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I bought a set of 4 of these tires in November of 2012. It is now May, 2016, and I've only put 20,000 miles on the car in that time. The tires will need replacing very soon. I got horrible mileage out of them. They were supposed to be one of the best tires on the market when I researched them. They are bad. I won't ever buy Falken brand tires again. My car is always aligned and I rotate my tires regularly.
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These 211's are fitted on my '85 Corolla GT-S, and simply one of the best all year round tires for the price to drive in the Northern California weather.
They handle great throughout most seasons of the year and grip corners really well on dry pavement. However, drive cautiously on wet pavement because you will slide or spin out if you drive too aggressively. Comfort on these is decent (despite my stiff suspension setup) and road noise hasn't become an issue. Treadwear has held up with handful of sharp corners, burnouts, donuts, and occasional attempts to drift, lol.
Vehicle: 1990 Toyota Corolla 2 Dr Coupe GTS with 14481 KM of Tire Wear
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A beautiful tire for the Canadian winter, it grips to the road and never slides
Size: 205/70R15
Vehicle: 1999 Toyota Sienna 5 Dr Mini Passenger Van LE with 1000 KM of Tire Wear
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BSC Students Participate in 2012 WV-INBRE Summer Research Symposium
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|Nine Bluefield State College students took part in the 2012 West Virginia-Idea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence Summer Research Symposium at WVU. Pictured with Dr. Tesfaye Belay (fourth from the left), BSC Associate Professor of Biology are (left-to-right) BSC students Yamilee Valmyr, Elisha Martin, Angela Wiker, Dr. Belay, Danielle Haynes, Michael Bowling, Sasha Richmond, and Brandon Kirby.
|Bluefield State College students Kimberly Harding (left) and Mardochee Isme (right) took part in summer research internship opportunities at and West Virginia University and Marshall University, respectively.
(Bluefield)—Nine Bluefield State College students and a BSC faculty member participated in the 2012 annual West Virginia-Idea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (WV-INBRE) Summer Research Symposium at West Virginia University.
BSC students Yamilee Valmyr, Elisha Martin, Angela Wiker, Danielle Haynes, Michael Bowling, Sasha Richmond and Brandon Kirby developed posters detailing the research they conducted under the supervision of Dr. Tesfaye Belay (BSC Associate Professor of Biology. Their research involved two concurrent investigations—"Stress and Chlamydia Genital Infection in a Mouse Model" and "Long-term Survival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Under Starvation in Water."
Additionally, BSC students Mardochee Isme and Kimberly Harding presented findings emerging from their summer research internship opportunities at Marshall University and West Virginia University, respectively. Ms. Isme was also chosen as one of the summer internship students to speak about her summer research at Marshall University.
"Each researcher prepared by reading scientific literature, selecting a topic, formulating hypotheses, designing and carrying out experiments, then presenting a poster," Dr. Belay explained "These students made significant contributions to advancing the research conducted in our laboratory. The opportunity for me to become a mentor for these student researchers was a very rewarding experience."
Three summer research internships were funded by the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. "Our students are very grateful for the support of WV-INBRE and the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium that resulted in summer jobs in research training," Belay continued. "This is the largest group of BSC students ever to receive summer employment through these research opportunities."


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The nine states in the northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative [1] took an important step this month that will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase funding for energy efficiency and clean energy without unduly burdening businesses or consumers. That step was to adjust their cap-and-trade program by tightening the emissions cap [2] and increasing compliance flexibility for businesses.
In 2009, RGGI became the nation's first mandatory, market-based program to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). California's cap-and-trade program [3] is now the second. Over the past two years, RGGI conducted a comprehensive program review [4] culminating in an updated Model Rule [5], the program's first major overhaul since its launch.
The new cap takes into account the region's actual emissions, which have fallen over 40 percent below initial projections. After resetting to current emissions levels, the new cap would decline by 2.5 percent each year from 2015 to 2020, significantly surpassing the states' current goal of reducing CO2 emissions from the power sector 10 percent between 2009 and 2018.
Analysis [6] by ICF International indicates that under the updated program, greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector would decline by about 15 percent from current levels by 2020. The average electricity bill for residents in these states would increase less than 1 percent in that time, while the program would generate $2.2 billion for investments in energy efficiency [2].
