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Autumn has been unkind to the Dolphins the past four years, but the springs might have been worse.
The slights are well-known. No thanks, Jeff Fisher said. Jim Harbaugh did the same. And Peyton Manning? He barely granted the team a meeting.
Yet here we are, once again, as general manager Jeff Ireland hunts this years white whale.
Hundreds of players will officially become free agents at 4 p.m. Tuesday, but none has captivated the attention and imagination of fans (and perhaps even some Dolphins officials) as Mike Wallace.
For the third consecutive offseason, the Dolphins are buyers. They swung and missed the past two years.
But this March, theres hope and dare we say confidence that the Dolphins brain trust will get it right.
The Dolphins have been active in the three-day negotiating window with other teams free agents and their own. Beginning Tuesday afternoon, the talks become real with Wallace, among others.
The Miami Herald learned late Monday that the Dolphins remain in the running for cornerback Sean Smith, who in recent days has been linked to several other teams including the Patriots, Buccaneers and Cardinals. The prevailing sentiment has been that Smith will leave for another team, but a source close to the situation said that is not necessarily the case.
Smith is one of many moving pieces in what could be a defining week for Ireland.
I think this is the most important offseason in Dolphins history since they brought Don Shula to South Florida, said Keith Sims, a former offensive lineman-turned radio host. This is make or break for them.
In many ways.
They have not won a playoff game in more than a decade. They had their worst home attendance in 23 years last season. And they have an uphill climb to win public funding for a $400 million stadium overhaul.
Wallace alone cant fix all of that, but he is seen as the missing piece to a Miami offense that ranked 27th in yards (311.5 per game) and points (18.0) last season. As early as Tuesday evening, hes expected to sign a multiyear contract paying at least $12 million per season.
But will it be with Miami? Depends on who you ask.
ESPNs Adam Schefter reported all day Monday that the expectation was Wallace will end up in Miami. Sports Illustrateds Peter King wrote that Miami didnt have much, if any, competition for a big-money deal ($11 million or more a year) for Wallace.
But when asked about reports indicating Wallace to Miami was a fait accompli, a Dolphins source scoffed.
Been hope for while and nothings [sic] changed, the source texted. Working.
Considering how much can change in a day, perhaps caution is the best tact.
Take, for instance, Monday, when Percy Harvin and Anquan Boldin were reportedly traded. The moves fill needs at receiver for the Seahawks and 49ers while creating the same for the Vikings and Ravens.
Speculation began immediately that the Vikings will pursue a receiver in free agency, and possibly up the price in the Wallace Sweepstakes.
The Dolphins have roughly $30 million in salary-cap space after signing Brian Hartline and Matt Moore to extensions. Hartline has a 2013 cap number of just more than $2 million, while Moore will count $2.5 million against the cap, according to Spotrac.com, a player contract database.
Miami has the flexibility, in part, because five starters including former No. 1 pick Jake Long will be off the books as of Tuesday afternoon. Long is expected see what kind of market exists for him USA Today reported that the Bears and Rams have interest outside of Miami, but he could return.
Reggie Bush, meanwhile, is all but gone. There has been little buzz thus far about Chris Clemons, Anthony Fasano and Nate Garner, all of whom have been Dolphins contributors the past few seasons.
Maybe its because most front offices will be frugal this spring. With the cap relatively flat from 2012, teams have been more focused on cutting to get under it than spending to reach it.
This is a soft market, Bill Polian said Monday morning on ESPN. I dont think theres a lot of money out there.
Except, of course, if your name is Mike Wallace. If (and, more likely, how much) the Dolphins are willing to pay him could be the difference between a new dawn and more of the same for the historic franchise.
At the very least, this could be a playoff-caliber year if things go well, Sims said. That should be the bar.
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Longtime readers of my column know what a honeypot proponent I am. I run several around the world, collecting information on malware and malicious hackers, and I think every company should have one.
Companies should have a honeypot, not to learn hacker and malware tricks, but as an early warning system. All computer security defenses will ultimately fail. And if they fail and a bad thing gets by your defenses, what's the next best thing? Early warning.
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Take a box you're getting ready to throw away, and make it a honeypot. Stick it somewhere in your environment where it's likely to get noticed by an intruder, and tell it to page your incident response team (or you) if anything unexpected tries to connect to it. It's a fake computer asset, and nothing (once you've fine-tuned the false positives out) should ever connect to it. When something does, it's more than likely malicious. I've caught many hackers this way, identified bots that no other defenses found, and even participated in the capture of a Russian hacker. Honeypots work. They are high value and low noise. I've always been perplexed about why they haven't had stronger adoption and use in the computer security community.
Perhaps part of the problem is that the honeypot development world can be quite frozen at times. Months and months go by without any significant updates, but this month has seen a cornucopia of new developments and updates. Here are some of my favorites:
New honeypot book
Niels Provos (creator of Honeyd and senior staff engineer at Google) and Thorsten Holz have written an excellent honeypot book in "Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection."
As a seasoned honeypot and honeyclient professional (and honeypot book author), I had high hopes for this book -- and it delivers. Niels and Thorsten provide a solid reference to beginners and more experienced honeypot users alike. The book covers how to install and use (step by step) dozens of honeypot products.
The list of what they cover is far too long to report here, but let's say they get to 95 percent of what any honeypot enthusiast would want to read about. My favorite subjects in the book are user-mode Linux, Honeyd, Honeywall, honeyclients, collecting malware with honeypots, tracking botnets, and analyzing malware.
