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As soon as 'Help and Support' is clicked in either the client UI or the Admin Console, Webroot initiates an analysis of the endpoint that includes the automated gathering of license key codes, client version, last scan and summary results, endpoint operating system version, latest patch build, and computer name. This enables most issues to be resolved on the initial support request and there is no further action needed from the customer.
Webroot® has an established online Community that provides Forums for all of our Customers, Partners, and Webroot product experts to collaborate, share best practices and learn from one another.
Our Business Community contains a rich set of historical topics with helpful content to educate and inform Webroot SecureAnywhere® users. The information is written for both end-users and all levels of technical users.
Webroot surpasses all expectations of Customer service and technical knowledge!
The Support Community serves as a vehicle for Customers and Partners to provide valuable input on product features and roadmap prioritization.
Webroot has a 'self-help' repository called "Ask Webroot". This is the quickest way to find answers to a multitude of Webroot SecureAnywhere topics and issues, as well as step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips provided by an automated Webroot Support Agent. Ask Webroot also has quick links to core information like the Admin User Guide, Frequently Asked Questions and the latest Product Release Notes.
The Webroot Threat Blog can be directly accessed from the Community and from the management console. This is a great resource for keeping Customers up-to-date on the latest events in Security that could impact them.
We have attempted to cater to every support need with the ability to discuss, contribute, learn and read about all aspects of Webroot SecureAnywhere from in-product or online. Additionally, in-product and telephone support is always available as well.
Video: Fully Integrated In- Product Support
Webroot SecureAnywhere® Support was designed from the ground-up to eliminate many of the Support issues companies have been conditioned to accept. We have architected a high degree of automation into our processes, in order to help customers avoid having to make Support calls in the first place. Our goal is to minimize customer wait time and shorten the overall duration of a call if required.
While the ability to call Support is always available, our customers normally choose to open a ticket from within Webroot SecureAnywhere - due to the added efficiency, speed, and thoroughness of the resolution provided.
Administrators can open a ticket directly from the web-based management console, or also enable end- users to open their own support tickets from the Webroot SecureAnywhere system tray icon on their endpoints.
This was the best, most pleasant, and best resolved support situation I have ever encountered.
Behind the scenes, Webroot® is already in motion to facilitate a solution. Endpoints can be configured to automatically upload log files to Webroot for rapid analysis and response. This proactive approach to incidents allows Webroot to assess the situation, and often remediate the issue, within a few minutes of submission. We are already fully-armed with license, system, and endpoint log and scan information to identify root-cause, and help our customers achieve a fast resolution.
Another unique aspect of Webroot Support is a feature of Webroot SecureAnywhere's cloud architecture. Unlike legacy solutions that rely on the development of patches or special signature updates, real- time changes may easily be made during a support engagement with Webroot. For instance, it is possible for Webroot Support to correct an agent determination and instantly have the customer's agents reflect that change without having to go through any other tedious processes.
With Webroot SecureAnywhere, Customers and Technical Support no longer waste valuable time gathering information. Through automation and streamlined process flows, everyone is able to squarely focus their attention on speedily resolving any issues at hand.


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Breast implants are some of the most sought after cosmetic products on the market, the procedures accounting for a sizable portion of the cosmetic industry's success. The procedures involved are purposed to resize and even reshape a patient's breasts.
This involves filling a sac with either salt water or silicone gel and then inserting it surgically between layers of muscle, the idea being to reconstruct the breast mound.
Where the procedure is restricted to one breast, the procedure will be executed to ensure symmetry.
Breast augmentation procedures will introduce all manner of considerations to any individual interested in visiting a plastic surgeon, the core of the issue usually revolving around the types of breast implants to be utilized for the operation.
With various brand names circulating the market, many making numerous promises about their superiority, breast implants are generally divided into two types, namely: silicone breast implants and saline breast implants.
The major difference between the two categories revolves around the material used to fill their respective sacs. Saline makes use of the same saline solution you find in a patient's drip whereas silicone implants utilize silicone gel.
The results might seem uniform upon a glance but closer scrutiny will reveal a different truth.
This is an important decision that must be made before one undergoes surgery. Research is crucial in making this decision; despite some assumptions, there is such a thing as the right type of breast implant for each patient, largely dependent upon personal tastes as well as various other factors, these including:
Aesthetics – breast implants are designed to provide augmentation of some sort even while presenting a natural look. It would however prove false to assume that both silicone and saline breast implants achieve this objective to the same level. Silicone implants utilize a cohesive gel material; this allows them to more closely mimic artificial breasts, not only in look but feel; this as opposed to saline implants that have been known to ripple, many a patient referring to the feeling of having water logged balloons on one's chest. Silicone is usually advisable for thin individuals with little natural breast tissue.
Scarring- saline breast implants have always proven much easier to maintain. Breast implants are not a permanent fixture and will need work after a period of time, be it fixing a problem or making adjustments. Where saline implants can be adjusted without making additional incisions-a simple matter of increasing or decreasing the amount of fluid in the sac- silicone implants require invasive surgery, resulting in considerably more scarring, especially if one requires multiple adjustments over time.
Safety – while initially banned due insufficient evidence to support safety, silicone implants can now boast of FDA approval along with saline implants, the only difference being that one must be 22 years and above to receive silicone implants, as opposed to saline's 18 years minimum age.
Cost – Silicone breast are expensive, costing considerably more than saline implants no matter the market; and this is due to the material used to construct either type. Salt water is quite cheap, this as opposed to silicone gel; and that isn't even taking into account the costs of maintaining silicone implants.
Conclusion – The choice between silicone and saline implants usually comes down to personal tastes. Where some appreciate the natural feel of silicone implants, others are cannot ignore the costs involved, even when taking into account the rippling saline implants have been known to experience, many women speaking of hearing the saline solution sloshing about in their breasts.
If you are in need of more information, I highly recommend contacting Dr. Nancy Edwards, a renown breast augmentation Surgeon in San Diego, she will be able to help you with any questions or concerns you may have.
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It seems like it's close to impossible to raise a normal child these days, what with the violent video games and the 4chan and the childhood obesity. But if the latest research is to be believed, even the good stuff we thought we were doing for our kids is ruining them.
Yes, as it turns out the most innocent things we do to our kids every day can fuck them up worse than having the Joker shoot their parents in front of them.
7Giving Your Kids a Creative Name
You'd Think...
You want your kid to be special. There are a few million Daves, Bobs and Johns running around NOT being totally awesome and obviously it's all because of their boring-ass names. So you decide to name your son something original, like Malcolm, Ivan or Dicksmash McIroncock.
But in Reality...
You have just sent your flesh and blood straight into the middle of a massive man-rape in the prison shower. According to a study at the Shippensburg University, kids growing up with ordinary, popular names have a higher chance to become law abiding citizens, while all the unusually named ones should start deciding what state they want to commit their first felony in (friendly tip, skip Texas). The study lists the top 10 bad boy names in America as: Alec, Ernest, Garland, Ivan, Kareem, Luke, Malcolm, Preston, Tyrell and Walter, which we must point out are not the names of any serial killer or presidential assassin that has ever existed, so we're assuming the research is skewed in a certain direction.
Although, Steve Buscemi played a serial killer named Garland in Con Air, so we guess that's maybe half a point?
The theory is that the additional attention garnered by odd and unusual names can cause peer ridicule and discrimination in the workforce, which tends to result in a few thousand Alecs and Prestons stealing toilet paper from the gas station. So do your kid a favor and give him a typical law-abiding, mentally stable name, like Michael.
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I'm really impressed with the sips (and some of their prices) offered at this year's Epcot Food & Wine Festival. I got a chance to stop by this past Saturday and here were some of my high points (along with a couple of low ones too).
