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3D opportunity: Additive manufacturing paths to performance, innovation, and growth
Deloitte Review issue 14
Additive manufacturing technology can break existing performance trade-offs by reducing the capital needed to achieve scale and scope economies. Understanding how this can be done requires a review of how scale and scope economies shape certain product manufacturing and distribution decisions.
Additive manufacturing (AM) has exploded into public consciousness over the past several years. More popularly known as "3D printing," AM is an umbrella term for a group of technologies that creates physical products through the addition of materials (typically layer by layer) rather than by subtraction (e.g., through machining or other types of processing).1
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Stories and perspectives appear in the popular press and technology blogs on a daily basis. Enthusiasts tout the prospect for AM to revolutionize manufacturing industries and the markets they serve. Skeptics point to the relatively limited number of uses and materials in current practice and to the relatively small impact these technologies have had outside of a few niches. Critics raise concerns about applications (e.g., 3D printed guns) and the inevitable intellectual property issues that the increasing adoption of AM technologies will create.2
Additive Manufacturing Defined
Additive manufacturing is an umbrella term for a set of technologies and processes nearly 30 years in development. These technologies have reached a level of maturity that increasingly allows for the existence of value-added commercial applications. Some see AM as an innovation driver that can literally transform manufacturing industries over the next decade.
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International, a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards within the manufacturing industry, defines additive manufacturing as:
"A process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies."
In common practice, the terms "AM" and "3D printing" are used interchangeably.
The reality of AM incorporates some balance of these views. AM is an important technical innovation whose roots go back nearly three decades but whose strategic relevance has risen sharply. This technology breaks existing performance trade-offs and expands the realm of possibility in two fundamental ways. First, AM reduces capital required to achieve scale economies. Second, its flexibility decreases the capital required to achieve scope economies.
Using AM to break the constraints of these trade-offs creates opportunities for companies to improve performance, grow, and innovate. Understanding how this can be accomplished requires a review of how scale and scope economies shape the decisions that managers make about the manufacturing and distribution of their products.
Capital vs. scale: Minimum efficient scale shapes supply chains
AM promises to reduce—more so over time—the minimum efficient scale that gave rise to large modern industrial production facilities, lowering barriers to entry into manufacturing.
Prior to the late 1700s, the majority of production took place among local artisans serving nearby communities. Production was labor intensive and small-batch oriented.3 Transportation over large distances was slow and sometimes perilous. Then came the Industrial Revolution. Technology was invented to harness the power of water, steam, and then electricity. New chemical and manufacturing processes allowed for more efficient production on a large scale. New transportation and communication networks facilitated coordination and delivery over long distances. The result was an extraordinary expansion of economic activity and living standards for most of the Western world.
The change wrought by the Industrial Revolution altered the fabric of industry itself. New technologies required large amounts of capital to develop and deploy. In order to justify such investment, similarly large quantities of product were required to amortize the investment over many individual units of production. Thus, the era of mass production was born. This era is characterized by large-scale, centralized, industrial operations that arose as a result of the technical capability to exchange capital for labor.4
The relationship between capital and scale is captured using the concept of minimum efficient scale—the point at which the average cost of each unit of production is minimized. Where minimum efficient scale is high (i.e., where there are large capital costs required to initiate production) the number of production facilities will be small.
AM impacts the economics of production by reducing minimum efficient scale. In some cases, AM may allow consumers to satisfy their individual needs without the significant labor or capital investments that might have previously been required. Research supports this conclusion. Multiple economic studies illustrate that minimum efficient scale for AM can be achieved at low unit volumes—as low as one. This cost performance contrasts with that of traditional manufacturing methods that face higher initial costs for tooling and setup.5
Figure 1 illustrates a prototypical set of cost curves for AM and traditional manufacturing methods drawn from existing studies. The cost curves illustrate the change in average cost for each incremental unit of production. Breakeven between two alternative production approaches occurs where these curves cross. Figure 1 illustrates the achievement of minimum efficient scale for AM manufacturing, in this case, at one unit.6 In essence, the average cost curve is flat, suggesting that marginal cost does not change with volume. More traditional production methods may as yet yield cost advantages at higher volumes, as suggested by the declining cost curve.
The research concludes that AM production, using a variety of materials, can provide an efficient alternative for low-to-medium-sized production runs. Furthermore, expected reductions in material costs leave open the potential for breakeven points to substantially increase in the future.7 Improvements in throughput and reductions in the cost of AM equipment can only serve to further amplify these effects, increasing the production quantities at which AM might compete with more traditional manufacturing methods.
Capital vs. scope: Economies of scope influence how and what products can be made
The impact of AM technologies on scope economics may exceed their impact on scale. Within the constraint of available materials, AM is known to be extremely versatile in its ability to produce different product configurations with reduced changeover time and cost.8
Economy of scope refers to the inherent flexibility of a unit of capital. Specifically, scope economies deliver advantage by allowing for the production of multiple different end products using the same equipment, materials, and processes.9 Unit cost falls as the number of products that can be made using the same invested capital increases.
Scope economics may also facilitate production approaches that are impractical or impossible through traditional manufacturing methods. For example, design for manufacturability rules advocate for simple designs with fewer parts.10 However, traditional manufacturing processes often impose design limitations that can proliferate the number of parts required to produce a product or component. As the geometric complexity of a component increases, it can prevent a part from being fabricated as a single piece. Issues of internal accessibility or surface configurations may prevent desired machining approaches.11
Furthermore, complex geometries, including the fabrication of internal features, are more easily handled with AM.12 The case of GE Aircraft and its use of AM to produce fuel nozzles for its next generation LEAP (aircraft) engine provides a good example of manufacturing capabilities. In this case, GE was able to manufacture, as a single unit, a component that previously required the welding together of 20 small pieces. The AM approach for the new part led to reduced labor and scrap while yielding a part with lighter weight—a critical attribute for fuel-conscious airlines.13
Practical implications of AM-induced shifts in scale and scope economies
The scope impact of AM is a result of the technology's flexibility. In many cases, no changes to tooling are required to shift the AM device from producing one object to producing a totally different object (i.e., AM could sequentially produce a sword and then a plowshare without alteration to the production equipment).14 Changeover time is reduced, and potential variety expands. Just as important, the increased scope that AM technology affords can enable the production of entirely new components, which cannot be created by any other means. Combined with AM effects on minimum efficient scale, this implies that a relatively low capital investment could substitute for a wide variety of higher-capital-intensity applications when applied to appropriate contexts. Furthermore, these contexts may be more geographically scattered than traditional manufacturing approaches allow—essentially democratizing manufacturing by making it accessible at a much lower investment level.
The implication of changes in scale and scope economies is that manufacturers may be able to produce products with potentially dramatically lower capital costs. This will naturally lead to an opportunity to employ more productive locations, each at a smaller scale, as companies optimize logistical costs or take the opportunity to serve new or distant markets. The ability to do so may have profound implications for the speed with which customers can be served—or manufacture for themselves—and the accuracy with which demand can be met. These conclusions have direct practical implications for managers. In essence, it allows them to evaluate the applicability of AM to their operations by framing the choice relative to its impact on a company's supply chain and/or its products. In other words, companies can use AM to reconsider the ways they move products through their supply chains, and they can use these technologies to create new products or reengineer processes for making existing products.
Framing the AM investment choice in this way presents companies with four tactical paths to follow as they deploy these technologies across their businesses:
- Path I: Companies will not seek radical alterations in either supply chains or products, but they may retain interest in exploring AM technologies to improve value delivery form current products within existing supply chains.
- Path II: Companies take advantage of scale economics offered by AM as a potential enabler of supply chain transformation for the products they offer.
- Path III: Companies take advantage of scope economics offered by AM technologies to achieve new levels of performance or innovation in the products they offer.
- Path IV: Companies alter both supply chains and products in pursuit of new business models.
Performance, innovation, and growth: Strategic imperatives for AM
Company leaders recognize that it makes little sense to pursue either supply chain or product changes in the absence of an overarching strategic imperative that defines the need to follow whichever path they choose. Therefore, when selecting a path, it is critical to understand if it is likely to lead to satisfaction of the chosen imperative. In general, such imperatives fall into one of three main categories: performance (the accomplishment of an objective relative to identified standards and relevant trade-offs), innovation (a combination of activities or technologies that breaks existing performance trade-offs in a way that makes new outcomes possible), or growth (an increase in revenues that results from a set of management choices).
In addition, company leaders need to determine the ways in which value is likely to be delivered. Once again, it is crucial to understand whether the path chosen is likely to yield value for the company in the ways it seeks. Business value is generally recognized to be an explicit mathematical function of three drivers: profit (changes in cash flow delivered through cost reduction or revenue enhancement), risk (the likelihood that cash flows will materialize), and time (the speed at which cash flows can be realized).
