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Hello. I am looking for a battery powered (rechargeable) portable with big sound for when going away when there is no mains power. I borrowed a friends Bose acoustic wave music system II - with a case and two rechargeable batteries and was very impressed with it - the big sound for a small portable and the battery life. I have looked everywhere, and can see NOTHING from any other manufacturer that is truly mains free portable and puts out as much volume. I would say this has to be a niche product for them. I know everyone seems to dislike Bose (I had their acoustimass speakers when I was a kid, then got into some decent gear!! - but thought they were great at the time.. hmmmmm). Any suggestions to an alternative, because I CANNOT find one anywhere....
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Portable Audio with rechargeable batteries - BOSE??
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Bose rechargable audio
use the Bose soundock portable
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This will sound wierd,
This will sound wierd, but...Take a look at this itty, bitty rig....
85db LOUD
8-10 hours of play per charge...
I could not believe the sound when I heard it and, I have one on order...
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What's the point?
The other earlier system mentioned is a lot more powerful than the Bose sound dock which only has one inbuilt battery!!!! wasn't that impressed with the sound of sound dock either.


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The Mexican League announced that it has suspended Cuban outfielder Alfredo Despaigne for life for using a false Dominican passport to play for the Campeche Pirates.
Should Despaigne ever choose to leave Cuba, his Mexican League suspension would not affect his ability to play in Major League Baseball. According to MLB, while the league honors the contractual rights of the Mexican League (as it does with other foreign professional leagues), MLB does not have have any agreement to honor Mexican League suspensions. The Mexican League is an associate member of Minor League Baseball, but it is an independent league.
Last month the league had temporarily suspended Despaigne after Dominican authorities told ESPN Deportes that his passport was fraudulent, but the league has since said it received official word from the Dominican government that Despaigne's passport was false. The Mexican League also announced that Enrique Rosado, the president of the Campeche Pirates, is banned for life from holding any title in the league.
Despaigne, who turns 28 next week, had been playing for Cuba in a deal brokered by the Cuban government that allowed him to play for Campeche and earn a salary from the Pirates, then return home to Cuba when the season ended. Despaigne had played for Campeche at the end of the Mexican League season last year too, but at the Winter Meetings in December, Minor League Baseball told the league it would prefer it didn't sign Cuban residents, since it could create an issue with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which enforces the Cuban embargo. So to play in the league, Despaigne was using a Dominican passport, although given that OFAC would only care that a player is still a Cuban resident, the logic of using that passport to allow him to play in the league isn't clear.
Despaigne joined Campeche on April 23 and hit .346/.407/.603 in 20 games for the Pirates. During the 2013-14 Cuban season that ended in March, Despaigne led Serie Nacional in OPS by batting .311/.474/.533 in 254 plate appearances split between Granma in the first half and Santiago de Cuba in the second half.
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Slackware booting problem with Lilo...
Hello, I installed Slackware 10.2 on my computer with S-Ata hard disk. In installation I installed lilo too. Now I have booting problem with lilo. I can't boot Slack with lilo boot loader. On these lines booting stoped.
Kmod: faild to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
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I have heard of an install where the kernel named the SATA drives as if they were IDE, try boot: Linux root=/dev/hda10 noinitrd ro. (If that changes anything, then you'll have work to do on entries in the /etc/fstab )
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When I click on the mipmap exploded view of the file I am editing the view should be focused on the area of the file that i clicked on. right now it behaves as if i had clicked into the scroll bar area and moves me (based on the height of the edit window) a percentage into the file.
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If the minimap is just going to be a visual scrollbar, I think it would be better to only accept clicks on the view-able highlight, like a scroll-bar slider.
Though, I much prefer clicking taking me to the actually code I clicked.
The current implementation of the minimap drives me insane every time I click it. Even if it were a configurable option, that would be nice.
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He searched his memory, trying to figure out what had just happened and where he was. Then he remembered, and it was like a bludger hitting him in the head - a vampire had bitten him.
A wave of fear washed over him as he realized his predicament. He was no longer laying on the cold, hard cobblestones of Knockturn Alley. He was laying on something relatively soft. He opened his eyes, and was shocked at what he saw - even though it was pitch black, he could see perfectly. .
He was in a room with no windows, laying on a cot in the corner. On the far wall, was an old antique wardrobe. A large, threadbare rug covered the concrete floor.
Suddenly, he felt a slight tremor, then another, and another. It was...footsteps! They were coming nearer and nearer.
Harrys mind whirled! What was happening to him? Suddenly, the door opened slowly, and a figure walked in.
For some reason, Harry felt like he should have gasped at the sight of the creature that walked into he room, but another instinct seemed to take over. It calmed him completely.
Harry sat up, and watched the figure approach him. He felt heavier somehow. He could feel every step the creature took, although his feet didn't make a sound as he walked across the floor.
Harry could hardly believe it - the man had wings. They were curled up against his back, thick and leathery. They reminded Harry of the wings of a thestral. His skin was a pale, grey color, and he had long, white fingernails. His hair was solid black, and he had dark brown eyes. They were soft, and almost sad.
"Hello." His voice was silky, but it was nothing like the sickening, drawling voice of Snape or Malfoy. It was almost pleasant. "Doubtless you are wondering how you have come about to be in this strange place." His voice was cold, but warmth reflected in his eyes.
"Yes." Harry said. He noticed that his voice sounded cold as well. Now that he thought about it, his whole body felt cold, but it didn't bother him; it felt only natural.
"I found you in a dark alley, only hours ago. He began to explain, Naturally, I am sure that you have guessed I am an immortal. We hunt the unprotected. You were completely vulnerable, so it was you I attacked."
Harry remembered the cold hand that came down upon his shoulder in the darkness of the alley.
"You were bitten, I am sure that you know. He continued, looking sadder than ever. I am afraid that...you have turned. It does not happen often, but when it does, it is...quite regrettable.
Harry's eyes widened. 'I'm a vampire...'
"I see you are shocked. The creature stepped closer to him. Completely understandable...I have changed your life...This is the first time in quite some time that anyone has turned. I am ashamed to be the cause of it."
Harrys head was reeling. This man...this vampire had bitten him, and now, he himself was a vampire. What on earth was he going to do? What would everyone think? He pushed himself up out of the cot and swung his legs over the side, resting his head in his hands. His heart was hammering as the full weight of what had just happened finally struck him
"My name is Vladmir" Said the vampire, Please, do not be afraid...I am here to help you, and I will do everything I can to make things easy for you....
