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New Delhi: Isolated in her attempts to bring a no-confidence motion against the government, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee looked for a face-saver from her arch rivals, the Left. She said that her party is willing to support a Left-sponsored motion on the issue of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail. "I am ready to talk to any party on no-confidence motion. If the Left brings no-confidence, Trinamool is ready to support it," the West Bengal Chief Minister said in Kolkata today. She has had the bitterest rivalry with the Left in West Bengal.
Ms Banerjee also said that she had phoned the Communist Party of India's Gurudas Dasgupta to try and push for support. The CPI had initially said that it could support the Trinamool Congress if it brought the no-trust vote. "I have told Gurudas Dasgupta... the CPM has said we can't support Trinamool Congress' no-confidence motion. If that is the case, why don't you ask the CPM to table a no-confidence? We will support," Ms Banerjee said.
Mr Dasgupta reportedly told the Trinamool chief that any decision on the no-trust motion has to be taken only by the party. The Left parties are meeting tomorrow in Delhi to take their final decision on the issue.
The only one to leave the door open a crack was AIADMK chief and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who said this afternoon that while her party will decide on a no-confidence vote if it was brought, "no one had asked for the AIADMK's support for a no-trust vote". She said that her nine MPs will vote against FDI in retail, but that number will still not be enough for Ms Banerjee.
The CPI(M) has already and categorically said that it will not give its support to the Trinamool Congress. Speaking to NDTV on Monday, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said as much and also that the Trinamool would be unable to muster the numbers. The CPI(M) has applied for a debate-and-vote motion on the issue of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail introduced by the government, which it thinks will be more effective as a strategy in Parliament.
While clarifying that Ms Banerjee was yet to approach him or anybody else from CPI(M), Mr Karat said they had to be careful as a defeat of the no-confidence vote would mean an endorsement for the government. "There are so many issues facing the UPA like corruption and a defeat of this no-confidence would send the wrong signal," he said.
Mr Karat said it was better to corner the government by forcing a vote under rule 184 on the issue of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail. "While this wouldn't bring the government down, it would make it morally wrong for them to push through their FDI policy," he told NDTV.
Meanwhile, the BJP has so far been cagey about Ms Banerjee's plan. Most of the other Opposition parties are also eyeing it warily majorly for one reason - Ms Banerjee has 19 MPs and to introduce the motion in the Lok Sabha, she needs 50. (Read: Mamata's no-trust vote - BJP tight-lipped)
Moving a no-confidence motion not the best idea right now: Kamal Nath
In an exclusive interview to NDTV, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said moving a no-trust motion is not the best idea right now. "They (Trinamool Congress) are not ready. Have to understand the mood of the people, can't topple the government and not have an alternative," he said. (Watch the full interview here)
"The FDI policy enables states to avail FDI if they want. It isn't being forced on them. If they don't want to avail of it, they need not. What will we vote on? That they should not avail or avail?," he added.
Mr Nath also said that he had not heard that any other party is ready to support Trinamool Congress (TMC) bringing a no-confidence motion.
"TMC has said they will bring no confidence motion. I have not heard that any other party is to support it... TMC have done some calculations to want to move no confidence motion. The fact is that they are 19 people. So must have calculated something. Don't know what she has talked with other parties," he said.


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Highlanda continues to gain fans on a stated mission to entertain and promote high-quality reggae music worldwide.
Kahlil Wonda, the driving force behind Highlanda Sound, created the Annual Bob Marley Tribute and curates the popular Rub-A-Dub ATL event monthly in Atlanta. He currently hosts and produces the Reggae Lover Podcast.
Since 1999 Highlanda Sound has performed at hundreds of venues in its home state of Georgia, all over the USA, and internationally with dates in the Caribbean, and as far away as Japan.
This popularity has stemmed from consistently leaving a rapidly growing fan base completely satisfied and thoroughly entertained with versatility, technical skills, and an interactive style.
"Reggae music is all-encompassing, and we don't intend to deprive anyone of this art form."
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Linux for utility computing (clouds)
It is not surprising that Microsoft is involved at some level in this, However I hope that it is well understood that their reputation as a extend, embrace and extinguish organization is well understood and watched relentlessly by those who care about the future of standards that are truly open.
Microsoft's contamination of the ISO is well known within the open source community. They will use whatever means available to bias the direction of development towards a proprietary system that excludes everybody that is not under their control. Its their history.
Take a look at what fools they made of the ISO for the most recent evidence of this tactic. It is what they do, it is their nature.


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How to draw up a lease
Q: I have a store in a small shopping center. One of the more popular stores recently left. The new tenant is very different and brings in a different sort of customer. I would like to get out of my lease (it runs for another year). Can I, and if so, how? — Debra
A: Breaking a commercial lease is not the easiest thing in the world, but paradoxically, it also may not be as hard as it sounds. What I mean is that it really depends upon the facts of the situation; certain facts make getting out of the lease easier.
Here then are my best strategies for getting out of a business lease before it's over, ranked from the easiest to the more difficult:
Look for a clause: Re-read your lease and look for either a bailout clause or a co-tenancy clause. A bailout clause allows you to get out of the lease if your sales do not reach a pre-set level. A co-tenancy clause lets you leave if an important anchor tenant leaves, which may be the case here.
Ask: If you are in a good space in a popular area, your landlord will be more inclined to an early termination of the lease than if you are in a bad space in a hard-to-rent location.
Let's say that you are in a nice spot that is not hard to rent and you have two years left on your lease. Landlords may be amenable to your request to end your lease early because they could probably rent it for longer for more money.
As my grandmother was wont to say, it never hurts to ask.
Have a legitimate reason: The general legal rule is: You can cancel your obligations under a lease if the other side breaches a substantive lease provision first (note that word "substantive"). You cannot get out if the carpet was not cleaned this year, but you could if the roof partially caved in and the landlord failed to repair it.
So if there is legitimately a substantive breach on the landlord's part, that may be reason for you to cancel the remainder of your lease and walk away.
Of course, if it is debatable, the landlord will likely sue you, so be careful.
Assign or sublease the space: An assignment is when you transfer 100% of your obligations under a lease to a new party. With a sub-lease, someone else will come in, take over the space and pay the rent, but you remain legally liable for it if they
miss payments.
So another option would be to try and rent out the place to someone else. An assignment of course is preferable.
Note that almost all commercial leases give the landlord the right to approve or disapprove of any possible new tenants under an assignment or sub-lease.