Consideration of the alternative paths that companies can follow as they integrate AM into their operational and business models, along with the strategic imperatives they pursue (performance, innovation, and growth), offers a means for gathering insight on the kinds of value that can be expected from each combination of choices and goals. Figure 2 summarizes the dimensions of this challenge. A better understanding of how these choices build toward the delivery of AM value is possible through an analysis of the activities to which we are already seeing AM put to use.15
We conducted an analysis of the strategies, tactics, and value of AM approaches through a review of existing academic studies and available case examples. Some cases were derived from publicly available information. In others, case data was derived from information provided by clients and industry partners. Through our analysis, we attempted to identify the critical outcome sought by companies through the application of AM technology (e.g., reduce weight, improve fit, better match demand, etc.). We also sought to identify the tactical objectives (i.e., the path) being pursued as well as the strategic objective (performance, innovation, or growth). Finally, we assigned each outcome to a driver of value (improved profit, reduced risk, or reduced time). The results of our analysis are presented in figure 3 and described in the following sections.16
Path I: Stasis—a starting point for additive manufacturing
AM offers opportunities to deliver improvement for targeted areas of performance in companies, independent of any desire to significantly alter products or supply chains. It is on this stasis path that the technology has gained its foothold and contributed value over the past 30 years, being most commonly deployed for modeling, prototyping, tooling, and short-run production.17
A key performance enhancement offered by AM is the ability to streamline and accelerate the design process. The result of this can be a reduced time to market, improved product quality, and reduced cost.18 For example, the ability to print complex designs using stereolithography (one of the oldest and most common AM technologies) is used in the aerospace sector for producing engine parts, wings, and other design components for flight tests.19
Efforts have also delivered value by producing lower-cost tooling and other fixtures used in production.20 For example, jewelry manufacturers use AM to reduce the lead time on the creation of assembly jigs, while aerospace manufacturers use it to print masking for parts in their chroming and coating processes.21
In general, performance-enhancing efforts related to path I deliver value by improving profitability through cost reduction and by accelerating the speed with which the resulting cash flows can be delivered (by accelerating the business cycle). That deployment of AM in pursuit of these goals requires neither dramatic supply chain nor product redevelopment to deliver value and provides a relatively lower-risk starting point for firms interested in integrating these technologies.
Path II: Supply chain evolution—AM in pursuit of performance and growth
Similar to path I (stasis), the supply chain evolution path presents significant opportunities to improve performance, this time through supply chain transformation. Primarily, the derived benefits come from AM's ability to significantly reduce minimum efficient scale in production locations, alter traditional supply chains, and reduce working capital requirements.
Among the key promises of AM in redefining supply chain operations is the potential to impact field service operations and "long tail" inventory. These applications can simultaneously deliver performance improvement on all three drivers of value: profit (cost), risk, and time. For example, the military is experimenting with the use of AM in field surgical hospital settings. In one demonstration project, the military sought to deliver on-demand production of medical and surgical instruments in remote sites.22 The business case for the demonstration project identified challenges associated with availability (time to delivery), logistical limits on quantity and variety (cost), matching supply and demand (risk), and the ability to provide sterile instruments in field settings due to equipment limitations (cost of capital).
Evolution in supply chains is also evidenced at the business-to-consumer level with multiple big-box retailers and other service providers leveraging scale and scope economies to deliver on-demand printing at local sites. For example, UPS started putting AM capabilities into local franchises in an effort to service the prototyping needs of small businesses.23 It is the specific shifts in minimum efficient scale enabled by AM that enables this business model. In the long run, such shifts in supply chain structure may represent a key growth vector, as firms large and small try to capitalize on the ability to deliver faster, cheaper, and more precisely than their competitors.
Path III: Product evolution—AM in pursuit of product innovation
True innovation opportunities prominently arise along path III, where the capabilities delivered by AM, in some cases, allow for the creation of physical products that cannot be produced by other means. The previously mentioned GE aircraft fuel nozzle for next-generation LEAP technology aircraft engines is an outstanding example. The ability to combine 20 different subcomponents into a single build is made possible only by the additive process that the technology affords, regardless of cost.
In addition, AM technologies are increasingly allowing the use of multiple materials and the ability to embed sensors, electronics, and other technologies within components and products. The US military has demonstrated capability in this area, embedding strain gauges and other sensors within aerodynamic structures in order to monitor performance and wear. Embedded designs can also extend to the use of conformational cooling channels for thermally conductive materials.24 Such designs can be used to more efficiently dissipate heat during casting and other manufacturing processes.
The scope economies provided by AM technologies enable a variety of new custom-product alternatives that might be used to create and expand markets that otherwise could not economically be served. 3DMeTM by Cubify, for example, represents one of a number of new product companies built around the ability to place photorealistic depictions of individuals on custom collectibles and other products (see figure 4 for an example).25 Apparel companies are also getting into the act. For example, researchers have demonstrated economical approaches for improving footwear performance using AM.26 Footwear manufacturers are putting this and other insights to use, for example, in the development of custom manufactured spike plates tailored to individual runners' biomechanics in designs not possible with traditional manufacturing.27
The product evolution path (path III) also presents some opportunities to improve performance. Current applications suggest that performance value is derived as much or more from the mitigation of risk as from the enhanced speed and profitability that factor so heavily along paths I and II. This opportunity comes from the ability to improve product fit, customize tooling, and monitor the build process in ways that are not possible using other methods. For example, AM technology has established a strong foothold in a variety of medical device sectors through its ability to tailor the design of individual implants (e.g., dental crowns and hearing aids) to the needs of individual consumers. The impact of AM on such applications is considered inevitable.28
Path IV: Combined supply chain and product evolution—AM in pursuit of business model innovation
Path IV companies try to apply AM in either sequential or simultaneous transformations of both products and the supply chains that deliver them. In essence, they seek to combine the tactics and value embedded in path II and path III to achieve not only the operational advantages that define new levels of competition, but also to create new business models. In many cases these simultaneous efforts represent attempts to create new ways of delivering value in an effort to deliver growth opportunities in a manner that either creates new markets or impairs competitors' ability to compete.
For example, Symmons Industries, a maker of bathroom fixtures, transformed its supply chain by creating channels to directly interact with its customers in the design process for items such as doorknobs and cabinet handles. The company uses the results of this collaboration to develop and manufacture new, custom-made products to the market.29
Similar attempts to simultaneously transform both supply chains and products are underway within the health care industry where AM technologies are rapidly shifting approaches to medical planning and execution. Advancements in imaging combine with the ability to deliver low-cost, multi-material AM technologies to the point of use in medical clinics in ways that reduce costs, accelerate the delivery of services, and improve quality.30 In health care, the strategic imperative may be more related to innovation in the delivery of services to patients than to growing the overall segment.
It is reasonable to posit that the route to path IV runs through the product innovation goals that characterize path III. The delivery of innovative products may require new or revised approaches to supply chains and distribution, or it may present opportunities to disrupt competitors and markets when combined with supply chain innovation (e.g., highly customized dental crowns being manufactured at the dentist's office). This may be particularly true where AM and digital technologies are deployed to increase the level of collaboration between producers and end users. Non-AM aspects of the production process (e.g., affixing spikes to a shoe) may determine where physical production is likely to take place, but disintermediation of middlemen may turn out to be a feature of the resulting supply chains.
Where to start
AM represents an innovative technology that breaks two trade-offs that helped define the structure of many industries dating back to the Industrial Revolution. These technologies have the effect of significantly reducing minimum efficient scale in impacted industries while simultaneously expanding the available scope economies (due to their flexibility). As a result, managers are presented with intriguing choices about how to extract available value. Four key paths to value present themselves. The choice of which path to start on depends, in large part, on the strategic imperatives and the drivers of value that managers seek, and they may be affected by the industries and sectors in which they compete.
If a company is trying to improve its competitiveness with little risk and limited change, AM can play an important role in addressing the speed and profitability of its current operational model. We refer to this as the path I "stasis" approach. Companies can follow this path while developing experience integrating AM with current operations and supply chains. We view this as lower risk because there is no attempt to change critical aspects of supply chains or products. As the traditional path to initial value in the employment of AM, path I offers the benefits, for example, of accelerated product development, reduced waste, and improved part performance through better design.
Where companies are concerned with the competitiveness of their supply chains, path II offers a different type of value opportunity. Here, companies may seek opportunities to improve performance more than to innovate. AM technologies offer the benefit of value delivery related to cost and time. Reductions in minimum efficient scale may allow production to be distributed more broadly than in the past, requiring fewer stages and participants in a supply chain. Flexibility and distribution of production offer opportunities to collapse supply chain response time and allow for an improved ability to match supply and demand for both standardized and custom products. The ability to enter new geographies with lower capital investment may also offer important growth prospects at lower levels of overall risk.
Path III is for companies in which the discussion is about product innovation and the functionality and benefits delivered by their products. Here the scope economies offered by AM come into full view. Greater manufacturing flexibility, the decreasing cost of part complexity, and the opportunity to deliver higher functioning products offer the prospect of true product innovation. New product offerings can trigger new growth cycles as improved products reach new customer segments and geographies.
Path IV exists as a combination of efforts and derived value related to path II and path III. However, while the value derived from paths II and III can be characterized as raising the competitive standard for value delivered by a supply chain or product, the combination of both avenues of value improvement have the potential to redefine operational models and produce new business models that disrupt the basis of competition (rather than merely raising the standard of competition).
