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Easy Rocky Road Brownies
The enduring appeal of rocky road is no surprise. The combination of marshmallow, chocolate and nuts in these brownies is hard to resist.
- 1 pkg. (16 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Mini Brownie Bites Bar Dough
- 1/2 cup NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, divided
- 1 cup miniature marshmallows
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions, Reviews, Nutrition
PLACE whole brownie bar in prepared pan. Allow to soften for 5 to 10 minutes. Using fingertips, pat dough gently to fill pan.
BAKE for 24 to 26 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out slightly sticky.
SPRINKLE 1/4 cup morsels over hot brownie. Let stand for 5 minutes or until morsels are shiny; spread evenly over brownie. Top with marshmallows, remaining morsels and nuts; press down lightly.
BAKE for an additional 5 minutes or just until marshmallows just begin to puff. Cool in pan on wire rack for 20 to 30 minutes. Cut into bars with wet knife. Serve warm.
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Rocky Road Brownies
What a great little treat! I made a bath using brownie mix and added extra chocolate and marshmellows. My family is not nuts fans so I omitted those. I plan on making this many times for family gatherings or just to have something easy on hand to save the sweet cravings that my family and I get all the time!
Perfectly delicious
I had a boxed brownie mix (9x13 size) on hand so I substituted it for the prepared brownies, doubling the choc chips and marshmellows. It turned our perfectly delicous! Not a crumb left! Thanks for the great recipe!
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As a "very-best-baker" I'm not crazy about recipes not made from "scratch"...as a working woman I love quick and easy recipes! This is a great quickie, really satisfies that craving for sweets...I love walnuts, but my clan wanted the traditional peanuts, so I used cocktail peanuts and they were very very good!
Rocky Road Brownies
Brownies of all kind are my favorite snack and treat. Always is a easy and fantastic dessert.
this was a hit. everyone luvd them. must try for chocolate luvrs.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/12 of Recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 12
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 240
- Calories from Fat: 110
- Total Fat: 12g (19% of DV)
- Saturated Fat: 6g (28% of DV)
- Cholesterol: 25mg (8% of DV)
- Sodium: 150mg (6% of DV)
- Carbohydrates: 31g (10% of DV)
- Dietary Fiber: .5g (4% of DV)
- Sugars: 23g
- Protein: 3g
- Vitamin A: 4% of DV
- Vitamin C: 0% of DV
- Calcium: 0% of DV
- Iron: 2% of DV
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.


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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Baby Got (Hatch)Back: An Automotive Snark
Last week, car shopping went abruptly from "I should think about that" to "I need to do this right now," so I've spent way too much time lately at dealerships and on car websites.
Apparently, someone passed a law saying that all car salespeople must be male. Over the past week, I've dealt with I don't know how many salespeople, and they've been a multiracial, multiethnic group of young men. The demographics are pretty much the same as a minor league baseball team. I have no explanation for this.
I thought car shopping would be easy enough. I had my Consumer Reports at the ready, and I knew the parameters I had in mind. Cost is a real issue, given that the whole family is on one academic paycheck, so the cooler, more expensive cars were out of the question. Reliability is key, as is mileage; I consider money spent on gas or repairs to be money wasted. I don't do SUV's. And most important of all, it had to have enough headroom in the backseat to accommodate tall children. Still, I figured, with car companies desperate for customers, how hard could it possibly be?
Yuck yuck yuck.
I didn't get the memo, but it seems that, at some point, the car companies collectively decided that anybody who wants rear seat headroom should just buy an SUV or minivan and be done with it. Cars – by which I mean, "not trucks" -- have incredibly short back seats these days. It seems that the trend of higher bodies has collided with the trend of aerodynamic shapes to squeeze backseat headroom.
Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra, Ford Fusion, Ford Focus, Mazda 3 – no backseat headroom in any of them.
The Honda Fit has headroom, but awful rear-seat crash test ratings, so I ruled that out, too.
The Scion xD has headroom, but it's butt-ugly, gets terrible mileage, and has one of the shorter windshields I've ever seen – it's like the thing is squinting. I sort of like 'visibility.' I use it every single day. No, thanks.
I've had lousy luck with Toytoas – I've buried two of them – and Corollas just make me sad, so that was out. (The Prius was out of my price range, anyway.) And I won't do Dodge or Chevy, just because I don't enjoy spending time in repair shops. (How Chrysler stays in business is a complete mystery to me. A few years ago I rented a Sebring, and couldn't believe the overall crappiness. My brother in law bought a Dodge truck new three years ago. At 50,000 miles, the transmission went. His mechanic told him they're notorious for that. Amazing. They're like big American Yugos, without the charm.)
After burying two Toyotas bought used in my grad school days, each having consumed several years' worth of repair shop intensive care, I have an allergy to the concept of buying 'used.' There's just something comforting in the concept of a warranty. I know that, say, a used Camry wouldn't have been an unreasonable option, but I'm just not there psychologically. Twice burned, real shy. Besides, with the two greatest kids in the world, I'd like the most current safety features I can get.
So, my latest in an ongoing series of hints I like to drop for the Big Three automakers: some of us have tall children, and don't want SUV's. Hint freakin' hint. Produce something decent -- reliable, safe, efficient, not-butt-ugly -- and you'll own this demographic.
Or you can keep producing unreliable, squat, poorly-engineered pieces of crap, and try to make up the difference with union concessions. Your call.
Also, I'm fairly sure that equal opportunity laws apply to car salespeople. I'm just sayin'. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that it's not actually technically illegal to have women on your sales team. Whether it would help, I don't know, but I'm guessing that the overall level of cluelessness might be a little less bad. ("I don't know about antilock brakes, but check out the CD changer!") Worth a shot, anyway.
And then there's Idiot Feature Creep. When did sunroofs become moonroofs? And why do about half the cars out there suddenly have them? I didn't get that memo, either. Little known fact: when they put in a sun/moonroof, you lose about an inch of headroom. When there isn't enough to start with, that's a big deal. Clearly, this is a conspiracy of short people. They're getting back at the rest of us for those high shelves at Barnes and Noble, or maybe that Randy Newman song.
So after all these years, and all this research, and all this looking, I'm back into the hatchback habit of my grad school years. Back to the egg. As The Wife puts it, I'm returning to my roots. All because the ()#%)# car companies haven't grasped that some of us have tall kids.
Confidential to the Ford Motor Company: Seriously, are you guys even trying anymore?
You do need a bigger car. Try a Camry, Buick, Mazda 6 or Honda Accord. I'm pushing 5' 11'', and can easily sit in the back of an Accord.
The bad news is, of course, these cars are more expensive than the Civics and Corollas. But all have fairly good ratings, are OK on gas, and will give you the room you demand.
Yes, yet another trade-off that needs to be confronted....
Good luck, Dean Dad.
I know that's what they called it on my dad's early 90s or late 80s Taurus. The interwebs tell me it used to just be Ford's term for sunroof (since the 70s) but that it is now sometimes applied generically to describe glass sunroofs.
I had to upgrade to a "family car" (4 doors) with my latest, just about the time the coupes started to look REALLY cool. It was a sacrifice I had to make since the wife drives a MommyMobile (Toyota Sienna).[sigh]
You might check out the new VW Beetles. They supposedly have a lot of headroom (but only two doors.)
An internet buddy that was in the car business for a couple of decades says the best time to buy is December- the dealerships will cut you the best deal to get cars off the lot.
