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(OCALA, Fla.) Dec. 2, 2009 – Scheduled in January at the Appleton Museum of Art of College of Central Florida will be three temporary exhibitions, the first performance of the 2010 Spring Concert Series and a one-day trip to Tampa Bay Downs.
The "Art of the Chopper" exhibition runs through Jan. 10 and features 30 one-of-a-kind motorcycles designed and built as contemporary art. Admission to "Art of the Chopper" is $12 for adults; $10 for seniors 55 or better; $8 for members, youths age 10-18 and college students with ID; $5 for children age 3 to 9; and children under 3 are free.
Also presented during the entire month of January is "Red." This thematic exhibition from the museum's permanent collection highlights the many meanings of the color red in rarely viewed art and artifacts from cultures around the world including African and Mexican ceremonial masks, Russian icons, illuminated manuscripts, pottery, decorative art, graphics and textiles.
The Appleton will lead off its 2010 Concert Series on Jan. 17 with Steinway Artist Robin Spielberg performing original music, popular songs and traditional melodies in the auditorium at 1:30 p.m. Spielberg is a pianist, composer and recording artist with 15 CDs to her credit. She has performed throughout the U.S. and Asia, including Carnegie Hall, the Seoul Art Center and with many PBS television specials.
Opening on Jan. 23, the Appleton will unveil "The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century." This juried exhibition, organized by the International Guild of Realism, presents a look at the state of Realism painting around the world and compares those artworks to their historical predecessors. Featured are 65 paintings by 56 artists from the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Korea, Russia, France, Iceland, Romania, Norway and Finland. Media used in the artwork ranges from oil, acrylic and egg tempera to graphite and colored pencil.
The Appleton's popular Trips 'N' Tours offers a "Horsin' Around" excursion to Tampa Bay Downs on Jan. 28. This one-day charter trip includes viewing and betting on the day's horse races from a private suite overlooking the track and a buffet lunch. There will also be an Appleton Day Race and four of the group will be selected to sit in the Winner's Circle. Price is $75 for members, $85 for nonmembers.
In addition to these special programs, the Appleton's permanent collections are always on display including European, American and Contemporary art, plus Asian, African and pre-Columbian artifacts and antiquities. Regular daily admission is $6 for adults; $4 for seniors 55 or better and students 19 and over; $3 for youths ages 10-18; and free for members, CF students, children age 9 and under, and active military personnel and their immediate families.The Appleton Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays and closed on Mondays. A 12-month membership is available for $25 for seniors 55 and over, $30 for adults 18 and over, $40 for two seniors over age 55, $50 for a family of two adults and any children under age 18, and $15 for all college students and current or retired educators. Owned and operated by College of Central Florida, the Appleton Museum of Art is located at 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, just east of downtown on SR40 (exit 352 east off I-75 or exit 268 west off I-95). For more information call the Appleton Museum of Art at 352-291-4455 or visit www.AppletonMuseum.org.
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Finally its Christmas! However, 2011 Christmas isn't that nice as it was a year ago. This year, not a single spot of snow outside, only raining. Last year we were sinking into snow, and I liked it. If I'd only be a rich and the temperature outside were below 0C, I'd fill the streets with snow cannons to have white Christmas :p
And if at your place the weather is difficult, don't forget to help smaller ones.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone! Let's hope the Santa comes with a lot of presents and forget to take the rod with him :)
Ho-Ho-Ho! Happy holidays!
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text: NEW YORK, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Pay TV Content Protection Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p01054116/Global-Pay-TV-Content-Protection-Market.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=VOD This research service provides a detailed Market Engineering analysis of the global pay TV content protection market which includes both Conditional Access Systems and Digital Rights Management Systems. The service ranks and explains market drivers and restraints. It also provides forecasts for revenue and unit shipments. The service outlines current distribution channels in addition to forecasting and analyzing market demand. Segment breakdowns are included for Internet protocol television (IPTV), satellite DTH, and cable. Regions covered include Asia-Pacific (APAC); North America and Latin America (NALA); and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The base year is 2011 and the study period is from 2010 to 2016. Executive Summary•Content piracy is a constant problem for both content owners and the Pay TV service providers who deliver broadcast and network content to subscribers. Conditional Access Systems (CAS) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems protect content delivered to managed devices like set top boxes (STBs) and unmanaged devices like PCs, smart TVs and handheld devices against unauthorized distribution and piracy.•Across applications, cable and satellite are the larger segments in the content protection market, while IPTV is growing at the fastest rate. Other applications include mobile TV, Internet video subscription services, professional CAS systems and Pay DTT.•In terms of regions, the market was more or less evenly divided across NALA, EMEA and APAC in 2011. While average prices are highest in NALA, ongoing digitization of highly populous countries such as India and China drive APAC to continued growth and dominance over the forecast period.•Smart card based CAS remains the largest segment by form factor at nearly $xx million, accounting for slightly over half of the content protection market. CableCARD, cardless CAS and DRM systems on managed and unmanaged devices accounted for another xx percent of revenues in 2011 and will grow faster than smart card-based systems in the long run due to growing numbers of unmanaged devices, continued relevance of cardless CAS and above-average growth in IPTV which rarely uses smart card-based hardware for CAS. Head-end costs, professional service fees, maintenance fees and royalties account for the remaining market revenues.•DRM is increasingly used by Pay TV providers, particularly for over the top (OTT) offerings, within the home behind a gateway, and in headends with next-generation integrated multi-screen architectures.•The smart card segment is led by NDS and NAGRA, who together account for xx percent of hardware sales. CableCARD vendors include Cisco Systems, Motorola Mobility and NDS. The cardless CAS and DRM segments are highly fragmented – leading vendors include Microsoft (DRM), Viaccess (DRM) and Verimatrix (cardless CAS-DRM), with Cisco Systems, Motorola Mobility, NDS and NAGRA also accounting for significant revenues.•China Digital TV and Irdeto are significant regional players in China, while Motorola Mobility and Cisco Systems form a virtual duopoly for cable conditional access in North America. Europe is more fragmented since DVB's Simulcrypt standard opens up a relatively free market in the cable segment, and also because there is healthy diversity across Pay TV services like IPTV, DTT, Pay DTT, satellite and hybrid in addition to cable.•The market has seen a flurry of M&A activity, with acquisitions of CAS companies by STB manufacturers such as the recent $xx billion takeover of NDS by Cisco and Pace's acquisition of Latens; as well as several acquisitions of DRM companies such as SecureMedia by Motorola Mobility and Cloakware by Irdeto. Middleware and CAS companies are also finding synergies, evidenced by the recent merger of Viaccess and Orca (both France Telecom companies), the acquisition of Dreampark by Motorola Mobility, and the absorption of Open TV by NAGRA.•Boundaries between CAS and DRM are blurring, with most CAS vendors now offering their own DRM as well, and with growing numbers of CAS and DRM clients being anchored in silicon.•In 2011, Frost & Sullivan estimates the Pay TV content protection market earned $xx billion in revenues, rising to $xx billion by 2016. Vendors with a range of secure, flexible products for high end and low end needs across the globe will grow fastest in this rapidly changing yet lucrative market. TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 4Market Overview 11Total Pay TV Content Protection Market -•External Challenges: Drivers and Restraints 29•Forecasts and Trends 42•Demand Analysis and Technical Trends 56•Market Share and Competitive Analysis 71IPTV Segment Breakdown 89Cable Segment Breakdown 99DTH Segment Breakdown 112Complementary Markets 123Hot Company Watch List 129The Last Word (Conclusions and Implications) 138Appendix 142


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- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- Reserved turkey neck, wing tips and giblets, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
- 4 1/2 cups water
- Reserved pan juices from Perfect Roast Turkey
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- Freshly ground pepper
Heat the oil in an enameled cast-iron casserole. Add the turkey parts and onion and cook over moderately high heat until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Cover and cook over low heat until the turkey parts release their liquid, about 20 minutes. Add 4 cups of the water and bring to a boil. Cover partially and simmer over low heat until the broth is reduced to 3 cups, about 1 hour. Strain the broth into a medium saucepan and skim off the fat.
Pour the reserved turkey pan juices into a glass measuring cup and skim off the fat. Set the roasting pan over 2 burners on moderately high heat. Add the wine and boil for 2 minutes, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Scrape the contents of the pan into a strainer set over the turkey broth and press on the vegetables. Bring the broth to a boil. Mix the cornstarch with the remaining 1/2 cup of water until smooth, then whisk this slurry into the boiling broth. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until lightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Season with pepper, pour into a gravy boat and serve.


