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Athlete's foot is a fungus that causes itching, redness, and cracking. Germs can enter through the cracks in your skin and cause an infection. Medicines that kill the fungus are used to treat athlete's foot. These medicines may be pills and/or creams applied directly to the problem area. Ask your doctor to recommend a medication for athlete's foot.
Reviewed by Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD on October 17, 2008
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FIRST-TIME entrant Dianne Michalk has won ABC Gardening Australia magazine's Gardener of the Year award.
The prestigous national prize is awarded by the popular gardening magazine published by News Ltd.
The Gumeracha resident said she entered as a last minute thought on a rainy day just before entries closed.
"I couldn't get out in the garden because it was pouring so I thought I might as well get on the computer and enter the competition,'' Ms Michalk said.
"I entered on the September 9 and someone rang me on September 13 telling me I was one of two finalists. I couldn't believe it, especially when they told me I was a finalist Australia-wide not just in South Australia.''
GALLERY: See Dianne in her beautiful garden
But the 55-year-old public servant and self-taught green thumb said she never took up her hobby to win awards.
"My parents were dairy farmers and as a child I would spend hours in my grandmother's garden while they were milking.
"It was a magical place with hedges trimmed in the animal shapes, a massive vegie garden and a chicken run that was as big as today's house blocks.''
Inspired by her grandmother, Ms Michalk set about creating her own piece of serenity close by on a one acre (0.4ha) cow paddock she bought about 27 years ago and called Ashgrove Iris Garden.
"I built the house and started on the garden soon after. There was lots of trial and error along the way. I'm always changing things around and tweaking.''
To get a garden to the level of Ashgrove requires strong passion and hard work.
"I've spent $13,000 to $15,000 on arborists to maintain my big ash trees over the years - that way I know they will last for at least another 50 years.
"Some people think that's a lot of money but I think others would spend that on holidays overseas - I prefer to spend it on my garden.
"It's about choices. Gardening keeps me active and out in the fresh air. It can be hard work - I've done most of it myself - but the end result is so peaceful and relaxing."
Highlights at Ashgrove include fields of irises and roses, manicured hedges, ponds with water fountains and of course the ash trees.
Next on Ms Michalk's agenda is creating a secret garden within her garden for the ultimate in relaxation.
"People ask me how I leave this place to go to work in the city. I just think well yes, it can be hard but I'm going to come home to it too.''
ABC Gardening Australia magazine horticultural editor Debbie McDonald said Ms Michalk was a true gardener.
"She understands that a garden is a work in progress, constantly evolving over time. When a garden isn't working out or a plant isn't growing well, she's not afraid to redesign gardens, move plants or try new combinations."
The gardening prize worth about $3450 includes a holiday for two in Tasmania with car hire and an itinery of gardens to visit, $2000 from Seasol and more as well as Ashgrove Iris Garden featuring in ABC Gardening Australia magazine's December issue.
Dianne's gardening tips:
■ Work from the soil up. Find out what type of soil you have and get it to its best condition before planting.
■ Create a garden design in which flower colour schemes can be planned but remember the design can be tweaked and is not set in stone.
■ Have your own compost ready to use on the garden at all times by maintaining at least a couple of large compost bins.
■ Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Gardening is about trial and error.
■ Try to use rainwater or bore water as much as possible.
■ It's worth spending money on arborists for big trees to ensure they stay healthy in years to come.
■ If you want to do a gardening course, great, but you can learn a lot from gardening books, TV shows and by getting to know other keen gardeners.
■ Buy plant specimens from catalogues or nurseries but don't forget sharing cuttings with friends and propagating your own.
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The Beehive's Seriously Fun Game Night - #1 @ The Humming Tree
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Tired of the usual Monopoly and Scrabble at family gatherings? There is a whole other world of board games out there, and we'll help you explore it!
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Congressman Brad Sherman offered an amendment to H.R. 2017, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act in the House. The amendment prohibits funds provided by the bill from being used to conduct military operations which violate the War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Act).
The vote on the amendment occurred today and nearly passed, with 111 Republicans and 97 Democrats voting in favor, and 123 Republicans and 90 Democrats voting against, and 12 members not voting.
The War Powers Resolution prevents the President from conducting military action for more than 60 days without Congressional approval. Congress has not authorized military action in Libya. The administration sent a perfunctory letter to the House leadership encouraging a resolution approving military action against Qaddafi's forces on May 20, 2011 -- about 60 days after hostilities began.
"We cannot bring democracy and the rule of law to Libya without safeguarding democracy and the rule of law in the United States," said Congressman Sherman. "The War Powers Resolution is the law of the land, and we should not facilitate or tolerate its violation, even for a purportedly worthy cause."
Sherman expressed optimism about the amendment passing in a future bill. The most significant argument against the amendment was its germaneness to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill, which provides only limited funding relevant for conducting a war. The amendment is more likely to pass when it is offered on the Defense Appropriations bill.
"It was important to have this vote this week," said Sherman. "The Defense Appropriations bill is weeks away -- we need to demonstrate that the President needs to seek authorization for the Libya operations now."
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With road tours like this, it also serves as the perfect means for introducing new compositions like those of saxophonist Ted Nash. This concert was a wonderful mix of old and new, tributes and freshly minted music. Most of the fifteen musicians were featured in one of many solos during the concert, and it would be impossible and even unfair to choose any one solo as the best: all are consummate artists and masters of the art and craft of their respective instruments. Dressed in black suits, white shirts and striped ties, the colour of the stripe section-based, the full house at the venerable Orpheum Theatre was given a treat.
Marsalis, true to his custom, sat in the trumpet section in the back row, rarely stepping to the front. He used a hand mike to make his perspicacious comments and to explain the next piece; sadly, although the miking of the band collectively and during solos was excellent, the sound quality of his interjections was awful and often unintelligible. The grande dame of west coast theatres, first opened in 1927 as a vaudeville house, and lovingly restored as Vancouver's most opulent performance space in 1977, with its fine acoustics, could not be held responsible, so what was the problem? But the silver lining was the opportunity to listen to the music, pure and unadulterated, a straight-up big-band jazz concert, without worrying about the commentary. The appreciative audience was predominantly grey-haired and senior, with a scattering of young people. Is big-band jazz only for those who can remember the bands of the forties and fifties? Much of the work of the JLCO and of Marsalis in particular is to educate the young. It may work in New York City, but the west coast seems to be missing a beat.
The first half began in a nice and easy swing fashion with Joe Henderson's title track from his 1964 Blue Note album, "Inner Urge", arranged by saxophonist Ted Nash, with solos on alto and trumpet. Irving Berlin's 1926 classic, "Blue Skies", was first arranged by Fletcher Henderson for the new Benny Goodman Orchestra. The JLCO conjured images of a crowded World War II dance floor, thronged with dancers, and around the bandstand a mob of aficionados eager to get a close look at zoot-suited musicians taking turns to stand in serried ranks and swing from side to side as the piece reached its climax.
"Ceora", a great jazz ballad from the pen of hard-bop trumpeter Lee Morgan, was given a Latin twist: muted brass, two flutes, solo trombone, and the best evidence of the maxim "keep it simple" for drummers as shirt-sleeved Ali Jackson performed delicate rhythms with a single drumstick. Jackson was a piece of work all night with his varied percussion: cymbals, clapping, tambourine, using every inch and surface of the drum-set to support and maintain a steady, interesting pulse that complemented the soloists. "Down by the Riverside", a simple and familiar tune, was transformed into a complex jazz piece, yet never lost its connection with its gospel roots. The high point of this energetic rampage, reminiscent of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, was the call and response improvisation by Marcus Printup and Sean Jones. Veteran baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley was introduced as "our secret weapon" led a gorgeously sensuous interpretation of Billy Strayhorn's "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing", evoking film noir images of an after-hours smoke-filled bar, as Temperley wove his meanderings to re-phrase Ellington's thought that "a sax is a woman".
Marsalis' introduction to the new material spoke of the many JLCO collaborations, most particularly with New York's Museum of Modern Art. The MOMA-inspired suite "Portrait in Seven Shades" (2007) by Ted Nash is a jazz equivalent of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". For the Picasso piece, "Part IV", the trombone and trumpet sections play toreador tunes and flamenco rhythms with cascading chords to take us to sun-drenched Spain. This was Picasso at his most Cubist and whimsical as trombone soloist Chris Crenshaw bounced in and out of his seat. Leader Nash took the reins and brought the four sections of the orchestra together in a storming finish.
Marsalis wrote a sacred suite to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, based on the traditional Latin mass form. His choice for the second half opener, "Offertory III: The Holy Ghost", was introduced by pianist Dan Nimmer, looking like a youthful Bill Evans, with a pounding insidious left-hand riff, and the horns frenetically driving the piece, in place of the 100-voice gospel choir at its debut.
