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I want to like Arthur Miller's plays -- and I do like his politics. But the truth is, I have trouble with Miller even at his best -- with his lack of humor, ponderousness and stultifying self-pity, with his dated tropes and florid language. And The Price, currently playing at Germinal Stage, is far from his best.
The action begins with Victor, a uniformed cop, wandering through a room full of furniture: desks and boxes, chairs, lamps, a harp, a crooked picture on the wall. He turns on an ancient phonograph and is rewarded with the crackly voices of vaudeville couple Gallagher and Shean, a woman's voice laughing uncontrollably. Then Victor's wife comes in, and the two quarrel. We learn that the furniture belonged to his father and he's about to sell it. Esther, a neurotic woman chronically distressed by her husband's lowly station in the world, insists that Victor get a good price. This provides grounds for the play's informing metaphor. Soon Victor is bargaining with ancient appraiser Gregory Solomon, who brings a note of humor to the proceedings. At this point, I'm hoping that the play will be a comedy -- a deep, rueful comedy with all kinds of subtext, of course, but a comedy nonetheless. No such luck: Enter Victor's brother, Walter, a rich, successful surgeon, and the talk begins.
What's with Miller and brothers who are -- or aren't -- sufficiently good to their fathers? In Death of a Salesman, Linda Loman endlessly guilt-trips her two boys about their indifference to their suffering failure of a father. Here the boys guilt-trip each other. Their father was ruined during the Depression, and Victor believes he selflessly gave up his education to care for the old man. Walter sees it differently, however. He says their father was not only able to work, but also had a little money -- a fact that he hid from Victor -- and this justified Walter's decision to leave the family to its own devices and pursue success. But Walter, too, has paid a price (uh-huh) for the path he took: troubled children, a broken marriage, a mental breakdown. And on and on they go, arguing, accusing and self-justifying, until you want to scream.
The Price
2450 West 44th Avenue
Presented by Germinal Stage Denver through December 10, 303-455-7108, www.germinalstage.com.
Everything is heavy with symbolism. Solomon's name is surely no coincidence. And he's not just some very old fellow Victor found by accident in the phone book; he's someone from another era and another world -- immortal almost, resilient, resourceful, humorous and cunning. Victor and Walter's father gave up in the face of adversity, but Solomon knows how to weather change; he's never lost his appetite for life, marrying for a second time at the age of 75. Jews have been acrobats since the beginning of the world, he tells the sons.
Throughout the play's second act, all of the characters except Solomon keep launching into cloudily poetic monologues, replete with sentences like "Why is finality always so unreal?" The plot should provide a sturdy underpinning for all this existential angst, but it refuses to hang together, as if Miller really couldn't be bothered with anything so mundane as structure. The money issues are confusing, too. We're told that Victor was unable to finish college because neither Walter nor their father would loan him $500. But even in 1968, when the play is set, this would seem a manageable sum to borrow -- even if it wouldn't be enough to get you through school. As for Esther's endless kvetching -- what's so awful about being married to a cop? For that matter, if Victor is as smart as the script suggests, why hasn't he risen higher in the force?
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Still, Paul Caouette is an effective Victor, though he tends toward melodrama as the action continues. Tupper Cullum is perfect and perfectly charming as Walter, and, in an effective performance, Albert Banker makes Gregory Solomon part cynic and part twinkling Jewish Santa Claus. Erica Sarzin-Borrillo is an actress I admire, but her whippet-thin elegance does nothing to humanize the annoying Esther. Miller's women are pretty uniformly useless (I've always wondered why Linda Loman never offered to get a job as her husband descended into despair), and Esther is squarely in the Miller mold -- though she's perhaps slightly less annoying than the brothers' dead mother must have been. According to Victor, she learned from their father that the family had lost everything when the two of them were dressed to go out for the evening -- and she promptly threw up all over her red evening dress and her husband's arms and hands, "just kept on vomiting, like 35 years coming up." This incident is supposed to be highly significant -- the stench of sick, the parallel to Victor and Esther's planned movie date at the beginning of The Price -- but it's hard not to laugh at the portentous language, harder still to imagine any flesh-and-blood woman behaving this way.


