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Since October 11, 2007 I feel that Guru is with us (his students and friends) more than ever before. It is true that before we could see him and learn from him on the physical plane but now we feel Him and see Him very near to us. He taught us always to live in the heart and not in a doubting mind. If we live in the heart our inner journey continues and expedites and every day we wake up for a new ever transcending goal in our lives. As the new year begins I feel more enthusiasm and gratitude to the Sri Chinmoy who gave us everything we need and much more than we can ever understand.
Thank you, Guru, for every second in our lives. You showed us the goal in life and as a personal guardian you never leave us till we reach the Highest.
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When I think about coleslaw I immediatly think about a cabbage salad smothered in a mayonnaise but coleslaw can definitely work without the mayo. I recently made a sesame and ginger coleslaw where I used the mayonnaise based dressing but I now found that I needed a version of it without mayonnaise for the next project that I was working on. I kept the changes for the mayonnaise-less version pretty simple relying on a sesame and ginger vinaigrette to replace the mayo. The vinaigrette consists of rice wine vinegar, lime juice, oil, toasted sesame oil, ginger and a bit of honey to balance things out a bit with some sweetness. I also added a chopped up birds eye chili to this version to add a touch of heat tot he salad. With the tasty sesame and ginger vinaigrette you will never miss the mayonnaise in this coleslaw.
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1 carrot (shredded)
2 green onions (diced)
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1 teaspoon honey
1 tablespoon ginger (grated)
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1. Mix the cabbage, carrot, green onion and cilantro in a large bowl.
2. Mix the vinegar, lime juice, oil, sesame oil, honey, ginger and chili in a small bowl.
3. Toss the salad in the dressing and garnish with sesame seeds.
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Firefighters' biggest challenge in the My Heart Challenge By Jason M Carlton March 25, 2014 It's not easy to change behaviors that have been established over many years. Cutting down on the Mountain Dews, finding motivation to exercise or taking the time to eat breakfast are some of the biggest challenges the 15 firefighters are facing in the 2014 My Heart Challenge. Read More
The right way to do squats By Meagan Kline March 24, 2014 Squats look like a very simple exercise to help strengthen your lower body muscles. But, they are often done wrong, which places that person at risk for injury. Learn the proper way to do a squat, then incorporate them into your regular exercise routine for stronger legs. Read More
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Morton looks to get back on track in home opener
Marlins call on Hand, coming off a string of three strong starts
After returning home from a 10-game West Coast road trip that featured some tested tempers, the Pirates begin an eight-game homestand Tuesday when the Marlins visit PNC Park.
"This was a challenging point of the season," manager Clint Hurdle said of the trip. "We got nothing planned [for the off-day Monday] -- returning home, especially with the time change, absolutely encourage everybody to just take a day off."
The day of rest may be coming at a particularly good time for Andrew McCutchen, who left Sunday's game in the eighth inning after he suffered a left side injury on a game-tying sac fly.
When the Pirates do resume playing, sinkerballer Charlie Morton will take the hill. Morton made two starts on the road trip, neither of them going as well as he would've liked.
Against the Rockies on July 25, Morton allowed four runs on seven hits for his 10th loss of the season. He gave up four runs again in his last outing, this time in five innings against the Giants. San Francisco tagged Morton for nine hits, and the right-hander didn't aid his line with three walks and his Major League-leading 18th hit batter of the season.
The Marlins turn to left-hander Brad Hand to begin the three-game set, and Hand has gone at least seven innings in each of his last three outings, all quality starts.
Hand has a 2.70 ERA since the Marlins started using him as a starter in early July. Before the Nats scored two in the eighth, Hand retired 21 of 24 batters after a first-inning run on Wednesday.
Though he pitched deep into the game and allowed just five hits, Hand said he didn't have his "best stuff."
"Not very many first-pitch strikes," he added after the start. "[I] just battled today."
Pirates: Bucs mulling move to 1B for Alvarez
After another unfortunate night at third base for Pedro Alvarez, Pirates brass at least is considering the possibility that the hot corner may have gotten too hot for the defending National League home run co-king.
Before being pulled in the seventh inning of a tie game Saturday night, Alvarez had committed his 22nd throwing error of the season, and also threw two others balls into the dirt saved from errors by first baseman Ike Davis.
Hurdle said Sunday morning that club officials are "having conversations" about moving Alvarez across the infield to first base.
"I'm still involved in some discussions," Hurdle said. "Hypothetically, is [a position switch] something you entertain during a pennant race?"
Marlins: Saltalamacchia sidelined with stiff back
Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia missed his second straight game Sunday due to stiffness in his back, according to manager Mike Redmond.
The Marlins' everyday catcher, Saltalamacchia has not played since Friday, and Jeff Mathis has filled in behind the plate.
In his first season with the Marlins, Saltalamacchia has a slash line of .224/.324/.398 with 10 homers and 31 RBIs in 76 games.
Meanwhile, Mathis has been swinging a hot bat as of late. He doubled and scored the game-winning run in the 10th inning on Saturday night, and followed that up with a 2-for-4 showing in Sunday's 7-3 loss to Cincinnati to raise his average to .203.
Worth noting
• The Pirates took two of three games earlier this season when they faced the Marlins in Miami on June 13-15.
• The Marlins had won three consecutive series before dropping their weekend set against the Reds.
Stephen Pianovich is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Phoronix: A Message From Valve's Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell of Valve, the company behind Steam and the Source Engine, has allegedly sent over a message to Phoronix...
This will be great but... april's fools is so close...
Too close to April 1. Tomorrow, Steam and the entire HL2 series will be released for Linux, along with Microsoft Office 2010. Oh and Catalyst will be released as open source and merged to Linux 3.4 mainline.
Also expect Stereoscopic 3d support "real soon now", a native Linux port of Mass Effect 1 - 3, and pre-releases of Intel's Haswell platform being shipped free to Linux users for their undying adherence to their belief in their platform.
no this isn't a April 1. joke!...
That statement doesnt even sound right, with opengl 2+ you compile your shaders so that you can use to them to draw. Compiling is a one time thing, your not doing it during draw calls. I say its bogus.
Yes, this time for sure!!!
Surely Valve knows how to pre-compile their shaders at level-load time for example. Or have they been DX-only for too long?
Actually, some really ugly 3d engines will compile shaders very frequently, not just at load-time. Sometimes it's easier to ship different code based on dynamic occurrences within the engine. Sometimes that code is written "on the fly"; sometimes that code is pre-stored, but loading all the shaders at once would eat up too much VRAM (or what they perceive as too much for certain hardware at least).
It's not out of the realm of imagination that an engine might want to load a shader at render-time, not just at load-time. In fact I think the Valve Source engine might do this, because I often get these very obvious freezes in Source engine games during the early stages of a match. The frequency and severity of them drops off as I play the game longer, to the point that they simply don't happen after 10 minutes or so. Seems like it's trying to load some resource at runtime the first time it was utilized, rather than simply throw everything at the VRAM and/or RAM during the initial engine load.
The only advantage is that the engine would appear to run better on cards with really low VRAM (128MB or less)...
no they use "wine" libs and they use openGL3.2+ you can check this start aram2 in wine wine always compile shaders "in game"
also modern engines like Arma2 are Streaming games this means new land comes up new shaders and so one the engine always drop part and load new parts.
imagine a modern engine like arma3... 900km² you can't hold this in VRAM! never! because of this the engie need to load and unload stuff all the time.
valves half-life 3 engine its the same the game engine is made to be so big that you always need to compile shades.