The only downsides I could even come up with is that the book deals with a lot of Unix/Linux-only products, just like the honeypot software world, which might be a put-off for Windows-only readers. And it didn't cover Kfsensor, my favorite Windows honeypot product. Other than that, it is an excellent, excellent book that I would recommend to any honeypot enthusiast. In the end, what I really liked about this book is its coverage of a wide range of products and its practical application to capturing and analyzing malware. It's a great addition to the books on honeypots already written by Lance Spitzner and myself.


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Q: I was recently on a JetBlue flight. The guy next to me didn't have headphones. I watched TV a little and then took out my laptop in order to get some work done. When he saw me winding up the cord on my own headphones, he asked if he could borrow them. Fortunately, I thought quickly and said something like, "Oh, sorry, I'm actually going to use them again once I get my computer set up," but isn't that a little personal? To me, asking to borrow a stranger's headphones is like asking to borrow their comb or brush.
A: I agree -- especially if they're the ear-bud type. Plus, you were on JetBlue, so he could have bought his own pair from a flight attendant for a couple of bucks.
Q: I know filing your nails in public is a no-no and that you shouldn't paint them on a plane and subject everyone to the smell of wet nail polish. What about buffing your nails on a plane, though? I was on a flight and my nails looked crummy, and I had a nail buffer in my bag. I really wanted to use it.
A: I'm going to say no on that one. Grooming should be done in private, and that includes buffing your nails.
Q: If a solo female traveler splits a cab to the airport with a man and a woman traveling together, who should sit up front with the driver? Assume the solo traveler has never met the couple before. Also, let's say the solo traveler is going to Terminal A and the couple are going to Terminal C. The drop-off point for Terminal A comes before the drop-off for Terminal C as you drive around the airport. However, the couple's flight leaves 15 minutes before the solo traveler's. Who gets dropped off first?
A: I think the solo female traveler should sit in front. It would be weird to split up the couple and have the solo traveler share the back seat with one of them. And it would be equally odd to squeeze all three of them in the back. But hey, it's just a cab ride -- the most important thing is to sort out the seating quickly and get going.
And the solo traveler should get dropped off first. There's no reason for the driver to skip Terminal A, drop off the couple at Terminal C and then drive all the way back around to Terminal A. If the couple were about to miss their flight completely, then maybe they could make a case to be dropped off first, but, in general, I don't think a 15-minute difference in departure times warrants circumnavigating the airport.
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Whimsical gift gallery Catching Fireflies will be sending anonymous care packages in February to one hundred nominated recipients who could use a surprise smile.
Sending little presents to friends and family for Valentine's Day has been a tradition for gift gallery owner, April McCrumb. This year she is expanding her cupid arrow radius to include deserving people across Michigan. McCrumb is looking for nominees who had a hard holiday season, have health problems, lost someone special or just struggle to smile.
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Bethesda has cordially invited PAR to rewrite IGN's story on their latest game
Bethesda announced a new game called The Evil Within earlier today, after teasing the announcement for a number of days. This is a new title from Tango Gameworks, a studio led by Shinji Mikami, the "father" of the survivor horror genre and creator of the Resident Evil series. The image from the game is reminiscent of the poster from Cabin in the Woods, which is a nice touch.
The downside is that we were given next to no information about the game itself, although we were told to check out the trailer on IGN.com, and details would be coming in a story… on IGN.com.
"The Evil Within, in development for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, the PC, and next generation consoles, is slated for release in 2014," the press release states. "On Monday, April 22nd, additional information about The Evil Within will be revealed in an exclusive feature story with IGN.com."
This is the fun bit about being a reporter in this industry, you actually get press releases where the company isn't pushing the game, but promoting a story about the game on another site. Pre-planned coverage has become the message itself.
The invitation is to rewrite and repeat the press release today, and then rewrite and repeat IGN's exclusive and seemingly official coverage next week. Bethesda has also been tweeting teasers for the story. So just to keep this straight, the company teased the reveal of a press release that teased the reveal of a story on IGN that may tell us something about the game.
It gets to the point where you're not sure who is promoting who.
Now, I know many people at both IGN and Bethesda, and I'm a fan of both companies. If I were in charge of things over at IGN I would absolutely use my power and size to try to secure these sorts of exclusives as well. There is no downside to it, as long as the companies involved allow you to keep final say in the article. I would adore to read an exclusive preview like this only to see that the writer thought the game was garbage, and all the lower-tier sites had to dutifully repeat that the one site that was able to report on the game hated it.
I have a feeling that is never going to happen though, these deals are worth too much for both parties for everything not to go according to plan. From the PR side of things this makes controlling the message simple. If the only thing we're able to report on is one outlets story, basically giving us the ability to read a story on IGN and then react to it, then all they have to do is make sure that story is positive, and the positive feelings will drip down. Exclusives are gaming PR's version of Reaganomics, except for that fact that it actually works in this case.
IGN is protecting their own interests, as is Bethesda, and I can't fault either party for it. Even talking about it in this way is getting everyone's name out there, and I bet you're curious about the game now. I know I am. But for now I think I'm going to take a pass at saying anything else until I'm able to see, play, and interview someone about The Evil Within. There are plenty of other games out there.


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Like many of you, I enjoyed the hell out of AMC's new series "The Walking Dead" last season. I was extremely surprised they managed a gritty, gory tale of the zombie apocalypse that was paired with great acting and characters with personality. Most can agree that this is also a series that isn't just for die hard zombie or horror fans - the true drama is about human survival during the end of the known world, and the stories of the survivors can appeal to almost anyone.
"The Walking Dead" casting continues to pick up speed as Brandon Routh has been added to the cast list. So far, Routh will be starring alongside Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal.
