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Tongala's Daryl Reid put out a fire in a neighbour's kitchen.January 29, 2014 4:42am
Tongala resident Rhiannon Payne is grateful she has a neighbour like Daryl Reid and that he had a fire extinguisher handy last week.
Last Thursday about 8
''I left the room for a moment and when I came back the pan was alight,'' she said.
''The fire spread quickly across the cooker, up into the range hood and then caught hold of the kitchen worktop and overhead cupboards and at that point I realised I couldn't deal with it myself.''
Ms Payne phoned 000 and ran across the road and frantically knocked and rang the bell at Mr Reid's house.
He had been asleep, but when he opened the door the message was loud and clear.
''I just said to Daryl 'can you please help me, my kitchen's on fire','' Ms Payne said.
Fortunately, Mr Reid had a fire extinguisher handy and rushed over to help.
''That fire extinguisher turned out to be a good investment. I've had it a few years, but it did the job,'' Mr Reid said.
''There was a lot of pretty unpleasant smoke in there and even after the fire appeared to be out it was difficult to tell for sure because of all the smoke that was still floating around.''
Tongala CFA arrived quickly and made sure the site was safe and Kyabram CFA also responded to the call.
Ms Payne has since bought Mr Reid a new fire extinguisher and sent him a thank you card saying ''Thanks, to the Guiney St firefighter''.
This incident followed another recent fire at a home near Kyabram when Tongala police officer Frank Scopelliti was nearby and saw smoke.
''There was a large amount of smoke and flames coming from the verandah so I grabbed the fire extinguisher from the car and fortunately was able to put the fire out as there were children at home there at the time,'' he said.
''There was a gas connection near the fire so I made sure that was safe.''
Kyabram CFA captain Mick Crompton said these two incidents showed the benefit of having a fire extinguisher and other equipment such as a fire blanket at home and in the car.
With reference to the Kyabram incident, Mr Crompton said the children at the property were unaware of the fire and Mr Scopelliti's prompt action saved what could have been a dangerous situation.
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In the cloud storage industry, we talk a lot about "price wars." Every 6 months or so, one of the major cloud storage providers drops their prices, and everyone else follows suit. Well guess what?
Game over.
Perhaps you've heard Google dropped the cost to $0.026/GB per month for standard storage (GCS) and $0.020/GB per month for DRA (Durable Reduced Availability). Of course, there will still be more price drops here and there, but fundamentally we've reached the point where cloud storage has effectively been commoditized.
As a result, you may be wondering about the impact to the market and to cloud storage customers.
Truth is the commoditization of cloud storage was as inevitable as the commoditization of disk drives. I've always said the real value of cloud storage is in software that controls it: the cloud-integrated storage controller or cloud storage gateway. It's the software that enables organizations to solve their difficult storage issues: growing and maintaining their current NAS and SAN systems, preventing sprawl and having a disaster recovery plan that meets their objectives.
Price drops should be no surprise in the world of cloud storage. In fact, they are a core part of the value proposition. When you purchase traditional storage, you buy storage for the next 3-5 years at today's prices, knowing that prices will be significantly lower when you finally utilize all of the storage — there are no rebates or credits for unused storage or delayed deployment. With cloud storage, on the other hand, you pay for what you use and when prices drop, not only does your next allocation of storage cost less, but your existing operational costs drop as well. This a very powerful concept in the world of traditional storage dominated by 3-5 year replacement cycles that perpetuate economic inefficiencies.
As far as the market impact, there are winners and losers with any price war, which explains why we designed our CloudArray cloud-integrated storage to work with virtually every cloud provider and easily migrate data between clouds. Freedom of choice is a very powerful thing. We wanted to make sure that regardless of the outcome of any price wars, the customer always wins.
The verdict: Enjoy the improved economics of cloud storage. And take comfort in knowing this certainly will not be the last price drop.
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Laura Ashley still has a place in my heart... just not in my wardrobe
There is one garment from my past I loved more than any other, that made me feel I had arrived and that I wore more than anything I've put on since.
It is a mauve cotton painter's smock by Laura Ashley, bought in the late Seventies on a trip to the flagship store off London's Sloane Street.
In those hippy, halcyon days, Laura Ashley was the only label to be seen in. My older sister bought a polka dot maxi skirt with a frilled hem, which she wore with a white blouse with a piecrust collar.
Flowers and frills: Laura Ashley bridalwear in 1986
Laura Ashley was to young women in the Seventies what Topshop Unique or Marc by Marc Jacobs is today. It was romantic at a time when we still believed we would meet the man of our dreams. It was the costume of my youth.
Laura Ashley was a retro, safe, Victoriana touchstone in an age of chaos. No wonder I wore that purple smock for so long that it lost its colour.
The reason for my trip down fashion's memory lane is I'm at a pop-up Laura Ashley retrospective of garments cherry-picked from the brand's archive in Wales to celebrate its 60th birthday.