First off, this year there is a new beer pavilion, one celebrating "15 Beers For 15 Years." You can't miss it, it's a large one loaded with bottles of beer when you first enter the World Showcase. The beers include: Fischer Amber, Full Sail Amber, Key West Sunset Ale, La Fin Du Monde, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Smithwick's, Widmer Drifter Pale Ale, Widmer Hefeweizen, Abita Amber, Abita Purple Haze, B.B. Burgerbrau, Banks Beer, Florida Lager, Sessions Lager and Viru Pilsner.
A solid selection. Not exactly anything rare in there, you can find most at the local Total Wine & More in Orlando or at many bars around the area, but still a refreshing selection compared to the usual theme park find. The prices were also very fair, with 6 oz. ranging between $2.75-$3.25 and 12 oz. ranging from $5-$6.25.
Some other happy gems I found during my drinking tour of the festival:
Puerto Rico's Bacardi Frozen Torched Cherry Colada. A creamy, frozen treat that was well worth standing in line for. I also heard their Bacardi Frozen Limon Mojito was equally delish.
France's Grand Marnier Orange Slush is an annual tradition for me. I always look forward to the Creamsicle with a kick taste in my mouth. Good news is that you can order the drink year round — it's not just served during the Food & Wine Fest, but I reserve it for that occasion. I think the best comment I heard about the slush was from my friend's mom who said because of it she never seems to make it past France while at the World Showcase. It's really fantastic!
For the Sam Adams fans, there are a ton of different beers from the brewer at the Hops and Barley Market across from America Gardens stage. Seriously, a great selection.
There were a couple of low points.
One was when Ireland couldn't serve Guinness because no one knew how to tap a keg. Really?
The other slightly hindered another fave drink of mine: the Fiesta frozen margarita in Mexico. They weren't completely frozen, and sort of slushy. But the tequila was in there and as the lady in front of me said, that is what matters.
Belgium ran out of bottled water for about an hour and a half while I was there too.
Overall, with the exception of the beers, prices range in the $7-$9 average per drink. There are a ton of beer, wine and liquor seminars and classes happening throughout the festival. To get a complete list, go here. Also, you can read my account of the day that I posted on Twitter here.


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Spearfish, S.D. – The Black Hills State University football team defeated Dakota State 14-9 Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of more 3,000 people.
The Yellow Jackets took the lead on a quarterback keeper by senior Drew Hodgs with 5:13 remaining in the game. Senior Clayton Schleusner came up with an interception to give the ball back to the Yellow Jackets late in the fourth quarter.
"I'm very proud of our guys," said head coach Jay Long. "Once again, our defense came up big to keep us in the game and our offense came through when we most needed it."
The Yellow Jackets were led by a strong rushing attack including freshman Drew Nielson who finished the contest with 127 yards on the ground. Freshman Bryar DeSanti also added 58 yards to the Black Hills State ground attack.
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Last Thursday, Big Brother and the Holding Company kicked off the 2009 American Music Masters celebration, Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin. Sam Andrew, Dave Getz, and Peter Albin, three original members of the band, spent the day in Cleveland to help us tell the full story of Janis Joplin's career. They filmed interviews for our Library and Archives, did an interview and performed in our new Foster Theater, and capped the night with a packed show at the Beachland Ballroom. Clevelanders Mary Bridget Davies and Ben Nieves joined them on vocals and guitar.
Big Brother played their first gig in January of 1966, six months before Janis Joplin joined them. When they decided that they wanted another vocalist in the band, Chet Helms suggested his friend from Austin, Texas, Janis Joplin. On paper, it seems like an odd match: Big Brother was known for their energy and power—in retrospect, they seem like a punk band—but Joplin had never sung with a rock band before. Yet they found common ground in their love of blues and folk music, and they quickly discovered that Joplin could "bring it," as Dave Getz said last week in the interview we filmed. Her voice had the power that made her a perfect fit. Although we associate them with the psychedelic scene in San Francisco, the members of Big Brother all had experience in rock and roll bands in the late 1950s. In many ways, their story was similar to Dylan's—they were hooked by the first generation rock and rollers like Little Richard but moved on to acoustic blues and folk music by the early 1960s. Those roots are reflected in their early shows with Joplin, which included everything from "Oh! My Soul" to "Coo Coo."
In their onstage interview, the band described the whirlwind of changes they went through during the first year integrating Joplin into the band. Sam Andrew described the process as a real give and take–they knew when to lay back and let Janis do her own thing, and she learned when to step back and let the band do their thing. Sam, Dave, and Peter also spoke about Big Brother's experiences in the recording studio and their attempts to capture the power and energy of their live sound. They only recorded two official albums with Janis: Big Brother and the Holding Company (released in August 1967) and Cheap Thrills (released August 1968). As they described on stage, they recorded the albums under very different circumstances—the first album was recorded almost entirely live in a studio designed for jazz recording, while the second album featured multitracking and overdubbing.
Big Brother and the Holding Company has released some terrific archival material in recent years including Live at Winterland '68, a recording from April of that year, when the band was at their peak with Joplin, and The Lost Tapes, which features a live performance from the summer of 1966 and some studio outtakes. A fascinating documentary, 900 Nights, has also been released on DVD, and features great performance footage and interviews with Andrew, Getz, Albin and original guitarist James Gurley. You can read more about Big Brother's career and current touring schedule here: www.bbhc.com.
Sam, Dave and Peter: thanks for a great day, and good luck on the European tour!


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Van Halen's '5150' Vs. David Lee Roth's 'Eat 'Em and Smile' – Great Rock Debates
Rock and roll history is rife with intra-band family feuds, but perhaps none received quite as much publicity or caused a bigger fan base rift than Van Halen's ugly divorce from singer David Lee Roth in 1985. Certainly, this was the battle royal of '80's hard rock! After all, no other American band did quite as much as the Roth-fronted Van Halen to set the template later aspired to by future generations of bands. It therefore stands to reason that the debate over which of the first albums released by these warring factions — the Sammy Hagar-fronted Van Halen and hastily assembled David Lee Roth band — is better continues to polarize hard rock fans to this day. We asked two writers to each argue one side of this debate, and here's what they had to say:
'Eat 'Em and Smile' is Better Than '5150'
by Eduardo Rivadavia
Here's the thing you have to understand about this argument: no one — or at least no one who actually cared about Van Halen prior to 'Jump''s unprecedented crossover into the pop charts — sided with Roth when his departure from the band became official that summer. Between the undoubtedly amusing but unnervingly kitsch cover tunes heard on Roth's 1985 solo EP, 'Crazy from the Heat,' and the singer's sheer egotistical overexposure, most Van Halen fans (including yours truly) were nearly as fed up with Diamond Dave's antics as Eddie, Alex and Michael. "Good riddance," we said!
But when the newly minted "Van Hagar" unveiled their first collaboration, '5150,' in March of 1986, its synthesizer-drenched, thoroughly modern contents veered so radically from Van Halen's beloved old blueprint that diehard fans couldn't help but question their loyalty. And when the surprisingly formidable David Lee Roth band (complete with a guitar hero of its own in the inimitable Steve Vai), surprised most everyone that July by appealing to that nostalgic VH aesthetic with 'Eat 'em and Smile,' the battle lines were formally drawn.
Sure, 'Eat 'em and Smile,' also boasted a sugary sweet single in 'Goin' Crazy!' (still better than 'Dreams'!) and another pair of insufferable classic pop covers ('I'm Easy,' 'That's Life'), but it also packed a wealth of electrifying, athletic rockers in 'Yankee Rose,' 'Shyboy' and 'Elephant Gun' — all of them bursting with the sort of fleet-fingered guitar showboating and larger-than-life personalities Van Halen fans were hungering for. Heck, even the Roth band's rare true experiments — namely the sultry cult favorite 'Ladies Nite in Buffalo?' — fared better than Van Hagar's wholesale departure into synth-rock (not to mention the pointless avant-garde filler that was 'Inside').
So while 'Eat 'em and Smile' is anything but perfect, you have to admit, wherever you stand on the still far-from-settled Roth vs. Hagar debate, that the red-hot parts of 'Eat 'em and Smile' share a lot more in common with 'Unchained' than anything found on the calculated, cold and clinical '5150.'