Since the program's inception, RGGI has served as a role model, but its designers have also been conscious of the importance of learning from others. The updated compliance flexibility is responsive to business concerns and also draws on design innovations in California's new program [3], which itself had borrowed heavily from RGGI in its design.
The updated Model Rule includes provisions to expand RGGI's offset program [7], most notably by adding a forestry protocol modeled after California's. It also creates a cost containment reserve (CCR) of carbon dioxide allowances, an idea also borrowed from California. The CCR would provide a fixed additional supply of allowances that would only be made available if allowance prices exceed predefined price levels. The CCR provisions would also simplify existing compliance flexibility measures.
With this step, RGGI continues its critically important leadership, demonstrating market-based policies [8] are an effective and efficient means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/regional-climate-initiatives/rggi
[2] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/news/2013/rggi-releases-updated-model-rule-tightening-co2-cap
[3] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/key-legislation/california-cap-trade
[4] http://www.rggi.org/design/program_review
[5] http://www.rggi.org/docs/ProgramReview/_FinalProgramReviewMaterials/Model_Rule_Summary.pdf
[6] http://www.rggi.org/docs/ProgramReview/February11/13_02_11_IPM.pdf
[7] http://www.rggi.org/docs/RGGI_Offsets_in_Brief.pdf
[8] http://www.c2es.org/publications/market-mechanisms-brief
[9] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/us-states-regions


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The report was released by Gerald Kirkland, regional inspector general for audit, who said a review of the authority's records revealed that the authority "did not exercise adequate oversight and allowed ineligible and unsupported costs."
The main purpose of the audit was to determine whether the authority "(1) properly collected, deposited and recorded its low-rent rental receipts; (2) had adequate controls over its credit cards: and (3) made additional or improper payroll payments."
"We also reviewed board oversight and expanded our testing to cover other high-risk disbursements," Kirkland's report stated.
The study
According to the report, the study covered records at the BHA's administrative offices in Beeville and at OIG offices in Houston and Fort Worth between Dec. 3, 2012, and April 30, 2014.
The review covered a period from March 31, 2012, to Sept. 30, 2013.
According to the "Results of Review" portion of the report, the auditors found that the BHA did not properly oversee its rental income, mismanaged its fuel cards and vehicles, made payments in violation of conflict-of-interest requirements, paid for ineligible advertising costs, paid its executive director unsupported compensation, lacked support for an executive director pay increase, reimbursed the executive director for unnecessary, ineligible and unsupported costs, improperly used its other credit cards, lacked support for a commissioner's travel and did not hold regular board of commissioners' meetings.
The report indicated that audit showed that $31,351 in ineligible payments, $42,508 in unsupported payments and $1,724 in unnecessary payments were made.
What is needed
Recommendations made by the OIG were for the director of the San Antonio Office of Public Housing to require the BHA to:
1A. Implement internal controls, policies and procedures for rental income, including requiring monthly reconciliations.
1B. Either support or repay $24,821 from non-federal funds for unsupported fuel charges.
1C. Implement a policy for its credit cards that includes restricting access, requires a review of charges by an appropriate manager or board member and provide for actions to be taken against employees who violate the policy.
1D. Implement a vehicle-use policy that (1) includes provisions for tracking mileage for each vehicle, determining the extent of employee personal use of authority vehicles based upon the benefit obtained by the authority.
1E. Determine whether the executive director should use an authority-provided vehicle for authority business or have her track the use of her personal vehicle for business use to support mileage reimbursements.
1F. Update its personnel policy to include prohibiting conflicts of interest in housing assistance payments contracts.
1G. Repay from non-federal funds $17,097 paid for ineligible housing assistance payments made in violation of housing assistance payments contract's conflict-of-interest requirements.
1H. Adopt a policy that ensures that only allowable costs are charged to its federal programs with federal requirements.
1I. Support or repay from non-federal funds $9,313 paid for ineligible advertising costs.
1J. Support or repay from non-federal funds $8,721 in unsupported vacation payments.
1K. Support or repay from non-federal funds $6,895 in unsupported vacation payments.
1L. Repay from non-federal funds $4,321 paid for ineligible credit card purchases.
1M. Repay from non-federal funds $1,724 paid for unnecessary costs paid for mileage.
1N. Support or repay from non-federal funds $1,682 paid to its executive director for unsupported costs.
1O. Repay from non-federal funds $620 paid to the executive director for ineligible costs.
