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I am a relicensed ham (June 2011) after being out of the hobby for more than 15 years. AK4JA is my fourth Amateur Radio license call, starting with my first license as a Technician operating in the Novice portions of the HF bands (KB4BDL), then Advanced (KF4GT), first Extra class call (WU4Z) -- which expired and was reissued to another ham -- and, of course, my present call after going through all the tests again in June of 2011.
Looking for something to "pick up" your ham experience? Tired of the ho-hum just-snagged-another-one-with-100/400/1000/1500-watts-same-old-same-old experience? One option: try QRP.
With QRP every contact will be more of a workout, every contact will force you to hone your operating skills, every contact will force you to have more patience, making you to put up better antennas, and study . . . and experiment. In the end, when you make the contact via QRP it will probably leave you with a sense of pride that you may have long ago lost, something similar to those first contacts you made as a new ham. If you like a challenge, QRP is, to me, a logical progression for someone who has been in ham radio for a while. Learn to do more with less.
Some say life is too short for QRP. The truth is that ife is too short, period! If you lived to be 150 years old, you'd end up thinking life was still too short. That's because it is.
My preferred operating mode is CW at QRP, or QRPp, power levels; second love is homebrewing vacuum tube gear. I also greatly enjoy operating portable using a FT-817ND Yaesu, all band, all mode QRP rig. That little rig has been a workhorse and, based on my experience with it so far, I'd buy another one in a heartbeat. I also have an FT-897 Yaesu that I use mainly for a mobile rig now. For a HF mobile rig antenna I use a MFJ-1662 "manual screwdriver" model and have been very pleased with it. One of my favorite contacts using it was when I worked New Zealand on 30 meters CW one early morning while driving my car down Interstate 75 in central Georgia when I was on a road trip to Florida. The other favorite mobile contact was working, Steve, VK7CW in Tasmania from my mobile on 5 watts on 30 meters while traveling in Tennessee.
I have worked all US states on 30 meters CW at QRP power levels. I also have earned a WAS certificate (mixed CW and digital) from the ARRL. I also have made several 1,000 + mile-per-watt SSB contacts on 60 meters. My longest 60 meter, SSB, 1,000 mile-per-watt contact so far was to G0HNW near Leeds, in the UK, on 500 mw (0.5 watt) while operating portable from Cheaha Mountain State Park near Talladega, AL. That worked out to be over 8,000 miles per watt and was a hoot.
I do a fair amount of digimode work -- mostly JT-9 now -- as well, I also operate JT-65 but do not prefer to use it over JT-9. While not exactly a conversational QSO mode, it's (JT-9) a great low power operating mode. One thing for sure, you don't have to be a fast typist to use JT-65 or JT-9 effectively and JT-65 or JT-9 will probably never be Field Day operating modes that will garner a lot of points unless they change the standard format used for QSOs while operating JT-65 or JT-9. Like JT-65, JT-9 is also a weak signal operating mode. I prefer to use it because it is more efficient bandwidth-wise, but, regrettably, it is not nearly as popular as JT-65. If you run JT-65 or JT-9, please follow the recommendation of the operating mode's author, Joe Taylor, and reduce your power and audio feed into the signal to the minimum needed. Regrettably, overmodulated and overpowering signals from JT-65 are terrible about bleeding over into the JT9 operating frequencies, due to receiver overload and intermodulation, and it's something that happens almost every day. If you can't make the contacts with the recommended power, you most likely don't have decent enough propagation and are "trying to force the issue" by jacking up your audio and your power, which usually results in interference to your fellow hams.
As I mentioned before, I would prefer to operate using JT-9 because it is more efficient bandwidth-wise but there just aren't as many JT-9 operators on the bands as there are JT65 operators. That's a shame, I know, but it's a fact. Having more of those digital operators on JT9 would help with that. I'm guessing that you could easily quadruple the number of QSOs in the same space as JT65 occupies without causing interference and overlapping of signals that you have on JT-65 frequencies at times. WJST-X software allows you to work either JT-65 or JT-9 and it currently is a great program for those two modes. I use a Linux computer and a Tigertronics SignaLink interface for my digital contacts. I use WSJTX for JT-65 and JT-9 operation and FLDIGI for most everything else. Both are excellent programs and work well in Linux.
I have also done a little PSK31 digital operating. One of my favorite PSK31 contacts so far was to an Argentinian ham (LU9DGE) when I worked him on 10 meters while I was running 400 milliwatts. That was 4,978 miles on 400 milliwatts, a 12,445 mile-per-watt contact. A new world record? Nope, not hardly but man, what a thrill!
Update: I just recently made a contact with ZL3KR in New Zealand while running 500 milliwatts on PSK31 which works out to be approximately 16,700 miles per watt, surpassing -- miles per watt wise, that is -- my previous contact with LU9DGE mentioned above.
But even though the currently popular digital operating modes are fun, to me there will never be a better operating mode than CW - the original digital mode. No mode can offer so much for so little. A CW transmitter is the epitome of simplicity and a CW receiver is the same. No computer is required to decode CW. If someone with half a brain and with enough get up and go in their system to learn it does so, CW offers the ultimate in bang for the buck returns. Up to this point in my operating experience, CW has beaten the other digital operating modes as far as miles per watt contacts are concerned. CW and QRP were made for each other. If you haven't learned CW, put the effort in to learn it and get on the air. Making contacts is the very best way to increase your speed to the next level.
I just recently built my first Jones Style tube transmitter (not my first tube transmitter, but my first Jones Style tube transmitter). It was sheer joy to hear the little transmitter right on frequency and steady when I first fired it up. You can follow my Jones Style homebrew transmitter escapades here:
Just yesterday (September 4th, 2013) I worked K4AXF, Jim, in Virginia using CW on my new Micronaut transmitter that I built from scratch. Power output from the Micronaut was 10 milliwatts. K4AXF was 470 miles away from me and that works out to be 47,000 miles per watt. I'm still on cloud 9 from that contact! (Thank you, Jim, for a great receiving station, with the TenTec Corsair receiver's outstanding performance helping make it happen)
I just worked (09/16/2013) Jay, WB5UDA, at the KC5NX Club Station in Nemo, Texas on 14.060 MHz using my homebrew 20 meter version of a Micronaut transmitter while running 5 mw. The KC5NX Club station was 755 miles from me and 755 (miles) divided by 0.005 (5 mw) works out to be a 151,000 miles per watt contact, a new record for me. Just when I think things can't get any better, the thrills just keep on getting even better than before. Needless to say, I'm hooked on milliwatting now. Note: there is a picture of the homebrew transmitter I built and used to make the 151,000 miles per watt contact further below. For a receiver I use my FT-817 and a separate simple dipole receiving antenna, which gives me the added bonus of full QSK as well.
EVEN FURTHER UPDATE: Tonight (March 3, 2014 at 08:35 UTC) I worked VK4TJ, John, in Top Camp, Australia on 20 mw. John is 9802 miles from me and that works out to be a 454,100 miles per watt contact, which is my best contact yet, miles per watt wise, and another personal record for me. Thanks, John, for a super job of pulling me out of the noise - another thrilling contact thanks to your excellent help!
