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- Sep 5:
- NFL Preview: Breaking down the 49ers' schedule
- NFL Preview: Breaking down the Raiders' schedule
- Sep 4:
- NFL preview:
- NFL preview: 10 must-see ballgames
- NFL preview: Breaking down the Raiders
- NFL preview: Raiders' Charles Woodson at home in wine country
- Thompson: Raiders need to collect foundational pieces
- Sep 3:
- Mark Purdy: Bay Area has its NFL game face on
- Colin Kaepernick by the numbers
- Sep 2:
- NFL preview: Rules changes favor offense
- Kawakami: Levi's era means these 49ers can build own legacy
- NFL preview: AFC power rankings
- NFL preview: NFC power rankings
- NFL preview: Seattle Seahawks believe they can repeat
Colin Kaepernick's playful smile faded as each pass whistled past its target. The 49ers quarterback was attempting to be the first to swish a football into a butterfly net in the right corner of the end zone during a training-camp drill.
It is, of course, that nightmarish sector of the field where the 49ers' past two seasons have ended on throws by Kaepernick. Three incomplete passes headed for Michael Crabtree in the waning moments of Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. And in the final moment of last season, another throw to Crabtree in the right corner was tipped by Richard Sherman for an interception that sealed the NFC Championship loss against bitter rival Seattle.
It is enough to make Kaepernick's steely focus even more intense. And enough for league experts to wonder if Kaepernick is the guy who can lead the 49ers to their first Super Bowl title in 20 years.
He is the NFL's most cutting-edge quarterback -- and also one of its most polarizing.
"There were people, from the time he took over for Alex Smith, that were looking for him to fail and wondering when that's going to be," said John Madden, the Hall of Fame former coach and broadcaster. "I look and don't think it ever is going to be."
The doubts about Kaepernick's potential to become one of the NFL's elite quarterbacks seem to be dissipating. His passing stats might not impress people, but his work ethic and competitive fire do. He hasn't seized the big moment yet, but all the big-moment experience he has stored in less than two full seasons scares the heck out of defensive coordinators.
"People don't talk enough about how the guy is an absolute competitor and battler," one such coordinator shared on the condition of anonymity. "This guy's a bad ass. This guy's going to battle you to the end."
When it was all over in Seattle last January, Kaepernick already was one step ahead of his critics.
"I didn't play good enough to win," he said. "I turned the ball over three times. I cost us that game."
Some won't be convinced Kaepernick, 26, is trustworthy as a clutch performer until those final chapters have different endings.
Sports Illustrated's Peter King wrote in his pre-camp rankings that if he trusted Kaepernick as much as Seattle's Russell Wilson, the 49ers would have been his No. 1 team and the Seahawks No. 3, instead of vice versa.
"If you talk to someone with a pure-passing pedigree, they won't trust Kap yet," said Trent Dilfer, an ESPN analyst and former 49ers quarterback. "If you talk to a new-school guy that likes dynamic athletes that outweigh traditional passers, he'll trust him."
"His teammates trust him," said Bill Polian, an ESPN analyst and former Indianapolis Colts president. "Who cares if the nation trusts him? He's not running for office."
There is plenty for his teammates and coaches to believe in. Kaepernick's face is routinely the first they see upon arrival at their Santa Clara facility in the morning and the last they see when leaving at night. And he is fresh off signing a team-friendly six-year contract extension where his value (potentially $126 million) is tied to the 49ers' success, per his request.
"The thing about Colin is he's not afraid to work. He's a bulldog," 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said.
More is expected from a passing attack that ranked 30th last season, and Kaepernick has prepared himself to take advantage of a deeper receiving corps and to capitalize when the stakes are raised.
"Lately we've worked on a lot of red-zone throws," wide receiver Anquan Boldin said. "That's something we put emphasis on."
Kaepernick also is embracing his role as a vocal leader. After young tailback Jewel Hampton got into a minor scuffle in camp, Kaepernick pulled him aside for counsel. When linebacker Aldon Smith emerged from a dominating drill, Kaepernick was there to exchange a subtle high-five.
"Sometimes he'll speak up in meetings and give his expectations for landmarks and locations of the ball," wide receiver Brandon Lloyd said. "He'll have the floor in the meeting and he'll discuss what he sees and what he expects out of the plays."
Kaepernick's love of "Kaepernicking," where he kisses the biblical tattoos on his right biceps after a touchdown run, has led some outsiders to question whether he is more me-first than team-first. But look closely when his teammates find the end zone and you'll see a smiling Kaepernick in full sprint to congratulate them.
Kaepernick recently acknowledged that he believes stereotypes dictate the way he is perceived.
"Between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with being a franchise quarterback or somebody leading a team or representing the organization," he told Bleacher Report.
Yet long before "Kaepernicking" was a thing and people wondered if he was spending too much time savoring his newfound celebrity at award shows and on magazine covers, there were critics. They wondered if the second-round draft pick out of Nevada could move from a pistol offense to a West Coast system. If his windup throwing motion needed an overhaul. If he would rely too much on his long, speedy legs.
As Kaepernick started slowly last season -- one 200-yard passing game from Week 2 to 11 -- the line of questioning centered on whether he could go through progressions and read defenses. Dilfer drew Kaepernick's ire for his pointed criticism, but now is quick to note how the young quarterback has improved.
"He's really worked hard on (progressions) and you can tell," Dilfer said. "We talked at the Super Bowl. ... Kap has a burning desire to be great. That's a big deal."
Polian said Kaepernick improved late last season, citing his secondary reads and passing to underneath receivers.
"He's going to get better simply by having more opportunities to learn defenses and how to manipulate them," Polian said.
For perspective, consider Kaepernick's 639 career regular-season passes. That ranks 45th among quarterbacks in this summer's training camps. Leading the way are Peyton Manning (8,452), Drew Brees (6,799) and Tom Brady (6,586). Even Seattle's Wilson has more attempts (800) dating to his 2012 rookie season.
Only Philadelphia's Nick Foles got more out of his completions than Kaepernick last season, according to FootballPerspective.com, which used statistical analysis factoring in yards-per-completion, the league average and attempts.
And Kaepernick tied for the fifth-best accuracy percentage last season on passes of 20 yards or longer, according to ProFootballFocus.com.
An offseason that brought in veteran receivers Steve Johnson and Lloyd, as well as rookie Bruce Ellington, is bound to open up the 49ers' passing game. Boldin re-signed rather than hit free agency, Crabtree has looked hungry entering his final season under contract, and tight end Vernon Davis (13 touchdown catches in 2013) opted to cut short his contract holdout.
"When he gets all the parts and gets his receivers going, he'll be fine," Madden said.
Expectations were tempered early last season while Crabtree missed the first 11 games recovering from Achilles surgery. Kaepernick's completion percentage slipped from 62.4 in 2012 to 58.4. Even after Crabtree returned, that percentage dipped to 54.9 in three playoff games.
