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ARVADA - The victim of an 18-hour-long hostage situation on Tuesday released a statement on Wednesday regarding his ordeal.
Connor Scott's family said the following:
"The Ben-Joseph and Scott families would first like to thank God and all of our family, friends and the public for their support and prayers for Connor's safe return. Our son is safe and home, and our first concern is his care and safety as we try to return to normal life.
Connor is in good spirits and very happy to be back with his family. His strength and bravery through this ordeal is truly amazing and we continue to shower him with hugs and kisses as we all begin to heal.
We would like to give a heartfelt thank you to the Arvada Police Department, Jefferson County Regional SWAT, Westminster SWAT, Lakewood/Wheat Ridge combined SWAT, Jefferson County District Attorney's Office, Arvada Fire Protection District, Adam's County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Corrections for their diligent work in returning our son safely back to us. We would more specifically like to thank Officer Dave Snelling of the Arvada Police Department for his support and assistance through this most trying time; your friendship, caring, and professionalism truly helped us through an impossible situation. Thank you to the Agape Life Church and Pastor Rich for opening your doors to us.
While this incident may be ending, it will be on-going for us as we work to bring our son's life and family's lives back to normal. Therefore, we ask that you respect our son's privacy and allow him to return to his life without interruption from the press."
The situation all started after a domestic dispute around 5:30 p.m. on Monday in the 6100 block of Gray Street.
When officers arrived on the scene for that domestic dispute, the man involved, later identified as Don Pooley, had fled the scene and into a different home in the same block.
When the suspect barged into that home, he took a teenage boy hostage. The boy's mother and brother arrived on the scene right when the hostage situation started, so they were not taken hostage.
Around 11:15 a.m., SWAT team members shot the suspect through the front door. The hostage was taken safely out of the home.
The homes surrounding the home involved in the situation were evacuated, and several roads in the area were blocked off.
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This feels wrong. I keep looking around as I write this, expecting to see someone glaring at me through the window. See, this is a column about the Mets trading R.A. Dickey. Which is a gross idea. Sensibly gross. Horrifically logical.
Hey, I didn't come up with it. Sandy Alderson did. From Newsday:
The Mets have come to the realization they may have to trade R.A. Dickey, and if that means he has to leave New York with the Cy Young Award in tow, so be it. Sandy Alderson said as much in talking about his plodding contract negotiations with the team's top pitcher.
There are two things at work here:
1. R.A. Dickey is the coolest. He climbs mountains and wields light-sabers, which would be cool enough, but then he has to go and throw the coolest pitch ever invented. And he doesn't throw any old knuckleball -- he throws a hard variety of knuckler, making him perhaps the first pitcher in history who can command it like a two-seamer.
2. Teams that finish under .500 are required by law to trade their pending free agents for prospects because prospects always pan out.
To point #1: What would the Mets be without Dickey? There are other things to pay attention to, sure. David Wright is still around for at least a year, and they'll likely have Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler in the same rotation soon, which would be thrilling. But right now, as of November 9, 2012, the biggest reason to watch a Mets game is R.A. Dickey. I know I watched more Mets games than just about any other non-Giants team this year, specifically for Dickey. And maybe to light a few votives for Andres Torres's hamstrings. But Dickey is one of the things that makes baseball worth watching.
To point #2: He could also bring a mess of prospects, most likely. Cy Youngs don't get swapped a lot during the offseason, and it's not like you have to view Dickey as some sort of fallback plan for the team that misses out on Zack Greinke. For one, Dickey is probably the better pitcher, but more than that would be the cost to acquire the player. With Dickey, a team would commit about $90 million fewer on a much shorter contract, and that's if they extend Dickey, which they wouldn't have to. Is that worth a couple of top prospects? Probably.
The trade that keeps popping in my mind, though, is a different Mets trade. It's an imperfect comparison on several levels, and maybe the Mets' involvement is the only thing holding this together, but here goes. When Johan Santana was entering his final year with the Twins, the scuttlebutt was that he had to be traded. Just had to. It was the only thing that made sense. The Twins were coming off a disappointing season, and they could exchange their best pitcher for prospects. And since prospects always work out, the Twins would then have two or three All-Stars in the bush instead of that one measly All-Star in the hand.
What really happened: The 2008 Twins lost the A.L. Central by one game. They gave 35 combined starts to Livan Hernandez and Boof Bonser, which was a disaster. Santana won the ERA title with the Mets, leading the league in innings pitched. In exchange, the Twins received 1500 plate appearances from Carlos Gomez, in which he hit .244/.291/.361.
With Santana, the Twins almost certainly would have won their division. Instead, they turned Johan Santana into Carlos Gomez, whom they turned into J.J. Hardy, whom they turned into 24 innings of Jim Hoey.
That isn't to suggest that whatever prospect-laden package the Mets got for Dickey would fail. Nor is it to suggest the Mets are going to contend next year, so would be insane to trade anyone for prospects. But the Mets don't need to raze the earth and start over. They aren't the Astros or Cubs. They're a few things going their way from being interesting and competitive. If you want proof, there's the first half of 2012, even though that was dozens and dozens of days ago.
