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Printing to a printer on an XP system
I have a DesignJet 450c printer/plotter networked via a netgear printserver. There are no Windows 7 drivers for this printer. Is there a way to use one of my XP systems as a server for this printer? Usually I copy my file from the Win 7 system to the XP system and print from there. Is there a better way?
I can print from XP mode on my Windows 7 (64bit) system.
Thanks in advance.
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Is there a Vista driver you could try on Win7
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Windows 10, Home Clean Install
Welcome Paul
If the Vista driver does not work. Go to the priner website. Save the driver to your documents folder and then right click on it and install in compatiblity mode.
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No Vista driver
Unfortunatly the vista driver for this family no longer includes the model I have, the 450c, so that wont work. I can use the driver for a similar printer in Vista mode but it wont print in color.
The driver for XP from the vendor only unpacks the files which only includes an OEM setup file and a bunch of HP_ and DL_ files. I cant seem to find a place where compatability mode is allowed.
Using the OEM setup file yields an error and does not provide a compatability mode option.
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The North Central Association is composed of all organized and recognized North American Baptist Churches in the northern part of South Dakota, all of North Dakota and eastern Montana. There are currently 35 churches that belong to the North Central Association.
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They didn't perform their freestyle that I recall, but the actual episode they were eliminated they got to perform their waltz after they were announced as leaving (which if I remember was the waltz they performed the previous night). Starting in season 9, nearly every couple came on and performed a new dance vs one they did in the season. They let Tom Delay come out and perform the two step (which I believe is the only reason it got added in the first place; then he dropped out the episode before due to an injury).Originally Posted by nikkij_26;4108721;
I do like that Brandy/Maks have gotten on Team Kyle (or Schmurgles). He is everything that Maks said, which is why he'll be my season 10 underdog/most improved/came in at the biggest disadvantage.


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Firefighters fought a blaze at a vacant two-story building Saturday night, authorities said.
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Last night I parked it in the driveway with no problems, today I went to start it and I get these items realys/items clicking like mad.
Fuel Pump Relay
ADS Relay
AC Cluch Relay
EGR Solonoid
Engine will not crank or start, when you turn to start you get an even louder clicking like the battery is low or dead (My obvious first fix was to charge the battery) I have tried removing the relays and reseating, also removing the negitive post for a hour or so. ECU?
Trouble codes were 100 and 100.6?
Any help would be GREAT! Thanks!
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Like a few other bloggers today, this morning I received an email from Funcom offering a bunch of benefits to encourage me to resubscribe to Age of Conan.
These range from some free time to give the game another go, to a beta spot in The Secret World in exchange for a three month subscription. For longer subscriptions there are also additional benefits.
Quite honestly, I find myself a little tempted by this offer. Even the concept of paying for a guaranteed place in the TSW beta doesn't bother me all that much, after all if it helps what is looking like a very interesting game make it out the door, then what's wrong with a little creative fund raising. And if I choose not to resub for three months, then I still have a chance to get in to the beta free of charge.
Where the temptation gets a bit more help is that I have always intended to return to Age of Conan at some point. I was planning on giving Funcom a chance to get their game systems working properly, add some more content, and apply some polish. From all accounts this has happened, but I also understand that there are still problems. Still, it's been on my mind recently.
The big drawback to resubbing to Age of Conan, for me at least, is that there is so much gaming going on for me at the moment. There's Dragon Age, Torchlight, Everquest 2 (having some problems there though), Fallen Earth, and a dabbling of DDO. Adding another game to the mix is problematic, especially considering I'll be looking at getting my freelancing business going again from December. I may need to pull back from some gaming at that time anyway.
Personally, I think Funcom has jumped the gun with this offer a little bit.
They've picked a time when gamers have so much to choose from, and with more releases coming for the Christmas season, they've got a lot of competition to draw people back who weren't all that happy with it in the first place.
It may have been better for Funcom to make this offer sometime in the new year when gaming is a bit quieter.


