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Discussion in 'Prius c Main Forum' started by sjb110, Mar 9, 2012.
I'm considering the Michelin X-Ice Xi2 from Tirerack. Looking for any and all opinions...
The Michelin X-Ice tread pattern is really close to the Blizzaks that have on my Vibe. This type of tire is great on ice, but they are slightly less sure footed on deeper or wetter snows. We bought a set of General Altimax Arctics for our '05 Prius and they turned out to be exceptional on any kind of snow, but were a little less grippy on glare ice.
Both of these snow tire sets were quite quiet, for snow tires. We noted that the Altimax Arctics were very durable.
You'll have to decide which type of tire would be better for the Winter conditions you generally find where you live. Something that I've always tried to do is get a slightly taller tire for that little extra snow clearance under the car.
I'm considering a Prius c (will go drive one in the morning) and I would probably install a 185/65 snow tire on 15 inch wheels if I buy one. For the snow we normally drive on here in Maine, I would choose the Altimax Arctic. Plus, if I remember right, the Altimax Arctic was less expensive than most other snow tires we looked at.
I'm finding the Michelin X-Ice a very well behaved snow tire, ie: if I didn't know they were on there I wouldn't notice, just from the feel. This is on our (regular) Prius, that came with the 17" low profile tires, similar to US model V.
That might mean they're not the best in deep snow, but it seems a good compromise.
BTW, what size of tire do the Prius C take?
It's funny, but tirerack's review of the X-Ice was that it was weaker on ice than others.
I have X-Ice Xi2 and they've been OK but it's hard to tell because it's my first winter and (fortunately) I haven't had the opportunity to drive much in snow this winter. They're definitely much better than driving on the Yokohama Avids, but that's obvious.
I picked the X-Ice based on TireRack's review, since I was really buying for my wife's driving and most of her winter driving is dry, wet or slushy roads rather than ice. (She's a schoolteacher: snowy days and summers off). We both commute on main roads.
The X-Ice is not the best winter tire, but it is the best choice for someone who has a long commute as these people tend to drive more miles on better cleared roads. If your driving is primarily city you are better off with ws70 (bridgestone blizzak) or extremeWINTERcontact (continental), I've had so many winter tires I'm dying to try Goodyears new UltraGripIce WRT, although there's some cheapo chinese winter tire on tirebuyer.com that everyone there is swearing by and the price is unbelievable with no tax and free shipping. But then again Michelin is offering a $70 rebate . . .
upsizing the width will inherently increase the overall diameter thus increasing your ground clearance which is good in a prius as they cannot be rocked out of trouble like a conventional car, but it will hurt your fuel economy.
There are 9 months of the year you should worry about fuel economy, the other 3 months you should be more concerned about coming out of that season in one piece.
All 175/60R15 tires at tire-easy.com (6 winter, 25 total)
What do you guys think of the hankook icebear w300? I currently have a set on my Mazda 3 and they've served me well in the Canadian winters. I've never had experience with other winter tires but found these stopped well on fresh snow, except that my car always had to engage the abs in these conditions. The car never skid though
I got Michelin X Ice 3 winter tires installed last week on my C. I was amazed by the improvement in ride quality relative to the Goodyear Turanza tires that came with the car. They provide a much smoother ride and I use higher than Toyota's recommended tire pressures : 40 psi forward / 38 psi rear (compared to 35 / 33). I still have to test them in winter conditions, but based on the reviews I have seen so far, I am expecting to be satisfied. Will provide an update later.
Picking up my PriusC with newly mounted Blizzaks today. I'll let you know what I think in a couple weeks. So far, flurries but no accumulating snows.
Update, C rides nice on Blizzak WS70s. So far, mileage doesn't appear to have been reduced much as I got 51 mpg in mixed driving on the ten mile trip home.
I also purchased the x ice 3. I have not experienced any snow conditions yet but I immediately noticed the these Michelines are much quieter than the stock 4 seasons.


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I can't tell you how many times I have been told by a customer.....
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This friend of hers wants to know if I have time to do a tile backsplash in her kitchen before a party she's having this weekend. I told her I'd have to take a look at it but I didn't think it would be a problem. Once I arrive she tells me that she's called two other contractors and neither has returned her call.
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So far in 2013, the U.S. stock market has soared higher on hopes that the economic recovery is finally on track to return to a more normal pace of growth. This morning's economic data, which included the final take on fourth-quarter GDP growth -- just 0.4% -- as well as rising jobless claims and a slower expansion in manufacturing activity, seemed to provide evidence to the contrary, yet investors nevertheless reacted favorably to news that banks in Cyprus reopened for business. By 10:55 a.m. EDT, the Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) were up 43 points, or 0.29%, potentially heading for another record high and set to close the quarter up more than 11%.
One big question for the coming quarter is whether stocks will hold on to their gains or follow last year's script of having a massive sell-off in April. On the plus side, consumer-oriented stocks continued to do well. McDonald's (NYSE: MCD ) and Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO ) have both climbed about 0.8%. With investors getting increasingly nervous about the rising market, defensive stocks have gained greatly in popularity, and both McDonald's and Coca-Cola tend to trade with less volatility than the overall market. Even though both companies have faced business-related pressures, including falling sales and concerns about obesity in the U.S., their solid dividends have led investors to pile in, making their shares somewhat expensive on a valuation basis but still offering ballast against a potential stock market reversal.
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Quartet of GP39-2s.
Climbing away from Oneonta
Railfans converge on EMDs. A year previous, the D&H had no EMDs on the roster. April 1976 changed all that. Here are seven of them. Six GP39-2s and a GP38-2.
The scene at Oneonta, Spring 1977.
A trio of RS3u's and a U23B head south toward Oneonta. The RS3u's were RS3's rebuilt with 12-251 engines by MK and helped the D&H ease their power shortage post Conrail.
Century sits with U30C and leased ex-LIRR C420
One year old GP39-2, purchased to operate over expanded system that now included trackage rights on Conrail to Newark, Phila, and Alexandria, sits at Oneonta awaiting a fresh crew.
D&H RS36 No. 5018 was doing some switching as it passed FA Tower in Oneonta, NY on Sept. 12, 1976
A pair of Alco's pass under the footbridge in Oneonta. The Oneonta footbridge wasn't quite as famous as the Sayre footbridge.
Love the casual dress. Typical laid back summer day at Oneonta.
This U30-C was one of the better looking ones at this time, since these units did not have much time left on the D&H.


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What materials did you use? Exterior Fabric Cotton Duck in Blue/Yellow/White Print, and Interior Zebra Striped Blue/White Cotton Print. Handmade Blue and Yellow Polymer Beads
What are you most proud of? So far, My Little Pizza Face turned out, well . . . sweet. And this one, "That Blue/Yellow Thing" I engineered with two divided interior panels, made some matching blue/yellow polymer beads. What I'm learning about HOW TO EMBRACE these combinations is not really a secret. My cure is to temper the color combinations with large doses of white. Now, on to the worst of the worst color combinations, defaming a beautiful pink with dirt brown. How could anyone combine pink and brown on purpose is beyond me. Again, I held my nose and bought pink and brown fabrics for my next uncomfortable color challenge.
What advice would you give someone starting this project? Do you have colors you avoid like the plague? I do. But, I'm willing to experiment. Will you try the color combination challenge with me? Or, you could magnify the experiment using "the ugliest fabric I've ever seen" challenge. It could end up beautiful, or beyond ugly. I don't know. We'll have to see--won't we?
Great bag, and the dividers are wonderful! I like blue and yellow together, but the combination really does require white to mellow the sharp contrast. The contrasting black really does add a lovely "pop" to it all. So many of my friends use tons of pink and brown or red and brown. I like what they do, but my attempts at these combinations haven't turned out all that successfully. I'm sure you'll do wonders with any fabrics. You have such a good eye for color.
Really cute bag and wonderful colors! Where did you get the pattern for the bag? Is it your own design or purchased?