Offer a lump-sum payment: Let's say you have a year left at $1,000 a month. A leasing company might be willing to take less if it thinks it could lease it again fairly quickly. In that case, an offer of say, $5,000 might work. Hey, it's less than $12,000, right?
Leave: It starts to be more of a hardball game now. Another thing you could do is simply leave the space. In that case, you will have, of course, breached your lease and you will be obligated to pay more.
But how much more? That's the rub. The landlord has an obligation to try and re-rent the premises as quickly as feasible and thereby mitigate its damages.
If they are able to rent the place fairly quickly, say a few months, then all you would owe would be the cost to clean the place up and the lost rent for those few months. But if it is longer, you will be obligated for as long as it takes, until your lease runs out.
File bankruptcy: A bankruptcy would likely end your obligations under a commercial lease, though a lawyer would need to be consulted to be sure.
Indeed, for any of these remedies, a lawyer should be consulted to discuss your facts and the law in your state.
Today's tip: Listening to a story about small businesses in New Orleans recently, I was surprised to hear one owner state that her busy season begins after Mardi Gras. Why? Because Mardi Gras is simply one event of many that occur in the spring in New Orleans. After Mardi Gras there are jazz festivals, parades, literary festivals, wine and food expos, etc.
The takeaway is that, if you want to bring more people to your store, consider teaming up with nearby businesses and create some events of your own to draw people to your area. It works.
Ask an Expert appears Mondays. You can e-mail Steve Strauss at: firstname.lastname@example.com. And you can click here to see previous columns. Steven D. Strauss is a lawyer, author and speaker who specializes in small business and entrepreneurship. His latest book is The Small Business Bible. You can sign up for his free newsletter, "Small Business Success Secrets!" at his website —www.mrallbiz.com .Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com
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The USGA finally fired the gun that had been hanging on the wall all week by moving up the tee box on Torrey Pines' par-4 14th hole, shortening it from 435 yards to 277 for the final round. That made it reachable for virtually every player in the field.
The move created a Happy Gilmore atmosphere for fans, who cheered lustily when a player eschewed the lay-up iron for a 3-wood or driver (or in Sergio Garcia's case, a 5-wood). It also created a pivotal hole in this U.S. Open that actually favored the shorter hitters.
In all, 56 of the 80 players elected to go for it, usually with a 3-wood, but shorter-hitting guys like Jim Furyk and David Toms hit driver, while bombers like Anthony Kim went for the green with a hybrid. The hole was actually too short for Tiger Woods, who said he couldn't hit his 3-wood.
"You couldn't have picked a worse number for me," Woods said. "Because 5-wood is my number to the front, but it's into the wind so I can't get there. 3-wood's too much. ... If we were to play it from the back of that upper tee I could have hit 3-wood and gone for it, but I couldn't have had a worse situation numbers-wise."
So Woods laid up, wedged it on the green and made par; his rival and Monday playoff opponent Rocco Mediate, whose average drive was almost 40 yards less than Tiger's for the tournament, landed his 3-wood in the left-front bunker and got up-and-down for birdie.
"It was like having a carrot in front of the horse, but very few guys were able to hit this green" said Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher Dave Phillips, who teaches in nearby Oceanside. "The long guys didn't benefit, but it brought the rest of the field back in."
Basically, if you could play your 3-wood the hole was perfect, Phillips said, but if you couldn't -- like Woods -- then you had to lay up.
"I thought it was a great thing to do, and it ended up being a pivotal hole" Phillips said.
He added that if the USGA decides to keep the tee box up for Monday's playoff, it wouldn't be unfair to Woods, even though the length favors Mediate.
"Tiger has a major advantage on the par 5s," Phillips said. "It's nice to have a hole where the short hitters can capitalize."


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A Mother's Dream
If I could earn a living doing anything I wanted I would be a paramedic. I would be accomplishing a life long dream my children have always heard me speak about. I would be fulfilling a passion to provide a service to my community as well as teach my children any dream can be reached even after hardships and trials. I would be able to encourage them that your never too old to accomplish your goals. I would be able to change the world by being able to provide for not only my own family but to my community. I would be able to help in any event not just as an occupation. My compassion for others and assisting their immediate medical needs would be a priority in any event. If I could be anything I wanted in my occupation, it would be to help save a life.


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WASHINGTON—The largest solar storm in five years has engulfed Earth, but scientists say the planet has lucked out so far.
The storm arrived more peacefully Thursday morning than it could have. Scientists say that could change as the storm spends the day shaking the planet's magnetic field. It could disrupt technology but also spread colourful Northern Lights.
The storm started with a massive solar flare earlier in the week and grew as it raced outward from the sun. The storm arrived at Earth about 6 a.m. EST.
So far officials say there have been no reports of problems with power grids, GPS, satellites or other technologies that are often disrupted by solar storms.
The storm is part of the sun's normal 11-year cycle, which is supposed to reach peak storminess next year. Solar storms don't harm people, but they do disrupt technology. And during the last peak around 2002, experts learned that GPS was vulnerable to solar outbursts.
Because new technology has flourished since then, scientists could discover that some new systems are also at risk, said Jeffrey Hughes, director of the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling at Boston University.
"This is a good-size event, but not the extreme type," said Bill Murtagh, program co-ordinator for the federal government's Space Weather Prediction Center.
The sun erupted Tuesday evening, according to forecasters at the space weather centre. The effects could linger through Friday morning.
Storms like this start with sun spots, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway said.
Then comes an initial solar flare of subatomic particles that resemble a filament coming out of the sun. That part already hit Earth only minutes after the initial burst, bringing radio and radiation disturbances.
After that comes the coronal mass ejection, which looks like a growing bubble and takes a couple days to reach Earth.
North American utilities are monitoring for abnormalities on their grids and have contingency plans, said Kimberly Mielcarek, spokeswoman for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a consortium of electricity grid operators.
In 1989, a strong solar storm knocked out the power grid in Quebec, causing 6 million people to lose power.
Solar storms can also make global positioning systems less accurate and cause GPS outages.
Satellites could be affected, too. NASA spokesman Rob Navias said the space agency isn't taking any extra precautions to protect astronauts on the International Space Station from added radiation.


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Test Drive: Medusa's MasterAugust 12th, 2009 08:45 pm
My first contribution to the Sony Reader Test Drive is up!
Rather than a review of the hardware, it's a review of one of the category romance novels I acquired along with the hardware -- Medusa's Master by Cindy Dees, in the Silhouette Romantic Suspense line. [No, not that kind of Medusa; in this book, the Medusas are an all-female Spec Ops group within the US armed forces -- and Dees is the right kind of former military herself, so the action reads as convincing.]
See the review via the link, or visit Smart Bitches, Trashy Books at its main page for ongoing windows into the romance world. (They don't bite, really they don't! Except sometimes by mutual consent, I suppose.)


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You can skip to 5:00 for the start of the actual speech. H/T The Savage nation on YouTube
An excellent roundup of discussions on Israel's self defense and surgical strikes vs Hamas' cynical use of human shields on TownHall.com I've been advocating for years that the point of original of each rocket or missile be turned into a smoking crater – if Hamas kept their rockets and military depots away from homes and […]
A contrast in substance…….
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Want to bring back the '90s? You better start saving. Because if you do things the Hollywood way, it's going to cost you.
First up: This $95 (no, that's not a typo) scrunchie by celeb-loved brand Missoni. We used to buy Goody hair ties by the pack (for under $10), but if you really want to add some high-fashion oomph to your hair accessories collection you might want to splurge on the label's tri-color design. (It's only a matter of days before someone like Kourtney Kardashian steps out sporting it.)
RELATED: See what other styles are trending big in Hollywood
Moving to the flannel department, Hailee Steinfeld joined the posse of stars who've been wearing shirts tied around their waists. And while the last flannel we bought was like $20 from Aeropostale (aside from the one we swiped from our dad's closet), the young Hollywood star selected a $235 topper from Maje for the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party in L.A. And yes, that was only to wear around her waist.
Finally, it looks like Keira Knightley's Citizens of Humanity "Quincy" overalls have already gained some serious traction with trendsetters, because despite the $297 price tag, the style is basically sold out everywhere. And with overalls in such high demand, we wonder if OshKosh B'gosh would consider launching an (affordable) adult line.
Would you spend close to a hundy on a scrunchie? How about the other '90s-inpsired style? Let us know below!
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For quite a while I have been a member of an online Word Of Mouth marketing company called BzzAgent. At first I joined, got a free book, enjoyed the book, told people about the book but never reported this back to my BzzAgent. You build "points" for the amount of bzzing you do (or something similar). From then on in I have not been able to join many campaigns (albeit a lot of them are for U.S. Residents only).
I love the concept of the site and I know that people like Seth Godin has enlisted their services to get some balls rolling. I also happen to think it's effective, powerful and cool. So, what's the point of this Blog entry? It shows that you can harness something as powerful as Word Of Mouth marketing and port it to the Web (unlike a lot of other mediums) - the challenge is in having a product, service or offering that's exciting, immediate and cool enough to get the "sneezers" to do their job AND report it back. Your own "Word Of Mouth" used to come with no strings attached and it certainly never had homework. You could just say, "listen, this book rocks... buy it" and your job was done. I can't see it being as much fun for an individual if they have to track it or have to report it back. Same thing goes for sites like Ryze or LinkedIn - I like seeing all of the people I'm connected to but I'm a little overwhelmed to take action.
Lessons? Too many choices = no choice will be made. Ask me to spread the word without me willingly joining the concept and you've lost me.
When it's as simple as just telling people because they need to know what you know - that's where the rubber meets the road. Where in your offerings is that evident and are you capitalizing on that immense power and sales potential? Because that, at its core, is where you can see Word Of Mouth Marketing working as strong as a third-party testimonial/referral. It's the best kind of business.


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Members of the Whittier Varrio Locos gang can't hang around with other fellow gangsters, throw gang signs, stay out past 10 p.m. or loiter in a certain part of Whittier.
A gang injunction, which became permanent in January 2008, designated the area bordered by Painter Avenue to the east, Beverly Boulevard to the north, Pickering Avenue to the west, and Whittier Boulevard to the south as a gang enforcement safety zone.
Whittier Varrio Locos claims that area as its territory.
A similar safety zone exists in neighboring Montebello where a gang injunction has been in place since 2005 against the Southside Montebello gang.
Police departments from both cities say the injunction is a factor in reducing crime. Along with parole and probation compliance checks, they use the injunction as a tool in dealing with gangs.
A safety zone doesn't ban gang members from the area but restricts what they can and cannot do while there.
In Whittier, the list of 22 activities not allowed includes tagging, possessing, using or selling drugs, impeding vehicles and people. Any violation is a misdemeanor.
"The injunction is a very important tool in dealing with crime and gang enforcement against WVL," Whittier Police Chief Jeff Piper said.
"The conditions in the injunction prohibit many activities that contribute to gang criminal activity such as members loitering together within the safety zone."
He said there were 39 gang members named in the injunction when it was first granted in 2008.
"Today, there are 52. On average, the department enjoins approximately three members per year since 2008," the chief said.
Since 2008, Piper said there have been 56 criminal filings for violations of the injunction.
Seven were rejected but 49 ended in convictions
"The WVL gang injunction has been effective in both reducing gang-related violent crime and (improving) quality of life issues within the safety zone," Piper said.
Whittier Varrio Locos and Brown Brotherhood are the two main gangs in the city of Whittier. There's a reason why the gang injunction is against WVL.
"At the time, the police department noticed a substantial increase in violent crime and other criminal activity in a certain geographical area of Uptown Whittier (identified as the safety zone in the injunction)," Piper said.
Police determined Whittier Varrio Locos was behind most of the incidents.
Piper said there was no specific part of the injunction that drew criticism.
There were a few gang members who objected to being named in the injunction, he said.
In Montebello, the city secured a gang injunction against Southside Montebello because of the amount of crime the gang was involved in, according to Gang Detective Omar Rodriguez.
He said Southside Montebello was the most active and the biggest of the city's gangs. The group was into street robberies, drug sales, shootings and carjackings. It's also been tied to murders.
"A lot of them are incarcerated and a lot have moved out (of the city)," Rodriguez said.
The gang was committing a majority of the crimes in the area that would later be designated a safety zone, according to Rodriguez. He said members of the gang also lived there at the time.
The safety zone runs from Beverly Boulevard south to Telegraph Road, and stretches east and west to the city's limits.
The injunction prohibits Southside members from associating with one another, carrying guns or other weapons, dealing or using drugs, recruiting children, tagging and carrying spray cans or tools to create graffiti. They're also not allowed to trespass, show gang signs and harass people within the safety zone.
Rodriguez said if someone is identified as a Southside Montebello gang member, they are served with a copy of the injunction. If the gang member then violates the injunction, he will be arrested, according to the detective.
He's heard gang members complain about the injunction. Some of the adult members consider it unfair they're also subject to the curfew like minors.
Under the injunction, Rodriguez said gang members aren't supposed to be in the safety zone from 10 pm to sunrise.
Like his colleagues in Whittier, Rodriguez thinks the injunction has helped curb crime in Montebello.
"I would say it has played a major role. Just the association restriction alone," he said. "They don't congregate as often as they used to in public."
Rodriguez said typically, gang members hang out in large numbers to intimidate the community. The gang members commit crimes and expect people not to report the crimes out of fear.
While the injunction restricts what a gang member can do within a safety zone, it is not a guarantee they will obey the conditions.
Brandon John Valdez, one of the WVL gang members originally named in the injunction, shot and killed another man May 16, 2009. The killing occurred in the 6300 block of Milton Avenue, which falls within the safety zone. Valdez was sentenced to 50 years to life for the murder of Daniel "Danny Boy" Quijada, 30, of Whittier.
Deputy District Attorney Brock Lunsford said in an earlier interview with the paper that testimony indicated the victim was targeted by Whittier Varrio Locos.
Witnesses indicated Quijada may have angered the gang by allegedly selling drugs on their turf and that he argued with another WVL member weeks before the shooting.


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Wedding Catering options…
If you're thinking of booking your wedding reception at Dairy Barns, then we'd be delighted to chat with you about the catering options we could offer for you and your guests to ensure your perfect day.
If you want canapés we can offer a range of "finger food" with everything from smoked salmon mini bagels, satays and savoury mini tarts to bite-size cakes – all very elegant. Or, of course, you may prefer to have a traditional sit-down meal and we have a 3-course Summer Wedding Breakfast with a choice of starters, poached salmon fillet or thick-cut Norfolk ham, followed by fresh strawberries and cream. It's your day – you choose!
But if you'd like something a little bit different on your special day, why not consider our very popular Hog Roast with fabulous crackling, stuffing, apple sauce, freshly baked rolls and some tasty salads (vegetarian option available too) with a delicious dessert to finish. If pork is not for you, we can offer a BBQ option with a selection of meat options instead.
We want you to have a day to remember and we have lots of ideas to share with you – some of our other scrumptious choices, including buffet menus, can be found on the "Occasions" page. Please contact us for full menu options.


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The Super Geek Bowl in Austin
Geeks Who Drink take trivia to a whole new level
By Carly Yansak,
4:30PM, Sun. Feb. 17, 2013
"Where do you think this thing is?" I ask my friend as we wandered Downtown, searching for the Austin Music Hall. He points ahead, where a huge crowd of people is massed outside a building. As we get closer, the 80's t-shirts and patterned sweaters let us know we had, indeed, arrived at Geek Bowl VII.
I had been very unsure what to expect; a bingo hall with hole punches was what I originally envisioned. But nothing could have been further from the truth.
Geek Bowl is the Super Bowl of pub quizzes (Super-Geek-Bowl, if you will). It's hosted by Geeks Who Drink; a nationwide company that brings quiz games into over two hundred bars in thirty-three cities spanning seventeen states. Last weekend marked the seventh annual Geek Bowl, where one hundred and fifty teams (sixty-two from Austin alone), and almost nine hundred competitors had a battle of the brains. This is a huge jump from the first Geek Bowl, where only thirty-eight teams competed.
Geeks Who Drink doesn't host your typical pub trivia evenings. No one can say the difference quite like they can, either; to quote their website: "Most so-called 'trivia nights' consist of either an MP3J reading Trivial Pursuit cards in between bad music, or a bunch of people staring at TVs with buzzers in hand. Our quiz burns through nearly seventy multimedia questions in two exciting hours. The quizmaster gets to know the players, and smack talk flying around in all directions is pretty much par for the course."
The smack talking wasn't left out for the big day, that was for sure. Last year, a team from Philadelphia won the Geek Bowl, and during Mayor Lee Leffingwell's video welcome to the assembled nerd squads, he set the tone for friendly fire.
"We welcome you with open arms! Except for those of you from Philadelphia…" His honor kept it on an even playing field, making sure to tease the whole crowd. "Questions about, I dunno, Dungeons & Dragons or something. I'm sure it's not as pathetic as it sounds."
The Super-Geek-Bowl kicked off with a song and dance sequence dedicated to anti-cell phone use (there was even glitter involved). Round one punted the category, "Things that are on or around your ass - literally or figuratively." Most rounds had a witty punch to their titles, like when the sixth came about; "The fabric of our lives… or slavery." My friend and I jotted down what answers we could with our Yelp sponsored pens, and marveled at how little we did, in fact, know.
"I bought a discounted subscription to The Economist to get ready," a player from a local Austin team told me. His other teammate had bought all forty-four volumes of Now! That's What I Call Music! to boost his pop knowledge. Preparation for the event is not to be taken lightly, because the prizes are serious - first prize walks with $6,000; second place with $300; and third place with $1,200.
All questions were posed twice, or in the case of the music round, played twice. In a unique twist, the music portion consisted of different bands playing a song in the style of their genre. When a harpist came on stage to play One by Metallica, there was a geek-plosion that rocked the house. After all questions were asked, each team had two minutes to then hand their sheets over to a proctor.
In the end, only two points separated the first and second place winners. The McCheese Administration from Albuquerque, New Mexico took home the gold, while Hey 4th Place, Get Off The Stage! from Denver, Colorado took the close silver.
Geeks Who Drink regularly hosts pub quizzes in a handful of Austin bars, including Moontower Saloon, Gibson Bar, and Opal Divine's Penn Field. You can find a full schedule on their website. And if you attend and leave feeling a little disheartened by how few questions you could answer, just remember, you are a geek who drinks. The beer is just as important as the questions.
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The new Protect capsule menswear collection, designed by British reappropriation wizard Christopher Raeburn adorns the manequins in the Victorinox flagship windows on Bloor St. right now.
The six-item collection, inspired by a 1970s Swiss Army field jacket, is "transformational" outerwear, and it's witty at that: The star piece is a parka that folds up into a knapsack, to accommodate temperature shifts in an urban winter environment — say, going in and out of shops. There is also a clever reversible vest that becomes a man-bag. And what Raeburn calls a reversible jacket, which is really a narrow waterproof bomber-cum-liner. For the lining, he has designed a bespoke camouflage pattern, a grey splash he calls The Shield in honour of the Swiss Army logo.
There are nifty gizmos such as miniflashlights in the pockets and D-rings to clip on — what else — your Swiss Army knife. The 10-step illustrated instructions to make that parka into a knapsack are printed right inside the garment.
This is the second time Raeburn has collaborated with Victorinox. In 2011 he debuted a limited-edition line called Remade in Switzerland. He and his East London design team moved to a pop-up studio at the Victorinox factory to work with the artisans there (some even served as his models). That line was made of old Swiss Army uniforms. Raeburn says he is inspired by the brand's legacy. "The Swiss have really, really good quality — the irony is they've never been in wars, but they have the best kit."
This second collaboration is available around the world, at "more accessible" prices, from $495 for the reversible jacket to $895 for the parka. The pieces are insulated with eco-friendly recycled filling. This last point is very important to Raeburn; his own line starts and ends with sustainability. His influence has lead to the sourcing of ethical fabrics and components for the whole Victorinox line.
By the time he'd graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006, Raeburn was already committed to functionality through repurposing fabrics, mostly military ones. He works with uniforms found on eBay and with entire batches of gear overproduced by the military of various countries. He likes parachute fabrics, and has created a whole collection around 1950s Royal Air Force silk escape maps (they were more durable than paper).
For his work with Victorinox, Raeburn uses new fabrics, but he is incorporating recycled fibres into the technical fabrications.
Raeburn has also just presented a capsule collection for Victorinox for spring 2013, which features another bespoke camouflage, this one bright green with splashes of yellow, suitable for the very wet British outdoor rock festival season. It also includes two versions for women.


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Mr Green: Last week Justin Barr introduced to me to David Ogilvy (not physically, just theoretically). I was like damn I gotta post on this guy, he's amazing. However my friend Ewoww aka Boom Boom Pow from AKMG said I wasn't allowed to. She said she was his number one fan and was coming up with the best write-up ever on him. Usually I only except guest posts from angry Russians, but since Ewoww lived in Russia and is pretty surly pre-coffee, I figured this topic was something not to be missed.
So here it is ladies and gentlemen. I present to you a literary masterpiece by Ewoww on the outstanding advertising visionary David Ogilvy.
If you don't know about Ogilvy, watch this video to get some perspective on how ahead of his time he is. He filmed it in the early 70s.
"Direct response is my first love, and later it became my secret weapon." ~ David Ogilvy
Ewoww: I was inspired to write this post after reading (albeit a little post facto) Shock Marketer's blog. To Mr. Shock de la Rock, whoever you are, your blog is tip top.
A longtime ago and far far away, before there was Don Draper and Roger Sterling, there was David Ogilvy. Mr. Ogilvy was the King of Madison Avenue, and the man knew how to sell.
Before my life in affiliate marketing, Miss Ewoww worked at a direct response advertising agency working on DR TV shows, radio spots, print ads, catalogs, and a lot of direct mail. And we were all fanbois of David Ogilvy.
"In print advertising, you know that long copy sells more than short copy. You know, that headlines and copy about the product and its benefits sell more than cute headlines and poetic copy. You know it to a dollar… Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
Sound familiar? There are a LOT of old school marketing tricks from that golden era of advertising that should be brought back (and I mean besides the 3 martini lunch). It's time to go back to our direct response roots (and no, I'm not referring to that "blonde" Hydra AM <cat sound!>).
You can build all the scrapers you want but if you don't start figuring out why something is working, then you'll always be a step behind the innovators, chasing the trends. As Father Flipside called it (although I do believe that grandfathered in from Mr. Affbuzz, who originally coined the term) the "WickedFire mindset."
For example, let's talk segmentation and targeting my affilifriends. Know who your product is for, and I mean specifics. Certainly not for everyone, not for people trying to lose weight, not for women trying to lose weight, but possibly about for first-time moms trying to lose the baby weight but finding themselves with no free time and exhausted more than ever desperate for a quick fix to get their bodies back in pre-bambino shape.
Ogilvy was already hip to your so-called farticle.
"It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement, and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look and read. Therefore, study the graphics used by editors and imitate them. Study the graphics used in advertisements, and avoid them."
What you call linkbait or subject lines, the Direct Response world calls teasers and headlines.
Some headlines tips from Mr. Ogilvy…
- 1. Try to put news in the headline. The words new and free are the most powerful words that can appear in the headline.
- 2. There are several other words that are effective: How to, Suddenly, Now, Announcing, Improvement, etc. Headlines can also include emotional words.
- 3. Include a promise in the headlines, and longer headlines sell more than short headlines. Make the consumer curious.
- 4. Do not try to write tricky headlines, be simple and to the point.
- 5. Do not use negatives in the headlines.
Some more words-o-wisdom from the King of Madison Avenue:
- "The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."
- "A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
- "Long copy, long headlines, address people as individuals, use plain conversational language (Ewoww note: aka the flog) and write your copy in the form of a story."
I leave you with this my affilifriends… If this video doesn't stir you ever the slightest, then take a knee spaceman and move on. Affiliate marketing ain't for you. Enjoy ripping landers and trying to fill the post-continuity void. Get back to me when you move back in with mom and pops.
And if it did, go pick up David's classic handbook, "Ogilvy on Advertising." You'll be glad you did!
Mr Green: Amen to that!
P.S. Last month I saw for the first time the advertising campaign "The Most Interesting Man in the World" by Dos Equis Beer. I was like damn that is awesome! Once again Ogilvy had something to do with it. It was actually a knockoff of his famous ad campaign: The Man in the Hathaway Shirt. But that is a story for another post.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Average fixed mortgage interest rates for long-term contracts rose slightly or held even in the week, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Thursday.
Rates for 30-year contracts held steady at 3.87 percent with 0.8 points for the week. A year earlier, 30-year mortgage rates averaged 5.05 percent.
The 15-year fixed rate in the week rose from 3.14 percent to 3.16 percent with 0.7 points. In the same week of 2011 the average rate for 15-year loans stood at 4.29 percent.
Five-year adjustable rate mortgages averaged 2.83 percent for the week with an average 0.7 points. A week earlier, five-year adjustable rate contracts averaged 2.8 percent. A year earlier, they averaged 3.92 percent.
One-year Treasury-indexed adjustable rate mortgages rose in the week from 2.76 percent to 2.78 percent with 0.6 points.
"A strong January employment report added upward pressure to most mortgage rates this week. The economy gained 243,000 jobs last month, the largest monthly gain since April 2011, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent, which was the lowest since February 2009," said Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist.


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And, no -- he cannot search the bag because you told him there's a weapon in it.
If you told him it's in the right-front pouch, he is allowed to open ONLY the right-front pouch, and ONLY for the limited purpose of removing (temporarily) the weapon he has been told is in there. He does not get to search even that pouch beyond that.
Obviously, the plain sight rule applies, and if you carry your stash of weed right next to your carry weapon you'll have a bit of 'splainin' to do, but telling the officer where to find the gun is not giving him consent to "search" anything.
Unfortunately again, everyone needs to brush up on the law. A cop would actually be justified in frisking the entire vehicle if a weapon is found in one location. After all, case law has upheld that if there is one weapon in the vehicle then it would be reasonable to argue that there could be another. It's no different than if I happen to find the stash of weed next to the gun when I pull it out. I not only get to seize that weed, but I have probable cause for a warrantless search (carrol doctrine) of the entire vehicle. So yes, way more than the right front pouch would be in play. This does not apply to just the area around the front seat, it would include the entire lungeable area inside the passenger compartment. The lungeable area in a vehicle, MOST OF THE TIME, would constitute the entire passenger compartment. Trunk and engine compartment are out of play. Again, if you give off no indicators of being a bad dude you likely will not get your whole vehicle frisked. I know I wouldn't do it. Honestly I wouldn't even worry about keeping the gun for most people that are straight enough to tell me about it as long as they have their CCW permit... other than that "I've never met you before and don't know you" factor. And yes, EVERY traffic stop is indeed a criminal investigation. It may be for the simple crime of a burned out tail light, but that is indeed a crime in most states. It could also, there again, be for the crime of bank robbery if you're in the wrong place, wrong time, and look like the guy.
It should be noted that some states place greater 4th amendment restrictions on LEO's than the SCOTUS has. That's great. States can be more restrictive (on LEO's), but no less. Per federal (and my state's) case law, the above applies.
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I'm planning to try setting up Convolver VST to do a 3 way xover in Reaper as soon as I get time to try it (which may not be as soon as I'd like). In theory this should work, but I'm not entirely sure how multi-channel vsts work in Reaper. Hopefully it won't require 3 separate 2-channel instances.
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Cuibono, I think the lack of warmth is a matter of applying the right EQ to the bass. The mid-treble region of your speakers is as good as it gets. What I do to get the right timbre and natural warmth, is EQ the range below about 500 hz to get a smoothly descending curve at the listening postion (spatial average of multiple measurements), of about 1 dB/octave. The mid to high range already has this downward slope without any EQ. At this point I think the speaker is no longer the weakest part of my system - it is the room. My next project will be unobtrusive room treatment.
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|23rd March 2010, 11:27 PM
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sendler - why should the digital version sound better than the analog version. Just for the record, here is Linkwitz's ASP. Fairly sophisticated, IMO.
keyser - thanks for the suggestion, I may try it. I guess it really comes down to preference. Some other weak points worth mentioning are the recording (bigger weakness compared to the room, IME), and one's state of mind.
In another thread, someone suggested listening in complete darkness (as in, its totally black, you can't see anything). I tried it, and it's really interesting! My sense of hearing becomes much more acute, and my perception of the recording really changes. Pretty enjoyable, actually.
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|24th March 2010, 01:05 AM
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IMO the main win for a PC crossover---as opposed to other digital crossover solutions---is linear phase.
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|25th March 2010, 03:51 AM
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Excellent work! Those polars are very impressive. I think it was your thread on trying to maintain off axis response for dipoles that made me give up on starting a dipole project. I didn't realize you've had so much success in the end. I may have to try a dipole for my next project.
I'm wondering about your current filter setup. I went through the opposite progression as you did it seems. I started out running convolver with Matlab generated brick wall filters. Then played around a bit with the Sonitus plug ins that were bundled with Sonar. Finally, I broke down and got Allocator and have been very happy with it. Your conversion to linear phase filters makes we want to revisit that. At this point, how do you design your filters? You mentioned a few posts back that you first tried to recreate the transfer function from your min phase filters. How exactly did you do this? Does your filter design take into account the phase of the drivers or is it just the electrical portion that is linear phase? Did polar response change when you went to linear phase filtering?
|25th March 2010, 05:49 PM
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Hi Dan, all good questions.
I design my filters by measuring their on axis response, and EQing/XOing it till it hits the bandpass I want (like LR4 at 275 and 2600Hz). I'm relatively strict about not using drivers beyond the point where the off axis radiation differs from their on axis, which makes things a little more difficult, in terms of driver selection, but easier because then you don't need to worry about off axis response differences. Measurements are done at about 2m distance, about 3m in the air, so the results are anechoic and fairly high resolution. What I do then is point the axis of each driver at the ear - this assures equal level balance and phase summation between each section (woofers, mid, high).
When I switched to 'linear phase' software, I didn't have to remeasure things acoustically - but I did electrically. The way the two pieces of software use the parametric values (Freq, Q, dB) varies, so there was something of a translation process. I will in the future recheck the final acoustic response, including the differences in phase. So far, I've only been playing with the electrical portion of things - I haven't yet done the necessary phase measurements, or found software that allows me to manipulate phase (easily). I haven't measured the polar response since changing filter types, but I don't see why it would change the polar response (at least much) - polar response seems to be only a function of the driver's physical geometry.
If you (or anyone else) could post a simple/concise how to on generating linear phase filters for use in a convolver, I'd really appreciate it. I've read up on it some, but it is pretty dense! Nothing like a simple overview, or a concise hands-on step by step process. I think I was last looking at BruteFIR.
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|25th March 2010, 07:07 PM
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Polar response is a function of the acoustic size of the source and its radiation pattern. Within the transition band of a crossover the source consists of both drivers and the radiation pattern's a function of the drivers' relative signal strengths and phases. If the crossover slope and phase tracking didn't change in converting from warped to linear phase (e.g. you switched from a warped phase even order LR or odd order Butterworth alignment to the linear phase version of the same) then the polar response won't change.
DDMF's LP10 has the ability to vary an equalizer band's phase response from warped to linear to inverse warped. Interesting, although not the pure phase adjuster we've been looking for. I tried the demo last night and, unfortunately, found the sound quality to be sufficiently poor detailed investigation didn't seem worthwhile.
Doc entry point for Matlab's FIR synthesis functions is here (Octave is a clone of Matlab). Basic flow is to call the functions and load the returned coefficients into Convolver/SigmaStudio/whatever; sounds like you may have that much already, in which case following the MathWorks examples is probably a good starting point. I've not done audio oriented FIR design so I can't comment on the best choices for managing preringing and such.
|26th March 2010, 09:36 PM
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cuibono and twest820,
Here is a thread I started a couple of years ago when I was playing around with convolver and fir filters generated by Matlab before I bought Allocator. It includes the script I ran in Matlab to generate filters. I think I found this script somewhere on this forum and it might work as is in octave as well.
Generating and running FIR filters for active loudspeakers
The basic workflow was to generate the filter coefficients in Matlab and read them into convolver. I had convolver running as a vst plugin in Sonar. However, everything didn't work out so well. The stop band attenuation was only 44 db. I found that out by running sine waves into the filter and reading the output in my soundcard's mixer panel (patchmix for emu 1820m). I saw that at 20 Hz, the tweeter's filter had only attenuated the signal by 44 dB rather than the 100+ predicted when running the filter in Matlab. I suspected this was due to convolver's lower numerical accuracy compared to Matlab. Some of the feedback I got from the forum is that brick wall filters have tradeoffs associated with stop band attenuation. My plan at the time was to try to generate shallower filters and hopefully get better stopband performance. However, I tried out Allocator and it sounded so good and was much easier to tune. I haven't spent the time to set up more complicated filter scripts in Matlab yet. This thread has sparked my interest though.
If we replace the filter we used to get our LR4 reponse from the woofer with a linear phase filter that has the same amplitude response as our original filter, we will get the same acoustic amplitude from the woofer. However, woofer+filter won't be minimum phase anymore, but it probably won't be linear phase either. The tweeter will be minimum phase though. It seems to me that when we combine the woofer and tweeter we'll probably get a new amplitude response, at least in the crossover region because we've changed the phase tracking between the two. Does this make any sense? To get a truly linear phase response, we'd need to take into account the amplitude and phase response of the woofer in our filter design to get linear phase acoustically. With the tweeter, even though it already hits our LR4 slope, we still need to design an FIR filter to correct the phase to linear and match the woofer. Thus, neither the woofer nor tweeter filters would be linear phase filters, but if we designed the filters correctly the final acoustic response of both would be linear phase.
This is my impression of what Acourate can do and is what I was toying around with trying to set up in Matlab. Maybe I'm way off base with all this and just confused? Cuibono, I noticed your measurement plots were taken with Soundeasy. I think Soundeasy can generate FIR filter coefficients can't it? Maybe you can do something along the lines of what I've described in Soundeasy? I'd be interested to see your results if you remeasure your setup with the linear phase filters. I hope this all doesn't come off as sounding negative as I'm really impressed with all the work you've done on this speaker. You've opened my eyes to what can be done with dipoles and I'm thinking something similar to what you've done here will probably be my next project.
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We're actually supposed to have 'winter' weather this weekend....I'm going to make the potatoe soup. I can hardly wait! Hey, maybe we should have a recipe forum.
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littlered is absolutely right, she has many recipes and good ones at that!
I have one that my dad used to make for us when we were growing up. He was born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin. The name is odd but it has proven to be a favorite through out the years.
Hamburger Soup
Note this can be made w/o the meat
1-2 lb hamburger
1 large onion
4-5 large potatoes
1 16 oz. pkg. frozen mixed vegetables
1 sm. can tomato paste
1 32 oz. can chopped tomatoes
Tony Chachere's to taste- this is a seasoning that comes from Louisiana (very spicy)
You can also use salt and pepper. The ingredients add all the flavor.
In preparation peel potatoes and dice them into large pieces, do the same with the onion.
Cook ground beef until done, set aside.
In large pot add the ingredients except the ground beef. (Adding this too early effects the flavor of the meat).
Bring all ingredients to a boil, once boiling turn down to a simmer. Cook for 1 hour or until potatoes are done. 5 minutes before the soup is finished add the meat.
I like to serve this with big slices of Italian or French bread. It is a hearty soup and tastes better when reheated.
I make this in a huge pot and send some home with my children for their families. I also add extra potatoes to mine. You can easily adjust this to suit your preferences.
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I'm making the cabbage and potatoes with ham tonight for dinner! Can't wait!
I love potato soup, so this was definately on my must try list. I decided to make it today since I was home today and my little guy is a bit under the weather with a tender tummy. I knew I did not have much bacon in the house, but I have a bunch of frozen ham left from christmas, so I decided to use that instead. I waited all day to make it, then when I finally went to the kitchen to start, I found I was missing a few other ingredients. Like potatoes, onions, green onions. I did have the tablespoon of flour though, so not all was lost. Fortuenately, we have a little market about 10 minutes away. I did make the soup, and it was fabulous! Thanks for the recipe Littlered. Hope you are feeling better.
I'm eating the ham/cabbage/potatoes as we speak (or write!).
It is so yummy and so easy. I love the tabasco on it.
Thanks for helping me use up my frozen leftover ham!
no problem---I feel sorry for ppl who don't like cabbage. It is SO yummy nd SO good for you!
I make stuffed cabbage rolls all the time...Let me know if you want the recipe.
Love, Kathy
Um, yes, of course I want the recipe!
The ham/cabbage was a hit!
Ok, how about this? I will TRY to post one recipe a day. Most of them I can just sit and do from memory. Warning--I'm a Rachel Ray kind of cook. I "just eyeball" lots of things...but I'll try to be as accurate as I can be. I am such a foodie. I love to cook and I love to share recipes that are easy and healthy (ok, ok, I'm Paula Deen too because I use a lot of butter, heavy cream and sour cream. You can sub margarine, half and half and fat free sour cream, if you must.)
THIS one does not require the "bad for you stuff." It's very healthy and very low fat.
Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
1 large head of cabbage
1 lb ground beef (can be left out if you are a vegan...or use tofu!)
1 cup of rice (use brown if you like it.)
1 large onion, chopped finely and divided into halves.
2-3 bay leaves
1tbsp salt
1 tbsp black pepper
1 large can of crushed tomatoes
1 can tomato sauce
Use a large pot, and fill it with about 1 cup of water. Set the cabbage head with the core on the bottom and the leafy part on top. Put a tght lid on the pot. On medium heat, boil for about 10 minutes. (this softens the cabbage so you can work with it, but leaves it a little firm too.) Use large forks to remove from pot. DO NOT Throw away the water!
While cabbage is cooling, mix the ground beef with the uncooked rice and half the chopped onion, salt and pepper. Mix VERY well.
(Here's the tricky part...but you'll get the hang of it.) Pull the cabbage leaves off. Use a knife to cut off the small very tough core piece of the leaf. Now, make a large "meatball" with the meat/rice mixture. Put it in the leafy end of the cabbage leaf, and roll over, tucking in the ends into the meat as you roll, until all meat is covered up by the cabbage. (It will look like a little green "package".) Repeat until all meat mixture is gone.
Now add the tomatoes, tomato sauce, remaining onion and bay leaves to the water in the pot.Add about a tablespoon of salt and pepper, and add more of each if you think it needs it. carefully place all cabbage rolls into the pot. chop remaining cabbage into wedges and add on top. Bring to a boil, then simmer for an hour. Much of the liquid will disappear because the rice will absorb liquid as it cooks. Don't stir or your rolls will fall apart!
I like to serve this with hard crusty bread to soak; A little Tabasco is great on this also!!
Fear not...this seems more complicated than it really is. This recipe was handed down from my grandma to my mother, then to me. Enjoy!
Yum..more comfort food! I've always wanted to make these. My husband and oldest son have asked for them. Now that I'm 'semi-retired' I'm trying to cook things other than the same old-same old stuff. I've give 'em a try...thanks, Kathy. I'm excited to see what other recipes you come up with. I hope others will be likewise inspired to share!
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Townsend, Tennessee - Great Smoky Mountains National Park
February 7, 2010
Welcome to the Fishing Report from Townsend, Tennessee. Our town is quiet right now. People are staying in for a while. Last night around closing time we got a light shower of sleet. There was ice on our steps at home but the roads were fine. I checked our parking lot here and there was no ice. It is going to be sunny today though it doesn't look like it right now. It is dark and gloomy outside.
Little River is running fast and full. The flow this morning is 1,120 cubic feet per second (cfs) which breaks a 44 year record for this date. The previous record was 1,050 cfs in 1989. Median flow for today is 337. So, as you can see, our streams are full. Wading could be a risky endeavor today in most streams.
If you go fishing don't try to wade across a river. Stand at the shore and chunk big nymphs and streamers in the slower water. This could be a great day to catch a large trout by fishing that way. You may only catch one or two but they will likely be good sized trout. Or, you may not catch anything. But if you feel the need to go fishing that's what I would do. Be careful.
We were busy here yesterday. Brian Courtney and Mike Adams were tying downstairs. A lot of people showed up. At one point it looked like a Saturday in May.
I called the Park Service information line and someone answered. I usually get a recording and choose the road closure options. The guy who answered said their message box was full. So he read off the roads that were closed. I couldn't write fast enough but I got the ones that are near us. Highway 441 from Gatlinburg to Cherokee is closed. Cades Cove Loop Road and Little River Road are closed. Foothills Parkway West is going to be closed in a few minutes. So, it's not a good day to be driving around in the Smokies. Some of them may open later. You can check by calling 865-436-1200. If you get the recording you will be prompted to the road closure report.
Next Saturday will be another good day to be at our store for our Free Fly Tying Demonstrations. At the benches will be Buzz Buffington and David Perry. Buzz lives in Norris and fishes the Clinch River every week, sometimes every day. He is an excellent angler with a lot of days on the water under his belt. He is a very good tyer too. David lives in Middle Tennessee. He guides on the Caney Fork and Elk Rivers. He writes for the Little River Journal too. His latest article about streamers was his best yet I think. I bet he will be tying streamers and some of his articulated double hook versions. Next Saturday will be a good day at the shop.
Jack and I are going to measure the Troutfest site this afternoon and draw it to scale in the computer. We are doing this so we can lay out the vendors for Troutfest. Several of them have already. Jack and I don't want to run out of room. So, this will be carefully planned. Jack takes care of the tent rentals. Troutfest looks like a tent city when they are all erected. The largest one is 60' x 120'. We will probably have a couple of 40' x 80' tents or even larger. And there will be several other smaller tents. We spend several thousand dollars that weekend for tent rental.
Troutfest has grown, especially last year. We are planning on 400 people attending the banquet/fundraiser on Friday May 14th. There will be several thousand people at the Fly Fishing Exposition. If you want to buy your banquet tickets online CLICK HERE.
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Tonight I will watch my second football game in 12 months. Hopefully I can tie some wooly buggers between commercials. The Super Bowl is the advertising and marketing show of the year. I try not to miss any of the commercials.
Have a great day and night and thank you for being here with us.
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Boxing iq, maybe!! But business IQ, I doubt it! Floyd got no endorsement! He got no real investment! Mayweather Promotions got sued for not paying rent! He spend so much money in luxury cars, some of them got repoed!
He spend so much money in his legal problems. Lawyers will suck his riches! He gambles a lot!
Pac spend most of the time in the Philppines! $$$ there goes a long way! Ms Jackson will cost a lot more to maintain than Jinky and 4 kids!
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Pac..in the 20s last we heard...
Obviously, he's doing something right if he fights much less lol.
Floyd is notoriously smart outside the ring and most of his trouble has seemed to be exaggerated. Isn't Pac the one who keeps being sued for financial reasons? And you might think Ms Jackson will be more expensive, but we all know Jinkee gunna leave Pac's ass and take half lol. Arum will bleed Pac dry before it's all said and done. He's doing it now..
Endorsement deals are hilarious of you to bring up. Pac has to sell another brand, Floyd only sells his own brand, which is himself...and that seems to be working perfectly fine for him. Any elite athlete can get endorsements. Dont forget there was an issue about Pac being endorsed for peanuts (very little money) before. This was due to his "team" begging for endorsements like telemarketers. Hence change in personnel (Hennessy ftw. THATS a nice, gentleman's endorsement, even if it kind of goes against his image.)
I genuinely dont want to see Pac screwed over. He deserves any money he gets..but he's going about everything the wrong way imo by involving Arum in too much, including his foundation now. He needs to distance himself like Floyd did and make his own brand instead of representing others. Pac is much more than that.
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Source: "Portrait and Biographical Record - Published 1894 by Excelsior Publishing Co., Chicago" Page 333
Jacob Keuper, of Plymouth, is a dealer in live stock. He was born in Waukesha County, Wis., August 9, 1845, and is
a son of John and Elizabeth Dora (Pfeifer) Keuper. His parents were from Troyer, Germany, and emigrated to the
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He early engaged in the live-stock business, which he has continued to the present time. In the spring of the year
1890, he formed a partnership with Mr. Holzschuh in the livery business, from which he retired in the fall of 1893.
Previous to this, from 1876 to 1890, he engaged in the butchering business at Plymouth, in connection with buying
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Mr. Keuper is known as an energetic and successful business man, who has accumulated a valuable property. He is
widely known throughout this and the adjoining counties, and is an honorable and upright man in all his dealings.
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