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Rated 5 out of 5 by Poohpa Tamil Sisal Indoor Area Rug I use these rugs in my entry and hall way. I have found them to be very attractive and of good quality. After several months they seem to be quite durable and they are very easy to vacuum. All in all... a very good value. October 5, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Einsteinsgirl Beautiful rug This rug has a lot of texture. The best part is that I can't even tell if my golden retriever's hair sticks to it or not! It does have a peachy-orange thread that is a minor component to the color. I wasn't sure when I first opened the package, but when I set it next to my couch, which has a little bit of orange-red in it, it looks great. The tape on the edges is more of a brown than natural. Really nice rug and it's been in a high traffic area for a few weeks now and I can't see any wear at all. September 3, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by juan Nice rug! It's perfect for the bottom of our stairway on the wood floor. Very natural and quality made with a slip resistant backing. August 18, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Leila44 Great Purchase The natural fiber rug definitely compliments the foyer in our home. It is a wonderful change for the summer. I'm very glad that I made this purchase. May 28, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Marbella Tamil Sisal Rug I'm very pleased with this rug. The color is a rich chocolaty brown, the texture is very nice. It lays flat and seems to be well made. March 5, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Dorra Love my new rug! We bought the Tamil Sisal indoor area rug for our new home. It looks perfect in our sunroom! The color was exactly as expected. It probably would be better in an area not leading to the outdoors as it got a little wet and took several days to dry. Otherwise it's perfect. September 19, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Valena Great Product!! I purchased the Sisal Rug and it exceeded my expectations. It is of high quality and exactly what I ordered. I will definitely order from Frontgate again. June 5, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by bearsey Nice rug but not what I was looking for Nice rug if you're looking for a large chunky weave. I was planning on placing a smaller Aubusson rug on top of this rug in my formal living room. I was wanting a tight, small weave (which I think is more formal looking) and this one is VERY chunky (which is hard to tell from the photo). The rug is mailed directly from the manufacturer and the description on the packing slip actually refers to it as chunky. I wish that Frontgate described it that way because I ended up sending it back. April 7, 2015
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Answer:We appreciate your interest in this item. This rug features a natural latex backing which adds durability and holds the rug in place, which would not make a rug pad necessary for security or protection purposes.
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Tax cap drop worries officials
Local municipal and school officials are expecting belts to get even tighter in 2014.
For the last two years, the state has imposed a 2 percent cap on the tax levy increases of all local governments and school districts. But next year, the state comptroller's office announced that, due to inflation, it will reduce the tax cap to 1.66 percent.
The 2 percent was actually a base that a number of exemptions and other considerations were calculated into, so most municipalities had a tax cap that was a little above or below that number. The same will happen with the 1.66 percent.
Randy Douglas, Essex County Board of Supervisors chairman and Jay town supervisor, said his town has always tried hard to keep a responsible budget and cut any fluff from it.
"I understand what the governor is trying to do, but we've always done our due diligence in the town," Douglas said.
It's the state-mandated expenses that are the problem with municipal budgets, he said. Retirement costs alone have doubled in less than a decade, and the state forces local governments to pay that.
"It wasn't the local governments that invested wrong, but we're certainly paying the price for it," Douglas said. "Something's got to give with property tax relief.
"A lot of our local governments have slashed and slashed as much as they can."
North Elba town Supervisor Roby Politi hadn't heard about the change yet, but he said it would be a substantial decrease. In the end, however, he said it all comes down to the same considerations as the last two years: saving money wherever a municipality can and drawing in as much revenue as possible.
"Your choices are still the same," Politi said. "You either figure out how to do it, or you override the cap."
He noted that Essex County's increase in its sales tax, which is set to go into effect Dec. 1, will help keep property tax levies low for the county and towns across the county.
Franklin County Manager Tom Leitz said that no matter what the percentage is for the cap, "everyone struggles mightily to get that number as possible."
Franklin County has made significant cuts over the last few years, but Leitz noted that much of municipal budget increases are due to the expense of state mandates.
"We can try to get to the cap every year, but eventually your options are just way too limited," Leitz said.
He said Franklin County legislators have tried hard to keep taxes low, noting that the 2013 tax levy was about $14.9 million, less than the $15.4 million levy in 2006.
"So cap or no cap, this board has been really tough when it comes to tax increases," Leitz said. "You probably won't find too many municipalities that have a lower levy than they did in 2006, but we do."
He noted that the next few years might be difficult for Franklin County, but he hopes a merger of the county's nursing home with Alice Hyde Medical Center and plans to build and renovate hotels in Saranac Lake and Malone will help the county's financial situation in the long run. He hopes the hotels will create jobs, so people will use fewer county services, and increase sales tax revenue for the county.
"That will give us a nice shot in the arm, I think," Leitz said. "I'm really hopeful the long term looks bright for us."
Saranac Lake Mayor Clyde Rabideau, in a message posted last week on his Facebook page, said his village's tax levy has been at or below 2 percent for the last four years.
"2014 will be even more formidable, this after some union contracts were negotiated at the 2% 'maximum,' health care costs go up 5% and mandated pension continuations rise to 8-9%," Rabideau wrote. "We're NOT complaining…just stating the facts as we prepare for 2014 and look for more ways to reduce costs, which must inevitably include reduction of services."
Dan Bower, the Saranac Lake Central School District's assistant superintendent for business, said the possibility of an even lower tax cap could be difficult for his district to deal with given ever-rising employee benefit costs.
"Even (with a tax cap) at 2 percent, this year our health insurance costs were up 6 percent and retirement costs were up considerably more than that," Bower said. "When those costs are such a large portion of our budget, that has a bigger affect on us."
The state allows certain expenses to be excluded from the calculation of an individual municipality or school district's tax cap. The Saranac Lake school district's tax levy limit this year was 3.79 percent. The $28 million budget voters approved in May increased the tax levy 3.67 percent. Bower said he hopes to stay under the cap again next year. The district's budget process begins in the fall, but school officials are already talking about it now, he said.
"We're going to look at starting a budget that meets the cap, whatever the cap is," Bower said. "When you look at budgets that passed across the state, it's pretty resounding: People want us to stay under the cap."
For a municipality, the tax cap can be overridden with a two-thirds vote of the board, but school districts have had a harder time overriding. It would take a supermajority, or 60 percent, of district voters to approve a school budget that exceeded the cap. A large percentage of districts across the state that tried to override the cap have seen their budgets fail at the voting booths over the last two years.
Roger Catania, superintendent for the Lake Placid Central School District, said that if the district were to try for a tax cap override, it would get the community involved in the decision, with input about what they value in the school district.
"Our interest is in maintaining the best possible education ops we can for all of our kids, and while I think there's some decisions, financial decisions, we can make that will really minimize the hit we can take on that, there's others that are going to have a big impact," Catania said, "and that's something that we must seriously consider – all of us: not just the school board, not just the administration, the entire community."
Catania said the district's next budget was already going to be tight, but a lower tax cap will make it even tighter.
"This is going to make it again difficult to meet the bottom line, so the tax cap certainly forces us to make some tough decisions," Catania said. "This is going to make them just a little bit tougher."


