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Console and PC Differences
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There were changes made between the console versions and PC version when the console versions were ported to the PC. Sometimes the changes can be dramatic. The major difference is the ability to use the mouse and keyboard instead of a controller to play the games. The PC has a great advantage of being able to be easily modified that is supported by an active online community. This is a list of all noticeable changes. Changes that are caused by specific PC configurations are not listed here.
Grand Theft Auto III
- Custom draw distance setting
- Custom resolution setting
- Replay functionality
- A custom radio station
- Ability to change the player character's skin
- Manual aiming with the mouse by default; guns have pinpoint accuracy with manual aiming
- The M16 crosshair texture was changed
- The weapon HUD icons are yellow instead of gray
- The Ghost boat is black instead of blue
- More objects were placed around the map, including
- Fire escapes
- Metal barriers, like the one in front of the Raffles Fish Factory
- Cardboard boxes, like the one in the alley with a bribe pickup south of Ammu-Nation
- The Purple Nines glitch that occurs after completing "Rumble" is fixed
- The song "O mia babbina caro" was removed from Double Clef FM
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Many of these changes, especially the fixed glitches, carried over to the updated PS2 and Xbox versions
- Custom draw distance setting
- Custom resolution setting
- Replay functionality
- A custom radio station
- Ability to change the player character's skin
- Manual aiming with the mouse by default; guns have pinpoint accuracy with manual aiming
- Export stats into an HTML file
- The Vice Point Langer was rebranded the WK Chariot Hotel
- The Tear Gas behind the VCPD HQ in Washington Beach was replaced by Grenades
- The Hidden Packages rewards glitch associated to the Hyman Condo was fixed
- The Detonator glitch involving 100% completion was fixed
- Several parked cars were added, including
- A VCPD Cheetah at the Little Havana police station
- A Love Fist limo in front of the V-Rock studio after completion of "Publicity Tour"
- Several weapon names were renamed, including the Colt .45 (Pistol), Colt Python (.357), Spaz Shotgun (S.P.A.S. 12), Ingram Mac 10 (Mac), Uzi 9mm (Uz-I), MP5 (MP), Ruger (Kruger), and PSG-1 (.308 Sniper)
- Textures of map objects are rendered on one side, forcing the developers retexture the majority of the map although many spots were missed
- The FBI Rancher cannot be resprayed
- The Flatbed is only available in white
- The "Trails" option was removed
- The song "Running With The Night" by Lionel Richie was removed from Flash FM
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Custom draw distance setting
- Custom resolution setting
- Replay functionality
- A custom radio station
- Manual aiming with the mouse by default
- Export stats into an HTML file
- Setting to use cell-shaded shadows
- Cars use specular lighting
- The fuel meter bug in Supply Lines... was fixed
- More objects were placed around the map
- Removal of all 2-player rampages
- Several parked vehicles were removed
- Introduced several glitches, including
- Cars are always dirty (partially fixed in subsequent patches)
- Moon displays no phases
- Trucks like the Linerunner and Yosemite no longer have dual rear wheels
- Incorrect lighting of the environment, causing everything to look darker than it is
- Parachute object animation is displayed incorrectly, making it look static no matter how the player moves
- The decals on many vehicles like the Sandking and Bloodring Banger do not display correctly
- Those who have poor PCs or have frame limiter turned off will experience timing-related glitches that can cause missions like "Stowaway" and "End of the Line" to be difficult to complete
Grand Theft Auto IV
- A plethora of custom settings, including
- Custom view distance
- Custom resolution
- Reflection quality
- Texture quality
- Traffic density
- Shadow density
- Windowed mode
- First proper support of various widescreen resolutions
- The Video Editor: the ability to view, edit, and publish videos created within the game
- A custom radio station called Independence FM, which includes a DJ who always criticizes the music
- Manual aiming with the mouse by default; guns have pinpoint accuracy with manual aiming
- The player limit in multiplayer was expanded from 16 to 32 players
- Certain suits at Perseus were retextured
- Vehicles have a "dirt" attribute so poor and run-down cars no longer look as shiny as sports cars
- The ability to toggle the "blur filter" with the press of a button
- The glitch involving the phone stopping cars was fixed
- Before The Lost and Damned was released, bikes exclusive to the Lost and Damned were hidden within the game files
- In the latest patch, the shadows are no longer dimply; they are much more sharp and clear.
- The latest patch also improves the lighting system, Headlights cast shadows upon turning it on [1]


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Estonia is a country near Finland, if you're shit at geography here's a map:
I've been here for almost a week now and it's awesome. I've been to Tallinn, Kasmu and Vosu. Right now I am staying at Jaanus' house in Tartu.
Tartu is probably the best, as it is a student town and so many things are happening.
In Estonia all of the booze is cheap and he culture is much more interesting, and Jaanus was very right when he said the women were better than the ones in England
Most Estonians seem to be friendly and are quite chill, if someone is a dick it usually turns out they are Russian or something.
In general Estonian culture is great, in a single night in Tartu much more happens than in my part of London. Any night is a night for drinking here.
People in Estonia dislike Russians, and it isn't a dump like Russia. Most places in Estonia are really scenic, the only areas that look shit are the places where the Russians live or built.
Here's some photos of Thursday, I'll post more later when I upload them:
This is Jaanus passed out on a couch after an Estonian night out.
This is all of our camera gear, mine, Jaanus', and Chris'. Chris is an American exchange student staying at Jaanus' for a year.
We used my Zenit as a hammer to put nails into a tree, Soviet quality.
Couple of shots of Estonia:
Friday night out:
Jaanus posted the thread while I hadn't finished it so I would sort it out, so posting more shit as I go along.


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First there was the fight for racial equality. Then came the women's movement. As time progressed, gay rights took center stage.
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If what you seek when turning on the telly is escapist entertainment that enables you to switch off and disengage, then move along, there's nothing to see here. (And hey, there's no judgment there, either - I frequently use TV as a way of inducing a kind of short-lived lobotomy; programmes involving food preparation are especially efficacious.)
If, however, you welcome the opportunity to watch a story that wrestles with the weird, messy business of being human and refuses to offer up definitive answers to the existential questions it poses, then boy oh boy, you're likely to love Top of the Lake.
The six-part series was created by Jane Campion (best known in New Zealand for The Piano and An Angel at My Table) with co-writer Gerard Lee and co-director Garth Davis. Clearly the three have a strongly shared sensibility because the result of their collaboration is an utterly singular vision.