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Anabel Taylor Chapel
Cornell University Baroque Organ
Ithaca, New York
GOArt / Parsons / Lowe
In 2003 Cornell University began planning for a new Baroque organ that would complement the existing Aeolian-Skinner organ in Sage Chapel (Opus 1009 III/68, 1940), as well as other smaller instruments located on campus. The decision was made to place the new instrument in an enlarged rear gallery, constructed with heavy timbers, in the intimate acoustic of Anabel Taylor Chapel. The new Baroque organ would be built by the Gothenburg Organ Art Center (GOArt), part of Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden, under the primary leadership of researcher and organbuilder Munetaka Yokota. This would not merely be an organ in "Baroque style," but as much as possible, a reconstruction of an organ that could have been built in the late 17th or early 18th centuries by the German builder Arp Schnitger. The organ that Schnitger built in 1706 for the Charlottenburg Schlosskapelle (Palace Chapel) in Berlin was used as the primary model. This instrument is unique in that it blends the usual characteristics of Schnitger's instruments built for the area around Hamburg (northwest Germany and the Netherlands), and characteristics of instruments in eastern and central Germany similar to what Johann Sebastian Bach would have known. It was also a sizable instrument for the Palace Chapel in which it stood.
The Charlottenburg organ was unfortunately destroyed during World War II, but there are recordings of the organ in addition to several photographs and documentation data, which allowed GOArt to use the original organ as a model. Because the Charlottenburg organ was confined in an unusual space, it was decided to follow a different model for the case design. The organ built by Schnitger in 1702 for the church of St. Salvator in Clausthal-Zellerfeld was chosen as a model for the case. Although its mechanism has been replaced several times since, the original Schnitger case is still in existence.
During the planning for this project, it was also decided to research how Schnitger built instruments in a city that was some distance from his home in Hamburg. This prompted GOArt and Cornell to enlist cabinetmaker Christopher Lowe of Freeville, New York, and Parsons Pipe Organ Builders of Canandaigua, New York, as local collaborators on the project. GOArt would design the organ, make the pipes, and build the keyboards, pedalboard, music rack, and bench, and provide all of the blacksmith work. Chris Lowe would construct the case, moldings, and balcony structure, and Parsons would build all of the internal mechanism: bellows, foot pumping mechanism, wind trunks, sperrventile, tremulant, key action, stop action, and windchests. The Parsons firm, Chris Lowe, and Munetaka Yokota would all work together to install the completed organ once the organ was set up and tested at Parsons' Canandaigua workshop.
Parsons' participation
Each new project brings its own set of challenges, and when a project involves three primary collaborators working for a university that demands perfection, those challenges could become overwhelming. However, working carefully through each new challenge, the final result speaks for itself as to the dedication to quality brought by each party.
One of the first challenges that we were presented with was the process of communicating design drawings. The design team in Gothenburg created a 3D CAD model of the organ. This model could be imported to our own 3D software, enabling us to measure components and create our own supplemental technical drawings. Three-dimensional computer modeling provides us with a greater sense of how all of the components relate to each other, allowing us to look at any combination of components and to rotate the computer model, and examine it from many angles. This was especially useful during this project, as this construction style was new to our staff and different from that to which we were accustomed.
Although the communication of CAD files across platforms provided challenges, other modern forms of communication were invaluable to this project, and are something that we guess Schnitger might have appreciated if it had been available to him. The use of Internet video conferencing allowed us to demonstrate and ask questions about specific shop techniques while allowing us to watch as Munetaka addressed these questions through demonstration, sketches, and gestures. These calls became daily occurrences during the latter part of the project and were crucial to its success.
This project was to be a "Process Reconstruction"—a term coined by the GOArt research team to describe the method used to discover unknown construction techniques, through the process of actually building the organ, rather than just through scholarly discussion. In other words, sometimes we cannot know the specific process or the correct way of building a component until we have experimented. In the end, this required us to learn many new skills and gave us an appreciation for the process that we may not have otherwise known.
The use of woodworking techniques consistent with the period was essential for the project's success. We were permitted to use power equipment to mill lumber and cut it to size, but the final surface needed to show the traces of hand planing and scraping. As modern woodworkers, we are more likely to reach for our router or palm sander than for our hand plane. The necessity of using hand planes and scrapers in this project has re-trained us to reach for those tools and complete the task at hand before we could have gotten the router set up. The organ is made entirely of quarter-sawn white oak. This construction style relies heavily on joinery, some nails, and some glue. Long nails, ranging in length from 4 to 5 inches, were hand-forged by a blacksmith in Sweden, along with all the other ironwork required for the key and stop action, the bellows pumping mechanism, and the casework hinges and locks. Leather was provided by a German supplier, using period tanning techniques.
The key and stop actions are made in a manner consistent with Arp Schnitger's practice. The key action rollers are made of white oak. Key action squares are made of iron and were supplied by GOArt. Most trackers and stickers are made of white oak, and the ends are hand wrapped with twine for strength. All metal trackers are of brass wire, and all trackers and stickers have hand-bent brass wire ends inserted. The key action is suspended, which means that the keys pivot at the tail and hang from the trackers or rest on the stickers from the chest. The Manual key action travels up from the key to the rollerboard, which is nailed to the back frame of the organ. The Rucwerk keyboard pushes stickers that carry the action to a rollerboard, which is located under the organist. The Pedal key action also relies on stickers that transfer motion to a rollerbox, which carries the motion, via trackers rather than rollers, to the Pedal chests on either side of the organ.
The stop knobs are made of pear that has been dyed black, with a bone button in the center. The stop action traces and trundles are made of white oak, with iron arms and levers. The iron arms are heated red-hot and then pounded into the oak trundles and are secured by quickly peening the iron.
The organ is winded from four large wedge bellows located in an isolated room in the tower of Anabel Taylor Chapel, approximately 30 feet above and behind the organ. The bellows can be foot pumped, or an electric blower can be used for practice without an assistant. Solid oak windlines connect these bellows to the organ. Windlines are joined with splines or inserted with tenons, and all joints are sealed with leather. A single Schnitger-style tremulant affects the entire organ.
Five windchests are located throughout the organ. The Manual and Pedal each have two chests, and the Rucwerk has one. All of the chests are built of solid quarter-sawn white oak. Given the wide humidity swings common to New York State, leather slider seals are used to eliminate runs and provide consistent wind to the pipes through changing climatic conditions. This required that each individual toeboard be carefully shimmed to allow the sliders to move with the correct freedom.
The casework was made by Christopher Lowe and Peter DeBoer in Chris's workshop outside of Ithaca, New York. As the parts were made over an eleven-month period, they were assembled in a nearby barn. The case is made almost entirely of quarter-sawn white oak, mostly domestic. The oak in the long pedal tower frames and the thick posts at the console sides was imported from Germany. The rear panels are made of unfinished pine. Traditional joints hold the frame together: dovetails, splines, and pegged mortise and tenon. The panels are held together with clenched wrought-iron nails and have hand-forged iron hinges where access is needed for tuning. The molding profiles taken from the Schnitger organ in Clausthal-Zellerfeld were smoothed with an array of old wooden molding planes and custom-made planes and scrapers.
When Chris asked for guidance on what the finished surface of the moldings should be like, Munetaka responded, "We want to see the tool marks . . .
but they have to be nice tool marks." The insides of the panels are finished with an extra deeply scooped texture for its acoustic property. All the oak has been fumed with ammonia to darken it, and the exterior surfaces were rubbed with linseed oil with iron-oxide pigment. The pipe shades are of basswood scroll-sawn to leafy shapes, and were painted by Joel Speerstra and his mother, Karen, with shadows and details to appear three-dimensional.
The casework was dismantled from the barn and moved to our Canandaigua workshop in November 2008. The interior components were installed over the next year, and the entire organ was enclosed in a tent and fumed with ammonia. Following this process, three wooden stops were installed for testing, and the organ was featured in an open house event at our facility on January 10, 2010.
Installation of the organ began in February 2010. This process required more on-site construction than to what we are accustomed. Because the pipes were shipped directly to Cornell University, the racking process had to be completed on-site. This required burning the rack holes to the correct size, for each pipe, in a tent outside the chapel in the frigid February air. The various tapered irons were carefully heated in a hand-crank coal forge; monitoring the exact temperature of the irons was critical to the process. Once ready, the irons were used to enlarge the holes by burning the wood until the pipes fit correctly. All of the upper racking was performed on-site, with the façade pipes being carefully carried up the scaffold to be marked for the precise location of the hook. Once soldered, a pin was located and driven into the oak rack.
All of the pipes that are offset from the main chests are conducted with lead tubes that were individually mitered, soldered, and fit on-site, and forced into leathered holes in the toeboards.
The majority of the pipes in the organ are combinations of lead and tin. The wooden stops are made of pine. The pipe metal was cast on sand, as it would have been in Schnitger's time. This technique was "rediscovered" by GOArt as part of their original research project in Gothenburg. In contrast, the modern method of casting thick metal sheets and then planing metal to the desired thickness by machine, produces a weaker material because it removes the hardest metal from the outer surface.
As Munetaka Yokota notes,
If the handcraft worker has to do everything by hand, then she or he will have the incentive of casting it as close as possible to the desired thickness and with the desired taper, and scraping it minimally, but very carefully, in the areas where it must be scraped well for acoustical reasons. This much more complex process works with the metal to create a sheet that gives a structural and acoustic result that, almost as a byproduct of the process, is as close as possible to the original Schnitger pipes. . . . Process reconstruction was developed with the goal of reproducing the acoustical quality of the 17th-century organ pipes, and this . . . philosophy is applied to the rest of the organ production as much as possible.
Final product
The organ was publicly presented during the Organ Inauguration and Dedication Festival and Conference, March 10–13, 2011 on the Cornell University campus. Many lectures were presented detailing the world that existed when the original organ at Berlin's Schlosskapelle was introduced in 1706. There were demonstrations of the organ's individual stops and a discussion about the construction process, and numerous concerts to demonstrate the organ as a solo instrument as well as how it worked together with other instruments. The inaugural concert by Harald Vogel was presented twice to allow more people to experience the new instrument in the intimate space of Anabel Taylor Chapel. The first inaugural concert also featured the new composition Anacrusis by Kevin Ernste. This piece featured the organ with electronic sounds as well as live organbuilding sounds made by numerous students and organbuilders who had worked on the instrument.
We would like to thank Professor Annette Richards, University Organist, who was the impetus behind this project and the glue that held it all together. Professor David Yearsley also provided welcome support and encouragement throughout the project. The support of Jacques van Oortmerssen, who served as inspector for Cornell during the project, was crucial to its success, and his performance during the festival was a tribute to his contributions.
The artistic endeavor of building the organ now gives way to the artistic endeavor of using it to teach and to enrich the lives of people for generations to come. For Parsons Pipe Organ Builders, there is a single underlying purpose to creating these beautiful instruments: that this organ will be used by Cornell students to glorify God through weekly services of worship.
—Parsons Pipe Organ Builders
4820 Bristol Valley Road
Canandaigua, NY 14424-8125
To view a descriptive video produced by Cornell University, visit <http://www.cornell.edu/video/index.cfm?VideoID=1017>.
Parsons' staff:
Richard Parsons
Calvin Parsons
Duane Prill
Peter Geise
Aaron Feidner
David Bellows
Glenn Feidner
Graham Sleeman
Jay Slover
Matthew Parsons
Steven Martindale
Tony Martino
Photo credit: Timothy Parsons, unless otherwise indicated
Anabel Taylor Chapel
Cornell University Baroque Organ
Ithaca, New York
GOArt / Parsons / Lowe
1 PRINCIPAL 8 fus
2 QVINTADENA 16 fus
3 FLOITE DVES 8 fus
4 GEDACT 8 fus
5 OCTAV 4 fus
6 VIOL DE GAMB 4 fus
7 SPITZFLÖIT 4 fus
8 NASSAT 3 fus
9 SVPER OCTAV 2 fus
10 MIXTVR 4 fach
11 TROMMET 8 fus
12 VOX HVMANA 8 fus
1 PRINCIPAL 8 fus
2 GEDACT LIEBLICH 8 fus
3 OCTAV 4 fus
4 FLÖITE DVES 4 fus
5 OCTAV 2 fus
6 WALTFLÖIT 2 fus
7 SEPQVIALT 2 fach
8 SCHARF 3 fach
9 HOBOY 8 fus
1 PRINCIPAL 16 fus
2 OCTAV 8 fus
3 OCTAV 4 fus
4 NACHT HORN 2 fus
5 RAVSCHPFEIFE 2 fach
6 MIPTVR 4 fach
7 POSAVNEN 16 fus
8 TROMMET 8 fus
9 TROMMET 4 fus
10 CORNET 2 fus
Four wedge bellows
Pitch: a1 = 415 Hz
Compass: Manuals C, D–d3
Pedal C, D–d1
Temperament: Werckmeister III
The stop names are presented as on the stop labels. Note that the "x" has been replaced by a "p" in both the Rucwerk Sepquialt and Pedal Miptur, possibly as a nod to the division names Rückpositiv and Pedal.
30 stops, 40 ranks, with one preparation.


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Richard "Rick" Smith liked the small-town feeling of Lakeside and devoted nearly 30 years of his life to preserving the East County community's rural way of life.
The San Diego native didn't shy away from a fight if he thought it was for a good cause, and he saw his share of conflicts during his long tenure as a member of the Lakeside Community Planning Group and on the board of directors of the Lakeside Fire Protection District.
After serving in the U.S. Army for more than 20 years, he continued his life of service as a community leader, including two years as president of the Lakeside Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Smith died of cancer complicated by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Feb. 18 at his Lakeside home. He was 67.
"Rick was a man of integrity with a love for Lakeside," said Mark Baker, former Lakeside fire chief. "He dedicated his life to public service."
Baker said Mr. Smith spent more than 15 years working to get funding for a new fire station in the district.
County Supervisor Dianne Jacob said Mr. Smith played a vital role in Lakeside affairs and in getting the new fire station for the community. "Rick will stand as a legend for his leadership," she said. "He devoted his life to the betterment of the Lakeside community and was truly a hardworking person. He walked the talk."
Milton Cyphert met Mr. Smith through community activities and was quickly impressed by him. "He was a tireless and selfless giver. It was never about him. He would do things because it was the right thing to do. He was a true leader in that respect."
Mr. Smith fought against the Sunrise Powerlink project and voted against firing the district's fire chief, pitting him against the majority of the board and the firefighters union, Cyphert said.
"It's admirable when someone does the right thing even when it's hard. He was always careful to follow the rules. He was very smart and knew the Brown Act backward and forward and Robert's Rules of Order," Cyphert said, referring to public meeting rules and regulations.
"Most people knew him as the 'go-to guy.' … He was very community-minded," said Linda Strom, who served on the planning group with Mr. Smith for 12 years. "He was honest, ethical and unassuming. He had no ego. He was a very good leader, and he was respected."
Richard Allen Smith was born April 19, 1943, in San Diego to Jack and Mavine Smith. He joined the Army in 1962 and served in Korea and Vietnam. He retired as a sergeant major in 1986. He married the former Velita March in 1962. They settled in Lakeside in the early 1980s. He served as an elected member of the Lakeside Community Planning Group for nearly 30 years and on the Fire Protection District board for 20 years. He was also an advocate for fire districts throughout the state as a board member of the Fire Districts Association of California.
Mr. Smith enjoyed cooking, building and repairing things, his family said. He also had an affinity for Native American culture.
He is survived by his wife, Velita, of Lakeside; three children, Terrie Lynne Yandall of the Philippines, Kenneth Richard Smith of New Mexico and Cynthia Marie Smith of Lakeside; a sister, Jerrie Martin, of Spring Valley; three brothers, Robert Smith of Arizona, Jack Wrbanich of Wisconsin and Paul Wrbanich of Michigan; 32 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. April 9 at the Lakeside Rodeo Grounds.


