the XT in its name suggests has a large extended vestibule with plenty of room for storage, to cook or just hang out. Designed for 4 season use, it will come as no surprise that T20 Hyper is solidly constructed and able to handle what nature can throw at it.
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On the sixth anniversary of Massachusetts' landmark healthcare reform, the Massachusetts Democratic Party is looking to thank former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who is also the GOP's presidential candidate come November.
The Massachusetts' Dems will celebrate by serving cake and punch to celebrate what they deem "RomneyCare's birthday." The event will take place today, at 77 Summer St., in Boston, which is also the Massachusetts Democratic Party's office.
No word on what time cake and punch will be served, but a press release from the Massachusetts Democratic Party confirmed the event starts at 3 p.m.
"It's hard to believe that it was only six years ago that then-Governor Romney shared the President's position that we should take on rising health care costs and provide affordable, accessible health care to all Americans," said Massachusetts Democratic Party Chair John Walsh. "Mitt even included the individual mandate as part of the health reform legislation he signed into law in Massachusetts, which served as the national model for the Affordable Care Act. Mitt Romney should be proud of what he and Ted Kennedy started six years ago today."
What do you think of the Massachusetts Democratic Party's celebration of Massachusetts' sixth anniversary of statewide healthcare? Leave your comment below.


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Juanita Davis Burkhalter
Juanita Davis Burkhalter age 90, passed away Sunday, February 27, 2011 in Murfreesboro., TN. The family & friends will assemble at 2:00 pm Saturday, April 2, 2011 at Pleasant Grove Church Cemetery for Graveside service & inurnment with Pastor Amy Figg officiating. A gathering for family & friends will follow at the Life Event Center, 1404 Tuckaleechee Pike, Maryville. Arrangements by Smith Funeral & Cremation Service, Maryville, 865-983-1000, www.smithmortuary.com


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Playing Lesson with a PGA Pro (Portland)
Often following golf lessons on the driving range, golfers find themselves asking "I had the perfect swing on the range, why can't I seem to transfer my skills to the golf course?"With a Playing Lesson from PGA Professional Chip Graham, you'll learn how to actually play the game of golf. Although swing mechanics are important, there is much more to being a successful golfer.... More at Cloud 9 Living.
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Only two sleeps (and probably not a lot of tickets) left before this year's winner of the Governor General Literary Award for Fiction AND the Rogers' Writers Trust Fiction Prize will grace the stage of the John Dutton theatre. Rather than butcher Wordfest's elegant description of this exciting event (the way I butchered that first sentence), I'm just gonna use their write-up:
Tuesday, December 6John Dutton Theatre, Calgary Public Library7pm, 10$
Author Patrick deWitt shares from his new book, The Sisters Brothers and discusses the challenges of depicting the Old West with Hell on Wheels producer Chad Oakes.
The Sisters Brothers was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and received the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Film rights for the novel have been sold to actor John C. Reilly's production company, with Reilly to play one of the brothers. Reilly recently starred in Terri, a film written by deWitt.
Tickets: call the EPCOR CENTRE's Box Office at 403.294.9494 or purchase tickets online.
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If you're like me - very interested in this author and delighted by his success but haven't had a chance to read his work - the Calgary Herald has printed a couple of great articles recently that discuss some of deWitt's influence, history, the state of Canadian literature, and top-secret plans for a film:
"SISTERS BROTHERS AUTHOR PATRICK DEWITT LETS BOOK DO THE TALKING", by Eric Volmers
And this one appeared in the latest Swerve magazine - the author discusses some of his favorite films and novels of the Western genre:
For library copies of The Sisters Brothers, place a hold today. The waiting list is long, and growing, but we also have his 2009 novel, Ablutions, which is another sweet piece of cover art and sounds like a very good read...
In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works a barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars.But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption.Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences.
The library also has copies of Terri, deWitt's screenplay for a film starring John C. Reilly. The story "centers on a large 15-year-old boy in a small town as he struggles to adjust to his difficult life" and comes from the producers of Half Nelson and Blue Valentine.
This Thursday, 7pm, Memorial Park Library will host quite an exciting author reading featuring two women who have compiled an amazing collection of hardware and nominations over recent years.
Esi Edugyan, winner of the 2011 Giller Prize, will read from Half-Blood Blues. Marina Endicott will read from her new novel, The Little Shadows.
Don't miss an opportunity to hear these two fantastic writers, both former Calgarians, share the podium. Come out and see how two of the very best do their thing.
Presented in partnership with Pages Books on Kensington.
Click here more information on Esi Edugyan's recent selection as the 2011 Giller Prize winner.
Memorial Park Library is at 1221 2nd Street SW.


