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This is a tale of two Silicon Valley startups, one classic and one quirky.
LensVector and Kwedit both happen to be based in Mountain View and both came out of stealth mode early this month. More striking is the way these companies, each in its own way, exemplify the valley's capacity for innovation and resilience against economic trouble.
LensVector embodies the tech mantra of smaller, faster, cheaper, better. It is touting a "breakthrough" solid-state technology, about the size of an infant's fingernail, that can replace the bulky, breakable mechanical autofocus now common in the burgeoning micro-camera market. LensVector is ramping up to serve an industry that in 2012 is expected to ship 2 billion micro-cameras in mobile phones, laptops and other devices.
Kwedit, which offers a payment system for virtual goods bought online, exemplifies the valley's knack for novel business models — "the world's first intentionally unreliable payment system," as founder Danny Shader oddly boasts. With his frequent references to "Kwedit reports" and "Kwedit ratings," Shader can sound like Elmer Fudd channeling a sly wacky wabbit.
LensVector and Kwedit are riding separate but simultaneous waves of innovation, one in cutting-edge electronics and the other in Internet commerce.
"They're hard-core," Shader said of LensVector. Rather than label Kwedit as "soft-core," he offered a distinction by area code: "We're closer to 415 and they're closer to 408." While San Francisco is a fount of online content, "the closer you get to San Jose, the closer you get to chips," Shader said.
LensVector's roots reach to Quebec's Laval University and Professor Tigran Galstian's research into "tunable liquid crystal lens technology." Galstian showed how voltage applied to a liquid crystal cell could control the rotation of molecules to achieve a refractive index akin to a mechanical lens.
In 2005, Galstian's work caught the eye of Thomas Killick, former director of business development at Precision Optical Systems, who was scouting for an upgrade to the nonproprietary mechanical autofocus that added size, weight, cost and fragility to micro-cameras. Killick teamed up with Derek Proudian, who previously had been the CEO of four tech companies, to try to turn the raw technology into a mass-market product. Proudian, Killick and Galstian are LensVector's co-founders, with Galstian running a research-and-development team in Quebec.
Proudian's first task as CEO was to quietly orchestrate early funding from Menlo Ventures while securing patent licenses from Laval. For nearly four years, LensVector shrouded itself in secrecy, wary of potential imitators as it improved the technology and quietly forged alliances with Samsung and Kodak. A couple of years ago, the company dared to erect its "LensVector" sign on Leghorn Street, but Proudian wasn't worried about blowing its cover. "People might think we made eyeglasses, like LensCrafters," he said.
LensVector had grown to about 100 employees when, on Feb. 4, it unveiled its technology and announced $30 million in new funding, bringing its total financing to $50 million. Samsung said it expects to ship products equipped with LensVector autofocus later this year. LensVector will initially do its manufacturing in the valley, Proudian said, in a facility capable of producing 60 million units a year.
"This is a classic Silicon Valley story of taking a superior technology and applying it to a large, rapidly growing market," said Norm Fogelsong of Institutional Venture Partners, which led the recent funding. He envisions wide adoption of the technology as camera phones continue to proliferate. "Somebody said the best camera is the one you have at the time," he said.
LensVector plans to move from autofocus to other mechanical components on cameras, include the shutter and iris (or F stop). "Leading the revolution in solid-state optics" is the company's advertising tagline.
Kwedit's approach might be called semi-stealthy. Shader, like Proudian, is a seasoned tech executive. In the dot-com boom, he led Accept.com, a consumer-to-consumer payment system that Amazon acquired in 1999, and later he led Good Technology, which Motorola acquired in 2007.
As online games quickly spawned a $1 billion "virtual goods" industry, Shader sensed an opportunity within the so-called "freemium" business model common among game publishers. While most people play for free, a small percentage of ardent players pay for upgrades and digital doodads, typically through PayPal, credit cards or pre-paid cards.
Kwedit, whose terms of service require users be age 13 and older, hopes to entice a potentially large market of people without credit cards to "play now, pay later." The system continues to extend "Kwedit" to those who make good on their promises, paying by mail or at 7-Eleven, and cuts off those who don't.
Kwedit also enables users to pass their obligations to another party — most likely from a teenager to a parent. One of its virtues, Shader said, is its ability to teach the credit process to teenagers.
Shader spent about a year building Kwedit. He raised $3 million, led by True Ventures, and described his idea to dozens of potential customers and investors who signed nondisclosure agreements. Shader said he was not concerned so much about potential copycats as a desire to control expectations.
Kwedit launched Feb. 3 on the games FooPets and Puzzle Pirates. Cash is already coming in at a pace three times his own expectations, Shader said, and contracts with other publishers are in the works.
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Markets Hub: More Drug Makers, Less Shirt Makers
Stock investors should trim positions in the market's priciest corners, like apparel, and look for bargain spots, including drugs. Jack Hough discusses on Markets Hub.
In his Ahead of the Crowd column at Barron's, Hough says:
With U.S. stocks trading near five-year highs, it's a good time for investors to turn cautious on the market's priciest corners. That means selling out of cigarettes, polo shirts, hotels and more.
A recent report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch sizes up U.S. stocks by industry using three measures of fundamental value — book value, cash flow and earnings — with data going back to 1986. Some trouble spots: Textile, apparel and luxury goods companies could lose anywhere from 26% based on earnings to 51% based on book value. Real estate investment trusts could lose 32% to 38%; hotels, 12% to 40%; and electric utilities, 13% to 27%. Tobacco could lose more than 34%.
Bargain hunters, meanwhile, should buy into drugs, software and energy equipment, all of which are pricing in double-digit gains.
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The growth of Big Data has, in many ways, come as a result of changes in the way we use the Internet. Today's Internet is as much a repository of data as it is a way for individuals and organizations to connect with others. As this change has taken place, changes have also come to how businesses keep up with storing all of that data and making it available wherever its personnel need it.
The old days
Not that long ago adding storage space to an enterprise meant adding devices and adding media with larger capacities. Hard drives, tape drives, optical media, USB drives and even the old faithful floppy disk provided additional storage. The tech has improved over the years, adding to capacity – as well as demand.
Moving to the cloud
There has been a definite yet slow shift toward cloud-based storage in the past few years. Companies haven't been able to add storage technology quick enough, so they outsource it to the Internet. Many businesses have a patchwork storage configuration, with bits hidden here and there, all more or less connected via various devices and cloud services.
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This patchwork creates vulnerability, which is something Unitiv understands. Unitiv recognizes the trend, and has partnered with a full suite of storage manufacturers to fit just about any organization. No matter what applications you need to integrate, no matter your infrastructure, Unitiv can make it work.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Isomorphic Software will exhibit at DevOps Summit at 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Isomorphic Software provides the SmartClient HTML5/AJAX platform, the most advanced technology for building rich, cutting-edge enterprise web applications for desktop and mobile. SmartClient combines the productivity and performance of traditional desktop software with the simp...