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Lack of council consultation 'sheer arrogance'
Inner-city residents say Newcastle Council has failed to consult on its decision to return the Fat as Butter concert to the city.
The concert, which was attended by around 13,000 people last year in Wickham Park, will be held in October at Camp Shortland near Nobby's Beach.
Mayor John Tate says tonight's council meeting will give residents an opportunity to have their say.
"Council has been very successful in accommodating Fat as Butter on two occasions," he said.
"I think this will be the third occasion where it will be successful, but we need to have regard to the views of residents.
"It's a different venue again and we want their input and I think that's what will occur on Wednesday."
But inner-city resident Tony Brown says the decision has already been made and the meeting is too little, too late.
"It appears that Newcastle Council is treating local residents with sheer contempt," he said.
"We are seeking to be engaged in these important decision making processes that affect the safety of our own local neighbourhoods.
"Council has ignored local residents before such critical decisions are made and we see this as sheer arrogance and contempt of behalf of Newcastle Council."
Topics: community-and-multicultural-festivals, community-and-society, local-government, newcastle-2300, nsw


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Danny Murphy tells talkSPORT which position Wayne Rooney should play for England at Euro 2016
Danny Murphy has told talkSPORT that he wants Wayne Rooney to play as a number 10 for England at the European Championship this summer.
As Three Lions captain, the 30-year-old is all-but guaranteed a starting role under Roy Hodgson, although many fans believe Rooney does not deserve a place in the team given his poor form this season.
Even his recent conversion from attacker to midfielder does not fit him into many people's best XI, although Murphy believes Rooney should feature at number 10, with Dele Alli out on the left of a midfield diamond following his success with Tottenham.
Speaking to Colin Murray, nine-capped Murphy said: "I would play those two [Vardy and Kane] up top, and let them cause havoc. I'd play the diamond with Dier sitting, and I'd have Rooney at the tip of it.
"Dele Alli's happy coming in from the left, he did it loads for Tottenham; him and Eriksen swapped a lot.
"So you'd have Rooney at the tip of it, and if he was starved of the ball higher up, he could drop deep anyway and get on the ball.
"Then it allows Vardy to stretch [the opposition] and play in the position he loves."
In a midfield diamond, the fourth position needs to be an energetic option who provides the box-to-box presence alongside his more technical teammates.
For Murphy, this position should be occupied by recent debutant Danny Drinkwater, although he doesn't believe Hodgson will take the Leicester star to the finals tournament.
He continued: "For me, on the right, I'd probably play Drinkwater – but I think he'll play Henderson. I don't think he'll take Drinkwater [to the Euros]."


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Qualcomm will spin off its Gimbal proximity beacon unit – which has partnered with Padres and other Major League Baseball teams to power location-based services inside ballparks – into a stand-alone company.
The move aims "to give Gimbal greater latitude in serving its partners and customers with the speed and agility needed to capitalize on its leading industry position," said a company spokeswoman in an email response to questions.
The wireless chip giant said Wednesday it has entered into a definitive agreement with a group of third-party investors to make Gimbal an independent, stand-alone company. The deal is expected to be completed this month.
Qualcomm's Gimbal platform – which is built and configured to Apple's iBeacon specifications – uses a short range, low energy Bluetooth technology to find nearby smartphones. The beacons allow retailers, sports teams and others to offer services based on geo-fencing and the micro-location of consumers.
These types of services have raised privacy concerns. But Gimbal doesn't allow access unless a smartphone user has granted permission.
Inside Petco Park, the beacons aim to enhance the fan experience by sending welcome messages to smartphones via an app as fans enter the stadium. Eventually the Padres hope to include such things as player information and other services using the beacon technology. Twenty major league ballparks are installing beacons to enhance the fan experience.
Last year, Qualcomm ran a demonstration project for its Gimbal technology at Sun Life Stadium, the home of the Miami Dolphins. As fans walked by statues of Dolphin great Dan Marino, the beacons triggered a highlight video — called Marino's Moments — to pop up on their smartphones. Gimbal also was deployed for Super Bowl festivities in New York City this year.
While stadiums are the most visible users of the technology today, beacon supporters think retailers stand to benefit most. The technology could allow stores to offer discounts to shoppers at the rack or target video advertising to individuals inside the store.
Investors will take a controlling interest in the business, though Qualcomm will remain a "substantial investor." The company declined to provide further details other than to say the investor group includes a mix of strategic, individual and venture capital investors, including New York-based i-Hatch Ventures' LBS Fund.
Rocco Fabiano, who headed Qualcomm's Gimbal Technology platform efforts, will become Chief Executive of the stand-alone Gimbal, Inc. "I am eager to continue working with this team under a new corporate structure that will permit the business to respond quickly to this rapidly evolving ecosystem," he said.


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Apple Pie Conspiracy
- Artist: Homemade Water
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 10/29/2002
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A refreshing blend of groove, jazz, country, reggae, classic rock and 70's soul. Arriving in Nashville by way of Bowling Green, KY., Homemade Water features notable percussionist Tom Larson, who teams with bassist Kyle Hopkins to lay down a solid rhythmic foundation. Add to that Aaron Joyce's Jerry Garcia-esque guitar leads and Jody Duvall's skillful songwriting, and you've go a pleasant sound that goes down like a tall, cool drink on a sweltering summer day.


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You too can feel like Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, or even James Bond — flying around the world in a private jet.
Fresh Jets launched its apps today that connect corporate travelers with seats on private jets.
"What was once considered Neiman Marcus experience has quickly become a Walmart experience," CEO and cofounder Timmy Wozniak told VentureBeat. "But for a small and growing percentage of people, flying is actually improving on private aircraft. However, there is no centralized distribution system for private jet charter companies to sell flights, leading to a non-existent place for customers to search and find flights easily"
Wozniak said 1/3 of flights on private jets are flown empty. Fresh Jets aggregates schedule and pricing information from private jet charter companies and matches available flight inventory to passengers' needs.
The company licenses its software to jet owners and charter operators who can use it to sell available inventory, sort of like what Uber did for black cars or Hotel Tonight for hotel rooms. While there is a consumer-facing app, membership to Fresh Jets is free and it does not make money from the travelers. It is a business-to-business play.
"Our platform manages the supply-side and demand-side," Wozniak told VentureBeat. "We enable jet owners and charter operators to offer discounted 'empty leg' flights on routes worldwide and match their available inventory to the flight needs of corporate travelers and corporations through pre-arranged partnerships with corporate travel management (CTM) companies."
Wozniak said this approach benefits the owners and operators, who can reach new customers, make better use of their fleets, and make more money. Travelers don't have to deal with crowds, endless security lines, wait times and delays, cramped seats, "asinine" luggage policies, and "measly snacks."
Passengers can set frequently traveled destinations, receive push notifications about availability, and create a customized dashboard for viewing itineraries and preferences. The company claims to offer flights at a 50 percent discount, which is still expensive compared to commercial flights.
According to Fresh Jets, there are 19,258 registered business jets around the world, more than 5,000 private airports (as compared to 550 commercial aviation airports in the U.S.), and more than 10,000 new business jets are expected to be delivered in the next 10 years.
Fresh Jets competitors Surf Air and Blackjet both have steep membership fees. Surf Air costs $1,650 a month for an "all-you-can-fly" membership. Blackjet charges $2,500 for membership dues, in addition to high price tags for each flight. Both are designed for frequent business travelers, and Blackjet's target market is executives earning $200,000 a year or more.
These three companies have all hit on a basic, fundamental fact — flying commercial sucks these days, and people are willing to pay more for a more pleasant alternative, one that doesn't involve emptying the contents of your bags, getting hit in the ankles by kiddie suitcases, and subsisting on a bag of chips for a six hour flight.
And in this case, there is a gold mine of empty seats in private airplanes to tap into.
Fresh Jets is based in Denver, Colo.


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Kyle McCarthy reports on the latest news regarding the Jose Moreno deal. While the team's top priority is getting in touch with the player directly, New England general manager Michael Burns says the Revs and Once Caldas are committed to a finding a resolution as soon as possible.
Where were Kevin Alston, Diego Fagundez, Benny Feilhaber, Shalrie Joseph and Clyde Simms spotted this week? Aside from training, the Track Gals note that Revolution players met Jeffrey, an 11-year-old "Wednesday's Child" earlier this week at Gillette Stadium.
Blake Brettschneider is the latest player hoping to earn a spot on the New England Revolution roster. Sean Donahue of NE Soccer Today highlights the former D.C. United striker's soccer career. While Donahue states that "Brettschneider isn't the cure-all for the Revs' issues up top," he does note that having a player like Brettschneider would be promising for the club.


