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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:24 AM, lydia huang <email@example.com> wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> why there is a -*- after -clear-?
> what is -set obs 1-?
Try running the _all_ of the code and looking at the resulting data
*(copy and paste it into the command dialog box and hit return).
You can also read the help page for each and every command by typing
in Stata....
man [command]
I've not got a version of Stata 7 installed that I can check this on,
but on the current install I have (11.0) your first question is
answered in the help page shown when I type...
man clear
Similarly your second question can be answered by typing...
man set
and reading that. Although in this instance there are lots of
different things that -set- does, and you would have to click through
to the -man obs- page to find the answer.
It sounds as though you would benefit greatly from either the Stata
NetCourse 101 (see http://www.stata.com/netcourse/nc101.html ) and/or
one of the many excellent books out there (see
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http://www.stata-press.com/books/daus2.html /
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Gia Allemand was a former cast member of The Bachelor. Unfortunately, Allemand took her life this year. In a look back at her best moments, Allemand talks about how she always wants the best for everyone in her life and that love is the most important thing. Ashleigh from season 14 opens up about Allemand, along with Jaclyn from season 16, and several others. Jason from The Bachelorette season 6 and Ames from The Bachelorette season 7 talk about how sweet and wonderful she was as well.
Very happy we did this tribute to our beautiful friend Gia
— Chris Harrison (@chrisbharrison) January 6, 2014
Finishing off the short tribute to Allemand, a slide show of photos of Gia Allemand growing up, gave viewers a look at the girl who grew up into such a beautiful woman.
Tearing up seeing the tribute to @GiaAllemand. I feel lucky to have shared a few laughs with her. @BachelorABC TY for a beautiful tribute.
— Janell Wheeler (@JanellWheeler) January 6, 2014
At the end of it all, Allemand's mother talked about her late daughter saying how much sunshine she brought to a room and how much she misses her.
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WINSTED -- Following the resignations of three of its members, the Economic Development Commission received the chance to dust itself off and get back to work on Tuesday night.
The commission's April 3 meeting was cancelled when the EDC could not manage a quorum -- but that was not a concern on Tuesday night. Six of the commission's members took their seats to discuss the commission's mission, as well as several other ongoing projects.
"I don't think we're the worse for wear right now," said EDC chairman Bill Pratt.
Pratt advocated two changes in the commission's bylaws, including one which would limit his own abilities. The commission voted unanimously to limit chairmanships to three successive 12-month terms, but tabled another change that would have designated the commission's meetings to the first and third Tuesday of each month.
"We have, up until now, been treating the first meeting of the month as a special meeting," Pratt said.
Pratt said he only recently learned that special meetings have limits, such as an inability to amend agendas during the meeting. The commission added a second meeting each month to deal with a backlog of ongoing issues. Member Erwin Atchison, however, was concerned that the commission could better focus on its tasks with one meeting per month.
"There was a lot going on at the time, and we couldn't afford to wait 30 days for that," said Pratt.
A third proposed change to the board's bylaws would have redefined the rules for removing inactive members. Pratt mentioned the proposal, but never brought it up for a vote because the town's ordinances already cover such matters.
The proposal would have dismissed inactive members who missed three consecutive meetings or four meetings in a 12-month span. Currently, two of the commission's members can be dismissed under these rules, but Pratt hesitated to ask for Walter St. Onge's resignation. St. Onge has a long and storied history of economic development in Winsted, but has not been able to attend meetings for several months because of ongoing health problems.
"I don't want to insult him," Pratt said, "but I think he will be the first to recognize we need people to roll up their sleeves."
Meanwhile, alternate member Joe Beadle has not been able to attend meetings for several months as well. Pratt said he did not want to lose Beadle's expertise either, remarking that "he could sum up the question for everybody in two minutes."
Neither Beadle nor St. Onge's status with the commission have changed, but there are now three vacancies on the board. Pam Banks and Theresa Cannavo resigned from the commission to focus on the Redevelopment Agency, and Dan Williams has asked to not be reappointed in order to serve on the Redevelopment Agency as well. Williams's term expires at the end of April, and at least one person has expressed interest in joining the commission.
The commission also took a look at its strategic plan for 2012, revising the previous year's plan. However, thanks to the changes in town, the commission had to make several amendments to the plan, as well as simplifying the distinctions between the town of Winsted and city of Winchester.
"Now, we need to define our relationship with the redevelopment agency," Pratt said. "We have a responsibility to work closely with them."
The ECD is expected to meet again for a regular meeting on May 1.
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alot of maitnence would certainly be of concern,would love to stay again. we did enjoy the conveinience of the downtown area as we went to a pizza place that was so delightful and brought it back to our room, the guest services were uptown.
Thank you very much for your review. We appreciate the feedback and we are glad you enjoy the hotel and the local offerings! We hope to welcome you back soon, to the Doubletree by Hilton Orlando Downtown.
Enjoy all your travels!
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Tibetans protest in China over language policy
BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 1,000 ethnic Tibetan students, demanding protection of their culture, protested in a western Chinese town against curbs on the use of their language, residents and a rights group said Wednesday.
The students marched through Tongren, also known as Rebkong, Tuesday, without police interference, residents contacted by telephone and the London-based Free Tibet campaign group said.
Tongren is a heavily Tibetan area of the Chinese province of Qinghai and the region where exiled Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was born.
Three residents contacted by telephone said that at least 1,000 students had demonstrated, shouting slogans in support of protecting their culture.
"The police did not get involved," said one resident, who asked not to be identified, citing the sensitive nature of the case.
"They (the protesters) went home in the early afternoon after government officials came out and talked with them," the resident added, saying there was no sign of stepped up policing in Tongren following the incident.
The Tongren and Qinghai governments had no immediate comment on the protest when contacted by Reuters.
Free Tibet put the number of demonstrators at between 5,000 and 9,000, citing witnesses, and said the protest was set off by reforms to education policy limiting the use of the Tibetan language in schools and the use of Chinese to teach most subjects.
"The Chinese are enforcing reforms which remind me of the Cultural Revolution," the group quoted one unnamed former Tongren teacher as saying. "This reform is not only a threat to our mother tongue, but is in direct violation of the Chinese constitution, which is meant to protect our rights." Continued...


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Macho Grubba
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"MAAAACHO! I'm a powerhouse now, you pesterin', li'l pieces of prairie piffle! So long's I have this here machine, my bod'll be rough, tough, an' ultrabuff!"
Macho Grubba is the powered-up form of Grubba, also the true chapter boss of the Glitz Pit in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and keeper of the real Gold Star (though it is never revealed exactly how he got it). He bears a slight resemblance to Tubba Blubba in the manner of an abnormally large, monstrous Clubba. In this state, he has sixty HP (which is shared by Dark Clubbas in Super Paper Mario), and also has a very wide variety of attacks, including buffing himself, allowing himself to attack twice, boosting his Attack Points, and increasing his defense drastically. After being defeated, Grubba's power-sucking machine goes off, returning energy to Bandy Andy and KP Pete, freeing Prince Mush, and reverting Grubba back to his normal form. He is also one of two chapter bosses not affiliated with either Sir Grodus or the Shadow Queen throughout the entire game (the other being Cortez).
