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MONTREAL — Not so fast.
On Monday morning, activists pushing for more West Island trains said Transport Minister Robert Poëti told them Quebec would pump $80 million into the Vaudreuil-Hudson line to add four to six more departures per day within two years.
At his own news conference later, Poëti first referred to that cash injection to buy new train equipment as an Agence métropolitaine de transport "proposal," then said he is committed to spending the money to boost Vaudreuil-Hudson service.
But at the AMT, a spokesperson said the authority has no timeline for the purchase of new train cars — and even if they are delivered, they would not be for Vaudreuil-Hudson, which links off-island communities, the West Island and downtown.
The extra cars the AMT wants to buy would be for the Deux-Montagnes line to replace cars that will soon have to be refurbished, as well as for the planned addition of extra departures on the St-Jérôme line, said AMT spokesperson Claudia Martin.
In addition, more departures can't be added to Vaudreuil-Hudson until upgrades are completed on the line's infrastructure. It's unclear when that work will be completed.
In 2012, the AMT announced major upgrades to the line, saying it might add six extra departures in 2014. Then, in 2013, it said the earliest service could be boosted was 2015. Now, it's not even venturing a timeline.
Adding to the confusion: the AMT issued a public tender for 23 new train cars in December but cancelled the order. The purchase — cost about $89 million — is still listed in the AMT's 2014-2016 spending wish list.
By the end of day Monday, the AMT was refusing to answer follow-up questions about its plans, referring queries to Poëti's office.
During the spring election campaign, Premier Philippe Couillard promised that improvements to West Island transit would be a priority for his government.
On Monday, the Train de l'Ouest Coalition, headed by former MNA Clifford Lincoln, met Poëti to press him to follow through on a previous Liberal government's pledge to significantly boost service on Vaudreuil-Hudson.
In 2011, Quebec launched studies on how it could increase train frequency on Vaudreuil-Hudson to 86 weekday trains, up from the current, mostly rush-hour 27.
After the meeting, Lincoln said that, as a first step, Poëti "has put $80 million right away into improving our service. It'll mean buying new equipment, which takes time — 18 months to two years." He said two to three trains per direction would be added.
Poëti told the coalition he would look into its suggestion that the AMT buy used equipment to increase service more quickly, Lincoln said.
At a news conference later about the Ville-Marie Expressway, Poëti was asked about West Island trains.
He said the AMT will present some information to him about longer-term West Island transit improvements by the end of the summer. Studies on a long-term solution are due at the end of 2015, though Poëti said he wants the AMT to work faster.
Maria Tutino, mayor of Baie d'Urfé and Train de l'Ouest Coalition member, said Poëti told the group that a rapid link between the West Island and downtown "will be on track" before the end of the current Liberal mandate, in four or five years.
"We are just as skeptical about promises as you are — I used to be in politics so I know what it's like," Lincoln told reporters.
"The difference here is that the premier has committed himself before and during the election, and has written to us after the election."
The coalition "has the feeling that the message has been heard. Everybody else has the métro and public transit that works and (the West Island is) left out" Lincoln said.
After years of study, the AMT is still mulling several scenarios.
A committee that includes the AMT, the airport authority, CN and CP has come up with four wildly different options to boost transit between the West Island and downtown. They range from improving current bus and train service to an elaborate light-rail transit system linking the Fairview Pointe-Claire mall, Trudeau Airport in Dorval and downtown.
Price range for the scenarios: $1.8 billion to $3.9 billion.
Lincoln said Quebec should opt for major improvements to Vaudreuil-Hudson, which currently shares tracks with freight trains.
Boosting the existing train line could remove 3,500 to 4,000 cars from Highways 20 and 40, which will become even more congested as work on the new Turcot Interchange ramps up, he noted.
"The trains are going to be a fantastic mitigation point. That's the best way of transporting a lot of people at the same time — far more than buses or anything else."
He said an LRT — the option favoured by the airport authority — is too expensive. Lincoln suggested the airport could be connected to downtown via Vaudreuil-Hudson trains, which travel through Dorval, close to the airport.
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Pakistan is one amazing country. It has enough scientific knowledge and technical know how to build atomic bomb and ballistic missiles. At the same time, however, 51 million Pakistanis have no access to essential medicine. 46 million adults cannot read and write.
One response to our amazingly weak, yet strong, nation is to blame colonialism and criticize one or the other government.
On the other hand there are thousands of Pakistanis and hundreds of organizations who have decided not to give up on improving life in Pakistan. Instead of waiting for some government to do something, they work on changing things by themselves. "Allah does not change the state of people unless they change what is within themselves" Quran 13:11. These are the Pakistanis who are responsible for the privatization of education in Pakistan.
We decided to come up with 55 ideas, which any one of us in America can adopt to serve Pakistan in our individual capacity. It will be a small step, but still a step in the right direction.
1. Celebrate next August 14 with your family
2. Produce a Pakistani better than yourself
3. Buy a buffalo for someone
4. Adopt a public school
5. Translate health information into Urdu
6. Start sponsoring a village in Pakistan
7. Develop a dialog with an Imam
8. Fight tobacco in Pakistan
9. Celebrate Pakistan Day
10. Start sponsoring a Baithak school in Pakistan
11. Help form a PTA in a Pakistani school
12. Plant trees in Pakistan
13. Correct wrong maps about Pakistan and Kashmir
14. Organize project clean up Pakistan
15. Sponsor an intern in the US government
16. Fight pollution in Pakistan
17. Revive the Pakistan Students' Association
18. Challenge ethnic jokes and stereotyping
19. Develop a children's play for Pakistan
20. Give a gift subscription to a Pakistani library
21. Invest in a Pakistani business
22. How your wedding can help Pakistan
23. Teach Pak-americans how to challenge discrimination
24. Welcome new Pakistani immigrants
25. Put Urdu literature on cassette for the blind and elderly
26. Initiate a media watch group
27. Create a "Pakistan reading room" in your community
28. Make your city a sister city to your hometown in Pakistan
29. Organize an essay contest for Pak-American youth
30. Establish a Pak-American speaker's bureau
31. Auction off artwork and donate the proceeds
32. Set aside a portion of your budget for Pakistan
33. Produce a calendar for Pakistan
34. Submit something about Pakistan to a writing contest
35. Talk to your children about tolerance
36. Promote the positive about Pakistan on message boards
37. Interview the "average" Pakistani person
38. Organize an Iqbal night
39. Make an Urdu room in your home
40. Organize a video discussion about Pakistan
41. Build a rural health clinic
42. Start up a discussion group about women in Pakistan
43. Produce a project about Pakistan for your class
44. Establish a Pak-American youth award in your community
45. Start a Pak-American TV program in your city
46. Record "Sound prints of life in Pakistan"
47. Be Pakistani, buy Pakistani
48. Keep your clanin Pakistan briefed about Muslims in America
49. Organize an open house about Pakistan
50. Pay back to Pakistan
51. Publish a book
52. Patronize a sports team
53. Start up a website about some aspect of Pakistan
54. Establish a fund named after your mother
55. Build a dam
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Ed graduated from Herington High School in 1952. After attending Ottawa University for two years, Ed joined the U.S. Air Force in 1954.
He married Carol Krispense on Dec. 27, 1958. Having graduated from Friends University in 1971, Ed worked as an accountant for Beechcraft until 1987. He was honorably discharged from the Air Force and later joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve, faithfully serving his country until his retirement in 1993.
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SAN JOSE — A man was stabbed to death in a group brawl that erupted downtown early Tuesday just footsteps away from Plaza de César Chávez park and the Tech Museum of Innovation, marking the city's second killing in less than 12 hours, authorities said.
The stabbing occurred about 2:15 a.m. when a witness reported a group of five to six people were beating a man near Market Street and Park Avenue, according to the San Jose Police Department.
Officers arrived to find a gravely injured victim with stab wounds, who was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. His identity was not immediately released pending notification of his relatives.
Because of the high-profile location in the heart of downtown San Jose, investigators are expected to cull surveillance video from nearby businesses, police spokesman Officer Albert Morales said.
"Like in any homicide case, we will conduct a thorough and complete investigation," Morales said.
No suspects have been identified, but police are interviewing someone who appears to have witnessed the violence, which left few traces behind beyond a backpack left lying on the ground. Citing the witness account, police were unusually quick to rule out the likelihood of gang motives when they first announced the homicide early Tuesday.
It appears that the victim and a group of people may have been drinking in the park before the attack, police said. Their connections to the area were not immediately clear.
The crime scene prompted the morning closure of Market Street while investigators examined evidence. By 8 a.m. Tuesday, the streets were reopened, though Plaza de César Chávez remained cordoned off.
The slaying marked the city's 22nd homicide of 2014 — there were 29 at this point last year — and the fourth recorded downtown, all of them stabbings. One of those cases was later deemed by the District Attorney's Office to be an instance of self-defense.
It also came on the heels of a deadly shooting reported about 3:40 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of Gramercy Place in East San Jose after a man was found suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He died at the hospital, and police canvassed the area for suspects, to no avail. The shooting occurred in one of the city's known "hot spots" for gang violence, but a motive has not been announced.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Kid's Craft: Rainbow Sneakers
My little "E" marches to the beat of her own drummer.
Can you see those faint brown rectangles
on the toe fabric of her shoes?
They appeared the first day she wore her new
white sneakers to school.
There must have been a sticker on them
at some point,
and the adhesive didn't show up until
the first time she wore them
out on the playground at school.
She was really upset
and crying when she got home from school.
She's also a sensitive little bird.
The kids at school are really into some
new rubber-band bracelet trend.
Must-have "Rubberbands" are the hottest trend?
Her sneakers were "too boring"
Too white.
She didn't have rubberband bracelets.
I told her we could fix that.
I said we should start our own new trend.
We got out our sharpies,
and got to work
adding some rainbow-riffic color
to her shoes.
No more stained toes.
No more boring shoes.
Best of all,
no more tears.
Just smiles.
Now, she wants to
tie-dye the shoelaces!
That's my girl.
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SIOUX FALLS - It wasn't exactly the way people visiting Sioux Falls from out of state should be treated.
Police say four teenagers from Nebraska reported being the victims of road rage in the city on Friday evening.
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"The suspect was tailgating the whole way. They said he was so close they weren't able see his headlights as they were driving," said Clemens.
At one point on Madison Street, Clemens says the driver in the suspect vehicle pulled out an axe and waved it at the teens a couple of times.
The teens from Nebraska, three 18-year-olds and a 17-year-old, were able to separate themselves from the other driver on I-29 and he exited at 41st Street.
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On behalf of all of the interested Disney Infinity Fans we asked some questions.
What is your real name?
Kevin Berry (Ohio, USA)
What is the origin story of your Toy Box submission username?
Sticking with my last named, I made BerryBomber, as bombers were my favorite unit in many of my games (and it has a good flow!). I am still with BerryBomber today. My Toy Box name is Kevin B.