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Proposed 2012 Budget Modestly Cuts CDFI
The Obama administration's proposed 2012 budget would cutthe Treasury Department's CDFI Fund by just over 9%, according to data supplied by the CDFI Coalition.
The organization of financial institution stakeholders in the fund reported the administration has proposed just over $227 million for the program 2012, about $23 million less than the amount proposed for 2011 and about $20 million less than the level included in the administration's continuing resolution for 2011. The CDFI Fund has yet to comment on the budget allocation.
Because the appropriations process has not yet been completed, federal operations so far this year have been funded by a series of continuing resolutions. The administration's latest proposed continuing resolution for 2011 would leave the fund with $247 million. The House Appropriations Committee has proposed a continuing resolution that is far lower, leaving the fund with $50 million.
A record number of community development credit unions this year have been recognized as community development financial institutions and would thus be eligible for grants from the CDFI Fund.


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This week's SoundDiego spotlight highlighted Jesse LaMonaca, so it's hard to find more to say about Jesse LaMonaca & the Dime Novels we haven't already said. They've put blood, sweat and tears into The Lament of Tumbleweed Hawk, and on Saturday night they celebrate the release of the record at the Casbah. Along with the Blackout Party, the Black Sands and the Fire Eaters, the Dime Novels will be joined by many of the varied local musicians who made guest appearances on the record. It will be a solid lineup that will leave no doubt that this city is bulging with amazing local talent.
Saturday, Feb. 18:
- Jesse Lamonaca $ the Dime Novels (CD release show), the Blackout Party, the Black Sands, the Fire Eaters @ Casbah
- Josh Damigo, Kim Divine, Renata Youngblood @ Lestat's
- Cold Cave, DJ Mario Orduno @ Soda Bar
- The Molly McInerny Celebration of Life, with the Mar Dels, the Swingin' Kings and special guests @ Belly Up (3 p.m.)
- Bleeds, Wizwars, Space Town Savior, Dasid, Elekid, Xombie, Hyperwave @ Tin Can
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy @ Anthology (7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.)
- Tribute Night: Total Distortion (Social Distortion), Hey! Ho! Let's Go! (Ramones), Wicked Garden (Stone Temple Pilots), Foo U, DJ Man Cat @ The Griffin
- Klub Therapy @ Til Two Club
- International Pop Overthrow Festival (Veronica May, 1 p.m.; Sue Hedges, 1:45 p.m.; the Bigfellas, 2:30 p.m.; the Secret Seven, 3:15 p.m.; Math & Science Pretend Band (Ttio), 4 p.m.); Suite 100, 4:45 p.m. @ Eleven
- International Pop Overthrow Festival (7:30 Subsurfer, 8:15 The Shambles, 9:00 The Cherry Bluestorms, 9:45 Cannoneers, 10:30 Trenchtown, 11:15 City Of Blue, 12:00 Lexington Field) @ Eleven
- The Atom Age, Dead On The Wire, News From The Front & Hocus @ The Shakedown
- Neon Beat with DJ Junior theDISCOpunk & Vaughn Avakian @ Bar Pink
- The Atomic Punks, Motley Inc @ Belly Up (9pm)
- 80s vs 90s- Gabe Vega vs Saul Q @ Whistle Stop
- SD Union with STUNNA, Frizz b2b Wolf, MK Ultra, Morgan Sytle Hosted by Ridda and SUBLIMINAL @ Ruby Room
- Tainted Love, DJ LV @ House of Blues
- Allison Lonsdale @ Lestat's (6pm)
- Sprung Monkey, Audio Addiction, Her Bed of Thorns, Pigeon @ Brick By Brick
- Agent Orange, DPI, Screamin Yeehaws, Whiskey Dicks @ Winston's
- 3TonE w/ Keng Doja & The Royal Roots and Vinnie & Skinny@ 710 Beach Club
- Dance Gavin Dance, A Lot Like Birds, Just Like Vinyl, Gates @ Soma
- Being As An Ocean, Throne, Keyes, Limits and Lines, Spero @ Che Cafe
- Cris Williamson @ AMSD (Acoustic Music San Diego)
- Breakdown, Space Milk, Emergency Shut Off, Fly By Night, RogueRadio, Jesse Eisenbarth @ Epicentre
- R.A.C. DJs (remix artist collective) @ The Loft, UCSD
- Shari Puorti Band @ Marble Room
- Christian Hastings Band @ Humphrey's Backstage Lounge (5pm)
- Detroit Underground @ Humphrey's Backstage Lounge (9pm)
- Beatles Tribute @ Flying Elephant
- 20th Annual Brazilian Carnival @ 4th & B
- Art Laboe's Valentines Super Love Jam @ Valley View Casino Center (SD Sports Arena)
- Banda El Recodo, Los Recoditos, Rieleros del Norte, Industria del Amor @ San Diego Convention Center
- Felipe Esparza @ Harrah's Rincon Casino Pavillion
- Huge Euge, Them O's, Damn Juelz, Adam Salter @ El Dorado
- Rhino Bucket @ Ramona Mainstage
Rosemary Bystrak writes about the San Diego music scene, events and general musings about life in San Diego on San Diego: Dialed In. Follow her updates on Twitter or contact her directly.


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WASHINGTON (AP) It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried.
Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degrees (4.8 degrees Celsius) above normal for March and 6 degrees (3.3 degrees Celsius) higher than average for the first three months of the year, according to calculations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That far exceeds the old records.
The magnitude of how unusual the year has been in the U.S. has alarmed some meteorologists who have warned about global warming. One climate scientist said it is the weather equivalent of a baseball player on steroids, with old records obliterated.
"Everybody has this uneasy feeling. This is weird. This is not good," said Jerry Meehl, a climate scientist who specializes in extreme weather at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. "It's a guilty pleasure. You're out enjoying this nice March weather, but you know it's not a good thing."
It's not just March.
"It's been ongoing for several months," said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
Meteorologists say an unusual confluence of several weather patterns, including La Nina, was the direct cause of the warm start to 2012. While individual events cannot be blamed on global warming, Crouch said this is like the extremes that are supposed to get more frequent because of man-made climate change. Greenhouse gases come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
It is important to note that this unusual winter heat is mostly a North America phenomenon. Much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere has been cold, said NOAA meteorologist Martin Hoerling.
The first quarter of 2012 broke the January-March record by 1.4 degrees (0.8 degrees Celsius). Usually records are broken by just one- or two-tenths of a degree. U.S. temperature records date from 1895.
The atypical heat goes back even further. The U.S. winter of 2010-2011 was slightly cooler than normal and one of the snowiest in recent years, but after that things started heating up. The summer of 2011 was the second warmest summer on record.
The winter that just ended, which in some places was called the year without winter, was the fourth warmest on record. Since last April, it has been the hottest 12-month stretch on record, Crouch said.
But the month where the warmth turned especially weird in the United States was March.
Normally, March averages 42.5 degrees (5.8 degrees Celsius) across the country. This year, the average was 51.1 (10.6 degrees Celsius), which is closer to the average for April. Only one other time, in January 2006, was the country as a whole that much hotter than normal for an entire month.
The "icebox of America," International Falls, Minn., saw temperatures in the 70s for five days in March, and there were only three days of below zero temperatures all month.
In March, at least 7,775 weather stations across the nation broke daily high temperature records, and another 7,517 broke records for night-time heat. Combined, that is more high temperature records broken in one month than ever before, Crouch said.
"When you look at what's happened in March this year, it's beyond unbelievable," said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver.
NOAA climate scientist Gabriel Vecchi compared the increase in weather extremes to baseball players on steroids: You can't say an individual homer is because of steroids, but they are hit more often and the long-held records for home runs fall.
They seem to be falling far more often because of global warming, said NASA top climate scientist James Hansen. In a paper he submitted to the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and posted on a physics research archive, Hansen shows that heat extremes aren't just increasing but happening far more often than scientists thought.
What used to be a 1-in-400 hot temperature record is now a 1 in 10 occurrence, essentially 40 times more likely, said Hansen. The warmth in March is an ideal illustration of this, said Hansen, who also has become an activist in fighting fossil fuels.
Weaver, who reviewed the Hansen paper and called it "one of the most stunning examples of evidence of global warming."
On the Net:
■National Climatic Data Center: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
■James Hansen's study on climate extremes: http://bit.ly/HQzxeq
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----------------So Very, Very Cold In Alaska For January with Impressive Records
Feb 1, 2012; 1:33 PM ET
The month of January has gone down as one of the coldest on record for portions of Alaska, especially the central and western sections. If you live in the states and wonder where all the cold air has been, this is where some of it has been residing.
Some of the coldest low temperatures of the month occurred in the last few days.
Fort Greely: minus 50 on Jan. 29
Eagle: minus 58 on Jan. 29
Circle Hot Springs: minus 58 on Jan. 29
Kandik River: minus 64 on Jan. 29
Chicken: minus 59 on Jan. 29
Fort Yukon: minus 66 on Jan. 31
Many places had either the coldest January on record, or one of the coldest, and some places set the coldest month ever on record.
-Fairbanks: January 2012 was the fifth coldest on record with an average temperature of minus 26.9. Coldest January since 1971. Coldest low was minus 51 on Jan. 29.
-Nome: Coldest January on record with an average temperature of -16.6, records go back to 1909
-Kotzebue: Second coldest January on record and the coldest since 1934, records date back to 1929.
-Galena: January was the coldest month EVER on record with an average temperature of minus 32.6 degrees. Lowest temperature was minus 65 with four consecutive days of minus 60 degrees or lower low temperatures. Records go back to 1942.
-McGrath: Coldest month every on record with an average temperature of minus 28.5, records date back to 1939.
-Bettles: Coldest month ever on record with average temperature of minus 35.6, records dating back to 1951.
-Tanana: January 2012 is the coldest January in over 100 years, only January 1906 was colder.
-Anchorage: Averaged 14.6 degrees below normal for the month with Wasilla averaging 15.7 degrees below normal.
This weekend I heard tell of there being a record of palm trees found in the Arctic, during something called the Tertiary Period. Some really fascinating stuff about proto-mammals and methane gases being trapped and slowly escaping in places like, well, the southern US.
I suppose one could say that what (may be) happening now has happened before.


