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my nephew's fiancé is in Laguna Beach for the day, looking for some Japanese Curry anywhere nearby.
May 31, 2015toodie jane in Los Angeles Area
Super Early Monterey B'fast 4/16
Hey Hounds! It's Toodie Jane, needing a rec for a super early breakfast near the Naval Post Grad School this Thurs (4/16) morning. My nephew is there for two days, leaving Thurs from Mont airport to LA. DO you know of anything open super-early like 5-ish? Even Red's Donuts downtown don't open till 6:30. HOPE you can help. I mean Anything open where we can have a chat before he leaves. THANKS!
Apr 14, 2015toodie jane in California
Any good bakeries/cake shops in Denver?
try Dolce Sicilia in Wheatridge. Not French but they are good bakers. (Not so much goopy stuff as French but baked from scratch.) Next door to Sawa Polish Meats and Deli. swoonworthy. Corner of Wadsworth and ___? , 3 signals or so south of 70.
May 21, 2014toodie jane in Mountain States
Nitrate Free Bacon- what's the difference?
Will, isn't the function of the nitrates just to preserve the pink color? I make my own corned beef, and it sure tastes like corned beef to me, even better--it's just not PINK.
Jan 11, 2014toodie jane in General Topics
Central Coast Town for short stay?
field trip!
I usually just get lengua or carnitas, buche, relleno. Not a big eater these days. But will do research.
Jan 11, 2014toodie jane in California
Central Coast Town for short stay?
Absolutely the best Mexican food on the Central Coast is in Santa Maria, 35 min south of Pismo. You want to go to the Delis at the smaller Mexican markets--they're all over town, but many are along No. Broadway or out west near crnr. of Blosser & Main. Sometimes you can find just- made rellenos of pasilla chiles stuffed with about 4 oz of queso fresco. ( La Mia on No Broadway.) The bigger delis like El Toro @ B&M have a tortilla factory. The carnitas is universally excellent and you will find plenty of variety meats offered. You almost have to know what you're looking for--many of the staff are not English speaking. Get food to go and head to Presker Park along So. Broadway past the airport. Take Goodwin street turn off So Broadway. !Que sabrosa!
Jan 11, 2014toodie jane in California
Getting it there hot is not a problem. It needs to stay serving temp while remaining on the serving line, accessible, not tucked away in a box. I need something other than a crockpot that will keep food very warm OUTDOORS for a couple of hours. Looking for something electric (no open flame)that I can plug in.
Jan 11, 2014toodie jane in Cookware
New Best Foods Mayonnaise - is it my imagination?
they're counting on new generations not knowing the difference, as is the case with many things changing nowadays.
Jan 11, 2014toodie jane in General Topics
SloCo Pasty Co [San Luis Obispo]
pasties are great, but this is a big GF town...
Dec 31, 2013toodie jane in California
What to do with a dry Sacher torte?
kirsch is brushed on with a pastry brush. Just a hint does it.
What to do with a dry Sacher torte?
sachertorte is not sweet. No to syrup.
Sacher torte from Hotel Sacher in Vienna
agree. the cake is not overly rich (oils and pudding mix? gah!) like American cakes can be, but IS layered with complimenting flavors.
First the chocolate cake made with finest cocoa and chocolate, farm fresh eggs and sweet Alpine butter, a brushing of Kirschwasser to soak in, then the apricot preserve glaze, then repeat. Top with a thin chocolate ganache. AND ALWAYS, served mit schlag. A generous dollop of freshly whipped and very lightly sweetened whipped cream snuggled up against the SIDE of the slice, not on top.
Dec 31, 2013toodie jane in Europe
is today the day to consume or tomorrow??
lead in the soil from industrial waste?
Dec 31, 2013toodie jane in Food Media & News
HI-- so glad it was liked, it was passed to me 25 years ago by friend (between the two of us many hundreds of recipes have been made); the recipe calls for 8 oz Hershey Chocolate bars for the coating, so I'm thinking it was a recipe from Hershey Test Kitchens.
I used to use Ghirardelli random size bulk pieces, but since it is no longer to be found, I use about 1/3 Trader Joe's Milk to 2/3 TJ's 72 % Dark for the coating, and it goes on about 3/16" thick. A good coating of chocolate, chunky fresh roasted almonds to coat, and cooking the candy to 320 rather than 310 (hard crack) makes a flavor difference.
First batch this year I had a problem with the candy separating at about 280, it was awful. I asked a local commercial home candy maker (her product uses cashews--yum!)and she suggested DON'T melt the butter too fast, and don't make it on a high humidity day. Next batch I melted the butter slowly, then added the sugar and finally water. Brought it slowly to temp and it was perfect.
Dec 31, 2013toodie jane in Home Cooking
I go to a monthly activity which starts with a 5 o'clock pot luck. I like to take hearty hot dishes, and while crock pots are good for soups and stews, not so great for structured casseroles, etc.
What can I use that will keep food warm for a couple of hours in 40-50 degree outside temps? I can make an insulated box myself etc., but want to know if there is something commercially made with power. (Do not want a chafing dish with sterno)
thanks, potluckers.
Dec 31, 2013toodie jane in Cookware
cast iron pans are great - REALLY?
yes, overheating can also make it crack or explode farther down the line. Why self-cleaning oven temps are TOO hot for cleaning cast iron.
Dec 21, 2013toodie jane in Cookware
cast iron pans are great - REALLY?
Grew up learning to make English gravy at my Gram's elbow--carefully, the last trace of fat was skimmed off the juices, pan scraped of yummy bits, simmered giblet broth added, and a flour/water mix shaken in a baby food jar was slowly drizzled into the juices. Gravy was clear, thin and concentrated goodness.
Alas, I have no children to pass this technique to.
Dec 21, 2013toodie jane in Cookware
cast iron pans are great - REALLY?
commercial bacon has so much sugar in it, it sticks and is the devil to get off. Ghee is a much cleaner oil.
Dec 21, 2013toodie jane in Cookware
Chef Rick's Ultimately Fine Foods [Santa Maria]
OK. very weird to go to dinner where I used to get my....never mind.
