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alto but they are primarily a southern california firm. the cost of the search includes a no cost repeat in case the search is terminated. we don't know the answer to the question that was raised and since he is not here, i tried to find it out by looking through the documents that we got from the vendors but we don't know if the person selects to leave as in this last situation, i do not believe they will do a no cost. the proposal cost for alliance is the lowest of the finalists and they have indicated that they are going to assign the founding member that has been the longest with the organization to the recruitment
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group so that it would contain that individual and a manager that's been there for a while, but not as long as the founding member. and it's, he wanted to make the point that it's what would be called a comprehensive or a corporate approach to the recruitment including reference checking of the candidates as part of the preliminary assessment. normally when you reference check it's after everything is short listed to the people and then you do the reference checks. these individuals are doing it towards the front. in terms of bob murray, they are a known vendor, they have been involved with the prior department director. their level of understanding may be beneficial. he is not indicated as being the principle that will be team,
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instead they put in an individual whose background is in law enforcement and has experience with the fbi, police kinds of model of doing work. bob murray will conduct personal interviews with the top 10 to 12 candidates to make sure that they have the best potential and then he's going to do a public records request on candidates to determine if additional inquiries of the candidates are necessary. that was in quotes, public records. either individual would be able to do the job, it's up to you to make the decision. he is committed to work with you and the vendor to make sure
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this is a good, has a good outcome and that the commission is satisfied with the choice. >> thank you, deputy director. so at this point, just open it up to my fellow commissioners and let's have some dialogue. where do you want to take this? >> commissioner, what was the cost difference between bob murray and alliance? >> bob murray was $19,500 and alliance was $17,500. >> these are plus expenses. i'm sorry to interrupt, but they are plus expenses. at this point in either case that is kind of unknown how much that would be. often that is travel of the individual -- i'm sorry, of the candidate if they choose to bring the candidate here if they aren't local or in
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the region. but i think you could make the same assumption that the expenses for each would be in the same ballpark. >> i'm sorry, pam, where did you say bob murray was based? >> his basis is roseville, california. >> roseville, yeah. and palo alto for alliance. >> commissioner clinch. >> pam, the alliance had sort of the guarantee if someone were to be terminated they would come back with a no cost search again, but what about bob murray, did we ask if he would offer something like that? >> the issue we can do as part of the -- so once you get these proposals then you sit down and you sit across from them and
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you negotiate. we probably could negotiate but it's not mentioned specifically in the proposal. the others made a very direct guarantee. >> my understanding, though, pam, would be that ted would have asked that question to bob murray, they just didn't respond. >> that's my assumption. >> the question would have been asked and if they didn't respond we have to assume that that's not on the table. plus obviously it could be negotiated at a later point, but at this point, yeah. >> it's harder to negotiate that. >> we got two good firms here. i think we should just pick who and be -- commissioner melgar. >> to me, the single most important thing that you said was that alliance had conducted recent searches in marin, san
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mateo, san josement i know having those relationships and having a pool of talent in the area is really important. to me that's, like, the single most weighty issue is to have a firm that has recent experience with this and also those established relationships, they've been looking at qualified people in the area. >> looking at this list here, it looks like bob murray's placements have largely been in the central valley, while alliance's has been in the bay area. >> the gentleman that's assigned to this from bob murray is the same gentleman --
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pam, correct me -- who was assigned to the last director. i believe that's the same. we checked that on the brochure, right? >> i think bob murray worked directly, but i don't know. >> it's on the brochure there. just, you know, a point i know his background is in police and fbi and this kind of thing but he did do the last search the last time, the same gentleman. anyhow. >> i just wanted to say both firms could do the work but i would like to just say i concur with commissioner melgar and commissioner clinch said about recent experience and also their experience in housing and inspection areas because that's what they specifically hired for in those other counties that were fairly close so they
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have some knowledge of doing that recently. so, you know, if both firms could do the work, i with like to say we should be involved in actually -- if we pick one to put forth the thing about if someone would leave during the year, if they left during the first year whether it's because we decided not to keep them or they decided, you know, they got a better offer from washington, dc or something like that, that would also concern me because that happens quite a bit with executives. since there's a new administration all over the place that we would also take into consideration whether the search would help us again at either no cost or very low cost. but i think we would cross that when we get to it. i would like to say given what we know now, i would like to make a motion that we go with
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alliance unless there's other strong feelings among the other commissioners. >> excuse me, you were correct. the guy who was involved --. >> what's his name? >> is the same person. >> john malmouth from the city attorney's office. the item on the agenda is not for
so the actual selection is not before you. this is still just a discussion item. >> so i'm confused. >> me, too. >> does that mean -- i thought that this body had the -- or do you mean it's just not listed as such and we can't take
until january? >> correct. while the bic has the authority to authorize the contract, the way it's been -- the way it's angendized for
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today's calendar does not allow you it take
today. >> so we can post it as an
item. >> correct. >> parliamentarian. >> well, actually, the buck stops here with me. i was under the impression we're taking
on this today. i have it apologize to my fellow commissioners, that was the whole idea we were going to discuss it here today. so, with that, can i amend that now at this stage? no? >> no. i think the options that are available to the commission if you want to act on this quickly is to schedule a special meeting and find a date in january. i think there is another --. >> january 16th (inaudible). >> oh, that's not until
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february. so there could be a special meeting scheduled in january. your next meeting is the 16th. for either one of those, i could work with the president to come up with the agenda language that gives the bic flexibility to make the appropriate decision. >> i think we need to all -- we basically all need to vote on this. i think that will be the -- what you're saying to come up, john, with some language on a special meeting or just the next meeting. >> either one, it's up to the commission how you want to proceed. just a special meeting -- the next regularly scheduled meeting is january 16th and if you wanted to make this decision earlier than
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that, we'd have to find a meeting date earlier in january to do it. >> so what's in front of us, commission, is whether we should have a special meeting on this, that's 1, or 2, we wait until january 16th. >> i would love to do this quicker rather than later, but i will be out of town until the 7th and i imagine many other people will, too, since that's when school starts again. the 16th is just as well for me. >> right. >> okay, so why don't we calendar it for the next meeting and we will make sure the
(inaudible) and we will take it from there. should we -- do we make a motion that if we select the firm now and have that as part of the approval? >> no, the agenda item the way
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it's calendared is only a discussion item , so there's no motions or actions for the commission to take. but you could come up with a, sort of a consensus position that you ask be calendared, the commission can come up with a consensus position that the president would work with the city attorney's office on agenda language for the 16th. >> okay, all right, we'll have the language correct on the 16th and do we take public comment now on this item and then on the next meeting we don't have to take public comment on it; is that correct? >> whenever there's an agenda item, you need to have public comment. you need to have public comment for today's agenda item and if you take it up on the 16th, public comment again as well then. >> okay, all right. okay, then, public comment.
