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The war of words tearing apart Australia's richest family intensified yesterday, with newly released court documents revealing claims that mining magnate Gina Rinehart tried to prevent her three eldest children inheriting their share of a family trust for a further 57 years.
John Hancock, Bianca Rinehart and Hope Rinehart Welker, who launched legal action against their mother last year, claim she secretly changed the date when they were due to inherit from 2011 to 2068.
They also say she placed them under "illegitimate emotional and financial pressure" to drop their lawsuit to have her removed as trustee of the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust.
The allegations are contained in documents released to the media after Rinehart - whose wealth was estimated by Forbes last week to be A$17.1 billion ($22 billion) - lost a six-month battle to have the court proceedings kept secret.
The papers also reveal Rinehart warned her three children they faced financial ruin if they inherited, as each would be liable for a potential capital gains tax bill of A$100 million.
In a letter last September to all four children - her youngest daughter, Ginia, is siding with her in the dispute - Rinehart wrote: "It may ... be reasonably arguable that personal development-wise it would be in the best interests of the beneficiaries to force them to go to work and reconsider their holidaying lifestyles and attitudes."
The documents have also widened the rift between Ginia Rinehart, 25, and her three siblings.
In her statement of claim, Ginia wrote they were not "fit and proper persons" to be in charge of the trust, said to be worth up to A$5 billion.
"None of the plaintiffs has displayed the degree of perseverance, work ethic, responsibility that would be required to administer the trust," she said. They had a "history of personal conflict with one another" and with their mother, she added, and if they were allowed to take over administration of the trust it would have a significant negative impact on the family's mining empire.
Ginia Rinehart also released a statement yesterday accusing her brother of creating "falsities and spreading them globally", and describing the legal action as "nothing but a destructive display of greed, jealousy and a selfish sense of entitlement on behalf of my siblings".
That appeared to be a response to a statement by Hancock last Friday in which he said he had relied on his own business skills to make a living, although "I won't be able to replicate my youngest sister Ginia in 'earning' the achievement of a Rolls Royce at 25".
Yesterday he and Bianca said Ginia was being "used" by her mother, with Bianca saying Ginia had emailed them when they began the court action to say "she supported us 100 per cent".
In her statement of claim, Bianca accused her mother of acting "with gross indecency" and "deceitfully" in her dealings with the three children.
She and her siblings say Rinehart warned them they faced bankruptcy because of the tax bill, but refused to disclose the financial advice on which she based that claim.
The documents also reveal that two federal politicians, Barnaby Joyce and Alby Schultz, both friends of Rinehart, have weighed into the dispute.
The former urged the children to keep the affair "in house" because "newspapers and lawyers get people to say nasty things".
Schultz entreated them to drop the lawsuit, calling it a "horrific step".
Rinehart's mining company is almost one-quarter owned by the trust, which was set up in 1988 by Rinehart's father, Lang Hancock, with his four grandchildren as beneficiaries.


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S. 1002, The SAFE DOSES Act
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S. 1002 would prohibit theft of medical products.
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The Soviet Union declared in 1955 that it would place a satellite into Earth orbit during the 18-month International Geophysical Year (1957-1958). Few in the West took this claim seriously, however, until the Soviets test-launched the world's first intercontinental missile, the R-7, on 21 August 1957. The Soviets then used modified R-7 rockets to launch Earth's first and second artificial satellites, respectively 184-pound Sputnik 1 (4 October 1957) and 1118-pound Sputnik 2 (3 November 1957).
The relatively enormous mass the R-7 could loft into Earth orbit startled U.S. rocketeers. The first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1 (31 January 1958), weighed just 31 pounds, while the third Soviet satellite, Sputnik 3, launched four months later, weighed nearly 100 times as much (2926 pounds).
Even as the U.S. launched its first satellite, two new heats in the space race began: the race to hit the moon with an automated probe, and the race to launch a man into orbit. In a presentation to the American Astronautical Society in August 1958, Dandridge Cole and Donald Muir, engineers with The Martin Company in Denver, Colorado, proposed in effect to combine these two races by launching a man around the moon.
They warned that the "Russians may have such a long lead. . .that they will have made landings on the moon before. . .our first circumlunar flight," and predicted that the Soviet Union would be capable of a manned circumlunar flight in 1963, four years before the United States. Cole and Muir added, however, that "on the technical side, at least, there seems to be no reason why this goal could not be accomplished [by NASA] by 1963." In 1958, many in the U.S. perceived that American spaceflight was held back mainly by a lack of political will on the part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Cole and Muir proposed a four-stage launch vehicle ("Missile B") for their circumlunar flight. They estimated that a 160,000-pound-thrust U.S. missile ("Missile A") could be expected by 1963; for their circumlunar flight, they proposed clustering four such missiles to create a first stage with 610,000 pounds of thrust. Their circumlunar rocket would also include a second stage comprising one 160,000-pound thrust missile, a third stage with a 40,000-pound-thrust rocket, and a fourth stage with a 10,000-pound-thrust rocket.
The bucket-shaped circumlunar capsule would weigh 9000 pounds. Though a two-week circumlunar trip would have required the least energy (and thus a smaller launch vehicle), Cole and Muir opted for a three- or four-day trip for psychological reasons. "For one man alone in a tiny sealed capsule on a journey of 250,000 miles from the earth," they explained, "the difference between three or four days and two weeks might approach infinity." Reduced trip time would also trim the quantity of life-support supplies needed on board the capsule. The energy needed to reduce the trip time from two weeks to four days would be modest, they estimated, though reducing it still further would require a prohibitive amount of energy.
The capsule's circumlunar path would have three parts. The outbound leg would last 35.4 hours. It would be followed by a 9.3-hour "hyperbola" past the moon. The capsule would pass 10 miles over the moon's Farside, where the "synthesizing power of the human brain [would] permit collection of more accurate and more meaningful data than could be obtained by photographic techniques alone." The third leg of the mission, the 35.4-hour fall back to Earth, would mirror the outbound leg. The circumlunar voyager would be treated to a magnificent view of Earth rising over the lunar horizon as he began his journey home (image at top of post).