Chef Rick's Ultimately Fine Foods [Santa Maria]
Asadero Los Corrales - La Quinta/Indio, CA - Superb Sinaloan/Exquisite Tamales
Somerton (12 miles from Yuma) Tamale Festival is today. Anyone go?
how do you season? I'm cooking a 16# hopefully on the weber, (usually use just S&P, plenty of it) but am cooking for a gathering and wanting to try other seasonings. Your thoughts? thought I might do a half-and-half suing jerk paste and...?
Dec 12, 2013toodie jane in Home Cooking
I'm gonna ask again. WHole chicken,cut up..recipe?
ha ha--me too! Only we spooned off the fat and made the BEST gravy with it. mmmmmm.
Dec 12, 2013toodie jane in Home Cooking
I'm gonna ask again. WHole chicken,cut up..recipe?
SO easy--from Susan Herman Lewis' American Farmhouse Cookbook:
Brown chicken parts in a heavy skillet in oil. set aside. gather some fresh herb sprigs like parsley sage, tarragon or thyme.
Layer chicken parts in large casserole with herb sprigs, and season each layer with a pinch of salt and pepper.
Peel two large onions and cut into rings/slices, layer deeply over the top of chicken parts. Sprinkle with 2 to 3 Tablespoons of good Hungarian or Spanish Paprika. I use the smoked Spanish paprika.
Cover tightly and roast in 275 oven for three hours or longer.
Cook or heat some brown rice or noodles and serve the chicken over it. Heavenly flavors and your house will smell amazing. Serve with a simple salad or steamed green beans or broccoli.
Dec 12, 2013toodie jane in Home Cooking
perhaps toss all in a bowl first--easier to coat evenly
Dec 01, 2013toodie jane in Recipes
Los Olivos - Solvang - Santa Ynez
Had a couple of starters at Sides, and it was a mixed bag. Lamb Sliders on nice firm brioche buns, but meat was overcooked. WHO overcooks lamb? A mistake that should not have come out of the kitchen. The fries coming with were excellent: crispy, thin and not over-seasoned. Salad of endive and beets was deliciously seasoned and dressed, beautifully presented. Dessert of individual pear upside down cake was over the top buttery rich. Flavors were top notch but drowning in melted butter. Cake itself was only about 1/2" thick, so go overwhelmed. A plus being it was not too sweet.
I'll go again for a dinner entree but choose carefully. Could easily run from $40-60 per person here with wine. (burgers at lunch are $12-16)
Full Bar, sunny streetside patio and larger quiet shady patio at the rear. The location of the wonderful Side Street Café of the 90's., 1/2 block west of the flagpole.
Los Olivos - Solvang - Santa Ynez
HI JM--Big Fan of Bell St Farm--Jamie (sp?) is a delightful man, always welcoming, and the desserts are fantastic. Buttescotch and Chocolate puddings--oh my. Great food and decent pricing. Another place open wrapping around the weekend. They did breakfast for a while on Sunday, but discontinued it. Great place to stop for to go chow as well. Not big dining room, but there's a sunny patio out back with extra seating for nice days.
Sides Hardware & Shoes, Los Olivos
It's pretty good but pricey. Nice thin fries, very crispy and not over-seasoned. . I hear lots of good things about their burgers, sort of like Sylvester's--over the top toppings, gooey sauce, but on brioche or potato bun.
I went for "dinner" and had a starter salad that was supposed to be beet/ frisee, but came out as endive (tender and very nice) it was a beautiful presentation. The dressing included balsamic and perhaps Pomegranate syrup. Delicious.
The lamb sliders from the starter list were overcooked even though I'd asked for assurance that they would be med rare. Chewy and very little flavor due to overcooking. They were about 2" across so should have only taken a minute or two. Probably over looked on the flattop. Disappointing for $12. Had a individual pear upside down cake, too much butter in topping drenched the delicate cake, although it wasn't too sweet.
Since I sat at a two-top near the end of the bar near the wait station, the kitchen sent out a tidbit of speared, blue-cheese stuffed dates, tossed in flour and fried. Creamy, sweet and flavorful but too rich.
No drink, two starters, dessert and tip =$35. Many entrees were over $20, so with wine or beer you could spend easily $50-60 per person. Service was attentive and food came quickly despite Sunday 7 pm hour.
There's a nice shady outdoor patio out back and a small sunny street-side one as well, for nice days like today.
Coffee Pot on the MB Embarcadero makes good p'cakes and waffles; Wee Shack near 41 &1 makes breakfast burritos. Carla's Country Kitchen makes truck driver b'fasts--the valley tourists love the place but I find it greasy and bland.
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my question is: starting from scratch what would be your way of learning it?
If available, I'd have the written notation and sticking, and simply practice it starting slowly and gradually speed-up until it sounded natural.
With only an audio sample and no notation, my approach would be somewhat the same. I'd dissect the sound and play it in the manner I felt replicated it. However, the sticking would likely - though unintentionally - be different.
For some, that raises the question of whether it's more important to play the part, or to make the sound. In other words, if doing an open roll, is it more important to do the technically 'correct' doubles, or singles, if they both end up sounding the same anyway?
For me, it's often a 'means to an end' proposition, the primary goal being to make the sound. That doesn't mean there are necessarily shortcuts or easy fixes, sometimes there aren't. But it does mean that some parts that sound difficult, are actually quite easy to work out if I don't agonize over sticking, or feel daunted because of who's playing it.
As for physically being able to play something beyond one's current technical expertise, that's just a matter of practice. It may require a little work... or a lot. For example, the idea that someone like Terry Bozzio is playing stuff that's impossible to attain, can be daunting and maybe discouraging. The fact is, Terry lives and breathes drums, and practices his butt off - I'm sure would tell you that he's
learning and growing - and that's why he's at the top of the heap in terms of ability.
So, could any of us play like Terry? Or Vinnie? Or Danny Carey? Or (insert name here)?
