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By refusing to tap much of the oil wealth off its shoreline, California is forgoing a resource that could go far to revive its economy and bring state and local governments back to fiscal health.
On dry land, too, California is missing an opportunity: Its vast onshore oil reserves are underused, thanks to a green-energy agenda that raises the cost of oil production and refining.
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Enjoy some fun in the sun and a great relaxing atmosphere when you plan your next trip at Driftwood Resort. Located just beyond the shores of Bull Shoals Lake, this outdoor getaway offers comfortable accommodations and wonderful outdoor activities including fishing, boating and horseback riding. Tour the 350 million year old caverns, take the Mountain Village 1890 Haunted History Tour or just spend your day by the spacious outdoor swimming pool. The beautiful rooms at the resort have been recently renovated with new furniture, bedding and kitchen appliances. You have the option of staying in a studio room or a kitchenette room, and some of the accommodations have connecting units. Start planning your a great getaway surrounded by the beauty of the Ozark Mountains and Bull Shoals Lake now!
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The connecting units at Driftwood Resort make this the perfect destination for your next family reunion. Here, you'll find a wide variety of enjoyable water activities for all ages including boating, jet skiing and swimming the Bull Shoals Lake. You can also enjoy some of the area's finest fly fishing along the banks of the White River. Area craft and antique shops provide hours of shopping for those who prefer to stay indoors!
You'll have access to two amazing fishing spots during your stay at Driftwood Resort: Bull Shoals Lake and the White River. Trophy fish like largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass, as well as walleye and catfish populate the enormous lake. Panfish like bluegill, crappie and sunfish will make a great meal at the end of a successful day on the water. Fly fisherman can head to the White River to catch their limit of trout.
Bull Shoals Lake covers approximately 45,000 acres and features 1,100 miles of shoreline, giving you plenty of privacy to enjoy during your stay at Driftwood Resort. These prime fishing waters are home to species such as striped and white bass, walleye and catfish. But, you won't be limited to fishing during your stay in Bull Shoals. The lake is also great for pontoon boating, water skiing and even scuba diving!
The Ozark Mountains create a breathtaking background that you and your group will enjoy during your stay at Driftwood Resort. Explore these gentle slopes at your own pace on miles of hiking trails. Take a horseback ride through the hills to get a unique perspective of this pristine area!
Bull Shoals Lake offers guests plenty of opportunities for fun on the water including fishing, boating and jet skiing during your stay at Driftwood Resort. Outdoor lovers will also enjoy the breathtaking views you'll only find on the White River, and world-class fly fishing is also available for anglers with an itch to fish! Take a tour of the 350 million year old Bull Shoals Caverns and observe one of the most magnificent natural wonders this area has to offer.
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America Launches Operation Rolling Thunder
Starting in the 1950s, the U.S. provided military equipment and advisors to help the government of South Vietnam resist a Communist takeover by North Vietnam and its South Vietnam-based allies, the Viet Cong guerilla fighters. In 1962, the American military initiated limited air operations within South Vietnam, in an effort to offer air support to South Vietnamese army forces, destroy suspected Viet Cong bases and spray defoliants to eliminate jungle cover.
President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) expanded American air operations in August 1964, when he authorized retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam following a reported attack on U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin. Later that year, Johnson approved limited bombing raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a network of pathways that connected North Vietnam and South Vietnam by way of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. The president's goal was to disrupt the flow of manpower and supplies from North Vietnam to its Viet Cong allies.
The Operation Rolling Thunder bombing campaign began on March 2, 1965, partly in response to a Viet Cong attack on a U.S. air base at Pleiku. The Johnson administration cited a number of reasons for shifting U.S. strategy to include systematic aerial assaults on North Vietnam. For example, administration officials believed that heavy and sustained bombing might encourage North Vietnamese leaders to accept the non-Communist government in South Vietnam. The administration also wanted to reduce North Vietnam's ability to produce and transport supplies to aid the Viet Cong insurgency. Finally, the president and his advisors hoped to boost morale in South Vietnam while destroying the Communists' will to fight.
Operation Rolling Thunder: U.S. Involvement Expands
The Operation Rolling Thunder campaign gradually expanded in both range and intensity. At first, the air strikes were restricted to the southern portion of North Vietnam; however, U.S. leaders eventually moved the target area steadily northward to increase the pressure on the Communist government. By mid-1966, American planes were attacking military and industrial targets throughout North Vietnam. The only areas considered off limits for the bombing raids were the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong and a 10-mile buffer zone along the border of China.
Shortly after the operation began in 1965, Johnson committed the first U.S. ground troops to the Vietnam War. Although their initial mission was to defend air bases in South Vietnam that were being used in the bombing campaign, the troops' role soon expanded to include engaging the Viet Cong in active combat. As the North Vietnamese army became more heavily involved in the conflict, Johnson steadily increased the number of American forces in Vietnam.
Operation Rolling Thunder Fails to Achieve Its Goals
Although North Vietnam did not have much of an air force, its leaders managed to mount an effective defense against the bombing raids. With assistance from China and the Soviet Union, the North Vietnamese constructed a sophisticated air-defense system. Using surface-to-air missiles and radar-controlled anti-aircraft artillery, the Communists shot down hundreds of American planes over the course of the bombing campaign. As a result, pilots and aircraft weapon systems operators accounted for the majority of the American prisoners of war who were captured and held by North Vietnam.
North Vietnamese leaders also took a number of other steps to reduce the impact of the American bombing raids. They constructed networks of bombproof tunnels and shelters, for instance, and also dispatched crews by night to rebuild the roads, bridges, communication systems and other facilities struck by bombs. Additionally, the Communists used the destructive air strikes for propaganda purposes to increase anti-American sentiment and patriotism among North Vietnamese citizens.
The sustained bombing of North Vietnam lasted for more than three years, with occasional brief interruptions. Johnson finally halted the campaign on October 31, 1968, in order to pursue a negotiated settlement with the Communists. Historians differ in their assessments of the strategic value of Operation Rolling Thunder. Some claim that the bombing campaign came close to crippling North Vietnam's capacity to wage war. However, critics contend that the campaign's effectiveness was limited. They argue that rules of engagement put in place to avoid provoking Communist China and to minimize damage to Hanoi and Haiphong made it impossible for the U.S. air strikes to hit a number of important targets, including air fields, shipyards, power plants and oil storage facilities. They also assert that U.S. leaders failed to coordinate the bombing campaign in North Vietnam with the ground operations in South Vietnam.
Despite the difficulties encountered by the Johnson administration during Operation Rolling Thunder, President Richard Nixon (1913-94), Johnson's successor, resumed the bombing of North Vietnam shortly after taking office in 1969. In 1972, Nixon unleashed another massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam called Operation Linebacker. By the time the last American combat troops left Vietnam in 1973, the U.S. military had dropped some 4.6 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, destroying a large percentage of the nation's towns and villages and killing an estimated 2 million Vietnamese.


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I have family movies saved as vob files on my hard drive. I previously used
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vista computer and copied the vob files to my hard drive. When I try to play
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Dexter Is the New American Justice
And its cooler-than-thou serial killer of serial killers is the perfect voice for our new idiocy, whether or not you watched Sunday's finale
On Dexter, everything glistens. The police station: practically aflame with perfect white light from the floor-to-ceiling windows, its hallways brightly white-washed. Outside, the streets are evenly lit from curb to rooftop by day, and appropriately palated by a morally representative fluorescence at night. The basements — the encampments, the trailers, and warehouses — where vengeful Dexter inevitably goes in pursuit of his endless string of serial killers, are shot with a hair-sprayed lens, so that light seduces, even as people die. On Sunday night — this would be a spoiler — Julia Stiles thrust the coup de gras. When, minutes later, a single sheet saved Dexter and Stiles's Luman from discovery, occluding them from the view of his sister the supercop, it became clear that no matter how well they light things in Dexter's world, the show is about the comfort of being blind.
