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Stalwart punk anthems for the outwardly tattooed but emotionally fragile: the Smoking Popes, unlikely love balladeers and polite band of brothers, played to a couple dozen enthralled fans at the Firebird on Thursday night.
Clad in Cobainesque red and black plaid, Tanner Merritt, lead singer of O'Brother, stood before a crowd of leather-wearing, hard-art-rock aficionados and pushed his falsetto voice into the microphone.
No doubt about it but St. Louis loves its classic rock, especially when its loud, hard and heavy. And few local bands take the classic genre to extremes like Tok.
The head-banging extravaganza that is Uproar Festival rolled through Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Sunday.
A barrage of merchandise tents, non-profits, stages with unfamiliar faces (and names) and active half-pipes is likely to overwhelm even a veteran Warped fan.
Sure, it's been done before. Cursive's done it. Panic! At the Disco did it. The emo concept album, that is. But few bands are quite as ambitious as the Dear Hunter.
Fat Tramp Food Stamp is a metal shredding biker rock band with country twang courtesy of its St. Charles, Mo. roots and beards courtesy of ZZ Top. Fire up the banjos and bang your heads to their live session at KDHX.
What kind of act is the Saw Is Family? This ain't no act. This is metal, punk and rock, played with a tongue-in-cheek sense of fun, and all the noise of a buzz saw shredding sheet metal. Brace yourself for the live session on Greaser's Lunchbox.
Twitchy, noisy, hooky and even a little dreamy at times -- that's the sound of the Counterlife. The Fayetteville, Arkansas band the KDHX studios for a live performance.
If the paradoxical name Sine Nomine (Latin for "without a name") is at all indicative of the wonderfully convoluted and hectic sound, they are a perfect match for Spazztick. The St. Louis trio transmits a forceful brand of metal over the airwaves and into our welcoming auditory nerves.


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In Joe LaBuda's 24 seasons as head football coach at Menomonie High School, there hasn't been much his teams haven't achieved. However, this year's team accomplished a feat no other Mustangs team had.
Through the first six games, Menomonie's defense didn't allow a single point.
The Mustangs' streak ended last week when Eau Claire North scored on a 65-yard pass play in the second quarter. But Menomonie (7-0, 5-0 Big Rivers Conference) won 42-6, and will put its unbeaten record on the line tonight at conference rival Superior (4-1, 5-1).
"We are really proud of our defense and our defensive coaches," LaBuda said. "Our kids have really played hard, aggressive, physical defense."
That one scoring play, LaBuda said, was the result of a tremendous effort by Huskies wide receiver Bryce Kamenick on a tipped ball. He also said the touchdown might have been the best thing to happen for his team.
"Now we won't be discouraged if we give up a score, and it won't fire up the other team being the first ones to score on us," he said.
Besides, Menomonie allowed North only 155 yards of offense after holding each of its first six opponents under 150 yards.
The shutout streak was the longest to begin a season in Wisconsin since Flambeau had eight straight in 1998.
LaBuda credits defensive coordinator Pat Bundy. Bundy has been on LaBuda's staff since 1989, only briefly leaving for a head coaching stint of his own.
"The kids really buy into what we're saying, and we're just reaping the benefits," Bundy said.
It doesn't hurt that the offense averages 30 points a game. Leading the way is sophomore Nate Stanley, the youngest starting quarterback in LaBuda's tenure. He has thrown 16 touchdown passess -- eight of them to his older brother Luke -- and two interceptions.
But LaBuda said his team hasn't proved anything yet. That's because Menomonie's final two games of the regular season are on the road against two of the best teams in the Big Rivers Conference; after playing Superior, the Mustangs will end the regular season against Hudson (5-0, 5-1).
"We knew going into the season we had a tough task at the end of our schedule," LaBuda said.
Menomonie should be tested Friday night. Superior averages 38 points a game behind quarterback Nick Mehlum, who has 17 touchdown passes and averages 230 yards a game.
If Menomonie can get out of Superior with a win and Hudson beats River Falls, it will set up a finale between two unbeatens for the conference title.
"Hudson is conference champs until someone dethrones them, and our kids know that," LaBuda said. "But we're going to take it one game at a time."

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Having retired from the semiconductor industry, I have to weigh in. The new CEO of Intel worked his way up through manufacturing. There are three common themes all successful manufacturing manufacturing managers have:
1) They hit their numbers or they are gone.
2) They hit the deadwood in management quickly: "Sorry, it's not personal just business".
3) They are very reluctant to lay off the lower level employees. Suspect the bulk of the 5000 Intel employees to be laid off in 2014 will be mid to high level employees who just don't quite measure up anymore.
Note: Intel and a host of other semiconductor firms have an up or out policy when it comes to exempts.Feb 7, 2014. 06:56 PM | 5 Likes |Link to Comment
Intel: Google Is Not A Threat [View article]
Already done:
" As part of the effort, IBM is following ARM's lead and opening up its proprietary Power-based hardware and software technologies to outside developers for the first time and will offer licenses for parties wishing to use Power IP in their own products, the company said this week.
Joining the alliance at the outset were Google, Nvidia, server manufacturer Tyan, and Israel-based chip design firm Mellanox Technologies. IBM has also extended an invitation for other companies to join the OpenPOWER Consortium."
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Intel: Don't Believe Bloomberg's Google Rumor [View article]
Clearly something is up, in the server world. I would simply ask yourself why did Google join the IBM Power Consortium as a founding member? In the worst case they are looking for other solutions specific to their needs. In the best case they are looking for a price break from Intel on their server class CPUs.Dec 12, 2013. 07:21 PM | 4 Likes |Link to Comment
Intel: Don't Believe Bloomberg's Google Rumor [View article]
Google is a founding member of IBM's power consortium.
"Big Blue will license its Power processors to other companies, enabling them to build their own servers, networking systems and storage appliances based on IBM's architecture, company officials said Aug. 6."Dec 12, 2013. 06:59 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
" When Intel decide to go ahead with the massive marketing campaign to promote their room heater (P4 and Pentium D), I was so mad at Intel. "
We all were. The Pentium 4 was a terrible, terrible processor. I was a pretty big AMD fan back then, although I admit that chipset issues (VIA) made me skeptical of going with the (obviously) superior AMD solutions at the time. I sucked it up and bought the Pentium 4 in many iterations. Northwood was OK, but Prescott and its successors were awful."
I'm really tickled by your comment above and must ask were you 12 or 13 back then.?
P.S. - I'm not an AMD booster or fanboy by any means. But you obviously are an Intel Investor or Intel fanboy.
But perhaps you are just a tech writer looking for clicks. Who knows? More power to you!Nov 24, 2013. 09:20 PM | 7 Likes |Link to Comment
I did, And I as many others we're happy that we did not buy into the PR fluff that was presented previously.
Intel dropped 5.35% the next day.
Remember Moore's law assumes that there will be product to fill those expensive fabs with die shrinks that have not turned on yet. It's a first for Intel, but it's happened many times in the semiconductor industry in the past.
P.S. Perhaps Foundry will get Intel out of the jam they are in. But what company in their right mind would sign a contract with them.
We will know in a few short months. In the mean time we have Intel going after bargin bin PCs what a joke!Nov 24, 2013. 08:48 PM | 5 Likes |Link to Comment
Intel is running at capacity and doesn't need the foundry business to fill its fabs
They have two great big fully equiped fabs....one in Arzona and one in Oregon. Set to turn on at unbelievable small process node of 14 nm. But alas they are not running production just yet.
Link to Russ's article: http://seekingalpha.co...
Why? Moore's law assumes that there is demand for the increased supply of ICs. Apparently Intel is looking towards foundry operations to fill this demand. Without it none of the wonderful stuff shown at the Intel Developer Presentation can come to fruition. Bargain bin PC's and free samples for tablet application processors will not cut it.