A shy Lady Diana Spencer in that see-through skirt in 1980
I'm surrounded by garments and prints I thought I'd forgotten. There is a blue Victorian maxi dress with smocking at the bust. And a shiny green ballgown, replete with puff sleeves and a boat neck, from 1985.
We never thought about this at the time, but in the Seventies and Eighties everything with that distinctive Laura Ashley label was made in Wales or England.
And, habituated as I am to the insanely cheap prices on the High Street, I'm shocked to learn that a simple cotton day dress in 1985 was £28.95 - the equivalent of about £75 today - while my cotton smock, a store manager who has worked for the brand from the late Seventies tells me, would have cost about £25.
How I afforded it, given my only employment was a job washing up in a pub, is anyone's guess.
But I wasn't alone. Who could forget that Diana Spencer was wearing a spotty Laura Ashley skirt when she was photographed by the paparazzi in a pose that revealed the contours of her legs?
This is a brand that has a special place in our hearts. It was founded in 1953 by Laura - then secretary for the National Federation of Women's Institutes - and her husband Bernard.
After attending an exhibition at the V&A on handicrafts, Laura was inspired to sew her own patchwork quilts, but was unable to find suitable fabrics. So she decided to print her own designs.
So pleased was she with the results she started producing linen scarves to showcase her patterns.
She invested £10 in screens, dye and linen. Her first attempt is on display in the exhibition.
In 1960, the family moved to Wales, where Laura was born.
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She started making smocks for gardening and blouses, using archive prints that had been inspired by flowers.
The first London shop opened in Pelham Street, South Kensington, in 1968. Though Laura designed simple shifts, the Sixties were not her decade.
By 1970, when she had found her stride in floral Victoriana, sales had reached £300,000 a year, fuelled by the fact young women were starting to rebel against the constraints of the mini skirt. The Fulham Road shop sold 4,000 dresses a week.
To say that Laura Ashley was a phenomenon in the Seventies would be an understatement. Punk, to me, having moved to London to study in 1977, was terrifying. Nice girls wore Laura Ashley. By the Eighties and Nineties, Laura Ashley was producing power suits and tailoring.
Laura died in a tragic accident when she fell down a flight of stairs in 1985.
The label became lost in a sea of padded shoulders and primary colours. I stopped wearing the label in 1982 when I discovered the more exotic Azzedine Alaia and Donna Karan: brands that showed off our aerobicised bodies rather than covered them up in swathes of stiff fabric.
But does Laura Ashley work now? I love the fact for autumn/winter, the original 1954 scarf is being reissued in silk, for £35.
I like a couple of dresses with a heritage print: an ethnic print smock dress with sleeves, £65, and a navy dress with a horseshoe motif, £65.
However, the new autumn collection is awful. Stiff lace skirts. Sequin boxy jackets. Leopard-print bags. A knitted biker. A snake-print shirt that doesn't get it right: it needed to be sheer, with long tails that will waft out from under grey V-necked cashmere. The wool coats are too rough.
None of the clothes are made on these shores any more, which is a shame. The world has moved on and woe betide the brand that doesn't move with it.
But for a chance to bathe in nostalgia and visit the Laura Ashley archive in Wales, and to receive a £1,000 voucher, upload a picture of yourself wearing Laura Ashley on the brand's Facebook page: the competition for the best photo closes on July 25.
I suggest you spend your £1,000 on a year's worth of Laura Ashley candles, scented with the reissued No 1 fragrance. It's a scent that sums up my memories of wearing Laura Ashley during a heatwave at the end of my A-levels. Heaven indeed.
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JET Copies Case Problem Read the "JET Copies" Case Problem on pages 678-679 of the text. Using simulation estimate the loss of revenue due to copier breakdown for one year, as follows: 1.In Excel, use a suitable method for generating the number of days needed to repair the copier, when it is out of service, according to the discrete distribution shown. 2.In Excel, use a suitable method for simulating the interval between successive breakdowns, according to the continuous distribution shown. 3.In Excel, use a suitable method for simulating the lost revenue for each day the copier is out of service. 4.Put all of this together to simulate the lost revenue due to copier breakdowns over 1 year to answer the question asked in the case study. 5.In a word processing program, write a brief description/explanation of how you implemented each component of the model. Write 1-2 paragraphs for each component of the model (days-to-repair; interval between breakdowns; lost revenue; putting it together). 6.Answer the question posed in the case study. How confident are you that this answer is a good one? What are the limits of the study? Write at least one paragraph. There are two deliverables for this Case Problem, the Excel spreadsheet and the written description/explanation.
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LATEST: Since the Kapiti Observer posted Barry's story on Friday, Lindale Farm has been bombarded with pledges for donations to pay off the unlucky goat's vet bill.