But, Madden pointed out: "He's not going to be one of the guys with a high percentage, because he's going to take more chances."
Dilfer agreed, adding: "Kap's not in a system where he's going to throw 65 to 68 percent. It's a run-first offense, where they set up the big play off the run. He's very accurate down the field. He'll become more efficient when he sees more looks and then will make better decisions."
There were plenty who questioned Kaepernick's off-field decision-making in the offseason after he was named in a Miami police investigation in April. The incident was initially referred to as a "sexual-assault case" by TMZ.com and other media outlets, even though no crime or sexual action was alleged and no charges were filed.
"As I said from Day 1, I would never do the things that were made up about me," Kaepernick said via Twitter. " I'm glad this issue is resolved. It's time for football."
Kaepernick had been in Miami to work out before the 49ers' offseason program. Boldin and wide receiver Quinton Patton took part in those sessions, not just to break a sweat, but to help Kaepernick refine his timing on passes.
"He has a big-time arm that, on quick-in throws, he can get the ball to featured guys pretty easily," said the defensive coordinator who wished to remain anonymous. The coordinator also downplayed Kaepernick's progression-reading woes.
Roger Theder, a former Cal coach who tutored Kaepernick in his Pitman High-Turlock days before the 49ers drafted him in 2011, likes what he sees from his former pupil, both technically and mentally.
"Colin stands tall, has a narrow base, throws really well, turns his shoulder really well," Theder said. "And he's got that great work ethic."
To make play calls easier and cut down on play-clock woes, the 49ers simplified this season's playbook, so much so that coach Jim Harbaugh described Kaepernick's expertise as "auto-correct" mode.
This is the job Kaepernick craved since he was a kid helping the Turlock Vikings win trophies as a quarterback and safety. He has been a relentless competitor ever since, said his father, Rick, who linked that trait to a motivational poster that hung next to his bed.
"The power to win must come from within," read the poster, featuring a player trying to break a tackle to dive for the goal line.
Asked about it after a 49ers practice, Kaepernick said the poster "was just another reminder that if you're going to do something, the biggest factor is you. 'How much do you want it? How much work are you willing to put in to accomplish it?' ... It made it that much easier to wake up and say, 'OK, if I want this, I'm going to go after it.' "
Those words came shortly after an extra workout on an otherwise deserted practice field. A couple hours earlier, he had been practicing with his fellow quarterbacks. Of course it was Kaepernick who first nailed a fade pass into that butterfly net.
"I look at guys and ask how would I like to coach against them," Madden said. "He'd be a pain in the butt. He has the arm, athletic ability, he can move in the pocket, he can run with the ball, he can run fast with the ball.
"I think he's great, not just with the things he does, but what he is capable of doing."
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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Twitterature From Novelist David Mitchell
Novelist David Mitchell's fiction is now on Twitter.
The award-winning author of "Cloud Atlas" posted more than three dozen tweets Monday for his first Twitter work, a short story that will run for a week through a series of 280 posts.
The story, "The Right Sort," adds Mitchell to a list of writers such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan and "Coraline" author Neil Gaiman who have experimented with Twitter as an inspiration for their fiction.
In an interview Monday with the BBC, Mitchell said his publisher urged him to use Twitter to trumpet the September release of his book, "The Bone Clocks." An erstwhile non-Tweeter who referred to the medium as an "ocean of trivia and irrelevance," Mitchell wanted his promotional Twitter feed to double as a storytelling experiment.
"The Right Sort" is told in the voice of a British teenager who has just popped his mom's Valium—a drug Mitchell said makes people think in the blurts and blasts that characterize Twitter writing. One Tweet reads: "The pill's just kicking in now. Valium breaks down the world into bite-sized sentences. Like this one. All lined up. Munch-munch."
"The Right Sort" isn't directly related to "The Bone Clocks," a sweeping narrative that plays with themes of clairvoyance, spirits and immortality, though Random House vice president and executive editor David Ebershoff said in an email that the new novel and the Twitter piece are "of the same universe." He added: "Over time his readers will discover the connections and intersections, piecing it all together in that way we've come to expect from his fictional world."
The 45-year-old British novelist kicked off his Twitter tale in the early morning with the post: "We get off the Number 10 bus at a pub called 'The Fox and Hounds'. 'If anyone asks,' Mum tells me, 'say we came by taxi.'" Within hours, the writer's account, @david_mitchell, had been named in more than 2,000 tweets.
In 2012, Egan released a short story, "Black Box," about a futuristic female spy, in serialized posts through the New Yorker's Twitter account. "People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you've seen pictures," she began. Scores of tweets followed, ending with a line that evoked a haiku: "You won't know for sure until you see them crouching above you, their faces taut with hope, ready to jump."
Others have used Twitter as a springboard for longer work: In 2012, Gaiman worked with BlackBerry on a project in which he asked his roughly 2 million Twitter followers questions like "What's your happiest memory of April?" He used his favorite responses for a series of stories called "A Calendar of Tales."
A couple of years ago, the Guardian asked authors to tell an entire story in 140 characters or less. Romance novelist Jackie Collins wrote: "She smiled, he smiled back, it was lust at first sight, but then she discovered he was married, too bad it couldn't go anywhere." From British thriller writer Jeffrey Archer: "'It's a miracle he survived,' said the doctor. 'It was God's will,' said Mrs Schicklgruber. 'What will you call him?' 'Adolf,' she replied." And "Bridget Jones" creator Helen Fielding set the stage for domestic fireworks: "OK. Should not have logged on to your email but suggest if going on marriedaffair.com don't use our children's names as password."

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For those of us not in Maui (and in the real world) how about a little challenge? I start most years off trying to see how long I can go riding every day. Last year I made it until mid-February before a work trip derailed my streak. It doesn't have to be much - some days I just hop on the trainer for 30 minutes to watch a TV show. Most days my commute does the trick, but getting in the longer rides on the weekends can sometimes be hard to get inspired for when it's like this outside. Any takers?
A local told us that there are 4 bike shops in Maui and about 50 dudes. We didn't meet any local dudes on our rides, but did visit West Maui Cycles and Go Cycling Maui. Good enough for me to carry half a loaf, jammed in a jersey pocket, up a six mile climb!
As much as I enjoy riding in Maui, it's like the LA of tropical islands – everyone does everything by car and it's as car-based as it gets. On the last day of our trip, on top of Pineapple Hill at the Kapalua Resort (another leg-breakin' climb), a Mercedes on a pedestal showed up and I was like, damn, worship this!
The Mercedes showed up (looking very much like a Lexus) for the Mercedes-Benz Championship PGA tour event. I'm sure that's a real nice car and people love driving it, as well as watching golf, but by that time I'd had enough of cars and construction trucks working the new resorts.