'5150' is Better Than 'Eat 'Em and Smile'
by Matt Wardlaw
David Lee Roth is never at a loss for words — and he chose them well when taking stock of his vocal arch-nemesis Sammy Hagar's work in comparison to his own. As the pair were preparing to launch an unlikely co-headlining tour in 2002, Roth quipped, "Sam throws a party. I am the party."
But which party was better? In 1986, both Van Halen and Roth were at a crucial crossroads as they prepared their first post-breakup releases. Roth appeared to have one clear advantage — he was moving forward with the recognizable multi-platinum voice, which can be a big hole for a band to fill.
But most bands don't have the luxury of having Eddie Van Halen in their arsenal. Since he was clearly established as one of the genre's most important guitar players, there was little doubt that there would be interested eyes and ears waiting to hear what he and his bandmates would do next in the recording studio.
No question, the choice of Hagar as Van Halen's new singer caused more than a few fans to scratch their heads. Remember, this was an era where vocalist swaps weren't quite as common as today's practice of finding a clone of your current singer on YouTube. But as Hagar — who had built a formidable resume of work both solo and with Montrose — would prove with his debut on '5150,' his presence gave Van Halen the necessary tools to satisfy in a whole new way.
Of course, Van Halen had begun to explore more melodic pastures with the '1984' album, bringing keyboards prominently into the mix on songs like 'I'll Wait' and 'Jump.' But they were now able to take those ideas even further on '5150′ with songs like 'Why Can't This Be Love' and 'Dreams.' There was even — yikes! — a power balled, 'Love Walks In.'
Hagar also helped the band to score their first-ever No. 1 album (the first of several) with '5150.' Many can lament that Van Halen with Roth was more of a "party" band, but future tequila billionaire Hagar certainly brought his own good times into the mix. Van Hagar concerts often felt like close and personal — okay, maybe drunken — family reunions.
David Lee Roth is the party? Fair enough — but Hagar brought songwriting consistency and more importantly expanded range to Van Halen. Most of 'Eat 'Em and Smile' depended on old tricks to succeed, and sometimes relied too heavily on flash and Roth's personality instead of substance. As his 1988 follow-up 'Skyscraper' proved even more clearly, even if you assemble the absolute best army of players — and Bissonette, Sheehan and Vai certainly fit that description — a strong songwriting chemistry needs to be in place in order to achieve career longevity.
But there's no need to look ahead. Song for song, '5150' is ultimately a better album than 'Eat 'Em and Smile.' Against all odds, lightning struck twice for Van Halen as the combination of Hagar, Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony built a collaborative brotherhood that in 1986 felt pretty special. Today, even though that partnership is regrettably long fractured, '5150' still holds up.


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When and where do people go clamming and crabbing?
Crabbing and clamming don't always go hand in hand. You want to have minus tide for good clamming so that the beds are exposed. For crabbing, ideally you want a small tidal exchange so that the current isn't too great.
You will find the most low tides in May, June and July but twice every month there are minus tides, during the full and dark phases of the moon.
A common saying for crabbing is "any month that ends in a 'R' has the best crab." The later into the fall the better. During the summer, crabs are available but it can be hit and miss. Also, there will be more soft crab in the summer. A soft crab is one that has recently molted its shell and will not have as much meat.
Nehalem, Tillamook, Netarts, Yaquina, Alsea and Coos Bay are all very popular crabbing spots. Nehalem, Tillamook nd Yaquina have some piers/docks you can crab from. Most bays also have boat rental places.
What to visit in Eastern Oregon for 2 days?
Two days in Oregon will give you time to explore the Oregon Trail and native American history, including the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute around Pendleton or further east in Baker City at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Check out geologic history in the Painted Hills and the John Day Fossil Beds, including the amazing Thomas Condon Paleontology Center. If you're looking for wilderness adventure, head to the Wallowa Mountains in the northeastern corner of the state or the Steens in Southeastern Oregon. For a great overview and idea planning, I recommend you start here.
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Can you ski at Mt. Hood in the summer?
The summer skiing on Mount Hood rocks! We were just up skiing on Hood yesterday and it was an amazing day. When are you coming, do you need to rent gear, and what would say your ability level is currently? Can't
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My husband and I are planning a trip to Bend in August. We have a 14 month-old and would like to hike somewhere that isn't too difficult and has some safe swimming holes. Any suggestions?
A great hiking option, relatively flat, is the Deschutes River Trail, which runs right through Bend. The trail system is awesome! People do swim at McKay Park, but it's not really safe or a swimming hole, necessarily. If you want that, I'd head up to Elk Lake. Especially in August, the water is warm and definitely safe – try the South Beach for a shallow hole. There is a lot of hiking up there, but it's more mountainous. Have a wonderful trip!
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Where is there good berry picking in the Bandon area?
The South Coast is one of the best places to U-pick blueberries, with the prime location being Langlois, just south of Bandon and north of Port Orford. There are a couple of family-run farms just off Highway 101 that mark their location with signs. Look for Jensen's, which is organic. Berrying usually is at its height in August, and with this year's cold summer, ripening could be even later.
Various species of blackberries grow all over the southern part of the state, particularly near waterways and will be ripe into September. Black and red huckleberries thrive under fir canopies near the coast. There also are salal berries on the coastal headlands and the more elusive orange-crimson salmonberries.
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We are in Roseburg & want to go to Eastern Oregon beyond Crater Lake and head north towards Ione with our travel trailer. We like hiking and biking too. Where should we stop and what should we see on the way?
If you go north from Crater Lake toward Bend on 97, you can then head east on Highway 26. You will pass through wonderful small towns between Prineville and Mitchell as well as plenty of campgrounds and hiking options in the Ochoco National Forest. From Mitchell, you can follow the John Day River on Oregon 19, a beautiful route that will lead you directly to Ione.
|Eastern Oregon
My fiance and I are planning on spending our honeymoon in the Bend area. We would like to see as much as we can in 5 days. We would like to see the coast or tidepools, or maybe go on some hikes. What are some great spots to visit for a young active couple on a budget? What is the best way to organize our trip so that we can get the most out of it?
I take it you haven't been here before? I'll tell you my top five highlights for the Bend area: The High Desert Museum, the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, The Deschutes River Trail, Downtown Bend and Mirror Pond, and The Old Mill District on the Deschutes River. I would devote a day to driving the mountains (Cascade Lakes) and a couple of days to exploring town. Maybe catch a concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater? Maybe head north 45 minutes and spend a day at Smith Rock State Park – it's spectacular. If you want tidepools and the coast, you'll need to drive four hours west. Well worth it, but your call if you want to take the time. Enjoy!
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The men want to fish for 2 days in late September. We would like to see the best of the Oregon Coast and some inland. Suggestions?
That time frame is ideal for salmon on both the Columbia River and the Oregon Coast.
Tillamook and Nehalem Bays will be heating up (Nearest towns are Tillamook, Garibaldi, Rockaway and Nehalem. The guys can fish while the girls shop, beach comb or explore. I would suggest Garibaldi House as a very nice place to stay. Boat rentals are available at the local marinas on the bays or you could do guided trips.
Fishing on the Columbia R takes place in several locations from Astoria to the Columbia Gorge. There are a few seasonal closure dates on some sections, but it will all be open for most of September.
If not familiar with the Columbia, a guide is highly suggested because of changing seasons as well as fast water, currents, commercial ship traffic and shallows. Please don't hesitate to ask any more questions, I'd love to help.
Heading from Canada to Crater Lake and Florence. Could you recommend bars in those areas with unique local beers? Many thanks from a thirsty wanderer!
In Florence, your best bets are the Beachcomber Pub (20 taps, with some nice southern Willamette Valley picks) or Wakonda Brewing Co. I actually haven't been to Wakonda yet, but the reviews are impressive.
