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I wasn't unhappy with the relationship but i was really overwhelmed with life. My mom was seriously sick and i have always had my fair share of problems at home. So i took a break from her cause i didn't feel like i could handle it. I can tell when this happens that she is pretty hurt by it. So almost a month goes by and we don't talk. She texts me on valentines day saying, "i know you are the guy for me." I wasn't really sure how to respond to this so i didn't. But i called her a few days after and we had a pretty good conversation. Over the next few months we talk a couple times a month and the conversations usually resulted in her telling me she misses me and so on. She was the one that was initiating the conversations 80% of the time, i wasn't calling her. So summer comes around and shes gonna be home for the next 3 months. We talked right before she came home and i wasn't really sure what i wanted out of her at the time. So a month goes by and we only talked once. I actually started dating someone else at the time but she didn't know about it. In August she randomly texts me and tells me that shes seeing someone. I'll admit that it bothered me and i didn't really know how to react so i just texted her "thanks for letting me know." So a couple weeks later she calls me and obviously it comes up. So she tells me that she is seeing her ex from the past. Now im really blown out by this. She asks me if i had a girlfriend and i told her no, which i didnt. And i guess i couldve told her that i was dating someone but i didnt. It may sound like bullshit but the reason why i didn't tell her was to protect her feelings. I didn't want her to get worked up over a girl that i wasn't exactly serious about. So she goes on to tell me how she expected the summer to be different for us. She thought that i was gonna be calling and that i was going to try to make things work between us. When i didn't, she ends up hanging out with her ex. A couple more weeks go by until she calls again. Basically the conversation goes as always. She tells me that she wants to start something up again. Then, she asks me if i was dating someone or had a gf and i said no. I wasn't dating the previous girl anymore. Then she goes on to say that she doesn't believe that i haven't fucked anyone since we broke up. I'm really not one to lie so i told her that i have. She gets pissed off blows up and hangs up. So over the next few months we only exchange a couple of text. The big ones were about me moving. I basically told her a few days before i was actually moving that i was movin 400 miles away. She didn't really say much at this point. A month later we talk and she basically expresses how she feels about me moving. She goes on to say how hard the last year has been for her and that shes had trouble moving forward. So we exchange a lot of feelings and emotions about what we have gone through and felt during the break up time. It gets pretty intense and well, being the person she is she brings up me sleeping with a girl. So in her mind she thinks i slept with a random girl in response to her seeing someone. So i told her that i was dating someone during the summer but i wasn't when she asked if i was dating someone. And the time she asked before that was if i had a gf and i didn't. Once again she proceeds to blow up about how i didn't tell her and so on. For me, i didn't lie to her about it, but i dont know if she sees it that way. So i guess what i'm basically wondering is, why does she always get really mad, really easily? I'm not asking about if i should stick this one out or try to get back with her. Cause those aren't questions that i ask myself. I do care deeply for the girl and i know at a different time and different place things may be different but definitely not now. Some small tidbits, she admits that she gets mad easily when it comes to things between us. She also says how we seem to push each other back and forth and i can see that its leading to us both getting closer to that breaking point. She always classifies me as that different guy because i'm the first guy that she hasn't walked all over and that i actually give her that balance. Cliffs- With a girl for a year, broke up earlier this year. Talk over the past year once or twice a month. I was dating someone in summer and so was she. I never told her i was dating someone. She blows up when i tell her i slept with someone. Months later she asks me about it and blows up again because i told her i was actually dating someone in the summer. She ends up getting really mad. I dont get why.


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MagneGas® Confirms EPA Requirements for Manure Processing Achieved
Results of Manure Sterilization Trials Meet EPA Rules for Class A Waste
Jul 07, 2014, 07:00 ET from MagneGas Corporation
TAMPA, Fla., July 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MagneGas® Corporation ("MagneGas®" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MNGA), a leading technology company that counts among its inventions a patented process that converts liquid waste into a hydrogen-based fuel, today announced that the results of the recent Swine Manure Sterilization trials meet Rule 503.32 requirements making swine manure suitable for Class A treatment.
This is a significant milestone for MagneGas Corporation which the Company believes provides solutions to challenges facing the swine industry such as odor control, manure handling and disposal. The fact that the MagneGas® Process meets or exceed the time and temperature requirements for Rule 503.32 Class A waste could, depending on local requirements, reduce or eliminate the costs of disposal or land application by rendering it suitable for direct fertilization application.
"We believe this accelerates our market entry into manure sterilization by converting Class B manures into Class A transforming it in some cases, to be suitable for fertilization as opposed to costly and time consuming land application, lagoons or holding ponds," commented Ermanno Santilli, CEO of MagneGas Corporation. "We will now present this solution to the contacts we made at the Orlando Biowaste conference from May as well as presenting it to organizations such as farmer coopertives, the US Pork Council and agricultural universities."
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Founded in 2007, Tampa-based MagneGas Corporation (NASDAQ: MNGA) is a technology Company that counts among its inventions, a patented process that converts liquid waste into hydrogen based fuels. The Company currently sells MagneGas® into the metal working market as a replacement to acetylene. It also sells equipment for the sterilization of bio-contaminated liquid waste for various industrial and agricultural markets. In addition, the Company is developing a variety of ancillary uses for MagneGas® fuels utilizing its high flame temperature for co-combustion of hydrocarbon fuels and other advanced applications. For more information on MagneGas, please visit the Company's website at www.MagneGas.com.
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Just once, it would be thrilling to see a brave City Council hold the new mayor's feet to the fire. But that's like asking the Cubs to win the World Series, hockey players not to fight or Illinois politicians not to pad their pensions.
On Wednesday morning, when our 50 well-paid, mostly part-time aldermen gather at City Hall, it will be -- barring a miracle -- to rubber-stamp Rahm's Emanuel's speeding-ticket cameras, a blatant revenue grab masquerading as a "save the children" safety measure. And to blindly approve the mayor's Chicago Infrastructure Trust, a way to reward private equity firms, like the one where Emanuel once worked and made millions, in the name of rebuilding Chicago's infrastructure.
All new ideas are not bad ideas.
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Jakkamma (2012) Movie Online DVD
Share Jakkamma is the caste deity of Rajakambalam Nayakar peoples. It is the family deity of all the 9 subcastes of Kambalatars. In Panchalankurichi , a temple for Jakkamma had been built by Veerapandiya Kattabomman family . Jakkamma also called in some places as Bommamma


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I know I usually set my crafting cross hairs on Crewcuts when I want to do a knock-off project but today I'm going for American Apparel. I just love their designs & soft knits for kids but hate putting money in their d-bag CEO's pocket. This was originally a post I did for Crafterhours Skirt Week but it was the same week as the new site launch so I'm just now getting it up on Pink Monster. Boo on me, I know, I know.
(Also note that I did not add any seam allowance in my measurements, since the knit has such stretch I wanted it a smidge snug)
The idea is to draw a pattern that is a perfect 1/4 of a circle with the inner circle being 1/4 of your child's waist measurement. (eh? keep reading, it'll make sense) To find that magic number you need to figure out what the radius is of a __ circle (blank being your waist measurement, mine was 20″) That involves Pi which is already making my nose tickle so I just google it. Seriously. I typed in "what is the radius of circle who's circumference (total measurement around the circle) is 20 & guess what, some math website tells me it's 3.18!
