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This blog entry is to inform you about two great pieces of news about Free Software Magazine, which involve our web site and our blog section.
First things first: we have just finished updating our web site so that it runs the latest version of Drupal. I must admit that I was waiting for the version 4.7.1 of our web site to do this: I never trust version ".0" of anything!
Now that we are running an "official" version of Drupal, we can say it: overall, we can say that the Drupal version of our web site was a great success. Dave (Guard) and I did the whole thing together: it took countless hours, several thousands lines of of code, and a lot of patience (especially when it became a matter of importing the information...).
In the end, I only had to patch a few of Drupal's core files to get our web site exactly how we wanted it (and yes, please do allow me to show off):
[[email protected] modules]# ls -l *ORIG* -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 10062 Jun 1 03:20 archive.module.ORIG -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 12029 Jun 1 02:08 blog.module.ORIG -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 90074 May 14 19:57 node.module.ORIG -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 52091 May 24 14:21 taxonomy.module.ORIG [[email protected] modules]#
I also wrote a workflow-orientated module that has served us fantastically well, and that will be released soon under a free license.
This upgrade came at the same time as the less technical decision that we would focus a lot more on the blogs.
For this reason, we have reorganised the blog section of our site so that our top authors will keep a regular blog (and yes, that includes me...). The goal, we admit it, is to build up a community of people who come back to our site and comment on what our authors have to say. It's also to keep us in touch with you, our readers, so that we can improve our web site and hear from you on a daily basis.
So... please keep an eye on our site. We have delivered Free Software Magazine for over one and a half years, and now we aim at delivering a fantastic web site with the best free software bloggers on the planet.
Stay tuned!
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I think my RSS aggregator has just gone to University and got an education!
RSS? We have RSS? Where is it?
It's really, really looking good, Tony. I'm really happy to be a part of this show.
And will blog. Honest. Really. I mean it.
It probably shows, that I'm not really a natural blogger, though. I tend to write, you know, epics. My Mom still ribs me about my long-windedness.
But I digress. The move to Drupal is a big improvement, and I find both the front and back end of this site much more navigable as a result.


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Elon Musk's Quiet Winner: SolarCity Up 20% This Week
Elon Musk might be battling a pretty grim write up of the flaghsip Model S sedan made by Tesla Motors, but another of his companies has had a much brighter couple of days: shares in solar power company SolarCity are up almost 20% so far this week, and have now more than doubled since their IPO in December.
SolarCity hasn't made news of its own this week, but many are attributing the price jump to a report released on Monday by green energy research shop GTM Research. The report looked into the market for the third-party ownership (TPO) model of residential solar power systems, predicting the market will grow at an average of 39% every year from now to 2016.
The TPO model, employed by SolarCity and others, lets homeowners install a solar system on their rooftops without having to lay down the $15,000-20,000 such a system can cost.
Instead, a company like SolarCity pays for the installation (and often looks after maintenance and support as well), and the homeowner rents the system from them — and hopefully makes a profit on the difference between the rental payments and the amount being saved on electricity bills.
This has proven very popular in America's most solar-friendly states, and now accounts for about 70% of all solar installations in California, Arizona and Colorado, reaching up to 90% in Arizona.
And the overall market for this will boom, GTM expects, more than quadrupling from 2012-2016:
Solar installation is still a fragmented market, with the top six installers accounting for less than 35% of the total market, and dozens of smaller players splitting the rest. But it is consolidating, and that trend plays into the hands of SolarCity, the biggest company in the market. whose share grew from 12.8% in the first quarter of 2012 to 18.8% in the third.
The other big factor benefiting SolarCity, according to the report, is the company's national position — it has spread across the country faster then its competitors, hitting the east and west coasts as well as Texas, something none of the other big players has done. That will become more important in the coming years, as solar installations become a national trend, not just one anchored in the ever-sunny southwest – note the growing share of "other states" here:
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After The IPO: What Lies Ahead For Solar City – CI

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As a new parent I recall the sympathetic looks that often flashed my way when I tried, sometimes more successfully than others, to corral two preschoolers. People would quip lightheartedly, "they just don't hand out a manual when they send those kids home, do they?" Or, in more stressful moments overhearing during a fray that "there really should be a permit required before some people are allowed to have kids."
When the girls were younger, upon learning the class called "Love and Logic" was being offered locally, my husband and I embarked on our first structured parenting class. Surely, our path had been previously travelled by others far wiser, so why not learn from experience? The class soon clued us in on the beauty of allowing kids to make choices, like whether they wanted corn or carrots for dinner, and how shifting control on small decisions often diffused parental frustration. We learned too that natural consequences offered a meaningful alternative to "I told you so," and our vocabulary adjusted, extending words of sympathy to a freezing kid who just happened to refuse a coat on a sub-zero day. Merrily we sailed toward tween years, still firmly at the helm of the ship.
Recently, realizing the choices have become more complex than "juice or milk with that?" I was intrigued by the Family and Intercultural Resources Center (FIRC) offering for an "Active Parenting for Teens" class. Sure, it may have been the fact the whole concept of "logic" flies in the face of adolescence, or maybe recognizing that "like" is more than I can muster during some of our trying teen moments. Since the kids had graduated to new experiences, a parental brush up seemed in order. Besides, this surely was my kind of class. Written on the welcome page was a true welcome, "we know your schedules and life get crazy, please join us even if you arrive late."
When I told the kids I was off to a parenting class they initially pleaded with me not to go. What if someone actually saw me there? Or worse still, what if I actually knew some of the other parents? Their fears were not unfounded. It seems many Summit County parents of teens are willing to once again sit in a classroom chair, one size too small, for a couple of hours each week in search of pearls of parenting wisdom. So popular is the class that an extra session had to be added, something the folks at FIRC kindly accommodated.
The first lesson from our first class wasn't really related to a specific parenting skill at all. Instead, I learned it's OK to acknowledge that the answers to the teen years (and beyond) are not innately imbedded in a mothering gene that only I have not fully developed. There's also great comfort in knowing we're not alone in thinking there must be more to learn out there.
One of our first homework assignments was to take time to have fun with the kids. So I did. When they asked me what I learned in parenting class I calmly explained our teacher thought it important to expect nothing less than complete submission (and adoration) from our teenagers. Maybe that was not the kind of "fun" our facilitator imagined. Our daughter didn't buy it either. She was however fixated on the fact we learned full development of the cerebral cortex typically doesn't occur until the age of 26. We then both imagined all the behavior she thought she just might be able to pass off on brain development for the next 13 years, or so.
The day following class our oldest made an off-the-cuff comment that it's really "weird" that we are the only thinking species that studies how we think. I then thought we likely occupy the same weird spot as the only species that takes the time to examine how we parent. My thanks to FIRC for letting us be weird together.
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The Los Altos Hills City Council rejected a request this week to record meetings of its Finance & Investment Committee.
Councilman John Harpootlian said recordings would bring transparency to a committee that makes "million dollar decisions" without much public scrutiny.
"I think the council is more professional with the videotape," Harpootlian said about the move several years ago to record and stream council meetings. "It makes a huge difference."
But the rest of the council panned the idea.
