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City school district officials next week will implement a plan aimed at ending what they perceive as a dangerous traffic situation that has evolved at Edgewood Middle School.
Director of Support Services Bill Sturgeon said that during the past three years there has been a steady increase in the number of cars in the area of the school at the beginning and end of the day, dropping off and picking up students. He said the reason is that parents are concerned for the safety of their children.
Sturgeon said the result has been a dangerous maelstrom of both auto and bus traffic swirling around Graustark Path, Mathur Hill and the loop driveway in front of the school. Added into this congestion, Sturgeon noted, are students running everywhere, trying to get onto buses or into waiting cars.
"This is an accident waiting to happen," said Superintendent David Estrop. "We've been very lucky that we haven't had any students hurt."
Estrop noted that the congestion and resulting danger is particularly exacerbated on days of inclement weather when students dash through the rain without looking carefully at where they're going and cars jockey for position as near to the buildng as they can get.
Recently school officials enlisted the help of City Engineer Rick Oswald and the Wooster Police Department in trying to solve the problem, and as a result new regulations will take effect on Monday to create an improved bus drop off/pick-up area at the school.
Sturgeon said that if the change proves to be effective, both the Wooster City Council and the traffic commission would need to approve the signage before it becomes a permanent solution to the vehicular headaches in the vicinity.
The backbone of the plan would be the creation of a "no parking, stopping or standing" zone from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on school days from the south entrance drive to the north property line of Edgewood on both sides of Graustark Path.
In addition, on the east side of Graustark Path, from the exit drive to the school's north property line, there would be additional signage designating a bus loading zone.
Sturgeon said that within the new bus drop off/pickup area, the school's 10 buses would line up in a straight line next to the curb on Graustark.
He said buses would no longer be allowed to enter the loop driveway to pick up students, with the exception of a single handicapped bus.
Sturgeon said that having buses line up in a straight row would greatly improve sightlines and allow for better staff supervision. He said the only drawback to the arrangement is that students on the buses at the end of the line have a considerable ways to walk from the building to get aboard.
The buses on Graustark will be lined up facing north and when leaving the school will depart in that direction only.
Parents dropping off or picking up students would be able to continue using the school driveway, but when leaving the driveway would be required to turn left (south) onto Graustark. This, Sturgeon said, would prevent them from driving past the school buses lined up on Graustark, thus greatly reducing congestion and improving safety in the area.
Sturgeon also noted that students can still be dropped off and picked up on the east side of Graustark Path south of the entrance drive.
A bonus in the new traffic pattern, Estrop said, is that if the arrangement works out, improvements to the loop driveway might not be required as part of the planned $3.5 million Edgewood renovation scheduled to begin next year. The superintendent said that if driveway improvements do not need to be made, then the money saved can be used elsewhere in the project.


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"At-home spa treatments are fun and cost-effective, but one of the biggest benefits is the convenience," says Janice Cox, author of Natural Beauty at Home. "You don't have to make an appointment, and you can create your own products whenever you need them in the privacy of your own home."
It's simple to turn your bathroom into a soothing, spa-like environment. Set aromatherapy candles around the edge of the tub or sink. Turn off the phone and turn on relaxing music.
Follow these recipes to create hair-repair treatments, anti-stress baths, moisturizing facials and soothing foot soaks. You can find the ingredients at most natural food stores or locate suppliers on The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy's Web site, naha.org.
Hair Therapy
Cold air, laps in a chlorine-filled pool or moisture-stripping shampoos can dry and dull your hair. To combat the damage, use rosemary, which is "superb for putting the luster and life back into your hair," says Cox. The fragrant herb offers other beauty perks: A strong tea made from fresh rosemary leaves can be used as a darkening hair rinse and may even help tone down grays -- it takes a few applications to see results, however.
To add shine, body and moisture to your hair, try Cox's conditioner recipe.Rosemary Hair Repair
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil
- 1 tablespoon castor oil
- 2 teaspoons rosemary tea, brewed from fresh rosemary leaves
- 2 eggs
Mix together all ingredients. Massage into damp hair and let sit for 20 minutes. Then shampoo and rinse.
Fragrant Soak
Lavender derives its name from the Latin lavare--to wash. "A lavender bath before bed may help reduce insomnia and provide a peaceful night's sleep," says Shellie Enteen, the South Florida Regional Director of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy. "It also has stress-relieving properties and is well known for pain relief."
Use a high-quality, not fragrance grade, essential oil like EO's French Lavender Essential Oil ($10, eoproducts.com). Try Enteen's recipe to relax and reduce stress just before bedtime.Lavender Milk Bath
- 10 to 12 drops lavender oil
- 1/4 cup whole milk or cream
Honey Hydration
For flaking or dry, cracked skin, honey offers healing benefits. It also contains a germ-killing substance called inhibine, which helps prevent infections. You can apply a small amount to relieve chapped lips or use it as a spot treatment for a pimple before bed. "Honey has a very high potassium content, which makes it almost impossible for bacteria to survive in it," says Cox. "It contains many vitamins and minerals that benefit skin, and is one of the best-known humectants -- materials that hold moisture."
For use on your face or body, purchase honey labeled "100% pure." Also try organic honey, often with hints of lavender, orange blossom or sage added. Cox created this recipe to add moisture to your skin.Honey Facial Mask
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt or sour cream
- 1 tablespoon pure honey
- 1 teaspoon vitamin E oil
Mix together all ingredients and spread onto clean, damp skin. Let sit for 15 minutes and then remove with warm water. Pat your skin dry and moisturize.