Crater Lake isn't ringed with pubs, so take some beer with you. Oh, and if you're taking OR 58 from Eugene down to Crater Lake, you must stop in Oakridge at the Brewers Union Local 180. It's a tiny brewpub run by one of the country's leading advocates of cask ale. Ask for him if you want to spend an hour in lovely conversation. His name's Ted and you can tell him I sent you.
We will be staying in Newport in mid-September and would like suggestions for a scenic route to drive to Mt. Hood. We would like to see some of the scenic sights in Central Oregon along the way. Is the Three Sisters area too far off the path?
Well, seeing the Sisters on the way to Mt. Hood isn't exactly the direct route, but if you are up for a leisurely driving tour of the state, it's a lovely way to go! From Newport you can head east over the Cascades, seeing many lovely sights along the way. From Bend, head north on Hwy 97 to Mt. Hood. The whole endeavor will take you seven hours +, so if you have time, you might consider staying over a night (maybe in Bend?). You can see the Cascades from parts of I-5 (assuming you took a more direct route from Newport to Hood), but it isn't nearly the same as seeing those peaks up close.
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Todd Schaefer Joins Husky Women's Basketball as Assistant Coach
Washington head coach Mike Neighbors announced the addition of Natalie Romeo to the Washington roster.
Friday, Washington Interim Athletic Director Jenn Cohen announced a contract extension for head women's basketball coach Mike Neighbors through the 2022-23 season.
Washington's Talia Walton was selected by the Los Angeles Sparks with the fifth pick of the third round (No. 29 overall) in Thursday's WNBA Draft.
The WNBA League Offices announced the 12 invitees to the WNBA Draft 2016, including Washington forward Talia Walton.
Talia Walton sat at an elevated table, looking out across a room filled with reporters. Minutes after an 80-59 loss to Syracuse in Final Four, the senior was asked to reflect on a season that vaulted Washington into the national spotlight.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Alexis Peterson scored 18 points and Brittney Sykes added 17 to help Syracuse defeat Washington 80-59 in Sunday's national semifinal game.
Friday the United States Basketball Writer's Association announced their 10-player All-America team, which included Husky guard Kelsey Plum.
When Kelsey Plum made her decision to play college basketball at Washington, she made her goals for the future very clear � "I want to win a national championship."
Saturday the 2016 WBCA Division I Coaches All-America Team was announced at the NCAA Division I Women's Final Four, including Washington.
Mike Neighbors planned to take a different path. Washington's coach, born into a family of educators � principals, superintendents, librarians and teachers � wanted to branch out, find a path that would lead him away from the family business.
Washington has arrived at the Final Four and will face Syracuse on Sunday at 5:30 p.m., PT.


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The American Legion Post 277 Women's Auxiliary hosted its "Forever 21" Valentine's Dance at the American Legion Hall in Placentia last Saturday night.
Members and friends were invited to enjoy food, drink and dancing while helping to raise funds for the group.
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Ebook discussions flying under the radar
Mirrored from Infotropism. You can comment there or here.
A couple of weeks ago, I started seeing a pile of blog discussion about ebook piracy. It all started on January 12th, when Australian fan lucyham tweeted to author Sarah Rees Brennan:
Apologies. Have just torrented The Demon's Lexicon. Will buy when laggardly, pickpocketing, luddite publishers in Aus get around to allowing Australians to buy books off Amazon. So sick of "Aussies can't purchase this book" message.
A twitter storm ensued, which quickly made it to various blogs. Author Saundra Mitchell posted on her blog and also on her LiveJournal, saying:
If even HALF of those people who downloaded my book that week had bought it, I would have hit the New York Times Bestseller list. If the 800+ downloads a week of my book were only HALF converted into sales, I would earn out in one more month. But I'm never going to earn out. And my book is never going to be available in your $region, not for lack of trying.
Things took off quickly; there were almost 20 posts that day, mostly in response to Mitchell. In the next two weeks, or a little more, almost a hundred posts on the subject sprang up, more than two-thirds of which were on LiveJournal or Dreamwidth (a LiveJournal-like site, based on the same code; many people crosspost between the two.)
Reading these posts as they flowed past, I noticed several interesting things about them. Firstly, many of them were addressing the issues of ebook piracy from an angle I had never seen before, criticising the capitalist structures of book distribution and intellectual property from a social justice perspective. Secondly, most of the posts seemed to be by women. Thirdly, nobody outside the circles of LJ/DW fandom and social justice circles seemed to be noticing. It seemed a pity. I'm a regular reader or visitor to many tech blogs, including O'Reilly Radar, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, and pop-culture-meets-tech blogs like Boing Boing, any of which might have picked up this story and run with it, if they'd been in the loop.
I wondered, though, whether I was missing something. I know that we tend to follow people most like ourselves online, and read things that reinforce our own views and opinions. If men disproportionately follow other men, maybe I'm disproportionately reading posts by women, and there were a whole bunch of posts by men that I'd missed. It's happened before, after all.
Tonight I decided to investigate. Using Google Blog Search and following links from any posts I found, I put together a spreadsheet of posts, 112 in all, on the subjects of ebook piracy and international distribution, between Jan 10th and Jan 27th. (Why Jan 10th rather than 12th? Turns out that O'Reilly Radar had posted an article about ebook piracy and DRM on the 10th, which was referenced by other bloggers over the next few days, so it seemed worth including. More notes on my methods and choices made are at the bottom of this post.)
I then took the spreadsheet and ran it through a few lines of Perl to generate the following GraphViz graph:
- A <- B means that post B linked to post A
- Gender of poster is shown by colour of the nodes (pink for female, blue for male, grey for unknown/other)
Here's what's going on.
- The giant tangled blob taking up most of the image is the discussion sparked by lucyham's illegal download of Sarah Rees Brennan's book, and Saundra Mitchell's subsequent blog post. As you can see, there are the best part of 100 posts, mostly by women. This discussion ran from at least the 12th to the 27th of January (and the post you're reading right now extends it into February).
- At the top of the chart are some small clusters showing conversations not connected to the main LJ/DW conversation. The first is small cluster mostly around posts by Chris Walker of booksprung.com, criticising publishers who don't make their books available to Australian consumers. This discussion ran from at least Jan 11th to 25th, but never crossed over with the discussion sparked by lucyham (also Australian).
- Just below that is a set of posts about ebook piracy and DRM circumvention, mostly centred around O'Reilly Radar's interview with Brian O'Leary, who says that DRM doesn't prevent piracy. O'Reilly run the Tools of Change for Publishing conference, and that blog post was part of the lead-up to that event. This discussion played out from the 10th to the 18th of January, without linking to any of the other discussions in progress. (Nor, to be fair, being linked from them; the community discussing ebooks in January was as unaware of O'Reilly as O'Reilly were of them.)
- At the extreme top right, a single post by Mike Shatzkin, on the globalisation of ebook publishing, was posted on Jan 21st but doesn't link to any of the aforementioned conversations. It's included purely because of its topicality, even though it wasn't connected to anything else.
I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from this, other than that my gut feeling was correct: there was a really fascinating, complicated, crunchy conversation going on, mostly among women, mostly on LJ/DW, that the tech blogs and other parts of the web don't seem to have noticed. Make of that what you will.
If you missed the discussion and would like to catch up on some of the highlights, I would recommend:
- Troisroyaumes On piracy and copyright is a roundup of social-justice criticisms of the ebook piracy issue; it's a great entry into that side of the debate.
- First-person accounts of acquiring books outside of affluent, English-speaking countries: qian in Malaysia, Marina in Israel, wistfuljane in Vietnam, Aurora in Colombia, Charles in the Philippines
- Elf has several really solid posts on different aspects of the discussion: on business models, books are not music, on authors who say "the poor should not be reading my books"
- Authors who publicly changed their minds as a result of the discussion: Karen Healey, Jim Hines.
Links to all ~100 posts are in the spreadsheet o' doom.