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What makes a bird a bird? What's special about bird bones? What are the different bird feathers called? Why do birds have different beaks? How do birds use their feet? How do birds fly? How do birds build nests? Learn the answers to these questions and more with this set of reading comprehensions.
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New molecular shape for electronic circuits discovered
February 18, 2015
Corannulene — a carbon molecule with molecular shape similar to fullerene (C60) — has properties that could be ideal for building molecule-size circuits, a team of scientists from SISSA, the University of Zurich, and the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia has found in theoretical studies.
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Obchod S Mobily doesn't offer a launch date, but it does give us a price. The price listed is 14,995CZK which translates into a rather pricy $766.66USD. But remember, this is a high-end model. On the other hand, the price could be a placeholder and without confirmation from Nokia, we will have to wait and see how deep into your wallet you will have to dig for this model. It should also be pointed out that some of the specs on the listing are incorrect and since the Nokia Lumia 800 shows up elsewhere on the same site, the discrepancy can't be shrugged off as a case of Lumia misidentification.
One last note, There has been speculation that other variants of the Nokia Lumia 900 other than the one that AT&T is rumored to have a 45 day exclusive on, would be well endowed with a 12MP camera. The listing on the Czech site shows an 8MP shooter. Of course, that doesn't mean that another version of the Nokia Lumia 900 won't be produced with a 12MP camera.
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For many people at certain times of the year, a trip to the grocery store means a walk past tempting tables overflowing with Girl Scout cookies, sold every year to raise money for local troops and scouting activities. But today's Girl Scouts are much more than the providers of Thin Mints and Caramel deLites. They are doing more than arts and crafts projects each week. They are growing up to lead some of the area's most influential nonprofits. They are leading cutting-edge businesses. Two-thirds of the women in Congress and every female astronaut are former Girl Scouts, according to the organization.
U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Governor Chris Gregoire and Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland are former Girl Scouts who remain active advocates of the organization.
"We want girls to be motivated by the fact that women are truly changing the world," said Stefanie Ellis, public relations director for Girl Scouts of Western Washington. "Today's Girl Scouts are learning to make their own animation, videos and websites. They're learning about public policy and creating business plans, supporting their local food sources and even increasing their happiness and sense of purpose through our Science of Happiness badge."
This year, as the Girl Scouts of Western Washington celebrates its 100-year anniversary, the organization is holding hundreds of local, regional and national events. The annual GirlFest has become the ultimate celebration of the power of girls, and is designed to show the region how the organization makes an impact on the community.
The Forever Green Challenge was developed to celebrate the centennial, through monthly programming built around sustainability. Each month, the girls focus on a different theme revolving around energy and waste reduction, protecting water and other green living skills. In addition, troops are participating in the 100th Anniversary Proclamation Project, where girls campaign for community leaders to recognize this milestone with an official proclamation honoring the Girl Scouts of Western Washington.
Many troops will also attend the Gold Award reception May 31 at the Governor's Mansion.
Although little has changed over the years in the organization's mission to help girls develop courage, confidence and character, the pressure they are under today is much different compared to even a few decades ago.
"We work harder than ever to deliver on our promise to give girls the tools they need to make the world a better place," Ellis said. "We help girls find their voice and introduce them to things they may have never experienced. And the best part – we give girls plenty of amazing role models to help them in their journey."
One of the most important initiatives supported by the Girls Scouts today is its goal of achieving greater equality in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The organization actively researches STEM-related issues, and has even received funding from the National Science Foundation and partners with Seattle University to train volunteers on activities they can use with their girls. Since many adult volunteers today grew up in a time when girls were not expected or required to engage in these activities and professions, expert training is more important than ever.
"We've also taken a hard look at ourselves and, with the help of our volunteers, have figured out ways to insert science into the everyday fabric of Girl Scouting," said Stephanie Lingwood, science project director for the Girl Scouts of Western Washington. "While there's still work to be done, we're well on our way and are now helping other youth organizations around the country nurture a passion for science in the children they serve."
Many girls have put this training to good use, completing projects that continue to benefit the community in often-unexpected ways. When local Girl Scout Jessica Lam found a way to raise money by recycling her neighbors' Christmas lights, she eventually recycled more than 5,000 pounds of lights, and raised nearly $5,000 for Point Defiance Zoo's conservation fund in the first year alone. Years later, her project is still going strong.
Another Girl Scout traveled to Tanzania to teach math and English to children in order to earn her Gold Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout can receive.
"Part of what makes Girl Scouts so unique as an organization is that we help girls be curious about the world, by gaining the confidence, skills and money they need to explore it," said Megan Ferland, CEO of Girl Scouts of Western Washington.
Another local Girl Scout, when working toward her Silver Award, traveled to orphanages in China to deliver specially made bottles for babies with cleft palates.
"When she found out these babies weren't getting the nutrition they needed from regular bottles, she immediately set out to change that – and she did," Ferland added.
Troop leader and fourth generation Girl Scout Meagan Pascoe recalls the gardening and healthy lifestyle skills she learned during her own years as a Girl Scout in the early 1990s – before healthy eating and nutrition gained the momentum in society it has today. Today, she leads Daisy Troop 44114, which includes her 5-year-old daughter, Lola. "The Girl Scouts has had a huge impact on my life as an adult, and the way I view the world," Pascoe said. "When I started having girls, I knew this is what I wanted for them."
Pascoe's troop is currently involved in a project through National Geographic called Letters to Lions, where the girls can write letters to tribal leaders in Africa, expressing their support of the lions and the importance of their conservation.
Initiatives like these are designed to help the girls get involved in issues that matter to them.
"We are helping girls grow into active community leaders who recognize the power one person has to make a difference," Ferland said. "They know they can because they have seen countless girls before them tackle issues in their communities with a conviction born of courage and confidence. We give them the tools, help them learn to use them, then cheer them on. And believe me, we do a lot of cheering."


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Couple of LED Light Questions
I am replacing 4x32 watt t-8 bulbs that are currently over my 75 gallon. I would like to have the same or a little more light without being too much. I have no CO2 and am not interested in getting any.
What is the general rule to use for LED lights as far as how much to use for an aquarium? And what is the best LED option?
Thanks a bunch!
LED is different from T5/8, in that every brand and model will have different light outputs. There are a few threads here and an thebarreport.com that discuss the PAR output of several popular LED lights. I would suggest checking them out.
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I just replaced the same amount of T8 bulbs over my 72 with a Finnex Ray II. My old fixtures were the black dual T8 shop lights from Lowes. They had NO reflectors and, in fact, the inside was painted black.
The Ray II is quite a bit brighter than the 4 T8s were. I'm injecting CO2, so that isn't an issue (in fact, it's what I wanted).
Lowe was telling me that a FugeRay over my tank would give me a low light level. That might be something you want to look at? It's a little cheaper as well.
I use twenty four no-name 3 watt LED emitters driven at 670 mA on my 75g tank. Plant growth is in my opinion, excellent. It hangs about five inches above the tank rim.
It's an even mix of White and Warm White which (in this case) translates to about 10,000k and 6500k.
I really am a dummy when it comes to all the tech stuff with lights. Do you think the 48 inch version of this one will work?
I just replaced my 4x 65W power compact fixture over my 75 with a BuildMyLED.com fixture. I got a single 48" fixture, 75 degree lens, freshwater planted layout. It is by far the greatest upgrade I have ever done to my tank. It so worth every single penny.
No the single bright won't work, it doesn't give off enough light for any kind of planted tank. Can we gat some info on your tank dimensions, it will make it a lot easier to tell you which led fixture you shouls get and which will provide enough light.
Thanks everyone!
It's 48 inches wide, 18 front to back, and 20 tall.
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Trust me on this one, get the fixture from buildmyled.com
I attached pictures, there is one in here that is a comparison between my old fixture and new fixture size. It is just mind blowing how well this new fixture is made.
Ronald, that looks awesome. Are you going to start a thread with your review? I have some questions but don't want to hijack Matt's thread.
Looks like the led fixture is a thin strip. IS there enough spread to cover your tank's footprint since your light is just sitting above your tank? I have always wondered about that with LED lights.
In my case, I wanted a single fixtures so we did a 75 degree lens.
They have everything from 0 to 90 degree dispersion lens. I will put this in my review as well.
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"We stayed here for just one night. We had a lovely room, very clean, with a large comfortable bed. Super ensuite bathroom. Breakfast was ok,..."
