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Under the terms of the deal, by 2013, 90 percent of FairPoint's customers in northern New England will have access to DSL Internet service. (Unless, of course, FairPoint takes the extra year Maine regulators have allowed with no penalty, which would mean waiting until 2014.)
In that time, FairPoint plans to provide exactly none of its customers with the option for fiber-optic connections, which is the real high-speed Internet, already available to 10 million homes in the US, but none in northern New England (except a handful around Portsmouth, New Hampshire; see "Internet Disconnect," by Jeff Inglis, August 24, 2007).
DSL is the slowest of all the services that can be called "broadband," though it is faster than dial-up. In 2007, as many as 40 percent of DSL customers were dissatisfied with the speed of their service, according to a report by Michael Render, a fiber-market analyst for RVA Market Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Imagine how many people will think DSL is too slow in 2014!
By 2010, three (or four) years before FairPoint's rollout of DSL will be complete, 25 million homes nationwide (22 percent of all homes) will have access to fiber, Render says.
As everyone else is eagerly awaiting the connection of fiber-optics, we in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont will have our feet up, enjoying life in the slow lane.
The Verizon-FairPoint Communications deal (in which Verizon will sell its landlines in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to FairPoint for $2.4 billion) is an ideal case study. It's roundly criticized by nearly everyone. Even the regulators who were asked to approve the deal are wary. At first, Vermont's regulators rejected it outright, then later voted to approve a revised version. Maine Public Utilities Commission chairman Kurt Adams made it clear he was holding his nose while voting to approve it, and New Hampshire PUC chairman Thomas Getz declared that the initial version was "not in the public interest," though his board voted 2-1 to approve a revised proposal Monday. (The dissenter, commissioner Graham Morrison, wrote that "the public interest ... requires something more than ... good intentions.")
Apart from Morrison in New Hampshire, regulators in all three states have chosen the devil they don't know over the devil they do, by agreeing to let Verizon sell out (and avoid tax obligations of more than $500 million) in the hope that promises from a financially strapped communications company (FairPoint) will give us something better than neglect from an incredibly wealthy communications company.
Bad ideas like this one survive first and foremost because someone thinks they're good ideas. Not surprisingly, FairPoint and Verizon love the idea — FairPoint gets to collect more money from more customers and pass it on as dividends to shareholders; Verizon gets to keep $500 million it would have paid in taxes and use that money to invest in fiber-optics and cellular technology elsewhere in the country. (Those of us in mountainous rural areas are stuck with older, slower technology, and that's just our bad luck, as far as Verizon is concerned.)
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It's not a proper New Zealand summer without sauvignon. The white, pleasant and uncomplicated wine remains a firm favourite locally and our calling card internationally.
It's not just New Zealand sauvignon blanc that's in demand around the world but specifically that from Marlborough.
Many superb sauvignons are not always the result of Marlborough's grapes, but for people in faraway places, Marlborough resonates with what they perceive to be the real thing.
Fortunately, despite a prospect of a shortage, there's a lot of it still to go round.
Into the fray comes the reborn O:Tu, shorthand for where the vineyards are situated on the coastal south-eastern corner of the Awatere Valley, where the Otuwhero river and coastal breezes create a long, cool growing season, ideal for growing bold, punchy wines.
Jan Kux is the winemaker and general manager of O:Tu. Born in Libya, he's an American citizen now based in Switzerland but spends six months of each year "steering the ship".
"As a winemaker, you never have a second chance.
I don't want a product that's just a beverage ... I want to work on key aspects of the fruit."
Kux started out as a tour guide then studied law and languages at Leopold-Franzen University in Austria, but his love of wine and the chance to make it meant his legal career was replaced with a life among the vines.
"With O:Tu we don't want a gastric burner with sky-high acidity, we're targeting women who normally go for a chardonnay or pinot gris ... we're looking for less or restrained acidity."
The intention is to create wines that push the boundaries of what has traditionally come out of Marlborough.
Says Kux, "The Awatere Valley vineyard terroir is outstanding, producing fruit that has bold flavour. Our vision is to take that fruit and craft bold, distinctive wines using old world winemaking techniques that I've learned at some of the great European vineyards."
Kux is not a big fan of using fining agents in the winemaking process but if he has to, he does so sparingly.
The wines are impressive and worth seeking out.
2012 O:Tu Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc - $22.99
This is pitched at 20-somethings as an easygoing, lighter style for social occasions. Bottled early to retain maximum freshness and aroma, it is bright, breezy, full of zest and chock-full of gooseberries, lemon and lime.
2012 O:Tu Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Blend 102 - $26.99
This is a more complex and full-bodied style with potential to age over the next four to six years. It has aromas of grass, nettles, blackcurrant, white peaches, gooseberries and lime, and a flinty mineral finish with honey melon flavours.

