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By the mid-1970s, Harry Rasmussen was riding about as high as any small-business owner could. He was worth millions, had a red Maserati sports car in the driveway of his comfortable...
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PACIFIC By the mid-1970s, Harry Rasmussen was riding about as high as any small-business owner could.
He was worth millions, had a red Maserati sports car in the driveway of his comfortable Fife home and owned several private airplanes to indulge his daredevil hobby: aerobatic flying.
Despite a national bias toward big businesses, he had turned a small startup that made better wall sockets for phones into a profitable factory churning out phone-related switches and gizmos.
After 22 years at Pacific Northwest Bell, he had broken free of the AT&T bureaucracy that had stifled his entrepreneurial drive. The fact that his own small company, Crest Industries, prospered alongside a giant monopoly only added to his glee.
But like so many mavericks, Rasmussen, who was in his 40s, couldn't rest easy.
So he began work on his grandest product yet, a two-line phone that would revolutionize the industry and run smack into a global economy gathering strength all around him.
A new kind of phone
Rasmussen spots a golden opportunity as the government moves to break up AT&T.
Rasmussen had already invented a simple retrofit kit that enabled a standard Bell phone to handle two lines, dispensing with the bulky, expensive equipment AT&T used to do the same job.
But he wanted more. And he saw his chance in the government's antitrust case against AT&T. Breaking the monopoly on renting phones would allow third-party phones into the market. And his would be the best because of his unique and patented two-line feature.
What Rasmussen and others didn't know was that the U.S. economy was on the verge of a sweeping liberalization that would nearly destroy his business and render his patents virtually worthless. As free markets spread around the world, other countries would compete to make products ever more cheaply. The resulting competition would spur enormous economic growth but also hasten the decline of manufacturing in the U.S. and speed the outsourcing of a wide range of jobs to workers overseas.
Shifting the economy
An economic revolution glorifies deregulation at home and free trade throughout the world.
After decades of control by big government and stodgy boardrooms, the U.S. economy was ripe for an overhaul. By the mid-1970s, unemployment hovered above 8 percent. The oil shock helped tip the U.S. into "stagflation" stagnant growth with prices rising 13 percent a year. President Carter spoke of "malaise," and once-stalwart Chrysler needed a bailout.
In this climate, a group of libertarian and neoconservative thinkers saw a chance to alter the nation's economic course. They sought to shrink government, promote markets and blast away regulations that constrained business. Doing so, they said, would unleash economic vitality by forcing companies, workers and products to respond to market forces and competition.
Carter started by deregulating airlines in 1978. President Reagan cut taxes in the '80s, saying wealth would "trickle down" to workers in what became known as supply-side economics.
This return to the notion of laissez-faire capitalism, which existed before the New Deal, encouraged entrepreneurs and industrial giants alike, fertilizing the soil of the future tech boom and helping reverse a decline in small-business employment that had persisted since the 1950s.
After years of dismissal, small businesses were once again seen as a "spark plug" of the economy, generating innovations "that big firms turned into global products," said Joe Sobota, assistant advocate at the Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C.
At the same time, trade talks gathered steam, cutting tariffs that had slowed global commerce since the 1930s. In 1995, the talks created a permanent trade forum based in Geneva, Switzerland, called the World Trade Organization.
Unions' power waned. Early in his term, Reagan fired thousands of federal air traffic controllers who had staged an illegal strike demanding higher pay and a shorter workweek.
"That sent a new message to American business that you really ought to get a spine," said Lawrence Reed, an economist and president of the free-market Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan. "What it said to the unions was, 'Don't expect to make almost any demand and get it. We can't do that or we're going to go broke as a nation.' "
The changes helped put control of the economy back into the "invisible hands" of the market, said Daniel Yergin, co-author of "The Commanding Heights," an economic history. Survival of the fittest became the new economic law. Businesses that innovated and cut costs reaped huge profits. Failures landed on the scrap heap.
Opportunity and chaos
Foreign knockoffs of Rasmussen's new phone hit U.S. shelves.
There was perhaps no greater symbol of this new economic order than the 1984 breakup of AT&T, with a million employees the world's largest company.
At first, slicing Ma Bell into seven regional "Baby Bells" looked perfect for Rasmussen's ambitions. It freed the Bells to sell the two-line phones that his company, Crest Industries, was starting to manufacture. Sears and Radio Shack sold them, too, as customers overcame the fear that installing their own phones was like pirating cable.
By 1983, Rasmussen's factory in Edgewood, Pierce County, was running two shifts, turning out 200 phones a week, recalls Paul Bartlett, Crest's purchasing manager. Morale was high. Bell South, GTE and others appeared ready to sign big Crest orders.
Then, some of Rasmussen's customers sent his phones to Asia to be copied. Knockoffs of Crest's $250 phone soon turned up in stores for $59.
Global outsourcing had come calling.
Orders slowed. Before long, more than a dozen companies were copying Rasmussen's design. The work of the factory had essentially moved overseas, where labor was cheaper. Rasmussen realized his reputation for top-quality products was of little use in a world that now chased the cheapest supplier.
Rasmussen and his employees found the change hard to fathom. "We were in denial," says John Hoskinson, who worked on the circuit boards for the phones. "We thought, 'Naw, this can't be happening.' "
Bartlett kept buying supplies, and the factory filled its shelves with phones. "We still had turn-around optimism," he says. "We were going to make this a success. Everybody believed."
For a while, the Bell companies ran ads showing imported telephones breaking down. "Then they gave up and just started buying them," Bartlett said. Bell South and GTE backed away from their big Crest purchases. "All of a sudden, orders just stopped."
Crest's sales, which had topped $8 million in 1983, fell to $4 million by 1987. The company that gave free gasoline and $1 lunches to its employees suddenly had trouble paying its bills.
"It was touch and go every day," recalls Millie Shultz, Crest's former office manager. "Harry was pretty upset. His idea he'd been working on all those years was gone. They stole it."
Why buy American?
Rasmussen gives up an expensive, and perhaps futile, patent fight.
This was the side effect of the nation's economic liberalization. Instead of competing in a regulated monopoly, or even in a more laissez-faire U.S. market, companies were competing around the globe, in Asia, Latin America and later Eastern Europe, where wages were lower and laws more lax. Foreign copying wasn't new, of course. But it increased as economic growth and trade blossomed in the 1980s and '90s.