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Craig, they are all excellent! I'm just wondering why you extended the bulk time as opposed to your usual 24+24 hr workflow.
Yes, they do.
And your preference? I'm sure they are both good in their own rights.
hi craig,last time i was in new york john and i ate at via tribunali. the pie was exceptional.they used 5 stagioni that they buy from velotti foods. their price list shows different protein level flours. which one are you using? they have a 11.0,11.5, and a neapolitan.I'm assuming the neapolitan is their pizza flour. you pies look terrific as usual,are you done with your diet??
Gorgeous! I especially love the lemon zest one because I can just imagine how good it was.
Way to tame the 5 Stagioni.And 50 seconds at 925....not much room for error I'd imagine the pies cooked at 50 seconds are at least slightly more tender than a 1:00 to 1:10 pie?
Great looking pies Craig! Have a question. Is you floor temperature 925 degrees? I seem to always burn the bottoms at anything over 825 degrees. Could it be that I have too much flour underneath when I slide the pie in the oven. I always try to minimize that. Any other thing that you could think of why my pies burn at 925 and yours don't? Scott D.
There is a pretty big variance in what is called firebrick, but I have cooked on a 1000F firebrick hearth many times without burring.


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BEIJING (AP) The top-ranked Chinese men and women aren't expected to face stiff competition during the first round of team table tennis at the Beijing Olympics, though other strong squads such as South Korea and Japan will have a tougher road to the playoff rounds.
The draw held Thursday for the first ever team event in Olympic table tennis placed the Chinese men in Group A with Austria, Greece and Australia. The Chinese women are in Group A with Austria, Croatia and the Dominican Republic.
Although China has the world's best players, team manager Huang Biao refused to look past the first round.
"For the Chinese team, the drawing is the beginning, not the result," he said. "The competitors are ones we know well, and they're strong."
There are only three players on China's opposing teams who crack the world top 20, led by Werner Schlager of Austria at No. 16. It will be difficult for anyone to beat China in the team competition, played in a best-of-five format with four singles matches and one doubles match.
The competition is more evenly matched in the women's Group D, where Kim Kyung Ah, a bronze medalist at the 2004 Athens Games, leads the South Korean squad and the 12th-ranked Ai Fukuhara plays for Japan.
South Korea and Taiwan face off in the men's Group C, while Hong Kong and Japan are likely to battle for the top spot in Group D.
The table tennis team event replaces the doubles competition. The event begins with a round-robin stage, with group winners advancing to a knockout stage for the gold and silver medal matches. The second-place team in each group and the semifinal losers play for bronze.


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You mean the one a whole 16 hours before this one? I know it fell all the way down to the third thread on this page, but that might be the most pointless bump ever.
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Evaluation of Technical Solutions for Advanced Mobile Services Based on a Consumer Study
Duan, Xiaobo
Permanent address of the item is: http://URN.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201007071251
Publication type: Diplomityö - Master's thesis
Issue date: 2010-06-23
University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto
Faculty: Tieto- ja sähkötekniikan tiedekunta
Teknis-taloudellinen tiedekunta
Teknis-taloudellinen tiedekunta
Department: Signaalinkäsittelyn laitos
Tiedonhallinnan ja logistiikan laitos
Tiedonhallinnan ja logistiikan laitos
This thesis is a study of mobile services based on consumer's evaluation, which includes market and survey analysis from the statistics of a mobile services' survey. The back-ground knowledge and market effects will be discussed at the beginning and the findings will be discussed in section "Mobile Services Survey". Mobile phone users expect that mobile phone is a versatile digital assistant. Information exchange and navigation are the most popular mobile services. The competition between mobile phone manufacturers, their business models and operating systems will bring more advanced mobile services to consumers. To develop successful mobile services, the most important thing is to understand customer requirements and to design the mobile services to meet their expectations. The evaluation of typical mobile services is the main subject in this thesis, the analysis and background knowledge research are based on the mobile services survey result. The survey's results indicated that the location, navigation and GPS services are the most popular mobile service, the second most popular mobile service is sending and receiving emails, the third is tickets and seats reservation. The lowest mobile service is advertising in the free application. It is obvious that the mobile services will continue to evolve and become more and more central to everyday lives of consumers. Based on the study in this thesis, location-based services and applications will bloom in the future. Mobile advertising should find more smart delivery channels to gain popularity; otherwise it will never become fully accepted by consumers. /Kir10
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About this itemWake up refreshed from the Night Therapy hybrid mattress. Offering the best of both worlds, this mattress features the body contouring fit of foam and the support of the finest springs. The hybrid set includes grand mattress, smart base frame, and a bonus bed skirt, headboard and footboard brackets.
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Opah are found worldwide in subtropical and temperate seas (apparently avoiding equatorial waters), including the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas, from the surface to a depth of around 500 m. In the western Atlantic, they occur from the Grand Banks and Nova Scotia (Canada) to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies. In the Pacific, they are found from Japan to the Gulf of Alaska and the Gulf of California. The Opah is one of only two species in the family Lampridae (the other being Lampris immaculatus, a rare species of the southern oceans south of 30º S that has a more elongate body, lacks pale spotting on the body, and has the ventral fin originating well behind the pectoral fin; Heemstra 2003). Opah consume a variety of pelagic animals, including squids, crabs, fish, jellyfish, and small crustaceans. They are sometimes caught by salmon and Albacore fishermen and on tuna longlines. The flesh is mostly salmon-colored, but darker over the pectoral fin. It is said to be dry but tasty and excellent when smoked. The superficially similar Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) has no pelvic fins or red pigment, has a tiny gill opening, and has no evident caudal (tail) fin.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Tuesdays With Rita: River of Time
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You photos always amaze me Rita ;) Hope you are feeling better...I've had a bad cold this week and I'm sure it's the holiday stress after-shock...so I've just been laying low and getting the rest I need. Have a great week. Fondly, RobertaReplyDelete
You just have the best snapshots Rita! i love sseing them. I like the idea of the river of time.ReplyDelete
Your pictures remind me so much of my family photos. My father's life spanned almost the entire twentieth century. I remember sitting outside in the evening with my parents when I was very young. A plane went overhead, and I asked when airplanes were invented. My parents looked at each other and thought back in time for an answer. No need for a history book!
