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No matter what, anytime the Michigan State Spartans' 2013-14 season potential is analyzed, two names will be mentioned: Derrick Nix and Adreian Payne.
Of course, Nix is no longer with the Tom Izzo-led Spartans; he's graduated and is in the process of moving on to the next phase of his life and basketball career.
In Michigan State's case, it's not so much about what it did with Nix, it's about what it'll do without him.
Not having Nix is a weakness.
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The mother of a missing Bayswater man has pleaded for her son to make contact with his family.
Antony Colquhoun was last seen by his best friend about 11pm on October 12 at his Bayswater home in Leake Street
Police have expressed concerns for Colquhoun's welfare.
Mr Colquhoun's mother Julie said her son was an innocent man who was bipolar and would have run out of his medication.
"He's always a boy who has kept constant contact," she said.
Ms Colquhoun said her son had in recent times been completely dependent on his family for financial support and he did not have the means to take care of himself.
"You can't explain how you feel, I just need to know he's okay," Ms Colquhoun said.
His brother Aiden said he now feared for Antony's "safety and wellbeing".
He said his brother had been a bit down that day but the pair had talked through Antony's concerns and his brother left the conversation seeming "happy".
Antony is described as 182cm tall, with a fair complexion, medium build and brown hair.
He does not own a vehicle and it is not known what he was wearing on the day of his disappearance.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts should phone police on 131 444.

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The Voice: Summer 2002
Notes from the alumni office
A living legacy
As I write this, 342 students are preparing for their final exams and anticipating graduation with excitement and perhaps a bit of anxiety. Eager to get on with life, many may be reluctant to leave behind the place and the persons whove shaped them these last two or four years.
Each of them leaves something of themselves behind. But they also leave with much more than they camethe knowledge and skills for their chosen career, a greater appreciation of how their gifts and Christian commitment can make a difference, and relationships with faculty and friends to support and sustain them in the years to come. These graduates may not recognize it now, but they are Dordts living legacy. They continue a tradition in which worldview determines the way we understand ourselves and the world around us. That, as Nancy Pearcey reminded the Dordt community earlier this semester, is a precious heritage. A heritage that will see these graduates through the challenges and opportunities the future holds.
Though Dordts tradition is relatively young, we are blessed to experience already a second generation of blessings. Henry Contant shares his thoughts as a father witnessing his sons graduation twenty-five years after his own. Though some circumstances have changed, the legacy that Dordt passes on to our children is the same as the one we receiveda foundation for life that prepared us for a lifetime of kingdom service.
Keeping the legacy alive
Alumni who value their Dordt heritage have a stake in seeing the tradition continue. One way the alumni association does that is through our scholarship program. We award three annual scholarships to junior students to help them complete their Dordt education. Its one small way we support the next generation of alumni.
The alumni scholarship has not kept pace with the cost of education, however, and the Alumni Council has determined that increasing the alumni scholarship fund is a priority. As the old SUB is demolished to make way for the new Campus Center, we found an opportunity to preserve a piece of the past to keep the legacy alive. The mail- boxes from the SUB will be preserved as memory banks. Proceeds from the sale of these mementos will go to the alumni scholarship fund.
Individuals who are interested in buying their old mailbox should be prepared for our on-line auction in September. Following that we will take orders on a first come, first served basis. Watch your mail and the website for complete details later this summer.
The welcome mat is out
Remember, if youre traveling to or through Northwest Iowa this summer, the welcome
mat is always out and our Bed & Breakfast is back in operation.
Contact the alumni office to make arrangements for one nights free lodging in
one of our air conditioned residence halls. We can also arrange a campus
tour so you can see whats new since your student days.
And how about getting in touch with your circle of friends and planning your own Dordt reunion here on campus? Let us know if you already have plans in the works or would like some help arranging it. If your Dordt reunion is scheduled for off-campus, let us know about it and share your photos in the Voice.


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Photo Gallery: Small Business Conference, San Francisco
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- Small business owners queue up to attend a small business opportunity conference, "Helping small businesses grow to create good jobs for everyone" at the San Francisco Federal Building Aug. 26.
- Nearly 150 representatives from small businesses signed up to hear from the Labor Department, Small Business Administration and General Services Administration about opportunities to grow their businesses through contracting with programs such as Job Corps.
- Security Cadets Christian Clay, Cameron Clay, Meichun Luo and Nicholas Cook from the San Francisco's Treasure Island Job Corps Center presented the colors to open the event.
- Three of the four Marshall Island Boys (Jesse Lucky, Kimyo Robert, Bemi Beia and Raphael Nathan), all students at the Sacramento Job Corps Center, performed a harmonious version of the national anthem with ukulele accompaniment.
- San Francisco Human Rights Commission Executive Director Theresa Sparks represented Mayor Ed Lee in welcoming the crowd to San Francisco. Sparks highlighted the importance of creating good jobs for the city's residents through small businesses and the significant impact of those jobs on the local economy. Joining Ms. Sparks in opening the conference are (left to right) OASAM Regional Administrator Doug Betten, Mark Quinn, district director of the San Francisco office of the Small Business Administration, Brian Daher, regional director of Job Corps, and Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Jane Oates. (Not pictured, Linda Heartley, administrator of ETA's Office of Contracts Management.)
- Michele Chang, a senior advisor with the Small Business Administration, provided an overview of small business federal contracting programs.
- Isela Martin, with the Labor Department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, shared how small businesses can work with the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration. Sonja Carrion, director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged business Utilization, and Peni Webster and Chris Magruder, ETA, also spoke at the conference workshops.
- Many of the attendees took advantage of the opportunity to network with other small businesses and government contractors.
- OASAM regional staff members Joseph Maciel, (far left), Paul Cardenas and Tommy Williams provided information and assistance to many of the conference attendees.


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Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. Astronomers: A Galaxy of Dark Matter Orbits the Milky Way. People used to think that the heavens were a vast clockwork, with planets and moons moving in circular orbits like a vast timepiece.
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The Dispatch has run two articles in the past week regarding the Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund not meeting the 30-year mandate from the state to be financially sound.
The solution the fund came up with was to raise the safety forces' contributions to 12.25 percent rate this July, from the current 10 percent. It also would require new hires to contribute 13 percent. Then it agreed to cut retirees' cost-of-living raises from 3 percent to 21/4 percent. When we retired we had the option to take a larger sum of money monthly, or take a smaller sum with an annual 3% cost-of-living increase. This was a contract with the pension fund, and it has been broken.
This cost of living was a fixed rate of one's salary at the time of retirement, not to be compounded.
Each time we negotiated with the city of Columbus for a raise, it said it was broke, only to find millions of dollars later in the rainy-day fund or some other fund. The safety forces' retirees have had to pay about a 500 percent increase in our medical coverage since I retired 12 years ago, and now we are hit again in our cost-of-living raises.
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Written by Wes on 19.08.2014 at 21:04
Wow I simply love this, and much prefer it over Fallujah's release. Nothing like this that I know of, awesome!!!!
Written by AssailantForce on 06.02.2015 at 15:57
Hey, just curious as to why this album is not topping the "TOP OF 2014 LIST" featured on this website. I'm only asking because 8.5 rating and >20 user votes.
Is this an error or is the list not really auto-transparent user poll based as I thought it was?