On my pattern paper I drew two 3.18″ lines (see step 1 below), then continued to draw more 3.18″ lines so that I could easily connect the lines & have a nice curved edge. (step 2) This little arc is going to be the inner curve of our pattern. Next decide what you want the length of the skirt to be, I chose 9". Stemming out from your little arc draw several 9″ lines. Connect these edges, cut out your inner arc & congratulations, you've got yourself a pattern.
For Step 4 I took a large square of fabric (32″ square in my case) & folded it into equal quarters. I pinned my pattern on top & cut along the curved edged of my pattern. (ONLY the curved edges! You need the folds of the straight edges for this to open up to one large circle)
Now for the waistband. I usually use a foldover waistband for making baby yoga pants but lately I'm really loving it for skirts. And it's SO SO simple.
Start with a rectangle of fabric folded in half, cut to your waist size (20″) by 4″. Unfold & sew the short ends together. Fold this tube in half & you've got your waistband.The final step is to attach the waistband to the circle. It's as simple as pinning the waistband along the inside circle of the skirt (right sides together) & stitching into place. Just be sure to catch all three layers as you stitch! (2 from the waistband, 1 from the skirt)Fold down the waistband again (now it's a 2″ waistband) & you're set!
You could finish off the hemline but knit doesn't fray & I kind of feel like a hem would weigh down the twirl & therefore utter awesomeness of this skirt.
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OK, so the other day my 2 biggest goldmakers on Gaia, the jigsaw puzzles and word bump, were both down. Guess I need to learn how to fish....
The first thing you should know is that there are 3 different places on Gaia where you can fish. Bass'ken Lake, The Port of Gambino, and the Durem Reclamation facility. Bass'ken Lake is the easiest, the Port is intermediate, and the Reclamation Facility is HARD!!!
Pull up some pier at Bass'ken Lake, and start casting. You should have your "basic fishing rod". You cast by clicking on the water. Watch the meter at the bottom, and click the mouse again when it reaches max. When you hook something, 2 red lines will appear. You'll need to move your mouse side to side, trying to keep the bobbin between those red lines, until you reel in whatever you've caught. This isn't nearly as easy as it sounds! Keep practicing, you'll start to get the hang of it.
Study your reeling, and take note where you seem to lose your fish the most. The other fishing rods offered will change where those red lines are. Take a look at this forum, http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7274895 for screenshots of the other available fishing rods, and how they change the red lines. I found that I lost the vast majority of my fish right at the shoreline, and switching to the "strength rod" really made a difference. Figure out where you lose your fish, and buy the rod that looks right for you.
Onto what you can catch...
If you are fishing because you need money DO NOT EXCHANGE YOUR FISH!!! Sell them for gold, but don't exchange them with old Man Logan. Guppies are worth 3 gold each, but if you exchange 10 of them, you get a bass, only worth 12 gold. You can sell any of the garbage you catch. Just like real life, the heavier/better what you caught, the more it will fight as you reel it in. This means that when you first start out, you're going to catch at least as much crap as fish, because garbage doesn't fight as much.
Fish can be sold for gold, or exchanged with Old Man Logan for better fish. As you collect more fish, you will be able to cash them in for items. I sent Foamy a set of whiskers made out of fish, ask him to show them to you, they're cute! I'm saving up for a hat....
Bait matters! You will definitely catch more, better fish with Grade A bait than with Grade F. However, when you're fishing with better bait, it can be harder to reel fish in, for obvious reasons.
You can move around. I don't know if it really makes a difference or not, but you can look at the little photograph of the lake on the left, and click where on the edge you want your avi to sit.
I've gotten to the point where I do pretty good in Bass'ken Lake, and can even recognize garbage by the slow reel before I actually bring it in, so I can release it. I now bring in almost entirely fish. When I go to the Port, I get about half and half. As for the Reclamation Facility, I haven't been able to reel a single thing in yet.
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Space Cadet
Space Cadet
(Ffroe Records)
Every band has to learn to play through its influences at some point, whether that means figuring out how to play the same old song better than anyone else, or actually coming up with something new -- you know, the more difficult and far less traveled path. Everyone needs a little bit of time to find his own voice, so it's not a crime to sound like your record collection while organizing a search party. Unfortunately, too many groups aren't willing to try to move past influence into inspiration, content with doing just enough to get by. Not that listeners encourage bands to come up with original sounds. Stone Temple Pilots pillaged Pearl Jam's sound, and Creed did the same thing to STP, resulting in hazy and hackneyed versions of songs that were basically Kansas rip-offs in the first place. And all three bands sold millions of records, no one noticing, apparently, they were buying the same album over and over again. Familiarity breeds contempt, except in the music business.
Space Cadet appears to have already figured that out. It's not clear right away what Space Cadet's goal is with its debut CD, but it doesn't take too long to suss it out. Maybe one spin all the way around, and you'll get the picture, though it's not a very pretty one. The band wants to be everything to everyone, or at least to the people who listen to The Edge on a regular basis. Space Cadet is perfectly willing to throw every style and sound at the wall and wait for someone else to tell them what to stick with. Well, not every style and sound, just the small range offered by most modern-rock radio programming directors. It's everything and nothing, and then some. Were it a better list of thefts, you might call Space Cadet eclectic, but as it stands, even derivative fails to do the disc justice, falling far short of capturing just how insidious this record is.
Each song on Space Cadet has a doppelgänger you've heard before, probably a few too many times. The leadoff track, "Ray Gun," swipes Scott Weiland's early date-rape lyrics and messily applies them to the strain of power-pop found on the undercard at the last few EDGE Fests. "Air Your Soul Out" confuses heavily distorted vocals with invention, which only marginally distinguishes the song from the one that precedes it, "Outer Space." Both tracks are the kind of syncopated and sludgy fake metal that could pass for a Creed outtake. Or Korn, Alice in Chains, Limp Bizkit, or just about any band that, despite any quantifiable evidence of talent, can comfortably list themselves as rock stars. With its new old sound, maybe Space Cadet will be able to do the same one day -- God help us. At least it will be interesting to hear what the band decides to imitate next. Nah, not really.
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Upper GI Series (Barium Swallow)
Jay W. Marks, MD
Jay W. Marks, MD, is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Upper GI series facts
- An upper gastrointestinal series is an x-ray test used to define the anatomy of the upper digestive tract.
- Women who are or may be pregnant should notify the doctor requesting the procedure and the radiology staff.
- An upper gastrointestinal series involves filling the esophagus, stomach, and small intestines with a white liquid material (barium).
What is an upper gastrointestinal (GI) series?
An upper gastrointestinal (GI) series (barium swallow), is a radiological test that is used to visualize the structures of the upper digestive system - the esophagus, stomach and duodenum. (If visualization of the remaining parts of the small intestine is necessary, a small bowel follow through can be added to the test.) These structures are observed during the examination, and the images are also saved for further review on X-ray film or as digital images. An upper GI series can reveal conditions such as ulcers, tumors, hiatal hernias, scarring, blockages, and abnormalities of the muscular wall of the gastrointestinal tissues.
What are the risks of an upper GI series?
Any x-ray test procedure involves some risk from radiation exposure. The radiation exposure is minimized by standard techniques that have been assigned and approved by national and international radiology committees and councils. Radiology technicians are certified by national certifying boards.
Patients who are or may be pregnant should notify the requesting practitioner and radiology staff, as there is potential risk of harm to the fetus with any radiation exposure.
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Here's a fast paced demo that shows you dozens of things you can do with Photoshop. It is not meant to be a tutorial ... so don't even try! If you like what you see and want to learn how to do EVERYTHING in the demo in just two hours ... check out Photoshop Fast Track for Newbies! You'll get 2+ hours of online video tutorials. You can view … [Read more...]