"I'm all for the transparency and the openness, but it's, like, 'Wow, if you really want to know what happens, why don't you got to the meetings?'" Councilman Rich Larsen told Harpootlian. "That would be my suggestion."
Appointed by the council, the committee is charged with, among other things, helping develop five-year capital budgets and revenue projections, reviewing the annual budget, and making investment recommendations.
The committee ranges in size from five to 11 members, including the mayor and vice mayor.
According to the town's website, appointees are required to have one of the following qualifications: five years of accounting and financial experience in a public corporation, municipal government or privately held business; five years of experience as a financial officer of a public corporation; five years of experience as an investment officer of a FDIC member institution; five years of experience as a money manager who specializes in corporate or government agency issues; or five years of experience in investment banking, venture capital or general management.
"It's the smartest guys in the room. It's the guys with green eyeshades. It's the guys who like to do what nobody else likes to do," Harpootlian said about the committee. "We're lucky to have them."
But he said he has often wished for recordings so that he could better understand how some recommendations were reached.
"I can go back to the minutes that I have, but you don't get a detailed item-by-item," he said.
Larsen was among several council members who expressed concern that recording the meetings would "drive away good talent."
"What I am against is taping these meetings and putting that onus on a committee to be scrutinized," added Vice Mayor Courtenay Corrigan. "I think video can be misused and misappropriated. I don't think that's fair to ask of committee members on any of our committees in our town."
Corrigan also rejected criticism from one member of the public that not recording the meetings equated to secrecy. "These meetings are properly noticed," she said. "The agendas are both online and in the bulletin boards. Anyone is free to attend and participate."
That includes Harpootlian, said Councilman Gary Waldeck, addressing Harpootlian's concerns about running afoul of the state's open government law. He would, however, be limited to attending as a resident.
"If we impose recording processes other than just the minutes that the secretary takes," Waldeck said, "I'm very concerned you're going to actually deteriorate the quality of the service that we get from these committees."
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When I go into the lyrics section of TW and do a search on "test"the search result does not include -Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)Why is this?(edited)And if I search on the word "meander", I get an empty list.Yet meander appears in the song -Across The Universe.
Edited by steveo on 12/29/03 08:35 PM (server time).
Because the search function is not working.KArt | Project Michelangelo | LiveJournal
That's a shame.460 Bowie songs on file.Can the search function be fixed ?
Only Evan could do it (since he is the only one who can edit the antire site, Adam can make changes in the CP only), and he hasn't been around very much in the last few years, has he?KArt | Project Michelangelo | LiveJournal
Bah! I was about to tell you that you could get all the lyrics as a text file from TW's music section, and then search in that one -- but apparently that file existed on another site hallospaceboy.com which is now discontinued. So... that option is also closed. and one hand on the handle of the mad/sane door
You can use Google's advanced search to search lyrics at TW.Click on the "advanced search" link the right of the search field (where you type words you're searching for)Once you're on the advanced search page type your term(s) and scroll down to "Domain". Type in teenagewildlife.com and then run your search.FYI, you cannot, apparently, search the TW boards this way, but my test of "meander" did pull down the lyrics for "Across the Universe". A search for "test" pulled down several pages of crap from the old guestbook boards and news section, but I'm sure the Baby Grace lyrics were in there somewhere. Unfortunately, it does not appear you can further limit the search to only certain parts of TW, like teenagewildlife.com/Albums (where all the lyrics are).And the circus boss leans over, whispers into the little boy's ear, "Hey son, you want to try the big top?" ~ Springsteen
The easiest way to find phrases in Bowie lyrics by Google is to type the phrase you are looking for in quotation marks and add the words Bowie and lyrics. Example: "waiting in the sky" Bowie lyrics. This will get you loads of lyric sources that include "Starman", TW included. Obviously this is getting more difficult if you only search with one single word of a song. And I want to believeIn the madness that calls 'now'


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Ever since I first fired up KDE on openSuSE, I've been in love. The KDE interface just swept me off my feet. But there's always been one nagging thing. Firefox and Thunderbird stick out like two sore thumbs. They don't look like KDE apps (see figure 1 and figure 4), they don't work with KDE programs (like KPrinter), and they just don't feel like they belong in KDE. Luckily, since both of these apps have support for add-ons, it is easy to remedy this.
Making Firefox and Thunderbird look like KDE apps
To start off, let's add a nice theme. My favorite for both Firefox and Thunderbird is Mostly Crystal (especially since it has support for theming extensions like Go Up). If you don't like Mostly Crystal, there are tons of other Firefox themes including:
- the Plastikfox themes from Mozillux,
- Plastikfox Crystal Clear,
- CrystalFox Modern,
- CrystalFox Classic,
- CrystalFox RoundedStyle,
- CrystalFox Cute,
- Crystal Lite,
- Polyesterfox, and
- Doodle Plastik.
Thunderbird users can use my favorite Mostly Crystal, Plastikthunder, or Doodle Plastik for Thunderbird. If you can't choose, download all of them, and then try each one.
Now that the themes are installed, it's time for more advanced theming. First, install the CuteMenus—Crystal SVG extension (Firefox version, Thunderbird version). All of your Firefox and Thunderbird menus should now have Crystal icons.
In GNU/Linux, Firefox and Thunderbird use the GNOME file picker. But why use that when you could use a KDE file picker? In Firefox 2.0 and higher, just open
about:config, look for the boolean
ui.allow_platform_file_picker, and change it to
false. You can do the same: just open
about:config in Thunderbird 1.5 or later via
Tools→Options→Advanced→General→Config Editor (button), and change
ui.allow_platform_file_picker to
false. See figure 3 for the final result:
The last tool you'll need is the Konquefox extension. This adds a Clear URL button, a Go Up button, and some zoom buttons to make Firefox look a little more like Konqueror.
Making Firefox and Thunderbird work with KDE apps (and vice versa)
Just because Firefox and Thunderbird look like they are KDE apps doesn't mean they work nicely with them. You don't have access to powerful KDE utilities like KPrinter, KGet, or Kate. Also, KDE doesn't exactly play nicely with Firefox or Thunderbird either (it prefers Konqueror and Kmail). Luckily, it's easy to fix many of these problems.
I use KPrinter for handling my printers. Unfortunately, the Mozilla apps don't work with KPrinter by default. So it's time to open up
about:config again. Set
print.printer_PostScript/Default.print_command to
kprinter --stdin and
print.always_print_silent to
true. When printing, make sure you choose Postscript/default (leaving "Print to file" unchecked) and then click the Print button. At this point you will get the KPrinter dialog. Note that this may not work for Thunderbird.
KGet is one of my favorite download managers. But Firefox and Thunderbird by default won't recognize anything except their own (and extremely weak) download manager. So, get the FlashGot extension (Thunderbird version here). Then go to
Tools→Add-ons, open FlashGot's preferences, and change the download manager to KDE KGet. Whenever you want to download a file using KGet, just choose the option to use FlashGot instead of the Mozilla download manager.
KDE comes with Konqueror and Kmail set as the default web browser and email client. However, I prefer the deadly duo of Firefox and Thunderbird. To change them to become the default programs, open KControl, open KDE Components, and click on Default Applications. Change the Email Client to
thunderbird. Then open Web Browser, change the option to open
http and
https URLs to
firefox, and hit Apply. Now, every time you click on a
http://, or
https:// link, Thunderbird or Firefox will open.