Written by Ilham on 06.02.2015 at 16:02
The band's profile is still invisible. They can't enter the "race" for the top20. And if it did, you'd see the rating drop super low, especially since it's part -core, unfortunately.
Written by AssailantForce on 06.02.2015 at 17:03
Ah, thanks for clarifying. Is this (Within The Ruins) profile invisible because MS does not want to 'feature' it and/or the information is incomplete?
The '-core' issue, ofcourse I understand what you mean haha. But in all fairness MS as an entity would know technically what makes something metal. Let the user perception take its own course. WTR may be shot down like a certain ethnic dude among certain other ethnics hell bent on exterminating the aforementioned ethnic's identity, but that should never be taken for granted. Personally, I don't think they deserve a top 20 spot feelwise - but this is fairly original tech metal:)
Quote:Written by Ilham on 06.02.2015 at 17:09
No, MS keeps the profiles invisible when there is not enough relevance to metal, and this is most probably invisible just because the info is incomplete and/or no one had time to activate it yet. Not because it's deathcore. The score goes down because of the users themselves that are not into anything -core, there is no intervention from the staff.
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With T-Mobile's strong Android options, the myTouch 3G Slide could be their best yet. Kevin Pereira and Alison Haislip take a look at the phone's new features, like their Faves Gallery, Genius Button, 3.4" touch screen and 5 megapixel camera for only $180 with a contract.
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#94082 - 02/27/03 06:45 AM Re: What?
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yeah, 14 seconds. I'm only half-way through my first cup o' coffee.
I'll do better next time._________________________
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#94083 - 03/02/03 03:36 AM Re: tee-shirts and bumper stickers
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T-shirt seen on a member of a Bomb Squad:
#94084 - 03/02/03 12:12 PM Re: marginally butter
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Posts: 833
Loc: Eastern Ontario, Canada
S'il vous plait, Qu'est-ce que c'est le Francais pour "je ne sais quoi"?
Reminds me of a very funny exchange in Marianne Ackerman's play, L'Affaire Tartuffe, or The Garrison Officers Rehearse Moliere. There the garrison officers are, rehearsing Moliere, and I believe they had to have a soldier stand in for one of the officers who couldn't be there (not positive that was the situation, it's been awhile since I saw the play!).
One officer reads his line and the soldier reads his response:
Soldier: Qwoy?
Officer: (correcting the soldier) Qwoh.
Soldier: What?!
Hm. Maybe it's funnier live....I still love it - an exchange that consists of the same word repeated three times with different nuances and in two different languages...!
#94085 - 03/03/03 09:39 AM Re: tee-shirts and bumper stickers
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Sounds sound advice to me, Ruby
- and welcome aBoard and welcome to the trio of Rhubarb, Rubrick and Ruby.
This is goin' to get confoosin', I can see - Rube Ruby and Rhuby
#94086 - 03/03/03 11:06 AM Re: with apologies to Wm. Shakespeare
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#94087 - 03/04/03 01:37 AM Re: with apologies to Wm. Shakespeare
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Posts: 104
LOL, etaion! One can never resist a good pun, eh?
Oh, dear, Rhuby......I would have never registered as
Ruby, had I known there were two others! I am actually
known as JFN on another site I frequent, so I could
re-register as that. I was just getting kind of tired of it,
and chose RubyRed for this site, because Rubye is
my grandmother's name, and rubies are my birthstone.
I guess I could become RR......but then that makes me
sound like a Railroad, or like Rest and Relaxation, or like
Ronald Reagan..........hmmmm, such a conundrum!
Thanks for the welcome, btw! :)
#94088 - 03/04/03 08:46 AM Re: with apologies to Wm. Shakespeare
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Don't worry about it, Ruby. Rubrick doesn't take kindly to being shortened (!), in my opinion, and as to Rhuby--well, I started that as a play on gender, so I suppose he could be switched to Barbie, and that would accomplish the same purpose. <Evil Grin>
And no, don't become RR, for the reasons you stated. I suppose you could be called Grapefruit...
#94089 - 03/04/03 09:08 AM Re: Where's Toto?
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Or we could call her "Slippers"...("there's no place like home, there's no place like home...") Or Dorothy.
Welcome, RubyRed
#94090 - 03/04/03 04:17 PM Bump her stick her
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"What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?"
#94091 - 03/04/03 05:01 PM Re: tee-shirts and bumper stickers
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Loc: Oregon, USA
A humorous bumpersticker/tee shirt slogan seen:
Princess, having had sufficient experience with princes, seeks frog.
sounds like something translated from Latin, eh?
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Mira Hair Oil cannot help your thyroid disease, so it won't fix the main thing causing your hair loss. However, Mira Oil has a few useful benefits that will balance out the damage done to your hair.
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Daytona Recap
Joey Logano would survive yet another wild finish tonight to lead Joe Gibbs Racing with a fourth-place finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 from Daytona International Speedway. Unfortunately teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin were unable to avoid one of several late-race accidents and were left to finish 24th and 25th respectively.
All three Joe Gibbs Racing entries would spend the first half of the race using caution on the track in an effort to avoid any potential early accidents while running in the familiar pack style of racing at the 2.5-mile superspeedway. Fortunately for everyone, there were no major accidents and the first caution of the night wouldn't come out until midway through the 160-lap race.
Joey Logano started 20th and managed to keep his No. 20 Dollar General Toyota clear of trouble and was racing just outside the top ten on lap 100 as the field shuffled frequently in the pack style of racing. Trouble would find Logano and his No. 20 Camry on lap 124 when he was involved in an accident that started when the 48 car was sent spinning into the inside wall. Although Logano received contact from the 55 car, he managed to avoid any major damage and the Dollar General crew was able to make the necessary repairs while under caution to keep the No. 20 Camry on the lead lap, although he would have to restart at back of the field. It would only take a few laps for Logano to work his way back inside the top 15. When a caution came out with 15 laps to go the Dollar General team would bring the car back down pit road for additional repairs. When the race restarted Logano would lose contact with the main pack, but that proved beneficial when a major wreck with eight laps remaining took out many of the leaders including his teammates. Logano would restart 11th for a green white checkered finish and managed to avoid yet another final wreck to earn an incredible fourth-place finish.
Kyle Busch managed to keep his No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota free from trouble while racing inside the top ten through the first half of the race. He would enter the top five shortly after the night's first caution and was racing fourth on lap 100. Busch would restart second on lap 131 and would settle into the third behind race leader Tony Stewart and teammate Denny Hamlin. Busch was running with the leaders with eight laps to go when he would get caught up in a major accident that also spoiled the night for his teammate Hamlin. The Interstate Batteries crew was able to make repairs on pit road to remain in the race, but Busch would go a lap down and have to settle for 24th.
Hamlin did not practice his No. 11 FedEx Office Toyota through the weekend as the decision was made to rest a sore back. He was able to qualify the car 24th on Friday afternoon and was reporting loose handling conditions through most of the first half of the race. Hamlin and would receive contact on the left rear of his No. 11 Camry when checking up to avoid an accident on lap 91, but fortunately he would manage to keep hold of the car to avoid any major damage and would elect not to pit under the caution as he opted to gain some track position. He would restart 10th on the outside lane but managed to drop down into the preferred lower lane and was racing fifth on lap 100. Hamlin would restart fifth on a restart on lap 131 and was able to maneuver his way into second. Hamlin was running third with eight laps to go when he would get caught up in a major wreck that also took out several other contenders including his teammate Busch. The FedEx crew was able to make repairs, but Hamlin would return to the track four laps down and have to settle for a 25th-place finish.
