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Video: Standing ovation for Sgt. Remsburg
The most sustained applause of this year's State of the Union speech was for the story of Army Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg.
Many in the military privately grumble that President Barack Obama doesn't talk enough about the Afghanistan war, or the sacrifices service members who served there or in Iraq have made. But Mr. Obama may have changed some of those minds on Tuesday as he acknowledged the Army Ranger during his speech.
The president said he had met Sgt. Remsburg a little less than five years ago, at the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landing. He called him "a strong, impressive young man, with an easy manner, sharp as a tack."
A few months later, while deployed to Afghanistan, Sgt. Remsburg was hit by a roadside bomb. "His comrades found him in a canal, face down, underwater, shrapnel in his brain," Mr. Obama said.
In a coma for months, Sgt. Remsburg went through multiple surgeries. Mr. Obama then chronicled his long struggle to recover through grueling physical rehabilitation to learn to speak and walk once more. "Day by day, he's learned to speak again and stand again and walk again—and he's working toward the day when he can serve his country again," Mr. Obama said.
The story brought the chamber to their feet in a standing ovation. Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), who has endured a long recovery from a stroke, applauded by stamping his cane on the floor.
Because of advances in battlefield medicine, many soldiers and Marines who in earlier wars would have died from their injuries have survived. But the challenges to rehabilitate their bodies and minds from the injuries are daunting.
Sgt. Remsburg's long recovery and struggles with physical rehabilitation echo the struggle many wounded members of the military have faced.
Mr. Obama used Sgt. Remsburg's story as a metaphor for the country's larger struggles.
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The defending champion in the North Dakota state spelling bee won his fifth straight county bee, but not without some spirited competition from his sister.
Thirteen-year-old Ty Korsmo and his 11-year-old sister, Siri, were the only competitors left after the fourth round in last weekend's Grand Forks County bee.
Then "brother and sister duked it out for eight more rounds," says their mother, Debbie Korsmo. The family lives in Northwood.
After Siri tripped up on the word "guffaw," Ty took the title by spelling "polemic."
The Grand Forks Herald reports (http://bit.ly/ZxRTcs) that both of the competitors will advance to the state bee.
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STOCKTON - A legally blind man required medical attention after he was beaten and robbed by four people Thursday night in downtown Stockton, police said.
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Two Biglerville residents, Wilson Cotto, 26, and Mandy Hertzler, 24, were charged by Pennsylvania State Police with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child and simple assault Feb. 27 after the investigation of an assault of a 4-year-old child at a home on North Main Street.
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NOTES & QUOTES: Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway
Takuma Sato and the ABC Supply/AJ Foyt Racing team are in their first season together. Sato is making his fourth start at Iowa Speedway. Following his 7th place finish (after starting 15th) at The Milwaukee Mile last weekend, he is fourth in the IZOD IndyCar Series standings.
• Takuma Sato On:
o Iowa Speedway: "It's one of my favorite tracks. We didn't have a good race there last year but I am looking forward to coming back. It is just 18 seconds per lap and has lots of cornering. With the current spec of less downforce, it's getting more challenging. Hopefully we can get it right."
o How tough physically Iowa Speedway is: "It's a very physical track, actually the most physical oval track I have known. Because you have high downforce aero, you get a lot of grip. With it being a high-banked track, there's even more grip so the car runs very fast in the quite tight corner. It pulls over 5Gs during cornering which is very high. So it requires high stamina from the driver and is especially demanding because of the steering effort required."
o The key setup for the race: "It's pretty much the same as usual; the car needs good stability but we have to keep minimizing the scrub. We are using the road-course type of high downforce aero package with a traditional oval mechanical set-up, so it's kind of a combination of the two which we have to find a good balance from it."
o Why Iowa Speedway is one of his favorite tracks: "Like any other short oval, the driver needs to drive so hard from wall to wall. I have really enjoyed this track from my first visit to it. I find the racing very exciting. It's a great, fun track."
o What was learned from his run at Milwaukee: "We always learn something from a race and especially when you race in front, you gain a lot. Perhaps the outcome from the race was not what we wanted to see, but we raced hard and we were competitive in middle stage of the race, so that gave us many positives both mentally and on the technical side too. Also throughout the entire race we learned a lot about where we were strong and not so strong… that all counts towards making us better. Hopefully we can transfer our strength and speed to Iowa."
• Past performance: In three starts at Iowa, Sato's best was from the pole in 2011 with KV Racing and his best finish was 12th in 2012 with Rahal Letterman Lanigan. In six appearances, the Foyt team's best start (13th) came in 2010 with Vitor Meira and its best finish (5th) came with Darren Manning in 2007.
• ABC Supply will host over 400 guests on race day at Iowa Speedway. The company is in its ninth year as primary sponsor of A.J. Foyt's No. 14. Since ABC Supply began sponsoring AJ Foyt Racing in 2005, they have entertained well over 47,000 people at IZOD IndyCar Series events.
• The ABC Supply Founders Celebration Picnic at the Company's Beloit, Wis. headquarters is Thursday evening and Takuma Sato and Larry Foyt will be signing autographs there en route to Iowa Speedway. A.J. Foyt will remain in Houston, missing his fifth race of the season due to health issues.
• ABC Supply roofing customer Conner Roofing, located in York, Neb., will be featured atop the sidepods of the No. 14 ABC Supply Dallara/Honda. Guests will receive selected merchandise, race tickets, hospitality and garage passes, plus a Meet and Greet with Takuma Sato.
• ABC Supply national account Hoffman Weber Construction, based in Minneapolis, will be featured on the engine cover of the No. 14 ABC Supply car this weekend. Guests will receive the VIP treatment this weekend and will meet Takuma Sato.
• Headquartered in Beloit, Wis., ABC Supply was founded by Ken and Diane Hendricks in 1982. The company has more than 455 branches in 45 states and is dedicated exclusively to serving professional contractors. ABC Supply has distinguished itself by following a simple guiding principle – take care of contractors better than any other distributor. It remains an "employee-first" company that treats its associates with respect and gives them the tools they need to succeed. As a six-time winner of the Gallup Great Workplace Award, which recognizes the best-performing workforces in the world, ABC Supply is one of only a handful of companies in the world to have earned this honor every year since its inception in 2007. More information is available at www.abcsupply.com.
• The Iowa Corn Indy 250 will be televised live Sunday, June 23, starting at 2:30 p.m. ET on ABC-TV.


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Who killed the Middle Class?
February 20, 2013
"It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth — a rising, thriving middle class." So said Barack Obama in his State of the Union....
"Legalising 16,000,000 of Mexicos Legal Citizens isnt the solution either."
Stereotyping once again. Census estimates for 2010 suggest 62% are from Mexico. It is also estimated there are only 10.8 million total undocumented from all over the world, and not 16 million as you suggest. Time to update the talking points, as your old ones are not tuned to reality or current data.
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Folks love their cheap stuff. And now it seems the only way to maintain that "cheapness" is to buy it from overseas. Too expensive to make it here.
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"Gee, and maybe the other 38% are from Scandinavia too?"
Gee, if you took some time to look at more current data, you would realize you are out of touch with reality.
"We have a culture too my friend."
And it was imported, unless you are Native American.
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Homeless seek warmth in city shelters
January 24, 2013
PARKERSBURG — As temperatures have dropped over the last few days, some people throughout the community are vulnerable to the cold....
Not a troll, just a hard working tax paying citizen.The only reason most are homeless is they are to lazy to work.Offer one of the bums with a sign a job and watch thenm run a away. $100.00 to $200.00 a day tax free is good money to be homeless. Kick their non tax paying lazy butts out of the area and see how fast they find a real job.
