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Brazil Nuts, imported from South America. This is a very nutritious nut with a very hard shell.
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2. Brazil nuts' high selenium content also discourages the aging process and stimulates the immune system. In a study of patients with early Alzheimer's disease, antioxidants - including selenium - boosted mood and mental performance. Like all nuts, brazil nuts are an excellent source of protein and fiber.
3. Brazil nuts are high in minerals including zinc and magnesium, and contain useful amounts of phosphorous, copper and iron.
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"I wasted no time taste testing the products in my order. As it is difficult to find fresh brazil nuts in the shell , I was pleasantly surprised to found yours to be both fresh and delicious. In fact, all the products I've opened so far have surpassed my expectations. Thanks for living up to your promises---a rare occurrence these days."
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"Dear Jeffrey and the Nuts.com Family,
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"you're right, WOW is an appropriate word. not only did you have impossible.to.find Brazil nuts in stock but sent along fresh, attractive ones that were delivered the very next day (no extra charge). i'm delighted! thank you....may you go far !"
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"I have NEVER received a shipment so quick! You guys are awesome! I ordered Brazil Nuts in the shell, Almonds in the shell and Walnuts in the shell. My Macaws are so happy! They would not touch the grocery store nuts & believe me they know the difference! I can not thank you enough for the most fresh, natural nuts on the market!"
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Packaged in the same facility as peanuts, tree nuts, soy, and milk products.
Approximately 40 pieces per pound.
Store open or closed under refrigeration for up to 6 months. This item can be frozen.
Country of Origin: Brazil
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How to Downgrade PSP 3000 5.51 Firmware 1.50, Downgrading PSP OFW 6.20 -5.51 to 1.50 . A lot of users have been asking on how to downgrade PSP firmware 5.51 to 1.50 to install a custom firmware .
Well depending on your PSP model . From other sources it seem the only way to downgrade a PSP Firmware 5.51 to 1.50 to install a custom firmware is to used a Pandora Battery and MagicStick to help with the Downgrading process. However there is a limit though.
PSP 3000 models and Some PSP 2000 cannot be hack with a Pandora battery . Only leaving those that own the FAT PSP or the earlier version of PSP 2000 models.
There have been a few users who have claim they have been able to hack the PSP 3000 that has a custom firmware 5.51 without a Pandora Battery which is not true. No proof has circulated around the intenet. So is most likely a fake .
Downgrade PSP 3000 Firmware 6.20
But if you do have a PSP model that could be hack and have PSP Firmware 5.51 then you could used the PAndora Battery to put your PSP into service mode which is what is needed to downgrade your PSP OFW 5.51 to 1.50
Using these methods is 100% legal (although Sony obviously doesn't like it), but it CAN brick your PSP (there is a way to unbrick them, we'll be discussing that next time). It may also void the warranty of your PSP system as you would be working with delicate parts like the PSP's flash memory. So if you screw up, Make Use Of won't be held legally liable. If this sounds like too much risk to you, please don't go any further.

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Willie Lavine had a song in his heart and on his lips Monday and it had a lot to do with the turkey in his hand.
"It meant quite a bit because I didn't have anything and I'm mostly by myself," Lavine, said.
This is the third year Lavine has picked up a turkey from the James Brown Turkey Giveaway.
"I come up because I'm poor and by myself in an old trailer. I just thank the Lord for somebody who is doing what he did for us," said Lavine.
He's talking about the god father of soul James Brown.
Brown began the annual giveaway back in the 1990s. Now, his daughter Deanna Brown Thomas, her siblings and dozens of volunteers continue the annual tradition.
"$10, $15, $20 is just not in the budget for some people. It doesn't seem like a lot of money for some people, but to others it is if you don't have it. So we're thankful that we can just be a part of their Thanksgiving by putting a turkey on the table," Deanna Brown Thomas, said.
The turkey on the table is where they want the focus to be - not on a wallet stretched too thin.
"We don't have to buy a turkey; we can buy something else we need in place of that turkey," said Betty Johnson.
Deanna Brown Thomas hopes the turkeys will continue to provide meals like sandwiches, soups and salads for hundreds of needy people long past Thanksgiving.
The free gift has given people something to be thankful for and for Willie Lavine maybe even something to sing about.
"Thank the Lord for people like that," said Lavine.
All of the recipients of the turkeys had to sign up and register for their bird. In the past nearly 500 turkeys were given away.
The Brown family will be back to work next week for the annual James Brown Toy Giveaway.
You can register Saturday, December 1 from 9am until 11am at the James Brown Arena.
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A number of teams (Jets, Buccaneers, etc.) had reportedly shown interest in Demps, a former University of Florida running back who was a big part of the Gators' 2008 national championship.
Demps went undrafted in this past April's NFL Draft after deciding to focus on the Olympics instead of his football career.


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Escambia Co family using Social Media to help catch burglary suspect
ESCAMBIA COUNTY -- An Escambia County family is turning to social media in hopes of catching whoever burglarized their home on Valentine's Day.
It happened at a home on Filly Road in Cantonment between 10 am and 2 pm last Friday.
The family is reaching out to the community via Facebook.
They created a page dedicated to cracking down on crime in Cantonment.
On Valentines Day Fran Morgan came home after running some errands and saw this back door was knocked over. It wasn't until she went upstairs that she realized burglars had ransacked her home.
I'm trying to go on and not think about it so much, but you can help to think bout, they took away a part of my life
The burglars had emptied every drawer in her bedroom.
They took a lot of jewelry, all my good jewelry, they took the safe, took all my important papers, deeds to my home,
What made it even harder-Valentine's Day was supposed to be a day of fond memories. It was her and her late husbands 57th anniversary, many of the gifts he had given her over the years were also taken.
They got everything like that, it was in the safe...
The sheriff's office dusted for fingerprints, but they still don't have many answers.
For something like this to happen its heartbreaking for them to just take it with no heart, no soul..
That's why her son Craig Morgan decided he wasn't going to sit back and take it. So he made a FB page called Cantonment Florida break-ins and he's even offering a 1000 dollar reward to find the culprits.
We are fed up, im beyond upset, im committed to not resting until these people who have done this to my family is caught, im not going to stop or rest, just what I'm going to do
He says in the past year, 3 homes on their street have been broken into. He says the reason he is doing this is because the burglars aren't just leaving with valuable items. They are also taking their peace of mind.
I want to go to church and come home, this is my home and they invaded it. I had a piece of mind, where now, I don't have that
If you do have any info about this you are asked to call Crimestoppers at 433-STOP.