Tony Stewart earned the victory, with Jeff Burton second, Matt Kenseth third, Logano fourth and Ryan Newman rounded out the top five. There were six cautions for a total of 23 laps with 12 lead changes among nine different drivers.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will head north to New Hampshire for the Industrial Tools 301on Sunday, July 15. Coverage of the race from Daytona will be broadcast live by TNT starting at 1 PM ET (pre-race show starts at Noon ET). You can also keep track of all the action by following @joegibbsracing on twitter.


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When the attached Word 97 document is opened, the macro code executes. It copies the active document to Windows directory as "Anthrax.ini". Then decompresses a trojanized version of "Wsock32.dll" that is appended to the end of the document, "Suppl.doc".Before the system is rebooted, there is three visible files in the Windows directory: "DLL.lzh", "DLL.tmp" and "wininit.ini". After the system has been rebooted, "DLL.tmp" replaces "Wsock32.dll" and the original "Wsock32.dll" is renamed as "Wsock33.dll". "DLL.lzh" (compressed ".dll") and "wininit.ini" are deleted.Then the worm will attach itself to every SMTP email message sent from an infected user's machine as "Suppl.doc".The worm DLL renamed to WSOCK32.DLL being started first tests if it is already installed and activated. If yes it checks current system time and if there passed more than 6 days 18 hours 59 minutes 18 seconds 964 milliseconds after its first installation to system the payload routine is activated. The worm first gets all available drives list with GetLogicalDriveStringsA function and then filters out only fixed disks after performing GetDriveType function. Then the worm scans all filtered drives for the files having the following extensions:
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Notes from the underground: The secret life of mushrooms
Finding the first mushroom of the season is one of those "Eureka!" moments, so when I went out a few weeks ago for an initial survey of the national forest nearest me, I got pretty excited when I saw a crinkled white blob sitting on a nest of moss.
"Wow, a new species on the first day," I thought to myself, bending over to take a closer look. I'd found an unusual specimen here a few years earlier, so I was ready for anything. But delight soon turned to disappointment: What I picked up was a piece of styrofoam, far from the nearest road or campground.
A few days later, I went back in my favorite hunting grounds, where I sometimes find golden chanterelles. It's a turnout along the road where the highway department pushes winter snows over the embankment. As the plows do their work, they also scrape off the yellow paint. The chips that wash down into the pine duff are almost the same color as the cherished fungi, and more than once -- my heart beating a little faster -- I've bent down, only to end up with a fragment of colored pavement.
But this year has been wet, wet, wet, and I was rewarded. Several days of wandering in the forest yielded bags full of chanterelles, hawk's wings, porcini, slippery jacks, boletes and more. Always, I'm careful to cut the stems and leave the base of the mushroom undisturbed so that new growth can sprout up from the mycelium, those buried strands that comprise most of the fungi's living mass.
Now the kitchen counter is covered with wire racks full of drying mushroom slices and the coffee table is set up as an impromptu identification station, with dog-eared books and sheets of white paper covered with spore prints. Luckily my girlfriend loves fungi as much as I do; otherwise the mess might drive her crazy.
Mushroom hunting feels more like art than work. Usually, it involves letting the mushrooms find me. If I march through the forest, intent on filling a bag, I rarely find much. What seems to work best is to find some likely habitat, wander around aimlessly for a while and then sit on a stump. I sniff the air and let my gaze dissolve into soft-focus until the lumpy fungi seem to magically appear.
It's also a good way to get lost. More than once, I've followed a glimpse of wild fungi, marveling that I've ended up in a spot with 15 species in sight before I realize I have no clue where I am, how I got there or how to get back to a trail.
Mushroom hunters, it turns out, can be just as obsessive as deer or elk hunters; whatever it takes, they'll do it to bag their prey. At a mycology teaching session last winter, a new mushroom-hunting friend told how he walked into a huge patch of morels last spring while exploring a recently burned area. But he had a problem: He'd brought only one small basket to carry out the bounty.
"No problem," he told me. "I just took off my jeans. I tied the legs shut, stuffed them full of morels and hiked back to the car in my underwear." I was skeptical until he pulled out his Blackberry and showed me the pictures to prove it.
I'm sure the instinct to gather these deliciously spongy fruiting bodies goes way back to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who must have played an interesting game of Russian roulette, trying to figure out which mushrooms tasted great and were safe to eat, and which ones tasted great but just might kill them.
Nowadays, we'll survive the winter even if there's no plentiful fungus harvest, so we have time to care about mushrooms for other reasons than culinary. Here in our Western forests, I've learned that many tree species have developed a symbiotic relationship with fungi underground. Whitebark pines, for example, need certain types of Suillus fungi to help them absorb nitrogen and phosphorus. In return, the tree roots give back some excess carbohydrates -- fuel for the fungi. In the Southwest, the mycelium of underground truffles plays a similar role in the ecology of ponderosa pine forests.
The mutually beneficial relationship between mushrooms and trees has a message for us. Put simply, it's this: Never take more than you need, and always be sure to give something back.
Bob Berwyn is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a writer and photographer in Frisco, Colorado.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thanks for the good read! I've been enjoying plugging into your writing on the Summit County Citizens Voice as well. I've always been really intrigued by mushroom foraging and was really glad to have a friend show me the ropes a few weeks back. We got skunked on our first outing up Cottonwood Pass, but both had subsequent successes. Here's a story I wrote about the experience: http://livefromsouthmain.com/[…]/ . All the best,
Dustin Urban
Buena Vista, Colorado
Thanks for the reply. Definitely drop me a line if you're ever passing through BV and want to meet up. Also, thanks for the correction on the Hawk's Wings. I've corrected the error. Since writing the article I bought the mushrooms of CO book which is a great reference. Actually, for all the talk of getting skunked, a cheddar and hawk's wing omelet is pretty darn tasty!


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That's great news for borrowers as it means there are some great deals around
Balance transfer cards
So far this year the balance transfer market has been extremely competitive with the two major players, Barclaycard and Halifax, going head-to-head to be the market leader.
Barclaycard sits triumphantly in the top spot with a 25-month 0% card and 2.9% fee, which it brought out last week.
Narrowly behind is another 25-month offering, this time from Halifax, with a slightly higher fee of 3%. These two offer the longest ever 0% balance transfer periods and are a good option for anyone wanting a break from expensive interest payments.
Next in line are several 24-month deals, Barclaycard being the cheapest with a 2.8% fee, followed by NatWest and RBS with a fee of 2.9%.
As these cards offer such a long interest-free period, they also have high fees, so before you apply for one you'll need to work out how much extra you'll be paying. For those cardholders looking for a cheaper fee, there are several specially designed low-fee options available but these have a much shorter 0% period.
Our comparison tables show the full spectrum but here I've rounded up the top five.
0% period
Balance transfer fee
Fee paid on £2,000 transfer
Fee paid on £4,000 transfer
25 months
25 months
24 months
24 months
24 months
Credit cards with 0% purchase rate
Another interesting area of the credit card market is the 0% purchase deals.
The idea behind them is you don't pay any interest on new purchases for a certain period, giving you a little breathing space.
The longest cards in this space come from Halifax at 17 months and Tesco at 16 months. These cards also offer six and nine months balance transfer periods respectively.