Marsalis and Ghanaian drummer Yacub Addy wrote "Bamboula Dance" as a tribute to the African-American slaves who would congregate every Sunday in Congo Square, New Orleans, the only place they were allowed to sing and dance. The piece is a dreamlike march, childlike in its apparent simplicity, as five clarinets play snake-charmer music that ultimately fades to silence.
The Ellington piece, "Braggin' in Brass" was only recorded once by his orchestra; Marsalis said it was almost unplayable. So the three young lions in the trombone den, Chris Crenshaw, Vincent Gardner and Elliot Mason, proved him wrong as they attacked its fast alternating staccato notes, supported by early bebop muted trumpets in response.
Benny Carter's last piece (2000), "Again and Again", a slow ballad, was performed as a showcase for alto saxophonists Ted Nash and Sherman Irby. The former played edgy interval jumps, but the latter answered like a kindly uncle with the richness of tone and vibrato of a bygone era.
In "Vitoria Suite: Movement X", the orchestra again took us back to Spain, to the city of Vitoria and its annual jazz festival. The piece is a heady mix of Spanish music liberally seasoned with the best of today's swinging jazz.
The crowd's standing ovation elicited the encore "Free to Be", from the album "The Magic Hour", but just with a quintet of piano, bass, drums, tenor saxophone (by the talented Walter Blanding, Jr.), and, of course, Marsalis on trumpet. The simple 32 bar bebop tune featured an outstanding solo from Marsalis on which he pulled out all the stops and proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he is the greatest trumpet player alive today.


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USD/JPY (a 4-hour chart)
General overview
The dollar rose on Wednesday due to profit fixation and was supported by the positive sentiment after the election debates.
Current situation
The pair had a neutral day on Wednesday. The dollar made an attempt to recover which was stopped at 100.80. The price spent the day a few pips above the current support – 100.40. The 50-EMA stopped the correctional growth. The price touched the line and slightly rolled back. The 50, 100 and 200 EMAs present a strong bearish slope. All moving averages kept heading lower. The resistance is at 101.40, the support comes in at 100.40.
MACD is in the negative area. MACD grew which indicates the sellers' positions weakening. RSI is within the neutral territory.
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We are looking for the 100.40 support break and then continuation of a fall with a further target at 100.00.


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17th WEST BROMWICH ALBION
Player (1): Ben Foster (England)
Biggest star: Foster became the first West Brom player since Jeff Astle in 1970 to play for England – shame it was for the dead rubber against Costa Rica.
Health check: Foster will join up with Albion's first-team squad later this month for pre-season training.
Overall mark: 4/10. Foster did not let anybody down, and actually produced a few decent saves against Costa Rica, but the game was ultimately meaningless.Picture: DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS


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The Weekend Guide: August 17, 2012
Summer is winding to a close — savor one of the last few weekends of warmth and freedom with a visit to the beach, or the pool, or maybe a little shopping. Check it all out in the Weekend Guide, pass it on and send us your own sale or event.
• Gus Modern Summer Upholstery Sale Gus Modern is offering 20% off sectionals, sofas, chairs and ottomans. All upholstered seating is manufactured with 100% FSC-Certified wood, in support of responsible forest management.
Through 8/19
• Lumens.com Back to School Desk Lamp Sale Save up to 40% off on some of our favorite desk lamps just in time for back to school. Find the D'E-Light by Philippe Starck for Flos and more.
Through 8/20
• BoConcept Summer Sale BoConcept announces its end-of-season summer sale taking place in its 23 U.S. retail stores. Shoppers will save up to 70% off floor samples, rugs, lamps and other accessories, as well 20% off the following pieces from the 2012 collection.
In stores
Through 8/30
• Pillowsforhope.com Summer Sale Super savings on entire outdoor pillow collection plus more discounts on trendy modern and ikat styles.
Through 8/30
• Lightology Koncept Sale Save an additional 10% OFF retail price on all Koncept LED desk and floor lamps.
Through 8/31
• Eskayel Summer Sale Brooklyn-based design studio Eskayel is having their first ever sale. Save 20% off All wallpaper, rugs, and decorative products, site wide – including the new Akimbo mix-n-match collection and the recently released Poolside Collection.
Through 8/31
• Home Remedy Summer Sale The annual Home Remedy Summer Sale event includes home accessories from Kahler, Aid to Artisans, Jonathan Adler and more marked down from 30% to 75% off.
Though 9/3
• Greentea Design's Summer Sale Everything is on sale. Save up to 30% on collections and up to 60% in the outlet section.
Through 9/4
• My Urban Child End of Summer Sale Save 10%-20% on Nurseryworks for your little ones and Zuo Modern for you or your older ones.
Through 9/7
• Cuddledown Annual Pillow Sale Check out this annual pillow sale and buy more to save more. 20% off 1 pillow, 25% off 2 pillows, 30% off 3 or more.
Through 9/24
• Vermont Woods Studios' Dream Bedroom Sale Get the bedroom you've been dreaming of with this natural wood bedroom furniture sale. Save 10% off a single piece, 15% off two pieces, or 20% off three or more pieces of furniture (plus free shipping & lifetime guarantee).
Through 8/21
• Graham & Brown 25% Off Weekend Sale Shop Graham & Brown's 3-Day Sale this weekend. Save 25% off all regularly priced products. Add some character to your walls with the SAVE25 promo code.
8/18 - 8/20
• CoCoCo Bench Giveaway CoCoCo (The Comfortable Couch Company) is launching a giveaway aimed at driving their Facebook page "likes" to the 3,000 milestone. CoCoCo will be giving away one of its Chesterfield leather upholstered benches valued at $1200 to a randomly selected fan of the Facebook page.
Until 3,000 Likes are reached
• West Elm Fabric & Upholstery Sale West Elm's Upholstery Sale features savings on upholstered fabrics and furniture. Shop their fabric selections on sale and update any home affordably.
Through 9/3
• Offi 18th Anniversary Sale at AllModern Take 18% off select Original Pure Design products by Offi.
Through 8/31
• Diseño Summer Clearance Annual Summer Clearance 20-50% off all in stock merchandise. Color, texture, warmth and style, imports from Buenos Aires, Lima, Sao Paulo and beyond.
Diseño Boston | 409 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Through 8/31
• The Davis Flea An open-air market featuring vendors of vintage, antique, repurposed wares and produce all situated in the heart of Davis Square.
The Davis Flea | 52 Holland Street, Somerville, Massachusetts 02144
Every Sunday through 10/28
• The Golden Triangle Sidewalk Sale Once a year, The Golden Triangle likes to pitch a tent in their parking lot and attempt to recreate the fun and frenzy of the Paris Flea Market and Bangkok's Chatuchak in downtown Chicago. This year's sale will be our largest ever with over 200 items from 10 countries on display. Some pieces are very old and come from exotic cultures. Others are more practical. Still others are just fragments that may inspire a great DIY project.
The Golden Triangle | 330 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois 60654
Through 8/18
• Karl Wirsum Eyeballs the Intuit Collection Curator Karl Wirsum has "eyeballed" Intuit's Permanent Collection to create an exhibition of his favorites. As a member of the Chicago Imagists group Hairy Who, he was instrumental in setting the tone for Chicago's art scene in the 1960s. As an artist, Wirsum has developed a style that combines vivid graphic imagery with a sense of humor, a style that is mirrored in his selections for this exhibition. Karl Wirsum Eyeballs the Intuit Collection celebrates those artists who create work that expand the imagination.
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art | 756 North Milwaukee Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois 60642
Through 9/1
• Kenneth Ludwig Home Furnishings Moving Sale Kenneth Ludwig Home Furnishings is moving to Suite 1445 at The Merchandise Mart this Fall and is hosting a moving sale with deals on furniture, lighting, accessories and more. Enjoy up to 75% off contemporary and transitional offerings.
Kenneth Ludwig Home Furnishings | 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1510, Chicago, Illinois 60654
Through 9/3
• Vintage Garage Chicago With space for at least 100 dealers, Vintage Garage Chicago is the city's newest venue for buying and selling vintage and antique merchandise.
Vintage Garage Chicago | 5051 North Broadway, Chicago, Illinois 60640
8/19: 9am - 4pm
9/16: 9am - 4pm
10/21: 9am - 4pm
• Jayson Home / 30% Off Garden Sale Take 30% off everything in the garden area — all trees, plants, shrubs and flowers, as well as all planters, pots and containers.