On July 9, 1987, the soft-spoken Rasmussen vented his outrage at a congressional-subcommittee hearing on a bill to help small companies fight foreign copies. After spending years and millions of dollars developing and patenting his switches, phones and other products, Rasmussen fumed, a U.S. company had ordered copies from Taiwan "and actually submitted letters to our distributors six of them saying, 'Why are you buying Crest when you can buy a copy for much less?' "
Like the owners of many companies, Rasmussen had filed a case with the International Trade Commission to stop the copies. But even though his patent had taken several years to obtain, it was poorly written and offered little protection.
"Our first [legal] bill was $50,000," he told the committee. "They said that this wasn't even starting. $250,000-$300,000 was the next thing we heard. … We dropped the case."
He predicted a dim future for innovative factories such as his unless the laws changed. "The American manufacturer cannot afford to spend that kind of money to develop a product and to make the marketplace, and then have somebody walk in to our distributors and just take the product," Rasmussen told the committee. "Their investment is nothing. I can't keep doing that over and over and over again."
Today, after much reflection, Rasmussen regrets dropping the suit.
But he had little choice. His company was too small to fight, and a stronger patent "wouldn't have made much difference," he says. "You can have the best patent in the world, but if you're a small business you don't have the money to protect it."
By choosing not to fight, however, he "was in essence giving away his intellectual property," said John Preston, professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. "He was making his patent worthless."
The bill Rasmussen testified about died. And so did Rasmussen's phone business. He laid off 60 workers, half his factory. He realized he would never recoup what he had invested in the phones. And gradually he let the rest of his employees go as knockoffs whittled away sales of all his products over the next few years.
Today, manufacturers in China, Japan and Taiwan still make copies of his products. Phones based on Rasmussen's design sit on display shelves at Office Depot.
"I don't walk through there anymore," Rasmussen says. He sweeps his arm across an imaginary shelf. "I'm liable to arrgh!"
The next new thing
Beaten but not bowed, Rasmussen turns his inventive nature to the field of encryption.
Rasmussen was soundly beaten. He lacked the temperament to fight a legal battle, preferring to innovate.
The irrepressible inventor already had a new idea, one that would leapfrog him once again to the forefront of a shifting economy.
In 1990, Rasmussen, now in his 60s, was tinkering with computers and grew intrigued by encryption.
He quickly saw that the chief element wasn't the method of scrambling the data but the key used to unlock it. Most systems used one key for an entire session. But the longer a key is used, the easier it is to intercept and break.
Rasmussen found an innovative way to manage keys. He used a virtual "one-time pad" that generated random keys from an astronomical number of possibilities billions more than could be stored in computer memory and discarded each key after only one use.
His random generator also threw random text into a message, scrambling each character in a transmission and making it impossible for code crackers to find patterns.
This time, the economy appeared to be on his side again. The tech boom created demand for secure chatter across the Internet, as well as stronger protections for patents and intellectual property.
Even so, Rasmussen was obsessed with protecting his new invention. He put the encryption software on a computer chip and molded the chip in an indestructible plastic block. Anyone who melted or cut the block to extract his software code would destroy the chip trying. He geared up to make the device, but government restrictions on exporting such a strong encryption system forced him to weaken it, and sales suffered.
Taking aim at the growing Internet market, Rasmussen then designed his encryption to work with Microsoft Internet Messenger, one of the leading programs that allow users to send messages in real time around the globe.
For Rasmussen, this new software product contained a crucial difference: He didn't need a factory. He simply hired a few programmers to write code. He even did a little outsourcing of his own, hiring Validio Software, a Bellevue company, to help write portions of his interface with Internet Messenger. Founded by a Russian immigrant in 1994, Validio often ships work to programmers in Ukraine.
The fall of communism in 1989 had opened up a new world of highly educated workers in Eastern Europe who could write code for a fraction of what U.S. workers earned. Like workers in other poor countries, East Europeans had joined the global economy. Their skills and the spread of open economies further allowed production to move overseas.
The tradeoff from trade
Some question whether long-term benefits outweigh the costs to society.
The rise of the global economy over the past 20 years has raised questions about trade's benefit that are resonating deeply in the U.S. Most economists think countries gain by trading, as the theory of comparative advantage suggests: Countries do best by making what they're good at and buying the products that are difficult for them to produce.
Imported goods provide wider selection at lower cost, and global companies enjoy wider profit margins that cheaper production allows.
More open economies coincided with higher economic growth. Since 1980, the U.S. has churned out 50 percent more goods and services than it did in the previous 35 years, when economies were more closed. The U.S. stock market has made the longest bull run in its history a gain shared by a growing pool of middle-class stockholders.
The growing world economy also helped the U.S. eliminate in the 1990s the budget deficit caused by Reagan's "trickle-down economics," which in turn brought down interest rates and further spurred business.
But labor unions, environmentalists, activists and some economists argue that the open-market policies may not serve the U.S. well in the long run.
Recently, Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson, a towering figure in American economics and author of a widely used economics textbook, said the belief that the gains of free trade always outweigh the losses is "only an innuendo." The theory, he said, "is dead wrong about the necessary surplus of winnings over losings."
When an innovation is copied abroad and the resulting goods are imported, the loss of jobs can be more substantial than the gain from that trade, he said. And he expects the loss of U.S. jobs to continue. "I'm just trying to be realistic about what has been happening to American society and what is going to continue to happen," Samuelson said in an interview.
Even so, countries keep joining the world trade game. And to participate, countries that once ignored U.S. patents and copyrights are signing WTO agreements for such protection. Japan is setting up a court to handle patent cases, a far cry from swiping Rasmussen's designs 20 years ago.
But these changes have not stopped phone copies or pirated software. As Rasmussen makes plans to sell his software over the Internet, he is once again risking that his invention, the fruit of 14 years' work, could show up in a sidewalk stall or Internet file-sharing service.
Still dreaming
As Rasmussen turns to new possibilities, he lets go of pieces of the past.
It's midmorning, and the little blue screen lights up on Rasmussen's cellphone. It's the University of Texas calling to ask about buying rights to the encryption software. "They say it's a billion-dollar product," he says.
Having lost his fortune on Crest phones, he's enthusiastic about his new company, CresTech, which consists of him, Bartlett and a Web site, www.crestechims.com.
