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This may be a golden age for the tech consumer.
But some of us still haven't received the empowerment memo.
Faced with a device going berserk or balky software, we know what we should do -- screech and holler on message boards and social media until a solution is found.
But some people -- like me -- assume the fault is not in the gadgets but in ourselves.
So it was a revelation when I read last month that Apple was offering a free battery replacement for people who bought versions of the iPhone 5 between September 2012 and January 2013.
Turns out my personal odyssey of rapid battery life reduction wasn't because of something I was doing wrong, as I had assumed. It had nothing to do with possessing too many photos, keeping open too many apps, hoarding too many e-mails.
It's just a technical issue affecting a "very small percentage" of iPhone 5 owners, Apple said.
Oh joy! I entered my serial number into the Apple site. Yes, I qualified. I quickly signed up for an Apple Store Genius Bar appointment. The cavalry was on its way.
The experience made me wonder whether we have become any better at being tech consumers. In the bad old days, we just accepted glitchy software and buggy devices as the price of being on the cutting edge of technology.
Now we have an array of gadget choices and many places to turn for help.
But even with that, many of us still look inward. Why?
Gadgets are complex and there is "a potentially overwhelming span of control issues," said James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, a market research firm.
As a consumer tries to consider the possible causes of a problem, "they quickly realize they have no idea where to turn to resolve the situation," he said.
Instead, they go for the short-cut answer: The problem is me.
Add to that, popular consumer products like the iPhone or the Samsung Galaxy, which has had its own battery issues, have a certain aura, said Lars Perner, an assistant professor of clinical marketing at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.
"One may be even more reluctant to judge the product when it is a 'star' type product such as the iPhone with a large, fanatical following," Perner said. "It is just not the kind of product that you would expect to fail."
My situation is familiar to Jeff Kear, owner of Planning Pod, a Colorado Web-based event management software firm.
In the small number of cases when a customer's problem is on his firm's end, he asks why they didn't complain.
"They don't complain because they just assume they have hit the limitations of the technology," he said.
In other words, we still forgive tech for being new in a way that we wouldn't a glitchy car or a blender with a faulty button.
Even I realized my battery situation was absurd.
I can't unplug my iPhone for more than an hour or risk it going dead. I planned my outings in short increments like I'm incontinent.
My family members (mostly my 11-year-old son, the household's IT staff) castigated me for bad iPhone behavior. Why is your GPS on, why do you have 2,427 unread email messages?
I've Googled the problem repeatedly, followed advice on message boards, installed an app that evaluates battery use and advises which apps may be battery-killing junk.
Therefore, like a patient knowing that my aches and pains all make sense, I was excited walking into the Apple store on Monday. And when the Apple staffer showed me a diagnostic chart detailing my iPhone's poor battery life, I just nodded in happiness. Yep, not in my head.
That joy was momentarily marred when I learned that the iPhone battery issue is worldwide and that the Apple store did not have enough replacements. I would have to come back.
I was now a bit empowered: How many trips will this be, I demanded. Why didn't someone just email me to save me the trouble? I left in a huff.
And then my phone went dead.
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Angus T. Jones won't quit "Two and a Half Men," according to TMZ.
Sources connected with the actor said Jones feels terrible that he caused huge problems for the cast and crew. When he recorded the video trashing the show and calling it "filth," he had no idea the story would blow up.
Someone needs to sit this kid down and explain the whole "Internet" thing.
The source said Jones says he's always felt "invisible" and believed no one really cared what he thought about the show or anything else. Therefore, he's stunned at the reaction to the video.
TMZ reported Jones will finish out the season and complete his contractual obligations, though it's almost certain he'll leave after this season. Apparently he wanted to quit after last season, but his reps and family convinced him it would be "stupid" to walk out on a contract that could earn him as much as $15 million.
Tuesday, Jones backed off of comments regarding the show being "filth" and that people shouldn't watch it. The 19-year-old -- who's recently had a religious conversion -- issued a statement Tuesday through his PR firm, saying, "I have been the subject of much discussion, speculation and commentary over the past 24 hours. While I cannot address everything that has been said or right every misstatement or misunderstanding, there is one thing I want to make clear. Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and Half Men' with whom I have worked over the past ten years and who have become an extension of my family."
GABRIEL AUBRY DENIED: Halle Berry's ex-beau Gabriel Aubry still can't visit his daughter.
A judge rejected his request to have Berry's restraining order against him lifted. Berry got the temporary order last week, after Aubry fought with Berry's fiance Olivier Martinez on Thanksgiving in Berry's driveway.
We use the word "fight" as a technical term. It was really more like Aubrey attacking Martinez's fists with his face.
Aubrey went to the hospital with a black eye and other facial bruises, then was arrested on suspicion of battery charges. In other words, It probably wasn't one of his better holidays.
According to TMZ, the restraining order was initially set in place until Dec. 3, but on Monday a judge said the order can only stay in effect until Nov. 29. It prohibits Gabriel from going within 100 yards of Berry, Nahla, his daughter with Berry, or Martinez.
That's right. Aubrey has to stay away from Martinez; his face may still pose a risk to Martinez's fists.
Berry's lawyers say they will return to court later this week in an attempt to make the restraining order permanent.
JESSICA SIMPSON MAY BE PREGNANT AGAIN: Hatching a cleverly conceived plot to continue her relationship with Jenny Craig, or Weight Watchers, or whatever, Jessica Simpson is reportedly pregnant again.
Seven months after giving birth to daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson, the singer is once again knocked up, according to Us Weekly.
"It definitely wasn't planned. But yes, Jessica is pregnant again," a source reveals to Us. The surprise baby-to-be is the second for Simpson and her fiance, former San Francisco 49ers tight end Eric Johnson.
Him again? He sure hit the fertility jackpot.
A rep for Simpson had no comment. Which is basically the same as hanging a sign outside the office, screaming "CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEXT JENNY CRAIG CONTRACT, JESSICA SIMPSON!"
Simpson, as you may have figured out, made a lot of money from Jenny Craig, losing 70 pounds of post-baby weight. Now guess what she gets to do? That's right -- time to pull a stool up to the buffet.
Engaged for the past two years, Simpson, 32, and Johnson, 33, welcomed Maxwell -- a whopping 9-pound, 13-ounce bundle of joy -- on May 1.
"Motherhood is a dream," Simpson told Katie Couric in September. "It really is absolutely amazing."
I'll bet it's a dream ... when you have enough money to pay someone to get up in the middle of the night to deal with the diaper-bombs.
STEVEN TYLER SORT OF APOLOGIZES: Steven Tyler says Nicki Minaj is wrong, and that he's no racist.
And to prove it, he held up a picture and said "I had this black friend in high school ..."
No, that's what other white people do. Not Steven Tyler, who nevertheless issued a semi-apology to Minaj for saying something that didn't seem to insult her race, just her ability to judge talent.
In an interview with MTV, the former "American Idol" judge Tyler questioned whether the new judges -- including Minaj -- were maybe too self-absorbed and lacked the ability to spot and nurture young, inexperienced talent.
Tyler said Minaj "would have sent (Bob Dylan) back to the cornfield" if he had been a contestant on the show.
Nicki fired back on Twitter, "That's a racist comment. You assume that I wouldn't have liked Bob Dylan??? why? black? rapper? what? go (expletive) yourself and worry about yourself babe."
According to TMZ, on Tuesday, Tyler explained himself on the Canadian talk show, "eTalk," saying, "I apologize if it was taken wrong, Nicki, but I am the farthest from (being a racist). I am the last thing on this planet as far as being a racist. I don't know where she got that out of me saying I'm not sure how she would've judged Bob Dylan."
WILL FERRELL'S FIERY THANKSGIVING: Will Ferrell's Thanksgiving was interrupted when the house he was in caught fire.
See? They said he'd be punished for doing that Barack Obama ad.
Actually it wasn't Ferrell's house, but that of a relative in Needham, Mass., according to TMZ. The family was in the middle of eating when one of the kids in the house notice that a fire had ignited in the garage.
Being that the town was called Needham, this is where I boldly resist the urge to make a joke saying, if the turkey was lost, the family might "need ham."