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If you haven't registered an account at Frenchs.com, I highly recommend doing so! Several printable coupons await, such as a $1 off French's Dijon. The only other current coupon for French's Dijon is half of that value, so this one is worth printing! Save it for a sale or use it now at Walmart to get a bottle for $1.12.
French's Dijon Mustard, 12 oz $2.12, regular price
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Fabric: Polartec Wind Pro
Price Paid: $30
Thin but very wind resistant, not terribly warm. They are thin enough to be useful as a liner for a shell mitten in frigid temperatures. They block the wind amazingly well, especially considering there's no laminate. They breathe well and my hands never feel sweaty. But when it gets colder than 20F, I want something more.
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First, an admission: this post really doesn't have much value, other than allowing me to channel some of my excitement for tomorrow's game. If you're looking for a discussion about the on-field events...I would suggest heading to the other posts (all of which are excellent, as per usual).
Tomorrow's game will be special, and not just because Denver has a very real shot of going up 2-0, and taking a two-game lead over San Diego in the division (only a 1-game lead over the winner of KC-oakland...but that doesn't really matter). Tomorrow, I get to attend the game with the following people:
- My Wife. It will be our first Bronco game together (her first ever!); we attended a Chiefs-Patriots game a few years ago at Arrowhead while visiting some friends (sidenote: i wore my away Ed McCaffery jersey to that one). She was a big Avalanche fan when we met, and she's become an incredible football fan; she even beats me at fantasy football. Plus, she's the one who pointed me to the Brazilian twins in the Good Luck Bikini thread...she's an incredible woman, and I can't wait to share this with her!
- My Dad. My football fan-dom is directly attributed to him. He's always been a friend and a role-model, and this will be his first NFL game...ever. A real father-son moment.
- My cousin, a Navy vet who worked on the last operational F-14 Tomcat unit. His girlfriend is currently in the process of shipping out to Afghanistan, so it's awesome that the pregame will include a salute to the armed forces.
Like I said...this is just an emotional outburst, but it gets me thinking: how many other such stories are out there? Jonahsilas is in town for his bachelor weekend (which sounds like an awesome time!)...there must be hundreds or thousands of such stories, all bringing an insane energy to a relatively small spot of land during a 3.5 hour stretch of time. It connects one special moment (me with my family) to all the other special moments, all with the energy generated from pride in our team, and pride in our city and state. I don't know where this is going...but it feels special.
Go Broncos, and I hope everyone on MHR enjoys the ride tomorrow!


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News: Rick Ross Says Hip-Hop Back, "This Was A New Energy That The Game Needed"
Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:17AM
Maybach Music Group leader Rick Ross shed light on the aftermath of Wednesday's publicized New York City press conference and talked about what such a powerful gathering of hip-hop moguls means for hip-hop.
In Ricky Rozay's perspective, the star-studded event birthed new light and energy.
"I think it was a great day for hip-hop. It was a great energy for hip-hop," Ross said of the MMG press conference. "When you reflect on hip-hop on a boss level, for the last 10 years, the business of hip-hop has been kinda shaky, it's been in a decline. I was talking to Lyor [Cohen] this morning and we were talking about how it's already bottomed out -- there's nowhere to go but up from here. I think this was a new energy that the hip-hop game needed, a momentum change." (MTV)
Yesterday's event featured powerful speeches courtesy of music executive Lyor Cohen and producer Swizz Beatz.
"He has the biggest office in the world; that's called the streets," Cohen said, along with revealing it has been nearly 20 years since publicly speaking at a press conference. Swizz Beatz later came out saying, "My conversation with him is like a conversation with Nas or a conversation with [Jay-Z]...Ross is humble. He's trying to get to the next level. People forget that hip-hop started off as a rebelious movement. I just wanna commend a bawse for doing bawse things and keeping it real." (SOHH)
Bad Boy Records CEO Diddy also used the opportunity to shower Rozay with props.
"Everytime you hear that Australian girl saying Maybach Music, your d*ck gets hard, or at least my d*ck gets hard," Diddy said. "His actual records off his mixtapes are so hot that they get on the radio without any promotion. He is the hottest rapper of this generation -- he's like a jazz singer or a soul singer or a gospel singer. It just touches your heart in that way. He's a genius to me, he's my brother, I know he will go down in history as one of the greatest record men. I knew he was a great one and I didn't give a f*ck what everyone else was saying. And now they all on ur d*ck! He's an artist that's gonna change the world." (SOHH)
Outside of Ross-related announcements, the press conference also served as a platform to reveal upcoming Maybach Music Group releases.
First up will be MMG's Self Made, Vol. 2, which is set to drop on June 26. Following will be Rozay's highly-anticipated LP, God Forgives, I Don't, which Ross announced will be coming out July 31. Finally, MMG announced Meek Mill's debut album, Dreams & Nightmares, for an August 28 release date. (XXL Mag)


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By ROGER SCHNEIDER
GOSHEN — An anonymous threat against school children in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties have local officials taking action to enhance security at all local schools.
The threat was reported to the public by the Elkhart Police Department Monday afternoon. Police said the threat specifically mentions someone would kill 20 children at five schools in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties on April 15.
Tuesday evening Elkhart police released another statement, saying, "The information (threat) was very nonspecific. It did not state any specific schools or students. There were also no lists."
Elkhart police have contacted the sheriff's department, which is taking steps to boost security at schools.
"In response to several concerns reported to the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department concerning publicized threats to area schools, the sheriff's department will increase their presence at the schools," wrote Sheriff Brad Rogers in a news release he issued Tuesday. "The Elkhart County Sheriff's Department is taking this threat seriously and will be working with local school officials and other law enforcement agencies to provide additional security and safety for students."
Diane Woodworth, superintendent of Goshen Community Schools, said Tuesday, "None of the threats received in the area mentioned any of the Goshen Community Schools. However, due to our proximity to schools that have received threats, there will be extra police coverage and security provided at and around all Goshen schools on Monday, as well as on the preceding and following days."
Woodworth said if Goshen residents have questions they should contact her office at 533-8631.
Goshen police said they take precautions daily to prevent violence at schools.
"Goshen Police Department personnel, in conjunction with school officials, have discussed security within the Goshen school system and the threat of possible violence directed toward our schools," said Tina Kingsbury, spokeswoman for the department. "At that time, assessments of school buildings' security and emergency plans were discussed. On every school day, every precaution is taken to protect our children from harm and allow them to attend school without being in fear."
In Elkhart, where the concern began, police said they are working with the Elkhart Community Schools staff to develop an "action plan." Police are also working with private school staffs in Elkhart, including Trinity Lutheran School, St. Vincent School and St. Thomas School.
Police request anyone with information about the threat contact them via a tip line at 389-4777.


