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The West Memphis director talks innocence, justice and 'Satanism in suburbia'.
West of Memphis, the latest documentary feature by Amy Berg, tackles the famous West Memphis Three case that saw three innocent teenagers accused and then convicted of triple homicide. Following on from the 1996 HBO film, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and subsequent trilogy, Berg's film leaves no stone unturned. LWLies sat down with the filmmaker to find out more.
LWLies: What was your aim for West of Memphis, in comparison to the Paradise Lost trilogy?
Berg: I can't speak for them but I was approached by Fran [Walsh] and Peter [Jackson] after they'd presented evidence to Judge [David] Burnett – new DNA and forensic evidence. They felt [after] being denied a new trial and hearing the only method to get the information out was a documentary investigation. My vantage point was obviously different from anybody else because I was coming in much later and things had simmered.
How far back does your own personal interest in the case go?
It was new. I didn't know about the case. I'd heard about the West Memphis Three but I didn't know the details and I had to start from scratch, which I think gave me breathing room to know that something went wrong and every single bit of information from the case I'd read showed these guys didn't do it. I was coming from a place where I wasn't caught up in the frenzy. I was just in my office in Los Angeles reading.
Had you made up your mind pretty early on they were definitely innocent?
I had to make that decision before I could sign on to do the film. I really did my due diligence. I spent six months just doing research and reading information.
Given it's been so extensively covered, how much new footage did you shoot?
A lot of the footage we shot was investigation work. It was never going to be in the film but we had to have the camera rolling. With archive, we had about eight hundred hours of footage – which is insane. We were running two cameras, so it was a lot.
You completed interviews as recent as January this year, is that correct?
We were doing those over Skype as we were getting ready to go to Sundance. But that's how this case is. The fact this information was so vastly misconstrued and people had such a different idea of what happened, when the actual evidence started coming out… Terry Hobbs saying he hadn't seen the kids at all that day, then people.
What are individuals motives for coming forward now? Why hadn't they spoken up before?
Because nobody had ever looked at Terry and they had never been questioned. We had this police log that was like chicken scratch – like a 7th grader – and I had to go through and make a chart about who had been interviewed and nobody had spoken to them. They never talked to Terry Hobbs, so when his DNA was found then there was a news report that 'DNA was found at the scene' and his response was, 'I never saw Stevie [Branch] that day' and then these women, who remember that day very well, because they have children themselves, said, 'What do you mean you didn't see him?' Why lie about that?
Regarding your case against Terry Hobbs… it's like a suspect hiding in plain sight the whole time.
Absolutely. He'd sold his truck, took off out of town, had an alibi supposedly that was a lie and so … the question is 'Why not take a look and ask him a few questions'?
So you're convinced he murdered Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers?
I'm not privy to every bit of information if it's not in the public record, but every door I've walked through lead to Terry Hobbs and my thought was, 'Why isn't somebody investigating him?' Why does he have the prosecutor's cell phone number in his cell phone? Why is he chummy with all these people still… I don't get it.
The DNA evidence against Hobbs is compelling but complicated. In Paradise Lost: Purgatory, it's mentioned although found on a shoelace of one of the boys, it wouldn't be enough to convict him as it could be DNA shared to around one per cent of the entire population of the USA. Yet in your film you drop this vital last piece of info.
It's not a home run but you have so little tangible evidence. That it's in the binding of – not his son but one of the other kids – it's questionable, you know. It's that coupled with so much information. So we're asking as filmmakers, 'Wouldn't you want to know a little bit more?' I'd want to know. I think they [the West Memphis authorities] owe it to their constituents and taxpayers to investigate.
'Satanism in suburbia' appears to have been a massive factor in the convictions of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley. They were picked out for dressing in black, listening to heavy metal and then tagged devil worshippers.
People believed it, for sure. One of the most important things in the case, for me, was emotion versus science. You can't run an investigation based on emotion. This idea that 'You have a child and this [case] reminds you that you have an eight year old child at home and you need to protect your child from the Devil', it's just so outlandish and ludicrous. Every single law enforcement official said [puts on southern drawl], 'Well, I had small children at home'. You see those crime scene pictures… you're supposed to go on courses and training to be unbiased and unemotional in response.
Did you do conduct interviews yourself... with the cops and prosecutors?
How do you feel sitting there when officials are pretty lying through their teeth to save their own careers. The lead detective in the original case, Gary …
Gitchell? Those are deposition interviews. They had the timecode in the corner.
As a viewer, it's pretty clear you present the footage as a case of them covering their own asses. When there's an innocent man on death row and two others incarcerated with no chance of parole, it's pretty callous and cold.
What are the three like in person now?
Jason would like to be a lawyer but can't be a lawyer because he's got a triple child murder conviction. Damien is touring with his book and having a great time. He's having fun. Jessie is in West Memphis.
He comes across as the most fragile one of the trio.
He is. He's been offered a lot of situations to get out of there but his father is ill. The fear with Jessie is the police, who are known for planting drugs on people and that kind of thing, they'll pull him over… something like that. We just have to hope nothing does [happen].
Will you do an updated documentary if they're ever fully exonerated?
I hope they get exonerated but my film stands on its own. I was asked to do an update on Deliver Us From Evil and I feel like... you put as much as you can into something and if you do an update you become part of it.
You don't want to become part of the case's history and be personally involved?
Absolutely. That's my way of doing it.
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The Guardian, the Examiner, and the Weekly
As you can all imagine, I'm getting calls and emails, so let me clear it up: Yes, San Francisco Newspaper Co. has bought SF Weekly.
Yes, Todd Vogt is the co-owner of the Examiner, Guardian and now Weekly, but for the record, I am the editor and publisher of the Guardian.
No, there are no plans to merge the two weeklies or consolidate them or combine the editorial staffs. We will continue to do our best to be the progressive voice of San Francisco; the Weekly, I assume, will continue to do its own different thing.
And no, this doesn't mean that I'm going to suddenly be BFFs with Joe Eskenazi. We have our view of things; he has his. I fervently believe that we will continue to disagree, and the city will be served by the ongoing debate. (Unless Joe comes to his senses and realizes that I'm always right.)


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Pictela ads now work across smartphones and tablets.
AOL is launching a series of premium ad formats for mobile devices and tablets today, extending its Pictela platform across multiple screens. The technology enables brands to build and tailor cross-platform campaigns in real-time.
Advertisers can incorporate five applications in mobile ads running on the technology, including Facebook, Twitter, a photo gallery, video gallery, and content feed. Icons in the ads associated with the apps will open a larger window displaying content without leaving the ad. Pictela desktop ads can feature 25 different apps.