Or perhaps the correct term is pre-cache? Anyway, even the blobs don't fully compile the shader until you use it to draw something.


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ETC.: Crew chief Scott Graves said, "It would be awesome to get our first top-10 at Indy, a track with so much history. Qualifying on Saturday is super important so we will work hard on Friday to get our car dialed in for qualifying on Saturday. Ricky has only raced at Indy once so there will be learning curve but I feel confident that we can have a strong performance at Indy."
9 MARCOS AMBROSE, Ford
Team: Richard Petty Motorsports
WHERE HE STANDS: 22nd, 83 points out of the top 10, 47 points out of the top 20.
INDY RECORD: Finished 20th a year ago for his best finish in five starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Ambrose points out that "I am blessed to have had the opportunity to race around the world. I have raced on tracks throughout Europe, back home in Australia and now here in the United States. I can tell you, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has an unmatched history of any track. It has its own place in motorsports history and that's what makes it so special. Any driver wants to win a race at Indianapolis."
LOOKING BACK: Ambrose was involved in an early-race accident at Loudon and ended the day in 33rd place.
ETC.: Ambrose said he "enjoys watching as much of the Indianapolis 500 each May as possible. I know some of the guys and it's always a great race to watch. I think they watch us too when we race here in July. They respect that we can race these heavier stock cars around the track. It gives us and the open-wheel guys some common ground."
42 JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, Chevrolet
Team: Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates
WHERE HE STANDS: 23rd, 99 points out of the top 10, 53 points out of the top 20.
INDY RECORD: One top-five finish, a second, in six races.
LOOKING AHEAD: Montoya feels this may be the year he finally wins Indy. In 2009, he dominated the race, leading a race-high 116 laps. But he was penalized for speeding on pit road as he made his final stop of the race. Montoya ended up 11th. A year later, Montoya led 86 laps, but a decision to change all four tires on a late pit stop dropped him out of the lead. He restarted seventh and was extremely aggressive and got caught up in a late-race accident that left him in 32nd-place.
LOOKING BACK: Montoya finished 24th at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He spent the week off on his farm outside his native Bogota, Columbia.
ETC.: Montoya believes the future is quite bright at EGR. "We have the right people now," said Montoya. "We have the ability now and the future is even brighter. The encouraging thing is we're actually starting to see the light again. It's fun. It's been a year of ups and down, but the downs are now 16th and the ups are nearly wins. Last year an up was 25th. It was painful."
10 DANICA PATRICK, Chevrolet
Team: Stewart-Haas Racing
WHERE SHE STANDS: 27TH, 173 points out of the top 10.
INDY RECORD: Will be making her Sprint Cup debut. She had six top-10 finishes in seven Indianapolis 500 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Patrick said, "I don't care what I drive around Indy, I love being there. I just like everything about it. I like the facility, obviously. And to me, the special thing about Indy is, obviously, I've had great experiences, but it's all about the track. The older I get, the more I realize how much history and tradition plays a role in what's important and what matters and what means the most to you."
LOOKING BACK: Patrick was another driver involved in a late-race accident at Loudon as she finished 37th.
ETC.: Patrick tested at Indy earlier this month, and she discovered driving a stock car around the 2.5-mile track isn't much different than driving an off-wheel car. "It's just about finding a balance with car out there, which is no different than in an Indy car," said Patrick. "In an Indy car, we learned very quickly that it's about how much throttle you could carry around. The stock cars get very low in the corners, and that can be a little bit of a danger in an Indy car, especially if you get just a little bit too low and get a little loose. So that's a little bit different, I suppose, but nothing that was terribly unexpected."
55 MARK MARTIN, Toyota
Team: Michael Waltrip Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 29th, 209 points out of the top 10. The team is ranked 13th in the car owner standings and second in the wild card standings with one win.


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- "Nevertheless, as they climbed higher and higher, London unfurling below them like a grey-and-green map, Harry's overwhelming feeling was of gratitude for an escape that had seemed impossible. Crouching low over the beast's neck, he clung tight to the metallic scales, and the cool breeze was soothing on his burned and blistered skin, the dragon's wings beating the air like the sails of a windmill."
- —Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger escape on the dragon.[src]
This dragon (more specifically part of the Ukrainian Ironbelly species) was used to guard several high-security vaults, including the Lestrange Vault, at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. It was encountered by Harry Potter and his friends when they infiltrated the bank in 1998, (in order to obtain a horcrux) although it is likely the dragon had been guarding the vaults for a long time prior to this. This dragon was trained to be tamed when he hears a sound in a way which Hermione thought was barbaric.
Early History
It is unknown when exactly this particular dragon was placed to guard the vaults it was assigned, but it is known that during this time it was trained to fear the sound of the Clankers as it expected pain upon hearing it, causing it to retreat and allow those with using the Clankers to access the vaults. This was most likely achieved using the process of classical conditioning. The dragon was aged and half-blind by the spring of 1998.
1998 Break-in of Gringotts
As Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione had been planning to break into the Lestrange Vault for a few weeks ahead of time, they fully expected to find the dragon and were able to use the Clankers (with the help of Imperiused goblin Bogrod) to drive it away and get into the vault.
After the goblin Griphook abandoned them and they were carried out of the vault in a cascade of treasure, Harry, Ron, and Hermione jumped onto the back of this dragon in desperation to avoid the charging wizards and goblins. Hermione severed the dragon's chains and used a Gouging Spell to help the dragon carve its way out of the tunnel and toward the surface. The other two pitched in, and the dragon crashed through the Gringotts hall, out into Diagon Alley, and took off.
Later life
- Hermione: "What'll happen to it, do you think? Will it be alright?"
- Ron: "You sound like Hagrid. It's a dragon, Hermione, it can look after itself. It's us we need to worry about […] I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts."
- — Hermione and Ron discussing the dragon after they jump off the dragon.[src]
The trio soared on the back of the dragon for a while, but finally jumped off into a lake as the dragon lowered its flying height nearer to the water's surface to get a drink. Although Hermione expressed concern for leaving the dragon in the wild, Ron was confident it would be able to defend for itself without difficulty. It is unknown what happened to the dragon afterwards.
Physical appearance
- "A gigantic dragon was tethered to the ground in front of them, barring access to four or five of the deepest vaults in the place. The beast's scales had turned pale and flaky during its long incarceration under the ground; its eyes were milkily pink; both rear legs bore heavy cuffs from which chains led to enromous pegs driven deep into the rocky floor. Its great spiked wings, folded close to its body, would have filled the chamber if it spread them, and when it turned its ugly head toward them, it roared with a noise that made the rock tremble, opened its mouth, and spat a jet of fire that sent them running back up the passageway."
- —Description of the dragon in 1998.[src]
The dragon was a large, savage creature with enormous spiked wings and an ugly head with partially blind eyes a milkily pink colour. Due to being underground for so long, the dragon's scales were pale and flaky, and it bore the marks of its brutal treatment from goblins: scars on its face made by vicious slashses across its face from, Harry guessed, hot swords. Nevertheless, its scales were described to bear the consistency of steel. Prior to its escape, both of its rear legs had heavy cuffs on them with chains leading to massive pegs driven far into the rocky floor of the subterranean chamber. The dragon's roar was said to make the rock tremble, and it was known to breathe jets of flame.
