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I'd be interested in playing a Schon model just to see what it's like...why not?
So what is the difference between the new SC 245 & the now discontinued SC58 & Stripper? Binding and Birds?
+ no more Paisley case maybe?
The SC245 birds on the PRS website look like ME 2 birds to me, same as the SC58 had. I saw on an English dealer website that the Custom 24 gets them as well (the Custom 22 pictured on the PRS website sports them too).
Hope they replace the dirt birds on other models as well.
I'm quite happy that the binding on the SC has been discontinued (IMHO, YMMV etc).
Me too on the binding. With the MEQ going too, that removes binding from all production models I think?
Still on the Schons and maybe also the hollowbodies.
But on nothing I'd consider buying (yay!)
Got be honest, I love a bound fretboard. I like a rosewood board to look 'framed' if that makes any sense.
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The binding would not have kept me from getting an SC58 if I had wanted one. Having said that, PRS guitars originally appealed to me - obviously amongst many other, a lot more significant things - because of the absence of binding.
I just find it aesthetically more appealing. And with that kind of money involved, it does become a factor, albeit a subordinate one.
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I call BS! I saw you at the hobby store yesterday, loading up on Tester paints and buying a variety of paintbrushes....everyone from a "Dali-esque" single hair brush, to a 2 foot job used to paint houses and fences.
I also saw the stencil kit for the "pseudoflames" that you were going to use to color in the tops of your guitars.
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• Nate McLouth led off for the O's for the third straight game Friday and went 2-for-5 with two runs and his second stolen base of the season.
• Adam Jones launched a double deep off the center-field wall in the bottom of the fifth inning Friday as he collected three hits in a game for the third time this season. Jones is batting .526 (10-for-19).
• Twins rookie center fielder Aaron Hicks is 1-for-17 with two walks and eight strikeouts.
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Indeed NWN and its Aurora engine are one fabulous piece of code. No wonder it took four years into planning and coding, and one more year for the Linux version.
I'm not familiar with such a project like what you describe, trying to implement the same idea of persistent worlds (and modules) NWN originally did in the Open Source community. The most prominent (not the only one, mind you) Open Source MMORPG game currently is Plane Shift, but this is purely On-Line (a la WoW or Star Wars Galaxies). Another great thing about NWN is that it allows you to play the single player campaign in cooperative multiplayer, adding a bit more replay value to the campaigns. Not to mention the immense amount of modules that the community produced.
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I would like to create something of a DeusEX style game. A first person shooter with RPG-like qualities and a Cyberpunk'ish storyline.
I don't know how closely Planeshift resembles that but I tend to agree on what you say. The one thing I never did like about MMOs is the fact the game time hinges around a central server. Anyone should be able to create his own persistent world and put in what he thinks is best for his own game world.
Speaking of FLOSS game development, I was hard at work on using the Quake 3 engine to build my own adventure game alone, which was heinously difficult and the scope was completely overwhelming. I was mainly stuck with story writing and had ideas all written in. I wrote notes and comments on the Q3 engine along with some test manipulations on camera inside the code as well as changing and shifting graphics from inside the code. I lost my entire progress so there's no point in me picking it up. At one point in time I thought making an Open Source Project out of it would help realize my dream of it, but never did see any outside interest in it.
Oh well, just thought I'd put my two cents. Nowadays, I want to focus more on finishing a story. Too much time is spent on work and that leaves me with absolutely no time for development.
I think that the process should be that you should have a pretty good idea of what you want the game to be like, and THEN start coding and performing tests to see how to get an engine for your game to actually do what you want/do. I've always thought one of the best modifications to the Quake 2 engine was the one Ion Storm did for the game Anachronox. From the controls to the camera to the characters, and the world, it is amazing what they did. I've always thought that for a true 3D adventure game, that would be the kind of controls I'd like to use.
I didn't mean to imply you didn't, my apologies if it was understood like that. I was merely commenting on the process. I'm sure that reviewing your code comments and notes on the game you might pick it up where you left
I was trying to imply that ideally you'd have everything written down so you could avoid getting lost within your own changes and modifications and even things you note as you go ('you' here I mean it as the team or anyone involved on any project). Quoting from you:
Which is excellent. With a full story you get to really focus on those elements that will help you actually tell the story within the game, an aspect that I believe has been a bit unattended in some recent games, where everything seems to be "eye-popping effects" with some story (*cough*Half-Life 2*cough*)[1].Nowadays, I want to focus more on finishing a story.