His ambition is undiminished. And he's also keenly aware that his retirement will be uncomfortable unless he can sell this latest invention. He figures it can be bigger than Crest ever was: 1,000 sales a day at $25 would bring in $750,000 a month.
He doesn't need a factory to make his new invention. He can sell a million copies and carry the factory in his briefcase.
He snaps the phone shut and climbs back into the cab of his forklift. Revving the pedal, he inches forward through the scent of propane exhaust, slipping the forklift's twin prongs under a machine that once made him wealthy, and that he built his life on.
He pulls a lever and the machine rises, perfectly balanced on the fork. Rasmussen gently sets it down on a trailer and backs the forklift away.
He's finally ready to let go of his old beloved machines. They'll be torn down and the parts sold or scrapped.
And he has his eye on a new toy: a small, hand-built jet that can go 520 miles an hour.
"Oh, yeah," he says with a twinkle. "When I make my first million."
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What do these musicals and plays have in common: "Music Man," "Bye, Bye Birdie," "Playing Doctor," "Oklahoma," "Steel Magnolias," "Damn Yankees," "Kiss or Make Up," and "Li'l Abner"?
Those eight musicals and plays were the first shows completed in the first five years of Fairfield Area Community Theatre's revival.
In 1989, in conjunction with Fairfield Sesquicentennial, FACT staged "Music Man" at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. It has been an active part of the community since then. FACT was quite active prior to that according to Nan Cameron, FACT officer.
For this summer, FACT will perform a revue show focusing on the past 25 years. Rehearsals are underway. The nearly 30-member cast includes many who are FACT veterans from past shows.
Jim Edgeton, music director said, "We are working on songs from some of your favorite and most memorable productions."
Scott Slechta, artistic director explained that the show will not only include favorite songs, but also set pieces and costumes to decorate the stage.
"It'll be a trip down memory lane for the community," he said.
David Owen and John Grunwald also are creating a multi-media production for presentation during the show.
The anniversary show will be performed at 7:30 p.m. June 12, 13, 14 and 2 p.m. June 15 at Fairfield Arts & Convention Center's Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets can be purchased at the convention center's box office during box office hours.
"To make this show really affordable, to allow the community to really support its community, theatre, we [the FACT board] have lowered the ticket prices," said Tim Lantz, FACT board president.
Tickets were originally to have cost $15 for adults and $12 for children, but will now be $10 for adults and $5 for children.
"We are hoping for a large community support for this celebratory tribute to the success of FACT's last 25 years," Lantz said.

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Thanks for joining me this evening folks, that's all from the Riverside as Benitez lives to fight another day at Chelsea.
90' + 3'There's the whistle and Benitez can afford to be pleased with his side's work this evening. Chelsea deservedly through and they set up a mouth-watering contest at Old Trafford in the last eight.
89'This has been far from a comprehensive display from Benitez' side, but eventually their class has shone through. Zemmama snatches at a loose ball on the edge of the box and with that, goes Boro's unlikely revival.
85'Yellow Card Nicky Bailey
Nicky Bailey picks up a needless booking for clipping the heels of Ake; the 18-year-old has been quietly efficient at the heart of the Chelsea midfield this evening. Definitely one to keep an eye on for the future.
84'Another chance goes begging for Boro as Miller eludes the Chelsea back four, but after a pin-point through ball from Haroun, the 25-year-old could only slice his left-footed volley wide.
83'Hines should have made it 2-1 after he out jumped the casual David Luiz at the back-post, but he could only angle his effort wide from about five yards. That would have set up a thrilling finale.
82'The home side have a free-kick about 30-yards out, bang in the centre of the goal but their evening is summed up as substitute Merouane Zemmama curls harmlessly into the clutches of Cech.
81'Matt Scott at the Riverside - ""Champions of Europe, we know what we are," sing the Chelsea fans. "Champions of Europe, you're not any more," retort the Middlesbrough crowd. "Champions of Europe, we'll sing it 'til May," finish the Blues. Top work from the terraces as this game winds to a conclusion."Champions of Europe, we know what we are," sing the Chelsea fans. "Champions of Europe, you're not any more," retort the Middlesbrough crowd. "Champions of Europe, we'll sing it 'til May," finish the Blues. Top work from the terraces as this game winds to a conclusion."
79'Boro look completely stunned after that superbly worked second goal and Oscar, whose contribution has been outstanding this evening, is replaced by Marko Marin with just over 10 minutes to play.
78'SubstitutionOscar Marko Marin
75'SubstitutionVictor Moses David Luiz
75'Chelsea are cruising through the gears now as Oscar torments the hosts' defence, before skipping past two static red shirts and hammering a low drive inches wide of the post.
75'Matt Scott at the Riverside - "After 73 minutes, Chelsea finally show their top-flight, title-chasing, Champions League-winning class. Oscar, Eden Hazard and Victor Moses combine with slick one-touch work in and around the box before the latter prods into an empty net from the Belgian's pass. The tie looks to be as good as done, and the Riverside has fallen silent, save for the happy Blues fans, for the first time this evening."
74'Yellow Card Stephen McManus
73'SubstitutionMustapha Carayol Merouane Zemmama
73'Goal Victor Moses
GOAL! Middlesbrough 0-2 Chelsea. What a wonderful goal from the visitors as Hazard and Oscar exchanged delicate passes in the Boro penalty box before the Belgian squared for Moses to tap into an empty net. Game over.
72'Substitute Hazard almost sealed the Blues' passage into the quarter-final after Ramires galloped forward at an exposed Boro defence before supplying the Belgian, but he could only angle his effort the wrong side of the upright. So close.
70'Friend attempts an audacious long-range effort, which is easily closed down as the home side are looking bereft of creativity and ideas in the middle of the park.
65'The home side are struggling to get a foothold in the game, but Ake makes a superb intervention on the edge of the box after a long ball forward.
61'SubstitutionCurtis Main Ishmael Miller
Tony Mowbray's response is to introduce Ishmael Miller at the expense of Main, who has struggled to make an impact. Chelsea looking more likely to get a second as Boro push forward.
61'Matt Scott has got tonight's attendance at the Riverside - "The official attendance tonight is 27,856, which is the second-highest crowd the Riverside has seen this season, behind November's clash with Sheffield Wednesday that saw tickets offered at massively reduced prices. Almost the magic of the cup, but not quite."
58'SubstitutionYossi Benayoun Eden Hazard
On comes Hazard, who replaces the ineffective Benayoun.