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Story & photo by Chelsea Martin
Edward Townley is appreciative of
plenty things—most importantly
his life. Townley suffered a
massive heart attack on Jan. 10, and
Chandler Regional Medical Center,
with the use of the world's smallest
heart pump, the Abiomed Impella 2.5,
managed to save his life.
Death having come in such close
proximity, Townley says he is thankful
every single day that he is alive.
"I remember it like it was
yesterday. I went to the store and
came back home, put the dinner on the
counter, and sat down and thought, I'm
not feeling right. Three minutes later, I
was feeling awful so I opened the front
door, called 911, and waited."
Although Townley disregarded
early signs of trouble a year before, he
hardly missed a beat when he felt the
attack coming on.
William Orlowski, director of
Chandler Regional's Cardiac Catheter
lab, explained that if Townley had
waited any longer, it's likely he would
have not made it.
"What he did was perfect," said
Orlowski. "He knew something was
wrong right away, and that's what
saved him," Orlowski said.
"If we can learn anything from
this situation, it's that more people
dealing with chest pains need to act
on that immediately and go to the
hospital. Never wait—it might be too
Even with Townley's speedy
response to the signs of his attack,
the Impella 2.5 and the cardiologist,
Ahtisham Shakoor, got much of the
credit for saving his life.
Said Townley of his role in the
lifesaving procedure:
"I was just a passenger on a bus."
The Abiomed Impella 2.5 is a
heart pump that is 1/100th the size
of the human heart and smaller than
the width of a pencil. During an
angioplasty, it pulls blood from the left
ventricle through an inlet area near
the groin and expels blood from the
catheter into the ascending aorta.
Pumps in the Impella platform
can deliver 2.5 to 5 liters of blood
flow per minute and does not require
"The device alleviates the pressure
and allows the patient's heart to rest,"
Shakoor said. "After three days, Ed's
arteries luckily opened up and the
device allowed him enough time to
Over the past decade, there have
been significant strides in medical
research, disease treatment and the
overall improvements of patients'
quality of life.
The Impella 2.5 is no exception.
"Ed's story truly is a great one,"
Shakoor said. "The technology we now
have in 2014 is incredible. With the use
of the technology and Ed's willingness
to fight to survive, we are so lucky we
were able to keep him alive. Most of
the time patients that have severely
blocked arteries like Ed, they typically
don't make it."
Shakoor added:
"He is one of our success stories."
Although not all hospitals in the
area are capable of providing the use of
the expensive, progressive technology,
Townley says he is grateful Chandler
Regional was within a close proximity
to his home.
"We are just so happy he made
it," Shakoor said. "Saving a life is an
incredible feat."
The triumphant procedure is a
big leap for Chandler Regional, gaining
one extremely pleased patient—and
the promise of more such lifesaving
opportunities—in the process.
"I feel remarkably well and it's all
because of these incredible people and
advanced technology," Townley said.
"Looking at these tiny devices, it is
truly amazing what has been done. It's
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" Brand: Paladone / Type: Brush / Category: Cleaning Products & Utensils > Bucket, Broom, Brush etc. "
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This was another one the items in my Christmas goodies from Dooyoo, and I think the hardest to review. I'm afraid I never was much into Punk Rock - but this fellow ( at least I think it is fellow) is about as stereotypical as you can get, knee high doc martins, tartan trousers, dog collar and wild pink mohawk. This is obviously meant for a gag gift, perhaps for an aging punk rock fan, but our pink haired friend is not just a pretty face. Well he isn't a pretty face at all, but he is useful. His hair is very thick stiff bristles which are designed to scrub clean your puts and pans. The plastic body makes a pretty comfortable handle so you could scrub away without breaking nails, and I imagine it would be easier on your hands as well.
Now if you have read this far, you are likely asking why I said imagine. Haven't I actually tried this product before reviewing it? Well, in this case, no, I have not. at least I have not tried it as it was meant to be used.
You see pink hair might be meant for scrubbing away pots and pans, but his bristly head also happens to just perfectly fit into all the creases of my vacuum cleaners filter. So rather than cleaning up the dishes, I use this whenever I empty the canister, to quickly brush away all the dust and debris that accumulates in the filter. But if I used this for greasy pots and pans, I don't think it would work for my filter anymore, so he hasn't had a chance to give the pots and pans a good old fashioned Glasgow Kiss.
It really completely cleans the filter in no time, which I assume reduces all the dust and dirt going back into my home. Before being appropriated for the vacuum filter, I also found this rather handy for brushing out my keyboard, which once again has a fair number of toast crumbs thanks to my rather messy husband. I did find the bristles did a nice job of getting the stuff out from under the keys.
My first thoughts were to give this a fairly low rating, mainly because I would not really buy this, and it just seems a bit silly to me. Yes, I find it very handy for cleaning the hoover, but a low cost plain brush would do just as well, and I am afraid I do find this a bit ugly. But in all fairness, it is well made, and anyone who buys it can judge for themselves whether it is ugly or unique. As a gag gift, I could see this being OK for someone who really likes punk rock - or maybe even just to get a laugh and give to someone who despises things like this. I find £5.99, the price to buy this from Amazon a bit dear, but I can't mark it down too much for that either as you can decide for yourself if this is worth the price. I suppose it all boils down to your sense of taste, but sadly this just does not appeal to mine.
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Review for Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA
I met Tate at a wonderful event at her place.
i have had the opportunity to meet her and speak with her on organization.
We are working together to get some more things going to help her in her wonderful cause to help children with their ambitions and dreams.
I grew up in that area and to see what she is doing brings hope in an area where it has long died and all but forgotten by others.
Her passion and dedication is unparalleled and to have the opportunity to work with her is a privilege.
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Team Places Biron, Asham on Waivers
GREENBURGH, N.Y.—Glen Sather looked like a very busy man at noon on Monday, trudging up a set of stairs to watch the scuffling Rangers practice, then scrambling right back down a half-hour later, a cellphone pressed to his left ear.
Sather, the Rangers' general manager, had apparently already decided to place popular backup goaltender Martin Biron and veteran forward Arron Asham on waivers. That may not seem like such big news, but...


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Yesterday we completed another 2 day MOSS 2007 bootcamp (held in Fourways, Johannesburg), and the general feedback was that it was a fantastic event. Not only did the delegates love the content and labs, but they found the networking opportunities to be very valuable to.
I did promise that the slides which were used would be published today, and so please us this link to download the PPTs off of my SkyDrive
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Festool has just updated their Rotex micro site with more information and pictures of their new geared sander, the first of its kind. If you missed our earlier post on the tool, the deal is that the sander has three distinct modes; an aggressive one which Festool likens to a grinder, a standard orbital mode, and a delta mode which requires switching out the circular pad for a triangular one (similar to an oscillating sander).
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I'm just me,a regular guy,who happens to love bikes,of all kinds.
I live in Virginia (for now),and as much as I hate this,I've been a (using the term loosely) professional driver since the middle of '95 (...CDL stands for Can't Drive a Lick:innocent::roflmao2:).
Hopefully,tho,my wife will earn enuff after finnishing school next summer that I can hang up my driving gloves,and live at least a car-lite lifestyle,in another place,and maybe further my own edumication.But for now,I guess I'm a "weekend warrior",only riding pavement when I can't get to the trails.
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text: There's a new list of "movies you should never watch with your parents." I guess it could go in the reverse as well…"movies you should never watch with your kids." I remember my parents took me with them to see "Officer and a Gentlemen". They probably didn't have a babysitter. I just looked it up and that movie came out in 1982, when I was nine. I didn't want to go just as much as they probably didn't want to take me. As soon as Debra Winger's shirt came off, we immediately left the theater. I don't remember much besides leaving and being really embarrassed. A boob!! GASP. I think even now at the age of 40, there are some movies I would NOT want to watch with my parents, especially my dad. "40-Year-Old Virgin" would definitely make my list and "Black Swan", especially that ONE scene would be up there. Others said "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", "There's Something About Mary", "Superbad" and "Borat." Help me add to the list. What movies would you never want to see with your kids/parents??? To see the original article, click here.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Baptist Healthcare System, which operates a network of hospitals and other facilities throughout the state, is looking to expand the number of clinics it operates inside select Walmart locations, according to a local news report.
Baptist Healthcare System currently operates six Baptist Express Care clinics at six Walmart stores in the state.
According to Business First of Louisville, the healthcare system is looking to open 24 clinics in such areas as Middletown and Shelbyville, Nicholasville and Somerset, Ky.
"I really see these as a piece of the puzzle for healthcare reform that really has not been developed as far as it needs to be yet," Tim Marcum, director of planning for Baptist Hospital East, was quoted as saying in Business First of Louisville. "We're trying to go along that route."