Well, in theory, yes! Why not? In its most basic conceptual form, drumming is simply hitting things with sticks, and stepping on pedals. That's really all
doing. Obviously, there's a level of dedication & drive & creativity that propels those players to the top, and most drummers - me included - just don't work that hard at it. But remember, they're just humans with 4 limbs, using the same sticks, heads, drums, cymbals and pedals that we have access to... so it's not impossible. (Whether the world needs a bunch of Vinnie's or Terry's is quite another question!)
So, in terms of doing something new to me that's ostensibly difficult, I figure that if another drummer can play it... so can I. Well, eventually,
BTW, my favorite rudiment is the single stroke. Not a single stroke
... just a single stroke. I use it all the time on the 2 & 4 of each measure, and get paid handsomely for doing so!
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Washington, D.C. (February 23, 2009)—The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) is pleased to announce that the Maryland Bankers Association is joining 43 other state and regional community banking partners in affiliating with ICBA.
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It's almost exactly ten years since my last time trial. I had ups and downs in my against-the-clock racing between the ages of 17 and 33, but on an April Sunday in 2003, I rode the local Hilly Time Trial … Continue reading
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Cyclocross: All of the faff
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TSC (The Standard Code) implements this concept as the motion to extend or limit debate. As with Robert's Rules of Order, a variety of limits may be imposed on the debate, including:
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"Fudgy brownies plus amaretto. How can you go wrong? (Warning - alcohol is not baked out of this recipe.) Keep refrigerated."
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1 1/2 cups
chocolate syrup (such as Hershey's®)
1 cup
all-purpose flour
1 cup
white sugar
1/2 cup
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon
2 cups
confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup
amaretto liqueur
3 drops
almond extract
1 cup
chocolate chips
2 tablespoons
This recipe is easy and delicious! In the future, however, I would make only half of the amaretto glaze. It made way more then I needed and I ended up wasting half of it.
FYI -- You could bake this for over 2 1/2 - 3 hours, and there would STILL be ALCOHOL in it!!
8 Ratings
I made the brownies cake and cut the powered sugar in half. I also refrigerated the brownies before adding the chocolate drizzle to prevent it from melting the topping.
It was extremely rich is all i can say. Im more the fan of moist but cake like density brownies.
to the person who commented "still alcohol" in it after baking for over 2 hours ~ did you actually read the entire recipe prior to making that comment ? It clearly states, with a "warning" yet .. that the alcohol does not bake out of it. please read & comprehend prior to FYI'ing as though its news we were not aware of ..
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Van Tyres Not Being Looked After
The latest VOSA effectiveness report has been released and the figures regarding van tyres have shocked TyreSafe – one of the UK's leading tyre safety organisations.
The incidence of van drivers getting into trouble with the law in relation to the condition of their van's tyres has worryingly increased from 20% in 07/08 to around 26% in 09/10.
On their website, Stuart Jackson, chairman of TyreSafe is quoted as saying ""Van tyres lead a particularly hard life so it is critical that operators regularly check the condition of their tyres for signs of damage or premature and uneven wear.
"Building site debris or regular scuffing on kerbs during delivery drops can cause significant damage to tyres. If left unchecked, they may fail at a critical moment, risking serious injury for the driver and other road users."
Responsibility for the condition of van tyres is split between the owner of the business and the driver of than can. If a driver is found to be using tyres deemed to be illegal then they can suffer a fine of £2,500 as well as three penalty points on their license.
As for the business, under the Health and Safety Offences Act (2009), they can receive a fine of £20,000 for allowing vans to go out with sub-standard tyres fitted.
Financial issues are not the only factor at play here. If tyres do not have a dangerous tread depth – or are not inflated correctly – the driver is not only putting themselves at risk, but is also putting other road users and pedestrians in danger.
Stuart Jackson goes on to say, "this rising trend of tyre related prohibition defects is extremely worrying.
"I would urge all businesses, large or small, that operate vans and other light commercial vehicles to ensure they have robust procedures in place to regularly check the condition of their fleet's tyres."


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Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins?Posted on August 24th, 2010 by Denny Waxman
I consider it no small irony that the first syllable of the word dioxins sounds like die: So potent is this group of more than 100 cancer-causing industrial chemicals that the Environmental Protection Agency is currently considering setting the "safe" daily level for human exposure at seven-tenths of a picogram per kilogram of body weight. (A picogram, FYI, is one-trillionth of a gram.) To put it in perspective: With the much publicized toxic chemical BPA, you could be exposed to 50 million times that amount, and you'd still be within the realm of what's considered safe.
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time will tell if the kid files a lawsuit. he threatened action but hasn't followed through. that will speak volumes if he doesn't.
Uh, hey Graham, in case you didn't know, Genyk was known as that great recruiter and rallying kind of guy before he got to EMU, and he couldn't get it done. He recruited as good or better players than the previous regime, and the guys rallied around him 10x more than they did Rasnick or Woodruff, and they still didn't win. The team was more competitive than under the two guys, and in my humble opinion, Genyk deserved 1 more year, maybe even 2.
So quit playing rah-rah and stumping for all the coaches you covered, especially guys who never have been college head coaches.
The last 3 coaches EMU has hired were never head coaches, and with as bad as EMU's foundation is as a school and with its history (think Lions here), they extend the college coaching lifeline at EMU to more than the cut-and-dry 4-5 years, cuz with the culture and lack of resources at EMU, it's gonna take closer to 7 years to build a winner.
The team needs a proven small-program HEAD coach (ie, Division I-AA or Division II guy) to build a winner, a la Harkema did in the late 80s.
Julee P, two Saturn dealerships told me they never had a mechanical failure with a Honda engine under the hood. Too bad they discontinued using Honda engines in the stylish 08s.
No, the problem with GM for a long, long time was its lack of appealing family sedans. The Malibu and Aura are the only two I can think of that appeal to me. Other decent cars, but those are more sportbased cars (Grand Prix, Impala, Monte Carlo, etc).
Saturn quite possibly is GM's best brand beside Cadillac. The Vue is an excellent vehicle as far as safety, styling and mpg for its class, the Aura is a nice car that rates well. I agree about killing Pontiac. In my view, GM killed Pontiac by swapping the Grand Am with the G6. The Vibe is just awful.
good pickup. disagree with cutting tatum. Only 2 running backs on opening day roster? ugh.