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>> public comment on item no. 7. >> spencer gash once again and i'm ad libbing here. this delay, it's been, like, 6 months, i think, and you still haven't chosen who's going to do the selection or potential selection of a director. this just bespeaks to some of the problems or the dysfunction of this department, including yourself. and i'd like to go over a little bit of the history here. the last time we went through the recruitment process we hired seemingly a good person who washed out after a year. he couldn't take it. maybe the language jeff long of the
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person selected should be considered. then the department unwisely chose the permit person from alameda. i have to blame the current staff which stayed on after the last director left. i think they are responsible for this. here you are keeping them in this situation where they are trying to hold the lid on this stew pot of corruption and to be honest with you folks i think you are doing yourselves a disservice because i think the stew pot is going to overflow before you get a new director. best wishes, thank you. >> thank you. any further public comment? seeing none. >> item 8, director's report, 8 a, update on dbi's finances. >> pamela levin, department of building inspection. i'm going to make this very quick. you have a report that has the documents that are up here so
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i'm going to do this very quickly. we are currently looking at having approximately 7 1/2 million at the end of the fiscal year. this is predicated on a similar type of hiring that we have been doing, in other words, we have a certain number of vacancies this year and we had originally expected to have a lot of them filled by january. we are off about a month for several of them because the testing is taking longer. so by the end of the year we expect to have some salary savings and we're making the assumption at this point that it's $2 million, but i'm hoping we will keep the pace and continue to have the participation of the human resources department in helping us do the various testing. i got a message today that the
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list for the building inspectors was adopted yesterday. i'm getting those messages that we are finally getting towards the end on a lot of the various positions to where we do the interviews and we can hire. so i'm hoping that for the exams that are almost done we'll meet the january-february time frame and that the arrangements that i have made with human resources will allow some of the rest of the positions to be hired by the end of june. as you can tell, the charges for services are still tracking higher than what would be at this point in time. they are -- i think that we're just doing in terms of comparison that we've gone through 41, 42
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percent of the year and we've received 63 percent of the charges for service revenue, just kind of speaks to how well the economy is doing right now and -- but i wouldn't do a straight line that the second part of the year is going to be like the first part of the year. we know there are several projects that are coming in, we know there's a change in the mayor's office of housing in terms of the threshold of the charges for inclusionary housing. we may see, you know, a large increase. we're hoping that that's the case. apartment and rental fees, i think anybody who lives here knows taxes were due december 10 at the latest. we still haven't gotten, we won't know until january what the results of how we're doing in that first payment of the property taxes. the reason i say that is the apartment fees are tied to the
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roll, they are built along with your property tax so that's when they come in. >> in terms of expenses, as i mentioned, 40 percent of the budget has been expended for personnel and we're at 42 percent of the year so we're just, we're slowly catching up and i expect by the end of the year, as i said, we'll be not completely fully staffed but we're getting there. the other sort of expenses or trends that we're seeing in expenses is they are starting to bill out the work orders but most of the departments don't bill them out until january for the first 6 months of the year so that's where we'll see the
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large ones, which one largest is the city attorney's office. so we're waiting for that. just kind of a footnote. next meeting we'll be presenting the first iteration of the budget. we are working on requests right now from the various decisions and seeing what their needs are and we are waiting till we have 6 months of revenues in order to do a projection for next fiscal year. as i think you -- as many of you know, we are now doing a two-year budget. we reopen right now the second year, which next year will be the second year, so we start at the point of we proposed this budget and now we can make some changes to it. and the fact that our revenues are coming in higher than we expected gives us some flexibility to do some
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of the projects that we have been delaying. we will have a special meeting in february to do the, to pass the final budget that's going to be submitted to the mayor's office and the submission date is february 21st. so we have to keep a kind of tight schedule in order to be able to meet that date. >> thank you, deputy director. >> item 8b, update on proposed legislation. >>. >> good morning, commissioners, bill strong with legislative and public affairs. rethe earlier discussion with supervisor mar's aide, nick, on the grab bars, he did reconfirm before he left the hearing room
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that our permit legislation will be heard at land use on february 14. it's taken a bit longer than expected but we're looking for a positive recommendation from the committee to go to the full board, so i think that will probably get approved in january by the full board. as you know there is legislation that supervisor khu is still working on that's kind of a part 2 of the amendments he made earlier to the apartment convention ordinance and this one has to deal with shared housing. the most recent status on that is his aides have come back to us and have asked us to propose a fee structure because we would be responsible to come up with a
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registration process for those folks that own property and wanted to take advantage of what this legislation proposes to do, which means you could rent space for up to 90 days a year and it would also include registration by some of these hosting organizations such as vacation rentals by owners and so 40ment -- forth. some of the legislation is still in the drafting stage but just to let you know, that is still underway. you have heard about the grab bar legislation that was discussed earlier. the only other one that i'll mention is i have attended a few meetings concerning this maher toxic ordinance update. people from the public health department and also on planning are working on a redrafted version
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of that where projects would probably be required to do soil testing and ground water testing if they were in areas that dph didn't have sufficient data about potential toxickities on those items. that could affect how quickly we can release building permits because those would have to be certified by dph because we can issue the building permit. i don't expect that to move through the legislature until january or february. but with that, that's about it. state wise, nothing is going on. as you know the state legislature is in recess and will be until january. >> sorry, bill. commissioner lee has a question. >> the shared housing
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ordinance, will that come before the code advisory committee before it becomes --. >> i am assuming, yes, it will go to cac for review once we actually have the legislation. right now we don't have the legislation. >> my other concern there, bill, is this, you know, the drilling. have you read the legislation in detail? >> on shared housing? on the toxic -- yeah, i've had a look at the current draft. it doesn't look too onerous at this point. it does rely on dph and planning updating the existing kind of ma-her hot spots and a lot of it i think is going to be more affecting dph and puc, which may have infrastructure projects going on in different parts of the city and it sounds as though they are very amenable, they,
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the people behiepld the legislation right now, to having a self-certification process where those two departments can continue to do the work they need to do. so right now i'm not expecting this to become unnecessarily bureaucratic. >> is it based on, you have to drill at a certain depth? >> yeah, i don't know what the exact parameters are right now. but if your project got within a certain number of feet of, let's say, the ground water aquafer --. >> would you have to get a
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conditional use? >> i don't know the answer to that right now. one of those things we can ask about. >> so in january that's coming? >> i'm expecting it to come back with another version. >> who --. >> dph is taking the lead with some input from planning on putting this together and there is a city attorney that's working with them on it. >> and it's just an amendment to the code? >> it's an amendment to this existing legislation that's referred to as the ma-her toxickity legislation. it's an ordinance that was started when bill maher was still a commissioner years ago. >> item 8c, update on permit tracking system.