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Runners run.
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I don't know if you've heard about this, but his shoe size (if he did own any) is a 13. Why, his hands are the size of dinner plates. And his ears are such a spectacle that they used to create childhood bully scenarios.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
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I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Runner-up in last year's Kentucky Derby. Pay attention.
The one who broke both legs?
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Giants are playing us at the wrong time. If the Giants win this game I will admit they are the best team in the league.
Giants are playing us at the wrong time. If the Giants win this game I will admit they are the best team in the league.
This game is going to be a physical, grind it out, close game. It is more than likely going to take the entire 60 minutes, maybe even more before this one is determined. Granted, both teams have played some weak competition, you can say the Jets and Bills are horrible but the 9ers still went out and handled business. The Browns, Panthers, and Bucs arn't powerhouses ether, but a win on the football field in the NFL is still a win, nothing is gauranteed. Both teams have their strengths, both teams have their weaknesses, I am sure the giants fan base is underestimating the 9ers offense just as the 9ers fanbase is underestimating the giants defense. The Giants A game can and has beaten the best teams, but then again that can be said for the 9ers A game.
Personally, I think Eli is going to get his yards and a TD or two or maybe even three, dude is hard to keep down for an entire game. This is not trash talk, but I don't know if the run game of the Giants can be effective enough to not have to rely on Manning. Yea Bradshaw put up 200 on the Browns, we just put up over 600 on a bad defense, but you are not going to catch me saying we will put up 600 again this week. The 9ers run defense at home has been unreal, how they get beat is in the air. If Eli has the game he is capable of having, this is going to be an extremely competitive game and the Giants can win it. That is if your D can get the pressure necessary on Smith, you can trash talk the guy all you want, but he is more than capable of putting together great games. He doesn't have the gunslinger mentality of Eli where he can throw 3 picks then come back and throw 4 tds, but he also doesn't throw multiple picks in a game. I don't see the 9ers run game being stuffed, it's not a knock on the Giants defense, but the 9ers run game is just dominant. Smith is going to have to be pressured and forced into turnovers. If the 49ers are able to execute on offense with that ball control thing they like doing, could be a long day for the Giants D. Who the hell knows though, anything could happen, it is going to be a great game regardless. I don't know if thats any kind of analysis I just think that both fan bases need to realize this game could go either way, 3-7 point margin of victory in my opinion. Let's just hope for no injuries on either side and we can really argue with each other when the postseason rolls around, that is the time for mindless banter and homerism. Either way we are all going to watch a great football game.
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We're off to a solid 4-1 start out scoring opponents 79-3 last two weeks. Offense broke out last week and our D is as good as advertised but our punt team keeps getting torched...if buffalo doesn't get called for holding the start of that game changes drastically. Also unless Akers drills it out of the end zone were giving up huge chunks of yards on kickoffs too...idk maybe I got spoiled last year watching us dominate ST but this year they seem shaky...hard to complain last two weeks but in a close game something like this could kill us
Whatever LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But to your point about the opponents W/L record making that guy delusional, you really can't say the 9ers have won because of weak competition when the Giants have beaten weaker competition. You know?
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Who Benefits If China Allows Investors to Buy Overseas? Baidu, That's Who
On Monday, China rolled out a series of measures it plans to tackle by year end, promising big changes to the way the world's second largest economy operates. Much of the attention has focused on the internationalization of the renminbi, opening its markets to foreign investors and managing municipal debt.
But China also proposes to start allowing some individual investors to buy stocks overseas and that has the potential to be a game changer. Writing in a report, Stifel's George Askew, Zim Yin and Steve Rubis explain:
Investment options are limited for domestic individual investors in China. Investment choices include a volatile A share Chinese stock market; bank deposits at very low interest rates; Chinese real estate, particularly apartment homes; and gold. As investment capital has crowded into these limited investment classes, prices of Chinese real estate and the price of gold have increased dramatically. However, the government has put significant restrictions on these investment options: A-share IPOs were suspended for over six months; intense restrictions on apartment homes are imposed across all tier-1, tier 2, and tier-3 cities.
With such limitations, many Chinese investors will almost certainly look overseas if given the green light. And when they do, they'll invest in what they know, Askew, Yin and Rubis say.
Should the new policy be established, we believe Chinese individual investors who invest in global stock markets will first invest in companies familiar to them. Consequently we believe it is likely that these investors will invest in Chinese Internet stocks such as Tencent, (0700.HK), Baidu (BIDU), Youku Tudou (YOKU), Qihoo (QIHU), and others.
Whether that gives the stocks a boost is anyone's guess, and the analysts don't say. And I could argue that they'd target the stocks of multinational companies that they know and respect. There's no doubt, however, that watching all that Chinese money hit the world's markets should be loads of fun.
Baidu has gained 3.4% to $92.35 today, Qihoo has jumped 2.4% to $37.74, and Youku has risen 1.2% to $19.74. Tencent fell 0.2% today in Hong Kong.


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In the wash-up to the horror first test, South Africa's players were generally respectful towards their opponents.
They could have been forgiven for cracking gags at the true hopelessness New Zealand exhibited over the opening day at Newlands.
However a couple of off-hand comments from pace pair Vernon Philander and Dale Steyn hinted at New Zealand being held in rather lower esteem behind closed doors.
When Philander was asked if there had been much chat directed at the New Zealand batsmen as they tumbled to their third-worst total ever in the space of just 19.2 overs in 100 gruesome minutes, man of the match Philander remarked: "You don't have to say much if they're 45 all out."
When world No1 bowler Steyn was asked a similar question, he admitted he had pondered offering some advice to the batsmen, "but it wasn't worth it. The ball was doing enough talking".
That zeroes in on one of the main challenges facing New Zealand ahead of the second test in Port Elizabeth: how to go about regaining lost credibility in the eyes of their opponents.
South Africa's captain, Graeme Smith, has talked of his team's respectful and humble attitude towards test cricket, of taking nothing for granted.
But deep down, what must they, a proud, hard-minded cricket team, have thought as they could doubtless scarcely believe what they were seeing.
Sure, Australia tumbled to 47 on the same ground 13 months ago.
But Australia's flop was written off as an aberration, and they bounced back immediately by winning the next test in Johannesburg and have a trunkload of achievement to lean on.
New Zealand's two gold-plated wins in Hobart and Colombo, which effectively bookended Ross Taylor's reign in charge, are seen as fine wins, but one-offs.
So how can New Zealand change South Africa's perception of what they're going to face in Port Elizabeth? There's only one way and it's going to require a massive shift in quality of performance and testing their hosts through five days.
Not only did the specialist batsmen have their hands full, there was the depressing sight of tailenders Jeetan Patel, in particular, and Trent Boult stepping away to Steyn, clearly unwilling to face the chin music.
Patel, as No9, was expected to produce some runs. Having been clunked by Steyn his nerve failed him. Now if he is chosen for the second test, he's a busted flush. South Africa, Patel and everyone watching will know how they will attack him. Rival spinner Bruce Martin is uncapped, but scored a first-class century for Auckland against Northern Districts in November. It's also a reason why Otago seamer Neil Wagner might be considered. He can bat in a doughty, stubborn way.
It's certainly not the main reason to select them, but should it be a factor in the selectors' thinking? Right now, every little bit could help.
With Patel, Boult and Chris Martin rounding out the innings, New Zealand's batting stops at No8 and even there Doug Bracewell - averaging 11 from 14 tests - is woefully under-performing with the bat.
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Why not? If someone wants to post a press release, why should they stop it?
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Because it changes a community forum into a commercial site. Not a good idea.
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DD so sorry to hear of your FIL's situation, that happens so often in families, it happened in mine also. When my grandmother passed away my M***** gained power of attorney over my grandfather. (sorry I can't say that word in her regard) she then went on a shopping spree spending over $10,000 in 3 months and said she couldn't afford to buy her own father orange juice so he would have to drink water. My brother and I had the power of attorney taken off her through the courts but I don't think my grandfather ever recovered from her treachory.
Anael I posted a parcel to you today, hope it arrives safely and doesn't take too long to cross the ocean. Hope the flannel is ok..
Back to the drawing board on uploading photos, it just failed, maybe the file is too big. Will have to sit down and read the instruction book:p
CarrieM ... I'm sure your trip will be busy enough and a direct to/from drive, but one or two would better than none ... and could be the planned "pit stops" for driver breaks and kid stretches. Of course, they may have thought as to McDs etc being better choices! :)
DDamsel ... it may seem as though there is nothing you can do for your DH. Being there and showing your concern and support is the best you can do and I'm sure he appreciates it. Too funny about your kids wanting to get their smells into the new 'Burb! :D How are the puppies doing? .... time for more pics! :D
Jeanie, yes they have gained a little weight. They still are fed through a tube but they're going to try a bottle this week. Yesterday one of the nurses was busy sucking mucus out of Bram's mouth, he thought it was his pacifier. He got fed up with what she was doing, SNAP closed his mouth and started sucking :D So the nurse said: it's time for a bottle LOL.
QuiltE, my DS and DDIL are doing OK considering. My DS has to start work again today. He hopes he can work out a scedule having 2 afternoons off every week. My DDIL decided to stay at home every other day because of Mick and to get some rest.
Mirabelle, thanks so much! I'm sure the flannel is ok!
Latest update: they're both doing ok. Last time I looked (about 1 hour ago) Bram was sleeping and Isa was awake. Tomorrow Isa will have an ultrasound to look if the Ductus is closed and if so she might come off of the ventilator too.
I'm going to sleep now, hopefully this night will be as quiet as the nights before!
CU all tomorrow.
Wonderful news Anael, sounds like you just took a deep breath and relaxed a little..but not too much...I hope you have a good nights sleep, you certainly need it.
Yeah, the miracles twins are doing ok!!! What great news!!!
I think I am ready to show what a beautiful job Creekside did with my FWSQ that is 102x108:
Attachment 393145Attachment 393146backside shows details if you can see them. If QuiltE responds to my question I ask her I may show more here or go to FWSQ completed tops...as per her suggestion and of course PC ideas from you as well. IT"S DONE!!!!
Sweet baby news!
Oh you were posting as I was QNS and wow it looks wonderful. Like the border fabric.
That sounds great Anael. Such sweet babies. :)
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Two fingers inserted into a womans vagina and two fingers in the anus resembling the Vulcan live long and prosper hand sign. A modification of the infamous "The Shocker". Two in the pink n two more in the stink.
He threw the Vulcan Death Grip on that nasty ass bitch.
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In computer systems the method of using the a combination of interupt keys to perform a soft reboot or other functions.
See also Three fingered salute and CTRL ALT DEL
See also Three fingered salute and CTRL ALT DEL
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I'm completely new to this, I've been reading as much about honey bee's as I could and have a couple months to get as much knowledge of beekeeping as possible before I get my first hive to see if I will truly enjoy my new hobby or decide to make it more than a hobby.
1) best type of bees to start with?
2) does the type of flowers in your area decide the taste of your honey? I'm in Lexington, Ky
3) how much in cost am I looking at for a starter kit to get involved?
4) does the type of sugar water you feed bees affect the taste of honey?
5) on an average season, amount of honey, wax to expect from one hive?
6) besides wax, honey and royal jelly, what else can you get from bees?
7) I live in a neighbor hood, my back yard is fenced up all the way around at height of 8 feet. Will this be a problem to neighbors or should I find a farm to put them on??
Thanks for your help guys,I really don't know if these are the right questions to even ask.


