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Hitchcock is famous for films such as Psycho, The 39 Steps and Birds, but he is less well known for his first film, silent picture The Pleasure Garden.
With the release of Hitchcock this week, the BFI is showing a series of short films online that give context to the Master of Suspense and his early work.
The five shorts centre around Hitchcock's first film, a 1925 melodrama he directed aged just 25. Typical Hitchcockian motifs such as a fascination with staircases, the act of voyeurism and the use of dogs as a moral compass can be found in The Pleasure Garden even at this early stage of his career.
In the first short, Hitchcock from the Archive, the director talks candidly to Tony Bilbow in an edition of the BBC's Late Night Line-Up about stars' salaries, the difficulties of working with well-known actors and why his pursuit of realism meant he never wanted to make a Western or period drama.
Fans can also watch Restoring the Pleasure Garden, a remastered version of Hitchcock's first film that has been digitally restored to show the picture's original tones and tints. The version is "far more compelling, far more narratively cohesive, and so much more engaging", according to the BFI's head curator Robin Baker.
In 2011 the BFI commissioned 23-year-old composer Daniel Patrick Cohen to create a new score for the 1925 film. Scoring the Pleasure Garden follows Cohen, a fan of Hitchcock and Bernard Herman- the director's long term collaborator and favourite composer- as he sets about creating the new soundtrack.
The five short films are available to watch for free on The Space, an on-demand digital arts service developed by Arts Council England in partnership with the BBC.
Click here or on "View Gallery" to launch the slideshow.
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Can I assume that if a relay clicks when it is supposed that it is not faulty??
Can I assume that if a relay clicks when it is supposed that it is not faulty??
The way to test a relay is to apply 12v to the coil while testing for continuity with a multimeter across the contacts to check if the contacts are opening/closing as they should.
However, as long as the contacts are not burnt out or something, the clicking is a fair sign that it is operating.
What's the problem you're having?
It is the rear demister on another vehicle, i can feel relay clicking but there no vlotage at the demister terminals.
Chances are that the coil of the relay will be on a separate supply from the demister itself, so the relay could easily be clicking while there is no voltage at the contacts. Check the fuses. Are there pin no.s on the relay?
I ahve checked voltage that relay receives and that seem ok.
The location of the relay means it is not the easiest of things to get to, otherwise I would test for continuity when demister switched on.
If the terminals inside are burnt out I would still get the click but circuit still broken??
You could still get a click as the coil is energised. What car is it?
It a volvo '97 v40 1.8 petrol
Did you check the fuse. I have a wiring diagram for a 2000 V40 I'm not sure if it's the same but if so it's fuse 3 in the engine compt
Yeah there 2 fuses, #3 in eng comp and #12 in cabin comp, I have just tested relay, getting continuity when energised so relay is ok, must be a broken wire which I find surprising as car in excellent condition. Trip to motor factors 2moro for new wire and a couple of splices and job's a good un.
Thanks for your help.
Might be an idea to check the wiring where it passes to the tailgate through a rubber sheath. Common for wiring to get damaged on all types of car due to all the bending and flexing..
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Investigators: Kennel Owner Faces New Animal Abuse Allegation
Russell Ebersole is the owner of Eberdeen Acres, an animal care facility that trains, grooms and boards dogs and cats. And this is not the first time he has been accused of animal cruelty.
"Four days into the boarding, the dog had medical issues," said Capt. Aleck Beeman of the Frederick County Sheriff's Office. "[Aberdeen Acres] called the owners, the owners came and got the dog, took it to the vet, the vet couldn't find anything wrong with it right away. The owner took it home and the dog died a couple hours later."
The Sheriff's Office said they are investigating this case because of Ebersole's record.
In 2003, Ebersole was charged and convicted of fraud for selling uncertified bomb-sniffing dogs to the federal government. The dogs reportedly failed several sniff tests involving explosives and Ebersole was sentenced to six and a half years behind bars.
In November 2012, Ebersole was charged with 13 counts of animal cruelty.
"We had several employees and owners contact the Frederick County Sheriff's Office about issues they've had with their dogs and medical issues," said Beeman. "And we started an investigation."
Some of those charges were dropped after a plea agreement was made, and he is currently awaiting sentencing on four of those charges.
And just two months ago, Ebersole was charged with animal cruelty after owners of a pet told police they witnessed him abusing their dog with a leash. This case has not yet gone to trial.
Ebersole would not go on camera, but gave us this statement:
"Aberdeen Acres boards approximately 14,000 dogs and cats per year. We feed them, water them and care for them. Once in a great while, one of our pet guests has a medical condition which gives us concern. In this case a 13.5-year-old pet was observed to have a condition, which in our opinion required veterinary care. In accordance with our standard protocol we immediately notified the owner. The owner arranged for a family member to come and pick up the pets in lieu of us transporting it to their veterinarian. Any time any pet guest experiences any medical condition we are very concerned for their health and safety."
Ebsersole also told us he thinks the dog died because, according to the records at his facility, it was given four routine vaccinations (DLPT, rabies, lime, and bordetella) just two days before it was brought into the kennel, said Ebersole.
He says old dogs, like the 13-year-old one that died, can easily get medical problems from vaccinations. Ebersole says he suspects it was the vaccinations that caused the dog's death rather than abuse.
Ebersole has not been faced with any new animal related charges since September, but the Frederick County Sheriff's Office says they are continuing the investigation into the recent death of the dog that died Friday. Capt. Beeman says cases of animal abuse in kennels can cross into a gray area because there are no national standards on how to train dogs.
"Unfortunately there are no federal or state standards on dog training," said Beeman. "The only standards that are out there are by private organizations like the American Kennel Club or something like that. There's nothing that we can go on that says this is how you train a dog."
Ebersole will face sentencing on November 26 for the four counts of animal cruelty from 2012. Beeman says the judge has the power to determine if Ebersole should be able to take in dogs at his kennel.
Police say they are waiting for the results of the dog's necropsy, an autopsy for animals, to determine if they will file any charges.


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Marian "Mare" Williams passed peacefully in her home Sept. 4, 2010, surrounded by family. Marian was born the third of six children to Mary Grant Judd and Robert Lund Judd on Dec. 10, 1918, and immediately was welcomed by Salt Lake City's great civic and ecclesiastical leaders, many of whom were family.
She entered life as one to watch. Mare's childhood was full of wonderful experiences with family on the avenues, summers in Brighton and in her local schooling. While attending the University of Utah, she met the captain of the polo team, Richard "Buck" Williams, and they began an amazing 60-year love affair, seen by all who knew them.
Until the end, she fondly reminisced of lively parties in their East Bench home, family summers in Brighton and Holiday Park, getaways to the Monterrey Peninsula and Steamboat Springs, romantic adventures to exotic international destinations and social gatherings with lifelong friends.
Throughout the years, she joined with her friends and family through the Junior League, the Alta Club, the Cottonwood Club and the Salt Lake Tennis Club, and she always stayed true to her sewing club, her bridge foursomes and Town Club. She loved people, her home and yard, the arts and design, entertaining, tennis, the Utah Jazz and the University of Utah. Above all, she cherished her family, and in the end, it was the love she had for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren that made leaving most difficult for her.
Mare truly graced others as she naturally lifted all she met through her undeniable charm, quick wit and fun sense of humor. She made others want to be their best. Mare is missed. Our memories of her will be cherished as those to be emulated. Mare is survived by her sisters, Kaye Fillmore (Winston) and Pauline Johnson (Richard); sister-in-law Virginia Leonard (Bevan); children Richard Judd (Shelly), Anne Larsen (David), Jane Bennett (Kevin), and Tom; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband and siblings Thomas Judd, Augusta Bullen and Robert Judd. She was the granddaughter of Heber J. and Augusta Winters Grant.
A memorial service was held in Utah on Sept. 11.
Donations may be made to the Utah Fine Arts Museum or Hospice and Palliative Care Services of Northwest Colorado, 940 Central Park Drive, Suite 101, Steamboat Springs, CO 80487.


