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THERE has been a settlement in Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear, for several centuries.
The town really came into its own, however, in 1867, when the Derwent Valley Railway was built.
It was the starting point for my trek, following the Red Kite Trail north through Sherburn Green Wood.
I had certainly chosen a great day for my walk.
Glorious sunshine brought out all the colours of the forest, evergreens speckled with bright red winter berries and rich brown bracken.
There was the sound of tumbling waters to enjoy, and blue skies visible through rustling leaves.
After 10 minutes or so of trekking uphill, I stopped to take breath and look back down at Rowlands Gill.
The town gets the first part of its name from Robert Rowland, who owned the estate in 1621.
The word Gill refers to a rivulet in a steep ravine. As I was to discover, this is a very apt description!
The railway ushered in the end of an era and closure of some of the area's ancient roads.
Rowlands Gill had, for centuries, been served by two such routes.
There was Rowlands Gill Turnpike and another very old route that had followed the course of a waggonway to Burnopfield from near Rowlands Gill Railway Station.
A Toll House was situated on this route. The charges were a halfpenny for a donkey, one penny for a horse on its own and threepence for horse and vehicle.
Trundling wagons, horses and their riders, cattlemen and shepherds, all used this road for centuries.
The nearby Towneley Arms was a popular haunt for drovers and farmers.
The Industrial Revolution meant a growth in population, with rows of houses and their earth closets.
Disinfectant, for use on these, was kept at the inn.
Having enjoyed a cuppa, I put the flask back into the rucksack and left the main trail to follow a footpath into the gully and to Spen Burn, a burbling silvery thread amidst red-brown bracken and pine needles.
The stream was deeper than I had expected and so I had to search for a way across the water.
Fortunately there were plenty of boulders that could serve as stepping stones.
Better be careful though, I thought, some of those rocks didn't look steady and they were slippery with age and moss – I didn't fancy going for an unexpected swim!
I stepped tentatively onto the first boulder.
A loud grating noise followed when the rock shifted alarmingly under my boot, and I can confirm that your life really does flash in front of your eyes!
However, I stepped nimbly onto another rock and then another, and so made it safely across the stream.
I was standing now in the bottom of the gully and amidst a cathedral of trees.
Tall slender pines towered into the sky, sunlight streaming through foliage and branches.
Every rock and blade and grass, every flowered bough, seemed to glow with its own light.
I stayed a while, enjoying my surroundings before taking a steep flight of wooden steps up an escarpment and into even denser forestation.
It was mid-morning when I arrived at the Low Spen road and this took me to Ashtree Lane.
From here, were great views of the Derwent Valley and a huge green shadow that was Chopwell Wood. It dwarfed the forest I had just trekked through!
My route took me along Ashtree Lane for a couple of miles and then onto the footpath through the forest that covers Spen Banks.
From there, it was a leisurely wander into High Spen.
My lunchtime pint was enjoyed at the Bute Arms, and then, before heading off on the second part of the walk, I decided to go for a wander through the village.
It has a particular reason for taking pride in its past.
Like so many towns and villages during the First World War, High Spen's young men joined the Army and went off to the Western Front.
They included Lance Corporal William Dobson of the Coldstream Guards and Private Thomas Young of the Durham Light Infantry.
Both men were awarded the Victoria Cross for their courage.
I made my way downhill through Hooker Gate and Highfield.
Before me, the Derwent Valley was as bright as an emerald under the westering sun.
I rested my rucksack against a tree and took in the views, with the breeze buffeting me and the light on my face.
Out there, in the ripples and folds of the landscape, a light mist had gathered.
It had been a glorious day's walking, uphill and down vale, along sunny country lanes and across gushing streams.
On the final trek into Rowlands Gill, something else I noticed was the powerful scent of thousands of trees. This was Chopwell Wood.
The forest towered into the sky, waves of sunlight gliding red over the tree tops. Faintly, the haunting noise of many birds could be heard.
The forest enjoys a commanding presence in every way!


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The book features cupcakes for everyone, every season, and every event: Celebrations (monogram heart cupcakes perfect for an elegant wedding); Birthdays (starfish-on-the-beach cupcakes sure to be a hit at childrens parties); Holidays (gumdrop candy ghouls and goblins ideal for Halloween revelers); and Any Day (red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for a picnic, or caramel-filled mini chocolate cakes for grown-up gatherings).
In singular Martha Stewart style, the pages are both stunning in design-with a photograph of each finished treat-and brimming with helpful how-to information, from step-by-step photographs for decorating techniques to ideas for packaging and presenting your cupcakes. Whether for any day or special days, the treats in Martha Stewarts Cupcakes will delight one and all.
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text: How many of you believe that the knee injury of Nadal is his own fault? Is it the way he plays the game? Did he bring it on himself by entering to many tournaments? Or was it just bad luck? And how will he recover from this injury? I don't think Option 8 is fair and ridiculous according to me, but read somewhere that people actually believe this. I don't see why they would lie about drug abuse, but tell me what you think.


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Whether they've been facing the Kansas City Wizards or Sporting Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium, CommunityAmerica Ballpark or Sporting Park, it hasn't made much of a difference to the San Jose Earthquakes.
The result has remained maddeningly consistent: a loss.
The Quakes' string of futility in Kansas City -- both the Kansas and Missouri versions -- reached nine straight defeats with a 1-0 loss to Sporting KC on Saturday night. San Jose have been shut out in six of those nine games, a streak that extends back nearly a full decade. The Quakes' last victory at Kansas City took place on Aug. 14, 2004, and with the teams only meeting once per season, San Jose could have a long wait for another shot at knocking off the 2013 MLS Cup winners on their home pitch.
"I think it's just two hard-fought teams banging against each other," said Quakes defender Clarence Goodson, who made his season debut after missing three games in all competitions due to a right calf strain. "And both teams' home parks are difficult places to play. Both teams like to step high at home, and it's difficult."
For San Jose coach Mark Watson, the difference might have had less to do with the specific location and more to do with the respective performances.
"I thought Kansas City were a bit better on the night," Watson said. "It's tough to win on the road. The biggest thing is, teams come at you with such energy and such aggression."
The Quakes didn't summon enough of those items to overcome a Sporting KC side pushed into a bit of a corner by an 0-1-1 league start.
The visitors were saved twice by the post on the same 18th-minute sequence, with Sal Zizzo and Ike Opara both banging their shots off the woodwork. San Jose could not dodge another bullet in the 56th, however, when Steven Lenhart swung his right arm at the ball in the middle of a thicket of players in San Jose's penalty area. Referee Ricardo Salazar quickly awarded the penalty.
Perhaps no MLS goalkeeper was better prepared to face a spot kick than San Jose's Jon Busch, who got his hands on three of six attempts from Toluca in the Mexican side's 5-4 win on penalty kicks Wednesday in CCL play. But Busch caught no part of Dom Dwyer's attempt, which scooted past easily after Busch's dive in the opposite direction.
It was tough to tell on replays whether Lenhart's swipe had connected with the ball, and Goodson's intense reaction -- which earned him a yellow card for dissent -- surely stoked the fires of internet conspiracy theorists. The U.S. international, who was in the thick of the scrum on the penalty-winning sequence, shot down those ideas after the match.
"It was a handball," Goodson told reporters. "It was definitely a handball. What I was upset about was, the previous play [Sporting KC defender Aurelien] Collin was grabbing me and pulling me away from the ball. I said, 'Ref, let's watch this on the next play.' He said, 'No problem, I'll watch it. On the play, he just about has me in a headlock, and they end up getting a penalty. So that's what I was upset about."
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In the meantime, the Quakes -- still missing several potential starters, and hoping to add new winger Yannick Djalo as soon as his visa is processed -- can rest up and enjoy a regular work week after the added burden of CCL play to start the season.
"I think it's going to be great to have a full week of training," Goodson said. "We've had a lot of guys out, we'll get a lot of guys back. And even if we don't, coach will have a full week of training with the guys who are playing together. ... Having a full week of training makes a world of difference."
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North Oconee quarterback Sean Zornig couldn't have liked the situation he was facing last Friday night.
In the football team's first-ever playoff appearance, the Titans (9-2) jumped out to a 21-0 lead over visiting Rockmart, but had squandered the advantage with three fumbles (two by Zornig) and had found themselves tied at 21-21 with time running out and all that early momentum erased.
"In the second half, our first offensive possession was a three-and-out, and the next three times we had the ball we fumbled it," said North Oconee coach Terry Tuley. "Our defense had been on the field way too long. It was just about devastating."