"Please, listen to the things I am about to tell you, He continued perhaps they may answer many more of your questions, then we will leave here before the sun rises."
It is said that those who practice sorcery may easily turn that those who do not. He began, taking a seat in a chair on the other side of the room. I see you have a wand, so I only guess you are a wizard?"
"Yes, I am." Harry replied, looking up finally. Vladmir smiled, revealing his fangs at last. Harry was taken aback to also feel a pair of elongated teeth just behind his lips.
Vladmir continued speaking. Some say that those who live a life which is smitten with unhappiness will turn towards us. I sense much despair in you, even before hand.
Harry nodded. A thought occurred him. ...Vladmir? He asked. I never knew that some people didnt turn into vampires when they were bitten...
Vladmir smiled gravely. Yes...it is extremely rare. I am certain that in your studies, you have heard many untruths about our kind. he explained. You are going to find that much of what you have heard is quite false.
Now, he went on, I think it would be a good idea if you stood, and examined yourself.
Harry did as he was told, and got to his feet. When he looked down at himself, he could barely contain a scream of surprise - He too had large, leathery wings which folded around his back. His wizard robe seemed very unpleasant now, and he had a strange desire to change them. His skin was the same pale, sick color as Vladmir's. He slowly lifted his pale fingers to his mouth, and felt the fangs. He hadn't eaten since lunch earlier that day before the will reading, and
yet he had no desire to eat anything at the moment. His skin was cold as ice.
He was truly mesmerized by the great black wings protruding from his back. He willed them to open, and they did. They unfolded themselves beautifully and stretched out away from him.
When they were fully open, he guessed they were nearly twelve feet across.
"Yes." Vladmir said, "I knew you might be most astonished by them. But they only appear at night - when the sun rises, they will disappear until the sun goes down again.
Harry was more than astonished. It frightened him that his original horror about becoming a vampire was slowly diminishing, and an unnerving excitement replaced it.
"I have yet to ask you Vladmir said suddenly, what is your name?"
Harry smiled, glad to finally met someone who didn't know he was. "Its Harry."
"Harry. Well, I will ask you to please follow me."
Vladmir turned toward the door, and Harry followed without reluctance.
Severus walked briskly down a hallway in an old house. He had been painfully summoned by Voldemort. He reached the door he had been searching for and turned the knob.
He entered the dark room and immediately sensed the presence of his master, standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by the few death eaters who had already arrived. Snape
fell to his knees and crawled forward, kissing the hem of Voldemort's robes, as customary.
"Master." He said.
"Welcome Severus." Replied Voldemort in a cold voice. He sounded slightly pleased about something.
Snape stood and retreated to the circle of waiting death eaters. Every few seconds, more would arrive in the same fashion, each dropping to their knees before the Dark Lord. After a few minutes, when all had arrived, Voldemort spoke-
"Welcome, my death eaters. I have...unexpected news."
Snape knew the news was somehow going to involve Potter, and he wondered what mess he had possibly gotten himself into this time.
"He is out there somewhere, Voldemorts voice rang in the room. Finally away from the protection of Dumbledore and his relatives - I can feel it. This is where you come in, my faithful friends. I want you to find him, and bring him to me, once and for all. He paced lightly, Oh, but I must warn you, my friends... He continued devilishly, I am tired of being let down, I am tired of my supporters failing me. This time, you shall not fail, or you will surely face the consequences...Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, My Lord." Rang several voices, muffled by masks.
"Very good... He replied, now, go, and bring him to me alive."
Dumbledore, Remus, Moody, Tonks, and Mary apparated into the living room at number four, where Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the twins all sat, playing games of wizards chess, and exploding snap.
Remus seemed to be having a nervous breakdown, and the sight of him instilled fear into the younger occupants of the room.
"Please, Tonks and Mary," said Dumbledore, "Will you kindly take Remus and fix him a calming drought?"
"Yes, Albus." Tonks said, and she and Mary led a disgruntled Remus from the room.
"Headmaster?" Hermione asked cautiously, realizing that something must be wrong if Remus was here, alone, when they had clearly seen Harry leaving with him only hours ago. "Whats going on?"
Ron, Ginny and the twins turned to him as well, awaiting an answer. Moody turned his head to the ground and disappeared down the kitchen stairs.
"Everything will be explained in time, Miss Granger," He replied gently, before he followed Moody down the kitchen stairs. The three teens looked at each other apprehensively.
Down in the kitchen, Dumbledore addressed Mrs Weasley. Molly, have you contacted Arthur?
Molly stopped her pacing and looked up. Yes, Albus, hes waiting for you at the Ministry.
Very well. He said, as he crossed to the fireplace to prepare to leave.
Albus, She said suddenly, whispering with a frightened look in her eye, Is it him? You-Know-Who?
No, Molly, Dumbledore replied, It isnt, but this fact could cause even worse problems for us.
She looked down to the floor, heartbroken. Her eyes flickered back up to the aged wizard in front of her ...Isnt there anything more I can do?
Dumbledore stopped and looked at her, gently. There are a few people upstairs who I think should hear an explanation of what is happening, he said, implying the teens in the living room, But, Ill leave that decision to you.
And then he and Moody stepped into the fire and were gone.
Molly stood in the kitchen, alone, wrenching her hands together. Her mind was reeling with the nights events. A sickening worry had enveloped her...it was as if she had lost one of her own sons, and she felt helpless, being left at Grimmauld Place. What could possibly have happened to Harry, if it was not You-Know-Whos doing? Who else would want to hurt the boy?
The scene around her swam in and out of focus as she thought, and only when she heard the sound of several feet echoing down the stairs did she compose herself again.
Mum? Whats going on. George asked seriously after the five appeared in the doorway. It was evident they knew that something was horribly amiss.
Molly started for a moment, staring at her youngest son, her only daughter, their friend, and her twin sons, all watching and waiting for an explanation. ...Sit down dears.
The five of them walked over to the table and sat down around it, waiting.
Slowly, she began to tell them what she knew. "...Remus, Harry and a friend of Sirius' named Mary Calloway, were all at Diagon Alley after the will reading today. Harry was on his way to Gringotts, when he...somehow disappeared in Knockturn Alley."