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@Cosmo: Maybe he should lose his job, have his family turn against him, and lose his house. Maybe then he would understand what it's like.
Thankfully, we have family and friends that would help us out~~not everyone does.
My biggest problem is with the people that just WON'T work for their keep.
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While some people have varying opinions on the homeless when the temperature reaches a certain low even the most seasoned homeless person will seek shelter~~I live in a city where no homeless services are offered~~I've watched the homeless and how they suffer ~~ New World I pray that you never ever become homeless because you do not have the skills, fortitude, strength or courage to deal with homelessness~~Most of the people people who are homeless are not a problem they just look and smell bad because their life circumstance have led them in a different direction~~And if they are homeless by choice pray for them that god changes their heart minds and souls so they can come back it to society and function and enjoy all the benefit that housing has to offer including a warm bed~~~
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They are a burdon to society and hurt the local economy with their presence. If they are homeless then they need to be removed from the area or put in jail for vagrancy.
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NET MOMMY. I agree with you. Didn't mean to think I was heartless. I try to help out as much as possible. Nobly knows what the next circumstance will be. But, one thing is for sure, NEVER SAY it won't happen to me.
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Elduderino -- AMEN!! Regardless of the circumstances that put them on the street, these are still people, still human beings just like the rest of us.
newworld -- I feel sorry for you that you are so heartless. Maybe you could spend some time at one of the local shelters, volunteer to help with the homeless counts, maybe just befriend one of them and help them to find a steady job, a warm, affordable place to live, a decent car to get them to work and back. Maybe you could help to move them to a better place in life. It is sad to say, but that could one day be you or I or someone you know standing on that corner holding that sign. Don't lump everyone into the small minority.
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While I know some people need help and I take things to the shelter and drop it off. The two that are pictured here just need to get a job. I guarentee they can stay warm for at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week.
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Some of these people CHOOSE their lifestyle. Take care of the kids, but make the adults WORK for their handouts!
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How about giving them a free warm bus ride out of our area? Everywhere you look there is a pathetic looking bum with a sign and their hands out. It is bad when you are welcomed to West Virginia by the smell from the poop plant and a bum with a sign.
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Thank you Salvation Army for all you do, people are people no matter what their financial standings.
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In a tongue-in-cheek challenge issued at a news conference, the 28-year-old royal warned his competitors that the Brits would have some tea "ready for you when you join us at the Pole."
Harry and his fellow Walking With The Wounded teammates will participate in the 208-mile (335-kilometer) South Pole Allied Challenge in November and December of this year.
That may be the height of the Antarctic summer, but conditions will still be bitterly cold. The four-week expedition will see racers drag sleds weighing more than 150 pounds (68 kilograms) and face extreme temperatures and savage winds.
Harry has already taken part in one expedition with Walking With The Wounded, a charity which raises funds and keeps injured servicemen and women in the public eye through feats of endurance.
In 2011, he took part in the charity's North Pole trek, but had to withdraw earlier to attend his brother Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton.
During the news conference, Harry was given a red polar coat by adventurer Inge Solheim, who served as the North Pole treks' guide.
This time around Solheim will be the guide for the American team from Soldiers to Summits, which is made up of Mark Wise from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Therese Frentz, from Del Rio, Texas, Margaux Mange, from Lakewood, Colorado, and Ivan Castro, from Raeford, North Carolina.


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TAHOE CITY, Calif. - There is enough tragedy in the world to make anyone feel awkward in public places.
It may be just a quaint natural phenomenon, but everywhere you go, though there are exceptions to every rule, even in public places where everybody knows everybody, and the atmosphere invites informality, you see a respect for personal space that results in a social impasse that proliferates politeness and reduces personal interaction with strangers to formal pleasantries for the exchange of money and goods, and seats go to waste.
Help fill the void in our divided world. Sit down with a stranger and introduce yourself. Be a little polite, but don't go overboard. Make someone laugh. Take every opportunity to improve the world and share your story with someone new.
I was hanging out at the Dam Cafe in Tahoe City the other day, after the little snow storm we had last week, and it was near zero degrees on the Truckee River. There was a sharp little breeze chasing anything that moved. It was the perfect morning to find a warm place to mingle with the common folk, with whom I am always more comfortable.
A young man and woman came in. The place was already pretty crowded. They ordered their goodies and stood to wait in one of the only available, unoccupied spaces they could stand, blocking the coffee prep table with the cream and sugar and quick-grab condiments, whispering to each other about how they were going to handle the delicate situation.
Their simple dilemma was seeing a bunch of empty seats and no place to sit, because, my goodness, other people, strange humans, were sitting at the tables with all the empty seats.
I must have sent some kind of other-worldly or chemical signal when I first thought it might be time for me to leave because, before I even moved to get up and vacate "my" table with three empty seats, the young couple made their move. After I stood to put my jacket on, the man asked very politely if I minded if they sat down. Like I owned the place I said, "No, not at all!" They stood there waiting for me to gather my things so I added, "Make yourselves at home, you don't have to wait for me to leave."
That's when the true confession came out. There were no bright lights, no cigarettes, no beatings or waterboardings, no threat and no worry at all. The young man chuckled and freely admitted, "We were just trying to be polite." Enough already!
Break the ice! Sit down and say hello and don't bother asking. If you have to ask permission to sit down in public you're being too polite. Perfect manners do not come naturally to mountain people, and we wouldn't want to wish them on our worst enemy.
The more the merrier. Make yourself at home on earth. You are!
You can spell the dam in Dam Cafe either way, depending on the cash flow, which seemed to be fairly deep and constant that morning. Not bad for two weeks before Christmas.
The storm door is being blown off its hinges. Too bad we can't use it for firewood after the next big snow storms that should guarantee a full package of presents of people for us to open in exchange for our polite and clever handling of the delicate "situations" we can expect over the Christmas, Hanukkah and hodgepodge holiday vacation.
In preparation for sharing space with all those strangers seeking substance and spirits in our local establishments (I use that term loosely - we are on faulty ground), I'm stocking up on food (and stockings), clean clothes and chocolate. And don't forget the candles, flashlights, batteries, and, what was that other thing? Oh, the money.
Remind our visitors that this is a free country. It is OK to casually sit down at a table of strangers, especially at the Dam Cafe or Wild Cherries. Don't be so polite. You're in Tahoe, not the White House for goodness sake, or for something like that.
Bob Sweigert is a Sierra Sun columnist, published poet, former college instructor and ski instructor. He has a B.A. and an M.A.T. from Gonzaga University. He has lived at Lake Tahoe for 30 years.


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Definition of discourse in English:
1Written or spoken communication or debate: the language of political discourse an imagined discourse between two people traveling in France
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- Someone has finally written a book that lifts the discourse of our current political debate to a higher level.
- It is something that is quite literally built, brick by brick, and at each level of society you understand what the parameters are of political discourse and political debate.
- These are issues that should be at the forefront of political debate and election discourse.
formal confabulation, colloquy
1.1A formal discussion of a topic in speech or writing: a discourse on critical theory
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- Valuable tips to raise themselves from mere seekers to achievers were provided by way of formal discourses, informal lectures, and games.
- It is one of the few discourses to address the topic of lay ethics.
- We have noted above that several Gnostic writings are post-resurrection discourses or dialogues.
essay, treatise, dissertation, paper, study, critique, monograph, disquisition, tract;
1.2 Linguistics A connected series of utterances; a text or conversation.
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- Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
- As a result, the work of literature is itself a concrete utterance within those discourses, existing on the same discursive plane as a contribution to their verbal-ideological life.