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>> (inaudible) project director dbi the first project is the public portal. we've been closely working with the vendor and planning designing requirements. the vendor has been configuring as we define the requirements then we've been reviewing with staff, people that work the counters, people among the -- we're getting a lot of input on that. it's looking very good. the next step is we're forming a citizen access committee. we've already met the building and planning commission around plans for that. dbi and planning are in the process of nominating the members of that committee and we're expecting it to be about 16 people. the first meeting is being scheduled for january 30th. the plan is for this committee to do reviews of this system.
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about 1 to 2 hours a month for about 3 months ending sometime in april. and this would be a review rather than a user acceptance test. the other items are excella automation. so that's our internal staff product. we've got a lot going on. there's development in a lot of various statements, requirements, configuration, review, et cetera, and that includes the user acceptance test plan. we've developed that plan. we're working closely with the staff to come up with test cases and then in january we'll have a kick off meeting where the staff will actually start executing those test cases. the next item is data conversion. we're working closely with planning and the vendor on mapping all
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I still find it pretty amusing that Hollywood has all but wiped the words "comic book" out of their vocabulary and replaced it with "graphic novel". It's funny, because I've been reading comics since I was a kid, and I never thought of the word as being "lesser" than the silly, fancy schmancy title of "graphic novel", but that's Hollywood for ya. But in any case, Steve Niles' "Wake the Dead" graphic novel has landed a writer and director on its way to the big screen.
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Long story short, my ex girlfriend got a netbook a few years ago, and it came with windows 7 starter. I gave her a copy of my valid Windows 7 Home Premium keys and taught her how to reinstall Windows 7 on a USB drive. So now she has the netbook with windows 7 on it, and she upgraded to a new 15 inch HP Envy, she doesn't use the netbook anymore. And since we don't talk anymore, any attempt to ask if I can have the key back and she reinstall the old system on there from the recovery partition, it's all gone unanswered.
I just want to have my windows 7 Home premium key back, she isn't using the netbook and I need it to install now.
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The USB protocol has become a pervasive standard in the world of computing and consumer electronics. While few design teams would today contemplate designing their own USB intellectual property (IP), this semiconductor IP is far from commodity silicon. Synopsys introduces a second USB 2.0 PHY IP product line (titled DesignWare® USB 2.0 nanoPHY), which has been further optimized for low power, area, manufacturing cost and system performance targeted to mobile and high volume consumer applications. This offers designers a choice of highly-differentiated USB PHY cores for 0.13-micron processes and below.
With the proliferation of USB in mobile consumer devices, there are many key criteria that design teams look for when licensing IP, such as cost, system performance (interoperability), reliability, and power. Diligent technical evaluations have become a key part of the 'make versus buy ' decision or all but the simplest IP cores.
The competitive dynamics of global consumer electronics markets are driving down costs and putting further pressure on the design cycle. Consequently, overall design productivity and total cost of IP ownership are also issues that must be considered. For example, while the avoidance of design re-spins is a familiar design goal within most projects, the problem of reliability, in terms of field failures, can have a profound influence on the total cost of ownership. Manufacturing yield is another factor that can have a significant effect on lifetime cost. Both of these issues are directly affected by the key specification parameters of the USB PHY. Lastly, interoperability is another requirement that is critically important to interface IP. The issue of interoperability goes beyond just satisfying the requirements for 'logo' certification. Interoperability is a function of the design's specification and operating margin, which in turn can impact device yield and the economics of manufacturing production.
With increasingly demanding specifications on power, driven by the need for longer operating life in portable devices, a low power design for the IP enables the overall SoC power budget to be maintained —a critical issue for battery-powered devices such as smart phones, MP3 players, digital cameras and flash drives. Within this context of an increasingly demanding set of business and technology drivers, Synopsys has introduced a second USB 2.0 PHY IP product line that is optimized for portable and high volume applications that require low power, small area, and high yield.
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Anyone? I can't seem to fins anything on this other than the drive possibly going into sleep mode, which I don't know how to fix.....I'm sure there is someone out there who's seen/heard of this before....
Ok so I got a wii for xmas, soft modded it using this guide, http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...tem-menus.html ,
and went out and bought an Iomega 320GB HDD. Formatted it fine using wbfs manager, d/led games and placed them on the drive and installed the usb loader gx. The wii was updated to latest software before modding just a week ago. So when I play games using usb loader gx, they tend to freeze a lot, usually during loading screens. Wii sports resort won't load at all, but I think this is another issue, something about a .dol file? Neogamma won't load games at all, and gives me an error message telling me to remove disc, cut power and restart. I updated usbloadergx through the wii so it is up to date. Can anyone help with this? It's really annoying to finally beat the stupid ice world in mario only to have the game freeze and have to start over. I think that's all the info you need or that I can give.....one other random thing it ALWAYS freezes when I try to view the wii motion plus video in NHL 2K10, I dunno if that helps or not. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
Anyone? I can't seem to fins anything on this other than the drive possibly going into sleep mode, which I don't know how to fix.....I'm sure there is someone out there who's seen/heard of this before....
I am having the same issue with a few games that are being loaded from my external USB hard drive.
The Introductory videos in Mario and Sonic's Olympic Winter Games 2010 and Need for Speed ProStreet continually freeze although once into the game they seem to work just fine. The only thing I noted in game pay is that sometimes it takes a little longer than would be expected for scene loads or data saves.
I do not know if it is related to the type if video being displayed vs. the USB transfer rates available or if it is a known bug with the USB loaders that I have tried (USB Loader GX and Neogamma rev8).