Ms Wilton said she'd received about 30 emails and non-stop phone calls and text messages on Friday, after the story went online.
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Barry the goat has a deformed face, broken leg, terrible luck, and no mates, but still manages a smile for the camera at Lindale Farm north of Paraparaumu.
Having climbed onto a picnic table five weeks ago for a better nibble on a tree at the farm, Barry fell off and broke his left front leg.
A cast was placed on his leg, and farm operators Virginia Wilton and Wendy Rigarlsford set up a donation box to pay for his vet bill.
Unfortunately, last week the farm barn was broken into - thieves trashing the inside of the building and stealing Barry's donation box.
Ms Wilton said Barry is the unluckiest goat in the world.
''He is absolutely hideous, but he is just such a lovely goat.
"He was born with that big roman nose, and the bottom of his jaw juts out too far so he can't even chew grass properly. Now he's broken his leg.''
Now Ms Wilton and Ms Rigarlsford are offering up their services to any local businesses to help raise money for Barry's bills, but say they won't do nudity.
Ms Wilton said the girls are prepared to barbecue for Barry, or bar tend for Barry, or any job that can raise Barry some much needed money.
''We don't make an awful lot of money here. Most people would say why bother, but Barry is world famous in Lindale, and everyone loves him. He's just hopeless. We will come down and do some work for anyone, we'll do anything, but we won't go naked.
''But seriously, we're a couple of farm girls and don't mind getting dirty for a good cause.''
They are hoping to raise about $1000 for Barry, which will go towards his vet bills and to make him a nice new home at Lindale, as the other goats won't let him into their paddock.
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Barry's cast is expected to come off in about two weeks, and it's hoped he won't try climbing on picnic tables again in the near future.
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In this riveting collection, published for the first time, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period, as they move from an official relationship to one of candor, humor, and personal expression. Together they were primarily responsible for the Marshall Plan and NATO, among other world-shaping initiatives. And in these letters, spanning the years from when both were newly out of office until Acheson's death at the age of seventy-eight, we find them sharing the often surprising and always illuminating opinions, ideas, and feelings that the strictures of their offices had previously kept them from revealing. Adapting easily to their private lives, they nonetheless felt a powerful need to keep in touch as they viewed with dismay what they considered to be the Eisenhower administration's fumbling of foreign affairs, the impact of Joseph McCarthy, John Foster Dulles's foreign policy, and the threat of massive nuclear retaliation. Adlai Stevenson's poor campaign of 1956, Eisenhower's second-term mishaps, family events, speaking engagements, and Truman's difficulties writing his memoirs are all fodder for their conversations. In 1960 their skeptical stance toward John F. Kennedy (and his father's influence) turned them toward Lyndon Johnson. After Kennedy won they discussed Acheson's reluctant involvement in the Cuban missile crisis, his missions to de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan, and the Allied position in Berlin. Unbuttoned, careless of language, unburdened by political ambition or vanity, Truman and Acheson show their own characters and loyalty to each other on every page. Truman, a Missouri farmer with the unpolished but sharp intellect of the largely self-educated man, clearly understands that in Acheson he has a friend with a rare gift for providing unhesitant and truthful counsel. Acheson, well-educated, urbane, and well-off, understands which traits in Truman's complex character to love and admire and when to admonish, instruct, and tease him. Both men share a deep and abiding patriotism, a quality that truly stands out in today's world. A remarkable book that brings to light the very human side of two of the most important statesmen of the twentieth century.
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Harry S. Truman was the thirty-third president of the United States. Dean Acheson was Secretary of State during the Truman administration.
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Smartboxes are slowly but surely going to be the next best thing after HD Media players. They offer you much more control than an HD media player which is locked down to its own custom firmware and you have very little options to add apps.
We had seen the Android 4.0 Mini PC sometime back which offered you an ICS experience on any HDTV and which literally would fit in your palm.
This time we got the Akai Smartbox which runs Android 2.3 operating system. Although not as light and portable as the Android 4.0 MIni PC, the Akai Smartbox bundles in a wireless mouse along with an HDMI cable and has four USB 2.0 ports which gives it a slight edge over the Android 4.0 Mini PC. But does that make it a worthy buy? We will find out soon.
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The Akai Smartbox looks like any other entry-level HD media player having a plastic build. The top portion has a glossy black finish with the Akai branding. When seen from the sides, it seems to taper from the back to the front. On the left hand side you have the SD card slot whereas the right hand side is clean. The edges, as well as the front and back are slanted in a triangular manner. The front face of the Akai Smartbox is clean and just has the blue LED indicator.
The build is all plastic and does not inspire much admiration. The glossy top is a fingerprint magnet. The device is very light though. It comes with a wireless mouse which has a decently slim profile and has a glossy black finish. The buttons on the mouse are quite responsive and you can hear an audible clicking sound.