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|Mehdi Mohaqqeq retakes helm of Iranian Society of Cultural Works and Luminaries
Mohaqqeq was appointed the director of the society based on a proposal by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, which was approved by President Hassan Rouhani and the society's Board of Trustees, the Culture Ministry announced on in a press release on Tuesday.
Mohaqqeq served as director of the society from 1999 to 2010 when he was replaced with cleric Mohammad-Javad Adabi.
Mohaqqeq, 84, is an Iranian scholar specializing in Persian literature, Islamic studies and philosophy.
He has a Ph.D. in both Ilahiyyat (theology) and Persian language and literature. He joined the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at Tehran University in 1960.
He has collaborated in educational programs at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London University, McGill University, the Institute of Islamic Studies in Canada, and the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in Malaysia.
The Iranian Society of Cultural Works and Luminaries, which was previously named the Society of National Cultural Works, was established in December 1922 by a group of scholars and historians to promote Persian literature and the cultural heritage of Iran.
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BOSTON (CBS) – A young man survived a four-story fall through an MIT fraternity house late Wednesday night.
The unidentified 18-year-old fell through a rooftop skylight window on top of the Phi Sigma Kappa house on Commonwealth Avenue.
The man fell through this rooftop skylight window. (WBZ-TV)
According to the Boston Globe, he landed on a first-floor staircase.
The man was rushed to Brigham and Women's Hospital.
The extent of his injuries is not known, but he is expected to survive.
It's not clear if the man is an MIT student.
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LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) - Tickets for this Friday's round two matchup between Central and Holmen in the WIAA football playoffs are on sale starting Wednesday in Holmen and Thursday at Central.
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Sloppy Writing 101.34
Last week I did up, now I'll do down. Often times we use down and don't really need it. Here are my examples from The Proper Way to Say Goodbye where I deleted unnecessary downs.
-I dropped down into the seat.
(Well I suppose. You can't drop up.)
-I sucked in the air, hoping nobody noticed the nutcase with her face down on the table.
(I don't need the down here. If her face is on the table, it's down.)
-Sasha sat at the desk, head bent down towards her papers as I approached.
(Her head is bent, we can assume it's not to look up at her papers.)
-Before I turned the corner down the hall, I took a quick glance back at Sasha.
(It's really not important that I point out it's down a ways.)
-Kevin sat down and crossed his arms.
(Context: Kevin was standing. So again, there's only one way to sit and that's down.)
-Brock laughed in my head as I tried to slow my heart down.
(Slow down and slow mean the same thing here, so get rid of the down.)
So this time I cut 67 downs. Not a bad number either. The thing is hopefully I'll catch these words when I'm typing them in my next WIP, instead of having to do it this way.


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This has the "official" FieldGulls.com scoring and setup, we just need to get to 12 teams by draft time, which is 2PM PDT today! Just need two more Yahoo! users to make us an official league.
Please check it out and signup right away if you are interested. This will be a lot of fun to compete against all FieldGulls players with the common scoring and team size.
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text: In the mid 1990's, Pantera frontman Philip Anselmo was just starting to dabble in side projects. He started with Christ Inversion in 1994, and later continued on to Down and Superjoint Ritual (among other bands). Christ Inversion didn't last long, so no one really expected much from Phil's other projects. And surely no fan expected Down's 1995 debut to be so good. Down was clearly onto something with this album, and they didn't become so famous just because Anselmo fronted the group. "Nola" (which is an abbreviation for New Orleans, Louisiana) is about as good as or better than anything the band members had made before. Even though the members of Down came from Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, and Eyehategod, "Nola," sounds like a mix of Pantera and Black Sabbath, with Lynyrd Skynyrd's southern influence. This is a bludgeoning album which is overflowing with thick, hefty, doom-influenced riffs, solos, and crunching rhythms. Plus, Phil's wailing yells sound perfect against the dark, meaty sounding music, helping to give this album a "timeless" feel. Phil's vocal style is pretty much the same, here, as on any Pantera record, but it's an impressive performance nonetheless. His vocals couldn't be more full of emotion; he yells, growls, howls, yelps, bellows, and songs like "Rehab" show he can even sing/croon a little. Plus, I enjoy how Phil builds from a grunt to a scream on some tracks (like the very Sabbath-y door opener, "Temptation's Wings"). "Lifer," "Pillars of Eternity," and "Hail The Leaf," which are very catchy songs with churning guitars, the fiery riffs on "Losing All," the tortured, Crowbar-esque "Swan Song," and the punching, grinding album closer ("Bury Me In Smoke") are some of the standout tracks on here and good representations of the album as a whole. Even with mellower moments (like the acoustic "Pray For The Locust" and "Jail," which is very similar to Pantera's 1994 cover of "Planet Caravan"), there is hardly a weak moment on all of "Nola." Pantera fans should be cautious when checking into this album because it's typically quite slower and sludgier than anything Pantera put out. And, even though it could stand to have a few more fast songs, if you're looking for a very powerful, brooding, and satisfying metal album, put this near the top of your list.


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googleclusterdata - System traces of production workloads on Google clusters
This project is intended for the distribution of data of production workloads running on Google clusters.
The first dataset (data-1), provides traces over a 7 hour period. The workload consists of a set of tasks, where each task runs on a single machine. Tasks consume memory and one or more cores (in fractional units). Each task belongs to a single job; a job may have multiple tasks (e.g., mappers and reducers).
The data have been anonymized in several ways: there are no task or job names, just numeric identifiers; timestamps are relative to the start of data collection; the consumption of CPU and memory is obscured using a linear transformation. However, even with these transformations of the data, researchers will be able to do workload characterizations (up to a linear transformation of the true workload) and workload generation.
The data are structured as blank separated columns. Each row reports on the execution of a single task during a five minute period.
- Time (int) – time in seconds since the start of data collection
- JobID (int) – Unique identifier of the job to which this task belongs
- TaskID (int) – Unique identifier of the executing task
- Job Type (0, 1, 2, 3) – class of job (a categorization of work)
- Normalized Task Cores (float) – normalized value of the average number of cores used by the task
- Normalized Task Memory (float) – normalized value of the average memory consumed by the task
Google faces a large number of technical challenges in the evolution of its applications and infrastructure. In particular, as we increase the size of our compute clusters and scale the work that they process, many issues arise in how to schedule the diversity of work that runs on Google systems.
We have distilled these challenges into the following research topics that we feel are interesting to the academic community and important to Google:
- Workload characterizations: How can we characterize Google workloads in a way that readily generates synthetic work that is representative of production workloads so that we can run stand alone benchmarks?
- Predictive models of workload characteristics: What is normal and what is abnormal workload? Are there "signals" that can indicate problems in a time-frame that is possible for automated and/or manual responses?
- New algorithms for machine assignment: How can we assign tasks to machines so that we make best use of machine resources, avoid excess resource contention on machines, and manage power efficiently?
- Scalable management of cell work: How should we design the future cell management system to efficiently visualize work in cells, to aid in problem determination, and to provide automation of management tasks?
To aid researchers in addressing these questions in a realistic manner, we will provide data from Google production systems. The initial focus of these data will be workload characterization.


