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Seems like only yesterday perennial DFL candidate/retired U.S. Army First Sgt. Dick Franson was challenging Jesse Ventura to level with the public about his Vietnam service record. Off Beat was aghast to see the Reform Party gube nominee dub Franson a "puke" in these very pages in a September 30 Q&A. The following week, Franson fired off a letter to the editor in which he called Ventura a "vacuumhead [who lacks the] education, training, experience, and stability" to be governor. But now comes the olive branch: A recent press release from the fax-happy Franson announced that if the candidate will accept his backing, he'll endorse Ventura. "With my endorsement, I think he could even be a front runner," Franson elaborated. "I might be able to give him 10 points!" Ventura is still mulling over whether to accept the gesture: "Dick is free to endorse whoever he pleases," says campaign chair Dean Barkley. "We appreciate it, because he's well-known in the veteran community." Meanwhile, the indefatigable Franson, who placed third in this year's secretary of state primary with 75,000-plus votes, looks ever onward, predicting, "I think 1999 might be a good year for Dick Franson."
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Off Beat scored one of the "coveted" tickets to last week's Paula Jones appeal circus only to find that the protagonist didn't show up because she couldn't find anyone to baby-sit her kids. (Where are those Rutherford Institute deep pockets when you really need them?) The proceedings were predictably dull, but two moments did stand out: First there was the pro-Clinton demonstrator being confronted by a counterprotester who asked him, "Hey, will your wife give me a blow job?" And then came the Ally McBeal-ish moment when the press horde saw two of Jones's lawyers and Clinton counsel Bob Bennett entering the U.S. District Court's fifth-floor men's room together. A deal? Sadly, no one had the gumption to step inside the loo to eavesdrop.
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An Off Beat investigation has found that the state of Minnesota has been covertly supporting two of the state's minor parties to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Officials confirm that for much of 1997, contributors to Progressive Minnesota and the Green Party received money from the Political Contribution Refund Program (which returns up to $50 per contributor to people who make small donations to political parties) even though neither is certified as an official minor party. Under state law, that status is conferred only upon groups that have, during the last election cycle, a) run a candidate for statewide office, b) held a convention, and c) demonstrated that they're more than someone's campaign committee--a set of hurdles only the Grassroots and Libertarian Parties managed to clear last time around. Gary Goldsmith, assistant executive director at the state's Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, says he can't explain what the mix-up was or where it started. Asked to help Off Beat understand the minor/major party regulations, he spent several minutes rustling pages, then conceded, "It's a little confusing even to me." That confusion netted Progressive Minnesota almost $20,000 in public money and the Greens $3,500. By way of perspective, consider that contributors to the state DFL Party received almost $500,000 in refunds in 1997, Republicans more than $860,000, Libertarians just over $4,000, and Grassrooters $580. By virtue of the campaigns they're running this year, Progressives and Greens will probably qualify for real next time.
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Speaking of those minor-party candidates, at least one admits he's running in part to qualify his organization for public-funding programs. Joseph Peschek, a poli-sci professor at Hamline University, says he ended up on the ballot for state auditor because, well, someone had to do it. "If somebody else had come forward, that would have been fine," he enthuses. "We collectively chose the auditor's race because it is a low-level contest in which we probably would not play a spoiler role." Peschek does draw inspiration from past Progressive Minnesota efforts, such as the victorious 1997 campaign for a Minneapolis city charter amendment requiring a public vote before more than $10 million of city resources can be spent on a sports facility. And if he should by any chance emerge victorious, he promises to investigate "'who's benefiting from investment decisions of local government: Are they scams or are they in the public interest?'"
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To put it bluntly, we started trying to get pregnant again last October. Or at least we weren't preventing. :) We weren't charting, planning, or anything official like that, but we knew we wanted to grow our family, and not knowing if or how fast it would happen again, we decided this would be best as Patrick and I aren't getting any younger. Knowing the Lord had already blessed us with our little guy, we knew He already had the plans for what our family would look like in the future (and if that would include more kids), and just tried not to worry about it.
I honestly had no clue I was pregnant. In hindsight, I should've known because we were preparing to move, and I was SO tired I couldn't function. I thought it was just because we had so much going on and I wasn't getting enough sleep. Then when I ended up being late, I started wondering if it could be. Well as luck would have it, I didn't have a car that day because Patrick's was in the shop and he had taken mine to OKC...so I couldn't go buy a pregnancy test. He got home that afternoon around 5:30, and we were supposed to have dinner with some friends at 6 so he was ready to just pick us up and head there. Well, I knew I couldn't wait to test, so I told him I had to go to Wal-Mart before we went to dinner because we were out of milk for Manny.