PS, neither kevin smith nor rudi johnson work if the O line stinks (like it did in the Kevin Jones era, for those who keep saying KJ sucked so badly).
I can vouch for Gee Money's "insider" report on Boren. A kid just trying to save face.
I'm not a teacher. But I have a good friend who is a teacher, and my mom worked as a teacher for 15 years, and I can vouch for teachers when I say, based on how hard it is to reach my buddy during the school year and his stress level in May, and based on how often my mom was sick, that the nature of this job equates to more sick days. Workers in ALL fields take sick days for dr. appointments and to care for family members - the ONLY reason teacher sick days is being made into an issue is because of the perceived negative impact on children. The ratio of work/salary for teachers is grossly unbalanced. My friend and his wife work 14-hour days during the school year, and their summer vacation is shorter than the students by 3 weeks. It's not a glamorous job by any stretch of the imagination.
Don't believe the TV pundits lies. Michigan travels among the best for bowl games, and the team draws TV viewers for 3 reasons: the huge fan base, the cool uniforms and the haters who love to tune in and hope to see them lose, like the Gator and Seminole and Yankee haters of the world.
I'll say that what Florida ran today was NOT exciting. What a boring pass game - screens and slants. Without Harvin, Florida looks middling to me. And yeah, where was this offense from Michigan all season? (injuries or not) - the playcalling was outstanding. The first series - out of spread formations - was excellent. Sad it took Rich Rodriguez being on the practice sidelines to inspire Michigan's coaches. Michigan's repeated attempt at reverses - for the gazillionth time in 5 years - was NOT exciting. Thank god Manningham got something on the reverse-field runback.
Exactly: Florida vs. Michigan in Florida's backyard, Texas A/M vs. Penn State in Texas, LSU a mere 30 minutes from Baton Rouge vs. Ohio State, USC vs. Illinois in SC's backyard.
And people wonder why Big Ten teams lose bowl games. They're the ones traveling.
I saw Kevin Walter for two years and Eric Deslauriers for three years. In my observations, there was no comparison. Kevin had sure hands, ran precise routes, and was a solid blocker. Although Eric was slightly taller and faster, he dropped many easy balls, dogged it on non-passing plays and ran horrible routes his first two years. Also, Kevin had to play with much worse QBs throwing to him than Eric did, and Eric played in a spread offense that had to whip the ball around because of not very good running backs. Except for the one year with that Sherrill kid.


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A-Z of West Midlands Football
Posted: March 15, 2014|
BOB ROBERTS was Albion's first 'great' goalkeeper, who made 84 senior appearances for the club, most before League football was introduced in 1888.
Born in West Bromwich in March 1864, he attended and played for Christ Church School and worked at and played for George Salter's Spring Works before joining Albion (then known as the Strollers) in September 1879, turning professional in August 1885.
Surprisingly, he moved to Sunderland Albion on a free transfer in May 1890 but came back to Albion in May 1891, staying with the club for another season before rounding off his career with Aston Villa (May 1892-June 1893).
At that point he returned to Newcastle to work as a plasterer (his early employment) married a girl from the North-East of England and stayed there until his death.
Also Albion's first international footballer, 'Big Bob' was a giant of a man, just the right size for a goalkeeper of that time. He was so well built he could deal comfortably with high crosses and with any robust forward that cared to barge into him! He had a tremendous reach, possessed a huge and safe pair of hands, wore size 13 boots (which assisted him in kicking vast distances) and above all, he had a wonderful temperament.
Bob started off as an outfield-player, occupying many different positions, before finally settling down between the posts. He won three England caps, his first against Scotland in March 1887, and he also played for the Football Alliance, the Birmingham FA and Staffordshire FA and participated in three international trials (between 1883 and 1894). He was Albion's 'last line of defence' in three FA Cup finals in 1886, 1887 and 1888, gaining a winners' medal in the latter against Preston North End when he played exceptionally well against a terrific forward line.
During his full 12 years with the club he amassed some 400 appearances, all but 84 coming in local Cup competitions and friendlies. A quite magnificent player, he was very popular and, without doubt, an Albion great. He died in Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in October 1929.
NB: He is one of the only two players (the other being Ezra Horton) to have featured in Albion's first FA Cup tie against Wednesbury Town in November 1883 and in the club's first Football League game away at Stoke in September 1888.
DARREN ROBERTS made a tremendous start to his League career … scoring a hat-trick for Wolves on his debut against Birmingham City at St Andrew's in a televised Sunday game in September 1992 in front of 14,391 fans.
Born in Birmingham in October 1969, the six-foot tall striker had joined Wolves six months earlier from Burton Albion and in his first season at Molineux, helped the second XI win the Pontins League Division Two title. Unfortunately he failed to carry on his initial good work and after adding just two more goals to his tally in 23 appearances, and a loan spell with Hereford United, he left Molineux for Doncaster Rovers in March 1994, later switching to Chesterfield before doing the rounds with Telford United, Darlington, Peterborough United, Scarborough, Exeter City and Barrow.
DAVE ROBERTS scored twice in 19 first-class games for Aston Villa, whom he served as a professional from December 1963 until his transfer to Shrewsbury Town for £5,000 in March 1965. Later with Swansea Town (City), Worcester City, Shrewsbury Town (again) and Hughton United (as player-coach), Dave netted 21 goals in 230 League appearances in his two spells at Gay Meadow. He was born in Erdington, Birmingham in December 1946.
DICK ROBERTS was a speedy dual-purpose winger who scored ten goals in 52 appearances for Albion, who he served from April 1899 to May 1901.
Born in Redditch in January 1878, he represented Studley and District Schools and played Redditch Excelsior before joining Albion. He left The Hawthorns for Newcastle United for £150 and later assisted Middlesbrough (£450, April 1904), Crystal Palace (£100, August 1905–08) and Worcester City (from August 1908) retiring through injury in April 1909. He worked on munitions during World War One and died in Birmingham in March 1931 after a short illness.
FRED ROBERTS was an inside-left who netted ten goals in 32 appearances for Birmingham during his 15-month stay at St Andrew's from September 1933 to December 1934.