That means the strategy with Dickey should be kinda sorta simple. Taking the best available offer because they're scared they'll get nothing if he leaves as a free agent = bad. Taking a monstrous, talent-stuffed prospects-based deal that they would be silly to reject = good.
And this is kind of burying the lede: signing Dickey to a two- or three-year deal to throw sweet, sweet knucklers = better. But I'll leave that to the Mets and their bean counters. If they really can't re-sign Dickey, trading him just to trade him seems like a mistake. They need to be overwhelmed. Mets fans can be excused for quietly hoping no other team comes close to doing so.

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In Starflight 1 you embark on a mission to save the galaxy's future by discovering the secrets of its past. With over 800 unique planets in 270 systems to explore, you never know what might lurk behind the next star. Each newly explored system might lead to a powerful artifact, a mysterious alien race, or another piece of the puzzle that will unravel the ultimate mystery. And that's the really great thing about this game: the feeling of exploration and fulfilling that deep human need that drives us towards the unknown.
Starflight 2 keeps all the great gameplay of its predecessor, but makes everything bigger and better. Many aspects of the game were vastly enhanced: the game's diplomacy, the size of the galaxy, and the number of alien races you can interact with are all improved the second time out. The gameplay—if not the graphics—are reminiscent of another classic game in our catalog where you wander around the galaxy exploring stars and chatting with humorous aliens who want to control the galaxy. The plot starts you out in a standard science fiction mode, but it builds to a fascinating and satisfying climax at the end. Basically, if you enjoyed Starflight 1, the sequel will be right up your alley.
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1.8 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), 2GB HDD, Mouse, Keyboard.
Minimum system requirements (Mac): OS X 10.6.8 or later. Processor: Intel Core Duo 2GHz+, Memory: 1GB of RAM, Graphics: 64MB of video memory Recommended, two-button mouse, or Apple mouse with Secondary Button / Secondary Click enabled.
Posted on 2011-11-24 07:51:23 bytrusteft:
I still remember the first time I encountered Starflight on the Atari ST. Out of nowhere (and a fan of Star Trek) I was in charge of an upgradable spaceship and RPG like crew (can be anything from aliens to androids to humans), set to explore the galaxy, find new worlds and new civilizations, kill them, or talk to them and make a good profit, where no man has gone before. Veryread more atmospheric game and at times for me the game was even more than the Elite series. I was there in unexplored space, trying to locate good enough planets for colonization while trying to save my home world (the relocated home planet of humans), while trying to find info about the ancient past and seeing what can be done about the future of humanity. Landing on strange new worlds, mining them or locating alien life forms and ancient ruins. Traveling between star systems at incredible speeds while choosing how to interact with alien species found out there. Some of them friendly, some of them hostile, all of them weird. Traveling and fighting is done in an almost real time format which never gets in the way or feels too fast. Just remember, when you get into a fight, RAISE SHIELDS, and before you try to land on a planet that the planet will not squash you due to extreme gravity! The game might not look like much today in the graphics department, but it was just right back then and I strongly suggest you buy it if you like sci-fi. If you ever felt like commanding your own spaceship with dedicated officers ala Star Trek, you will enjoy this. Starflight 1 is the game I played for many hours and I don't remember finishing!
I have barely played Starflight 2, so I can't honestly comment on that, but the little I did I find more of the same goodness, but more improved. My review is for the first game.
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Posted on 2011-11-24 07:31:06 byjosiebarrett:
Possibly the only game I ever played where even the copy protection mechanism was entertaining. The game relied on your entering a game code to "validate" your installation. It would initially let you play even if you entered the wrong value a time or two, but eventually your in-game ship would be pulled over by some sort of galactic space cops, and you needed to giveread more them the correct answer or bad things would happen.
My girl friend and I used to both play this all the time, back in the day. It had a lot of humor in the interaction with alien races, but it was a pretty neat game in general, with both strategy and role-playing elements. I'm not sure how well it'll play in this day for someone who's never heard of it, but it has a lot of nostalgia value for me, so I'm sure I'll enjoy playing around with it again.
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This is an immense, unique and ambitious game from dedicated devs back in the day.
There is a story here, but largely this is an open galaxy in which to trawl through. Interact with aliens with varied morals. Discover loot, trade it for cash to hire and upgrade your crew and to upgrade your ship. The randomly generated terrain of most planets is a side effect of the limitationsread more of memory on discs when this came out but in Starflight they've spun it into a feature.
All the planet scanning, mineral collecting, galactic exploration you see here became the basis for similar concepts in many space games not the least of which is Mass Effect.
With the only downside being the cumbersome UI and other relics of old design, this is a grand game of space exploration.
