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A 'VIOLENT' sex attacker who pinned his victim against a wall and mentioned rape is facing a stretch behind bars.
Burnley Crown Court heard how Francis Martin Smedley, 39, held the woman by the face with both hands.
He then backed her into a corner during her ordeal on January 20. Smedley, who had seen his victim earlier in the day, was said to have kissed and squeezed her.
He then asked her: "Am I that ugly?"
Smedley was due to be sentenced yesterday but the case was adjourned when the court heard he had not been interviewed for a pre-sentence report by the probation service.
The defendant, of Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors, had earlier pleaded guilty to sexual assault.
The hearing was told he admitted using the word rape to the woman he attacked. Smedley was remanded in custody until September 5.
Judge Beverley Lunt, who said his actions had been violent, warned the defendant if there was no report, she would sentence him without it.
She added that without the report she would make her own assessment as to whether he was a dangerous offender and sentence accordingly.


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|For the mission in Grand Theft Auto V, see Fire Truck (mission).
The Fire Truck (or Firetruck) is a general purpose firefighting apparatus equipped with a deck-mounted water cannon/deluge gun. The Fire Truck has appeared in every Grand Theft Auto game. It is manufactured by MTL in the HD Universe.
The Fire Truck is depicted in every appearance as a large truck-based vehicle with a predominantly red paintjob, long chassis and bulky design, evidently to contain firefighting equipment. Being an emergency vehicle, the vehicle has a good top speed, however its weight gives it poor-to-moderate acceleration, and poor handling. In most GTA games, the Fire Truck spawns where large fires or explosions have occurred, or Fire Stations since GTA 2.
Fire trucks in the GTA series tend to feature a high-powered deck mounted water cannon that is not only capable of putting out fires that are burning alone or burning pedestrians or cars (especially from GTA III on-wards), but is also equally capable of pushing pedestrians back. In GTA IV, the water cannon can easily push any light vehicles and eventually kill a pedestrian; although this must be done for a prolonged period of time.
2D Universe
Grand Theft Auto 1 features two variants of the Fire Truck, with one appearing in Liberty City and Vice City, and the other exclusive to San Andreas; their exact sources of inspiration are unknown, but are generally depicted in the style of typical American fire trucks.
The Fire Truck featured in GTA London 1969, however, assumes a more 1960s European design, likely to be based on a chassis of a British lorry such as a F/Delta-type Dennis; the vehicle's design is also adapted into the ICBM.
In GTA 2, the Fire Truck is designed in a classical American LaFrance-like appearance, in line with the game's retro-futuristic styling. The game's Fire Truck is also introduced with a functional water cannon that serves as a passive weapon which pushes (human) targets back using a gush of water. A Fire Truck with a mounted flamethrower may also be unlocked by completing the Wang Cars side quest. Like in earlier games, the Fire Truck is too large to be crushed. Like the Tank, you can rotate the water cannon by holding Tab on PC and using the left and right arrow keys to rotate it. Note you can't do this while steering, and holding Tab honks the horn, so only honk the horn while going straight.
In GTA 2's Residential District it can be found at a fire station near the Mobile RV Park.
3D Universe
In Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the Fire Truck retained the same design, based on a Seagrave Marauder.
All versions have almost the same details and paint schemes, with the exception of GTA: Vice City, where its appearance appears to be unique. This model was not carried on GTA: Vice City Stories and instead, said version reuses details from the Firetrucks in GTA III - GTA Liberty City Stories. Both the GTA Liberty City Stories and the GTA: Vice City Stories have a visible water cannon on the upper side, mounted behind the cab. Fire Trucks in GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories may also be numbered 1 to 6, or unnumbered.
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Fire Truck assumes a new model, resembling a KME Renegade. This version appears to have an extended cab and front bumper, as well as a mounted water cannon. A second Fire Truck variant exists, equipped with a non-interactive mid-mount ladder, but lacking a water cannon or functional lights and sirens, and does not allow the player to trigger the fire-fighting side-mission. Unlike the engine variant, the ladder variant does not sustain cosmetic damage except for its breakable headlights. It is also worth noting that the ladder variant is enabled to use the Pay N' Spray, allowing the player to repair the vehicle. The vehicle has no other practical use besides basic transport (However it plays an important role in the final mission of GTA San Andreas). This variation is based on a Pierce Arrow.
Grand Theft Auto IV
In Grand Theft Auto IV, the MTL "24v Supercharged" Pumper serves as the Liberty City Fire Department's standard firefighting apparatus, equipped with a high powered deck-mounted water cannon. Every fire truck in GTA IV is numbered 69. The front of the Fire Truck resembles a Pierce Dash, while the cab and rear resemble some Seagrave models. The fire engine used by the Liberty City Fire Department use liveries based off of the New York City Fire Department engines.
Grand Theft Auto V
The GTA V rendition is not much different from the previous game, however, the livery is derived from the Los Angeles Fire Department's engine, with some influence from the Los Angeles County Fire Department's engines.
In GTA V, the firemen AI has also been improved on. The Los Santos Fire Department will now be dispatched when a fire appears, and the fire truck will attempt to put out said fire. They will not stop the fire hose even when someone walks into the water stream, including players, making them sometimes kill a person by accident.
The player can fire the Fire Truck's water cannon. If the police see the player "attacking" cars or people with the water cannon, a one-star wanted level is given, and if the player hits the police cars with the hose, two wanted stars are given.
Current Design Gallery
Version Design History
2D Universe
Prior to Grand Theft Auto III, the Fire Truck's main virtues are its large size and weight, which make the vehicle resilient to damage and difficult for most other cars to ram off-course. Other common traits of these early renditions are their average speed, and poorer acceleration and cornering. While revealed in game files in GTA 1 and GTA London to be valued at $1,500 and £1,500, respectively, the vehicle cannot be exported as it is too large.
3D Universe
The 3D Universe Fire Truck can reach high speeds and has good acceleration, however the resulting lack of traction in such a heavy vehicle makes it susceptible to over-steer and spinning. It also has no ABS brakes, so one cannot turn while braking. Because the Fire Truck is very heavy and has a high top speed the driver has to plan when to brake, otherwise it is easy to crash and possibly get stuck since it is very bulky. Like Police Cars and Ambulances, it is equipped with sirens that make traffic move out of the way (except ladder variant in San Andreas). Its hose can be used to spray pedestrians, knocking them down. The player can also activate Firefighter missions with the Fire Truck (except ladder variant in San Andreas).
Fire Trucks also have lots of hitting power. They can send smaller vehicles flying and will make short work of getting through Enforcer barricades. When ramming, it is best that you get the Fire Truck to top speed for maximum hitting power. Most vehicles can be pushed out of the way by the Fire Truck.
3D Universe Overview
(0-60 mph in Seconds)
|Top Speed
(mph / kmh)
(kg / lbs)
|106 / 170
|Cannot be observed
Grand Theft Auto IV
The Fire Truck performs very well for a truck of its size. It has moderate acceleration, considering its weight and design, but is acceptable. Its top speed may take a while to reach, but once reach, the truck cannot be stopped easily by other road users; the truck is a rolling battering ram. Its durability is one of the best in the game due to its weight and body style, and isn't too effected by moderate explosions either.
