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Taz and Mike Tenay are your announcers, their first TNA PPV together. They welcomed us to the PPV and immediately discussed how each Knockouts tandem made it to the finals of the Tag Team championship tournament.
TNA Knockouts Tag Team Tournament Final: The Beautiful People vs. Sarita & Taylor Wilde
Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky are The Beautiful People. Mike Tenay said Angelina Love was gone due to "business issues" and broke out the "best in her future endeavors" line. They treated it like it was perfect timing for Rayne to reunite with the BP on Impact this last Thursday.
Earl Hebner came out and threw Slick Johnson out of officiating the match since he was obviously biased. I liked that twist.
Sarita and Velvet started with Sky kicking out of several near pinfall attempts. Rayne broke up the last one. Wilde and Sarita nailed a double elbow. Sarita flipped Wilde backwards onto Sky for a two count. Sarita and Wilde tagged in and out, working over Rayne. Rayne avoided a kick and slammed Sarita to the mat, head first by grabbing her hair. The BP crossed Sarita's arms and slammed her back. Sky began working over Sarita, flipping her to the mat by her hair.
Sky used an inverted curb stomp on Sarita's face. Rayne tagged in and hit a swinging neckbreaker on Sarita. Sarita finally came back with a float-over DDT. Wilde made the hot tag and dropkicking Sky. Sarita dropkicked Rayne, allowing Wilde to hit a German suplex and score the pin.
Your winner and first TNA Knockouts Tag Team champions, Sarita & Taylor Wilde!
Decent opener but probably too short for a match designed to introduce new belts. There were a few moments where they had some slight miscues and that hurt the bout. They were trying to push Wilde and Sarita as the female version of the Rock N' Roll Express.
Tenay and Taz ran down the lineup for the rest of the card.
Lauren caught the new champs backstage. Wilde said that she knew they would win the belts. Sarita cut a promo saying she's had hundreds of tag team matches and that no one worked better with her more than Taylor. She then cut a quick promo in Spanish about being champs.
Jeremy Borash interviewed The World Elite and Eric Young. Young was in a suit, even though he was scheduled to wrestle next. They did a gimmick where Young wouldn't respond to Borash until Kiyoshi "translated." Young said that Hernandez knows what it's like to be an outsider and they cared about him. He promised Hernandez would join them tonight. Homicide said if Hernandez didn't join them, it would be his blood on his hands. Young said he wasn't dressed to wrestle because he wanted to prove to Hernandez he was there for him. He said if Hernandez raised his hands to him, he would take it to prove himself to Hernandez.
Hernandez vs. Eric Young
Young came out alone wearing his suit. An angry Hernandez came to the ring and forearmed Young. He clotheslined him, then shoulderblocked Young, who took a bump over the ropes to the floor. Hernandez tossed him back in the ring, then nailed a headbutt to the chest. He picked up Young and nailed the Border Toss, then pinned him. Total squash. Hernandez walked out, looking furious.
This was perfect for what it was designed to do - make Hernandez look like a pissed off monster while getting over Young's new character.
Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviewed Matt Morgan. Borash said it would be every man for himself tonight in the TNA championship bout. Morgan said tonight, the mystery was over and there were no more fun, games or head games. He promised unadulterated violence. Morgan said that with all due respect to Sting and AJ Styles, this was about him and Kurt Angle. He said they were both bred to compete and tonight, it was what the world was waiting to see - Morgan vs. Angle. He said that he can feel the burn in his hand from the torch he is going to rip out of Kurt Angle's hand. He promised the future is now. Good promo.
TNA X-Division champion Samoa Joe vs. Christopher Daniels
Some fans tried to start an "X-Division" chant early. Daniels opened up with dropkicks and chops early but they had no effect. Joe drilled him, then began working him over with punches in the corner. Daniels was put on the top for an attempted muscle buster but fought Joe off, then hit a rana off the top. Joe went to the floor, where Daniels hit a dive through the ropes on him.
Back in the ring, Daniels took Joe down and dropped a kneedrop across the back of the head. He attempted to get a pin but Joe kicked up at two. Daniels nailed Joe with several punches but was shoved off. Daniels returned and knocked Joe out of the corner. He came off the middle rope but was caught in mid-air with an uranage. Joe drills him with several knees for a two count.
They were comparing Samoa Joe to Bobby Lashley as a hybrid athlete since Joe has a MMA background as well. Joe locked in a nerve hold. Daniels battles to his feet and rebounds off the ropes but is caught with a powerslam for a two count. Fans began the back and forth chanting. Daniels returned to his feet and they traded chops and strikes. Daniels nailed Joe with a leg lariat off the ropes. He bulldogged Joe out of the corner, then hit an Alabama Jam off the top. Joe rolled out of the ring. Daniels hit an Arabian Press off the ropes onto Joe.