The rear side has a variety of ports, microphone input, AV out, four USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, a LAN port and a power port. We quite liked the fact that Akai has a healthy number of ports, that ways even if you have two ports for the mouse and the keyboard, you are still left with two more ports to attach your external drives.
As is the case with such devices, the Akai Smartbox lacks a dedicated power button.
The Akai Smartbox houses a 1.25 GHz processor and runs a highly customised version of Android 2.3. We could not confirm as to which system-on-chip the device runs on as Akai's official website has no information on that. Android 2.3 is a bit dated specially now, when the least you can expect is Android 4.0. It has a LAN port as well as a Wi-Fi adapter within.
The user interface is very straightforward and somewhat boring. You have a dock with all the various categories of apps. You can change the wallpaper from the list of stock wallpapers or taking images from your Gallery app. On clicking on any category you get another screen which shows the apps within that category, with the list of categories arranged top-down on the left hand side.
When we logged into the Market place for the very first time, we were shown the UI of the older Android Market place. But on the second login, it automatically upgraded to the Google Play Store.
By default it has two games namely Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. Now both these games are meant for touch and playing it with a normal mouse is a pain in itself. Now imagine our situation when faced with these touch-optimised games when faced with a highly unresponsive mouse. If you have a better mouse, then the experience isn't that bad, although nowhere close to that on a touchscreen.
Under the multimedia category we found a Camera app which works only when you connect a web cam to it. But do not bother with VGA webcams if you have an HDTV. Apart from this there were the standard media player and picture gallery apps.
We tested this device on an LG 42LK430 HDTV. The video playback from the external drives was quite good with 720p content. With 1080p clips in some formats such as .WMV, we noticed some stuttering and slow playback of videos. For videos playing smoothly, we did not notice any slowing down when we were fast forwarding or rewinding videos. It could play most of the video formats comfortably including .MOV, .MKV, .MP4, .AVI but failed with .FLV.
The response of the mouse was not the best and we noticed a definite lag whilst gaming. Using the onscreen keyboard was a pain on a 42-inch HDTV screen with the mouse. We would suggest you get a decent wireless mouse, if you want to have a good experience with the Smartbox and if you are going to be surfing the web or write mails, get a keyboard. Right clicking on the mouse simulates the back function.
After you download any app you get the option to categorise it in any of the six sections which is a nice touch.
One weird thing we noticed on some apps was that the scroll key would not work. For instance when we opened a news item in Flipboard and scrolled the page, there was no movement. But when we clicked the left mouse button and dragged it, the page moved along.
We ran the standard set of benchmarks and the scores we got were quite similar to what we got on the Android 4.0 Mini PC. Quadrant and GLBenchmark wouldn't run for some reason.
The Akai Smartbox does offer more features and flexibility than a standard HD media player, but the boring user interface, a not-so-great mouse, average performance on 1080p clips, old Android 2.3 OS clubbed with a restrictive pricing of Rs. 6590 make it very difficult for us to recommend it. The Android 4.0 Mini PC although has less USB 2.0 ports, still offers a better value for money at its lesser price.
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by sharky on 4/19/2013 1:54:34 PM
by zoenep on 4/17/2013 11:24:10 AM
i find it funny how i was the only person who won in vermont
by gnad12 on 4/15/2013 7:15:24 PM
by redvelvetluv on 4/15/2013 12:08:57 PM
2 Grace's and neither of them is me!... OH well
by gracezoom144 on 4/13/2013 9:10:29 PM
by auslly123 on 4/13/2013 3:14:17 PM
by cgirl109 on 4/13/2013 2:31:47 PM
YES, once again I am a loser!!~lol
by pookie188 on 4/12/2013 9:47:20 PM
hey! I changed my profile pic can somebody please approve it? thanks tons
by redvelvetluv on 4/12/2013 8:41:55 PM
I redid my profile pic but when I checked back it was the old one can somebody please approve it? thanks so much
by redvelvetluv on 4/12/2013 8:17:12 PM
@uni301 wow you've won lots and others nothing lucky
by yummyhair99 on 4/12/2013 7:10:19 PM
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by awtechnofish on 4/12/2013 6:09:05 PM
Ugh, never gonna win! xP
by susiemoocow on 4/12/2013 6:06:32 PM
by Actress-2-B on 4/12/2013 5:42:02 PM
Good job winner!!!!
by dancer995 on 4/12/2013 5:14:43 PM
THANK YOU GL!! I've won so many amazing prizes from you guys, from the laptop I'm using right now to this new Sari bracelet that I just won! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH! LUV YOU! <3
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Posts by Ugotta B. Kiddingme
408 posts • joined 23 Dec 2009
After USA FREEDOM Act's failure, what's next for mass surveillance?
Re: US Politics needs one "Lone Wolf"
That would be nice. It really would. However, I do not believe it will ever happen. What US Politics really needs is equally unlikely - a clean sweep.