Emile Hirsch prepares to dip his toes into the genre pool as he signs on for "The Darkest Hour". The movie, an all new alien invasion thriller from Chris Gorak, begins filming in Russia this summer.
Dennis Iliadis, director of last year's "Last House on the Left" remake, has decided to undertake the daunting task of directing Keanu Reeves in "Jekyll", a modern retelling of the classic tale.
A South African policeman faces trial this week for shooting four men in a bar bathroom in 2008. When entering the restroom, shots were fired as the men argued over penis size at the urinals.
A building collapse at Swedens premiere rabbit show causes a host of new species of rabbits. When trapped in the wreckage, the bunnies did what bunnies do, which boils down to a full scale rabbit orgy. Schwing.
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If there is one dish I shy away from in Italian restaurants it's gnocchi. A quintessential national dish of the Italian canon, it is often so heavy it sits in the stomach like a glob of Playdoh. If the flour and potatoes are overworked, it tastes doughy. Sometimes the potatoes are mealy or gluey. I have had more rubbery, tasteless gnocchi in restaurants than I care to count. And then I ate at Cotto.
Cotto is billed as a wine bar and pizzeria but it is more than that. It's a polished restaurant with a talented cook in the kitchen who crafts food full of flavor and knows when and how to tweak classics. With a mere perfect soupçon of a traditional basil pesto sauce, the gnocchi, for example, came with toasted pine nuts and oven-dried grape tomatoes that added a note of smokiness to the cloudlike smooth nuggets of pasta. Tiny pearls of mozzarella called perlini seemed superfluous, a minor quibble. I'll take Cotta's interpretation any way I can.
The restaurant is tucked in a corner on Bank Street in Stamford, where it's nigh on impossible to find a parking space on this one-way restaurant row. Meter gotchas love this stretch so be wary of snagging an open space that is even slightly ambiguous (a freight-loading zone in front of a darkened building on a recent winter's night proved lures for frustrated drivers followed by happy nests for parking tickets on windshields). Best to swing right on Atlantic Street and right again and park in the lot, then cut through the narrow alley to the restaurant. It's no big deal.
Cotto's owners are husband and wife Claudio and Silvy Rinaldi who ran successful restaurants in Italy before landing in Stamford. They took over the former Tappo place and recast it into a sleek bar-cum-dining room. The sports bar, with its marble counter and shelves glistening with jewel tones of wines and liquors, dominates one wall. Facing it is a brick gallery wall of photographs of Silvy's actress mom with film stars and in publicity shots.
I like the fact that Cotto feels like a transplanted trattoria from anywhere in Italy even as it boasts a showstopper architectural element: Slatted slabs of wood sweep up from the bar, over the ceiling and dramatically end midway on the gallery wall. It looks as if you held a kaleidoscope to your eye inside a wine barrel turned on its side and you are peering from the mouth of the barrel to the other end. You get this cozy feeling of being wrapped in a semi-cocoon that seems to float with people snuggled inside.
And that's just what we did, float down the menu. We wanted to taste everything the chef cooked up in his kitchen and restraint was difficult. We started with "wine bar antipasti" like green olives bursting with the pungency of oregano, thyme and rosemary and laced with slivers of orange peel; a chopped tomato bruschetta; another bruschetta, this one composed of a consortium of olives; and a mellow eggplant caponata. All wonderful. The smoked salmon with marscapone was perhaps too rich, although a few briny capers helped to tame the composition.
The arancini, on the other hand, were perfect. Gorgonzola, Fontina, Taleggio and Parmigiano cavorted with oven-dried tomatoes and a whisper of truffles to lift this otherwise ordinary antipasto to another dimension. The rice balls were very tasty, the grains cooked just right, the bread coating crisp and golden.
The charcuterie service had some wonderful salumis: paper-thin sweet prosciuttos, speck and soppressata. We also had house-made mozzarella and chunks of Grana Padano parmesan that were fresh and excellent. Served with dipping condiments of marinara sauce and spicy aioli, fried calamari, unfortunately, did not measure up to its hype of unusual treatment (a cloak of rice flour), and I missed the smokiness of the paprika promised on the menu. It was a minor disappointment.
Just as an arugula salad arrived at our table, we were treated to a ballet performance executed by dancers across the road from our front-of-the-house table. The long-legged, black leotard clad students were practicing arabesques behind glass windows that looked out from the back of the old Town Hall onto Bank Street. In a sort of free double show, a cook was slipping a pizza into a yawning oven at the same time at the far end of the restaurant, beyond the line-up of closely spaced tables.
The salad was a tasty accompaniment to the theatrics on either side of us. Pine nuts and grape tomatoes in the lemony salad were tossed with a crop of greens that tasted newly harvested. Parmesan shavings, almost obscuring the salad beneath, partnered beautifully with the surprisingly not-so-bitter greens.
Carnivores need not fret for there is plenty to entice them. Meats, like a hanger steak, are treated with respect. It bore a beautifully seared crust with a good bite and a tender rosy pink inside. Rectangles of fried polenta bedded shredded lamb sliders luxuriating in a fruity barola wine sauce, a happy collaboration. Then there's fish and there's pasta, of course. Cotto's food borrows several pages from the southern Italian–American gustatory corpus, comfort food at its best, and ratchets it up to sensory pleasure. Prices are relaxed, from about $9 for an antipasto to a high of about $26 for an entrée.
A serving of airy tiramisu escorted by raspberries ended our perfect evening.
Cotto has an adequate wine cellar that navigates the mother country for the most part. Prices are wallet pleasers, with a number of bottles in the $34 range.
Needless to say, we plan to go back, to sample pizzas, and, of course, another plate of gnocchi.