Jayson Home | 1885 N Clybourn Ave, Chicago IL 60614
Through 9/2
• Heath Ceramics Home Plate Dinnerware Exchange At the Home Plate Dinnerware Exchange customers may swap lightly used dinnerware for 25 percent off any corresponding, first-quality piece of Heath dinnerware. For example, they can bring in 10 of their own dinner plates and receive a 25% discount on 10 new Heath dinner plates; bring in 8 mugs, receive 25% off 8 new Heath mugs, and so on. Heath Ceramics will then donate the collected dinnerware to Skid Row Housing Trust, who will in turn place them within one of their community kitchens or with one of their newly housed individuals.
Heath Ceramics | 7525 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036
Through 8/31
• Haptor Barrett Floor Model Sale For 35 years Haptor Barrett has been the premier wholesale furniture showroom in Los Angeles, open only to professional designers and architects. For a limited time, showroom floor models are being discounted. Everything from upholstery and leather, dining room sets, bedrooms and bedding, lighting and unique accessories.
Haptor Barrett | 110 East 9th Street, Suite C999, Los Angeles, California 90079
Through 9/6
• Artspace Warehouse: Summer Skies The skies are limitless for the artists' works on display in this summer's exhibition. The exhibition showcases new works by Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer, Memphis artist Mark Acetelli, and Los Angeles artist Robert Lebsack, among many others.
Artspace Warehouse | 7354 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036
Through 9/7
• Duke & Duke Gallery Featuring Nancy Lorenz Duke & Duke presents the solo exhibition of artist Nancy Lorenz, a presentation of screens, paintings, and designs. Nancy Lorenz is known for her artisan creations which are influenced by Eastern art and translated abstract expressionism. Her use of rich materials and refined compositions create a harmonious balance.
Duke & Duke Gallery | 8527 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, California 90069
Through 9/21
• California's Designing Women, 1896-1986 The Autry National Center presents California's Designing Women, 1896-1986, an unprecedented exhibition that honors forty-six women designers and includes more than 200 examples of textiles, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewelry, clothing, and graphics. These functional and decorative objects--from Arts and Crafts to Art Deco to Mid-century Modern and beyond--exemplify California's national and international reputation for unrestrained creativity.
Autry National Center | 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, California 90027
Through 1/6/13
• Anichini Los Angeles Storewide Sale 20% off storewide. Discount applies to cash and carry only; sale items and special orders excluded.
Anichini Los Angeles | 645 North Robertson Boulevard - Los Angeles, California 90069
Through 8/18
• 45 Three Modern Vintage Home Estate Liquidation Sale Join in the treasure hunt of 3 Southern California Estates with Mid Century, Hollywood Regency and a splash of 80's design. Find amazing pairs of chairs, settees, sofas, 60s ceramic lamps, mid century art and so much more!
45 Three Modern Warehouse | 1051 South Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90019
8/18 10am - 6pm
8/19 11am - 5pm
• 1600 Vine Pop-Up Suite Shop Presented by Apt2B 1600 Vine and Apt2B have joined together to create a truly unique shopping experience. A beautifully designed, exquisite three-bedroom, two-story townhome suite, overlooking Hollywood, plays host to a one-of- a-kind pop-up shop for L.A. boutique and real estate enthusiasts. Walk-in closets will be stocked with the latest in menswear from Alpha Gear For Gents, and women's fashion from Le Fashion Truck and Della, a Los Angeles based fashion line, plus four bathrooms will offer Bath Petals organic bath products and beauty supplies, and the sprawling floor plan features a showroom of Apt2B modern home furnishings. Sweet tasting treats from Sweet E's Bake Shop will tempt the senses from the wrap- around kitchen.
1600 North Vine Street, Hollywood, California 90028
8/18 12pm - 5pm
8/19 12pm - 5pm
• Artemide Moving Sale Iconic lighting fixtures are up to 90% off.
Artemide | 277 Giralda Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida 33134
Through 9/30
• Ligne Roset Sample Sale Ligne Roset is offering a discount of up to 60% below retail price on floor samples, overstock and discontinued items at the brand's SoHo location.
Ligne Roset | 155 Wooster Street, New York, New York 10012
8/17 - 8/19
• Tide Study at Charles Bank Gallery Charles Bank Gallery is pleased to present Tide Study, a new photography exhibition by Ryan James MacFarland. In MacFarland's newest body of work, the artist shows a concern for the seemingly intangible and transitory qualities of landscape.Through these photographs, MacFarland has attempted to interpret and reconcile his own experiences of nature and, consequently, of life.
Charles Bank Gallery | 196 Bowery, New York, New York 10012
Exhibit: Through 8/19
• The Age of Innocence: Prisoner Escapist Photos "The Age of Innocence: Prisoner Escapist Photos," as collected and documented by artist Dave Adler is on view at The Clocktower Gallery. The exhibition consists of 16 photographs of prisoners, by prisoners, using prisoner painted backdrops that feature fantasy scenes of life outside prisons.
The Clocktower Gallery | 108 Leonard Street, 13th floor, New York, New York 10013
Through 8/31
• DecoratorsBest Design Room 5% Off Sale Shop the DecoratorsBest Design Room during the month of August and receive an additional 5% off all orders $300 or more!
DecoratorsBest Design Room | 767 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10065
Through 8/31
• Pedini NY Showroom Display Sale Shop the Pedini annual Kitchen Display Sale and save up to 50% on high quality Italian designer, award winning contemporary kitchen cabinetry.
Pedini | 40 Lispenard Street, New York, New York 10013
Through 9/3
• ABC Carpet & Home Bronx Outlet Summer Sale Just in time for fall, ABC Carpet & Home's annual Bronx Outlet Sale is here. This exciting event marks the reinvention of the Bronx location, including the introduction of many new products and the redesign of the store's interior. The sale includes up to 75% off furniture, rugs, lighting, linens, accessories and more. Theodore Alexander, Ralph Lauren and EJ Victor are all marked down by up to 50%, and Calvin Klein up to 60%.
ABC Carpet & Home Bronx Warehouse Outlet | 1055 Bronx River Avenue, Bronx, New York 10472
Through 9/8
• Tiger Lily's Home Hamptons Pop Up Tiger Lily's Greenwich is bringing their full-service design studio to the Hamptons for the summer. With 1,500-square-feet of studio space on Highway 27, Tiger Lily's Home will offer beachside sophistication with custom creative ranging from pillows and bedding to furnishings and home accents. The studio boasts signature pieces approved by mother-daughter team, Betsy and Samantha Knapp. From antique to mid-century modern, each piece of furniture has been hand-touched and refinished.
Tiger Lily's Home | 103 Hayground Road, Water Mill, New York 11976
Through 9/30
• Urban Girl Squad's Affordable Art 101 Urban Girl Squad is hosting a guide to finding unique and beautiful art on a budget at the exclusive Norwood Club in NYC. Interior experts from Uprise Art will explains how to find great pieces at the right price, while matching your own style and personality to a T. We'll also get a private viewing of new pieces from local artists Langdon Graves and Diana Delgado. Cost is $35.
The Norwood Club | 241 W 14th St New York, New York 10011
8/23, 7pm - 9pm
• Summer Sale at Woonwinkel Woonwinkel is making room for new work by their favorite designers! Take up to 50% off floor models, home accessories, and gifts.
Woonwinkel | 935 SW Washington Street, Portland, Oregon 97205
Through 8/31
• Cole Gerst: Nature Designs Itself Nature Designs Itself: new paintings on paper and prints on wood by Cole Gerst. $1 will go towards The Nature Conservancy for planting trees for every wood print sold.
Rare Device | 600 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, California 94117
Through 8/31
• The Great Summer Savings Event at California Carpet Save up to 75% off on select merchandise. A few sale highlights are 100% wool carpeting, colorful designer rugs, and a great selection of indoor/outdoor rugs too! Hurry in now for the best selection as quantities are limited.
California Carpet | 1197 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California 94103
Through 9/1
• Akio Nukaga at New Heath Ceramics Showroom & Gallery After his 2009 and 2011 quickly sold-out exhibitions at Heath Ceramics Los Angeles, Japanese master potter Akio Nukaga returns to Heath, only this time in San Francisco. "Very New Work" marks the first show and celebration of the new Heath showroom and gallery in the city's Northeast Mission neighborhood.
Heath Ceramics | 550 Florida Street, San Francisco 94110
Through 9/5
• Accent European Floor Model Sale Accent European, an Italian kitchen and bath cabinet store located in downtown Walnut Creek is moving and selling all of its showroom models. Products range between 40-70% off and are from the Italian Karol, Miton and Composit lines. The cabinetry is gorgeous, modern, sleek, smart and environmentally friendly. Appliances where present, are included, as well as countertops, interior drawer accessories, and faucets. Additional coordinating modules can be ordered, also at a greatly reduced cost.
Accent European | 1571 Botelho Drive, Walnut Creek, California 94596
Through 10/1
• Chronicle Books Back To School Warehouse Sale Stock up on back to school items, gifts for yourself and friends with 65% off hundreds of selected titles. Choose from cookbooks, children's books, lifestyle + home, arts + crafts, art + design, photography, travel, pop culture, and music titles. Plus, journals, stationery, and much more!