I am suspecting it is related to the transfer rates between the Wii and the external HDD but I would like to have it confirmed by someone if possible.
I am searching this site as well as a few other for any hits on info I can find. If I find anything I will post back here.
I'm having the same issues...But i use neogamma R8 Rev14 now and no problems so far.
I have just about the same problem. Super Mario Kart is working just fine via HDD and USB loader, but sometimes when I`m crossing the finish line, starting on round 3, my Wii freeze and I have to power off. I pretty sure it`s the hdd going in to sleep mode after cashing necessary data for the particulary stage, and is not able to start up again when promted. Any tips how I can prevent this or is it the "Samsung HDD" which is the problem? Western Digital seems to be the best choice...
having the same issue with USB Loader GX.. either games not loading or freezing during start.
One thing I noticed when I start via the channel is I get at least one error. Something about IOS236 not available using 36 instead??
Try to use this link to softmod your Wii 4.2 by SHADOWSONIC2 > work well for my wii 4.2U
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Ok - I have fixed it. No more freezing - no more loading problems.
The simple solution was to use a disk approved by other users in the disk list. Another important thing was to set the disk as active and primary. I am now using Western Digital mybook 500gb and everything is just cruising..
I figured out another thing: It is not necessary to format the disk as FAT32 to be able to format the disk as WDFS, as this is a problem on large disks. Just make the partition, choose don`t format and leave the disk as raw. Set as active and primary and the WBFS-Manager (3.0) will be able to format it.
Im having similar problems and i also have an iomega drive. Anyone know if theres a way to sort out this sleep mode problem? Can it not be fixed in the loader itslef by the way it reads the drive??
Dont really wanna buy another hdd
It's not the loader it's the way the wii interfaces with the external hard drive. Hence the recommendations for working drives. If you are having code dump issues in GX ensure you aren't using the latest revisions of r884 or r885 as they both have reported code dump issues. rev 883 is probably the most stable at this point in time.


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13 Apr - It has just been confirmed that tickets to this event include not only virtually unlimited sherry tasting but also a package of Heston's newly minted edible Afternoon Tea Delights. Monday's competition won by @peterthefarmer, by the way.
11 Apr - Today only, you have a chance to win two free tickets (worth £120) to the event described below. Just follow me on Twitter here this afternoon and retweet my #hestonsherrytea tweets. Deadline 5 pm today, Monday 11 April.
As part of the celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain at the Southbank Centre in London, megachef Heston Blumenthal and I will be presenting an early evening 'devoted to the pleasures of afternoon tea and sherry' at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 9 May.
The idea is that both afternoon tea and sherry were much more popular in the 1950s than they are today, and Heston and I would like to draw them to more people's attention once more. Heston has long been a sherry aficionado but is currently preparing for a mid to late May opening of his hugely successful new restaurant Dinner at London's Mandarin Oriental for tea (though how they manage to persuade lunchers to leave in time to make way for the scones and cakes, I know not).
From 6 pm to 7.15 pm those with a ticket are invited to taste from a wide range of fine sherries, up to three per producer, from the likes of Barbadillo, Fernando de Castilla, Gonzalez Byass, Hidalgo and Emilio Lustau. In all there will be 24 superior sherries covering a wide range of styles - mainly dry with a few PXs, more than at any of the sherry and tapas bars I wrote about recently in London's sherry and tapas explosion, I think.
At 7.15 we will move into the auditorium for a short talk on the wonders of sherry from me and a much longer talk from Heston and his chief teatime collaborator about the pleasures of afternoon tea.
WHAT Tea and sherry with Heston Blumenthal & Jancis Robinson
WHERE Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London SE1
WHEN 6-8.30pm Monday 9 May
HOW MUCH £45-60 per ticket.
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Men's and women's titles in the blue riband 100m will be up for grabs on the second day of track and field competition at the Commonwealth Games on Monday.
In the absence of sprint superstar Usain Bolt, Jamaican hopes lie with Nickel Ashmeade, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Jason Livermore. (Also read: Bolt ready to take Glasgow by storm)
Antigua's Daniel Bailey, Richard Thompson and Keston Bledman of Trinidad and Tobago, England's Adam Gemili and US-born Nigerian Mark Jelks, who has served a two-year doping ban, should all be podium contenders.
In the women's event, it was Nigerian Blessing Okagbare, who won long jump silver and 200m bronze at the 2013 world championships, who headed the qualifying times with 11.20sec.
But she will be under pressure from Jamaican heavyweights Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart, and Trinidad's Michelle-Lee Ahye.
In the field events, there are medal events in the women's hammer throw and men's shot put, in which New Zealand's Jacko Gill will be looking to translate his outstanding youth and junior form into a first senior title.
In the pool, the women's 100m freestyle battle between world champion Cate Campbell of Australia and England's Fran Halsall takes centre stage.
Campbell was fastest in both Sunday's heats and semi-finals, but Halsall has already claimed two golds in Glasgow in the 50m freestyle and butterfly.
The triumverate of England's Adam Peaty, South African Cameron van der Burgh and Scottish favourite Ross Murdoch are expected to fight it out for the medals in the men's 50m breaststroke.
Another South African, Chad le Clos will be looking for his fifth medal of the meet in the men's 100m butterfly final, whilst Aussie duo James Magnussen and Cameron McEvoy face off again after taking gold and silver respectively in the men's 100m freestyle in the heats and semi-finals for the 50m freestyle.
Jazz Carlin will be hoping to claim Wales' first gold in the pool when she goes in the women's 800m freestyle after smashing the Games record in qualifying in a time of 8min 22:69sec.
In squash, Malaysia's world number one Nicol David faces world champion Laura Massaro for the gold while, in shooting, England's Michael Gault can become the all-time most-decorated Commonwealth Games competitor if he makes the podium in the men's 50m pistol.
Gault, who on Saturday tied the all-time record of 18 with a medal in the 10m air pistol, has to fend off a tough field, which includes world number one Jitu Rai.
India's most successful Commonwealth Games shooter, Gagan Narang of India is aiming to take his gold medal tally to nine in the men's 50m rifle prone competition.
Olympic champion Nicola Adams of England begins her bid to become one of the first women to win a Commonwealth Games boxing gold medal.
Fighting in the flyweight division, the 31-year-old is favourite after she became the first women's Olympic boxing champion at London in 2012.