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"Very convenient for golf and town, well run, excellent breakfast food and service, good single en suite room..."
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The Ardgowan is centrally located within St Andrews, close to the town centre, the university and 200yds from the Old Course and R&A building. The hotel comprises of two grade B listed adjoining Georgian houses of architectural note designed by the famous Scottish Architect, George Rae. The Ardgowan Hotel has 36 bedrooms - 29 ensuite bedrooms are located in the main building and 7 are in the annexe, The Pilmour which is located next door to the main hotel (check in, check-out and breakfast are in the Ardgowan Hotel).
Within the hotel is AA Rosette awarded, Playfair's Restaurant and Steakhouse which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. In addition to the restaurant there is Playfair's Bar which is located in the annexe, serving a bar food and drink daily. Free on-street parking is available directly opposite the Hotels and there are also free car parks close to the Hotels on North St and at Petheram Car Park. Cars may be parked free outside the Hotels after 5pm until 9am the next morning and all day on Sunday.
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for us. We are thrilled that you enjoyed your time here with us, and that we were able to tick all your boxes during your stay. I do appreciate your comments on our breakfast, but we do provide natural yoghurt on our bar to go with our homemade granola and berry compote, so I'm surprised to see that you did not notice this when you dined with us. I'm glad you enjoyed your cooked breakfast from Playfair's and that our staff made your stay memorable! We hope you can come stay with us again soon!


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Answer: Most, if not all of your debts are discharged. This means they are erased and that you no longer have a legal obligation to pay them.
Answer: Your credit score will suffer for a period of time and the record of your bankruptcy will remain on your credit profile for 10 years. However, creditors recognize that bankruptcy is sometimes the most responsible thing to do when you cannot pay your debts.
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Answer: No. All assets and all liabilities must be included in your bankruptcy petition and schedules. However, after disclosing all you will be able to keep those assets that are exempt (protected) and choose to surrender or reaffirm other assets.
Answer: Chapter 7 is always less expensive because you do not have to pay off your debts. Chapter 13 requires repayment of an appropriate percentage of your debts over 36 to 60 months
Answer: Exemptions are federal or state statutes that protect for you certain assets you own or the equity in them, subject to statutory limits.
Answer: You can exempt or protect motor vehicles as long as the exemptions available to you cover the equity in those vehicles. If you have too much equity you could lose one or more vehicles or have to purchase back the excess equity from the Chapter 7 Trustee.
Answer: Certain secured debts, like cars you are paying for, require that you execute a reaffirmation agreement in favor of the bank or credit union financing them, if you desire to keep and continue paying for the cars. If you do not want to keep the cars you may surrender them to the bank or credit union and receive a discharge of the remaining balance owing. If you sign a reaffirmation agreement, and later default in your payments, you will be liable for any deficiency balances in spite of your bankruptcy.
Answer: In most cases you will never see or meet the bankruptcy judge assigned to your case in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Instead you will meet with a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee assigned to your case at a Meeting of Creditors. It is more likely you will see your assigned bankruptcy judge in a Chapter 13.
Answer: When you file your Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 case a notice goes out to all of your creditors advising them that you are in bankruptcy, that they are stayed from taking further action against you, and that they are invited to a Meeting of Creditors where they can ask appropriate questions of you, the debtor(s). In most cases your creditors do not show up. The meeting then becomes a question and answer session between the Chapter 7 Trustee and you relative to your case. In most cases the meeting lasts less than 15 minutes.
Answer: The trustee has the responsibility of finding, if they can, any assets not protected (non- exempt) in bankruptcy that can be liquidated to pay your creditors. If the trustee finds unprotected assets you may be able to buy them back from the trustee.
Answer: When the liquidation value of an asset cannot pay off a secured debt, like a mortgage, the trustee "abandons" the property which means it will be given back to you, subject to any encumbrances. Even if the trustee abandons your home you still would have to pay the mortgage or lose your home in foreclosure. Abandonment of assets can also refer to vehicles and other property as well.
Answer: When you file your bankruptcy your creditors are stayed from taking action against you, including foreclosure. However, in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, if you do not bring your mortgage current the lender could request from the bankruptcy court a "relief from the stay" which would allow them to foreclose. In a Chapter 13 you generally can put the arreareages you owe in your Chapter 13 plan but would have to make regular monthly payments each month going forward from the filing date of your Chapter 13.
Answer: If you financially are unable to pay any of your debts than you should probably file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy and take the little money you have to survive on. This, of course, will depend up certain bankruptcy requirements such as the Means Test.
Answer: Yes, depending on the facts of your case you, or the trustee, can file a "motion to convert" where appropriate. For example, if it is determined, after filing a Chapter 7, that you make too much money per Chapter 7 requirements, you may have to convert your case to one under Chapter 13.
Answer: It depends. If you have the ability, in your bankruptcy, to exempt (protect) your assets then you can probably keep them subject to continuing to pay your mortgage and car payments.
Answer: No, but there may be reasons why you may want to. Examples:
Answer: In general:
Answer: The answer depends on your specific financial situation. Your decision should be based upon a full disclosure to our attorneys. After a careful review they are best qualified to help you make that decision.


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Hand-Built Cedar Strip Canoes - $2,375
These are handbuilt canoes by two brothers in Canada.
The brothers are the sole builders of these craft from
the harvesting and preparing of the wood to the
traditional strip construction to the modern gelcoat outer
finish to the fine details such as the
stronger-than-wicker rawhide threaded seats. Each
craft is a functional piece of art that begs you to put it in
the water. At 16 feet long and under 50 pounds, it won't
punish you as you take it off the top of your vehicle. It
has slight rocker for manueverability and a subtle keel
for straightline performance. These canoes are truly a
dream to use and own.
Feel free to contact me for more information.
My cousin Matt Christian enjoying a beautiful day on Lake Toxaway with a cedar strip canoe.
Here you can see the rawhide threaded seats and traditional
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Welcome to the Cruel World: Ben Harper: Music
It's the second album from Ben Harper and was released in the early nineties. Most of the songs on this one are significantly less recognizable than those on Fight for Your Mind. However, I think they do a beautiful job setting the stage for the subsequent album. Best tracks: waiting on an angel, mama's got a girlfriend now
You may remember this song from the Closer trailer. It's a magnificently tender love song oozing with emotion. It leaves me breathless.
Don't listen to this song if you're pining over a lost love. Amazing track off of Rice's O album.
Beautifully somber song. I guess the best I could characterize Bonnie Prince Billy's music is alternative folk. Contemplative, beautiful songs of loneliness and love and hardship.Added 9 Years Ago from Amazon.com


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Funeral Notices Thursday, May 10
Loretta Rathbun — 11 a.m., Cato Township Cemetery. (Brigham Funeral Chapel, Lakeview)
Foss White — 11 a.m., Shiloh Community Church. (Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding)
Albert E. 'A.E.' Zimbelman — 11 a.m., Simpson Family Funeral Home, Sheridan.
Richard 'Dick' Grant — 11 a.m., St. Mary Catholic Church, Miriam. (Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding)
Donald Huddleston Sr. — 11 a.m., Greenville Community Church.
Irene Wood — 2 p.m., Shiloh Community Church. (Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding)
Lawrence 'Larry' Wright — 2 p.m., Palo Cemetery.
Dr. Stuart Anderson — 2 p.m., First Congregational Church, Greenville.
Dr. Stuart Leslie Anderson, 91
GREENVILLE — Dr. Stuart Anderson, 91, a resident of Greenville for more than 40 years, died April 30. Family and friends are invited to celebrate his life May 20 at the First Congregational Church of Greenville. Visitation will be at 1 p.m., service at 2, and the celebration will continue at 3 at the Winter Inn.


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ILBs Larry Foote and Lawrence Timmons vs. TE Jason Witten
Timmons and Foote have shared coverage responsibilities of tight ends and running backs depending on the defensive alignment from game to game. Both have done a decent job in zone, and will likely be asked to work to prevent the league's top-receiving tight end from doing too much damage in the middle part of the field.
It won't be an easy task. Witten set a franchise record with 18 receptions in the Cowboys' win over the Giants in Week 8. That came on 22 targets, showing Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo's desire to get him the ball. He can make catches long, but his strength in running after the catch will be a primary concern for the Steelers defense.
Steelers CBs vs. WRs Dez Bryant and Miles Austin
Rounding out the Cowboys' high-powered passing offense, Bryant is turning into a strong all-around receiver. He broke his left index finger in the Cowboys' win over Cincinnati in Week 14, and he will need surgery to fix it for the long-term, but he says he'll play in Week 15.