With less than three minutes remaining in a game that had been delayed considerably by inclement weather, the run-heavy Titans had the ball and were facing a third-and-16 situation a long way from the end zone. The previous play had not gone well as not every player was on the same page, assignment-wise.
"There was a little arguing in the huddle because some people got the routes confused," said the 6-foot, 160-pound senior. "Once I got everything quiet, I called the play."
The play - a 41-yard touchdown pass from Zornig to Levi Street - was all the Titans needed to escape with a 28-21 win and a date with defending Class AA state champion Buford (11-0) on Friday.
Zornig's game management in the face of diminishing fortunes is striking, but is even more impressive when one considers that most of the players he was leading didn't even know his name during the summer.
He transferred to North Oconee from Cedar Shoals, where he'd worked as the Jaguars' backup quarterback for three seasons.
"I knew it wouldn't be easy," said Zornig - who was initially referred to as "Cedar Shoals" by his new teammates - of the transfer, "but it turned out to be the best thing that could happen in my senior year."
"That is a tough situation when you come in somewhere as a senior, and you don't know anybody," said Tuley. "He was just trying to be part of the team and learn everybody's name. Then all of a sudden, he's asked to be the leader. He's responded very well to that."
After cracking the lineup as a defensive back, Zornig received a "battlefield promotion" when starting quarterback Jamie Fullington suffered a season-ending foot injury in the third week of the season. Pressed into duty, Zornig started seven games (he also missed one week due to an injury and was spelled by Lane Thompson) and paced the Titans to victories in six of them.
Against Rockmart, Zornig ran 11 times for 87 yards and two touchdowns and completed 2 of 6 passes for 61 yards and the game-winner to Street. For the year, he's completed 35 percent of his passes (20 for 56) for 309 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions, and has rushed 65 times for 412 yards and seven scores. Those numbers aren't terribly gaudy, but the Titans' success this season speaks volumes about Zornig's contributions.
"He's pretty cool," said Tuley, who installed some Wing-T formations into the Titans' offensive attack to accommodate Zornig's past training when it was clear Fullington wasn't returning. "He might be on fire inside, but he doesn't give the appearance of being rattled. And he's a good option quarterback. Throwing hasn't been a strength for us, but Sean always seems to come up big at critical times."
The Titans' reward for their playoff victory? A trip to Buford, which in this decade has won four state championships, played in two more state final games and in eight years has rolled up an impressive 121-6 record with four undefeated seasons.
Tuley is well aware of this Friday's assignment and the potential for pregame intimidation.
"Well, they put their pants on one leg at a time and can only put 11 players out on the field at one time," Tuley said. "They're a great team and a lot of success can be attributed to them getting in kids' heads, so that they've lost before they get off the bus. If they're better, they're better, but we can compete with them."
"We know they're good, but I think we'll be confident," added Zornig. "We've seen them and we've heard about them, but we have to look at it as being another game and we prepare for them like we would any other team - this week it just happens to be Buford."
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51 bHe has shown strength with His arm;
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Gas or Charcoal – What Is Your Choice For Grilling?
On Tuesday I had the privilege to broadcast from the parking lot of the County Market at 24th & Spring for the appearance of Johnsonville's Big Taste Grill.
This thing is awesome! Its 25' tall, 65' long, gas fired, and can cook 750 brats at a time, or 2500 brats an hour.


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Lincecum deemed healthy by doctors
Lincecum deemed healthy by doctors
LOS ANGELES -- Feeling ill as he did during part of Spring Training, right-hander Tim Lincecum returned to San Francisco on Thursday morning for a medical examination, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. Bochy relayed that doctors found nothing unusually wrong with Lincecum, who's expected to make his next scheduled start Saturday against Arizona. "That's why we sent him back, to take away any concerns," Bochy said, noting that Lincecum began feeling "queasy" on Wednesday.
Lincecum's progress in Spring Training was briefly delayed by a case of bronchitis. But last year's National League Cy Young Award winner has not used that as an excuse for his slow start. Lincecum's 0-1 with a 7.56 ERA after two outings. "He has been a little sickly the last couple of months," Bochy said, adding that the bronchitis "zapped him a little bit."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mine said it would update on Dec 8th. I click it and a window comes up and says it is either this site or a hold on my Transunion file. It cannot be Transunion. I just applied today for a unsecured credit card and was approved so it is this site. I don't get it. Seems you get what you pay for and as the old saying goes nothing from nothing is always nothing.
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the only way you will keep a high credit score is to stay in debt forever. my home is paid for, as is my car and I have no credit card balances. thus my rating is a C. Really? if you don't owe anybody anything, you ought to have really good credit. The way this system is set up, only the folks deeply in debt but somehow managing to make those god awful monthly payments (staying broke all the while) will have excellent credit ratings. Now, after digesting all of this, which person is more likely to file bankruptcy or burn their house down for the insurance money? The one deeply in debt struggling to keep afloat or the person cruising along with no monthly payments?
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department has announced a $57.1 million contract modification to Arizona's Raytheon Missile Systems.
The contract modification is for support and technical engineering tasks needed to support production the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile not directly associated with the manufacture of missile hardware.
The Department of Defense said the tasks include missile improvement, support equipment improvement, software engineering and improvement, reliability monitoring, system safety monitoring, quality assurance, risk management, test equipment, parts control, obsolete materials, manufacturing qualification, logistics impacts and other activities needed to support the engineering of an effective ESSM missile for NATO and the United Arab Emirates.
The NATO Sea Sparrow consortium -- the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Turkey -- will fund the effort under the contract modification.


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Uber experimental autonomous taxis pick up real people
If you are loyal enough
Uber has started picking up passengers in its experimental autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh.
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Intel quietly launches Apollo Lake
2nd generation 14nm Celeron / Pentium
Apollo Lake is a second generation 14nm SoC for entry level tablets and computers and it serves the market that used to be known as Atom processors. Nowadays, Intel calls these CPUs Celeron and Pentium and the new generation was made available on Friday.
20 May 2016
Uber wants self-driving cars
Does not have to pay the drivers
Controversial taxi outfit Uber is working on self-driving vehicle technologies for more than a year and it's finally shown off an autonomous car.
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Pontefract and Knottingley will get a new police chief as part of a shake-up of the police force across the county.
Insp Geoff Carter, currently in charge of the South East neighbourhood policing team (NPT), will also be in charge of Pontefract and Knottingley NPT, replacing Insp Richard Sullivan, who will move to a new role at the new divisional headquarters in Normanton.
Insp Sullivan will help inspectors across the force to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour across the area.
Insp Carter, who grew up in Pontefract, said he was proud to be in charge of the area.
He said: "It's almost like a dream come true for me to work towards the end of my policing career close to my home.
"I'm also really pleased to do both because I didn't want to lose my links with the South East."
As part of the restructure, Insp Carter said there would be more officers on the beat and that he will be in charge of neighbourhood officers and neighbourhood patrol officers.
These two types of officers will work together with PCSOs to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.
Insp Carter added: "I am passionate about the impact that community policing has across communities with massive reductions in crime and anti-social behaviour, which I aim to build upon with partners and local communities.
"I aim to build upon this continuing to work closely with partners and also to work with the communities of Pontefract and the South East to make your area a better and safer place to live in."


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" The Windmill, 4 Main Street, Redmile, Nottingham, NG13OGA / Reservations: 01949 842281 "
11 out of 10, we have been quite a few times now, about 15, even though we live a 45 minute drive away, so one and half hour round trip - but we love the food, the service and it's excellent value for money. The staff are friendly and very informative regarding the food and wine. I loved the partridge (which WAS from the Belvior estate) though i usually go for the scallops for a starter. We have taken friends who have also added it to their favourite list of eating establishments, and they also make a 40 - 45 min drive just to go there. Anyone who lives within a 45 min drive should check their menus on their website - they change regularly. It's set in a lovely village very close to Belvior Castle. We will be going again this weekend and i'm really looking forward to it - I enjoy eating 'good' fresh food and its a joy to go there.
I can sympathise with the lady before. My husband & I ate here last Friday - our steaks were stone cold. We complained & they returned, charred - not rare & medium rare as requested. We were really dissapointed, as a few years ago this place was really good. Far better to eat at the Peacock in Redmile. Or anywhere else. The Windmill is trying to be something it is not and sadly dissapoints.
After hearing some good reports on this local gastro-pub, we were very much looking forward to a family meal here.