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Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream
2 cups whole milk
1½ cups heavy cream
1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 to 2 pinches cayenne
pinch salt
²¨M³ cup granulated sugar, divided
5 large egg yolks
6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped
In a medium saucepan set over medium-low heat, whisk together the milk, cream, vanilla, spices, salt and half of the sugar. Bring the mixture just to a boil. While the milk/cream mixture is heating, combine the yolks and remaining sugar in a medium bowl. Using a hand mixer on low speed or a whisk, beat until mixture is pale and thick. Place the chopped chocolate in a separate mixing bowl; reserve. Once the milk/cream mixture has come to a slight boil, whisk about ¹¨M³ of the hot mixture into the yolk/sugar mixture. Add another ¹¨M³ of the mixture, then return the combined mixture to the saucepan. Using a wooden spoon, stir the mixture constantly over the low heat until it thickens slightly and coats the back of the spoon. This mixture must NOT boil or the yolks will overcook – the process should only take a few minutes. Pour the mixture through a fine mesh strainer into the bowl of the reserved chocolate; whisk to combine and then bring to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours, or overnight. Turn on the Cuisinart® ice cream maker; pour the mixture into the frozen freezer bowl and let mix until thickened, about 20 minutes. The ice cream will have a soft, creamy texture. If a firmer consistency is desired, transfer the ice cream to an airtight container and place in freezer for about 2 hours. Remove from freezer about 15 minutes before serving.
Sea Salt and Caramel Ice Cream
1 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 teaspoons flaky sea salt, such as Maldon
Ice Cream Base (recipe follows)
1 tablespoon pure Tahitian vanilla extract
Heat the sugar in a dry heavy-bottomed sauce pan over medium heat, stirring with a fork to heat the sugar evenly, until it starts to melt, then stop stirring and swirl the pan so the sugar melts evenly, and continue cooking until it is a dark amber color.
Carefully add the heavy cream (the mixture will splatter) and cook, stirring until all the caramel has dissolved. Transfer to a heat-proof bowl and stir in the sea salt. Set the caramel mixture over a bowl filled with ice water and stir until chilled to room temperature. Combine the caramel mixture with the Ice Cream Base and add the vanilla.
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ILLINOIS -- Amtrak is saying 'all aboard' once again.
After a week of delays and major service disruptions, all trains are back on schedule in Illinois. The delays and cancellations came after last week's big winter storm. Problems Amtrak ran into included stuck trains and damaged locomotives -- much of it due to snow-covered tracks.


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Woman charged with attempted murder of her husband
Updated 4:09pm Tuesday 7th January 2014 in News
A woman has been remanded in custody after being charged with the attempted murder of her husband.
Elaine Freeman, 55, of Watts Close, Barnston, near Dunmow, has been charged with attempted murder of her husband Stephen Freeman and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Police officers were called to an incident in Watts Close at 11.10pm on Sunday evening after reports of a gun shot and a domestic dispute.
No one was injured.
Freeman appeared before magistrates in Colchester this afternoon and will be remanded in custody before appearing at Chelmsford Crown Court on March 17.
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Curtain Call Productions Presents Tony-Award Winning Musical ASSASSINS! by Sondheim, 2/13-16
Curtain Call Productions is blurring the lines between comedy and tragedy in its poignant and darkly comedy Assassins at their new home in Flagler Place in Historic Downtown Stuart. Assassins, a tony-award winning musical that explores the personalities and the motives behind some of America's most infamous characters, will be Curtain Call's biggest undertaking of the season with an ensemble cast of 16.
"Assassins is completely representative of everything we strive for in this company," says Artistic Director Jake Sanders, who is directing the piece. "The show is smart, funny, thought-provoking and laced with reality in the style of truly exceptional theatre." Other theatres may worry about the subject matter or the marketability of a show about presidential Assassins, but for the staff at Curtain Call, this is a true passion project. "I know the Treasure Coast is the right market for this show- to see the way they've embraced this unique brand of daringly intelligent theatre, we know that Assassins is the perfect show to recapture the same emotional high points we hit with last season's Next to Normal."
With an incredible 7-piece orchestra, Assassins marks Curtain Call's first foray into the complicated world of Stephen Sondheim. "The intricacies in this music are beautiful, but rehearsing a 30 second bit can take hours with all the different parts", says Musical Director Mariano Garcia IV, whose background in opera has helped prepare him for the music of Broadway's most complex composer. "The music is smart. It complements the lyrics and the sentiments of the characters like composition really should."
Assassins has an ensemble cast led by Xander James as the picture perfect Balladeer, later turned assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Equity Actor Casey Huneycutt as the first successful presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. The cast also includes Equity Actor Christopher Cromer as the deranged Charles Guiteau, Brian Pecci as Nixon's would-be assassin Sam Byck, Samantha Streich as the Manson family member Squeaky Fromme, Melissa Brodzkinski as housewife turned murderess Sara Jane Moore, Mariano Garcia IV as Guiseppe Zangara, James Channing as anarchist immigrant Leon Czolgosz, Kyle Weber as the Jodie Foster obsessed John Hinckley, Hadiyyah Noelle Smiith as the Proprietor- an enticing figure who lures the assassins to compete for "their prize", with Rafael Gomez, Michelle Lucey, Sandi Hellstrom, Michael Harrison, Eric Schuett, Ashley Carroll and Arlette Eulo playing various historical characters and rounding out the ensemble.