Daniels had a hard time getting Joe back into the ring, but it turned out to be Joe playing dead. He slammed Daniels into the ringpost and the ring steps. Daniels climbed up to the ring apron and Joe charged him and clipped Daniels' left knee from behind. Back in the ring, Joe grabbed Daniels and dropped him down knee-first. Taz called it a kneebuster and the announcers agreed they had never seen such a thing before. Daniels, who had one of his knees taped, began grabbing at the knee. Joe locked a leglock on Daniels' knee, but Daniels made it to the ropes.
Joe powerbombed Daniels for a two count. When Daniels kicked out, Joe used the momentum to turn him into a STF in the center of the ring. Joe then turned it into a Boston Crab. Daniels made it back to his feet. Joe nailed him with several kicks to the legs. Daniels caught him with a neckbreaker. Both men fought to their feet. Daniels caught him with a clothesline and a spinkick. Daniels charged Joe and ducked a kick. He went to the top and nailed a clothesline for a two count.
Daniels hit a codebreaker to Joe's face for a two count. Daniels went for a back suplex but Joe was too heavy. Joe caught Daniels hit a half-nelson Tazplex for a two count. Daniels came back with a STO and the Best Moonsault Ever. Daniels' knee hindered him and Joe nailed him with a kick. Joe went for a muscle buster but Daniels escaped and tried for Angel's wings. Daniels went for the Kokina Clutch but Joe locked in a Tazmission in the center of the ring. Daniels fought for the ropes but finally tapped out.
Your winner and still X-Division champ, Samoa Joe!
Real good match. This may have been the best Joe match in awhile and it was nice to see them given some time as he and Daniels have always worked well together. They told a nice story around Joe going after Daniels' knee. I liked the fact there was a clean finish as well. I'm hoping we'll see more of these two. It never gets old.
Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviewed Mick Foley. Foley was angry someone had smashed a picture of himself and Jeremy Borash. Borash said he can get another copy. Foley said that it was special and you can't just recreate it. He said it would be like taking a few Mick Foley mannerisms and acting like you are a new hardcore legend. That had to be a shot at Abyss. Foley said he would be looking into the person responsible (who I am going to predict was Foley himself) after he announces Abyss vs. Kevin Nash later.
The storyline is that due to fan outcry after Impact, they added the Falls Count Anywhere.
Lauren interviewed D'Angelo Dinero backstage. He tried to claim that as the Pope, TNA can't tell him what to do. He got all worked up, so he said he needed to re-energize. He took a sip of Stacker 2 energy drink (sponsor of the PPV) as Suicide snuck from behind and attacked him...
Suicide vs. D'Angelo Dinero - Falls Count Anywhere
The referee ran backstage. They were brawling outside the Soundstage. Dinero put Suicide on boxes used for production equipment, then hit an elbow off a higher position. Suicide made a come back and small packaged him on the ground for a two count. Suicide slammed his head into a vise outside. Dinero put Suicide in a chair and drilled him with a series of rights.
Dinero went for a headbutt but Suicide nailed him and backdropped him into a dumpster. He covered Dinero for a two count. Suicide dumped the dumpster over. They battled near a small crane. Dinero found a golfcart backstage and began driving it backwards. Suicide avoided it. Dinero charged him with it, but Suicide grabbed him and dragged him off. They continued to battle outside. Dinero tried to climb a fence and got de-pantsed with a full moon for the audience. Suicide pulled him down and covered him for a two. Taz said it was like calling a Ric Flair match.
Suicide dragged him around and put him on a wheeled cart, then splashed him. Suicide followed Dinero back into the Impact Zone. As Suicide followed, Dinero nailed him with a water bottle. He grabbed the timekeeper's bell and rang it over Suicide's head. He went to slam Suicide's head into the ring but it was blocked and Dinero was tossed into the ring.
Suicide nailed a springboard dropkick for a two count. Dinero went to the floor. Suicide hit a slingshot dive to the floor. Dinero made his way back to the ring as Suicide went for a table. Dinero went for a kick through the ropes but the table messed up the continuity. He then kicked the table and Suicide. Dinero set up the table near the entrance ramp. Dinero suplexed Suicide on the ramp for a two count. He dragged Suicide over towards the table and attempted a suplex. Suicide escaped and they battled to the stage. Suicide nailed him for a two count on the stage.
They continued to slug it out on the stage in front of one of the entrance. Dinero teased something but was nailed with a dropkick on the stage. Suicide went backstage and returned with another table. He set the table up. The battled and Suicide tried to nail a running Death Valley Driver on the table. Dinero escaped but was caught and Suicide nailed it on the stage. Suicide put Dinero facefirst on the table and scaled the entrance set, standing above the tunnel for an entranceway. He went for a legdrop but Dinero rolled off the table. Suicide crashed through and scored the pin.
Your winner, D'Angelo Dinero!