AOL is running house ads for Moviefone based on the new mobile ad format (320x50), and plans to sell the new premium formats for mobile devices following the commercial launch.
Since online ad vet Tim Armstrong took the helm, AOL has banked on premium rich media ad formats to boost revenues from brand advertisers. During the firm's Q1 2012 earnings call, the CEO said use of its large Project Devil rich media ad unit grew 80 percent year-over-year and CPMs rose. However, AOL continues to struggle in its mission to dominate the U.S. display ad market. The company's domestic display revenues fell1 percent year-over-year to $119 million.
Now that it's moving beyond the desktop browser to smartphones and tablets, AOL hopes more brands increase spend on the smaller screens. Pictela's technology has powered more than 700 campaigns over the last year, according to AOL.
AOL acquired Pictela in late 2010 to integrate the company's content management system for branded content into its ad business.
Major brands and marketers want to have an integrated approach to media, but far too often the display, mobile and tablet teams are not integrated. "The brand story gets disjointed in the process and it's just hard to execute," noted Greg Rogers, SVP of premium formats at AOL and CEO of Pictela. "The beauty of this is that it's like an ad publishing platform," he said. "You can go into the platform, swap out content, swap out ads and the content will change in real time."
However, some are skeptical that simply repurposing ad creative for different screen sizes is the right approach. "New ad formats must fit the context the ad is being delivered in, and that requires a new direction or fundamental strategic change," said Adam Broitman, chief creative strategist at Something Massive.
Nonetheless, as consumers increasingly switch between media choices and formats, multiscreen ad support becomes more critical, particularly for consumer brands.
"The tablet has changed all the rules and confirmed what we all know. We multitask, using the phone and now the tablet to supplement and potentially compete with our TV viewing," said Peggy Anne Salz, founder and chief analyst at mobile research firm MobileGroove.
"This shift in behavior creates a new requirement for advertising as well as content that flows across all screens," she added. "The winners will be the ones that understand and facilitate not only the flow, but the hand-off between the screens."
In the future, AOL expects to develop additional Pictela ad formats and to expand to more screens such as IPTV and digital out-of-home.
Matt Kapko has been writing about mobile since 2006, before it became cool. Based in Long Beach, CA, he has covered mobile entertainment, digital media, marketing, and advertising for several business media outlets. A former editor and reporter for RCR Wireless News, paidContent, and iMedia Connection, Matt is a regular freelance reporter for ClickZ. You can follow Matt on Twitter at @MattKapko or drop him a line at email@example.com.
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101 Bunk Activities is full of ideas, questions, games, and tips for counselors to foster fun and friendships within a cabin group—the "bunk." For those new to cabin and bunk leadership and for seasoned staff who are looking for new ideas to use with their charges, the heavy lifting has been done—each activity comes with a list of necessary materials, an explanation, and discussion questions. This resource offers many avenues to help a counselor make the bunk experience not only fun, but also significant and beneficial.
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Ski helmets reduce injuries, but death rate stays same
For decades, many skiers considered wearing helmets for safety "uncool." But more recently they seem to be warming to the idea, though the result has not been a decrease in deaths.
Helmet use has increased by up to 5 percentage points a year but the number of deaths still averages 38 a year, unchanged.
During the 2004-05 season, one-third of skiers and snowboarders wore helmets, according to Jasper Shealy, professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y., and who has studied ski related injuries for more than 30 years. It is estimated 40 percent within the population at greatest risk - experienced young adult male skiers and snowboarders - wear helmets.
Asher Crank, a 17-year-old competitive skier from Crested Butte, died last month while practicing for an event at the Copper Mountain Catalyst Terrain Park. Crank, who was wearing a helmet, landed on his head from a 30-foot height. He suffered a closed head injury.
Also last month, Geoffry Bradeen, 45, of Portland died of a head injury while skiing at Mount Hood Meadows. Investigators say he apparently was hit from behind by a snowboarder as he was getting up.
Oregon's medical examiner said a helmet would likely have saved Bradeen, who died of a skull fracture.
Maka Kalai, manager of Christy Sports in Fort Collins, said helmets are catching on with skiers and riders. He estimated 30 percent of those renting equipment also rent helmets, which are an additional $5. Helmet rental is free at the store for those ages 12 and younger. Outpost Sunsport in Fort Collins, rents helmets for $4 per day.
"One of the things that the (fatality) statistics don't show is how much more the sports have grown,'' Kalai said. "I've had two people on my staff who had their helmets split down the middle when one was hit by a skier and the other hit a tree. They work.''
Studies show such collisions are rare and account for only 6.4 percent of reported ski accidents, said Shealy.
His research shows that the use of a helmet reduces the incidence of any head injury by 30 percent to 50 percent, but that the decrease in head injuries is generally limited to the less serious injuries such as scalp lacerations, mild concussions and contusions to the head, as opposed to more serious injuries such as serious concussions, skull fractures, closed head injuries and the like. There has been no significant reduction in fatalities over the past nine seasons even as the use of helmets overall has increased.
He said most skiing and snowboarding deaths are caused by hitting a tree or other fixed object at high speed, resulting in chest or torso injuries.
"Frankly, you're going to need more than a helmet to prevent that fatality," he said.
The pattern of death seems to be affected by the use of a helmet. Most fatalities are due to multiple causes or injuries. Approximately two-thirds of those who die who do not use a helmet have as the first cause of death some injury to the head. For those who die while wearing a helmet, only about one-third have a head injury as the first cause of death.
He and others looked at 562 deaths from fall 1991 through spring 2005, finding that 60 percent were the result of a skier or snowboarder hitting a tree.
Hitting the snow is the second-biggest killer, with 9.7 percent, and hitting manmade objects, such as lift towers, is third, at 7.6 percent.
A U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission study concluded that 44 percent of 17,500 head injuries to skiers and snowboarders in 1997 could have been prevented or reduced in severity with helmet use. It suggested that helmets could prevent an average of 11 deaths a year.
The agency said skiing-associated emergency room visits declined between 1993 and 1997 but that snowboarding injuries nearly tripled and the number of snowboarding head injuries increased fivefold.
However, the number of people snowboarding during that time increased just 30 percent, to 2.5 million, the National Sporting Goods Association said.
"There's really no helmet currently on the market that is designed to decrease the rate of minor concussive injury," said Dr. Mike Murray, director of the Mountain Medical Clinic at Mount Hood Meadows.