So I headed to Wal-Mart real quick, and just like when I found out I was pregnant with Manny, I took the test in the bathroom at Wal-Mart. :) Yes, the bathroom is still as disgusting as it was 2 years ago, but I couldn't wait. I bought the digital kind, and when the word "pregnant" popped up, the emotions hit me all over again...the shock, excitement, etc...so there I was crying away in the Wal-Mart bathroom. Quite the scene, quite the memories. :)
Since I wasn't really prepared for this, I decided to tell Patrick the same way I told him with Manny, so I just bought a little gift bag and wrapped up the test. He had brought me a surprise home from OKC (an iPad!) so when I got home, I told him I wanted to get him a surprise too since he'd just gotten me one. He didn't suspect a thing. And when he unwrapped the pregnancy test? I swear it was the same face as when he unwrapped the one I gave him last time. He was confused and was just like, "What? Is this yours?" And then he just kept saying "wow" over and over. And Manny was standing there clapping, and it was just SO special...I never imagined this day would come...and come so quickly! We are certainly blessed.
I wanted a fun way to tell family, so we took the addition picture using my tripod and remote. We took it right before church, and got lucky after only a few shots with one that was good enough. :) I found the idea via Pinterest, of course! They had used a chalkboard for the background, but since we didn't have a large one, I just added the numbers to the picture in Photoshop and that got the message across. :) I would link to the source, but I didn't pin it so I wouldn't give away our news, and now I can't find it!
Ashley was also one of the first to know the news, and was so sweet to make this adorable shirt for Manny. It's so fun to see him wearing it!
Well I think that covers all the details and any questions I've received. If I missed anything, please let me know! As you can tell, I have no problem oversharing...ha. :)
I just want to say again that we are blown away at this miracle of life, and humbled that the Lord has blessed us again. If you are still waiting on your little miracle, please know you are on my heart and always in my prayers. I have struggled with a lot of guilt in getting to experience this a second time when I know so many waiting for their first time. If that is you, please keep the faith, and know that I am praying and believing with you!

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The Le Bernardin chef gets a jury summons and is called to report, and for whatever reason, even the drabbest municipal settings seem to inspire detailed ideas for dishes.
At the end of a very long line outside the courthouse, it's all about cold soup to start:
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The History of Motocross: Part Nine
by Ed Youngblood
As we know, stadium motocross was not an American invention. Stadium motocross dates back to France, 1948, and crowds larger than 100,000 attended races at Strahov Stadium in Prague in the mid-1950s. Furthermore, motorcycle competition in stadiums has a deep tradition in America as well, dating back at least to 1961 when a stadium TT race was held in Miami, Florida.(1) More significantly, PACE Management, a promotional corporation that would morph and merge into today's Clear Channel Entertainment, launched a venture into motorcycle race promotion in 1968 with short track and TT races in the Houston Astrodome. At that time, the Astrodome was the prototype of modern American enclosed sports stadiums. It was regarded an architectural wonder, and motorcycles under the "Dome" guaranteed greater prestige and better media coverage for the sport.
AMA Grand National racing continued in the Astrodome for nearly two decades, but was eventually displaced by supercross as America's new motorcycle sport of choice. The Astrodome TT and short track races ended in 1986, but AMA Supercross continued while the venerable "Dome" saw its status eclipsed by ever larger and fancier indoor facilities in Pontiac, New Orleans, and other cities throughout America. As the stadiums grew larger, supercross grew as well. In a sense, indoor Grand National racing paved the way for the supercross era, because, by 1972, a lot had been learned about how to move literal mountains of dirt to build and demolish race tracks within the tight schedules demanded by facilities hosting all kinds of sporting events and public gatherings.
Simply going indoors or moving uptown did not create supercross. Rather, it took a wide range of influences and circumstances involving promotional techniques, media management, program manipulation, and the building of a brand. We have already noted in our previous chapter how promoter Mike Goodwin used concert promotional techniques, including heavy advertising buys on rock stations and drive-time radio, to drag curious customers into the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1972. Many of these were people who might not have traveled the distance or braved the elements to watch "real motocross" at Saddleback Park or Carlsbad Raceway.
Building the Brand
The street that defines France is the Champs Elysees. When we think of Rome we think of the Appian Way. America is associated with Wall Street or Pennsylvania Avenue, but perhaps the street that best characterizes its culture for good or ill is Madison Avenue. Selling is what America does, and packaging and branding is what America does to make things sell. If it does not have a slick package with a catchy name that trips off the tongue and sticks in the memory, forget it. In the case of supercross, effective branding was not a preconceived stroke of marketing genius. Rather, it came out of simple journalistic laziness.
