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I Always Knew He Was No Wave
Phibian, fresh from doing Halloween up early, announces his secret shame.
Looky that: a guy in the Navy officer corps who digs old school. To misquote the Television Personalities, "I Was A Punk Before You Was A Punk." (And it's truly sad when you see a LT walking around and have to hand him a copy of "No New York" just to get him to stop saying his new CD is all new stuff…)
Sounds like I need to share my Television and Glenn Branca records in exchange whenever I get around to buying CDR Salamander a beer. One of my regrets is that I never got to see Wimp Factor Fourteen or the Jesus Lizard play CB's…
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CDR Salamander Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 11:09 am..You ever have one of those days where you wonder why and how you came to a place in your life where you can't decide if you should put the "Flat Duo Jets" or Peter Murphy in slot 1 or slot 6 of the CD player? And you still hold a grudge against that Freshman girl from Univ. of VA who took your first run '82 version of Laurie Anderson's "Big Science" LP in '85 home with her to Charlottesville, one Sunday morning – and are reminded every time you put the CD in the rack? Always in slot 3 or 4. Never at the beginning or the end. Sometimes, you have to go to slot 5 to get to Track 8 from The Cult's "Electric" after that 2.5 hour PPT brief from WBB that just made no sense.
"So pay me what you owe me."
Argghhh!!! That reminds me. I forgot to do a post using Laurie Anderson as proof that conspiracy nuts are, well, nuts.
chap Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 11:50 amAmen, brother. I saw Flat Duo Jets open for Fishbone in Raleigh in '84 and life was Good. Discovered the Cult while DJ'ing at WKNC, playing Metallica interviews with "Jason New Kid" and scamming the Jane's Addiction boot from the last week's show in exchange for a Majosha (pre-Ben Folds Five band) tape. I need to send you some records–Chapel Hill rawk led to Louisville squonk (Slint, Grifters, Palace, Rodan) and more more more.
I think Enrevanche got you covered on that post, though–he did a podcast that included it once, and yea indeed what was calming is now creepy…
Barry Campbell Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 12:13 pm"Here come the planes… they're American planes… made in America…"
Barry Campbell Says:
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CDR Salamander Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 3:02 pmWe swim in similar seas there shipmate. WKNC. That brings back memories. Let's see, how did it go? "Just push that little button then, NIGHT WAVE." If memory serves me right, WKNC was almost all metal all AOR almost all the time. WUNC was solid almost all the time but you almost had to be standing at The Well to hear it – their range was terrible – but when you were late to a Scruffy the Cat gig at the Cat's Cradle – you didn't have too much time to listen. One of the best concerts I ever saw was at some hole in the wall place in Raleigh too. Modern English. Don't laugh. They were solid live.
Georgetown-Chapel Hill/Raleigh-Athens axis and the mid-80s. Happy time to be of legal age….a few times.
Forget the MilBlogger shoot-out. When do we do the MilBlogger SKA concert?
CDR Salamander Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 3:07 pmOh, and one more thing – "88 Lines about 44 Women," The Nails. Perhaps a theme song for the USS Enterprise forward berthing under the bow cats……… Have to ask Lex.
John deVille Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 5:04 pmFive gets you ten that the "hole in the wall place" in Raleighwood where you saw Modern English was The Brewery.
And Flat Duo Jets….well, Dexter Romweber was my roommate when I moved back to Chapel Hill in 1989…until he got us kicked out and Barry had to help me move. The guy could play classical piano, pick up a 6-string and totally become Woody Guthrie — seeing him play "Bound for Glory" at a coal miner's benefit gave me chills.
I'm feeling bad that I didn't take better care of my Mondo Montage cassette.
chap Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 7:11 pmGot it on vinyl. Might be ripped later tonight. Might show up as a comment here for a very short time.
For fair use purposes, of course.
John deVille Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 7:20 pmAwesome. Already humming…
Buddha Buddha.
Fishing boats in the Greek blue sea go…
Buddha Buddha.
Enemy planes in the comic books go…
chap Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 9:59 pm101 MB, two mp3s in a zip archive, not split up except for side 1/side 2 and no sleeve pix because I'm lazy and in a hurry and both Audacity and CD Spin Doctor crashed on the Intel. Link [disappeared].
The Snap: Voice of America
States: Watching You
Lise Uyanik and Mobile City: I Can Hear Music
Moon Pie: Tore Up
Rod Abernethy: White Lies
Lise Uyanik and Mobile City: Love Is Fine
Rick Rock: Buddha Buddha
States: Don't Call My Name Anymore
Arrogance: Perfect Light
X-Teens: Heaven In Your Eyes
The Snap: (She's A) Modern Girl
Texas Toads: Drink You Off My Mind
Rick Rock: (I'm a lookin' for a) Sputnik
Let's Active: A Room With A View
chap Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 10:16 pmI can believe you about Modern English. I miss finding the small cool bands out there.
KNC in the late eighties and early nineties was metal during the day and rap during the night. Nightwave was an evening weekday show; I was on the air all over the place (including Nightwave, metal, rap and the pre-Sunday morning freakout before the religion shows). Rap was a challenge because I knew DJ Kool Herc and UTFO and Grandmaster Flash but that West Coast stuff was all new to me. Schooly-D? Why is Ice-T ripping off Curtis Mayfield? Took me a while to get into it.
I loved WXDU myself; it took chances and played the stuff that XYC wouldn't touch. Which is mostly where my head is at. At WRCT my most punk rock moment was the semester I did a show of old country music–Johnny Cash and the Tennesee Two, Hasil Adkins, etc–which the punks (a) hated because I wasn't playing Fugazi's "Waiting Room" for the eleventeenth time and (b) loved because after all who is more punk rock than Johnny Cash kicking a murder ballad back in the day? (This is pre-Rick Rubin Cash, mind you.)
WSPN I played a lot of records you could Not Find In Upstate New York, a very relaxing and enjoyable mindblowing for folks in Saratoga. It's been a long time since I turned anyone on to this kind of stuff on air…
chap Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 10:21 pmDex Romweber's roommate?
Whoa. I am in the presence of grace. You must be one patient mofo. No wonder you teach high school; you've seen it all two or three times, I bet…
John deVille Says:
October 19th, 2006 at 7:34 amRe: Dexter.
Yes, he was quite the handful. Most memorable thing was trying to convince him to use the door to the apartment as opposed to removing his window screen and going back and forth to his room via window. Was unsuccessful. The other roommate was female and a long-time buddy of mine. Dexter came to us and asked us to socialize him. Ha!
I'm also now remembering coming home from a week on the road (was traveling portrait photographer at the time) to find my Mr. Coffee pot in the sink with encrusted bran flakes inside it and Brother Romweber had decided that the handle made it the perfect portable cereal bowl.
After he got us tossed — I hardly ever saw him again. But I did see him about two years ago at the Cradle. My buddy Ron Royster went up to him on stage in between sets and asked him if he remembered me — he did and we swapped a few stories. It appeared that somehow along the way he had become domesticated. And damn if his music didn't suffer. I have no clue how to categorize his new stuff — Elvis fused with something — but it was quite painful.
I had forgotten Let's Active (with Dex's sister Sarah as the always explosive drummer — saw her on Franklin St a couple of years ago — looked EXACTLY the same) was on Mondo — they played St. A's (was a bro) quite often, frequently on the annex roof. I think that's where I learned how to teach high school, though nothing has prepared me for the number of intensely damaged souls I've encountered this year. These kids amaze me with what they've been put through and how they are somehow able to make it.
Mucho thanks for the upload – I hope to listen to it this afternoon on the way to the anniversary hut — but before that, the philosophy class will be subjected to Buddah Buddah.
Barry Campbell Says:
October 19th, 2006 at 10:57 amI can confirm the story about deVille and Dexter being roommates.
And, holy shit, Mondo Montage? Dude. I mean, duuuuuuude.
- bc, huge Lise Uyanik fan back in the day, still remembers when Mobile City played the Assembly Hall at the NC School of Science and Math
Barry Campbell Says:
October 19th, 2006 at 4:15 pmWith Mondo Montage playing on my iPod Nano, I was inspired to do a little Googlin'.
Let's Active: Mitch Easter, of course, went on to produce a bunch of early R.E.M. albums, but is still playing club dates and staying active as a producer: http://www.mitchworldusa.net/
Faye Hunter – unknown.