Bryant doesn't have quite the same size as Malcolm Floyd and Danario Alexander, but he's faster and more explosive. Given the injury situation the Steelers are facing at cornerback (Ike Taylor is out and Cortez Allen is doubtful), Lewis will likely shadow Bryant. Curtis Brown struggled in the Steelers' loss to the Chargers and he may have lost his job – in spite of Allen's injury – to rookie Josh Victorian and DeMarcus Van Dyke. Either way, look for the Cowboys to try to take advantage.
RT Kelvin Beachum vs. LOLB Anthony Spencer
Beachum has been a contributor over the last two and a half games, filling in for injured Mike Adams. While he's been beaten around the edge often enough, he's looked stronger with each start. The main issue is he'll be facing arguably his toughest opponent yet.
Spencer has 5½ sacks in his last five games, including 2 sacks and 11 tackles against the Bengals last week. Teams wanting to avoid ROLB DeMarcus Ware are having a difficult time finding any more success against Spencer, achieving a level of edge defense once held by Pittsburgh's James Harrison and LaMarr Woodley.
LOLB LaMarr Woodley vs. RT Doug Free
It could be the right game for Woodley to return healthy – something he's been only about 50 percent of the Steelers' last 30 games. When healthy, he's among the strongest outside linebackers in football and has the ability to wear down his opposition throughout the game. He's at his best late in the game, and in what could be a tight contest his disruption could lead to the vital sack or forced fumble the defense will need to win this game.
Free hasn't been the kind of producer for whom the Cowboys had hoped when they signed him to a large extension before the 2011 season. He played left tackle in 2011, and has not adjusted well to the right side. Woodley will test his base strength, as Free can tend to come up a bit high when faced with a bull-rush, meaning Woodley can get him off balance and overpower him on his way to the quarterback.


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Hanks suffers hand injury; Albany card cancelled
World ranked and undefeated heavyweight Joe "The Future" Hanks suffered a hand injury in training yesterday causing the cancellation of his February 2 main event showdown with Richard Carmack, which had been set for the Times Union Center in Albany, NY, it was announced today by Star Boxing. "Joe had been training in Los Angeles for this fight and suffered a hand injury which caused this fight to be called off and unfortunately cancelling our February 2 event at the TU Center," said DeGuardia. "We're very sorry to disappoint the terrific fans in the Albany area and we hope to return there in the near future and work with the great team at the TU." Star Boxing promoted two events at the Times Union Center in 2012. Ticket refunds are available at the point of purchase.


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Consider the number of people that must have seen this sign before it was posted: the writer, the printer, the sign manufacturer, the installer, the building manager. And not one knows how to spell, or cared enough to fix the mistake. Amazing.
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July 7, 1998
Off the Beaten IPO Path
by Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMF Edible)
On a recent random day, I stumbled across travelzoo.com. I now own a piece of it. I am not sure what my stake in the company is worth, even though presently it is worth exactly what I paid for it -- nothing. You see, the travel-related website came up with an interesting way to draw traffic. It began to give away the company itself.
The ambitious Net newbie is assigning three free shares to everyone who registers with travelzoo. These new zoo-keepers can earn as many as seven more shares by referring seven new owners. The company is not public. If and when the company goes public, it is hard to dictate what price the market would give to these clearly diluted shares. In the meantime, the company has lined up more believers than the typically vanilla upstart vacation discount website.
This would sound like some sordid multi-level marketing scam if not for the fact that patrons are not paying with their wallets, they are paying with their eyeballs. Just like in the real world of content broadcasting, higher ratings attract higher advertising revenues. In a June 22 letter to shareholders, President Mark Foster noted that 110 advertisers had contacted the company in the past week alone. If issuing perceived equity in a proposed stock offering pumps up the demographics, then maybe travelzoo.com is not that far off-kilter. Does this mean the day will come when a much-maligned television show will attempt to revive its life through viewer ownership gimmicks? Stay tuned.
In a country obsessed with stocks and freebies, it is no wonder that we are fascinated by the chance of snagging them in concert. Back in 1993 an obscure royalty collecting company by the name of Golden Triangle (Nasdaq: GTII) offered my investment club a single share. The stock was fetching about $3 a share at the time and we put it to a vote. Agreeing to the freebie was not a unanimous choice. It was easy to see what Golden Triangle would get out of it. Here was a company off the radar in the investment community looking for attention.
"We were a young company and we figured if we could get investors to watch our company they might become interested and become investors," Greg Gagnon, Director of Investor Relations, explained.
Rather than issue new shares, the company went out and bought the stock in the open market. Of the 10,000 National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC) clubs that received the offer, 3,000 accepted. At the time, the company was also appearing at a dozen NAIC investor shows a year and found another 4,000 individual takers.
For Golden Triangle, it proved to be a more effective means of getting its story across than direct mailings or in paid magazine inserts. As the recipient, we had to ponder the obvious -- we were asking for equity fruitcake. It would take a great amount of capital appreciation to ever cover the commission cost of ridding ourselves of such a gift. Was it worth the energy to even enter it into the club portfolio? We voted yes, but most clubs simply dismissed the offer.
Two years later the company had a 1-for-3.5 reverse split. While fractional shares are often cashed out during such proceedings, Golden Triangle simply upgraded the uni-share owners to a new share post-split. The fruitcake lived on!
Now that the company is more established, having ceased the free share promotions two years ago, Golden Triangle has set its sights on the efficiency of the pro-bono shareowners. While the company pays no dividend, it has initiated a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRiP) for additional investments. About 1000 clubs have signed up for the program. For the rest, Gagnon said that the company is considering making an offer to buy out the single share investors.
So if issuing a share of your company is bold, how about handing out a free stake in a competitor? Back in 1991 California-based discount broker Kennedy Cabot offered a free share of Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCH) stock to those transferring accounts to the smaller firm. By now we know that every freebie has a motive, even if it's just clever marketing. For Kennedy Cabot, it made for catchy ad text while having to service a single share couldn't have made Charles Schwab all that happy in the process.
There have also been the times when people have had a chance at what appears to be easy money -- an admission ticket to an Initial Public Offering (IPO). For years, clever speculators have been placing minimal deposits in privately held thrifts. If the aspiring banks decide to go public, the accountholders are usually given a crack at initial ownership. Whether the strategy is prudent or not, at least the IPO gamblers are getting interest paid on their insured deposits. Is it worth it? Even legendary investor Peter Lynch once penned an article for Worth magazine on the subject, including his list of privately held financial institutions that were most likely to make a public debut. Face it, we're a sad lot of panhandling speculators sometimes.
In 1995, opportunity rang on a six-pack beer carton. Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM), the maker of Samuel Adams lager and other beers, was set to go public just as the microbrew craze was peaking. In what seemed to be an excellent public relations move, Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) offered the first 33,333 consumer applicants 33 shares at the $15 IPO price. Sensing that opportunity knocking mandated a nimble reply, I raced to the store, filled out the application, and mailed my $495 check to the escrow agent. The offering proved to be popular in many ways. The IPO price was bumped up to $18 a share (although the direct entrants got in at $15) and with close to 100,000 requests, two out of every three applicants got a "Wicked" hangover.
When the stock opened above $30 a share, the carton-fetching investors were elated. Seeing the craze go flat, I got out a month later at $21 -- and for those still around, with the shares recently trading at about $11, maybe the last laugh came from those who filed too late. While Boston Beer is kind to its shareholders -- this year's annual report came with a 12-month calendar -- some investors probably wish they could flip back the days to a time when they could have reversed their decision. Call it a brew ha ha. The swift believers aren't laughing.
Then again, it could be worse. As novel as it sounds, it seems that early ownership does not always have its advantages. Another company that intended to reward customer loyalty was Garden Botanika (Nasdaq: GBOT). When the mall retailer of toiletries went public in May of 1996, it allocated some IPO shares to customers on its mailing list. Priced in the high teens, the then lucky clients must have been euphoric to see the stock soar as high as $35 a share. The stock trades for a buck today. The stores smell great. The capital losses on the other hand are laced with a rotten musk scent.
Sadly there are few free lunches out there. As for travelzoo, the only thing that is clear is that the strategy to give away free shares has apparently accomplished what Travelzoo wanted -- whether or not it accomplishes what the new investors want is an entirely different question.
When I reflect on my whopping three share investment in travelzoo, I think back to the closing passage in one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books, If I Ran the Zoo (which I now do, of course)...
"WOW!" They'll all cheer,
"What this zoo must be worth!