Thanks. I'll be here all week.
Firefighters showed up and doused the blaze. No one was injured and there was no major damage.
TMZ said Ferrell hung out with the firefighters -- hopefully after they were done putting out the fire -- cracking jokes and taking pictures with them.
SHIA LEBEOUF LEAVES GIRLFRIEND FOR TEEN: Shia LaBeouf might be some sort of weird thespian genius. Then again, maybe one of those Transformer things slapped him in the head one too many times.
According to the New York Daily News, the actor has parted ways with his longtime girlfriend in favor of "Nymphomaniac" co-star Mia Goth, the 19-year-old actress he got close to while shooting Lars von Trier's upcoming film.
Really close. Like, they-couldn't-get-any-closer close.
LaBeouf broke up with stylist/designer Karolyn Pho "a while ago" after two years of dating, a source told Us Weekly, and things have reportedly been heating up with Goth ever since.
"They've kept their relationship under wraps, but they pretty much started dating after he broke off things with Karolyn a few months ago," a source told RadarOnline.
LaBeouf and Goth were spotted together on the day before Thanksgiving in Los Angeles and are reportedly very comfortable together.
"He got to know Mia on set and quickly became enamored of her," the source said, according to Radar. "They have similar interests, they love alternative music, thrift stores and she is edgy and funny, which Shia loves."
They also both apparently like having real sex in indie films.
LaBeouf's relationship with Pho was reportedly damaged over -- go figure -- work on von Trier's controversial new film, in which the actors engage in real sex scenes.
"They've been on the rocks ever since Shia agreed to star in 'Nymphomaniac,'" a source told RadarOnline. "Karolyn doesn't want him having sex with somebody else -- simple."
How incredibly unreasonable of her.
Director von Trier is notorious for pushing the boundaries with his actors, and has shot several sexually explicit films in the past.
LaBeouf told the Hollywood Reporter in August that he took the job "because (von Trier's) dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified."
Well, then he should make another Indiana Jones movie. Just about everyone is scared of that.
LaBeouf is apparently already into his new pal, even meeting Goth's parents in her native London.
"They're already spending a lot of time together, not just with work, but also have been hitting the town," the source said. "Mia has made Shia very happy and he's certainly found a party buddy for the time being."
"Karolyn gets that Shia likes to go method and appreciates his artistic integrity," a source told RadarOnline at the time. "However, she thinks performing a real sex scene in a movie is going too far. It's difficult for her to understand why it can't be simulated -- just like in other films."
Well, then she doesn't understand real art. Just like those people who make those straight-to-DVD movies in the San Fernando Valley involving the pizza boy making a delivery to the local sorority house. That's real art, right there.
But Pho, 23, later told the Daily News the split wasn't over LaBeouf's on-screen sex life.
"It's none of anybody's business," she said. "Everything is fine with us. It was nothing affiliated with his movie."
Of course not.
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Thursday is Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2012. There are 32 days left in the year.
1864: A Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.
1912: The Maryland Agricultural College, located in College Park, was destroyed by fire.
1947: The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1952: President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly left on a trip to Korea, keeping his campaign promise to assess the ongoing conflict first-hand.
1961: Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.
1967: Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1972: The coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, made its debut at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.
1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43.
1986: Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
1987: A Korean Air 707 jetliner en route from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents with the loss of all 115 people aboard.
2001: George Harrison, the "quiet Beatle," died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.
2007: A court in Sudan convicted British teacher Gillian Gibbons of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear "Muhammad" and sentenced her to 15 days in prison. (Gibbons was pardoned after spending more than a week in custody; she then left the country.) Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, embarked on a new, five-year term as a civilian president, a day after ceding the powerful post of army chief. Former Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde died in Chicago at age 83. Former General Motors chief executive Roger B. Smith died in Detroit at age 82.
2011: Eurozone ministers sent Greece an 8 billion-euro ($10.7 billion) Christmas rescue package to stem an immediate cash crisis. Hard-line Iranian protesters stormed British diplomatic compounds in what began as an apparent state-approved show of anger over the latest Western sanctions to punish Tehran for its nuclear program.
Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Vin Scully (85), former French President Jacques Chirac (80), blues singer-musician John Mayall (79), actress Diane Ladd (77), musician Chuck Mangione (72), comedian Garry Shandling (63), director Joel Coen (58), actor-comedian Howie Mandel (57), Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano (55), the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, (53), actress Cathy Moriarty (52), actress Kim Delaney (51), actor Tom Sizemore (51), actor Andrew McCarthy (50), actor Don Cheadle (48), singer Jonathan Knight (New Kids on the Block) (44), actress Anna Faris (36), rapper The Game (33).
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Community Briefs: March 3
Published: Monday, March 3, 2014 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 28, 2014 at 7:08 p.m.
Henderson Dems plan meetings
The Henderson County Democratic Party will hold the following precinct meetings Tuesday:
◆ Armory and East Flat Rock precincts: 6 to 7:30 p.m., Flat Rock Middle School, 199 Preston Lane E.
◆ Brickton Precinct: 6 to 7 p.m., New Zion Baptist Church, U.S. Highway 25 S.
◆ Green River Precinct: 7 to 8 p.m., private residence, 165 Anderson Road.
◆ Horse Shoe Precinct: 7 to 8 p.m., Cummings Cove Social Club, 3448 Cummings Road.
◆ Clear Creek Precinct: 7 to 8 p.m., private residence, 36 Gray Wolf Lane.
For more information, call 692-6424.
NC Horse Council staging referendum
The North Carolina Horse Council has announced plans for holding an equine industry referendum to extend the Horse Industry Promotion Assessment, which was first authorized in 1999. The referendum will be conducted in all North Carolina counties March 11.
Polling places will be set up in each county Cooperative Extension office. Horse owners will be able to vote on whether to extend, for three years, the $2 per ton assessment being paid by manufacturers of horse feed sold in North Carolina.
Polling places will be open during regular business hours at each county Cooperative Extension office. Any horse owner/ leaser older than age 9 can vote. There is an absentee balloting system put in place for owners who are not able to vote on March 11.
To receive an absentee ballot, call the Henderson County Extension Center at 828-697-4891.
The Sugarloaf Elementary School Improvement Team will meet at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 404 of the school, 2270 Sugarloaf Road, Hendersonville.
The Mills River Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Commons Room of Town Hall.
Ed McMahon, a noted author, attorney and resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute, will deliver a talk titled "The Dollars and Sense of Protecting Community Character" from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday in the Rogow Room of the Transylvania County Library, 212 S Gaston St., Brevard. The event is free and open to the public. A networking event will be held from 6-¬7 p.m. in the same location.
For more information, visit www.carolinamountain.org/dollarsandsense.
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By law, in California all official court business must be conducted in English. So, when 1 of the parties or witnesses in a case does not speak English well, that person will need a court interpreter (who speaks English and the non-English speaker's first language) so he or she can understand what is going on and talk to the judge, if needed.
Note: There are also American sign language interpreters for parties and witnesses that are deaf or hard-of-hearing (or have another disability). The court will provide a sign language interpreter for you or other accommodation you may need. You can ask your court's ADA Coordinator for more information. Or read For Persons With Disabilities Requesting Accommodations to learn about the court's policy for accommodating persons with disabilities.
In some cases (like criminal cases, juvenile delinquency cases and usually in domestic violence cases) the interpreter is paid for by the court and may be a court employee. In civil cases, your court may also provide interpreters at no cost, especially for cases like family law cases where domestic violence is an issue, custody and visitation cases, guardianships and conservatorships, most elder abuse, dependent adult abuse and civil harassment restraining order cases, evictions, and others. But there may be some cases where if you need an interpreter, you will have to find one and pay for own interpreter or get a friend to interpret. Ask your court's self-help center or court clerk to find out if your court will provide an interpreter for you at no cost.
If you think you will need an interpreter for your court hearing, start by asking someone who speaks English to call the court clerk as early as possible, but at least a week before your hearing and ask for a court interpreter for you. You may have to pay a fee for the interpreter if your court cannot provide one at no cost.