What made you decide to buy Disney Infinity?
As the Disney Infinity trailers rolled out in Summer 2013, I couldn't help but to slowly become a hype machine for the game. Just the idea of creating Disney worlds itself had me sold. At first I was like, "This is pretty cool, but I'm just gonna get the figures I like". Well that didn't happen. Come launch I bought everything the game had to offer because a store had 50% all play sets and triple figure packs! I had more content than I knew what to do with.
What is your favorite play set and why?
My favorite play set has to be The Lone Ranger. I've played it several times through. It plays so well! But why I like this set so much is its artistic values. The day and night cycle running over the canyons is breathtaking, and the music is incredible. I find myself just riding around, looking at the views and enjoying the tunes sometimes.
Who is your favorite Disney Infinity character and why?
My favorite character is Jack Skellington, simply because he's from my favorite Disney movie currently in the game. (If only there were more NBC content...) Considering I love to sing along, I love to listen to NBC music. I will often have the jukebox playing NBC in my Toy Boxes while I build, as it features all the songs in the movie! (Except Kidnap the Sandy Claws...) Once in the Toy box however, I love to use the Lone Ranger characters. Their combat ability's are top notch!
Which character would you like to see included that hasn't already been and why?
I have always wanted to see Sally and Oogie Boogie figures, as I always thought the use of limbs and bugs would add some pretty diverse gameplay to the Toy Box! Imagine a button is in a unreachable place, but Sally can throw her arm to go and press it! The puzzles we could create could be so dimensional! Id also love to see Robin Hood, as he is one of my favorite Disney characters ever.
What is your favorite power disc and why?
I love to use the Pizza Planet Truck and the Muppet Electric Mayhem bus, as its just so cool to ride around to some rockin' tunes!
When you hear of a new challenge, what steps do you take to make your idea for a Toy Box a reality?
I always try to brainstorm a little, then just hop straight in and build something, anything at all. I always want to recreate a scene from a movie or place. If I cannot figure out a way to add some gameplay to it, I will usually go ahead and finish it up, then try again. Although I don't have time to participate in every challenge, I try to attempt a 2nd world just focusing on movie/place elements and theme it around a challenge, be it battle, collection, platforming, or racing.
What do you consider to be your specialty when building Toy Boxes?
My specialty had to be creating smooth natural environments. I use terrain a lot, and I am incredibly OCD. I always try to fit cliffs and other terrain pieces perfectly together, to give it the cleanest and most realistically natural feel. I like my environments around my challenges to be complementing to the story I try to tell.
What is your favorite Toy Box that you have built?
My favorite Toy Box I built has to be my recreation of Disneyland's The Haunted Mansion, which I submitted twice during the Disney Parks challenges. It is my favorite attraction. It just gives you incredible feelings! Although my mom's (Berrys.lovedisney) toy box was featured in the first Disney Parks challenge (Fantasy Land). My Haunted Mansion toy box was not able to place during the 2nd challenge. Probably because there's no real challenge in it, it's just a ride.
What is your favorite Toy Box that someone else has built?
This is something really hard to choose, because there are truly so many good ones! Even through its from Disney, my favorite land has to be the Tron Highway. Its fantastically laid out, and has great gameplay to it. I also like Disney's Big Thunder Mountain. For actual challenge toy boxes, my favorites had to top off with Tron City Race by Dadi and North Hole Mini Golf by PapaEcho. These 2 worlds look absolutely fantastic. I can tell a lot of love was put into these!
Your Christmas Town toy box inspired by the Nightmare Before Christmas was selected as a featured toy box in the North Pole Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Christmas Town toy box.
Christmas Town was made solely over the idea of the teleporting tree. I wanted the player to be teleported to Christmas Town, just as Jack was in the movie, and since "What's This?" is the second song of the NBS sky, it works out perfectly! I watched clips of Christmas Town over and over, trying to pick out key details. Obviously Jack walks around a Merry-Go Round, so that was a must. As for the town itself, I used the castle Tower base several times. As much as I wanted to make all the buildings Gingerbread blocks, the space and interior design just didn't feel right to me. In the scene, we also see jack slide down a strand of Christmas lights to smell pies, so I made rail systems to represent lights hanging from the town. Santa's workshop came naturally after that, and then came the Christmas train that ran along the cliffs. Not a few pieces in, I knew a race using track pieces would make it so much cooler! The race itself is completely custom-inspired a fun ride though a Winter Wonderland!
What are some of your classic Toy Boxes that have not been a featured top 5 Toy Box?
After practicing when I first bought the game, I made Fantasy Meadows, a race track recreation from Kirby Air Ride. You can see it here: http://youtu.be/FgomR1ocM2o .This was when I was getting comfortable with the Toy Box, so its pretty simple. I have a lot of other Toy Boxes, which most don't have a challenge to fit into, but I was just having fun building. I also made The Valley of Fire from the N64 Gauntlet: Legacy game, the race from Sugar Rush, a Colby Race, Paris from the Aristocats, and many other creations.
Your Tung Shao Pass toy box inspired by Mulan was selected as a featured toy box in the Princess Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Tung Shao Pass toy box.
I had watched Mulan recently before the Princess challenge. I knew my favorite Princess movie has to be used for my Princess Challenge toy box creation. Just about anyone who has seen Mulan remembers the Huns stampeding down the Mountain, so I knew that would make for some amazing gameplay! The world starts at a base camp, I originally had planned for you to walk though the destroyed town in the Tung Shao Pass, where General Li Shang finds the helmet of his father. I used Lone Ranger buildings, and then I destroyed them. Unfortunately, destroyed buildings so not stay destroyed when reloaded, so I wibble the idea. I wanted to make the player feel like they were marching along just like the Chinese, So I made the valleys huge and long to traverse. As we all know, Mushu accidently alerts the Huns of their presence by firing a firework, and arrows rain down upon them! To make this work, I had to make a section small enough for Hun Archers (the King's guards) to notice and attack you and your allies. This section was originally supposed to be blocked off until you found the button that clears the gate the Huns set up, but the Replayer broke before I noticed it and submitted it. Next came the great mountain battle! I knew snowballs perched on a high cliff activated by explosives was the right way to trigger this up. I wanted the player close enough to the action, but far away enough to feel like hitting the target took great aim, just like Far Mulan, so the slingshot does the trick. I was running out of time to finish and submit this, so I forgot to add a trigger that removes all the enemy and allied soldiers, so many people move on leaving people behind and wondering why more enemies are not spawning. Finally came the Chinese Palace, I couldn't make too extravagant, but I mainly just wanted to ensure that the Player felt that they were traveling along the same path of Mulan. The town is celebrating, but the emperor is still in danger! After you reach the balcony, I have Maccus represent Shan-Yu as a boss battle, and pressing the button signals your victory!
What is your dream Toy Box challenge?
I would love to build a world in a challenge for Robin Hood! There's so many good scenes possible to recreate, the only problem is what scene to do! The possibilities here would be truly endless to me haha.
Do you place any hidden features in your winning Toy Boxes?
None too extravagant, but in Christmas town you can find elves (usually walking into walls or plants), and in Tung Shao Pass, you can find Shan-Yu's falcon flying around in some places, spying on your movements!
Your Blizzard Run toy box was selected as a featured toy box in the Frozen 2 Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Blizzard Run toy box.
Snowflakes was actually an idea my mom had, so I took her idea and made it into the Toy Box I have now. Using the camera angles, I wanted to take the idea of snowflakes and make it into a platforming game. I tried to use a little of everything the Toy Box had to offer, with every snowflake being a different challenge. From puzzles, guessing, and battling. My favorite flake is the two-sided vertical flake with the grid puzzle. I knew the last flake had to be something awesome, so I after using the intersection piece representing blizzard winds, I made a long path with a buggy, jumping into a ring of fire though a snowflake! Awesome! Haha.
Your Steamboat Willie toy box was selected as a featured toy box in the Toontown Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Steamboat Willie toy box.
What I took from the Toontown challenge was the key words "Fab Five". Me being 19, I can only think of the old school Mickey episodes, but I figured the best path this challenge was to go to the roots of the fab five... and Disney for that matter, Steamboat Willie! Building the toybox involved lots of pausing and viewing still images of the original video, studying all the details that went into the boat and the land. I knew it could only be black and white, so I used the Frankenweenie discs. I sized the boat based on the radius of 2 river lanes next to each other and rounding them off. The rest off the terrain was custom made but inspired by the different backgrounds in the film. As for the gameplay, I originally concepted perhaps defending Minnie on board from enemies, but it dident feel true. A big focus was the instrumental animals in the film, so critters came to mind, and using the only major plot section not on the boat, of the loading dock, my land was created. But collecting alone wouldent be very fun, so I also added the enemy spawner to mix it up so you have to defend the critters on your voyage return. Not only that, but since it was a Mickey challenge, I just really wanted to honor Walt in some sort of way. He is an idol to me for many reasons, so its more of a win to him than it is to me!
Your Cavendish Heist toy box was selected as a featured toy box in the Wild West Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Cavendish Heist toy box.
I was one of those people who thought The Lone Ranger accomplished what it needed to: to be a cowboy movie. Despite the critics, I had fun watching it. Anyway, the whole idea of "He who controls the tracks, controls the west" was my inspiration. And who else better than Cavendish and his men to challenge the Rangers for self profit! This train had a little of everything: Caboose, Storage, Livestock, water, lumber, cargo, 1st class, passenger, coal, and the engine. With so much loot, this train is prime target for looting! I really wanted to give this train that feeling of truly being overrun with enemies, and you will need your best combat skills to stay alive! Besides designing each car, this toy box is actually pretty simple. If you cross the bridge and hit the button, you can get a full view of the train!
Share a story of adversity from when you were building one of your Toy Boxes that you had to overcome.
Memory has always been my worst enemy in the toy box. Constantly I wish I could finish in these last few details! It is so close to being perfect! But alas, the memory becomes too full. Although this has not been an issue for any of my featured toy boxes, I still watch what my final plans are as I reach the memory limit, which prevents some of my ends not as good as I wanted them to.
Share a funny story from when you were building one of your Toy Boxes.
Whenever I play with someone else, (mostly my mom), I like to be annoying. Its the inner kid in me looking to have some dumb fun! I like to take the Ship set piece, and slowly move over what player 2 is doing or building, obstructing them and ill be like "Pardon me, just sailing though!"
Do you have any advice for aspiring Toy Box Artists?
Do what YOU like to do. Every Toy Box you create can be magical, tell stories with them and show the world your creativity! Whatever you create will be awesome in one way or another, so never give up! Brainstorm and build to your hearts desire! Have others play through your lands, get feedback. Try to see where you can help the player through your story. Also, creativitoys are your friends! Use them!


