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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The seventh-ranked Westminster College men's basketball team overcame a sluggish start to defeat Saint Xavier (Ill.), 73-70, to advance to the championship game of the 37th Annual Tom Byron Classic.
Westminster improves to 12-1 on the season and has won eight straight games heading into Saturday's contest. The loss drops Saint Xavier to 11-4 on the year.
Westminster had a hard time getting into any rhythm during the first half and shot just 37 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes. The Griffins overcame that poor shooting from the field by making five of their 10 attempts from beyond the arc. Blake Skidmore made all three of his attempts from deep in the half and finished with 11 points at the break. Westminster also took advantage of seven offensive rebounds for eight second chance points in the period.
The second half was tightly contested as neither team could pull away by more than five points until the final minute. Westminster continued to apply pressure and forced the Cougars into nine turnovers after the break and turned them into nine points. On the other end, the Griffins only turned it over twice in the second half and crashed the boards for 11 offensive rebounds.
Jake Orchard had a three-point-play with 6:01 remaining that put the Griffins up four at 62-58. It was the team's largest lead of the game to that point and it would never trail again. Robertson made a layup at the 2:45 put the team ahead for good at 65-63. The final minute saw an offensive rebound from Colton Moon that led to two free throws by Jordan Hayter and then Robertson grabbed a rebound on the other end that led to free throws by Moon to seal the victory.
The Griffins overcame 37.5 percent shooting by grabbing 18 offensive rebounds. Those 18 rebounds on the offensive end are the most the team has had in a game since grabbing 18 against Biola (Calif.) on Mar. 19, 2009. Westminster also shot 76.9 percent at the foul line and made all four attempts it took in the final minutes. The Griffins scored 36 points in the paint and had 21 points off turnovers.Comment on this story
Robertson led the way for the Griffins with a career-high 21 points. He shot 9-of-19 in the game with seven rebounds and two assists. Skidmore finished with 13 points in the game while grabbing three rebounds in 20 minutes off the bench. Moon scored nine points and Alex Drecksel posted eight points and eight rebounds (six offensive).
Brad Karp led all scorers with 25 points for Saint Xavier. He shot 8-of-13 from the field and made eight of his 11 attempts at the foul line. Roosevelt Green had 13 points, seven steals and six assists while Anthony Grant scored 12.
The Griffins will move to the title game of the Tom Byron Classic on Saturday where they with face either William Jessup (Calif.) or No. 4 Westmont (Calif.) at 8:30 p.m.


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MUNICH, Germany Recent discussions to establish Ethernet in automotive applications are no threat to the position of FlexRay as the data transmission technology of choice for safety critical applications, believes NXP as one of the founding members of the FlexRay Consortium.
Ethernet will certainly find its way into automotive applications, explained Jeroen Keunen, General Manager MST Integrated IVN/FlexRay for chip vendor NXP in a telephone interview with EE Times Europe. "Automotive OEMs indeed are assessing Ethernet as replacement for existing networking technologies in the sector of media networking," Keunen said. "Ethernet will compete against the MOST bus but not against FlexRay".
According to Keunen, possible Ethernet applications are restricted to the entertainment field and to networking camera-based driver assistant systems. In addition, there are considerations to use Ethernet for diagnostic applications for instance for the connection between car and diagnostic equipment in workshops. "But when it comes to suspension and x-by-wire applications, FlexRay is the standard technology."
The current HEV and e-car hype helps to drive the acceptance for FlexRay, Keunen said, since x-by-wire helps to reduce the weight of the vehicle.
While currently only very few OEMs have announced car models using FlexRay, NXP expects that in the next years the number of OEMs using the deterministic data bus architecture will drastically increase. Currently a feature of a few high-end vehicles, FlexRay will be found in many midsize and compact cars in a few years, Keunen believes.
By reference to Strategy Analytics market studies, NXP Marketing Manager Rob Hoeben said he expects that the number of automotive network nodes shipped will amount to 2 billion units per year by 2015 adding up to a value of almost one billion dollar. FlexRay is expected to account for 8 percent of this market or 160 million units annually.
This indeed would be a huge increase compared to the current situation: NXP just announced the shipment of the millionth FlexRay transceiver chip. Besides Freescale, NXP is the leading manufacturer for FlexRay chips.
Currently, the version 3.0 for the FlexRay specs is discussed in the FlexRay Consortium; finalization is expected by end of the year. Core members of the group are automotive OEMs BMW, Daimler, General Motors and Volkswagen as well as tier one Robert Bosch GmbH and semiconductor vendors Freescale and NXP. With version 3.0 taking into account proposals of the Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture (Jaspar), Hoeben believes that FlexRay 3.0 will see wide acceptance also in Japan.
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I'm considering purchasing a MacBook Air and just wanted to know if MatLab will run well on the Air?
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With today's substantial updates to the Air series, they may well be worth considering.... except that you still wouldn't want to get just 2 GB of memory on the smaller one. They now have i5 processors and can be ordered with i7 processors. I have not yet taken a detailed look at them.
I was sort of counting on a significant upgrade with the release of new airs. I agree that 4 GB ram is probably necessary - and it's only an additional $100. Matlab work on the air would probably only be done at night when there is nothing to do or on an airplane.
Thanks for your input.
What do you know about the intel hd video?
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Here are some benchmarks I obtained using bench. Note that my Mac Book Air (the last entry) has only 2GB memory.
1. Windows 7 (64-bit) 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad
4 threads, Windows 7 Enterprise, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad, 4 GB memory, NVidia Quadro FX 1500, MATLAB 184.108.40.2064 (R2010b)
2. Windows XP (32-bit) 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2
2 threads, Windows XP SP3, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 CPU 6700, 3.25 GB memory, NVidia Quadro FX 1500, MATLAB 22.214.171.1244 (R2010b)
3. Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) 2.4 GHz AMD Opteron
8 threads, Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition SP2, 2.4 GHz AMD Opteron, 32 GB memory, Rage XL PCI, MATLAB 18.104.22.1684 (R2010b)
4. Windows 7 (64-bit) 2.39 GHz Intel Xeon
16 threads, Windows 7 Enterprise x64, 2.39 GHz Intel Xeon E5520, 12 GB memory, NVidia GeForce 9500 GT, MATLAB 220.127.116.114 (R2010b)
5. Windows 7 (32-bit) 1.6 GHz Intel Atom
1 thread, Windows 7, Intel Atom CPU N270 @1.60 GHz, 1.0 GB memory, Mobile Intel® 945 Express Chipset Family, MATLAB 126.96.36.1994 (R2010b)
6. Mac 10.5 (64-bit) 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon
4 threads, Leopard 10.5.5, dual 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon, 4 GB memory, NVidia GeForce 7300GT, MATLAB 184.108.40.2064 (R2010b)
7. Mac 10.6 (64-bit) 2.27 GHz Intel Xeon
16 threads, Snow Leopard 10.6.2, 2.37 GHz Intel Xeon E5520, 12 GB memory, NVidia GeForce 9500 GT, MATLAB 18.104.22.1684 (R2010b)
8. Linux Debian (64-bit) 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2
2 threads, 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 CPU 6700, 4 GB memory, NVidia Quadro FX 1500, MATLAB 220.127.116.114 (R2010b)
9. Linux Ubuntu (64-bit) 2.27 GHz Intel Xeon
16 threads, 2.6.30-020630-generic kernel, 2.37 GHz Intel Xeon E5520, 12 GB memory, NVidia GeForce 9500 GT, MATLAB 126.96.36.1994 (R2010b)
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LU FFT ODE Sparse 2-D 3-D 1. 0.0577 0.1153 0.1641 0.2628 0.5081 0.7387 2. 0.0775 0.1132 0.1199 0.2364 0.3300 0.5703 3. 0.1042 0.1348 0.2572 0.7519 0.5510 0.4986 4. 0.0386 0.0546 0.1415 0.2079 0.4124 0.7271 5. 1.8844 0.7826 0.7091 1.5299 2.4052 1.9797 6. 0.0760 0.1770 0.1817 0.3503 0.5827 0.6359 7. 0.0465 0.0995 0.1892 0.3535 0.4546 0.6841 8. 0.0658 0.0945 0.1636 0.2567 0.2651 0.2044 9. 0.0515 0.0434 0.1727 0.2814 1.3914 1.6377 10. 0.0866 0.1767 0.2660 0.3801 1.0964 1.3405
I'm afraid I don't see much point in having 1066 MHz DDR3 memory with an 800 MHz Front Side Bus.