Service was ok, both our waiting staff although not very good in English were attentive and friendly. The food itself was well presented and portion size was adequate. However, the steaks we ordered were surprisingly chewy as was the almost inedible duck a l'orange that my mother ordered.
The waiter was helpful, even though we could hear the landlady make derogatory comments about us and the waiter. The replacement dishes were ok, I doubt the meat is locally sourced as claimed - local butchers in the area are excellent and you could cook better at home. More likely to be Argentinaen.
We decided not to stay for dessert, it seems very odd that owners of such an establishment would be rude about guests, especially local ones that are the best form of advertising. There are far better options around, back in Grantham town centre & Newark.


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Changing the User Agent, a New Google Chrome Feature
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Changing the user agent of a browser is sometimes helpful if you're visiting a site that doesn't work well in your browser or if you're a developer and you want to test a site. Until recently, changing the user agent required installing an extension, opening about:config or adding a command-line parameter.
Now that browsers started to include powerful developer tools and even Internet Explorer has a built-in user agent editor, Chrome added a similar feature. It's only available in Chrome 17 (Dev Channel / Canary) right now.
Here's how to change the user agent:
1. open the Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I on Windows/Linux, Command – Option – I on Mac OS X)
2. click the "settings" icon at the bottom of the window
3. check "override user agent" and select one of the options (Internet Explorer 7/8/9, Firefox 4/7 for Windows/Mac, iPhone, iPad and Nexus S running Android 2.3). You can also select "other" and enter a custom user agent.
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Now Google Chrome Adds Support for Native Client Apps
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Almost three years after its announcement, Native Client is almost ready for prime time. It's enabled in Chrome 14, which is now in beta and will reach the stable channel in less than a month.
Native Client is a very complex framework that allows browsers to run native compiled code in a sandbox. Google's goal is to "maintain the OS portability and safety that people expect from web apps", while allowing developers to use their preferred language. Right now, the only supported languages are C and C++ and Native Client only works in Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux.
"Native Client apps live on the web platform, so you don't need to create separate versions of your app for each operating system. Rather than relying on OS-specific APIs, Native Client apps use Pepper, a set of interfaces that provide C and C++ bindings to the capabilities of HTML5. This means that once you've ported your code to Native Client, it will work across different operating systems, and you only need to maintain one code base. Today Native Client supports the Pepper APIs for 2D graphics, stereo audio, URL fetching, sandboxed local file access (File API), and asynchronous message passing to and from JavaScript. In future releases we will be adding support for hardware accelerated 3D graphics (OpenGL ES 2.0), fullscreen mode, networking (WebSockets and peer-to-peer connections), and much more," informs Google.
Google announced that developers will be able to upload their native apps to the Chrome Web Store once Chrome 14 hits the stable channel. In the meantime, Chrome 14 users can try the examples from this gallery: a pi generator, a sine wave synthesizer and John Conway's Game of Life.
NaCl (Native Client) + Pepper -> a lot of games, business apps, educational apps, image editors and virtual machine software running inside your browser. Suddenly, Chromebooks are no longer that limited.
No More Offline Gmail in Google Chrome
Chrome 12, the upcoming version of Google's browser which is likely to be released today, removes a useful feature: the built-in Gears plugin. While most Google services dropped support for Gears and removed offline access, Gears is still being used in Gmail. Google no longer maintains Gears, which is now legacy software, and focuses on implementing offline support using HTML5.
But why remove Gears support without implementing the features using HTML5 first? Google says that you'll only need to wait for a few weeks or you can still older versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer and mail client such as Thunderbird or Outlook.
"The new Gmail Offline capability is targeted for delivery as a Chrome browser web app this summer. As we move the Gmail Offline capability to a Chrome web app, we will deprecate the Google Gears-based Gmail Offline. This coincides with the version 12 release of the Google Chrome browser which no longer supports Gears. As a result, Google Gears-based Gmail Offline will no longer work with the Chrome browser as of Tuesday May 24, 2011. Google Gears-based Gmail Offline will continue to work in Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox 3.6," explains Google.
It's not the best thing to do after convincing users to switch to Chrome and use Web apps, but it's just a temporary issue. If the HTML5 offline Gmail wasn't ready to be released, removing Gears from Chrome could have been delayed.
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Google Toolbar 8, Powered by Google Chrome
After Google released Chrome, Google Toolbar's development slowed down. That's because Google Toolbar is no longer the primary vehicle for adding browser features and Google mostly focused on improving Chrome.
Google Toolbar 8 is a completely new version of Google's add-on that was available as part of Google Labs. "Google Toolbar 8 is actually built and runs on top of the Google Chrome Frame platform. This means that Toolbar 8 will run more like a web app in that it can be customized and updated much more frequently and easily. It also means that Google Chrome Frame is installed at the time of Toolbar 8 installation," explains Google.
The new version of Google's toolbar only works in Internet Explorer right now and it doesn't include all the features that are currently available in the latest public version. Google included some new features: buttons for the most visited sites, Google Dictionary integration and Google Instant. "Google Toolbar displays up to seven of your most visited sites as buttons. Click on a button to go directly to its site. When you download the new Google Toolbar your toolbar will display buttons for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Youtube, Google News, Google Reader and Google Tasks by default."
What's New in Chrome 10?
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Google Chrome 10 is ready for primetime and it comes with a surprising number of new features. Here are some of them:
1. The Options dialog is now a web page that opens in a new tab. Chrome has one less modal dialog and the new Options page is better suited for netbooks. Another advantage is that each section of the Options page has a permalink that can be bookmarked.
Even if Chrome doesn't have too many customizable settings, there's a search box that lets you quickly find an option. Try searching for "cookies" and you'll notice that Chrome finds settings that aren't immediately obvious.
2. You can now change the default page zoom value. Go to the Options page and select "Under the hood" (or paste chrome://settings/advanced in the address bar) and change the "page zoom" value. The default value is 100%, but you can pick values like 120% or 144%, which are useful if you want to connect your computer to a TV.
3. The same section of the Options page lets you change the minimum font size. Click "customize fonts" and choose one of the values that are available for the minimum font size.
4. Synchronize passwords and use them from any computer, as long as you can install Google Chrome. The new option is not enabled by default and it requires your confirmation before saving your passwords to your Google Account. There's even an extra security feature that lets you choose a custom encryption passphrase, so that your passwords are safe even if someone guesses your Google Account password. For advanced features and cross-browser functionality, try LastPass.
5. Reorder the apps from the new tab page using drag and drop. This option was available for the frequently visited pages and you can now use it to change the order of your favorite apps.
6. A new version of V8, Chrome's JavaScript engine, includes a better compilation infrastructure codenamed Crankshaft. "By using aggressive optimizations, Crankshaft dramatically improves the performance of compute-intensive JavaScript applications – often by more than a factor of two! This will give users a faster and more responsive experience loading web pages and applications built with complex JavaScript."
7. Chrome 10 comes with hardware acceleration for Web videos. "Traditionally, web browsers relied entirely on the CPU to render web page content. With capable GPUs becoming an integral part of even the smallest of devices and with rich media such as video and 3D graphics playing an increasingly important role to the web experience, attention has turned on finding ways to make more effective utilization of the underlying hardware to achieve better performance and power savings. There's clear indication that getting the GPU directly involved with compositing the contents of a web page can result in very significant speedups. The largest gains are to be had from eliminating unecessary (and very slow) copies of large data, especially copies from video memory to system memory. The most obvious candidates for such optimizations are the <video> element and the WebGL canvas, both of which can generate their results in areas of memory that that CPU doesn't have fast access to," explains Google.
Test GPU acceleration for videos at YouTube's HTML5 site. Adobe Flash 10.2 also added full GPU acceleration for videos and YouTube is one of the sites that support this feature, so you can compare Flash 10.2 videos and HTML5 videos to see which version uses less processing power.
8. Chrome 10 for Windows finally sandboxes the built-in Adobe Flash plugin. This is one of the reasons why Google decided to bundle the plugin with Chrome.
9. If you didn't like Gmail's notification feature because it didn't work when you closed Chrome, you'll find it much more useful when Gmail's app adds support for background pages, a feature that's now available in Chrome. "Apps and extensions that use the new background feature can continue to run in the background — even if the user closes down all of Chrome's windows. Background apps will continue to run until Chrome exits. The next time Chrome starts up, any background windows that were previously running will also be re-launched. These windows are not going to be visible but they will be able to perform tasks like checking for server-side changes and pre-emptively loading content into local storage," explains Google.