While managers can expect the AM technology space to continue its rapid evolution, the industry dynamics we have identified will not change. Their direction seems set. As AM technologies advance and their costs fall, their impact on minimum efficient scale, and therefore the ability to proliferate production sites and alter supply chains, is likely to accelerate. As the flexibility of the technology increases, through the addition of materials and processes, the scope economies of AM will grow, creating opportunities for new products and innovations. In particular, firms that offer products with complex internal geometries that are restrained by technical limitations in machining should pay close attention to developments related to AM.
The opportunity for companies to apply AM in the pursuit of value through improved performance, greater innovation, and accelerated growth will remain for the foreseeable future.
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- See sidebar "Additive manufacturing defined," p.6, for more information about the terms "additive manufacturing" and "3D printing." Source for additive manufacturing definition is ASTM International, Standard Terminology for Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Designation: F2792–12a, 2013, p. 2.
- The National Law Journal, Is intellectual property law ready for 3D printers? The distributed nature of additive manufacturing is likely to present a host of practical challenges for IP owners, February 4, 2013.
- Kalpakjian, S., Schmid, S., Manufacturing Engineering and Technology (6th Ed.), Prentice Hall, (2010), p. 6.
- Chandler, A.D., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, Harvard University Press (1990).
- See, for example, Allen, J. (2006) An Investigation into the Comparative Costs of Additive Manufacture vs. Machine from Solid for Aero Engine Parts. In Cost Effective Manufacture via Net-Shape Processing (pp. 17-1–17-10). Meeting Proceedings RTO-MP-AVT-139, Paper 17. Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: RTO. Available from:<http://www.rto.nato.int/abstracts.asp>; Ruffo, M., Tuck, C. and Hague, R.J.M., 2006. "Cost estimation for rapid manufacturing—laser sintering production for low to medium volumes." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 220(9), pp. 1417–1427; Atzeni, E. & Salmi, A. "Economics of additive manufacturing for end-usable metal parts," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 62(2012), p. 1147–1155.
- We note that some studies depict a high initial cost at low unit volumes in order to account for the initial cost of setup of the AM machine. See, for example, Ruffo, M., Tuck, C. and Hague, R.J.M., 2006. "Cost estimation for rapid manufacturing – laser sintering production for low to medium volumes." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 220(9), pp. 1417–1427.
- See endnote 5.
- Baumers, M., Tuck C. , Wildman R., Ashcroft I. , Rosamond E. and Hague R., "Combined Build-Time, Energy Consumption and Cost Estimation for Direct Metal Laser Sintering." From Proceedings of Twenty Third Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium—An Additive Manufacturing Conference (2012): 13 pgs.
- Chandler, A.D., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, Harvard University Press (1990).
- Namias, S, "Production and Operations Analysis" (3rd Ed), Irwin, 1997, p. 810.
- Gibson, I., Rosen, D.W., & Stucker, B., Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing, Springer (New York), 2010 p. 10.
- LaMonica, M., "10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013: Additive Manufacturing," MIT Technology Review, <http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/513716/additive-manufacturing/>, posted April 23, 2013.
- Ibid.
- We argue "in many cases" because exceptions exist for items such as inserts and supports used during production.
- To be sure, there are those that will argue AM technologies will be used in ways that we have yet to imagine. The veracity of this claim does little to alter what we can learn about the value and direction of AM from current applications.
- In some cases, it can be argued that these applications exist on a spectrum. For example, at some point the ability to improve weight and part performance, an example of a path I objective, may transition to a more fundamental innovation in the component, migrating to path III. Our categorization, in particular, depends on an understanding of where to draw a distinction between whether AM provided capability pushes the company closer to the "state of the art" as it exists across all industries (performance), or whether it redefines the state of the art in general (innovation). Regardless of the distinction, we believe the analysis offers some valuable insights.
- Wohlers, T., Wohlers Report 2012: Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing State of the Industry (2012).
- DesignNews, "Stereolithography expedites impeller design," <http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=223384&dfpPParams=aid_223384&dfpLayout=article>, accessed May 28, 2013.
- Wohlers, T., Wohlers Report 2012: Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing State of the Industry (2012).
- Ibid.
- See <http://www.3dsystems.com/sites/www.3dsystems.com/files/cs_citizen_us.pdf> (accessed September 17, 2013) for jewelry assembly jig case study. Masking example is based on confidential client experience.
- Kondor, S., Grant, G., Liacouras, P., Schmid, J., Parsons, M., Rastogi, V., Smith, L., Macy, B., Sabart, B., Macedonia, C., "On Demand Additive Manufacturing of a Basic Surgical Kit," Journal of Medical Devices 7(3), 030916 (July 2013).
- <http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/08/ups-3d-printing.html>, accessed on September 16, 2013.
- DesignNews, "Stereolithography expedites impeller design."
- <http://www.3dsystems.com/press-releases/3d-systems-launches-3dme-cubify#.UjetlF8o6Uk>, accessed September 16, 2013.
- Salles, A.S., Gyi, D.E., The specification of personalized insoles using additive manufacturing, Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation 41(2012), pp. 1771–1774.
- <http://www.newbalance.com/New-Balance-Pushes-the-Limits-of-Innovation-with-3D-Printing/press_2013_New_Balance_Pushes_Limits_of_Innovation_with_3D_Printing,default,pg.html>, accessed September 16, 2013.
- van Noort, R., "The future of dental devices is digital," Dental Materials, 28(1), January 2012, pp. 3–12.
- See, <www.zcorp.com/en/Company/Customers/Case-Studies/Symmons-Industries/spage.aspx> accessed September 17, 2013.
- DesignNews, "Stereolithography expedites impeller design."


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I got the tournament zero-Gs that Shane had at Colfax. Tried throwing them once each and thought they were way too understable. I ordered both the S and Q, got the Q in the mid 160s and really like it. I actually like the S a little better for side arms and think they're a little more overstable new. Played Ewing tonight, threw a mulligan sidearm on 15 in the straight position and pinned it. I haven't thrown a sidearm that far in years. Really excited about it.

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ahahah, I have just bought DOS!!! <3
Baby eyes & Wild one & Stray Heart & Lazy Bones & Garage Rock Sound!!!
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@IIithya: "If you ask yourself nicely, you might be able to get a signed copy." Muahar!
And if he´s even nicer, he may get a backstage pass and a free ticket to visit his own concerts!
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Another cracking album... got my download, and looking forward to my book copy landing here in UK from the US.
If you ask yourself nicely, you might be able to get a signed copy ;)
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Henry Rollins - here's a discussion that could go many ways
Recently I saw a video of Henry Rollins talking about the whole "sell out" concept. He was mainly referencing how great bands shouldn't feel bad about making money by having their songs used in commercials. And their fans should be happy for them. We've had long conversations about this very same topic here in the past, and honestly I'm on the fence about it rather than being adamantly against it the way I was before. It's a complex issue, and one I don't want to really get into right now. BUT...I watched Henry Rollins excuse the use of music in commercials altogether and it's contributing to my ongoing suspicion that he's very sensitive about his own legacy.
This feeling is almost 100% confirmed by his actions in this video.
The comments on this video are almost ALL in support of Rollins' actions, where as I believe he came across as terminally self-conscious. I honestly don't think those people were aiming to rag on him but that's immediately how he perceived the situation when he his presence was acknowledged by the people in the room (most likely because they were fans and/or were star struck.) Rollins was quick to instigate what I believe to be a self-fulfilled prophecy. He practically forced the story that he already has built up in his head onto everyone around him. That's a guilt-ridden dude by my measure.
It's also strange how he practically uses this woman he is with as a shield. Like, "Look...I'm here with this woman of great honor. Very AUTHENTIC. Why don't you focus on HER. Filter me through her. Boom!"
I really want to like Rollins. I own Get in the Van. I've read his writings. I own Black Flag albums. I like his Liar song. Nothing slays me on ANY level. His "spoken word" stuff bores me. The blogs that he's been writing for LA Weekly made me think he is the modern day Holden Caulfield. Henry Holden Rollins.
BUT...I like him in movies. I like to see him talking shit when he doesn't seem so fragile about it. I don't mind him using his songs in commercials if that's what he wants to do. But that's only because I don't expect more of him even when I filter him through whatever shield of authenticity he throws in front of himself
This post is random, I know. I have no ill will toward Rollins at all. Just wanted to put some of these things I've been thinking about for a long time into words and see if the people here had any opinion about it.
Oh, and here's the "sell out" video I was referencing earlier:
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Watched the first video-you pretty much nailed it.
I mean, the thing was edited, but from what was shown, he decided he was being attacked on very little evidence. The "Henry Rollins is here" and "Get in the van" were both somewhere between mere recognition and maybe the faintest touch of punk rock heckling. He's WAY oversensitive.
He came into that record store already judging and categorizing from the get-go, and then he acts like he's the one being judged. In fact, nobody said anything remotely mean to him until he had already blasted out like 5 snide remarks. I think he took those kids by surprise, and they had no chance to be anything other than defensive.