2 GB really isn't enough memory to run any MATLAB version that is currently purchasable. On Mac, I don't think I'd be comfortable even with the maximum 4 GB you can equip the devices with.
1.4 GHz isn't very fast, even if you run both cores. The desktop system I'm using at the moment is 4 GHz single core Pentium 4, a two or three generation hand-me-down because no-one else thought it fast enough to bother with; if you are accustomed to running systems designed this century, you likely won't find 1.4 GHz an enjoyable experience for computation.
The graphics aren't anything special. The 320M integrated chipset has 32 shader cores and no dedicated memory, using 256 MB of the system memory (reducing the amount available for MATLAB). See here for some benchmarks
It is difficult to findy any official nvidea acknowledgement that the 320M exists in its CUDA information, but the evidence I found suggests that the 320M supports Cuda 1.2 capabilities (not enough for MATLAB to use, but enough for Accelereyes Jacket to use); that evidence also indicates 48 CUDA cores, not the 32 Apple officially claims.
If your question is whether MATLAB will run on the Airbook: then Yes, but I would push the 4 GB memory in ASAP.
"run well"... ummm... compared to what?
Matlab on my Macbook pro is fine. Not all of the toolboxes are available with macintosh but unless you need DAQ or some other more obscure toolbox you should be fine.
This Macbook pro is three or four years old: 4GB, 2.5Ghz, 667MHz, DDR2 duo. I still frequently (at least weekly) dump the whole system by trying to create 9Gb matrices.
Yes, CUDA is the use of the graphics card (or similar architecture) to perform parallel computations. The CUDA instruction set is limited, but what it can do it can do pretty quickly. If you are interested in "high performance" computations then you probably want to investigate CUDA.
CUDA use does require special code, or at least code operating on a special class of objects; as far as I know it is not integrated in to any of the other toolboxes.
Is it possible for you to get access to the kind of Air that you would be interested in purchasing? With access and a MATLAB trial license, you could see for yourself whether performance was satisfactory for your purposes.
5 hours or 7 hours for the battery, though... wonder if that includes the situation where you are doing heavy computing on it?
Walter is correct that Jacket supports these Macbook Air computers with the 320M GPU. Good luck!
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Some follow-up thoughts: I think the most important comment that Walter made was "compared to what?" To which I would add, "For what purpose?"
It seems a bit silly to compare this laptop to industrial-grade desktops. Most people considering a Mac Book Air are not in the market for 4GHz hand-me-downs, let alone the current top models. The Mac Book Air should be compared to other laptops.
Similarly, there are a lot of uses of MATLAB that don't require blazing speeds or even 4GB memory. I use the Air when I'm traveling, and most of the time I don't miss the extra power. Balance that against the ease of carrying it around.
One major caveat: Very few hotels have good wireless support, and this caused me no end of trouble for a while. Fortunately, there is a cheap solution. If you are traveling, get an Ethernet-to-USB adapter!!!!
As a followup to this chain, I purchased the Air with 4 GB Ram this weekend, installed MS Office 2008 and MatLab R2011a. Everythings works well. In fact, the startup time for MatLab is significantly faster with my Air than it is with my desktop PC. The Bench script does indiciate that it is at the bottom, second from the bottom to be accurate, in terms of running times. However, for what I am doing I am seeing anything significant yet.
Thanks for everyone's input. I appreciate your help.
Did you get the i5 or i7? Which front-side bus?
I went cheap and bought the 1.7 GHz i5 processor with 4 GB RAM. My mistake was getting the 128 GB hard drive. However, I will be taking it back this afternoon for the 250 GB version.
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Zeta and Omega Weapons
1Use the Zeta Cannon 1. Get thee Cannon cards with codes in alphabetical order; for example: A,B,C; B,C,D, etc. To raise it to Zeta Cannon 2 or 3, use Hi-Cannons or Mega Cannons instead, respectfully.
- The Zeta Cannon allows you to use a powered-up version of the cards that you were using for a limited amount of time. During this time, however, you can use it as many times as you want.
2Use the Zeta Spreader. Get three Spreader cards with codes in alphabetical order. The Zeta Spreader allows you to use a powered-up version of the Spreader repeatedly for a limited amount of time.
3Use the Zeta Ratton. Get three Ratton1 cards with codes in alphabetical order. To raise the power, use Ratton2 or Ratton3 instead. When you use the Zeta Ratton, you can repeatedly throw a Ratton1 (or 2 or 3, depending on what you use) for a limited amount of time.
4Use the Zeta Arrow (or Spear/Lance, depending on the cards). Simply use three Arrow (or Spear/Lance) cards with codes in alphabetical order. Like the other Zeta Weapons, you can fire it as many times as you want within the time limit.
5Increase the card amounts. To use Omega Weapons, simply follow the same instructions, but use five cards instead of three.
Part 2
Beta and Sigma Weapons
1Use Beta Weapons. Get three cards that are grouped together. For example: Little Bomb B, Cross Bomb B, and Big Bomb B; Sword S, WideSword S, and LongSword S, etc. These cards must also have the same code. The Beta Weapons allow you to use the weapon that you chose six times. The type of Weapon that you get is random.
2Use the Sigma Weapons. Do the same as you did with the Beta Weapons, except put them in this order: Weakest, Weakest, Weakest, Medium, Medium, Strongest. Yes, you do need six cards instead of three now.
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Other Weapons
1Use the Powered Cannon. Simply use these cards in this order: Shotgun K, CrossGun K, Spreader K, and Mega Cannon K. The Powered Cannon acts like a Spreader, damaging the area around the target.
2Use the Heavy Stamp. Use these cards in this order: Gaia1 C, Gaia2 C, Gaia3 C, and Quake3 C. The attack works like a Quake would, with MegaMan using one foot to stomp on 1 foe, making the screen quake.
3Use the Big Straight. Use these three cards in this order (make sure they all have the same letter code): Guts Punch, Cold Punch, and Dash Attack. This attack sends out several punches in front of MegaMan.