Some notes on methodology
- How I found posts: a) Google Blog Search for "ebook piracy" between Jan 10th and 31st, b) following links from any blog posts that showed up, c) "linkspam" posts, especially this one. (The LJ/DW community, especially those involved in fandom and social justice issues, have a tradition of gathering linkspams to document hot issues as they happen.) I followed up with additional blog searches for related phrases, for instance "saundra mitchell", or "brian o'leary" to find more posts linking to his O'Reilly Radar interview.
- What posts qualified: any post that had at least a paragraph of original opinion, or was linked to by any other post already in the set. Therefore, posts that simply linked without additional commentary didn't count. Posts outside of the time period (Jan 10th to 31st) were not included, no matter how often linked.
- What counted as a link: only links in the main body of the post; I didn't look at links in comments. However, if there was a link to a comment thread, I counted that as a link to the parent post.
- Gender: I based gender on the stated gender of the poster (in user profiles, self-referential pronouns, etc), given names, pictures of the poster, and/or circumstantial evidence, in roughly that order of preference. In many cases, I have met the poster in person, and so used my personal knowledge.
- Proportion of LJ/DW posts: when calculating the number of LJ/DW posts in the conversation, I counted a post if it was crossposted to at least on LJ-like platform.
Please, if I missed anything, mis-categorised, or mis-gendered anyone, let me know, and I'll update the spreadsheet and the generated graphics.


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I have been thinking, it might be best if we where to just make another forum site, instead of trying to maintain this one. PD is already outdated by at least 2 years forum wise, and we can't currently do anything without Mewtwo, because he only pops up like once a year. There are plenty of new and free forum builder sites out there for us to use too, so its not that much of a hassle. The only thing to worry about is the fact that the site it will not link to it. God would just have to post an announcement or something, telling people to go to the new forums. And I am sure Mewtwo will eventually link to the new forums, even if it takes 6 months.
Thoughts? Additional ideas? Criticism? Whatever, I would be interested in what free forums you guys would be interested in, the one old cosmo used seems pretty cool.


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By Alice Kenny
Teens from Washington Heights, where per–capita income is half the New York average, balanced on scaffolding, learned the rudiments of how to build a high rise that won't fall down and took their first steps towards becoming engineers at Liberty Science Center last Saturday, April 19, 2014.
The event, hosted by Catholic Charities Alianza Division and sponsored by the Society of Hispanic Professionals in Engineering, was designed to motivate minority students to explore the possibility of pursuing careers in engineering. Students from the High School for Media and Communications GPS program – short for Graduate, Prepare and Succeed – that participate in Catholic Charities' Alianza Dominicana were bused from Washington Heights to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. There they met with engineering professionals who answered questions and peeked students' curiosity as they explored the 300,000 square foot learning center.
Next up for these students is Engineering Day on Saturday, May 10. Also held also at the Liberty Science Center, teens will team up to build their own machines. These engineering immersion experiences fit the mission of Catholic Charities Alianza Dominicana, to assist children, youth and families break the cycle of poverty and fulfill their potential as members of the global economy.


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Literacy and Laughter at the Annual Conference on Children's Literature and 11th Annual Ashley Bryan Art Series and the Children's BookFest
Annual Conference on Children's Literature and 11th Annual Ashley Bryan Art Series: "Reading Is Not Optional" is the theme for Broward County Library's joint 26th Annual Conference on Children's Literature and 11th Annual Ashley Bryan Art Series, to be held April 26 at the Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301, in the first floor auditorium. The day-long event offers a free learning opportunity to those who encourage children through books including teachers, parents, librarians, media specialists and child care workers. Registration and refreshments will begin at 9 a.m.
"Reading Is Not Optional" embodies the work of the keynote speakers for the event, Walter Dean Myers and Shane Evans. Author Walter Dean Myers is the 2012-13 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is the critically acclaimed author of more than 100 books – National Book Award finalists Monster, Autobiography of My Dead Brother and Lockdown among them – and the winner of five Coretta Scott King Awards and two Newbery Honors. He is considered one of the preeminent writers for young people.
Shane Evans, artist, author, musician and illustrator, received international recognition as the 2012 Coretta Scott King Award-winner for Underground. The author of more than 30 books, Evan's accolades include The Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the 2011 NAACP Image Award and the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.
Additional Conference/Art Series Guests:
The Conference and Art Series are free and open to the public. Presenters' books and CDs will be available for purchase and autographing. Parking is available in the adjacent City Park garage (east side of the library) for $1.25 per hour. It is sponsored by the Friends of Fort Lauderdale Libraries, the Friends of the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, the Florida Center for the Book and the Broward Public Library Foundation. For further information, contact Youth Services Administration at 954-357-7336, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Children's BookFest: In celebration of El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), Broward County Library presents the annual Children's BookFest on Saturday, April 27, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the West Regional Library, 8601 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation, FL 33324. This year's Caribbean-themed, free literary event lets youngsters ages 3 to 10 and their families experience a world of stories and fun. There will be a pre-celebration to kick off the festival on Saturday, April 20 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Hollywood Library, 2600 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, FL 33020. El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), is a national celebration of children and reading.
Children's BookFest offers children the opportunity to meet famous authors, hear professional storytellers, see top-notch children's shows and interact with costumed characters. Upon arrival, children are encouraged to pick up a passport to begin their journey, and the first 1,000 young visitors will receive a free book to take home. There will be performers and storytellers representing the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, to name a few. Children will have the opportunity to be creative at the arts and crafts tables, get their face painted for free and enjoy food trucks on the premises from Gourmet Truck Expo. Featured events at Children's BookFest will include:
Children's BookFest is funded by the Broward Public Library Foundation with support from Broward Family Life Magazine, the Miami Herald, the Friends of West Regional Library and The Charles F. and Esther M. Frye Foundation. Pre-celebration of the Children's BookFest is funded by the Broward Public Library Foundation with additional support from the Friends of the Hollywood Branch Library.


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07 February 2013
Guillermo Vilas, David Nalbandian and Javier Frana
The Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group first round weekend saw another round of Commitment Award winners receive their trophy at various ties around the globe and included two players from the weekend's biggest stories.
Daniel Nestor was the senior player in Canada's surprise victory over Spain in Toronto, where his experience was supplemented by the youth and exuberance of Milos Raonic who rounded out the win.
Playing in his 43rd tie, the doubles specialist was undone when trying to close out the tie for the hosts on Saturday following his collecting of the award alongside Grant Connell and Sebastien Lareau, partnering Vasek Pospisil against regular tour partners Marc Lopez and Marcel Granollers in five sets. Canada ultimately prevailed, however, and will now progress to play Italy where Nestor will also certainly be given an opportunity to help his team to another historic milestone.
Argentina were victors against a German side beset with injuries through the course of the weekend and a host of stars from the past were alongside David Nalbandian to collect the award and then watch him complete victory.
Guillermo Villas and Jose Luis Clerc, both part of the side that made the Final in 1981, joined Argentina's current stalwart for the ceremony and stayed on to see Nalbandian, alongside Horacio Zeballos, defeat Tobias Kamke and Christopher Kas, 61 64 57 62, to secure the third of the hosts' points in a whitewash 5-0 victory over Germany.
The other World Group tie to witness a Commitment Award ceremony was in Charleroi where Belgium were defeated by Serbia. Filip Dewulf and Olivier Rochus were there to receive their awards and between them have represented Belgium for over two decades in one of the most successful periods for the country in Davis Cup.
The former was a member of the 1999 team that reached the semifinals in their best performance in the competition in recent times. Rochus participated in one rubber over the course of the tie where he took on World No.1 Novak Djokovic entering the match with a 3-2 advantage in the head-to-head but being blown off the court in straight sets on this occasion.
There were also ceremonies on Saturday in Zone Group events including Ireland, India, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Sri Lanka and Uruguay while Denmark held a unique event on Tuesday hosted by Crown Prince Frederik.
