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In the few weeks since I wrote the post The Founders Visa Movement there has been a ton of positive momentum, input, ideas, and support. Thanks to the efforts of Dave McClure and Eric Ries, we shifted the name to the StartupVisa, figured out that the EB-5 visa was the most logical one to try to "modify", and got a web site up about it. In the mean time, I've now had extensive conversations with three of my congressmen, all of whom get it, including one who is deep in working on some draft legislation around it. I've also gotten a CU Law JD/MBA student to work with us as an intern to help put some substance around the approach and proposal. I've also been taken to task by some folks who think I'm naive, misguided, or simply are against increasing the number of legal immigrants into our country.
I have no idea how to address the entire immigration issue in the US. However, I strongly believe that we should make it easy for people to start new entrepreneurial ventures in the US. As a result, the EB-5 is an interesting visa to consider. The simple version is that if a foreign national invests up to $1,000,000 in a US company that creates at least 10 jobs, the foreign national can apply for the visa. This seems backwards to me. Rather than grant the visa to an investor, let's grant the visa to the entrepreneur. If we change the EB-5 so that foreign nationals starting US companies that are backed by qualified US investors can apply for the visa it seems like we can preserve the general construct of the EB-5 while applying it to a more compelling recipient (the entrepreneur).
From the various conversations I've had, the biggest issue – not surprisingly – is figuring out ways to create an efficient and fair evaluation process for the visa that does an effective job of preventing people from gaming the system. In thinking this through, it seems like there are two goals: (1) use as much existing SEC and IRS filings as possible as the basis (so as to not create new filings) and (b) create appropriate thresholds to make the definitions and parameters easy to test and validate.
Following are some items for discussion. This are not a firm proposal, but rather my synthesis of a bunch of different conversations, including an attempt to synthesize the comment threads on the various blogs posts such as Fred Wilson's that I've seen. I encourage an open discussion of these – please tell me why these are constructs or thresholds that won't work and feel free to suggest better ones. I'm definitely still in "figuring this out mode" and the more input I get – both positive and negative (preferably constructive) is really helpful.
Proposal: An entrepreneur applying for a StartupVisa can be sponsored by a qualified VC or a qualified Super Angel who is investing at least $100,000 in an equity financing of at least $500,000.
Definition of a Qualified VC: Whenever a VC raises a fund, they have to file a Form D indicating that they are a venture capital company and disclosing the amount of funding that has been committed to them. For purposes of the StartupVisa, this form can be amended to include the disclosure that the VC firm is a US-entity comprised of US citizens. To eliminate the chance that anyone can set up a VC fund for this purpose, the VC fund needs to have a minimum amount of capital commitments (say – $5m).
Definition of a Qualified Super Angel: For angels, let's define a category called "Super Angel". A "Super Angel" is an accredited investor (as per the SEC accredited investor rules) and has to have made at least five angel investments in the preceding three years totaling at least $250,000.
Duration: The StartupVisa is valid for two years.
Renewal: For the StartupVisa to be renewed, the company needs to either (a) create 5 new jobs every two years, (b) raise at least $1m every two years, or (c) generate at least $1m in revenue and be profitable.
Ok – have at it. What's wrong with these parameters? How can the system be gamed? What am I missing?
Defrag 2009 is happening in Denver on November 11th and 12th. As this is Defrag's third year, I can say with great confidence that it will be an amazing experience. I've watched Eric Norlin orchestrate two Defrag's and one Glue conference and he is a master at the small, intimate, high quality tech conference. The simple metaphor for Defrag versus all of the other tech conferences that exist can be summarized in one question: "Would you rather eat at TGI Fridays or the family owned restaurant, where the owner brings the food to your table?"
The agenda is taking shape on the web site. As is Eric's style he'll keep fiddling with it until the actual event. He recently wrote a post about the keynotes which include Andy Kessler, Lili Cheng, Chris Sacca, John Winsor, Scoble + Bruggeman, Feld + Wilson + Lindzon + Ehrenberg + Tybur, Paul Kedrosky, and Searls + Locke + Levine + Rangaswami. Go read Eric's post for more details including info on the "fragments'" from Stowe Boyd, Anil Dash, Kevin Marks, Jeff Dachis, and Kim Cameron. Or look at some of the topical explorations being led by Andrea Baker, Dan Neely, Micah Baldwin, Maggie Fox, and Laura Fitton.
Eric always has a bunch of tricks up his sleeve as the event gets closer – I know a few of them and they are doozies – but am also pleasantly surprised every year. In an email today explaining one of them to me, Eric said "this year's Defrag is going to make the other Defrag's look like child's play on the content side." And – for any of you that attended the past Defrag's, you can confirm that the content was some of the best that is out there.
Eric is running an end of September discount – if you register today or tomorrow and use the code septspecial1 you will get $300 of the normal registration price. This is the cheapest it gets so if you are thinking about coming, decide now and register.
All four of the Foundry Group partners will be there – come join us for two great days.
I'll start with the lesson that I learned: Always make sure your license plate matches your registration and insurance forms that you keep in your car and that these are the same as the information the DMV has in their database.
Here's the story. I was driving home last night around 10:30pm on the road to Eldorado Canyon. I drive this road hundreds of times a year and have trouble staying at the speed limit, especially when it's late, no one is out, and I'm in a mellow happy mood. I was listening to the XM Chill station (my favorite radio station) and reflecting on the day.
As occasionally happens, I noticed flashing red and blue lights in my rear view mirror. After the initial exclamation of "fuck" and a brief adrenaline rush, I slowed to a stop and pulled over to the side of the road. As I sat in my Range Rover, I pondered how excruciatingly bright the policeman's floodlights were.
The policeman marched up to my car. As I've been through this drill before I handed him my drivers license, registration, and insurance form. He asked if I knew why he had pulled me over. I suppressed the sarcastic thought that immediately rolled through my head and said "I imagine I was going too fast." He asked if I knew how fast I was going. I replied "I have no idea." He asked me where I was going. I responded "home – I live about three miles from here." He asked if there was anything he should know. I pondered this for a second and said, "No. I'm just heading home from dinner. I didn't have anything to drink if that's what you are asking." (I hadn't). He took this in stride and said "Just checking – I clocked you going 63 in a 45." In an effort to be cute, cuddly, and charming, I replied "I have no excuse for that – I just wasn't paying attention."
