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This article was published 26/4/2013 (1577 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Pull up a chair, kids, because Uncle Doug needs to tell you a story.
There are days, just like today, when the only way to understand what's going on with Winnipeg's weather is by pondering one of the great works of literature.
In the case of this weekend, we need to immerse ourselves in the pages of a classic fairy tale, by which I mean Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Trust me on this, kids, I'm an expert.
Anyway, you may recall that, in the beginning of this story, our hero, Goldilocks, basically breaks into the Three Bears' house in the forest and steals -- might as well be honest, right? -- their porridge, which is just sitting on a table in three bowls.
As Uncle Doug recalls, from Goldilocks' perspective, the porridge in the first bowl was "too hot," the porridge in the second bowl was "too cold," and the porridge in the third bowl was (everyone repeat after me now): "Just right!"
And that, kids, is exactly what our weather will be this weekend -- just right! According to Environment Canada, the temperature today and Sunday will neither be sweltering nor bone-chilling; it will be completely and utterly "normal."
What that means is today we are looking at a mix of sun and clouds with a daily high of 15 C, which is spot-on normal for this time of year. On Sunday -- prepare to feel underwhelmed -- we'll be normal again, but without the clouds.
The rest of the week, the mercury will slide back down below normal, with a 40 per cent chance of (bad word) showers on Tuesday, but that is a walk in the park, given the type of spring (a.k.a. The Winter That Wouldn't Die) we have enjoyed so far.
On the upside, there are some seriously normal things we can do this weekend to celebrate the return (albeit briefly) of normal temperatures.
For instance, today you should pop out to St. Vital Centre to take in the final day of the Children's Hospital Book Market, where you can probably find a nice story to read to the kids, not that anything springs to mind at the moment.
And nothing goes better with a good book than a nice glass of wine, so don't forget the 12th Winnipeg Wine Festival, the single largest fundraiser for Special Olympics Manitoba, kicks off Sunday and runs until next Saturday. Tickets for ancillary events are available at www.winnipegwinefestival.com or by calling 204-925-5633, while public tasting tickets are available at Liquor Mart stores or Ticketmaster.
If you'd rather exercise your mind than your palate, check out Spur Winnipeg, a festival for politics, art and ideas at various venues today and Sunday. You'll find a schedule and ticket info at spurfestival.ca.
And for those of you hankering for some ukulele music (and let's face it, who isn't?) you can fill that gap in your life today at 1:30 p.m. by heading to the Millennium Library, reader services department, for Folk Festival in the City: All Ukulele, All The Time. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Whatever you do, please remember the moral of the story Uncle Doug told you at the beginning of this column -- if you break into someone's house and steal their stuff, the weather won't matter, because you'll be spending the weekend behind bars with someone who resembles a large, angry bear.


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Gearing Up For 64bit: Beta Graphics Driver Comparisonby Derek Wilson on 6/16/2004 8:00 AM EST
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Flerbizky - Friday, June 18, 2004 - linkAnd where's the 64bit Far Cry part of the article ?... That could've been quite interesting as well..
Cheers. Reply
TrogdorJW - Thursday, June 17, 2004 - link19: That's the whole point: WoW is an interface that allows for 32-bit applications to run on the 64-bit OS. AMD64 supports a mode where 32-bit applications are run concurrently with 64-bit applications under a 64-bit OS, but you still need to have the 32-bit interface that the old applications understand, and that interface then ties into the 64-bit OS.
I'm not sure what Pjotr is thinking when he says that you can run 32-bit drivers under 64-bit Linux, though. In my experience with Linux, you need to compile practically every driver/application/utility to get it to work, which of course gives you 64-bit drivers under 64-bit Linux and 32-bit drivers under 32-bit Linux. It's just like Windows: the drives and the OS need to be 64-bit, while you can have a compatibility interface to run 32-bit applications. Reply
glennpratt - Thursday, June 17, 2004 - linkPjotr: I didn't think you could run 32bit software while running within a 64bit OS (which would be using the processors long mode). If plain 32bit software could be run without WOW, why would M$ be making it? Reply
araczynski - Thursday, June 17, 2004 - linkMy only point is that (in my opinion) until EVERYthing is out of beta, any performance data that comes out is completely worthless/meaningless especially in a field as finacky as graphics performance.
As such, deducing ANYthing from worthless data is in turn, itself worthless and futile. Reply
Pjotr - Thursday, June 17, 2004 - link#11,
The Linux distros have not all come as far. Some are better at AMD64 than others.
AMD64 also allows direct hardware 32 bit execution, unlike the WoW, so you can run 32 bit drivers in an AMD64 64 bit OS. Reply
Shinei - Thursday, June 17, 2004 - linkAnemone, these are beta drivers, you have to expect the performance to not be as spectacular as the stuff the companies already know (x86-32). And we also have to consider that these results are using yesterday's cards; 64-bit NV40 and R420 should be a great deal more satisfying, especially if paired up with improved drivers. I imagine that nVidia's driver team experience will produce something approaching x86-32 performance by the time XP64 is ready to roll, with ATI pushing out its final beta around the same time; but, what do I know about programming, I just play the games and moan when they don't work right. ;) Reply
Anemone - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkLooks like there is a lot of improvement before they are going to impress gamers...
TrogdorJW - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkAt the risk of engaging the wrath of all the Linux fanboys out there, let's just point out that running the latest 64-bit Linux distros right now is perhaps even worse than XP-64 beta in many areas. Sound support is severely lacking, as is 3D accelerated graphics support. Text mode and unaccelerated X work fine, although they don't show massive performance boosts. Still, with sound and graphics support being a difficult proposition for all but the best Linux hackers, 32-bit is still the way to go.
This, by the way, is based off of personal experience with trying to run Linux on an Athlon 64 3000+ system. 32-bit Linux is running happily now, although with the 2.6 kernel I still can't get Nvidia's drivers to work. I'll try 64-bit Linux again in about three or four months, I think. Reply
glennpratt - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkAnd WOW is nothing new just so you know. If you run a 16bit app in 32 bit Windows XP you will see WOW in your process lists with programs running in it tabbed out a space. Reply
Cygni - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkThe differences between Nvidia and ATI arch when computing 64bit wont really be known until we have 64bit games to look into.
WoW = Windows on Windows. Think of it as a 32bit emulator. Since Win64 its a native 64bit OS, WoW allows you to run 32bit programs by wrapping or emulating the 32bit calls made by the program into 64bit calls for the OS to understand. Reply
kcbaltz - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkPardon my ignorance, but what's "WoW"? Reply
Pumpkinierre - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkI wonder if the nVidia architecture with its 16bit/32bit FPU lends itself better to 64bit computation than ATI's 24bit FP. The nVidias certainly show the sort of performance improvements we were expecting.
ZobarStyl - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkBeta or not the point is seeing if actual current hardware will benefit from the increased efficiency of a 64 bit OS...I think it's a perfectly reasonable article and I liked it, if WoW emulation can post any benefits and not hinder any programs then it will be a godsend to A64 owners. Reply
araczynski - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - link#6: I think only the fanboi community is interested in data that is mostly based on Beta sources. The geek community would be interested in actual release data, not this stuff. You might as well start comparing the 5.0ghz offerings from AMD and Intel at this point. Reply
Pjotr - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkBTW, UT2004 64 bit:
RyanVM - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkRE: NV40. "If there's demand" - HAH! Like you even have to say that :-)
I think the entire geek community is interested in seeing how well the latest and greatest hardware performs in a 64bit environment. Do it up! Reply
Stuke - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkOn your test platform, under dxdiag, did it show that it had AGP support? Whenever I install the via 4in1 on my system and the video drivers, I get no AGP texture acceleration. Maybe thats a cause for lower performance too. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkI appologize for messing up the graphs. It really should be the 5950 in the graphs.
The latest versions of the drivers when the tests were performed didn't support X800 and 6800 yet.
I'll correct the error ASAP. Sorry for any confusion. Reply
Illissius - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkYou put 6800 Ultra instead of 5959 Ultra on all the graphs :/
OTOH it's odd that the 5950U is faster at Halo, which is DX9. Is it using a special codepath (one sans any actual DX9 stuff :) ) or something?
And yeah, NV40 vs. R420 would be nice, but other things are prob. more important. (Such as the Far Cry SM 3.0 patch and whether or not NV40 gets a performance boost on nForce3 as nVidia says it does.) Reply
Pjotr - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkUT2004 is available in 64 bit server and client versions now, although beta. Any chance of adding these to the test? Reply
zShowtimez - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - linkYou sure you didnt mean to put 5950 ulta, NOT 6800 ultra in those charts?? Reply