Digital Retouching Backlash
Diet.com sent one of their video hosts, to interview Tim Lynch, a Photoshop retouching expert. In the interview Lynch took photos of Sarah and then showed her how he can remove sunspots and and slim down her waist and legs. Lynch says 99.9 percent of the photos you see in today's magazines are retouched. Watch as Tim Lynch removes 10 years … [Read more...]


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Evelyn Lozada: Head-Butting Incident Impacts More Than Marriage to Chad JohnsonAugust 13, 2012
It is still a mystery to me how many celebrity couples have yet to realize the wide-ranging implications of airing their dirty laundry to the general public.
I don't mean airing dirty laundry in a derogatory way, but people in the public sphere must realize that every action they choose to carry out will be scrutinized under the greatest of microscopes.
In the case of Evelyn Lozada and former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson, it doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong. All that matters is that their lives have been negatively impacted by the publicity from this incident.
Johnson is alleged to have head-butted his wife after an argument that revolved around a receipt for a box of condoms. Lozada had to receive medical attention for a gash on her forehead.
The 34-year-old veteran was obviously wrong to headbutt his wife, if that indeed turns out to be what happened. In doing so, he jeopardized his financial well-being and did his best to ensure that his NFL career would end on a bad note.
This incident cost Johnson his second lease on his NFL life—or third, depending on which way you look at it. After being traded from the Cincinnati Bengals to the New England Patriots prior to last season, Johnson put up some pretty dreadful numbers under Bill Belichick.
He was granted a chance to get his career back on track and prove that he still had the requisite physical abilities to compete for a job in the NFL.
The domestic battery allegations derailed that chance before it was ever seriously underway.
It didn't just destroy Johnson's football career, it led to the cancellation of the couple's reality show called "Ev and Ocho" (via Los Angeles Times). Granted, that show probably wouldn't have been around for too long anyway, but it surely would have made for a few minutes of entertaining television.
Unfortunately, that has been ruined too.
This unnecessary incident cost the couple more than a peaceful and enjoyable start to their marriage. It cost Johnson his tenure with the Dolphins and Lozada her reality television career.
While Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin said that his decision to release Johnson was not because of this one specific incident, but rather because "it just wasn't going to work" (via ESPN), this was clearly the straw that broke the camel's back.


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Gale Dean Johnson
Gale Dean Johnson, 82 went to be with Lord on Jan. 1, 2011. Gale was the son of Alfred and Nettie Rowlett Johnson. He was born in Des Moines, Ia., June 9, 1928. His childhood years were spent in Milford and Lake City, Ia., where he received his education.
Gale moved to Spencer and worked for Roy DeMoss at his service station. He worked for Swift. Co., several years before going in the service and was stationed at Camp Carson, in Colorado Springs. Colo.
Gale married Sally King, July 8, 1951. They returned to Colorado for Gale to complete his Army duty. Gale then went to work for Hy-Line International for 26 years as fieldman, supervisor and then manager of the hatchery in Spencer. After working in California five years, they retired and then settled in Sun City. Gale was a member of the American Legion in Spencer.
Gale loved being around animals, gardening, fishing, camping and snowmobiling. Most of all he loved being around his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Gale was preceded in death by his parents; four sisters; three brothers; several nieces and nephews; a sister and brother-in-law.
Gale is survived by one son and his wife, Randy and Kevin Shine-Johnson of Spencer; one daughter, Deborah Johnson of Sun City, Ariz.; three grandchildren; one step-granddaughter; three great-great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
A memorial will be held at a later date in Spencer. Memorials may be sent to Easter Seals, 10419 W. Bolivar Dr. Sun City, Ariz. 85351.


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Most of the major home automation companies have control apps for iOS these days, but what about the iFans of the world who don't already have (or can't afford) a full-blown Control4, URC, or Crestron system in the casa? Zero1.tv has a cheap and easy alternative already on the market in Europe and ready to roll out in the States in the next couple of weeks. Its new VooMote One is a simple $99 device that snaps around any generation of iPhone or iPod Touch, and pairs with a free iOS app to create a smart, if simple, customizable universal touchscreen remote control.
The company promises super easy setup and macro creation, and although, from what I've seen in the videos and press release, it doesn't seem quite as slick or sophisticated as a Harmony remote, it's also a lot cheaper, and less likely to wear out after a year and leave you dealing with Logitech's notoriously apathetic customer support. Plus, all of the setup software is included in the app itself, so configuring your remote won't require a computer connection.
Granted, it's IR-only, which means you'll have to point your iPhone at the device you're wanting to control, but it also includes a handy IR port on the bottom for learning devices that aren't in the company's database already. (At present, though, the database includes codes for "574 TV brands, 995 Top Box/DVR brands, and 151 audio and CD brands," and new codes will be available as updates from the iTunes store.)
Look for it on August 5 zero1.tv and BestBuy.com for $99.
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Hydor Wavemaker Extension Cable guarantees the connection between KORALIA WAVEMAKER and all models of low voltage KORALIA 12V pumps (from NANO to 8).
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KORALIA WAVEMAKER 2 and 4 support more than one extension cable contemporarily, but you can't use more than one cable for the same pump.
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An Israeli Tragedy
To hope that Netanyahu could heal our society of its psychosis is to be blind to, or in denial of, historical truth.
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- Photo by Howard Melnyczuk
Brother-sister bands don't come a lot cooler than Wild Belle and, although "cool" might not be particularly on-trend terminology, their style embraces the sound of an era when it certainly was.
The Chicago-based duo are beginning to make entirely justified, tie-dye infused ripples in a sometimes all-too monochrome new music pond; you just have to look at the cover of their 'It's Too Late' EP to see said ripples providing pillows for a deadpan Natalie and saxophone wielding Elliot.
Wild Belle's music offers a blend of unmistakable reggae with the aforementioned saxophone and intelligent rhythms from jazz, 'stir it up' with some rock 'n' roll and a dash of pop, and you are beginning to put together a recipe that can describe the work of this funky family affair. Thorough professionalism and enjoyment in live performance, a quite brilliant new video and complete security in a relative niche they've found, make Wild Belle as eye-catching now as they deserve to be in 2013.
We caught up with the siblings to talk inspiration, composition and Garage Band, before their eagerly anticipated Birthdays show, on a rather important day for a fellow-Chicagoan…
I guess we should start with the theme of the day – the election. How are you guys feeling?
Elliot: We're so happy, excited and relieved. Eric woke me up this morning, 'Dude Obama won!'
A genuinely thrilled smile sneaks through Elliot's serious beard.
Natalie: We couldn't stay up 'cause we flew over this morning, but I woke up and I was honestly scared…
Elliot: When we found out, we all started singing this song where the chorus is like, "OBAMA!"
Natalie: It's like, 'Barak Obama, Barak Obama!'
Natalie jives to the syncopated rhythm of the entirely different, but nonetheless excitable, rendition of the celebratory song.
I think the whole world is slightly relieved. Moving away from politics… What got you guys started in music? What inspired you to form Wild Belle?
Elliot: We both grew up with music. Mum and Dad were both musicians. Mum played jazz piano, and Natalie has always been an amazing singer, since she was like 4 years old, so it was only a matter of time before we tried to collaborate more officially. We played in bands before, Natalie played keyboards.
Was that a similar sound to what you're producing now?
Elliot: Not really, it was different, but Natalie's been writing songs for a long time and she's a great producer in her own right.
How does the writing process work for you?