One of the few things I miss are the Windows Media, QuickTime, and Real Media plugins that Windows and Macintosh users have access to. That all stopped when I found the Kaffeine plugin for Firefox. Just install the kaffeine-mozilla plugin, and Firefox will stream files that Kaffeine supports using the Kaffeine plugin.
Occasionally, the tools that Firefox supply don't do the job I want. If you agree, just use Launchy for both Firefox and Thunderbird. Add the program to the
launchy.xml file (see the homepage for more). Then whenever you want to open a page in an external program, click the Launchy button and click the appropriate menu item.
Although Firefox and Thunderbird are, out of the box, extremely non-KDEish, the power of add-ons has made it so that both can look like, feel like, and work with KDE apps (see figure 4 and figure 5 for the final product). The developers are also working on fixing platform issues. They are planning to add support for KWallet (Bug 278343), KDE-like keyboard shortcut dialogs (Bugs 57805 and 257241), and much more (see Platform Integration at the Mozilla wiki). But that shouldn't be a big surprise. The combination of the excellent developers and terrific add-ons are two of the reasons Firefox has over 30% of the browser market share, and Thunderbird remains one of the most popular free software email clients.
Further reading:[1]HOWTO Integrate Firefox with KDE[2]Mozillux[3]Konquefox Tricks
Nice article! Have you ever managed to integrate kwalletmanager with Firefox?
I know Firefox has its own way of storing passwords, but I prefer kwalletmanager - also because it already has tons of passwords saved...
I tried, but I couldn't. The good news is, Mozilla is working on this (see Bug 278343). Who knows when it will be added, but at least they're working on it.
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One more thing needed for KPrinter integration...
You may also want to add one other option in about:config for KPrinter. If you install a printer through CUPS, it will default to that printer and start printing to it without confirmation if you enable the silent flag! You can get around that by disabling CUPS in Firefox / Thunderbird, but you'll still have the option to print a CUPS printer once KPrinter comes up. Add the following boolean and set it to "False":
With those 3 flags set, everytime you hit Print it'll automatically launch KPrinter and you'll have your CUPS printers as well as the defaults (PDF, fax, etc.).
This only sets it for the current user's profile though. If you want to set it as a default for all future new profiles created for all users, you have to edit the main prefs.js file.
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Thank You
As a linux newbie, one of my big gripes with Open SUSE 10.2 was that while it did install Firefox as a browser, it didn't install Thunderbird, and neither app played nicely with KDE. You have solved my problem, and now I am happily using Thunderbird in a shared environment (small vfat partition between XP Pro x64 and SUSE), and using Foxmarks to synch my bookmarks between theFirefox on the two partitions.
This is very important to me in order to transition from Windows to SUSE, as I can use my two most frequently used programs (e-mail client & browser) seamlessly and synched, while I explore the mysteries of the linux command line & lampp on the two platforms. It will also help me show friends that operating systems are less important when key apps work in any number of platforms without having to relearn basics.
ui.allow_platform_file_picker doesn't exists
ui.allow_platform_file_picker doesn't exists in my about:config neither config editor.
Opening files with external apps
Is there any way of getting a KDE dialogue, or using the KDE list of apps when a file needs to be opened in an external app?
Incidentally, setting ui.allow_platform_file_picker to false does not use a KDE file picker, it uses a Mozilla one instead of a Gnome one. If you have a KDE look-alike theme installed it looks like the KDE dialogue, but it does not work like one. I want the FUNCTIONALITY of the KDE dialogue.
still can't open firefox by clicking on a link in tbird
I just (6 days) moved from win2k to a slackware 12 box running kde. I've been using mozilla since it was netscape 1.x ;-).
Anyway, I've followed the steps here and greatly appreciate the smoother integration, but the most important items still don't work.
Specifically if I have a link in an email like:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/integrating_firefox_and_thunderbird_into_kde, when I click on the link in tbird, nothing happens (despite making the changes noted in kcontrol). Not even Konqueror comes up.
And the "inverse" is true. If I right click on a page in firefox and choose "send link" -- again, nothing. Not even Kmail (or whatever it's called).
I've upgraded to ff and tb 18.104.22.168.
Any clues where else to look to get this working better?
Thanks again for the article (nice to have kget)
@Sak about editing prefs.js -- it's easier an way more repeatable to create a user.js file and just drop it into your profile directory. I use it extensively in my windows-based clients to make the cache directory store on a local hard drive, and the mail and other parts of the profile store on a network share (where it gets backed up). I also use a user.js with tbird for some imap mumbo-jumbo.


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The debug.log I provided for you was during a period where I was watching a show. I started pms-mlx up, went and watched a whole show through pms-mlx on the PS3, ended the show @ 100% completion, and uploaded the debug.log to the forum. I just went and looked at the most recent entries in the debug.log after my wife watched a few shows on the PS3 & searched for any "started playing" entries (and other variations of search words) and couldn't find any.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "Is the play length being shown correct?" When I look at a show on the PS3, the information about the show is correct (i.e. it will show an episode's length being around 42 min.).


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It's been more than month since 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and two other NFL players were named in a police incident report filed by a 25-year-old woman in Miami.
Kaepernick and the two other players -- Quinton Patton and Ricardo Lockette -- have been mum about the details in the ongoing investigation. But Kaepernick, who took to Twitter last month to defend himself, revisited the issue on the social media site Wednesday -- one day after Miami police released 911 calls related to the case.
"On 911 calls, I'm glad the truth is getting out. Info that came out earlier was totally wrong. I look forward to this matter being resolved," he tweeted about 12:05 p.m.
The ongoing investigation centers around an April 2 incident at a Miami apartment where an unidentified woman reportedly refused to leave while laying naked in a bed.
"I want to report there's a young lady in my friend's bed," said one caller, believed to be Kaepernick's friend Lockette, a Seattle Seahawks wide receiver.
"He's not here. She's going to wait in his bed. She's not leaving. We asked her to leave. We told her he won't be here tonight. She said she's not leaving until she sees him."
The woman was taken by Miami Fire Rescue to a nearby hospital and subsequently filed an incident report with Miami police, who classified it as a "suspicious incident." No charges have been filed and police have not accused anyone of a crime.
The case remains an open investigation, according to Miami police spokesperson Frederica Burden, who on Tuesday said: "Everything is pending, everything is still open." That includes medical tests that were done on the 25-year-old woman at the hospital.
Kaepernick has denied any wrongdoing, though he referred to the incident as a "bad circumstance, a bad situation" while speaking Friday at a Turlock event.
On April 11, Kaepernick responded to the incident on Twitter, stating in part: "I take great pride in who I am and what I do, but I guess sometimes you have to deal with someone who makes things up."
Police released audio of two separate 911 calls made from the Viceroy suite apparently belonging to Kaepernick and shared by Lockette and Patton. While police would not confirm that Lockette was one of the callers -- as previously reported by the Sacramento Bee -- the other caller was a hotel security guard.
The security guard said the resort had a guest whose visitor didn't want to leave. When he asked the woman what her name was, "she said her name was Jesus," he said on the 911 audio. Asked by the 911 operator if the woman was violent, the security guard said no, that "she's just crying."