That's not quite right, since blindness is involuntary. What Dexter does, quite unlike anything in our culture these days, is make you choose not to see.
Make no mistake: Dexter is a comfort. The whispered redundancies of its self-justifying voice-over make it a kind of old-time radio show more than real–life crime drama. Michael C. Hall Dexter's has police-department pals who are jolly, well-dressed, racially diverse, and comically obtuse. His apartment, his boat: it feels like a cool life. Cool as in appealingly hip; it's never truly hot in Dexter's Miami — clothes don't get wrinkled, brows are never mopped. But the sense of cool also comes from our sense that no one really knows us, that we too might live in a world where everything is a secret — money, sex, morality — where the obligations of a domestic life — diapers, braces, fatherly talks — are quixotically difficult to attain. Bah! Dexter wants normalcy as a tonic to want in general. One sip, every season, then back to the chest-cracking!
This season, more than ever, the convenient muse of his long-dead father appeared now and again to remind Dex how it's done, providing a sometimes amusing father-and-son banter. Last night, in a car Dexter stole by using a really big rock, he looked at his father's nattering ghost in exasperation, thereby striking the raised loading bucket of an abandoned $50,000 backhoe, somehow sending the car into the most unlikely, slow-motion barrel-roll since Boss Hogg was running Hazzard County. I looked around my empty living room and thought: does anybody else see this?
But why wouldn't the physics of the show be as moronic as the endless philosophizing of its protagonist? Dexter's morality tale, told by Dexter to Dexter, is the perfect voice of idiocy for an us-or-them America. Dopey-over-here needs to be punished. Someone's got to do it in order to protect the normalcy of the American life we all want and deserve. Bad guys need to get the sharp end, something like Obama's Guantanamo. There's some hand-wringing, yes, and some whining about the past. The poor guy inherited this. He wants to stop, sometimes. Oh yes, it troubles him, but not so much that he might really stop.
It's a life that Dexter lives out in an apartment that wants for no convenience or upgrade, in a kind of fishing-boated, frontal-lobe-bloated freedom from moral consequence. They keep his world as well-lit as they can, so we can see how well Dexter works it, if only by the skin of his teeth, if only-time-and-again through a series of plot twists so hyperbolically unlikely as to have come from theatrical farce. To which I've always said: So what? Farce is a delight after all, a wonderful diversion.
But Dexter is never just about what you see; it's about what you hear. And every season, Dexter's sense of justice is whispered in our ear, unceasing and familiar, until we can hear nothing else from the moment he slaps that mosquito. Dexter himself is a different version of man every season — lab nerd, promising boyfriend, married man, step-dad, father, grieving widower. Each iteration replaces the last completely, so that it might be seen as a kind of evolution. And Dexter's sense of justice — troubled, damaged, reprehensible, and quite frankly idiotic — is the only character that survives unscathed from one season to the next.
No one sees this but us and him. The real danger comes when we listen to that asshole.


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Kids at Levine Children's Hospital learned the skill of making art with bubbles at a recent event. Oliver Lewis, a former McColl Center Artist-in-Resident, began volunteering at Levine Children's Hospital about a year ago with a project called More Recess. It involves a process where kids make artwork by blowing bubbles. On May 28, he was in the atrium and invited everyone to make bubble art as part of a large scale artwork for public exhibition.


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Iain Duncan Smith and Theresa May have begun very early work on their gangs strategy in the wake of the English riots, and will publish their findings in October. But we are already starting to get some idea of the solutions they are likely to look at it. Some of them are encouraging, some are definitely not.
On Sunday, IDS told the Sunday Times some of his preferred measures, which are heavily influenced by a 2009 report called Dying to Belong from the CSJ, the think tank he established. The report is thorough and exhaustively researched, and has a comprehensive set of proposals.
It is based on a twin-track method, whereby senior gang members are offered an amnesty to leave the gang and then harrassed by official government bodies if they refuse to do so. If the latter, youth workers turn up at their home, the police go through their entire history to find evidence of any misdemeanour, from unpaid parking fines to a missing TV license, and they are brought in front of the courts at the slightest sign of wrongdoing. Read more


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Moments before the home time bell was due to ring at St Albans Primary School yesterday, a strange message blared across the school's speakers advising children to stay indoors.
Neighbours in the homes surrounding the school looked out and saw police circling what they would later learn was the body of a newborn baby, wrapped in a blanket.
The body had been placed under a large tree, just metres from the school crossing.
"At first I thought somebody had been hit by a car at the school crossing," said Andrew, 32, whose home overlooks the tree. Then he noticed just how tiny the figure under the blanket was.
"I saw that it was a baby," he said "This is obviously the worst thing."
Police have interviewed an 18-year-old woman who was released on Friday. Media have been camped outside a home believed to be rented by a mother and two daughters less than a block from where the baby was found.
A neighbour said she'd never seen any signs of a baby at the home.
"They're quiet as church mice," she said. "I just can't fathom what's happened."
Homicide detectives arrived at the scene on Ruth Street about 3pm on Thursday and were still conducting door knocks around the neighbourhood on Friday morning.
The exact circumstances surrounding the death are being investigated but police said they were not looking for any other people suspected of being involved.
The cause of death is yet to be determined and it is unknown how long the body had been on the street.
A police spokeswoman said a family member reported the death.
Neighbours said they did not hear and see anything suspicious in the St Albans house until police arrived at the residence and escorted two women away on Thursday afternoon.
One, Johanne Khan, told radio station 3AW he and other residents were shocked and at a loss to explain any of the events unfolding in the quiet street.
''I can't imagine why someone would do something like this, I have kids myself,'' he said.
On Friday, a police spokeswoman would not comment on the age or gender of the baby, or whether the 18-year-old woman was related to the child.
An autopsy was expected to be conducted overnight.
Anyone with information is asked to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit www.crimestoppers.com.au.
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Beta preview of PRTG version 12.2 is now available. With PRTG 12 we introduce our new build and delivery concept "Continuous Rollout," as well as various new features and enhancements.
Looking forward to your feedback!
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Apr 27, 2012 at 6:41 UTC
Cool, I always liked PRTG. Very easy to setup. Looking forward to trying version 12 out.
Apr 27, 2012 at 9:53 UTC
Neat, I'll check it out as well. The new ASA VPN sensor might be useful.
What happened to versions 10 and 11?
Apr 30, 2012 at 1:56 UTC
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What happened to versions 10 and 11?
From now on we will use the current year and quarter as the PRTG's version number. Since the first release of version 12 will be taking place in May 2012 (Q2), it will be called version 12.2. More information on the "continous roullout":
Apr 30, 2012 at 8:40 UTC
Haven't used PRTG in a while - this version was easy to setup and looks great!
May 3, 2012 at 6:50 UTC
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Thanks to everyone who is taking part in the beta test and sending feedback.
I also have an update for you: from now on, you can download our release candidate (at the same URL).
May 29, 2012 at 8:39 UTC
Just upgraded to the 12.2 release this morning. Easy upgrade as always, and I like the ASA VPN sensor. Looks like another good release.
This discussion has been inactive for over a year.
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Robert Goodall, Owner and installer of The AV Team is a fine professional but BUYER BEWARE. Robert charges $80 per hour and that does NOT include any materials he may need to complete the job. All he had to do was mount four speakers and drop four speaker wires through the walls to the baseboards; the speaker wire already ran under the wood floor from wall to wall. What should have been a 2-hour job took Robert FOUR hours. AND, he charged me another $80 for 20 feet of speaker wire and four wall plates (at most $5 each at Home Depot).