I wasn't a fan of this one at all. Watching this, all I could think of was all those hardcore matches in WCW and WWE that meant nothing in the long-run and how guys were doing dangerous things. The stuff with the car was indeed dangerous and added nothing to the bout. I didn't care for the leap off the entrance either, but at least you can say it was the finish. These guys took a lot of brutal bumps and did a lot of dangerous stuff, so I certainly hope it's not ignored tomorrow by TNA. It has to mean something and fans have to buy that its done to hurt someone, not be a stunt show. They both worked really, really hard and I give them credit for it, but if they were going to do such a bout, I wish they had at least built to it instead of adding it with twenty minutes' notice to the fans. We'll know based on how TNA promotes the aftermath of this bout. Kudos to the wrestlers, but I felt they were put in a bad situation.
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See this video for information on upgrading with Access 2010/13 lessons.So if you're looking to learn, for example, how to build a database in Microsoft Access, and you already know the basics of making tables and forms, you should be just fine with my intermediate (200-) and advanced (300-) Access courses.So here's how the FREE upgrades work:If you purchased any of my Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, or 2007 courses within the past calendar year, but BEFORE the 2010 version of that class was released, then you will qualify for a FREE upgrade to a 2010/13 lesson, when it's released, if it's not already available.So, for example, if you purchased Excel 101 (for 2003) less than a year before Excel 2010 Beginner 1 was released, you qualified for a FREE upgrade to when it was released. If you purchased Excel 102, you get a free upgrade to Excel 2010 Beginner 2, and so on. Access 101 upgrades to Access 2010 Beginner Level 1. Access 102 upgrades to Access 2010 Beginner Level 2, and so on. Once again, however, you need to purchase the lessons BEFORE the new ones are released. See below for the complete upgrade chart.If you want to know the estimated release order for a particular class, check my PRODUCTION SCHEDULE.Now, the new courses aren't numbered 101, 102, etc. anymore. They were too confusing. People were always trying to figure out what class to take next. So, I've changed it to: 100s = Beginner levels 1, 2, 3 200s = Expert levels 1, 2, 3 300s = Advanced & Developer levels (mixed)The Basic/Beginner series are roughly equivalent to the 100-series from the old lessons. Expert courses are roughly 200-series. The Advanced and Developer will be a mix of the 300-series (of which, there are only Microsoft Access classes, which will be divided up based on those WITH and those WITHOUT programming). The FREE upgrade ENDS when the new course is released. So, for example, if you purchase Word 101 right now, you don't qualify for the Word 2007 Basic 1 course because it's already released. But, if you order one of the more 300-level Access courses, you WILL qualify for the DEVELOPER-Level Access 2013 courses when they're released. If you have any questions about what's released, just ask me.The free upgrade is a DOWNLOAD copy. If you want it sent out to you on CD, you pay only shipping & handling. Also, I cannot guarantee that the new courses will stay strictly in line with the numbering on the OLD lessons. Word 2007 Basic 1, for example, doesn't cover exactly that Word 101 did. There is some new material, and some old material isn't covered - because of the changes in Office 2007 like the Ribbon and new menus. Access 2010/13 Beginner 1 and 2 are significantly different from the old Access 101 and 102.I DO NOT GUARANTEE that the material covered in a class is exactly the same as what's covered in the upgrade class that you get. 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"Women" means alien,android,robot,furry and basically any kind of humanoid female is allowed on this forum.
If you censor out a woman's private parts to make it teen friendly then an explicit picture can be allowed but if it is not done so then it can not be allowed.
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Arkansas High Performance Computing CenterThe Arkansas High Performance Computing Center was established by funding from Governor Mike Beebe through the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA) in 2008 to serve as a core resource for the development of competitive research throughout the state of Arkansas and for economic development benefit. The combined power of the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center and ARE-ON will take the state of Arkansas to the next level in the global economy.
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[This original ArduPilot board, now called the "Legacy ArduPilot" is no longer produced or officially supported by the DIY Drones dev team, and this page is maintained just for historic reasons. However, there are still many users of it out there and it still works fine. The user group for Legacy ArduPilot users, for both thermopile and IMU use, is here.]
ArduPilot is a full-featured autopilot based on the Arduino open-source hardware platform. It uses infrared (thermopile) sensors or an IMU for stabilization and GPS for navigation. It is the autopilot used to win the 2009 Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition.
The hardware is available from Sparkfun for $24.95. An expansion board ("Shield") kits that includes an airspeed sensor, a 3.3v power regulator for 3.3v GPS modules and other sensors and cables and connectors for easy attachment of the XY and Z sensors, is available from our own store for $57.20.
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ArduPilot features include:
ArduPilot requires the free Arduino IDE to edit and upload the code to the ArduPilot board.
The code is currently optimized for the Mutiplex EasyStar three-channel powered glider and FMA sensors, but can be modified for other aircraft and sensors. It uses the rudder/ailerons and elevator to maintain level flight and navigate to GPS waypoints. It supports a desktop setup utility and ground station software. It also includes a "fly-by-wire" mode that simply stabilizes RC flight. The main code is ArduPilot2.x.zip in the download section of our Google Code repository, where x is the latest version.