He took my documents and went back to his car. Fifteen minutes later I was wondering what he was working on when he came out of his car and approached mine very purposefully. He asked, "Is this your car." I responded, "Yes?" He said, "The license plate is registered to a 1990 Blue Ford Pickup truck. Do you own one of those?" My first response was going to be no, but then I realized we do own a 1990-ish Blue Ford Pickup truck that we use to plow our road (I never drive it because Amy doesn't allow me to plow.) I explained this to the officer. He then asked, very directly, "Are you sure."
At this point, I was really perplexed. I looked him directly in the eye (there hadn't been much eye contact up to this point because the flashlight he was shining in my face was excessively bright) and said "Yes. I'd be happy to call my wife Amy who is at our house to confirm." He noticeably relaxed and said, "Ok – let me tell you what's going on."
He started by explaining that in most situations at this point I'd be in the back of his police car handcuffed on my way to jail after having a gun drawn on me and told to get out of the car and put my hands on my head. He saw the shocked look on my face and told me not to worry – that he'd decided the car I was in wasn't stolen based on the documentation and my answers to his questions. Apparently the license plate on my car was for a 1990 Blue Ford Pickup. And while the registration number for the Range Rover had a similar license plate, it was off by one letter. Luckily, both cars were registered to Amy (my wife) instead of me and my drivers license had the same address on it.
He said when he first brought up the DMV data, he almost arrested me since my "1990 Blue Ford Pickup" had turned into a "2007 Black Range Rover" which is a normal type of stolen car scenario. The only thing that stopped him from doing this was that he noticed my address was Eldorado Springs, which matched the small town in which he had pulled me over. Since this didn't match the stolen car scenario, he dug deeper (hence the 15 minutes) and ultimately decided that I probably hadn't stolen the car, but instead either had the wrong license plate on it or the DMV had made an error. Apparently I answered his questions consistently enough that he was comfortable that I wasn't a car thief.
By this point he wanted to make sure he explained the problem clearly enough so he escorted me to his car and showed me the DMV record he had pulled up. I wasn't processing much of what he was saying at this point since I was just happy to get whatever ticket he was going to give me. I also realized Amy was probably getting worried since I was now at least 30 minutes later than I said I would be so when I got back to my car I sent her a quick email.
A few minutes later my new friend the policeman came by with a ticket (yes – after all that – he gave me a ticket.) He was almost apologetic about the ticket at this point, but said he felt compelled to give it to me since I was speeding. Being in no mood to argue, I thanked him for the ticket and also thanked him for doing the extra bit of research that kept me out of jail.
Not surprisingly, it took me a while to fall asleep when I finally got home. This morning we are trying to figure out if it's a license plate error or a DMV error (it appears to be a DMV error.) Hopefully I don't have to visit a special part of hell to get this resolved.
The Startup Visa movement is picking up a lot of speed. I've had more positive conversations about it than I have about any other government related thing I've been involved in or worked on in the past few years.
David Binetti and the gang at @2gov have set up a way for anyone to make a $50 contribution to the Startup Visa effort. This is an anonymous donation and you have to be a US Citizen to make the donation – just go to the contribute page. If you want to contribute more than $50, just email email@example.com.
Thanks in advance for any and all support.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit. In the post, I lambasted the practice of charging entrepreneurs to pitch to an angel group for funding. I think this is completely backwards – the angel group members should cover all the costs and the entrepreneurs should not be charged.
Last week David Cohen (the founder of TechStars) wrote a post titled An offer to Funding Universe. On 9/30, Funding Universe is having one of their CrowdPitch events in Denver. The were originally charging $125 to present – David welcomed Funding Universe to Colorado and offered to pay the presentation fees for half the companies if Funding Universe covered the other half.
Funding Universe responded to David's offer by having the Pitching Fee Removed! Nice job guys.


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Peterson, Craig. "Young Models Ready for Show." The Press-Courier, August 10, 1992.
Peterson, Craig. "Young Models Ready for Show." The Press-Courier, August 10, 1992.
Seen in a KMart salespaper from July 30, 1985. Can you imagine the poor sap who wore this on campus the first day of college?
(…I wonder how many of those fake Kangol hats Matthew went through during filming….)
It's like the new Godzilla movie was made to make us forget about the Matthew Broderick one from 1998. Why Matthew Broderick? Did they see him in The Cable Guy and go, "THERE'S OUR GUY!"
Rifftrax is currently funding a Kickstarter to get the rights to the "Broderick Godzilla" to make fun of it…and yes, they refer to it as, "The one with Matthew Broderick." :
Thanks to you, we had a hugely successful Kickstarter last year that funded us to be able to riff STARSHIP TROOPERS live in 700 theaters across North America. The show was a success, and this year we have the opportunity to perform a live riff of one of ourmost requested movies ever – GODZILLA! Yes, the 1998 version with Matthew Broderick!
Matthew really needs to give them a buck. He needs to own up to his bad 1990s movies.
I have never sat through Godzilla. I don't think I could handle being bored to death. I did sit through the big scene on YouTube where Matthew chases Godzilla trough NYC and there's something to do with a sewer and its raining, and he's wearing that dumb hat? Beth from News Radio was in the movie too, and so is Hank Azaria, which is a real shame. He is a legend, and he was in this junk fest. He's given us so many Simpsons characters, and he was in … this. Harry Shearer from Simpsons was in it too! Did they just get people from whatever was on TV that week they were hiring?
I'm using the rest of entry to focus on the awesomely bad reviews of the movie.