When you install the first app or extension that supports backgrounding (like this one), Chrome adds a new icon to the system tray (Windows and Linux) and a new entry in the context menu of the Chrome icon from the Dock (Mac). The new icon and context menu entry let you go to a background app, open the task manger or the options page.
9 Things to Try in Google Chrome 9
Filed under: Featured, Google
Google Chrome 9 is now available, two months after the previous release and two weeks later than Google's self-imposed deadline. Here are 9 features you should try in this new version:
1. WebGL is now enabled by default in Google Chrome and you can try the 3D web apps from Google's gallery. Don't miss Body Browser, a Google Earth for the human body, and the WebGL Aquarium.
2. Google Instant is now integrated with Chrome's address bar, but this feature is not for everyone because it automatically loads web pages as you type. It's disabled by default, so you need to enable it by checking "Enable Instant for faster searching and browsing" in the Options dialog.
3. Cloud Print can be enabled from Options > Under the hood if you use Windows. This features lets you print from devices that can't communicate directly with printers. The first two applications that use Cloud Print are the mobile versions of Gmail and Google Docs.
4. Chrome supports WebP files. WebP is a new image format created by Google whose main advantage is that it offers better compression. "Our team focused on improving compression of the lossy images, which constitute the larger percentage of images on the web today. To improve on the compression that JPEG provides, we used an image compressor based on the VP8 codec that Google open-sourced in May 2010." Here's an example of WebP image.
5. Right-click on an extension button next to the address bar and select "Hide button". When you change your mind, go to Tools > Extensions and click on "Show button" next to the corresponding extension.
6. Create desktop shortcuts for your web apps: right-click on an app in the new tab page and select "create shortcut". You can also add shortcuts to the Start Menu and the Quick Launch Bar if you use Windows.
7. Launch web apps in a new window. Right-click on a web app and select "open as window".
8. Install extensions that add custom menu options to images. For example, install Clip It Good to upload any image from a web page to Picasa Web Albums.
9. Install extensions that use the Omnibox API to associate keywords with new search engines. For example, install the DOI Resolver extension and type doi 10.1205/096030802760309188 in the address bar. The extension added a new search engine and associated it with the keyword doi.
Chrome's New Sad Tab Page
Filed under: Featured, Google
The latest Chromium builds include a new sad tab page that replaces the famous "aw, snap!" message with "he's dead, Jim!". The message continues: "Something caused this page to be killed , either because the operating system ran out of memory, or for some other reason. To continue, press Reload or go to another page." To see the page, just type about:kill in the address bar after opening a new tab.
"He's dead, Jim!" is a catchphrase used by Leonard H. McCoy, a character from Star Trek. "The line has entered popular culture as a general metaphor, with uses as diverse as descriptions of an unresponsive electronic circuit, an example of how to add an audio file to function as an alert sound in a computer system, and an illustrative quote regarding how to know if one's opponent has been destroyed in an action hero game."
Here's the old sad tab page:
{ Thanks, Chen. }
Google Chrome and the Beginning of Time
Filed under: Featured, Google
A recent Chromium build updated the message used for the "clear browsing data" section. The most impressive option lets you "obliterate the following items from the beginning of time". It's less boring than "clear browsing data from this period: everything", but users may need to use a dictionary and to get a sense of humor.
In other news, the tabbed settings page is now the default option in Chromium and this feature will probably be enabled in Chrome 10. The new settings page comes with a search box that lets you quickly find an option (this feature would be much more useful in Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer) and a default page zoom option.
Google Chrome to Drop Support for H.264
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Chromium's blog informs that Google Chrome will drop support for H.264 in the coming months and will only support WebM (VP8) and Theora codecs.
We expect even more rapid innovation in the web media platform in the coming year and are focusing our investments in those technologies that are developed and licensed based on open web principles. To that end, we are changing Chrome's HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for other high-quality open codecs in the future. Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies.
Google decided to pick sides, much like Mozilla and Opera, in an effort to encourage developers to use WebM. Right now, the only important website that uses WebM is YouTube, Google's video sharing service. Internet Explorer, Safari and iOS devices are unlikely to support WebM, while hardware acceleration and Flash support are expected later this year.
John Gruber thinks that "this is just going to push publishers toward forcing Chrome users to use Flash for video playback — and that the video that gets sent to Flash Player will be encoded as H.264″. He also finds it ironic that Google Chrome bundles Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin, which is a great software for playing H.264 videos.
VP8 has a long way to go before becoming the codec of choice for Web videos and Google decided to make it more popular by dropping support for the competing codec from its browser. Last year, Andy Rubin said that sometimes being open "means not being militant about the things consumer are actually enjoying," but that's not the case here.
Google Chrome Voice Search
Filed under: Featured, Google
Voice Search is a Google Chrome extension that lets you search using your voice. It's not developed by Google, but it uses an experimental Chrome feature called form speech input. The feature is enabled by default in the dev channel builds, but it can be manually enabled by adding a command-line flag.
"Voice Search comes pre-loaded with the following default services: Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Wolfram|Alpha. You can also add your own user-defined search engines. It also integrates a speech input button for all websites using HTML5 search boxes. This extension requires a microphone. Speech input is very experimental, so don't be surprised if it doesn't work. Also, try to speak clearly for best speech recognition results," suggests the author.
Speech recognition is limited to English and it doesn't work very well, but this extension is a good way to test a feature that will be enabled in the future Chrome releases. If you have a website, it's quite easy to add support for speech input, but it may take a while until Google's Speech Input API specification becomes a standard and all browsers implement it.
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Re: [ALPA_Forum] Sierra Club: City should say 'no' to more parking for 355 Alma, Palo Alto
- POST has had two articles over the weekend on the development. My scanner is not working or I would send them on.
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On 2/26/2012 7:34 PM, Irvin Dawid wrote:Palo Alto Weekly, Tuesday, February 21, 2012:Sierra Club: City should say 'no' to more parking for 355 Alma
The local Sierra Club chapter says the City of Palo Alto should not require a developer to add more ...
Local chapter recommends 'environmentally preferable' transportation options to cut traffic in Downtown North neighborhood
by Sue Dremann
Palo Alto Weekly Staff
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The local Sierra Club chapter says the City of Palo Alto should not require a developer to add more parking to a planned 5-story development downtown as a "community benefit."
Instead, Planning and Transportation commissioners should consider adding a car-share program and ask Lytton Gateway LLC, the developer of 355 Alma St., to fund a study of a residential-parking permit program for the adjacent Downtown North neighborhood, the Loma Prieta Chapter wrote to the city's planning commission on Feb. 16.
Developers are asking for a new Planned Community (PC) zone designation and Comprehensive Plan land-use designation amendment to allow a 64-foot-tall, mixed-use, five-story building with an 84-foot corner tower at the former Shell station site at Lytton Avenue and Alma.
Planned Community zoning allows for greater density and for combinations of commercial and residential occupants not otherwise allowed.
Five below-market-rate housing units would be included among the 14 apartments and other "public benefits" would be added in exchange for going above the city's height and mass regulations.
The development would have approximately 155 parking spaces in a parking garage and eight street-level spaces for retail customers. But additional parking could be considered as part of the public benefit.
The Planning and Transportation Commission began a hearing on the zoning change on Jan. 25 and will continue the hearing Wednesday, Feb. 22.
In its letter to commissioners about Wednesday's meeting, the Sierra Club said the entire fifth floor of 14 rental apartments, 35 percent of which are below-market-rate, are a community benefit.
"Second, based on the discussion on January 25, we cannot stress enough the importance of not providing additional parking as a community benefit. Adding more defeats the principles of transit-oriented developments," Bonnie McClure of the Sierra Club wrote.
Brett Walonski, a transportation consultant, said at the Jan. 25 meeting that one of the biggest factors with how people are going to arrive at the site is if there will be free parking.
The Sierra Club chapter instead said it strongly recommends adding a car-share program at the site for public use. Residents who live closest to the site are likely to use the car-share service if it is accessible, McClure wrote.
McClure said the Sierra Club also recommends the parking-permit study, noting that Professorville, which is to the south of downtown, is being considered for such a program but that residents north of University Avenue face the same parking problems.
"Expanding parking capacity would only serve to accommodate increased driving -- that is no long-term solution at all and in fact, would only serve to exacerbate the parking/traffic congestion problems known for the area," she wrote.
But neighborhood leaders did not agree with the Sierra Club's assessment.