If the court interpreter is not available, it is your responsibility to get your own interpreter. You can ask a friend, relative, or someone else to interpret for you when you go to court. Do not ask a child to interpret for you.
Keep in mind that just because someone you know speaks both English and your first language does not mean he or she would be a good interpreter. A court interpreter needs to be familiar with legal terms and concepts in both English and your first language, and most people are not. If you get someone who cannot accurately interpret everything the judge or the lawyers are saying to you, you may miss important information and be at a disadvantage. Court hearings are your 1 chance to tell your side of the story to the judge. If you have an interpreter that does not get across what you are saying exactly as you are saying it, you will not have a second chance to talk to the judge. That is why it is very important you have an interpreter with experience.
Using a court interpreter can be awkward because you have to go through another person to get your information or talk to the judge. Get tips to help you work with a court interpreter.
To make sure you get an experienced court interpreter, you should consider a professional interpreter who has passed the required examinations and has officially registered and been approved as a court interpreter by the Judicial Council of California.
There are 2 types of officially-approved court interpreters in California:
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Cooking spans across generations and reflects the diversity of our great nation. So, what better way to celebrate our country's birth, then with a few classic American recipes! Try them at your Fourth of July barbecue, with friends and family ... or cook up a few dishes and have a picnic on the beach ... then finish off with some yummy desserts, while watching fireworks!
Side Dishes and Appetizers
Senator Barb's Favorite Crab Cakes
1. Beat the egg in a bowl.
2. Trim the crusts from the bread and break the slices into small pieces.
3. Add these pieces to the egg.
4. Mix in the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, Chesapeake seasoning and parsley, and beat well.
5. Place the crabmeat in a bowl and pour the egg mixture over the top.
6. Gently toss or fold the ingredients together, taking care not to break up the lumps of crabmeat.
7. Form the cakes by hand into patties about 3 inches around and 3/4-inch thick. Shape should be like a cookie, not like a meatball or golf ball.
8. Place the cakes in the refrigerator for at least 45 minutes before cooking.
(Special Note: This is very important so the cakes don't fall apart.)
Broil the Crab Cakes
Slip them under a preheated broiler until nicely browned, turning to cook evenly, about 4 to 5 minutes on each side.
Or saute
Heat a small amount of butter or olive oil in a skillet and saute the cakes, turning several times, until golden brown or about 8 minutes total cooking time.
Serve at once with tartar sauce, mustard, or cocktail sauce on the side.
Recipe serves 6 people.
Famous Senate Restaurant Bean Soup
1. Wash the navy beans and run hot water through them until they are slightly whitened.
2. Place beans into pot with hot water.
3. Add ham hocks and simmer approximately three hours in a covered pot, stirring occasionally.
4. Remove ham hocks and set aside to cool.
5. Dice meat and return to soup.
6. Lightly brown the onion in butter. Add to soup.
7. Before serving, bring to a boil and season with salt and pepper.
Recipe serves 8 people.
Hoppin' John
(From Senator McConnell's Kentucky Recipes)
1. Cover peas with water.
2. Simmer peas, bacon and peppers in a covered pot over low heat for 1 to 1.5 hours or until tender.
3. Add rice, cover and cook over low heat, stirring frequently until rice is cooked.
4. Add more water during cooking if necessary. Add salt to desired taste.
Recipe serves 8 people.
Main Dishes
Vegetable Lasagna
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Mix zucchini, mushrooms, onions, and garlic with tomato sauce and seasonings in a saucepan.
3. Cover; cook 15 minutes and set aside.
4. Mix cheeses and chopped tomato.
5. Spread one-third of sauce over bottom of 8-by 8-inch baking dish.
6. Add half of the uncooked noodles and half of cheese mixture.
7. Repeat layers and end with a third layer of sauce.
8. Cover tightly with foil; bake 45 minutes.
9. Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes before serving.
Recipe serves 4 people.
Wild Game Polish Sausage
1. Mix all ingredients together and grind the product through a coarse plate. Follow that with a fine grind.
2. Stuff in hog casing and smoke at 120 F for one hour, 150 F for one more hour, then at 170 F two hours or until internal temperature of 141 F is reached.
(Follow same procedure as described for smoking venison summer sausage.)
Mrs. Truman's Mac and Cheese
(See original, hand-written recipe here.)
1. Cook mac. Drain & cool.
2. Place layer of mac. in baking dish, then add layer of cheese.
3. Repeat layers.
4. Combine milk & egg and pour over mac. & cheese.
Special Note: This can be done day before & refrigerate.
Mamie Eisenhower's Million Dollar Fudge
1. Boil the sugar, salt, butter, evaporated milk together for six minutes.
2. Put chocolate bits and German chocolate, marshmallow cream and nutmeats in a bowl.
3. Pour the boiling syrup over the ingredients.
4. Beat until chocolate is all melted, then pour in pan.
5. Let stand a few hours before cutting.
(Special Note: Remember it is better the second day. Store in tin box.)
George Washington's Cranberry Pudding
1. Combine eggs, sugar, salt and molasses.
2. In a separate container, put 2 teaspoons of soda in 1/3 cup boiling water. 3. Add to egg mixture.
4. Stir in flour and cranberries.
5. Steam in a buttered rice steamer for 1 1/2 hours.
6. Serve warm with the following sauce.
Directions and Ingredients for Sauce
1. Melt butter.
2. Add sugar and half and half and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Watermelon Popsicles
1. To prepare watermelon juice, cut watermelon into cubes and rub through a strainer to remove seeds.
2. In small saucepan mix together sugar and water; simmer 3 minutes.
3. Remove from heat; stir in watermelon juice and lemon juice.
4. Turn into 2 ice trays.
5. Freeze until very mushy and insert a popsicle stick in each cube.
6. Freeze.
Makes about 36 small popsicles.
Looking for more tasty recipes to enjoy with friends and family this Fourth of July? Check out July 4th favorites, party ideas, and more with AllRecipes.com's Ultimate Guide to the 4th of July!


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Capes to Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:40 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:40 a.m.
Wendell and Deanna Capes will celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary Saturday, January 19th, 2013. They were married January 19, 1963 in Indiana.
They moved to Hendersonville in 1971 to take over Big Willow Grocery from Wendell's dad. Wendell worked for Leland Howard before taking over his business, Howard Tax Services, in 1973. Deanna worked at WCCA, Sky City, and Telemon before joining Wendell full time at their business. They have three daughters, Tammy Heatherly and her husband William, Tonya Street, and Dorothy Weaver. They have thirteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
They are founding members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Hendersonville.
There will be a surprise drop in celebration Saturday, January 19th at Bethel Wesleyan Church on Tracy Grove Road from 3-6pm. All family and friends are encouraged to come.
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Iowa Establishes a $100 Million Clean Energy Fund
May 30, 2007
Iowa Governor Chet Culver approved two bills on May 23rd that establish a new state fund for clean energy research and development. The state will provide the new Iowa Power Fund with $25 million per year for the next four years. The fund will support research, development, commercialization, and deployment of biofuels, renewable energy technologies, and energy efficiency technologies, while also seeking to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The fund will also educate the public about these technologies and will aim to increase the demand for them. The $100 million fund will be run by an 18-member board, with oversight from a seven-member committee of legislative and university leaders.
To administer the Iowa Power Fund, the legislation also creates a new Office of Energy Independence. The new office will lead the state's outreach and public education efforts for clean energy and will coordinate and monitor all existing state and federal grants, programs, and policies relating to renewable energy, renewable fuels, and energy efficiency. By mid-December, the director of the office will also prepare an Iowa energy independence plan that will include cost-effective options and strategies for the state to achieve energy independence from foreign sources of energy by the year 2025. The director will provide an annual report on these goals every November and will update the energy independence plan every December. See the governor's press release and the text of the two bills, HF 918 and HF 927.
The effort will complement a bill signed in April, establishing the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council to consider and determine the best strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state. It also establishes a greenhouse gas inventory and registry within the state. See the governor's press release and the text of the bill, SF 485.


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loom 1
An apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread.