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Vancouver Whitecaps captain Jay DeMerit announced his retirement from professional soccer, saying his most recent injury prevents him from continuing his career.
The Green Bay, WI native was the clubs first signing back in 2010 when they officially joined the MLS. He was immediately given the captaincy.
In the team's first season, DeMerit played in 21 games, with 20 starts.
He started 31 of 34 games in 2012. His lone goal in the league came in a 1-0 win over Chivas USA. It was Vancouver's first ever road win in MLS. That squad made the playoffs and set a MLS team record by going 427 minutes without conceding a goal to start the season.
However, injuries would begin to take their toll on the former United States international, as he would appear in just 19 games during the past two seasons due to Achilles injuries.
Before signing with the Whitecaps, DeMerit played six seasons with Watford FC in England. He was the hero in 2006 when he scored the winning goal for Watford to secure the clubs' entry into the English Premier league.
He had 25 caps for his country and started four games at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa for the USA.
DeMerit will remain with the club as club ambassador.
DeMerit married Vancouver native and Olympic Gold Medalist Ashleigh McIvor in August of 2013 at Whistler.
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Phone: (973) 720-3930
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Department: History
Position: Assistant Professor
Area Specialization: Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Scott McDonough teaches courses in Ancient and Medieval history of the Mediterranean and the Near East. He received his training at Cornell University and the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests lie in the social, institutional and religious history of late ancient west Asia, especially pre-Islamic Iran. He is currently working on a monograph, 'We Pray for Our Glorious King': Power, Patronage and Piety in Sasanian Iran, 220–651 CE.
PhD, History--University of California at Los Angeles, 2005
MA, History--University of California at Los Angeles, 1999
BA, History and Classics--Cornell University, 1996
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"Fighting the Other: Sasanian Iran." Invited contribution to Oxford University Press Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World, edited by B. Campbell and L. Tritle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. [In press]
"The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites and Subjects in Sasanian Iran (c. 220–651 CE)." In The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by J.P. Arnason and K.A. Raaflaub. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. [In press]
"Were the Sasanians Barbarians? Roman Writers on the Empire of the Persians." In Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World, edited by R. Mathisen and D. Shanzer, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. [In press]
"'We and Those Waters of the Sea Are One': Baptism, Bathing and the Construction of Identity in Late Ancient Babylonia." In Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance, edited by C. Kosso and A. Scott, 263–73. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
"A Second Constantine? The Sasanian King Yazdgard in Christian History and Historiography," Journal of Late Antiquity 1.1 (2008): 128–141.
"Bishops or Bureaucrats? Christian Clergy and the State in the Middle Sasanian Period." In Current Research in Sasanian Archaeology, Art and History, British Archaeological Reports International Series 1810, edited by D. Kennet and P. Luft, 87–92. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008.
"A Question of Faith? Persecution and Political Centralization in the Sasanian Empire of Yazdgard II (438–457 CE)." In Violence in Late Antiquity. Perceptions and Practices, edited by H.A. Drake, 69–81. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
"The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos, trans. R.W. Thomson, historical commentary by James Howard-Johnston with Tim Greenwood," Comitatus 32 (2001): 162–6. [Review]


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I bought 1 pair of these pants to see how they would work out. I work behind a counter and they are so perfect for me I can't exaggerate how much I like them. They wear well, they hold up all day and don't show wrinkles. The extra room in the waist is perfect for me and undetectable and they are very comfortable. Bending is no problem, they resist staining. They always look neat and respectable regardless of how often you wear them between washings. I gave this first pair a real test. I wore them 7 working days ( 1 of those included an afternoon of golf, which these pants are great for as well) before throwing them in the laundry basket. The small extra pocket on the right leg holds my keys out of the way of other things in the main pocket or an extra golf ball on the course. These pants came out of the washer clean, creased and wrinkle free with no shrinkage. I bought 5 more pair.
These fit great and look good, I can wear one size smaller than my actual waist size and find a small weight loss or gain is well compensated for by flex waist band. The waist band also helps keeps them comfortable when driving, The flex helps them stay looking good too. I am average built , 6'1", 202 lbs. The cut is about perfect for active work wear, relaxed, but not baggy,..... good for getting in and out of trailers, under the trailer and climbing in and out of the cab.......etc.;they stay comfortable. I find the pockets plenty deep and never have lost anything out of them. I do not use the leg pocket as I do not feel that is secure. The fabric weight is a good compromise for winter and summer wear. They wash well and folding them quickly from the dryer helps them look decent without ironing #which is difficult living in a semi.# Most incident spots from oil, grease , diesel and/or coffee slops wash out using a prewash spot remover. However, I don't use the pants as a rag like some seem to do. I alternate 3 prs. on the truck; these are now 2 years old and still look good; not thread bare. The dark colors do not look all washed out either...........they are washed regularly # cold water#At Walmart's price they are an excellent bargin. IMHO they can't be beat.
These pants are of great quality. Especially if you're like me and seem to have a seesaw weight issue. Most importantly these pants have a built in cell phone pocket in the right knee area and your not able to tell that they have an expandable waist band. Chuck one up for comfort. I will be buying another pair.
Very sturdy material. Comfort stretch band gives you that bit of room for bending and maybe that little bit of overeating we all do once in a while. Heavy material, these are not soft comfy pants, these are made to last. You don't need to buy a size bigger with these, actually you can buy a size smaller since they stretch up to 2 sizes you'll be right in the middle by getting a size smaller.
Def worth the money and I'll be buying more pairs to wear to work.
Good looking, sturdy work pant with just enough "give" in the waistband to make them comfortable all day. They do not fade, even after numerous washings, and are ready to wear when removed from the dryer.
I use this pant for my uniform pants on a fire dept. Withstands all type of abuse. Wont fade after numerous washings.
I bought these for my son because his high school requires navy and khaki pants as part of their uniform. I normally buy Dickies with the cell phone pocket at a local store and when I saw these online for about $5 less I thought it would be a good deal. Unfortunately, this style is not the same, the legs are very wide and the elastic on the waistband make him look like a total geek. I would recommend this for a heavy-set man looking for comfort but not for a young man wanting to looking stylish.
Alot of the volunteer medics in PG County, MD purchase these as uniform items. These pants are great, and the side 'cell phone' pocket is great for items such as trauma shears.
For the record the description is incorrect, this is a cotton/polyester blend so be aware.
Otherwise this is another great product from dickies.
I bought these for my 20 year old son in collage. They're true to size and the stretchy tabs on either side of the pants makes them extra comfortable. The only complaint I heard from him is the fabric wasn't soft. I think the pants will soften after a few washings. He's been wearing them, so it must not be too bad. Overall, great pants for the money!
Sorry Dickies, you HAVE done better in the past. But these pants are a joke -- from the geeky elastic inside, to the geeky-fitting outside (I am slim) to the HORRIBLE pockets that LOSE things. I've been able to catch my bus-pass/workID several times, as it was about to sliide out of the top of the pocket - BUT I lost my small Swiss Army knife when it slid out from the top of the pocket. So, how'd they do that? Easy-- the pockets are VERY VERY tightly made -- no give, no extra fabric to hold things like my other pants' pockets DO) and not deep enough. So when I walk, the mere act of walking is like a pump that pulls things deep inside the pockets up to the tops of my pockets. I CAN NO LONGER WEAR these pants; I bought two pairs and I am out almost $40 -- so, some poor unfortunate somewhere will become the beneficiary of them..
My husband really likes the Dickies comfort waist pants, and they are difficult to find in the stores.
I like that they wash and wear so nicely and the fabric is a good quality.
Very comfortable pants that fit me very well. I appreciate the invisible stretch waist which gives me ample room for all day comfort. They always look crisp and neat. Can also be used in smart casual dress situations. Nice variety of colors available.
I work retail and I used to buy the cheaper Faded Glory brand dress pants, they would fade after no more than two washes nomatter which detergent used... Now; I will admit that when it comes to work uniforms, I am a "penny Pincher" escpecially since we don't get reimbursed.
I got tired of my old brand falling apart beyond wear after about 3 months, so I decided to give Dickies a try after many numerous reccomendations from coworkers.
The last wo pairs I bought have lasted for over a year, I washed them literally everyday since... and they still look like new!
I'm constantly in backstock areas and on my knees stocking shelves. The threading on the legs are coming apart but other than that... I will never buy a different brand again. No holes on the knees at all, and I dont use knee pads (though I should really start lol).
So to sum this up, Dickies the best brand work pant I have yet come accross... they dont fade, stain, or show wear and tear (yes, I really had my last pairs for over a year). The sewing seams will give out long before the material.
We've had a pair of pants like this for years and years - they're worn 52 weeks a year (but just on one weekend night when my husband works for a caterer). They have finally worn out (not quite, but they look shabby). We are delighted with their replacement. These pants are a real work horse, and we expect they'll last another bunch of years. Wash, dry, hang and you're ready to go; absolutely no ironing. Delivery was exactly as expected.
I bought 5 pairs of these pants when I started my new job in 2009. I bought new ones last month only because I put on a few too many pounds. My weight tends to vary, and these pants with the comfort waist always fit well whether I was up or down that week. I figure I wore and washed each pair well over 100 times and they were still going strong. Can't beat THAT for quality.
I always buy Dickie Comfort Waist for my husbond's work paints
I wear these pants everyday for work. The move with you. They hold up really well I bought 3 pairs and they've lasted over 6 months with no signs of wear. This is the third type of pants I've had to purchase for work in 2 1/2 years. They've lasted the longest so far. I will never buy from anyone except dickies again.
My husband wears a uniform for work. I buy these pants five pair at a fime , and they will last him app. 18 months. He loves the expanding waist band.
Quote from the husband - "I think they look nice on me and they feel really good too." Now I had wished that they were 100% cotton as he uses a welder at times, but the convenience of permanent press is a plus, as the work pants always look neat, and never in need of ironing. Makes my life easier. Thanks Walmart, he looks like the professional mechanic that he is.