I mean, he's basically right about hipster culture (such as it is), but he is also a paranoid fucking narcissist, at least on the evidence of that video.
Read his Wiki, and it all kinda makes sense.
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It's weird to watch an artist like Henry Rollins try to validate themselves in front of a group of any type of audience. You figure they know who they are and they're comfortable with it. If he really thought there was nothing to be ashamed about the remarks would roll right off of his shoulders, but obviously there is some underlying guilt or weird sense of trying to prove to himself that his actions were not hypocritical or misguided.
I feel indifferent about it. I don't mind when an artist tries to pay the bills or fund future endeavors. But when your music is highly political and preaches about telling the corporate followers to fuck off, I feel like you should choose your investments wisely, unless it really was all a facade to begin with.
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"A very famous book I wrote." What a douchebag.
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Also, current hipster culture doesn't give a shit about "selling out." His sensitivity there would be way more appropriately directed at the punks. These weren't the punks.
I think he thinks maybe contemporary hipsters exist on a time-continuum with the 80's punks who turned on him. It's pretty off-base.
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"A very famous book I wrote." What a douchebag.
Yeah, that part was a huge turn off for me too. The whole thing was pretty fucking awkward and a little hard to watch, he's a grown ass man acting like a fucking baby. I liked him on Sons of Anarchy last season, though.
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Seems like there's something wrong with Henry Rollins... I don't know what it is...
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I don't think there is any question that Henry Rollins has serious mental issues in regards to his own anger. He very much cares what other people think about him, which is why he is willing to physically fight anyone at any time for any reason. I just saw a clip of a National Geographic special that he hosted that was about a "warrior gene," which by definition causes people to "exhibit higher levels of behavioral aggression in response to provocation."
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Rage Francis is very familiar with that gene.
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This thread pretty much sums up my ambivalence to Rollins. If you really read "Get In The Van" you can see those same insecurities even back then. He is very defensive. He is also angry, and focused that anger into some classic jams (I don't include the song "Liar" in that category - he had jumped the shark by then.)
I enjoyed watching his weird talk show where he acted like Chris Farley with the celebrities on the show. Good bands on there too. I remember seeing that sell-out rant you posted on the show and thinking it was bullshit. Didn't watch that other video.
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I am a huge Rollins fan. I did not get into his work until late ('92) but I have all his solo work, most of his Flag work, all the books, seen his band anytime they went through Philly, etc. I have his framed posters on my wall. I like his acting because to me he is so bad at it that he is kind of good (his turn on Sons last year was excellent). I thought his talk show was really good too.
But videos like the one where he gets on the hipster chick (though she did egg it on) and his constant need to name drop has soured me a bit on his "spoken word" act. I have only seen him do the spoke word twice and it was about 15 years apart and it may be another 15 before I see it again. He does seem to need to defend himself and his legacy a bit too much. Maybe it is just a defense mechanisim from all the shit he took in the early 80's. Maybe he is a jerkoff.
I finally met him this year and I was not disappointed. I can see where most of the posts on here are dead on. For me, I will always be a fan.
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I don't know where the fuck he was coming from at all in that first video.
At first I thought he was being witty and funny, but then he put those girls on blast. They didn't seem to be digging on him at all. They liked him. Until he started throwing bows. They didn't back down so that was pretty cool.
It feels like he's trying really hard to still rage against the man.... by calling himself the man and harping on some white chicks in a bar/record store/livehouse/whatever.
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i think he's simply pissed off he isn't shit anymore.
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Fake Press Release Said Samsung Buying Fingerprint-Sensor Company
STOCKHOLM–A bogus press release that South Korea's Samsung Electronics was acquiring a smaller Swedish tech company was distributed Friday, briefly causing stir on the Stockholm stock exchange.
The fake press release, which is suspected to be an "elaborate fraud" by the distribution firm that published the document, was sent out at 4:17 a.m. ET on Friday. It stated that Samsung was buying FingerPrint Cards, a biometrics company that develops fingerprint-verification technology, for $650 million in cash.
Shares in Fingerprint Cards rallied 50% on the fake announcement, briefly adding 1.3 billion Swedish kronor ($203 million) to the company's market capitalization. Shares in Precise Biometrics, a local FingerPrint competitor, also gained sharply.
Both of these companies have been in spotlight in Sweden, especially after Apple Inc. last month released its new iPhone 5s, which features fingerprint-recognition technology.
The fake release featured fabricated quotes from Samsung's co-chief executive officer, Kwon Oh-hyun, and FingerPrint CEO Johan Carlstrom, and was distributed by Cision AB, a Swedish company that specializes in distribution of press releases.
Within half an hour of the announcement, however, Cision and FingerPrint retracted the release, along with an excuse to investors. Samsung also confirmed that the release was fake.
Meanwhile, the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm stock exchange suspended trading in FingerPrint and Precise Biometrics, and said trades in the companies during the incident will be canceled.
Trading in the two companies was later resumed, and the matter has been reported to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.
Cision said it has conducted a preliminary investigation of the incident, which it said "shows that the company followed its procedures." Cision added that it has been subject to an "elaborate fraud" and that it has reported the incident to Swedish police for further investigation.
This isn't the first case of bogus releases making their way across the Internet. In April, a fake press release saying Chinese search giant Baidu made an offer to acquire social-gaming company Zynga Inc. was released. And last November, a fake press release posted on PRWeb.com stated that Google had acquired wireless-broadband provider ICOA Inc. for $400 million. Both companies quickly came out and debunked the news.


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Spring Garden Show kicks off Friday
Published: Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 10:02 p.m.
The 19th annual Spring Garden Show will be held at the Western North Carolina Farmers Market in Asheville from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on April 26 and 27.
The show is sponsored by the Blue Ridge Horticulture Association, a nonprofit agricultural association that promotes the nursery industry in the Carolinas. Admission is free.
"Shady Characters" is a new vendor that specializes in complete shady garden plants and is owned and operated by Everette and Karen Jones from Aikins, S.C. Shady Characters has been featured on South Carolina's ETV show "Making it Grow." Also new this year is "Big Frog Nursery," a nursery that has hundreds of plants that grow in 1 to 15 gallon-size plants and trees.
"Gardeners have flocked by the thousands to find plants and trees that cannot be found at the local retail stores," said Evelyn Nichols with Blue Ridge Horticulture Association. "Many of the garden nursery growers have collections that have come from arboretums, private collectors, and these growers have propagated and grafted these plants and trees for the public."
In attendance will be Charles Street Gardens Iris Nursery, which grows about 60 varieties of Japanese Rises as well as a dozen or so selections of Native Blue Flags; Mountain Meadows Nursery, which has an extensive variety of unusual evergreens and dwarf conifers; Nichols Nursery (MrMaple.com), which specializes in Japanese maples with more than 1,000 varieties of maples; and Useful Plants, a permaculture-based nursery specializing in edible, medicinal and other useful plants. .
North Carolina Master Gardeners will also answer questions. Vendors will include Bluff Mountains Nursery, Barry Farms, and Sister Floribunda, Oliver Organics and Raindrop Ridge Nursery. Red Wing Nursery will have herb and vegetables starts.
Native plant growers like Carolina Wild and Green Tea Nursery will have annuals, perennials, rhododendron, mountain laurel, azaleas, hanging baskets and conifers. Other vendors on hand will be Appalachian Seed Farm, Appledore Nursery, A+ Nursery, Butterfly Perennials, Hawkins Nursery and Hidden Pines Nursery.
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Trulia: Why There's No Home-Price Bubble
The sharp upturn in the housing market over the past year has more economists and housing pundits worried about a housing bubble.
But a new report from the real-estate website Trulia has a different message: chill out, there's no bubble right now.
Yes, home prices in many parts of the country are rising today at the same rate that they did during the bubble years of 2003, 2004, and 2005. But the Trulia analysis found that, when compared with traditional price drivers such as rents and incomes, home prices are undervalued on a national basis by around 7%, compared to being 39% overvalued in early 2006. (Home prices were undervalued by 15%, relative to rents and incomes, at the bottom of the downturn in late 2011).
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"Today's price gains are actually still a rebound, not a bubble," writes Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia.
Of the largest 100 metro areas, Orange County, Calif., appears to be the most overvalued compared to fundamentals, with prices around 9% above Trulia's estimate for fair value. Still, prices were around 71% above their fair-value level at the market peak in 2006. Other markets where prices look overvalued compared to fundamentals include Austin and San Antonio, Texas, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose, Calif.
Prices are the most undervalued in Las Vegas (-24%) and Detroit (-23%), which have nevertheless witnessed big price rebounds over the past year.
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Set one highlights:
Bathtub had a beautiful jam. Having not seen a show since 2011, I was really really pleased with the evolution of the jam. Very fluid. Trey is opening up some really interesting runs. The band supported his efforts amazingly on this Gin. A must listen.
Limb by Limb has always been a favorite of mine. The jam section on this one is exceptional. Trey really syncs up with Fish--- floating on top of the undulating rhythm--- crafting some beautiful type 2 licks. A really special Limb by Limb.