Treat Your Feet
A soak in fresh mint or pure essential oil of mint can take miles off weary, achy feet. For this recipe, use high-quality, not fragrance grade, essential oil of mint like Aura Cacia Organic Peppermint Essential Oil ($9.35, auracacia.com).Mint Treatment
- 2 tablespoons crushed fresh mint or 5 to 6 drops of essential oil of mint
- 1 to 2 tablespoons Espom salts
Add ingredients to a small tub of warm water. Soak your feet.
Wendy Gist, M.S. in Natural Health, is a Southwest-based freelance writer whose articles have appeared in such publications as Alternative Medicine, Pilates Style and Today's Diet and Nutrition.


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CCNN Plc released third quarter results to September 2008 with a turnover growth of 10.1% to N7.6bn, while net profit leaped by 713.6% to N948.6mn. Despite this, the stock closed unchanged at N4.61.
Interlinked Technologies reported its full year results to June 2008. The company achieved a turnover growth of 270.4% to N285.6mn but a net loss of N13.1mn almost six times the loss position it reported in the corresponding period.
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Forest rangers discuss summer projects with Routt County commissioners
March 11, 2013
Steamboat Springs — Hahns Peak District Ranger Jamie Kingsbury and Yampa District Range Jack Lewis of the Medicine Bow Routt National Forest will call on the Routt County Board of Commissioners at 10:55 a.m. Tuesday to brief them about projects anticipated to take place on the forest this summer.
The projects could include continuing road improvements through July 1 on Buffalo Pass, tentative plans to explore more parking for recreational vehicles on Rabbit Ears Pass, and ongoing efforts to thin dead and dying trees in the forests surrounding Routt County and turn the timber into usable forest products.
The meeting will take place in the Commissioners' Hearing Room on the upper floor of the Routt County Courthouse, 522 Lincoln Ave. in Steamboat Springs.


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Florida Georgia Line Reveal 'Anything Goes' Track Listing
Florida Georgia Line has released the track listing for their upcoming album, 'Anything Goes.'
The duo's sophomore album is set for release on Oct. 14, and they say the title is appropriate for describing the process they've used when writing and recording the tracks.
"Tyler [Hubbard] and I've been really blessed to have an amazing team – an extended family – who push us continually to be better and think differently," Brian Kelley says. "Whether we're home or out on the road, we're doing things the FGL way, and it feels like with our recording, our writing, our lives … 'Anything Goes' … and we can't wait to see where it leads next."
The band's debut album was a huge success, earning five No. 1 singles and going double platinum. If the success of the first single off of 'Anything Goes' is any indication, there are more No. 1 singles to come. 'Dirt' was the most-added song ever in country radio, breaking a record set by Taylor Swift in 2012.
"There have been a lot of changes in our lives over the past couple of years, but we're still the same guys from Florida and Georgia who drove from show to show in BK's Tahoe," Hubbard says. "We're really excited about what we've learned on this journey and can't wait to give our fans new music they can crank up just as loud as the tunes they sing back to us every night. 'Anything Goes' is a natural progression of where we're at and what we've learned getting here."
Florida Georgia Line, 'Anything Goes' Track Listing:
1. 'Anything Goes'
2. 'Sun Daze'
3. 'Good Good'
4. 'Dirt'
5. 'Smile'
6. 'Sippin' On Fire'
7. 'Smoke'
8. 'Bumpin' The Night'
9. 'Angel'
10. 'Confession'
11. 'Like You Ain't Even Gone'
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Met my DH on Flixster... We were both fans of Hilary Duff... He saw my picture thought I was cute and messaged me... I was Utah, he was from Australia... After a year and a half of talking online he came out my way (for religious reasons) and I finally met him. After a few days of hanging out he went to Arizona for his religious service, I wrote him for the 2 years... After he went back to Australia. I then flew out after he was home for 2 months. We got engaged and I came back home... Then 8 months later he came out and we for married... Then a week later moved to Australia... We've been married for 2 years now and have a 14 month old son! Never been happier!
I met two ex-girlfriends online. One I was introduced to by a mutual friend who knew us both in person so I'm not sure it really counts but the other I met on an LGBT Youth Web site.
I met my fiance in probably the nerdiest way possible: World of Warcraft. Ha
We are both really into gaming (He worked for Blizzard Entertainment and I am going to be going to school for animation) so it's not a surprise that I met my future husband through a video game.
He was an admin in a guild and we just kinda started talking, found out he lived in Orange County and I lived in San Diego so we decided to meet up and we were basically attached after the second date, sat in the car for about an hour before I finally let him leave. :P


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Ice! Camera! Action! Figure skaters take flight
The Durango Figure Skating Club is holding its annual spring show at 5:30 p.m. today at Chapman Hill Ice Rink.
The event is a showcase for DFSC members to display their skills through choreographed routines solo, duets and group.
The spring show costs $4 for children and $6 for adults.
For more information, call Renee Mayer at 259-9571.
Theres still time for kickball, softball
The Durango Parks and Recreation kickball and mens womens and coed softball leagues are targeted to start the week of May 6.
Kickball teams can register by today and still pay the $315 early-bird fare. After today, the cost of registration is $355 per team. The deadline to register is April 27.
For softball, registration is $515 per team.
For more information, call Chris Clements at 375-7324.
Lanny Barnes is fit; come see just how fit
The Durango Performance Center is using Durango Olympian Lanny Barnes as a guinea pig for a group of Silverton students.
The center will be doing some exercise physiology tests on the Durango High School alumna and two-time Olympic biathlete at 2:30 p.m. today at the Durango Performance Center to teach the students what it takes to be an elite athlete and how exercise physiology is involved in the process.