57'Chelsea seem to be enjoying a new lease of life after relinquishing the shackles and Torres should have doubled their advantage but the Spaniard can only lash his effort over the bar after springing the offside trap.
54'That goal has stunned the hosts, who will now have to open up and risk getting carved open on the counter attack through the pacy Moses. It's finally game on at the Riverside though.
51'Goal Ramires
GOAL! Middlesbrough 0-1 Chelsea. Just as I say that, Chelsea take the lead through Ramires with a sumptuous curling effort from the edge of the box. Boro didn't get enough shirts out to him and he made them pay, unleashing a perfectly weighted effort that flicked off Torres and into the far corner!
49'The second period has begun in a similar vein to the first, neither side are forcing the issue and the Championship side look content to get numbers behind the ball.
46'The teams are back out onto the pitch and we're all set for the second-half, the visitors will have to be much improved if they are to avoid a replay.
Matt Scott from the Riverside - "Boos roll down from the Chelsea fans as Martin Atkinson blows the half-time whistle. It's been pretty uninspiring stuff from the Blues, who do not look likely to break Rafa Benitez's winless run on Teesside on this evidence. Fernando Torres may have been eyeing lower-league opposition to break the funk he is currently in, but he has been well marshalled by the Boro back-line."
A largely uneventful first half comes to a close with Oscar's attempt the closest either side have come and Carayol's long range drive Boro's response. Food for thought for Mr. Benitez during the next 15 minutes, don't go away.
45' + 3'The half-time whistle blows, with neither side able to break the deadlock at the Riverside. Plenty more to come after the break.
45'A wonderful sliding challenge from Friend thwarts Moses, who is becoming a little bit predictable as he attempts to go on the outside of the left-back again.
42'Rafa Benitez is busy making notes before his half-time team talk in three minutes, I just hope he isn't playing hangman. Chelsea must improve dramatically after the break if they are to reach the last eight.
40'Middlesborogh's first shot on goal comes from the quiet Mustapha Carayol, who comes inside onto his favoured right-foot before plundering a 20-yard drive which is cleaned up by Terry after Cech fumbled the bouncing ball.
39'Haroun finds space on the right but his attempted cross is miscued into the arms of Cech, while at the other end, Hines' first contribution is to head Moses' dangerous cross away from danger.
36'SubstitutionAndré Bikey-Amougou Seb Hines
Bikey's evening is over following complaints of a tight hamstring from the Cameroon defender and he is replaced by 24-year-old Seb Hines. A big blow for Boro that.
35'Oscar is attempting to inject some impetus into his side as he forces a flurry of corners 10 minutes shy of the break, but his delivery is poor and the Blues lose their momentum when Ferreira passes the ball out of play.
32'Andre Bikey, who has been struggling with a knock, stands up to pinch the ball off Oscar after the Brazilian tried to nutmeg him in the box. It's still goalless as neither side have conjured much in the way of a clear-cut opening.
30'Excellent pressing from the home side, who force Terry to pass all the way back to Cech. They look a very organised and well-drilled outfit so far.
26'From Matt Scott at a freezing Riverside - "From the opening 26 minutes, you couldn't easily say who the Premier League side were if you had to guess. Middlesbrough have been composed in possession and largely kept Chelsea at bay, for whom Fernando Torres has been timid, hitting one low cross ahead of everyone in the area and bobbling one low shot at Jason Steele. Boro have come closest through Scott McDonald's header and the volume is cranking up at the Riverside."
25'Haroun does brilliantly on the touchline to pull the ball back to Nicky Bailey, but McDonald can only head the 28-year-old right-back's dangerous cross wide of Petr Cech's upright. A decent opening for the hosts.
24'Moses once again has the beating of Friend on the far side, but Stephen McManus is equal to his low cross and thumps it clear. The former Wigan man is enjoying himself against the Boro left-back though.
22'Chelsea toss possession away inside their own half, but Belgian midfielder Faris Haroun can't find the killer pass to find Curtis Main. Careless from the Premier League side.
20'Approaching midway through the first-half and the home side are starting to move the ball well on a tricky surface, The pace of Torres is still a danger on the break, however, as he fires a tame effort goal-wards, which Steele comfortably gathers.
17'A combination of Paulo Ferreira and Ramires haul down Boro skipper Rhys Williams, but Grant Leadbitter can't pick out a red shirt from his curling free-kick. Chelsea are just shading proceedings so far.
14'Incidentally, from the brains at Goal.com towers, Rafa Benitez has never won at the Riverside, with his Liverpool side drawing three and losing two of their five trips to Teesside whilst under the Spaniard's stewardship.
12'Great chance for Chelsea as Moses torments the backpedaling Friend before sliding the ball across to Oscar, but his low drive was superbly beaten away by Jason Steele in the hosts' goal. The first real chance of the game so far.
12'The Champions League winners have set about their task well here, although they survive a scare after Scott McDonald is narrowly flagged for offside when it looked as though he had eluded the clutches of John Terry.
10'Friend does well to prevent Moses from getting his cross in and the home side comfortably deal with Oscar's poor ensuing corner, before Torres flashes another low cross across the six-yard box but no-one was there to help it in.
8'Oscar sends a teasing ball across the face of the Boro goal just inches away from the onrushing Victor Moses. Early warning sign from the visitors there.
7'Fernando Torres has an early run at left-back George Friend, but the former Wolves man manages to scramble it out for a throw after making the Spaniard look quick!
5'Meanwhile, on the field neither side have been able to assert themselves in the opening five minutes as they try and keep the ball on the floor in a brisk wind.
4'Over in the South-West corner are a few hundred Boro fans, the self-styled 'Red Faction'. There's a drum, incessant jumping, and scarf waving. It's just a flare away from bringing an all-out experience of Milan to Middlesbrough.
1'Here we go then, the visitors in their home strip of all royal blue get us underway on a chilly night in the north east.
The teams are out onto the pitch, with both sets of players shaking hands during the pre-match necessities. Blues midfielder Nathan Ake looks suspiciously like a young Ruud Gullit, let's hope for a performance in the same ilk as the imperious Dutchman.
Despite a Premier League team coming to town and tickets slightly reduced in price, the Riverside Stadium is nowhere near full. Maybe 1,500 Chelsea fans at most are housed to my right and are not making an awful lot of noise, despite being introduced to the pitch as the "Champions of Europe".
