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Thursday, April 4, 2013
A Wednesday night crash on U.S.-17A in Dorchester County claimed the lives of two and sent two others to the hospital. At about 10:05 p.m. a 1992 Honda Accord traveling south on U.S.-17A crossed the center line for reasons unknown as of press time and ran head on into a SUV Kia. The driver has been identified by Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet as Sheldwin Jvon George, 41, from David Street in Walterboro. George died from head and cervical spine fractures. The passenger of the Honda has been identified as Steven Tyrone Donaldson, 45, Springwood Drive, Walterboro. He died from head and chest trauma. Both victims were pronounced dead on the scene. They were not wearing seatbelts, according to the Highway Patrol. When the Honda crossed the center line it struck an oncoming 2013 Kia being driven northbound by William Singleton, 71, who was wearing a seatbelt and was transported to the Medical University of South Carolina, according to the Highway Patrol. The Honda also struck a 1999 Toyota 4 Runner being driven by Jerry Ward, 39, who was not transported to the hospital but a passenger in his vehicle was, according to the Highway Patrol. The investigation continues.
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Kyle Lovern
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WEST WILLIAMSON – The Tug Valley Panthers lost Friday night at Westside and they weren't about to lose in back-to-back nights. However, they had to claw back against an athletic Riverside team in the nightcap of the Hatfield-McCoy Shootout played at the historic Williamson Fieldhouse.
When all was said and done, the Panthers beat the Warriors 74 to 65.
Tug Valley trailed 23-16 after one quarter and 36-31 at the half. Tug Valley outscored Riverside 22-18 to cut into the lead and trailed by a point, 54-53 after three quarters.
The senior trio of Austin Brewer, Mikey Newsome and Aaron Muncy had good offensive nights for the Panthers. Brewer fired in 25 points, Newsome 18 and Munch 14 for coach Garland "Rabbit" Thompson. Junior Thomas Baisden chipped in 11 points and had six rebounds. Hayden Sturgell added four for the Panthers.
"They had a good team," Thompson said of Riverside. "I think we might have had a little hangover – especially in the first half, since we played Friday night at Westside."
Tyus Wood fired in 22 points for Riverside, while Marcus Reed was next in line with 17. Tim Womack fired in 11 for the Warriors and Nick Light had nine.
Tug Valley was cold from long range only hitting 2-of-12 from behind the arc for 17 percent, and they made 24-59 from the field for 41 percent. The Panthers were also cool at the free throw line, especially early in the game, connecting on 22-35 for 63 percent.
Riverside made 5-12 from 3-point range and 22-46 overall from the floor for 48 percent. They made 16-19 at the charity stripe for 84 percent.
"We played better defense and our shot selection was better in the second half," Thompson added. "We also rebounded better."
"We get everybody's best shot," Thompson said. The Panthers have another busy week. They travel up Corridor G to take on the Logan Wildcats tonight. They head back to Logan on Friday to play Greenbrier East at 7:30 p.m. in the Coalfield Classic and they return home Saturday night to take on the Man Hillbillies.
Score by quarters:
Riverside (6-9) – Reed 1, Lawson 3, Brock 3, Light 9, Wood 22, Womack 11
Tug Valley (9-2) – Muncy 14, Sturgell 4, Newsome 18, Brewer 25, Baisden 11, Dillon 0, White 0.
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Pretty simple... there must be someone.
Pretty simple... there must be someone.
i here that are some being made in mexico.
don't know about texas. being a boarder state--with 7,000 assault weapons getting smuggled into mexico every day? i bet it would be difficult to get the ATF to sign off on that one these days!!
do thay count the weapons that our GOV.sell to Mexco in there numbers?
man thats is one nice looking lower
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July 18th, 2013
Here at Osprey, we're huge supporters of Shannon Galpin, who has created an epic movement with Mountain 2 Mountain, and who is actively moving mountains in Afghanistan by giving women and girls in conflict areas a voice — the catalyst for social change. Let's all take a minute to listen to what Shannon has to say in her TEDx talk: Two-Wheeled Revolution, in which she explains how the bicycle is a vehicle for social justice, and shares her experiences and work in Afghanistan creating the Afghan Women's National Cycling Team.
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Ashe County sent 14 cross country runners to the 2A Midwest Regional held in Kernersville last weekend.
Both the men's and women's team finished in seventh place overall while Mac Church qualified for the state championship meet this weekend on the same course.
Church finished in ninth place overall in the women's event with a finishing time of 20 minutes, 47 seconds. Victoria Reed finished 25th in a time of 22:19, followed by a trio of teammates in 45th, 46th, and 47th places. Chelsea Eller finished in 24:02, Chrissy Simmons in 24:06 and Tyler Eller in 24:09. Alexes Armstrong completed the course in 24:56 and Caroline Trent was the final Ashe runner, crossing the line in 26:03.
Cuthbertson took the regional title with 46 points. Central Davidson (92) was second, West Davidson (98)was third, Piedmont (105) was fourth and West Stokes (149) finished fifth. Wilkes Central and Ashe finished sixth and seventh with team scores of 152 and 172. Forbush placed eighth with a score of 173.
On the men's side, Gareth Berry was the highest finishing Ashe runner. The freshman completed the course in 18:42, fast enough for 25th position. Richard Burke finished 33rd in a time of 19:03 and Jonathan Nichols crossed the line in 40th position with a team of 19:28. Other Ashe runners included Andrew Tedder (49th, 19:44), Nathan Jolly (75th, 21:25), Landon Bush (77th, 21:28) and Zach Gouge (83rd, 22:15).
Cuthbertson took the regional title in the men's race as well with 39 points. Central Davidson was second with West Stokes, Piedmont and Wilkes Central rounding out the top five. Forbush, Ashe County, West Davidson, Salisbury and West Stanly completed the top 10 finishing teams.


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Robert Pattinson Broke Up With Kristen Stewart? Not So Fast…
Are Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart going the way of Justin, Selena, Taylor and Harry? Maybe ... but not quite yet.
The Sun of the UK recently had a story claiming Rob and Kristen had split for the second time, with Rob calling it off after "a difficult festive period together" in November and December. He supposedly broke up with Kristen last weekend. She was supposed to be his Golden Globes date, they claim, but he said he wanted to cool off.
That's weird, since Rob and Kristen were together at a Golden Globes after-party.
According to Gossip Cop, Kristen was never supposed to be Rob's Golden Globes date and there was no breakup. The two will be spending some time apart this winter because they have work commitments but, the site added, "Gossip Cop has checked around with sources close to the couple, and no one can confirm any truth whatsoever to the split speculation."