Macho Grubba is the powered-up form of Grubba. Sometime after Grubba acquired the Gold Star, he created a power draining machine and the machine powered him up into Macho Grubba, changing his appearance in the process. Because of this, Grubba keeps the machine and his powered up form a secret. While is isn't known if Prince Mush saw Macho Grubba (as he only saw Grubba's machine), Jolene did and it was soon after that Mario entered the Glitz Pit and she guided him to find out Grubba's secret. After following a series of instructions, Mario finds Grubba at the ring when there are no matches going on and Grubba uses the power-draining machine to power himself up. Once Macho Grubba has been defeated, he will lose his power, and Mario will get the Gold Star.
According to Grubba himself, he apparently was a lot stronger in his early years, with many moves that had to be made illegal.
Physical description[edit]
Macho Grubba's appearance is slightly altered to that of his normal self. His hair is blonde and spiked up in a wild Mohawk-like style (he no longer sports a hat in this form). His skin color is orange instead of blue. His lips appear to be a yellow-orangish color and his hands are much larger (in the form of a fist). He is about twice the size he was before transforming, but can grow during the battle against him, making him 4x larger than his normal form. His shell now possess spikes on it and he has sharp, yellow toenails. Despite these changes, he still maintains his same glasses, vest, and bow tie, but lacks the green, buttoned shirt he wore under his vest.
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After being powered up by the Gold Star, Macho Grubba has the ability to tilt the scales in battle to his favor. At the beginning of the fight, Macho Grubba gains the ability to attack twice per turn. By doing this, he can inflict more damage on Mario and his partner in one turn, or even upgrade his status to a more powerful state during this time. Another ability Macho Grubba has is to increase his attack power as well as his defense. With an increased attack power, Macho Grubba's attack power will go up by three, bringing his overall attack to seven. Should he increase his attack power more than once, he can bring his attack up to ten, and even thirteen.
Depending on which attack Macho Grubba uses at the time, he can inflict damage on both Mario and his partner, doubling the effects of his upgrade. By increasing his defense, his defense will go up by two. This makes it more difficult for Mario and his partner to damage Macho Grubba. Macho Grubba can also increase his defense multiple times, bringing his defense up to four, and even five — which is the highest numerical defense in the game. In addition to being able to increase his attack, he can also charge up his attack by four. Should his attack be at thirteen, and then be increased by four, his attack will be brought to a devastating seventeen, the highest possible attack Macho Grubba can have and one of the highest attack power in the game. When low on health, Macho Grubba will also make himself dodgy, making it much more difficult for Mario and his partner to inflict damage on Macho Grubba, if at all.
In addition to his ability to upgrade his status effects, Macho Grubba also can perform many different styles of wrestling moves. Here is the list of his attacks from most common to least common.
He is also one of four chapter bosses the Yoshi Kid can swallow. The others being Doopliss, Grodus and the Shadow Queen (first phase, before and after transformation).
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We continue to bring you the lighter side of our great sport with another great rain delay video from the Western Kentucky and Florida Atlantic game over this past weekend. This is one of the better ones that I have seen in the last couple of years with some dancing and jokes played on the […]
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Peter Gammons
Peter was seen at the Cotuit-Wareham game on Tuesday night looking pretty good with his recent health problems. Here to Peter for a healthy and safe recovery.


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Andy, another volunteer (for privacy reasons, I'm not using anybody in the group's real name and all of the pictures have our faces fuzzed out), and I got put into a warehouse where we were counting how many items were on a shelf and labeling the shelf with that number. The soldier girl working with us showed us how to do it and did a few shelves with us. Then, she went on her smoking break and told us to chill. After about 10 minutes, we got back to work, but her break lasted the rest of the morning.
After lunch, we were put with a bunch of the other volunteers in a warehouse moving things from one set of shelves to another
After dinner, we had an evening activity that the Madrichot put together for us. They taught us about the army- which berets meant which jobs, that the opportunities were, what was open to women, and more. They explained that our base was a logistics base, so most of the work will be related to getting equipment ready for other bases to use.
Again we chilled after the evening activity, but made sure to get to bed at a reasonable time so that we could get up refreshed for work the next day.


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Making their first appearance in the upcoming team-up film Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger THE MOVIE, the latest Japanese magazines featured the 37th Super Sentai series, Juuden Sentai Kyoryuger (獣電戦隊キョウリュウジャー) for the first time!
Featured in the image above are the Kyoryuger gears. They transform using the GabRevolver, by inserting the Beast Batteries on it, and shouting "KyoryuChange! Fire!!" The side-weapon is called the GabRecalibur. Both weapons can be combined to form a more powerful weapon, the GabreCannon.
The enemy's grunts are called Zori Soldiers.
Here are some additional images:
Each of the Juuden Sentai Kyoryuger have their own title:
- KyoryuRed : Kiba no Yuusha (the fang hero)
- KyoryuBlack : Dangan no Yuusha (the bullet hero)
- KyoryuBlue : Yoroi no Yuusha (the armored hero)
- KyoryuGreen : Zangeki no Yuusha (the slashing hero)
- KyoryuPink : Tsuno no Yuusha (the horn heroine)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto (Kamen Rider Fourze) and written by Riku Sanjo (Kamen Rider W), Juuden Sentai Kyoryuger premieres February 17th, 2013.
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KyoryuPink : Tsuno no Yuusha (the horn heroine) <-- I see what did you do there
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Wait THATS the mook design this year?
Good god at first I thought the Sentai team had a design pulled from a pajama designer but the mooks too?
Whoever Toei hired to be the costume designers for this series need to be fired immediately. Honestly that is the worst mook design I've ever seen
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@anon 10:56 pm, yes the design are very mook for next year. We have a copy of gosei knight, bouken blue, gokai green, gosei pink and some stupid looking black ranger. Man, Akibaranger is the true 37th sentai series compared to this crap. And now that we have better pics of the mecha, his head looks like gosei great. Gokaiger, Go-busters and Akibaranger please come back.
Andrew Says:
That enemy minion design looks way too close to paisley for my comfort. Now we know why the designs are so bad this year, they hired Vera Bradley!
Anonymous Says:
Please don' tell me that Kyoryu Black's suit actor is Yasuhiro Takeuchi. This guy is very small to be a badass.
Anonymous Says:
looks like they're trying to bank on nostalgia there just as much as they are trying in the US.
Anonymous Says:
"Mook design" what the hell do you mean
The Spectre Says:
These are some ugly suit designs man yikes.....
HEZAiKU Says:
I hope Toei will thinking about making the crossover of Zyuranger and Abaranger with this NEW SENTAI!!!