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Philadelphia is blowing up NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Contest and it's amazing
For those of you who don't know about NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, you may want to head over to their site and root through their enormous and equally impressive archive. Their 15-minute videos feature live performances from artists of all genres held in the quaint offices of NPR at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk.
Ranging from big names like Adele and Alt-J to up-and-coming artists such as Angel Olsen and Rubblebucket, viewers are able to watch the artists perform in the intimate setting, giving the performances a stripped-down, no B.S. vibe. While these videos are ultra fun to watch (perhaps continuously, one after another…), NPR kept things interesting this winter by kicking off a contest to feature a new artist in their series.
Based entirely off of video submissions from all over the United States, an artist will be chosen to perform a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR headquarters in Washington D.C. as well as snag a slot in the big Lagunitas Couchtrippin' showcase in Austin, Texas. Philadelphia, brimming with the amazing musical talent that it is, seems to have jumped at this opportunity. Continue reading →


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Broward High Schools
Tyler Huntley fuels Hallandale past Coconut Creek
Hallandale safety John Battle says he and his Chargers teammates have the same goal every week.
"We want to hit 70," said Battle, a 6-2, 180-pound senior committed to LSU since late June.
The Chargers didn't score 70 points Thursday night at Coconut Creek. They didn't put up a 50-spot either — something they did in their first four victories.
But Hallandale (5-0, 2-0 in District 15-6A) came close, using a 25-point outburst late in the first half to produce a 46-13 victory over the Cougars (2-3, 0-2) despite turning the ball over five times and being penalized for 145 yards.
"For us to be spoken about with the elite teams in Dade and Broward County, we've got to clean up those mistakes," said coach Dameon Jones, whose team is averaging 52.8 points a game, more than any other team in South Florida.
"The penalties — some of them have been phantom and some of them we have to work on. But I'm proud of our kids. We just got to keep fighting. We're young."
Hallandale sophomore quarterback Tyler Huntley, who battled his way through a decent freshman season (90 of 190 for 1,305 yards, 12 TDs ,11 INTs), once again lit up the scoreboard. He opened the game with a 49-yard touchdown pass to junior Richie Cooper on the very first play and finished 5-of-13 passing for 209 yards and four touchdowns.
Cooper caught two of those TD passes and sophomore Nshaka Neru (5-11, 170) caught the other two, scoring on 44- and 62-yard pass plays.
Through five games Huntley is 45 of 71 passing for 982 yards, 19 touchdowns and only two interceptions.
"Being able to play as a freshman and then this year, everything has slowed down for him," Jones said.
"I've been planning a good start since the off-season," Huntley said. "I'm ready to throw more. Sometimes we stay after practice to work on our timing with the receivers. I just try to be efficient, make sure our guys are running the right routes. No mistakes."
Despite the hot start, the score was tied at 7 with under five minutes to play in the first half when a few Cougars mistakes helped open the flood gates.
Coconut Creek punter Alain Blair bobbled a snap and Hallandale linebacker scooped it up and returned it 26 yards for a scored. Leading 13-7, Hallandale got the ball right back and scored easily when the Cougars lined up without a cornerback to cover Neru. He caught the ball in the flat and raced to the end zone untouched.
The half closed with Battle catching a deflected pass at his own 10-yard line and racing 90 yards downfield for a touchdown as time expired in the first half.
"That's how it's been every week. We come out flat and then the doggone switch comes on and it's boom," Jones said. "Being young I'm trying to get to the point where we just come out with that boom from the start."