Assassins marks Curtain Call's 2nd show as the resident theatre company of the new Flagler Place in Historic Downtown Stuart. "Flagler Place is the perfect venue for our kind of theatre," says Associate Artistic Director Christopher Cromer, who also plays Charles Guiteau. "It's intimate, there's not a seat in the space that's more then 35 feet from the stage. It really allows us to emerge the audience in the show."
Assassins runs February 13th-16th at Flagler Place in Historic Downtown Stuart with performancesThursday, Friday and Saturday at 8PM and Saturday and Sunday at 2PM at 201 SW Flagler Avenue, Stuart, FL-34994 with a cocktail hour featuring live music starting at 7PM for evening performances and 1PM for matinees. The show runs approximately one hour and forty-five minutes without an intermission.
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Ah, but here we go again
OPINION We all remember the first dot-com bubble, right? Web technology start-ups flocked to San Francisco in the late 1990s. Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs and techies filled up the city. Gentrification of Central City neighborhoods accelerated sharply. Apartment rents jumped, followed by the condo boom. Demand for commercial office space, especially South of Market, quickly grew red-hot. Rents zoomed, and office developers rushed dozens of proposed new projects forward.
The leaders of Mayor Willie Brown's gutless Planning Department rubber-stamped all they could, and decried the annual limit imposed on their approvals by the 1986 community-activist-sponsored Proposition M ballot measure.
The activists and the mayor put two competing measures on the November 2000 ballot in response. Both lost, but the progressive slate for the Board of Supervisors swept that election, defeating most of the mayor's candidates.
And then Tech Bubble 1.0 popped. The peak year was 2000. The big dot-com bust, 9/11, and finally the Great Recession all followed.
The city's office market crashed. Some new office buildings were foreclosed by their lenders. Many approved office developments went unbuilt. Overall office market vacancies approached 20 percent by 2010.
Ah, but here we go again — Tech Bubble 2.0! A new wave of recent technology industry start-ups — like Twitter and Yelp — are joining the growing survivors of Bubble Number 1 — like Salesforce. And San Francisco has become a premiere national media venue for the tech industry.
Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs and techies are again filling up the city. Apartment rents are going through the roof. Gentrification of Central City neighborhoods is accelerating even faster. Demand for commercial office space, still in SoMa, is red-hot again.
But by 2011 so much vacant space was on the market, and so many approved buildings were waiting for anchor tenants to start construction, that there has been room for them all so far. Several new buildings got underway. Mayor Ed Lee strategically took advantage of this market boom to target economic expansion to the Central Market District, the last disinvested zone of San Francisco's Downtown.
Even today though, city office vacancies still exceed 5 percent. And according to the most recent Planning Department report, more than a dozen already-approved new buildings, totaling more than 4.5 million square feet, are waiting to start construction in the Transbay Transit District, South of Market, and Mission Bay. Another 5 million feet of office space is proposed for more than a dozen more pipeline projects for those areas. Plus another 2.5 million feet is planned for projects on Port property — including the San Francisco Giant's huge project — that are not even on the Planning Department's list yet!
How does this total of 12 million square feet of pending new San Francisco office buildings compare to historic demand? Going back to 1986, the amount of new office space actually built — true long-term market demand through the boom/bust business cycles — averages out to about only 750,000 square feet a year. The city's old-school corporate headquarters dramatically downsized or even moved out of San Francisco — like Chevron and Bank of America — and that's still ongoing. The new tech industry is mostly replacing them. So these 30+ identifiable current projects would provide a 16-year supply of office space at historic rates.
But even in the face of this evident market glut of future office buildings, the usual civic development hypsters are once again muttering about gutting Proposition M, and radically upzoning Soma for even greater office expansion. Is that who City Hall will listen to this time too?
Bubble? What Bubble? [Pop!]
John Elberling is executive director of the Tenants and Owners Development Corporation.
whenever a particular industry is doing well.
So while it is possible with hindsight to say the dotcom thing was soemthing of a bubble, that doesn't mean it is always a bubble. Companies like IBM and HP have been around since the middle of the last century. MicroSoft has been a leader for over 20 years, along with Apple. Even Google is 15 years old or more.
And we've even had a non-tech bubble recently - real estate. So the chance are that the next bubble will not be tech at all.
San Francisco may not be Silicon Valley, but it's in the same urban area, and they can both be considered neighborhoods of the Bay Area with different businesses and cultures, just as Manhattan, Hoboken, Westchester and Brooklyn are different but all part of the same megalopolis.
And SF would be in much worse financial shape but for the overflow here from Silicon Valley. It's a major driver of prosperity in Sf.