It is a real shame when a small business owner seeks to hit a home run with each job. I truly feel I was ripped off. Also, if you still decide to hire Robert, do not have a conversation with him, for he adds the time to his hourly rate. I have made a complaint with the BBB over such unfair business practices. BUYER BEWARE!
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Dear Mr Leggiere, once again i am sorry that you still feel this way. I thought this matter was resolved when your original complaint to the Better Business Bureau of Dallas was thrown out as and i quote: "it does NOT meet with the criteria for an acceptable complaint". Yet you still feel it necessary to bad mouth my company in this way.
Since you misunderstood my pricing of $80 per hour plus parts, i have improved my comversation with my customers to include, comfirmation that they heard clearly and fully understand my credentials and experince of 26 years in this industry, warrant my pricing. So for this i THANK YOU! I pride myself in the quality of my installations and experience.
I warned you that your installation was NOT standard once i arrived at your property and saw the fire break in your internal walls. You authorised me to continue and instisted that the speakers were positioned with in that wall - which is why the installation was problematic, having to cut through many studds, thus taking much longer.
I have 143 people giving me a top 5 star rating on the Home Advisor website, which i believe speaks for itself.
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From: Angie Stagg <>
Subject: Re; Lynn's virus, and now Jon Hughes!
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:38:30 +0100
Hi Mike and anyone else interested,
I have received several virus attachments via emails and each time,
alongside deleting them (without opening), I also personally notify the
unfortunate, unknowing, sender. I have never (so far) received a virus
attachment back and even if I did I would simply 'delete' again .
Remember to empty your 'trash' (deleted file holder) regularly so to
avoid mistakenly opening from there, if in doubt save the attachment
and scan using your virus scan.
Please remember too that these people have not actually sent you a
message, its the 'infection' doing that and until they receive
communication telling them what's happening they do not know.
I apologize to the list owner for posting this and for making it so long
>From one who has learnt NOT TO PANIC any longer when the dreaded 'V'
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SEARSPORT – Stanley S. Dickey, "Stann," 58, passed away suddenly Jan. 12, 2013, at his home. He was born Aug. 24, 1954, son of Stanley E. and Rosemarie (Sykes) Dickey.
Stanley was a very social person and loved to surround himself with family and friends. When Stanley wasn't with his family and friends you could find him in the woods hunting. He was an avid fisherman. Stanley loved karaoke and loved to have a good book in his hand. Stanley was a member of American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Veterans of the American Legion.
Stanley is survived and will be sadly missed by his loving wife, Mary Lou (Collins) Dickey; one daughter, Serena Quinn and husband, Michael; one son, Jason Dickey and girlfriend, Christina Ellis; three grandchildren, Cheyenne Dickey, Derek Lane and Makala Parker; and two great-grandchildren, Tristen Allen and Conner Allen. He is also survived by his sister, Mariellen Curtis; and brother, David Dickey. He had many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents; and one sister, Donna Dickey.
Family and friends will gather for visitation 4-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Young Funeral Home, 31 West Main St., Searsport. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a Cancer Society of one's choice. www.mitchell-tweedie-young.com


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|Draft Animal Cloning Risk Assessment
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| I am strongly opposed to the marketing of cloned animal products to the public. Not only is it objectionable to think about drinking the milk of a cloned animal, it is morally questionable, and will open a door to further marketing of cloned animal products. Furthermore, perhaps the by- products of these cloned animals are safe for consumption, but are they as nutritious? I am not convinced as a consumer that the safety and efficacy of these products has been sufficiently studied and do not see the necessity or benefit of them to the US economy. Furthermore, if they are to be put on the market I would demand as a consumer that the FDA mandates labeling for all products that contain cloned animal by-products or meat, so that I can be sure to avoid them.


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Michael Cera played against type in Crystal Fairy
You know Michael Cera as the nerdworthy everyboy from Juno, Superbad, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. But in the new Crystal Fairy, which opens here Friday (July 26), Cera goes in a very different direction. He plays an asshole—specifically, a guy who panics when he runs into another pushy North American while on a psychedelic sojourn in Chile.
"I'm just totally alienated from everyone in this one," Cera says in his typically friendly way while calling the Straight from New York City.
The darkly comic, highly naturalistic drama was written and directed by Chilean wunderkind Sebastián Silva, who previously had a festival hit with The Maid. And this one, shot in 2011, was actually the first of Cera's two outings with Silva. The actor subsequently starred opposite another Juno (Juno Temple) in Magic Magic, also about gringos cracking up in the Chilean desert.
More of a thriller role with a villainous edge, it would prove part of his transformation away from passive nice-guy roles, which began on Canadian kid shows, leading to his breakthrough on Arrested Development (which recently got renewed). The Brampton-born veteran, who turned 25 in June, says his shift in the persona department isn't part of any overarching career strategy.
"I don't really think about it that way. I think about people I want to work with, and I really wanted to do something with Sebastián. He's a different kind of director, and this was a different process than I've ever been involved with—making a movie in 12 days with only 14 people. It was truly independent, with absolutely no one watching us, and living on a diet of bread and avocado. It was a truly joyful experience."
In fact, Crystal Fairy—which also features half of the director's six brothers—happened while everyone was waiting for a real budget to arrive for the Sony-backed Magic Magic.
"I was there for about three months, living with the Silva family, who were teaching me Spanish and feeding me. Sebastián wasn't even there for most of that, and finally he came back from the States and said, 'Why don't we just shoot another movie?' "
Here, his opposite number, and the movie's hairy-legged title character, is played by another former child star, Gaby Hoffman, although roles in Field of Dreams and Sleepless in Seattle took her far from Cera's early days in showbiz.
"Our experiences were totally different," he declares. "Gaby started when she was about three, and then she left it behind for a number of years." (A daughter of the Andy Warhol "superstar" Viva, she grew up in New York's infamous Chelsea Hotel.)
"Her character is this elaborately constructed persona, where mine is more of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get thing, for better or worse. But they are both very much alone. Why are they in this foreign country, travelling with strangers and imposing their will on them? It was fun to play such an odd, unselfaware character, especially while playing opposite someone who's as delightful to watch as Gaby. And then there are Sebastián's brothers, who are just the most patient, benevolent guys."
For the actor, the Chilean adventure meant a break, if temporary, from Hollywood. For Silva, Cera's commitment represented an opportunity to further connect with a North American audience. According to the Chilean director, Canada's best-known boychick happened upon The Maid by chance and sought him out.
"We were both in L.A. for different things," Silva says in clearly spoken English during a same-day call from Brooklyn, where he recently moved. (Cera now lives in the trendy New York borough as well, after years divided between Ontario and California.) "And we just immediately hit it off. We weren't sure what project we would do, but we decided to do something, and soon."
So that's how Cera ended up hanging around with Silva and his six brothers for the two movies they ended up making. (Magic Magic, sadly, is only seeing a DVD and VOD release.) Silva—who is 34, sometimes acts, and usually has a sideline performing with various bands—studied animation in Montreal. After hitting big at Sundance with his class-conscious Maid, he helped develop a 10-part HBO series called The Boring Life of Jacqueline. Through that show, he met Hoffman, who agreed to be his Fairy if he got it to fly. (Cera also played himself on one episode of the 2012 series.)
"Certainly, not everything falls together as easily as this movie did," Silva admits. "But I guess it just proves that this was meant to be. He really has become a very close friend, and even though I really do not need any more hermanos, man, he's kind of like another brother."
Of course, Cera's Crystal character is not all that lovable.
"That character is a little like me, I have to admit. He doesn't edit himself, and he's always oversharing, whether it's his enthusiasms or he's just being judgmental. But this is the fun of making movies: working out difficult characters and giving them some distance to travel."