- Although some readers would have liked to see additional chapters on discourse and pragmatics, I have kept the same choice of topics.
verb[no object]
1Speak or write authoritatively about a topic: she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe
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- So the clippers frequently fall silent while he discourses on the usual topics beloved of barbers: holidays, football, etc.
- His success with women is not to be wondered at: whatever might be their interests, he had the range of information and experience that gave him the ability to discourse knowledgeably on almost any topic under the sun.
- While at the museum, he contributed essays to numerous books and kept up a prodigious lecture schedule, discoursing on the past and present of fashion at museums and universities around the country.
hold forth, expatiate, pontificate;
informal spout, sound off
formal perorate
1.1Engage in conversation: he spent an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom
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- Time and time again, I will find myself discoursing with random people, all over the city, lately even in different states.
- He was in a pensive mood on this night, even when collectively discoursing with the trio.
- One senses that he misses being in a classroom discoursing with students.
Late Middle English (denoting the process of reasoning, also in the phrase discourse of reason): from Old French discours, from Latin discursus 'running to and fro' (in medieval Latin 'argument'), from the verb discurrere, from dis- 'away' + currere 'to run'; the verb influenced by French discourir.
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- MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC graphics card - GF GTX 560 Ti - 1 GB
- Device Type
- Graphics card
- Bus Type
- PCI Express 2.0 x16
- Graphics Engine
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- Memory
- Core Clock
- 880 MHz
- Effective Memory Clock
- 4.2 GHz
- 400 MHz
- Memory Interface
- 256-bit
- Max Resolution
- 2560 x 1600
- Max Monitors Supported
- 3
- Interfaces
- 2 x DVI-I (dual link) , Mini-HDMI
- API Supported
- DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 3.7 cm x 23.8 cm x 11.1 cm
- Microsoft Certification
- Compatible with Windows 7
- Device Type
- Graphics card
- Bus Type
- PCI Express 2.0 x16
- Graphics Engine
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- Core Clock
- 880 MHz
- 400 MHz
- Max Resolution
- 2560 x 1600
- Max Monitors Supported
- 3
- Interfaces
- 2 x DVI-I (dual link) , Mini-HDMI
- API Supported
- DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1
- Features
- Nvidia SLI Multi-GPU Technology, MSI SuperPipe Technology, MSI Solid Capacitor, Nvidia CUDA technology, Nvidia PureVideo HD technology, Nvidia PhysX-Ready, Twin Frozr II Thermal Design, Nvidia 3D Vision technology, Nvidia 3D Vision Surround Ready, Military Class ll Component , HDCP
- Size
- Technology
- Effective Clock Speed
- 4.2 GHz
- Bus Width
- 256-bit
- Software Included
- Drivers & Utilities, Adobe Acrobat Reader, MSI Live Update Series, Microsoft DirectX, MSI Live, MSI Afterburner, MSI Dual Core Center, Norton Internet Security 2008 (60 days trial), MSI Live Update 5
- Compatible with Windows 7
- "Compatible with Windows 7" software and devices carry Microsoft's assurance that these products have passed tests for compatibility and reliability with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.
- Supported Windows 7 Features
- Windows Media Center
- Compliant Standards
- RoHS
- Width
- 3.7 cm
- Depth
- 23.8 cm
- Height
- 11.1 cm
- Weight
- 0.69 kg
Customer reviews
Write a review for the MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti 880MHz 1GB PCI-E HDMI Twin Frozr II/OC (N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC) here!
Reviewed by Paul. Review Posted 23/10/2011
I have two of these set up in SLI in my ASUS M4N98TD-EVO, performance is ground-breaking. Crysis 2 is maxed out on Ultra settings with the DX11 and High Res Texture packs, 60fps+ :)
Although using an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3.3GHz Black Edition, 8GB DDR3 and Win 7 x64. I would highly recommend especially at £179.98.
Runs any game you throw at it and spits it out on screen flawlessly.
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Reviewed by PiotrekV6. Review Posted 12/01/2012
Wonderful graphics card. I did not expect such a performance. BattleField 3 working at maximum settings very smoothly. When loads are a little noisy. I recommend!
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powerful and quiet
Reviewed by Olly. Review Posted 09/03/2012
The MSI cooling unit is second to none, the fans only spins up to audible levels when under major stress when heavily over clocked (this card reaches 1ghtz without breaking a sweat) The 560ti chip as a whole has had a torrid time, battlefield 3 was a driver nightmare but that is all fine now. Be warned, there are a few 'lemons' out there. Cards that run very hot under the slightest load (i got one first time round) but BT sorted the issue with no fuss. If you are in the market for a 560ti, buy this one!
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Reviewed by Dan. Review Posted 28/07/2012
Been looking at the 560 range and a few ATI cards for a while before I bought this lovely bit of kit. Read the reviews on multiple sites, Youtube and can say, this card does NOT disappoint.
Unpacked it, connected it up, slotted it in. Job done! First impressions, has a brilliant chassis design, decent quality material and of course, looks great too!
No problem fitting it into my mid-tower case. I've had bigger cards before and this one leaves plenty of room. Its also very quiet, temps are nice and low. Fans are only really audible when playing intense games (BF3/Skyrim etc) and even then it isn't massively loud, just a steady whirr.
Games such as BF3/BC2, Skyrim, games with intensive graphics, it has no trouble running these at highest settings, provided you got a decent CPU and what not too, (I have an i7).
So if you're looking at getting a 560 or similar card around this price range. Look no further.
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Good all rounder
Reviewed by D. Review Posted 21/09/2011
ok so i ummed and ahh whether to upgrade from a 4601gb, looked at so many benchmarks, was it worth it etc. well now installed i am very impressed. Testing performance against 460 (at 1680x1050 i5 750)it is noticably faster in all games where 460 was struggling.On average it ranges 10-20 fps faster which makes a lot of difference when you just want that smoother play at higher settings. moderate fan noise, what i dont like I read a lot of reviews some saying its noisy or silent, well of course its not silent (but honestly i am one fussy sob when it comes to noise) I dont like loud fans but i can handle is peculiar fan noise. Thankfully this card is actually very very quiet (i was half expecting it to be noisy) I cannot make it out against cpu/case fans so VERY happy there. Overall a really solid updrage and i am not worried about how it will fare against skyrim and bf3. My 460 was msi and after this they are my number 1 choice,quiet/cool and no more annoying capacitor squealing!!
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Best card out at the moment!
Reviewed by Andrew. Review Posted 26/01/2012
When I say best card out at the moment I don't necessarily mean the most powerful, however for the price I doubt you'll do better!
Perfect performance no matter what I throw at it, and that's coupled with an old e8400 running at 3.60ghz and 4gb RAM, which will be holding it back a bit.
Very quiet and cool, might try pushing the clocks with the included software and squeeze even more out of it!
If you're looking for a new card look no further, this is the one to get!
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Cracking Bit Of Kit
Reviewed by CaNsA. Review Posted 03/01/2012
Be warned... this is BIG!
Takes up 2 slots and i have just about managed to squeeze it in.
Everything you might need is supplied.
2 x molex > 6pin converters
mini HDMI > HDMI adapter
Nice and quiet, but when u start actually using it for something more than watching talking cats and bike riding dogs on youtube then you can hear the twin fans speed up with a re-assuring, yet not very loud, whooooooosh.
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East Stroudsburg School District officials have placed the North High School and Lehman Intermediate School on restricted movement Thursday following "unsubstantiated threats" of school violence in connection with the end of the Mayan Calendar.