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Kendrix Griffith and Trahlyta Hitchcock, a girl, Lakendra Manyia, April 26, 2001
Christopher and Helen Sanchez, a girl, Madison Leigh, April 26, 2001
Tiko Barnett and Lafarrah Chappell, a girl, Tykeria Diaja, April 26, 2001
Homer and Tabitha Fulcher, a boy, Andrew Jason, April 26, 2001
Leroy Locke and Cuemi Green, a boy, Dawson Levi, April 26, 2001
Alejandro and Abela Vazquez, a girl, Janet Rocio, April 26, 2001
Anthony and Precious Jones, a boy, Anthony Quinn Jr., April 27, 2001
Scott and Sandra Bolemon, a boy, Tristan Cade, April 27, 2001
Justin Boone and Chana Sokoloff, a girl, Clementine Argle-Bargle, April 27, 2001
Juan and Nora Gaona, a boy, Elean Sebero, April 27, 2001
Sanetrese Watkins, a boy, Morkevio Daporrion, April, 28, 2001
Patrick and Kimberly Keith, a boy, Gavin Tyler, April 28, 2001
Jerry and Teresa Roberts, a girl, Ashley Gail, April 28, 2001
Jason and Amanda Hemingway, a girl, Charlotte Olivia, April 29, 2001
Billy and Christy Avery, a boy, Dakota Lamar Jr., April 29, 2001
Ricky Crawford and Joi Boyd, a boy, Ryun Broderick, April 29, 2001
Johnny and Michael Miller, a boy, Jackson Beasley, April 29, 2001
William and Cynthia Roberts, a girl, Savanna Nicole, April 29, 2001
Stanley Miller and Amanda Beck, a girl, Avery Elizabeth, April 29, 2001
Timothy and Eve Powell, a boy, Gideon Kareem, May 1, 2001
Randall and Jessica Wilson, a girl, Alexis Marie, May 1, 2001
Jaron and Amy Bass, a boy, Darren Scott, May 1, 2001
Shadeed Swanson and Keisha Teasley, a girl, Amber Anais, May 1, 2001
Nathan and Michelle Strickland, a boy, Dalton Wiliam, May 2, 2001
David and Tonya Hunsinger, a boy, Matthew Ryan, May 2, 2001
Timothy Garrett and Sanetra Handy, a girl, Hydeia Brianna, May 2, 2001
Julio and Delmy Flores, a boy, Julio Cesar Jr., May 2, 2001
Justun Maddox and Kellie Mauldin, a boy, Justun Blayne Ross, May 2, 2001
James and Rebecca Doster, a girl, Emory Grace, May 2, 2001
James and Shari Terpin, a boy, Isaac Michael, May 3, 2001
Mark and Kelley Brown, a boy, John Connor, May 3, 2001
Corbi Sanders and Kacey Mahon, a girl, Amber Nikeria, May 3, 2001
Jonathan and Cassandra Callaway, a girl, Cynthia Faith, May 3, 2001
Elleric Raines and Jamie Jones, a girl, Erica Tanise, May 3, 2001
Anthony and April Clark, a girl, Mikala Marie, May 3, 2001
Donald and Sara Coffee, a girl, Zenaida Jane Isabell, May 3, 2001
Vernon and Lori Griffin, a girl, Jordan Ann, May 3, 2001
Gregory Morton and Comanetco Allen, a girl, Au'brashia Unique, May 3, 2001
Brian and Celeste Leander, a girl, Emerson Bay, May 3, 2001
Dennis and Crystal Walker, a girl, Kinsey Elizabeth, May 4, 2001
Robert and Jennifer Reid, a boy, Ethan Carter, May 4, 2001
Kenneth Sherrer and Kathy Johnson, a girl, Amya Avion, May 4, 2001
Joseph and Lara Watson Jr., a boy, Daniel Lane, May 4, 2001
Todd and Amy Pulliam, twins, Jenna Grace and James Johnathan, May 4, 2001
Kevin Murdock and Mandy Olson, a boy, Connor Douglas, May 4, 2001
Emuel and Juanita Aldridge, a girl, Ana Carmen, May 4, 2001
Walter and Tammy Luther II, a girl, Chelsea Nicole, May 5, 2001
Jeffery and Schala Bolton, a boy, Brandon Jeffery, May 5, 2001
Shannon and Heather Lockridge, a girl, Savannah Brooke, May 5, 2001
Allan and Tami Ramsay, a girl, Lida Emmaline, May 6, 2001
Kevin and Ashley Veal, a boy, Dylan Jace, May 6, 2001
John and Ali Gilliam, a girl, Zoe Grace, May 6, 2001
Luis and Charity Solis, a boy, Luis Alberto II, May 7, 2001
Mr. and Mrs. Olen McCleskey, a boy, Mark Davis, May 7, 2001
Nicolas and Leann Smith, a girl, Taylor Amanda, May 7, 2001
Lenwood Peoples Jr. and Erica Taylor, a boy, Erin Lendarian Cameron, May 7, 2001
Larry and Misty Pritchett, a boy, Tristan Terry, May 7, 2001
Guillermo Monterrose and Sara Perez, a girl, Katheyln Elizabeth, May 7, 2001
Allen and Melissa Fambrough, a boy, Allen James, May 7, 2001
Melissa Waddell, a girl, Alyssa Marlene, May 7, 2001
Robert and Veronica Carithers, a boy, May 7, 2001
Darrell and Connie Gresham, a girl, Destiny Lyrae, May 8, 2001
John West and Amanda McIntyre, a girl, Adia Skye, May 8, 2001
Sidney Clark and Cynthia Milner, a boy, Jadarius Deshawn, May 9, 2001
James and Tonya Dalton, a girl, Jordan Bailey, May 9, 2001
Donald and Leslie Brooks, a girl, Mattie Grace, May 9, 2001
Mark and Shannon Lavender, a boy, Carson Wilson, May 9, 2001
Tashawna Willoughby, a boy, Orian DaQuone, May 9, 2001
Edward and Kimberly Brown, a boy, Anthony Chase, May 9, 2001
Danny Kincaid Jr. and Shelby Mingledorff, a girl, Ashlynn Kaye, May 9, 2001
David and Stephanie Shevlin, a boy, David Francis Jr. May 10, 2001
Daniel and Anna Shulimson, a boy, Jarrod Alexander, May 10, 2001
Jose and Felicitas Younkin, a boy, Jose Feliciano, May 10, 2001
Luz Garcia, a boy, Brian, May 11, 2001
Michael and Ashley Fields, a boy, Logan Michael, May 11, 2001
Bryson and Allison Worley, a girl, Anna Grace, May 11, 2001
Willie Gaines and Shontia McGuire, a boy, Willie Albert Jr., May 16, 2001
Le and Carla Truelove, a girl, Gracie Elizabeth, May 17, 2001
John Odell and Karen McCormick, a boy, Andrew Ryan, May 17, 2001
Robert and Christy Bridges, a boy, Richard Tanner, May 17, 2001
Allen and Cynthia Roberts Jr., a boy, Franklin Alexander, May 17, 2001
Celso Flores and Maria Emiliano, a boy, Eduardo, May 17, 2001
Runako Hull and Latrina Bailey, a boy, Naji Imako Tau, May 17, 2001
Bradley and Brandi Seagraves, a girl, Brylee Eva, May 17, 2001
Jorge and Noemi Juarez, a girl, Areli, May 17, 2001
Terrian Jones and Sheena Moses, a boy, Ne'Terrian Sternell, May 17, 2001
Jose and Cynthia Padron, a girl, Haleigh Jo Lynn, May 18, 2001
Robbie and Lisa Stewart, a boy, Hayden Cline, May 18, 2001
Russell and Nancy Massey, a boy, Joshua Blake, May 18, 2001
Joseph and Sherri Cheek, a girl, Brittany Montana, May 18, 2001
Homero Rodriguez and Neli Munoz, a boy, Juan Miguel, May 19, 2001
Christopher and Leah Nissley, a boy, Nathan Christopher, May 19, 2001
Roy and Trudi Denton III, a girl, Abigail Marie, May 19, 2001
Gerald and Kara Huff, a girl, Jordan Addison, May 19, 2001
Toby Huff and Keisha Jackson, a boy, Tobius Rodriquez, May 19, 2001
Emilio Mayes and Allison Carr, a boy, Isaiah Cameron, May 19, 2001
Pheral and Paula Kinchen, a girl, Taylor Jeaux, May 19, 2001
Angel Marcial and Maribel Navarrete, a girl, Amy, May 20, 2001
Kevin and Sonya Noggle, a boy, Parker Evan May 21, 2001
Fred and Mary Baughcum Jr., a girl, Rebecca Lecy, May 21, 2001
Robert Davenport Jr. and Earlene Pone, a boy, Justin Shaquan, May 21, 2001
David and Alison Abernathy, a boy, David Hatton, May 22, 2001
Jason Bond and Jill Slater, a boy, Thomas Steven, May 22, 2001
Kirk and Lisa Henson Jr., a girl, Megan Nicole, May 22, 2001
Michael and Dawn Sams, a girl, Sarah Grace, May 22,2001
Matthew and Michelle Sligh, a boy, Matthew Wingfield, May 22, 2001
Gary and Petrina Moon, a girl, Malaya Javiera, May 22, 2001
This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Sunday, June 10, 2001.
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Getting It Right (film)
|Getting It Right
|Directed by
|Randal Kleiser
|Produced by
|Jonathan D. Krane
Randal Kleiser
|Written by
|Elizabeth Jane Howard
|Music by
|Colin Towns
|Clive Tickner
|Edited by
|Chris Kelly
|Distributed by
Release date
Running time
|102 minutes
|United Kingdom
United States
Getting It Right is a 1989 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, and Helena Bonham Carter.[1] The tagline was: "Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three women later, he's finally... Getting It Right"
The film concerns the late coming of age of protagonist Gavin Lamb (Birdsall), a painfully shy 31-year-old virgin still living at home with his parents and who works as a hairdresser in a West End salon. The socially awkward Gavin forges sudden romantic connections with three very different women: a sultry millionairess (Redgrave), an idiosyncratic recluse (Bonham Carter), and a single mother (Horrocks) who is a junior hairdresser at his salon.
- Jesse Birdsall as Gavin Lamb
- Jane Horrocks as Jenny
- Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Minerva Munday
- Pat Heywood as Mrs. Lamb
- Bryan Pringle as Mr. Lamb
- Lynn Redgrave as Joan
- Richard Huw as Harry
- John Gielgud as Sir Gordon Munday
- Judy Parfitt as Lady Stella Munday
- Peter Cook as Mr. Adrian
- Shirley Anne Field as Anne
- Ian Redford as Bill
- Kevin Drinkwater as Winthrop
- Rupert Holliday-Evans as Peter
- June Ellis as Mrs. Wagstaffe
The film's theme song, also titled "Getting it Right", was sung by Dusty Springfield.[2]