Your needs: a vehicle that comfortably fits tall passengers in both the front and back seats at a decent price.
Your desires: A vehicle that is small (not SUV or minivan) and brand new.
Your results: Misplaced frustration at automakers because your needs and desires do not match.
Suggested alternatives: My family of tall people (my mom was shortest at 5'11 and my dad, brother and I were all 6'2") had a minivan and a 4 door F-series truck. We tried the large car route and it simply did not work for us. As much as Suv's and minivans are maligned, there is rationale for their existence. In addition, you should consider used. I have had goo luck have a used car inspected by an independent mechanic prior to purchasing it.
Subaru Forester
Loads of headroom. Unbelievable reliability/safety. Passable gas mileage. Not technically an SUV, since it's a wagon (and you're still smaller than most vehicles on the road). And, according to my wife, not at all ugly. I'll admit that the jury's still out on that one.
It might not be for you, though. As the salesperson said when we bought ours: "There are Subaru people, and then there aren't."
Front seat headroom is great; back seat headroom (and space in general) is AWFUL. I'm 5'9 and felt enormously cramped in the back seat of my friend's Beetle.
There's a wagon (9-5) or a hatchback (up through 2003, 9-3). The cars are mainly 4cyl turbos, which means 35mpg on the highway, and did I mention that they're the safest cars out there?
We bought a 6-year-old SAAB 900 from a friend for $6500. in the five years we owned it, we spent that much again in repairs. we longer have that car.
But the '95 toyota Tercel i got new for grad school is going strong after 143000 miles. And DH got 230000 miles out of his Accord.
My brother is 6'4" and has plenty of headroom in his Focus wagon. Do you guys have the wagon version down there? They stopped making them in 2007, but I've been very happy with the two we've had.
Sigh. I miss the days of my old Mazda 323 hatchback, circa 1990.
Same problem for us now. I'm the 5'10" daughter; I married a 6'0" man and have two children who are, while young, tall for their age (and need the massive carseats that small children who grow quickly wind up needing).
We ended up in a Subaru Legacy wagon. More room in the backseat than the Forester, more room in the trunk for gear. Yeah, the AWD cuts down on your milage. And around here, at least, they're ubitquitous (that which is not Subaru is Honda in this town). OTOH, in the Midwest they're hard enough to spot that I'd imagine service might be an issue.
But yeah, my dad ranted the same rant in 1984, down to the "Stupid Big 3 manufacturers are going to wind up BANKRUPT if they don't continue to ignore actual needs of actual people!!"
(I'm 6'4"--it's the first car I can actually sit up in the back seat that I've seen.)
Fleet manager.
Call and ask to talk to the fleet manger. Quote him a price for the car you want that is $500 above the invoice price. Settle for nothing more.
The Motley Fool has a great, humerous guide to car buying that is spot on. The best part is their "Fax" method of pricing vehicles. http://www.fool.com/car/car12.htm
Good luck.
I think you might well be happy with a Honda Accord, as suggested by several other people. We have one, and it's comfortable for tall people and carseats. It also hasn't given us a lick of trouble and is pretty fuel-efficient (30 mpg on average).
I know you said you weren't looking at used, but you can get really good deals at VW if you go in at the beginning of the model year and ask for *last year's* model -- I got mine in October for cheap because it was the last one on the lot and they wanted to make way for the '04 models.
It's never been the shop for longer than the oil changes took, except for one repair on the moonroof which was only that bad because I let it go for too long. I get about 28/33, depending on how much stuff I have in it.
If what you want is a car with lots of space, good gas mileage, accident shedding construction, and great reliability . . . I think you're gonna pay pretty good money for it. I read that your car needs have increased nontrivially with the kids, so rules of thumb that worked before don't work as well now.
I recently bid a fond farewell to a VW wagon. I recommend it. I've crossed over to the minivan darkside now, though, so you may not want to listen to me.
We have had great luck with Toyotas.
But, I feel your car shopping pain.
Anyway. Look for cars with high roofs. VW Golfs used to be pretty good. Honda Civic hatchbacks are surprisingly room headwise, though they are a bit cramped in the leg. And wagons of course (volvo etc) generally carry a high roof line back.
Also, search out height adjustable seats. Those often go lower than fixed height seats. (try a VW).
I talked to a retiring Subaru dealership owner a year or two ago. His one complaint with the brand? "They last too darned long. I see my repeat customers once every ten years."
When they're ugly and the paint is chipped and the upholstery is faded and rotting away, those darned cars will still be on the road.
And my 6 ft 3 dad can sit comfortably (well, almost) in the back seat.
The down side is that here in the southeast there aren't a lot of dealers. Mine is still under warranty but the closest certified repair shop is 2+ hours away. But in my previous 4 locations, everyone seemed to drive one.
Of course, I'm now driving a Mustang Convertible (not a family friendly car, but sooo cool).
And our last Ford, a Ranger truck, had ~ 180,000 miles on it when the A/C went. We still see it on the road sometimes.
We've had our share of dud cars, but they all seem to have been Chevys. As for Toyota, we had a Toyota Echo that my husband could fit into (it seems to be egg shaped), and it had ~120K on it before my husband slammed it into the back of a semi. He walked away from it with 19 stitches, but the car was totalled (and the air bags didn't go off).
I'd like this as our next car, but the wife prefers Subaru. I'm 6'2", older boy is in the 100th percentile for height, both of us are quite happy in the back of our Legacy. You used to be able to get FWD Legacies, which helps with the gas mileage, not sure if they're still available.
Toyota quality has apparently been slipping.
I've also enjoyed driving Subarus; the one I own has a nearly spotless repair record.
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I will be traveling with friends from Denver to Las Vegas this summer and want to stop somewhere in Utah to possibly camp/hike. Looking for suggestions for places in Utah along I-70 or I-15, any suggestions?
I will be traveling with friends from Denver to Las Vegas this summer and want to stop somewhere in Utah to possibly camp/hike. Looking for suggestions for places in Utah along I-70 or I-15, any suggestions?
You have several good options. Arches NP is just off I-70. Plenty of scenery and hikes. However, it is hot! in July, August. I have been to Arches in summer & winter, I prefer winter. Many photos in my gallery of both. Blog on both as well. Perhaps a better option would be Bryce Canyon NP. Higher elevation means it is cooler in the summer than the other parks. I would stop at Arches, spend a few hours sightseeing and decide if it OK. If you feel it is too hot for camping, drive over to Bryce. After Bryce, head for Zion NP, just a few hours away. Zion is lower elevation and can get hot during the summer as well. A great hike if the water level is low enough is the hike through The Narrows. One way to beat the heat is to wade in cold water! Zion is worth a day IMO, then roll into Vegas that night. Only 3 hours away.
Give me a shout when you about to hit Vegas and I will get you a free show while you are here. Mike
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Dude seriously? You're going right by MOAB!!!!
Like the coolest, best place in the world for adventure and beauty. Like Vegasmike says... Arches NP is really outstanding, probably my top spot in the world (and I've been around) Canyon Lands NP is right down the road aswell. Amazing. I have been there in the heat of summer and while you have to know what your doing, I actually enjoyed it. If you mountain bike at all, it's some of the best in the world. Porcupine Rim is like my second favorite trail in the Universe (1st is in Breckonridge/vail). There are also lots of other great trails there aren't so deadly if you want just a nice ride.
I don't know what your thing is but there is just about everything there.
