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BDO Sideshows: Part 1
Best Coast, Girl Talk, Odd Future and more, now with added YouTube!
If you're someone who misses the days when the Big Day Out was at the old Sydney Showground (and Nirvana played in the Hordern Pavilion), or maybe you're just not the festival type, then perhaps sideshows are the way to go for you. Luckily, some of the bands you'd want to see (and even some you wouldn't) are putting on some shows in venues designed for a few hundred people, rather than a few thousand, so you can enjoy all the perks of a live show without having overpriced mid-strength beer spilled on your head.
Girl Talk will be performing his pop-collage mashups at the Enmore Theatre on Saturday January 28 and at the Palace Theater in Melbourne on Tuesday January 31, presumably shirtless and possibly pantless. With a reputation of being "the ultimate party starter", this is one sideshow you'll have difficulty ignoring. Dance-induced exhaustion guaranteed. Here he is at the 2010 BDO:
Looking to channel your inner-emo? Check out My Chemical Romance with special guests Closure in Moscow, if for no other reason than to see what Gerard Way has done to his hair recently. MCR will be at the Hordern Pavilion on Friday, January 27 and Eatons Hill Hotel in Brisbane on the night of Tuesday, January 24. What else to say? Oh, this video has had over 58 million views.
Sibling trio Kitty Daisy and Lewis will win audiences over with their heel-tapping, rockabilly jives. And all three of them have fantastic dress sense! See them live at The Metro in Sydney on Tuesday, January 24 and at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on January 27. They're brothers and sisters, which makes them even better, somehow:
Foster the People will play Monday 23 January at The Tivoli in Brisbane (ticketek.com.au), Wednesday 25 January at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney (ticketek.com.au) and Monday 30 January at The Palace in Melbourne ticketmaster.com.au and oztix.com.au). Until recently I thought Foster the People were Australian, so they should fit right in.
Odd Future will be in full, super-offensive form for their sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne. Expect something unnerving, amazing and totally different. Perhaps Tyler, The Creator will eat a cockroach and vomit on stage. They'll be playing at the Enmore on Tuesday January 24 and the Palace Theater on Wednesday, February 1. Special guests to be announced. Here's the best bit of Tyler, the Creator's last album, in case you don't make it to the show:
If Best Coast are as easy to watch as they are to listen to, their sideshow will be nothing short of charming. Catch them at Manning Bar on Wednesday, JAnuary 25 and at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on Saturday, January 28. And if you don't like Best Coast, YouTube user EternalDrummer1990 has this to say to you:
Why is is that haters seem to be the only people that comment anything? Haters really need to learn to STOP WATCHING WHAT THEY DON'T LIKE. And/or pretending they don't like it or else why would they be here in the first place? Now that's a hipster for you.
More to come tomorrow! And don't forget to head over to Oyster's brand new festival guide website, The Festivalist, for every little festival detail you can think of.


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Levi Johnston in Playgirl
Here's the much-ballyhooed but penis-less Levi Johnston Playgirl.com shoot that made its way online today. Normally I don't post on Saturdays, but after the veritable tit barrage yesterday, I figured the least I could do is give the man-hungry demographic a little love. Now that that's out of the way, can someone explain to me why Levi Johnston is using his own hands to cover his genitals or am I the only one with a chorus of tiny angels that does that for me? "ALLELUIA!" Hey, knock it off. I didn't say the magic word yet, and we're nowhere near the front window at Starbuc- Whoa, look at that chick. "ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA-ALLEUIA!"
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TREVOR Rawlings reckons his Corsham Town side gave a glimpse of their true potential last weekend as they inflicted a first defeat of the season on title favourites Bradford Town.
Corsham hit the heights at Trowbridge Road to shatter their local rivals' unbeaten record in the Toolstation League First Division, winning 5-3.
Victory saw Rawlings' men notch up their fifth win in six matches and with his squad nearing full strength, the Corsham chief is eyeing a positive second half of the season.
"I think that it showed that, on our day, we're as good as anyone in the league," said Rawlings.
"I've managed to get most people back and we had a strong squad of 16.
"If we could keep that 16 fit and playing, then we could go and have a good end to the season. We did worry about going there and getting turned over but we said to the boys at half-time that if we could defend well, we could come back to win the game – that's exactly what happened.
"It's a great result and we've got to try and keep our run going now."
Corsham's Nick Holton and Jason Henley netted either side of Dan King's goal before the hosts' Sam Jordan and Jake Hiscocks netted to give Bradford a 3-2 lead at half-time.
But Rawlings' side roared back in the second period to clinch a landmark victory, with striker Booker Woodford hitting a brace and Ryan Tyrell also finding the net as Corsham upset the odds.
Bradford manager Paul Shanley conceded that his side fell way short of their high standards.
"We got exactly what we deserved on the day and fair play to Corsham," said the Bradford boss.
"We were lucky to be leading at half-time and hopefully it shows us that when you're not on your game in this league, you get turned over.
"We've got to try and start another unbeaten run that will push on to promotion."
Both sides are in Wiltshire Senior Cup action tomorrow, with Corsham hosting Hellenic League Purton and Bradford at home to Pewsey Vale.
Westbury United manager Matt Bown is hoping his side can begin to climb the table after returning from their enforced winter break with victory over promotion chasers Welton Rovers at the weekend.
Westbury carved out a 3-0 lead at Meadow Lane, with youngster Nathan Hallett-Young putting Bown's men ahead in the first period before Nathan Hallett and Wayne Wheeler, who netted a superb free-kick, hit the target after half-time.