In the mean time.......We know Nvidia is interested......if the price is right. AMD surely would be too for their game console chips
Shouldn't be all that long for Intel layoffs. It's happened for the last 3 INTEL CEO changeovers.Nov 24, 2013. 08:06 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
My two cents Ashraf,
I skim read your articles but love to read the comments posted underneath. Kudus to you for maximizing your clicks. As a tech writer that's what is all about.
Now some serious thoughts. AMD was wise to move away from the PC. Excellent move on the game consoles. Of course Sony and Microsoft took advantage of them and they so now they have that Global Foundries $404 take or pay thing this quarter and $250M next quarter. Puts every thing in jeopardy. But perhaps Intel will start fabing for them to keep their fabs open.
But as you have written Intel is going after the bargain basement PC market. It will be an Epic Fail as AMD surely can attest to.
And as Intel opens their idled fabs to foundry work. See Russ's article....who do you think will sign on? Well so far only Nvidia has said publicly that they would love to talk. Why?...maybe they can get a better deal from Intel and then leverage that with TSMC. It's business not speeds and feeds, flops, and drops or whatever.
Intel's growth in the enterprise is in jeopardy too. Enterprise computing is adopting wholeheartedly virtualized CPU and finally GPU virtualization because of Nvidia. In the latest round IBM, Hitachi, HP, Dell, Fujitsu, ASUS, along with everyone else has adopted Nvidia Grid and are out selling it with Citrus, VmWare, and Microsoft's FX software solutions.
Why should an Intel shareholder be upset with this. It's because most of the virtualization is done with one or two Xeon of the 8 cores with one GPU. An effective reduction in server CPU's by 25%. But a huge increase for Server GPUs where historically there was none! IBM is even re-writing their enterprise software to take advantage of Nvidia Grid using Cuda. Not talking Supercomputing.....just plain old fashion enterprise software. Big, Big Data stuff.
Remember 40% of all PCs sell into large commercial businesses with huge IT support and they like to hit their budgets. Intel currently owns this market. But if this virtualization trend continues all you will need is a monitor or a mobile device and 25%(OK maybe 30%) of Intel server chips in the data center, plus a whole bunch of GPUs.
Note: IBM is pushing Power8 chips big time aligned with Nvidia GPUs.
We live in interesting times....please don't worry about the small inconsequential bargain basement PCs.It's a pimple on Intel's forehead. And AMD is moving away from that business as fast as it can. Just as Nvidia did more than 5 years ago.Nov 24, 2013. 07:07 PM | 3 Likes |Link to Comment
My Takeaways From The Intel Investor Meeting [View article]
Why? Hope and Dreams. I remember reading the same thing about Mainframes during IBM's near death experience in the early 1990's.
Think of it this way. With Cloud computing, public or private. Both CPU and recently with GPUs. What is the need for a high cost Intel chip in a PC when a thin client, IPAD, monitor etc. will run with the full functionality of a PC?
Note: 40% of PC's are sold to commercial businesses. Looks like they are going back to old IT controlled data center.
Love to hear your thoughts on this Russ.Nov 23, 2013. 06:32 PM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
"Not sure if price cuts are a good thing"
780 TI - Thursday
.AMD's new GPUs are quite competitive.
Just like Fermi was same temperature same noise level! History repeats.Nov 5, 2013. 07:42 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Do you remember Fermi - 95 degree C heater---warm yourself in the winter. Washing machine noise from the fan too to keep it at 95 degrees. Well the same thing has just happened to AMD with their new cards. Yes of course after market partners of AMD will mitigate the problem somewhat with better coolers like they did with Nvidia's Fermi, but the damage is done. Just like it was with Nvidia's Fermi. Let's hope AMD goes back to the drawing boards as Nvidia did and come up with new design aka like Nvidia's Kepler that runs cooler and quiet.
In the mean time Nvidia's Kepler GTX 780 TI will be available Thursday. I'm sure you will like the benchmarks.
Sorry to spoil your parade!Nov 5, 2013. 06:30 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Be prepared Thursday morning GTX 780 TI goes on sale at $649 to $699. The benchmarks will justify the price.
It's been done so many times I can't believe people don't expect it! Sell the top cards at lower clock speed and disabled cores. The competition ups the ante, release the card with less disabled cores that you have stored up for this moment and increase the clock speed. Kepler graphics can do this because it runs cool. Noise is not a factor.
The web is buzzing about AMD's heat and noise problem with their new cards. Anandtech even said they can't recommend the cards because of the noise generated by the fan.
Fermi revisited only this time it's AMD.Nov 5, 2013. 05:25 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
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|Blood vessel reactivity on noradrenaline, vasopressin, and prostaglandin F2 alpha, resp., in the isolated perfused hind legs of rats with edemas or adjuvant arthritis.
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|PMID: 6956214 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|In the isolated perfused hind legs of rats with enemas induced by carrageenin, dextran or Freund's adjuvant in both paws, resting perfusion pressure was slightly increased whereas the vasopressor action of noradrenaline, lysine-vasopressin and prostaglandin F2 alpha, was decreased. Admixture of indomethacin (3 micrograms.ml-1) to the perfusion fluid led to a decrease of resting perfusion pressure whereas its influence on EAmax of noradrenaline was only weak under these conditions. Concomitantly, the contents of prostaglandin E-like substances in the perfusate decreased. Prostaglandin F2 alpha exhibits only weak vasopressor activity in isolated perfused hind legs of rats with carrageenin edema. Altogether, the effect of indomethacin on resting perfusion pressure as well as on EA and EAmax, resp., of agonists is difficulty to explain by its effect on arachidonic acid cascade. The pD2-value of noradrenaline (4.68 - 4.87) and lysine-vasopressin (6.02 - 6.04) was apparently not changed, at least not decreased, in the acute phase of inflammation indicating no impairment of receptor affinity of noradrenaline and vasopressin in inflammation. Blood vessel reaction is apparently influenced in inflammation mechanically by the increased tissue pressure as well as by molecular mechanisms consisting in the presence of inflammatory mediators and/or particularly in a reduced intrinsic sensitivity of the blood vessel muscle itself.
|H Bekemeier; D Arbter; A J Giessler; R Hirschelmann; B Uhlich
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|Title: Agents and actions. Supplements Volume: 10 ISSN: 0379-0363 ISO Abbreviation: Agents Actions Suppl. Publication Date: 1982
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|Created Date: 1982-10-29 Completed Date: 1982-10-29 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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And so for my new trucks I wanted something that was useful and classy and I settled on carved lettering in solid cypress. I hope you like them I know I sure do. I considered stained wood but with all the chrome we felt silver on black worked best and I got these yesterday after waiting a month or so. Now I got to wait till May 20th and I get to see the second set of these on my 2012 ram 4500 which is the delivery date they are shooting for now. These are 2" by 7.5" by 104.75" long each.
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The city also announced in a news release that, because of the weather, it has canceled its fall clean-up scheduled for Saturday.
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Samsung made global headlines in November 2010 after bragging it had sold 600,000 Galaxy Tabs in its first month. It later claimed to have shipped 2 million of its tablet devices by the end of 2010, saying sales were "faster than expected."
Market research groups, including Strategy Analytics, Gartner and IDC, jumped on Samsung's reported tablet figures to contrast them with Apple's iPad and to suggest Android was winning significant market share in tablet sales.
Neil Mawston, a director at Strategy Analytics, declared at the time that "the Samsung Galaxy Tab was the main driver of Android success," noting that Android tablet shipments had jumped from just 100,000 in the previous quarter to 2.3 million in the winter quarter, almost entirely due to Samsung.
However, it's now clear that Samsung simply lied about how many tablets it was actually selling. Android tablets weren't successful at all, and Samsung's tablet sales weren't driving anything.
Quite Smooth?