4Use Blood Suck. Use these cards in this order: Drain1 A, Drain2 A, Drain3 A, and Wave A. This attack sends out three injections. All enemies are damaged, while MegaMan restores health.
5Use Death Storm. Use the following cards in this order: Typhoon G, Hurricane G, Cyclone G, and Repair G. This attack strikes all panels and enemies with 200 points of damage!
6Use the Guts Shoot. Use the following cards in the order they are shown: MetGuard G, Dash Attack G, and GutsMan (V1, V2, or V3) G. This attack shoots MegaMan forward to deliver 500 damage. This attack cannot cut through barriers and can't go through solid objects.
7Use the Live Saver (it's actually called that), use these cards in this order: Barrier R, Aqua Aura R, and Roll (V1, V2, or V3). This isn't really an attack, but what it does is heal all of your HP and gives you an invincible barrier that lasts 30 seconds.
8Use the Double Hero, use these cards in this order: Fighter Sword B, Knight Sword B, Hero Sword B, ProtoMan B (V1/V2/V3). This attack blankets the field with charge Buster shots and and Proto sword slices. All enemies take 400 damage.
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- If you can, try not to make all of your deck cards to use in the Program Advance. You could make a couple of Program Advances, but then just put in really powerful cards.
- Make sure you use the right cards for the right enemy. You shouldn't use the Guts Shoot when you are going up against StoneMan.
- If you can, try doing this cool combo: Use the Live Saver, then use a Fast Custom or a Full Custom card. After that, pick some really strong cards. This will allow you to attack while also defending at the same time.
- The Program Advance uses up a bit of your cards. Also, after you use the PA, you most likely have absolutely no cards to fight with. This could leave you vulnerable until your next turn.
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As with her illustrations for The Wind in the Willows and The Secret Garden, Moore's artwork for this appealing book has a timeless quality. Her pictures—finely detailed, yet hazy and atmospheric—depict an inviting woodland setting and express the personalities of a group of animal friends who become an unlikely family. Two pigs don't mind when Bear and Moose move into their cozy homes, though both are quickly destroyed due to the animals' size. Now all four creatures are homeless, a predicament Moore describes with the droll understatement that runs through the narrative: "This was a pickle. It really was." Suggesting they build a proper house for them all, Moose (using a phone attached to a tree) calls the Beaver Builders, who arrive in pickup trucks and wearing hardhats. Moore makes every word count, as the industrious Beavers, aided by the future residents, build an inviting cottage. One can almost get lost in the full-bleed pages and spreads, many of which are wordless, evoking the peacefulness of the forest and the warmth of the animals' relationship. A charming tale that underscores the rewards of cooperation. Ages 3–up. (Nov.)


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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Americans are keeping their cars and trucks longer than ever, and even with sales of new cars increasing, the average age will continue to rise, a research firm says.
The average age of the 247 million cars and trucks on US roads hit a record of 11.4 years in January — the latest figures available. The Polk research firm gathered state registration data to conclude that.
The average was up from 11.2 years in 2012, and was nearly two full years older than in 2007, before the start of the Great Recession, Polk said.
People are keeping their cars because the quality is so much better and they are trying to avoid monthly payments, said Mark Seng, a Polk vice president. The annual percentage of vehicles sent to the scrap yard has dropped 50 percent since the recession, he said.
''Cars are just lasting longer,'' he said.
The company does not see the age dropping for at least five years, even though US vehicle sales are running at an annual rate of about 15.5 million, which is near prerecession levels. And Polk predicts that the percentage of cars age 12 or older will rise in the next five years.
The change creates a big opportunity for repair shops and auto-parts stores, Seng said.
''Customers from independent and chain repair shops should be paying close attention to their business plans and making concerted efforts to retain business among the do-it-for-me audience, while retailers have a unique and growing opportunity with potential consumers wrenching on their own vehicles,'' he said.
US sales have risen gradually from a 30-year low of 10.4 million in 2009 because of low interest rates, appealing new models, and pent-up demand as people replace aging vehicles they kept through the recession. The rebound prompted Polk to raise its estimate of the total number of vehicles on US roads by 5 percent to more than 260 million in five years.
But Seng said many people intend to keep running their older cars into the future, adding that he can't remember another time that the average age has grown as quickly.
The growth rate in the average age will slow in coming years, but it won't start falling until new-car sales rise and stay high for several years.
Older vehicles would have to be scrapped at a higher rate, as well, Seng said.
''With the quality of the vehicles, that's not going to happen,'' he said.
Also, more people are financing cars for 72 months, meaning they will keep their cars for at least six years and probably longer, Seng said.


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A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.
Now 18 and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But a mysterious vendor at the flower market has her questioning what's been missing in her life, and when she's forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.
©2011 Vanessa Diffenbaugh (P)2011 Random House Audio
"As a foster care survivor, I feel a kinship with Victoria Jones as she battles loss and risk and her own thorny demons to find redemption. Vanessa Diffenbaugh has given us a deeply human character to root for, and a heart-wrenching story with insight and compassion to spare." (Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife)
"The Language of Flowers is a primer for the language of love. Vanessa Diffenbaugh deftly gathers themes of maternal love, forgiveness and redemption in an unforgettable literary bouquet. Book clubs will swoon!" (Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine and Don't Sing at the Table)
"A deftly powerful story of finding your way home, even after you've burned every bridge behind you. The Language of Flowers took my heart apart, chapter by chapter, then reassembled the broken pieces in better working condition - I loved this book." (Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet )
"You don't need a green thumb to enjoy this one"
In this moving debut, deftly narrated by Tara Sands, Victoria emerges from a foster-care system that hasn't treated her well. She came close to finding a home with her beloved Elizabeth, but her inability to trust led to disaster. Now 18, and on her own, Victoria finds the only way to communicate – and possibly find happiness – is through the flowers she loves and the gift she has in choosing them for others. While this isn't a book I'd listen to again and again, I did enjoy it and found it quietly powerful.
"Just beautiful! Best book read in a long time!"
moving, eloquent, beautiful
Victoria - she was self aware, honest and flawed. While I didn't always like her, I loved hearing her self analysis and awareness.
Every moment in this book moved me.
I could not have loved it more. It was the best book I've read in a very long time. The topic did not draw me, but a friend recommended it, and I am now ready to start it from the beginning and read all over again.
"Sad Story"
Enjoyed the premise of the meaning behind each flower, but had a really hard time finishing it. It was so sad. Book Club choice not mine.
"Really enjoyed"
I truly enjoyed this story. I think it would have been even better read than audio. The narrators voice was too much like a chic lit novel rather than really reflective of the material. I loved the inner turmoil Victoria struggles with and overcame. I never knew there was a language of flowers. This was a great lesson.
"Loved It!"
I loved the story.I work with foster kids and really felt that Victoria portrayed the emotions experienced by "some" foster kids. I thought the narrator sounded like a young adult which made it seem like Victoria was talking to me. When I was younger I was very interested in the language of flowers and it was fun to revisit it.