Welton set up a nervy finale as Chris Peck and Paul Banks both scored to reduce the deficit to a single goal but Westbury held on to take all three points.
"We've had a bit of a break and I've had the players in for a bit of fitness training and stamina work but we kicked the New Year off with a really good result," said Bown.
"We played well against a really good side and our secretary told me that we hadn't won three games at home in a row in the last three years.
"I was a little bit disappointed with the way that we took our foot off the gas and allowed them back in to it because they were two sloppy goals but the result was still fantastic.
"We only got 32 points last season and we've got 28 already, so we should be looking to try and push up that table now.
"I'm only look at it in little stages but last weekend shows that we can pick up points if we put our minds to it."
Goalscorer Hallett made his last appearance of season last weekend after undergoing a wrist operation this week whilst Westbury captain David Whyte is set for a spell on the sidelines due to work commitments.
Bown has snapped up former Warminster Town striker DJ Wheeler.
Derek Graham was left to lament a Jekyll & Hyde display from his Warminster Town side as they were well beaten at Wincanton Town.
The hosts found the net five times in Somerset and goals from Sam Clift and debutant striker Lloyd Matthews, who has joined Warminster after leaving Frome Town last month, weren't enough to rescue Graham and Andy Crabtree's men.
But joint-boss Graham was keen to focus on the positives from his side's second-half performance.
"We lost our centre-half, Mark Breffit, after five minutes and we were up against it then because Paddy Carrig was also missing," he said.
"Frankly, we just wanted to get them back in at half-time to reorganise the back four because we were 2-0 down and it was a rubbish performance.
"We might have lost the second half 3-2 on goals but they scored from a deflection, a penalty that was dubious and a free-kick that was dubious.
"We played some nice stuff and it was a million miles from how we were in the first half.
"We've had a few of the old boys, like Jason and Matt Guy and Dave Watkins at training recently so if we could get them signed up, we should be a bit stronger."
Melksham Town manager Darren Perrin is prepping his troops for a vital cup clash this weekend.
Melksham host Hellenic League Highworth Town in the quarter-finals of the Wiltshire Senior Cup on Saturday, looking to go a step closer to retaining the title.
Perrin reckons his side, who suffered late heartbreak as they succumbed to a last-gasp goal at Bitton in the Toolstation Premier last weekend, go into the clash as underdogs but is certain his players will be prepared for a testing Conigre encounter.
"It's the big game for us and the biggest positive from last weekend's game is that we got 90 minutes into the legs of a few players to give us the best chance of being ready for Saturday," said the Melksham boss.
"We were disappointed to concede a late goal but both sides deserved credit because it was an entertaining game.
"We're underdogs this weekend – Highworth are the highest-ranked team left in the competition but hopefully, come about 5.15, we're in the semi-finals.
"They have three or four players missing through suspension but we'll probably have a few missing too.
"We're hoping for a crowd of about 300 – all of the youth players have been invited to watch, along with their parents."
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For the second straight week - the Shiek has been the FREAK --- as he puts up the weekly high score of 65 points on the board and does it completely on his own!
The week was filled with solid choices by many MNF Execs. as four games provided the highly coveted 2 point games (and the even more highly coveted 35 points that goes with those games!)
Fordfixer, (the always competitive) Ghost, and former leader Steelgal remain in striking distance of the lone Shiek --- however neither Ghost or Steelgal will be able to make up any ground this week on the leader as they all share the same game -- which might not be a bad thing considering how much Sand the Shiek has been kicking up!
Fordfixer may be able to make up some ground on the leader -- however he'll have to do it without any advanced bonus points -- of course those of us on this game are hoping that Chris Rainey will score a TD in the last minute of the game to win it by 1 point.....(actually I'd be very happy with just a Steelers win!)
A number of Execs will enjoy the first round of record bonuses this week --- and that's at least a guarentee that you won't be visiting the Goose Egg Bar & Grill!!
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A 35-year-old woman has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death after the vehicle she was allegedly driving crashed into a house, killing a baby boy inside.
Alcohol is believed to have been the main factor in the Merriwa crash in which a Toyota Hilux ploughed into a house and killed the sleeping infant on Friday morning.
The woman driving the Hilux lost control of the vehicle on Hester Avenue about 2.30am, crossing several lanes of traffic, mounting a kerb, crashing through a fence and then colliding with the rear wall of a house in Tug Cove.
The Quinns Rock woman was taken to hospital as a precaution after the crash and later charged.
The family of the baby boy who died when a car crashed into his bedroom on Friday morning have spoken about the tragedy.
The grandfather of eight-month-old Nate Troy Dunbar made a statement on behalf of the family.
"In this hard and distressing time we are grieving the loss of Nate Troy Dunbar who was tragically taken this morning," he said.
"If everyone could please respect our privacy at this difficult time, we would appreciate it."
A section of Hester Avenue was closed and the car was removed and placed on a tow truck.
The two-tonne vehicle is understood to have had a bull bar on it.
Inspector Dominic Wood said he had spoken to the family who were "absolutely devastated and still in shock".
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Major crash officers are investigating the incident.
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COUNCIL bosses say making a further £4million worth of cuts now will lessen the pain ahead and put Dudley Council in a stronger financial position in the future.
The proposed budget for 2014/15, which outlined £9.5million worth of savings to be made, was approved by Dudley Council's cabinet in March.
But when members met again last night (Thursday July 3), they agreed to recommend to council that this year's budget be amended to accommodate a further £4million in savings, bringing the total to £13.5million.
The cash will help to bridge the predicted funding gap between income and expenditure for 2017.