Jonathan Says:
Yay, more pictures. The design of the Zori soldiers isn't the greatest mook design but it's kinda nice and definitely unique, something that's pretty hard after 37 years of mook designs. The mecha suit definitely looks better than the CGI behind the Kyoryuger in the first flyer. The giant T-Rex head still looks weird, as well as the feet, and yet I'm already convinced I'm going to like this giant robot. Finally, just loving the new pictures of the Kyoryuger, including the side views and full body views. Just confirming what I already knew: loving the new heroes' suits. :)
Anonymous Says:
The suits look great!
wohdin Says:
wow this series really feels like it's designed specifically to hearken back to the older series in both theme and aesthetic (in the sense of HOLY HELL YOU ARE TACKY). I hope it doesn't backfire for them... but I won't hold my breath.


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For your information
This year, from the Airport Commission to the Brainerd City Council, issues with public information have arisen. From Alderman Olson attempting to collect public data from Theresa Goble, finance director, to my digging into airport commission information (Tim Houle), questions have been raised and walls run into.
Here is information for you, dear citizen: advisory opinion from the Administrators Office of Minnesota, are emails public information? Why yes they are. All information collected from any government entity is public information unless classified regardless of the format the information is stored in, all information received by our government bodies is available, and you may inspect this information with out assessment of a fee.
Does a public employee have to explain the meaning of this data? This question has been raised and Thomas Fitzpatrick, city of Brainerd Attorney, stated no, employees do not have to answer questions about the data. Not even to their bosses, the council and mayor, whom (Wallin) was rather vocal in support of not having questions answered for Alderman Olson by the finance director.
According to Advisory Opinion 00-019 "Upon request to a responsible authority or designee, a person shall be permitted to inspect and copy public government data at reasonable times and places, and, upon request, shall be informed of the data's meaning." Question are allowed and answers are required.
I don't have a law degree, Fitzpatrick does, why didn't he find this information?
Wallin also chastised Alderman Olson about his education. We don't know Theresa Goble's education and background, can we ask?
"Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 13.43, subdivision 2 (a)(2), you are entitled to gain access to data the entity maintains about a public employee's education and training background; and previous work experience."
As Sam Elliot would say, 'Nuff Said.'
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Film & Discussion: Action Movies that Motivate Change
The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment is hosting a film festival to celebrate 20 years of growing the grassroots and inspiring community action for environmental and social justice.
Movies that Motivate Change for the East Bay premiere and award-winning documentary Trashed (starring Jeremy Irons), Oakland-produced film 16 Seeds and Mark Kitchell's A Fierce Green Fire.
Come early to meet the filmmakers, connect with folks in the community, chow down on glorious peasant food from Streatery food truck, and get a chance to bid on exciting silent auction items at the pre Party!


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Ads on social networks like Facebook (FB)and Twitter don't influence the buying habits of most consumers, according to polling results released Monday by Gallup.
Gallup says that about 62% of polled consumers say social media doesn't impact purchases.
Meanwhile, 35% of about 18,500 polled consumers say they are influenced by the ads they see on social media, with about 5% of those people saying the ads have a "great deal of influence." About 3% responded that they didn't know. (Though released Monday, results are based on polls taken in December 2012 and January 2013.)
"While social media may have more influence than some Americans realize or will admit, these data show that relatively few consumers consciously take into account what they learn from social media when making purchases," Gallup's Art Swift wrote in a Monday blog post.
Social networks like Facebook and Google's (GOOGL) Google+ portray their targeted ads as being more effective than other types of ads.
Facebook, for example, gives ad buyers for large companies a "lot of insights" into who their customers are and what they want to see in ads, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors in May at the company's annual shareholders meeting.
"And a big part of our goal is to make it so that every small-business owner has the same tools and insights about the people that they serve as large companies here," Zuckerberg said at the time.
Advertising revenue at Facebook jumped 82% in Q1 from Q1 2013.
Yahoo (YHOO) last week started integrating native ads from its social network Tumblr into other Yahoo properties, looking to boost its ads' effectiveness — and ad sales.
"A recent case study across Yahoo and Tumblr showed that when people viewed content marketing, unaided brand awareness increased by 40%; brand consideration grew 31%; and tabline recognition increased by 100%," wrote Mike Kerns, a Yahoo senior vice president, in a blog post announcing the move.
Facebook stock and Google stock were each up about 1% in early afternoon trading in the stock market today. Social network LinkedIn's (LNKD) stock was up 1.%, while Twitter (TWTR) was up a fraction. Yahoo stock was down 1.5%.
U.S. ad buyers spent some $5.1 billion on social media ads last year, according to Gallup. And they "obviously believe that this presents them with a return on investment," wrote Gallup's Swift.
"However," Swift continued, "a solid majority of American adults say that social media have no influence at all on their purchasing decisions — suggesting that the advertising may be reaching smaller segments of the market, or that the influence on consumers is indirect or goes unnoticed."
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One of the more absurd spectacles in the press's coverage of the economy is the attack on the Trump White House's long-term economic growth assumptions in this week's budget release. The same reporters, pundits and outlets now ridiculing the Trump administration's belief that the economy can consistently grow by 3 percent each year beginning four years from now were stone silent when the Obama administration, whose alums have joined the current negative chorus, used far higher growth assumptions — and miserably failed to achieve them.
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It's a rare day when both Fox News and NBC News positively cover the story of a courageous young Christian woman who refused abortion. But that's exactly what just happened. Fox News, on Thursday night, and NBC News, on Friday morning, reported on the viral story of high-school senior Maddi Runkles. Although Runkles boasts a 4.0 average and even served as student council president, she was banned from "walking" at graduation by Heritage Academy, a private Christian school.
By Tom Blumer | | May 26, 2017 | 11:16 AM EDT
Longtime media bias observers know that if a Democrat wins a single special election race for national office during a Republican presidential administration, the press will say it's evidence that the nation's voters have changed their minds about which party should occupy the White House. If the Democrat loses ... well, in the pre-Internet era, the national press would pretend that the race never happened. These days, they instead have to come up with excuses, which are usually pathetic. The Associated Press engaged in such an exercise Friday morning after Republican Greg Gianforte defeated Democrat Rob Quist for Montana's single US House seat.
By P.J. Gladnick | | May 26, 2017 | 11:08 AM EDT
HOORAY! We lost!!! That is becoming the laughable mainstream media theme about many special elections since President Donald Trump's victory last November. We saw this happen in early March when Politico hailed Democrat performances in special elections despite the fact that there was no net change. The latest iteration of celebrating participation trophies, and likely to be repeated by mainstream media sources, comes by way of the May 26 edition of Vox in which Matthew Yglesias declared that the loss by the Democrat candidate in the congressional special election was beyond mere good news for the Democrats. In fact the Vox headline acclaimed that Republicans' win in last night's Montana election is great news for Democrats:
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While some media critics have stressed the importance of accurately representing minorities and LGBT folks on entertainment TV, there's a whole other subset of America that isn't being portrayed with the nuance it deserves: veterans.
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In covering the President's proposed budget this week, network reporters unanimously claimed it "cut" or even "slashed" federal spending. An MRC analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news coverage since Monday (May 22) finds that not a single reporter ever told viewers that overall federal spending would actually RISE under President Trump's planned budget — just not as much as forecast under the budget baseline Trump inherited from President Obama back in January.