Gotta be honest, we figured these two would be done by now. You know, the final Twilight film came out so maybe they'd go their separate ways. Instead, for every "split" rumor, there's another one claiming they are buying a house together.
What to believe? Maybe they actually will go the distance.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Blu, Atalaya and Trawler, three sea turtles rehabilitated by the South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Rescue Program, are ready once again for the open ocean. The release is scheduled to take place this Friday, Sept. 5, at 11 a.m. at the Folly Beach County Park and is being held in partnership with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) and the Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission (CCPRC). Attendees should plan to carpool, arrive early (gate opens at 10 a.m.), and expect to pay for parking at the county park. After the release, BLU Restaurant and Bar, located at the Tides Hotel on Folly Beach, will donate 10 percent of the proceeds from its Sept. 5 lunch service to the Sea Turtle Rescue Program. For the first time ever, the aquarium will be using Instagram's new Hyperlapse app which captures high-quality time-lapse video. That video will be posted to the aquarium's social media channels directly after the release.
Blu, a juvenile Kemp's ridley (the most endangered of the sea turtle species) was accidentally caught on a hook and line by a fisherman on the Edwin S. Taylor Folly Beach Fishing Pier this past July. Blu swallowed the hook and was transported to the aquarium's Sea Turtle Rescue Program by SCDNR. The aquarium's consulting veterinarian, Dr. Biaschoechea, surgically removed the hook from Blu's esophagus. A few days after surgery, Blu's appetite returned and after just two months of care, Blu has been medically cleared for release. Blu is named after BLU Restaurant and Bar located at the fishing pier where s/he was caught.
Atalaya, an 80-pound loggerhead sea turtle, was admitted to the aquarium's Sea Turtle Rescue Program the same night as the aquarium's annual Environmental Stewardship Awards Gala. Atalaya was found stranded on the beach at Huntington Beach State Park in Georgetown County in early May and was deathly ill. Atalaya was emaciated, dehydrated, severely anemic and had intestinal parasites. Treatment included fluids, antibiotics, vitamins and a healthy diet. Atalaya was in critical care for a full month before aquarium staff started to see substantial improvements in her health. Atalaya is now feisty and back to a healthy weight, swimming around his/her holding pool in preparation for the trip back into the open ocean.
Trawler, a 123-pound juvenile loggerhead sea turtle, was captured by the SCDNR research vessel, Lady Lisa, in late June. Trawler had an unfortunate encounter with a stingray that was caught in the same net and was punctured by the stingray's barb. Upon admission to the Sea Turtle Rescue Program, Trawler was given fluids, antibiotics, pain medication and the wound was treated and monitored. With the wound fully healed, Trawler is ready to join the loggerhead population in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Working at Discount Ramps is an opportunity to meld personal creativity with product representation on a level geared toward customer satisfaction. On a daily basis we refine product information and strive to provide a critically accurate representation in imagery, video, and content for our customers to make educated purchases. As a web and graphic designer, I enjoy being part of a friendly team dedicated to helping customers with innovative, low priced products.
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Twisted hemline and semi-sheer fabric make this bebe blouse a pretty way to dress up bottoms. Try yours with a pair of printed skinny jeans and classic pumps.
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Rated 5 out of 5�by LNichole522 This top is gorgeous! Mkay. So I followed the part of the size chart that refers to your cup size and what size shirt to get. (I don't know where they get these inch measurements to determine shirt size (rolling my eyes)) Anyway, this top is beautiful! It has a nice secure fit across the shoulders (not too tight to want to return it, but perfect to know that this drapey top won't slide around while you're out.) There's one thing I must note. If you look closely at this picture, this chick has on high waist jeans. If you wear regular jeans the very bottom of your tummy MIGHT show (especially if you raise your arms). That is not a deal breaker for me, so I'm keeping my shirt. Happy shopping to you all! :D February 12, 2014
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Terry Davila begins his 16th season at the helm of the Matador men's soccer program at CSUN in 2014. Davila and the Matadors look to build upon a 15-7-1 record in 2013, including a trip to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as the 15th overall seed.
Davila's side went 15-7, winning the Big West Championship and earning the skipper Big West Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2012. After a rough season in 2010, Davila led the Matadors to an 8-8-3 record in 2011 before turning in one of the top seasons in program history a year ago.
After narrowly missing the postseason in 2008, Davila led his squad to a 10-8-2 record in 2009, the best mark since the 2005 season, and a return to postseason action when his Matadors clinched a spot in the Big West Men's Soccer Postseason Tournament. Although his season ended earlier than he had hoped, Davila's coaching ability was rewarded in the offseason when six of his players earned a spot on the All-Big West Conference squad with three players each receiving First Team and Honorable Mention. His players were not the only ones to receive end-of-season recognition as for the fourth time in his career, Davila earned Big West Coach of the Year Honors as voted upon by his conference peers.
In 2007, the Matadors finished 7-7-6 overall and 3-5-4 in the Big West Conference. As a team, the Matadors' 3-0 victory over UCLA, the program's first victory ever of the Bruins, highlighted the season. Individually, Davila and the team witnessed several impressive performances. Kevin Guppy became the all-time leader in career wins during the season en route to a spot on the All-Big West Second Team. Senior defenders Sean Franklin and Matt Tracy both earned a spot on the All-Big West First Team, while Rafael Garcia joined Guppy on the Second Team. Sunghyun Kim became the fifth Matador to earn All-Conference accolades, receiving Honorable Mention honors. Following the season, Franklin, a defender on the USA U-23 National Team, was the fourth overall selection in the MLS SuperDraft, going to the LA Galaxy, where he quickly earned a spot in the starting 11.
During the 2006 season, Davila guided the Matadors to an 8-6-5 record with one of the toughest schedules in the nation. Northridge tied national runner-up UCLA to open the season and split two meetings with NCAA Champion UC Santa Barbara, including a 5-0 victory at home on Sept. 27. Northridge finished third in the ultra-competitive Big West Conference with a 5-2-3 league mark. Eight Matadors earned All-Big West honors, including first teamers Taylor Canel, Sean Franklin and Derek Hanks. Both Canel and Franklin also received All-Far West Region accolades, giving the Matadors 12 All-Region selections over the last five years.
In 2004 and 2005, Davila and his staff masterfully coached a pair of double-digit winning teams with both the Northridge men's and women's soccer teams. In 2005, the women completed their second straight, double-digit win total with an 11-8-0 record, which included a school-record, nine-match winning streak. One year earlier, the 2004 squad completed an eight-win turnaround from the year before, going 12-6-1 and earning a berth in the Big West Tournament. The 12 victories and six conference wins both equaled the best output in one season for Northridge as Davila was honored as Coach of the Year.