"Flawed heroine, that you fall in love with"
Well done book, with the lead character so flawed, you start off feeling sorry for her, then with one bad decision after another, you start to want to yell at her. The author does a superb job getting into the psyche of the character where you can almost understand why she is making bad decisions. I found this the most interesting part of the story. The story of mother and child and falling in love are all done well but not as unique as the lead character. I would definately recommend as a very good read/listen.
"Really enjoyed this book"
I was surprised that I liked it. I usually don't like books like this. The reading was fantastic
"Stop and smell the roses"
This was a solid story that was easy to follow. A little predictable, but the association between flowers and the story was nice.
Most interesting was the flower dictionary. Least favorite part was the development (or lack thereof) of the main character. Overall, a good commuting book. Easy to listen to and pick up before and after work.
Good pace
Some of the characters decisions really made me cringe, but that is part of the story!
"Too much detail"
I found myself totally taken up by this story . I really liked the idea of a "language of flowers_- that each flower has a special meaning that can effect one's being.
I found Victoria's story very very sad and extremely touching
.However the story in all was not credible, never ended , just went on and on.... leaving no place for the reader's imagination on the characters outcome.
An easy read, with some thought provoking insights, but not more than that.
"An angry child grows up... with flowers"
I was taken in by the story and found Victoria to be a lovely protagonist. Although not classically 'easy to love' I did develop a lot of affection for her. I was very engaged by the story. The beginning had me and kept me reading. There was mother-daughter stuff, love, abandonment, betrayal and redemption, definitely all the themes of a good read/listen.
The narrator had a great voice for going from child to adult, but a badly put on Russian accent and grunge band voice for a male character put me off a little.
There were also some ways in which I felt the author was trying to assign Victoria too many characteristics, in a way that wasn't entirely true to the Victoria she'd set out at the beginning of the book. Both the character and the plot went through an arc of development that was readable, I just at times wasn't convinced they were consistent.
Overall though I'd recommend this to a friend, it's a good pool-side/summer read with just enough darkness not to be fluff and to feel rewarding/satisfying. There's also a little element of mystery that I liked, I kept wanting to know more. There was also an interplay of time that worked well I thought, from present to past Victoria.
Also, I look at flowers differently now, and I like that the book has done this.
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Hundreds of Newcastle United fans were yesterday accused of causing chaos before one of the Premier League's most controversial matches of the season.
They ran onto pitches near Wigan Athletic's DW Stadium, disrupting amateur games by dropping their trousers, ripping out the nets and hanging on cross bars.
Fans later boasted about the trouble they caused - including stealing a £65 match ball - on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Newcastle United players witnessed scenes of pandemonium as they arrived at the ground before their 2-1 defeat on Sunday.
The match itself was overshadowed by the controversial tackle on Newcastle's Massaido Haidara by Wigan winger Callum McManaman. The young Frenchman was stretchered off and taken to hospital after the challenge, which has been widely condemned but will not be punished by the FA.
Before the match, 250-300 Newcastle fans caused chaos as amateur side Wigan Cosmos played AFC Leigh Centurions in the South Lancashire Counties League.
A Cosmos spokesman said: "As the fans spilled out of coaches, they proceeded to watch the game from the touchline.
"Some then chose to run on to the field of play, dropping their pants, causing the game to be stopped. The situation then magnified as around 250-300 Newcastle United fans followed suit.
"Although good-natured at first, the fans then started to rip out corner flags as they ran over the pitches and also took the match ball. We never recovered the ball, though we did manage to recover the corner flags.
"The so-called fans then decided to charge over to the adjacent pitch where Goose Green Reserves were entertaining Olympic AFC. They again began by ripping out their corner flags.
"The fans then charged into the goalmouth, jumping on to the goalposts in an attempt to snap the crossbar with the sheer numbers. They started to rip the nets from the posts, tearing them and trying to take them. Our players helped to retrieve the nets.
"After spending some time singing and hanging on the goalposts, the fans ran back over to our pitch whilst singing 'We're Newcastle United, we'll do what we want'."
No one stepped in to prevent the chaos from the authorities present at the ground for the Premier League, the Cosmos spokesman added.
"This incident was a very distasteful experience that lasted for over 40 minutes and with families, dads, granddads and youngsters all watching the games as well as some quite experienced players who were all left shaken."
Cosmos put the cost of replacing the ball and the damaged nets at £200. The club has contacted Newcastle United, and an official told them they were 'aware of the incident', which is being investigated by Lancashire Police.
The Toon's True Faith fan zine condemned the vandalism, and is organising a donation to Cosmos to make up for their losses.
Newcastle said the fans' behaviour was "unacceptable".
In a statement, the club said: "Newcastle United are very disappointed with the behaviour of a minority of its fans who were involved in the vandalism of equipment belonging to Wigan Cosmos Football Club and pitch incursions during their game against AFC Leigh Centurions on Sunday 17th March which caused the match to be stopped.
"Our travelling fans have a very good reputation, but the actions of a minority on this occasion were wholly unacceptable.
"Football, at all levels of the game, deserves the same degree of respect whether it is played in the Premier League or at the grassroots level.
"We were sorry to learn that this South Lancashire Counties Premier Division game was disrupted in this manner and we would urge anyone who witnessed this incident to contact Greater Manchester Police."
A further statement on Newcastle's Twitter feed thanked those fans who had reacted positively to last weekend's disturbances and pledged to reimburse Wigan Cosmos.
"Thank you for all of your positive efforts and warm wishes towards Wigan Cosmos. Newcastle United will be covering the club's costs."


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March 26, 2014
The judge in a year-long custody battle over a Connecticut teen has awarded permanent custody to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
Judge Joseph Johnston issued the ruling Tuesday afternoon, in response to a motion, presented by the 15-year-old's court-appointed lawyer and the lawyers for her parents, Linda and Lou Pelletier of West Hartford, Conn., which called for the parents to be awarded "conditional custody" of their daughter Justina.
It's now up to DCF to determine if or when Pelletier should be allowed to go home or whether she can be moved to a foster home closer to her family in Conn.


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It's Bring Your Child to Work Day. Or Take Your Kid to Work Day. Or maybe officially "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" day. Whatever it's called, my kids are at school.
They see me on the computer enough as it is, and I have a feeling they wouldn't be too excited by what I'm actually doing most of the time. "See this comma? It's called a serial comma and we're going to delete it. And the abbreviation for California should actually be Calif., not CA. We call that 'AP style,' honey!"
Although they probably would have enjoyed helping me edit an Ask the Expert we ran recently from a woman who wondered how she could get her dog to stop eating poop. Poop is funny.
Did you bring your child to work today? How'd it go?


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DELTA - In a climate-controlled warehouse here, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, much like a squirrel storing acorns for hard times, is putting away seeds of native plants and grasses for forest restoration and wildlife habitat improvement.
"We have three mixes here, maybe 15 species in all, that are going to Grand Junction for aerial reseeding in the area burned by the Pine Ridge Fire last summer," Jim Garner, a habitat biologist, said last week in between moving pallets of seed bags with a forklift onto a truck.
The seed mixes, concocted for what will best fit steep slopes, harsh soil, and general burn conditions, are among the estimated 140,000 pounds of seed that will be dropped on the Pine Ridge burn area.
The recently opened 9,000-square-foot seed repository, built at a cost of $1.2 million, is located on a mesa in the Escalante Wildlife Area about six miles west of here.