The heat shield for high-speed Earth-atmosphere reentry would weigh just 500 pounds. As Earth filled the capsule's view ports, the pilot's "bathtub-type" couch would fill with water to cushion him from the powerful forces of reentry deceleration. A lid with a window would prevent the water from escaping in zero-G before deceleration commenced. Cole and Muir wrote that, because "the water would be needed only in the last phase of the trip, it could be reserve drinking or washing water." Despite the potential mass savings, they hesitated "to suggest that it might be water. . .already used for drinking or washing."
The capsule would enter Earth's atmosphere nose first. As deceleration began, the bathtub couch would pivot so that the pilot faced the capsule's flat aft end. This would cause him to feel deceleration through his back, enabling him to withstand greater sustained deceleration loads.
After fiery atmosphere reentry, the capsule would deploy fins for steering. Landing would be by parachute at sea or on U.S. soil. Cole and Muir ended their paper with rousing words: "Time may well prove that the man who climbs out of this capsule to receive the cheers of the recovery crew. . .made a voyage of greater importance to the human race than that of Columbus."
The Soviet Union's 858-pound Luna 2 probe became the first human-made object to strike the moon on 14 September 1959, and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin rode Vostok 1 to Earth orbit in 12 April 1961 to become the first human in space. Gagarin's flight – combined with the geopolitical setback of the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba – inspired new U.S. President John F. Kennedy to call upon NASA to land a man on the moon by 1970 (25 May 1961).
For a time, NASA planned a piloted circumlunar flight as an early mission in the Apollo lunar landing test program. In the event, it jumped straight from its first Earth-orbital Apollo test-flight (Apollo 7, 11-22 October 1968) to its first lunar-orbital test-flight (Apollo 8, 21-27 December 1968).
The Soviet Union tested Zond circumlunar spacecraft – modified piloted Soyuz spacecraft – without crews on board from 1966 until 1970. Most Zond flights suffered failures serious enough to have killed cosmonauts, had any been on board. Fears that the Soviets might steal America's thunder by launching a Zond crew around the moon in December 1968 helped to prompt the Apollo 8 mission.
The first (and, so far, only) piloted circumlunar flight was the result of an accident. On 13 April 1970, the Apollo 13 Command and Service Module Odyssey suffered an oxygen tank explosion which forced NASA to scrub its planned lunar landing. Astronauts James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert used the descent engine of the Lunar Module Aquarius to change their course so that they passed behind the moon on 15 April 1970 without entering orbit and fell back to Earth, splashing down safely on 17 April 1970.
"Around the Moon in 80 Hours," Dandridge M. Cole and Donald E. Muir, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 3, pp. 27-1 – 27-30; Proceedings of the Western Regional Meeting of the American Astronautical Society, August 1958.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Wallabies' rugby coach Robbie Deans arrived in New Zealand for the World Cup today and his thoughts quickly went to the people of Christchurch, who he says are "going through a very tough time".
Deans, who was involved with the Crusaders for 11 years as manager and head coach, still has close links to Christchurch and is planning to take his team to the city for some activities and fund-raising during the tournament, so rugby fans "don't feel completely abandoned" by the lack of matches there following the earthquakes of the past 12 months.
Deans said: "I'm disappointed for the people of Canterbury. It's been a very tough pill for them to swallow. The challenges still go on there - the earth is still moving and to be honest the challenges will last for a long time. The place will never be the same again so they're going through a very tough time.
"It's a double whammy for them to now sit and watch the World Cup happen around them because they're a very passionate rugby population."
Christchurch had been scheduled several pool matches, including the highly-anticipated England v Argentina, as well as two quarter-finals - one of which the All Blacks are expected to feature in.
There are still many in New Zealand who feel that Deans should have got the All Blacks' coaching job ahead of Henry following New Zealand's 2007 World Cup quarter-final exit, but the man himself is staying diplomatic about any support the Wallabies might get because of him.
Besides, he said, opinions may have changed following Australia's Tri-Nations clinching victory over the All Blacks.
"I suspect after last weekend the lines may be drawn, but hopefully they will enjoy the rugby that we play and get the opportunity to enjoy the occasion because it's going to be good.
"People will choose their own paths. We hope to play some good rugby and we hope to be respected for the rugby that we play and the way we go about our business."
England coach Martin Johnson and several players are scheduled to visit Christchurch tomorrow (Wednesday) and the All Blacks, who consist of 10 players with Canterbury connections, will also visit the city during the tournament.
Australia's first assignment at the World Cup is Italy at North Harbour Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Deans today named an unchanged starting 15 for the match following his side's recent victory over the All Blacks in Brisbane, with three changes on the reserves' bench.
Prop James Slipper replaces Rob Horne, hooker Tatafu Polota Nau comes in for Saia Fainga'a and wing James O'Connor gets his chance ahead of Salesi Ma'afu.
O'Connor sat out the previous match against the All Blacks after he was suspended for missing the Wallabies' World Cup squad announcement.
Australia: Kurtley Beale, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Anthony Fainga'a, Pat McCabe, Digby Ioane, Quade Cooper, Will Genia, Radike Samo, David Pocock, Rocky Elsom, James Horwill (captain), Dan Vickerman, Ben Alexander, Stephen Moore, Sekope Kepu. Reserves: Tatafu Polota-Nau, James Slipper, Rob Simmons, Ben McCalman, Scott Higginbotham, Luke Burgess, James O'Connor.


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Welcome to our page! Please visit our site ahelpingpaw.org for all New Arrival PETS!
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Working with and for the community to STOP the killing!
What can we do to convince you to adopt one more? Precious cats and kittens are being destroyed everyday because there are not enough homes. Homeless pets are fighting for their lives everyday. The competition is fierce, so many are in need of homes. You look at their pictures and then pass them by. Do you every wonder what happened to that life that you viewed for a moment? It may be just a picture to you, but sitting somewhere in a shelter is a living being, who may not see tomorrow. We have many, many more kitties than listed on our site, so please email us. I am sure that you will meet your match.