Can you believe it? Hold those presses once more: LATEST, LATEST UPDATE: This morning, April 19th, 2014 at 08:55 UTC, I worked John, VK4TJ, again but this time I was running 4 mw. Since John is 9,082 miles from me that makes this contact to be a 1,816,400 miles per watt contact. That contact left me breathless. With sunspots being near 300 the day before and unsettled conditions that can be conducive to some really long contacts we gave it a try and, lo and behold, it worked! The antennas used? I used a dipole at 45 feet above ground level and John used a yagi at 9 meters high. Whoa, there's even more. A few days after I worked John, I worked Steve, VK7CW, on 4 mw and Steve is 9,657 miles from me - even further than John. That works out to be 2,414,250 miles per watt. Can the thrills get any better? I'm almost afraid to find out! A picture of the transmitter I used to make the contacts is shown below:
The little transmitter is a one transistor (2N4401) oscillator/final transmitter with variable output power through a potentiometer in the emitter circuit of the oscillator. The circuit board design uses "islands" created with a modified drill bit for the connecting points and the remainder of the board forms a "ground plane". Using that method is my favorite method at this time to homebrew transmitters and receivers. The transmitter is keyed via a switching transistor that interrupts power to the oscillator. The transmitter is crystal controlled and a ton of fun to use, especially on 20 meters, where I have had the greatest success so far with my QRPp operation. I have also built similar transmitters for 80, 40, 30 and 17 (and just within the last week - May 25, 2015) on 60 meters. Thank you, Larry, K5ZRK, for that 60 meter CW contact on 5.348 MHz. Eventually, I plan to build transmitters for 15, 12 and 10 meters using similar designs. For me, homebrewing low power transmitters is nothing less than addictive.
Here is a copy of an award garnered through this little unit in the picture above. I want to point out that the award would not be possible without the yeoman's work at the other end of the QSO by Jay Stanfield, WB5UDA, who, with the help of an excellent station, did more than his part to make this happen. Thanks, Jay!
NOTE: I have circled the section in this copy that shows the miles per watt achieved in this contact.
Just to put this contact in perspective though, follow this link: http://www.naqcc.info/qrpworks.html. From there you will see what can be accomplished when conditions are right and everything falls into place. My accomplishment above pales in comparision. Like the link shows, QRP works and can amaze at times.
I also like to make antennas. So far I have built and used the following wire antennas: 160 meter band doublet fed with 450 ohm line (makes a decent all-band antenna with a tuner), a 1/2 wave dipole resonant on 60 meters (makes a great 30 meter antenna as well with a tuner), a resonant on 60 meters end-fed half wave antenna (made the antenna matching unit for this one which was fun to do and I highly recommend it as a project), an end-fed-resonant-on-10-meters half wavelength vertical -- using a section of 450 ohm window line as the matching stub -- that works well on PSK31. One of the antennas I've made is a 140 foot long doublet, center fed with 300 ohm twin lead and using a tuner to operate it as a multiband antenna on 10 through 160 meters. While the antenna is short for the 160 meter band, nonethless I have made several 1000 mile per watt 160 meter band contacts using it. Also, I have built some portable mono-band dipoles for 60, 40, 30, 20, 17, and 12 meters as well as various antennas for the 2 meter band and the 70 cm band. Latest addition: attic doublet fed with 300 ohm twin lead and a balanced output tuner. It's my "bad weather" digital modes antenna. I've worked stations on the other side of the world with it, using JT-9 digital mode, even though it is a compromise antenna. Even though it's far from an ideal antenna, nonetheless by using some of the very efficient (albeit slow) digital modes, like JT-9, amazing distance contacts can still be made.
I currently hold QRP Amateur Club International (www.qrparci.org): 1000-Mile-per-Watt awards on the following bands: 6, 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80 and 160 meters. I also have a QRPARCI 10 band, all CW, 1000 mile per watt award certificate for that accomplishment. I need to submit my application for 11 bands with a 1,000 mile per watt contact or more. Re: making 1,000 mile per watt contacts: if you are persistent, if the propagation is good on the band, if the station on the other end is willing at times to work a weak signal station, and if you love a challenge, then you'll be right on track. Based on personal experience, the absolute best time to add to your 1,000 mile per watt contacts is during a major contest. Most operators during contests will go the extra mile to work weak signal stations, especially near the end of the contest period.
I also have a WAC (worked all continents) award on 30 meters using QRP power & CW only. Additionally, I just completed working 400 Grid Squares on 30 meters and have received my CW QRP 400th Grid Square award -- again, all CW and all QRP. I also have a DX QRP Award on 30 meters, in which I worked over 100 countries (115 at last count) via QRP power - on the 30 meter band alone, all using only one mode - CW. Up to this point 30 meters has been the band on which I have made the greatest number of DX CW contacts.
I am also active in the Straight Key Century Club - member number: 10535T - an excellent club that promotes the use of CW. I am a CW fan and operate CW for the vast majority of the contacts I have made in Ham Radio. Please check out the SKCC at: www.skccgroup.com
As a final note on this biography, after over 10 years as an active ham I can't help but imagine what the ham bands in general would be like if hams actually followed this rule in the FCC's Part 97 regulations:
97.313 Transmitter power standards.-
(a) An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications.
It doesn't say run your radio at its maximum power output level just because it will go that high. If eveyone does, you can bet that guarantees unnecessary interference to your fellow hams. It's also interesting that the rule says "must use" instead of "if you feel like it", or "only if you are causing interference to your fellow hams". This rule (FCC Part 97.313 a) has its base in the spirit of best operating practices and courtesy to fellow hams, not to mention just plain common sense.
What a huge difference there would be, especially in the very crowded 75 meter and 40 meter phone portions of the bands, if hams would only follow this regulation -- a regulation no less important, by the way, than any other regulation that is mandated by the FCC in Part 97. Regrettably, asking many hams to reduce their transmitter power to the minimum needed is, in their minds, "crazy talk", or something akin to sacrilege.
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Soldier Dad and Daughter Have Heartwarming Reunion in Front of Packed Auditorium
No matter how old they get, some daughters will always be "daddy's little girl." Here's a soldier homecoming video that proves that point, with lots of tears.
Texas Ballpark Unveils Giant $26 Hot Dog
As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas. So are their cholesterol levels, judging by this latest junk food monstrosity.
Little Girl Is the Cutest Stand-Up Comedian on YouTube
Calling her act 'Laughter with Teddie,' this little girl asks all the right questions. "Why do people sleep in pajamas?," she asks. In a video just shy of two minutes, this aspiring stand-up comic ponders over things only her audience, presumably her age, would find amusing. Like, "what's the deal with glossy paper?"
Batman Pulled Over For Traffic Violation
It was only a couple days ago that we showed you a video of Batman cruising in his 'Batmobile' (but really a black Lamborghini) on I-95 in Silver Spring, Maryland. What we didn't see later is the same Batman getting pulled over by Montgomery Country police because of an improper rear license plate. Turns out the bat symbol isn't a street legal plate.
World's First All-Diamond Ring Will Set You Back $68 Million
Yes, there is now a ring made entirely out of a single diamond. Conceived by Swiss jeweler Shawish, the 150-carat diamond ring was cut into shape using laser technology. But don't pull out your checkbook just yet– Shawish calls this one of a kind ring the "ultimate treasure" and at $68 million, it comes with the 'ultimate' price tag as well.
Old Navy Reunites 'Blossom' Cast for Totally Rad '90s Flashback
Getting stars you loved in the '80s and '90s and putting them in commercials seems to be the trend nowadays. Hot on the heels of '80s teen-idol Matthew Broderick taking a"day off" for a Super Bowl commercial, now comes an ad starring two well-dressed teen idols from the early '90s.
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This year's Oscars was a rather dull affair. The only saving grace came from actress Angelina Jolie, and her right leg, which she exposed through the slit black dress she wore on the big night. The resulting leg pose gave us, and the internet, enough inspiration to poke fun. It also didn't take long for a new internet meme, affectionately called "Jolie'ing," to go viral.
Returning Soldier Surprises Son Dressed as Captain America From 'The Avengers'
Kids love and look up to Captain America from 'The Avengers,' so it was a shock for this one boy to see his favorite superhero show up on his doorstep. Though the bigger shock came when he realized that this real-life strong man was actually his army dad returning from Afghanistan.
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The Google Chrome ads are simple, mellow and downright heartwarming, but would it have the same effect if they used Jersey Shore's Snooki as the parent chronicling her newborn's first few years online? (Note: Video features NSFW language.)