Leader of the council, Cllr David Sparks said: "The essential point is that the £4million comes from different parts of the council and has been identified by officers and cabinet members as areas where we will need to cut back."
But leader of the opposition, Cllr Patrick Harley, said the additional cut backs were unnecessary: "They are telling us that the council is a lot better off than we were when they set the budget in March but they are bringing forward £4million of cuts. It's absolutely bizarre, if we are in a better situation, to heap more misery on Dudley residents is ludicrous."
Defending the decision, Cllr Sparks said the additional savings did have to be made as the council strives to save £32million over the next few years.
He said: "By law, Dudley Council, like all local authorities has to provide a reasonable financial plan over a three year period to match the government's own spending predictions.
"We know that Dudley will face a gap of expenditure of around £30m between income and expenditure in three years time. In order for us to balance the books we have to find savings. We have recently had an exercise within the council of seeing where we can make economies and this has resulted in approximately £4m worth of additional savings.
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We stumbled across this traditional display of horsemanship as we were pedalling from Rabat to Casablanca in northern Morocco. We weren't too sure what it was all about until we met a Moroccan and French couple who explained it all to us – and a lot more besides…
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AN investigation has been launched at HMP Hewell after allegations that prison officers are stealing from inmates.
Prisoners have been complaining that postal orders sent in by relatives and loved ones on the outside have been intercepted inside the Tardebigge prison.
One recently released prisoner, who did not want to be named, said: "Feelings are running high in the prison because it is obvious that postal orders are being stolen by officers.
"If it happened once then the postal service could be blamed but it is happening regularly.
"Prisoners have spoken to relatives who have sent in postal orders and are waiting for their post to arrive but nothing comes."
He added: "One of the officers told us that there is an investigation, whoever is doing it is being very blatant.
"It comes to something when the prison guards are the ones breaking the law in prison."
Prisoners work for money and also rely on money sent in from the outside and the inmate believes the thefts are creating trouble between inmates as well as officers.
He said: "There have been plenty of arguments because of this as prisoners owe debts to one another and rely on their postal orders to pay them off."
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice confirmed that an investigation has been launched into the theft of postal orders at the jail.
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John Walsh asserts a love triangle in Deadspin coverage of ESPN
Deadspin reporter John Koblin's been aggressively reporting on ESPN, and ESPN writer Lynn Hoppes' alleged "Wikipedia plagiarism," in a series of items recently.
And today, ESPN executive vice president John Walsh offered some speculation as to why, while visiting a University of Maryland Sports Journalism Class. A student who was there reported the remarks on Twitter:
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@richarddeitsch I asked John Walsh in class about Koblan/Hoppes feud. Says it's over a girlfriend dispute
— Mark W. Sanchez (@MarkWSanchez) December 5, 2012
@richarddeitsch @koblin Walsh said Hoppes stole Koblin's gf. Also excused anchor plagiarism as just laziness
— Mark W. Sanchez (@MarkWSanchez) December 5, 2012
@richarddeitsch Walsh also said @deadspin has never broken any news. Dismissed it entirely as a journalism entity.
— Mark W. Sanchez (@MarkWSanchez) December 5, 2012
The accusation that Hoppes stole Koblin's girlfriend was news to us. We know Koblin. We also know his boyfriend, Bennett Madison.
"It's confusing. And, obviously, I assumed it was a joke," Koblin told us over Gchat when we asked him about the incident. "But I spoke to the kid who asked the question in the class and he told me there was a 'zero percent' chance it was a joke. He said Walsh was agitated by the question. [Walsh] also said that Hoppes' plagiarized work had been removed. It hasn't and it's been several months now. And I thought that was troubling! Why would he pass along that (theory?) to his class -- a journalism class! -- is absolutely baffling."
And the charge that Deadspin has never broken any news?
"I mean, I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's out to lunch," said Koblin. "But you know, Roger Ailes expressed regret through an intermediary when he told a class an incorrect fact about The New York Times. I guess this is a good moment to see if Walsh has any Ailes in him."
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* Says site can handle 50,000 simultaneous users, 800,000 per day
Two months after the disastrous launch of a key component of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, administration officials on Sunday said they had achieved their goal of getting HealthCare.gov operating smoothly but warned the website will need more fixes.
Obama's specially appointed adviser Jeffrey Zients said a five-week emergency "tech surge" had doubled the capacity of the online health insurance portal while making it more responsive and less prone to errors.
"The bottom line: HealthCare.gov on Dec. 1 is night and day from where it was on Oct. 1," Zients told reporters a day after the administration's self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline for making the website operate properly for the vast majority of users.
"We've widened the system's on-ramp - it now has four lanes instead of one or two," he said. "We have a much more stable system that is reliably open for business."
The administration's key achievement was to increase site capacity to 50,000 simultaneous users, which would allow HealthCare.gov to handle a minimum of 800,000 users per day.
But Zients warned that peak traffic volumes could eclipse the new capacity, temporarily preventing visitors from completing online applications for subsidized health coverage. And officials acknowledge that the site is still unlikely to operate smoothly for some visitors, even when volumes are within its capabilities.
Overall, the Zients team's success could mark a new chapter for Obama's signature domestic policy if HealthCare.gov proves stable enough to handle millions of potential applications from uninsured Americans as well as others whose current insurance policies face cancellation at the end of the year.
But a repeat of the Oct 1 launch, when the site crashed as millions of visitors flooded in, could leave hundreds of thousands of people without coverage and deal a staggering political blow to Obama's legacy and the 2014 election prospects of congressional Democrats.