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Nigel Chase and Atlantic Clarion at Blue Hill Public Library
The band "first began playing behind Buck's Harbor," Chase said, formed by his father Carl Chase who heard and learned pan drumming in Trinidad and from a book by the late Pete Seeger. By the early '90s, father and son formed Flash! in the Pans, a community steel drum band that still performs across the Peninsula, raising money for schools and nonprofit organizations. With several spinoff bands, like Planet Pan, for high schoolers, and the Rhythm Rockets, for elementary schoolers, Nigel said, "We're all one big family." Atlantic Clarion's appearance kicked off the library's 2014 Art Adventure series. Above, Duncan Hardy, Martin Conte and Vita Poole perform.


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Possible Snowy Walk-n-Talk in March?!
So they're predicting some snow for our first-Sunday-of-March Walk-n-Talk. That could be both amusing and beautiful. The walks are into their third year now, and we've surprisingly only had rain three or four times… but we've never had snow!
Come walk and talk with the possibility of white stuff falling. How about "Mathison Park in March"? It has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
Eric Mathison, local Burienite, has spoken on previous Walk-n-Talks and has given walkers historical background before leading the group over to Mathison Park. The property was donated by his family to the City of Burien.
WHAT/WHO: This is a FREE Walk-n-Talk open to walkers and talkers of all abilities, including families and dogs.
WHERE: Meet on the grassy knoll in the middle of Burien Town Square Park, at 5th Place SW and SW 152nd Street (between the Library and the Condos).
WALK TO: Mathison Park: 533 S 146th St., Burien WA. The total, round-trip distance is about 2.1 miles. There are sidewalks all the way TO the park, and then trails within the park itself.
(Walk-n-Talkers should know that though this walk is "only" 2.1 miles, it does include the slope up to Mathison Park, which can be a challenge for those with mobility issues.)
WHEN: Sunday March 2, 2014; meet at 2:00 p.m., start walking at 2:15 p.m.
On the May 2012 Walk-n-Talk, the sun shone on the shoulders of 26 walkers (and 2 pooches) as they chatted their way from Burien Town Square over to Mathison Park. We had English, Spanish and Japanese native speakers mixing and mingling along the way.
Read about the May 2012 Walk-n-Talk to Mathison Park HERE.
Brief history of the Park:
This five-acre park was dedicated on September 15, 2006. Most of the land was donated by Ted Mathison in 1999. On April 16, 2003, two sisters, Eleanor Carver Nelson and Dorothy C. Carver, donated a key parcel allowing the park to connect between South 146th and 148th Street. They gifted their property to the Burien Parks Department in memory of their grandfather, Herman Nickolas Peters, who homesteaded in Sunnydale in 1889.
Peters was born in Germany on February 21st, 1868 and came to Minneapolis when he was 14. He arrived in Seattle in 1889, just after the great fire. After buying a small paint store in Seattle, he purchased 10 acres in Sunnydale. He later bought another five acres. He lived on his homestead property until his death in 1949.
Peters operated a large chicken ranch and orchard between 5th Ave. South and 8th Ave. South, and South 148th and South 150th. He built several houses on 6th Ave. South, most of which were paved over by State Highway 518.
Patrons of the Park: The Mathison Family
In the summer of 2006, the Mathison siblings – Don, Phil, Eric, Stephen, and Susan – cut the ribbon to open Burien's newest neighborhood park and playground. They grew up on the property, raised by their parents Ted and Bernadine Mathison.
Eric Mathison, a writer for the Highline Times, noted the irony in Burien Plaza Starbucks adopting the park: his mom and dad didn't drink coffee. His late father had written that "it is highly recommended that the property remain heavily wooded (my wife Bernadine loved trees)." With "great pleasure and trepidation" he turned over to the city of Burien what had been the family home since 1944.
The Mathisons bought the five acres "in the country" from the Sunnydale Goat Dairy for $1,600 in August, 1942. Ted Mathison laid 10 or 12 cinder blocks a day, after work, in building their house. The children had many adventures on the property – climbing trees, building forts, and picking fruit from their gardens. "Just because we lived on five acres on the top of a hill, I don't want you to think we were rich snobs," Eric said. "My dad was a Boeing middle manager. My mom took care of five kids and volunteered in the community. My parents were into voluntary simplicity before voluntary simplicity was cool.
"I want Burien officials and park patrons to know how important the place is to my family and me. The benefits we received as kids (wooded trails with views of Mt. Rainier, the airport, and Puget Sound) we want to pass on to succeeding generations of children and adults."
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It's too... quiet.
No, seriously, it is way too quiet. We have had discussions about the win vs TAM and discussions about what it'll take to win up in Rocky Top land but there has been one main thing missing so far:
I've had a nagging feeling that something was missing all week but it wasn't until talking to my father - a die hard Gator - that I was able to put my finger on it. This week has been entirely lacking in hate. Maybe it's just because, unlike fellow hated rival FSU, Tennesee's fans haven't really made it over here to post. Maybe it's because a team that choked to Kentucky last year is still feeling a little too queasy to be smack talking.
For us, however, I suspect the problem might be a bit generational.
Someone like Andy has only seen Tennessee win twice in the last decade - those formative teen years where you both love the game and start understanding the game - with both falling in the Zook years. Meanwhile, Tennessee itself has been lackluster at best in that the same time. I wonder if intellectually younger fans know it is a rivalry game but don't feel it in their bones as deeply as any one old enough to have experienced just what the game meant, beyond the win/loss record.
Five different times in the mid-'90s, the two teams met with both top 10-ranked and undefeated. The path to Atlanta ran through the Third Saturday in September. Florida won the majority of those meetings - in my life we are 18-6, soon to be 19-6 - but there were no fans better at trash talking or at starting fights than those Vols. It started at the top, with the verbal rivalry between the OBC and the Great Pumpkin, and washed down to all of us.
So here we are, days before the big game. Time for some hate!
I hate the sick color of the orange that Tennessee adores.
I hate the ugly ball that glares over the city of Knoxville.
I hate your stupid dog.
I hate the crappy music your state forces onto the rest of us.
I hate the unsportsmanlike on Dallas Baker.
I hate your fat assed fans that get mentioned any time I talk to anyone not from the south about football.
I hate that I have to watch Peyton Manning's smug schilling every time anything goes to commercial break.
I rejoice in the knowledge that you can't spell Citrus without UT.
I rejoice in the knowledge that Manning never beat us and it cost him the Heisman.
I rejoice in the memory of Alex Brown's five sacks, still the most fun game I've been to.
I still maintain that only two things of value ever came out of Tennessee: Cracker Barrel and Stephen Orr Spurrier. (Of course, he's really from Miami Beach.)
So tell me, what kind of hate do YOU have for Tennessee?