Possum woke up the lawn. Seriously, I think they were falling asleep during Free. Definitely not a Possum for the ages --- like last year---but very high-powered near the end. Classic Trey rock n roll riffs --- setting the stage for the second set.
Wedge almost pushed a decent set into great set territory-- but the delivery was average and the jam didn't really take root.
Corrina was a sweet beautiful moment. Sun just setting. Rain threatening but refusing to ruin the moment. Definitely a treat.
Meatstick--- what can I say? It was a spectacle. You had to be there. Haven't seen that many people on stage since Ken Kesey in 97. It is really good to see the boys being so spontaneous. The joy is definitely present. On a sidebar --- Mike and Trey were chatting it up extensively throughout the show ---plotting, or so it seemed to me. It really add to the fun and the suspense of the night.
Now for the second set.
Golden Age was a bit of disappointing opener choice but the jam went straight into type 2 and the boys never looked back. It goes to show --- never let your judgements and expectations ruin a solid night of Phish.
A must listen as is really the remainder of the second set.
The song selection of Ghost --- next -- completely blew me away. My buddy has been waiting to hear it again since the late 90s. Let's say he had a great night. The jam took its time growing sea-legs. At times Trey twisted into dark to bluesy to cheery intimations (leaving us all in suspense--- What kind of Ghost is visiting us tonight?)--- but finally settled by blended bluesy and cheery into pure rock for the rest of Ghost and the second set. Very experimental segue section. Not aimless or overly ambient. Trey was really intended to connect songs in a meaningful way and delivered time and time again in the second set.
Sweet Virginia --- a little bit of amp down --- but I was hoping for a Stones cover.
Rift --- beautifully executed. Trey deliver on 90% of the runs. It dawned on me while listening to this song and Silent that such songs were written as pure show off moments. The Rift solo sections are akin to dancing a jig in a field of landmines. How could one not flub at least a small portion of it? Imagine writing something like that knowing you will have to play it time and time again for the rest of your career... near perfectly. Needless to say, it takes balls.
Tweezer was an effective jam vehicle --- creating a few real old school chaotic moments --- followed by heavy rock/funk chord rotations. Under Pressure eventually emerged --- Trey calling Fish to rap or sing or something... But Fish did not know the lyrics and Trey bounced the jam effortlessly back into Meatstick with a moment's later bounce back into Tweezer. As I said, the key word is effortless.
Walk Away's solo was long and impressive. Relentless is more like it. Joe Walsh would have been proud. A must listen. Extreme highlight of the evening.
Horse --- Silent. What can I say? A bit of an amp down. Most of the post-show analysts agree on this point.
Piper redeemed. An actual Piper jam of sorts. After some attempts to start a jam within the original chord structure and tempo of Piper --- Trey bounces into another R n B jam fest. Excellent finger work. Check it out.
Waste wasn't a waste. Some nice melty guitar work in the outro.
Antelope ---- although not the song I expected to end such an explosive second set --- the jam was lucid and focused. The highs reached just before the vocal section were mind-melting. Dissonant screeching blazing Trey Anastasio. Definitely a must listen moment.
On my walk out to the gate--- I got my second Stones cover. And the reprise sounded like sweating, energetic religious rite.
You could have fooled me --- that this was a Sunday night show. The energy and fun is really back. If you have the chance --- take a vacation from your life and follow these guys for the rest of the summer. Who knows what we are in store for.


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ANAHEIM -- The almost inexplicable collapse of the A's went to another level Saturday in a 2-0 loss to the first-place Los Angeles Angels, a team that used nothing but its bullpen to shut out the highest-scoring offense in the game.
Yes, the A's still lead the major leagues in runs scored. But in a 12-16 August that ends with Sunday afternoon's series finale, they've been shut out four times, including the last two nights, and have scored three runs or fewer 18 times.
Oakland, 78-57 and four games behind the Angels (82-53) in the American League West, has not scored in its last 22 innings. The back-to-back shutouts are the A's first since May 30-June 1, 2012.
"We're playing pretty terrible baseball here as of late,'' catcher Derek Norris said. "And we're still competing in games. A lot of people like to talk that we've lost three games here going into tomorrow, but we've played pretty (crummy) baseball offensively and defensively, and we're still in all these games.
"I think (the Angels) know it, too, and people who know baseball and really watch baseball. So I mean we're not putting any offense together right now, which is tough. We're playing very mediocre baseball, but we're still competing in games. That says what type of baseball club we are.''
It says plenty about how good the A's starting pitching is. Sonny Gray had one bad inning Thursday, giving up three runs, but gave up nothing after that in a 4-3 loss in 10 innings. Jon Lester had a shutout going Friday until Chris Iannetta's homer on a ball that was almost caught by Coco Crisp, the center fielder getting injured on the play.
And Saturday starter Jeff Samardzija gave up two runs, one earned, on four hits. And if his defense had supported him in the slightest, he would have thrown eight shutout innings.
The offense is giving the pitchers no support, and the defense, which has made errors in six straight games and has committed 22 in the last 25 games, hasn't been useful, either.
Asked how the morale in the clubhouse is, third baseman Josh Donaldson said everything that has been said before is still true.
"I think it's pretty obvious,'' Donaldson said when asked about the morale. "If I had the answer, we wouldn't be struggling.''
On Saturday, the Angels, their starting rotation ravaged by injuries, used eight pitchers -- seven relievers and a minor league starter who pitched in relief -- and the A's couldn't hit any of them. Donaldson had two hits, one of which hit in the dirt in front of home plate and went maybe 15 feet. Everybody else combined for one hit, that by Sam Fuld leading off the ninth.
The Angels gave Oakland one chance when the A's loaded the bases with one out in the fourth with the aid of a throwing error by catcher Hank Conger, but all pinch-hitter Jonny Gomes could produce was a routine grounder that went for an inning-ending double play.
Gomes, one of the architects of the A's run to the pennant in 2012, has five RBIs in 17 games since coming to the A's, and a hit there would have made the trade of Yoenis Cespedes to the Red Sox for Lester and Gomes look better. But August has been brutal for the A's, including the newcomers.
The A's have left the bases loaded five times in the last four games, with Gomes, Josh Reddick, Stephen Vogt and Norris (twice) doing the damage.
The A's defense gave the Angels one chance when second baseman-turned-shortstop Eric Sogard muffed a grounder hit by Howie Kendrick in the bottom of the fourth, and Erick Aybar delivered a single to produce the first run. A second run scored on Samardzija's wild pitch, which he called "the pitch I really wanted back.''
"A 1-0 game is a lot different than a 2-0 game,'' he said.
It would be most of the time, but not for a team that hasn't scored in 22 innings.
A's (Scott Kazmir 14-6) at L.A. Angels (Matt Shoemaker 13-4), 12:35 p.m. CSNCA
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On, or around Thursday, June 27 as many as 150-300 American White Pelicans descended on downtown Granite Falls and took up residence in and around the rushing waters below the Granite Falls dam.
It's more pelicans than locals can remember ever seeing gliding through the river concourse, nestled among the rip-rap in judgement, or trolling the rapids with stately peculiarity.
Yet, it's not the renowned Granite Falls hospitality, or scenic wonderment the flying bag-billed curiosities have come seeking, said Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area Supervisor Dave Trauba, it's the food.
"Their appearance there is related to a food source," said Trauba who oversees the nesting of roughly 30,000 pelicans at the Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area and Marsh Lake (probably where these birds hail from). "It tells me they're finding fish there and to have them show up at one time just displays the amazing communication between wildlife and other birds. They're like fisherman. A couple of birds probably stopped there, found the fishing was good and the word got out. In just a day a food rich area can attract thousands of birds."
American White Pelicans were driven to near extinction in the early 20th century from human pressures, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). There were no reports of nesting pelicans in Minnesota for 90 years, from 1878 until 1968.
Conservation efforts and federal regulations have helped pelican populations make a slow and steady comeback. "The prairie pothole region of western Minnesota hosts 22 percent of the global population of this species," according to Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer, DNR nongame wildlife specialist. In Minnesota, there are estimated to be about 22,000 pairs of pelicans that nest at 16 sites on seven lakes across the state.
Though pelicans have become more numerous in recent years, Trauba said breeding numbers around Lac qui Parle were actually down this year. So the appearance of pelicans in Granite Falls isn't just a result of an increased population. Though he said he couldn't confirm it, Trauba hypothesized that the recent removal of the Minnesota Falls Dam has moved their best feeding spot up-river to the next place fish are forced to stop. "Any dam site is a barrier to fish, the pelicans are probably just following them to this next bottle-neck point," said Trauba.
The numbers of pelicans below the Granite Falls Dam has receded since the population boom just over a week ago. "When the food source changes that will decline their taking advantage of it," said Trauba who also explained that pelicans generally prefer slower moving, shallow, water. "They're a shallow feeding bird. They're not like cormorants who dive, they generally work together to herd fish into shallow water before scooping them up," said Trauba. "I'm sure below the dam it's a little more challenging and they're probably using a foreign strategy for their fishing."
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Green River breaks ground on Tuxedo Park
Published: Monday, August 18, 2014 at 5:02 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, August 18, 2014 at 5:02 p.m.