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Emily Prather Rodgers '04 / University librarian balances history, future
Emily Prather-Rodgers '04 admittedly didn't spend much time in Transylvania's library.
"I was one of those dorm room studiers; I went to the library only when I had to," she said.
But Transy's library staff made enough of an impact on her studies that she names them as an inspiration in her current position as technical services coordinator at North Central College's Oesterle Library in Chicago.
Prather-Rodgers' job includes managing the library's special collections, which have a special tie back to Kentucky. A bevy of "Lincoln-ania," as she calls it, brings authors and scholars from around the country to study up on our 16th President. The collection includes books and information on Lincoln's life and presidency.
"That gets a lot of attention from scholars; it's unbelievable how many people are writing books about Lincoln still today," she said.
In addition, one of the more unusual treasures is a collection of signatures from almost every U.S. President from George Washington through Richard Nixon. Washington's is particularly rare. His signature is on a land survey he did when he was 16 years old.
Other pieces include a 1632 first edition of Galileo's Dialogue and a jazz music library. Being the curator of the special collections is right up the alley for Prather-Rodgers, who was an art history major at Transylvania.
"That actually worked out really well," she said. "I interned at the University of Kentucky art museum, and that steered me in the direction of, 'OK, this is really interesting, but I don't want to work at a museum.' Then this sort of fell into my lap, because we're similar in that we're collecting things and offering them to the public. There's no point in having the special collection if it's not being used by people."
Prather-Rodgers gets to wear a lot of hats at the small liberal arts institution. Another one of her main responsibilities is to manage the library's catalog, which includes the traditional collection of physical books and a growing number of online texts that she says are changing the way higher-education students around the world study and research.
"Our goal is to go as paperless as we can with our journals and things like that because we know that students prefer to get their stuff from their dorm rooms at 3 o'clock in the morning," she said. "In a lot of ways, it's made the research process easier. It's right there; everything's online."
North Central students executed more than half a million database searches in the 2010 fiscal year and used 265,000 online articles. The library has also begun purchasing e-books, which allow students to flip through entire books on their computers or electronic reading devices. Gone are the days of physical library buildings being the only places students can get their materials.
"They can use the e-books as mini-databases," Prather-Rodgers said. "For the most part, people don't read a whole book when they're doing research. It used to be that you flipped to the index of a book, found the information you needed, and went from there. This is taking it a step further and making it much easier to get right to the piece you need without going to the rest of the book."
Some traditionalists may scoff at the idea that being able to skip major parts of a book or journal is a good thing, and Prather-Rodgers understands the sentiment. She said there are challenges to giving students a sort of free online reign over the materials they use.
"You may miss out on that serendipitous discovery that you would get if you had a book in your hand," she said. "And there's so much (online) that's not good. We have no problem with (online user-generated encyclopedia) Wikipedia, but we have to make sure students know not to use it as a source."
Interaction with both students and the public in so many different venues is Prather-Rodgers's favorite part of her position. She gets to have significant contact with students through in-person conversation and online presence.
"Even though I didn't take a lot of time in Transy's library, I knew who the librarians were and felt comfortable approaching them," Prather-Rodgers said. "We had that one-on-one contact. I appreciated that as a student, and now I want to be able to do that for students. They may not step foot in the door. But I'm always surprised how many students, even on the first day of classes, are in the library studying. Despite the challenges of a small building, it's really a popular place on campus."
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Since my mower ran out of gas....runs rough
Since my lawn mower ran out of gas......it runs rough, & wants to stall. I assume the carb sucked up junk from the tank, removed carb & cleaned, screen was clean, cleaned gas tank,
when I tilt deck toward handle on rear wheels, it improves, but level or tilted other way, it gets worse. Changed oil, & new plug.
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Type: 2189B3
Code: 01101851
Did you change the fuel filter. You may have some junk trapped inside and it's restricting flow.
Lawnmower fuel problem
There is no filter on this simple carb, just the screen on the end of the inlet tube from the tank, I just took it apart for the 5th time, cleaned every orifice, inspected it, & checks out good. I cannot buy a new carb, (plastic) as Briggs & Stratton does not carry them.
It runs good for the first 10 seconds from the primed gas, but goes back to chugging, I'm guessing maybe the vacuum drawing the gas is somehow weak, dont know that much about the part of the mower, but am going to look into it. Thank-you.
just a silly suggestion.... not sure if it willl work
would opening the fuel tank cap make the mower running longer... just for experimental see if it is really the fuel supply causing the choking....
I assume base on simple physics... when the tank cap open, fuel is easier to draw... you know.. air pressure..in take, out take...etc.....
well this definitely not a long term solution... if it even works... but it could be a diagnostic thing...
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I don't really like it, I don't eat pumpkin pie at all.
I don't either! Everyone around here gets SO excited when Starbucks brings back the Pumpkin spice latte and I really don't even care about it lol
I looooove pumpkin! My husband hates fall because everything I make or eat revolves around pumpkin flavors...haha!
And are those real? Because I will try them.
I like pumpkin pie but that's about it. I love the Mint Hot Chocolate from Dunkin Donuts and would drink that 24/7 if I could lol
Yes! I love this time of the year and part of it is because of the pumpkin flavored everything! Pumpkin spice pancakes are on heavy rotation for us during the Fall.


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June 26, 2013
USC has added sophomore forward Darion Clark to its men's basketball roster, it was announced today (June 26) by head coach Andy Enfield.
"Darion fits our style of play. We are excited to have him," said Enfield. "He will sit out this season, develop his skills, and have three years remaining to help take the USC program to the next level."
Clark, a 6-7, 235-pound forward, transfers to USC after one season at Charlotte where he played in 32 games, making 18 starts. He averaged 6.2 points and 4.6 rebounds in 17.6 minutes per game. Clark made 54.2 percent of his field goal attempts.
Clark posted eight games with at least seven rebounds, including a career high of 11 in his collegiate debut on Nov. 9, 2012 vs. Charleston Southern. He scored a career-best 17 points vs. Dayton on Feb. 27, 2013 and scored in double figures seven times as a freshman. Clark scored 10 points and added eight rebounds in the Great Alaska Shootout championship win vs. Northeastern on Nov. 24, 2012.
Clark is from Conyers, Ga. and attended Oak Hill Academy where he helped lead him to a 44-0 record and the nation's final No. 1 ranking in 2012.


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The `Election Futures' Market: More Accurate Than Polls?
Iowa seems an unlikely spot for the financial world to focus its attention. But the University of Iowa is host to what is arguably today's hottest futures market--an electronic exchange that allows traders to bet on the outcome of the national election.
What began as an Ivory Tower experiment in remote Iowa City is beginning to have an impact on stocks and bonds. When trading at the Iowa Electronic Market on Oct. 23 suggested that Congress might fall to the Democrats, the Dow Jones industrial average took it on the chin. The capital markets are paying attention because the IEM has forecast election results with surprising accuracy since its formation in 1988. It predicted the vote totals of the past two Presidential elections within two-tenths of a percentage point, outperforming national polls. It also has closely tracked elections overseas, never wavering from Boris Yeltsin, for instance, as he won reelection in Russia.
The market operates like a stripped-down model of the Chicago futures pits, except that all trading is conducted on the World Wide Web at http://www.biz. uiowa.edu/iem. Participants can open accounts with up to $500 and trade any of 16 contracts. Some 7,000 players have more than $200,000 riding on them. The most popular play is a winner-take-all bet on Clinton vs. Dole. Each contract has a Clinton unit and a Dole unit, which together costs $1 to buy. Traders make their bet by selling the unit they think will lose. When the contracts expire on election day, the winning candidate's units pay $1 and the loser's are worthless. Lately, traders have been snapping up Clinton and dumping Dole. In the lively aftermarket for units, Clinton was selling for 95 cents as of Oct. 29 and Dole for 5 cents. So if Dole pulls an upset, his supporters in the market can win a dollar for every nickel they wager.
That's not the only Presidential contract. Traders in the "vote-share" market are betting Clinton will win on Nov. 5 by a wide margin--though not as wide as some polls indicate. From early March to late October, Clinton units have climbed from 51% to 57%. Rather than winner-take-all, traders who paid 51 cents would realize 57 cents per unit at expiration if Clinton gets that much of the vote. On the other hand, Dole holders have watched their contracts sag from 49% to 43% over the same period. In contracts involving House and Senate control, Iowa traders riled the stock and bond markets by bidding up the value of Democrats-take-the-House units to 44 cents--suggesting a 44% chance of Gingrich & Co. losing control of the next session. As of Oct. 29, though, the IEM's view on Democrats seizing power had retreated to 37%.
TRACK RECORD. Interesting, but is it a legitimate indicator? Some major-league traders think so. The idea that markets work better than polls appeals to folks toiling on trading floors. Bond analysts at Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc. follow the Iowa exchange, and some market professionals have joined in the betting. At heart, traders see value in subjecting political winds to market forces, and even Iowa's small stakes are an improvement on mere poll responses: "They're putting their money on the line, and that means something," says Chicago Board of Trade Chairman Patrick Arbor. Pollsters, meantime, typically have problems predicting turnout and getting representative samples, explains Robert Forsythe, associate dean at Iowa's business school and a driving force behind the market. Voters who answer polls sometimes lie about their preferences or whether they vote at all.
Even as advocates hale free markets in action, critics attack the ballot-box bourse for its short history, thin capitalization, and alleged tendency to veer out of sync early on in the election cycle. Yet those gripes hardly matter if the market's overall performance is good--and so far, the record favors Iowa. "We've yet to be disappointed," Forsythe boasts. While the Iowa market is no doubt unrepresentative, it rewards those who are good at predicting elections. "The basic idea is right. People will do what's economically rational," notes Martin S. Fridson, chief high-yield bond strategist at Merrill Lynch.
So if the Iowa market is gaining credibility, isn't it also inviting manipulation? Why not sell short stock-index futures, then bet your Iowa account on Democrats retaking the House in the hope that your order will change the political odds and frighten Wall Street again? To be sure, the potential risks have caused the market's founders some jitters. In 1992, they invited the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate it. They also take comfort in the $500 trading limit, which curtails the ability of single players to move prices: An avid Perot supporter tried it in 1992, but the market swung back within hours.
In the beginning, the IEM was aimed at providing hands-on experience to students hindered by their school's "geographic disadvantage"--a polite way of saying that, market-wise, it's in the middle of nowhere. Today, the political market is set to grow. While its founders scoff at the Brazilian hedge-fund manager who tried to open an account with $12 million, they see nothing wrong with raising the stakes to, say, $5,000 per account. And since demand is strong for the Iowa approach in Russia, Turkey, and other nations where polling remains primitive, "You're naturally inclined to think global," says Gary C. Fethke, Iowa's B-school dean. Today, Iowa. Tomorrow, the world.