Attempting to co-opt legitimacy and a larger-than-life image from the National Football League, Mike Goodwin named his 1972 Coliseum event the Superbowl of Motocross. In truth, this lengthy moniker was something less than a brand marketer's dream. It was more like a slogan than a name, which became evident when journalists covering the event simply refused to use the term. Paul Boudreau, who was editor of Motocross Action at the time, recalls, "I thought Superbowl of Motocross was kind of a mouthful, myself. And I thought even less about typing it . . . so I right away shortened it to "Supercross." I mean, it made sense to me. Besides, we had to maintain our reputation of being irreverent and slangy."(2)
Promoter Goodwin objected and issued specific instructions to the press that they were to refer to the event by its proper name, but it was too late. "Supercross," born of sloth and convenience, was a brilliant band name, and it stuck, and soon Goodwin's own announcers were using the term.
The term "supercross" did not immediately make it into the AMA lexicon. The term "stadium motocross" did not appear in the AMA rule book until 1980.(3) It was eight years later that the term "supercross" first appeared in the official rules, which declared, "A supercross is conducted in a stadium facility on a special-made dirt race track."(4)
By this time, supercross had become big-time and begun to seriously penetrate the support accorded by the industry and fans to traditional American Class C racing. No longer did Triumphs and Harleys thunder over a TT course in the Houston Astrodome. They had given way entirely to the rattle and zing of two-strokes over a twisting and turning supercross circuit. By the mid-1980s, supercross was a distinct and recognizable American brand, not just bastardized motocross scaled down to fit an area.
But you cannot achieve branding success by slapping a clever label on any old junk. You've got to have a good product. As sports entertainment, traditional motocross was a good product to start with. In part, that's why it took hold so quickly in America during the 1970s.
Improving the Product
By the mid-1970s the motorcycle press still considered outdoor racing "real motocross," but improvements were being made to the supercross program that would eventually define it as a superior product. The watershed year may have been 1976 when some significant decisions were made by the AMA that, in retrospect, proved to be sound.
First, the rapidly evolving and more powerful two-stroke works machines were on a collision course with the tighter and more technical supercross circuits. The fearsome and violent 500s that were still so loved on the big outdoor tracks like Carlsbad were simply not compatible with the confines of the stadium floor, and in 1976 the AMA created a separate point system for a supercross series and declared 250cc the main class. Experience had already shown that the smaller machines were more manageable indoors, and could produce quicker lap times than the big 500s.
In addition, the AMA wanted to abandon traditional motocross scoring at supercross races, and implement a progressive program, hearkening back to the American Class C tradition. A progressive program is one where riders must place well in a heat race to move to a semi-final, then place well in the semi-final to move to the final.
The final is the only thing that counts for the victory, the championship points, and the main purse, quite unlike traditional motocross where two or three heats are run with points having equal value toward the declaration of a winner, which may or may not be the fellow who takes the final checkered flag. Furthermore, in Europe the riders earned the lion's share of their money for starting the race, not for winning.
AMA Motocross Manager Mike DiPrete decided to test a progressive program at Anaheim in 1976. The move proved once again that change isn't always easy. Resisting the plan, riders signed a petition to boycott, and Brad Lackey and Jim Pomeroy demanded $3,000 in start money. (5) Motocross in America was at a crossroad. Would it adapt to improve the show in a supercross environment, or would it become entrenched in European traditions?
What played out that evening was complex, and what broke the boycott was not the monetary promises of the promoter or the authority of the governing body. Rather, it was the interests of the manufacturers who discretely reminded the top riders that they were subject to the benefits and obligations of their contracts. Ultimately, only Lackey and Pomeroy having failed to get their start money sat out the race. The show went on and was deemed successful enough that a progressive program was adopted throughout the AMA Supercross Series in the following season.(6)
This, perhaps more than any other single development, indicated that supercross would follow its own course to become a uniquely American form of motorcycle competition. Not only did it result in a product more understandable to urban fans and a television audience, but it showed that the cohesiveness and stability of the sport would be determined not so much by the relationship between sportsmen and their governing body as by their relationship with the manufacturers, who had begun to pay more in salaries and bonuses than riders could ever earn through the purse. In America, the European start money system would never take hold.