Hermione and Ginny gasped, but Ron, Fred and George looked confused.
"What do you mean, disappeared?" Ron asked, his brow furrowed.
"Well, we dont know how it happened yet, she replied, but Mary is a seer. She said she had a vision of something happening in Knockturn Alley involving Harry. Remus and the others went to look for them, but...there wasnt any sign of him.
The full weight of the issue finally crashed into the woman, and she was unable to hold back a sob, even in front of her children.
Well, what are they doing now? Fred asked, sounding angry. We should be out looking for them!
Yeah! George chimed in, What if You-Know-Who is after him?
No, She replied strongly, finally sure of one fact, Professor Dumbledore has assured me that it was not his doing.
They sat in silence for a moment. The tension in the room has liable to snap at any moment, and it finally did when Ginny sobbed loudly and broke into tears.
Molly rushed over to her daughter. There, there, she cooed, "There isnt much we can do right now, so why dont we all go upstairs and try to get some sleep, alright?
No, mum, Ginny cried, her voice gathering strength. Im going to stay up. I want to wait for someone to get back and let us know what is happening!
Ginnys right, Ron added, I couldnt sleep at a time like this anyway. Well stay awake with you.
Mrs Weasley smiled at their resolve. Under normal circumstances, her children would not disobey her commands, but at a time like this, she couldnt find it in herself to say no.
A few after Molly stood up to make some tea, the fireplace glowed green and Severus Snape emerged. He glanced at the teens sitting around the table and contained a rude comment.
Molly immediately turned around to face him. Oh, Severus, She exclaimed, Is there any news?
"Remus was correct, The potions master began, the Dark Lord does not have Potter, but he doesn't know where he is, either. He has sent out all the death eaters in a search for him."
All the younger Weasleys in the room glared at the man, unsure of what to think of his information, but Molly gasped.
Oh dear... She whispered.
Where has Albus gone? Severus asked suddenly, I must report to him.
Hes gone to the Ministry with Arthur and Alastor. Molly replied immediately.
The potions master nodded, and disappeared into the fireplace without another word.
Git... Ron muttered under his breath after Snape had gone. Fred, George and Ginny agreed silently while Hermione shot him a look.
Dont talk like that, Ron. Molly reprimanded as the tea kettle began to whistle, Severus job is harder than you can imagine.
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6660 No, nothing to do with the Satan or Anti-Christ thing but my Birthday. And oddly enough, at 6 something in the morning, weighting 6 something pounds. What a strange thing to happen to an innocent little person you might think but this is only the beginning. Shortly after the birth, a hernia operation while still in the hospital. The first of my many scars.
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Late 60's Life is good for a small town boy. Not a care in the world. There was that one day I was playing like Edwin Moses, aspiring to be a track star and jumped the barbed wire fence with shorts on and didn't get quite high enough. OUCH! A nasty gash on the underside of my left thigh. Boy did that hurt and bleed like crazy. Didn't go for stitches however…. But probably should have. It left a pretty good scar that is still visible today. (scar 2)
The Teen Thing
1975 Life is still good for a small town boy. At this time sports was everything to me. Judo was what I was good at for awhile as a younger lad until it became boring and more team oriented school sports came to light. I remember being very proud to be a starter with two of my good buddies on the varsity football team as a Freshman. Never had the privilege to play JV, but boy did we get the crap knocked out of us playing varsity!!! Where 'em I going with this …. Got clobbered on the chin in a ball game and got stitches, Happened again the game after. Not fun but again started tallying the scars!!! (scar 3 & 4)
1976 Just another great day living in McCall on a beautiful lake in a great house with a loving family. WaBam, a lump in my neck that happened overnight, seriously, I had never noticed it before since I was working at a construction job and training for another year on the high school football team. I was a no-neck at that time and noticed that the left side was a little larger then the other. My mother, being the nurse that she was, understood what it was right off but never let on to me of the seriousness. The next step was the biopsy in the little McCall memorial hospital (scar 5). Strange thing since that was the first that I can remember of being in the hospital having surgery. Local anaesthetic, I could hear and feel what was going on so it was a little scary but nothing a self proclaimed jock couldn't handle. Bad news as it came back being Hodgkin's and off to Boise we went. First stop was with the doctors at MSTI where many tests were performed including a bone marrow test (felt like my leg was being sucked off from the inside) (scar 6), radioactive tracing injected through the tops of my feet (scars 7 & 8) and then to St Luke's for a spleenectomy and exploratory lymph node surgery (scar 9). That all seemed to go fine, a bit painful but needed. From there many weeks of cobalt radiation therapy that made me nauseous and some of my hair fallout. Not good.
1977 Made it through all of that only to get chickenpox once I returned to McCall for good which put me back in the hospital for a week. A few chickenpox scars but none that I'll count here.
Motorcycle accident Recovered from all of that only to get into a Motorcycle accident racing up a mountain road with two friends. Lucky they were friends, because they hauled me back to McCall memorial where the diagnosis was three cracked vertebrae in the lower back. That was painful and no scars.
Prom with a cane Because I was so lucky, I ended up going to my senior prom with a tux and cane. The result of the motorcycle accident. Wasn't too bad since I mostly danced only to slow songs!!!
The Midlife Fiasco Slingshot forward 20 years and that's were it gets real interesting once again. Seems like when you start getting tried and heartburn sets in you would think that getting old is a bummer. Funny, I would have swore when I almost passed out while walking up a hill golfing or sweating while walking to my car in the middle of a cold January day, that that was just the result of old age. Yeah right.