For more information, call Molly Hummel at 303-579-3998 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Ipod, audiobooks and "Remember the last position" troubles
Hello there folks,
well my latest problem seems to be ipod related :)
I listen to a lot of audiobooks on my ipod so I need a "bookmark" option, or "remember last position" option that Itunes have. I've tried Amarok, gtkpod and Rhythmbox but none of them seems to have that option Any ideas ?
On gtkpod 0.99.8
right click the song you want to rember playback position
on the general tab on the bottom (you may have to scroll down) there is a few checkboxes, select the one to Remember Playback Postion and optionally Skip when shuffling.
Can't wait to get home to try this out :)
Sadly I can't seem to find the place with checkboxes or Remember Playback Position :(
When i right click I get:
Now this is even with menu open so you can see what I see... Could you please explain it a bit closer?
It looks like you are using an older version. gtkpod 0.99.8 was the first version to have feature you are looking for. You will need to upgrade to that version.
BTW I forgot when you right click you will need to select Edit Track Details
Well it certainly says gtkpod 0.99.8 both on Help->About screen and in Synaptic Package Manager :/
I took another screenshot showing both About screen and the other tab from Right Click->Properties window...
Could you please take a screenshot of what you see so I can compare it and possibly contact the author of the software?
At this point all I can think of is that fedora breaks on most upgrades (mp3 support and such). I had to compile it myself. As you can see my screenshot looks quite different than yours.
I see thanks a lot mate, I'll try and see if I can solve this one somehow, perhaps its time for me to learn to compile stuff myself ;)
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Join us on our podcast each weekday for an interesting story, well told, from Charisma News. Listen at charismapodcastnetwork.com.
Tuesday marked the 300th day of American pastor Saeed Abedini's illegal imprisonment in Iran—300 days away from his wife and kids, 300 days of torment for his Christian faith, 300 days and counting.
Nearly a year ago, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard raided the home of Pastor Abedini's parents in Tehran and imprisoned him solely on the basis of his faith. On account of that same faith, he faced a bogus trial and was convicted and sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Iran's brutal Evin Prison. He has been subjected to beatings and harassment, which have caused internal injuries necessitating medical treatment.
Suffering from an internal injury in his stomach, Abedini has been in need of medical attention for quite some time. On July 20, 2013, he was taken to a private hospital in Tehran for treatment and, for the first time, was examined by a physician and prescribed medication for injuries he sustained from the beatings he endured by prison guards.
On two past occasions, the 33-year-old pastor has been taken to the local hospital only to be sent home without examination or treatment for his injuries. This time, authorities proved they have heard the international outcry for medical attention.
Pastor Abedini's wife, Naghmeh, has responded to this positive step.
"Thank you to all of the individuals who have prayed, written letters, signed petitions, called government officials, run benefit races, tweeted, and shared Saeed's story. Thank you to all the government officials from around the world who have stood for my husband. Iran has listened to your pleas. While I am encouraged that Saeed is finally getting medical care, the fight is not yet over. It has been a difficult 300 days—300 days of torment simply because Saeed loves Jesus Christ. I am hopeful Iran will do the just and honorable thing and release Saeed," she says.
We are pleased that Iranian authorities have taken this important step to see that Pastor Abedini is no longer denied access to necessary medical treatment. It is our hope that the Iranian regime will take additional steps to correct their wrongdoings by giving his case a fair and impartial review in the court of appeals, where his case is currently pending. A fair and impartial review must result in a decision that continuing to hold Pastor Abedini is a grave violation of Iran's Constitution and its international obligations.
While Abedini has received medical treatment, he continues to pay a price for his Christian faith daily through his illegal imprisonment. We hope that this recent update out of Tehran indicates that he—a U.S. citizen—will receive just treatment in the coming days and weeks. Most importantly, we hope to see Iranian officials release him so he can return to the United States where he can make a full recovery in his family's care.
We continue to work in this country and in the international community to secure Pastor Abedini's freedom. And more than 600,000 people around the world now stand in solidarity with Pastor Abedini at SaveSaeed.org.
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Chocolate Covered Potato Chips
Author: Leslie Green - The Hungry Housewife
Chocolate Covered Potato Chips
1 /2 8.5 oz. Kettle Brand Sea Salt Potato Chips
1 cup semi-sweet Chocolate Chips
Coarse Kosher Salt
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place the chocolate chips in a bowl or large measuring cup.
Microwave the chocolate chips for 30 seconds and stir. Cook in additional 15 second increments, stirring in-between until melted and smooth.
Immediately dip the potato chips one by one in the melted chocolate and place on the lined baking sheet.
Lightly sprinkle with Kosher salt.
Allow to harden at room temperature for about and hour or until the chocolate has hardened.
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Another verse that I highlighted in Romans 9 in my Sunday school class this past week is Paul's statement in 9:3:
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
There seems to me to be a huge, stark difference between what Paul wrote there and the sort of outlook expressed by groups such as the Westboro Baptist Church, or more recently, the inaccurately-named "Christians for a Moral America" about whom I just learned by way of John Shore's post about George Michael being hospitalized. Apparently someone named Keith tweeted the following:
I can't imagine such despicable, hate-filled monsters wishing themselves to be cut off from Christ if it would save anyone that they believe are in danger of judgment.And so I think that perhaps Romans 9:3 ought to become the new test for Christian identity. Anyone who takes delight in the doom they believe is coming upon others can safely be said to adhere to a different religion than either Jesus or Paul.
(Since mythicism is a non-issue for most people, we didn't spend much time in my Sunday school class on Romans 9:5, which says that Paul's kinsmen according to the flesh are also those from whom are the patriarchs and also the Christ, according to the flesh (ἐξ ὧν ὁ χριστὸς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα). Obviously that is a text which mythicists would prefer didn't exist. Attempts to try to inject heavenly flesh or other such distractions into the discussion will not change Paul's words in Romans 9:5 into something other than what they are – counter-evidence to mythicist claims regarding what Paul believed).


