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Organizers of the Shining Rock Riverfest are looking for artists to be vendors at the second annual event, which will be held at Camp Hope from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13.
All arts and crafts must be handmade and can include sculptures, pottery, clothing, leather, etc. Those who wish to be a part of the event are asked to send an artist bio, photographs, and/or a sample of their work to the Town of Canton, Att: Shining Rock Riverfest, 58 Park Street, Canton, NC 28716. Submissions are due by 4 p.m. Aug. 29.
The Shining Rock Riverfest is a family friendly festival held at Canton's historic Camp Hope along the East fork of the Pigeon River. This year's band lineup includes Soldier's Heart, Bobby G, Indigo, Grits and Soul, Wilhelm Brothers, West Bend, Shiloh Hill, Owners of the Sun and special guests.
There will be local barbecue, handmade craft vendors, children activities and more. Admission is $10 per person. Children 12 and under are free. Proceeds from the event go toward the maintenance and repairs at Camp Hope, which is a public resource for all of Haywood County to enjoy for weddings, festivals, reunion, meetings and other events.
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Sure that sounds like the most clichéd post title ever. But when you have 3 new drops of the Nicki Minaj goodness, what are you supposed to do...simply turn a blind eye to the fact that her last name mirrors a triple play dirty girl act? Man, heck no. Let's get rowdy!
Here's the rundown on the three tracks that were rocking my body this weekend.
Flippin' the clean version of Usher's Lil Freak, Sean Garrett jumps on for some extra pizazz'n'at. Still think Nicki's verse on this cut is her finest to day, aside from the drop on Cassie's F**k U Silly, but is that ever going to see the light of day in full form? One can only hope.
mp3: Usher (featuring Nicki Minaj and Sean Garrett) - Lil Freak
The next two slices of rad come courtesy of Miss Info. To start, we've got her Annie Lennox-sampling song, Your Love. The track will appear on her upcoming debut album which is coming out, um, when? Last but not least, she hops over to the Bionic world of Christina Aguilera and lets loose a lick of the whoa on her song WooHoo. Listen to this getting ready to go out, but definitely not on the loud at work. You've been warned.
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|10th February 2005, 06:44 PM
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Van der Veen 70W tube Amp DIY
Has anyone built the DIY Menno Van der Veen 70w or 100w tube amp which uses the Plitoron torroidal power and output transformers. I am thinking about using this design for my first tube amp project and was wondering what the DIYers out there have to say about this amp. My current system is bi-amped with 100W and 200w solid state amps with an active crossover. The tube amp would be used to drive two PHL 1240 mids and Raven R2 ribbon tweeter in a MTM with an overall sensitivity of abot 95 dB. I would use a 200w solid state for the 12" Lambda bass driver. The info on the Van der veen's tube amp can be found at Plitron.com. Thanks
|10th February 2005, 07:04 PM
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Some 5 years ago I've built the 100W version.
I did substituted the EL34 with the KT66 from Valve-Art.
Until today I'm still very happy with this design.
Have look at my website.
|10th February 2005, 08:28 PM
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I built the 40 w and 100 w Radio Bulletin versions a long time ago, EL84 and EL34,even had a talk with Menno once.
Both really nice amps, i did Menno's Mosfet 20 watt Class A amplifier too, also a design in Radio Bulletin.
Quite often the transformers are offered on the web here in Holland, the original Amplimo's(ILP).
I can not think of someone around knowing more on transformers and transformers for tube amplifiers than Menno van der Veen.
Many of the old transformer companies are gone, and a lot of the knowledge.
Even have a bunch of his articles in Radio Bulletin, including the ones on the 40 and the 100 watters.
Menno works for both Plitron in Canada and Amplimo here in Holland i think.
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|10th February 2005, 08:51 PM
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Hoi Jacco
Before I started building the amp I first bought me this one together with Menno's book.
|11th February 2005, 04:30 AM
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Yep - I built a pair just recently
I built the 100W versions using 4 x Winged C Svetlana EL34s.
I started off with them in Ultralinear Mode and found I had two problems.
Problem #1 - Slight bursts of HF Oscillation just after the postive peak of a sine wave. This was cured by increasing the 150R screen resitors to 1K. I reported this to Menno and he has put a note on his web pages to the effect that this mod should be "Standard".
Problem #2 - The Output Impedance of the basic amp (no global feedback) is 12 Ohms. There was some "colouration" of the sound as the output power followed the speakers impedance curve.
To cure problem #2 I rewired the output into triode mode. Output Impedance dropped to just less than 5 Ohms. Output power dropped to 40W BUT full power bandwidth is 12 Hz to 150 kHz
If you build the 70W version you can bias the output tubes a little higher and this will drop the output impedance to probably about 4 Ohms or just less.
In this arragement these mono-blocks have become my favourite amp(s). I have an 845 SET and a Hugh Dean AKSA 55 Nivarna Plus (Solid State) which these amps have displaced.
Have a look on the Photo Gallery above about the second to last page for the Gingertube "Menno Bricks" for some pics.
P.S. My speakers are VAF Research DCX s with a nominal impedance of 6 Ohms (95dB sensitivity). If your Speakers are less than 4 Ohms or if you are using Electrostatics then the Output impedance will probably be a bit high.