Looking back, it was sound thinking to hold to European scoring tradition in outdoor motocross, and change to a progressive program at stadium races. The result has been two strong series that present the sport with different nuance. Motocross maintains an Olympic-kind of old world purity while supercross and its spawn, arenacross and freestyle motocross have evolved toward American-style sports entertainment.
In any form of modern sports entertainment, there is a single keystone that will spell success or failure, and that is television. The ability to convey excitement through television is paramount. Supercross and television, it seams, were made for each other. Unlike the vast expanses and hostile elements of outdoor motocross, stadium racing is eminently compatible with the small screen.
There is an aerobatic excitement to the competition, yet it does not require the enormous production budgets of other forms of racing, such as NASCAR. And, as with baseball and football, the emotional interplay between the sportsmen and their fans transmits as part of the show.
Television sold supercross not only to America, but to the world. It created a demand that carried the sport to Europe, Japan, and the Indian subcontinent. It became an influence that would eventually raise AMA Supercross to global brand status, and enable it to as supercross historian Xavier Audouard asserts openly surpass the Grands Prix in every aspect of the game." (7)
(1.) Dates and details about these precursor events were presented in Part Eight of this series.
(2.) Racer X Illustrated, October 2001, page 138.
(3.) AMA Professional Motocross Competition Rule Book, 1980.
(4.) AMA Professional Motocross Competition rule Book, 1988, page 8.
(5.) Xavier Audouard, "The Great History of Supercross," page 41.
(6.) Xavier Audouard, "The Great History of Supercross," page 41.
(7.) Xavier Audouard. "The Great History of Supercross," page 147.


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Tagline: DANGER IS REAL, FEAR IS A CHOICE
Synopsis: One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.
It's game day. The Academy Awards ceremony obvious takes place this evening and so like clockwork, the ignominious folks that run the Razzies Awards have unveiled their list for the worst movies of the year. The biggest story this year is that the Razzie committee failed to award Adam Sandler anythi...Read More »
With Hollywood set to unveil the Oscar nominations tomorrow morning—the same day as the Sundance Film Festival kicks off—the folks at the Razzies are doing their annual thing of thumbing their nose at the industry by unveiling their nominations of the year's worst. And big shock here is really how t...Read More »
While we're mostly celebratory around these parts, a considerable aspect of our year-end cinematic reflections has been dredging up those unspeakable films long since forgotten for one final verdict—think "Violet and Daisy," "I Give It A Year," or "The Big Wedding." We compiled our 20 favorite abomi...Read More »
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While Shyamalan's thinking things through, he may want to use the lull between projects to check out Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing," which hits theaters this Friday.Read More »
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If you live in a "limited release" city, then you've got a fine array of moviegoing options for the weekend. Zal Batmanglij's "The East," starring co-writer Brit Marling, Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgard, is a smart anti-establishment thriller gaining good reviews from critics. Same goes for Sunda...Read More »
Critics aren't impressed with either M. Night Shyamalan's directorial work or the Jaden and Will Smith pairing in new apocalyptic sci-fi entry "After Earth" (June 7). The venom towards Shyamalan is strong (Sony all but cut his name from the film's marketing), with Variety calling his film a "non-hap...Read More »
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Aztecs hope to silence crowd at Moby
Eustachy, going back to his days at Idaho and Utah State in the early '90s, was one of the first coaches to embrace weight training for basketball teams. Most teams hold light maintenance lifting sessions twice weekly during the season. The Rams lift three times a week and, in Eustachy's words, "lift hard."
"I watched the film, and I looked at the bodies, and I just thought we could get stronger," Eustachy said. "I think the weights and the conditioning create a mentality that you're tough even though you may not be. It just gives you a good feeling when you look in the mirror and you're kind of ripped."
It's not just Iverson, who is the Ivan Drago of the Mountain West. Pierce Hornung, a 6-5, 210-pound senior forward, ranks third nationally in offensive rebounding at 4.33 per game. Greg Smith, a 6-6, 221-pound senior forward, also starts, leaving little doubt about Eustachy's intentions.
It might be the secret to the Moby Magic. Especially physical teams have an even greater advantage at home, where officials tend to swallow their whistles more often because, well, they can't call everything.
"Their physical play is extraordinary," Rice said. "They're one of the most physical teams in college basketball, no question. We played Michigan State this year. They've always got a great reputation for how physical they are. I didn't feel like it was even close how physical Colorado State is compared to Michigan State, and that's saying something."
The Aztecs do have one thing going for them, though. It's "Orange Out" night at Moby, an annual event where the Rams wear uniforms in the original school colors of "pumpkin" orange and "alfalfa" green.