1P. Support or repay from non-federal funds $389 paid for a commissioner's unsupported travel.
1Q. Update its personnel policy to comply with State of Texas requirements for commissioners' travel, including requiring supporting documentation for travel.
1R. Hold regular board meetings and provide adequate oversight of the authority's operations.
1S. Consult with the mayor of Beeville and evaluate the board of commissioners, determine its effectiveness and remove and replace commissioners as appropriate.
Solving the problems
The report also indicated that the executive director, Viola Salazar Maldonado, has agreed to take the following steps to correct the problems mentioned in the report:
Comment 1: The executive director agreed to adopt new policies to address many of the issues identified in the memorandum. We acknowledge these actions. However, the executive director needs to obtain board approval of any new policies, and the board needs to appropriately exercise its oversight authority to prevent issues from reoccurring.
Comment 2: The executive director requested additional time to respond to the conflict of interest issues. HUD will provide the authority time to respond to this issue after issuance of the final memorandum.
Comment 3: The executive director admitted to paying herself for her vacation without board approval because the authority has a policy allowing such payments. Further, she said she was not trying to circumvent the board's oversight. However, the authority's personnel policy stated that the board shall establish the salary of the executive director, and it allowed payment of vacation days upon written request by the eligible employee. By directing the bookkeeper to issue her checks and not making a request seeking board approval, the executive director did circumvent the board's oversight.
Comment 4: The executive director stated she was paid amounts approved by the board. The board approved the authority's budgets, but the budget may not have clearly detailed she was receiving a pay increase. Further, the executive director received additional and retroactive payments not in accordance with the authority's policy or as approved by the board.
Comment 5: The executive director provided receipts for the commissioner's lodging and a handwritten note for mileage. As a result, we reduced the amount in the memorandum accordingly. The note lacked support for meals, taxis and parking costs. As the State of Texas requires commissioners to be paid for expenses "as long as such expenses are supported by adequate evidence of actual money expended," the amount in the memorandum is unsupported. We did not include the information provided as support as it contained personal identification information.
Comment 6: The executive director indicated that a search for new board commissioners was underway. Further, the mayor indicated that two commissioners had resigned, and two whose terms had ended would not be reappointed. He further stated that he was taking action to have a responsible board appointed. We acknowledge their comments; however, the new board needs to hold regular meetings to provide adequate oversight. The mayor also provided resignation letters from two board commissioners and termination letters for two additional board commissioners. We did not include them in the memorandum, but they are available upon request.
The Bee-Picayune was able to contact Mrs. Maldonado, but she was unable to comment on the report by press time Friday morning.
She was assured that she would have an opportunity to respond and that a follow-up article would be printed at a later date.
An attempt was made to contact Mayor David Carabajal, but he could not be reached by press time Friday.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 343-5220, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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CHICAGO, Feb. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Old Republic International Corporation (NYSE: ORI) today declared a quarterly cash dividend on the common stock of 18.25 cents per share. This dividend is payable March 14, 2014, to shareholders of record on March 4, 2014. Subject to Board approval of each quarter's new rate, the full year's cash dividend will amount to 73 cents per share compared to 72 cents paid in 2013.
This latest dividend increase marks the 33rd consecutive year that Old Republic has boosted its cash dividend rate, and 2014 becomes the 73rd year of uninterrupted cash dividend payments.
About Old Republic
Chicago-based Old Republic International Corporation is an insurance holding company whose subsidiaries market, underwrite and provide risk management services for a wide variety of coverages, principally in the property and liability, and title insurance fields. A long term interest in mortgage guaranty and consumer credit indemnity lines has devolved to a run-off operating mode in recent times.
One of the nation's 50 largest publicly owned insurance organizations, Old Republic has consolidated assets of approximately $16.5 billion and common shareholders' equity of $3.8 billion, or $14.64 per share. Its current stock market valuation is approximately $4.0 billion, or $15.29 per share.
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Have you ever thought about installing wind or solar energy on your property? Are you curious about what sort of results you could get if you did?
Then you might be interested in trying out the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's In My Backyard tool. In My Backyard uses Google Maps and the laboratory's renewable resource databases to estimate how much energy you could produce from wind or solar energy at your location.
All you have to do is plug in your address, use the "draw" tool to select where you would construct wind or solar, and plug in a few details about the installation you want. The tool will then estimate how much power you could make throughout the year.