What you need to make a fully-functional autopilot:
- ArduPilot board
- Shield expansion kit with airspeed sensor
- GPS module (uBlox5 recommended)
- XY and Z sensors or ArduIMU+
- FTDI cable for programming
- [Optional] Two Xbee modules for wireless telemetry. This one in the air and this one with this antenna on the ground/laptop side. You'll also need two Xbee adapter boards. You can connect the airborne Xbee adapter to Ardupilot Mega with jumper wires.
Open source extras:
Recommended UAV setup:
Airframe option one: Hobbico SuperStar (49" wingspan, $95, shown above). This is an inexpensive, good flying high-wing trainer with ailerons. It can be hand launched in a park or take off from a runway, and replacement parts are readily available in case of a crash. If you want much better performance with this aircraft, you can upgrade it to a brushless motor, speed controller and a LiPo battery. [If you don't already have one, you'll also need a balancing charger and power supply.] Note: any stable aircraft with both ailerons (for stabilization) and rudder (for navigation) can work, so feel free to experiment with what you've got.
Airframe option two (recommended for ArduPilot 2.x): EasyStar (shown above). Performance can be improved with the modifications described in this post.
You'll also need:
Cool optional extras for your UAV:
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This might hurt you to hear it, so if you have a weak constitution, you might want to look away: I installed Windows 2000 on the Sharp Mebius and I am happy to say, performance was pretty crappy.
Let me repeat that, in case you think it's a mistake: I put Windows 2000 on a 150Mhz Pentium with 32Mb of memory, and it ran like a dog. And I was glad to see that.
No doubt you think that's some sort of twisted Microsoft-hate thing, but really it's not. I don't normally laugh at unfortunate situations, and poor computer performance — aside from BSODs in airport lounges, or something like that — aren't particularly humorous. No more than putting the wrong fuel in your car.
Let me give you a little hint: Counter to popular opinion, I don't hate Windows. I just prefer not to use it. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that some versions were actually passable. There's nothing out there now that I would ever consider paying money for, but 10 years ago, I was quite happy with Windows 2000.
In fact, that's probably the last version of Windows I hold any endearment to. It might just be the way things were in the world a decade ago, and it might be some sort of rose-colored-glasses effect. Regardless, I hold no animosity — but no love either — for any particular Redmond product. Except that Win2K happened to work quite well for me.
At the same time I'm well aware that most of the machines I work with have a strong attachment to turn-of-the-century technology. I expect them to perform at certain levels because they date back to that era. So no, I don't expect to run Compiz on a Pentium, even if I do make that joke at times.
But a lot of what I anticipate, in terms of performance from Linux, et al., is tied to what those machines can do, given the software and hardware of that era. If I get crappy performance from a GTK desktop running kernel 2.6.34, I expect crappy performance from a modern version of a proprietary OS on that same machine. By the same token, I expect to see decent performance from an operating system that is a contemporary of that hardware.
Does that even make sense?
Anyway, for a year or two now I have had a sneaking suspicion that my efforts to minimize bloat and keep obsolete machines afloat was running aground, mostly because the graphical systems I was building on very, very slow machines were so sluggish as to be unusable. Now and again I was reassured that it could be done on even the slowest of hardware, but as a generalization, it was never very satisfying.
So when a friend lent me a Windows 2000 CD (which barely booted, it was so old and scratched up), I wasn't sure I wanted to see the results. In my mind, I was going to be disappointed by the speed and quickness of an operating system that was more or less appropriate to the machine.
But I was pleased to be disappointed. Windows 2000 took two or three minutes to reach a usable desktop (like some Linux systems I have built), cached endlessly (like some Linux systems I have built), and failed to identify a lot of the hardware in the machine — most notably, the network card. It was slow to start programs, useless on the Internet (with IE or Firefox), and grumbled a lot when I wanted to set up the unconfigured parts of the machine. And I was happy at that.
There were some good sides to the encounter though, such as …
That would be the shareware version of Diablo, a game that predates even the computer it's running on. After I finally got everything set up, I racked my brains trying to remember freeware or demo versions of games and applications I used 14 years ago, and see if they were still downloadable.
Most of them were — things like SimCity 2000, the demo version of Microsoft's Age of Empires, Descent 2, the Quake demo or even Duke Nukem 3D. And some of them I was half horrified, and half shocked to remember the system requirements. AoE, just for an example, will supposedly run on a 90Mhz Pentium with only 16Mb of memory in it. And miracle of miracles, the original Descent demo needs only 4Mb and DOS 3.1 to work! Has it been that long?
Windows 2000 barged through most of them without an issue, and the bulk of them performed rather admirably, given their age. I am ashamed to admit it, but I think I actually played out an entire scenario of AoE, before succumbing to nostalgia.
