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The lid has been lifted on one of the worst-kept secrets in Colorado brewing: Breckenridge Brewery is building a $20 million brewery complex on 12 acres along the South Platte River in Littleton that will both give it desperately needed room to grow and serve as a tourist destination.
The fifth-largest brewer based in Colorado has been searching for a new, larger home after multiple years of double-digit growth caused it to outgrow its existing brewery on Kalamath Street in Denver.
Breckenridge began in the mountain town of the same name in 1990. In 2011, Breckenridge Holdings merged with Wynkoop Holdings Inc. (best known for the flagship brewpub in LoDo co-founded by Gov. John Hickenlooper) to form a joint venture that includes both flagship breweries and a dozen restaurants.
Breckenridge is under contract to purchase the property from Designs by Sundown - a landscape architecture and construction firm - for $2.7 million, said Todd Usry, Breckenridge brewmaster and director of brewing.
The land in the 6700 block of South Santa Fe Boulevard is south of Hudson Gardens, north of Aspen Grove shopping center and adjacent to the Reynolds Landing pavilion and canoe launch on the Platte River.
The new brewery will not be up and running until late 2014 or early 2015, Usry said. The project also will create new jobs. Breckenridge says it employs about 40 at its current location and the workforce could grow to 90 at the Littleton location.
"For me, it's kind of the culmination of 22 years making Breckenridge Beer," Usry said. "To have a destination brewery like this, something that represents us and who we are and how we go about our business is super exciting. I'm really excited we are staying in Colorado, we're investing in Colorado and that we're going to have a landmark tribute to the incredible Colorado craft beer industry."
To read this article in its entirety, go to http://blogs.denverpost.com/beer/2013/01/31/breckenridge/8219/


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I use QCAD 3.4.6 on Ubuntu 13.10.
If I create a block in a drawing and insert some block references I can modify their properties by Property Editor.
But if I close and re-open the file, when I select a block reference the Property Editor freezes preventing any properties change (layer, color, linetype, scale...).
It's very frustrating.
Is it a bug?

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While waiting for the imminent release of PCLinuxOS 0.94 I started wishing for a usb flash drive to back up my /home data. I usually just buy the Live CD, but I then started to think, what I'd really like to have is the OS come on a flash drive. No installation would be necessary, just plug it in and use. Then in an epiphany (a flash even), it became clear, the end of CDs is near.
And when I say CD I don't just mean regular old 700 MB compact disks, I also mean DVDs, and new Blue-ray and HD DVDs optical disks too (whose capacities are already exceeded by the largest flash drives). In fact, I see a world in the near future (5 years?) where, like the floppy, optical disks will take their place in the museum of yesterday technology. Now I know Sony, Phillips, et al might not like to hear this, but the logic is unassailable (and its consequences inexorable), and the logic goes something like this.
CDs started out as a replacement for records (albums) to digitally store and distribute music. And with the CD begat the need for the CD player. And things were good, and the music industry (and equipment makers) made a ton of money reselling content they had recovered the cost of production of decades before.
Then the computer industry realized that compact disks were really just another way to store lots of bits cheaply, and thus begat the use of CDs to store and distribute software and data. And with this need begat the ubiquitous CD drive in PCs.
But for all the benefits optical disk storage bring, they have an inherent Achilles heal -- they require a mechanical optical drive to play them with. And being mechanical means they embody the innate deficiencies of such things (size, weight, power, fragility, etc). And like the floppy before it, CDs ultimately just provide a standard, relatively cheap, means to provide easy transportable storage for data. But now the CDs time too is coming to an end.
Flash drives are the emerging king of mass PC storage. Not only will flash memory technology transcend the application of optical disk storage, it will transform the future look and use of the PC, and this will profoundly affect the distribution and use of FOSS.
For when you break it down, all a PC is is an operating system, nonvolatile memory to store the OS and programs on, ram memory to run programs in, interface devices to provide for human interaction (keyboards, mice, etc), a screen interface, and external device (printers, et al) interface capabilities.
Thus, the PC will become just a standard chassis that provides a base for the cpu, ram memory, peripherals, and screen. It can include nonvolatile (flash) memory too, but for most people, they will just stick in their own flash drive and be instantly up and running with whatever OS, software, and data they choose to have on it. And when this happens FOSS will dominate the software landscape. Because when the separation of the hardware from the software becomes explicit people will then make smarter decisions to optimize both. At this point commercial/proprietary software will have to compete on an equal footing with FOSS to get on people's flash drives. That's a battle I think FOSS will generally win.
In my mind the inevitability of this was a foregone conclusion. And sure enough, it just so happened, the day after I initially wrote these thoughts down for this blog I came across an announcement about the Turbolinux "wizpy". Man, was this serendipitous, or what?
So very soon, instead of downloading an ISO and burning CDs, and then installing the distro from the CD onto a harddisk (or flash drive) to use, DRY (don't repeat yourself – to borrow a Ruby/Rails idiom). You'll just get the distro on a flash drive to begin with and run it off that. Then, all those CD filled magazines will come instead with little flash drives which you can immediately use with any computer – Mac, PC, or whatever. Yes, a better day is on the horizon.
So before you go out and blow a paycheck on that new Blue-ray or HD DVD player you might want to wait awhile. Flash technology will change the form and face of all data storage and distribution, with FOSS (and us) being a big winner in the process.
Yeah, but will it be cheaper overall?
The advantages of CD's, DVD's etc. are:
1. their compact form factor
2. their cheap composition.
While I can see flash drives as such becoming more popular for liveCD purchases, I don't see them wholely replacing discs for all their purposes.
Discs are compact: they stack easily and hundreds of them can be placed in a very small space.
They are also cheap to manufacture: They are little more than circular pieces of plastic. Flash drives are like tiny computers with circuitry.
When you get flash drives with the same data capacity or more, same physical space or less, and same price or less as whatever the contemporary disc technology offers at the time, then we'll talk. Until then, flash technology will not be able to overcome the sheer mass distribution capabilities of disc technology.
And if your install gets corrupted/b0rked?
So what happens when you accidentally delete some important file, misconfigure it so that it wont boot, upgrade to a new but incompatible version of foosoft (which stops a boot), etc.
You need some way of recovering the original system without losing user's files. IMHO, this doesn't offer a huge improvement over a LiveCD (they are read only after all).
I would rather think: the network. The more internet is everywhere the more it makes sense to have things stored there instead as on a disk flash drive or whatever.
I would rather think: the network.
In fact, you could just have a private/public keypair on the fob along with some tftp-ish thing which goes out and authenticates you then slurps down your OS image and boots it. When you leave, auto-rsync changes to your image server and terminal reboots. Server rsyncs to backup server. Smiple.
For that matter, with pgpkeys.net, who needs the fob? Authenticate yourself to the terminal, it authenticates you via online pgpkey, slurps down your OS image after authenticating with your image server ...


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SAN JOSE -- The last time the Sharks faced the Los Angeles Kings, it looked as if San Jose's season was in big trouble.
A knee-on-knee hit by Kings captain Dustin Brown knocked Sharks rookie Tomas Hertl out of the Dec. 19 game and required surgery that may turn out to be season-ending for the Czech native. It was an emotionally deflating night, and when it ended with Los Angeles winning 4-1, the Sharks trailed the Kings by four points in the Pacific Division.
But strange how things have worked out.
The Sharks -- who would later lose another top forward, Logan Couture, to a hand injury suffered that same night -- have gone 13-4 while Los Angeles has struggled at 5-10-2. San Jose has opened up a 10-point gap over the Kings, and adding to that margin when the teams meet Monday night is still considered the best payback.
"We're going to win the game for Hertl, that's what we'll do," defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic said Sunday. "There's nothing you can do now but play hard and win the game for him."
The hit at 18:59 of the first period only intensified an already heated rivalry fueled by two playoff matchups in the past three years. Though Brown was given a major penalty for kneeing and a game misconduct, the fact that no suspension followed left the Sharks shaking their heads.
"We weren't happy, and I certainly wasn't, with the way things were handled and the play itself," said forward Tommy Wingels, who had a career-high 11 hits the night Hertl was hurt.
Four days later, San Jose general manager Doug Wilson fanned the flames by expressing disappointment that Brown, while defending the hit, never expressed concern for Hertl.
None of which is to suggest things will get out of hand Monday night.
"Are you looking for retaliation?" Wingels responded when asked how any carry-over might manifest itself. "No, I don't think you'll get that."
What can be expected is more of the same hard-hitting hockey that characterizes a series in which the home team has won each of the past 15 regular-season and playoff games.