Love the dividers in this little thing and the beads in matching colors are wonderful! Using white as a background color with color combinations one might not otherwise choose is a great idea. If I didn't have so many other irons in the fire, I'd love to take up your color challenge. Maybe next fall when things calm down a bit.


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Despite Recent Struggle, Joe Maddon Has High Hopes
Entering Thursday night's game, there were five teams within two games of each other for the American League's final Wild Card spot.
"I thought it was going to be a dogfight all the way," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "We had been in really good shape right up to that Angels series at home, and then we've kind of struggled a bit. However, you can look at the struggle now, but you can also look at the great body of work prior to that point that permits you to still be in great shape even though you're struggling. Everybody fails to point that out also. I know we've struggled recently, but we've put ourselves in good shape to hopefully work through a struggle. And that's what we plan on doing."
In the Wild Card era (since 1995), never before have five teams competing for the same Wild Card spot been this close together this late in the year.
Given that the Rays' best shot to reach the postseason appears to be as the AL's Wild Card, Maddon said, "I love it right now" when asked about having a second Wild Card team in each league.


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FBI artist claims picture of TEENAGE Etan Patz was taken from wallet of former suspect Jose Ramos
- Etan Patz was last seen in 1979 when he walked alone to the bus stop in Manhattan for the first time
- A man confessed last year to kidnapping Patz and murdering him in the basement of a bodega just blocks from the boy's house
- Many suspect the man's confession is bogus and is just the product of his mental illness
A retired FBI forensic artist has claimed that a long-time suspect in the murder of Etan Patz carried around a picture of the missing child as a teenager.
Etan disappeared as he walked to a bus stop in New York City when he was six years old. Authorities believe he was abducted off the street in SoHo in 1979 and later murdered.
Gene O'Donnell, who worked for the FBI for 32 years, believes that Jose Ramos, a child-molesting drifter who has long been suspected of killing Patz, had a picture of Etan when he was a teenager.
The artist is basing his claim on an age-progression sketch he did of Patz as a teenager which is eerily close to another picture of a teenage boy, seen wearing a T-shirt and jeans on a bus.
Resemblance: a photo of a teenaged boy looks very similar to an age-progression sketch of Etan Patz, who disappeared when he was just 6
'In 1990, I believed Etan Patz was the young man in the photograph on
the bus. I have not changed my mind,' Mr O'Donnell told the New York Post.
'The fact that Ramos had the photograph in his pocket is the thing that kind of threw me over the edge.'
However, police sources told the Post that they are certain the young man in the photograph is not Etan Patz after they tracked him down, held interviews and even completed a DNA test.
The case gets even more complicated after another man, Pedro Hernandez, confessed last year to strangling Patz in the basement of a SoHo bodega in 1979.
A photograph of Patz as a teenager would reveal his confessions to be false.
In 1990, Mr O'Donnell was asked by the NYPD to create a picture of Etan Patz showing the missing boy as a teenager. The forensic artist worked painstakingly to recreate an image from family photos.
Later he was shown a Polaroid that had been taken by police from Ramos' pocket.
He told MailOnline he is extremely interested to see any photographs taken of the teenager found by police, while they were holding interviews and tests.
'All I ever wanted to see was a photograph. If they got the right guy, he should match that boy on the bus,' Mr O'Donnell said. 'But I've never seen it.'
Monster: Convicted child molester Jose Ramos was long-considered the prime suspect in Patz's disappearance
New leads: FBI agents tear up the floor of a SoHo basement after the Patz case was reopened
It's not clear whether any pictures of the teenager detectives tracked down were ever released to the public. Mr O'Donnell, who is writing a book about his part in the Patz case, said he was never contacted again regarding the missing boy after he submitted his age progression drawing.
Ramos' connection to Patz is through one of the boy's babysitters, who was friends with Ramos.
Shortly after Patz's disappearance, Ramos was convicted of multiple counts
of child molestation and served a 27-year prison sentence in
At the time of his arrest, authorities found dozens of photos in the drainpipe where Ramos had been living of young boys who all had a strong resemblance to Patz.
While incarcerated, a jailhouse snitch told authorities
that Ramos had confessed to him that he knew what happened to Patz.
However, it wasn't enough evidence for prosecutors to pursue charges.
Despite no criminal charges, the Patz family sued Ramos in civil court, where he was found to have been responsible for the boy's death. The Patz family was awarded a ceremonial $2million, which they never attempted to collect.
Confusion: Pedro Hernandez claims he killed Patz, but there is no evidence linking him to the crime
Ramos, 70, is currently in a Pennsylvania prison for failing to register as a sex offender after serving a 27-year prison sentence.
The child molester has repeatedly denied involvement in Patz's disappearance.
Patz's father Stanley told the Post that he was shown the photo but doesn't believe it is his son.
Hernandez, who was arrested in May, 2012 - after Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance re-opened the Patz case - when family members told authorities that he admitted to killing Patz.
At the time of Patz's disappearance, Hernandez worked in a bodega just blocks from the boy's home.
Prosecutors may be forced to throw out the case against Hernandez - who is both schizophrenic and suffering from bipolar disorder - due to a lack of evidence.
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I've noticed more of those "2012" bumper stickers around lately. At first I thought they were reminders, like the little signs posted at the supermarket checkout counters for dinosaurs like me who still write checks ("The year is 2012!"). But since we're more than a quarter of the way through the year, I guess the stickers are referring to the belief that the Mayan Calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, and, therefore, the world will, too. You might say we've literally run out of time.
But if you did say that, you'd be mistaken. The date does not mark the end of the calendar, but rather the end of a particular cycle (b'ak'tun) and the beginning of a new one. One b'ak'tun is a little less than 400 years. Twenty b'ak'tuns make one pictun. Twenty pictuns make a kalabtun, and there are more units beyond those. So if you want to base your end-of-world theories on the Mayan calendar, you've got about 63 million years to go.
I suppose people have been predicting the end of the world ever since The Beginning . . . whenever that was. From Armageddon to asteroids, nuclear warfare to natural disaster, dozens of theories exist, each with a dedicated following of true believers.
Born just before the start of the Cold War, my late husband grew up in the 1950s, fully expecting the U.S. and the USSR to destroy each other and the rest of the world. In his southeast Texas neck of the woods, many families built their own fallout shelters, and he and his elementary school classmates were issued metal ID tags, like military dog tags. Barry was a young adult by the time of the Cuban missile crisis; he often told me that the dramatic showdown solidified his belief that his generation would be the last to enjoy life on this planet. That's how he justified his reckless behavior in the '60s, and that's why he viewed every day after the age of 30 as a bonus.
I, on the other hand, was a child in 1962, blissfully unaware of the crisis. I do remember air raid drills at Makawao School. Upcountry district names were posted permanently above classroom doors: Haliimaile, Olinda, Kokomo, H'poko. . . . When the alarm sounded, we would leave our desks and, in a calm and orderly fashion, proceed to the classroom bearing the name of our community. There, in a real emergency, we would wait for our parents to pick us up. Getting there was the fun part. As we walked across the grass quadrangle, we listened for the teacher's whistle. One shrill blast sent us to the ground, face down with our hands covering our heads. Two short tweets meant we could get up and continue walking. If I moved slowly enough and took tiny steps, I could do the duck-and-cover thing at least three times.
Until Barry and I discussed it, the implications never registered with me. I remember lying on my stomach with my eyes closed, imagining myself in a foxhole with Vic Morrow. "Combat!" was one of my favorite TV shows, inspiring hours of playacting with my male cousins and dreams of scurrying through the rubble of World War II France. To me, the air raid drills were a school-sanctioned adventure game, much more interesting than the mundane fire drills.
Years later, when I was living on Oahu and working for KITV News, the Honolulu Advertiser printed a horrific map showing what would happen statewide in the event of a nuclear strike on Pearl Harbor. My apartment was in the "immediate vaporization" zone. My family and friends on Maui were even worse off, doomed to a relatively slow demise by fallout. The guys in the newsroom made uneasy jokes but I was depressed for days. Fortunately, my husband at the time, Kelly, took a healthier approach. He admonished me to accept the things I cannot change and he quoted one of his favorite singers, Peggy Lee.