Hi Rita, great pics and yes it does make you think doesnt it? I have done a little tracing of ancestors but really need to go back and do moreReplyDelete
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congratulations, your wife/girlfriend/au pair is pregnant. a little bundle of colicky delight awaits you mere months from now. and one of the great joys of this period of anticipation is brainstorming all kinds of kick-ass names for your offspring. but be warned...the power that comes with naming a child can be both intimidating and addictive. we are currently in the throes of a child naming crisis in America. seemingly rational people are naming their kids Baylynn, and Daxx, and Nirvana. Ethans are becoming Aythans. Marys are becoming Jazzminns. as if these wannabe elitist parents think a uniquely horrible name can prevent little Aston Martin from growing up to be merely ordinary.
here are a few simple guidelines I would like to suggest...
do not invent a name. most inventions fail. many don't even make it past the patent stage. what makes you think a name you created out of thin air is going to stand the test of time? there's a reason Jane and David have hung around for so long. they're proven. they've been workshopped out in the field. that isn't true of Kaydiss. this also goes for any classic name you deliberately mutilated. no one is going to be dazzled that you took Christopher and turned it into Krystougher.
think real hard about whether or not a "cool" name is all that cool. listen, I've been vulnerable to this too. I had Duke and Rock on the list for my first son...because i'm an idiot. but I wised up. because you don't pick a name for the intitial novelty of it. you may think naming your kid Ace will automatically think he's a fighter pilot...but the culture changes. names that sound kind of bad-ass now become stale and tepid with the passage of time. if you're going to name your kid Ace, you may as well name him 1987.
don't abuse the letter y. it's not a real vowel. it's only a vowel when all of the other vowels have been injured and you need to use the emergency third string vowel. it isn't some kind of all-purpose megavowel that can be readily substituted for the real ones just because you think it looks cooler.
go easy on the extreme letters. I like x, k and z as much as any competitive scrabble player does. but these are children you're naming, not line extensions of mountain dew. the only reason to name your kid Jaxxon is if you really want him to grow up to be a lacrosse player.
do not use double letters if you do not have to. Branlee. that's a real name. people have used it. just as they've used Kylee, Sandee, and thousands of other homemade names that deploy double ee's and double nn's because...well...beecausee. we're on the verge of triple letters. in two years, a Trissstyn will show up at your day school and everyone's head will explode.
consider whether that apostrophe is really necessary. it isn't
think about the kid and not yourself. are you giving this child a one-of-a-kind name because you're fishing for cheap compliments? do you want friends and family to be dazzled by your creativity? that's probably what's going on here. even if you can't admit it. a name shouldn't make a person. a person has to make a name for themselves. he has to go earn it by fighting bears and seducing wives of dictators. on his own. without your help. so before you fill out that birth certificate...think hard about the person who is going to be carrying around this name for life. put yourself in the child's shoes...and maybe, just maybe...you'll have the balls not to name her Brixie.


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Jared Newman, CineSport—In the fourth fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, the WBO light-welterweight champion defeated Pacquiao for the first time by knocking him out cold in the sixth round.
With a huge right hand, Marquez kept a match between himself and Pacquiao from reaching a decision, which had not happened in their previous fights.
The question that the announcers immediately brought up as soon as it was clear that Pacquiao was not going to get back up to his feet after Marquez's KO punch was, Will he ever fight again?
Of course, when he was interviewed after the bout, he said that he hopes to fight Marquez a fifth time and that during the match he "was just starting to feel confident and then I got careless."
In fact, while Marquez stated that he knew Manny could knock him out at anytime, the Filipino boxer claimed that he never expected the knockout punch that Marquez delivered.
Obviously, if there were a fifth fight, you'd have to expect Pacquiao's mindset to change dramatically, but it made sense for Pacquiao to come out swinging.
In his most recent fight before Marquez, he lost to Timothy Bradley in a split decision even though it seemed clear that he had dominated the bout. In fact, according to the CompuBox statistics, Pacquiao landed more punches than Bradley in 10 of the 12 rounds and had 82 more power shots.
However, during that match, Pacquiao seemed to relax for the majority of each round, perhaps conserving energy, so that he could go to town on Bradley in the last minute or so. The judges must have convinced themselves that Bradley was dominating the first half of those rounds, or there's no way that Bradley would have been given the decision.
With that loss fresh in his mind, Pacquiao certainly wasn't going to be defeated again for lack of effort in this fight. And while Marquez did knock him down in the third round, Pacquiao bullied him around the ring for most of the match, landing 42 more punches overall, and he returned the favor in the fifth round, sending Marquez to one knee.
After that, Pacquiao only became more aggressive, and perhaps forgot that Marquez had landed that huge punch that had sent him to the canvas for the first time in a fight between the two.
In the final round, Pacquiao had Marquez on the ropes and it looked like it would just be a matter of time before he would send the Mexican to defeat. But that's when Marquez surprised Pacquiao, sending him a right hand that knocked him out.
It seems strange to think that a boxer could become careless, but after beating Marquez two consecutive times and losing to Bradley the way he did, it made sense for Pacquiao to come out extremely aggressively and think that would earn him a victory.
Getting knocked down in the third round probably should have given him a hint that what ultimately happened was more than just a possibility, but if he fights Marquez again, he will certainly begin that fight with a greater respect for his opponent.
He immediately said after the fight that he does not plan on retiring and that he would accept a fifth match against Marquez. However, it's hard to take what he said as the absolute truth, since he was interviewed immediately after lying on the canvas for about two minutes before his handlers could get him to stand up.
Perhaps there will be a fifth match. The chances of that happening are probably higher than those of Pacquiao retiring and hopefully that isn't what he chooses to do. It would be a shame to see such a great fighter leave the sport of boxing after losing two consecutive fights for the first time in his career.
As for those who are still holding out hope that Manny Pacquiao will enter the ring against Floyd Mayweather in a superfight that is expected to be worth $200 million, that just became a bit more unlikely according to several boxing experts.


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The Sims 3 Ambitions (by Electronic) part 54 Tips and Strategies
- App name: The Sims 3 Ambitions
- Developer: Electronic
- Genre: Adventure
- Release: Sep 16, 2010
Let's play The Sims 3 Ambitions on iOS. In this part of the walkthrough, you will learn more tips and tricks while playing the The Sims 3 Ambitions game on the iPhone.
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NU Council to discuss noise at recycling business
NEW ULM – The New Ulm City Council will address noise complaints related to New Ulm Steel and Recycling (NUSR) during its meeting today.
Several neighboring residents to the recycling business have reported excessive noise, including explosions. Owner Josh Luneburg confirmed at least four explosions have occurred since operations began. The explosions were caused by vehicles being crushed on site with gasoline still in the tank.
In order to prevent further incidents, Luneburg informed the City that no vehicles would be accepted unless the fuel tanks were removed. In addition, a barrier would be established around the site to prevent any debris from becoming airborne.
The Council will decide whether further requirements are needed to ensure noise levels are under 400 Hertz as established in the City Code.
In other business, a date for the Public Hearing on the 2014 Utility Street and Alley Improvements Group 1 Project will be set. The hearing will address numerous reconstructions of existing water main, sanitary sewer and road repairs. This improvement project was part of the Preliminary 2014 Capital Improvement Program Engineering Report adopted by the Council on Jan. 7.
In addition, the Council will discuss an extension to the Comcast Cable Television franchise agreement. The extension would authorize staff to begin negotiation for another 15-year franchise agreements with both Comcast and NU-Telecom.
The Council will consider approval of an agreement between the City and Prairie Land Development for property platted in the Fairhills Firth Addition. This agreement will cover the platting and development of the 22-lot residential subdivision. The property is located west of Ashland Road, north Maplewood Drive and south U.S. Highway 14.
The meeting starts at 5 p.m. at City Hall.