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If only presidential campaign videos all looked and sounded this cool. YouTube user Hugh Atkin's latest upload has racked up tens of thousands of views in just a matter of days. Why? Because if you take Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" and replace the original lyrics with Mitt Romney quotes, and make it rhyme perfectly, you get the internet to "please stand up" and pay attention.
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It was the largest gathering of humans dressed in green suits anywhere. (Well, outside of St. Patrick's Day, that is.) 836 men, women and children displayed "Turtle power" at Minnesota's Mall of America when they set a new record for the largest gathering of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans, beating the previous record of 786 set at Rutgers University in 2008. We like to imagine all 836 fans shouted "Cowabanga!" after the folks at the Guinness World Records gave them the news.
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This conference will follow the Crop Breeding for Climate Change
conference taking place at the same venue from 16-18 June 2014
In recent years unusual weather patterns in North West Europe indicate that we can no longer rely on a settled climate. In addition, plateauing of certain crop yields over the last 15 years may be, in part, a reflection of climate change. Hence, agronomic decision making can no longer follow time-honoured recipes. We need new approaches.
This conference will be themed around the agronomic management of key temperate crops, including cereals, oilseed rape, field vegetables and pasture/forage crops. In each case, we will review the challenges faced in practice over the last few seasons, try and identify what worked and what didnt in agronomic management and draw out lessons to improve the effectiveness of decision-making under climate uncertainty. This will include breakout sessions to explore key issues.
Papers are now invited in these areas. The conference will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, agricultural land managers, agronomists and students of agriculture and environmental land management.
Invited speakers include:
Pete Smith (University of Aberdeen)
Sean Rickard (Sean Rickard Ltd, Independent Economic Analysis)
Roger Street (UKCIP)
*Formerly advertised as Climatic Uncertainty Its Impact on Agronomic Decision Making
We have arranged some concessionary rates at local hotels for the conference via Conference Care. Click here for more details.


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The Dark Energy Survey
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April 23-25, 2008
If you have not travelled to Chile before, you may want to read up on these Travel Tips & Tricks.
The following airlines are known to travel internationally to Santiago Chile:
You will arrive into the Aeropuerto de Santiago (SCL) also known as the "Arturo Merino Benítez" International Airport.
Please check with your nearest Chilean consulate for VISA requirements. For most countries, only your passport is required.
Visitors with U.S., Australian, Mexican, or Canadian citizenship are required to pay a "reciprocity" fee. The current (as of Feb 5, 2008) rates are: US$131, US$56, US$15, US$132. The payment must be made in US dollars. You will need to make this payment before you enter the immigration control queue.
You will be given a "tourist" form (or landing card) and a customs form by the airline bringing you to Chile. Please keep the tourist form with your passport and safeguard it, as it is required upon departure. This form is effectively a tourist visa and is valid up to 90 days.
Upon arrival at the Chilean Customs you have the choice of taking either of two lines, the "Nothing to Declare" or the "Declare" queue. Custom agents may ask you to place one or more bags through the X-ray machine or have you open one or more bags even if you do chose the "Nothing to Declare" line.
As in many international terminals it is advisable that you keep an eye on your bags at all times.
Luggage Claims (i.e. missing pieces of luggage on arrival…)
To process a claim for missing luggage, the owner must fill in a form that is supplied by the airline, and leave it along with the keys (or combination number to open the suitcases) and passport number at the Director's Office at CTIO in La Serena. We remind you that the luggage will probably be opened by custom agents for routine checks.
Please notify Ximena Herreros (email@example.com) if you would like a taxi driver to meet you at the International Airport in Santiago. You should be prepared to pay the taxi driver for this service. You may prefer to use the airport bus which runs between the International Airport and downtown Santiago.
Upon arrival in Chile, you will land at the "Arturo Merino Benítez" International Airport. The international and domestic terminals are housed in the same building, the domestic section is in the eastern side of this facility. When exiting the Chilean Customs you find yourself on Level 1 of the Terminal's lobby. To proceed to the domestic terminal turn left, take the elevator to the third level, then walk to the connecting domestic airline counter. If your baggage is ticketed to La Serena, go to the "previously checked baggage" counter.
By Air
LAN Chile (flights are listed as LA) offers daily flight service between Santiago and La Serena, departing from the Domestic Terminal; the flight time is approximately 50 minutes. Current flight schedules are available online. Visiting observers should also be aware that the free baggage limit on domestic airlines is 20 kgs.
By Bus
Bus lines with sleeper seats serving Santiago/ La Serena/ Santiago are: Buses Libac, Pullman, Romani, Los Corsarios. They all arrive and leave Santiago from the Los Heroes Terminal. One-way fare is approximately US$24 (12.000 pesos) depending upon the bus line, and the trip takes approximately seven hours. All buses offer express service with two drivers, a stewardess, snack en-route and a bathroom. For reference, there usually are departures from Santiago to La Serena or vice versa at 9:30am, 2:00pm, and 11:30pm.
When arriving by plane at "La Florida" airport in La Serena, look for someone carrying a sign with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) prominently displayed. CTIO has arranged for transportation from the airport to the hotel on Saturday April 19 (for the Integration and Installation Workshop) and on Tuesday April 22, 2008 (for the Collaboration meeting). If you arrive on days other than this, please take a cab to your desired location. For example, if you wish to go to the CTIO offices, the spanish translation is:
"Lléveme a las oficinas de AURA, o Cerro Tololo, están en Colina El Pino"
If you arrive at the Terminal de Buses, (bus station) you will need to take a taxi. The charge is about ~US$ 5.
U.S. dollar exchange rate fluctuates daily, so please check the rate before you depart for Chile. Chilean pesos can be obtained at the Bank located to your left as you exit from Customs at the Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago . We recommend that you have sufficient funds to cover incidental expenses such as taxis and meals that could incur in Chile; costs of these services are comparable to those in major U.S. cities. ATMs are common throughout the country and accept most types of cards.


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I am so sorry to share my honest opinion with you because it may hurt you to realize this. You may *know* he can do better, but he doesn't do better in any way that signifies change for the better.
I feel like I'm a prisoner because I love and adore him so much but I just can't leave.
He promises he will change, he has cut off contact with her as far as being friendly. He still has to work with her. he now lets me check his email, phone, everything. He has this way of not taking responsibility even tho he says he is. He will say he is sorry which I have heard too much and when I don't except it he gets nasty and tells me it's all my fault.
His getting nasty and saying things are all your fault is a way to distract you, to make you defensive, and to avoid his issues.
You deserve a better life than the one you share with him right now, and you deserve honesty and fidelity. At this point, he is doing damage control and being defensive in order to get his way, but it's unlikely that any real change is happening or will happen.
This sounds so much like an enmeshed relationship, which isn't healthy for you at all! He is untrustworthy and has shown you that. You may want to read the 180 in the Healing Library, in the yellow box off to the left of the screen--and perhaps you will feel strong enough to do it. Here is the specific link: http://survivinginfidelity.com/faq_bs.asp#FAQ11
Again, I am so sorry you are going through this. To me, he sounds like he isn't going to change, not really, no matter how much you hope and ascribe positive personality traits to him.
[This message edited by Hope2B at 11:33 PM, October 21st (Monday)]
He says he will change but has never showed me. He will try for a week at most than he goes back to the same stuff.
Actions speak more than words.
A question you need to ask yourself is;
do you want to be going through this s**** with kids?
You have the power to take back your life.
I think most of us go through this phase. I did. I was sure if he could just get past the midlife crisis we would be better than ever. I can't tell you the hours I spent analyzing all the horrible things that might have upset him as a child, or in the workplace or whatever. I didn't spend nearly the amount of time analyzing what him dumping his family for his best friends wife did to me. Once I started thinking about myself, the loss of him was a blessed relief.
My marriage ended years ago and in looking back on it, there is nothing else I could have done to save it. But that's just me. However, the real issue is you deserve to think about what you want out of a relationship and life without thinking about how it will affect him. Until you do that he will probably continue to behave the way he is. There aren't any consequences.