Tech really hasn't participated in the rally at all, with Apple losing a third over the last few months, while MSoft, Intel and Cisco hase been mired in mediocer performance for years now.
Wherever the bubble is, it's not in tech.
The entire U.S. economy is a bubble.
And by "bubble," I mean "unsustainable."
That's a long time for a mere bubble.
Anyway, you can make a lot of money out of occasional market collapses if you see it coming, so what are you waiting for?
Adjusted for inflation, the U.S economy has been shrinking since 1984.
Bubbles are not market cycles!
Market cycles are punctuated by the inability of producers to respond to saturated demand, "overheating."
Bubbles are different. There is no underlying value created, just shifting of resources from one column to another in anticipation of profit. Quantitative easing is what is inflating the equities markets.
The bubble pops when there is a crisis of confidence that rooted in emotion of confronting the fact that the bubble was artificial, had no connection to the fundamentals.
You are whistling past the graveyard of Capitalism. The markets are NOT the economy. The GDP, adjusted for inflation, has been declining since 1984. The average wage, adjusted for inflation, has not increased since the 1970's. The last financial crisis wiped out savings and pensions, people are still being thrown out of their homes, there are no jobs except low-paying service work or highly specialized fields, and homelessness and food insecurity increases daily.
What is undeniable is that this country produces very little of value to the rest of the world except food and weapons. Our "economy" consists of robbing Peter to pay Paul, various Ponzi schemes, gambling on the predictions of academics and statisticians, creating money from thin air, and jumping on bandwagons like tech and biotech.
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Thirteen-year veteran guard Will Shields, one of the most celebrated offensive linemen in recent NFL history and a fixture in the Kansas City community during his long career with the Chiefs, could be a salary cap casualty if his contract for 2006 is not readjusted.
Chiefs officials have been discussing with Shields and his representative various scenarios to reduce his cap figure for 2006, the final season of his current deal. Shields is scheduled to earn a $5.1 million base salary, and is due a $400,000 roster bonus, and he carries a 2006 cap charge of $6.67 million.
Like many teams in the league, the Chiefs may have to make some roster moves to get into compliance with a 2006 cap projected to be $95 million-$96 million. The Tuesday breakdown of negotiations that would have extended the league's collective bargaining agreement, and the resultant likelihood that 2007 will be played as a so-called "uncapped" year, only makes that task more difficult.
Shields, 34, may have to weigh the advantages of staying in Kansas City, even at less money, against the prospect of being cast into an uncertain free agent market, one in which teams are expected to proceed with great caution and in which it could be impossible to meet players' financial expectations. Shields has deep roots now in the Kansas City community and leaving the Chiefs, the only franchise for which he has ever played during his stellar career, could be difficult.
A major component of one of the NFL's premier blocking units, Shields has been selected for 11 straight Pro Bowl games, and is one of the most respected players in the league. He has never missed a game, has appeared in 208 contests, and started all but one of them. The former Nebraska star has played in more games than any non-kicker in franchise history.
Shields received the NFL's prestigious "Man of the Year" award in January 2004.
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im not sure whether i would want him here in minny or not. he would command alot of cap space that is better used on other players and he's old so probably will retire in a year or two, but he would bring unquestionale leadership to our O line and even entire offense and the much needed support at O line. so i'm kinda 50-50.
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Man, he should take a cut just to stay there. He is part of the face of the chiefs and he doesnt have too many years left. He might as well stay loyal to his fan base and just take the cut, he's a millionaire anyway!
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safely breaking boulders into smaller pieces.
They're shipped as a powder that you mix with water
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recommended by manufacturers is simple: With a
rotary hammer, you drill holes of roughly 1 1/2
inches in diameter in a pattern and depth suitable
for the material and desired result; then you place
the mixed agent into the holes according to the
manufacturer's instructions and leave the site. The
next day, when you return, the rock should be
In practice, I've found that drilling a 1
1/2-inch-diameter hole 24 inches deep into hard
rock or heavily reinforced concrete is a lot easier
said than done. When access or budget prevents the
use of bigger tools, I drill 11/4-inch-diameter
holes on 12-inch centers about 18 inches deep, then
drill 3/4-inch-diameter holes to the same depth
— or deeper — every 6 inches
between the larger holes. This weakens the material
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desired fracture line with a 14-inch demolition
saw, which weakens it still further.
Even though expansive demolition agents aren't
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The incidence of mishandled bags is reducing each year, according to SITA's annual Baggage Report. However, it is a fact that bags continue to be mishandled, particularly during transfers. How an airline resolves the problem has a powerful impact on customer satisfaction.
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PENDLETON — A night after a thrilling overtime win against visiting Mt Vernon, the Pendleton Heights boys basketball team showed no signs of a letdown in 61-51 victory against Connersville on Saturday night.
Levi Buck got the scoring started for the Arabians with seven points in the first quarter. Kenton Dunham added two 3-pointers to give Pendleton Heights a 15-3 lead, the biggest of the night.