Samsung's lies first began to unravel early in 2011, when the company was forced to admit that the "sales" numbers it was reporting to the media were actually "sell-in" to fill channel inventory, not "sell-out" to actual buyers.
When asked for more information about how many Galaxy Tab units were actually being sold to end users, Samsung executive Lee Young-hee answered, "our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million."
"Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite smooth. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn?t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK."
Lee's comments were originally transcribed as "quite small," something that the company and its supporters quickly insisted was a mistake, saying that Samsung's actual tablet sell through to consumers wasn't "quite small," it was "quite smooth."
Steve Jobs quoted Samsung's "quite small" statement when introducing iPad 2, something industry pundits jumped upon as inappropriate and a misinterpretation of what Lee had actually said. As it turns out, however, Samsung's tablet sales were actually about a tenth of what the company was claiming.
Quite Small!
Samsung's real sales were clearly "quite small." The company's sales are now a matter of public record, and according to the company's own filings, it only sold 262,000 Galaxy Tabs in the winter quarter of 2010, not two million.
Then, in 2011, Galaxy Tab sales collapsed. Throughout the year, the original 7 inch model only sold 77,000, then 133,000, then 92,000 and finally 102,000 in each quarter, totaling just 404,000 units the entire year.
Speaking to analysts in October 2010, Jobs had predicted that 7 inch tablets like the Galaxy Tab would fail, despite the tech media's giddy anticipation of the "avalanche of tablets poised to enter the market."
Jobs: 7 inch tablets will be DOA
"We think the 7 inch tablets will be dead on arrival," Jobs said, "and manufacturers will realize they're too small and abandon them next year. They'll then increase the size, abandoning the customers and developers who bought into the smaller format."
Jobs was dead on accurate. Samsung subsequently introduced 10" Galaxy Tab models at Mobile World Congress at the beginning of 2011, but after Apple introduced iPad 2, Samsung returned to the drawing board, noting, "we will have to improve the parts that are inadequate. Apple made it very thin."
Samsung later claimed that its redesigned Galaxy Tab was thinner than Apple'd iPad 2, before being caught in the lie by InformationWeek and unable to back up its claims.
However, Samsung's sales data shows that the company only sold a total of 133,000 of those larger tablets in the second quarter of 2011, then 201,000 in the third and 245,000 in the fourth quarter.
Source: Apple v. Samsung court documents
Samsung still hasn't sold 2 million Galaxy Tabs
Both sizes of the "accused tablets" combined sold a total of just 983,000 in 2011. This year, Samsung's sales of all Galaxy Tab models have imploded, selling just 193,000 across the first two quarters of 2012. To date, Samsung hasn't sold even 1.5 million Galaxy Tabs in two years.
In contrast, Apple sold 7.8 million iPads in 2010, and went on to sell 15.9 million more in 2011. It has sold another 27 million in the first three calendar quarters of 2012, 17 million in the last quarter alone.
Samsung's gross misrepresentation of its tablet sales is not just a credibility problem for the company, but also fires a huge hole through the numbers reported by market analysts who blindly run with them.
Strategy Analytics, Gartner, IDC and others for example, assigned Samsung significant tablet "market share" back in 2010 based on its announced shipments of 2 million Galaxy Tabs, deducting this "share" from Apple to arrive at the suggestion that the iPad maker was "only" responsible for around 77 to 83 percent of the tablets being sold.
In reality, Apple has sold virtually all of the tablets users have purchased.
No market for 7 inch tablets?
If Samsung actually shipped 2 million 7 inch Galaxy Tabs in 2010, and it has since only sold 725,000 of them in the last two years as its documented figures indicate, there should be an unsold inventory of 1.3 million mini-tablets out there, somewhere.
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Sometimes I question my sanity, but I still want the Bernina 750 even after 2 machines failing to sew right. I want it for the potential it has to be a great machine, not its behavior so far. Assuming there is a fix for the problems in the near future, I will have at least a 2 1/2 - 3 hour (one way) drive to a dealer I trust. Should I just give up on Bernina and buy the PCP or P5, which I can do locally (30 min. away), though the dealer doesn't budge from MSRP?
I don't drive quite that far for my dealer, but I pass one Pfaff dealer to get to MY Pfaff dealer. I think if you're going to spend that kind of money, you should have a dealer that you really like and trust.
i never questioned my sanity.....i know i'm nuts. i believe Bernina will iron out all the kinks with the 7 series machine. too many folks with a complaint for them not to do so. i personally have a love/hate thing with Bernina. go with the dealer you trust and feel comfortable with. go with the dealer that has a good in house tech. find an honest dealer. i caught my 10 minute away Pfaff dealer(who sells at top MSRP) rolling her eyes and doing some heavy exhaling along with making faces when i was trying to decide which machine to by(i heard the same complaint from others). little did she know she did me a favor that day. i found another SWEETHEART of a dealer and hour away and the machine for $1200.00 less. The Sweetheart retired 2 years ago. Last week i drove 2.5 hrs. one way to another dealer for a PCS at a steal. I dealt with this dealer maybe 15 years ago, when i lived 20 minutes from them. with the internet, telephone and automobile...we can go and support merchants who will treat us right. if u can, wait a bit for the 7 series to be corrected. which will save u some dealer trips. Good Luck.
You are not nuts. You have had an extremely bad experience but the potential is there. You need to buy the machine that sings to you, its you and the machine that will forge the partnership and churn out your creations. I think the dealer is crucial. You may live in an area where there are more dealers, but honestly, I think the right dealer is worth the drive. I have driven past two Bernina dealers to get to my 'local' dealer 2.5 hours away for 6 years. The dealer I purchased my 780 from is 6 hours away but in my home town so I am there frequently. BTW, I also have a Pfaff P5 that I love from a dealer in my town - it's a very nice machine. But only you can decide if you like it well enough to pay MSRP. -- Edited on 6/30/13 7:14 AM --
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The right dealer is most important. I went to buy the Bernina 710, but the dealer did not let me try it. How do they expect that I spend that kind of money on a machine without being able to touch it? Then I went to the Pfaff dealer to see the Performance 5, my second choice. The dealer was great, I sat there for almost three hour playing with the machine, and I bought it. I had some issues with it at home, they took it, adjusted it, updated it, told me if there was anything I didn't like they would give me another machine. I was so relieved! The P5 is a beautiful machine, perfect stitch, perfect free motion, the only thing I don't like is the drop-in bobbin. I will keep saving for the Bernina, when they worked out all the problems, but I will definitely find another dealer to buy it from.
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I'd drive up to 2 hours for sure, maybe more once I figured the kinks had been worked out of the machine - though any number of other irritating little things could go wrong causing a trip back to the dealer.
It's so imperative to go where you know the tech is good, but I switched dealers when my local dealer's tech was ill, and wasn't repairing machines to her normal standards. Now they again have a really good tech, though he is not a full time employee as she was - longer wait for the machines. The tech situation can change in a heartbeat too!
I'd say after 2 bad 7 series, and you do still want one -- then this is the machine your heart desires, and you've bonded with it other than the problems. Go as far as you think reasonable. But, wait till you hear that there is the new hook/bobbin whatever out for these machines, and spend hours sewing it in at the dealership that is far away. Best of blessings!
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Yes I would drive it.....right now it is over an hour to the dealer I am using. They have great support! If you want it, then get it! I lusted for a seven series for awhile, but awaiting now for the 830 replacement in the future! (how ever many years that is......) or the close outs of the 830 when they new model arrives......
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I make it a firm habit never to question my sanity; the answer is never what one wants to hear.
Your post really says it all...you want a B750. It would be pointless and a waste of $ to buy anything else, which will always be less than what you wanted. Yes there are other machines with more features that work perfectly and for less money. But that's all irrelevant if they're not what you want.