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Asher "Red" Burns, 83
May 19th, 2011 Author: Administrator Filed Under: Obituaries
Asher "Red" Burns, 83, of died May 8, 2011.
He was preceded in death by siblings Pearl Back, Homer, Brown, Carlis, Albert Burns.
He is survived by his wife Carol Sue Burns; children Rebecca Daniel, Billie Ketaner, Richard Russell, Joseph Russell, Kathy Hamilton; 11 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; sister Ruby Reed.
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Yet to play their best hockey, the Calgary Flames are on the brink of their best start to a season.
With one more victory Saturday night against the Edmonton Oilers, the current version would match the most impressive 10-game march set by the 2001-02 Flames in what, coincidentally, also happened to be an Olympic year.
That edition of the Flames set a 7-2-1 foundation, but couldn't keep the pace and finished out of the playoffs with 32 wins, 35 regulation losses, three more in overtime, and a dozen ties.
As well, they lost their 11th game after that start, meaning if this year's Flames win the next two, they set a benchmark.
This year's group will likely flirt with 50 wins -- something only accomplished by the franchise once back in their Stanley Cup winning season of 1988-89.
Predicting such a fantastic finish isn't based on any mathematical formula.
Racking up their impressive record thus far thanks to a potent offence that has had no trouble making up for the free-agent losses of Michael Cammalleri and Todd Bertuzzi, you can only imagine how much easier it will be to earn victories when the defensive side of Brent Sutter's system finally becomes habitual.
Starting this season with 13 of a possible 18 points is a direct result of the depth the Flames boast.
They find themselves tied with the deadly New York Rangers atop the NHL with 35 goals through nine games -- an average of 3.89 per contest -- and the Flames have yet to outshoot an opponent.
Jarome Iginla started that 2001-02 season with five goals and eight points in his first 10 games, spurring him to capture the Art Ross and Rocket Richard trophies with a 52-goal, 96-point campaign.
He was a one-man show back then. With three points in the Flames' 6-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets Tuesday, Iginla nearly doubled his early season production to jump into the team's top three.
But he isn't being leaned on to lead the offence anymore. His timely contributions are considered a bonus these days.
Rene Bourque leads the Flames with 11 points. Nine members of the team have at least two goals, and defenceman Dion Phaneuf is setting the early pace with five.
Only three regulars have yet to score -- defencemen Cory Sarich and Robyn Regehr, and Craig Conroy. All but seventh defenceman Aaron Johnson, who made his Flames debut Tuesday, have at least a point.
But forget about the spread of scoring that has guys like Mark Giordano, Freddie Sjostrom, Nigel Dawes, Brandon Prust, Brian McGrattan, Eric Nystrom and Dustin Boyd all just a few points apart.
It's the defensive side of things that will take them to the elite class of hockey clubs they've been striving for since teasing this city with a Stanley Cup final appearance in 2004.
"These guys have worked hard. It's been an adjustment period for all of them," head coach Brent Sutter said.
"Their commitment is there and we've been able to find ways to win. We've been able to score goals, but we know we've got to keep our goals against down."
It's getting there.
Six of the last eight goals against the Flames have come on special teams. In five-on-five action, their defensive confidence has been on the upswing, and it hasn't stopped them from scoring, either.
"Brent did say when he came in, it's not one or the other," said Iginla. "His goal with us was to get better defensively and be better positionally, but it wasn't gonna take away from the offence."
The way things are going, even if they fail to match their best start, the Flames could be in for their best finish.


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Routine Test Saves a Life
By Tim Pompey
46-year-old Kellie Tyndall was enjoying some good luck in her life for a change. After struggling with unemployment, she had finally found a full-time job with Interface Children & Family Services last March in Camarillo. As an extra benefit, the job included health insurance.
Tyndall was encouraged by her coworkers to go in and have a routine wellness check. As part of that check, her doctor scheduled her to have her first ever mammogram.
It turned out that the test may have saved her life. Tyndall had the mammogram on a Friday and received a call the next day requesting that she come in for a follow-up. "I was shocked when I got the initial phone call to come back," said Tyndall. "The lady called me and asked if I would come in Monday and see a specialist. Obviously it was concerning."
Tyndall took some time to digest the news, but eventually agreed to see a specialist. "There was a cluster of cells that were questionable breast tissue," she said. "They scheduled me for a stereo biopsy."
After the biopsy, her doctor gave her the bad news. "On a Friday afternoon, I went in to see my doctor. He told me the cells were cancerous and he wanted to schedule an appointment with a surgery clinic to weigh my options."
Tyndall described her emotional reaction to all this surprising news. "I was in a state of shock up to the time of the surgery," she said. "When you hear cancer, it feels almost like a death sentence. You don't know how bad it is until you get in there."
Because of the location of the cancer in her chest and left breast, she opted for a double mastectomy. She had surgery April 26. Today, minus radiation or chemotherapy, she has been diagnosed as cancer free.
Looking back, she realizes how lucky she was. "I had no symptoms," said Tyndall. "I went in for a routine checkup and everything came back normal. The only thing that let me know about the cancer was the mammogram. I'm alive today because of a routine mammogram."
Tyndall feels that it's crucial for cancer patients to give their friends and family members permission to acknowledge cancer. "It's important for people to realize that it's not a death sentence," she said. "It gives them a sense of empowerment to talk about it."
That's why she decided to be open with others about her cancer treatment. She sent out an email to her coworkers announcing that she had cancer. She also created a Facebook page and received a huge amount of encouragement.
The resulting support made her realize that she had a network of friends and family to rely on. She also realized that she had an important message to share. "I work with a large group of women and I felt it was important to share what was going on with me because one in four women will have breast cancer."
As for those dreaded mammograms, Tyndall encourages women to be vigilant about scheduling the test. "Please have one," she said. "Don't put it off because it's uncomfortable or you don't have time."
As a cancer survivor, Tyndall's perspective has been dramatically altered. "You do have a life changing experience when you feel like you're close to dying," she explained. "It kind of gives you the freedom to say and do what you want to do."
Tyndall has come to appreciate spending time with the people she loves. "It was a wake-up call," she admits, "but I'm happy to be here. I just want to enjoy what time I have and to have quality time not quantity. Quality time means to live in the moment and to enjoy that moment."


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An Even More Beautiful Lie (GN)
Title: An Even More Beautiful Lie
Volume: GN
Pages: 200
Distributor: Digital Manga Publishing
Release date: 2011-09-13
Suggested retail price: $12.95
Age rating: 16+
When art student Kurosu Keiichiro notices a young man leaving his umbrella on the train, he runs after him to return it. In so doing, he ends up missing his last train home. Feeling responsible, the young man offers his place for the night. Turns out, he's a fellow student at Keiichiro's university, one Yukari Yohito, and he's already garnered considerable attention for his artwork. Yukari may be a genius with paints and a canvas, but Keiichiro soon discovers he's completely hopeless at everything else.
Striking up a friendship, Keiichiro begins coming by to take care of things for Yukari. The more he involves himself in Yukari's life, however, the deeper Keiichiro's feelings begin to run. It's no longer mere friendship or even admiration that moves him, but just what should he do about it?
Story and art by Kei Kanai.
(added on 2011-09-12, modified on 2011-09-12)
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Jose Mourinho will reportedly snub Paris Saint-Germain because he is still harbouring hopes of becoming the Manchester United manager.
Reports on Tuesday have suggested the Portuguese tactician, who has been out of work since leaving Chelsea earlier in the season, has been approached by the French champions about replacing Laurent Blanc at the end of the campaign.
PSG have subsequently refused to comment on the claims, while it seems Mourinho would be non-committal anyway because, as he has previously said, he would prefer a job which keeps him in England.
The former Inter Milan and Real Madrid boss would be given a huge salary and a massive war-chest to try and bring the Champions League trophy to the French capital if he did agree to take over at the Parc des Princes.
But with the future of United's current boss Louis van Gaal still in doubt, it appears Mourinho will wait until the Old Trafford hierarchy make a decision on the Dutchman in the summer and then weigh up his own options.
As we reported on Monday some sources are claiming he has agreed a three-year deal with United while it's being mooted that he will try and sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic when his PSG contract expires at the end of the season, along with Benfica's Renato Sanches, and Everton's John Stones if and when he is installed at Old Trafford.