The Plan:
1. Vote them ALL out. Every last one. Replace every single elected official.
2. If The People's business doesn't start getting done in a more sensible/reasonable/cost-effective manner, repeat step one as many times as necessary.
That, of course, will never happen. Many folks don't even bother to vote. Most of those who do are more concerned with updating Farcebook or what's on telly to be bothered with politics. However, if one is going to dream, might as well dream big...
Re: Sir
Easy. It muddies the water and makes it hard for the voters/taxpayers/those-who-still-give-a-shit to keep up with what's REALLY going on. A significant percentage of politicians over here began as lawyers. The US legal system started out a couple hundred years ago with lofty ideals and principles. However, it has devolved into an unworkable mess where The Truth is irrelevant, The Facts mean little, whomever can afford the most clever lawyer usually wins.[/jaded]
The "Patriot Act" won't be allowed to die
In January, the Republicans assume control of BOTH houses of Congress. They'll make a big show of caring what The People think and may even go so far as to stage a "squeaker" wherein the
"Let's Fuck The World" er, "Patriot" Act survives by one or two votes.
The reality of USA-ian politics now is that there is diminishing difference between Republicans and Democrats - BOTH are out to fuck everyone. The only difference is in whom they really serve. The Republicans are owned lock, stock, and barrel by Big Business. The Democrats are beholden to those who believe Big Government is the answer to absolutely everything. The METHODS used by both are essentially the same - screw the taxpayers, take from one group and give to another, line their own pockets with other folks' money.
Japanese boffins build rounders-playing ROBOT SCHOOLGIRL
whew! Dodged one there!
Good thing the Japanese fancy baseball rather than Cricket. Might have got serious there!
Wait. Did you just say "WHOP"?
GIANT sunspot returns, bigger and belchier than ever before
Re: AaaaUUGGH
Better to be zapped back to 1968 now rather than 1868 any time beyond now.
BOUNCY BOUNCY: Comet probot Philae landed TWICE
Re: My lander is full of eels.
I regret that I can only upvote you once. That was worth having to clean my monitor.
'Scope boffins get INSIDE URANUS after snapping mystery spots
Re: Am I the only one
No, you arsen't. Er, I mean "aren't"
Texas boffins put radio waves in a spin
I'm getting old
I saw that picture, noticed the BNC connectors, and thought:
"That's REALLY small for a Token Ring network"
Consumer group SLAMS NASA for letting Google rent $1bn 'playground'
what's the big deal?
Hasn't Google been using much of that facility for almost nothing anyway? Now, at least, NASA is getting paid for it, AND the site will get a much needed sprucing up.
Does Father Christmas expect a happy ending with Clara in Doctor Who?
what's in a name
As the credits rolled, I saw "Santa - Nick Frost."
Not being overly familiar with the actor, I thought "Really? A bloke named NICK FROST?!? cast as Santa Claus? At the time, I was unsure if that was a marvelous and/or amusing coincidence or a lame joke. Thanks to the article here, I now know I had previously seen Mr. Frost in "Shaun of the Dead" and therefore my initial assumption of amusing coincidence was correct.
Yes! It's DRONE PORN. And we don't mean shiny pics of UAVs
Re: missle silos
yes-ish. If you are referring to the concrete structures where the couple are laying on their backs, those are old gun emplacements dating back to between the World Wars. Haven't seen the entire thing but the first half is all shot north of San Francisco. The gun emplacements are just north of and seaward of the Golden Gate Bridge. Neat area to tour. The guns guarded the harbor entrance which is now dominated by the bridge. After WWII, the guns were removed and SOME of the emplacements were converted to Surface-to-Air Missle launchers.
The wooded area in the article picture and at about the 1:11 mark appears to be Muir Woods. Farther north is wine country (Napa and/or Sonoma counties) as seen in the opening shots. As evidenced in the video, it's a truly beautiful area - with or without copulating humans.
Robot deputy blasts possibly explosive Mexican beans with CANNON in 'controlled explosion'
Would those be Klingon or Romulan?
CERN: 2015 restart causes tech rethink
Re: I wonder how MS defines "unlimited"
Probably the same way AT&T does.
' "unlimited" until we arbitrarily deem it excessive and severely throttle your throughput rate'
Clara goes to the dark side, with dark secrets revealed in Dark Water
I would go so far as to say
that if you throw out the forest and moon stories, this whole series has been one of the best in the current generation. Yes, there have been some pretty significant blunders in writing and character development but Capaldi's superb acting ability has, for me at least, completely overcome all but the two abysmal stories mentioned at the beginning of my post. There were even a few redeeming bits in those two stories - albeit mostly snappy one-liners from Capaldi, which furthers my point. Supremely interested to see which part of the cliff we will be left dangling from next week.