. . . If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is.
Now, Peggy Lee didn't write those lyrics; Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller did. And Kelly, truth be told, was happy to break out the booze regardless of whether that's all there is. Or was. As for myself, I don't drink, but the spirit of the song spoke to me and stuck with me.
Since then, various friends have warned me of our impending demise by solar explosion, biological warfare, SARS, North Korea, rogue computers, etc. I appreciate their concern but I refuse to spend any more time or energy pondering the end of the world. Of course, on Dec. 21, 2012, I'll be out dancing. And having a ball. Just in case that's all there is.
* Kathy Collins is a performance artist, broadcaster and freelance writer whose "Sharing Mana'o" column appears every Wednesday. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Preparing For An Arraignment.
You can learn about recent closures at: Los Angeles Criminal Courts closed.
Below is a list of active, as well as some recently closed criminal courts in L.A. County:
Airport Courthouse- 11701 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Alhambra Court - 150 W Commonwealth Ave, Alhambra, CA 91801
Bellflower Courthouse - 10025 East Flower Street, Bellflower, CA 90706
Beverly Hills Criminal Court - Closed
9355 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Burbank Criminal Court
300 East Olive, Burbank, CA 91502
Catalina Courthouse - Closed
215 Summer Avenue, Avalon, CA 90704
Los Angeles Central Arraignment Court429 Bauchet St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CCB - 210 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Compton Courthouse200 West Compton Blvd., Compton, CA 90220
Downey Courthouse
7500 East Imperial Highway, Downey, CA 90242
East Los Angeles Courthouse
4848 E. Civic Center Way , Los Angeles, CA 90022
El Monte Criminal Court
11234 East Valley Blvd., El Monte, CA 91731
Glendale Criminal Court
600 East Broadway, Glendale, CA 91206
Hollywood Criminal Courthouse - Closed
5925 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Huntington Park Courthouse - Closed
6548 Miles Ave., Huntington Park, CA 90255
Inglewood Courthouse
One Regent Street, Inglewood, CA 90301
Long Beach Courthouse
415 West Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802
Malibu Criminal Court - Closed
23525 Civic Center Way, Malibu, CA 90265
Metropolitan Criminal Court1945 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Michael Antonovich Antelope Valley Courthouse
42011 4th Street West, Lancaster, CA 93534
Norwalk Courthouse
12720 Norwalk Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650
Pasadena Criminal Court
300 East Walnut Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
Pomona Courthouse North - Closed
350 West Mission Blvd., Pomona, CA 91766
Pomona Courthouse South400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766
Redondo Beach Courthouse
117 West Torrance Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
San Fernando Criminal Court
900 Third Street, San Fernando, CA 91340
Santa Clarita Criminal Court23747 West Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Torrance Courthouse - 825 Maple Ave., Torrance, CA 90503
Van Nuys Criminal Court (East)6230 Sylmar Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91401
Van Nuys Criminal Court (West)
14400 Erwin Street Mall, Van Nuys, CA 91401
West Covina Criminal Court
1427 West Covina Parkway, West Covina, CA 91790
Whittier Courthouse - Closed
7339 South Painter Ave., Whittier, CA 90602


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- Nickel saw the same thing I did, Americans forget expensive oil and start buying guzzlers again.
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- FMF: Rebates are a scam!
- JLP puts his finances on autopilot.
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Maui Prayer Breakfast on May 6
WAIKAPU - The Maui Christian Ministers Association will hold its third annual Maui Prayer Breakfast May 6.
The event coinciding with the National Day of Prayer will be from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Maui Tropical Plantation.
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PUKALANI - Grace Church will host a free "Movie Under the Stars" at 7 p.m. May 1, featuring the "Cross and the Switchblade."
Movie buffs are encouraged to bring their lawn chairs and warm blankets to watch the film on the church grounds. A youth group will sell refreshments.
The church is at 55 Makaena Road in Pukalani.
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Drag Strip is an analog arcade game simulator designed to bring the non- tangible interactions of a two-player racing video game to the physical world. It is an interactive toy meant for the young at heart, with the purpose of getting its users away from a computer screen and together with friends to enjoy some healthy competition. The Drag Strip Racing Game is composed of the arcade cabinet/player controls, and two race cars. The goal of this two-player game is to make your race car cross the finish line before your opponent. This is achieved by repeatedly pressing your pushbutton as fast as possible for the duration of the race. The faster the intervals of the button presses, the faster your race car will travel across the racing surface. The cars are made out of acrylic and construction paper.


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Thanks for the review. Is that a micro or a mini connector on the car? Is there a recommended charger size? Would have been nice if a portable battery powered charger was included.
It's a usb plug
The usb plus into car and then into a computer or any device able to use usb. I supposed some tablets now have usb as well.
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Received mine today, and have mixed feelings about it. I've had various micro cars over the years (most recently the Losi Micro T, which I really enjoy), and the ZenWheels really appealed to me because it was smaller and didn't require another controller.
So after a couple of battery charges (about 30 minutes of driving so far) mostly on clean hardwood and lino, here are my impressions:
The good...
Easy setup. It simply couldn't be any simpler to get paired up and start driving.
Super cute if that's your thing.
Lots of different control options. I tried them all, but am working solely with the standard touch for now.
Quite a few settings for customizing the controls.
The different lights are neat.
Battery life seems very good (15 mins or more).
Does well on carpet, and the wheels don't pick up much lint.
The not so good...
Can't trim it out. It will either drift left (trim 7) or right (trim 8). And there's enough slop in the wheels/steering that the trim required will vary.
Combined with the above, there is no way to tell when your thumb is at neutral (a symptom of all touch screens) so it is Very difficult to drive a straight line.
It isn't very fast. Not boring slow, but then not having very good steering at speed maybe it's a good thing it isn't any quicker.
The vaunted precision proportional controls are really only noticeable at driving Miss Daisy speeds.
The End Point Adjustment setting doesn't do anything. Set both the steering and throttle at 0% and nothing changed. Haven't delved too deep into the other settings to see if they have much effect.
Overall, for me I don't think it's worth the $100 shipped. It's a neat little slow speed tabletop driver, and if that's what you're looking for it's probably worth every penny. I was hoping for more of a room racer, but the wobbly steering and not being able to trim it straight kinda rule that out. I'll spend some more time with it, and will update this if I learn anything more.
The Zenwheels really isn't meant for speed but more precision based maneuver on desktop.
Try re binding to see if steering is corrected
Make sure there are no hard caught on axle and that no dirt is stuck to tires.
Also make sure tire is full seated in rim as they can come loose.
To the above posted yes it is a mini usb.
Tried a rebind to an iPad 4, iPad Mini and my iPhone 4S again, and the trim settings and/or servos are simply too granular to keep it moving straight. 7 is too little, and 8 is too much on all three devices. No dirt, hair or other foreign bodies that I can see, and it's been this way from the initial unboxing.
From a UI standpoint, it takes too many taps and swipes to get to the settings page for a particular control scheme also. I found that if you go to the settings first there's a way to switch back and forth, but this isn't immediately apparent and it would probably be better to have a dedicated Settings button on each control scheme's page.
Would also like to be able to hold the iPad in landscape instead of portrait only, and on the Mini the steering wheel is too close to the edge to make full right turns easily. User positional controls would be ideal actually.
I know it sucks to have to, have to do so, but maybe send it back for repairs or email for help.
I'm sure bud would be glad to help.
Spent some time with the different control schemes, and am finding the tilt steering with manual throttle is a good choice for me. It's easier to find the centre point by holding the phone level, and it also seems easier to keep it moving (semi) straight.
The twin sticks currently operate the same as the standard controls, but have a lot more options available for future devices, with X and Y axis on both sticks, as well as full tilt controls. The controls for the lights are limited in this mode, with only the headlights and signal lights available...no flashers, horn or underbody buttons.