Is there anyway I can help him see what he is doing?
I think there are so many issues that he needs to deal with personally that if I give up on him than I am no better.
Please know you cannot fix him! You cannot change him! Apparently, his "love" for you doesn't make a bit of difference in his behavior.
You CAN make a better life for yourself, and that may be without him. You are in a very raw place right now, and I'm sorry for that.
Please read and do the 180 if you feel ready for a positive change--but know that this will be difficult.
Link: http://survivinginfidelity.com/faq_bs.asp#FAQ11
What kind of phone does your H have? My ex let me look at his phone all the time and he had a Galaxy. I didn't realize until after he left that there are apps available to hide and delete things. As soon as he left he got an iphone and gave his whore his Galaxy phone with the apps included so her husband couldn't find things. If they want to cheat, they are going to cheat.
I will tell you...I feel so much relief knowing that I don't have to deal with that anymore. It caused extreme stress and anxiety in my life. Always afraid of what was going to happen next. He had EA on Facebook and I knew when I let go and just tried to trust him (which I did), one might stick....and it did. But, I know he will do the same thing to her....emotional retards.
Please do not continue to put yourself through this, he is not worthy of your love.
You get as much time as you need to figure this out. Take deep breaths, and really try to take care of yourself. Let him show you with his actions who he is going to be on the other side of this. Books, counseling, and Anti-Depressants and a will to be a better person/partner changed my FWH completely. While there's still a lot of work to do on the M, I've watched him grow and mature so much in the last 3 years.
You get to decide when you've had enough. You also get to give him a chance, if that's what you want. Just read closely the signs for genuine remorse and lipservice. They become easier and easier to tell apart at this point.
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By Steven Carse | Correspondent | Story updated at 12:14 PM on Thursday, October 20, 2005 There's something about Elbert County that doesn't agree with the Winder-Barrow football program.
The Bulldoggs have beaten Elbert County only once in 14 attempts since 1980.
They will go for their second win over the Blue Devils 7:30 Friday night.
The Bulldoggs' only win against Elbert County came 20 years ago. Only Stephens County has had equal domination over the Bulldoggs. The Indians also have 14 wins in the series.
"Our kids weren't even born in '85," Winder-Barrow coach Brian Allison said. "Is it going to motivate us? I doubt it, but I don't know what's going on in kids' heads anymore."
"They beat us 17-10 last year, but I don't think our kids are scared."
Elbert County's fourth-year coach Jeff Arnette doesn't know what to think about the win streak.
"You can look at it a few ways," Arnette said. "But that means they're due."
Both teams are still fighting for a chance to represent Region 8-AAA in the playoffs, but their seasons hinge largely on Friday's result.
Besides Apalachee (0-5 in Region 8-AAA), which is eliminated from the playoffs, and Stephens County (5-0 in 8-AAA), which has clinched a playoff spot and can seal up its second region title in three years, the six other teams in the region are fighting for the final three spots.
Elbert County (4-4, 3-2 in 8-AAA) is guaranteed a postseason berth in the playoffs if they beat Winder-Barrow (5-3, 2-3 in 8-AAA) on Friday and Stephens County in the regular-season finale.
"I told our kids last week that our playoffs are already starting," Arnette said. "We are continuing on now against a team that is in the same boat."
Winder-Barrow will need to win out and receive some major help to make it to the postseason.
"Our chances were looking slim, especially when were down 7-0 against Apalachee at half," Allison said. "But I knew we were capable of doing some things, we've still got a small chance."
The Bulldoggs' success against the Blue Devils hinges on slowing down sophomore tailback Chris Heard, who rushed for a career-high 185 yards and two touchdowns in a 21-14 season-saving victory last week against Oconee County.
Arnette said that his Blue Devils are coming off their most impressive first half since he took over as head coach.
However, he said the defense is key to victory.
"If our defense plays like it did last Friday night, I'll feel good about our chances for competing," Arnette said.
The Bulldoggs, meanwhile, lost their first three region games, but are coming off consecutive wins against Apalachee and Franklin County.
Winder-Barrow's offense, which started six sophomores and several juniors last week, has put up 54 points in its last two games. Most of the yardage has come on the ground through Chasten Nelson and sophomore Kendarius Smith, who combined for more than 200 yards last week in a 24-14 win over Franklin County.
Because of the team's youth, senior quarterback Greg Childers has shifted his goals.
"I really haven't put up big statistics," Childers said. "But being a senior, I just want to be the leader in the huddle because we have a lot of sophomores and juniors."
For Childers and the rest of the seniors it will be their last chance to play in front of their home crowd.
"It would be too bad to let it come down to this and not play hard," Childers said. "This game is a chance to do something that our school hasn't done for a while. It'll leave a mark on this team, and it'll be a huge win for us."
The game will be Winder-Barrow's biggest this season, but Smith said he and his teammates are confident they can win.
"You can see it in practice; we've really been battling," Smith said. "Now the playoffs are on the line. We've got a shot at winning, but we need to play good."
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A POTENTIAL transport crisis during the royal visit to Adelaide next week has narrowly been avoided.
A planned 24-hour strike involving bus company SouthLink on Wednesday has been postponed after drivers agreed to vote on a new pay offer last night.
But strikes could be back on the agenda if drivers do not vote to accept the new proposal, the Transport Workers Union warned.
SouthLink is offering a 3 per cent pay annual pay rise over three years but has tweaked some employment conditions – including rostered days off and public holidays – in its latest offer.
Drivers voted 97 to 91 to put the proposal to the vote and suspend all industrial action from Tuesday.
This includes drivers not issuing or enforcing ticket validation.
The Transport Department has not been fining bus commuters for failing to have a valid ticket since this action by the drivers began January.
But the department said this fine ban would last only as long as the industrial action.
Fears were held that many people looking to catch sight of Prince William and his wife Kate during their visit to the northern suburbs on Wednesday would have their journey jeopardised by the bus strike.
SouthLink operates many routes to the other northern suburbs.
Drivers will have a couple of weeks to examine the latest pay offer before voting early next month, the union said.
Safety of drivers and passengers has been one of the issues unions wanted addressed by any new enterprise agreement.
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Local deals market moves up a gear as Google Offers arrives
Groupon and Travelzoo may be facing a formidable foe in the burgeoning local deals market with confirmation that a new product, Google Offers, is being tested.
Google says it is working on what is effectively a Groupon copy, a model where registered users are notified of a daily or weekly deal, based on their location.
The concept is not particularly new, but Groupon's extraordinary growth rate during 2010 has triggered a frenzy of copycats of its own, with perhaps Travelzoo the most high profile in the travel sector to get involved, initially in the US and now the UK.
Destination-specific deals, such as restaurant, activities, tours and hotel extras, seem to be the mainstay of travel-related products running such services at the moment.
Groupon is not without its detractors in the travel industry, most notably in a recent Tnooz article by Stephen Joyce who raised a sceptical eyebrow as to the benefit to the industry of using the local deals model. Others, however, do see some tangible uses for travel brands.
But now Google wants to get in on the act… again.
The deals through Google Offers have a limited shelf-life (as the picture above indicates) and lead users to a Buy Now section, presumably on the supplier's site.
The move has clearly been in the offing for a fair amount of time (such a service requires the creation of sales teams, for a start) but it also casts a sceptical light of recent and fevered speculation that Google was willing to splash out $6 billion to buy Groupon.
A Google official says it is talking to small businesses to "enlist their support and participation" in a test of Google Offers, a product it confirms is only a "pre-paid offers/vouchers program".
"This initiative is part of an ongoing effort at Google to make new products, such as the recent Offer Ads beta, that connect businesses with customers in new ways. We do not have more details to share at this time, but will keep you posted."
Inevitably there is little else to see at this stage how Google Offers will work – question marks will emerge around customer service, geography, types of products Google is targeting, etc.