Example sentences
- Their elaborate fabrics, woven on looms from cotton and alpaca wool, are known today because they were used in a type of mummification process.
- We know that they hunted animals with bows and arrows and that they wove textiles using looms.
- I pulled up everything I could find on the laptop pertaining to weaving, textiles, looms and spinning.
Old English gelōma 'tool', shortened to lome in Middle English.
Words that rhyme with loomabloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom
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loom 2
verb[no object]
1Appear as a shadowy form, especially one that is large or threatening: vehicles loomed out of the darkness
More example sentences
- As we swam to the first buoy, we noticed strange shapes looming up at us from beneath the surface.
- A dark shape loomed before him and he fell backwards, giving a yelp of dismay at his outline.
- Against the dull, grey sky, a selection of dark shapes loomed before Blaze.
emerge, appear, come into view, take shape, materialize, reveal itself
1.1(Of an event regarded as ominous or threatening) seem about to happen: there is a crisis looming higher mortgage rates loomed large last night
More example sentences
- Once well-deserved celebrations waned, the daunting task of finding a space loomed large.
- Despite police alerting people on the new rule, uncertainty loomed large on city roads till afternoon.
- My sense is that the probability of such an event looms nearer and grows larger with each passing day.
be imminent, be on the horizon, impend, threaten, brew, be just around the corner, be in the air/wind
dominate, be important, be significant, be of consequence;
count, matter
noun[in singular]
1A vague and often exaggerated first appearance of an object seen in darkness or fog, especially at sea: the loom of the land ahead
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- His memoirs state that he was "conscious of the loom of the land about 3 am", little more than an hour before the landing.
- From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses.
1.1The dim reflection by cloud or haze of a light that is not directly visible, e.g., from a lighthouse over the horizon.
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- Rock, nothing but ocean waves for another 170 miles until the loom of the Fastnet light lifts above the horizon.
- Thousands pay homage every year and the loom of its light is a sight for seafarers' eyes.
- In the distance, straight ahead off the bow, I could see the loom of the green five-second light of the Block Island lighthouse.
Mid 16th century: probably from Low German or Dutch; compare with East Frisian lōmen 'move slowly', Middle High German lüemen 'be weary'.
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1 dead, at least 30 hurt in La. plant explosion
Published: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 2:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 2:33 p.m.
GEISMAR, La. (AP) — State police say at least one person was killed and at least 30 were injured in an explosion and fire at a chemical plant in Louisiana.
State police Capt. Doug Cain said a hazardous material crew going through the plant in Geismar after the Thursday morning explosion found one person dead.
The cause of the blast, reported around 8:30 a.m., was not immediately known. The fire was out by late morning.
Eight of the injured were taken to Baton Rouge Medical Center, where one was listed in critical condition and two others were in serious condition.
Early tests did not indicate dangerous levels of any chemicals around the plant, about 20 miles southeast of Baton Rouge.
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OAKLAND — The A's went back to their three-catcher look Sunday with the promotion of catcher Stephen Vogt from Triple-A Sacramento.
To make room on the roster the A's sent right-handed pitcher Fernando Rodriguez down despite some outstanding numbers, including a 1.13 ERA.
Rodriguez had options to be send down, and the A's needed the help with Brandon Moss (right calf) and Josh Reddick (right knee) both unavailable for Sunday's series finale with the Angels.
Vogt, like Reddick and Moss, is a left-handed hitter. Vogt had to get to Oakland from Fresno, where Sacramento was playing Saturday and with 60 minutes left before first pitch wasn't in the park. He was in the lineup, however, and expected to catch A's starter Sonny Gray.
``We're a little beat up,'' manager Bob Melvin said of the move. ``Reddick is out today, Moss is out and I'm not sure Nick Punto (calf strain) is 100 percent.''
There were thought that the A's would come out of spring training with three catchers, figuring that John Jaso would get lots of at-bats as the designated hitter (as he was Sunday) and Derek Norris and Vogt would get much of the catching duties. But to get Daric Barton on the roster at first base to start the season, that didn't work. Barton is back with Sacramento.
Melvin wouldn't say if Vogt's promotion was a long-term deal or just a move to get the A's through the weekend. But indications are that Vogt will be with the A's on a road trip through New York, Baltimore and Anaheim.
--Reliever Ryan Cook, on the disabled list since May 8 with right forearm tightness, will travel with the A's Monday and is expected to be activated before Tuesday's road trip opener in Yankee Stadium against New York.
Cook threw one inning in an injury rehabilitation assignment game Saturday for the River Cats with Sacramento playing in Fresno. He needed just nine pitches to throw a scoreless inning, seven of which were strikes.
``He threw really well,'' Melvin said. ``There's a good chance he will travel with us Monday and be activated Tuesday.''
The A's don't have an obvious move to get Cook back on the roster. It seems likely that Jeff Francis could be designated for assignment or either first baseman Kyle blanks or second baseman Eric Sogard could be sent down. Both position players have an option left and to designate Francis would open him up to being claimed by another club.
The A's got Francis when the Reds put the left-handed starter on the designated for assignment list mid-May and claimed him on waivers. Assigned the role of long reliever, he's only thrown one inning. Still, the A's are keen on having someone in the bullpen that would be able to start in an emergency.
Cook, who is at the end of his second stint on the disabled list after having missed all of spring training with shoulder soreness, gives the a's another option late in the game. Most of his innings with the A's in the previous two seasons have been in the eighth and ninth, although Melvin may ease him into the role.
``I feel really good, really ready to go,'' Cook said. ``I didn't get any tightness. I didn't get stiff. All things considered, yesterday went really well.''


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Hannibal Regional Hospital Foundation will host the inaugural Kickin' Cancer Kickball Tournament at Bear Creek Sports Park beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.
The Kickin' Cancer event is designed to raise awareness of the fight against all forms of cancer as well as assist those who are currently fighting against cancer. The event will offer a double elimination bracket thus guaranteeing each team two games.
The cost for a 9-15 person team is $250 which includes entry fee and a T-shirt for every member of the team. Registration forms are due by Friday, Sept. 20, to guarantee T-shirt sizes.
All proceeds from the Kickin' Cancer Kickball Tournament will benefit the James E. Cary Cancer Center's Life.Light.Hope.Fund, which offers cancer patients assistance with transportation, nutritional supplements and other resources needed as they fight against cancer. Additional funds are used to assist families and patients with equipment and resources they need which can offer them hope and help when they need it most.
To register a team, call the HRH Foundation office at (573) 629-3577 or go to hrhf.org for more information.
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Definition of Dard in English:
1A member of a group of peoples inhabiting eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and Kashmir.
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- In June 1994, three new regions were opened up to international travellers: the lands of the Changpah nomads; Nubra, a little patch of Indian land between China and Pakistan; and Dah-Hanu, inhabited by the last Dards of the Indus.
- After the Mon came the Dards from the Muslim Hunza district.
- He further claims that Dards were not an 'Aryan 'race but they were the original inhabitants of this area while Aryans came later.'
Relating to the Dards or their languages.
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- Under the name of the Dard country, the whole mountainous track between the 'Hindukush 'and the northern frontiers of India proper has been included.
- The major nine social ethnic groups are Kashmiri, Dogra, Gujjar, Bakerwal, Dard (immigrated long ago from Dardistan, CentralAsia), Balti, Gaddi, Pothwari (both Muslim and non-Muslim) and Chibalis.
- Just five Dard villages belong to Ladakh; they present to our eyes an extraordinary world, which gives one a feeling of living through a meeting with the story of humanity.
Dardicnoun& adjective
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- Following the example of the extended connotation of the word 'Dardistan ', it has been convenient to give the general name 'Dardic 'to all the 'Aryan 'languages spoken in this tract.
- Here, the refugees lived for a couple of generations or more and picked up some words and grammatical elements of Dardic which was added to their Sanskritic language from North-Central India.
- The Nuristanis, who speak Western Dardic, inhabit an area of some 5,000 square miles in Laghman, Nangarhar, and Konar provinces, north and east of Kabul.
The name in Dard.