In any case, Windows 2000 was in both ways a disappointment and a surprise on that machine. I was startled and then pleased that it performed and set up so poorly, but at the same time I was pleased that it reintroduced me to some of those games. I know I mentioned it myself a long time ago — that there's no shame in using an old computer to run old games — but perhaps I should occasionally take my own advice. 😀


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You were so close. If you were already on the west side of Williston it was only another hour at most.
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Plan, echoed my brother-in-laws voice! Im an Engineer; Everything we do runs on rails, why would I look at a map for?
Now repeat after me Some of us get it the first time around
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Our lower mainland bass and pan fish lakes are performing well. For bass try: Big Black, Clousers Deep Minnow, Leftys Deceiver, Dolly Whacker, Wooly Bugger, Pumpkinhead, Gomphus Bug, Popin Bug, Foam Frog, Chernobyl Ant, or Stimulator. For Pan fish try: Wooly Bugger, Bloodworm, Chironomid, Micro Leach, Pumpkinhead, Halfback, Dolly Whacker, Tied Down Minnow, Popin Bug, or Chernobyl Ant.
The ice is off a good number of interior lakes. No reports yet; early season tactics are the order of the day.
The Fraser River is up and dirty. To achieve better success try working the color change at confluences of the big rivers feeder streams. For Cutthroat try: Alevin, Professor, Anderson Stone, American Coachman, Rolled Muddler, or Tied Down Minnow. For dolly varden try: Zonker, Flat Black, Big Black, Clouser's Deep Minnow, Dolly Whacker, or Lefty's Deceiver.
The Vedder River is fair to for rainbow, and steelhead. For rainbow try: Czech nymph, Kaufmann Stone, Hares Ear, Big Black, Zulu, Soubou, or Irresistible. For steelhead try: Steelhead Nightmare, Flat Black, Squamish Poacher, GP, Kaufman Stone, Steelhead Spratley, Irresistible, or Stimulator.
The Harrison River is good for cutthroat and rainbow.
Keep your fly in the water
You were so close. If you were already on the west side of Williston it was only another hour at most.
Really then we must have been on the wrong road.
Keep your fly in the water
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I am working on an apiculture project in a region called Araku Valley, AP,India where I am training tribes women to become beekeeper . We are working with the local specie Apis cerana.
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Again, another one of the 3 postcards I bought for .50 cents at a flea market. It's for the 4th of July. The time stamp on it says Newark, NJ July 3rd at 3:30PM in 1908. Very fascinating card and is in great condition. I have no idea how much this or the other 2 postcards might be worth, but I'll never sell them. If you can't read it....The Dog: "I think I'd better skiddoo; mother always told me never to accept candy from strange men".


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Just a tidbit-M'iiyoom Onith is actually a she- and she looks pretty wierd. She'll be coming with Elis Helrot in the 30th AC with part of the "curved" bar piece.Oboewan
Wow I just saw the figures from the Toy Fair, I cant wait to get my hands on Elis Helrot and M'iiyoom Onith!I also have one more alien to add to the list: Djas Phur "the coal man" he's seen by Muftak and a Bith (not part of the band) in the beginning of the cantina scene, I think right after Hem Dazon pops up.
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Dennis Day's Ethanol Plant
Out in the Northwest corner of the Des Moines Area, along the border of Grimes and Urbandale sits what remains of Dennis Day's ethanol plant. This was not the first ethanol plant in Iowa, but it is significant to the entire ethanol industry because this is where Dennis Day introduced the molecular sieve to the ethanol indusrty.
The idea for for using ethanol for motor fuel is not new. Though for much of the history of ethanol production for use as motor fuel, the key challenge was to reduce the water content to a point where it was suitable for motor fuel. Simple distillation only achieves between 175 and 185 proof ethanol. To be suitable for motor fuel, the ethanol must be anhydrous. The previous methods for producing anhydrous ethanol involved compound distallation and the introduction of highly toxic benzene into the process. This process was expensive, dangerous and prone to operational failures.
The molecular sieve had already been in use in the petroleum industry for many years and it was at the natural gas plant in Redfield where Dennis' son Wayne observed it in use. Wayne discussed the possibility of using a molecular sieve to produce anhydrous ethanol with his father, who was already interested in ethanol as a value-added farm product.
Shortly thereafter, Dennis contacted his friend Larry Hunt of Hunt Sprayers Inc. in Hartford about building a molecular sieve to produce ethanol on the farm.
Larry already had the manufacturing capability needed to build a molecular sieve and also provided financial backing to the project. The actual construction of the molecular sieve was not that difficult, but a new challenge arose when it came to providing automated control to operation of the molecular sieve. Dennis' son Russ who was an avid computer hobbyist, suggested computer control and took on the task of developing the software needed to control a molecular sieve.