Republican critics of the healthcare reform law known as Obamacare were quick to dismiss the administration's achievement as overstated.
"Have they made some progress? Yes. They brought in some private sector folks to try to get the functionality up. It still doesn't function right," Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
Democrats, who face a tough congressional midterm election battle in 2014 that could be complicated by Obamacare's rocky rollout, sounded a cautious note. Some nervous party members have called for a delay of the law's individual mandate that requires people to be enrolled in coverage by March 31 or pay a penalty.
"This is going to take some time before it's up and kicking and in full gear," Democratic Representative Chris Van Hollen said on "Meet the Press."
Asked if the mandate needs to be delayed, Van Hollen replied: "As of today, no ... let's see how this is working."
HealthCare.gov will face increasing pressure in the days and weeks to come as consumers who want benefits in time for the new year have a Dec. 23 deadline to sign up. The Obama administration had hoped to enroll about 7 million people in 2014 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Many of those consumers are expected to qualify for subsidies.
To work, the program must get millions of young, healthy consumers to sign up by March 31. Their participation is key to keeping the program's costs in check.
"There's still plenty of time to reach people who are now uninsured and especially the young and healthy who are key to keeping the insurance market stable," said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.


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KeepSafe is Kiwibank's online authentication tool. It provides an extra layer of security to help protect you while using Kiwibank Internet Banking. You'll set it up the first time you log in to internet banking, and each time you log in after that you'll need to answer a KeepSafe question to access your accounts.
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Advice: Tell kids cheating dad did a rotten thing, but don't vilify him
Updated 12:10 pm, Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Adapted from a recent online discussion.
Dear Carolyn:
My husband of 28 years is (reluctantly) moving home to his widowed mom's house. I found out he's been having an affair for two and a half years with a married woman we've both known for 35 years. Our adult-age kids still live at home and can't wait for him to leave, as they have other festering resentments against him.
I don't know how I feel about him anymore. He doesn't want to leave and has sobbed heartfelt apologies to me, but says it's really none of the kids' business and they shouldn't influence my feelings.
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On the flip side, he admitted to me and the kids, when we were all arguing, that he'd still be having the affair if he hadn't been caught since she fills a need in him that I never have.
My son told him to get the $!&# out of the house. He left for a few hours and has kept a low profile since. He says he'll be gone this weekend but hopes we'll get back together as he truly loves me.
I'm just numb and exhausted. I feel a loyalty to the relationship, but I'm looking forward to some time alone. For some reason, I feel guilty that he's hurting so much and the kids want nothing to do with him. How do I know what I'm to blame for and how to feel?
-- Anonymous
I'm sorry.
There is logic to be had here, and, like a stair rail in a dark basement, it can lead you up and out.
His admission that "he'd still be having the affair" is damning, but if you take the (no doubt acute) hurt feelings away, it's the biggest duh in the history of love. No one ever gets every need satisfied by a single relationship. I have zero doubt, and so should you, that you could meet someone who gives you something your husband never could.
And maybe you wouldn't follow through with an affair, but you might imagine your way right to the brink. Emotions can be powerful-to-the-point-of-consuming motivators to get that missing thing.
Sympathy might seem wrong here, but, wow, what a powerful example to your kids if you could say to them: "Your father did a rotten thing and I'm angry, and we may not stay together, but I'm not so angry that I've forgotten he's human. Of course there was something missing from our marriage; every marriage is missing something. I will continue with this separation but I will not vilify him, and I hope you all can make peace with the whole person your father is, versus just what he has done lately."
The point isn't to launch your career as Husbie's publicist, but to put the smaller issues to rest -- angry children, sobbing husband, the question of whose business this is, even your loyalty to the relationship. Taking a position and declaring it closed to family debate will allow you to concentrate on adjusting to your new reality and awaiting clarity on how you feel about your marriage.
It will come, I'm sure of it, once you've resigned as manager of everyone else's outrage and tears -- and grabbed, without guilt, that alone time you understandably crave.


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MONROEVILE, Pa. — Retailers gained new merchandising tips and learned how they can make their supermarkets stand out from their competitors at the 12th Supervalu Eastern regional produce and floral expo.
Sponsored by the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Supervalu Inc.'s Pittsburgh division, the show was characterized by another year of record attendance as nearly 500 produce merchandisers, buyers, suppliers, grower-shippers and others packed the Monroeville Convention Center for the April 3 show.
"The advantage of coming to a show like this is the many ways we can learn how to package and display products," said retailer Christopher Anthony, co-owner of Country Harvest in Palmerton. "We like the show and like to see the different merchandising techniques. If I learn just one thing I can take back to my store and execute, I will consider the trip a success. Being in a rural area in the Poconos, we don't see a lot of this."
Colleen Bing, a produce manager for Plum Street Foodland in Parkersburg, W.Va., said she learned merchandising ideas.
"Seeing all these products really help us better visualize things before ordering," she said. "You don't usually get to see all these items before ordering. This show also gives you good ideas on how to properly display things."
Exhibitor Alan Siger, senior advisor to Coosemans Worldwide Inc.-owned Consumer Fresh Produce Inc., in Pittsburgh, said the show provides an educational process to buyers and sellers.
"I've seen a nice flow of visitors all day," he said April 3. "The show really gives you the chance to spend time with the retailers and shows what Supervalu has to offer. They get to learn about different items."
Returning to their operations with effective merchandising ideas is one of the show's goals, said Mario Grana, director of produce and floral category management for Supervalu's Pittsburgh division.