The full tilt controls are challenging for me, and would require a Lot of practice to have any sort of control. I'm guessing the Panic button is for future expansion, as I can't see that it does anything currently. I'm also not sure what the 4 second countdown that starts every time you enter this mode is for.
And regards the UI again, there is too much turning of the phone between the driving and the other screens. It would make much more sense to have all screens set to landscape from start to finish.
please make a ultra micro crawler like this
I took my plantraco to the movies last week, and I ran it in the theater aisle before the movie started with all the lights on and every one was asking questions and flipping out... every body loved it... this thing is SO cool
That's awesome Akura
After about 4 hours of driving this little fellow around in the hopes it would grow on me, I simply don't see the value in it. For aimlessly driving around a room it's just about too slow, and for tabletop racing it really isn't precise enough (unless you slow waaaay down, and then we're back to too slow/boring) as the steering is just too sloppy.
As a parallel parking simulator (wheeee) it's perfect, the lights & sounds are a cool touch and battery life is phenomenal, but at this price point I expect for it to at least drive in a straight line hands off and maintain a mostly constant curve when turning.
Regards the lack of straight line driving, the trim setting required has slowly crept up to 15, and the drifting is apparently caused by steering...if I turn left at all, it will then drift right when the wheel is released, and conversely it will drift left if a right turn is made.
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I ordered from Think Geek and returned the first one as I could not get the car to drive straight. The replacement is a little better, but definitely the weakness in this otherwise very nice car. If this can be fixed it would be so much more fun to drive. Not worth the money in my opinion unless they can get this fixed (probably keep mine as it was a gift). Wonder if it can be improved with a firmware update?
Contact the vendors or manufacturer guys
Hopefully they'll send you new units.
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Columbian coach Brian Colatruglio has called Isiah Moore the best lineman he has ever coached.
On Monday, Moore was honored as one of the best lineman in Division II, as he made the All-Ohio first team.
Two of his teammates, defensive lineman Chandler Hoover (second team) and back Jack Jacoby (third team) also rated all-state.
Of the group, Moore is the only junior; Jacoby and Hoover are seniors.
Moore, at left tackle, paved the way for Jacoby and TC's other running back, Ryan Lynch, who combined to run for almost 2,300 yards in the regular season.
There was reason, when Columbian was in a key situation on offense, it almost always ran left.
"And (Moore's) still learning." Colatruglio said. "He has another year in the weight room, and he can be even better, which is scary.
"We had a lineman that was dominating games, and you don't see that very often," Colatruglio said. "It's gonna be exciting to see how much he can improve and how good he can actually get."
Hoover finished the season with 16 tackles for a loss, 35 tackles overall.
"He's an effort guy, great motor, never gave up on plays," Colatruglio said of Hoover. "He never took a play off. He's got every ounce of production out of his God-given talent."
As for Jacoby, he's been the catalyst for the Columbian offense for the last two seasons. In 2012, playing many of his snaps in the quarterback spot, he finished with 19 touchdowns and 1,480 yards.
"Jack is a guy who loves to have the ball in his hands," Colatruglio said. "Even those teams that gameplanned their entire schemes around stopping him, they still weren't able to stop him."
Columbian made the playoffs for the third consecutive season, bowing out in the second round to Avon. The Tornadoes finished the season 11-1.


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As we choose our goals, there are many small steps along the way that we may not recognize as achievements in and of themselves, but they are the small successes that lead us to our highest goals. When we learn to recognize the signs of thriving with our projects, we learn to be grateful for the progress we're making and not merely feel that we have not yet reached the pinnacle of our success. If we don't learn to celebrate and appreciate our prosperity now, we are unlikely to know how to enjoy it when we get there. Today by celebrating the small successes that show that your business affairs are thriving, you enjoy every step of the way to the success of your goals.
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PORTAGE – With all 21 precincts reporting, voters have elected Elizabeth Campbell, Jim Pearson and Patricia Randall to fill three seats on the Portage City Council.
11,433 voters turned out in Portage Tuesday. Campbell received 3,140 votes (27 percent), Pearson received 2,991 votes (26 percent), and Randall received 2,976 votes (26 percent). Incumbent Cory Bailes finished fourth, receiving 2,326 votes (20 percent).
Peter Strazdas, running unopposed for mayor, was re-elected to a fourth term with 3,852 votes.
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1-2 Edinboro, Gannon host PSAC quarterfinals
Edinboro and Gannon have been at the top of PSAC West women's basketball all season.
Indiana and California are peaking at playoff time.
In a familiar scenario mirroring the 2012-13 season, IUP visits Edinboro's McComb Fieldhouse at 7 p.m., while Cal is at Gannon's Hammermill Center at 5:30 p.m. in today's PSAC quarterfinals.
The matchups are the same; the difference is that No. 24 Edinboro (21-5, 15-1 PSAC West) is the top seed, while No. 4 Gannon (25-2, 14-2) is the second seed this time. The Crimson Hawks (18-9, 8-8) come to 'Boro as the No. 4 seed, flip-flopping with the Vulcans (18-8, 11-5), who head to GU as the No. 3 West club.
"It really doesn't matter at this point of the season, because it's the playoffs, and everybody has played each other twice and are very familiar with each other,'' Edinboro coach Stan Swank said.
The Fighting Scots, who swept Gannon and IUP this season (but four of the five losses have come at home), rallied from 16 points down in the second half to claim a 69-63 road win Feb. 22. The 'Hawks, who had a five-game losing streak in the middle of the season, blasted Slippery Rock, and crushed fifth-seed Pitt-Johnstown 79-56 Saturday in the first round.
"They dominated UPJ, and they have a great group of players that do a lot of things very well,'' Swank said. "We can't expect to fall behind again and come back. We have to play good basketball for 40 minutes, or it's going to be a long night.''
IUP, under first-year coach Tom McConnell, is 0-6 versus the top trio and also lost at PSAC East top seed Bloomsburg. But junior guard and leading scorer Lindsay Stamp (18.0, 46 3s), an all-state player at Mercyhurst Prep, missed three of those games with an injury. Stamp had 21 points and 11 rebounds against UPJ.
The Scots, who got a pair of double-doubles by 6-foot 3-inch sophomore center Aignee Freeland and 42 points by junior guard Val Majewski in the two wins, beat IUP 75-71 in the 2012-13 playoff game, and both teams advanced to the Atlantic Regional at Gannon.
Edinboro can host the PSAC final four Saturday and Sunday with a win.
If the Scots are upset, Gannon would host if the Knights beat the Vulcans for a third straight time. But Cal has gone 14-4 since an 0-4 start including a loss at GU in November, and bounced back from a buzzer-beating loss at Seton Hill Wednesday with a 74-59 breeze over the same Griffins in the first-round Saturday.
The Knights have been off 10 days since winning at UPJ on Feb. 22.
"We'll see how we play, because sometimes when you're off this long, you can be very good or be rusty and play very bad,'' first-year Gannon coach Jim Brunelli said.
The Knights, who whipped Cal 77-50 in the PSAC playoff game but nipped the Vulcans 50-47 to win the Atlantic Regional a year ago, face a talented club that dismantled Edinboro 80-55 and beat IUP twice.
"They have a quality club that presents plenty of matchup problems,'' Brunelli said. "The freshman point guard, Miki Glenn, is a real solid player, and they have a lot of balance. Jess Strom does a great job with her team, so we have a tough job ahead of us.''
Senior forward Jen Papich had 21 points in the 65-57 win Jan. 29 at Cal.
Papich slightly injured her ankle in the finale at UPJ.
"She could have returned to the game if we needed her,'' Brunelli said. "We gave the girls a couple of days off. They needed to rest and recharge, because we played a lot of games and there was plenty of travel. Now we have the opportunity to stay close to home, and take one game at a time and keep winning.''
BOB JARZOMSKI can be reached at 870-1678 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNjarzomski.