Ted Anthony, Associated Press:
Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Diane Lacey Allen, Lakeland Ledger:
Joe Baltake, Scripps-McClatchy Western Service:
Roger Ebert:
How, for example, does a 300-foot-tall creature fit inside a subway tunnel? How come it's sometimes only as tall as the tunnel, and at other times taller than high-rise office buildings? How big is it, anyway? Why can it breathe fire but hardly ever makes use of this ability? Why, when the heroes hide inside the Park Avenue tunnel, is this tunnel too small for Godzilla to enter, even though it is larger than a subway tunnel? And why doesn't Godzilla just snort some flames down there and broil them? Most monster movies have at least one bleeding-heart environmentalist to argue the case of the monstrous beast, but here we get only Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), an expert on the mutant earthworms of Chernobyl, who seems less like a scientist than like a place-holder waiting for a rewrite ("insert more interesting character here"). It is he who intuits that Godzilla is a female. (You would think that if a 300-foot monster were male, that would be hard to miss, but never mind.)
Oh, and then there are New York's Mayor Ebert (gamely played byMichael Lerner) and his adviser, Gene (Lorry Goldman). The mayor of course makes every possible wrong decision (he is against evacuating Manhattan, etc.), and the adviser eventually gives thumbs-down to his reelection campaign. These characters are a reaction by Emmerich and Devlin to negative Siskel and Ebert reviews of their earlier movies ("Stargate," "Independence Day"), but they let us off lightly; I fully expected to be squished like a bug by Godzilla. Now that I've inspired a character in a Godzilla movie, all I really still desire is for several Ingmar Bergman characters to sit in a circle and read my reviews to one another in hushed tones. 5
Gene Siskel:
In one bit of dialogue, we are told, as Godzilla trashes Manhattan, that looters have emptied out the Disney and Warner Bros. stores on 57th Street. But we never see that happen, thus blowing a naturally comic sequence — Godzilla mauling assorted plush toys.
In a form of myopic revenge, producer/co-writer Dean Devlin has included a hackneyed couple of characters, New York Mayor Ebert and sidekick Gene, because he told USA Today that the critics haven't liked his previous work. I'm not amused, and the reference seems petty within the context of this huge enterprise. 6
Siskel & Ebert on Godzilla in their worst of 1998 special.
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune:
. The media manipulation surrounding its opening can be no coincidence. First, the 139-minute movie's first screening for critics was scheduled for 9 p.m. Monday, which pushes certain newspapers (including this one) to the deadline brink to get a review into a features section on Wednesday.
Then with days' notice, Tri-Star moved the opening from Wednesday to Tuesday night, meaning that either the public could run out to the theaters with no advance word—just as they could for other not-screened movies like "Species II" and Carrot Top's "Chairman of the Board"—or newspapers would scramble to get in a last-minute review. (The Tribune was able to run a Tuesday review because Los Angeles-based staff writer Gary Dretzka had seen an industry screening before Monday.)
Rushed reviews would work to the studio's advantage if: 1) writers are composing while coming down from the movie's adrenaline rush (too bad "Godzilla" becomes stupefyingly boring), and 2) they don't have time to think of all the Mothra-sized holes in the plot. Like:
Why is Godzilla fast enough to duck missiles shot from airplanes and submarines yet unable to catch up to humans in a taxi or hoofing it?
Could humans really fend off these oversized lizards by slamming doors in their faces and, in one case, tying a fire hose around the handles?
If you were using a mountain of fish to lure Godzilla into a trap, would you place it in the middle of Manhattan, where each monster step and tail sweep causes massive destruction, instead of, say, by the water?
Scientific explanation aside, are we really supposed to buy that a home pregnancy test would work on a genetically mutated lizard?
Why, oh why, do they keep firing guns at him?
Here's a sampling of what characters say before they bite it:
"I think we got him."
"I think I lost him."
I think that's a good wrapup on the awful reviews for this movie. I do however, have a special bonus: the poorly recorded monologue when Matthew was on SNL promoting Godzilla! I recorded it off my screen those 3 days I had Hulu Plus when I was writing the SNL Fashion Show entry last year.
(ha, when I opened up YouTube to upload these, I got an ad for the new Godzilla movie)
1. Anthony, Ted. "'Godzilla': Big Movie Has Little Soul."Observer-Reporter, May 20, 1998. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d2teAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cGENAAAAIBAJ&pg=1440,2335018 (accessed May 15, 2014).
2. Norman, Tony. "'Godzilla' is another case of the bigger they come…." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 20, 1998. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19980520&id=IIRIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O28DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6803,6705441 (accessed May 15, 2014).
3. Allen, Diane Lacey. "Area Movie-Goers Love That Big Lizard." Lakeland Ledger, May 22, 1998. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19980522&id=y09IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NP0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2820,1178718 (accessed May 15, 2014).
4. Baltake, Joe. "It's Godzilla—over and over again."Lewiston Morning Tribute, May 22, 1998. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yKteAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tS4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=2821,1758030 (accessed May 15, 2014).
5. Ebert, Roger. rogerebert.com, "Godzilla Movie Review & Film Summary (1998) | Roger Ebert." Last modified May 26, 1998. Accessed May 16, 2014. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/godzilla-1998.
6. Siskel, Gene. "`Godzilla' Scores Low On Scare Scale."Chicago Tribune, May 29, 1998. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-05-29/entertainment/9805290144_1_godzilla-jay-billington-bulworth-hollywood-hairdresser (accessed May 16, 2014).
7. Caro, Mark. "If Size Matters, `Godzilla' Is Really A Monster." Chicago Tribune, May 20, 1998. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-05-20/features/9805200039_1_godzilla-roland-emmerich-and-producer-movie (accessed May 16, 2014).
I guess the internet replaced this through the years. Also, there would be no way you could take this class if you get motion sick from looking at documents on a moving train I'd imagine.
"All aboard for education ." The Post and Courier, September 21, 1993. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MF5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FDcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4771,2336691 (accessed March 13, 2014).
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 4, 1980
She looks like the inspiration for Charlene Matlock, either pilot Charlene Matlock, or Linda Purl Charlene Matlock, choose one:
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 4, 1980
Everything for your yuppie kitchen.
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 4, 1980
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 4, 1980
Aw, nobody likes this candy. Not even in 1980. Also, deadmalls.com dead mall, Northridge Mall.
I am so bothered by the Bone Fone, its the definition of ridiculousness. I think this was right before the Walkman hit it big, so these were probably mildly popular for about 2 months.