It's the fourth time this season the Aztecs have faced a color-themed promotion on the road — USC had "Black Out," Fresno State had "Red Out," Nevada had "White Out."
The Aztecs won all three.
SDSU at No. 24 Colorado State
Site/time: Moby Arena, Fort Collins, Colo./7:15 p.m. PST Wednesday.
TV/radio: CBS Sports Network/600-AM, 101.5-FM.
Records: SDSU is 18-5, 6-3; Colorado State is 19-4, 6-2.
Series: CSU leads 36-34 but SDSU has won 13 of the last 14. The lone loss was 77-60 at CSU last season. SDSU won the first meeting this year 79-72 in OT.
Aztecs outlook: Xavier Thames came off the bench for 13 minutes in the 75-53 win against Fresno State on Saturday, his first game action in two weeks, and Coach Steve Fisher said "we're hopeful Xavier will be able to play a little bit more" against Colorado State. SDSU is 25-7 on the road since March 6, 2010; only Murray State and Kansas have been better over that stretch. The Aztecs are unranked in the Associated Press poll but two spots higher than CSU in the coaches at No. 22. "I voted us in and I voted Colorado State in ahead of us," said Fisher, who has a ballot in the coaches poll. "And not just this week." A big key for the Aztecs lately has been James Rahon, who has 14, 16 and 14 points in his last three games while shooting 47.4 percent (compared to 32.7 percent in his previous eight).
Rams outlook: Just like in their first meeting with SDSU, the Rams have had a full week off to prepare. In that game, Jan. 12 at Viejas Arena, they trailed 41-23 at the half before storming back to force overtime, then watching Chase Tapley score 12 of SDSU's 16 points in the OT. The Rams lead the nation in both average rebounds (42.4) and rebound differential (13.8). They are also one of only seven Division I teams to rank in the Top 50 in both scoring offense and defense. Much of the offense goes through 6-10 senior Colton Iverson (13.8 ppg, 9.7 rpg), who had 18 points and 11 rebounds against SDSU. "The best low-post center in the league," Fisher calls him. "He's hard for anyone to stop." The Rams could hit 20 wins for the first time in eight seasons; the school record of 23 figures to fall this season as well. They start five seniors and rank fourth nationally in average class year per minute played (3.45).


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The Impact Economy Initiative
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The word 'Nyabinghi' has a somewhat complicated history.
It was originally associated with an uprising against
White European colonialism in southwestern Uganda during
the mid to late nineteenth century and the early part of
the twentieth.
The movement was mainly led by a number of women,
including a charismatic healer called Muhumusa,
who was much feared. She was believed to be possessed* by
the spirit of a legendary Amazon Queen, Nyabinghi.
Muhumusa not only inspired a vast popular following, but
also organised military action against the German
colonialists. The Nyabinghi movement was subsequently
condemned by the British as 'witchcraft', and Muhumusa
was captured in 1913, though the uprisings continued, led
by other women and occasionally men who had become
similarly possessed by Nyabinghi's spirit. The Ugandan
movement was eventually subdued as women's powers were
crushed by the authorities.
But such brave resistance could not be so easily
forgotten. It has lived on in many ways, having much
influence on the Rastafarian tradition, in which so-called
Nyabinghi chants are very popular and
usually form the basis of the annual Grounation celebrations. In Jamaican parlance, the
name Nyabinghi has come to mean 'Death to
Black and White oppressors'.
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*To this day, spirit possession is a commonly
occurring phenomenon of many African indigenous cultures.
The spirit of a deceased ancestor may possess a man or
more usually a woman who acts as mediator. This role
often seems to confer a somewhat elevated position of
social esteem and significance on its bearer, since it is
recognised that she or he has the privilege of contact
with the spirit world. This may explain why many
mediators are women, who otherwise usually remain
subordinate to men. In Zimbabwe, a person possessed by a
spirit is termed a N'anga
or Svikiro, variously
translated as 'traditional healer', 'witch doctor',
'spirit medium', 'diviner' or 'herbalist'.
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By jhunt02
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As I have updated my televisions over the years, I have found the plasma TV's to be superior to LCD and LED's for gaming and computer work. My multiple Samsung plasmas have provided me years of quality service and reliability. My new 43" plasma is no exception.
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By Montgomery
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This has been the best thing ever for me to get it does have a clear picture the price is perfect I can not ask more than this
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
A good plasma TV for the price
By tanista
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This is my first flat-panel TV, and it's a pretty good one. Nice clear HD picture, and the standard picture's pretty clear too. Easy to set up and use, and compatible with my DVR. Been using it since June and no problems so far. Not a smart TV, but that's okay for now.