On the other call, the 911 operator also asked if the woman was all right.
"She actually took her clothes off and laid in the bed," the caller responded.
"So she's fully naked on the bed?" asked the operator.
"So she's waiting for her boyfriend? Is that it?"
Replied the caller: "He's not her boyfriend. He's just someone she wants to sleep with. But he's not here so she went and got in bed naked and said she's staying there until he got back."
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Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment. Pentagon
For the first time, the Pentagon's primary planning document addresses the threat of global warming, noting that it will accelerate instability and conflict around the globe. Former Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) added language requiring the department to consider the effects of climate change on its facilities, capabilities, and missions to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. The Department of Defense's Quadrennial Defense Review (PDF), officially released today, discusses the department's "strategic approach to climate and energy":
Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment.
Although they produce distinct types of challenges, climate change, energy security, and economic stability are inextricably linked.The actions that the Department takes now can prepare us to respond effectively to these challenges in the near term and in the future.
The QDR notes that climate change affects the Department of Defense "in two broad ways": first, global warming impacts and disasters will "act as an accelerant of instability or conflict," and second, military installations and forces around the globe will have to adapt to rising seas, increased extreme weather, and other effects of global warming:
Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments. Climate change will contribute to food and water scarcity, will increase the spread of disease, and may spur or exacerbate mass migration. While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.
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Former Ellender High and Nicholls State men's basketball player Trevon Lewis said he will transfer to play at Angelo State University, beginning next year.
Lewis said he signed his scholarship papers to play at Angelo State, a NCAA Division II college based in San Angelo, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon.
Lewis led the Colonels in scoring (12.6 points per game) and rebounding (5.1 points per game) last season and was named the Southland Conference's Freshman of the Year.
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The saga goes on and on, seemingly without real developments, except that the lack of development is sort of a large development all itself.
The A's want to move to San Jose, are getting more and more frustrated and apparently anguished about the delay, and the more it's delayed, the more likely that the nothingness solidifies into reality.
I'm also wondering -- just being real here, stripping away some of the political drama -- where the money is going to come from to placate the Giants (if any number will do), build a stadium and make sure the other owners are made whole here.
I'll throw out my loose math a little later in the item, but let's try to hammer down a couple of points here:
1. MLB, by all indications, is not going to force the Giants to give up their territorial rights to San Jose without major concessions.
Bud Selig is not the commissioner to go into a room and shove something this big down any team's throat, and it's obvious by now that he doesn't have the votes to do it, even if he wanted to.
Doesn't matter that the A's only gave up the rights to Santa Clara County to help save the Giants long ago, doesn't matter -- IN THIS ARGUMENT -- that the A's surely would be better off if they were in San Jose.
Baseball isn't going to do this unilaterally. If it was going to do it, this would've happened two or three years ago.
The Giants are bountifully successful in some large part because they control the Santa Clara market (and the Peninsula, by the way); this is NOT a small thing.
Despite the A's pleas, baseball is committed to finding a solution involving diplomacy, not commissioner fiat; so far, zippo on that.
2. The Giants aren't willing to negotiate on a price to waive their territorial rights -- their position is they don't want a team in San Jose, PERIOD.
It's a fair position, if ruthless. By ruthless, I mean it zeroes out any sympathy for the plight of the A's, and if taken to the Nth degree, quite possibly pushes the A's out of the Bay Area or out of existence.
But the Giants are a business and this is their right. If they ever start to talk about a price, it's going to be LARGE. Starting with a number larger than $100M, I've heard mentioned. Probably much larger than that.
3. If Selig coalesces some push to figure out a number that would make the Giants happy, the money will have to come from the revenue-sharing side.
That's where this gets very, very complicated.
From what I understand, and if you know the situation, the A's are not in the position to put up $100M, $150M, $200M or whatever the number theoretically might be to satisfy the Giants.
Wolff and John Fisher aren't in this situation to pay out that kind of dough. No way, no chance. They'd rather sell than do this. In fact, selling is now probably the most likely option.
But this is not about the sell option. That's for later.
This is about coming up with the money, and it won't be Wolff and Fisher. That's not how these deals are done, anyway -- when MLB moved the Expos to Washington D.C., they cut a deal with the Orioles that included massive percentages of the new Nationals' local TV deal.
More complications: The A's, unlike the Expos, are not owned by MLB (yet).
The A's, unlike the Expos/Nationals, would not be moving into a mostly new TV territory. Baltimore has some overlap into D.C., but not much. It's fractional.
The A's and Giants essentially operate in the same media market... and while I guess the A's could presume to gain viewership if they were in San Jose, it's not by leaps and bounds.
Comcast might out of the goodness of its heart decide to pay the A's more than the $15M or so I approximate for their annual rights fee if the A's were in SJ, not Oakland, but Comcast has a long existing contract and I do not know why Comcast would do that, anyway.
So where would the money come from? The other owners aren't digging into their pockets to pay off the Giants, I can tell you that.
It'd come from the future revenue-sharing, that's where.
The A's got a little more than $30M last year. The Giants paid more than $40M.
If you spread-sheet this out, you could sketch a way for the Giants to get almost all of the A's revenue-sharing money, over a five-, six-, seven- or whatever-year span.
The A's would be in a new stadium in four or five years, at that point potentially reaping $70M+ in extra revenue just from the stadium once it opens. (But that new stadium is scaled so small that I don't know if that number is actually get-able.)
Would enough owners be happy with the Giants eating up $30M in annual revenue-sharing checks over a long period of time?
Would the Giants even agree to this? And could the A's owners stomach going without that check -- perhaps starting in 2014 or 2015 at the latest?
I think that's highly questionable, and maybe some of that is improbable.
If the A's owners can't do it without the $30M check, then the other owners would be looking at funding BOTH teams for a few years... and I definitely cannot see that happening.
This is complicated. If I'm wrong on any of these suppositions, I'm sure I'll hear about it.
I've purposely chosen to stay away from some of the real nitty-gritty details. Again, I offer my general Switzerland stance:
I believe the A's probably should be in San Jose and I also believe the Giants have the right to be as ruthless as they can get away with.
I'm just trying to figure out a way this could happen, if the sides are halfway amenable to talking about it. Right now, I'm not quite seeing it. Maybe Lew Wolff and Bud Selig are getting there, too.


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Andy C on his way back to Anfield ?
Looks like Big Sam doesnt want to take Andy on a permanent transfer to WHU...So...who do u think Brendan will loan him out to for next season...Newcastle ? Or do u think he will realize its time to mend fences with Andy and have a Plan B ? Or do uthink he will just throw himoverboard to anyone who will bid anything for him on a permanent transfer (for me this last is the worst possible option and shouldnt even be entertained for a minute )Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Jason...Kenny like most managers would pick starters based on the premise horses for courses. 29 starts out of 49 sems reasonable particularly when u dont quote how many times he came off the bench i the other 20 matches. Some weeks he would likely represent a Plan B option other weeks he was a definite starter ...seems reasonable to me.
Why Hodgson doesnt want to pick him Ive no idea but then Id no idea what Hodgson was doing most of the time he was our "manager" either ! I detest International Competition football and simply consider it a risk and an unnecessary one at that to have our players swanning around the world playing these meaningless Qualifiers...sooner International Competion Football is abandoned the better imo...that many fewer games for our lads to play and no need to worry bout em coming back badly injured and ruining our season into the bargain !