And while some think there could be room for Groupon, LivingSocial et al, with the travel-focused Travelzoo, to exist happily alongside Google Offers, the search giant's move does one of two things: legitimises (in terms of profile, not law) the local deals model further, while probably making those thinking of "Groupon killers" of their own to think again.
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Hmm. There goes the neighbourhood. I have been using a more 'local' site http://www.JumpOnIt.com/ for a while now. Would I use Google Offers? Time will tell. Whilst Groupon may be most high profile in US, sites such as JumpOnIt operate on similar model, which already has over 145K "Likes" on Facebook. The smaller players may either get nudged out or they'll achieve their niches and continue to be profitable.
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This is what happens when you supposedly turn down a $6 billion dollar buy out in a market that has no barriers of entry.
Groupon should have took the money and run!
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Wow, that's a blatant trademark violation if I've ever seen one. I doubt that site will be up for long. But your point is good. Metasearch for daily deals would be more in line with Google's style.
Groupon has missed their best coupon ever 🙂 they should have accepted Google 6B$ offer.. I wish Google created something more creative daily deals search like http://www.googdeals.com instead of cloning Groupon..


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Michigan State's Adreian Payne is coming up big on the biggest stage in college basketball, the NCAA Tournament, a.k.a. March Madness.
In Thursday afternoon's second-round victory against Delaware, the senior forward scored 41 points, the most by one player in the past 10 years of the Big Dance. The Spartans defeated Harvard over the weekend and are slated for a matchup against #1 East seed Virginia on Friday night.
Payne's future is bright, both in the tournament and the NBA, where he's projected to be a first-round draft pick. But wherever he goes, one of his biggest fans will remain to be 8-year-old Lacey Holsworth, a girl fighting cancer who became close friends with Payne after they met two years ago during a team visit to a children's hospital.
They're so close, in fact, that Payne brought Lacey out on the court with him during Senior Night, his last home game at Michigan State. The honor is normally reserved for family members, but with Payne's mother and grandmother having passed, he carried Lacey out in his arms.
The feeling is mutual. When asked what she wants Payne to know before he leaves college, Lacey says, "That I think of him all the time and that I love him."
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Adriene Hill: The 20th Season of "The Amazing Race" starts Sunday -- adding a whole new roster of reality TV stars. We've got unlimited "Real Housewives" shows, competition shows on almost all the time. And now producers are casting a broader net for stories and voices.
Kate Archer Kent of Red River Radio reports.
Kate Archer Kent: Thirty-seven-year-old Aimee Pitts is an office secretary. She'll be the first to tell you she's a hick. She went deer hunting before our interview.
Aimee Pitts: We are country rednecks. We love to be in the woods, or on the water, or definitely outside. Everything is outside.
But last summer she left her comfort zone for five weeks. Pitts and a dozen family members lived in a beach mansion in East Hampton, N.Y., shooting CMT's reality TV series "My Big Redneck Vacation." The family played polo, dined at hoity-toity restaurants with help from an etiquette coach, and socialized with highfalutin society folk. Pitts says the contrasting lifestyles made for funny TV.
Pitts: I think Louisiana just got discovered for the reality world. They realize there is a whole 'nother world here. And we do have some characters. That's no doubt.
CMT enjoyed its highest ratings ever when "My Big Redneck Vacation" debuted last month alongside another reality show featuring a Louisiana family. It's called "Bayou Billionaires." CMT vice president Lewis Bogach says producers are finally discovering quirky characters in the Deep South.
Lewis Bogach: We sort of have spent the last however many years, 50 years, being sort of locked into Los Angeles and New York. And there's a whole country out there.
Louisiana appreciates the attention, but what the state really wants are big-budget productions, like movies and scripted TV series. Chris Stelly is the head of film development for Louisiana. He says reality TV projects don't normally hit the state's $300,000 threshold to qualify for tax credits.
Chris Stelly: Overall, in our total book of business, reality shows are really less than 10 percent of everything that we do.
Lewis Bogach doesn't know where CMT will take the "Redneck" theme next. But as a New Yorker, he says it's refreshing to produce shows starring people who aren't so stressed and uptight -- like himself.
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The AFC has decided to revamp the confederation's national team competitions with a host of changes to the showpiece event.
Under the new format Asia biggest tournament will have 24 teams in the finals instead of 16 and the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup, to be held in Maldives in May, will be the last edition of this competition.
The 2015 Asian Cup will be held in Australia next January.
The qualification rounds for FIFA World Cup qualifiers and AFC Asian Cup qualifiers will also be merged for the preliminary round.
Depending on the number of entries, the member associations will be divided into eight groups after preliminary stages with the eight group winners and four second best teams will qualify for the World Cup final round of qualifiers and also the AFC Asian Cup finals.
Presently, only 10 teams battle it out in the final round of World Cup qualifiers.
The second and third-placed teams from the preliminary qualification round (24 teams) will compete for the remaining slots in the Asian Cup finals in six groups of four teams each.
The final round of World Cup qualifiers and Asian Cup qualifiers will be separated.
Addressing the committee members at the AFC Under-22 Championships in Oman, AFC president Shaikh SalmanEbrahim Al Khalifa urged the member associations to adhere to the changes that are proposed in the meeting.
'Competitions are the main products of AFC and I am happy that it is in good hands," said the AFC president.
'We must market our product and generate income to sustain football across the continent.
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Ingram Marshall is back from a month-long residency in Italy at the Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities. Not only did the award allow him to spend a month composing on the Mediterranean coast, but as the first recipient of the Roger Sessions Memorial Bogliasco Fellowship in Music (given only to an American composer) his travel expenses and a stipend were also provided. The fellowship is funded by an anonymous donor.
About 50 Bogliasco fellowships are awarded every year, attracting people from around the world to the quiet town of Bogliasco near Genoa in northern Italy. Like many residency programs, the center creates an environment that allows participants to step outside their normal daily lives and devote themselves fully to creative work or scholarly research in the arts and humanities.
In addition to picking up a bit of Italian, Marshall says the trip was good for him musically. "If you can really focus and you have a specific project, it's a wonderful place. And if you can't," he adds with a laugh, "well, you can still enjoy being in Italy."
Marshall spent his time trying to complete his Magnum Opus commission for the Oakland East Bay Symphony, a work for tape and orchestra. However a few technology glitches using his material and their equipment, he says, "conspired to make that a little bit more daunting a task than anticipated."
The setting, perhaps, made up for any mechanical frustrations. Marshall worked in a music studio equipped with a new Mac computer, keyboard and a sound system, in addition to the traditional piano. Adding to that, he explains, the studio was located "way up on the hill above the din of the city, very private and quiet, up in the olive groves, quite peaceful and beautiful. You could step outside your door and you have this sweeping panoramic view of the Mediterranean."
Overall, he found it "kind of life affirming to be in such an environment. For me it was a nice break from working here at home. It's good psychologically to get a change of atmosphere every once in a while. It gives you a different perspective on things."
Marshall's wife wasn't able to accompany him, which he said was especially unfortunate since Bogliasco is well set up to accommodate a spouse or partner.
He got a special kick out of knowing that Sibelius, one of his favorite composers, also spent time in this part of Italy in 1901. "He had some grant he had got from the Finnish government," Marshall recalls, "and they holed up with his family in a pension in a town about 20 miles south of where I was. He wrote his Second Symphony there."
In addition to all this, being the first composer to receive the Roger Sessions Memorial Bogliasco Fellowship in Music "was a wonderful surprise. That way the residency ends up not really costing you anything. My only problem with that was that I kept thinking that Roger Sessions wouldn't have approved of the kind of music I'm writing."


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There's a tendency, for any organization, to want to make dramatic changes whenever they make an early exit from the season.
That's there in Pittsburgh right now, despite the team's 108-point regular season – one away from winning the Eastern Conference – and despite doing all that without Sidney Crosby for 60 games during the year.