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A Look at Sequans Single Mode LTE Basebandby Brian Klug on 1/11/2014 6:19 PM EST
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hrrmph - Sunday, January 12, 2014 - linkThanks for the warning. Craptastic pile of junk tablets on the way.
Initial price: Zero $. Real price: At least a $1000 worth of overpriced sticky-bundled services.
Waste of time. Needs voice capability.
Most important to recognize, this is another attempt to enable one of the most viciously "walled gardened" USA telecoms to ensure that its customers can only communicate on 2.2% of the surface of the Earth. All this due to its proprietary works "no-where-else-but-here" network and devices.
Why do they do this to us?
If you said "To attempt to financially enslave us!" then you win awards for High IQ and Low Naivete!
So they dangle the half-baked 4G-LTE data capability on a give-away tablet, but don't tell you about the effing they plan to give you while they milk n bilk you for exorbitant fees and extras.
No doubt these devices will be locked down tighter than a duck's arse in a rain storm. Just try to use another carrier's services with a tablet sporting one of these. Good luck with that.
Just say no to this drivel.
Pay up front for your devices.
Buy your devices on the open free unlocked market.
Buy what you can afford: no more than you can pay, and no fewer features that what will really help you out.
Don't ever buy a device from a telecom. Never buy a device, used or new, that has a telecom's label on it.
Buy devices that are interoperable on networks that comply with international standards (T-Mobile and AT&T are compliant networks in the US and work with devices that meet worldwide standards. At least T-Mobile was until Sprint tried to buy them and had eyes on jacking T-Mobile's network all up).
Buy devices with sufficient radio bands to cover the areas, continents, countries, regions, and telecom operators that you would most like to use.
The more 4G-LTE bands that a device has, the more likely you'll get the coverage you want in 4G. A compliant 4G-LTE device with 3G-Quad Band will drop to 3G in a pinch just about anywhere you go on the beaten path.
Don't ever sign a contract.
Mobile means just that: MOBILE. Make sure your tablets are truly mobile and telephony SIM slot equipped.
WiFi tethering isn't adequate if you plan to seriously roam - way too many single points of failure (plus multiple sources of battery drainage) that could leave you without any connected devices at all... or without even a single working mobile device.
Reasonable redundancy is your friend. How many jetliners do you see tethered to another jetliner for voice or data communications? Yeahh... thawt so. Its an "emergency only" procedure for those folks, and it should be an "emergency only" procedure for you too on any serious trip. Don't be an "Emergency" condition before you get out the front door.
Do your research. Buy well. Don't ever let em tell you that they're all the same...
Yours truly,
Unlocked and Non-Mortgaged from Day 1 Reply
EJ Truth - Monday, May 19, 2014 - link@ hrrmph
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lmcd - Sunday, January 12, 2014 - linkWhile likely not the same quality as the baseband in the N7, this could be a pretty awesome way to put a Tegra Note 7 at $250 as a connected tablet. Reply


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Some people love Fight Club but I totally loved Rant. That book, like, speaks to me. I identify with it.
So, you know how some people get that lye burn like from FIght Club? Well, I'm all, fuck those pussies and I got me rabies just like Rant Casey, who's the bomb.
Did anybody else go get rabies? How did you get your Big R? I call it Big R. I got mine from this hamster who was bit by a dog who had rabies out the ass.
And don't post if you're gonna be all, "That's soooo stupid." That just means you didn't get the point of the book which was to be just like Rant Casey.


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Lady Flames Drops Big South Opener at Campbell, 18-14
The Liberty lacrosse team opened Big South Conference play with an 18-14 road loss against the Campbell Fighting Camels on Friday evening at Barker-Lane Stadium.
The Lady Flames drop to 1-10 on the year and 0-1 in conference action. The Camels improve to 5-4 overall and even their Big South record at 1-1.
After Campbell got on the scoreboard first with a marker at 27:42, Liberty came right back with a pair of goals to go on top, 2-1, with 22:06 remaining in the first period. Michaela Rich notched the Lady Flames' first goal, scoring on a long pass from Nina Dunay. Sam Struss followed with her first tally of the contest off of a Courtney Brown assist, putting the visitors in front by one.
After the Camels tied the game at two on a Loren Day goal, Rich put Liberty back in front by one with her second marker of the game and 11th of the season with 20:02 on the game clock. On the play, Morgan Becker notched her first of two assists in the contest.
Day found the back of the net for the second time on the day, before Kallie Britton and Dunay recorded a goal apiece, putting Liberty back in front, 5-3, with 11:26 remaining in the first period.
The back-and-forth affair continued as the Camels went on a 2-0 spurt to tie the game at five with 6:27 on the game clock.
The Lady Flames answered Campbell's two-goal run with a two-goal stretch of their own. For the first time this season, the Becker sisters connected for a score as Morgan set up younger sister Olivia. A mere 14 seconds later, Olivia Becker whipped home another goal off of a Britton assist, extending Liberty's lead to 7-5, with 5:12 remaining until halftime.
The Camels tallied a pair of goals in the final minute of the first half to tie the game heading into the break.
Campbell came out strong out of the intermission, scoring the first six goals of the second stanza. Taelar Errington tallied three scores during the 6-0 stretch for the Camels.
Morgan Becker halted the Campbell run with her first goal of the match at 19:30, making the score 13-8 in favor of the home team.
The Camels notched two more markers, before Olivia Becker tossed her third goal of the contest in between the pipes, pulling Liberty within six, at 15-9, with 13:10 showing on the game clock.
Three more goals from the Camels extended their lead to its largest margin at 18-9 with 9:25 remaining in the game.
Liberty's offense picked up steam in the last nine minutes, scoring the final five goals of the contest. Struss notched her second and third goals of the game, while Dunay, Morgan Becker and Britton each tallied their second markers of the contest.
The Lady Flames' 5-0 run was not enough as the home team held on for the 18-14 victory. Liberty's 14 goals were its most this season.
For the game, Campbell held the edge in shots, 39-25, ground balls, 19-16, draw controls, 20-14, and caused turnovers, 9-7.
Day and Errington led the way for the Camels' offense with seven and six goals, respectively. Day also had a contest-best seven draw controls. Dunay had a game-high three assists. Liberty's Jillian Krick and Campbell's Maddy Dolinar each had four ground balls to pace both squads.
In goal, the Lady Flames' Kristen Masullo notched six saves in the loss, while the Camels' Brittany Kincer earned the win after making five stops.
The Lady Flames continue their weekend road trip on Sunday with a road contest at Presbyterian College. Game time versus the Blue Hose is set for 1 p.m.