"I think every time we play them we want to lean into them and get the two points," defenseman Matt Irwin said. "I don't think it matters what happened in the game before. Everyone knows what happened, and it is what it is. It's in the past, and there's nothing we can do to change that."
The Kings have had trouble scoring since the last time the teams met, averaging 1.8 goals over the 17-game stretch. Meanwhile, the Sharks credit organizational depth for their continued success as players such as Wingels and Matt Nieto have done well filling in on the top two lines while others such as Bracken Kearns and Eriah Hayes have helped fill out the third and fourth.
"The cliches that we've used earlier about other players seeking or earning opportunity, it's existed and they've delivered," coach Todd McLellan said.
The Sharks enter the game on a six-game winning streak while the Kings have dropped their past five.
"Sometimes when injuries occur, it can galvanize a team, it can bring a group together," McLellan said. "We narrow our focus a little bit more, and guys have done that."
Hertl has not resumed skating, and McLellan had no update on the possibility he would miss the rest of the season -- something the team did not rule out when Hertl had surgery to repair damage to the medial collateral and posterior cruciate ligaments in his right knee Dec. 31 in Cleveland.
But the 20-year-old rookie is going through rehab off the ice.
"He shows up every day on time and ready to work," McLellan said. "I think he likes being around his teammates even when he's hurt. Take a quick peek in on him every now and then, and he's working hard. Young players recover quick, and we've got our fingers crossed."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.
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Elway is one of four celebrities who have played in each of the 23 events since its inception in 1990, when NBC conceived the event to fill the void the network had after losing the major league baseball contract.
"It was 1989. We had just lost major league baseball and (president) Dick Ebersol called me in his office," recalled Jon Miller, president of programming for NBC Sports and the NBC Sports Network.
Ebersol told Miller, "You're the programming guy. We just lost baseball and you now have 26 weeks to fill. But you have no money to spend."
The network was open to many new ventures in sports to fill the void. One of the ideas was a celebrity golf tournament.
"Let's give it a shot," Miller thought. "This event was the first and most successful of those ventures. But we knew we needed the biggest star of that time to make it go, and that was Michael Jordan."
He said yes, and a good friendship was born. Jordan is playing in his 17th Tahoe event.
Elway also said yes, and he's been here ever since, with a runner-up finish in 2010 being his best. He finished tied for 15th in 2011.
"This is the last hurrah for me before we jump into the season," said Elway, a Hall of Fame quarterback who is now executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos. "I like playing here and I think I'm still competitive, but my chances of winning here are dwindling."
Next week, the spotlight will begin to shine for the anticipation of Denver Broncos training camp, where Payton Manning will wear a new uniform after many great years with the Indianapolis Colts.
"The hype is still there with our team," said Elway. "I think we've gotten better on both sides of the ball and having Payton Manning immediately makes us competitive. Payton works really hard. There's a reason he's so good. I'm looking forward to the season."
But for this week, Elway is looking forward to having a chance at beating other quarterbacks and former quarterbacks for a chance to hold the winner's trophy on Sunday. The favorite is Tony Romo, even though actor Jack Wagner is the defending champion
The 54-hole celebrity event uses a Stableford scoring system that awards graduated points for pars or better. The three other celebrities who have played in all 23 championships are Wagner, Mike Eruzione and Jim MaMahon.
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Brewz Crewz Promises to Educate, Delight With Craft Beers in Downtown Lakeland
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 6:01 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 10:02 a.m.
The point of any beer festival is, of course, to sample the brew, but organizers of this year's Brewz Crewz aren't forgetting fans seeking a more cerebral experience.
WHAT: Lakeland's Brewz Crewz Craft Beer Festival. The band Cross Traxx will perform.
WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Saturday.
LOCATION: Downtown, in Munn Park.
TICKETS: $15 designated driver, $30 general admission, $50 VIP. Price includes samples of food from area restaurants.
CONTACT: For advance tickets and information, visit www.brewzcrewz.com, or call Downtown Lakeland Partnership, 863-513-3669.
When originally posted, this article incorrectly referred to coordinator Adam Justice as David Justice.
The annual event to be held 6-9 p.m. Saturday in downtown Lakeland's Munn Park is expected to attract fewer distributors and their uninformed volunteers and more of the people who actually make the stuff, experts who can talk shop.
"It's important to have somebody to talk about it," said Adam Justice, curator of art at the Polk Museum of Art and a coordinator of Brewz Crewz. "There are people who come to these things and bring their clipboards. They want to be educated about the beer."
A goal is to have as many as 70 breweries and their representatives on hand for this year's festival, a fundraiser for Downtown Lakeland Partnership and ElderPoint Ministries, a nonprofit assisting seniors with light housekeeping, errands and food.
Previous events have raised as much as $41,000 for the two agencies. Now in its fourth year, the festival is still in its infancy, but Justice and other organizers say participants can expect an enhanced experience, especially those who purchase a $50 VIP ticket.
About 1,000 people have attended the festival in past years. General admission is $30, and designated drivers pay $15, which includes samples of food from an array of local caterers and restaurants.
VIP ticket holders get inside the gates an hour earlier at 5 p.m. They will imbibe in a somewhat secluded section beneath trees hung with lanterns. And they'll have access to indoor plumbing plus a selection of wines. Regular ticket holders will have to make do with just beer.
But hey, beer is the main event. Expect to see a myriad of ales and lagers, both domestic and imports, including Innis & Gunn, the Scottish brewer that has built a reputation on oak-finished beers of light to moderate strength.
Other breweries expected to showcase their wares include local favorite Cigar City out of Tampa, as well as Bell's, Breckenridge, Fort Collins, Highland, Left Hand and Shipyard.
An assortment of food will be served by such restaurants as Abuelo's, Fat Maggie's, Fresco's, Harry's Seafood Bar & Grille, La Porta Rossa and The Chop Shop.
Justice is working with three of the larger beer distributors serving Central Florida — Brown Distributing Company, Florida Distributing Company and Bernie Little Distributing — to bring festival-goers a good selection of seasonal beers.
"Usually February is when the breweries start rolling our their spring seasonals," Justice said. "But some (brewers) won't release their spring product until the end of February, so we might have some winter holdovers."
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Neuro wrote: also just as i predicted, none of the games, ...from either system look like next gen graphics
Mark in Minnesota wrote: The only thing I can think of to mention here right now is that I'm the best awk programmer I know, so instead I'll repost something I wrote elsewhere back in February.
At around 7:10PM, I changed my gtalk status to:
(home) for a long time I thought the front-man for The Mountain Goats was named John Takenoprisoners
My friend Jesse immediately IMed me the following:
7:12 PM Jesse: This reminds me of Aaron Tombofhorrors.
7:13 PM Jesse: I had a sun sword mark.
, mark.
and we still got destroyed by that fucking lich.
I don't think we ever made it there.
I don't know about you. Maybe you're not like me. But me, I'm part of a culture of gamers, for more than half my life now. And when I see Jesse type that, I see in his words an aging veteran of a jungle war, reliving trauma instead of just remembering it. And I'm like him. There's a part of my mind forever devoted to sprinting through the jungles of Cambodia, trailing my point man by just far enough that when he fell into the ambush I was able to win the battle by avenging his death. There's a part of my mind still smarting from having permanently lost all my spell abilities due to a critical failure on a spell fumble table. There's a part of my mind that exults at beating Merlin's Pet for the first time, and a part of my mind that quails in horror at the thought of being lost in Profezzorn's Monolith, chased by demons from the Dungeon Dimensions. There's a part of my mind that shudders in futile rage at the thought of having been killed by a balrog I wrote the code for. And there's a part of my mind that clawed its way screaming into the fresh air when Chuck talks to me over morning coffee about having just gotten done rescuing the asari scientist from the krogan mercenary and his complement of geth stormtroopers.
This is who I am. A seasoned traveler of virtual worlds, from the deep and terrifying dungeons of Zork and Rogue and Nethack to the sprawling domains of NannyMUD to the cramped and brutal deathmatch maps of Doom, Duke, SOCOM, RTCW, Halo, and Gears. I've been killed by centaurs, hobgoblins, kestrels, griffins, and trolls, and had an aquator make my armor so rusty I couldn't even take it off any more. I've broken open the jewel-encrusted egg, explored the Great Underground Empire, and been eaten by more than one grue. I've been shot in the head by twelve year olds, I've been booted from Xbox Live matches for being too good with the minigun, and I've spawn-camped some of my best friends and lived to tell about it. I can throw a dragon punch, I can counter-throw, I've saved every Little Sister in Rapture, and more than 20 years later, my princess is still in another castle. I've been level 1, I've been level 20. I've ignored encumberance tables, fudged my roll on a d20, and argued over more rules than I care to admit. I've inserted a coin to continue, and I've been entering my initials next to high scores for longer than I've been signing my own name. I've dreamt of Super Mario on a skateboard, I've dreamt that I was fighting Outer Heaven terrorists on an oil rig. I've shot the food, I've entered through the Konami Code, I've fallen through the geometry by accident and on purpose, and sometimes I kill my way up to six stars just for the fun of it.