Chronicle Books Corporate Headquarters | 680 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
8/22, 9am - 7 pm
8/23, 9am - 7pm
8/24, 9am - 7pm
• Washington Design Center Dream Home The Washington Design Center is throwing open the doors to the 2012 DreamHome themed Design Craft. Celebrating the next generation of design in Washington, D.C., eight emerging interior designers have been selected to create rooms inspired by the works featured in the exhibition "40 Under 40: Craft Futures," opening this summer at the Renwick Gallery.
Washington Design Center | 300 D Street SW, Washington, DC 20024
Through 11/30
• First Sunday opening of the Modern*Love Showroom The first Sunday opening of the Modern*Love Showroom in Williston, Vermont. Open anytime by appointment, but now also Sundays 10am - 4pm.
Modern*Love | 338-40 Commerce Street, Williston, Vermont
8/19 10am - 4pm
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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors directed county staff to work on amending the county's sign ordinance to allow for the conversion of traditional billboards to light emitting display billboards.
A 5-0 Board of Supervisors vote Sept. 26 directed county staff to work with local billboard operators, local community planning and sponsor groups, and any other interested parties to investigate options which would change the sign ordinance to allow for LED billboards. County staff was directed to report back to the supervisors within 120 days.
"This is not about adding billboards," said Supervisor Bill Horn. "We will have better billboards, and right now our rules don't allow for that."
Many existing billboards are in need of rehabilitation. Digital billboards not only provide cleaner and sharper images than paper applications but can also be equipped with light sensors, which would measure the amount of light in the surrounding community. That allows the billboard to be brightest in sunlight to provide contrast and legibility, while at night the billboard could be dimmer to adjust not only to nighttime conditions but also to dark sky ordinance and other light pollution concerns.
Digital billboards also have the capability of providing changeable messages. In addition to such information as meal specials, the day's rates, or upcoming programming or games, those short-term messages could also include wildfire information, missing children alerts, fugitive alerts, and other emergency information. "Important public safety information could be transmitted on these billboards also," said Supervisor Dianne Jacob.
"I think this is a win-win for us and the advertisers," Horn said.
"I'm hopeful that a solution can be reached that allows for the use of this technology," Jacob said.


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Those long-handled putters that have become fairly popular on the professional golf circuit could soon be obsolete after the U.S. Golf Association and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club—the official governing bodies of The Rules of Golf voted this week to ban "anchoring" a club while putting.
A 12-year old in Massachussetts has been banned from pitching for his little league team, because he is too good.
A promising football star has had his scholarship offer revoked, leaving him plenty of time to pursue his true calling as a rapper.
Riding a motorcycle at 200+ miles per hour with just a helmet and some thin racing gear as the only things between you and possible death is pretty impressive. It's even impressive when you fall off the bike and escape with nothing more than a broken foot and an insane case of road rash.
We've all had those late-night "run for the border" cravings for a taco. But would you still be hungry if your taco was made out of . . . lion?
John Lennon got his driver's license just after The Beatles had become the biggest band in the world. So it's probably not a surprise that his first ride was a little fancier than yours.
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NVIDIA Tegra 3 Processor Accelerates Many High End Applications
Subject: Mobile | March 10, 2012 - 03:53 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tegra 3, tegra, quad core, nvidia, mobile
NVIDIA's Tegra 3 mobile processor may not have much market share (yet), but it sure is powerful! In a recent blog post, the company reiterated just how much it is accelerating applications on mobile platforms including photo editing, remote desktop clients, and even mobile video editing. They further got comments from several of the app developers that stated the Tegra 3 was the piece that made their applications run so smoothly. Granted, some of this is marketing and promotion; however, that fact doesn't make their mobile quad core (4+1 power saving core) SoC any less impressive hardware wise.
Some of the applications NVIDIA heralded include Snapseed, PowerDirector, Splashtop, and Photaf. Snapseed and PowerDirector are photo editor and video editing applications respectively while Photaf is a photo stitching app that allows you to combine multiple shots into panoramas.
Finally, Splashtop is an application that takes advantage of the Tegra 3 to bring a remote desktop client to Android that proclaims to be fast enough to run games as well as the more traditionally desktop access. Both Splashtop and Photaf are available now on Google Play for you to test out while PowerDirector and Snapseed are coming later this year to Android.
Below is the above mentioned video of the Android application developers talking about the benefits of the quad core Tegra 3 processor.
What do you guys think of NVIDIA's "4+1" core processor? Will it stand up to the new Apple A5X chip (according to NVIDIA it wont while Apple says the opposite (obviously), but we'll have to wait until we have an iPad in house to see who's chip is actually faster)?
MWC 2012: Nvidia Shows Off Tegra 3's Muscles With 5 New Games
Subject: Mobile | February 28, 2012 - 03:43 PM | Matt Smith
Tagged: tegra 3, tablet, nvidia, MWC, mobile world congress, gaming
Nvidia has always been happy to show off the gaming capabilities of Tegra 2 and Tegra 3. No surprise there – the company's roots are in PC graphics, which goes hand-in-hand with PC games. When we reviewed the Transformer Prime there were several beautiful pre-installed games, such as Shadowgun, that showed off the hardware. Now Nvidia has come up with not one but five more new titles to brag about at Mobile World Congress – including a new Sonic the Hedgehog game.
Let's have a look at them.
Dark Kingdom THD
This is a role-playing game built in the vein of games like Diablo and Torchlight. The visuals are impressive and a game like this should control well on a tablet, so this could prove to be an excellent title. I do wish the graphics offered more variety, however – they look a bit dark and dreary to me.
Eden to GREEEEN THD
Hey, are you tired of tower defense games yet? I hope not, because that's what Eden to GREEEEN is, albeit it one that has somewhat less restrictive mechanics than most titles in the genre. Of the games that Nvidia showed at Mobile World Congress this is easily the least attractive, but that doesn't mean it won't be fun to play.
Golden Arrow THD
This is a hack-and-slash title that apparently will be including a lot of lens flare and explosions. I'm not sure that sounds appealing, but if you're into that sort of thing, go for it. There's no video available for this title right now, so we don't have a lot to go on.
Hamilton's Great Adventure THD
This game, which is already available on other platforms (you can even pick it up on Steam), is a puzzle game that asks players to navigate hazardous terrain on their quest to collect treasure and do over adventure-y things. The versions of this game that have come out for other platforms have received a fair amount of praise, so Nvidia is wise to be bragging about adding this to its stable.
Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode II
Nvidia has been bragging about Tegra 3's console-quality graphics, so why not poach one of console gaming's most popular franchises? Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode II looks to be a straight port of the version that will be available on game consoles, which means platforming at light speed with excellent 3D graphics. I sincerely hope that the controls are solid, because if so, this could be one of the best games on any tablet.
Availability for the titles shown by Nvidia is generally vague, but can be summed up as vaguely "spring." The Sonic game, for example, will be coming out for Xbox 360 on May 16, so the tablet version will probably release sometime close to that date.
MWC 12: NVIDIA Roadmap Outlines Tegra's Future Including 4G and Die Shrink
Subject: Mobile | February 27, 2012 - 01:53 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: wayne, tegra 3, tegra, tablets, nvidia, MWC 12, mobile, grey
This year is a big one for smaller silicon manufacturing processes with Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge, and NVIDIA and AMD moving to 28nm GPU processes. According to a report on VR-Zone, NVIDIA is already planning their next move for Tegra, including a die shrink to 28nm.
They managed to get their hands on a road map (shown below) for NVIDIA's Tegra SoC (system on a chip) lineup that extends into 2013. With Tegra 3, NVIDIA began by sampling the chip to Asus and the Transformer Prime. After that success, other partners and devices are starting to pick up the mobile chip, and they expect the situation to be the same for future Tegra iterations.
They company allegedly taped out a Tegra 4 (T40) SoC at the end of December 2011, and is starting to sample it to OEM partners to find someone to do a Tegra 3 like launch, with one device/platform to debut first and others to follow in later months.
The Tegra 4 chip is code named "Wayne" and will be comprised of multiple ARM Cortex A15 CPU cores and a new GPU on a 28nm process. The company alos plans to show off a dual core 28nm SoC that uses two Cortex A15 CPU cores, a revamped GPU, and an Icera 4G LTE radio at Mobile World Congress 2013 next year.
Further, the roadmap details a new Tegra 3 chip that is intended to be used with Windows on ARM powered notebooks and tablets. While the new Tegra 3 (T35) SoC will not be a die shrink, it will have higher clock speeds due to less restrictions placed on the maximum TDP (thermal design power) allowed for the devices. VR-Zone estimates that the T35 chips will run somewhere between 1.6 GHz and 1.7 GHz.