Kick-off is just five minutes away here at the Riverside, can the Championship high-flyers spring a surprise to reach Old Trafford?
The Blues' defeat against Manchester City on Sunday saw the European champions slip a staggering 19 points behind Sir Alex Ferguson's side in the title race, but you would have to fancy them this evening.
Neither side have been in good form coming into this one, but with a mouth-watering clash against Manchester United awaiting in round six, both sides will be keen to progress.
Middlesbrough - Steele; Bailey, McManus, Bikey, Friend; Carayol, Leadbitter; Williams, Haroun; Main, McDonald. Subs - Leutwiler, Zemmama, Emnes, Ledesma, Hines, Miller, Smallwood.
Tony Mowbray's side have been in disastrous form of late in the Championship, with a run of just one win in nine games having seen Boro slip out of the play-off places.
Chelsea - Cech; Ferreira, Ivanovic, Terry, Bertrand; Ake, Ramires; Moses, Oscar, Benayoun; Torres. Subs - Turnbull, Cole, Luiz, Lampard, Hazard, Marin, Ba.
Blues manager Rafa Benitez has made a host of changes for the long journey to Teesside, as Yossi Benayoun makes his first start for almost two years alongside youngster Nathan Ake.
Good evening all and welcome to Goal.com's coverage of Chelsea's trip to the Riverside to face Middlesbrough in the FA Cup fifth round. I'm Jordan Halford, thanks for joining me.


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I seen them myself." Then I saw this opening surround them and like a window to a key hole I would see we were all lost in a mix of things. (From the window of our space ship).
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Cheekythegnome On 21/06/2014
Thanks for visiting me! :-)xxx.
I like your description of my photo...
You are welcome to visit my lily pond any time! :-)xxx.
I hope these two above don't get squished by a train!
amoxenyte On 23/06/2014
''oh-no'' after we green aliens released our decomposing green grasses on them.... I'm sure they allowed themselves to become mashed potatoes and gravy .;o))
cheekythegnome On 25/06/2014
Interesting.... Do you think that you could save me a place on one of the alien space ships?
amoxenyte On 25/06/2014
Sure .... I think we have another empty vial-tube open. ;o)
cheekythegnome On 26/06/2014
Cool! ... Now that's what I would call travel! :-)xxx.
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"We Came Here to Party" enforces peaceable partying, with the lyrics "We came here to party (ROCK!)/We didn't come here to fight." The song references the Romney incident directly: "We both get a lot of attention in the press / You sellin' books and wanna be the president / We sellin' hooks and the flow is heaven sent / We both hustlin' so why we tustlin'."
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Do your decisions in The Walking Dead really make a difference?
Prior to every episode of Telltale Games' The Walking Dead, the game informed players:
"The Walking Dead confronts players with difficult choices. Player decisions influence the story, creating a "tailored" experience."
Over the five-episode journey we'd been led to believe that our decisions will shape the outcome of the game. With the fifth episode, "No Time Left", finally completed I can safely say no, your decisions do not really make a difference — at least, not in the way your probably expecting.
First off, Telltale wasn't lying. Your decisions do "influence" the story and create a "tailored" experience. Usually, these "tailored" experiences are short-lived though. Leading up to the fifth episode players made tremendously difficult choices, but really, it all played out the same way. Sure, for an episode or two your experience may have been different, but if your expecting a difference in endings you will be sorely disappointed.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter *spoiler* if you cut your arm off. It doesn't matter whether you spared Ben in episode 4. It doesn't matter if you saved Carley or Doug. At the end of the day, it all turns out to be the same. You still wind up in a hotel room and you still die from the zombie bite. So really, does any of it matter?
As I mentioned, in the short term it does. For a while, my story was different than my friends'. Even in the final episode, things initially played out differently; however, when it was all said and done our different paths led to the same ending which could be viewed as a disappointment.
But should we fault Telltale for misleading us? Not in the least. I think we can all agree Telltale's The Walking Dead was a fantastic game with an engaging story. Who wasn't a mess when Lee got bit at the end of episode 4? Who didn't cry when Clem had to leave (or shoot) Lee? Telltale took us on an emotional journey and while it was up to us to decide how to get their, it was ultimately their story to tell.
Could Telltale have crafted such a well-defined, tight-knit story had it had multiple endings? It's hard to say with certainty, but one thing is clear: they had a clearly defined goal of what they wanted the player to experience. Throughout the entire game the player, as Lee, was faced with difficult decisions that ultimately shape the kind of man Lee is. We already know he's a murderer, but is he really a bad man?
Really, we didn't get a whole lot of say in that because the decisions we often had to make were between "bad" or "worse". There was no real decision to make him a good guy because all the decisions revolved around terrible situations. Sure, there may have been one where you could have been the good guy. I'm talking about the part where you discover the station wagon and have to choose whether to take the supplies and food. If you've played the final episode you already know this will come back to haunt you. At the time, I didn't think anything of it so I stole them.
Enter the stranger who kidnaps Clementine and explains that he's been watching you ever since he saw you steal his supplies, ultimately leading to his families breakup. Sorry to break it to you though, but even if you leave the surprise he still kidnaps Clementine. Rather than making you feel guilty for stealing his supplies, he just calls you out on all of the bad decisions you made throughout the game which, once again, you really had no control over. I'll admit, the stranger was a GREAT twist, but was it really defined by my decisions?
When it's all said and done, the game ends the exact same way for all of the players. It was a great ending, I'll give it that, but it really wasn't one determined by your choices. I came away from The Walking Dead very impressed (and very guilty about everything I did throughout the game). As I said though, I never really had a choice. I had to make a decision and I had to make it quick.
Telltale's goal was to tell a story about Lee. How you experience that story is up to you, but it was their story to tell the whole time. You are just in it for the ride. Is Lee a bad man? Every decision you make will certainly be bad and you have no choice on that. Don't worry though because none of it really matters in the end.
Don't get me wrong though, the story is damn good and everyone should definitely experience it. Just don't be led on the same way I was in that your decisions will actually make a long-term difference.


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James Swan hates your house. So much so that he wrote a book about it, in fact: "101 Things I Hate About Your House" (HCI, $18.95).
You, on the other hand, are rather partial to your house. But do you love it?
"I want to show people that just by rolling up your sleeves and putting in a little effort," he says, "you can truly fall in love with your space."