UPDATE: We are now located at 9 St Margarett's St, Unit 7 , Buzzards Bay. ALL adoptions are by appointment or watch for our adoption days. to learn more come like us on Facebook at: A Helping Paw Humane Society or visit our web site at www.ahelpingpaw.org. As a private no-kill organzation, we rely on YOU to keep our vital programs running. Please consider making a donation to one of our many pets and be part of this life-saving effort.
Join us on the first Saturday of each month, 10AM-2PM for our Kitty Meet and Greet Day at the PETCO, loacted at 2421 Cranberry Highway in Wareham. Stop by to say hello and meet some of our available cats and kittens, as well as learn more about us or please call the shelter 508-291-PAWS (7297). We are also looking for meet & greet volunteers to help on Saturdays or Sundays.
Come help us GROW! It feels great knowing that the gift of your time helps save so many precious animals. Cleaners - groomers - shelter assistants, public relations - fundraising coordinator - donation can distribution - and more!
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Currently, we have over 60 resident pets staying at our sanctuary. If you can not adopt, please consider sponsoring one of our special pets. Click here to learn more about our sanctuary: AHelpingPaw.org For only $25 per month you can sponsor a sanctuary kitty!
Trappers Needed!
There are a numerous amount of homeless cats and kittens living on our streets. With your help, we can rescue them and place them in proper homes. We need people willing to spare just a few hours a week to help us trap. Please contact us for more information.
Sponsors Needed!
We are currently in the process of trying to rescue kitties from the streets. Many are young kittens and we would like to get them before the weather gets much colder as we fear they may not survive. Estimated vet and care costs to rescue one kitty is $150. If you would like to sponsor one of these special kitties and help get them off the streets, please let us know.
Who We Are
A Helping Paw is a NO-KILL, 501 (c) (3), nonprofit organization that is completely dedicated to ending the killing of innocent pets through increased adoptions and spay/neuter. Unlike many shelters who only take in full bred or highly adoptable pets, we are a TRUE rescue shelter, which means we spend countless hours removing homeless pets from the streets and caring for those that are not 'perfect'. Many of the pets we care for would be euthanized in tradtional shelters. Our goal is not to place as many pets as we can, but to place as many as we can into great homes. Every pet we take in gets a second chance at life, and becomes part of our family forever.
Waters was locked in a basement to the point of reaching death. She weighed only 3.4 pounds. Your donations towards emergency vet care kept her alive and after 4 years she is doing purrfect!
Adison was an older boy, living with a woman who hardly cared for herself and has recently passed away. Adison was shipped to another shelter and moments from being destroyed. Safely, he made his way to us and now has found a loving home!
Please help us SAVE more pets! Donate Today! With over 100 hungry mouths to feed and care for, everyday is a struggle to keep up with bills. Become a furry friend and send your gift today! Whether your gift is $500, $100, $50 or $5, every penny counts when there is a life to be saved. We promise to make your funds work as hard for our pets as you have earned them. 100% off your donation to our medical fund goes directly to the pets, please note 'medical fund' on your donation.
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We can not save anymore lives until we find homes for all the wonderful pets we have already saved! Please adopt just one more! Adopt a friend today and save a life! Our main goal at A Helping Paw is to rescue pets who have been living difficult lives on the streets. Many of these pets face death everyday. Many times at the hands of humans, who simply do not care and all they need is a second chance. Many of these cats and kittens do not know what it means to be loved and tend to stray away from humans initially. Our volunteers put a great deal of time into rehabilitating them so they can find safe loving homes. Many socialize easily once they feel safe and secure, while others take a bit longer and there are also always the few who will remain a little shy, but each and every one deserves to live. It is crucial to get these pets into new homes ASAP!
Please won't you open your home to one of these special kitties in need - every single day you will see the difference you have made in their lives by offering them love and security. We are looking for adult homes with truly special caring people, who do not mind putting an extra effort into a relationship. Special adoption discounts apply! Please contact us for more information. The faster we can find them homes, the sooner we can save the life of another cat or kitten living on the streets.
Adoption Fees
A Helping Paw wants to be sure that our pets are going to great homes. They have been through so much, don't they deserve a safe and loving permanent home? We require a completed application, an adoption fee to help cover medical costs and a consultation with an adoption counselor. Proof of home ownership or a letter from your landlord stating you are allowed to have a pet. Applications are usually approved within 2 days. Finding the right match is crucial. Please do not be offended if we feel that the pet you are considering is not appropriate for you and or your lifestyle.
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Are you that X-tra special person who can offer just a little addtional love and care to one of our X-Tra special pets, who have either mild behavior or medical issues? These pets do not do well at our care center, so in order to get them homes ASAP, we offer discounts towards their adoption.
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Often times, humans take cats for granted - forgetting how unique their systems are. Cats are prey animals. Understanding this will go a long way at understanding cats' behavior. Why does my cat insist on sleeping on the refrigerator? Why do cats naturally cover their feces? Why do cats hide illnesses? This is all related to being a prey animal. The myth that cats have nine lives seems to have mislead humans into thinking that cats are very hardy creatures. A well-adjusted, healthy cat surely can be a hardy creature, but what we need to focus on is getting the cat to that point. Most importantly, your new arrival.
Fish keepers know all too well that when adding a new fish to their tank they must slowly acclimate it or it will quickly die of 'stress'. For some reason, cat owners think they can just take a new kitty home and simply let it out of the carrier and everything will be fine and dandy. This is not a great start for any new kitty. Put yourself in the cats' 'paws' for a moment; how would you feel suddenly being dumped on a foreign land - you do not know your way around and you can not communicate with the habitants. New sites, sounds and smells can be extremely overwhelming, and most stressful to any kitty. Cats, as prey animals, must feel safe before exploring. They need a safety zone. A small area where they can adjust to the new surroundings on their terms, providing them with a sense of security. A bathroom or other small room does the trick. Allow this to be their zone for three days or more as needed.