The men's team earned its first-ever NCAA postseason victory in '05 and a trip to the Sweet 16 after knocking off UC Santa Barbara in the second round of the tournament. The Matadors won their second Big West title in three years and made their fourth straight postseason appearance, posting a 15-4-3 record, which were the most wins for a Northridge squad since 1988. Ten Matadors received All-Big West honors, including Goalkeeper of the Year Kevin Guppy and Midfielder of the Year Daniel Paladini. Willie Sims also earned All-American status, making him the second Matador to receive such honors under Davila, who was also named co-Big West Coach of the Year.
In 2004, the men's team finished with a record of 11-6-2 overall and a 6-2-2 league mark, placing second in the Big West. Nine Matadors received All-Big West Conference accolades, including Sims, who was named co-Big West Offensive Player of the Year. In the previous season, Davila was named Coach of the Year as his team crafted a 14-3-3 record that was good enough to capture a Big West title and All-Big West honors, including Edwin Miranda, who was named Defender of the Year for the second year in a row. Miranda also earned All-American and All-Far West Region honors.
In 2002, Davila led Northridge to a 14-5-2 overall record and its first-ever trip to the NCAA Division I Tournament. Ten Matadors received all-conference honors and three earned all-region selections (Miranda, Brian Phillips, Jesse Servin). Other accolades included Big West Goalkeeper of the Year (Joe Barton) and Defender of the Year (Miranda).
Davila became just the fourth head coach in the history of the men's program when he succeeded Marwan Ass'ad in 1999. A former four-year starter for the Matadors, Davila spent three seasons (1995-97) as the top assistant under Ass'ad before taking over the head job.
Davila graduated with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Cal State Northridge in 1994. He and his wife Stephanie have two daughters, Jayden and Olivia, and one son, Devin.


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173. The Lady of Mercia
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to the University of Frodsham, close to where the warrior queen Æthelfrid fought a desperate and bloody rearguard action against the savage Danes. Over a thousand years later, in 1983, battle is still being raged, with student activists taking on savage funding cuts… and disrupting a conference about Æthelfrid convened by history professor John Bleak.
Meanwhile, over in the Physics Department, Dr Philippa Stone is working night and day on a top-secret project – but can her theoretical time machine really be the solution to the university's problems?
Present and past are about to collide – and the results, as the TARDIS crew is about to discover, will be far from academic!
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Mount Pleasant Police Inspector Chip Googe just announced that during the night of August 11 two subjects took an aluminum shelf from the rear of Water Dog Grill on Anna Knapp Blvd. Video of the incident shows the subjects behind the business between 12:23 and 12:30 a.m. according to a statement released by the department.
The owner notified police that the rack had been stolen and it is valued at $400.
The suspects are described as being approximately 25 - 35 years of age.
According to the incident, one suspect is described as having blond hair and a short beard, wearing a dark colored short sleeve shirt and blue jeans. A second suspect was wearing blue jeans, a black short sleeve shirt, a black baseball cap, and black framed glasses.
The police report said that the second suspect took the aluminum rack, picked it up, and left with it - walking out of the view of the camera.
The first suspect remained looking through other items in the back of the business but was not seen taking any items, and he left, the report said.
If you have any information about the subjects, you are asked to call Detective Stephenson at 843-884-4176 or Crimestoppers at 843-554-1111.
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We've gone into chef's kitchens (and their apartment kitchens!); we've mixed cocktails with lightsabers and inflated ducks with a hose; we've chatted up Dale Talde and Alton Brown. 2012 was a great year for original video on Serious Eats—come check out the highlights!
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Girl Scout Troop 41787 donated 166 pounds of toiletries to Tri-County Christian Crisis Ministries on Tuesday.
"A lot of our clients receive food stamps, but you can't use those towards toiletry items," said Tri-C Director Heather Macy. "People always think about donating food, but not about toiletry items. Toiletry items can be expensive."
The Girl Scouts donated reusable bags with toothpaste, toilet paper, shampoo, conditioner, soap, razors and shaving cream.
Along with donating food, the Scouts learned what it took to receive assistance with food, clothing or utilities at Tri-C.
Macy had six of the 30 Scouts stand up and told them that in the Tri-County area, they represented children who would go without food that day.
The Girl Scouts then pretended they were Tri-C clients seeking assistance and interviewed each other, asking questions such as how much money they make or how many members are in their family.
Troop 41787 has been involved before with Tri-C by donating birthday bags with cake mix, candles and a small gift.
"These bags were given to adults so that they would be able to bake a cake for themselves on their birthday," Macy said.
Tri-C also receives donations from the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts during Fall Food Drive.
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He is known in the local medical community as Dr. Mark Mataosky, but those who serve under his command in the U.S. Army Reserves call him "Colonel." At the start of his 22 years in the military, he was deployed to the Middle East during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and he would return to the region during the Iraq War. Currently, he balances his commitment to the Army Reserves with his responsibilities as director of cardiac rehabilitation for Trident and Summerville medical centers and the patients he sees through Cardiology Consultants of Charleston. Dr. Mataosky's work with Trident Health often takes him to the cardiac catheterization lab, where he searches for blockages in a patient's arteries. But it's more common for him to rule out heart problems in those who come to see him at his office.
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Mount Airy's ordinarily busy Main Street turned into a sea of people on Friday and was filled with the sounds of bluegrass music and the smells of everything from cotton candy to collard green sandwiches as the 46th annual Autumn Leaves Festival began.
Vendor Sylvia Lawson said she's been coming to the festival since at least 1986. She makes Pilot Mountain specific ceramic pieces, such as plates, bowls and lamps. She said they have gotten so popular, people have started collecting her pieces.
Lawson was an art teacher for 36 years and fell in love with working with clay. She has five potter's wheels and a kiln at her Pilot Mountain home. She teaches classes there every Monday and Tuesday.
As far as the Autumn Leaves Festival goes, she said she sold lots of pieces on Friday.
"It's been constant. It's been a good steady day," said Lawson.
Vendor David Spangler, who sells wooden bowls and utensils, said he's been selling at the festival for the past four years. Since he is from Floyd, Va., he said it's not too bad of a drive to get here.
"This is a good show for us. We are always well supported by the public," said Spangler.
Christine Calhoun and her mother Brenda Cooke said they make coming to the Autumn Leaves Festival an annual mother-daughter outing.