While the island is full of cars, Maui does have wide-shoulder lanes, bike route signs, a plan, and the Maui Bike Alliance. I'll note that we had zero problems with cars and in the country, it's like any quiet country ride, but everywhere else you're riding along highways that are full.
In contrast to the hard work of Mr. Steepy, the road to Hana on a bike is a relaxing pleasure. That's not to say it couldn't be a tough day, but we rode it at a tourist pace, enjoying the curves and scenery and the more rhythmic climbs. Hana is the least developed area of Maui and a nice change from the crowded resorts.
Once every hour or so, we also appreciated our bikes even more, when a line of cars would roll by stuck behind a tourist bus with obviously frustrated drivers. We also enjoyed flying through the S-turns while they waited behind us.
Just uploaded Maui photos to the Bike Hugger Photostream. The photos include Local Knowledge, Cruiser Girl, and Bike Volcano.


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4SC gets a confidence boost in clinic and stockmarket
Martinsried - SHELTER is responsible for the fact that the stocks of 4SC behaved like a rodeo horse on Thursday. The shares rose in several stages up to 63%, only to settle at a mere 43% rise at the end of the day. SHELTER is a clinical Phase II study with the cancer drug resminostat as a second-line therapy for patients with advanced liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC) which has reached its primary endpoint well ahead of schedule. This open-label, two-arm,international study investigated the safety and efficacy of resminostat both as a monotherapy and in combination with sorafenib. All patients had exhibited radiologically proven tumour progression under first-line therapy with sorafenib prior to study entry. According to the data now presented, the compound managed to halt the further progression of this relatively aggressive cancer in at least 20% of the patients treated and for at least 12 weeks. In 2011 Resminostat already proved its efficacy in patients with non Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Now the hopes are high in Munich that a comprehensive approval of Resminostat is on the horizon.


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Floyd A. Johnson, 81, passed away on Friday, October 12, 2012 at Fridley's Unity Hospital, in Fridley.
A Memorial Service was held on Wednesday, October 17 at St. Phillips Lutheran Church in Fridley, officiated by Pastor Jan Hartsook. A private interment was held.
Floyd Allen Johnson, son of William "Bill" and Esther Johnson was born on November 12, 1930 in Montevideo. He had two siblings, older brother Willis and younger brother, Dennis, who died as an infant. Floyd grew up in Hazel Run and farmed with his dad and brother for many years. He was confirmed at Hazel Run Lutheran Church and graduated from Granite Falls High School in 1948. Floyd married Yvonne Flogstad on November 8, 1958 in St. James and they had four children: Dana, Zane, Keir and Nicole.
Floyd was preceded in death by wife, Yvonne; parents; and infant brother.
He is survived by children: Dana (Sheila), Zane, Kier (Julie), Nicole Kamp (Jochen); grandchildren: Nicholas, Erica, Ian, Drew, Will, Mattias and Juliette; brother Willis (Arlyss); sister-in-law Joan; also many nieces and nephew.
Arrangements were with Miller Funeral Home of Fridley.
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By Julie Cole
Ken Switzer filled a need and found his life's calling.
The Briercrest alumnus runs a home in Bolivia for ex-street kids who have graduated from high school.
"The idea is to help them transition from the different children's homes where they grew up, to life on their own," Switzer said.
The Saskatchewan native would never have dreamed he would be a missionary in Bolivia.
"I was going to be a youth pastor and learn to play the guitar," he joked.
In 2000 Switzer went to visit a friend from B.C. who was in Bolivia working with street kids. He thought it might be good place to take his youth group in a couple of years. His friend took him to a boys' home.
"There were 55 boys there," Switzer recalled. "The youngest was four and the oldest was 18."
The director of the home was away in the U.S. getting training and had left one 21-year-old staff member — a woman — in charge of all the boys. Things weren't going very well when Switzer showed up on the scene.
"(The staff worker) was really upset because some of the older boys were bringing drugs into the dormitory," he said. "She figured since I was a pastor I wouldn't mind staying in the dorm with these guys. So I said, 'Sure, Why not?'"
Switzer found himself outnumbered and in an awkward position.
"There I was with my five words of Spanish," he remarked. "I didn't even know how to introduce myself. Living in a dorm with 55 street kids — seriously it was probably one of the most intimidating experiences of my entire life!"
Then a breakthrough happened.
"My second day there one of the guys came up to me and he pointed at his book and asked me something in Spanish," Switzer recalled. "I thought 'Maybe he wants to know how to say that in English,' so I explained what it was. He got his little notebook from school and he wrote that down. Before we finished we probably had 20 to 30 guys (standing around)."
From that point on Switzer began to build friendships with the boys, depending a lot on hand signals and different tones of voice to get his message across. Before long, his time in Bolivia was over and he was boarding a bus to the airport.
"I remember when I got on the bus thinking 'What's gonna happen to these guys?'" Switzer said. "I prayed that God would send someone to work with them and to protect them. It's kind of ironic because God already had a plan in place to bring me back to Bolivia in a few years."
Two years later, when Switzer completed his youth pastorate in Saskatoon, he went back to Bolivia and began working with some of the same guys he had been with before. He found that many children's homes don't have funding to support children once they reach 18. These children are released and many of them return to the streets.
Switzer rented a house and through the donations and help of many people he shares his home with 10 ex-street kids who have graduated from high school. He pays for their university training and tries to help them transition to life on their own.
"All of them have been abandoned or abused," Switzer said, "yet God is beginning to bring healing into their lives."
Getting the boys to plan for the future is difficult.
"They really don't plan for the future," Switzer insisted. "Having grown up on the streets it was all about getting their next meal. We're trying to get them to think about the future and not just make decisions in the moment."
Helping these young men to succeed at a university level has been a challenge.
"The first semester the guys failed almost all their classes," Switzer remembered. "We hired tutors and had them come into (the home)."
The men are now succeeding in their various areas of study.
"We have a lawyer, an electrician, a psychologist, a physiotherapist, a business major, an accountant, a computer programmer, a seminary student and a civil engineer studying in the house right now!" Switzer exclaimed.
The need for this kind of program is great and Switzer is raising funds to expand his home and staff.
"Right now I've got one bed that has opened up and there are three guys that want to move in," he said.
The challenge of managing the home and caring for the young men has been enormous at times.
"About every week I have a moment with God asking Him why I'm doing exactly what I'm doing," Switzer confessed. "I'm still youth pastoring, but now I'm living in the basement with the youth group!"
The missionary has a no-nonsense approach when he talks about his calling.
"It would be nice if I could tell you that Jesus called me in a vision or I had some sort of 'Paul on the road to Damascus' experience," he said. "But the reality is, there was a need there and I knew I could help. I wanted to be a part of what God was doing."