Set in the fictional town of Lake Top, the show was filmed in and around Queenstown, and rarely has New Zealand's landscape looked so magnificent - or menacing.
The opening scene sets the tone, with 12 year-old Tui (an amazingly assured Jacqueline Joe) wading waist deep into a lake still shrouded in early morning mist. It's an eerily beautiful image but one loaded with a looming sense of threat - to spend long in the water means freezing to death.
When a passer-by prevents that possibility, it's discovered Tui is five-months pregnant, the victim of statutory rape. As producer Philippa Campbell puts it, her body is now a crime scene.
In the area visiting her cancer-stricken mother, Detective Robin Griffin (Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss) is called in to help, thanks to her specialist experience with child protection cases. When Tui disappears shortly after an inconclusive interview, Robin is tasked with finding her, a quest that powers the series' plot and threatens to consume the policewoman.
All of which admittedly sounds superficially very similar to The Killing (both the Danish original and the inferior American knockoff), not to mention Twin Peaks.
Indeed, Top of the Lake has been frequently compared to David Lynch's early '90s TV show, thanks to their shared set up of an out-of-town cop pursuing a case on the edge of the wilderness, as well as their large ensemble casts of eccentric characters.
Offering the most obvious dose of kookiness in Top of the Lake is androgynous guru GJ and her female followers, who set up a campsite/commune in the opening episode. GJ's played by Holly Hunter, who Campion directed to a Best Actress Oscar in The Piano, and to begin with she and the other women seem like the light relief, with plenty of laughs at the expense of the New Age nonsense they habitually mouth. As the series progresses, though, their characters grow more complex and the wisecracks give way to intimations of wisdom.
Our understanding of the other characters also deepens, whether they be a violent criminal (War Horse's Peter Mullan), his thuggish sons (Go Girls' Jay Ryan and The Cult's Kip Chapman), or an old-school policeman (Lord of the Rings' David Wenham).
Top of the Lake's genius is that by the time it concludes, the initial puzzle may have been solved but we've been invited to investigate much larger mysteries - those of the human heart and life itself.
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I am a Canadian (Southern Ontario) newcomer to bee forum. I was very favourably impressed by the high standards the forum requires for members. Can anybody tell me if basswood or red elm are safe or practical to use for honey and brood frames. I build my own Langstroth hives and these wood varieties are readily available to me at low cost and high quality.


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We switched from State Farm (Ohio) after being a faithful subject to them for thiry years. They had no consideration with regard to our being on time, two fender benders (the average is 1 every 10 years for one person), nor our kids being straight A students. Plus, could never seem to be able to contact anyone for road side service dilemas.
We switch carriers for about half what we paid State Farm.
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text: Best known for playing Bo Duke on the hit TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, John Schneider also maintained a parallel secondary career as a country singer for much of the '80s. Born in Mt. Kisco, NY, in 1960, Schneider grew up in Atlanta and started acting at the age of eight; he also learned guitar, and as a teenager he entertained at parties and other social events. He loved auto racing and briefly attempted to become a professional, and that experience helped him land his co-starring role on The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979. He remained with the series until its cancellation in 1985, with a brief interruption due to a contract walkout in 1982, and also appeared in several films and TV-movies. Meanwhile, Schneider recorded a country album called Now or Never for Scotti Bros. in 1981. It was a Top Ten hit on the country charts, and the single "It's Now or Never" made the Top Five on both the country and adult contemporary charts, just missing the pop Top Ten. The holiday album White Christmas followed, and Schneider went on to sign with MCA, issuing five albums from 1984-1987. He scored four number one singles during that time: "I've Been Around Enough to Know" (1984), "Country Girls" (1985), "What's a Memory Like You (Doing in a Love Like This)," and "You're the Last Thing I Needed Tonight" (both 1986). He also managed five other Top Ten hits, and one of his LPs, 1986's A Memory Like You, topped the country charts. Schneider kept his acting career going with a variety of guest starring roles on television, plus a few films, and appeared in a couple of Dukes of Hazzard reunion projects. He returned to the spotlight in 2001, when he landed the role of Clark Kent's father on the popular WB series Smallville. He is currently starring in the motion picture Doonby.


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Even Providence's much-touted "renaissance" couldn't sweep all traces of organized crime and post-industrial grime from TV screens and the written page. Shortly after NBC's bright and perky soap Providence aired its final episode, a sprawling noir Showtime series called Brotherhood stepped in to take its place. Using Providence as its classroom, the show is a survey course in illegal activity: from bookmaking to prostitution to drug-dealing to an array of bodily assaults (a bashed knee, a torn-out earring, a finger broken for persuasive purposes).
The show's creator, Blake Masters, describes the city over the phone from Los Angeles as if he were peering out a window onto Federal Hill's Carpenter Street, where he filmed the fictional home of his main character, state legislator Tommy Caffee.
"I think thriller has become the kind of modern word for 'noir,' " Masters says. Thanks to the ethnic tribalism, the old-school machine politics, the neighborhoods with triple-decker houses built practically on top of each other, Providence was a perfect place for the grim, tense mood of his show. He remembers scouting locations for the bar where Tommy Caffee's brother, Michael, will establish the headquarters of his criminal enterprise. Driving through Providence, Masters found an out-of-the-way dive where someone was shooting heroin in the parking lot. They had come to the right place.
Indeed, whatever is cooking in Providence seems to have wafted its way over the middle of the country. Jamie McGuire was living in Enid and Ponca City, Oklahoma when she wrote her debut Young Adult paranormal thriller, Providence, in which demons team up with dirty cops and good guys (who are angels) have the capabilities of "James Bond times a thousand." She had never been to Providence when she wrote the book, she says. Instead, she used online photographs and frequent calls to the chamber of commerce. McGuire's later books have vaulted her onto the New York Times bestseller list. She now has plans to shop Providence around as a Walking Dead-style serial TV thriller.
By the time these words hit your eyeballs, the countdown will have already begun.
No, I'm not turning this article into a thriller (though I do have one in mind involving murder and Providence's famed Corliss Steam Engine). I'm talking about the ticking clock of National Novel Writing Month — the best excuse for you to finally write that thriller that's tickling your brain stem.