Here, you can see the top-rating cards in the 0% purchase area.
0% purchase period
0% balance transfer period
Balance transfer fee
17 months
6 months
16 months
9 months
15 months
12 months
15 months
15 months
14 months
14 months
A word of warning
The market-leading cards on offer will only be available to people with an excellent credit history and often have conditions attached. If you get the new 25-month Barclaycard for example, you can't transfer over an existing balance from another Barclaycard.
The penalties are also pretty strict with these cards if you miss a payment or go over your limit, so make sure you avoid this otherwise the 0% period could be shortened.
It's also really important to clear the debt before the 0% period ends. There's always the chance of switching the debt onto a new 0% card, but it's a dangerous game as there's no guarantee you'll be accepted.
What else is on offer?
There are also reward and cashback cards to look out for which can pay you bonuses every time you spend on them.
The Lloyds TSB Duo Avios card, for example, pays one Avios point for every £1 spent and you could get an 18,000 Avious voucher when you apply for the card (conditions apply).
When it comes to cashback there are also some attractive deals around. Barclaycard, for example, pays 6% in the first three months (capped at £120) while American Express offers 5% in the first three months (up to £100).


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To: All Media
From: Rick W. Combs, Chief DeputyClermont County Sheriff's Office
Subject: Narcotics Unit Arrests Four for Trafficking Crack Cocaine
Date: February 24, 2005
Clermont County Sheriff's Office reports that four persons were arrested on February 23, 2005 by the Clermont County Narcotics Unit upon the sale of one ounce of crack cocaine to an undercover agent.
Andrelette Shields, age 36, of 2582 Queen City Avenue, Cincinnati Ohio 45238, transported her juvenile son (a minor, name being with held ) along with two other passengers, Aleish Bonner, age 23, of 736 Mitchell Avenue, Cincinnati Ohio 45229 and Brian Brooks, age 21, of 1915 Colerain Avenue # 7, Cincinnati Ohio 45214 to the Speedway Gas Station located on Mt. Carmel Tobasco Road in Union Township, Clermont County. The juvenile then made the sale of the cocaine to the undercover agent with the knowledge of his mother and passengers. The juvenile was also in possession of an additional half-ounce of crack cocaine. All four subjects were taken into custody. The juvenile was charged with trafficking in drugs, a felony of the 1st degree, and the three adults were charged with complicity to trafficking in drugs, a felony of the 1st degree. A felony of the 1st degree carries a penalty of maximum 10 years imprisonment and a $20,000.00 fine. All three adults were scheduled for a bond hearing on February 24, 2005 at 1:00pm.
The Clermont County Narcotics Unit is comprised of officers from the Sheriff's Office, Union and Miami Township Police Departments, and the City of Milford Police Department.
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Waking Up in Reno
Release Date: October 25th, 2002
R|1 hr. 31 min.
Plot Summary
Candy (Charlize Theron) and Lonnie Earl (Billy Bob Thornton) are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy (Patrick Swayze) and he's married to Darlene (Natasha Richardson). So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country and headed for some big surprises.
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Charlize Theron, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Swayze, Holmes Osborne, Chelcie Ross, Penélope Cruz, Tony Orlando
Director: Jordan Brady
Genres: Romantic comedy
Distributor: Miramax Films


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University Says Classes Continue Despite Faculty Strike
Ypsilanti, MI – Fall classes are underway at Eastern Michigan University, but the faculty remains on strike. Contract talks broke off Tuesday night after the faculty union rejected what the university called its 'last best offer.'
This morning, WEMU's David Fair spoke with EMU President John Fallon to get details on that final offer, and what the university plans to do next as the faculty strike continues. Click on the audio icon to hear the entire interview.


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Since the early days of football, many players have chosen to express themselves with weird and wonderful haircuts, styles and colours but nothing has said more about a player's personal expression than his facial hair—or even lack of it.
If one goes back into the archives of Liverpool FC, there have been some wonderful examples of bushy, slim and even "handlebar" mustaches.
The arrival of Bill Shankly to Anfield brought about a revolution to Liverpool and began an era of success that catapulted the club into the halls of English and European football's greats.
Since that time till today, many players have sported various amounts, styles and even colours of facial hair.
Even ex-manager Rafa Benitez, got into the act and for the latter part of his time at Anfield wore a well-kept and very fetching goatee.
This is a list of the top 20 facial hair styles of players since the days of Bill Shankly.


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December 11, 2013 —
MILFORD, PA — Artisan Exchange, 219 Broad St., will host Holiday Crafts for Kids of all ages on Saturday, December 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. Artist Marie Liu will show participants how to create pinwheels to decorate a tree, your house or clothing.
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Project ID: 2005MI60B
Title: Evaluation of Low-Disturbance Tillage in Mitigating the Transport of Bacterial Contaminants from Land Applied Dairy Slurry to Subsurface Drains
Project Type: Research
Focus Categories: Agriculture, Water Quality
Keywords: Subsurface drainage, tile line, manure management, bacteria, pathogens
Start Date: 03/01/2005
End Date: 02/28/2006
Federal Funds: $15,000
Non-Federal Matching Funds: $30,300
Congressional District: 8th
Principal Investigator:
Timothy M. Harrigan
Twelve instrumented flumes were installed in subsurface drain laterals at a four-acre site in a clay-loam soil at the Bakerlads Dairy Farm in Lenawee County, Michigan. A low-disturbance rolling-tine aerator and a 3000 gallon tank spreader will be used to apply dairy liquid manure in large replicated plots directly over the tile laterals at 3000-, 6000-, and 12000 gallons per acre. Tile line flow volume will be monitored continuously throughout the project and tile effluent will be analyzed at pre-determined intervals for nutrient and fecal coliform concentration. This work will help to identify an environmentally responsible and site-specific application rate based on the ability of the soil to retain and process the manure nutrients and contaminants in the root zone.


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CS 678 - Advanced Machine Learning and Neural Networks
Winter 2015, TuTh 9:30-10:45am, 134 TMCB
Professor: Tony Martinez, 3326 TMCB, x6464, http://axon.cs.byu.edu/~martinez
Office Hours: by appointment
Course Website: http://axon.cs.byu.edu/~martinez/classes/678/
Goals: Continuation in the study of the philosophy, utility, and models of machine learning, such that students are able to propose original research with potential follow-up in a graduate research program. Expand the creativity of the students in all aspects of computing.
Prerequisites: CS 478 (Introduction to Neural Networks and Machine Learning)
Text: Papers available from the class website. Also, we will read a few chapters from Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. You are expected to read the assigned literature before and optionally after the scheduled lecture.
Assignments: We will have three projects during the semester allowing you to build and experiment with some new machine learning models. You will also present a paper of your choice to the class. There will be a couple of small homeworks. There will be a midterm and a final.
Grading (~):
Paper Presentation
Recurrent Neural Network Project
Deep Learning Project
Model of your choice Project
Grading is on a curve and some amount of subjectivity is allowed for attendance, participation, perceived effort, etc. If you think, you'll be all right. The mid-term exam will be in the testing center Feb. 23-25 and the final exam will be in class on Friday, April 17 from 7:00am-10:00am.
Late assignments: Assignments are expected on time (hard copy at the beginning of class on the due date). Late papers will be marked off at 5%/school day late up to a maximum of 50% off. However, if you have any unusual circumstances (sick, out of town, unique from what all the other students have, etc.), which you inform me of, then I will not take off any late points. Nothing can be accepted after the last day of class instruction.