A full list of players who received the award this round can be found below:
Argentina – Ricardo Cano, Jose Luis Clerc, Javier Frana, David Nalbandian, Guillermo VillasBelgium – Olivier Rochus, Filip DewulfBulgaria – Todor EnevCanada – Grant Connell, Sebastien Lareau, Daniel NestorChinese Taipei – Hsu Huang-JungDenmark – Michael Mortensen, Kenneth Carlsen Ireland – Owen Casey, Sean SorensenIndia – Jaidip Mukerjea, Leander PaesJapan – Tsuyoshi Fukui, Satoshi Iwabuchi, Jun Kamiwazumi, Gouichi MotomuraKazakhstan – Alexey KedryukKuwait – Muhammad Khaliq SiddiqMonaco – Bernard BalleretPeru – Luis Horna, Ivan MirandaPoland – Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Marcin MatkowskiPortugal – Emanuel Couto, Joao Cunha-Silva, Rui Machado, Nuno Marques, Leonardo TavaresSri Lanka – Arjun FernandoUruguay – Federico Dondo, Marcel Felder, Marcelo Filippini, Diego Perez
A total of 299 players have already qualified to receive the award, of whom 252 are still alive. Presentations will be made to award winners at Davis Cup home ties throughout 2013.
There are now five active players who are one tie away from achieving the necessary number of ties to qualify for the Commitment Award these are: Frederico Gil (POR), Victor Hanescu (ROU), Michal Mertinak (SVK), Jose Statham (NZL) and Grega Zemlja (SLO).
The Commitment Award trophies are based on the design of the current Davis Cup trophy. All recipients will also be recognised on an honours board at the ITF headquarters in London and in a dedicated section on the official Davis Cup website.
A full list of award winners can be viewed here.
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Gardening Articles: Care :: Plant Care Techniques
Pruning Fruit Trees
by Lee Reich
If there's one group of plants that demands regular and careful pruning, it's deciduous fruit trees. Taste the sweetness of a perfectly ripe pear or apricot: That sweetness represents energy. Producing luscious fruits demands lots of energy, which comes from the sun, and one goal of pruning is to help all the limbs on your tree bask in as much sunshine as possible.
Pruning also has other benefits. It's the way to strike a balance between shoot growth and fruit production, so important in ensuring that your tree bears the largest and tastiest fruits year after year. And keeping branches open to light and air also speeds drying of leaves and fruits, decreasing diseases, and allows sprays to penetrate if spraying is needed.
Young Trees: Prune for Form
The first years a fruit tree is in the ground are important to its future performance. It's then that the tree should form its permanent framework. Your goal is to help your tree produce branches that are strong enough to support their future loads of fruit, and to develop branches that won't cross or shade each other. Centuries of fruit growing have spawned many different tree forms, but three predominate: open center, central leader, and modified central leader. The ideal form for a particular tree depends not only on your preferences, but also on the plant's natural growth habit.
Tree Forms
Open center training, years one to three
The tree's main stem or stems is called a leader, a continuation of the trunk. A central-leader tree has a leader with branches growing off it; these branches are shorter near the top of the tree. The open-center tree has a vase shape made up of three or four leaders growing off the trunk in an outward and upward direction. The modified-central-leader tree starts with just a central leader, but when it grows to about 7 feet, you stop its growth by bending it over, which slows growth, or cutting back to a weak side branch.
The tree you get from a nursery may be a single upright stem, or whip. Alternatively, you may get a "feathered" tree, an upright stem with some side branches. If your new tree is a whip, shorten it by a third to a half to promote branching. For a feathered tree, save well-placed branches and completely cut away all others. Always cut broken stems and dead or diseased wood back into healthy tissue.
For any of the three basic tree forms, begin branch selection the first season. Start with the first branch about 2 feet from the ground, then space higher ones about 6 to 8 inches apart. Strive for a spiral arrangement of branches so that each branch has room to spread. Also, choose branches that make wide angles (45°F to 60°F) with the central leader, because such branches are most firmly anchored to the stem.
For an open-center tree, once you have selected three or four branches, cut the central stem off just above the topmost branch. The tree then continues to grow upward and outward along the branches, now officially leaders (but not central leaders). As these leaders grow, make sure that none of their side branches originates so low that they interfere with each other.
If your tree is a central-leader or modified-central-leader type, induce the central leader to keep making new branches by cutting off about a third of the previous season's growth each year while the plant is dormant. If dormant-season pruning doesn't produce enough branching options, tip prune leaders during the growing season. Cut back the leader by a few inches each time it grows a few inches above the point where you want a side branch. The uppermost bud that remains after cutting back the leader usually grows to become an upright shoot, a continuation of the leader. Lower buds grow out to produce side branches. Select new side branches that are well spaced along the leader and firmly anchored to it.
The central leader on both central-leader and young modified-central-leader trees should remain as the dominant and most upright stem of the tree--the horticultural top dog. If the leading stem should grow into two equally vigorous stems, remove one of them immediately and completely. Also, don't let the central leader fruit in its first few years and don't let it bend over, because both circumstances would weaken its growth.


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ZF-1930: [patch] Zend_View_Helper_FormSelect mistakenly sets options with value of 0 to selected
Zend_View_Helper_FormSelect uses in_array() to test if a value is supposed to be selected. Unfortunately, this causes a problem if one of the options has a value of 0. Any option with a value of 0 will be selected no matter what. I'm attaching a patch that fixes the problem.
Assigned to Matthew
Scheduling for 1.0.3
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I know there are some methods you can use like hittestPoint and so on, but I want to see where my movieclip colliedes with another another movieclip. Any other methods I can use?
by any chance does somebody know some a good introduction to game physics? Im asking because I coded a small engine and pretty much the whole code is spagetti code thats why I would like to know how you can setup something like this properly


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Become your own bartender with DIY Cocktails by Marcia Simmons and Jonas Halpren, industry insiders who will school you in cocktail ratios, sweet and sour ingredients, basic behind-the-bar tools, and even ice sizes (for drinks on the rockier side). Be encouraged to personalize your favorite potions by "splashing and dashing" along the way. Taste testing required!
Cooking Up the Good Life by Jenny Breen and Susan Thurston focuses on the family table and how to prepare a delicious dish for every course with recipes like potato gratin with gorgonzola, seafood kebabs in lime-ginger marmalade and Coco Loco cookies. This book is also interspersed with fun food facts: Quinoa, we learned, is a versatile grain that goes well with tofu, chicken, meat or fish. Divided into sections by season, this cookbook offers relevant menu suggestions for dinner parties, holiday meals and more, plus tips for getting your kids involved with mixing and measuring.
Keep this bible for hearty dishes close to your stove. Sear, Sauce & Serve by Tony Rosenfeld lets you choose between meat, fish or vegetables, then scan for the temperature and preparation required for sautéing, stir-frying, broiling or grilling. Jazz up your dishes with recipes for 225 different sauces including spiced pineapple-rum glaze, tomato and basil sauce, and crushed peach BBQ sauce. The food pairings are drool-worthy and the author's commentary, colorful: "Hello, fish sauce!" writes Rosenfeld of his Thai red curry sauce which promises to spice up your night.
Fine Cooking in Season narrows down the ingredients you will be cooking with based on when they become available. Green is the color of spring with fresh asparagus, peas, salad leaves, ramps and more. Unsure of what a ramp is? This cookbook includes color photos of every main ingredient mentioned. Try a spring risotto recipe with ramps, peas and morels, or simply sprinkle chopped ramps over a mashed or baked potato. Learn how to incorporate fruits and vegetables for healthier eating with this must-have guide to your local farmer's market.
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Our Brand Soft Horizontal Sheer is a soft,Room Darkening 3 inch vane and double sheer fabrics blend to create a unique visual experience. Completely open, completely closed or anywhere in between, bring LaCosta into your world.Our Brand Room Darkening 3 Inch vane is perfect for any room where greater light control and privacy is needed.There is a slight light gap between vanes that prevents complete darkness.