Born in West Bromwich in October 1909, he played for Smethwick Highfield and Thomas Piggot's Works team before joining Blues, who transferred him to Luton Town. Thereafter he played for Kettering Town, retiring through injury in May 1948. His brother Bill Roberts played for Cardiff City. Fred himself died in Luton in January 1979.
GRAHAM ROBERTS scored six goals in 41 appearances for Albion. A defender-cum-midfielder, born in Southampton in July 1959, he played schoolboy football for town and county before joining Scholing Sports FC in 1975. He then signed for AFC Bournemouth as an apprentice in August 1975 and assisted Dorchester Town prior to joining Portsmouth in February 1977, turning professional in March 1977.
In August 1979 he dropped into non-League football with Weymouth but was persuaded to return with Tottenham Hotspur, for £35,000 in May 1990 – after turning down a move to The Hawthorns! Glasgow Rangers then paid £450,000 for his services in December 1986; he switched to Chelsea in May 1988, later becoming player-coach and in November 1990, joined Albion on a free transfer.
He left the Baggies to become player-manager of Enfield in March 1992 and after that assisted Chesham United (briefly), Slough Town (season 1994–95), Stevenage Borough (1995), Yeovil Town (player-manager, January 1995–February 1998), Hertford Town (manager, August 1998), Boreham Wood (manager, February 2001), Carshalton (manager, season 2002–03) before becoming a soccer coach in Marbella/Spain (seasons 2003–05), returning to the UK to manage Clyde (season 2005-06).
A former shop-fitter's mate, Graham started out as a forward before becoming a rugged, no-nonsense, hard-tackling midfielder or central defender. He made 287 appearances for Spurs (36 goals scored), picked up two FA Cup winners' medals (in 1981 and 1982) and also played in the 1982 League Cup final defeat by Liverpool.
He won six England caps and as captain lifted the UEFA Cup after Spurs had beaten RSC Anderlecht in the two leg final of 1984. Always stern and aggressive, he never gave an inch, never shirked a tackle and simply loved to be involved in a tough contest.
He took over from another hard man, Graeme Souness, also a former Spurs player, at Ibrox Park. And after helping the 'Gers win both the Scottish Premier League and Skol Cup, he moved back to London to join Chelsea. He struggled with injuries during the latter stages of his Baggies' career.


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So, I got a dozen poblano peppers in this week's CSA. They are big, ripe, purple/red peppers, I haven't tasted yet but I think they are going to have a bit of a kick to them. I've got a couple pounds worth in my fridge right now. Any suggestions on what to do with them? If I can't use them up in time I'll probably wind up chopping/freezing to throw into tacos/stir fry/stews for a while, but I'd like to do something creative with them in the mean time. I'll probably do some sort of stuffed pepper, maybe roast a few for a mole/salsa verde type thing, but I'm looking for other ideas.
Also, does anyone have any experience drying peppers? It would be cool if I could turn these into anchos, but I have no clue where to even start with that...
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NCCU's Jerry Mack hits ground running in search of aides
A "Help Wanted" sign hanging outside the office of newly hired N.C. Central football coach Jerry Mack probably wouldn't attract the labor force he needs to handle business with the Eagles.
NCCU athletics director Ingrid Wicker-McCree announced the appointment of the former South Alabama wide receivers coach to the NCCU head job on Thursday. And he comes without a staff.
Often when schools hire active head football coaches, they bring many of their assistant coaches with them.
Since Mack was an assistant himself, he doesn't have a staff to bring to Durham. He has to put one together, and it would not be out of the question for one or more of his former fellow South Alabama assistants to join him at NCCU.
Mack, 33, said he's been getting recommendations about potential assistants who are worth vetting.
"And they might be right here in town. You just never know," Mack said about the staff prospects. "I've got some guys on the back burner right now, but we'll have it done by the first of the year."
Mack's new role makes him the third-youngest active Division I head coach, and he's never been a head coach before, so he's probably going to surround himself with older, more-seasoned coaches, Wicker-McCree said.
Wicker-McCree chose Mack after Dwayne Foster brought NCCU to a 5-7 finish as the team's interim head coach, filling in for Henry Frazier III. Wicker-McCree fired Frazier in August. She said she had to do it because issues in his personal life were creating troubling headlines and stealing attention that belonged to the university's students.
Mack's appointment calls for him to make $180,000 annually for five years beginning Jan. 6.
Frazier was earning $225,000 a year. Foster was at $68,000 annually before getting bumped to $150,000 a year during his time as interim coach.
Several coaches who were on NCCU's staff this season were at the press conference when Mack was introduced. Foster was not among them. He applied for the NCCU job that Mack got. Wicker-McCree would not say whether or not Foster was granted an interview.
Roy Jones, Andre George and Mike Mendenhall were NCCU assistants last season and shook Mack's hand after the press conference.
Jones coached NCCU's running backs and doubled as the teams' director of operations. He was a key man for both Foster and Frazier.
George coached NCCU's defensive backs. He played the position for NCCU and this season tutored freshman Michael Jones, one of the best pass defenders in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Michael Jones was a candidate for the Jerry Rice Award that recognizes the nation's top freshman in the Football Championship Subdivision.
Mendenhall had MEAC coaches game planning to figure out how to stop his special-teams units that rather routinely found ways to get the football into the end zone.
Mack was expected to interview those coaches Friday.
Southern High School alumnus and coach Adrian Jones was at Thursday's news conference, too. Mack referenced the 3-AA championship Southern won over the weekend. Adrian Jones played defensive back for NCCU and later coached that position there.


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During his press conference today, President Obama repeatedly invoked the theme of leadership. "Leaders lead," he helpfully informed. "Leaders rise to the occasion," he added. They are willing to make "tough decisions," to "do the tough things" and to "do the responsible thing." By the end I was reminded by the line from Emerson: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
The reality is that Mr. Obama has provided very nearly the opposite of leadership. He has not only refused to tackle entitlement reform during his presidency; he has attacked those who do, employing dishonest arguments that are at this stage are almost impossible to keep track of.