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A month after announcing his plans to expand to Peconic, co-owner Rich Vandenburgh approached the Planning Board on Monday with initial plans to convert the former dealership into a brewery.
"This is a great parcel, with enough room to accommodate the size of vessels we need," he said. "We'll clean up the exterior and add silos outside, which will be tucked back in the corner. It's a good fit for us."
Since 2009, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company has been operating out of a renovated firehouse on in Greenport, which Vandenburgh due to demand for the craft beer. But that expansion was not enough.
For years now, the former Lucas Ford dealership's buildings have been vacant on the corner of Route 25 and Peconic Lane across from the Southold Town Highway Department and Vandenburgh said that he will add a drainage system and use existing curb cuts in the parking design. The facility will be used strictly for beer production at first, but Vandenburgh said he hoped to eventually add a tasting room similar to the one on the second floor of the Greenport brewery.
"It'll be more like a winery tasting room, not a bar," he said.
Though the site will generate more traffic around that intersection than it has during the past few years, members of the Planning Board were not worried about the intensity of use the brewing facility would bring to the long-dormant section of town and said Vandenburgh did not need a new site plan for the facility.
They said they think beer is a good thing for Peconic.
"I have to say I'm a little jealous," said Planning Board member Martin Sidor, who runs in Cutchogue. "In two years you've moved up quicker than I have."
Vandenburgh said he hopes to be open by next spring and plans to double his workforce. Greenport Brewing Company is one of the few commercial craft breweries to brew all of their beer on Long Island, and Vandenburgh said he plans to keep it that way even with the expansion.


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Cleveland Browns
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AFC North Spin cycle: Week Two
We take a closer look at the AFC North with two games in the books.
Dalton throws three TDs in Bengals' win
Andy Dalton matched his career high with three touchdown passes, leading the Bengals to a 34-27 victory in their one-sided rivalry.
Key matchup: Browns running game vs. Bengals run defense
Whether the Browns can establish the run will go a long way in determining whether they can be a serious threat to the Bengals.
Browns' offense learning on job
No one said it would be easy for the Browns' young offense.
Pat Shurmur and the Browns' culture of losing
The culture of losing is so deeply embedded within the Browns' organization that it is hard to imagine any other reality for them.
Goodell to meet with four players in bounty scandal
Roger Goodell and four players whose suspensions in connection with the bounty investigation were lifted by an appeals panel have agreed to new meetings.
LB Fujita back on Browns' roster
The NFL lifted the roster exemption Tuesday for the Scot Fujta, who had the his suspension for his role in the Saints' bounty scandal lifted last week.
AFC North Spin cycle: Week One
While the rest of the AFC North stumbled, the Ravens got off to a fast start in Week One. PFW's Mike Wilkening takes a closer look.
NFL suspends Browns CB Haden four games
The NFL suspended Browns CB Joe Haden for four games without pay for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances.
Shorts and Shells: Week One
Welcome to Overreaction Sunday, where RG3 can do no wrong, the Bills and Saints do little right and Peyton Manning is back in business. We think.
Eagles sneak past Browns despite four Vick INTs
Michael Vick overcame four interceptions as the Eagles opened the season with a nerve-racking 17-16 win over the Browns.
Browns' Modell tribute cancelled at son's request
The Browns will not hold a public pregame tribute to Art Modell at the request of the late NFL owner's son, multiple media outlets reported.
Browns plan 'appropriate recognition' for Modell
The Browns plan to have an "appropriate recognition" for former owner Art Modell, who died on Thursday.
Modell's passing a chance for Browns fans to move on
Now that Cleveland's Public Enemy No. 1, Art Modell, has passed away, it's time for Browns fans to forget about the past and look forward.
Haslam is working with cautiously optimistic fan base in Cleveland
For a franchise as tortured as the Browns, new owner Jimmy Haslam III truly just has to win to make believers of the club's fans.
Pinkston feels grateful to be alive following a health scare that ended his season. The Cleveland Browns guard was hospitalized in October following a game against Cincinnati with blood clots in his lungs. The second-year player doctors told him if he had taken a hit in the game that "I could've probably died then so I'm all happy about it that I'm still here."||||||| Pinkston, speaking with reporters on Friday for the first time since getting sick, said he has been working out and plans to play next season. He said he feels "normal" and is looking forward to resuming his career. Pinkston said he thought he only had bronchitis in the week leading up to being hospitalized. He continues to take blood thinners. The ordeal has changed Pinkston's view on life, he said.
Pinkston has been released from the hospital after being treated for blood clots in his lungs.||||||| Pinkston, who started Cleveland's first six games at left guard, was admitted to the Cleveland Clinic last week with the life-threatening condition. The 25-year-old was placed on injured reserve earlier this week, ending his second NFL season. A Browns spokesman confirmed Pinkston was released Wednesday.
Pinkston remains hospitalized with blood clots in his lungs, a life-threatening condition he's grateful was detected early. After the Browns revealed Pinkston's condition after practice on Friday, he confirmed his illness on Twitter while being treated at the Cleveland Clinic.||||||| Pinkston will not play Sunday against Indianapolis and the Browns do not know when the second-year guard will be released from the hospital or cleared to return. Pinkston started all 16 games in 2011 as a rookie. He played tackle in college, but was switched to guard last season after the Browns lost Eric Steinbach to a season-ending back injury.