Oh - one last thing I pulled the 12AU7 and am using ECC99 in its place. I thought that gave me a slight improvement.
One problem with the design is that the Output Tube grid resistors are reasonably high and is in fact too high for anything except EL34s. Don't be tempted to use 6550s or KT88s. In any case the tube separation really only suits the skinny EL34s. I haven't checked data sheets to see if the KT66 that someone above suggested is a SAFE substitution or NOT.
I RECOMMEND that you use the "Winged C" Svetlana EL34s and not try to substitute cheaper alternatives.
I also did 2 other mods which I have no idea if they helped or NOT.
1) A 2uF/900V Polypropylene (from Rarefaction in Melborne Australia) directly across the high voltage at the Output Transformer Centre Tap connection to 0V.
2) A 100K 3W Metal Film bleed resistor across that cap.
I suggest that you put the electrolytic caps on the back (the tracks side) of the PCB just to keep them a bit further away from the heat of the tubes. Also put the bias pots and the bias measure resistors in each output tube cathode on the back of the board so that when the board is screwed down into its chassis you can get at the bias measuring points and the adjustments.
Due to the 250V AC Oz Mains Voltage my rail voltage was 480V instead of 450V so I backed off the OPutput Tube bias currents from 50mA to 45mA to keep anode dissipation at 22.5 Watts.
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|11th February 2005, 05:12 AM
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After thought
As an after thought -
100W or even 70W is WAY more than you need for driving Mids and Tops.
Have a look at Menno's UL40-S2 kit from Amplimo instead. Mennos web pages describe how to convert this design to his "Super Triode" configuration if desired.
|11th February 2005, 10:07 PM
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Re: Van der Veen 70W tube Amp DIY
Hi there........Yes...I've built one and never again..(this is only my opin)........I binned the toroidal output transformers....and redesigned the amp..using convential trannies.Why ? I found circuit unstable at low frequencies with massive amounts of 2nd harmonic thd and sloppy sounding mid....also output impedance sensitive.........hallmarks of a completely badly designed amp. Each toroidal o/p tranny (which had strip cores) had poor balancing circuitry which couldn't handle the steep sided BH curve when driven hard........resulting in skewed BH curve around the H axis. The bass sounded like a closet in it's finals.
Sorry to put cold water on your ideas !
|14th February 2005, 06:55 AM
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I love the post by richwalters (someone not afraid to say what he thinks about the emperor's new clothes)!
I have avoided using toroidal OPTs because (a) they're expensive; (b) I understand that they are easily prone to DC saturation if the OP tubes are not precisely balanced (even if they are balanced to start with, they probably won't be with the passage of time); and (c) they just don't look as nice, to me, as the more traditional E-I design.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waves to spectators inside the Aquatics center during a visit to the Olympic Park at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II toured London's Olympic heartland Saturday hours after she surprised a worldwide audience by starring as the newest Bond Girl.
The queen got a bird's eye view of the Olympic Park complex atop the 377-foot (115-meter) Orbit sculpture beside the stadium, where on Friday night she officially opened the 2012 Games. Her husband, Prince Philip, and London Mayor Boris Johnson accompanied her as she rode [auth] up two floors in the sculpture's elevator to meet designer Anish Kapoor.
Dressed in a royal blue silk dress, crepe coat and matching hat, the queen could be heard remarking at the views of the London skyline and countryside up to 20 miles (32 kilometers) away. She was also wearing a brooch given to her in 1948, the last time London hosted the Olympics and four years before her accession to the throne.
Johnson said the queen had told him she was "very, very impressed with the success of her first film appearance, her first dramatic venture. It was very funny and seems to have gone down particularly well with the international audiences."
Buckingham Palace confirmed that the 86-year-old monarch agreed last year to participate in Danny Boyle's film portion of his four-hour opening ceremony extravaganza. Filming took place at the palace in March and April and featured two of the queen's corgi dogs: Monty and Holly.
Boyle's production involved Daniel Craig, the current James Bond, striding into Buckingham Palace to escort his VIP guest to the Olympic ceremony. Many watching had expected a famous actress to play the role of the queen, and untold thousands in the audience audibly gasped as the real-life queen was seen to swivel round in her desk chair and declare: "Good evening, Mr. Bond."
At the end of the film segment, two stuntmen dressed as Bond and the queen parachuted from a helicopter into the stadium, and moments later Elizabeth and Philip emerged in the stands.
Boyle told NBC television that the queen had been a natural. "You don't have to tell her something twice," he said. "She picks it up straight away, about cameras and angles."
The scenes were filmed in March and April, after the queen agreed to take part last year.
The queen offered more surprises Saturday as she paid a walking visit to the athletes village and met about 150 members of the British Olympic team. Spectators took in the scene from balconies draped in Union Jack flags.
"For her to come through and meet the athletes, and see where we're living, it was amazing," said Rose Anderson, 24, a member of the women's basketball team.
"She went inside one of the athletes' bedrooms and chatted to us. It was just awesome, especially after last night," she said, referring to the opening ceremony. "Last night will never be topped. I'll never get an experience like that again, and then this will never be topped either."
The queen also met athletes from other nations in the dining hall.
"She's beautiful," said Jess Fox, who competes for Australia in the canoe slalom. "We saw her from afar last night in the stadium, but it was amazing to see her like this."