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Accounting Conservatism and Transitory Earnings in Value and Growth Strategies
Mattias Hamberg
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Jiri Novak
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Vol. 37, Issue 5-6, pp. 518-537, June/July 2010
The value premium earned on value and growth investment strategies increases after adjusting for transitory earnings and for the accounting conservatism bias in the book value of equity. Simple investment strategies based on earnings-to-price (E/P) and book-to-market (B/M) performed on the Swedish stock market between 1980 and 2004 generate an annual value premium of 11 to 14%. Adjustments for transitory earnings and for the conservatism bias increase the value premium by 2 to 4 percentage points, and at the same time they improve the consistency of earning it. These results suggest that transitory earnings and accounting conservatism introduce noise into E/P and B/M measures. Adjusting for these accounting characteristics makes the identification based on E/P and B/M more effective.
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DALHART — Phyllis "Bobby" Lorraine Johnson, 89, of Dalhart died Friday, June 15, 2012.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in St. James Episcopal Church with the Rev. Phillip Ray of St. James Episcopal Church in Dalhart officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery in Dalhart. Arrangements are by Horizon Funeral Home of Dalhart.
Bobby was born May 19, 1923, in Guymon, Okla., to C.B. and Olivia Wilson Crawford. She attended Texas Woman's University in Denton and married William Glenn Johnson on Aug. 14, 1944. Glenn preceded her in death on Oct. 15, 1990. They made their home in Dalhart.
Bobby was a devoted wife and a loving mother to her two children, Gwyn Davidson and Gary Johnson. Bobby loved life and her family. She enjoyed playing golf and was an avid bridge player with her devoted "bridge club" group. She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Gwyn Davidson and husband Bud of Albuquerque, N.M.; a son, Gary Johnson and wife Terri of Dalhart; five granddaughters, Stacey Kryman and husband Jonathan of Seattle and Natalie Garcia and husband Jr., Adriane Day and husband Ty, Monica James and husband Levi and Karlee Johnson, all of Dalhart; two grandsons, Brian Davidson and wife Sonja of Phoenix and Garrett Johnson and wife Kristal of Dalhart; and her great-grandchildren, Josie and Will Kryman of Seattle, Zoe and Seth Davidson of Phoenix, Grayson, Olivia, Eli and Garner Garcia, Avi and Raimi Day and Hagan Johnson, all of Dalhart, and Cole and Judson James.
The family suggests memorials be to St. James Episcopal Church, 801 Denver Ave., Dalhart, TX 79022; or Coon Memorial Hospice, 1422 Denver Ave., Dalhart, TX 79022.
Sign the online guest book at www.horizonfuneral.com.
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Fun and Frolic! Frolic and Fun! Come and join us, everyone! The Ford City Renaissance Committee places a lot of emphasis on fun and frolic as you will see from the following events to be held in Ford City, for Ford City and nearby communities, and open for everyone to join in!
Festivals: The Ford City Festival is similar to many festivals yet different… other festivals don't have Steve Warcholak in charge of kids' games and water games. They don't have Steve Heffner as DJ and they don't have Dirk and Monica's Talent Show. They don't have Barb Klukan or Virginia Kahat or Alyssa Young in the mix. You'll have to read the details to see the difference! 2012 Ford City Festival
Flashbacks: "Motoring Memories" Car Cruise—a "Glass City" Flashback'
Our most recent car cruise was held in downtown Ford City on May 19th, 2012 from 3-8PM. FCRCP provided an afternoon and evening of family fun and activities, door prizes, Chinese Auction, 50/50 Raffle, great local foods and crafts, and entertainment by Steve Heffner and additional local talent.
Friends (true friends) Don't Allow Friends to Drive Drunk: Also at the Car Cruise was the PA Safety-SIMulator, courtesy of Tom Elliott, State Farm Insurance. This educational tool helps save lives every day. All high schools in Armstrong and nearby counties were alerted of its presence in Ford City, encouraging young people to take the time to experience the unit. Students were asked to log their participation, and the school that had the greatest number of participants received a trophy courtesy of FCRCP.
Fundraisers: Fundraising is a key component to healthy communities. Whether you volunteer as a "dunkee" on the dunk tank at the Festival, help with registration at the Car Cruise, recruit friends and family as co-volunteers for a day, or send in a generous check as an event sponsor, we appreciate your help.


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The Saharan Studies Association proposes a panel focusing on slavery, demographics, and cultural change across the Sahara and North Africa. We wish to explore the rich implications of slavery demographics to interpret societal change at a number of levels. Relatively little work has been done tracing the ebbs and flows of slave populations, or how these population changes affected economic and market dynamics, cultural production and reproduction, shifting notions of identity, or local interpretations of Islam. Scholars of the Atlantic slave trade have highlighted the significance and demographic implications of slavery, using innovative combinations of sources. By marked contrast, the demography of slavery and the slave trade in the trans-Saharan context remains a relatively less-developed, but important, branch of historical endeavor.
This panel seeks to critically address the demographics of slavery across the Sahara and North Africa by focusing on historical processes that involved the broader stratum of these enslaved populations, including servile groups who became part of—or created—diaspora societies. In this context, historical developments over the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries provide opportunities to compare and contrast the experiences of enslaved populations of sub-Saharan descent across the Sahara and North Africa. We especially welcome innovative perspectives on sources, methodology, and interpretation.
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At the NHL Draft, it's not always easy to tell the winners from the losersNo one actually wins or loses at the NHL Draft — that verdict will come at least a couple of years from now
Montreal GM: Benning 'crossed the line'Generally, it's against NHL rules to even suggest interest in another team's players while they are under contract.
Canadian NHL teams have unprecedented opportunity to add impact players to their pipelinesAll seven Canadian teams are picking in the top 12 on Friday with five of them picking inside the first six selections
'I never shopped P.K. Subban': Habs GM Marc BergevinIt didn't take long for Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin to shoot down reports that P.K. Subban was on his way out of Montreal.
Canucks looking to make some big movesBUFFALO, N.Y. — The Canucks aren't trying to get all the available NHL players. It just seems that way.
NHL expansion to Las Vegas could affect Calgary Flames goaltending situationBrad Treliving called the addition of Las Vegas to the National Hockey League's 30-team loop a "wrinkle."
Sens GM talking trade heading into draftBUFFALO — Pierre Dorion did a lot of talking on Thursday. The Senators' GM will have to wait until he gets to the draft table Friday night at the First ...
The youngest Nylander could follow in former Flame Michael's footstepsThere are pictures in the Nylander household of Alexander and his older brother William in the Scotiabank Saddledome dressing room as toddlers.
Toronto Maple Leafs have a big draft ahead, Edmonton Oilers need defence: A look at ...It'll be a busy, and in some cases franchise-changing, off-season after every Canadian team failed to make the playoffs
Panthers sign free-agent defenceman Keith YandleSUNRISE, Fla. - Keith Yandle signed with the Florida Panthers early Thursday, three days after the team acquired the high-scoring defenceman's negotiating rights in a trade with the New York ...