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Is it really seven years since I first went to Skipnorth , the friendliest of weekends for yarn addicts? I've had to miss the last 2 or 3, but this year I managed to bag the relevant weekend off work. After my recent wobbly phase I jolly nearly decided not to go but I'm so glad that I did. Everyone there (nearly 30 of us, I think) is a joy to knit/spin with and this year the fabulous programme included a steam train ride in our very own compartment.
Woo Sheeps (back left in the picture below). After a knitting, eating, eating and knitting interlude the grand p/hop stash swap began. ( P/hop, or pennies per hour of pleasure, raises funds for Medecins Sans Frontiers). I offloaded a pack of 10 balls of coca brown linen DK (one of those purchases that seem sensible at the time, but which later strike you as foolish) and emerged with 2 balls of lime green linen blend DK, which I'm much more likely to use (bottom right in the picture).
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After a good night's sleep (and the option of another workshop) it was off to Texere yarns in Bradford, for a hefty dose of yarn fumes. I tried to restrain myself but acquired Mohair for a scarf (front left), a cone of green sparkly stuff (since both green and sparkly are irresistible), some cotton chenille for dyeing experiments and that glorious orange marled fine linen thread that you see top left, simply because it glows with beauty. From Texere we went on to a mill outlet in Keighley and thence by the afore-mentioned train back to Haworth. I decided to walk back uphill to the hostel and, flush with my success at hill walking, decided to go ahead with my putative plan to breakawy from the main group on Sunday morning, preferring the idea of a nice rural ramble and a posh Sunday linchto yet more yarny temptation at Wingham Woolworks. Ah, Hubris:
Sunday morning started out so well. There'd been a light dusting of snow overnight but it had melted on all but the highest tops and the sun was shining. The downhill/uphill/up-an-even-steeper-hill routine of getting into the centre of Haworth was now second nature and I decided to head further up, up, up, up
up above the snowline, then steeply down for a walk by the River Wharfe. The air had that sharply-cold feelgood feel and was alive with the sounds of curlew and cattle, beautiful, horned Highland cattle. My walk leaflet described this section as a "tedious uphill trudge", so I decided to do the walk in reverse. I soon arrived at the tiny old bridge which marked the start of the riverside section:
Just before I got there I passed a solitary magpie and, ever-superstitious, took the trouble to salute him, to ensure that no bad luck came my way. I crossed the road-bridge and started my walk. The path looked incredibly muddy, so much so that I almost turned back. But I could see a dogwalker in the distance and there were plenty of footprints to confirm recent use of the path. I edged round the mud whenever I could, which sometimes entailed heading quite a way up the steep side of the valley. At one point my left shoe was partially sucked off by mud and my sock got rather grubby but I was enjoying the gurgling of the river and the sheer joy of motion and decided to press on. Even discovering that parts of the path were completely underwater, with no alternative, didn't fuss me: for I am fearless in my trusty, Goretex-lined Brasher shoes.
|Yes, these really are the footpath!
But maybe, after that mud-sucking incident, I should have paused and tightened the laces ... (I've been quite lazy of late, and some nights I have extracted my feet from the shoes without untying the laces.) Once through the mini-stream section of the path the going became easier, albeit muddier. Suddenly: squuuuelch, my right shoe had come off completely.. I decided the best thing to do would be to put my bag down safely, then move to firmer ground and thence retrieve the shoe. But as I went, squuuuelch, and the left shoe was off, too. Fearless I may be, but my feet were getting cold! Gingerly, and as flat-footedly as possible (all the better to spread my weight evenly, exerting as little pressure as I could) I found an even-firmer spot, then tussled with my shoes, taking great care not to fall forwards into the mud. It felt like an age bit, within three minutes my shoes were in my hands and, sock-clad, feeling ennervated yet exhilarated, I went back to a nearby stone stile. Since the feet of the socks were now positively mud-and-water-soaked I decided they'd probably cause blisters, so I took them off, and used their dry legs to warm and dry my feet. Fellow-knitters: if you ever need a tough sock yarn,
|Mine aren't quite so bright now, despite several spins in the washing machine...
At this point I decided to cut my losses and headed back along the way I'd come (at least the wet section rinsed my shoes). This meant, of course, that I would have to do the "tedious uphill trudge" after all, but -- guess what-- it flew past because I'd remembered that there was a branch of Edinburgh Woollen Mill at the top of the hill, with the promise of warm, dry, clean socks. (£7 for 3 pairs. Not a patch on hand-knitted, but needs must). As I sped up the hill it crossed my mind that I finally knew what it feels like to be (literally) bogged down and that the surprisingly simple solution is just to step out of your shoes, then rethink. But this isn't Thought for the Day, so back to the trek. Next stop, the ladies loos that I'd spotted earlier for a spot of shoe cleaning and, yes, trouser tackling. Here I thanked my lucky stars that I had a base-layer (aka long johns) and a long, dress-type sweater on. Off came the trews for a major hosing down under the taps. Mud splattered itself all over the clean walls of the spotless loos. (Haworth Museum car park. Highly recommended for all calls of nature and mudlarking). I cleaned up the basin, walls and floor, then proceeded to dry the trews under the hand-dryer. More mud blew onto the walls, more cleaning-up ensued. At this stage a very smartly-dressed lady came in (I assumed she'd just been to church) and did her best not to laugh. Instead, she checked which route I'd taken and said that she'd make sure to avoid that one. I think she saw my bewildered look as she went on to explain that her boots were in the car. After that I had to rethink my lunch plan. How could I go anywhere posh? I still had mud on my cag, mud on my bag, mud on my trews, mud on my shoes. But my trousers were back on and aw, what the heck, the lure of the smoked haddock with risotto and poached egg that I'd spotted on a restaurant black board earlier was just too much. Tentatively, I asked the waitress if she served muddy customers. No problem! And what a scrumptious meal it was. Finally it was time to bid Haworth farewell and to head back to the hostel for more shoe-and-sock rinsing, followed by restorative knitting before my fellow SkipNorthers returned.
What an adventure! Now I'm back in the flatlands. I think I left a part of my heart behind in Haworth. How, oh how, I would love to work here:
The heart may be missing a tiny piece, but I still have my shoes. And the moral of this story is never slip your shoes off without untying them as you never quite now when and how they'll be pulled off!