Unfortunately, due to this sheer weight, its braking is left to be desired; despite the set-off sound of released pressure revealing the brakes are air brakes (which are better performance-wise), the brakes will squeak when braking from high speeds, which sounds to be more similar to hydraulic braking. Either way, the brakes do not compete well with the high speeds the truck can reach.
The vehicle itself performs very well off-road, thanks to its ground clearance and its AWD layout allows it to climb uphills and high slope without having the vehicle to become underpowered and it also allows the vehicle to make turns more easily. However, rollovers are likely an issue, as turning too fast will simply roll over onto its side, most notably when an obstacle is present or due to the terrain's inclination.
The water cannon is once again functional, and is apparently seen as a deadly weapon by the LCPD, as using it against police and civilians is one of the fastest non-lethal ways to gain a six-star wanted level without killing anyone. The water cannon can easily push any vehicle (except heavy vehicles), and sometimes the driver will brake, and then either ram the truck, or get out and attempt to pull the player out of the truck.
The Firetruck is stated to be powered by a Supercharged 24-Valved (erroneously stated as a V24) engine, coupled to a 5-speed gearbox in a front engine, all wheel drive layout.
GTA IV Overview
(0-60 mph in Seconds)
|Top Speed
(mph / kmh)
(kg / lbs)
|87 / 140
|7500 / 16535
|24-Valved Supercharged (Badging)
|Cannot be observed
Grand Theft Auto V
In GTA V, the Fire truck has had a major overhaul in performance. It now performs better in many areas. The truck has a better acceleration rate, due to what sounds to be a more powerful, higher revving engine, and a low-geared setup. The truck's handling is now more responsive, and can turn much easier, and the brakes are more effective than the last appearance. Unfortunately, the truck seems lighter, meaning it does not ram vehicles out of the way as easy as it did in GTA IV, aside from the fact that it cannot reach higher speeds than before.
Again, the Firetruck is stated to be powered by a Supercharged 24-Valved engine, this time coupled to a 5-speed gearbox in a front engine, rear wheel drive layout.
GTA V Overview
(0-60 mph in Seconds)
|Top Speed
(mph / kmh)
(kg / lbs)
|Fuel Tank
Size (litres)
|81 / 130
|7500 / 16535
|24-Valved Supercharged (Badging)
|7 Seconds
|106 / 171
|Cannot be observed
|Cannot be observed
Firefighter side-mission
The Firefighter side-mission can be toggled on or off from within a Fire Truck in all GTA games between GTA III and GTA Vice City Stories, as well as GTA Chinatown Wars. The mission requires the player to find and extinguish burning vehicles within a time limit.
Prominent Appearances in Missions
2D Universe
- In Grand Theft Auto 2, the mission Fire Truck Fun! requires the player to mount a firetruck with a flamethrower in order to kill 30 Rednecks.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- The ladder variant of the Fire Truck in GTA San Andreas is prominently featured during the second half of the mission "End of the Line", during which it is bulletproof, fireproof, explosion-proof and even damage-proof (much like the Feltzer pursuing the Fire Truck); it also has heavy handling, but loses its special properties when the player fails to catch Sweet after he climbs onto its ladder and falls. In the mission, the fire truck is used by Frank Tenpenny. During the mission, the special ladder Fire Truck is locked, although it is possible to drive close enough to the vehicle and attempt to hijack it. A drive-able ladder truck occasionally spawns at the fire station a block south of the Doherty garage, but it is unable to start the Firefighter mission due to the fact it lacks a water cannon and even no siren.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- In the GTA Liberty City Stories mission "Karmageddon", the player is required to drive a Fire Truck causing as much havoc as possible then destroy the Fire Truck. After the mission the Karmageddon side-mission is available by hoping inside the left Fire Truck at the Belleville Park Station, Staunton Island.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- In the GTA Vice City Stories mission, "Hose the Hoes" the player is required to steal a Firetruck and save girls from a burning building using the water cannon to extinguish the flames.
Grand Theft Auto IV
- In the GTA IV mission "Rigged to Blow", a Fire Truck will respond to the explosion and arrive at the scene of disaster; this is the only time the FDLC respond to a fire in GTA IV.
Episodes from Liberty City
- In The Ballad of Gay Tony, a Club Management mission requires the player to get a Fire Truck from Northwood and scare off the paparazzi from Maisonette 9.
- In The Ballad of Gay Tony many Fire Trucks can be seen in the mission Dropping In, while Luis has landed with the parachute on the truck at the end of the mission, several Fire Trucks can be seen driving away.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
- In the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars mission Jackin' Chan, the player is required to steal a firetruck and use it to extinguish burning vehicles in order to save Chan from kidnappers.
Grand Theft Auto V
- In Grand Theft Auto V, a fire crew approach on the FIB building heist requires the player to attain a fire truck by either stealing one from a fire station, or dialing the Emergency Services to receive one. The latter helps give 100% in the overall mission score. In the actual heist, the crew dress as firefighters and drive the fire truck to the building after the explosion, and after retrieving the target, they leave. The protagonist is required to destroy the fire truck afterwards.
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In every game (excluding the PlayStation version of GTA 1, and all versions of GTA IV), players starting a fire will see the fire department send a Fire Truck to put it out. The Fire Truck also spawns predominantly at fire stations, including:
Grand Theft Auto III, Advance and Liberty City Stories
- Fire station in Harwood, Portland Island, Liberty City.
- 2 Fire Trucks spawn at the Fire station in Belleville Park, Staunton Island, Liberty City. One triggers the Firefighter side-mission and the other triggers the Karmaggedon side-mission (GTA LCS only).
- Fire station in Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale, Liberty City.
- Often spawns at Fort Staunton after completing 'Bringing the House Down' (GTA Liberty City Stories only).
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Vice City Stories
- Fire station in Downtown, Vice City.
- Fire station in Escobar International Airport, Vice City (GTA Vice City Stories only).
Grand Theft Auto: GTA San Andreas
- Fire station in Commerce, Los Santos.
- Fire station in Doherty, San Fierro (Occasionally the ladder variant will spawn here).
- Fire station between Redsands East and Redsands West, Las Venturas.
- Can be found with full immune in the mission End of the Line (Ladder Variant).
Grand Theft Auto IV
- Can be called by calling 911, then dialing 3.
- Can be found at the following fire stations:
- In GTA IV, a Fire Truck can be obtained after the mission Rigged to Blow, when one responds to the fire.
Grand Theft Auto V
- Dialing 911 for a fire truck, much like in GTA IV.
- Found at some Fire Stations including:
- Can be found parked across the road from the rear of the South Los Santos Medical Center.
- One must be careful when stealing a Fire Truck from a Fire Station in GTA V, for nearby firefighters will spot the player and chase him on foot. If they happen to reach the player, they will pull him out of the fire truck and attempt to fight.