Sara Romweber – "Sara Romweber (from the original Let's Active trio) works at the Music Explorium in Carrboro and makes puppets" – source; http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A14340
Rick Rock became at least slightly better known as Parthenon Huxley:
Lise Uyanik – still rocking out with Mobile City from time to time –
see, e.g., http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A20554
Rod Abernethy is scoring movies, TV shows, and (especially) video games:
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It's Not Always the Baserunner's Fault
Saturday night's Gwinnett-Norfolk game was suspended by rain after the first inning, and completed on Sunday night. Norfolk ended up winning the game, 6-5 in ten innings, on a controversial home run by catcher Adam Donachie. However, Gwinnett had two legitimate chances to score runs in the first nine innings, which would have made the extra innings unnecessary. However, I would not attribute either missed chance to bad baserunning; the first was the result of an outstanding defensive play and the second was simply a bad coaching decision.
In the 4th inning, with the game tied 1-1, Gwinnett loaded the bases with one out. Stefan Gartrell and Brandon Hicks walked and Ruben Gotay singled. Diory Hernandez hit a fly to fairly deep center field. Usually, this would be a routine sacrifice fly. Gartrell tagged up and went to home plate. While Gartrell isn't as old as Ramon Castro or as bulky as Prince Fielder, he's not an eager kid like Kyle Hudson and he's filled out quite a bit. So, even if Gartrell weren't trotting home, he wasn't sprinting and consequently not moving very fast. And Brandon Hicks tagged up from second and tried to advance to third base. Center fielder Matt Angle had no shot at throwing out Gartrell, even with his relative lack of speed, so he threw to third to try to put Hicks out. And Angle made an outstanding throw; third baseman Brendan Harris applied the tag and Hicks was plainly out. Immediately, the home plate umpire turned to the press box and vigorously waved his arms, telling us that no run scored because Hicks was put out before Gartrell touched home plate. While Gartrell might have hustled a little bit more; or Hicks might not have tried to advance; or Hicks, realizing he would be put out, might have tried to delay the inevitable long enough, the real reason the run didn't score was Angle's outstanding throw.
In the ninth inning, with the Tides leading 5-3, closer Jeremy Accardo came in to pitch. With one out and J.C. Boscan on first, Accardo walked Tyler Pastornicky and Matt Young to load the bases. After Gartrell lined to short, Mauro Gomez hit a hard line drive off the left-field wall. Kyle Hudson played the ball of the wall and quickly threw to shortstop Carlos Rojas. Boscan scored from third and Pastornicky from second, tying the game. Although the ball was hit very hard and Hudson played it well, manager Dave Brundage, coaching third, told Young to try to score. Rojas had the ball almost as soon as Young reached third, and he easily threw Young out at the plate.
Gwinnett did lose the game in extra innings, so it is true that had Hicks not tried to take third in the fourth inning, Gwinnett would have won the game. And if Young had held at third, Gwinnett might have won the game in the ninth inning. But I wouldn't classify Hicks' decision as bad baserunning; it was a reasonable decision that didn't work out. And I don't blame Young; Brundage made a bad decision that Young couldn't rescue.
Bad Baserunning. Baaaaaaad Baserunning!
It's unusual, but hardly unheard-of, for a team to have many hits in a particular game but few runs. It seems that every week or so a team will have a linescore of 1 run on 11 hits, or 2 runs on 14 hits, or something similar. It's much more unusual for both teams in a game to have fewer runs than their hit totals would suggest, but that happened in last night's 2-1 Norfolk win over Scranton Wilkes-Barre. The Tides had two runs on eleven hits, the Yankees one run on nine hits.
The Tides' didn't score more runs primarily because manager Gary Allenson, serving as the third base coach, was overaggressive and because the Yankees' outfielders had good arms. The Tides scored one run in the fifth inning on a double, a walk, and a single; even though the inning ended with a double play, that's still efficient. And in the bottom of the ninth, the Tides scored the winning run on a single, wild pitch, and walk-off double; that's efficient also (and, had it been necessary, the Tides might have scored more runs, likely flattening the run-hit ratio somewhat.)
However, the Tides had two runners thrown out at the plate. The first runner should never have been sent. With one out, catcher John Hester and center fielder Matt Angle singled. They advanced to third and second, respectively, on a balk. Tyler Henson lofted a fly ball to fairly shallow right field, and Greg Golson made the catch. For some reason, Allenson sent Hester, a catcher, to try to score after the catch. Golson made a competent throw and Hester was out by several feet. The second runner thrown out at the plate also probably should not have been sent home, although it wasn't as bad a decision. Ryan Adams singled and was sacrificed to second. With two outs, Angle slapped a line drive single to left field. While Adams isn't quite as slow as Hester, he's not fleet of foot; yet Allenson sent him, probably because left fielder Jordan Parraz hadn't yet picked up the ball. When Parraz did so, he fired a line drive strike to home plate; there was almost no arc on his thrown. Adams was out by a few feet.
So, that's four wasted Norfolk hits that produced zero runs, because of overaggressive coaching and good throws. Scranton also had three runners retired on the bases, all of which were caused by baserunning errors.
In the first inning, with one out, Scranton's Greg Golson and Mike Lamb singled. On a 3-2 pitch, Golson broke for third too early; the pitcher stepped off the rubber and started a 1-6-5 pickoff/caught stealing. Jesus Montero singled two pitches later; but, because Golson wasn't on base, no runs scored. The next batter flied out to end the inning. No runs, three hits. In the third inning, Golson led off with an infield single. On a hit-and-run, Lamb flew to right field. Golson was deked by shortstop Nick Green and continued running, not knowing Lamb hit a routine fly. Golson was easily doubled off first base by Rhyne Hughes. (Side note – that was Hughes' second outfield assist in 69 career outfield games.) Finally, in the seventh inning, Luis Nunez singled and was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. Those plays explain why five of Scranton's hits produced no runs. Greg Golson's bad baserunning cost Scranton 1 run and possibly the game.


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by Tracey Paleo~
Sometimes the actors just have too much to do. There's too much going on and it's hard to follow as is the case with the west coast premiere of Early and Often, written by Barbara Wallace and Thomas R. Wolfe, currently playing at the Open Fist Theatre.
It's Chicago, 1960. The election of JFK hangs in the balance and there's a lot more at stake for Democratic Precinct Captain Art Ruck. He has a cushy job with the Park District and plenty of girlfriends, but when Ward Boss John Flannery announces a vacancy in the state assembly, Art will stop at nothing to get the seat, including hiding out a dead body and betraying the Democratic Party that fostered his career. It is a time when there is a code of honor in politics, meaning there are good guys and bad guys, though the good guys do bad things to prevent the bad guys from having their share of the goods…or something like that.
It's a difficult job living up to this intricate and stylized, period, screwball comedy. There are flavors of Dick Tracy meets the Daily Planet and The Man Who Came To Dinner. Throw in some Three Stooges along with The Producers and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. You've got a show. It's a bit mushed. In fact, it was even hard to tell that it was a comedy right up to almost the very end of the first act.
The gags are heavy, often played so straight or on the other hand overplayed for the laughs, that it takes a while for this show to "warm up". The dialog is 'yelled' throughout mostly by the girls as if they wouldn't be heard – which is definitely what is happening story-wise. It is the 1960s after all and liberation or any potent voice for women is hard to come by even for powerhouse actress Amanda Weier whose dead pan complaints about not getting respect or reward never ceases to punch up this piece several notches, every time she enters the stage. The guys are tough but the women of Chicago are tougher!
Mr. Wolfe, a brilliant and prolific writer has penned more than a few recognizable episodes of the hilarious hit TV shows Murphy Brown and The Faculty. But somehow this production has difficulty 'finding its way.' It seems a problem with the direction of the play which squarely falls upon director Ron West who regularly stages elsewhere, Second City This Week at The Second City Hollywood. Sure actors can develop a character from outside in starting with appropriate costumes, of which all of these characters are endowed thanks to spot on costume designer Kellsy MacKilligan, but add the difficultly of the the actual body language of the era and along with the tough Chicago-ease language, it can fall down quickly. And it does.
The hilarity is at times lost as is the overall chemistry with the ensemble who more than once during this production feel disconnected from each other on the stage. Except for the bright and shiny penny of a campaigner Marty Collins jovially played by Mat Lageman who opens pre-show with making calls on the pay telephone, shaking hands, cracking jokes, entertaining the audience and wildly giggling as he hands out business cards attempting to win over potential voters for the upcoming election. Heck he probably would have even kissed a few babies had any been in the theatre. It's a great act. Hands down one of the best interactive openers an unsuspecting audience could experience and the strongest character in the production, albeit short-lived.
The play does finally pull together in the second act recognizably as a funny bone and stops feeling like a board game of CLUE. But there is a bit more work to be done here. Open Fists's, Early and Often has enormous potential to be a far greater show than it is currently.