"We have to come up here to see what's going on. We mostly like people watching. That's the best part," said Calhoun.
Vendor Bob Lynch, who sells rocks and minerals of different varieties, said he has been selling at the festival for the past 38 years. He and his wife used to travel all over for shows, but now they mostly like to stay close to home.
Jonathan Bledsoe, director of Surry County 911 Communications, said that he thought Friday was as busy as most Saturdays of the festival. He said the staff at the 911 Communications Center were monitoring the two live-streaming cameras on Main Street for safety purposes.
James Gammons, with Fastlink Communications who installed the two live-streaming cameras, said that there were 900 people who visited his site to check out Main Street on Friday by 5:30 p.m. He mounted one camera to the Mount Airy Visitors Center and the other to the top of the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History. The cameras can be viewed at www.fastlinkcommunications.com.
Bob Meinecke, a visitor information specialist with the visitors center, said there was a record crowd at the festival yesterday.
"We have beautiful weather. We've had a lot of people who just came to get the Mayberry experience who found out we were having a festival. They were very pleased to know that we had other things going on. We are expecting even larger crowds tomorrow," said Meinecke.
Jessica Icenhour, director of tourism with the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce, said she created a Facebook page just for the Autumn Leaves Festival about four months ago and it already has 4,696 fans. She spend most of the day Friday answering questions posted on that page. She said people also were posting their festival pictures on there.
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came in a few days ago from mckay enterprises. im probably in over my head trying to do this but i cant think of any plans for a good bending jig. any ideas?
came in a few days ago from mckay enterprises. im probably in over my head trying to do this but i cant think of any plans for a good bending jig. any ideas?
You are indeed a sucker for punishment!
Uzi flat bending *should* be as easy as bending an AK. Getting the measurements for the trunion should be the starting point. Of course making relief cuts for the support ribs, etc. will be a consideration.
Do you have the weld-it parts?
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The "original" Boltcutter Rivet Squeezers:
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Cool, didn't know they sold a flat. I have one of their completed receivers (via Nodak). Very nice. A lot of the parts kits have the trunnions destroyed beyond repair.
That is a beautiful thing.
It's just a matter of structuring some metal sections
to match contours, and allowing some relief cut-out areas
for the corregations. I can see it folding up much like an AK
flat bending jig.
You could almost pour a liquid gel into a finished Uzi receiver and extract it.
That would be the stamping die model.
Got a link for Mckay?
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got my parts kit from sarco so the trunnion is intact. i was thinking of cutting the trunnion area of the flat off and bending it as a repair section but dont wanna do anything drastic just yet. I dont have any of the weld components yet, this is kind of a scrape up money and buy the parts one at a time build lol
i saw a pic of their flats on the mckay websight so i emailed them about it and they said send a check/money order for $64 and they would send it to me. $49 for flat $15 for shipping.
$49 for the flat? Thats a great deal. There are many Uzi parts kits out there with the trunions destroyed but not the kits from Sarco. I think most of their kits are old stock from the 80's I heard...you know when the ATF was more relaxed.
Very cool find good luck with the build!
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." - The Duke
Yeah, that's half the price of the one they sell bent with the blocking bar welded in.
yeah if it wasnt the absolute cheapest and difficult way then it just wouldnt be one of my builds haha
Well this will take a lot of welding work. Uzi's aren't complicated, they are bullet hoses after all.
The semi block that goes on the back will MOST LIKELY be the first thing to add once it is bent. I doubt you need to add it before bending, but don't quote me on that as I really don't know. Bolt mods (milling the slot for the semi block and the sear modification) will of course be next.
All the weld components are pretty much a fit-it and weld-it situation. There are u-weld-it kits on Gunbroker from time to time so all you should need to do is provide the welder.
Uzis are fun... I must admit that I like mine even though they are heavy. I recommend you consider getting one of the .40 SW barrels from firstname.lastname@example.com. He is sometimes on here, and of course on Uzi Talk. Can't remember the pricing, but it is well worth it. The great thing about the .40 is that it is practically a drop-in conversion. Do a little dremel work, if necessary, on the bolt to allow a .40 round to seat properly. Done right (aka done slowly) you will still be able to use 9mm with no problems! Swap the barrel, and presto the 25 round magazine doubles as a 17-18 round .40 magazine.
Check robertrtg.com for accessories like a $5 sling among other things.
Another thought - you could build it as a pistol and forego the need for a long barrel. You will need to ensure you don't weld the buttstock on and then you are set. If you use an "Aussie sling" stance where you push forward on the gun to make the sling go taught, thereby bracing you shooting, then you can be surprisingly accurate with it. However, were it me, I would go with the 16" carbine barrel. The extra muzzle velocity is worth the long barrel! It is so freaking short even with the long barrel that it makes for a very compact CQB weapon.
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Blue Raider Sports Properties, a division of Learfield Sports, is happy to announce that a three-year extension has been added to the broadcast agreement with NewsRadio WGNS Radio. The affiliation between Blue Raider Athletics and WGNS dates back to 1947 and, for the biggest part of those 68 years, has been a broadcast outlet for Middle Tennessee. The new agreement will mean that Blue Raider Network programming will be heard on NewsRadio WGNS through at least 2018.


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How it's made: Switch's liquid-filled light bulbs
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Eventually the emitters/fins are place inside the glass bulbs. It's not clear whether these are filled yet or not — Switch hasn't revealed the secrets of their production process to us — but here we can see the mounting point for the heatsink, a bit of electronics, some sort of aperture in the bottom of the bulb apparatus, and a covered protrusion. This could very well be the fill point for the liquid silicone, which is later removed, but there is no way to be sure.
Next up we see the Switch bulbs hitting their protective packaging. These units appear to be filled and ready for use. The pink foam either protects them for transportation around the factory floor, for longer range transportation to a test facility, to the channel reseller (if they are being sold in bulk), or to end users who are buying multiple units at once.
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And the question is… HOW MUCH? I want some of them right now!
http://geek.com/ sal cangeloso
I'm told that the Switch60 should be $50-60. They should be available with in the next few weeks.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TFABB6NXHV2A3FIL6LGV36GQTY Vince
3 weeks have since transpired with nothing to show for it.
Titan Miller
You can buy them from Batteries Plus (including their website).
What happens if one of these is dropped? Does liquid silicone spill everywhere? Is it toxic?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CDQXGLDTL2M7E72W3UDYFABANY bob k
silicone is silicone it's only toxic if implanted.
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It's non-toxic, easy to clean up, and food safe (I'm told).