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The advertisers publicly bowing to the Left and pulling ads from Sean Hannity's Fox show aren't getting cheers from their customers. The message board at USAA looks like there's some unhappiness. Meanwhile, the proof keeps coming that despite their stated "policy" of not advertising on opinion shows, USAA has advertised on wild-eyed MSNBC programming speculating on how much Donald Trump is owned by Russian strongmen and oligarchs. For example, our diggers found a USAA ad on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on May 2:
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Liberals think the meanest thing they can do is to accuse people of behaving like Trump. Their latest victim? Steven Morrissey, lead man for The Smiths. In a review of a Facebook comment by Morrissey about the recent terror attack on Manchester, Gabriel Bell blasted the musician, calling his comment a "scolding, highly inappropriate, racially insensitive, needlessly anti-Monarchical hot take on it."


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Solidworks to MastercamKelvin Lamport Feb 23, 2009 5:48 PM (in response to Jacob Pribyl)Mastercam has a module for SolidWorks. No need for conversions.
Solidworks to MastercamKelvin Lamport Feb 23, 2009 5:53 PM (in response to Jacob Pribyl)But if you want a translator;
Solidworks to MastercamJacob Pribyl Feb 23, 2009 6:02 PM (in response to Kelvin Lamport)Thanks, I'll try it out.
Solidworks to MastercamPhil Marra Feb 23, 2009 6:04 PM (in response to Jacob Pribyl)Jacob,
There is some confusion in what you have said here.
First parasolid does not support wireframe you may be reading a parasolid file into Mastercam that shows a "wireframe" in MC but you didnt export a wireframe from SW.
Iges should do the trick but you will need to export both solid/surfaces and 3d curves. For Mastercam Id suggest flavoring the trimmed surface (type144) and b-splines (entity type126) then select surface representation /system preference to "mastercam."
As for the levels in Mastercam, that is a problem that no one has found a solution for, or at least I hear the complaint everyday.
Re: Solidworks to MastercamMatt Sumner Jun 6, 2011 12:10 PM (in response to Jacob Pribyl)
In the latest version of Mastercam which is X5 you should have no problem getting what you are after by opening the Solidworks Part or Assembly file directly. There is no need to convert it to a different format.
Re: Solidworks to MastercamLenny Bucholz Jun 18, 2011 10:44 AM (in response to Jacob Pribyl)
With any old version of a CAM software you are SOL to have the newer version of SW work...I know thats how it is and we need to either spend the bucks on the CAM update to work with the new version of SW or find work arounds.
Remember thats the only way the CAM guys can get you to buy the updates buy not supporting the newer versions of solids.
Now here is a work around, take the parasolid from SW 2011 and read it into your SW 2003 then open into Mastercam the same way you did before, shouldn't have the issues you are having now.
As a CAM guy myself been using SW and Surfcam since 97 together and have had some of the same problems between relases of SW I always have 2 to 3 older versions of SW on my computer to solves any incompatibility problems.
If you are tring to be current with SW you need to stay current with your CAM...cost money YES but then your not spending the same money on lost hours of productivity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Christopher Nolan's superior genius has done
it again. The Dark Knight Rises combines intellect
with action to make a film that is certainly worth watching again and again.
This is not your typical superhero movieit reaches beyond the comic-book
character and dives deep into the wounded human condition. While The Avengers was entertaining and certainly left me
satisfied, The Dark Knight is much darker and goes
a few steps further. With an impressive cast including Christian Bale, Michael
Caine, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, and Tom
Hardy, this is a film to be reckoned with. (However, it is definitely not kid-friendly; parents, you have been warned.) While
there is not much gore, the violence ranks an eight out of ten, and the
terrorist villain, Bane, is terrifying. But through the darkness, it is a movie
about hope.
The Batman has not shown his face for nearly
eight years after taking the blame for Harvey Dent's actions in the previous
movie, The Dark Knight. Incidentally,
billionaire Bruce Wayne has also been in hiding. After Rachel Dawes' death and
saving Gotham City, Bruce doesn't seem to have anything to live for anymore.
That is, until a new terrorist, Bane, reportedly born and raised in a dreaded
prison known only as The Pit, appears in Gotham. Much of the peace and control
of organized crime has been due to the death of former District Attorney Harvey
Dent, whom everyone believes to have died a hero. But Commissioner Gordon and
Batman are the only people that know the truth. Harvey Dent died a corrupted
man and a murdererand Batman took the blame for his actions. Now Bane and his
army must reveal the truth in order to sow discord among the people and set
them against the corrupt aristocracy as well as the police force, which appears
to be built on a lie.
Alfred, played by Michael Caine, is one of the
most important characters in all three films; he delivers what I think is the
best performance in the entire film. Alfred is the only person who truly
understood the motivation behind the infamous Joker in The Dark
Knight, and he's the only one who truly understands Bane and what he
stands for. Alfred also believes the truth is meant to be shared. But Bruce, as
always, does not listen. So, Alfred does the unthinkablehe decides to leave
Bruce. After explaining to Bruce that all he ever wanted was for him to be
happy and continue living, he says, "Maybe it's time we stop trying to avoid
the truth and let it have its day."
As Alfred rightly suspected, deception and
withholding the truth leads to many of the disasters that infiltrate Gotham
City. The current police force is based around the lie that Harvey Dent died a
hero. And the political system is still full of deceptive and greedy
aristocrats. Bane uses this to create animosity within the populace of the
city. If Gotham City is divided against itself, it cannot stand. Bane convinces
the people to take control of their cityhe gives them false hopea fact he
wishes to make very clear to Bruce Wayne.
Bane wishes for Bruce to suffer as he
sufferedhe throws him into the same Pit where he spent so many years. Bane
explains to him:
Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you.
There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth…Hope. Every man who
has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined
climbing to freedom. So easy… So simple… Many have died trying. I learned here
that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I
will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they
can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to "stay in
the sun." You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly
understood the depth of your failure…then you have my permission to die.
Bruce must suffer greatly, and through this
suffering he learns to let go of his grief for his parents and Rachel. Just as
he must learn to let go of the rope he thinks will save him while climbing out
of The Pit, he must also let go of the grief that tied him down for so long in
order to be truly set free and live his life. What Bane can never
understandand what Bruce finally understands fullyis that through failure we
can learn to pick ourselves back up. And that hope can also save us.
Catwoman, played surprisingly well by Anne
Hathaway, is a fallen girl trying to turn her life around. As Batman says,
"Gotham is not beyond saving." Neither is any one man or woman. Catwoman is a
very clear example of this truth. She hopes to clear her record as a thief and
begin life anew. At first seen as very selfish and crafty, Catwoman's dynamic
character blossoms amidst her unusual friendship with Batman. He shows her that
she can be better than a thiefshe can help herself and others and earn
reconciliation. Hope is not lost for Catwoman, and she indeed proves herself.
Batman also redeems himself as he saves the
city of Gotham. The end of the film is riddled with war, self-sacrifice, and
reconciliationhope does not lead to despair, as Bane wanted, but rather to new
beginnings. Life will go one for Gotham
City, and so too for Batmanjust maybe not as expected.