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The fight was the culmination of a rivalry between Bisping and Rivera that included bad blood and harsh trash talk from both fighters over the last few weeks, including Bisping spewing a homophobic slur toward Rivera at the weigh-in. After the fight Bisping and Rivera appeared to have some more harsh words for each other, as did their respective corner men. But they eventually exchanged a hug, and Bisping said he was sorry in his post-fight interview.
"I just want to apologize," Bisping said afterward. "He touched a nerve and I'm a sensitive guy."
As for the fight itself, a minute into the first round Bisping shot in for a great takedown and ended up on top of Rivera on the ground, although Rivera got back to his feet after 30 seconds without taking much damage. Rivera landed one hard punch when they were back to their feet, but Bisping got his second takedown of the first round after that. Bisping appeared to be in control, but he stood up and landed an illegal knee to the head of Rivera while Rivera was still on the ground, leading to a pause in the fight. Rivera was examined by the doctors, and ultimately allowed to continue, while Bisping had a point deducted.
For the rest of the first round it was Bisping who was getting the better end of the striking exchanges, and he also secured another takedown. Bisping deserved to win the round 10-9, so with the point deduction it was a 9-9 round.
At the start of the second round Rivera rocked Bisping with a big right hand, and it looked like Rivera might bounce back. But after that one big punch, it was all Bisping: The Brit started battering Rivera with punches and eventually knocked Rivera down with a hard right hand and then unleashed a couple more punches on the ground before the referee stopped the fight, awarding Bisping the technical knockout victory.
The win improves Bisping's record to 20-4. Rivera falls to 19-8.


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Epic War 4 features 5 unique heroes with unique combat ability. Battle through 12 stages with 3 different modes (normal, hard, epic), and 4 extra stages for additional challenges. Experiment with 5 levels of 20 different units and 12 unique spells, and fight your way through 4 epic bosses and surprising stages for hours in this epic defense game.
Game Control :
- left and right arrow to move camera stage
- a to select all, s to select all hero, d to select all units
- 1-6 hotkeys for spell
- qwertyuio hotkeys for units
- space bar to confirm units / spells placement
- p to pause
- go to option page at map to mute
- revenge waves can be found at hard and epic mode
- up and down arrow keys to move the turret
if you feel the game doesnt require skill, try hard and epic mode.
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GREAT but...theres ONE HUGE problem
this game is the best in the series and is hours of fun. the levels are constructed greatly but it lacks a storyline completely. this however is NOT why i gave it a 9. i gave it a 9 because the game is so easy that a toddler could beat it. all you have to do is buy a titan and and get the time stop and or invincible spell and the titan is a huge unstoppable killing machine. in my opinion all titans should be removed or at the very least weakened and their spawn time doubled. I do NOT use titans and i advise that you DON'T buy them as they are a HUGE waste of money... other than the titan problem the game is great!
Excellent game!
Though overall it's not a overly hard game, it's definitely well made and fun. I've already spent a few hours of my life playing it. So needless to say, it's addicting to say the least.
Later levels require skills to beat, which also adds the strategy factor near the end, rather than trying to mass units to win.
Excellent game over all.
Remember the titans baby
10/10 great game titans = epic win
excellent and aggresive
this is only getting a nine because personly i like the limitations in three better but this game was an awsome experience and require a number of skills to defeat the titans. strategy may not be in the mind at first but it is required after level nine. i really enjoyed it.
This is a great game.
It is a great combination of RPG and strategy. It provided lots of game play in digestable doses. Well done


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As I write this editorial, I don't know whether the government will be shut down because the Democrats and Republicans can't agree on a budget or not. Regardless, they've been operating without a budget for months anyway because they can't agree. The Democrats say the Republicans are being unreasonable in the amount of spending cuts they are insisting on. The Republicans say the Democrats are being irresponsible in the amount programs and spending they insist on when we are already in a terrible deficit. Every president goes to Washington saying they are going to change the tone of politics and return respect and civility to the system. Yet, it keeps getting worse. Never have the left and right been more strident in their opinions of one another…or so it seems. We are supposed to be a representative democracy. Yet, one has to wonder if the American people are as divided as our elected representatives in Washington. Are we really that fractured and bitter toward the views of each other. If Congress is truly reflective of the citizenry…we are a house divided. Or could it be that national politics is a world of its own…with its own agendas, ambitions and attitudes that have little to do with the regular folks they are supposed to represent? Perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's time for accountability and responsibility…and that's what elections are for. But we voters too are often swayed by momentary self interests, and our memories can be quite short. I'm Jim Cameron and that's today's Viewpoint. Let us hear from you.
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There will be no disruption to the Spanish football calendar after all. The Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (LFP), the governing body in control of La Liga, had been threatening to postpone this weekend's fixtures in order to protest against a Spanish law that requires there to be at least one free televised match per round of games. Having football free on terrestrial television is of course a major obstacle in securing lucrative broadcasting deals with paid TV channels, so the LFP was attempting to put pressure on the government to rescind the law and let the clubs do what they wanted to.
It didn't work, thanks to a legal action launched by six of the twenty sides that make up La Liga. Sevilla, Villarreal, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad, Espanyol and Real Zaragoza banded together to challenge the league's decision. In a statement released by the clubs, they claimed that a walkout would be illegal:
A strike would be disproportionate, inopportune, against the interest of clubs, the competition and supporters and, what's more, against the law.
Although the statement indicates that the rebellious sides are against a strike on moral grounds, one suspects they might be more concerned about the prospect of extending the season by three weeks than anything else. Anyway, it the court agreed to uphold their challenge, and now the weekend's fixtures - including Villarreal vs. Barcelona and Real Madrid vs. Sporting Gijon - will go ahead as planned.