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Great side dish recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash with Herbes de Provence
Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Roasted Butternut Squash with Herbes de Provence
- 6 cups cubed (1 1/2-inch), peeled butternut squash (about 2 1/2 pounds)
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried herbes de Provence
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 medium onions, each cut into 8 wedges (about 3/4 pound)
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- Preheat oven to 425° F.
- Place first 6 ingredients in a shallow roasting pan coated with cooking spray; toss well.
- Bake at 425° for 30 minutes or until tender and lightly browned, stirring occasionally.
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Do you know what happens to an ARC, Advanced Review or Reading Copy, when the reviewer is finished? Sometimes the reviewer keeps the ARC or offers it as a prize in a contest or raffle basket. Most authors give away ARCs with the hope that the copies will be read, cherished, and find homes on the winners' keeper shelves.
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I researched the issue and discovered almost 4,000 records of ARCs for sale on eBay. Evidently acquiring and selling review copies is big business for the "Raiders of the Lost ARCs." I even found a review copy of a book, which hasn't been released for public sale. I contacted the author, and her agent is pursuing the matter.
You may not agree with me, but I decided to buy the ARC at the bookstore for two reasons. First I wanted to rescue it from a life of resale, which would rob the author of future income and sales credit. Second I will see the author at a conference next month and plan to return the ARC and the sales receipt proof of what the bookseller did.
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Missing from this list until now was Catbird Security. Their continuous compliance products where however picked up by some rather large customers: Amazon and many government agencies.
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The road plan includes $123 million for the Mountain Parkway, a four lane highway that would connect eastern Kentucky - where Combs is from - with the rest of the state. That's $129 million less than Beshear recommended. But Combs spread the project out over 10 years to make it cheaper.
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Sweet Revenge's ''Pure'' Cupcakes
This recipe for delicious ''Pure'' cupcakes is courtesy of Marlo Scott from Sweet Revenge.
- Yield: Makes 24 cupcakes
Source: The Martha Stewart Show, January Winter 2009
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 5 extra-large eggs
- 3 cups self-rising cake flour
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons Mexican vanilla
- Sweet Revenge ''Pure'' Buttercream
- Turbinado or demerara sugar, for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cut out twenty-four 5 1/2-by-5 1/2-inch squares of parchment paper. Fit each square of parchment into a standard muffin cup so the edges stick out from the muffin cup; set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter until softened. With the mixer on medium, add eggs and sugar; beat until well combined. With mixer on low speed, add flour in three parts, alternating with buttermilk and beginning and ending with flour. Stir in vanilla.
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My son just transferred to this school this year. He is considered a new student so have to go through assessment testing.
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The theory test is the Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery
My son is 10 years 6 months old
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Those are the scores. I am guessing that the GE is 'grade equivalant' and the the PR is the percentile rank. If he is at the equivalant though of an average 6th grader after 8 months in the 6th status, then how is that the same or better than 71 percent (PR) of the population, and if it is then I contemplate they need to raise the bar a bit and provoke the kids more.
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Coach Gus Malzahn's Tigers will play seven home games, including their first-ever contest vs. San Jose State on Sept. 6th.
Other non-conference games are Sept. 20th at Kansas State, at home on Sept. 27th vs. Louisiana Tech and at home on Nov. 22nd vs. Samford. In Auburn's only previous game at Kansas State the 1978 Tigers, coached by Doug Barfield, won 45-32 vs. the Wildcats in Manhattan.
Auburn's two SEC East opponents are South Carolina, which will visit Jordan-Hare Stadium on Oct. 25th, and Georgia, which will renew the SEC's oldest rivalry with the Tigers on Nov. 15th at Sanford Stadium in Athens. South Carolina will be looking for its first win vs. the Tigers in a game played at Auburn.
In their last SEC opener 18 years ago the Tigers cruised to a 46-13 victory vs. Ole Miss on the way to an 8-4 record that included a 5-3 mark in league play.
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Sept. 27--Louisiana Tech at Auburn
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German Economy Barely Expands While France Contracts
The German economy expanded less than forecast in the first quarter and France slipped into recession, increasing pressure on the European Central Bank to do more to stimulate growth.
German gross domestic product rose 0.1 percent from the fourth quarter, when it fell a downwardly revised 0.7 percent, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said today. Economists forecast a 0.3 percent gain, according to the median of 41 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. The French economy contracted 0.2 percent in the three months through March after shrinking the same amount in the final quarter of last year.
The weaker-than-forecast GDP results in Europe's two biggest economies highlight the risks to the outlook and indicate that the 17-nation euro region is almost certainly still stuck in recession. The ECB cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.5 percent this month and President Mario Draghi said the bank is ready to act again if needed.
"The worse-than-anticipated start to the year will clearly worry policy makers at the ECB," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit in London. "Today's data will add to calls that more action is required beyond what many see as a token gesture of a rate cut."
The euro dropped more than a quarter of a cent after the German report and traded at $1.2908 at 10:29 a.m. in Frankfurt. The benchmark DAX share index rose to 8344.19, while the CAC 40 dropped to 3964.24. The yield on German 10-year bonds was little changed at 1.37 percent.