Upper respiratory infections are a frequent result of cats who have become stressed. I can not possibly tell you how many calls we get from people stating that their new arrival has an upper respiratory infection. Though these infections can be very common is shelter cats, most often it is brought on by stress related to environmental changes. Which explains why a shelter cat can be symptom free for months at the shelter, but within a week of being rehomed, the cat gets symptoms. I have heard many,"...but the cat is not stressed! He is acting perfectly normal". Any change in a cat's environment can cause stress. Unlike dogs, their systems are extremely sensitive. The biggest mistake you can make is to not take acclimation of a new cat seriously, especially if there are other pets already living in the home. The slower you acclimate the cat to its new environment, the better the cat will adjust and the greater you will reduce the chances of the cat developing upper respiratory infections. A slow acclimation over the period of a minimum of two weeks is best. Kittens generally acclimate more quickly.
Cats surrendered to shelters do not get the benefit of a slow acclimation. It is not uncommon for a cat to come into a shelter hissing, spitting and lashing out. This behavior can last for several days to a week. Deemed unadoptable, these cats are destroyed. On average, approximately 25% of the cats A Helping Paw receives react this way upon arrival. More than 75% of the cats hide in a corner of their cage for near a week. For cats showing a great deal of stress, we will completely cover their cage to reduce environmental over stimulation. Because the cage is a small area and the cat can not see outside the cage, it can adjust more quickly, calming the cat.
The saddest situations we have to deal with are cats who have been given up as seniors who have lived their entire lives in one home. Often times these cats do extremely poorly, shutting down (not eating or drinking) for several days. Though we express our concerns to the owners of these cats, they simply do not seem to care that changing the cat's home at this stage in life could possibly kill it.
Please never underestimate the sensitivity of your cat. By nature, the cat needs to appear 'strong'. Any signs of weakness could be their death. Cats will rarely appear 'sick' until it is too late. When cats behave this way, it is your job to pay close attention to any subtle changes in behavior. Any change at all should be brought to the attention of your vet. Vets are trained to pick up on these slight changes and diagnose many health issues prior to them becoming a serious issue. It is better to treat any medical issue early on than to put it off and face the high cost of care, should the condition worsen or become too late for treatment.
Answers to Common Questions
Q: If you want to get more pets adopted, why don't you give them away free or cheap?
A: First, if you can not afford an adoption fee, how will you be able to afford even basic medical care, never mind emergency medical care. We expect our adoptive homes to make a commitment to their pets and offer the same quality care they received here at the rescue center. Second, without the funds from our adoptions, we simply would have no funds to care for other pets in need.
Q: Yeah, but don't you make money on the pets you adopt out?
A: Please consider that our average monthly expenses are over $2,000 and this does not even include rent. In addition, please consider on average each pet we take in costs us around $157.00 in medical costs. The cost would be much higher, but we have several wonderful vets who offer our pets discounted services.
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A: Please tell us where! Each pet we adopt out is spayed/neutered, wormed, treated for fleas, rabies vaccinated, received between 1-3 distemper vaccines and felv/fiv combo tested. In other words, they have had the 'works'. If you had to do this all by yourself, you would be looking at anywhere from $275.00 to $400.00 for a cat.
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Q: I notice that most of your cats are not caged, why is that?
A: We believe that all of our residents should enjoy a comfortable stay with us while they await new homes. Kitties kept in cages too long, go crazy and the stress reduces their immunity. We also find that a cage-free environment allows for better interaction between the pet and the prospective adoptive family. It is hard to judge a pet's personality if it is stuck in a cage. Finding the right match between pet and new family is crucial for a long lasting relationship.
Q: Do you offer a health guarantee?
A: Let me ask you, did the hospital offer your mom a health guarantee when you where born? Of course not. The only reason pet stores offer health guarantees is to encourage people to buy from them. Should you return a pet to a pet shop, chances are that pet will be destroyed. We are a 'rescue' organization, unlike many animal shelters who deal in 'prime' pets, a majority of our pets were rescued from the streets, meaning we do not have a background to go on. Each pet is vet checked prior to adoption. Should a pet have a known medical problem we will make you aware of it. Some people think that animal shelters hide medical problems just to get a pet adopted and that may ring true for an extremely rare organization who does not have their heart in it, but for 99% of shelters, lying to an adoptive home would only put the pet in jeopardy. Obviously, you do assume some risks when adopting from a shelter, versus buying from a breeder, but when you consider there are some really horrible breeders who do not breed for health or temperament, I would say that this pretty much equals things out. My mom purchased an 8 wk old German Shepherd from a breeder in NH, the dog died 1 week later from Parvo. My oldest living cat recently died at a ripe old age of 23, she was a sickly underweight stray full of worms when we got her.
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I got my candies! Thanks so much Sheri!! The spud is classic, and big hunk is right up there too. My dad loves them!
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Thanks Sheri I received my box of goodies today.....now I need to find the time to sew sew sew.....grandkids are moving away this weekend so I think I will drowned my tears in my sweet candy squares.
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SheriR, Thank you so much for the unexpected little package with the real candy! The extra fabric was a treat to find as well. I appreciate your work. Thanks for helping us all out! And thanks to Fraew from CA for the fabric too. It's so nice to see new prints I haven't seen here in my local quilt shop!
I received my package yesterday. Thank you everyone. Special thanks to SheriR for your work and extra candy.
Doing my happy dance, the charms arrived today!!!! Thanks so much, SheriR.
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I got home last night from my trip to Utah to see daughter and family. My sweet candy was waiting for me and I enjoyed every bite of the Idaho Spud. I found a great quilt shop in Provo called Fabric Mill. What great prices they had. Sure wish I lived closer. It is worth stopping at if you are ever in the area.
Jannie, sounds like fun!!! Glad you enjoyed your Candy and your trip!
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Hello there ladies! I just wanted to thank you all for the candy. I just spent the better part of 3 hours chain stitching so many squares I can't count, at least not yet. I pulled mostly medium and dark squares from every single bag I received and mixed them with some lights I had. I've still got a long way to go but at this point, everyone in this group will be represented in my quilt top. I had a great deal of fun today, due in great part to all of you. Thank you so much!