One hard ghoulie: 1985's Ghosts 'n Goblins
easily the most played title on my MAME cabinet
absolutely love GnG, even though I suck terribly at it. I can't recall ever getting past level 2 without rage quitting first. Thankfully, I had the foresight to encase my MAME cabinet entirely in formica so it's nigh on indestructible.
And a big thank you to article author Giles Hill for finding that hilarious "lyrics" video. I hadn't previously seen that and now several coworkers are wondering what the heck I'm laughing about.
NASA: Spacecraft crash site FOUND ON MOON RIM
missed opportunity
I can't believe none of the editorial staff demanded the inclusion of this as headline or sub-head:
"LADEE bits found on moon!"
China set to be buried under mountain of surplus robots, warns biz chap
Neither do they demand human rights, democracy, etc etc.
now THAT might be an RoTM worth watching.
Oh, wait. Isn't that how the First Cylon War began...?
Rise of the machines: Silicon Valley hardware store to deploy ROBOTS for customer service
Re: I foresee trouble
one robot sneaks up and tags the other robot with a "kick me" sign in 3... 2... 1...
HUGE SHARK as big as a WWII SUBMARINE died out, allowing whales to exist
Re: I hear Honey-Booboo is available
to be shark food? Spiffy! Film it, and call it a documentary.
Disney and chums halt Comcast-TWC, AT&T-DirecTV weddings
The real reason for the delay is probably simpler
Most likely simple stalling until this election cycle is past. Then they will do whatever their lobbyists tell them to without fear of reprisal from an angry electorate*.
* yes, I know, the FCC isn't directly affected by The People©®™ or their voting results, but politicians are and those politicians lean on bureaucrats like those at the FCC - some of whom are beholden to those same politicians for continued public-sector employment...
Win a year's supply of chocolate (no tech knowledge required)
Re: Living in Belgium
and I am most jealous of you. My company has a facility in Belgium and whenever my colleagues visit, they bring us samples of incredible Belgian chocolate. (and wonderful Belgian beer, but we can get much of that over here now).
HBO shocks US pay TV world: We're down with OTT. Netflix says, 'Gee'
Re: Nielson ratings just shit themselves.
Not necessarily. I have it on very solid authority that the METHOD of delivery for programming has little effect on at least SOME of the ratings services. The viewer's solicited opinion of the actual program content trumps the method by which it was watched. At least a few of the ratings services have actually kept up with evolving technology and the corresponding viewing habits of consumers.
This CAN be a good thing. If the data are properly utilized, shit programs die quickly and good ones aren't penalized for being watched via "non-traditional" methods or media.
City council thinks what we're all thinking: 'Comcast is terrible – and NOT welcome here'
I, too,
applaud the Worcester Council for their action. As symbolic or meaningless as this may be, they know Comcast are shit and as much as told them so.
Beers all round as Vulture 2 lands in Blighty
Re: Photo #6
Danke! Sehr gut! Sie sehen nun wie ein richtige Boffin *
* Please be gentle. I know my German is awful.
Photo #6
Lester appears to be sporting a proper Boffin Lab Coat. However, I see no sign of the requisite accompanying pipe.
Well done one and all! Can't wait to see/hear of your exploits on this side of the pond. Unfortunately, New Mexico is rather too far for a quick road trip so I'll have to make do with internet coverage. In any case, I raise my glass to your intrepid adventure.
Zippy one-liners, broken promises: Doctor Who on the Orient Express
Jelly Babies
So, as a Yank, I've often assumed that Jelly Babies and Gummy Bears are the same thing. (They are very similar but not exactly the same.) However, in making this discovery, I was treated to an amusing display of Google's "pairing targeted ads with searches" gone horribly wrong.
Upon searching for "Jelly Baby vs Gummy Bear" I was treated to several potential answers and the following ad:
Vaseline® Jelly Baby
(ad) www.vaseline.us/Baby
Locks In Moisture To Treat & Help Prevent Diaper Rash For Your Baby!
Lip Therapy - Vaseline Jelly - The Vaseline Story - Vaseline For Men
Whilst I certainly understand how the search engine's algorithms would make such a connection, I saw "Vaseline Jelly Baby" and immediately though "Wow, I bet those taste AWFUL."
BEND IT like YOGA: Newest Lenovo gadgets have built in PROJECTORS
nice evolution
I have an original Yoga 10 and really like it. I was considering passing that one to the wife and getting the newer HD version for me but I think perhaps I'll wait a bit longer and get one of these Yoga 2 Pros. I don't need a projector in such a device, but that is a pretty slick feature. The "barrel" grip/battery is surprisingly easy to adapt to and the battery life afforded by such is positively astounding - long day of travel, several movies/tv programmes, some light reading and simple gaming, and I never once reached for the charging cable.
NASA: Mars satellites menaced by speeding SPACE ALIEN
Re: Astro-what?
"Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor not a do... oh, wait."
Intel 'underestimates error bounds by 1.3 QUINTILLION'
We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.