- Because fires in the 3D Universe are short-lived and do not spread, firetrucks usually arrive too late to put out the fire.
- The "69" on the Firetruck's side is a pun to the sexual position "69".
- Firetrucks from GTA III to GTA LCS have the phrase, "Putting out since 1872" written on the doors of the cab. This is another one of Rockstar's sex jokes/references.
- Similar to many MTL vehicles, the badges on the Firetrucks in GTA IV and GTA V incorrectly refer to the engine as a "V24", where it actually means "24 valved", which is supposed to be written as "24v".
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- It is possible to get a Firetruck while the 2nd island is closed by making a car burn/explode while doing the Molotov Cocktail Rampage or car-jacking the firetruck driver in the mission Demolition Man.
- Starting from GTA: VC, players may listen to the fire department radio while sitting in the truck. However, it is the same as the radio heard in police cars and in ambulances.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- The Firetruck has a warning badge on the rear that reads "Stay 500 Feet Away".
- Despite the Fire Truck in GTA San Andreas having four doors, like any fire truck before GTA IV, only two doors are usable so only two can be seated.
- In Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, if you set something on fire in the Countryside/Desert the fire truck will not respond. This could be because in those areas no fire stations exist, so the firemen have nowhere to respond from.
- In GTA San Andreas, spraying the water-cannon on NPCs can make NPCs stop attacking you, except NPCs that appear in missions.
Grand Theft Auto IV
- The Fire Truck in GTA IV can put out fires in vehicles when they are burning before they have exploded.
- Leaving the Fire Truck while moving the camera will cause the water cannon starting to aim weirdly in multiple directions, until the player is completely out of the vehicle.
- Tapping the water cannon button fast will make the water invisible when coming from the cannon, though the sound and its effect on Pedestrians are still noticed.
Grand Theft Auto V
- Players are now able to stand on the rear platform of the Fire Truck.
- There is a FDLC badge behind the front doors with a support ribbon to show support since the 9/11 attacks.
- The siren was altered for the PS4/XB1 version; it now is much more air-ey and similar to mechanical sirens in wide use on fire trucks in North America. It also happens to be a low-pitched version of the sirens used on regular police cars.
- The horn was also changed, having new horns that will be randomized once entered.
- Strangely, all Fire Trucks are numbered 36 on the doors, but on the back they are all numbered 32.
- When angering a NPC driving a firetruck, they will often spray their water cannon at you much in the same way that NPC's do drivebys.

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By LESLEY TOTH
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Gov. Mark Dayton is considering three candidates to fill the vacancy created when Judge Steven P. Ruble retired from Minnesota's Seventh Judicial District in Mille Lacs County.
The Commission on Judicial Selection announced the St. Cloud, Morrison County and Tribal attorneys as candidates last week.
The first candidate, Sarah Hennesy, is currently a civil legal aid attorney with St. Cloud Legal Services where she practices in family, government assistance and Social Security law. Previously, she worked as an associate attorney with Damiani & Damiani, P.C., representing English and Spanish-speaking clients in criminal and family law matters. She also served as deputy public defender with the Alexandria Public Defender's Office in Virginia. Hennesy is co-chair of the Stearns County Family Violence Council and is a member of the Oak Hill Elementary School Parent Teacher Student Association.
Todd Kosovich, the second candidate, is an assistant Morrison County attorney. He prosecutes all felony cases from their first appearance through trial, sentencing and probation violations. Kosovich previously served as an assistant Watonwan County attorney where he was responsible for all adult criminal cases at petty misdemeanor, misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor level offenses. He is an active member of the Minnesota talking Book Network and is a member of the Hands of Hope Resource Center Board of Directors.
The final candidate, Judge Richard Olson, currently serves as the tribal judge for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe where he is responsible for hearing all civil, criminal, juvenile and child welfare petitions, complaints and motions. Previously, he served as the senior deputy solicitor general for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. He also worked as an assistant prosecutor with the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Judge Osburn is a former division officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
The Seventh Judicial District includes Becker, Benton, Clay, Douglas, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Otter Tail, Stearns, Todd and Wadena counties. According to the Commission, the appointment will be made within the next few weeks.


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The economic crisis that struck the entire world continues to spread and become more severe. Jean-Claude Juncker, the Chairman of the Euro region, warned that if the debt crisis of Greece is not resolved, it can spread to at least five European countries including Belgium and Italy. He stated, "The bankrupt of Greece may spread to Portugal and Ireland, and then to Belgium and Italy even before Spain due to the heavy debt load. We are playing with fire."


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Study Reports: Over Half of Americans Believe in Love at First Sight
We're talking L.O.V.E. The real thing… as soon as you see each other. Has it happened to you?
-Faye Brennan
I know I believe in lust at first sight, but love? I'm not exactly sold on the idea, mainly because I've never experienced it myself. I've never laid eyes on a guy and thought, "Wow, that's the man I'm going to share my life with." On the other hand, I have thought, "Damn! That's the man I'm going to share the night with." See the difference?
Apparently, I'm not like the majority of Americans who are tripping all over themselves with love as soon as they meet someone. According to the "Great American Sex Survey" conducted by the adult website Adam & Eve, 55 percent of Americans believe in the concept of love at first sight, while 18 percent are unsure and 27 percent just plain don't (like me!). Of the half that do believe, 71 percent said they had experienced it themselves.
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I don't mean to be cynical, but what are the chances that these 71 percent are either a) in the honeymoon phase of their relationship where everything is rainbows and kisses, or b) in an unhappy relationship they want to get out of, but keep coming back to the excuse, "But we fell in love as soon as we met!"
I'm just saying, just because it seemed to happen right away, doesn't mean "love at first sight" lasts. Then again, I won't know until it happens to me, right?
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To get a sense of what not having much money does to a team's ability to compete, take a look at what's going on at catcher for the Mets. (Try as I might to just write a piece about player acquisition, I think it's an incomplete job at best if not put into financial perspective.)
The Mets have Josh Thole, a perfectly reasonable first option at catcher. He bats left-handed, has struggled (in few appearances) against left-handed pitching. But offensively, he's above-average against righties for a catcher. So the perfect solution is to pair him with a very good right-handed hitting catcher.
And catchers who can play 60-70 games and mash lefties aren't especially expensive, since most teams don't have a Josh Thole already. Someone like Kelly Shoppach is a free agent, will probably get around $2 million to sign, and has a career OPS of .909 against lefties.
But just before signing his many relief pitchers, Sandy Alderson let it be known that the plan was to go with what they had at catcher. And tonight, at the non-tender deadline, the Mets are expected to cut Ronny Paulino loose.
Who is likely to fill the void? Either Mike Nickeas, a good defensive catcher who doesn't appear able to hit, or Lucas May, one of three minor leaguers the Mets signed today. And as Ted Berg points out, May has displayed the ability to hit lefties well at a number of minor league stops.