Round 1 After much prodding by my wife and realization that something might be wrong, I consulted my doctor. Off to the cardiologist where after blood and treadmill tests he recommended an angiogram (scar 10) . Went in for that on Sept 23rd and the results were not good. 98% blocked on several arteries on the heart and scheduled for a triple bypass the next day. Of course I had business at work to conclude so asked if I could be admitted the next week, not a chance. Back to St Lukes in Boise and time for pokes and prods and tests and forms and questions and ……… the next morning off to surgery after a full body shave,(not a physical scar but mentally, yes). Nine hours later after an anticipated triple turned into a six bypass and twice flatlining on the table, I made it to the recovery room. Stressful for all involved even though I slept right through it. Went home eight days later. (scars 11, 12 & 13)
Round 2 Went in for my 3 month treadmill test to see how I was progressing. Unfortunately the numbers weren't stellar so I was scheduled for another angiogram. (scar 14) This was done on 12-24-97 and the outcome was not a present to have. The main circumflex artery had kinked and it was too radical to perform an angioplasty…. Heart surgery number two!!! Of course I was gung-ho about getting it done to eventually get on with my life so it was scheduled for Jan. 23 (mother's birthday) but my surgeon had a kidney stone attack earlier that week and was taken to surgery himself. Jan. 30 turned out to be D-day 2 and was basically the same procedure before hand although I knew everything that was going to happen so the anxiety was much higher. The plan - to go in, fix the circumflex and get out. A heart pump was inserted before the surgery as I went through one more angiogram (scar 15) to make sure of what needed to be done and to make it easier for my heart to start back up afterward. Six hours later the outcome was much better then the first time but instead of using the circumflex Y, another three by passes were used instead in addition to repairing the kink. So all total, the by pass was 9 with a half to fix the circumflex (9 1/2). (scars 16 &17)
The Tragedy Between the first and second surgery it was found that my stepfather (Pop) need to have bypass surgery as well, anticipated a triple. Of course the stress was sky high with this announcement but never the less he went in for surgery three days before my scheduled surgery. All went well and he was recovering. After my surgery and while I was recovering, complications happened to Pop and he died. The impact and stress was too much for me so precautions were taken to keep me stable which lengthened my stay. My opinion was that when he died that day, he gave me his strength to carry on and battle the issues that were dealt. It seemed so, since the day I left the hospital I felt 100% stronger then the first surgery and even stopped off at Wendy's to get a chicken sandwich and a coke to go home with (hospital food….arggg!).
Good Blood? Routine blood test after the second surgery reveled that I had elevated liver function numbers that motivated my cardiologist to refer me to my family doctor for further tests. The tests proved positive for the hepatitis antibody and subsequent PRS test showed positive for the hepatitis virus. I was referred to a hepatology specialist. Explanation of the virus and possible treatment was discussed a sell as a liver biopsy. (scar 18) It was decided to seek a second opinion from a specialist at the U of W in Seattle. The conclusion was that it would be best to let my Heart condition stabilize more before treatment since the side affects could be damaging to heart patients…. Great!!!
The Dog Part It is true that Dog is Man's best friend, but this true story is way out there. Shortly after I found out about the Hepatitis issue, our dog who is 12 years old was taken in for a checkup. It was very odd to find out that he had a heart murmur and was considered at high risk. Shortly before finding that out, I had another checkup for my condition and it was recommended that I take beta blockers to help with a slight angina pain. The initial course of treatment for my dog was - hold on to your hat, to start taking beta blockers too. He also later required digitalis. What a pair we are.
More to come. Anybody out there a ghost writer that can start putting this into best seller book??!!!:)


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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Dartmouth College is documenting its diversity with an oral history project focused on the previously silent voices of students and staff.
While the college already has extensive audio recordings of former presidents, administrators and trustees, officials at the Rauner Special Collections Library decided last year to expand their oral archives to include current and former students, faculty and staff.
The goal is to illustrate how increasing diversity has changed the Dartmouth community since World War II, with a focus on collecting stories that show what it means to be an insider or outsider on the Ivy League campus, said project leader Mary Donin.
"We wanted everybody to feel eligible, and I think it's fair to say all of us in our lives at some point feel like we don't belong," said Donin. "It's a common theme among students coming in here ... so we wanted to have a lens to look at this community through that would allow everybody to speak to that topic."
The process has been decidedly unscientific, Donin said, with participants recruited largely by word of mouth and notices in alumni publications. About 60 interviews have been completed, and officials hope to do 300 to 400 by the time the five-year project ends.
Getting folks to open up hasn't been difficult, she said. To the contrary, some sessions have been so personal, participants have asked that they not be published until more time has passed, she said. But most were willing to have their words shared immediately.
"I'm just astounded," Donin said. "People who have come forward have stories of both pain and growth and recognition of who they really are as human beings that happened to them while they were at Dartmouth, and I just think that's an incredibly generous gift for any person to offer up to the world."
Participants have included one of the first women to graduate from Dartmouth after it went co-ed in 1972 and a 1959 graduate who became the first black student to join the Delta Upsilon fraternity after the house's brothers stood up to alumni who tried to block him. Among the more recent alumni was Michael Amico, a 2007 graduate who described how his role as an activist for gay rights and other issues made him both an insider and outsider during his time in Hanover.
"Because we felt so strongly about these issues, we were the most public about them certainly, but also just the most public voices on campus. So people just knew who I was. And thus you come to have kind of like a central place in the kind of contemporary mythology of Dartmouth, right?" he said in his interview. "You're certainly on the outside in some ways. But you're probably more on the inside than you think, in really powerful ways."
Amico, now working on a doctoral degree in American history at Yale University, said he readily agreed to participate because he both loves talking about his Dartmouth experience and appreciates the project's importance as a historian. While he called the insider vs. outsider theme a good framework for the interviews, he said that in reality, the topic is far more complex.
"It's a good way of thinking about how the individual created his or her own world," he said. "You couldn't really figure out what Dartmouth was like or wasn't like on any general level, and I think it would be almost dangerous to try because it is so different for every individual. So these kinds of archives allow us to think about what the school was like purely through the eyes of an individual and how they shaped their own world."
Bruce Duthu, chairman of Dartmouth's Native American studies department, was one of about 10 Native American students in his class when he graduated in 1980. He said he hopes the project will provide insight into an era during which Dartmouth was re-making itself, and that interviews like his will let listeners "catch a community in a moment of pivotal change."
During his interview, Duthu describes how he � along with female and black students � faced often overwhelming scrutiny about whether they were "affirmative action babies" who wouldn't otherwise have qualified for admittance. And while he quickly found a circle of friends among other minority students, feeling like he belonged to the broader Dartmouth community, including the classroom, took longer, he said. Until the mid-1970s, Dartmouth's unofficial symbol and sports mascot was a Native American figure, and many in the community resisted doing away with it, he said.
"The major bump in the road for us was how to get an entire community to think about and embrace us as human beings instead of dead cultures whose only moments to celebrate were in the past instead of in our futures," he said.