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What kind of lub-*cough* liquid silicone are they using?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CDQXGLDTL2M7E72W3UDYFABANY bob k
It looks like a lot of manual labor goes into these bulbs, for the price of one of these things you used to be able to buy 100 of the regular bulb.
So what happens when these silicone filled bulbs end up in the landfill?
That round testing device could be an integrating sphere. It is used to measure lumens in the lighting industry.
If they aren't getting above 90lm /W color me unimpressed.
What's so impressive about these? I can see nothing exceptional but the price, which seems pretty high.
Emile Nijssen
Ugh, I've seen this stuff come and go a couple times now and I really don't see why these companies keep trying to bring it to market. It is just a very expensive way of making LED bulbs and in 10 years the whole concept will be gone. There is no benefit (heat dissipation of LED bulbs is not limited by the internal heat transfer but by the passive airflow around it) and it requires more and more complex stuff to build.
I've been (somewhat) following this company's bulbs. It seems to me these bulbs have been weeks or months away from release for months and years now! They look intriguing, but less so at $50 per bulb.
And nobody seems to be talking much of the tiny-print warnings on many of the LED bulb packages that warn "Do NOT look into the light." So we're running what risk? Eye damage? To what extent? And we're putting these as headlights on cars?? Are we endangering our children by using LEDs in the home? Not to be Chicken Little, but I'd sure love to hear *somebody* discuss this topic.
The reason you can't look into the bulbs is because of light intensity. Headlights on cars are already diffuse enough to not worry about. It's the same as looking at the sun.
http://geek.com/ sal cangeloso
Yeah, I think this is basically it. There is nothing about LED light that makes it hazardous. (To be fair, there are some people with health concerns about LEDs, but the same goes for CFLs, and nothing has been exhaustively proven. Same goes for the health concerns of broad spectrum light, etc. Basically, from what I've read, there are health concerns about everything…)
http://www.facebook.com/clifford.nunnally Clifford Nunnally
Much of this has to with molecular science and the (yet unproven) fact that EVERYTHING is a wave (even solid objects–we just don't perceive them as such). When considering aspects such as not staring at a source of light, such as the sun itself or LEDs, the reason we should avoid making direct eye contact is because the eye itself can only tolerate so much of a wavelength and/or frequency before that wavelength can begin to cause damage. We were all given the same warning when lazer pointers first came out–that we should avoid making direct eye contact with them–and this is again because the concentration and frequency of waves is much stronger than what the eye can tolerate due to its biological design. The best way to understand what I mean is to think of waves as patterns–there are millions of patterns possible, and each individual pattern can be created in a million different ways; some of these patterns are harmful to us as humans, and some are not. Light is simply a pattern; silicone filled bulbs, LEDs, lazers, flourescent bulbs, filament bulbs, and all the like are all nothing more than different manners of generating the same general pattern.
This is an interesting article, as I've never heard of silicone-filled bulbs. I was recently looking for info on flashlights and came across a whole community of lighting aficionados that I never knew about. FWIW, I'd be interested in hearing more about innovations in this field.
http://geek.com/ sal cangeloso
Some more here: http://www.extremetech.com/tag/leds
And of course I, erm, wrote a book about LED lighting recently. But yeah, it's something we'll continue to cover, more from the technology side than the lighting design or aficionado side though.
imo, we need our government agencies and industrial leaders, as well as public systems to use the tech first. Every street light an LED, every signal, every light source in federal buildings, military installations, etc etc…. I think that would be a better way to kickstart not only the green industry and conservation mindset, but also help to bring these types of products to a price even welfare people can afford.. this goes for all such tech… imagine if every fleet vehicle used was a Tesla…then Tesla could easily produce working Joe priced vehicles rather than sit in the $140k range. What do you think?
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Personally I think the market should decide. Businesses have more incentive to lead the way, so they should be investing and taking the risk, but also gaining the reward. The government plays and important role, especially with the DoE, DARPA, and other leading organizations, but the government sponsoring Telsa seems like a step too far, unless I'm not understanding you.
after over 20 years active, and still serving, I can state for a fact, our military is one of the most wasteful in the world, and given that down to the soldier level it receives the least in actual product and support, it becomes clear something is missing here. Millions of lights on at any given time, regardless of being used or not, just on a single installation. And there are many other issues as well, for example.. the average barracks building, housing less than a full company of soldiers, takes in on average $74,000 a month (this is money those soldiers would otherwise have in their pockets). And yet, they are the same buildings condemned nearly 40 years ago. A room for two can sometimes be only as as wide as your arms outstretched. Shared showers that are usually backed up, AND…. the soldiers are not allowed to fix it themselves, they are not even allowed to change a light bulb (a contractor is supposedly called in to do this…..). Just one room, which usually has two soldiers in it, would have enough money per month to afford a $300k home with a yard, hot tub, solid wood floors, etc…. Almost none of it is put back into it.
Combat vehicles don't have the best fuel usage, but we don't need those vehicles for every day garrison work. Streamlining the garrison side of things with more economic, and eco friendly practices would allow the tax payer money to purchase better things, like rifles that aren't crap, effective training.. body armor that doesn't induce permanent disability just by wearing it. How much money is thrown out when millions of halogen and incandescent bulbs are on for no reason? While the government does help to advance the research into the tech, they do very little to actually adopt and utilize it. LED.. a tech nearly half a century in the making, is only now being used in a few parts in our vehicles. Rather than have the general public having to cough up $30 for a single bulb, we should have already managed to bring it to the $2-5 range per.
On things like tesla cars… for too long we have used current methods, and now MANY are satisfied knowing they will always have a massive source of profit regardless of the cost to the nation as a whole.It's no different than when we stopped burning coal everywhere.. and infrastructure had to be established, so to, we need to revamp that infrastructure. While the cost up front will be high, the long term reward will pay for itself shortly. I'm not saying tesla is THE answer.. but it is a pretty large stepping stone we cannot afford to skip.(if the oil companies were smart.. they would be investing heavily in not using oil…in being prepared for the future.. the only reason adopting all of this tech has been difficult is because they, the ones in power, are not comfortable making such investments.. what do they care for the future? they won't be there to see it. Imagine, every single car, every single inch of driving and parking surface, generating electricity… such an infrastructure would not only pay for itself, but actually put power back onto the grid (that would also be using it more effectively). The average person (in the U.S.) doesn't drive more than 20 miles to get to work.. and few of the population travels more than 50 miles one way to work daily. But.. the average motor vehicle is usually capable of some 300+ miles per tank. more than 3/4 of long distance commutes do not carpool. why not use cars that can easily drive to work, plug in (be charged in less than 30 minutes) and then start producing energy back into the grid.. (every parking lot would be a solar/thermal energy station), as the car sits there all day long. Then, drive home and plug in again? the cost per mile to the user atm is only about 5 cents a mile, in a new infrastructure such as this, that cost of paying for gas would happily be payed by the people, and likely not cost as much. long haul, commercial, transportation could easily see a resurgence in mass transit methods. While it is a luxurious comfort to take one's own vehicle anywhere they want, it's not needed, and much transportation exceeding 50+ miles should be done via mass transit. Even the adoption of a pod system on highways, to reduce energy use, cost, and accidents (not to sound communist or socialist, demanding that all people essentially have the same type of car). All that money people spend on silly 22″ rims and crap, could be spent putting food on the table (the thing those people tend to complain about..).
simply put, we have the tech, we certainly have the ability, we simply lack, as a UNION, the will to really make it happen.