On your way down you will also go by Fish Lake National Forest, not mountains but really nice camping in a beautiful forest and lakes. I really enjoyed it (less crowded then the popular places).
I agree with Mike too about Zion. Wonderful park. A nice hike is the highest most dangerous one there.. I don't remember the name but it's actually really safe and easy with a breathtaking view... Angel's something I think. The narrows is so cool but was so many people on it when I was there in late summer... I opted for something less populated. I don't really enjoy waiting in line to hike as the ranger mentioned it would be. LOL.
Also there is a great park on the west side of Vegas called Red Rock NP. Beautiful formations and some great hikes with views of the Vegas Valley. Mt. Charleston is also a great rec area with some great hikes (about an hour north of Vegas.
Hope you have a great trip.


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U.S. dairy exports are up 35 percent in volume from a year ago, with cheese experiencing strong growth, according to seven-month trade data recently released by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service.
"After declining significantly from a six-year steady growth trend in 2009, exports have strongly returned this year," said Tom Suber, president of the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), which represents the export trade interests of U.S. dairy producers, proprietary processors, dairy cooperatives, export traders, and ingredient suppliers. "All products have experienced robust trade. Cheese, in particular, has come back strongly."
With a sluggish July, total volume of U.S.-produced dairy slowed after a strong second quarter, but remained well above year-earlier levels. Total export value in July was $309 million, up 65 percent. The increase pushed year-to-date export value to more than $2 billion, a rise of 66 percent over the first seven months of 2009.
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USDEC demand-building programs – largely funded by dairy producers through their national dairy checkoff – convinced major foodservice and retail chains in Asia to diversify its Oceania supply sources with U.S. cheese. A major foodservice chain in Japan sourced U.S. cheese for the first time during a promotion featuring "Big America" cheeseburgers, which was projected to use up to 400,000 pounds of U.S. cheese during a six-week promotion.
"U.S. pricing has been competitive, foodservice continues to expand, international buyers are looking to diversify supply and U.S. suppliers are responsive," Suber said. "USDEC programs also have built greater awareness of U.S. supply capabilities. Things are coming together for U.S. cheese suppliers."
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BBC Travel reader Carla Vleugels is looking for good eating options in Bogota, Medellin and the coffee triangle for her July holiday. Our Facebook followers shared their suggestions.
Last week, we asked our Facebook community for advice on eating their way through Colombia. Our readers gave their suggestions to Carla Vleugels, who is vacationing in the South American country in July and is looking for "good affordable dining options in Bogota, Medellin and the coffee triangle".
Our Facebook fans offered up some useful advice:
From Helen Edwards: "Swiss bakery in Bogota [is] delicious."
From Juliane Thm: "In the coffee triangle, in Salento, there are lots of restaurants [which] offer a menú del día (menu of the day) with the local trout as a main. Great value and very good."
From Adriana Maria Romero Barreto: "The fancy food in Bogota is by far cheaper than some other cities in the world, so a good dinner can be found near Usaquen at an average price of $15 to $20. If she wants cheaper, she can go downtown, near La Candelaria."
From Amy Phillips: "Los Bohemios in La Candelaria, Bogota [has] fantastic Italian food."
From Izadora Torres: "I suggest she meets up with some couchsurfers and help prepare a home cooked meal; she'll love it!"
From Laura Atkinson: "In Salento, go to Cafe Jesus Martin for excellent local coffee and Lucy's for delicious freshwater trout. Order the "menu" (the daily special which is usually three courses) at Lucy's. Both are just off the main plaza. Also, Andrés Carne de Res is considered the best restaurant in Bogota, but it's expensive."
From Steve McWilliam: "Crepes and Waffles – great food and the business model is great too; they support single mothers. It's a chain of restaurants [and] the food is amazing. If you go don't miss the fresh tangerine juice and also the spinach soup. Wide variety of choices."
From Luisa María Gómez Giraldo: "El Rancherito and Doña Rosa are good options in Medellín, and of course you have to go to Salento."
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Who makes a good reliable bolt action rifle in a 308? I'm looking to get a 308. So what is a good rifle/scope combination for a decent price? My budget is about 800
You can go with a savage axis and a freaking ass ton of ammo. It's good, it's reliable, it's accurate, and it's a bargain. Is it the nicest? Flashiest? No, but it gets the job done.
The .308 Winchester is very popular, just about every manufacturer chambers something good and reliable in .308.
Another inexpensive rifle is the Ruger American. - I have one in .308 and have no complaints. A Nikon ProStaff 3-9x40 sits on top, does a good job too. - This is another combo that would leave you with some money left over for ammo, assuming that you can find any.
Also look into the marlin x7 series, many on the forum have recommended them. If you have a bigger budget, take a look at the Remington 700.
the Savage Axis as suggested is a good reliable rifle. inexpensive, decently accurate and well made.
the Marlin XS7 in 308 is a great rifle, inexpensive, very accurate and very well made.
the Stevens M200 is another good option to consider.
the Mossberg ATR100 is another good option to check into.
been hearing nothing but good reviews on the Ruger American, so it should be considered checking out as well.
up the price a bit, check out the Remington M700 SPS,
or the Howa 1500 or the Weatherby Vangaurd, both the same rifle, different stocks.
At the local Wal-Mart they have a savage axis in 308, for $277.
What do you guys think about a scope? I want a scope that is variable as well as having turrets on my elevation and windage with mildots on the hairs.
Alpine, some good advice here. It really is a buyer's market in what you're looking for. Like pistols. There really has never been so much quality available at so low a price and, with the .30-06, the .308 is still the most popular overall medium/big-game chambering.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed publicly that we have no religious tests in America. So step up, Senator McConnell, and put a stop to the chaos deliberately created by Trump and his cruel gang. Congress should at the very least be concerned about the "optics" of Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin, then demoting his director of national security in favor of the vicious, rabid right wing ideologue, Bannon. No coincidence that the Muslim Ban was enacted at the same time – it's a distraction. What worse things are coming?