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Call the Cops: Steve Ballmer's About to Murder Microsoft
Microsoft (MSFT) might pony up $1 billion to $3 billion to help take Dell (DELL) private, and more than one person (Steve Ballmer) thinks it's a brilliant strategic move.
Here's a headline representative of the brainless reaction: Microsoft buying a chunk of Dell would be smart (for Microsoft). This thought process posits (I hate that word!) that Microsoft wants more control over hardware that runs Windows 8. It wants to ensure that these devices jibe with CEO Steve Ballmer's grand plan (trust him, he has one), so if Microsoft calls the shots or, at the very least, has some influence at Dell, this takes care of that.
First, Michael Dell will likely retain a large enough stake in his company to keep Ballmer at bay. So what we'll have is a case of the blind leading the blind. Even if Ballmer ends up able to make all of the key Microsoft-related decisions at Dell, well, that's not good. In fact, it might be worse. Like a blind man trying to use a crosswalk where the Walk/Don't Walk signals don't talk.
Excitement over the prospects of Microsoft involvement in a bid for Dell starts from a faulty premise. That, beyond Xbox, any even remotely redeeming (or, more so, actionable) qualities exist between the two companies.
I'm not sure why a company that makes hardware -- Microsoft -- buying another company that makes (out-of-favor) hardware appears as some sort of magic bullet to a surprising number of people. It's not like these two companies will get together and bring innovation and wildly popular consumer/enterprise products to market like Apple (AAPL) , Amazon.com (AMZN) or even Google (GOOG) .
Microsoft isn't dying because Dell stinks. Microsoft is dying because Microsoft stinks and Steve Ballmer continues to play make believe that he's the right guy to be CEO of a company in desperate need of wholesale transformation.
Ballmer is killing Microsoft by keeping up the charade that, after five years of stagnation and an abject cluelessness regarding how to integrate and leverage the fantastic Xbox, he not only deserves to keep his job, but that what another company does ultimately holds Microsoft back.
--Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.


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Friday, March 23, 2012 - Axiata Cup
Thailand's top singles shuttler is considering quitting the sport if after the London Olympics.
The former Thailand Open champion (left), has suffered with a nagging right ankle injury since last year and is still not at his best.
He had surgery last year and since making a comeback, has suffered early round defeats at the Korea, Malaysia, German, All England and Swiss Opens this year.
Currently in Malaysia for the inaugural Axiata Cup, the world's biggest team championship which offers US$1 million in prize money, the soft spoken Boonsak said the pain in his ankle is something he has to live up for now.
"It has been a horrible time and my comeback has not been too great," admitted the 30-year-old. "It hurts when I move too fast or jump to smash.
"I don't know how long I can take it. I don't want to simply quit the sport as my country needs me, but I also need to look after my body."
Currently ranked No. 26 in the world, has had expressed his desire to turn to coaching when he eventually hangs up his racquet.
"I don't know when that will be. Maybe after this year's Olympics, or at the end of the year. Will I carry on after this? I don't know."
The former world No. 4 said the Axiata Cup, an Asean team event which features two singles and one doubles match per tie, will help generate interest in the sport while top guest players such as Mathias Boe and Marc Zwiebler, who are turning out for the Philippines will make the tournament an exciting one.
"Our national players don't have many chances to play top class tournaments and the Axiata Cup is a big boost for the team as we will get to match wits against some of the world's best players," said Boonsak.
Among the players in the tournament are world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, former world No. 1 in the men's doubles Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong, former world and Olympic champions Taufik Hidayat, Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan.
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Watching and listening to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine summarize the Steubenville rape investigation and list the defendants and the charges for each, should have sent a strong message to those within Columbus City Schools (New York Times article, Tuesday Dispatch).
That includes those who either participated in the data-scrubbing or knew about what was going on and had the authority to stop it, but did nothing.
When the time comes that suspects are named and charged, Columbus residents finally can be assured that justice will be served. Anything less would cast a cloud upon all those who advocated for justice and were empowered to investigate and do something about it.
Whatever happens, no principal, administrator, teacher or superintendent should get away with what was going on in Columbus City Schools. The investigation never even touched on summer-school programs, and we haven't heard enough about the bus situation. Where did all the millions of dollars to buy new buses without drivers come from?


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I've been thinking of putting together a scrapbook album of all the concerts that I have attended. Also another thought was to chronicle the songs in my life that have significance in some way, to record them for prosperity. What better an outlet for collecting thoughts than my Blog?
Here are 31 songs with an important attachment to my life, thus far, in chronological order.
01. Jessica by The Allman Brothers
I'm named after it. My DaD says, "Although the song is a free-spirited, wide ranging 10 minute instrumental packed with intricate keyboards and incendiary blues guitar riffs, mixing the subtle with the outrageous, it somehow all went together and came out a classic!" Sure sounds like me, doesn't it?
02. Material Girl by Madonna
Madonna is to this day one of my very, very few heroes. She is strong, talented, open minded, courageous, and opinionated. Everything I love in a person, encompassed into one very attracted, extraordinary musician! Material Girl is important because as a young 6-year old Madonna wannabe, I would have contended with you for hours that the song was called "Mamma's Cheerio Girl." I guess I'm a little opinionated myself; regardless of how wrong I was!
03. California Girls by Van Halen
I truly believed that this song was written about me and my friends, growing up on California Street in the Genessee Gardens section of Bridgeport, Michigan. Oh how wrong I was! At 7, I just didn't know any better.
04. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham!
This catapulted George Michael into my top 2 artists of all time (up there with Madonna). Even at the age of 7, I was totally and completely in love with George. To prove it, I even went so far as to officially have my Cabbage Patch Doll renamed "George Michael." I was in love with him and we were going to get married someday. (How was I supposed to know he was gay?)
05. Broken Wings by Mr. Mister
Oh David Boensch, how you have impacted my life without knowing it! It was third grade, age 8, and David broke my heart. The first really big crush of my life was just that – crushed – every time David made fun of me. He even hung up on me after I suffered through eating one entire Wendy's hamburger (ewy ucky icky pewky nasty ucky ICK!) just for the privilege to call him one evening. This song was my only release from heartache; I sang it at the top of my lungs every day.
06. Dude Looks Like a Lady by Aerosmith
I met my best friend, Jennifer Strachan, on the first day of Fifth Grade in Mr. Cooper's Class at Harvey E. Kauffman Elementary School in Bridgeport. We clicked so fast you'd think we were literally attached at the hip. We used to roller skate to school in the spring of fifth grade together, screaming this classic at the top of our 10-year old lungs and gathering very funny looks from the neighbors along the 5-block path.
07. Funkytown by Lipps Inc.
I still don't remember how we got hold of this 45 record. It might have been part of my DaD's growing DJ collection, or one of Jennie's mother's records. We thought this was one of the funniest songs we had ever heard! Jennie and I used to replay this record over and over on her phonograph at her home on N. Porter Street in Saginaw. We made it sound even funnier when making up voices to sing it in.