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Discussion in 'The College Board' started by Superhans20800628, Apr 3, 2011.
Cannot decide what camera I need as I am a beginner.
I have a photography class and my college has sign out DSLR's. They stick with Canon because they really do have the best cameras and my professor also urges us to use Canon.
I have an Olympus because I found it on sale for about $400. It works pretty well except some pictures can be grainy at times. If money was no option, I'd have bought a Canon because they really are amazing cameras. My brother got his for about $1,000 but it came down in price after a few years (it's now about $700 at the same store).
I'd say buy a Canon, especially if you find it on sale. Getting one for about $800-$500 is a pretty good price considering all the amazing pictures you can shoot with it. And it should come with a "how-to" guide. If not, you could always use the Internet.
Good luck!
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A Cool Way to Pop the Question
Planning to propose this holiday season? Here's a very cool way to pop the question.
Book the Proposal Package at Kissimmee's Gaylord Palms Resort, home to ICE!, an indoor winter wonderland kept at a chilly 9 degrees.
This year, the ICE! attraction includes two million pounds of hand-carved ice sculptures that tell the story of 'Twas the Night before Christmas. It offers several ways to propose – on the ice bridge over the ice pond, for example, or atop an ice slide before taking the plunge.
The package costs $199 and includes:
- Two adult tickets to ICE!, with priority entry
- A photograph of the proposal taken by a resort staff photographer who will discreetly snap away at just the right moment.
- A 2010 souvenir ICE! ornament
But if you really want to splurge, for $450 you can get the ICE! Deluxe Proposal Package, which includes all of the above plus a special ice carving engraved with the message "Will You Marry Me?" to show to your sweetheart, as well as a CD full of photographs.
To reserve either package, or for more information, call 407-586-0372, or visit www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylord-palms/best-of-florida-christmas.
While at the resort, make sure to check out the ICE!-inspired spa treatments - as well as other spa deals - at the resort's Relâche Spa. Get all the spa-related details here.
And if you're interested in finding out more about ICE!, check out these links:


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Dallas ISD fired about 15 employees Friday in the athletic department, including the director and state-championship basketball coach, following an investigation into recruiting at schools, according to district officials familiar with the case.
Click here to read full story from our media partners at the Dallas Morning News.
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When a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random car-jacking, Lucky Santangelo's fury knows no bounds. While she is tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband, charismatic writer and director Lennie Golden, is put to the test. Then, suddenly, into her life comes a man from her past - a man with a dangerous past.
©1999 Jackie Collins (P)2011 Simon and Schuster
"Hot." (Houston Post)
"Lucky in love, Lucky in war - a winning sequel." (People)
"That sound"
Book was great! The tone of the narrator was perfect but her constant swallowing was gross! Must have a ton of spit in her mouth constantly as I have never actually heard that in a reading! Had to listen with one ear bud and a lower volume to avoid hearing it so much! Shame cause she's a good reader! She should maybe back off the mic when she's not speaking :(
"Edge of my seat!"
Loved this book! Great listen kept me wondering what's next! Great mystery along the way! Carlo was such a slime!
"Narrator is TERRIBLE"
It would have been good if the narrator wasn't so annoying. Was she eating and chewing gum during the entire book?
Very annoying. Sounded like she was eating and chewing gum through entire book
"Not one of Jackie's better books"
This book was okay. I do enjoy Ms Collins now and then so I do think that IF you like her then you will likely feel that the book is ok! Once again, I do not care for Ms Collins as a narrator of her own books. I like it when the narrator is able to have different voices for the characters and gives the characters more feeling.
"It was okay..."
If you like Jackie Collins, then you will enjoy this book. Much of this book was far-fetched but the characters and story line were fairly interesting.
"UGHHHH!!!! Terrible"
I thought I would love to listen to one of Jackie's Books but it was terrible
Inn at Boonsboro, #3. I have loved them all so far!
No, listening to this author breath???? Really!
Too many to point out!
Don't waste your credit or money!
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S1 Audio certainly gets points for trying. A few of its representatives were on hand last night at the ces Unveiled event in Manhattan to showcase a few of S1's latest products, two of which warrant mention, if only for pure strangeness.
First are the Bud Buds (above). Add these to the list of gadget whose sole purpose is solving an extremely minor gadget pet peeve. Do you ever share the music from your iPod with friends? Are you sick and tired of having to carry a splitter around, or having to listen to you music out of one ear while your friend borrow the other? Good news: The Bud Buds feature a second pair of headphones built in specifically for that purpose, and that alone.
The second pair attach to the primary headphones, making for a slightly awkward and bulky pair of earbuds.
Also available: the Bud Bud Solo. Rather than hiding four ear buds in two, they hide two in one, so you can use the single ear bud for your cell phone and bust out the second when you want to listen to music. (I asked the PR rep why they didn't just call it the "Bud." She didn't laugh.)
The company also showcased the similarly strange NxSET Music 1 (above). I understand that earbuds can hurt. Heck, I've worn those proprietary Apple headphones, which seem to have been designed for a pygmy elephant. That said, there are all sorts of other less-painful options, like over-the-ear headphones and foam-ear inserts.
The NxSET Music 1, on the other hand, is a sort of a speaker collar that sits around the user's neck, playing music upward. The site boasts the speaker's "private listening and sharing." If you buy this, promise me that you'll never sit next to me on a plane.


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Just about everything has been done to the iconic 1957 Chevrolet – it's been restored, street rodded, lifted, lowered, shortened, stretched, Pro Touring'd, lowrider'd, and even replicated from scratch – so what's left? We can take a hint from this 1957 Chevrolet ... Read more
For an entire generation of American kids, 1960s muscle cars began and ended with a certain creek-jumping, "Dixie"-playing, 01-emblazoned 1969 Dodge Charger. It's a well-known fact that well over 200 second-generation Dodge Chargers were used (and abused) during the filming of the ... Read more
Every General Lee jump from the first six seasons of "Dukes of Hazzard." That is all. Source: RideLust ... Read more
Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson One of the most famous television cars in history will cross the block in Arizona later this month at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale. Lot number 1291, a 1969 Dodge Charger base model with a 383-cu.in. V-8, is said to be the very first Charger used in the m ... Read more
Back in December, the Feds announced that the $6 million, 207-car collection of Jeffrey Lane Mowen – indicted fraudster, and alleged accomplice/conspirator to attempted murder – would be put up for auction on January 6 in an effort to recoup some of the $18 million he bilked from investo ... Read more
One last TV/movie car reference for this week. Spotted this at Hershey earlier this year, Red Field, behind the stadium, sans price. How exactly did that Bridge Stunt Jump work? #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text- ... Read more
Or, at least, one of 'em. TA pointed out this 1969 Dodge Charger, alleged to be an actual, Warner Brothers-used General Lee, currently for sale on Hemmings.com for $110,000. From the seller's description: This is documented as one of the original Dodge Chargers bought by Warner Bros. in ... Read more
Kenny Wayne Shepherd is a pretty good Blues musician and songwriter, in fact, Guitar World placed him number three on the list of their top blues guitarists, behind BB King and Eric Clapton. Not bad for a thirty-something kid who picked up his first guitar at eight, taught himself to play a ... Read more
* Retrofuturism's one of those things I'd love to explore further if I had the time. Along with atompunk and jetpunk and all the other ways one can celebrate the forward-thinking optimism of the middle of the century without falling into the rockabilly trap. Anyway. Professor Michael St ... Read more
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One more tidbit leftover from the AIA meeting on March 19 – the power points have been addressed.
As you might recall, there was a pretty good stink during the winter season about the flaw in the power rankings that put in question if the right teams were making the postseason and if the seeds were correct.
The AIA received enough feedback from the schools that the Executive Board passed a tweak to the power rankings.
The implementation is immediate, meaning spring sports teams' power rankings will be calculated by the new formula. The Tribune first reported a claim from local engineer John Carrieres that there was a flaw in the old system. The AIA denied this was the case, but the tweak to the system was unanimously approved.
Using the previous formula, Carrieres claimed teams were rewarded for playing in extra games regardless of result. It wreaked havoc during the winter season because sectional basketball tournaments caused for the total number of games per team to fluctuate wildly. Dozens of teams have missed the playoffs and the great majority have had its seedings affected by the flaw since the fall of 2010, Carrieres said.
Some schools were working hard to schedule more games during the spring so as not to be punished by the alleged flaw, but the modification could quell that concern.
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There is good new for couch potatoes, contrary to popular wisdom, exercise may be harmful if done in excess, fitness experts warn.
Experts say too much exercise may reduce the body's ability to fight off diseases ranging from the common cold to more serious illnesses like heart disease and cancer.
Much of the evidence is anecdotal, but a study of some 2,300 runners who participated in the 1987 Los Angeles Marathon found one out of seven got sick a week after the race, a rate nearly six times that of runners who trained but did not run the marathon.
The study also found that runners who trained more than 100 kilometres a week doubled their odds for illness compared to those who ran less than 32 kilometres a week.
"Excessive exercise can backfire on you," says Ken Cooper, the fitness guru who coined the term "aerobics".
Dr Cooper is a physician who heads the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research in Dallas Texas.
Pointing to elite athletes who have been struck with life-threatening diseases like skater Scott Hamilton, Dr Cooper argues that there appears to be a point of diminishing returns where your immunity is adversely affected and you break down your resistance to infection and disease.
"[How much is too much] varies according to the fitness level of the individual", Dr Cooper said.
Heavy training may suppress white blood cells that form the body's "first line of defence" against illnesses, adds David Nieman, a professor of health and exercise science at Appalachian State University.
The good news is that a moderate level of exercise may in fact strengthen the body's immune system.
Studies show that people who walk for up to 45 minutes a day could reduce their risk of catching a cold or sore throat by half.