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Partial integration in full integration
Hello all,
I am trying to calculate the induced voltage in a coil in the time domain, the formula is:
i hope you get the idea, that is a line integral for one filament of a coil, dl being part of the length of the wire. i need to integrate the partial magnetic vector potential (A) for each time step along the wire.
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Re: Partial integration in full integration
Hi, you may use a line integration in derived value when you doing the postprocessing , and the variable to be integrated can be an expression of Axt,Ayt and Azt, the "t" here means the time derivative, and Ax,Ay,Az are the three component of magnetic vector potential, and perhaps the expression could be written as "sqrt(Axt^2+Ayt^2+Azt^2)", I am not sure, wish it works!
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NEW YORK RANGERS vs. NEW YORK ISLANDERS
Thursday, Feb. 14, 7:00 p.m.
Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
Rangers: 7-5-0 (14 pts)
Islanders: 4-7-1 (9 pts)
The Rangers will face-off against the New York Islanders at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m. — TV: MSG Network; Radio: ESPN 98.7), in their second meeting in seven days. The Blueshirts currently rank third in the Atlantic Division standings, and rank eighth in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 7-5-0 (14 pts). The Rangers enter the contest having defeated the Boston Bruins, 4-3, in the shootout on Tuesday at TD Garden to win the season series against Boston and extend their winning streak to three games. The Blueshirts have now won seven of their last 10 contests after dropping their first two games of the season. The Islanders enter the contest with a 4-7-1 (9 pts) record to rank 14th in the Eastern Conference, and have lost their last five games. Following the contest, the Rangers will face-off against the Washington Capitals on Sunday, Feb. 17, at Madison Square Garden (6:00 p.m.), in the second game of their three-game homestand.
RANGERS vs. ISLANDERS:
- All-Time: 117-99-19-6 overall (69-37-11-4 at home; 48-62-8-2 on the road)
- 2013: Tomorrow is the second of four meetings this season, and their second and final meeting at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers are 1-0-0 in the season series, following a 4-1 win on Feb. 7 at Madison Square Garden. The Blueshirts' power play is 1-2 (50.0%), while the penalty kill is 5-5 (100.0%) in the series. Rangers' rookie J.T. Miller leads all skaters with two goals, while Ryan McDonagh (one goal, one assist) and Marc Staal (two assists) are tied with Miller for the series lead in scoring with two points apiece. Henrik Lundqvist is 1-0-0 with a 1.00 GAA and .964 Sv% in the series.
- Last Season: New York was 4-1-1 overall (3-0-0 mark at home; 1-1-1 mark on the road). Five of their six meetings were decided by two goals or less, including two contests that required extra time. The Rangers out-scored the Islanders, 20-14, including a 16-9 advantage after the first period. The Blueshirts' power play was 5-25 (20.0%), led by Brad Richards' two power play goals. Marian Gaborik led the team with five goals and seven points in the season series, while Anton Stralman tallied a team-high, five assists. Henrik Lundqvist was 3-1-0 with a 1.97 GAA, .929 Sv% and one shutout, while Martin Biron was 1-0-1 with a 2.41 GAA and .906 Sv%.
- The Blueshirts enter the contest with an eight-game winning streak against the Islanders at Madison Square Garden, having out-scored the Islanders, 35-11, during the streak
- The Rangers have registered at least one point in 14 of their last 17 games against the Islanders, posting a record of 12-3-2 over the span, dating back to a 5-2 win on Dec. 17, 2009, at Long Island
- New York is tied for sixth in the NHL with a 5-2-0 (10 pts) record at home; Long Island ranks 11th in the NHL with a 3-2-1 (7 pts) mark on the road
- The Rangers are 2-4-0 vs. the Atlantic Division this season; the Islanders are 2-4-0 vs. the Atlantic Division this season
- New York lists three former Islanders on their roster: Arron Asham (2002-03 – 2006-07); Martin Biron (2009-10); Taylor Pyatt (2000-01)
- Long Island lists no former Rangers on their roster
INDIVIDUAL CAREER LEADERS vs. ISLANDERS:
Henrik Lundqvist — 42 GP, 25-11-5, 2.15 GAA, 4 SO
Martin Biron — 28 GP, 21-4-1-1, 2.03 GAA, 2 SO
Marian Gaborik — 28 GP, 20-14-34
Brad Richards — 37 GP, 13-21-34
Ryan Callahan — 31 GP, 7-13-20
Marc Staal — 29 GP, 3-8-11
The Blueshirts' penalty kill has held opponents scoreless in each of the last three contests (11 times shorthanded). New York has posted a record of 3-1-0 when holding opponents scoreless on the power play.
Power Play: The Rangers did not tally a goal in four power play attempts (5:25) on Tuesday at Boston. New York ranks 29th overall (4-44, 9.1%) and 26th at home (3-24, 12.5%). The Rangers are 1-5 (6:32) in five-on-three situations (last – 2/12 at BOS), and 0-0 (0:00) when four-on-three. Shorthanded goals allowed (0).
Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts held the Bruins scoreless in four attempts (6:42) on Tuesday at Boston. New York is tied for 13th overall (43-52, 82.7%) and ranks 17th at home (27-33, 81.8%). The Rangers are 2-2 (3:12) in three-on-five situations (last –1/29 vs. PHI), and 2-2 (1:57) when three-on-four (last – 1/31 vs. PIT). Shorthanded goals for (1): 1/20 vs. PIT (Nash).
Four-on-Four: New York did not tally/yield a goal in two four-on-four situations (5:46) on Tuesday at Boston, and are now minus-1 in 10 four-on-four situations (13:35) this season. Four-on-four goals for (1): 1/23 vs. BOS (Gaborik). Four-on-four goals allowed (2): 1/20 vs. PIT (Letang); 1/23 vs. BOS (Horton).
Rangers' rookie J.T. Miller notched two goals while making his Madison Square Garden debut on Feb. 7 in a 4-1 win against the New York Islanders. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the last Ranger (rookie or otherwise) to tally multiple goals in his MSG debut was Chris Kontos in a 6-2 win against Detroit on Jan. 3, 1983. Miller (19 years, 330 days) is the youngest Ranger to tally multiple goals in a single game since Alex Kovalev posted a hat trick on Dec. 27, 1992, at the age of 19 years, 307 days.
The Rangers are undefeated when scoring the game's first goal this season, posting a record of 5-0-0 in those contests, compared to 2-5-0 when allowing the game's first goal. The Blueshirts have posted a 5-0-0 mark when leading after the first and second periods.
The Blueshirts have posted a record of 4-1-0 when out-shooting their opponents, which ranks third in the NHL. The Rangers are 3-4-0 when being out-shot by their opponent.
The Rangers are tied for second in the league in hits (359) this season. Rangers captain Ryan Callahan leads the team and is tied for 13th in the league with 37 hits, while Brian Boyle is tied for 25th in the NHL with 33 hits.
The Blueshirts have had eight players make their Rangers debut this season – Jeff Halpern, Rick Nash, Taylor Pyatt, Brandon Segal, Arron Asham, Benn Ferriero, Darroll Powe and J.T. Miller.
The Rangers have won seven of the last 10 contests after dropping their first two games of the season, including a 4-1-0 mark in the last five contests
The Blueshirts enter the contest with a three-game winning streak, and have out-scored their opponents, 13-5, over the span
The Rangers' penalty kill has held opponents scoreless in each of the last three games (11 times shorthanded)
Henrik Lundqvist — is 6-3-0 with a 2.10 GAA and a .922 Sv% in his last nine games; has held opponents to two goals or less in five of his last eight games (5-3-0, 1.99 GAA, .926 Sv% over the span)
Carl Hagelin — six points (four goals, two assists) in the last five games, including four points (three goals, one assist) in the last two
Marc Staal — four assists in the last five games
Dan Girardi — three assists in the last two games
Rick Nash — three points (one goal, two assists) in the last two games
Ryan McDonagh — three points (one goal, two assists) in the last three games
Michael Del Zotto — 5 points from 100th NHL career
Steven Eminger — 4 points from 100th NHL career
Darroll Powe — 2 games from 300th NHL career
J.T. Miller — 1st career NHL game (2/5 at NJD)
Chris Kreider — 1st career regular season NHL goal/point (2/5 at NJD)
J.T. Miller — 1st career NHL goal/point (2/7 vs. NYI)
Chris Kreider — 1st career regular season NHL assist (2/7 vs. NYI)
Matt Gilroy — 200th career NHL game (2/12 at BOS)
Michael Sauer (concussion, 12/5/11) — 12
Total Man-Games Lost: 23


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Monday, November 11, 2013 - 16:37 PM
Meinl Artists at Woodstick Big Beat 2013
Don't miss the 2013 Woodstick Bigbeat, hosted by Donn Bennett Drum studios, and featuring Meinl artists Mike Johnston and J.P. Bouvet.
WHERE: Emerald Queen Showroom, 2024 E.29th St, Tacoma WA 98404
WHEN: November 24th, Sunday 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Doors open at 10:00 AM
Plan to arrive no later than 2:00pm in order to be set up before the event starts. Free drum clinics and drum performances, featuring Mike Johnston and J.P. Bouvet will begin at 11:00 am up until 3:00 pm show time.
- General Admission Spectator ($10.00)
- General Admission Participant ($15.00)
- Gold Package ($150.00): Guaranteed spot in the first four rows in front of the stage for you to set up your own drums.
- Platinum Package ($250.00): We supply a drumset, set up and waiting for you in the first or second row in front of the stage. After the show you can simply walk away. Includes a meet and greet session with all guest artists immediately prior to the show, a commemorative laminate and a commemorative Big Beat logo snare drum head.
The Woodstick Big Beat is a fundraising event to raise money for local school music programs. We highly encourage all participants to raise pledges much like you would in a walk-a-thon. All participants who raise over $100 in pledges will be entered to win a huge drum package from our sponsors.
If you participate, you'll need drums to bring a drum set. You can bring as large a set as you like but to count towards a world record it must consist of at least the following:
- A bass drum with a pedal
- A snare drum with a stand
- A tom tom
- A hi-hat, ride or crash cymbal
- Any and all spikes must be retracted or covered with rubber feet
- You MUST bring a small carpet/rug to set up on large enough so that none of your hardware touches the floor
There will be over $10,000 in prizes to be awarded to Woodstick participants.
Anyone can enter the drum set contests. Prizes awarded in each category for:
- Coolest drum kit
- Best Vintage drum kit.


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CUMBERLAND -- Pauline Mary LePage, 94, of Cumberland, passed away 3:45 a.m. Monday (Jan. 28, 2013) at Summit Acres Nursing Home, Caldwell.
She was born April 6, 1918, in Muskingum County, daughter of the late David "Melvin" and Anna "Maude" (Hickman) Spratt.
Mrs. LePage was a homemaker and worked for the Craft Hardware Store in Cumberland. She was a 50 year member of the Order of Eastern Star Guernsey Chapter No. 211 in Cambridge, where she was a past matron, she was also a member of American Legion Auxiliary of Belle Valley, the Valley Grange of Cambridge, the Cumberland Spencer Homemakers and Buffalo Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by her son, John E. LePage Jr. of Cumberland; a daughter, Patricia (Shon) Finley of Pleasant City; her grandchildren, Kathy (Chris) Graham of Cumberland and Lynn Finley of Pleasant City; three great-grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; her sister-in-law, Alice LePage of South Zanesville; three nephews; two nieces; and many special friends and neighbors.
In addition to her parents, Pauline was preceded in death by her husband, John E. LePage, on Feb. 4, 2007; and her brother, John Robert Spratt; a sister-in-law, Evelyn Spratt; and a brother-in-law, Harold LePage.
Visitations will be 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today (Wednesday) at the Farus Funeral Home, Cumberland, where funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday with Pastor Jim Gibson officiating.
OES Guernsey Chapter No. 211, Cambridge, will have services at 7:30 p.m. this evening at the funeral home
Mrs. LePage will be laid to rest beside her husband in Zion Cemetery.
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text: Grade: One-and-one-half stars (out of four)The experience of watching "Crystal Fairy," screening in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, is what it feels like to have someone tell you a long story about something that isn't that interesting in the fist place. Director and screenwriter Sebastian Silva revealed in the Q-and-A after the film that the film shoot took 12 days and was largely improvised, and the result is what you would expect: an unfocused, self-indulgent film that feels much longer than than its running time of 100 minutes. While the three Silva brothers are charming and Gaby Hoffmann (as the title character) gives a revealing (in more ways than one), stand-out performance, the story about a quintet of young people traveling to the coast in Chile to try out mescaline (based on what Silva said happened to him about two decades ago) never really goes anywhere. The majority of the last half of the film is spent watching these characters a they trip out after drinking the mescaline, and it is like watching a video game that someone else is playing: they are apparently having fun, but you're bored stiff. David Burger