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News: El Camino Buzzer Beater Stuns Men's Cagers, 71-70
It seemed like the perfect ending for the Pasadena City College men's basketball team Wednesday night in its South Coast Conference game against El Camino College at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium. The Lancers battled back from 10 points down in the second half, then took the lead, 70-68, when sophomore guard Chris Smith made a driving layup with only 3.8 seconds remaining.
But a sure win turned into a nightmare following two timeouts. El Camino rushed the ball up court and guard Joshua Wilson hit a desperation 3-pointer at the circle as time expired to give the Warriors a thrilling 71-70 victory.
The Lancers dropped to 7-15 overall and 3-6 in SCC games. El Camino improved to 7-13 and also 3-6 in conference.
Wilson led all scorers with 17 points (eight rebounds and seven assists) while Smith was PCC's top scorer with 15 points. Smith, an All-SCC Second Team selection last season, had missed four games with a leg injury before coming off the bench to lift the Lancers.
Down the stretch, Smith nailed two jumpers as both teams fought for the lead in the final few minutes. Also for PCC, sophomore guard Mike Swanegan scored 12 points (four 3-pointers) and had four assists while reserve sophomore forward Marquise Tolson delivered 10 points.
The Lancers' bench accounted for 47 points, including nine (and four rebounds) by sophomore guard Evan Brooks and seven by frosh forward Bryce Clifton. Another reserve, first-year guard Gary Matthews contributed six points, four rebounds and four assists.
For El Camino, Marcus Clark scored 14 points and Brandon Boyd had a double-double on 13 points and 11 rebounds. The Warriors led 41-32 at halftime. El Camino went on a 23-6 run after PCC built an early 20-14 lead.
In a game played Feb. 1 at LA Harbor College, the Seahawks used a tough 2-3 zone to shut down the Lancers, 63-53. In that game, PCC's bench again made noise as both Clifton and Matthews scored 11 points. Starting frosh point guard Jeffrey Dockett led the team with 14 points and five assists. The two teams combined to shoot just 83 total shots from the floor (39 by the Lancers).
On Wednesday, Feb. 13, PCC returns to action with a 7 p.m. North Division game at first-place Mt. San Antonio College.
[Photo--Lancer Chris Smith hits the go-ahead basket here with 3.8 seconds left only to see El Camino pull out the win on a buzzer beater, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
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Filmmaking in Israel has undergone major developments since its inception in the 1950s. The first features produced and directed by Israelis such as "Hill 24 Does Not Answer," and "They Were Ten," tended, like Israeli literature of the period, to be cast in the heroic mold.
Some recent films remain deeply rooted in the Israeli experience, dealing with such subjects as Holocaust survivors and their children (Gila Almagor's "The Summer of Aviya"and its sequel, "Under the Domim Tree") and the travails of new immigrants ("Sh'hur", directed by Hannah Azoulai and Shmuel Hasfari, "Coffee with Lemon," directed by Leonid Gorivets). Others reflect a more predominant trend towards the present Israeli reality, whether dealing with the Israel-Arab confrontation (Uri Barbash's "Beyond the Walls") or set in the context of universalist, somewhat alienated and hedonistic society ("A Siren's Song," "Life According to Agfa," "Tel Aviv Stories").
In 2009, the Arab-Israeli film "Ajami," set in an impoverished Arab neighborhood in Yafo, won a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was the first predominantly Arab-language film that Israel submitted for the award and the third year in a row that an Israeli film won an Oscar nomination.
A year earlier, Ari Folman's animated "Waltz with Bashir" reaped international acclaim for its portrayal of the director's experiences in the 1982 Lebanon War. Awards for the film included the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and an Academy Award nomination.
Other notable films of the last few years are Joseph (Yossi) Cedar's "Campfire," about a religious-Zionist Jerusalemite family in the 80s who struggle to re-establish a family dynamic after the death of their father, and "Broken Wings", Nir Bergman's award-winning film that also deals with the aftermath of familial loss and the need for acceptance. "Turn Left At The End of The World" deals with unlikely cross-cultural friendships in an immigrant desert town, and "Aviva, My Love," garnered 10 awards in Israel, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
Eytan Fox is another noteworthy and popular director. Fox's movies include "The Bubble," which explores contemporary urban life in Tel Aviv against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict, "Yossi and Jagger" about homosexual love and desire in the IDF, and "Walk on Water." Fox was also the director of the classic "Florentine" TV series (1997), about disillusioned young Israelis living in a shabby-chic Tel Aviv neighborhood.
Israeli films garnered many awards in 2007. Joseph Cedar won best director and 11 other prizes at the Berlin Film Festival for his movie about the first Lebanon war, "Beaufort." The movie was also one of five international entries nominated for an Oscar in the foreign-language film category, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.
Director Dror Shaul's "Sweet Mud" took the top prize at Sundance for international features. David Volach's "My Father, My Lord", a film about an ultra-Orthodox family on holiday, won the top prize for foreign features at Tribeca, and "Jellyfish", directed by novelist Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, received the Camera d'Or award at Cannes.
Among other surprise wins was "The Band's Visit", Eran Kolirin's film about an Egyptian police band visiting Israel whose members get lost and see an unexpected side of the country. The film won three prizes at Cannes: the International Critics Prize, the Youth Prize, and the Prix Coup de Couer / Uncertain Regard. Israeli actress Hanna Laslo won the Best Actress award for her role in Israeli director Amos Gitai's film "Free Zone" at the 58th Cannes Film Festival in 2005. Other Israeli films and filmmakers have also won international awards in recent years.
Cinema exports are growing as more Israeli-made films become successful abroad and more dollar-earning foreign and co-productions are filmed on location in the country. The Israel Film Center, a division of the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor, promotes filmmaking in Israel by both local and foreign producers and provides services, from arranging professional contacts to offering financial incentives.
Such major events as the Israel Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, along with similar events in Haifa and Sderot, combined with Israeli film festivals abroad, all help to promote awareness about Israeli film.
The recently renovated Jerusalem Cinematheque consists of an archive of thousands of films, a research library, viewing halls, and exhibition space. It presents regular screenings, often in thematic cycles in cooperation with embassies, cultural institutions, or civic organizations and, when possible, with the participation of the scriptwriter, director, or performers. Since 1984, it has mounted a yearly, non-competitive film festival which has brought many quality films and video productions to the country.
Educational courses offered for adults are well attended, and programs with Jerusalem schoolchildren encourage critical analysis of a popular medium. There are branches of the Cinematheque in Tel Aviv and the northern town of Rosh Pina. Art house cinemas remain popular in Israel, and the Lev chain offers movies in intimate settings throughout the country.
The Spielberg Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the world's largest repository of film material on Jewish themes as well as on Jewish and Israeli life. Run by the university together with the Central Zionist Archives, its main activity is collecting, preserving and cataloguing Jewish films, and making the material available to researchers, film and television writers and producers throughout the world.


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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Vegetables
All About Horseradish (page 2 of 2)
by National Gardening Association Editors
Making Horseradish Sauce
1 cup horseradish roots
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
Scrub the roots well with a vegetable brush. Trim off any rough or dark spots, and with a vegetable peeler, peel down to the white, meaty center.
Put all the ingredients in a blender or food processor and mince finely. With a processor, grind the horseradish first, then add the vinegar and salt.
Pack the sauce in sterilized half-pint jars. Cover the jars and seal them tightly. Horseradish sauce will keep indefinitely in the refrigerator.
Although you can get horseradish fresh from the garden any time of year, the best quality roots come from the hotter spring harvest, so consider freezing some of your spring crop, either in large pieces or grated.


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Gilles Peterson had a mix for this one, but he decided to give us 'pure music' instead. Meklit Hadero (pictured) contributes with her beautiful version of the classic "Feelin' Good." And while Gilles is firmly stuck in World Cup mode, he's also living in Wondaland with Janelle Monáe, like most of us. This week also features another Giant Step favorite – Andreya Triana of Ninja Tune – plus a Water Color track from the Now-Again/Jazzman compilation California Funk, and artists like Orgone, Carlos Y Gaby, Garrincha, Elmor Judd, Sergio Mendes and more.