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Lewallen Funeral services for Joe B. Lewallen, Sr., 70, of New Ulm were held Friday, Dec. 28, 2007 at 11 a.m. from Knesek Bros. Funeral Chapel in Bellville with Bill Ball officiating. Pallbearers were Michael Stricker, Jake Lewallen, Eric Schrock, Jeff Moore, Allen Rust, and Philip Hyams. Born in Brady, Texas, Joe was the son of Allen Lou and Ethel (Shuffield) Lewallen. Joe served his country in the U.S. Army in the 82th Airborne during the Cuban Missile Crisis and was part of the Honor Guard in President Kennedyąs Inaugural Parade. On May 29, 1956, Mr. Joe Lewallen was joined in marriage to the former Miss Nancy Lyon with a ceremony held in Odessa. He worked as a Branch Manager for Odessa Pumps in Houston. Joe was a member of the First Baptist Church of Brenham. Joe B. Lewallen passed away on Sunday, December 23, 2007 in Cypress, Texas. Joe is survived by his daughters, Cathy Taggart and husband Aaron of Houston, Nancy Stricker of New Ulm, son, Joe Lewallen, Jr. and wife Jana of Portland, Texas, sister Lynette Long and husband Tommy of San Antonio, brother-in-law, George C. Lyon Jr. and wife Sandy of Longview, grandchildren Lindsay Schrock and husband Eric, Jake Lewallen, Erica Lewallen, Michael Stricker, Kassie Hyams, Amy Moore and husband Jeff, Sara Green, Chris Taggart and wife Kyla and Candice Taggart, great grandchildren, Cameron Hyams, Joshua Green, Jacob Green, Keenan Taggart, Hailee Taggart and Lace Taggart. Joe was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Nancy Lewallen and mother-in-law, Nellie Lyon. Services under the direction of Knesek Bros. Funeral Chapel in Bellville
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I was doing a search on the forum on splitting the brood nest, but alot of the posts were concerning preventing swarming, which is not an issue in my case.
I have a 10 frame hive that overwintered fine and has approx 7 frames of bees (frames covered in bees that is. I noticed yesterday that the queen was laying a very good pattern, and that the brood area was two frames of just about all capped brood. The queen had not expanded beyond this, but clearly needed a place to lay and could not find it as on these two frames in any cell that was not capped were multiple eggs. I did not want to be too disturbing, so I added an empty frame next to these to frames. Rather than the queen getting a chance to lay in it, the bees that already one day later filled the comb with drying nectar, which is what was in the frame there previously.
So today I was a bit more drastic and separated the two brood frames and placed a drawn out empty frame in between.-- We don't have any very cold nights in the forecast so I think I will be alright in terms of chilling the brood.
This is going to work as an effective way to increase the queens laying--I can always put the brood nest back together tomorrow if I find out by anyone here that this could be a big mistake (we do have maple blooming now plus the hive has a feeder on it as well)
Let me know what you all think


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Fun and Addicting Game – Bloxorz
Seeing how it is the worst day of the week … working for "The Man". I figured I would bring attention to a cool game to waste the workday on. I have not played all of the games on Addicting Games, but Bloxorz is truly addictive. Very cool graphics and interesting and subtle sound effects.
This is an excellent time waster to start off the work week right!
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I have a game that my grandchildren like - which has a name that displays in iTunes using an oriental alphabet. So they can't type in its name to find it.
Looking at it in the finder, I see the file is named "InvisMazeFree 1.1.0.ipa".
Is there any way to use the Search to find the game in my very full iPad? Or change its name (but still get updates)?