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text: Culture 10 July 2000 Get Carter Music - Richard Cook on a Detroit saxophonist who is up there with the all-time greats Sign up for our weekly email * A favourite complaint about today's jazz is that there's a shortage of stars, an absence of the kind of singleton genius that used to drive the music forward. Where are our Coltranes, our Parkers? It's not for want of record companies trying to force these blooms out of their budding rosters. Jazz is as open to hype as any part of the music business. But with so much already played and spoken in every jazz vernacular, the possibility of some unheralded titan blazing a new trail seems so remote as to be unbelievable. Lately, we've settled for revisionists, outsiders or players isolating some relatively unexposed part of the music as the messengers of the way forward. James Carter is a little of all those things. A Detroit-born saxophonist, he is, at 32, old enough to have accrued a stack of experience, yet he is not so separated from his youth that he doesn't still seem a little impetuous and excitingly raw. There's a mad-dog quality to some of his playing, blustering through the range of whichever horn he's playing and breaking phrases to pieces, just to see what will happen when he does it. He emerged at the beginning of the Nineties with a couple of records that sent an electric thrill through jazz: just when we thought we'd heard every trick that the young lions of the period could come up with, here was someone who sounded harsh and untutored much of the time, yet could, when he wanted, play a ballad as unctuously as Ben Webster. He professed an affection not so much for bebop, but for the music of prewar swing; and, besides the ubiquitous tenor, he went back first to the baritone and then the bass saxophone, a behemoth that is all but extinct outside revivalist circles. On Chasin' the Gypsy (Atlantic), one of two simultaneously released new albums, he not only plays Django Reinhardt's "Nuages" on the bass horn, but also brings out the even rarer F-mezzo saxophone, a curious relative of the soprano, for a couple of pieces. The entire record is dedicated to Reinhardt and his music, which Carter used to tape off local radio programmes when he was a teenager - but "don't call it a tribute", he says. Little danger of that. The old Hot Club feel of the originals is traded for a queer blend of affectionate recitalism and barking irreverence. Carter loves to show off, but not in the way of mere showboating. He shakes the tunes down for what he can get out of them, what new jazz can be hustled out of these old scripts - and if a few feathers are ruffled along the way, so much the better. Even though his supporting band plays delicately - violin, acoustic guitars, bass and light percussion - and they make a gossamer pattern out of such pieces as "La Derniere Ber-gere", this is a pungent re-cord, full of outlandish sounds. It's certainly a more singular affair than the sister disc, Layin' in the Cut (Atlantic), which features Carter in perhaps more self-consciously modern garb. Here, he's blowing over an electric band of two guitars, bass and drums, a juddering, whistling backdrop for some of his most violent improvising. Where Chasin' the Gypsy is natty and wears its esoterica lightly, Layin' in the Cut is meant to be rambunctious. Carter's bandsmen are veterans of the Ornette Coleman and James Blood Ulmer bands, and the saxophonist himself sometimes reminds one of that other great traditionalist-renegade, David Murray, in his own electric-band adventures with Ulmer. But, for all their knockabout style, these pieces - credited for the most part as collective improvisations - are dominated by Carter's sense of control. Even in the coda to the title track, where he's pushing his tenor playing to its most extreme expression, there's an under-lying sense of harmony at the back of his mind: he always plays freely within form, rather than free-form. The other thing that stands out from both records is Carter's extravagant sound. The great saxophone masters have always "vocalised" themselves: Carter's bellowing in the bottom register of tenor, baritone and bass saxes alike is in a noble lineage, as well as something almost luridly exciting. If you're looking for a leader, there's every reason to get Carter. Chasin' the Gypsy and Layin' in the Cut are both released by Atlantic Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 10 July 2000 issue of the New Statesman, Education, education, profit More


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Senator Farley Announces State Sales Tax On Clothing To End April 1st
State Senator Hugh T. Farley (R, C - Schenectady) announced today that beginning Saturday, April 1st, all purchases of clothing and shoes priced up to $110 will now be exempt from New York State's portion of the sales tax.
"For the past few years, the State has given two sales-tax free weeks," Senator Farley said. "Now, every week is State sales tax-free week."
Senator Farley clarifies that it is only the State portion of the sales tax that is being eliminated. However, localities may choose to eliminate the local portion of the sales tax. "In other words, in most areas, the sales tax on clothing and shoes under $110 would drop from 7 or 8 percent to 3 or 4 percent," Senator Farley said.
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Designer Rachel Roy strongly believes that Kindness is Always Fashionable and this holiday season, she's designed a very special tote to help raise funds for victims of this year's Pakistan flood disaster. For each tote sold, Rachel will donate 100% of the proceeds to UNICEF to help to provide lifesaving supplies to over 10 million children in urgent need. Signed by 88 of Rachel's most influential friends including Andre Leon Talley, DVF, Iman, Jay-Z and Oprah, among many others, this bag is the perfect way to give back.
Rachel Roy says, "In July 2010 heavy monsoon rains left one-fifth of Pakista's total land area underwater. Six months later and there is still an urgent need for food, clean water, and safe shelter. I developed this tote to help raise funds for the 10 million children affected by this flood disaster. For each tote sold, Rachel Roy will donate $20 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF's disaster relief and recovery efforts for the victims of the Pakistan floods."
The Pakistan Tote ($20) features 88 celebrity signatures and is available on Rachelroy.com. You can watch the video above to hear Rachel talk about the tote and what it means to her.
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Sarah Haskins On "Tough Love"
It's a wonder the human race has survived this long. Why? Because women are single, crazy, and conniving. But if we all follow "Tough Love" matchmaker Steve Ward's rules, we'll end up living a life of bliss. And by bliss, I mean we'll get hitched … and then divorced. Watch this video of Sarah Haskins taking on "Tough Love." Normally, Steve's rules make sense to me, but seeing him and the single women and hearing his rules put together in this clip makes me rethink everything.


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The second of the deluge of new podcasts here at Baseball Prospectus Fantasy, There is No Off-Season is quite different than its sister podcast, Flags Fly Forever. In this space, we will discuss all things dynasty and long-term keeper related, and nothing but. We will focus on both the major and minor league sides of things, but all within the spectrum of long-term value. You'll learn a lot, at least when we're not spouting off inside jokes and berating Craig--and even maybe then too. Oh, and remember to rate and review us on iTunes.
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With thanks to Zoė and Kerrie for this biography.
Zoė Wanamaker was born on May 13th 1949 in New York, USA. At the age of three, Zoė had to move to London with her family, because her father, the actor/director Sam Wanamaker, was blacklisted during the McCarthy witch-hunts. Her mother, Charlotte Holland, was an actress and radio star; when they came to London she left work so she could take care of her family. Zoe also has two sisters - Abby, the eldest, and Jessica, who is the youngest. Zoė comes from a Russian-Jewish background.
Sam Wanamaker is most well known for the reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the South Bank in London. He was passionate about building a faithful replica of The Globe, and spent nearly thirty years trying to get his project finished. Sam was awarded a CBE in early 1993, and sadly died later that year of cancer. Queen Elizabeth II opened the Globe in June 1997, and Zoė was the first person to speak on stage when she read a passage from Henry V.
Zoė decided she wanted to act at the age of ten, after spending a summer in Stratford with her parents. They tried to stop her going into the acting industry, as they didn't want her to have to go through its rejection and fierce competition. She trained as a dancer and went to art school. She also had a very short career as a secretary, and even toyed with the idea of becoming a nun! She finally knew she definitely wanted to act.
Zoė joined the Central School of Speech and Drama, and after spending three years there, she left in 1970 and went straight on to stage work. She went from strength to strength and recently became an Associate to The National Theatre, on the South Bank in London. She also remains a trustee of Shakespeare's Globe, at which she has recently unveiled a Blue Plaque that was awarded to her father for his efforts, and in recognition of the Globe. The award was a People's Choice award voted for by the public, and Zoė accepted this on his behalf. The Blue Plaque can be found on the site of the Globe.
She went from stage to our TV screens in many different roles, and slipped from one role to the next with no problem and so much talent. She is now a well-known face on TV, mostly recognised for her recent role as Susan Harper in the BBC sitcom My Family, in which she plays alongside Robert Lindsay; and also for her role as Tessa Piggott in Love Hurts, in which she worked with Adam Faith in the early 1990s. Zoė has more recently starred in films such as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which she played the famous Madam Hooch.
Zoė is married to actor/writer Gawn Grainger, with whom she previously worked in Bob Hoskins' 1988 film The Raggedy Rawney. They married in November 1994, and she has now taken on the role of the 'wicked stepmother' to his two children.
She has been nominated for many awards and won two Best Actress Olivier awards, among others. In 2000 she was awarded a CBE by the Queen in the New Year Honours list. Zoė has done extensive work for charity, which included reporting from South Africa on Ethiopia's economic crisis in 1993, for Comic Relief. She has also been working as Honorary Vice-President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society for some time.