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WINTER PARK, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's soccer team could not withstand a second half barrage as the Lions dropped a South Region contest to Rollins College by a 7-2 final score.
Despite the final tally, the Lions played the Tars (5-2) very evenly in the opening stanza, answering a Rollins goal in the second minute with a tally of their own in the 24th. That goal came when Saint Leo freshman Arielle Kabangu broke free on the left side and beat the Rollins keeper to draw the score even.
An adjustment made by Rollins at half was not able to be matched by Saint Leo (3-3) and the host Tars were able to spin the scoreboard six times before the Lions answered with a Stephanie Marran header to wrap up scoring.
Mary Spring picked up the win in goal for Rollins, playing 80 minutes and snagging two saves with one goal allowed. Shelby Finch played the final 10 minutes in goal.
For the Lions, Abby Evans played the full 90 for Saint Leo tallied 11 saves.
Saint Leo returns home this weekend and will face Eckerd College in another region match. Kick off on Leukemia Awareness Night is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
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Hi there I just wanted to say hi to everyone here in Lovie Land! I have been reading the forums on here for a couple days now and I was so excited to register. I have my very first Lovie! I got it when it was 7 weeks and hand fed (or that's what the lady told me when I got it) He or she is now 3 1/2 months old. All she told me was the it was a masked lovebird. Me not knowing to ask if its a black masked or black cheeked. I have to figure out how to load the pic of him or her. I named it Lenny or Lenni. Maybe you guys can help me to figure out how or if I can figure out if its a male or female without waiting for eggs or something. Or even if indeed it a black masked or black cheeked. Thank you all in advance!
And I have to say now that ALL of the pictures of all the different birds you guys own on here are beautiful!


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Now based in San Diego, he is one of Southern California's premiere DJ/Video DJ's and has garnered an expansive following and fanbase. He has also expanded his playlist to the "Open Format" Mulch-Genre Club rocking sets, to the underground bass sounds of Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Moombahton, and Electro, all while still Djing using custom Music Video content. Ramsey's passion and appreciation for music is infectious and because of it he easily commands the crowds and clubs he plays. His resume shows his mastery of the turntables with experience spinning at some of the most prestigious clubs in the nation such as The Foundation Room at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Belo and Altitude in San Diego as well as various locations in Dallas, Denver, Chicago and New York.
Not being content to stay one dimensional Ramsey took on a new challenge in 2008 and learned the art of Video DJing. In just a year's time he earned a spot competing against some of the nation's finest VDJ's in the Video DJ Challenge at Miami's annual Winter Music Conference. During the WMC he was a featured VDJ and played alongside other artists including Eclectic Method in the Ultra Video Tent. Add to that his weekly video mix show on Jelly Radio which attracts a global audience and solidifies DJ Ramsey as one of the most prominent VDJ's nationwide.


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After seven years in the planning, London 2012 is almost upon us. With the final preparations underway, I got thinking about a recent chat I had with Matt Snelson, Assistant Head at The County High School, Leftwich in Cheshire.
The school recently held its annual Media Arts Day, which this year was themed around The Olympics. The day saw students from Years 7 up to 11 all taking part in workshops spanning the entire curriculum. These included taking part in alternative sports in Physical Education, an Olympics Enterprise workshop in Maths lessons, Drama classes running Street and Chinese dance, Olympic Song Writing in Music, and a whole host of creative workshops including clay-based animation and website creation to name but a few!
Several of the workshops involved pupils engaging with tools such as Adobe Creative Suite. For instance, Fireworks was used to create animations and Photoshop to make Olympics themed banners. Students also used Premiere Pro and After Effects to help put together a video wrap-up of the day, and Soundbooth to create a radio show for the school's radio station LOL (Leftwich out Loud) FM. What a great way to get students experimenting with creative tools!
Have you done anything special to celebrate London 2012 with your school? If so, I'd love to hear from you!


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Students at Ilkley Grammar School are busy putting in the rehearsal hours for their upcoming staging of The Seven Ages of Man. The shows will take place on Tuesday, February 18, Wednesday, February 19 and Thursday, February 20.
Shakespeare's famous speech from As You Like It - "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages" - provides the structure for this year's school production.
Jess Watson, teacher in Drama and English, said: "Students are using a lively combination of art, dance, drama, media, music and song to take the audience through the stages from infancy to old age."
This year more than 100 students are involved in the production from year seven up to year 13, and they are building on strong foundations to engage audiences yet again in 2014.
Tickets are £5 and £3 (concessions) and are available from reception.


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WALKING the Petite Chartres Labyrinth closed the 'Flowers on the Full Moon' event in Ilkley on Friday.
The moving, closing ceremony was accompanied by Julie Darling's beautiful Celtic Harp music.
People had come from all over the country, to join with local people, in this day to focus on the power of flower and vibrational essences, including the Bailey Essences, Celtic Harp Essences and Verbeia essences and body care range, which are all made locally.
There were discussions about how essences work, how they combine with other modalities of healing and how to make an essence.
A new essence was made during the day which was preserved and bottled and placed at the centre of the labyrinth, to be collected when people arrived at the centre of the labyrinth and held by each individual, as they walked the path back out from the centre of the labyrinth.
This particular labyrinth was made by local creative, healing artist, Linda King, who said: "Labyrinths are not like mazes; you cannot get lost; you just trust the way. The labyrinth is one of our great, universal symbol. Following the path can be relaxing, calming and enjoyable and we can often return with a greater sense of ease, lightness and joy, having left some of our worries behind on it."
The 'Flowers on the Full Moon' day was the first major event to be organised by the Therapists of Ilkley group and it took place on Friday, June 13at the Craiglands Hotel. The Therapists of Ilkley group now numbers over 100, meets monthly and exchanges information on healing and health matters.
Founder of the group, Jenny Howarth, said: "The group is a very loose and easy network, and we have developed a strong, shared aim to bring Ilkley back on to the map as the 'Healing Centre of the North'. Look out for our next event, or contact Jenny on firstname.lastname@example.com"


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The older I get, the more obvious it becomes to me that metabolism does slow down. It's like I eat one piece of candy and gain five pounds. Trying to lose it is a never ending battle. Sitting in front of a computer all day long working Soapdom is no help either, although I do try to get out and go to the gym, or walk a few miles each day.
Still, my skin is not as firm as it used to be. Not only that, I live in Los Angeles, which is basically a desert with piped in water. The climate here is very dry and my skin, especially my hands, feet, calves and arms get very dry. So, what to do?
There are so many products out there on the market. Which one to try? Which one to use? We are so bombarded with media blitzes on a barrage of new products, I usually don't purchase any of them, cos there are just too many to choose from.
This was my plight until a new acquaintance told me about a skin care product out of Australia just now hitting the shores of the US. It's called Become Lift & Firm Gel. It is supposed to help with cellulite (Come on. Which one of us is not obsessed with that?) and moisturize. It's got Aloe, Bladderwrack Extract (whatever that is, but if it helps it helps), Brazilian Seaweed and Carnitine. You're to apply after showering while your skin is still warm.
I started using it yesterday. It's got a different consistency than you would expect, not greasy or oily in any way. It kinda tingles as you're applying it. Let's see if this could be the end to my dry skin and encroaching cellulite woes. I'll keep you posted.


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Landscape links from around world published in the last week
What is a Landscape Architect? | Katrina | Exscapes
"America isn't keeping up with advances in planning issues and sustainable design. Businesses should be soaking up all the landscape architects they can. Many are also giving up their title because it is expensive to maintain a practicing license and many are not able to keep up with it due to layoffs."
From Parking Lot to Paradise – the Revenge of Urban Agriculture | Charles Birnbaum | The Cultural Landscape Foundation
"Today, however, we have home food production, urban farming, productive gardens, or whatever else you might want to call this movement – and it's hot."
The Fearless Grady Clay | Daniel Jost | Landscape Architecture Magazine
"Few journalists have had a greater impact on the field of landscape architecture than Grady Clay, Honorary ASLA, who died on Sunday at the age of 96. He was the editor of this magazine for nearly a quarter century—from 1960 to 1984."
Out now: Topos 82, About Landscape
Latest edition of Topos Magazine – "All around the world people associate something different with the term landscape."
Faculty Wins Minneapolis Creative City Challenge | LSU – Robert Reich Landscape School of Landscape Architecture
Director and Associate Professor Bradley Cantrell working with Invivia + urbainDRC won the Minneapolis Creative City Challenge with their proposal: The Minneapolis Interavtive Macro Mood Installation (MIMMI).
New Filipino landscape architects as results of Landscape Architect Licensure Examination announced
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 20 out of 31 passed the Landscape Architect Licensure Examination given by the Board of Landscape Architecture in Manila this March 2013.
We Moved! | Landscape Architecture Foundation
In line with the organization's growth, LAF has moved to a new office in downtown Washington,


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The Phoenix Suns signed rookie free agent Anthony Lever-Pedroza to a contract Friday, completing their 15-man roster for training camp.
Lever-Pedroza, the son of former Arizona State and NBA star Lafayette "Fat" Lever, has played two professional seasons in Mexico and averaged 9.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in four games for the Mexican National Team at the FIBA Americas Championship from Aug. 24-Sept. 4.
He also played for Sacramento's summer league team this year.
A native of Tucson, Lever-Pedroza played three years of college ball at Oregon, setting the school season record for three-point accuracy with 50 percent (53-of-106) in 2001-02.