One thing this show does have is the right amount of hard core energy to make this play go, go, go, keeping the momentum at a clip. Some well-played characters were the priest. Although the writing was predictable and not completely new, Conor Lane was blessedly funny with every exasperated confession and outcome he is doomed to withstand from the church confessional box. Also Bryan Bertone seems to embody the character of Art Ruck with finesse and style.
Early And Often is preformed Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm through May 26th, 2012
The Open Fist Theatre is located at 6209 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038 just east of Vine Street
Tickets: $25.00
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Davis has taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the New York Open Center, and Esalen, and was one of the organizers of Planetwork, a conference on information technology and global ecology held in San Francisco in 2000. He has been interviewed by CNN, has popped up on radio shows internationally, and appeared prominently in Craig Baldwin's underground film, the SciFi media critique Specters of the Spectrum. His in-depth studies of the science fiction author Philip K. Dick have been acknowledged by the New Yorker. Davis has also lectured internationally on topics relating to media arts, contemporary electronic music, and spirituality in the postmodern world.
Davis is a fifth-generation Californian, and is currently working with the photographer Michael Rauner on California Visions, a photo-essay travelogue through the Golden State's landscape of alternative spirituality. He is also at work on a short book about Led Zeppelin, and various fragments of bardo fiction.


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Sherman Hemsley's 'George Jefferson' Was Comedy Genius Right on Down to His Strut (VIDEO)
Sherman Hemsley helps me get up and ready every morning because every morning, I watch TV One. And every morning, those reruns of Amen and The Jeffersons make me laugh out loud at least once, which is a real testament to their genuine humor since it's been more than two decades since the latter went off the air. Far as I'm concerned, there's no better way to start the day than with a good belly laugh.
That's what Sherman Hemsley was good at -- eliciting chuckles and full-out guffaws from people in TV land. I mean, how can you watch this little man do his signature bowlegged James Brown chicken dance with a straight face? The fact that he never did so much as break a smile while he was busting the moves made it even funnier. Watch him in action, breaking it down with Roxie Roker (who, if you didn't know or never cared before, is Lenny Kravtiz' mama):
And then there was the classic George Jefferson walk, a pop cultural phenomenon in and of itself which is now a must-do for anyone feeling bold, brash, and assured of themselves, particularly when something they've said or done proves to be right. Couldn't nobody strut like Sherman. That walk is now the stuff of legend. Matter of fact, I did it when I bargained myself a great deal for my first car and, most recently, when I managed to cook a pot roast without drying all of the juices, thus leaving a brownish, boulder-ish mass of jerky, like I usually do. Situations like that call for the George Jefferson walk and I am therefore thankful that he invented it.
Then he tantalized another generation in the late '80s and early '90s on Amen as Deacon Frye, who -- can we be honest? -- was really George Jefferson in Philly instead of New York, flanked by a different but likable cast (except that darn Thelma, who sizzled my nerves down to the nubs with that infernal grown-lady whining). Sherman once again stole the show and played his angry, little, short man routine to the hilt. I can still remember eating bowls of ice cream in front of my grandparents' floor model Zenith and cracking up right along with them at Deacon Frye's physical stunts and cutting comebacks. He could deliver a zinger like nobody's business.
I can't think of many actors with comedic delivery who make an LOL real, not just an acronym. And so I salute you, Mr. Hemsley, for gifting us with three solid decades of humor and giving of yourself in order to make people laugh. You know, laughter is all you have sometimes -- when you get up and go to a job you hate every day, when you're going through issues in your relationships, when your kids are plucking your everlasting nerves. So he wasn't just an actor and his shows weren't just sitcoms. He facilitated, at the very least, little flashes of joy for a whole lot of people in 30-minute increments. So strut on, Sherman Hemsley, to your deluxe apartment in the sky.
What's your favorite episode of Amen or The Jeffersons?
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My favorite Sherman Hemsley role was a bit part he played in "Love At First Bite" as the preacher at the funeral when Dracula opened the coffin. Classic!
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- That period was also one of the golden eras of family sitcoms. There hasn't been a family based sitcom that I had shown much interest in than Modern Family of recent years. I also liked the bit of trivia Roxie Roker is Lenny Kravitz's mother. That was quite an interesting thing to note, though many wouldn't have known that. Iconic characters like Sherman are quite rare nowadays.
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*breaks out into a strange eerie laughter*, Lark you would be amazed at what I can block from my mind if I need to.
Bittersweet Candy Bowl
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Comment ID #126659
Comment ID #126661
@ (nameless) - I was watching food network and there was a really big lady putting a rub on an enormous turkey and I discovered that I had become quite aroused.
Comment ID #126664
It's too bad i told Vinsy i wouldn't do anymore, i would enjoy breaking you Name
Comment ID #126666
@Larky: Stronger minds have tried and failed to break me, my scarred mind can withstand much torment.
Comment ID #126670
You really think so little of me Name? Really a shame we couldn't meet in person, you'd break so magnicently ;}
Comment ID #126672
The arousal subsided when the stuffing began. :[
Comment ID #126674
i thought that would be the best part Scotch?
Comment ID #126677
@Scotch: Disturbing…
@Lark: *maniacal laughter* YOU ARE NOTHING! *laugher stops, normal monotonus voice returns* It is a shame we couldn't meet in person, if you ever happen to be in the San Francisco area I"l buy you a drink.
@Jerk: Same offer (ONE DRINK)
Comment ID #126678
(nameless) cannot be broken by practical means of vulgarity. He lives in a magical, mystical land that celebrates Pride Week like the 4th of July. Homoeroticism and violence alone will not phase him. I have known him for months and he is stronger than he gets credit for, only indulging in sighs to express his ILB-esque disappointment in our choice of conversation. (That reminds me, I think I'm coming up with my own version of The Aristocrats Joke.)
Also, six shots of tequila, I think, is a personal record. I am Vincero Rex, second in line for the Throne, heir to the House of Hangover.
@ (nameless): I'd better make it count then, yes? :3
Comment ID #126680
@ Lark - Not quite gay enough.
@ Jerk - You really are a lightweight. Please don't take that as a challenge.
Comment ID #126681
No, i'd use none of those, i would drag out my worst wepon: SANITY
oh Gods, i hate just typing the word
Name if you bought me a drink right now you'd prolly go to jail, i'm 20. Foer now i'll stay in Texas but i might travale in the future but i'm not shure
Comment ID #126683
I'm also 20, and I don't drink anything stronger than Sprite, offer still stands. *shakes head* Texans…
Comment ID #126684
@ Scotch: I doubt I'm done yet.
@ (nameless): I appreciate the offer, but I think drinking alone is just my thing.
Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west
A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness
The track hits ya eardrum like a slug to ya chest
Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex
Comment ID #126686
@Jerk: Hmmm, that's kinda sad…
And you guys should travel.
Comment ID #126687
I just don't want to be in a position where I'd have to drive from one place to another. That's all.
Comment ID #126688
what? i like my wiskey, so sue me. Remeber Name, eveythings Bigger in texas, so don't fuck with use, we use the death penalty
sorry Name, but work and Love really have me tied down at the moment
Comment ID #126691
My ex-fiancee owns a fully automatic AK-47. I prefer bolt-action rifles. There's something elegant in that.
Comment ID #126692
Aww. Lark's completely whipped.
@Jerk: Dude! Freaking awesome. Did you ever take it to the range? Though to be perfectly frank, I prefer a sniper's rifle. I am quite partial to the M40A1 myself.
Comment ID #126693
You bet your sweet ass i am Nero, like a tame jackle
The only gun i own is a Desert Eagle 44. magnum
Comment ID #126694
If I travel I'll be away from my computer. I'll miss you guys.
Comment ID #126695
She fucked some other dudes before I had the chance.
Her cousins had grenades and stuff.
I should've fucked her sister after we broke up.
Comment ID #126696
Hmmm, work and love, 2 things I haven't got.
Just remember, Texas has nothing on California, you haven't the awesome weather, the awesome beaches, the awesome ski resorts, Disneyland, the Terminator as your governor, Hollywood…
Also your state is too flat.
Comment ID #126697
@Scotch: Get yourself a laptop, or an internet phone.
@Jerk: YES! Why didn't you? That shit's better than the pimp hand.
Comment ID #126698
True, but we don't have Berkeley or Vegans. <3 We have Stevie Ray Vaughan, won a war for independence single-handedly and the best steaks on Earth.