I've played games naked. I've played games drunk. I've played games through 'til dawn. I've played games laughing, and crying, and everything in beteween. And shit, that's just in the last year or so.
And the thing about it is, I know I'm not alone in any of this. I can sit and make an Aesop Rock reference in my gtalk status, and a friend who hasn't rolled D&D dice with me in probably five years can quite randomly have an eyes-dilated reaction of near pain to the memory of something that never actually happened, not to him, not to anybody. Hell, I wasn't even in that Tomb of Horrors campaign and I remember how bad it was. That module cut a swath of trauma through damn near half of my LiveJournal friends list, and when Jesse suggested to me later on in that gtalk chat that someone should run the campaign again, I rolled out into my living room and repeated his suggestion to [two of my friends], just to hear their cries of outrage.
I talk a lot about how we're the veterans of an imaginary war, and I shouldn't, because I don't want to make fun of PTSD or anybody who's had to go through that. But Jesse reminded me tonight that, even when the adversity is imaginary, the brotherhood that comes out of it can be real.
Gamer for life, and proud of it.
Plum Puddin' wrote: I'm gonna get both. PS4 to play games, X Bone so i can have someone anonymous over the other side of the world watch me masturbate.
Everybody wins.
Captiv8 wrote: Plum Puddin' wrote: I'm gonna get both. PS4 to play games, X Bone so i can have someone anonymous over the other side of the world watch me masturbate.
Everybody wins.
You can do that now without dropping $500. Omegle, son. It will save your exhibitionist soul. And you might meet Ben Folds.


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BOSTON -- The defense of the Boston Bruins dominated the Eastern Conference Final so thoroughly that it made absolutely perfect sense for a stay-at-home defenseman to score the only goal in Game 4 on Friday.
Adam McQuaid, who had one previous postseason goal and seven career goals in the regular season, rifled a slap shot just under the crossbar early in the third period to provide the winning margin in a 1-0 victory at TD Garden that allowed Boston to complete a stunning sweep of the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins.
With the win, Boston advances to the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in three seasons, where it will face either the Chicago Blackhawks or the Los Angeles Kings. The Blackhawks lead the best-of-7 Western Conference Final 3-1 and get their first chance to clinch Saturday with Game 5 at United Center (8 p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, RDS).
"It obviously feels good," McQuaid said of his goal. "It feels good to be able to contribute that way when you don't normally.
"But I think you look at so many great efforts we had from guys tonight. The last 10 minutes of the game, guys were all over the ice, doing whatever it took to preserve that goal. You know, [goalie] Tuukka [Rask] was phenomenal again for us."
In essence, that was Boston's game plan for the series. Play a five-man team defense in the hope of smothering Pittsburgh's big guns. Allow Rask to do what he does best, and score some opportune goals.
But even the Bruins didn't know that blueprint had the ability to build something so beautiful.
Pittsburgh managed two goals in the series, and neither came from its biggest stars -- Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, James Neal or NHL Trade Deadline import Jarome Iginla. Pittsburgh managed one goal in the final 106 minutes and 28 seconds of the series and was outscored 12-2 in the four games. Most tellingly, Pittsburgh never led in the series and was tied for 75:02 of the 275:19 of game play.
"If you look back, the chances are there," said Crosby, who had no points, 13 shots and was minus-2 in the series. "You try to fight, you try to get through to the net and get rebounds, and sometimes they come to you -- sometimes they don't.
"But obviously, you score two goals as a team in four games and virtually we go without any points. That doesn't sit very well."
Letang, the top-scoring defenseman in the playoffs heading into this round, had no points, 16 shots and was a minus-5.
"They play really well defensively and we didn't manage to score goals," he said. "The goalie played really well, and some of the bounces didn't go our way. But they're a good team, and they move on and we're not. So that's the end of the story."
Actually, Pittsburgh's offensive struggles are the beginning of the story for this Boston team, which has lost once in its past 10 games after surviving a first-round Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. During the course of this series, the Bruins illustrated how lethal a combination their suffocating defense and Rask playing at the top of his game can be.
The Penguins entered the third round as the highest-scoring team in the 16-team tournament. They went home for a long summer of soul-searching wondering what happened to an offense that was averaging 4.27 goals through two rounds. They are the first team since 2009 to trail for an entire series -- a dubious distinction last achieved by the Columbus Blue Jackets against the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
"It just shows what a team can do," said defenseman Dennis Seidenberg, who joined Zdeno Chara as Boston's top shutdown pair. "They have a lot of firepower, a lot of quality scorers over there. But if you play as a team, defend as one, I think you can do what we did in this series, and that was just playing good defense, a lot of layers and play hard."
It also didn't hurt that the Bruins had Rask as their line of last defense. The goalie, who was a backup when Boston won the Cup in 2011 with Tim Thomas delivering clutch performance after clutch performance, stopped 134 of the 136 shots he faced. That, by the way, is a save percentage of .985.
In the dying seconds of Game 4, Rask made a couple of saves, including a glove save on Iginla at the buzzer, to preserve his second shutout of the series as the Penguins threw everything they had into trying to tie the score and extend their season. As he had done throughout the series, Rask left the game's best offensive players shaking their heads.
"Well, [Rask] saved us again, I mean especially at the end it seemed like there were 10 guys out there for our shift," Seidenberg said. "They were throwing pucks everywhere and he seemed to just find the lane and find the puck and get his glove or a body part on it. I mean [Chara] I think, at the end I thought the puck was in, and [Chara] stretches his arm and somehow it hits his arm. We did have a little bit of luck, but again we played a good team defense, and having Tuukka back there definitely helps."
The Bruins go into the Final with their game seemingly in top gear again and four wins from adding to the championship they won in a seven-game title series against the Vancouver Canucks 24 months ago.
"It's awesome," forward Milan Lucic said. "Being through what we've been through as a team over the years, and even this year with everything that happened in the first round and Game 7 [against Toronto] and just going through that and getting to this point, it's truly a great feeling.
"I think we definitely need to enjoy this tonight. We don't know who we're playing yet, so like I said, just enjoy it the next couple of days and then regroup, refocus, and go out there and start having fun again."
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Monday's letters: Change needed
Published: Monday, December 3, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 30, 2012 at 5:24 p.m.
To the editor: The Times-News online forums seem to be dominated by two types of Flat Rock Playhouse naysayers the Let em starve people who were out in force at the last commissioners meeting, and the Why change a good thing? worriers.
The first are ready to put the dagger to the golden goose, while the second express our natural apprehension to change.
Theres a reason that the maxim Change or die exists. Any business with the same products, the same floor plan, the same anything except quality will eventually have no business. Peoples tastes, needs and expectations change with seasons and generations. Theater, also.
One online commentator pined for the good old small little theater days. But would a still small theater be a true testament to the vision and ability of Robroy Farquar, his wife and son? Did he build a house so fragile that change would weaken it?
The Playhouses challenge in an Internet age is how to woo the cybergeneration without losing the earlier theater-goers. A difficult task.
The Playhouse must change and grow, experiment and provoke, or it ceases to fulfill theaters true mission. The question now is: Can we accept change and grow with them?
Eva L. Ritchey
All for naught
To the editor: Looking at the big picture of the past election, there was the $250 million man from Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, and the Republican Party with its national organization, campaign fundraising and communications networks.
There was the conservative and Christian part of our society. There was talk radio with its coast-to-coast networks. There were 100 million Americans who own firearms, and theres the National Rifle Association.
With all the talk, talk, talk, fundraising and national organizations, they were unable to defeat Barack Obama and the communist agenda.
This is truly pathetic.
Richard Clark
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Nine Princes in Amber is the first of the 10 books that are The Chronicles of Amber; an epic fantasy series written by six-time Hugo Award winning and three-time Nebula Award winning author, Roger Zelazny.
The ten books that make up the series are told in two story arcs: The Corwin Cycle and the Merlin Cycle.
The Audible audio rendition of this classic sci-fi/fantasy series is kicked off by 2012 Audie Award nominee, Alessandro Juliani, who reads the first five books that make up the Corwin Cycle and whose narration vividly brings the world of Amber to life.