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So DD (now 3 months old) has discovered how to latch on independently, and with a pretty decent latch, too. But the problem is that sometimes, especially if we're nursing lying down or in the cradle position (not cross-cradle, though) she just latches on, and off, and on, and off, like she is just sipping on a straw or something!
Thankfully it doesn't make my nipples too sore although I cut her off around the 10th latch usually, in an act of self-preservation.
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Officials seeking plan, funds to fix Stadium Field
PARKERSBURG – Officials working to correct the structural issues at Parkersburg High School's Stadium Field are trying to find the funds to address the issues and get the stadium open as quickly as possible.
Parkersburg High School Athletics Director Lori Lowers said the Stadium Committee will meet Monday and with the Wood County Board of Education on Tuesday.
"We are going to decide on a plan of action and then start moving."
The Stadium Committee – with the permission of the Wood County Board of Education – has been working with Pickering Associates to review the bleachers at Stadium Field after they were closed late last year. The committee was recently presented a report that provided two solutions to the issue.
Lowers said the short-term solution would be to fortify the underside of the bleachers. That would cost about $900,000. But the work could be completed before the start of football season.
The long-term solution would involve removing the risers (the concrete seating) and replacing it with prefabricated concrete. That option would cost close to $2.5 million and take about a year to complete.
Officials want the stadium open in time for football season.
PHS is nearly self-sufficient with regard to athletics. The athletic department receives little money from the board and relies heavily on football to generate revenue to sustain its other athletic programs. Football and boys basketball are traditionally the only revenue-generating sports in high school athletics.
Big Reds football brings in about $110,000 a year, Lowers said.
Lowers said the short-term fix is guaranteed for five years but could last longer. In addition to fixing the issues in time for football, Lowers said it would also allow officials time to plan a permanent fix.
"That five-year fix gives you time to plan how you are going to get the rest of it fixed. It allows some flexibility," she said.
The stadium was shut down in November following an engineering report that stated the bleachers were unsafe. The report was based on a visual inspection of the 90-year-old complex, which found numerous areas where concrete was cracking and pulling away from the structure.
Lowers said after football season the bleachers could be repaired or replaced in sections and done so the stadium and sections of the bleachers remain open throughout construction.
The closure of the stadium not only impacts Parkersburg High, but also Parkersburg Catholic High School, which plays its home football games at Stadium Field. Danny Tennant, athletics director at PCHS, said they plan to play home games at PHS if the stadium is available.
"Otherwise, we will have to find an alternative site," he said.
Tennant said they have talked with officials about the use of other sites, but nothing has been solidified.
Sue Woodward, assistant superintendent of Wood County Schools, said there is no money set aside in the school system budget to fund the issue. The school system has a multimillion dollar contingency fund.
Connie Roberts, finance director for Wood County Schools, said the system has $2.8 million in its contingency fund. Roberts said the state recommends 3 percent of the annual budget be set aside to cover emergencies, which would be $3.4 million.
"Money is huge issue," Lowers said.
The Stadium Committee and other PHS entities are looking at funding the project themselves.
"We are exploring every avenue of funding so to speak," she said.
Those options could include naming rights.
"We are open to any options. I can't speak for everyone, but that would be very acceptable."
Woodward said selling naming rights could be an option, so long as it follows policy. Policy 1340 allows for the board to lease naming rights of facilities.
Lowers said a lot of other options have been thrown out for discussion, but none have been seriously considered.
"The Stadium Committee will decide what we feel will be a plan of action then take it to the board and get their idea," she said. "We are hopeful and optimistic we can get it back open."


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Ageia Technologies, the developer of the world's first physics accelerator for games, said Tuesday that Asustek Computer and BFG Technologies had initiated shipments of add-in-cards featuring PhysX processors. The company said leading retail and online stores already can ship the appropriate accelerators to end users, who demand to pay about $299 for a card which benefits can be observed in only one game to date – Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. But the company demonstrated eight more games that will take advantage of its PhysX processors at the E3 exhibition in
"With AgeiaPhysX accelerator cards now available to consumers from gaming hardware leaders Asus and BFG, we welcome gamers around the world to real-time physics gameplay that brings a new level or realism to gaming," said Manju Hegde, chief executive at Ageia.