'Bill Gates swallowing bike on a beach' is ideal password say boffins
jumpsOvertheLazydog,except_whenhedoesn'tBecausehe1s,@fterall,_atrulyL@zy fuckerWh0sitsaroundAlldaylickingh1sballs@ndyoujustKNOWyouw0uldtoo 1fyoucould!
AT&T fires insider for slurping customers' social security numbers, driver licenses and more
Re: Rules? Guidelines...? Alternate instructions
I would suggest a minor alteration of your otherwise excellent plan:
5. give lucky victim a rusty, dull, serrated knife
6. after discussion to verify everyone properly understands what "Go Medieval on him/her/it!" means, the lucky victim is encouraged to be creative with his/her treatment of the perpetrator.
Hiss-hiss! GIGANTIC SOLAR FILAMENT snakes around Sun
Re: Starworm! (@drewsup)
SunPlanet vs. MoonComet?
I bet I know who wins...
Our Vultures peck at new Doctor Who: Exterminate or, er ... carrion?
I, too, really like Peter Capaldi as the Doctor but...
"But what I really want from Doctor Who is less silliness and more full-on buttock-tightening terror."
THIS! A brief bit of silliness every now and then is good BUT, there should be clear limits on how much and how often.
As for Listen that, in my reckoning, goes down as the (VERY close) second best episode of the current era, topped only by Blink. Mr. Moffat et.al. - More like that please!
"Heh - you could pluck a River-lite out of thin air, have the Tardis (who recognises all trusted future-companions) let them unlock/open the door, breeze in, collect something, "sorry I'm early, I was late, but I have to leave because I haven't arrived!", breeze out, past a spluttering current Doctor/Companion. These moments are why I like Doctor Who :)"
Positively brilliant! That would be a fantastic moment of "But wait, I... You... Did that just happen?!?"
Gaming gasm UK: Rubbing shoulders with LEGENDS and newbies
Re: "Surely you can't have missed E:D ?"
Since the introduction of the "little blue pill", I haven't missed ED one bit.
FAA clears SWARM of MOVIE DRONES for take-off
until one crashes and [injures] someone
already happened. Didn't kill the person, but spectators HAVE been hit by drones. That is but one example.
Mushy spam law's IDEAL for toothless watchdog: Spamhaus slams CAN-SPAM
wait a second...
You're telling me that a government devised "solution" to a private sector problem doesn't work?!?
My gast is appropriately flabbered!
NASA's MAVEN enters Mars orbit to sniff its gas
they collide in orbit, reassemble themselves into one (mostly) working and insanely powerful probe tasked with returning home to "sterilize that which is imperfect."
Let's all make certain Bill Shatner remains healthy, just in case...
Bacon-related medical breakthrough wins Ig Nobel prize
Re: night time
"given the conclusions of the research does this mean you are a burglar or a sex worker?"
Perhaps, a sex burglar.
Edge Research Lab to tackle chilly LOHAN's final test flight
The Scottie Scale
"The question would be whether it's a unit of work, effort, achievement or probability..."
Answer: yes.
Drones CAN'T deliver goods ... oh. Air traffic control system backed by NASA, you say?
typo in article
Airware was founded in May 2010 or 2011 (depending upon source, and not 2001 as stated in article) by Jonathan Downey, an electrical engineering and computer science graduate from MIT, and is based in San Francisco.
Boffins say they've got Lithium batteries the wrong way around
good stuff
THIS is why I read The Register.
Well, that and BOFH... cheers!
Alien Ninja Fembot Pirates vs the Jedi SAS Chuck Norris startroopers: RUMBLE
Re: 35lbs???
As pointed out in the Bootnotes, that's just the gun itself and doesn't include the battery or ammo, either of which are several orders of magnitude heavier. And according to some sources, 35lbs (15.9kg) for the gun is significantly short of reality. With ammo weighing around 70lbs (31.75kg) per thousand belted rounds and the gun capable of anywhere from 2000-6000 rounds per minute, the all-up weight of this rig will be in the neighborhood of 500lbs (227.8kg) - most definitely a non-trivial load.
Our Vulture 2 rocket spaceplane crammed with MORE POWER
radio antenna
While I realize at launch altitude the low air density makes this a non-issue, as you descend through ever thicker air, a small fairing over the windward side of the radio antenna would make sense, would it not?
Re: Battery clip springs...
it would seem to me* that a simple solution would be to turn the pack round so that the spring is in the front. Then it would only compress on sudden DEcelleration. A few turns of electrician's tape to keep the batteries in the pack and that should do it, yes?
* I am not a boffin, nor do I have the requisite high altitude experience. Merely making an observation based upon available information presented herein.
Flurry of solar flare-ups sets off COSMIC PLASMA EXPLOSION
appropriate misread?
"..captured at extreme ultravioleNt wavelengths..."