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 4, 1980
Schenectady Gazette - Dec 12, 1987
EVERY discount store had their own bear back in the 1980s and 1990s. I had one from Kmart that had a little sweater dress from 1990. The reason why I knew it was from 1990 was because it said so on her sweater.
Schenectady Gazette - Dec 12, 1987
I didn't know that people still bought Atari's in 1987.
Big booze sale at Sav-On, a little girl bastes the turkey at Gemco, and JcPenney has gold filled chains for sale. The Press-Courier - Nov 24, 1980 1 2
See, there were stores open on Thanksgiving long before this decade. Eugene Register-Guard - Nov 23, 1988 3
KMart's Black Friday paper, Lawrence Journal-World - Nov 24, 1994 4
Hen Turkeys & Tom Turkeys, and Pilgrims shopping at Winn Dixie. The Dispatch - Nov 18, 1981 5 6
Aw, remember cartoony drawings of pilgrims?
"It ain't over 'til its over!" Observer-Reporter - Nov 25, 1987 7
The 7up poster that is in every 1980s Christmas commercial break. Star-News - Nov 25, 1987 8
The Coca-Cola bottlers thank every.single.store in Bangor. Bangor Daily News - Nov 24, 1997 9
DON'T PUT THE TURKEY IN THE MICROWAVE. The Albany Herald - Nov 19, 1984 10
"Americans Mark Day of Kennedy Assassination."Schenectady Gazette, November 22, 1983. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2AwhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HnQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6505,1471447 (accessed November 25, 2013).
This was on the front page of the Schenectady Gazette. Front page! It wasn't even a local story!
"Pardners no more." Schenectady Gazette, November 20, 1987. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XmpGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_OgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1036,4975939 (accessed November 20, 2013).
Wax Carter looks devastated.
This was on the same page, and I have to share it too:
The Sumter Daily Item, November 6, 1980. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W2IlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qKoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3416,885123 (accessed November 6, 2013).
Harsh title, but that's what he did!
It seems like everybody that has been on the internet long enough knows about Budd Dwyer, the man who shot himself to death during a televised speech in which he was resigning his post as State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Those who dare have seen the gory video, or those who are squeamish have at least seen the countless press photos of him waving his gun around at the meeting, or just watched the animated .gif of his death (even if its just a gif and shows no blood, I guess it could shock some people, so warning).
Dwyer was resigning because he was caught taking bribes from a California company that was trying to gain a contract to compensate state workers who overpaid federal taxes. Dwyer claimed that he was framed, but nevertheless he was convicted and forced to step down as treasurer.
The day before his sentencing, he scheduled a news conference in which the local media came. After a long speech that some described as "rambling", Dwyer handed envelopes to his closest co workers, and then took out one final envelope. A gun filled envelope. We all know the rest, how he lay in a puddle of his own blood, it gushing out of his nose, looking more like a bloodied, disheveled, David Crosby than the man who was speaking just seconds earlier.
I wanted to know how the newspapers across America handled the coverage of Dwyer's action. What pictures did they decide to publish, if any? Did their local news that evening show the entire video of him shooting himself?
Reading Eagle, Reading, Pennsylvania:
The Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina:
This is the photo most newspapers on Google Newspapers went with.
Observer-Reporter, Washington Monongahela, Pennsylvania:
The Junction City Daily Union, Geary County, Kansas:
Lewiston Morning Tribune, Lewiston, Idaho/Clarkston, Washington:
These two papers went with the final moment.
Lodi News-Sentinel, Lodi, California:
The Miami News, Miami, Florida:
Ocala Star-Banner, Ocala, Florida:
The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
The Mount Airy News, Mount Airy, North Carolina:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA
This paper was the first paper I saw that actually showed a pic of Dwyer dead. The microfilm copy was in horrible shape though.
Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA:
Sarasota News Herald, Sarasota, Florida:
This was the first paper I saw that showed the pic of him immediately after shooting himself, but before he hit the floor.
The Nashua Telegraph, Nashua, New Hampshire:
Out of all the 1980s newspapers in Google Newspapers, this was the only one I found with a clear picture of Dwyer dead.
Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa:
Related Links:
Budd Dwyer at Encyclopedia Dramatica (NSFW!!) ED calls Dwyer "the greatest man to ever live".
"An Honest Man" Documentary about Dwyer.
Filter's "Hey Man NIce Shot" video - Filter's song they wrote about Dwyer.
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Hustler covered it too, and used seldom seen color shots of the incident.


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•Go to as many Halloween house parties as possible!
•Take in the charming sight that is lil kidz trick or treating… But not in a way that makes you seem like a pervert.
•Try to go trick or treating in a fancy area/flat neighborhood with good decorations- even though you're kind of a grown up.
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Terror suspect's New York trial
- 5:26 pm Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 by Opinion Staff
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects in the 9/11 attacks of 2001 will be brought to trial in New York.
Republicans such as John Boehner, the House minority leader, have declared that the decision somehow is an abdication of the war on terror. In fact, it's a way to prove to the terrorists that they can't scare us away from using our own court system and that those courts are more than capable of handing out justice. The administration is expected to seek the death penalty.
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Ginny Bingaman, a receptionist with the Montana Department of Transportation, says U.S. Highway 212 between the Vista Point rest area in Montana and Long Lake in Wyoming was closed just before 7 a.m. Tuesday. She says it's not uncommon for wintry storms to blow through higher elevations in the area this time of year.
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Tuesday, October 21st is our Halloween Party. We will decorate cookies and carve pumpkins and do other seasonally appropriate crafts. Cost is $10/person to cover the cost of supplies. Snacks will be available. 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Please RSVP by October 17th so we are sure to have enough pumpkins, etc.
Saturday, October 25th at 6:00 p.m. A festive and magical Samhain concert, acoustic and intimate; by turns grim, melancholy, fantastical, and whimsical... but always enjoyable. Joshua Morphis plays the piano like a dream, and Sarah Baxter-Arias sings and gives voice to the soul. Donations appreciated. Refreshments will be served.
Join us for an evening of drumming under the stars with the wonderful Candy Eaton!
Cost is $10/adult and includes use of a drum or other instrument, and instruction (if needed)
We light the fire at 7:45 p.m. and drum from 8:00 to 10:00.