08. Once Bitten Twice Shy by White Snake
My Mom is a bartender in a little town called Mio, Michigan at the Mio Saloon. During the summers, I spent a lot of time there in the bar (not unusual) singing songs off the jukebox and playing the old bar piano for the patrons. Between sixth and seventh grade, this was the most popular song on that jukebox. One very attractive gentleman at the bar would often sing along with me. I didn't realize that he was a drunken scumbag until much later – but had fun singing with him when I didn't know any better!
09. Sweet Child 'O Mine by Guns & Roses
We have Jeff Salmen to thank for this one, my classmate at Bridgeport Middle School in the sixth grade. I spent a lot of my time roller skating at Bridgeport Roller Rink with Jennie, where Jeff also frequently could be found asking me to 'go with him' and begging me to slow-skate with him. He wrote in my yearbook, "To a girl I asked to go with me 67 times and SHE SAID NO!" Jeff used to serenade me with "Take me down to the Paradise City where the GIRLS are green and the GRASS is pretty!"
10. Into The Night by Benny Mardones
I began to help my DaD with DJ shows about this time for weddings and banquets. This was about 1989 and seventh grade. Benny sang his heart out with Into The Night, and it signified for me what I hoped every boyfriend at the time would do – sweep me off my feet and be so romantic I would love him forever. Luckily for my husband, none of my then-boyfriends fit the bill.
11. Ballade Por Adeline by Richard Clayderman
This one is an instrumental piano solo that I played during my second recital at Bridgeport High School in 1990. It was probably the most technically difficult song I have ever played, and I was so nervous to play it in front of 30 people! I still love hearing the song, although I must say that I have never liked a rendition better than the one that I played in 1990. (Ok, maybe I am biased?)
12. Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
Picture this: The Eighth Grade Talent Show at Bridgeport Middle School. Each act was allowed to pick its own song to play. Out of ten acts, four of them chose Ice Ice Baby! This was the height of Vanilla's success, and we soaked up every iced fleck of it. This song could not have been cooler – we totally dug every stolen riff of it!
13. Baby Baby by Amy Grant
My first true love was Matt Wright. Matt and I started dating in 1990 and were on and off again for a year or so. He was my first kiss – right about the time that this song was introduced. It encompassed everything I felt about Matt at that time. I loved it so much I learned to play it on the piano the best I could, although I don't think I ever told him that…
14. Everything I do (I do it for You) by Bryan Adams
Please, anyone with a shotgun – PLEASE kill this song! That is how I felt about Mr. Adams' #1 hit in 1991. Being a DJ with my Dad, we must have had 30 brides in a row pick this damn song as their wedding song. I don't think I've ever wanted to erase a song from my memory more than this sappy dramatic piece of crap!
15. Do Me by Bel Biv DeVoe
Heading into high school, I was also coming of age in many other ways. This song was a very naughty signifier of what I wished I could do with whatever boyfriend I was with at that time. I think because I knew it was naughty, I liked it even more! Part of me wonders though, would I want my 14-year old listening to these lyrics? I doubt it!
16. Cold Hearted by Paula Abdul
Oh my… this one brings back memories. Freshman year, my friends Angie Grunow and Jaime Cutliff decided to perform in the Mock Rock at Heritage High School in Saginaw, Michigan. We chose this little dance number, bought matching outfits (shorts and solid color t-shirts) and practiced, practiced, practiced! I was SO nervous to get up on that stage… and for good reason. We were terrible, we were literally laughed off the stage! How humilating!
17. More Than Words by Extreme
This song always struck me as a beautiful ballad and the words were perfect. This was the song of my Dad's and his girlfriend at the time, from what I understand. In 1992, I was learning my voice and loved to try it out on this melody. Not to mention, I thought the boys of Extreme were, shall I say, gorgeous? Their long hair put me over the edge of giddiness.
18. Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode
My sister was huge into Depeche Mode and the club scene in 1992, and as she went off to college I was still listening to the Smiths and Depeche Mode and others of the genre. She told me once that she met a guy on the dance floor of a club in Miami Beach on Spring Break in 1992 and began dancing with him when the awesome dance center of this song came on. He later became the father of her first child, therefore etching this song into the culturally significant once of my life. Without it, there might not be an Ashley!
19. Sir Psycho Sexy by Red Hot Chili Peppers
It was July of 1993, and Nathan was my 'first'. I met him online, a tall skinny guy from Freeland, he kicked off a whole mass of boyfriends one right after the other. This was around the same time RHCP released Blood Sugar Sex Magik, which quickly became one of my favorite albums of all time. This song, Sir Psycho Sexy, was so sick it was awesome! Nathan, whose online name was Psycho, fit the bill. Psycho. I should have KNOWN better. One time, he tagged a bridge in Freeland with spraypaint, and couldn't even figure out how to spell his handle. PSYCO. That, ladies and gentleman, summed him up nicely.
20. Under The Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Woe is me; at 15 I was so depressed you could barely see my eye color because they were always looking away at something else. I used to hang out with my cousin Jeff at the train bridge up West Michigan Avenue in Saginaw Township, and this song happened to come out around that same time. I used to run out over the river on these tracks, which today I would NOT do, and jump underneath the tracks onto the big cement pillars with Jeff. I would envision jumping down into the river and never coming back; this song helped to cement that thought into my head. Music can be healing or harming, depending on your disposition in the world…
21. Storms in Africa by Enya
Before my Junior year at Heritage High School in Saginaw, I attended a Band Camp at Central Michigan University to learn Colorguard for my school. This was the song we used to learn an entire routine for show at the end of the camp to our families. We had to learn the entire thing in just 5 days and put it on at the end, showing the techniques and the teamwork we had learned. It was one of the hardest things I had done to that point, and it's all on video tape. I hope I'm never famous! 🙂
22. Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp
First at age 8, I thought that when my Mom (Diane) decided to leave our family that she probably ran off with some guy named Jack. Not quite; his name was *exploitive deleted*. Later, when I had forgotten this idea, I listened to this song in my car, driving for the first time by myself, on my 16th birthday. What a rush! My sixteenth birthday, all by myself! "Hold onto 16 as long as you can; changes come around real soon, make us women and men." Boy did that hold true for me!
23. Theme to Romeo and Juliet by the Heritage High School Marching Band
This was our theme song for the 1993-1994 marching year at HHS. One of the most difficult things I endured was hundreds of positions on a football field, coordinated with hundreds of flag and rifle moves combined with multitudes of altering wind conditions. I've never really liked Romeo and Juliet, but this theme was beautiful as played by the band. Looking back, I realized how uncoordinated we were, and the band was always out of sync – but I thought it was wonderful at the time!
24. Why Go by Pearl Jam
This song is about a girl whose parents put her into a mental institution, and she sees no point of wanting to get better to go home to her 'family.' My depression had hit me so hard that I wanted to be that girl. In fact, most of the album Ten by Pearl Jam can sum up my life at age 16 and 17. My mom's twin brother had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital for trying to kill his wife, and I really felt bad for him. I tried to visit him a few times but the staff would not let me. It was just another blow, and I felt like I would never get past the feelings in my life. (Thank goodness it did, eventually, pass.)