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Australopithecus afarensis
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3.9 to 3 million years ago
Apelike arms; spine, pelvis, and lower limbs suited for an upright stance and two-legged gait
Australopithecus afarensis is the species made famous by Lucy, a 3.18millionyearold partial skeleton found at Hadar, Ethiopia. You see more reduced canines and slightly thickened enamel, but afarensis still features a protruding, chimplike jaw, and its brain is only slightly larger than a chimpanzees. It has slightly longer arms and shorter legs than a human does, but its proportions are very much like those of a human. It has relatively curved fingers and toes.
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How To Properly Dispose of Used Fireworks
You don't want to end your Independence Celebration with a fire. And with temps in the high 90's, our yards and fields have been turned into kindling.
There are a few, simple things you can do with your fireworks to reduce the chance of something catching fire after you dispose of your fireworks.
One of the single best piece of advice I have ever been given was from a former firefighter.
- Fill a small tub or metal bucket with water and put all spent fireworks into it. Let them soak overnight before throwing them away.
Some other helpful tips:
- Remove wicks from unused or misfired fireworks before soaking in water.
- Don't put fireworks in recycle bins.
- Fireproof containers are recommended for disposal but at the very least, double bag them.
- Never dispose of fireworks in a bonfire. There may be unspent explosive material in the firework. It seems like a no brainer but people have done it.
If you have any questions, contact the fire department. They're trained and educated in all things combustible. They'll likely know the answer or be able to point you in the right direction.


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Review for Harvest Ministries of Roswell, Roswell, NM, USA
Harvest Ministries is one of those ministries where there is more than meets the eye. Although it is primarily concerned with meeting people's phyiscal needs by providing food, it also serves to meet people's emotional and spiritual needs as well. Harvest volunteers seek to ministry the love the Jesus to its client's above all things. They desire not only to meet people's physical needs with food, but their emotional need that all people have to be loved. They try to show each and every client that no matter their need, Jesus loves and cares for them, and so do the people of Harvest Ministries. Harvest also tries to meet the spiritual needs of people by ministering the message of forgiveness of sin by the sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ on their behalf. The volunteers seek to help people find forgiveness and healing in Jesus and a relationship with the Creator that made and gave His Son to redeem them. The Harvest Center is amazingly designed to meet the needs of its clients and the staff and volunteers are trained well to support its individual clients needs.
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NVIDIA Optimus Technology: Performance and Battery Life for your Notebook
Current Switchable Graphics Options
The current generation of switchable graphics was originally introduced in 2007 from both NVIDIA and AMD. At the time, IT was labeled as the "best of both worlds" just as Optimus is being called today, so obviously we need to scrutinize any and all claims. Before 2007, switchable graphics was even less impressive in that it had a physical or hardware switch on the notebook itself and it required a full system reboot. This was because the change was actually setting a BIOS option to switch between default graphics cards and only a reboot would allow the operating system to see the new graphics solution and utilize it.
Things did improve with the 2007 iteration as the switch process became a software-only operation. That did not mean it was seamless however; switching between the two graphics modes (integrated or discrete) would require the user to make a conscious decision that they would need to make the change. This might seem like an easy task for most PC Perspective readers but keep others in your life in mind when considering it. Would your mom, dad or sister really know that in order to play Sims 3 with the best experience that they would need to adjust something called a graphics card?
When you made that decision, the next step was to find the method to do so which varied from manufacturer to manufacturer and was called wildly different things. On the Mac, you had to enter into System Preferences then go into Energy Saver options and change between "high performance" and "longer battery" settings while on the ASUS UL50 we are comparing today you need to force the power profile from "Balanced" to "High Performance". The confusion amongst these options was definitely a problem for everyday consumers and for those of us that are supposed to be teaching them.
After both deciding to and actually switching the hybrid graphics mode, you might not even be done then. After some screen flickering (that will likely scare even the most hardcore users) and a 5-10 second wait, if you happen to have applications open that were using resources on the GPU, you'll have to close them. If you had a few browser windows open with a few tabs each and maybe were running Excel and sneaking some Solitaire, all of them would have to be shut down in order to actually enable the discrete GPU.
Let's take a look at this process on the current generation switchable graphics in what I would consider a "best case" scenario.
Here you can see the system is in IGP graphics mode, called "Save Power" - only a single of the NVIDIA logo arrows is illuminated. There is an indication that you can increase performance but there isn't much more information provided at a glance.
As we mentioned above, with this ASUS machine you can switch to discrete GPU mode by enabling the high performance profile.
However, because we had some programs open (as most consumers tend to do) we are notified that we haven't actually switched into high performance mode. By clicking the exclamation mark we get this information:
Well, isn't that intuitive. We need to close Solitaire and my YouTube video in order to run at higher performing setting.
After closing those applications and hitting the appropriate button in the dialogue box we get a flashing screen and this quickly seen indicator that we are moving into the world of the discrete graphics solution.