In Silva's films (he has made five in the past half-decade), these trajectories are nowhere near as extreme as in Hollywood dramas, and any apparent plot resolutions are still riddled with ambiguities that leave you guessing as to what will happen next.
"They are more like life than most movies are," is how Cera puts it. And now his life is like more kinds of movies than he ever knew before.


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There are a lot of incriminating things criminals can leave behind at crime scenes: fingerprints, hair follicles, bullet casings. And now, add to that list Arby's curly fries.
That was the loose end one man left behind last week in Pennsylvania. The incident happened when the 36-year-old man, who seemed drunk, reached out and groped a woman working at the Arby's drive-through in East Lampeter Township.
The man then sped away, but police found his SUV at a nearby Travel Lodge.
Yorkdispatch.com reports that police then discovered "a trail of Arby's curly fries and sauce" leading from the man's car straight to his room.


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Washington, DC—Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement today in response to SEC charges against Goldman Sachs regarding mortgage investments: "Millions of Nevadans and Americans are struggling every day to make ends meet and stay in their homes. Any accusations about wrongdoing that could affect Nevada families should be taken seriously and fully investigated. I'm pleased that the Obama Administration is using all of the tools in its arsenal to bring accountability to Wall Street and standing up for homeowners and small businesses across America. "This is also why we need to pass strong Wall Street reform this year. When we clean up Wall Street, we will establish clear rules of the road to help keep Nevada families in their homes while protecting consumers, investors and financial institutions. We will stop banks from becoming 'too big to fail' and end taxpayer bailouts. Republicans should stop obstructing our efforts to hold Wall Street accountable so that Main Street can once again prosper."
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Hacku: present and accounted
Hacku: present and accounted
WALLINGFORD — There's a face missing from the photograph that accompanies this story.
It's a key one: Rob Hacku, junior captain of the Sheehan boys swim team.
Typically, Hacku would have been present for the photo. But when it was taken Wednesday night prior to Sheehan's winter sports banquet, Hacku was in North Carolina competing in an elite swimming event.
Which helps explain why Hacku's name is in the headline.
One of Sheehan's top three swimmers, Hacku placed in third in the 200-yard individual medley and ninth in the 100 freestyle at the CIAC Class M meet. He also swam legs on both the 200 (fourth) and 400 (third) freestyle relays.
Hacku advanced to the State Open in all four events and wound up breaking the school record in the 100 freestyle at 48.01.
That time has shades of Hacku's 4.1 grade-point average, another reason why he was one of seven Record-Journal Scholar-Athletes selected at Sheehan for the 2013-14 winter season.
"Robby is an invaluable member of our team, a leader in and out of the water," remarked swim coach Keith Cargan. "In the pool, he is the most versatile swimmer on the team."
Other R-J Scholar-Athletes from Sheehan were as follows.
Jackie Duran, girls basketball: Duran maintained a GPA of 3.6 while playing forward for the Titans, who reached the second round of both the SCC and CIAC Class L tournaments.
The senior plays — and studies — like she practices.
"Jackie is an outstanding example of what a student-athlete and team player should be," noted coach Mike Busillo. "It's easy to see why she's had such a great academic career by observing her in practice on a daily basis. She consistently pushes herself and her teammates to be better. She was an extremely important member of our program and will be missed."
Paul Gozzo, ice hockey: It was quite a run this winter for the Titans. They won 15 games and reached the CIAC Division III quarterfinals, where they fell in triple overtime.
A key factor in helping Sheehan go the distance was Gozzo, a sophomore defender. He scored seven goals and set up 20 others. He had a plus-20 rating.
Here are even more telling stats: 50 blocked shots and a 3.9 GPA.
"Paul is a hard-working player during both practices and games. He is a team player, sacrificing his body by leading the team in both hits and blocked shots," reported coach Dave Festa. "Paul is very disciplined, well-mannered and a role model off of the ice and in the classroom. He is a true leader."
Justin Lange, boys basketball: Sheehan's senior center is putting up big numbers. With a 3.9 GPA, he ranks No. 9 in the senior class.
The son of Roger and Carol Lange is a CAPT Scholar, CIAC Scholar-Athlete and repeat R-J Scholar-Athlete.
In the fall, he'll be going to Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, where he'll play football.
"Justin possesses a great work ethic and excels both academically and athletically. Due to hard work and determination, Justin has been able to play both varsity basketball and football while maintaining a high GPA," commented hoop coach Joe Gaetano. "It has been a pleasure to coach Justin for the past three years. I wish him continued success as he enters into a new chapter of his life."
Mackenzie Mendygral, girls indoor track: There are girls out there with better heights and times than Mendygral in pole vault and sprinting, but it's unlikely there are many who surpass her in both.
"Mackenzie is a very versatile athlete. She runs the 300, pole vaults and is a key leg in our short sprint relays," remarked track coach Charles Farley.
"She is very helpful in practice mentoring the younger athletes. She is one the athletes around whom we will build our spring season team."
During the indoor season, the senior captain ran a 44.77 in the 300 meters and cleared 7 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault. She ran low 60s in the 4x400 relay and high 20s in the 4x200.
A High Honor student and member of the National Honor Society, Mendygral holds a 3.6 GPA, which ranks her 23rd in the senior class.
She is president of the Student Council and has received a Daughters of the American Revolution scholarship.
Devynn Shook, cheerleading: Here's what Shook's coach said about the senior captain's approach to school and cheerleading:
"Devynn consistently pushes herself academically and continually advances her skill-set in her sport. She is a team leader and role model."
The coach has an inside track on that observation. She's Devynn's mother, Tracey Shook.
With a 3.6 GPA, Devynn Shook earned SCC All-Academic honors for the fall season. She was also All-SCC for cheerleading and, on top of that, a NECA All-American.
Carl Verch, boys indoor track: The last time we checked in with Verch, after the cross country season, he was ranked No. 1 in the senior class.
That hasn't changed. His GPA stands at 4.24.
Name the academic prize and Verch has probably won it. He's earned a Southern Connecticut Superintendents' Award, a Harvard Book Club award and a Bausch & Lomb Science award.
He's also a Varsity Scholar, SCC Scholar-Athlete and SCC Scholar-Leader.
In track, the son of Chip and Diane Verch runs middle-distance events. He posts consistent times in the low 50s on both the 4x400 and sprint medley relays. He's in the 2:10-2:12 range on the 4x800.
"Carl has matured into a fine middle-distance runner," said track coach Charles Farley. "He is willing to compete wherever we need him. His quiet leadership has helped us to grow as a team this past winter."
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Add online phone service Skype to one more mobile platform: the PlayStation Vita.
Sony announced the app will be available later today on its portable video game handheld.
Users can make both voice and video calls on the app. Skype will run in "background mode," so if someone is playing a game on Vita, they can pause action, take the call, then return to the game.
Calls between Skype users are free, and users can purchase credits to make calls to land lines or mobile phones.
The app is available on both the Wi-Fi-only and 3G versions of the device.
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
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From: "Tim Janzen" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Autosomal matching - clarification
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 16:32:06 -0800
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Dear Peter,
The answer to your question is no. If A is related to B on the
paternal side and if A is related to C on the maternal side then B doesn't
necessarily need to be related to C. When in doubt, get more people tested
so that you have more data on which to base your conclusions.
Tim Janzen
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[mailto:] On Behalf Of Peter J. Roberts
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 4:07 PM
Subject: [DNA] Autosomal matching - clarification
Regarding a situation where customers A, B, and C have Family Finder or
23andMe results ...
A matches B and C, but B and C don't match each other. Is it safe to say
that in reality that A is indeed a true match with B OR C (but not both B
and C)?