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Then the 37-year-old forward ran out of gas, and the Spurs collapsed down the stretch like they so rarely have before.
Duncan had 30 points and 14 rebounds in the first three quarters, but was scoreless and grabbed just three boards in the fourth quarter and overtime of San Antonio's 103-100 overtime loss to the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night.
The Spurs led by 10 points at the start of the fourth quarter and by five with 28 seconds to play. But Duncan missed all five of his shots in the fourth quarter and overtime.
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Stans NoTubes ZTR Arch 29er Wheelset
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Product DescriptionZTR ARCH EX 29er Wheelset How do you improve an already fantastic wheelset likeThe ZTR ARCH 29er wheelset for 2012? Well, you start by making it lighter, wider and stiffer for increased strength. That lighter weight will help you accelerate faster andThe internal arch design inThe rim will make sureThat your wheels are strong enoughTo keep you onTheTrail. Bead SocketTechnology will give you superiorTubeless compatibility when used withThe included yellowTape. The perfect rim for Aggressive X
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Date Reviewed: August 11, 2014
Strengths: The rims are fine after 100 hrs, one spoke broken.
Weaknesses: Hard replace spokes, freehub went out after 100 hrs of XC.
Bottom Line:
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2013
Strengths: Lightweight for a strong wheel set. Strong for a lightweight wheel set. Very versatile when converting hubs to most any axle.
Weaknesses: I see no weakness so far.
Bottom Line:
The only issue that I thought I might have was the terrain that I ride has changed from the typical up/down XC singletrack to trying to find the rootiest rockiest descents, and slowly getting more and more air time. The ArchEX set has held up great and is still as true as the day I mounted them. If an issue arises because of my usage (not the wheels themselves) I will most likely replace with Flows...
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Duration Product Used: 1.5 years
Price Paid: $550.00
Purchased At: Jenson USA
Bike Setup: Transition TransAM 29, Fox 32 CTD 120, Sram X9 RD/X7 shifter, X7 Crank, Thomson seatpost/stem, MRP MiniG2SL chain guide, Niner Bar, Egg Beaters,
Date Reviewed: May 27, 2013
Strengths: Supposedly had a good reputation
Weaknesses: Read and you'll find out!
Bottom Line:
I had a thought to try someone else's rear wheel on my bike, to rule out the bike/frame components as issues. When I tried a different rear wheel, the creaking completely disappeared. The LBS looked more closely at the problem rear wheel and when the wheel was mounted in the rear and physically pushed towards the seat stays, the creaking reappeared. The LBS disassembled the rear hub and found that there existed a small amount of space around the bearing and that space contributed to the creaking. The LBS sent pictures to Stan's describing the problem and asked for a replacement wheel. The LBS' opinion was that this was a manufacturing defect and Stan's company would probably replace the wheel gratis. Meanwhile, a black or green compound substance made by Locktite was used that took up the gap between the bearing and the hub. This worked for a couple of rides; then the creaking returned.
Shawn, warranty manager, got involved and refused to send me a new wheel, but sold me a new wheel and agreed that if your company, for some unknown reason, did not honor the manufacturing defect as a warranty issue, would refund part of the money paid for the new wheel. A new wheel was sent and since then, no creaking or other issues have arisen. In fact,
another seemingly unrelated issue seemed to have resolved itself. Irrespective of which front chain ring the chain resided on, there was a delay up shifting from the fourth cog to the next
larger cog. No amount of adjusting or replacing of cables/cable housing corrected the problem. When the new rear wheel was mounted, the shifting issue disappeared immediately.
So, since then, Stan's told me that they could have rebuilt the first wheel with a new hub, CHARGING ME FOR A REBUILD CHARGE. Are you kidding me?? They agreed that the wheel was defective. Now, Stan's wants to nickel and dime me to death on this issue.
In the end, Stan's charged me $195 for a new back wheel. I had to pay $140 for the new wheel, which was better than $355, but wtf! I don't agree with their decision and advise all bikers to NOT EXPECT MUCH FROM STAN'S WHEN IT COMES TO WARRANTY WORK!!!!
Date Reviewed: February 11, 2013
Strengths: Price to weight ratio, great wheel when used for XC riding, simple to service hubs.
Weaknesses: build is not great out of the box, do take some maintenance, soft free hub body.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 4 years
Purchased At: No BOundaries
Date Reviewed: January 27, 2013
Strengths: Cheap for the weight.
Weaknesses: Soft rims, poor quality hubs, spokes, and nipples on the stock set.
Bottom Line:
A shop mechanic was riding with me when I destroyed my front wheel and he couldn't believe it. I washed out in some sand and got up to find the wheel would no longer pass through the fork. When I went to get the my rear wheel repaired the mechanic had to replace the nipples because they were too soft to put any tension on.
Bottom line: You get what you pay for and these are cheap for how much they weight.
Date Reviewed: December 18, 2012
Strengths: Strong, True, Fast, Perfect for riders who want that balance between weight and strength. Oh, and they come in white!!!
Weaknesses: Can be pricey (maybe not compared to similar sets)...I purchased mine with a 15% military discount offer.
White is slightly heavier than black. :(
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 1 year
Price Paid: $630.00
Purchased At: Stans No Tubes
Similar Products Used: Mavic C29SSMAX, Vuelta, Mavic 717 and 819...
Bike Setup: Light!
Date Reviewed: October 17, 2012
Strengths: Low Rolling Resistance, price, durability
Weaknesses: none so far
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 1 month
Price Paid: $200.00
Purchased At: lightly used
Similar Products Used: Bontrager Rhythm elite, Mustang Disk
Bike Setup: GF rig
Date Reviewed: October 7, 2012
Strengths: Stiff, strong, very easy to setup tubeless, killer price
Weaknesses: Literally none.