Currently there are some incompatibilities with Tegra and 4G LTE radios which has caused some LTE devices to go with Qualcomm SoCs, so it is good to see NVIDIA working on improving compatibility and then integrating the basebands into their future SoCs to rectify the issue.
As far as this year is concerned, we should see the updated Tegra 3 chip and a new version of Tegra 2 that integrates a Icera 4G LTE baseband. The Wayne and Grey chips will likely not be released until 2013 at the earliest. The expanded Tegra portfolio should help them to gain some market share, though exactly how much remains to be seen.
MWC 12: Huawei enters the mobile SoC world with quad-core K3V2
Subject: Processors, Mobile | February 27, 2012 - 12:30 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: tegra 3, quad-core, k3v2, k3, Huawei
Never heard of Huawei? Well you will going forward. The Chinese telecommunications company that claims 110,000 employees, 46% of which are planted in R&D departments, is entering in the market to compete against Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, NVIDIA and others by building an ARM-based SoC for its own mobile devices.
Details are limited for now though we expect to hear more as Mobile World Congress progresses but here is what we know. The Huawei K3V2 CPU will be a quad-core Cortex A9 part with "16 GPUs" - though we don't have any reference what is meant by "a GPU". The A9s will run at either 1.2 GHz or 1.5 GHz and Huawei does mention that these will have
64-bit support a 64-bit memory controller as compared to the 32-bit controller on Tegra 3.
The company did have some performance claims that put the K3V2 ahead of the Galaxy Nexus (Exynos 3110) and ASUS Transformer Prime (Tegra 3). If you believe in marketing slides the new Huawei CPU will be about twice as fast in GPU performance and 49% faster in purely CPU-based tests while using 30% less power. Man, if we had a dollar for every time someone claimed these kinds of gains...
Hopefully we'll see some tests on this new SoC soon in the form of the Huawei Ascend D quad phone available this year.
MWC 12: NVIDIA Tegra 3 To Power Quad Core HTC One Smartphone
Subject: Mobile | February 26, 2012 - 04:35 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tegra 3, smartphone, quad core, nvidia, MWC 12, htc, Android
Earlier rumors suggested that the LG Optimus 4X HD would be the first quad core Tegra 3 powered smartphone; however, HTC and NVIDIA made an announcement today that shows that LG is not the only company showing off a Tegra 3 smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2012!
NVIDIA announced in a press release today that their Tegra 3 mobile SoC would be powering the new HTC One X smartphone which is to be shown off at MWC 2012. According to HTC, the phone features 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of on-board storage to power the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) mobile OS on a 4.7" display with 1280x720 resolution. It further includes an 8 MP (megapixel) rear camera capable of 1080p video with stereo sound, a VGA resolution front camera for video conferencing and claimed 720p video, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, support for LTE 4G networks, and a 1,800 mAh battery.
Kouji Kodera, Chief Product Officer at HTC stated that "the HTC One X with Tegra 3 provides an experience that consumers will absolutely love." The HTC One X is the first smartphone that HTC and NVIDIA have worked together on.
The mobile market is advancing rather quickly, and Mobile World Congress 2012 is only just getting started! Stay tuned to PC Perspective for more MWC 2012 announcements!
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LG Announces 4X HD Quad Core Tegra 3 Smartphone With ICS
Subject: Mobile | February 24, 2012 - 07:35 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tegra 3, smartphone, quad core, LG, hd, 720p, 4x hd
Last year LG debuted a dual core smarphone at Mobile World Congress, and this year the company is upping the ante to a new Android smartphone powered by a 1.5GHz Tegra 3 quad core processor. Yes, this is still a smartphone, just with a processor that has usually been reserved for tablets like the Transformer Prime.
LG plans to reveal the new Android smartphone at this year's Mobile World Congress 2012 in Spain. The new phone is called the LG Optimus 4X HD and is a 8.9mm thick slab with "prism like" contours and edges. On the outside of the phone, it features a 4.7" True HD IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720, a LED flash, and two cameras. On the front is a 1.3 megapixel camera and the rear camera is 8 megapixel BSI (Backside Illumination Sensor) camera.
The inside of the phone houses some fairly impressive hardware as well. The phone is powered by a Tegra 3 quad core processor running at 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of LP DDR2 RAM, and 16 GB of internal storage. Backing all this hardware is a 2,150 mAh battery. LG Mobile CEO Dr. Jong-seok Park stated that:
"Speed in itself isn't what makes LG Optimus 4X HD unique. It's the benefit we're bringing to customers with the HD multimedia experience in a mobile form factor."
The LG 4X HD will be running the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and will be available in Europe during the second quarter of this year. The company will further be showing the device off at Mobile World Congress 2012 at the LG stand in Hall 8 from February 27 to March 1.
Do you think the world needs a quad core smartphone yet?
HTC at MWC R-U-M-O-R-S
Subject: General Tech, Mobile, Shows and Expos | February 17, 2012 - 06:33 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: tegra 3, MWC, htc
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is approaching and you should expect our coverage of the event from a hardware perspective. The actual event occurs from February 27th through March 1st although, like most events, we expect that the news coverage will begin a couple of days before that time. Rumors about what will appear at the show are already surfacing and include a few leaks about upcoming HTC releases.
Probably there's a very simple answer to it... still curious though.
(Update: As pointed out in the comments, one of the phones actually IS Tegra 3 powered. I read it as including some other processor... and somehow I only found the LG X3 when looking for Tegra 3 powered phones.)
TechCrunch rounded up details from a few sources about several phones from HTC that are expected at MWC. Ice Cream Sandwich appears to be the common thread amongst each of the leaks. Of particular note, HTC appears to be demonstrating a 10.1" tablet running an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor. Their phones, on the other hand, do not. (Update: Yeah they do, my mistake.)
Unlike (Update: Actually, like) HTC, LG is expected to reveal a Tegra-3 powered phone, the LG X3, at Mobile World Congress -- so Tegra 3 phones are not nonexistent -- just seemingly a scarce commodity. It would be interesting to know why NVIDIA's Tegra 3 technology appears, at least from my standpoint, so common on tablets yet so scarce on phones.
Be sure to keep checking back for our coverage of the event and all of your other hardware needs.
Quarter Down but Year Up
Yesterday NVIDIA released their latest financial results for Q4 2012 and FY2012. There was some good and bad mixed in the results, but overall it was a very successful year for NVIDIA.
Q4 saw gross revenue top $953.2 million US with a net income of $116 million US. This is about $53 million less in gross revenue and $62 million down in net income as compared to last quarter. There are several reasons as to why this happened, but the majority of it appears to be due to the hard drive shortage affecting add-in sales. Simply put, the increase in hard drive prices caused most OEMs to take a good look at the price points of the entire system, and oftentimes would cut out the add-in graphics and just use integrated.
Tegra 3 promises a 50% increase in revenue for NVIDIA this coming year.
Two other reasons for the lower than expected quarter were start of the transition to 28 nm products based on Kepler. They are ramping up production on 28 nm and slowing down 40 nm. Yields on 28 nm are not where they expected them to be, and there is also a shortage of wafer starts for that line. This had a pretty minimal affect overall on Q4, but it will be one of the prime reasons why revenue looks like it will be down in Q1 2013.
NVIDIA is up for a rough year
Subject: General Tech | February 16, 2012 - 12:45 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: nvidia, 28nm, TSMC, kepler, tegra, tegra 3
If you caught the podcast last night you would have heard Josh discussing NVIDIA's year end financial conference call, otherwise you will have to wait until the 'cast is posted later this week. Until then you can read SemiAccurate's take on the call here. There is a lot of news about NVIDIA and none of it is good, from wafer yields to chip demand nothing seems to have gone right for them. Attempting to move off of their cursed 40nm line and switching to 28nm, NVIDIA has run into big yield problems as in entire wafers having issues as opposed to just some dies being bad.
Tegra is not doing so well either, with sales of Tegra 2 dropping as we approach the release of Tegra 3, which is getting a lot of bad press. SemiAccurate refers to the chip as bloated in size as well as being downright expensive to make. Combine that with the fact that NVIDIA is lagging on A15 adoption and Samsung and Apple turning their backs on Tegra and it doesn't look good for NVIDIA's mobile plans. The one ray of sunshine is that even combined Samsung and Apple do not account for even half of smartphones on the market, so there is still room for NVIDIA and Tegra to grow.
"Nvidia seems to be so far ahead of the curve that they are experiencing problems that are unique in the industry. In their recent year end financial conference call, there was enough said to draw some very grim conclusions.