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Along with all other recognized sports, SJA has a trapshooting team. Trapshoot shooting is also a sanctioned state high school sport.
The Saints are winding up their first year of competition at the St. James Gun Club. A couple of other things - no school district funds are used to support the sport. This year's team was funded by Pheasants Forever, Eagles, St. James Gun Club, the Darfur Sports Club and the LaSalle Fire Department.
The team is also supported and coached by many dedicated adults from the community.
A total of 19 students are participating in trap shooting.
The Saints are participating in an eight team conference and going into the last round of shooting, the Saints were safely in fifth place. They couldn't likely jump to fourth and they couldn't likely fall to sixth.
The Saints do not travel to another site to shoot, nor does any team visit the St. James Gun Club. SJA shoots on a designated night, and it's scores are reported in to a central scoring location. The other teams do the same thing, and weekly scores are reported back to each team.
Coach Mark Johnson said this first year's team had the same weather problems the other spring teams had. The exception for the trapshooters was they shot through the snow and the cold. Bad weather didn't stop these young shooters.
Johnson stressed that before a student could even participate, they had to pass a gun safety class.
Cole Skow and Landon Malmgren have performed at a level that qualify them as varsity winners, but Landon's too young to win a letter and Cole has missed one shooting night because he's also on the tennis team. Many of the students on the team are two spring sports athletes.
The students shoot at fifty targets each night of competition. Monday night shooting was another weather adventure. With a cold, stiff wind out of the south, it might have been easier for the kids to try and hit a major league knuckleballer - the clay pigeons were fluttering around all over the place.
High scores each session - the top guns - over the first five weeks of competition was Cody Steinbrink in week one with 40 targets hit.
Other top gun scores were Cole Skow with 39; Jared Fellows with 40; Skow with 43 and William Rehm with 45. In that second to last week of shooting, four students hit 40 or more targets. In addition to Rehm they were Skow, Steinbrink and Malmgren.
The Saints will not participate in the state tournament this spring. There will be a fall shooting team that will also compete against other schools. All students are welcome to come out for the team - provided they've passed a gun safety class first.
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Lakeland Rapper Blackground Ready to Move Center Stage
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 5:36 p.m.
Darryl Fluellen is no longer hanging around the shadows.
Check out Blackground on his ReverbNation page. (Warning: Some songs my contain foul language, listener digression is advised) http://bit.ly/WzaYwv
Fluellen, who performs under the name Blackground, is a Lakeland rapper who is moving to take center stage.
Blackground has begun to perform his latest project, "The Puzzle Mixtape," live to get feedback from the Lakeland's hip-hop scene.
Blackground has an aggressive style and isn't afraid to speak his mind.
"The Puzzle Mixtape," his fourth project, is 15 songs about Blackground dealing with the two sides of his personality — "being a cool dude or a ruthless man." This mixtape will lay the groundwork for his next album "Missing Pieces," Blackground said.
Blackground's next confirmed show will be in St. Augustine in January, but he's working on more shows in the meantime.
Below, Blackground talks more about himself and his music.
What style were you going for musically with the mixtape?
Puzzle. Trying to confuse your mind to make you figure out which way I want to go. Which one do you like? You pick and choose and you might like whichever one. Either way, even if I do the alter-egos, it'll still add up to Blackground because it's all one mix.
How did you choose the name Blackground?
It came up from (local rappers) Pryde and RedStryke. That's where the name came from, because I knew their music before they memorized their own words. I used to be in the background a lot, doing a lot of adlibbing.
You used to have a lot of profanity in your songs, but now you are more selective — why?
Anger. It's the only way for me to release anger. Stay away from going to jail or anything, I feel that it's only right for me to take my feeling and put it into my music.
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'Justified,' Season 4, Episode 1, 'Hole in the Wall': TV Recap
"Justified" is back for a fourth season of mordant wit, reluctant gunplay and stretching the boundaries of a U.S. marshal's official duties. The season opener starts with a flashback to Jan. 21, 1983, as a husband in a suburban cul de sac bickers with his unseen wife about taking down the Christmas decorations. We hear a thud, and there on the pavement is a guy tangled in an extremely ineffective parachute, surrounded by a canvas bag and what looks like cocaine.
Thirty years later, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens gets a call from Sharon Emmons, a bail bondswoman he met—in the biblical sense—at a conference in Miami. She's looking for some off-the-books help tracking down a fugitive, Jody Adair, who skipped bail on a double homicide in Tennessee—he has an ex-wife in Lexington, Ky. Raylan accepts her offer of $3,000 to find him. He tells his colleague Rachel that he's "got a thing" and heads out.
It doesn't take long for Raylan to spot Mr. Adair, trying unsuccessfully to talk his way into his ex's house. Before long, Jody is back in his car with the remnants of his side window on his lap as he and Raylan point guns at each other. Jody figures Raylan, being on the side of the good guys, isn't going to shoot him, and Raylan allows that that's right—instead he shoots the steering column, the airbag goes pow! and Jody's soon on the ground and cuffed.
We see a very nice pocketwatch in a man's hand, and that hand turns out to belong to Boyd Crowder, Harlan County crime lord and Raylan's old friend/nemesis. So this is gonna be good. Boyd is interrogating a squirrelly bearded guy named Hiram about why Hiram hasn't been selling much OxyContin lately. Hiram says he and many of their former customers have been saved at a new tent church, Last Chance Holiness, run by a Preacher Billy. (We meet Billy toward the end of the episode—he's a charismatic young man running the standard playbook of snake-handling, laying on hands, etc.)
Boyd, reaching back to his own brief sojourn as a preacher, warms to the theological debate, citing the psalm about God making wine to gladden the hearts of man—"And what are goods but just modern-day wine, albeit in pill form?" Hiram's not having it, but the huge explosion outside gets his full attention. That's from Boyd's other previous experience, in coal-mining detonations (and less-legal ones). Hiram, "saved or not," has until tomorrow night to get Boyd his $10,000, "or the next firecracker's gonna go off in here."
We find a teen boy and girl—the girl quickly established as the brains of the operation, which isn't saying much—smashing up a wall in an empty house. The boy wants to sell some of the copper wires, but the girl is focused on a canvas something-or-other hidden inside the wall. Cop lights flash outside and the kids run, outpacing the investigating officer, played by the comedian and character actor Patton Oswalt.
As an increasingly exasperated Raylan drives with the talkative Jody to take him in, he gets a call from Oswalt, who does his best Basil Exposition impression as he explains that he's "Bob—Constable Bob Sweeney down in Harlan, yeah." Turns out the house belongs to Raylan's miscreant daddy, Arlo; Raylan had hired Bob to watch the place while Arlo's in prison. (You know, for shooting a cop he mistook for Raylan, at the end of season three.) Raylan says he'll come down. Meanwhile, he's had enough of Jody's lip and sticks him in the trunk.
Bob shows Raylan the damage at Arlo's and brags that if he'd caught the wire-strippers, "I'd'a opened a Costco-size can o' whipass on 'em." But he later complains that people see him as a joke—Kentucky constables, it seems, are licensed but poorly paid and have to buy all their own equipment. Those flashing lights are mounted on an AMC Gremlin, hilariously. Raylan finds the canvas thing in the wall—a diplomatic pouch, containing only an early-'80s driver's license for one Waldo Truth. The break-in kids watch through binoculars as Raylan tells still-trunk-bound Jody he has one more thing to do.
At a hardware store, where the proprietor tells an uninterested Raylan he's concerned about Arlo's mental state, the break-in girl spills some screws in the aisle and then asks Raylan if he "wants one." Then she lifts her shirt and asks Raylan to assess what he sees—"I'm a late bloomer. Didn't get 'em 'til just last year." "Patience is a virtue," Raylan replies. He heads out the front and she heads out the back, flashing the proprietor for good measure. Raylan comes back and asks where she went, because his car is gone.
Over at Boyd's roadhouse HQ, a long-haired stranger asks for Boyd, whose employees play dumb. The stranger uses his military-police training to suss out that Boyd is in the back and goes on in, tripping cousin Johnny and leading Boyd's lover/consigliere, Ava, to grab her shotgun in pursuit. In the back room, Boyd and the stranger are hugging in delight—it's Colton Rhodes, who was an MP in Kuwait while Boyd was a serviceman/troublemaker there.