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How something is said may be as important as what is said
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In elementary school, we also learned about metaphor. Through reading literature, we learned that metaphor is used to create a special effect or feeling. William Shakespeare was the master of this. In his Sonnet 50, "How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way," for instance, Shakespeare metaphorically depicts the process of grieving from the loss of a dear friend as a journey that moves him from one emotional state to another: "My grief lies onward and my joy behind." The journey is portrayed as heavy and effortful: "The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, plods dully on, to bear that weight in me."
Metaphor is not restricted to literature. It pervades everyday conversation, blogs, text messages and many other forms of everyday language, including political ads. Linguist George Lakoff and philosopher Mark Johnson (no relation to the fictional political candidate Mark Johnson mentioned in the study above!) have argued that metaphor is much more than a literary device. They claim that metaphor is in fact a basic mechanism that enables people to understand one kind of thing, particularly something abstract, in terms of another thing that is more familiar and based on direct experience. For example, through our experiences with physical actions—walking across rooms, driving cars, riding bikes, reaching out to grab objects and watching others do the same hundreds of times each day—we are able to make sense of expressions like "Bob stepped into a bad situation," "The instructor will walk us through the speech," and "Have you reached a conclusion yet?" In each of these examples, motion verbs describe a state change but no actual physical movement takes place.
Motion metaphors run rampant in campaign-speak. Some are innocuous and merely describe candidates' reflections on the current state of affairs. Right after the 2012 Olympics, for instance, Barack Obama shared his thoughts on the campaign ahead: "This is not going to be a race like Usain Bolt, where we're like 40 yards ahead and we can just kind of start jogging 10 feet before the finish line," referring to the Jamaican sprinter who won three gold medals at the games in London. "We're going to have to run through the tape." Here Obama used phrases such as "race," "jogging" and "run through the tape" to describe his campaign as a footrace, and he suggested that he would need to power across the finish line to win on election day. Around that same time, Paul Ryan, who had just been chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate, commented, "We're going to win this campaign. We've got the wind behind us. I'm really excited about this race." Ryan's comment was consistent with a race metaphor, but his use of "got the wind behind us" suggested that victory would be relatively easy. In many other forums, both Democratic and Republican candidates routinely talk about campaigns as races in this way.
Democratic campaign messages are emphasizing the idea of forward motion in this year's election. One Obama commercial titled "Forward" implies forward movement, first downward and then upward. To emphasize upward movement and to recruit other metaphorical elements, namely about improvement ("Things are looking up," "blue skies"), a long list of Obama's accomplishments, including, "4.2 million jobs saved" and "$100 billion invested in science and research" scroll upward. The ad ends with Obama stating that "America is on the way up." Interestingly, Obama's forward messages are consistent with the phrase "stay the course," which was used by Republican Ronald Reagan when campaigning for president in the 1982 mid-term elections, and later by George H. W. Bush in 1992.
Republicans seem to be using a variety of motion metaphors. Mitt Romney's website implores donors to help him "turn America around," suggesting that America needs to return to a different place, where it was before. This metaphorical framing is strengthened with campaign phrases like "It's time for America's comeback team." The Republicans frame their message in this way to imply that the country has been going in the wrong direction under President Obama's leadership and that change is needed. (Note that in the 1992 election, challenger Bill Clinton appealed to change using literal language: "Change vs. more of the same.") And in a recent Republican Party ad, Paul Ryan promises to "put the nation back on a path to renewed prosperity for all," suggesting that the country has been derailed and needs to be put back on track.
Using motion metaphors to frame messages in political campaigns is well motivated. It is in line with a large body of findings in cognitive science on how humans are wired to mentally simulate motion in all sorts of conditions, including even when nothing is actually moving. In 2004, I published results from an experiment on the interpretation of fictive motion sentences, nonliteral statements that include motion verbs but describe no actual motion. I discovered that people simulate a fleeting sense of motion when they interpret sentences such as "The road goes through the desert," "The trail runs through the wood" and "A fence follows the property line." In a 2005 study with collaborators Lera Boroditsky and Michael Ramscar, I found that interpreting fictive motion sentences that varied by direction, such as "The road goes all the way to New York," and "The road comes all the way from New York," caused people to reason about time differently in a seemingly unrelated task. The results of these studies and others I have done provide evidence that people simulate motion even when motion is metaphorical. The results are in line with findings from neuroscience. When people view static images depicting humans in motion (for example, a man throwing a discus), motion perception areas in the brain are activated. When they view static images of humans moving along paths (for example, a man walking down steps), they mentally "fast-forward" to a position slightly farther along the path. And when people observe a human extending a hand to grasp an object, it activates the same brain areas that would be activated if they were doing the action themselves.
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text: So Florida acts like a 2 year old and moves their primary forward. I think GMTC should best all of them with an October primary. Yes America, you will see it first here. Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida (oh please; they recently figured out how to make the hole next to the name of the candidate!) all are second place to GMTC. Who will it be? Lets make it simple: 1) Mitt Romney 2) Rick Perry 3) Herman Cain So weigh in with your favorite!


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I have a returning hive that was dormant most of last year here in Florida because of the unusually cold weather but now that we are in October the hive has more than tripled in activity & I need to move them into bigger accommodations, IE a frame so that I can take them with me when we move. They are in a block retaining wall that is limiting their access & I want to know if it wise to try to relocate them into a frame so that they have room to grow?? As this is a rental house I cannot bust holes in the block but I want to do what is best for the bees?? Anyone that can help I would appreciate the input??
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#1 Thu 17 May 07 4:50pm
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Veggie Recipes
Hi All,
Need a little help, I am having a vegetarian friend over for tea tomorrow night. I have cooked for her a couple of times before just simple receipes of Mushroom Risotto and Vegetable Mousakka.
I am looking for some new receipes nothing to difficult. Tasty and Easy
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#2 Thu 17 May 07 6:00pm
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Re: Veggie Recipes
How about a spinach and swet potatoe curry
This is quick and easy
2 orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, cut into chunks
200g spinach, washed & roughly chopped
4 naan bread , warmed through
400g tin coconut milk
1 onion, finely sliced
2-3 madras curry paste, depending on how hot you like your curry
Fry the onions until very soft, about 8 minutes. Stir in the paste and fry for 2 minutes. Add the coconut milk and sweet potatoes and cook until just tender, about 10 minutes. Stir through the spinach until wilted. Serve with naan breads.