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LIVINGSTON, Texas - A Livingston youth pastor and youth coach is behind bars, charged with possession of child pornography and sexual assault of a child.
A traffic stop in Georgia led investigators to 46 year-old David Shannon's Polk County home on Wednesday. Investigators said the driver of the car in Georgia had child pornography, including a thumb drive with a video of a man sexually assaulting a boy.
Detectives said they traced the thumb drive back to Shannon and confirmed that he was the man in the video. Shannon's wife identified the victim in the video as the son of family friends.
"We want any potential child victim or their parents to know who to contact," said Joe Martin, Polk County's first assistant district attorney. "Anyone with information should contact the Polk County Sheriff's Office."
The D.A.'s office said this plea is because of Shannon's involvement with youth. He was active with the Polk County Youth Football and Baseball Leagues, in which his two sons played.
Parents and team leaders met at Pedigo Park on Thursday to talk about the charges against Shannon. They agreed that the kids love Shannon, who is also a youth pastor at his church. Parents said he frequently visited Livingston Intermediate Junior High School and High School to have lunch with students.
"There's an ongoing investigation," said Martin. "We have spoken to a number of potential victims, and there are some being interviewed right now."
Shannon is in jail on $50,000 bond. The D.A.'s office said any new allegations or outcries will be presented to the grand jury.
A background check revealed Shannon has no prior criminal history. Records show that he has lived in Livingston for the past five years. He previously lived in Kansas, Arkansas, Florida, and Dallas.
If you have any information about Shannon, or if you would like to speak with detectives, contact the Polk County Sheriff's Department.
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You can read my formal review of Right Stuf's Gasaraki re-release in the January 2012 issue of Otaku USA magazine, but I had a few more things to say on the topic that wouldn't fit into a 650 word review.
In case you haven't read the magazine (and why not? You like this website right? The magazine is even better…), Gasaraki is a mech series from 1998 directed by the great Ryousuke Takahashi, who is fondly remembered as the creator of VOTOMS. I learned the importance of VOTOMS to early American anime fans by reading Colony Drop's zine. Back in the days before fansubs, VOTOMS episode guides were all the rage at anime conventions.
Gasaraki got an expensive DVD release from ADV in 2002, and to this very day you can still pick up the clunky eight volume set used on the Internet cheaply. But that doesn't mean you'll like it…
Put simply, Gasaraki is more or less the opposite of Code Geass. In Gasaraki, ugly characters fight present day political battles with realistic mobile suits. Rather than bright colors and sexy girls joking around, the average looking ladies in Gasaraki (when there are ladies, which is rare) fight dead-serious battles in very dark and muted colors.
If Geass was designed to appeal to a broad audience of young people, Gasaraki was designed to appeal to a narrow audience of older men. Gasaraki isn't kids stuff, in fact it isn't even for the robot market it seems directed at; no, it's a Japanese bureaucrat's sci-fi fantasy. Indeed, the characters are inspired by a stoic apparatchik, Mr. Nishima, whose extreme right wing views motivate him to pull strings behind the scenes in order to bring the old ways back to Japan. He's a man of such pure (and kooky) ideals that he blinded himself with a samurai sword because he couldn't stand to see the direction Japan was moving in. In other words, Mr. Nishima is disgusted by foreign influence.
Gasaraki is an intensely political show, especially in the final third of the series, as Mr. Nishima (and he's not even the protagonist, the protagonist is arguably Gasaraki's pilot, Yushiro Gowa) attempts to cause a financial crisis by manipulating the price of wheat on the stock market. It doesn't make for exciting viewing if you don't know much about stock trading. And if you do know something about stock trading, it makes for some serious eye-rolling and much monocle-popping. Nishima radically (and obviously) overestimates Japan's ability to tilt world markets. He thinks that by flooding the American market with cheap wheat crops, he can crash the stock market, and therefore collapse the entire world's economy. What, really? As goes the wheat market, so goes the world? His farfetched scheme serves to highlight that in the narrow-minded mythos of Gasaraki there seem to be only three countries in the entire world (despite the existence of the United Nations): Japan, America, and the stand in for a godforsaken third-world country "Belgistan." Only Japan and America seem to count for anything. No other super powers or first world countries are offering up weapons technologies in the near future of Gasaraki.
Some of the Belgistan storyline eerily predicts what eventually happened in Iraq. Weapons of mass destruction (in this case, advanced mechs) are hidden in Belgistan by a mustachioed dictator and become the impetus for an invasion. When the assault actually takes place, though, it just continues to demonstrate how disinterested Gasaraki is in satisfying military SF fans (who might otherwise be its target audience). Despite being a future war, fought with futuristic bells and whistles, it winds up being a tank battle fought in the style of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. No [military] thought went into the execution of these scenes, not even the slightest nod to the present realities of war (even circa 1998), with no air or satellite support for this poor beleaguered tank battalion who are quickly eliminated by the onslaught of mechs. The purpose of this scene is to demonstrate how fearsome these new mechs are in combat, but instead it does nothing but highlight how ham-handedly the world of Gasaraki has been developed.
Ultimately, Nishima's plan is to get Japan out of its deep recession by throwing it into a depression. As the wizened statesman explains in one of his many extended metaphors, the country is like an old diseased tree that needs to be burned down completely. You know, screw it. Grow a new tree. Nishima believes that if the people are desperately poor enough, they'll revert to traditional culture, bringing back the samurai feudal system… and this guy is set up as something of a hero in Gasaraki, whose ultimate failure to bring on global catastrophe (this time by, er, literally blowing up the Japanese stock market) is blamed not on his harebrained schemes, but rather on his too, too pure idealism. This, in contrast to the far more pragmatic America, to whom he ultimately concedes victory.
Thus Gasaraki seems to have been intended as cold comfort for the legions of functionaries still reeling from the burst of Japan's Bubble Economy. Sure, they may just be going through the highly ritualized motions of running a country whose glory days have passed, but at least they had principles! Unfortunately, as Gasaraki clearly demonstrates, principles alone don't make a good anime; you also need a compelling plot, complex characters, interesting designs, etc., etc…
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You sure it landed? There's still a bug that when you throw it doesn't land but goes on cd.
Edit: It also happens to my ES Macro (the same like the other one) can it be if you press another skill to fast he just cancel it in an instant? Just a feeling i got..
Edit2: Problem solved...too simple...and too fail >.>
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Is the Garalon neck better than the heroic elite neck with the upgrade system?
I got lucky enough to get LFR tier chest and tier shoulders, but when we killed wind lord, not a single conq glove token drops and only got gold from the Charm. So lame.
Pre-pull SW->HA macro has been ninja-fixed. Now unlearning SW with wings active just removes your wing buff leaving you with cd.
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Anyway, did you guys come to any conclusion whether we DS or TV on 2 targets with the 2 piece set bonus?
Draenei I'm 100% sure it's unuseable.
It really depends on how much hit rating is wasted overcap 1% over is way too much.
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Also Darkmist normal might not be so bad with our new 2 sec CD. Relic is a terrible +upgrade item like +200 str total on proc for 2/2 while orders gains 400 for a longer duration. Kay.
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Hey guys i recently got Bracers of Defiled Earth (Elite) and was wondering if i should use it over Bonded Soul Bracers (RF). I'm alittle worried about using defiled earth because i'd be losing more haste and i recently got 2 peices of tier so my haste is low as it is, would end up going down to 7,500 haste.
What do you guys think? Divintia is my name on armory, couldn't post a link.


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PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball program has entered into a radio agreement with WNTP (990 AM) and WFIL (560 AM) for the 2012-13 season, and will also have as many as 12 games air on WXPN (88.5 FM) this season.
WNTP/WFIL have been the radio home of Penn football the lastseven seasons, and provide full coverage of the city of Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. WNTP and WFIL are sister stations owned by Salem Communications.
WNTP will broadcast 11 games this season beginning with Penn's NIT Season Tip-Off game against Delaware that will be played in Charlottesville, Va., on Monday, Nov. 12. (Fans should note that the broadcast of Penn's NIT game the next night will be based on who the Quakers play in the second round. If it's Fairfield at 4:30, the game will only be audio-streamed on the PennAthletics.com website; if it's Virginia at 7 p.m., WXPN 88.5 FM will broadcast the game locally with PennAthletics.com also airing the audio.)
WFIL will broadcast seven games, beginning with the Quakers' neighborhood tussle against Drexel on Saturday, Nov. 17.
A member-supported radio station of the University of Pennsylvania, WXPN continues its longstanding affiliation with the Penn men's basketball program with as many as a dozen games in 2012-13, starting with the Quakers' opener on Friday, Nov. 9 against UMBC.
At this time, local radio rights have yet to be announced for Penn's game at Temple on Wednesday, Jan. 23. As always, however, an audio stream of every game on the Quakers' schedule can be heard through the Penn Athletics website, PennAthletics.com.
Again this year, Brian Seltzer will provide play-by-play with Vince Curran serving as the primary color commentator. Stan Pawlak will step in for Curran for selected games during the season.
Download: 2012-13 MBK Schedule (radio).pdf