"Currently, there is no information being received in connection with any other schools. Any calls we receive from parents are being logged, and additional information is being passed along to law enforcement as it is received," said a statement issued by the school district, that officials were in the process of sending to parents late Thursday morning.
"We appreciate your assistance in assuring our community that we take any threats towards our schools seriously and have measures in place to help ensure student safety," the statement said.
Due to the supposed end of the world, school officials received social media reports that kids were afraid and they would possibly bring a weapon to school as protection, said East Stroudsburg School District Chief of Police Frederick Mill.
"Again, it's all hearsay and speculation," Mill said.
The social media reports in particular involved the North High School and Lehman, school officials said.
Restricted movement, also referred to as a "Level I-Lockdown" requires any student leaving the classroom during class time to have an escort.
The restrictions will also continue into Friday, school officials said.
For example, if students must use the bathroom during class time, they will have an escort, said Superintendent Sharon Laverdure.
That escort could be a security guard, teacher or other school official.
Students do not normally have an escort during school, although visitors, including parents, always do, she said.
Restricted movement also prohibits students from going outside. Students were supposed to have a fire drill on Thursday, but that has now been canceled, Laverdure said.
The status does not require students to have escorts between regular class changes, Laverdure said.
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Height does not equal playing ability. Just ask Ramses Barden...
"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
lol 2 seasons will go by..and then well be cutting him..stand by
Jernigan so far has showed me nothing to believe he can be an effective slot receiver.
However, it won't hurt to give him another season to prove himself either.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Jeremy Affeldt offered no excuses after allowing a game-tying home run that led to another disheartening Giants loss.
"I think I just put the ball on a tee, and the guy hit it where he should've hit it," Affeldt said after the Phillies rallied to beat the Giants 5-3 in 10 innings Friday night. "Belt high fastball, middle of the plate. Frustrating that's where it ended up."
The two-run shot by Philadelphia's Cody Asche quickly deflated what looked like a chance to capture a second straight home win, something the Giants haven't done in more than two months.
Giants starter Madison Bumgarner was terrific over seven innings, in which he struck out nine and allowed one run on four hits. Michael Morse hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning to stake the Giants to a 3-0 lead.
After Bumgarner left with a 3-1 advantage, manager Bruce Bochy turned it over to Affeldt, who hadn't allowed a home run all season. He hadn't allowed a homer to a left-handed hitter since April 24, 2011, a streak ended by Asche.
"No question, it's disheartening," Bochy said of the loss. "Bumgarner, what a great job he did. This was a tough one. We've had a lot of them here at home. I wish I could tell you why."
With 41 games left and a 5½-game deficit in the National League West, the Giants understand they can't let this trend continue.
"We're definitely running out of time to keep saying, 'We'll keep grinding it out and get 'em tomorrow,' " Bumgarner said. "But we're not out of time."
That's because they still sit just a half-game out of the second wild-card position, for now at least.
"All we've got to do is get hot and finish strong and we'll be right in it," Bumgarner said.
That will be tough to do if the Giants keep making some of the mistakes they did Friday. Those include:
"We had our chances to add on. That's what caught up to us," Bochy said. "If you keep the game close like that, anything can happen."
"We'll have another evaluation with that and see where he's at," Bochy said. "He's about the same, so we think it's important that we get another look at him, another opinion to see where we're at."
Belt went back on the seven-day concussion disabled list a week ago after symptoms recurred five games into his return from his initial concussion-related stint on the D.L.
So now he'll meet with Collins, a noted concussion expert who works with several NFL teams. St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny was treated by Collins when he dealt with concussions that ended his career in 2006 with the Giants.
Follow Jimmy Durkin on Twitter at twitter.com/Jimmy_Durkin.
Saturday's game
Philadelphia (Kyle Kendrick 5-11) at Giants (Tim Hudson 8-9), 1:05 p.m. CSNBA


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JavaOne Russia: First-Hand Impressions
By Aredko-Oracle on Apr 25, 2013
Alla Redko from the Java Documentation team shares her impressions of the two-day developer conference in Moscow.
All the JavaOne conferences start with the keynotes and this time wasn't an exception. The conference hall was crowded with the developers from different local and international IT companies. Grigori Labzovsky and Valery Lanovenko, the directors of St. Petersburg and Moscow Oracle sites, cordially greeted the participants and set the tone of the event. They passed the baton to Nandini Ramani who launched the JavaOne Russia conference and announced Oracle strategy and roadmap for the Java technologies. Technical keynote presentations led by Stephen Chin started with the Kiosk demonstration, continued by the overview of the Embedded technologies and an excellent success story of using Java ME 3.2, and concluded with the bright JavaFX 3D presentation given by Jim Weaver.
The Java Client Technologies track started shortly after the keynote with the presentation about the new FX Features in JDK 8 by Jim Weaver. He gave an overview of the new FX capabilities, demonstrated the Metronome demo, and explained how developers could benefit from using Lambda Expressions. Being a professional technology ambassador, Jim presented with passion and enthusiasm actively encouraging developers to join the FX community and participate in the OpenJFX project.
Sergey Troshin and Andrey Petushkov from St. Petersburg Development Center gave a presentation about the Java ME Embedded technologies. They talked about the diversity of mobile devices, introduced the benefits that Java has brought to the embedded world, and provided solutions for Java optimization for embedded environments. I was particularly pleased with the fact that Sergey and Andrey named the docs.oracle.com/javame as the key source of information about Java ME technologies and products.
The second day of the conference started with Rapsberry Pi Nighthacking by Stephen Chin. Because the number of participants was relatively small, he turned the presentation into an informal discussion and live demonstration that were cordially received by the audience. Everyone in the hall was impressed with the demo run on Raspberry Pi and Chalkboard Electronics Touchscreen (tablet).
Jim Weaver continued presenting at the Java Client Technologies track and totally captivated participants with the presentation about powerful capabilities of JavaFX 3D. He showed how to create 3D primitive shapes, apply materials and textures, map images to the shapes. If you're thinking about creating a cylindrical or cubic representation of the Earth, ask Jim!
Daniel Blaukopf, talked about Java SE on embedded devices. What impressed me the most was that his presentation had been developed totally in JavaFX (instead of traditional Microsoft Power Point) and run on a Raspberry Pi. Daniel gave an overview of the Java SE Embedded platform, demonstrated the supported devices and proof concepts, and showed a live JavaFX application running on a Raspberry Pi.
The last but not the least conference event was the hands-on-lab with the title "Playing to the Strength of JavaFX and HTML5" given by Jim Weaver. Because the hands-on-lab was based on the WebView tutorial that is part of JavaFX documentation, Jim invited me to assist. It has been a great and totally new experience helping about the lab and answering tricky but interesting questions.
The organizers of JavaOne Russia are going to publish the conference materials at the Content Catalog. Watch for updates at http://www.oracle.com/javaone/ru-en/index.html.— Alla Redko


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Federer stunned by del Potro in US Open final (Forbes)
Normally so cool, so consistent, so in control of his emotions and his matches, Roger Federer let the U.S. Open championship slip from his grasp.
Two points from victory against inexperienced, unheralded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, two points from a sixth consecutive title at Flushing Meadows and a record-extending 16th Grand Slam overall, Federer, quite simply, fell apart Monday.
He railed at the chair umpire. His legs grew weary. His double-faults mounted. He could not figure out a way to stop the 6-foot-6 del Potro from pounding forehand after forehand past him. In a result as surprising for who lost as how it happened, del Potro came back to win his first Grand Slam title by upsetting Federer 3-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2.