As an Ironbelly, it had some difficulty escaping from the bank, and took some time to stay aloft in mid-air after it was freed from its incarceration there.
Behind the scenes
- This dragon's species was not identified in the novel. It was stated to be a Ukrainian Ironbelly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, although the dragon's appearance shows great similarities to the New Zealand-native Antipodean Opaleye.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) they use a Common Welsh Green to guard said vault instead of an Ukrainian Ironbelly.
- In 1991, when Rubeus Hagrid talked to Harry about Gringotts (the first time), he told him rumours about there being dragons guarding Gringotts vaults. Harry, taking interest, tried to coax Hagrid to tell him more about the dragons. Harry also sees a flash of flame and leans out of the cart to investigate, but is hastily pulled back in by Hagrid.
- Hermione commented in Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Part 2 that the treatment of the dragon is "barbaric".
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Mentioned in Daily Prophet)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (First identified as a Ukrainian Ironbelly)
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Was George W. Bush the worst president ever? Ivan Eland examines Bushs presidency and those of his predecessors to determine if their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty while upholding the Constitution they swore to protect.
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On September 16, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, actor and director Andy Garcia, and entrepreneur William K. Bowes, Jr. were honored at the Independent Institutes A Gala for Liberty. Each honoree received the Alexis de Tocqueville Award in recognition of their contributions to advancing the ideas and ideals of liberty, entrepreneurship, innovation, and peace.
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Soon a wind turbine will be installed to meet the home's total energy demand and provide energy enough to charge a Chevy Volt, which has a plug on the exterior of the house.
So far, Clayton Homes has built 9 iHomes around the country with their i-House 1.0 concept. These homes are all prefabricated and come with bamboo floors, Energy Star appliances, no VOC paint, CFL lighting, water saving fixtures, low e energy efficient windows, and composite decking from renewable sources. Each home is clad in low maintenance and durable materials like fiber cement board, metal siding, and metal roofs. The butterfly roof collects rainwater and directs it into a buried cistern near the home.
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How greeny.Mark Luther
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In case you don't get to a full wr write up Finny... any chance Alshon Jeffrey might be there at the bottom of round two?
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Quote from: pensodyssey on Apr 25, 2012 at 19:39
In case you don't get to a full wr write up Finny... any chance Alshon Jeffrey might be there at the bottom of round two?
I have AJ as a 2(a)-2(b) likely pick, but not a huge impossibility that he drops to 2(c).
And I should note that my draft guides are my subjective valuations of players, not where I think they will be taken - rather, where they should be taken.
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He's a big boy, compares to Boldin to my nekkid eye. Injury/character issues? I can't recall any specifics.
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Weight fluctuations, speed/separation come to mind. Boldin's a good comparison tho.
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Forgot to mention, but obviously CB Alphonzo Dennard, Nebraska, is DND after punching a cop in the face. Dumbass. Only R5 on my board before that anyway, so not a loss.
Fucking work. What the hell are they doing making me work in the weeks leading up to the draft?
Safeties will be posted before R1 airs.
Have a big board assembled from the guides posted.
Will post the BBV and possibly some more reviews before tomorrow. Was going to do WR/TE together. Prolly won't get to OLB/DE.
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Finny's 2012 Thumbnail Guide to the Draft: Safeties
While I am in the minority on the importance of drafting a safety, it's a well-trodden topic of discussion to note the dropoff in the defense's performance when Polamalu is out of the lineup with injuries. That, and the ages of Polamalu (31) and Clark (32), beg the question of who will take over if either starter is not in the lineup, not to mention the idea of grooming for a future without both starters. Backup Ryan Mundy is JAG, charitably, and Mundy gets the start whenever the Steelers play in Denver. Will Allen and Damon Cromartie-Smith (no relation to Penso) are also on the roster; neither is the answer to any question not relating to trivia.
Replacing Polamalu's skill set is impossible, so when examining SS candidates, expectations must be tempered. Clark's FS skill set favors violent hitting, getting to the ball-carrier quickly, and playing smart ball. He may not be the fastest FS or your typical ball-hawk, but he knows his responsibilities and isn't afraid of getting his nose into the action. Football smarts will beat out 40 times in the LeBeau defense.
With the improving talent at CB (Ike Taylor, Keenan Lewis, Cortez Allen, Curtis Brown primarily) being well coached by DB coach Carnell Lake (yay!), the defensive backfield may see more slash type players in the nickel, with Allen taking over the duties in the slot but being available to support the run if needed, similar to safety. (Myron Rolle is listed as a CB, and presumably would play a similar role.) And with better corner play on the outside, the safeties may transition from covering quarters/thirds to playing the ball more. It will be interesting to see how the backfield assignments morph in response to the league basically becoming a passing league, but it seems clear that LeBeau wishes to keep the 3-4 intact, with a cover 6 shell (deep thirds, or fourths, depending) and the safeties active at all three levels.
Once more, from Finny's 2011 S Draft Guide (maliciously deleted by that fucker Penso-Cromartie-Douchenozzle-Rothschild-Moutonnee-Von Trapp-World Peace): there was no 2011 S Draft Guide, alas.
The average number of safeties taken in the draft is 19, 11 of them FS and 8 SS. Since there is some considerable disagreement over whether a player is FS or SS, I'm going to analyze all these players as a group without necessarily pigeonholing them.
Only five prospective safeties get R1-3 grades from NFLDS, and one of the five is listed as an OLB. 10 are given R4-5 grades. 6 are given R6-7 grades. That comes to 21, or slightly more than the average number drafted; safeties past the elite talent tend to drop in the draft, so there's not a compelling reason to dig much deeper than that.
The clear consensus best S of the class is
Mark Barron,
[/u] 6'1", 213#, 4.56, ranked 14th. The Cowboys, at 14, have given Barron a lot of attention and it seems unlikely that he will be there when the Steelers are set to pick. Barron is more SS than FS, but he can drop into coverage some. Like Polamalu, he's always around the action, and he plays a physical brand of football that would be perfect for the LeBeau defense. He's an on-field leader with the smarts to handle complex schemes.
I would take Barron in a heartbeat, and would consider trading up to 1.18 to get him if he fell there.
Lavonte David,
[/u] 6'1", 243#, 4.65, is ranked 41st, and per my ILB Guide, I think he's a better fit in the 4-3. (It is worth noting that he's about the same size as Lawrence Timmons was when he was drafted, and that Tomlin likes shaking the prototypes a bit.) David's frenetic style of play would, IMO, translate to the 3-4 as a SS, and he showed that he could cover receivers and exhibited great instincts versus the pass. Bo Pelini called him a "coach's dream," and his ability to process info on the field compensates for his 40 time.
Not as fast as Polamalu coming out of USC (4.40), but worth a 2(a) pick as a potential successor; a sleeper candidate for a high Steeler pick.
Notre Dame's
Harrison Smith
[/u], 6'2", 213#, 4.57, is ranked 46th, and likewise plays a bit like a LB/SS hybrid. Harrison brings to mind another ND safety with similar measurables, Tom Zbikowski, drafted by the Ravens 3.23 in 2008. Zbikowski, 5'11", 211#, 4.44, also timed well and looked great in workouts, but it was difficult to see much stand out in the tepid ND secondary. Déjà vu all over again. Smith is getting a lot of talk as a 2(a) or even 1(c) player, but I don't see him as an impact player. Incidentally, the Ravens let Zbikowski walk and the Colts are trying him out.