Bradeen's death raised questions about whether the ski area does enough to prevent accidents. This year, Mount Hood Meadows is more aggressively revoking passes from people who ski or ride dangerously, President Dave Riley said.
Since Bradeen's death, many Meadows users have said that snowboarders pose a greater risk to others, particularly on crowded weekends.
Murray said snowboarders use the hill differently than skiers by weaving side to side. And because they are riding sideways on their boards, they have a blind spot when they turn toward their heels.
"The more snowboarders you see, the more head injuries you're going to see," Murray said. "Eighty to 90 percent of the head injuries we see are snowboarders."
Helmet buying tips
1. Bring along your goggles, or borrow a pair that matches yours from the shop, when trying on the helmet
2. Make sure your entire forehead is covered by your helmet or goggles.
3. Look for a helmet that is engineered to work well with goggles or provides its own integrated goggles.
4. Make sure the helmet conforms to a ski/snowboard helmet standard, which include Common European Norm, American Society of Testing and Materials or Snell.
Who wears helmets?
66 percent of those ages 9 and younger
46 percent of those ages 65 and older
19 percent of entry level skiers/boarders
45 percent of advanced/expert skiers/boarders
35 percent of males
30 percent of females
Source: National Ski Areas Association
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Windows 9 is reportedly under development as we speak, even though most people are now waiting for Blue, the first makeover for the rather disappointing Windows 8.
This week, it has emerged that several hardware manufacturers have lined up to embrace Windows 9 and develop devices running the next operating system, trying to make sure that, unlike Windows 8, it will be able to excite from the very beginning.
While the report only cited sources from the upstream supply chain, it pretty much made sense, given the fact that PC makers clearly need an operating system to revive the ever collapsing market.
Microsoft remains tight-lipped on this, but it seems like Acer, Asus and Lenovo are the first three large companies that would bet big on Windows 9, even though we would all expect to see them doing the same thing with Windows Blue as well.
What's more, it appears that NVIDIA and Acer are already planning their strategy after the Windows 9 release, with the two companies working on a joint project that would bring a new device capable of running the operating system to the market.
Of course, chances are that the two are thinking about a tablet, but let's wait for a few more months until more information on this is provided.
Leaving these rumors aside, the Windows community continues designing Windows 9 concepts to envision the user interface of the next Microsoft operating system.
Of course, 99 percent of them have very low chances to imagine the right appearance of the upcoming Windows 9, but at least they could inspire some Microsoft designers working on the project.
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UC Presents Tax Practitioners Institute
Tax Law Updates, CPEs for Accountants
Written By Colleen Bierstine '15, PR Intern
New year to bring many changes
Utica, NY (11/20/2012)- The recent presidential election has a significant impact on upcoming changes in tax laws.
To assist accountants and tax preparers, Utica College will offer its annual Tax Practitioner Institute on Monday, Dec. 3 and Tuesday, Dec. 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The Tax Practitioner Institute will offer accountants the opportunity learn recent changes and updates in tax laws while also receiving 16 Continuing Professional Education Units (CPEs).
The Fall 2012 Tax Practitioner Institute will be facilitated by Gary J. Hoff, E.A., extension specialist in taxation, from the University of Illinois. Hoff conducts tax-related seminars throughout the U.S. and is the editor of the annual Federal Tax Workbook. He has more than 40 years of experience preparing tax returns and meets monthly with national IRS staff. Hoff is also the author of two books: "LLCs Taxed as Partnerships: Formation to Dissolution" and "An Accountant's Guide to Like-Kind Exchanges."
The Tax Practitioner Institute will take place at the Radisson Hotel Grand Ballroom, 200 Genesee St., Utica. The $295 registration fee includes lunches, morning and afternoon breaks, plus a copy of the Federal Tax Workbook and all materials.
To register, call the college's office of corporate and professional programs at (315) 792-3344.
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"Here at UC, the journey is immersing yourself in the college experience, both academically and through participation in student activities.."
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IOI 2015 Team SelectedCongratulations to Andrew He, Alexander Wei, Demi Guo, and Daniel Chiu for their selection to the team that will represent the USA at the 2015 International Olympiad in Informatics in Almaty, Kazakhstan!
Finalists for 2014-2015 Season Announced
The USA Computing Olympiad is pleased to announce its finalists for the 2014-2015 season! These 24 indidivuals will be attending the USACO summer training camp and competing to represent the USA at the 2015 International Olympiad in Informatics.
US Open Contest
The USACO 2015 US Open contest has just ended. Results are here.
Our MissionThe USACO supports computing education in the USA and worldwide by identifying, motivating, and training high-school computing students at all levels. We provide:
- Hundreds of hours of free on-line training resources that students can use to improve their programming and computational problem-solving skills.
- On-line programming contests (roughly six per year) for students at all levels.
- An intensive summer training camp, to which the top students in the USA are invited to further improve their skills and learn advanced material.
- The opportunity for the top four students in the USA to represent their country at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the most prestigious international algorithmic programming competition at the high-school level.
2014-2015 Season Schedule AnnouncedThe schedule for the USACO 2014-2015 season is now posted. We will be holding a series of three on-line contests, starting in December, followed up with the US Open, our national championship contest (the contest frequency is slightly reduced this year to give our staff additional time to work on infrastructure and training system improvements). As in the past, contests will be available at bronze, silver, and gold levels of difficulty. All are welcome to participate!
USACO Mourns the Loss of Founder Don PieleI am sad to report that the founder of the USA Computing Olympiad, Dr. Don Piele, has recently passed away after a battle with cancer. A highly-respected member of the IOI community, Don worked tirelessly over several decades to inspire thousands of computing students and enable them to succceed (including the present USACO director -- I first competed in a programming contest organized by Don back in 1987). Don was a wonderful friend, colleague, and mentor. We'll certainly miss his wisdom and guidance as the USACO continues to expand and evolve. -- Brian Dean, USACO Director
Team USA Wins Solid Gold at IOI 2014!Congratulations to team representing the USA at the 2014 International Olympiad in Informatics in Taipei, Taiwan! -- Andrew He, Steven Hao, Scott Wu, and Joshua Brakensiek. All four won gold medals, and Scott Wu tied for first place with a perfect score after completing the contest in nearly half the allotted time! A truly remarkable result, and perhaps the best ever for team USA!
Finalists for 2013-2014 Season Announced
The USA Computing Olympiad is pleased to announce its finalists for the 2013-2014 season! These 24 indidivuals will be attending the USACO summer training camp and competing to represent the USA at the 2014 International Olympiad in Informatics.