Well-behaved children are always welcome.
Coffee, cocoa, hot tea, hot cider, and baked goodies will be available.
Hope to see you there!
Greetings Fellow Travelers!
Happy Mabon! We hope everyone had a wonderful celebration! The weather seems to be cooling off a little (FINALLY!) and the Autumn decorations are out. Always our favorite time of year! Let's see what's happening at The Dragon and The Rose this month…
Tuesday, October 14th is a Year-and-a-Day Class for our 1st year students. Dinner is at 6:30 and class begins at 7:00 p.m. Cost is $20.
Statues we currently have include: Hermes, the 3 Graces, Poseidon, Fortuna, Dionysus, Pan, 2 different Gargoyles, and a whole bunch of Egyptian gods/goddesses! Hurry for best selection!
Ostara: March 18th
Beltane: April 29th
Solstice: June 24th
Lughnassagh: August 5th
Mabon: September 23rd
Samhain: October 28th
Yule: December 23rd
Call time for all rituals is 6:30 p.m These are FEAST NIGHTS, which means POTLUCK. Please plan on bringing something to share, or making a monetary donation to cover the cost of food. It is also a good idea to LET US KNOW YOU ARE PLANNING TO ATTEND SO WE HAVE ENOUGH TABLES AND CHAIRS!
Rituals will begin at approximately 7:30 p.m.
These rituals are open to all.
Weather permitting, here is our Drum Circle schedule for 2014:
Saturday, March 15th
Saturday, April 19th
Saturday, May 17th
Saturday, June 21st
Saturday, July 19th
Saturday, August 16th
Saturday, September 20th
Saturday, October 18th
Saturday, November 15th
Saturday, December 20th
The cost is always $8/adult
The cost includes the use of a drum or other instrument and instruction.
Coffee, cocoa, hot tea, hot cider, and baked goodies are always available.
We light the fire at 7:45 and drum from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Greetings Fellow Travelers!
Just got our Llewellyn order (FINALLY!!) and have a whole bunch of great new stuff! Tarot cards are restocked, all our titles by Scott Cunningham are back in stock, a lot of new journals are here, and we have also added sealing wax and seals! Below is a list of newly-arrived items! Hurry in before they go flying off the shelves!
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
Celtic Magic by DJ Conway
Complete Book of Amulets and Talismans by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler
Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews by Scott Cunningham
This was written as a tribute by one of our young students. I thought it was wonderful and I share it here with you now.
To the Rose
Dear Rose,
Though I never met you,
your presence lingers
and warm
accompanying our dragon Guardian
as an angel
And now
past the day you began this life,
and see
our celebration,
as we dance and laugh
of life, for life
and to the Rose...
The wind rises
the May Queen
joins in song,
our King's voice
is louder, stronger than earth
for Beltane...
and for the Rose.
Colors dance
'round the May Pole
Animal Dreaming Oracle
Angel Tarot
Angels, Gods & Goddesses
Atlantis Tarot
Babylonian Tarot
Black Cats Tarot
Brotherhood of Light Egyptian Tarot
Circle of Life Tarot
Connolly Tarot
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Just prolongated my KPN subscription and ordered the Samsung Galaxy S5. Samsung offers a free S-View cover and 32GB memory card until the end of the month, so if any of you (local) S5 owners is interested in the S-View cover, let me know.
Got my first tattoo yesterday. Lines and shading done, colouring will be done in four weeks.
It's been just over a week (9 days to be exact) that I started playing Ingress, and I became level 5 yesterday. It's not as fast as some people level up (level 6 can be done in a couple of days or so), but I mostly play alone and did the first days only on foot. Now I use the car more.
My receiver broke down. Well, not all of it. Everything worked, except sound. Pretty basic for a receiver if you ask me. I inquired what a repair would cost, but all I was quoted were the costs of taking the device in for investigation. I decided to give it some rest, and asked my friends for advice. Their most sane conclusion was just to do the repair, since replacing the receiver would be way more costly.
This evening I started watching a tv series, and switched from sound via the receiver to stereo sound via the tv. It's an flatpanel tv, so I guess you know what difference that made. Yuck. But…better than no sound at all.
During watching, I started to notice an echo. Because I was too busy watching, too pulled in to what I was watching, I didn't pay much attention to it. After I watched my series, I switched to digital radio, and -as a creature of habit- I turned up the volume by using the Logitech remote, not the remote from the tv. The volume did increase. It took a second for me to realize that…..I just turned up the volume of the receiver. The echo I had been hearing was coming from …. my receiver.
As by magic, it now works again. All channels have sound, all inputs work, all I now have to do is put the right "label" into each source again since I did a factory reset to make sure the receiver wasn't stuck in some software loop or something.
So……until some scientific rational reason comes up, I am going to believe that it was magic that made my receiver work again. Isn't that something?
In October my NAS disk broke down after the powerfailure. So I bought new disks. Last month (not even a week ago) my Windows system disk (SSD) died (unrecoverable). So I bought a new disk. Today my receiver gave in. No more sound. Everything works, except there is no sound. Factory reset (my receiver has that) didn't work. So I'm guessing the pre-amp inside died, since it has 7 discrete amplifiers for each channel, so the problem must lie before it reaches these amplifiers.
Had a lovely -belated- Christmas dinner with my sister and brother-in-law. I fell ill at the end of the first Christmas day, so I had to postpone my dinner that was planned for the 26th. My sister fell ill as well. I was recovered enough today, and she decided she would not be a party-pooper and decided to come visit me. I stripped the starters from the menu at her request, and after all we had a lovely evening.
After cleaning up, I went upstairs to play some games. To my surprise, my PC had two black screens with only a cursor in the top left corner. Okay, let's reboot. Same result. BIOS setup revealed that everything was seemingly in working order. But…..what's that, only one harddisk. The normal HDD, not the SSD bootdisk. Unplugged the power, unplugged the normal HDD, boot and……
Meaning the BIOS can't find ANY boot device while only the SSD is connected. Let's see what my server thinks of this disk. It's linux, and it has hot-swap on the SATA ports enabled, so that should be a piece of cake.