Connersville closed to within five points three times in the second quarter but still trailed 27-18 edge at halftime.
The Spartans hung around in the third quarter, thanks mainly to Ty Miller's 3-point barrage. Miller hit his first six attempts before missing with 6:40 left in the game.
Miller drained a baseline jumper with his foot on the line to bring Connersville within 27-26, but Dunham connected on a three-point play, and Caleb Hardy scored inside to give Pendleton Heights breathing room.
Buck, who only had one basket after the first quarter, helped Pendleton Heights ice the game in the fourth by hitting 8 of 10 free throws. He finished with 17 points. Dunham was the leading scorer with 22.
The Arabians scored 20 points in the fourth quarter, and 15 came from the free-throw line. The Arabians hit 16-of-21 free throws overall, while Connersville was just 3-for-7 from the charity stripe.
Miller hit a 3-pointer to start the fourth and bring Connersville to within three, but Pendleton Heights again quickly extended the lead.
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We'll have your lineup for Manchester United in their UEFA Champions League match against Chelsea in a couple of paragraphs, but I have to rant. Before I go on a rant, I need to make sure something is abundantly clear: Alex Ferguson knows more about football than I do. I am well aware of this fact. He is one of the greatest football managers of all time, and I am a guy who writes about football from his apartment. My apartment building has over 100 units and it is not a dump. Alex Ferguson could probably buy my apartment building because he has made that much money from being excellent at managing football clubs.
Now that we have that sorted, I'm not exactly sure what he's thinking with his team selection today. It looks very similar to the one he played last week, which was generally outplayed despite the fact that his team won. Let's take a look.
Manchester United lineup (4-4-2): Van Der Sar; Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand, O'Shea; Park, Giggs, Carrick, Nani; Rooney, Hernandez
Antonio Valencia is not in this team, and I can only hope that means that Nani is playing on the right and Park Ji-Sung is on the left. Because if there isn't an attacking player on the right to pin back Ashley Cole...oh boy. Also, why Chicharito? He was ineffective in the first game and Chelsea should be able to dominate possession against this setup, even though Rooney will drop back into midfield. This lineup seems to simply bank on Chelsea being stupd and/or Torres inexplicably continuing to be useless. Chelsea will dominate possession against this team. I really don't get it at all.


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They recommend shooting at around F11.
If possible set the ISO to 100.
Shutter speed would want to be at least 1/125 ~ 1/1250 as the moon is a moving object
LOL, seriously? I thought you were joking until I read the article, and then I realized you weren't kidding. I'm going to be shooting near some rocks, so I am hoping to get a little flash to still a wave crash and then a longer shutter speed to get the moon and the ocean reflection. I'll have to try and experiment.
From memory when we had the total eclipse a while back, about 1/2 second is the slowest you will be able to go on the shutter speed before you start seeing noticable motion blur with the moon. Or maybe it was a second and a half I have slept a few days since, but the point is you can go much slower than 1/125 if you need to get some motion blur out of your waves. ISO only matters for you as noise goes, so set accordingly. I think the problem you will face is dynamic range, the light of the moon will be overpowering and getting a decent exposrue on moon and dark waves will not be easy.


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Legendary music producer Rick Rubin has worked with everyone from Johnny Cash to Kayne West and has been the force behind many #1 albums. In a must-read interview, The Daily Beast dives deep on Rubin's creative process. One choice excerpt flies in the face of our modern "ship it and iterate" culture:
Usually young people are in a rush. Why did you feel like you could take so much time?
From the beginning, all I've ever cared about is things being great. I never cared about when they were done. Because I also feel like I want the music to last forever. And once you release it, you can't go back and fix it, so you really have to get it right. And that takes time.
Web developer Rachel Nabors followed her passion and was a full-time comic book artist. But an unexpected surgery and a lack of health insurance debunked her plans and given her a new outlook on creative work. Now? She believes that "do what you love" is bad advice.
My first love, comics, gives me an edge in this industry. If I'd just gone straight into web development because it seemed like a money-maker, I wouldn't be half as excited about what I can do or as interesting to others in my field. I and my community are better for the years I spent making comics, even if it wasn't a successful career choice.
But, if I'd kept "doing what I love" in the industry that didn't love me back, I would have never realized that there are other, more profitable, things I love.
Rather than telling you to do what you love, I'd like to say this:
Don't do something you hate for a living.
There is no glory in suffering. Because you can grow to hate something you love if it puts you in a bad position, this advice gives you permission to move on to greener pastures if what you love is making you cry at night. Whatever you love should love you back. And if it's not working out, it's ok to find something else to love.
We all have more than one true passion in us — sometimes it just takes time to find it.
Adam Akhtar of Highfive has a great—albeit surprisingly simple—tip to add visual tags to your notebook or moleskin for organizing your notes. All it takes is your notebook and a pen:
The back of your notebook will act like a tag list or index. Every time you create a new entry at the front of the book you're going to "tag" it [in the back]…
Now you'd go back to the first page where the [note] is and on the exact same line as the…label you just wrote you'd make a little mark on the right edge. You'd make this mark so that even when the notepad was closed the mark would be visible. After repeating this for various [notes] you'd now have various tags visible on the notebooks edge.