Bottom Line:
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Bike Setup: Mounted with Geax Saguaro TNT tires.
Date Reviewed: July 5, 2012
Strengths: Roll well, light weight, high "street credit", Rims seem solid, easy to setup tubeless.
Weaknesses: Poor spoke tension from the factory. Cassette body is SOFT. Spokes are an odd size (2.0/1.7) and not stocked by most LBS (not a huge issue). Hubs are fairly loud.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $550.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: WTB (various). DT Swiss. Rhyno lites.
Bike Setup: Airborne Goblin, x7 2x10, Maxxis Ignitors (F) / Kenda SB8 (R).
Date Reviewed: May 8, 2012
Strengths: strong light cheap easy to use tubeless
Weaknesses: nil
Bottom Line:
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Purchased At: stans direct
Similar Products Used: rovol, dt swiss
Date Reviewed: May 3, 2012
Strengths: lightweight, strong, better momentum
Weaknesses: none
Bottom Line:
Date Reviewed: February 14, 2012
Strengths: best tubeless set up around
Weaknesses: absolutely none
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $999999.00
Purchased At: no tubes
Similar Products Used: mavic, dt swiss
Bike Setup: moots 29er
Date Reviewed: February 2, 2012
Strengths: Stiff, strong, responsive, inflate and hold UST or in my case WTB TCS tires very well. Light.
Weaknesses: The alloy freehub body that comes on these guys can get a little chewed up by the cassette. Also these wheels should be touched up by a mechanic before they are setup and installed on the bike. I just found that these were not ideally tensioned when I pulled them from the box. This is not really a weakness, but I feel it should be mentioned. This is defiantly not a make it or break it about buying these.
Bottom Line:
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Date Reviewed: October 25, 2010
Strengths: Price. Light. Pretty. Rims and hubs are tough so far.
Weaknesses: 2 spokes broke at the hum on the same wheel. QR's were garbage. Rear hub had to be tightened, developed a bit of side to side play.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $400.00
Similar Products Used: DT Swiss
Bike Setup: Specialized Epic 290er
Date Reviewed: April 6, 2010
Strengths: Light, easy to mount tubeless, great price, stiff
Weaknesses: none, especially considering the price
Bottom Line:
My first ride on them was a 40+ miler up in Tahoe that included an end of season run down Toads (it was way more beat up than normal). I bottomed my tires out on the rims at least 4 times. I was concerned but was having too much fun to slow down and I was very surprised to see they were still perfectly straight and had no flat spots. 9 months of abuse later and they are still as straight as the day they arrived. Quite impressive.
They are super easy to setup tubeless, much more so than any of my DT rims or Mavic wheels. A big bonus is they are far more rigid than the Bontrager wheels that came stock (and those weighed 400g more). In quick "S" curves they flick side to side very well without that mushy feel some more flexy wheels get when pushed hard.
I've raced them several times with success and feel that at 175lbs, they are a perfect race/training wheel for more aggressive riders who live in rocky areas. Lighter riders or riders with smooth trails can probably get away with the lighter wheels from Stans.
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Price Paid: $460.00
Purchased At: Notubes.com
Similar Products Used: Mavic, DT, Bontrager etc.
Bike Setup: Fisher Paragon 29'er. My wheels have the Stans hubs which have gone 9 months with no issues.
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"My Husband Nags Me About Being Overweight"
Her TurnFood Fights
"Mark is embarrassed by the way I look," says Sherry, 31, a homemaker and mother of a 2-year-old daughter. "He makes snide, sarcastic remarks about my lack of control around food because I haven't lost my pregnancy weight since Ashley was born two years ago. He'll say things like, 'Must you eat those French fries?' I feel like he's counting the scoops of ice cream in my bowl. When he returns from the supermarket with bags of fat-free cookies and low-fat frozen yogurt, I want to throw it all in his face.
"He's become just as obsessive about our daughter. He tells me, 'If you eat that in front of Ashley, she's going to pick up your lousy habits and be fat, too.' He freaks out if I take her to a fast-food restaurant for a hamburger -- but he'll take her there to play in the playground and then not let her eat anything! What's so ironic is that my husband, in all honesty, would never be mistaken for Brad Pitt. He's not fat, but he could certainly stand to drop a few pounds. He never exercises, either.
"I want to lose weight, but I've never been able to stick to any weight-loss or exercise program. And the way Mark harps on me makes me very defensive. He sounds like my parents used to and, before I know it, we're into these tit-for-tat battles about everything from food and exercise to cleaning the house and discipline. He complains that I'm far too lax with Ashley and keeps saying, 'How come she listens to me, but never to you?'
"Growing up, I was overweight -- not obese, but chubby. Kids can be cruel and I was often the butt of jokes. But what hurt the most was that it was so clear I was a disappointment and embarrassment to my parents. They were both slim and attractive, and keeping up the Joneses was important to them. Mother didn't like having a chubby little girl.
"I got so many mixed messages from them. When I was about 10, my mother, who was a housewife, would prepare these two-inch-thick grilled cheese sandwiches, piled with bacon and, when I'd finished it, she'd scornfully say: 'Sherry you eat like a truck driver.' She dreaded taking me shopping for clothes since we always had to go to the chubby department. Once, she bought me this purple winter coat, which I loved but, when we got home, she told my father I looked like a little ox in it.