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The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CTO/CIO at nfrastructure, outlined these key challenges and recommended approaches for overcoming them to achieve speed and agility in the design, development and implementation of Internet of Everything solutions wi...
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DevOps at Cloud Expo – being held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Am...
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Google is planning to give its photo service more autonomy from its Google+ social network as the company looks to attract more users, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The move would enable the photo service to stand more independently and be accessible for consumers who aren't part of Google+, potentially spurring more growth, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren't public. The service, called Google+ Photos, would still work with the social network's users and may be rebranded as part of the move, one of the people said.
The world's largest search engine, grappling with competition from Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo, is freeing up services from Google+ after spending the past few years encouraging visitors to sign up for the social network. Google earlier this week enabled the social network's Hangouts videoconferencing feature to work for some business customers who aren't members of Google+.
Google+ is evolving after the departure earlier this year of top executive Vic Gundotra, who had led the social effort and made it a key part of getting more people to sign into the services provided by the Mountain View-based company.
"Over here in our darkroom, we're always developing new ways for people to snap, share and say cheese," Google said in an e-mailed statement without commenting specifically on any plans for separating out the photo service.
While the extent of a separation is unclear, more autonomy could give Google+ Photos more freedom to take on rivals. Facebook, which acquired mobile photo-sharing service Instagram in 2012, has given the business independence within the company.
Google's photo feature had been a key part of Gundotra's effort to get Web surfers onto Google+. In October, the company introduced new features for enhancing and editing photos and videos. Gundotra said at the event that Google was "looking at doing nothing less than revolutionizing the feel of photography."
At the time, the company said it had more than 500 million users on the social service and that more than 1.5 billion photos are uploaded to Google+ every week. Facebook continues to lead the social-networking market with more than 1 billion members.
Google+'s photo service has various features, including storing and sharing images that can be accessed whenever someone is connected to the Internet. It also automatically backs up photos and provides tools for enhancements or effects of images.


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I would like to know if there is a version of pms for raspberry or a way to compile it on this arm board. Is it able to transcode on-the-fly mkv movies for PS3?
I got a ModelB with 512MB with raspbian wheezy and last rpi firmware.
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I would just like to say thank you for making such an awesome program! The only thing it seems to be lacking is playlist functionality. Since files are stored remotely the PS3 can't make or create playlist it self. So i found a way around it using windows media player. I made a sub-folder of playlist files in M3U format that WMP manages. The PS3 reads the M3u files, locates them and plays them. Windows Media Player is only used as a M3U text editor so no service protocols are required on it's part. Here's how to set it up.
1) Create a sub-folder you can access easily from your PS3. Name it something like !Playlist so it sits on top all folders.
2) Create M3U files within the !Playlist folder by adding .TXT files named after each playlist. Then just change the file extension to .M3U.
3) These .M3U files must be added to Windows Media Player so make sure you add the !playlist folder to your library. After you share them they will show up as playlist and the files/.M3U will update dynamically like any other playlist.
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"The Munsters" won't get new life on NBC after all.
The network has decided not to go ahead with "Mockingbird Lane," which was shepherded by Bryan Fuller ("Pushing Daisies").
"I tweet with a heavy heart," Fuller said on Thursday. "NBC not moving forward with #MockingbirdLane. From producers and cast, thank you all for enthusiasm and support."
The pilot -- which NBC aired as a pre-Halloween special -- drew 5.4 million total viewers and a 1.5 rating, giving the network its best demo in the 8 p.m. Friday slot in two years. After its debut, TVLine readers gave the sneak peek an average grade of "B+" in our poll.
So, what's the problem?
The modernized Munster family featured "The Defenders"' Jerry O'Connell as Frankenstein-ish Herman, "Arrested Development"'s Portia de Rossi as his vampire wife Lily, "Spy Kids: All The Time in the World 4D"'s Mason Cook as their budding werewolf son Eddie, British actress Charity Wakefield as cousin Marilyn (aka the normal one) and "The Riches"' Eddie Izzard as the ravenous Grandpa.
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A Graveside Service was held Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 2 P.M. at Gridley-Biggs Cemetery for Harlan Delbert Lee, 89 of Gridley, California. He passed away Thursday, March 29, 2012 at Gridley Health Care and Wellness Center in Gridley.
Harlan was born September 6, 1922 in Solway, Minnesota. He was a long time resident of Gridley having worked for Butte County Mosquito Abatement. He loved his Lord and had a strong relationship with Him. He served in the US Army during WWII. Harlan was a member of Lighthouse Tabernacle in Gridley.
He was preceded in death by two wives: Bernice Lee and Jeannie Jordan; one son, Michael Lee, one daughter, Barbara Lee; his parents; two brothers: Dennis Lee and Alvin Lee and one grandson, Jason Lee.
Harlan is survived by one son, Kenneth (Wanda) Lee, of Colusa, California and one daughter, Karen Lee, of Oroville, California. He is also survived by one sister, Opal Williams, of Indiana and one granddaughter, Jennifer Ochoa, of Texas and two great-grandchildren.
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POSITION: Defenseman
SHOOTS: Right
BIRTHPLACE: Edmonton, AB, CAN
DRAFTED: CGY: 1996-13 overall
|WHL East First All-Star Team (1997) NHL All-Rookie Team (1998) Traded to Colorado by Calgary with Jeff Shantz and Dean McAmmond for Chris Drury and Stephane Yelle, October 1, 2002. Traded to Phoenix by Colorado with Keith Ballard for Ossi Vaananen, Chris Gratton and Phoenix's 2nd round pick (Paul Stastny) in 2005 NHL Draft, March 9, 2004. Traded to NY Rangers by Phoenix for Dmitri Kalinin, Nigel Dawes and Petr Prucha, March 4, 2009. Signed as a free agent by Boston, July 25, 2009. Traded to Phoenix by Boston for Phoenix's 3rd round pick (Anthony Camera) in 2011 NHL Draft, March 3, 2010.
|2012-13 Highlights
Played in 39 games and registered 11 assists and 36 PIM...Ranked second on the team in blocked shots (69) and third in hits (92)...Ranked second on the team in shifts/game (28.4) and third in TOI/game (21:23)...Missed nine games with injuries...Skated in a season-high 26:22 vs. DET, Apr. 4...Recorded his 100th career assist with PHX at LAK, Mar. 19...Posted a season-high five shots and had an assist vs. DAL, Feb. 2...Collected his 400th career NHL point (0-1-1) vs. NSH, Jan. 28...Had a three-game assist streak from Jan. 20-24.