Ageia's PhysX is the world's first physics processing unit (PPU), which offloads software physics processing from central processing units and graphics processing units to it. The architecture of the PhysX PPU is tailored for multi-threaded processing of vertexes, which allows game creators to develop detailed, soft and precise animation and simulation of movements, hair, clothing, liquids, fluids and other. Currently Ageia's PhysX is the world's first and only dedicated physics processing unit, but the company expects more startups to offer similar technology.
Currently Asustek Computer and BFG Technologies offer PhysX add-in cards with 128MB 733MHz GDDR3 memory designed for PCI bus. Add-in cards are claimed to be available at leading retail and online stores around the world. BFG's PhysX accelerator costs $299, whereas Asustek supplies two flavours of its board: one without any valuable bundle, whereas another with Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter game.
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"The use of physics in games adds another dimension to gameplay, making the experience much greater than ever before," said Jon Peddie, principal analyst for JPR Research and a man who predicted bright future for 3dfx Interactive a decade ago. "With the release of its PhysX Processor AGEIA is blazing a trail that will benefit you, me and every other game player for years to come."


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Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Shortlist announced for the 2012 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
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Aug 28/12| For Immediate Release
Ute Lischke, Professor
Kevin Crowley, Director, Communications & Public Affairs
WATERLOO Three books have been shortlisted for the 2012 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The $10,000 award, administered by Wilfrid Laurier University, encourages and recognizes Canadian writers for a first or second work of creative non-fiction that includes a Canadian locale and/or significance.
Award juror and Laurier professor Ute Lischke said this years submissions were extremely rich and varied.
Creative non-fiction, which is literary in form rather than purely journalistic, is becoming a very popular genre, she said. The jurors worked extremely hard, and in the end had to make a tough decision.
The books on the 2012 shortlist are:
Joshua Knelman for Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art (Douglas and McIntyre, 2011)
In Hot Art, Knelman takes what seems like a rarefied topicart theftand produces an engrossing narrative that is as riveting as any best-selling mystery novel, except that all of it is true. Even readers who arent mourning the loss of the family Monet will be drawn into Knelmans deeply researched portrait of calculating art thieves and the handful of dedicated investigators who track them around the globe, often for years at a time. It is a fast-paced story that reveals how art theft is not the work of bored aristocratic millionaires, as Hollywood might have us believe, but rather the work of organized crime syndicates who implicate the often priceless paintings and sculptures in money laundering and drug trafficking. Hot Art is a hugely satisfying, real-life detective story that will surprise and intrigue the reader to the very last page.
Robyn Michele Levy for Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown (Greystone Books, 2012)
In her debut memoir, Levy delicately balances her account of her devastating symptoms and medical conditions with imagination and humour. Diagnosed with Parkinsons at age 43, then with breast cancer eight months later, Levys memoir chronicles her symptoms and the progression of her illness. With irreverent humour, Levy describes how she manages her conditions through the maze of health professionals, eventually taking control of her life with the help of her family, friends and neighbours. Her writing is the process through which she eventually re-affirms her life and is a testament to the healing power of humour.
Andrew Westoll for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary. A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery (Harper Collins, 2011)
Westolls account of the two months he spent as a volunteer at a Canadian sanctuary for traumatized and abused chimpanzees rescued from research labs describes an experience that is often harrowing and always rewarding. The story of daily life with the chimps is woven together with brief historical commentary about human interaction with chimpanzees, from the 17th century when they were objects of myth and superstition to their study by primatologist Jane Goodall. Westoll draws us into the chimphouse to meet the thirteen personalities that are the chimps of Fauna Sanctuary and the extraordinary people who care for them. He also points to practical and powerful ways to protect these magnificent creatures for the future, perhaps the most important feature of this compelling work.
The winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction will be announced Sept. 19, 2012. The award will be presented at a dinner and reading Nov. 13 in Waterloo and Nov. 14 in Brantford.
About the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Established and endowed by writer and literary journalist Edna Staebler, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University, the only university in Canada to bestow a nationally recognized literary award. Staebler, who died in 2006, was an award-winning journalist and a member of the Order of Canada. Designed to encourage new Canadian talent, the award is open to authors who have published a first or second book with a Canadian locale and/or significance. Winning books are distinguished by first-hand research, well-crafted interpretive writing and a creative use of language or approach to the subject matter. The list of previous winners includes authors such as Linden MacIntyre, Wayson Choy and Elizabeth Hay. The award is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year.