Comment ID #126699
but you guys also have the highest unemployment rate as well, plus we're bigger then you guys
Comment ID #126700
@ (nameless) - Not as flat as Ohiowa.
@ Nero - I simply cannot be bothered with trying to get all that together.
Comment ID #126701
Scotch you wimp i'm useing a laptop right now and it's easy
And what do you mean no sweet weather? Tornados are fucking awsome
Comment ID #126702
@ Nero: I don't know. I couldn't bear to see her again, and I was just a stupid kid. This was four or five years ago.
Comment ID #126703
You truly cannot fathom the depths of my laziness.
Comment ID #126704
@Jerk: I've been to Austin, so don't tell me you guys don't have a Berkley (which happens to be a very interesting city)…or vegans. As for your little War off independence…congrads you beat the mexicans, a nation in great upheaval at the time, when you tried it a second time (insert Civil War fail joke)
Comment ID #126706
hay you coulda met Ace
Comment ID #126707
@ (nameless): Which is as bad as UC Berkeley? Really? We have Vegans, just nowhere near as many. They're trying to remake my part of Dallas into a Los Angeles replica because of all the yuppies, I swear.
I love California, I do. It is a beautiful state. But I can find things in Texas just as beautiful, just as ugly, etc. Statistics be damned, I know what I've seen, and I have been all over my own state.
Yuppies are the disease that infect both states with Berkelies and Vegan faggotry and pretentious personal politics.
Comment ID #126708
@Jerk: Live and learn. And with an assault rifle, I'm now thinking it might not have been a great idea to piss her off.
Comment ID #126711
Didn't think i'd agree to your wipped comment Nero? because i am. That bitch has me right were she wants me and i love it <3 <3 <3
Comment ID #126713
Okay Austin is not quite as bad, but as for fewer vegans, you have ummm…fewer people? Yeah I'm going with that, also (insert Texas false stereotype joke).
Texas vs. California the fight will never end (because it's just too damn fun) I'm done for now.
Comment ID #126715
@Lark: I thought you might, the way you dote over her.
Comment ID #126718
What can i say, i'm a sucker for my bitch ;P
Comment ID #126722
Sounds like you are the bitch there.
I have too many ships in my hangar… I can never find the one I need.
Comment ID #126724
Anyone of any opinion can be and almost always is pretentious about it.
@ Nero - Is that a pimp joke?
Comment ID #126725
California has unique parks and beaches, Texas has pretty hills and pretty beaches of its own. Both have people who take personal politics to psychotic extremes, and these people should be gassed until the moderate independents take power and set aside the hate.
They're really two of the best states in the country, otherwise. I love them both.
Comment ID #126726
Moderate independents? *sigh* If only it were possible…
Comment ID #126727
I can dream of a non-party line, can't I? See, we have more in common than you think, perhaps.
Comment ID #126728
@Scotch: No, just a simple fact. I have 15-20 battleships, transports, and battlecruisers, all set up for different occasions. And that keeps me from getting the one I need quickly.
Comment ID #126731
@ Jerk - How about Wyoming? Beautiful scenery and only 500,000 people.
Comment ID #126732
Oh but i am Nero. Really though she's a shy, insecure girl, that i do my best to make feel special (because she is <3) and beautiful. She dosn't think she has all the controle and dosn't tell me to do anything but i do what she asks and likes because it makes her smile and be happy, and thats all i can ask for.
Comment ID #126733
Anyway, I'm going to do two more shots and then try to read this book tonight until I barf myself out of depression. LATOR GUYZ
@ Scotch: I've been to Cheyenne. They had a stuffed bear and a rumpus room in their capitol, last time I was there.
Comment ID #126735
Lator Gator.
Comment ID #126736
@Lark: Jess used to be like that. Do yourself a favor and don't let her get too much self esteem. Commie is a good example of what happens. Keep her happy though, always.
Not saying that Commie is bad, for she is not. Commie is frigging awesome.
Comment ID #126740
Hey, Lark. Is she an ugly duckling?
Comment ID #126741
If you havn't knoticed by my past ex's (only the Big ones get called ex) i'm drawn to the crazy ones. Thats my point, she dosen't really get that much self esteem and thinks she's a burden on me, but she's not. Anthing i do i do myself, not because other people
Scotch, she's not what YOU'DE call hot but to me shes beautiful and cute, but i'm biesed and in love so i can't say
Head back to the forum index.


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Google - via data released to SearchEngineLand - has just accused Microsoft's Bing of 'cheating' by copying its search data in order to improve the quality of its own results.
It started with 'tarsorrhaphy'
Funnily enough, Google caught Bing out by using the same trick that has been the undoing of so many high-school cheaters - spelling mistakes. The search-giant's engineers found that Bing's top result for a few misspelt terms were the same as Google's spelling corrected results. Basically, it looked like Microsoft was piggy-backing on Google's hard work by stealing its results.
Apparently, both Internet Explorer 8 and the Bing Toolbar report browsing data back to Microsoft, which is then used to improve Bing's results. Google managed to test this by modifying the search algorithm to link nonsense words or random strings of letters to specific, unrelated websites. When the same string returned the same page on Bing, the engineers at Google knew something must be amiss.
Of course, the search results aren't identical, but it seemed apparent that Bing's answers were becoming very 'Googley', especially for more obscure terms.
Ian Fleming would be proud
Interestingly, though, Microsoft hasn't really denied these claims. Although a spokesperson flatly told ZDNet that "we don't not copy Google's results", a more detailed statement explained that the decision engine used more than 1,000 'signals' and that a small amount of data was 'clickstreamed' from users who opted-in to share data via the Bing Bar and IE. On one hand, tracking (consenting) users' browsing habits to improve search results makes sense and certainly isn't illegal, but Google has still labelled it as cheating.
Bing's Harry Shum went on to chastise the search-leader for "a spy-novelesque stunt to generate extreme outliers in tail query ranking" that, while creative, doesn't really prove anything that the company doesn't readily admit.
But is it cheating?
The folks from Mountain View are having none of it though. They have stood by their original assertion that Bing is pulling search results from Google and that - in their opinion - is cheating.
As a parting shot, Google Fellow Amit Singhal pointed out that "Bing results increasingly look like an incomplete, stale version of Google results-a cheap imitation," adding that the he "[looks] forward to competing with genuinely new search algorithms out there-algorithms built on core innovation, and not on recycled search results from a competitor".
So is it cheating? That all depends on your point of view. Bing is improving the service for its users by learning from how they browse, even though it means that some data is taken from Google. It's a smart tactic, but it's undeniably making use of Google's hard work to try and gain a competitive advantage - or at least a level footing. Why not let us know your take in the HEXUS.community.


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#1Posted 01 May 2012 - 12:19 AM This weeks photo challenge is RED I'm addicted to red ATM, I see it everywhere I go, and I just want to collect it in every way that I can! So basically your photo can be of anything you like, as long as the key subject in the photograph is red. There can be other colours in there too, and the subject can be small or big, so there can be a small amount of red in the photo, or it could be all red if you like, the choice is yours Oh and it has to be naturally red, not changed in processing Some examples, but using the colour yellow... http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=yellow http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=photo+...;FORM=IGRE#x0y0 YAY! I'm so excited to see the entries! The rules: One photo per person which has been taken this week (starting TUESDAY). Everyone is welcome to join in. Competition will start Tuesday with submissions ending the following Monday. If you wish, please note your rating after your image: Rating 1 Beginner (just got my camera) Rating 2 Amateur (learning about settings) Rating 3 Hobbyist (have a good grasp of the theory) Rating 4 Semi Pro (improved well beyond when I started) Rating 5 Pro/serious hobbyist (I'm well experienced and have been doing this for quite a while) All images must be up by next MONDAY at (9pm EDST, 8pm EST, 7.30pm CST, 6pm WST) for inclusion. Remember the EB rules state images within posts must be smaller than 500 (wide) x 470 (high) pixels and 100kb. Challenge history for the winner: Suggestive - Abbygirl Mostly Black/Mostly white - PrincessPinkenIt Autumn - Superman+4Sisters Capturing Action - Peanut Black and white perspective - Abbygirl Shadows - winkwink Props - Jalex Numbers - apocketfull Circle - mummy26 Coke - rbat Abstract - mummy26 The Natural World - Abbygirl Bokeh - blue4me Love - Abbygirl Favourite things - Red Cabbage Creepy crawlies - Goggles Four Colours - Nut Take a walk - Jalex Christmas - rbat Relax - Mummy26 Fear - Peanut Solitude - Mr Gadget 3 - iplantedpeastoday 10 mins from home & low light - staremperor Hair - Raven74 Somewhere to Sit - paris-stella Elegance - rbat Food, Glorious Food - Staremperor #2Posted 01 May 2012 - 12:23 AM
Bugger why couldn't we start this yesterday! lol Had some good photos with red skies!