"As I got older, my father, who worked for the city government, would often comment that the boys were never going to be interested in a chunky girl like me. It's funny -- my older brother was so much heavier than I was. Now, though he's a doctor, he's still very overweight. But they never gave him any grief; he was the boy, the future doctor.


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By: David Gibbins
Bantam Dell: New York
October, 2007 (pb)
By: David Gibbins
Bantam Dell: New York
October, 2007 (pb)
Crusader Gold is the second entry in a series
that features marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his intrepid sidekick
Costas Kazantsakis as they hunt mythic and semi-mythic treasures from the
past. In this outing, they and their team of scientific treasure hunters
from the International Maritime University set out on a global hunt for the
golden menorah of Jerusalem that disappeared after the destruction of that
city by the Roman legions 70 AD. Second only to the Ark of the Covenant in
its importance to the Jewish people, the menorah eludes Jack and his team as
they pursue its trail through history and geography. From Rome the trail
leads to Istanbul, or Byzantine Constantinople, to the Illulissat icefjord
in the North Atlantic, to the Viking outpost at L'Anse aux Meadows in
Newfoundland, and finally to the steamy jungles of the Yucatan peninsula,
Jack and company face natural perils and deadly human enemies in their
search for the Temple treasure. Would it be surprising that their
competition would be none other than Nazis? Not neo-Nazis, but
honest-to-goodness second and third generation real Nazis!
Crusader Gold is a guilty pleasure; it is a
potboiler, by any measure. But while this genre is awash in cookie-cutter
knock-offs of such blockbuster bestsellers as The Da Vinci Code,
occasionally an entry in the thriller sweepstakes does rise above the
rest—and Crusader Gold does so. Why? I asked as I found myself
liking this book. I have, I might add, been less accepting of these novels
of late as they become more and more indistinguishable from each other—plus
one can spend only so much time in airport terminals!
It's not that Crusader Gold is not
derivative—its similarity in plot and characters to the Clive Cussler Dirk
Pitt series is almost shameless. But Gibbins can write passably well and
while his characters—both heroes and villains—may lack a certain depth,
there is a certain earnestness to them that kept my interest. But most
importantly, Gibbins has convinced me that he knows underwater archaeology
and he knows the historical context of his thriller. He may present an
absurd and outlandish plot—Viking adventurers, menorah in hand, setting foot
in the Yucatan and battling the Toltec lords of Chichen Itza—but it's a
goofy plot that Gibbins makes acceptable because it's so much fun!
So if you want to suspend all disbelief for a few hours
and spend some time having fun while you read, I think you'll find
Crusader Gold worthy of three trowels! I plan on reading the first of
this series, Atlantis, and see if David Gibbins can make me believe
for at least a little while in that lost city/civilization!
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By Chris McGill - bio | emailLOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE/WMC-TV) - The unemployment rate in Kentucky remains high and with schools out for the Summer, many people are turning to the web to find jobs. But the Better Business Bureau warns that while some online jobs may be tempting, they also could be a scam.Louisvillian Sylvia Walters found that out the hard way when she applied for a job she saw advertised on the popular website Craigslist. That job turned out to be a scam."He said he wanted to hire me and then he went into great detail about him being a family man and that I would have to help him run his business and private matters from my home for $500 a week."Walters is talking about an employment ad for a personal assistant she responded to on Craigslist. The ad was posted by a man claiming to be Robert Filter. Walters says that his ad and subsequent emails to her all looked legit. That was until she received her first assignment via email."The first assignment was that he was planning his daughter's birthday party and he needed someone to receive a check from him because he was out of town," said Walters. She was "to cash the check, to re-send it to someone in New York and [she] thought, 'well I'm not going to do that.'"It's a good thing she didn't. The check that arrived at her door via UPS for almost $4,000 was fake and drawn on a closed account in California. Had Walters cashed the check, she would have eventually had to pay the bank back the entire amount.The Better Business Bureau is now advising anyone looking for a job online to be extremely careful. In Walter's case, this person used one of the most common online tactics when it comes to employment scams according to Reanna Smith-Hamblin with the Louisville office of the Better Business Bureau."What happens is the person who is looking for a job will see an ad on Craigslist, they'll contact the person, usually via email and the person will contact them back and say you're perfect for this position." Hamblin goes on to say that at that person will then send a check and ask the job applicant to deposit it in their account and then wire money to someone else for some thing.Since the economy and job market has been so rough, Hamblin says that scams like these are on the rise."In this instance job scams are up, people are unemployed, they're looking for the jobs (and) these scammers are just coming out of the woodwork taking advantage of those that really need the work at this time."Walters says that she's going to take her address off of her cover letters and resumes and only send them out to local ads for employment. She believes if the scammer didn't have her home address he wouldn't have been able to send the bogus check in the first place.Hamblin with the BBB agrees and says that once scammers get your address, phone number and email address they'll start to contact you and say you're perfect for the position. She says if it's "a great amount of money, sounds too good to be true, it is."Copyright 2010 WAVE. All rights reserved.
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HEATH, Ohio (AP) -- A police chief said Friday that he's upset he hadn't been notified that a man charged with attempted murder was staying at a neighborhood nursing home, and he plans to meet with mental health officials to see what rules facilities must follow.
John Stroud, 53, of Portsmouth broke a window Thursday morning and escaped from the facility in Heath, about 35 miles east of Columbus, authorities say. After an all-day search, police captured him Thursday night in a wooded area about two miles away after they received a call about a prowler.
Heath police Chief Tony Shepherd said Friday that Stroud was ordered to stay at the Heath Nursing Care Center when he was released on bond.
Stroud pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in April 2011 to attempted murder, felonious assault and misdemeanor inducing panic charges in Scioto County court in southern Ohio.