Federer's U.S. Open Streak Ends in Emotional Loss to Del Potro (Bloomberg.com)
Roger Federer was rolling toward his record-tying sixth consecutive U.S. Open championship when a line challenge got in the way.
"I got off to a pretty good start, and had things under control as well in the second set," Federer said. "I think that one cost me the match eventually. But I had many chances before that to make the difference. So it was tough luck today, but I thought Juan Martin played great. I thought he hung in there and gave himself chances, and in the end was the better man."
Del Potro beats Federer in US Open final (Belfast Telegraph)
Roger Federer's five-year reign as US Open champion has come to an end following a four-hour battle with Juan Martin del Potro last night.
The two men shared the first four sets, but the world number one began to flag in the decider.
Federer was typically gracious in defeat, saying he had a great tournament, but del Potro was the best competitor.
Del Potro leaves Federer in daze with US Open win (Washington Post)
Roger Federer sat in his sideline chair, listening to the music, gazing into the distance - the glassy-eyed look of a defeated man.
The owner of the most Grand Slam titles in history - maybe the best player of all time - finally lost at the U.S. Open, but not to Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick or even Andy Murray.
Juan Martin del Potro puts thrilling end to Roger Federer's US Open reign (Times Online)
For Federer, it was a remarkable end to an incredible year that began with him unable to stem the tears at the Australian Open when he lost an epic five-set battle to Nadal. His first French Open triumph changed everything and, when he won Wimbledon, he broke the record of wins in grand-slam tournaments set by Pete Sampras. Win No 16 was agonisingly close but Del Potro snatched it away from him with a brilliant performance.
You may not have played your best game, but you are still the world's best.
Respect and admiration are what you deserve :) Enjoy your family an
You are always the best in our mind...
Just relax~~~~and hope to see you play soon
Yo quería que ganaras el US Open, pero bueno ni modo, estaba extrañadisima con tu juego y tus doble faltas, pareciera que querias que Del Potro ganara y en cierta forma le pasara lo mismo que a ti con Wimbledon y Sampras, los sueños de Del Pot


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A Texas man has been running a mile a day for 35 years straight. Not even a hospital stay will stop Bill Anderson.
During the course of his streak, he's made tracks across all 50 states, even 46 different countries.
Anderson is built to always be in motion, even the National Running Association says so.
"Here I am, Bill Anderson," he said, pointing at his records,"Started December 27, 1976 Fort Worth, Texas, retired 66-years-old."
Anderson has run every day since and his last run Saturday jeopardized his 35-year streak.
"It was a lot more complicated that I would have imagined," Anderson said.
Doctors recommended he walk several times a day. His family knew that wasn't going to do. The record could be rescued, 24 hours hadn't passed since his last run.
So his family found a hospital courtyard that could save the streak. Rules mandate Anderson wear running shoes, be outside and run a full mile, which in the courtyard is 30 laps.
Doctors signed off on it.
"Well it's rather unusual," one said.
Until you understand that he's run in so many places, he's even jogged on an aircraft carrier.
"I think he's a little crazy," Anderson's wife said.
With many reason to run away, Anderson always finds a reason to keep moving forward.


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Paragraphs I love SEP 21 2009
This is Adrian Bejan on how the current offensive explosion in NFL scoring can be thought of in terms of a river's effect on its basin.
Over time, a river relentlessly wears away its banks and, as a result, water flows faster and faster toward its mouth. When obstacles fall in its way, say, a tree, or a boulder-or in the case of an NFL offense, beefy linebackers like the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Lewis or the Chicago Bears' Brian Urlacher-it will figure out how to wear those away, too. "The game is a flow system, a river basin of bodies that are milling around trying to find the most effective and easiest way to move," says Prof. Bejan. "Over time you will end up with the right way to play the game, with the patterns that are the most efficient."


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Message from the Vice President of Student Affairs
Emmanuel is a very special place—'a gem among giants' as the father of one of our students suggested—the only small Catholic college in America's college town. We recognize our uniqueness and we hope that you will too as you read about our student-centered services in a thriving Boston location.
Academics are the priority on campus and as you peruse these webpages you will find support services for academic success and programs designed to promote intellectual and professional growth. The college years are some of the most formative years of life and we encourage students to take advantage of these enrichment opportunities.
Emmanuel is a vibrant campus, with 84% of our student body making its mark in student life as student-athletes, club and organization members and student leaders. If you are a student or prospective student, please familiarize yourself with our student organizations, Division III sports teams and mission and ministry opportunities. Research shows that students who are engaged in the life of their campus earn higher grades and report greater college satisfaction. We encourage every student to complement their academic life with co-curricular involvement.
Service to others is central to the student experience. Our founders, the Sisters of Notre Dame (SND) are recognized worldwide for their service to the poor and the SND mission is alive on campus. In 2012-2013 students contributed more than 36,000 hours of volunteer service. Our service record has been recognized three years in a row with distinction by the White House with the President's Community Service and Service Learning Award. Please check out the ways that you can make a difference.
Students describe community as a hallmark of their Emmanuel experience. Every student at the College is important. Every student can expect to be respected. Evidence of this commitment can be found in our statement on community standards and student code of conduct as well as other policies and procedures detailed on these webpages. A safe, respectful and healthy community is the foundation of student life at Emmanuel.
Emmanuel is about relationships and students can expect to find responsive and supportive professionals in Student Affairs. During times of challenge, students may want to utilize the confidential services of the Offices of Counseling, Health and Campus Ministry. The College provides 24/7 professional coverage through a professional on-call system accessed through Campus Safety. A student or a friend of a student who needs help should never hesitate to call.
Finally, before you leave our website you may want to see how students take advantage of the College's Boston location, not only for cultural, recreational and social opportunities but for career opportunities as well. Emmanuel students are more likely to participate in an internship than students on other campuses: 89% versus 53% at other private colleges. They make Boston their extended classroom preparing them for lives of meaning and purpose.
Thank you for your interest in the student life experience at Emmanuel. If you were unable to find what you are looking for on these webpages, please call my office. My assistant Mary Anne Murphy or I would be happy to assist you.
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- MaryAnne Murphy, Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs
- Joe Onofrietti, Dean of Students
- Patricia Rissmeyer, Vice President of Student Affairs
- Alexis Mastronardi, Director of Athletics and Recreation
- Alexa Simeone, Director of New Student Engagement and Transition
- Jeffrey Smith Jr., Director of Multicultural Programs
- Rev. John Patrick Spencer S.J., Associate Vice President of Mission and Ministry
- Mary Beth Thomas, Assistant Dean for Community Standards and Family Programs


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Let's play dress up for this week's column.
Let's raid grandma's attic or grandpa's closet for smart little hats, spotless white gloves and dashing fedoras. We'll iron our handkerchiefs, then fold them in perfect squares. As for the kids, it's white lacy socks with black patent leather for the young ladies, while our young gentlemen will be wearing smart bow ties, short pants and plenty of Brylcreem. We're headed to town for lunch and shopping, and we want to look our best.
Certainly, we dress up on occasion these days. We enjoy shopping excursions, followed by lunch. We make our own memories, but in our informal society, we have lost a bit of the ritual that defined life for previous generations. It's a slowly fading photograph of a different time.
Of course, recipes let us recapture some of those moments. Jo Bork asked for the Chicken a la King recipe served at San Francisco's Tea Room in the 1940s. The dish was her husband's favorite lunch, the highlight of a special day when he and his mother took the train from Redwood City into the big city to shop.