Topics (Order is approximate):
· Von Neumann bottleneck/neurobiology primer
· Advanced Backpropagation Concepts
o On-line vs. Batch
o Classification Based Learning
o Other (Higher Order nets, Ontogenic Nets)
· Recurrent Neural Networks (Elman Nets, BPTT, RTRL)
· Support Vector Machines (with brief review of Quadric/Higher Order Machines and RBF networks)
· Hopfield Networks
· Boltzmann Machines
· Deep Learning
· HMMs (with Baum Welch Learning - EM algorithm), with detailed speech recognition as the example platform
· MULTCONS, Hopfield Extensions
· Semi-Supervised Learning
· Rule Based Learning (Sequential Covering, CN2)
· Reinforcement Learning
· Ensembles (Variations, BMC vs BMA, Oracle Learning, etc.)
Next Group of Topics as Time Allows (Based on Needs):
· Bias: Interesting/computable problems, Bias-Variance Decomposition
· ADIB (Automatic Discovery of Inductive Bias)/Latest lab Research
· Structured Prediction
· Manifold Learning/Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction
· Record Linkage/Family History Directions
· Meta-Learning
· Feature Selection
· Computational Learning Theory
· Transfer Learning
· Transduction
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We lost power here yesterday, due to another major fire that broke out a bit west of us I suppose, which left me with loads of time to get a lot more reading done in Dr. Atkins' 92 edition of his Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution book. I was particularly paying attention to his ideas and thoughts on the amount of fat needed or not needed in the diet, hoping for some solid research I could further look into -- but I didn't find anything.
What I did find was surprising to say the least.
This wasn't my first time through the book. I had read it a couple of months ago when I was doing a lot of research on the Kimkins Diet. What I was looking for then, was something that would back up what Kimmer was saying in her old Low Carb Friends threads, that her diet approach was based on many things Atkins had said in either his 1972 or 1992 books.
While I didn't remember exactly what those things were that I had found previously, some of which I have already shared in this blog, I did remember that Atkins clearly and firmly backed up what Kimmer was doing as being healthy. Even though her approach wasn't something that he would choose to do himself.
The chapter on fat itself was a bit of a disappointment. Not because it lacked any substance or merit, but it just didn't cover what I hoped it would. It was more of a defense towards some of the accusations of heart and breast disease that people usually begin throwing when they hear the word Atkins.
However, what I found in the Fat Fast chapter really blew my mind. The chapter is basically about Metabolic Resistance. But it wasn't written just for those who couldn't get into Ketosis or who stalled shortly thereafter. It was also written to and for those who get stuck part way to their goal weight. Anywhere along the way, in fact.
By definition metabolic resistance is resistance to Ketosis. However there is a large percentage of folks who do initially go into Ketosis quite easily, but then eventually stop losing weight, even at the 20-gram a day level. These folks were counseled to carefully read and study the principles found within the chapter on the Fat Fast. So that is what I did yesterday.
The chapter began with the usual questions: Do you take medication? Have you had your thyroid checked lately (hormal imbalance)? As well as simple tests you can perform on yourself to find out if you fit into the resistant category. Because those are generally the 2 major causes of Metabolic Resistance.
However, Dr. Atkins also went on to say that there are 2 "effective" techniques for losing weight, and those 2 techniques hold up even if you are Metabolic Resistant. They are restricting calories, and/or restricting carbs. With all of the Kimmer/Kimkins controversy going on lately, this caught my attention. Because up to this point, the conversation regarding calories was always within a moderate-fat context. Always within the guidelines of the Atkins diet, where your hunger level would simply cause you to eat less than you did before.
But now Dr. Atkins was going to purpose something new. His Number One suggestion for those who find themselves within the definition of Metabolic Resistance (which he himself defined as "the inability to lose weight, or to continue to lose weight until a reasonable goal weight is reached, on either a diet of 1000 calories or on a 25 gram carb diet") was this:
"You might study your response to eating less food, smaller portions, fewer calories, less caloric-dense foods (ex low fat). Perhaps you were seduced by the concept of "eat all it takes," which you may have interpreted as "eat all you want," and the two means of determining your optimal quantities may be quite different. For you, the most effective strategy might be to say to yourself "I'll eat just enough that I'm physically free of intolerable hunger signals, and no more." No question, for the person who is stuck, that's the first thing to try. So do that, and come back to this section after you've given your new quantity concept a fair try (several weeks perhaps).
"You now have to answer these questions. Is the newly modified diet working now? If so, am I as happy as I was on my Induction diet? Do I feel well? Can I do this for a lifetime? If the answers are yes, then do it -- you've found your answer."
WOW...sounds a lot like Kimkins to me. And I'll tell you why. Because previously, in his tests to help you discover if you were Metabolic Resistant or not, he put you on a 1,000 calorie version of the plan. Another test was to go on meat and eggs only. No salad, no veggies, no other carbs but the carbs in eggs. Claiming there will be some who can't lose even on a low-fat version of Atkins under 900 calories.
So when you now look at what he says should be your first choice of Atkins' variations, you see a whole other picture than what Atkinites are claiming today with their high-fat, high-calorie theories being a MUST for everyone. Because Dr. Atkins number 1 variation of choice (at least in 1992) was to eat only enough calories to keep you from being "intolerably" hungry, and to pick less caloric-dense foods, which he himself defined as low fat.
So WHY all the ammo being sent in Kimmer's direction, when Dr. Atkins was the FIRST ONE to suggest such deviation from his own plan?
But hey, Suggestion number 2 gets even better.....
"The second principle of weight loss we work with (and the number one principle overall) is carb restriction. I placed it second here merely because if you are on the Induction diet, you are already quite restricted in carbohydrate. Of course, you're not at absolute zero in carbohydrate -- there are veggies, the salad, the lemon juice, and the other low-but-not-zero-carbohydrate items that make this diet so livable. What would happen if you cut way down on them? Well try retreating to zero carbohydrate, and then ask yourself the same question. Does the diet now work, and do you feel well, and are you happy, and could you spend your life on it?"
So Kimmer wasn't the first one to come up with K/E either. Dr. Atkins was making that "meat and egg only" suggestion to his metabolic resistant clients way back in 1992. And even going so far as to suggest they remain on these two restrictive diets for life, if need be--
The most eye-opening quote I ran into yesterday, however, had to do with the accusations against Kimmer for her FASTING. Yep, Kimmer wasn't the first one to suggest getting yourself solidly into Ketosis before entering into water fasting either:
"There was a time when I used to say to people, "well, you can always cut down calories and carbohydrate, and go all the way down until you are on a fast." Not as bad an idea as it might sound to someone who has never tried it. The fasting state, once induced, is full of self-protective devices. A person on a fast liberates more FMH and other lipid mobilizers than on almost any other diet, and the FMH leads to Ketosis/Lipolysis, loss of hunger, and a variety of other benefits that make the average fasting person comfortable and often exhilarated. The beautiful fact about fasting and the Atkins diet is that one can use the Induction diet to create a maximal outpouring of FMH and then, without interruption, switch into fasting without going through the hunger/discomfort that characterizes the first two days of a fast. So by doing two days of a "nothing but meat, eggs, fish, and fowl" diet, you can begin your fast already in an effective state of Ketosis/Lipolysis."