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Germany's first-quarter growth was driven "almost exclusively" by household spending, the statistics office said. Investment declined and net trade barely contributed, it said. A detailed breakdown is due on May 24. From a year earlier, the economy shrank 0.2 percent when adjusted for working days.
"The fact that investment, exports and imports declined isn't nice and signals weak domestic demand," said Holger Sandte, chief European analyst at Nordea Markets in Copenhagen. "The cold winter played a role and there will be something of a rebound in the second quarter but with weaker sentiment, some people might have to think about how realistic current full-year growth forecasts are."
Commerzbank AG today lowered its German 2013 growth forecast to 0.2 percent from 0.5 percent.
Long Winter
Germany's recovery may have been delayed by an unusually long winter, which damped construction and business confidence, the Bundesbank has said. It predicted in December that the economy will grow 0.4 percent this year and 1.9 percent in 2014, with inflation averaging 1.5 percent and 1.6 percent respectively.
The Frankfurt-based ECB in March projected the euro economy will contract 0.5 percent this year before expanding 1 percent in 2014. It forecast an inflation rate of just 1.3 percent next year, well below its 2 percent target.
"We will be looking at all the data that arrives from the euro-area economy in the coming weeks and if necessary, we are ready to act again," Draghi said in a speech in Rome on May 6. "Monetary policy will remain accommodative."
Euro-region GDP probably fell 0.1 percent in the first quarter after a 0.6 percent decline in the final quarter of 2012, according to another Bloomberg survey. That report is due from the European Union's statistics office in Luxembourg at 11 a.m. today.
Italy's economy shrank 0.5 percent in the first quarter, more than economists anticipated. The Dutch economy contracted 0.1 percent while Austria's stagnated.
Euro-Area Drag
"The euro area is a drag on the economy and certainly a handicap for German companies," said Andreas Scheuerle, an economist at Dekabank in Frankfurt. "The overall outlook still speaks for a recovery, but for the recovery to gain momentum, it's important for investment to pick up again. That's what drives job creation."
In France, President Francois Hollande is struggling to reduce the number of jobseekers from a record 3.22 million and lift his popularity rating from a record low.
With the sovereign debt crisis set to cause a second consecutive year of economic contraction in the euro region, Hollande has been pushing to slow the pace of deficit reduction in the currency bloc in favor of more pro-growth policies.
German business confidence fell for a second month in April and investor confidence rose less than economists forecast in May. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim said yesterday that its index of investor and analyst expectations, which aims to predict economic developments six months in advance, edged up to 36.4 from 36.3. Economists forecast a gain to 40.
German Stocks
At the same time, Germany's DAX climbed to a record high this month as companies reported better-than-forecast results.
Infineon Technologies AG (IFX), Europe's second-biggest chipmaker, gained the most in almost four years on May 2 after projecting revenue for this quarter that would top analysts' estimates.
HeidelbergCement AG (HEI), the world's third-largest maker of cement, said on May 8 that first-quarter earnings rose 3.3 percent as North American growth and job cuts helped offset harsh winter conditions that impeded building in Europe.
"Germany is one of the few euro countries that grew at the beginning of the year," said Alexander Koch, an economist at UniCredit Group in Munich. "Robust demand from the U.S. and Asia bode well for exports and the domestic economy continues to be solid, with private consumption a stable growth pillar."
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Goodwill breaks ground; plans to hire
Columbia County's first Goodwill thrift store, which recently broke ground in Scappoose, will employ 20 people when it opens in early 2012.
Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette, part of the international nonprofit charity organization, began construction of its 40th retail store on Oct. 3. When finished around March 2012, it will be a 19,500-square-foot facility with over 9,300 of retail floor space. Goodwill Industries officials say they chose to expand into Scappoose because of the large amount of donations flowing through the company's drop-off site in town behind the Hi-School Pharmacy. Last year, over 12,000 residents dropped off nearly 985,000 pounds of items. Goodwill spokeswoman Dale Emanuel said 2011 donations in Scappoose are up 4 percent from last year.
Around two-thirds of Goodwill employees have some barrier to employment, including disabilities. The company reports that 94 cents of every dollar earned at its stores goes toward training and employment of people with special needs. The Scappoose Goodwill will also offer a free job connection service.
Applications are currently being accepted for 20 positions. Apply online at www.meetgoodwill.org.


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The small Transcaucasian republic of Azerbaijan is best known for its classical mugham tradition – the local equivalent of neighbouring Iran's dastgah, or the Turkish makam. Sevda Alekperzaheh isn't the first to successfully fuse this with a jazz sensibility, but the bulk of this album does the same with the region's folk songs, also straying into blues, soul and even funk stylings, which don't always work so well. Even so, it's a bold, varied and adventurous set with plenty of fine musicianship.
'Sevda' is a Turkish word meaning 'passion' or 'love' – also a moniker for the 'Bosnian blues' or sevdalinka – and you could say she's well named. Alekperzaheh is a versatile and passionate singer with a fine voice. She once took lessons from Azerbaijan's most famous singer, Alim Qasimov, and not only includes one song from his repertoire (Getme-Getme) but also employs a musician associated with him – Malik Mansurov on tar (lute) and oud. Well, they are on the same label…
The agreeably varied settings range from spare nagara (hand drum) and saz (another type of lute) to lush, colourful arrangements with piano, double bass, horns, duduk (Armenian woodwind) and percussion. Of the two instrumentals, the more accessible is Sari Gelin, with mournful duduk and increasingly driving nagara; the shrill, bagpipe-like sound of the zurna (shawm) on Gobustan is harder to warm to.