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AVON LAKE — Avon Lake Municipal Utilities officials are preparing to move forward with two major projects.
During Tuesday's ALMU board meeting, Chief Utilities Executive Todd Danielson said the board requested that Mayor Greg Zilka co-sign financing documents that will allow the water supplier to start work on the Moorewood Combined Sewer Separation and Water Pollution Control Center Rehabilitation projects.
Danielson said the sewer separation project will cost ALMU approximately $5 million, with crews working to separate all combined sewers on Moorewood and Beachwood avenues, Vinewood and Crestwood drives, and portions of Redwood and Electric boulevards beginning this spring.
An additional $3 million will be put forth on the project by the city for necessary road repairs, Danielson said.
Slated to start this fall, complete rehabilitation of the city's Water Pollution Control Center located at 33675 Durrell Ave. is estimated to cost $25 million.
Work on both projects is scheduled to wrap-up in 2016.
According to Danielson, the board will likely fund the two major projects through revenue notes that offer less than a 0.5 percent interest rate. The low-interest rate notes are expected to save ALMU about $1 million annually which water officials intend to put back towards the principal amount of the loan.
Apart from those two major projects, the board deliberated how it will pay for roughly $2 million to $2.5 million in smaller waterline replacements along Harvey and Moorewood avenues and Yoder and Belmar boulevards.
Due to a 2005 water revenue bond agreement, Danielson said the board is unable to pay for the waterline replacements through revenue notes, but plan to further explore their financial options, considering other avenues of repayment such as revenue bonds or general obligation notes.
Danielson said general obligation notes, however, will be among the board's final considerations of repayment because they directly affect how the city can borrow for other vital projects.
In other news, Danielson said ALMU, soon to be known as Avon Lake Regional Water, is looking to host the city's first Avon Lake Water Festival the weekend of Aug. 9.
"We're really looking forward to getting this ground and we are hoping that this will be something that is really going to embrace and cherish where we are on Lake Erie," Danielson said.
ALMU Community Outreach Specialist Elana West said the festival will be a great family-friendly event, kicking off with sprint-length triathlon, a swimming and biking aquathon, and a kid's Splash & Dash around Miller Road Park.
Danielson said he hopes the inaugural event will have as much success as the city's annual Big Trucks event and become a staple in the community.
"Big Trucks has been incredible for Avon Lake," he said. "We're hoping this event will be equivalent to Big Trucks and we will continue to work with the city and other interested parties to put something together that the people in the city can be proud of."
For more information about Avon Lake Municipal Utilities, call 440-933-6226 or visit www.avonlakewater.org.