So your choices appear to be trying a 3rd 750 at a different dealer, and perhaps having to wait on Bernina to exchange the hook/bobbin case, or wait until Bernina releases the adjusted hook/bobbin case. With the new B880 TOL machine having the same B9 hook and case, chances are they will be available quite soon for the 7 series.
Certainly Bernina is aware of the level of anger around over the faulty 7 series cases, which will impact sales of the new B880 unless they have the hook/bobbin case fixed and available for exchange asap.
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Having "Bernina Brain Lock" may cause you to lose out on many other great brands.
Try all the brands at the same model level. Take a check-off/wish list and grade them as you test them.
You may, or may not lose a little more time during the hunt, but your ideal Bernina dealer is a 6 hour round trip plus gas.
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I drive about 85 miles to the dealer I trust rather than my local dealer. It is worth it to me, because I trust the dealer I go to. The other one, not so much, because the service is lacking and I have a credit there because she overcharged me and the only way she would make it right is to force me to spend the credit with her. It is a small amount so I am letting her keep it.
You will never know when you will need a dealer that will do the right thing so why take that chance.
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1. This is What Happens When Republicans Get Milquetoast
2. Washington Post: 95% Believe Spending Cuts Are The Best Way To Cut The Deficit
3. More Pennsylvania Abortion Shops Shuttered
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. For $25, You Can Learn to Be a Marxist Troublemaker…and Grab Lunch Too!
6. Answers From A Non-Interventionist
1. This is What Happens When Republicans Get Milquetoast
There is new polling out today making its way around the bathrooms of House and Senate Republican leaders. After weeks and weeks of bending over backwards to try to show they were willing to compromise on everything, guess what?The public thinks the GOP hasn't been compromising enough.House Republican Leaders who are more concerned with image than principle are going to fall all over themselves with this polling in a rush to compromise more. Here's the problem I see.House Republicans have been muddying the water so much since November and painting their policy positions in pale pastels. The public voted in November with bright colors — mostly in red. The public wants Washington to stop its profligate spending. The public wants bright colors, not pastels.Please click here for the rest of the post.
2. Washington Post: 95% Believe Spending Cuts Are The Best Way To Cut The Deficit
Greg Sargent, the Washington Post's in-house left-wing activist, has a hilarious post up analyzing the latest WaPo poll. (The post was originally entitled, "The pubic agrees with Dems, but they don't know it," although eventually someone caught on and fixed the typo.)Everybody has typos; what's more enduringly amusing is Sargent's effort at spin.If you are keeping score at home,a left-wing activist admits that 95% of the public believes spending cuts are the best way to reduce the deficit, whether or not that plan also includes tax hikes. Going to the poll itself, only 3% believe the best way to cut the deficit is simply raising taxes. And what's more, that's the public – not likely voters or even registered voters, but all adults.Please click here for the rest of the post.
3. More Pennsylvania Abortion Shops Shuttered
When the story of the abortion shop cum abattoir run by Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell hit the press in January the nation was shocked by the near medieval conditions encountered by women seeking access to the "safe, legal, and rare" procedure which kills over a million children each year.As we noted at the time, the conditions in Gosnell's facility was not an aberration, rather it was the easily foreseeable consequence of a governor, Tom Ridge, electing not to have abortion shops inspected because of a personal sympathy for the butchery that occurred within. A sympathy disguised by the hackneyed formulation "I'm personally opposed to abortion, but …"If there is a single good thing to come out of this incident, other than Gosnell and most of his ghouls spending most of the rest of their lives in prison, it is the heightened level of scrutiny to the business of baby killing, a business that has managed to intimidate its way out of any regulatory regime.Please click here for the rest of the post.
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Yesterday in the Politico, Jonathan Martin gave a conservatives in the mist take on the 2012 "theme" from the GOP — America 'in decline'.I think the take is exactly opposite how he characterized it — though it is all semantics. It is not 'America in decline', but 'America the Great' that is the theme.At a time when Barack Obama is intent on taking over the economy one-fifth at a time and leftists are turning the more-likely-than-not traitor Bradley Manning into a hero, it is more and more clear that the San Francisco left that Jeanne Kirkpatrick warned us about 25 years ago has finally gotten to have their way with America.The theme is not about our nation in decline, but about letting a group of people run the nation who want us to decline.It is easy to get hung up on the doom and gloom of the 2012 Republican candidates. They are a gloomy bunch. Sure they are trying to sound optimistic, but I've heard most all of them speak. With few exceptions, they have the oratory skills of a gaggle of warbling albatrosses and some, worse, sound like warbling albatrosses being violated by lepers.I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Please click here for the rest of the post.
5. For $25, You Can Learn to Be a Marxist Troublemaker…and Grab Lunch Too!
You may have noticed over these last few weeks that the protesters in Wisconsin and elsewhere seem to be well trained at trouble making. It's almost as if they have their B.S. degrees from the University of Alinsky.Well, as every good community organizer knows, you can't astroturf without being properly trained in the science of trouble making and that is why you too can learn the dark science of Alinsky in Madison on April Fool's Day [actually April 1st & 2nd].Please click here for the rest of the post.
6. Answers From A Non-Interventionist
About the same time as I posted a diary against the idea of US military intervention in Libya, George Will wrote a column challenging those in favor of said intervention to answer a series of questions about what they were truly trying to achieve. Now David Frum has posed a series of questions to those of us who are against the intervention.I've decided to take him up on his offer.Please click here for the rest of the post.


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To encourage consumers to purchase electric vehicles (EVs), the federal government and the State of Illinois have put in place a number of programs to stimulate growth of the EV industry and make clean driving more affordable. Midwestern states outside of Illinois do not provide state-funded EV incentive programs, but several utility companies in other states do offer incentives.
For more information about federal and state rebates regarding electric vehicles, visit the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuel Data Center website.
|Plug-In Electric Drive Vehicle Tax Credit
|$2,500 to $7,500 tax credit for purchasing an EV, depending on vehicle's battery capacity and weight.
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|Covers 50% cost of installation and equipment for a Level 2 charger station, up to $3,000 per non-networked single station.
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*As of May 2015, the highest-selling EV models had reached the following cumulative sales figures — most well below the federal incentive's expiration threshold: Nissan Leaf – 80,066; Ford Energi SE, C-MAX Energi and Focus Electric – 47,883; BMW i3 – 9,997; and Mercedes-Benz B-Class EV – 4,853.
Qualified Plug-In Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Tax Credit
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides a tax credit for purchasers of new electric vehicles that weigh less than 14,000 pounds and have at least 4 kilowatt hours of capacity. The tax credit is between $2,500 to $7,500, depending upon the vehicle's battery capacity and weight. See the U.S. Department of Energy's fuel economy website to determine which models qualify for the full tax credit. The credit phases out after the manufacturer has sold 200,000 models of an electric vehicle, beginning in 2009. Vehicles purchased during the years 2009 to 2013 are eligible.
To apply for the tax credit, see the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Credit website and IRS Form 8936.
Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) and Alternative Fuel Rebates
As part of the Illinois Green Fleets program, Illinois residents are also eligible for a rebate of 80% of the incremental cost of purchasing an electric vehicle, up to $4,000. This rebate can be used in addition to the Qualified Plug-In Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Tax Credit. Only vehicles bought from an Illinois vendor are eligible.
See the Illinois Green Fleets website to apply, or contact Darwin Burkhart, manager of the Illinois EPA Clean Air programs at email@example.com.
Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (30EVSE) Rebates
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity offers a rebate of up to 50% of the cost of installation and equipment costs for Level 2 charging stations. Illinois residents who have installed Level 2 home charging equipment are eligible. The rebate covers up to $3,750 per networked single station, or $3,000 per non-networked single station.
For more information, see the Electric Vehicles in Illinois website.
Electric Vehicle (EV) Registration Fee Reduction
Illinois electric vehicle owners are guaranteed a discounted rate on annual vehicle registration, not to exceed $18 a year, or $35 for two years. This savings is compared to $99 registration fees for conventional vehicles.