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Quays Focus 'Weeping Glass' On The Mutter Museum
Hide captionThe Hyrtl Skull Collection is one of the centerpieces of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. Most of the 139 skulls have an ink inscription on the front or side giving the place of birth, name, age, religion, occupation and cause of death. Most of the individuals are from Central or Eastern Europe (though there are some individuals from as far away as Egypt and Japan), and ages range from 8 to 80.Untitled No. 19, Arne Svenson, 1990Courtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
Hide captionThe Vienna Eye Phantom is a late-19th-century device used to teach medical students how to operate on the eye. Calves' eyeballs would be placed in the sockets as a substitute for human; a knob at the base was turned to set the small spikes to hold them in place.The Vienna Eye Phantom, Joel-Peter Witkin, 1990Courtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
Hide captionThe skeleton of Harry Raymond Eastlack, a 39-year-old male with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, or FOP — an extremely rare inherited disorder in which bone forms outside the skeleton, immobilizing the individual. Harry, Scott Lindgren, 1990Courtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
Hide captionTrephination is used to make an intentional entry into the skull to allow instruments to lift skull fragments and remove blood clots at the site of an injury. This skull, of a German killed by a brick in a riot in Baltimore in 1839, shows a trephination hole next to the site of the fracture.Trephined Skull, Scott Lindgren, 1992Courtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
Hide captionThis Civil War surgical kit includes general surgical instruments for minor operations, such as scalpels, as well as large amputating knives, bone-cutting forceps, an amputating saw, a trephine, a chain saw and bullet forceps. An inscription says the set was given to Dr. C.T. Morton on March 17, 1863.Civil War Surgical Kit, Shelby Lee Adams, 1993Courtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
Hide captionA radiograph shows a toy battleship caught in the esophagus of an infant. Dr. Chevalier Jackson had the image made to locate the object before attempting removal. Jackson designed an array of specialized retrieval instruments for removing swallowed objects.X-ray of Toy Battleship, Mutter Museum ArchivesCourtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
Hide captionThe Mutter Giant is the skeleton of a male, estimated to be approximately 7 feet 6 inches tall and between 22 and 24 years old. It was acquired by the museum in 1877 at a cost of $50, and nothing is known about its history except that it came from Kentucky. Philip B. Wallace, Mutter Museum ArchivesCourtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
Hide captionThis sample of female hair is part of a collection of specimens of hair representing different nationalities and diseases. It was presented to the museum in 1851.Untitled from the Mutter Series, Candace diCarlo, 2000Courtesy of "Mutter Museum," published by Blast Books
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The notion of "beauty" can mean many different things to artists. For the Brothers Quay — identical-twin filmmakers — it often means dimly lit black and white images of animated dolls, screws, cogs — any manner of inanimate object brought to life. They're so good at it that fellow filmmaker Terry Gilliam called the Quays' Street of Crocodiles one of the best animated films of all time.
Timothy and Stephen Quay are American-born stop-motion animators who do most of their work in Europe. Their latest film brought them back to the U.S. — to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. The Mutter houses a collection of 19th century medical curiosities. The film brings to life the way medicine used to be, and the stories of the long-dead.
The Quays are lean, fashionable in a comfortable way, with long, graying hair. They're in their 60s but don't look it. It's hard to tell them apart, and they like it that way. To make the film, they turn a museum room into a darkened studio. They fill it ominously with the soundtrack from David Lynch's TV series, Twin Peaks, and they place museum specimens on a table under shimmering lights: a fetus in a jar, or a terrifying sort of metal plunger for removing kidney stones. At the start, they have no script, no storyline.
"What we most like are the accidents," they say. "They," because the brothers usually share sentences, one finishing what the other starts. They prefer to be undifferentiated.
"The accidents bend the direction of the film," they continue, "because the whole thing about this museum is discovering that one little kernel or that one strange event."
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They rotate and film the objects from different angles, conferring quietly, building mood. The Quays say this museum is both heart-rending and beautiful. Museums figure in their other films. For them, these places contain objects with occluded histories.
Watching a Quay film is kind of like being in a museum, like looking at a diorama through a peephole. You might call it a dreamscape, but they say no, it's "crepuscular" — it's the slippery moment just after you wake up, between sleep and wakefulness.
"For us," says a brother, "it's always been the in-between world where it's an ambiguous state, and it hovers on, or shimmers in a kind of half-state. Maybe it's a little bit where reality and fiction tremble with a nice ..." He searches for the right word.
"Favorable wind," the other finishes with a laugh.
It's worth noting that the Quays usually keep lots of Belgian beer nearby when filming or doing interviews.
Before the Quays begin filming, they usually decide on the music and let it guide them. They say it "releases and closes down" images. Tim Nelson composed the music for the Mutter film.
"They're looking more for the moments where there might be something that sticks out," Nelson says, "that little sound there that might inspire a reflection off glass, or when a camera angle might change. They find the rhythms within the music."
And the music helps give meaning to the objects.
'Revealing The Hidden'
The Quays grew up near Philadelphia and studied art there before moving to England. They were invited back by Robert Hicks, who came to the Mutter Museum as its director two years ago with a mission — to open its collection to artists. Many came. But it was these painterly animators he really wanted.
"The Quay brothers are so good at revealing the hidden," he says, "at creating stories about the inner lives of overlooked or unusual things. They animate straight pins used in sewing; they animate puppets, screws, dust. They're particularly virtuosos at manipulating dust."
In fact, the brothers had visited the museum in their teens. So they knew about its bizarre offerings.
Anna Dhody, the museum's curator, is also a forensic scientist — she solves criminal mysteries based on bodies or bones. The Mutter's main exhibition hall has plenty of both — like the 139 human skulls on the wall. They're meant to show skeletal diversity among Europeans. Each has an identifying tag.
Dhody reads one tag: "Giza Hermenyi. Reformist herdsman. At age 70 attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Wound not fatal because of ossified larynx. Lived until 80 without melancholy."
In another cabinet, a skeleton stands erect, and looks very melancholy. There's something very wrong with the bones.
"This is Harry Eastlack," Dhody explains. "And Harry has something called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva." As Eastlack aged, any bump or injury caused more bone to grow inside him — in places it shouldn't. "If you look at the ribs right here," she says, "you're going to see this sheeting action, almost like dripping down." It looks like icicles of bone. In the end, he could only move his lips. He died at 39 and asked that his skeleton stay at Mutter.
And Eastlack's story is how the Quays start their story. "Harry Eastlack is the one that we're sort of creating kind of a through line [with], but then there's other curves that kind of sweep in and intersect," the Quays say.
'We Never Walk Through The Front Door'
While the Brothers film in their studio, Dhody and director Hicks roam the museum's back rooms, gathering objects that have caught the brothers' fancy. Like a metal sculpture of a head. "It's called an 'eye phantom,' " Hicks explains. It's a 19th century metal sculpture with empty eye sockets. (See the second image in the slideshow above.) Students would place eyeballs in the sockets, and it's Dhody's job to do that for the Quays.
Scalpel in hand and bent over a lab table, she's "trimming" eyeballs. "What we're doing is prepping the eyeballs to get them into the eye phantom. And then I don't know what they are going to be doing." The eyeballs are from a cow, a sheep and a pig.
The eyes finally stay put and she presents the thing to the Quays. They stare for a while, then politely say, "Sorry, it doesn't quite work."
But they are taken with the 139 skulls. There are stories there, they say. "Every one of them had made a journey, and it's true. It's like, 'What would be the five lines that would describe each one of us — the trajectory of life?' "
"Yes, the trajectory of life, and how you end it."
"How you end it in this museum as well."
The filming takes several days. Only after, will the Quays shape the whole film.
"We never walk through the front door," says one. "We insist on coming through the side door or the back door. It's a bit like a plant growing in the sense you just keep it watered. It might grow three limbs on one side and only one on the other, but it will be striking or it will be special."
"Or a perversion," the other jokes.
The film is called Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting. It opens Sept. 22 in Philadelphia, then moves to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Unusually for a Quay film, there is narration, by the Shakespearean actor Sir Derek Jacobi. The first line of the film? "No child ever imagines the unimaginable. That he will end up as a skeleton."
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How to Divide Square Roots
Three Methods:How to Divide Square RootsHow to Rationalize a DenominatorHow to Use Conjugate PairsCommunity Q&A
Dividing square roots is similar to simplifying a fraction to lowest terms... but with a twist: we never leave a radical in the denominator of a fraction.
Method 1
How to Divide Square Roots
1Know your vocabulary:
- The radical is the symbol used to represent the square root.
- The coefficient of the radical is the integer factor in front of the radical symbol.
- The radicand is the number underneath (within) the radical symbol.
2Write your division as a fraction. Remember that the one doing the dividing is the one that goes in the denominator.
3Cancel out any common factors shared by the coefficients of your radicals. Thus taking the coefficients down to lowest terms.
4Divide (cancel) out any common factors shared by the numerator and denominator radicands so that they are in lowest terms as well.
5Note that the radical symbol in the denominator needs to have disappeared. If not, you will have to rationalize the denominator.
6Go back and check your work before you circle your final answer.
Method 2
How to Rationalize a Denominator
1If your denominator involves addition or subtraction of any kind, skip down to the "conjugate pairs" section below. Otherwise...