The change is now complete so we can re-open our applications and take advantage of the GPU. I don't think its a stretch to say that this is not the most user-friendly of processes. NVIDIA claims that less than 1% of users with switchable graphics actually take advantage of the feature - a surprising statistic that I somehow believe: I have two machines with switchable graphics that I have never changed out of IGP mode until this article testing required it.
Here is a video that goes over the annoying process of changing the GPU in a switchable graphics solution:
Current Switchable Graphics Architecture
The current array of switchable graphics options are a mish-mash of hardware and software that appears to have been hacked together. Take the software overview for example:
Because Windows Vista only allowed a single GPU driver to exist in the system at one time it required cooperation between the two graphics vendors in order to make one driver for the system to use. The "Display Driver Interposer" essentially would be interpreting information from the operating system and passing it on to the correct GPU depending on which mode the system was in - balance or high performance. This meant that drivers for each independent GPU (the IGP and discrete) could not be updated on their own and consumers that wanted to make sure they had the latest NVIDIA driver had to wait for their notebook vendor (and NVIDIA and Intel) to play nice and release it. Good luck with that, right?
The hardware situation wasn't any nicer; in fact notebook designers had to deal with additional hardware multiplexers between the displays (both integrated and external connections) and both GPU options.
These muxes electrically changed which graphics solution was connected to the displays based on the current configuration of the system. This is what caused the flickering of the screen for the user and also forced additional design consideration and added cost for the OEMs.
This design is basically a hassle to the consumer and a hassle to the hardware vendor and people on both sides could really utilize an improvement in the technology.
Thanks for the review. This Nvidia Optimus technology looks set to change how we view battery performance in the the future. If the optimus promises to deliver what it claims to be able to, by extending battery life without sacrificing any performance at all, it could put a lot of other technologies out of business.
I personally got rid of my notebook with optimus technology and sold it on ebay for nearly the same price as i bought it. I can advise you to do the same. NVIDIA is doing promises but in fact they do not fix the problem. You can wait forever for the fix. I am owning now a sony vaio with ATI Radeon card, it was cheaper than my ASUS and now PES, GTA IV and other games are running perfectly. No tweaks, patches and other work is needed to play those games. Just think about it!
proof you're a fucking moron
The ability to switch performance is a welcomed one for many laptop users. Professionals who do not need the high video quality but need longer battery life would welcome that addition. No longer is it about lowering the lights of the screen in order to conserve energy.
Get real.
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Maruti Suzuki S-Cross prices in Surendranagar Dudhrej
Prices of the Maruti Suzuki S-Cross in Surendranagar Dudhrej start at Rs. 8.49 Lakh (Ex-showroom). The S-Cross is available in 4 variants and 5 colours. Maruti Suzuki S-Cross Sigma 1.3 is the base variant while the S-Cross Alpha 1.3 is the top-end variant. The base Maruti Suzuki S-Cross comes priced at ₹ 8.49 Lakh and the top-end Maruti Suzuki S-Cross car price in Surendranagar Dudhrej is ₹ 11.29 Lakh. Maruti Suzuki S-Cross on-road price in Surendranagar Dudhrej includes registration, insurance, road tax, and other charges. Visit your nearest Maruti Suzuki dealer in Surendranagar Dudhrej to test drive the S-Cross or make a request to book the Maruti Suzuki S-Cross. To know the prices of the Maruti Suzuki S-Cross after GST in Surendranagar Dudhrej, please contact your nearest Maruti Suzuki dealership.
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Belgium on Track
Belgium may be a small country, but it's ideally located in the heart of Europe and boasts some of its most hidden gems.
And, train travel in Belgium is easy since it's primarily a regional system that takes you from location to location in no time at all. You can conveniently connect to the rails from Brussels National Airport and journey to fashion conscious Antwerp, historic Bruges, and museum-rich Charleroi even if you only have a day to spare. First class accommodations are available at your choosing.
Brussels is also an ideal hub if you want to experience Northern Europe, from the serenity of the North Sea beaches to the buoyant European capitals. Cologne, Amsterdam, London, and Paris are all accessible in less than three hours. And riding the rails for day trips from Brussels is highly economical, considering what you'd pay for a hotel stay in London or Paris.
You can hop on and hop off domestic Belgian trains with a valid pass or ticket. If you prefer to use one of the hi-speed services that link Brussels to its European counterparts (think Eurostar, Thalys, ICE, or TGV International), be sure to have a reservation. Reservations are always included in tickets sold by Rail Europe, but must be purchased separately if you have a rail pass. Need to make a reservation? You can do so here.
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October 11, 2013
Transformation Sunnyside volunteer Rosie Haak helps Don Underwood harvest some peppers from the community garden, or youth ranch. Underwood takes the peppers and distributes them to his neighbors who are unable to get out on their own.
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Revising Wyoming's campaign finance laws is on the agenda for Wyoming legislators this session. Right now, Wyoming law prohibits corporations and unions from spending directly on campaigns—and this goes against last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the landmark "Citizens United" case, which essentially barred the government from limiting political spending by corporations.
However, some in Wyoming are advocating that lawmakers include a public reporting requirement to the proposed law currently on the table. Dan Neal with the Equality State Policy Center:
He adds that if the state law doesn't include specifics on reporting, a company, even one from another country, can set up a dummy nonprofit with a misleading name and hide behind that name:
The current legislation under consideration is listed as Senate File 0003, (SF 0003). The bill was placed on General File Tuesday and will now move on to be considered by the Wyoming Senate.
You can track this and other legislation under consideration by the Wyoming legislator by going to: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/LSOW...