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2010.05.10 11:40 "Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 72, Issue 4", by Weichao Wang
If the small component images are all of the same size, consider to generate the large image in tiled format. As long as I remember, the format specification does not require the scan lines of a tile to end at a byte boundary (but I'm not quite sure). If a scan line of a tile must always padded to a byte boundary, the matter would be quite simple for you. Weichao Wang > From: email@example.com > Subject: Tiff Digest, Vol 72, Issue 4 > To: email@example.com > Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 12:00:02 -0500 > > Send Tiff mailing list submissions to > firstname.lastname@example.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > firstname.lastname@example.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > firstname.lastname@example.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Tiff digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Merge several TIFFG4 images (Oliver Geisen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 20:39:00 +0200 > From: Oliver Geisen <email@example.com> > Subject: [Tiff] Merge several TIFFG4 images > To: tiff <email@example.com> > Message-ID: <email@example.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Hello, > > i need to write a tool using libtiff which is able to paste 1 to 10 G4 > compressed bilevel TIFF images onto a large (17300x27051 pixel) image > and save this as G4 compressed image also. The images to be pasted > onto the canvas are different in size, but much smaller. > Now i wonder if it is best to create the big image in memory and write > the data of each image to be placed in turn into this memory block, or > process it line by line. > Libtiff itself seems not to provide any image functions itself, but it > is the only lib i found which can handle G4 TIFFs natively without > converting it into an internal colorspace (which makes them impossible > to handle because they grow to several GB in memory). > What i need is some advice how to start this. One big problem for me > is bit-shifting. If an image to be placed does not start on a byte > boundary, i need to shift all pixels (bits) of a row, line by line. > This may take a long time and i really don't know how to code this > efficiently in C. > The tool must be very very fast, so i merging does not take longer > than several seconds. > > Any help is appreciated here! > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tiff mailing list > firstname.lastname@example.com > http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff > > End of Tiff Digest, Vol 72, Issue 4 > *********************************** _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsofts powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969


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Birdie looks for best student sections
The Birdie is looking for a few good students. Well, more like hundreds.
The VND's football specialist wants to recognize the Alle-Kiski Valley's best student sections.
"When I was an adolescent peep at Molting Valley High, I was the ring-leader of our section," Birdie said. "Between my time as editor of our high school paper, 'The Omelette,' I organized raging themes."
The Birdie heard Kittanning's student section, "Jubilation Nation," called him out for picking the Wildcats to go 2-7. (They're 4-0).
"Even the best dishwasher misses a spoon," Birdie said. "Kittanning owes me for free bulletin board material."
The Birdie might sit with the Highlands' section when they're at home — "No room in the press box up there, and I lost my parking spot," he said. "Come on, man."
Students should tweet photos of their student sections and we're-the-best reasons to the Birdie.
Apollo-Ridge (3-1, 2-1) at Avonworth (4-0, 3-0)
Can you say, shootout? Look for points o'plenty.
Apollo-Ridge, 35-34
Kittanning (4-0, 3-0) at Burrell (2-2, 1-2)
Kittanning was picked to go 2-7 but will move to 5-0.
Kittanning, 24-14
Deer Lakes (0-4) at Charleroi (0-4)
Long road trip will be worth it for the Lancers.
Deer Lakes, 28-21
Highlands (3-1, 3-1) at Indiana (2-2, 2-2)
Highlands is still reeling from last week's loss to Mars.
Indiana, 20-13
Pine-Richland (2-2) at Kiski Area (2-2)
Kiski Area doesn't have the depth of Pine-Richland.
Pine-Richland, 28-14
Hampton (2-2, 1-2) at Knoch (3-1, 2-1)
Knoch has quietly gone about its business; that will continue.
Knoch, 28-20
Springdale (1-3, 1-2) at Leechburg (0-4, 0-3)
Springdale has the Blue Devils' number, but this won't be easy.
Springdale, 20-14
Canon-McMillan (0-4, 0-3) at Plum (0-4, 0-4)
Neither team should be in this conference. Just not fair.
Canon-McMillan, 7-6
Wilkinsburg (1-2, 1-2) at Riverview (0-4, 0-4)
Riverview will get its first win.
Riverview, 18-15
East Allegheny (2-2, 2-2) at Valley (3-1, 3-1)
Valley has big-play capability.
Valley, 30-19
Ford City (2-2, 1-2) at Summit Academy (1-3, 1-2)
Ford City needed a field goal to squeak past Southmoreland.
Summit Academy, 16-6
Freeport (1-3, 1-3) at Shady Side Academy (4-0, 4-0)
Shady Side will put on a show for its homecoming crowd.
Shady Side Academy, 33-6
Fox Chapel (0-4, 0-3) at Shaler (0-4, 0-3)
Something has to give.
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Missy Raines & the New Hip LIVE at WBKR Part II [VIDEO]
Missy Raines has won 7 Bass Player of the Year awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Friday afternoon she brought her beloved 1937 bass fiddle and her band The New Hip to the WBKR studio.
Part I in this two-part series gave us Missy and the gang performing a song called "Room to Roam" that they have yet to record. It was awesome.
THIS song was actually the first of their two performances. It's called "I Learn" and it's the first cut on their New Frontier CD.
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This work presents a novel fiber-optic sensing system, capable of monitoring debris flows or other natural hazards that produce ground vibrations. The proposed sensing system comprises a demodulator (BraggSCOPE, FS5500), which includes a broadband light source and a data logger, a four-port coupler and four Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) accelerometers. Based on field tests, the performance of the proposed fiber-optic sensing system is compared with that of a conventional sensing system that includes a geophone or a microphone. Following confirmation of the reliability of the proposed sensing system, the fiber-optic sensing systems are deployed along the Ai-Yu-Zi and Chu-Shui Creeks in Nautou County of central Taiwan for monitoring debris flows. Sensitivity test of the deployed fiber-optic sensing system along the creek banks is also performed. Analysis results of the seismic data recorded by the systems reveal in detail the frequency characteristics of the artificially generated ground vibrations. Results of this study demonstrate that the proposed fiber-optic sensing system is highly promising for use in monitoring natural disasters that generate ground vibrations.
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Many investigators have studied ground vibrations produced by debris flows [
Fiber-optic sensors have been developed recently for detecting various physical signals, including strain, temperature, and acceleration [
In this work, commercial fiber optical products, such as a FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) accelerometer, coupler, and demodulator, are combined to set up a fiber-optic sensing system for monitoring ground vibrations generated by debris flows. Based on field tests, the performance of the proposed fiber-optic sensing system is compared with those of conventional systems using geophones or microphones. Following confirmation of the feasibility of the proposed system, fiber-optic sensing systems are deployed along Ai-Yu-Zi Creek and Chu-Shui Creek in Nautou County (Central Taiwan) for monitoring debris flows.
Following a brief review of the principles of the FBG accelerometer and the multiplexing method, this work presents a novel fiber-optic sensing system for monitoring debris flows. Next, based on field tests, the SNR values of the proposed system are compared with those of monitoring systems using a geophone or a microphone. Finally, the sensitivity of the proposed fiber-optic sensing system along creek banks is examined via further field tests.
An FBG sensor utilizes the variation of the periodic refraction index in a fiber section to reflect the light of a unique wavelength from a broadband light source [
A debris flow normally lasts from several seconds to a few minutes. During this short period, the temperature varies only slightly and can thus be ignored. Therefore, during monitoring of debris flows when using the FBG sensor, the thermal term can be neglected and
Numerous methods have been developed in the recent decade for constructing FBG sensors leading to a considerable number of commercial products. To understand the concept of an FBG accelerometer, this work considers a simple linear spring-mass model, in which the FBG accelerometer is the spring system (
This equation reveals that the relative shift of the Bragg wavelength is linearly proportional to the acceleration of the measured system.