#3Posted 01 May 2012 - 08:44 AM
Oooh, I finally have a great idea for this one. Now to get all the components to work for me.
#4Posted 01 May 2012 - 01:58 PM
Congratulations on your win Marika Look forward to seeing all the red entries.
#5Posted 01 May 2012 - 07:38 PM
I feel a red balloon photo is in order...
#6Posted 01 May 2012 - 08:21 PM
Getting excited for entries
#7Posted 01 May 2012 - 10:47 PM
Congratulations Marika & great topic - my favourite colour
#8Posted 02 May 2012 - 09:22 AM
Have a few ideas on this one Now to hunt down a tripod!
#11Posted 04 May 2012 - 06:56 PM
Hi everyone, I feel like I've missed so much. The last few weeks have been ridiculous, with both my in laws and my mother visiting from interstate (separately), I got an abcess on my leg that had me out of action and the computer broke down. TWICE!
So now we have the computer home, picked it up day before yesterday and I'm trying to rush an online photography course that I'd signed up for that runs for 4-5 weeks and its actually now finished but I'm only up to week 2! So yeah might be a while before I feel like I can relax a bit again. And worst of all, I havn't taken a photo on my dslr for weeks!!!!!! Looking forward to going through the past few challenges to see what you've all been up to. Love the 'red' idea abbygirl. sorry to double post, but susie 25 just gotta say what a great shot of the rose! Love it. #12Posted 04 May 2012 - 08:07 PM
Winkwink, great shoes!
Susie25, awesome rose love the detail. A Pocket Full, OMG you sound like you have had such a bad time, hopefully things get better, look forward to seeing your pictures again. BTW how is the online course? worth it? Took this tonight, it is a warning light for the boats, I loved how the reflection hit the water. IMG_5602 by silver wattle, on Flickr #14Posted 06 May 2012 - 03:00 PM
I havent been in for a while but I always come in and love to look at all the photos. Might have some more time on my hands as I just lost my job on Friday : ( Decided to take the rest of the year off as my youngest starts school next year so going to enjoy spending time with my baby. EB Photo Challenge - RED by TjLjJw, on Flickr Thanks Peanut for your help too Edited by Luckyseven, 07 May 2012 - 06:36 PM. #19Posted 07 May 2012 - 04:19 PM
hi everyone,
great pictues this week. will be hard to judge this week i think. here is my little red riding hood #20Posted 07 May 2012 - 04:42 PM
Some awesome shots this week, it's been ages since I've ventured in. I should see if I can get my butt into gear and get some pics.
#21Posted 07 May 2012 - 05:06 PM
There's still 4 more hours RC
#22Posted 07 May 2012 - 06:09 PM #24Posted 07 May 2012 - 07:32 PM
Almost bowed out this week due to lack of time. But need to keep practising and improving so here we go. Rating 2.
IMG_2931 by Mercurial., on Flickr #25Posted 07 May 2012 - 08:41 PM
Just scraping in this week. My youngest turned two today and I think this pic, by chance, fits this weeks theme.
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The First Rivals Underclassman Challenge is going on this weekend, and while being overshadowed by the opening, I'm interested to see how our targets are doing. If anyone hears any relevant news, please feel free to contribute.
Here is a list of important names:
QB Drew Barker - KY
DT Mike Barwick - OH (Cincy)
LB Tinashe Bere - OH (Cincy)
WR Justin Brent - Indy
RB Jonathan Haden - DC
CB Chris Hardeman - TX
ATH CJ Hilliard - OH
RB Mikel Horton - OH
LB Davonte James - OH
OT Demetrious Knox - TX
WR- Josh Malone TN
CB Edward Paris - TX
S CJ Reavis - VA
S Brandon Simmons - TX
RB Mikale Wilbon - IL
These are all guys whose names I've heard tied to OSU, Malone, Barker, and some others have already visited. Apparently Demetrious Knox wore an OSU hat to the camp today, he grew up a fan, and getting him early would really open up inroads to the other TX targets. Anyone else with any news?


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Simple examples are always difficult to create because while you want to demo some feature, you also want something that seems to make sense. I wanted to try to distill down some of the complexity of creating a Y.App application by building a bare bones two panel app. Here's the sourcecode:
All I did was create a model, which has three attributes, a view which will render this model, and then built the skeleton of the "app". We have two pages, both of which use the same view and model structure, and I also used the built-in system for wiring up events. In this case on the "button" tag.
Of course, all this code does is let you switch between to views, but all the work going on behind the scenes to wire up the events, utilize the models, etc is very powerful. This example really just scratches the barest surface of what you are capable with this new framework, and I encourage you to check out a more complex example on the YUI staging site here.


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I can guarantee you that there are NO mail carriers with just an 8th Grade education. Carriers must have a high school diploma or GED, physically fit, undergo a criminal background check and drug tests, and pass the 473 Postal Exam (which apparently only 10-20% of applicants do). It's not some high school dropout delivering your mail.
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Zombie anime! Everyone loves zombie anime.
Our main character Chihiro Furuya is a zombie maniac. In fact, he even claims that he doesn't like normal girls, but only zombie girls. One day, though, his cat got run over by a car and died.
It was at this point that Furuya decides to use an old notebook he found detailing steps on how to do revival magic. And so he tries to turn Babu into a zombie cat. Well, he doesn't exactly succeed, since there's a page that's unreadable already. So night after night he tries different poisonous plants (the page only manages to mention a poisonous plant but doesn't exactly say which) in an abandoned buliding, all to no avail. But lo and behold, one night a girl walks into the abandoned building, shouting out unto the well all her issues in life. As it turns out, she is Sanka Rea, the daughter to a prominent and wealthy family. Furuya at first merely observes her wailing from afar, but one day he blows his cover and the two come face to face to each other. One thing led to another, and they become friends to a certain extent and Rea decides to help out Furuya in his quest to resurrect Babu. She leaves saying that she'll meet him again the next day.To complicate things though, seems like Furuya has a cousin who's also interested in him…
That's pretty much the episode. It's slow and steady, setting up the plot elements needed for the actual launch of the plot which I guess will happen in the next episode. Some might complain that there's nothing much that happened, but I kind of like the deliberate pace to flesh out stuff. I already know what will happen in the next few episode if they stay true to the manga, but I'd say there's enough plot to keep me happy. Also, Rea is moe. Rating: 8/10Points to Note: I don't think the other zombie maniac girl will show up this season.
Subs I Watched: Commie
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FORT LEE - Before they met celebrated political cartoonist Thomas Nast, Gen. George Patton or the man charged with tending to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's horse, Cincinnati, most of the roughly 100 children who showed up for the third annual Night at the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum had no clue what a Quartermaster is, or was.
They received clues at the start of a journey back through time to learn how the Army's oldest logistics branch has kept generations of American soldiers in fighting shape since 1775.
"I really need your help, I have this basket of artifacts here, and I need to figure out where they belong," volunteer 'security guard' Mikenzi Petersen told the school-aged children signed up for the 6:15 p.m. tour.
"We have to hurry up and put these back so I don't get in trouble," she said, taking a page from the 2006 movie starring Ben Stiller that education curator Laura Baghetti said inspired the museum to begin bringing history exhibits to life.
Petersen doled out a Medal of Honor, washcloth, horseshoe, honey-combed cardboard and a half-dozen other items that the children helped match with historic exhibits.
"This feels like a bag of Styrofoam peanuts," Sebastian Parker, 7, said, shaking a vegetarian version of the infamous Meal, Ready to Eat pouches that replaced canned rations in the 1980s.
His sister, 11-year-old Camille, toted around a set of extra-long wool socks. The pair were beaming at the end of the whirlwind tour, an event that helped them learn more about what their great-grandfather's life was like during his time in the Quartermaster Corps.
"My favorite part was getting to put in my artifacts," Camille said.
The stories about war, the ones told at home and in classrooms, that are unearthed on Veterans Day and Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, are stories of valor and sacrifice. Children learn early what a soldier is and does, that all give some and some give all, but unpacking the 'what' and 'how' of the Army's mission poses a challenge, Baghetti said.
"We want them to leave with a greater understanding of their history and the role that Quartermasters played in it," Baghetti said.