Elliot: It comes from lots of different places. Natalie does a lot of stuff on Garage Band.
Natalie: It's very easy. I know it extremely well. But I just got a new computer, my old one crashed 'cause it was too heavy with information, and I lost a lot of my old Garage Band stuff. And the new Garage Band isn't same as the old Garage Band.
Elliot: It doesn't have that old sound!
What's the matter with it?
Natalie: I got a smaller computer and the internal mic doesn't work in the same way. All the sound going in, it's literally going in through a smaller microphone so there's all this hissing?
The Garage Band conversation tails-off; the hissing hasn't affected the Wild Belle we have access to. Back to inspirations etc.
What kind of music do you listen to?
Elliot: I've always been really into jazz, playing the sax, so Coltrane, which branched out to Sun Ra.
Natalie: Coltrane is very spiritual. He takes you on a journey when you listen to him. Elliot turned me onto Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sun Ra – I really took a liking to Miles Davis. He was on a soundtrack for a French movie called 'Flight of the Scaffolding' or something? I can't say what it was actually called in French!? Elliot turned me onto that stuff; I love Miles Davis, he's obsessed with Coltrane. This morning I was listening to Sun Ra – he's pretty.
Photo by Howard Melnyczuk
So jazz is clearly a major influence for Wild Belle. But what about your reggae sound?
Elliot: …Oh yeah reggae!
Natalie: I love Bob Marley. He's amazing.
Elliot: We love the Soul Jazz label and all the Studio One compilations are amazing. Jackie Mittoo, Delroy Wilson.
Natalie: While we were in Jamaica we went to Studio One; it's sort of on hold right now in terms of production. They're not recording many artists. They just can't afford it.
Elliot: They're fixing up their soundboard.
Natalie: Renovating.
Is Studio One somewhere you'd like to record? How did you find Jamaica?
Elliot: It's really amazing – we just shot a music video down there with Melina Matsoukas.
Natalie: Melina is really amazing, she's phenomenal to work with. When we went to Studio One they had all these old records for like cheap you know? You can't get them like that in the States.
So what about an album to follow the EP?
Elliot: The record has been done for a long time. Before we started talking to labels we had it all done. We recorded it all ourselves in Michigan.
Do you think that's a good way of doing it?
Elliot: It means you can approach every aspect of the record in your own way. We know what we like and we know how we want to sound. We just ended up feeling like that was the safest way of entering a world that we weren't too familiar with.
Natalie: What do you mean?
Elliot: There are just so many new people, and it's a much broader world. We're used to doing it by ourselves.
Natalie: We prefer doing it on our own, as much as we love the help. We can stay central and true to ourselves.
Is there a through-line or story to the album?
Natalie: Yeah, there is. The record is called 'Isles' and we sort of think of each song as its own island. There is a story. There are different sounds on different tracks but everything makes sense together because they all come from the same place.
How would you describe your live shows?
Natalie: They're just fun! We love performing live. It's different experience every time.
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And you're playing the legendary 100 Club next week? How are you feeling about that?
Elliot: We've never been to the 100 Club. But it's really the space that matters. People don't always know that. We've been on tour, sometimes playing in front of 4,000 people, sometimes 12, so we try and do something different each time. There's a lot of energy that comes from playing in front of a lot of excited people, but you can get really great energy in an intimate setting as well, like we're playing at a friend's apartment tonight. We just try and do our thing every night and it gets more solid.
Where else has the tour taken you?
Natalie: We did a sort of half tour around the U.S – back and forth on the East Coast.
Elliot: And San Francisco for one show. Natalie made a tour video – it's really good fun.
How about your sound? There's not a lot like it around at the moment. Has it evolved to suit the times?
Natalie: I guess it's just kind of like, you have a seed and small things, and you want it to be a full plant. In the studio we're not thinking what's relevant to anybody other than the people around us. We'll use synth on some songs, then some things they only made 500 of, like Chamberlin Ssrings. I'm sure they made a couple of thousand maybe? It's a very fragile instrument. Each song has its own emotional connection, so we try to cater for that emotional need, more than needing the sound to be a something that's relevant or irrelevant.
Having happily received an invitation to the "friend's apartment" gig, we wander across the road for some impromptu photos in a Dalston record store. The short shoot serves to finalise what was picked up in our earlier conversation: the siblings' completely relaxed attitude and a genuine love of music. Walking away, I turn to catch Elliot and Natalie enthusiastically rummaging through the shops extensive collection of 'ska' records – I think they may have even made a purchase.


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Smok'n Frolic and John Velazquez went to the lead from the starting gate and never looked back to win the $108,000 Next Move Handicap (gr. III) at Aqueduct on Sunday.
Smok'n Frolic and John Velazquez went to the lead from the starting gate and never looked back to win the $108,000 Next Move Handicap (gr. III) at Aqueduct on Sunday.
In a battle of longtime training brothers, Mel Stute, 75, defeated Warren Stute, 81, when Buffythecenterfold edged favored Watching You by a nose Sunday in the $79,425 Santa Paula Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita Park.
Jockey Rick Wilson, who is flying to Dubai on Monday afternoon to ride sprinting sensation Xtra Heat in the $2 million Golden Shaheen on Saturday, got a nice sendoff with a rousing victory aboard John Newell's Deadline in the $60,000 Horatius Stakes for 3-year-olds at Laurel Park.
Chilean-bred Ema Bovary bounced back from a rocky U.S. debut to win the $59,000 Soviet Problem Handicap at Golden Gate Fields Sunday.
Stan E. Fulton's Crackup, who finished sixth in the El Camino Real Derby (gr. III) on March 8 at Golden Gate Fields, underwent surgery last week to remove bone chips from both front ankles. He will be turned out for several months, trainer Rafael Becerra said.
Joe Steiner, the popular 38-year-old jockey who suffered multiple injuries in a spill at Santa Anita on Feb. 26, s expected to make a full recovery and plans to resume riding during the Hollywood Park meet that begins April 23.
Trainer Craig Dollase said he is "strongly considering" the Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) for Logician, the $520,000 son of Tabasco Cat that prompted the pace and held well to finish a surprising fourth in the San Felipe Stakes (gr. II).
Eugene and Laura Melnyk's favored Tweedside disposed of pace-setting Amelia and danced away from San Dare and Hi Tech Honeycomb in the stretch to score a 5 1/2-length victory in Sunday's $200,000 Orchid Handicap (gr. II), switched from the turf to a sloppy Gulfstream Park main track.
Tomahawk, Ireland's top-rated 2-year-old of last year, got his 2003 season underway for trainer Aidan O'Brien with a comfortable win in the Oak Lodge Sires Loughbrown Stakes at seven furlongs at The Curraugh on Sunday.
Harlan's Holiday and Nayef, two of the leading contenders for Saturday's $6 million Dubai World Cup, had important works at Nad Al Sheba on Saturday and Sunday.
If Michael Tabor is looking to win the Two Thousand Guineas with Hold That Tiger, he may have to beat himself to do it. Tabor and Mrs. John Magnier's Tomahawk captured Sunday's 7-furlong Oak Lodge Sires Loughbrown Stakes at the Curragh.
Last year, jockey Dino Luciani wondered aloud if Krz Ruckus was getting enough respect. After his performance in Saturday's $108,000 Briartic Stakes at Woodbine, that shouldn't be an issue.
Millionaire Good Journey has been retired and will be headed to Australia to stand at stud
Paraneck Stable's New York Hero's valiant win in the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes (gr. II) for 3-year-olds highlighted a five-stakes day at Turfway Park Saturday.