New Zealand will be confident of weightlifting gold when Richard Patterson takes part in the men's 85kg division having won silver in Delhi in 2010.
Australia's Malek Chamoun will be the first legally blind athlete to represent Australia at the Commonwealth Games when he competes.
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1. What type of skate is the best to put a first-time skater on? All skaters, adults and children alike, should take their first steps on the ice in figure skates. A figure skating boot will generally offer more support than a hockey skate, and a figure skating blade offers more stability to a beginner.
2. When is my child ready for private lessons? This answer, of course, differs with each skater. Some children are best suited to group activities initially, while others may be more timid/cautious and find themselves better suited to being introduced to ice skating in a one-on-one scenario. Group lesson skaters who express a desire to skate more than once a week or who show signs of strong ability/passion for the sport should be supported by private lessons.
3. Why do we have an ice time fee in addition to our instructor's fee? and why does it differ so much according to the session that we skate? The ice time fee essentially pays for the ice. Ice time this season is sold at a rate of $325 per hour at the Skatium. If you are skating between 3:05 - 5:05 pm on Sundays, you are skating on Skatium sponsored ice that is hosted in concert with the Group Lesson program. The ice is as low as $5 per 30 minutes during these times. All other times the DCSC has contracted the ice, and your walk-on fees ($15 for active members, $16 for others) or 10-session tickets ($130 for active members, $140 for others) help pay for this ice.
4. Does my child have an opportunity to perform in a recital or some type of exhibition during the Club season? There are two Club performances each year. The HollyBerry Skate is our holiday exhibition that features ensemble skating of group lesson students and lower level skaters. During this performance, skaters who have passed their Juvenile Moves in the field test are able to skate solo programs. The Spring Fling, our end of season exhibition, takes place in April. Private lesson students who are members of the Club are able to perform their programs according to the prescribed allotted times for the skaters' respective level.
5. Once my child has completed all the Basic Skills Levels, are there additional tests to be taken in figure skating? United Skates Figure Skating has a series of tests that range from Pre-Preliminary Levels through Senior or Gold Level tests in all of the figure skating disciplines; i.e. Freestyle, Moves in the Field, Pairs, Ice Dance, and Figures. Private lessons are needed to support the skater who chooses to be a test candidate and/or a competitor.
6. Should I purchase skates at a sports retail store? No. The skates that you might find at a regular retail store are of lower quality than the rental skates. There are reputable skate dealers in the area who are better qualified to fit your child properly. There are also used skates from members that are still in excellent condition. Simply stop in the figure skating office and inquire about the names of local dealers and/or the availability of good used skates.
7. Are there competitions for low level skaters? There is an ever-growing number of Basic Skills Competitions in the area. These applications are generally posted in the girls' locker room or the Pro Room/Figure Skating Office.
8. If my child wants to play hockey, shouldn't I enroll him or her directly in the Sunday Hockey Clinic? All beginner skaters, whether they want to play ice hockey or figure skate, are introduced to and taught the same basic skills. Once new skaters have completed a set of group lessons, they may enter the Hockey Skills Clinic provided they are ready to skate in hockey skates and with full equipment.


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Boxing is a sport that makes an appearance in Fallout and Fallout 2. In Fallout, the player can take bets in Junktown, for the champion Saul. In Fallout 2, entering the Jungle Gym of New Reno, you get to box against 4 characters; Joqq, Pete McKneely, Evan Holyfeld, and The Masticator. After defeating these characters, you gain the Prizefighter perk and some fame.
The Masticator can bite your ear off which you will find in your inventory afterwards as a unique item named player's ear. This event, however, reduces your charisma by 1 point. See The Masticator "Odd Habits" for more information.
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The Bowery Wall: A Birthday Ode to Martha Cooper
Many New York City residents are familiar with The Bowery Mural, a large graffiti canvas on the corner of Houston street and Bowery. Since 2008, seasoned graf artists have been executing their letter forms on the building's facade, owned by the late Tony Goldman, a real estate mogul and appreciator of the ephemeral art form.
This past Saturday saw the wall transformed into a birthday tribute to esteemed photojournalist, Martha Cooper who just turned 70. Through her documentation of the New York City graf scene during the 1970s and 1980s, Cooper helped to legitimize graffiti as a credible art form. Various artists – including How & Nosm, Freedom, Faust, Terror 161, Lady Pink and Bio – transformed the block letters with their unique styles, filling in the Marty nickname with a colorful composite of street art. The large characters were set off by a simple line of gratitude, "From the streets of the world, to the 2′s and 5′s, thanks to you our work survives."
The Birthday Billboard will soon be scribbled over when the next artist makes their on mark on this historic slab of concrete. But, like many graf murals, the gift and it's sentiment will remain immortalized – captured and remembered through the discerning eye of Martha's camera lense.


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I received an email from another food group about an event coming up on 9/23 that sounds interesting:
"Here is yet another Sep. picnic/food event. I heard that the last time it was held at Golden Gate park and featured a lot of
interesting Burmese dishes. From what I've heard, Burmese satay is very different from that in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia. The spices used were very different."
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A Noise-Adaptive Discriminant Function and Its Application to Blurred Machine-Printed Kanji Recognition
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Abstract—Accurate recognition of blurred images is a practical but previously to mostly overlooked problem. In this paper, we quantify the level of noise in blurred images and propose a new modification of discriminant functions that adapts to the level of noise. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method actually enhances the existing statistical methods and has impressive ability to recognize blurred image patterns.

Discriminant function, Mahalanobis distance, Bayes classifier, distribution of feature vectors, noise, blurred character recognition.
Hirotomo Aso, Fang Sun, Shin'ichiro Omachi, "A Noise-Adaptive Discriminant Function and Its Application to Blurred Machine-Printed Kanji Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. , pp. 314-319, March 2000, doi:10.1109/34.841761


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The choice of an invoicing currency in international trade and the balance of trade impact of currency depreciation
Cross-country differences in the choice of an invoicing currency in international trade is one reason for cross-country differences in estimated exchange rate coefficients in short-run balance of trade equations. If exports are invoiced in domestic currency while imports are invoiced in a foreign currency, a depreciation will increase the domestic currency value of outstanding import contracts, and may cause the balance of trade to fall in the short run. Countries with different invoicing patterns will have different effects on the short-run trade balance following a depreciation. We explore a simple theory of invoicing currency choice, drawing inferences regarding the likely choices for 14 countries. This allows a classification of countries according to the expected short-run balance of trade effect of a currency depreciation. Empirical estimates support the hypothesized groupings based on suggested currency invoicing patterns. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990
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PGP/MIME for windows
It seems to me that there are VERY few E-mail programs in windows which support the PGP/MIME format (RFC 3156) ie. Eudora and Outlook Express does not have that feature yet. Anyone who has any recommendations? No "inline-PGP" mailers, please.