To that end, the museum teamed up with local performers from the Lee Playhouse to create century-spanning nods to Army logistics and logisticians. Pint-sized pupils and their caretakers learned about life before showers - 'yuck' - how parachute riggers pack livestock - 'whoa' - and that Gen. George Patton traveled in style - 'cool.' They were introduced to an incarnation of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had been tasked with orchestrating the delivery of thousands of pounds of food to World War II soldiers, and learned about Pvt. George Watson, a Medal of Honor recipient who drowned while saving his peers in 1943.
"It's such a good feeling to know that the kids are going to go home and remember what they learned because they had the chance to interact with history," said Petersen, who used to work at the museum and returned to volunteer for the event.
Culpeper resident Tim Carlson, who portrayed political cartoonist Thomas Nast, said that he took more away from preparing for the role than a "Jeopardy"-worthy grasp of his character's biography. The German immigrant that Carlson embodied was a grade-school dropout whose drawings nonetheless helped bring down Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine.
"It's like I told my daughter today, 'It's not about having the best cards, it's playing the hand that you're dealt in the best way that you can,'" he said.
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Here's a fractured fairytale I wrote for a 1st Grade class last year. It was inspired by my cat, Ziggy (who the class loved to talk about). Can you spot the similarities and differences from the real Frog Prince story?
There once was kitty named Ziggy, who lived in a small house by an enchanted forest.
There was nothing too interesting about Ziggy, but his favorite thing in the whole wide world was a ball of golden yarn. You could find him every day with that ball of golden yarn. He would bounce it and throw it, drop it and roll it. He would kick it, flick it, juggle it and even snuggle it. In fact he loved his golden ball of yarn so much, he was never without it.
One day, he was playing with his golden ball of yarn by the forest. He usually didn't go deep in the forest, but today he was feeling quite adventurous. So he picked up his golden ball of yarn in his mouth and headed into the dense woods. As he was walking along he spotted a pond and decided this was a good place to stop and play; however, as he was playing, the ball slipped away and fell into the pond! Well, as you know, cats do not like to swim, and Ziggy was no exception.
"What do I do?" said Ziggy, "I can't swim!"
At that moment an unusual frog with a crown on its head popped out of the water. Ziggy had never seen anything quite unusual as a frog wearing a crown on its head.


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From the Pottsville Historical Museum near Merlin Oregon, comes this video of a 1936 Fairbanks Morse 32D diesel powerplant going through warm-up exercises for a transfixed audience.
This video has made its home in a tab of my web browser for quite some time now, and I watch it whenever I feel the need for a moment of zen. There is something soothing about the combination of spinning flywheel and puffs of smoke that calm and focus my easily distracted… squirrel!!
A long-time producer of windmill, gas, coal gas and diesel powerplants for industrial uses such as mining, milling, logging and marine, Fairbanks Morse has been around in one form or another for a staggering 189 years.
And speaking of staggering, did you see the SIZE of them @#$% smoke rings?!!? If I ever win the lottery you bet your ass I'm gonna get one of these in my back yard to play with. Hit the jump to see this big old thing in action.
They say the ground shakes each time it fires. And I'm pretty sure I just heard someone say "Roadtrip!!" Even though that means I'll end up visiting crazy relatives… (Oregon, you know…) Continue reading Musical Mechanical Monstrosities


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Space gray, silver fifth-gen iPad shells leaked
By Phil Dzikiy
News Editor, iLoungeGoogle+
Published: Wednesday, September 25, 2013
News Categories: iPad
More apparent upcoming iPad parts have been posted online by Sonny Dickson — this time, space gray and silver shells for the fifth-generation iPad. A number of other parts are also featured in the gallery.
Dickson previously posted front panel photos of the fifth-generation iPad. A French site recently posted an alleged space gray shell for a second-generation iPad mini, as well.
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The PSB Imagine Mini is the latest addition to the firm's Imagine loudspeaker line, which sits just below PSB's flagship Synchrony series, and above the Image and Alpha lines. The two-way Mini, which stands just a bit over nine inches tall, is the smallest model in the Imagine family, though it is slightly taller and about two inches deeper than the conceptually similar PSB Image B4, which I reviewed in Playback 37. The Minis are priced at $760/pair (in dark cherry, walnut, or black ash veneers) or $830/pair (in white or high gloss black), which makes them reasonably priced, though still quite a bit more than some small speakers—including those from PSB. As was the case when we reviewed the Image B4's, PSB's head honcho Paul Barton recommended that we listen to the Imagine Mini's on their own, but then also try them with PSB's matching SubSeries 1 powered subwoofer ($450), which is fitted with an 8-inch woofer and a 110-watt amplifier.
Like all PSB speakers, the new Imagine Mini benefits from research work the firm has done at the acoustical test facilities of Canada's National Research Council. PSB uses NRC to conduct fundamental studies of loudspeakers and room acoustics in its anechoic chamber as well as doing observational evaluations in its listening-studio facilities. PSB's research at the NRC included a development project for the firm's critically acclaimed flagship Synchrony-series speakers, and insights from that project have, of course, had significant impact on the design of the Imagine Series. Paul also told us that the Minis benefit from learnings gained during the design of other Imagine series models. Engineering, being based on tradeoffs, often allows for serious learning in the course of designing a full product line, so that the Imagine Mini benefits from being the last Imagine model completed.
The Mini incorporates custom-designed drivers and a special low crossover point. PSB's goal has been to create a smooth, natural sound with surprising bass for such a small speaker. Some very careful work went into the Mini's enclosure design, which feature five-layer construction and has no visible seams whatsoever. The bottom section of the enclosure features a cleverly design plinth, which provides a recessed pocket for speaker binding posts and sleek, concealed attachment points for optional PSB wall-mount brackets or speaker stands. As you can see from the photos that accompany this review, the sidewalls of the Mini cabinets are curved along the sides, top panel, and front baffle, for what designer Paul Barton often describes as an "organic" shape.
The SubSeries 1, in turn, is designed to offer significant output down to the deep bass range. PSB has created a driver and cabinet combination with a -3 dB point of 36 Hz, which is actually pretty low if your room will support it. The SubSeries 1 provides level, low pass filter cutoff and phase controls, and it can be driven by line level, LFE or high-level (speaker) connections.
A non-trivial point is that PSB's instruction manual for the SubSeries 1 is really well done. It offers many good suggestions for placement of the sub to get good results. This is critical because bass is very dependent on room dimensions and subwoofer location within the room, and having a systemic approach really helps even experienced users get optimal performance from the sub.
For obvious reasons, we admire PSB's stated objectives and intentions for the Imagine Mini, but we do these tests to characterize the real-world results that designs achieve. Is the Imagine Mini an improvement over excellent products like the Image B4, and if so is the Mini enough better to justify a price tag hundreds of dollars higher? We'll tackle those very questions in this review.
Consider this speaker/subwoofer system if: You've been looking for a balanced, open sounding, compact speaker system that gets the midrange and treble right, and that also can provide solid bass performance (especially if you're willing to spend time dialing-in the speaker/subwoofer interface to tweak bass performance). Consider the Imagine Mini, too, if you prize a speaker that does a good job of minimizing artificial-sounding "hi-fi" artifacts.
Look further if: You insist on a speaker system that offers maximum dynamic range, superb mid-bass articulation or that produces large soundstages—qualities that, in our experience, can generally only be provided by much larger speakers.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Canadian linebacker Cory Greenwood was among four players released Thursday by the Kansas City Chiefs.
Quarterback Alex Tanney, fullback Patrick DiMarco and offensive lineman Bryan Mattison were also let go by the NFL club.
The six-foot-two, 235-pound Greenwood joined the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent after being selected in the first round, third overall, of the 2010 CFL draft by the Toronto Argonauts.
Greenwood, a native of Kingston, Ont., who played collegiately at Concordia, appeared in 48 games with Kansas City, mostly on special teams. Last season, the 27-year-old recorded 10 tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in 16 games.
During his three seasons with the Chiefs, Greenwood accumulated 34 tackles.
Greenwood played at Concordia from 2006 to '09. In his final season with the Stingers, he captured the Presidents' Trophy as Canadian university football's top defensive player.
Tanney spent time on the Chiefs' practice squad but never made the active roster.
DiMarco started four of the five games he played in last season. But he became expendable when the Chiefs drafted fullback Braden Wilson last weekend and then traded cornerback Javier Arenas to the Arizona Cardinals for another fullback, Anthony Sherman.
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"The staff is great, food excellent, and fishing Super.!.. I can't wait to get back to grand slam flyfishing lodge!"