Amber is the one real world, of which all others including our own Earth are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne.
From Arden to the Pattern deep in Castle Amber which defines the very structure of Reality, Corwin must contend with the powers of his eight immortal brothers, all Princes of Amber. His savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering Forces that challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.
©1970 Roger Zelazny (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
"Great begining of the series"
I have heard this book read by Roger Zelazny himself. Whereas he wrote an excellent story in this series, he himself is NOT a great dramatic actor. The reading by Allessandro Juliani really added to the series- When Zelazny himself read this book, I didn't notice any differences between characters when he read. Juliani's reading is superior and adds a lot of enjoyment to the series. I am not sorry I got this book again even after having heard the author's version of it. I am looking forward to seeing how the entire series feels now with Juliani's reading.
If you are like me and are looking for great new series, you might like this one. Fair warning: from what I recall, the series' quality did degrade towards the end, but the beginning parts was excellent; it climaxed, then left some questions unanswered. Through it all, though, it provides an enjoyable experience.
Everything isn't for everyone. This series has been around for a while so I'm sure a lot of people have opinions about it. Before you commit to it, please find out what other reviewers think. If there's a series you've enjoyed, please share it. Thank you.
"Great book, lame deal!"
Gave this series a try and was very surprised at the excellent narration and story line. I like the mix of the modern age with the Avalon mythology. For a book that was written in the 70's the story still seems current and not antiquated. I would like to finish the whole series but do not like that these short 5 hour books are sold separately instead of being grouped together. It will definitely be expensive to get to the end and I'm sure Audible is counting on that. Great book, lame deal!
"A Return to Amber"
I feel downright presumptuous to be writing a review for this novel. It is a classic, a keystone, the start of a series that has inspired and shaped the realm of fantasy literature. It is from an era when quality took precedence over quantity. If you enjoy fantasy literature you should give this a try, and even if you don't enjoy this work, you will at least be able to talk about it when your fellow fantasy nerds start waxing philosophical. Zelazny has been praised by current giants like Neil Gaiman and George R. R. Martin. He is an author's author.
Allessandro Juliani gives a solid performance but not outstanding. I've heard better but I've also heard far worst. Part of the problem may well be that I have lived with these characters in my head for a decade and a half, and so I brought my own view of how their voices sound. I will have no problem continuing the series with Juliani as the narrator, and I have a feeling he will grow on me.
Now, as had been mentioned, not everyone who liked the first books has the same view on the second set of books (6-10). I enjoyed them just as much as the first. They had a different main character, expanded the abilities of the characters and the nature of the setting, and focused a little more on exploring that growth and so focused a little less on the characters at times. I enjoyed the differences, but I understand not everyone did.
I am enjoying my own return to Amber, I hope the same for each of you.
Kat at FanLit
"Finally on audio!!"
"I'd get what I needed and take what I wanted and I'd remember those who helped me and step on the rest. For this, I knew, was the law by which our family lived, and I was a true son of my father."
When Corwin wakes up in a private hospital after driving his car over a cliff, he has no idea who he is. When he realizes that he has healed too fast and that he's being drugged so he'll stay unconscious, he decides that he better find out what's going on.
The truth is strange: Corwin is one of the nine princes of Amber, the one true world, but for centuries he's been exiled in the Shadowland we call Earth. The accident has actually dislodged the spell that his brother Eric was using to keep him out of Amber because Corwin is the biggest threat to Eric's sovereignty there.
Nine Princes in Amber is the first (rather short) installment in a long epic that describes, from Corwin's perspective and later his son's, the struggle of his family to deal with both their internal treacheries and the evil forces that assail them from the forces of Chaos. In Nine Princes in Amber, Corwin must figure out who he is, assess his resources, gather some allies, wonder whether his father is dead or alive, and make a move on the throne of Amber. Here we learn what Corwin has been doing for centuries on Earth, meet several of his siblings, discover the way in and out of Amber, meet a race of people who live under the sea, and discover some of the special powers of Corwin's family.
Ah… Corwin's family… if you can call them a "family." Corwin's own description for them is "Machiavellian," and that about covers it. Corwin and his brothers and sisters are clever, sophisticated, sarcastic, and extremely ambitious. They constantly scheme and plot to outmaneuver each other as they vie for political power. If you knew these people in real life, you'd probably hate them, but in Zelazny's hands they're kind of charming. These are people who plan to live forever, have the ability to design their own worlds to plunder, are incapable of trust, and have no reason to think about anyone other than themselves. In the end, Corwin rages against his brother and makes a rash decision that will negatively affect Amber's future.
THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER was highly imaginative when it was published in the 1970s and it remains fresh and original today. The magic system is creative, Zelazny's writing style is solid, the story is fast-paced, exciting, and mature. Plot twists and cliffhangers make it hard to stop reading. You'll definitely want to have The Guns of Avalon, the second book in the series, ready to go as soon as you finish Nine Princes in Amber.
Nine Princes in Amber is a re-read for me because Audible Frontiers has recently produced THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER on audio — something I have been waiting years for. They've chosen one of their best narrators for Zelazny's most famous work: Alessandro Juliani. He's got the perfect voice and style to play Corwin, so I'm really pleased with this production. If you're an audio reader, you'll definitely want to download this classic!
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"All roads lead to Amber"
The story is compelling and fascinating. I love the transitions between the different worlds and the way Zelazny worded them.
I cannot think of a comparison that equals these first five books. They are of themselves a very good body of work.
Corwin of course. He rocks
I named my youngest daughter Amber and would have named a boy Corwin. How's that for extreme? My wife and I both enjoyed the Amber series maybe a bit too much, but what a great escape from this world.
A must listen. And I listen to a lot of books.
Audiobook Junkie... Love all types of Science Fiction
"Narration is well done"
This is my among my top favorite science fiction series. This is Roger Zelazny's best work and he is a well known inspiration amount other top selling authors. I have heard Zelazny's reading of this book and bought this version primarily to see how Alessandro Juliani would pull it off. I still think Zelazny made a better Corwin, but Juliani's version of Random was more mousy and fitting. There was also a better distinction and animation of the other characters as well.
Only for Zelazny would I buy a book twice. So, if you haven't read/listened to this yet you are missing out.
"Great story"
Great story. You will never look at a deck of cards the same.
Zelazny will be remembered.
Terrible pricing Audible.
"The book is compelling."
Everyone I have ever met has the feeling that there is something more going on than they can concieve. This book begins a journey in the explaination of what that feeling may be about.
This ten book series is an old friend and the new narrator does it justice.
"A great performance for a fantastic series."
I've been a fan of Roger Zelazny's Amber series since I discovered it decades ago, and was delighted to discover this new, unabridged adaptation of his masterwork. Alessandro Juliani does a great job as narrator, capturing Corwin's voice and personality well, and while some of his vocal choices for the rest of the family take a moment's getting used to, he manages to imbue each character with a distinctive voice and manner that draws you into the tale. Listening to the opening volume once more, I remember again why I was so drawn to this world, and can't wait to work my way through all ten books in the series. This one's definitely a must-have if you're an Amber fan, and if you're unfamiliar with the tales of the immortal city at the heart of all things, you're in for a treat.
I love reading and listening to books, especially fantasy, science fiction, children's, historical, and classics.
"I Loved Amber in High School, But Now. . ."
The first person narrator of Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber (1970) wakes up in a hospital without knowing who he is or how he came to be there. He does know that he's been being kept in a drugged sleep, so he feigns unconsciousness, takes out a thuggish orderly, threatens the doctor in charge, and, finally learning from him that his "sister" checked him into the hospital, heads off in a taxi for her home in NY. Thus begins his quest for identity and memory, which occupies the first half of the novel. By concealing his amnesia, acting as if he's considering his next move in some game of power, and examining every clue, he soon learns that his name is Corwin, that he is a prince of a place called Amber ("the key to everything"), and that his Machiavellian kin (eight brothers and at least four sisters) feel little kinship for each other: "I'd get what I needed and take what I wanted, and I'd remember those who helped me and step on the rest. For this, I knew, was the law by which our family lived." But how can he return to Amber, and what is the family game that stranded him memoryless on earth?
I remembering loving the first Amber cycle when I was in high school, painfully waiting for the fifth book to be published in 1978 so I could find out how Corwin's saga ends. Revisiting Nine Princes of Amber thirty-five years later, I still find good things in it. Zelazny's conception of Amber as the only real place, the one true substance from which all other cities and worlds, including earth, are "but a reflection of a shadow," is intriguing, as is his depiction of traveling through the Shadow worlds by mentally adding and subtracting features till you arrive at Amber. He tells a page-turning story. His strategy of having Corwin reveal early on that he's telling his tale as he is about to die somehow somewhere in the future is neat. There are some nice lines, like "As I sailed into Shadow, a white bird of my desire came and sat upon my right shoulder." And as he exploits the internecine machinations of a dysfunctional super-powered family, Zelazny explores the ways in which hatred shapes the world, partly through the filter of the Vietnam War: "I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably man-like, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice--sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother."