Today's conference call was a near complete validation of all the things SemiAccurate has been saying about Nvidia. Remember when we asked if Nvidia could supply Apple? Anyone notice the part about dumping early 28nm capacity, and the disappearance of 28nm Fermi shrinks? Remember how 28nm was not an issue for Nvidia, even if their product roadmap slips said otherwise. How well does this mesh with the quotes from Jen-Hsun himself on the topic?"
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Danish researchers invent 2nm components @ SemiAccurate
- Space; it's a junkyard until the Swiss get their way @ Hack a Day
- From encryption to darknets: As governments snoop, activists fight back @ Ars Technica
- Intel to postpone mass shipments of Ivy Bridge processors @ DigiTimes
- Acer expects double ultrabook shipments in 2Q12, improving gross margin each quarter @ DigiTimes
- High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools @ Ars Technica
- Samsung SCX-4728FD Multifunctional Printer @ Overclockers Online
- Norton 360 Version 6.0 Review @ TechReviewSource
- CoolerMaster MASSIVE Giveaway @ eTeknix
ASUS Transformer Prime and its faithful companion core
Subject: Mobile | January 10, 2012 - 01:58 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: eee pad, transformer prime, asus, tegra 3
The Tech Report just wrapped up a review of the ever popular EeePad Transformer Prime, the tablet with a keyboard for a dock. This particular model is updated with the 5-core Tegra 3 processor, which means faster performance and the presence of the ultra-low power GeForce GPU that NVIDIA has been so secretive about. There were more improvements than simple processing power, a SuperIPS+ mode which makes the screen bright enough to easily read in direct sunlight and more consistent colour reproduction. The improvements seem to come with a cost as the battery life is less than the previous models although not prohibitively so. Check out the good and the bad of the first Tegra 3 powered device on the market.
"With an updated Tegra 3 processor and a sleek new design, the Transformer Prime may be the hottest tablet around. We take a closer look to see if Asus has created another compelling iPad alternative."
Here are some more Mobile articles from around the web:
- Asus G74SX-91013Z 17.3 inch Notebook @ Kitguru
- HP Folio 13 Review @ TechReviewSource
- Samsung Series 9 900X3A Review @ Tech-Reviews
- Samsung Chromebook Series 5 Review @ Tech-Reviews
- Amazon Kindle Wi-Fi 6-inch E Ink Display Review @ HardwareLOOK
- Point of View Protab 2 XXL Tablet @ Guru of 3D
- Installing Android on the HP touchpad @ I Am Not A Geek
- Tweaking and Overclocking the HP Touchpad in WebOS @ I Am Not A Geek
- Your New Kindle: What You Need to Know @ TechReviewSource
- Trident Case Kraken Case for Apple iPad2 Review @ Madshrimps
- Nokia Lumia 800 Review - Nokia's Brave New Foray into WP7 @ AnandTech
- Nokia Lumia 710 Review - T-Mobile's Nokia WP7 @ AnandTech
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Points for consistency?
A reader reminded me of a New York Post editorial board meeting Newt Gingrich did back in 2007 as he was working the "ideas" aspects of Newt Inc., his sprawling empire, and some of it sounded awfully familiar.
From my story back then for the Post:
Last night, at an election forum at Cooper Union, Gingrich and former Gov. Mario Cuomo agreed on the need for more meaningful debates by the presidential candidates in 2008. Gingrich called for nine weekly 90-minutes debates between the two nominees before Election Day.
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That is, of course, the refrain Gingrich has been sounding in the glut of televised debates - a push for a different style of face-offs between the candidates.
In that meeting, Gingrich had some choice words for Hillary Clinton, whom he called a "nasty woman" and suggested she would "grind" up then-Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. From the story, Gingrich:
* Dubbed Obama a great "counterimage" to Clinton, but said he doesn't think the Illinois Democrat can win. "If the country wants therapy, they're going to elect Obama, " he said.
* Said the GOP needs to nominate a Ronald Reagan-type candidate and added, "I think it's not an accident that Giuliani is running as well as he is in the polls."
Gingrich called New York's evolution under Giuliani "a tremendous story . . . It's a different city."
* Warned that the GOP is in the "early stages of an enormous transition" and suggested electability is an issue for Republicans.
"A normative Republican running like a traditional Republican, which means a non-Reagan Republican, and trying to beat Hillary by being negative is hopeless," he said.


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The South Pioneer community in Caddo County has always been a
in civic affairs. The old school building erected in the summer of 1902
is still standing and is in use as a community center at its location
four miles west and two and a half miles south of Ft. Cobb, Okla. Mrs.
Mont Churchill, who has lived in this community for many years has
preserved the early records of South Pioneer School District #31. These
records show the district was organized at a meeting held October 26,
1901. Another meeting was held April 9, 1902 at which time the
following school board members were elected:David K. Meador, Director
James E. Calvin, Clerk S. P. Ratliff, Treasurer
The records further show that the first warrant issued by the board treasurer, Mr. Ratliff, was dated October 20, 1902 and was payable to the Hite Lumber Co. for the material used in the school building.
I was born Alice Wilson in Hunt County, Texas, in 1892. My parents moved to Chickasha, I.T. in 1898 and to the South Pioneer community in the early winter of 1902. My father bought a relinquishment, but we first lived in a tent pitched on Indian land belonging to a Kiowa, DeLos K. Lonewolf. While we were living in a tent on this land another Kiowa Indian named Gawky, who resented having white people in the area, tried to scare us away by claiming we were on his land. However, Lonewolf befriended us and we camped on his land until father built a barn on our homestead. We lived in this barn for some time until he was able to build a house. Our homestead was the southeast quarter section 25, T 7 N, R 12 W, I.M. This was three miles south and four miles west of the town of Ft. Cobb. Our post office was at Neola, which was five miles southwest. We children often walked to Neola to get the mail.
School District #31, South Pioneer, covered a lot of territory because there was so much Indian land in the area which could not be taxed to help support schools. This large district forced some of the children to come long distances to school. I started to South Pioneer School in the fall of 1902, and I remember the following as some of my school mates:Ruth Harriman, Mont Churchill, Ralph Calvin, Cliff Harriman, Alton Churchill, Russell Calvin, Edgar Harriman, Gladys Combest, Vance Calvin, Gussie Ratliff, Elmer Combest, Melvin Bell, Elza Ratliff, Wytte Wilson, Arch Bell, Ralph Ratliff, Anna Wilson, Phocion Bell, Inez Ratliff, Martha Wilson, Marvin Bell, Martha Ratliff, Alice Wilson, Phronia Bell, Frank Ratliff, John Wilson, Blain Hall, Anna Ratliff, Oscar Wilson, Pearl Hall, Marion Wilson, Ernest Wilson, Fern Hall, Jsff Wil son, Maggie Wilson, Madge Hall and Ronald Calvin
I can remember the terrible cyclone of May 1905 which destroyed the town of Snyder, Oklahoma and came across the South Pioneer community doing but little damage, as it was about blown out by that time. We found pictures and other small articles on our farm which had been carried by this tornado for more than 50 miles. Some of the pictures were identified as having belonged to people in the town of Snyder.
I recall some of the teachers at South Pioneer School. Among them the first teacher, Clyde Davis. Others were: Miss Davis, Elsie Crellian, Pearl Scribbins, Sara Carson, Mattie Warford, W. T. Hughes, Miss Marshall, Roberta Roddy, Pearl Hall, Marietta Ball, Ocie Cowley, Ruth Meek, Theola Bergdorf, Marjorie Rackley, Emma Churchill, and Martha Ratliff.
Dr. Hariman, on whose homestead South Pioneer was located, was the community doctor for many years. I married Elzie Ratliff in Anadarko, in 1912. We farmed until 1920 at which time Mr. Ratliff took a job as rural mail carrier., He retired from this position in 1959.
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Discussion in 'Fan Art' started by Reverend, Dec 10, 2007.
I can't believe I actually followed that link.
Great work Reverend.
Quick update.
I think this version looks better.
I likes... I likes... :thumbsup:
Oooo. Gimme.
Prius-class Shuttlecraft Development Project for starters. http://www.willieyee.com/ZHPhotoIndex.html
I would be willing to Photochop some images to take out the background for you.
Uh...not sure how to break this to you, but that's a car with stickers on it.
Uh. . .not sure how to break this to you, but a lot of fun has been had with this vehicle.
Great. Crack on.
That is really cute and funny, you need to wire up some high powered laser pointers to your fog lights for a nice phaser effect on misty evenings!
The anti-grav generators look pretty good under those conditions - blue glow underneath the vehicle. Use of phasers not permitted while on Terra.
Would look cool though. I have seen some pretty powerful consumer lasers lately.
First effort
I have tried to come up with my own logo patch. My first draft is here http://www.willieyee.info/PCS%20devel%20patch.jpg .
If someone could upload it here I would appreciate it. I would like some feedback on the design - the overlay of the lettering on the picture is a bit busy to me. Can it be fixed by color or intensity changes, or should the whole design be re-thought?