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I'm sure all the recording artists, movie producers, software designers (who choose to charge, a.k.a. non-freeware), and other companies who are losing money every day to piracy would differ with that opinion.
The entertainment industry isn't "losing money to piracy", that's a myth perpetuated by it's conservative Powers That Be. Various studies by major universities and the U.S. government, amongst others, back that up. The difference that piracy
bring about is that it changes the channels, flow and distribution of income and forces companies to adapt their business models accordingly. Those who refuse to adapt will lose money but, in reality, the entertainment industry, as a whole, makes more money now than ever before. Consumers listen to far more music on youtube, for example, (which pays its way through advertising etc.) than they ever listened to when they were buying cassette tapes.
The attitudes of those artists, record company's etc., that you refer to, are no different to the attitudes of the equivalent entities during the advent of radio broadcasting. Artists and record companies went to great lengths to ensure that their work would never be broadcast via this nasty, reckless, uncontrollable new medium. They did so under the false assumption that, if someone could listen to a song for free at home, then they would no longer have any reason to spend money on attending live performances.
Those backwards ideas now sound laughable, just as the current demonising of file-sharing will do, in 50 or so years time.
The extreme restrictions placed on airplay decades ago spawned pirate radio, which helped launch the careers of many of the greatest musicians and DJs of all time and, ultimately, forced the Powers That Be to wake up, stop being stubborn and bring themselves in line with reality. The supply was eventually forced meet the demand, which benefitted everyone.
Media content worthless?
Anyone can create high-quality audio or video content and distribute it to an infinite number of people nowadays. It requires no special skill or any expensive equipment.
Why should I pay to watch wrestling when I can watch a girl masturbate on Chatroulette, for free? The entertainment marketplace is ridiculously competitive now, in that sense. If anything, the technology companies are to blame for any problem that development causes, not filesharers.
The thing is, the ability to watch something/listen to something isn't what's being sold here. What's actually being sold is the whole package: from the cover, to the case, to the collectability, to the opportunity to directly support/influence a company/artist, to the sentimental value of physical things, to the guarantee that the stuff works...and so on. You're selling membership of an elite club, basically.
The way I see it, there's a curve of fandom nowadays. You can start off, like I did, as a poor teenager - someone who can only download the occasional wrestling show due to a cheap, shitty internet connection, watches Heat on wwe.com, and can't afford to pay for any of this stuff. You can then gradually make the transition towards being a frequent buyer of obscure shit, who thus directly financially supports the artist/producer/industry/whatever.
There will always be certain perks to buying and owning, when compared to downloading and watching IMO.
would rather have a DVD than a crappy media file on their computer. If you take away the opportunity to view, from those to whom money is a barrier, then you nip your future generations of paying customers in the bud and you slow the spreading of information about your product. Filesharing
need to be controlled, legitimised and channelled in the right directions but to completely get rid of piracy would be like getting rid of running water, just because it's too cheap to meter now, and forcing everyone to buy Evian instead.
tl;dr I'm massively pro-piracy and I must've bought about 35 wrestling DVDs this year. If it wasn't for piracy I wouldn't even be a fan of wrestling any more. Let alone would I be spreading the word about a little-known women's promotion.
Speaking of which, back on topic:
It's difficult to apply a lot of this to a company like SHIMMER because, as I said earlier, they literally survive from one taping to the next, based largely on DVD sales. They have a very old-fashioned, simplistic business model.
They need as much money as they can get
and can't necessarily afford to wait months or years for someone to become hooked enough to buy frequently or for a freeloader to pass the word on by writing blogs, doing youtube reviews, posting on message boards, tweeting or whatever. SHIMMER also has a cap on the number of live fans that they can accommodate, which means that freebies could only have a limited impact when it comes to promoting stuff that you can't download - like the live event experience or a signed picture, for two examples.
So, if your looking to attach some "morality" or "guilt" thing to piracy, then I can see the argument that it can apply to a tiny company like SHIMMER but piracy doesn't make a shite of difference to someone like Lady Gaga, for example. She'll just eventually get all of the money back, and more, through other means. If she tells you that she's "losing money" because people are "stealing her stuff" then she's either an idiot or just very stubborn IMHO.
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And so, to 11-11-11, which begins quite promisingly, like an American remake of a Spanish horror flick, like the great El Orfanato, but one that has attempted to retain the original aesthetic and location. It is swiftly revealed, however, that the movie is directed by someone behind a few of those Saw movies, and unless you're 13 years old, a chill runs down your spine.
If you want a real horror movie, Werner Herzog is the man to deliver it. The trailer for Into the Abyss is a series of extracts from austere but brilliantly framed interviews with a number of people involved in a death-penalty case. The main subject is Michael Perry, a young man on death row convicted of a triple homicide committed when he attempted to steal a red Camero for a joyride. Overlaid are worshipful comments from critics, as if you don't have the wit to notice that Werner is now the leading film documentarian of our inner lives.
London Boulevard is one of those gangster movies the Brits do quite well every now and then. Gangster leaves jail, wants to go straight, but as Silvio used to say in The Sopranos, "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in." Here, Ray Winstone is the puller, Colin Farrell, attempting a London accent not quite as good as his American one, is the pulled, and in an Anna Karina wig and eye makeup getup, Keira Knightley plays some sort of movie star McGuffin. Looks gorgeous, but this film is taking no chances, what with the Clash on the soundtrack, every London landmark on display, and even an open-top vintage Roller cruising the city at night. All it needs is a Met Police Officer beating up an Occupy London protestor while taking a backhander from a News International private dick. Still, romantic exchange of the week: "If I fell in love with you, what would you do about it?" "Everything."
The trailer for Jack and Jill should come with a health warning. Watch more than 45 seconds and you may end up like that British lawyer who recently saw Schindler's List, lost all faith in humanity, drank a half bottle of vodka and drowned himself. Seriously, because this is the plot: Adam Sandler plays against himself as his own twin sister who stays over for the holidays. YouTube quote of the week: "This looks like a parody trailer you'll find at the beginning of Tropic Thunder." Or maybe it is an actual harbinger of the apocalypse.