I REALLY need to get new glasses. And possibly relax more...
Feds salute plucky human ROBOT-FIGHTERS
Re: death penalty fir 1st time offenders
"He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm!
Hanging's too good for him.
BURNING's too good for him.
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!" - Hanover Fiste
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What is wrong with the judicial system that allows a person who did this to plead not guilty, We need to change the laws , this is going to cost the police and probably the state MILLIONS!!! WHAT A FARCE!!
We have a tradition on our home. The day of Thanksgiving my father- who makes the most amazing stuffing would make all the kids in the family do the prep. Then when it was ready to "stuff" he would should out "STUFF"--we never really did stuff the turkey--just baked it "solo" in the oven...still using the same recipe 30 years later!
1 package of ritz crackers crumbled up
3 large onions chopped
2 boxes of mushroom (2-3 cups) sliced
1/4 cup of pinenuts
1/4 cup of butter
2 cans of water chestnuts
2 apples diced (optional)
1 mix egg and 2 TBL spoons of milk
1. saute onions & mushrooms in butter
2. in mixing bowl, add egg/milk mixture, crumbled ritz crackers and all the ingredients
3. Bake in the oven at 350 for 40 min
What a nice tradition. Thanks so much for sharing.
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The 55th Annual Soddy Daisy Distinguished Young Women Program 2014 will be held Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at Soddy Elementary School; 260 School St. The theme this year is College Game Day. Tickets are $15 which includes a program booklet.
The 2013 Soddy Daisy Distinguished Young Woman is Miss Alexandra Disterdick, daughter of Desiree' Daniels Disterdick and John Disterdick. Alexa is their third daughter to win the Soddy Daisy title. Her sister, Hannah, won in 2007 and went on to be Tennessee's Junior Miss that year. She is now Miss Memphis and will compete for Miss Tennessee this June.
Her sister, Kaylee, won in 2011 and was lst runner up at Tennessee's Distinguished Young Woman. Mom, Desiree', was Miss Tennessee in 1982 and lst runner up to Miss America 1983.
There are 21 local girls who have worked to prepare for the program this year. The judging system is designed to evaluate the qualities and characteristics the program promotes. They will be scored on interview 25 percent, talent 25 percent, scholastics 20 percent, fitness 15 percent and self expression 15 percent.
The Be Your Best Self program is the official outreach of the program where the girls speak at schools, clubs and churches.
Distinguished Young Women to better reflect awareness and expand the opportunities for volunteers and alumnae. It continues to encourage continued education, develop self confidence, encourage and showcase excellent in academics, physical fitness, public speaking, and perform their talent on stage.
November 21, 2014
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The Chattanooga Boys Choir hosts its 52nd Singing Christmas Tree on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Tivoli Theatre. Joined by members of Ballet Tennessee, student musicians ... (click for more)
The Bryan College music department's annual Christmas concert, Christmas on the Hill, will be jingling into Rudd Auditorium Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5-6. The Metropolitan Bells group out of Chattanooga will be joining Bryan's own soloists, brass and flute ensembles, Women's Chorus, Chamber Singers and Chorale for an evening of Christmas spirit. The concert will include traditional ... (click for more)
Lee's newest instrumental ensemble, Brass Choir, will present its fall concert Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Pangle Hall. The Brass Choir is directed by faculty member Dr. Nathan Warner. Brass Choir will perform works by Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Aurelio Bonelli, Henry Purcell, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Paul Holmes. The ensemble, formed this semester, consists ... (click for more)
The Bradley County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting that occurred in the area of Georgetown Road. A BCSO officer was waved down at the intersection of 25 th Street and Peerless Road by the driver of a vehicle who told the officer a gunshot victim was inside. The officer followed the car to SkyRidge Medical Center. Several people soon arrived at the ... (click for more)
UTC Police are investigating with the Chattanooga City Police an armed robbery in Lot 4 near Boling Apartments on Friday night. The suspects are described as two black men. One was six feet tall, wearing a navy jacket, with medium skin tone and short hair. The other suspect was reported to be 5' 7", wearing blue jeans and a long white T-shirt. The second suspect ... (click for more)
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""I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..."" Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel "her "way--winding through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations. Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt offers intoxicating entertainment, yet also confronts some of the most perplexing human dilemmas. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Gloria Emerson.
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Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of the London Times." "He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express," "in 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, told in A Journey Without Maps (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in The Lawless Roads," "which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several "Catholic" novels (Brighton Rock," "The Heart of the Matter," "The End of the Affair"). "During the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as The Quiet American," "Our Man in Havana," "The Comedians," "Travels with My Aunt," "The Honorary Consul," "The Human Factor," "Monsignor Quixote," "and The Captain and the Enemy." "As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography, A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape, two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to The Spectator and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection Reflections." "Most of his novels have been filmed, including The Third Man, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.


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