Silvao Franco's Mediterranean Basil Pasta
2 red peppers, seeded and cut into chunks
2 red onions, cut into wedges
2 mild red chillies, seeded and diced
3 garlic cloves, coarsley chopped
1 tsp golden caster sugar
2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra to serve
1kg small ripe tomatoes, quartered
350g dried pasta
A handful of fresh basil leaves and 2 tbsp grated parmesan, to serve
1 To roast the veg, preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Scatter the peppers, red onions, chillies and garlic in a large roasting tin. Sprinkle with sugar, drizzle over the oil and season well with salt and pepper. Roast for 15 minutes, toss in the tomatoes and roast for another 15 minutes until everything is starting to soften and look golden.
While the vegetables are roasting, cook the pasta in a large pan of salted boiling water according to packet instructions, until tender but still with a bit of bite. Drain well.
Remove the vegetables from the oven, tip in the pasta and toss lightly together. Tear the basil leaves on top and sprinkle with parmesan to serve. If you have any leftovers it makes a great cold pasta salad - just moisten with extra olive oil if needed.
#3 Fri 18 May 07 4:30am
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Re: Veggie Recipes
#4 Fri 18 May 07 5:59am
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Re: Veggie Recipes
Have a look on this site for ideas - simon is a vego and has a few different recipes over the place
This is another nice one by simon
This is one of Maggies - http://www.abc.net.au/tv/cookandchef/txt/s1917206.htm
I made it Monday night and it was wonderful - even my partner who does not like eggplant enjoyed it. The one change I made was to roast some red capsicum and lay slices between the layers of aubergine and zucchini. I also brushed evoo (extra virgin olive oil) on the eggplant and baked it in a very hot oven to cut down on the oil content.
#5 Fri 18 May 07 4:43pm
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Re: Veggie Recipes
Thanks for all of your recipes. It is good to see what other people like to cook.
I get a mind block when it comes to vegetarian meals.
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A BETTER PENCIL: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution. Dennis Baron. xviii + 259 pp. Oxford University Press, 2009. $24.95.
The world's first technology for writing was invented not by poets or prophets or the chroniclers of kings; it came from bean counters. The Sumerian cuneiform script—made up of symbols incised on soft clay—grew out of a scheme for keeping accounts and inventories. Curiously, this story of borrowing arithmetical apparatus for literary purposes has been repeated in recent times. The prevailing modern instrument for writing—the computer—also began as (and remains) a device for number crunching.
Dennis Baron's extended essay A Better Pencil looks back over the entire history of writing technologies (clay tablets, pens, pencils, typewriters), but the focus is on the recent transition to digital devices. His title implies a question. Is the computer really a better pencil? Will it lead to better writing? There is a faction that thinks otherwise:
These computerphobes are convinced that the machines will corrupt our writers, turn books into endangered species, and litter the landscape with self-publishing authors. In addition, computers will rot our brains, destroy family life, put an end to polite conversation, wreak havoc with the English language, invade our privacy, steal our identity, and expose us to predators waiting to pervert us or to sell us things that we don't need.
Putting this bill of indictment in perspective, Baron points out that just about every other new writing instrument has also been seen as a threat to literacy and a corrupter of youth. The eraser had a particularly bad reputation, under the thesis that "if the technology makes error correction easy, students will make more errors." I have to add that my own view of the computer as a writing instrument has always been that it's not so much a better pencil as a better eraser, allowing me to fix my mistakes and change my mind incessantly, without ever rubbing a hole in the page. The first time I held down the delete key on an early IBM PC and watched whole sentences and paragraphs disappear, one character at a time, as if sucked through a straw—that was a vision of a better future for writers.
As Baron notes, those early computer writing tools were primitive and balky. The display screen looked nothing like ink on paper; fuzzy characters glowed against a dark background, like neon signs on a foggy night. Formatting was done by interpolating coded commands into the text, and the results of applying those commands appeared only when the document was printed. Baron himself had experience with even earlier and cruder tools, writing with a "line editor"—which, as the name suggests, allows you to make changes in just one line at a time—on a "dumb terminal" connected to a mainframe computer via an acoustic-coupled modem (the kind with rubber cups for the telephone handset). On balance, though, his response to this technology was favorable: "Working with line editors was painful, but once I tasted computer writing, I wasn't eager to go back to a typewriter."
What a long way we've come since the days of the line editor. Hardware and software for word processing have evolved to the point where the computer screen gives quite a good imitation of what words will look like on the printed page; if you wish, you can create documents on the screen that faithfully reproduce all the ornamental flourishes (and even the defects) of typefaces designed in the 18th century. And yet, now that we have finally attained this long-sought goal of ink-on-paper verisimilitude, the future prospects of paper itself seem a little tattered around the edges. Much text today is not only written on the screen but also read on the screen. Few Web pages, blogs, e-mail messages or Facebook updates are ever printed out, and newspapers, magazines and books are distributed online in editions designed to be read on computers or on more-specialized devices such as the Kindle. Virtual paper is displacing the real thing.
Will this shift in the technology of writing and reading be a positive development in human culture? Will it promote literacy, or impair it? Baron takes a moderate position on these questions. On the one hand, he acknowledges that the computer offers remarkable opportunities for self-expression and communication (at least for those of us in the wealthier parts of the world). Suddenly, we can all be published authors, and we all have access to the writings—or if nothing else the Twitterings—of millions of other authors. On the other hand, much of what these new channels of communication bring us is mere noise and distraction, and we may lose touch with more serious kinds of reading and writing. (Another recent book—The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr—argues this point strenuously.) Baron remarks: "That position incorrectly assumes that when we're not online we throw ourselves into high-culture mode, reading Tolstoi spelled with an i and writing sestinas and villanelles instead of shopping lists."
In the end, of course, the opinions of culture critics don't count for much; for better or worse, the typewriter is not going to make a comeback, any more than cuneiform has a rosy future. I suppose the pencil may well remain a part of everyday life, and yet the time will come when the title of Baron's book will seem antiquated and vaguely puzzling, like a reference to buggy whips.
As a matter of fact, certain passages of Baron's book already seem frozen in a remote, sepia-toned era—way back in 2007 or 2008, when MySpace was the place to be, and the iPad was still a hot rumor. It's a hazard of writing about a field where the pace of change outstrips the stately schedule of the book-publishing industry.
Brian Hayes is Senior Writer for American Scientist. He is the author most recently of Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions (Hill and Wang, 2008).