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By Jeffrey Dunn
Oct 24, 2011
rating: 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|Didn't even recognize this route existed even though I had frequented the proximate area over several years. Although it doesnt look very clean, the route itself is and has some real interesting climbing and good features. May be soft for Gunks 5.9, perhaps due to this route not being polished like some of the more popular routes.
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|Hmmm...I thought the first crux was nineish, second crux equally so. I really enjoyed the climb, but, I did think it was 9ish with two cruxes.
By Alec Orenstein
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This route looks terrible and dirty from the ground. But it has great, fun moves and is not nearly as dirty as it looks. Total hidden gem--get on it if you're in the area.
As far as grade, 8+/9- seems about right--agree with Jeffrey that the rock is very sticky.


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Hoa Sen Sees Boost From TPP With Vietnam Poised as 'Big Winner'
Hoa Sen Group, Vietnam's second-biggest listed steel company by market value, expects a 10-fold jump in its sales to North America within a year of any agreement on a Pacific trade accord, Chairman Le Phuoc Vu said.
The 12 countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership are scheduled to hold a crucial round of talks next week in Singapore. Hoa Sen is hopeful that a TPP accord can be reached soon, Vu said in an interview.
"If Vietnam is successful in joining the TPP, we will have a very big opportunity," Vu said Feb. 14 in Ho Chi Minh City, citing a potential increase in exports to markets including Mexico and Chile. "With the overall increase in export volumes to North and South America, we will be able to use full ships to carry our products, which can reduce transportation costs and increase our competitive advantage."
Vietnam would likely be a "big winner" from a TPP accord, HSBC Holdings (HSBA) Plc said in December. While Japan and Malaysia would also benefit, "the boost is likely to be particularly large for Vietnam," wrote Izumi Devalier, a Hong Kong-based HSBC economist, estimating a pact may provide a 10 percent boost to gross domestic product plus income from abroad by 2020.
Vietnam would be the top beneficiary of a pact, buoyed by an export boost in areas where China's dominance is fading, a study by Peter Petri, Michael Plummer and Fan Zhai showed.
"If you think about the TPP region, Vietnam is far and away the low-wage headquarters," said Petri, an international finance professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. "Particularly to the extent that people are moving away from China, Vietnam would have very strong competitive advantages."
Trade Hub
The TPP would give Vietnam an opportunity to become a regional trade hub, based in part on its "ideal" location on China's southern border, according to Fred Burke, Ho Chi Minh City-based managing director of the law firm Baker & McKenzie (Vietnam) Ltd.
Meeting standards required under the TPP "will have a reputational benefit for Vietnam, and may cause some importers in the U.S. and elsewhere to think about Vietnamese companies as potential suppliers," said Virginia Foote, the Hanoi-based chief executive of trade consultant Bay Global Strategies.
Hoa Sen expects to benefit from such a spillover effect. The company, based in the southern province of Binh Duong, expects to export at least 120,000 metric tons of steel a year to North America within a year of any agreement on the TPP, compared with less than 12,000 now, Vu said.
Garment Producers
Hoa Sen exported about 280,000 tons of steel in the year ended Sept. 30, valued at $252 million, or about 45 percent of sales, according to the company's annual report. Exports have surged from $5 million in the year ended Sept. 30, 2009. The company's shares have climbed 19 percent this year.
"We want to look more to the world," Vu said. "Vietnamese businesses tend to think that they are small, but actually we are not. We can think of bigger regions."
Vietnamese producers of garments, which made up 14 percent of total national exports in 2013, are already expanding. Bank for Investment & Development of Vietnam last month agreed to lend Vietnam National Textile & Garment Group $600 million to help build factories to boost manufacturing and export capacity ahead of the TPP, the Vietnam News reported last month.
An accord may ultimately eliminate tariffs on Vietnamese garment exports to the U.S. that average about 17 percent, FPT Securities said last month in a report on Thanh Cong Textile Garment Investment Trading Joint-Stock Co., the biggest garment producer by market value on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange. (VNINDEX) Thanh Cong's profit may rise 20 percent annually from 2015 if a pact comes into force, FPT Securities predicted.
China Plus One
"Companies are already using Vietnam for a China plus one strategy," said Michael Michalak, a former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam and now a Kirkland, Washington-based consultant on Southeast Asia, in a telephone interview. "Vietnam is moving up the technological curve, increasing their value-added and making them a key player in the global supply chain."
Vietnamese steelmakers are betting that a trade pact will accelerate a shift in the country's image as capable of making more advanced products than clothes and shoes. The industry is expanding production lines and taking part in trade promotion programs in anticipation of opportunities resulting from the TPP, according to the Hanoi Trade Promotion Center's website.
Import Tariffs
TPP membership should allow Vietnamese steel producers to boost exports and reduce excess stock, VP Bank Securities said in a December study. Among the TPP nations -- Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam -- Hoa Sen said it faces import tariffs as high as 25 percent in Mexico, 6 percent in Chile and as high as 5 percent on some products in Peru.
Vu expects Hoa Sen's output to increase to as much as 1 million tons this year from about 600,000 tons in 2013, and the company may invest in factories in Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand, he said.
"People think of Vietnam as traditionally exporting crude oil, seafood and agricultural products," Vu said. "We're proud that we are one of the companies that can manufacture industrial products and export to other markets. In previous times, Japan, Korea and Taiwan did that, and now Vietnam can also."
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Does your car have a nickname?
We'll never know WHY the first person who did it decided to name their car . . . although I suppose if guys can give a name to their genitalia, they should also name the thing they buy to overcompensate for the size of their genitalia.
According to a new survey, about one out of four people name their CAR.
And actually, WOMEN are more likely than men to name their cars, 27% to 17%. The most common inspiration for a car name is the car's color or another part of its appearance.


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The Delhi High Court on Thursday came down heavily on civic agencies for not doing enough to stop water-logging during Monsoon. It said instead of judicial work, the court had been forced to deal with basic municipal issues.
"What has happened to the system? For last two-three days, I am mostly dealing with civic and municipal works. There is no judicial work," a bench headed by Justice NV Ramana, who took oath as chief justice on September 2, said.