IOI 2013: Strong Results for Team USATeam USA turned in impressive results at the 2013 International Olympiad in Informatics in Brisbane, Australia! Congratulations to: Scott Wu (gold, 5th place overall), Steven Hao (silver), Johnny Ho (silver), Joshua Brakensiek (gold).
USA Wins Big at IOI 2012Congratulations to the USA team attending the 2012 International Olympiad in Informatics in Sirmione, Italy -- they won a total of three gold medals and one bronze medal, with team member Johnny Ho achieving a perfect score and winning first place individually! Pictured above: Daniel Ziegler (bronze), Johnny Ho (gold, first place winner), Mitchell Lee (gold), Scott Wu (gold).
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College Transfer Applications Almost Triple During First Week
October 8, 2009
By Clara Potes-Fellow
Priority Application Period Update
A total of 66,399 prospective California State University students submitted their applications through the system's application website, csumentor.edu, between Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009 and Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Applications submitted last year, during the same first week period, totaled 35,020.
The largest increase in applications came from community college students applying for upper-division transfer to a CSU. More than 33,000 prospective students applied for upper-division transfer for fall 2010, a three-fold increase from last year. Applications for prospective first-time freshmen increased by nearly 50 percent.
All 23 campuses will remain open for applications from Oct. 1 through Nov. 30. After that period, at least 12 campuses will stop accepting applications from prospective first-time freshmen and, in some cases, from community college transfers. The CSU encourages students to submit their applications early to avoid missing the closing date of campuses or programs. Press Release.


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Minions need excitement. If their lives don't provide them this, they incite violence – normally with fart guns or supermagnets. Likewise, when bored off their pill-shaped noggins by Edith, Agnes and Margo's ballet recital, a tempo change is required, and suddenly the whole gang is on stage, bopping away to one of Saturday Night Fever's finest dancefloor fillers. Shame Gru crunches his googlies in one ill-advised move, but, hey, you've got to suffer for your art.


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- 12 ounces Yukon Gold potatoes (about 2 medium), unpeeled
- 2 ounces sliced pancetta* or 3 bacon slices, chopped
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 cups chopped leeks (white and pale green parts only)
- 3/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 cup 1/4-inch carrot pieces
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Cook potatoes in pot of boiling salted water until tender, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, saut� pancetta in large skillet over medium heat until crisp, 10 minutes. Transfer pancetta to small bowl. Add 1 tablespoon oil to same skillet. Reduce heat to medium-low. Add leeks and thyme; saut� until leeks are tender, about 5 minutes. Add carrot; saut� 4 minutes. Add zucchini; saut� until vegetables are crisp-tender, about 1 minute longer.
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In archaeology, a sherd, or more precisely, potsherd, is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels as well.[citation needed]
Occasionally, a piece of broken pottery may be referred to as a shard. While the spelling shard is generally reserved for referring to fragments of glass vessels the term does not exclude pottery fragments. The etymology is connected with the idea of breakage, from Old English sceard, related to Old Norse skarth, "notch", and Middle High German scharte, "notch".
A sherd or potsherd that has been used by having writing painted or inscribed on it can be more precisely referred to as an ostracon.
The analysis of sherds is widely used by archaeologists to date sites and develop chronologies, due to their diagnostic characteristics and high resistance to natural, destructive processes. Some characteristics of sherds useful to archaeologists include temper, form, and glaze. These characteristics can be used to determine the kinds of resources and technologies used at the site.
There are three types of sherds: rim sherds, body sherds, and base sherds. Rim sherds are fragments of a ceramic artifact's rim, while base sherds are fragments of the ceramic artifact's base.[1] Body sherds are fragments of ceramic that are not identified as rim sherds or base sherds.
While all types of sherds carry valuable information, rim sherds and base sherds are especially informative because they allow archaeologists to determine the style of the original object.
- ^ Kipfer, 2002
Kipfer, Barbara A. (2002). Sherd. Archaeology Wordsmith. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
Further reading[edit]
- Shepard, Anna O. (1956) Ceramics for the Archaeologist. Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- Rice, Prudence M. (1987) Pottery Analysis. University of Chicago Press.
External links[edit]
|Look up sherd in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Fred on the economy
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If you want to change the world, start with AIDS in Africa. If you want to save lives, fight AIDS in Africa. If you want to work on the most serious crisis facing humanity today, fight AIDS in Africa. The peoples of a continent are being decimated, their future is being destroyed--and we have the power to help stop it.
In Botswana, a 15-year-old boy has a two-thirds chance of contracting and dying from AIDS. In the worst-affected countries, upwards of one in five adults is already infected. With nearly 4 million new infections last year, these numbers are only increasing. For Africa's 25 million infected, AIDS is effectively a death sentence; if nothing is done, these millions and more will die, leaving behind 40 million orphans by the year 2010. To put that in perspective, there are about 40 million children in American public schools.
The World Bank says that "AIDS has an unprecedented impact on economy and society--because it kills so many adults in the prime of their working and parenting lives, it decimates the workforce, impoverishes families and shreds communities." In Zimbabwe, agricultural output dropped nearly 20 percent in 1999 because of AIDS; left unchecked, the disease will shatter economies throughout Africa.
Beyond economics, AIDS threatens stability and security. Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Central Intelligence Agency have noted the security threats that necessarily arise from rapidly declining life expectancies and diminishing life prospects. How can a nation plan for long-term growth when its people are unlikely to live past 40? If AIDS continues its reign of devastation, the highest levels of government and civil society in many African countries will collapse. With them will go the prospects for peace.
AIDS in Africa requires a global response. A serious, well-funded, three-pronged approach of prevention, treatment and community support is needed. These elements go hand in hand.
The need for prevention is obvious: the continued spread of the disease will multiply the damage already done. While the commitment of many African governments to fighting AIDS has been tragically scarce, more and more leaders are seriously engaging the issue. They hope to replicate the successes of Uganda, which went from being the world epicenter of the AIDS crisis to one of the least-affected countries after its president made AIDS a top priority. The international community must work in partnership with these governments to build effective, large-scale prevention programs.
However, it will be extremely difficult to make headway with prevention measures unless treatment is available. Would you allow yourself to be tested in a country with no available AIDS drugs, where stigmas against the infected could lead to the loss of your job and your family? In areas where drugs to prevent mother-to-child AIDS transmission are made available, people are willing to be tested and take part in prevention. Where these drugs are scarce, there is little incentive to be tested.