It's the gol-darndest zoo
On the face of the earth!"
So like the story's young protagonist, Gerald McGrew, is it easy to get excited over this gol-darndest investment? Maybe, but skepticism runs a little more rampant right now. When I joined up last month the site mentioned that shares would be rewarded until the company reached the SEC limit of 70,000 shareholders. Was this a gimmick to pressure visitors to act quickly? Equity fruitcake revisited?
Try as I could, I never found the alleged SEC shareholder cap rule. Apparently travelzoo didn't either. When Foster's letter to shareholders proclaimed that 100,000 new shareholders had signed up over the past four weeks, and I was seesawing between my role as an owner or that of a whistleblower, a return visit to the site found that the company would now take the first 700,000 registrants. How convenient, no?
I also stumbled across a new site -- 1001computers.com -- that travelzoo also started, supposedly for international eyeballs. It has the same three share promo offer and the old Frequently Asked Questions text, practically verbatim. My main worry -- that travelzoo was just out to collect a marketable mailing list to peddle to junk mailers -- is addressed by the company in that it will not sell names -- but will that go the way of the 70,000 shareholder limit too?
Anyway, travelzoo.com did mention that the real stock offering would be "fairly soon." Hey, even dividends would be forthcoming once the company turned a profit. Do Internet companies make money? Oh well.
Two interview requests to the Bahamas-based company were ignored for weeks and, hey, I deserve better treatment. I'm an owner! Right?
Finally I got a hold of Mark Foster. He disputed the fact that there ever was a 70,000 shareholder maximum. As for when the public offering would take place, he refused to disclose whether the company had been in talks with an underwriter, simply that "it's the intention to go public as fast as possible."
When asked about the website's claim that shareholders will partake in dividends when the company turns a profit, and how that may seem to be feeding false hope in a niche where few content providers are in the black, Foster points to a low-cost structure. He cites that travelzoo is tapping international talent in the areas of software engineering, marketing, and legal help -- all working for free in their spare time. I trust "free" here means the same free currency the company has been dishing out to site visitors, stockola. How diluted will travelzoo.com stock be if and when it goes public?
"There is nothing fraudulent about this offer, nor does the company have any hidden intentions," he told me. "Travelzoo.com's business model is advertising-driven. By giving away shares and making netsurfers part of the company, travelzoo.com hopes to build an increased level of loyalty with its customers and users."
With 128,000 shareholders and counting, it is hard to argue with overnight success, and with hundreds of thousands of equity-fueled fanatics, it may very well prove to be money well spent. Me? I'll bag my own lunch next time, since that is still the closest thing to a free lunch on Wall Street.


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Home > Degree Programs > Registrar > January Courses
The Harvard Kennedy School offers a small number of courses during a two week intensive winter term in January. Enrollment in January classes takes place in October and the process is the same as the fall and spring term.
January courses count as spring term courses for all purposes (i.e., use of points and number of classes enrolled) and will appear on a student's official Harvard Kennedy School transcript in the spring semester. HKS students may not sign up for more than one January class during Registration Round I.
Cross-registration opens for petition submission for non-HKS students on October 24.
Registration is through my.harvard. Any oversubscribed course will require bidding. The Office of the Registrar will let HKS students know if they need to bid on a course and how much it is oversubscribed.
The instructors will provide details about prerequisites and/or other requirements for consideration for their courses. With regard to MLD-230 (previously offered as STM-230) students must have taken either MLD-221 (previously offered as STM-221), or a Harvard Law School or MIT negotiation course as the prerequisite. MLD-230 and HLS's 44100A (or 44100-21) Winter Negotiation Workshop may not be both taken for credit.
|October 21
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|October 24
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|October 25
|Registration Round I closes at 12 noon
|October 26
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|October 27
|Bidding period closes at 12 noon
|October 27
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Math Course Selection and Advice
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About Our Calculus Courses
Two Curricula for Single Variable Calculus
Our Calculus offerings very much mirror the familiar "AB" and "BC" Advanced Placement curricula.
- We offer the MT100 - MT101 Calculus sequence mostly for majors in the Social Sciences, Biology and Geology majors, students in pre-Medical/pre-Dental/pre-Veterinary programs, and students in the Carroll School of Management. The topics covered in these two courses are almost identical to the Calculus AB curriculum.
- We offer the MT102 - MT103 Calculus sequence for Math and Science majors, as well as for students looking for a more challenging alternative to the MT100-MT101 sequence. The topics covered in these two courses are almost identical to the Calculus BC curriculum.
There is a stronger emphasis on technical (algebraic) detail in the MT102-MT103 sequence for Math and Science majors. The MT100-MT101 sequence places less emphasis on algebra and more emphasis on the use of a graphing calculator, the interpretation of numeric data, and overall conceptual language.
For Those with AP Credit
Students who have completed a year of an Advanced Placement Calculus curriculum in high school should strongly consider bypassing the first course in either of these curricula.
- For students taking the MT100 - MT101 Calculus curriculum, MT101 is often an appropriate choice for your first semester. Please see the page describing this curriculum for more info about whether skipping MT100 and starting with MT101 is the right choice for you.
- For students who will take the Math and Science curriculum MT102 - MT103, a special version of MT103 is offered in each Fall semester, labeled MT105 Calculus II-AP (Math and Science majors). This course very nicely bridges your high school Calculus background with the goals of the MT102 - MT103 sequence, allowing you to move more quickly to Multivariable Calculus after only one semester of study. Please see the Math and Physical Science Major Calculus page for more detail on whether MT105 would be the correct starting point for you.
Continuing to Multivariable Calculus
Students who complete either the MT102-MT103 (Math and Science Major) sequence or the MT105 Calculus II-AP course, and wish to pursue more mathematics, should continue to MT202 Multivariable Calculus.
Students who complete the MT100-MT101 sequence and wish to pursue more mathematics may continue to MT202 Multivariable Calculus. (Although some topics such as sequences and series may have been omitted in this transition, none is prerequisite to MT202.) However, it may be appropriate for students to first complete either MT103 (in Spring) or MT105 (in Fall) before entering MT202. Please consult your MT101 instructor or the Math Advisor for a personal recommendation on which choice is appropriate for you.
More Detail on the Differences
You can compare topic coverages of these courses and sequences in the following table.
|First Course
Differential Calculus
|Second Course
Integral Calculus
|Third Course
Multivariable Calculus
|The Basic Calculus Sequence
|MT100 (4 hours)
Some pre-Calculus, derivatives, applications of derivatives, introduction to integration.
|MT101 (4 hours)
Basic integration notions, basic techniques of integration, applications of integration, and an introduction to differential equations.
|MT202 (4 hours)
Partial derivatives, gradient, level curves and surfaces, optimization in several variables, multiple integration, alternative coordinate systems for double and triple integration, parametric curves in the plane and in space, line integrals, and Green's Theorem.
|Math & Science Major Sequence
|MT102 (Fall: 4 hours)
In addition to the topics of MT100, this course includes technical notions of limits and continuity, as well as more depth on applications of derivatives, especially in optimization techniques.
|MT103 (Spring: 4 hours)
In addition to the topics of MT101, this course includes several more integration methods, and provides an introduction to infinite sequences and series (including Taylor series).
|MT105 (Fall: 3 hours)
This course reviews the major integration methods and their interesting applications, then provides an introduction to infinite sequences and series (including Taylor series).
- Any student who thinks he or she may eventually become a major in Math, Physics, Geophysics, Geology-Geophysics, Computer Science/BS, or Chemistry should take the Science major sequence.
- Any student who would prefer a deeper, more demanding program in Mathematics should also prefer the Science major sequence.


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Last Chance Foods: Sauerkraut
These days it's known as a tangy accompaniment to an unadorned hot dog, but in the 18th century, sauerkraut was a medical necessity. German sailors at the time ate sauerkraut as a means of preventing scurvy, a disease that, in the 1500s, claimed 80 percent of Ferdinand Magellan's crew when he crossed the Pacific.
Even hundreds of years later, the methods for making sauerkraut are largely the same: Add salt to cabbage, weight it, and then wait. "It's the gateway pickle," says Harry Rosenblum, the owner of The Brooklyn Kitchen and its newly opened butcher shop, The Meat Hook. "All it requires is cabbage and salt, nothing else. You need a clean container to make it in, but there are no other additions you need."