Smith is a smart, hard-working player who appears to be perfectly adequate but not special, and is likely to be overdrafted; a R4 guy in my book.
Trumaine Johnson
[/u], 6'2", 204#, 4.61, ranked 62nd, is a CB/S hybrid. In my CB ratings, I wrote:
A plus-sized DB with 36 career PBUs and 15 INTs, there is some question as to what Johnson's true linear speed is, but it appears he will have difficulty transitioning downfield with faster NFL receivers, so FS is floated as a possible pro position. Does not appear to have much of a taste for tackling or run support though, so at best
he appears to be yet another package corner who can match size, R5.
Johnson has the skills to be a solid FS, but I have concerns over his LOC and his attitude.
Like Smith, he's going to be overdrafted, and while I like his positional flexibility and upside, he's a R5 for me as a FS as well as a CB.
Boise State's
George Iloka
[/u], 6'4", 225#, 4.66, is ranked 81st, and he has plus size and closing speed. Questions about whether he can transition smoothly in coverage, as is common with taller DBs, and whether he is a willing tackler, make me question his fit here. May not have the on-field maturity we need, either.
A R5 guy only.
So much for the safeties ranked R1-3. Less than impressive. On to those given a R4-5 grade.
Oregon State's
Brandon Hardin,
[/u] 6'3", 217#, 4.43 (pro day), is ranked 99th. Hardin is another taller prospect who played some CB collegiately, and has an outstanding linear speed. Moreover, he actually transitions well for such a tall player. Was not overly productive at Oregon State and had numerous injuries (shoulder, hand, wrist).
Not a guy who looks like a fit for the physical aspects of the LeBeau D, but worth a late round pick based on size and speed, say R5.
Brandon Taylor
[/u], 5'11", 205#, 4.58, is ranked 105th, and reminds me a hell of a lot of Ryan Clark. One of the knocks on Taylor is his size, but he's exactly the same size (and about the same speed) as Clark. Had a leg injury in 2010 but seems to have recovered. Extremely high character guy and considered a smart, disciplined player.
What would you give up for a Ryan Clark clone? Taylor's fly-to-the ball frenzy and football smarts pushes him all the way to a R2 rating for me. Most evaluators are rating him too low.
Michigan State's
Trenton Robinson,
[/u] 5'9", 195#, 4.52 (4.46 pro day), is ranked 118th.
He's too damned small to be a FS and, IMO, is more of a nickel CB, so R7 as NCB only.
Oklahoma State's Markelle Martin[/b][/u], 6'1", 207#, is ranked 126th, and did not run at the combine or his pro day, but was clocked in the 4.6 range a couple of weeks ago for a late workout for scouts. Had knee surgery after an injury in January, there's a lot to like about Martin's game. More of a splash play guy than Taylor, he's still not afraid to mix it up, and he's someone who could also play either safety spot. Very good academics, and on-field awareness. Besides the injury, only ding is stiffness in transition. I don't know that I would downgrade him that much for the 40 time since he ran a 4.45 at his junior pro day, but the knee injury is worth checking out completely.
I have Martin ranked a little lower than Taylor, but he's worth a R3 pick, and might slide – making him a very good day 3 value.
South Carolina's
Antonio Allen
[/u], 6'1", 210#, 4.67, is ranked 142nd, and plays a bit like a lanky linebacker.
Looks like a special team guy and backup, unless he can add some serious bulk and transition to ILB. How's he fit here? Pass.
Aaron Henry
[/u], 6'0", 208#, 4.54, is ranked 148th, and has played CB and WR as well. Might be a better CB than FS, with an iffy nose for the action – both instincts and tackling ability.
A R6 CB due to good hands and decent size, but not a S here.
South Carolina State's
Christian Thompson
[/u], 6'0", 211#, 4.50, is ranked 150th. Transferred from Auburn, but didn't make a huge impact at this LOC, major knock is his mental aspect, processing info on the field. He tackles well, but it's not enough.
Justin Bethel,
[/u]5'11", 200#, 4.58, is ranked 174th. Bethel was productive at his low LOC, and is another CB/S sort of tweener.
Deep developmental prospect will need time to be anything more than a special teamer, so R7.
Preacherman can probably give a better reckoning of Furman's
Ryan Steed,
[/u] 5'10", 195#, 4.68 (4.55 pro day), ranked 175th. Marginal size and speed, played at a low LOC. That said, Steed's a baller. Fluid on the field, good football smarts, has a good sense of what's happening, and isn't tackling-shy. Doesn't have the speed to play corner, but could fit at FS playing back off the LOS. Game notes: fared well against Alshon Jeffery, who's also not a speed guy.
A developmental guy I think has upside despite the knocks, and would take him R5 ahead of better known and bigger safeties.
Rounding out NFLDS's R4-5 prospects is Cal's
D.J. Campbell,
[/u] 6'0", 201#, 4.54 (pro day). One-year starter with OK-fine size and speed but iffy instincts. Really?
And on we move to the lightning round. Prospects will be ignored, shunned, as the Amish are wont to do, if I feel like it. Evals shortened, niceties shelved. Here we go.
San Diego State's
Duke Ihenacho
[/u] is, somehow, NFLDS's 5th SS overall.
At best he's a backup somewhere, not here. Pass.
The good news is that Oregon's
Eddie Pleasant
[/u] is a thick, tough rover, who also played LB, RB, and S in HS.
The unpleasant news is that he doesn't have the mental makeup to fit here, and will have to dwell on fond memories of HS and the NCAA. In a word, no.
Tavon Wilson
[/u], 6'0", 205#, 4.52, is ranked 212th, and played CB and SS at Illinois. Lacks some punch tackling, but
a productive DB who fits as a R7 developmental guy at FS, and could flourish with good coaching.
Arkansas State's
Kelcie McCray
[/u] is a lanky guy who's going to get trucked at the pro level.
Matt Daniels
[/u] has the same frame as Ryan Clark and Brandon Taylor, has good character traits, and gets points for run support. But appears to lack the smoothness to be anything more than a backup.
I'll give him a R7 on traits the Steelers value.
Former Vol
Janzen Jackson
[/u] ultimately played at McNeese St., after being highly recruited by tons of schools. Has plenty of athletic skills, but looks like he
has a Hummer full of suitcases with all the baggage he's carrying. DND.
Oklahoma State's
Johnny Thomas
[/u]: close, no Macanudo. Syracuse's
Phillip Thomas
[/u], ditto.
Guess I'm doubting Thomases.
Neiko Thorpe,
[/u] 6'1", 198#, 4.40, is a FS/CB tweener who would be
better served moving back to CB. R6.
Johnson Bademosi
[/u], 6'1", 201#, 4.46, was a CB at the college level but could be a very interesting FS project, said to have
high intelligence and character in addition to plus-plus measurables. That gets you to R5.
Tony Dye
[/u] is a classic SS with the talent to be a day 2 pick but with some weird lingering neck pain issue that's pushed him off most boards.
Too risky; pass.
That should about do it. 13 safeties, of which only 4 are worth a R1-3, and one of whom is most widely seen as an OLB, plus 3 CBs:
R1 – Mark Barron, Alabama
R2 – Brandon Taylor, LSU; Lavonte David, Nebraska
R3 – Markelle Martin, Oklahoma State
R4 – Harrison Smith, Notre Dame
R5 – Ryan Steed, Furman; Johnson Bademosi, Stanford; Trumaine Johnson, Montana; Brandon Hardin, Oregon State; George Iloka, Boise State
R7 – Justin Bethel, Presbyterian; Tavon Wilson, Illinois; Matt Daniels, Duke
CB only:
R6 – Neiko Thorpe, Auburn; Aaron Henry, Wisconsin
R7 – Trenton Robinson, Michigan State
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Coupla notes.