From Simple Pleasures Farm in Harrodsburg, Ky. to the powerful stable of Michael Tabor. The journey of Kentucky Derby hopeful Brancusi has taken his dedicated breeders, Nancy Much and Charles Whetzel, to the threshold of America's greatest race.


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You may ask yourself why I spent this amount of money on a big television, but the truth is there's nothing like a bigger, badder television is there and it is the closest feeling you will ever get to going to the cinema,and the truth is I wasn't the one who spend the cash it was my parents which is even better as I get to watch it when there not around and I get to save up for more important things.
When we chose to pick our plasma tv, my father asked me what makes of plasma tv were the best these days as he knew nothing at all about the new technology. The first words that came out of my mouth were LG as I knew these were a good maker of computer based monitors as I already have one and know they are superb with a clean crisp picture and good sound.
When looking around on the internet, I found two which I thought were possibilities and that my dad may like.One had a 50 inch screen and the other was a 42 inch and these both had a silver finish and had freeview built in and this was a good factor and enabled my dad to cancel N.T.L (CABLE).After carefully looking at the two tv's, my dad said he liked the look of the specifications of the 42 inch version so later that week we decided to have a look at the tv in a shop before we made any big decisions. After all, there is nothing like seeing the television in the flesh.
Later that week me and my father jumped in the car and headed to our nearest Dixons and lucky for us they had one set up ready.On first glance the tv just oozes quality and a 42inch screen really is big. Me and my dad were smiling when we looked at the quality of the screen and when dvd's were demonstrated there was so much detail that dad thought it wasn't a dvd but that it was one of the new BLUE RAY versions (A NEWER VERSION OF THE DVD PLAYER), We both fell in love with the tv there and then and to make things better the tv also included surround sound speakers.
Screen size 42'' Screen size measured diagonally from corner to corner in inches.
Screen format 16:9 Aspect ratio 16:9 is the standard for HDTV and most DVD video formats, better known as Widescreen. 4:3 aspect ratio is standard for normal PC monitors & Televisions.
HDTV ready High Definition Television displays a picture with a much higher resolution than a standard television set, dramatically improving the picture quality. This is achieved by an increased number of lines.
Pixel resolution 1024x768 Display quality defined by the number of individual dots (pixels) used to create an image. The higher the number of pixels, the higher the image quality.
Built-in speakers Yes
Power output (watts) 30 Maximum power output that the television can produce, measured in watts.
Tuner Analogue & digital (DVB)
Integrated Freeview
On screen display Graphic displays which appear on the TV screen to guide through the various settings and controls (On Screen Display)
Sleep timer A function that allows the unit to turn itself off after a set period of time.
Component video input is Used to send very high quality signals from a DVD player to a Television. Higher quality than SCART but carries video signal only, a separate cable must be used to carry sound.
When I got home me and my dad logged onto the laptop and had a good search for the model we wanted, which was the LG Electronics 42PC1R After less than a couple of minutes I found the tv on a site called tv and video direct www.tvandvideodirect.com at a price of £919.81 with a delivery charge of £34.99 as this was the cheapest site we found the tv on we decided to buy from this site as the reviews from opinion sites site were very high .
In 4 days, the box was delivered on a door step after we arranged a delivery date which was suitible for us. On opening the box we found that it was really easy to set up as there weren't many cables to plug in, only the dvd player and the aerial cable.Upon switching the tv on, I found that the the tv automaticly tuned into all the channels and within 10mins of us opening the box we were watching freeview
You really wont beleive how short an amount of time it takes to set up the tv we were fully pleased with are choice of tv and it is a full part of our household now, even though we have yet to find the right place to put it. The image quality and sound are really amazing especially whilst watching dvd as the picture is crystal clear. I would recommend this tv to anyone who wants a good reasonable plasma tv. Sound quality on surround sound is wonderful.
The tv also comes with a 1 Year Manufacturer's Warranty this is usualy standard on most electrical products tho but there is the option when purchased of a 3 year Extended Warranty for the price of £319.00 which when purchased gives you a full 4 years parts and labour warranty.I would always advise you purchase the extra 3 years as from exsperiance electrial items always last just after the warranty period before they breakdown
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Dell's Precision
The Dell Precision M90 ($3001 as customized) features an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 operating at 2.33GHz, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and a bright 17" widescreen WXGA+ LCD display. It includes a 100GB, 7200 RPM hard drive and an 8x DVD burner. Graphics are powered by an NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M engine with 256MB of dedicated video RAM. Size-wise it's a middleweight, tipping the scales at 8.6 lbs and measuring 15.5x11.3x1.6" (WxDxH), but performance-wise it's a heavyweight, once you add up all of the specs.
Toshiba's Qosmio
Desktop replacement--and then some--the Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV650 Notebook Computer has a 2GHz Intel Core Duo CPU, 1GB RAM, a pair of 100GB hard drives (more on that later), and a DVD SuperMulti Combo Drive that reads and writes DVDs and CDs. Add to that a 17" widescreen display, Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and you have a fantastic, fully loaded 10-lb package with a surprisingly reasonable street price of $2250.
You can organize the pair of 100MB internal hard drives in either RAID 0 or RAID 1 configurations. RAID 0 stripes the data for speedier read-write operations--great for gamers. RAID 1, the preferred configuration for data protection, writes exactly the same data on each drive, effectively creating a mirror image on the second drive. If one drive crashes, the other still has all of your images, safe and sound. If you don't know, RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives.
The Qosmio G35 even has a built-in TV tuner so you can record television programs
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you have one less thing to pack. It's a truly nice machine.
Sony's VAIO
What can you get for under $1000? Quite a bit, as a matter of fact. How about a Sony VAIO VGN-N130G/W Notebook Computer with a 1.6GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, dual-layer DVD burner, FireWire connectivity, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005--and--a 15.4" widescreen display. The keyboard is comfortable, and although this model is not ultra-portable by any means, at 14.4x10.5x1.5" and 6.8 lbs it travels well. If you need more portability, for $200 extra you can step up to a Sony VAIO VGN-SZ340 Notebook. It's 1" thick and weighs just 4 lbs; still it provides a 13.3" widescreen display and offers long battery life, integrated wireless, and an optional double-layer DVD burner.
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How to Remove TTinline-Guide to Stop TTinline Shopping AdsPublished March 30th, 2014 by Lena Jones
Your browser homepage is hijacked by TTinline? A lot of shopping ads pop up on your screen? Your browser is flood with annoying pop-up ads and you cannot stop them? Have no idea how to completely get rid of TTinline pop-up ads? No worry, the guide in this post will give you a hand.
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Information of TTinline
TTinline is an ads-supported website which can be categorized as adware or browser extension. This malicious website can affect all the browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and other frequent-used browsers. TTinline displays as a browser extension attaching on the browsers. Once infected with TTinline, it will change your browser setting and add its domain to your browser. It changes your default homepage and replaces by its own domain. When you open your browsers, you will be redirected to TTinline automatically without your permission. Even when you open a new tab, it will pop up on your screen immediately.
In the website of TTinline, you will receive a lot of pop ups ads, coupons, banners and sponsor links. Your browsers are full of commercial deals, especially when you visit the commercial websites such as eBay. Some people may think that TTinline is a part of those decent online shopping websites. But in fact, it is an ads-supported platform created by the cyber criminals to promote specific products to generate traffics by click-through rate and get revenue from the sponsors. The adware can display ads according to your searching terms. You cannot get the right information as before since it always redirects you to the malicious commercial websites.