25. November Rain by Guns & Roses
This lovely song was the one that my high school sweetheart Corey and I chose (unofficially) as 'our song' for our relationship. However, our official song was "When It's Love" by Van Halen. I didn't realize November Rain related to death and heartache. Maybe he did? Who knows?!
26. Can't Be Sure by The Sundays
Near the end of my Junior year of high school, this song became our Winterguard routine's anthem. I had never heard of The Sundays before, but this song is ingrained into my skull along with each flag toss, formation change, pole swap and gymnasium layout in central Michigan. We sucked. I mean, we really sucked. One time we got second place because there were only two teams competing! That was our best claim to fame. I think we earned last place every single time we competed. I didn't realize how bad we were until I looked back on the tapes a few years ago… and nearly cried from sadness and laughter both at once!
27. Black Sunshine by White Zombie
To this day, I have not heard too many songs to rival this one with poetic license. The introduction lyrics are mesmerizing in their quality; when accompanied by the music, the whole package is fascinating. A poet by nature, I always try to find beauty in words and have always felt this song to be one of the best ever. It may not be beautiful in a traditional sense, but cleverness wins with this classic. Incidentally, the only other song I have felt this way about is "Drops of Jupiter" by Train.
28. I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred
Milan, New York and Japan! I was too sexy for that song, for sure. My senior year of high school, we performed this gem in Spanish for the Spanish French Club annual talent show. I was "Milan"! I held a giant cutout of Italy and strutted down that catwalk just like the men in the video. Soy tan sexy para Milan!
29. Wannabe by The Spice Girls
There was only one thing I wanted to be when Wannabe came out – with this total hunk I met my sophomore year of college! He was unbelievably attractive, mysterious, intelligent, funny… everything I had ever wanted in a man. We went out bowling on one of our first dates, to Cosmic Bowl in Scottsdale. Wannabe came on, as loud as it could be – and we danced and jigga-jig-ahh'd the night away. If The Spice Girls had not got Andrew to open up that night… we might not be married today! Thank goodness for significant songs like this!
30. Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega
Catchy, fun, and a huge international smash hit – what more could you ask for? Oh and I forgot to mention, it was totally all about ME! Hearing my name on the airwaves always gives me a rush of sexy confidence. I was one of Lou's special girls, "A little bit of Jessica here I am, a little bit of you makes me your man!" Especially since I was the last word in a string of girls including Monica, Ericka, Rita, Tina, Sandra, and Mary… forget about them, it was Jessica who stole the show! *LOL*
31. The One by Elton John
I learned to play this song on the piano when I was 17 because I loved the video so much. It features two people, embracing together on the floor, totally naked but tasteful – revolving in a circle with shadows and lights emblazoning their skin in the darkness. I fell in love with this imagery and felt that if I could ever feel such beautiful love, that it would have to last forever. Fortunately I found that love, and when we married on February 2, 2002, The One was our wedding song. (NOT that damn Bryan Adams tune.)
So there you have it: thirty-one songs that have impacted my life in some way or another. I hope you enjoyed this voyage and that it helps persuade you to chronicle something similar for others to read and envision in the same way.
Oh, and if you happen to do the same – I'd love to read it!
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Towards a greater Canyonlands
This week the U.S. Senate is wading through nearly 100 budget amendments tacked onto the federal spending bill. This continuing resolution—which would prevent a government shutdown and fund federal agencies through the rest of the year—includes some unrelated, politically-charged measures which, while ultimately non-binding, give an interesting peek into political agendas.
According to aides, GOP lawmakers are expected to push for votes on amendments related to ending green energy tax credits, hindering an Environmental Protection Agency rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, green-lighting the Keystone XL pipeline, and facilitating drilling on public lands.
Couple this knowledge with efforts to subvert federal control of public lands in a handful of Western states, and one campaign to elevate protection of some of those areas is looking like a particularly hard sell. Given the current fervor in Utah to assert state control, the push to establish the Greater Canyonlands National Monument (GCNM) could lead to all-out political warfare.
The 1.4 million acres being proposed for protection as the GCNM would comprise the largest roadless area in the lower 48 and are prime red-rock country currently administered by the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management. The two existing units of Canyonlands National Park (including Horseshoe Canyon) would be the centerpiece and a GCNM as proposed would encompass Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Manti-La Sal National Forest and Natural Bridges National Monument. It was within these mazes where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid sought shelter, Thelma and Louise launched their car and themselves into oblivion, and Aron Ralston spent 127 horrific hours.
The terrain ranges from desert shrubland and rich grasslands to alpine forests and 10,000-foot peaks. It would be a hub of biodiversity where black bears, mountain lions, desert bighorn sheep and nearly 1,000 species of plants live, including seven endangered or threatened species. There, the Green, Dirty Devil and San Rafael rivers wend southward toward the Colorado, and hundreds of perennial springs sate a parched landscape.
This expansion (or "completion" of the Canyonlands park as it was originally envisioned) would put the kibosh on conventional oil and gas drilling, and on some lesser-known extractive interests that have been sniffing around the area. Those include uranium mining, potash mining and tar sands development—uses which fragment habitats and adversely affect air and water quality. (Proponents of the GCNM also blame off-road vehicles that run amok in the area for eroding soil, polluting water, displacing wildlife and trashing archeological sites. While national monument status would not prevent this use, it would presumably mean more careful management.)
In deciding whether or not this area should be protected, and by what means, two questions should be addressed: what would protection of this large area would mean for Utah and for the nation? And is the Antiquities Act of 1906 the right conservation tool?
Given the overt hostility of Utah's politicians toward federal land protection it's highly unlikely any of the BLM or USFS lands which may be included in a GCNM would be elevated to national park status (which requires an Act of Congress). In contrast, establishing a national monument requires no citizen or congressional input, only the president's will and signature. There are only two major requirements for an area to qualify for national monument status: the land must be already be owned by the federal government, and it must contain "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest."
This latter burden is fulfilled by the abundant cultural resources in the area including tens of thousands of archaeological sites—granaries, hunting camps, cliff dwellings, petroglyphs and pictographs—dating back 12,000 years.
There are traces of Ice Age hunters and of ancient farmers who cultivated corn. There are secrets, as yet uncovered, to the rise and fall of Ancestral Puebloans and the bands that merged with them. There are also clues to their adaptation in the face of a changing climate, in a water-starved West. These are resources we'd be wise to recognize, and ideally to learn from, before plowing under.
Ignoring for a moment that 91 percent of this area is already federal land (the other 9 percent is held in a state trust), two-thirds of which is currently managed for mixed uses intended to benefit all Americans through leases and royalties, let's consider how Utahns (regular citizens, not lawmakers) feel about conserving instead of exploiting these natural resources.
The clearest picture of this comes from the recent Western States Survey—a bi-partisan poll of citizens of different ages, incomes, interests and political persuasions. Sixty-two percent of those asked said "too much public land" is not a problem in Utah, while 68 percent feel loss of habitat for fish and wildlife is a "serious problem" in the state. Fifty-three percent think the impact of oil and gas drilling on "our land, air and water" is a serious problem. Ninety-six percent agree that national parks, forests, monuments and wildlife areas are an essential part of Utah's economy; 77 percent believe those resources help to attract high quality employers and good jobs to their state; and 74 percent believe those areas enhance their own quality of life.