Multiplexing is an important function of FBG sensors. According to
A novel fiber-optical sensing system was established to monitor debris flows in a mountainous region far from available electricity.
The sensor used here was a commercial single-axis FBG accelerometer (GS6500) with a sensitivity of 10 pm/g and a resonance frequency of 430 Hz. The operating frequency range of this instrument is 0–300 Hz, which range covers the frequencies of ground vibrations generated by debris flows. The measurement range of this instrument was ±40 g, with an accuracy of 20 mg. The operating temperature and humidity were −20 to 80 °C and <90% at 40 °C, respectively. The FS5500 BraggSCOPE, manufactured by Fiber Sensing Company, was located at the data receiving center to provide the broadband light with a wavelength from 1,510 nm to 1,590 nm and store the recorded data at a sampling rate of 500 Hz.
Performance of the proposed fiber-optic sensing system was compared with those of conventional systems using three-axes geophones (GS-20DX) or microphones (B&K 4190) by conducting field tests to measure the ground vibrations and airborne sounds generated by an artificial debris flow, by using three sensing systems. The operating frequency range of GS-20DX is 8–1,500 Hz with a resonance frequency of 8 Hz and a sensitivity of 27.7 V/(m/s). The B&K 4190 microphone detects sounds with frequencies ranging from 3 Hz to 20 kHz and a sensitivity of 50 mV/Pa. Resonance frequency of the inner diaphragm in B&K 4190 is 8 Hz. The FBG accelerometer and the geophone measure the acceleration and velocity of the ground vibrations, respectively, while the microphone measures the perturbed air pressure.
As mentioned earlier in the Introduction, the characteristics of ground vibrations produced by debris flows are well known. Huang
In this work, the debris flow was simulated by causing rocks and boulders of various sizes to roll down a steep and rugged bank of Chu-Shui Creek in Nantou County, Taiwan.
Seismic signals recorded by the geophone in three different axes (X, Y and Z) are approximately the same, where X and Y axes are in the horizontal plane and Z-axis is perpendicular to the ground. For brevity, only the Z-axis signals were analyzed in this work.
The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR, S/N) is usually defined as the power ratio between a signal and the background noise. SNR can be used to evaluate the performance of different sensors [
Having confirmed the capability of the fiber-optic sensing system, this work implemented the proposed system along both Ai-Yu-Zi and Chu-Shui Creeks in Nautou County of Central Taiwan for monitoring debris flows. When the systems were deployed, the fiber length and overall attenuation were estimated using an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR). OTDR was also used to locate faults, including breaks. For brevity, the tested signals obtained by OTDR are not described here.
The channel beds of Chu-Shui and Ai-Yu-Zi Creeks are almost always dry, except for during the rainy season or typhoon events. The geological conditions of the two creeks resemble each other. Owing to the debris flow that occurred in August, 2008, rocks, boulders, and soil in the channel beds of Chu-Shui and Ai-Yu-Zi Creeks were loosely packed, explaining why the bed is rugged with randomly dispersed, variously sized rocks. The bedrock of these two creeks consists mainly of sandstone and a shale interlayer. The soil is mainly loam, sandy loam and sand.
This work also tested the sensitivity of the deployed fiber-optic sensing systems along Ai-Yu-Zi and Chu-Shui Creeks through means of generating artificial vibration signals by holding a stone to strike the creek bank continuously where the FBG accelerometer was installed for approximately 1 min. For brevity,
This work also demonstrated the multiplexity of each deployed sensing system by generating simultaneously artificial seismic signals near each FBG accelerometer. In the real application of this monitoring system, the original recording data are stored in the data logger of the demodulator; however, the time-averaged acceleration signals were transmitted through the Internet to a remote serving system at a rate of 1 Hz in order to monitor the seismic signals by a PC monitor from a remote site.
This work describes a novel fiber-optic sensing system for monitoring natural hazards that cause ground vibrations, such as landslides and debris flows. The proposed sensing system consists of a demodulator that incorporates a broadband light source and a data logger, a four-port fiber coupler and four FBG sensors. The ground vibrations generated by debris flows are measured using the FBG accelerometers. Additionally, based on calibration experiments, the performance of the fiber-optic sensing system is compared with those of conventional sensing systems using a geophone or a microphone. Experimental results indicate that the SNR of the FBG accelerometer exceeded the SNRs of the geophone and the microphone.
Following demonstration of the feasibility of the proposed fiber-optic sensing system in detecting ground vibration signals, two sensing systems were deployed along the Ai-Yu-Zi and Chu-Shui Creeks in Nantou County of central Taiwan, to monitor debris flows. In each system, the accelerometers were set up in the creek bank as line arrays. The sensitivity of the established system was also evaluated by hitting the creek bank where the sensors were installed to generate artificial vibration signals. Subsequent data analysis revealed in detail the frequency variation associated with each hit.
Finally, although the sensing capability of an FBG accelerometer appears to be better than that of a geophone, a future study should elucidate how temperature change and other ambient noises affect the identification of seismic signals generated by debris flows.
The authors would like to thank the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau of the Council of Agriculture, Taiwan, for financially supporting this research under Contract No. SWCB-99-200. The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.
Mechanism of a Bragg grating-based sensing system [
Diagram of a simple FBG accelerometer.
Principle of multiplexing of serial FBG sensors. A sequence of separated FBG sensors with various grating periods, Λ,
Proposed fiber-optic sensing system for monitoring debris flows. Four FBG accelerometers were installed in a line array along the bank of a creek. Four reflected signals were combined into one using a four-port (1 × 4) fiber coupler and were then sent to the demodulator.
Field test for comparing the performance of the proposed fiber-optic sensing system with those of conventional systems involving a geophone or a microphone.
Ground vibrations detected by Z-axis of geophone and FBG sensor; (
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of signals detected by FBG accelerometer, Z-axis of geophone, and microphone. The upper subplot was the ground vibration signal detected by FBG accelerometer.
Topographic map and fiber-optic sensing systems deployed along Ai-Yu-Zi and Chu-Shui Creeks of central Taiwan. In each system, four FBG accelerometers were installed along the creek bank. Data were stored in a data logger incorporated into the demodulator, which was located in the front data-receiving center.
Testing signals measured by Sensor 1 in fiber-optic sensing system deployed along Ai-Yu-Zi Creek (AYZ-1 sensor,
Distances between the sensors and the data receiving center (DRC).
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Happy Thanksgiving! Yes, another major food-fest, which is particularly difficult for us PWDs, I know. But I love the slow four-day weekend, the once-a-year chance to eat sweet potatoes AND cranberries in one meal, and the fall colors. I love the fact that we unpack our old home movies and spend most of the weekend lying on the floor watching hours of my older children as babies crawling around and babbling into the camera. "I was sooo cute!... Mom, did they have turkey when you were little?" I guess you know you're getting older when this is your idea of a good time.
(Not to mention that the hubby and I are also planning a one-night getaway in a coastal mission town, which gives a whole new meaning to the term "family time" :)
Anyhow, there are scores of online "tips for diabetics" on dealing with this holiday, so I won't bore you with a long a list, just a few select links from some favorite sites:
* dLife tips for handling special occasions
* Dr. Bill Quick's hints for holiday planning
* Robyn Webb's "Talking Turkey" article on the ADA site
By the way, nothing helps keep you from stuffing yourself like the gluten-free thing. I can't eat bread or pie anyway, so I stick to turkey and veggies. Works great. Wine is definitely my weakness. Cheers!


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DirtBoard - mountain skateboard
A mountainboard is made up of components including a deck, bindings to secure the rider to the deck, four wheels with pneumatic tires, and two steering mechanisms known as trucks. Check out these mountainboards!