Check out the color of the light on the 100. It's at 4100K which is very blue compared to the the standard indoor bulb color of 2700K. The 100W equivalent won't have the same color output at the rest of your bulbs. The rest of their line are at the industry standard of 2700K.
I'd like to see people create some LED bulbs in the decorative candlebra design. I can find plenty of A bulbs, but all the existing candlebra LED bulbs and CFLs have very poor brightness. I hardly use any A type bulbs anymore. It's all canned lights and Candlebra. Where's the decent 60W equivalent candlebra bulbs?
The 100 w bulbs come in BOTH 4100k and yellow 2700k
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I guess you have to pretend a LITTLE to get green-energy stimulus money… for products that solve no real problem at 50x to 100x the cost of the standard solution.
So, is this gonna be the burn proof bulb? That is, you'll only ever need one for a lamp's lifetime. Wonder what happens if there's a power surge.
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I wish these lights could work on something other than 110v and were available in B22


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YouTube added a cool feature for those who watch long-form videos. If you're logged in, you watched at least one minute from a video that's longer than 20 minutes and there are more than 3 minutes left, then YouTube's player has a neat surprise for you: close the page and when you open it again, the player resumes where you left off watching.
It's a helpful addition, considering that not many desktop video players offer a similar feature.
Another change is that the HQ/HD flag is now sticky. Once you click on HQ or HD, YouTube will save the setting in a cookie and all the other videos will use the options, assuming that they have high-quality versions. "When you switch to view a video in high quality and lean back to enjoy the wide player experience, having to lean forward again to switch the experience back on, video after video, can be a real chore. Moving forward, your choice is sticky, meaning that when you go wide it will persist across your session."
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There have been times in this column space when I haven't been easy on the men and women who officiate local high school sports.
I try to give the officials the benefit of the doubt, but every now and then, must call it like I see and point out a badly missed call or — on some rare occasions — calls that seem strongly slanted in favor of one team.
That said, 99 percent of those who sacrifice their time for a comparatively small payment are people of honor.
I've gotten to know many of the officials — some by name, others by face. We will chitchat before a game and, sometimes, during the event, as time permits.
One of the men officiating high school basketball in the area is former Northwest Florida State College baseball coach Keith Griffin. I got to know Griffin when I covered Raider baseball for the Northwest Florida Daily News.
Griffin worked the Baker-Laurel Hill girls basketball game I was covering Thursday night. During the game, we talked about the recent Baseball Hall of Fame elections, for which nobody was elected, and Alabama's win over Notre Dame for the National Championship in football.
I will chuckle sometimes when a coach is giving Griffin a hard time because I saw him give enough umpires plenty to think about during his days with the Raiders.
There are times I joke with the officials before the game and tell them not to call it tight so we can get home and watch a game on TV or maybe catch an early supper.
Sometimes, it seems as if they agree with me. But perhaps it's more of a case that the teams are playing a clean game than anything else.
In reality, I need to be in the officials' good graces to do my job more easily. Often, I let the officials know that I'll be taking photographs of baseball or softball games and where I'll be standing.
By rule, teams are supposed to provide a marked photographers box, but many umpires will let me have some flexibility where I stand; they know I'm aware of my surroundings and will get out of the way.
I try to work with the officials as they work with me so that everyone wins in the end.
My angles to plays often are similar to officials'.
Sometimes, I'll agree with the call; other times, I won't. There are times when a photograph I take proves the official was right, despite the howling masses of fans in the stands.
In my younger days, when I was more of a fan and less of a writer, I was a good heckler. I could work an officiating crew or the opposing team, but I would never go after a team that wasn't at least at the college level.
Once, I singlehandedly won a pizza for being the rowdiest section at a University of Tennessee baseball game, but I did so without profanity and with plenty of humor. Although that poor pitcher from the University of Georgia probably didn't find my questions about his control and eye sight so funny.
In the end, everyone has a job to do at a game. A coach is there to coach, players to play, officials to call the game, media to cover the game and fans to cheer on their favorite team.
It would be hypocritical of me to say fans shouldn't give the officials a hard time when they deserve it. But I would encourage fans to think before they yell something stupid.
Anyone who's called a youth league basketball game or church league softball game will tell you officiating isn't easy.
I once read that being a sports official was the only job in the world where you had to be perfect the first day and improve from there.
Come to the games and cheer your teams and even jeer the officials, but remember: officials are human too and they are doing their best.
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Culbreath: Football Camps OverviewWritten by Matt 'Shaggy' Culbreath | | email@example.com
As NFL, college, and even high school football camps march forward, I've been keeping my eye on a few names in the bigs with local ties. Bernard Reedy is wowing them in Atlanta, Jayrone Elliot is doing things in Green Bay, and David Fluellen is having some fun in Philly.
But a name popped up this week that made me smile bigger than I have in a long time: T.J. Fatinikun was picked up by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now, it doesn't mean he's made the team headed into the season, but at least he has a shot.
Seeing his name come across the wire took me back to 2006. We used to do a High School Football Scoreboard Show on WSPD (with the unflappaple Jim Heller as host), and I was one of 5 or 6 stringers that would go out to games across the region and phone in reports. For a while, I ended up at Clay High School regularly, but for this week, I was sent to Steinecker Stadium. And who was lighting it up that night but a sophomore with a name I very likely mispronounced in my first report of the night. TJ was all over the field that night, and he ended that year with 73 tackles, 15 for a loss, and 10 friggin' sacks. I'm pretty sure I said to myself that night "That kid is definitely playing on Saturdays."