With regard to mentioning the Southampton debacle ...I dont think it can be mentioned enough... to remind ourselves we should NEVER have to witness again such a pathetic spineless display by a Liverpool FC side and their totally on the day inept manager ! The club and all theplayers starters and those on the bench AND THE MANAGER should have issued an official apology to all Liverpool FC's world wide fan base and in particular those who spent their hard earned money on travelling to Southampton to witness this shambles of a performance !
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Mar 27, 2013 17:45 Flag
If Suarez goes we'll need a back-up striker. maybe Carroll & Sturridge could work well together?
Loki...I was made up with Istanbul and loved taking FA CUP v WHU....but beyond that second season I became disenchanted withhis dull hold-position counter attack tactics plus his rotation for the sake of rotation was quite frankly... barmy. I could never understand the IRWT BRIGADE and dont think Im about to subscribe to the IR(ogers)WT BRIGADE any time soon particularly after that all time spineless display at St Mary's the other week...its his job to make sure things the like of what happened at St Mary's DONT happen to our club and quite clearly he hadnt been doing his job ! That very nearly became a rout that could have led to an all time record score defeat...and if u dont think that was the case then u couldnt have been watching the same match as me.
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I agree, both fabulous moments but when you look in detail I'm far from impressed with the guy. For everything good that can be said for him I can easily counter with an argument against. That's simply a sad state of affairs.
For me the biggest thing was that to every opposition fan he was a joke, we were a laughing stock and quite honestly no one ever gave us two cents worth of respect. When that happens you then you know something isn't right in my book. He gave them opposition fans so much to feed on it was ridiculous.
I also really disliked the press leaks situation. His own little press department almost which he pitched against anyone and everyone. It was embarressing. Thankfully that stopped when he left.
Finally his ability to fall with everyone around him is his one true talent in my book along with dismantling football clubs.
I imagine that Rodgers has been given a plan to adjust his wage bill, that has been evidenced already so shifting Carroll's £80k per week from that was probably quite influencial. That is £4.2m per year, take away a £3m signing bonus and it equates to Carroll's year on loan financing 2/3rds of the Sturridge deal for instance. If it was sell to buy when he came in, then a potential of £17m for the following summer probably looked a winner in his eyes, understandable? I think so.
The gamble was that AC would score goals and look good in a side geared to his strengths and to be honest, he hasnt really, the end result would have been a decent sale figure to WHU or a sale elsewhere. His fitness problems have ended that chance, that is part and parcel of his career so far, he does struggle with it. We all know that AC wouldnt have been released if BR didnt think we were getting Sturridge and Dempsey, I very much doubt a similar mistake would be made again this summer, if he goes, it is because we have others coming.
Even if had scored 20 goals, I don't think he would have recouped his £35m do you?!
I think he will 'throw him overboard to anyone who will bid anything for him'! If he wouldnt keep him last summer then why would he this year? I think if we get a potential buyer a deal will be done quickly at a huge loss, a loan is the likely answer if a buyer doesn't surface.
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Hobs Colyn...what have u lads got against the lad ?...my feeling all along is that there was some bad blood between BR and the lad...what the hell else are we going to get for 10 mill or so he represents a plan B that we dont currently have that could in my estimation be worth at least 12pts come end of season...whats wrong with that ? He has to be worth another go round hes a professional and can play any system hes required to play and if he can get on the end of some of Downings crosses ( Nobody else seems able to ) he could be worth far more come end of season than 12pts.Another loan to save on his wages...nuts ! In the end he will become another complete financial disaster for the club like the Aquilani deal. End of last season the lad was playing well turned Terry inside out and upside down damn nearly won us the FA CUP with his "goal" played marvellously for England in ENC Who can forget his goal v Sweden ? What about the damage that he did to UniTURD putting himself about in the box who else have we got can do that ? Why do u think its impossible for BR to bury the hatchet and welcome him back ? Hell we are paying Sterling 40k a week and he cant even sit on the bench...dont notice u complaining about that Id rather sell Sterling on and welcome Andy back ...that way for all u amateur accountants out there the books balance maybe even a bit in the black on such a situation.
l also think he'll leave. I'd be very surprised if he even wants to come back to be honest. The figures wont make happy reading but I'll console myself with some semi creative accounting where we sold Torres for £15m (even that looks expensive now!) and a drop in the wage bill.
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What is Joe Lacob's general mood with the Warriors standing 31-21 and sixth in the Western Conference playoff stack?
Based on a Tuesday night phone conversation, the Warriors' co-owner is in a big wait-and-see period and he has no problem with publicly letting everyone know that he isn't thrilled with the run of home losses of late.
And he has no problem with coach Mark Jackson knowing that he isn't thrilled.
Here's a transcript of my interview:
-Q: Are you at all bothered by the way the team has stumbled lately, mostly at home?
-LACOB: Here's the thing, it's pretty simple: Expectations for this team obviously by the media and by the fans and to some extent by us as well were high this season.
I think we all want to improvement on what we were last year--we believed we have a better team at the start of the season than we were last season and I believe we do.
And the goal was to get into the top four in the West and get home-court advantage in (the first round of) the playoffs.
The way look at bottom line, net-net as we say, is that we are 31-21, and we have not played as well as we need to play. We've been very inconsistent at home. The road's been fine.
But at home we've lost a couple games—to Minnesota and to San Antonio when they played their scrubs, if you remember... and Denver and Charlotte. Maybe another, four games that we just absolutely should've won.
We didn't. And I'm not sure why.
The team wasn't ready in those games. I can't explain it—why we don't play so consistently at home as we should. We have a great home-court advantage, great fans, great atmosphere. It's not clear.
But if we had (won those games), that's the difference between really being let's say 35-17 and being 31-21 now. We could be tied essentially with the Clippers for fourth.
We're not that far off. I'm not as discouraged as some of the fans seem to be. Let's wait 'til the end of the season to see where things end up.
We obviously need to fix this consistency thing, but we're still within spitting distance and still have some tie to achieve our goal, which is to get to fourth in the West.
But it's not going to be easy--we've squandered some home games.
So my answer to your question overall: I'm a little disappointed,. But not overly concerned yet.
-Q: Are you happy with the job Mark Jackson and his staff is doing?
-LACOB: I think you're always evaluating everybody, whether it be the players, the coaches... It's hard to know, if you don't quite win a few games you should, is it the coach's fault? Is it the players; fault? It's hard to say.
I think we'll have to look back on a body of work at the end of the season and look at that and make an evaluation.
I do think our coach has done a good job—we have had some big wins, a lot of wins on the road, and that's usually a sign of good coaching.
But some things are a little disturbing—the lack of being up for some of these games at home, that's a concern to me.
-Q: Let's go back to what your expectations were and are for this team. When you added Iguodala last summer, didn't you think you had a team that could challenge in the West?
-LACOB: I've stated it before and I'll state it again: My expectation was that we would be a serious competitor to be in the top four in the West.
Beyond that, I think it's very hard to say. If you take a look... look at statistics... I know you do things with statistics... Go back and look at the league, it doesn't usually happen overnight.