"We really try to focus on training, education and selling with the first two objectives the most important," he said. "We believe it's critically important because if we can do all those things better than our competition, you guys and Supervalu wins."
Grana said keynote speaker Erik Wahl, a "graffiti motivational artist," helped encourage participants to try to differentiate themselves in the marketplace by thinking differently and presenting solutions and opportunities to their customers.
"As owners and retail operators, how can you tap into a wealth of new ideas and creativity and innovation to transcend the commoditization of what has that potential to become the fresh produce industry," Wahl said. "Defy your competitors and ultimately use this time of political and economic uncertainty to go on the offensive and to brand your supermarkets a category of one.
"This will mean the breaking of business as usual, breaking outside of foodservice and retailing and breaking outside our traditional comfort zones."


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Operation: Weather-EctomyLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Six words have had their weather terms removed. The weather terms have been placed into Group A. The remaining letters of each word have been placed into Group B. Your task is to reconstitute the words by merging each weather term with the proper set of letters. Other than merging the two groups together, there is no rearranging of the letters. Example: sand + pne = spanned (SpANneD).
Group A: cloud, hail, rain, sleet, storm, wind
Group B: arngg, astba, atage, bevora, diabmn, higa
Answercloud + atage = catalogued (CataLOgUeD)
hail + bevora = behavioral (beHAvIoraL)
rain + arngg = arranging (aRrAngINg)
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text: Public Notice To the owners of the within described real estate and all interested parties State of Indiana County of Jay, SS: In The Circuit Court of Jay County Portland, Indiana Cause No. 38C01-1009-MF-64 BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP Plaintiff vs Larry Shreeve; Julie Shreeve Defendants Notice of Sheriff's Sale of Real Estate By virtue of an Order of Sale, directed to me from the Clerk of the Jay Circuit Court and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on January 29, 2013, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the office of the Sheriff of Jay County, in Jay County, Indiana, located at Courthouse, 3rd Floor, Portland, IN 47371 on April 4. 2013 at 10·00 am Local Time, the fee simple title together with the rents, profits, issues and income or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs of the following described real estate located in Jay County, Indiana, to-wit: Lot Number Eight (8) in the Blaine Pike Addition, a part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 29, Township 33 North, Range 14 East, in Jay County, Indiana. Commonly known as: 112 Green Park Drive, Portland, IN 47371-9294 Tax ID Number: 38-07-29-201-020.000-034 This sale is to be made in all respects pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 7, 1931, and entitled An act concerning proceedings in actions to foreclose real estate mortgages, providing for the sale and custody of the mortgaged premises and repealing all laws conflicting therewith (see Indiana Code). It is further provided by law that there shall be no redemption from such sale, and the purchaser at such sale, upon complying with the terms of his purchase, shall be entitled to immediately receive from the undersigned, Sheriff of Jay County, a deed conveying to him, the purchaser, the fee simple title in and to said real estate. Taken as the property of the Defendant(s) stated above at the suit of BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP. Said sale to be without relief from valuation and/or appraisement laws. The sheriff's office does not warrant the accuracy of the street address published herein. Larry R. Newton, Jr. Sheriff of Jay County Attorney for Plaintiff Unterberg & Associates, P.C. 8050 Cleveland Place Merrillville, IN 46410 (219) 736-5579 Atty File: 9978672 CR 2-15,22,3-1, 2013


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Impossible Sausage Dog
Spotted on Ffffound.com and traced back to here.
Spotted on Ffffound.com and traced back to here.
Woh! A Monster Snake – and his pet boy… Spotted here.
Some amazing crochet / taxidermy skills here from Shauna Richardson. I've tried to crochet before and i tell you what, this wouldn't be easy! There's some superior technical action and planning gone in to these. There are some wonderful shots on her site of the animals roaming free in urban darkness. Giving them a darker, much more sinister feel. See the full gallery here. Amazing work.
Been a busy bee lately. Lot's happening in the day time at Poke. And lots of nice things to keep me busy in the evenings too. The above is a work in progress identity design for the lovely Elaine of Lainey's Cakes. ( They are damn good by the way! The cakes i mean ;) ). A favour for a friend type-of-project. It's been a great typography challenge so far. And hopefully when i'm done i'd like to share with you my creative process from sketch to finished printed items. ( This is just a photoshop mockup to show how a screen printed cake-box tag might look ). Let me know what you think, and if you have any cunning ideas i could incorporate in to Lainey's wonderful world of cupcakes!
For the Junior Players there's the inevitable anatomy lessons. For the Pro Players? They play to win :) Cheers to Dan N-S for tweeting the vid. Image above by Stéphane Massa-Bidal.
And for those of you still intrigued, but still wanting to keep your dinner down - a great mini study here by Casey Neistat who takes a humourous look at who's doing what on Chatroulette…. or How To Be Sucessful On Chatroulette.
Sunny enough for a walk. Chilly enough for a scarf. That's how it is at the moment. So here's a couple i happened across yesterday, to keep you warm on the walk to work. The Bacon Scarf is crying out for a fried Egg Head woolly hat no ? That'd be a sweet combo ;) And a topical one for the Poke peeps here, the Police Line scarf! Always handy to have on you should you come across a crime scene.
I must admit that the older i get, the more i love animated gifs. This Totoro one spotted here. I've been saving a few. At some point soon i'll do an animated gif special ;) There's something a bit cheeky about a gif. They are having a bit of a renaissance – and i'm enjoying it.


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Moonie, the oil capital of Queensland is a tiny settlement on the intersection of the Leichhardt and Moonie Highways.