But it is also important to put those numbers in perspective, something Major League Equivalents (MLEs) do for us. That .339/.410/.642 line in 2010 against lefties looks great. But he did it for Alberqueque of the Pacific Coast League. What is the MLB translation for such production? .241/.308/.398. Afraid the change in levels, and the transition from the hitter-happy PCL, brings that number down quite a bit.
So let's review, shall we? For around $2 million, they could retain Ronny Paulino- who, to be fair, got a great deal of criticism from within the team for his game-calling- or Kelly Shoppach. As mentioned, Shoppach's career OPS against lefties is .909; Paulino's is .860.
Or for the major league minimum, they could get Lucas May, whose best production at Triple-A against lefties still projects to just a .706 OPS.
Realistically, a major league team should have both, because if Shoppach is signed and gets injured, Plan B is necessary. So hopefully, that's what happens. Sandy Alderson certainly knows how useful a lefty-masher as Thole backup is- he's the one who signed Paulino to begin with last year.
However, if what Alderson effectively said turns out to be the case- they had money to spend on the bullpen, or a backup catcher, but not both-it is just a reminder that the current financial problems experienced by ownership are doing much more than just denying the fan base Jose Reyes, and will continue to erode the team's ability to fix problems for as long as they remain.


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YATE TOWN'S GFA Senior Cup tie against Bristol Rovers on Wednesday night is the latest game to be hit by the extreme wintry weather.
It is the fourth game in a row they've had called off, with last Saturday's league game at Abingdon United also being postponed.
Football, rugby and hockey games across South Gloucestershire were all hit last weekend as snow wiped out the local football schedule.
Thornbury Running Club's Riverbank Rollick, due to be held on Sunday, is set to be rearranged for another date.
The event was a sell-out well in advance for the first time, but had to be postponed due to hazardous ice on the road sections.
A club statement said: "It is hoped that a new date will be announced shortly, and entrants unable to compete will be offered a refund if they do not wish their entry fee to be given to charity."


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According to Dictionary.com, "A decibel is a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave." Basically, it's number we use to describe how loud something is. Over the past 19 years of making music my ears have been improving, always getting better able to recognize subtle changes in db levels. Take a look at the following chart to see some common dB levels:
A good piece of gear I recommend people buying is a digital SPL (Sound Pressure Level) meter. If your in the USA just head over to any Radio Shack. They have a decent unit called "Digital-Display Sound-Level Meter", Model: 33-2055 for $49.99. It runs on a 9V battery. Of course the Shack isn't the only company that makes them, click here to see Amazon.com's selection. All SPL meters have a built-in mic and display decibel levels.
If your building a recording studio having a SPL meter is important as you can measure how much sound your neighbors or the outside world is pushing towards you. You can also calculate how much sound proofing you will need to keep your own noise private. Auralex has a nice area on their website called "Bothering Your Neighbors" that shows how much dB you can reduce with each layer of additional building materials: click here
Want to make some money? Bring your SPL meter to any concert, record the dB numbers on video and then go sue the band or venue for hearing damage. There have been numerous law suits exactly like that. I've even heard of singers suing venues for hearing damage because of excessive volume levels.
Of course, dB levels also play an important role in audio production. For example when you add some eq to a sound your adding actual volume or decibels. This is important to wrap your head around. If you add 6db of EQ at 2khz your adding 6db of volume to the Master. Working in the digital world, ITB (in the box) you want to keep your individual channel faders low and have them all sum toward the Master. I keep my channel faders at -12db to start and I always keep the Master at 0db. So if you have a vocal on a channel and you add 6db of EQ watch the Master fader level as you are adding 6db to the overall sum of your mix!


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I don't know the guy, but I just saw a facebook post last night of a guy whose three lion hounds were killed by a pack of wolves in Montana this weekend. It happened only a couple hundred yards in front of him and it was over before he got there. Reading the story and the corresponding comments pull on the heart strings for sure. I really feel for the guy and couldn't imagine losing my pup, let alone three that he's raised for 12 years. Anyone else see this post? It had nearly two hundred shares. I noticed this morning some other venues like the Montana Outdoor Radio Show posted it.
Here's the link to the MORS's report: http://www.montanaoutdoor.com/2013/01/15737/


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UF looking to tilt scale in its favor for performance funds
Published: Monday, November 18, 2013 at 5:48 p.m.
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The University of Florida wants the state to consider its total annual research expenditures when deciding how much of the performance-funding pie to give out — something that might give the university a competitive edge next time around.
The Board of Governors Budget and Finance Committee will discuss the performance metrics at its meeting Wednesday at Florida International University in Miami.
For the past two years, the state has distributed performance-funding bonuses based on how well universities score in several categories. Up until now, the Board of Governors chose all the performance standards or metrics for each of the system's 12 universities, which has resulted in UF ranking behind several other universities in overall points.
For next year, the board decided, it would have eight common criteria and select a specific criteria for each university. For both UF and Florida State University, the institution-specific metric is the number of faculty awards received.
The board also gave each university's Board of Trustees authority to choose a performance measure so it could "customize the model with a metric that best suits the individual goals and challenges of each institution."
Most of the eight common metrics all universities are judged by "aligned well with UF's goals," Provost Joe Glover told the Board of Trustees during a conference call earlier this month.
But some of the metrics pose difficulties for UF because of the data sources, he said. For example, he said, the percentage of graduates employed after a year looks only at those hired in state. "Many leave the state after graduation, and there is no good data for that," Glover said.
He proposed that UF's research expenditures be measured against other universities in the 62-member Association of American Universities, of which UF is a member. UF would get one point for being in the bottom third of research expenditures, two points for being in the middle third and three points for being in the top third.
UF spent $640 million in research for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
Common metrics will continue to include such things as the percentage of graduates employed or continuing their education one year later, their average wages, the average cost per undergraduate degree to each institution, retention rate and the six-year graduation rate.
Each metric is ranked according to a three-tiered point scale — the top level getting three points and the lowest getting one point. Those points are added up to determine how much of the performance pie each university gets.
UF received $1.7 million out of a $20 million bonus pool approved by the Legislature last session, tying for third with Florida Atlantic University. The University of Central Florida and University of South Florida tied for first and received $2.6 million each. Florida State, Florida International and Florida Gulf Coast universities ranked second and received $2.2 million each.
UCF and USF outperformed UF in the percentage of students employed a year after graduation. UF grads also paid more for their education and received lower salaries than graduates of UCF and USF.
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Cincinnati hits five doubles, as Leake picks up second win
CHICAGO -- Despite miserable, wet and frigid conditions, the Reds found the remedy for their road woes and hitting funks in one convenient spot.
Welcome to the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field?
Two-out hits and extra-base hits were bountiful, and the Reds would need every last one to hold on to a 6-5 victory over the Cubs on Friday afternoon. It was the seventh straight win at Wrigley for the Reds, their longest streak in 10 years, and it improved their road trip record to 3-5 and the overall road record to 4-10.
But it did not come easy. Disaster was narrowly averted in the ninth inning when Aroldis Chapman entered in a non-save situation with a 6-2 lead. Chapman allowed three runs on three singles and two walks.