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Jenna Elfman, star of ABC's Dharma & Gregg has snapped up Madonna's Mediterranean-style home in Los Angeles's Hollywood Hills, reported Mrshowbiz.
Surprisingly, the price came a little cheap, according to the Los Angeles Times'… (yeah right! At a mere $4 million)The price? A mere $4 million.
Twenty nine-year-old Elfman and husband Bodhi, must surely be thrilled that her rising career has afforded her the opportunity to dwell within walls that once housed one of the world's biggest performers.
Madonna put the three-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot home on the market back in June, when she reportedly purchased two new residences; a $6.5 million Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion, and a swank, $16 million pad in London.
The Material Girl's rep later denied that Madonna had purchased the home in England, perhaps attempting to deflect rumors that the then-pregnant star would raise her new baby in London, where beau Guy Ritchie resides.
Last week, Britain's Sun tabloid reported that the 42-year-old pop singer-actress paid $9.9 million for a house in Notting Hill, one of London's trendiest suburbs.
Madonna, who has a 3-month-old son, Rocco, with film director Ritchie, has said she wants to spend more time in England, and she's got the fake British accent to prove it. The couple is allegedly planning a holiday season wedding. – Albawaba.com.
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The funeral of Fine Gael TD Nicky McFadden has taken place in Athlone.
Mourners heard that Ms McFadden fought her illness with all the determination and fight she could muster.
She was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December 2012.
Fr Declan Shannon said the 51-year-old TD would be remembered for the rich tapestry of life she brought to her family who had great memories of her at home, away on sun holidays and as a vivacious person who enjoyed fashion.
Deputy McFadden's daughter Caren said she was a person of great love and wisdom who would be fondly missed.
President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and several members of the Cabinet were among the mourners at Our Lady's Queen of Peace Church at Coosan.
TDs and Senators from all parties joined family and friends of the late TD at the church.
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I picked up this album and found a lot to enjoy about it -- it had quite a bit of power, intensity and emotion all balanced into one. Many people say this was the album that caused Coil to sell out, I'd argue that was only because they finally sold a decent number of albums. Comalies is really an underrated album, and anyone who says that they sold out missed out on how good it was. Listen to this album independent of the others, you'll find it to stand out well on it's own.
The CD opens up with two killer hard tracks, then goes into "Daylight Dancer" and changes it's emotion entirely, from hard and edgy to melodic and haunting, this transition is done quickly and Daylight Dancer may be the best song on the album because of it. The band chose to continue this trend through the middle of the album, then they go right back into fist-pumping mode with the song "Tight Rope".. Most of the latter songs have the band putting you in a fantasy world and at the end, you find out you do not want to leave, all the way through to the final title track, which sounds very somber, almost like they're saying "This is the end. We're sorry to see it go".
The singing and instruments go together rather well -- Cristina and Andrea trade off singing for the most part, but neither one of them tries to steal the show -- Cristina is the enigmatic beauty while Andrea is the guy trying to understand it all, while all the instruments support this throughout the album. This is clearly NOT a "Beauty and the Beast" album like something from Sirenia, Theatre of Tragedy or Distorted -- Lacuna Coil veered away from it for the most part in favor of a trade-off between the two singers.
When the duets ARE picked, they are done for a very specific reason. Some of the songs only feature Cristina, but there is no need for anyone else on them. For example, in the song "Unspoken", Cristina displays the emotion of the girl suffering from domestic abuse and how seriously she wants to get away from her tormentor. In this song, the perspective of the second person is not only unnecessary, it would detract from the song itself.
Is this album perfect? Not at all. There are songs on here that make no sense to anyone that is not Coil. A little bit of incongruence late in the CD kept me from giving it a perfect rating. But overall, this album is worth a listen because there is something for everyone, from the veteran rocker to a new fan in waiting. Most of the songs that are on this album are hard-hitting and yet melodic, but for several different reasons. It's almost like having 13 people in a room from different walks of life and they start out so much different, but as time passes, they find out that in spite of their differences, they all have more in common with each other than they thought and leave as friends understanding one another.
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Formatted HDD...Do I still need it formatted?
about 1 1/2 years ago, i was having BSOD issues...MS worked with me for a long time (KUDOS!!) Anyway...the cause of my problem was an overheated CPU due to the crappy stock fan INTEL sells you...
Very Long story short...MS formatted my HDD, I think it was just a "back up or dup installation"...and now I want my 90 gigs back and avail to me...how can i tell if W7 and everything is just duplicated on my disc or if I still need the formatting? It is called Drive D and I never seem to have to access it...
I hope this makes sense.
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The main file is called WINDOWS IMAGE BACK UP ...it is 60 gigs w/ 17 files and 4 folders.
It is READ ONLY
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|17 Nov 2011
Doesn't make much sense to me.
You say you want 90 GB back and that you can't access the D drive.
Your second post implies you made an image file. Is it on the D drive? It's a way of restoring your PC to the way it was at the time the image was made. You don't need that image file to operate and you can delete it and reclaim the space--if that is what you want to do.
But I'm unclear on your situation.
More details or better explanation needed.
What is on the D drive? You may be able to delete it and add the space to C--if that is what you want to do.
A screen shot of your Disk Management window would probably help decipher the situation.
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|17 Nov 2011
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
Yeah, I'm very much confused as well.
On a side note, the Intel fans are rated and tested for the processors they ship with. If you had an overheating CPU, the HSF was either not installed properly, or the case itself was failing to properly cool the system.
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OK...forget the fan issue...it was solved...the plastic clip was worn (cheap) and i bought a new fan and everything works fine now...
Back to D drive...Yes...I want the space back that is being called D drive...I want it back in my C drive...
Disc Management window? Unclear what that is exactly...
The Files on the D Drive are:
New Volume: (D)
Backup 2010-03-18 144458>
10 XML Docs 2 VHD files
Backup Global Catalog
Global Catalog
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|17 Nov 2011
You can get to Disk Management by typing those 2 words in the start search box.
In all likelihood, you (or "MS") created a D partition and then stored an image of the C drive on that newly created D partition.
Are you positive you have no personal data on D?
If you don't, you can delete the D partition in Disk Management. That will generate "unoccupied space".
You should then be able to "expand" C so that it takes up that unoccupied space, through Disk Management.
But a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management would be much preferred to confirm your situation.
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|17 Nov 2011
There is no personal data...it was created on mar 18 2010 and not touched since...all the "Date Midified" are the same.
Yes MS did it for me while truing to solve BSOD issues due to overheated PROC ( unknown at the time).
I tried to Prtsc...but nothing happened...
ALSO...Thank you for your time
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|17 Nov 2011
A printscreen won't magically cause a picture to appear in this thread.
You'd have to paste that printscreen into your photo editor. save the file, and then attach that file to your next post in this thread using "manage attachments" function.
No need to do that to the extent you have no personal data on D. Just delete the partition in Disk Management. Highlight it and look for "delete volume".
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Windows 10 x64
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Two Maine Entrepreneurs Take Their Lobsters to the 'Shark Tank' on ABC Friday Night
Two Mainers are jumping into the 'Shark Tank.' That's ABC's (Channel 7 & 8) reality show where entrepreneurs try to convince billionaires, such as Dallas Maverick's owner Marc Cuban, to invest in their venture.
Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac are cousins who who grew up in Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough. They have a food truck business, 'Cousins Maine Lobster,' serving a variety of dishes using Maine lobster and other Maine foods in Los Angeles. They will look to get funding to launch the next phase of their business. They want to sell lobster and gourmet lobster dishes, such as lobster mac and cheese and lobster pot pie, nationwide.
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The 3D craze won't last, claims James Cameron. Why? Because he's already bringing something new to the scene. In lieu of using an out-dated film gimmick from the past, he has turned to use one of TV's out-dated gimmicks instead. Yes, that's right, he'll be using a live studio audience in the upcoming Avatar sequel. According to Cameron, the studio audience is "the future of mainstream cinema." Hmm…We'll see about that, Cameron.
According to Film Buzz, the Avatar sequel will be filmed in front of a live studio audience (well, the live action sequences at least). The resulting sound track will contain plenty of laughs but, unlike most studio audiences, Cameron also hopes to capture the sounds of people gasping, crying and screaming in an attempt to capture Avatar's serious nature.