The molecular sieve proved to be a complete success and was widely adopted across the ethanol industry. Dennis' ethanol plant was frequently visited bus loads of people interested in seeing Dennis' on-farm ethanol plant. Astronaut Gordon Cooper once landed his ethanol-powered airplane at the farm.
One day, Dennis learned that he was going to be visited by Jane Fonda. Dennis didn't particularly care for Jane Fonda. Dennis thought that day was a good day to work on truck tires. He got his hands as dirty as he possibly could for the moment when he could offer to shake hands with Jane Fonda.
By the mid-1980's, changes in the ethanol industry caused Dennis' ethanol plant to fall silent. Dennis passed away in 1995. The plant had sat dormant for over a decade and with a heavy heart, Dennis' family dismantled the ethanol plant except for the distallation column, which stands to this day.


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Twitter CEO Evan Williams doesn't need the money, but when he sells his San Francisco SoMA penthouse, he will be even richer than he already is.
One of the brains behind the San Francisco-based microblogging site's quick ascension up the social networking ladder is selling his two-bedroom, two-bathroom loft in the historic Heublein Building in San Francisco for $1,498,000.
It's far from the majority of his wealth: Twitter was recently valued at a cool $1 billion, and Williams previously sold Blogger to Google before the search engine's lucrative 2004 IPO -- which one presumes is how he afforded the loft in the first place.
The sale comes on the heels of fellow Twitter cofounder Biz Stone selling his cozy Berkeley cottage for a reported $575,000. Williams could be following the lead of his other Twitter buddy Mayor Gavin Newsom, who recently sold his bachelor pad to move into a more family friendly house ahead of the birth of his daughter.
Williams and his wife Sara Morishige Williams welcomed a baby boy, via a live Twittercast just like the mayor, in August.
The Williamses' old house is described as "a stunning, large Manhattan-style" penthouse loft with 11-foot ceilings and "sweeping views from a private patio," according to his real estate agent, Eric Turner.
Turner also touts the loft's proximity to SoMa's "world-class dining and nightlife." Not that that's any use to a new dad.
The couple is building a new, modern house which Morishige Williams is designing. They hope to have it built in 2010 -- which raises the question of where the Williams family will live if the loft sells quickly.


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About Crazy Bruce's
In 1964, Crazy Bruce's Liquors started as a small, one man operation in West Hartford. As the years went by, they expanded to two large stores, one in West Hartford and one in Bristol. Between both stores, Crazy Bruce's employs forty people and occupies about 18,000 sq. feet per store.
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Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- In "Circle of Friends," Charles Gasparino gives us all the elements of the insider-trading genre: bundles of cash, informants wired by the FBI, bickering regulators.
The only problem, he says, is that those regulators were investigating the wrong thing.
Here's a list of recommended business books.
"After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response and the Work Ahead" by Alan S. Blinder (Penguin Press). Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, proves adept at making accessible the complex events leading to the financial crisis and the ways in which policy makers responded.
"Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House). The author of "The Black Swan" returns with a book about thriving amid disorder. He focuses on systems that aren't resistant to stress but actually profit from it. The human body, for example, gets stronger with the stress of exercise, weaker with indolence.
"Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?" by William Poundstone (Little, Brown). A guide to brain-bending interview questions asked at Google and other innovative companies. "You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender," one begins. What do you do in the 60 seconds before the blades start whirring?
"The Art of the Sale" by Philip Delves Broughton (Penguin Press/Portfolio). The journalist who brought us "Ahead of the Curve," a chronicle of how he earned an MBA at Harvard Business School, uncovers the dark arts of sales -- a discipline absent from the HBS curriculum.
"Bailout" by Neil Barofsky (Free Press). The former special inspector general policing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program lifts the lid on the U.S. Treasury and settles scores in this angry yet illuminating memoir.
"The Battle of Bretton Woods" by Benn Steil (Princeton University Press). This masterful account dismantles the idyllic picture of the 1944 Bretton Woods international economic conference, situating it firmly in the tense atmosphere of the final months of World War II.
"The Billionaire's Apprentice" by Anita Raghavan (Business Plus). The Galleon Group insider-trading scandal involving Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta featured arrogance, greed and, ultimately, prosecution. To Raghavan, that's a sign that Indian-Americans have finally arrived.
"The Buy Side" by Turney Duff (Crown Business). A memoir by a former Galleon Group trader details his drug and alcohol-fueled implosion while providing a timely window into sleazy practices that have become the focus of federal prosecutors.
"Circle of Friends" by Charles Gasparino (Harper Business). While the markets were coming undone in 2008, securities regulators were busy investigating the wrong crime, Gasparino says. Instead of digging into the fraud that helped fuel the crisis, they were on a crusade to end insider trading.
"A Disposition to Be Rich" by Geoffrey C. Ward (Knopf). Ferdinand Ward, the Bernie Madoff of the Gilded Age, comes to life in this elegant and perversely fascinating biography of the swindler who ruined Ulysses S. Grant.
"Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession" by Barbara Garson (Doubleday). Garson writes less about the terrible things that have happened to Americans since the crash than about the resigned/resourceful ways they're coping.
"End This Depression Now!" by Paul Krugman (Norton). The Princeton economist makes his case for more government spending and less austerity. You can almost hear his teeth gnash as he takes on the "Austerians."
"Engines of Change" by Paul Ingrassia (Simon & Schuster). Ingrassia, who shared a 1993 Pulitzer Prize for writing on management turmoil at General Motors Co., presents a quirky history of American culture as seen through 15 cars.
"Finance and the Good Society" by Robert J. Shiller (Princeton). The influential Yale University economist argues that finance, for all its manifest failings of late, remains a force for good in society.
"Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States" by George Soros (PublicAffairs). This is a compilation of op-ed articles that the billionaire investor wrote as the euro crisis boiled up. As a retread, it displays Soros's knack for assessing market linkages and psychology on the fly.
"The Firm" by Duff McDonald (Simon & Schuster). McDonald has put together an instructive history of McKinsey & Co., though he never quite answers the question of whether hiring the global fix-it firm is worth it.
"Getting It Wrong" by William A. Barnett (MIT). Poor monetary data were a root cause of the financial crisis, argues Barnett, a University of Kansas economist and former Federal Reserve Board staff member.
"Hedge Hogs" by Barbara T. Dreyfuss (Random House). Brian Hunter's out-of-control trading in the natural-gas market led to the collapse of Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC. Dreyfuss does a great job of providing the historical context.
"The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty" by Dan Ariely (Harper/HarperCollins). We like to think of ourselves as honest. Yet experiments show that we all cheat, says the behavioral economist.
"The Hour Between Dog and Wolf" by John Coates (Fourth Estate/Penguin Press). During his 12 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and Deutsche Bank AG, Coates began to wonder whether testosterone and other hormones were impairing the judgment of traders -- and fueling bubbles and busts. So he retrained as a neuroscientist and conducted tests on trading floors. He synthesizes his findings in this highly speculative and absorbing book.
"The Idea Factory" by Jon Gertner (Penguin Press). A rich history of Bell Labs, a hothouse of 20th-century innovation.
"Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead" by Sheryl Sandberg (Knopf). The Facebook executive offers advice to women, urging them not to pull back from career challenges years before having children.
"Luck" by Ed Smith (Bloomsbury). Serendipity molds everything from sports to politics and finance, argues the former cricketer.
"A Nation of Deadbeats" by Scott Reynolds Nelson (Knopf). The U.S. was founded by bankers who used their political connections to make lots of money. Sound familiar?
"The New Geography of Jobs" by Enrico Moretti (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). A persuasive look at why some U.S. cities have prospered in recent decades while others have declined.
"Octopus" by Guy Lawson (Crown). Hedge-fund manager Sam Israel, who faked suicide in 2008 to escape a prison sentence for running a $450 million Ponzi scheme, was himself the victim of a con artist.
"Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made" by Charles V. Bagli (Dutton). Buying Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village was an ill-advised deal for Tishman Speyer and BlackRock even before the financial crisis. Bagli recounts the horror story with clarity and authority.
"Plutocrats" by Chrystia Freeland (Penguin Press). "Being self-made is central to the self-image of today's global plutocrats" Freeland says. "It is how they justify their luxuries, status and influence."
"The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg (Heinemann/Random House). Dipping into neurological case studies, Duhigg explores how our brains form habits and how we can change them. Examples range from murderous sleepwalkers to Goldman Sachs.
"The Price of Inequality" by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Allen Lane/Norton). Economic growth and democracy suffer when the top 1 percent of Americans earns a fifth of the country's income and controls more than a third of its wealth, the Nobel Prize-winning economist says.
"Red Ink" by David Wessel (Crown Business). The Wall Street Journal economics editor presents a slim primer on the people and politics driving the U.S. budget war.
"Wait" by Frank Partnoy (Profile/PublicAffairs). From F-16 pilots to speed traders, the best performers are those who learn to delay their responses, argues Partnoy, a former Morgan Stanley banker.
"What Money Can't Buy" by Michael Sandel (Allen Lane/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The Harvard University professor who wrote "Justice" explores the moral limits of markets in civil society, from baseball to death bonds.
"White House Burning" by Simon Johnson and James Kwak (Pantheon). A survey of how the U.S. government, ignoring Alexander Hamilton's precepts, piled up more than $15 trillion in debt.
"Winner Take All" by Dambisa Moyo (Allen Lane/Basic). China has embarked on a "commodity crusade," making it the pre-eminent buyer of resources ranging from metals to food, says the former Goldman Sachs banker. The result may be "famine, conflict and worse" for everyone else in the decades to come.
"Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (Crown/Profile). Why do some nations prosper while others remain mired in poverty? The answer lies in politics, the two economists argue in this compelling and readable study.
(Laurie Muchnick is an editor for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.)


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Apparently China isn't the only place where popular logos seem to be mysteriously borrowed by other businesses. You don't have to search too far to find Tokyo security firm Yaroo's inspiration.
A camera crew visited Yaroo headquarters to inquire into the strange resemblance between it's logo and that of Japan's most popular search engine (that's right... Yahoo! is Japan's most popular search engine).
But the company spokesman denied that theirs was an imitation. The spokesman explained that the name "Yaroo" was a play on the Japanese word "Yaru," which means "do." Since they'll do anything. Including copy stuff, presumably. Ya-boo. [Pink Tentacle]


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Celebrating a wedding, First Communion, Confirmation, Christening or any event where you want to be sure to count your blessings? Well, with these elegant crystal cross favors from Choice Crystal Collection are simply heaven sent!
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Have you ever watched a torrential downpour and wished you had a bucket big enough to catch the rain before it disappears down the drain? If so, this video is for you!
Watch as Ashley Henderson of the Alabama Clean Water Partnership walks us through three quick and easy steps to build a rain barrel.
Not only are rain barrels are a great way to save water for not-so-rainy-days, they're a smart environmental choice. When you use rain barrels, you help prevent erosion and you help cut storm water run-off so rivers and other water sources stay clean. Rain barrels help you save this precious resource when you water your trees, flowers and scrubs. And with your own supply of rain water, you can have a great-looking yard, even when watering restrictions apply.
With all of these great benefits, you'll want to build yours this weekend!
A rain barrel is a device that anybody can use at their home to gather water when it rains so that they can use it during a period when it's not raining; for shrubs, for their gardens, or if needed by house. It's a very easy project. There are lots of different designs of rain barrels. But one of the things we really wanted to do was to build a barrel that was easy to build and that would work in just about any situation. If you have the right material and tools, you can build one in about 15 minutes.
Here's what you need to build a rain barrel: an electric drill, a five inch hole saw, a one inch forstner bit, and a 1 3/8 inch forstner bit. The materials that you'll need include a food-grade plastic barrel. This is a 55 gallon barrel but really any size will work. A three-quarter inch male hose bib, a one and a half inch sump pump hose, six to eight feet in length or greater, fiberglass screen 3 feet x 3 feet square, and a four foot bungee cord.
There are three parts of a rain barrel; the inlet, the outlet, and the overflow. The inlet is where the rain water enters the barrel. The outlet is where you attach the hose from the bottom of the barrel. The overflow of the barrel is important for when the barrel fills, when the barrel is completely full, water will leave the barrel through the overflow. So you want to make sure that you direct that away from the foundation of your home into an area that could use the extra water.
To construct the inlet, you attach a five-inch hole saw into your electric drill. You'll use this drill to cut two or three five-inch holes in the top of your barrel. Then you will cut a 3/4 square section of mosquito screen. Hose the screen on the top of the barrel. Use the four foot bungee cord to attach the screen to the barrel just below the lip of the barrel. Next, let's construct the outlet. Use the one inch portion of it to drill a hole in the side of the barrel. Next, screw the three-quarter inch male hose bib into the barrel. If the hose is not smooth, you may have problems with leakage.
To create the overflow, you maybe use the one and 3/8 inch portion of the drill or hole on the side wall of the barrel, about three or four inches from the top of the barrel. Now that you have the hole cut, take the sump pump hose, pinch the end, and insert it into the whole.
And of course, your final step is to start collecting rain water. This will help you save money and also help protect the environment and the water quality in our rivers.


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Children Bring Dickens' Words to Life for Twin Beach Players
With lines straight from Charles Dickens' own hand, Twin Beach Players' third adaptation of A Christmas Carol is its most realistic performance yet, according to director and producer, Regan Cashman.
It's also the most endearing, as Ebenezer Scrooge's tale of redemption is told through the eyes — and mouths — of children. As the all-kid cast learn their lines, they consult with adults in the company to understand Dickens' meaning and language.
Many of the children have acted in A Christmas Carol before – for others, this is their first experience in a community theatre production.
"The kids can really pull it off," said Cashman of the 70 theatrical old hands and neophytes aged four to 17.
They can even play impromptu, as Scrooge proved after a long-delayed entrance followed the looming question "is Tiny Tim dead?" "No, Tiny Tim is not dead," he announced with dramatic flair. "And I apologize for our late arrival."
"Adults come up to me after every show and tell me that this is the best rendition they've ever seen," Cashman said.
With all 106 seats taken on opening night, this Christmas Carol is also the Players' most successful.
"It's a moment in history for us," Cahsman said.
The production is kid-friendly for the audience, too. Two 15-minute intermissions with plenty of refreshments help keep even the youngest audience members involved.


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