"It turned out the extra runs we scored ended up meaning something," said Reds first baseman Joey Votto, who was 2-for-3 with two runs scored. "It's very rare that something like that happens with Aroldis. Throughout his career, he's been pretty much lights-out. It just so happens that today was one of those days that the extra runs paid off. Thankfully they did."
Early on, the Reds seemed poised for a smooth day, as they increased their lead to 4-0 on Cubs starter Carlos Villanueva in the top of the sixth. Villanueva went 8 1/3 innings and mostly shut down the Reds when he faced them in Cincinnati on April 23.
Votto lined a two-out single to right in the first inning before Todd Frazier -- who came in 3-for-23 on the road trip -- lifted a double over David DeJesus' head to the center-field wall. Shin-Soo Choo, in his first funk as he came into the day 3-for-26 on the trip, hit a two-out single that scored Xavier Paul in the second.
"The team that gets the two-out hits is usually the team that wins the games," Reds manager Dusty Baker said.
Villanueva retired the next 10 in a row until Votto's leadoff single in the sixth. He scored from first on Jay Bruce's double near the right-field corner. Bruce scored on a two-out double to left by Devin Mesoraco that made it 4-0. Mesoraco had only one hit in his last 12 at-bats before the hit.
"Funks go in cycles. Guys are going to hit," Baker said. "It's impossible to hit all the time. You wish you could. I wish they could. But things go in cycles. I just hope this is an upturn towards how we can play and how we can hit."
Reds starter Mike Leake limited Chicago to five singles over five scoreless innings until a two-run sixth-inning rally. Sam LeCure used one pitch to end the jam in the sixth and lefty Sean Marshall got the Reds out of a bases-loaded threat in the seventh.
Cincinnati added a run in the top of the seventh on a Bruce groundout, and in the eighth, got one more when Zack Cozart -- in a 4-for-26 slide -- slashed a two-out single to left that scored Choo to make it 6-2.
What precious insurance it proved to be.
"That's what I tell the guys all the time," Baker said. "You get one more run and you don't know if that's going to be the winner or not."
Even with no save on the line, Baker elected to bring in Chapman after Jonathan Broxton worked a scoreless eighth. It was a move he defended postgame.
"He hadn't pitched in three days," Baker said. "If we don't pitch him, then it's, 'OK, you're pitching him too much or you're not pitching him enough.' Yeah, he needed work. It was only a four-run game. We have a strong bullpen and Broxton was in there with a four-run game, too. There are no excuses or alibis or no one to blame. [Chapman] just didn't get them out today. It happens."
Flocks of seagulls hovered over the field seeking postgame dinner. Their meal was delayed, as Cubs hitters feasted on Chapman instead.
To begin his inning, Chapman gave up three straight hard-lined singles to load the bases. Chapman got a strikeout and a fly out, but could not get the 27th out of the game. Pinch-hitter Scott Hairston's walk forced in a run.
The pressure mounted when Welington Castillo flared a single into center to score two runs and make it a one-run game. On his 32nd pitch of the inning, Chapman walked pinch-hitter Cody Ransom to re-load the bases.
"Those were some great at-bats today off the best closer in the game," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said.
Right-hander J.J. Hoover came to the rescue to strike out the inning's ninth batter, Darwin Barney, and avert what could have been a crushing defeat.
"It's too bad Chapman couldn't finish it off. But I'm glad to step in," Hoover said. "You kind of train yourself for that as a reliever. All of these guys can handle that kind of situation. That's what makes us a good staff."
Chapman entered the day with a 0.68 ERA in 14 appearances. He'll need some more shutdown work to shave down the 2.57 ERA he now has after the harrowing 15th game.
"Nobody can do it all the time," Baker said. "Today was Chappy's time not to have it. It was time for Hoover to bail us out."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This major is unique in its focus on promoting new ventures that start from the ground up with practical, innovative and sustainable approaches to benefit society in general.
Why choose Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise at UCM?
- This major is unique because it offers office space for students to begin their social ventures in UCM's StartUp Center. It has business space in the MulePen, located in downtown Warrensburg, for students to begin startups and sell their innovative products.
- The Harmon College has earned the prestigious accreditation, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
- Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise students take the Integrative Business Experience classes, which allows you to create and operate start-up businesses (based on bank loans of up to $5,000 per business) and manage hands-on service projects for nonprofit organizations.
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New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter ran on a treadmill for the first time since having ankle surgery in October, reports Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
"I'm progressing, like I told you," Jeter said. "I'm right where I need to be. I've gotten the OK to do everything."
While leaving the Yankees Minor League complex in Tampa, Florida, the 38 year-old Jeter added that being cleared to run was the final hurdle in his recovery process and he is close to being where he would normally at this point while preparing for the season.
"I feel fine," said Jeter. "I was able to do everything else, I just had to be careful with that (ankle). Now I've got the green light with that."
In addition to running on the treadmill, the Yankees Captain also took roughly 75 to 80 ground balls, with limited lateral movement.
Jeter fractured his left ankle in Game One of the ALCS against the Detroit Tigers while diving toward second base to field a ground ball. Prior to the injury, the life-time Yankee led the Yankees to the best record in the American League, hitting .316 with 15 home runs and 58 RBI. He also led the league with 216 hits, finishing seventh in the MVP race.
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So anybody out there got big plans for qing this weekend? I'll start it off.
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Auburn, Ala. - Auburn Parks and Recreation is pleased to announce its line-up for the Fall Concert Series at Kiesel Park. The series kicks off Thursday, Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. with a FREE performance by Distant Kin. Join us every Thursday evening in September and October, weather permitting. This year's line-up of talented local and regional musicians includes:
Sept. 5
Distant Kin
Sept. 12
Dave Potts
Sept. 19
Spoonful James
Sept. 26
Oct. 3
Josh Adams
Oct. 10
Damaged Goods
Oct. 17
Kate and Corey
Oct. 24
JW Young
Enjoy a mix of familiar favorites and new artists as part of this year's series. Ample parking is available! Shake up your weekly routine and make your next Bunco night or organizational
meeting a social event at the Fall Concert Series!
All concerts are FREE and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket, chairs, and a picnic. Dogs are welcome. Follow the City of Auburn on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CityofAuburnAL for weather updates and weekly concert announcements.
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Could someone advise how to disable the Network Service as it is not in the services menu in BT5.
Hello !
I have Backtrack 5 Gnome x64, and when I write "airmon-ng" in my Terminal to launch it, it's not ok ! Some programs keep running, like "dhclient3", and after, airmon-ng, it's not ok, yeah !
In the reality, I see this :
"Found 3 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!
PID Name
10681 dhclient3
10683 dhclient3
14167 dhclient
Process with PID 10683 (dhclient3) is running on interface wlan0"
Help me please !
Thanks in advance,
Could someone advise how to disable the Network Service as it is not in the services menu in BT5.
Hello !
Finally, you can try with the Terminal and "kill" or "killall" (and PIDs or names)...
But, at the end, it wasn't always ok for me on BackTrack 5 Gnome.