Settles brings nearly three decades of experience to the property on Ascension Bay, where he has fished and lived for the past 23 years.Settles' appreciation for fishing and hunting began at a young age. He was raised in South Texas where his grandfather and father engrained in him the values of good sportsmanship – catching or shooting only what could be eaten and always cleaning and preparing the catch personally. Settles spent his school days waiting for the geese to migrate down and for the redfish to start tailing in the shallow flats of the Lower Laguna Madre; before and after school, he was dedicated to throwing a wet line. In summer, Settles worked at a local plant nursery where he met Dial Dunkin, a man who changed his life.Settles and Dunkin built a relationship over the next few years and after Settles attended Southwest Texas State in San Marcos, they teamed up to develop Hacienda Alta Vista. Set on a cliff overlooking Lake Guerrero in the Northern State of Tamaulipas, Hacienda Alta Vista was one of the finest hunting and fishing venues in Mexico.During his time at Hacienda Alta Vista, Settles was introduced to a Mexico City Banker, who also had an enormous influence on his life. Together, over the next 23 years, the duo built a quality fishing program on Ascension Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay. Settles fished the area and lived in the Sian Kaan Biosphere throughout this period. He brings his experience and knowledge of the destination and fishing conditions with him to GrandSlam Fishing Lodge, where guests will also find an exceptional fishing program – lead and honed by Settles – along with luxury accommodations and amenities, and stunning oceanfront surroundings.


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Watch out, Lady Gaga - Lana Del Rey thinks you suck! Or at least she used to.
Earlier this week "So Legit," a song written by Lana in 2009, leaked on the Internet and in it, the indie singer attacks Lady Gaga!
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"Stefani [Lady Gaga's real name] you suck / I know you're selling 20 million / Wish they could've seen you / When we booed you off in Williamsburg / You're hurt / I know my words don't hurt yeah / Oh girl I see you walking round / In your pearls / Thinking that you're number one / You're so funny / Cause honey you're not."
Before both 27-year-old starlets gained their claim to fame, they were actually both close friends on the New York music scene. Something must have created a rift between the two women, considering "So Legit" was written prior to the release of Lana's first album Born to Die.
Regardless of what is actually happening, Lana and Gaga's relationship is rather peculiar. Last year the two singers spent the night together watching old movies and playing board games with Lindsay Lohan at LA's Chateau Marmont.
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"You're looking like a man, you're talking like a baby / How the fuck is your song / In a Coke commercial crazy / I don't get it / Your taste once exquisite / What happened to Brooklyn? / What happened to New York? / What happened to my scene? / What happened to punk rock?"
In response to the song, Lana has been receiving a lot of harsh criticism on Twitter from fans of the "Born This Way" singer. The "Video Games" crooner has yet to release a statement regarding the old song.
"You called me the queen / Of the downtown scene babe / How the fuck would you go / Switch it up and then replace me? / I don't get it / I'm so legit."
Listen to "So Legit" below:
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When we were brainstorming ideas earlier this month, I typed up one and deleted it because it was just too crazy. The idea was to buy and tear down the Air Rights and Apex building, then build the light rail and trail, and then resell the air rights, perhaps with higher height restrictions. It might even pay for itself.
Well, it looks like it wasn't that crazy after all. At the meeting yesterday, that I did not attend and haven't yet watched, the Board had two proposed alternatives.
One proposal would build the Bethesda light-rail station for the 16-mile Purple Line just east of the tunnel, perhaps using county land at Elm Street Park. Another would build it in the tunnel but east of Wisconsin, sparing the most problematic of the two office buildings on the western side. The state would have to buy and tear down the Air Rights building on the east side of Wisconsin but could recoup some of the cost by redeveloping the land, board members said.
Someone mentioned the first proposal in the comments, but many criticized it because it moved the station too far away, which MTA seems to have reiterated. Still, residents and trail advocates unanimously supported the trail in the tunnel.
One option seems to have been removed from consideration.
The board rejected the idea of keeping the trail inside the tunnel by single-tracking trains there after state transit planners said that would make the light-rail line too slow and unreliable.
Here are the options as I see them:
- Stop the Purple line short of the tunnel, and leave the trail in the tunnel
- Move the last Purple line stop east, but still in the tunnel. Tear down the Air Rights Building and redevelop it. Keep the trail in the tunnel
- Spend up to $40M to build the trail in the tunnel with the Purple line.
- Don't excavate. Build the Purple line in the existing tunnel. Split the CCT into a ped trail that would continue through the tunnel, but be somewhat narrow (6 feet?) and divert cyclist on to street level.
- Don't excavate. Build the Purple line in the existing tunnel. Divert the trail to street level.
- No build
If the price of 3 gets down to the $5-10 million range, it gets more appealing. If the money isn't there then 2 or 4 become the best options IMO, depending on the cost of 2.
Of course, even if 3 is $40M it might still be the best option. It depends on where that $40M comes from. Will it use bike project funding, or will it come from road funding? Are we giving up a county-wide bikeshare system or one highway interchange? Because knowing the opportunity cost changes my answer. Also, will the state pick up more of that $40M as a purple line expense? Jack Cochrane thinks it should stay in the tunnel no matter what. The "Friends of the Trail" are staking the same position. Perhaps real trail advocates can use that to our advantage.
A decision might be less than two months away
The council's transportation committee is to discuss the trail Dec. 5, and full council consideration is planned for January.
In addition, the board made another recommendation in favor of the best possible trail.
Board members also recommended that the county spend $1.9 million to build switchback ramps to carry runners and cyclists from the trail alongside a Purple Line down to the Rock Creek Trail. Maryland transit officials said they would study ways to spare more trees in building the trail connection.


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What have academics learned -- and failed to learn -- about business and management in China? Marshall Meyer, a management professor at Wharton, answered this question in his keynote address delivered in Shanghai at the launch of China Knowledge@Wharton. The text appears below:
My journey in China began in Beijing in late spring of 1999 when I accepted a short-term teaching assignment at Tsinghua University. Since I taught only one day a week, I had time to explore Beijing. I began with the banks because I was working as a consultant and researcher with Citibank at the time. I recall a conversation in the offices of an international financial institution, not Citibank. The bankers explained patiently that the Chinese economy was on the verge of collapse. Their viewpoint was buttressed by many charts and graphs, all pointing downward. I had only one question: "Have you looked out the window?"
I have been looking at China since, mainly through direct observation and conversation rather than through the lens of government and bankers' statistics. Almost all of this work involves Chinese colleagues—from Peking University, CEIBS, South China University of Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Some of these colleagues have become friends. A few weeks ago, my wife and I joined one of them, Professor Lan Hailin, Dean of the Business School at South China University of Technology, and his family to celebrate the Chinese New Year. I have found that there is no substitute for being in China and making friends over the lunch or dinner table.
I have learned a lot about China from my interaction with Chinese colleagues. One of the most important lessons is that relationships in China are qualitatively different from the West. Put simply, people watch and watch out for their friends. A year and a half ago I flew to Wuhan via Beijing. My mobile phone rang in Beijing Capital Airport: "Marshall, I heard you are in Beijing." "Jim, I'm between planes on my way to Wuhan. But how did you know I'm in China?" "Someone recognized you on the plane and called me." Another lesson is that scholars and scholarship remain deeply respected in the Chinese business community. Chinese managers have been remarkably open with me, far more open than their US counterparts. The openness is for good reason. As often as not, toward the end of a day or two of interviews (and in one instance four days), the CEO has turned to me and said, "You have one more meeting with my top management team. However, this time we will ask the questions and you will answer them." Seeking answers to the tough questions about the management and strategy of the firm is the highest complement a CEO can pay a professor. What We KnowThe accomplishments of the Chinese business community are well known. Some of these accomplishments include the creation of a legal framework for business in an extraordinarily short period of time, the creation of some globally competitive firms with many others on the cusp of global competitiveness, and the initiation of a program of outward foreign investment, about three percent of GDP to date with much more committed. Less well understood is how the Chinese business practice has been shaped, perhaps permanently, by China's history and its path of enterprise reform, which is the focus of my research. The research has shown the following:
What We Don't Know
Still poorly understood, in my judgment, is the process of privatization in China. The statistics are staggering. From 1991 to 2003, self-employment and employment in urban private enterprises grew rapdily, from 7.6 million to 49.2 million. From 1991 to 2003, employment in state-owned and urban collective enterprises plummeted from 142.9 to 75.7 million. The number of private enterprises with revenues above RMB 5 million is growing at the rate of 40 to 50 per cent per year—it was 22,128 in 2000, 36,218 in 2001, 49,176 in 2002, and 67,607 in 2003. The output of the private sector is growing even faster. Most private enterprises are short-lived, however. The typical lifespan is two to four years, and survival rates are quite low compared to the US. The rapid growth of the private sector is due partly but not entirely to displacement of state-owned and collectively-owned enterprises by more efficient private enterprises. It is also due to reconstitution of state-owned and collective enterprises as private firms once they incur loses and become burdensome to government. Looking around Shunde during the Chinese New Year, I had the impression that the government has converted many declining TVEs into private enterprises and simply handed them to their managers.