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Sephora Launches New Shadow Collection, Colorful Eyeshadows!
With 80 new colors and four finishes, you can pick a color for each mood and the perfect finish for any event!
-Shante Booker
Last Tuesday, the beauty innovators at Sephora launched their new, vivacious 2013 eye shadow collection, Colorful Eyeshadows! The collection remains true to its name, providing an array of colors—80, to be exact—all available in four different finishes: Matte, shimmer, glitter and the brand-new "mirror effect." Each shadow is intense and long-lasting; they also compliments each other well, so mixing is encouraged.
Read Beauty Road Test: Pur Minerals' Limited Edition 'Beautiful Creatures' Palette
Keeping you on-the-go Bettys in mind, Sephora has also created a new customizable magnetic case for your palettes. Palettes are available in both three-shadow ($12 or free with the purchase of two shadows) and six-shadow options ($14 or free with the purchase of four shadows). This magnetic case is so secure that it comes with the Sephora Colorful Eyeshadow Key, an actual key used to pop out each shadow.
Cute, right? You can purchase your palettes and shadows on Sephora's website. Don't forget to mix and match!
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AFTER a 10-year break, Cast are back together and winning as many plaudits as they did first time round.
The band, whose debut album All Change, was one of the biggest sellers of the mid 90s play Blackburn next Friday and singer John Power admits that the band's renaissance is something he'd never thought would happen.
"To be honest, I never thought we'd get together again," said Power, who was also a members of the hugely influential Liverpool band The La's.
"But we're all older and wiser now and I think we all realise what we have together.
"When you are setting off it's very much a you against the world mentality and I think we're all that bit more mature now."
Top 10 hits such as Walk Away and Sandstorm quickly made Cast one of the rising stars around the Brit Pop scene. Before they even had a record label, the band supported both Elvis Costello and Oasis.
"To be recognised by artists such as that was a massive boost to us," said John. "We were just young kids really."
Cast split in 2001 after five albums with John content with writing songs and performing as a solo artist.
"I would get asked to put Cast songs into my solo shows and I didn't mind playing them," he said.
"We had never set out to be stars. I was and still am in love with the idea of songwriting."
In 2010 Cast got back together and began touring.
"I think we all realised immediately that when we are on stage together we have this great dynamic," said John. "The first time round we were playing some pretty big venues but we were possibly too young or too naïve to fully appreciate it.
"Now we have all got our own interests musically and we have all improved as musicians."
Last year Cast released the album Trouble Times to critical acclaim and have been touring extensively.
"We have been on the road pretty much for 18 months," said John. "The response has been great and the set includes songs from the early days right through to the new album. I think after the next few shows we will be taking some time out from the road to put an EP together.
"But we will definitely be sticking together."
Support comes from local bands The Wagon Wheels and Lava Gunk.
n Cast, King George's Hall, Blackburn, Friday, February 15. Details from 0844 847 1664. Tickets include admission to the Late Shift after show party.


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Carolina fans don't know exactly how to feel after last night. The Tar Heels lost to their sworn enemy, but also took the nation's second ranked team right down to the wire on their home court. And out of nowhere Roy Williams essentially became the anti-Roy by switching his offense up and starting PJ Hairston.
It was only a few years ago in '08 at Cameron that Roy duped Coach K by having his team switch on screens late in the game, prompting the Devils to not score a bucket over the final 5 minutes. And again Wednesday night the famed coach who famously "can't coach" dumbfounded the Blue Devils for the majority of the game. And if it hadn't been for The Duke Run at the 16 minute mark (11 points in just two minutes), this one might have had the same outcome as Hansbrough's boys.
Though to be fair, that game was more about Danny Green's 18-8-7-1 than Hansbrough. But I digress.
Duke had no response for UNC's small-ball lineup. Though, just calling it "small-ball" doesn't do justice. What the lineup allowed was for the Heels to go big on Duke's guards. Williams cleared out the paint with McAdoo's movement and sent his wings (Hairston, Bullock and McDonald) to post-up on Duke's smaller perimeter players on the weak side.
Coach K had no answer. It wasn't just a coincidence that the Heels hadn't seen lanes that wide open since their last practice in the Dean Dome. Roy exploited Duke's overplay on defense in the same way that an offensive coordinator purposely lets a team blitz to set up the screen pass.
But the Tar Heels just eventually ran out of gas — the inevitable downside to tightening up the rotation, even if it meant PJ Hairston was finally a bigger part of it.
At least Hairston didn't disappoint. In the words of Charles Barkley, "That boy competed."
PJ tied career highs in points and rebounds (23 & 8), but that doesn't tell half the story. The easy narrative from the game will be that Hairston was finally in the box score starting lineup, but that won't cover how much he was actually in the box score. Literally. PJ was the only Tar Heel to register a statistic in every category.
The kid was everywhere. He guarded the seven foot Mason Plumlee. He drew fouls. He drew charges. He got blocks. He was getting to tip-ins. And even when he was missing tip-ins, he was still getting to those tip-ins. Without Hairston's scoring Duke would have gone on a 23-4 run from the 14 to 7 minute marks in the second period.
But with about 6 minutes to go, Hairston and Bullock both came back into the game with their hands on their hips, breathing hard. A few glances were exchanged around press row as if to say "whelp, it was fun, but that's it."
It's no coincidence that this was when the Tar Heels started missing free throws. The Heels shot 56% from the chairty stripe (13-23), but the excuse is obvious: they just got tired. Four players getting over 30 minutes in this game will do that. Bullock and Hairston both had or tied season highs in minutes, and the heat was cranked up as always in Cameron.
After their run Duke never relinquished control of game in which they had 17 TOs and didn't hit their second three until 25 minutes of play had passed.
How many Tar Heel fans would have taken those two stats and felt pretty good about their chances?
But box scores can be deceiving. On paper McAdoo had one of his worst games of the season with 9 points on 4 of 12 shooting — though that was more or less a product of Roy's decision to go small. McAdoo probably took too many jumpers but that's what your big man should do when you're trying to clear the lane.
If anything, McAdoo did his job with a few dunks and fulfilled his timely role of keeping Plumlee as far from the basket as possible. Duke's center looked good in the box score but was clearly frustrated for the first ¾ of the basketball game and JMM has to get some credit for that.
The nonstory of the night was UNC's bench. Leslie played well and had a few solid rebounds but only three points total from your reserves isn't going to cut it. Johnson and Tokoto were no shows (7 minutes total) but as their first game in Cameron, you can't blame them. Brice looked fairly comfortable and had a few shots rim-out, but Roy was only going to play one big and a freshman wasn't going to get it done.
—And not in an environment like Cameron. The theater and the showmanship for this game is first class every time (like Roy's "last minute decision" to start PJ Hairston…). It could never be oversold. But the always fun discussion about whether this game is just another game is important because as far as the record book goes, it is. Wednesday was another L in the books; the Tar Heels are now 16-8.
And March is coming fast
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Billy Wagner is out indefinitely. Omar Minaya believes the answer will come from within, and he has confidence in those pitchers. By the way, that group has combined for 20 blown saves. It would seem obvious Philly has the closer edge with Lidge over anybody the Mets will throw out there.
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Oliver Perez going for the Mets tonight. He's given up just 14 runs over his last nine starts.
Using a starter out of the pen is all but a dead issue. John Maine was their first choice, but his fastball isn't there and he's got shoulder issues. Perez is pitching too well to be taken out of the rotation. They won't screw with Johan Santana and Pedro Martinez is too delicate. That leaves Mike Pelfrey, but manager Jerry Manuel doesn't want to mess with him, either.


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Men's Recap | Women's Recap
PHILADELPHIA - Less than one month apart, the men's and women's basketball teams each registered the largest comebacks in their history. In a remarkable season opener the men erased a 22-point deficit in just a little more than 14 minutes, and a few weeks later, the women pulled out a dramatic last-second victory after they trailed by 18 with less than eight mintues to play.
These record-setting efforts earned both teams the No. 9 spot among the Penn Top 10 Moments of 2012-13.
Jerome Allen's club rallied on the Retrievers to win its third consecutive season opener, erasing a 22-point deficit. The Quakers hounded the Retrievers, forcing 16 second-half turnovers, and took their first lead since it was 11-9 on a Cameron Gunter tip-in with 10:27 to play and the score 58-57, Penn. Miles Cartwright led all Penn players with 21 points, but it was the inspired play off the bench from Patrick Lucas-Perry which was a difference maker. PLP poured in 15 on 5-of-8 shooting in his breakout performance.
Junior Alyssa Baron capped the largest comeback in Penn women's basketball history with the winning basket with 6.4 seconds left. Penn trailed by 18 with 7:29 to play, but finished with a 22-3 run, including the game's final 15 points to win at St. Francis (N.Y.), 61-60, on Dec. 5 at the PPE Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sophomore Kathleen Roche, who finished with a career-high 20 points and seven rebounds, set a school record for threes in a half. All six of her treys (one off the Penn single-game record) came in the second half
The 2012-13 Penn Top 10 list was selected by members of the athletic department. But here is your chance to weigh in. Was this game ranked too high or too low? Who should be No. 1? Tell us what you think on Twitter with #PennTop10 or give us your thoughts on Facebook.
2012-13 Penn Top 10
No. 1 - July 17
No. 2 - July 15
No. 3 - July 10
No. 4 - July 8
No. 5 - July 3
No. 6 - July 1
No. 7 - June 26
No. 8 - June 24
No. 9 - Historic Basketball Comebacks
No. 10 - Men's Lacrosse Rolls Past #14 Duke, 14-9