The state agency collects seeds or acquires them from collectors and companies, then sends them to nurseries where they can be produced in great number in greenhouses and outdoors, Garner said.
The majority of the seeds stocked in the warehouse will be preferred native species, but some non-natives are being produced because of cost, Garner said.
"Squirrel tail costs $10 to $15 a pound, but crested wheat is cheap, $2 to $3 a pound," Garner said. "Aspen fleabane and sulfur flowered buckwheat are $80 a pound."
Use of expensive seeds has to be evaluated in the light of project goals and how critical the situation is, he said.
The warehouse eventually will store about 50 to 70 species of grass and flower seeds, among them sagebrush, mountain brome, dusty penstemon, basin wildrye, Sandberg bluegrass, Oregon daisy, western yarrow and sulphur buckwheat.
The American dragon head is a native but it's aggressive so it has to be used judiciously so as to maintain plant diversity, Garner said.
Warehouse stock will include seeds for the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management as well as parks and wildlife projects, Garner said.
Temperature is important for storing seeds, Garner said. Seeds have been known to remain viable for 25 to 30 years at room temperature, but it's not a sure thing, he said.
Fans at balcony level will keep the temperature in the ground floor storage area in the high 70s or low 80s in the summer when the temperature outside is blistering, Garner said.
A small cooler is reserved for more finicky seeds, Garner said. Sagebrush seed in a natural setting, for example, lasts a year, but in the freezer the seed can be viable for five years.
In the cooler, the operative rule is to maintain the combination of temperature and relative humidity under 100, Garner said. The temperature is kept in the low 40s and the relative humidity at 32 degrees, well below the target.
On a more expansive scale, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a National Center for Genetic Resource Preservation at the Fort Collins campus of the Colorado State University .
Plant scientists and researchers globally have turned to the bank after natural disasters and in their search for plants with properties that increase their ability to meet medicinal, nutritional and climatic demands.
The Delta warehouse has no ties to the federal program, Garner said.
The 140,000 pounds of seed will be spread on almost 14,000 fire-scorched acres north of Grand Junction, said David Boyd, the public information officer for the Bureau of Land Management in northwest Colorado.
"The reseeding is expected to take five days of flying," Boyd said. "We want to do it while there is snow on the ground."
The cost of seed and airplanes is $1 million, Boyd said.
"We want to get native seeds down to stabilize the soil before invasive species get started," Boyd said. "Cheat grass is a concern because it's not good for livestock or wildlife and it tends to dry quickly, which perpetuates the fire cycle."
Reseeding with seeds from the same area is preferable because the same species can have slight differences depending on latitude. Sagebrush in Colorado and Idaho could differ slightly, Joe Lewandowski, a spokesman for Colorado Park and Wildlife spokesman said.
The idea for the seed warehouse germinated as a result of the Uncompahgre Plateau Project, a native plant program of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, federal and state agencies and utility companies.
Since 2002, the partners have harvested seeds from 1.2 million acres of timberland west of Montrose and sent them to growers.


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Asthma FAQs (cont.)
What Is an Asthma Attack Like?
Patient Comments
People with asthma react in different ways to risk factors and triggers. Some experience asthma symptoms when they are exposed to several factors or triggers at once, while for others, exposure to one trigger alone is enough to set off an attack. Some people have more severe attacks when they are exposed to more than one trigger.
When people with asthma are exposed to their triggers, their immune systems start trying to fight off the allergens. This results in inflammation (swelling) of the walls or lining of the air passages that blocks or narrows the airways. This makes breathing difficult (like breathing through a straw for a long time) and noisy, and/or it causes coughing.
When breathing passages become irritated or infected, an asthma attack is triggered. Asthma attacks do not always occur immediately after someone is exposed to a trigger. Depending on the person and the particular trigger, an attack can happen hours or even days later. It may occur during either the day or night.
The main asthma symptom is wheezing. Wheezing is a whistling, hissing sound when breathing. This noise is made by the sound of air passing through narrowed tubes (air passages). Wheezes can occur during inhaling or exhaling but are usually heard while exhaling.
Other symptoms include breathlessness, chest tightness or pain, coughing, difficulty speaking, prolonged shortness of breath, and extreme fatigue.
What Is the Difference Between Allergies and Asthma?
Allergies and asthma are different, though they may have related reactions and some of the body's chemicals that are involved in allergies are also involved in asthma. An allergy is an inflammatory reaction or response to a specific substance. Allergic reactions can involve nasal membranes, the eyes, the skin, the tongue, and the breathing passages in severe reactions. Allergy symptoms include an itchy, stuffy, or runny nose, sneezing, itchy, red, or irritated skin, and itchy, burning, or watery eyes.
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung (lower respiratory) disease that causes difficulty breathing.
The things that trigger allergies can also trigger asthma attacks. Allergy symptoms may be a sign of irritants in the air that can provoke asthma symptoms, and allergy attacks can lead to asthma attacks. With both allergies and asthma, people's immune systems react to fight off the allergens (the material that sets off the reaction). The resulting inflammation causes the airways in people with asthma to become significantly narrowed. The swelling that is called inflammation comes from increased mucus and an increased number of white blood cells in the walls of the air passages. In addition, the air passages are narrowed by the contraction of the muscle that surrounds the lining of the airways. These irritated muscles contract in excess, like a rubber band that closes the air tubes even further.
People with asthma also usually have allergies. Hay fever (allergic rhinitis) and sinusitis are quite common in asthma patients.
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Angelina County and State Primary Elections Results are in
The Angelina County and state primary elections results came in last night, seeing Robert Nichols, Trent Ashby and Greg Sanchez victorious in their respective races.
The Angelina County and state primary elections results came in last night, seeing Robert Nichols, Trent Ashby and Greg Sanchez victorious in their respective races.
Maybe it's because I'm getting married in September, or maybe it's because I like Bruno Mars' fun song 'Marry You', or maybe it's because this idea is totally original and super cute...but when you watch this video, you can't help but get tears in your eyes!
American Idol Season 11 is (finally) down to two contestants, who 'sang for their lives' last night during the show's season finale, part one.
Will 16-year-old Jessica Sanchez, known as 'the tiny girl with the big voice' be crowned the winner? If she does, she'll be the first female to win since Jordan Sparks in 2007. Or will it be heartthrob Phillip Phillips from Leesburg, GA, who makes teen girls swoon at the sound of his voice and guitar-playing skills?
The Forest Country Job Fair, presented by Lufkin Industries, is happening today from 10am to 3pm at Angelina College in Lufkin (at the Shands Gymnasium).
I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in the world who hasn't seen this movie yet, or read the books.
'The Hunger Games' does look pretty good though, and I've only heard positive things about the movie so far! My friends and movie critics have also raved about how well it follows the book's storyline - which is always a plus for me. Critics are estimating the film will make over $100 million on opening weekend!
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Miami Heat forward Shane Battier wins best teammate award
The Miami Heat have known Shane Battier to be a valuable teammate. Now it's clear others know that, too.
Battier, who's planning to retire after this season, was named the 2013-14 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year, it was announced Saturday.
The Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award is voted annually by NBA players and recognizes the best teammate based on selfless play, on and off-court leadership as a mentor and role model to other NBA players, and his commitment and dedication to his team. The vote occurs after a panel of NBA legends nominate six players from each conference as award finalists.
Battier (1,322 total points, 67 first-place votes) beat out Charlotte's Al Jefferson (798 points), Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki (784 points), Los Angeles Clippers' Chris Paul (754 points), Los Angeles Lakers' Pau Gasol (753 points), San Antonio's Manu Ginobili (739 points), Phoenix's Channing Frye (568 points), Golden State's Andre Iguodala (552 points), Orlando's Jameer Nelson (546 points), Atlanta's Elton Brand (452 points), Indiana's David West (447 points) and Chicago's Mike Dunleavy (345 points).
Ten points were awarded for a first-place vote, seven for second, five for third, three for fourth and one for fifth. Players were not allowed to vote for a member of their own team.
Chauncey Billups won the award last season, it's inaugural year.
The NBA will make a $25,000 donation to The Battier Take Charge Foundation.
Former NBA stars Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes were friends and teammates on the Rochester/Cincinnati Royals from 1955-58. In the last game of the 1957-58 regular season, Stokes suffered an on-court injury that led to him falling into a coma days later, leaving him permanently paralyzed. Diagnosed with post-traumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury that damaged his motor-control center, Stokes was supported for the rest of his life by Twyman, who became his legal guardian and advocate.
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In his first game action since undergoing back surgery last November, Hudson pitched two nearly perfect innings, giving up one hit and striking out two batters. He threw 25 pitches, 16 of them for strikes, and used everything in his arsenal. He said he threw cutters, curveballs, and even got a strikeout with the only splitter he tossed.
"It felt normal," Hudson said. "Honestly, I went out there and tried to pitch like I was in a real game. I was trying to make pitches and get some swings and misses. I wasn't really trying to finesse around anything. At this point, I need to see where I'm at. And so far, so good.
"I feel better right now, in this first Spring Training game, than I normally do in my first Spring Training game. ... I feel like I'm a little bit ahead of the game in that aspect."
Hudson will increase his workload by an inning each time he pitches. His next outing is scheduled for Saturday with Class A Rome against the Charleston RiverDogs. He'll make another start with the Rome Braves after that, throwing four innings.
The 36-year-old right-hander said he felt like he could have pitched another inning Monday, but it would have been perhaps too physically taxing, as he could already feel his legs wearing down toward the end of his second inning. He has thrown as many as 40 pitches during live batting practice, but he is still building up arm strength and endurance in order to rejoin the Braves' rotation some time in late April or early May.
"He was excited," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He mixed all his pitches. I'm sure he probably didn't think he was as sharp as he should have been, but I thought he was. For the first time in a while, and getting out there in front of a crowd, it was good. I was happy for him."
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Ordeal By Fire, the six track demo by Deadfall was engineered in the singer's bedroom and has no recording industry backing of any sort. As such it is one of those recordings which placed along side all other metal albums is "pretty good", but placed in context, is "bloody excellent". The band have only recently left their teenage years and formed less than a year ago, and as such to produce Ordeal By Fire is a feat unto itself. But enough for the mean time on the band, what about the songs?
State of the Art is a reasonably lengthy, fast hitting catchy track that opens the demo in perfect style. The song stays a pretty constant pace all the way through, utilising typical complicated triplet led Deadfall riffs to lead through a song simple enough to be very memorable, but complicated enough to last six and a half minutes and still carry the impression of a much shorter, 'single style' song. It manages to cram a lengthy intro, a lengthy outro, multiple solos, verses, pre-choruses, choruses and a viciously heavy bridge in while all the time definitely sounding like one coherent song, not cobbled together riffs.
Second To None, which features some impressive lyrics, is the longest track on the album, and doesn't attempt to disguise it. Different themes run through the track, emerging at different points slightly altered. The style is similar the State of the Art, but the track takes its time a little more. There is a clean bridge section in the middle (which an impressively emotional solo) which works brilliantly to separate the two halves of the track which reflect on each other lyrically and musically. Given the different riffs and complicated nature of the track one could possibly label it a little proggy. This is definitely a grower which gets better with each listen (there are solo sections by each instrument), but again manages to be catchy on first listen.
Nine Lies is the anthem of the demo, and incredibly is over six minutes forty seconds, though seems a neat four in length when listened to. The song is built on a simple and instantly memorable riff that lends itself to the verse and the chorus. The lead sections and bridge show the same technical skill as the rest of the demo, but the majority of the song is of a far simpler nature. However, this is definitely not a bad thing, and adds a solid middle to the demo which has appeal above and beyond thrash metal. The lyrics are impressive as always, especially given the simple and amusing nature of their conception. The bridge part of this track perhaps goes on ever so slightly too long with too many repeats, but is made up for a fantastic layered solo it contains.
Ordeal By Fire itself is a fast, hard hitting number that sees all the Deadfall trademarks, complicated riffs, multiple parts to the song, catchy memorable lyrics and vocal melodies and technically superior performances. The song opens with an interesting 7:4 time riff and keeps the listener alert throughout the track through a cunning use of keeping the same theme, but varying how the song is put together. This is something Deadfall do a lot, rarely are second and third verses just repeats of the first one, and they strive to add memorable little additions in amongst the key riffs in the form of lead breaks or pauses. This song also features perhaps the fastest solo on the album at the end of a brilliantly built up variation of the pre-chorus.
Life or Death is a relatively slower, chunkier affair with a refreshingly complex verse line which sees the lead and vocal melody taking turns to fill the treble section of the song. The chorus is again a catchy memorable composition which an excellent use of a pause to bring it in. The track is in some ways simpler than the others with only three main riffs used for the verse, pre-choruses and chorus respectively. However, the band is able to squeeze multiple variations of the riffs into the song so it never seems repetitive or samey at any point.
Holy My Own is back to fast, blast beat driven classic Deadfall. The riffs are triplet led and complicated, the drumming manic and the solos shreddy. The lyrics are few and are utilised in repeats, sporadically manic with occasionally moments of rest whilst the lead plays out a tiny solo, but never losing its sense of urgency. It seeks to successfully close the demo on the same vein it opened on, and the temptation to simply press Play again is very high (and recommended).
All in all, the demo manages to be catchy on first listen, but not get boring after many, many listens thanks to the bands reluctance to resort to straight repeats.
So, what are the problems? The only real problems stem from the bands inexperience and freshness to the seen. The vocals are just slightly too much like James Hetfield and the riffing sometimes just slightly too much like other Thrash bands. It doesn't detract from the demo, but it removes from Deadfall's sense of identity. Whilst you can't say "That song is the Testement song and that riff is the Holy Wars part" or anything so direct, some growth is needed in forming the bands true sense of what they sound like. Having seen the band live recently and hearing some new songs not on the demo, I'm happy to report these problems are being resolved, and the specific Deadfall sound is emerging. However, these are not issues that should put you off obtaining the demo (which you can for free from their site) and enjoying potentially many hours of listening time from the CD. This demo serves basically exactly what it is, a demonstration of what the band are capable of, which we shall see on the soon to be recorded album the band are working on, and when we do, it'll be a good day for metal indeed.