2Set up a second fraction to the right of your first one.
3In the denominator of the second fraction, write the exact same radical as the first fraction's denominator.
- you do not need to include the coefficient, just the radical
4Make the second fraction's numerator match its denominator.
5Multiply the two fractions together, numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.
- In the numerator, follow the usual rules concerning combining radicals. For more information on multiplying radicals, consult the article How to Multiply Square Roots.
- If your first fraction's numerator involves addition or subtraction, you will need to distribute.
6Understand that your new denominator should now involve the square root of a perfect square. Simplify the radical to the square root of that perfect square.
7Multiply that simplified radical with any coefficients that might be hanging around in the denominator.
8Check any radicands remaining in the numerator. Do they have factors that are perfect squares? If so, simplify the radical.
9Check to see whether the new numerator and new denominator have any common factors that can be canceled out.
- Or if your numerator involves multiple terms linked with + or -, then the common factors must be common to all terms to be divided out.
Method 3
How to Use Conjugate Pairs
1Know your vocabulary: a conjugate pair is one with the exact same terms, but with the opposite operation between them. (example: 3x - 5 and 3x + 5 are conjugate pairs.)
2Know when to apply this process: if your denominator contains two terms, connected with + or -, and at least one of the terms includes a radical.
3Set up a second fraction to the right of your first fraction.
4In the second fraction's denominator, write the same terms as the first fraction's denominator, but put the opposite operation (of addition or subtraction) between them.
5Make the second fraction's numerator match its denominator.
6Multiply the two denominators together using the FOIL process. (For more information on FOIL-ing, see the article Multiply Binomials Using the FOIL Method.)
- Because your two denominators are conjugate pairs, the Outside +Inside combination will cancel to zero, leaving only the First pair and the Last pair
7Simplify your new denominator which now include the square root squared, which removes the radical symbol.
8Finish the subtraction, if possible, as your denominator now consists of a subtraction of two numbers.
9Multiply the two numerators. Use FOIL or single-term distribution, as appropriate.
10Divide (cancel) out any factors common to all terms.
- If your denominator is negative, then multiply the numerator and denominator by -1. That moves that negative to the numerator or out front of the entire fraction.
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How can I divide under root 35?wikiHow ContributorYou can square the number you want to divide by and then put this new number directly under the 35 inside the square root. Generally, for dividing by x: (√35) / x = √35 / √(x^2 ) = √(35/x^2 ). As an example, if the number you want to divide by is 5, then: (√35) / 5 = √35 / √25 = √(35/25) = √(7/5) = √1.4.
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- Many calculators have fraction buttons. Try entering the numerator's coefficient, hitting the fraction button, then entering the denominator's coefficient. When you hit the = sign, the calculator should rewrite the coefficients into lowest terms.
- Use improper fractions here, being better than mixed numbers in this situation.
- Unlike adding and subtracting radicals, in division, the radicands do not need to be simplified to remove perfect squares before you begin. In fact, it is often better not to do so.
- Never leave a radical in the denominator of a fraction, but instead simplify or rationalize it.
- Never put or leave a decimal or a mixed number in front of a radical, but instead change either to a fraction and simplify the entire expression.
- Never put a decimal into a fraction. That would be a fraction within a fraction.
- If your denominator includes any kind of addition or subtraction, then use a conjugate pair method to remove radical from the denominator.
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Jon B. Silk Jr., MD, has joined the team at Hyatt Family Care in Tipp City and the UVMC Medical Staff.
Dr. Silk graduated from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and received his medical degree from Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton. He completed residency in family medicine at Wright State Family Medicine and an internship in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. He has served as a lecturer/trainer for workshops on nutrition and healthy eating and is a Health Justice Member of the Gesundheit! Institute. He, his wife Stephanie (Baker) and their son reside in Troy.
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Plans to convert a former bedsit into Britain's most northerly micropub have been approved by Northumberland County Council.
Gemma Deighton Cook plans to turn the Berwick property into an intimate setting for the enjoyment of specialist local beers.
Planning officers said the plans for the single storey property off Bridge Street would bring a listed building back into full economic use and in a good state of repair.
Ros Duncan, planning officer, said: "This building has not been in use for a number of years and requires significant improvements to services and building fabric.
"The current application would provide this investment and would provide the building with a sustainable end use.
"The scheme is appropriate for this area of mixed use and the high stone surrounding walls mean that the use would not have a detrimental impact on domestic properties or on other neighbouring businesses."
The micropub will have no music, no TV and will not sell lager. It will, however, feature a small beer garden.
The proposed licensing hours are Monday to Thursday from 12pm-2.30pm and 5pm to 9pm and on Friday to Sunday from 12pm to 10pm.
It is proposed to reroof the lean-to, fit doors in the external wall into the yard to create access, install a plain window in a new opening and to repair the external wall.
The micropub concept originated with The Butcher's Arms in Herne, Kent but the nearest at the moment is The Rat Race on Hartlepool station platform.


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DesJarlais Keeps Hometown Support After Abortion Scandal
Doug Crisp, speaking outside the evangelical Grace Baptist Church in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, said he plans to support Representative Scott DesJarlais, a freshman, pro-life physician and anti-tax Tea Party-backed Republican.
Crisp said his support isn't surprising even though DesJarlais, in a recorded phone conversation more than a decade ago, tried to persuade a patient with whom he's admitted having an affair to get an abortion.
"I've known Scott a long time, he's a good guy," Crisp, a 35 year-old resident of nearby Kimball, Tennessee, said in an interview outside Wednesday night services on Oct. 24. "For me, he's honest, he's always been up front with people. I hate what happened, but he's human."
Crisp's sentiment was echoed by other church members in this town of about 3,000 in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, where DesJarlais, who declined to be interviewed for this story, resides with his second wife and his three children.
Others, like Calvin Case, 50, said the transcript, which surfaced for the first time earlier this month, was "very, very troubling" and would keep him from voting for DesJarlais, who he said was "trying to weasel out" of blame.
"I believe that if you run for political office, you ought to be up front and honest with everything," said Case, a pro-life South Pittsburg resident and member of Grace Baptist Church.
House Majority
The abortion revelation has given Democrats a potential bonus pickup in their uphill fight to gain control of the House of Representatives. Analysts say House Democrats probably will fall far short of the 25 seats they need to win to capture the majority in the chamber.
The Huffington Post first reported the transcript of the September 2000 phone call in which DesJarlais, who was going through a divorce, told a patient he'd been seeing, "You told me you'd have an abortion, and now we're getting too far along without one."
A Chattanooga newspaper, the Times Free Press, published a story Oct. 28 anonymously quoting a second woman who claimed to have had an affair with DesJarlais in 2000 while she was his patient.
"What's come out goes to the hypocrisy of folks who will go to Washington and talk one way but they won't walk the walk," state Senator Eric Stewart, DesJarlais's Democratic opponent, said in an interview.
Affair Acknowledged
DesJarlais, 48, whose divorce from his first wife became final in 2001, has acknowledged the affair. He said he only encouraged the woman to have an abortion because he believed she wasn't actually pregnant and wanted to call her bluff.
In an e-mailed statement, DesJarlais campaign manager Brandon Lewis said Stewart was "trying to use recycled garbage" to mount a "smear campaign to cover up" his "support of Barack Obama," who is unpopular in Tennessee. DesJarlais's campaign began airing an ad last week accusing Stewart of using "recycled garbage" against him.
Two years ago, then-Democratic Representative Lincoln Davis, who DesJarlais beat by 19 percentage points, ran ads emphasizing allegations from court records that DesJarlais intimidated his ex-wife with a gun.
"Lincoln Davis all but threw the kitchen sink against this guy personally," said David Wasserman, who tracks House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington. "So there is a little bit of inoculation that is already there."
Strategy Backfired
In 2010, Davis's strategy backfired because many voters "perceived that line of attack on DesJarlais as distracting from the real issue at hand," Wasserman said.