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OIG to Investigate Hospital Payments in 2013
Federal health investigators say they are launching 112 new investigations as part of their 2013 work plan, 8 of which deal with programs authorized under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The 148-page Office of Inspector General Work Plan 2013, issued annually by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, highlights 25 projects that examine the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services payment policies to hospitals under Part A and Part B, 11 of which are new.
Also included in the work plan is a program to expand the review of Recovery Audit Contractors from only working with Medicare providers to state Medicaid programs as well.
Payments for hospital transfers
The extent to which hospitals have miscoded transfers to another hospital for patients needing further care, which should be paid at a lower rate, will be examined.
A similar new project involves examining the appropriateness of payments to hospitals that transfer patients to a different hospital, which then places that patient in a "swing" bed, which can be used interchangeably for acute care or skilled nursing services.
Yet another project involves a re-evaluation of Medicare's current practice of paying hospitals a full Medicare DRG rate for patients with short lengths of stay who are transferred to a hospice. "Analysis of Medicare claims data demonstrates significant occurrences of a discharge from an acute care hospital after a short stay that is immediately followed by hospice care...If appropriate, we will recommend that CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) evaluate its polity related to payment for hospital discharges to hospice facilities."
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Engaging Government Employees
Motivate and Inspire Your People to Achieve Superior Performance
Author: Robert J. Lavigna
Pub Date: July 2013
Your Price: $24.95
Page Count: 288
Format: Hardback
From Chapter 1
The Power of Employee Engagement and What This Book Is About
There are many other books about employee engagement, and some are excellent. But this book departs from the others in three ways.
First, I focus on the science of employee engagement—that is, what the research clearly proves about the power of engagement to improve individual and organizational performance. Instead of relying on my insights "culled from my many years of experience" or "my work with many different types of organizations," I emphasize what the engagement research has proven empirically and how these results apply to government organizations.
Sure, I have experience with engagement, and I will cite some of these experiences as examples, but I don't trust purely anecdotal experiences and don't believe they necessarily apply to the situations or challenges other managers face. I don't rely exclusively on my personal experiences to make the case for why government leaders, managers, frontline supervisors, and employees should focus on engagement. Instead, I rely on the research and empirical evidence.
Second, my focus is government. There are other fine works on the science of engagement, but they don't emphasize the public sector. In Chapter 4, I highlight the unique challenges government faces, the fundamental differences between the public and private sectors, and the implications of these differences for managers—and for employee engagement. I argue that, in some respects, these differences make it harder to manage in the public sector. As a result, public-sector leaders, managers, and frontline supervisors must approach engagement differently than their private-sector counterparts.
In addition to the hostile environment the government operates in today, other key factors that distinguish the public sector from the private sector include political leadership that changes frequently; hard-to-measure goals and impacts; complicated, rule-bound, and sometimes irrational decision making; multiple external stakeholders with power and influence; an older, more educated, and more white-collar workforce; strong civil-service rules and employee protections; heavy union influence; limited financial tools to influence and reward employee behavior; public visibility of government actions; and, more positively, a workforce that is intrinsically motivated toward public service. I believe that government leaders and managers need to understand these differences and their implications for employee engagement. This argument is a key focus of this book.
The third way in which this book departs from many other works on engagement is that I don't present a one-size-fits-all approach to improving engagement. There are many engagement models and approaches that their designers maintain can be adopted just about anywhere. In contrast, I don't see how any single employee-engagement model can apply to all organizations and situations, particularly in government. Just in the United States, there are more than 85,000 government jurisdictions and agencies, and each has its own mission, strategy, values, and culture.
Instead, I believe that every organization needs to measure its own level of employee engagement, analyze the results to identify specific areas to improve, set priorities for action, and then act on the data. While there are some broad principles that apply generally to engagement (which I'll discuss), there is no single solution that will automatically improve engagement across all organizations.
I do present a model in Chapter 7, but it is an engagement process model—that is, a model that a public-sector organization can adapt and adopt to assess its level of employee engagement. The organization needs to then act on these results to improve engagement. The model is intended to help each agency generate the data it needs to draw conclusions about what its employee-engagement issues are and how to deal with them to improve engagement, but it does not prescribe generic solutions. In Chapter 12, I describe what some government agencies have done to improve engagement, but I present these actions as examples, not prescriptions.
From the start, it is important to understand that there is no silver bullet to achieve high levels of employee engagement. Instead, what's needed is silver buckshot—an integrated series of actions, specific to each government jurisdiction or agency, to measure and then improve engagement.
Here's a quote that I think sums up the power of employee engagement. According to Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, a leading business software company that is also a perennial member of Fortune magazine's annual "100 Best Companies to Work For," "My chief assets drive out the gate every day. My job is to make sure they come back."9
Goodnight's statement is just as applicable (or maybe even more applicable) to government. And improving engagement is one clearly documented way to make sure that when the chief assets of government leave at the end of the day, they do plan to return tomorrow.
Excerpted from ENGAGING GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES by Robert J. Lavigna. Copyright © 2013 by Robert J. Lavigna. Published by AMACOM Books, a division of American Management Association, New York, NY. Used with permission.
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Clarion University's Hip Hop Dance Team is holding tryouts from 7 to 9 p.m. April 30, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. May 1, and 7 to 9 p.m. May 2 in the Tippin dance studio. Must attend all days. No previous dance training required. All CU students are welcome!
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I've heard rumors of a place near the stadium that has some sort of Sunday breakfast special with bottomless mimosas. My buddy and I are driving up from SD this Sunday to watch the Angels beat the Yankees and we're considering offering our patronage to this joint if it exists. We need to know where it is first though. I thought it was OC Sports Grill or Throwbacks, but didn't see anything on their sites. Anybody know?
I orginally just planned to make this a fanshot for this specific question, but then I figured a discussion of good pre-game locations and rituals might be useful to all of us. Let's hear what ya got, parking lot warriors!
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|Eagle girls go 1-2 in hockey
By News-Review Staff
The Northland Pines High School girls hockey team went 1-2 in the Culver's Cup hockey tournament.
The Lady Eagles started the tourney with an 8-1 victory over Brookfield Friday, but followed it up with a 2-1 loss to title winners St. Croix Valley and a 4-3 loss to the Superior Spartans.
Pines will travel to Tomahawk Friday, Jan. 3, for a 7 p.m. game before hosting the Sun Prairie co-op Saturday, Jan. 4, at 1 p.m.The girls will then travel to the South Wood County Rec Center in Wisconsin Rapids to take on Point-Rapids Monday, Jan. 6, at 5 p.m.
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"There are numerous avenues for very early alcohol exposure, some depending upon culture," said Norman E. Spear, Distinguished Professor of psychology at Binghamton University and the study's corresponding author. "One way is through the milk of a breastfeeding mother who has consumed alcohol; this is likely since more than half of the pediatricians in the country tell their patients that breastfeeding may be facilitated by consuming alcohol beforehand. It is also common in some parts of Latin America, for example, to place a cotton ball soaked with alcohol on the stomach of a fussy infant, which brings relief in the presence of alcohol's odor, perhaps making it more attractive, and also results in some alcohol intake through inhalation or the skin.
"Alcohol is also given medicinally to infants in some cultures, placed in the fussy infant's bottle. In addition, exposure to alcohol's odor is likely when parents drink; it is known that this makes alcohol's odor more or less attractive to these children, depending on the circumstances of the drinking. The danger in all of this is that exposure to alcohol early in life may increase its attractiveness and lead to the onset of drinking at an earlier age than otherwise would occur."
Spear and his co-author, Eric M. Truxell of the department of psychology at Binghamton University, exposed Sprague-Dawley infant rats (n=672) to alcohol at two ages, 12 and 18 days following birth.
Extremely High Concentrations"In terms of brain development, rats are much more immature at birth than are humans," said Spear, "but the motor capability of the rat develops more rapidly thereafter in the infant rat than the infant human. In terms of brain development, our rats might correspond to humans between a few days and six months after birth, but in terms of sensorimotor ability, the 18-day-old rat is roughly like a three-year-old human."
The researchers systematically varied alcohol concentrations, duration of exposure, and mode of self-administration in each of the two exposures. Alcohol ingestion was measured in terms of percentage body weight change, grams of absolute alcohol ingested per unit body weight, and blood alcohol concentration.
The infant rats ingested extremely high concentrations of alcohol as high as 30 percent without initiation procedures. Acceptance of alcohol by these infant rats upon first exposure contrasts sharply with the standard rejection of alcohol by adult rats upon first exposure.
"The key finding of the study was the discovery that infant rats are vastly different from adults in terms of their affinity for alcohol," said Spear. "It has been known for years that adult rats, like most animals, reject alcohol at least initially. They will ingest concentrations of 10 percent or higher only after weeks or months of tricking them into drinking it by, for instance, adding sweetener and then gradually reducing it, or by always having sweetener associated with the alcohol. This is of course not unlike adult humans."
Why Is It So Attractive?"In human drinking practice, " noted Elena I. Varlinskaya, research professor at Binghamton University, "comparable blood alcohol concentrations will be reached after about 12 to 15 drinks such as bottles of beer, glasses of wine, or shots consumed within a very short time, such as no more than one hour. This brings up an extremely important question: 'why is alcohol so attractive early in life?' The fact that infant rats willingly accept alcohol on first exposure, whereas adult animals require intensive and long-lasting initiation procedures, suggests that mechanisms of alcohol acceptance, especially brain mechanisms, undergo substantial changes from infancy to adulthood."
Spear said that his study also showed that the high blood alcohol levels obtained were largely due to active drinking, not just inhalation or absorption through the skin.
"Establishing unusually high alcohol ingestion at this age is important for understanding the relationships between brain and alcohol intake," he said, "because we know how the infant brain differs from that of older rats, so we can now begin to identify which age-related differences in the brain might account for the age-related differences in alcohol intake."
"These findings can also amplify the warning to parents that alcoholic beverages should be kept away from infants and children, since they might find alcohol extremely attractive," said Varlinskaya. "Developing brain systems are especially susceptible to the damaging effects of alcohol."