My seven-year-old son loves to play what he calls "imagination games." It allows him to pretend to be whatever he wants to be – a superhero, a warrior, a secret agent, and so forth. To see that trait in a young boy is sweet; to see it in president of the United States is somewhat disconcerting. And for a president who inhabits an imaginary world to lecture all the rest of us about his virtues adds to the oddity of the whole thing.
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[directfb-users] Re: G400 CRTC2 issues in CVS
Ville Syrjälä wrote:
The reason is the chroma sub-sampling of YUV formats. To get corect results we'd need to blend between several pixels. And just fixing rgba_to_dst_format() wouldn't help much since the sotware accel code would need a lot of work as well.
That's certainly understandable.
That didn't seem to be a permantent solution in my case since the only dfb app running at all is dfblayer (nothing there to remember the change?), but I do get your point.A quick fix is simply changing the format with dfblayer.
My plan is to fix things so that the pixelformat option will affect whatever layer is selected with the primary-layer option. Currently it only works for the fbdev layer.Perhaps it would be even better if you could specify the formats of each and every layer. I went poking around matrox_crtc2.c and tried some formats besides YUY2 (RGB32, ARGB, AiRGB), with ill results. I no longer get the "unimplemented destination format" message but am left with a black screen. Perhaps a register got screwed up. After reverting my changes it took a cold boot to put things right.
Sorry, I guess I was just getting things mixed up with my cle266 which I haven't run for a while. I do distinctly remember running df_fire and friend on my television, it must have been with the epia.Do these apps just need to be updated to DirectFB CVS or have things changed with how the G400 CRTC2 works?
So, I started to wonder because I have seen the unimplemented destination format" error before while using SDL's DirectFB output, and went looking through its code. At around line 423 of src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c (http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/SDL12/src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c?rev=1.18&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup) you will see it default to DSPF_LUT8 if the dst format fails, in my case YUY2.
if (DFBToSDLPixelFormat (dlc.pixelformat, vformat))
DFBToSDLPixelFormat (DSPF_LUT8, vformat);
So, I decided to try a quick little hack:
Index: src/misc/gfx_util.c
RCS file: /cvs/directfb/DirectFB/src/misc/gfx_util.c,v
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -r1.45 gfx_util.c
--- src/misc/gfx_util.c 8 Jun 2004 06:54:31 -0000 1.45
+++ src/misc/gfx_util.c 28 Jul 2004 01:07:18 -0000
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- D_ONCE( "unimplemented destination format (0x%08x)", dst_format );
+ D_ONCE( "unimplemented destination format (0x%08x) trying DSPF_LUT8", dst_format );
+ if (palette)
+ *dst++ = dfb_palette_search( palette, r, g, b, a );
Ok, that's going to screw some things up, and I don't know what it will do to other surfaces. I am doing some testing with pydfb and the image test now works (*YAY*). So, back to df_*.
df_andi: i get a nice green screen
df_dok: some tests get green or black screen, the rectangles, triangles, and lines work.
df_fire: black screen
Defaulting to DSPF_LUT8 allows some things to work, does it depend on the format of what you are trying to display? I guess I am trying to understand what lets the SDL DirectFB driver work to display everything.
On another note, if I try to use force-windowed using SDL then I end up with a pretty blue screen. Would that be related?
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UPCOMINGThe University of New Mexico will make a return trip to the Grand Canyon State this Saturday to compete in the Arizona International meet in Tucson. New Mexico, which opened the outdoor season at Arizona State, will be looking to add to its list of NCAA regional qualifiers in its third outdoor competition of the year. Distance runners Jeremy Johnson and Timmie Murphy, meanwhile, will take part in the elite Stanford Invitational on Saturday night, when they will run their first 5,000-meter races of the spring.
THE ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANCEResults: Meet results will be available online at www.arizonaathletics.com.
Schedule: The meet will be held all day on Saturday, March 31. Field events get underway at 11 a.m. (Mountain Time) and the first event on the track is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. The meet should conclude by 4:15 p.m.
Weather: Saturday's forecast in Tucson calls for abundant sunshine and highs in the low 80s. The winds will be light and there is virtually no chance of rain.
Last Meet In Tucson: UNM opened the 2006 outdoor season at Arizona's Jim Click Shootout. Senior Matt Keeran finished second in the javelin with a mark of 218' 8" - the best by a Lobo in 15 years - and was one of four UNM men to turn in NCAA regional qualifying performances at the meet. Senior Derek Mackel won the pole vault with a regional qualifying clearance of 17' 3/4", while freshman Josh Cosio cleared a career-best and regional qualifying bar of 6' 10 3/4" to finish third in the high jump. Sophomore Jarrin Solomon paced the Lobos on the track, clocking a time of 47.18 in a runner-up finish in the 400-meter dash to qualify for the Midwest Regional meet as well. UNM's powerful javelin crew came home with seven top-5 finishes, including freshman Katie Coronado's victory (138' 5") in her collegiate debut.
THE STANFORD INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANCEResults: Meet results will be available online at www.gostanford.com.
Schedule: Timmie Murphy will compete in the section 2 women's 5,000-meter race at 8:47 p.m. (Mountain Time). Jeremy Johnson will run the section 1 men's 5,000 at 9:40 p.m.
Weather: The weather on Saturday night should be favorable for distance running with temperatures expected to be in the high 50s or low 60s and virtually no chance of rain. The winds wil be light, though a humidity ratio near 60 percent could be a factor.
Last Appearance In Stanford: Jeremy Johnson clocked the Lobos' fastest 5,000 time of the 2006 season on April 29 at Stanford's Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, crossing the line in 14:21.23. Johnson's effort was good for 11th in the event and was 11.23 seconds off the NCAA regional qualifying standard.
LAST TIME OUT (USC Trojan Invitational - March 24)LOS ANGLES - New Mexico qualified two more athletes to the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship meet in a solid performance at the USC Trojan Invitational. Junior Ariel Burr clocked a regional qualifying time of 54.19 in a third place finish in the 400 meters, while fellow junior Tiyana Peters qualified for the regional meet for the first time with an outdoor best height of 5' 8 3/4" (1.75) in the high jump (fifth).