"It's a huge building, and it should not add to the parking woes of Downtown North," said Elaine Meyer, president of the University South Neighborhood Association. "The process is broken," she added.
Downtown North Neighborhood Association leader Sally-Ann Rudd agreed.
"The planning department continues to allow oversize developments on the Lytton corridor, which increase demand on Palo Alto infrastructure -- schools, water, power and of course parking loads in the surrounding neighborhood.
"The justification is that these developments are near transit hubs, so people will use public transport. But public transit use is never made more attractive by choking off the currently unlimited supply of free parking on neighborhood streets.
"Of course people will continue to use their cars, clogging streets, dumping their trash outside homes and all the other myriad inconveniences Downtown North residents are accustomed to," she wrote in an email on Tuesday.
She would also like to see a parking-permit program for the neighborhood.
"I would love to see the unlimited free-parking supply choked off by a resident-parking program. But until a program exists, developers will continue to use neighborhood streets north and south as their de facto free parking lots. Reducing the parking requirements for this development will be ineffectual when there is unlimited free parking less than a block away.
"If we want people to come to Palo Alto by bike, bus and train, then it is time the city made it a lot less easy to come by car. Choke off the supply of free parking first, then think about reducing parking spaces in private developments," she said.
The planning commission meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers, First Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Ave.
Sierra Club letter:
.....and the outcome: Good news and bad news.
While the Planning Commission approved this gateway development, it added more parking. See: Proposed 'Gateway' building wins key voteAn ambitious proposal to build a five-story building featuring a glassy tower, offices, apartments and a coffee shop at one of downtown Palo Alto's most prominent corners took a major stride toward winning the city's approval Wednesday night when the Planning and Transportation Commission agreed to rezone the site to make the project possible. (Thursday, 12:02 AM)
To address the community's and the commission's concerns, the applicants agreed to provide eight surface parking spots and 14 underground-parking spots to the public in addition to the 123 spots they had previously said the project would include. The applicants also agreed to pay $60,000 to help the city fund a downtown parking study and to launch a full-service attendant-parking program that would add another 34 spots to the building.
"We truly believe this is the wave of the future for downtown parking," Lund Smith told the commission, referring to the attendant-parking program.......Irvin Dawid
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JAILBIRD, rapper, model and acclaimed actor ... the former Marky Mark may be all grown up, but he's still one funky guy (and still wears his Calvins).
Playing a body builder in Pain &Gain required endless hours in the gym - it must have been pretty tedious.
Well, I try to keep the big picture in mind and know I'll have my life back as soon as the movie's over. I want to give it 110 per cent, because it'll be over before I know it but the movie will be there forever. I don't want to have any regrets about not putting my best foot forward.
Do the muscles also disappear before you know it?
I've been working out a lot, but I'm 42, so I definitely notice the metabolism has slowed down quite a bit.
How do you deal with ageing?
I just embrace it. Also, I make sure I eat right and exercise. Life is a beautiful thing, so you might as well try to make it last as long as possible. My wife [Rhea Durham] is always giving me a hard time about getting older, but I have to say I'm enjoying getting older; at least, I'm enjoying the age I am now.
Body builders or movie stars - who spends more time in front of the mirror?
[Laughs] Oh god! I'd say it's a tie. Thankfully, I have the mentality of an athlete and I'm also not a huge fan of the way I look, so I don't spend too much time looking at myself in the mirror. I've learned to accept how I look.
There are many people who do appreciate the way you look, some of whom would remember the billboard of you in your Calvin Kleins many years ago.
[Laughs] Oh, well, that's very nice. But I don't let it get to my head.
Are you still wearing your Calvins?
Yeah, and Lululemon. Thanks for asking.
Waxing seems to be an important factor in a body builder's life. Do you have much experience in that area?
I'm not very hairy and I've never waxed myself but, actually, for the movie I did learn how to do it on myself and on others.
You also do some impressive car manoeuvring in the film. How would you rate yourself as a driver?
I'm a very good driver.
I wonder if your wife would agree…
[Laughs] No! She would say I'm a horrible driver. I'm a bit aggressive, but I think I'm good.
What advice would you have given Mark Wahlberg if you had met him 20 years ago?
It doesn't matter, because he wouldn't have listened. He was such a hard-headed know-it-all. It's unfortunate, because I could have saved him from making a lot of mistakes, but that's just how it is. I look at all the stuff my mum used to tell me and, now, as a parent I try to tell my kids the same things, but you don't realise that stuff is valuable until you get to a certain age.
You turned your life around at a young age when you were getting into trouble and getting yourself thrown in jail for assault. Do you have regrets about those days or do you think you wouldn't be here now if you hadn't experienced those times?
Absolutely to both. There are certain things I would have liked to have avoided but, for the most part, it's those experiences that make me the man I am today - but you couldn't help but want to change a couple of things.
Do you have any hidden talents? Is the former Marky Mark a whiz in the kitchen, perhaps?
Oh, I made an amazing dinner last night for myself and a friend who
reads scripts with me. He asked me to get a roast chicken when I was at the supermarket, so I grilled up some vegetables and potatoes and it was quite good. But I always feel the food I make tastes good for me.
I don't know if buying a roast chicken and grilling vegetables counts as cooking…
Well, yeah [laughs]. Actually, I don't normally do anything other than barbecue things for my kids and my wife.
When was the last time you surprised yourself?
The last time I got out of bed; everything ached, from my heel to my knee to my left buttock. I think I'm just getting old.
Pain &Gain is in cinemas on August 8.
Download the Sunday Style app this week, which includes eight bonus pages celebrating the royal baby the Sunday Style way. Download now: appstore.com/sundaystyle.


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Catch up on shows currently on SundanceTV. Watch recent episodes on sundance.tv
BuzzFeed compiles a gallery of the best signs this year displayed at various protests. And yup, the Corduroy Pants sign that Bradford posted about made the cut.
Production on Fourth and Final Season of RECTIFY Begins With New Cast Members
10 Drug Related TV Shows With Addicting Side Effects
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Remember the fight between Obito and kakashi in the kamui dimension?
many people argued that Kakashi did not have the kyuubi's cloak that naruto gave him while fighting obito,
Well That's infact incorrect, kakashi still had the kyuubi's cloak the entire fight against obito, It just didn't show because it was diminishing in size.
Meanwhile, Obito had no assistance what so ever in the chakra department even after solo'in the war.
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Washington - Senator Aggressively Lobbied for More Federal Funding for KJ
Washington - The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $300,000 for infrastructure improvements in the Village of Kiryas Joel. The village will use the money for road repaving, widening and drainage, traffic signals, and pedestrian safety sidewalks and curbs.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said she "aggressively lobbied" members of the committee to include the funding.
"Investing in infrastructure projects will help create jobs and help rebuild our economy," she said.
The funding must now be approved by the full Senate, the House and ultimately be signed by the president.
More of today's headlines"Postville, IA - Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin suggested that a past or current employee at the Postville slaughterhouse Rubashkin once ran planted evidence to incriminate..." Postville, IA - Rubashkin Claims He Was Framed, Evidence Was Planted "Manhattan, NY - A second Touro College computer honcho is going to prison for running his office as a literal diploma mill -- pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars..." Manhattan, NY - Second Touro Official Sentenced in Grades-for-Pay Scandal
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Aug 01, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Good for them they deserve it they have a great village
Keep up the good work
Aug 01, 2009 at 10:24 PM
thanks senater. you got my vote!
Aug 01, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Agree with them on issues or not
it is a beautiful place. blie ein horah
Aug 01, 2009 at 10:22 PM
so what every senator does this to the tune of billions of dollars .this is kosher "pork" so to say
Aug 01, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Great now I know 4 whom 2 vote
Aug 02, 2009 at 01:13 AM
Thanks I know who not to vote for. KJ is just a money pit


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Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Japan on Wednesday defended its 1947 Imperial House Law, which allows only a male to succeed the Chrysanthemum throne, following its criticism in a UN committee report.
The law is not designed to discriminate against women and is "based on popular support and reflect the history and traditions" of the imperial family of Japan, same as in cases of royal families in other countries, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday.
Earlier, a report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women had included a section that recommended Tokyo should modify the succession law to allow women to accede the throne.
The recommendation has now been removed from the final version of the report, adopted on Monday by the UN committee, after Japan lodged a formal protest, Suga said.
Under the Imperial House Law, Aiko, the only daughter of Japan's crown prince Naruhito, will not be able to succeed her father to the throne, which instead will pass on to Naruhito's nine-year-old nephew Hisahito.