The unfortunate thing about the way the NHL currently sets out its standings is an inferior team like the Florida Panthers takes that third seed and gets a relatively easy first round matchup while the No. 4 versus No. 5 meeting is turning into a grudge match.
That happened here – and as talented as the Penguins are, many knew the Philadelphia Flyers were the worst possible first round opponent for them.
The postmortem
When your goaltender posts an .834 save percentage in a six game series, he is going to get a lot of the blame – and deservedly so.
Three years after winning the Stanley Cup in dramatic fashion (and being one of the heroes in Game 7 of that series), Marc-Andre Fleury was the goat in this one, even if his defence hardly offered much of a fight in a few of the games.
But since this team won the Cup, Fleury has the second lowest save percentage of any starting goalie in the playoffs, despite still having more postseason wins than any other netminder since the lockout, and confidence is becoming an issue.
With three years remaining on a contract that pays him $5-million a season, Fleury needs to be better for the Penguins to be the Cup contenders many see them as. He could also use some insurance at the backup position, as Brent Johnson had a tough year.
It also didn't help matters much that Paul Martin, one of the team's other $5-million men, was either terrible or hurt throughout the series after logging the second most minutes on the team all year.
Philadelphia is a very difficult team to contain offensively, and the Pens simply didn't have the personnel to do so with a blueline that relied heavily on Kris Letang and Brooks Orpik and a third pairing that rarely played.
The captain
By no means should this read as a criticism of Crosby, who posted an incredible 45 points in the 28 games he played this season.
But his long, long term absence was a difficult one for the team to absorb at times, and the Pens identity or chemistry with him in the lineup was still a work in progress over the past month or two.
Crosby is a commanding presence in the dressing room, and when he was gone for 13 of the last 16 months or so, other players stepped in, filled that void and they won with a bit of an underdog mentality with players like Pascal Dupuis, Jordan Staal and James Neal having career years.
Evgeni Malkin, who always seems to play better without Crosby for some reason, will almost certainly win the Hart Trophy.
Pittsburgh is obviously a better team with him in the lineup than not – and their record showed it – but it's hard not to argue the Flyers likely benefitted from having a forward group that hasn't hardly changed all year.
The Pens had to adjust to life with Crosby again, and there were signs of problems in those ugly late season losses to the Senators and Islanders where they allowed 18 goals in the three games that they weren't quite ready for a team as good as Philadelphia.
The coach
Here's one move the Penguins would be crazy to make. Even without Crosby almost all year, Dan Bylsma had this team playing like one of the best teams in the East, with two top notch special teams.
He won the Jack Adams last spring and is a candidate again this year, but in a market like Pittsburgh, where they're getting used to success again, some people want heads to roll. ("Should they fire Bylsma?" was one of the first questions I was asked in an interview on a local station there last week.)
The coaching staff's performance in Round 1 can certainly be criticized, especially their inability to find solutions on the penalty kill, but Bylsma's accomplished too much in three and a half years to make him walk now.
What's next?
Pittsburgh already has $60-million committed to 18 players for next season, with Matt Niskanen, a backup goalie and two or three depth forwards still to sign.
The only free agent of consequence is Steve Sullivan, who at 37 could simply decide to come back on a bargain contract in what's been an ideal situation for him.
The hard part is doing some more long-range forecasting with this group.
Crosby needs a new contract after next season. So do Staal and Dupuis.
Malkin and Letang come due the year after that.
Then you now have questions in goal potentially with Fleury struggling as much as he did.
One thing that was heavily rumoured during the season is that GM Ray Shero would be looking for a new home for Staal, who showed in this series just how ready he is to be a No. 1 centre somewhere.
The problem now may be he played so well that moving him has been made more difficult. Being deep down the middle is obviously an asset, but with the cap not expected to go up much at all next season, how much can you commit to being so loaded at centre when this team obviously has other needs?
With Martin hurt, for one, they showed how weak they were on the blueline, as Bylsma was reluctant to play his third defence pairing much at all. (One of Philadelphia's key strategies in the series was to try and get Pittsburgh's defence handling the puck in their own end as much as possible so they could wear them down.)
The Pens need more depth there, and some more meanness overall, as one of the reasons they don't matchup well against the Flyers is physical teams simply seem able to get them off their game.
If you want to move one of the centres for help elsewhere, can you really even think about it being anyone other than Staal?
That's where you get into tricky territory.
When these sorts of questions come up, often the reaction from the fan base is "well, just keep them all!" but that isn't always the wisest decision. Staal can command a sizeable raise and who knows what the new collective bargaining agreement does for players like Crosby and Malkin.
You could be looking at paying nearly 40 per cent of your cap hit to those three bodies alone – on a team that's had a tough time in the postseason since winning the Cup in 2009.
One of the constants we're seeing with championship teams of late is a lot of underpaid talent, usually due to having players on entry level contracts. The Pens had that when they won, but they don't now, while teams like the Flyers are loaded with cheap rookies who are contributing.
If Pittsburgh decides to move out a core piece, that should be the type of bodies they're looking for.
They're obviously still contenders now and in the near future; the only question is how best to get better and deal with teams like the Flyers down the road?
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A CITY centre beggar has been ordered to pay a fine after setting up in Church Street to beg for money.
Lee Howarth 34, of Marsh Lane, Preston, pleaded guilty to gathering alms at Preston Magistrates after spending a night in the cells.
The court heard Howarth had a history of begging, having previously pitched up close to the market.
John Rimmer, defending, said: "He used to sit with his cap out.
"He used to play a musical instrument - not very well, but of course if you play an instrument you are not begging."
In recent years he has been living with a partner and has not taken to the streets to raise cash.
However he had been asked to leave the house and was spotted at around 11.15pm on July 18 begging near a cash machine in Church Street, Preston.
PC Ashurst was patrolling the city centre and asked Howarth to move on.
Howarth moved a short distance down the street and continued to beg.
Mr Rimmer said: "It appears PC Ashurst thought Lee was taking the mickey.
"There was a full and frank exchange of views as to what the officer meant."
The court heard Howarth became abusive to the officer and was arrested.
When he was taken into custody he had £38 in coins on him.
He appeared at Preston Magistrates Court the following day and pleaded guilty to gathering alms.
The court heard he has a number of previous convictions including theft and public order but had not committed any offences of begging since 2009.
Howarth is in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance.
Magistrates ordered him to pay a £35 fine, £30 costs and a £15 victims surcharge.


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Another approach:
WIN + R | type RECDISC | ENTER
Another approach:
WIN + R | type RECDISC | ENTER
Will only give the English (US) language, does not give you an option to change language I wanted English (Australia).
Hello Brian,
It only uses the language that you had set when you installed Windows 8 by default.
I always set the language as English Australian, when I install.
Eh, may be one of those pre-release issues that may get sorted in the next release. ??
I certainly hope so... I'm in the same boat as Kodi.
Are CDs really a good idea ? If I remember right, those disks have to hold about 4GBs of data.. Insert a blank unformatted CD or DVD
Hello Wolfgang,
I prefer a DVD instead of CD as well. Since a system repair disc does not install Windows and only boots to the system recovery options screen, it's not very large. It will only be 183 MB in size for a 64-bit Windows 8, so either a CD or DVD can easily be used to create one with.
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Hmm, it is that small. I must have confused it with the recovery disc. Thank you Shawn for clearing this up.


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Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Nebraska
2 year old debt
Like most college kids, I got signed up for a shiny new credit card when i turned 18. I ended up maxing it ($1,000) due to some financial issues, but I was good about always making my payments, and throwing money at it when I had some extra. I didn't make much progress, but I kept it under limit, by a few dollars at least.
About a year and a half after opening the card, I lost my job, couldn't pay, and b/c I was freaked out, never answered my phone when the credit card people called. Now, (two years later), I get a call from my Dad to let me know he has two fat envelopes from lawyers, and the sheriff just came by with a summons.
So what can i expect? Dad's agreed to help me pay it back. Obviously my credit is shot, but will I have to go to jail or have a criminal record of any kind?