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Shopping for a used car can be frustrating and time consuming. However, there are ways to make the process a less stressful experience for the consumer. The first decision to make when looking for a new vehicle is to determine what model you are shopping for. For this has been decided the process will be much less confusing. Let's say you are in the market for a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, there are several ways to go about tracking down the perfect vehicle.
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When looking for a used Jeep Rubicon, the best place to start is on the internet. There are numerous websites which allow dealers to advertise their vehicles to a wide audience. Most of these websites will allow the user to limit the search results to the San Francisco Bay area. This targeted search gives potential customers the availability to compare the vehicles currently on the dealer's lot. Having a good idea of exactly what you are looking for makes negotiating with the salesmen much easier.
Websites Offering the Jeep Rubicon
There are several dealerships in San Francisco using various websites to advertise their vehicles. To compare vehicles by price, year or features, websites such as www.automobilemag.com or www.sf.backpage.com are an excellent place to start. These sites will give the user the option to search for a vehicle that fits their requirements and budget. Authorized Jeep dealers also post advertisements for their local area on www.craigslist.com. The ads placed on craigslist.org will generally give the general information regarding the vehicle with a phone number to contact the dealer.
Dealers in the San Francisco Area
Although there are dozens of auto dealerships within the San Francisco Bay area, only a handful of those dealerships advertise the Jeep Rubicon. Rather than roaming from dealer to dealer hoping to find the one that has the desired vehicle, it is a good idea to narrow the options ahead of time. Ellis Brooks Motors has a large selection of Jeeps available to choose from. The various models of Jeep Rubicon this dealer offers are posted on multiple websites. Other dealers who offer this vehicle in the area include San Francisco Chrysler Jeep and Albera Chrysler Jeep. For our list of dealers and their websites in the SF area, check out "Jeep Dealers in San Francisco".
Be Cautious when Purchasing Through a Private Seller
Although it may be a bit easier to purchase a used vehicle from a private seller, it is important to remain cautious in these deals. Typically the selling price will be lower than going through a dealership, but the vehicle will need to be examined by a third party before the sale is completed. This is to ensure there are not any hidden problems with the vehicle that will be costly to repair. The biggest advantage to buying from a private seller is the fact that the purchaser is not obligated to make payments on a loan. Private sales can be very advantageous for both parties when a little extra care is taken.
Purchasing a used Jeep Rubicon is just like shopping for any other vehicle. Researching the vehicle will help the consumer know exactly what they are looking for. Knowledge is always the greatest weapon a car shopper can have during the process.
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If you're stumped on all the different ways to wear emerald in 2013, look no further than the Sephora + Pantone makeup collection. Last year's Color of the Year collaboration was all tangerine, but this year's collection proves you really can wear green with plenty of options from nail polish and shadow to lashes and brushes. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait until March to pick up these goods, but once you do, your girlfriends will be green with envy.
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Our numbers-focused alumni consider how to invest pension funds, what benefits employers can afford, whether a financial institution should offer a particular service, how much life insurance to recommend, and how to meet payroll. They support enterprises that provide jobs and, in some cases, they contribute to decisions about layoffs. They serve as private and government ...More
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I am from South Eastern Iowa. I Just started in Bees last Spring with a package from Dadant. I caught 3 more swarms this year so I have 4 hives. One swarm that I caught late in the summer is small & I am really concerned about their well being since we had a stretch of really cold weather (-10 to + 10 for three weeks. I am seeing a lot of dead bees near the entrance but I don't know how much of this is normal. They had 1 1/2 to 2 deep supers of brood & honey & pollen so I felt good going in but now I am not so sure.
I Retired from my regular job about 3 years ago & have been interested in bees for a while so I decided to give it a try. I am close to Dadant so have gotten a lot of good advise from them. I need to meet some other bee guys in the area but haven't yet.