The truth is these teams have to grow, have to play together for several years, have to build to get to that point. That's the coaching staff, too, they have to grow and get better.
You look at Oklahoma City, they haven't won a championship yet. It took about four years to really progress. Indiana took about four years of increasing progression over about four years, from say 25 wins to 32 wins to 42 wins to 52 wins...
Look at the numbers--it's almost always a three or four-year process in the NBA to grow together to become a championship contender.
Yes we'd all love to say that when we got Iguodala we were a champinship contender. I don't know that's really true.
I certainly expect us to be better than we were last year; and right now, look, we're roughly about the same. And we've got another 30 games to improve that result.
Right now we have interim results.
-Q: So if you don't improve this year, are you looking at having to make major changes?
-LACOB: It really depends on a lot of factors. We'd have to see. You could not improve because you had major injuries, and we have had injuries—Iguodala was out for a time. But I don't really count that as significant—other teams had injures too. San Antonio has had injuries, Westbrook has been out for Oklahoma City.
I don't think our injuries have been really any worse than anybody else's.
We have to wait until the end of the season—we still have 30 games and I'm hopeful that we're going to coalesce and come together as a group and get to the playoffs playing our best.
-Q: Did you hear Mark Jackson's statements about Bogut and Bogut's response and then Mark's statement afterwards saying his words were twisted and saying his locker room will never have a problem?
-LACOB: I saw it all. Honestly, that was just a miscommunication probably on the part of Mark and a misunderstanding on the part of Bogut and the media did what it does.
I just don't think it's worth worrying about very much. It'll be yesterday's news by tomorrow.
-Q: I guess the larger question is does Jackson reacting like that show that he's maybe feeling some pressure? Some increased pressure lately?
-LACOB: Of course there's pressure on him. Just like there's pressure on the players, there's pressure on Mark, too. There's on me, pressure on Bob Myers...
And you know what? We should all be happy we have that pressure, because the truth is that means we're relevant.
If there's no pressure and no expectations, that means we're in rebuild mode and still coming.
I don't think that's the case. We're good. Whether we are achieving our expectations or not, we'll look at the end of the year and see what we did.
Maybe he is feeling it a little and he should be feeling pressure. That's a good thing.
I feel the pressure for this team to perform. We've invested a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of thinking, a lot of effort, and we're going to continue to do so.
I certainly feel pressure and some weight of expectation and I'm very happy to feel those things because it means we' re getting somewhere.
-Q: So what's your attitude going into the trade deadline? Are you prepared and set to be aggressive looking for deals?
-LACOB: Very aggressive. I don't think I would answer that differently any year. Honestly, I don't even know how you think about it any other way.
You should always be very aggressive, should always be looking to improve your team.
Now it's not clear we'll be able to do that. There have been a lot of discussions, that's what I hear around the league, but we'll just have wait and see.
We're not going to make a move just to make a move. Certainly there are certain parts of the roster that we'd like to improve. No matter how good we are, we'd probably have that attitude.
There's no real limit on what we can do. Bob Myers has the ability, he knows, to propose anything to ownership, even if it means going into luxury tax, if means using those trade exceptions. We'll consider all things.
-Q: Are you focused on improving the bench?
-LACOB: I think we improved our bench a little bit, certainly when we brought on Jordan Crawford.
He provides something we didn't have before, he has the ability to go off offensively; we haven't really seen him go off like that, but I think he will. Most importantly, he can make a shot, he's dangerous, is the bottom line. I think that helps.
If there's another player out there who can improve the bench in another way we'd do that. I think the bench certainly could be better—it has not met expectations overall for the year.
But I do think it's getting better, and recent nights would be examples of that, for instance what Speights did last night and Harrison Barnes has been playing better the last few games.
Draymond has been pretty good off the bench. I think Crawford is looking like he's getting ready to have a big game on of these nights, that's my prediction.
-Q: There's been a widely circulated USA Today report that you're wiling to talk about trading anybody on the team except Curry and Bogut. Is that accurate?
-LACOB: That specific statement has been out there. But I think we'd be very reluctant to trade any of our core pieces; we like our core.
And our young core players—Curry, Klay and Barnes--a lot of teams like them because we're getting specific trade proposals on a daily basis about those players.
We are not anxious nor are we likely to make a move involving those players. Everyone wants what we have, young pieces. And we also have some important veteran players in our core and you need a mix of the two...
It's obvious we need to get a little better, need a little more bench production and we need to gel a little more.
We just haven't quite hit our stride. Hopefully we hit that; we've got 30 games left to do it and make a strong run to the playoffs.
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Conversations Wrap Up: Medicare Part D 10 Years Later
09.30.13 | By John Castellani
In 2003, through the Medicare Modernization Act, Congress established the Medicare prescription drug benefit - better known as Part D. Ten years later, at a cost significantly below initial estimates, the program is successfully providing affordable access to prescription drugs for more than 30 million seniors and people with disabilities.
The program has been an overwhelming success by just about every metric, and this was further reinforced by the recent release of a satisfaction survey conducted by the Health Leadership Council.
For "Conversations" this week, we posed the following question:
As we come upon the 10th anniversary of the Medicare Part D program, is it still living up to its promise? What can be done to improve it?
Three panelists responded to our question: Mary Grealy, President of the Health Leadership Council; Tommy Thompson, the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Bobbie Ann Brinegar, Executive Director of the Older Women's League.
According to Mary, Part D's high satisfaction rate, while unusual for any government program, is not all that surprising. Competition between multiple plans has led to better price and quality than most anticipated and next year will mark the fourth consecutive year of no significant increases in monthly premiums for beneficiaries. Mary also makes the point that even though the program is successful, there are improvements that can be made to Part D, particularly around beneficiary access to information about different plan offerings.
As the Cabinet Secretary responsible for developing the framework for Part D, Governor Thompson brings a first-hand perspective of the program. As he explains, at the time of its inception, no one had ever tried to make such a drastic change to Medicare before, and while just about everyone likes Part D now, that was not always the case. He mentions the many critics and doubters the program originally had, including among some of the members of Congress who voted to pass the bill. Ten years later, he credits the competitive market-based structure of the program for much of its success.
Bobbie comments that Part D was a long-overdue reform to the nation's health care delivery system, as well as a big step toward ensuring all Americans have access to health coverage. In addition highlights that closing the so-called "donut hole" and continuing to expand access to prescription drugs in the future will help realize Part D's full potential.
As we've noted throughout Catalyst, the Medicare Part D program is a critically important component to providing adequate healthcare coverage to our Nation's seniors and those with disabilities. Once again, I want to thank Mary, Governor Thompson and Bobbi are participating in this week's Conversations question, and I encourage everyone to join in by providing your own opinions in the comments section.


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- A new issue of SF Site has been posted, including a review I wrote of Anima by M. John Harrison, which is really the books The Course of the Heart and Signs of Life collected together. Lots of other interesting things posted, so don't ignore the site just because I'm there.
- For more M. John Harrison goodness, see Scribblingwoman, who just read Light and mostly liked it. Lots of links, including to my rather empty review of Light hereabouts (no, I'm not going to link to it -- read Jeff VanderMeer's review instead; it actually says something).