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[GERMANY-ENGLAND] This World Cup's first game between traditional rivals takes place on Sunday when Germany faces England. Their past clashes have delivered
classic games and ridiculous hype.
The rivalry began in earnest at the 1966 World Cup in England. The host was headed to a 2-1 win when Wolfgang Weber equalized with 30 seconds left. England took a 3-2 overtime lead with the most controversial goal in World Cup final history. Only Soviet linesman Tofik Bakhramov seemed to have seen Geoff Hurst's shot go over the goal line after hitting the crossbar. With time running out, Hurst made it 4-2.
The Germans avenged the loss four years later at the World Cup in Mexico when they overcame a 2-0 deficit to beat England 3-2 in a game famous for Uwe Seeler heading the ball backward over goalkeeper Peter Bonetti and England coach Alf Ramsey subbing out Bobby Charlton with a 2-1 lead.
England and West Germany would meet twice more in a World Cup: an uneventful scoreless tie in 1982, and a dramatic penalty-kick shootout win by the Germans in the semifinals of the 1990 World Cup after a 1-1 tie. The photo of Paul Gascoigne with streaming tears reemerges with every subsequent Germany-England game.
Some of the rivalry's greatest battles have been in the European Championship. Against what is widely considered the Germans' best team ever, England fell, 3-1, at Wembley in the quarterfinals of Euro '72 and the Germans went on to lift the trophy.
The Germans beat England on PKs in the semifinals of the England-hosted 1996 European Championship, which the Germans also won.
Ahead of their first World Cup meeting in 20 years, The Sun tabloid of England announced, "Get ready for Germ warfare -- the old enemy have set up a Last 16 clash with England." The Daily Star's headline after England's Group C second-place finish read, "Job done ... Now for the Hun." (Hun being a derogatory wartime nickname for the Germans.)
But the British tabloids haven't hit the depths they reached in the 1990s.
Before the Italia '90 semifinal, The Sun's front-page headline announced, "We Beat Them in '45, We Beat Them in '66 and Now The Battle of '90." (1945 being a World War II reference.)
During the 1996 European Championship, The Daily Mirror ran the headline, "Achtung! Surrender! For You Fritz, Ze Euro 96 Championship Is Over." The paper also published pages of doctored photos of German players wearing World War II helmets. The Daily Mirror editor eventually apologized, while The People, after Germany's win, ran the headline: "Kr-out again."
Uli Hesse, the author of "Tor! The Story of German Football," believes the Germans don't get quite as worked up about the rivalry as the English.
"Germans are, by and large, baffled by the English insistence that there is a rivalry and that the teams, let alone the countries, are 'old enemies,'" Hesse says. "We consider England a big, tradition-laden team you want to play simply because it's a legendary soccer clash. That, however, is all.
"In that regard, England is the same to us as Italy, France, Brazil and Argentina."
As for the war references in the British tabloids, Hesse says, "In the mid-90s, many people were truly shocked by the war headlines and the tasteless imagery, but over the years we've learned to take it less seriously, because the English don't take it seriously themselves. We hope."
Hesse notes that the German newspapers seem to relish quoting the English tabloid's hype: "The more outlandish the better."
German magazine Stern welcomed Sunday's game with, "Hello Again, Beloved Archenemy."
It's all understandable. The Germans tried to bomb the British into oblivion. The fact that it occurred over sixty years ago doesn't mean it never happened. The victims of an atrocity will always remember and be scarred by it long after the perpetrators have tried to put it out of their minds.
It is awfully hard to see present day English, most of whom were born after 1945, as being victims;and it is hard to see present day Germans, most of whom were born after 1945, as being perpetrators.Long memories of long past grievances are self destroying. So let us see a good match and hoist the Guiness and the Hofbrau Munchen afterwards.
I agree with Frank on this and thankfully Karl's grudge-attitude has not been held by many in the new Europe that has formed over the decades since 1945.
I am glad we are watching Germany vs England instead of the cheating french. The french coach is classless and clueless, he did not shake the hand of the S African coach.


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The Republican party likes to portray itself as defenders of 'traditional family values', which seem to many of us to be synonymous with narrow-minded, bigoted, and religiously-motivated ones. But that's fine. People have their own moral standards and need some measures by which to evaluate candidates and they have every right to expect the candidates they support to have the same values that they do.
But what is odd is that rather than letting the values determine who their candidate should be, many of those voters seem to reverse the process and let the candidate determine their values at any given moment. When these voters find a candidate they really like for some reason but whose values seem different from the ones they hold, they are able to spin on their axis with no difficulty and espouse the new set of values as enthusiastically as they had rejected them just a short while before.
The most glaring example of this came during the 2008 campaign when it emerged soon after being announced as the Republican vice presidential nominee that Sarah Palin, who had been eagerly clasped to the bosom of the Christian voters, had an unwed high school daughter who was pregnant. This really should have had no bearing on Palin's eligibility for office. In my opinion, the private lives of candidates should play only an incidental role in political discussions, and the lives of their relatives and friends even less so. But unfortunately this is not the case. Those with long memories will recall the episodes involving Gary Hart, Billy Carter (Jimmy Carter's brother), Bill Clinton, and so on where there was enormous interest in the private lives of politicians and their families.
In the case of Bristol Palin, it would have perfectly reasonable for Palin's defenders to say that her life was her own and her family's to deal with and the rest of us should keep our noses out of it. But that is not what happened. Almost overnight, a narrative sprang up among Palin's supporters that having an unwed pregnant teenage daughter was somehow a positive factor, that it showed that the Palin family was 'real' and faced the kinds of 'real' problems that most Americans have to deal with and that this in fact added to her qualifications for office. In a post titled Shameless double standards that I wrote back in September 2008, I said that while this unprincipled reversal disgusted some conservatives, most seemed to go along with it. I added,
I suspect that had McCain nominated someone who later was revealed to be a serial killer but who said he loved Jesus, opposed abortion, and favored policies that favored the wealthy, these same people would suddenly say that 'real Americans' have prison records and the ability to kill without compunction is just the kind of toughness we need in a national leader in order to deal with terrorists. They would also decry as wimps the Democratic candidates because neither had the gumption to shoot a man, just to watch him die.
I wrote the above sarcastically but sure enough, along comes a conservative who says that Newt Gingrich's history with women, which would normally have been denounced and deemed him unfit for office by 'traditional family values' voters, in fact reflects favorably on his candidacy. The honors for articulating this radical theory goes to Fox News commentator and psychiatrist Keith Ablow who says, presumably with a straight face, that what we know of Gingrich's history with women shows that he would make such a great leader that the problem will be that we won't be able to get enough of him.
When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we'll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we'll want to let him go after one.
So, as far as I can tell, judging from the psychological data, we have only one real risk to America from his marital history if Newt Gingrich were to become president: We would need to worry that another nation, perhaps a little younger than ours, would be so taken by Mr. Gingrich that it would seduce him into marrying it and becoming its president.
Yes indeedy, that is what passes for serious analysis on Fox News.
Jon Oliver of The Daily Show also thinks that his history shows Gingrich's strength.
At least with Oliver we know it is satire. With Ablow, I don't know what to think.