Burr, the Mountain West Conference indoor 400 champion, turned in a strong early-season performance to secure her spot in the NCAA Regional Championship field for the third straight year. The Carrizozo, N.M. product finished 0.73 seconds behind Texas A&M All-American Clora Williams (53.46).
Peters, meanwhile, surpassed her previous outdoor best in the high jump by 1 3/4 inches in her first outdoor competition of the season. The MWC indoor champion had been bothered by a sore Achilles since clearing a lifetime best 5' 10" at the conference meet in late February.
Elsewhere, sophomore Katie Coronado picked up her second javelin victory in as many meets this season with a winning throw of 156' 2" (47.60m). Coronado finished over a foot ahead of the runner-up, Texas A&M All-American Jessica Wingfield (155').
On the men's side, freshman Brian Vallie clocked a lifetime best time of 1:52.54 to finish third in the first outdoor 800-meter race of his career. Junior Jarrin Solomon, meanwhile, was fourth in his first outdoor 400 of the season with a time of 47.53.
Solomon came back to help the 4x400 relay teammates Taylor Siemon, Randle McCain and Kurt Henry finish fourth with a time of 3:12.58. The Lobos finished behind USC (3:05.88), Texas A&M (3:05.98) and the Texas A&M B team (3:11.37), but defeated seven teams, including Michigan (3:13.03), Long Beach State (3:14.51) and Washington State (3:16.20).
Sophomore Anthony Fairbanks led the UNM men in the field once again, finishing third in the javelin with a throw of 205' 8" (62.68m). Fellow sophomore Josh Cosio cleared 6' 6 3/4" (2.00m) to finish sixth in the high jump.
Other New Mexico highlights on Saturday included: -Freshman Alesha Walker finishing seventh in the long jump with a season best mark of 19' 5 1/2" (5.93m). Walker's mark was less than 3 inches short of the NCAA regional qualifying standard.
-Sophomore Christina Zarrella clocking a career-best time of 2:16.10 to finish sixth in the 800.
-Senior Dylan Rose-Coss finishing eighth in the 1,500 with a career-best time of 3:58.32.
-The women's 4x400 relay team of Ariel Burr, Kristan Matison, Kim Perkins and Christina Zarrella placing fifth with a time of 3:56.48.
Fortner Injured In First Heptathlon of the Year
Tucson, Ariz. -- Sophomore Sandy Fortner's first heptathlon competition ended early on Friday at Arizona. Fortner pulled out after suffering a hamstring injury during the long jump - the first event on day two. She used a career-best performance in the shot put to move into fourth place after the first four events on Thursday. Fortner's injury is not believed to be serious.
CORONADO MAKING SOME NOISEKatie Coronado will look to extend her javelin winning streak to three in a row on Saturday in Tucson. The sophomore from Ruidoso, N.M. (which means "noisy" in Spanish) has wasted no time in setting the tone for her 2007 season. Coronado opened the spring with a season-best and NCAA regional qualifying throw of 159-09 at Arizona State where she finished over 13 feet ahead of her nearest competitor. The following week at USC, Coronado edged Texas A&M All-American Jessica Wingfield (155') with a winning mark of 156' 2".
Coronado currently owns the top javelin mark in the Mountain West Conference and is ranked No. 12 in the nation. She has four victories and eight top-3 finishes in her 10 collegiate javelin competitions.
FAIRBANKS NAMED ATHLETE OF THE WEEKSophomore Anthony Fairbanks was named Mountain West Conference Men's Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week on March 21. It was the first career weekly honor for Fairbanks and the first for a Lobo outdoors since 2005.
Fairbanks, an Albuquerque Highland High School product, finished second in the javelin at the Baldy Castillo Invitational in Tempe, Ariz. with a career-best and NCAA regional qualifying throw of 217' 10" (66.39m). Fairbanks surpassed his previous personal best distance in the event by over four feet. The mark continues to lead the MWC and is ranked 14th in the nation.
HENRY BROTHERS ANNOUNCE RETIREMENTUniversity of New Mexico head track and field coach Matt Henry and associate head coach Mark Henry announced on Feb. 19 that they will retire from UNM effective at the end of the 2007 outdoor season. A nation-wide search is underway to replace the twin brothers, who are in their seventh season with the Lobos.
"We just felt that it was time for us to step aside," said Matt Henry. "We've done some pretty nice things since we've been here. Cross country in particular - we've been pretty successful on both the men's and women's sides. We've also had some good track and field performances over the years, but I'm most proud of the fact that we've done it almost entirely with New Mexico kids."
Matt, 54, graduated from UNM in 1975. He was a four-year letterwinner for the Lobo track team from 1971-74, earning All-America honors in 1972 as a member of the two-mile relay team that placed third at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Henry also helped the two-mile relay team set the school indoor record in the event in 1974.
Under Henry's tutelage, 13 UNM athletes have advanced to NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championship meets, giving the Lobos representation every year since 2002. New Mexico has also earned four All-America awards, two Academic All-America certificates, won 24 Mountain West Conference event titles and earned all-MWC honors 106 times. Twenty-five UNM indoor/outdoor records have been set during Henry's tenure.
In cross country, Henry's runners have earned a combined 17 all-MWC awards and 11 all-NCAA Mountain Region certificates. New Mexico has sent six individuals and one team to the NCAA Cross Country Championships, earning All-America honors three times.
In 2004, Santa Fe native Matt Gonzales finished a program-best second to lead the men's cross country team to a ninth place finish overall at the NCAA Championship meet. It's still the highest finish by a Lobo team in the program's 46-year history.
Henry's fellow coaches named him MWC Coach of the Year for men's outdoor track in 2002 and again in 2005 for women's cross country.
Mark Henry, 54, graduated from UNM in 1974 and was a four-year member of the Lobo track team from 1970-73. He has been the primary sprints and relays coach all seven years at UNM.
Since 2001, Henry's sprinters have captured a four MWC titles and earned all-conference honors 26 times. Four individuals and two relay teams have advanced to the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship meet and seven school records have been set in the sprint and relay events under Henry's watch.