- The British Fantasy Award nominations have been announced. The Alien Online has a nomination, which is pretty exciting, coming as it does on the heels of their World Fantasy Award nomination.
- A good discussion of animal rights at Crooked Timber. The arguments in the comments thread are fascinating.
- Plenty of people have already linked to this, but for the one or two of you who haven't seen it: Design by Unintelligent Hand, aka The DUH Theory.
- New books: Jeff Ford's The Girl in the Glass has been released -- I actually saw it at an actual bookstore yesterday. I read the book a few weeks ago, and thought it was delightful fun; it's as much of a page-turner as The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, but I liked it more than that novel for a bunch of reasons, most of which boil down to the fact that I'm a sucker for stories about con men and magicians. Another book that has just been released is From the Files of the Time Rangers by Rick Bowes, which I'm likely to finish reading today or tomorrow for a review for SF Site. I'll say much more later, but it's an absolutely remarkable book; I actually had doubts about twenty pages in that it could add up to anything that wasn't an annoying mess, and by 150 pages in I was utterly hooked and occasionally in awe. I don't want to judge much before finishing, though....
- Speaking of current reading, I'm also half-way through Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman, which is just extraordinary. I expect I may do a Strange Horizons column on some of the ideas it presents, but it's a wonderful view of both women's writings, their strengths and weaknesses, and how their work played with and against the culture of their times. Many people could have written doctoral theses comparing Pauline Kael and Susan Sontag, but Seligman chose to write a chatty (in the best sense) and personal meditation on the two writers, ideas of art and culture, the place of critics in society, etc.
- Speaking of Strange Horizons, there's a new issue posted. And speaking of columns, it includes one by Debbie Notkin on spoiler warnings.
- Finally, I am not the Matthew Cheney who was lead author of "A Comparison of the Size of the Yahoo! and Google Indices". But I'm all for it.
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I thought the Sontag & Kael book was amazing. Keep reading, it gets even better. WendiReplyDelete
You're right, Wendi -- I finished it last night and loved it. Then had the weird experience today of having dinner (amongst a group of us) with a man who once fired Sontag when she was a doctoral student at Columbia and had run out of time for her residency! (He said she never blamed him and they got along well.) I was going to ask him if he'd met Pauline Kael, but didn't get the chance...ReplyDelete
I loved Rick Bowes' FtFotTR (wow). Bowes' work (what I have read) just has a realistic gravity and tension to it that just drew me in.ReplyDelete
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This conversion kit includes everything you need to convert a Tippmann 98 Custom from a regular hopper fed paintball gun to a magazine fed paintball gun. If you've looked at how the feed port is integrated in to the body then you can tell that this is no small feat. The kit includes a new body for the gun that puts the feed port under the gun instead of on the side. It also has the magazine mount and a 20 round magazine too. You can even upgrade your magazine to a large Box Magazine that mounts to to the same position underneath of the gun. The Nautilus Box magazine holds up to 200 rounds.


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The Antec KÜHLER H2O 620 delivers high-performance liquid cooling for your CPU in a quick, easy-to-install package. Unlike traditional liquid cooling systems, this self-contained unit comes prefilled and requires no maintenance. The voltage-controlled 120mm fan and 3rd generation copper coldplate ensure efficient cooling, while the estimated 50,000 hour pump lifetime means this cooler is even likely to outlast the system it cools. Lastly, easy-bend flexible tubing allows the KÜHLER H2O 620 to be installed in nearly any orientation. Take your PC's Quiet Computing to the next level with liquid cooling performance at a price that rivals aftermarket air coolers.
Please note that the Kuhler range are now longer compatible with S775
- Fan Speed: 1450 - 2000 RPM
- Radiator Dimensions: 5.6" (H) x 4.7" (W) x 1.1" (D) / 151 mm (H) x 120 mm (W) x 27 mm (D)
- Fan Dimensions: 4.7" x 1.0" / 120 mm x 25 mm
- Cold Plate + Pump Height: 1.1" / 27 mm
- Tubing Length: 13.0" / 330 mm
- Cooling Liquid: Safe, environmentally-friendly, anti-corrosive
- Net Weight: 1.5 lbs / 0.7 kg
- CPU Socket Compatibility: Intel LGA 2011 / 1366 / 1155 / 1156, AMD AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / AM3+ / FM1 / FM2
- Warranty: 3 years
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Fiddly to fit, but a great performer once in!
Reviewed by Neil Hunter. Review Posted 13/01/2013
Recently purchased this to go with my new build Antec 300 Two case and i7-3770 processor. Packaging is good, and my initial impression on removing it from the box was very positive. The cooler radiator is just like a tiny car-engine radiator!!! It feels solid and weighty and is engineered very well. To this, bolts a standard Antec 120mm fan. The pump unit is nice and small, and fit over the CPU well, but it does take a bit of ingenuity to install as the instructions are almost useless! In fact, if you followed the instructions, the radiator would never be installed, as it makes NO mention of installing it into the chassis!! I used YouTube videos to help with the installation which proved very useful!
The cooler's performance is stunning maintaining a normal working CPU temp of 24C. I haven't pushed it yet to see what it goes up to under load though. The fan is quiet, and the pump seems to be silent. A great buy, and recommended from me!
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Quite easy to install (once you have watched the youtube video) if your case suits the design. My case was fine regarding the position, but was not wide enough at the back to take the radiator width.
Because my case was stepped, and because the door latch was adjacent to the radiator, I ended up having to make some new parts to allow the radiator to stand off the back of the case.
So make sure the chassis fan cutout is big enough to take the radiator. You will need 130mm x 130mm. (I had 2 x 80mm vertically stacked)
The unit is sealed and just requires mounting, the pipes are very flexible and easy to position in any orientation.
Otherwise a brilliant cooler, my i7 3770K 3.5ghz runs at about 25°c.
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Works but...
Reviewed by Andy. Review Posted 06/04/2013
This cooler doesn't work with the 775 socket with the parts in the box. You need to contact Antec, who send you a grainy picture, and then it becomes your responsibility to ask for the relevant parts to make it compatible with the 775.
Anyway, yes the cooler works very well once you've managed to get hold of all the parts required. CPU temperatures are now within 10C of room temperature, but you can hear the pump clicking away when it's working hard.
The pump plugs into the header on the mother board, and the fan plugs into a wire off the pump (or can be connected to a spare system fan header on the motherboard, if you have one). I'd have liked it if the fan could be always one, as it takes the rear fan slot of my case.
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Late-season waterfowling can present the worst of times and the best of times. Depending on one's place of residency, this portion of the year can bring plunging temperatures, snow and ice, and winds that slice the air like a razor. Canada geese, having been pursued for months, parlay their in-season education into a wariness that borders on avian paranoia. Gunning conditions can be physically demanding and the birds extremely tough. But, for those who take the time to properly prepare, the rewards can be exceptional.
"Because of the weather, late-season Canada goose hunting can be some of the best hunting of the year," says Bill Saunders, a professional guide for the past 10 years at Pacific Wings Waterfowl Adventures, located in Washington's Columbia Basin. "If there is snow on the ground, they get pressed for food. They have to eat. You capitalize on that.