So, I will try BackTrack 5 KDE Version and I think it would be better.
Because, in BackTrack 4-R2, with KDE, it was great and wonderful for me !
Yes, I tried ! And with success, I killed all the asked processes !
But finally, it wasn't efficient.
With Gnome, it's very difficult to launch easily Aircrack-ng&Co...
So, I try with success BackTrack 5 KDE x64
Hi to all,
I'm having same problem here, when I try to put my wlan0 to monitoring mode, I get message that there are processes that uses my wi-fi. I tried what airmon sugested, I tried to kill process dhclient, all but one can be killed, one is allways up and running. I have BT5 x64 with Gnome.
same here!bt5r2 gnome 64 and i cant succed to kill the last dhclient ..it always pops back up i tryed upstart-udev-bridge stop but still doesnt work.killall -9 just pops it back up and airmon-ng check kill same
Well kill the 3 processes, do it forcing it:
killall -9 dhclient3
killall -9 dhclient
kill -9 10681
kill -9 10683
kill -9 14167
Then bring down the interface (eth1, wlan0, etc): ifconfig "your iface" down
Change mac if needed: macchanger --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 "your iface"
Change the mode to "monitor": iwconfig "your iface" monitor mode (if connecting to a network or using dhclient, need to change to managed mode)
then bring your iface back up: ifconfig "your iface" up
Now check if everything is ready: iwconfig
See info in your interface and check mode (should say "monitor")..Then just run airodump-ng "your iface"


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Born To Be Wild is a travel and wildlife show of GMA Network aired every Wednesday nights and hosted by Ferds Recio and Nielsen Donato, formerly hosted by Kiko Rustia, Mariz Umali and Romi Garduce. On August 4, 2010, the show began to shot in high definition format, although it still being aired in standard definition. The travel and wildlife program named after the Warner Bros. family comedy film of the same name. Every Wednesday Evenings Moved Sundays Mornings February 9, 2014 9:30 AM.
"Born to be Wild" is the Philippine's very first nature documentary show on Philippine television.
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Carol A. Diamond, MD Print Friendly PageFaculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Diamond is a clinician with extensive experience in the care of children with bleeding and clotting disorders in addition to abnormalities of red blood cells and platelets. She directs the comprehensive clinics for sickle cell anemia and bleeding disorders for American Family Children's Hospital. As well, she has experience and interest in vascular anomalies. Dr. Diamond received the UWHC Clinical Excellence Award in 2009.
Bleeding Disorders
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University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Our doctors provide a wide range of services. The following list represents some, but not all, of the procedures offered by this physician.
Programs & Conditions
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
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- Thalassemia Syndromes
- Thrombophilia
- Thyroid Tumors
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Vascular malformations
- Von Willebrand Disease
- VonHippel-Lindau Disease
- Wilms Tumor
Dr. Diamond cares for children with hematologic disorders, inherited hemolytic anemias and hematologic malignancies, and leads our Comprehensive Sickle Cell Clinic and Comprehensive Bleeding Disorder Program Clinic. She is a leader in a recognized Hemophilia treatment program. Her clinical interests include iron homeostasis and inflammation, vascular anomalies, and autoimmune cytopenias. Dr. Diamond has research interests in iron overload, and is a co-investigator on a clinical trial using MRI to quantify iron in the liver.
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Another Generation of Stigma? Assessing Healthcare Student Perceptions of HIV-Positive Patients in Mwanza, Tanzania. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2017 Feb;31(2):87-95
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From businesswoman to banana vendor: mental health implications of HIV stigma in Tanzania. AIDS. 2016 Nov 13;30(17):N33-N35
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Successful matched unrelated donor stem cell transplant in Hemoglobin Bart's disease. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2016 Nov;51(11):1522-1523
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Kwako LE George DT Schwandt ML Spagnolo PA Momenan R Hommer DW Diamond CA Sinha R Shaham Y Heilig M .
The neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist aprepitant in co-morbid alcohol dependence and posttraumatic stress disorder: a human experimental study. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 Jan;232(1):295-304
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Extensive sinovenous thrombosis and hemorrhagic infarction during therapy for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2013 Jan;29(1):93-7
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Teaching NeuroImages: methotrexate leukoencephalopathy mimicking a transient ischemic attack. Neurology. 2010 Aug 17;75(7):e34
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Pseudo-osteomyelitic crisis upon presentation of Gaucher disease. Skeletal Radiol. 2001 Jul;30(7):407-10
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Missense mutations causing mild hemophilia A in Iceland detected by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Hum Mutat. 1992;1(6):506-8
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Amino acid substitutions in conserved domains of factor VIII and related proteins: study of patients with mild and moderately severe hemophilia A. Hum Mutat. 1992;1(3):248-57
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Genetic basis of hemophilia A. Thromb Haemost. 1991 Jul 12;66(1):37-9
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Passport to Texas, TPWD's radio series of weekday, 90-second stories is broadcast on about 100 Texas stations. Airing the week of March 22-26, you can't feed the animals at the zoo OR in a state park, we'll explain. Plus, the second largest canyon in the United States can be found in the Texas panhandle.
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In the March issue of Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine, mountain biker Dan Oko challenges the desert conditions of Franklin Mountains State Park and seasoned hunter Steven R. LaMascus rekindles his love of hunting by going after spring turkeys. Saltwater fishing writer Larry Bozka casts for reds and seatrout in Copano Bay and Mary-Love Bigony reviews the comeback of Kemp's ridley turtle on the Texas coast.
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Walnutport Pennsylvania Then and Now
On August 12, 1917 Robbie Best was born as the fifth of nine children to a prominent family with an early history in the Walnutport area. Robbie grew up helping the family operate their canal barge. He loved baseball and the outdoors, being an avid hunter. Another favorite activity of his was gathering together his younger brothers, Lovett and Lester, and going arrowhead hunting between the canal and the Lehigh River. Robbie was employed by the American Nickeloid until he was drafted on April 23, 1941. He was assigned to Company M of the 112th infantry, which was located in England. In November of 1944 Robbie fell in combat in Germany during intense fighting in the Huertgen forest. He is buried on the Union Cemetery in Slatington beside his parents.
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Are you a dog person?
This month's challenge, "Dogs". Photograph your favourite, four-legged canid; Whether it's your pet, your neighbour's pitbull, your sister's terrier. Let's see what you can do.
If you're a 'dog person' or not, this challenge is open to all. As usual, we'll vote in an open poll on a winner!
Our winner has a choice of any of the prizes below. Runner up receives their choice of our selection of ebooks.
The Rules:ALL WORK MUST BE YOUR OWN.
No goofy Photoshop effects or overdone photo-manipulation. Entrants are allowed to correct colour, contrast, and make minor tweaks such as removing litter or distracting objects from a photo, but no surreal colours or crazy filters.
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My wife took this the other day, but it captures their personalities well.....
Your "dog" is yummy, Shaun. LoL!
They are adorable!
Look at their tongues!
haha, Thanks!