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Goodbye, Old Makeup! + My Gratitude Diary
I come from a family of hoarders. I think I hoard the most, add to the fact that I'm easily the worst organizer, my personal space is perpetually in a mess and if my mother weren't the world's best packer right down to the smallest items, I would never be able to find anything.
"Mum, where is my…. Oh thanks!"
"Mum, did you see my… You mean it was always right in front of me?"
"Mum, I cannot find my… How come you can always find everything??!"
I am not looking forward to the day I move out and live with The Fiance who is not really a hoarder but is as messy as I am. Actually he's worse.
Hoarder-Messy person + Very messy person = I don't know if I can live like that
I love makeup, and I love to keep makeup. Even if I don't like a certain product and am pretty sure I will never use it again, I'll still keep it around. You know, for the I-know-I'll-need-it-some-day-and-I'm-such-a-genius-for-keeping-it moment. Problem is, I have the memory capacity of a cardboard box so I can never recall if I even have it in my possession.
Some years ago, I just casually asked "Mum, do you know where I can get one of those music sheet stand?" And in a few hours she presented one to me.
Like, what the? Since when did we have such a thing and space in our house for it?! Mum's a magician. Sometimes I think our store room is more like the wardrobe from Narnia, and only she can walk through it.
Anyway, I'm sure we all have a little hoarder inside each of us. Some things we hold dear, and due to emotional attachment we simply cannot bear to get rid of, but for most hoarders, we just… hoard everything. No particular reason.
You know, at the time I was typing the above paragraphs my mum came and packed my dance shoes and bag away and then she went on to pack some files. HAHAHA! I don't know, it felt kinda funny that here I was writing about her being such a great packer and there she was packing, trying to make our humble abode a better place to live in. I hope my kid(s) are great packers too so they can help pack my stuff and find my things.
I decided that in order for some new makeup to take residence in my makeup drawers, it was time to bid adieu to the old. Not being able to wear makeup doesn't stop me from buying makeup. There is absolutely no correlation.
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Palit GTX 580 Sonic graphics card increases Nvidia recommended GPU clock-speeds by 8% to 835MHz/1670MHz and also boosts memory bandwidth by 4.7% to 201.6GB/s thanks to 4200MHz frequency. Given the fact that the GeForce GTX 580 graphics adapters are already very fast, a slight overclock will only be evident in latest games that have serious demands for graphics processing power, whereas mainstream titles will hardly receive a substantial speed improvement.
It is noteworthy that Nvidia let its allies to start selling pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 580 on the day of launch. Earlier it took graphics cards suppliers some time to pick up the potentially faster boards and test them for stability on higher clock-speeds. Indirectly this may prove that Nvidia's new GF110 chip is good for overclocking, thanks to refined design and vapor-chamber-based cooling system.
Given the fact that Palit also owns Gainward, a company particularly known for highly-overclocked graphics cards, it can be expected that the latter will boost the speeds of the GeForce GTX 580 even more significantly. Besides, there are also a number of other companies known for "enhanced" Nvidia GeForce-based graphics cards, including EVGA, Zotac and some others.
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Highlight of the year
Posted 31 December 2012 - 10:57 AM
What has been the stand out "thing" for you??
Player, club, performance or achievement.
Just for fun.
Bets wishes to all for 2013
Posted 31 December 2012 - 11:00 AM
Sheffield - amazing and great to see after the merger
Leeds versus Wigan in the play offs. Brilliant game had it all
Sam tomkins -deserved winner of mos. England's leading light now and can't wait to see him in the World Cup.
Posted 31 December 2012 - 11:16 AM
Being a guest of the Saints board for the Good Friday win beats the lot.
Happy New Year to all!
Posted 31 December 2012 - 11:23 AM
Batley v Dews on Boxing Day - always enjoy it!
RFL deciding not to ban the shoulder charge
Challenge Cup Final & Grand Final - both great spectacles that got us much needed media coverage
End of Season Internationals - not the best games but I think we are starting to understand the importance of them
But best for me has to the Bulls surviving what looked like a perilous situation, even if it did cost me £100!!
Harry Jepson Winners 2008
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 11:31 AM
1 - Winning the Challenge Cup again was brilliant. Loved it, great day out.
2 - Finally making the Grand Final - the semi win over Saints was just out of this world, as it looked like they had us. GF was disappointing, but we are getting there.
From the game overall:
3 - World Club Championship - great game, great to see Leeds win.