The bench, also comprising Justice Pradeep Nandrajog, said the Delhi government and civil bodies - including the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Delhi Jal Board - had failed to come up with "short-term and the long-term" plans to tackle the problem of water-logging.
It reserved its order on a petition, saying: "At some point of time, the court's intervention has to come to an end. Such floating PILs take a lot of judicial time."
Earlier, a bench headed by acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed had asked the heads of all civic agencies and other public bodies to depute officials who would look after and be held accountable if water-logging on streets is reported from their areas during monsoon.
It had pulled up MCD officials for their failure to take measures to stop water-logging in some areas of the city despite its earlier directions and had said, "If you don't take your job seriously, the angry public would beat you up."
The bench had on August 22 asked the officials to carry out a drive for a week to be on the roads to monitor the situation during rains.
It had also asked each commissioner of the trifurcated MCD to make their deputy commissioners responsible to take steps to prevent water-logging in their respective zones.
The court said it would pass certain directions and asked the civic agencies to take action accordingly.
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Political blogs, special interest websites, TV talk shows, and talk radio—too many of these sites fuel a rhetoric of name-calling, half-truths, and us vs. them divisiveness. The teachers in this collection of curriculum units teach an alternative rhetoric of civic deliberation for thoughtful social action. They believe that their students can engage in rational civic discourse around important issues and can begin to take action to affect the changes that they see need to be made in our society and culture.
The first two resources focus on civic deliberation, a necessary condition for responsible and effective social action. Chris Sloan explains a curriculum unit with his high school students designed to teach them how to engage in civic and civil dialogue with other students. Using the digital tools of Youth Radio and other teaching resources, the students learn how to define civic issues, research those issues, and engage in dialogue with other students that furthers mutual understanding of the issues. The aim is to create forums where disagreements can be voiced constructively--all within the teacher and student online space of Youth Radio. Donna LeCourt, sharing a goal of fostering civic and civil dialogue, then explains a curriculum unit for a college class that moves to public online spaces. In this class, students learned theories of deliberation and aimed to test those theories out in practice by participating in an issues-based discussion on a public website. The goal was twofold: both to have them participate, using principles of rational deliberation, and to gain a critical understanding of the nature of deliberation in a public website, where constructive dialogue is not always possible.
While still teaching students ways of participating constructively, the next three resources shift the focus to specific units aimed to foster social awareness of injustice and discrimination and action that one might take against them. Kevin Hodgson presents a curriculum unit connected to the Many Voices for Darfur project where young people from around the world posted multimedia compositions to world leaders regarding the atrocities in Darfur. While the postings all occurred on one day, the unit extended over time to include research on the situation in Darfur and then the creation of persuasive paragraphs, podcasts, and Powerpoints addressed to world leaders. Pam Bodnar and Gail Desler present their Change Writers projects with 4th grade and 8th grade students that began with investigation of historical injustices—the Holocaust, the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during WWII—and moved to consideration of present-day injustices. Using blogs, interactive video conferences, and VoiceThreads, they communicated with one another to further their own understandings of injustice and how to become "heroes" in their own lives to counter it. Through VoiceThread, they were also able to share their views with a wider audience. And in the fifth resource Katie McKay describes how she created a forum for discussion of discrimination and social injustice in her fourth grade classroom. Her guiding questions: "How could we share knowledge of some of the roots of today's problems, and also call an audience to action?" Her class produced cartoons which became digital slides, which became the material for iMovies.
Central to all of these units are certain core practices: inquiry to become informed through research and learning from others, openness to the views of others, reasoned and respectful deliberation, and use of various media and multiple modes—text, voice, image—to communicate with others, to move them to action.
In this resource, high school teacher Chris Sloan describes a curriculum using Youth Voices that aims to address the goal implicit in his guiding question, "How can we use the connections provided by digital media to help students learn about civic — and civil — dialogue?"
In building this curriculum unit for her college students, Donna LeCourt's guiding question was: "How can technology help my students see themselves as citizens with an obligation to engage others as part of a participatory democracy? How might the Web foster public spheres for such engagement and what writing strategies and internet genres would be most effective toward this end?"
In designing this project, Kevin Hodgson's guiding question was: "How can technology help my students see themselves as citizens of the Global World and take part in a social action project to push for positive change?" Kevin Hodgson's 6th grade class comes to terms with the then-existing situation in Darfur in a way that seems to us to be constructive and non-exploitative. This project is a useful model for bringing the real world, the day's sometimes-agonizing news, into the curriculum to lay the early groundwork for social change.
Pam Bodnar and Gail Desler have pulled together a rich resource, "On Becoming Change Writers," presenting projects that involve students in exploring intolerance, bullying, the internship of U.S. citizens during World War II, and the Holocaust.
Katie McKay describes how she created a forum for discussion of discrimination and social injustice in her fourth grade classroom. Her guiding question: "How could we share knowledge of some of the roots of today's problems, and also call an audience to action?"


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Auto Highbeam
I have yet to see my auto high beams come on. I have the settings set the way the instructions said to set them. I live in NYC, so could the reason be that its because there are lights on every corner?
Even dull street lights seem to stop mine. Haven't had a chance to test them on the open highway yet. I'll have a go after work tonight and report back.
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I found even a bright half moon would drop it back to low beam, so I've turned auto high beam off and just do it the old fashioned way
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Great idea but doesn't work with driving lights as the reflections from road signs and even roadside reflectors turn the high beam off! Very disconcerting.
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I had the same concern initially, but once I was out of a semi urban area and the associated ambient light, they worked fine. It's an option I didn't know I'd appreciate!
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My auto highbeam come on whenever there is not enough light for a long period of time (15- 20 second delay). However, the road leading to my apartment does not have light And is surrounded by trees and my auto highbeam go on just a handful of times while on that street at night. To test it out I sat in my car on that road in park about 4 times and only 1 time my auto highbeams when on.
You have to be going more than 10mph for you high beams to go on if you have the auto feature enabled.
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Also, if they are 'set correctly' then when the lights come on there will be a message on the dash - something like "Automatic High Beams On".