The process is very easy to use, and can be paired with other "hacks" for an added organizational boost (like using different colors for different topics). If you still use a physical notebook, this is one approach you're definitely going to want to consider.
Finding purpose in your work not only benefits your life, but helps differentiate you from others in your industry. Sunny Bonnell, co-founder and creative director of Motto, explains:
Figure out what you stand for and what you believe in, and use that as your point of difference. In a crowd of designers, how will you stand apart? If you're guilty of leading with what you do, start with why you do it and articulate that on your materials, website and social channels. Find out where your talents and values meet, and use that to leverage the power of your purpose.
Your "why" is a powerful driving force for your life and career. It provides a common goal that directs your actions and provides the dedication to get there. In addition, passion is contagious. Your excitement will excite others who will want to get involved in what you do. As leadership expert Simon Sinek says, "people don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it."
The sooner you share your ideas, the sooner you will find a solution that works for everyone. Try to collaborate with your clients during the design process instead of simply presenting to them at the end. That's what digital strategist Michelle Campbell learned during the SXSW Interactive Festival:
At agencies, we've grown used to spending weeks on one idea only to have it thrown away at the last minute. If we opened up this process to more sharing — among ourselves and our clients — we'd have more time to build and evolve better ideas.
Your clients may not know much about design, but they are experts in their industries. Getting their feedback early on will prevent you from getting attached to an idea that isn't going to work. Campbell reminds us:
… we often rely on people with the word "creative" in their title for ideas, but we forget that inspiration isn't taught. It comes from real life, and anyone can bring that to the table.
A recent study found that the average worker loses approximately 80 hours per years as a result of disorganization. That's nearly two weeks of vacation! When invoices, receipts, contracts. and drafts are piled up everywhere, you're likely to waste hours shuffling papers from one pile to another.
Ann Gomez of Clear Concept Inc. emphasizes the touch it once principle:
Process each task the first time you touch it.
Triage effectively with Gomez's one touch rule – as soon as you get it, act on it, delegate it, file it or throw it away. And don't just stop at paper – this principle easily applies to phone calls, emails and social media notifications.
It's a simple trick to help you batch your work into scheduled, focus blocks: you won't open an email until you're ready to give it your full attention, or you'll decline to accept your coworker's rough draft until later when you know you'll have the time to sit down and do it.
There are two leading problems with the average brainstorming session, as researchers at the Kellogg School of Management explain :
- In a typical six- or eight-person group, three people do 70 percent of the talking.
- Early ideas tend to have disproportionate influence over the rest of the conversation.
One of the researchers (as well as author of Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration), Professor Leigh Thompson, remarks that the dominant people don't realize that they're doing most of the talking. "In fact," she says, "they vehemently argue that meetings are egalitarian."
The solution to these lop-sided meetings is brainwriting, instead of brainstorming. Thompson describes brainwriting as "the simultaneous written generation of ideas." She breaks it down the process as such:
Step 1: Write just one sentence each. For the first five or 10 minutes of your next idea-generation meeting, every team member writes down one good idea or one proposed solution on, say, each of a small stack of index cards.
Step 2: Consider the idea, not the source. When the timer goes off, all cards are submitted anonymously and taped or thumbtacked to a wall for the whole team's consideration.
Step 3: Put it to a blind vote. Team members signal their interest in an idea by marking it with a sticker or a Post-it note. Everyone gets a limited number of stickers and, if done right, the best ideas emerge quickly.


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The following multi-disciplinary databases are good places to start your research:
Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 10,900 journals.
Google Scholar
Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Some listings include links to related articles and to other sources that cite the item. Includes content from free resources (such as ArXiv.org and university websites) as well as subscription resources (such as electronic journals from selected publishers). Use the UC-eLinks option, when available, to find the UCB access to a publication.
Includes over 1000 scholarly journals with access to more than 2 million articles. JSTOR is an archive which means that current issues (generally the most recent 3-5 years) of the journals are not yet available.
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All the fighters who will step into the Octagon on Saturday night at UFC 125 will first step on the scale Friday afternoon at the UFC 125 weigh-in, and if you can't be there in person in Vegas you can watch it live right here at BloodyElbow.com.
In the main event, UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and No. 1 contender Gray Maynard will both need to make the lightweight limit of 155 pounds.
The weigh-in starts at 5 p.m. ET and the video is after the jump.