And Chicken a la King is one of those tearoom/lunch room recipes, isn't it? Ladled over perfect toast points or puff pastry, it is creamy and rich, the dish of another generation. I can't tell you the last time I had Chicken a la King.
Plates regular Dona Dickie, of Livermore, remembers her grandmother making the dish. "We lived in Boston," she says. "She always served it over toast points. Made enough for just the two of us. And I remember it being so creamy and special."
Dickie's grandmother made her sauce using milk, cream, butter and a bit of flour. White pepper and paprika gave it depth. The chicken was cut into small pieces, and the dish included two chopped pimento-stuffed olives and a "big spoonful of sherry."
Lynn Spatz recommends the Chicken a la King recipe in "Joy of Cooking." "I used to make it quite often when I had young kids at home, and we weren't as concerned about fat," Spatz says. "It is delicious with a few extra finely chopped vegetables, like carrots and peas, added. Heavenly in Pepperidge Farm patty shells. Winter comfort food."
Plates regular Steph Zervas recently read an updated version of Chicken a la King in a Gourmet magazine from a few years back.
"January 2006 was their 65th anniversary, and they reprinted one recipe from each year," she says. "Unfortunately, they updated the 1944 Chicken a la King with colored bell peppers and left out the petite peas. But if you adjust it back, as many reviewers suggested, I think it would be faithful to the original style."
The health-conscious among you are going to chuckle a bit when you read Gourmet's supposedly "lightened" version. A trip down memory lane turns out to be a bit of an indulgence. Gourmet's recipe still includes five tablespoons butter, 1¼ teaspoons salt, 1¼ cups heavy cream and three large egg yolks. If you're using commercial chicken broth, you should be able to easily cut the salt in this dish. And I'm wondering if fat-free half-and-half would deliver a nice sauce with less guilt.
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Because Josh Donaldson led wire-to-wire in fan voting at his position for the American League All-Star team this year, it can be easy to overlook how far and how fast the A's third baseman has come.
A year ago, with some numbers that were better than what he put together in the first half this season, Donaldson wasn't voted onto the team, wasn't picked as a reserve and wasn't added as a last-minute replacement.
On the day the team was announced last season, Donaldson had a .319 average, 15 homers and 57 RBIs. Teammates, family and friends were disappointed that he didn't make it. Donaldson wasn't, and some of those closest to him believed he should have been more upset than he was.
Count his mother, Lisa French, among them. French, who is in Minneapolis this week, had trouble believing he wasn't more riled by the slight.
"I was a little surprised at Josh," French said. "I was mad, I was way, way more disappointed than he was that he didn't make the team. He took it very well. I took it much worse.
"He had to talk to me and say, 'Look Mom, it's OK. I'm just getting started in baseball.' I thought he'd be real disappointed, and I was surprised when he wasn't."
Donaldson's teammates tell versions of the same story.
"He handled it really well," said Brandon Moss, who along with Donaldson is one of seven A's in Minneapolis for Tuesday night's All-Star game. "We were all very disappointed for him, because he absolutely deserved to be there. But he wasn't angry or anything."
Donaldson, instead, spent last year's All-Star break playing golf, his other passion. Out on the course, he retooled his mind for the second half of the season.
"I don't have a real handicap, but I play to about a 4," Donaldson said. "For three or four days, that was my therapy. It was good to get away from baseball. I wasn't upset. I've followed baseball for a long time. I know how things work. I understood that I came out of nowhere last year, and I also understood that we play on the West Coast so that we don't get a lot of the national attention that other teams get.
"Did I think my numbers were deserving last year? Sure. But I didn't have any bitterness that I didn't make it."
There was, after all, golf. But that has its limits.
"It was good, but it was bad for the fact that you never want time off when you're going good," he said. "At that time, I was still continuing to play well. Those four days off definitely didn't help my game. It took me a little bit after the break to get it going again. Still, I ended up getting in the groove again."
Some of that groove has carried over to this year. He's among the league leaders in runs (61), RBIs (65) and homers (20) even though his batting average (.238) has taken a beating. But the A's have long been believers that batting average is a relatively weak indicator of how a player is performing. Donaldson is their poster child.
The average didn't deter fan appreciation for his skills in a revamped American League All-Star infield. While Donaldson is at third base, last year's third baseman, Detroit's Miguel Cabrera, has moved to first. That means Donaldson will be playing next to his boyhood idol, Derek Jeter. The New York Yankees shortstop, who is retiring at the end of the season, is in his final All-Star game.
When the A.L. takes the field Tuesday, keep a close eye on Donaldson. See if he can keep his emotions in check. This one-time catcher who has become one of the best third basemen in the game isn't above having the moment get to him, and he knows it.
"I might have to fight some emotions just because of the road I've taken to get me there," he said. "There is no way three or four years ago anybody has this in their reality for me. I wasn't at third base, I wasn't a major league regular by any stretch. I was just out there fighting to continue to play."
He played like an All-Star last year, and this season he's doing it again. Now he has the swag to go with it, including participation in the home run derby on Monday.
Batting coach Chili Davis suggests that what happened in 2013 defines the kind of player Donaldson is.
"The best players aren't here for personal accolades," said Davis, himself a three-time All-Star. "Everybody wants to be an All-Star, but the best play the game to win, to go for the postseason, not just to be an All-Star.
"Josh is like that. He wants to be part of a winning team. You can see that the way he plays the game."
Manager Bob Melvin said that when Donaldson didn't make the team a year ago, he was able to use that as motivation.
"He didn't get down, he got busy," Melvin said.
And Donaldson listened to what some of what baseball's older and more experienced heads had to say about being bypassed in 2013.
"I came to look at it as it was one of those things where, 'You play in Oakland. You can't get voted in.' You know what I mean? That's what I've always been told.
"Even last year when I didn't make the All-Star game, a lot of people around baseball were telling me, 'If you play in Oakland, you can't get voted in.' So the support I've been given from Oakland, it definitely means a lot to me.
"It's one of those things where not only have I beaten the odds by playing the position I do, but I've beaten some odds by being voted in. Our fan base definitely stepped up to the task."
He also got an unintended boost from the Tigers, who moved Cabrera to first, making the field somewhat less crowded at Donaldson's position.
"When I heard that, I knew the opportunity was there," Donaldson said. "You still have to go out and perform. Making the All-Star team, get these individual awards, that's not why I play the game. I play to win championships and help my team win. I feel if you take care of those kinds of things, you're going to get rewarded."
One of those rewards comes Tuesday.
"I don't have to get a hit Tuesday," Donaldson said. "I think being able to go out there and step on the field with the quality of players who are going to be there is what makes it, especially being on the same side of the infield as Derek Jeter. He was always my guy."
Now he's his teammate.
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.


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If storms come ...
How is the Valley prepared for the next time?
June 18, 2013
Just days ago, weather predictions called for severe storms, including a derecho to rival the storm that blew through the area nearly a year ago, leaving local residents with no power or gas and......
We liked Dillion's remark about God's complex and unfathomable world. That is certainly true as we all know.
The National Weather Service does a good job when you think about it. They are right most of the time, especially when it comes to fast warnings. Some people only think about when they are wrong and forget how often they are right which is most of the time.
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And when the forecasts are wrong - it just reminds me that God has made this world much more complex and unfathomable than we poor arrogant humans would like.
gotta love that part....so true so true...
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This report makes it sound like WMOA radio station had to fix a mistake and go buy a generator. As the paper reported at the time they were the one radio station that had a generator! That is why they were able to stay on the air and provide information after the storm. They deserve credit for that. You should be asking if the other radio stations have figured that out yet.