Raylan enlists Bob to help him get his car back. Bob demonstrates some dubious knife skills and talks about his "go bag," which includes an AK-47 and some other stuff. As Chekhov observed, if a Kentucky constable mentions the AK in his go bag in the first episode, it's guaranteed to go off by the end of the season. Bob also remarks casually that the thieves are probably taking the car off to be crushed for 500 bucks, which ups Raylan's intensity as "I got s— in the car I don't want to get crushed"—namely Jody.
At the junkyard, Raylan's car is intact, but the trunk is empty. As the manager complains that he doesn't have to answer Raylan's questions, Raylan interrupts by punching him in the face. He wants to know where the kids are. We see they're watching from the office, along with Jody, who asks if they're ready to kill Raylan if it comes to that. Jody gets the kids to cut his handcuff chain so he can settle the question, but the girl is still holding the gun when Raylan comes in. The ensuing standoff is a hoot (Raylan as Jody holds the girl at gunpoint: "I suppose I should care, her age and all, but she did steal my car") and ends with Bob stabbing her in the foot (aiming for Jody). As the room quiets down, Raylan asks for the truth about Arlo's house and the pouch, though we don't hear him get it.
Boyd enlists Colton's assistance with the struggling criminal enterprise of Harlan, and off they go to visit Hiram, who reveals where he hid Boyd's money just before a lit fuse reaches the dynamite in his lap. With that settled, Boyd tells Colt to "take care of him," whereupon Colt shoots Hiram in the head. Boyd, shocked, says he'd only meant Colt should untie him. Oops. "Well, I guess I'll have to be more careful with my words," Boyd says.
A little earlier, Raylan visited Arlo in prison, where Arlo played dumb about the bag but let slip that he knew it was in the wall, which Raylan hadn't told him. In the final scene, a fellow con who'd seen Raylan leaving with the bag comes to Arlo's cell to say the bag could be worth something—he'll make some calls to find out how much. Arlo asks the guy to get him a book from his library cart, and while his back is turned, he slashes his throat with a shiv. "Why? Why?" the dying guy gurgles. We want to know, too!
So the key mystery of the season is established: how that bag connects to Arlo and to that unfortunate parachutist, and why it's worth so much. Looking forward to getting back some of the characters missing from the opener, like Raylan's boss, Art, his sharpshooter colleague, Tim, and the nine-lived Dixie Mafia sleaze Wynn Duffy. Oh, and Raylan's still expecting a baby with his absent estranged love, Winona. Big doin's in Kentucky—hope you'll stick around.


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- super low profiledoesn't the title say all. the best low profile scope for the cash, in my opinion. it's so great! anyway buy when you want to get a cheap, cool, easy, field scope for that m4 of yours
- Does What It's Meant ForI'll explain what I mean with my title. This scope really is meant for a M16 or M4 carrying handle, or else it just has some downfalls.
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When you put this on a carrying handle, it looks very nice. It does exactly what its supposed to, in being a low profile scope. Honestly, this is more of a field scope, because although it zooms very nicely, it's not a big zoom. It is more just to give a clearer picture of where you are watching. One complaint, and I saw someone else had mentioned this, was I wish it was rubberized. Although, metal scopes are nice, this is a very light scope and almost feels like it could be damaged if dropped at all. On a carrying handle it does what it's supposed to do.
On RIS:
On a RIS system, which they include a mount for, it looks very awkward. It looks like it's a bigger version of the B-2 Red Dot w/ Riser Mount, which is exceptionally better. This just doesn't work on an RIS, because another thing I forgot to mention was, it also has a small FOV (Field of Vision).
The only reason I gave this a four, is because it does what it's supposed to do. It looks very nice and sleek on a carrying handle, and actually is somewhat of a low profile. Don't use this on an RIS though because it just looks stupid.
- SWEETThis is a great scope. i upgraded my m16a1 so it can snipe. This scope makes me fully able to adjust for wind and distance. This is low-profile and fits really well and it is so light that you cannot even tell it's there. It feels metal and the best part YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY ANYTHING ELSE TO ATTACH IT TO YOUR GUN so it is perfect if you have a tight budget like me. And you can close the scope caps so that light does not reflect into the other teams eyes. It has the mil-dot sights so you do NOT have to go buying batteries for it every week. Last but not least, it looks great on all guns, not just the m16a1.
mil dot
scope covers
it might change itself over time so be sure to shoot targets before going into a war
That is all the pros and cons
overall- great!!!
- DecentLike the title of this review says, it's decent.... not the best, but decent. When they say this scope is low profile it means when it's attached to an m16 style carrying handle. I put it on an RIS system and it fit just about the sight of my ACOG scope. For a smaller range scope like this, I would have preferred a larger range of view, but nothing you can do about it. The weight is on the light side which is good and bad. It's a good thing where it's not going to inhibit you (weight wise at least), and it's got a nice small sleek profile (again on a carrying handle). I'm truthfully worried about dropping this because of it's weight. If only you could find a rubberized case for this, or if it already came rubberized. All in all though, this is a decent scope for the price.
Speed out.....
- alrightThis its not that it's a bad sight but durability is one factor that concerns me. The scope is fine for assault rifles but i'm always scared that it will just fall off. 0.75lbs is not a lot for a scope.
- Exactly What I Was Looking For!This Scope is great! I have the Echo 1 M16 vn style and i couldn't find any rails that would fit on its carrying handle. So I found this and was so amazed of how easy it was to mount and also how easy it was to zero in. It looks way better on the gun than in these pictures. It is extremely durable as the description says it is. All in all this is a must have if you're like me and you couldn't find a rail for your carrying handle. Thanks, hope this helped!
- I like this scope.I got this at the beginning of this season and so far, it hasn't let me down. I currently have it on an M16 A4 with a Mad Bull sniper kit on the front and an M140 gearbox in it. The 4x zoom really helps not just for shooting but also for spying. My friends complained about how they have to get their eye in just the right spot to sight it up right, but with my mask I can put it right up to the lens and see perfectly.
real solid construction
as a couple of people already said, Mil Dot
Also low profile
I don't really have any cons.
By the way, I love how you can attach it to either the M4/M16 carry handle, or you can put it on an RIS rail. That is awesome.
- AWESOME!!!Just bought this scope about a week ago and it's awesome! Ive been converting my m16 to a sniper and this scope is exactly what i needed to complete it. When I took it out of the package i knew i had made a good choice by getting this gun. It was extremely easy to mount on the m16 carry handle, and as soon as i got it sighted in, i was hitting a target about the size of a softball from about 125 feet away.
I think that the scope is more than worth the money i paid for it.
low profile
couldn't think of any. sorry.
Overall, this is a fantastic scope and i would recommend it to anyone who wants a intensified zoom scope.
- Different UseHey this is an awesome scope in my opinion. Granted I'm still a bit green when it comes to battle, but it's great nonetheless. I use this for my sniper rifle, so this is from a sniper's point of view, instead of the M4/M16 and love it. It's low profile so it doesn't get caught on anything; it's light so it doesn't throw my aim off; and it comes with a weaver mounting adapter which made it possible to hook it onto my sniper. Easy to zero in, in my opinion, easy to attach the adapter and attach to the rail and it doesn't require batteries so you don't spend money on batteries just so you can use the scope which means you can use the money for other upgrades - better sling, better bb's, whatever. My problem with it is it's low field of view. You can't see much, but it makes up for it in the range estimating chart that came with it.
Light Weight
Low Profile
Range Estimation Chart
Easy to attach to anything
No Batteries=More Cash
Small Field of View
Overall, a great scope. I would recommend it to anybody.
- It does what it's made to do!Having an A2 style G&G M4, I'm kinda limited when it comes to optics. Even with a mounted rail, ACOGs, EOtechs and quick acquisition sights look wonky and awkward when mounted on a carrying handle and have a very high profile.
Enter this scope.