He challenges other Christians who are looking for their calling.
"A lot of people are waiting for 'handwriting on the wall' … before they decide what God wants them to do," he said. "The Bible talks so often about compassion. I think the loving compassion we have for those who are suffering or in pain speaks to the very heart of who we are as followers of Christ. People will know His disciples by our love for one another."
Despite his successes in Bolivia, Switzer has a humble estimation of his contribution.
"It's not because I'm the most gifted guy on the planet," he remarked. "I'm not. It's not because I have anything in common with these guys I work with. I'm a farm kid from a small town in Saskatchewan. God loves me. He's shown me grace and forgiveness. I want to be used by the Holy Spirit to be an example of that love and grace to someone else."
The seasoned missionary sees his role as a simple one.
"There are a lot of things I can't do, but showing love and grace are two things that definitely I can do."
Further information about Switzer's ministry can be found at www.kennethswitzer.com.


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Show is slowed to acoustic because of damage to the balcony during Mr.Completly...Fast forward
3/4 Phish back together!!
And Mr. Completely countdown
Set 1: Mr. Completely, Spin, Drifting, Dark and Down, Night Speaks to a Woman, Shine, Money, Love and Change, Push On 'Til the Day, Come As Melody, Access Me[1], Divided Sky[2], Back on the Train[3], Heavy Things[3], Bathtub Gin[3] -> Ghost[1]
Encore: Boogie On Reggae Woman[4]
[1] TAB debut; duet with Trey on acoustic and Mike on bass.
[2] TAB debut; Trey on acoustic, Mike on bass and Fish on cymbal.
[3] Duet with Trey on acoustic and Mike on bass.
[4] Fish on drums and Mike on bass.
Notes: Tea Leaf Green opened. In the days leading up to this show it was promoted as the "Countdown to Utica." As the band took the stage "The Final Countdown" by Europe was played over the P.A. "Access Me" and "Ghost" were Trey Anastasio debuts. "Access Me" through "Ghost" were all duets with Trey on acoustic guitar and Mike on bass. "Divided Sky" also featured Fishman playing the two cymbal beats after the pause. The end of "Divided Sky" featured a "Lawn Boy" tease. "Boogie On" featured the entire band plus Fishman on drums and Mike on bass.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Jennifer Hartswick, Skeeto Valdez, Ray Paczkowski, Christina Durfee, Les Hall, Tony Hall, Jon Fishman (Guest), Mike Gordon (Guest)


text: The internet has been a double-edged sword for bands. On the one hand, it has made it easy for any band to be heard. Even the smallest artists are able to get their music out to be heard by people in the furthest corners of the world. It has been a godsend. On the other hand, the flood of music that washes over listeners each and every day makes it nearly impossible for new bands to make the kind of impact they would have expected years ago, even when they have the industry pushing them forward.


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Well used PS3 Media Server for years, but now I have bought a surrond reciever (tx-nr616) and KHT3005SE speakers, plus a pair of m70 that was layng unused. So a fully functional 7.1 surround system.
What I cannot find is a tutorial that explains step by step how you can get the reciever to light up with DTS and dolby digital symbols so that you know for shure that the sound is the best as PMS can deliver.
So if someone can create such a tutorial, I and others as well would appreciate it.
Something like what to tick and not to tick in the PMS interface, if you have k-lite megapack installed, how to configure those settings (codectweaktool and win7dsfiltertweaker) to get the reciever to do the audio decoding, and to utilize the graphic card to do the work. And how to configure the Playstation 3 to get HD surround audio to your reciever.
Much of these setting are hardware dependent, but most computer to day are capable of doing full 1080p decoding and full HD (DTS and DD) audio playback (there are some limitations to what the ps3 console can accept from streamed DD formats).
A short best as possible setting to setting for dummies tutorial is what I am after. For the most used file formats out there (mkv, avi, mp4, ac3 and so on)
I think most users just need a tutorial like this and if this tutorial is here somewhere allready, then I just wasted a couple of hours (to try and findt it) and appologize deeply for this post.
And appologize the awfull spelling, are from Norway
PMS 1.72.0 Build d9fd0a44c (220.127.116.11)
Windows 8 Pro 64bit
8 gig ram
K-Lite Mega Pack
Gigabit cabled network (no wifi) only cat6 cable
PS3 Slim ver 4.31 (bitstream)
Onkyo TX-NR616 using only HDMI connection


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Missing Norman Rockwell Painting 'Sport' Recovered
A Norman Rockwell painting that was missing for a time from a storage facility in Queens, N.Y., has been recovered, according to a spokesman for Welpak Corp., the art moving and storage company that had handled the transport and storage of the painting after its sale.
The 1939 painting, called "Sport," was used as one of the many Saturday Evening Post covers for which the artist is well-known. It sold last spring for more than $1 million at an auction in New York and disappeared later last year.
The oil painting depicts a fisherman in a tiny boat wearing a yellow rain jacket and smoking an upside-down pipe.
Jean Gardner, a lawyer representing Welpak, said a private investigator recovered the painting in Ohio, that it was still in the same wrapping used previously for storage and appeared to be undamaged. Gardner also said no one has been charged in the painting's disappearance.
A police department spokesman declined to comment.
Welpak released the following statement: "WelPak Corporation is pleased to report the successful recovery of the Norman Rockwell painting, 'Sport' reported missing from its facility in October 2013 through the diligence and hard work of its private investigator, Dean Golemis, of Global Security and Investigative Services in conjunction with the investigation undertaken by the NYPD."


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A poser band that wishes they were Green Day, but are horribly failing at being punk. They are more poser than anyone could ever tried to be, and sound like about every other poser band in the universe!
They are loved by preppy teenage girls, and no one who has EVER been considered hard-core.
They are loved by preppy teenage girls, and no one who has EVER been considered hard-core.
Prep:Hey, hot guitarist guy from some stupid rock band, do you like Blink 182, I love them!
Hot guitarist guy: FUCK NO!!! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MEEEE!!!! EEEEEWWWWWW!!!! PREPPY POSER, IT BURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hot guitarist guy: FUCK NO!!! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MEEEE!!!! EEEEEWWWWWW!!!! PREPPY POSER, IT BURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
от Satan1432238953758913 25 март 2006
one of the best punk bands around. my first favorite band ever.!
" breathing deeply, walking backward finding strenth to call and ask her rollercoaster favorite ride let me kiss u one last time goodbye."
от the used are awesome! 18 февруари 2005
i dont get this, music is suppose to be a personal thing, doesnt matter what others think, and what they do think shouldnt influence what you like and dislike...blink 182 sell outs? nahhh punk? maybe...good? yup... everyone to insecure about what other people think....fuck yeah
people who care what others think about them and change themselves to fit in = posers
от Dan 25 септември 2003
A great band that may have sold out, but still rule.