So imagine my surprise when he ends up wearing the Midnight Blue and Gold in 2009. And he immediately contributed: his sophomore year, he led the team with 13 tackles for a loss, and was third in the MAC with 4 forced fumbles, earning him a spot on the third team All-MAC squad. The injury bug would hit him his junior year, when he injured his elbow in early October. But his contributions up to that point were still enough to get him named third-team All-MAC again.
In what should have been a breakout senior season for TJ, instead another injury. This time, a torn Achilles tendon ended his season in October again, and his college career ended with it. He would lobby the NCAA for a medical hardship redshirt, but would be turned down.
Still, not one to back down, TJ found his way onto the playing field after college: making time in the Arena League in 2014 with both Orlando and Portland. He certainly made the most of his time there: combining for 20 tackles and 3 sacks in 11 games between the two teams. Now that all's left for the Arena League is their championship game (being played in, wait for it, Cleveland of all places), TJ went looking for work, and found it in Tampa. And what luck, former Rockets teammate Eric Page is already there!
No, nothing is a guarantee for any of these names. For TJ, it might be a "Last In, First Out" situation. Bernard Reedy might just miss out on the 52-man roster. Zac Kerin might not cut the mustard in Minnesota (it's incredibly hard to get news on offensive linemen, by the way.) But seeing these guys get the chance is an incredible pleasure. For guys like Fatinikun, being able to see it from that cramped press box at Steinecker Stadium, it's been a privilege.
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Cyndi changes everythingWritten by Michael Miller | Editor in Chief Emeritus | firstname.lastname@example.com
Cyndi Lauper, like so many musicians who debuted during the '80s MTV era, could have been — should have been — a one-hit wonder.
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was almost too perfect a single to kick off a career. Its anthemic chorus, delivered with a vocal blend of determination, defiance and humor, could have found itself on lists beside "Come On Eileen," "Take On Me," "Tainted Love" and other hit singles that served as both introduction and permanent retreat for their performers.
But the New York-born Lauper was too talented a writer and too savvy a performer to gracefully fade into pop star trivia. Her debut solo album, "She's So Unusual," charted five singles, including "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," the instant classic "Time After Time" and the censor-defying ode to female self-gratification, "She Bop." "Unusual" was nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy and won Lauper that year's Best New Artist trophy. Its stature has grown as time has passed; Rolling Stone named it one of the top 500 albums in rock history and historian Dave Marsh tapped three of its songs — "Girls Just Want to have Fun," "Time After Time" and "Money Changes Everything" — for his book "The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made."
To mark the 30th anniversary of "She's So Unusual," (which was actually released in 1983) Sony Legacy has released a deluxe remastered CD with demos, remixes and B-sides. Lauper discussed the album's impact on her life and career during a recent interview with Toledo Free Press.
Lauper said the swagger she brought to the vocals of her debut came from her confidence in who she was as an artist.
"I was very confident going into the making of this record," she said. "You have to remember I was 30 years old when the album was released and I had been around. I had been in bands and had played live for almost 10 years. I had a record deal with my band Blue Angel before my solo deal. When I got signed to Portrait [Records] as a solo artist, I knew exactly the kind of record I wanted to make, what I wanted it to say, what I wanted it to sound like."
While a lot of '80s-era music is trapped in its MTV sound chamber, "She's So Unusual" has aged well and Lauper said that is in large part due to her production choices.
"Growing up I was influenced by the blues and then by rock music and then later electronic music and then pop music and reggae, and I think all of those influences came to bear on this album," she said. "It wasn't just an '80s album, it was an album that incorporated different sounds from different periods and maybe, for that reason, it doesn't sound dated. I never wanted to follow music trends. Because you want all of your albums to sound good 30 years later and beyond."
Lauper said that at first, she did not react positively to the recording of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."
"The first time I heard 'Girls' I didn't like the mastering on it. I thought at first my voice was a little buried," she said. "In retrospect, it worked well that way because of the key it was in but I wasn't thrilled at first. I got used to it. The spirit of the music and my voice was there. And then it became a hit.
"Not everyone was convinced 'Girls' should be the first single. It was important to me to have a hit with an uptempo song first because if we led with a ballad I would be known as a ballad singer only, and not a rocker. I had seen it happen with a few of my friends who never could get out of that space. I also knew going with an uptempo first would give the album longer life. Then we followed 'Girls' with 'Time After Time,' which sounded good the first time I heard it."
One of the album's gutsier choices was a gender-bending cover of Prince's "When You Were Mine," which had recently charted for Mitch Ryder in a version produced by John Mellencamp.
"I've never heard the [Ryder] version," she said. "Rick Chertoff played me the Prince tune and I just really loved it. I wanted to sing it how it was written, never really thought too much about it."
Giggling all the way
Lauper said she "giggled all the way to the top 5" when "She Bop," an envelope-pushing song about female masturbation, became a hit.
"Eventually, of course, we were found out and the song became one of the poster songs for Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center," Lauper said. "It's funny, I met her a few years ago and we had a really good conversation. I think the PMRC complaints actually helped the music become a bigger hit."
With the whirlwind of touring, videos, magazine covers and wrestling cameos at the time, Lauper said the peaks of "She's So Unusual" passed by in a blur.
"I did so much promotion and publicity during the life of the album that I probably was out on the road working it when ['Time After Time' hit No. 1]," she said. "I remember the first time I heard 'Girls' on the radio. I was in Boston in the car of the local label guy there. I got my first real spins in Boston on 'Girls' but that's the only vivid memory I have from that time. And for 'Time' to be the second single off the album and go to No. 1 was gratifying because I had to fight really hard to get songs that I wrote on the album."
"She's So Unusual" earned six Grammy nominations, but in a year honoring Prince's "Purple Rain," Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" and Tina Turner's comeback "Private Dancer," Lauper's debut went a painful 2-for-6.
"When the Grammy nominations came out and I got six, including best cover art (which went to Lauper's art director Janet Perr), we were so excited because, at the time, we were the little engine that could," Lauper said. "When the actual Grammys happened and I lost each one, including Song of the Year [to Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It?"], I felt worse for the people at the label who worked so hard to make the record a hit. Just to watch their faces as each category came and went and we didn't win. I did get Best New Artist Grammy that year. But the Grammy I really wanted to win was Song of the Year, which 'Time After Time' was nominated for. But 30 years later, the song is still so widely covered, that is award enough."
Following up a legend
Despite the success and pressure of a top 5 debut album, more top 5 singles than any woman had achieved at that time, influential videos, Grammy awards, a Weird Al parody and a Rolling Stone cover, Lauper said she did not fret about a follow-up.