Stroud was released after posting $100,000 bail and is scheduled to go before a judge for a competency hearing on May 23. Messages seeking comment from his attorney, Stephen Rodeheffer, weren't immediately returned.
Portsmouth Daily Times archives show Stroud was accused of threatening to kill himself when sheriff's deputies went to his home in March 2011 to check on him, then firing a gun after a standoff of about four hours. Deputies returned fire, and Stroud was shot once in the knee, Scioto County Sheriff Marty Donini said.
Stroud, who has a long history of psychiatric problems, had been staying in a wing of the nursing home that has a secure door with a push button code, Shepherd said.
"He proved it wasn't that secure because he kicked a window out and there's no fence around it and there's no security staff there," Shepherd said.
The nursing home is about a block from an elementary school. Area schools closed Thursday as a precaution while authorities searched for Stroud.
Shepherd said his officers had been called to the nursing home before to deal with problems, and he was surprised no one had alerted authorities that Stroud was receiving medical care there.
"Yeah, I was pretty ticked because it had happened before," Shepherd said. "We've been called there on assaults, various other criminal acts, only to find out that they're on parole."
Shepherd said authorities once found that a man involved in an assault at the nursing home had just been released from prison after serving a 30-year sentence for murder.
"Nobody bothered to tell us," he said.
Heath Nursing Care Center said in a statement Thursday that Stroud was permitted by the court to receive care there.
The center said it wanted to make clear to its residents and their families that it does not have a psychiatric ward housing "dangerous individuals."
"Mr. Stroud had not been involved in any incidents with other residents or staff at the facility, nor had he attempted to leave in the past," the center's statement said.
Heath Nursing Care Center says its administration is conducting an internal investigation and wouldn't comment further.
Stroud was found Thursday night with many scrapes, Shepherd said. He was treated at a hospital and is being held at the Licking County Jail.
Shepherd said he and the mayor of Heath plan to meet Monday with mental health officials to educate themselves on nursing home rules when it comes to patients like Shroud who have criminal backgrounds.
"If we could have known he was there," Shepherd said, "we could have had his photograph and bio on hand, and it would have assisted us in locating him."


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4:40pm Tuesday 25th December 2012 in News
THE £500,000 development at Cornerstone Methodist Church in Davyhulme is progressing well, with the completion of the first part of the works.
A new, state-of-the-art gas central heating system has been installed at the Hayeswater Road Church, which has replaced a very old oil burning system.
One of the rooms has also been transformed into a bright open space which is already being used by the Girls' and Boys' Brigades, as well as other groups.
The Rev Stuart Smith said: "These are very exciting times at Cornerstone Methodist Church and we wish to share our good fortune, with the local community who are an important part their wider community life."
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PLATTSBURGH — Virginia T. Ladue, 93, formerly of Lighthouse Road, Cumberland Head, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at Meadowbrook Healthcare Facility.
She was born in Keeseville on August 4, 1919 the daughter of Horatio and Isabel (Brown) Thomas.
Virginia married Robert H. Ladue in 1940 in Montreal, PQ. Robert died in 1995.
She worked as a Nurses Aide at Physicians Hospital for several years, the USO for several more years and later as Secretary for the Housing Office at Plattsburgh State University College, for over thirty years.
Virginia was a member of the United Methodist Church in Plattsburgh, the Pony Club and the Willsboro Golf Club.
She enjoyed oil painting, boating, skiing, playing bridge, golf, tennis, doll making and horse back riding.
Survivors include three sons, Thomas Ladue and his wife Georgia of York Springs, Pa., William Ladue and his wife Tanny of Orlando, Fla. and G. Lansing "Lance" Ladue and his wife Cheri of Canandaigua, N.Y.; three daughters, Virginia King of Redondo Beach, Calif., Barbara Easterbrooks of Chipley, Fla. and Deborah Baker and her husband Kenneth of Plattsburgh; one daughter-in-law, Tracey Ladue of Penfield, N.Y.; one sister, Theodora Armstrong of Johnsonburg, Pa.; 17 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Youngstown State University faculty, students and the community got an opportunity to meet the second of three candidates who could become the university's next president.
Jim Moran, vice chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education told faculty they are the strength of the university critical to student success.
Moran said his number one priority will be student retention. His strengths are his passion and commitment for helping students become successful.
"I've been a faculty member, department chair, dean, worked as vice president for research, work now in the state system of education in Pennsylvania," he said. "We deal with 14 universtities and our major focus is on student success."
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c2c adding seats for 48-hour Tube strike to cope with increased demand
5:30pm Monday 3rd February 2014 in Local News By Michelle Archard
TRAIN operator c2c is adding extra carriages to its services to cope with increased demand during the tube strike.
Workers are proposing a walkout on London Underground between 9pm Tuesday and 9pm Thursday.
c2c is adding more than 35,000 seats to the off-peak services each day by doubling the length of trains to eight carriages.
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thanks, but I was more interested on how that works under the hood: if lmde and sparkylinux/#! are both pointing at the debian repos, what differentiates them, aside the graphical environment?
I'm maybe just confused on how distros are built: debian testing + some linuxmint stuff = lmde?? debian testing + some sparkylinux stuff = sparkylinux? I'm sure there's more to that...