And they're racing! Not an unusual call in the horseracing obsessed country, but in Moonie the highlight of the year is the Yabbie Races. Billed as the race that stops the outback, the Moonie Yabbie Races are a one-of-a-kind quirky country event run each March by the Moonie Sports Club. Race action, fashions on the field, food and live entertainment make for the best day out you'll have all year.
You'll find Moonie on the crossroads of the Moonie and Leichhardt Highways. It is the site of Australia's first commercial oil field. Established in 1961, it still operates today. For a small town, Moonie is a vibrant place.
You can picnic at the Rural Transaction Centre, browse local arts and crafts or experience the Moonie Heritage Trail. At Moonie Crossroads you'll see brilliant murals depicting the history of the town and a giant cod caught in local waters.
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Brandon Dubinsky:
I asked him if he's getting closer, for openers:
"Honestly, I can't answer that truthfully right now because I don't really know. I felt pretty good out there today, I'll tell you that. I'll come here in the morning and see how it feels and try and create a timeline from there. It's one of those situations where it didn't hurt to skate, and we went pretty good today, pretty hard before practice and during, so if there's a time it's going to get sore I think it will be tomorrow. If not, it's just a matter of conditioning, I guess, or just being ready to roll. So we'll see how it goes. It felt good today, though."
Asked directly about tomorrow:
"I'm not going to rule anything out, I'll tell you that much. Like I said, I don't want to put a timeline on myself. If I wake up and feel great tomorrow, then you never know what could happen. We'll just wait to see how it feels. … I feel like I've given it some time to heal. The Doc came in and said that he saw some signs of healing. All good things."
This was his first skate.
"I haven't been out that long. I've done some stuff off the ice and … these guys have been off the ice for five days, most of them, and so, it wasn't like I was trying to jump back in right in the middle of a back-to-back situation. These guys have had a little time off to accumulate a little bit of rust (laughs) so it might actually be a good time to jump right back in and brush the rust off with them."
Said he wore a blue shirt early in practice and was told to put the orange no-contact shirt on.
Dan Girardi:
"It was just kind of 'Go into the break and rest' and see how it felt. I didn't know how I'd feel without skating, and it felt good today skating on it. And shooting felt good."
Today was his first skate, too.
Ryan Callahan:
"It was a long six weeks, now seven weeks with the all-star break. But I'm excited to be back and excited to not be bag(skating) with Sully anymore. I've gone through that. I had a good practice today, felt good out there. We did a little bit of scrimmaging, which I thought was me to experience a little bit of battling. The hand felt good and my conditioning felt good, too. So I'm excited to get into the lineup tomorrow."
"I've got full strength (in the hand). It's 100 percent, and I think I can shoot it as hard — not that I have the hardest shot to begin with — but all my strength's there and it feels good."
Will wear the extra padding on the glove, and some tape on the hand and wrist.
"I'm just going to go out there and approach it like every other game that I approach, and try to do what I do and create energy, throw my body around, and try to create some opportunities. You've got to try to not do too much, but at the same time, if you just stay focused and prepare like you do for every other game I'll be fine."
Skated every day at the practice rink over the break, working on conditioning and building strength in the hand.
Sitting out:
"Frustrating. It's tough. I watch it but I definitely get frustrated when you see the guys out there battling and you can't do anything to help them. But it is what it is, it's part of the game. Injuries happen.I tried to prepare myself mentally to come back and not get too distracted by things around me, and try to stay focused on my game when I come back."
Jokingly asked if he was ticked that the team did fine without him:
"No, it made me pretty happy. It was good. It was really good."
Erik Christensen:
"This is the third time I've been on the ice. I was sucking some wind a little bit. But other than that I felt OK. My hands are a little off. Everything's a little off. That's just because I haven't played in a couple of weeks."
"(I'm) day by day. I have a date in mind, but as of right now we'll say it's day by day."
I asked him if that date is tomorrow, and he said, "No. No. It's not tomorrow. I won't be playing tomorrow."
"Right on schedule. In two days it's five weeks. So we're right on where I could be coming back."
Skated Thursday and Friday, worked out Saturday, practiced today.
"I'm not sore, and I was bag-skating before practice today with (Mike Sullivan) and Dubi. … There's no other way to do it. I've been riding the bike hard the last two weeks and you can only do so much of that. There's no better way to get in shape than just to get skated hard. It really is not a whole lot of fun, but it is the best way."
"I'm still a ways away in my conditioning, I'll tell you that. A lot of hard work away. I need to be skated pretty good here the next couple of days, because these guys are in shape and I don't like lagging behind and feel like I'm out of place. I definitely don't want to feel like that, especially because the team, considering all our absent guys, been playing pretty well and picking up points. So you want to make sure you come in and you're ready and ready to contribute."


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Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 20:11 PM
Meinl's Udo Heubeck, Norbert Saemann, and Chris Brewer Featured in Drums and Percussion Magazine and Modern Drummer Magazine
Meinl's Udo Heubeck and Norbert Saemann were recently featured in an interview in the November/December 2013 issue of German drum magazine Drums and Percussion. The interview, which when translated from German to English is entitled Enquired / Endorsement and Marketing, focused on the ever changing world of the music business, specifically the music instrument business and Meinl's strategies regarding social media, music schools, playing music, endorsements in general and why anybody gets one, and future trends.
In addition, Meinl's Chris brewer was recently featured in the November 2013 issue of the US drum magazine Modern Drummer, in an article written by him entitled Deep Listening Makes For Deep Drumming. The article focuses on listening to music in an album oriented format as a tool for ultimately enhancing your skills as a drummer.