Which quite frankly leaves no arguments against Kimmer's ideas and plans, because they really aren't as unhealthy as folks are claiming they are. Dr. Atkins was using them long before she was.
So where does that leave the Nay-Sayers? Right where they are. Attempting to discredit her personally, which they then figure will discredit her testimony. But will it really? If Kimmer herself turns out to be someone other than whom she claims to be, if Kimmer has gained back any and/or all of her weight as some like to accuse her of, will that really make the Plan she has presented to us any less effective? Any less helpful? Any less true?
So whatever her reasons are for not wanting to meet anyone face-to-face yet, (and I have a feeling it's really about her status as a foster mom, and the false image of her and her diet that has been presented to the world by nay-sayers -- which she is now attempting to rectify before she can make that public appearance) to me it doesn't really matter. Because her plan, and the principles I have lifted and embraced from that plan, is helping me work towards my goal.
And in my own opinion, that is all that matters.
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Dr. Atkins' Suggestions to the Metabolic Resistant
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I ABSOLUTELY have to watch BOTH calories and carbs - I couldn't lose a darn thing unless I ate less than 5 carbs a day and with my 100hr a work week type of weeks, that's totally unrealistic (having to catch meals out a lot).ReplyDelete
I now eat about 1400 calories a day and under 40 carbs a day and lose just fine. Of course 1400 is probably a lot to some, but it's tricky doing both low calories and low carbs and maintaining taste! LOL But the first thing I do is reduce a bit of fat and it "naturally" brings the calories down.
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Price paid: $ 64.05
Ease of Use: It's easy to use this little baby. If you have a tube amp then it's even better as it has a great 'boost' function, this will drive your tube into natural Overdrive so you can sound like Angus. The manual give you some suggested settings, which are quite good acctually, but experimant for yourself, there's lots on offer. // 10
Sound: With some simple tweaks, you can sound like Angus and head bang 'till your hearts content or you can roll the tone back and pump up the gain and let your guitar cry and even squeel, and head into some wailing blues licks. I use this pedal with an Epiphone LP Gold Top (open-coil 'buckers), it sounds sweet! The best thing is I run through a Marshall G30R, a crap amp, but this pedal will make that sound great, if not, better. It's not a very gainy pedal, if you want stupid amounts of gain, then look elsewhere. But if you're into playing anything from AC/DC to Gary Moore, it's great. The sustain availible is great. // 10
Reliability & Durability: This thing is built like a tank! It would've been used in World War II if it was around, it would probably survive it. I'm heavy and have jumped on this thing from a height, and it still works fine! It's very realiable, I've had I a while now, and nout has gone wrong. // 10
Overall Impression: This pedal will work for most styles of music (but not metal). I can't think of anything it should have to improve it. If it were stolen, I would definatly replace it, quickly. I recommend this pedal to anyone, whether you're using a tube amp or an SS one, this will make it sound better. Some people say bad things about the Marshall peadals, but after using this I can't see why. // 10
Price paid: $ 91.5
Ease of Use: First of all I would never buy one of these things but seeing as there's only one review on here for this pedal and it gives the pedal 10 for everything, I felt I needed to tell people the truth! Like any other pedal this pedal is simple and easy to use, all the standard knobs, jacks and buttons are all present, no problems on that side of things. // 8
Sound: OK, so I went to my local music shop and asked if they had any nice, Clapton-esque sounding blues Overdrive pedals. They suggested I try out this pedal. I used a Gibson Les Paul through a Fender Twin Reverb Amp, which, without any effects is an absolutely killer tone. As soon as I clicked this awful thing to 'on', that beautiful tone disappeared and was replaced by this horrible muddy, distinctly digital sounding drone. I thought maybe the tone controls needed fiddling with to get a nice sound so I spent about 20 minutes messing with all the knobs trying to get a nice sound out of this pedal. End result? It can't be done! // 1
Reliability & Durability: The construction is very tough and all-metal so I imagine it would be pretty difficult to destroy this pedal, no matter how much you would want to after playing it for more than five minutes! I would never use it at a gig, though that's more to do with the terrible sound it creates rather than any technical issues. // 8
Overall Impression: These days I almost exclusively play blues and classic rock and when I tried out this pedal I was looking for a '60s British Blues kind of sound. The name 'Bluesbreaker' suggested this is the sound you get with this pedal. Wrong! As I said in the comments section, my friend was given one for free by a friend of his Who had bought one and lost the receipt. I was round his house jamming when I spotted the pedal sitting in a pile of junk in his corner, when we talked about it, it turned out he hated it as much as I did! He traded it in at a music shop for a Boss OS-2, a good move. If you are serious about getting a good blues sound, this is positively the last pedal you should consider buying, it really sounds that bad! Do not buy this pedal! // 1
Price paid: $ 60.39
Purchased from: GAK
Ease of Use: Easy as pie to use. Volume and Tone knobs for adjusting, well, err, volume and tone, a Drive knob for increasing or decreasing your distortion and a knob for switching between "blues", which is the mode for using the pedal's overdrive, and "boost" which helps naturally Overdrive you amp better, i.e. it starts distorting naturally at lower volumes, so for those lucky people out there with loud valve amps, you don't need to continually blow your ears out to plug in and play. The manual is pretty spartan, but it's a simple enough pedal to figure out. // 9
Sound: I use it with a p.o.s. Marshall MG15DFX, a Jim Deacon LPSTD (Les Paul copy) and a Dunlop Crybaby. If you experiment about with it, the guitar and the amp, you can pull off pretty damn good 60's Clapton sounds, nice and fat (e.g. Sunshine of Your Love) crunchy and wailing (e.g. Hideaway). I used it to test out a Gibson SG Standard with a valve amp in a music shop in Glasgow and the sound was much better. More definition, especially with the amp naturally overdriven, because the MG15DFX sounds as flat as a fart, so to speak. As well as imitating Clapton, you can get a nice Jimmy Page-esque tone as well. It suits any '60s or '70s blues and rock very well. Metalheads, look somewehre else, you'll despise this pedal. // 10
Reliability & Durability: In Scotland, we'd say it's Clydebuilt, so to speak, which means superb quality and built like a tank. The metal casing is like the armour of a Panzer, it's so solid! I'd rely on it for gigging, no problem at all. Of course, you can never tell if something will go wrong, but otherwise I could depend on it to deliver the tone I wanted every time. // 10
Overall Impression: As I've said elsewhere, I play mostly '60s and '70s heavy electric blues, rock/hard rock, a la Cream, EC with John Mayall, Led Zepp, the Who, Free, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, the Allman Brothers etc. If lost or stolen, I'd definitely get it again, it does the job brilliantly and is easy to use. Perhaps not got the piercing tone of a metal-y pedal, but for the Marshall sound of the '60s and '70s, that chunky, creamy tone, I wouldn't look at any other. // 10
Price paid: $ 58.56
Purchased from: www.Gak.co.uk
Ease of Use: This is an easy to use pedal with basic functions. Drive controls the amount of overall gain. Tone controls the diffenent frequencys. and volume is pretty self explanetary. There is also a dial to select boost/blues. The pedal looks as though it could survive a nuclear war. The battery compartment is well thought out though I would sugest buying an addapter as they prove incredably useful. // 8
Sound: I am using a Fender telecaster and a Vintage VS6 into a Marshall 100 vs 100 watt amp. This effect adds very little noise and cleans up nicly on very low gain. However when the gain is increased past halfway all trebel is lost and the result is a low muddy barly recognisable sound. In short I hated it. I found that the best settings where drive at 11 o'clock, tone at 2 o'clock and volume ajusted to taist (this is on the blues channel. I use the clean boost now as at least that has some quality to it. That goes behind my Keeley modded ds1 wich incedently sounds fantastic and is worth buying or modding yourself. But don't use the stock DS1 they sound cheep and noisy. // 4
Reliability & Durability: It's fairly reliable and I would uses it without a backup. As I said before I only uses it now as a boost for solos and will probebly sell it for a better boost pedal but anyhow. An adapter would be a good idea for gigging as it can run down quite sudenly but it is fairly reiable and works fine in my rig. // 8
Overall Impression: The blues channel is useless but it works well as a boost so I'll give it some credit. If it where lost or stolen I would just save up and buy the mxr/ custom audio electronics boost pedal as there is no comparison. As I said before I would not recomend this but I would suggest getting the Keeley modded ds1 as it sounds like anything from Steve Vai to AC/DC. They also do some good sd1 mods. // 5
Price paid: $ 50
Purchased from: Friend
Ease of Use: First of all, this thing is supposed to be a two-in-one pedal: a booster and an Overdrive. The two modes give you a sweet Overdrive, but de booster tone is better, more valvesque. You just have to play and you'll get a sweet crispy end. With the OD mode, it works simply: a master volume knob, a tone knob and a Drive knob. I bought it used, I didn't get a manual but it's not really necessary. You can download it on the Marshall site if you need it. // 9
Sound: I'm using it with a Vox AC15 amp (full valve)and an Epiphone Casino, but I also tried it with a Roland Micro Cube (solid state). First, the booster mode. The first thing I realised is that it reacts to your way of playing: smooth picking, smooth sound, angry picking, big sound. Also, you can play with your guitar knobs, and it reacts as a valve amp would (even on the Micro Cube): with your volume and tone knobs at 10, you'll get a cool Overdrive, with a 5 volume and a 10 tone a sweet crunchy end, and with 5 on both it will get driven if you play hard.