Having done over a hundred roles and performances in a career spanning over 25 years, with her talent shining through in each one, she has gone from playing a mad aunt, a twin, a Leprechaun and even a dog, every time her performance better than before. Zoė is one of the best actresses of her time and puts her 'all' into every show, series and film she does.
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Since the last time I sat with Zoė to do her Biography she has done so much, it's been 7 years since the last one so here goes!!
We will start with 5 Children and It, Zoė played a scatty housekeeper called 'Martha', and things were not quite what they seemed with her character! She starred alongside Alex Jennings in this film who also played opposite her lead role in His Girl Friday at the National Theatre. She also 'played' a piece of skin called 'Cassandra' Stretched across a frame with just a face...This was in the new series of Dr Who in 2005.
Zoė has also taken up the role of the character 'Ariadne Oliver' in the recent Poirot episodes with David Suchet, so far 4 of these stories have been aired, there are 7 of the Poirot novels with her character in, so here's hoping to Zoė doing all 7! She has also played alongside David Suchet on Stage in All My Sons playing 'Kate Keller' at the Apollo Theatre, London in 2010.
She has also been over to New York on Broadway for 3 months in 2006 to play 'Bessie' at the Belasco Theatre in Awake and Sing. Another Theatre role was 'Serifina Della Rose' in The Rose Tattoo and 'Beatrice' in Much Ado About Nothing both played at the Olivier Theatre at The National in London.
Zoė is still very much involved with numerous Charity organisations and events, Amnesty International – Protect The Human Campaign in 2006, Youth Music Theatre – Give 5 in 2009 and she narrated for Prisoners Of Conscience in 2011 just to name a few!
On 23rd February 2009 Zoė's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on BBC1. This journey into her past took her thousands of miles from her home in the UK. She visited Washington DC to read her Fathers FBI file at the FBI Headquarters and also to Nikolaev in the Ukraine to discover her and her Family's connections to the country.
Some big news for 2011 was that after 11 series of the sitcom My Family spanning over 10 years was sadly coming to an end. The cast filmed the last series at Teddington Studios early 2010 but didn't know it was the end! It finally came to an end at the beginning of September 2011. Zoė's character of Susan Harper and indeed the program itself will always be remembered with a smile.
On June 30th 2011 Zoė was involved with 'NT Live' the National Theatre's production of The Cherry Orchard where she is playing 'Madame Ranevskaya' the production was played LIVE to hundreds of cinemas around the world and was a huge success. Zoė finished her role in The Cherry Orchard on August 13th.
The next thing to be released for Zoė is a film called My Week With Marilyn where she is to play 'Paula Strasberg' who was Marilyn Monroe's acting coach. This film is due for release late 2011.
What a lot of work to pack in to 7 years and that's not all of it! Zoė just keeps giving us her all in everything she does, in every character she plays and every role she takes on.
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8 Ways You Can Use Content to Close the Sale
Because Business to Business (B2B) marketing depends on relationship building, owners and managers have long relied on traditional methods of client attraction including:
- conference and trade show attendance,
- personal networking,
- cold calling,
- semi-direct mail and
- referrals
And to some degree, sales professionals within B2B industries, still rely on these methods. However, the web continues to provide an increasingly wider range of marketing tools to decision makers when used strategically.
How Web-Based Tools Affect The B2B Sales Process
B2C Companies have been at forefront of using these tools over the last decade. Leaders in those companies have been successful utilizing different forms of inbound marketing to attract consumers into their marketing funnels. Through the use of SEO, social media and online multi-media, companies have been successful in capturing clients in the midst of researching intriguing problems and looking for personal comforts. Consumers have now fully adopted the practice of being converted from prospect to customer entirely online, and have shown increasing affinity toward direct marketing processes.
This prospect to client process works well for personal purchases with relatively low dollar amounts and a single decision maker. However, B2B transactions are typically made by more than one individual, and rarely made at the point of being introduced to a particular product or service. This inherently longer sales cycle doesn't lend itself well to attraction efforts that lead to direct marketing tactics. In a B2B context the two (internet attraction and direct marketing) are incongruous.
Rule of Attraction in B2B Marketing
A B2B Marketer can and should use attraction methods with website/blogs, social media and email marketing. But the attraction process is less of a hard sell and more of a dialogue about how the product benefits the customer. A B2B marketing funnel must affirm the traditional forms of relationship building and networking mentioned above while also problem solving through educating clients. Whether the initial contact that a prospect has with the company is a journal article, whitepaper or webinar; marketers should be always be demonstrating their knowledge of the depth of the problems in the industry.
In that context, intelligent decision makers are able to go an additional step by helping prospects to understand the nature of their problem if left untreated. A good education process not only outlines the nature of the problems in the industry but answers the question: what will happen if a company decides to delay fixing the problem described? Since the solution to the problem is the company's product or service, this question and answer is the transition point from educating a prospect to moving them to into position to make a purchase.
Each stage in the B2C marketing funnel provides tools to move the client forward while building a relationship. The B2B marketing funnel has them also, and the position in the relationship that a company should seek to earn is that of an expert trusted advisor. Being able to secure that position in the minds of managers at the prospect client's company is critical to the effective use of internet attraction.
B2B Marketers should use blogs, newsletters, whitepapers, SEO, webinars, video and SEO interchangeably at all stages in the marketing process, including the attraction of traffic, conversion of leads and enticing their clients to make additional purchases.
8 Steps to Close the Sale with Content
What then are the steps to implement an education based selling method? As a start, companies should do the following:
- Get a firm handle on the concerns of the industry. Research industry trade journals, participate in online forums, interview clients and attend industry conferences. In attending these events, the purpose is information gathering. It is not necessarily prospecting, as mentioned above.
- Keep an ongoing list of the issues that perplex executives. Prioritize this list based on which problems can be solved by the company.
- Determine the forms of content needed to effectively reach industry executives and decision makers. Will executives be most likely to watch videos, listen to podcasts, read whitepapers, interact on webinars, etc?
- Once the content delivery method has been determined, sales funnels should be designed with marketing automated databases in place. The databases will assist the company in segmenting prospects according to the issues that the company has the capacity to solve. Make sure that tracking mechanisms are secured from the marketing databases and integrated into the content delivery.
- Utilize the created content to attract prospects into the marketing funnel. Companies should make use of SEO principles, public relations (PR) and social media to strategically place content online in locations where individuals are looking. Effort should also be made to publish content in prospects' and clients' industry trade publications, conferences and trade shows. In every content piece, companies should promise in-depth answers and solutions in exchange for the prospect's contact information when they opt-in.
- Offer more specialized solutions to those who opt-in. Offer webinars, seminars and written content that more definitively answers their questions. Propose solutions that come form your company's product and service line.
- Continue the cycle of discovering industry problems and strategically placing content in locations online and offline that concerned executives will see and consume.
- As part of the sales funnel process there should be an individualized follow up procedure. In other words, each product-to-client solution should warrant a specific follow up plan. Although most of the follow up will take place "offline", executives should make sure that every available means of contact can be systematically employed.
The key is to use education to reinforce real transparency and relationship building knowing that unlike B2C marketing, the entire process is unlikely to start and finish on a website with only minutes having transpired. The B2B education process assumes that the marketing funnel starts with trusted advice and ends with a decision being made to authorize a check, with days, weeks or months in between.
What is your company implementing to build transparency and relationship building?
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Real Name: Wanda Jean Mays
Nicknames: No known nicknames
Location: Guntersville, Alabama
Date: May 12, 1986
Occupation: Unrevealed
Date of Birth: 1959 or 1960
Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Unrevealed
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Details: Twenty-six-year-old Wanda Jean Mays had suffered two anxiety attacks after she began dieting. She was overwhelmed with unknown fears and anxiety when she vanished on May 12, 1986. The night before she vanished, she had dinner with her parents near Lake Guntersville, and they said that she seemed fine. At 8:00pm, she visited her aunt and uncle Betty and Ty Dorman, who persuaded her to stay the night. The next morning, Betty awoke and knocked on Wanda's door, but received no answer. She woke up Ty and he was also unable to open the door, so they had their grandson John kick the door open. Inside the room, they found everything in disarray and the window broken from the inside. Ty ran down to the lake and saw Wanda's torn and bloody nightgown on the dock. The family called the police and a search began for Wanda's body in the lake. Her family members did not believe she drowned as she was an excellent swimmer. Later that day, a canoe was found with Wanda's blood in it. At 10:00am, homicide investigators came upon the scene, but they were unable to come up with a good explanation as to what had happened. When they investigated the room Wanda was in, they found that her bed had not been slept in, her clothes were neatly laid on a chair, and the window was clearly broken from the inside. What investigators could not determine was how everyone in the house could sleep through Wanda breaking through two panes of glass. Authorities believe that Wanda had another anxiety attack and ran away, got into the canoe and then went to another side of the lake. They believe that she may have taken some clothes from a clothes line on the other side of the lake and wandered around the Lake Guntersville area. At around 10am, a witness saw a tall young girl walking along Route 22 not far from where Wanda had vanished, wearing baggy clothing, and looking as if she had just gone swimming. The next day at a convenience store in Huntsville, Alabama, thirty miles away, a girl matching Wanda's description was seen sitting in a car with two unidentified men, looking frightened. Ten minutes later, the witness saw the woman talking on a pay phone; the witness was convinced that it was Wanda. Authorities and Wanda's family are uncertain if Wanda met with foul play or even if she is still alive.
Suspects: None known
Extra Notes: This case first aired on the May 25, 1987 episode.
Results: Solved. Seventeen years after her disappearance, Wanda's remains were found beneath a 150-foot cliff. It's believed she had a panic attack, the second of two in her life and ran away to the cliff where she fell to her death. It would be another four years before her remains were identified by the FBI.


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OAKLAND, Calif. -- A few thoughts on the Oakland Raiders' 21-18 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers:
What it means: The Raiders ended their decadelong post-bye blues against a rival as ancient as it is disliked. Before Sunday, the last time Oakland won a game immediately after a bye was in 2002, the Raiders had been outscored by a cumulative 271-139 in going 0-10 in said games. The Raiders continued their streak of luck against Pittsburgh, winning their third straight against the Steelers in Oakland. And while the Raiders' offense got off to a quick start in building a 21-3 lead -- including Terrelle Pryor's record-setting 93-yard touchdown run on the first play of the game -- it continued its troublesome trend of going flat in the second half. The defense had to again make a late stand after getting outscored 15-0 in the second half.
Stock watch: Falling -- Jacoby Ford. Remember when he was an electric game-changer on offense and special teams as a rookie in 2010? Then came injuries and ineffectiveness. Sunday, he endured a rough one, misplaying two punts, fumbling a punt return out of bounds and losing a fumble on a reception deep in Pittsburgh territory that the Steelers would turn into their first touchdown.
Pryor's record run: The Steelers had to know Pryor was a threat to run, right? And yet, on the first offensive play of the game, Pittsburgh bit hard on Pryor's zone-read option fake handoff to Darren McFadden going left, and Pryor, helped by sealing blocks from right tackle Matt McCants and receiver Rod Streater was gone. Pryor's 93-yard run was the longest by a quarterback in NFL history and the longest run in Raiders franchise history, eclipsing the 92-yarder running back Bo Jackson had against the Cincinnati Bengals on Nov. 5, 1989.
King crowns Brown: Marquette King fashions himself a football player rather than just a punter. He looked like one on his tackle of Antonio Brown in the fourth quarter that possibly saved a touchdown, popping Brown and riding him down after a 44-yard return.
What's next: The Raiders (3-4) host the Philadelphia Eagles (3-5) for the first time since a 13-9 victory in 2009. Oakland has won three of the past four meetings with Philadelphia, coming out on top in 1995, 2001 and 2009 while falling in 2005.


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I keep getting the message "Applet not found" when I try to upload.
Has someone lost it ? Has it been stolen ? Who used it last ? Kidnapped ?
Bram will be furious. Heads will roll, perhaps there will be the first freesound martyr.
Someone must have found it, or given it back because it works now. Perhaps the ransom was paid. Perhaps it was hiding, needed to be alone to sort things out. Or needed to go to the shops. We will probably never know. There will in all likelyhood be a cover-up. Appletgate will never be in the news.
I had an email that implicated the Knights Templar and the Vatican though unsubstantiated as of now.
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Megan Fox has OCD, but can't cook for herself
As if we didn't think Megan Fox was weird enough to begin with, she admits in a new Allure interview that she suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which has made life a bit difficult for her. Besides all the media coverage saying she's an overhyped, overtattooed, untalented Angelina Jolie wannabe, that is.
"This is a sickness, I have an illness," she says in the upcoming June issue (she apparently dropped the F-bomb 24 times, none of which we're reprinting). "Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air."
Restaurant silverware is a no-no, as well.
"Putting my mouth where a million other mouths have been, just knowing all the bacteria that you carry in your mouth? Ucch!"
But given her lack of skill in the kitchen, she's between a rock and a hard place: "I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself," she says. "I think I could survive a week without eating." That doesn't sound like much of a stretch in Hollywood.


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|Space Station SST-206
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|SST-282 History
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Seven Woods Audio is proud to present the Ursa Major Space Station SST-206.
The new Space Station SST-206 combines the reissue of the Ursa Major Space Station, a classic reverb and effects unit, with a powerful modern reverberation system in a case smaller than a typical paperback book. Christopher Moore, President of Seven Woods Audio, noted, "There continues to be a high level of interest in the Space Station, as evidenced in Internet studio equipment lists and activity on Ebay." The SST-206, easily held in one hand during operation, is based on a 150MHz 24 bit Motorola DSP chip. The new Space Station measures 6.4 x 4.8 x 0.6 inches, provides AES/EBU digital I/O, and accepts 24 bit audio at 48 or 44.1kHz. It is powered by a small external supply built into the breakout cable and operates from all overseas and domestic AC mains.
Moore recalled, "When I
designed the Space Station in 1977, I crafted a unique reverb algorithm
and the hardware to support it as a single, organic unit. In designing
the new SST-206 Space Station, I used a powerful contemporary 24 bit
to replicate the original Space Station sound, complete with simulation
of the 12-bit floating point converters, the 7kHz bandwidth, and the
of time modulation." Moore added that he resisted the temptation to
the sound of the original unit, affectionately characterized by some of
its users as "garage grunge."
According to Moore, "The reissue offers Space Station enthusiasts a chance to replace their older units with a smaller, more reliable device. Unlike the original Space Station, which was a 3U rack mount product, the entire SST-206 product fits into what appears to be its remote control. "The remote is the reverb," Moore says. "I realized I could now package the entire product in one small box to reduce its cost, and at the same time give users access to every reverb control from the sweet spot at the console. You don't have to get down on your hands and knees in the dark to adjust this reverb in an equipment rack. In fact, there's nothing to mount in the rack."
With the power available from the Motorola chip, Moore says that he was unable to resist the temptation to pull out all the stops and render a stunning new reverb program he simply calls "room." The reverberator is controlled by twelve potentiometers that provide instant, intuitive access to all the important parameters. "The SST-206 harkens to an earlier time, before the multi-level menu structure and one-parameter-at-a-time user interface took over. There is no need for an LCD, no user presets, no MIDI–just an uncluttered panel with twelve clearly labeled knobs with pointers to show the current settings." Moore paraphrased Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, "You know the design is perfect, not when the last feature has been added, but when the last feature has been removed."
The Space Station SST-206 now has CE approval and is being used in Europe.
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Audio-One, North Miami Beach, Florida: Contact David Frangioni at 305-945-1230, or www.audio-one.comSonic Circus, Harmonyville, VT: Contact Drew Townson, at 802 365 9190, or www.soniccircus.com
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Juke Box Ltd, Vanves, France; Contact J. B. Lierre at +33 (0)1 40 03 01 01, or www.jukeboxltd.com.
Sonotechnique PJL Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada: distributor for Canada. Contact Gerry Eschweiler, +237 416 947 9112, or www.sonotechnique.ca
Joystick Audio bvba, Drongen, Belgium: distributor for Belgium, Luxemborg, and the Netherlands. Contact Raf Lenssens at +329236 37 18, or www.joystick.be
Morel Muziek B.V., Veenendaal, Netherlands: dealer in the Netherlands. Contact them at +31-(0)318-527000, or www.morelmuziek.nl.
Golden Age Music, Stockholm, Sweden: distributor for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. Contact Bo Medin at 46 322 66 50 50, or www.goldenagemusic.comTouched by Sound, Hamburg and Nuernburg, Deutschland: dealer in Germany. Contact them at (Hamburg) +49-40-54 80 27 73 and at +49-911-9364650 (Nuerenberg), or www.touched-by-sound.com
Musik-Service Hofmann GmbH, Aschaffenburg, Deutschland: dealer. Contact Musik-Service at +49 06021 45494 - 0, or www.musik-service.de
Jackpoint GmbH, Zurich, Schweiz: dealer for Switzerland. Contact them at ++41 (0)43 299 03 03, or www.jackpoint.ch
Flyline Music AG, Wettswil, Schweiz; dealer for Switzerland. Contact them at ++ 41 (0) 43 466 01 15, or www.flyline.ch.
DACS Ltd, Pelaw, UK: distributor for the UK. Contact Douglas Doherty at +44 191 0191 438 2500, or www.dacs-audio.com.
Klangfarbe, Wien, Ostereiche: dealer for Austria. Contact them at +43 1 545 17 17 DW, or www.klangfarbe.com.
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...and many others that have not returned their warranty registration cards!
Electronic Musician, Jan 2004 EQ, Feb 2004 TapeOp Recording MIX, April 2004 Resolution, May/June 2004, by Keith Spencer-Allen Professional Audio Review Radio World Oct 2003 Keyboards (France) May 2004 Keyboards (Germany) December 2004
"I'm a techno artist and that means hands-on real-time control is what I look for in my equipment. Techno is about using the entire studio as an instrument for performance and the SST-206 is the only piece of kit I know of which can give me world-class reverb and delay effects with a completely direct interface. It sounds beautiful and every parameter is ready for instant adjustment all the time - remarkable!"
Joe Chiccarelli, independent producer and mixer, Los Angeles, May 2003
Congratulations for that
The Space Station is of one of the few pieces of gear ever made that is absolutely worth to keep alive or to revive. it has two things that too many of today's gear misses: character and ease of use.
i am the proud owner of an original Space Station, 8X32, 8X32-mkII and MSP-126 (all second hand because i am too young...) and I love all of them. I still use them all frequently and especially the 8X32 mkII is killer - my main reverb.
A studio in my neighborhood has a blue-faced Space Station in use. Has that been some kind of special edition or something? editor's note: not a special edition. The first 100 - 200 Space Stations were blue; later the dealers persuaded us to change to black.
What kind of I/O
does it have?
Digital I/O to the AES/EBU standard, on XLR connectors, at end of 12 foot breakout cable. Using in line XLR-RCA adapters, it is possible to interface with equipment with S/PDIF I/O. There are no analog inputs or outputs.
What sample rates
the unit accommodate?
48kHz nominal, 44.1kHz. Operation at 32kHz is possible, but not supported (delay and decay times are all proportionally longer than at 48kHz). Operation at 88.2 or 96kHz is possible in the SST reverb and SST echo programs only, but is not supported (delay and decay times are all proportionally shorter than at 48kHz). Operation at 44.1kHz is supported, although delay and decay times are all about 10% greater than at the nominal sampling rate of 48kHz.
Does the SST-206
exactly like the original Space Station SST-282?
Yes, although some users have said it's "a little cleaner." Every effort was made to achieve the same sound (truncating 24 bit data to 11 bit floating point, adding low level quantizing noise, filtering the audio with a sharp cutoff 7kHz low pass filter, etc.). All the analog EQ curves and the digital time delay factors are closely replicated and, of course, the algorithm is the same. About the only factor I can think of that isn't copied is the actual sampling rate (which was 16kHz), so there may be a little more aliasing distortion in the original SST-282. Both units were designed by Christopher Moore, and reference was made to actual samples and original design notes during the design of the SST-206.
Does it really all
into the small hand-held unit shown?
Yes. Only a small in-line power supply and the two digital I/O connectors are external, and they are at the end of a 12 foot breakout cable.
Does it have MIDI?
preset memory?
No. Omitting them was a deliberate design choice to keep the product simpler to use (and to design...). The user interface is transparent--the knob settings you see are what you get. Think of it in terms of a Pultec equalizer or a UREI compressor/limiter. The Space Station SST-206 is a tactile, hands-on product. Some users have said that it responds like a musical instrument.
What's new in the
3 software?
Read all about it here.
Owner's guide V1.0 June 2003
Owner's guide V2.0 March 2004
Software update instructions
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Illinois vs. Iowa Free Pick
IOWA CITY, IA (ATS Consultants) – Two Big Ten teams battling for conference tournament position will square off when Iowa hosts Illinois at 7:00PM ET tonight.
ODDS: Oddsmakers have installed Iowa as a 4.5-point favorite over Illinois for tonight's game, while the over/under total is currently sitting at 135.5 points. The Fighting Illini enter play with a 21-9 overall record and are 8-8 in the Big Ten, while the Hawkeyes are 18-11 overall and 7-9 in the conference.
LINE MOVEMENT: Illinois opened as a 3.5-point favorite but the spread has been bet up to 4.5 at most sports books. As for the total, it opened at 136 but dropped to 135.5.
PUBLIC BETTING: Of the wagers placed on tonight's game, 54% of college basketball public bettors currently favor Illinois. This information is subject to change, however, so make sure you click on the link provided for the most up-to-date public betting numbers.
NCAA FREE PICK: Take Illinois. According to latest college basketball trends, Illinois is 8-2 ATS in their last 10 Tuesday games. 4-1 ATS in their last 5 road games and 5-1 ATS last 6 in series.