Now that is an excellent example of a "creative interpretation" of the Challenge Topic, @Shaun_OfTheDead;!Let me say, I always relish your photo submissions.
Am I allowed to enter a photo I've used for another competition on here?
I'll post it anyway because it's a fun photo. I was stood waiting for some people to move out of my shot when this lonely dog walked right into the frame.
That is a great "candid" shot, @TomB;! Do you think that dog was lost, or headed toward a person who was just out of the frame?
Here is an entry from my family photos. 'Gonzo' is a Black Lab who left us for his final rest about a year ago. He was gentle and loving. This is a favorite family Christmas photo.
It seemed pretty lost. After I took the photo it sat down for about 20 seconds then wandered back in the direction it came from, the opposite direction than it's facing in the photo. You'd think you'd be able to see the owner in the reflection because you can see right around the corner (The reflection was what I was actually trying to get)
Mmm, saucy. (Let the buns begin...)
I can't match Shaun's creative genius, but I've got a couple of poochy pics here:
Wendy the Collie
Curious dog on a lead
Very punny, ParkinT. Very punny.
Looks like he has a harness. I guess his owner was milling around somewhere.
Nice photo.
He's so sweet!
What sweet doggies! I want to give Curious a big kiss on his nose!
I am not really a doggy person and this is one I took for a friend a coupl of years ago:
Dude! That's awesome!
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What a happy dog Bailey looks like.
Thanks! He pretty much is!
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M-G-M's Raintree County (1957) was a widescreen spectacular of the late Hollywood Golden Age—a gargantuan Civil War epic based on the acclaimed novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint starred in a love triangle meant to encompass the cultural divide between North and South as well as tell a heartfelt human story.
Raintree County was the major landmark work as a composer of Johnny Green (1908-1989), a significant 20th century American music figure who was a gifted songwriter, conductor and music director. He was, at the time, the head of music at M-G-M, and responsible for the studio's legendary music quality both in its underscoring and movie musicals. Unlike Alfred Newman, who held the equivalent position at Twentieth Century-Fox, Green seldom exercised his prerogative to score pictures from the studio of his choosing, but he did so on Raintree County, and created one of the most memorable film scores of all time, with a legion of fans.
The movie and score of Raintree County are somewhat atypical in that they are essentially interior and character-based, even as the movie covers the sprawl of the American Civil War. Green's score is unashamedly "epic" in its size and symphonic scope, but its multiple themes attach not to historical events but to the characters and human dynamics of the central love triangle—with Clift as a young Northern writer, Saint his childhood "soul mate," and Taylor the Southern belle (with a history of mental illness) who steals him away.
The contrast between the "blockbuster" symphonic framework and the psychological nature of the drama created one of the most sophisticated scores of its time—combining conventional symphonic size with innovative, atmospheric moments, and featuring numerous, fully developed melodies. The musicianship of the entire production is remarkable.
Raintree County has had a long and varied history of album editions, most notably a 2LP RCA Victor release that was released on CD by Preamble. FSM's definitive edition—on the eve of the movie's 50th anniversary—features a comprehensive chronological program of Green's masterpiece (containing many previously unreleased cues and passages), along with a bonus section of alternate and unused cues. The entire score (save one-half of one cue) has been remixed and remastered from the original 35mm stereo master tapes for vastly improved sound quality.
Also cause for celebration, FSM reunites the orchestral score with the main title vocal performed by Nat King Cole—Cole was a recording artist for Capitol Records, and previous albums had to replace his vocal with generic chorus for contractual reasons, while Cole's version of the song came out separately on a 45 rpm single. Cole's never-before-heard end title vocal is included as well (dropped from the film), while the alternate chorus versions are included as bonus tracks.
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Music Composed and Conducted by Johnny Green
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Is there a complete list of all the new CSS features anywhere?
Logic_earth, your missing the point entirely. Sure it does the job but can you really stand there and say that a poorly implemented solution is still a solution (therefore not worthy of critique)? Let's face facts here, IE9 has some serious usability issues, it's still laggy and really heavy handed and has absolutely none of the finesse of Chrome or Opera (who have implemented something that works WELL). I'm not saying they didn't make a step in the right direction but it's absurd to proclaim that a poorly done job is some sort of credit for merit. Do you have the same perspective in your work? Because if so I wouldn't employ you. Anyone who says "it does the job, what more do you want" shouldn't be designing anything - especially if people are going to use it. There's a lot of crappy websites out there that "work". :rolleyes:
I'm really pleased with IE9, while the user-interface is one of the ugliest Chrome rip-off's since Safari (they seriously took everything good about the UI from Opera and Chrome and managed to screw it up), the rendering is much faster, it's actually got some serious web standards support (it's now up there with the best of them) and it's an all round great update. Though just as a warning, you'll all want to set your conditional comments to LT IE 9 to ensure that your glitch fixes for old IE's doesn't break the now standards happy rendering. It won't move me from Chrome... but it's step in the right direction (with XHTML, HTML5 and CSS3 support!)
Yet, it fits the goal that they wanted to do with the UI. Get out of the way. I think what the problem is, we are too used having a dozen upon dozen of pages open in a single window. Why can we not branch things off into multiple windows? Another problem, is we are just so used to other means of using our web browsers.
But whatever, It doesn't matter. The UI achieves the goal it was intended to achieve. Nothing more nothing less. If you believe they made the wrong decision, why don't you tell them? Tell them they need a fat flashy UI to take up all that useless screen space. Just saying.
Then please list out the problems. You said a lot without saying anything.And please, do not try and make this personal, again. I really did not appreciate it.
I'll wait to see what FireFox does in the next version. Does that mean that support for IE7 should drop shortly after IE6?
It also crashed on me during first run lol
The Beta was released not the final product.
Gets to 95/100 and the dropshadow below the text "acid3" is missing
I've not tried it yet (not downloaded it yet), has anyone tried it with the Acid3 test? Did it pass, if it didn't pass, how far did it get?
Someone should legally have their name changed to Quirky hasLayout, now that would be geek dedication :lol:
IE is my default browser and I don't have any issues with it.
It still says Beta?
yep agree - I thought as I was typing my post I will probably get a reply :teleport:
I don't think it's a "might" lol
I'll wait for it to appear in my pc's "Windows Update" and get the 'official' release rather than play with a pre-release version which might still have bugs.
OK, First thing... The way IE handles memory allocation to tabs means that there is a serious hit to resources each time a new tab is opened (I've encountered anywhere up to 5 second waits even with add-on's disabled). The issue first occurred in IE8 which Microsoft themselves acknowledged that the performance hit was the result of how they implemented the mechanism. As such, the issue still remains in IE9 and unfortunately this really undermines some of the speed of the browser. In addition, after running some benchmarks loading the same pages and doing downloads between the browsers... IE still requires more resources and memory than Chrome and Opera - again with add-on's disabled. The browser's GUI has destroyed any comprehension of me considering it (the heavy clunky thing it is).