Second, the overdrive mode. Even if it's supposed to be a pedal in the blues musical range, you can get pretty big sounds with it, with good gain. You won't play metal, but you can get a cool distortion that could suit some AC/DC for example. With the Drive knob at 4, you'll get the same kind of sound as with the booster mode, but it will sound more driven in general, not just having a high crunchy end. If you push it a little further, let's say 7, you have a cool overdrive that could suit blues rock. And with 10, as I said, it's almost distortion. // 9
Reliability & Durability: This pedal is really well built. Full metal construction, it looks really solid. I didn't have for that long but I think I could trust on this thing. // 9
Overall Impression: I mainly play blues rock, 60s rock and blues/jazz, and it suits me good. I've been playing for a bit more than a year, practising two hours almost everyday, so I got a pretty good level for a year of playing. In this kind of gear, I also have a Dunlop Fuzz Face and a Boss DS-1, and I actually prefer my Marshall BB-2 to these other two. If it were lost, I would probably get another, maybe test some other pedals of the same kind, but I like this one so why not. What I love about the BB-2 is the valve-like Overdrive, it doesn't sound as digital and SS as others do. // 9
Price paid: £ 40
Purchased from: ABC Music Esher
Ease of Use: The pedal is a self explanatory one. Four knobs, two 'modes'. When on 'Boost' setting, only the master volume can differ the sound. When on 'Drive' mode you can play around with Gain and Tone knobs to get the sound you want. Does what it says on the tin and if I can use it I'm sure that anyone can! // 10
Sound: I'm using it through a Line 6 Spider III, whilst playing a Fender Stratocaster Standard 2009 edition. This was my first pedal and I've loved it since the day a plugged it in. I use both settings a frequently, however I'm leaning towards the boost setting more than anything as it's a good pedal for boost. The Overdrive setting can sound really good if you set the tone and gain knobs properly. I often go by the recommended settings they show you in the booklet, which gives out a tone that satisfies my musical needs. All in all I can't really fault it. I think the boost setting is better than the Overdrive setting though. // 9
Reliability & Durability: Unbreakable. It's solid as a rock, built well, can sustain lots of things falling/jumping on it. I've dropped it a few times and it's probably made a more damage to my floor than it has to itself! It still works just as well as the day I bought it! // 10
Overall Impression: You can't go wrong for 40 quid. It's reliable, kicks out a good tone and you won't be let down. I wouldn't see the point in paying anymore for something that does a job like this for the price. The sounds produced are good and it will last for years! // 10
Purchased from: Local music store
Ease of Use: The Marshall BB-II is a rather simplistic pedal. It boasts a very known interface, in knobs labeled "drive", "tone" and "volume", meaning no complications will be met when trying to dial in a good tone. There is also a knob which flicks between two settings "boost" and "blues", the boost setting is a transparent volume boost, which bypasses all knobs except the volume. Where the blues setting activates the entire overdrive pedal. The manual detailed everything which would be needed when using this pedal, including some suggested settings. // 9
Sound: I've used this pedal with a few setups (due to having it for a few years now), most recently it's been a Carvin Bolt-T or an Ibanez S470 through a Cornford Roadhouse 30. Though I have also used it through a Laney LC15 and some other amps (when taking it to jams, spontaneous gigs and other such minimal gear situations). So I've heard this through a good range of different products. The pedal sounds overall fairly good. Though it does take a bit of time to get a good sound from it. I've found that often the volume of the pedal is a bit quiet, forcing you to raise the volume knob which may compromise your intended tone. As well as this, there is a bit of muddiness which this pedal brings to the table, but it's fairly easy to get rid of that with a tweak of the tone knob. Other than these slight problems the pedal does sound good. I use this pedal for a more dynamic light overdrive, but it can get quite heavy if the gain is raised. There's also very little noise with the pedal, any noise I've encountered with this pedal has been due to other factors. // 7
Reliability & Durability: Reliability and durability is probably this pedal's highest point. This was the first guitar effect I bought, about 4 or so years ago and it's holding up better than some of my most recent purchases. The term "built like a tank" is thrown around a bit, but I genuinely believe this pedal fulfills that statement better than most. This pedal has been in many situations, from heavy live use, to being dropped, to being lost in the ether for a while and the only damage seems to be a few scratches in the finish and a slightly bent knob. I have gigged with this pedal and probably will continue to without need for a backup. So no complaints here at all. // 10
Overall Impression: Overall this pedal definitely does a good job. There are probably different alternatives, but for the price of 45-50 it's hard to fault. I play a wide mix of genres, but I use this pedal mainly with a rock and alternative cover band, playing stuff like Foo Fighters, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, etc, and the Marshall BB-II can definitely get some good tones for this sort of stuff. It's a fairly versatile pedal which is always good. If I was without this pedal I can't see myself buying a new one, purely because I can never stay with one thing for too long! The only problems I have with this pedal is that it can take some work getting a good tone from it, but once you've tweaked it to your liking, it sounds good. // 7
Price paid: $ 60
Purchased from: Local shop
Ease of Use: This pedal is easy to use. It has 4 knobs: Mode (Boost/Blues), Drive, Tone and Volume. On Mode you choose either Boost (boost) or Blues (overdrive). Drive adjusts the overdrive, Tone and Volume do what they usually do. If you fiddle around with the knobs you can get a certain sound from it, either blues or rock. // 10
Sound: I'm using it with a Blade Texas Classic and an Orange Crush 10 which has a bit darker sound, and the boost on this thing pairs with it quite nice. The amp can get pretty noisy if you crank the volume and the drive. However, I find that the Blues mode is a solid overdrive, but the Boost mode is much better. You get the blues with this baby, and you can try for some rock stuff if you mess with the knobs. Messing with the volume knob on your guitar you can adjust your tone perfectly. // 8
Reliability & Durability: The thing is made to survive a tank rush followed by aircraft bombing and then a nuclear catastrophe. I would certainly use it on a gig, I don't think it would let me down. It is a bit heavy and it comes armored like nothing else I've seen. And it has a nice, Bluesbreaker emblem on it. Did I mention it was rock solid? // 10