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Bad enough that people who volunteer with local fire dept/squad publicly tell you they are going fishing and not to worry about the last warnings (boy who cried wolf)... I believe thats why the weather people are there and why they are called predictions and forcast, read the definition.... and be prepared for the worst, hope for the best....
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I figure that preparing for the storm that wasn't cost me $4 that I wouldn't have spent anyway - I bought a 20-pack of water. Otherwise, I would have spent the $30 on gas two days later anyway, and the $50 on food two or three days later - we've already eaten it, so no loss. The forecast just made me spend the money a bit earlier than normal. I'm glad the forecasters err a bit toward the sensational. It is better to be a bit overprepared than to be underprepared.
And when the forecasts are wrong - it just reminds me that God has made this world much more complex and unfathomable than we poor arrogant humans would like.
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I think many people are prepared. I also think that forecasters could do a better job.
Really, the last week's prediction cost many people a lot of money.
Crazy people start scrambling to get gas, water, milk, bread, what have you......
There are many TV stations that have much more detailed info than what we have here. They also have a forecaster that does not interject his own fears and emotions into the announcement.
The year one guy stood out in the parking lot waiting for the first snow flake of the predicted HUGE snow storm really was crazy. We got NO snow.
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After last years June 29 storm, I keep extra batteries, food, water and gas (full tank) in my car. I would like to think that when a bad storm is predicted, people will already have emergency items at their home. Being prepared would also stop the madness of overrunning stores after the storm. This preparation is a year round thing to have ready. Get prepared, don't be caught unprepared.
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As with living anywhere being prepared is a must. Living in Florida now we keep a hurricane kit ready, enough food, water,batteries, tanks filled for the grill, and gas in car during peak season. Watch your weather and always be ready. Hope everyone will be safe this summer!
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Rainstorms in Polk County Cause Power Outages
Published: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 5:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 1:35 a.m.
There were severe thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon in Polk County with some areas receiving almost 6 inches of rain, an AccuWeather.com meteorologist said.
Dave Houck said pockets of northwest Polk had 4 to 6 inches of rain, which started about 2 p.m.
An online power outage map for Lakeland Electric and TECO map showed scattered outages during the afternoon and evening. By 11 p.m., power had been restored to most customers.
A traffic signal outage at State Road 60 and SR 37 in Mulberry slowed traffic for about two hours during evening rush hour.
Auburndale residents saw the worst of the storm, with at least one large oak tree uprooted by winds, Houck said.
He said Winter Haven had about a half-inch of rain, with even less in Lakeland.
Houk said there will be scattered thunderstorms this afternoon, but they should move through quicker than Tuesday's storms.
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|Keith Gillespie author of "How Not to Be a Football Millionaire"
If you have even half an Irish bone in your body, you will know of the greatest sports broadcaster this land has ever produced -- a man by the name of Jimmy Magee.
Jimmy -- and he won't mind me saying it -- is a veteran of the microphone and a walking encyclopedia of all things sporting on the domestic and international stage.
A noted boxing aficionado, he is also a keen soccer man whose son Paul tragically lost his life to motor neurone disease some years ago. Paul was a player of some potential with Shamrock Rovers in the Johnny Giles era.
Known affectionately as the memory man, Jimmy has attended more World Cup finals than even Sepp Blatter and more Olympic Games than Seb Coe.
He is as happy taking hurling with a man in Ennis as he is chatting about soccer with the great Pele in Rio De Janeiro. He is a man of the people who is loved by the people.
There are many great stories told about Jimmy and by Jimmy, and my own favorite concerns the European Championships back in 1988 when all the glitz and glamor of a major soccer tournament was new to Ireland fans and those of traveling in their wake.
It wasn't new to Jimmy of course. He had been to such events many times before and has been back many times since. But he did wonder at the Irish experience as the big event new boys lapped it all up.
The morning after the famous draw with Russia in Hannover, the night of the Ronnie Whelan goal, Jimmy was out for a walk when two Irish fans approached him with a simple request.
Asking if he was indeed the memory man, to which Jimmy replied in the affirmative, they had a small question to ask the great Louth native as they struggled to recover from another night of celebration.
"If you are the memory man, could you tell us where we're staying, we haven't a bloody clue?" they asked of the RTE commentator.
Alas not even the great Jimmy Magee could guess where two men he'd never met in his life before were staying in a strange German city, but I'm sure they've dined out on the tale many times since the summer of '88.
Jimmy himself also tells that story regularly and it never fails to get a laugh. He is also fond of another tale for regular telling, a tale that stems from his role as president of our sports writers association in Ireland, ASJI as it is known officially.
As our top man, Jimmy regularly travels to major international conferences where top sports bodies and the media discuss the future for both their industries.
One message comes back from such events on a regular basis – the threat to professional sport of organized gambling. It is a threat, believe it or not, that is bigger than doping.
Big and small organizations across the globe are seriously worried by the threat legal and illegal betting poses to their sports. Match fixing is a scandal that has affected everything from soccer to snooker in recent years, and it is a growing problem.
Taxi drivers in the Far East regularly astound Irish tourists with their knowledge of domestic football in Ireland. Some of them know the First Division here inside out, and there are very few Irish fans who could match them for their insight into the form of Athlone Town or Waterford United.
Gambling on results isn't just a worry for sports organizations, however. It is also something that can affect some of the biggest and smallest names who kick a football or pot a ball or chase around a track for fun or for a living -- or for both.
This week, we got an insight into the torment suffered by gambling addicts from two very well known sportsmen.
Keith Gillespie, a footballer from Belfast who never lived up to his potential at Manchester United, has just written a fascinating and compelling book with soccer writer Daniel McDonnell of the Irish Independent.
In How Not to Be a Football Millionaire, Gillespie offers a harrowing account of how he gambled a staggering $10 million during his time as a professional footballer before finally sitting down one day, adding it all up and deciding that enough was enough.
His honest account of his own misfortune is both frightening and essential and well worth a read ahead of the Christmas book rush.


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CAMPBELL -- Two girls suffered burn injuries Wednesday night when a built-in backyard fire pit exploded, according to a Santa Clara County fire official.
Firefighters responded to a home in the 800 block of Brierwood Way sometime around 10:15 p.m., Battalion Chief Wally Finck said. Six girls had been sitting around the fire pit for about 30 minutes when there was "some sort of explosion," Finck said.
The fire pit was running on a natural gas line.
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Beavers have been proverbially busy in Eagle, and it's causing a big dam problem.
Eagle Open Space Coordinator John Staight told members of the Eagle Town Board Tuesday night that the town will be forced to trap and then humanely dispose of some beavers who have constructed dams that are causing flooding problems on town and private property.
"As you all know, we live in a wildlife/housing interface," said Staight. "Basically we have reached a breaking point here."
The warm and long fall of 2012, combined with last year's mild winter, resulting in a dramatic surge in beaver population along Brush Creek, said Staight. But when the issue became apparent, it was too late in the year to trap and relocate animals because they would not have time to rebuild lodges or dams before winter. As a result, the animals would starve to death if relocated. Staight said the more humane solution for this year is to trap and euthanize some of the beavers to reduce the large population and avert flooding and property damage.
"Once spring comes around, that is the time to trap and relocate," said Staight. "That will be a regular part of my program from now on."
"I am opposed to killing beavers. I am bummed we have to do this," said Mayor Yuri Kostick. Kostick said while the situation may be unavoidable in the future, he wants to make sure that the town has a plan to avoid repeating it in the future.