2011-12 Highlights
Played in 59 games recording 2-9-11…Had 78 blocked shots…Played in his 1,000th career NHL game vs. STL, Mar. 25…Scored his second goal of the season and skated a season-high 27:25 at SJS, Mar. 24…Scored his first goal of the season at DAL, Feb. 7…Recorded 0-2-2 at BUF, Nov. 19…Blocked four shots at TOR, Nov. 15…Collected an assist in a 3-2 OT victory vs. LAK, Oct. 29…2012 Playoffs: Third among Coyotes defensemen in scoring with 2-4-6 in 16 postseason games…Had a plus-4 rating and 24 penalty minutes…First on the team in shifts/g (32.3) and second in TOI/g (22:49)…Led the team in blocked shots (36)…Played in all five games of the WCF against LAK and notched 1-1-2 in Game 1, May 12…Appeared in all five games of the WCSF against NSH…Scored a goal in Game 5 vs. NSH, May 7…Appeared in all six games of the WCQF against CHI…Led the team in blocked shots (24) in the WCQF…Collected an assist in Game 2 vs. CHI, Apr. 14.
2010-11 Highlights
Recorded 5-11-16 in 77 games…Led the team in blocked shots (136)…Third in TOI/g (21:03)…Collected his 300th career NHL assist vs. SJS, Mar. 26…Recorded fifth goal of the season vs. CBJ, Mar. 25…Led the team in TOI (25:32) at NSH, Feb. 19…Scored the GWG at CBJ, Jan. 11…Played in his 900th career NHL game at DAL, Dec. 26…Posted a season-high 30:07 TOI vs. FLA, Dec. 4…Blocked six shots at CGY, Nov. 17…Scored his first goal of the season at MTL, Oct. 25…2011 Playoffs: Did not play due to injury.
2009-10 Highlights
Finished with 4-25-29 in a total of 76 games with PHX and BOS…Registered 1-3-4 in 18 games with the Coyotes after being acquired from BOS on Mar. 3 for his second stint with the team…Finished with his highest assist/point totals since 2003-04…Scored his first goal after returning to the Coyotes on vs. COL, Mar. 27…Registered 3-22-25 in 58 games with BOS prior to trade…Collected two assists at TBL, Feb. 11…Notched a goal and an assist at PIT, Nov. 14…Compiled a three-game point streak (1-4-5) from Oct. 21-24…Scored his first goal as a Bruin at PHI, Oct. 22…Played his 800th career NHL game on Oct. 17 at PHX…Recorded his first points as a Bruin with two power-play assists vs. CAR, Oct. 3…2010 Playoffs: Appeared in all seven playoff games vs. DET, recording 1-3-4 and 11 penalty minutes…Scored the GWG and collected two assists in Game 1 vs. DET, Apr. 14, for a playoff career high three points.
2008-09 Highlights
Began the season with PHX, recording 5-7-12 in 57 games prior to being traded to the NYR in exchange for Petr Prucha, Nigel Dawes and Dmitri Kalinin on Mar. 4…Collected eight assists in 18 games with the NYR…Had four multi-point games on the season…Collected two assists at PHI, Apr. 12…Picked up his first point in a Rangers uniform with an assist vs. BOS, Mar. 8…Recorded a goal and an assist vs. DET, Jan. 20…Matched his career-best with a four-game point streak (2-3-5) from Nov. 28-Dec. 4…Had his consecutive-games played streak snapped at 203 when he missed three games with an injury from Nov. 22-26…2009 Playoffs: Appeared in all seven of the Rangers' playoff games vs. WSH, collecting two assists.
2007-08 Highlights
Ended the season having played in 185 consecutive games dating back to 2005-06…Recorded 8-17-25 and 83 PIM in 82 games with the Coyotes…Ranked second on the team in plus/minus (plus-8), TOI/g (21:42) and third in blocked shots (115)…Won the Coyotes Man of the Year Award and Beth Champie Booster Club Award…Registered a season-high three points (1-2-3) at EDM, Mar. 18…Played in his 700th career NHL game at CHI, Feb. 27…Collected a goal in back-to-back games on Feb. 19 and Feb. 22…Registered two assists vs. CHI, Jan. 3…Scored a goal vs. TOR to record his 300th career NHL point, Nov. 24.
2006-07 Highlights
In his ninth NHL season was one of two Coyotes players to appear in all 82 games…Finished with 6-19-25…Ranked tied for second among Coyotes defenseman in goals (6)…Tied his career high with 115 penalty minutes, which ranked third on the team…Also ranked tied for third in power-play assists (10), third in blocked shots (82), fourth in TOI/g (20:29) and fifth in hits (77)…Picked up the GWG and an assist vs. VAN, Apr. 8…Played in his 600th career NHL game at COL, Jan. 17…Had a three-game point streak (1-2-3) from Dec. 14-21…Scored a goal in a win vs. NJD, Nov. 22…Scored a goal and was a plus-4 vs. NYI, Oct. 5.
2005-06 Highlights
Played 53 games with the Coyotes, recording 6-21-27 and 54 penalty minutes…Missed 29 games due to injury during season…Finished season with six multi-point games…Registered 3-6-9 over last 10 games of season…Posted a goal and assist in 5-4 win at SJS, Dec. 28…Scored GWG in OT and collected an assist in 4-3 win at EDM, Oct. 18…Recorded first point of season with assist and played 23:44 TOI vs. NSH, Oct. 13.
2003-04 Highlights
Collected 6-26-32 and 49 penalty minutes with COL and PHX in 83 games…Joined the Coyotes at the trade deadline from COL…Played in 14 games with PHX, recording 0-4-4…Averaged 25:02 TOI with PHX, an increase of 4:09 per game after joining the Coyotes…Led the NHL (along with Calgary's Marcus Nilson) in games played with 83, a career high…Finished second among Coyotes defensemen in scoring…Ranked fifth on the Coyotes in scoring and assists; third in shots (167); and fourth in average TOI (21:35)…Played in four games in four different cities in four different states/provinces and two countries in four days (Mar. 7 – COL vs. CGY in Denver; Mar. 8 – COL vs. VAN in Vancouver; Mar. 9 – PHX vs. LAK in Los Angeles; Mar. 10 – PHX vs. LAK in Glendale)…Recorded an assist in his Coyotes debut at LAK, Mar. 9…Played his 500th NHL Game at CGY, Mar. 31…Played in 69 games with COL, registering 6-22-28 and 47 PIM…At the time of his trade, ranked fourth on Avalanche in average TOI and second among Avs defensemen in points and shots…With COL, registered a single-game career high with 1-3-4 at SJS, Nov. 11.