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The art of pavement preservation
When properly used to improve surface friction and prevent water penetration, agencies report chip sealing allows them to maintain the most square yards of pavement per dollar spent. Photos: International Slurry Surfacing Association
By consistently devoting budgetary dollars to pavement preservation treatments, such as micro surfacing, agencies can maintain four to five times more lane-miles than if they only focus on rehabilitation.
The International Slurry Surfacing Association (ISSA) has applied a hypothetical cost scenario to the Pavement Condition Index chart developed by the Army Corps of Engineers. In this example, a road that receives three preservation treatments over a 25-year period at $2/square yard will remain in good condition for a total cost of $6/square yard.If the road is left untreated for 11 years and pavement preservation is used as reactive maintenance to preserve the pavement, the cost will be approximately $4/square yard. Waiting this long to apply a treatment generally leads to a deteriorated road-base structure, so the reactive maintenance treatment will only last about four years, when it will require yet another treatment or rehabilitation. In comparison, if nothing is done for 12 or more years, a mill-and-fill (mill and overlay) or full rehabilitation will be required at a cost upwards of $12 to $16/square yard.
According to Matt Laipple, PE, civil engineer with the public works department in Overland Park, Kan., his young community is lucky. City officials and staff have always understood that pavement preservation is necessary to keep road quality high and life-cycle costs low, and have been using pavement preservation techniques for the past 50 years.
"Many communities use mill-and-overlay — removing the top 2 inches of asphalt — on a 10- to 15-year cycle to provide a new wearing surface on asphalt pavement," he says. "We can preserve nearly five times more lane-miles of pavement with micro surfacing or chip seal for the same cost. Other maintenance treatments may extend that figure further."
Laipple says the goal of using pavement preservation techniques rather than wholesale mill and overlay (or mill-and-fill) is to keep the pavement's life-cycle cost low while maintaining serviceability and user satisfaction. Without some form of preventive maintenance program, it's not uncommon for an asphalt pavement to need complete reconstruction after 20 to 30 years.
While a regular mill-and-fill program will extend pavement life just as well as a preventive maintenance program, the life-cycle cost between the two approaches is dramatically different. Using recent local pricing and discounting future activity costs to present value with a 4% discount rate, the difference is $400,000 to $500,000 per mile of two-lane street over a 50-year period. That may not seem like a lot over 50 years, but multiply it by the number of miles in an agency's street network, and it adds up to serious dollars," Laipple adds.
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For a majority of my mother's life, she has vacillated between being a playful, boisterous, joyful woman and a person plagued by fear and low self esteem - someone who seemed to feel powerless to take command of her life and follow her dreams, or defend herself against what she perceived to be the many injustices of the world. On more than one occasion she has shared her dreams and desires with me, none of which she pursued or realized — some which completely surprised me based on the life I know she has lived. Aside from just being a mom, I think this is a big part of the reason she's always been so supportive of both my sister and I to go out into the world and pursue our own dreams. And hell, she's an Aquarius, I'm a Taurus, and Carol is an Aries; independence of spirit worked to her advantage in raising two headstrong daughters.
In the last year or two, I have observed in my mother a curious balancing and leveling effect brought on by her dementia. While it continues to take bits and pieces of her memory, it also manages to provide her with a much-needed peace of mind by removing a great deal of the fear associated with the departing memories, fear that was both the driver and result of her old thinking patterns and behavior. Don't get me wrong — she still has fears, especially since she is very aware of her mental and physical deterioration. However, every time she experiences a major drop in memory and cognitive function, the signs of relief appear as well, her expression opening and relaxing like a blossoming flower; her face, her manner, how she responds to stimulus and where she chooses to focus her attention become simpler, more free. It makes sense to me to focus on this relief and the blessing that it is, as nothing can be done about the memory loss. The dementia has also taught both my sister and I to join mom in the now and embrace her as she is, rather than lamenting the loss of the person she used to be.
I had a groovy realization the other day while talking with my mother. I have a tendency to sometimes run off at the mouth about topics that excite me, but I have found that I can't do this with her because the frontal lobe damage from her strokes makes it near impossible for her to maintain a long attention span. I was animatedly discussing philosophical ideas with her, ones we have touched on in past conversations. She was very excited and interested in what I was saying, but at a certain point she just interrupted me mid-sentence and started talking about something entirely unrelated. At first I was annoyed and I felt myself taking it personally, even though I know better by now.
Then, I calmed down and let a few moments pass without saying anything. I knew I had been here before, and had been able to de-personalize moments like this. So, I used this quiet moment to question any unexamined beliefs I had about what I thought should be happening vs. what was actually happening. I wanted to get out of this funk and continue to enjoy my mother's company. I discovered there were two assumptions, neither of which had to do with her.
Assumption 1: Effective and engaging conversation involves a focused and polite exchange of listening and sharing.
Hmm...sounds reasonable, but that's not what's happening here with my Mom. So what is true about conversation? When I really thought about it, I realized that maintaining focus on the person you are conversing with is nothing more than a learned social norm; it's considered an active listening skill that identifies someone as a good conversationalist. It is not necessarily an honest or genuine behavior. However, my mother was being genuine and in the moment. She was, in fact, quite present and focused; what we were talking about had sparked a thought of something else she was excited about, something she wanted to communicate to me, and she did so minus the filter of convention.
Because of this, I realized that (with the exception of moments when she can't find the right words due to memory loss) she is often much freer in her communication and expression of herself than I am. This doesn't surprise me, as I continually discover areas of rigidity in my personality and behavior that I'd like to shake loose. I want to let go of the need to do it "right" and just enjoy the reality of doing - just be present with my mother, enjoying wherever the conversation takes us because I'm not attached to things looking, sounding, or feeling a certain way.
Assumption 2: Whatever I have to say should be of interest to my mother because, well, she's my mother.
The little kid in me was still expecting mom's world to revolve around me — this one made me laugh when I realized it was still there. I didn't have to question any further, because I know how unrealistic it is to expect another person to put me and my happiness before their own, even if that person happens to be my mother.
Because of all this, I came to see — first with surprise, then amusement, then appreciation — how I had not acknowledged the teacher that my mother is, even now. Periodically she will say, "I hope you girls learned something good from me," as though she hasn't contributed to who we are as people. But I think the active part of influence is in the receiving, rather than that which is deemed influential. I learn from mom all the time, whether she realizes it or not. I believe that as long as people are participating in this physical existence, they have the ability — through whatever they are living — to inspire and influence another. Taking on the responsibilities of power of attorney, medical advocate, and financial advocate had led me to the mistaken notion that I also needed to orchestrate mom's thought process. How wonderful it was for her to show me that I didn't need to (or able to) do this. The parts we play in relationships are much more fluid. The roles between mom and I have been reversed, and then reversed again, continuing to refine who we are both together and as individuals.
I know just how fortunate I am to experience the continuing clarity that she provides, just by being who she is. I am also glad to have the opportunity to uplift her as the beautiful, powerful creator and contributor that she continues to be - it beats the hell out of feeling powerless in the face of her failing body and health. I look forward to more opportunities to challenge my assumptions about what is right, what is good, and what is worthwhile, and I love and cherish my mother for being an active participant in this process.


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I have covered Vatican scandals on my site ever since I launched it last April. Most recently in my post Vatican Money Laundering Scandal Grows…JP Morgan is Involved of Course and before that Vatican Claims the Devil is Trying to Destabilize it.
It seems the Vatican has finally had enough leaks for one lifetime and is moving to track its clergy and employees with microchips. From the UK's Telegraph:
Vatican clergy and employees will be issued with an identity card complete with a microchip-tracking device in sweeping new security measures designed to prevent a repeat of the Vatileaks scandal.
See how things work these days. When scandalous activities are leaked at powerful institutions the answer is not accountability for the guilty, but rather increased surveillance so that the crimes can proceed without fear of being leaked to the public. You ready for your chips?
Full article here.
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