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While waiting for HUNDRED WATERS to begin their set at Hotscotch Festival earlier this month I could already tell the audience was edgy. The shows had been starting late all night, and a lot of people were trying to decide if they should stick around or run to some of the bigger acts that were starting. The people who stayed, however, got to experience something truly special.
Welcome to another edition of State of the Union, a weekly recap of 50 Bands 50 States happenings both locally and nationally. In this space every Monday we'll tell you what 50 States bands are in town, releasing new music, or just doing something noteworthy.
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As Obama Visits Staten Island, Some Residents Feel a Disconnect
An American flag still flies in the front yard of firefighter Mike Bellantoni's two-family bungalow on New Dorp Lane.
Three pumpkins painted in New York Giants blue sit near the end of a walkway leading up to the front porch. A light-catcher hangs on the front door with the words "proud to be an American" over another small flag made of translucent red, white and blue plastic.
His house sits just across from Miller Field where white FEMA tents are clustered and the sound of distant cheers Thursday afternoon meant President Barack Obama had just arrived.
Standing on his porch, littered with bottles and debris, Bellantoni said he didn't vote for Obama, "but I'm a true patriot," he said, "so my theory is, he's my president. I want him to prove me wrong."
That sentiment was echoed by other residents in this historically conservative borough who had mixed feelings about Obama's visit to the region as the clean up crawls forward. Obama won Staten Island, but the margin was 50 to 49 percent — the narrowest margin of any of the five boroughs.
It's also home to Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, who was also successfully re-elected and whose office is right up the street on New Dorp Lane.
Lisa Mazza, 42, waited to see the president along Miller Field with her video camera, even though she said she didn't vote for him either. The mother of three said Obama should have visited Staten Island sooner. She also wanted to know what else the president could do to help the neighborhood, over and above the work of non-government groups like the Red Cross.
"As far as government: what are you going to do to help us? We need to get this taken care of," said Mazza who lost the entire first floor of her home. She applied for help from FEMA but was confused by questions on the application.
"You know some of them are a little tricky," said Mazza. "Like one of them was, 'Did you have electric in the last five days?' I called on day two (of the power outage), so I said, 'Yes.'"
For now, FEMA has denied her claim even though she went for 17 days without heat, hot water or electricity.
Dario Veggian, 69, is having his own FEMA issues. His two story house has mold. There's a crack from the storm in its foundation. He needs a new boiler and completely new wiring. FEMA gave him a check for $17,000. But he estimates there's more than $100,000 worth of damage.
"We got some help from friends, volunteers, it's tough," said Veggian. "We don't even know if the house is going to be livable."
Veggian was standing at his front gate wearing work gloves and binoculars also hoping to see the president. He considers himself an Obama supporter and if he had a chance to tell him something, he'd say this: "Mr. President thank you for coming. You see what's happening here. And whatever help you can give us, please, hurry up."


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Sunday, April 15, 2012
BALTIMORE, 04-14-12---Charles Reed and Mike Zanella's Bold Affair rolled up on frontrunner Valiant Passion and rolled away to a convincing score in the $75,000 Primonetta Stakes, the feature offering Saturday afternoon at Pimlico Race Course.
Abel Castellano was just a passenger aboard the 4-year-old filly until he asked her to engage Valiant Passion around the far turn in the 6-furlong test. They made quick work of that rival and pulled away to win in handy fashion by 2-3/4 lengths, stopping the timer in 1:10.67. Aquitania rallied to finish second, while Enchante passed Valiant Passion to take third.
The winner, who is trained by Howard Wolfendale, paid $4 as the program and post time favorite. Castellano and Wolfendale teamed up to win the Conniver Stakes at Laurel Park on March 10 with the daughter of Two Punch in her previous start.
"It looked like he (Castellano) had to steady her a little bit to get her outside and getting her restarted can be tough because of how big she is," Wolfendale said. "But once she got rolling it was not in question."
Wolfendale said his star would run next in the $125,000 Skipat Stakes on Black-Eyed Susan Day, Friday May 18.
This was Bold Affair's third stakes win, having won the Jostle Stakes at Parx Racing last year. The filly has now won six of ten starts with earnings of $302,880 and finished off the board only once in the Interborough at Aqueduct on New Year's Day.
Saturday's promotion was the "Wild West Comes To Pimlico", which included a BBQ and Brew Fest with country music standout Detour playing on the track apron between races. On-track events featured performances by Hi Yo Silver and the Lone Ranger, bull herding, trick riding and roman riding.
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The Abel Stearns Papers: Addenda II, comprises of personal and business correspondence of Abel Stearns.
Abel Stearns was a pioneer ranch owner and businessman of Los Angeles. Orphaned in 1810, he left his native Massachusetts and went to sea, making trips to China, the East Indies, and Latin America. By the early 1820s he was back in the United States trying to establish himself as a businessman, dealing mainly in shoes. In 1826 he left for Mexico, settling in Mexico City. As partner in a colonization enterprise for Upper California, he became a naturalized citizen and moved to Monterey in 1829. While awaiting approval of a land grant, he turned to merchandising. In about 1833 Stearns settled in Los Angeles, joined Juan Bandini in the trading business, and married Bandini's daughter Arcadia. Stearns became involved in almost every type of business, held minor political offices, and was sent as a representative of the Los Angeles district to the state constitutional convention in Monterey in 1849. He began acquiring rancho property and by 1858 was the owner of vast landholdings and cattle herds and the wealthiest man in Los Angeles county. As a member of the state assembly in 1861, he took an active part in promoting the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad. Stearns was forced to sell a great deal of his property when he became bankrupt after the drought of 1863-1864, which caused the decline of the cattle industry in California. He died in San Francisco in 1871.
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Here come the justices
There were no robes, no gavels, no cries of "oyez" as they entered the Central Lakes College cafeteria Tuesday night.
The Minnesota Supreme Court's community dinner in Brainerd showed the justices' human side as they connected with a public which some say is largely uninformed about their branch of government.
Each justice spoke briefly to the audience, dispensing advice to college and high school students, teasing their colleagues about hobbies and emphasizing the importance of the civility and open-mindedness with which they try to approach their jobs.
Chief Justice Lori Skjerven Gildea brought out the human side of the state's top jurists in her introductions. She claimed that she and Justice Helen Meyer constituted the court's "cowgirl caucus," a nod to their horse-riding avocations. Gildea's introduction of Justice Alan Page mentioned his interest in long-distance running and tuba playing.
The court's "Anderson caucus," she said, included Justice Paul Anderson, a bicyclist, a girls' basketball coach and a gourmet cooking club member, and Justice G. Barry Anderson, a baseball coach and host of a public affairs television which he claimed was "viewed by dozens of people." Justice Christopher Dietzen was noted as a former cowboy and butcher who also a grandfather of 10.
The court's junior member, Justice David Stras, was said to equally split his college basketball loyalties between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Kansas Jayhawks.
The justices split up and sat at different tables, mixing with students, attorneys and members of the public who were interested in their chance to dine with a state Supreme Court justice.
"I'm so happy to be in real Minnesota," the chief justice said. "Outside of the Twin Cities, in other words."