"But that doesn't necessarily mean cornfields. For me, that means going to the green, which, out here, is bluegrass, alfalfa, timothy hay, and winter wheat. If it's really cold and there's snow on the ground, Canada geese can have a hard time getting to the corn because it's frozen to the ground. So they'll go to the green, sit, and wait. Once it warms up, they'll go to the cornfields."
Saunders, who has won just about every state and regional goose-calling title to be won in the Pacific Northwest, markets his own Guide Series goose and duck calls. His approach to luring late-season Canadas to his spread can be much different than the calling techniques he employs earlier in the year.
"It's all about reading the birds," Saunders says. "That's something, I guess, that I've got a knack for. I can read birds pretty quickly before I call at them. Generally, on tough late-season birds, I will call less. I'll take it easy. You react to how they react.
"I always use a high-pitched call late in the season. I tell guys that if they use a low-pitched call all year, then, during the late-season, when the birds get squirrelly, to go to the high-pitched call. The geese will often respond to that sound much more quickly."
When times are tight, Saunders seldom gets fancy with his calling style.
"Guys have to remember that if the birds are coming at you, are bowed up, and they are doing what you want them to do—keep the call in your pocket. If they waver, or start to pull off, then go back to calling," Saunders says.
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He is thought to have murdered four people before abducting three girls, two of them his own daughters. Another daughter, a 10-month-old baby, was among those killed.
The three Georgia girls kidnapped after four members of their family were murdered are now safe and are said to be in good condition.
"I heard all the cops so I stepped outside and I saw one of the cops running with a young female to the side of the car and I was like they caught him, I knew it was," comments witness Bridgette Davis.
Police say they apprehended the suspect Jerry Jones, taken away on a stretcher. Jones, the father of two of the girls he had kidnapped and stepfather to the third is being treated for injuries sustained from a self-inflicted gunshot.
"I saw two of the kids they grabbed them and pulled them this way, and just the helicopters came and air lifted them away," witness Howard Sears says.
"The truck ran into the poll and the cops surrounded them," adds witness Mark Adkins.
Police say Jones first tried to out maneuver authorities on I75 near Chattanooga, Tennessee when he crashed his SUV.
"Jones had apparently shot himself at some point after the crash after the vehicle had spun out," says Vernon Keenan, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director.
Thirty-one-year old Jones was the center of a manhunt since late Wednesday night when the bodies of his 10-month-old baby, his ex-wife's, parent's, and wife's, sister were found dead in northwest Georgia.
The killings occurred at two different homes. And investigators say they were a part of a methodical murder spree. The murder scenes went undiscovered for hours after an initial call was made to police because Jones allegedly cleaned up after the attacks and hid the bodies from view.
The ex- wife's family says Jones constantly threatened violence. And authorities believe it was his ex-wife's visit to a new boyfriend that could have set him off. When the news first hit of this morning's abduction it struck a cord with some area parents.
Local residents say when the Amber Alert flashed across their screen's they were paying close attention. Lucky those three girls were found alive, and within one day. Many area resident's we spoke to with in the past few hours say their glad the Amber Alert was there to help.
The start of this New Year was shaken; up with the abduction and quick recover of three young north Georgia girls, ages 10, four, and three.
Al Dennis, with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, says early reports suggested the abductor may have been headed to Florida.
"The first thought to any parent, is that, this could have been my child, the child of a friend of mine or child of another relative. You feel for the family, and you certainly feel for those children," explains Dennis.
With the help of a nationwide Amber Alert, this nightmare came to an end. A few area parents say they're fortunate that such a program exists.
"There are a lot of children that have gone missing and no one's ever found them, and if there would have been a program similar to this, then there would probable been more kids safe at home with their parents."
"More eyes are out in public areas, so you can't just run. Say you run to another city, then they're going to pop it on that TV and people are going to see it, Grocery store, banks, where ever people are at."
Area parents say they were concerned about Thursday morning's news, not only because in happened in our region, but that it could have been anyone's child. Al Dennis tells us Florida's Amber Alert program began back in August of 2000, and it has been activated close to 58 times since that date.
Dennis says you can't totally attribute the amber alert with the recovery of every kid, because you have to take into account other factors like an eyewitness for example, which help out in tracking down lost child.
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The AMBER Plan
The AMBER Plan is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.
Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS), formerly called the Emergency Broadcast System, to air a description of the missing child and suspected abductor.
This is the same concept used during severe weather emergencies. The goal of the AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and safe return of the child.
AMBER Creation
How Does the AMBER Plan Work?
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Source: http://www.missingkids.org/ (The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Web site)


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PABLO, MONTANA 59855 ISSN: 0528-8592 Big SKY Country Chief Charlo Chief KoostataV y r" 7h VOLUME 10 NUMBER 14 NEWSPAPER OF THE SAUSH, PEND cTOREILLE AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION, WESTERN MONTANA NEW MOON OF CONTINUOUS SNOWS Primary votes canvassed; no surprises December 1,1981 Nineteen absentee ballots did little to change the results of the Tribes' historic first primary vote November 11. Twenty-four registered candidates and fourteen write ins were winnowed down to just two names for each of five districts: St. Ignatius - Joseph "Joe Dog" Felsman and incumbent Thomas "Bearhead" Swaney; Arlee ~ James H. "Jim" Steele and incumbent Louis W. Adams; Ronan - Robert McCrea and Important Election Notice You do not have to be registered for the General Election on December 12,1981. If you are an enrolled Tribal member 18 or over who has lived on the Reservation for at least one year prior to the general election, you are eligible to vote. Water rights deadline may change On November 2, Montana's Attorney General, Mike Greely, petitioned the Supreme Court to extend the rapidly approaching water rights filing deadline from January 1, 1982, to June 30, 1983, "or to such other time the Court deems appropriate" but not beyond June 30. People wishing to argue for or against the petition were invited to submit written comments by November 30. A hearing has been set for 9 a.m., December 7 (probably in Helena). Specificallv left out of Greely's petition were claims in the Powder River Basin (in southeastern Montana). Water rights holders should note that unless the petition's request is granted by the Court, the deadline for filing remains one month from now. Frank H. Webster (incumbent Joe McDonald chose not to run); Poison - incumbent E.W. "Bill" Morigeau and Roger P. McClure; and Elmo/Dayton ~ incumbent Laurence Ken-mille and Al Hewankorn. The ten preliminary winners will face the final test on December 12 when eligible Tribal voters again visit the polls (for the fourth time this year) to either change or retain almost half the current Tribal Council. Polling places, open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., include: Arlee: Salish Indian Center St. Ignatius: Community Center Poison: Day Care Center Hot Springs: Camas Lanes (the bowling alley) Ronan: Indian Senior Citizens Center Elmo/Dayton: Koostatah Hall Dixon: Tribal Gymnasium Pablo: Tribal Headquarters The official tally of winners, which was certified November 16, follows. Arlee District 354: Louis W. Adams 368: James H. "Jim" Steele 112: Charles "Scotty'' Gardipe (Continued on page 2) Inside this issue The candidates speak...........................Page 4 "Letters to the Editor"..........................Page 8 Health Corner................................Page 11 "Charlo's People" ...........................Page 12 December calendar............................Page 13 Federal budget report from NARF...............Page 16 Council meeting minutes.......................Page 22
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