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"Why the Hell isn't this on DVD yet?" Volume 2
SO FINE (1981 WB) Starring Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Richard Kiel, Mariangela Melato, Fred Gwynne. Written and directed by Andrew Bergman.
Sidesplittingly funny comedy written and directed (his debut) by Bergman (THE IN-LAWS) and starring Ryan O'Neal and Jack Warden (USED CARS). SO FINE always reminds me of those two films, both among my favorites of a rich late 1970's/early 1980's period for outrageous comedy. Like USED CARS, this film features Jack Warden at his most quotable and profane, and features a former MUNSTERS star playing a key, authoritative supporting role. And like THE IN-LAWS, this film has Bergman's wacky touch and he takes you in unexpected directions from beginning to end.
Ryan O'Neal, an experienced straight man for screwball craziness, is a professor up for tenure at his small university who is kidnapped by goons working for 7'2" loan shark Richard Kiel. Kiel is owed six figures (seven with vigorish) by O'Neal's dad, failing dress designer Jack Warden, and wants "new blood" within Fine Fashions in the person of O'Neal, who knows nothing about the dress business. To complicate matters, Mr. Eddie's trophy wife (hilarious Mariangela Melato) falls for Ryan at first sight, subtly telling him "I f**k around" as soon as Kiel is out of earshot.
Bergman does a superb job with the pacing, keeping you from dwelling on the more implausible plot elements, and as always, he sets up numerous wild and funny situations: O'Neal's repeated attempts to get out from under Kiel's bed without literally waking the sleeping giant; Warden trying to steal customers inside a posh department store ("We call this real cheap sh*t!"); Kiel's gangster making an unlikely stage debut as Othello ("the sonofabitch can sing!" Warden exclaims) and O'Neal's unexpected emergence as a fashion innovator. While updating the classic screwball comedy, Bergman finds space to pay homage to both The Marx Brothers' A NIGHT AT THE OPERA and Shakespeare's MERCHANT OF VENICE. Not a bad day's work.
As noted above, Warden is every bit as hilarious as he was as Roy L. Fuchs in USED CARS, but most of the really good lines are either his or Melato's, as opposed to Zemeckis' film, where the funniest lines were more evenly distributed. And while the film is consistently funny, it does lose some steam during the too-silly opera finale ("a sudden burst of surrealism!"). These are minor gripes though.
Ryan O'Neal's charmed life at the box office had come to an end by the early 1980's, and SO FINE had disappointing returns in September 1981. It's still a very underrated film, every bit as funny as Bergman's later THE FRESHMAN and O'Neal's WHAT'S UP DOC?, and worthy of release and rediscovery on DVD.
So, why isn't this on DVD yet?
Ryan O'Neal isn't the biggest name these days (MALIBU'S MOST WANTED, anyone?); the film did poorly during its initial release.
Why it should be available on DVD:
Bottom line: it's very funny.
Almost all of Bergman's other films are available on DVD and this one should be too.
THE IN-LAWS had a terrific commentary with director, writer, and both leads available. All the principals would be available for a similar one here.
If THE DEVIL AND MAX DEVLIN, WHOLLY MOSES! and other box office bombs from the same time period are out on DVD, then this much better film deserves a release too.


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what will i be losing other than the guitar/bass input if i go with the Di? has anyone used both? how do the sounds and action compare?
what will i be losing other than the guitar/bass input if i go with the Di? has anyone used both? how do the sounds and action compare?
The Di is marketed towards its portability and light weight and for live use where as the G is more geared toward studio use.
The G has a sequencer and a sampler. While they're not the best they are on there. The input is on there as well as the ability to record audio tracks.
The Di is marketed more toward its portability and its light weight more for live use. It has an input for a mic that you can sing along with.
The G has an SRX slot for expansion as well.
The action feels about the same to me on both. I bought a Di and have played on the G a bit but not a lot. I am very happy with the Di and use it for its sounds and the keyboard.
If I wanted the SRX slot I would have gotten the G. That is about the only reason I would have. I didn't need the sequencer (or like it for that matter) or the sampler. In my opinion the Di is a great value for the price.
The G says it has the same processor as the Fantom X series. I am not sure about the Di. I don't think it's the same but definitely better than previous Juno D models.
so the di is worth the money? i play jazz/prog rock and black/power metal so the main sounds i need are grand piano, rock organ, strings and electric piano. are those good on the di?
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Piano: I think they are pretty good. You'll see mixed reviews on these. Some people say they're phenomenal, others say they're terrible. I think they work well in a mix. Not sure about by themselves.0
Organs: Not a big fan. I haven't had it for too long so haven't dug too deep and had a chance to tweak much but so far they sounded thin to me. I'm partial to the organ on my ASR-10 anyway so don't normally use them much.
Strings: Excellent. I love the strings. Roland always does well with the strings in my opinion.
EPs: Excellent. This is one of my favorite areas. There are many different patches and I think they all sound great.
Check out the information at the Roland Clan forums. There are several reviews over there. Also, there are several pretty good reviews online if you search for them. SqueakD is on Roland Clan and also has quite a few videos on youtube with patch examples. You may want to check them out as well. Also, I think he has used both keyboards as well so you may want to try to hit him up on Roland Clan to see if he can give you more info.
thank you very very much
The Juno G is a beast, for me the Juno Di is missing something.
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Found some great info here, but nothing really recommending one board over the other. I am a keyboardist/ drummer and I'm looking to add a Roland to my rig. I am currently trying to decide between the Roland Juno Gi and Di. I don't really need the recorder, as I do all of that kind of work in Cubase. What I'm really looking for is one with great sounds (and quality of sound), particularly motion synths, lush pads and great lead synths that will be used quite a lot live as well as in the studio. There are no Roland dealers in my area so I haven't been able to 'test drive' either of them. Listening to samples and watching YouTube, it seems that the Gi is better for the sounds I'm looking for, but the Di may be more than satisfactory as well, for less the cost of the Gi. Maybe someone here can point me in the right direction, too.
Hey all, KarmaDude7337, Juno Gi is good one specially if you want to us it as midi controller too, I bought it a week ago but there is a ugly side that I found it dose not have patches and performance mode, I called Roland support and asked they said you cannot us it as 16 midi channel tracks to patch it to any midi sequencer, you can only us 4 sounds patch them with juno Gi's Live Set to any midi sequencer, so it is useless for me because I wanted to use it like full sound module at the same time. But dose any one else know if there is a twicke around to do that on Juno Gi? because if cant find a way to use normal 16 track midi patch I am going to return it and might get the Di instead
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Getting ready
This training plan for the 10K assumes an average level of running fitness, but before embarking on any form of exercise, or if you haven't exercised for a while, consult with your doctor. Begin by make small changes in your behaviour- increase the intensity of your exercise, run instead of jog during your training and walk more often instead of bus or taxi and start making a schedule for available times in your day when you can increase your level of exercise.
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Always remember to warm up and cool down- Warming up will prepare you physically for your run and reduce the risk of injury. A good warm up should last between 5 and 10 minutes and should raise your heart rate to get the blood pumping to your muscles. At the end of your run, it is advised to do a cool down. By walking briskly for 3 or 4 minutes while reducing your speed will gradually return your heart rate to resting level to prevent injury. A good stretch after your run will reduce muscle tightness and prevent soreness the following day.
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