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Hero and Partner Evolution
I have found thatit realy is possible to get you and youre partner to evolve, but it requires something very specific. In order to evolve, you need to get Palkia to join youre team. after palkia joins your team,immediently go to luminous spring to see the result.
It is true, that you need to clear the game two times. Dialga in Part 1, and Darkrai, Palkia twice to do that. Your starters go up to Levels 40~50.
Who wrote this?
I don't mean to sound rude, but whoever wrote this sounds like they didn't get halfway through the game...
MazNator 19:52, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
- Well, if you think you can do better, then how about editing the page? ; ) — Wattz2000 20:40, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
- Per Wattz. Don't complain when there is clearly an edit button. Jazzi 21:46, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
- Yep, allright. I know, allready edited some of it... its gonna take alot of work.
- MazNator 22:40, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
- While you guys are at it, what are the differences between time and darkness?I'm epic...is that a problem? (talk) 15:43, November 24, 2012 (UTC)


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Feb 27 09 1:30 PM
Ightenhill wrote:
ImperialMajor wrote:
Enter ETW: 2 min
Enter Land battle: 4 min 10 sec
System Specs
windows vista ultimate 64 Sp1
amd athlon 64 x2 dual core 4400
8800 GT 512mb
2gb ram
everything on except v sync and at thier highest settings
plays smooth as silk too
same video card ..same RAM.. almost same game settings apart from grass but 4mins+.. Whats happening here.... I'm never getting past 60seconds
I doubt if its relevent but I run diskeeper on all machines... Not a frag in sight..
ImperialMajor wrote:
Enter ETW: 2 min
Enter Land battle: 4 min 10 sec
System Specs
windows vista ultimate 64 Sp1
amd athlon 64 x2 dual core 4400
8800 GT 512mb
2gb ram
everything on except v sync and at thier highest settings
plays smooth as silk too
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Feb 27 09 1:44 PM
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Feb 27 09 1:48 PM
Tassen wrote:
Try to unpack just the first pack file, demo1.pack, and see if there's a difference. For me, it was like night and day!
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Feb 27 09 4:21 PM
ShellShockEZB wrote:
I suggest it may be helpful to use the Windows perfmon tool to capture detailed performance counters. Run perfmon from Start, Run. In Vista there is a
pre-defined Data Collector Set for System Performance, which has many very useful counters. I won't have time to do this myself until Sunday, so here is
the brief idea of how this works.
You need a clock/watch that is independent to your PC clock.
Synchronise your watch time with your PC clock time, to the second.
Start the Data Collector Set for System Performance (or define your own with the same counters).
Make a note of the watch time (hours, minutes, seconds) and start Empire at the same time.
When the Sega splash screen appears, note the watch time again, at that time.
Make a note of the watch time (hours, minutes, seconds) and start the land battle at the same time.
When the battle is displayed, note the watch time again, at that time.
Exit Empire.
Stop the Data Collector Set.
In Performance Monitor, click Ctrl+L to load the log file you have just captured (the properties for the Data Collector Set has the location of the log
Go into the Properties (Ctrl+Q). On the Source tab, set the time range to the watch times you recorded above, either for the Empire load or the battle load.
This narrows the data set to when the problem actually occurred.
Now add counters of interest (Ctrl+I). For example, for the Process object, you should see an Empire instance. This will have lots of counters for Empire,
e.g., processer, memory, I/O.
This performance information is captured to a single binary blg file. It would be great if this info could be of use to CA; I'm sure people here would be
willing to submit it to them.
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Feb 27 09 5:32 PM
Graphics all maxed out without AA.
1280 x 1024 75Hz
Loading Time from Launch to Menu: 01:00:30
Loading Time from Menu to Land Battle: 01:44:92
System Specifications:
- Intel Core Duo 2.66Ghz (2CPUs)
- Radeon 4870 HD 1GB (Newest Driver)
- 2 GB Ram
- Realtek HD Audio
- Windows XP
- DX9 ( Newest Version)
Hope it helps ;)
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Feb 28 09 12:24 AM
By using DebugView you can see what is taking so long.
For me the part that takes most time on start up is
Opening database: Opened BATTLE_ENTITY_MAN_ANIMATION_TABLES (41668ms delta, 67323ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total
That bit took over 40 seconds.
Starting the game is particularly slow at the 2 times it does:
Done FX_MANAGER::create_resource
Those two take over a minute together.
Feb 28 09 1:20 AM
Feb 28 09 12:22 PM
good afternoon wrote:
By using DebugView you can see what is taking so long.
By using DebugView you can see what is taking so long.
Feb 28 09 12:49 PM
Ightenhill wrote:
Though why I can do it in seconds and under a minute whilst others take way longer is still odd
Feb 28 09 1:13 PM
Feb 28 09 1:37 PM
Ightenhill wrote:
are we still thinking it only affects the 8 series or have you moved away from that.. (As I now have not got an 8 series in the room to test with anymore)
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Feb 28 09 7:38 PM
Land battle -- 121 seconds
Sea battle -- 101 seconds
Exit battle -- 56 seconds
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LAKELAND, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's soccer team (2-8-1, 1-5-1 SSC) fell to Sunshine State Conference counterpart Florida Southern (4-5-2, 2-1-1 SSC) by the score of 2-0, Monday afternoon from Barnett Field.
After holding the Mocs scoreless in the opening stanza, Florida Southern proceeded to post goals in the 65th and 74th minutes. The rival Mocs headed-up their victory by compiling 15 shots and holding an 11-1 advantage in corner kicks.
Lions' goalkeeper Abby Evans, facing seven shots in the first half, kept the pesky Florida Southern bunch off the board for the opening 45 minutes as she made three saves.
Unluckily, Florida Southern broke the scoreless affair in the 65th minute as Kara Moore, recipient of a penalty kick, put the ball past the hands of Evans to put the Mocs up 1-0.
Florida Southern, despite three Lions' shots near target, put the finishing touches on the match with Sarah Goolsby's second goal of the year off a feed from Gianna Conte in the 74th minute.
FSC compiled seven shots-on-goal. Additionally, the two teams combined for 15 fouls.
By the end of regulation Evans had collected five saves, while three seperate Lions registered shots.
The Lions will now travel to Miami Shores, Fla. to challenge the Barry University Buccaneers in a non-conference showdown. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. from Buccaneer Field.
For more on the women's soccer program, visit SaintLeoLions.com.
'Follow' the Lions on Twitter at Twitter.com/SaintLeoLions'. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook at Facebook.com/SaintLeoLions.
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Zucchini Granola Cookies Recipe
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"To use up an abundance of garden zucchini, try these wholesome soft-textured cookies," suggests Janice Brady of Des Moines, Washington.
Recommended: 27 Protein Powerhouse Snacks
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 cups granola without raisins
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups shredded zucchini
- 1 package (10 to 12 ounces) semisweet chocolate or butterscotch chips
- In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, orange peel and vanilla. Combine flour, granola, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well.
- Stir in zucchini and chips.
- Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 6-1/2 dozen.
Originally published as Zucchini Granola Cookies in Taste of Home August/September 2001, p63
Reviews forZucchini Granola Cookies
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Reviewed Sep. 28, 2012
"Resist the urge to add extra zucchini. There is plenty. Also do not underbake or it gets a doughy taste, its pretty dense. They were ok. Was hoping for a little crunch with the granola but no."


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OK this may sound sillly but I would like to know at what temperature do most folks open their kiln??? My L&L says to wait until it is 250 F or below to open. So of course I open as soon as it hits 250 because one more second of waiting is just too much. But I get the feeling others wait for a much lower temp. So what is the consensus?
I did what most here do, pushing a bit at 300, taking plugs out etc... Then one day at about 250 degrees, I got to the shelf with the porcelain mugs, (the rest of the pieces were stoneware) and they had all shattered from thermal shock. Since then, I leave it until it is room temp.