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We've practically had to fight off the descending hoards of rabid Quarriors fans this week in anticipation the new expansion.
Well, we're still alive and Quarmageddon is here. This new add-on expansion for the base game offers not only 40 original dice which power 6 new creatures, a new immunity ability, and 2 new spells, but an entirely new set of rules to be applied to the game. And if Quarriors is an insane made up word to you, because, one, it is, and, two, you've never played the game, it's deck building with dice combined with a fair amount of snark.
Bandai takes the skills it acquired developing their hit Resident Evil Deck Building Game and apply them to another popular gaming franchise, Uncharted. In the Uncharted card/board game players take on the role of characters from throughout the three existing Uncharted games. While collecting and battling against various action, treasure, and enemy cards, players acquire victory points, eventually leading to a winner. Borrowing elements from the Resident Evil games, Uncharted spins them in a fresh way, recreating the feel of the video games.
It's that time again, the time when Dungeons & Dragons adds a new edition to their vast mansion of tiled dungeons. This time around Wizards presents them in a stunning Urban Underdark hue, coming with six sheets of flooring material for to add a layer of cozy, dank creepiness to your next campaign.
What game through yonder RPG breaks? Or something like that.
The works of The Bard (that's Shakespeare to you uncouth individuals) have been applied to a witty, brilliant new Indy storytelling game called The Play's the Thing. Similar to Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple and Fiasco, The Play's the Thing revolves around a playwright/actor structure where one gamer takes on the role of the playwright, assigning roles and constructing the story. Each actor (Hams, Leads, Villains, and Ingenues) suggest and act out alterations to the story as they play through, often altering classic tales for the wackier.
Queen Games keeps their streak of inventive strategy games going with Edo. Set in the Japan landscape of 1603 to 1868. Each player takes on the role of a Daimyo, building houses and castles, trading goods, and increasing their reputation to the Shogun. Beautifully laid out and designed, Edo should find a good home next to your copies of Samarkand and Fresco.
Bad guys have all the fun. Luckily, you can get in on all the Hobbit murdering shenanigans of Sauron's Nazgul in the new Lord of the Rings: Nazgul Heroclix game. Taking on the role of the hooded riders, players build allegiances, strategize, and, ultimately, keep the One Ring from falling into the pits of Mount Doom. And, if you own the previously released LotR Heroclix, you can incorporate them into the game.


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Friday, July 06, 2007
Geeky Bird
17 comments:
- claudine hellmuth said...
he's so cute with his lil glasses
- July 6, 2007 at 1:30 PM
- Tina Vaziri said...
He looks like a little know it all! Love it!
- July 6, 2007 at 1:35 PM
- Breadwig said...
If only my birds had a brain. Like your birds.
- July 7, 2007 at 1:44 AM
- Michelle Lana said...
HI Jim...thanks for stopping by! Hehee....of course I love your birdie geek :) So cute, looooove the thick black glasses :)
- July 7, 2007 at 11:01 AM
- steve said...
wow jim, this is great!! love your style a lot!
- July 7, 2007 at 11:44 AM
- Cat Scott said...
yes, we should set up a play date for your geeky bird and my geeky fish. Non-conformists need to stick together!
- July 7, 2007 at 12:35 PM
- jim bradshaw said...
Thanks Claudine, Tina, Michelle and Steve.
Bryan: Kinda gives the expression, bird brain a new sense of respect, huh?
Cat: Birdie wants to but he is afraid of you because of your first name. I'll work on it.
- July 7, 2007 at 4:35 PM
- imwithsully said...
I really like the square bird at the top. He looks like he is running in mid-air... funny! They have such character in the smirks on their faces.
- July 8, 2007 at 6:53 PM
- Tracy said...
Cute illustration! :)
- July 8, 2007 at 9:34 PM
- Bruna Brito said...
He sure looks very smart! The square bird on top of him is the cherry on the cake! great birdie!!! b.
- July 9, 2007 at 1:18 PM
- jim bradshaw said...
IWS, Tracy, Bruna: thanks a heap for the comments.
- July 9, 2007 at 3:23 PM
- merryminnow said...
I love your work!!!
Thanks for your comment on SFG.
- July 9, 2007 at 10:17 PM
- alix said...
great illustration!!
it's very funnny!! :)
- July 10, 2007 at 3:50 PM
- mel said...
love your style! your birds should get together with my geekzilla sometimes :)
- July 11, 2007 at 4:42 PM
- Pickledog said...
You have me there.. my birds aren't very smart at all. They just look into the mirror all day and peck things.
Your bird such a fancy yellow colour too. Is he one of those super smart banana birds that I've read about in science digests?
- July 11, 2007 at 9:08 PM
- jim bradshaw said...
merrymino, alix - thank you so much
mel - as long as your geekzilla never forgets his geekness and tries to chomp my birdies
pdog - if he's a banana bird I haven't been informed. Although he is a lot smarter than me and likes to keep certain info to his level of intelligence.
- July 12, 2007 at 8:15 AM
- Louise said...
that is the funnist looking bird i have seen in quite sometime. i actually laughed out loud when i saw it.
- August 18, 2007 at 3:05 PM