In his interview with Cinema Daily, he has attempted to explain his reasoning behind the move:
After the 3D craze took off, we've been looking for several new and exciting ways to make the Avatar sequel stand out and, hopefully, bring something new to the film industry. We've considered bringing back stop motion animation, silent movies and even smell-o-vision, but none of these seemed to work. Smell-o-vision was especially disastrous. The test audience did not respond well to the "toxic atmosphere" of Pandora.
Eventually it occurred to me that I shouldn't be looking back into the past for inspiration, rather I should be looking to TV. I mean, why can't studio audiences work for cinema … I truly believe that live studio audiences are the future for mainstream cinema.
It's still not entirely clear why he's actually considering this, but there has been some speculation that he hopes that the sound track of the studio audience can help a normal cinema audience really engage with the film. Chances are this gimmick won't last, but with Cameron's success in bringing 3D back, he may very well be onto something — The studio audience could be the next big thing.
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In June, the federal government and Globalive won their crucial appeal of the Federal Court ruling against WIND Mobile's right to operate in Canada. Not only did WIND Mobile continue to operate its brand of wireless services across the country, it went from strength to strength adding 39,000 and 45,000 new mobile phone subscribers in Q1 and Q2 respectively.
Based on its staggering growth, it was no surprise that Wind then staked its claim to be the "fastest growing wireless carrier in Canada" with a combined user base of 300,000. In contrast, Public was content with its market niche and never intended to attract customers seeking the latest iPhone or high-end BlackBerry smartphones.
When the Federal Court of Appeal made their decision in June, Public Mobile stated its intent to take the matter to the Supreme Court of Canada. And couple of weeks back, Public filed an appeal motion days ahead of a deadline Wednesday.
Clearly, there's no love lost between the two. Though WIND emerged victorious in Round 1, Public looks to be in no mood to concede an inch this time around.
Given WIND's staggering growth, it's understandable that many of its competitors have been strongly opposed to its presence in the market. Earlier this year, Public Mobile brought about another court decision in which the company wasn't Canadian enough. That court decision allowed WIND to keep operating pending its appeal and, as you can see, the company won the appeal.
Though Telus also initially opposed WIND's entry into the market, it later opted to drop its motion against the largest new wireless entrant in Canada. Though it left no stone unturned in highlighting WIND's "massive reliance on foreign backers", Telus now says it's stepping back in broader interests of Canada's wireless market.
However, Public Mobile says it would like to seek more "clarity" on the decision made by the Federal Court of Appeal. It's no piece of cake to win a Supreme Court hearing but Public says it's prepared to fight tooth and nail for its rights. On its part, WIND says it's already been "preparing for the worst." Interesting times indeed!
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WINNIPEG - The numbers dont always tell the story, but in the case of the Winnipeg Jets recent struggles, theres no other place to start the discussion.
Despite a determined and dogged effort on Saturday afternoon, the Jets gave up a pair of goals in the third period and fell 2-1 to the New Jersey Devils before a crowd of 15,004 at the MTS Centre in a game that was of the utmost importance.
To say that third periods have not been kind to the Jets of late is a massive understatement.
Including Saturday, the Jets have now been outscored 12-1 in the final 20 minutes of regulation during the six games played in January.
Not surprisingly, the Jets find themselves in the midst of a three-game losing streak and their record during that span is 1-5 as the team has dipped below the playoff line in the Eastern Conference standings.
We obviously havent been on the right side of the third-period scores lately, said Jets defencman Ron Hainsey.
I dont know if thats anything more than a coincidence, to be honest with you. But thats definitely been the case the last week and a half.
Coincidence or not, its a trend the Jets need to kick to the curb if they want to get things turned around, considering the stretch of games that is looming.
Whats around the corner for the Jets is a daunting task that will see them play six games in nine days all against opponents from the East, many of whom are ahead of them in the chase for a playoff spot.
In Saturdays game, the Jets came out with a strong first period against the tight-checking Devils and a heavy shot from Andrew Ladd gave them the lead at 18:31.
Following a scoreless second, the Devils pulled even on a rather innocent-looking face-off play.
Jets centre Jim Slater tied up Dainius Zubrus, but Zubrus found a way to kick the puck back to Kurtis Foster, who came off the wall and rifled his quick shot past Ondrej Pavelec at 9:45 of the third.
The ironic thing is that after getting dominated in the dots on Thursday, the Jets actually won 70% of the face-offs on Saturday.
I dont really know what happened, it was an even draw, said Slater. Its a tough break.
A few shifts later, Patrik Elias made a smart play to let a pass through his legs and get out to the right point, then eluded his checker to redirect home a slap-pass from rookie Adam Larsson at 12:43.
Unlike previous losses to the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks, the Jets showed some life after falling behind and made a strong late push with the goalie out in favour of an extra attacker but were unable to deliver the equalizer.
Its a matter of playing the same way, whether were up by one or down by one, weve got to keep pressing, said Ladd. Thats the strength of our game, putting the pressure on, creating turnovers and not letting them take control in our own end.
Its tough. Obviously, you lose a stretch of games and its frustrating but youve got to lean on each other. Weve got to stick together. Thats the only way were getting out of this. Weve got to play together and stay as positive as we can.
Showing some push-back is an important next step for the Jets, but ultimately and at this time of the year, getting the results is whats required.
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I have a "91" Nissan Stanza with a 2.4 liter, A/t. It has a vibration at idle like a miss. Its not a tune up problem. I notice with the engine running and remove the oil fill cap, it seems to have compression in the valve cover and engine seems to want to stall. I figure timing belt/chain maybe slipping. Engine has 107k miles. Is there anything other than valves that would cause compression in the valve cover?
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The upgrade package replaced the UNS-1C FMSs with UNS-1Ew WAAS/SBAS-FMSs, which provides the ability to fly RNAV (GPS) approach procedures down to LPV descent minima. Localizer with Vertical (LPV) approach procedures take advantage of the precision of WAAS GPS for both lateral and vertical guidance during the approach segment. Aircraft operators with WAAS GPS avionics can fly with RNP-like accuracy of 0.3 NM and minima as low as 200 ft with 1/2 mile visibility for "ILS-like" capability at airports without ILS navaids. Greater airport accessibility and improved safety in poor weather conditions are just some of the other advantages of utilizing Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) guidance.
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Goodman put Lions Reserves back on track
Two goals from Nick Goodman inspired London Lions Reserves to a 2-0 success over The 61 FC Luton.
Two goals from Nick Goodman inspired London Lions Reserves to a 2-0 success over The 61 FC Luton.
After last week's horror show, it was a Lions side determined to make amends that took to the field in Luton for this league game against a side that pipped us to promotion a couple of season's back.
The Lions line up was freshened up with the additions of Laurence Judah and Max Kyte in midfield, Aron Barnes in midfield and Daran Bern up front, while Nicky Smith and the evergreen Bradley Lazarus took up spots on the bench.
Playing against the strong wind and on a heavy and bobbly pitch, it was the visitors who looked brightest early on. Barnes and Ben Lauffer gave Lions a real platform on which to build while Shai Revivo, who was to have an excellent game, drove the side forward. Bern's pace was causing trouble, but having spurned a couple of decent positions early he latched onto a ball out wide, skinned his marker before delivering a great cross that the onrushing Goodman volleyed home from eight yards - an excellent team goal.
Green had a couple of decent sights of the Luton goal, while long-range efforts from Barnes and Bern were narrowly off target.
The home side though were resolute and with their pace up front were always a threat, but the back four (well five, as Cohen lasted only 20 minutes before being replaced by Smith) stood firm. They did, though, make one error, but as he does so often Danny Berliner made a fine one-on-one block, although quite how the forward knocked the rebound over is anyone's guess.
With the wind, the early stages of the second period were one-way traffic, but once again Lions' finishing was not up to the standard of their approach play, with Revivo and Bern a constant threat.
Barnes hit the post from Bern's pull-back before two floated free-kicks by Barnes were headed wide and over respectively by Lauffer. Green fluffed his lines twice when well placed, the keeper made two smart saves, Bern volleyed wide twice before Kyte missed his kick form 10 yards. It was all action but no result.
And all the while at 1-0, on a tricky surface in tricky conditions, the hosts remained in the game. Twice more Berliner was called into action and, thankfully, Luton's forwards had been watching what was going on at the other end as they then passed up a couple of glorious chances of their own.
Lazarus played some neat balls after his introduction, and one such ball sent Revivo on his way, his clever ball inside saw Goodman hold off his man and slam home a fine first time finish to secure the points inside the final five minutes.
Lions Reserves: Danny Berliner, David Cohen (sub: Nick Smith), Frank Hyman, Laurence Judah, Ben Lauffer, Shai Revivo, Dan Green (sub: Bradley Lazarus), Max Kyte, Aron Barnes, Daran Bern, Nick Goodman
Scorer: Goodman (2)
Man-of-the-match: Shai Revivo
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