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Mount Tamborine Wedding from Elleni ToumpasThe heart of a soul of this seriously sweet wedding is in the details...the spent-months-preparing, scoured the internet for hours + crafted-all-night details. And the result? Well it's pretty stinkin gorgeous if you ask me. Elleni Toumpas brings us this The Beacon
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Many teachers and day care providers plan lessons around themes throughout the year. The Williamsburg Regional Library has compiled books, puppets, videos and songbooks which focus on these popular themes. Called "Lit Kits," these storytimes in a bag may make planning easy.
- Lit kits are designed for preschool through kindergarten (red bag) and kindergarten through third grade (blue bag).
- You may check out 3 Lit Kits per library card.
- Lit Kits may be checked out for 4 weeks. You may renew them twice if no one has put a hold on it.
- Lit Kits must be checked out on an adult's library card.
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C.O. hits $350K pledge goal for RDM-LAX fights
American Airlines grants extra week to collect funds
BEND, Ore. - From city governments, to law firms, to clothing stores -- in just eight days, Central Oregon has put its money where its mouth is, securing $350,000 in pre-paid ticket pledges for new non-stop flights between Redmond and LAX.
"For me, it was a no-brainer," Vanilla Urban Threads owner April Lawyer said Friday.
It's here today and gone tomorrow in the fashion world. That's why it's so important for Lawyer to attend trade shows in L.A. and keep her boutique stocked with the latest trends.
"By being able to go down there more, on a more regular basis, I can stay ahead of the trends a little bit quicker," Lawyer said.
Lawyer has a vested interest in getting the flight -- she travels down to Southern California several times a year for business, and also has family down there.
But not every company pledging has business in L.A.
"We don't have any immediate plans for the travel bank," said Karnopp Petersen partner Jon Napier. "But we thought it was important to support EDCO. Our firm's belief is that business innovation is clearly key to Central Oregon's future."
Every city in Central Oregon has also pledged to the cause.
Economic Development For Central Oregon Executive Director Roger Lee was confident Friday morning that they'd meet their goal.
But the flight is about much more than the travel bank -- this is upwards of a $1 million investment in Central Oregon.
"There's a marketing campaign that COVA is actually managing along with Redmond Airport, so that's almost a quarter million," Lee said. "And then there's a revenue guarantee that was really largely the federal government grant. We beat out other communities around the country to get that."
From the federal government, down to individual contributions -- it's a belief in the future of Central Oregon.
"A lot of people in Bend, in order to live here, they work satellite and have to fly to LA, and I wanted to support that," Lawyer said.
And after a week of scrambling to raise the funds, Lee is all smiles.
"I just can't say enough about the area chambers, visitors associations -- the whole community has really rallied together to make this happen," he said.
Now comes the process of collecting the pledges by next Friday's deadline, extended by American Airlines, and then distributing the travel vouchers.
If all goes well, EDCO said the flights on a 50-seat regional jet could begin as soon as June.


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I noticed an ad at the top of a Thread Page advertising HeatPly radiant floor heating and thought this might be a good product to use in a Hot Room. Has anyone used this product? Any thoughts?
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I noticed an ad at the top of a Thread Page advertising HeatPly radiant floor heating and thought this might be a good product to use in a Hot Room. Has anyone used this product? Any thoughts?
what do you use now?
I have been using hot water for hotbox and honeyhouse off the outside woodboiler. However we just bought a new place and there is no Honey house. So I think this year the two car garage is the new honey house and it has no heat so I have been thinking about buying a hotwater heater and hooking a pump to it for radiant hotwater heat, by filling it and recifulating the water thru it.
It looks useful to use on existing concrete floors. I picked up a 20 ft reefer box to use as hothouse, it already as deep channels in it for laying radiant heat into it. Not sure what I will use in the new honey house to warm it. Been thinking of trying those infrared heaters that are cheap for taking the chill out of the honey house.
I've done a substantial amount of research on radiant floor heating - not just reading but hands on.
It doesn't riase the air temperature in a room directly.
It transfers heat thru the air without heating it, and heats objects in the room by radiant heat.
It tends to heat a room more slowly than forced air or a normal steam or hot water radiator.
It is effective at heating the surfaces exposed to it by line of sight.
If you bring a load of supers in on a hot day, it'll be well suited to maintaining the temperature.
If you bring a load of 65 degree supers in and want to raise them to 90 overnight, that might be challenging for a radiant floor.
I think it's a wonderful product for a home though, where temp change usually fairly gradual and a slow temp rise in the air is acceptable.
It's also an extremely efficient way to transfer heat energy, as little or none of it is lost in process.
THanks Beregondo. Good advice.


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This exhibition, drawn from the extensive holdings of The Burchfield-Penney Art Center, highlights the vast achievements of the Roycroft community established in the late 1890s by Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) in East Aurora, New York. The community was created in reaction to America's industrialization and the concept of mass production. The Roycrofters sought to revive handcraftsmanship and return to a simpler, understated, anti-Victorian aesthetic by following the tradition of the British Arts and Crafts movement. Their accomplishments in metalware, woodwork, glassware, and ceramics will be featured including desktop accessories, lamps, vases, furniture, dinnerware, and other handcrafted objects. Twenty-five first edition hand-printed books from the famous Roycroft Press will also be on view. Love, Live, Work: The Roycroft Legacy is organized by The Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York.
Selections from The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie
Now through March 5, 2006, The Hyde Collection's Hoopes Gallery will feature fourteen remarkable paintings from the collection of The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie (formerly known as the Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery). The Arkell Museum was founded in 1924 by Bartlett Arkell, a successful Canajoharie businessman and the founder and first President of Beech-Nut Packing Company. He purchased the remarkable collection of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American paintings that were installed in the museum when it first opened to the public in 1926. Highlights from this collection, including an exquisite portrait of a woman reading a letter (1889) by Thomas Dewing, a magnificent landscape The Rainbow (1878) by George Inness, and a luminous still life Blue and White Jar (c. 1910) by Emil Carlsen, are among the handful of works featured.
The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie received funding from the Arkell Hall Foundation to build an 18,000 square foot addition with six new gallery spaces designed by Ann Beha Architects and DesignLab architects. The museum will open to the public in early 2007. A small selection from this distinguished collection is on loan to The Hyde while The Arkell Museum is under construction.