Doesn't SELLOUT just mean that more people like them? Isn't that a good thing to have a big fan base? Who cares if a band is a sellout, if they still make good music, that's all that matters. Wow, people trying to make their point, I don't understand it. EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO THEIR OWN OPINION.
от Carla 12 февруари 2004
an amazing punk/rock band. who makes good music and has been doing so for years. they are not posers, and anyone who thinks so is stupid. you can never compare blink 182 to simple plan because they are completely different bands, and genres and are from different times.
blink 182 is a great band and people who don't think that are stupid.
от Kat12 21 декември 2005
blink 182 did not sell out. they did sign on to that one record label, but why? not to make more money, but so their ideas and beliefs could reach out to mainstream culture, to the dummys they sing about. otherwise, no one would have ever heard of them or what they believe in.
the best band ever
от evil poptart, friend of chenguin 24 октомври 2003
Blink-182 are a 3 piece punk/alternative rock band. They consist of one of the greatest drummers to ever pick up drumsticks, Travis Barker, extremely talented guitarist and lead vocalist, Tom DeLonge and the all round genius that is Mark Hoppus who is the bassist and vocalist. Most "punk" kids these days, like many writing blink-182 definitions, think that it makes them punk to hate on them. blink-182 have evolved in a way that no other band has. They started off writing fast punk songs like 'Carousel', which may I add has no profanities in the lyrics of the song at all which was claimed in another definition, to writing alternative rock songs like "Hearts All Gone". People claim blink are immature and write about nothing except 'fucking dogs in the ass'. This isn't true. Infact, blink only wrote 1 song titled 'I wanna fuck a dog in the ass'. Blink are well known for their lyrical genius. Examples of this would be "You're cold with disappointment while I'm drowning in the next room, the last contagious victim of this plague between us", "Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head" and "When the night will begin the pain it won't end even if she falls in love, fact you wanna turn back, your heart will attack even if she falls in love". Globally known as one of the greatest, down to earth bands to ever exist, and unlike any other band, blink-182 are the voice of many generations.
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W. L. Gore
A case study in work environment redesign
The maker of Gore-Tex fabrics embraces fluid teaming and "dabble time" as ways to spur productivity and encourage innovation.
Can the way the workplace is constructed—physically, virtually, and managerially—affect employee performance? The Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge report Work environment redesign, based on a study of more than 75 organizations, argues that the work environment can have a critical impact on employee productivity, passion, and innovation. The study outlines nine design principles that can help employers gain more value from their people.
This case study explores ways that manufacturer W. L. Gore & Associates is applying these design principles to enhance its own corporate environment.
Figure 1. Work environment design principles used at W. L. Gore
Company background and results
W. L. Gore & Associates is a US-based manufacturer that specializes in making products that utilize advanced materials. Its best-known product is Gore-Tex fabrics. The company, founded in 1958 by Bill Gore, has grown to over 10,000 employees with more than $3 billion in global revenue in 2012, up from $1.6 billion in revenue in 2004.1 The company has operations in over 20 countries and is consistently ranked as one of the United States' top places to work by the Great Places to Work Institute.2
Challenge-specific teaming
One of the hallmarks of W. L. Gore's work environment is its commitment to democratic decision making. At the company, associates choose the work they do and make commitments to their colleagues on what they will accomplish. This management approach fosters challenge-specific teaming, as employees are free to team and re-team. The organization has no formal managers.3 Instead, "leaders" are chosen by the group, emerging organically based on a project's needs and the qualities required of a team leader in that circumstance. However, even though there are no formal "bosses," there are associates who serve as "sponsors" and help more junior associates navigate the company to find roles that fit them.
Rapid experimentation
Often heralded as one of the world's most innovative companies,4 W. L. Gore embraces rapid experimentation. To begin with, the company has "dabble time," which is an expectation that approximately 10 percent of employees' time will go toward new ideas or initiatives.5 In addition, the company is more than willing to make long-term investments in ideas that take time to develop. The organization's status as a privately held company, in which employees are given shares as part of their compensation,6 shields it from the pressure of achieving quarterly results typical at publicly traded companies. For these reasons, it is common for employees at W. L. Gore to tinker with ideas that eventually become new products.
One example of rapid experimentation is the development of W. L. Gore's line of Elixir guitar strings. One of the company's engineers, Dave Myers, worked in a Gore medical devices plant developing new types of heart implants. As part of his dabble time, Myers was trying to improve his mountain bike by coating his gear cables with a layer of plastic, hoping to make the gears shift more smoothly. His tinkering was successful, giving rise to Gore's line of Ride-On bike cables.7 After a series of other experiments, Myers thought of using a similar coating of plastic on guitar strings to improve their durability and feel. Not being a guitarist himself, Myers sought the help of Chuck Hebestreit—a colleague who played guitar. The duo experimented with the idea without success and without management awareness of their efforts until John Spencer—a colleague who had successfully brought a best-selling line of dental floss to the market—joined the effort. Shortly thereafter, the team had a viable product. They sought official sponsorship from the company to take their guitar strings to market. The team had great success: Elixir is a highly regarded brand of guitar strings and was the market leader in sales in 2004, capturing 35 percent of market share.8
Lessons learned
- When permitted to choose their work, employees choose wisely.
- Allow for rapid experimentation by having management and incentive structures support long-term investment.
- Develop systems that help employees navigate the company (for example, small manufacturing facilities, avenues for sponsorship and mentorship) and aid collaboration and performance improvement.
EndnotesView all endnotes
- Great Places to Work Institute, "#8: W. L. Gore & Associates," http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-companies/worlds-best-multinationals/profiles-of-the-winners/8-w-l-gore-a-associates, accessed on March 10, 2013.
- Great Places to Work Institute, "Gore—Success with simplicity," http://resources.greatplacetowork.com/article/pdf/2009-best-company-for-25-years-gore.pdf, accessed on March 10, 2013.
- Gary Hamel, "Innovation democracy: W. L. Gore's original management model," http://www.managementexchange.com/story/innovation-democracy-wl-gores-original-management-model, accessed on March 10, 2013.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, "Gore cited as America's most innovative company," http://www.gore.com/en_xx/news/fastcompany_mostinnovative.html, accessed on May 22, 2013; Martha Mangelsdorf, "The CEO of W. L. Gore & Associates offers insights into how the company has built a culture that fosters innovation," MIT Sloan Management Review, February 13, 2009, http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/, accessed on May 22, 2013.
- Hamel, "Innovation democracy."
- Ibid.


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In 1895 Georges Fouquet took over from his father Alphonse Fouquet, who had founded a jewellery company in 1860. Inspired by collaborators full of new ideas such as Alphonse Mucha and Charles Desrosiers, Fouquet completely transformed the art of jewellery.