And of course it was: to linux the disk was dead as well. On two different ports. After connecting via hot-swap, or after hard reboot.
Meaning: my desktop PC is out of order for now. The SSD has 36 months of warranty, and only 18 have passed. So yes, an OCZ Vertex4 128GB died after only 18 months of (not very intense) use. How fucked up is that?
I've created a page with Maps Marker to show my employers. The address of the main office as a marker. You can hover to see the name of the company, or click on the marker to see the full address and the period I worked there. Click on the My Employers tab on the top of the screen to view it.
For now only the latest three employers, but I will add the rest a.s.a.p.
As a sidetrack for a work related project, I recently looked at GeoDjango. GeoDjango is the geospatially enabled version of Django, the socalled webframework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Doing the GeoDjango tutorial for the umpth time, Python caught me again. The way the language works, it seems to flawlessly connect with the way I think when I'm programming.
I needed to do some manual upgrading, can't remember what exactly, but that had to do with the Ubuntu registries not having the latest version or so. Nothing special.
Thinking about two projects to create now. One is an idea I already have for a long time, so maybe it will see daylight some time.
Yes, that's right! The deal was made earlier this week, but I wanted to go public with it after talking to my boss. Which I did this afternoon. He took it very well, I guess.
For the first time in a long time, I will be leaving consultancy behind me. Unfortunately that also means no more company car, so I'll need to buy one myself in time. My new title is Senior Developer, and I guess the senior refers to the amount of grey hair I have, or the lack of hair for that matter
I will be starting my new job February 1st, since I have a 2 months notice on my current contract. Plenty of time to finish my current project(s), and to transfer the knowledge I have of previous projects to some of my colleagues.
Exiting times!
On Friday the 13th we had a power outage. Of course. It lasted an hour. After that my whole house came to life again, except….the TV-signal, my landphone and my internet. Correct, same provider. They had problems after the power got back on, and their problems lasted several hours.
I didn't think I had any problems, everything in the house seemed to work. Except when I tried to get some files of my NAS disk for work. It died. Connected the disk to a Windows machine, my Linux server, tried repairing the disk with a controller of the same type of disk, but none of that worked. The disk was dead. It contained my photos, my music, my documents, all my downloads and some backups. Great. Because of money issues, the disk was not mirrored. And I found that my latest backup of my pictures was….from July 2011.
I bought 4 new disks.
Two 3TB disks to be installed as RAID1 (mirrored disks) in my server, to be my main storage for pictures, documents and the like. And the NAS gets two brand new 1TB disks, also to be used in RAID1. To make things more expensive, I bought NAS-grade disks, which basically can stand being "on" 24/7.
The NAS disks are now installed and I am gradually restoring my pictures onto it.
The period the missing pictures span was certainly not the best period of my life. But there were some good moments I captured. Guess I have to make up for that in the years to come. Let's charge the Canon, and start shooting.


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metal charpy impact testing equipment / Pendulum Impact Tester price/ impact testing machine
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- Place of Origin: Beijing, China (Mainland)
- Brand Name: UnitedTest
- Model Number: JBS-300B
- Power: Electronic
- Usage: Impact Testing Machine
- Operation: Dial, LCD touching, or PC software
- Power: 220/380 V, 50/60HZ
- Name: impact testing machine
- Certificate: CE
Packaging & Delivery
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SpecificationsCharpy pendulum impact testig machine, impact test equipment
Dial,Digital,PC controlled;
Manual or automatic sample feeding;
JBS-B series LCD touching screen display Pendulum impact testing machine is mainly used to determine the anti-impact capability of ferrous metal materials with high toughness, especially for steel and iron and their alloy, under dynamic load.
This series tester is operated semi-automatically, the pendulum of the machine can be raised or released automatically. Be applicable for continuing testing in different kinds of laboratories and other metallurgy industrial manufactories.
It is designed and developed according to standard of ISO148, ASTM E23.
1, Pendulum rising, impact, free releasing is realized as automatically by micro control meter or remote control box;
2, Safety pin guaranties the impact action, standard protection shell to avoid any accident.
3, Pendulum will automatically rising and ready for next impact action after specimen breakout.
4, with two pendulums (big and small), LCD touching screen display the energy loss, impact tenacity, rising angle, and test average value, meantime the dial scale show test result as well.
5, Built-in micro printer to print test result.
Touching screen interface
Impact Tester Frame color according customer requirement
Specification in forms:
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|Impact energy
|large energy like 800J available
|Distance between pendulum center to impact point
|Impact velocity
|Pendulum preparing angle
|Span of specimen seat
|Round angle radius of Grips
|Round angle radius of striking edge
|R2-2.5mm, R8± 0.08mm
|Angle of impact knife
|Specimen size
|10 (7.5, 5, 2.5)mm*10mm*55mm
|Power supply
|3 phases 4 lines, 50Hz, 380V
Standard Accessories:
1. Big Pendulum (300J/500J): 1 pc
2. Small Pendulum (150J/250J): 1 pc
3. Span specimen plate (L = 40mm): 1 pc
4. Specimen centering plate (L = 40mm)(U, V): 1 pc
5. Detacher: 1 pc
6. Simple-head spanner (S=30mm): 1 pc
7. Inner-hexagon spanner (S=12mm): 1 pc
8. Anchor bolts (M16x300mm): 4 pcs
9. Grips (including support) (R=1mm): 1 pair
10, Touching screen control panel/ PC software & PC
Main Specifications:
1, the impact energy: 150J, 300J (250J/500J)
2, pendulum angle: 150 °
3, the pendulum shaft center to the impact point distance: 800mm
4, the impact speed: 5.4m / s
5, the specimen bearing span: 40mm
6, jaw fillet: R1-1.5mm
7, the impact of the blade fillet: R2-2.5mm
8, the impact of knife thickness: 16mm
9, angle accuracy: ± 0.1 °
11, sample size: 10 × 10 × 55mm
12, Dimensions: 1500 mm×850 mm×1340 mm
13, the test machine weight: 450Kg
14, Power: AC Three-phase 380V ± 10% 50HZ 5A
15, environmental conditions: No corrosive media environment, no vibration, no strong electromagnetic fields.