Re: First effort
Looks good to me but try and make it where the car is still on the Patch but not behind the Text kinda makes the text hard to read
Star Ship Class patch
This is a logo/patch I did some time ago for the project that developed the original StarShip-Class, better known today as the Constitution-Class:
Re: Star Ship Class patch
Here is a second try: http://www.willieyee.info/PCDPPv3.jpg
Re: Star Ship Class patch
Much Better :thumbsup:
If at first you don't succeed
Here are four different concepts for this design.
All comments are welcome. Any reasons to prefer one over the other?
Re: If at first you don't succeed
Well the 4th is my fav becuase of the Starfield Backround
just change the letters on it to Red or Dark blue then that way the letters arent lost in the stars
Here's a quickie.
Very very tastefully done, Reverend.
Nice Logo and i see a AKIRA anime Movie reference
Wouldn't be the first time.
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AUSTIN — Desalination, the method of removing salt and impurities from seawater or groundwater, should play a critical role in meeting the future water needs of Texas, a legislative panel was told Monday.
"Desalination is a huge issue for Texas, and we need to do it," Steve Lyons, meteorologist in charge at the Weather Forecast Office in San Angelo, told the members of the Joint Interim Committee to Study Water Desalination.
"Municipal water demands are expected to rise by more than 70 percent by the year 2060," said Lyons, who is also an adjunct professor of tropical and marine weather at Texas A&M University.
"There is no way our current climate will support that kind of demand," Lyons stressed. "Your average amount of rainfall is not going to work."
However, one key question Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa asked went largely unanswered during the afternoon-long hearing: What will be the cost of desalinated water to ratepayers?
"We need to compare the cost of desal to the actual cost of water now," Hinojosa, D-McAllen, told a panel of Texas Water Development Board officials testifying before the committee consisting of seven House members and five senators.
"How does that compare so that we have a better picture?" he asked.
Gregorio Flores III, vice president of public affairs at the San Antonio Water System, said in an interview after he testified that in the Alamo City, which is building a desalination plant, the estimated cost of desalinating 1,000 gallons of water is $3.49.
This is a cost that would be passed on to the ratepayers, said Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio.
Since the average Texas family consumes 6,500 gallons a month, this would mean an increase of $21.68 a month in a typical water bill.
That would certainly not be anything out of the ordinary, said Larson, a leading water expert in the Legislature. Moreover, it would be cheaper than transporting water, particularly from faraway areas.
"That costs a heck of a lot more than if they had brackish water in close proximity," Larson said.
Hinojosa said in an interview knowing how much the cost of desalinating brackish water is is critical, particularly in the next few weeks when the joint committee holds public hearings through the state.
"The public doesn't know or doesn't care about how much water is in an acre-foot," he said in reference to the most common measurement of groundwater and surface water. An acre-foot is 325,051 gallons, or an acre of land covered by water 1 foot deep.
"All they want to know is, 'How much will my bill be?' " Hinojosa said. "Those are the questions we need answers for."
In all, Larson and Hinojosa said, the public discussion of desalination got off to a good start.
Beginning in Corpus Christi next week, the panel will hold a series of public hearings throughout the state, including a possible stop in West Texas.
"I am very optimistic that this will be a viable option for us to meet our future water needs," Hinojosa said. "We have seen that it has been successful in other countries like Israel, Brazil and the Middle East. … Sometimes it takes a drought like the one we are going through that pushes you to take action."
Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, who was in Austin for another committee hearing, said he is glad the joint desalination panel is holding public hearings throughout the state.
"Our water needs are high and our demand for water will continue to increase," said Price, joint author of an omnibus water bill the Legislature passed in last year's session.
"We have to continue being aggressive in developing technologies that will meet those demands in the future," Price said. "As a state, we have an obligation to make sure that we turn over every rock and explore every idea, and this technology is proven; it has worked not only in other areas of our country but all over the world."
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Installed LILO (from Slackware) in MBR, Debian no longer takes input
Short because nobody likes a life story:
I'm attempting to dual-boot Debian (Squeeze) and Slackware (13.37), so installed Slackware today, overwriting GRUB with LILO.
Long story short, booting into Debian now leaves me stranded at the (Gnome?) login GUI, without a responsive mouse or keyboard. Both devices work fine on Slackware (with XFCE).
I am able to mount the Debian partition in Slack, so that's that.
Obviously that's not going to be enough information, but I don't really know exactly what to provide - I'm well and truly up the creek here.
Thanks for any assistance,
Probably Debian included another configurations in the grub-config, such as kernel flags and modules.
I would suggest you to use grub instead of LILO for this case because of Debian. Slackware will
work fine with whatever you use.
Boot arguments. Of course.
Upon closer inspection of the scrolling boot text, it seems to complain about a "uinput" module or something similar not being loaded. There might be something else, I'm not totally sure.
You've given me an idea, though, knivel - Unfortunatley it seems like it'll be more than a little bit difficult to restore GRUB from within Slackware, but given that all of GRUB's configuration data is still on Debian's partition, is there something I could tweak slightly to allow chainloading GRUB from LILO?
I would chroot into Debian from Slackware and install Debians grub on the MBR with;
grub-install /dev/sdx
And that'd be the end of it, but I'm getting an error:
root@pvtjoker:/# grub-install /dev/sda
EDIT: After a little more coffee and a little more Google, I stumbled upon this:
user@tacos# mount --bind /dev /mnt/new/dev
Thanks for the help guys, at the very least it's been a rather educating experience.
The problem is that debian can't find /dev because it's only running in a chrooted environment. Have a look at this. I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure how it will work, but to make it a bit clearer, this is what I'd do (from Slackware):
mount /dev/your_debian_partition your_debian_mount_point
EDIT: Didn't see your edit when I posted. Good you got it working.
Os-prober is provided with the current grub which runs it as long as /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober is enabled.
I would be checking in your Debian installs /boot/grub/device.map. Sounds like it may have a problem. If that is there and correct you should not get that error.
I run many installs per drive and am all the time switching from one to the other for my grub on the MBR. This is usually done in a chroot environment as I don't visit those installs except to experiment with whatever I have each of them designated for.
Grub I play with a lot, and like to know that each installs grub works in case I really "improve" one to the point it no longer works.
try this entry in your /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo
If you still want to try lilo ...
Do you have multiple hard disks ?
I have and I'm experiencing the fact that Slackware recognizes my disk with multiple Linux partitions as /dev/sda while the same disk in Debian or Arch will be /dev/sdb ...
I too experienced the problem where Debian would start + hang without a working mouse / keyboard / anything...
I was just stranded on the login screen.
After a while I figured out how Debian somehow booted while using the Slackware kernel. (things were getting mixed up because of the sda / sdb difference)
Maybe you're experiencing the same problem. If I remember correctly I solved this by using root = "UUID ........" instead of referring to the /dev/sda in lilo.conf
You can find the UUID by running this command :
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Cedartown High School wrestler Jonas Ritter is having to show some patience.
After qualifying for the Class AAAA state tournament, Ritter was geared up to compete this past weekend for the state crown at the Arena at Gwinnett Center. But the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) postponed the tournament because of inclement weather.
So now Ritter, who placed fourth in state last year in the 160 pound weight class, is having to wait until this weekend to wrestle.
The GHSA announced that by moving the tournament back a week, they could no longer use the Arena at Gwinnett Center. Now the GHSA says the Class AAAA state tournament will be held Friday and Saturday at West Laurens High School.
Ritter will be participating in the 170 pound weight class this year at state. He qualified at state by placing third at the Class AAAA West Sectionals.
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Residential property investment in Gisborne delivers returns 300 percent above bank deposit rates
The unassuming provincial city of Gisborne is vying for the title of New Zealand's hottest residential property investment destination – with a three bedroom 'renter' in the city selling this month to an out-of-town investor for a return of almost 15 percent.
Real estate agency Bayleys this month sold the ex-State house in the city for $71,000 to an investor from Nelson. The three-bedroom/one-bathroom property on a 673 square metre section rents out for $200 a week, and has been occupied by the same tenant continuously for the past 10 years.
Bayleys Gisborne manager Karen Raureti said: "On those figures, the property generates an annual return of 14.6 percent – that's more than three times the current 12-month deposit rates with the big banks, where you're lucky to get 4.5 percent interest."
"This latest sale is far from an anomaly though. We've seen a lot of 10 percent-plus rental yields coming through for residential investment stock selling over the past year," she added.
"Our Nelson buyer noted that a 14.6 percent return was certainly far better than anything they could find in their own city – and is certainly way ahead of anything in the Wellington and Auckland markets where other Gisborne investors have been assessing values."
Rental yields are found by taking the weekly rental return of a property, multiplying that by the 52 weeks in a year, dividing that total by the purchase price of the property, and multiplying that by 100 to give a percentage.