Ele Deme is a fine opener, with Sevda progressing from a husky murmur to quite strident tones and hints of soul pyrotechnics before kamancha (spiked fiddle) player Rafael Aliyev masterfully picks up on a phrase and runs with it. The jazz/mugham mix of Bayati Kurd is equally accomplished, but Getme Getme finds her wobbling a little uneasily between the rigours of Azerbaijani folk, western classicism and soul diva mannerisms. And the over-cooked jazz funk/folk hybrid of Ay Giz will be a bridge too far for some.
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Just purchased a Compaq Presario c500 laptop and there is no sound. Called HP support and they could not resolve this issue. Must send unit back. Thought I might get some help here before sending it back. Get sound with external speakers, also get sound when in the bios setup page. But not when in windows. Thanks
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It's how the Huskies, no matter their personnel, usually play.
Thabeet, Adrien or Price. Instead, there's Stanley Robinson (who's coming off a
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Not only that, the Huskies play outstanding defense, as they lead the country in blocked shots per game (9.8) and rank 11th in field goal defense (36.5 percent).
But here's one reason why UC will have a good chance to pull the upset tonight at 5/3. Unlike last season, when the Bearcats took an 81-72 loss and were dominated in the paint and on the glass, UC has played well defensively in the post. So, UConn shouldn't see quite as many easy buckets from inside the paint.
I'm very comfortable with where we're at," Mick Cronin said. "We can put big
bodies out there, and they understand how not to give up easy baskets. There's
one thing that Yancy (Gates) and Steve (Toyloy) and Biggie (McClain) and
Ibrahima Thomas can do, they can defend. We don't have to double-team the low
post against anybody in
knows that because the Bearcats have faced a pretty tough non-conference
schedule. Teams like Gonzaga,
I asked Cronin on Monday if he thought he got what he needed out of the non-conference schedule, and, though he decried the fact he had no choice in scheduling Xavier and UAB (which turned into two road losses), it seems like he feels pretty good about it.
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philosophy (about non-conference scheduling), but I inherit a lot of games," he
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points to the fact host
Sophomore forward Yancy Gates, for one, thinks UC's non-conference schedule was helpful.
--Senior Steve Toyloy made his first appearance in the media room Monday, and though I only caught part of it, he made a funny when somebody asked him if he had been refreshed by the team's recent break (it's been eight days since the Bearcats last played)
"Do what? The break?" he said. "We got two days off."
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Cbz40, Nov 23, 2006.
2nd and 10:
Romo 4 WR set:
Romo pass Slant Witten 13 and a 1st down.
Witten...been some time since he got the ball.
I know it might be football heresy and a little early to say, but Romo looks so much like Montana it's scary.
1st and 10:
Romo on fire:
I formation:
Romo pointing - HO Barber going right, gets 9.
Barber running hard....gotta love it.
Barber is now getting most of the carries. Does this mean something?
I was thinking the same thing, he kinda reminds me of steve young a little too though
SSSSSHHHHHHH Don't tell any one.
2nd and 1:
I formation:
Romo HO Barber easy first down for 3.
1st down barber!
I was thinking the same thing.
1st and 10:
Romo i formation:
Romo HO Barber breaking tackles running hard gets 2.
Keep running that ball......Buck & Troy think we might be the best team in the NFC........
Whats left for us to prove today?
I wanna see tony run one in, then do a landry leap into the stands
Do we keep Romo in? I wouldn't after this drive. The bucks are no threat.
LOL. come on, we are playing a 2 win Tampa Bay team.
Let's just get out of this game without injuries and I'll be happy.
Improve offensive ranking and let's hope the D gets more Turn Overs.
greed...Greed...GREED <evil laugh>
I couldnt care less what Buck thinks, lol


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The Australians took the honours on the second day of the Ready To Run sale at Karaka yesterday, with champion trainer Gai Waterhouse set to be the big winner.
The Sydney supremo will get to train the $480,000 sales-topping colt, the second-highest price ever paid for a Ready To Run 2-year-old in New Zealand and just $20,000 behind the record set in 2007.
The Fastnet Rock colt from the winning Stravinsky mare Oraia, offered by Hamilton's Mana Park, was knocked down to Sydney agent James Harron for new owners Edmund and Belinda Bateman.
"I came here looking for a couple of horses and missed out on a few on day one," said Harron.
"But I had my sights firmly set on this Fastnet Rock colt as I thought he was the pick of the sale.
"It has been a very successful bloodline cross, which I liked, but primarily he is a fantastic type and has a pedigree littered with speed.
"New Zealand Bloodstock does a great job in getting a lovely bunch of horses here every year and the results that have been coming out of this sale give you confidence to be stronger in the ring."
The colt highlighted a strong sale for Australian buyers, who will take home more than $5.3 million worth of horseflesh from over 60 purchases, beating out Hong Kong buyers who outlaid $4.3 million on just 28, so bought at a significantly higher average price.
That strong international interest made for a record sale on almost all fronts: turnover, average and median.