I think it is great to know where is the game going before actually start coding, so to focus coding on the direction the game is intended to follow, and that includes the plot, as it defines so much in a game like scenery, effects, down to gameplay; not to mention level design and scripting, even the art might be defined by what the plot is about. I think in any good game design, if there's a plot involved, it should take a central part of the game development and design (not that it doesn't with some memorable games), which is why I think we've fallen short of Adventure games, they're simply too difficult to design, pity, used to be my favorite genre.
- The amazing physics engine was exploited to some degree for story telling, but only so much (playing with Dog, and 'teaching' the player how affect the environment and solve puzzles, not necessarily unravel the plot)
Now for some future thought. How should any game be distributed? With so many flavors of linux and so many different installer methods, would creating a livecd with a basic window manager and drivers for as many cards could be supported be an idea. I can help on some scripting of the 2 popular methods of livecd's (mklivecd and linux-live) as I helped with the mklivecd scripts on the move to 2.6 kernel and nvidia as well as the ati and I can throw in a nvidia-ati detection script that could be modified to detect other cards that basically goes to another script based upon the video card it sees then installs the correct driver. Keep me informed please as showcasing games-demo's on a livecd could be a great marketing tool.
I think this is a great idea, especially for people who are curious how a game would perform under Linux and/or never used it before. Wouldn't be hard to pull off either. Debian would probably be the best suited for the task. Either that or Gentoo, but technically, anything would work. It is a great idea though, I'll definately have to keep that one in mind.
The window manager (Gnome, XFCE, or KDE, I would probably choose XFCE for a live game cd), could simply start the game up on startup. And just have some icons on the desktop for shut down and restart and the game icon. What would be even slicker is if you had the game ask where you want to save/load your game if you want to save, you can choose either another Linux partition, your Windows partition, or even a ftp. That would be sweet to have built in ftp support for save games hahaha. You'd never lose your progress in the game. Now thats revolutionary.
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This reminds me of the early Gnetoo's attempt at having LiveGames, basically to turn any gaming capable PC into a gaming console. As far as the window manager goes, I'd go with something slimmer than the aforementioned ones, which are more of Desktop Environments than simple Widnow Managers. Flux/Black/*box on the other hand would get the job done just right, with a very light memory fingerprint.
As far as installtion goes, one of the most established methods would be to use the Loki Installer, which is both convenient, and effective.
The only problem I see with LiveGames, is actually where to save the data, the most obvious "solution" would be to use USB drives as kind of memory units in game consoles, but in absence of one, the HDD filesystem could be used, in which case the question would then be where to save the data.


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Open Cryptographic Framework for Linux A Linux port of the OpenBSD/FreeBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF). This port aims to bring full asynchronous HW/SW crypto acceleration to the Linux kernel, OpenSwan, OpenSSL and applications using DES, 3DES, AES, MD5, SHA, PublicKey, RNGs and more.
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(US) Salon Sanctuary Concerts: "Scholar and Lunatic or the Roots of Romanticism" (08 Mar 2014)
The Four Nations Ensemble with guest speakers
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(CA) TafelmusiK Concert: "The Four Seasons: A Cycle of the Sun" (7-9, 11-12 Mar 2014)
7,8,9,12, March -- Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, Toronto Ontario, CA
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"The return of an audience favourite! Tafelmusik's virtuoso violinists perform Vivaldi's Spring, Summer, and Fall concertos, and Wen Zhao (Chinese pipa), Aruna Narayan Kalle (Indian sarangi), and Aqsarniit (Inuit throat singers) bring to the stage seasonal music from other traditions. The grand finale is Winter by Mychael Danna, the Oscar-winning Canadian composer who recently scored Life of Pi. ..."
(US) Salon Sanctuary Concerts: "JS Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II" (02 Mar 2014)
Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord
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"Following last season's performance of Book I, the internationally acclaimed harpsichordist continues his exploration of The Well-Tempered Clavier with Book II. …
(CA) Toronto Consorts Concert: "Carnival Revels" (28 Feb / 1 Mar 2014)
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"From Epiphany to Mardi Gras, the streets of Renaissance Europe resounded with the sounds and songs of Carnival. ..."
(CA) Nota Bene Baroque Players (NBBP) Concert: "The Four Seasons"
From a recent NBBP newsletter
"One of the best known Baroque works, Vivaldi's beloved masterpiece "The Four Seasons" is a cycle of violin concerti inspired by four sonnets and their pictorial descriptions of the seasons. The cheerful birdsong of spring, the languor caused by summer's heat, drunken festivities at harvest time, slipping and sliding on the winter ice; take a vivid journey with Nota Bene Baroque Players through nature's complete yearly cycle in one memorable concert.