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Man Blames Barry White Demon for Murder
ATLANTA, Ga. - The murder trial of a Georgia engineer charged with killing his colleague and alleged lover's husband began today in Atlanta with starkly different tales of romance, betrayal and insanity in attorneys' opening statements.
Hemy Neuman, 48, was a high-level operations manager at General Electric when he shot and killed Andrea Sneiderman's husband Rusty Sneiderman, 36, in the parking lot of the Sneiderman's son's preschool.
Andrea Sneiderman worked for Neuman at General Electric and they were allegedly involved in a hot-and-cold affair.
Neither the defense nor the prosecution denies that Neuman pulled the trigger and killed Sneiderman, but they tell divergent stories of what led to the killing.
Neuman pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Neuman's defense attorney Doug Peters said in his opening statements that Neuman believed he had been visited by an angel and demon in the forms of Olivia Newton-John and Barry White, respectively, that told him that Sneiderman's children were his and that he needed to protect them by killing her husband.
"This is a case of two good men," Peters said. "On Nov. 18, 2010, Hemy Neuman shot and killed Rusty Sneiderman. And on that day, the lives of those two men, the lives of their families, their hopes, dreams, and futures, were shattered in broken pieces on the ground that could never be put back together again."
Peters said mental illness runs in Neuman's family and his troubled past could be traced back to his family being taken to Auschwitz by the Nazis, a violent father and boarding school.
Neuman eventually married and became the father of three children --21-year-old twins and an 18-year-old daughter.
Andrea Sneiderman worked for Neuman at GE and in May 2010, they took their first business trip together and began having conversations about their personal lives.
"Hemy fell for Andrea," Peters said. "If you want to call it infatuation, love, whatever, he fell."
Peters went on to describe numerous romantic business trips, hours spent on the phone and hundreds of personal text messages exchanged between the two.
The defense contends that although Andrea Sneiderman at times said she would never leave her husband, she encouraged Neuman to envision a life with her and her children. These messages and his troubled background, the defense said, were what led Neuman to hear demons and angels that commanded him to murder Rusty Sneiderman.
Andrea Sneiderman was in court and shook her head and let out sporadic sobs as Peters spoke.
"Marry me," Neuman wrote in a text message read by Peters. "You think I'm crazy and your intentions are clear. Sleep on it. I will give you, Sophia and Ian the world. Together we can make it all work. Marry me."
In an email, Andrea Sneiderman wrote to Neuman, "Desire versus reality is a world I'm trying to ignore because I have to. So sorry, not fair to you, I have other thoughts but not the time right now."
"We know what happened; this case is about why. ... How could this have ever possibly taken place?" Peters asked the jurors. "This man should not be released, he should be confined as the law provides, and held as the law provides. This man is not guilty by reason of insanity."
The prosecution told a very different story.
"It's a case of violence where a man wanted someone else's wife, so he killed her husband," DeKalb County Chief Assistant District Attorney Don Geary said in opening statements today. "He got caught."
The prosecution painted Neuman as a calculating killer who planned Sneiderman's shooting for months -- going to gun shows, taking a gun safety course, going to target practice, renting a car for the shooting and wearing a disguise.
Geary also painted a picture of Rusty Sneiderman's last morning and how unsuspecting he was as he dropped his 2-year-old son Ian at a Dunwoody day care.
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Located near Garrison and Lake Mille Lacs, the SNA is composed of picturesque steep hills dotted with small lakes and wetlands.
The SNA supports a variety of native plant communities from red oak-basswood forest to northern poor fen, a type of wetland. Red-shouldered hawk and cerulean warbler, two species of special concern in Minnesota, nest in the vicinity.
A large area around the SNA was evaluated as having outstanding biodiversity, the highest rank given by the Minnesota Biological Survey. It was considered such high-quality due to the overall size and lack of fragmentation of its native plant communities.
The new SNA was a top priority for acquisition and protection by the SNA program and The Nature Conservancy due to the property's quality habitat as well as the presence of rare species and native plant communities.
The DNR purchased this SNA with unanimous approval from the county's board of commissioners.
"I heard a great deal of support for the SNA after a very informative public meeting," said Phil Trusty, Crow Wing County commissioner. "There was a great turnout with a lot of good, open-minded questions asked."
Peggy Booth, SNA program supervisor, said the new SNA is exceptional.
"We don't have anything like it protected in this area. The SNA is at the heart of a much larger area of significant habitat worthy of stewardship," Booth said.
The DNR established the SNA in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy. Funds for the purchase came from the Reinvest in Minnesota Critical Habitat Match Program through credits provided by The Nature Conservancy, which also worked with the land's owners, the Hormel family, to ensure the land would be protected. Funding was also provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).
Peggy Ladner, director of The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota, said the SNA not only is in the watershed of Lake Mille Lacs, but that it also drains into the Rum River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, which provides drinking water to the Twin Cities and local communities.
SNAs are lands open to the public, like state parks or wildlife management areas, but with a different emphasis. SNAs protect the best of Minnesota's remaining rare species, native prairies, old-growth forests, geologic features and other exceptional features of our natural heritage. Recreational activities consistent with the protection of natural conditions are allowed. SNAs are open for photography, nature observation, education, and scientific research.
Visitors are encouraged to hike in to this site, or snowshoe in during winter months. Mille Lacs Moraine SNA is also open to fishing, hunting and dogs under control. Activities not allowed include camping, campfires, trapping and motorized recreation.
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I am running 2- 8 frame deeps and had a deep super on each. These two hive started as a package in April and I made splits in late May off both.
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I-25 expansion project still on schedule
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - It's Monday Madness on the interstate. For drivers who commute between Monument and the Woodmen Road exit on Interstate 25, the start to the week is also the start to their traffic headache.
Dropping temperatures are a sign winter is around the corner and so is the deadline for the I-25 expansion project.
"I come down from Monument down I-25 to the Fillmore exit every morning," said driver Eric Raanot. "It's about 25 minutes. But, since the construction started, it has been about 45-50 minutes in the morning and in the afternoons, it can be well over an hour."
"It's usually pretty rough. With no traffic it's 10 minutes," said driver Brandon Kaus. "With this construction, it's been sometimes up to a half hour."
The Colorado Department of Transportation plans to open a third lane of I-25 by December 2013. Heavy rain hampered work on the project.