Over the two days, 243 of the 407 lots sold for $17,972,000, over 11 per cent more than last year's record sale.
The clearance rate was slightly down on last year, 72 per cent versus 77 per cent, but was still way ahead of two years ago.
And 21 horses made $200,000 or more, compared with 18 last season.
"We are absolutely delighted," said NZB director Petrea Vela yesterday.
"The indications were there on the first day and we saw that really come through today with strong demand and some fantastic prices.
"It started well today and that momentum was important but we couldn't be happier because in the current climate this is a huge result.
"We were confident of a good sale because of the overseas interest and the great results from sales graduates, especially lately, but it is still very satisfying."
Karaka's biggest event, the yearling sales, begin in late January.


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ST. LOUIS (AP) For four straight starts, Michael Wacha has been all but untouchable and appeared totally oblivious to the stakes.
The St. Louis Cardinals need one more just like that from the pressure-proof rookie to get to the World Series for the second time in three years.
Wacha outpitched NL Cy Young front-runner Clayton Kershaw in Game 1 and the Cardinals won 1-0 on an unearned run. They're matched again in Game 6 Friday night, the precocious right-hander and the lefty who'd be at the top of anyone's list to work a must-win.
The Dodgers brought the series back to St. Louis by muscling up on offense. Adrian Gonzalez hit two of their four homers in a 6-4 Game 5 victory Wednesday.
Runs should be a lot harder to come by in Game 6.


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It doesn't take Mel Gibson to make a contentious religious epic. Martin Scorsese did it before him, and now we can add Darren Aronofsky to the list. Aronofsky's "Noah" opens March 28, after a few years of rough seas from all corners of the moviegoing population. Christians like it, Christians hate it. Studios are hankering to back it, studios are mad at Aronofsky's approach. Like "The Passion of the Christ," "The Last Temptation of Christ" and others before it, "Noah" arrives inside an echo chamber brimming with dissenters.
Aronofsky has remained steadfast, however, and the "Black Swan" director's first major studio project since "The Fountain" will bow with all eyes on how it handles the religious fundamentalism (or lack thereof). In an added twist, "Noah" will go head-to-head with, among other movies, "God's Not Dead." The pro-faith drama expands to more than 1,160 theaters this weekend, acting as a sort of antithesis to Aronofsky's self-described non-biblical approach to the beloved Genesis parable. How "Noah" will fare is yet to be seen, but there's no denying the lengthy build-up to Friday's release. Aronofsky has mostly mocked the discord that surrounds these contentious crossroads. Here's a handful of his many vitriolic responses to the movie's critics.
September 2008: Aronofsky tells SlashFilm about his plans for "Noah": "It's the end of the world and it's the second most famous ship after the Titanic. So I'm not sure why any studio won't want to make it. I think it's really timely because it's about environmental apocalypse, which is the biggest theme, for me, right now for what's going on on this planet. So I think it's got these big, big themes that connect with us. Noah was the first environmentalist. He's a really interesting character. Hopefully they'll let me make it."
June 2011: Aronofsky makes it clear that this won't be your average God-fearing biblical adaptation. "I don't think it's a very religious story," he tells IFC News. "I think it's a great fable that's part of so many different religions and spiritual practices. I just think it's a great story that's never been on film."
July 2013: Aronofsky screens a sneak peek of "Noah" at the faith-based Echo Conference in Texas. "I'm also excited that Hollywood has finally agreed to make the first biblical epic in almost 50 years," he says. "It's been a long time since Bible movies were on the screen, and there's been a lot of advancements in technology and special effects, and maybe that's the reason why Noah's never been attempted on the big screen before, because of the size and scale of the deluge and all the different animals. … But now, finally, with Hollywood's help, we can actually do this and bring it to life."
February 2014: Aronofsky reveals he granted Paramount the rights to select the final cut of "Noah" in exchange for an elevated budget, saying he knew his would be victorious. He was right. "My guys and I were pretty sure that because of the nature of the film and how we work, there wasn't another version," he tells The Hollywood Reporter. "The scenes were so interconnected — if you started unwinding scenes, I just knew there would be holes. … I've never reshot a frame, and I think that's very odd on big-budget movies. We're meticulous. We come from independent film, with limited resources."
March 2014: "'Noah' is the least biblical biblical film ever made," the director tells The New Yorker when asked about the alternate cuts that produced troubling responses from some religious audiences. "I don't give a f–k about the test scores. My films are outside the scores."
March 2014: "It's a very, very different movie," Aronofsky tells the audience at the Mexico City premiere. "Anything you're expecting, you're f–king wrong."
March 2014: "Where are there liberties? Find me a contradiction in there that can't be explained. Of course there's liberties. I mean, we're making a movie here," he tells Religious News Service. "If you read the four chapters that the Noah story takes place in, Noah doesn't even speak. How are you going to cast Russell Crowe and not have him talk? Noah's wife and his sons' three wives aren't even named in the Bible. … A lot of people are going to be like 'What? Noah, drunk and naked? How dare you?!' It's in the Bible. People are going to say, 'Giants walking the earth? Fallen angels? How dare you?!' But it's in there."