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Depends on how much total balance is, might be worth having me make a call. I often get 40-80 % written off with a lump sum payment proposal. You won;t go to jail. This is purely civil, and they are used to hearing about bankruptcy, fraud, and ID theft. Having a live customer offer cash to settle is a breath of fresh air for them.


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New Partnership With Leading Audio Products Manufacturer Further Solidify DBL's Position as a Leading Distribution Force in the United States.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ. - November 28, 2005 - - DBL Distributing, Inc., one of the largest wholesalers of consumer electronic accessories and related products in the United States, today announced that it has signed a new distribution agreement with Shure Incorporated, resulting in an expanded offering of premium audio products. The new partnership adds scope and depth to DBL's already substantial product offerings among professional audio, headphones and cellular accessory product categories.
The new distribution partnership between DBL and Shure brings expanded audio product options to nearly 80,000 independent retailers nationwide that receive DBL's 1,000 -page catalog. Initially, DBL will offer Shure E Series Sound Isolating� earphones, phonograph cartridges, QuietSpot�cellular headsets and professional microphones and will likely expand product offerings to include additional items in the near future. "Shure has an 80 year history of manufacturing top of the line audio products that are a logical fit among several of our key product categories," explains Bruce Kuperman, DBL's executive vice president of sales and marketing. "Not only is DBL proud to offer Shure audio products, but our retail and e -commerce customers have shown a strong interest in adding to or expanding their retail offering with Shure products and accessories."
DBL serves a major portion of the independent retailer and online retail community in the United States. It is estimated that nearly 20,000 retailers purchase products each year from DBL in categories now featuring Shure items. "We are thrilled to partner with DBL Distributing," explains Mark Karnes, general manager of the Personal Audio Business Unit, Shure, Inc. "Shure's professional audio offerings are designed to meet the needs of sophisticated consumers who seek out premium products for the ultimate listening experience. We are excited to work with DBL because we believe their customer base and reputation among retailers helps us reach our target audience."
With the addition of the Shure brand to DBL's offering of consumer and professional audio products and accessories, DBL has reinforced the primary principle behind their business model by bringing another key brand of products to independent retailers nationwide. In addition, DBL once again delivers an expanded product selection by offering great pricing and industry leading customer service. All Shure items carried by DBL are currently featured in their 1,000 -page catalog, which is published three times annually.
About DBL Distributing, Inc.
DBL Distributing, Inc. is one of the nation's top distributors of consumer electronics accessories and related products, with more than 30,000 retail customers nationwide. Headquartered in a custom -built 144,000 square foot facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, DBL carries more than 15,000 products from more than 340 quality manufacturers. Offering services such as same day shipping, best price for 1 or 100 pieces and a no minimum order policy, DBL's business strategy proves that customers come first. For more information please visit http://www.dbldistributing.com/.


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Elevations CEO Named to Filene Research Council
The Filene Research Institute recently named Elevations Credit Union President/CEO Gerry Agnes to serve on its research council.
The council is made up of credit union presidents and CEOs who play a role in the continued advancement of the credit union movement.
"When searching out new candidates for the research council, we look for credit union leaders with a clear track record of innovation," said Mark Meyer, CEO of Filene.
Gerry has embraced innovation and change with the credit union's recent rebranding, investment in technology, and a clear commitment to making Elevations one of Colorado's superlative financial institutions."
As part of his appointment, Agnes will attend a workshop with Filene fellows in October about the future of consumer finance. Attendees will review eight new innovation ideas from Filene's i3 group.


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Dr. Abha Mishra of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has been conferred the SAWADA Prize for the best paper published in the journal 'Paddy and Water Environment Engineering' for the year 2012. The award was granted during the International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering (PAWEES) 2012 Conference titled 'Challenges of Environment and Water Management in Monsoon Asia' held from 27-29 November 2012 at the Royal Irrigation Department, Pakkred, Thailand.
Dr. Abha Mishra (left) with Prof. Tai-cheol Kim.
The award, which consists of a plaque, certificate and a cash award of Japanese Yen 100,000.00, was presented by Prof. Tai-cheol Kim, President of PAWEES. Awards are granted to authors for publishing an original article of extraordinary significance in the journal 'Paddy and Water Environment' during a twelve-month period. A nomination committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief nominates the candidates, following which every editor evaluates the nominated papers.
The paper titled 'Rice root growth and physiological responses to SRI water management and implications for crop productivity' is coauthored with Prof. Vilas M Salokhe. It reports on research findings on rice root responses while applying System of Rice Intensification (SRI) water management principles under semi-field and field conditions, along with variations in plant density and microbial density in the soil. The paper considers the relevance of exploiting roots' potential for plasticity to enhance crop productivity, in the context of impending water constraints and effects of climate change.
The paper can be downloaded at this link: http://link.
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Could you imagine a hosting company does not renew a domain even though auto renew was on? if they cant make a simple task like this, could you imagine to be responsible for hosting? I purchased the company, they transferred the domain-- but they transferred (as they say) a cancelled domain (cancelled as far as their system thought) to me.- so unprofessional. They "believe" the domain was cancelled on their system prior to me purchasing the company..pretty ridiculous! TO HAVE AUTO RENEW ON AND CANCELLATION? TO SETUP A NEW ACCOUNT WITH A CANCELLED DOMAIN? CANCELLED DOMAIN OPERATING FOR 9 MONTHS? what type of system do they have that does not send flags. Certainly not enough protection built in to save me. Auto renew was on so I trusted that they would renew it. They did not..it expired SO 30 days AFTER THAT, my website went down and i could not even get the emails from my customers.. They even invoiced me for domain management even though there was no domain. Do they not have triggers in their system or flags? BE CAREFUL WITH THIS COMPANY...IF YOU RELY ON YOUR DOMAIN..THEY MAY NOT RENEW IT WHEN IT IS DUE AND THEY WILL COME UP WITH EXCUSES AND NOT EVEN OWN THE PROBLEM. it took me over an hour to convince the emergency support desk to do something..that my site was down but because it was domain related...they did not feel this was something they could handle over the weekend. This company is unprofessional and a total mess. i dont even know how they could be in business if a simple task can get so messed up.


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A visual and creative studio making you and your ideas come to life and up to their full potential
A visual and creative studio making you and your ideas come to life and up to their full potential
Presenting: Batman, The Joker, The New Batmobile, and incredible stunts on the set of Batman Suicide Squad
Exclusive footage:
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John Ostrander … (comic book)
Margot Robbie … Harley Quinn
Cara Delevingne … Enchantress
Jared Leto … The Joker
Will Smith … Floyd Lawton / Deadshot
Ben Affleck …Bruce Wayne / Batman
A leak version of the Batman vs Superman new movie makes its way out before the announced date.
Also we finally see Ben Affleck dressed as batman, but we still need to wait and see why is so serious and what is his concern about the Superman. The new armoured costume is also very imposing, which it makes it look like it was build by Stark Industries.
Batman: "Tell me, do you bleed?
You will."
If you are curious to see it before Monday, when the official release it will be presented, you can follow the link to the leaked video
Recently I had the honour to direct, shoot and edit a short film based on a fragment from a novel that will be published very soon, Blue Suicide.
I would like to thanks the author Jennifer Venner for trusting me with this special project. I also want to thank to the actors who did a great job and we had a wonderful collaboration:
Wyn …… Tim McLarty
Frank …… Michael J. B. Hogan
Claire …… Lily Domingue, and also to the talented music composer who created the emotional soundtrack Mikhai Louise Vergara.
Blue Suicide is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the politics and deal-brokering between the police and the oversight agency that investigates them when any civilian is killed, seriously injured, or harassed in the line of duty. It explores the impact on the lives of the families of the victims and how technology has empowered citizens and reversed the concept of the 'surveillance society'. It is also the story of Wyn Rhys, a police officer turned investigator turned Director of SPOA and his personal demons, as he grapples with complicated feelings for a female survivor from one of his early investigations.