2002-03 Highlights
Prior to the start of the season, traded to COL from CGY with Jeff Shantz and Dean McAmmond for Chris Drury and Stephane Yelle, Oct. 1, 2002…Set career highs in goals (11), assists (37), points (48), PPGS (9), GWGS (7) and plus/minus (plus-16)…Finished tied for seventh in scoring among NHL defensemen…Also ranked first in GWGS, tied for third in PPGS, tied for eighth in assists and shots, and tied for 12th in goals among NHL defensemen…Finished tied for 11th in the NHL in GWGS…Led COL in GWGS and finished second in PPGS…Ranked third on Avalanche in TOI/g (23:49) and shots; fourth in assists; sixth in points and plus/minus…Led Avalanche defensemen in assists and points; tied for second in goals…Nine of his 11 goals came on power-play…Tied his career high four-game point streak (1-4-5) from Nov. 12-17…Missed seven games with an injury…Following the injury, collected 6-13-19, including four GWGS in his last 28 games…200th NHL point at DET, Mar. 15…400th career NHL game vs. PIT, Mar. 1…2003 Playoffs: Made his NHL playoff debut, registering three assists in seven games…Ranked tied for second on team in assists and third in average TOI (22:44).
2001-02 Highlights
In his final season with CGY, recorded 4-30-34…Despite playing in only 61 games, ranked second on team in shots, third in power-play points (2-19-21), tied for third in assists and fourth in points…Led Flames defensemen in assists and points…Recorded the second highest assist total of his career…Tied his career high in penalty minutes…Led CGY in average TOI (24:40)…Missed 21 games due to injury.
2000-01 Highlights
Missed the first 31 games of the season due to contract negotiations, agreed to terms on Nov. 29 and played in his first game on Dec. 13…Finished the season with 5-23-28 in only 51 games…Ranked 11th in the NHL in average TOI with 25:51, a career high…Led Flames defensemen in goals; ranked second in assists and points…Finished tied for third on team in GWGS; fourth in shots and fifth in assists.
1999-2000 Highlights
Recorded 9-29-38 in 78 games with CGY…Ranked 21st among NHL defensemen in scoring…Finished second among Flames defensemen in goals, assists and points…Led the team in average TOI (24:51)…Ranked third on team in shots, tied for fourth in plus/minus and fifth in assists and points…Missed four games due to injury…100th NHL point at STL, Apr. 5.
1998-99 Highlights
Finished second among Flames defensemen in goals, assists and points…Tied for third on the team in assists, fifth in shots and sixth in points and plus/minus…Missed 10 games due to injury.
1997-98 Highlights
In his first NHL season was one of only two Flames to play in all 82 games…Named to the 1998 NHL All-Rookie Team…Led Flames defensemen in goals and points; second in assists…Ranked second in scoring among NHL rookie defensemen…One of two rookies to score a shorthanded goal during the season…Ranked second among NHL rookies in shorthanded points with 1-2-3…Ranked third among rookies and first among rookie defensemen with 5 PPGS.
1996-97 Highlights
Made his professional debut playing in seven regular season games and five playoff games with Saint John (AHL)…Led all WHL defensemen in scoring with 75 points…Earned WHL East First All-Star Team Honors…Selected to play in the 1997 WHL All-Star Game…Named WHL Player of the Month for January, recording 20 points in 15 games.
1995-96 Highlights
Named Regina Pats Rookie of the Year, finishing second in scoring among Pats defensemen.
1994-95 Highlights
Voted Best Defenseman at the 1995 Air Canada Cup midget tournament while playing with the Red Deer Midgets.
International Career
2004: Helped lead Canada to a gold medal at the IIHF World Championship in Prague, Czech Republic, collecting 0-5-5 in nine games…Ranked tied for fifth in defensemen scoring…2001: Played in seven games for Canada at the IIHF World Championship in Germany, recording 1-1-2…1999: Represented Team Canada at the IIHF World Championship in Norway and collected four assists in 10 games.
Derek and his wife Jodie have three sons: Traiten, Presley and Asher…Spends his summers in the Valley and trains at Athletes Performance Institute in Tempe…His charity of choice is the Epilepsy Association…Likes watching baseball and playing with his kids in the off-season…His childhood hockey hero was Paul Coffey…Is a big fan of Mike Myers and his "Austin Powers" movies…Loves the outdoors and his hobbies include hunting, fishing, golfing, softball and motor biking…His favorite vacation spot is Maui…His favorite band is Metallica…His first job was at a Jet Ski rental shop…His favorite TV show is CSI Miami…His favorite movie is "Shawshank Redemption"…His most memorable NHL moment was his first game…Began skating at age four…Nickname is "Mo".


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Gold Prices Face That Old Sinking Feeling
Old Yeller can't catch a break these days.
Gold fell to a six-month low on Wednesday, as the precious metal tumbled below $1600 an ounce amid continued worries that the Fed will start pulling back on stimulus sooner than expected. Minutes from the Fed's most recent policy-setting meeting are scheduled to be released this afternoon.
Gold has dropped almost 5% this month even as the Fed has been buying $85 billion a month in Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities in an effort to spur the economy. But as questions continue to arise about what the Fed will do next, traders are selling now and asking questions later.
"The way I look at it is that the market anticipated all of the easing we are seeing now months in advance," Michael Sacchitello, a technical analyst at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates, said in a chat with MarketBeat. "While I remain a long-term bull on gold prices, I have also come to the realization that gold prices may be locked in a corrective cycle for quite some time."
Gold recently fell 1.4% to $1581.50. He suggests the precious metal faces "worst-case potential" of falling to a range between $1450 and $1550.
What's more, gold is also set to enter what has typically been a tough month for returns. As the chart from Sacchitello shows, gold has averaged about a 2% decline in the month of March since 2000, the worst performing month of the year.
The precious metal has also dipped below its 200-day moving average and, as we noted last week, is on the verge of a death cross, a technical development that could portend more losses ahead.
"A downward sloping 200-day moving average confirms that the long-term price trend has in fact turned lower, which…offers prices greater potential to overshooting to the downside," Sacchitello says.
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A Maine man who lived 27 years in the woods as a hermit is out of jail.
A records officer at Kennebec County Jail said Friday that 47-year-old Christopher Knight was released earlier this month after having served about 7 months.
Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of burglary and theft and was admitted into a special court program last month.
District Attorney Maeghan Maloney says she cannot release any details specific to Knight in the program.
Knight's lawyer says he has not been in contact with him since his release.
Police have said Knight may have been responsible for up to 1,000 burglaries of food, clothing, camping and cooking gear from homes and camps while living in the woods before his April arrest.


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from Catalogs To Commercials To Cover-only Mandates For Top Fashion Bibles, The Ascent Of Kate Upton Has Been Anything But Ordinary. Now, Set To Appear Alongside Cameron Diaz And Leslie Mann In This Spring's Revenge Comedy The Other Woman, The First Supermodel To Become A Household Name In A Decade Is Bracing Herself For Hollywood Stardom. Only In America
from Catalogs To Commercials To Cover-only Mandates For Top Fashion Bibles, The Ascent Of Kate Upton Has Been Anything But Ordinary. Now, Set To Appear Alongside Cameron Diaz And Leslie Mann In This Spring's Revenge Comedy The Other Woman, The First Supermodel To Become A Household Name In A Decade Is Bracing Herself For Hollywood Stardom. Only In America
Photography: Inez & Vinoodh
Styling: Nicola Formichetti
Text: Horacio Silva
Kate Upton may be one of the most desirable women on the planet, a crossover star who has successfully made the leap from the salt mines of modeling to the high-fashion arena, but don't hate her because she is beautiful.