Each interview lasts between 30 minutes and an hour, Donin said, but all the "boring library stuff" necessary to transcribe and properly archive the information takes about 30 hours. Upcoming participants include campus maintenance workers and dining hall staff, many of whom she said end up acting as quasi-therapists to students as they serve up food.
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What Chemicals Are in Food? Simple Solutions to Avoid Harmful Toxins in Food
By Melinda Wenner Moyer, "How you can avoid BPA, mercury, pesticides and more chemicals in your food.," September/October 2011
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The American Chemistry Council, the trade organization representing the plastics industry, maintains that BPA "poses no known risks to human health." Nevertheless, a consensus statement published by 38 academic and EPA researchers in 2007 noted "a relationship between treatment with 'low doses' of BPA" and many negative health outcomes. (By "low doses," they mean doses to which humans are regularly exposed—resulting in blood levels of about 1 nanogram of BPA per milliliter.) For instance, two studies published by researchers at the University of Exeter in England reported an association between higher everyday exposure to BPA and increased risk of heart disease. A study published in 2010 by researchers at Kaiser Permanente reported that the more BPA men have, the lower their sperm count and motility. And in 2009, researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill reported that children who were exposed to high levels of BPA in the womb were more likely to exhibit aggression and hyperactivity as 2-year-olds.
The FDA admitted back in January 2010 that it had "some concern" about the safety of BPA; still, it has not taken action to restrict use of the chemical—unlike Canada and the European Union, which banned the chemical from baby bottles in 2008 and 2011, respectively. But 10 states—Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin—have taken the matter into their own hands, passing legislation to ban BPA from baby products. As of June, California was advancing legislation to do the same. And it is possible to buy BPA-free canned foods: for instance, Eden Organics' canned beans and all Kroger-brand canned foods are now BPA-free. I also discovered that Pomi, an Italian brand, sells diced and strained tomatoes in BPA-free cardboard boxes, so I now use those.
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House Natural Resources Public Lands and Environmental Regulation subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) released the following statement in reaction to reports that President Obama will nominate Recreational Equipment Inc. "REI" CEO Sally Jewell as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, replacing departing Secretary Ken Salazar
"I have some reservations about President Obama's selection of Sally Jewell. While I certainly respect her business expertise, the President had other options who possessed extensive experience with public policy in the west and the impacts of so much federally-owned land. Additionally, her company has intimately supported several special interest groups and subsequently helped to advance their radical political agendas. The jurisdiction of the Department of Interior is extremely broad and extends across many platforms, requiring the Secretary to take a balanced approach to both conservation and the responsible use of our lands and resources. Unfortunately, Utah's lands and resources have been a consistent target of this Administration and it is my hope that the next DOI Secretary takes a less heavy-handed approach when it comes to picking winners and losers. Since the House has no formal role in the nomination process, I will work with Senators Hatch and Lee to ensure that Sally Jewell's past record is fully vetted and made clear so that we have a better understanding of what her priorities and focus will be at the Department of Interior."
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The Skamania County Sheriff's Office has suspended the search efforts for 27 year-old Dustin Ferguson.
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One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the Chinese/North Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended them. Laura and Euna were charged with trespassing and "hostile acts", and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il's notoriously secretive Communist state.
Kept totally apart, they endured months of interrogations and eventually a trial before North Korea's highest court. They were the first Americans ever to be sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in a prison camp in North Korea.
When news of the arrest reached Laura's sister, journalist Lisa Ling, she immediately began a campaign to get her sister released, one that led her from the State Department to the higher echelons of the media world and eventually to the White House.
Somewhere Inside reveals for the first time Laura's gripping account of what really happened on the river, her treatment at the hands of North Korean guards, and the deprivations and rounds of harrowing interrogations she endured.
Told in the sisters' alternating voices, Somewhere Inside is a timely, inspiring tale of survival set against the canvas of international politics that goes beyond the headlines to reveal the impact on lives engulfed by forces beyond their control. But it is also a window into the unique bond these two sisters have always shared, a bond that sustained them throughout the most horrifying ordeal of their lives.
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Ventilator-associated lung injury
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An acute lung injury that develops during mechanical ventilation is termed ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) if it can be proven that the mechanical ventilation caused the acute lung injury. In contrast, ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) exists if a causative relationship cannot be proven. VALI is the appropriate term in most clinical situations because it is virtually impossible to prove causation outside of the research laboratory [1].
The pathogenesis, risk factors, incidence, prevention, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of VALI are discussed in this topic review. Other complications of mechanical ventilation are described separately. (See "Physiologic and pathophysiologic consequences of mechanical ventilation" and "Diagnosis, management, and prevention of pulmonary barotrauma during invasive mechanical ventilation in adults".)
Alveolar overdistension and cyclic atelectasis are the principal initiators of alveolar injury during positive pressure ventilation [2]. Severe alveolar injury results in high permeability interstitial and alveolar edema, alveolar hemorrhage, hyaline membranes, loss of functional surfactant, and alveolar collapse [1,3]. The relative importance of alveolar overdistension and cyclic atelectasis on the pathogenesis of VALI is unknown [3].
Alveolar overdistension — Lung injury due to alveolar distension is referred to as alveolar strain. It reflects the presence of an elevated transpulmonary pressure (the difference between the airway pressure and the pleural pressure) or, more broadly, the ratio between the volume of gas delivered during a tidal breath and the amount of aerated lung receiving it [4]. The following animal studies distinguish between the effect of volume and pressure on the lung. Specifically, they demonstrate that high tidal volumes cause lung injury, but high airway pressure does not:
●Rats were mechanically ventilated using high pressure plus high tidal volumes, low pressure plus high tidal volumes, or high pressure plus low tidal volumes [5]. The only group that did not develop lung injury was the group ventilated with low tidal volumes (figure 1).To continue reading this article, you must log in with your personal, hospital, or group practice subscription. For more information on subscription options, click below on the option that best describes you:
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The Oscar nominations went out this morning (read the full list of nominees here), and as usual, there are plenty of snubs and surprises to get worked up about. Everyone has a personal reaction to these nominations, and despite the fact that the nominees went largely as people expected them to, I found a lot to feel passionate about. Below are my 10 reasons to be thrilled about these nominations, and five reasons to be utterly horrified. Oscar giveth, and Oscar taketh away.