Alas, today I can also see many warts on the novel. For example, despite loving the soldiers fighting and dying for him, despite invoking the horror of napalm and mushroom clouds, despite having participated in appalling campaigns like Napoleon's march on Moscow, and despite having come to care for other lives during his centuries of exile on earth, Corwin (and Zelazny) really do treat the quarter of a million plus casualties of the Amber game as anonymous, "custom-made cannon fodder," when a truly caring prince might try first to mentally dominate his nemesis so as to avoid war via one of the nifty tarot-like cards that serve the royalty of Amber as combination telephones and teleporters. Corwin's "guilt" feels crocodilian.
Another: Despite Amber being the only real realm, Corwin's allusions to people, events, and works from our "Shadow earth" (like "I suddenly realized that I had known the mad, sad, bad Vincent Van Gogh") so outnumber those from Amber's history that Zelazny evokes our own world more than he develops Amber. This is especially so when Corwin uses American slang and sexism from 1970. He refers to a nurse as "a hippy broad," says that he can or can't "dig" certain things, decides to "play it cool," invites a friend to "make the scene," and so on. Zelazny is grounding his fantasy with an "authentic" language and manner, but it causes some cringes.
As for gender, early on Corwin devotes a paragraph each to describe his brothers and himself, but only a single paragraph for his sisters, and he often wonders what happened to his father but not to his mother. Only men are fit to rule Amber, and the royal sisters are basically concubines of the fittest. Corwin even gets to indulge in a Captain Kirk-like interlude with a suitably bare-breasted and green-nippled undersea queen.
Finally, Zelazny's depiction of Corwin as a macho, sensitive warrior-bard, expert at martial and liberal arts, fluent in hip slang and Shakespearean English, possessed of superhuman strength and regenerative powers (no wonder he can chain smoke without getting cancer!), starts feeling like a nerdy adolescent's ultimate cool guy power fantasy (no wonder I loved these books in high school!). With the possible exception of Random, Corwin's siblings appear flat next to him.
The reader Allesandro Juliani, excellent with Solaris, is good here, but his light and casual voice make Corwin seem less substantial and charismatic than he could be, and his attempts to vocally distinguish the other eight brothers from each other begin to sound strained. He also tends to make female voices too high and weak.
Later entries in the Amber cycle may correct my kvetches, but to find out I'll dust off my high school days' Avon paperbacks rather than pay Audible for each of the four remaining five-hour novels (when a single 25-hour omnibus audiobook would have been nice).
I read this book and also the subsequent four books years ago and was totally enthralled by them. I've been waiting a long time to get them on audio. The story is still brilliant but feel the performance could be improved upon. Alessandro Juliani does a good job but I feel audio books would really benefit from having a narrator and a different actors for the different characters. There is a limit to what one person can do by way of changing voices and it is sometimes difficult for a male to replicate a female voice and vice versa. However, having said the above, I really enjoyed the experience of Nine Princes in Amber and the subsequent four books of the quintology in audio.
"Not What I Expected"
Story - 5/5
Having had recommendations for this series for some time now, it sounded like it was going to be quite hard going and complex. After finally taking the plunge, I was surprised about how smooth and easy to follow it was. It starts with Corwin waking up with amnesia, so we learn gradually as he remembers things. I loved this style personally and it made for a very humorous story.
Roger Zelazny's prose is very concise and to-the-point, so although this is quite a short audiobook, you do still get a complete story out of it. The story is a halfway house between Sci-fi and fantasy, and is nothing like I have ever come across before. A very obscure concept, but I found it very intriguing.
The characterisation is very strong. It allows the reader to get a very quick grasp of what everyone is about, and their part in the world of Amber. All characters are likeable, and the exchanges they have are very witty.
A very strong first book, and I will definitely be purchasing the rest in the series
Performance - 4.5/5
Alessandro Juliani was superb in my opinion. I thought his narration and voice acting added to the humour and excitement of the story very nicely. I thought he was the perfect fit for Corwin's personality, and all character's voices were distinctly recognisable and well portrayed. I was shocked to see a review that didn't like him actually
He reads the story very quickly, which I personally quite liked, but others may not. Another narrator may have added 1-1.5 hours onto the length of this audiobook. Listen to the sample if you are unsure, but you can always slow it down on the audible app if necessary.
Overall - 5/5
"Never gets old"
Rich characters and background.
I have read and listened to the Nine Princes of Amber several times over the years and still enjoy it as much today as when I first read it.
"Sublime Zelazny"
Beautiful, magical!, visual, exciting, intriguing - I could go on and on with superlatives for his well crafted story which carries the listener breathtakingly fast forward through unknowingness and recovering memory, different world's and battles in quest of the throne of Amber, the one true reality. I'm not often a fan of fantasy but this is sublime, Zelazny supreme. And all read to perfection by Alessandro Juliani.
A wonderful book.
Now, please excuse me as I start listening to book two - can't wait.
"Great writer"
Big fan of Zelazny, great to be able to listen now my eyesight has begun to decay. Read in a great manner keeping the story alive
"Had to give up."
The narrator could have made the characters more believable.
I didn't get to the end as the narrator and story was so irritating.
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Preparations are underway to install a life-size bronze statue of Frederick Douglass, the former slave, distinguished orator, author and statesman who delivered his last public lecture on West Chester's campus in 1895.
The University community is invited to the dedication ceremony on Oct.1, honoring the African American abolitionist. The ceremony will be held at the Clifford E. and Inez E. DeBaptiste Plaza currently being constructed on the quad near the Philips Memorial building.
The statue and plaza were made possible by an initial $50,000 donation from former West Chester Borough Mayor Dr. Clifford DeBaptiste, kicking off a successful campaign spearheaded by the University's Frederick Douglass Institute to raise funds for the memorial statue.
The first African American mayor of West Chester Borough, the Honorable Clifford DeBaptiste has been active in West Chester and the Chester County community for more than 40 years. Founder, owner, and CEO of DeBaptiste Funeral Homes, Inc., he continues to direct the business with his daughter, Lillian DeBaptiste Lambert. A member of numerous local, county, state and national funeral director associations, he was appointed by the governor to the Pennsylvania State Board of Funeral Directors which he chaired for 13 years.
DeBaptiste also has served the University, as a member of the Council of Trustees from 1968 to 1972 and as a board member of the West Chester University Fund. In 1991, he was awarded the President's Medallion for Service, and in 1999, he received an honorary doctor of public service.
"The importance of this event is that it celebrates WCU's continuing recognition of Frederick Douglass as a critical thinker and role model," notes the Institute's founding director and retired English professor James Trotman.
"A statue of the younger Douglass aims to stimulate and encourage students to do more with their lives and to be more than they are," says Trotman. "It is not an end in our study of the great abolitionist; it is part of the process of using a national and global icon."
Richard Blake, a member of the University's art department since 1975, was commissioned to create the lifelike figure. Often designed with an evocative presence, Blake's work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad. His commissioned work is on display at the Milton and Catherine Hershey Memorial Sculpture in Hershey, Pa., and with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument at the Peace Gardens of the University of California, Fresno, Cal.
West Chester was the first university among the 14 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities to establish a Frederick Douglass Institute.


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Nearly 50 years after the Beatles first arrived in America on Feb. 7, 1964, kick-starting a cultural and musical revolution still felt to this day, the two surviving members of the legendary group -- Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr -- created another dose of Beatlemania at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
Although there was no shortage of subplots during Sunday's show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles -- including 33 gay and straight couples getting wed during a performance by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis of "Same Love" -- the main storyline was Paul and Ringo.
It's only fitting that the 50th anniversary celebration of the Beatles coming to America would be a TV event. After all, it was the Fab Four's initial performance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964, that truly put the "mania" in Beatlemania. The milestone performance will be celebrated at a CBS special Feb. 9. The Beatles also received the Grammy's 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Fab Two's appearance during the telecast -- which included a one-song performance together as well as McCartney picking up the award for best rock song ("Cut Me Some Slack") -- overshadowed a night that saw Daft Punk pull off a shocking upset, as its "Random Access Memories" won for album of the year, beating out Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, among others. The electronic music duo's ubiquitous hit "Get Lucky" also scored record of the year. The other two general-field Grammys were given to Lorde, whose "Royals" won for song of the year, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who were named best new artist.
Of course, the awards are only part -- some would say an increasingly diminishing part -- of the Grammy experience. Only a small percentage of the awards are given out during the actual telecast, with the majority of the screen time devoted to the always intriguing, sometimes befuddling, all-star collaborations.
Only one award was given out during the first 25 minutes of the show, with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis topping James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, Kacey Musgraves and Ed Sheeran in the highly competitive best new artist race. Yet, organizers seemed reluctant to devote much screen time even for the general-field categories. Macklemore only got a few moments for an acceptance speech, before the dreaded "exit music" signaled that it was time for the Seattle rapper to clear the stage.
Then it was on to more performances. Lorde, who won four trophies overall, was an early highlight. The 17-year-old New Zealand star, who inexplicably wasn't nominated for best new artist, delivered a mesmerizing version of her hit "Royals" that perfectly explained why her two shows in March at the Fox Theater in Oakland sold out instantly.
Lorde was quickly followed by Katy Perry, who failed to match the younger star's performance. Perry probably should have performed the Grammy-nominated "Roar," but opted instead for the far less enjoyable "Dark Horse" in a production that was the musical equivalent of a Dungeons & Dragons game better suited for Stevie Nicks and Sarah Brightman.
On the other hand, Taylor Swift delivered arguably the best Grammy moment of her career. Known better for big, flashy pop spectacles at the Grammys, Swift scored with a subtle -- yet no less powerful -- performance of "All Too Well" seated at a piano, captivating viewers in the same fashion that Alicia Keys routinely does onstage.
Most of the all-star collaborations worked well -- even the seemingly absurd ones. That was especially so for Bay Area heavy-hitters Metallica, who soared onstage with classical pianist Lang Lang.
Then there was the big Macklemore & Ryan Lewis production of the same-sex anthem "Same Love." It was an event for the ages, really, as 33 couples were united in a ceremony conducted by Queen Latifah -- with millions of TV viewers acting as witnesses and Madonna serving as the guest of honor.
Still, it was the Fab Two's night, even though viewers probably didn't get as much Beatles as they would have probably liked. Starr performed one solo song, "Photograph," then joined McCartney for "Queenie Eye." It's hard to believe organizers couldn't have fit, say, a "Hey Jude" somewhere in during the three-hour-plus show.
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Definition of forage in English:
verb[no object]
1(Of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions: gulls are equipped by nature to forage for food
More example sentences
- When chimps forage for food they do not ask themselves why, or consider better alternatives any more than does a beaver consider better ways of building dams.
- He would forage for food in the morning and hope that tomorrow was the day his luck changed.
- Until the first batch of workers hatches, the queen must forage for all the food herself, and this two - to three-week period is when she is vulnerable to being trapped.
1.1 [with object] Obtain (food or provisions): a girl foraging grass for oxen
More example sentences
- The true usefulness of the pig lies in its ability to forage anything from household waste to grass, and thrive.
- These data, and others, have led to the concept that plants actively forage resources from their environment using assessment mechanisms similar to those of animals.
1.2 [with object] Obtain food or provisions from (a place): a man foraging a dumpster finds some celery
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- So, he came to live in that place, and none knew how he lived or gained his sustenance, other than from his foraging the countryside for bottles and other redeemable scrap.
- For both human and animal there are cues in the environment that help us judge whether to continue foraging in the same location or to forage elsewhere.
- I now spend most nights foraging the refrigerator and the cupboards for ingredients to concoct something he would like.
hunt, search, look, rummage around, ferret, root about/around, nose around/about, scavenge
1Bulky food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder.
Example sentences
- It may provide enough forage to delay turning cattle into spring pastures with limited growth that could be rapidly over grazed.
- It provides early spring forage not only for cattle and sheep, but for wild ruminants as well, including deer, bison, elk, and moose.
- Lack of precipitation resulted in a severe decrease in availability of mixed grass forage, resulting in animal BW loss.
fodder, feed, food, provender
2 [in singular] A wide search over an area in order to obtain something, especially food or provisions: the nightly forage produces things that can be sold
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- If only the director trusted her audience, this could've been a sublime forage into the netherworld of the human psyche.
- A desperate forage in the log pile to feed the wood-burner can wreck a grass snake's winter and even an innocent trip to the cellar for a bottle of wine may prove fatal to a hibernating bat.
- Kuala Lumpar offers lots to do: a visit to the world's tallest building, a forage in the famous night market or a trip to the Hindu temples at the Batu Caves.
hunt, search, look, quest, rummage, scavenge
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- A hive entrance was blocked for 1 min, and four returning foragers were collected in individual plastic vials.
- At about 3 weeks of age workers leave the hive as foragers who gather pollen and nectar and are exposed to a more variable environment.
- It is relatively easy to imagine that information about food will be available when foragers gather in groups to rest.
Middle English: from Old French fourrage (noun), fourrager (verb), from fuerre 'straw', of Germanic origin and related to fodder.
Words that rhyme with forageborage, Norwich, porridge
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Matt Ryan was referred to as "Matty Ice" even before his days at Boston College. But veteran cornerback Asante Samuel, in his first season with the Falcons, doesn't think the nickname fully captures the magnitude of the quarterback's late-game magic.
Ryan has engineered six comeback victories with fewer than 65 seconds remaining in his five NFL seasons, including the 30-28 victory over Seattle on Sunday that moved the Falcons to within one victory of the Super Bowl.
"It's Matt 'Black Ice,' " said Samuel. " 'Black Ice' because (that) is that slick stuff you can't see coming."
Ryan, who set Falcons records for passing percentage (68.6), yardage (4,719), touchdowns (32) and passer rating (99.1) this season, had an uneven performance against the Seahawks, and his second interception led to a touchdown that could have branded him with an 0-4 playoff record.
But Ryan completed two clutch passes to get Matt Bryant in place for a game-winning 49-yard field goal.
"When the Seahawks scored with 31 seconds left, we knew they had given Matt too much time," said wide receiver Harry Douglas, who started the winning drive with a 22-yard sideline reception.
Falcons fans had already seen Ryan -- the third overall pick in the 2008 draft -- snatch victory from potential defeat time and again. All told, it was his 16th fourth-quarter comeback and 23rd game-winning drive.
"He liked it because it was tough," tight end Tony Gonzalez, who caught the pass to set up the winning field goal, said of Ryan's clutch performance.
Ryan, who had three touchdown passes against the Seahawks, is a very good quarterback through 58 minutes of a game. He is often a great one in the final two minutes.
"We've been in that situation before, so there wasn't any panic," wide receiver Roddy White said.
"He's so positive, so confident," running back Michael Turner said of Ryan. "We always think he's going to get it done, no matter how bad things might look."
Twice during the regular season, Ryan passed the Falcons into position for winning field goals by Bryant, who beat the Raiders and the Panthers with kicks in the final minute.
"We've been in those situations throughout the year and in the last couple of years," Ryan said. "I think your past experiences kind of harden you. I think they make you a little tougher in those type of situations. If you have an opportunity with time still on the clock, then you feel like you can get it done."
Both late drives in the regular season and the one against the Seahawks came after Ryan had experienced less than a stellar game.
Most games, though, Ryan has been sharp from start to finish. His passing rating was fifth best in the NFL as he flourished under new offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.
"He's added some things that have really helped us," Ryan said.
Encouraged to throw deep, Ryan completed 42.6 percent of his passes of 20 or more yards this season after hitting on 30 percent in 2011.
Few quarterbacks have a better receiving corps than Ryan.
Julio Jones and Gonzalez joined Ryan as Pro Bowl selections, and the Falcons thought that White belonged as well.
The receiving trio combined for 25 touchdowns in the regular season, with half of Jones' 10 coming off throws of more than 20 yards from Ryan -- second most in the NFL.
"If you get a step on the DB, you know he'll get the ball out there right where you can catch it," Jones said.
White is also a deep threat, as shown by his 47-yard reception against the Seahawks.
"The 49ers haven't faced two wide receivers like me and Roddy this season," Jones said.
"There is no pressure on Matt. We all feel that we are ready to take it to the next level. We're going to keep doing what we've been doing. Just keep performing."
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- After missing one day with back tightness, Giants center fielder Angel Pagan went through the full team workout Monday. When the Cactus League season kicks off Wednesday, however, the Giants still will be without their full complement of starters.
Manager Bruce Bochy already had announced that Yusmeiro Petit would start the opener because the regular rotation won't start taking turns until after Thursday's off day, and Bochy also has decided that Petit won't throw to Buster Posey. The catcher will be held out as Bochy tries to find periodic spring breaks for the former MVP.
"He's fine," Bochy said. "It's my call."
The Giants also will be without Marco Scutaro, who remains on a light schedule as the staff eases him into things. Scutaro dealt with back trouble all of last season and has yet to participate in a team workout or take full swings in the cage.
While Scutaro has stayed on the back fields at Scottsdale Stadium, Posey, who put on 10 pounds of muscle in the offseason, has impressed. When the starters did baserunning drills Sunday, Posey appeared to be running better than he has at any point since 2011's ankle surgery.
"I told him that," Bochy said, smiling. "But let me add to that, let all those guys catch 100 games and you'll see them slow down."
Bochy revealed that Posey has always had the green light on the bases, although he rarely goes. Posey is just 6 for 10 in his career when attempting to steal a bag.
"He's moving so much better," Bochy said. "He looks really good."
Abreu had just 147 at-bats a year ago, hitting .268 with two homers. He is vying to make the club as a backup infielder.
Outfielders Gary Brown and Mac Williamson, infielder Joe Panik and catcher Andrew Susac are among the players who will get a shot to impress coaches. Management has said hard-throwing reliever Derek Law has a chance to make the team this spring, and Law will pitch an inning Tuesday.


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Your mouth may do the talking, but don't let it tell your age. Here, great advice for minimizing those pesky lines, and more.
By Kimberly A. Daly
WebMD Feature from "Good Housekeeping" Magazine
Lip Service
Back when no respectable woman wore makeup, all Scarlett O'Hara could do was bite her lips and hope for the best. But today, anyone who wants plumper, prettier lips has options that Scarlett couldn't dream of -- no biting required. From makeup and skin care to medical treatments, you can avoid that thin-lipped aging thing by targeting three major problems: dry, chapped skin; distress lines and wrinkles; and loss of plumpness. Here, your guide to quick fixes and long-term solutions for great-looking lips.
Step 1: Deal with Dryness
The DIY fix: Lips that are dry or flaky automatically look thinner and more wrinkled than they are, so get on the balm bandwagon. "Skin makes less oil as we age, and lips are at a unique disadvantage because they don't have an epidermal layer, which is where oil is produced to begin with," says Paul M. Friedman, M.D., a clinical assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. Bringing back moisture is the key to keeping lips looking smooth, even, and full. Try a rich balm like Aveeno Active Naturals Essential Moisture Lip Conditioner ($3, shown), a treatment like Neutrogena Advanced Solutions Lip Rejuvenating Treatment ($17), or a healing gloss with color like Clinique Superbalm Tinted Lip Treatment ($11.50).
The doctor fix: Age-related dryness is usually easy to remedy, but if yours is extreme and accompanied by flaking or blistering, consult a dermatologist. "Severe dry patches can be a sign of a precancerous condition caused by UV exposure," says New Orleans dermatologist Patricia K. Farris, M.D. "That's why sunscreen on your lips is a year-round must."
Step 2: Erase Fine Lines
The DIY fix: Those annoying vertical wrinkles around the mouth are mechanically etched into our faces every day, whenever we talk, laugh, eat, or smoke. So fighting back is like fighting soil erosion -- a pretty thankless job. While you can't stop the etching, you can slow it down by applying sunscreen regularly and using a collagen booster or a wrinkle-fighting treatment around your mouth daily, says Dr. Farris. Try: Olay Regenerist Anti-Aging Lip Treatment ($19) or La Roche-Posay Redermic Daily Fill-in Anti-Wrinkle Firming Care ($42), a topical cream that contains hyaluronic acid (to plump up fine lines) and madecassoside (an ingredient that sinks in to repair cell damage).
The doctor fix: Injectable fillers like Restylane can help lessen the appearance of wrinkles (though new lines are always being created, so this problem can never be permanently solved, says Dr. Farris). Laser resurfacing and dermabrasion can also reduce the appearance of these types of wrinkles. "A laser goes deep into the dermal layers to reactivate collagen production, smoothing out the lines over time," says Dr. Friedman. You'd need a series of laser treatments (about $500 per session) to see major results, but they last longer than fillers.


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- Oct 3:
- Jahi McMath: Family breaks silence on brain-dead girl's condition
- Oct 2:
- Jahi McMath: Attorney shows video he says proves Oakland girl moves feet, hands at mother's commands
- Oct 1:
- Jahi McMath: Family seeks to have brain-death ruling overturned, girl declared alive
- Aug 17:
- Reports that Jahi McMath is coming home are false
- Jun 20:
- Jahi McMath: Experts say New Jersey 'best destination' for brain-dead patients
- Jun 18:
- Jahi McMath being kept at New Jersey hospital
- Jun 13:
- Jahi McMath: Brain-dead Oakland girl receives certificate from school
- Jun 12:
- Jahi McMath getting diploma for eighth grade, family says
- Jun 11:
- Jahi McMath: Family pushing school to grant brain-dead teen's diploma
- Mar 13:
- Jahi McMath: Family calls state report 'B.S.'; new medical record details emerge
- Jahi McMath: State releases report on Children's Hospital Oakland's handling of patients
- Feb 27:
- Jahi McMath's family to get award from Terri Schiavo foundation
- Feb 19:
- Jahi McMath: Complete text of letter from brain-dead girl's mother
- Jahi McMath 'much better,' her mother says
- Feb 1:
- Jahi McMath: Is it safe to have tonsil surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland?
- Jan 27:
- Jahi McMath video claims to show her feet and toes move
- Jan 25:
- Jahi McMath: five similar brain death legal cases
- Jahi McMath: Could her case change how California determines death?
- Jan 17:
- John Horgan: Don't be too quick to judge Jahi McMath's family
- John Horgan: Readers react to Jahi McMath commentary
- Jan 9:
- Jahi McMath: Medical experts say organ failure inevitable
- Jan 8:
- Jahi McMath: Girl given breathing, feeding tubes, attorney says
- Jan 7:
- Jahi McMath: Streetfighting lawyer takes heat, death threats for brain-dead Oakland girl's family
- Jan 6:
- Jahi McMath: Family says brain-dead teen's body may be too deteriorated to save
- Document: Medical analysis of Jahi McMath's deteriorating condition
- Jahi McMath: Brain-dead girl moved to undisclosed care facility
- Jan 5:
- Jahi McMath: Brain-dead teen's family moves her from Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Timeline of events in case of brain-dead Oakland teen
- Jahi McMath: 13-year-old brain-dead Oakland girl moved by family from hospital
- Jan 3:
- Daniel Borenstein: Mischaracterizations of Jahi's condition ignites insane legal fight
- Jahi McMath: Mom can remove brain-dead daughter from hospital, judge rules
- Jan 2:
- Jahi McMath: Case heads to federal court Friday
- Jan 1:
- Jahi McMath family spends first day of 2014 searching for doctor to help get teen to New York facility
- Dec 31:
- Document: Hospital decries Jahi McMath family's wishes to keep her on ventilator
- Jahi McMath may be transferred to treatment center in New York
- Jahi McMath: Terri Schiavo group secretly leading transfer efforts
- Jahi McMath: Hospital fights in court to remove brain-dead girl from ventilator
- Dec 30:
- Jahi McMath: Judge's order keeping girl on ventilator reinvigorates family
- Jahi McMath: Judge extends order keeping girl on ventilator
- Dec 29:
- Jahi McMath: Statement of Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Mom and lawyer say only remaining option for brain-dead girl is a New York care facility
- Dec 28:
- Jahi McMath: Family trying to raise money to get 13-year-old airlifted out of state
- Dec 27:
- Jahi McMath: Hospital open to transferring brain-dead teen but won't perform surgery required by admitting facilities
- Jahi McMath: Children's Hospital Oakland agrees to release brain-dead girl to long-term care
- Contra Costa Times editorial: No one recovers from being brain dead
- Dec 26:
- Jahi McMath: Family ready to move brain-dead girl to new facility; hospital may refuse surgery request
- Jahi McMath: 2 years ago, a girl wound up severely brain damaged following similar surgery
- Jahi McMath: Family says they'll move brain-dead girl to another Bay Area facility
- Dec 25:
- Jahi McMath: Family tries to have normal holiday celebration in hospital waiting room
- Dec 24:
- Lost in the divisive battle over Jahi McMath is a mother's undeniable love
- Jahi McMath: Judge denies petition to keep girl on ventilator past Dec. 30
- Dec 23:
- Jahi McMath: Judge extends order to keep brain-dead girl on ventilator
- Dec 22:
- Faith leaders call on prosecutors to investigate Jahi McMath case
- Oakland: Need for tonsillectomies in question
- Dec 21:
- Jahi, her mom and 13 days at Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Medicine's ability to keep a heart beating complicates how death is perceived
- Oakland: Emotional letter from Jahi McMath's mom to keep daughter 'warm'
- Dec 20:
- Oakland: Judge grants restraining order keeping Jahi McMath on ventilator through Monday
- Family of Oakland girl on ventilator furious after meeting with hospital officials
- Dec 19:
- Family of girl left brain dead at Children's Hospital Oakland demands medical records
- Dec 18:
- Jahi McMath prayer vigil: "God knows we want a miracle"
- Family of Oakland girl on life support after tonsil surgery calls for international prayer vigil
- Dec 16:
- Family furious, hospital investigating after tonsil surgery leaves girl brain-dead
- Oakland: Girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery may be taken off life support Tuesday
- Dec 15:
- Oakland girl, 13, declared brain-dead after tonsil surgery
The family of Jahi McMath and her attorney released a lengthy letter to the media Saturday addressing the transfer of the 13-year-old, critics and Children's Hospital Oakland.