And his 18 years of crafting interiors for high-end clients, writing a trends column for House and Garden magazine and partnering with Ballard Designs may have taught Swan a thing or two (or 101) about transforming humble shelters into love-worthy dwellings.
Even if you choose to ignore the majority of Swan's nitpicking, er, advice, consider these five ways to beautify your home right now.
1. Adjust your lighting. "The first thing I look for when I walk in a house is dimmers on every light switch in the house," Swan says. "If it has a switch, it should have a dimmer." Swan is a big fan of floor lamps, table lamps and other options that allow you to adjust a room's light levels with ease.
2. Stop jamming your furniture against walls. "Anyone can walk into a room and drop a sofa against a wall," he says. "Pause for a moment and think, 'This is my primary sitting area in the room, and what is it I'm going to be looking at? Is it the fireplace? A view into the garden?'
Conversations flow more freely and guests feel more at ease when your furniture is arranged intimately, he contends. Where to start? Swan recommends a smallish sofa grouped with two pull-up chairs or two slipper chairs facing each other at the fireplace.
3. Cover your walls. "Once we get past the whole 'support the roof and adjoining wall' thing, walls exist as opportunities for self-expression," Swan writes in entry No. 51 of the things he hates, "Artless Walls." "The absence of art speaks of either fear or laziness." He urges you to buy what you love ("even if it's poster art") and properly frame it.
And he's a huge fan of displaying photographs of yourself and your loved ones.
4. Fix your curtains. Functional and economical are Swan's window-treatment musts.
He offers these pointers: Place the curtain rod as close to the ceiling or molding as possible. Look for curtains that are lined with cream or white cotton. And mind the length.
Curtains, he says, should "break (like a gentleman's trousers) one-half inch from the finished floor. No more and no less. Period. End of discussion."
5. Splurge on storage. "It seems so easy and obvious, but if there's mess and clutter you've sacrificed a degree of beauty and grace," Swan says.
Ottomans with hinged tops can double as toy boxes. Labeled cubbies or cabinets keep shoes from piling up. A buffet in the dining room houses your dining utensils and offers a surface from which to serve.
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January 26, 2010
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Schade Data Organized
- Column A has the systematic of all the genes.
Note: The next columns will be presented in groups of three for an specific chip. The columns are broken down into normalized, raw, and control data (in that order).
- Columns B,C,D belong to the 257659.txt chip at time(t)=0.
- Columns E,F,G correspond to the 257720.txt chip at t=0.
- Columns H,I,J belong to the 258333.txt chip at t=0.
- Columns K,L,M belong to the 12164589.txt chip at t=10minutes.
- Columns N,O,P correspond to 12164610.txt chip at t=10minutes.
- Columns Q,R,S belong to the 12164813.txt chip at t=10min.
- Columns T,U,V belong to the 12251647.txt chip at t=10min.
- Columns W,X,Y belong to the 12251674a.txt chip at t=10min.
- Columns Z,AA,AB belong to the 12251693.txt chip at t=10min.
- Columns AC,AD,AE belong to the 12251985a.txt chip at t=10min.
- Columns AF,AG,AH correspond to the 257384.txt chip at t=30min.
- Columns AI,AJ,AK belong to the 257657.txt chip at t=30min.
- Columns AL,AM,AN belong to the 257661.txt chip at t=30min.
- Columns AO,AP,AQ belong to the 257662.txt chip at t=30min.
- Columns AR,AS,AT belong to the 258277.txt chip at t=30min.
- Columns AU,AV,AW belong to the 258317.txt chip at t=30min.
- Columns AX,AY,AZ correspond to the 275072.txt chip at t=2hr.
- Columns BA,BB,BC belong to the 275130.txt chip at t=2hr.
- Columns BD,BE,BF belong to the 275146.txt chip at t=2hrs.
- Columns BG,BH,BI belong to the 275151.txt chip at t=2hrs.
- Columns BJ,BK,BL belong to the 12251635.txt chip at t=12hrs.
- Columns BM,BN,BO correspond to the 12251649.txt chip at t=12hrs.
- Columns BP,BQ,BR belong to the 12251956.txt chip at t=12hrs.
- Columns BS,BT,BU belong to the 12251987.txt chip at t=12hrs.
- Columns BV,BW,BX belong to the 185234 .txt chip at t=60hrs.
- Columns BY,BZ,CA belong to the 185389.txt chip at t=60hrs.
- Columns CB,CC,CD belong to the 223342.txt chip at t=60hrs.
- Columns CE,CF,CG belong to the 223809.txt chip at t=60hrs.
- Columns CH,CI,CJ belong to the 224911.txt chip at t=60hrs.
- Columns CK,CL,CM belong to the 224973.txt chip at t=60hrs.
- Column CN is the standard name of the gene.
How to use MatLab
- To use MatLab we will need a know where locate our documents. The data will be found under computer in the Local disk C.
- Once we are in the disk, we will choose the folder gene_regulatory_modeling where we will find the excel data needed and MatLab programs written.
-When making changes to the excel data we must make sure that degradation rates, production rates, and parameters are all correct. -ex. If we were to be analyzing three genes we must have three production and regulation rates. Also, when we look at the network and see how many 1's appear, that will be the number of weights and thresholds that will be in our parameter. (Note. The 1's must be read from left to write until the row ends, and then we can move on to the next row.)
- Once we have chosen which excel sheet we need, we will open it
- From there we will open the MatLab program that contains the differential equation program that we need for the particular experiment(we must open MatLab first and the locate our document).
- From there we just have to press the run button (once changes have been made and saved) and analyze the graphs given.
- After we run the program, there will be an output file that will let us know the Log 2 concentrations.


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Perusing the Toronto Star Wednesday, I noted that Chantal Hébert was again touting the advantages of a Liberal-NDP " non-aggression" pact for the next election. On Saturday in La Presse, on the other hand, we learned that " Jean Chrétien believes it's in the interest of the Liberal Party to merge with the NDP and build a party that can defeat the Conservatives in the next election"- and that "merger is the only option" if the two parties decide to cooperate. An idea that Jeffrey Simpson dismissed in Wednesday's Globe as " crazy to contemplate."
Personally, I'm with Mr. Chrétien on this one. Who better than he-having run successfully three times against a divided right-to understand that the division of the opposition vote, if it continues, will likely mean the election of a third consecutive Conservative government?