He commissioned Mucha to make a number of exceptional items of jewellery, such as a bracelet for Sarah Bernhardt, and entrusted him with decorating his new shop, which opened in 1900 at 6, Rue Royale.
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What is my best bet for owning an inexpensive Tolkien Signature?
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2009/2/2 22:23
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I'd really love to own a tolkien signature (preferably a letter) but the prices I see of what comes accross on ebay is out of my price range.
Does anyone have any advice of what I can do to find a (relatively) affordable Tolkien signature? Or are the prices that show up on ebay representative and I just out of luck?
Posted on: 2010/10/6 13:19
Re: What is my best bet for owning an inexpensive Tolkien Signature?
2006/6/5 22:04
From Essex, England
Posts: 1811
You can ask here about signed items, but you are alerting members to the item and you need to be very careful with Tolkien signatures, so many at the moment are fakes.
Posted on: 2010/10/6 13:53
Re: What is my best bet for owning an inexpensive Tolkien Signature?
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2009/10/30 4:30
Posts: 451
Trotters advise is good and I would be very very careful about buying with so many fakes around. I am afraid to buy Tolkiens signature is a costly business and I dont know of any economical ways around it.
Supply is low , Demand high and thus this will drive prices up.
If you see one cheap (ie certain ebay sellers) then it is fake for sure.
Stick with the books if i were you.
Posted on: 2010/10/7 2:07
Re: What is my best bet for owning an inexpensive Tolkien Signature?
2006/6/5 22:04
From Essex, England
Posts: 1811
I think I need to reiterate here, but J.R.R. Tolkien signed very few items in his lifetime compared to modern authors. There was no concept of signing sessions while J.R.R. Tolkien was alive.
He did however correspond a lot, so there are a lot of letters from Tolkien, but you need to be very careful with these as some individuals seem to find Tolkien's signature very easy to imitate.
A Canadian eBay seller currently has been offering a lot of signed Tolkien items (claims that he is not a dealer so has no idea on authenticity) but with no provenance or refund policy.
I would not buy from any seller who does not offer refunds on signatures, in my experience every reputable dealer will.
Posted on: 2010/10/8 11:47
Edited by Trotter on 2010/10/9 1:25:09
Re: What is my best bet for owning an inexpensive Tolkien Signature?
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2006/6/4 16:49
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Hi Qwiniden -
There is some pretty good advice here. Suggest the following:
(1) Educate yourself about the signature. Read over the many threads here, for instance. Knowing the comments of real experts here could save you disappointment (and a lot of money!)
(2) Educate yourself about the market. As Laurel said, supply and demand dictate the price. The cost of a signed book may be different from that of a significant, hand-written letter. Try to figure out what would make you happy or at least be "good enough."
(3) If the seller won't provide a letter of provenance OR such a letter does not add up, avoid the item. Such a letter is all important to my mind. If it's eBay, check out the seller's feedback and ask the experts here about the item. OK, you will alert others here to the item. But I'd bet that "everyone" already is aware of it. It is, after all, eBay!
(4) Ask LOTS of questions of the seller BEFORE you buy. You would certainly be asking many afterwards if you are unhappy with your purchase. So why not do your homework first?
(5) If eBay is too risky, there are certainly experts here with genuine items for sale. Talk to them (suggest you take such discussions off line once you do.) Let them know what you're interested in, see what they have. If they don't currently have what you are most interested in, perhaps they will in the future.
I don't know that the advice in this thread will get you an inexpensive signature (Trotter's comments stand.) But an inexpensive fake is no bargain! Good Luck!
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Posted on: 2010/10/31 7:29
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3. Throw rugs. Same concept as #2. But I have a hard time throwing away old throw rugs, so now I'm in the process of carpeting my garage.
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Basically, one feature of the program is to read a DXF file and draw the contents on a plane as if the DXF file is set as a texture to the plane. After that the user can add cameras to the plane including each of their viewing frustum (this is one of the features of the program and the cameras and their viewing frustum are rendered as simple boxes and cones respectively) and then later export to DXF. When I export it back to DXF I just want to add the cameras and their frustums (as rectangle and triangles) into the DXF file and keep the rest of the file the same. After reading the writing tutorial from the site (http://www.ribbonsoft.com/doc/dxflib/2. ... iting.html), it seems that I have to set all the data i.e. headers, tables, layers as if I'm doing it from an empty DXF file.
So if I just want to "modify" an existing DXF file, I would have to do it in the following order:
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2.) Create a new DXF file using DL_Dxf::out and get a DL_WriterA object.
3.) Write all data starting from the header until the entities section which I have parsed in step 1
It really seems tedious if all you want is just to "modify" an existing DXF file. Is this the only way to do it?
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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It's before dawn and Stevie Dement is getting ready for a swim, but it's no ordinary dip.
The former professional kickboxer is training for his second triathlon.
"I was trying to think, what can I do ... what can I do to make a change, to be competitive," Stevie said.
Then, he overheard a story about two brothers doing a race together, only one was disabled and had to be carried by his brother.
"When I heard that story, it affected me. It was profound. First thing I thought of was Corbin," Stevie said.
Corbin McKenzie is Stevie's 22-year-old family friend. He's a paraplegic who was born with cerebral palsy.
Corbin works as a popular greeter at the Wheeler Road YMCA.
"I do it to inspire my young kids. I actually coach a baseball team here at The Y and I do it for them so that they can one day see that being disabled is not that bad," he told News 12. "Every day I make a decision to out and get in the chair and make a difference."
"He's an awesome kid, I mean he's one of kind ... I mean, I can't say it enough," Stevie said.
And he decided to bring Corbin along, so he started training.
"That's been about three months ago and ever since I've been doing this and running and biking," Stevie said.
They're calling it The Freedom Experience, and a local company is chronicling their progress on YouTube.
Last month Stevie finished his first triathlon at Clarks Hill and surprised Corbin with the news.
"He didn't know what I was doing, but he knew I was swimming, he knew I was biking and he knew I was running, but he didn't know it was about him. When I got finished I told him, 'Hey Corbin, this is about you,'" he said.
The two share a bond much stronger than many family trees.
"We aren't blood, but we sure do act like it. I love him and he loves me. I never really had a father growing up so Stevie kind of stepped in there and has been the most awesome father figure that anybody could ever ask for," Corbin said.
And this journey is proving to be an emotional one for both Stevie and Corbin.
"I cried, and for a man to cry, it takes a lot, but we both cried," Corbin said.
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And that reason is to see to Corbin light up and get the freedom to do something his body won't let him do alone.
"I'm giving him the opportunity to experience it, but he's giving me the opportunity to spend time with him. He's called me dad for years, he's my boy," Stevie said.