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Ukip leader Nigel Farage has called on the BBC to "sack everybody and start again" on Radio 4's Today programme, claiming that it fails to show balance in its coverage of issues including climate change.
Farage said that he felt that overall the BBC continues to show too much bias in the way it covers news and current affairs, singling out the Today programme for particular criticism.
"In terms of overall BBC bias, on the Today programme there has been no improvement at all," he said, in an interview with website Public Service Europe. "I'm in the car and the programme is on and I hear climate change for the fifth time that morning and I just scream. I'm afraid that there are many things that the Today programme takes to be givens that I think ought to be debated. They need to sack everybody and start again."
He said he felt that the BBC has been forced to increasingly embrace Ukip representatives on its programmes, such as BBC1's Question Time, in a move to provide a balance of views beyond that of the three main political parties.
"The BBC has to provide an alternative view, [it] has to provide balance and it has to provide an argument and among elected politicians in Britain, it is only Ukip offering that," he said. "In terms of recognising Ukip's role, there has been a great improvement. I am being praiseworthy in some senses, by saying that the BBC as an organisation has recognised that British politics has changed and its attitude towards us at byelections and everything else has changed dramatically and that I welcome."
He was also asked if he felt that the often-criticised Ukip was now receiving a "fair ride" from the wider British media: "Yes, I do think so," he said. "Things have changed an awful lot."
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CES 2017: EVGA Announces a Trio of Intel Z270 Motherboards
Subject: Motherboards, Chipsets | January 6, 2017 - 05:24 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: stinger, motherboard, mini-itx, kaby lake, intel z270, Intel Optane, Intel, FTW K, eatx, Classified K, CES 2017, CES, atx
EVGA has introduced three new motherboards based on the new Intel Z270 chipset, with new versions of their Classified K, FTW K, and Stinger designs.
We'll start with the Z270 Classified K, an EATX form-factor board with all of the storage support bases covered (M.2, U.2, and Intel Optane Memory ready), Killer E2500 and Intel i219 NICs, Creative Sound Core3D audio, along with "a newly-designed VRM and hardware design built for cutting-edge performance and overclockability".
EVGA Z270 Classified K features:
- Highly-Efficient 13 Phase Digital VRM
- Onboard Power, Reset and Clear CMOS
- EVGA E-LEET X Tuning Utility
- Triple BIOS Support
- M.2 NVMe PCI-E SSD Support
- U.2 NVMe SSD Support
- Intel Optane Memory Ready
- Intel Thunderbolt Support
- Switchable DC / PWM Fan Control
- Onboard CPU Temperature Monitor
- 300% Increase in CPU Gold Content
Next there is Z270 FTW K, a standard ATX form-factor option that offers the same storage flexibility as the larger Classified K including Intel Optane Memory support, Killer E2400 and Intel i219 NICs, and 11-Phase Digital VRM power delivery (among other things).
EVGA Z270 FTW K features:
- Highly-Efficient 11 Phase Digital VRM
- Onboard Power, Reset and Clear CMOS
- EVGA E-LEET X Tuning Utility
- M.2 NVMe PCI-E SSD Support
- U.2 NVMe SSD Support
- Intel Optane Memory Ready
- Switchable DC / PWM Fan Control
- Onboard CPU Temperature Monitor
- 150% Increase in CPU Gold Content
Finally, there is the mini-ITX Z270 Stinger, which packs a surprising number of features into a 6.7-inch square, including 802.11ac dual band Wi-Fi, an Intel i219 NIC, M.2, U.2, and Intel Optane support:
- Highly-Efficient 6 Phase VRM
- Onboard Clear CMOS
- EVGA E-LEET X Tuning Utility
- M.2 NVMe PCI-E SSD Support
- U.2 NVMe SSD Support
- Intel Optane Memory Ready
- Switchable DC / PWM Fan Control
- 150% Increase in CPU Gold Content
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Intel Broadwell-E Expected for Q1 2016
Subject: General Tech, Processors, Chipsets | October 23, 2014 - 03:25 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, Broadwell, Broadwell-E, Haswell-E
VR-Zone China got hold of an alleged Intel leak, go figure, that talks about their next enthusiast processor platform, Broadwell-E. This architecture is mostly Haswell-E that has its (rated) feature size shrunk down to 14nm. Given an available BIOS, it is expected to support at least some existing LGA 2011-v3 motherboards with the X99 chipset. Like Haswell, they are sticking with a maximum of 40 PCIe lanes. We will need to wait for individual SKUs to see whether one or more models will be limited to 28 lanes, like the Haswell-E-based Core i7-5820K.
Image Credit: Chinese VR-Zone
Intel claims 140W TDP, which is identical to the current three offerings of Haswell-E, for all options. The slide claims six and eight core models will be available (also identical to Haswell-E).
One bullet-point that baffled me is, "Integrated Memory Controller: 4 Channels DDR4 2400, 1 DIMM per Channel". Double-checking with the other writers here, just to make sure sure, it seems like the slide claims that Broadwell-E will only support four sticks of DDR4. This makes zero sense for a couple of reasons. First, one of the main selling points of the enthusiast platform has been the obscene amount of RAM that workstation users demand. Second, and more importantly, if it is compatible with existing motherboards, what is it going to do? Fail to POST if you install a fifth stick? This has to be a typo or referring to something else entirely.
When will you be able to get it? A bit later than we were hoping. It is expected for Q1 2016, rather than late 2015.
Intel Sent Us a Containment Chamber with Parts Inside
Subject: Motherboards, Processors, Chipsets, Memory, Storage | September 5, 2014 - 01:21 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: X99-Deluxe, SSD 730, Intel, Haswell-E, ddr4, asus, 5960X
Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I didn't know what I was getting into. When a couple of packages showed up at our office from Intel with claims that they wanted to showcase the new Haswell-E platform...I was confused. The setup was simple: turn on cameras and watch what happens.
So out of the box comes...a containment chamber. A carefully crafted, wood+paint concoction that includes lights, beeps, motors and platforms.
Want to see how Intel promotes the Core i7-5960X and X99 platform? Check out this video below.
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Interview with Intel's Matt Dunford about Haswell-E and X99
Subject: Processors, Chipsets | August 29, 2014 - 07:25 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, Intel, X99, Haswell-E, core i7-5960x, 5960X, ddr4
Though my review of the Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E processor was posted earlier today, we hosted a live stream later in the afternoon where Allyn and I talked about the launch. We were also able to welcome Matt Dunford, Princpal Evangelist at Intel to talk about his role in the Haswell-E release, the future of the platform, how DDR4 memory fits into it all and much more.
The video is embeded in the processor review now as well but I have included it separately below for those of you that want to jump straight in.
My thanks goes out to Matt from Intel for joining us on the live stream and to all the viewers that came by to submit questions and participate!
AMD Restructures. Lisa Su Is Now COO.
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors, Chipsets | June 13, 2014 - 06:45 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: x86, restructure, gpu, arm, APU, amd
According to VR-Zone, AMD has reworked their business, last Thursday, sorting each of their projects into two divisions and moving some executives around. The company is now segmented into the "Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom Business Group", and the "Computing and Graphics Business Group". The company used to be divided between "Computing Solutions", which handled CPUs, APUs, chipsets, and so forth, "Graphics and Visual Solutions", which is best known for GPUs but also contains console royalties, and "All Other", which was... everything else.
Lisa Su, former general manger of global business, has moved up to Chief Operating Officer (COO), along with other changes.
This restructure makes sense for a couple of reasons. First, it pairs some unprofitable ventures with other, highly profitable ones. AMD's graphics division has been steadily adding profitability to the company while its CPU division has been mostly losing money. Secondly, "All Other" is about a nebulous as a name can get. Instead of having three unbalanced divisions, one of which makes no sense to someone glancing at AMD's quarterly earnings reports, they should now have two, roughly equal segments.
At the very least, it should look better to an uninformed investor. Someone who does not know the company might look at the sheet and assume that, if AMD divested from everything except graphics, that the company would be profitable. If, you know, they did not know that console contracts came into their graphics division because their compute division had x86 APUs, and so forth. This setup is now more aligned to customers, not products.
Intel "Wellsburg" Leaks: Haswell-E's X99 Chipset
Subject: General Tech, Processors, Chipsets | March 13, 2014 - 03:35 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, Haswell-E, X99
Though Ivy Bridge-E is not too distant of a memory, Haswell-E is on the horizon. The enthusiast version of Intel's architecture will come with a new motherboard chipset, the X99. (As an aside: what do you think its eventual successor will be called?) WCCFTech got their hands on details, albeit some of which have been kicking around for a few months, outlining the platform.
Image Credit: WCCFTech
First and foremost, Haswell-E (and X99) will support DDR4 memory. Its main benefit is increased bandwidth and decreased voltage at the same current, thus lower wattage. The chipset will support four memory channels.
Haswell-E will continue to have 40 PCIe lanes (the user's choice between five x8 slots or two x16 slots plus a x8 slot). This is the same number of total lanes as seen on Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E. While LGA 2011-3 is not compatible with LGA 2011, it does share that aspect.