As for the user-interface itself, the serious usability problems (as I see them) come in many forms:
1) They have stripped the ability to be notified about RSS and Atom feeds directly on-page from within the address bar, this means you manually have to FIND the URL and enter it into the address bar (or browse to it) to subscribe - this also means that unless you seek out the syndication feed, there's no indication it exists.2) IE's decision STILL to use Refresh and Stop as separate buttons just increases the amount of on-screen bloat, granted it's a small thing but other (better developed) browsers combined them as they both operate as separate states and don't need to be separate in the UI.3) The mechanism for opening tabs and the position in the address bar is hideous, you have to physically drag and expand the available space for tabs in order to assign it the space required to perform. You shouldn't have to fiddle with the UI every time you want to either assign or reduce the whitespace usage.4) The navigation icons are a clear example and case of mystery meat navigation, you have to physically click each icon to discover that one navigates to a page, one opens a popup and the other opens a menu - whatever happened to consistency and not surprising the user with inconsistent events.5) The bookmark / history bar hovers over on the right hand side, but when you pin it to the window it suddenly jumps to the left (rather than the right where it started), this is inconsistent with how the UI has been developed (toward a right hand side management style).6) The layout of the menu system is nothing short of hideous. Functions that were previously in menus like Edit suddenly find themselves in a now random "file" menu which absolutely doesn't match convention within software GUI design standards - it's like they decided to go against years of common practices. 7) The downloads dialog is inconsistent with browser conventions - where downloads should be tabbed in the same dialog as history / bookmarks / etc. Every other browser does this... IE9 produces a poor and unnecessary modular window for it - it's just a senseless and thoughtless implementation.8) As for the label "F12 developer tools" (which will make absolutely no sense to the average browser user) - why they didn't follow a consistent convention and just label it "Developer tools" and have the F12 as a keyboard shortcut (visually) like with every other icon, I'll never understand.
I could keep going on about it, or list all the other complaints I've seen and had by other people who've used the software (who I talk too). The rendering engine is much improved, the GUI is a clunky poor imitation of better browsers. If they took UX seriously (for example) they would have at least put the address bar below the tabs to ensure the convention of the address bar being relative to the tab being used (rather than just having it dynamically change onclick).
I haven't seen any established facts at all here.
All I can see is your opnions - which goes without saying you are entitled to.
What irrefutable evidence can you post that establishes your opnions to actually be facts?
Anyone else think there's an irony that the IE product manager is called Mark Quirk?
(I mean nothing personal of course.)
That's a good idea. The beta release is mainly for those people who built add-ons for IE so they can get their add-ons updated to work with IE9 in time for when IE9 is released.


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The three astronauts were offered a sneak peek of "Star Trek Into Darkness" days before it opens Thursday on Earth, seeing it not in 3-D, but Zero-G.
NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said the movie was beamed up to the outpost Monday and the two Russians and American on board had a day off Tuesday. That gave them a chance to view it on their laptops. It's unclear if they watched it.
U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy is taking part Thursday in a Google+ hangout that's bringing together two Earth-bound astronauts, film stars Chris Pine, Alice Eve and John Cho, and its director and screenwriter.
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The `Little Master' overshadowed New Zealand's cricket's cult hero as India zeroed in on a one-day series win with a ruthless record-setting 58-run victory in game three at AMI Stadium.
Sachin Tendulkar's long overdue first ODI century on New Zealand soil eclipsed Jesse Ryder's maiden limited overs hundred as the Indians applied a stranglehold on the five-match series.
Set a mammoth 393 for victory after India blitzed 392 for four, the highest ODI score made against New Zealand. The BLACKCAPS suffered a middle order collapse before an 89-run stand for the ninth wicket between Kyle Mills (54) and Tim Southee (32) at least prevented a rout.
Southee was last out when the score was 334, a ball after an eventful over which saw Munaf Patel reprimanded by umpire Rudi Koetzen for bowling two waist-high full tosses.
New Zealand must now regroup and win the remaining matches in Hamilton and Auckland to share the spoils 2-2 and avoid their first series loss at home since Australia triumphed in 2005.
Tendulkar's majestic 163 provided the cornerstone of an Indian batting effort that pulverised New Zealand's attack.
The BLACKCAPS made a bold start to an onerous task, but when Brendon McCullum was run out for 71, an ambitious pursuit faltered.
McCullum's demise after he and Ryder crunched an opening stand worth 166 triggered an implosion that saw five wickets lost for 37 in the space of 53 balls.
Ross Taylor (7) also succumbed to sharp fielding in the circle; Martin Guptill was leg before wicket for one; Ryder's resistance ended with 105 from 80 balls and then all hope was lost when the last big hitter, Jacob Oram (7), was flummoxed by a resurgent Harbhajan Singh.
Harbhajan's first two overs cost 29 but the spinner atoned when Ryder chipped to long-off to leave New Zealand in dire straits at 188 for four.
Ryder at least had the satisfaction of recording a welcome personal milestone by overhauling his previous personal best -- 79 not out against England at Hamilton last season.
He struck 72 runs in boundaries, flourishing the bat when gliding a single to make triple figures off 72 balls.
When Ryder was in tandem with McCullum, New Zealand were ahead of India's comparison at the 15 and 20-over marks, but when the stand-in skipper was beaten by Suresh Raina's pin point throw, the run-rate started spiralling.
Tendulkar, on his seventh and surely last tour to New Zealand, earlier erased a rare shortcoming from his stellar statistics with a sumptuous innings ultimately ended by an abdominal strain.
The 35-year-old had never made a hundred in 17 previous innings here, with 84 at Carisbrook back in 1992 his best until he joined a concerted plunder of a New Zealand attack missing absentee expectant father Daniel Vettori.
Tendulkar's 133-ball master class contained 10 classical boundaries, five sixes and culminated in a standing ovation when he walked off with the team physio at the end of the 45th over.
He was 23 runs short of his career-best score, 186 not out also culled from New Zealand at Hyderabad a decade ago.
That sparkling innings dovetailed with the previous biggest innings made against New Zealand -- 376 for two.
Southee unfortunately recorded an unwanted hundred -- the most expensive bowling spell in New Zealand ODI history after his ten unrewarded overs cost 105.
Tendulkar complemented his personal achievement by figuring in 100-plus stands with Yuvraj Singh and then captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The trio brutally compensated for a rare failure by dangerous opener Virender Sehwag who made only three before Kyle Mills celebrated his 100th ODI in timely fashion.
Yuvraj, who previously made two runs in the series, flayed an undermanned attack with Sehwag-like precision in making a rapid fire 87 from 60 deliveries.
It took 18.4 overs for the first six, but once Yuvraj opened his shoulders the boundaries were cleared with ridiculous ease. In all, 18 sixes were recorded -- equalling most struck in an ODI innings.
Tendulkar and Yuvraj produced 138 from 110 balls then Dhoni maintained the rage with 68 from 58 though he should have been stumped for five -- a glaring and costly miss by McCullum's stand-in Peter McGlashan.
Tendulkar and Dhoni added 135 before Tendulkar wandered off -- then to add insult to injury Raina smacked five sixes from an 18-ball cameo worth 38.


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