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Hey, ive had a ps3 since March 23rd 2007 (Europe Release date) and have had online since March 24th 2007, so i would say im a pretty experienced online player.. i currentley play CoD4, Bf:Bc, MGO and RSV2 mostly online, i am online alot...
MY new acount is Atomic-Z (only rank 39 on CoD4) but my old account was Spirit136 and i was a 8th prestige rank 40ish, so i am pretty good.
im very competitive when online..
also love to make youtube videos, my account is MasterDazzle >> http://www.youtube.com/user/MasterDazzle i have 141subscribers and i have a capture card, so i am willing to film any clan videos or clan matches, and i will edit and upload...
please get back to me... or add me..
PS i am 15 and would prefer it to be a clan around my age (Dont want to be in a clan with 35year olds )
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Thread: Looking for a GOOD clan..
08-20-2008 #1Atomic-ZGuest
Looking for a GOOD clan..
08-20-2008 #2
- Join Date
- Jun 2008
- Age
- 36
- Posts
- 17
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08-20-2008 #3
I added you too, i am not in a clan, i am 7th prestige rank 42 at the moment :]
Look forward to playing with you soooooon!!:2gun:Bang Bang Your Dead, 50 Bullets In Your Head.
Psn -- Davro_C
08-20-2008 #4
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- 38
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- 15
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you can all goto pmc.spruz.com we are always looking for new members. the forums there are empty right now because i just cleaned them out. there are difrent divisions in the clan so feel free to join them.
08-21-2008 #5abqdsmGuest
go check out xile.bigforum.pro . bunch of laid back people (age varies) who just like to play. Trying to expand some and dont have requirements.
08-26-2008 #6
09-06-2008 #7
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Please follow the links provided, and then sign up if you wish to commit to TW. We have over 1000 member. Yes, 1000. We are run based on military structure, so don't think if you join, you can do what you want.. you must follow the proper rules and regulations. We are a VERY serious clan, who likes to have fun.
Head Quarters: http://www.twhq.org
About us: http://www.twhq.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=51
If you register, please reply here stating you have done so.
09-11-2008 #8
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www.dtg.freezoka.com dats the only link you need just make a account and make yourself known on the forum
09-13-2008 #9AuraginGuest
Add my new account (my gold cross account got hacked) at i-KoMaToSe-i, we can play. I play mostly weekends during school year.
09-13-2008 #10
PLEASE USE YOUR PSN NAME when you and if you sign up for Forum so people dont get confused when they go to add you. The see the new member name then try to add it if you dont use the proper name they'll tell me the name doesnt exist or it could go to the wrong person ! Thanx.
We have a forum created for Friends List members to shoot the breeze and create events and all sorts of fun stuff. If you're looking to make friends thru PSN and Forum this could be for you. Do you play every night ? Are you looking for normal people to game w/, you know, guys that play fairly and use teamwork in objective games ? Do you not care about stats and just the Win ?? Check us out. We game COD4, Madden, Army of Two, GTAIV, BF:BC, and others. We used to be a COD4 clan of 120 but we separated into 3 groups. My group wanted to play all sorts of games so here we are. We have about 30 members and 20 of us have been gaming together for over 9 months. We have about 10-12 newly accepted members and we're looking to add more.
The Forum is called The Sandlot. We create Private events for us to do such as Knife battles, Pistols only, and all sorts of games. We also have a Madden season going. We use the forum to shoot the breeze and get to know each other which further improves the gameplay. If you can be cordial, online every night and are lookin for normal cats to play w/ check it out you wont be disappointed. If you dont put the time in you're wasting your time.
Hope to see some soon !!
09-15-2008 #11
i have a clan [sK] (silentknights) we have loads of different games that you can
play u may possialby play some already we have the ps3 one which
you were asking for for any ps3 game we have world of warcraft
counter strike and counter strike source um runescape i think but
not sure if we still have that one so yea my psnis : Dynomitkid if u wanna
get a hold of me i will need ur e-mail though if that is ok for you it is just for the clans database.
09-15-2008 #12
the clan i am joining (yes there is a process for this clan its not just hey your in) is Hollow Ground (\H/) they are a socom only clan currently they have a website which is:hollowgroundclan.com they are a mixed age group and they are looking for mature gamers age doesn't matter as long as your respectful and mature and just like to have fun and play as a team come to the site and register for the forums and leave an application if you would like to join
09-27-2008 #13
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wanna see a good clan check out clan kid
09-27-2008 #14BT7=]COOLKIDGuest
:gta::2gun::2gun:OH SOUNDS KOOOL
09-27-2008 #15
i am also looking for a clan to play tons of games with
10-20-2008 #16
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i have just made new clan [SgS!] ITS WELCOME TO ANY AGED ABOVE 15, WE ARNT COMPETITION JUST FUN CLAN CHECK OUR SITE http://www.gamerdna.com/GuildForum.php?f=126580
THANKS [SgS!]Sivill
10-21-2008 #17bloodyguts22Guest
dammit kid! your website is nothing, seriously check if your website is actually there before u put the link
10-23-2008 #18
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www.tw.tghq.com 500+ mebers, all 3 platforms and loads of different games, clan is very organized, you'll be very surprised
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Nato sounds like a wicked clan.
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I woke up smiling. I rolled over and looked at Kevin sleeping beside me; I swear he looks ten times cuter when he sleeps.
I was drifting back to sleep when I heard the door slam. Kevin bolted awake beside me.
"What was that?"
"Sophie," I told him rolling my eyes. I quickly got dressed and Kevin put on his clothes from yesterday.
As we walked into the kitchen we found Sophie grumpily eating her cereal.
"Hey what's up?" I asked.
"Did you know its Huey's funeral today?" She stabbed at her cereal.
"No, I actually forgot about all of that."
"Yeah, well. You know we have to go right?" She asked me, I nodded not sure what the big deal was. "I have a date tonight, and now instead of spending all day to get ready like I normally would, now I only have a couple hours!"
"Why would you need all day to get ready?" Kevin asked completely confused. Sophie looked at him like he was a legit crazy person.
I shook my head, "It's a girl thing."
"Now, I won't look amazing, I'll look alright. Then Martin will think I'm a slob and never want to go out with me again!" Sophie sounded like she had just found out that she was dying, sometimes I wonder how we're related. "Couldn't Huey die at a more convenient time?"
I snorted, "Yeah, I'm sure that's what was going through his head when he died, 'Oh no, I can't die now it'll be inconvenient time for Sophie'." Sophie gave me one of her glares.
"Anyway, me and Kevin are going to Jenny's for breakfast." I told her as I grabbed my sweater and threw it on. Sophie mumbled a quiet 'whatever' on our way out.
"Why are we going out to eat?" Kevin asked on our way to the diner.
"Did you really want to eat with Sophie and listen to her complain about going to a funeral?" I asked.
Kevin laughed, "I guess your right?"
As we entered the diner Kevin's phone went off, I also passed Sampson on the way in. I gave him a curt hello, if I didn't like someone I didn't pretend to, especially when that person was a major creep.
"Hey Jenny?"
"Yeah, what's up?"
"Do me a favor and stay away from Sampson. "
"Why? He's nice." Jenny said with a small smile.
"He gives me the creeps, I don't trust him." I could tell my advice was falling on deaf ears.
"So what can I get you?" she asked wiping down the counter and setting a plate down in front of me.
"I'll have a coffee and a chocolate chip muffin, Kevin what do you want?" I asked turning around to see Kevin still on the phone.
"Uh, same."
I was just about to dive into my muffin when Kevin said, "Jenny can we make these to go?"
I gave Kevin a confused look, "Tommy called and he wants us at the bar."
"Did he say why?"
"Yeah, but you know when Tommy's stressed he talks really fast, all I could catch was 'meet me at the bar', so that's where were going."
We left as soon as Jenny wrapped up our muffins and gave us our coffee to go. Unlike me Kevin refused to wait until we got at the bar to eat, so he was done. I on the other had still had my delicious muffin to eat.
Tommy arrived at the bar a short time after we did. I was sitting eating my muffin and Kevin was reading the newspaper, while Tommy was banging around the bar.
"Damn it! There's nothing left!"
"I know Jimmy's really letting the bar slide." Kevin said flipping the page of his newspaper.
"Well it would help if you didn't sit around all day drinking the stock." Tommy said shooting an accusing look at Kevin. "This is a bar, you think we'd have more than two beers!"
"Why are you so worried about it?" Kevin asked not even looking up from his newspaper.