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Cumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND — There will be 380 Maryland bear hunting permits issued this year and the harvest range will be 95-130 for the October hunt, the state's 10th such season of modern time.
A year ago there were 340 permits and the harvest range was 85-110. As in the past, bear hunting will be restricted to Garrett and Allegany counties and applicants who live in those counties will receive the first 95 permits. Applicants from Garrett and Allegany who do not receive any of the first 95 permits will go back into the mix with all applicants for the remaining 285 permits.
The season will take place Oct. 21-26.
"The bear population is continuing to grow," said Harry Spiker of the Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service.
The online application period will be July 1 through Aug. 31, although technical difficulties could slightly delay the onset, according to Spiker. Apply at http://blackbear.dnr.state.md.us. There is a $15 nonrefundable application fee.
The lottery drawing will take place Sept. 3. A year ago, 4,027 hunters applied for the 340 permits. During five days of hunting, 92 bears were killed.
Spiker pointed out that even at the low end of the 2013 harvest range, a record kill will be set this year.
Contact Outdoor Editor Mike Sawyers at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Recently, I have received a few emails from readers who are looking for 3d computer models of road or mountain bikes. They want to use them as a template for a new design that they are toying with or as a structure for designing parts. Since I haven't taken the time to model any bikes in 3d (at least not since I modeled this rear half of a bike 10 plus years ago), I can't really help them out. Does anybody know a source on the web for files like this? I have seen dxf and studio max models of bicycles on the web at places like 3d Café and High End 3d, but generally these are very rough models of bikes to be used in a scene and are not very accurately constructed. If you know of a source for a good detailed bicycle model, please leave a comment.
One of these days, I will model a 3d road bike myself in Rhino, but who knows when I'll ever get around to it. Free time is pretty hard to find. Besides, Spring is in the air and I would much rather be riding outside than sitting at a computer.


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*quietly leaves EQG Woona cosplay here for reasons.*
darksilverhawk cosplayed my EQG Woona and proved that she is the cutest being alive, hneeeeee
*quietly leaves EQG Woona cosplay here for reasons.*
darksilverhawk cosplayed my EQG Woona and proved that she is the cutest being alive, hneeeeee
A remake of my original debut found HERE
aww, this is so cute! Thank you! <3
So today I got to draw the chalk sign at work.
It was a parody of the mtv astronaut.
I slipped something in there
The colored version of Ego's birthday picture, as promised.
Now even more adorable! :D
To the moon and back….
To one of the most inspiring pony artist out there! I know this is late, but Happy Birthday Ego!!
Aww, thanks! Woona birthday wishes are best birthday wishes. :D
Yesterday was my friend Egophiliac's birthday, who some of you may know as the author of Moonstuck and A Slice of Pony Life. To celebrate her birthday and show my appreciation for everything she's done for the community, I sketched Krampus, her grand-uncle, hugging Woona after she's finished her adventures in Moonstuck.
I'm definitely going to get back to this and ink and color it in later, but for now, Happy Belated Birthday Ego! Thank you again so much for everything you've done for the community, and thank you again for your friendship!
Thank YOU! c: awww poor Woona, she definitely needed that hug after everything that went down on the moon.
A birthday Woona for Egophiliac (at least my DeviantArt inbox says so)
Egophiliac is a great and powerful artist. Egophiliac, if you're reading this, I am truly inspired by your art. Thank you for being you!
Awww thank you! ♥ Woona looks so happy!
HEY EGO, HEY I FOUND THESE TWO DRESSED UP AS WOONA AND SCIENCE WOONA AND I HAD TOOOOOOOO!! They were also StA fans x3
Also she is holding ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
HI BACK YOU CUTIES, I am sorry to have missed the opportunity to boop you on the noses. :(
(Is there a Woona in the second one? All I see is Science Woona and absolutely nothing else.)
Another fanartthingyfakepostthing for Egophiliac
oh my goodness this is amazing
Is Woona and Sunshine Smiles time! Design stolen by Ego and butchered by me. <3 This is the first time I've sewn shirts and pants… so… they're fantastic. And I definitely didn't procrastinate until the week before the con. Or the two days before the con. And I definitely didn't attempt Smile's wig the day of the con and fail miserably hence using my brother's real hair.
In any case, ponies are not mine. Woona/Sunshine Smiles are not mine. The cosplays were made by me, though my BBBFF/Smiles helped more than I can say. He was pretty much the best bro ever, hanging out with me while I worked and helping where he could so I wouldn't be alone. <333
Also, if you have any pics of me or my brother, please let me know! I'd love to see moreeeeee.
this is the cutest
seriously this is the cutest freaking thing, I do not have enough woonauguu to properly express how amazing this is