KRDO News Radio's Joel Navarro knows the impact construction has on drivers' commutes locally. He watches traffic trends and gives live updates to KRDO News Radio on 105.5 FM and 1240 AM. He is concerned heavy rain's impact on the project could lead to more extensive closures to get the project finished on time.
"We're going to be in winter weather and snow is going to be here before you know it," said Navarro. "There is a very small window to get this construction done."
This week, there will be right and left shoulder closures between Woodmen Road Exit and State Highway 105 (mile marker 149 to 161) from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some lanes and ramps will be closed along that same stretch of highway overnight from 8:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.
These have been the same closures slowing drivers since the project started. There are not extensive closures scheduled for the future.
North Gate Boulevard between the east and west sides of the interstate is still closed. It will open Oct. 10.


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Do development and scientific study conflict with conservation?
Pat Shipman
These observations raised a surprisingly complex question: What exactly does rare mean? Is it small in numbers, small in territory, highly specific in habitat—or some combination of those characteristics? Several scientific groups have addressed these questions. NatureServe assesses the rarity of a species by a combination of six factors: the population size, the extent of the species' total range, the part of the range actually occupied by the species, the number of distinct populations, the percentage of the range with good viability or ecological integrity, and the variety of environments the species can inhabit. Because Maynard found only a single population of the species, with a very small range and high environmental specificity (it lives on one plant species), C. nanus is rare on several counts.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature uses a different system to assess a species' vulnerability to extinction, a measure that is roughly equivalent to rarity. A species is considered critically endangered—the category for the rarest organisms—if it is distributed over a range of less than 100 square kilometers or if it actually occupies less than 10 square kilometers within its range. Since Little Cayman has a total area of only about 26 square kilometers, all species restricted to that island automatically meet the first criterion and most meet the second. Mike Hounsome wrote the report that declared C. nanus to be critically endangered, not only because of its highly restricted range but also because of the ongoing loss of its shrubland habitat to development.
When Mike located Maynard's study site on Little Cayman in 1975, he couldn't find any living dwarf Cerion, only dead ones. The larger C. pannosum, however, was abundant. To Mike, it looked like Maynard's hypothesis might be correct: Perhaps the large Cerion had outcompeted and replaced the smaller species. But at another location only about a kilometer away, Mike found that both species were alive after all—and their relationship was not so clear. C. nanus lived only on Evolvulus, sometimes alone and sometimes sharing a plant with C. pannosum. Occasionally the larger snail was the only species on an individual Evolvulus shrub, but it could also live on different plants altogether. Furthermore, 30 percent of the Evolvulus plants at Mike's new site had no snails at all. It seemed there was food to spare, but the two species still appeared together on the same plants more often than would be expected by chance. Certainly, the dwarf Cerion had not (yet?) been displaced and gone extinct at this location, as it had at Maynard's old site. Mike wondered "Why not?" but found no definitive answer.
A species that is confined to an island, as C. nanus is, can rapidly become much smaller in size when natural selection favors little individuals that thrive with limited resources. This biological phenomenon, known as island dwarfing, is fairly common among mammals and birds. But Mike's observations suggested that, on Little Cayman, the larger snail may have had the advantage. When he found Maynard's original site, it was crowded with snails—but rather than outcompete the larger snails, the dwarf species had disappeared entirely. And at the second site, why were one-third of the plants free of snails? If competition triggered dwarfing, why would the larger Cerion be more common than the smaller species, which could surely prosper on a smaller food supply?
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With the Wools of New Zealand share offer on the table, last month's visit by Global Campaign for Wool patron Prince Charles was right on time.
Federated Farmers national president Bruce Wills and Meat & Fibre chairperson Jeanette Maxwell met Prince Charles to discuss the future of the industry here and abroad at the Shear Brilliance showcase, which was held in The Cloud at Auckland's Queens Wharf.
"Prince Charles spent more than an hour at the Shear Brilliance wool exhibitions, showing his real passion for the fibre and his ongoing commitment to the global Campaign for Wool," Maxwell says.
The prince announced to the guests that his suit was made from "beautiful New Zealand wool", giving his support to the industry here.
Maxwell said the meeting of the Wool Unity Group also included Primary Industries Minister David Carter and the importance of wool to New Zealand's sheep industry was made clear to all.
"At present the wool is under-performing but it has the potential to earn billions of dollars in export receipts, rather than the hundreds of millions it currently does," Maxwell says.
"That is why the global Campaign for Wool and His Royal Highness' patronage is central to wooing consumers back to wool.
"The innumerable health, safety and natural benefits of wool are real, but underleveraged."
Unlike oil-based materials, wool is a renewable and sustainable resource.
The Federation was doing all it could to support cohesion in the wool industry, which is currently lacking.
"Perhaps it is now time for Federated Farmers to step up.
"This is something we do rarely and only when something breaks down.
"Wool is arguably at that point right now, given it was drifting even before the wool levy was lost," Maxwell says.
"Perhaps Federated Farmers could help drive unity from the growerup.
"That came through loud and clear during the Wool Unity group meeting with HRH and Minister Carter."


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Yes, it was the right thing to do. 23 votes14.20%
No, the residents deserved the $400,000 they sought. 54 votes33.33%
No, the residents didn't deserve any money. 63 votes38.89%
I don't know enough about the lawsuit. 22 votes13.58%
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Fred Duckels 4 years, 8 months ago
We are encouraged to settle matters via the legal system, but matters of this type invariably end up like this, and predictably it is the legal empire that ends up with all the marbles. The Connell vs County fiasco was another case in point. Lawyer advertising is very misleading in that it often compares their service with a winning lottery ticket.
Scott Wedel 4 years, 8 months ago
City was morally wrong to claim that building a road in a greenbelt had no impact upon nearby residents. City's position means that they are suggesting that greenbelts have no value and thus city should stop advocating for greenbelts.
But the impacted residents are renters, not owners, so law says they can respond to being impacted by renting someplace else. So they did not have a good legal case.
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Play-By-Playmate: Reporting For Duty
It's February: pitchers and catchers are reporting and Jaime can't wait to start talking baseball.
One thing I love about living in Florida is that this is one of first places you get to experience a new baseball season.
OK so, technically it's not a new season yet. Technically, it's not Opening Day. Technically. But it feels like Opening Day down here with pitchers and catchers reporting for duty and position players set to report to their spring training facilities in the coming days. It's exciting. It's a rush. It feels like we just closed the books on an amazing World Series and here we are again, set to play another new season of baseball.