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The two were named as they contributed greatly to SC's 20-16 victory over Utica College last Saturday at SC's Amos Alonzo Stagg Field.
Ramos, a junior strong safety from Milford, Conn., totalled a team-high 13 tackles, including nine solos and 2.5 tackles-for-loss for seven yards. He also had a forced fumble. The SC defense held the potent Utica attack to 27 points below its 43.0 points per game aggregate entering the game.
As for Safer, the junior from St. Johns, Fla. only touched the ball twice on special teams on Saturday, but he twice had long kickoff returns, both coming in the third quarter. Safer returned the opening second-half kickoff 45 yards. Later, just after Utica had tied the score at 7-all, he returned the ensuing kickoff 54 yards. That second kickoff return set up a go-ahead TD for the Pride towards third quarter's end. Safer averaged 49.5 yards per return. He also carried the ball four times for 30 yards, averaging 7.5 yards per carry.
SC has now had a total of six Empire 8 Players of the Week this season. They include senior inside linebacker Ken Goodwin (Foxboro, Mass.) twice on defense, senior DT Chris Kulcsar (Haworth, N.J.) on defense, Ramos, sophomore placekicker Ricky Peacock (Tucker, Ga.) on special teams, and Safer. That's a total of six Empire 8 Players of the Week in a possible six weeks.
This Saturday (Oct. 23), Springfield (5-1) will play at Empire 8 foe Ithaca College (4-2) at 1 pm.


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HI, I have copied movie files on my hard drive. I tried to play them but the media player is giving an error message. File extensions I am trying to play are .vob & .ifo.
Can anyone help me with this please?
I have got to make a movie on "win movie maker"
but it can't import files having .vob format
my gadgets failed
sorry for the silly question...i've ripped a dvd to pc with dvd shrink...now it's in vob format and i can't watch it on my pc...my goal is to arquive in pc and watch it here i don't want to burn to a new dvd
Hey I downloaded a movie by torrent
when I try to open it gives me a message in the media player that says "this video has been encrypted in order 2 view u must visit www.torrentm8.com and follow the steps"
but That site looks suspicious.
VLC refuses to play the dvd i have networked from a remote DVD player 2 rooms down. Granted yes, its a bit obscure but well a little while ago my dvd player broked...so i'm improvising The video format is VOB and VLC's just pussying out trying to play it.
DVD Shrink is for shrinking double-layer ISOs to be burned by DVD Decrypter AFTER they've been decrypted by DVD Decrypter. Jesus, do I have to hold everyone's hand through the smallest of tasks?
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I have Windvd on one of my laptops (windivd5-came with laptop) and it won't play .VOB files. It will play TS files, but not VOB HELP PLEASE- most of my movies are on a external hard drive. Can't watch any of them that have VOB file ext.(I have a lot)
I had th esame problem and thanks to all the information. Now my beloved vob file is sounding like a champion! What is needed to play movie downloads?
"All that is needed to play movie downloads is a media player of your choice and the proper video/audio codecs. To play XviD movie downloads you need to install the XviD codec. To play DivX movie downloads you need to install the DivX codec. You might also need to install the AC3 codec to get surround sound". so after i install AC3, th esound problem is gone!
Do any one can help me ...im trying to change the format of a video i had download...i downloaded on VBO and want to change it to a video clip ...do any1 know how to do ..?
www.videolan.org is definately what you need. Don't waste your time. I used it after trying a number of different codecs and converters/decoders. It really works. You won't regret it.
The kid is asking what codec should he use, you guys are all telling him 30 different media players.
There is no .videoclip extension just ftr. But I do agree that VLC player will play just about everything... in Windows that is. It doesn't play some .vob files and such in Linux though, or at least not without some work. :(


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Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock pulled over in Ramsey while filming web show
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In a recent episode of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," host Jerry Seinfeld invited comedian Chris Rock for a ride through Bergen County. Along Route 17, Ramsey police stopped the two.
Seinfeld, in his orange 1969 Lamborghini Miura P400S, stopped by Rock's Alpine house--dubbed "my Tony Soprano house" by Rock--to pick him up for a cup of coffee in an Allendale shop, and a joyride through Bergen County.
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Homeowners and even those looking to buy a house in the future might want to pay attention to this next story. An East Grand Forks man has put his house up for sale, after noticing a water problem in his yard that began, right after a new house popped up next door. He's reached out to the city... But they say there's little that can be done.
"They're waiting for something and I don't know what I just don't understand why they treat me like this, I've paid my taxes like everybody else." Says Steve Gerszewski of East Grand Forks. For more than five years Gerszewski has called this home. But after a new house was built next door, he began questioning his first choice for retired life.
After multiple complaints, and presenting documentation of the issue he has gained little ground with the city, "I feel like I am getting treated like a dog. I might as well leave the city."
The main problem is water runs from his neighbors home to his. He started documenting the issue after it started to add up. He's had a estimate of what it would cost to fix. It rang in at 5 thousand bucks. Money he doesn't have, or even wants to cough up. "I don't see why I have to pay for this when the real estate guy built his house. His floor in the garage is 17 1/2 inches higher than mine." Says Gerszewski.
If the neighbors house was built to city code and passed inspection, but then later down the road it was discovered Gerszewski has a water problem in his yard... You might think the city would take care of it. But the East Grand Forks building inspector, Brad Bail, says a building violation is different than a landscaping issue. "Not every problem can the city solve there's certain things... It's tough for them to be involved in when it comes to landscaping and those issues." Says Bail.
Bail, the new East Grand Forks building inspector, says he understands Steve's issue. While his neighbor's house passed the initial inspection, it could be the landscaping, that has created the problem. That's not in the city's realm of authority, "unfortunately it becomes you and your neighbor have something to work out..."
Meanwhile Steve is going to continue to document the situation. One many homeowners could likely struggle with. "They say it's my problem, I don't see where it's my problem. When I've lived here for five years and have had no problem with water." Says Greszerski.
It was right around the same time Mr. Greszerski was fighting the city of East Grand Forks that he had road construction in front of his home underway. He says the city left slabs of pavement sitting for over a month in his yard. Steve says the city hauled away everyone else's pay load, but he had to cough up 400 dollars to get it moved off of his lot. He wrote this complaint to the city but is still waiting to be reimbursed.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore has been added to the list of speakers for the upcoming Savannah Book Festival.
Festival organizers announced this week that the Nobel Peace Prize winner will speak on Feb. 16 at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Telfair Square.
The Savannah Morning News reports that Gore will speak for 40 minutes about his latest book, "The Future," then spend 20 minutes answering questions submitted on note cards by audience members. Attendance is free.
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