Great tv
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Good tv, great sound, clear picture, great for Sundays and football, or movies.
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Comments about Samsung 43" Black Plasma 720P HDTV:
TV is exactly what I wanted. Wanted to grab a plasma before they stop making them. My family room can't take more than a 42 inch screen so this TV can't be beat for the money. Picture is great. Sound is also very good. I need sound bars with my LG TV's but not with this one. There is glare, but I expected that with a plasma. It may end up in the bedroom where it will only be watched at night
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While we do love our Samsung television, and will buy another when the need arises, it is the customer support staff that truly sold us on Samsung. We had owned our Samsung TV for approximately 6 months. One day, the colors began to "bleed". It was almost comical. Everyone on screen looked like they had blue smears under their eyes. So, I called the Samsung support line. The customer service rep was so helpful. In a most courteous and respectful manner, I was directed to the test picture provided for the television. It was beautiful! The colors, crisp and clear. The rep then suggested I contact my cable provider. After doing so, the problem was found to be the cable box. Again, Samsung makes a wonderful product. In my humble opinion, they should also go into the business of training other corporations' customer service departments.
Nothing better than Plasma
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We like plasma and decided to get this for our bedroom while plasma it still available. Terrific picture - can't beat plasma. Great price!
Nice pic but too much screen glare
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I did a lot of research and was generally pleased with this product, especially at the price point of roughly $300. The one surprise that I did not expect, and also was specifically trying to avoid, was the glare. I replaced an old sony plasma and there was virtually no glare. The Samsung has a much better picture and many newer features, but despite a dark room and limited windows, it's got a lot of glare. Overall a nice product.
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Egan tells an extraordinary tale in this visceral account of how America's great, grassy plains turned to dust, and how the ferocious plains winds stirred up an endless series of "black blizzards" that were like a biblical plague: "Dust clouds boiled up, ten thousand feet or more in the sky, and rolled like moving mountains" in what became known as the Dust Bowl. But the plague was man-made, as Egan shows: the plains weren't suited to farming, and plowing up the grass to plant wheat, along with a confluence of economic disaster-the Depression-and natural disaster-eight years of drought-resulted in an ecological and human catastrophe that Egan details with stunning specificity. He grounds his tale in portraits of the people who settled the plains: hardy Americans and immigrants desperate for a piece of land to call their own and lured by the lies of promoters who said the ground was arable. Egan's interviews with survivors produce tales of courage and suffering: Hazel Lucas, for instance, dared to give birth in the midst of the blight only to see her baby die of "dust pneumonia" when her lungs clogged with the airborne dirt. (Publisher's Weekly Review)
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1. Relating to a dog.
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If you've built a Google Site and mapped it to a custom address such as www.yourdomain.com, you can make it even easier for people to reach your site by typing simply yourdomain.com—that is, the web address without the w's. You do this by redirecting your naked domain address within the Google Admin console.
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- Sign in to the Google Admin console.
- From the dashboard, click Domains.
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- Configure A records for your domain to map the prefix you entered above to the IP addresses of Google servers hosting your site.
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Teen Mom
Jenelle Evans Spends Quality Time With Jace After Pot Arrest (VIDEO)
Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans found herself locked up in the Brunswick County Jail after failing a impromptu drug screening on August 12, and fans were concerned about how the arrest could impact her relationship with her son, Jace.
Jace currently lives with Jenelle's mom, Barbara Evans, and this feisty broad has made it more than clear that she isn't OK with Jenelle smoking weed. Need we remind you of the time she uttered the beautiful musing "HIGH, HIGH, YA BOTH HIGH" and kicked Jenelle out of the house?
We were worried that Babs would limit Jenelle's time with Jace in the wake of her most recent arrest, but it looks like this jailbird had a bondathon with her kiddo on the evening of August 21!
"Going to get my main man, Mr. Jace Vahn," Jenelle tweeted.
Jenelle and her boyfriend, Nathan Griffith, currently live in South Carolina (while Jace lives in North Carolina), so it looks like Jenelle made a trip back home to visit her little one. They enjoyed an evening of mother/son bowling, and then spent the night setting off fireworks!
No word yet as to whether Babs will let Jace spend the night at Jenelle's pad in South Cackalacky in the wake of her most recent arrest and drug use, but hey — at least she's letting them hang out on her home turf!
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Outsmarting Hunger with The Protein Effect
Hey guys! Did everyone have a great weekend?
I had a complete blast, as expected.