"I love you dad, and I want to thank you for giving me this tremendous opportunity," Corbin told Stevie.
They're still in the training phase here. Stevie has to be able to do so many triathlons on his own before he can bring Corbin along for the ride. Of course, we will be keeping up with the progress.
Corbin will probably be pulled in a raft during the swim, pulled in a chair for the bike and then likely pushed in that chair for the run.
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I just checked atmosphere in philly last night and it was incredible. Much respect to all the artists who came out and ripped it for the crowd not to mention the great shit from dibbs....
Is anyone out there goin to catch sage at swathmore on friday?
The email i sent to the chick in charge was never returned along with some of my friends. If anyone can help me out with a show time or location it would be sweet.....peace
Wed Oct 23, 2002 12:28 pm
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haha i probly saw you at atmosphere last night man. that shit was real good. they had that pit pretty crazy when dibbs was on. im going to swarthmore tomorrow, go on mapquest and just get driving directions to the college or to the town of swarthmore. some kids were handing out flyers for it last night which kinda made me mad because they were probably fake flyers and not approved by anyone at the collage. anyway i dont have any info on it really so sorry. if you make it there ill probly see you and not know who you are...peace
Wed Oct 23, 2002 3:16 pm
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the show starts at 10. Limited space for non-students. It's at the olde club on campus by the tennis courts.
That is all the info I have.
hope it helps.
Wed Oct 23, 2002 3:21 pm
Sage Francis
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Posts: 21790
jesus, you've got more info than me.
these people at Swathmore have been less than pleasant to deal with thusfar
Wed Oct 23, 2002 3:22 pm
Joined: 22 Aug 2002
Posts: 147
Well-I am driving from Va to come up there, so I made sure I got all the info.
It was an ongoing battle for about a month.
I won though.
Wed Oct 23, 2002 3:27 pm
Joined: 17 Jul 2002
Posts: 133
Location: Philadelphia
i was all hyped cause i thought the swarthmore show was tonight. come home to see that its really on friday. BOY DID I FEEL SILLY LAUGH OUT LOUD.
see yall playerz there. ill be in the plaid. tall fat kid. lets kick it.
Wed Oct 23, 2002 4:35 pm
Joined: 19 Sep 2002
Posts: 25
Location: Philly
i'll be dat
yo.....Friday night is gonna be off the hook. Anyone that saw/spoke to at the Atmosphere show (bangin show...slug and dibbs killed it) that kid with orange pants handing out Sage flyers, that was me. The show does start at 10pm but i would recommend arriving early. The show will be packed, and the olde club is a bit compact, but the sound and "atmosphere" of this show will be magical. I spoke to Dos from Parts of Speech at the show last night, he was hyped, im hyped. Sage, swat peeps are difficult but and less than appreciative. I will be setting up the decks around 5pm or so, if u need help/directions from newark etc message me, i have been in close contact with caroline, she asked me to help her out. Hope to see you all there,
Josh Langsam aka Dj Cabell
Haverford College
oh yeah and Aerosal215, those flyers were not only the official flyers, they are the only flyers, I made them to get city heads to come and make the show live.
Wed Oct 23, 2002 5:42 pm
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Posts: 7
Sage---I've given you directions multiple times! I've told you repeatedly that I'm the person organizing it. I am more than happy to answer your questions and I told you weeks ago to change the contact e-mail. Come on now, I hardly think I've been uncooperative.
Olde Club (the venue) is near our tennis courts. It is connected to another building by a bridgelike structure. We are about 11 miles away from Philly.
Show starts at 10 PM. Come early, the place is small and a lot of people are expected to come. You pay $5 at the door and you are then marked. It's first come, first serve---with the exception of Swarthmore students. Students will be admitted ahead of others if they come before 10.
My e-mail address is
. I also posted here last week. Feel free to ask questions.
Directions to the college are here:
Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:15 pm
Joined: 13 Aug 2002
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Location: The 2-1 Nickle, Philadelphia
That Atmosphere show was absolutely ridiculous. I saw you with the flyers, my girl was bout to chase you down, but I figured I'd see you later. After the Sage show on Friday, I'm definitely trying to meet some local cats,(Philly, and that general PA area) because I met some at Atmos, and I'm trying to get a show together sometime next month. I'm probably bringing a bunch of demo CDs to Sage. So I'm hopin to meet some of y'all there. Did anyone hear about all that beef with Arrakis and Dej Jux, when El-P rolled around? Is there any truth to that? Anyways, Peace
Wed Oct 23, 2002 8:29 pm
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Location: Reading, PA
don't pick on caroline! :(
Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:23 pm
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Caroline. You gave me directions...to your college. THEN WHAT?
now I know...but just for the record this is the ONLY information you gave me up until now:
Merge onto I-95 S. 164.47 miles 12: Take the I-95 S/CROSS BRONX EXP/I-678 S exit- exit number 6A- towards GEO WASHINGTON BR/WHITESTONE BR. 0.16 miles 13: Keep LEFT at the fork in the ramp. 0.56 miles 14: Merge onto CROSS BRONX EXWY. 5.41 miles 15: Take LOWER LEVEL GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE. 0.81 miles 16: LOWER LEVEL GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE becomes US-9 S. 0.75 miles 17: Take NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE S towards RT-4. 0.09 miles 18: Take NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE S towards RT-17/GARDEN STATE PARKWAY/I-80. 0.11 miles 19: Take NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE S towards I-80/GARDEN STATE PARKWAY. 0.15 miles 20: Merge onto NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE S (Portions toll). 69.77 miles 21: Take the exit- exit number 6- towards PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE. 1.06 miles 22: Merge onto NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE EXT (Portions toll). 5.19 miles 23: NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE EXT becomes PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE W (Portions toll). 24.75 miles 24: Take the I-476/NORTHEAST EXTENSION EXITS 31 - 131 exit- exit number 333- towards ALLENTOWN/PHILADELPHIA/CHESTER/EXIT S 31 - 131. 0.24 miles 25: Keep LEFT at the fork in the ramp. 0.25 miles 26: Merge onto PENNSYLVANIA TPKE NORTHEAST EXT (Portions toll). 0.47 miles 27: PENNSYLVANIA TPKE NORTHEAST EXT becomes I-476 S (Portions toll). 16.27 miles 28: Take the exit- exit number 3- towards SWARTHMORE/MEDIA. 0.24 miles 29: Keep LEFT at the fork in the ramp. 0.04 miles 30: Turn LEFT onto E BALTIMORE PIKE E. 0.60 miles 31: Turn RIGHT onto N SWARTHMORE AVE. 0.12 miles 32: N SWARTHMORE AVE becomes N SWARTHMORE AVE/PA-320. 0.11 miles 33: Turn RIGHT onto N CHESTER RD/PA-320. 0.31 miles 34: Turn RIGHT onto COLLEGE AVE.