Staight also noted that the decision to trap beavers will require a public education campaign because homeowners in Eagle Ranch, as well as people who use the recreation paths for walking dogs, must be informed about the presence of live traps in the area to avoid having domestic animals caught. While the traps themselves would not kill an animal, the town wants to avoid having unintended trapping occur.


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LAFAYETTE -- Everything about former Golden State Warriors center Adonal Foyle stacks up; although he claims in an interview before a June 21 appearance in Lafayette to be "small," he's just wrong.
Sure, many NBA players loom larger on the vertical scale than his 6 feet 10 inches. But his reach -- before, during and after his 12-plus years of pro ball -- is unique among those who have laced 'em up. His humanitarian actions are leaving footprints larger than his size-17 shoes.
Growing up on Canouan, a 3.5-mile-wide Caribbean island in the Grenadines near St. Vincent, Foyle tried to fit in. There were 500 inhabitants and no electricity. At night, making his way home along pitch-dark paths, Foyle was grateful for the guiding light from neighbors' kerosene lamps. His lanky limbs and the oversized hands he says make keyboarding hard were cause for grief in an awkward teen, but they became his ticket to big-time hoops when two professors from Philadelphia spotted him in a summer game in Dominica.
"My stepparents gave me the opportunity to become a man," Foyle says, about Jay and Joan Mandle.
In addition to providing a home in the U.S. and a chance to be the first in his family to graduate from college, the Mandles issued a challenge: Foyle recalls a shoe box full of flash cards and a daily requirement to learn 15 new words.
"Prestidigitation -- I remember thinking, 'Who uses that word?'" he said before a public discussion at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center's inaugural Authors & Athletes event. "I worked so hard to catch up with reading; it transformed my life. Reading was huge. If you can read, you can go anywhere in this world."
From high school, Foyle went to Colgate University in upstate New York and began to dream. With "31" emblazoned on his jersey, he vowed to "make this number mine." Four years later, he was the eighth pick in the NBA's first round. Two years later, while becoming the Warriors' all-time leading shot blocker, he graduated magna cum laude with a history degree.
The lessons of the NBA were hard, Foyle says. He went from college's 32-game season to the grueling 82-game pro schedule. Every January, he "ran into a wall," even though he said basketball was as much mental as it was physical.
"You don't let anybody get in here," he says, pointing to his head. "It has to be impenetrable. And you have to tie your shorts, 'cause they'll pull your pants down, set your alarm early, order 1 a.m. room service."
And those were just his teammates. Foyle said an NBA player has to know his opponents -- all 450 of them -- better than he knows himself. For young kids, just 18 or 19 years old and still trying to figure out who they are, the temptations and distractions "can be disastrous," he says.
During his playing career and after retiring, Foyle landed in far different, safer territory. A return trip to Canouan and a pickup game on a dilapidated court set him on a second career trajectory. He remembers a group of kids watching him shoot hoops. Eventually, he asked if they'd join him.
"They said, 'Yeah!'" he recalls. "That was our first camp. Curious kids, wanting to learn."
Today, Foyle's Kerosene Lamp Foundation provides basketball camps, educational support, health counseling, and refurbishes and builds basketball courts for children in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Democracy Matters, a campus-based organization promoting democracy through paid internships for college students and high school fellowships, extends his influence to young adults.
And now, Foyle extends his reach to the youngest generation with his debut children's picture book, "Too-Tall Foyle Finds His Game." Written with KLF Executive Director Shiyana Valentine and sporting vivid, colorful illustrations by Toni Pawlowsky, the book tells Foyle's unadorned story of overcoming adversity and making a mark in the world.
"As pro ball players, we have the potential to be incredible role models," he says. "The NBA validated my message, but I dove into community and broke that wall with kids at every game. They come up to me now and it's still big in their lives."
Foyle has a home in Orinda, but he spends much of his time in Florida. He says he misses the opera, the symphony and even crossing the Bay Bridge and wondering whether construction will ever be complete. The area's diversity is unbeatable, he said. "You could live here forever and not be bored," he says.
Foyle's "Too-Tall" book series will continue, and his character will eventually travel to America. It remains to be seen if "Too-Tall" will become an author, one of the toughest challenges Foyle has faced since leaving the NBA.
"Writing is laborious!" he exclaims. "I lived the story, so it should be easy, but choosing what to put in and what to leave out is difficult. And my fingers are too big for laptops: I use fat yellow pads."


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I was told this old house, formerly belonging to an Armenian family, on the flank of the hill that holds the castle had been restored to serve as a "butik" (boutique) hotel. I have a certain dislike for that name, since it often implies that a run of the mill hotel put in some antique-looking bric-a-brac and raised the prices by 40%. I have been driven out of two of my favorite hotels is Istanbul, them going "butik". However this particular Kozan house is really impressive (and people told me it would be "ucuz" (cheap). I wonder). Please let me know when it really opens and what the prices are. It was to open in October, people who work the local newspaper told me, however, none of the people who worked at the hotel-to-be knew. Staff is always the last to hear of changes, is my personal experience also. I took a sneak-preview and liked it a lot.
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The Gifford Medical Center Auxiliary is turning Thrift Shop earnings into major support for the community's local hospital.
The Auxiliary has funded more than $19,000 worth of "wish list" equipment requests spanning multiple departments at the hospital and greatly benefiting patient care.
Funded were:
- Lending library books for the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
- Multiple pieces of equipment, from IV poles to portable oxygen saturation monitors to cardiac chairs for the inpatient hospital units
- A handheld scanning device for the medical center's Materials Management Department
- Pulse oximeters for primary care offices
- Play equipment and furniture for The Robin's Nest Child Enrichment Center
- Lead shield aprons for the Sharon Health Center
- A changing table and digital scale for the Twin River Health Center
The Auxiliary historically has awarded "wish list" items to the hospital, meaning departments put their wishes in the form of funding requests to the Auxiliary. Auxiliary board members review the list and award what they can. This round the board fully funded the "wish list."
Materials Management was granted a "wish list" item for the first time in memory. The scanning device is used to inventory supplies around the medical center, explained department supervisor James Shodunke Jr. It replaces a 15-year-old unit that didn't meet the department's needs, so staff had been taking notes with pen and paper.
As a staff member counts supplies around the medical center with the new device, which the department had been trialing, prints a report back in the materials holding area showing supply needs, meaning other staff members can immediately begin filling that supply order. The change in the busy department means a task that previously could have taken an hour and 15 minutes now takes less than 30 minutes.
"It greatly improves our efficiency and expedites the restocking process, which reduces interruptions in patient care," Shodunke said.
Gifford's inpatient unit received the bulk – $11,500 – of this round's funding.
"The staff and nursing leadership of Howell Pavilion (Gifford's inpatient unit) are very thankful for the extremely generous grants given by the Auxiliary. Many patients will benefit from the numerous requests, such as sturdier chairs for patient rooms, electronic vital sign monitoring system and alternative treatments for pain. The gifts will be a big help for both patients and staff. We would like to thank the Auxiliary for all of their hard work and support by granting our many requests," said Alison White, vice president of patient care services.
Auxiliary board members Ruth Lutz, treasurer, and Nancy Gray, historian, walked around the medical center on Wednesday making in-person announcements to department staff that they had been funded.
Lutz was excited by the response from the departments. "They were so pleased," she said.
Gray found the experience rewarding because of the inside look she got at the medical center and its many, diverse services.
But Lutz and Gray were quick to point out that it wasn't they who were making the gift to the medical center, but rather the full Auxiliary and all who shop at the Thrift Shop. "We're so fortunate to be able to do this because of what the Thrift Shop brings in," Gray said.


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