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My Grandpa is a Sailor
The Story of John Franklin
de Toni Crickmore-Thompson
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- Categoría Biografías y memorias
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
60 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación jun. 04, 2010
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At Bonavista, we help you get the photos out of the box or off the CD, and into a beautifully designed book or show that can be enjoyed regularly, inspiring stories of past experiences. Revisit these books or shows and see the wealth of delight that one life can contain. We take your photos and weave them into a story. Our books and shows become a precious, thoughtful gift that is a celebration of: • a significant birthday or anniversary • a family history, so every member has the same images and the same visual panorama of their ancestors and themselves • a certain event, such as a wedding or a family reunion • a remembrance of a specific time, such as baby's first year • a retirement • important corporate anniversaries • team triumphs • school years, creating yearbooks for the whole grade or for one student in particular The opportunities for memory books and photo shows are as varied as the people whose lives we chronicle.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. – Charles Neely tossed a complete-game four-hitter as he led the Saint Leo baseball team to a 4-0 shutout win over host Florida Tech in the opening game of a Sunshine State Conference doubleheader on Saturday afternoon. The Panthers would rebound to claim the nightcap 12-6.
Neely came out firing on all cylinders. The Panthers (24-17, 9-8 SSC) opened up the game with a leadoff hit and the base runner would eventually advance to third base before the Lions worked their way out of the inning. It would be the only time a Florida Tech player would be 90 feet away from scoring for the remainder of the game.
Earning his fifth win of 2012, Neely (5-4) struck out five and faced just 31 batters as he appeared firmly in control for the entirety, with all four hits from the Panther bats registering singles.
All of the Saint Leo (21-17, 4-11 SSC) offense was grouped across the second through fourth innings with the Lions starting the second and third frames with successful bunts for hits. Two RBI singles from Zach Miller and Daniel Torres, a throwing error and a wild pitch gave the Lions their four runs and enough of a margin for Neely to wrap up his win.
The third inning was the difference-maker in the series-deciding game as a bases-loaded, no-out scenario resulted in eight Panther runs and opened up a 10-1 lead that FIT was able to maintain through the final four frames. It was also a game that saw the usually sure-handed Lions fielders commit five errors, while Florida Tech remained unblemished.
Using just Neely in the opener, Saint Leo Head Coach Russ McNickle was forced to go to his bullpen three times in the nightcap with starter Aaron Brandt (4-4) picking up the loss. Brandt worked just two innings and surrendered duties to his bullpen with the bases loaded in the third.
Cody Lewis (1-2) picked up the Panthers' win, going five innings and allowing four runs.
Despite the day's split and the series loss, Zach Miller managed to go a combined 5-for-8 with an RBI. Dustin Brown went 2-for-4 with two doubles in the doubleheader.
Traveling to Ft. Lauderdale and Melbourne in the last two conference series, the Lions finally return home as they welcome Eckerd College on Friday. The first game of the three game set is scheduled to get underway at 6 p.m. at Southard Stadium. For the latest news, information, and updates on Lions Baseball as Saint Leo returns home, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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QNAP Launches x53 Pro Bay Trail NAS for SMBsby Ganesh T S on 8/10/2014 5:00 AM EST
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twistedgamez - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkmore details in the pdf: http://inside.littlebit.ch/files/IN/Assets/Docs/DS...
"The HybridDesk Station (HD Station) has an integrated XMBC media player, allowing you to directly enjoy multimedia files stored on a TS-x53 Pro/SS-x53 Pro using an HDMI-enabled display. With a QNAP remote control in hand, you can easily select what videos, photos, and music you would like to enjoy" - is seems really cool, a legitimate replacement for my (nuc) Reply
imaheadcase - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkVery interesting indeed. Need some reviews to see if it is really worth it. But judging from reviews online Qnap systems not really great UI wise.
My NUC does all the XBMC stuff, better than one of these, i will prob just get a synology simply for storage. Reply
ganeshts - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkFor the HTPC stuff, a dedicated box (NUC or a real HTPC) is always preferable - let the NAS do its job of serving content on storage over the network :)
UI is improving slowly.. Pre-QTS 4.x, the interface was barely usable, but with the modern 'mobile app' layout, it has become better. That said, responsiveness of the UI is still an issue compared to some of the market leaders out there. Reply
smitty123 - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linki'm still using v3.8.3 on my qnap and prefer it to the v4.0's desktop approach. i prefer the lists on the left side where i know where everything is and is of easy access.
1 click i'm where i need to be.
Some prefer v4, some prefer v3, it's a matter of preference is all. Not less usable. Reply
basroil - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - link4 gigE ports? If they support 4x aggregation that's some massive speed. Not sure that it's worth it unless you have a caching SSD included Reply
ganeshts - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkYes, 4x GbE aggregation is supported. (Synology already has it in their x13+ series).
Note that these units can run two VMs concurrently - so, they each take up one GbE port. In the end, many users might end up with 2x GbE aggregation only. It all depends on the usage scenario.
QNAP supports SSD caching even in the x51 series (though I don't expect home users to take advantage of that). Reply
bernstein - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkCan someone **please** enlighten me why *****all***** nas use legacy ext4 on mdadm and not zfs?? we had tons of boxes running this combo and switched allmost all to zfs (ubuntu) for increased stability (simply put: night-and-day) and thus maintainablity - with increased data protection as a secondary benefit... Reply
AlexAlex - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkext4 legacy? it seems like you are a bit confused about linux..
Anyway, zfs is not mainline in linux kernel, This alone will suffice.