Rosenblum, who teaches a sauerkraut-making class, explains that the salt draws out the water and lactobacillus in the cabbage, creating a brine. The resulting liquid covers the shredded cabbage and forms an anaerobic environment for fermentation. The cabbage is then left to sit at room temperature. After that, he just samples the sauerkraut periodically over the course of a few week until it tastes like, well, sauerkraut. Once it's refrigerated, the fermenting process slows and it can be kept for several months or even a year.
For those squeamish about issues like botulism, Rosenblum says not to worry: The lactic acid is generally strong enough to overtake any other bacteria in the batch. He does note that the sauerkraut will require skimming every so often and not to worry if there's mold on top of the liquid. "'How do you know if it's gone bad?' is absolutely the most common question I get," he said. "You can use taste and smell to find out. The human body is really well tuned. You'll know when you experience it."
In addition to cabbage, Rosenblum likes to add other fruits and vegetables into the mix. Apples are one of his favorites, and he also recommends spices like juniper berries, whole peppercorns, carraway seeds and the like. His recipe for chicken and sauerkraut, and others' recipes from The Brooklyn Kitchen can be found below.
Chicken and Sauerkraut
by The Brooklyn Kitchen
- 1 whole chicken
- 2 lbs sauerkraut
- .5 lbs pork cubed
- 2 medium onions chopped
- 2 tablespoons light olive or vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup water or stock
- paprika (smoked if possible)
- black pepper
- 2 teaspoons herbs de provence
- 1 tablespoon dried chile, or red chili flakes
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Heat the oil in large skillet, saute onions until they start to wilt. Add pork and cook until onions start to brown. Add sauerkraut, season with salt and pepper. Add water or stock and bring to a simmer. Toss in herbs and chiles.
3. Remove from heat and place sauerkraut mixture in the bottom of a large baking dish.
4. Rub chicken with butter, and sprinkle with paprika.
5. Place chicken on top of sauerkraut and bake in the oven, uncovered, until chicken is done. (About an hour depending on the size of your chicken.)
More sauerkraut recipes from The Brooklyn Kitchen


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San Jose's Exhumed takes a lot of inspiration from British death metal legends Carcass. Not just in sound, but trajectory: Both started out as gore-obsessed grindcore groups that grew more melodic and political without losing sight of perversity.
Fifth proper studio LP Necrocracy, released last year on Relapse, finds the band seasoning its tales of butchery with dystopian politics. Vocalist/guitarist Matt Harvey, Exhumed's sole original member, emailed about the album.
"I had the title Necrocracy, which I thought was just an exceedingly clever term that I nicked from Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great book, and it just kind of became the centerpiece of the album concept. I kind of went a little overboard in 2012, reading The Economist and The Atlantic and watching The Daily Show every day, brushing up on The Zinn Reader."
While Carcass has shed a lot of its hardcore origins, those roots still show in Exhumed's matted hair. Their split with Municipal Waste side-project Iron Reagan, released earlier this month on Tankcrimes, features covers of Negative Approach's "Ready to Fight" and Minor Threat's "Seeing Red." Played through Exhumed's unwashed fingers, there's an element of joy not seen in much death metal.
"To me, hardcore and punk were omnipresent when I was a kid. The only 'metal' people at my school were into Dokken and stuff, so I hung out with skateboarders and punk rockers," he writes. "I was getting into stuff like Venom, Onslaught, Celtic Frost, S.O.D., and shit like that on my own and then getting exposed to D.I., Exploited, Dead Kennedys, Angry Samoans and shit like that. It's always gone hand in hand as far as I'm concerned."
Mohawk's bill – Toxic Holocaust, Exhumed, Mammoth Grinder, and Ramming Speed – is free to everyone over 21. The complete Matt Harvey interview here.– Andy O'Connor
Austin psychs preach Relax on Friday with the Zoltars, then prep a month-long Euro tour Saturday with D.C.-born Los Angelenos Dead Meadow and their lysergic dankness.
After Dale Watson's debut ACL taping last year, put this honky-tonker next in the queue.
San Francisco's M Machine takes impetus from silent film, but the EDM trio also layers in its own aural interpretation. Inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the title it borrowed for a two-part EP and full-length remix on Skrillex's label OWSLA, M Machine gives voice to the dystopian tale through house beats. Fellow Skrillex-supported duo Botnek co-headline with beats as hot as the condiment in its second EP, Sriracha & Beer. DJ Andrew Parsons and DAELO open.– Abby Johnston


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Help!!!! Horrible grinding noise
My 2005 GC Laredo has a horrible high pitched rubbing noise coming from the front end but when I hit a bump or turn to the left it makes a horrific grinding noise:eek:. i pressure washed my rotors, calipers, and backing plates on all 4 corners after it started making the noise, but it didnt help. Please help me!!
Re: Help!!!! Horrible grinding noise
Could be a lot of things.
I would start getting that wheel off and getting a good look at what's going on in there. Check the wheel hub/bearing for any play.
If it is something lodged in the caliper, spraying it with a power washer may not be enough to get the offending bits out.
Re: Help!!!! Horrible grinding noise
I wont be able to tear into it until wednesday, is it bad to drive with the noise? this is my only mode of transportation...
Re: Help!!!! Horrible grinding noise
Well I certainly wouldn't say it is good.
Metal on metal grinding means something is contacting that shouldn't. If it is a wheel hub, your wheel could fall off if it gets bad enough. If it is your brakes, you could score the rotors and/or overheat the pads.
Without knowing what it is, it is impossible to say what will happen.
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E-Star Drops as Company Exits BUX on Bankruptcy: Budapest Mover
E-Star Alternativ Nyrt. (ESTAR) hit a record low as the Budapest Stock Exchange dropped the Hungarian energy supplier from the benchmark BUX index after the company filed for bankruptcy.
The shares tumbled 15 percent to 296 forint by the end of trading in Budapest. The stock dived 93 percent this year as the company failed to redeem bonds that matured in October and struggled to buy back the securities as well as bonds due 2014 and later.
The bourse said it excluded E-Star from the BUX basket from today after the company filed for bankruptcy, citing its inability to meet payment obligations and opening the right of its creditors to initiate liquidation proceedings. The company plans to reach an agreement with its creditors under the bankruptcy procedure to ensure future operation, E-Star said in a statement last week.
"The main question is what deal will be reached during the bankruptcy procedure," Akos Kuti, a Budapest-based analyst at broker Equilor Befektetesi Zrt., wrote in an e-mailed report.
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President Benson Celebrates Ninety-two Years
Family members helped President Ezra Taft Benson celebrate his ninety-second birthday August 4 at a special dinner. He received birthday wishes and congratulations from members throughout the Church.
President Benson was born 4 August 1899 in Whitney, Idaho, a small farming community in the southeastern part of the state, just north of the Utah-Idaho border. He grew up on a farm, studied agriculture, and went on to serve as United States secretary of agriculture during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Church service has been Ezra Taft Benson's way of life. He has served as a General Authority for more than half of his lifetime, having been called to the Quorum of the Twelve in October 1943, at age forty-four. He has been President of the Church since November 1985.
President Hinckley Addresses Single Adult Conference
Single adult members are "a wonderful people" from whom the Church derives great strength, President Gordon B. Hinckley, First Counselor in the First Presidency, said at a singles conference July 28.
He explained to the approximately six thousand people at a fireside ending the Utah Valley Singles Conference, in Provo, Utah, that single members' path to joy and progress is the same as that for any other member.
The fireside, held in the Marriott Center at Brigham Young University, concluded a week-long conference.
President Hinckley told the group: "I feel some concern about the tendency in the Church to divide members into various classes and groups. I do not look upon you as being essentially different from other members of the Church.
"The Church is much stronger because of you. Your strong helping hands and your willing hearts have done so much to move forward the work of the Lord and bring to pass his eternal purposes," he said. "Your present domestic situation may be different from that of others, but you certainly are not alone."
He expressed the wish that every single man and woman who so desired might find a worthy, loving companion. "Do not give up trying. But do give up being obsessed with it." His remark drew laughter. "The chances are that if you forget about it and become anxiously engaged in other activities, the prospects will brighten immeasurably."
In keeping with the theme of the conference, "Lord, I Would Follow Thee," he suggested three guideposts to help people find happiness.
The first is growth. "I urge you to discipline yourselves to grow in knowledge and understanding of the things of the world and the things of eternity, as the Lord has instructed us to do," he said.
The second is service. He urged members to help the less fortunate, comfort the sorrowing, and give of their own substance. "Share, and the world will become a sweeter, more delightful place for you. Look to God and listen to him, and lose yourself in the service of others, which is the very essence of his divine work."