Overall Impression: I play Rory Gallagher style blues and I nailed a few of his sounds with this thing. If it were stolen I think I would buy it again. I wish it had a better Overdrive mode, though. I love it for the Boost mode, because it really gives a bit to the tone color and loudness. // 10


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* Added two clones of Arkanoid to the Arkanoid driver[Barry, f205v]
* Added Gigaman 2 to the CPS-2 driver, adding ability to disable Q-Sound in the CPS-2 drivers [Barry]
* Added Phoenix clone of Street Fighter Alpha to the CPS-2 driver [JacKc]
* Added Phoenix clone of Super Street Fighter II Turbo to the CPS-2 driver [JacKc]
* Added bootleg of Dragon Ninja to the DEC-0 driver [Barry, f205v]
* Added bootleg of Cobra Command to the DEC-8 driver [Barry, f205v]
* Added clone of Driving Force to the Galaxian driver [Barry, Team Europe]
* Added clone of Moon Cresta to the Galaxian driver [JacKc, Andy Welburn]
* Added clone of F-X to the Kyugo driver [Barry, f205v]
* Added Oxygene's NeoGeo 3D! demo to the Neo Geo driver [Barry]
* Added clone of Guardian Storm to the NMK16 driver [JacKc, B. Stuhl, Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
* Added clone of Knights of Valour 2 to the PGM driver [JacKc, XingXing]
* Added clones of Flicky (alt graphics roms for 128k sets) to the Sega System 1 driver [Barry, f205v]
* Improvements to Street Fighter 2: Magic Delta Turbo which now works correctly [Barry]
* Fixed missing sounds in games based on Final Crash or Street Fighter 2: Magic Delta Turbo sound [Barry]
* Added support for missing priority mode writes in knightsb, knightsb4, the punipic sets, and wofb [Barry]
* Changed knights and knightsb4 to get the sprite mask values from work RAM [Barry]
* Changed the Daimakai bootleg to use the bootleg Sprite RAM it writes, and get the sprite priority masks from work RAM [Barry]
* Changed the punipic sets to get the scroll layer RAM offsets and sprite priority masks from work RAM [Barry]
* Changed wofb, and other wof sets that don't write the registers to get the sprite priority masks from work RAM [Barry]
* Hooked up the EEPROM in the dino, punipic and wof bootleg sets that don't read dip switches [Barry]
* Updated the EPOS driver, adding sound for Dealer and implementing the watchdog [iq_132]
* Tidied the Phoenix sets in the CPS-2 driver [Barry, based on info from Pythagoras]
* Fixed some unicode titles [JacKc, XingXing]
* Added Hyllian's Data Dependent Triangulation 3X to the softFX blitters [Hyllian, msbhvn]
* Optimised the xBR filters [Hyllian, Barry]
* Sync some sets and titles with latest MAME SVN [JacKc]
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Twelve Elemental Spirits laboured to create the land of Mistralis and then took to the Great Tower so that they may oversee their people. Balasar, the Spirit of the Sun and Moon, thought himself as superior and sought to rule the land as a god. To protect their people the other spirits crafted a spirit stone and sealed him inside, although the battle also caused Enril, the Wind Spirit, to be trapped with him.
However, the stone contained a weakness, and over time Balasar worked on this weakness until the stone shattered, freeing him from his prison. Breaking fre weakened him though, so he withdraw to regain his strength.
Enril was still sealed inside the stone, now scattered around the land as seven fragments. A twist of fate causes a young boy called Toku to find one of these shards and learn of the perilous situation. They must now journey together to restore Enril's power, contact the other spirits and save Mistralis.
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LostWinds plays out much like a side-on platformer game. You control Toku, the protagonist, with the control stick on the Nunchuk. To control Enril, the wind spirit, you must point with the Wii Remote and press A to cause a strong gust of wind. As you progress through the story Enril's powers go stronger, thus allowing you to raise Toku further in the air and better influence water and fire. To defeat enemies you must use wind power and blow them into rocks and other objects until they dissipate.
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WARSAW, Poland — The most powerful man in soccer called goal-line technology a "necessity" yesterday, only hours after Ukraine was denied what replays showed to be a legitimate goal in its must-win game against England at the European Championship.
"After last night's match, GLT is no longer an alternative but a necessity," FIFA president Sepp Blatter wrote on Twitter.
Marko Devic's shot in the 62nd minute of Tuesday's game looped up off England goalkeeper Joe Hart and appeared to cross the goal line before it was cleared by defender John Terry. The official standing near the post didn't signal goal, leaving the referee no option but to play on.
If the goal had been awarded, Ukraine would have pulled even at 1. But the tournament co-hosts instead lost 1-0, a result that eliminated Ukraine from advancing out of group play.
Of not allowing the Ukraine goal, Union of European Football Associations refereeing chief Pierluigi Collina said, "We made a mistake. I wish we hadn't made the mistake, but we did. Referees are human beings, and human beings make mistakes."
Collina said Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai and his team of assistants would play no further part in the tournament, but no blame was attributed to the referee.
"Kassai is one of the best referees in Europe. He had no responsibility for that decision," Collina said.
Ukraine's players complained furiously afterward, and coach Oleg Blokhin raged on the sideline.
The high-profile incident added to the momentum behind providing referees with high-tech aids to make accurate decisions. Two forms of technology are being tested to determine whether a ball crosses the goal line: Hawk-Eye, which is camera-based, and GoalRef, which uses magnetic sensors to track the ball's path.
UEFA, the governing body of European soccer, is using the tournament as a trial for a five-official system that features a referee, two linesmen and two additional assistants beside the goal. It is UEFA president Michel Platini's preferred alternative to goal-line technology.
FIFA, the world's governing body of the sport, will decide on July 5 whether to approve the five-official system and either of the technology systems being tested.
On Monday, Platini said he expects goal-line technology to be approved.
"Yes, Blatter will do it," Platini said. "He will (introduce) the technology, but I think it's a big mistake. … it's the beginning of the technology, the arrival of the technology."
There have been a number of memorable goal-line incidents that critics often bring up whenever a fresh controversy occurs. A recent example came in a 2010 World Cup match between England and Ukraine, when a long shot by English midfielder Frank Lampard bounced down behind the goal line before spinning back out, and Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda allowed play to continue. The goal would have made it 2-2, but instead England lost 4-1.
Platini said Monday that if an official had been beside the goal that day, he would have spotted that Lampard's shot crossed the line.
"Of course, because it's his job to see if the ball is inside the line," Platini said.
Now those words are coming back to haunt him.