X99 does significantly increase the number of SATA ports, to ten SATA 6Gbps (up from two SATA 6Gbps and four SATA 3Gbps). Intel RST, RST Smart Response Technology, and Rapid Recover Technology are also present and accounted for. The chipset also supports six native USB 3.0 ports and an additional eight USB 2.0 ones.
Intel Haswell-E and X99 is expected to launch sometime in Q3 2014.
... And It's Gone. SATA Express Canceled from Intel 9-Series
Subject: General Tech, Chipsets, Storage | November 12, 2013 - 04:37 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, 9-series, SATA Express
Intel is preparing to launch several processors next year. For back-to-school, Haswell will return with new SKUs and a new 9-series chipset; in the holiday season, Haswell-E will arrive for high-end (high wattage) enthusiasts on the X99 chipset; and, just before 2015, Broadwell-K will be available for the mainstream 9-series desktop.
SATA Express will not be accompanying them.
The specification, which more than triples SATA 6Gbps's "up-to 600MB/s" bandwidth rating, will not be validated for Intel 9 Series chipsets. Intel was originally rumored to be its launch partner. The host connector accepts connections from both SATA (up to two per host connector) and PCIe-based (one device, up to two lanes) hard drives. Two PCIe lanes provides 2GB/s of bandwidth.
It seems like the real benefit is to allow internal drives be connected with PCIe speeds through a ribbon-cable. Currently Intel has not given a reason to pass on the standard.
Microsoft buys Nokia, the second largest maker of cell phones
Subject: Chipsets | September 3, 2013 - 03:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: microsoft, nokia, windows phone, purchase, billions
At a mere $7.2 billion, Microsoft just picked up all of Nokia's devices and some of their software in an attempt to streamline production and win market share from Apple and Android devices. Nokia tends to be the manufacturer that people think of when they think of Windows phones, with HTC a close second. The current market share of Windows phones is minuscule and for that matter so is Nokia's; what might not be clear from some of the stories you have been reading is that Nokia has a large share of the phones currently being manufactured. As you can see from the Reuters graph below they are actually second only to Samsung in terms of manufacturing, this existing infrastructure may help Microsoft greatly as they structured as a software company ... Surface being the exception that proves the rule.
From Reuters
The Inquirer believes this could mean a resurgence of competing mobile OS designs, with Google owning Motorola it seems likely that Samsung and HTC are going to want to diversify their lineup of phones even though Google has suggested they will not provide preferential treatment to Motorola. Microsoft may still provide licenses to HTC but with this major change you can expect the rumours of HTC developing a mobile OS to become verified as well as a lot more news on Tizen, Samsung's home grown OS. Blackberry could be doomed at this point, with nothing unique to offer in the way of secure connectivity now that they have moved to ActiveSync and dated hardware they are reduced to a niche market consisting solely of those who want a physical keyboard on their phone. This purchase is as painful to Finland as the death of BlackBerry will be for Canada.
The other interesting part to this story is the return of Stephen Elop to Microsoft as he only left them in 2010, previously he headed their business software division. You can follow the odds on his likelihood of taking the reins from Ballmer by following the link from this article; Stephen has tossed hardware across a room so he is certainly qualified. If he did take over Microsoft it would signal a 'mobile first' mentality which might help sales of Win8 on mobile devices but would not bode well for the desktop users. If he is not placed in charge of the entire company it would likely mean that we will see him head a mobile division while someone else handles a desktop OS. That has not worked well for Microsoft historically, we shall see in the coming months which direction the company chooses. Hopefully they will remember they sell a server OS.
"MICROSOFT SURPRISED NO ONE on Tuesday when it announced that it picked up Nokia's devices unit and licensed some of its software for a cool £4.6bn in cash. While many see the deal as two struggling companies merging for a final shot at success, we think the deal should have Apple and Google worried."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Intel to introduce Ivy Bridge-E processors at IDF 2013 @ DigiTimes
- ARM buys advanced display technology from Cadence @ The Inquirer
- Intel NUC Spotted At PAX Prime w/ Haswell CPU Inside @ Legit Reviews
- Intel Shows PAX Attendees SSD Overclocking @ Legit Reviews
- King of the ARMverse: Can anyone snap the dragon? @ VR-Zone
- Simple Secure Erase and MPCIe Added To Asus Maximus VI Motherboard Family @ SSD Review
- Facebook strips away a bit more of your privacy – but won't say why @ The Register
- Escort PASSPORT Max Radar Detector Review @ TechwareLabs
- Cubieboard: ARM A8 CPU with SATA for Under $50 @ Linux.com
- AlienVibes Global Joint Giveaway @ NikKTech
Jon Peddie has good news for NVIDIA in Q3 2012
Subject: Chipsets | November 26, 2012 - 01:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: jon peddie, Q3 2012, graphics, market share
Jon Peddie Research have released their findings for the graphics market in Q3 of 2012, with bad news for the market, though not so bad for NVIDIA. The downward trend in PC sales has had an effect on the overall graphics market, with the number of units sold dropping 5.2% from this time last year and only NVIDIA seeing a rise in the number of units sold. AMD saw a drop of 10.7% in the number of units they shipped, specifically a 30% drop from last quarter in desktop APUs and just under 5% in mobile processors. Intel's overall sales dropped 8%, with both segments falling roughly equally but NVIDIA's strictly discrete GPU business saw a 28.3% gain in desktop market share and 12% for notebooks when compared to last quarter.
Worth noting is what JPR includes in this research above and beyond what we used to think of as the graphics market. Any x86 based processor with a GPU is included, tablets to desktops as are IGPs and discrete cards; ARM based devices, cell phones and all server chips are excluded.
"The news was terrific for Nvidia and disappointing for everyone the other major players. From Q2 to Q3 Intel slipped in both desktop (7%) and notebook (8.6%). AMD dropped (2%) in the desktop, and (17%) in notebooks. Nvidia gained 28.3% in desktop from quarter to quarter and jumped almost 12% in the notebook segment.
This was a not a very good quarter the shipments were down -1.45% on a Qtr-Qtr basis, and -10.8% on a Yr-Yr basis. We found that graphics shipments during Q3'12 slipped from last quarter -1.5% as compared to PCs which grew slightly by 0.9% overall (however more GPU's shipped than PCs due to double attach). GPUs are traditionally a leading indicator of the market, since a GPU goes into every system before it is shipped and most of the PC vendors are guiding down for Q4."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% @ Slashdot
- SysAdmin Corner: Getting More From Windows @ Techgage
- Cyber Monday 2012 Tech Deals @ TechReviewSource
- What Linux Users Need To Know When Holiday Shopping For PC Hardware @ Phoronix
- Ninjalane Podcast - Borderlands 2 Tips Tricks and Chat
- The early days of PCs as seen through DEAD TREES @ The Register
- Dreamhack Winter 2012 @ Rbmods
Gigabyte Unveils GA-H77N-WIFI Mini-ITX Motherboard
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Cases and Cooling, Processors, Chipsets, Memory, Displays | August 7, 2012 - 10:07 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Z77, motherboard, mini-itx, Intel, gigabyte, ga-h77n-wifi
During a European roadshow, Gigabyte showed off a new Mini-ITX form factor motherboard for the first time. Called the GA-H77N-WIFI, the motherboard is well suited for home theater and home server tasks. Based on the H77 chipset, it is compatible with the latest Intel Core i3 (coming soon), i5, and i7 "Ivy Bridge" processors. The board goes for an all-black PCB with minimal heatsinks on the VRMs, and the form factor is the same size as the motherboard that Ryan recently used in his Mini-ITX HTPC build.
The GA-H77N-WIFI features a LGA 1155 processor socket, two DDR3 DIMM slots, PCI Express slot, two SATA 3Gbps ports, two SATA 6Gbps ports, and an internal USB 3.0 header. There are also two Realtek Ethernet controller chips and a Realtek audio chip.
- 1 PS/2 port
- 2 USB 3.0 ports
- 2 HDMI ports
- 1 DVI port
- 2 Antenna connectors (WIFI)
- 4 USB 2.0 ports
- 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 1 Optical S/PDIF port
- 5 Analog audio jacks
The dual Gigabit Ethernet ports are interesting. It could easily be loaded with open source routing software and turned into router/firewall/Wi-Fi access point. To really take advantage of the Ivy Bridge support, you could put together a nice media server and HTPC recording/streaming box (using something like SiliconDust's HDHomeRun networked tuners or Ceton's USB tuner since this board is very scarce in the way of PCI-E slots). What would you do with this Mini-ITX Gigabyte board?
Unfortunately, there is no word yet on pricing or availability, but the motherboard is likely coming soon. You can find more information on the motherboard over at tonymacx86, who managed to snag get some photos of the board.
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Pat Velte, my Web guru from Whitewing Design, and I have been horrified at the soaking some artists are getting from their Web hosting "services." (I put services in quotes because it often sounds like lousy service to me!)
Make sure you are not being overcharged.
Pat says you should expect to pay:
No more than $10/year for domain name registration, no more than $100/year for "all purpose" web hosting. I don't charge clients for setting up domain and hosting accounts but they should expect to pay a small fee for having a web developer handle this for them.
That's SMALL fee. It should take them less than 5 minutes to get a domain set up for you, so beware if they're charging you for a half-hour or longer.
Late addition: My Web hosts, AAces, will throw in your domain (for free!) when you host with them. Now THAT's service!