As Upton explains, with made-for-talk-show candor that belies her usual perky self, catalog modeling is not as easy as it appears, and her journey from nowhere to everywhere has come at a price.
Sort of. "I now suffer from Catalog Tourette's," says the 21-year-old Michigan-born sexplosion, in a cheeky attempt at deadpan that quickly dissolves into a hearty chortle. "I can switch a pose like it's no one's business," she adds, with accompanying sorta-kinda-maybe vogueing moves. "As soon as I hear a camera click, I'm on. I tell you, it's a serious nervous condition."
We are sitting by the pool on the rooftop of Soho House in New York's Meatpacking District, and Upton, virtually unrecognizable in clothes, let alone regulation Frockville black (Givenchy and Barbara Bui, for the record), is clearly in a playful mood.
The thought of her having a Pavlovian response to the sound of a camera is amusing (no wonder she claims to be uninterested in click-click-click runway work). But to spend time with the personable Upton is to know that even when she is writhing around in the backseat of a convertible Cadillac for a Carl's Jr. Super Bowl commercial that was so hot it was banned, she is still very serious about her hotter-than-Hades career.
"Kate has an incredible joie de vivre," says Ivan Bart, the starmaker at IMG who took a risk with Upton and her Marilyn Monroe–esque brand of All-American glamour when no one else would. "She walks into a room and she kills it—some can and some can't. People tend to focus on how bubbly she is, but she is also extremely ambitious."
By Upton's own reckoning there was never any Plan B, and the idea to go into modeling full-time, hatched as a 15-year-old obsessed with the charter members of the Swimsuit Sisterhood of Cindy, Nikki, Heidi, and Co., was hers alone. (The only condition set by Upton's "ridiculously supportive" mother, Shelley, was that she had to finish her high school degree online with a view to attending college.)
Even before she decided, at 18, to hightail it to New York, because things weren't moving fast enough in her adopted Florida, she made sure to do her homework. "My life isn't as manufactured as people think," she offers, in between sips of coffee. "I have dreams and I express them. But it's a business and you have to be a good observer if you want to do your job properly." For the starry-eyed newbie this meant assiduously poring over magazines and videos and memorizing the poses and pouts of her favorite models. And if she doesn't possess Tyra Banks's 275 trademark smiles or Coco Rocha's ability to seemingly conjure every couture pose in the book, then so be it.
"I don't compare myself with other models," Upton says, sitting upright, her perfect posture betraying years of competitive horseback riding. (According to Upton mythology, she holds five world titles.) "For me, modeling is really about competing with yourself, becoming the best you can be. But the truth is that I can't do facial expressions like Coco and others do. If I pull a goofy face, it doesn't look cute; I look like a dying animal. But I guess someone likes what I am doing."
No kidding. Since the curvaceous cutie first burst onto the scene, in 2011, with a multi-platform attack that included hijacking social media with her "Dougie" tutorials, her high-fashion debut—by photographer Sebastian Faena and famed editor Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, in the pages of this magazine—and landing the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover (twice), she has become the fashion industry's new certified superdupermodel.
"She has global appeal," says Nicola Formichetti, who styled her for this shoot. "To me, she is more than fashion. She puts the clothes on and she's still Kate. In fashion we try to force these head-to-toe looks on the girls and turn them into these characters, but she is always Kate. It's actually very rare, and only the supermodels transcend fashion in that way. It's almost like she's an actress. She's an actress playing a model."
Now, with her supporting role in this April's The Other Woman, a latter-day First Wives Club revenge comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann, Upton is set to show off her acting chops and further insinuate herself into the collective consciousness.
"I was completely out of my league," she says of her three months on set with her more established costars. "I make no bones about it. But I just listened and paid attention. Cameron and Leslie were the most amazingly friendly and helpful people—very inspiring. It sounds hokey, but it was a dream come true for me to work with them on my first real movie."
Upton, who previously had cameos in Tower Heist and The Three Stooges, the latter of which incensed some Catholics because she posed as a nun in a bikini, has no delusions of being tapped to play Hedda Gabler anytime soon.
A straight shooter if ever there was one, she is more than aware that her formidable bod, not her delivery, is the focus of worldwide attention—particularly her D-cup breasts, which could well have a SAG card of their own.
"Ah, the ladies," she says, looking down at her cleavage with devil-may-care abandon. "Everyone brings them up, so I have to have something to call them." Although she is the beneficiary of the positive buzz that social media can bestow, Upton claims to be more than a little embarrassed by some of the attention she and the ladies receive online: a recent video posted on YouTube featuring 10 hours of her bajoingles bouncing up and down in slow motion has received approximately two million views (and counting).
"Not to offend anyone," she explains, "but in my opinion that's the downside of the job. Having grown up in Florida, where you practically live in a bikini, you don't think that when you go out to the beach that people are going to do that. It's a little embarrassing, but you have to learn to get over it. Although I think I have gotten to a place where I don't let the Internet control my emotions."
While she can deal with the virtual gaze of her mammary-obsessed male fan base, one barb from the X-chromosome camp managed to get under her skin. In an interview last year with the New York Times, an influential editor who consults for Victoria's Secret was quoted as saying that she would never consider using Upton in the televised spectacular because her all-American looks were too infra dig for the purveyor of push-up bras and seductive lifestyle fragrances.
"You have to remember that I was 19 when she said that," explains Upton, "and I had just gotten my cover ofSports Illustrated that day. Literally that day. So it didn't really affect me at first. But it did in the end, because I wasn't used to that kind of media swirl at all. I had never met her, so it really came out of nowhere. It was my introduction to being in the spotlight and having people you've never met have an opinion of you."
Upton and the ladies are not going anytime soon, especially now that she is doing the cha-cha-cha with Maksim Chmerkovskiy from Dancing With The Stars, a fact that she begrudgingly confirms, with an uncharacteristically guarded, economical "yes" and a nervous smile.
Maybe it's a result of her recent media training—which she takes with a pinch of sodium chloride, preferring instead to rely on advice from her "competitive, but grounded" family—or perhaps it's the result of her years as a champion rider, but she appears ready for any coming battles.
At the recent FGI Fashion Awards in New York, Upton presented to Carine Roitfeld, who featured her on the cover of the inaugural issue of her namesake magazine, CR Fashion Book (thanks to a gentle suggestion from Bruce Weber). She won over the fashion power-player audience when she thanked the legendary Roitfeld for actually featuring her in clothes. But don't expect her to be covering up as a matter of course. Kate Upton has a slamming body and doesn't care who knows or sees it.
"You know what," Upton says. "I recognize that some things are out of my control, but the way I deal with those situations largely defines who I am. So I really want to be a good example for women. I think that women today go through that level of scrutiny every single day. We put so much pressure on ourselves, but I want women to see that you don't have to do these crash diets. You can eat healthy, be healthy, and be the best you can be."