Leather Skateboard - Natailia Brilli Black Leather Skateboard
Designer Natailia Brilli, notorious for leather, has created this Natailia Brilli Black Leather Skateboard made from black lambskin. The Natailia Brilli Black Leather Skateboard looks like something you'd want to ride around in your house while being careful not to scratch it up.
Beer Skateboard - Deathwish 40 oz Low Life Cruiser Skateboard
Yes...it's a beer shaped skateboard!!! The Deathwish 40 oz Low Life Cruiser Skateboard Deck is made from 7-ply hardwood maple and pokes fun at the "champagne of beers".
Graphic Skateboard - Corbus Skateboards
Custom Longboards Skateboards are far-out designed space boards. They feature customization that's on another level and are modified by their user both for style and ride-ability.
iPhone Skateboard
Skateboards haven't really advanced much over the year, but the next best thing is this iPhone Skateboard. No it doesn't actually make calls, or play cool games, but it's cool because of the iPhone home screen printed on both sides. Buy the iPhone skateboard design for $60.
Graffiti Skateboard - Wildstyle Graffiti Inspired Skateboards
This graffiti skateboard was designed by Loren Kulesus and is definitely remarkably cool. Though the holes in the board probably give it less strength and too much flex, if the materials are strong it's the perfect piece of function-candy.
Shingle Skateboard - Contributor Shingle Skateboard
The Contributor Shingle Skateboard is a work of art that deserves to be admired on your wall rather then being worn out at the park. Designed by Devin Barrette, these Contributor Shingle Skateboards are made for kids who can't afford them. Very cool design!
T-Board - Snowboard Training Skateboard
The T-board is a high performance carving hybrid built specifically to mimic the sensation of carving on a snowboard. Because the wheels form an edge right under the arches of your feet, the carving sensation is one of the purest out there. These T-board's come in four styles and cost $189-205.
Freeline Skates
Freeline Skates are ridden like a snowboard or skateboard and let you achieve high levels of traction and carve smooth "S" turns while riding downhill or make killer moves on a straightaway. The single-piece construction skates are made from military- and aircraft-grade case aluminum, provide maximum durability, while the custom grade polyeurethane wheels deliver a smooth ride and long-lasting integrity. Buy these extremely portable skates with traditional skateboard grip-tape included for a price of $150.
Street Board
A street board or "snakeboard" as it was originally known is a board that was invented in 1989 by James Fisher and Oliver Macleod Smith. The street board evolved from the original skateboard and encompassed elements of snowboards and surfboards. The design is basically a central board with two pivoting footplates attached at each end. Top it off with trucks and wheels and you've got a street board.
Electric Skateboard- E-Glide GI Powerboard
This E-Glide GI Powerboard incorporates pneumatic tires along with low deck height and can out-carve any electric skateboard ever built. The E-Glide GI boasts tech Bionic Truck technology, which was the key to creating this low deck/pneumatic tired board. It's nicknamed the best "carving" electric skateboard ever built.
Mirror Skateboard
With the Mirror Skateboard you can check yourself out on your favorite mobility device.
BMW Skateboard - bmw street carver
The Street Carver is a brand new product designed any manufactured by BMW...yeah that's right the same company that's brought you sporty high maintenance cars brings you this hi-tech snowboard style carving board. The Street Carver is made from a combination of wood and fiberglass inlays, four pendulum supports from the BMW 5 Series suspension that provide guiding and stabilizing for the trucks, and highest grade steel trucks. It features advanced steering technology that lets you initiate purposeful changes in direction by shifting your weight so that fast steering maneuvers are possible. At higher speeds, your weight automatically stabilizes the ride. It retails for $560.
StowBoard Folding Skateboard
The StowBoard Folding Skateboard gets you from point A to point B much faster than you'd ever do walking and then fold its generous 31" length to just under 11" for stowage. In fact, the stowed board is probably smaller than your notebook.
Motorized Skateboard - Wheelman Motorized Skateboard
This Australian-made Wheelman Motorized Skateboard is powered by a two-stroke engine that holds 1.5 litres of fuel. The Wheelman Motorized Skateboard gives you an hour and a half of riding around, on or off-road at top speeds of 19mph. Just hold it in your hand, and squeeze it, and you're off.
The Flowboard by Flowlab is a large skateboard-style deck with two unique trucks that each hold seven wheels fixed in an arch. The result is a skateboard that turns and flows in a different way than more traditional pin trucks with two wheels each. In fact, the feeling is so odd that you really have to try it to understand the difference. You can buy one from Amazon for a price of $80.
Snowskate SkateBoard - Rails Snowskate
The Rails Snowskate is cool way to switch it up in the winter season! Each Rails Snowskate features 4 small skis so you can hit the skateboard in the winter. Buy this Snowskate for a price of $50-$150.
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Fleury solid in Penguins' preseason finale
DETROIT — Maybe returning to the building of his greatest triumph was just what Marc-Andre Fleury needed. Of course, it didn't hurt that most of Detroit's stars didn't play.
Nonetheless, the Penguins' goalie had his best performance of a shaky preseason as the Penguins handled a depleted Red Wings lineup at Joe Louis Arena, 5-1.
The Penguins got two goals from Chris Kunitz and one each from Craig Adams, Jussi Jokinen and Pascal Dupuis.
A misplay by Fleury led to Drew Miller's goal, but he was otherwise strong. He will see plenty of action when the regular season begins; backup goalie Tomas Vokoun won't be ready to start the season Oct. 3 as he recovers from surgery to dissolve a blood clot.
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I've spent almost my entire life within an hour of Atlanta. I graduated from UGA with a degree in Economics. I work a typical 9-5 office job, but at least it's one that I enjoy. I have a great group of friends. I'm left handed. I'm very passionate about Georgia football. Either you get it or you don't :)
My goofy doggy
Stimulating conversation
A good book
Football Saturdays in Athens
Saturdays are much more conducive to actual fun activities. Usually that involves going out while trying to avoid Buckhead.


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The answer to that is simple: The Simpsons. In case you haven't been watching much Fox for the last quarter-century, the title is an unveiled reference to Montgomery Burns, the endearingly sneering Charles Foster Kanelike nuclear power magnate who lights all of Springfield and employs the titular family's perpetually confused patriarch, Homer. In her writing, Washburn offers myriad tributes to Matt Groening's now-iconic characters (Bart, Lisa, Marge, Maggie, and plenty of others), stressing at once their entertaining and social-commentary values and proving, through her usage, that they not only will be rememberedbut that they deserve to be. As she reminisces about and recreates to various degrees key classic episodes, you get to both relive some of the funniest TV of recent vintage and consider the impact it's had on life beyond the living room.
That's Washburn's specific subject, which she invokes almost immediately: If the power went out permanently in our world, what would happen to the pop culture we currently take for granted? In the first act, such a disaster has more or less just occurred, and survivors huddle around campfires remembering their favorite lines and episodes. Act II, set seven years later, after America has begun rebuilding (yet, strangely, not been able to turn on the lights), shows that entertainment now exists exclusively in the form of vaudeville-like companies that present cherished TV shows live, buying lines and even full scripts as required to augment their memories. Evolution and adaptation run their course, eventually leading to something radically differentand just plain radicalin Act III.
Even the most original section, Act II, when the survivors also stage TV commercials and pop-music medleys (the appropriately derivative MTV choreography is by Sam Pinkleton), struggles to stay uprightthere are a few too many discussions about the amount of Diet Coke remaining, or whether Chablis or Shiraz is the better wine. Because Washburn conceived Mr. Burns with director Steve Cosson, he's powerless to help things in his staging: Someone further from the material, who could close the gaps and impose tolerable pacing, would help tremendously.