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In 1949, the insular English village of Leyton seems to have emerged from the war in relative calm - that is, until a family of Italian peasants arrives to work the estate at Leyton House. There's nothing like a former prisoner of war and his two sons to set tongues wagging at Cleat's Corner Store. For Connie Farrington, a 17-year-old shop assistant at Cleat's, the Onorati brothers are a window to the wider world she has often longed for.
The two brothers are adapting to their new life in different ways: while the charismatic Vittorio is determined to reinvent himself and embrace all things English, the solitary Lucio is haunted by the secrets of his past, by events that tether him to the war in the mountains of Lazio. As Vittorio's drive and Lucio's quiet toil begin to cast an influence over Leyton, Connie's world is turned upside down, and she is forced to re-examine her ambitions and dreams. Populated with a cast of charming characters, *The Italians at Cleat's Corner Store* is a beautifully observed tale of small-town life, exploring love, prejudice, and identity in the wake of World War II.
About the Author
Jo Riccioni was born in the UK to an Italian father and English mother. She worked in Singapore and Paris before settling in Sydney, and she has a master's degree in literature from Leeds University. Her short stories have been read on the BBC and Radio National, and published in *The Best Australian Stories* 2010 and 2011. Her story 'Can't Take the Country out of the Boy' has been optioned for a short film.
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Such a moving read! Not only did I get completely caught up with the characters; their dreams and dilemmas, but I also found I gained such an understanding of the migrant experience, and the complexities of the human experience in war. Connie is a wonderful character, surprising even herself I think with her strength of will and ambition, and the settings in both Britain and Italy are so richly drawn it's as if you hear the commotion of village life all around you. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with high expectations of truly great historical fiction/romance, and can't wait to read more from this author.
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I bought this book as a result of a review. I thought it was a very good read, very comendable for a fiirst book by the author; it was heart wrenching in parts but evocative of small towns/villages. I especially liked the device going from the English village and then the Italian village highlighting the gossip which formed so much of the lives of inhabitants in both places and the horrible outcomes of that gossip. All was well in the end and I have to confess that I like a good ending.
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The characters in this book are so real they almost leap off the page, and you want to take the best of them home. It's a love story that also examines the constraints of the village, family relationships, what it means to be an outsider and the effects of war on individuals and communities. I loved it and I think it deserves to become a bestseller.
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Investigators have released a sketch of the man they believe robbed a pair of Braselton-area banks.
Police describe the robber as a black man between 5 feet, 4 inches and 5 feet, 6 inches tall with a slim build.
At about 9:20 a.m. Thursday, the handgun-wielding robber entered the Hometown Community Bank on Georgia Highway 53, jumped on the teller counter and demanded money.
The robber stole money from several teller drawers and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Investigators think Thursday's bank robbery is connected to a Jan. 31 robbery at the People's Bank, 2085 Georgia Highway 211 in Braselton. In that robbery, the gun-wielding robber also jumped onto the teller counter before making off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Anyone with information about the robbery at the Hometown Community Bank is urged to call the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at (706) 367-6020 or (706) 367-1911.
Anyone with information about the robbery at the People's Bank is urged to call Barrow County sheriff's Investigator Lisa Carr at (770) 307-3083 or (770) 307-3080.
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Discussion in 'Forum Games' started by Yeahha, Feb 26, 2012.
Mimzy jumps off the boat
"Barely, You ready to set out? We need to hurry so we can get these things deactivated. Since you showed me the controls we can take turns steering and Cain and Sparky can take turns on watch. "
"Alright , I wonder why this ship doesnt have any cannons ? "
"Alright, I will take watch first".
Heads up to the top of the boat, and starts scanning the horizon through his rifle scope.
"We dont have a radar btw . How are we going to find about obstacles ?"
"I fixed the radar. "
"You never purchased the spares smith .... I blame Cain of course for following Mimzy .."
I said I did it like two days ago. Yeahha never responded with the cost. But I did do it. Before I called Danforth.
strange .... we went to purchase spares and search for sparky but never purchased the spares
No, I did it before that. Before talking with Danforth and before looking for Sparky. Your character was sleeping or something.
"Where is mimzy anyway ? "
Mimzy returns this time with another dolphin.
[Hide] yeah I forgot about price you told the guy what happened and he thought it was so humorous he only charged you 250 GC for it....sorry busy with another thing right now feel free to progress time as you wish don't get to gamin yet...[/spoiler]
As night falls, I find myself watching the stars, wondering what Danforth wants with me. I fall asleep, rifle in my hand.
Nobody bothered to show you around...
Well, I will take the 250GC out of my stash, I am totally reporting it to Danforth though!
That is fine he will likely reimburse you even if he didn't choose to have you guys adopt a catguin...did you get a receipt??
Yeah, it is written in blood on a knowlet leaf.
Mimzy starts following Cain around...
T'res might not like that those things are sacred or something like that...
The radar goes off. There is a ship on the horizon
@9to5 & Anti
Before I forget Cain gets 5 PP and Sparky get 10 PP
"Hey Guys, there is a ship on the horizon, let's get ready for some action!"
What, I don't get any PP for calling Danforth and my awesome binary breakdown? Let alone making the platforms so they could target shoot?
@ac13 and karan
Smith and T'res each gain 1 PP...Smith for assisting in the competition and calling Danforth T'res for making sure everyone was alive after Cain was shooting (you can never be too sure)
Rushing up from the my cabin, pull my rifle. I sweep from side to side looking for a possible target. On the horizon, I see a ship. I load a round into the chamber and check the six shooter, ready for a possible confrontation I say, "Here we go again..."