4 - Magic Weekend - I still struggle to understand why this isn't sold out months in advance, but selfishly, I'm rather glad it isn't. 30k each day makes the atmosphere around the ground just right, and I think another 18k per day at Man City just wouldn't work. Hopefully at some stage it will grow to be too big for Eastlands though.
Posted 31 December 2012 - 01:24 PM
Really enjoyed CC Final day, even more than usual.
Leeds v Manly, as other posters have said, was truly epic.Winning a few quid on Leeds +6 points also helped!
Posted 31 December 2012 - 02:59 PM
Edited by terrywebbisgod, 31 December 2012 - 03:01 PM.
If music be the food of love,are you the indigestion?
Posted 31 December 2012 - 04:09 PM
Posted 31 December 2012 - 06:11 PM
Seeing my son walk out with Jamie Lyon at the WCC and him scoring two tries in a HT game at Headingley.
Here ya go
Edited by Gary Coyle, 31 December 2012 - 06:12 PM.
Posted 31 December 2012 - 07:09 PM
Thank you.
Here ya go
If music be the food of love,are you the indigestion?
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Posted 01 January 2013 - 02:20 PM
the one leeds were supposed to get flogged in which of course was the challenge cup semi against wigan
the manly game
and of course the grand final which was a classic played out it the right manner by both teams who seem to have massive respect for each other.
playerwise at last a good run of games from calum watkins who has at last shown his potential .
i was also glad to see wakefied suprise so many people with a good season which got better as it wnet on .
the sheffield grnd final win was fantastic for the championshiips as was the doncaster victory in div 2
for engand just the fact that we could have a genuine debate about the many players who were worthy of a place was a breath of fresh air instead of scratching around trying to find players of quality
Edited by southstand loiner, 01 January 2013 - 02:20 PM.
does life get any better .
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Posted 01 January 2013 - 06:37 PM
1. Eagles winning the Championship. Having been relatively close to the club since its reformation following the Shuddersfield debacle, seeing us perform so well to beat Fev was wonderful. I can honestly say that the Eagles deserve their success - the people running the club - Mark Aston, Ian Swire and the other directors - have fought hard to keep the club alive and moving in the right direction since 1999. There are still issues to resolve - getting more bums on seats at home matches in particular - but they're doing almost everything right. Like Fev, the other progressive club in the Championship (despite the attitude of some of their fans on here), Sheffield are a great example of how a modern, community-focused pro Rugby League club should be run. Incidentally, the story of the Eagles rise and fall is fascinating. I was given an archive of papers recently by one of the directors, with information, letters etc from the early period of the second club and the "merger era". Some of the idiocy and bad attitudes they came up against back then is, frankly, a disgrace. Hopefully some of this will see the light of day at some point
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3. Bristol being awarded a RLWC game. Again, unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but acknowledgement from the RFL that the game is slowly putting down roots in the West Country.
4. The Sonics beating Hemel. An unexpected win built on a terrific defensive performance. It was proof that we belonged in NCL3/Conference South (as it will be this year), after a horrible run of defeats early in the season. We'd finally adapted to the demands of a higher standard of amateur rugby.
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On Oct. 24, 2014, 15-year-old freshman Jaylen Fryberg shot five other students at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, before turning the gun on himself. Fryberg and four of the other students were killed. Here's a look back at other major school shootings in U.S. history.
Dec. 14, 2012: Gunman Adam Lanza massacred 20 first-graders and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. He shot his mother to death before going to the school, and killed himself as authorities arrived.
Feb. 27, 2012: T.J. Lane opened fire inside the cafeteria at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, wounding five students. Three of those students later died. Lane was arrested a short distance away.
Feb. 14, 2008: A former Northern Illinois University graduate student walked onto the stage of a science lecture hall and opened fire, injuring at least 15 students. Six students were killed in the attack before the shooter took his own life.
April 19, 2007: Thirty-three people were killed in two separate shooting incidents at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va. The gunman killed himself after the second shooting, police said.
Oct. 2, 2006: A gunman took a group of girls hostage at West Nickel Mines School, a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County. He killed five girls, including two who died the next day. The shooter, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, killed himself.
Sept. 29, 2006: Christopher Williams, 27, went to Essex Elementary School in Essex, Vt., looking for his ex-girlfriend, a teacher. He couldn't find her, but fatally shot one teacher and wounded another. Williams also killed his ex-girlfriend's mother. He shot himself twice in the head after the rampage and was arrested.