One of the things I loved about this off-season was how so many teams shook up the league. Players moved, managers moved, whole teams moved! It's so boring year after year hearing about how the Yankees are going to win another World Series. It's the equivalent of hearing the Patriots are going to win another Super Bowl (not this year Tom Brady!). Having the same teams win over and over again is a total snorefest. Yawn.
So this year's changes are welcome, at least in in my books. I'm not saying they'll all work out but I like what's happening in the league. Here's my take on what we can expect.
Albert In The Infield: So, a lot of people are making the case that the Angels were the big off-season winners. I disagree. There is no denying that Pujols and Wilson are two great players but where do they fit on this team? The bats around Pujols are pretty shaky, without much pop or power and as good as player as Wilson can be, I think we saw some of his true control colors in last year's playoffs. He was all over the place with the ball. I don't think more pressure on him to win will be a good thing. I'm not so sure this team will be standing when the World Series rolls around.
Marlins Makeover: I pretty much take every opportunity I can get to talk about my Marlins. New team, new coach, new stadium, new name and new jerseys (that are still super, super ugly). Between LoMo, Mike Stanton, Jose Reyes and a pretty talented rotation, I think we have a good shot at the wild card. The Phillies are still going to be the team to beat, but I think we can give them a run for their money. My only concern is with Hanley Ramirez who with the position change and new blood around might become a tad disagreeable. I don't know. Something about him says he's not really a team player. He might be a bad clubhouse guy to have around, but let's cross our fingers and hope I'm wrong.
After The Collapse: Last season we saw one of the weirdest meltdowns in history when the Red Sox blew a nine game lead in September. It was practically unheard of. You would think after something like that some changes would be made, but it's been pretty quiet in Boston. A few low end starters here, an injury prone closer there, but nothing of note on the field. Nadda. They did clean house upstairs in the front office but I don't know if that's going to be enough to repair what went wrong last year. Hmm…maybe we could be in for a Rays/Marlins World Series. I could go to all the games!
And I'll finish off my little pre-season preview with a few honorable mentions. Sort of like calling my shots if you will.
Best Rotation - Tampa Bay Rays: These guys are young, talented and got a taste of success last year. They're going to be sitting guys that would be starters in almost every other rotation.
Best Lineup – Detroit Tigers: Even with V-Mart on the shelf these guys have all the power they need with Prince Fielder and Miggy. Those two are going to put up more homeruns than any other 3-4 in the game.
Best Overall Team – Texas Rangers: Texas has made two trips already to the World Series and their team hasn't changed, only improved with age and experience. I think the third time might be the charm.
I'd just like to take a time out here to honor a baseball legend. Gary "The Kid" Carter passed away this week at the age of 57. The 19 year veteran of the game was an 11 time all-star, a two time all-star MVP, three time gold-glover, five-time silver slugger and the first catcher to ever win the Roberto Clemente award. His resume speaks for itself and I think all baseball fans can appreciate what he did for the game and what a tragedy it is to lose him at a young age. We'll miss you Kid.


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You could call this recipe triple-fennel salmon because it uses the fresh fennel bulb, the fronds and fennel seeds. The end result is melt-in-your-mouth, seared salmon fillets with an earthy bean topping. Add a mixed green salad to complete the meal.
Nutrition Profile:
Gluten Free Diet
Heart Healthy
High Calcium
High Fiber
High Potassium
Low Cholesterol
Low Sat Fat
Serves 2
Prep Time 30 min
Total Time 35 min.
Step 1
Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add sliced fennel; cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about 6 minutes. Stir in beans, tomato and wine. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomato begins to break down, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl; stir in chopped fennel fronds, mustard and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Cover to keep warm.
Step 2
Rinse and dry the pan. Combine fennel seed and the remaining 1/8 teaspoon pepper in a small bowl; sprinkle evenly on both sides of salmon. Heat the remaining 2 teaspoons oil in the pan over medium-high heat until shimmering but not smoking. Add the salmon, skinned side up; cook until golden brown, 3 to 6 minutes. Turn the salmon over, cover and remove from the heat. Allow the salmon to finish cooking off the heat until just cooked through, 3 to 6 minutes more. Serve the salmon with the bean mixture.
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- Nichole Barger, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- William Boyd, Associate Professor, Law School and RASEI Fellow,
- Bruce Goldstein, Associate Professor, Environmental Design
- Pat Kociolek, Professor, EBIO and University Museum
- John Lanterman, Senior Instructor, Environmental Design
- Steve Lawrence, Associate Professor, Leeds School of Business and RASEI Fellow
- Scott Summers, Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Environmental Engineering Program
- Helmut Muller-Sievers, Director, Center of Humanities and the Arts (CHA), Professor, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Cora Randall, Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics (LASP)
- Paul Sutter, Associate Professor, History
- Kathleen Tierney, Professor, Sociology, IBS, and Director, Natural Hazards Center
- Alan Townsend, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, INSTAAR
- Greg Tucker, Professor, Geological Sciences, CIRES
- Jim White, Professor, Geological Sciences, Environmental Studies, INSTAAR
- Emily Yeh, Associate Professor, Geography
Last fall, Dean Leigh and I announced that we were moving forward to create a School of Environment and Sustainability within the College of Arts and Sciences.
The new school will have a broad interdisciplinary mission, bringing together the best of research and education done across our campus, including in the natural and social sciences, the policy work done by environmental planners, and the practical and creative work done by designers and engineers; it will draw on our demonstrated expertise in the sciences, environmental policy, law, business and environmental history, humanities and culture and will draw on the planning and creative work done by environmental engineers, designers and urban planners.
We named Sharon Collinge, professor of environmental studies and ecology and evolutionary biology and the current Director of the Environmental Studies program, as Director of the School of Environment and Sustainability. Professor Collinge will work closely with the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and with the Office of Academic Affairs. She will be assisted in this new role by a faculty implementation committee (see sidebar), chaired by Jason Neff, associate professor of environmental studies and geological sciences.
The director will have overall oversight of the process and will have the authority to resolve disputes; she will sit as a non-voting member of relevant bodies within Arts and Sciences, as determined by the Dean, and will report regularly to the Provost. The implementation committee will advise the director and work with her to design the overall structure of the School. This committee will have liaisons working with it from such units as the Registrar's Office, Admissions, Institutional Analysis, the BFA and student government. It will be staffed by the Office of Faculty Affairs. The committee will be reaching out to interested faculty across the campus.