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If you search the Software Directory on my site, you will find a handful of applications that support PGP natively. I also have a list of plugins for various apps to add PGP functionality. One of the more popular links from my site is to Emailmax 2K. Unfortunately, I don't use this app personally so I can't speak for it's usefulness or stability.
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I receive "Connection is refused" when I try to load your site, www.xenoactive.org :(
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How do you pronounce CAAD?
I am planning to go to my LBS to check out the Cannondale CAAD10 5, but I don't want to look like a fool pronouncing it wrong.
Is it like CAD?
or COD?
or CADE?
Thanks guys.
It is pronounced 'cad'
you wanna pronounce it "cad" but hang on the "a" a bit to make it just a tiny bit musical.
good rule of thumb is to imagine that the number of As matches the CAAD version.
so this would be like "caaaAAAaaaAd."
That's good.
It's not a real word, it's a made-up word, kind of like drug names. (cephalexin, for instance) Pronounce them however the heck you wish.
If you have a fondness for fish, pronounce CAAD as "cod".
It's not really a made up word. It's an acronym. Means, Cannondale Advanced Aluminum Design, so pronounce how you like or just spell it out.
I pronounce it See, Ae, Ae, Dee
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MLB.com Columnist
Tracy Ringolsby
Following Bochy's lead, Giants have swagger back
Following Bochy's lead, Giants have swagger back
DENVER -- The last time the Giants were in Colorado, they were coming off an 10-game homestand and had lost seven of eight games, including three of four to the Mets. Their lead in the National League West was down to a half-game over the Los Angeles Dodgers. And the Bay Area faithful were wavering. That first night at Coors Field, manager Bruce Bochy called a team meeting. "It's the only one we've had this year," said reliever Jeremy Affeldt.
But it was time. "We had a tough homestand and some guys were pressing," said Bochy. "Seemed like it was time to talk to the guys." The focus was the movie "Day of Thunder" and how a race-car driver who was in a bad wreck had a moment of uncertainty when he returned to the track and there was a wreck in front of him. "He had lost his confidence and swagger," said Bochy. "Robert Duvall was his partner, and told him, 'Just press on the gas and get by it. Trust me.'" The Giants, obviously, trust Bochy. With a 9-8 victory against the Rockies at Coors Field on Tuesday night, the Giants have gone 24-13 since that Aug. 3 movie review that preceded a three-game sweep in Colorado, and they have extended their NL West lead to six games. Not too shabby considering that on Aug. 3, the Dodgers -- their pursuers -- acquired right-hander Joe Blanton from Philadelphia. Twenty-two days later, they shook up the baseball world with a blockbuster in which they acquired first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, injured outfielder Carl Crawford, starting pitcher Josh Beckett and infielder Nick Punto from Boston. The Giants? They signed free agent Xavier Nady on Aug. 5, claimed lefty Jose Mijares off waivers from Kansas City on Aug. 9, and then on Aug. 15 learned that cleanup hitter Melky Cabrera was suspended for 50 games for violating Major League Baseball's drug agreement. Predictions of the Giants' pending demise were rampant. "[General manager Brian Sabean] had a meeting, but it wasn't a big deal," said Affeldt. "He told us what the deal was, and then Bochy said, 'Let's move on.' He didn't get overly excited. He made it clear. This was just something we had to deal with." The Giants have dealt with it well. They lost, 6-4, to Washington the day Cabrera was suspended, but then won 16 of the next 24 games, and continued to make it look easy to win on the road, where they have 20 victories in their last 27 games. It all starts with Bochy, the understated manager, who is much more comfortable talking about the Cy Young candidacy of Matt Cain and MVP potential of Buster Posey than the idea that the success of the Giants is tied more closely to their manager than maybe any team in baseball. "I'm not doing this for attention or accolades," he said. "I'm in this to win and get to the postseason and try to win another World Series. This game isn't about the manager. It's about the players, and how they play the game." It's just that more often than not, Bochy's players play the game as well if not better than anybody else's players, even if he is relatively obscure despite having the third-longest managerial tenure (18 years) and the third-most victories (1,440) of any current manager, trailing only Jim Leyland and Dusty Baker in both categories. Bochy helped create respect for a San Diego franchise that he managed for 12 years before then-Padres president Sandy Alderson let Bochy know he needed to move on, at which time he joined the Giants. In his fourth season with San Francisco, 2010, he guided the Giants to their first World Series championship since 1954, when they were still playing in New York's Polo Grounds. It's not always easy, but for Bochy, managing is always fun. This year alone, he has had to mix-and-match his way through late innings because All-Star closer Brian Wilson, after only two appearances, finally gave in to the shoulder problems that had bothered him since the second half of last year. The Giants have responded with a bullpen that has six pitchers who have earned a save, including one by Wilson before his season-ending surgery. They dealt with the five-week loss of the middle-of-the-lineup bat of Pablo Sandoval to the disabled list in May and June. They have shaken off the 8-14 record that the assumed ace of the rotation, Tim Lincecum, took into a scheduled start at Colorado on Wednesday. And they shook off the constant efforts of the Dodgers to improve, which even before August included their swinging a deal for Miami shortstop Hanley Ramirez and left-hander Randy Choate and Philadelphia outfielder Shane Victorino. No big deal. Bochy wouldn't let it be. "You have to deal with certain things in life," said Bochy. "It is not important what happened. You can't change that. It is important how you deal with it. You have to focus on the future and not let it slip away. We've got the talent to win. So we have to be sure we don't waste it." That, in itself, is a virtual filibuster from Bochy.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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With the Premier League title a distant hope, Roberto Mancini is expected to field a strong side in order to keep his team in the hunt for silverware.
Costel Pantilimon should keep his place in goal ahead of the rested Joe Hart, having played in each of the previous three rounds.
Captain Vincent Kompany will not be risked as he makes his was back from a calf injury, meaning Kolo Toure should continue alongside Matija Nastasic in defence following his Man of the Match performance in Monday's win over Aston Villa.