I know I really never post on the weekends anymore, but this weekend I didn't even touch my lap top. I was in Chicago visiting a couple besties, and didn't even take my lap top. Luckily, my iPhone served as a camera, so I still managed to catch a few memories
So. Remember that one time I posted about food drugs? I professed my addiction to ice cream, and many of you professed the same, but many others confessed to be addicted to another food group – cereal (yep, cereal, too, is its own food group.)
I can appreciate that. Remember when everyone became obsessed with peanut butter Cheerios and then (myself included) wined about finishing a box in 1.5 days? Yeah, me too. I can go through a box of cereal in New York minute.
What is a New York minute, anyway?
However, I'm proud to announce that this box of cereal has been sitting in my lazy Susan for at least a week.
A week! And there's still some left! And Shane eats it, too.
It's not because it's not tasty – it's delicious. It's because when I have a bowl, I don't feel the need to refill that bowl an incessant amount of times to be satisfied.
It's because it's got protein power! 10 grams of protein per serving, to be exact.
I recently teamed up with Special K, through my ambassadorship with Fitfluential, to try out their new The Protein Effect line:
Each product – bars, meal replacement shakes, and cereal is between 100-200 calories and boasts 10 grams of protein per serving.
The protein effect, combined with at least 3 grams of fiber per serving, is Special K's way to outsmart hunger.
Special K: The Protein Effect Nutritional Stats:
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Throughout the week, I replaced either a bar or a shake with my usual morning or afternoon snack, and the cereal with my usual breakfast. While trying out the products I kept THREE in mind: first, did it quiet my hunger? secondly, what were the ingredients? and lastly, was it tasty? I decided I'd vlog my thought on those three factors:
How do you outsmart hunger – What's the thought process behind your snacks?
I try to have some carbs and protein in the morning, and protein and fat in the evening. I also try to keep my snacks around 200-300ish calories.
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
Hawaiian Tops
Ta da - two of the four tops from the Hawaiian shirt fabrics. One of the others is already put together (the one I am keeping for myself) so it just remains to put the one with the log cabin blocks together - tomorrow, I think. I will now email my stepmom and see which of these she wants for herself, and which for my (step) grandmother so I can put the backings on and maybe start quilting. They are single bed sized quilts, more or less, so shouldn't be too hard to quilt. Not sure what I'm going to do yet for a pattern, though - maybe something with waves in it?
12 comments:
- sophie said...
What wonderful quilts you have made from those Hawaiian shirts.
- 12:51 am
- Penny said...
Wow you have been busy since I last dropped by. those quilts look quite interesting, I really wasnt sure how you were going to do them. Hope you keep your goals, i dont dare make any, I go day by day these days as too much changes when I dont expect it.
- 12:54 am
- rlbates said...
They are all lovely, Kate!
- 1:14 am
- tirane93 said...
waves sounds like a clever quilting idea. maybe sailboats or anchors, too?
- 4:03 am
- Sew Create It - Jane said...
Great quilts Kate, and such a lovely way to remember your Dad. I'm sure they will be well loved and appreciated!
- 11:15 am
- Vicki W said...
These are terrific quilts. They will be such treasures!
- 1:59 pm
- Ruth said...
They look great, Kate. I'm sure that there'll be lots of good memories wrapped up in them.
- 2:27 pm
- carrie said...
Very, very nice, Kate. Lots of memories there; it's such a good idea
- 2:49 pm
- Penny said...
They are both lovely quilts and they are so different from one another.
- 3:18 pm
- gwen said...
What a great idea to use Hawaiian shirts. The 3 tops look great and so different from one another.
I like the zen range from Makower and bought quite a few too. As you said taupe but not so dear! Take care.
- 8:08 pm
- Totty Teabag said...
Wonderful shades of blue.
- 4:33 pm
- margaret said...
Great project. I love how that bit of red "zings it up".
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Commencement controversy in Connecticut
In my home state of Connecticut, there's been a controversy stirring in the small town of Enfield. There are two high schools there, and very few buildings in the area large enough to accommodate their graduation ceremonies.
First Cathedral in the nearby town of Bloomfield has been home for commencement ceremonies for Enfield High School and Enrico Fermi High School for the past several years. It's a large building, with plenty of parking. Adding to its attractiveness is the fact that the fee it charges the school district is lower than other options.
This year the school district learned that the ACLU had plans to file a lawsuit if First Cathedral was chosen again for the graduation site. The district researched other locations and listened to comments from the community. Ultimately, all things considered, the district decided to risk bullying from the ACLU and use First Cathedral again.