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Flow cytometry (FCM) can now be officially used for the quantification of microbial cells in drinking water. The new analytical method -- developed at Eawag and extensively tested both in Switzerland and abroad -- has been incorporated into the Swiss Food Compendium (SLMB) by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). FCM provides much more realistic results than the conventional method, in which bacterial colonies are grown on agar plates. The results demonstrate that even good-quality drinking water harbours 100 to 10,000 times more living cells than the conventional plate count method would suggest.
For over 100 years, the method used to assess the microbiological safety of drinking water has remained essentially unchanged: bacteria present in water are allowed to grow on solid nutrient media (incubated at a warm temperature), and the colonies formed are then counted. The intestinal bacteria Escherichia coli and enterococci serve as indicators of fecal contamination. At the same time, the heterotrophic plate count (HPC) is determined as a measure of general microbiological quality. This method quantifies all the microorganisms present which can reproduce at temperatures of around 20-45°C (mesophilic). According to the global standard, the number of colonies formed should not exceed 300 per millilitre.
Cell counts significantly underestimated
The cultivation-based method has two major drawbacks: it is time-consuming -- results are only available after 3-10 days in the case of the HPC -- and only a fraction of the living cells actually present in samples are counted. This is because the method only detects those bacteria which can grow and form colonies under the specified conditions -- generally 0.01-1% of the total. Thus, the limit of 300 colony-forming units per millilitre (CFU/mL) also specified in the Swiss Ordinance on Food Hygiene (HyV) is based on a significant underestimate of the actual number of microorganisms present. The cultivation of E. coli and enterococci does, however, normally yield reliable results.
Total cell count and fingerprint
In December 2012, the FOPH incorporated method no. 333 "Determining the total cell count and ratios of high and low nucleic acid content cells in freshwater using flow cytometry" into the Swiss Food Compendium as a recommended test method. Instead of the HPC, which is no longer considered relevant for food hygiene purposes, FCM (see Box) can now be used to determine the total cell count in a water sample within a matter of minutes. Unlike the AMC, this count provides a realistic indication of the microbial content of water and -- at least indirectly -- allows conclusions to be drawn about contamination. In addition, with the same method, the ratio of larger to smaller cells can also be determined (i.e. cells with a high or low nucleic acid content). This is seen by experts as the "fingerprint" of drinking water: sudden changes in this value may indicate, for example, damage or misconnections in the water network, or faults at water treatment facilities.
New standard method
Switzerland is the first country worldwide to have adopted this advanced method for the quantification of microbial cells in water. Eawag drinking water specialist Stefan Koetzsch believes that other countries, such as the Netherlands, will follow soon. Given the much higher total cell counts, should the federal authorities now specify new limits? "No," says Koetzsch, "that would not be appropriate; nor would it really be possible since the microbiological composition of water will depend on its particular origin, and high cell counts do not in themselves provide conclusive evidence of possible pathogens". However, Koetzsch and his colleagues are convinced that FCM will become established as a new standard in the monitoring of drinking water. The method is ideally suited for monitoring an entire supply system (from drinking water abstraction through treatment and distribution to consumers), optimizing processes and identifying problems. Efforts are already underway to develop an automated version of the method, which would permit "online" monitoring of bacterial cell counts.
Box: How does flow cytometry work?
Flow cytometry was developed for applications in the field of medicine, where it has been used since the 1980s, e.g. for counting (relatively large) blood cells. When this method is employed for drinking water analysis, the (generally small) cells contained in a sample are first stained with fluorescent dyes, which bind to DNA. The cells are then passed in single file through a glass capillary, where they are exposed to a beam of light from a laser. The resultant scatter and fluorescence signals are picked up by detectors, and analytical software is used to classify each individual particle (cell).
Before the flow cytometry method could be applied for water analysis in day-to-day practice, it had to undergo rigorous testing. Financial support for this standardization and validation was provided by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) and the Swiss Gas and Water Industry Association (SVGW). A total of 24 partners from academia, administration and public/private laboratories participated in this process.
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Cans, boxes, and bottles are not food sources. We have the world's largest food supply, thanks to farmers.
by Kelly Wood, administrative assistant, Hoard's Dairyman editorial department
"People really do think their food comes from the store in cans, boxes, and bottles," was what I wrote to our western editor in a recent email. I was upset about a recent Facebook posting regarding an expanding dairy, so I suggested writing a fun, but educational, piece reminding people that farmers do know what they are doing in helping to feed the world.
I did not grow up on a farm; I'm a city kid who listened to my parents talk about going to stay at a relative's farm for the summer when they were kids. And, when I was little, they did take me to watch cows being milked. So, I learned from a young age where my food came from, and I understood the importance of farming.
Fast forward to now. This city kid ended up working for a dairy magazine. I get a chance that many consumers do not: I have access to articles discussing the latest studies about cow comfort, growing crops, and farm safety. I've learned the most basic how's and why's of farming. I know that the great majority of farmers care about their animals and the land. Ive also had the opportunity to interact with dairy producers and can see that they love their cows like we consumers love our dogs and cats.
Unfortunately, the average consumer does not read magazines like Hoard's Dairyman. They do not get to see articles like dealing with cooling cows on a hot day. Maybe some of these articles need to start appearing in the mainstream press. However, they would need to be written in a way consumers can understand and come away with a positive feeling about how things are done on dairies and farms across the country.
I have seen numerous comments on the Internet from consumers like me, defending and trying to explain farming techniques, but those voices are few and far between. And, of course, there are other issues about farming that get people riled up, but that is a discussion for another day. In the meantime, I will enjoy my cheeseburger and chocolate milk, knowing that the animals that produced them really were raised with love - love of the land and love of the animals. I will do my best to help spread that message.


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Bend storage unit burglaries reported, victims sought
Suspect identified, property recovered; thief cut padlock, put their own on
BEND, Ore. - Bend police said Monday they have identified a suspect in burglaries from at least 10 rented storage units around town since 2010 and recovered stolen property. They asked others who may not have reported being victims around the region to please do so, as their items also may be in police hands.
Officer Tommy Russell said they could not identify the suspect or release more details at this stage of the investigation, as officers have been looking into several burglaries from at least 10 rental units at various Bend storage facilities, dating back to 2010.
A suspect has been identified, he said, and items from several previously reported burglaries have been recovered.
It's believed storage facilities in other Central Oregon locations may have been victimized as well, Russell said.
In many cases, the suspect cut the existing lock on a storage unit, then placed their own padlock on it, so as not to draw attention from facility operators.
Bend police encouraged storage space renters to take the time and check the lock on their storage unit, as well as check the contents for any missing items.
Anyone who has been a burglary or theft victim from a storage unit and who has not reported it to police was asked to call (541) 322-2969. That could help identify some of the recovered property that has not yet been linked to current police reports, Russell said.
More information in the investigation is expected to be released later this week, the officer said.