10 Things To Be Thrilled About...
Up nominated for Best Picture. Because it's only the second animated film in history to pull that off, and Pixar has deserved a spot at this table since 1995.
In the Loop nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Because it's wicked political satire and rapid-fire dialogue are unmatched in wit and wisdom, and more people need to know this movie exists.
Christopher Plummer gets his first Oscar nomination. Because his work in the movies has been invaluable, and Oscars are meaningless, but it's nice to at least acknowledge the guy exists.
Alexandre Desplat's Fantastic Mr. Fox work nominated for Best Original Score. Because he took what Mark Mothersbaugh did with Anderson's previous films and made it more childlike, more complex and more magical.
Christian Berger's The White Ribbon work nominated for Best Cinematography. Because the stark black and white images weren't just beautiful, but they mimicked the bleak nature of the story they were telling.
Transformers 2 only managed to get one nomination, for Sound Mixing. Because its version of shiny things blowing up wasn't nearly as nuanced as all its fellow nominees, and this movie does not deserve to be rewarded in any way.
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus nominated for Art Direction and Costume Design. Because the film is a mess, but it looks exquisite.
Leona Lewis's "I See You" snubbed for Best Original Song. Because it's no "My Heart WIll Go On," it's worse.
Janet Patterson's Bright Star work nominated for Costume Design. Because it's a movie about a woman who makes clothes, and they're absolutely gorgeous. The Costume Designers Guild snubbed Patterson, and the Oscars have righted a wrong.
...And Five To Be Horrified By
The Blind Side nominated for Best Picture. Because (500) Days of Summer, Star Trek, In the Loop, The White Ribbon, The Fantastic Mr. Fox etc. etc. were not.
(500) Days of Summer snubbed for Best Original Screenplay. Because its central time-shifting gimmick gave new insight about romance and relationships, and it was a crowd-pleaser that didn't feel dumb.
Matt Damon nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Because he's done so much good work that's gone ignored-- as in this year's The Informant-- and is now being nominated essentially for having good muscles and blond hair.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince nominated for Best Cinematography. Because it wasn't necessarily bad or anything, but did they see Bright Star? Or Nine?
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Once again we are in a zone where hiring software developers is incredibly challenging. The market is fully employed and while there is some movement between companies, great developers tend to be decided about what they are doing for a while, especially in an entrepreneurial context.
Last night I was at Angel Boot Camp in Boston. It was a dinner for about 50 angel investors – a mix of experienced ones and new ones – organized by Jon Pierce. A few of us (including me) gave short talks and there was a long, vibrant room-wide group conversation.
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Celebrities in Sunday's Gap Ad
As I was looking through my Sunday newspaper, I noticed that the Gap advert had a bunch of celebrities modeling the clothes. So, I decided to scan them and post there here.
A couple may have been posted (i.e. Will Arnett), but most I have not seen here.
Zoe Saldana (Actress - Center Stage, Crossroads, Drumline, Star Trek)...pictured with sisters, Cisely and Mariel
Will Arnett (Actor - G.O.B. on Arrested Development) / Amy Poehler (Actress - Saturday Night Live)
Amy Adams (Actress - Enchanted)
James Marsden (Actor - X-Men, Hairspray, Enchanted, 27 Dresses)
John Krasinski (Actor - The Office, featured in People's 2006 Sexiest Men Alive)
Angie Harmon (Actress - Baywatch, Law & Order, Agent Cody Banks, Women's Murder Club) / Jason Sehorn (former NFL cornerback with the New York Giants)
will.i.am (founding member and frontman of Black Eyed Peas)
Lorna Simpson (artist, photographer) & Daughter Zora
Amanda Peet (Actress - Jack & Jill, The Whole Nine Yards) & Daughter Frances Pen
Ai Tominaga (Japanese model / actress) & Son Akitsugu
Rodrigo Santoro (Brasilian Actor)
Caroline Trentini (Brasilian Model)
Julia Stegner (German Model)
Aline Nakashima (Brasilian Model)
Greta Hodgkinson (Principal at National Ballet of Canada) / Roberto Bolle (Italian Ballet Star)
ETA: Cast of 'Spring Awakening', posted by x0tinkerbellx0 here
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Which airbrush is "best" has been hashed over a plenty and I'm not going there. I just have a question...eh? The Paasche "H" is a single action airbrush that has a dial to adjust the amount of paint released so all the user has to do is press the finger button for air. The Paasche VL is a double action airbrush, but also has a dial just in front of the finger button that will also allow the user to set the amount of paint released. That is a mighty handy feature. Iwata is considered by many to be a very fine airbrush, but to my knowledge all models are genuine double action. That is, the user must have an educated finger to press for air and pull for paint simultaneously. Question; Are there any other makes/models of airbrushes that have a dial to allow the user to set the amount of paint released?
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Has a dial so to sprat at the back or end of the handle that allows you to pre set the amount of pull back or paint flow. I have looked at an aztec and it has a roller in the handle toward the back. I would assume all do, but I now love the Iwata it does everything I can and more.
not sprat. Is that even a word LOL
I have bought 2 airbrushes since I started taxidermy. The first was an aztec which was highly reccomended by people in my area. To say the least it sucked. I felt like every time I painted something new was wrong. I recently switched to a badger and it has been great. The aztec was not very durable and couldn't take shop abuse.
Plug the airbrush you have... Say it's the best and call it a day.
Paasche VL! Best hundred bucks I ever spent!
In all honesty, MOST double action brushes have an adjustable device in them somewhere that gives the user the option to use the brush as a single action. Some are great! Some are bad! Most are just good.
Here is a plug. The VL is a ok brush, I have one and it works ok, but to use it I have to adjust the wheel so it is like a single action. Therefore, it is no worth to me. Infact, I tried to sell it on here at one time.
The Iwata I have is a real good brush. The control of the button is so smooth I don't have to try and set it up like a single action to use it. The angle of the button on the Iwata is a lot better then the rounded straight position of the paasche vl.
Now there is my honest opinion. For me and anyone willing to try one an Iwata can't be beat. I bought my first Iwata about 3 years ago and there is no comparsion between the H and the VL I have. Then none compair to the custom micron I have on order. I used a friends last week that is just unreal. It blows them all away.
I didn't mention the aztecs and the badgers I have tried. They all have sucked.