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"In Business Over 49 years"
Summer store hours
Thursday & Sunday from 9 AM to 3 PM
Friday & Saturday from 8 AM until 4 PM
Other days and times by appointment.
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Peconic Paddler has been in business over 49 years. Jim has been paddling for over half a century on Long Island, Central America, the Bahamas, the Florida Everglades and Keys. Jared has paddled for over a decade on Long Island, Galapagoes Islands in South America, Georgia, and the Florida Keys. They have experience paddling stand up paddleboards, canoes and kayaks. They can help you pick out the right watercraft for your use and show you how to use it efficiently and get the most miles per stroke and get great exercise.
Fall and winter are the best times to purchase an SUP, canoe or kayak. We are usually overstocked with new watercraft so they are all discounted. Also as the renting season slows down (after Labor Day), it is time to sell all of our rental kayaks, SUPs and canoes.
Some of our best buys include Kevlar and fiberglass kayaks, lightweight, epoxy stand up paddleboards and ultralight, carbon SUP and kayak paddles. You can save hundreds of bucks.
For the most fun workout and to stay in great shape, try stand up paddling on a stand up paddleboard from Peconic Paddler. SUPing works your core muscles, your arms, your legs, and even your mind - peacefulness and tranquility on the Peconic Bay, Red Creek Pond, the Atlantic Ocean, Lake Ronkonkoma, Shinnecock Bay and other beautiful waterways.
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I haven't posted on here in months and I'm so sorry about that! The first semester of college has been so busy for me. Over the past few days I started to make charms again. I'll be updating my shop pretty soon with more new stuff! I'm hoping that I'll have more time second semester to make charms at school as well. I'll post up some WIP pictures soon as well. Hope you all had a nice holiday!
The store is officially reopened! Please check out and like the official Facebook page as well!
I'm going to try to reopen the store this weekend. I was planning to last weekend, but something happened and I was unable to work on it.
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this has one rough start back onto my insanity schedule. After getting through the first three days, I ended up getting really sick and haven't left the house for the last three days. I was taking decongestions and other medicines, which left me coma like on the couch in front of the tv. i still feel moderately crappy today but not nearly as bad as i did over the weekend. i got up and did cardio recovery today, to get myself back in the swing. yes, this is an easier video of mostly stretching, but i needed something to get myself back into the swing and not with a full immersion like one of the other videos would have been. tomorrow i'll be back on track with pure cardio and will take it from there. hopefully i don't have to go to the doctor this week and these over the counter meds do the trick. fingers crossed.


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I've spent the last year working on Backspaces because I was (and am) convinced that storytelling will forever be the defining activity for the human web. What I mean by that is, amid the endless streams of data, the commoditization of behavior, and the aggregation of interaction, narrative is the only thing that's actually worth a damn. Storytelling is one of our best tools to articulate the universality of the human experience, and it's in our best interest to enable it as much as we can.
Backspaces was our attempt at bringing storytelling to the mobile web, with a photographic slant. It's a fantastic product and we've had a lot of fun building it. When the community started growing, Dmitri and I were completely humbled by the incredible stories people were sharing.
We devoted a lot of time and effort into making Backspaces a "social consumer app" because that's where we thought the big opportunity was. Personally, I was looking to macro trends and saw mass adoption as the key to Backspaces' survival. User generated content as a model only works if there are millions and millions of creators.
But what we discovered with Backspaces is that creating good stories is really hard. More importantly, the economic model for web "content" is mostly ambivalent to the actual content itself, and more concerned with how high the pageviews are. When we saw that no story, no matter how poignant or beautiful, was going to beat a Buzzfeed cat listicle in terms of pageviews, we realized there was a huge problem with the whole model for storytellers.
So we began thinking of the problem at its root. And talking to smart people about it. People who were obsessed with the same problem. And that's how we met Dan Fletcher, hot off his exit from Facebook. In three short months, we worked with Dan to put together a service that believes whole heartedly in the value of stories and storytellers. I won't blather on too much about it here because we've said plenty elsewhere.
It's a really simple product - find a writer, fund them with a $5 monthly subscription, and get access to every single story and writer on the platform. It's like Netflix and Kickstarter rolled into one great experience for journalism. And it's live right now.
It's with great pleasure and excitement that I introduce you to Beacon, the best way to empower writers by funding the work they do.
The Wassaic Project festival this past weekend featured a tremendous amount of art, music, dance and performance. This little art hamlet wedged between rolling green hills and tucked under a sky of sparkling stars showcased some deeply moving and often fun site-specific work.
It was great to see so many people from the local community and region come out. It really didn't feel like an arty echo-chamber, but an event that was actually engaging the local community. More thoughts and photos from Wassaic all week so please stay tuned and share!
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Last week, Cheerios posted this new commercial on youtube. It sparked a firestorm of backlash, and (naturally) the comments on the video have been deactivated.
When my wife and I watched the video, it felt great to (finally) see a representation of our own family. Especially considering what happened at a Wal-Mart in Virginia a few weeks ago.
We created this site to publicly reflect the changing face of the American family. According to the 2008 census, 15% of new marriages are interracial. And yet, it still feels rare to see something like the Cheerios ad represented in mainstream culture.
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All beasts move by instinct
but sometimes it's obvious.
I see you easy: migrations
and the making of honey.
Desire is something we
thought of to name what
in us wants to pollinate.
I can't (don't want to)
tell what all
of this is for, or about.
We try to talk this out. Let's stop
thinking and see what our bodies
want to say.
From the story "Calm nights here are memories of there." by SandersAK. Read it on Backspaces.
The myth is
you'd walk
right off a
stone cliff
just to follow
through with
instinct. Edge
and endings.
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individual, and
it is. What is it
that is waiting
for you at the
bottom? The
truth is that
made this
story up
along the way,
on the long
walk toward
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In regards to that whole raise controversy, I'm a very supportive person to both Patti and the girls. When I was approached about this, my initial feelings were from the old school of "it never hurts to ask," but do it the right way and be professional. So, the train wreck that occurred because of it, well, what did she expect? I would have had the exact same reaction as Patti. If a person feels entitled to a raise, fine, but think it through first. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, which backfires sometimes.