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The Midway Club offers you an exclusive and elegant place to meet, mingle, collaborate, or socialize. Located at the Gleacher Center in the heart of downtown Chicago, it's the perfect place to do business when away from your office or to relax between or after meetings.
The catering staff is available to help you with such details as table linens and chairs, floral décor, and other special touches to make your event unique and memorable.
From board room to billiard room, the Midway Club provides quietly impressive surroundings and amenities that make it a pleasure to do business. Wolfgang Puck Catering & Events®, known for orchestrating peerless, memorable occasions, serves as our exclusive caterer.
Elegant and functional, the Club has everything you need to make it your remote downtown office:
Whether you want to talk shop or talk sports, the Midway Club is your place to relax. You'll enjoy a:
Lunch served in the veranda, with stunning views of Lake Michigan and Chicago 's skyline. The Dining Room is open Monday through Friday from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm.
The Midway Club and catering staff look forward to working with you to make your event an exceptional one.
General information & lunch reservations:
Tel: 312.464.8775
To reserve a meeting room or plan a private event:
Tel: 312.464.8787
To ensure proper service for meeting and catered events, we request a final guaranteed count of guests attending your function at least 72 hours in advance. Your guarantee is the number of people we will set for. Your contract for space rental and catering will outline the details of the cancellation policy, which is based on the length of time between your event date and cancellation date.
Cell phone use is allowed only in discreet public areas. There is absolutely no use allowed in the Veranda during lunch service.
While there is no formal dress code at the Midway Club, alumni are expected to represent Chicago Booth well while there.
The Midway Club
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
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Chicago, IL 60611
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Patrick Conley stands in a hallway lined with framed New York Times and Providence Journal articles about his campaign to lure high-end businesses to Providence's industrial waterfront. Here on the fourth floor of his "Conley's Wharf" building on Allens Avenue, though, it's clear that the cruise ships and boutiques never arrived. Panoramic windows overlook an empty parking lot with a forlorn "Dock Conley" sign on one side of the building. On the other side, machines scoop and pick at towering piles of tangled metal.
The views disgust him, Conley says, as he launches into an impassioned tale of crooked deals, re-zoning flubs, and freeze-outs in the City Council chamber that, he says, explain this "Scrappalachian Trail." He hands me his latest venom-etched letter to the Providence Journal. In previous notes, he has awarded the paper with a "Goebbels Prize in Journalism" for its "Nazi-like" opposition to his waterfront plan and wondered aloud, "[W]ould the use of the word 'shenanigans' to describe my alleged actions be a subtle ethnic slur against the Irish?" This one ends with the phrase, "Let's follow the money!"
If it seems that Conley is dwelling in the past; well, he's got good reason. Earlier this summer, he was named the Ocean State's first-ever historian laureate. He is now encouraged, by law, to speak about local history. And speak he does. He was a professor of history at Providence College for over 30 years. He has addressed the Rhode Island Supreme Court, the Rhode Island Spanish-American War Centennial Committee, the Henry Barnard Club of Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Society. He has written more than 15 books, from 1977's Democracy in Decline, Rhode Island's Constitutional Development, 1776- 1841 to the recently released, cinder block-sized, People, Places, Laws and Lore of the Ocean State: A Rhode Island Historical Sampler.
But Conley isn't just a historian. He is walking history, itself. He's a lawyer, a developer, a philanthropist, a tireless chairman of local clubs and associations, and a Senior Olympian who tosses the javelin at events across the country. And, as he is quick to remind me, he is the chairman of the Rhode Island Publications Society, which meets here, in the Conley's "Fabre Line Club," named for the steamship operator that ferried thousands of immigrants from the Mediterranean to Providence in the early 1900s. Conley points proudly to the replica red-white-and-blue smokestack in the center of the room and the accompanying air horn that would "blow the windows out, blow your eardrums out," if you honked it.
As we walk around the room — past the stocked bar, the piano, the 30-foot boardroom table made of salvaged pine, the statue of Thomas Wilson Dorr — stories and statistics pour out of Conley. He has played baseball with Carl Yastrzemski and commandeered 1200 volunteers as chairman of the Rhode Island Bicentennial Commission in 1976. He was Mayor Buddy Cianci's Chief of Staff between 1979 and 1981. (The line about the ACLU being "jealous they don't have three wise men and a virgin in the whole organization" was his, Conley swears.) Nowadays, he is an active attorney who drops in to court to argue insurance claims and foreclosures. His presence in Rhode Island public affairs is so indelible that the writers of the Showtime crime series Brotherhood created the outspoken, gray-haired developer Martin Kilpatrick in his image. "They killed me in that one," Conley says. "They shot me in the mouth."
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Crysis Games
Journey through the Seven Wonders of Crysis 3
One City, Seven Wonders. What was once a bustling metropolis filled with streets and skyscrapers is now a lush urban rainforest, with seven distinct landscapes from raging rivers or dense swamplands to open fields or high canopies. Each of these 'Wonders' offers unique terrain and new enemies, demanding new tactics as you become the ultimate hunter. Nature was able to adapt to the Liberty Dome - will you?
EPISODE 6: End of Days
Save Mankind: To deliver the world from evil, Prophet will require all the power of the Nanosuit to stop the threat of the CELL Corporation and Alien Cephs.
EPISODE 5: Ultimate Weapon
Suit Up: A good tailor will tell you that the suit makes the man.
The Nanosuit is the most incredible combat suit ever created with unique strength, stealth, and armor capabilities.
EPISODE 4: Typhoon
Advanced Weaponry: Prophet will need the best weapons to succeed in his journey.
Crysis 3 introduces the Typhoon: one of the world's finest weapons, capable of firing 500 rounds fired in a second. Do we need to say more?
EPISODE 3: Cause & Effect
In this "7 Wonders of Crysis 3" episode, Prophet combines the powerful Nanosuit with lethal weaponry to take down an elite group of CELL soldiers.
Assess. Adapt. Attack: Prophet utilizes a deadly combination of the Nanosuit and lethal weapons to attack Cell soldiers protecting a hidden power station in the sandbox environment of the former NYC financial district.
EPISODE 2: The Hunt
In this "7 Wonders of Crysis 3" episode, Prophet prepares to take down an elite group of CELL soldiers -- but he's not the only thing that's hunting.
No matter the target, Crysis 3's Predator Bow has a tactical solution to any problem you may face in the 7 Wonders of the Nanodome. Directed by the acclaimed motion picture director Albert Hughes, "The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3" cinematic series showcases the stunning visuals, dynamic environments and the intense tactical warfare gameplay that's featured in Crysis 3./p>
EPISODE 1: Hell of a Town
Prophet returns to a New York City in lockdown, a broken metropolis entombed inside the CELL Corporation's Nanodome, in this all new video directed by Albert Hughes.
The "Liberty Dome" has transformed much of New York City into an urban rainforest, teaming with colossal trees, dense swamplands and raging rivers. The dangers of this new environment will demand advanced weaponry and tactics-- luckily the Nanosuit is more than up to the task of hunting down Prophet's enemies in Crysis 3.
TEASER: The Premiere
Albert Hughes speaks on his experience creating these films: "When EA and Crytek approached me about being involved in creating 'The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3' video series, I liked the idea of creating emotional stories using only computer generated images," stated Albert Hughes. "The challenge of producing something intensely human without ever seeing a human on screen was incredibly compelling, and this was a chance for me to do that using a completely unique medium."
At 20 years old, filmmaker Albert Hughes shot to stardom when he and his twin brother, Allen, wrote and directed the seminal film, Menace II Society. For "The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3" video series, Albert was intimately involved with the development team at Crytek, writing the scripts, storyboards and shot plan for each video that was created entirely using in-game assets powered by Crytek's revolutionary CryENGINE® 3 technology.
"The goal with the '7 Wonders of Crysis 3' video series is to reveal the incredible world we have been building for Crysis 3 and to let CryENGINE take center stage to highlight the power of our state- of-the-art game engine," said Cevat Yerli, Chief Executive Officer of Crytek. "We've worked closely with Albert on this project and think that the 7 Wonders series will show the leaps and bounds that Crysis 3 is making over its predecessors."
EPISODE 6: End of Days
EPISODE 5: Ultimate Weapon
EPISODE 4: Typhoon
EPISODE 3: Cause & Effect
EPISODE 2: The Hunt
EPISODE 1: Hell of a Town
TEASER: The Premiere
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David Schneider
Several recent studies have highlighted the fact that our central nervous systems often take advantage of "stochastic resonance," a curious phenomenon that arises when a signal that would normally fall below the threshold of perception can nevertheless be detected by virtue of added noise. That the presence of random noise can help a weak signal to be registered is admittedly counterintuitive. But research has clearly shown this to be the case for many physical and biological systems.
Some investigators are now applying this knowledge clinically. One group has, for example, intentionally added noise to the signals generated by cochlear implants so as to mimic the random firing of the auditory nerve; this lowers the threshold at which patients fitted with these devices can detect subtle sounds. Another group has recently found a way to use added noise to enhance balance control in older people whose feet no longer sense the ground well.
It turns out that the phenomenon of stochastic resonance can help electronic brains too, allowing computers to become more sensitive to subtle signals in their networked environment. A demonstration comes from yet-to-be-published work of Joel Lepak, an undergraduate math major at Youngstown State University in Ohio, and Michael Crescimanno, a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the same institution.
Lepak and Crescimanno devised a way to measure the transmission time between interconnected computers with astonishing precision. Indeed, they were able to do so with a fine enough resolution to gauge the speed at which data packets bounce back and forth through a few tens of meters of standard computer cable. To do this they ran ping, a program that network administrators often invoke to test connections between computers. Because ping can only resolve transmission times to the nearest microsecond, it is not obvious how it can be used to clock the passage of signals traveling through such a short stretch of cable at a good fraction of the speed of light. The total back-and-forth in such a setup takes no more than a few hundred nanoseconds, which is below the nominal threshold of detection.
"Millions of people have seen ping logs," Crescimanno notes. But it seems that only a small number have ever taken the time to ponder the fact that the return time between two computers is not always the same. Seeing that, Crescimanno, who had read about stochastic resonance in the biophysics literature, reasoned that this phenomenon might allow him to improve what one can achieve with ping. The noise in this case is inherent to the network itself—computer clocks running out of sync, radio-frequency signals picked up through network cables and power lines, and so forth. These sources add some jitter to the return delays registered when a computer is programmed to ping another a large number of times. Plotting the average travel time as a function of the length of cable connecting two computers reveals a line whose slope is the signal velocity—in this case about two-thirds the speed of light.
So long as the network connection is not too noisy, a good result appears easy to get. "Basically, it worked the first time," says Crescimanno, who is promoting this procedure as an exercise for undergraduate physics labs. He has been using a similar strategy to offer students a way to estimate the size of the Earth: Instead of pinging, he uses traceroute (another widely available network-diagnostic tool) to send data packets between two computers that are connected on the Internet through a long transoceanic cable. This program shows the signal path and the time required for packets to make a round-trip journey to the various computers encountered along the way. After measuring the path of the subsea cable on a globe, students can work out the planet's circumference from the speed of the signal and the amount of time it takes to make the large transoceanic hop.
Crescimanno hopes eventually to be able to detect the so-called Sagnac effect using much the same approach. This effect, first demonstrated in the early part of the last century, arises when one compares the travel times of a signal sent clockwise around a loop with one that goes counterclockwise. If the path length is large enough (or the sensitivity of the apparatus fine enough), one can measure a difference in travel time when the experimental platform is rotating. Crescimanno intends to measure the slight difference in travel times between data packets as they make their way around a large triangular segment of the Internet that has one node on each of three continents. He figures that with the resolution achieveable through stochastic resonance (which can be as fine as 50 nanoseconds, or about 1/20th the nominal resolution of ping), he may well be able to detect the Earth's rotation, which with an optimal geometry would produce a Sagnac effect that is about 500 nanoseconds. Whether or not Crescimanno achieves this ambitious goal, one cannot help but admire what he and Lepak have already demonstrated: that computers and the Internet can be used to teach physics without having to wow students with flamboyant displays of Java, Flash, Shockwave or Quicktime—indeed, without having to produce any fancy graphics at all.
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really really nice!
Mike, mine is prettier!!!!
Wow... Great !!! Can't wait to see when it's painted and weathered
Beautiful! Totaly awsome work ! I can't thank you enought ! Please tell me when it's shipped
FYI, PayPal and PM sent for ROTJ EE-3 kit. Just covering all my bases
Excellent news, can't wait myself! Thanks
looks awesome !!!
can't wait to have mine in hands
Ta m8. 3 out of 4 blasters posted and track#s PMed, remaining one out tommorow.
That news just made my weekend, thanks SAS cannot wait to receive it.
Got mine today, the attention to detail is just stunning. Absolutely impeccable work. Thank you SAS
Just received mine
I'm so happy
Still have not begun to assemble mine (weather has been stinking here) but by all means have a bump on me
Got mine today and it is freakin' AWESOME!!! SAS rocks!
you all suck! jk. i wish i could afford one
Got mine today! Thanks for an easy transaction and great product.