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Google Helpouts: AdWords is OK, SEO is Not
After submitting my application to join Google Helpouts I had a video interview with a Google Helpouts team member and my listing was approved. I embraced the platform with great enthusiasm, as it allowed me to give back to the community and provide free support to webmasters in need of guidance and ideas for their website. I did not charge for my time and did essentially what I do on Hangouts on Air.
The private Helpouts community allowed me to submit ideas and feedback on how to improve the platform. Google even emailed me with ideas on how to promote my listing. After a bunch of helpouts I realised that running and managing the sessions isn't that easy, but was determined to keep going after seeing that people appreciated my guidance:
I was just in the process of designing a promotional campaign when my listing got shut down.
Alcohol, legal, dating, business, real estate, finances, religion, contests and SEO. These are the categories Google Helpouts consider "restricted content". I had a misfortune of first being accepted into Google Helpouts for SEO and then abruptly shut down after much time and energy invested in my Helpout sessions.
Oops. Sorry. You weren't mean to be approved in the first place, we apologise for the inconvenience and are willing to work with you on modifying your listing so it's not in breach of our guidelines.
This made me cranky, but I decided to follow advice given to me by a Helpouts team member to go and fix my listing only to find that suspended helpout listings cannot be adjusted.
I reached out to the community to see if there is anything that can be done about this and found something that really upset me.
Double Standards?
Search engine optimisation and business advice categories are banned until further notice but Google Adwords and Analytics related listings were still active.
So how is what I did so different than paid search?
In my sessions I talked about:
- Website Accessibility & Design
- Language and Region Targeting (hreflang)
- Google Webmaster Tools (links, keywords, structured data, site issues)
- Google Analytics
- Interpreting Data
- Keyword Research
- Balancing Your Resources
- Content Quality (referencing Google's own blog)
- Social engagement tactics (promoting Google+ and the value of authorship)
- I pointed people to Google's official SEO guide
If you dive into AdWords campaign management, keyword selection… money, are you not providing business advice? Is this not optimisation?
I understand that none of this was deliberate, Helpouts is a young product, not everyone on the team is up to scratch with the policies, but still, experiences like that make me hesitant with adoption of new Google services in fear that somehow and at some point, my digital assets will be rendered useless or be lost due to some product merge or arbitrary guideline violation.
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Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. (1 Peter 5:7)
Sooner or later, we all face situations beyond our control. For example, have you ever been on vacation and it has rained everyday, stuck in traffic and were late for an appointment, or lost someone close? These are examples of situations that can be out of our control. However, the bible teaches us that even when you find yourself in uncontrollable or unpredictable circumstances, there is one thing you can control. You can control your reaction to the situation. You can trust God to work in your life and in the situation to bring order, hope and peace in a chaotic situation.
What are you experiencing right now that is beyond your control? How can you give it over to God?
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They contend the city's Shockoe Bottom section is "sacred ground" and no place to play baseball.
Opponents heckled Mayor Dwight C. Jones in November when he outlined plans for the $200 million, stadium-centered economic development project in the city's oldest neighborhood.
By some estimates, more 300,000 men, women and children were jailed, bought and sold in the Bottom and shipped throughout the Southern states in the decades leading to the Civil War.
The stadium proposal has unleashed pent-up frustration among those who believe the city has literally buried that shameful chapter of its history.


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I am looking to buy a good serger, used or new, for my daughter for $300 or less if possible. Is there any brands or models that would be worth looking for? I don't want it to be very old, have 4 threads and fairly easy to operate. Any suggestions?
I'd look for a good used Bernina 334 or Juki (which made that model) equivalent. Heavy duty beautiful stitches, dependable, and well within your price range, or a Pfaff 788.
You can buy a brand-new Brother 1034D for $199.97. It's the same price at WalMart, too.
Wow, the price has come down on this serger. It used to cost a bit more. -- Edited on 8/5/13 11:06 PM --
The Brother 1034. It was my first serger and it was great. I upgraded to a combo machine but if I needed a serger gain I would buy another one. It is easy to set up and use and it is a work horse. I don't think there is a better one at that price point. There is a whole thread devoted to it and you can read that for more information.
I bought my daughter a Kenmore which is a Janome clone.
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Unless you are serger proficient, go to a dealer with the daughter in tow and see what they have used or new.
The dealer can then demonstrate and be available if there are any questions, lessons are needed or if the serger needs to be serviced (seldom needed if it is operated and maintained according to the manual).
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I recently purchased the Brother 1034D to replace my 9-year-old Janome Harmony 9102D. The Brother is so easy to thread in comparison and also has a free arm that I didn't have before. Both are noisy, but sergers are just that way. My only complaint is that the tensions are a little fiddly on the Brother, whereas the Janome I hardly ever had to adjust. So for now I'm keeping both of them. Still, if your daughter is new to serging, the Brother will give her less frustration with threading, for sure. I got my 1034D from Amazon for $199 and free shipping. It also comes with 3 snap on feet. Have fun shopping!
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I am a fan of the Brother 1034d too. I had never used a serger before I bought mine and find it to be extremely user friendly. it is easy to thread and adjust. I think I bought mine from Amazon.
I recommend a used from a dealer. The dealer's hands-on lesson in using it would help your daughter achieve success with the machine from day one. Less frustration = better chance of continuing to develop sewing skils. Money on a gently used high quality mid-grade machine would get more bang for the buck machine than a low-end any brand for same money. Key here is the how to use it dealer support. Good luck with what ever choice you make. Juki makes wonderful sergers.
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I'd recommend a Juki MO-644D or MO-654DE. Unfortunately, used machines are hard to find since owners really like them and they last forever. They do appear on CL and at other venues though.
You can get a new MO-644D for $300 at SewingMachinesPlus with a $25-off coupon. The MO-654DE has an easier to thread lower looper but it runs $60 or so more; which would exceed your budget.
Other online sellers have similar deals and most include the tutorial DVD with purchase. Check with local dealers to see if one will match the price and/or include classes.
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UNT's Dan McCarney hoping to keep 'tremendous' staff after Mean Green wrap up season
DENTON — Coach Dan McCarney had already started his year-end evaluation process of UNT's program Monday, just two days after the Mean Green completed a 4-8 season with a 25-24 loss to Western Kentucky.
McCarney will meet with each of his players and coaches in the next few days, but would not address specific changes he will make heading into his third season at UNT.
"I don't talk about things like, 'I am going to shift this guy,' or, 'This guy is coming,' or 'This guy is leaving,'" McCarney said. "We all know that right now there is a lot of movement in college football. I have a tremendous staff around me. I hope we can keep it intact."
Briefly … Two players who were on UNT's roster for at least part of last season are no longer in the Mean Green's plans, McCarney said. Wide receiver Chaz Sampson of Mansfield Timmberview will leave the team at the semester break and will probably transfer. Linebacker Mike Stojkovic, who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault charges this fall and briefly rejoined the team as a walk-on, will not be back next season.


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The International 2012 Agency Challenge included a field of 14 entries from across the country, with Love ultimately coming out on top to be awarded Papa Murphy's National Agency of the Year award.
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I strongly recommend that you establish a custom "Global Warming" section on your Google news page.
In the upper right hand corner of the Google News screen you can click on the Personalize / Edit and create a custom section. Just enter the two words: global warming — in the search box. That's how easy it is to do. I set mine to five stories. I may set up a whole page dedicated to global warming stories.
Sadly, Reality is badly under reported by the main stream media in the US. All of the key information, all of the emerging stories, on Global Warming have to be found in foreign sources.
Now here is the real challenge: How do we get the students in our trend setting universities and especially those universities in the early primary states, to light the fuse on this issue? It is the monster in the living room nobody is talking about.
The fact of the matter is that the baby boom generation has blown it Big Time. We had the Club of Rome "Limits to Growth" book back in 1972. And an update. We ignored them both, or attacked them, as we did not want to believe their message. Shame on us. Our children have every right to be mad as hell at us for our willful blindness to this issue.
This is a perfect issue for women, who are much more likely to take a long term view of things — especially the well being of their children. Given that we have perhaps only ten years to get this under control, even some men might get passionate about their futures, not just the next bit of sex, or drugs or gambling.


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Put God first!If we are not focused on Jesus everything else will go off track!God is Love... and Just. Always remember that he is in control.
Birds Eye Steam Fresh Specially Seasoned Garlic Cauliflower is SO good! I love it. 40 calories for a cupful. You just throw the whole bag into the microwave oven and let it cook on high for five minutes, let it rest for one, tear open where it says to and enjoy. If you like cauliflower, you'll love this!
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Tim Page, 27, of Vickery, donates blood at the VFW in Clyde on Wednesday. March is Red Cross Month. The share of U.S. population eligible to give blood is less than 38 percent. And every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood. How about giving some thought to making a donation.
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Terry Odell – February 2014
The Blackthorne, Inc. covert ops team is back with another action-adventure romantic suspense from Terry Odell. This time, it's Computer Nerd meets Cartel Lord.
For Jinx, interacting with people is highly overrated. Computers are his life. On the job, he's an intel gathering expert for Blackthorne, Inc. Off duty, he's a shooter in computer role playing games. But what happens when he's sent into the field to face real enemies with real guns?
Josiah Ignatius Nix—Jinx to all who know him—is the glue holding the Blackthorne, Inc. covert ops teams together when they're on a mission. In the comfort of his basement office, with his favorite companions—his computers— a click of the mouse provides him with up-to-the-minute intel, which keeps the team alive.
Until the intel fails and a hostage rescue mission goes south. Both the hostage and team are captured, and the boss sends Jinx to the jungles of Mexico as an undercover field agent. The cartels have been kidnapping American engineers to build and maintain their private cell phone networks. Jinx's skills make him a prime target for capture, a way to infiltrate the cartel and rescue not only the company's client, but also the missing team of operatives.
Soon, he finds himself paired with Elle Sheridan, a cop whose missing sister is in the middle of a human trafficking ring. Will Elle be able to convince Jinx that Blackthorne's mission needs to be expanded to include rescuing her sister? And if she does, will the two of them be able to stay ahead of rival cartel leaders and get out alive to make some private connections of their own?
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Reviews for Dangerous Connections
Single Titles: intrigue and fast paced action in DANGEROUS CONNECTIONS, the fifth book of her Blackthorne Inc. series. This is a stand alone book but fans of Terry Odell will tell you that once you are introduced to the Blackthorne men you can not get enough
Gumshoe Review: "A sexy thriller," says Gumshoe Review. "Odell provides plenty of action and enough sex to satisfy romance readers. She does a deft switch of gender stereotypes with a heroine adept with guns and survival and an inept computer geek who would rather play video games than catch bad guys."
Backlit against the glare, a silhouette appeared in the passageway between the sitting room and bedroom.
Still too shadowy to make out details, there was no mistaking the curvaceous figure of the voice's owner. Or the gun clutched in front of her chest.
"Hey, take it easy." Jinx kept one hand on the towel as he raised the other above his head. "I'm unarmed."
"You could have a weapon strapped to the inside of your leg under that towel," she said.
He wondered if she was going to check. Or if he'd mind. In the light, her features went well with her body. Her hair, shiny and brown, was braided into a plait hanging over a shoulder. Diamond stud earrings caught the light.
Tanned skin, high cheekbones, deep brown eyes, and wide, full lips glistening with peach-colored lipstick.
She wore a see-through, white blouse unbuttoned low enough to reveal what he assumed was a blue bathing suit top, not her bra. Under other circumstances, he'd be glad to confirm it.
White slacks hugged her legs—and he'd bet she had a great ass, but again, circumstances didn't warrant wasting time thinking about it. She wore low-heeled sandals, and her toes were painted a coral that matched her lips, and—his eyes returning to the gun she held—matched her fingernails as well.
There was a vague familiarity about her, but nothing he could place. One of the poolside women, he decided. One of the smiley, flirty ones, although she wasn't smiling now.
"I assure you, I'm weaponless," he said.
Her gaze ducked to the towel, and she smiled. "You're right."
Elle Sheridan studied the man in front of her, wondering if she'd been wasting her time. It was his eyes. Deep blue, thick lashes. Compelling, but all wrong. Cautious, guarded. Maybe a little fearful. Not cop eyes. Not investigator eyes. Soft. Everything about him seemed soft. Untested. He seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. Not what she'd expected.
Had her source been mistaken? Was this the wrong man? When she'd gone through his things, nothing indicated he was anything but a man on vacation. The clothes were all new, but it wasn't totally out of the realm of possibility for a man visiting a different climate. And if he was a Blackthorne investigator, he'd have made sure his cover was perfect. She hadn't risked opening his laptop—she wasn't a computer techie, and without someone from the geek squad with her, she didn't think she'd be able to get anything out of it.
After a week in this resort, she'd made no progress in locating Trish. If there was the slightest possibility this man could help her find her sister, she'd give it a shot.
"Sit down, Mr. Brand," she said. "I assume you know what you're doing. I'm willing to go along with your charade."
He sat, then took another bite of his apple. "Charade? I already told you—more than once—I'm trying to get a little distance from a lousy situation at work. How about telling me how you got into my room."
Although she wasn't used to being on the receiving end of an interrogation, she opted to let him ask his questions. "I've got connections with housekeeping."
And thank goodness for that. Her leave of absence from the force would be over in a matter of days, and her funds had already plunged into the red. If not for the kind hearts in the housekeeping department, she wouldn't have lasted this long. But the resort was full now, and the room they'd let her crash in was no longer available.
"The maid let you in?" he asked.
She shrugged. "I told her I was surprising my fiancé."
He stopped, eyes wide, the apple halfway to his mouth. He shook his head. "You got half of that right," he said. "The surprise half, in case you're wondering."
Terry Odell was born in Los Angeles, moved to Florida, and now makes her home in Colorado. An avid reader she always wanted to "fix" stories so the characters did what she wanted. Once she began writing, she found this wasn't always possible, as evidenced when the mystery she intended to write rapidly became a romance. Although her genre is labeled "romantic suspense", Terry prefers to think of her books as "Mysteries With Relationships." Her titles include the Blackthorne, Inc. series, the Pine Hills Police Series, the Mapleton Mystery series as well as stand alone novels and short stories. You can find more about her at her website, http://www.terryodell.com.
Also by Terry Odell
What's in a Name?
Finding Sarah
Hidden Fire
Saving Scott
Nowhere to Hide
Finding Fire
When Danger Calls
Where Danger Hides
Rooted in Danger
Danger in Deer Ridge
Dangerous Connections
Deadly Secrets
Deadly Bones
Interview with Holly Hewson
HH: Terry, thank you so much for talking with us at TRS. Your featured book is Dangerous Connections and the fifth book in your Blackthorne Inc. series. What can you first tell us about this amazing series?
TO: They're all based on the premise of "Who do you call when Uncle Sam can't help you?" I wanted to have a covert team of operatives that rescued hostages among other things, but I didn't want to be confined to the rules of what government agencies can and can't do. Fiction is great for that!
HH: What can you tell us about the first four books?
TO: First, all the Blackthorne, Inc. books have an underlying 'fish out of water' theme. The covert ops field agents are experts when they're on the job, so for me, it was more fun to pull them out of their element and make them face life in "civilization."
They're all stand alone titles, but the same characters will show up in many of the books. Book 1, When Danger Calls, features Ryan Harper, who was accused of being a traitor after 2 ops he was on went south. He meets up with single mother Frankie Castor, and what starts out as a simple problem involving her aging mother, escalates into a run-in with terrorists.