But to answer your question Doug, Yes all double actions have some type of adjuster on them. The reason I use a double action is simply to be able to blow it out when it clogs and quickly continue working. The right mixture in you paints will make some single actions spray just as fine a line, just not as long. You will be well pleased if you decide on the Iwata, its a very good brush.
then again, I have more than once wanted to take the B.F.H. to all of my brushes but, that was mostly my fault with bad mixing or a dirty brush. Take care of these two details and they all are the best. Badger makes a brush( atleast they used to) named WREN and it is a single action that works well.
As Joey mentioned the Iwata HP-BC has an adjustable knob on the barrel for paint flow. My 1st air brush was a Paasche VL, I bought 7 yrs. ago. I still use it, but not for detail. I was able to get much better control / detail with the Iwata HP-BC.
Also, I read of others using paint brush or Sharpie pen for spot detail, which is fine. I have found that I can paint much faster (spot detail), using the Iwata, with a "softer" affect. The address below shows a Rainbow trout that I recently finished this way.
For what its worth...
Try a RichPen. The VL, H, and 150 badger that I have already don't hold a candle to the single and double action RichPen that I just bought.
Bearair.com has a great little brush that has been abused my yours truly for a long time, and sprays great. They claim they are made in the orient as well. If you don't want to shell out for an Iwata, you might try Peak.
I can actually get much SMALLER spots than that with the soft edges with my cheapo Pasche H and a NUMBER 3 TIP! It all comes down to how comfy you are with the airbrush and how well you learn the little tricks. To get those tiny spots with a medium tip all I do is turn the PSI to about 30 (sometimes higher!) and nearly close the tip all the way. Thin the paint of course, but not that much (you don't want it to run) The goal is to push a ton of air thru there with very, very little paint. And you've got to keep the paint flowing otherwise clogging is an issue (many give up here). The tip is perpendicular to the fish and only a millimeter or two from the fish and I simply hit the plunger quickly to form the spot. Sometimes you'll get a "splash" mark and this would indicate that the paint is too thin. The paint (I believe) is actually hitting the fish almost dry. I get SO close to the fish I sometimes hit the fish with the tip. With replicas this can cause a scratch right down to the white. But, it is easily fixed with a SPOT - lol!
I use the artist's brush for spots like on a King salmon. Their edge is much sharper and I cannot imagine anybody replicating these with an airbrush. I'm sure there are some, but I don;t think I could do it. Maybe with a number 1 tip - but that is STILL in it's brand new package!
The greatest thing about this simple little reliable air brush is just that. It never breaks unless I drop it. And, with the open cup it's got to be the quickest as far as clean up goes. I'm still using the same tip/set up w/o taking apart and cleaning and I've probably got 10 fish painted with it. For COMMERCIAL taxidermy I cannot see a need for anything fancier. But again, I believe it all comes down to personal preference and ability. Stick a straw filled with paint in Gary Bruch's mouth and he could paint the Mona Lisa...
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Yeezy season is approaching again — well, kind of. As a part of Universal Records' Respect The Classic campaign, Kanye's 808s & Heartbreak LP will be getting remastered and re-released some time next month — possibly in time for Valentine's Day. Via Respect The Classic's official site:
Universal Music has announced that some of the major, Hip-Hop albums will be re-mastered and re-issued which will be a part of their Respect The Classics campaign. Leading the charge will be 50 Cent's Diamond debut album Get Rich Or Die Tryin' which will receive a 10-year anniversary platinum vinyl edition on November 12th. Other albums include Eminem's The Slim Shady LP, Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter and more. According to the label, the aim is to highlight "spotlight iconic, genre-defining albums" from the back catalogs of Def Jam, Interscope, Priority and Virgin Records imprints.
The remastered 808s & Heartbreak, which was originally released in 2008, will be available in digital retailers and in stores. 'Ye isn't the only Chicago emcee who has an album getting the remastered and re-released treatment though. Common's Like Water For Chocolate is also scheduled to be rereleased next month, so stay tuned for more details. Thanks to TKD for the heads up.
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Double, Detune, and Drift
This is the most basic thing you can do with a synth to
fatten things up. It's been covered here before, so I'll touch on the
basics and offer one interesting twist. Detuning is nothing more than
doubling a signal (say, a sawtooth wave oscillator) with one of the two
signals tuned slightly up and other tuned slightly down. It's the
synthesizer version of a chorus effect. Usually the amount of pitch
offset is somewhere between two and ten cents up or down.
A less common trick is to emulate the slight pitch drift
that occurs on classic analog synths like the Minimoog. Some synths have
a dedicated parameter for this tuning imperfection—called drift, analog
feel, detune, or something similar. The way Weiser likes to accomplish
this is to use an LFO to slowly modulate the pitch ever so slightly on one
oscillator of a detuned pair. Anything that introduces irregularity is
going to be more pleasing to the human ear than sounds that are static.
Why do this instead of using the general detuning settings? The sound
gets a bit thin if the oscillator veers back to a perfect unison, so you
should keep some tuning difference between the oscillators at all
Set Filters on Phase!
Another doubling trick is to use an allpass filter to
create a phaser effect. This lets you build a simple phaser signal path
using a filter rather than running a sound through an onboard effect.
Dave likes to do this because it adds some simple motion without
sounding as deeply "effected" as using the DSP effect. And some effects
don't allow the modulation we're looking for here.
A signal going through an allpass filter retains its
amplitude level, but certain frequencies will be placed out of phase. By
combining the all-passed signal with the original, unaffected signal,
the out-of-phase frequencies will cancel out, creating a dip or notch
in the sound. Using an LFO to modulate the allpass filter's frequency,
you can cause this notch to sweep up and down over time: the classic
phase shift effect. The key here is to have a separate filter for each
of the oscillators, so only one is running through the allpass filter.
Some synths offer a filter topology that provides parallel filter
routing so each oscillator can be routed to an individual filter; others
user smaller building blocks of an oscillator, filter and amp that can
be combined. Roland calls these Tones, which are combined to make up a
Patch; Yamaha calls these Elements, which are combined to make up a
Voice. Most samplers (and Kurzweil synths) call these Layers, which are
combined to make up a Program. However your synth does it, you want two
oscillators programmed basically the same, slightly detuned, with one
running through a standard lowpass filter, and the other going into the
allpass filter (Kurzweil PC3 series workstations, Native Instruments
Absynth and Massive, and Spectrasonics Omnisphere all offer one.) Some
synths provide a discreet notch filter (Absynth, Omnisphere, and Applied
Acoustics Ultra Analog VA-2) in which case you'll only need one layer.