TUXEDO — As Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Green River" played over the loudspeakers, a crowd of 50 residents from that community gathered Monday to watch elected officials and other dignitaries break ground on the new Tuxedo Park.
The ceremony came two weeks after Henderson County commissioners authorized a $328,328 construction project at the former Tuxedo Mill site. They awarded Allison Contractors the bid to prepare the park's first two phases.
Four of five county commissioners were on hand Monday to toss a ceremonial shovel of dirt and share slices of homemade pie with local residents. Each praised the work of the Green River Community Association for its dogged pursuit of a park.
"Because without you pushing it and pushing it, it would've been pushed to the wayside and someone else would've gotten the money and the time," said Commissioner Mike Edney, whose mother grew up on Green River Road. "I'm just grateful to you for making one of my dreams come true."
Chairman Charlie Messer called the groundbreaking "a great day," adding the county as whole will benefit from the park's presence.
"We meet people every day moving into this area and they go into subdivisions," he said. "That's what they prefer or what they can afford or whatever. And by being in those subdivisions, they've got to have a place for kids to participate in sports, for kids to play, etc."
Vice Chairman Tommy Thompson said the commissioners have already dedicated or spent more than $600,000 toward the park, beginning with their acquisition of the old mill.
"We're proud of you and your efforts; you've raised over $28,000," he said. "That shows that the community is involved and it shows the community wants this, and we want it for you and we're going to make it happen."
Commissioner Grady Hawkins, whose district encompasses Green River, said one of his first jobs as commissioner in 1996 was setting aside $50,000 for the purchase of land in the Tuxedo/Green River area suitable for a park.
"To say it's been a long time in coming is certainly an understatement," he said, adding he's proud of the partnership between residents, commissioners and county staff to bring recreational facilities to the southern reaches of Henderson County.
Corum Smith, a 30-year member of the Henderson County Recreation Advisory Committee, said Jackson Park was the only park in the county when he first got involved. Then the Lion's Club donated land for one in Etowah, followed by facilities in Fletcher and Mills River.
"But still, we always wanted one in the north, east, west and south," Smith said. "And this was the southern part and finally that's happened today. I'm just proud I lived long enough to see this."
After grading the site, Allison Contractors will install stormwater controls; build and pave walking trails and parking; import topsoil and sow grass in a meadow and lawn area of the park; plant trees and shrubs provided by residents; put up split-rail fencing; and erect a flagpole and signage.
Chairman David Hill of the Green River Community Association said the park would not have been possible without the hard work of engineer Will Buie, landscape architect Hunter Marks and "so many (volunteers) that we can't name them all."
Board member Terry Maybin said the community association is already working on raising funds to implement Phase 3 of the park, which will install playground equipment, a multipurpose sports court, gazebos and restrooms.
"We've been looking for land for 18 years and it was worth the wait," Maybin said.
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"This one has been one of our all-time favorite albums. When Ramon and I first started hanging out together, this album was almost new. And I played this album every single day for many, many years. Cal told me that the band had been playing together so much that they recorded this in a single day. After they laid down the title cut, 'Soul Sauce,' Lonnie Hewitt told Cal that it was missing something. That's when they called Willie Bobo to come to the session to do some overdubbing using the jawbones, or 'quija,' and the jive talk. They told me that Willie broke two of the jawbones during the session. He was slapping the thing hard! This CD also has a second version of 'Guachi Guaro' and three other tunes never before released from that same session. It features Donald Byrd on trumpet, Jimmy Heath on tenor."
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"This CD has two complete previous albums, Cal Tjader Quintet and Black Orchid. I think putting two albums together on one CD is a great idea. This is one of my favorite periods of the Cal Tjader band. I've always loved the tune 'Bonita', written by Lonnie Hewitt, a very good friend of mine when I was with the Cal Tjader band. All of the parts to this bolero sound crystal clear--piano, vibes and bongos. Lonnie and Cal trade places on the tune 'Black Orchid.' Cal is playing piano and Lonnie is feeding Cal on vibes. This CD has a lot of great tunes."
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Conjunto Estrellas De Chocolate, Pa' Los Rumberos Y Otros Exitos
"This is one of my all-time top Cuban CDs that is available for purchase right now. I bought this album many, many years ago. It features Chocolate the conga player, not the trumpet player. They do some great rumbas like 'Pa' Los Rumberos.' This could be the original recording. This is one of the tunes that Tito Puente has established himself with, but this was recorded earlier than Tito's version. It has a guajira called 'La Brocha' which is one of my all-time favorites. The singer sings real funky and gets down, you can tell he's singing from his heart. The trumpet player is playing it nice and simple. It goes to show you that you don't always have to play high notes. You can stay in the mid-range and still come out with some great ideas and solos. It's classic trumpet stuff with great boleros. I picture the singer hanging out with his family and friends in his backyard, singing from his heart. I really love some of the boleros on this CD."
Category: Salsa/Son => Son, Guaracha, Guajira=> Cuba
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Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente: From Havana To New York
CD (Caney 501),Re-Issued 1994;
"We were very happy when this was released on CD. All Latin musicians should listen to this religiously. These musicians were the best. You have to listen to Tata Güines (congas), Guillermo Barretto (timbales), Nino Rivera (tres) and Cachao (bass). When I play this for people they are blown away by how much fire these guys play with, and yet they're very relaxed. That's great control! This CD contains the classic 'Descargas En Miniature,' and some great sessions with top jazz players like Clark Terry (trumpet) recorded at a later date."
Category: Dance Traditions => Descargas/Mambo=> Cuba
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Joe Cuba, Diggin' The Most
CD (Seeco 9259),
"My sisters had this album at home when I was a boy. These guys are playing together as a unit. They are as tight as can be, and I realized this when I was a little boy. This is one of the first albums that Ramon and I learned to play together, which is why it means even more to me. 'Arinara' has a lot of breaks that we learned. This album taught us to play tight. I like their version of 'Oye Como Va' and the great bolero 'Aunque Tu' which I recorded on my last CD."
Category: Latin Soul/Boogaloo => Latin Soul, Boogaloo
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Tito Puente, Top Percussion / Dance Mania
CD (Bear Family 15687),Released 1958;Re-Issued 1993;
"I also heard this from my sisters when I was a very young boy. I've recorded 'Ti-Mon-Bo' from that album twice already. It stands for Tito, Mongo and Willie Bobo. They all play so smoothly, accurately and incredibly on that cut. Sometimes the early recordings sound better than the newer ones. You can hear everybody's playing crystal clear-timbales, bongos, congas, and the bass line that Bobby Rodriguez was laying down. As Ramon says, they were at their peaks. They were playing excellently. Dancemania was a great dance album. You can hear the original mambo sound and style, and the original cha cha cha feeling that Tito was so great at."
Category: Dance Traditions => Big Band Mambo Jazz
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Tito Rodriguez, Tito, Tito, Tito
CD (WS Latino 4088),Re-Issued 1989;
"If you like Tito Rodriguez, you have to have this CD in your collection. I love every tune. I take this CD with me when I travel and listen to it quite a bit. 'Descarga Cachao' is one of the most played descarga tunes. Cal Tjader recorded it and we use it in our clinics and demonstrations. It has a standard bass line and coros that many musicians use as a descarga. 'Descarga De La Malanga' starts out in a 6/8 time signature then goes into a 4/4 mambo tempo. The two trumpet players take great solos and battle it back and forth with each other. They play the montuno style really well. It has the tipico early mambo style with the trumpets. So, if you're a trumpet player you should have this. 'Cosas Del Alma' is another classic bolero. I love the Tito Rodriguez sound, he had a great voice."
Category: Dance Traditions => Mambo, Cha Cha Cha, Pachanga
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Three people were taken to the hospital and two others refused treatment after a two-boat accident — including a Missouri State Highway Water Patrol Division boat — about 9:50 p.m. Aug. 29 at the 15-mile marker of the Main Channel.
Taken to Lake Regional Hospital and then University Hospital in Columbia with serious injuries was Brian C. Pecenka, 55, Lake Ozark. Taken to Lake Regional with moderate injuries were Water Patrol officer Stephen M. Burgun, 35, Jefferson City, and Nicholas P. Kamakas, 62, of St. Louis. Refusing treatment at the scene were John M. Barry, 62, St. Louis, and Mary L. Kamakas, 50, St. Louis.
Barry, Mary Kamakas, Nicholas Kamakas and Pecenka were passengers in a 2002 Formula driven by Pecenka. Burgun was driver of a 2005 MSP Donzi.
The accident occurred as the Burgun boat was traveling upstream and the Pecenka boat downstream. The Pecenka boat did not have bow lights and turned in a southwesterly direction and into the path of the Burgun boat, striking the Burgun boat struck the starboard side of the Pecenka boat, which flooded and then capsized.
Both boats were towed to a Missouri State Highway Patrol storage facility.
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Cool and comfortable, with plenty of team details, this classic tee is the perfect addition to any fan's wardrobe. Screen-print graphics on the front chest celebrate Hoosier Hysteria, while the short sleeves and cotton fabric keep you comfortable throughout the entire game.