Jack Rodwell (hamstring) is unfit after going off at Villa Park, and Sergio Aguero will also miss out after suffering a knee injury in training.
Barnsley are without left-back Scott Golbourne, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the last round against MK Dons.
The Tykes are expected to revert back to a 4-4-2 formation, with Marlon Harewood dropping to the bench after starting in an adventurous front three against Burnley. Tomasz Cywka, who grabbed the late equaliser in that match, could replace him in the starting 11.
City loanee Ryan Tunnicliffe is ineligible to face his former side, while on-loan Stoke midfielder Rory Delap will compete with former Chelsea youngster Jacob Mellis for a starting spot alongside David Perkins in the middle of the park.
Jason Scotland should continue in his role as 'super sub', with Chris O'Grady expected to partner Chris Dagnall up front.
- Manchester City have faced Barnsley twice before in the FA Cup (both at home), winning 2-1 in 1947/48 (round three) and 2-0 in 1992/93 (round five).
- This is the first time Barnsley have made it past the third round since the 2007/8 season, when they famously defeated Liverpool and Chelsea to reach the semi-finals.
- Tykes boss David Flitcroft is the brother of former City midfielder Garry, who made 134 appearances for the club between 1992 and 1996.
- The Yorkshire side also have Kelvin Etuhu (pictured, right) in their ranks, who came through the youth system at the Etihad Stadium and scored one goal for the first team before moving on.
- Roberto Mancini's side are unbeaten in nine games against lower league sides in the FA Cup, winning their last four in a row without conceding a single goal, while scoring 13.
- City have lost four of their last five FA Cup quarter-finals, though they did win their last one in 2011 against Reading on the way to lifting the trophy.
- The hosts' sturdy defence have kept six clean sheets in their last seven home games in all competitions. Manchester City are 11/2 to beat Barnsley 3-0 with bet365.


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Discover and let us prove the following:•The United States is the new Babylon and also the real Egypt•The Antichrist shall rise from Iraq•Europe will assist the Antichrist•The Antichrist will set his throne in New York City•Many Christians will be flown to the wilderness of Greenland to escape the Great Tribulation•The Exodus will be happen again•It is time to prepareAstonishing but true! This book will explain all from the book of Genesis to Revelation. It also reveals what to expect in the Great Tribulation then prepares us for the Day of the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Omega and is coming very soon.Please visit www.theomegadays.net for updates.
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The alarm on Michele Tipper's phone went off at 3:50 p.m. Monday.
"Time to pick Skylar up from the bus," Tipper said matter-of-factly as she sat on the porch of Lake Talquin Lodge's tackle shop.
She anxiously waited as a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) crew searched for him. It was by then day three of the search, the day it had been reclassified from a rescue to a recovery operation.
American military veterans were honored this past weekend at several events throughout the county. On Friday, Nov. 10, the Gadsden County Commission and Veteran's Affairs Office invited veterans and their families out to the courthouse for their annual event. Lt. Col. Felita Stanley McNeil was the guest speaker.
After a short program, attendees were served freshly fried fish and hot grits.
World-renowned artist Dean Mitchell hosted a public reception Saturday for the opening of the Marie Brooks Gallery in downtown Quincy.
The Quincy native named the gallery, which is his first, after his maternal grandmother, who he said inspired him to become an artist.
In the wake of the Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church shooting, the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office is teaming up with local faith-based leaders to plan a free, church-focused active shooter response training. The recent shooting took place Nov. 5, in a small town in Texas.
"One person decided he would disrupt church service that Sunday morning. One person— that's all it takes," Sheriff Morris Young said. "It could be Gadsden County."
Cars were lined up to Jefferson Street from Popeyes' drive-thru for the fast food restaurant's opening Monday in Quincy right after the official ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The service was fast, the employees were smiling and the food was fresh.
Regional Manager Willie Barnes stood in the parking lot for most of the day directing traffic. He said they wanted to open a location in Quincy because it's a lovely city with beautiful people.
Barnes also said they had a party Saturday for their 66 employees.
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Allen Toussaint: Heartwarming Jazz
Allen Toussaint: Heartwarming Jazz
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"It's A New Orleans Thing"
"What Do You Want the Girl to Do?"
"Happy Times"
A New Orleans pianist, vocalist, producer and songwriting legend — and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee — Allen Toussaint recently stopped by the KPLU/Jazz24 studios for a visit, taking us on a sweet and uplifting trip home with his music and anecdotes.
In the past, Toussaint has worked with artists such as Fats Domino, Lee Dorsey, Glen Campbell and Elvis Costello, to name a few. In this session, he performs three songs, including his hit "What Do You Want the Girl to Do?"