;D sorry, I've been away for a while....
You see that the ship has cannons on it, currently it is out of your range
No worries
Mimzy is still following around Cain for some reason
"Cannons, that's gonna hurt!"


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120 freebees and many visiting artists, things to expect when going to the Electronic Circus festival in Bielefeld on September 25th. A nice chance to meet and greet and have funny or deep chats with fans, artists, and labels face to face, sound to sound. The freebee comes from the DIN label: Conundrum by Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock and Bernhard Wöstheinrich. And more music by artists, who will be in the Movie at the festival: Computerchemist, Intelligentsia, Matzumi, and Picture Palace music.
Go to the movie with: http://www.syndae.de/episodes/275-episode-101
Yours, Stefan


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The Discovery Ski School is coming to your local watering hole! This Thursday, February 21st, come support your local instructors. The Philipsburg Brewery will donate $1 from every pint sold to the ski school for new teaching equipment, instructor jackets, and scholarship opportunities for furthering instructor training.
Join the instructors for a pint!


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Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival
March 2 – March 4, 2017
This unique Texas competition, designed to showcase outstanding classical guitar students, will award approximately $8,000 in cash prizes to the winners. Over the three-day event, students can compete and attend master classes and concerts by internationally recognized guitarists. We have a youth competition for ages 11-18 as well as the main competition for college-level students.
International Concert Guitarist Competition:
- First Place $3000
- Second Place $2000
- Third Place $1000
- Fourth Place $500
Per U.S. IRS regulations, prizes awarded to non-U.S. citizens may be subject to tax withholding, dependent upon current tax treaty between the U.S. and the winner's country of citizenship. U.S. citizens who are awarded prizes will not have tax withheld, and will receive an IRS Form 1099 from UT Dallas at the end of the year if the total of earnings from UT Dallas are $600 or more.
Audience Choice Award:
- $500
Youth Competition (both divisions have prizes):
- First Place $300
- Second Place $200
- Third Place $100
2017 Competition Results:
Youth Division I
1st Place: Leif Tilton
2nd Place: Mei Yin Steadman
3rd Place: Nicolas Gomez
Youth Division II
1st Place: Diego Chavarria Rosas
2nd Place: Austin Keller
3rd Place: Julio Robles
Adult Competition
1st Place: Jesus Serrano Huitron
2nd Place: Stephen Lochbaum
3rd Place: Dariusz Lampkowski
4th Place: Anthony Mariano
Audience Choice Award
Stephen Lochbaum
Collaborating Festivals:
Fundación Cultural de la Guitarra A.C. — an international guitar competition held March 7 - 10, 2017 in Culiacán Sinaloa México
Registration for the Texas Competition
International Concert Guitarist Competition Guidelines
16th Annual Guitar Competition Schedule of events
Thursday, March 2 International Concert Guitar Competition Semi-finals (not open to the general public) and Concert
|Adam Holzman Concert
|8:00 p.m
|Jonsson Performance Hall
Friday, March 3 International Concert Guitar Finals
|Pre-Concert: UTD Radiant Ensemble
|7:15 p.m.
|University Theatre
|Competition Finals:
Update 3/3/17: In playing order, the finalists are Jesus Serrano Huitron, Dariusz Lampkowski, Anthony Mariano and Stephen Lochbaum!
|8:00 p.m.
|University Theatre
Saturday, March 4 Youth Competition, Guitar Maker, and Concert
|Youth Competition (both levels)*
|9:00 a.m.
|AH1 1.106 and 1.104
|Guitar Maker Stephan Connor
|4:00 p.m.
|Jonsson Performance Hall
|Pre-Concert: Garland High School Guitar Ensemble
|7:15 p.m.
|University Theatre
|Eliot Fisk Concert
|8:00 p.m.
|University Theatre
*open only to parents and teachers of competitors.
This year's guest artists will be Adam Holzman and Eliot Fisk. Guitar Maker Stephan Connor will be joining us.
Adam Holzman – March 2, 2017, 8 p.m., Jonsson Performance Hall, Free
Founder of the UT Austin Guitar Department, Holzman is a nationally-recognized concert performer and recording artist who has performed across the U.S., Europe and Latin America.
Stephan Connor – March 4, 2017, 4 p.m., Jonsson Performance Hall, Free
One of the premier builders of classical guitars in the United States, Stephan Connor guitars are played by many celebrated musicians including Eliot Fisk, Zaira Meneses and Angel Romero. He will give a video presentation on his process.
Eliot Fisk – March 4, 2017, 8 p.m., University Theatre, $25
Eliot Fisk is currently director of guitar studies at the New England Conservatory and artistic director for the annual Boston Guitar Fest. He will perform part of his program on a Stephan Connor guitar donated to the Guitar Studies program by Russell Cleveland.