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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 916357, 11 pages
BIBO Stabilization of Discrete-Time Stochastic Control Systems with Mixed Delays and Nonlinear Perturbations
1School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Fuyang Teachers College, Fuyang 236037, China
2Department of Mathematics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China
3College of Applied Mathematics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, China
Received 19 March 2013; Revised 23 May 2013; Accepted 6 June 2013
Academic Editor: Sakthivel Rathinasamy
Copyright © 2013 Xia Zhou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The problem of bounded-input bounded-output (BIBO) stabilization in mean square for a class of discrete-time stochastic control systems with mixed time-varying delays and nonlinear perturbations is investigated. Some novel delay-dependent stability conditions for the previously mentioned system are established by constructing a novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii function. These conditions are expressed in the forms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), whose feasibility can be easily checked by using MATLAB LMI Toolbox. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the validity of the obtained results.


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Southern Elections
I was interviewed by Brian Rowan in a feature for the 'Belfast Telegraph' about next week's elections in the South. Feature was titled, 'When Sinn Fein risks need to translate into Dail seats'. "The party's former PR director is not playing the numbers game in the Republic's imminent election," says Brian Rowan [Tuesday, 15th February 2011].
Danny Morrison grew up inside the republican movement alongside Gerry Adams, reached significant positions of leadership and, on many occasions, was the man who put that leadership's thinking into words. He is probably best-known for a 30-year-old speech – in 1981 he defined the republican goal of taking power with an Armalite in one hand and a ballot paper in the other.
And Morrison was there in 1986 at the Ard Fheis when Sinn Fein split on the issue of ending its abstentionist policy in relation to the Dail.
"'86 was to facilitate the opportunity – to get to the position where they are today," he told the Belfast Telegraph.
Morrison is talking about the now-imminent Irish election and the possibility of Sinn Fein becoming a significant player in the Dail.
"It is Sinn Fein stepping onto the main stage," he said, "even if they aren't in government. It's them now being taken seriously."
In the reading between those sentences he outlines his expectations – that Adams will be elected and that Sinn Fein will have a significant number of TDs. But he is not playing the high numbers game suggested in some opinion polls.
So what would be a success? "Anything over seven [seats]."
Would double figures be a huge success? "Absolutely."
"If you go over 10/12 [seats], what it does is that it confirms the viability of the original strategy, which was about having a powerful presence or influential presence in parliament in the south and in government in the north," Morrison said. "It opens up all sorts of possibilities."
But he accepts this is new politics for Adams; that his decision to give up his West Belfast seat to compete in the Irish election "is not without risk".
We all know that Adams' political comfort zone has been within the peace process. For all Adams' denials of IRA membership, he was part of the war before he was part of the peace. And it was his leadership, alongside Martin McGuinness and others, that moved the IRA in a different direction. On the streets of Dundalk, Drogheda and Dublin, the issues and day-to-day priorities are very different: the economy, jobs and emigration. And, on the fine detail of some of this, we have seen Adams stumble.
But Morrison said: "He will be a quick learner. Adams has a plus on his side and that is that he is a celebrity, that he is a leader.
"So the downsides could be neutralised by these positives: easily-recognisable figure … he has charisma. There's no doubt about that."
We will know soon if this really is Sinn Fein's moment of opportunity – the election it has been waiting for since that policy decision way back in 1986. And we will know if Adams' risk was worth taking.
"The decision to run in Louth certainly took me by surprise," Morrison admitted.
"Nobody was expecting it. It took everybody by surprise and it comes not without risks."
But Morrison also knows that, for all its surprise, this decision will have been carefully thought through – not just by Adams, but also by those closest to him.
"Of course, things like that are kept tight, but also the people who make those decisions aren't fools; they would make a judgment call on it," Morrison said.
That call has been made and now Adams has to deliver – both personally and in the wider party sense. Morrison is not playing the numbers game that others are, but in a couple of weeks' time it will be on numbers that the Sinn Fein president – and his party – will be judged.
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Margaret Atwood
Finished 'Negotiating With The Dead' by Margaret Atwood on the role of the writer. It was just about okay. Book to follow up on – 'Doctor Glas' by Hjalmar Soderberg
14th February. Interview with Brian Rowan re Gerry Adams standing in Louth, published in Belfast Telegraph. Archival footage of me was shown in the BBC television documentary, 'As Others See Us', alongside a reflective interview with journalist Peter Taylor.
12th February. Finished 'The Visible World' by Mark Slouka, a novel based on the real life events surrounding the assassination in Prague in 1942 of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
11th February. Finished work on the text and design for the hunger strike exhibition panels – 18 in total. Finished 'Memed, My Hawk' by Yashar Kemal, a great story of high adventure set amongst brigands in Anatolia who are both political and criminal. You don't want to close the book the writing is so good, the story so thrilling.
7th February. Wrote a feature for today's Andersonstown News, 'The Story of Two Sisters'.
Finished 'Monsieur Pain' by Roberto Bolaño. Very disappointing. Hopefully not representative of his other works, about which I have read rave reviews. Did interview with Pol McLernon about the origins of Radio Free Belfast (1969).
5th February. Finished 'Rosshalde' by Hermann Hesse: not great but was quite moving towards the end.
1st February. Wrote a feature for yesterday's Andersonstown News, 'Bombers Unite Community'.
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The Story of Two Sisters
February 7, 2011 by danny
Men would arrive late at night, on foot or on bicycle. They stayed for a couple of nights, were fed and rested. Someone would come out from Derry and rendezvous with them, bringing them a message of when it was safe to travel.
Among the fugitives were escapees from Crumlin Road Jail, including former IRA Chief of Staff Hugh McAteer. Hugh had been sentenced to fifteen years on the charge of treason but within twelve weeks, on the morning of the 15th January 1943, he and three comrades escaped from the Crum.
From his safe house in Altaghoney, a townland in County Derry, Hugh was involved in freeing another 21 prisoners from Derry Jail in March 1943. As they tunnelled their way out, another prisoner played the bagpipes outside the cell to disguise the noise of their departure! However, in November that year Hugh, still engaged in trying to reorganise an enfeebled IRA, was surrounded and captured in a house in Crocus Street, Belfast.
But the house in Altaghoney remained safe.
It consisted of a long white-washed two storey, slated-roof building, set a few yards back from the road and it was divided into living quarters, a drapery shop, general store, a small pub, and a storeroom and loft to the right of the house. When I saw it, the setting – as opposed to its dereliction – was very pretty.
It was owned by two unmarried sisters in their thirties, Brigid and Rose O'Kane. Brigid looked after the business and Rose tended the nearby farmland.
It is hard to imagine the fear that the sisters experienced every time an IRA Volunteer who had been through their house was arrested and interrogated, whether they would be next for arrest.
But they must have been incredibly brave. Although the immediate townland was Catholic, the surrounding area was largely unionist and relations were fairly good. Their shop was frequented by RUC officers and local Orangemen.
In the midst of the disintegration of the IRA the organisation needed another favour. One of its men – originally from Belfast – was wanted for the killing of a Special Branch man in the Free State, for which one Volunteer had already been executed. There were posters everywhere seeking this man.
So, to provide cover for themselves the sisters in mid-1944 placed an ad in the Derry Journal: 'Man wanted to work land, and to assist in general running of property.'
It was answered by a discharged merchant seaman who had been invalided from a torpedoed vessel, though 'Harry McHugh' had never seen a submarine in his life! Country people are fairly tight-knit and do not always take to outsiders, especially those from Belfast! But Harry McHugh melded in, worked about the house and the farm, in between secretly visiting Belfast. He learnt how to cut hair and became the local barber. He was a musician and was invited to play in the local Orange Hall. An RUC man suggested to him that if he was clearing land he could get a permit to blast the rocks with dynamite. So Harry did just that – siphoning off half of the gelignite, detonators and fuses which he sent to Belfast, though there was no IRA worth talking about able to use it.
Harry told me that Brigid and Rose were very respectable and well-spoken. I had this confirmed a few months ago when a woman, their third-cousin, who had lost all contact, wrote to me saying that she remembered Brigid from her childhood. She "dressed with great care, was most ladylike in her appearance and manner." I also learnt that Brigid's great uncle, Michael O'Kane of Clarendon Street, had been very wealthy and made a gift of six stained glass windows to St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry.
Altaghoney was raided at dawn on the 20th October 1946, the front door broken in. Harry, Brigid and Rose were arrested. The RUC found twelve handguns and 2000 rounds of ammunition. Harry was taken to the border and illegally handed over to the Gardai to face execution: the sisters were charged and imprisoned. Their foresight in placing an ad in the paper paid off: after four court appearances the charges were dropped. They had kept their mouths shut.
Harry was sentenced to death but the sentence was later commuted.
I was canvassing for Sinn Féin in an election a few years ago. John McGill, a local schoolteacher, whose wife Claire is now an MLA, said to me, "Would you like to see the house where your Uncle Harry was arrested?"
I was flabbergasted, had forgotten all about this history. The house was windowless, sad and derelict. Everyone associated with it was dead: Harry White was laid to rest in the republican plot in Glasnevin; Brigid and Rose in Craigbane Churchyard. We rescued mouldy documents, photographs and other memorabilia and I asked John to take me to Craigbane. The ladies had never married and no relations survived them.
I could have cried: they were buried together in an unmarked grave.
For years this played on my mind. I learnt from Tony Curry, the stonemason, that an order he had received for a headstone of South African marble had been cancelled. I told him the story of the two sisters and he gave me the stone and did the engraving for next-to-nothing.
And so, one bitterly cold day in March my brother Ciaran, John and I went to Craigbane and in a little ceremony we laid a raised marble plinth on the graves of Brigid and Rose O'Kane, two brave Irish women who gave shelter to Irish patriots.
Published in Andersonstown News, 7th February, 2011
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David Lodge
Read 'The Art of Fiction' by David Lodge for the third time in early January and again took notes. It is such a valuable book for the novelist and novice. He is crisp, clear, affirmative: "the novel is supreme among the forms of narrative literature in rendering subjectivity".
He can also be quite funny, as here, when he is quoting a scene from Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel, 'The History Man', to make a point, though in this case it is the scene which is more important:
The adulterous Howard Kirk is in bed with his colleague Flora Benidorm, "who likes going to bed with men who have troubled marriages; they have so much more to talk about, hot as they are from the intricate politics of families which are Flora's specialist field of study"!
Point of View: The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has to make, for it fundamentally affects the way readers will respond, emotionally and morally, to the fictional characters and their actions…
One of the commonest signs of a lazy or inexperienced writer of fiction is inconsistency in handling point of view… Of course, there is no rule or regulation that says a novel may not shift its point of view whenever the writer chooses; but if it is not done according to some aesthetic plan or principle, the reader's involvement, the reader's "production" of the meaning of the text, will be disturbed.
Mystery: …mystery is an invariable ingredient of popular narrative, whatever its form – prose fiction or movies or television soaps. Modern literary novelists, in contrast, wary of neat solutions and happy endings, have tended to invest their mysteries with an aura of ambiguity and to leave them unresolved.
Names: In a novel names are never neutral. They always signify, if it is only ordinariness. Comic, satiric or didactic writers can afford to be exuberantly inventive, or obviously allegorical, in their naming (Thwackum, Pumblechook, Pilgrim). Realistic novelists favour mundane names with appropriate connotations (Emma Woodhouse, Adam Bede). The naming of characters is always an important part of creating them, involving many considerations, and hesitations…
The invention of the word processor has made it easy to change the name of a character at a large stage of composition, just by touching a few keys, but I would have a strong resistance to doing that to any but the most minor character in my fiction. One made hesitate and agonize about the choice of a name, but once made, it becomes inseparable from the character, and to question it seems to throw the whole project en abîme, as the deconstructionists say.
Motivation: What kind of knowledge do we hope to derive from reading novels, which tell us stories we know are not "true"? One traditional answer to that question is: knowledge of the human heart, or mind. The novelist has an intimate access to the secret thoughts of her characters denied to the historian, the biographer or even the psychoanalyst. The novel, therefore, can offer us more or less convincing models of how and why people act as they do.
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Stefan Zweig
Finished 'The Post Office Girl' by Stefan Zweig, a sad, desperate story set in the 1920s about a poor young woman whom life is passing by, suddenly lights up, then fades again. The novel was found after Viennese-born Zweig and his wife committed suicide in Rio de Janeiro in 1942 to where he had gone into exile.
Was interviewed by a third-year English university student, David Ody. He is doing his dissertation on the impact of imprisonment of republicans and the effect of the educational development that occurred in the cages of Long Kesh and the H-Blocks, circa 1974-1980/81.
30th January. Did radio interview with Diane Byrnes ['Echoes of Erin'] on Pittsburgh station.
28th January. Met with delegates from the Ancient Order of Hibernians [USA] and gave them a rundown of my analysis of the situation.
26th January. Finished 'The Solitude of Thomas Cave' by Georgina Harding which is based on an unsubstantiated anecdote that an English sailor accepted a bet from his comrades that he could not survive alone at the arctic circle until they returned for the next whaling season. It is a remarkable novel.
25th January. Interviewed by American woman, Katie Keenan, a Visiting Researcher, re Féile an Phobail. She is in Belfast studying the role of cultural events in the re-imaging of Belfast as a 'post-conflict' city.
24th January. Wrote quirky feature for today's Andersonstown News, titled, 'George Galloway – MP for West Belfast!'
20th January. Attended Allianz Arts & Business Awards on behalf of Féile which won a prize. Finished 'The Fry Chronicles', an autobiography by Stephen Fry. Never realised how insecure he is. Lots of name dropping and funny in parts.
17th January. Wrote a feature for today's Andersonstown News, titled, 'Compression Of Expression'.
13th January. Interviewed by Patrick Vacquier, a French student, about Bobby Sands and the 1981 hunger strike.
11th January. Interviewed by Pascal Pragnère, a French student, about national identities in the conflicts in Ireland and Euskal Herria.
10th January. Wrote a feature for today's Andersonstown News, titled, 'Suspicions About Suspicious Minds'.