Also poorly understood are persistent regional differences in ownership and management. In Beijing and the northeastern provinces of Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, 27 per cent the industrial enterprises (excluding SOEs with revenues below 5 million RMB) remain state-owned. In Shanghai, by contrast, state ownership is about 14 per cent, and state ownership is about 7 per cent in Jiangsu and Guangdong and 3 per cent in Zhejiang. There are also persistent differences in the relations between government and firms, even state-owned firms. In Beijing, for example, unplanned meetings with government officials consume half the time of SOE senior managers. In Guangdong, firms have more autonomy. SOEs are on profit responsibility contracts, and their managers avoid meetings with the government so long as they deliver results. A Guangdong government official often accompanies me to interviews with firms in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. I originally thought he was facilitating my work but it turns out that I have been facilitating his. In Shenzhen, the CEOs of the largest listed firms have announced a Listed Companies Association. The Association will "establish self-disciplined management regulation . . . strive for and safeguard the members' rights and benefits . . . and coordinate all kinds of working relationships." Western management theories assume best practices diffuse and attenuate regional differences quickly. In China, differences persist because there is very little agreement on best practice. Our management theories have not yet accommodated this fact but will have to.
Building a Research Community
The first steps toward building a community joining Western and Chinese management scholars are underway. The International Association for Chinese Management Research has been formed; IACMR's inaugural meeting in Beijing last summer drew 900 delegates. I have helped create a new academic new journal focusing on Chinese management issues; the title is Management and Organization Review and the publisher is Blackwell. As important as it is to have a community of scholars interested in Chinese management issues, it is also important to nurture a Chinese approach to management research. If young Chinese scholars are forced to follow Western conventions and publish mainly in Western journals, then their research will mirror Western research and fail to focus on the distinctive features of Chinese management—decentralized and experimental reform, entrepreneurship in the context of state ownership, complicated and often opaque governance and management structures, internationalization despite fragmentation of domestic markets, and persistent regional differences—that may ultimately force us to revise received theories.
My journey in China has been the most fascinating of my career. I'm deeply grateful to my Chinese colleagues and the many Chinese managers who have spent so much of their time with me. I look forward to CK@W as a forum where the research of Wharton faculty and their Chinese colleagues can be disseminated throughout Greater China. And, needless to say, I look forward to learning much more about China over the coming years.


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13 Meetup Groups match "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game" near Burbank, CA
We have regular Pathfinder Society tables every Tuesday and Thursday night as well as the 2nd and 3rd Saturday of the month!
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This is a group for folks interested in playing in Pathfinder Society Organized Play in the Orange County, CA area. Whether you're as far south as San Diego, as far north as Los Angeles, or in the area for vacation at Disneyland - this group aims to provide you with an outlet to get your Pathfinder RPG on with a bunch of other fun-loving adult gamers!
Need a player, a group, a GM? Trying to bring RPG gamers of Dungeons and Dragons, D&D, AD&D, Pathfinder, Deadlands, and other RPGs together. North Los Angeles, Canyon Country, Newhall, Saugus, Valencia. Building RPG groups, one player at a time. New to the LA/Santa Clarita Area? Looking for people to play with? Need a GM? Help build up our player base for Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), Pathfinder, Cyberpunk, Deadlands, Vampire, or any other table top game you heart desires! Role Playing Gamers …
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This is a small group of 5-10 individuals who want to become immersed in the awesome high fantasy world of Paratua. Using the Pathfinder Rule system, I am looking for players who can commit from once a week to once every other week to play an extensive campaign. I played this world as a player many years back and would love to share it with some new players. Looking for adults, willing to commit to a campaign. I can host, and live in Woodland Hills.
This is a group for Players and Game Masters trying to find games to play in the San Fernando Valley. Everything is encouraged: Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Star Wars, GURPS, World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, Burning Wheel, Warhammer, and much more. The HOME page and CALENDAR will display groups actively looking for players, and you can also check out the DISCUSSIONS to find other groups and games, swap RPGs, find locations to play, and so on. Check out the MORE! link for fun and informati …
Hey Guys - My gaming group is looking to add some new members! We meet on the Westside and play Pathfinder. We're mainly guys in our 30s and 40s; I'm an old-school gamer (been playing D&D in various versions off and on for over 30 years) - but no experience is required if you have enthusiasm!
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Hey Gamers! We're a long running Pathfinder Gaming group in West Hills, CA and we're looking to add a couple of players to our game. We play every week, Thursday Nights, from 7:30p until around 11:00p (sometimes earlier, sometimes later). Right now we're finishing up Legacy of Fire, but have a Chapter or two to go. We'll take a break and maybe playing something else and then we'll start up again with new characters on another story arc. We're all players in our 30's and 40's, some with families, …
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This is a D&D group for 21 and over please. We meet at a private residence. Please have a profile picture when joining so we know what were getting into. Game nights are Saturday at 5pm. Hope to see you there!
Every Friday, we get together to play games, share a meal, hangout and have an entire 4800 square foot facility to use to do it. We have several groups, some who play D&D, European Board Games, ie. Cataan, Ticket To Ride, etc... War Games, Card Games, and some just like to eat and hang out. Note: We no longer offer childcare :( Our home page has a fun little video check it out www.FridayNightDice.com
This is the place for Pasadena area D&D players and dungeon masters to meetup! To sign up for a game at our upcoming Meetup, click the Message Board link on the left. The Games List and Signup thread for the next Meetup will always be pinned at the top of the Message Board. We meet at Game Empire in Pasadena on the first Saturday of every month. Games generally start at 10am, 12 noon, 3pm and 5pm. So if you're a player or group of players looking for a DM, or a DM looking for a fun group of pl …
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Meet other local Dungeons & Dragons players for adventures and fun! My goal is to use the meetup to help gamers find fellow gamers. Our gatherings will be for meeting other players, to see if you share the same game style. 1st, 2nd, whatever edition will be welcome. We all know half the fun of talking to other gamers is sharing the great stories of past adventures and characters. Usually accompanied by groans, laughter and "That reminds me of..." or "We had a...". I'd also like to have a coup …
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• We are a small group of like-minded friends that share an interest in pc/console video games and tabletop/board games. Located in Rowland Heights, CA, our goal is to find other individuals who share a passion for gaming and various nerd subcultures. While we are predominately an LGBT group, friends and supporters are always welcome. • Group games we have/have played: Pathfinder, Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, 7 Wonders, Settlers of Catan, Magic: The Gathering, Castle Ravenloft, Super Dungeon …
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M 473 (Divalproex sodium extended-release 500 mg)
Pill imprint M 473 has been identified as Divalproex sodium extended-release 500 mg.
Divalproex sodium is used in the treatment of bipolar disorder; migraine prevention; epilepsy; mania; hyperekplexia (and more), and belongs to the drug class fatty acid derivative anticonvulsants. There is positive evidence of human fetal risk during pregnancy. Divalproex sodium 500 mg is not subject to the Controlled Substances Act.
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- Strength:
- 500 mg
- Color:
- White
- Size:
- 21.00 mm
- Shape:
- Elliptical / Oval
- Availability:
- Prescription only
- Drug Class:
- Fatty acid derivative anticonvulsants
- Pregnancy Category:
- D - Positive evidence of risk
- CSA Schedule:
- N - Not a controlled drug
- Manufacturer:
- Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- National Drug Code (NDC):
- 00378-0473
- Inactive Ingredients:
- ammonia
silicon dioxide
dibutyl sebacate
oleic acid
polyethylene glycol
microcrystalline cellulose
titanium dioxide
NDC Code | Manufacturer / Repackager |
51079-0767 | UDL Laboratories Inc |
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CLEO: 2012 Conference
Laser Science to Photonic Applications
CLEO, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, formerly known as CLEO/QELS, serves as the premier international forum for scientific and technical optics. The CLEO: 2012 Conference unites the fields of lasers and opto-electronics by bringing together all aspects of laser technology, from basic research to industry applications.
Attendees have the opportunity to hear and present groundbreaking research, share ideas, and network with colleagues and luminaries. CLEO: 2012 builds on the long-established CLEO/QELS conference and its world-renowned peer-reviewed program by offering high quality content from five core event elements: