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(KSDK Sports) -- The St. Louis Blues have lost one of their most exciting new players to an injury. Today, the club placed forward Vladimir Tarasenko on injured reserve today. Tarasenko was injured during the third period Wednesday in Colorado.
In addition, the club recalled forward Chris Porter from the Blues' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, Peoria Rivermen.
Tarasenko, 21, has appeared in all 17 of the Blues' games this season posting 12 points including six goals and six assists. The 6'0, 219-pound forward tallied five points in his first two games tying Wayne Babych (1978) for the best start to a rookie career in franchise history.
The Yaroslavl, Russia native was drafted by the Blues in the first round (16th overall) of the 2010 Entry Draft.
Porter, 28, has dressed in 12 games posting 10 points including seven goals and three assists for the Rivermen this season. In 2011-12, the 6'1, 206-pound forward appeared in 47 games for the Blues tallying seven points including four goals and three assists.
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Rob Zombie, Duff McKagan and former Sex Pistols star Steve Jones have formed a Ramones covers group for the 10th annual Johnny Ramone tribute.
Ramone's wife Linda will host the bash at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where comedian Fred Armisen will also perform as his alter-ego Ian Rubbish and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will display his collection of horror movie memorabilia.
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- Heather said...
AWESOME!!! They are so colorful, they catch your attention.
- October 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- MaryAnne said...
very cute and fun!
- October 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Nicole {tired, need sleep} said...
Very beautiful!
- October 17, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Anna said...
those are wonderful really brings in a lot of color!
- October 17, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Vic @ Punky and Me said...
What a great idea... and so pretty!
I just love them.
- October 17, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- Elise said...
What fun and vibrant Halloween decorations.
- October 17, 2009 at 10:55 PM
- Valerie said...
These look like so much fun!! What a great way to brighten an otherwise rainy day.
- October 18, 2009 at 6:06 AM
- Bridgett said...
Okay...gotta go check out your Etsy store! :D
- October 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Sarah said...
Could you please post specific directions on how to purchase this? It takes me to my PayPal account, but does not show up under transactions. I wasn't sure what e-mail address to put in for you. I appreciate your help! I love your ideas and use them with my own children and in my kindergarten classroom. Thank you! :)
- October 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM
- Pink & Green Mama said...
Hi Sarah-
Sorry for the confusion -- I'm new at this! If you cut & paste the link below into your browser, it should take you directly to a "bill" for the craft:
Just log in to your account and the invoice will be right there for purchase! If you have any trouble, please email me at 'Pink.Green.98' at 'Verizon.net' -- not typed as an email address for SPAM purposes. :)
Pink and Green Mama MaryLea
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- Pink & Green Mama said...
PayPal update: There was a "code" problem with the button -- they all appear to work now. Please let me know if you have any other problems accessing PayPal.
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'that Paul Rhoads is a hell of a coach, think he'll leave Iowa State? Mack is done.'
Immediately I jump in 'we put a huge buyout on that contract, just stay away.'.....
He said, 'don't worry, we'll sell some oil and bowl in that South End Zone for you,'
......dammit.......1) they a loooooaaaaded. 2) interesting trade....
He won't leave for a Big 12 school.
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i don't see it happening.
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I honestly think as long as Cecil is around (not to sound too cynical) so is Paul.
Originally Posted by AdamJGray
I'd get a Rascal Flatts tramp stamp for free.
Texas could never sell that hire to their fan base.
Originally Posted by CyJack13
Texas could never sell that hire to their fan base.
Well it's not like he's 5-19.
Originally Posted by MLawrence
Well it's not like he's 5-19.
Its Texas, they will want Saban, Miles, that level.
If it was last year, I would have guessed Art Briles would be the next coach at Texas.
It sounds like Mean Eugene will be looking for a job.
Who is at Oregon state?
If, and that is a big if, Mack is done after this year, don't you think their first 5 choices will be Will Muschamp?
Originally Posted by UNIGuy4Cy
Its Texas, they will want Saban, Miles, that level.
As a LSU fan I pray they take Saban from 'Bama. As an ISU fan not so much...
Dang I am conflicted on that one.
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Originally Posted by cyeah
As a LSU fan I pray they take Saban from 'Bama. As an ISU fan not so much...
Dang I am conflicted on that one.
Why would he leave Bama for Texas?
He already has a statue of himself at Bama.
Aaaaarrrrgghhh! One of the guys that works for me is a UT grad and was JUST in my office talking about this same thing! I said, "Rhoads won't leave ISU". He said, "Do you understand how much money the UT job is worth? Rhoads would go in a heart beat, and we want him. Can you imagine what he'd do with UT-type talent?" To which I said, "**** you! Get out of my office!"
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Great way to store a roof box
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Took about 2 hours to install and hoisted my box off the roof of my car, and stored really snug to the garage roof. Love that I can hoist directly off the roof.
Mounting hardware included only suitable for fixing to a solid roof. You need to provide your own fixings for any other mounting.
Works pretty well
My husband and I were able to install this in around 2 hours without too much difficulty, directly into the garage ceiling studs. The instructions are not really great, you'll have to use some of your own common sense - I think Jim (below) has the right idea for installation. The gear box and removable arm to crank it up make this item worth the purchase, although the rope is chinzy. One little detail not mentioned in the instructions is that the device is meant to lift the box directly off the roof of your car, so the rope is not long enough to hoist a box from the garage floor. Installation was light years easier than slipping a large, bulky rooftop carrier into the two rope loops hanging 5 feet above the floor! We considered buying a longer rope, but are not sure there is physically enough space in the mechanism to wind up more rope. Despite some limitations, we are reasonably happy with our purchase.
Is this lifting mechanism installed directly...
Is this lifting mechanism installed directly over the car? My garage door opener is attached at the center line of garage door and is mounted directly over the car. In the reviews there are comments about 1 person being able to remove and replace the storage box single handedly. How do you deal with the garage door opener issue?
Thanks for your help on this.
Blessed space!
I have 23" of clearance between my ceiling and the top of my garage door (when it's open) and I was able to get this and my Yakima 16S to just fit when mounted to 1x4s. For those who are in a similar situation, the highest point of of the lift is about 3.5" in the center bracket.
This thing was a total bear to set up. A neighbor helped me and even taking suggestions from reviewers on Amazon, such as measuring and doing as much as you can before mounting it, it was still a lot of work to measure where on the ceiling to put it and where the studs were in my ceiling. Though it was a lot of work, I am so, so happy to have my box up above my car now, saving space and also making removing and mounting the box on my car that much easier.
The rope in the kit is chintzy and I will probably replace it soon.
Bottom line: The kit is a little overpriced, is a total pain to install, and comes with so-so rope but is totally worth it if you have a gear box laying around your garage making your life hell.
I forgot to add that the instructions are garbage.
Tight to ceiling
My rafters run across the garage ceiling so I had to add lumber to mount the hoist. If the rafters went from the overhead door back into the garage the additional lumber would have been unnecessary. Installation took a couple hours, including a few trips around the corner to Lowes.
Another post says to buy pulleys and do it yourself. The pulleys are about $6 each the rope another $6, but good luck finding the shaft and gearbox. I found one place that could order a gearbox but it over $200.
My only concern was the gear ratio in the gearbox would take 300 revolutions of the handle to gain one inch of vertical, but that is not the case the box goes up at a reasonable pace.
You will need hardware to mount to wood, I spent about $10. The rope provided was about two feet too short for a 10' ceiling and a five foot tall vehicle. I wanted a little extra slack to be able to pull the rope around the ends without lifting the box in case my bride decided to load or unload it.
I am very happy with the product and Backcountry's price, no regrets.
Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures and article. It helped me visualize what I'll need to do in our garage to mount the thing.
Thanks for the photo.
Thanks for putting up the photo. When you lower the cargo carrier is it directly over your car?
On the way up
Can you guesstimate for me what the profile one this lift is? I have a narrow space between my ceiling and garage door and am not sure this is and my box (Yakima 16 cu ft) will fit.
how does this attach to the ceiling?
how does this attach to the ceiling?
Hardware needs to be attached to rafters or studs. There are seven points of attachment.
Seriously when you buy your rocket box think of what your going to do with it when you don't have it ontop of your car.....
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how much can this thing lift, and how wide...
how much can this thing lift, and how wide a load can it take?
The manual claims 100kg, but I am sure there is an insurance liability factor built in to that.
My Husband is Part Monkey
We have all sorts of shelving hanging from our garage ceiling for all his stuff, so the box lift fit right in. After he bought the lag screws, it took him about 35 minutes to install. Great product!
Box lift
You better have a high ceiling in your garage. This makes removal a one person job. You can make one of these just with pulleys and a rope if you want to save some money.
very time consuming
The hardware included are for installation into a concrete ceiling. Well, I live in the states and do not have a concrete ceiling. So I went to the store to find proper hardware so I can mount it to my 2X4's/drywall. Installation time took a while for me. There's 14 holes I drilled for the 7 mounts which all had to be carefully measured out on the ceiling. After it was completed (several hours later) I tried it and was extremely pleased with the results.


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Its one of the few games where some of the more humble GPU cards are not even supported. So maybe the requirements are a bit steep. I've an Intel so I should probably not buy it to just find out latter that it doesn't work :(
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During the last ten years, the IFJ has developed an extensive working programme in the region, run from its headquarters in Brussels. These programmes include union building and trade union development, media safety, press freedom and legal reform, gender equality, media ethics, and self regulation and human rights journalism.
In the first half of this year, the IFJ is organising four key activities:
(1) Four national meetings on safety of journalists in yemen, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq; (2) IFJ regional meeting for unions in AWME; (3) Training of Trainers workshop on Human Rights journalism; (4) Launching conference from the MedMedia programme.
Visit the IFJ AWME English website or AWME Arabic website to find out more.
Upcoming activities include the South Asia Media Solidarity Network sub-regional meeting in Kathmandu, union leadership, media rights monitoring and the end impunity campaign.
Training programs are also planned across Asia, along with gender rights training in south Asia, and a year-round China Press Freedom project which involves the reporting and mapping of press violations in China.
Visit the IFJ Asia Pacific website to find out more.
The main priority for unions in the region remains sustaining quality jobs in the media industry which is deeply challenged by changes related to the distribution of information on the internet.
Visit the websites of SAG-AFTRA, National writers Union, the Newspaper Guild-CWA and Unifor.
In order to mark the World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, the IFJ President Jim Boumelha has called for action to protect journalists across the globe. He said that there would be no hiding place for those who violate media freedom and has also honoured the ones who have paid the ultimate price for their work as journalists.


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Ford F-100 - Charitable EffortsWritten by on September 30, 2006 Bobco's 4th Annual F-100 Supertour Kick-Off Party
For the last four years, the folks at Bobco in Elsinore, California, have sprung forward each April with a little thing they like to call the SuperTour Kick-Off Party. This year, though, it was anything but little (it really never has been a small affair), as the event was organized as a charity benefit for the Progeria Research Foundation. For their efforts and hard work, $23,000 was raised and donated to the foundation.
Progeria (Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, or HGPS) is a genetic condition that causes accelerated aging leading to premature heart failure in children, most of whom never reach age 13. Though medical treatment exists, there currently is no cure for Progeria. But that doesn't mean there isn't hope, and with contributions like that from the SuperTour Kick-Off, the Progeria Research Foundation can continue working toward finding that cure. For more information, please visit www.progeriaresearch.org
Bobco didn't go at it alone, though, as companies like Classic Performance Products, Total Cost Involved, Blue Oval Truck Parts, MidFifties, and even the folks who organize the tour, Pickups Limited, all contributed products or support to make the party happen. Our hats are off to everyone involved! Despite dark clouds looming overhead, we made the short trip down to the ever-growing Lake Elsinore area for some good eatin', a great display of F-100s, and, of course, a great cause.
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Mild to wild, finished to in progress, if you own a Ford F-100 and live in SoCal, chances are you were at Bobco with everyone else this past April for the annual SuperTour Kick-Off Party. If you weren't, your loss!Boss 429. Need we say more? OK, probably so, but you'll have to wait till we feature this seriously motored Effie currently being built at Bobco.If you've never been to the Bobco compound, it's worth a trip. From the shop to the mini-museum to the appropriately decorated guest house, you know you're in Blue Oval Country when you're at Bobco's.You may remember Steve Stillwell--he's the guy partly responsible for launching this very magazine. Having moved on to greener pastures (he's currently working with the Truck Enthusiasts Network), he hasn't forgotten his classic roots, as seen here by his black-suede F-100. Those painted and polished steelies are actually Colorado Custom billets, which look good with the matte finish exterior.The full-custom F-100 we faux-pa'd a few issues back, well, it's still being built--by Bobco for Bobco--but its completion date has been slightly pushed back a bit to allow time for the various customer projects currently underway.One of those particular customer projects is this bright orange (sueded, at that) '56 panel, another classic you're soon to see here on the pages of CLASSIC TRUCKS.


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Adventures on the Crystal Coast
The Southern Outer Banks, a different set of islands south of the OBX, creates the Crystal Coast. Stretching 85 miles along the Atlantic (in Carteret County and northern Onslow County), from the Cape Lookout National Seashore west to the New River, this region boasts inland towns and coastal beaches such as Morehead City, Beaufort, Cedar Island, Harkers Island and Shackleford Banks as well as Atlantic Beach, Indian Beach, Emerald Isle and Hammocks Beach State Park.
A special treat on this coast? The east-and-west orientation of the region allows you to see the sun rise AND set over the waters by just turning your gaze to the left and later to the right, whether on the Beaufort waterfront or the sandy beaches.
Some say the blue paint on porch ceilings of many of this town's historic homes was chosen to ward of spirits. In a hamlet known for the legend of Blackbeard, that's a safe tale to believe.
Recently voted as the Coolest Small Town by Budget Travel magazine's online fans (tied for first with Hammondsport, N.Y.), this third-oldest town in North Carolina is small enough to visit in one day, but offers plenty for an extended visit.
Located at the southern tip of the Outer Banks, this seaport village has survived hurricanes and pirates since the late 1600s. Divers recently discovered Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge in the shoals just three miles out from the waterfront. The North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com/beaufort.html) offers an extensive exhibit on Blackbeard, the Queen Anne's Revenge and the shipwreck's discovery.
A walk along the waterfront offers views of Taylor's Creek, Carrot Island and the Rachel Carson Reserve. The island's small band of wild horses can often be seen foraging along the creek side. Many ferry services offer various tours to this island and Shackleford Banks to see wild horses, hunt for seashells, bird watch and learn the area's pirate history (www.portcitytourcompany.com, www.islandferryadventures.com, www.crystalcoastecotours.com and www.outerbanksferry.com).
Historic building tours are a must. The two-acre Beaufort historic site (www.beauforthistoricsite.org) on Turner Street offers guided tours through six restored buildings that highlight 18th and 19th century life in Beaufort. A self-guided tour to some 30 sites within the six-block historic district is an easy stroll through history. If hoofing around town doesn't suit you, catch a ride on a Double Decker Bus Tour, featuring a 1967 English double-decker bus and listen to a local narrator while you take in the view.
One must-see is the Old Burying Ground, which dates back to 1704. The guided tour through this cemetery includes a Revolutionary War British naval officer who before dying wished to be buried standing up in full uniform, facing England; and the "Girl in the Barrel of Rum," a sad story of a young daughter who died on the voyage back to Beaufort, and whose father preserved the little body in a barrel of rum for the trip home and burial. Visitors, young and old, often leave items, such as toys, coins and ribbons, on the girl's grave.
What better way to learn more about the town's history than to go on a pirate and ghost tour after dark? The Port City Tour Company (www.portcitytourcompany.com) offers family-friendly ghost and pirate tours in Beaufort. The Beaufort Ghost Walk is led by a local "pirate" who regales the many tales about haunted houses, pirates and evil-doers in Beaufort, with the final stop at the Old Burying Ground — which many say is haunted.
Along the shores
Just beyond the Beaufort waterfront lies the Cape Lookout National Seashore (www.nps.gov/calo), featuring 56 miles of protected Core Banks shoreline accessible only by boat. Local ferry services from Beaufort, Harkers Island and other ports provide roundtrip rides to Cape Lookout. These rides also feature a view of Shackleford Banks and the 115–120 "banker" horses that live on the banks' islands.
As you approach Cape Lookout on the South Core Banks, you can't miss the diamond-patterned, 163-foot lighthouse and the lighthouse keeper's station just beyond the shoreline. The refurbished 1859 lighthouse and its cast-iron stairwell opens to the public from mid-May to mid-September. Trivia about the diamond shapes: the black diamonds point north and south and the white diamonds point east and west.
Besides visiting the lighthouse and keeper's station, visitors can fish, swim, camp and explore the National Park Service site.
Cape Lookout Seashore also features the historic fishing town of Portsmouth Village on the North Core Banks. This 1753 village was one of the first settlements in the area and once home to more than 1,000 people, though abandoned since 1971. The National Park Service maintains a dozen or so buildings as part of the Portsmouth Village Historic District. Access to the North Core Banks is limited to ferry service from Ocracoke Village or four-wheel-drive vehicles from the south.
Beach side
The Crystal Coast beaches are bookended by the Bogue Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, with Atlantic Beach, Indian Beach, Pine Knoll Shores, Salter Path and Emerald Isle offering families a variety of activities, from simple toes in the sand to casting a line into the Atlantic from the Emerald Isle Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier, boating and paddling in the ocean and the Bogue Sound, as well as sightseeing.
Beyond the shoreline of Atlantic Beach sits Fort Macon State Park, a 398-acre state park that features a five-sided, brick-and-stone Civil War fort and adjacent museum worth an hour or two of exploration. A self-guided tour of the fort, first garrisoned in 1834, offers a glimpse of military life before, during and after the Civil War. Park Service personnel are on-site to provide information and demonstrations.
Another attraction worth taking a beach break for is the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores — the newest of the state's three aquariums offers five galleries showcasing the state's varied eco-systems and 3,000 aquatic species from the mountains to the coast. The centerpiece is the 306,000-gallon "Living Shipwreck" tank, that features a life-sized replica of a German U-352 submarine and Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge artifact replicas — all behind a 60-foot viewing window. The aquarium is situated within the 300-acre Roosevelt Maritime Forest.
Speaking of forests, if you are in the mood for a walk or bike ride in the shade, Emerald Isle's Woods Park offers 41 acres of canopied trails that takes you from the parking lot to the banks of the Bogue Sound. The park offers picnic sites, a floating dock, walking and hiking trails, and is part of the N.C. Bird Trail.
If just catching the warm solar rays and listening to the ocean suits all your needs, plenty of sand awaits your chair and towel. And remember, the sun rises and sets along the Crystal Coast.
More to see and do
This adventure doesn't cover all that the Crystal Coast offers. Visit www.crystalcoastnc.org or call (800) 786-6962 to find out more.


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Eight Holyoke High School students were inducted into the school's National Honor Society chapter in a Monday, Feb. 11 ceremony.
Students selected for their academic, service, leadership and character qualities are pictured from left, front row, Trevor Dalton, Tanner Smith and Logan Tharp; and back row, Gabriela Chávez Márquez, Brenda Hernández, Eva Penzing, Makayla Spitz and Meg Strauss.
2012-13 members who conducted the ceremony were chapter president Erin Vieselmeyer, vice-president Ben Martinez, secretary Alyssa Cordova, treasurer Brett Cumming, Molly Brandt and Rachel Schneider.
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Classical pianist James Rhodes just signed with the Warner Brothers Record label - a label that usually handles groups like Metallica, R.E.M., Linkin Park and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Rhodes has a unique perspective on the future of classical music and how today's musicians can break the mold that has been tradition for decades. Check out an interview with him and let us know what you think. http://properdiscord.com/2010/04/05/interview-with-james-rhodes/
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Bainbridge, GA- Three men are accused of robbing two people at gunpoint, before leading police on a high-speed chase.
41-year-old Rufus Chatman, 39-year-old Troy Jackson, and 34-year-old Maurice Williams are facing multiple charges including burglary and robbery.
Investigators with Bainbridge Public Safety say the suspects approached two men on December 22 outside of the house located at 1751 South Hall Street.
The suspects demanded money, electronics and car keys before taking off.
Georgia State Patrol Troopers and Bainbridge Public Safety Officers took off after the men in a high speed chase which ended on Harrell Road in Grady County.
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text: Interview: Iain M Banks talks 'The Hydrogen Sonata' with Wired.co.uk Culture 16 November 12 by Michael Parsons Ray Charles Redman A new Iain M Banks novel set in the space opera universe of the Culture is a tempting prospect for fans. They know they'll be treated to elegant writing, big ideas, and some good jokes, served up with a literary intelligence and style that can make other genre SF writers feel a bit underpowered. There are sometimes dangers: these are books that take risks that don't always come off, and every now and then Banks produces something a little too weirdly opaque even for some true fans (The Algebraist, anyone?).Bank's latest, The Hydrogen Sonata, thankfully pulls off its intergalactic high-wire act with grace, weaving together a four-armed musician, an alien race planning its own elevation to another material plane, and the scheming of a bunch of intelligent spaceship Minds, who are investigating whether whether a primary religious text is authentic -- or a carefully planned hoax.Wired.co.uk sat down with Banks, who seemed as always to be having a good deal more fun than many people who write for a living, to discuss writing, technology, and his complicated feelings towards politicians...Wired.co.uk: There are two great action set pieces in the book, one in a liftshaft on Bokri, and the other at the novel's climax. That sort of scene is great fun for the reader, as exciting as an action set piece in a film. What are they like to write? Do you find them hard work to write, or are they exciting for you put together?Banks: They are fun! There is a quite a lot of effort involved. butI find action sequences some of the quickest to write -- although you do have to go back and check everything and make sure that the physics works.Are you ever reduced to sketching them out?No, it's always in my head, I can always see it in enormous three-dimensional detail in my head! In my own bonce. Going right back to Consider Phlebas, the first of the SF novels, the design brief -- if I can dignify it with that -- was non-stop action sequences. It turned out to be a lot more complicated and it wasn't just action sequences after that, but that was kind of the idea, because I noticed they came very quickly. They just flowed right out absolutely as fast as I could type. I've always liked writing them and they do write very, very fast. There's the kind of work involved when you're playing a really good computer game and you think I'll just play for half and hour and the next thing you know is that it's five AM and you've only really woken out of your dream because your bladder's full. You get so caught up in what you're writing, and action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're kind of living it, and feeling for your characters.The spaceship's Minds are the heart of this book: do you ever struggle with them being too powerful, and so unbalancing the narrative?It has occurred to me over the years that the Minds play the part of Greek Gods, they have the same sort of powers -- but they they're not infallible. There's lots of problems they can't handle -- they have enormous knowledge but increasingly as the novels have gone on I've made it clear by contextualising the Culture that it is just one culture among many, albeit a very sophisticated one. It's not the biggest, it's rather one of the ones most determined to interfere -- with a militant liberal agenda.They're far more constrained by their own morality, they will not look inside people's heads -- there's only one ship that ever did it. They are also constrained by the laws of physics, such as they are -- severely bent if not broken -- in the novels. And also by the fact that there are certain rules you have to play by. The galactic community has set it self up as the equivalent of the United Nations, so there's stuff you can and cannot do. Again people are always looking for loopholes... barbarian cultures in particular, and the newly ambitious and involved are always finding ways try to and get around the restrictions. There is a huge gaming aspect to it. They are like a Queen on a crowded chess board, they can't just move anywhere...There's a lot of ship chat -- did you worry about about becoming dialogue heavy as the minds work out their problems? I'd be lying if I said I could remember the names of every ship..Oh me too! Doing dialogue between human characters can go really quickly because apart from anything else your first attempt is probably going to be the best, whereas when the ships are talking, the grammar has to be as perfect as I can make it, they do not make mistakes, they don't indulge in repetition, so it doesn't just flow in the way that human dialogue does, it has to be pretty much spot on.In theory the ships have to be so incredibly clever and they speak so much faster than we do that they have the equivalent of hundreds of years between human speech sentences. So when it comes out it better be pretty bloody good, they can't be faffing or extemporising or panicking. You do have to go back and make sure it's bolted together really securely.There are some resonant images of artists who make stuff in the book -- the alien race who make beautiful patterns on the surfaces of planets, and you've got the retired drone who makes the waterpark out of sand. They struck me as being terribly romantic -- nobody is going down the community centre to do a play about unemployment...It is my vision of what you do when you are in that post-scarcity society, you can completely indulge myself. The Culture has no unemployment problem, no one has to work, so all work is a form of play. I have had people making model ships, in one novel there's a chap who makes them obsessively, he grows tiny bonsai trees and then carves them into tiny military equipment. I spend a lot of my time coming up with new hobbies and sports, trying to think what would you do. How do you spend your time when you don't have to work, it's a good problem to have, would that we all had that problem...Does writing about a universe of plenty in a world in that feels like it's fighting over everything -- has that become more poignant? I don't know if it's poignant. I'm still enthusiastic about the whole project, it's my movie studio, and I can do whatever I want with it. I suppose it has got a didactic purpose which is to say that things are rubbish now, but the future might be totally brilliant, but it's kind of up to us to make it so. I think that it's not just therapy for me! I can escape into my own self-created wonderland, but I suppose it also has that escapist quality for the reader, which is fair enough. It can be a brutal sort of escapism -- you don't turn away from horror or violence in the Culture novels. They are not always cut and dried good guys win and bad guys lose. I was very conscious of in the last Culture novel, Surface Detail, the bad guy gets a conventional Hollywood comeuppance -- that was quite deliberate. I was always aiming towards the final big battle and showdown between two people, in the water maze. I did feel that you have to balance these things, because you can't always give people precisely what they want every time, it's just wrong. Even in Space Opera, the bad guys don't always lose. Read page 2 123 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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On April 18, Volvo Construction Equipment Shippensburg accepted the Company of the Year Award 2012 from Shippensburg University. Each year, the College of Business faculty and staff members nominate regional companies for the award. Volvo was chosen for the first time and was in the running with corporations such as Hershey and Giant Food Stores.
"Volvo CE has made a significant impact in the region because of the size of its economic footprint and its environmental consciousness when designing and implementing their operations," says Joanne Tucker, Associate Professor.
Sean Glennon, Vice President of Shippensburg Operations, Adam Killeen, VPS Manager, and Kristen Weidenmuller, Communication Coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of Volvo. Sean gave a well-received presentation focused on aspects of Shippensburg's operations which have provided competitive advantages to Volvo CE and its position within Volvo's organization. Sean, Adam and Kristen then shared some career experiences and poignant advice for business students to consider as they begin their business careers.
As part of the award process, business faculty has created student assignments throughout the academic year that center on Volvo CE. Assignments include discussions of Volvo's activities and operations, plant tours, charting changes in stock price and looking at Annual Reports of Volvo.
"We greatly value our relationship with Volvo CE, and are very grateful for the opportunities provided to our students to learn from professionals in the field. The messages Sean and Adam brought to our students were outstanding and very timely. We are very proud of naming Volvo as the Company of the Year by the Shippensburg University John L. Grove College of Business and we look forward to working with Volvo to explore opportunities for student and faculty involvements. I am very confident that Shippensburg University, Volvo, and the Community will benefit from expanding and enhancing this relationship," says John Kooti, Dean of the College of Business.
Sean says the Shippensburg site is "very excited to enhance our current partnership with Shippensburg University. We see countless opportunities for mutual benefit, by providing students with real-world experience, and taking advantage of faculty and student's outside perspective to help with our internal development."
Sean Glennon, GM/VP Shippensburg Operations andDr. John Kooti, Dean, John L. Grove College of Business
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The city of Rifle will have to dip into reserves to balance the 2013 general fund once again, although overall spending and projected revenue are expected to be nearly flat.
That was among the messages City Council received from City Manager John Hier and Finance Manager Charles Kelty at the first of two budget public hearings on Nov. 7.
The second hearing is scheduled for Nov. 19, and the 2013 city spending plan is to be adopted on Dec. 5.
Hier said the general fund - the city's largest - is projected to receive $7.5 million in revenues and have $8.3 million in expenditures. Both figures are about 1 percent above this year's expected year-end figures, he added.
"We really have to get this fund out of deficit spending in the near future," Hier said. "But this next year, we expect to have to use about $409,000 in reserves to deficit spend."
The city expects a year-end general fund budget balance of $2.9 million next year, he added.
Kelty said the city will pay off the debt service on the public safety building constructed several years ago to save money on interest.
"All the city's budgets have really been squeezed over the last several years," Hier continued. "Overall, we've cut 20 percent or more in every department since 2008, we've eliminated some positions through attrition and just haven't filled others. We've frozen wages for all employees, and that has continued."
The two biggest departments in the general fund are the police - $2.3 million - and streets - $1 million - Hier said.
"We don't have any major purchases except a police vehicle and a street sweeper," he added.
Other, smaller funds include the street improvement fund, which gets its money from a half-cent sales tax approved by voters several years ago, Hier said. It calls for $1.4 million in expenditures and includes a $300,000 grant from the Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District to help design a third roundabout at the Rifle I-70 interchange, he noted.
The city's capital reserve fund has a balance of $4 million, accumulated over the last several years, Hier said. It has no designated funding source.


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Some parents opt out of state tests
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Oceanside resident Ellen Fogel struggled with her conscience and her duty to her children for days prior to the recent state testing program.
Was she going to let her children take the tests that she considered to be part or a system that has "become educationally insolvent" due to state mandates not only on what should be taught, but on how students should be tested and evaluated on what they have or have not learned.
"It was a very hard decision the mother of two school-age children said. "I went back and forth. I was not afraid of whether or not they would fail, but that the testing program was actually making my daughter ill, with a nervous stomach and bouts o throwing up."
"There is a lot more to this common core testing program than we are seeing, a hidden political agenda to take over the schools from local control and do away with tenure for teachers," she said. "If you make the tests so onerous and difficult, then you can blame the failure on the teachers and the schools and user them to fulfill an agenda."
"We keep pressuring students with more tests and more homework, we are going to have a generation of depressed kids,:" she added.
Fogel eventually sent her kids to school to take the test, mostly because she was afraid of the ramifications of them not taking them and because she was not sure what the impact would be of her opting-out.
State officials has said earlier that students would not be punished for opting out, but that school systems that did not have a 95 percent compliance rate would find themselves losing state aid in future budget negotiations.
The English Language Arts test was given over three days, April 16, 17 and 18. The mathematics tests will be given April 24, 25 and 26.
A number of parents did opt-out, the beginning of what many are saying is a movement that would likely grow each year.
Two students opted out in the West Hempstead schools, an official said. The official would not discuss what grade or grades the students were in.
` "We don't talk about individual kids or test situation," the person said.
Robert Fenter, a deputy superintendent in the Oceanside schools, said thqt 15 students in that district opted out of taking the test.
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Testing is not learning. I learned this when I was in high school many years ago and regents time came around. I'd have to purchase a Barron's Regents Review Book for every subject and that became the "text" for the two months prior to the test. The new curriculum was to take past tests for practice... and if the teacher didn't think a topic would be on the regents test, we weren't taught it. Maybe the kids could benefit from taking away those days devoted to testing, and turn them over to instruction instead.
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It has took me five years to build my google ranking up, most of my keywords were top of the organic ranking. Now I am left with broken links where people have blogged about my products. I am not even on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd pages on some keywords. I have gone from receiving 20-30 orders a day to nothing. People cannot find me. You have completely ruined my business. Not only did it take me nearly 3 weeks to redo over 100 pages and upload 1500 images with no help or aid. You have completely spoilt everything I have worked for.
How are you going to help me. Surely you have some obligations to help me?
Who, where can I contact to speak to, surely you cannot ruin business like this?
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I'm Josh, a community moderator and I have shared this forum thread with a very broad audience in the Office 365 organization and they are now well aware of the situation.
The first thing I want to say is that we are sorry for the frustration you experienced in this transition and we want to help you fix the situation. We are investigating ways to help you regain your search engine rankings and are consulting with folks on the SharePoint team and with experts in SEO to see what we can do to help you and others in your situation.
There is an article from the builditon365 folks that describes how you can create pages that will allow search engines to recognize your old web site pages and redirect them to the new pages. You can access the article at www.builditon365.com/.../Correct365PageAddr.aspx. The method is not supported by the Office 365 support team but judging from the builditon365.com site visitors' comments they seem to have had success following their direction.
In the meantime we will continue to pursue avenues with our engineering teams to determine what additional course of action we can take to help you.
Thanks Josh for replying, I have done this on some pages, but I still find it unbelievable that small businesses have been left in this predicament. We've all work hard to build our businesses up and thought we were in safe hands!.
From reading further comments on redirection of the site pages to the new pages it seems that by doing this it could take longer for the search engines to find us! So we are all receiving mixed messages and nothing seems clear.
I look forward to hearing what the SEO experts say on how to regain our rankings.
The redirect method noted above may not be officially supported but was copied not only by builditon365 but also by MSFT in a blog article at the OLSB community, so I guess it's somewhat sanctioned by MSFT. The original work appeared here some time ago:
How to redirect your old OLSB urls to your new 365 pages
with some actual user experiences and helpful comments discussed here:
As for the effect on rankings, I developed this technique primarily to prevent 404 errors from back links rather than to shore up rankings. 404's are known to get a domain penalized by search engines whereas the impact of changing urls is harder to gauge and mitigate. So while I would never claim it will help your rankings, I guarantee it will stop 404's.
Be careful how you say that " was copied not only by builditon365 ..."
My procedure looks nothing like yours. You use JavaScript and Mine uses the Meta Refresh Tag. I explain in detail what happen and you don't. Mine is step-by-step and yours is ahaaaa I don't know.
If anything MSFT copied mine. But you know what, I don't care, I am just glad it is helping others.
Easy tiger....you know as well as I do I was the only one even talking about this being a problem way back when and in response to numerous posts here developed the technique copied (yes copied ) by you and MSFT. I can dig up the posts where I first suggested it if it bothers you.
And whether you use javascript or meta refresh is immaterial. The key is replacing the OLSB urls. Initially I suggested both but favored javascript because I don't know if the search engines like meta refreshes.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I suppose - especially when it's MSfT doing the copying. And I've copied plenty of things from others - but I always give credit to the originator if I do. So there!
Ok Guys...I had to use both. Web Builder's graphics helped me out with mchv's straight forward approach. Mchv's lacks the 'if you are not redirected....and it's kind of difficult to stay concentrated on his methods w/ all the ad flashing going on, but I used the Sharepoint Designer method I didn't see anywhere else.
Both of you as well as drm have been a God Send throughout the transition and beyond. And MSFT has often mentioned you all in this forum.
Redirecting has got to be better than customers landing on a 404, even if there's penalties w/ the Search Engines.
Tina you've done it!
You've awakened the sleeping Lion. Now 'actions will speak louder than words.
Way To Go Girl!
What might be cool is to make a graphically pleasing 301 available w/ "This Web Site is now Hosted by the new and exciting MSFT Office 365." "You will redirected in 3 seconds. If you are not redirected please click here".....for starters.
I personally use Bing 1st as my Search Engine...it be grand to be found. Google who? But even w/ OLSB referrals from Google were 20 fold Bing or Yahoo or Ask or... combined.
I can't get that new IE 9 ad song out of head! So maybe that'll change. :)
Good Morning Tina,
Have you noticed any negative actions since you deleted the Sharepoint Sites from your Trusted Sites?
I used their (365) method and added them and my domain and then deleted cookies and cache.
Today again, I can't get in to EDIT my site. Yesterday I did after several tries. Worn the buttons out this AM with no luck.
Thanks, D
Funny too, another thread where I asked why....answered yesterday with their method but now have added...
"The above instructions have worked for numerous customers however there was also a user who removed the sites from the trusted sites and was able to access the Edit Website area."
and then......
Unfortunately, this is a local issue that happens to some customers and not others so there is not an end all resolution. The resolution may depend on the Operating System, the browser, and the personal user settings.
Well, Yesterday I finally got in by repeatedly hitting Edit Web Site, then closing my on-line Site that it was re-directed to, Over & Over, till it finally opened the Web Pages page. Maybe twenty or thirty times - I was so upset I wasn't going to give up till I wore out my Microsoft Mouse.
Today 1st Click....how are you fairing?
Back to square one!
It sees very eractic the ability to edit my site!, the last few days have been fine, no problems editing whatsoever!. Today I try and yep it's happened again? I cannot edit my site, yet again I get transferred to my public facing site. why? why indeed!
Again the only thing that resolved it was to take my site and sharepoint off the trusted sites (which had appeared again since removing them! and deleting my browser of cookies and history.
How many other people of getting issues like this, it seems such a procedure each time it happens!
This is Tim with Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Support.
I hope that you were all able to impliment the custom workarounds that have been provided in previous posts to help with your page rankings. Please let me know if your rankings and hits are getting any better.
I have seen other users posting about this exact issue with editing their public-facing sites. Unfortunately, at the time of posting there was no server issues and I was not able to replicate the issue. The issue has all be a local issue and there is a combination of resolutions that have been used ro resolve the issue. I have seen adding http://*.sharepoint.com/ to the trusted sites as a fix, and removing it from the trusted sites resolves the issue in other instances. Deleting temp and history from the local computer will work, then other times you will need to use the developer tools (F12) to clear the cache and cache for this domain along with the session cookies and cookies for this domain. Then others have said when they see this issue, they are able to use another browser to edit their site. A couple hours later, they use Internet Explorer and are able to edit their site without any problems.
Finally, if you are seeing this issue consitantly, please let me know and forward you the information that you will need to create a service request.
Tim Muth
Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Support
I have seen adding http://*.sharepoint.com/ to the trusted sites as a fix
and removing it from the trusted sites resolves the issue in other instances.
So are we supposed to just use trial and error and hope for the best or is there a plan to get at the underlying cause of all this instability?
Another Trusted Site, multi-click day.
MSFT blames USERS' Browsers and Personal Settings.
I'm using IE 9 everything set to Default. It's their Browser and their Settings that is/are the problem(s) then.
I like Tina's method of deleting the Trusted Sharepoint sites, that feels good the 1st time, but when they continue to show up ea. day.....
It enters the realm of my underlying theme of TIME and money. Not to mention my multi-click (take it out on the mouse) method.
How long has 365 been up and running? Did I miss a patch release?
This bug is getting to be a real pest, to the point I AM becoming unstable.
Perhaps it was a designed ploy to make us forget about ALL the other problems.
SEO Subscript.
Can't complain about Google. However I've added Google Analytics to most of my pages.
Bing is still showing old pages & only with w/ too many Keywords req.. New Site active since early April.
GA since 4/25.
To give Bing and Yahoo a boost....
I just added Bing's WebMaster tools to the Site - a damn site easier than Google A - we'll see if they are as informative.
It Reports both Bing & Yahoo.
Anyone know if there could be a conflict?
Good luck. I'm in the same boat and was stupid enough to pay one of their developers to move everything to 365 and now my customers are getting 404 responses and I'm losing money. And would you ebleive there is no way to actually talk to anyone and get help.


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This release provides improvements in performance, usability and function based on feedback from internal users and external clients.
Highlights of this release
- A new Service Request (SR) module displays the registered user's software service requests on the Open service request page. To view the Service Request module, add a software product to your product context. This function allows clients to view their open service requests directly within the SR portlet and to create new service requests. The portlet also includes a registration feature for those not already registered with SR.
- Storage is now available under Hardware in the product choice list.
- There is a fastpath to type in a product name to find the product for "choose your products".
- System Availability information is displayed in the right-hand column.
- There is a new Flashes and Alerts module.
- Marketing spots are provided for Tivoli from the Merchandising Trading Exchange tool (MTE) content management tool. About MTE. This provides the framework for other marketing spots to be presented using the MTE tool.
- This release provides support for 19 country/languages: Brazil, Portuguese, Bulgaria - Bulgarian, Canada - French, China - Simplified Chinese, Croatia - Croatian, Czech Republic - Czech, Denmark - Danish, Estonia - Estonian, France - French, Germany - German, India - Hindi, Italy - Italian, Japan - Japanese, Korea - Korean, Netherlands - Dutch, Russia - Russian, Spain - Spanish, Taiwan - Traditional Chinese, United Kingdom - English. Note: the "Site Assistance" pages will be translated in a future release.
- System x functions: Inventory upload, download matrices, integration of technical document display, restricted access documents
- User requested enhancements such as product selector improvements, news item dates, ability to hide hero graphic
- No additional sign in required for viewing entitled documents in the knowledge database (dBlue)
- Remaining requirements for "Click to try" for System x, Storage, System z, Rational, and Tivoli clients
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1. When you search from the masthead on the quick start page, the search returns only documents that are written in the language of the page. In the example below, French documents will be returned for the search from the French quick start page. In the future, documents written in English will also be included in the search results.
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Q - Joe, cloud computing has been characterized in many ways, but is basically a new service consumption and delivery model inspired by consumer Internet services. Key components include on-demand self service, ubiquitous network access, location independent resource pooling and rapid elasticity. In recent weeks you have been advocating the mainframe for management of the cloud. Why?
A - Simple ─ a mainframe is a cloud-in-a-box.
Consider this: mainframe users want resources on-demand. Mainframes are designed to be able to provide services on-demand ─ based upon pre-established prioritization. If you want additional resources on a mainframe, you can ask IT to provide them and voila ─ if you have priority, you get them. Over time, I expect IBM to front-end mainframes with software that will give users more control when requesting resources ─ but the fact remains that mainframes can be easily provisioned to meet user requests for resources today.
Ubiquitous network access is another of your criteria. Mainframes can be connected using TCP/IP to the Internet. The Internet is ubiquitous. Hence, you get that with a mainframe.
Location independent resource pooling (in other words, the resources show up in a pool ─ and no one cares where those resources are ─ all they care about is getting access to those resources. Mainframes offer the market's most advanced resource management, virtualization, and provisioning. Hence, they meet this location independent resource pooling descriptor.
Finally, elasticity (expandability, flexibility, etc.). Name a more scalable, elastic, flexible environment when it comes to making resources available. Weigh mobile partitioning, advanced virtualization management, and virtualized resource management as you seek to find a superior architecture. You can't find any general workload processor more flexible and easier to manage (considering how many resources that it controls) than a mainframe.
Q- In your experience, have customers who have adopted service management from system z realized measurable ROI? Can you share any examples?
A -Most customers that I talk to don't sit around and say "this is how much it cost me to run back-up/restore and other functions that I manage using service management software. What they say is "hey, look over there. Those are my five mainframe managers who manage the equivalent of hundreds of x86 servers. The math is pretty obvious ─ you need a dozen or a couple of dozen managers and administrators to manage x86 environments ─ and far, far fewer managers/adminis-trators to manage a mainframe. (And remember ─ in some geographies, the salaries, benefits, and sick leave for x86 managers can cost a company $100,000 per year. Take ten or twenty IT managers out of the equation and pretty soon you're talking about real money…)
In Brazil, when I asked a mainframe user who manages his mainframe ─ he said "me and that other guy over there". He was managing his company's SAP environment with 2 people. That's mission critical computing ─ the company's livelihood ─ with two people.
In Arkansas, another mainframe manager said "I've replaced dozens of x86 servers ─ and will replace dozens more ─ with our mainframe. Here are the five offices of the people I use to manage this environment. People don't believe me when I tell them this ─ but its true!"
Incidentally, mainframe managers have been using dashboards with monitor, visualization, and control facilities for years. They don't even think of it as service management software. But it is.
Q - Not every customer has a mainframe. At what point(s) should a business consider adopting the platform for service management?
A -Not every customer has a mainframe ─ and not every customer needs a mainframe. It you've got a ton of applications and you want to run on the most efficient general workload processor ─ you should be considering using z/OS, zVM, and/or Linux on a mainframe. If you don't have enough work for a mainframe ─ but want to run high-RAS (reliability, availability, security) applications in a mission critical environment ─ use IBM POWER systems (my opinion: SPARC and Itanium are dead-end architectures). If you want to run Windows on Linux on x86 Xeon processors ─ you're going to deal with a bunch of distinct servers that will need to be administrated and managed. And you're gonna need a ton of people to manage those discrete servers. To reduce the need to have to use as many administrators and managers (and to save associated salaries/benefits), as well as to reduce costs related to human error that cause downtime and potential loss of business, you need to adopt service management software.
Bottom line: use a mainframe if you have a lot of work to do ─ and you don't want to spend a ton of money managing that environment. Buy a Unix server if you don't have enough work to do to keep a mainframe busy. Buy an x86 server if you need Windows ─ or if you want to run Linux on x86 platforms. In each case though, use service management software to reduce you management costs.
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Unlike a lot of politicians in the past few weeks, Rifle High School's football team doesn't pay attention to polls.
A lot of people have been, however. After all, the Bears have been the top-ranked team in most of Colorado's Class 3A polls for a majority of the season, including the Denver Post and the MaxPreps.com site.
Not that Rifle is campaigning for those votes or, for that matter, paying attention.
"That's really not that big of a deal to us," Rifle senior running back and safety Ryan Moeller said. "We're more focused on what we do on the field."
Actions, in this case, have spoken volumes for the unbeaten Bears (10-0). They've outscored their opponents 433-35, won their second consecutive 3A Western Slope League title and, based on that lofty resume, earned the top seed in the Class 3A state playoffs.
Rifle begins its playoff campaign at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bears Stadium, when it hosts Erie, the 16th-seeded team in the 16-team bracket. The winner moves on to play either No. 9 Palisade or No. 8 Roosevelt in the state quarterfinals.
Rifle, however, isn't paying attention to numbers.
"We don't care about being No. 1, mainly because we didn't pick it," Rifle coach Damon Wells said. "It will be neat for the kids to look back on and tell people they were ranked No. 1. It will be something no one can take away. But we know just as well as anyone that your seed doesn't matter."
Case in point: Rifle went to the state championship game in 2005 as the No. 16 seed. With that in mind, Wells feels the Bears "fully expect to have their hands full, and no one in our program is focusing on anything other than our game on Saturday."
Erie (7-3), as it turns out, is very similar to Rifle. The Tigers finished third in the Class 3A Northern League behind Frederick and Holy Family and boast a rushing attack that averages 280.4 rushing yards per game. Erie's offense has five players who have carried the ball at least 50 times this season, with junior running back Joey Ramsy (747 yards on 102 carries) toting the rock more than anyone.
The Tigers' only three losses have come to Northridge (a 4A school), Frederick and Holy Family, each in consecutive weeks. Against all other opponents, however, the Tigers are allowing only 7.71 points per game. Four of those victories were shutouts, including three shutouts in Erie's first four games of the season.
Rifle, however, has shut out five opponents this season, and the points the junior varsity team allowed in the second half of the Bears' 52-13 win over Eagle Valley on Nov. 2 were the most Rifle has allowed this season.
The Bears also have three different players who have shouldered much of the load running the ball. Much of the yardage has come from Ryan Moeller, who has 2,202 yards and 31 touchdowns on 188 carries.
Not to be outdone, however, is Kellin Leigh (847 yards) and Isaiah Rider (260), who have both proven to be viable options for a team that averages 367 rushing yards per game.
Rifle, however, has earned its ranking thanks in part to its margin of victory each week. Just don't expect the players to be walking the streets stating their case.
"We know that we're not going to stay No. 1 if we all don't do our jobs for 48 minutes," Leigh said. "We never let that play a factor in our minds. We just play our game and go from there."


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Posted 03 December 2012 - 11:33 AM
My question is to those of you who have thrown out the rule book and have thrown a lot of weight at your G11's. I'm looking for empirical experience. How far have you pushed it and how did the motors cope with it?
The reason I ask is that I have almost finished building a 16" f5 newt that will weigh in at nearer 70lbs and I'm quite worried about putting this on my G11 and burning out the motors (not to mention the problems caused by the tube length).
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Posted 03 December 2012 - 01:45 PM
I have 2 G11 and both are equipped with 66pounds equipment and 66 pounds counterwights since 4 years and motors work fine.
The main question here is the balancing of the mount, because then the only thing the motors do is move slowly the whole equipment and not much force is needed.
As Dwight said one problem can be the length of the scope.
I would say that in order to know it, mount your scope on the G11 and make some carefull tests and you will see what happens and if you feel confident leave it. If you do not feel confident then you will need another mount.
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2 Things make it work well...
#1.....14" Robin Casady dovetail Saddles
#2..... The new HD motors by losmandy...very good!
at least on the dec..(super tourge)
This setup works well.....
I use 44 lbs of counter weight with no problems..The old standard motor would just get warm when slewing,but the new one stays cold to the touch...($225)..
So just try it and then do some of these changes for improvments....
If you load the 16" light,,,no heavy extras,slow down the slew rates....should work...but much over the 70 lbs....maybe..?
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tripod is very strong....I would keep it low,and out of the wind..FOR sure....
I had a 12" F4 AT12IN and it worked ok....
But because of such a long tube you need a long base to
keep flexture down..
I think any scope over a C11 would benifit from a longer
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Posted 03 December 2012 - 07:45 PM
It did cross my mind that a longer saddle would help a lot. I will also look into one of those bars that connects the tube to the counterweight bar. Can't remember what they are called.
Posted 04 December 2012 - 08:38 AM
I've hung a Meade 10"f4 SNT, Celestron C6R 152mm f8, & an Ioptron 90mm f4 as a guidescope, & a 30mm finderscope on a HD tripod for an outreach event. It was a clear, dead calm day, but not in a dome doing solar observing. WELL balanced in all axis is an absolute MUST, but it did work, once.
It gave me the ability so show the difference between the 2 scopes. Since then I've only hung the SNT, 90mm & finder scope on a regular basis, no big deal.
I'll probably do the same thing again this year using my HGM-200 for the same setup.
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Yup & it just keeps coming back for more. I like that.
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