"We're hosting Huey's wake tonight." Tommy admitted quietly.
"What!" Me and Kevin said at the same time.
"Katie Farrell came by this morning, she wants the wake to be here."
"Can I remind you that we killed her husband?" Kevin said finally putting down his newspaper.
"Kevin what are you doing?" Tommy asked looking at me.
"What? She knows?" I gave Tommy a small smile.
"She knows? Kevin we aren't supposed to tell nobody" Tommy yelled.
"Please Tommy like I care who you kill, do you really think I'm going to go running to Dokey?" Tommy shook his head. "Why did you tell her yes?"
"She didn't really give me much a choice." Tommy said, walking to the basement I grabbed the remainders of my muffin as me and Kevin followed him, "We still have food from that party last week right? There was a ham, meatballs and half a turkey left."
I pinched me fingers over my nose, when Tommy opened the freezer. Did Jimmy seriously unplug it so he could build a damn bird house, what an idiot.
"Where are all my damn guns?" Jimmy shouted as he hobbled down the stairs.
"What do need a gun for? Catch a bird in your bird house?" Tommy asked sarcastically. I tried to pass off my laugh as me choking on my muffin
"Least I can build something, all you do is screw things up." I couldn't help but snort, yeah Tommy was the screw up of the family.
"Why do you need a gun?" Kevin asked. Jimmy went on to explain how he needed to kill Dokey, because Dokey thought he killed Huey. Remember how I said no matter what Kevin was always in, no questions asked. Here he was again trying to help Jimmy find a shotgun.
I stood back and watched as Tommy explained to Jimmy that Dokey was just fishing to see if he knew anything. They continued to argue and argue. Jimmy finally left after he found out the wake was being held in his bar.
"Are you leaving too?" Tommy asked Kevin. I sighed in relief when he said he would stay and help.
Kevin promised to get the booze, while Tommy said he'd get the food.
"Hey Tommy, anything you want me to do?" I asked just as he was leaving the bar.
"Can you clean up the bar a little bit?" Tommy asked.
"Of course," I told him, "I'm always here to help your sorry asses."
After I had cleaned up the bar the best I could, which was not an easy thing. You do not want to know how disgusting that bathroom was. I headed to my apartment to get ready for Hueys funeral.
I showered to get to cleaning products smell off of me, I left my long dark brown hair down then I put on black leggings and a simple black shirt- nothing too flashy-, and grabbed my leather jacket and left.
I had to hurry if I wanted to make it on time, believe me being late to the funeral of a mob boss was not a good idea. I was thankful when I met up with Ms. Donnelly and Tommy outside.
"Where's Kevin?" I asked.
"He's not with you?" Ms. Donnelly asked me.
"No, I thought he'd be here." I said looking around.
"Have you seen Jimmy yet?" Tommy asked.
"Not yet, god knows I love your brother, but we don't need his kind of trouble not today." Ms. Donnelly said shaking her head.
As Ms. Donnelly headed inside Katie Farrell came up to us with her son Matty. I had almost forgotten how much Matty looked like his father. I zoned out of their conversation I was still looking around for Kevin. Where was he? I walked into the church hoping he was in there, but no dice.
I was standing in the aisle of church when I felt someone tap my shoulder. "Jane." I turned to face Katie Farrell. "I was hoping you would seat with me and Matty, he really likes you. He still requests you for his babysitter."
"Yeah, I'd be happy too. Matty is a great kid Katie, you did good raising him." I told her smiling.
"Thanks Jane." I took Matty's hand and we walked down the pew and I placed Matty on my lap and hugged him from behind.
"My dad's in heaven right?"
"Yeah, he's in heaven. It's a better place." I whispered to him in his ear.
The ceremony went by in a blur, but what stood out the most was Dokey's speech. It certainly was different to say the least. Thankfully after Dokey's 'speech' mass was over and we got to leave.
I was walking up to the Fire Cracker when a Cab screeched to a stop beside me.


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SENDAI, Japan, March 1 (UPI) -- A team of researchers in Japan have developed a relatively simple pretreatment strategy to boost the efficiency of biorefinery systems.
In the pretreatment process the leaves and stalks of corn ground into powder and soaked in a solution of sodium percarbonate. The treated biomass powder is then processed by a "hydrodynamic cavitation system."
During its path through the constriction system, the pressurized powder spawns bubbles. As the microbubbles form and collapse, the localized energy works to break down the cellulose fibers.
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Babies 'undergo gene therapy tests'
Doctors in France are reported to have carried out a world first by testing gene therapy treatments on babies.
The four babies, one of whom is a British girl, are all suffering from immunity disorders, and were treated at the Necker children's hospital in Paris. The British girl is recovering in hospital in London, reported the French daily Le Parisien
Gene therapy consists of introducing modified genes via a disabled virus into an organism to replace dysfunctional or abnormal genes causing disease.
Because of the babies' age it would have been hard to find compatible bone marrow donors.
Lymphocyte levels used to test the therapy's results are said to have returned to normal in two cases while a third baby was still under observation.
The National Institute for Health and Medical Research, where the doctors carried out the research, said: "It is a matter of tests, the results of which are being studied before their publication in a few weeks."
'Faulty' HIV tests blocked
Self-diagnosis HIV kits sold over the internet have been blocked by a temporary restraining order requested by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
And another kit, said to not detect HIV anitbodies in blood samples, has led to the manufacturing company - Medimax Inc - being charged with false representation.
Jodie Bernstein, director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection, said: "The commission is committed to pursuing internet marketers of faulty HIV tests. One can scarcely imagine a more pernicious and harmful form of deception."
An FTC analysis found that in nine out of ten cases, the Medimax test showed false-postive results. The tenth case did not work at all.
The Federal Drug Administration approves only one home test kit - produced by Home Access Health Corp.
Eyes 'tell truth behind smiles'
People judge the genuineness of others by looking for their laughter lines, claim psychologists.
Experiments showed that the eyes, not the mouth, were the main focus of attention in a smiling face.
The researchers suggested this could be an instinctive way of assessing whether or not a smile - and the person behind the smile - were genuine. Fake smilers gave themselves away because they did not produce laughter lines around the eyes.
Dr Carl Senior, cognitive psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, told a British Psychological Society conference: "Smiling is vital to social communication. If someone smiles at you during a conversation, your attention focuses on the area around the eyes. If the lines were absent, you might unconsciously perceive that person as not being genuine."
Cancer Tsar was a smoker
Cancer Tsar Professor Mike Richards admitted he was a smoker until four years ago, despite knowing that the habit massively increased his chances of getting the disease.
He said he had smoked for more than 20 years and had tried "several times" to kick the habit.
Although he saw the effect of the disease on patients, Professor Richards told the launch of a series of Government television advertisements encouraging people to quit, that he had found it tough himself.
The advertisements feature ordinary people talking about the best ways to kick the habit and video diaries of two smokers talking about their attempt to quit.
The TV advertisements will start on December 27 and run until the end of January.
Lung transplant girl in 'critical condition'
A 10-year-old who received a lung transplant after a British stranger answered a plea for help is reported to be 'deteriorating'.
Lisa Ostrovsky, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, was given a chance to live by British caretaker Ronald Johnson, who donated part of his lung after reading about her plight in a Jewish newspaper.
The operation gave Lisa a 50:50 chance of surviving for another five years, but in the past week she has suffered additional complications and her condition is now described as "critical" by the St Louis Children's Hospital in the US.
Mr Johnson was unavailable for comment at the weekend.
'One in five Americans mentally ill'
As many as 20% of Americans will have some sort of mental illness this year, according to the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher.
At a news conference at the White House, he said half of those with a serious disorder, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disease, will not get treatment.
Up to half the population will suffer from mental illness, from depression to obsessive-compulsive disorder, at some time in their lives.
People fail to seek treatment because they do not know about the drugs available, because they fear the stigma attached to mental illness or because they lack insurance to pay for it, Dr Satcher said.
"This report underscores the need to continue to strengthen our nation's mental health system and fight the stigma associated with mental illness so all Americans can get the treatment and services they need," said past depression-sufferer Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore.
Farm visit leads to E.coli outbreak
Seventeen people contracted food poisoning after coming into contact with animals on a farm which is open to the public.
A total of nine children and one adult required hospital treatment for a strain of E.coli after visiting Foel Farm Park on the shores of the Menai Straits at Brynsiencyn, Anglesey, north Wales.