Safe to assume, then, that no one these days tells her to eat less because she has a big gig coming up. "Are you kidding?" she asks incredulously. "I tell myself that all the time! Sometimes I listen and sometimes I regret not listening, but it's all right. There are moments all the time in my life, whether it's my time of the month or I've been traveling a lot, where I don't look my best. It happens, but it's not life-ending, and I think that's what people have to realize."


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The Butterfield-Odin junior and senior prom will take place on Friday, May 10 at the Butterfield-Odin school gym.
This year's theme is "Tales of 1001 Nights" and pictures will be taken by Life Touch beginning at 5 p.m. Following pre-prom photos, the grand march will take place at 6 p.m. Members of the public are welcome to attend with one dollar admission being charged.
Following the Grand March, a catered dinner will be served by the Butterfield-Odin School underclassmen featuring kabobs from the Hi Lo Club.
The post-prom dance will take place from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Then, students will take a bus to the Mankato WOW Zone, where they will stay until they return to Butterfield-Odin High School at about 1 a.m.
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People heading into the backcountry over the next several days should be cautious and more aware of site-specific conditions, after a weekend of snow and wind increased local avalanche danger to considerable.
"What's happening with the new snow and wind is that it's creating a thick slab, which means it's getting harder to trigger the avalanches," Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster John Snook said. "If you do though, it's going to be bigger, deeper, higher consequence."
At least five slides were triggered across the state on Saturday alone, after wind on Friday consolidated the feet of new snow that accumulated in some places the day before.
There was one fatality and multiple reported injuries as a result of the avalanches.
Experts say the snowpack is in a delicate state of balance after the last storm cycle with an exceptionally weak base layer. The new coating of heavier, wind-loaded snow from recent storms has created what experts called dangerous slabs.
The avalanche danger was rated considerable on all aspects across the western half of Colorado Tuesday, but Snook said the variability in conditions in the Summit County and Vail zone can be among the biggest problems.
Snow accumulations from the last series of storms ranged widely from roughly 3 feet near Vail to approximately 10 inches in areas around Summit County.
"We really have to get folks to pay attention to the local conditions where they're going out," Snook said. "The things to be looking for are any recent signs of instability, recent avalanche activity. Do they feel like the snow is collapsing under their weight? Do any cracks propagate away from their skis or snowboard? Those are all signs that the snow is failing underneath them."
The avalanche danger will likely remain elevated for the remainder of the winter and spring, Snook said.
Future snowfall, forecasted to begin Friday night and continue into Saturday, could also add to the risk of slides.


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1. Stayed in bed most of the day
ネコは身動きひとつしなかった。 The cat didn't move a muscle.
This cat nearly didn't, either. I stayed in bed almost all day, still nursing a sore throat. Still sick. My dad and I had arroz caldo. What a wonderful comfort food... (No, my dad isn't sick. Just me.)
Tomorrow the ACM people want me to train with them. I've been looking forward to it too, although I've been a little nervous due to certain personal reasons. My mom said something along the lines of quitting while I was ahead, but it isn't that, really. Oh well. I'll pick up some of my toys, at least. Besides, I don't have a reliable way of getting in touch with them, and I'd hate to make them wait at Faura.
I should also work on the Adphoto systems. Eventually. Maybe the equipment thing. I don't know... The Bluepoint thing isn't much, but at least it's well-defined; I know when I'm successful. And I'll get paid for it too, which might be nice for starting a small business or whatnot.
Gah. I need to think.
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2. Tomorrow
I hadn't been particularly looking forward to tomorrow. I don't know why; a general malaise, perhaps. It's hard to be cheery with a sore throat and the knowledge that one has to get up early tomorrow morning anyway. Then, reading through a small collection of letters from Dominique, I came across this quote from one of his favorite authors (whom I've also come to be quite fond of)--
"...it might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead."
I should remember that. Each day is not a dreary routine; it is an expression of joy. I don't do computer work because I _have_ to; I do it because I can, and because it's tons of fun. Take, for example, that Internet cabling thing. I need to keep in mind not my mom's face as she's asking me to do it, but the clients' faces as convenient Net access saves a shoot (or at least eases some of the tensions). I just have to keep my users in mind; to think that what I do will matter.
Tomorrow is another day. Isn't that such a cool thing?
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彼らは熱烈にいがみ合っている。 They fight like cat and dog.
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Brandon Lee, 18, 640 South Bayou Drive, Apt. A, had sex with the teen once in mid-December, police said.
Lee was charged with aggravated rape and booked in the Lafourche Parish Jail, where he is being held on $50,000 bond.
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December 27, 2012 5:51 pm
Christmas is a time of limited expectations in Europe's concert halls and opera houses. Exit rare works and bold productions; enter hundreds of Nutcrackers, Hansel and Gretels, and the inevitable Beethoven 9s.
So it was brave of Berlin's Komische Oper to programme Emmerich Kálmán's Die Bajadere for late December. Though it was a huge success at its 1921 premiere in Vienna, Kálmán's exotic operetta has disappeared almost completely from the repertoire.
With his declared intent to bring more operetta to the Komische Oper, the house's new intendant Barry Kosky makes an important statement about the position of his company within Berlin's crowded operatic landscape. Like London's English National Opera, Vienna's Volksoper, or Munich's Gärtnerplatz, the Komische Oper has always set itself apart from the city's other opera companies by being the one in that performs works in the vernacular. The idea used to be to make opera comprehensible to the masses. The advent of surtitles, the increasing internationalisation of casts, and a general trend away from clear diction for singers has long since rendered this premise redundant.
The Komische Oper at least has the formidable theatre legacy of Walter Felsenstein as a further distinguishing feature. After some directionless years, the house was dragged back to the forefront of Berlin opera by Kosky's predecessor, Andreas Homoki. His strong focus on innovative stagings and his experimental touch with repertoire gave the Komische Oper some of its individuality back without really solving the language problem.
Kosky, an Australian with Russian-Polish-Hungarian-Jewish ancestry, is untroubled by any sentimental attachment to the German language, and has already presented an opera in English (American Lulu ). But Die Bajadere belongs firmly to the Komische Oper's own tradition – it was here that the operetta had its German premiere, just a few months after its Viennese opening.
Kálmán's feather-light confection uses the implausible tale of Indian prince Radjami's love for operetta star Odette Darimonde for a revue-like tour of musical styles, from waltz with Hungarian fire through jazz to the shimmy, within the context of a theatre-within-a-theatre story of fleet wit and irony. Stefan Soltesz conducts this concert performance with elegance and verve, and a solid cast brings Kálmán's sparkling score to life. Erika Roos and Daniel Brenna hurl themselves into the leading roles with energy and humour, Dominique Horwitz plays Pimprinette and narrator with a fake French accent and a fine sense of timing, Mirka Wagner sparkles as the husband-swapping Marietta, and Tom Erik Lie steals the show as a shimmy-dancing chocolatier. It is a pity that so little of Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald's bitingly funny text is audible – particularly during the choral numbers. But in all, this evening of musical discovery and laughter well rewarded the full house, and bodes well for Kosky's further operetta plans.