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[quote="10up"]By the way, we need to repour Ewing 18 Long Pin, Shane discovered somebody had been working it to the point where you can almost just pull it up. Beeman moved the basket to the short for the time being to get it away from the street.
Being the great person i am and wanting to protect our baskets from thiefs. Shane mentions when he gets done playing that #18 basket is loose. Dan and i go move the basket it took us about 10 min we were having trouble with the lock there was maybe 1 or 2 cars in the lot well i leave my bag by my car with trunk open we move the basket comeback i throw my bag in trunk go home. I go to grandview last night pull my bag out 1st thing i notice is the cover on my bag is up i usually tuck this in so i flip the cover and half my bag is gone. Someone stole 5 drivers out of my bag 1st run special edition tl(white), 1st run ce tl(yellow used to have purple stamp most of it worn off), 2- roadrunners and a brand new pro-wraith. they left 4 my 4 gremlins, 4 putters, my 1st run ce eagle and star-tee-rex , and the tub in my trunk which has about 15 discs in it .
I want my discs back so if anyone sees my stuff please take it from them i will take care of you. If i find out who did this there gonna take a bad beating and i will take every disc they have with me.


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The Wireless World According to Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak
Oh Woz, we love it when you fire from the hip.
Applefounder Steve Wozniak held a question-and-answer session on Slashdot, an online forum and news aggregation site.
The whole thread is worth checking out, but we've highlighted a few of his top responses below.
In class Woz fashion, he shoots his mouth off about Apple and mobile-phone topics — like saying he supports "jailbreaking," the process of loading custom unapproved software on the iPhone, and explaining why he wished iTunes supported Google Android software.
Granted, Woz hasn't been associated with Apple for some time. But when Woz speaks, given his early presence at Apple, the world takes a moment to listen.
Here are some of the highlights Q&A below:
- What excites Woz the most: "It's the fun 'toy' aspect of technology. I would take my kids to carnivals and spend $40 throwing darts or $40 tossing ping pong balls. Now we just download an app at home or on the sidewalk and it's free or nearly free and benefits our lives and leads us to love our technology, so the toys we adults have are very inexpensive!"
- On the screen size of the iPhone 5: "It's wrong to look back. It's not scientific and testable. But I saw for the last few years one small screen in the midst of a lot of large screen and felt myself, as countless others must have, that the larger screens had more value. Blame me for taking the leeway to suggest that this was the one door Apple left wide open."
- On envisioning the future of computing: "The steps we have taken have been ones that made the computer more and more a part of ourselves, like a 'friend'. This human quality I expect to get better over time. I do envision conscious computers but I think we'll stumble onto the formula (circuit of a brain) by accident, the way we came upon Google replacing smart people for answers, but not by trying to create a brain."
- On "jailbreaking" the iPhone: "I have always given my support to the jailbreak community because they remind me of myself when I met Steve Jobs and how we were, then and for the years leading to Apple."
- On iTunes and Android: "Apple's real rise from the small market-share Macintosh company to the iProducts of today began with iTunes and the iPod. This turned out to be a 2nd huge business which roughly doubled Apple's 'size'. If you remember, we ported iTunes to Windows. We now addressed 100% of the world's market with this integrated system (iPod/iTunes) and it began the era of Apple that we are now in. So why don't we port iTunes to Android? Did something get closed up? I love Apple products and iTunes and wish it were on my Android products too."
Check out the full thread on Slashdot.


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You guys are pretty observant, so you probably already know this. But! We've just launched Kong Plus, and we'd like to tell you about it. It costs $29.99 per year, and it boasts what we think are a bunch of cool features. I will now proceed to give you the rundown (i.e. the text wall below). If you have any comments or questions about Kong Plus, please put them in this thread!
Kong Plus is ad-free
That's really the biggest thing. You'll never see ads on a game page everevereveragain when you sign up for Kong Plus, including ads before a game, and static ads around the game.
Edit: Developers still get paid when you play their games! They get as much as they normally would, it simply comes from your Kong Plus subscription instead of ad revenue.
Kong Plus gives you a chat icon
Yep! You can let everybody know that you love us with a little "K+" icon by your name. It'll show up in chat, on your profile, and in game comments. It looks like this:
You can also turn it off by going here: http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/my_account. It will appear thusly:
Kong Plus features members' only chat rooms…
This is exactly what it sounds like: Kongregate chat rooms that you'll share with other Kong Plus members. You can enter one of those chat rooms just as you'd switch into any room – they'll show up in the room list like so:
…and private chat rooms!
Woo private chats! You have to be a Kong Plus member to start one up, but you can invite anybody at all from Kongregate chat. This is perfect for getting a little privacy all up in your guild. You can invite a friend to private chat by hovering your mouse over their name, and selecting "Invite Private" from the menu that appears.
Once you're in, it'll look like this (notice the cool tabs that we'll be using for game chats too):
We'll even let you know when the chat room you're not in has unread messages!
Kong Plus will give you cool profile skins
This one's my favorite. You can prettify your profile with a number of skins made special for Kong Plus members by our designers. Plus, we made a brony skin. You can select your skin with this handy link at the top of your profile page:
Kong Plus gives you beta access
No more will you have to wait for beta access! When you sign up for Kong Plus, you'll get access to all games in beta. You can find out which games are in beta by checking the game browser, or just by viewing your home page.
Score double the PowerUp Rewards Points for earning the Badge of the Day
This will of course only appeal to our US users, but everyone who earns the Badge of the Day will receive double the PowerUp Rewards points in addition to double the Kongregate points.
Edit: Everyone receives double the Kongregate points already, but Kong Plus users will receive double PowerUp Rewards points as well. They don't get any more Kongregate points than anybody else.
Kong Plus gives you a one-time gift of 50 Kreds
Because we like you!
Kong Plus gives you priority customer service
Reports and emails sent from the accounts of Kong Plus users will be marked for all of our community and customer service staff to see. We definitely pride ourselves in quick and helpful replies to all, and that's not going to change! So consider the service you'll get to be faster than fast.
You can give Kong Plus to your friends
Do you really, really like someone? Give them a Kong Plus membership! You'll see the option here when you go to http://www.kongregate.com/plus.
The recipient of the membership will receive a code that they'll be able to enter here: http://www.kongregate.com/premium_membership_redemptions. That page looks like this:
Be a charter member
If you subscribe before January 31, 2012, you'll have a nifty little medal on your profile indicating you're one of Kong Plus' charter members. Like so:
But I'm just a regular Kong user. What does this mean for me?
Well, it means that if you'd like some cool new features, you have the opportunity to get them for a whole year for about the price of this. And that thing only works in the winter, and chances are if you're a regular Kong user, you don't spend hours and hours out in the snow.
If it's not your thing, or you don't really feel like paying for features like those, there's good news! The Kong you know and love isn't going to be one bit different. Everything you can have and use now, you can still have and use! We're definitely still committed to offering a great place to hang out to people who want stuff for free because, well, a lot of us came to this site because we were in college and cheapskates. And I can assure you the day will never come when Kong stops reminding me just a little of microwaved ramen. Mmmmm. Raaaamen.


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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Berniece G. Everhart, 79, life long resident of Herington, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, at the Herington Municipal Hospital. She was born Nov. 30, 1933, in rural Herington, the daughter of Gottfried and Sadie Brunner.
Funeral service will be at 10:30 am, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, Herington, with Pastor Bill Peterson officiating; burial will follow at the Sunset Hill Cemetery. Friends may call Friday from 3 pm until 7 p.m. at the Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home, Herington Chapel.
Mrs. Everhart was a homemaker. She was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran Church, where she went to parochial school, was baptized, confirmed and married.
She married Charles "Bob" R. Everhart on Aug. 1, 1970, at St. Paul's; he survives. Survived by three sons: Raymond Staatz (wife-Teresa) of Pipestone, Minn., Ronald Staatz of Herington,
Dennis Everhart of Konawa, Okla.; a daughter Terri Gravley (husband-Mitch) of Kansas City; a brother Floyd Brunner of Paris, Texas; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by her first husband Kenneth Staatz on July 13, 1969; three brothers (Alvin, Ervin, Edwin), and four sisters (Bertha Wendlandt, Esther Kohlieber, Helen Alt, Clara Longhofer), and her parents.
The family requests memorials, in lieu of flowers, to the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Herington Hospital Foundation, or Dickinson County Hospice; and they may be sent in care of the Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home & Crematory, Herington Chapel, 404 S. Broadway, Herington, KS 67449-3038.
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"More than two-thirds of small business owners support increasing the federal minimum wage, up from $7.25 an hour, and adjusting it yearly to reflect the cost of living:
A 67% majority of small business owners agree the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour should increase, and that it should be adjusted annually to keep pace with the cost of living. Moreover, almost four in 10 (36%) strongly agree."
Small Business Majority
NEW YORK (AP) -- Small business owners support raising the federal minimum wage because they believe it will help the economy and, in turn, enable small companies to hire more workers.
That's the finding of a survey released Wednesday by the Small Business Majority, a group that advocates on behalf of small businesses. Two-thirds of the 500 owners in the survey supported an increase in the current minimum hourly wage of $7.25 coupled with an annual adjustment for inflation. Eighty-five percent said they pay their employees more than the minimum.