Book 2, Where Danger Hides, features Dalton, who was introduced in Book 1. He's a Texan who can scam his way in and out of any situation, but he's obsessed with capturing a drug lord, and his boss pulls him from covert duty to investigate people gone missing from a halfway house. He's working with Miri Chambers, and again, what starts out with what should be a simple problem ends up being much more, involving illegal aliens and drug dealers.
Book 3, Rooted in Danger, features Fozze, the cocky Aussie who's the surveillance expert for the Blackthorne, Inc. team. With his sophisticated equipment, he can spot the fleas on a squirrel's balls from five hundred feet in the air. Of course, in the book, he doesn't have access to any of his sophisticated equipment. He gets caught up in the problems of Torie Stoker, the woman whose father hired Blackthorne, Inc. to find, and tries to help her get out from under the thumb of a demanding family.
Book 4, Danger in Deer Ridge, is the story of Julie Ann, one of the women who readers met in Where Danger Hides, who was running from her abusive husband. She's changed her name to Elizabeth, and she and her son have relocated to a small Colorado town, where she meets Grinch, one of Blackthorne's former pilots. He's now the single parent of a five-year-old son, and is stumbling through instant parenthood. Elizabeth has something her husband wants, and he will stop at nothing to get it. Grinch has to teach Elizabeth how to disappear, and she has to teach him to be a father.
HH: How does Dangerous Connections continue it?
TO: Dangerous Connections is more of a role reversal book. Jinx isn't a field operative. However, his skills are needed, and after the Blackthorne, Inc. team is captures, Jinx ends up in the jungles of Mexico trying to infiltrate the cartels who are holding a hostage the team was trying to rescue. Fozzie is back in this book, along with Dalton and a couple of other familiar faces. This one, unlike most of the other books, actually takes place on the op, but because Jinx isn't trained for that kind of work, it's a different approach. Truth be told, the book was going to take place somewhere in middle America, but when I was researching locations for my standard "opening op" scene (which my daughter refers to as my MacGyver Gambit openings), I discovered that Americans were being kidnapped to help build cell phone networks for the Mexican cartels, and I knew that was going to be my story instead.
HH: What do you like about Elle and why will readers identify with her?
TO: Elle Sheridan is a cop who's looking for her missing sister. Her sources lead her to Jinx, whom she believes is an experienced field operative. However, she soon learns that his skills aren't the ones needed to rescue her sister, and she becomes lead on the search. I think readers will enjoy seeing her strength and determination, and how she copes with being a woman in a man's domain.
HH: What do you like best about Jinx and why will readers love him?
TO: Jinx would much rather be role-playing in computer games, but he steps forward and does the best he can. I think readers will enjoy the way he interacts with Elle, accepting that although he's the man, she's the one with the expertise. Plus, he has a great sense of humor.
HH: Will there be more to come in this series?
TO: I think so! At least that's the plan.
HH: What else do you have in store for lucky readers?
TO: My next release is book 3 in my Mapleton Mystery series. It's tentatively titled Deadly Puzzles, and is in the editing process. Look for an April release. Also, I'm thrilled that many of my books are being made into audio books. So far, it's my Pine Hills Police series, and my stand alone title, What's in a Name?, but eventually, they'll all become books you can listen to as well as read.
HH: What are you reading now?
TO: Fatal Distraction by Diane Capri
HH: What appearances do you have coming up in 2014?
TO: I'll be at the SuperStars Writing Seminars in Colorado Springs in early February, and at SleuthFest in Orlando at the end of the month. The Writers' Police Academy in September, and I'll be going to the Novelists, Incorporated (NINC) conference in October. I'll also be doing some local appearances at libraries, and giving workshops to writing groups.
HH: Where can readers find you online?
TO: My website, http://terryodell.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/AuthorTerryOdell
On Twitter, I'm @authorterryo
My blog, Terry's Place: http://terryodell.com/terrysplace
And sign up for my newsletter, where I have exclusives just for subscribers.
You can also find me at Booklover's Bench, a group author site where we have monthly giveaways and prove that "Readers are Winners."


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My 10-Point Plan for Fairness
Attached to Danny Alexander's interview with Matt Chorley in today's Independent on Sunday (scroll down) is "Taxing ideas: Ten ways to make Britain a fairer place", which has my name on it.
I should perhaps point out that, as a Blairite, I don't advocate these measures (except nos 3, 6, 7, 8 and 10). But I do feel uneasy about the Polly Toynbee Principle. Toynbee (right) pointed out on BBC1 Question Time last week that as a well-off person, earning less than £150,000 a year whose children had left home, the Spending Review had left her "untouched". Actually, I think she has lost out on the state pension age and has overlooked the 1 per cent National Insurance rise coming in next year. But she has a point.
Anyway, the editor wanted to know what could be done to take more from the better off, so I provided a list of what I thought was realistic. The interesting point is that few measures raise significant amounts of money, but in the age of austerity they might have symbolic value. Here they are:
1. Wealth tax
Either a one-off or an annual levy. The French "solidarity" tax, levied on assets over €790,000 (£700,000), raises €4.5bn (£4bn) a year. The case against is partly that the burden would tend to fall on the middling rich, as the best-advised move assets abroad and use trust law. Variants include a mansion tax on homes worth more than £2m, as proposed by Vince Cable and David Miliband, or charging capital gains tax on the sale of the main home, raising huge sums.
2. 60p top rate of income tax
Our ComRes poll last week found 54 per cent support for raising the top rate of income tax, on earnings above £150,000 a year, from 50p in the pound to 60p. It wouldn't raise much. The sainted Institute for Fiscal Studies says "there is little scope for more revenue to be raised by increasing this rate" as the rich defer income or convert it into capital gain. Maybe, but the scope for sending a powerful signal about the highest paid, including the recipients of large cash bonuses, being "in this together" is considerable.
3. Abolish non-dom status
America doesn't tolerate it: if you are a US citizen or work there, you pay tax there. Labour brought in a flat £30,000 annual fee payable by the 120,000 non-doms, but why do we need this curious status at all? The highly mobile international elite seems to quite like living in New York, Paris and elsewhere. Again, not much net revenue would be raised, because some would probably move.
4. The Sir Philip Green device
Sir Philip, boss of Topshop and government adviser on waste, holds almost all his assets in his wife's name. She is resident in Monaco and pays no UK taxes. Would it be possible or desirable to reverse the independent taxation of married couples and to renegotiate the tax treaty with Monaco? Has anyone even tried? Again, the net benefit to the Exchequer is small, but the index once proposed by David Cameron of National Well-Being would rise.
5. Robin Hood tax on banks
The coalition is imposing a bank levy next year that will raise £2.5bn a year. To raise more would preferably mean negotiating a global agreement so that all countries did it. Tricky. But Alan Johnson, the Shadow Chancellor, last week argued that another £3.5bn could easily be raised from the banks without driving them out of the country.
6. Raise tax on betting
If financial transactions were taxed, it is argued, speculators will simply move into the betting markets. The betting tax has been replaced by a tax on bookmakers, but is not collected from internet bookies based overseas. This is a loophole that could be closed. It would raise millions – chicken feed in deficit terms but important in blocking off another form of tax avoidance.
7. Tax universal benefits
Free eye tests, free prescription charges, free bus passes, free TV licences for the over-75s and winter fuel payments for pensioners could all be subject to income tax, although that would mean breaking Mr Cameron's election promises. Taxing these benefits would raise less than £1bn, but would again be a symbol of fairness.
8. Tackle tax havens
Large companies continue to minimise their tax bills by basing operations in holiday resorts. Can it really be so difficult to make that harder for them?