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"It's Gonna Be A Wild Future." Deputy Zero front man, Sean Campbell, has a gig tonight. More like a moonlighting thing than a sanctioned L.A. club date. In fact, points two and three of the Deputy Zero musical group triangle-Chilean born drummer, Fernando Jaramillo and transplanted Vancouver-born bass player, Chris Hammer - are nowhere to be seen. This audience is not composed of Jack-swilling rockers and low-cut Betty rollers. On the contrary, the crowd of near hundred sits crossed legged on rubber mats, eyes closed, ears tuned into world-renown six-string toting Kundalini yogi, Guru Singh, as he leads another Thursday night Yoga West packed house through post exercise mantra. This evening's special guest guitarist, seated to the master's left and plucking his heart out, is an artist in transition. "I just discovered Yoga West and Guru Singh recently," says the Providence, Rhode Island born/L.A. raised Sean. I've been attending classes for several months now. That man throws down some pretty heavy stuff, makes you examine yourself, where you're at, how you fit in...or don't, and why? Last week, he invited me to sit on the chant. I was honored." Sean Campbell's personal musical journey began in 1987, the year I became editor of RIP Magazine and started writing about rock n' roll. The synchronicity of our meeting does not end there. But we'll return to the other cosmic coincidence later. Let's return to that moment of epiphany for the 21-year-old San Diego State University senior when the angels spoke, "Hey, man, wake up! You're a rock musician!" "Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, there was a piano and guitar in the house where my mom, my grandma and me lived," Sean remembers. "But I didn't play them. No one did. They just sat there. I saw KISS in '77 at the Forum and Rush's Moving Pictures tour. Great shows. I dug the spectacle. And I spun the albums. But I never had an urge to play an instrument or perform. Until one day, just before graduating from college, I drove up from San Diego to hang out with some friends in L.A. My buddy wasn't home and neither was his roommate but the roommate's brother answered the door with this white Squire Telecaster hanging around his neck. 'Cool guitar,' I said off handedly. 'You wanna buy it?' he asked. 'Hell no, I said. 'What do I need with a guitar?' Then as I'm walking through the courtyard leaving the apartment complex, I hear this little voice in my head say, 'Dude, your birthday's coming up. Do something for yourself.' I walked back up the path, threw down $75 and I had my first guitar. I took it back to San Diego and immediately bought a book on how to play rock guitar. Not reading music; tablature, where you use pictures and numbers. I got pretty good pretty fast." The Tao Te Ching says the thousand-mile journey begins with a first step. Sean Campbell paid attention to the unseen voice and started walking his walk, no destination in mind save exploring whether he was, in fact, destined to make rock n' roll his life's calling. Naturally, the road to success or revelation is often, forgive the expression, rocky. "I had different jobs in the 90s," he says. "I interned at Sony Music for Larry Douglas in the A&R department but no scouting, mostly administrative stuff. I remember one day I was in the stock room and saw this tower of boxes containing CD singles by a hot new band on the label called Pearl Jam. I took one of those 'Alive' discs home. It was inspiring. Hearing Eddie Vedder's voice and those powerful chords. I started fooling around with writing my own songs. Riffs that I attached poems to. I found I liked to write poems. But the day job wasn't inspiring. It was busy work. So I bailed." As he developed his own chops and material, Sean was introduced to a local guitarist who would have a profound effect on his life and music. "His name was Jeff Powell," he recalls. "He played bass in a band called Dr. Whiskey, fronted by a guy named S.C. "Stuart" Bailey, Axl Rose's brother. I'll never forget cruising up to Axl's Malibu house, that living room with those radiant white couches, grand piano, giant glass windows and hypnotic view of the Pacific. That scene represented the big enchilada of success to me then. "Jeff's talent was undeniable. I knew he was the shit so I built a band around him called Swamp and became their manager. But along with immense musical gifts came a gamut of personal demons. His mom committed suicide and that haunted him. He often escaped into the 'snow' fields. One day in the spring of '94, someone called me and said that Jeff had driven his car into a wall at 85 mph. He was killed instantly. I've felt his presence a lot the last couple years as the Deputy Zero incarnation began to take shape." Sean Campbell has just finished writing, recording and producing his debut effort, a notable, home-grown seven song EP that features some genuinely smoky riffs and potent phrase twisting. Sean's gift for alliteration marries nicely with heavy hooks and dynamic production. "Blazing the trail of a new generation/Fighting the shadow of a bad reputation/Come together and give a demonstration/Don't be a part of the common population." In the track, "Common Population," the archetype of the leader on the path comes through. In the bold, progressively tinged, "Eye in the Sky," the metaphor again evokes evolution, and elevation. "The things we see below don't matter/Fight the fear of heights and climb the ladder/Walk away from the disaster/Turn around and face the Master." In 2008, Sean Campbell is beginning to acknowledge who that Master truly is. Though his commitment to yoga, accelerated devotion to self examination and acknowledging the Synchronicity that has brought forth a phenomenal rhythm section and a fellow Guru Singh student who just happens to be a rock journalist in the throes of his own elevation (I first walked into Yoga West in the winter of 1998 and haven't been the same since), Sean is beginning to see the reflection of his own talent, purpose, humility and humanity. "I don't want to grow up," he admits. "I want to grow OUT. This will sound odd because Deputy Zero is my first record but that chapter is already closed. Those songs are done, past. I will never write that way again. I'm going to be twice the guitar player I am now in a very short time. And twice the vocalist. Something clicked this year. My prime motivation for making music is to uplift and excite people and in the process, pass on a positive message. That's my mantra." And a fine mantra it is. Here's to a wild and conscious future. Sat Nam, brother. Lonn Friend Copyright Rumi Enterprises 2008.
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GLEN BURNIE, Md. (WJZ)– Political problems in Anne Arundel County. A sex scandal involving County Executive John Leopold leaves local lawmakers in a tough spot.
Derek Valcourt has more on what residents are saying about the allegations.
County residents are paying attention, and many say they are not impressed with what's happening.
Embattled County Executive John Leopold faces criticism from voters after a criminal indictment alleges he used the officers assigned to protect him for personal errands and not official county business. Leopold insists those charges are not true.
"I'm very confident when all of the relevant facts are known, that we will prevail," he said.
Leopold's latest troubles come amid other political problems in Anne Arundel County. Earlier this year, one council member was removed from office as he heads to prison for tax evasion. Councilman Dick Ladd recently apologized for using a racial slur aimed at Asians.
"I say what I think. I try to do it as carefully as I can. Sometimes, I clearly don't," Ladd explained.
"I think Anne Arundel County does have a lot of problems," one resident said.
That leaves many in the county with real questions, and in some cases, downright disdain for their political leaders.
"It's disappointing to say the least," another resident said.
"These people who run for politics should be more careful about what they do," said another.
Valcourt: "Do you have any faith right now in your county government?"
Anne Arundel County Resident: "Not really."
Valcourt: "What about the county executive?"
Anne Arundel County Resident: "No, that's horrible. That's a terrible abuse of power."
Leopold faces five criminal charges, including four counts of misconduct in office. His first court hearing is scheduled for March 26.


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How can I make this medical mystery as realistic as possible in my story?
Setting is a college in a small American town in New Jersey.
I'm writing this juvenile mystery series where the main character utilizes the labs in his school to solve mysteries.
In this first mystery, a student is found passed out. Everyone thinks it's alcohol poisoning but the main character is the only one who witnesses the guy foam at the mouth and coughed up blood. In reality, he was poisoned but survived (he also drank a lot at a party and the pepretator took advantage of that to mask the fact that he was poisoned). I may alter this in any way as I decide what poison to use and learn more about poisons.
The paramedics take the victim away and then later he's in a coma. But I'm split as to whether or not to put the victim in a coma.
How can I make this so that the doctors CAN'T figure out the victim was poisoned despite doing blood tests while the victim is in a coma? If the doctors would find a way no matter what, then I probably won't put the victim in a coma and everyone, including him, thinks he just drank too much.
(any suggestions on what poison to use is also appreciated)
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