Sept. 2, 2006: Douglas W. Pennington, 49, killed himself and his two sons, Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W. Va.
Sept. 24, 2005: Jason McLaughlin, 15, shoots and kills classmates Seth Bartell, 15, and Aaron Rollins, 17, at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minn. McLaughlin was convicted and sentenced to prison. He will not be eligible for parole until he is more than 50 years old.
March 21, 2005: Sixteen-year-old Jeff Weise shot and killed five schoolmates, a teacher and an unarmed guard at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota before taking his own life. Weise had earlier killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion.
Oct. 28, 2002: Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran Robert Flores, 40, walked into an instructor's office and fatally shot her. A few minutes later, he entered one of his nursing classrooms and killed two more of his instructors before fatally shooting himself.
Jan. 16, 2002: Appalachian School of Law graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, who had recently been dismissed from the school, returned to campus and killed the dean, a professor and a student before being tackled by students. The attack also wounded three female students.
March 5, 2001: Charles Andy Williams, 15, killed two classmates and wounded 13 people during a shooting spree at Santana High School in Santee, Calif., about 10 miles northeast of San Diego. Williams was charged as an adult and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. The school is seen here in a 2009 photo.
Aug. 28, 2000: James Easton Kelly, 36, a University of Arkansas graduate student recently dropped from a doctoral program after a decade of study, and John Locke, 67, the English professor overseeing his coursework, are shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide.
April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.
Aug. 15, 1998: Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at San Diego State University, was defending his thesis before a faculty committee when he pulled out a handgun and killed three professors.
May 21, 1998: Two teenagers were killed and more than 20 people hurt when a teenage boy opened fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., after killing his parents. Kip Kinkel, 17, was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison. He's seen here, at age 30, in a mugshot from 2013.
March 24, 1998: Two boys, ages 11 and 13, fired on Jonesboro Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., from nearby woods, killing four girls and a teacher and wounding 10 others. Both boys were later convicted of murder.
Dec. 1, 1997: Three students were killed and five wounded at West Paducah High School in West Paducah, Ky. Michael Carneal, then 14, later pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder and is serving life in prison.
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Feb. 19, 1997: Evan Ramsey, 16, opened fire with a shotgun in a common area at Bethel High School in Bethel, Alaska, killing principal Ron Edwards and classmate Josh Palacious. Ramsey was charged as an adult and sentenced to 200 years in prison.
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Nov. 1, 1991: Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from China, opened fire in two buildings on the University of Iowa campus. Five university employees were killed and two other people were wounded. The student fatally shot himself.
May 4, 1970: Four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.
Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman pointed a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and began shooting in a homicidal rampage that went on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people were killed and 31 were wounded.
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- Cultural consumption and the broadband revolution: Canada and Australia
- Author(s)
- Fletcher, Fred; Zamaria, Charles; Thomas, Julian; Ewing, Scott
- Abstract
- According to Jeffrey Cole, Director of the USC Annenberg Centre for the Digital Future, the spread of high-speed broadband is a major factor in revolutionary changes in cultural consumption (of products, such as movies, television/ video, books, magazines, music, art and museum exhibits). Technologically, this revolution is driven not only by the new services enabled by greater bandwidth but also by the always on nature of high-speed connectivity. The revolution involves a shift in consumer perceptions of the Internet from an instrument of communication and information to a medium of entertainment, culture and self-expression. This paper will draw on comprehensive national surveys of Internet use in Canada and Australia. The two countries are similar in culture but are at different stages of Broadband adoption, making the comparisons particularly apt. Within Canada, we are able to compare responses to Canadian Internet Project surveys in 2004 and 2007. The analysis will focus on the following variables: Cultural consumption activities, such as downloading of videos and music; shifts from traditional to new media as sources of entertainment; willingness to pay for / subscribe to Internet services; incidence and frequency of online content production and participation in online social networks. We will compare the reported behaviour of Internet users and non-users, those with or without home broadband access, experience with and intensity of Internet use, age and life stage, as well as other demographic differences, to help build a profile of different types of cultural consumer.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Source
- Compendium of Research Papers: selected papers from the International Forum on the Creative Economy, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, 17-18 March 2008, pp. 211-219
- Publication year
- 2008
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Broadband; Canada; Cultural consumption; Internet
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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008.
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