9. VAT at 25 per cent on luxury goods
From 1975 to 1979 there was a 25 per cent rate of VAT on "luxuries", including white goods, jewellery and furs. Now, 25 per cent happens to be the maximum allowed under EU rules. It could apply to yachts, fur, patio heaters, 4×4s and football clubs. If a 10th by value of all currently VAT-chargeable goods and services were classified as luxuries, it would raise £2.5bn a year.
10. Abolish pension contribution relief at higher rates
This old Liberal Democrat policy is being partially enacted by the coalition – limiting the benefit to £50,000 a year from next year and to a pension fund total of £1.5m from 2012. But the relief could be restricted to the basic rate of income tax for all. This would hit the well-off but not the richest, between the 40p tax threshold at £44,000 a year and the 50p rate at £150,000 a year. This would raise about £1.5bn a year.Tagged in: redistribution
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Data Resources
The Copenhagen databases of African vertebrates
African vertebrates
The one-degree resolution databases of all terrestrial birds, mammals, snakes and amphibians in Sub-Saharan Africa compiled in Copenhagen in the years 1995-2006 and held at the Zoological Museum at the University of Copenhagen (ZMUC) in Denmark (version October 2006).
Database of African migrants
African migrants
The Center for Macroecology's database of Western Palearctic birds migrating within Africa. This database is intended to be used for guiding conservation decisions.
The Data Distribution Centre of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is the main source of information for climate data used in macroecological analyses.
A comprehensive directory of links to all kinds of resources in oceanographic data.


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Water: Green Infrastructure
2013 Challenge Judges
Quick Navigation
2015 Challenge
Previous Challenges
EPA designed the Campus RainWorks Challenge to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to stormwater management that reduces water quality impacts while achieving multiple community goals. To assess student entries, EPA assembled a panel of judges representing a range of expertise – from chemical engineering to landscape architecture to urban hydrology. Seventeen judges from EPA, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) generously volunteered their time to evaluate the 84 design proposals submitted by student teams. EPA would like to thank the following judges:
Final Panel
Michael F. Bloom, P.E.
Stormwater Quality Practice Leader
R.G. Miller Engineers
Houston, TX
Daniel P. Christian, P.E., D.WRE
Senior Project Manager
Tetra Tech
Lansing, MI
Dennis R. Nola, PLA, ASLA
Associate Coordinator, Landscape Architecture
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Mike Borst
Chemical Engineer
US EPA Office of Research and Development
Edison, NJ
Robert Goo
US EPA Office of Water
Washington, DC
Michael Vergason, FASLA, FAAR
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, Ltd.
Alexandria, VA
EPA Judges
Lisa Biddle
US EPA Office of Water
Washington, DC
Abby Hall
US EPA Office of Policy
San Francisco, CA
Suzanna Perea
US EPA Region 6
Dallas, TX
Alisha Goldstein
US EPA Office of Water
Washington, DC
Ken Hendrickson
US EPA Office of Region 3
Philadelphia, PA
Clark Wilson
US EPA Office of Policy
Washington, DC
ASLA Judges
Liz Guthrie, ASLA
American Society of Landscape Architects
Washington, DC
Andrew Wilcox
Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA
WEF Judges
Suha Atiyeh
Tebodin Consultants and Engineers
Dubai, UAE
Timothy Dean, P.E.
Johnson, Miriam, & Thompson, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
Seth P. Brown, P.E.
Water Environment Federation
Alexandria, VA


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|Promising effects of the 4HPR-BSO combination in neuroblastoma monolayers and spheroids.
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|PMID: 21741474 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher
|To enhance the efficacy of fenretinide (4HPR)-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) in neuroblastoma, 4HPR was combined with buthionine sulfoximine (BSO), an inhibitor of glutathione (GSH) synthesis, in neuroblastoma cell lines and spheroids, the latter being a three-dimensional tumor model. 4HPR exposure (2.5-10μM, 24h) resulted in ROS induction (114-633%) and increased GSH levels (68-120%). A GSH depletion of 80% of basal levels was observed in the presence of BSO (25-100μM, 24h). The 4HPR-BSO combination resulted in slightly increased ROS levels (1.1- to 1.3-fold) accompanied by an increase in cytotoxicity (110-150%) compared to 4HPR treatment alone. A correlation was observed between the ROS-inducing capacity of each cell line and the increase in cytotoxicity induced by 4HPR-BSO compared to 4HPR. No significant correlation between baseline antioxidant levels and sensitivity to 4HPR or BSO was observed. In spheroids, 4HPR-BSO induced a strong synergistic growth retardation and induction of apoptosis. Our data show that BSO increased the cytotoxic effects of 4HPR in neuroblastoma monolayers and spheroids in ROS-producing cell lines. This indicates that the 4HPR-BSO combination might be a promising new strategy in the treatment of neuroblastoma.
|Roos Cuperus; André B P van Kuilenburg; René Leen; Johannes Bras; Huib N Caron; Godelieve A M Tytgat
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No-nonsense, no-frills wood furniture is exactly what you'll find in Martin Furniture's Contemporary Oak collection - the perfect furniture when you value function above all else. The classic, clean style and Medium Oak finish will fit in perfectly with any decor!
The Contemporary Oak Storage Credenza is a great combination storage/display piece. Open center shelves can hold books or display collectibles or awards. Side cabinets provide concealed storage space and have an adjustable shelf in each. Back of credenza is unfinished - unit should be placed against a wall.
Built to last for years, the Contemporary Oak collection is constructed with solid American Red Oak drawer fronts and mouldings. Surfaces are genuine plain-sliced Red Oak veneers with a multi-step, hand-rubbed and lacquered finish. Ships fully assembled.


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TV and film director Michael Apted has initiated the launch of a UK directors' guild to address what he views as 'the cynical disregard for the film-maker'.
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06. 03. 14
HLRS mourns the loss of CFD expert
On Monday March 3rd HLRS CFD expert Martin Winter passed away suddenly and unexpected. Martin was with HLRS since the founding of the center in 1996. Being in charge of support for CFD and ISV code licenses Martin was a key figure in supporting our users in Germany and Europe. Martin was a friendly and gentle colleague who would always have an open ear for his young and old colleagues. Our thoughts are with his family. We will keep his memory alive.


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David Woods of indystar.com has exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Butler's basketball team during the Atlantic 10 basketball tournament. Watch for his frequent reports, starting tonight with a team dinner and flight to the tournament in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Woods will be at meals, practice, coaches meetings and in the locker room --- before the game, at halftime and after the game.
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Each year grant-makers award more than $350 billion. Here are a few places you can look to fund your CHARACTER COUNTS! initiative.
Hot Grants
Government grants come from cities, counties, states, and the federal level. Sometimes city, county, and state grants are "pass throughs" for federal funds and cannot remove any restrictions set by the federal government. Foundations support a variety of causes. Some, like Gates, Ford, and Rockefeller, fund diverse projects around the globe. Others target specific issues or are dedicated to a certain geographic region. There are also over 2,000 corporate foundations, many of which support educational and youth-oriented programs.
Most schools receive government funding that is designated for specific programs. Check with your administrator or district to see if some of these could fund your CHARACTER COUNTS! activities:
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) offers grants that can be used for character education. DOE grants are usually limited to Local and State Education Agencies (LEAs and SEAs), but some grants suggest or require involvement with partners in the community.
The following resources cover DOE grants that can be used for character education. These grants are particularly time-sensitive, and we suggest working with a grant-writer who has experience in writing U.S. DOE grants or at least state department grants.


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We need with the best anime vids there is!
Like the Lord of the rings one.
NeoGohan wrote:A music video to Star Wars: Episode 2 wouldn't hardly be an ANIME music, would it?
leastsuspected wrote:I think what TankCop was thinking about was someone doing an AMV to the Episode 2 trailer audio... To which trailer, i don't know.... Just like a certain creator did with the Episode 1 trailer...
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