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Three Huts
One day in the South Pacific, a navy ship saw smoke coming from an uncharted island, where there appeared to be three huts. Upon arriving at the shore they were met by a shipwreck survivor. He said, "I'm so glad you're here! I've been alone on this island for more than five years!" The captain replied, "If you're … Continue Reading ››


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A Drive to Revive the Best Twitter App Ever
My favorite Twitter app ever is Birdfeed, a "very nice Twitter client." It was built by Buzz Andersen and it was indeed very nice. After using the new Twitter app, I think we need a very nice Twitter client more than ever.


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Dog waste disposal systems are great ways to compost your dog's waste while maintaining a clean yard. Basically a dog septic tank system, pet waste digesters work by using enzymes and bacteria to reduce your dog's waste into a ground absorbing liquid. One of the popular dog poop composter brands is the Doggie Dooley, but there are many types of waste digesters on the market. Most types contain foot-operated lid openers so you can easily pop the lid and release your poop scooper into the ground container. Doggie septic systems provide a sanitary, odorless, and clean way to dispose of dog waste.
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Take in the views from a rooftop terrace and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in the lobby.
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Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, multilingual staff, and luggage storage. A ferry terminal shuttle is provided at no charge, and free parking is available onsite.
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- This property offers transfers from the ferry terminal. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
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Candidates' views on ethanol could affect local farmers
Like it or not, the agricultural sector has gotten into the energy business.
Farmers now sell 32 percent of U.S. corn to the ethanol industry, so their future is tied up with ethanol�s future, at least for now, said Chris Hurt, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University in Indiana.
So when one presidential candidate proposes eliminating ethanol subsidies, it makes grain farmers nervous, Hurt said.
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have opposite views when it comes to ethanol subsidies, and those differences could have a big effect on farmers and ethanol investors, including those here in Rock County.
Obama supports maintaining tax credits given to oil companies when they blend ethanol with gas. The credit is now at 51 cents a gallon, though it�s scheduled to drop to 46 cents Jan. 1.
McCain supports energy alternatives but not ethanol subsidies, his campaign has said. He wants to let the free market determine the country�s use of ethanol.
�I have long opposed government subsidies for ethanol,� he told the Clean Cities Congress and Exposition in 2006. �Ethanol production, in my view, can and should stand on its own.�
And while that would be good news for ethanol opponents, it could be bad news to ethanol investors and corn farmers, Hurt said.
Government policy
The federal government has three basic policies when it comes to ethanol promotion, Hurt said:
-- The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandates the country increase its use of renewable fuels every year, up to 36 billion gallons in 2022 or roughly 20 percent of fuel demand.
-- It offers a tax credit of 51 cents a gallon for ethanol buyers�generally oil companies that blend ethanol into their gasoline.
-- It imposes a tariff of 54 cents a gallon on Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane, protecting the American ethanol industry.
McCain opposes all three policies, Hurt said.
Help or hurt?
The tax credit has had an effect on the price of ethanol and corn, Hurt said. Because of the credit, oil companies are willing to pay more for ethanol. In turn, ethanol producers are willing to pay more for the corn used to make ethanol.
Corn prices have soared over the last year, though experts debate how much of the increase is because of ethanol.
Hurt believes ethanol subsidies account for about $1.43 per bushel in the price of corn, he said.
If those subsidies were taken away, it could lower the demand for ethanol, especially if the price of oil continues to drop, he said. That could in turn lower the price of corn and hurt corn farmers.
�From where we are today, that would put the grain farmers in depression,� Hurt said.
But the inflated price of corn has already hurt other farmers, said Karen Schapiro, executive director of Midwest Environmental Advocates. As the price of corn increases, large corporate farms have rushed to buy land, driving up the price of farmland and making it harder for small farmers to compete, she said.
�By and large, we think the subsidies have benefited the big agribusinesses to the detriment of many more local or smaller farming operations.�
It�s also increased costs for livestock farmers who need corn to feed their animals, Hurt said.
Is it worth it?
Aside from the effects on farmers, the question remains if the government should be promoting the ethanol industry in the first place.
Joshua Morby, executive director of the Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance, says yes.
The government subsidies encourage consumers to buy ethanol instead of gas, reducing the country�s dependence on foreign oil and benefiting the local economy, he said.
�The Wisconsin ethanol industry also provides hundreds of jobs to the community; it provides millions of dollars in economic development in the state,� he said. �Do you want to get your gas from a Middle Eastern country on the other side of the world, or do you want to get your gas from a Wisconsin field?�
Schapiro, on the other hand, says no. Her organization opposes corn-based ethanol because it believes ethanol does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions and has contributed to the skyrocketing price of food worldwide.
�These businesses shouldn�t be subsidized,� she said.
No matter who wins the election, Hurt doesn�t believe ethanol subsidies will disappear all at once.
If McCain wins, he�d still have to convince Congress to eliminate the subsidies, tariffs and mandates.
Hurt believes the government will instead continue to reduce ethanol subsidies step by step. Meanwhile, more efficient forms of renewable energy, such as cellulosic ethanol, will start to overtake corn ethanol, he said.
Eventually, the government will tell the ethanol industry to stand on its own, he said. After that, market forces will determine the future of corn-based ethanol.
�Government helped an infant industry get established,� he said. �But it�s not the role of government to continue after that industry gets established, the ethanol industry gets established, to continue to help.�
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Vincent Brown has signed a four-year contract and will officially begin catching passes from Philip Rivers in Friday's training camp practice.
The signing of the wide receiver out of San Diego State leaves just first-rounder Corey Liuget and third-rounder Shareece Wright unsigned. But that could change soon, according to those familiar with the talks.
After a somewhat tense afternoon in which the Chargers told the agents for the trio that the players were no longer needed at camp until they signed their deals, talks resumed and deals were done. Even in the midst of that, all parties expressed optimism deals would be done soon.
Brown caught 209 passes for 3,110 yards and 23 touchdowns in his SDSU career. The receptions and yards place him third in school history and the touchdowns are fifth-most.
As a senior, Brown caught 69 balls for 1,352 yards and 10 touchdowns, ranking sixth in the nation with 104 yards per game.
He caught virtually every team's attention during an excellent week of Senior Bowl practices. The Chargers already had him on their radar before that week in January, and receivers coach Charlie Joiner was sold after seeing him at the Senior Bowl.
Rivers also became a believer when the two worked together in the spring.
"He really wanted to be in there to get off on the right foot," Brown's agent, Ken Sarnoff, said Thursday night.