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- Factory Orders, 10 a.m. (all times EST)
- Institute for Supply Management Non-Manufacturing Index, 10 a.m.
- Energy Information Administration Petroleum Status Report, 10:30 a.m.
- Chain Store Sales, released by each retailer in the morning with media tally following
- Jobless Claims, 8:30 a.m.
- Productivity and Costs, 8:30 a.m.
- Consumer Credit, 3 p.m.
- International Trade, 8:30 a.m.
- Wholesale Trade, 10 a.m.
This week will see only a modest amount of top-tier economic data, but there is still plenty to pore over. For example, while everyone seems to focus on the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing survey, remember that this sector comprises only 11% of the U.S. economy. The far-larger services patch -- the area that might produce the most new jobs -- is covered by the ISM non-manufacturing index, which is due Tuesday. This report is always a very good read, and it can help us divine what we might expect in other releases.
For example, you may remember me harping about the "inventory correction" for the past few months. Between the lines of the ISM non-manufacturing report is where we saw that wholesalers and retailers viewed their inventory levels as "too high" and wanted to hold back on adding more stock. What did we see in the gross domestic product report this past week? You guessed it: the inventory correction that subtracted 1.27 percentage points from GDP, and was responsible in large measure for its slight 0.1% contraction (along with the federal-defense-spending cutbacks and trade).
Speaking of trade, data scheduled for Friday will provide a good breakdown of international trade covering December. You will note that these data are released after the GDP report. Also, yes, you're right about the first GDP estimate -- this "advance" read from Jan. 30 did not include the actual international trade data for December. It was only an estimate. So pay attention to Friday's data, as these numbers can clue you in on the next GDP estimate, the "preliminary" read, due Feb. 28. That report will include the more complete numbers for international trade.
What do we know so far on exports and imports? For the former category, we might be most curious about goods exports, so let's take go back and a look at December's ISM manufacturing index. As for imports, we might want to see what wholesalers and retailers are buying from abroad, so we'll glance at the December ISM non-manufacturing index.
In the December manufacturing survey, we see that ISM's new-export-orders index registered at 51.5, or 4.5 points higher than the 47 reported in November. This month's reading represents the first month of growth in the index since May 2012, when the index had registered at 53.5. This is a good sign, and it speaks to perhaps healing markets overseas. It is not what I would call "robust" growth, but at least the direction is positive.
Since manufacturers import parts for goods which they proceed to make in the U.S., and which are then sold both domestically and overseas, the ISM-Manufacturing imports index is also instructive -- not only for trade data, but for the general health of the sector more broadly. ISM's imports index registered 51.5 in December, or 3.5 points higher than the 48 reading reported for November. It represents the first month of growth in the index since the July 2012 reading of 50.5.
This is also a positive sign, because at least some of those imported components are then used in the production of other things stateside. It means manufacturers might be planning to make more things -- and we did, in fact, see that manufacturing activity increase in January by 2.9 points to 53.1, according to a report released Feb. 1.
As for imports, the ISM non-manufacturing index suggests imports have decreased: The imports index contracted in December for the fourth time in the last six months. The reading, at 49, is 6.5 points lower than the 55.5 reported in November.
It's instructive here to look at the industries reporting growth or contraction. For instance, note that wholesalers and retailers reported a drop in imports -- and imports to these groups tend to be in the more widely followed "goods" category, rather than in "services." (Some of the other categories, meanwhile, reported no change or an increase in imports.)
The reason for this drop among wholesalers and retailers may be due to inventory sentiment. Far more services companies have reported inventories as being "too high" (24%) than "too low" (8%) -- and wholesalers, as a group, fell into the "too high" category, so they are likely to import less. However, we do see an uptick in total new orders across all industries, including among retailers: The metric came in at a strong 59.3 -- up from 58.1 in November -- meaning that sales are strong and improving. So the drop in import orders (likely for resale) probably isn't due to weaker sales expectations.
So if these ISM reports are a guide, we could see an improvement in the trade balance, with exports for goods potentially showing a bit of growth and imports mixed, depending on whether you look at manufacturers (up) or retailers and wholesalers (down). Of course, the ISM reports are sentiment surveys -- they are not measured in hard goods or dollars, as is the case for this week's international trade report. Bear that caveat in mind, as estimating international trade figures from other economic data is an imperfect exercise.


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In 2008, their virgin year as rally racers, Team New Mex Express took home the Willie Williams Award, the Palme d'Or of the annual Dustball Rally. Santa Fe-based driver and founder Matt Ruybal and navigator and co-driver John Paul Gonzales think they can score a repeat this August in the 1,500-mile scavenger hunt on wheels and attract enough sponsors to raise the $120,000 entry fee for the annual Gumball 3000 rally. Read their dust trail: teamnewmexexpress.blogspot.com
SFR: Is it a race or not?
JG: The saying goes: 'It's a rally, not a race.' What we get at the beginning of the rally is a sheet of paper with 'gimmicks' on it. These are clues to items that you'll see as you're driving along the highways. So you'll have a picture of a sign and you'll be asked to identify the location of the sign or you'll have to pick out the fourth letter of the third word of a street sign on the left of mile marker 20, and you string these together to answer a question. The competition is who is able to solve those questions the fastest and the most accurately and basically make the best time over the distance.
So, really this is competitive road tripping?
JG: I wouldn't say it's just a road trip, unless you also you want to boil Formula One racing to just guys in cars driving around in a circle.
Point taken…Do you guys have rules for the car stereo?
MR: Mostly during the rally we won't really have the radio on unless we need to get some sort of traffic information from it. In our rally-prepared vehicle, we have a citizen band radio like truckers use. We have a GPS; we're making phone calls down the road in order to get a clue. That's kind of how they write it, these gimmick rallies: They keep you busy the entire time.
Has it made a huge difference that gas prices dropped back to a buck-something?
MR: We worked with my brother, who is an engineering student at [University of New Mexico], and we actually mapped out fuel mileages at different altitudes and measured the conditions for certain scenarios so that we wouldn't run out of gas. You don't realize the extent of the efficiency until you look at all your receipts after you get back and really realize you traveled 1,000 miles on less gas than somebody traveling at highway speeds straight across country.
Do environmentalists ever get on your case for using gasoline for sport?
MR: Actually, no we haven't really gotten too much of a complaint. Rally vehicles are some of the best maintained I've seen anywhere.
JG: We are in the active search for a carbon-offset sponsor. We are conscious of the environmental impact of what I suppose some would call needless driving.
Matt, why don't you tell me about your ride?
MR: The vehicle that we use is a 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra, a classic American muscle car. It's just been a wonderful rally car because it combines all the creature comforts you need, such as air conditioning and cruise control, to keep pace in hilly areas without exhausting yourself.
The Legislature voted to ban text messaging while driving. Is that important to you?
MR: Our official stance is that the driver drives. When we are driving, we won't do anything unsafe or break any sort of code or law. If you get pulled over, it is really devastating to your overall placing in the rally. Once you're pulled over, it could be any amount of time that you're stuck on the side of the road.
What do you think of Santa Fe drivers?
MR: To be able to get through a town like Santa Fe, where you have people from all over the world driving, is the ultimate test. It's also the ultimate test place for a driver to be able to get in and out
of towns, in and out of small streets, big streets, around pedestrians.
JG: Santa Fe drivers made us grow up in a competitive environment. I think it gives us an edge overall.


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Topic: Interesting info found on Cancer Treatment Center of America website
Extrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer Risk Factors
Carcinoma of the extrahepatic bile duct is slightly more common in males, and most often occurs in between the ages of 50 and 60.
The following are some possible risk factors for extrahepatic bile duct cancer:
-Having chronic ulcerative colitis or certain diseases of the liver and bile duct
History of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC): This is thought to be an autoimmune disorder, one in which the body's own inflammatory cells attack the bile ducts. PSC causes progressive scarring and narrowing of the bile ducts, which block bile from reaching the intestines. Many patients eventually develop liver failure, necessitating a liver transplant. About 10 to 20 percent of patients with PSC will develop bile duct carcinoma. It is thought that the progressive epithelial injury and subsequent regeneration predisposes patients with PSC to carcinoma. More than half of patients with PSC have a history of another autoimmune disorder, idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease.
-Congenital abnormalities (abnormalities one is born with) of the bile ducts: These include choledochal cysts (dilation of the common bile duct) and Caroli's disease (dilation of the intrahepatic bile ducts). It is thought that prolonged sludging of bile in these dilated spaces, and subsequent infection, predispose patients to carcinoma through progressive epithelial injury and repair. The overall lifetime risk of cholangiocarcinoma in these patients is about 10 percent.
-Benign tumors of the bile ducts: This includes bile duct adenomas (a single tumor) or bile duct papillomatosis (multifocal)
-Hepatobiliary parasitic infection: These cases are most often seen in the Far East and include Clonorchis sinensis (most prevalent in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam) and Opisthorchis viverrini (most prevalent in Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia). Clonorchis is acquired when humans eat fresh water fish that harbor the Clonorchis cyst. The cysts develop into flukes (flatworms) in the friendly confines of the human intestine, and ascend from the duodenum (the first part of the intestine) into the common bile duct, where they mature. Carriage of this worm imparts a 25 to 50 risk of developing biliary tract carcinoma.
-Toxic exposures: Thorium dioxide (Thorotrast), which was used as a contrast dye in radiologic procedures between 1930 and 1950, has been shown to promote cancers in the liver and bile ducts.
My mom was in a terrible car accident in 1951. She had a head injury, and we are SURE that she had to have xrays. We just wonder about the last risk factor listed, Thorium dioxide.
Just something to ponder......


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Shibaura House
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Tokyo, Japan
Structured and translucent, like a Japanese paper lantern. Shibaura House by Kazuyo Sejima & Associates brightens up the Shibaura district in Minato-ku, Tokyo's pulsating business area near the Tokyo Bay. Public and private programs interweave in this cunning, white-clad amalgamation of boxy geometric volumes and playful curves.


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Shoe Door SticksSeries teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of letters, numbers or objects.
What word completes this series?
shoe, door, sticks, straight, hen, delve, a-courting, kitchen, waiting, ?
HintBuckle my shoe, shut the door, ...
These are the last words in the nursery rhyme:
One, two, buckle my shoe.
Three, four, shut the door.
Five, six, pick up sticks.
Seven, eight, lay them straight.
Nine, ten, a big fat hen.
Eleven, twelve, dig and delve.
Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting.
Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen.
Seventeen, eighteen, maids in waiting.
Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.
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