Jahi -- who was declared brain dead by a handful of doctors after complications from a Dec. 9 tonsil surgery including the removal of throat and nose tissue -- is on a ventillator at the hospital as her family tries to find a long-term care center for her. A judge has said the hospital can remove the ventillator at 5 p.m. Monday.
Sam Singer, spokesman for Children's Hospital Oakland, said the family is being misled by their attorney, saying he has created a false impression that the teen could recover from her vegetative state.
Singer added that the attorney has consistently failed to deliver on statements he has made about a plan being in place to transfer Jahi elsewhere.
Here is the letter from the family and its attorney Christopher Dolan:
"Jahi's family, her mother Nailah, her step father Marvin, her uncle Omari and her grandmother Sandy want to thank everyone who has sent them well wishes, prayers and offers of support both emotional and financial. We also wish to thank the nurses who have been kind to Jahi despite the hospitals stance towards her.
"We are pleased to announce that progress is being made as we speak. Our attorney is in discussions with two facilities that have expressed preliminary approval for accepting Jahi on a ventilator. One is in Southern California, the other is in New York.
"Yesterday, our lawyer, the hospital's lawyer and the director of one of these facilities had a conference call so as to assure (Children's Hospital Oakland) that the facility did indeed exist and was open to receiving Jahi. The hospital was provided the name of the facility, its location, and the contact information for the director who spoke with Attorney (Douglas) Strauss from the hospital.
"We are keeping the name of the facility private, and have asked The Hospital to do so as well, as we do not want media attention to interfere with the privacy of the patients at the care facility or interfere with the acceptance and transfer of Jahi. We are optimistic but are feeling ever anxious as the deadline of 5 p.m. Monday approaches.
"We appreciate the offers of financial support and they may indeed be needed to secure transport for Jahi. Right now we do not know what that transport will be or where it will take us/Jahi to. When the time comes we will announce where donations may be provided.
"We wish to acknowledge that Jahi's case, and our stance regarding her right to life, and her mother's right to make decisions regarding her child, has stirred a vibrant, sometimes polarizing, national debate. This was never our intention.
"We have our strong religious convictions and set of beliefs and we believe that, in this country, a parent has the right to make decisions concerning the existence of their child: not a doctor who looks only at lines on a paper, or reads the cold black and white words on a law that says "brain dead" and definitely not a doctor who runs the facility that caused the brain death in the first place.
"This discussion is an important one. When Jahi is safely moved we hope to have an opportunity to be able to offer more information on our perspective. We have received much support, and much criticism, regarding our decisions. People think we are naive about what the future holds for Jahi and our family. We are not ignorant. We understand that Jahi has suffered a tragic and perhaps irreversible catastrophic injury to her brain. We also understand that it should never of happened and we believe that Children's is responsible.
"We acknowledge that the odds are stacked against us. We know that the doctors have pronounced her dead. We heard it shouted at us four times by Dr. (David) Durand. We know the darkness that likely lays ahead for us, for Jahi. We have heard the criticisms that we are harming Jahi and we need to just let go.
"We know that the hospital has hired Sam Singer, who, on his Web site, www.singersf.com, proudly claims the titles "the fixer" ... "top gun for hire." We know of the hospital's public relations campaign to portray us as reckless, irresponsible, ignorant and uncaring of Jahi.
"We have heard the criticisms regarding Jahi's weight, health, lifestyle, etc. We know they are blogging misinformation as part of "the fixer's" damage control. We think this is truly sad and a reflection of what is wrong in America today; corporate misinformation by paid "guns for hire."
"We have heard the criticisms that our lawyer, Mr. Dolan, is misleading us with false promises and he is irresponsibly encouraging us to keep our brain-damaged child alive. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
"We asked for help because we felt our rights were being trampled by Children's and that they were going to override a mother's medical directive for their own interests, damage control. Our lawyer has helped us, day and night, for free.
"He has said he will not represent us in a negligence action so that his motives are not challenged. Right now he is trying to broker release for Jahi to a facility that will see her as being worthy of feeding, caring for. He has helped us where we could not help ourselves. He has encouraged and fostered discussions with health care providers who have painted the bleak picture of what lays ahead of us.
"He has not given us any hope, much less false hope, other than that hope that we get from having Jahi's heart beating one more day. He has never misled us and he is only being attacked because Children's and their "hit man" need someone to play the villain besides themselves. Lawyers should never have been necessary but we are glad one was willing to help us when we were helpless.
"So, we are working every minute to preserve our rights and Jahi's existence. It is our fundamental constitutional right as it would be yours should this horror ever befall you; something I do not wish on anyone, ever.
"We hope that by this time (Sunday) we will have a path toward Jahi's removal and we will have preserved whatever chance she, and we, have of her achieving any recovery. In the meantime, we would ask that the hospital and it's "top gun for hire" focus less on trying to paint us in a negative light and focus, instead, upon working with us so we can be gone from this place with Jahi's heart still beating."


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Google Cardboard - Handmade VR
Category: Events/Exhibitions,
Posted by: John F
Posted: Jun 25th 2014
No. of comments: 1
Posted: Jun 25th 2014
No. of comments: 1
The Google I/O kicked off on Wednesday with lots of announcements about new Google products and updates to existing services. But one of the more interesting things to come out of the conference was Cardboard. Basically all the attendees at the conference where given this cardboard package which lets you create a simple, handmade VR (virtual reality) viewer using your phone and a clever bit of folding. Facebook must be kicking itself over spending all that money on Oculus Rift.
Check out the Cardboard write-up over at Mashable or see the video hands on demo over at TechCrunch.
Comments: 1
Chintan ShahUnited States, New York | Jul 17th 2014It is really a super product with great features. I just loved it. Would recommend to buy from www.googlecardboard.com/


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Hey New Mom! 7 Simple Ways to Keep Your Energy Up
If that venti Americano never seems to get the job done, read on. These tips work just as well as that full night's sleep you're not going to get any time soon
Mom energy advice: Replenish your DHA stores with wild salmon, organic edamame, and walnuts. Resist the urge to pop supplements; the DHA in whole foods is better absorbed and has other nutrients tagging along, like hunger-satisfying protein and cancer-fighting antioxidants.
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9 hours of sleep a night really? most people dont get that even if they dont have kids
by kfloyd01 Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 08:37PM Report as inappropriate
I'm not a mom, but these are some great tips for people who have super busy schedules!
by ACClique Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 10:54AM Report as inappropriate
I really like this article and I am sure it will be one that I come back to. So many times as a mom I will take a 5 hour energy shot and then question myself on why I feel drained. The answer is that I need fuel all day! Thank you for the reminder!
by allison_rodriguez Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 11:24AM Report as inappropriate
Thanks for sharing. My friend just had twins! Will share what I've read with her
by EricaF123 Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 07:03AM Report as inappropriate
great tips, not sure that eating organic really makes that much of a difference though
by sportimonki13 Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 08:11PM Report as inappropriate
that sounds like good advice!
by LittleBunny Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 06:57PM Report as inappropriate
Yeah, not going to spend the extra $$$ on organic foods.
by kimihavens Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 12:25PM Report as inappropriate
Irrelevant, but that woman looks like she's wearing some sort of helmet with a furry black nose piece!
by schien Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 12:45AM Report as inappropriate
I knew some of these things but found the others very helpful! Getting ready for a new baby is scary but this advice makes sense :]
by Lamexicana1 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 08:44PM Report as inappropriate
I think a lot of these things would be beneficial to people without kids also!
by Chris213 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 07:26AM Report as inappropriate
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