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40 CFR 22.28 - Motion to reopen a hearing.
(a)Filing and content. A motion to reopen a hearing to take further evidence must be filed no later than 20 days after service of the initial decision and shall state the specific grounds upon which relief is sought. Where the movant seeks to introduce new evidence, the motion shall: state briefly the nature and purpose of the evidence to be adduced; show that such evidence is not cumulative; and show good cause why such evidence was not adduced at the hearing. The motion shall be made to the Presiding Officer and filed with the Regional Hearing Clerk.
(b)Disposition of motion to reopen a hearing. Within 15 days following the service of a motion to reopen a hearing, any other party to the proceeding may file with the Regional Hearing Clerk and serve on all other parties a response. A reopened hearing shall be governed by the applicable sections of these Consolidated Rules of Practice. The filing of a motion to reopen a hearing shall automatically stay the running of the time periods for an initial decision becoming final under § 22.27(c) and for appeal under § 22.30. These time periods shall begin again in full when the motion is denied or an amended initial decision is served.
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Since rock shoe master Heinz Mariacher took over designing SCARPA's climbing line a little over three years ago, the brand has pulled down nine Editor's Choice awards or five-star reviews for seven of its Mariacher-designed shoes.
Add another to the list: SCARPA's new Instinct, a downturned performance all-arounder, this week earned an Editor's Choice Award from Climbing Magazine.
The Instinct is one of a few variations on Mariacher"s progressive designs that use what he calls active-tensioned rands. Basically, the idea is that the rands are designed in concert with the intended uses of a given rock shoe, so that they not only give the shoe structure (it looks like there's a foot in the shoe even when there's not), but they store and re-release energy in ways that support the moves you make when climbing. Think about the way a ski snaps back to its original shape when flexed.
So, pick up the current issue of Climbing (which contains the mag's annual rock shoe guide) and check it out. SCARPA's psyched to have won in the face of some very worthy competition.
And the climbing mags aren't the only to pick up on the Instinct. Western-CO-based Splitterchoss recently posted this review of the Instinct.


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It's an unfortunate rarity that two of the best sides in the world get to compete directly against each other, as Bayern Munich and Barcelona did in the Allianz Arena on Tuesday night, it is also a rarity that when those clashes do occur they are as one sided as this Champions League semi-final was.
Lionel Messi and company have dominated the European scene for over half a decade, picking up two Champions League wins in the past five years and being ever-presents in the latter stages of the competition. Yet their Bavarian hosts made them look a shadow of their normal selves as they fired four past the Catalans without reply.
Bayern dismantled their opponents with ease, with Muller claiming a brace alongside goals from Arjen Robben and Mario Gomez, and at the back they were rarely threatened, with Messi, the catalyst for so many of Barcelona's most inspired performances, clearly still feeling the effects of his most recent hamstring injury.
Barcelona may feel aggrieved that Gomez's goal was not ruled out for offside, or that they were not awarded a foul in the build-up to Robben's neat finish, but they too were let off by the referee, with Gerard Pique handling the ball in the box during the early stages of the first-half which replays suggested was a stonewall penalty.
It's a result which makes it look close to impossible for Barcelona to come back, as they have done so many times in the past, at the Nou Camp. Indeed, it's a result which suggests, after an era of Catalan rule, there may be a new dominant force in Europe, and the dominate force comes from Bavaria, Germany.
Barcelona attempted to set the pace for the game, dominating possession and frustrating their opponents, their hosts responded however by breaking quickly with their first real spell on the ball, culminating in Robben cutting inside from the right-hand side, alluding his marker and firing a shot on goal which forced a good save from Victor Valdes.
It was to be a continuing theme of the early stages of the first-half, with Barcelona largely dominating possession but seeing their intricate play well broken up by Munich, who'd in turn break quickly. Good play in abundance, though chances in the early stages were few and far between as both sides canceled each other out.
But with 25 minutes played it was Thomas Muller who struck first, with a ball from Frank Ribery leading to a one-two between Muller and Robben, with the Dutchman playing a looping cross into the box towards Dante, who headed down into the path of Muller, allowing the German to comfortably knock the ball into Valdes' bottom left-hand corner.
Bayern continued to threaten, most particularly from set pieces where the height and physical presence of the hosts troubled the Barcelona back-line on a number of occasions. Barcelona continued to have their fair share of possession, but created very little, with Messi often seen back near the half-way line trying to spark the visitors into life.
It was another header at the back post four minutes into the second-half that helped double Bayern's lead, with a corner kick reaching Muller at the far post, who nodded back across the face of goal for Gomez to tap it in with little pressure from a helpless Barcelona back-line, who had looked susceptible from set-pieces throughout.
There was no rally from Tito Vilanova's side, no surge forward, no immense pressure piled on Bayern's defence. Indeed, Barcelona rarely looked a threat to their hosts, with Messi rarely showing the brilliance that has seen him win four successive Balon D'Or's, leaving young defender Marc Bartra to have Barcelona's best chance of the night, nudging it straight at Neuer from close range.
Barcelona came close again, just after Bartra's close range effort, but a chance for Pique was handled by Neuer, with Bayern breaking quickly through Ribery, who played it quickly across to Robben via Sweinsteiger, allowing the winger to break down the right, cutting inside before working a sight on goal and firing home.
Their fourth came with just under ten minutes to go as Ribery played a ball forward along the right into the path of the advancing Alaba, who proceeded to play it across the face of goal and into the path of the advancing Muller, with the German beating Jordi Alba to the ball and nudging it past Valdes and into the back of the net.


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Mike Madriaga 9:30 a.m., May 25
Hometown CD Review 12-9-04
Album Name: Wear Yourself Worn (2004)
On first listen, those expecting the excitement of fast country or the kind of lengthy folk that breaks into a raging rocker will be disappointed. There are no intricate instrumentals that showcase the band's skills; portions of their sound wander into back-up band territory.
Three-part vocal harmonies from Jim Diez, Mike Spurgat, and Bill Coomes provide the foundation. The guitar work from Diez and Spurgat is the highlight of the album. An airy chord structure in "Sweet Breathin' Thing" blends pop sensibilities with the resilience of tradition, but for the most part Deadline Friday sticks to the standards. A majority of the album is mellow acoustics with a bluegrass feel.
Tepid lyrics are propped up by a trifecta of vocals."How quickly the blue skies turn to gray." And another: "You were so innocent / but I was the fool / you said that you love me / lord knows I love you." This song ends with the weak, "Your alibis tell the truth, why can't you?"
While the temptation to stop the disc right here is stronger than ever, muddling on pays off at the end with the guys loosening up, hitting on tiny bits of something good.


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Reverend Boudreaux was the part-time pastor of the local Cajun Baptist Church and Pastor Thibodaux was the minister of the Covenant Church across the road. They were both standing by the road, pounding a sign into the ground, that read:
"Da End is Near.
Turn Yo Sef 'Roun Now
fore It Be Too Late!"
As a car sped past them, the driver leaned out his window and yelled, 'You religious nuts!'
From the curve they heard screeching tires, a big splash and then silence....
Boudreaux turn to Thibodaux and axk,
'Do ya tink maybe da sign should jussay.....'Bridge Out?'