Earlier this year, ANZ bank produced a research report spotlighting what it had identified as New Zealand's 'hottest' residential investment locations and suburbs.
Top of the ANZ's location list – with a rental return of 8.3 percent was the Dunedin suburb of Forbury, closely followed by South Dunedin with a yield of 8.2 percent. At the bottom of the investment scale is the Auckland coastal suburb of Castor Bay delivering a miserly 2.7 percent return from rents, closely followed by the adjacent suburb of Devonport where investors could expect rental returns of 2.8 percent.
Ms Raureti said there was a big pool of 'Gisborne 'locals' who had been investing in residential real estate in the city for almost a generation, and who were receiving double-digit returns far better than those identified in the ANZ report.
"Among that pool is a considerable percentage of Gisborne ex-pats who now live elsewhere in New Zealand, but still retain an affiliation with the region through family connections. For those ex-pats in the bigger centres, they simply can't find the returns where they are living compared to what they can source in Gizzie, so they buy somewhere they know," she said.
"While the capital gains seen in Gisborne may not be as spectacular as those recorded in the bigger cities such as Auckland and Christchurch, our rental returns certainly exceed anything they are producing – so it's 'one up' for us little guys down here," she added.
Ms Raureti said residential property investors had a markedly different psyche to owner-occupiers who bought homes to live in.
"A property investor calculates a property's worth with a calculator. It's a very cold and clinical process which looks at the 'rentability' of home – how much they can get per week in rent, and who will rent it.
"At the other end of the spectrum, owner-occupiers fall in love with their dream home and make their value assessment with the heart. By having those two vastly-different dynamics at play when a house goes up for sale, you can effectively capture the potential buyer market on behalf of your vendor," Ms Raureti said.


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Lovely—if I don't rate it at the tippy top, it's because I try to rate my teas in such a way as to make it easier to know which ones to buy again, so my favorite gets 100, and the next 99 and so on. Of the Oolongs I've tried, the only ones I liked as much or more were Sweet Silk, Big Red Robe—and my favorite tea of any I've tried—Oriental Beauty. Rare Orchid I'd definitely order again. It's honeyed, silky smooth and fruity, but in subtle very drinkable ways that aren't overwhelming. That's just with the first steeping, I haven't had a chance to try others—but it's wonderful right from the top.
I'd agree with the description of TeaSource's site that it's "sweet, smooth" although I don't detect the citrusy or spicy note. In fact, my major complaint with the green teas I ordered this time (their House Green and Double Yunnan Needle as well as this one) is that they don't seem to me to have much personality. In that sense any of the three might make good introductions to green tea—they're not too grassy, they're drinkable, and they're … inoffensive. But none impressed or would have me ordering them again. I like this one slightly more than the other two, but not as much as several other green teas I've tried from TeaSource.
The description on TeaSource calls it "herbaceous" and "smooth." It's mild and not grassy. My aunt calls it "watery" (and no this didn't have more water or less tea than usual) but this is a very light tea and to me doesn't have much personality—not one I'd order again given I prefer several other green teas from TeaSource.
I had a very different impression of this tea than that in the other tasting note. I don't taste the vegetal/broccoli note—which for me is a good thing. I did find it astringent, even bitter, and I steeped it at a lower temperature than the other reviewer, at 160 F, the low end of what was recommended, rather than 190, which is the temperature more for an oolong or Darjeeling. But really, a higher temperature and longer steeping time should make it more bitter, not less. It's drinkable, and my aunt liked it, but among the several green teas I've tried from TeaSource, thjs is no favorite and not one I'd order again. Among their unflavored Green Teas I prefer Houjicha, Iccha Kariban , Clouds and Mist and Pi Lo Chun Imperial.
We did enjoy this tea, but I feel mixed about recommending it, since we didn't love it, prefer other Darjeelings, and don't intend to order this again. But that might be more about my tastes and my aunt who I share the teas with than this tea itself. Our favorite tea is a Darjeeling, but it's a Summer flush. This is a spring flush, and definitely on the oolong rather than black side of Darjeeling: light, rather flowery, fruity, honeyed, mellow, but with a bit of astringency compared to most oolongs.
Described as having notes of pumpkin and cocoa. It looks like the name—golden curls, and steeps up fairly light for a black tea, a golden brown. It's a rather mellow tea. I don't find it reminiscent of cocoa. I don't find this earthy. But a spicy pumpkin-like note is there I think. My aunt liked this tea even more than the Yunan Tian Hong we enjoyed yesterday.
It smells earthy with chocolate notes—and I can taste some of that too. I wouldn't call it earthy in taste mind you—but the chocolate-like taste is there, a creaminess and sweetness. It's a very mellow and very enjoyable tea. A bit reminiscent of a Hunan Black I've liked, otherwise not really comparable to blacks I've had before.
Flavors: Chocolate, Cocoa, Cream
It's a mild, green tea, very mellow and slightly sweet, not vegetal or grassy, but somehow not a winner for me or my aunt in the Green Tea sweepstakes or distinguishing itself above the Green teas we've discovered we like most so far: Pi Lo Chun, Clouds & Mist, Iccha Kariban and Hojicha.
Longevity Oolong – Description on label: "This baked Ti Kwan Yin style oolong has been preserved and rebaked for each of the last four years. This produces a leaf that is almost coal-black and the steeped cup is dark, toasty, very smooth, and slightly fruity and sweet." My aunt disliked it—said it tasted "smoky." I liked it somewhat better—to me it tasted almost caramely—but I wasn't so enamored of this I'd order it again over such favorites as Big Red Robe or Sweet Silk Oolong.
It's described on the package as "complex, silky, sweet, and slightly grassy cup of tea." It's one of the "Ten Famous Chinese Teas." I didn't find it very grassy at all, and I did find it slightly sweet—but also very, very mild. Enjoyable, but not distinguishing itself enough I could see myself ordering it again.


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It's the weekend, the Padres are in town, the sun should be back, so what will you be doing?
Here are some of my top picks. Please share what you'll be doing in the comments below:
Fiesta Old Town Cinco de Mayo Festival
Even though Cinco de Mayo is more of an American holiday than a Mexican one, you'll still find a big celebration this weekend complete with mariachis, ballet folklorico and even a soccer game.
The 29th annual festival, which is one of Old Town's most popular events, will have a Corona beer garden, a lowrider show, Latin rock bands, handcrafted jewelry and gifts, and a kids area.
And if you really want to know what you're celebrating, it's not actually Mexico's independence day (which is Sept. 16), but a celebration of the Battle of Puebla.
Details: 5 to 10 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Throughout Old Town. Free. (619) 291-4903 or fiestaoldtown.com
See here for additional Cinco de Mayo events.
Club i-D
Back in the 1980s, the era of Michael Jackson and Madonna, there weren't many places in San Diego where the cool kids could dance to Echo and the Bunnymen and Bauhaus.
Then came Club i-D, a roving dance party that featured a mix of New Wave, goth and industrial music where people, including a young Eddie Vedder, could get their emotional dance on.
And it returns! Club i-D is having a reunion Saturday, welcoming back original partygoers and opening its doors to '80s-loving hipsters born too late to appreciate the decade the first time around.
Details: 9 p.m. Saturday. Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. $10 and $15. (619) 283-3608.
Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager
Television and podcast personality Adam Carolla isn't coming to town this weekend to be funny.
Instead, he'll be joined by conservative commentator Dennis Prager to discuss topics including the afterlife, welfare, politics and parenting. There will be time for audience members to ask any questions they want — no topic is off-limits.
Details: 8 p.m. Saturday. Spreckels Theatre, 121 Broadway, downtown. $30 and $45 plus fees. (800) 745-3000 or ticketmaster.com
Ramona Bluegrass & Old West Fest
It's all Bluegrass music all weekend at this two-day festival in Ramona.
You'll hear music by Bluegrass Etc., Lonesome Otis, Chris Clark & Plow, Tom Hiatt and many more. The family-friendly event will also have cowboy poetry, chicken bingo and games for kids.
And if you really want to get the Old West feeling, you can also camp for an additional fee.
Details: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. 421 Aqua Lane, Ramona. $5 to $15, children under age 6 are free; ramonabluegrassfest.com.
Free Comic Book Day
Before the characters in "The Avengers" were movie stars, they lived as illustrated superheroes in comic books.
So it's fitting that the film's opening weekend coincides with Free Comic Book Day. Every year on the first Saturday in May, participating comic shops give away free books, have meet and greets and other special events.
Some participating stores include Comickaze Comics and Southern California Comics in Clairemont, Artifex Entertainment Inc. in Mira Mesa and Rising Sun Creations in Mission Valley. For a complete list of participating stores see freecomicbookday.com