"I did not think about that but a lot of people kept saying that to me. I was thrilled to have so much success off of my solo debut album, but I was familiar, too, with not having success," she said. "So yeah, of course I wanted my second solo record to be a hit, too, but I was more excited to be back in the studio than nervous about it following up 'She's So Unusual.'
"When we recorded that second album ['True Colors'] it was just not a great experience because there were a lot of people around me saying exactly that and a lot of second-guessing and less creative control for me than I had on 'She's So Unusual.' But I unfortunately think that is really common, that once you have a hit, everyone wants in on the next project, everyone wants to give their two cents and it can be distracting."
Thirty years later, Lauper said she is happy with 'She's So Unusual' and its legacy.
"I wouldn't change a thing!" she said. "Listening to it again, I mean really listening to it again, after Sony approached me about the 30th anniversary, cemented that. It still sounds good to me.
"And you can hear how much fun we had making it."
Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and news director for 1370 WSPD. Email him at email@example.com.
Tags: "True Colors", 80s, Blue Angel, Cyndi Lauper, Grammy, MTV, New York, Parents Music Resource Center, PMRC, Portrait [Records], SONY legacy, Tipper Gore, Weird Al, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Money Changes Everything", "She Bop", "She's So Unusual", "The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made", "Time After Time"


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As is customary for CAFDA, we again hosted an Easter Egg Hunt for our foster children in the age groups of 6 - 13 years old!
This year the Easter Egg Hunt was planned for 200 of our Foster Children, on Thursday, 2 April at 2.00p.m. We also invited 2 other NGO's in our area so that we could collaborate and form partnerships with them - thereby spreading the Goodwill!! The hunt took place at CAFDA's premises, The Family Centre, Corner Prince George Drive and 8th Avenue, Grassy Park!
What an exciting day it turned out to be. The weather played along and we had a gorgeous sunny day. On the day, our staff hid Easter egg tokens in the trees, in the shrubs, along pathways, in the gardens and even on the grass!!
When the two Kombi loads of children arrived, they were placed into age groups and the hunt began!! The little ones hunted for Easter eggs in and around the courtyard at the Stables. The teachers were very attentive of their charges and because the children's hands are small the teachers helped them to hold their colourful tokens. These were eagerly exchanged for the proper Easter eggs.
Thereafter the rest of the children were lined up, house rules were given, count down began and away they sped - eagerly dashing around to find the tokens. The children quickly learnt the value of the various coloured tokens - some tokens yielded as many a 3 Easter eggs each!!
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Dude, you are so in love with Apple. That's hilarious.
Not nuking the future
What to expect -- and more importantly what not to expect -- from Apple's WWDC 2012 Keynote
Apple doesn't nuke the future. They don't announce so many new products and services it scorches the market and blots out the shelves. They don't copy and create so many new features and SKUs each year that no one can keep up, and many are left unadopted or simply abandoned.
They have confidence enough to focus, to place a very small amount of huge bets on consumer demand. Rather than dropping every atom and bit imaginable, they carefully line up single shots.
The result is devices that aren't obsoleted almost as fast as they come out, software that isn't frozen in the past, and design language that isn't impenetrable or unintelligible in the least.
Instead, in one of the hottest markets on earth, Apple releases one product a year (if that), updates all current devices to the latest software day and date, and makes sure that, if you can use one of their mobile device, you can use them all -- whether you're 3 years old or 103.
Even though Apple has a bank account that could fund a judgement day's worth of product launches, they deliberately choose not to.
Sure, in their labs they may explore a range of product ideas, and even prototype and test a subset of them extensively. But they say "no" to most of them, and "yes" to only a few, and only when they have a clear, disruptive plan to bring one to market. Only when it's products that complement their existing lines, that can make an impact in the space, and that can sell in the hundreds of millions.
This is Apple's way of doing things. There are other hugely successful companies that do things differently. But this way is Apple's.
And that tells us a lot about what to expect -- and not to expect -- at the WWDC 2012 keynote on Monday.
Despite rumors that we'll see everything from a television to a television operating system, from new designs to new app platforms, from new Macs to new densities of Mac displays, more likely than not this WWDC keynote will be similar to last year's. And the year before's. And the year before that's.
Tim Cook will come out and give an overview of Apple's business and platforms. Phil Schiller and/or Craig Federighi will reveal more about OS X Mountain Lion, a final-ish beta, and Apple's Mac plans for 2012. Scott Forstall will show off iOS 6, announce a first beta, and demo a few tentpoles out of the many his team has been working on for the last 12 months. And someone, perhaps Schiller again, will take Steve Jobs' place and introduce new features for iCloud.
We'll hear big numbers -- hundreds of new features, thousands of new API, hundreds of thousands of apps, hundreds of millions of apps and devices, and billions of dollars paid to developers for billions of app downloads. But the presentation will be practiced, paced, and precise. As always.
If Mac updates feature big enough design changes to make for great demos and, as such, warrant precious time on stage, we'll see them. Otherwise they'll be dumped in a press release as they have been in the past.
If an extension of iOS to a new device is small enough, in terms of scope, to fit into the keynote, we'll see it. Otherwise it'll be saved for a special event all its own, the way the original iPad was.
But when you set your expectations for the Apple keynote, remember:
Apple doesn't nuke the future.
They methodically adjust their sights. They carefully line up a single shot.
And then they take it.
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Reader comments
Not nuking the future
There should be more posts like this on sites of a similar nature. Everyone (myself included) gets so wrapped up in rumour-mill, that we forget that the above article is Apple's way of doing things.
Everyone is always disappointed at something after a keynote, and blog posts like this brings our feet back down to earth.
Great post!
Apple understands perfectly -- that's why they've sold hundreds of millions of iOS devices, and why there's no tablet market outside the iPad.
Geeks are a tiny percentage of the market. Not everyone wants simple, but most people do. Apple makes products for the mainstream. From the Apple II to Mac to iPad their singular goal has been to democratize computing -- to make it accessible to everyone.
Apple understands perfectly. It's us old school geeks who don't :)
Articles and editorials like these are exactly why I read iMore every day. There are plenty of other sites out there if you want unsubstantiated rumours and gossip.
I'm using past behavior as an indicator for future behavior, with an angle that our expectations aren't Apple's obligations.
Observation of pattern is interesting, and because of all the patterns, illuminating.
I agree with Rene but there's no need to be a smart ass about it.
Really liking your more editorial approach over the last weeks, Gives the site a strong voice and makes a change from all the recycled stories across the blogs (admittedly my own fault for checking too many of them, several times a day)
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