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Concepcion vs Perez Clash is Ordered By The WBA
By Jhonny Gonzalez
The WBA has ordered "regular" flyweight champion Luis "El Nica" Concepcion (22-1, 17KOs) of Panama to face interim-champion Jean Piero Perez (18-3, 13KOs) of Venezuela in the next six months. The fight has to happen within six months of January 29, which is the date Perez won the interim-belt with a decision over Jesus Jiminez in Mexico. The WBA noted a direct conflict because both boxers have their careers managed by Rogelio Espiño, and because of that the sanctioning body has allowed such a long time period to get the fight done.
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Reviewed by Tim Mak. Review Posted 19/06/2014
I was about to write off my iMac as 'space junk' when the new OS Mavericks came along and bloated up my system with un-necessary tasks. The computer became so slow, I just wanted to chuck it out. Then the helpful young lad at the Genius Bar made the super suggestion to max out my RAM and get an SSD/SSHD instead of shelling out for a whole new computer. Did just as he suggested and WOW! It's like getting a whole new computer. Startup times are now ridiculously fast. I'm not a heavy user who just surfs, watches movies and listens to music. For that kind of use, this computer feels fast again. Almost as fast as when I had Snow Leopard on my system. Get this, max out your RAM, and you can cheat Apple out of another sale for a few more years, all for under £100. Well done Seagate.
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Windows 7 Ultimate with all of my applications installed (30+), boots in 8 seconds. Beyond my expectations, since I have watched ssd vs sshd tests showing slower times.
Got this running on an Asus A88XM-A.
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Reviewed by Tim Mak. Review Posted 20/07/2014
Installed in my iMac 2008. Feels like a new computer. The OS now loads up very quickly. This drive is good for users who just do a bit of surfing and watch movies.
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System revived
Reviewed by John. Review Posted 09/03/2015
I fitted this drive in the hope that it would make an ageing Windows 7, 64 bit system, a useable machine again. I could not be more pleased. I use the machine for browsing, general office tasks and a little music and video editing. This disc has improved boot times extraordinarily and the more I use the system, the faster it seems to become.
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Sector errors within a few months and now failing
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 12/08/2015
I bought this 2TB hybrid SSD in December 2014. I noticed average performance in my Microserver in which Windows Home Server was installed on the Seagate disk so installed Hard Disk Sentinel, which told me the drive was at 88% health. After just a few months. Not good.
It's since been worse and health of the drive is slowly dropping. I've run the Seagate diagnostics - well, tried to, it could only complete the quick test which told me the drive was knackered and needs replacing, the long test just caused the tools to crash.
I've now had to reinstall the OS on another disk (Clonezilla couldn't clone it because of the corrupted sectors), which is a ballache in itself, but I also have to wait for Seagate to receive it, check it and then send out a replacement. They do not have a facility for me to register my credit card and be sent a replacement first so they can charge me if I don't return the faulty one.
I won't touch Seagate again, sticking with Western Dig
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Mother's Day Brunch, 5 Ways: 5 Elegant Menus for Mom
Mother's Day is this Sunday, and it's a lovely reason to throw an elegant brunch. The bright spring weather and the idea of honoring Mom both lead us to think of fresh, colorful menus. Here are five menus, each with three recipes — so a total of 15 recipes that would each make a delicious, beautiful contribution to your Mother's Day brunch. From French toast with grapefruit to simple baked eggs, and from strawberry salad to Southern biscuits, there's a menu here for nearly any taste.
5 Menus, 15 Recipes for Mother's Day Brunch
• Artichoke, Kale & Ricotta Pie
• Elderflower Lemon Cake
• Strawberry-Arugula Salad with Ricotta Topping
• French Toast With Lavender and Grapefruit
• Candied Salted Bacon
• Simple Arugula Salad
• Apricot Yogurt Scones
• Shirred Eggs
• Broiled Grapefruit with Cinnamon Sugar
• Shrimp and Grits
• Sweet Potato Biscuits & Maple Butter
• Blood Orange Ambrosia with Crème Fraiche
• Sticky Lemon Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Glaze
• Basic Oven Omelet
• Citrus Salad with Lemongrass Syrup
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Sometimes we guard people from the truth to protect them from being hurt, but by doing that we only hurt them more in the long run.
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You kiss the back of my neck
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What's one thing people should keep in mind when re-entering the housing market for the first time since the crash?
GREG MCBRIDE: Think of a house as a home, not as an investment. Whatever home price appreciation you see over time does not equate to profit. If you're lucky, the financial benefits of homeownership will rebate some of your costs, unlike renting. But paying interest, taxes, insurance, maintenance, dues and assessments make it a very cash-intensive proposition, so don't let the dream of homeownership come at the expense of financial or lifestyle flexibility.
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The Unarchiver
Multi-format unarchiver app for OS X.
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems.
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Lately The Unarchiver has been hanging on large archives...been having to use command line rar.
This is my default expander. I do not have many exotic formats, but routinely open large numbers of zips and some sits. It does better than the built in service.
Does anybody know if there is an equivalent app for Windows?
@eliezer - Unarchiving .exe files isn't useless at all⦠While this is a lot less common nowadays, you still see some self-extracting zip filesâ¦Â That is, they're windows executables that just automatically extract the zip within. Inside the archive could be any number of things that a Mac user might want to get at. The unzip utility built into OS X actually supports these as well (unzip from command line, don't think BOMArchiveHelper does).
Recent 2.0 betas (builds and code) are on the google code site. Before, I'd have random errors on newer stuffit/sit and rars typically done on windows or with passwords. So far, no problems thus far and I enjoy the speed jump from stuffit.
The Unarchiver has its idiosyncrasies. It's snappy and light, however it doesn't support some of the formats it suggests. Rather strange is the fact that it seems to support unarchiving .exe files, which is obviously a tad useless (when it tried to expand one it gave errors). Also, .bin, .sit, and .sitx are unsupported although appear to be feasible. Nevertheless, it is useful for everyday usage.
word is password protected rars will be worknig with 2.0 which should be out at the beginning of this year (read: soon)
So apparently this thing has a problem with extracting .tbz files...
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The North Tahoe boys and girls both defeated visiting Quincy in nonleague basketball games Tuesday, the girls by a score of 36-35 and the boys 72-50.
North Tahoe boys coach Frank Wright described his team's win as "interesting," as the Lakers jumped out to a 24-8 lead by the end of the first quarter and led by a similar margin at the half. But that all changed in the third quarter when Quincy cut the lead down to 10 points.