Sponsored by:
RENN Capital Group
Competition Directors:
Enric Madriguera, Director
Eddie Healy, Assistant Director and Youth Competition Coordinator
Guitar Advisory Board
Dennis Kratz, Dean, UT Dallas School of Arts & Humanities
Enric Madriguera, Artistic Director, Head, Guitar Program at UT Dallas
Russell Cleveland, Chairman
Stan Ballard
David Butler
Camille Fu
Frank Kimlicko
Kenneth Lamb
Harry McClintock
Bryan Milner
Todd Sandler
Brett Webb


text: Culture 2 July 2010 Changeling: a Memoir of Parents Lost and Found Sign up for our weekly email * At last, summer is here, bringing with it a fresh crop of juicy misery memoirs with which to while away those sunny afternoons and long holiday flights. We've come a long way since the glorified kiddie torture-porn of A Child Called "It" and Ugly, gruesome show-and-tell-and-tell-some-more giving way to a far more subtle rendering of personal tragedy. Among the current batch, Leslie Kenton, daughter of the jazz musician Stan Kenton, describes her childhood sexual relationship with her father (more consensual than most) in Love Affair; Bill Clegg, literary agent-turned-crackhead-turned-author, elegantly expounds on his unusual career arc in Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man; and Sandra Newman, author of two acclaimed novels and a gleefully scornful guide to novel-writing, recollects a youth so troubled that the cover of her book features the mock-horror endorsement, "Even if you were brought up by wolves, Changeling will make you think you had a sheltered life". What a selling point. It's true, though: Newman does have a broader range of dark experiences to draw on than most. Adopted as a baby, she grows up with parents who are "the stock nice Jewish couple, middle class, with a house in Massachusetts and a backyard and an upstairs". In the midst of this average American dream, hyper-imaginative Sandra is a lonely misfit - though clearly not the only one. Her adoptive mother eventually succeeds in killing herself at the fifth attempt. As an adult, Newman meets her real parents and realises just how much her youthful unhappiness was about not fitting in. She feels an almost instant affinity for her real mother - intelligent, awkward and a fellow Russian graduate. Her real father, who tracks her down, is an experimental fiction writer. (Newman's own novels, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done and Cake, are littered with formal games - as is Changeling - and have led to comparisons of Newman with Kurt Vonnegut and Dave Eggers.) After years believing herself to be sui generis, she discovers that "you are not you, you are a fragment of the generations that hold you in their web". It is an experience as troubling for her as much of what comes earlier, and certainly does not lead to a happy ending. But soon afterwards, she begins her writing career "in palsied fits and starts", a process that she describes with malevolent wit. "Every person approaching a writing workshop has a secret expectation that her work will defy criticism. Her book is already a masterpiece, and she will instantly be hailed as a rising star." As the reader anticipates Newman's ignominious collapse back into tragedy, she butts in - "That is what happened to me" - and describes her instant success. Changeling is so inventive and well written that it's easy to believe her. The happy ending ends before the book does, but before that unravelling come the years prior to her meeting with her real parents. In an interview, Newman once described this period as "too violent a reaction to growing up in suburban Massachusetts"; in the book, she decides to "let go and blame nothing. Nothing human could be alien." In the 1980s, moving to London on a whim at 17, she promptly runs out of money and endures several months as a prostitute rather than admit to her father that she has "thrown his money away on a poodle, a vintage car and an Italian con artist". She becomes a student and then a squatter, sleeps around, suffers a rape. Her relationships are "love brawls" with difficult men and ex-drug addicts. Her dead-end jobs include professional gambling and tedious temping. This minefield of a life is written fitfully, subheadings and bullet points breaking up Newman's lolloping, rhythmic prose. There is humour, though never any less bleak than the description of the alcoholic best friend who "prides himself on vomiting from his bicycle without slowing". And despite the grimness, there is restraint: Newman avoids larding with description and lets events speak for themselves. In any case, it's the way each incident flows untidily into the next that says most about Newman; the way she turns up to meet her rapist for breakfast the day after she is attacked, because he had "offered to get me work as a heroin courier, to make it up to me". So, as misery memoirs go, Changeling is a cut above. Yet it is difficult to read it without feeling that Newman's literary talents could be put to better use in fiction. Her writing reads as if she is frustrated by the limits of language, and it is a shame to see her imagination constrained by the facts (admittedly not a problem faced by all memoirists, but Newman's story does ring true). Nonetheless, Changeling signposts those elements of Newman's novels which have leaked out of her life story. Perhaps, by setting down her own tale, she will have flushed out the pipework and made space for more - and even more imaginative - fiction. Changeling: a Memoir of Parents Lost and Found Sandra NewmanChatto & Windus, 224pp, £12.99 Alyssa McDonald is assistant editor of the New Statesman Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 05 July 2010 issue of the New Statesman, The cult of the generals More


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Much thinner. Lighter. Faster.
NOT available in gold.
On Sale Nov. 1
Much thinner. Lighter. Faster.
NOT available in gold.
On Sale Nov. 1
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buy more useless junk
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Anyone who thinks an iPad is useless is an idiot. 170 million sold.
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New operating system Mavericks available today. For free.
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247+ billions burgers sold by McDonalds
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I'm not an Apple user, but people like R1 are fucking idiots.
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"Mavericks" has to be the most annoying, obnoxious, stupid-sounding name ever.
IT'S NOT PLURAL, goddamit. It just sounds so completely ignorant. Like saying "Axe" instead of "Ask".
And Apple used to have such great OS names. Really superior. This just sucks. I shudder every time I read or hear it. Ugh.
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I'm a maverick, you betcha!
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r9- "Mavericks" refers to the surfing locale in Northern California where tow-in big wave surfing was (pretty much) born.
The new CEO is a surfer, hence all the new OS will be named after famous surfing spots.
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Yes, I know that R11, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an utterly stupid-sounding name for an OS.
It makes me cringe every time I see or hear it because it's so utterly grammatically incorrect.
It's like calling something "OS Chairs". The plural is just mind-hurtingly wrong.
Cats was a much better theme. Any other animal would have been better. This is just fucking brain-dead, obnoxious, and stupid.
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Calm down, r12.
It will all be over when the next OS comes out after Mavericks.
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I'm a Maverick, too
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And I named my label Maverick
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And I was in a movie named Maverick.
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It took me 3 hours to download Mavericks; now the installation is going to take about an hour. It's a huge download, and it wasn't available until 2pm my time. But hey, free.