* Julie Baumgartel, Victoria Melik, & Anthea Conway-White soloist
* Howard Dyck, reader ..."
(UK) Wigmore Hall 2014 Summer Concerts
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The first event in February starts this evening with our annual Stanley Sadie Memorial Lecture taking place at the Royal Over-Seas League. We are delighted to have Handel scholar Ellen Harris who has travelled from the US for this event and she will explore the subject of Handel's Mayfair neighbours.
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(CA) TafelmusiK Concert: "Handel Saul" (21-23 Feb 2014)
Location: Koerner Hall, Toronto Ontario, CA
"From triumph in victory to envy, madness, and murder, Saul is an epic oratorio of powerful drama - the story of a great but doomed king, and his jealousy of the young David. With a stellar cast of soloists and Handel's rich orchestration, don't miss the choral event of the year at Tafelmusik. Three performances only!"
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How is Gordon's knee sore when he finished the season and tried out for the Olympics?
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http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ss..._river_defaultDespite missing all of training camp with a sore right knee, New Orleans Hornets Coach Monty Williams had hopes of guard Eric Gordon being ready to play in a couple of preseason games before the regular season begins.
But Williams said Sunday that Gordon could miss the final three preseason games because he is not in appropriate conditioning due to the missed time caused by his sore knee. Williams also there's also a chance power forward Jason Smith could miss the remainder of the preseason after injuring his shoulder in a practice last week. Gordon has missed all five preseason games, while Smith has played in only the preseason opener against the Orlando Magic.
"I dont see them playing in the next couple of games, maybe not anymore in the preseason,'' Williams said. "(It) is not ideal, but it is the situation that we have. Jason is still feeling pain. Eric got to get his condition up; thats what hes working on now. But hes doing more and more everyday. Hes doing a lot more drill work with the team and hes in all the huddles. Hes more engaged each day.
How is Gordon's knee sore when he finished the season and tried out for the Olympics?
Emeka Okafor - Joe Smith - Carmelo Anthony - Manu Ginobili - Jason Williams
Al Jefferson - James Posey - Aaron McKie - Shaun Livingston
Would have been nice to hear an update on the knee. How is it feeling? Is their any swelling? Has EJ tested it in camp? What type of treatments has he received for the knee? Etc, etc, etc...
He was at the scrimmage, didn't participate in any of the pre-scrimmage drills but showed up on the bench with some kinda band. No knee brace or anything. Strange. I mean, he looks to be in shape, but he hasn't drilled in forever. Monty must really have faith in his ability. Feels he doesn't even need practice or something.
good luck with that. EJ doesnt talk about it in the media, and the management including coach monty are playing the same cryptic game. i hate we are all being kept in the dark about the whole thing .... i cant handle another long season of losing and not finishing games strong because we didnt have our leading scorer in the lineup.
The team is really taking seriously how they wana be sure that EJ can go the whole season injury free.... i really hope this is the case
"Hornets means nothing." - Tom Benson
Oh well......another lottery pick whats the big deal?
Pick 1-5 anyone?
This team isn't finished.
2013/14 is when we make some noise.
I will choose not to panic. Maybe they are handling it like the Ravens handled Suggs. cryptic messages to the the media, and then it's gameday and he shows up.
A pre-draft video with a few rookie.
New Orleans Hornets guard Eric Gordon says he may start contact work at end of the week; Monty Williams looking at next week, though
http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ss..._river_defaultDallas - New Orleans Hornets shooting guard Eric Gordon said Monday night he has been running at full speed for the last week and suffered no setbacks with the sore right knee that has kept him out of action the entire preseason.
Gordon is eyeing contact work for the first time, perhaps as early as the end of this week
"At this point, it's about me trying to get ready as fast as I can, but not rush into a game where I might get hurt. I haven't done any contact stuff with the team yet," Gordon said. "I really don't want to rush it. There's a good chance toward the end of the week, maybe I'll start doing some contact stuff. But it's all about what's comfortable between me and the organization. But I think there's a really good chance I will."
Williams said he envisions limiting Gordon's minutes once Gordon does return to the floor.
"Every day we're getting closer," Williams said. "How close, I'm not quite sure yet. He's doing more in practices. If I had to guess, we'd probably wait until next week to give him a good three practices in a row. And I'm sure we'll have a minute restriction on him just to make sure he's ready."
Gordon, on the other hand, said when he returns he'll be full go.
Losing and sucking sucks. Obviousley most of the fans want a strong push, I know I do. I want the guys to go out and play as if they are contenders if we suck and get a high pick oh well, we tried. But if it was purposely with no effort of saving your best player to win; heck naw.
Ahhh. Great News on EJ... been crossing my fingers since training camp started. Lets Go NOLA!
Still not liking the vibe from this whole Gordon knee situation, but whatever.
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Arline Aurelia Stahle Dolezal is celebrating her 100th birthday today! She was born October 6, 1912 in Davenport, Iowa, moved to Iowa City when she was 18, graduated from business college and married Otto William Dolezal. Arline was a member of St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church and their Women's Club. She was very active in many organizations in Iowa City, holding lifetime memberships in Catholic Daughters of America, National Catholic Society of Foresters, Women of the Moose and American Business Women's Association. Arline retired from Montgomery Ward in 1977 (after 46 years) and Four Season's Dress Shop (after 25 years). She moved to St. Louis at age 90 to be near her son, Allen, and daughter-in-law, Nancy. She will be celebrating her birthday in St. Louis today with her extended family, including four grandchildren, Julie (Greg), Jeff (Patricia), John, Janice, and four great-grandchildren, Chelsea, Haley, Shea, and Connor. We are blessed to have many family members from all over the country come to St. Louis this weekend to help her celebrate. Birthday wishes may be sent to:
Delmar Gardens West
13550 South Outer Forty Road
Town and Country, Missouri 63017
Happy 18th Birthday Parker and Sam
Help Greg Schrock
celebrate his 70th birthday
on September 17 by
sending him cards at:
119 Hummingbird Lane
Iowa City, IA 52245
Happy Birthday to Babe, Dad and Papa
We love you,
Linda, Monte, Nicole,
Ainsley, Addyson, Dana,
Delaney, Ava and TC
Eunice (Sam) DeFrance
Happy 30th Birthday
(times 3)
We love you!!!
Your husband,children,grand children and great-grandchildren
Al Wolfe is turning 90!!
Please help him celebrate
with a card shower. Cards
should be sent to him at:
712 Continental Court
Brownsville, TX 78520
Lowell J Leichty (L.J.Leichty Construction) is celebrating 80 wonderful years on September 7th. Please join us in celebrating an ongoing life journey. He has built houses for many, but for us he built a home. We would like to show him just how much he is loved and how important he is to his friends and family by honoring him with a card shower. Birthday cards and greetings can be sent to:
L.J. Leichty
1063 Mulberry Ct
Coralville, IA 52241
Happy 80th Birthday!
Loved always and forever by your children and their families,
Greg & Kathleen Leichty
(Louisville, KY)
Phil & Kim Leichty
(Rochester, MN)
Kathy & Loren Sands
(Troy Mills, IA)
Ruth & Brad Giesking
(Bend, OR)
Mark & Kristen Leichty
(Ames, IA)
Fourteen Grandchildren
Three Great-Grandchildren
Grantham Dean
Harriett Grantham Dean celebrates her 90th birthday with great grandson, Nick Cronk, watching her blow the candles out during a family dinner August 12, 2012.
Our dad, MICHAEL LENSING, turns 60 today!
He's counting wrinkles, gray hairs and dollars for retirement.
Help us convince him that 60 is a wonderful achievement?
and the wrinkles and gray hairs add character and conversation.
Mandi, Alex, Nick and Elfie
Vicki and Rich
Still going strong at 80!
Help Lloyd Baumgartner celebrate his 80th birthday on August 30th by sending him best wishes at:
2787 Newport Rd NE
Iowa City, IA 52240
Happy Birthday Dad and Grandpa (and soon to be Great-Grandpa)
We love you,
Your family
Bob Poggenpohl
Though your smile is
gone forever,
and your hand I cannot
I still have many
memories of the one I
loved so much.
Your memory is my
With which I'll never
God has you in His
I have you in my heart.
Sadly missed, but
Never forgotten.
Marie Poggenpohl
Darrell B. Roberts Sr., August 23, 1932
Darrell Roberts Sr. will celebrate his 80th birthday with an Open House on Saturday, August 25th from 2:00-5:00pm at the North Liberty Baptist Church, 85 Sugar Creek Lane, North Liberty.
Your presence and well wishes are the only presents requested!
Greetings may be sent to:
521 South First Ave
Iowa City, IA 52245
Happy Birthday, Poppa! (Dick Davin) You are our treasure, Dad.
With love & admiration,
Cindy, Tom, John, Julie, Teresa, Lori, Amy and the entire family.
Happy 80th Birthday Don Andrews!
Please join us in celebration with an Open House Sunday, August 26th, 2:00-4:00pm at the Eagles Lodge, 225 Hwy 1 West, Iowa City, Iowa
No gifts please.
Cards may be sent to:
83 Notting Hill Lane
Iowa City, IA 52245
Robert Fuhrmeister will be celebrating his 90th Birthday on August 13th! Cards may be sent to him at:
88 Oberlin
Iowa City, IA 52246
Phyllis Zahradnek will be 80 on August 11th! Help her celebrate by sending cards to:
Pleasantview Care Center
811 3rd St
Kalona, IA 52247
Happy 80th Birthday!
The little Czech lady is turning 80! Whether you call her Shirley or Mrs. Myers,
she would love for you to stop in and say "Hi" at her party on Sunday, August 12, from 11:30 am - 1 pm in the St. Wenceslaus Church Hall (corner of Davenport and Dodge). Your presence is the only present she desires!
Rosalie Shay McFarland will be 90 on August 9th! She will celebrate at a later date with her son, Neil (Denise), and grandchildren Natalie (Jason) Gulbranson, Breanna McFarland, Laura (Justin) Wieck, Merideth McFarland, Chris (Kristin) Carlson and Shay Carlson-and with great-grandchildren Cadence and Owen Gulbranson, Hayden and Harper Carlson and Jordan Wieck. Cards may be sent to her at:
350 Dublin Drive #3018
Iowa City, IA 52246
Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday!!
Your Family
Gladys Stagg Carson will celebrate her 85th birthday with an Open House tomorrow, Sunday, August 5th from 12 - 5 p.m. at North Ridge Park Pavilion in Coralville. The event will be hosted by her children: Connie (Dale) Robertson; Lorrie (Willie) Bell; Brenda (Paul) Swihart and Sandy (Reed) Bouchey.
Always loved, never forgotten?
Evan Michael Carter
11/09/87 - 7/28/08
Happy Sweet 16, Hannah Stein
Love, Mom & Dad
Eileen Armbruster turned 90 yesterday! There will be an open house honoring her on Sunday, August 5th, 2-4 p.m. at St. Mary's Hall (360 Washburn St) in Riverside. Born in Richmond, Eileen lived in Riverside for many years and moved to Iowa City about fourteen years ago. Eileen is the mother of Andrew and Timothy (Iowa City), Catherine Grout (Forest, Virginia), Richard (Austin, Texas) and Jane (Oakland, California). She is also grandmother of six and great-grandmother of two. Please, no gifts. Cards may be sent to:
524 Meadow St
Iowa City, IA 52245
Richard Badura is celebrating his 90th Birthday!
Richard was born in Loup City, Nebraska on July 16, 1922. He retired from the University of Iowa Hospitals after nineteen years of employment. Once retired, he moved to Omaha where he currently lives with his wife, Alice. His family of seven children and eleven grandchildren will all be present to celebrate his special day. Greetings can be sent to:
17616 Englewood Street
Omaha, NE 68135
The family of Karen (Verry) Jehle of Wellman (formerly of Iowa City) is celebrating her 75th birthday on July 13th with a card shower! Please help us celebrate by sending cards to the address below. Karen has two daughters, Melanie (Bob) Stutzman of Wellman and Debi Starbuck (Richard Foster) of Oxford, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Cards may be sent to Karen at:
1400 6th Avenue N Apt 104
Wellman, IA 52356
Happy 95th Birthday Mother!
From your kids with love,
Pat, Paul, Carol & Susie
Rosemary Waldschmidt will celebrate her 90th birthday with an Open House hosted by her family tomorrow, Sunday, July 1st from 2:00-4:00 pm at St Mary's Parish Hall in Riverside, Iowa.
Rosemary was born July 3rd, 1922 in Dubuque, Iowa and married William Waldschmidt on April 5, 1945. She was employed by and retired from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Inpatient Pharmacy.
She has four children, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Adelaide Stevens is celebrating her 99th birthday! There will be an Open House to honor her on Sunday, July 8th from 2:00-4:00pm at Atrium Village at 117 S Third St in Hills.
Her family consists of one son, Keith (Marlene) Stevens of Hills, one daughter, Beverly Jones (deceased), seven grandchildren, twenty-two great-grandchildren, fourteen great-great-grandchildren, and one great-great-great grandson. For those unable to attend, cards may be sent to her at:
P.O. Box 220
Hills, IA 52235
George Dane will be celebrating his 90th birthday on July 8th! Cards may be sent to him at:
1 Oaknoll Ct
Iowa City, IA 52246
A Special Picture For A Special Day!
Happy Birthday Jodi Keating!
Mary A. McDonald will celebrate her 90th birthday on May 24th! Her family is hosting a card shower in her honor. Birthday wishes may be sent to:
621 N Van Buren St
Iowa City, IA 52245
With love,
Your Family
Happy 50th Birthday
Gary Neuzil!
Please join Frank Peters and his family:
Son Rick & his wife, Maureen, and grandchildren, Matthew & Sarah;
Daughter Diane & her husband, Bob; Grandson, Nick & his wife, Melissa, and great-grandson, Dexter;
Daughter Holly, and grandchildren Erin (and fiance, Billy), Abby & Brian
at an Open House celebration on Sunday, MAy 20th from 2-4 pm at the Coralville United Methodist Church, 806 13th Ave, Coralville.
No gifts please - just your presence!
A very special Happy Birthday to Mary Hurt who turns 95 today! Cards may be sent to:
PO Box 220
Hills, IA 52235
Vicky Gluszak
Best Wishes and God's Blessing to you on your 85th Birthday!
Sto' Lat!
Betty, Don, Cathy,
Brian, Meg, Alyx,
Ali and Lauryn
Joe Hershberger will be 90 on May 16th! An open house in his honor will be held on Sunday, May 6th from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Friendship Center at Pleasantview Retirement Home in Kalona. All family, friends & acquaintances are invited to attend.
For those unable to attend, cards may be sent to:
412 Pleasantview Circle
Kalona, IA, 52247
Margaret Hora will be 90 on May 7th!
An Open House will be held in her honor on Sunday, May 6th from 1-4 p.m. at St. Bernadette's Church in West Branch. Friends and family are welcome to wish her well, share a memory and enjoy refreshments.
Please honor her with just the gift of your presence.
Cards may be sent to:
5639 350th St. NE
West Branch, IA 52358
Please join Frank Peters and his family:
Son, Rick, & his wife, Maureen, and grandchildren, Matthew & Sarah;
Daughter, Diane, & her husband, Bob; Grandson, Nick, & his wife, Melissa, and great-grandson, Dexter;
Daughter, Holly, and grandchildren
Erin (and fiancé, Billy), Abby, & Brian
At an Open House celebration on Sunday, May 20th from 2-4 pm at the
Coralville United Methodist Church, 806 13th Ave, Coralville.
No Gifts Please-just your presence!
Happy Birthday to Helen Sparby who turns 90 on May 5th!
We love you, Grammy!
Tonya, Kimmy, Eric, Zack, Alex, Jackson
Let's help her celebrate by showering her with cards!
Her address is:
2620 Ferndale Dr
Iowa City,IA 52245
Happy 60th Birthday, Verlee!
Arnie, Todd, Darci
Angela, Mike, Will & Adelyn
Happy 80th Birthday
Donna M. Trent
April 23, 2012
Love from all of your family,
Your husband, Tom Trent and "your children"
Ethel & Dick Reimers & family
Carol & Steve Gerot & family
Debbie & Bill Besgrove & family
Tina & Blaine Willits
Brenda & Allen Nelson & family
Your sister,Shirley Buline,& family
Send best wishes to Donna at:
90 Jefferson St
North Liberty, IA 52317
Vernon Brogla of Oxford will be 90 on April 23rd! Help him celebrate with a card shower. Well wishes may be sent to him at:
Kahl Home
1101 West 9th Street
Davenport, Iowa 52804
Our Dad, Alfred J. McDonald, will celebrate his 90th birthday on April 16th!
Cards are welcome and may be sent to:
621 N Van Buren St
Iowa City,IA 52245
Your family
Don Marner is celebrating his 90th birthday on April 10th beginning with a family dinner and followed by a cake and ice cream reception for all his friends and neighbors. Please come to Parkview Church on April 10th from 5-7 p.m. to wish Don a happy birthday.
No gifts please.
Don Kerf will be celebrating his 84th Birthday on March 27th.
Best Wishes may be sent to him at:
911 E Bloomington St
Iowa City, IA 52245
Veronica Evans turns 90 on April 1st! She was born and raised around Nolan Settlement and lived in Iowa City for over 70 years until moving to West Branch a year ago. Veronica is the widow of Bill Evans who died in December of 2010. She is a long time member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Veronica is the mother of Jayne Doyle (Oak Park, Illinois), JoAnne Shay (Kansas City, Kansas), Jim Evans (Iowa City), Mary Rummelhart (Iowa City) and Nancy Doormann (Geneva, Illinois). She has seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Cards may be sent to her at:
Crestview Nursing and Rehab Center
451 W Orange, Room 204
West Branch, Iowa 52358
Bev Lindle will be 90 on March 28th! An Open House will be held in her honor on Sunday, March 25th from 1-4 p.m. at the AmericInn located at 2587 Holiday Road in Coralville (I-80 exit 240). Friends and family are welcome to wish her well, share a memory and enjoy refreshments. Cards may be sent to:
1002 N Miller St #212
West Liberty, IA 52776
Evelyn Conner will be celebrating her 90th birthday on St Patrick's Day with a card shower! Cards may be sent to:
1355 Shannon Drive
Iowa City, Iowa 52245
Happy 80th Birthday Gerald!
Gerald Forbes' family invites you to help him celebrate his 80th birthday on Sunday, March 18, 2012, from 2:00 - 4:00 pm at the United Presbyterian Church in Lone Tree, Iowa. No gifts please. If you are unable to attend, birthday wishes may be sent to:
PO Box 346
Lone Tree, Iowa 52755


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SP700 Titanium construction in a 275cc club head
Slick aerodynamics help this driver slice through the wind to produce increased club head speed
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Aug 9 2011
Remembering the Willis Reed Tunnel
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84v5cazK8lc]As Marc Berman of the NY Post reports, the famous Willis Reed tunnel has been knocked out by the Madison Square Garden transformation. The tunnel has been replaced with center court seats and the Knicks will now enter the arena through a corner tunnel. James Dolan wants to start a new tradition of the players entering the court through the Delta Sky360Club where elite season-ticket holders can view the players running out of the tunnel. As great as that sounds, it is sad to see the famous center court tunnel go as the Garden is the last arena to have the center court tunnel.
Above is a video remembering the Willis Reed game in which he played injured to lead the Knicks to the 1970 NBA Championship.
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January 11, 2013 9:46 AM | Author: Iryna Lendel
Dr. Iryna Lendel is the assistant director of the Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Global oil and gas markets are, at best, a mixed bag of property rights, geologies and public policy. Individual markets are greatly altered by national policies, geopolitics, and physical pipelines.
With global shale reserves being estimated at around 6,600-trillion cubic feet, prices show remarkable volatility — ranging from about $3 per BTU in the United States to $10 per BTU for Russian Gazprom in European countries and up to $15 per BTU in Asia. Despite the growing global demand for gas, prices are very local.
There are four major factors that impact local markets: geology, population density, public policy/ national politics, and market conditions.
In geology, the devil is in the details (when is it not?). It is a matter of the amount of recoverable hydrocarbons, the type of product that is prevalent (oil, wet gas, or dry gas), the geo-physical properties of the shale and the depth of the formation. These factors set the economics of the game.
The second factor is very discrete, yet very powerful and population densities range wildly from one nation to the next: nine people per square mile in Canada, 22 in Russia, 83 in the United States (280 in Ohio), 147 in the United Arab Emirates, 197 in Ukraine, 309 in France, 316 in Poland, 593 in Germany and, finally, 656 in the United Kingdom.
"Urban" is a very powerful word in this context. Infrastructure and distance are two important variables when you consider the extraction and provision of shale gas. Density defines not only the physical infrastructure and markets, but the influence of local politics on shale gas extraction, especially when it comes to issues of negative externalities of fracturing, water usage and environmental preservation.
Concerns over the environmental impacts of shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing have a louder voice when population densities reach 200 or 600 people per square mile compared with 80. The density of dissenting voices amplifies opinions about energy security as well. Germans are greatly concerned about 36% of their gas being imported from Russia. Poland (with about 48% of its supply originating from Russia) and many other Baltic nations with even higher densities (some importing up to 100% of their supply from Gazprom) are finding those voices growing louder and louder.
Population densities vary greatly -- and so do sentiments toward the environment and energy security
Although Europe has a developed and evenly distributed infrastructure for gas, policies relating to the environment and sustainability are major concerns when it comes to new shale development. The realities of an aging energy infrastructure — in concert with a lack of new plant construction and pledges by many European countries to shutter nuclear and coal electric plants in favor or wind generation — converge on a new reality, where the numbers might not be adding up.
Germany announced it would close its nuclear plants within a decade and increase its renewables to account for 35% of their power by 2015 — at a cost of close to $780 billion.
The UK aims to close eight coal plants to reduce emissions while increasing offshore wind-generating share of electricity to 17% by 2020. That is equal to the world's entire existing wind-generation operations. For now, France and Bulgaria forbid hydraulic fracturing on their land.
Yet, while this energy cliff approaches, there have been no meetings of the E.U. on a comprehensive energy policy, while the Union met more than 20 times over the financial crisis.
Population density brings us into the continuum of the next factor, policy and politics. While local public policies primarily discuss sustainability and energy independence relative to economic security, geopolitics frame the world map of oil suppliers and imports and define countries' energy and national security. Each country tries to leverage its own advantages for power on the global stage.
This begs two questions: How will booms in domestic U.S. production impact the value of free trade with the United States, and will America shifting away from the Middle East, and Europe shifting away from Russia, cede a monopoly to China in those markets? With the United States becoming a gas exporter and potential world leader in petrochemical production, the value of free trade agreements with America is increasing. Countries obtaining access to U.S. shale gas also are getting access to our greater landscape of business and market opportunities.
Who will be the next world superpowers and manufacturing giants?
On the other hand, a boom in domestic production leaves neglected foreign suppliers seeking new buyers and partners.
In 2005, the United States imported 60% of its oil; in 2012, we imported around 42%, and that share is decreasing. With the United States becoming less dependent on the Mideast for oil and projected to export oil in future, all of that foreign oil is up for grabs. Nothing prevents China from grabbing that oil to satisfy its growing demand, and with 20 million new cars on the road every year, Chinese demand is strong.
Russia is another supplier that easily could sell to China if it finds itself losing its traditional market in Europe. Although energy independence is a worthwhile goal and an admirable accomplishment, being the largest consumer gives some leverage over the supplier. The question is: are shifts in the west toward self-reliance inadvertently helping China to gain unprecedented leverage over the largest producers in the Mideast and Russia? Are we inadvertently priming the path for a new world superpower?
Finally, the fourth factor is market conditions. Outside of the United States, these are going to play, perhaps, the most important role. The free market in the U.S. economy rests on a foundation of property rights and their protection. The economic model of the United States also is based on normative assumptions reflecting democracy and personal freedoms.
There are rules and regulations in place that define the proper functioning of all economic systems and institutions that operate within the realm of the formal economy. There is a free and open market for gas that by its very nature defines prices for buyers and sellers. There are flexible and fast-adopting market enterprises and entrepreneurs who are willing to take the necessary risks and there are financiers willing finance those risks.
Finally, there is an advanced ecology of innovation and commercialization, with a culture that fully supports it, and where intellectual property rights are protected and supported through public policy. How many countries in the world meet all of these conditions? I know of four: the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Other countries have many aspects of these conducive market conditions. Some may even be stronger in certain areas. But none match this powerful mix.
For example, China announced a development subsidy on shale gas produced there through 2015. China currently has 62 shale gas wells in trial development zones, but it's struggling to recoup costs (let alone chisel out a profit) due to high drilling costs (up to $16-million per well). Poland has issued 70 shale exploration licenses and recently offered new tax rates for shale gas producers, eagerly aiming to establish the most attractive business conditions in Europe so as to grow its service industry. Russia, finally realizing (and begrudgingly admitting) a threat to its gas markets has decided to cut duties on crude oil exports by 45% from new oil fields developed in some remote regions in hopes of spurring the development of new conventional oil fields there.
These incentives are not necessarily sufficient to compensate for an absence of pipelines, roads, electric and water lines, buildings, and support services. And these incentives have more to overcome than infrastructure. On top of political instability and unreliable market conditions, there often is a legal vacuum for licensing, exploration and production, intellectual property rights, and mechanisms to deal with government-owned land and subsurface rights. Immense investments in infrastructure are a multiyear business based on the reliability of returns guaranteed by property rights and good geological data.
All these factors — geology, density of population, policy and politics, and market conditions — will slow down development of shale outside the United States while giving us a chance to become a world petrochemical superpower. One large problem remains, though: Any modern manufacturing superpower depends on an ample supply of middle-skilled labor — and it will be a shame if that turns out to be the one resource the United States can't unearth.
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Both of Johnson's TD receptions came in the second half as the Lions (6-3) grabbed the divisional lead over the Bears and the Green Bay Packers, who fell to Philadelphia Sunday.
Johnson finished with six catches for 83 yards. His second touchdown gave him 63 for his career, passing Herman Moore for the club record.
Stafford made good on 18-of-35 pass attempts for just 219 yards with an interception to go along with the trio of scoring strikes while Reggie Bush amassed 105 rushing yards on 14 carries.
Jay Cutler, returning after a one-game injury absence, completed 21-for-40 passes for 250 yards with a touchdown and interception for the Bears (5-3).
He missed the game's final series with an ankle injury.
Brandon Marshall picked up 139 yards with a pair of TDs on seven receptions.
Alshon Jeffery made nine grabs for 114 yards for Chicago.