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The power is out on the coast lines.
You may not notice them come on as the "Smart Beam" technology turns them on slowly. For this reason, as well as they turn off on me on rural roads when I come upon a highly reflective street sign, I do not use the auto-high-beam feature.
I simply turn on the high beams manually when I need them and turn them off when I don't or when approaching other cars.
It's pretty simple, really, and when I manually turn them on they are instantly at full power.
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i did test it out in a country road and it works as advertised, but it's really sensitive.
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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School baseball team dropped a pair of home games earlier this week and saw its record dip to 6-5.
On Monday, visiting North Country improved to 6-4 with a 7-2 win over the Tigers. Aaron Smith absorbed the pitching loss, while Matt Dunton and Josh Stearns had a pair of hits apiece for MUHS.
On Tuesday, visiting Champlain Valley improved to 10-2 with a 7-1 victory over MUHS. Stearns provided the Tiger highlights with two more hits, including a double.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Union High School track and field athletes won a half-dozen events on Thursday at Middlebury College while hosting two top Division I programs.
Overall, the Burlington boys and girls both won the three-way meet, both scoring 97 points. The Tiger boys took second with 50 points, followed by Essex at 39. Essex was second in the girls' competition with 62 points, followed by the Tiger girls (27).
MIDDLEBURY — In a showdown between two of the top Vermont boys' lacrosse teams, defending Division I Champlain Valley pulled away from host Middlebury in the late going on Saturday to earn a 12-8 victory at Middlebury College's Alumni Stadium.
ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school tennis play late last week, the Middlebury Union High School girls team won a match, while the Tiger boys dropped a pair of contests.
On Wednesday, the Tiger girls blanked host North Country, 7-0, to improve to 8-4. Notable among the results was junior Marvie Avery's win at No. 1, a result that pushed her record this spring to 10-0.
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ADDISON COUNTY — In area high school softball action late last week, Mount Abraham won on the road, Vergennes split a pair of road contests, and Middlebury dropped a home game.
Otter Valley saw rain wash away its only scheduled game, at Leland & Gray on Friday, with no makeup date immediately set.
ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school baseball action earlier this week, Middlebury won twice, while Mount Abraham and Otter Valley came up short.
On Monday, the Tigers blanked host Essex, 3-0, as Aaron Smith tossed a three-hit shutout, walking none and being backed by solid defense. Nate Laughlin poked two hits and drove in a run for MUHS, while Matt Dunton doubled and scored.
ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school boys' lacrosse action earlier this week, Middlebury dropped a heartbreaker to a fellow Division I contender; Vergennes won twice, once over Otter Valley, which also dropped another contest; and Mount Abraham won a tight game at home to return to .500.
ADDISON COUNTY — In area high school baseball action late last week, Mount Abraham won, Otter Valley split a pair of games, while Middlebury lost at home.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School boys' and girls' tennis teams both came up short in matches late last week, as did the Otter Valley girls.
On Thursday, host BFA-St. Albans blanked the Tigers, 7-0. The individual results were:
• At No. 1 singles, Sam Costes, B, defeated Elliott Abbott, M, 6-3, 6-3.
• At No. 2 singles, Jake Remillard, B, defeated Bo Tran, M, 7-6, 6-1.
MIDDLEBURY — It was indeed a tough, emotional day at Middlebury Union High School on Monday, as teachers, students and administrators grieved for two longtime members of their community who died over the weekend.
Longtime physics and math teacher and former football coach Carl Ciemniewski, 55, died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday while attending a boys' varsity lacrosse home game. Then on Sunday came news that veteran para-educator Terry Gibbs had succumbed to illness at the age of 57.
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text: I haven't noticed any shortages or dwindling supplies at any stores, but yes, prices are certainly on the rise. Cheapest brass cased 9mm in my area is Walmarts WWB value packs, and even that comes out to 12+ bucks a box. Steel cased ammo for $9.95 is what I've been getting lately.


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We've made our opinion on the MacBook Air pretty clear already, deciding that the Lenovo X300 is a better option - even costing less. Except that Apple has just lopped £300 off the 64GB-packing Air's MSRP, bringing it down from its near-£2,000 launch price to a more reasonable (a-hem) £1,700-odd.
Given the standard system still sits at £1,990 and SSDs are now dropping into the £130 for a 64GB model and you might start to wonder just where that extra cash is going. As it happens, upgrading from an 80GB standard drive to the SSD costs £389.99 - hardly pocket change. Especially when subjective use suggests there's no real-world benefit to the Mac using solid state.
Admittedly OCZ's Core Series of solid state drives are SATA2 rather than PATA offerings, and couldn't be used in the MacBook Air, but that still doesn't assuage the likely bitter taste in the mouth of anyone paying Apple's upgrade prices.


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I don't think we need to read too much into it at this point, but the Red Sox sent some scouts to check out Joe Blanton's start yesterday.
The usual gaggle of scouts smeared on sun block and gathered in the box seats behind the backstop to watch the Phillies' righthander make his third start of the spring Thursday. They were joined quite noticeably by newcomers from Boston and Baltimore. The Red Sox are one of the clubs looking to add a veteran arm and the Orioles might be on that list, too.
Blanton allowed three runs – his first of the spring – on four hits over five innings of work in a 6-4 win over the Atlanta Braves. He struck out four and did not walk a batter
I just can't see a scenario where the Red Sox are going to actively pursue bringing Blanton aboard. At least not during this stage of the season. Later on, if we get hit with some injuries? All bets are off. But I'd rather roll the dice with Felix Doubront and see what he can provide than bringing in another guy, let alone one with Blanton's pedigree.
Trading for Blanton doesn't make much sense financially, either. Blanton is owed $8.5 million, which the Sox won't add to their payroll, and the Phillies won't eat. Part of their incentive to rid themselves of Blanton is to get out from under that contract, and they'd have to keep a chunk of it on their book if they want to move him to Boston.
I think we can file this under "just checking in" for now. We'll see how the first month or two of the season plays out before we start trying to add another mediocre guy to the rotation.


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