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Receivables Manager will initiate standard notification and collection procedures
beginning on the date the payment terms failed to be met. If normal collection efforts
fail to recover the amounts owed, the total outstanding debt will be considered for writeoff and third party collections," the new policy says. "Extenuating circumstances that would warrant a modified payment plan agreement beyond the terms of the initial agreement may be authorized only following a notice to and concurrence of the City Council."
Council member Donna Schantz said she would not vote in favor of the new policy because she was concerned that it gave all the power of extending debt payments to the city manager and that the provision could be used as a political tool.
Others supported the policy as a good will gesture.
"This way we help someone who comes on their own volition" that needs help paying a city debt, council member Chris Moulton said during discussions on the matter. "The intent is not to become a financial lending institution."
When Schantz questioned as to how he planned to notify the public of the new policy, Hozey said he did not plan to advertise or publicize it.
"We'd be financing everyone's debt that way," he said.
The need for a formal policy was spotlighted after auditors hired by city council found council member Karen Ables, who happened to have been a member of the council's audit committee at the time, had signed a late payment plan contract with the city after businesses she owns got behind in lease and catering fees owed to the city. To compound matters, Ables had also fell behind with the payment schedule contract she had with the city.
Ables resigned from the committee though no wrong-doing was alleged on the part of Ables or Hozey. However, a number of council members were uncomfortable with the situation after the city's finance department moved to write-off the debt when it was deemed uncollectible, along with three others.
Council delayed the write off pending the passage of a formal extended payment policy.
Ables paid off the outstanding debt and as did a second debtor named in list of writeoffs presented to council in late June. Monday night, council voted to write off airport lease payment debts of $7,180 owed by Grant Aviation and $1,222 owed by Darrow Emmett for small boat harbor services.
In accordance with standard municipal accounting standards, the debts will be turned over to a third-party collection agency for further action. Any back payments collected by the agency will returned to city coffers, less 35 percent.


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CCSAI: Transforming the Future
We're the student association at a college in Toronto, Canada. We coordinate a few projects, one of the them is Transforming the Future which allows people from the college community to submit ideas for non-academic related capital projects.
Students through teachers, staff and administration will look at this Web site and use it. We aim to be professional but not feel to institutional. The sister Web site is http://greenfee.ccsai.ca.
The original concept for this was a blurred out background (where the sky is on the greenfee site) of a nice courtyard, Illustrator style and where the grass is, a branch that has the three stages of a caterpillar changing into a butterfly (caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly).
We'd like something to match the style of the greenfee site in terms of style. Clearly illustrated but not realistic looking (but not too cartoony). We want a cute and beautiful caterpillar turning into a butterfly, nothing that would look gross.
We'll need the .ai files at the end of this project.
Too cartoony: http://www.crestock.com/images/1450…305-xs.jpg
Too gross: http://inkart.net/animals/images/la…pillar.jpg
This would be okay:
To be clear, we're just looking for the background image and the image that stays at the bottom of the screen (the sky and the grass on the greenfee site).


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IAPAC Conveys Sign-On Letter to G8 Leaders: Battle Against HIV/AIDS Requires Swift and Comprehensive International Response
Chicago, Johannesburg, Geneva, Paris -- The annual Summit of G8 leaders presents a unique opportunity for the world's wealthiest nations to achieve consensus around key health, trade, environmental, and other socio-economic policies and priorities that have a bearing upon the development and well-being of populations in every corner of the world. With a view to demonstrating the priority that HIV/AIDS and associated issues of sustainable development have for communities and organizations across the globe, the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) today conveyed to all G8 leaders a sign-on letter urging them to place HIV and international development at the fore of discussion at this year's G8 Summit from June 1 to 3, in Evian, France.
The letter, conveyed on behalf of 42 organizations from 22 countries, expresses a collective appeal for swift response from all global leaders in addressing the confounding factors of disease, global debt, poverty, social inequity, and economic debilitation which currently shape the environment in which HIV/AIDS thrives. Delivered to the heads of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union, the underlying message is clear and simple: "That we have harnessed the marvels of modern science, set foot into the cosmos, and designed treatments or cures for serious afflictions, enabling us to preserve and enhance human life, yet at the same time are variably unable or unwilling to put this knowledge and passion in service of those in greatest need worldwide, points to our greatest collective failure."
With particular regard to the fight against HIV/AIDS disease, the 42 organizations conveying the above message hope to ensure that HIV/AIDS is understood not only as a global threat that requires adequate support through vehicles such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, but one that cannot be effectively halted unless individuals, communities, and nations crippled by the disease are unleashed from international debt and balances of global trade which hinder efforts at sustainable health and human development. The letter, and list of supporting organizations may be seen by clicking here.


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Big Scoop owners still plan to reopen restaurant
Staff writer
Big Scoop owner Rusty Stenseng said the plan for the restaurant is still the same — rebuild and reopen.
The owners are waiting for their insurance — United Fire and Casualty — to make a ruling on their claim after a fire on March 3. Stenseng said demolition of the building is necessary with the fire, water, or smoke damaging every item in the interior of the restaurant.
Stenseng is waiting for the insurance contractors for repairs, heating and air, and electricity to make cost estimates. He thought he would hear from the insurance company last week.
Both the Kansas Fire Marshal's Office and United Fire and Casualty investigator ruled the fire an accident on March 3. Spontaneous combustion was cited as the cause of the fire at the time.
"I know the community is wondering," Stenseng said. "This should be one of our busiest times. We should be selling tons of ice cream right now."