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"Maverick" would be fine.
It's the unnecessary and incorrect pluralization of the word that's the problem.
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With Mavericks at last we'll have iBooks on Mac, not just on iOS. I'm excited about that.
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[all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]
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Unlike previous versions of OS X that could be installed only over the previous version, Mavericks can be installed over any version from 10.6 Snow Leopard and newer.
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R18, why didn't you wait until the weekend? Apple has always experienced slow downloads immediately after an update.
Plus, they're maybe the bugses.
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[quote]why didn't you wait until the weekend?
Well, because "I want it now!", and I wanted to use what is usually the super-fast Wi-Fi at work. Wasn't so fast today, as it happened.
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Cool that Macbook Pros have standard retina displays now. NOT cool that the hard drives have been shrunk down to a laughable (and for me unusable) 128gb.
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R18, it's never the speed of your connection. It's the speed of their data centers. That's why I stopped buying movies on iTunes.
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Mr. Cook, there's a James Garner on line 1.
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How is the plural incorrect? The place it's named after is called "Mavericks". The code-name is a proper noun, not an adjective.
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The whole faster and thinner meme is getting old. Nothing they introduced today was earth shattering and I'm a fanboy and have to use Apple products for work.
They needed to up the base storage capacity to 32 gigs which they didn't. I don't care about the finger print security thing and they didn't include that.
Mavericks is installing g on my iMac right now. Wonder if it will be worth the price.
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R29, mine is a free upgrade, but I'm waiting because I'm an adult who has been burned by being first too many times by their "Improvements".
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R30, I was being sarcastic with my comment about it being worth the price.
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None of their OSX "improvements" have been improvements after Snow Leopard, IMO. And since their machines are not backwards compatible, that means I'll be using this old Macbook Pro for as long as humanly possible. I too am tired of being burned by their incessant need to "upgrade" OSX.
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R31, I suddenly felt special and you ruined it. Fucker.
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Well, Mavericks is pretty lame.
I don't want notifications on my computer.
I don't want or need iBooks on my computer.
I don't want or need their shifty map app on my computer.
Annoying having to change my background image back to what I had.
The calendar app looks different. I don't see any improvements, though.
It's telling me I need to pay to upgrade iWork even though they came with my iMac that I bought this summer.
iPhoto is upgrading my library right now. and it's done and nothing looks any different.
Totally not impressed
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Speaking of OS upgrades -- how is the Windows 8.1 rollout supposed to work? Is it being pushed out automatically through Windows Update, or do you have to go look for it?
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r34 -- Go buy a computer with Windows 8.1.
Use it a while then come back and see how much you like Mavericks.
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What is it with these fucking companies trying to make our laptops/desktops act like tablets & smart phones? THAT ISN'T WHAT WE WANT! We're capable of learning and using both!
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I drive a Mavericks!
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[quote]I don't want or need iBooks on my computer.
[quote]I don't want or need their shifty map app on my computer.
You can not only remove both apps from your dock, you can install them altogether from your computer.
The Apple Maps app sucks, but having iBooks on my Mac is heaven.
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^ Shit, I mean you can *uninstall* them from your computer.
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Just ordered the iPad Air 128g, you are jealous of me!
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So many paid Apple shills here. Jesus.
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R42 = Jealousy!
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Even Apple's shills are better than Microsoft's.
Haw haw haw!
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I downloaded Mavericks this afternoon.
I've just removed iBooks and iMaps or whatever it's called. I wish I could figure out how to remove the notifications all together.
Also not impressed. Been using it for a couple of hours.
It's a handful of cosmetic changes with additions of some of the iOS apps. It's on an OS update. It's just some incremental changes. Nothing exciting, although I suspect that it's just a foreshadowing of their trying to make OSX more like iOS.
I haven't discovered any of my non Apple applications having issues yet which is always the biggest problem after one of these updates.
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I just want a 15 inch Macbook pro. It's $1999.
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Looks like I only removed iBooks from the doc. You can't trash it because it's required by OSX.
Totally BS
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The Windows operating system was made for people like you in mind, r47.
Please sell your Macintosh and go back to Windows.
You'll be much happier.
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I never used Windows so I can't go back. I hate Windows and I don't like the direction Apple is going since Steve Jobs died.
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[quote]Just ordered the iPad Air 128g, you are jealous of me!
A bit. I think I'll wait until the iPad has fingerprint log-in.
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[quote]Cool that Macbook Pros have standard retina displays now. NOT cool that the hard drives have been shrunk down to a laughable (and for me unusable) 128gb.
Well, you can get more storage. Up to 1T for the top model.
128 does seem a bit skimpy. I guess flash storage is expensive.
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OK. I'm now coming to you via Mavericks. Looks the same to me so far.
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How do you not feel totally retarded saying 'Mavericks' when you're talking about just one thing?
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Mavericks is a surfing location in Northern California, USA. It is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from shore outside Pillar Point Harbor, just north of the town of Half Moon Bay at the village of Princeton-By-The-Sea. After a strong winter storm in the northern Pacific Ocean, waves can routinely crest at over 25 feet (7.6 m) and top out at over 80 feet (24 m). The break is caused by an unusually shaped underwater rock formation.
Mavericks is a winter destination for some of the world's best big wave surfers. Very few riders become big wave surfers; and of those, only a select few are willing to risk the hazardous, sometimes deadly, conditions at Mavericks. An invitation-only contest is held there most winters, when the waves come.
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Better Mavericks than Gingerbread or Jellybean or whatever the hell Android uses.
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R54, why do you think you're telling me something I don't already know?
And why do you think any of that makes it sound less retarded?