Prevention is one argument for treatment. Community stability is another. Half of the infected in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and AIDS will leave millions of children parentless. Even if the drugs that are available can only preserve life by 10-15 years, those years are critical if communities are to survive. And beyond either of these arguments is a basic humanitarian obligation. With effective life-extending AIDS drugs available at prices below $1,000 a year, allowing millions to perish would be a monstrous sin of omission.
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The sun-kissed peaks of Manang
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This is the project page for jian cha, a project to build a code review system based on trac and subversion.
The concept of jian cha is to create a technical solution to the typically painful manually managed process of code reviews present in most organizations. In the past we have seen code reviews range from being managed through mailing lists, issue tracking systems (such as bugzilla), and even meetings with groups of team members. In addition to the pain of managing and tracking reviews without a specialized tool to do so, most review processes rely entirely too much on human action. In most organizations it seems to be impossible to track a change back to the thread of conversation which surrounded it, making auditing or finding the explanation for a specific change all that much more difficult.
Jian Cha is an attempt to address this issue by putting in to place an automated system in which reviews are created automatically when attempting to make a change which fits a given criteria. Reviews would then take place through a community web interface (as an extension of trac) allowing reviewers to see the changes in their context within the files they effect. Threads of discussion can then be created regarding each individual change (through an interface vaguely similar to that described by the existing but unsatisfactory peer review plugin) and a series of resubmissions of the change set may take place, all without affecting the actual repository. Once a change is approved by the criteria defined in the review process, the change would be committed to the repository (assuming it has not gone stale).
Design Goals
- Work with a reasonable amount of cross-browser support (for modern browsers only)
- Web Admin-able server deployment
- Simple client deployment
- Clean and flexible code base, of course
- Use standardized means of interaction (SOAP/XSLT for client/server interaction, unified diff for change transfer, etc)
Functional Goals
- Low ceremony employment
- Sarbanes Oxley compliance
- Interactive easy to use interface
- Simple submission process
- Being able to enforce a flexible amount of automated criteria
Project Goals
- To employ some form of the SDLC commonly used in business to an open source project to ensure satisfactory completion
- Round up a suitable level of community support to reduce development time
- Deliver a stable, professional product suitable for use in an enterprise organization
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- Requirements Gathering
- Functional Specification
- Research Results
- Technical Specification
- Implementation
- Release
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I do not understand why anyone would recognize a Palestinian state when there never been one. In regards to the peace process the Palestinians must first recognize Israel as a Jewish state, agree to take in all Israel Palestinians and displaced Palestinians into a newly formed state and agree to be a demilitarized nation prior to any discussions. Only then will the Palestinians have an opportunity to gain statehood otherwise the can live with the status quo.
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There are many ways for you to help get involved with stream care. The Rivers Programs at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is involved with not only recreation, but preservation, conservation, restoration and stream bank stabilization. It is important that we all become good stewards of our streams and lakes. Learn more about protected water areas, river clean-ups around the state and what you can do to help.
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Letter: Why can't navigational lights be installed at the bridge?
Douglas Hood, Sebastian
Letter: Why can't navigational lights be installed at the bridge?
What a beautiful place!
Since the bridges have been redone, both sides, to accommodate foot and bike traffic, it's great.
Now, the sad part. I have called the Coast Guard, Florida Inland Navigation District, St. Johns Water Management District, Florida Department of Transportation, Indian River County road and bridges and our district House representative to inquire why the navigational lights have not been put back in place under the west span of the Wabasso Bridge.
They were taken down during reconstruction of the causeway and never put back up.
No one wants to take responsibility to do so. Those lights marked the center of the bridge, so you didn't hit the adjoining cat walks and navigate center.
Red, green, red.
What will it take to get them to be reinstalled?
A prominent elected official to be inebriated to hit the catwalk?
Or a spring boater not knowing the local waters?
Continuing with the causeway, both catwalks have been closed. A lot of folks bring children to fish here, and shrimp.
I understand the pilings need work but they are stable. Why spend millions on beach sand, only to be washed away when $5,000 to $9,000 could be spent for the catwalks?
They provided cheap fishing, shrimping, beautiful sunrises, nature's best (dolphins feeding), children having fun fishing, family outings, nice breezes.
If we can't fix this simple issue, then do what you do at the beaches. No lifeguards on duty! Use at your own risk!
Then, put the same signs at the catwalks. Use at your own risk! We're not responsible for your lack of common sense.
Please bring back our cheap form of family fun.
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Games are an age-old way of passing time with friends and fleecing strangers for money.
!!Types of Games
* ParlorGames: The oldest genre of social games, requiring no special equipment.
* TabletopGames
** BoardGames: From ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' to [[TabletopGame/{{Chess}} chess]], the classic test of skill and wits between friends and foes alike.
*** EuroGame: A recent style in board gaming, first becoming widely popular with the mid-1990s success of ''The Settlers of Catan''.
*** [[WarGaming War Games]]: Board games that attempt to simulate realistic military conflict. Many are infamous for having LoadsAndLoadsOfRules (and cardboard counters). ''Advanced Squad Leader'' is probably the most famous example.
** CardGames: From poker to ''MagicTheGathering'', a way to win money and while away the empty hours.
*** {{Collectible Card Game}}s are a recently popular variant.
*** TabletopGame/{{Poker}} is a particularly [[FountainOfMemes famous]] card game.
** Tabletop Miniatures: The intersection of Board Games and Collectible Card Games, featuring ''TabletopGame/HeroClix'', ''MechWarrior'', ''MageKnight'' and others. They often employ Turn Based Strategy.
** {{Tabletop RPG}}s
* [[{{Pinball}} Pinball Games]]: Formerly a type of ArcadeGame, but the rise of home collectors and DigitalPinballTables means pinball is more often played outside of arcade-type venues nowadays.
** PhysicalPinballTables
** DigitalPinballTables
* VideoGames: The most recent variety. Video games throw you into enthralling or addictive worlds where you forget yourself for a brief period. Any of the above categories can be translated to this format. Originating with {{Arcade Game}}s, subgenres include [[InteractiveFiction Text]], [[AdventureGame Adventure]], {{MUD}}s, {{MMORPG}}s, {{RTS}}, {{FPS}}, and more.
** {{Platform Game}}s
** {{Role Playing Game}}s
** StrategyGame: Games that require strategy or tactics to win.
*** ConstructionAndManagementGames
*** TurnBasedStrategy: An ancient type of game made popular again.
*** RealTimeStrategy: A more modern incarnation of the strategy game.
!!Games by Origin
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!!Tropes common to games in general:
* AreaOfEffect
* ArtisticLicenseStatistics
* CallingYourShots
* ChooseYourOwnAdventure
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess
* DeepImmersionGaming
* DiminishingReturnsForBalance
* EmergentGameplay
* FakeBalance
* FakeDifficulty
* FakeLongevity
* JokeCharacter
** LethalJokeCharacter
* HumanChess
* KingmakerScenario
** XMustNotWin
* LetsMockTheMonsters
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRules
* MassiveRaceSelection
* MasterConsole
* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands
* NoExportForYou
* NoPlotNoProblem
* NotTheIntendedUse
* ObviousRulePatch
* PlayerArchetypes
* PowerEqualsRarity
* PrestigiousPlayerTitle
* PromotionalPowerlessPieceOfGarbage
* SanityMeter
* ScavengerHunt
* ScrabbleBabble
* SlidingScaleOfCooperationVsCompetition
* SlidingScaleOfObjectiveVsSubjectiveGames
* SmartPeoplePlayChess
* SplashDamage
* SplashDamageAbuse
* SquareRaceRoundClass
* SurpriseCheckmate
* ThatOneRule
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8th annual Soup for All
The eighth annual Soup for All luncheon took place Thursday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Grand Haven.
Hundreds of people paid $10 each to sample from a menu of nine varieties of soup, along with donated breads and cookies. Proceeds went to a homeless prevention fund.
A similar event was held at the Holland Civic Center on Thursday.
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Our PhishGuru®, SmishGuru®, and USBGuru® simulated attack tools can help you gauge your employees' understanding of the dangers associated with phishing, smishing, and USB attacks. Along with our CyberStrength® Knowledge Assessment, these simulated attacks deliver the important initial component of our Assess, Educate, Reinforce, Measure methodology and can protect your corporate systems from malware, spyware, and other dangerous software.
Through mock attacks, you can evaluate your organization's level of susceptibility in a safe, controlled manner. You'll get a sense of how your employees would respond to phishing and spear phishing emails, malicious SMS/text messages, and infected/unauthorized portable storage devices without exposing your network to an actual attack. This helps you establish a baseline understanding of how vulnerable your organization could be to these dangerous and pervasive threats.
Our reporting functions gather actionable data, and you can use the results of your mock attacks to evaluate how your employees' behaviors could negatively impact the security of your networks, data, and systems. You can also use the results to plan and focus your future security awareness and training efforts.
PhishGuru, SmishGuru, and USBGuru utilize a scientifically proven methodology to collect detailed information about your organization's vulnerabilities and prime your employees to learn how to avoid actual attacks. Any employee who falls for a mock attack is automatically presented with a Teachable Moment, which explains the situation and provides practical guidance and tips for future reference. This approach — which pairs simulated attacks with just-in-time teaching — is an excellent forerunner to our interactive training modules because it motivates and engages your employees. Our data has shown that employees who fall for a mock attack are up to 90% more likely to complete follow-up training.
PhishGuru Mock Phishing Attacks
Our PhishGuru anti-phishing software — which won a PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award — allows you to use mock phishing messages to assess your organization's susceptibility to an actual attack.
Key Benefits
- Allows you to safely expose your employees to phishing techniques and gauge vulnerabilities.
- Provides a variety of customizable email templates that address three key testing factors: attachments, embedded links, and requests for personal data.
- Delivers brief, practical tips via customizable Teachable Moments (see more below) when an employee falls for a mock attack.
- Includes our PhishAlarm™ one-click email reporting button. This email client add-in allows employees to report suspected phishing messages to your security and incident response teams with a single mouse click.
- Offers a Random Scheduling option, which spreads out and randomizes the distribution of emails. This helps to minimize the impact to your email servers and IT helpdesk, and it also reduces the chances that employees will figure out — and discuss — the mock attacks, which helps to preserve the integrity of your phishing data.
- Allows you to automatically assign targeted training via our exclusive Auto-Enrollment feature. With this convenient and effective administrative tool, any employee who falls for a simulated attack can be assigned the training module(s) of your choice.
- Provides extensive analytics and reporting about employee responses to various attack scenarios. You'll also know whether employees fell for an attack through a mobile phone, a tablet, or a computer; the browsers they were using; and their locations when they fell for the attack.
- Gets employees thinking about best practices and how to respond to future threats.
- Sets the stage and makes employees more receptive to in-depth training.
SmishGuru Mock SMS Attacks
Our latest simulated attack program, SmishGuru is the first and only solution that allows you to send mock smishing messages to assess your organization's susceptibility to actual malicious SMS/text messages.
Key Benefits
- Allows you to safely expose your employees to smishing techniques and gauge vulnerabilities
- Mitigates the risks your organization faces from careless use of mobile devices
- Provides multiple customizable text messages that are sent directly to your employees' mobile phones
- Delivers brief, practical tips via customizable Teachable Moments (see more below) when an employee falls for a mock attack
- Gathers actionable data to finely target future employee training
- Gets employees thinking about best practices and how to respond to future threats
- Sets the stage and makes employees more receptive to in-depth training
USBGuru Memory Device Mock Attacks
USBGuru allows you to test employees on a pervasive and dangerous threat vector: infected removable memory devices. You use our cloud-based interface to easily create a custom executable file with a brief training message embedded in the file. The file is then loaded onto USB devices that can be randomly placed throughout your organization — just waiting to be plugged in.
Key Benefits
- Allows you to safely introduce your employees to the concept of infected USB drives and gauge vulnerabilities
- Delivers brief, practical tips via customizable Teachable Moments (see more below) when an employee plugs in a pre-planted USB device
- Gathers actionable data to finely target future employee training
- Gets employees thinking about best practices and how to respond to future attacks
- Sets the stage and makes employees more receptive to in-depth training
Teachable Moments
Employees who fall for a simulated attack are automatically presented with a unique Teachable Moment. This just-in-time teaching approach is a great way to set the stage for future in-depth training and motivates employees to learning best practices and exhibit safe behaviors.
The customizable, 15- to 30-second Teachable Moments alert employees about the mock attack, explain the dangers associated with real attacks, and give practical advice and tips they can use to avoid future traps. You can select from three different teaching methods:
- Single-panel comic strip
- Multi-panel illustration
- Customizable landing page
Alternately, you can redirect to your internal training (available for PhishGuru and SmishGuru).
Training: The Next Step
Our mock attacks are most effective when paired with our interactive training. These 10- to 15-minute educational modules offer brief but focused training about key security topics introduced to your employees during your simulated attacks. Education is a logical and effective next step, and our training is based on proven Learning Science Principles that lengthen knowledge retention and drive behavior change.
Connecting these components of our Assess, Educate, Reinforce, Measure methodology can dramatically improve the efficacy of your security awareness and training program. Integration between mock attacks and education has been shown to increase completion rates five- to tenfold. Our data has shown that employees who fall for mock attacks are up to 90% more likely to complete follow-up training. By taking advantage of this opportunity to integrate simulated attacks and training, you can significantly improve the efficacy of your program and further reduce your risks.


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by Bradley Hartsell
With roots dating back to over a quarter century experience of playing together, the Gasoline Brothers and Newnan-based Musicology's Doug Kees have teamed up for a new album and a string of live shows.
The members of the Bros. are Ray Strickland, Davo Piper, Jack Browning, Billy Pitts and Jon Daly. All the members have contributed over the years to notable acts such as Lynryd Skynyrd, Billy Idol, the Black Crows and The Georgia Satellites. The band has mashed up many of those wide-ranging influences to create Southern flavored rock 'n roll.
Kees, for his part, is a fixture in the Newnan music scene, owner of the private music lesson house, Musicology, and one of the most respected musicians in the area.
To round out the all-star ensemble, producer Jeff Tomei latched on to the new record, 'Living in the Weeds.' Tomei has been producing for 30 years and boasts the likes of the Smashing Pumpkins, Matchbox 20, Skid Row and many more on his resume.
'Recording with Jeff was huge,' Kees said. 'To have that and know he's going to make it sound good was really important.'
One might think with all the talent and experience in one room, egos might clash, dynamics may suffer. But Kees says there's no ego in the band. Everybody's just trying to have fun.
'Whoever wants to play is fine,' said Kees. 'That comes from playing with guys that experienced.'
Kees recalled seeing Ray Strickland playing more than 25 years ago, when their respective bands were on the same bill. He remembers being jealous of Strickland's natural ability to be rock 'n roll frontman. When the opportunity came this year to join Strickland's gang, he couldn't resist.
'It's rare to find a really special singer,' explained Kees. 'And I always thought he was great.'
Songs come together with Strickland's songwriting as the fulcrum. Everyone in the band is trying to accompany the 'character- driven' songs Strickland is so fond of penning.
'We listen to Ray to make the song happen, to reflect his songwriting,' said Kees.
On Saturday, the Gasoline Brothers will come to The Alamo on the Court Square for their first Newnan show. Earlier in the day the band will be playing the Sugar Hill Fall Festival. Kees joked that it's their one-day tour.
Mantra and Sweetgrass Sally will open for the Gasoline Bros. The show will kick off at 9:30 p.m. Call The å at 770-683-2526 for more information, which is located at 19 West Court Square in downtown Newnan.


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On Keller Williams' new record, Dream, almost every song features an amazing guest musician from the jamband world. Listen as he comes up to the SIRIUS Studios and performs exclusive, solo acoustic versions of these tunes! He'll also talk with his old pal Stef Scamardo about his days as a "little hippie kid with no shoes," and what the future holds for Keller and his guitar!
Long live Jam-uary on Sirius. Love Jam On since I've signed on to sat radio. Bet you a hundred bucks though that Keller plays "Life", which has been getting almost a nauseating amount of playtime.My only gripe with Sirius is the playlists....especially for Jam On. With a HUGE library of artists, live shows, and in-studio performance, I would expect to hear more songs than the same cuts from RAQ, 56 Hope Road, Keller, Duo and of'course the once-an-hour GD track. With years of growth ahead of them though, the future is bright for Jam On!! plus, Wavy crack's me up....
I'll ECHO that!I'm completely w/ you, man.JAM_ON is the reason we have 2 CIRIUS receivers, besides some time on Planet JAzz, Bluegrass stations I'm almost exclusively tuned to 17. 7PM finds me in the car sometimes at home, just sittin in the driveway and chillin! As for the playlists, in my opinion we shouldn't here the same track more than once a week. You'e completely right. Reminds me of ""traditional" radio and the repetitiveness that could sometimes ruin a station. They have COMPLETE freedom over there song selection, so let's here some off the wall stuff, right?!Of course, you have to wonder if part of the issue is requests, and if they're catering to them. That could explain the Keller "Life" situation. Of course, the other thing to consider is the fact that there probably is no other station that has Keller's album, so maybe in a way they're flauting it! Hope not....In ANY case, JAM_ON BABY!!!!!(eagerly awaiting Trey Day 3)
You don't think that they play a song to death because it's in their better financial interest? As much as terrestrial radio and Sirius differ I'm sure the interworkings are very similar. Especially when it comes to inside compensation.
Yeah, im definitely going to agree with that statement, in some sense. I don't think that the compensation comes into play as much, compared to say Sirius 1 (pop central), but I definitely feel that there is a little "payola" type operating going on. And internal revenue has to come from somewhere, right?What I would LOVE to see on Jam On is extended sets from OTHER artists, not just Phish. Hour of Live Phish is nice and all, but the same LIVEPHISH recordings over and over, gets a little boring (plus I've already heard all these shows). Pick an UMph's show, or a Moe set, or something else, something NEW, and spin the whole set. I'm willing to bet that the core audience listners on Sirius, and more specifically on Jam ON 17, are serious musicphiles and have a great appreciation about the music coming out of their radio, than the traditional radio listener. I still love it, I just want to see if let itself go a little bit and open it up more with the playlists.
Alright, show's over. here's the recap for all ya non-Sirius ListenersPlay This, Life, Freaker by the Speaker, Ninja of LoveIn between songs, Keller talked a lot about making the new album and his time with Franti and Bela and getting them to take time to lay down some tracks. He commented on how he came into the scene, as a "little hippie kid" and how just getting to play a 15min set with the likes of BFFT and SCI. he also spoke extremely highly of Xavier Rudd.I think the most interesting comments though, was his revealing that a Keller Band may be in the works, and for this summer!! He said that he would "like to enter the world of band-life" and that though he would love to talk about his (hopeful) new bandmates, he couldn't comment. (does anyone else smell a possible keller williams incident in the brew here?)
Wondered about additional live sets myself. Wonder if they're trying to guage the listener response to the Gone Phishin sets before they branch out and play some additional bands.
I agree with the comment about the playlists on Sirius. The Jam station on there leaves the same songs in the player for weeks sometimes months at a time. When I first got Sirius I probably listened Jam On for about an hour a day. I heard the Biscuits song Pat & Dex every time. I don't really like the song anymore because of that. That's just one example, its the same with other songs. Does anyone agree with me on this? Its a jam station, someone tell Stef to change it up more. The live phish hour is pretty cool though.