March 2014: "It's impossible to understand what these times are because there are four chapters in the Bible," Aronofsky tells The Atlantic when asked about the lack of literalism employed in the film. "It's just important that you don't contradict any of it and that you study each word, and study each sentence, and try to use and extract as much juice out of that to be inspired to turn it into a vision that represents the spirit of it all. That's the goal. It's like—not to compare me to Michelangelo in any way, I'm in awe of him—but you look at the Sistine Chapel and there's the moment of the fingers almost about to touch the moment of creation—and that's not described in the Bible that way. There was no finger-to-finger, E.T. moment in the Bible. But that's how Michelangelo decided to draw it."
And one from Crowe to boot: "We've had probably over a year now of very harsh criticism from a bunch of people who have put their name and stamp on an opinion that's not even based on the movie or seeing the movie, just an assumption of what it could be or how bad it could be or how wrong it could be in their eyes, which I think quite frankly is bordering on absolute stupidity, because now, I think, people are seeing the movie and they're realizing how respectful it is and how potent it is," he says during an apperance on "Good Morning America."


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NovemberSo far in the month of November, Carnegie Mellon Media Relations has counted hundreds of references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Qatar Foundation forum honors 15 researchers | The Peninsula
Ameena Al Zeyara from the Carnegie Mellon University was awarded for computer science research.
From the 353 abstracts submitted for consideration, 280 were selected for either oral or poster presentation.
Student posters were awarded for research on the following topics: Parkinson's disease, the next generation of internal combustion engines, bio-insecticides, assistive technology for people with hearing and speaking disabilities, and tribal settlement patterns as a model for contemporary sustainable urban design.vember 23
Greenhouse gases soar | Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald
November 22
Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria, Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University and Gregg Marland of Appalachian State University agreed with the MIT analysis that holding warming to two degrees now seems unlikely.
"There's no way to stop it. There's so much inertia in the system," Morgan said. "We've committed to quite a bit of warming."
5 college Thanksgiving traditions | U.S. News and World Report
November 21
While Thanksgiving is a national holiday that isn't tied to a specific religion, Carnegie Mellon University uses this time of year to promote spirituality.
November is known as Spiritual Development Month at Carnegie Mellon, and it gives the school a "chance to highlight all the different faith traditions taking place on campus," says Kenneth Lawson, coordinator for spirituality and meaning-making programs at the university.
Hottest major on campus? Computer science | NetworkWorld.com
November 21
The nation's best undergraduate computer science programs are bracing for a record number of applications this fall, as more high school seniors are lured by plentiful jobs, six-figure starting salaries and a hipster image fostered by the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
Early admissions are piling up at elite tech schools, including Carnegie Mellon University, Harvey Mudd College and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - all of whose undergraduate computer science and engineering programs are rated tops by U.S. News & World Report, the de facto college ranking in the United States.
Intelligent assistance for a better future | South China Morning Post
November 19
It is a problem that has been bothering Guangdong for decades, and one that Dr Jared Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, offered a solution to. Cohon told acting governor Zhu Xiaodan , senior officials and hundreds of students at Sun Yat-sen University that universities could play a very important role in regional transformation and pointed to the way Carnegie Mellon University had helped Pittsburgh deal with a similar situation.
Cohon was in Guangzhou both for the International Consultative Conference on the Future Economic Development of Guangdong, held every two years, and to sign agreements between his university and Sun Yat-sen University on the establishment of a joint engineering institute in Guangzhou that will offer masters and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering from 2013.
A plastic that behaves like glass | Chemical and Engineering News
November 17
The researchers have been able to recycle the material so that it has the same properties as the original. Also, scratches and small breaks in the plastic can be repaired by heating it. Leibler's team has patented the material and hopes to see it commercialized soon. The chemical components, he says, are inexpensive and readily available.
"The reported results demonstrate how, in a very simple way, one can make new easily processable materials with excellent properties," comments polymer expert and Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski. "The chemistry is very simple, robust, and provides unique organic materials that behave better than classical inorganic glasses."
Best of what's new: Carnegie Mellon Astrobotic Red Rover | Popular Science
To win the $20-million Google Lunar X Prize, a team must build a rover, land it on the moon, and send footage back to Earth. Team Astrobotic, headed by Carnegie Mellon professor William "Red" Whittaker, took the lead this year over 26 competitors when its solar-powered rover completed an unassisted 0.6-mile simulated lunar traverse at the university's proving ground. The 173-pound rover is designed to take 3-D, high-definition images of the moon's surface—and in February the team signed a deal with SpaceX to send it to the moon to do just that.
Seeing the big (and small) picture: Panoramic tool lets users observe dynamic imagery | Scientific American
November 17
The system, GigaPan Time Machine, was developed by Carnegie Mellon University, with the aid of NASA and Google. The project is an offshoot of GigaPan, a system for creating detailed panoramas by robotically panning a digital camera across a scene and stitching together the resulting images into a billion-pixel, or gigapixel, image. Users can then delve into the high-resolution mosaic to, for instance, examine the facial expressions of individual attendees in the enormous crowd at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration. The Time Machine adds time-domain control to the extensive panning and zooming available through Gigapan. In other words, Time Machine imagery is not static but dynamic, a time-lapse movie in which the viewer can zoom in or out as he or she pleases to watch different stories play out on small scales across the frame.