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Chris M wrote: If I'm correct, there's only that 1 Mint repo that's maintained. Maintaining that 1 will keep you in the Mint game, while rolling along with Debian Testing or Sid. .
zerozero wrote:if you need this howto to help you make the jump into testing or sid you should think twice because, probably, you are not preparedgeneral warnings:
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- breakages and bugs are solved a lot faster in sid (sometimes in the same day) than in testing but are more frequent as well
zerozero wrote::lol: with that introduction?? i'm afraid "they" won't come even close
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I once had a cassette of this album but it wore out. I saw this had been remastered and grabbed it. Listen to this young 'uns and hear one of the beginning bands mixing speed/death metal and hear where Killswitch and Shadows Fall got some of their sound. Classic speed guitar riffing and the vocals are strong. The remastering really helped the rhythm section get beefed up too. I listened to this with the new Bolt Thrower album and it's almost seemless. Which might mean to some they are used up and outdated but I think it means they are masters of their sound. This sounds great and I hope exposes them to more people.
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Bolt Thrower were certainly not the first grindcore band in existence, but they still played an undeniable role in originating, solidifying, popularizing, and perfecting it. In other words, if bands like Napalm Death, Repulsion, and Extreme Noise Terror planted grindcore's seeds, then these five British titans were the gardener that watered them. Plus, to this day, they remain one of the best and most powerful, important, and consistent groups that the genre has ever seen. And influential? You can say that again! They might not be in the same league as the above bands, but anyone who denies their influence is just oblivious or lying — they have inspired legions and legions of offspring and imitators. (I mean, for crying out loud, the title of German metalcore outfit Heaven Shall Burn's debut was a tribute to them!)
On their second album, 1989's magnum opus "Realm of Chaos," Bolt Thrower combined death metal, Slayer-inspired thrash, hardcore, and occasional doom touches to create, well, you know. It is chock full of all the usual grind goodies, including dark themes, freakishly gross lyrics, hoarse, evil sounding growls, and super tight, uber brutal musicianship (i.e. heavy, downtuned guitars, chaotic soloing, steady bass lines, and foundation-shaking rhythms punctuated with terrific, hyper-kinetic blast beats).
But "Realm of Chaos" also features two qualities that a lot of fans will find refreshing. For one, it possesses a sound that is definitely influenced more by death metal than hardcore. As a result, there are no high, grating hardcore screams to be heard here, and the number of breakdowns is limited (and when there is one, it is always appropriately placed and doesn't interfere with the momentum.) And secondly, this album proves Bolt Thrower can riff better than most of the rest. It boasts some really excellent, monstrous, memorable, and caustic riffs, many of which could be argued to be among death metal's best of all-time (or if not, then at least of the 1980's).
After the ominous "Intro," the ball gets rolling quickly when "Eternal War" steamrolls through the speakers. This song is a blastfest from start to finish; guitarists Gavin Ward and Barry Thompson create a blazing wall of sound (and also toss in a careening solo) while skinsman Andrew Whale pummels away. "Through The Eye Of Terror," which is backed by massive, churning licks, battering ram drums, and whiplash tempo change ups, is more mid-tempo, but no-less skull-crushing. "Dark Millennium" keeps the intensity in the red with great, full-on thrash riffing and brutal blasts that rain down on your ear drums like jackhammers. The album is a long smoldering onslaught until track five, "All That Remains," begins with a minute of cool doom atmosphere. But after that first minute, be prepared to be crushed again – this time with furious, thrashy, buzzsaw leads and manic soloing. Later highlights are the scorching guitars, lightning-fast drumming, and brutal growls in "Lost Souls Domain"; the barnburning "Drowned In Torment" and title track; and the positively stellar (and should-be-legendary) riffs and nice, shredding solos of "World Eater."
In conclusion, "Realm of Chaos" is not the most groundbreaking grindcore/death metal release in history, but it is nonetheless a classic one, and also a landmark on the genre's timeline. Essential listening for all extreme metal enthusiasts.
i'll keep this one short. this is an absolute classic, front to back, and is packed with more monster riffs than you can shake a stick at. and to top it all off, there are gratuitous appearances of the scream "BLARRRRRRRGH!!!".
seriously, this is a true classic, and is as good (read: better) as anything the band has released since. if you've made it this far and are on the fence about this one, don't hesitate for a minute to pull the trigger. your world shall be rocked!
one caveat: this much needed reissue was done without the input of the band, and the label has fleeced the members of any royalties that come from this pressing, so bolt thrower have actually asked that their fans NOT buy this recording. you may not have a choice, as the original is very out of print and hard to come by. oh, they messed with the original cover art too.
so to recap… reissue bad, album amazing. really amazing.
This album whips major Donkey @$$!!!! it would be more awesome if they used the original cover! that cover is awesome! true classic Warhammer 40K Games Workshop art! As it has been said before, this is one of the heaviest albums of all time, yet it isnt over flowing with annoying distortion, so you can actually hear that these guys can play the strings off any guitar, or beat the living ba-jesus out of a set of drums! I like War Master, and IVth Crusade more, but this album is still one of my most favorite cds that i own, and i have around 320 cds!
Plus how many awesome death metal bands come out of England! not many! there may be a lot of them in England, but very few actually make it world wide!
These guys can freaking shred, while crushing you skull at the same time!!! not for the weak stomachs, or faint of heart!! Bolt Thrower will Slay you and display your desicrated corpse on their tank!
Ahh, Bolt Thrower. Out of all the classic deathgrind bands from England (Carcass, Napalm Death, etc) this is by far the finest in my opinion. Why, you say? Riffage. Few bands these days put the power back into the riffs, and Bolt Thrower has some of my favorites on here (Realm of Chaos and World Eater). Out of all my favorite death metal records from the late 80s early 90s, this is second only to Effigy of the Forgotten.
Oh yeah, and dont forget to see these guys live, they put on a hell of a show.
If you enjoy Suffocation, Obituary, or any other classic death metal, make sure to pick this one up.