I was surprised when I first began using this thing. It's reticle is Mil-spec which is neat, except you'll be firing BBs not 5.56 rounds so it's a little impractical, but I like the attention to detail. My favorite feature however is that it was designed with the M4/M16 platform in mind and has a low profile while mounted on a carrying handle and it just doesn't look so awkward!
Good scope for the money, I haven't had it that long so I can't grade it on it's durability, but it seems pretty solid and hasn't given me too many concerns yet.


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Mads Herring Jensen | January 2, 2014
I recently had the pleasure of preparing a small contribution to the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Fall 2013) together with Wade Conklin and Jordan Schultz from Knowles Electronics. Wade presented our paper entitled "Characterization of a microelectromechanical microphone using the finite element method". The work consisted of implementing a virtual prototype of a Knowles MEMS microphone (the SPU0409LE5H microphone, see picture below) using COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More
Mateusz Stec | January 1, 2014
Computer aided engineering (CAE) helps us understand how mechanical systems work before they are physically realized. In order to properly reflect the reality, we continuously increase the modeling complexity when we simulate, validate, or optimize our applications. A simple technique to improve a model is to increase the number of finite elements that in turn create more evaluation points. The hardware and simulation time, however, may limit the size of the model, and other solutions are necessary — such as […]Read More
Alexandra Foley | December 30, 2013
Not too long ago, my colleague Jennifer wrote a blog post about the Cross Cancer Institute, and the research being conducted there into the design of a new device for treating cancerous tumors. The device, known as the Linac-MR, is revolutionary due to its ability to both image and treat cancer cells simultaneously — a capability that had previously been regarded as near impossible due to the conflicting physics interactions involved. Such a device would allow for extremely precise radiation […]Read More
Walter Frei | December 26, 2013
One of the questions we get asked often is how to learn to solve multiphysics problems effectively. Over the last several weeks, I've been writing a series of blog posts addressing the core functionality of the COMSOL Multiphysics software. These posts are designed to give you an understanding of the key concepts behind developing accurate multiphysics models efficiently. Today, I'll review the series as a whole.Read More
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In our previous blog entry, we introduced the Fully Coupled and the Segregated algorithms used for solving steady-state multiphysics problems in COMSOL. Here, we will examine techniques for accelerating the convergence of these two methods.Read More
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A while back, I had the opportunity to speak with Steven Conrad, a critical care physician at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Science Center in New Orleans. Not only is Dr. Conrad a physician as well as a professor at LSU, he's also a biomedical engineer who uses finite element analysis (FEA) to conduct research on the design of dialyzers. Dr. Conrad uses COMSOL Multiphysics to gain a deeper understanding of the physics behind these devices, and to create […]Read More
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Today we'll look at how to make 3D plots of vector fields that are computed using the 2D axisymmetric formulation found in the Electromagnetic Waves, Frequency Domain interface within the RF and Wave Optics modules.Read More
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One of the perennial questions in finite element modeling is how to choose a mesh. We want a fine enough mesh to give accurate answers, but not too fine, as that would lead to an impractical solution time. As we've discussed previously, adaptive mesh refinement lets the software improve the mesh, and by default it will minimize the overall error in the model. However, we often are only interested in accurate results over some subset of the entire model space. […]Read More
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During snow storms or windy days, a branch might break and short-circuit a power line's electric current as it falls. The first task of a recloser is to interrupt this short-circuit, i.e. to open or disconnect the affected overhead line from the feeding network source. The second task is to try to re-establish power after a short time by to re-closing the line, taking advantage of the fact that most of the reasons for a short-circuit of an overhead line […]Read More
Laura Bowen | December 20, 2013
The question of exactly how strong living bones are poses many important considerations for the medical industry. There is not currently a single-purpose device in the field to test bone strength. However, it is possible for researchers to get measurements of bone strength by modeling the entire makeup of the bone and using multiphysics simulation to perform stress and strain analyses. Simulating bone strength starts with a simple map of the external topology of the bone and then delves into […]Read More
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A prospective user of COMSOL approached me about modeling viscous fingering, which is an effect seen in porous media flow. He hadn't found a satisfying solution elsewhere, so he turned to COMSOL. I'd like to share with you some of my insight on how to go from idea to model to simulation by taking a "do-it-yourself approach" and utilizing the equation-based modeling capabilities of COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More


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Quote: What struck me most, though, was how fully the boys' music—hard-edged rap, preaching bone-deep dislike of authority—provided them with a continuing soundtrack to their antisocial behavior. So completely was rap ingrained in their consciousness that every so often, one or another of them would break into cocky, expletive-laden rap lyrics, accompanied by the angular, bellicose gestures typical of rap performance. A couple of his buddies would then join him. Rap was a running decoration in their conversation.
Many writers and thinkers see a kind of informed political engagement, even a revolutionary potential, in rap and hip-hop. They couldn't be more wrong. By reinforcing the stereotypes that long hindered blacks, and by teaching young blacks that a thuggish adversarial stance is the properly "authentic" response to a presumptively racist society, rap retards black success.
Quote: Hip-hop creates nothing.
Machiavel wrote: He makes outrageous claims without providing any backup. he ignorantly blames rap for black attitude and position in societey withought thinking that the converse of his statement is the more likely conclusion.
Quote: It would be silly, of course, to blame hip-hop for this sad downward spiral, but by glamorizing life in the war zone, it has made it harder for many of the kids stuck there to extricate themselves. Seeing a privileged star like Sean Combs behave like a street thug tells those kids that theres nothing more authentic than ghetto pathology, even when youve got wealth beyond imagining.
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It is difficult to deny that typical mainstream rap absoultely glorifies gang life, drugs, ghetto violence, and all these many other things. If you don't think that this makes an impression on children who listen to it then you're being naive. As a parallel, do you think that as many people would become doctors or firemen if our culture didn't present these as being important, glamourous professions? The fact is that the way that lifestyles are portrayed does have a significant impact on how many people choose to live them.
Jesse wrote: You're out of touch. Typical mainstream rap glorifies designer brands, rims, jewellery and fat asses above all else.
Quote: anyway my point is not only is his hypothesis stupid as hell, he does nothing to back it up. He might as well start every sentence with "i think" because thats all the whole article is. His bullshit opinion.


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NVIDIA currently offers various drivers for different hardware and operating systems. On the Windows OS alone, it offers 7 different drivers...
Last fall I heavily
ATI for not supporting their latest video cards in their latest drivers available shortly after the release of new hardware. I received a fair amount of criticism as there were quite some people who didn't agree with me. ATI told me that they ship a WHQL certified driver with those new cards that's newer than the monthly release so the whole thing shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, thats not the topic for today, as NVIDIA currently is in a far worse driver mess.
For several years now retrieving a driver for NVIDIA's video cards was fairly easy. You just wet to their website, selected download drivers, GeForce, the operating system and download, here you go. They always touted the ForceWare
Unified Driver Architecture
which basically meant that there is one driver for all GeForce cards. Until some months ago it didn't matter whether you still used a dusty old GeForce 2 MX or a shiny new GeForce 7950 GX2, you could install the latest ForceWare driver on any of these cards and all models in between.
In November 2006, enter GeForce 8. This new GPU changed quite a bit in terms of driver support for NVIDIA. Up to now, NVIDIA didn't manage to release a driver that supports both the old GeForce 2 - 7 series and the new GeForce 8 series cards (not counting their latest beta driver for Vista). They had to release separate driver releases for different hardware generations. This is where all the problems began.
In January 2007, enter Windows Vista. This new OS changed...familiar, eh? Basically NVIDIA was caught by the release of the new OS which introduces a new display driver model, as it was not able to provide a WHQL driver for all its products until now. Due to its new rather disunified driver architecture it had to develop separate drivers. It managed to release WHQL certified drivers for GeForce FX and GeForce 6/7 series. To my astonishment there are separate driver releases for GeForce FX and GeForce 6/7. On top of that, the GeForce FX drivers are not properly advertised in their download center. I only found them after stumbling over their
Vista downloads
site. For their latest GeForce 8 series though, all they have to offer is a beta driver release one day after Vistas official launch. This is the first driver to date that supports GeForce 8 cards and with GeForce 6/7 at least some previous generation cards.