Main card:
Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard
Chris Leben vs. Brian Stann
Thiago Silva vs. Brandon Vera
Nate Diaz vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Takanori Gomi vs. Clay Guida
Ion TV:
Marcus Davis vs. Jeremy Stephens
Josh Grispi vs. Dustin Poirier
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Preliminary card:
Mike Brown vs. Diego Nunes
Daniel Roberts vs. Greg Soto
Antonio McKee vs. Jacob Volkmann
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The Royals have been pretty ambitious lately. They picked up Ervin Santana and the $12 million in obligations that came with him, and they've re-signed Jeremy Guthrie to a three-year, $25 million contract. They've been rumored to be shopping around for another pitcher, and to be "listening" to offers on just about everybody who doesn't pitch, including Eric Hosmer, Billy Butler, Mike Moustakas, Alex Gordon, and even top prospect Wil Myers.
Putting aside the wisdom of targeting the individual players the Royals are reportedly targeting, these are not the moves of a 72-90 team that expects to be 72-90 a year from now. If you're going after pitchers who cost real money or top prospects) and are 30 or more years old, you're doing it because you think you can contend right away.
Can the Royals contend right away?
The division-winning Tigers are better than they were a few weeks ago, with Torii Hunter replacing Delmon Young and friends, and seem intent on continuing to get better. Let's say the Royals need at least 90 wins to get into contention. This is one game less than the average number of wins it took to win the AL Central over the last five years, but again, we're talking about being competitive, not necessarily winning.
David Schoenfield did a similar exercise last week, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel. He identifies what I agree are the four biggest candidates for improvement, offensively: luck, first base, third base, and right field. On the first point, as Schoenfield notes, the Pythagorean formula suggests the Royals should have won 74 games rather than 72, and their runs created suggested that had their hits been distributed better, they'd have scored 33 more runs than they actually did. That's a total of five wins for better luck (two from run distribution and three from hit distribution). They've got thirteen wins left to find.
We turn to the infield corners, where Eric Hosmer's sophomore season could scarcely have been worse and Mike Moustakas's could have been better. Hosmer, just 23 and still a monster talent, rated below replacement level on the three major wins above replacement systems, but ignoring his defense (which, in my experience, is generally acceptable to the eyes but revolting by the numbers), his bat was about 12 runs below average at a position where the average player was about eight runs per full season above. If Hosmer can get back on track only so far as to be average, that's two wins right there.
Hosmer certainly has the talent to be more than average, so let's be more aggressive and say that next year he's 13 runs above average with the bat (about what Brandon Belt did in 2012), making for a 2.5-win turnaround from last season. Moustakas (who gets raves for his defense from all corners) was about six runs below average offensively, but showed an ability through the minors to be much better. Let's say he's exactly average in 2013, conveniently adding a half-win. We're at 80 wins, with 10 to go.
The big wins prize is in right field; Jeff Francoeur was the worst player in baseball last year, by statistics both simple (.287 on-base percentage) and advanced (-2.7 WAR). Wil Myers is one of the biggest position-player prospects in the game, and was probably ready to start in the majors by early last summer. Not to put too much on a not-yet 22-year-old's shoulders -- or to assume that the Royals will be able to deal Francoeur or, failing that, consign him to his rightful place on the bench -- but let's just say Myers is an average big-league player, worth a bit more than two wins. That's at least a four-win improvement over Francoeur. Six wins left.
A full season of Sal Perez could well be worth another two wins, and better hitting from Johnny Giavotella could add another (or more). That's 87 wins, and now we're well inside the range within which adding a few solid pitchers makes good sense. Santana could return to 2011 form and close that gap himself (nobody seems to expect him to); Guthrie could certainly get them there, as could any number of other free agents on the market.
What I don't think the Royals can do is consider trades like the ones hinted at in the first paragraph above. As you probably noticed, Hosmer, Moustakas, and Myers are all important to this projection, and Butler is awfully important, too. This is a team with a lot of good young talent that can and should get better, but it's not a team with a lot of young talent to backstop that young talent. Sending off any of those players for the likes of Jeremy Hellickson (see here) would leave a large hole for what seems likely to be a lateral move at best; grabbing a Matt Moore (fantasized about here) would be a potential steal in the long run, but wouldn't be a clear improvement in 2013, and would carry its own huge risks going forward. I'll never get weakening yourself in one area to strengthen another as a strategy a contending team should follow, or any team should follow, if the player being received is anything less than a huge long-term upgrade. The deals that have been posited in the professional and fan press (save perhaps Butler for Moore, which seems utterly implausible) don't reach that level.
It's tough to counsel patience to an organization and fan base that has spent 27 years wandering in the desert, but as much as the Royals might compete in 2013, they still figure to get even better -- much better -- in 2014 and beyond. It's hard to justify doing anything for 2013 that jeopardizes in any way that bright, immediate future.
Personally, I'd probably never have added Santana and I'm a bit wary of Guthrie, but I think the Royals are in a position where the idea of adding a few two- or three-win pitchers for the short term makes great sense. I just wouldn't even think of going about it by dealing a player who currently figures into the 2013 starting lineup, which risks the iceberg-like path of advancing two games while retreating three ... or more.
Bill Parker is one of SBN's Designated Columnists and one of the creators of The Platoon Advantage. Follow him at @Bill_TPA.


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