Indeed, in the past few weeks, Michael Ignatieff has put the Liberal Party in an almost untenable position. By stating that coalitions are "perfectly legitimate" and that he'd be prepared to form a government with the NDP - while foreclosing the merger option--the Liberal leader has in effect done Stephen Harper's job for him.
For some time it's been clear that Mr. Harper has been eager to run his next election campaign against the prospect of the Liberals and NDP getting together again with the support of the Bloc Québécois. Conservative support in the polls has never been higher than it was during the coalition near-crisis of 2008. Yet, every time since then that the Prime Minister raised this spectre, he was accused by many in the media of "fear-mongering"-an accusation that he will no longer have to confront.
Having lived the same experience in the 1990's as Mr. Chrétien but from the losing side - Mr. Harper knows exactly how to campaign against a divided opposition by playing off one party's program policies against the other(s).
He understands that his Conservative Party is the second choice of nearly one in five Liberal voters, and that the prospect of a coalition with "socialists" will frighten many of them - particularly in Ontario, where memories of the Liberal-NDP accord, and the subsequent Rae government, have not altogether faded.
In British Columbia, Mr. Harper knows that about one in five NDP voters is protesting against "the system," and that these voters move easily back and forth between parties of the left and the right. Many of these voters will not be thrilled with the prospect of a Liberal government-seen as the party of the establishment--and they will have the option of casting their ballot for the Green Party to register a protest vote, or not voting at all.
Some people will argue that there is not enough time between now and the next election to effect a merger of the Liberal Party and the NDP. Perhaps. But the prospect of a hanging in the morning should concentrate their minds wonderfully. Others will question the analogy with the formation of Stephen Harper's new Conservative Party.
It's true that the Liberals and NDP have always been separate parties, whereas Stephen Harper's challenge was to re-unify two parties that recently had been one. But this does not change the electoral dynamics of vote splitting; it only means that the challenge on the left is more daunting. And while these dynamics would also apply if the Liberals and New Democrats were to merge, in that case there would at least be one party in a position to coalesce the anti-Harper vote on the basis of a common, moderate platform-if not in this election then in the next.
According to the La Presse report, Mr. Chrétien held informal merger discussions with Ed Broadbent "a few months ago," but these discussions "led nowhere" and have been terminated. Having no mandate from Mr. Ignatieff, the former prime minister, we're told, has decided not to "stir things up any more so as not to harm Liberal chances in the next election." Unless someone else picks up the ball and runs with it, however, the prospect of a majority Conservative government after the next election should not be excluded.Report Typo/Error


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Reviewer: Craig, Oct 12 2004 03:28:25:730PM
Classroom use in Courses and Topics:
Algebra: One Variable Equations
Duration of classroom use:
One Class
What did students learn?
Solving equations with one variable
What did students do with the resource?
I had three students sitting together at a computer... they were discussing solution strategies, and EXPLAINING to each other why an answer was correct or not.
How hard was it for students to use?
Very Easy
Other classroom comments:
Students reported enjoying the tool.
Appropriate for:
practice of skills and understandings
What math does one need to know to use the resource?
Basic properties of equality (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
What hardware expertise does one need to learn to use the resource?
What extra things must be done to make it work?
How hard was it for you to learn?
Very Easy
Students had no difficulty whatsoever.
Ability to meet my goals:
Recommended for:
Algebra: One Variable Equations, Linear Equations
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The topic says my question...
Thanks :)
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The topic says my question...
Thanks :)
You mean all installed at once? I don't think it would be a problem at all.
Shouldn't be a problem. At work I have the .NET 1.1 SDK and the .NET 2.0 runtime installed on the same machine. I haven't tried having multiple SDKs, but as far as I know everything is installed to separate directories.
Ok, thanks... ;)


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It's almost time for little ghosts and goblins to appear at your door with their scary smiles asking for a yummy candy treat. So, to put you in the mood for Halloween, here are some of the best horror flicks you can rent this weekend!
A website called Film.com has released their list of the 50 best horror films of all-time. Here are the top 10 and you can check out the full list here:
#1.) "The Shining"
#2.) "The Thing"
#3.) "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
#4.) "Night of the Living Dead"
#5.) "The Exorcist"
#6.) "Halloween"
#7.) "Carrie"
#8.) "Alien"
#9.) "Rosemary's Baby"
#10.) "Jaws"
What movie would you add to the list?
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Wisconsin has some of its coolest days ever for mid-July
You might be turning on your furnace instead of your air conditioner this weekend.
Parts of Wisconsin had their coldest high temperatures ever for July 16, and forecasters say more of the same is possible at least through Saturday.
The National Weather Service says the mercury might not hit 60 today in parts of northwest Wisconsin.
The south may not see the 70s until Saturday and it could be Tuesday before we see 80 again.
The afternoon high in Rhinelander Thursday was just 66 degrees, and that broke a 98-year record for the coldest high reading.
The same thing happened in Marshfield, where the high of 71 tied the cool mark set in 1958.
La Crosse is having its coldest July since 1972. The average temperature there was just under 69 degrees since the start of the month, almost five degrees below normal.
A new low pressure is moving across Wisconsin today.
Forecasters predict a cloudy Friday and Saturday, with occasional sprinkles or light rain.
Sunnier skies are predicted for Sunday. And by Monday, temperatures could be close to normal again.


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All Edison Vikings varsity boys soccer coach Ruben Martinez wanted to do was send his seniors out on a winning note in their last home game on the Vikings soccer field. Martinez didn't count on a Tokay brick wall named Jose Gomez defending the Tigers' net.
Gomez, a senior goalkeeper, made three highlight-reel saves in the final two minutes of the match, including two blocks on the same offensive play to preserve a 1-1 tie and deny Edison a win over Tokay in the Tri-City Athletic League finale for both teams on Tuesday at Magnasco Stadium.


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EFF accuses ANC of organising assault on them
The EFF accused the ANC of organising a group to assault its MPs in Parliament on Wednesday.
"The Economic Freedom Fighters has learned that the ANC is mobilising hooligans in the townships of Cape Town to come and assault EFF MPs today in Parliament," party spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said.
"The EFF has learned that they are loud-hailing across the townships, promising people free buses to go to Parliament and deal with the EFF."
Ndlozi said this was a "clear plan" to disrupt Parliament and render its work dysfunctional.