Third, "walk by faith." While we cannot know the future, "we can and must walk with faith in his eternal purposes concerning our places in his grand design." He suggested several indicators of faith—serving others, shunning evil (particularly pornography), and paying honest tithes and offerings. "We can strengthen and build one another wherever we go. We can stand on higher ground and lift those who are in distress. We can walk by faith. God help us to do so."
Among the other speakers during the conference were Elder L. Aldin Porter of the Seventy; President Ardeth G. Kapp, Young Women general president; Barbara B. Smith, former Relief Society general president; and Utah Congressman Bill Orton.
Monument to Pioneer Woman Dedicated
CEDAR CITY, UTAH—President Gordon B. Hinckley, First Counselor in the First Presidency, joined Utah Governor Norman Bangerter and other dignitaries here August 3 in dedicating a monument honoring a courageous pioneer, Ellen "Nellie" Pucell Unthank.
Hundreds of people attended the dedicatory ceremonies. The monument was placed on the Southern Utah University campus, not far from where Nellie's home once stood. The Sons of the Utah Pioneers (SUP) organization was instrumental in bringing about the honor for a woman SUP national president Kenneth P. Rasmussen called "one of God's most precious children—a quiet pioneer, a true heroine."
In his dedicatory prayer, President Hinckley gave a short account of her tragic journey across the plains. Nine-year-old Nellie and her sister Margaret joined the Church with their parents in England and traveled to the United States. They were members of the Edward Martin handcart company, which was caught in harsh winter conditions before reaching the Salt Lake Valley. The two girls were orphaned when their parents were among the 135 to 150 people in the company who died from exhaustion and exposure.
Nellie's legs had been badly frozen in the ordeal. When she arrived in Salt Lake City, they were amputated below the knee; a butcher knife and a carpenter's saw were used in the surgery, which was performed without anesthetic. She hobbled around on the stumps of her legs for the remainder of her sixty-nine years. After her arrival in Salt Lake, she moved to Cedar City, where she married William Unthank. She reared six children while living in impoverished conditions in a one-room log house.
The new monument, sculpted by Jerry Anderson of Leeds, Utah, depicts little Nellie as a happy girl running across the plains before her trek westward.
In his remarks at the dedication, President Hinckley commented that Nellie Unthank "knew something of the meaning of sacrifice, and of fidelity to a cause and a purpose."
In the dedicatory prayer, he asked that the monument might remind all who see it of Nellie Unthank's "unflagging courage, her tender and tenacious faith." He prayed that visitors might have reverence for "this woman, and others of her kind, who pioneered the West, who overcame obstacles with a spirit of resolution almost beyond our understanding, who lived without complaint and made the society of which they were a part better for their presence."
Governor Bangerter, Southern Utah University President Gerald R. Sherratt, and a special guest speaker, Baroness Caroline Cox of the House of Lords of the British Parliament, paid tribute to the memory of Sister Unthank and to her descendants who were in attendance.
Membership Update
By the end of 1990, total worldwide Church membership had reached approximately 7.7 million. Following is a graph showing Church membership in major areas of the world.
Canada 128,000
United States 4,267,000
Caribbean 56,000
Mexico 617,000
Central America 252,000
South America 1,359,000
Scandinavia 20,000
Europe 148,000
U. K./Ireland 152,000
Africa 52,000
Asia 442,000
South Pacific 266,000
Misc. countries 900
President Monson Addresses National Convention
A nationwide program, sponsored by the National Association of Counties (NACo) and aimed at strengthening families, was introduced at the association's 1991 national convention, held in Salt Lake City.
President Thomas S. Monson, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, spoke in the convention's opening session, which was held in the Tabernacle on Temple Square.
"You who serve the counties of America represent the people," President Monson noted, welcoming the representatives of 3,100 county governments. "You are appreciated. You are trusted. Your tasks are many and your challenges great. The social, societal, financial, and moral ills of our country need your attention.
"This convention helps to eliminate the weakness of one standing alone by substituting the strength of many working together. We wish you success in your sessions. We count on you. We know, as do you, that the power to lead is also the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. You have our love; you have our prayers."
The convention featured a new NACo program that is designed to strengthen families. The program focuses on five basic concepts:
Strengthen relationships through family activities.
Establish reasonable rules and expectations.
Build self-esteem.
Set achievable goals.
Periodically evaluate family strengths and needs.
The program is introduced by a fifteen-minute video, which was shown during the opening session. NACo leaders say the videotape will be distributed to government agencies, schools, parent-teacher associations, and health and human services organizations.
Another speaker at the conference was U.S. Senator Jake Garn, a former mayor of Salt Lake City. In his address, Senator Garn lamented the evils wrought throughout history by "a few evil despots … who want to control and exercise their dominion over their fellow human beings. …
"There is no doubt in my mind that God intended us to be free individuals," he continued, "to choose how we would live, how we would worship, that we would have freedom of religion, freedom of choice."
Centennial of LDS Arrival in Tonga Celebrated
Thousands of people recently gathered in Tonga, Hawaii, California, and Utah in July and August to celebrate the anniversary of the arrival of the first LDS missionaries in Tonga on 16 July 1891.
President Thomas S. Monson, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve, and Elder John H. Groberg of the Seventy spoke in the Tabernacle on Temple Square at a July 28 fireside honoring the centennial. The three General Authorities spoke about the blessings Tongan members bring into others' lives, and the blessings the gospel has brought into Tongans' lives.
One of the largest gatherings in honor of the centennial was held in northern California on the previous weekend, where some five thousand people, most of them islanders (including many of other faiths), gathered for four days of celebration. Honored at these festivities was Tonga's Princess Salote Pilolevu Tuita, who traveled from her current home in London, England, to the celebration. At the gathering held in her honor, Princess Tuita invited Elder Groberg, a former mission president in Tonga and currently president of the North America West Area, to sit with her in a place of honor during the events.
In his Salt Lake fireside address, President Monson said the peoples of the islands have been blessed with great gifts: the gift of song, the gift of faith, the gift of love, the gift of obedience, the gift of gratitude. "Faith is so characteristic of the Tongan people," he said. "Love is part of Tonga and always will be." He reminded them to be always obedient in order to avoid Satan's traps.
"I urge you to live true to these four points: (1) remember your roots; (2) honor your heritage; (3) be true to yourself; (4) keep the commandments of God."
Elder Wirthlin spoke of the impressive commitment of the Tongan people to both freedom and faith in God, particularly since the landmark reign of King George Tupou I, beginning in the 1840s. Elder Wirthlin also noted that the country's motto is: "God and Tonga is my inheritance."
Elder Wirthlin pointed out that nearly 29 percent of Tonga's population is LDS.
Elder Groberg commented that the fireside honored not only the arrival of missionaries in Tonga one hundred years ago but also "the faithfulness of the Saints during those one hundred years.
"The Tongan people have great faith. They have the ability to bring down the blessings of heaven," he said.
President Monson and Elder Groberg had also participated in a celebration in Hawaii early in July to commemorate the LDS centennial in Tonga. Both spoke on the BYU—Hawaii campus on Saturday morning, July 6, and were honored at a program afterward that featured feasting, dancing, and the presentation of gifts. Elder Groberg also spoke at a fireside at the Polynesian Cultural Center on Sunday, July 7.
During the celebration in northern California, Princess Tuita had not only honored Elder Groberg but also honored Church member Joseph H. Tonga by designating him "talking chief," or an intermediary to royalty, and naming him Toutaiola, or "successful fisherman," because of his work as a fisher of men in the Church's missionary program.
The princess spoke at welcoming ceremonies and other meetings, expressing gratitude for the honor and support she had received. She told young people attending the events that "only by living good Christian principles can you ever make any good thing of your lives." She encouraged the young people to gain an education, but not to forget their Tongan roots and traditions.
The celebrations honoring the Tongan centennial of the Church included testimony meetings, conferences, dances, feasts, parades, and firesides.
The first convert in Tonga joined the Church a year after the missionaries arrived. The Church grew slowly in Tonga over the next half-century. By 1946, membership was only 2,422. During the last forty-five years, however, membership has rapidly climbed, reaching approximately 310,000—almost 29 percent of the population.
Tonga has one of the most successful local missionary programs in the Church, with other successes achieved through the Church school program, including the Liahona High School, which opened in 1952. A highlight in the history of the Church in Tonga was the dedication of the Nuku'Alofa Tonga Temple in 1983.