Keller IS forming a band, and it WILL include one member of String Cheese (most likely Moseley), but it's not going to be a full-on Keller Williams Incident. Looks like Gib Droll will join, as well. As for the hints of Sirius payola in the comments below, I doubt it happens. That said, the DJ's have a greater amount of say in the programming on Jam-On than they do on regular radio, and that could possibly create some conflict of interest problems. Personally, I love Sirius' service. And I've found each Jam-On DJ I've met to be very friendly, kind, and sincerely interested in supporting all artists in the genre. And I'm VERY interested in traveling to see the Keller Williams Band this summer.
Thanks NickBoeka for the Keller update from the show. Def sounds like there may a Keller Incident band coming our way this summer. Think of how good those guys could be together if they played together all the time.
I got an XM radio for Christmas, and, to make a long story short, it just didn't work. I'm gonna return it to Best Buy this weekend, and I was wondering if I should get a Sirius. Whaddayathink?
I am going in to my third year and my reciever rarely leaves Jam On. I agree with the playlist complaints. It has gotten a whole lot better in the three years. As far as the Live Phish goes it has been that way since I first signed on. I would love to hear them mix that up with a different band every night of the week and change that monthly maybe. It isn't like there isn't enough material out there to do it. The thing that bothers me most of all is when they play Phish in the hour before the live hour of Phish. I hope Stef has Warren in for Valentines Day again this year.Jam On!
Hey NickBoeka - thanks for the Keller Sirius Interview recap! Sometimes I wish I had Sirius or XM or something ... but internet radio has always been my golden ticket!Speaking of fun things on the internet, I found this ecard on Keller's site today:www.kellerwiliams.net/dreamand thought I'd pass it along to any other Keller fans! Yes, it has a preview of "Life" (which we've all heard a billion times), BUT ALSO has "Cadillac" - the song that Keller recorded with String Cheese. It makes my day, hope it makes your too!
get sirius because jam on 17 is the best radio station ever made. especially "gone Phishin'"


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alright as some of you may have known I installed the airdog 150 kit last week,. Mine you I had no instructions at all. So besides all that I ended up getting it all put together. Alright so i went with the air dog because i got a great price on it. But now that its all installed really its just a helper for the OE lift pump and filters the fuel. not really what i thought it was gonna be. we spoke to toby down at pure flow and he said that i dont bypass my oe lift pump so basically the 150 will flow all this fuel but hits the oe lift pump and does nothing?!?! totally blew my mind. I wish I just went with dj's fuel. So i spoke to toby about bypassing the lift pump with an aeromotive 100 pump. Leave the lift pump in there for its return to the tank part but not use it to send up to the motor. it makes me mad that i paid 400 bucks for a filter?
I read about a guy who changed all his lines and bypassed the lift pump. Seems like alot of work though, any of you other guys feel the same about this? I think that if i do a pump instead of the oe lift pump up to djs fuel I will see much much more gains. As of right now i see nothing nor feel anything but my wallet getting thinner. My cfm did a bigger part then the air dog did.
Ahhh had to vent a little bit too!
Airdog is designed to enhance your fuel system, not replace it. The airdog not only filters the fuel, it removes the air. This in itself improves the functionality of the injection process creating less noise and more power. Your stock pump should be able to handle the HP of you truck. What other mods do you have? With stage 3's, my stock pump is just now showing signs that I need to replace it with a walbro.
FWIW, I'm moving to the airdog soon.
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i totally understand that the air dog does all that and im not by any means saying that its not a good product, awesome guys over at pure flow as well. But what I am saying is that i could have just got away with djs kit and not needed anything else. Im only using 190s stock 03 turbo. meth, sct by dj, all the other bolt ons. But my point is that i could have saved the money on the air dog as i am only going with 190s and maybe, maybe a bigger turbo later. But it just got my stumped how it hits the oe lift pump and doesnt do much after that.
what do you have for fuel support wise? itp, djs kit?
I have a full ITP kit. Regulator is set for 65-70psi at idle. At WOT on a hard run, It drops to about 40psi now. That isn't a big concern due to the fact I'm still pushing WAY more fuel than the turbo can handle.
I still feel you made the correct purchase. The airdog is a GREAT foundation. There is a lot of different theories out there, don't get caught up in buyer's remorse.
Is the DJ's kit you speak of a regulated return of sorts for the 6.0? If it is what I think it is, then yes.. a return kit will help. But the advantages of removing the air FROM the fuel out weighs cycling the fuel alone.
I would have done the return kit first, then the airdog.. but both are wonderful mods together or apart.
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Totally agree with you Dirk. You will find longer injector life, and injection pump life with the AirDog system.
well thanks alot Dirk, making me feel better about it. I will throw some pics up. Insane install with no instructions. But all in GREAT guys at pure flow. And yeah the kit I am speaking of is Dj's fuel+ intensifier
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seems like the ITP is a little nicer but harder to install. Either way your are right probably should have just did the return first. then the air dog or even got away with just the return. ahh whatever its done now lol..im deff not taking the bed off again thats for sure.
The airdog is built by Dennis at ITP. He's only screwed my order up once on some orings (he was busy, and to be fair.. I started hounding him and it was a silly mistake)...
as far as parts\quality are concerned.. top notch.
Here is my experience.
Regulated return = quicker acceleration. No noticeable noise reduction. Granted.. I'm running single shot injectors now, quite a bit louder than my old splits.
Pre pump mod (cheapest way to help get air out) = A lot quieter.
Remember, the fuel fills into the injector.. it is hammered by the pressure of the oil (when the injector is electronically activated) forcing it through the nozzle into the cylinder at a very high pressure rate. Air in the fuel can cause damage to the injector. The fuel acts like a cushion. Air will not. (very simple explanation)
Like I said before, there is a lot of debate on which system is best. I'm not here to get into that. I've admitted before that I'm a ITP cheerleader.
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ITP doesn't build the Airdog, Pureflow tech does, not sure where you heard that from...?
EDIT: I didn't get to finish what I was going say. I hate it when people come to my desk expecting me to do some work...
Anyways, I was thinking/talking about the reg. return setup that I bought from Dennis. But yes, Pureflow DOES build it. Also, Any reason you went with the 150? Just because the good price? That is a bit of overkill.
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imo the 150 is a better option if your gonna bypass the stock pump and upgrade the sticks and programming.
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