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hey all, wanted to show off my progress on the deathwatch sculpts. Aside from doing bokatan I am doing all of the deathwatch armor, weapons, and accessories.
First up is the deathwatch grunt helmet.It started as a test pull from a clay sculpt that was pretty awful, the entire thing was warped and bumpy. After some pretty severe mods and cleanup here is where its at now.
i didnt like the way it was shaping from here so i cut out the existing cheek and added a new piece
After some more work i got the shape pretty much done it just needs a little cleanup
going to extend the visor a hair more, i also reshaped the dome to be more accurate to the toon.
Any constructive criticism is welcome, it always helps to have some more eyes on this stuff. :)


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Town Square
Have you experienced the "hidden" PAUSD's manual reconstructed by "Cardinal"?
Original post made by Mom, Fairmeadow, on Feb 28, 2013
Posted by Cardinal, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood, 14 hours ago
I want to applaud Dr Skelly and his supporters on the school board for their discipline in sticking to a proven formula for successful crisis management. They are following the tactics that my institution has used consistently when accused of permitting harm to children. Most of all, remember that the reputation and interests of our revered institution must supercede the interests of any individual.
1. Try to convince the so-called victims that they miss understood the intentions of the perpetrator and the problem is not as significant as they perceived.
2. If the problem continues, repeat Step 1.
3. Conduct an "internal" investigation and proclaim the institution has been found by itself to innocent.
4. Move the victim or perpetrator to another branch location and hope/assume that the problem will go away.
5. When the problem recurs, repeat steps 1-4.
6. When step 5 fails and the problem becomes public, blame the the messengers and the press. Insist that it is now the revered institution that is the victim due to the criticisms of its conduct.
7. Repeat step 3 and proclaim that the institution is now a model of exceptional conduct.
8. Stall on final resolution until you can retire.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 28, 2013 at 8:47 am
Not everyone has to deal with the district office, but the part about blame the messenger is common practice. There is an atmosphere of defensiveness at the district office, and not rightly so because it's all about one person.
The Superintendent has forced people to be on his camp, or against him, and that means any issue is divided as such. Either you agree with the guy or not. That's not a healthy way to solve problems because it shuts out voices that have valid and important things to say. Especially on the inside I would imagine.
It's a mess, and did I hear they have a PR person to deal with the press and community?
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Feb 28, 2013 at 7:19 pm
Obviously these are the rules that Dr Skelly adheres to. Or maybe this is just his personal philosophy. The only things missing are: avoid eye contact at all cost, and avoid conversation with people over 21.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 1, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Mom: Glad you posted this brilliant proposed addition to the PAUSD manual recently uncovered by "Cardinal" It was too good to be buried in 100 comments in a different thread. I am glad that you gave us all a chance to read this. I only hope that Skelly doesn't retire in office (step 8) as I don't want my taxes going to support his shenanigans (I am being nice here) until that time.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 4, 2013 at 5:43 am
Thank you Mom!!
Cardinal's comments are hilarious. Unfortunately those brilliant comments are portraying PAUSD reality, reality as too many experience.