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(this message is originally written in English. please check her official site)
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at 11:17 AM
I wish to express my condolences for the loss of countless people due to the massive earthquake and tsunami.
And my heard bleeds for the people who have lost their loved ones, the place to return, spending their days worrying.
Among the areas heavily damaged this time, Iwate is my mother's birthplace and Miyagi is where my grand mother rests in peace. I thought what I could do now and made a blood contribution as well as donation to the suffered area through Japanese Red Cross Society.
I think there are many people who are making donations as well as other types of contributions feeling the same as I do, not only across Japan but also from abroad. We will overcome the difficulties together, remembering the spirit of mutual aid and love, even after the coverage of the disaster eventually fades away on TV.
I feel there is something every single of us should learn and notice from this situation.
It is the fact that our convenient life which we take for granted, is built on a very fragile system; that we are greatly dependent on electric power especially on nuclear electric power, and a certain local areas bear the large part of the burden and risk of it.
We could reduce waste together, if we realize that food and supplies, energy and resouces, our lives, all these are not something we "take for granted" but we are "gratefully given," as well as change our mindset from "use as available" to "use as needed," being aware of what is wasteful. The world with less waste, might be the world with less sorrow.
I hope the hurt of all the afflicted people's mind and body will be eased and smiles return back on their face as soon as possible.
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The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies
Knopf, 1981 - Nature - 916 pages
Butterflies are among the natural world's most colorful and intriguing creatures, so what could be more useful than a handy field guide with more than 1,000 photographs of all the butterflies of North America north of Mexico, including all true butterflies, the most common skippers, and many migrants and strays. The color plates are visually arranged by shape and color, and thumb-tab silhouettes provide a convenient index to identification of butterflies in the field. The species account for each butterfly provides measurements, descriptions of each stage of the life cycle, and information on coloring or distinguishing markings, flight period, habitat, and range.
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|Malvern, Pa.
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AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN IN 2013: Played in 12 games this season…recorded three goals, three assists, and six steals.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2012: Redshirted the season.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2011 graduate of Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, Pa. … active on water polo and swim team … coached by Jay Schiller … team finished with a 26-9 record and placed second in the league … finished 6th in Eastern's … named MVP in 2010, All-League twice, and All-State … recorded 122 goals and 60 assists senior year.
PREP SCHOOL: Attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass. … team finished with a 14-5 record … won New England Prep School Championships … named Team MVP, League MVP, and NISCA All-American … recorded 82 goals and 45 assists.
CLUB: Member of the Princeton Tigers Aquatics Club.
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I've been saying that the only way to stop the patriarchal madness that is killing our world is to get naked. Diane Wilson and the women of Code Pink decided to give it a whirl in Houston to protest BP's ecocidal corporate commodifying of our planet. Here is Medea Benjamin's report:
So Diane put out a call for people to join her in Houston on Monday, May 24, to protest at the BP headquarters. Looking for a creative way to expose the company's criminal behavior (and entice the media, who rarely cover protests in Texas), Diane was inspired by the example of a group of women from Nigeria who took over a Chevron oil rig and threatened to strip naked if the company didn't hire more local workers and invest in the community. Faced with just the threat of nudity, Chevron gave in.
"If the Nigerian women could use their bodies on the Niger Delta, why can't we do it in downtown Houston?" Diane reasoned.
Diane doesn't take nudity lightly. She didn't grow up in a hippie commune, but in a fundamentalist Pentecostal family in rural Texas. "I was taught that flesh is sinful, it's the devil. I was so modest that if my sister said the word 'bra', I would climb under the table. I was horrified by anything intimate. So for me, using nudity to expose the truth about BP was WAY outside my comfort zone. But I realized that it's the destruction of our ecosystem by corporate greed that's obscene, not a woman's body."
To prepare for the action, Diane got 100 pounds of fish from her fishing buddies, old fishing nets to drag the dead fish and fake oil to dump on them. She and one of her daughters made beautiful signs saying "Expose BP" and "The Naked Truth about Drill, Baby, Drill" and put them on big sandwich boards. "You could say we was cheatin' because we decided to use sandwich boards to cover our private parts, but that's about as nude as those of us from Texas can get," laughed Diane. "We'll leave the full-on nudity to the women from California."
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The flip side is the likely fast depreciation.
I suspect that this will be the case with more VWs than just the eGolf. If you are lucky, it will happen at least partly on the lot, before you buy the car.
The flip side is the likely fast depreciation.
DarthPuppy wrote:I think the present price point is viable thanks to incentives. The ICE Golf starts at $20k. The e-Golf starts at $29k. With the federal and California incentives, the e-Golf can be had for a net $19k. And then you have all of the savings of not having to buy gas, do oil changes, longer lasting brakes, etc. And my commute would benefit greatly from HOV access if that is still available.
The flip side is the likely fast depreciation. But that only really bites you if you sell it or it gets into an accident and the insurance sticks you with a small check. Granted, one could reasonably expect an ICE Golf to run 10-20 years and go 200k+ miles. So we aren't apples-apples. In theory, the e-golf should be able to do that too, just with replacing the batteries, which is probably less than the gas, oil changes, etc. accumulate to by the time the battery needs to be changed. However, as noted elsewhere on this forum, people are reluctant to invest in batteries for a number of reasons.
The above of course assumes VW doesn't jack the price up on the 2017.
http://insideevs.com/volkswagen-says-te ... sive-aims/Volkswagen Feels Tesla Model 3 Will Be Too Expensive – Aims For Mid $20,000, 300-Mile Electric Golf
At the upcoming Paris Motor Show, Volkswagen claims that it will reveal a prototype of a long-range electric car that will eventually be sold for approximately the price of a conventional, gas-powered Golf. . . .
According to VW, the planned electric car will have a 300-mile range (likely NEDC, so more like 200ish miles in the real world/EPA) and it will be able to charge in 15 minutes or so. The car will reportedly be Golf-based, which likely means that it'll ride on the same MEB platform as the next-generation Golf, but the similarities may end there. . . .
The company is saying that the on-sale target date for this e-Golf is 2025. . . .
2017 Volkswagen e-Golf: 124 miles of range, more motor power, LA Auto Show debut
LeftieBiker wrote:I'll bet it still doesn't have a heated steering wheel.


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SARASOTA, Fla. -- Baltimore Orioles infielder Wilson Betemit estimates he'll be out for six-to-eight weeks because of a tear in his right knee.
Betemit was hurt Monday while running the bases in an exhibition game and had an MRI. He was diagnosed with a tear of the posterior cruciate ligament.
Betemit said Tuesday that he's glad he won't need surgery.
The 31-year-old Betemit hit .261 with 12 home runs and 40 RBIs last season with Baltimore. He played third base, first base and the outfield, and also was a designated hitter.
Betemit has played for Atlanta, the Dodgers, the Yankees, the White Sox, Kansas City and Detroit.