You can take it one step further by assigning the LFO rate
control to a physical controller such as a wheel, slider, or knob.
Being able to speed up the LFO adds an unexpected "blast off to outer
space" effect that can be a welcome change of pace from the standard
synth-lead vibrato. Of course you can do this as a secondary control if
you still want to use your "normal" vibrato, or add a little bit of this
phaser LFO speed control to your modulation wheel—along with the vibrato—for a unique, spacey sound.
Still can't get there? Some synths can't process each
oscillator individually. The classic Minimoog design is but one example
where all the oscillators are fed into the same filter. What can you do?
Create two copies of the same Program and layer them using a Multi or
Combi mode, or use two tracks in your DAW set to the same MIDI channel.
One can have the lowpass filter and be detuned flat, the other can have
the allpass or notch filter and be detuned slightly sharp. This
"modular" approach to building a sound from multiple synth programs may
be unfamiliar and a bit unwieldy, but it will yield some amazing
Pedal to the Metal
Even though most of today's hardware synths have onboard
effects, Dave still likes to use guitar-oriented stomp boxes when
playing live. There's something visceral about being able to toggle a
box dedicated to doing one thing well. Sometimes, a hardware stompbox
simply has the right sound, especially in the area of overdrive
and distortion. Many guitar, amp, and pedal companies live for getting
that sound right, after all.
For distortion try the Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal (see Figure 1 above).
It kills and costs relatively little. It's a great way to almost
instantly get a passable lead guitar sound out of a monophonic synth
patch (of course there are plenty of other distortion pedals out there
that will do the trick). Add wah and analog delay pedals for additional
lo-fi gratification. Want some more unique effects? Explore the world of
pedals made by Electro-Harmonix, Pigtronix, Radial Engineering (Figure 2), and the Moogerfoogers.
Arpeggiator Soloing
This trick might be the most fun of the bunch. Set up an
arpeggiator with a tempo matching the song you're playing. Set the note
timing to sixteenth- or 32nd-notes and the range to two octaves, and let
the sonic mayhem ensue. You won't need to play fast—hitting eighth- or
even quarter-notes will make for an insane solo. Bring it in at a choice
place in your solo, turning on the arpeggiator for some "you know who"
fretboard hammering solo fun.
Most arpeggiators generate notes that are always above the
trigger notes you actually play. Some arpeggiators have settings that
allow you to choose which direction the pattern will travel from the
trigger notes, either above, below, or both. Yamaha, Roland, and others
offer such a choice, as do most Kurzweil workstations. Other than those,
we've found the above-and-below option in Applied Acoustics Ultra
Analog VA-2 and the M-Audio Venom synth.
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NATHAN Dyer was confident Adam Lallana would play for England a decade ago – and reckons his former Saints academy teammate is a World Cup cert.
Saints have come a long way since Dyer's cut-price £400,000 move Swansea City five years ago, when the club were in administration and preparing to begin life in League One with minus ten points.
But Dyer, 26, has been an admirer of Lallana's talent for several years now. They were part of the same Saints youth team that reached the FA Youth Cup final in 2005.
And Dyer is in no doubt that Lallana, who turns 26 on Saturday, will receive the perfect birthday present by being included in Roy Hodgson's 23-man squad next week. "I'm very pleased for Adam, he's proved that he can play at that level, but I'm not surprised," said the Swansea winger, who scored against Saints on his return to St Mary's last season. "I don't think there are many two-footed players like him in the Premiership and that's a great talent to have.
"He's literally been like that since I was in the youth team with him, and he's grown up and matured. "Our youth team was packed with talent and [former academy coach] Georges Prost was amazing for us; he showed us how to play the right way.
"Adam's been like that all season. I'm so happy for him and that he'll get a chance for England, he's a great guy." Dyer came on soon after Lallana, right, was replaced by Rickie Lambert, whose bizarre late winner ensured Saints left the Liberty Stadium having secured their highest Premier League points tally since taking 54 from 42 games in 1994-95.
"I know some people say we don't look to the history but we knew about it for a long time and we were desperate to break it because we know that it's a big achievement," said Lambert. "To have achieved what we have over the past four years and then to progress to where we are now tops off everything – it's been superb. "It's full credit to everyone from top to the bottom. It's been a pleasure to play alongside everyone."


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An all-new model in 2007, the Acura RDX receives new items to its list of standard equipment.
The RDX, available in a base model or as the RDX Tech Package, uses a 2.3-litre turbocharged and intercooled four-cylinder engine, mated to a five-speed transmission with manual shift mode and wheel-mounted paddle shifters. It uses Acura's Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD); it runs primarily in front-wheel drive, but will transfer up to 45 per cent of torque to the rear on hard acceleration, and can send up to 100 per cent of rear-axle torque to either rear wheel for improved cornering.
Features on the RDX include 16-inch alloy wheels, dual-zone automatic climate control, fog lights, heated mirrors with integrated turn signals, auto-off high-intensity discharge headlamps, tire pressure monitoring system, variable intermittent wipers, intermittent rear wiper, power sunroof, auto-dimming rear-view mirror, Bluetooth hands-free telephone system, hard cargo cover, garage door opener, keyless entry, tilt and telescopic steering wheel with audio controls, six-CD/MP3 stereo with auxiliary jack, heated leather seats with eight-way power driver's adjustment with memory, 60/40 split-folding rear seat, and floor mats.
The Tech Package adds premium surround-sound stereo, bilingual voice-activated navigation system and back-up camera.
Aimed at vehicles like the BMW X3, the RDX is extremely well-done, with an engine that returns the power of a V6 but without turbo lag. It offers immediate throttle response and a planted and controlled feel, even on unpaved or broken roads. The cargo area is huge, and the locking centre console box will easily hold a laptop or briefcase.
On the down side, while gizmo fans will love it, some will find the RDX too busy, especially with the Tech Package's overwhelming multitude of small controls, joystick and 13-button steering wheel. The seats are comfortable and rear-seat passengers have plenty of room, but they must squeeze through narrow rear doors to access it.