"The Henry name has been synonymous with track and field - locally and nationally - for many decades," said UNM athletics director Paul Krebs. "I'm disappointed that future Lobo student-athletes will not have the benefit of receiving guidance and coaching from Matt and Mark. They have worked tirelessly for the New Mexico track program and the sport of track and field. They will be missed."
Both Matt and Mark say they plan to stay in the Albuquerque area after finishing at UNM. Matt's sons Kurt (a junior) and Kyle (a freshman) will both remain with the program.


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Deserting and embarrassing their GOP House leadership, 26 Republicans—including several members of the Tea Party Caucus—bolted Tuesday night to join Democrats in a surprise rejection of a centerpiece of Bush-era powers to fight terrorism that curbed American civil liberties.
The House Republican leaders had expected an easy victory in their efforts to reauthorize three expiring powers under the PATRIOT Act—among them, allowing ''roving wiretaps'' and searches of people's medical, banking, and library records. It is likely the GOP will succeed in a later vote, but Tuesday night's rebuff sent a strong message.
By a 277-148 margin, the bill fell just shy of the two-thirds majority needed to pass the House under suspension of the rules, representing somewhat of an embarrassment for House Republicans on a matter of national security. Republicans were accusing Democrats, many of whom had supported the extension of the provisions in the 111th Congress, of hypocrisy.
"I am surprised that so many Democrats who supported an extension of these very same provisions last Congress suddenly changed their votes," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas. "President Obama supports a reauthorization of these important national security tools. And the House bill provides Congress with the opportunity to engage in a thorough review of the provisions as we consider a longer reauthorization. It's unfortunate that partisan politics seems to have prevented so many Democrats from doing what's best for America's national security."
GOP aides, however, were pointing the finger at House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Aides said McCarthy failed to whip the vote, which led to the embarrassment of the bill falling short and leaders being caught off guard.
Smith expects to bring the bill back to the House floor later this week, according to his spokeswoman.
What was at stake were key privacy provisions of Americans that were amended following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The 26 Republicans, including eight freshmen, were joined by 122 Democrats in opposition to the bill.
In a statement released on Monday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said he was counting on tea party support to help defeat the extension.
"The 112th Congress began with a historic reading of the U.S. Constitution. Will anyone subscribe to the First and Fourth Amendments tomorrow when the PATRIOT Act is up for a vote? I am hopeful that members of the tea party who came to Congress to defend the Constitution will join me in challenging the reauthorization," Kucinich said.
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The Senate still needs to pass companion legislation. Three competing bills have been introduced in that chamber.
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Physics professors optics research offers potential boost to hemodialysis patients
Kidney patients who suffer low blood pressure during hemodialysis can take hope from an optical technology being developed by researchers in Lehigh's Complex Fluids and Soft Materials Laboratory.
Led by Daniel Ou-Yang, professor of physics and director of the lab, the researchers are using optical fibers to help doctors more quickly and efficiently determine the cause of the hypotension and the best way of treating it.
The Lehigh group is collaborating with researchers at the University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering Department and Medical School.
During the three or four hours required to remove, clean and restore the blood of a dialysis patient, says Ou-Yang, hypotension often results from low blood volume or from dilation (enlargement) of the blood vessels.
Either a transfusion or a saline injection can raise the blood pressure, but before doctors and nurses can decide which method is superior, they must determine the cause of hypotension from the ratio of red blood cells to blood protein, and from the portion of red blood cells in the body's capillaries versus the portion in its larger arteries and veins. The two portions are different because red blood cells deform and take on a different shape when they squeeze through capillary openings.
The conventional method of obtaining this ratio is with an ultrasound transducer, which measures the speed of sound waves through blood. Precise measurements are needed, because this speed varies only slightly according to the contents of the blood, particularly the quantity of red blood cells.
Because of the size and bulkiness of the transducer, says Ou-Yang, the conventional method requires a patient's blood to be analyzed with a relatively large (8-millimeter-wide) catheter while the blood is circulating through dialysis tubes outside the body.
Ou-Yang hopes to achieve more precise measurements – and to do so inside the body – by using optical fibers. By coupling the transducer with a fiber-optic ultrasound sensor, his group hopes to generate and detect the sound signal optically, and to improve by two orders of magnitude the signal-to-noise ratio over the conventional pulse-and-echo method of the speed-of-sound measurements in complex fluids.
With the application of the optical technology, Ou-Yang anticipates that medical technicians will one day be able to determine the ratio of red blood cells to blood protein within seconds and with minimum invasiveness, by inserting a 1-millimeter-wide fiber-optic catheter into a vein.
Meanwhile, Ou-Yang's improvement in sound speed measurements by the phase-lock-in method is being used with hemodialysis patients at UVA's medical school.
Ou-Yang's Lehigh partners are Olga Lysenko, a visiting scientist from Belarus; Volkmar Dierolf, associate professor of physics; Larry Hough, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, and several undergraduate students. These include Jim Cybulski '02, who will go to graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study mechanical engineering this fall.
Kurt Pfitzer
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I've had the same probs, 4496 was the last time I had tvout working, it's driving me nuts too
I tried getting 4496 to work with the 2.6.7 kernel, but I got an error message. Does anyone know how to get these two to work together? I haven't tried the open source nv driver yet, maybe that's a solution (at the cost of speedy graphics).
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NVIDIA, how many bugs reports do we have to send before this prob with the Ti4200's and tvout is fixed?
If they would at least reply to the bug reports and recognize the problem, I wouldn't be so pissed off about it.
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Is there a better brand of supported video card under linux? If so, I'm buying it and dumping this in the trash. :<
Alas, I hear that ATI linux support is even worse. But if a better competitor arises, the NVIDIA card gets a one way ticket to the trash bin indeed. You know, occasionally I see messages on this board stating that we should be lucky that NVIDIA supports linux at all, and not complain so much. WTF?? They sell the card, claim it's supported for linux, then they'd better make it work! I bought this card specifically because of a) rumoured good linux support and b) tv-out. The fact that it DID work with the 4496 driver pisses me off even worse, this means that there is a solution out there, but they can't be bothered with re-implementing it. I wonder why.
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