In a grand total, this leaves us with no less than 7 different driver releases for the current Windows OSes XP and Vista, not counting 32-bit and 64-bit versions separately. You don't believe me? Here is the list:
ForceWare 93.71 WHQL (XP 32-bit and 64-bit): GeForce 2 - 7
ForceWare 93.81 Beta (XP 32-bit and 64-bit): GeForce 2 - 7
ForceWare 96.85 WHQL (Vista 32-bit and 64-bit): GeForce 5 - 7
ForceWare 97.46 WHQL (Vista 32-bit and 64-bit): GeForce 6/7
ForceWare 97.54 WHQL (Vista 32-bit and 64-bit): GeForce 6/7 [note: from nForce IGP package]
ForceWare 97.92 WHQL (XP 32-bit and 64-bit): GeForce 8
ForceWare 100.54 Beta (Vista 32-bit and 64-bit): GeForce 6 - 8
To cut a long matter short, NVIDIA's Vista drivers are a mess. I was somewhat surprised to find that their nForce 15.00G package contained even another graphics driver, although the 97.46 one would also support the IGP parts. Additionally their Vista drivers are far from complete. SLI for GeForce 6/7 is a no-go and quite a lot of other features are not implemented yet or are far from completed. NVIDIA lists those in the "Limitations in this release" section of their release notes. To their credit, they set up a site where users can
report problems
with their various Vista drivers.
This is
not the first
NVIDIA driver rant these days and certainly not the last. Word has it that NVIDIA is working heavily on a solution. They better do so quick, as a
class action lawsuit
was already filed against the company. Apart from that, NVIDIA may introduce monthly driver updates just like ATI does for a couple of years. I'm still sceptical whether monthly updates really provide a benefit over random updates when they are needed, but let's see what NVIDIA will do to fix that mess.
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Not directly. Due to contract terms with OEMs ATI and NVIDIA are not allowed to release generic notebook drivers. Both have special drivers for participating OEMs. I often criticised that in the past, but it's a support issue and the OEMs don't want their customers to install drivers that might introduce a problem their support has to deal with.
Though you can always modify the desktop driver by adding the proper device ID to the INF file. In 99% of cases these were just fine.
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"This rapturous adventure narrative…shows that love really does conquer all." —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder
"Charming, wise, and captivating." —Dean King, bestselling author of Skeletons on the Zahara
The amazing true story of Julian Smith, who retraced the journey of legendary British explorer Ewart "The Leopard" Grogan, the first man to cross the length of Africa, in hopes of also winning the heart of the woman he loved.
In 1898, the dashing young British explorer Ewart "the Leopard" Grogan was in love. In order to prove his mettle to his beloved—and her aristocratic stepfather—he set out on a quest to become the first person to walk across Africa, "a feat hitherto thought by many explorers to be impossible" (New York Times, 1900).
In 2007, thirty-five-year-old American journalist Julian Smith faced a similar problem with his girlfriend of six years . . . and decided to address it in the same way Grogan had more than a hundred years before: he was going to retrace the Leopard's 4,500-mile journey for love and glory through the lakes, volcanoes, savannas, and crowded modern cities of Africa.
Smith interweaves both adventures into a seamless narrative in Crossing the Heart of Africa: the story of two explorers, a century apart, who both traversed the length of Africa to prove themselves . . . and came back changed men.
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"Grogan would have been a fitting protagonist for Shakespeare ... an insightful and often uproarious romp. ... memorable ... sheds light on Grogan's monumental feat, which is worthy of a revisit." — Boston Globe
"Julian Smith, a talented travel writer, evokes Grogan, his adventures and his world with both insight and panache." — Washington Post
"An extraordinary love story . . . [an] absolutely fascinating adventure" — GoNomad.com
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Definición de offset en inglés:
1A consideration or amount that diminishes or balances the effect of a contrary one: an offset against taxable profits
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- An individual can obtain relief on an annual investment of up to €31,750 by way of offset against taxable income.
- An offset is considered a benefit to you because the money was used to pay your debts, the IRS says.
- We'll gladly talk to whoever wins the competition about offsets when the contract is signed.
2The amount or distance by which something is out of line: these wheels have an offset of four inches
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- Three aspects of the wheels are relevant to the suspension design: wheel offset, aspect ratio, and tire width.
- Try different putter styles and offsets until you find one that seems easiest to get on the target line at address.
- Pile head displacement was measured automatically every 5 minutes by four displacement gauges at 90° offsets mounted on two reference beams supported by steel posts on either side.
2.1 Surveying A short distance measured perpendicularly from the main line of measurement.
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- The accuracy in measuring the vertical offset is constrained by the resolution of the available maps and errors are no more than + / - 10 m.
- The first segments make offsets on the abscissas and are steeper and extend approximately above C = 30%.
- We can estimate this deviation by measuring the same step height with different offsets, or different average positions, of the scanner relative to the surface.
2.2 Electronics A small deviation or bias in a voltage or current.
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- Voltage sensors can set secure voltage offsets.
- Concerning the gyroscope, two parameters need to be calibrated: voltage offset and volts per degrees per second.
- A second lookup table stores a plurality of DC adjust values, which are added during operation to further reduce DC offset.
3A side shoot from a plant serving for propagation.
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- Most gardeners propagate sagos from offsets from the mother plant, but you can sow fertilized seeds.
- For those that do not produce seeds or offsets readily, propagation by bulb-scales is resorted to, each healthy scale being capable of producing a new bulb at its base.
- They rarely increase from seed, instead multiplying fairly rapidly from offsets of the mother bulb.
4 Architecture A sloping ledge in a wall or other feature where the thickness of the part above is diminished.
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- You can also specify part wall thickness or clearance offset.
- Similar cracks occur at offsets in masonry walls.
5A bend in a pipe to carry it past an obstacle.
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- This will allow for the offset of the venting elbow.
6 [often as modifier] A method of printing in which ink is transferred from a plate or stone to a uniform rubber surface and from that to the paper.
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- It is within that context that we should see this group of about one hundred offset lithographs published in 1970 and 1971.
- 'It is one of the most heated debates in the print world: offset vs. direct lithography,' said Creyts.
- The offset printing machines allow the simultaneous printing of both sides of the banknotes.
verbo(offsets, offsetting; past and past participle offset)
1 [with object] Counteract (something) by having an opposing force or effect: the deficit has been more than offset by capital inflows
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- An increasing university student population has partly offset these effects.
- But part of the profit pressure is offset - at least on the income statement - with nonoperating gains.
- The decline in the primary sector was to an extent offset by the growth in production in the secondary sector.
counterbalance, balance (out), cancel (out), even out/up, counteract, countervail, neutralize, compensate for, make up for, make good, redeem, indemnify;
atone for, make amends for, make restitution for
2 [with object] Place out of line: several places where the ridge was offset at right angles to its length
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- In places these are offset along lines that run at right angles to the magnetic lineaments, but the reasons for this remained a mystery.
- Climbing the stairs to the upper room you are confronted with The Great Outdoors, a painting with a brave composition of a figure offset to one side of an infinite blue sky.
- A full frame consists of two 1920x540 line fields, offset slightly.
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PHOENIX -- Eric Sogard now answers to the name "Face" in the A's clubhouse.
Sogard, who won the A's second base job last year and is back to see if he can do so again, has been the A's entry in the MLB Networks' "The Face of Baseball," a Twitter-driven competition pitting players from all teams against each other.
Sogard was the surprise winner of the "Face of the A's" competition earlier, and his momentum hasn't slowed. So far, the lightly bearded Sogard has ousted the Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo and the Colorado Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki.
"I don't know what that's all about," Sogard said,"`except that it goes to show the passion of the A's fans. They jump in and they don't stop."
In having advanced to the third round, Sogard is head-to-jaw with Giants catcher Buster Posey.
"This should be interesting," Sogard said of the all-Bay Area matchup. The voting will take place in the next couple of days, voting starting at 6 a.m. and running to 5 p.m.
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Insider at blogs.ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.