And zfs is not for mainstream, first of all you need ECC memory to run it as it should.
There are a whole lot of reason to let it out from the mainstream market. Reply
Morawka - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkAny pricing details? wonder if the 4 bay is at all affordable for the enthusiast. Reply
Montago - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI really don't get why people still buy these crappy NAS boxes, instead of building one yourself..
Or even buy a real server!!
I built a machine for the same cost as a 5bay QNAP/Synology, with room for 6 drives.. Core i5 4570 and 16 gb ram. I run 4 virtual windows 2008 and plex without any problems...
No dedicated nas can do that at the same price Reply
imaheadcase - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkBecause people don't want to tinker with building something. This just works out of the box.
A dedicated NAS is better than what you can build, because the stuff you do is not typical of normal operations. You don't need the machine you listed for %99 of the stuff a NAS is for. Reply
Montago - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkThat's not true...
NAS'es aremainly used to host media files: video, images and music, secondly for backup & files
Handling media is a heavy duty task, way more heavy than simple file handling.. Transcoding, resizing etc demand a big cpu, something you don't get for free in most NAS units.
Hosting PLEX, web photo albums and music can't be done simultaneously on the cheapest NAS units.. So if your in the market for a $600+ NAS, the best option is to build it yourself.
Regarding the OS and apps/services, the level of freedom is also much greater..
Of cause, not all have access/capabilities to install windows server.. So instead use FreeNas or Linux...
You are right, regarding plug and play... But in any case, i believe that any NAS require a lot of technical skills anyway - so why not go for the best equipment from the start? Reply
anonanon - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - linkThe latest generation of QNAP NAS models easily hardware transcoding, run virtual machines (can import OVF and VMWare VMs), manage IT infrastructures and have more functionality than any bare-bones server unless you spend days/week planning and installing them. They offer free backup apps to use with Amazon S3, Azure, DropBox, etc, along with the built-in Rsync and RTRR scheduled backups. They can run a IP phone system, McAfee Anti-virus, Squid (web cache/proxy), various web servers and CMS, home automation, signage, surveillance, mail servers.
It doesn't matter that you have more choice with a bare-bones server, you still need time and money to set them up. Most QNAP apps are free eg. TwonkyServer (not free when used separately)... AND you have various Android & Apple apps to control the NAS, provided free by QNAP (I even have them on my Kindle Fire HD).
It's also about saving time and money, without comprimising on security and reliability.
You may want to view the QNAP website.
BTW, regarding "handling media is a heavy duty task", my TS-110 (over 5 years old) easily handles media hosting, BitTorrent, 100GB music, 500GB video. I don't transcode or resize because I don't need to (who does?)! Reply
anonanon - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - linkBitch please, why would any SMB or home user want spend a shedload of time to build a server that takes-up 10x more space compared to a NAS?
Maybe you don't get it because you still live with your parents or you don't work in the real-world... Reply
kmob - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkThanks for posting this Ganesh - I'm really looking forward to seeing what the extra 2 CPU cores, memory, and 4 way LAGG can offer for performance. This could possibly be the Home Server solution I've been waiting for (in particular if they ever get Plex server using Quick Sync...) Reply
matt905 - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkI got here looking for real-people reviews of the TS-451 and saw the x53 mentioned. I'm not an IT guy by trade, but also not a doofus around computers. I'm a home user who wants the things NASs are providing these days...storage, single location/multi-point access for files, music streaming, movie storage/serving, secure photo sharing for distant family, and secure file sharing with IP address restriction. I also want minimal troubleshooting and integrating of software for the thing to work right. Add easy-to-use apps to the list.
THAT's where the box-in-a-box comes in. I have a one-stop-shop for setup and periodic administration. No need to spend time getting different software to work together or resolving conflicts when a change is made. And if there is conflict, it's minor and easily handled. Support is also one-stop, rather than having one provider suggest going to the other provider instead of supporting their software.
One major consideration of DIY vs pre-built NAS is the power requirements. Big difference if it is left on, as most will be, for anytime-anywhere access.------pretty much a full-blown PC vs a kid's nightlight.
"NAS'es are mainly used to host media files: video, images and music, secondly for backup & files"
"Handling media is a heavy duty task, way more heavy than simple file handling.. Transcoding, resizing etc demand a big cpu, something you don't get for free in most NAS units."
Agree, but not much required unless you are providing transcoding services for more than yourself.
"Regarding the OS and apps/services, the level of freedom is also much greater.."
Agree, but Synology, QNAP, and a few other MFG single-software package does everything most people want/need.
"You are right, regarding plug and play... But in any case, i believe that any NAS require a lot of technical skills anyway - so why not go for the best equipment from the start?"
Not really. It can be almost as simple as setting up a new PC with separate logins for the family. Reply
paor - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linki want to store my files on NAS and i want to have possibly highest read/write speed of serving content on storage over the network.dont need any gimmicks(HDMI,USB,media player,remote control,download station,photo album,etc).
why qnap,synology, thecus and Co. dont offer straight NAS with appropriate possibilties (100 MB/s read/write for small files; 4xGBit net; 4xHDD) for some reasonable price?
i am sure this is posssible,because hardware prices for such device will be in order of 150 $ and linux (as OS) is anyway for free? Reply
iAPX - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkYou just have to connect an external USB3 Hard-drive to your computer and share it with your local network in this case.
NAS provides much more services, including redundancy (using different RAID levels), easy setup for different users, sharings with limitations, ability to access files from Internet (so anywhere anytime), backup and/or versioning, etc etc. Reply