"It means the ANC is planning to undermine the very Parliament that it claims to protect and respect."
Moloto Mothapo, spokesman for ANC chief whip Stone Sizani, rubbished the claim and said the EFF had lost its mind.
"It's becoming clearer and clearer everyday that they are losing it. They are obviously imagining things, and this is a figment of their imagination," he told Sapa.
"Probably it is some sort of propaganda gone wrong on their part. They really have to come with something better if they want to be taken seriously. We have got no time to waste on the EFF."
A war of words between the EFF and the security cluster of ministers heated up on Tuesday following a meeting over the chaos in Parliament last week.
The justice, crime prevention, and security cluster condemned the action of EFF MPs who disrupted proceedings in the National Assembly last week while President Jacob Zuma was answering questions. Police were called in to calm the situation.
The cluster, led by Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, said extra-ordinary measures had been put in place to prevent a repeat of the incident.
Last Thursday, EFF leader Julius Malema was not happy with how Zuma had answered questions on when he would pay back part of the money spent on R246 million security upgrades to his private Nkandla residence in KwaZulu-Natal.
Speaker Baleka Mbete instructed Malema and his fellow MPs to leave the House when they kept interrupting and asking that Zuma answer their question.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela had recommended in her report on Nkandla that Zuma repay that part of the money not spent on security measures, like the swimming pool and cattle kraal, among others.
Zuma has been accused of delaying his response in Parliament to Madonsela's report after he said he would leave it to Police Minister Nathi Nhleko to determine if he should repay any of the money.
On Tuesday night, Ndlozi said the security cluster had no business interfering in Parliament's processes because it was part of the executive.
"The doctrine of the separation of powers enshrined in our constitutional democracy prescribes that the executive, which is all appointed by the president, must respect Parliament," he said in a statement.
Parliament was capable of running its business, and there was never a need for the police to be called or for security measures to be tightened.
"The EFF will not be intimidated by a group of employees and henchmen/women who serve at the pleasure and discretion of President Zuma," said Ndlozi.
"The EFF is proud and makes no apology whatsoever for its peaceful protest action in Parliament last Thursday.
He said EFF MPs had the right to be in the Chamber and hold the executive accountable without any fear or favour.
Ndlozi said the EFF was ready for the ANC.
"If the ANC security cluster wants to arrest us, teargas us, or shoot to kill us, then let it be.
"The EFF is ready for any form of violence because no amount of war talk, no amount of intimidation will deter it from robustly raising issues and holding the executive accountable."


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Steve Otto Columns
Otto: Baseball needs to show Tampa some love
It was a little disappointing to read they don't love us any more. Actually the phrase that Stuart Sternberg, principal owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, made to Hillsborough County commissioners was, "Major League Baseball doesn't believe any more in the Tampa Bay area.'' That's pretty tough stuff, especially coming from Major League Baseball, which has been a little iffy on believing anything in recent years other than a profit margin. I suppose the first question is whether Major League Baseball, in the form of its commissioner Bud "Don't call me Lite'' Selig, is just talking about the situation at Tropicana Field or is including the Big Guava when he says "Tampa Bay area.''I mean before Hillsborough County makes a deal with Pinellas and we agree to spend a billion dollars for a state-of-the-art retractable roof stadium with 240-foot TV screens hanging in all directions so spectators won't actually have to watch the ball game; before we build a network of highways to the new stadium; before we construct a mass transit system that covers both counties and goes directly to the ball park; before we once again sell our souls, it would be nice to know they believe in us again. The other big story last week was also down at the County Center where a proposal by Commissioner Mark Sharpe to create a domestic partner registry for unmarried couples went down by a 4-3 vote, with Sharpe's fellow Republicans putting together the "no'' votes. There is a real issue of power of attorney and other legal rights that require one partner to make decisions. Unfortunately, all of that was lost in the sexual orientation rhetoric thrown out by groups such as the Florida Family Association. There are many complex issues wrapped around the few taken up in last week's discussion, more than this space can get into today. But as we change and try to survive in a changing community where the rules for health care, assisting partners in need or just making funeral arrangements for loved ones get tangled in legal mumbo jumbo, we need to redefine just who we are. It's obviously a bigger issue than the members of the county commission are equipped to deal with, but I hope Sharpe will not abandon this after one effort and will try again. Finally, one letter writer took me to task last week for saying I didn't like kumquats, which he saw as disparaging to his beloved town of Dade City and which over the weekend hosted its annual Kumquat Festival. He further suggested the locals might hunt me down if I dared show my face and hurl kumquats in my direction. Well, I'm writing this on Friday afternoon and the Frau and I are planning on going to the festival Saturday. I love Dade City and don't really expect roving bands of kumquat throwers. Not only that, but it's been a few years and I'm going to give it a try and stop by the free kumquat booth and see if I can eat one of the little boogers. I'll let you know.
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Ok… nevermind. I broke down and gave them my information. They've taken over my computer! The password is Liar? Oh god the phone is ringing! Well, my neighbor's phone is ringing. They probably won't appreciate the mysterious and freaky call at 2 in the morning. I hope there's no heavy breathing. Hey, nobody gets my phone number, especially not you Shia LaBeouf.
Check out the site here, and either play the game yourself or take the coward's way like me and use it to freak out your friends with anonymous phone calls. It's all good fun. Meanwhile, below is a new clip from Eagle Eye. Bonus!


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Man, yesterday I wanted my first gator bad. We went with a big day planned, and showed up at sawpit creek ramp at about 6:45am. To our distress, the ramp is completely closed! I dont know the north very well, and didnt know the next closest boat ramp. I forget the name of the one we went to, but its the one close to St.Marys sound, waaaaaay out of our way. We had to completely change our plan, and fish all new water. I ended up running the Hewes on the beach all the way from St.Marys to Nassau sound, to fish our spots in the afternoon. Had quite an adventure, but dang! We stopped at Bret's, which was much closer than the ramp that we put in, but still pretty far away.
So what is the next closest ramp to Nassau sound besides Sawpit?


text: I've had my Babolat Pure Drive Team for about a year now and I like it very much. However, when I hit with the Flexpoint Radical Tour I think that it felt better than my Babolat. It's not too expensive, but I'm not too sure my dad would let me buy 2 of them even when I'm paying. I'll most likely be using my Babolat for the rest of my life or a different racket if I change now. Should I really attempt to get a new racket?