The actors are similarly trapped, and though I can't say I was consciously aware of them giving performances (which in this case should not be considered a compliment) I'm also not sure I was supposed to. For the first two acts, everyone responds to his or her first name: Matthew Maher is Matt, Jennifer R. Morris is Jenny, Susannah Flood is Susannah, and so on (through Sam Breslin Wright, Colleen Werthmann, Gibson Frazier, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and, in the third act only, Nedra McClyde). Is this to reinforce the here-and-now nature of what's happening? Maybe. Is it daring? No. It actually gives everyone yet another excuse to avoid distance, and comes across as more than a little pretentious.
On that score, nothingbut nothingtops Act III. As with everything else here, it's uncommonly intelligent at its core but unbearable in its presentation, fusing Neil Patel's apocalypse-cartoony set, Emily Rebholz's costumes, Justin Townsend's lights, and the music of Michael Friedman (of The Civilians, which originally commissioned this piece, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and the recent musical of Love's Labour's Lost) into an in-your-face explication of how we make stories our own. Saying anything about it would constitute a spoiler, but the safest explanation is that it operatically blends fiction and fact into a simultaneous evocation and explanation of the world in which the performers are then living. Melodramatic conceits, Greek tragedy, archetypal characters, and rampant ravaging of public domain all play crucial roles.
If it's pretty backward-looking, it should at least be scintillating. Alas, it's much closer to stultifying, ten times longer than it needs to be, and so obviously written and grating to hear (McClyde occasionally sounds like a trained singer; the others, in true Civilians fashion, don't) that its elemental point, about how fantasy and reality intertwine over time to fashion works that are more than the sum of their arts, is fundamentally impossible to absorb. Because that last scene is thematically the key to everything, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play can ultimately never be enlighteninginstead, it leaves you stumbling around in the dark, wondering how such an ex-x-xcellent premise could wind up more wrong-headed than a three-eyed fish.
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"So that it was believable and could be argued that this was the only logical thing you would find," he said.
He has also drawn remarkable performances from the child actors, who always seem expressive and believable, never cloying.
Like in most Bollywood films, the narrative aims to be both larger than life and yet believable.
The awkward, PSA-worthy interaction comes across as a consent role-play, rather than a believable, exciting first kiss.
Buddy rambles, digresses, pontificates, and fails completely to make Seymour Glass seem a believable human being.
For a moment he was back in a famous clinic, and this man across from him—it was not believable!
It seemed too preposterous to be believable; and she was very suspicious of him.
It was just as it had been that night—just as commonly uncommon and believable.
Writing stories that weren't true, and making them believable.
It was abhorrent, impossible, too grotesque to be believable.
Old English belyfan "to believe," earlier geleafa (Mercian), gelefa (Northumbrian), gelyfan (West Saxon) "believe," from Proto-Germanic *ga-laubjan "to believe," perhaps literally "hold dear, love" (cf. Old Saxon gilobian "believe," Dutch geloven, Old High German gilouben, German glauben), ultimately a compound based on PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (see belief).
Spelling beleeve is common till 17c.; then altered, perhaps by influence of relieve, etc. To believe on instead of in was more common in 16c. but now is a peculiarity of theology; believe of also sometimes was used in 17c. Related: Believed (formerly occasionally beleft); believing. Expression believe it or not attested by 1874; Robert Ripley's newspaper cartoon of the same name is from 1918. Emphatic you better believe attested from 1854.
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Search Engine Comedy
There really isn't much funny stuff that goes on in search engines. It's all about the numbers, ranking, results, money, return on investment etc.
It does get repetitive – believe me I should know!
That's why I would like to share with you this video from the Comedy Channels' The Colbert Report. It features a funny interview with Google's CEO – Eric Schmidt.
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Cannabis Culture/FlickrEvery major pot-growing county voted against legalizing pot.
If someone wanted to sabotage Proposition 19 among pot growers, the wild rumor that spread around Mendocino County was perfectly crafted.
"My favorite piece of propaganda floating around these parts for the last few months," one Mendocino County resident told blogger Andrew Sullivan, "was that Phillip Morris was buying up giant tracts of land in Mendocino County in advance of Prop. 19 passing. The company would then, the theory goes, put every grower out of business. I found it amazing how many people fell for that stinker."
Now that California voters have rejected the initiative, which would have legalized and regulated marijuana for personal use, many supporters of Prop. 19 are blaming pot growers for helping kill the measure. Some wonder how these counties could have voted against their own self interest, turning away from potentially huge profits by creating a "Napa County of marijuana."
Indeed, the biggest marijuana-producing counties, Humboldt and Mendocino, voted with the rest of the state – roughly 47 percent in support and about 53 percent opposed. Pot-rich Trinity County voted against the measure by an even larger margin, about 40 percent to 60 percent. Only 11 counties – including San Francisco and Alameda – voted to approve the initiative.
Prop. 19 undoubtedly failed because some of the state's largest counties voted against it, not sparsely populated areas in Northern California. But that's not stopping supporters of the initiative from lashing out at pot producers in the so-called Golden Triangle. Here's one comment that has been getting attention:
Lets grab machetes and head up to Humboldt… Humboldt, your little community just pissed off a ton of people who are sick of paying your inflated crop prices!
Another wrote on the same blog, redheaded blackbelt:
It seems to me the 'growers' in Humboldt that I know all think that because they grow they are special and should be treated as royalty where ever they go. They expect everyone to cow down to them and just give them what ever they want. They think they are above the law and that the laws that the rest of us live by do not pertain to them. This is why I have a bad attitude tword them. They use the welfare system like a government subsidy for food and health care and don't pay a dime into that system that they are sucking dry.
Bret Bogue, owner of Apothecary Genetics, a marijuana breeding and seed company, told Huffington Post blogger Steve Bloom that passage of Prop. 19 would have destroyed the economy of the area, and he blamed initiative supporters for failing to consult growers in Northern California.
"They needed to include the backbone," Bogue told Bloom, publisher of Celebstoner.com. "They voted 'no' because they didn't take the people into consideration. It starts from the ground up. You have to be able to walk in their shoes."
The arguments against Prop. 19 centered in part around the layers of regulatory oversight imposed by the initiative. Some worried about a provision restricting growing to a 25-square-foot plot of land, even though the initiative allowed for larger cultivation amounts approved by local authorities. The exact taxes and fees were uncertain and woukd have varied county by county.
"They're country people," Bogue told Bloom about growers. "They don't know how to pay taxes."
Many felt that asking pot growers to vote for Prop. 19 was like asking bootleggers to overturn Prohibition: Why would they give up such enormous, tax-free profits? But others might easily point out that any smart marijuana bootlegger was in a good position to start the next Budweiser of pot.
That Andrew Sullivan reader believed it was possible, writing that "if it were legalized, we would be rolling it greenbacks. We would happily accept our fate as the Napa Valley of Marijuana. But as long as it's illegal, this will continue to be the Wild West." He said about the economic fallout from illegal pot busts:
Ask a county sheriff to drive you down a main street in one of our towns and he or she will point out all the 'retailers' who launder their pot money through their sham businesses. He'll show you them right after he tells you how he had to lay off officers due to the dwindling cash problem up here. ... The irony that our county, of all counties, voted this measure down is just too rich.


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My board looks a iittle thirsty and I want to give it a light oiling and then change the strings tomorrow morning. Trouble is I'm all out of linseed oil and I don't have any commercial fingerboard oil either (not that I like fossil oil based lubricants on the board anyhow).
So, all I have is what's in the cooking cupboard; olive oil, sunflower oil and rice bran oil. Is any of this stuff safe or useful on a fretboard? It's a Les Paul and I guess we're talking about rosewood here.