Illinois (21-9 SU, 12-15 ATS) is looking to go over .500 in the conference. They are coming off a 72-65 win over Nebraska, giving 13.5 on Saturday. Iowa (18-11 SU, 16-9 ATS)loss at Indiana, 73-60 on Saturday, getting 13.5. Illinois has won six of their last seven games and is heating up at the right time. Illinois has won their last three games visiting Iowa. Their loss to Iowa last year on March 8, took place in the Big 10 Tournament. Illinois is very close to getting into the Big Dance with wins over top-ranked Indiana and Gonzaga, and with four wins over RPI Top 25 schools. Senior Brandon Paul averages 16.1 points per game and leads the way for the Fighting Illini. Illinois may want to zone an Iowa team that shoots just 29.8 percent from three-point range. Illinois has the quickness edge with Paul and that will be the difference.
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I did these posts for your brother, like, once a month and this is your first one...
Sorry, second child.
I did get you dressed today in something other than last night's jammies, so you can't be too mad at me.
You are a joy. An absolute, smiley delight. You are 7 months old and already saying "Dada" when your daddy walks into the room. I thought you were just babbling at first, but we tested it out thrice last night...I walked into the room, and you smiled but said nothing. Your dad walks into the room, and you said "Dada"...three times! I hate being that mom who brags about her kids accomplishments, so let me even it out by giving you a good dose of reality--
The "Dada" thing is cute and all but also makes me want to slam my head into a wall. After all, I am the one who gets up with your obnoxious butt every night, because--no--you STILL don't sleep through the night. Never. Not a chance. Not even close. You make up for being such a little poop during the day by being the easiest, sweetest baby ever. But at nighttime you drive me crazy. I love you. I really do. But I also love sleeping. So please sleep.
You are crawling and pulling up on furniture already. I am fighting the urge to push you back down because I'm not ready for you to be mobile yet, but boy do you look proud of yourself when you get a glimpse of the top of your brother's train table. You go for all of the smallest toys that could potential choke you, so that's fun.
I am just so obsessed with you. We call you "nugget" or "Odie" but rarely "Owen" and it throws me off when people address you using your real name.
You have no teeth or hair to your name, and we love your huge gummy smile. You have started doing this hilarious squinty-eye thing when you're trying to be funny. Your dad was known for this squinty-eye-laugh in college, and it looks JUST like that. I think they actually called it the Baker Laugh...
Your hemangioma birthmark fades more every day. People rarely even ask about it anymore. Soon it will be gone, and that makes me a little bit sad. It makes you who you are.
Right now, you're eating puffs and eggs for lunch. You weren't into baby food purees, so we went straight to finger foods. You are so tiny, but so capable of feeding yourself. It's weird/cute looking.
I adore you, Odiekins! You are such a blessing to me and to this family. I love you, I love you, I JUST LOVE YOU!


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The Zimmerman volleyball team lost three close matches at the Pine City tournament on Saturday.
Luck (WI) beat the Thunder 27-25, 25-22. Braham beat them 20-25, 25-13, 15-11, and East Central beat them 25-23, 25-21.
"We were ahead or competing in majority of the sets, but made too many mistakes down the end," said coach Rita Belka.
Brooke Borchardt made 26 kills and 12 blocks in the tournament. Nikki O'Keefe had 32 assists, 18 kills and 17 digs. Amanda Meleen made 33 assists. Jenae Mettling notched 12 kills and 14 digs, Emily Garmen 21 digs and four kills, and Abby Kratzke 29 digs.
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Transport Minister Sbusiso Ndebele has honoured a 79-year-old who could very well be South Africa's most obedient driver.
On Tuesday the Minister handed the Ford Cortina driver a certificate for being a "sterling example" of what a driver should be - she's driven on our roads for 62 years without having received a single traffic fine.
"Ms. Souma's unblemished driving record and sterling example is proof that we can put an end to the carnage on our roads," Ndebele said.
In an interview with the Cape Argus, the Souma remarked: "I am a person of habit and I plan my day so that I am never in a hurry. I've always been half an hour early for every appointment, so I never need to speed," she says.
"When the phone rings I don't answer it. I stop at every stop street. It's simple - obey the rules of the road and you won't get in trouble."
Not only has the Rondebosch grandmother managed to avoid fines but she has never claimed from insurance nor run out of fuel or even hooted at someone. While she has been involved in three minor accidents, none of these were her fault.
For the record, Ms. Souma has managed to steer clear of the chaos in a country where 40 people are killed in road accidents every day on average and where millions of fines are issued every year.
In fact, looking at the period between October 2010 and last year, over six million fines were issued in the country. But imagine if everyone drove like Ms. Souma - surely we'd have certain departments crying poverty…
-Manage your time effectively. "I'm a person of habit and I plan my day so that I'm never in a hurry. If you make sure you have enough time to get to every appointment, you'll never have to speed."
-Don't be tempted to break the law because others do so. "The street in Rondebosch where I live is like a racetrack in the morning: people just drive straight through stop streets. I have never been tempted though. I take my time and I make sure that I come to a complete stop at every robot and stop street."
-Don't answer your cellphone. "When I drive I just let my phone ring and ring."
-Learn the rules and stick to them. "If youngsters don't understand that, I'll just tell them to look at rugby - there are rules that every player has to learn. If you break those rules you can't complain if you get penalised."
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It is confirmed that the 2013 Movie Awards will be held on April 14 next year, which is much sooner than the traditional mid year schedule for the film kudofest.
MTV will throw its annual Movie Awards show sooner than its usual schedule for next year. The company confirms that it has moved up the 2013 Movie Awards to early summer despite the fact that the prize-giving event usually takes place around June or July.
The channel officially announces that next year's Movie Awards will broadcast live on Sunday, April 14. It says that the decision to air the show in April is taken to ensure "the blockbusters and gut-busting comedies of 2012 won't be forgotten."
Furthermore, MTV states that 2012 marks "a banner year for Hollywood" due to the release of such actioners as "The Avengers", "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Prometheus", as well as such comedies as "Ted" and "Magic Mike". It also won't miss upcoming "Cloud Atlas", "Skyfall" and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" which all can compete for next year's Movie Awards.
For the past few years, the film kudofest has always taken place in mid year and often serves as an event to promote various upcoming big releases. This year, MTV Movie awards was held on June 3 with Russell Brand serving as the host. Footage from "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" were shown as a way to hype up the star-studded event.


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- Dear Valued Guest, Welcome to the New Orleans Staybridge Suites, where we're more than just your typical New Orleans Hotel! The goal of our team is to make you feel like you're staying with family while in New Orleans. Whether you're here for business or pleasure, your comfort is our top priority. So, get comfortable in one of our spacious studio, one or two bedroom suites! Then, come and join our family for our complimentary, full American breakfast buffet, featuring both hot and cold items. We also invite you to take advantage of our laundry facilities, fitness center, wifi internet access and 24 hour business center, all offered at no additional cost. At the end of your day, join our family for our famous Sundowner Reception. Our reception, which is offered to all our guests Tuesday through Thursday on a complimentary basis, includes beer, wine, soft drinks and a light meal. Due to our perfect location, the New Orleans Staybridge Suites is considered to be both a French Quarter Hotel as well as a Downtown New Orleans Hotel. No need to rent a car while here because our upscale, all suites hotel is located across the street from Harrah's Casino, blocks from the French Quarter and within walking distance to many restaurants and attractions, including Riverwalk, Convention Center and the Superdome, home to the New Orleans Saints. So sit back, relax and enjoy all the comforts of home!Sincerely,Your New Orleans Staybridge Suites Family ... more less
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