"It was our lack of defense and some quick 3s," Wright said, explaining how the visitors came back. "They played very well in the third quarter, until we finally got our act together."
The Lakers poured it on down the stretch of the fourth quarter, eventually extending their lead to the final margin of 22.
Junior point guard Alex Tyler led the way with 30 points, while senior forward Colin Spencer scored 27 and sophomore Mitchell Myers had 13 points. Sean McDermott grabbed seven rebounds and Spencer had six, while Noah McDermott did a commendable job handling the ball, Wright said. Ty Morrison scored 14 to lead Quincy.
The Lakers are now 6-7 overall.
The girls did not play their best game but still managed to pull off the win, said coach Rick Buhler.
"We had a woeful night shooting," he said. "But you've got to win the ugly ones, and we did."
Junior guard Angela Wood led the Lakers with 12 points, while senior Liz Buhler scored nine points. Sophomore center Sage Chador, playing in her first game back from an ankle injury, helped lift the Lakers to victory with five consecutive points in the fourth quarter.
North Tahoe is 6-5 overall.
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EUGENE — Jordan Loera had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and Jillian Alleyne contributed 15 points and 17 rebounds Sunday as Oregon defeated Washington State 65-60.
The Ducks (4-21, 2-11 Pac-12), who had lost six in a row, never trailed in the game and have both of their conference wins against the Cougars (10-15, 6-8). They beat Washington State 70-68 on Jan. 25 in Pullman, Wash., for Oregon's first sweep of the Cougars since 2008.
After the Cougars got within two points, Loera made two late free throws to seal the win. Ariel Thomas had 10 points, four steals and four assists.
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The Contra Costa County Library is asking its patrons to speak up about their local branches as the library's centennial comes to a close.
In addition to throwing a party for the community, the library is conducting surveys through an online questionnaire, personal interviews and town hall meetings in every city, town and municipal advisory council in the county.
"We are working on the next generation of our strategic plan," said Bill Kolb, senior community library manager in Concord. "One of our approaches is to ask people what they think we are doing well and not doing well."
People are encouraged to take the online questionnaire that is available on the county library's website until the end of the month. In August, the myriad town hall meetings with County Librarian Barbara Flynn and city council members will begin.
"We are really excited about this," said Flynn. "It's going to be a lot of work. We will be meeting at least three times a week so we can really connect with the communities."
She said the current strategic plan was put together with data gathered in 2005, but "in 2008, the world changed. There is a better than average chance people's needs changed."
That 2008 shift, Flynn said, was the Great Recession. The library is a central part of the community and must provide for the changed needs of the people.
In addition to the online questionnaire and the town hall meetings, librarians from all the branches will be conducting "key informant" interviews. Kolb said the key informants are a list of leaders representing businesses, schools, nonprofits, government and libraries in each community.
"I think it's great the county library is reaching out to people throughout the community at all different levels," said Concord City Councilman Edi Birsan. "This is one of the reasons I think the Contra Costa Library was nationally recognized."
Brown-Miller Communications, Inc. of Martinez will help crunch the numbers when all the data has been collected, and a draft strategic plan should be ready by mid-October.
Part of the data assessment will be looking at each community's priority response so the strategic plan used going forward will be individually tailored.
"We are trying to avoid 'one size fits all,' " Kolb said.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- San Jose State has earned its share of lopsided wins this season. None featured as complete a performance as Saturday's 47-7 drubbing of New Mexico State.
"Coach is always talking about playing a complete game," junior defensive back Bené Benwikere said. "That was the closest we've come to playing a complete game this year."
The Spartans (8-2, 4-1 Western Athletic Conference) won their fourth straight game, their fifth straight on the road and earned their most lopsided victory in 12 years.
"We just want to keep winning," SJSU coach Mike MacIntyre said. "We've won five games in a row on the road, and we were so close to having six. That's a big, big deal for us."
Spartans junior quarterback David Fales threw for 276 yards and four touchdowns. He matched Steve Clarkson's 1981 school record for touchdown passes in a season with 25.
"It's exciting. I'm happy," Fales said. "It's our offense as a whole and what our offensive coaches are doing getting us prepared. That's basically just a reward for that."
SJSU thoroughly dominated and used its backups for the majority of the second half. New Mexico State (1-9, 0-5) ended the Spartans' bid for a second shutout this season when it scored in the final minute.
"We played everybody on the team," MacIntyre said. "Of course you'd like to have the shutout, but I'd rather play the guys than have to worry about the shutout."
It's SJSU's largest margin of victory since beating Southern Utah by the same score in 2000.
The Spartans have been hampered at times by slow starts and momentary letdowns. That wasn't the case in this one as SJSU jumped to a 37-0 halftime lead.
"We wanted to come out and win the first quarter," Fales said. "We focused on that and got mentally and emotionally prepared to come out in the first quarter and just get it going."
The Spartans settled for a 36-yard Austin Lopez field goal on their first drive but delivered explosive plays the rest of the half.
De'Leon Eskridge burst through the middle of the field for a career-long 63-yard touchdown. He finished with 96 yards on six carries, all in the first half.
"The whole middle of the field was open," Eskridge said. "When I hit it, I was just thinking, 'Don't get caught.' "
Chandler Jones then took his turn. He caught a short screen pass, got blocks up the left side and went 70 yards for a touchdown.
Jones scored again on a 14-yard pass play. That was set up by Benwikere's team-leading fourth interception of the year. He returned it for a touchdown, but a penalty negated the score.
Another short pass led to another big play for SJSU. Fales flipped a screen to Ina Liaina, and the bruising fullback got a block from tight end Peter Tuitupou that sprung a 58-yard touchdown.
"It's nice to be able to throw little screens and watch receivers make plays," Fales said.
Benwikere made another big play when he picked up a fumble and went 37 yards for a touchdown. That made it 37-0 with 3:53 left in the second quarter and sent some of the home fans headed for the exits.
"I always have my eyes out for the ball," said Benwikere, who also returned an interception for a touchdown a week earlier against Idaho. "It came my way twice. Happy to pick it up twice."
Fales delivered his record-tying touchdown pass in the first minute of the third quarter when he hit Ryan Otten for a 36-yard touchdown. Fales watched the rest of the game from the sideline with the Spartans lead 44-0.
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Local product Pucetas inks deal with Texas Rangers
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 7:47 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 7:47 p.m.
The Texas Rangers have signed RHP Kevin Pucetas to minor league contract on Tuesday. The former Broome and Limestone standout will report to minor league camp this spring.
Pucetas, 28, combined to go 8-6 with a 3.70 ERA (43 ER/104.2 IP) in 29 games/13 starts for Harrisburg (Double-A) and Syracuse (Triple-A) in the Washington system in 2012. He was originally selected by San Francisco in the 17th round of the 2006 June draft and also pitched for Omaha (Triple-A) in the Kansas City organization in 2011. Pucetas is still seeking his big league debut.
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