New CMUQ dean 'keen to enroll more Qatari pupils' | Doha Insight
November 17
The new Dean of Carnegie Mellon University–Qatar (CMUQ) yesterday unveiled some upcoming developments including adding more courses and faculty at the university as the institution tries to draw in more Qatari students.
Dean Ilker Baybars, speaking to the media, said CMUQ's business school will be adding more courses and faculty in the next year, particularly in finance and marketing.
He said CMUQ has specific plans to increase enrolment of Qatari students at the school. Out of around 100 students admitted this year, 42 of them are Qatari nationals, which he said is good considering the fact that Qataris only make up around 15% of the population.
Sun Yat-sen University partners with CMU to establish institute of engineering | Guangdong News
November 15
In the evening of November 14th, Sun Yat-Sen University and Carnegie Mellon University signed the Collaborative Agreement for the Establishment of SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering (with its subsidiary school of Electrical and Computer Engineering ) during the 2011 plenary of International Consultative Conference on the Future Economic Development of Guangdong Province.
According to the agreement, SYSU and CMU will establish a joint Institute of Engineering in Guangzhou, China, initially offering master's and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering beginning in 2013.
Super Cameras from NASA are used to register every face within enormous crowd | cubadebate.cu (Translated from Spanish)
November 9
Photographer Ronnie Miranda of Port Moody utilized a GigaPan (superpanorama) camera to take a photo of the crowd of people on Georgia Street, with the ability to recognize every face within the miles of people that were in the center of Vancover before the riots before the last Stanley Cup on June 15.
Captured at 5:46 P.M. on the 15th of June of 2011, and published 8 days later in the Vancouver's Tri-City News Diary, the image is made possible by GigaPan technology, a system of photographer developed by Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group that consists of three developed technologies: a robotic poppet-head that operates the camera and captures a mosiac of high resolution images, a software that ensembles hundred of millions of images into one photo, and a Gigapan browser that allows users to explore these super photos.
132 economists think GOP job plan better for country | CNN iReport
Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner in a statement released yesterday says 132 economists throughout the nation preferred the Republican's jobs bill to that being offered by President Barack Obama.
"The Boehner list is a retort to Obama's call to have independent analysts compare the GOP plan with his. Those surveyed by Boehner include economists from Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Carnegie Mellon University, American Enterprise Institute and the Manhattan Institute -- fairly conservative institutions. Boehner said the economists' support for the GOP plan is further proof that Obama needs to engage Republicans."
U.S. joins hunt for brutal warlord in Africa | NPR's "Tell Me More"
MICHEL MARTIN, host: I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Later in the program we remember the boxing legend Smokin' Joe Frazier. He passed away yesterday. But first, we want to talk about the Obama administration's decision to send a group of U.S. military forces into Central Africa. Their mission: to help capture Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army. This rebel group is widely believed to be responsible for some of the worst atrocities associated with modern warfare on the continent for committing mass killings and mass rapes.
We wanted to know more about this important but not much discussed mission, so we've called upon Jendayi Frazer, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the George W. Bush administration. She also served as U.S. ambassador to South Africa. She's now a distinguished public service professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Ambassador, thank you so much for speaking with us.
Nice guys finish last | Topretailing.com, Chinese News Website
Social scientists have long sought a reasonable explanation for why altruism exists. One widely accepted assumption is that groups recognize altruistic contributions by conferring status on the generous person, whether that be through higher social rank, recognition, or simply respect. Yet this theory is not perfect, as it fails to explain why leaders who behave selfishly make it into power.
Robert Livingston, an assistant professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, and co-authors Nir Halevy, an acting assistant professor at Stanford University, Eileen Chou, a lecturer at the Kellogg School, and Taya Cohen, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, are the latest to weigh in on the debate about the role of altruistic behavior in human society and its origins. Altruism, they argue, may be beneficial or detrimental to a person's social status, depending on how it is defined. It can also serve as a barrier on the path to leadership.
Opinion: Should we further empower Big Brother? | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
GPS technology raises the scary possibility that the government will always know where we are, warns Carnegie Mellon University's Norman M. Sadeh.
A car's navigation system that helps us find our way to any destination and a smartphone that locates a nearby restaurant are among the everyday marvels of life today. But GPS, like any technology, poses perils as well as benefits. If a technology can tell you where you are, it can just as easily tell someone else where you are.
Does the government, for instance, have the right to always know your whereabouts? Most of us would adamantly answer "no," but government lawyers are arguing the opposite in a case under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, the court is set to hear arguments in a case involving the surveillance of an alleged drug dealer in which the government claims it has the right to use GPS technology to track anyone's motor vehicle without warrant and without the owner's consent.
Mark Zuckerberg returns to college with East coast university tour | TechNews.am
November 1
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be visiting three colleges during an East coast speaking tour starting November 8th. He will be visiting Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, and MIT.
Zuckerberg started Facebook in a dorm room at Harvard University and then left the school in 2004 to move offices to Palo Alto.
Carnegie Mellon University says that while at its school, Zuckerberg will join Facebook vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer to talk to a select crowd of computer science and electrical and computer engineering students.
10 universities with the most international students | U.S. News and World Report
November 1
Coming to the United States for college can be a major undertaking for international students. There are tests to pass and visas to obtain, and, once you've settled on a college campus, the challenges might continue.


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