Despite what their elected officials and extractive industry lobbyists keep (loudly) insisting about developing public lands within the state, that is not what the people of Utah appear to want. If those legislators were truly representing their constituents, they would protect the heart of their state—the history harbored in the serpentine labyrinths and the sandstone hoodoos sculpted by the wind. They would support President Obama's use of his authority to make Canyonlands greater.
Heather Hansen is a journalist working with the Red Lodge Clearinghouse /Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at CU Law School, to help raise awareness of natural resource issues.
Essays in the Range blog are not written by High Country News. The authors are solely responsible for the content.
Emily Guerin
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What I see here is a not atypical push to give the NPS more turf, as if they do such a wonderful job of managing what they have compared to other agencies. What they do best is lay a heavy mantle of regulations upon an area in the quest to artificially create a utopia in their image.
More than a little of the resistance to protecting western public land comes from opposition to letting the NPS have any more acreage than it already controls. This is why many new national monuments are given to the BLM rather than the NPS (to their chagrin and likely irritation).
As was surprisingly noted in Ken Burns' love fest on the national parks, the agency is first and foremost a tourist entertainment enterprise (and established by an individual who was in and out of mental institutions). They continue in that mode while hiding behind the self-determined premise they are some kind of premier land management organization. In reality they do not do a better job of managing natural resources than the BLM, USFS, or USFWS. What they ARE best at is total "control" of uses they find unacceptable (whether they are harmful or not).
The NPS is the architect of the greatest dumbing down of the outdoor public ever seen. Their clientele cannot function without hand holding, campfire programs, ranger tours, developed campgrounds, trail guides, registration schemes and constant oversight by NPS employees.
Their clientele is markedly different from those who use the undeveloped public lands which, arguably, are wilder and more primitive, and far larger than anything the NPS offers in most cases.
When budget cuts hit, the NPS closes areas and denies public access since they cannot keep close watch on users. Who knows what an unattended public might do if unsupervised, right? In the same scenario, the public can continue to use BLM and USFS lands without interference because those lands are not closed and users do not expect, nor want, the intimate oversight apparently deemed critical by the NPS.
So, if you want to change land designations under the premise they will be better protected somehow than at present, fine. It's not really necessary. However, just do not let the NPS have any of it. We do not need any more visitor centers, niggling rules over every item of minutiae, nor the ever-increasing fees they think we should pay to see what we already own.
If you have a visceral reaction to this, you probably need to go out to some of that premier BLM and USFS land and see what you are missing by letting the NPS dictate the terms of your public land experience.


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About the Author: Marsha McLean serves as Senior Consultant in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Office of Public Diplomacy.
We listened to Haiti today, at least to a group of eight Haitian women entrepreneurs representing micro and small businesses. And we learned about their needs and about their strength in the face of adversity.
We were in San Jose, Costa Rica, for the Pathways to Prosperity Ministerial at a conference for women entrepreneurs, in fulfillment of one of the goals of the Pathways initiative to ensure that the benefits of economic growth reach all our citizens. We felt there was a need to reach out to women in Haiti, so the group of businesswomen, government officials and multilateral organization representatives at the conference linked to our Haitian counterparts via video-conference. The discussion we had was a first step in reaching out across the hemisphere to express our solidarity as women entrepreneurs with the women of Haiti, to listen to their stories, and to better understand how programs to support their recovery might be focused.
As we listened to the Haitian entrepreneurs' stories, we were struck by their courage and perseverance. We learned that what is most important to the Haitian entrepreneurs is accessing micro credit at good interest rates, learning how to manage the financial side of their businesses, and acquiring leadership skills. Many women in Costa Rica sent heartfelt messages to the Haitian women, encouraging them to stand united as they represent the key to their country's economic recovery. There were few dry eyes in Costa Rica when the Haitian women explained to us that the thing that gives them most hope is simply that they survived. What we tend to take for granted, they no longer do.
This video-conference was a first step in opening a dialogue between the women of Haiti and their counterparts in the rest of the hemisphere. Our work will continue as we find ways to reach out to Haiti, to the entrepreneurs, and to the long term recovery of their country.
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Powered by twin EL84s, the TubeMeister features twin channels, each with Master and Gain knobs, a shared 3-band EQ, and Lead Boost and Channel Select buttons. Around back, there's a four-step power soak for cranked-tube dynamics at whisper volume, in addition to built-in Red Box circuitry for silent recording with the company's famous cabinet simulation.
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The Terror just keeps getting more terrifying. A stroll by the bright and sizable Orange booth found us ducking a barrage of gain-charged riffery from the new Dark Terror. Like its blockbuster predecessor, the featherlight head doles out 15 class-A watts (switchable to 7) via two EL84s, but its tone stack—which is controlled by Volume, Shape, and Gain knobs—has morphed in a way that enables insanely dynamic switches between all-out Norwegian black metal evilness and cleaned-up bluesy wailing.
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This handsome little point-to-point-wired head features a delectable textured-grid covering and knobs for Gain, Drive, Treble, Middle, Bass, Presence, and Master. It can run off EL34 or 6L6 power tubes for 20, 35, or 50 watts of class AB power, and its single-channel design is made more versatile by a boost feature that's activated via the front-panel toggle or a footswitch. Rear-panel features include an XLR direct out and a serial effects loop.
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Koch Amps' two new hybrid amps—the Jupiter and Startrooper—pair a 12AX7-driven preamp with a solidstate power section. Each has two EQ-sharing channels and a boost function. The Jupiter summons biting cleans and brawny blues-rock distortion via a 12" Jensen with a neodymium magnet, while the Startrooper uses a Koch 12" speaker that's voiced like a Celestion Vintage 30 to prime the storm trooper in you for higher-gain applications.
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You couldn't miss the IronHeart barking, purring, and roaring from Laney's impressive demo stage at Musikmesse. But despite its raw power and intimidating moniker, it's an amp of many personalities, thanks to its three flexibly voiced channels and a continuously variable 1-120-watt output knob that helped it sound sweet when purring low or screaming like a banshee at full force.
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Fender's Super-Sonic line has always offered Jekyll-and-Hyde vintage and modern voicings wrapped in classic Fender livery. The 100-watt, 6L6-driven Super-Sonic Twin (lower left; at upper right the new Super-Sonic 100 head sits atop Super-Sonic 100 4x12 cabs, and the Super-Sonic 60 combo is at lower right) has a 25-watt Club mode, can be switched between Twin and Bassman voices, and has an exceedingly nasty Burn section that covers major sonic territory.


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Silva greasing too??
Ed Soares, manager of UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, was ready to answer the tough questions on Monday's edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
In an initial recap we posted on Monday night, Soares discusses the fight itself, Silva's game plan and why he was disappointed more fans didn't appreciate the technical aspects of his unanimous-decision win.
In part two of the radio recap, Soares discusses allegations that Silva "greased" prior to the fight and that he didn't accurately translate Silva's post-fight comments.