She said the visit to Brainerd to hear a case Wednesday before Brainerd High School students at Tornstrom Auditorium was one of the highlights of the court's year. Gildea spoke with pride about being from Plummer, a town in northwestern Minnesota with "270 people, including my mom and dad who live there and it's never far from my heart."
Brainerd, she said, was one of the most vibrant and thriving destinations in Minnesota. Gildea spoke with pride of the exceptionalism of Minnesota and of its justice system, which she commended for its professionalism, its innovativeness and its commitment to fairness.
Page said he thinks the state's judicial system is the best in the U.S., praising its efforts to be fair, impartial, to do its best and to "avoid exercising our will."
Justice Paul Anderson described CLC as a "gem of an institution." He said his travels to other countries have convinced him that America's top qualities are its freedom and its education system.
"I'm at the point, if we don't support education, I think it's unpatriotic," Anderson said.
The Supreme Court tries to serve as an antidote to the cynicism which prevails concerning government, he said.
Justice Meyer said the best advice she could give students was to be respectful of other views, celebrate that we aren't all the same and "spend time with people who don't think like you do."
Her association with fellow justices was the best and worst part of her job, she said.
"Sometimes I'm right and they're wrong and that's annoying," Meyer said.
The Supreme Court, she said was the stronghold for the ideal of respecting contrasting viewpoints.
Justice G. Barry Anderson spoke of his pride of not only being a judge but of having worked as an attorney who represented ordinary people with ordinary disputes. Despite the attorney jokes, Anderson ventured that the Brainerd community had several institutions which were successful because of the efforts of attorneys who had volunteered their time.
Justice Dietzen told the audience how much he enjoyed his cabin on Fish Trap Lake. He encouraged young people to find mentors who would encourage them.
"Pursue your dreams," he said. "Pursue your passion."
Justice Stras, who formerly taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, urged students to listen and participate and to make their experiences as broad as possible.
"Take advantage of the time you have now," Stras advised.
Tuesday's community dinner was sponsored in part by the Brainerd Lakes Chamber. The Aitkin-Crow Wing Bar Association paid for nearly 30 tickets which were used by high school and college students.
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In July of 2013, Kanye West allegedly assaulted a photographer at LAX Airport which reportedly resulted in a trip to the hospital for the victim. Earlier this year, the legal case against West got underway and Kanye was deposed in an interview by the photographer's lawyer. If you can believe the insanity that I am about to share with you, Kanye West — the self-avowed "smartest celebrity you've ever fucking deal with" — actually tried to equate the "struggle" of being a celebrity to the actual struggle suffered by African Americans here in the US during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. Wow. Kanye West was obviously being combative in his deposition on purpose and we know that he has said idiotic things in the past but this surely takes the cake. Just, wow.
Kanye West swears under oath, "I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever fucking dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears." We got hold of a transcript of Kanye's deposition in the case where he's accused of beating a photog and smashing his camera. Kanye explains to Nate Goldberg, the photog's lawyer, "I'm in the business of trying to make dope shit for the world. You're in the business of representing scums and trying to make as much money as long as there's this lapse in the law." Goldberg grills Kanye about his song, "Flashing Lights," — a rant against the paparazzi. Goldberg quotes from the song, "Till I get flashed by the paparazzi, damn, these ni**as got me." At that point Kanye interrupts, "You have to ask for a hall pass. You can't just say the 'n' word around me." adding, "It offends me because you're a white person saying 'ni**a.'" Kanye says there's a parallel between blacks fighting for civil rights in the '60s and celebs fighting for theirs today: "I mean in the '60s people used to hold up 'Die N****r' signs when my parents were in the sit-ins also." Goldberg asks if he equates the struggle of blacks in the past with celebrities today and Kanye says, "Yes, 100 … I equate it to discrimination. I equate it to inequalities." Kanye goes on, "We, as group of minorities here in L.A., as celebrities have to ban together to influence guys like this — guys trying to take the picture, guys trying to get the big win, guys trying to get the check." The depo is riddled with Kanye's sarcasm. When Goldberg asks where he lives, Kanye replies, "Earth."
It's not surprising that Kanye can be the saltiest of dickbags when he's pissed off and wants to be argumentative … but for him to seriously try to equate being a celebrity to the horrible struggle and mistreatment of minorities in this country is not only the most insane thing ever but it is also insulting to the highest degree. A lot of people are focusing on his silly diss toward Britney Spears but it's such a non-issue, I hate even mentioning it. Kanye equating celebrity to the civil rights movement echoes other moronic statements by other celebrities that have equated their fame and fortune with rape and/or war. WHAT THE SERIOUS, FUCK, PEOPLE?! That people actually say these things is madness to me. I love to laugh off and have fun with most of the ridiculous things that come out of Kanye's mouth but this time, he's really lost me. There is nothing funny or clever about his comments here. Ugh.


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Industrial Policy: Another stimulus-backed solar panel maker, one the president touted in a weekly radio address, is filing for bankruptcy. The administration's green-energy efforts continue to grow a deeper shade of red.
After receiving some $70 million in federal loans, Abound Solar, a Colorado-based firm that was developing thin-film solar panels, has announced it will follow an earlier Obama administration green energy failure, Solyndra, into bankruptcy.
Like Solyndra, Abound's bankruptcy is a bitter echo of the hype generated by President Obama in his weekly radio address exactly two years ago when he touted his push for a clean energy economy. Abound Solar, he said, would manufacture advanced solar panels at two new plants, creating more than 2,000 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs at plants in Indiana and Colorado.
Abound apparently wasn't even helped by last July's $9.2 million Export-Import Bank loan to support exports of thin-film solar photovoltaic modules to Punj Lloyd Solar Power Ltd., a company in India building a 5-megawatt solar project located on a 62.5-acre site near the village of Bap.
Three years ago, when Obama's Department of Energy started approving roughly $16 billion in federal loan guarantees for solar energy companies, the DOE agreed to put taxpayers' money behind startups that were working on ways to make solar panels cheaper. Two, Solyndra and Abound, have now gone belly-up.
The other two solar manufacturing companies with loan guarantees, SoloPower and 1366 Rechnologies, have not actually borrowed any taxpayer money so far. This is probably a good thing as solar energy's promise is eclipsed by a real energy boom in oil and natural gas from shale. It is also fortunate for taxpayers that Abound drew only $70 million out of a $400 million line of credit.
In a January report, Sheryl Attkisson of CBS News counted at least 12 clean-energy companies that were having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. Five had filed for bankruptcy: the junk bond-rated Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AES subsidiary Eastern Energy and the now-infamous Solyndra. Now we have a sixth — Abound Solar.
Ener1, maker of batteries that were supposed to power Obama's electric car fleet, filed for bankruptcy in January. Just as American tax dollars have gone to subsidize electric cars made in Finland by Fisker Automotive, state-of-the-art battery technology developed by Ener1 that was also supposed to rejuvenate the American auto industry is now owned outright by Boris Zingarevich, a Russian businessman with ties to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Zingarevich, who was Ener1's largest shareholder from the beginning in 2002, acquired Ener1 out of bankruptcy March 30. The company had tapped the country's top scientists at Argonne National Lab in Illinois, and Washington pledged up to $118 million in stimulus funds from an administration that has grabbed American taxpayers by the throat. Another $80 million in state and local incentives was dedicated to help Ener1 produce cutting-edge battery technology for electric cars and the U.S. military. Now that technology is owned by a Russian tycoon.