Besides, TTinline will add many junk files to your computer system to take up a lot of system resources, thus to drop down your PC performance. It will also add malicious codes to your registry entries. As long as you start your computer, its process will run automatically at the back ground. It will record your browsing activities, search keywords, and even user name and password of financial data, which puts your privacy at high risk.
TTinline may come into your system along with spam email attachment, malicious links or hacked websites, free downloads from the internet. And together with the links TTinline provided on your browsers, there can be many unwanted programs such as browser hijacker, spyware, ransomware and Trojan horse, etc. You should be careful not to click the links or pop-up ads it offered. You should remove TTinline from your computer as soon as possible to have a good online environment.
Impact of TTinline
Solution one:Technical Details for Removing TTinline Manually:
Step1: Stop the running processes of TTinline in the Windows Task Manager
Step2: Remove any programs related to TTinline from Control Panel.
Windows Vista and Windows 7
1. Open the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel and click Uninstall a program.
3. Remove any suspicious progarams.
Windows XP
1. Open the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel and then click Add or Remove Programs.
3. Uninstall any suspicious progarams.
Windows 8
1. Press Win+R.
2. Type in control panel and click OK.
3. Select Uninstall a program.
4. Remove the any suspicious progarams..
Step3: Remove harmful extensions added by TTinline from your browsers:
1. Launch IE and tap Alt+T.
2. Once you see Tools menu, go to Manage Add-ons ->Toolbars and Extensions.
3. Now select the add-on you want to remove (SurfCanyon) and select Disable.
Mozilla Firefox:
1. Launch Mozilla and tap Ctrl+Shift+A at the same time. You should see Add-ons Manager there.
2. Go to Extensions, look for the TTinline and related items and remove them.
Google Chrome:
1. Launch Google Chrome and tap Alt+F
2. Once you start seeing the menu, select Tools -> Extensions.
3. Choose the add-on you want to delete and click on the trash icon.
Step4: Let's go to Registry Editor and delete the following entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "" = "%AppData%\.exe" HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\random.exe
Video Removal for TTinline
If manual removal method is kinda difficult for you, you can follow the automatic removal guide as below to get rid of TTinline permanently from your system.
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Step one: Click the Download icon to download SpyHunter in your PC.
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Step three: Choose Select all>Remove to get rid of all the threats on your PC.
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Due next month and still no name!
Hello, Berries! I'm due next month and still haven't come to a conclusion on a name! big sister is Lisette Mary. we love our top 5 but aren't sure what sounds best with her name??
These are our FOR SURE top 5. We will be using one of these names, I just want input on which flows the best with sister's name. (btw- Lisette goes by Lisse pen Leese)
- Anneliese / Annaliese nn Anna
- Fiona
- Maëlys
- Analeigh / Annalie
- Isobel
thanks in advance for input and help!
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i like annaliese and isobelle
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I would personally rule out Anneliese and Maelys since they share the "Lis" part of Lisette. I know they SOUND different than Lisette but they are still all similar and share similar diminutives, including Isobel, actually (although this name sounds very different so I wouldn't kick this one off the list). I would want my second daughter to have a totally different name - like Fiona. Fiona and Lisette are so gorgeous and chic; I am totally in love! And each child has their own, fully individual name.
I feel like I should mention Annaleigh/Annalie. I am totally not a fan. I know it's not "made up," but it feels that way and doesn't hold a candle next to the sophisticated Lisette. You seem to like the idea of Anna as a nickname, but neither choice really feels like the right one, in my opinion. I know you said you were using one of these 5 and like I said, my pick is definitely Fiona, but my preferred "Anna" name is definitely Annabel.
Congrats and good luck.Mama to Nora and Vivienne.
IF there was a third...
Zoe Athena
Claire Athena
Margot Athena
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Loudspeakers: Effects of amplifiers and cables - Part 3
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[Part 1 begins with an overview of amplifiers, and discusses basic requirements for current and voltage output, and transient response. Part 2 discusses nonlinear distortions in amplifiers, as well as amplifier classes and modes of operation, beginning with Class A and AB.]
6.5.4 Class D
Class C amplifiers have no place in audio, but do find use in radio transmitters. Class D, on the other hand, is an emerging technology. Class D amplifiers are frequently referred to as digital amplifiers, but some designs are better described as switching amplifiers. They essentially consist of a switch-mode power supply, supplying current into the load (loudspeaker) under the control of the audio input waveform, with the output being low-pass filtered in a similar manner to digital-to-analogue converters.
Class D amplifiers are light in weight and can be relatively cheap to build. However, when extreme high fidelity is required, things can become more difficult to achieve. They are also very energy efficient, beginning from about 75% at 5% power to beyond 95% at full power. Sonic performance improves year by year.
In self-powered loudspeakers they can find willing partners because of their small size, low cost, and low heat generation. However, they still can be prone to the emission of troublesome electromagnetic interference (EMI) because of the high switching frequency used, (and the whole concept of switching, itself). Of course, they all must meet current electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations, just like the office fax machine and digital radio/alarm clock, but, as this is being written, those devices must often be switched off in order to clearly hear the BBC World Service on a small, portable radio.
Fast switching always generates harmonics into the megahertz regions, and such emissions have a great potential to interfere with nearby electronic equipment. In other words, compliance with EMC regulations is one thing, but being a good neighbour with the rest of the sensitive equipment in a recording studio is another thing. This is especially so when 'vintage' equipment is in use, designed before there was a need to even think about digital switching transients. Nevertheless, as time goes on, improvements will be made, and Class D amplifiers are steadily progressing.
The promise of an efficient, cheap, lightweight and high quality amplifier is a strong spur to commercial development. At the time of writing, some questions still exist about the sonic performance of the top two octaves of the audio frequency range in Class D circuitry. The very low level switching artefacts which many designs exhibit can prove to be problematical when using high sensitivity loudspeakers, such as mid-range and high frequency horns. Achieving low noise and distortion at both low and high power still presents many design difficulties.
In effect, there are two types of Class D amplifiers. Early designs used analogue inputs, which were compared to a triangle wave running at the switching frequency. This type of switching, when the audio signal crossing the triangle wave causes the output to switch, gives rise to a PWM (pulse width modulation) output.
Some later designs, however, accept a linear PCM (pulse code modulation) digital input, and use more sophisticated modulation techniques. As such, these designs are effectively digital until the output filtering which removes the unwanted switching artefacts. The output transistors are switched on and off typically at a rate from 100 kHz to 1 MHz, so switching noise is only to be expected. It also leads to quantisation noise, because the output switching rate is finite.
However, factors such as the need for very low-jitter clocking and the use of air-cored output filter inductors are complications which are not always easy to solve. Clocking errors and ferrite inductor cores can lead to non-linear distortion. The filtering is necessary because the direct output waveform is a high frequency square wave, which, if left unfiltered, could radiate large amounts of radio frequency (RF) interference from the loudspeaker cables, which can act as transmitter aerials.
Output inductors that behave well at these frequencies but which do not exhibit much loss at audio frequencies can be difficult to make. The required clocking accuracy of less than 100 picoseconds may also be hard to achieve.
In order to reduce the potential for clashing clocks, it can be necessary to synchronise the clock of the switch-mode power supply with the clock of the amplifier, which can also be beneficial in ensuring that the maximum current is available exactly when needed. The demands made of the power supplies are quite exacting. Any changes in power supply voltage causes a proportional change in the output signal, whereas in Class A, the current drawn is relatively constant, and in Class AB designs the audio feedback circuitry tends to compensate for the moderate fluctuations. The power supplies for Class D amplifiers may also have to deal with absorbing the power which can be reflected back from the output filter inductors.