Another Grace Baptist Church parishioner, Jimmy Haley, 42, said he opposed abortion in all instances except rape and that he would vote for DesJarlais because he was concerned the 2010 health-care law would endanger his job working for a hardwood floor manufacturer.
Haley, a South Pittsburg resident, said DesJarlais had more experience helping the poor receive health care than Obama.
"He's been here in the middle of it, and he sees it," he said. "I know a bunch of people he's seen for free that didn't have medical care."
Several local residents said they'd heard rumors going back to before 2010 that DesJarlais had been sexually involved with patients.
'He's a Liar'
Pat Long, 66, a South Pittsburg resident and member of the First Baptist Church there, said she wouldn't support DesJarlais.
"I just feel like he's a liar," Long said.
Long said she met the congressman years ago when she sought medical care from him and "felt like he had a sour personality."
"I had gone to him as a doctor, and I didn't like him," she said.
Elected as part of the Tea Party wave that swept Republicans to a House majority two years ago, DesJarlais has been a reliable supporter of anti-abortion legislation, earning a 100 percent rating from National Right to Life. He'd never before held elected office.
House Majority PAC, a Democratic super-political action committee, yesterday launched its second ad attacking DesJarlais, a $180,000 buy for a spot calling DesJarlais a hypocrite and contending that he "shouldn't be representing us."
Fundraising Gap
With national party help, Stewart is trying to close a fundraising gap. Through Oct. 17, DesJarlais had raised $1.1 million and had about $320,000 in cash on hand, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington group that tracks campaign spending. Stewart had raised about $546,000 and had about $110,000 in cash on hand, according to the group.
Through Oct. 22, Stewart and House Majority PAC had spent $148,130 on 209 advertising spots. That compares with $338,720 that DesJarlais had spent on 557 spots, according to New York-based Kantar Media's CMAG, which tracks advertising.
National Republicans, who have been fighting Democrats' claims that their party is anti-women, have kept their distance from DesJarlais. Republican Senate candidates Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana have drawn Democratic fire for comments about abortion. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney dropped DesJarlais's endorsement from his website after the call transcript surfaced.
'Better Choice'
One Stewart ad features headlines about the DesJarlais abortion dustup and describes Stewart as "a better choice."
Ralyn Tuders, a 21-year-old South Pittsburg resident who said she plans to vote for the first time on Nov. 6, said she started to tune out the negative ads both sides are running.
"I see the commercials on it, and to me, politics is nothing but mudslinging sometimes," said Tuders, a member of the First Baptist Church who said she is still deciding who she will support in the congressional race. "It's all about 'let me badmouth you so I can get my foot up.'"


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In a continuing summer series, we take a look at what went wrong this season. Rather than do one giant post about the 2009-2010 season, we figured we would just break it down into pieces. One painful step at a time.
Sharks will finally make it to the Finals this year.
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Cotati, CA: A 19th-century roadhouse in Sonoma. With pie!
When's the last time you happened upon an actual roadhouse in California wine country?
Built in 1859, the Washoe House was built as a stagecoach station between Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Bodega. Passengers could stop for some restorative food and drink en route to their final destination. (You could even get a little extra something with your lunch when Washoe House operated briefly as a brothel.)
These days it's mostly a character-filled relic of a colorful past (albeit one that serves homemade pie). Order something from the diner-fare menu and look up: Patrons have been stapling dollar bills to the ceiling for almost as long as the joint's been jumping.


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Waiting in line outside the Carson Valley Community Food Closet on Tuesday, 79-year-old Joan Tallerino reflected on how significant this year's Thanksgiving meal will be for her.
"It's the first time having dinner with my family in a long time," the Gardnerville resident said. "It's going to be a special, special holiday for us."
Inside, volunteers from the Douglas County Sheriff's Mounted Posse and others worked an assembly line of Thanksgiving dinner boxes to be distributed to more than 500 families.
"The people who have been doing this for years are the ones who are here," said Tina Tubridy, who was hired as the closet's new director in July. "Everybody that works here wants to be here. They come in with open hearts. It's inspiring."
One regular food closet volunteer, Nancy Hollenbach, said the Thanksgiving dinner distribution was her favorite day.
"I love it. Wouldn't you love to give Thanksgiving dinner to 500 families?" she said. "It's one of my most favorite things I do for the food closet. Douglas County is so generous to the food closet, and we are so thankful because our clients are so thankful for it."
Minden resident Lucia Munoz, 22, was one of those thankful clients. This year is her son's first Thanksgiving dinner.
"It's nice for us. It means bringing the family together. It's a blessing from God," she said. "It's the one day that we give thanks for everything, and to be able to do it with a nice, hot dinner is good."
Because of the help from the food closet, Gardnerville resident Stephanie Grow will be able to have a Thanksgiving dinner with her family.
"My son is coming from Seattle," the 50-year-old said. "It's great especially when you are unemployed. It helps out a lot. This is a good thing for the community."
Minden resident Vaughan Davis said the reason she volunteers is because of how much the food recipients appreciate it.
"I think because it's so appreciated that it is so rewarding," Davis said. "It's very satisfying helping people."
Davis' daughter, Kathy Mollet, comes from Nevada City, Calif., each year to volunteer with her mother.
"I do a lot of volunteer work with nonprofits, and this is another way to give back to a different community," she said. "It's a good thing. We're pretty fortunate to not be the one's standing in line, so it's out turn in our lives to give back."


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When the spectacle concluded, the evening's host, How I Met Your Mother star Neal Patrick Harris, called it "the biggest and most expensive number in the history of the Tonys. That is why I am your host tonight."
But not everything went smoothly during the elaborate number, which was broadcast live on CBS. Rock of Love reality star Bret Michaels – who hit the stage with his band Poison along with the cast of Broadway's Rock of Ages – fell down after being hit by a piece of scenery following his performance of Poison's hit "Nothin' But a Good Time." He was knocked to the ground, and fractured his nose. The singer also required three stitches in his lip.
A publicist later told PEOPLE that Michaels was hoping to hit some after-parties but was "getting X-rays." Calling him "a trooper," she added that Michaels "had a blast performing."
Besides the singing and dancing, there were awards, with Billy Elliot, composer Elton John's adaptation of director Stephen Daldry's 2000 film about a boy who lives to dance, sweeping the night as best musical and winning 10 Tonys in all – while French dramatist Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage was named best play.
God of Carnage – an unmannered "comedy of manners" about two married couples in Brooklyn – was also honored for its direction and its leading actress, Marcia Gay Harden.
Angela Lansbury WinsOscar winner (for the 1996 film Shine) Geoffrey Rush added to his trophy case with the best actor Tony for the revival of the French existential absurdist tragic-comedy Exit the King, by Eugene Ionesco.
Sopranos star James Gandolfini, now starring in God of Carnage, served as a presenter and set the record straight. "Shrek and I are no relation," he said. He and costar Jeff Daniels handed over the best featured actress Tony to Broadway favorite Angela Lansbury, for her role as spiritual medium Madame Arcati in the revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.
The win marked Mame and Murder, She Wrote star Lansbury's fifth Tony, and the audience – which included Anne Hathaway – received her with a standing ovation.
"This is amazing," said the veteran actress, 83. "Who would have thought? Who knew at this time of my life that I would be presented with this lovely, lovely award. I can't believe I am standing here."
Audience in TearsWest Side Story's Karen Olivo, who played the defiant Anita, was named best featured actress in a musical. In her acceptance speech, which brought tears to members of the audience, she stressed the importance of surrounding oneself "with people who love you."
Liza Minnelli's concert, Liza's at the Palace, beat Will Ferrell's one-man show, You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush, as best special theatrical event. The indomitable star thanked her parents, showbiz legend Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, for giving her her godmother, musical stylist Kay Thompson.
Next to Normal, an offbeat musical about a family's coping with a bipolar mother, beat Dolly Parton (for 9 to 5) and Elton John (for Billy Elliot) in the best score category, with Tonys going to composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Brian Yorkey – who acknowledged Parton and John's inspiration. Its star, Alice Ripley, was named best leading actress in a musical.
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