Speaking of the push to promote green energy projects, Daniel Kish, senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research, said in a recent interview with Cybercast News Service that "without government subsidies or mandates, none of these energy sources exist, they just simply won't. ... These energy sources are not as efficient as the sources of energy that the marketplace has picked and the consumers have picked to run the country."
"Hindsight is always 20-20," Obama told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News after Solyndra closed its doors. "It went through the regular review process. And people felt like this (Solyndra) was a good bet."
As the latest in a string of green energy flops, Abound Solar shows Obama has quite a green-energy gambling addiction.
This is an administration that insists on picking winners and losers in the market, with an unenviable record of choosing the latter. Fortunately, the American people get to pick their own winners and losers in November.


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Enjoy yoga overlooking the Delaware Bay from the unique viewpoint of the indoor Skywalk at the Cape May Terminal.
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We detest state-sponsored media and (as we've noted previously) support cutting all funding to public broadcasting. Why? Because government-funded media is not a core function of government – something even most "Republicans in Name Only" recognize.
Having said that, this Julia Child remix is positively awesome …
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Japan's Eiheiji temple: a night's stay in the 13th century
By Junko Fujita
EIHEIJI, Japan (Reuters) - If you want to glimpse life that has not changed much in eight centuries, Eiheiji temple in the mountains just outside Fukui city in central Japan is the place to find it.
Just mind the monk with the stick, who may tap you with it if you fail to meditate.
Isolated from other parts of quiet Eiheiji town on Japan's western coast, the complex of more than 70 buildings stands on a hill among a thick forest of tall cedar trees.
The temple, established by the Buddhist monk Dogen in 1244, is an active monastery where about 150 monks are in training. They follow the Soto Zen School's traditional, simple ways of living and are happy to welcome you to join them.
Visitors can tour the temple for a day or stay there overnight as Eiheiji provides lodging, including two meals and the chance for zazen meditation and the reading of Buddhist scripture.
The charge is 8,000 yen ($65) per person for an overnight stay with two meals. Reservations are required, particularly for non-Japanese speakers who must reserve well in advance so the temple can secure an English-speaking monk to attend them.
The black-garbed monks welcome you at the entrance of the complex and give a brief lecture on the temple and their life.
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Steamboat Springs Next Monday, at 2:45 p.m., the Sailors girls basketball team has practice scheduled.
That is how confident the Sailors are that they will advance out of the district tournament this weekend and into the regional round next weekend.
"We don't want the season to end quite yet. We've got a little more basketball we want to play," Sailors coach Bruce Alston said.
For the seventh-ranked Steamboat team, the first roadblock on the path to the regional tournament is Montrose, the second-ranked team in the tournament. In the first round of the eight-team district tournament, the Sailors will go up against the Indians at 3 p.m. Thursday in Grand Junction.
"It's a little bit fun being the underdog," Alston said. "We're supposed to go over there and get beaten. But I'm kind of thinking that it is not going to happen. We're going to play as hard as we can possibly play."
With a 13-5 overall record, the Indians stand at third in the Southwestern Conference, a league that pulls from four 5A schools and 4A schools Montezuma-Cortez and Mont-
Although Alston said he has never scouted Montrose, he does know that it is a talented team that shoots the ball well, plays good defense and runs the floor.
The relatively tall team is expected to play man defense, a system that works well for the Sailors, Alston said. He also likes the depth of the Sailors' bench, which he hopes will bring fresh legs to the court.
Ranked as one of the top 10 teams in the state this season, Montrose has gone up against Rifle and Palisade, both Western Slope teams that have beaten Steamboat. In the preseason, the Indians beat the Bears, 36-28, and the Bulldogs, 52-15.
The district tourney is a double-elimination format that sends five teams to regionals. If the Sailors win their first game, they have a definite berth in the regional tournament. A win against Montrose also means Steamboat will advance into the semifinals and play two more games to determine first to fourth places.
If the Sailors lose to the Indians, they are bumped into the consolation bracket where the four teams will do battle for the fifth and final place to go to regionals.
Depending on the outcomes of Thursday's games, Steamboat has the chance of meeting Palisade or Rifle in Friday's round of either the championship or consolation brackets. The Sailors lost to both teams twice during regular-season league play, but Alston said his team has improved in the past month.
In their most recent matchup with the Bulldogs, the Sailors lost the game at the buzzer after the Bulldogs rallied in the fourth quarter to pull ahead for a 58-56 win.
"We haven't played as well as we can play against either of the teams," Alston said. "There's a lot of teams we believe we can beat."
Coming into the tournament, district champions Moffat County return as the favorites. Not losing a game since their season-opening tournament in Vernal, Utah, the Bulldogs ended league play undefeated.


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This weekend's links are all about one of my favourite activities — debunking health myths.
Coffee, wine and sushi! New pregnancy book says OK. An interview with author Emily Oster, whose new book, Expecting Better, analyzes pregnancy-related medical research from an economist's point of view, rather than that of a scientist or medical doctor. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on this highly-controversial read — controversial, of course, because she has no medical background, and many of her findings directly contradict recommendations of organizations such as the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynacologists.
Take back your pregnancy. Emily Oster talks about her book, and some of the research behind it. A little sneak preview, if you will.
How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, makes the argument that 40 may be the new 30 when it comes to women's fertility. "Millions of women are being told when to get pregnant based on statistics from a time before electricity, antibiotics, or fertility treatment. Most people assume these numbers are based on large, well-conducted studies of modern women, but they are not."
Bed Rest to Prevent Preterm Birth Both Ineffective and Harmful. Bed rest has long been prescribed for women who are at risk of pre-term labour, but is it actually effective, according to the numbers? New research suggests that restricting activity during pregnancy may in fact increase the risk of preterm labour!
The Cholesterol Myth That Could Be Harming Your Health. I'm not a huge fan of all of Dr. Mercola's work, but this is a very good (albeit wordy) explanation of why mainstream medicine has the cholesterol thing all wrong. I would like to subtitle this one, Why I'm not going to die of a heart attack from eating half a dozen eggs each day 🙂 .
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Out of these areas, we aim to produce strategic knowledge and a public platform for creative discourse about places. Our work is designed to transform the perception of post-industrial places, revealing natural and cultural forms, normally invisible to urban dwellers. The questions that our projects address is "who advocates for the values of clean water, bio-diverse riverbanks, public access, free flowing rivers, streams and rainwater?" Can artists working as cultural agents affect the public policies and private economic programs which mark and define urban ecosystems? Given the issues of scale, ecology and institutionalized planning, what is the artist's role? How do we discuss the artist's practice in relationship to the post-industrial realm?