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I'd swear I've worked with some of those people.. maybe even worked FOR some of them
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I'd swear I've worked with some of those people.. maybe even worked FOR some of them
Now, those are funny!
One day at work I was sitting in the breakroom with a worker from my department, the head of Safety for the plant, and the head of the Finishing Department.
The female finishing supervisor mentioned that she was born in October of the same year that I was born. So I said that I was born in June, and that that made me older than her by four months. Her and the male safety manager hotly contested, and insisted that I was younger. My coworker sided with them. I tried to make the analogy that if I made a sandwich at 12:00 noon (June) and set it on the table, then made another sanswich at 4:00 pm ( October), which sandwich would you rather eat, the newer, younger sandwich made at 4 or the older one made at 12.
That didn't help. They became almost angry with me and insinuated that I was an idiot.
While walking back to the work area with my coworker he suddenly stopped and said, "Dude, you were right. She is younger than you!"
Which leads me to conclude that if you can get an idiot off their seat (brains) and in an upright position you have a better chance of having a semi-conscious conversation with them.
Just my personal slant on the subject.
My sons girlfriend,blonde,17,had stopped her car on a local hiway and was just sitting there when a state trooper pulls up and asks if everything is ok and she says yes.He then asks why she was just sitting there and she says shes just doing what the sign says.The sign read DO NOT PASS and she wasnt about to go past that sign! Swear to God, true story. Sad thing is she and my son will probably get married and will make lots of idiot grand-kids for my wife and I to take care of.
I work on a ship. One day one of the Able bodied Seaman on the bridge watch, comes into Engineering asking us for relative bearing grease.....
my neigbor's daughter asked if there were eggs in an omlet.they she spit out the potato salad because she didnt realize that it had potatoes in it even after she asked what it was.
The guy next door says, why is your back yard so much larger than mine? answer My house is two story. He still did not get it. A real idiot.


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Bend lawmakers vow to fight gun-control moves
Say issue should be safety, help for mentally ill
BEND, Ore. - Two Central Oregon lawmakers told a shooting-sports group Thursday night they will do all they can to oppose any efforts by colleagues to impose what they feel would be ineffective and unfair laws to restrict the gun rights of law-abiding citizens.
Every state in the nation is talking about gun control issues in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Newton, Conn.
And now that the Oregon Legislature is getting ready to convene, many lawmakers believe it's the first issue that will be brought up.
It also was the key topic of discussion at Thursday night's regular monthly meeting of the Central Oregon Shooting Sports Association at the Bend VFW hall.
"Gun control has the opposite effect of what, I think, people who vote for it think it's going to do," said state Sen.-elect Tim Knopp, who returns to Salem this month after an absence of several years to raise his family. He knocked off incumbent fellow Republican Chris Telfer in a hard-fought primary last spring.
Knopp and returning state Rep. Jason Conger told the group they will fight to uphold the tenets of the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, and will fight efforts to use a tragedy to take away the rights of gun owners, the vast majority of whom have done nothing wrong.
They said they plan to try to make other lawmakers realize that to stop such tragic acts from happening, it's not a matter of limiting guns or ammunition, but rather of better gun knowledge and safety, and more help for the mentally ill.
Conger told the audience, "There is no evidence, whatsoever, that gun control -- beyond a certain point, a certain, very common-sense point, like we have here in Oregon -- does anything to stop violent crime, or gun-related violent crimes."
Knopp said, "I think you should expect to see numerous bills, most of them coming from Portland-area legislators, that want to ban assault weapons, magazines over a certain size. You may even see a tax on bullets. You may see them presenting legislation to make it harder to get a concealed weapons permit."
Knopp said he believes Gov. John Kitzhaber has been consistent in his position that he would be comfortable banning certain types of guns in Oregon, if it came down to that.
The Legislature hears Kitzhaber's State of the State speech next Monday and begins some organizational work, then returns Feb. 4 to start official business.


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Yes - Rich at CGW is the man to see in NV. He did my FAL in 2003. He has great communications, excellent attention to detail, and someone I highly recommend. His site is http://www.cgwgun.com/
He did mine as a carbine length, and the camo pattern I chose was Rhodesian (patterned after the uniform camo).
Here is a pic of me shooting mine shortly after I got it:
BTW - Rich made sure the rifle was zeroed to 200 yards and it shoots as good as it looks (and accurate too).


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by roscoe36, Sep 20, 2006.
Re: Maxiell another article on maxiel from detroitpistons.com PISTONS: Max-imum effort
Re: Maxiell Good read thanks WH
Consider this folks. JMax's previous career high was 11 points. He's met or exceeded that in each of the preseason games. He's also shot more FTs than FGs in 5 of 7 contests and in his last 3 games, shot 60% from the line. His 40 minute #s for the preseason are 26.8 PTS40 10.2 REB40 and he's shooting nearly 59% from the floor. In his last 3 games... 29.5 PTS40 10.5 REB40 A whopping 64.3% shooting from the floor Obviously, it pays to go to summer school!
I would say that wherever he went and whatever he did this summer, really paid off. He looks like an entirely different player. He should definitely get some opportunities this season.
I could have some fun with this one. But another way to phrase this is who would you pick: A 7-1 super-soft underachiever. Or a 6-7 rock-hard overachiever. I'll take "heart" over "size" any day.
i'd take the 7'1 guy. his underachievement would still be better than the 6'7" guys overachievement. 6'7 athleticism isn't a long term plan. that 7' guy will always be 7'. we already saw what happens when a guy with heart and athleticism loses the athleticism. darko can have a line of 15 pts, 8 rebs, 4 assists, 3 blocks without trying. jmax can have a line of 20pts, 6 rebs, 0 assists, 2 block with giving all out effort.
thing is, j-max line will look like this night after night 20-6-0-2 20-6-0-2 20-6-0-2 darkos might look something like 15-8-4-3 10-4-0-1 15-8-4-3 8-5-1-0
Which is better?
i'd probably pefer the known quantity. i'm not a darko hater but theres nothing worse than not knowing which guy is going to turn up. thats not to say you should always take someone who's consistent over someone who's not. michael curry was consistent...
Micheal Olowokandi Kwame Brown Christian Laettner Jason Collins William Bedford These are all first round guys with hight, skills, and potential. None of them have/ had any heart. To be fair... Kwame Brown is only 6'11, and I left Adonal Foyle off the list, because he is 6'10.
I bet you would! You are the type of fella who get's more excited about being in the lottery than by being in the playoffs. You must be a "vertically challenged" fella, otherwise you'd know that height aint' everything. Neither is reach. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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