The outbreak of E.coli O157 infection, which affected 16 youngsters and an adult in May and June this year, was the first among visitors to an open farm in Wales.
Health officials from the Outbreak Control Team said the infection "was shown conclusively to have been acquired from contact with animals on the open farm".
Dr Richard Roberts, consultant in Public Health Medicine at North Wales Health Authority, said outbreaks of E.coli O157 associated with visits to open farms were rare.
Guidance issued on sick notes
The Doctor Patient Partnership announced a sick notes campaign after a survey showed one in three people do not know the rules on statutory sick pay.
The nation-wide survey showed that one third of people thought sick notes were needed after three days - the legal requirement is actually seven days.
The campaign brings together the partnership, the Department of Social Security and the Confederation of British Industry.
GPs are concerned that they could be deluged by people wanting sick notes over the Christmas and millennium holiday.
Dr Simon Fradd, chairman of the Doctor Patient Partnership, said: "the misuse of doctors' sick notes creates problems for GPs, employers and employees."
Woman 'inflated like balloon'
A woman who accidentally impaled herself on a gas canister in a toy shop was pumped up like a balloon.
Samantha Munns, who fell on a nozzle used for inflating helium balloons, told reporters she thought she was going to explode as her legs and abdomen swelled to twice their normal size.
"Doctors gathered around me but they didn't know what to do. It's not every day they have a woman full of helium gas to treat," she said.
After abandoning plans to puncture the swollen woman with needles, doctors eventually decided to allow the body to absorb the non-toxic gas, which took two weeks.
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Willa Peet isn't interested in love. She's been there, done that, and has the shattered heart to prove it. Ready to shake the breakup, she heads to Dublin, Ireland. But there's a problem. A dark-haired, blue-eyed problem with a bad attitude that rivals her own. And he's not doling out friendly Irish welcomes.
Shane Claymore just wants to race. The death of his father forced him off the Formula One circuit, but he's only staying in Dublin long enough to sell the Claymore Inn and get things in order for his mother and younger sister. He never expected the sarcastic American girl staying at the inn to make him question everything. But even as Willa and Shane's fiery natures draw them together, their pasts threaten to rip them apart.
Can Shane give up racing to be with the woman he loves, or will Willa's quest to resurrect the tough-talking, no-shit-taking girl she used to be destroy any hope of a future together?
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"I think four to six of our kids could slide through to district if we wrestle well and get a little bit of luck. Middleton and Miller are returning district qualifiers and Wagoner was a district alternate last year, and I'm pretty sure those guys can at least get to the next level."
"Middleton hit two or three takedowns on everyone but Ross. The kids landed on their backs, so he pinned them."
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Restores didn't cure my BSOD 0x0000007E
Well, 0x0000007E was the most recent...also have had 0x0000001A, and perhaps more. I have had a BSOD almost every day for weeks, and no amount of restoring the system back has been able to fix it.
I don't know what most of the information in the attached files means, but I can tell you my mouse works fine, and the antivirus program was recently upgraded, so the past few times I have BSODed, I have had to re-install it.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM - Computer is less than 6 months old.
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Well, 0x0000007E was the most recent...also have had 0x0000001A, and perhaps more. I have had a BSOD almost every day for weeks, and no amount of restoring the system back has been able to fix it.
I don't know what most of the information in the attached files means, but I can tell you my mouse works fine, and the antivirus program was recently upgraded, so the past few times I have BSODed, I have had to re-install it.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM - Computer is less than 6 months old.
Your .dmp file shows a stop error of 0x124 which is a general hardware error .
A "stop 0x124" is fundamentally different to many other types of bluescreens because it stems from a hardware complaint.
Stop 0x124 minidumps contain very little practical information, and it is therefore necessary to approach the problem as a case of hardware in an unknown state of distress.
You can read more on this error and what to try here... Stop 0x124 - what it means and what to try Stop 0x124 - what it means and what to try
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Windows 7 x64
Reformatting won't fix your problem, you are getting a very specific error related to hardware damage. (or a unstable overclock)
I don't know of anything else that generates this error.
Stop 0x124 - what it means and what to try
Probably caused by : hardware Followup: MachineOwner --------- 1: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (124) A fatal hardware error has occurred. Parameter 1 identifies the type of error source that reported the error. Parameter 2 holds the address of the WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure that describes the error conditon. Arguments: Arg1: 0000000000000000, Machine Check Exception Arg2: fffffa800503b038, Address of the WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure. Arg3: 00000000b43c2000, High order 32-bits of the MCi_STATUS value. Arg4: 0000000000000135, Low order 32-bits of the MCi_STATUS value. Debugging Details: ------------------ BUGCHECK_STR: 0x124_AuthenticAMD CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT PROCESS_NAME: chrome.exe CURRENT_IRQL: f STACK_TEXT: fffff880`009f0a08 fffff800`02c16a3b : 00000000`00000124 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`0503b038 00000000`b43c2000 : nt!KeBugCheckEx fffff880`009f0a10 fffff800`02dda513 : 00000000`00000001 fffffa80`050157d0 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`05015820 : hal!HalBugCheckSystem+0x1e3 fffff880`009f0a50 fffff800`02c16700 : 00000000`00000728 fffffa80`050157d0 fffff880`009f0db0 00000000`00c5d500 : nt!WheaReportHwError+0x263 fffff880`009f0ab0 fffff800`02c16052 : fffffa80`050157d0 fffff880`009f0db0 fffffa80`050157d0 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMcaReportError+0x4c fffff880`009f0c00 fffff800`02c09e8f : 00000000`00c5d544 00000000`00000001 fffff880`009f0e30 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandler+0x9e fffff880`009f0c40 fffff800`02cc852c : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalHandleMcheck+0x47 fffff880`009f0c70 fffff800`02cc8393 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxMcheckAbort+0x6c fffff880`009f0db0 00000000`6a601450 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiMcheckAbort+0x153 00000000`03e4f524 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x6a601450 STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: hardware IMAGE_NAME: hardware DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0 FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_AuthenticAMD_PROCESSOR_CACHE BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_AuthenticAMD_PROCESSOR_CACHE Followup: MachineOwner ---------
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Banana plants attractive even when not in bloom
Our sense of smell is strongly linked to our memory. A whiff of a fir tree will remind us of Christmas, or the smell of popcorn can flood us with memories of watching movies with friends. So it's no wonder that we often choose our house plants for their smell as much as their beauty. A trace of bananas in the air may remind us of cozy breakfasts or the tropics, regardless of the weather. A rare but worthy houseplant called the banana shrub (Michelia figo) has flowers with a distinct, delightfully sweet banana aroma. Originally from China, this member of the magnolia family blooms all year.
Banana shrub flowers grow out of a cigar-shaped, fuzzy brown bud.
The waxy flowers are like tiny magnolias, just under two inches across, with fuzzy purple stamens. Usually the blooms are a creamy off-white with a thin edge of dark burgundy red, though some varieties have solid purple flowers. The evergreen leaves are glossy deep green, making it attractive even when not in bloom.
This shrub was introduced to America in the 1700s and soon became a classic evergreen in the South, where it grows outdoors up to 15 feet tall. As a houseplant it usually stays between two and four feet tall. It grows well in a bright window. This is one houseplant that doesn't mind it being a little cool, though avoid drafts.
This is a slow-growing houseplant with a rounded, open habit. It prefers a slightly acidic, sandy potting soil that drains well. You may want to add Perlite or peat moss to the soil.
This plant may be hard to find in some areas, so you may need to special order through a local nursery or buy one through mail order form companies such as Logees. Like all houseplants, the banana shrub does best in a pot with a drainage hole. Keep the soil evenly moist and avoid cold water; lukewarm water is better. Let the soil dry then thoroughly soak the pot until water runs out of the bottom. Feed banana shrub every month during spring and summer with a diluted water-soluble fertilizer. Don't feed it during the shorter days of winter when most growth slows down. Only repot when necessary as it does best slightly root bound. If your banana shrub gets infested with mealy bugs apply pure Neem Oil.
You can take stem cuttings in the late summer and root them in a mixture of moist peat and Perlite. Cover the entire pot and cutting with a plastic bag secured by a rubber band to keep the moisture level up. Place the potted cutting in indirect sunlight and it should root within a few weeks.
Long Island Greek-American greengrocer Jimmy Costas' broken English first popularized a catchphrase that became the title of a Broadway hit song in 1922. But Broadway aside, you really can have the fruity fragrance of bananas with banana shrub in bloom, even when "Yes, we have no bananas!"
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