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|28 Aug 2009
Can activated RC be upgraded?
I have a dualboot WIN7/Vista Home Premium PC at home. NEVER use Vista anymore.
Can I buy an Upgrade WIN7 and do an inplace upgrade of my WIN7 system, or do I have do buy a new copy (full) and do a clean install over a freshly reformatted partition?
Many thanks and also thanks for these forums in general. The wonders of the internet....!
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|28 Aug 2009
I have a dualboot WIN7/Vista Home Premium PC at home. NEVER use Vista anymore.
Can I buy an Upgrade WIN7 and do an inplace upgrade of my WIN7 system, or do I have do buy a new copy (full) and do a clean install over a freshly reformatted partition?
Many thanks and also thanks for these forums in general. The wonders of the internet....!
I recommend only doing clean installs, you could upgrade from Vista though since its a legit OS and is activated I'd assume.
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How thick am I???????? Never use Vista anymore and plain forgot I could upgrade it!!!!!!! doh.............
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Actually, Microsoft has indicated the activated Release Candidate WILL be recognized as a legitimate prior version of Windows as far as the upgrade discs go.
However, they've also indicated that only Vista will be upgradeable in the sense of being able to carry over files and settings. The RC will be handled like XP in that the discs will force a fresh install. (There's even a file you could painlessly modify to have it actually upgrade from the RC, but it's not recommended.)
Anyway, yes, you can use the upgrade discs coming from either the activated RC or an activated copy of Vista. Just be aware they'll force a fresh install if coming from the RC.
Also keep in mind that should you need to reinstall to a blank drive in the future, there will be a point at which the RC no longer gets activated, so you'd have to install and activate something like Vista for the upgrade discs to go in. If you just reinstall to the same drive over an activated copy of Windows 7 once it's in, there theoretically shouldn't be an issue.
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK — The contrast was both comforting and eerie.
Vilonia and Mayflower played baseball played on an invigorating, beautiful and delightful "Let's Play Two" evening at Dickey-Stephens Park.
It was an evening to celebrate life, survival and revival.
Fewer than 10 days before, on an ugly, tense, horrific, devastating night, most of the players and their supporters were in life-or-death situations, huddled with loved ones in whatever shelter they could find, hoping and praying that they would see sunlight again. All about them — their towns, their structures, their vehicles, their homes and their way of life — were blown away by an EF4 tornado. Lives were changed forever.
Highlighted almost magically by gorgeous twilight, (and later with lights flashing Mayflower and Vilonia colors) on the nearby Arkansas River Bridge, a baseball game led to a joyous, emotion-laced carnival of the goodness of humanity, the resilience of communities, accented with recurring jolts of state pride.
During the fundraiser to "Rebuild the Eagles' Nest," folks discovered a family tree, scarred, but rooted in fertile soil.
There were beauty queens at every turn, Gov. Mike Beebe, and other state and local government officials, Arkansas head coaches Bret Bielema and Mike Anderson, three different kinds of T-shirts for purchase, American flags of all sizes, a live bald eagle, joint choirs singing the National Anthem and representatives of about every media in the area.
"I was just wondering what we could do for Senior Night next year," quipped Vilonia coach Brad Wallace.
Officials set a goal of 10,000 fans for the game in which all proceeds would benefit recovery efforts in both communities. Realistically, some confided that they were hoping for five to six thousand.
Arkansas Travelers workers had clickers at every gate and recorded the official attendance at 8,014. The crowd overflowed to the berm and people stood two- and three-deep along the concourse.
Admission was free but cheerleaders greeted fans at each gate with a human tunnel with buckets for donations.
And folks didn't just toss in bills with pictures of George Washington. One man walked through the line, deposited a $100 bill in the bucket and walked away without seeing the game. Several people contributed big bills. Officials said more than $100,000 was raised just on donations at the gate. From the long, jammed lines at the concession stands, manned by volunteers and coordinated by Arkansas-Pine Bluff athletes, those funds will also soar despite no beer sales.
In addition, one man pledged $1 for every person who entered the gate up to $10,000. Other individuals made large donations and Traveler officials, who devised the idea for the special fundraiser, are expecting in the next few days more corporate contributions from those who could not attend the game.
Professional and high-profile athletes from Arkansas delivered encouraging messages on the video board. Major League pitchers Cliff Lee, Travis Wood and Drew Smiley have pledged a portion of their salaries to be given to relief efforts for every batter they strike out this season.
"We are not able to do much, but we can put on a baseball game," said Russ Meeks, president of the Travelers.
Several school buses, with players from rival schools of Mayflower and Vilonia, were spotted in the parking lot. Several of those schools have already made donations from collections for their athletes.
"The Arkansas coaching community is a tightly knit group," said Mayflower coach Joe Allbritton. "We go to each other's clinics and we learn from each other. Coaches have called us asking, 'How can we help?' Then, you look up in the stand and you see Bauxite and Lonoke and other teams. It's neat.
"Looking around that crowd, you see the effect of people pulling together and how popular high school sports is."
The players normally play before crowds of 50 to 100.
Tuesday, they were treated to the experience of a professional locker room, a pro-style batting practice and the second largest crowd in Dickey-Stephens history (next to a Razorback game last year).
"The adrenaline was high," said Wallace. "You look at the stands and the officials on the field and you see a community, it's just fantastic. I was impressed with how the players displayed honor and respect for their community.
"I'm from Arkansas and will be here all my life. It's great to see what this state does for people, how it unites for people. They don't want to see this state go down. I can't speak enough about Arkansans and what the state has done for us and how people have reached out to us."
"When you go home, home hurts; this was fun. It made you feel good," said Mayflower's Garrett Taylor, whose family lost their home in the tornado.
"It was a bigtime atmosphere," said Wallace. "I got to coach in a professional park, something I never thought I'd get a chance to do. This was Major League for a night. This was fantasyland for me."
After the game, the teams and spectators hugged, took pictures and exited that fantasy world with smiles into a reality of long-term challenges.
But they saw the balm in Gilead:
Two communities are forever linked because of a natural disaster.
Two communities that are forever bonded by their resolve and spirit.
Two communities that are inspiring examples of what make this country great.
A state that has again spotlighted the richness of community by an unselfish response to suffering people, many of whom they would not otherwise know.
A baseball game that again illustrated the unifying nature of sports.
Hope, so buried just a few days earlier, soared on the wings of Eagles.
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Until this agreement, the bulk of Russia's naval fleet was comprised of old ships from the Soviet Union's Red Fleet. Now, Russia will acquire vessels from a Western European country configured with NATO technology, which was made available through the collaborative effort of member states — predominately the United States.
"But does Russia need navy ships of this class? The General Staff is confident — most certainly, as Russia does not have this kind of technology," Russia's state-run newspaper Pravada reported.