The survey's results are at odds with the stand against a higher minimum wage taken by other small business groups. But nearly two-thirds of the owners surveyed said a higher minimum would increase consumer spending and allow small companies to hire more employees.


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Siesta Key Bonjour Cafe building sold
Published: Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 9:52 p.m.
SIESTA KEY - An Osprey investor has bought the building housing Bonjour Cafe & Crepes for $1.35 million.
The buyer of the 7,826-square-foot restaurant at 5214 Ocean Blvd. was Ocean Blvd, an Osprey company managed by Christopher J. Brown, records show.
The seller was Kauffman Family Partnership 1 Ltd., a Sarasota company managed by Mark S. Kauffman. Kauffman had paid $465,700 for the building in May 1996.
The deal was Brown's second restaurant purchase in 12 months. In February, he paid $156,800 for a 2,527-square-foot drive-through restaurant at 106 N. Tamiami Trail in Osprey, records show.
In November, Brown bought a 24,336-square-foot office building and adjacent retail plaza in downtown Sarasota for $2.8 million. Companies managed by Brown bought the properties -- at 1718 and 1734 Main St. -- in an all-cash deal from MFC Company Inc., a subsidiary of Northern Trust Bank.
Brown has said he does not plan to build anything in place of the buildings, which are 63 percent occupied, for the foreseeable future.
This story appeared in print on page D1
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Chris Field, a leader of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will speak Jan. 10 in Stateline, Nev.
Field was one of two scientists chosen to represent the IPCC in Oslo, Norway, to accept the award. He is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, professor of biological sciences at Standford University and faculty director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. He was also part of the Nobel Prize winning team that assessed the scientific, technical, environmental, economic and social aspects of the vulnerability (sensitivity and adaptability) to climate change and the negative and positive consequences for ecological systems, socio-economic sectors and human health, with an emphasis on regional and cross-sectoral issues.
Field's presentation at the Tahoe South Operation Sierra Storm Meteorologist Conference will take place from 8-9:30 a.m. at Harveys Cabaret Theater in Stateline, Nev. Free seating is limited, so reservations are required and must be made by 5 p.m. Monday.
To make a reservation, visit http://tinyurl.com/OSS-Field. For more information, call 775-588-2412 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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At one point during "The Fifth Estate," Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) debates with colleagues whether to simply dump thousands of classified documents onto his website without actually reading them all -- or at least redacting names. "WikiLeaks doesn't edit," he says, simply.
For a movie that jump-starts its plot without much context during the first half, it's a surprisingly simple and effective summation of Assange and the crux of the WikiLeaks debate: Where does the public need to know end and the need for government secrecy begin?
It's a complicated issue, one that needs to be presented on the big screen in a similarly complicated way. But the problem with "The Fifth Estate," which opens Friday, is that it hits the ground sprinting like an action movie, and the big ideas don't solidify until it slows down enough to let the story's inherent suspense emerge.
Perhaps that's the danger in making a film in which you have to fill in the blanks while the real history is still shaking itself out.
Based on the books "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" by German tech activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg (played by Daniel Brühl) and "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy," by David Leigh and Luke Harding, "The Fifth Estate" centers on Assange and Domscheit-Berg and their quest to expose government secrets on their Internet platform. Before long, they're scooping the established news media and drawing scrutiny from powerful people by exposing death squads in Kenya, fraud inside a Swiss bank and U.S. military prisoner abuses.
Rather than tell the story chronologically, director Bill Condon ("Kinsey," "Dreamgirls") hops around in time and seems to throw us into the middle of a movie that started before we got to the theater. All of this makes it difficult to fathom just why these online crusaders are determined enough to put themselves in so much danger. For better or worse, Assange's motives remain ambiguous enough to leave viewers still wondering about him when the film is done. Some dream sequences and flashbacks are meant to add context and shed light on motives, but they just muddy the waters.
When he's given enough time and space to stretch out his portrayal, Cumberbatch is great in the role, capturing Assange's complex persona -- at times admirable, at times abrasive -- and dogged determination. However, his bromance drama with Brühl doesn't add much to the film.
The story gets bigger and much better when military whistle-blower Bradley Manning enters the picture. Manning, who has since changed genders and now identifies herself as Chelsea Manning, is not portrayed by an actor but simply appears in a photo. As the source of what's been called the biggest classified intelligence breach in history, Manning prompts WikiLeaks and other media outlets to grapple with what to do with the information while U.S. officials scramble to limit the damage (Laura Linney is typically convincing as a diplomat watching her career crumble as she tries countering the leaks). Finally, the film confronts the ethical questions that should have been at the heart of "The Fifth Estate" from the start. In addition, the focus on shifting ethical attitudes in a new information society finally takes hold and drives the movie. (Matters such as Assange's arrest on suspicion of sexual assault and his extradition fight are covered briefly at film's end but do not overshadow the bigger points.)
Ultimately, "The Fifth Estate" accomplishes its intent: offering some insight into an important milestone in history and prompting viewers to question and debate what they have just witnessed. Unfortunately, it takes too long to get there.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.
'The Fifth Estate'
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Rating: R (for language
and some violence)
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci
Director: Bill Condon
Running time: 2 hours, 8 minutes


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SAN JOSE -- A husky arrestee used a bit of leeway in his restraints and a handcuff trick to fly the coop Wednesday afternoon, when he stole a police van from detectives who had just taken him into custody on probation warrants, authorities said.
About 3:30 p.m., detectives arrested Anthony Sanchez, 32, on drug-related warrants in the 800 block of Hillsdale Avenue, said San Jose police spokesman Sgt. Jason Dwyer.
They put him into the back of an unmarked police minivan, and an officer stood near the vehicle doing paperwork when Sanchez made his move.
"They had double-cuffed him," Dwyer said. "Ironically they did it to help him; linked two sets of cuffs so that it would lessen the stress on his shoulders and the guy took advantage of it."
Sanchez apparently slipped the linked cuffs under his body to get his hands in front of him, then maneuvered into the driver's seat and sped off. The keys had been in the ignition.
"He hopped over the seats and bam, he's off," Dwyer said.
The van was found about 5:30 p.m. near Almaden Expressway and Wren Drive, a mile away.
"We weren't afraid of losing the car forever," Dwyer said. "Typically in a case like this, auto thieves don't take the car for a very long time and don't take it very far."
Nothing was stolen from the van, Dwyer said, which unlike a standard patrol car doesn't have a cage between the front and rear seats.
Sanchez, a San Jose resident, remains at large, but is not believed to be dangerous, Dwyer said. He is described as Latino, 5-foot-8 to 5-foot 10, 250 to 275 pounds, and was last seen wearing black sweats and a gray sweatshirt.
Dwyer said there was no indication that Sanchez was a flight risk and called it "unfortunate" that he chose to run from a routine matter.
"It's just one of those things," he said. "When somebody runs, when you ask them why they say they didn't want to go back to jail. But the situation is he was on probation -- he wasn't going to go back for very long. Now he's looking at a new case that could have been avoided."


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Jackson County deputy surveyor Scot Fein was officially appointed to the department's top post today.
The Jackson County Board of Commissioners appointed Fein officially, following a recommendation from County Administrator Danny Jordan. Fein had managed the surveyor's office following surveyor Kerry Bradshaw's July death in a car crash.
"We're impressed with his knowledge and effort," said Commissioner John Rachor.
Fein won the Nov. 6 election, taking almost 50 percent of the votes in a three-way race. He will start his official four-year term Jan. 7, 2013.
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Microsoft Shares: How High Will They Go?
So far, so good for Satya.
Shares of Microsoft closed Monday at $40.99, the highest level since July 2000. The stock is up 9.6% this year, a rally that has coincided with the arrival of new CEO Satya Nadella early last month. That's heartening, especially considering the 40% drop in market value that Microsoft suffered during the 14-year tenure of previous CEO Steve Ballmer.
As WSJ's Dan Gallagher reported, Mr. Nadella is off to a good start. He made his first public showing at a small press event in San Francisco last week to launch the company's popular Office suite for Apple iPad. He also announced new services designed to help companies manage fleets of mobile and PC devices regardless of operating system.
A more important test comes this week, as the company kicks off its annual Build developers' conference. Historically, this is where Microsoft previews forthcoming updates to its Windows operating system, and lately has included announcements of new devices as well.
Gallagher joins digits to preview the event and to analyze just how much longer Mr. Nadella can keep the good times rolling.


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So Tasty
It's not often that one of our coffees gets its own blog post, but the Ruthagati is absolutely insane right now. Pick up a bag at any of the cafes or on the website if you want to try one of the best coffees on the planet. Or stop into the new Pac Ave store and ask them to make you a pour-over with it. I'm sure you'll love it. Here are our notes from the cupping lab: Apricot Nectar, Fudge, Syrupy


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Times past for March 7
March 7, 2013
100 years ago ¯ Members of the Marietta police force are expected to get a $10 increase in salary. Lieutenants will get an increase of $15, and the chief an increase of $....
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