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Introducing the new 13-inch MacBook Pro--the new standard for performance and portability
The new 13-inch MacBook Pro features advanced NVIDIA integrated graphics technology along with Intel Core 2 Duo processors that are faster than ever before. That makes for the ultimate combination of performance, portability and battery life--up to 10 hours--without adding an ounce to the slimmest, lightest MacBook Pro. And with 4GB of memory and larger hard drives now standard, this is the most powerful 13-inch MacBook Pro yet.
Faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors
Now reaching speeds up to 2.66GHz, the new processors in the 13-inch MacBook Pro are big on performance. With the 1066MHz frontside bus and 3MB of shared L2 cache, all your applications will run faster and more efficiently than you thought possible.
Experience a performance boost of up to 80% on previous MacBook generations when using graphic-intensive applications. View larger.
More powerful NVIDIA graphics
The 13-inch MacBook Pro features the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics processor with 48 processing cores--three times as many as before. The result? The fastest integrated graphics on the market and a performance boost of up to 80 percent over the previous generation. That makes a huge difference when you're using 3D games and graphics-intensive applications. And when you're not, you'll benefit from a new energy-efficient architecture that uses up to 40 percent less power for everyday tasks like writing email and surfing the web. It's so efficient, in fact, that you can now get up to 10 hours of battery life on a single charge.
A display of brilliance
Every MacBook Pro has a pristine LED-backlit display with wide-angle viewing and a colour gamut usually seen only on a desktop display. So whether you're watching a movie or making one, you've got the perfect canvas. The ultrathin, seamless glass enclosure makes the display strong and durable. And because it's power efficient and free of mercury and arsenic, this display is greener than ever. Ready for something even more brilliant?
Precision aluminium; the new gold standard
Carved from a single block of aluminium, the MacBook Pro is a true engineering achievement. Its patented unibody enclosure is the product of precise machining. From the thumbscoop to the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't sleep indicator, no detail is unaccounted for. The end result is a notebook that's not only breakthrough, but thin, light, polished and refined. The unibody also makes MacBook Pro more durable than ever. So you can throw it in your briefcase or messenger bag, and pull it out at an airport, at school, at the office or on location without a second thought.
The new MacBook Pro batteries last longer and perform better than ever before.
The longest-lasting Mac notebook battery ever
The new energy-efficient architecture in every MacBook Pro gives you dramatically longer battery life. On a single charge, the battery in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro lasts up to 10 hours, and you'll get up to 1000 full charge and discharge cycles--that's nearly three times the lifespan of typical notebook batteries. Advanced chemistry and Adaptive Charging allow the battery to maintain charging capabilities longer and determine the optimal way to charge the battery's cells. Because the battery lasts up to five years, MacBook Pro uses just one battery in the same time a typical notebook uses three. That makes for less waste. And that, in turn, makes for one environmentally friendly battery.
Even the keyboard is advanced
The rigid aluminium keyboard webbing has been cut precisely to hold the keys. And the keys are curved to perfectly fit fingers. The result? Pure typing bliss. The keyboard is also illuminated, so when you're in low-light settings, such as airplanes or conference rooms, you can always see what you're typing.
Be everywhere at once
Cleverly integrated--almost hidden--at the top of the MacBook Pro display is an iSight camera. Use it with iChat and you can be anywhere without actually being there. Video chat with up to three of your friends, share a video with a colleague, or present to a client. Use iSight with Photo Booth for fun photo effects. And there's no need to waste valuable primping time installing software or configuring the camera. Like everything Mac, iSight just works.
It all just clicks
The first thing you might notice--or not notice--about the MacBook Pro trackpad is the button. The entire trackpad is the button, so you can click anywhere. Without a separate button, the spacious trackpad gives your hands plenty of room to move on the large, silky glass surface. Use two fingers to scroll smoothly up and down a page with inertial scrolling. Pinch to zoom in and out. Rotate an image with your fingertips. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your photo libraries. Swipe with four fingers to show your desktop, view all open windows or switch applications. If you're coming from a right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad. The more you use the Multi-Touch trackpad, the more you'll wonder what you ever did without it.
Burn DVDs superfast
After editing and applying the finishing touches to your home movie masterpiece in iMovie and iDVD, use the ultrafast 8x SuperDrive on your MacBook Pro to burn it to DVD. And because the SuperDrive also writes to double-layer discs (DVDs with nearly 9GB of space), it's great for backing up data.
The Greenest MacBook ever
The new MacBook Pro embodies Apple's continuing environmental progress. It is designed with the following features to reduce environmental impact:
- Arsenic-free display glass
- BFR-free
- Mercury-free LED-backlit display
- PVC-free1
- Highly recyclable aluminium and glass enclosure
- Reduced packaging volume
- Meets ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 requirements
- Rated EPEAT Gold2
Your studio to go
With the latest 802.11n wireless technology built into MacBook Pro, you're always seamlessly and effortlessly connected to the wireless world out there, at home and at work. MacBook Pro automatically finds available networks and allows you to join them with just one click. Bluetooth wireless technology is also built in, so brilliant accessories can become your wireless accomplices. With a built-in battery that lasts longer than ever before, you can do everything you need to do, where you need to do it.
Ports with possibilities
The 13-inch MacBook Pro is iPod, iPhone, digital camera and external hard drive ready. If it has a cable, there's a place for it. You'll find two USB 2.0 ports and a FireWire 800 port for connecting faster peripherals.
The Mini DisplayPort delivers a pure digital connection to external displays--even large 30-inch displays--quickly and easily. It gives you plug-and-play performance with the Apple LED Cinema Display and supports VGA and DVI, as well as the latest multimedia standards such as DisplayPort and HDMI.
Transfer your photos and videos to and from your MacBook Pro just as fast as you're able to take them. Built into the 13-inch MacBook Pro is an SD card slot, so you can edit and share your photos and digital video on the spot.
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Press Release: IMF Mission Reaches Preliminary Agreement on PRGF-Supported Program for the Republic of Tajikistan
February 18, 2009Press Release No. 09/39
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission visited Dushanbe between February 5-18, 2009 and reached agreement in principle with the Tajik authorities on an economic program that can be supported by a three-year arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), providing support in an amount equivalent to about US$120 million. This agreement requires the approval of the IMF Executive Board, which is expected to consider the PRGF-supported program in early April.
The mission also reviewed performance under the 2008 Staff Monitored Program (SMP), and held discussions for the 2009 Article IV Consultations. Economic performance was generally strong in 2008, despite the spreading global crisis, and the SMP was completed successfully. Helped by strong macroeconomic policies and a 50 percent growth in remittances, real GDP grew by 8 percent. With buoyant revenues, the government achieved an estimated overall fiscal surplus (excluding the externally financed public investment program) of 1 percent of GDP. Inflation receded to 12 percent year-on-year in December, as international prices—especially food prices—eased.
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The movie follows a man, Jerry (Will Stewart), who seems to be a magnet for bad luck. Anything he touches turns to dust until one day he runs into an old woman, Alma (Carol Gustafson), and her dog one day while trying to sort out his tragic life. He's dirt poor, his girlfriend has left him, and his prospects for the future are nil. Through a series of coincidences, Alma is hurt and he attempts to get her help, even though he'd really like to just walk away from her, and he ends up in her good graces. He becomes her assistant, walking the dog and taking care of chores for the elderly lady, after which, her attractive (but married) daughter, Helen (Stepfanie Kramer), takes a personal shine to him. After all, he's good looking and charming yet no threat to anyone of substance. As she grows interested in Jerry, her teenage daughter, Susan (Nicki Aycox) does too and this makes for a love quadrangle that could only work in an independent movie made in California.
Okay, the characters, to a one, were not sympathetic or likeable yet for some reason, I wanted Jerry to come out ahead. He was a self-absorbed loser with low scruples and his immediate friends in the movie were streetwise but cold as ice, making him look almost human by comparison. The movie had no plot or direction, it seemed like a character study in futility towards a certain mindset (attacking a very Californian ideal of the aloof male), and perhaps being able to look at the worst humanity has to offer made my personal flaws seem small by comparison. Whatever the case, I couldn't turn away from the movie once the first fifteen minutes had played through. Those first minutes were crucial though since I was close to turning the movie off and writing it off.
The dark humor came into play almost immediately however and I stuck it out to see more. I'm glad I did since the rewards of the movie outweighed the slow spots (more than a few times I was thinking how much better this would've been with half of it on the editing room floor). There were no happy endings and cheerful reunions here; the cast was full of the worst the planet has to offer and the writing hit more than a few chords inside of me. Had the direction been a bit more focused, I'm sure I would've really liked this one although the supporting cast was not full of great actors either.
I'm rating this one as a Rent It for the various aspects director Duran got right, some of which were described above. It's a flawed movie, much like the characters, but it had more twists than you'd expect and rarely did they seem forced to me. It was low budget and looked it but still managed to convey a sense of bizarreness that isn't common these days.
Picture: The picture was presented in non-anamorphic widescreen with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The focus was slightly off at times and there was a bit more grain than usual but the video noise was minimal and I saw no compression artifacts. The colors were seemed accurate as well but the blacks weren't true black.
Sound: The audio was presented in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround English. There were no subtitles, closed captions, or foreign languages to clutter up the DVD. The vocals were fairly clear and the music tracks not bad for such a low budget release. There wasn't a lot of separation between the channels but the problems were minimal in most respects.
Extras: The best extra was a dozen outtakes that included an optional director audio commentary. While most of them barely rated "cute" a few were pretty interesting. There was also a trailer to the feature and a double-sided DVD cover. I would've really liked a full commentary track on the feature but it was a weird movie that might not have fared well under scrutiny such a track would lend.
Final Thoughts: The feature was interesting in a limited sort of way and had enough to suggest you check it out unless you're fixated on high-end production values. I wonder what Mr. Duran would be able to do if he were given a decent budget and more time to flesh out some of the ideas he worked on here.