In his UFC 97 live blog, an astute Josh Gross of SI.com noticed what many of us initially missed: Soon after Silva's face was coated with Vaseline (a standard procedure), he entered the cage, turned to his corner, and wiped his face and then his chest and arms (not a standard procedure). In fact, it was just such a use of Vaseline that led UFC 94's main event between Georges St. Pierre and B.J. Penn now being referred to as "Greasegate."
St. Pierre's dominant victory was overshadowed by his cornermen's actions, which the Nevada State Athletic Commission immediately noticed on fight night. St. Pierre was wiped down by NSAC officials between rounds of the fight, but Penn, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu stand-out, still maintains that his opponent was extra slippery and had "an unfair advantage" in the fight.
Whatever Silva did, Soares said he doubts it gave the fighter any sort of advantage in the fight.
"I didn't see it (the video) until [Sunday] night," Soares said. "What did it say on the Internet? 'Greasegate II?' But how much Vaseline can you get from your face to put all over your body? I think it's ridiculous. I didn't notice it. When I watched it [Sunday] night on the Internet, I was like, 'Yeah, he touched his body. He touched his face.'
"But I think that was just people trying to come (up) with something (to criticize), in my opinion. … How much is that going to change (the fight)? I think it's ridiculous, man."
While Silva has been a target of a criticism for the fight, Soares has also been under fire for supposedly botching a post-fight-interview translation with UFC commentator Joe Rogan.
Soon after the official scores were read (Silva won a unanimous decision via scores of 49-46, 48-47 and 50-46), Silva addressed the crowd in Portuguese. When Soares, Silva's longtime translator, provided the comments in English and said, "It's unfortunate that things sometimes turn out that way, but when you're not in here, it's hard to tell what going on sometimes. Sorry."
However, according to The Fight Network, Silva never did apologize and instead said, among other things, "Not everyone understands what they are watching. But hey, you guys can boo if you want to. You are paying my salary."
Soares told MMAjunkie.com Radio he does his best to provide word-for-word translations but that given some of Silva's long and drawn-out responses, that's not always possible.
However, he said he never intends to change the meaning of his client's comments.
"I paraphrase it down," Soares said. "There's a lot of things going on at that time. Sometimes when they have those long statements, I just try to take the key things that he's saying and translate it. I try to do the best that I can to try to translate everything that he says. But sometimes it just doesn't happen. And sometimes I don't translate exactly with what he says. I try to do the best that I can to get everything that he says in there.
He also said Silva did, in fact, apologize for the performance.
"He did say that," Soares said. "When I watch the fight again, basically what he said and like I said, he made a long statement he did say those things. He did say that. He said, 'I'm sorry I didn't make you happy. I know that you guys are the ones that are paying my salary.' That's what he said. But sometimes, like I said, I'm not a professional translator. I just try to do the best that I can. Sometimes those statements get long and I try to say the best, and I try to touch on the main points. Sometimes he says a lot of things, and it takes a while to translate it all."
Soares also takes offense to suggestions that he's intentionally manipulating translations to protect his client.
Some suggest that Soares will give a politically correct or positive translation regardless of what Silva actually says. Soares calls that hogwash and said people aren't taking into consideration that some things aren't easily translated between the two languages.
"That's just one more thing for me to be thinking about," Soares said about the possibility. "I try to translate what he says, always. Sometimes the way things are said in Portuguese, I try to have the same meaning in English. Sometimes it doesn't translate. There's certain phrases that just don't translate the same way. I don't know if I do that naturally or not. But I can tell you walking in there subconsciously, I'm not thinking about, 'Oh, if he says something wrong, I'm going to fix it.' I try to say what he's saying."
But, the entire thing could soon become a non-issue. Soares said Silva is quickly picking up English and already understands most of what he hears.
"His English is getting better," Soares said. "He understands a lot more. Most of the time, a lot of the questions I don't even have to translate. I translate a few of them just to reassure him."
Seems to me people are trying to create drama over nothing.
I'd be inclined to side with what Soares is saying here.
from Sherdog
Referee Yves Lavigne says he wiped down Anderson Silva and got approval from Thales Leites corner prior to their main event bout Saturday at UFC 97.
An SI.com live blog observed that as Silva entered the Octagon, he rubbed lubricant -- applied to his face by a commission-approved cutman -- onto his torso. In the wake of greasing allegations against Georges St. Pierres corner at UFC 94, the observation received critical attention.
However, Lavigne, who watched a replay of Saturdays event, said the cameras did not reveal that both himself and Leites corner had noticed Silva repeatedly touch his face and body during his warm-up lap around the Octagon. Lavigne said Leites corner motioned for the referee to inspect Silvas body, although Lavigne said he would have proceeded regardless.
I saw he had a little Vaseline on his chest and I wiped it from his chest and arms, as I saw him touching them as well, Lavigne told Sherdog.com on Tuesday.
Lavigne said he then motioned to Leites corner and was given a thumbs up of approval.
I took care of it, and the other corner felt OK with it, said Lavigne.
Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, who was one of Leites cornermen that night, supported Lavignes recollection of events.
I remember Yves Lavigne toweled and cleaned the body, Ribeiro said. I dont think [the cutman] put a lot of grease on his face and [Silva] put it on his body. I think everything was pretty fair.
Ribeiro said he did not see his corner signal to Lavigne after Silva had been wiped down, but the world-renowned lightweight said Leites head coach, Andre Pederneiras, could have done it without him noticing.
Lavigne said both Silva and his corner were apologetic, and the fighter tried to assist the referee as he tended to him.
While I wiped one glove, Silva took the end of the towel and wiped his other glove. He was helping me, Lavigne said. Both corners were aware of it and approved [of] it.
He outta stand in line with GSP.. Oh sorry everyone would not want to make comments towards the "Oh so great one."........
This is stupid!
I remember silva whiping hes face then his body... man this **** just gets weirder and weirder
Hey, one greasy thread per greasy fighter
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TRENTON, N.J.—The Mercer County Department of Transportation and Infrastructure has started the replacement of the bridge on Sweetbriar Avenue (County Route 649) over Miry Run in Hamilton Township. The bridge is located one-half mile east of Whitehead Road.
The existing bridge was deemed structurally deficient with a sufficiency rating of 30 out of 100. Ratings reflect deteriorated conditions of the structural components.
Work on the project began on Nov. 6, 2013, and is anticipated to be completed in 135 calendar days, weather permitting. The contractor has installed signs informing drivers that Sweetbriar Avenue will be closed to through traffic at the bridge for the duration of the project. The detour route for this project is Whitehead Road to East State Street to Klockner Road to Sweetbriar Avenue and reverse for the other direction.
The existing structure was a three span, concrete T-beams supported on concrete piles. The replacement structure will be a single span, pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete box beam bridge supported on steel piles and on cast-in-place pile cap substructure. The new bridge will have two lanes, two shoulders, one sidewalk and four-rail steel open bridge railing. Cast-in-place concrete approach slabs, sleeper slabs and relief slabs will be constructed.
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What is Included: g6r, barrel, original box and packaging, pressure tester, DOW lube, 2c eyes, spare o rings
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