Here are directions to the college from Jersey:
>From the New Jersey Turnpike
Take Exit 6 (PA Turnpike) and proceed as directed above "From Pennsylvania
Turnpike, going West."
>From Pennsylvania Turnpike, going West
>From Exit 25A (Norristown) follow signs for I-476 South. Stay on I-476
approx. 17 miles to Exit 3, Swarthmore/Media. At bottom of exit ramp, follow
sign for Swarthmore by turning left onto Baltimore Pike. (See below
for ". . . the rest of the way.")
>From Pennsylvania Turnpike, going East
>From Exit 24 (Valley Forge) take I-76 East (Schuylkill Expressway) about 2
1/2 miles to I-476 South. Take I-476 approx. 13 miles to Exit 3,
Media/Swarthmore. At bottom of exit ramp, follow sign for Swarthmore by
turning left onto Baltimore Pike.
Stay in right lane and in less than 1/4 mile turn right onto Route 320 South
(watch turns on Route 320). Proceed through second light at College Avenue to
the first driveway on your right to visitor parking at the Benjamin West
House. The Benjamin West House is the College's visitor center and has
someone there to hand out maps and directions 24 hours a day.
Wed Oct 23, 2002 10:37 pm
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Posts: 7
Stay in right lane and in less than 1/4 mile turn right onto Route 320 South
(watch turns on Route 320). Proceed through second light at College Avenue to the first driveway on your right to visitor parking at the Benjamin West House. The Benjamin West House is the College's visitor center and has someone there to hand out maps and directions 24 hours a day.
There are people here in the Benjamin West House who can tell you how to get to Olde Club. From the Benjamin West House, turn onto Chester Avenue and head towards the bridge going towards a pink neon sign that says "Michael's". Then, make a sharp left at the first intersection after the bridge. Soon after that, you make another left past the train station and into the South Entrance (there is a sign that says it's the South Entrance). Go straight and down a little bridge and make a right past the tennis courts. Once you do, look for Olde Club---you'll see an arched pathway connecting it to another building and you'll probably hear loud music blasting.
I think these are decent directions. Let me know if you need more details.
Dos Noun is opening for you as well as Josh aka DJ Cabell (a friend from Haverford). You'll be on about midnight.
Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:45 pm
Joined: 17 Jul 2002
Posts: 133
Location: Philadelphia
Shit, Cabell is hella close. I got to haverford high school. YALL CANT STOP ME. those directions look hella confusing. Ill figure it out though. Ill prolly be there alone cause i dont have any friends.
Thu Oct 24, 2002 4:37 pm
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Posts: 133
Location: Philadelphia
cabell you wanna give me a ride bro.
Thu Oct 24, 2002 8:35 pm
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Posts: 222
see you suckas tonight
hopefully nobody rear-ends me at a red light tonight
i was real pissed i missed last night's show
Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:17 pm
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Nicholls State University will hold commencement ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today on the Thibodaux campus.
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Jake Ullman, a transfer from Belpre in his first start for the Crusaders, notched a game-high 27 points, including 21 in the first half. Joe Padden tallied eight of his 10 points in the second half for PC, which plays another home game tonight with defending Class A state champion Charleston Catholic providing the opposition at 7:30 p.m.
For the Fighting Irish (0-1), 6-foot-4 Cal Cistaro led the way with 25 points and Colby Abruzzino added 11.
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Clarksburg Notre Dame's Cal Cistaro passes to a teammate as he is cut off from the basket by Parkersburg Catholic's Jake Boice, left, and Benjamin Collie. Catholic defeated the Irish, 60-46.
In the final minute of a nip-and-tuck first quarter, Ullman fed Austin Luther on a break to snap a 10-10 tie with 47 seconds left before Ullman scored in the lane at 11.8 seconds to give Catholic a 14-10 edge going to the second period.
A 6-0 mini-run early in the second quarter propelled PC into an eight-point lead, 20-12, at the 6:22 mark. An Ullman trey from the corner at 3:22 made it a 10-point gap, 27-17, although that margin shrank to 32-27 by halftime as Notre Dame outscored the Crusaders 10-5 in the last 3:12 of the first half.
The third quarter opened with Cistaro scoring inside twice to make it just a one-point game at 32-31. But Catholic went on a 13-3 burst over the final 5:16 of the period to surge in front by 11, 45-34. Brady Kurucz's two hoops started the run, Padden followed with a trey and then a drive right down the middle of the lane for a bucket, and Ben Collie and Payton Sturm finished the PC barrage with last-minute field goals - Sturm's coming off a loose-ball pickup for a layup with 56.2 seconds remaining.
Catholic built a 52-38 advantage with 2:44 to play, although the Fighting Irish did come within 10 three times in the last 2:10 of the game.
''I thought we played really well for it being our first game,'' said Catholic second-year head coach Rob Strcula. ''The first half, though, was better than the second. We can't get away tomorrow night with some of the things we did or didn't do in the second half tonight.''
On Ullman's first game in a Catholic uniform, ''he played very well,'' said Strcula. ''And then in the second half, Joe (Padden) really came on. So it's nice to have two guys like that on the floor. They compliment each other very well.''


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Nohr wrote:projectpuffindiscman wrote: until i see more than the 10 or so people (that actually do some work on the courses )get anything done all everybody has is GREAT IDEAS! get off yer ass and do some work, regardless of who sees you do it. then they might agree to some major work. until then........pfffft
Well if there was 10 now there is going to be 11. I didn't do jack crap last year but pick up a little garbage. This year I would like to get a little more involved and give back to the courses I like so much.
There seems to be a lot of negative attitude going on in here. Sorry If I touched a nerve or something. I am just trying to get a group of people together to get some stuff done on local courses.
I was extremely frustrated last year when the call went out to help clean up jones before the team championships. I thought this was a perfect time to get people together and clean the course. Instead it was suggested that individuals just go out and do it.
I am actually jealous of Iowa City. I see them post things about work nights and stuff. I want to do some of that stuff. And next year I am going to try to help out down there also.
I have lived in Cedar Rapids for under 2 years. I was lucky enough to do some diggin and found the local scene. I still think it is hard for a new person that wants to get involved to find the right people.
And finally if you disagree with me just remember you are probably a better disc golfer than me. So you got that going for ya.
not trying to be negative dustin. i appreciate yer help and glad to see more people want to do something about it. im not pretending to get on an ivory tower or high horse. i suck, ask anybody that's seen me putt. and im not pretending to be the guy that does all the work. i've put in some hours but it pails in comparison to the work others have done. but after about 10-12 years being on the course i dont know how many times ive heard people say how they wanna help but come time to do it they are nowhere to be seen. i look forward to seeing ya this spring. for now im on offseason knee surgery rehab. i'll be hiding till doom!