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PER SERVING (entire recipe): 292 calories, 4.5g fat, 490mg sodium, 54g carbs, 5.5g fiber, 29.5g sugars, 9g protein -- PointsPlus® value 7*
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To make the oatmeal, combine oats, sweetener, cinnamon, and salt in a small nonstick pot on the stove. Add Almond Breeze, peaches, vanilla extract, and 3/4 cup water. Bring to a boil, and then reduce to a simmer. Cook for about 9 minutes, stirring often, until thick and creamy.
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A houseguest asks, "What does it mean when there's blood on the moon?"
It doesn't look like blood really, more like a syrup of mandarin orange.
No one can make the VCR work. It swallows the tape in a businesslike way so far, so good; it shows promising bright preliminary fuzz and static, like an orchestra tuning up... and then it goes abruptly black.
At dinner, we cannot remember the name of the sculptor who did the Statue of Liberty. I tell a story about Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and about their creator, the great animator Chuck Jones, who has a cartoon on his office wall, captioned "Agnostic Fleas," showing two fleas standing perplexedly in a wasteland filled with enormous stalks that turn out to be huge hairs; one flea says disconsolately to the other, "Sometimes I wonder if there really is a dog."
My wife recites Emma Lazarus' poem in its entirety, an unexpected feat that is rather moving. The hostess conducts an intense internal seance, diving deep, canvassing her unconscious. With a blink of triumph, she fetches up the sculptor's name: "Bartholdi!"
Applause. Sighs of wonder. Sleepy with sun and water, I cannot remember why we were talking about the Statue of Liberty in the first place.
Time surges noisily in, and recedes, rustling the round stones on the shore below us. The first summer vacation of the new millennium, the first mid-July's night's dream.
I have been rereading Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night," an awful book in many ways, but with an interesting haunted quality: Nicole Diver's insanity darkens the pages like a cloud passing overhead, or like the rumor of a shark in summer waters.
The book makes me think offhandedly about the bright, mysterious word "fun." Fitzgerald modeled Dick and Nicole Diver upon Gerald and Sarah Murphy, a wealthy and charming American couple who like the fictional Divers kept a villa on the Riviera in the 1920s and, in Fitzgerald's myth-making, had an exquisite genius for fun.
Poor Fitzgerald was not much fun. He got drunk at the Murphys' villa and made scenes and smashed their expensive crystal wine glasses. He repaid their hospitality by writing a novel that made out his hostess, Sarah Murphy, to be a mental case who had been incestuously abused by her own father. Some bread-and-butter note.
Why should a midsummer night on vacation put me in this mood? It's not gloom, but a sense of dislocation and otherworldliness brought on, perhaps, by the full moon. Nights like this I hold my own skull up to my ear, so to speak, and hear the sound of the ocean.
I was, as I say, thinking about "fun," which is after all midsummer's mandate. But what is fun? The word is subjective, difficult to define. Of course, if you are sitting around worrying what the word "fun" means, you are not having any. A minute ago, I looked it up, coming first to its unpleasant neighbors on the dictionary page, "fungus," and "funest," which means "portending death or evil." (The root: funus, funeral or destruction.) Then, Fun: n. 1) a practical joke, a hoax; 2) sport, merriment, frolicsome amusement, playful action or speech; 3) a source of amusement, an object of ridicule.
Well, midsummer hopes for fun in the second sense; but sometimes fun deteriorates into the first or third, into hoax or ridicule.
The new economy aspires to abolish the old distinction between work and fun. Once, the idea was that you worked away grimly for the allotted hours, weeks, months; and then you went on vacation and had fun for a little while.
Now businesspeople ask each other with wolfish grins: "Are you having fun at it?" They don't mean vacations but vocations: the frolicsome amusements of their work. Cell phones, computers, Palm Pilots, etc., have abolished the old seaside isolations and immunities. Work has colonized leisure. It is harder to escape from the wiring to go truly away and consult the original mysteries.
To do so, in any case, a change of geography is no longer enough; it requires an act of will, of deliberate withdrawal. Fun may be overrated, evanescent a vacation should be, at minimum, a true, if temporary, escape. A refreshment.
So it is reassuring tonight to have the VCR malfunction. We pay a price for constant global electronic access. Paradoxically, such access closes our routes of escape.


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I'm not in the best position to cast stones, point talons, etc. on the issue of office cleanliness since it's pretty well established that I'm a disgusting freak, but I've been bitching at one of my coworkers to clean his or her keyboard for years now.
I think this damning evidence will prove that there's at least one person in this office is more of a wallow-happy pig than I am:
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Twista ft. R. Kelly - Throwin' My Money
Released back in March, the (non-Booth featured) lead single off Twista's ninth studio album found the Chi-Town vet taking a page from Run DMC's book as he proclaimed his fondness for copping limitted-edition A.D.I.D.A.S.. On the follow-up, he moves from the kick store to another ideal setting for Throwin' Money Around: the local strip club. Producer Chris Millionaire's shrill synth-brass and slow-winding percussion back the rhymesayer as he raptly narrates his favorite dancer's routine on the pole. R&B heavyweight R. Kelly, a fellow Windy City native and admirer of the female form, assists on the chorus and closing verse. The Dark Horse is slated to drop via GMG at a yet-unscheduled date later this year. Keep it locked for further details, as well as the latest tunes.


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So I've been thinking a lot lately about the big dolls since I fell in love with Mudoll's Ash thief fullset. One of the hang-ups with the larger dolls are that I feel it's awfully difficult to make a diorama for them, and you can only have a SD13 sized house if you yourself have a large enough house to accommodate since were probably talking about something being the size of a child's playhouse. If you wanted to make a diorama for them it would need to be easily disassembled or foldable for storage purposes. I would think there would also be issues with scale in regards to craft wood…not to mention, creating something that large out of wood would be expensive and heavy.
Since I've pretty much come to the conclusion now that I no longer want to entirely abandon the larger sized doll, I've been thinking about how a diorama for photo-op purposes could be made on the cheap. Right now I'm considering cardboard for a trial run, since I recently bought a new flatscreen TV and therefore I have a bevy of extra thick cardboard that I think has the potential to be finished into a reasonable looking wall. I also imagine if I want to stick with paper products that mattboard and foam core board could possibly be use for trim, but with foam core you would need to have a way to give a smooth finish to the foam edge of the board. Also concerning trims, I imagine if you wanted to paper anything you would need to find an interesting heavyweight wrapping paper.
Anyway I've seen some people do some great things with just a little cardboard, paint and handiwork, so maybe it is possible. Either way I don't plan on doing anything about it right this minute, but I will need to cut down my box so I can store the cardboard otherwise someone in the house might mistakenly throw it away!


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When my uncle retired last year he started helping my aunt in the kitchen...Turns out he has a knack for canning and he loves it!
I could not resist making him a jar quilt with the Farmer's Market fabric.
The quilt label and the labels on each jar were made by gail-r from this board....Thank you Gail!