Salt Lake Temple Prepared for Anniversary
Scaffolding surrounds a portion of the Salt Lake Temple as workers prepare the building for its one-hundredth anniversary on 6 April 1993. Projects include spraying the temple exterior with pressurized water to root out stains and replacing a few deteriorating stones with new stones quarried from the same area as the original granite. Workers will also remove leftover steel shims left by the original builders and will replace damaged hard mortar with a softer mortar. The work is scheduled to be completed by October 1992.
Plans Announced for Celebration of 150 Years of Relief Society
The First Presidency has announced plans for celebration of one hundred fifty years of Relief Society in 1992 with projects focusing on service. A letter sent to General Authorities and regional and local priesthood leaders on August 1 expressed strong support for the planned projects.
"The celebration of the Relief Society sesquicentennial during 1992 is an event of great importance in the Church. When the Relief Society was organized on 17 March 1842, Joseph Smith said, 'This Society shall rejoice, and knowledge and intelligence shall flow down from this time henceforth; this is the beginning of better days to the poor and needy, who shall be made to rejoice and pour forth blessings on your heads.' (History of the Church, 4:607.)
"Our sisters have indeed blessed countless people through the charitable and educational activities of Relief Society," the letter continued.
"We are grateful for our sisters who play a vital role in building the kingdom of God throughout the earth. We rejoice in the organization of the Relief Society, in its mission, and in the good that comes to the entire world because of the women who are its members."
In a letter accompanying the First Presidency message, the Relief Society general presidency invited all members to join in the anniversary celebration.
"When the Relief Society was founded," the letter recalled, "Emma Smith, the first Relief Society General President, said, 'We are going to do something extraordinary.' Because our sisters are extraordinary, so are the accomplishments of Relief Society throughout its history. Our celebration should lift and bless all members of the Church and give us cause to thank our Heavenly Father."
A bulletin titled Relief Society Sesquicentennial Celebration outlines activities and projects that may be part of local commemorations of the Relief Society anniversary. These include:
—A "Celebrate through Service" project that should be "the heart of each local celebration." The project chosen should "bless people living in the community," "involve all sisters in meaningful service," and help them "to develop and exercise charity" and "to enjoy a unified sisterhood."
—A presentation of "A Society of Sisters," a program that will feature not only Relief Society history but also life stories and testimonies of local sisters. It is to be presented on 17 March 1992, or as close as possible to that date.
—A ninety-minute international satellite broadcast to link sisters throughout the world, to be broadcast live from the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City on Saturday, 14 March 1992. It will go to stake centers throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and also to Mexico City, Mexico; Frankfurt, Germany; Johannesburg, South Africa; Seoul, Korea; and Sydney, Australia. This is the only activity throughout the year-long celebration that will not be held at the ward or branch level.
—Preparation of a historical record. Each local unit will be encouraged to prepare a history of its Relief Society, including sesquicentennial activities.
European Youth Choir in Swiss Celebration
When seven hundred young people from around the world gathered to sing in celebration of Switzerland's seven-hundredth anniversary as a nation, 240 of the singers were Latter-day Saints.
They were members of the specially organized European Mormon Youth Choir, formed to take part in the open-air Concert 700 in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 6. The concert was one of the events that led up to a day of national celebration in Switzerland on August 1.
In welcoming the LDS group, Swiss musician-composer Turo Pashayan, who organized Concert 700, commented: "This choir in itself represents a bridge between five nations of Europe." The LDS youth came from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
The other young singers who participated in the concert came from countries all over the world, including western European countries, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, China, and Albania.
The format of the concert had all of the young singers performing a few numbers together. Each of the separate groups that made up the larger choir also performed musical numbers. The European Mormon Youth Choir offered a testimony through the song "I Am a Child of God," singing the first verse in German, the second in French, and the third in English. Another number in their program was "You'll Never Walk Alone," with a solo by Brian Montgomery, a Church member from the U.S. who has been performing in European opera houses for several years.
Sharon Hintze, who directed the LDS choir, said the youth performed well despite the fact that they were able to meet together as a group for only a few rehearsals during the two days before their performance. Many choir members came from areas where Church members are a small minority, and they were awed by the fact that they made up the majority of the larger choir.
"What we wanted was for them to have a successful experience. And they did!" Sister Hintze said. Feeling for the first time what they could do when they were working together, the LDS youth cheered themselves when they finished the performance.
Sister Hintze said the LDS youth stood out as ambassadors for the Church, making friends with everyone from concert production people to bus and trolley conductors.
Willi Hurni, public affairs director in the Lucerne Branch, Zurich stake, noted that this was the first time an LDS group had been invited to perform at an official ceremony in Switzerland. "We feel very honored and acknowledge that the Church in Switzerland is being recognized as an institution that can make a major contribution to the community and the country," he said.—Bruno Kaspar, public affairs director, Zurich Switzerland Stake
Parades Mark Anniversary of Pioneers' Arrival
On July 24, amid the parade pageantry and athletic competition that marked the anniversary of the Mormon pioneers' arrival in Utah in 1847, Elder John K. Carmack of the Seventy reminded Church members what the celebration was all about.
It is in remembrance, Elder Carmack recalled, of the pioneers' "exodus to greatness" when, having been driven from Nauvoo, Illinois, they crossed the Great Plains to a haven in a western desert valley.
Elder Carmack, President of the Utah Central Area and Executive Director of the Church Historical Department, spoke at the annual Days of '47 sunrise service in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. He spoke of Brigham Young's "Moses-like" service to the Saints, of the "miracle, too, that a permanent settlement survived in the mountains.
"You know the story," he said, "but we should never tire of telling it."
Many celebrated by watching or participating in the Days of '47 parade in Salt Lake City, an annual event held to commemorate the pioneers' arrival. Floats and other entries emphasized western pioneer themes. Also honored was the place of native Americans and Spanish explorers in the state's history. A number of entries honored U.S. military personnel who had served in the Persian Gulf and in other wars.
A youth parade was also held on Saturday, July 20.
Events of July 24 also included an annual marathon and 10K races sponsored by the Deseret News and KSL Radio, and fireworks at various locations in the city.
LDS Scene
ITHACA, NEW YORK—A first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon has been loaned by the Church's Historical Department to a museum here. The book, published in 1830 in the western New York village of Palmyra, will be displayed in a special exhibit in the Hinckley Foundation Museum, one of the best historical museums in the Finger Lakes region.
LOGAN, UTAH—A remodeled building on the Utah State University campus has been dedicated as the David B. Haight Alumni Center. The structure, which served for one hundred years as home to the presidents of the university, was named in honor of Elder David B. Haight of the Quorum of the Twelve.
More about Beans
It was with great joy that we saw the article "Do You Know Beans about Beans?" in the June 1991 issue. We were surprised, however, by the reference to complete protein and protein combining.
Recent studies show that it is not necessary to combine plant foods with other plant foods or grains in the same meal—nor is it necessary to supplement plant foods with animal foods at all—in order for the body to get the protein and amino acids it needs for good health. Like peas, lentils, grains, nuts, seeds, and many vegetables, beans are naturally rich in protein.
Dorothy E. Smith, Ochlocknee, Georgia Sue Brenner, Meigs, Georgia
Let the Lord Help
Early last year I became very discouraged. I didn't want to see anyone or do anything, including going to work and attending church. One day I prayed and asked Heavenly Father what I could do about this discouragement. A soft, sweet voice came into my heart. "Get back into your fitness program," it whispered. What will that do? I wondered. That will tire me out even more.
But the promptings continued. I decided to follow them, even though I still didn't understand why. I hated exercising for the first three weeks, but I didn't give up because I wanted to follow the Spirit. After seven weeks, exercising was no longer a burden. Even better, I felt my discouragement melting away, and I liked myself more.
As I look back, I see that the Lord has been with me through the past nine months, helping me and healing me. He will do the same for all of his children—if we will only follow what he asks us to do.
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Police horses fetch $111,000 at auction
Via Sign On San Diego:
SAN DIEGO — Seven prized horses that were the backbone of the San Diego Police Department's mounted enforcement unit sold yesterday for a total of $111,000.
The highest bid was for 13-year-old Wam, who went for $19,100, while 15-year-old Bandit brought up the rear at $13,200. The proceeds from the sale will go into the city's general fund.
The mounted unit, founded in 1983, cost about $243,000 per year to maintain. It was disbanded in December to help close the city's $179 million budget gap. Its officers were reassigned to patrol duties, Assistant Chief Bob Kanaski said.
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Shame they had to go but I know what it's like to make choices when balancing a budget. We'll miss them when we go to Balboa Park.