Being the only guy, I have to put up with a lot of moods, girl talk, complaints, randomness and shopping, but I think I handle it well. It's like watching a play to me. I get to see them go off on each other, argue one minute, laugh the next, model outfits, you name it. All I need is the popcorn and I'm set. I'm like a rooster with a mohawk in a henhouse. No, maybe not. That's a horrible way to put it. How about this -- I'm like the male bass player in an otherwise all-girl band. I'm quiet, do my job, contribute and don't let things get to me as long as we end up making great music together in the end, which we do.


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Graphic artist Vahram Muratyan compiled his first set of playful illustrations in his eponymous book, 'Paris VS New York', and has since released the second edition that includes a new series of illustrations.
His visual matches are quaint and tongue-in-cheek, paying homage to the two cities and celebrating their unique characteristics.
Visually appealing, his graphics make for good wall art too.
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Jordan Denounces Jerusalem Attack
Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Ilah Khatib on Sunday denounced the deadly Palestinian suicide attacks against civilians in occupied Jerusalem, stressing that such violence serves no one.
"Jordan denounces attacks on civilians and hopes that the losses in human lives in addition to all the losses sustained in the past 14 months will be enough to persuade everyone that these bloody confrontations will not achieve any results for any of the parties," Khatib said in a statement to AFP.
"Violence will only breed more violence," Khatib warned, stressing the need for "serious negotiations" between Israel and the Palestinians to guarantee security for both sides.
Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed themselves and 10 Israelis when they blew themselves up in a crowded area of occupied Jerusalem late Saturday. It was the third suicide operation in Israel since US peace envoys arrived in the region last Monday.
A fourth attack happened later Sunday when explosions ripped through two buses in the Israeli port of Haifa, killing 16 and injuring 55 by midday.
The US, the Palestinian Authority and Egypt have condemned the Jerusalem bombing.
According to news agencies, Israelis have suffered more than 200 casualties and 2,000 wounded in the latest Palestinian uprising against 34 years of military occupation.
Palestinians, according to the Tel Aviv-based Haaretz newspaper, have suffered over 700 killed and from 8,500 to 10,000 wounded.
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(Istanbul, Turkey) Censorship is very much on the minds of attendees at this year's Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul. One reason, of course, is because the meeting is being held in a country that has censored the Web. Earlier this year the Turkish government blocked Twitter and YouTube for awhile and continues to block thousands […]
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As we have for the past several years, my ConnectSafely.org co-director Anne Collier and I are attending this year's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to talk about child protections, child rights and digital citizenship, including children's' access to social media and other Internet resources. The ninth annual IGF takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, September 2nd through the 5th. The IGF […]
Protecting children online needs to allow for their right to free speech
I'm writing this column on a flight to Istanbul and then on to Geneva for two United Nations conferences. Istanbul is the site of this year's U.N. Internet Governance Forum (IGF), while the Geneva meetings will focus on digital media and children's rights per the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which […]
It's time for schools to upgrade both technology and pedagogy
by Larry Magid As students return to school, it's time to think about absolute necessities like pens, paper, school clothes, a laptop or tablet and, of course, a learning network that enables them to interact with fellow students and teachers. OK, that network may not yet be mandatory. But an increasing number of teachers are […]
Why Google (and Facebook) should admit kids under 13
The website The Information (subscription required to get past the first paragraph) is reporting that Google has been "working to overhaul its web services so it can legally allow children to use them." Google hasn't commented on the report but I hope it's true. To comply with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Google, […]
As Ferguson struggles, Georgia teens create app to rate police departments
As the nation watches Ferguson, Missouri work out its troubled police-community relations, a group of teens from Georgia have created an Android app to help communities rate their police departments on a scale of A to F. The app is called Five-O (inspired by the TV show) and it's the brain child of 14 year […]
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By Larry Magid A lot has been written about how technology can make driving more dangerous, and it's certainly risky to text, fiddle with your phone, configure your GPS, mess with your radio or even speak on the phone while driving. But tech can also make us safer. For example, my car is equipped with […]
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This article describes the formula syntax and usage of the ERF function (function: A prewritten formula that takes a value or values, performs an operation, and returns a value or values. Use functions to simplify and shorten formulas on a worksheet, especially those that perform lengthy or complex calculations.) in Microsoft Excel.
Returns the error function integrated between lower_limit and upper_limit.
The ERF function syntax has the following arguments (argument: A value that provides information to an action, an event, a method, a property, a function, or a procedure.):
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There are only 3 Writers dinners remaining in the United States. New York and St. Louis are the other two.
Honorees on hand tonight will include:
–Clay Buchholz, co-Pitcher of the Year
–Tim Wakefield, MLB Roberto Clemente Award
–Jed Lowrie, Comeback-Player-of-the-Year
–Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino, Judge Emil Fuchs winner
–Darnell McDonald, Jackie Jensen Award
–Ryan Kalish, Rookie-of-the-Year
–Scott Atchison, Unsung Hero winner
–Manager Terry Francona
–Hitting coach Dave Magadan
–Pitching coach Curt Young
–Texas Manager Ron Washington
–Umpire Jim Joyce
The event is always a great take and will get you in the baseball mood for 2011.


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Our teaser trailer. Whaddya think?
What a tremendous idea!
Alley of Doom is a pop-up game that gives Indiana Jones fans (and anyone else for that matter) the chance to recreate the boulder run from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Here's the blurb from the website: "Think: one part theme park, one part guerrilla theatre, and one part pure, geeky wish-fulfillment. You play the part of Indiana "Don't Sue Us Please, George Lucas" Jones. We hook you up with some Indiana-esque gear, a gold idol, and play the part of ferocious boulder trying to (gently) smash you. How things play out is up to you.
You are free to run, walk, pogo-stick, moonwalk, bike, karate-flip, skip, scream, or funky-chicken away from certain doom. Cameras are set up along the course to capture the action so that, after you run, you no longer have to just imagine yourself as Mr. Jones: You'll be him! Sort of!"
For more about Alley of Doom, visit the below links…
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