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Cologne, August 29, 2006. QSC AG today announced its report on the second quarter of 2006. There were no material deviations from the preliminary... Read more
QSC-TELE2 joint venture Plusnet to commence operations as scheduled on September 1
Cologne, August 23, 2006. The German Federal Cartel Office has approved the establishment of the joint-venture network operating company owned by QSC... Read more
QSC sees sharp boost in EBITDA during second quarter of 2006
EBITDA surges by 156 percent to € 4.1 million Gross profit advances by 59 percent to € 19.5 million Business with large accounts grows by 31... Read more
QSC has won freenet as a further ADSL2+ wholesale partner
Cologne/Hamburg, August 9, 2006. QSC will become the preferred infrastructure supplier for unbundled ADSL2+ connections for freenet AG. From autumn... Read more
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2007-2008 - In cross-country, competed at Heps and NCAA Regionals...missed indoor track with a broken foot, but recovered to compete at Heps and ECACs outdoors...2006-2007 - Competed at the NCAA Regional Cross-country Championships...Indoors, qualified for ECACs in the mile, and ran a personal-best time of 4:58.53 there...Ran a split of 2:13 on the 4x800m relay that got second-place at indoor Heps, running the fastest time by a Yale team in 20 years (8:54)...Outdoors, competed at both Heps and ECACs, and ran on the team that competed against Oxford and Cambridge in England over the summer...2005-2006 - Ran in the Bulldogs' top five at Heps and the NCAA Regional Championships in cross-country...Competed at Heps and ECACs both indoors and outdoors...Ran a personal-best 4:38.05 in the 1500m at outdoor Heps...High School - Two-time runner-up at the Maryland State Cross-Country Meet...Cross-country captain of the team that won the State Championships and qualified for Nike Team Nationals...On the track, was the indoor 3200 3A State Champion and outdoor 1600m 3A State Champion.


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Bur oak, also spelled burr oak, also called mossy-cup oak, (Quercus macrocarpa), North American timber tree belonging to the white oak group of the genus Quercus in the beech family (Fagaceae), distributed primarily throughout the central United States. Often 25 metres (80 feet) tall, the tree may reach 50 metres. Its leaves, about 25 centimetres (10 inches) long, are dark green and shiny above, dull and whitish beneath; the wide upper half of each leaf is separated from the narrow lower part by two deep sinuses. Bur oak is also called mossy-cup oak for its heavily fringed acorn cups. It has become a popular ornamental and shade tree in urban areas because of its resistance to insect and fungal attack, drought, and air pollution. Previously common in oak savannas and prairies, the tree is well adapted to fire with its corky, fire-resistant bark.
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The saga of Windows 8 continues this week with a gloomy outlook for traditional PCs. An analyst has cut his estimate for Microsoft's growth in 2013, PCs are in trouble, customers want svelte, light pure tablets, and Microsoft has just announced how power hungry and expensive the Surface Pro tablet will be. How long can Microsoft keep a straight face?
The story of Windows 8 just gets weirder. First, Microsoft ignored what happened to Apple when it tried to push some iOS-ification agenda down the throats of its users. Windows 8, however, is fully ossified. As a result, we see that Windows 8 is "off to an awkward start."
Microsoft also shipped a Windows 8 tablet (well, maybe a notebook computer with a detachable keyboard) that doesn't run x86 Windows binaries. Huh?
Now, for an encore amidst the chaos, Microsoft has announced that the Surface Pro, the real Microsoft tablet that runs legacy Windows software, will be expensive and have half the battery life of the Surface RT. With 128 GB of storage and a keyboard, we're looking at over US$1,100. (Then you'll need to cough up more for MS Office.)
Here's what Warner Crocker just wrote about Microsoft's clueless marketing.
For those who say the price point makes sense because of USB ports and the ability to run x86 Legacy Apps, you are part of the problem. The mobile computing world is moving (has moved) far beyond that kind of thinking. We're not talking horse and buggy vs automobiles just yet, but we're damned close."
Henry Ford may not have uttered that wonderful quote, but still...
The source of this problem is the idea that Windows 8 has to do double duty as a desktop and mobile OS in order to preserve both the Windows legacy and MS Office. Here's what I said about that.
And now we're seeing the very first fallout from Microsoft's decisions. What do you do after you ship a tablet that no one wants? Ship an even more expensive version with a power hungry i5 CPU that cries out to be slaved to a desk and power adapter.
Cough. Horse and buggy indeed.
Tech News Debris
If you thought Crapware had been embarrassed out of existence in Windows 8, think again. Here's why based on some investigation with the PC Vendors. "Crapware Lives On Windows 8."
I know that there are a lot of satisfied Apple customers who use iCloud. I use it on a very, very limited basis, and it's been very helpful for syncing my calendars and contacts across Macs and iDevices. But, on a deeper level, one has to wonder what's going on when some users get into real trouble. It's one of those things where, when it works, it's great. But disasters are awesome and virtually unfixable. I'm not condemning here, just offering some food for thought. "Apple needs to learn how the Internet works before iCloud evaporates."
One reason I may be one of the lucky ones is that I've always used the exact same mac.com user name on every single device. Mr. Agreda speaks to that.
A trend we see today is that Apple's competitors have learned how to sell smartphones and tablets. That has Wall Street worried. Can Apple survive? Thrive? Or is Apple doomed?
It's too bad the analysts don't read Jonny Evans, one of my favorite tech columnists. Jonny actually thinks about what's going on and draws reasoned, insightful, experienced conclusions. This is must-reading: "Apple 2013: iPhone diversifies as Cupertino fights back."
Do you have a fear of losing your iPhone? How long can you go without checking on it? Or checking your messages? Are you concerned that an electronic wallet, in your smartphone, if lost, would be an even larger disaster? There's sooooo much to worry about. I have a feeling I'll be writing an article in 2013: what to do when your iWallet is gone, gone. Meanwhile, if you're in good spirits, check out, "Fears of losing your iPhone may only accelerate with iWallet."
Finally, with iTunes 11 now available, Jacqui Cheng has written a charming retrospective on "iTunes through the ages." Very nice.


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Riding the Wave
Pictured: Chris O'Donnell (Special Agent G. Callen). Following Callen's public shooting of the Chameleon on last season's finale cliffhanger, all is not well with the NCIS: LA team, as Callen is placed on suspension and Hetty adjusts to retired life, on the fourth season premiere of NCIS: LOS ANGELES. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Deputy Probate Commissioner S. Margene Burnett is now appointed as a circuit judge for the 16th District Circuit Court of Jackson County.
She replaces the recently retired Circuit Judge Ann Mesle. Gov. Jay Nixon announced the appointment on Wednesday.
"The judicial experience and skill that Commissioner Burnett has acquired over the past 10 years in Jackson County will serve her well in becoming a Circuit Judge," said Nixon. "And I am pleased to appoint her to this position."
Burnett's legal career began in 1987. From that year to 2003, she was involved in private practice; first as an assocate and later as a solo practitioner. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and her undergraduate degrees are from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
For the past 10 years, Burnett has served on the probate bench in Jackson County. In that position, she presided over cases that involved estate administration, mental health commitments, guardianships and conservatorships. She also was president of the Missouri Association of Probate & Associate Circuit Judges for 2011-2012.
Burnett has been extensively involved with Sheffield Place, a transitional living facility for homeless women and their children, and served in several leadership positions.
She was selected out of three applicants submitted to Nixon for consideration by the 16th Circuit Judicial Commission as per the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan.


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