This week, U.S. District Judge Janet Hall granted the ACLU's motion to block the school district's graduation ceremonies on June 23 and 24 from the church, saying it would violate the First Amendment. In her ruling, Judge Hall wrote that using the church would constitute an "endorsement" of religion. According to the Family Institute of Connecticut's website, that was defined by a previous case as "sending a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community."
Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the FIC, who was called to testify in the case, believes the ruling is wrong. His argument, spelled out on the website, goes like this: "Put another way, the First Amendment requires that churches be treated equal to other organizations in the public square."
The plaintiffs' argument in this case is that holding the commencement ceremonies in a church would violate the constitutional ban on government establishment of a religion.
I'm trying to imagine whether this would be an issue if the graduation ceremonies had been booked at a nearby synagogue. Would the ACLU be worried about the government "endorsing" Judaism somehow? I doubt it. And if I were a graduating senior, would I feel like an "outsider" receiving my diploma in a temple? Absolutely not.
What is it about Christianity that worries the ACLU so much?
UPDATE: The Associated Press reports: "School officials in Connecticut have voted not to appeal a federal judge's ruling against plans to hold public high school graduations in a church."


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Re: Bittorrent - utorrent
- From: Stephen Clowater <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:25:23 -0400
This is really the only effective solution. After all, using iptables and
mangle can thwart just about anything. I thwart my ISP by re-writing the TOS
value to 0x10 for every packet. Since its too expensive for an ISP to write
TOS values tor anything other then packets in a NEW connection state, my
first minute of downloading is slow, then I'm back up to maxing out my pipe.
Despite complex QOS rules.
The only real effective solution is to somewhat limit bandwidth to burst
bandwidth, and then limit the number of connections per machine to some low
number like 20. Bittorent works off of swarming, and generally needs more
than 20 hosts to end up going quite fast. Those two in combination will
probably make bittorent quite painful to use.
On March 9, 2007 07:02:15 pm Erick Jensen wrote:
I would say, this is something that you can't control. Yes, bit-torrent
traffic can be encrypted, and it CAN run on 443. But I switched mine to a
random port in the 14000 range. Then I check mark the "encrypted only" box
and say "good luck Comcast!".
I think the only effective way of hindering bit-torrent is what some
universities do. They limit the bandwidth and allow only burst of full
bandwidth. That way they make bit torrent unbearable to use. So far
that's the only way to counter the bit-torrent traffic.
Has anyone else heard of a better way?
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Subject: Bittorrent - utorrent
Hello Everyone,
I am in a bit of trouble,
On a network where i am configuring IDS - using ASA5510 + SSM module, we
try to deny access to Bittorrent downloads - it consumes quite a bit of
bandwith and is not allowed by the company's policy. We try to filter
bittorrent which succedes - but the utorrent changes protocol and goes by
the SSL port 443 and thereby circumvent the IDS, since its not possible to
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Clarification regarding malloc and free in C
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Gene Poole
Typically the memory manager keeps track of malloc'ed memory by storing the pointer in a table and when free or realloc, etc. are called, it looks up the pointer in its table so the the value of the actual pointer is the lookup key. So, with respect to the first part of your post, yes, you can free the pointer returned by the function since its value is the same.
In the second case, you are reassigning your pointer to a different location and therefore the memory allocated by p is left dangling with no way to free it.


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Another question: If i sat you in a room full of horny hot women you wouldn't be attracted any of them
hats would only have sex with me
I would have sex with you for god sake lol
Wow so your a full fledge Gay person
Yeah. Does that surprise you? It seems like it does.
I'd hit that.
Definitely not the hottest girl ever, but she's a cutie. She has that young look to her though. =/ How old are you, Goku?
And why is your sig literally 7 inches wide =/
I just had a nice AIM conversation with them. =)
I'm 19 KS and see Chrizz those girls are one of a kind
They brought the F.A.G over now we playin MSG4
i wouldn't say she's the hottest girl EVER but she isn't bad looking
show me some one hotter
hi ho your not hotter
If you have fetish for anorexic girls, and if you like girl with no cleavage
The skinnier they are, the easier to dominate, within reason. And I like to mix it up. Sometime cleavage is good, sometime I like to go with smaller breasted women. Depends.
gross ewwww you are not a man in my eyes you fucking virgin
In my eyes, liking women who've been passed around for a few years non-stop and who will have saggy breasts and a loose pussy by age 22 isn't manly.
The girl, Hat. =P


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Badwater Basinby Kevin Russ
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Death Valley National Park, California. Taken with iPhone.