Didn't make a formal PK guide, but did note this back in the early going:
Late word from yesterday's Missouri pro day has NFL scouts buzzing about Tiger field goal kicker Grant Ressel, who consistently split the uprights from 60 yards during his workout. Ressel struggled as a senior, hitting on only 56.2 percent of his field goals, as well as just 1-of-7 from 40 yards or longer. His workout yesterday will at least get Ressel an invite to camp.
Welcome to the Steelers, Mr. Ressel. If your accuracy improves, you could have a real shot here.
On Sean Spence, our R3 ILB whom lots of folks question based on measurables, I had this to say:
Miami OLB
Sean Spence
, 5'11", 231#, 4.71, 12 reps, 33 ½" VJ, 9'11" BJ, ranked 82nd, gets flagged for those 12 reps but lifted in Indy with a shoulder bruise and reportedly can lift around 20 reps. He's also closer to David Lavonte size than Bobby Wagner or Mychal Kendricks, and sometimes it really is just a matter of 10 or 15#. But I'm hesitant to disqualify Spence even with all that. What Spence has is football ability. His read and react, his nose to sniff out plays and anticipate where the ball is going, plus production and blitzing, all add up to make Spence an intriguing mid-round prospect. Pittsburgh was well represented at Miami's pro day, and Spence has to be a guy they were looking at.
Borderline size, speed, but everything else you could want from an ILB has Spence a R3 guy for me.
Spence is exempted from the Carter Rule because his eval is based on football skills, with measurables much less part of the overall grade.
Steelers Depot has a more in-depth write-up on Spence here.
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(noun): the final resting place for your semen. Examples include: tissues, socks and condoms.
'Bro, last night was great, my sementary was Jessie's face.'
por CFKane
31 de Março de 2014
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the sock, rag, or tissue one keeps by their bed for cleanup after masturbating. a semen graveyard
its just me and you tonight buddy. I guess we're going to put more of my children in the sementary
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21 de Dezembro de 2011


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Perspectives for the Use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays for Finite Element Computations
Lienhart, G., Gembris, D., Männer, R.Universität Mannheim
We have studied how the solution of partial differential equations by means of finite element methods could be accelerated using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
First, we discuss in general the capabilities of current FPGA technology for floating-point implementations of number crunching. Based on practical results for basic floating-point operators performance limits are outlined. Then the perspectives for the implementation of LU decomposition with a state-of-the-art FPGA chip are addressed.
It is estimated that, compared with a modern CPU, a speedup by a factor of 10-20 can be expected using a single off-the-shelf FPGA.


text: Aug 29, 2013 00:02 Alexander impresses at LSU by being visible, accessible (Video) Alexander impresses at LSU by being visible, accessible (Video) Alexander impresses by being visible, accessible Koran Addo| firstname.lastname@example.com Aug. 29, 2013 Comments Eight weeks into his new job as LSU's president, and King Alexander finds himself sweating and surrounded by freshmen. It's four days before Monday's start of classes, and he is walking from one part of campus to another carrying boxes, helping students move into their dorm rooms. It's one of the traditions he brought over from his previous stop as president of California State University in Long Beach. It's also one of those things that is supposed to get noticed. In his brief time in Baton Rouge, Alexander has done a few other things that have drawn attention. His most dramatic move so far was announcing pay raises and one-time salary bumps of up to 4 percent of the vast majority of LSU employees statewide. Alexander said he needed to do something to keep staff — mostly faculty — from leaving for other institutions. More than 200 faculty members have left since 2008. Many of the ones who've stayed behind said the campus needed the morale boost. LSU Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope, in particular, is a frequent critic of LSU's decision makers and the board that oversees them. But he said, so far, Alexander has made the right moves. "I'd give him a 92 on a 100-point scale," Cope said. "He's much better than most people expected. We've got to give him credit on getting out there and reaching out to faculty." But Cope said a few bright moments in the early weeks won't be enough for Alexander to fully ingratiate himself with faculty. "He needs to show that he's independent of the board," Cope said. "He needs to show that he won't be hiring technocrats and the governor's cast-offs." Alexander has been getting high marks throughout LSU's network of academic campuses, research centers, clinics and hospitals. One of his first moves after arriving in Louisiana in late June was his trip to Crowley to visit the LSU AgCenter's Rice Research Station. Steve Linscombe runs the research station. He described Alexander's visit as genuine. "To the best of my recollection, he's the first president that's been here, and I've been here 30 years," Linscombe said. "He did his homework. He knew about what we do and he knew about the Louisiana rice industry. As far as I'm concerned, he was very impressive." On another trip, Alexander went to Lafayette to see Louisiana's school superintendents during their summer conference. Ascension Parish Superintendent Patrice Pujol said Alexander was particularly interested in partnering with school districts on ways to make students better prepared for college. "He talked about opportunities for research at the university-level to better inform our practices in K-12," Pujol said. "He also talked about getting some of our kids to engage with professors, to kind of, whet their appetite," for college. Central Superintendent Michael Faulk said Alexander's staff has already begun reaching out to school districts about potential partnerships. Alexander has said he would like to transfer the successful Long Beach Promise program to Louisiana. The program he helped shape was one of his career achievements in California. It starts as a partnership between families and the schools to create an individualized plan, or pathway, for each child's graduation, starting at the elementary school level and continuing through the senior year of high school. Students who meet their targets gain automatic admission into Cal State Long Beach or a tuition-free semester at Long Beach Community College. The promise is a pledge for all three institutions to assist students and families with the requirements through outreach services from the sixth grade through the college transition. "I would love to do something like that here," Alexander said. "We are here as a partner in the public school mission of this state. Our graduation rate doesn't start on move-in day; it starts in kindergarten." Collaboration is one of Alexander's buzzwords. From his office last week, he said one of his first priorities is to "build a degree of collaboration and trust" among the LSU campuses. "We have gone five-plus years in some cases without working closely together," he said. "We should be coordinating our state legislative efforts and our federal efforts, because right now, they're all over the map." For instance, Alexander said LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, one of the country's leading obesity research facilities, should be working with the food scientists within the AgCenter to take advantage of federal research grants, especially in a state with high incidences of diabetes and heart disease. "That type of collaboration hasn't really been going on," he said. For all of Alexander's efforts on being visible around the state, John Woodard, president of the Baton Rouge campus' student body, said he's also been accessible to students. Alexander recently hosted student leaders at a high-level public safety briefing as first responders mapped out what to do in case of certain emergencies. "In the past, students didn't really get shown what's going on," Woodard said adding that Alexander has been increasing student access to the inner workings of the administration. LSU Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss had a similar take. "I think it's a very positive development that he's shown not only a willingness, but an interest, in discussing with chancellors the critical issues facing not only our campuses, but the university as a whole." Weiss also gave the new president high marks in community outreach. Alexander has already agreed to sit on the Baton Rouge Area Chamber's Board of Directors, a position his previous two predecessors also accepted. BRAC chief executive officer Adam Knapp said it appears that Alexander has his priorities right. "He's building and improving on the morale and he's getting rid of the infighting between campuses," Knapp said. "BRAC has long had a close partnership with LSU. ... We're excited for his leadership." Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Comfort is the basis of everything we do; we work to earn money and we want to earn money to buy all the comforts of life. Most of our working time is spent in office. But, we tend to ignore to invest in a comfortable chair in order to buy more comfort. What an irony!
Back pains, neck pains, hip injury are some of the common injuries we see today in our workplace. This can be also considered a 'first world' problem, because of long hours of office work that kept you at your desk without much movement and exercise.
Today's lifestyle has made us lazier and more prone to disorders. Maintaining a good posture is in itself a challenge for most of us. Then why not choose the furniture which helps us in doing so. Invest in a good ergonomic chair. Get it from a good office chair Singapore supplier.
One design or shape cannot fit all body types. So, choose a design which is customizable, has adjustable height, also for arm support. The back area should be flexible to allow maintaining the natural curve of the spine. Most of the chair available in the market provide the recline ability, but do not have an option of comfortable head rest.
Benefit of having a head rest is that it gives support to your neck also, when you just want to tilt your head back and do some deep thinking. Some chairs advertise deep cushioned seat pan as an added level of comfort. Don't be fooled by such false claims.
A deep seating area entices you towards slouching, which is very dangerous for your health. Though, a good chair is an important aspect of office furniture. But, it is incomplete without a complimenting desk to work.
Office table is equally significant. Most importantly, the height must be comfortable. There should be appropriate space for cable management so that network and power cables do not get tangled.
When choosing a desk, pay some attention to the surface material also. You don't want your new desk to be spoilt with pen marks. Laminated tops are a good option as they are very easy to clean and stains are not retained.
There should be enough storage space also on your desk to help you keep organized. It's a well known fact that a cluttered workstation decreases the productivity.
We have discussed a lot over the usability of the office furniture. This does not mean that looks are less important. Choose from a wide variety of colors and designs available in the market.
Go for bright colors so that the environment is vibrant and motivating. If you are a fan of vintage style and unable to incorporate the same in your home, office is a good alternative to let your imagination fly.
After all, when you are working on your favorite desk and chair, overtime does not pinch too much!
If you want to look for more options for your furniture, check out the video below for a range of cool designs of chairs, tables and furniture set that take care of your body, your posture!
You can view more at its YouTube channel too.


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Occupy's Pledge to FIGHT BACK
We Didn't Start the Class War
Timothy McGettigan pledged on to fight back against the 1% by doing the following:
- Come out in the streets when Occupy calls for a day of action.
- Dump their bank and join a credit union.
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Always wanted a hoverboard like the one Marty McFly rode in "Back to the Future II"? All you need is $10,000. That's the cost of the Hendo hoverboard, which uses magnetic technology to create a frictionless, floating ride. But the technology could also be used during natural disasters. CNET's Stephen Beach and Kara Tsuboi show us how it works.
Smoke alarms warn us about fires, but what if we had devices in our homes to warn us about earthquakes seconds before they strike? For less than $100, a UC Berkeley professor has figured out how to make an in-home early warning quake system. CNET's Sumi Das looks at what it takes to make it work.
A professor at UC Berkeley (in California's earthquake country) has created a prototype device that warns of pending quake-related rumbles and could be installed as easily as a home fire alarm.
A quadcopter's close aerial footage of the destruction caused by this week's 6.0 California earthquake in wine country shows the potential of drones in disaster areas.
Mapping software company Esri creates a real-time interactive map on the 6.0-magnitude quake filled with information from people's Twitter updates and YouTube videos.
Seismologists aren't the only ones culling data from the 6.0-magnitude quake that hit Northern California Sunday. The Jawbone Up maker is sharing its info on who woke up, where, and when.
Video of the devastation wrought by a major earthquake on Kathmandu and resulting avalanche at Mount Everest base camp have begun to trickle on to YouTube.
Some of the biggest technology companies offer ways to help the survivors of Saturday's earthquake.
Dan Fredinburg, an engineer in Google's Project X division, was among more than a dozen climbers killed in avalanche set off by Nepal's massive earthquake.
The rare and colorful lights sometimes seen before major earthquakes could come from electric charges in certain types of rock.


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Oak Meadows Golf & Banquet
Professional caliber 18-hole golf course. Banquets/meetings up to 400 year-round. Four distinct rooms for meetings, seminars or receptions. Accessible from O'Hare Airport and major expressways.
Lake Arlington
Sail boating, Memorial Day through Labor Day, and weekends in September and October. Includes boat rentals (sailboat and paddleboat), 2 mile bike/walk path, picnic area, and playground.
CITY:Arlington Heights
Arlington Lakes Golf Club
The challenging 18-hole layout spans 90 acres of superbly manicured fairways and greens with 14 beautiful lakes to negotiate during a round. Features clubhouse, snack bar area, pro shop, and patio area.
CITY:Arlington Heights
Nickol Knoll Golf Course
Large bentgrass tees and greens give this fun layout a big course feel. Several shots from elevated tees provide a beautiful view of the area. Features pro-shop, snack bar and club house.
CITY:Arlington Heights
Bicycle Trails - Aurora
More than 35 miles of trails, from Aurora to Crystal Lake, pass through scenic landscapes. Routes include the Fox River, Virgil Gilman and Red Oak Trails, and the Illinois Prairie Path.
Fox River Games Paintball
Bring a group of friends to play a round of paintball at Fox River Games. Open play or "walk-on" play is recreational play for all ages (age restrictions) and skill levels. Play as an individual or play in groups. Typically we are open every weekend Saturday and Sunday and during the summer we operate on Wednesdays and Fridays too. Please check our website for our operating schedule and specific hours of operation.
Oakhurst Forest Preserve
Explore the acres of woods and lakes, with scenic trails, shelters and views of Aurora and Chicago's skyline.
Phillips Park
Located on over 325 acres including a 28-acre fishing lake with a one-mile multiple use trail and a restored prairie grass development. The remains of the extinct elephant-like mastodon were found in this lake in the 1930s. Attractions include a life-size sculpture of a mastodon at the Mastodon Gallery, the gorgeous Sunken Garden, an 18-hole golf course and driving range, a zoo, war memorials, a winter recreation area and a 8,000-square-foot BMX & Skate Park.
Phillips Park Zoo
Established in 1915, this free zoo is open daily, year round. Exhibits include bald eagles, wolves, mountain lions, foxes, otters, elk, goats, llamas, turkeys and peacocks.
Sunken Garden
View the spectacular display of 15,000 flowers of 15 varieties, plus a three-tiered fountain and the Four Seasons statues that complement this exquisite English garden.
Vaughn Athletic Center and Indoor Water Park
The Vaughan Athletic Center is dedicated to fitness excellence with quality equipment and programs designed to offer members the best value for their fitness dollar. The newest facility in the Fox Valley Park District is the Vaughan Athletic Center located on Indian Trail near Orchard Road on the far west side of Aurora. The Vaughan Athletic Center features 225,000 square feet of athletic, fitness, and aquatic fun. The Vaughan Athletic Center is home to an aquatic center with three indoor pools. The aquatic center offers lap swimming, diving boards, warm water therapy, swim lessons, and aquatic fitness classes. In addition, there is an indoor water park featuring two water slides, a lazy river, and spray and play areas. In the Vaughan Athletic Center's 10,000-square-foot, full-service fitness center, members can use a wide variety of equipment, attend the Fox Valley area's best group exercise classes, and receive personalized, one-on-one help from certified trainers. This year-round indoor water park has tube slides, zero-depth entry and interactive water play.
Blackberry Farm
Go on a one of a kind country adventure you'll never forget! Become pioneers for a day on a real 1800s farm and village. Miniature train rides, pony rides, petting zoo, pioneer craft demonstrations, and special events. In the Discovery Barn see chickens, sheep, piglets, baby goats and more.
Aurora Skate Center
Skate to the sounds of Top 40 music. The skate center also features special live organ music dance sessions.
Splash Country Water Park
This deluxe water park features tube slides, a simulated river, zero-depth pools and sand activity areas.
Airtastic Playland
A fun and exciting play land offering 10 inflatable play structures, four party rooms and two age-appropriate play areas.
Phillips Park Aquatic Center
Deluxe water park with tube slides, simulated river, zero-depth pools and sand activity areas.
SciTech Hands-On Museum
Aurora's interactive science and technology center offers over 200 hands-on exhibits demonstrating the principles of electricity, weather, astronomy and nuclear energy.
Rocktown Adventures
Rocktown has an appreciation of the outdoors to inspire you to take on new challenges, leading to a healthier lifestyle, and ultimately helping you define your idea of outdoor recreation. They have experienced instructors that love to share their passion for the outdoors, and trip guides that know our waterways and trails like the back of their hand. They are located near an abundance of recreational assets waiting to be discovered by you.
RiverEdge Park
The 30-acre park was designed in a way that would serve many purposes. From the canoe/kayak launch and natural landscaping to the VIP Rooftop Deck and 10-acre music venue, this is the new recreation and entertainment destination of the suburbs. Bring your kids and fly a kite. Enjoy a local band in the music pavilion with friends. Spread out a blanket and watch fireworks with the family on the 4th of July. RiverEdge Park is your backyard away from home.
Phillips Park Golf Course
The state-of-the-art golf course boasts modern features like "USGA" Greens, multiple tees, larger greens, strategically placed bunkers and water hazards, cart paths, a driving range and a three hole Junior Course. The new driving range has both "All Weather Teeing Surface" for inclement weather and a massive grass tee for a more realistic feel. Phillips Park Golf Course is a quality championship caliber golf course. With three sets of tees, the golf course ranges from 4,760 yards to 6,200 yards, providing a wide range of challenge for varying abilities.
Jaynesway Farms (Bartlett)
A complete equestrian center offering English & Western riding lessons, boarding trail rides, pony rides, hayrides, carriages rides and barnyard zoo. Heated indoor arena.
Villa Olivia Country Club Ski Area
Villa Olivia is a public facility. Slope ticket required to access ski and snowboard activities including 7 runs, quad chair lift and 6 rope tows. Villa Olivia has skiwee for kids 4-9 years old, snow tubing, ski, dining, golf, lessons, snowboarding, sleigh rides.
Bartlett HIlls Golf Course
This 18-hole course features a practice range, pro shop, snack shop and banquet facilities.


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"The latest Linwood Barclay does not disappoint."
Ray Kilbride faces a challenge. He has a full-blown flourishing career as an illustrated writer particularly of political cartoons. But his dad suddenly dies as a result of an accident where the lawn mower tractor tips over while he is mowing the lawn. Ray is forced to come home to rural New York to deal with clearing up his father's effects, deciding what to do with the house, and, most of all, trying to figure out what he can do about his brother, Thomas, who is schizophrenic and lives totally in his bedroom on his computer. He seems unable to do anything to care for himself. But Ray is determined that he will find some way for Thomas to live which doesn't involve Ray's living with him and taking care of him. Then Thomas becomes obsessed with a new computer program, which allows him to zero in on individual streets and residences in cities. He believes that it is his duty to learn all the streets of all the big cities in the world because he is convinced that at some point, electronic maps will be totally lost and we won't have paper maps anymore. So it will be up to Thomas, with his prodigious memory to help people figure out where to go throughout the world. He believes he is in contact with the CIA and that former President Clinton is his liaison to the CIA. This finally gets him and brother Ray into a world of trouble when Thomas, viewing a street in New York City, becomes convinced that he is seeing a murder through a third story window. At first no one will believe him, but then Ray attempts to help him figure out what is going on, and the brothers are in the crosshairs of some very dangerous people. This is an excellent book, an audio page turner I couldn't turn off from start to finish.
"Australian Vietnam vet with Agent Orange"
book is set, I believe in the 1980's. The vet is suffering from Agent Orange exposure, but it is before either the U.S. or Australia are admitting that Agent Orange is the cause of so much damage. So in this book, a group of Vietnam vets who served together decide to grow hashish and sell it in has honey to earn enough to help vets who have been harmed and who aren't getting help from the government. It's totally illegal, but they have this enterprise for a year, raise a lot of money and help a lot of people. It's a very interesting book with the vet and his wife coming back together after having almost been separated by the events of the war because he can't talk about them. Also, some interesting contrasts between experiences of Australian Vietnam vets and American Vietnam vets.
"The latest Rowling book, not like Harry Potter."
We have all been waiting for the Rowling book that would come after the Harry Potter series. What has finally appeared, five years later, is well written with well developed characters, but the book itself was disappointing to me. The plot revolves around a man on the Perish Council, (for U.S. it would be town council, I think). The man who is the catalyst for the book takes his wife out for an anniversary dinner in the first chapter and drops dead on the restaurant parking lot from what they assume is an aneurism. But his death starts a whole series of events. There is a perish council election coming up, because of his death, to fill "the casual vacancy." Whoever is elected will determine what happens next with the money in the perish. The man who died, named Barry, wants them to put more money into a drug rehabilitation program and provide more money for services for those who are poor. But most of the council does not want to even keep the program open. They want to cut back on providing any services to "these people who don't work" and shut down the rehabilitation methadone program. So this is the backdrop for all the things that happen. We are introduced to amyriad of characters, most of them very unpleasant, with their children, equally unpleasant. The book reminds me of Elizabeth George's "what happened before he shot her" but it is much more relentless with the most sympathetic character being the ungovernable teenage daughter of a drug addict. It's also quite long. And if it hadn't been Rowling, and if I hadn't liked Harry Potter so much, I probably wouldn't have finished it. The Harry Potter books were dark, but she managed to put some lightness in them here and there, and the reader liked several of the characters. That isn't true here. So my final conclusion: the book is interesting but disappointing to me.
"Thriller, 2nd in the Hazel Makallef series."
This is the second Hazel Micallef mystery taking place in rural Ontario. Hazel is still recovering from the injuries she got in "The Calling", first book, and from back surgery. She and her 87-year-old mother can't take care of themselves and live alone during this recovery, so they move in with Hazel's ex-husband and his new wife. Some awkward moments caused mostly by Hazel, the second wife is very nice to her. Hazel is still working, however, and she is called in on a new case. While fishing, some tourists came upon what appeared to be a body. When the body was dragged up, it turned out to be a headless manikin. Eerily, there is a story being run in the local paper, and as the details unfold, the issue seems to be about a girl who was killed some time ago where the case had been closed. Then someone seems to be using a live computer camera coverage to show a man being held, tied in a chair with a hand missing, and Hazel is sent the hand in a box. More bizarre things happen and it's clear that Hazel and her officers are being led along in a game being perpetrated by someone who feels the girl's case was closed too early and the murderer not found. Excellent story. A thriller with Hazel performing some improbable stunts, but I find this series very entertaining. The narrator is perfect. Hazel is always coming up with weird questions that lead to clues, and the narrator poses those questions with just the kind of vagueness and stubbornness you would expect Hazel to exhibit in the circumstances. Very good.
"WW II correspondents adventures in the war."
Their work on the front lines made headlines. In February 1943, a group of journalists - including a young wire-service correspondent named Walter Cronkite
and cub reporter Andy Rooney - clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the 64 bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day
never made it back to England. A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, asked Cronkite if he'd thought through a lede. "I think
I'm going to say," mused Cronkite, "that I've just returned from an assignment to hell." During his esteemed career, Walter Cronkite issued millions of
words for public consumption, but he never wrote or uttered a truer phrase. Assignment to Hell tells the powerful and poignant story of the war against
Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters. Crisscrossing battlefields, they formed a journalistic band of brothers, repeatedly placing themselves
in harm's way to bring the war home for anxious American readers. Cronkite crashed into Holland on a glider with U.S. paratroopers. Rooney dodged mortar
shells as he raced across the Rhine at Remagen. Behind enemy lines in Sicily, Bigart jumped into an amphibious commando raid that nearly ended in disaster.
The New Yorker's A. J. Liebling ducked sniper fire as Allied troops liberated his beloved Paris. The Associated Press's Hal Boyle barely escaped SS storm
troopers as he uncovered the massacre of U.S. soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge. Assignment to Hell is a stirring tribute to five of World War II's
greatest correspondents and to the brave men and women who fought on the front lines against fascism - their generation's "assignment to hell".
"Not as good as some of her books."
Picoult's hot button issue for this book involves a death row inmate who wants to donate his heart to the sister of the little girl he killed, along with her step-father. The problem is that the sentence was to be carried out by lethal injection, and if that form of death was used, he could not donate his heart as it would not be functional. His civil liberties lawyer is arguing that the state hang him instead of killing him through injection. That's the main issue in this book. The problem with the book is that it contains several other issues, some involving such things as that perhaps he can perform miracles. The main issue is well laid out, and Picoult has clearly done her usual thorough research involving the medical and legal problems surrounding death sentences and donation of body organs. But this book could have done with fewer additional issues.
"Sequel to Wolf Hall. Very good."
This is the sequel to Hilary Mantel's award-winning "Wolf Hall". Here we follow Thomas Cromwell, secretary and advisor to King Henry VIII to the beheading of Anne Boleyn. While King henry was enamoured of Anne Boleyn for seven years, which included his divorce and annulment of his 20-year marriage to Katherine of Aragon, his exiting from the Catholic church and starting his own church in England, and his ultimate marriage to Anne, he soon becomes disenchanted with her. Their marriage lasts three years; no son is born alive, and only a daughter, Elizabeth, lives. Katherine finally dies, and within a few weeks of her death, the gossip surrounding Anne grows to a climax as people perceive the king is willing to hear rumors and innuendos about her unfaithfulness to him. Again, Thomas Cromwell is the primary focus of the novel and we see events unfold through his eyes. We see a man who rose to his high office but remains, so far as nobility is concerned, a commoner. He has dedicated his life and service to King Henry VIII but with no illusions that the king and the nobility could turn on him in a moment. He retains his position through his wit, intelligence and long memory regarding the people around him. The weeks involving Anne Boleyn's trial, and the trial of other men tried for treason for allegedly taking liberties with her, is terrifying. The actual beheading of Anne Boleyn is gut wrenching, particularly when you learn that she must kneel but will have no block to rest her head on. She must kneel perfectly still in one place so the head will come off with one stroke. Reading about this period reminds me very much of the French Revolution period of chaos. I don't know if Mantel plans more books leading to the eventual downfall of Cromwell or if this is it. Simon Vance does his usual wonderful job of narration with each character having its own vocal expressions, Cromwell always remaining slightly remote and cool. I assume this book will get some awards as well. It is very good.
"Lesbian short stories from the 1950's."
The Publisher's note explains this title as well as I can.
Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pulp
paperbacks of the post-World War II era. In 1950, publisher Fawcett Books founded its Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction.
These were the books that small-town lesbians and prurient men bought by the millions - cheap, easy to find in drugstores, and immediately recognizable
by their lurid covers: often a hard-looking brunette standing over a scantily clad blonde, or a man gazing in tormented lust at a lovely, unobtainable
lesbian. For women leading straight lives, here was confirmation that they were not alone and that darkly glamorous, "gay" places like Greenwich Village
existed. Some - especially those written by lesbians - offered sympathetic and realistic depictions of "life in the shadows", while others (no less fun
to read now) were smutty, sensational tales of innocent girls led astray. In the overheated prose typical of the genre, this collection documents the emergence
of a lesbian subculture in postwar America.
These stories had one drawback. They were excerpts from full novels, so they never felt as if you got the whole story. But each one clearly described an earth-shaking event in the life of a particular woman. Ann Bannon's introduction is very thorough and gives us a history of that period.
"Intriguing novel sort of a 1984 plot."
This is a very long book that took me months to read, but was worth it.
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies
in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question.
Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that,
soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of
the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that
instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator;
a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector. A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of
self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's, 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan,
and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers. BONUS AUDIO: Audible interviews the translators of 1Q84, Jay Rubin
and Philip Gabriel.
"Another Capetown police procedural, wonderful."
Zed Van Heerden, a former cop and now a private eye in Capetown, is referred to a young lawyer representing the mistress of an antique furniture dealer who was murdered with an M-16 rifle and tortured first with a blow torch. There is a safe, large with shelves built into the wall, which is left open and is empty except for a piece of paper used for rolling American bills. While the woman was never married to the dealer, they've lived together for several years and he left a will leaving everything to her. But the will is gone, and that's what they want Van Heerden to find. But as he becomes involved in the case, he realizes he will have to solve the murder, and solving the murder brings him into contact with all kinds of South African and American military intelligence and puts his life and that of his mother and everyone else in danger. As is usually truewith these books, there's also a back story involving why Van Heerden left the police force. It's very good, and as usual Simon Vance does a wonderful job with the accents and the narration in general.
"4th in the Lena Jones series, very good."
This is the fourth in the Lena Jones series of a Scottsdale Arizona private eye. Here she is hired to provide security while a documentary is being filmed involving the escape of German POW's from a prison camp in Arizona. The same night of the escape, a family was slaughtered in their home. The only survivor, a son, was blamed, and tried for the crime but was not convicted. However, his life was ruined because everyone, except the jury, believed he was guilty. Now, 60 years after the original event, one of the Nazis who was in that camp, who escaped that night, and who was allowed to emigrate to America because of his scientific prowess, is murdered. No one likes him. He still loudly proclaims his Nazi principles and loudly proclaims the Nazi views of minorities. There has always been a theory that he and the Germans who escaped during the war were responsible for the death of the family. And now, in addition to her job providing security, Lena is dragged into determining who killed the Nazi because his caretaker, an Ethiopian immigrant is being blamed. Then, two more persons are murdered, Lena thinks, because they know too much about the case, and Lena's own life is in danger. Her oldest friend, a police detective, is retiring and moving away, and her best friend and business partner is getting married and moving to another company where he'll make more money. Lena indeed has lots to deal with in this book. The book continues to provide us with Arizona scenery and interesting characters.