Dean Leigh and I will formally charge the implementation committee to develop the structure, governance, curriculum, operational processes and timeline for realizing the vision for the school. The implementation committee will appoint subcommittees to address specific issues, including administration, faculty and academic unit affiliations, student services, core curriculum, degree programs, community engagement, fundraising, space and infrastructure. The anticipated timeline for completion of a final report by the implementation committee is May 15, 2014. The report will be addressed to both the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Provost.


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Merry Christmas to all & to all an AR15!
Merry Christmas, and keep your power dry.
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Merry Christmas to all & to all an AR15!
When all else fails-read the instructions!
Merry Christmas, and thanks to all who do the right thing
Do it before it is too late!
Proud member of the NRA,GOA and JPFO!!!
And now GOCRA in MN!!!!
a Merry Christmas to all
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
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Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukka, Happy New Year and Happy Festivus!
Merry Christmas to all.
We are continuing the shooting sports in my family this Christmas. My wife and I bought her daughter a pink Daisy lever action BB gun. My son bought his step-daughter a single shot .22 rifle for Christmas. She loves going target shooting with him and is a very patient shooter and is quite accurate out to about 25 yards. Got to get them interested young and be positive with them so they stay interested.
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I've never heard of Equinox, what makes it so expensive?
I have two gym memberships (don't judge). The first is actually a gym in my office building, it's small, but has a lot to offer. I pay $15 every two weeks via payroll deduction.
I also belong to my local Y. I pay $57/mth for a family membership, so myself, my son and my SO can all work out there under that membership. I'm also able to take my little kids to pool and get discounts on different programs that are available.
So, I pay around $90 per month for both memberships, but I feel like I get a lot for my money.
That's freaking insane.
I pay $50/month for me and DH. That includes a pool. We could pay $60 and have childcare, but I'm too cheap.
$45/month, before 'discount' (we get a % off every year for lbs lost!). Gym has no towels, but it does have a pool and indoor water park, plus a climbing wall, track (indoor) and multiple gym areas. It's a bit pricey, but we use it enough. Classes are extra but not much.
My gym at work is $30/month, but has towels and a sauna, no pool however. Classes are included.
Completed 2012 Races: Cupid's Chase 5k Feb. 11th: 26:20, Donovan's Run 5k March 10th: 25:00, Statesman Cap 10k March 25th: 57:19
Upcoming: Komen Race for the Cure 10k May 12th (SA)
Gym #1: Full service gym w/lots of fun group classes including my favorite, Walk-Away. No pool or towel service (Towel service is an extra charge). They also have a really good healthy deli/smoothie shop onsite. Free b/c they sponsor my cycling team and gave us a few free memberships.
Gym #2: About-to-be-opened small new fitness center at work. Free to all employees. Basic cardio equipment and weights. No classes* and no frills. (*Once every 6-8 weeks they offer 2-3 Zumba classes in our main conference room after work. These are free.)
Riding my bike outside/Riding my trainer inside: Free, Cost of bikes: uh, too much.
I'm at Equinox Century City in LA and pay $240. So $155 sounds pretty reasonable.
The price seemed normal to me for Equinox.
We keep getting invites for the new Marina del Rey location. Their rates are $145/ month + $125 initiation fee, or $225/month + $300 initiation fee for multi-club.
I pay $120/ month for CrossFit with my teacher discount.
I pay $32/month for my local Y.
I used to pay $180/mo for an outdoor boot camp class...5x a week and you get a tshirt at the end of each month. It was great for a while, but they increased their prices last year and did away with the tshirts so I quit. My wallet thanked me.


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Boys and girls…
Just wanted to quickly bring to your attention another installment of the "Director's Talk" series, where PG Cooper, Ian and I have a roundtable discussion about the greatest directors of all time.
Our focus this time out? One of the most legendary directors of them all, the visionary Stanley Kubrick! The man who has authored some of the most highly regarded films ever made, including "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Dr. Strangelove", "A Clockwork Orange", "The Shining", "Full Metal Jacket", and many others!
It's Ian's turn to host this round, you can find the discussion over at his blog by clicking here. Stop by and check it out and let us know what you think of Mr. Kubrick and his films!


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The Crossing Arts Alliance in Brainerd presents 'Four Artists: Four Visions' exhibit
The Crossing Arts Alliance presents the exhibit, "Four Artists: Four Visions" May 3-18 at the Q Gallery at Franklin Arts Center on Kingwood Street in Brainerd.
This exhibit features wood turning by artist Bob Carls, wood and metal sculpture by artist Roy Abbott, and textile art by artists Amy Sharpe and Carolyn Abbott.
This exhibit is free and open to the public from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
The public is invited to an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 3. The event is $5 for Crossings Arts members and $10 for non-members.
Two free artist demonstrations will be held during the two-week exhibit. Carls will present a talk on lamination and multi-generation processes using both conventional and industrial materials at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 4, in the Q Gallery. Carls is a full-time studio artist creating functional and decorative lathe-turned vessels from the world's most beautiful woods.
Abbott will demonstrate ways to work with thickened dyes on fabric at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the cafeteria of the Franklin Arts Center. Sharpe calls herself a weaver of words and fiber.
"I weave the way I cook: I open the cupboards to see what I have on hand and look for delicious combinations," she said.
Carls and Sharpe are the artisans/owners of the Ripple River Gallery near Bay Lake.
Roy Abbott, a retired architecture firm principal, returned to his love of sculpture and began working with aluminum and aluminum /wood combinations as his favorite materials following his 2004 retirement.
Carolyn Abbott, a lifelong fabric artist, recently added paper, paints, thickened dyes and silk screens to her toolbox for creating wall pieces with multiple layers that generate depth.
The Abbotts live in Brainerd.
Crossing Arts Alliance activities are funded, in part, by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Five Wings Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund; and grants from Sertoma Winter Wonderland, Brainerd Service League, Mid-Minnesota Federal Credit Union, and the Anderson Family Legacy Fund.


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Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
I stopped fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now.
My guess is simply that the team is using the time it has to find better options. They think they can do better than Diehl for substantially less money even after the charge for the cap. If they force the issue with Diehl now to either take a paycut or be cut, then they are stuck with him. They are just warehousing him to see what else they can find out there. If in the end they can't find better then they will move to cut him or resign him at a much lower scale IMO.
No one remembers who came in second.