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Buckhorn Island Bird Conservation Area
The Buckhorn Island BCA (part of Buckhorn Island State Park) is within the Niagara River corridor, and is crossed by a heavily traveled international highway, which makes the marsh one of the state's most visible wetlands and a highly visible site for demonstrating wetland restoration. Its ecological position as one of the two largest remaining marshes on the Niagara River necessitates proper stewardship. The area is a significant concentration area for large numbers and diverse species of gulls. Buckhorn Island will continue to support gull populations, as well as a diverse waterfowl population. The marsh at Buckhorn provides important nesting habitat for listed species such as least bittern, northern harrier and sedge wren. The marsh serves as a feeding, resting and breeding area for ducks, coots, moorhens, and rails. Common terns find suitable habitat for foraging here.
More about Buckhorn Island Bird Conservation Area:
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Homeowner advocates and some lawmakers are upset that an $8.5 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other banks over improper foreclosures would let lenders off the hook both financially and legally.
For one thing, the settlement would end an investigation into how the banks seized and sold the homes of borrowers, often without proper procedure. Furthermore, the amount of money, according to at least one advocate quoted by the AP, is less than the banks expected to spend.
The Associated Press via Google:
Diane Thompson, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center, complained that the deal won't actually compensate homeowners for the actual harm they suffered.
The deal "caps (banks') liability at a total number that's less than they thought they were going to pay going in," she said.
Most of the money will go to homeowners whose houses were seized and sold at a loss. Americans who were more or less rolled by the failed mortgage renegotiation process will get much lesser compensation.
—Posted by Peter Z. Scheer. Follow him on Twitter: @peesch.
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Though Scientology is a religion according to the United States government, to others it is a corporation, even a cult. Once best known for its famous followers — Tom Cruise and John Travolta among them — today Scientology is more noted for lawsuits and allegations by former members of censorship and extreme punishments.
Janet Reitman, a Reform Jew, was assigned by Rolling Stone magazine to investigate Scientology after returning from covering the Iraq War. Out of her research came "Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which tells the story of the Church of Scientology and of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, whose book "Dianetics" originally positioned itself as self-help and went on to become the seminal text of a new kind of religion. Scientology has 25,000 members. It is rooted in educational courses and confession called auditing. Reitman spoke with the Forward's Allison Gaudet Yarrow about Scientology's parallels with Judaism; the group's volatile leader, David Miscavige, and her predictions for Scientology's future.
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CAIRO — Security forces moved today to clear two camps in Cairo occupied by supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi, deploying armored vehicles, bulldozers, tear gas, snipers and helicopters in a sustained and bloody operation that seemed to surprise some protesters with its resolve and to deepen an already profound gulf in Egyptian society.
An Egyptian Health Ministry official said this morning that at least 56 people have been killed across the country.
Khaled el-Khateeb told The Associated Press that 28 were killed today in Cairo, where police stormed two sit-in camps by supporters of the deposed Islamist leader, 25 were killed in Minya province south of the capital and one each in the cities of Alexandria, Assiut and Ban Suef.
Separately, an alliance of pro-Morsi groups says the 17-year-old daughter of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed el-Beltagy has been killed. Asmaa Mohammed el-Beltagy was shot dead in the larger of the two vigils stormed by police in Cairo. Her brother Ammar confirmed her death on his Twitter account.
Witnesses spoke of gunfire from shotguns and automatic rifles as white clouds of tear gas offset plumes of black smoke from burning tires. Protesters arrived at field hospitals with gunshot wounds to the neck and chest. At one location, soldiers were seen firing on a lone protester lobbing rocks from a rooftop.
Scores of people were arrested, including leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, news reports said.
The operation also threatened to reinforce regional tensions with Turkey, whose Islamist-backed government opposed the overthrow of Morsi. The "armed intervention on civilians, on people demonstrating" was "completely unacceptable," in the words of President Abdullah Gul.
Hours after the operation began, authorities said they had cleared the smaller of two encampments at Nahda Square near Cairo University. But protesters at the larger camp around the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in the northeastern suburb of Nasr City remained defiant but seemed to be under siege by vastly superior forces seeking to uproot them.
Pro-Morsi demonstrators from outside the larger camp, meanwhile, clashed with police, braving waves of tear gas to barricade streets. Some protesters prepared gasoline bombs and broke paving stones to hurl at their adversaries as the confrontation unfolded.
The clashes illuminated the deepening fissures in Egypt between an Islamist movement sustained by the Muslim Brotherhood in support of Morsi and secular forces who cast the military as protectors.
News agencies reported clashes between civilian supporters and foes of Morsi in other parts of Cairo. An Egyptian human rights group, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said the crackdown had spurred counterattacks by Muslim Brotherhood supporters against Coptic Christian churches in Minya and Sohag, south of Cairo.
As demonstrations spread to other cities today, television footage from the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and Aswan in the south showed thousands of Morsi supporters taking to the streets to protest the military action in Cairo.
Amid the confusion, there were wildly divergent tallies of the death toll. The Muslim Brotherhood called the operation a "massacre" and put the number of dead in the hundreds, a figure that was not immediately borne out by reporters visiting morgues.
The coordinated action against the Morsi supporters, which had been expected for days, began around 7 a.m. local time. The protesters are seeking the reinstatement of Morsi, who became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012 and was deposed by the military six weeks ago. In removing Morsi, the military also suspended the constitution and installed an interim government presided over by a senior jurist.
A statement from the interim government praised the security forces for showing what it called self-restraint and blaming leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood for inciting violence.
"The government holds these leaders fully responsible for any spilled blood, and for all the rioting and violence going on," the statement said, according to Reuters.
The interim authorities also pledged to pursue a military-based political blueprint for the country's future in "a way that strives not to exclude any party from participation."
But, in a further sign of the rift between faith and political power, Al Azhar, the pre-eminent Muslim religious authority, said it had no advance knowledge that authorities would use aggressive means to disperse the protesters. A statement cited by Agence France-Presse called on all sides to "exercise self-restraint and take into account the interests of the nation" and said the "use of violence has never been an alternative to a political solution."
The statement followed hours of clashes after army bulldozers moved in to dismantle the defenses set up by protesters.
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Words spoken through the PC speakers sound very strange, similar to an echo and the words are very "thick" and not very clear. How can I fix this problem?
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Mailing List
Create a blog mailing list as soon as possible. The faster you start doing this, the more time you will have to cultivate a large list. This list may prove profitable for you down the line. Not beginning a mailing list early can be a huge mistake.
Stay patient when trying to get new readers. Even with the best advertising and link building campaign out there, it's going to take a bit of time for readers to find your blog. You also have to build up the amount of content on your blog before there is enough to entice a large audience to visit. The more valuable content you have on your blog, the more traffic you will drive to your site.
Don't try to just write a lot of content on your blog that has nothing to do with anything. Find a topic that suits your blog, and research it carefully. If you write filler or garbage, your blog won't succeed. The quality of your blog's content will determine its success.
Learn to utilize bullet lists, and italicized text featuring your keywords. This will make your site more accessible to the search engines, which will increase your viewership in little to no time. You can really boost your blog's performance with this simple tip.
After reading this article, you should understand how you can start a blog that will stand out from the crowd. Use these tips to bring in more readers than you ever thought possible.