The novel Blue Suicide will be coming out in September, 2015
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Deh, vieni non tardar – Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart
Soprano: Mikhai Louise Vergara
Piano: Ivan Jovanovic
a Lucian Film Production
Location: Trinity College, Toronto
Translatio imperii : Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy
The Battle of Diu Takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey
Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina
Portuguese under Chritovao da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Bacente
New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated
Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time
Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California
California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants arrives in San Francisco, California
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed
Greece declares war on Turkey
The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana
The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut
In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed
The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital between Sydney and Melbourne
Queen Victoria's funeral takes place
Grand Central Station is opened in New York City
The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia
Ulysses by James Joyce is published
The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America
Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament
Leonard Keeler tests the first polygraph machine
Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorset orchestra
World War II: The last German forces surrender to the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad
The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made
Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage
Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
The American Basketball Association is formed
Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda
The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday
The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time
The GroundHog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada
Reports surface that FBI were targeting Congressmen in the Abscam operation
The Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey is founded
Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama
After the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines, Philippines made a new constitution
Satellite television service Sky Television plc launched
Apartheid: F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela
A Cebu Pacific Flight 387 DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, killing 104
Willem Alexander, Prince of Orange marries Maxima Zorreguieta
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New Magic Partner, AgilePoint, to Feature Magic xpi Integration Platform at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012
Oct 18, 2012, 03:49 ET from Magic Software Enterprises Ltd
OR YEHUDA, Israel, October 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (NASDAQ: MGIC), a global provider of software platforms for enterprise mobility, cloud applications, and business integration, announced today that Magic's partnership with AgilePoint will debut at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012 in Orlando, Florida during October 21 to 25, in the Business Process Management Marketplace. AgilePoint will present the Magic xpi Integration Platform as the integration layer of their AgilePoint BPMS for SharePoint solution.
Jesse Shiah, CEO of AgilePoint commented, "Our customers choose AgilePoint for its ability to build simple or complex SharePoint workflows and easily configure end-to-end cross-functional process solutions and integration without custom development. We selected the Magic xpi Integration Platform as our integration layer because of its seamless capability to integrate, map and transform data using approved vendor methods for SAP, Salesforce.com, SharePoint, Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Dynamics and numerous other popular enterprise applications."
"Magic is pleased to welcome AgilePoint as a reseller and strategic partner in the Americas and to offer our solutions to its customers and prospects through high-profile events like the Gartner ITxpo," said Regev Yativ, President and CEO of Magic Software Enterprises Americas. "AgilePoint's advanced BPM and workflow capabilities balance well with our comprehensive integration platform and the ubiquity of SharePoint."
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is positioned as the industry's largest and most strategic conference for CIOs and senior IT executives with more than 8,000 senior business and IT strategists, including more than 2,000 CIOs, expected to participate. Keynote speakers include John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco; Meg Whitman, President and CEO, HP; and General Colin Powell, USA (Retired).
About Magic Software Enterprises
Magic Software Enterprises (NASDAQ: MGIC) empowers customers and partners around the globe with smarter technology that provides a multichannel user experience of enterprise logic and data.
For more information, visit http://www.magicsoftware.com.
About AgilePoint
AgilePoint is an industry leader in delivering a business enabled enterprise process platform to the Global 2000 companies, many in the regulated, Utility, Manufacturing, and Professional Services industries. AgilePoint uniquely places business process design and deployment in the hands of knowledgeable business users and enables them to respond rapidly to the needs of the business without the need of custom code by IT. For more information, visit http://www.agilepoint.com.
Except for any historical information contained herein, matters discussed in this press release might include forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Regarding any financial statements, actual results might vary significantly based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, risks in product and technology development, market acceptance of new products and continuing product conditions, both locally and abroad, release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and customers, and other risk factors detailed in Magic's most recent annual report and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Magic has made every effort to ensure that the information contained in this press release is accurate; however, there are no representations or warranties regarding this information, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Magic assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions that may occur in this press release. Magic is a registered trademark of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. All other product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and might be trademarks of, their respective owners.
Press Contact:
Tania Amar | VP Global Marketing
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Our home is ideal for gathering friends and family. Come live a life of luxury and outdoor leisure amongst the Ponderosa Pines in a gorgeous $1M, 3 story loghome with all the upgrades and furnishings from around the world.Relish amazing mountain views from almost 1000 sq ft of upper deck or relax in the shade of 800 sq ft of patio. All 4 bedrooms have queen beds and en-suite bathrooms with either a shower or a bath. We have just put in a $8,000 upgrade to offer air-conditioning for our summer guests, overcoming a major challenge of log wall structure.
For your nightly entertainment there is a HD TV in den as well as a projection screen in Home Theater with Xbox. Challenge your kids to a game of Foosball, pool, ping pong, a poker game or puzzle in the Game Room.Watch the moon rise and gaze at a sky lit up by stars.Let peace and serenity take your stress away after a hard day of playing.
This is family living at its best, come make wonderful memories!
We are also pet friendly ! What kind of vacation would it be if you have to leave your pet in the heat?
Torreon is a gated golf community developed by Desert Troon to accomodate the Phoenix (3 hour drive)and Tucson people (4 hour drive)looking for cooler summer temperatures.It is Arizona,sunny 350 days a year but here in the White Mountains (6,500 ft elevation) we rejoice in summer temperatures rarely reaching the 90's. With no humidity or no bugs, it is the best weather in the United States!
We know the importance of your 4 legged family member so we are pet-friendly, but beware Torreon does not allow fences so there is no containment.
The garage holds 2 cars and car rental & adult bikes are available. Great trails abound in surrounding state forests or walk and bike within the gated community. 5 minute WALKING distance to Clubhouse, Family Center, tennis, pool,hot tub, basketball, sand volleyball, fishing and Fitness Center. Two world class 18 Troon Golf courses, great restaurant & bar on site. There are riding trails behind Torreon on state lands, horse boarding facilities or arena and group horseback riding lessions.
What more could you ask for? We are in a fabulous location for both adults and children, beautiful setting, safe (24/7 roaming security),magnificent weather. Safeway grocery store is a 5 minute drive. Drive to Show Low (5 minutes) or Pinetop/Lakeside (20 minutes) for restaurants, shopping, antiquing. Come discover the White Mountains of Arizona and make everyone's summer memorable.
For winter guests, the Sunrise ski resort man-makes snow for a full season of skiing, snowboarding or snowmobiling. Sunrise is a 45 minute drive from our cabin, many rental stores along the way as well as at the base of the mountain. 4 wheel drive car is recommended.
Keywords: Reunion, family, gathering, large loghome,mountain views, deckTorreon, gated community,golf, tennis, horses,outdoor pool,spa, fitness center, trails, cool summer temperatures. Sunrise ski resort open from November to April.
Torreon Family Center has free video games, activities, supervised during the day, basketball court and sand volley ball and is a 5 minute WALK from home. Shaded playground area and fishing pond.2 full sized Desert Troon golf courses with driving range, putting green and lessons.Excelllent restaurant open to the public at Torreon Clubhouse with lovely outdoor seating. The Torreon Cabin is the second, more rustic restaurant on the golf course.In the winter Sunrise Ski resort is a 45 minute drive with manmade snow froomed ski slopes and snowmobiling options.
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First payment if fully refundable, including property protection from CSA. if cancelled 30 days prior. Otherwise a rain check is possible; there is therefore no need to accept coverage for your non-refundable payments should you cancel. On the BOOK IT reservation request, check the box for the $59 NON refundable damage protection up to $1500.
There is no need to check the Carefree rental Guarantee, I have been renting properties in Torreon for 4 years and there has never been a double booking, or wrongfully held deposits, nor has the property been misrepresented. Check out the reviews on this property for peace of mind, don't pay any extra!