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ACES AGAINST JAPAN II The American Aces Speak Eric Hammel Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed Aces Against Japan, leading combat historian Eric Hammel comes through again with an engrossing new collection of thirty-eight first-person accounts by American World War II fighter aces. Coupled with a clear overview of America's far-flung air war against Japan and a clear appreciation of the burgeoning industrial might backing the American war effort, Hammel's detailed interviews bring forth the most thrilling in-the-cockpit experiences that World War II's fabled Army, Navy, Marine, and Flying Tiger aces have chosen to tell. Ride with 2d Lieutenant Jack Donalson as he downs three Zeros over Luzon on the second desperate day of World War II in the Philippines. Share three lonely air battles over Burma and China with Flying Tiger aces RT Smith, Dick Rossi, and Joe Rosbert. Hear the cry of victory as 2d Lieutenant Don McGee survives yet another encounter with Zeros over embattled Port Moresby, New Guinea, in his substandard P-39 Airacobra. Feel your heart beat with anxiety as an injured Ensign Ed Wendorf races against time to land his damaged Hellcat aboard the USS Lexington before he bleeds to death. And thrill to the hunt as Pearl Harbor veteran 1st Lieutenant Frank Holmes seeks personal revenge against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on one of history's most important and most thrilling fighter missions. The American Aces Speak series is a highly charged five-volume excursion into life and death in the air, told by men who excelled and triumphed in aerial combat and lived to tell about it. In sum, it is an emotional rendering of what brave airmen felt and how they fought in the now-dim days of America's living national history. These are America's eagles, and the stories are their own, in their very own words. Eric Hammel is an acclaimed military historian and author of more than thirtyy other combat histories, including Pacifica Military History's Guadalcanal: Starvation Island, Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea, Six Days in June, The Root: The Marines in Beirut, Ambush Valley, Fire in the Streets, and Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds. He lives with his wife in northern California.


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Precyse University Partners with athenahealth to Provide Comprehensive ICD-10 Education to Physician Practices, Clinics and Ambulatory Settings
Mar 26, 2014, 09:00 ET from Precyse
WAYNE, Pa. and ALPHARETTA, Ga., March 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Precyse University, the most innovative, complete and widely adopted on-site, online and mobile ICD-10 education solution, available exclusively through HealthStream, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc. as part of athenahealth's More Disruption Please (MDP) program. Together, the companies will work to link athenahealth's growing network of more than 50,000 health care providers with the capabilities of Precyse University so they can more efficiently prepare their staffs for the transition to ICD-10 in October 2014. The Precyse/HealthStream solution for ICD-10 education is now used by approximately 1.2 million learners in health care organizations.
"Precyse University delivers a powerful tool for physician practices," said Thomas Ormondroyd, Vice President and General Manager of Precyse Learning Solutions. "Although ICD-10 seems daunting and burdensome, it actually offers tremendous opportunity to optimize reimbursement, minimize denials and appeals and improve clinical care through more valuable and detailed data. Our solutions are designed to ease the change to ICD-10 and have physicians and their staffs ready for its arrival."
athenahealth is a cloud-based services company on a mission to build an information backbone to help make health care work as it should. Through the MDP program, athenahealth is accelerating the introduction of high-value innovation via the cloud, providing new services to help providers thrive in the face of industry change and pressure. MDP partners with innovators, entrepreneurs, companies, investors, and individuals—those who are passionate about overthrowing established approaches in health care that simply aren't working, aren't good enough, or aren't advancing the industry. Unlike other health care startup incubators, MDP invites qualified companies like Precyse to gain access to the more than 50,000 providers that are already plugged into athenahealth's cloud-based network.
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Auto insurers' spending on marketing has increased substantially over the past 10 years, but a report by the consulting firm McKinsey questions whether the industry is spending too much to attract too few customers.
In a report released yesterday titled, "Beyond Price: The Rise of Customer-Centric Marketing in Insurance," the consulting group says that over the past 10 years, the marketing spend by U.S. personal-lines insurers rose from $1.7 billion to $5.9 billion in 2011.
All of that spending, the report says, is targeted at just 30 percent of auto-insurance buyers who are most price-sensitive and least loyal.
"For a small number of individual carriers, the marketing arms race has yielded gains in market share," the report says. "These winners are likely to continue to thrive in the current marketing paradigm. But the industry as a whole is treading water; some carriers are spending heavily for broad brand recognition and have little to show for it."
Based on the findings from the McKinsey Auto Insurance Buyer Survey in June of 2012, the report says the industry retention rate was over 90 percent in 2011.
Tanguy Catlin, principal with McKinsey, and one of the authors of the report, says the main purpose of the study is to raise the issue with insurers and begin a conversation with executives about their spending and expectations for growth.
Catlin acknowledges that the marketing spend has produced "significant value" for the top-five U.S. insurers, as these brands are the first to come to mind among consumers when they go shopping for insurance.
Among those consumers who do choose to look for a new carrier, 40 percent utilize digital and social media to influence their buying decisions, up from just 10 percent in 1998.
Catlin says instead of trying to beat the major insurers at their own spending game, smaller carriers should concentrate their efforts on niche opportunities.
"We strongly believe that there are other needs out in the marketplace that are not being addressed and that is a bigger opportunity for insurers," says Catlin.


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A call for volunteers brought some 170 people to the Boatwright Sports Complex on Saturday to plant 56 trees. Bob Baker from the city of Concord, above left, carries a potted sapling from a trailer to one of the pre-dug holes where volunteers were ready for planting. A group of young people, above right, work at the mulch pile, filling buckets with the bark that is used around the newly planted trees. Jeremy Amos, top photo, of Clayton, and his daughter Kate Amos, 13, do their part in the community planting, which is part of "Invest from the Ground Up," a project of the California Urban Forests Council. Project coordinator Chris Llata said Concord was awarded a grant to cover the cost of the trees, stakes and ties, but needed community help to get them in the ground.


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EFL Cup round-up: Fulham edge past Middlesbrough, as Sunderland steal narrow win
Lasse Vigen Christensen's extra-time goal gave Championship side Fulham a deserved 2-1 victory over Premier League Middlesbrough to reach the third round of the EFL Cup.
Fulham, who made 10 changes for the tie at Craven Cottage, had to recover from conceding a goal after only eight minutes to David Nugent.
But they fought back superbly after the break as Julien De Sart's 54th-minute own goal and Christensen's dramatic 113th-minute strike sent Slavisa Jokanovic's men through to the delight of the home crowd.
Elsewhere, Adnan Januzaj's first goal for Sunderland handed David Moyes his maiden competitive victory as the Black Cats edged past League One Shrewsbury and into the third round.
The 21-year-old needed 83 minutes of a largely turgid cup-tie to find his range, blasting a right-footed shot past keeper Jayson Leutwiler to spare a crowd of just 13,979 at the Stadium of Light further punishment on a night when victory was the only option.
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At street level, guests revel and roar in downtown's corner hub barleymash. But down below hides an underground oasis of sleek and sexy style. For intimate drinking and lounging, plunge downstairs into ginger's, a martini bar tucked below all the barley.
Inside of ginger's, warm paintings embellish the thick brick walls as dark curtains frame the space. This "deliciously dirty secret" is open seven nights a week, from 5pm to 2am. Head down for noteworthy drinks and a lounge-style experience that oozes sophistication and intrigue.
At the bar, a wide selection of martinis can be sipped and savored. Savvy bartenders can whip up the classics like dirty martinis and cosmos, but they can also create an array of signature drinks. Try the Ginger made with Skyy Ginger Vodka, maraschino liquor, fresh lemon, strawberry and of course, ginger. To pair, the ginger's food menu boasts organic, sustainable and locally produced ingredients with everything made from scratch.
ginger's also hosts live entertainment, setting a swanky ambiance and soundtrack for guests to enjoy. During game days, the nine flat-screen televisions are either stacked three-by-three for one main event or display nine different screens, so you won't miss a beat.
ginger's is located at 600 5th Avenue in downtown San Diego.