Desserts is a WAY better theme than "Mavericks".
It's like saying "Here, would you like a marbles?" while handing someone a single marble. It's fucking stupid and obnoxious and awful.
This, from a company that has traditionally had great names and great marketing. This is so bad it's not even funny.
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Let's hope R53 never finds himself in the Netherlands. His head might explode,
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R57, that no more makes my head explode than being in the "United States".
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The next version will be called Bondi Beach.
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Maverick? Did your mom hate you or something?
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Perhaps, R56, R54 thought he was telling you something you didn't know because of your insistence that the name "Mavericks" is somehow a plural noun when it is a singular noun that refers to a single named location. Your snottiness is pretty funny under the circumstances.
But go ahead and call me an idiot too, if it will help you feel better about yourself. I won't mind, since I'll know the real truth.
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Retina is coming, merciful heavens!
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In case you want to read a 24-page review of Mavericks.
[quote]According to Apple, Mavericks has a dual focus. Its first and most important goal is to extend battery life and improve responsiveness. Secondarily, Mavericks aims to add functionality that will appeal to "power users" (Apple's words), a group that may be feeling neglected after enduring two releases of OS X playing iOS dress-up.
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Never heard of a Maverick.
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LOL, r62
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You're excited about iBooks on Mac r20? I guess there's always one.
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R161, it's a PLURAL WORD, and it's just a stupid to use it to refer to a singular location as it is to refer to a singular OS. It sounds horrible, ignorant, stupid, and awful. It makes for really bad grammar.
No matter how you try and justify it (and we all know Apple fanboys like you will bend over backwards and bend themselves into pretzels in order to avoid any criticism of Apple or anything they do), it's a shitty sounding name for a singular product.
Every version of OS X had a great name before this. This one just sucks, sounds stupid, and we're all going to be forced to listen to this crappy name for the next year or two. Ugh.
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R64, you never heard of John McCain?!?
Lucky you!
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This wouldn't be Datalounge if you didn't have hysterical people slitting their wrists over a pluralized word.
I am posting from the new OS update and it's fine. I have a 2013 Air so I'm not noticing any significant improvement in battery life just yet. With the exception of notifications, most of the new apps (iBooks, maps) are a complete waste of my time, no one was crying to use shitty iBooks and maps on their Macbook. Apple is so self involved, not all of their programs are "revolutionary" and "magical".
I also have a Windows 8.1 that I use daily, and while there is a performance boost, I'm not seeing much of a difference there either. I like BOTH operating systems, but I'm glad that I didn't have to pay for either update.
Apple charging $399 for a second generation iPad is thievery, plain and simple. I don't know why Apple cultists put up with this shit.
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I can't wait for iPhone Atom.
On sale Dec. 1.
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[quote](and we all know Apple fanboys like you will bend over backwards and bend themselves into pretzels in order to avoid any criticism of Apple or anything they do)
Actually, I don't like the name, R67, and I'm not a bit sure I'm going to bother with this update even though it's free. I tend to skip many updates, and am still running the OS Lion 10.7.5 that come installed on my Mac Mini, which is the only Apple product I own. So much for your assumptive "fanboy" cliché.
But in a choice between "Maverick," and "Mavericks," the distinction of that "s" completely alters the reference that the name invokes. And since it refers to a singular proper noun, the grammar is correct.
But the name will have no impact on my life whatsoever, so even though it doesn't appeal to me, I choose to avoid going into some silly apoplexy over it.
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I will kill the next person who says "I just installed Mavericks".
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I installed Mavericks yesterday, R72.
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[quote]Better Mavericks than Gingerbread or Jellybean or whatever the hell Android uses.
They go alphabetically:
Froyo Gingerbread Honeycomb Ice Cream Sandwich Jellybean
The next one is Kit Kat, seriously.
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[quote]No matter how you try and justify it (and we all know Apple fanboys like you will bend over backwards and bend themselves into pretzels in order to avoid any criticism of Apple or anything they do), it's a shitty sounding name for a singular product.
Two words: Los Angeles
IS that OK because it is in Spanish?
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R76, it's actually short for "City of Angels", which is still singular.
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Des Moines
Des Plaines
The Dalles
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[quote][R76], it's actually short for "City of Angels", which is still singular.
No--You don't get to invoke meanings apparent upon research. You have to take the place name as it is used. Otherwise you should be complaining that Mavericks is a possessive with a missing apostrophe and not a plural, as it was named for a dog named Maverick.
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[quote]I wish I could figure out how to remove the notifications all together.
Try "notifications" in the System Preferences!
Just for shits and giggles.
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Mavericks = Mac OS 10.9
Releases used to be labeled just by the numbers, but everyone started using the leaked internal code names.
Apple finally gave up and started using the code names in public.
Use whatever you like. They both work.
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When do we get 11?
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Who else is getting one?
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There are many Ipads, what separates Apple from all the others? The price is stupid.
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OP = Paid Shill
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Because the original iPad was sooooo heavy. STFU!
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The new iPad Air is much lighter than any mobile pad in the market.
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Give me a break, not true!
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I just ordered one. AT&T is offering a 20-month installment payment plan instead of an all-at-once initial purchase. Just pay $40-$50 (depending on the capacity and data plan you chose) a month on your bill.
[quote]There are many Ipads, what separates Apple from all the others? The price is stupid.
...??? The iPad is an Apple product. Maybe you meant that there are many tablets on the market. Most other tablets run Android and are cheap, in every sense of the word. (Windows 8 tablets are actually rather nice.)
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Nice, r89.
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Who else is getting one today?
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I got a Surface 2. I'm liking it.
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lol @ people who'll be flocking to by this shit. I hope it has so many glitches, it's my only wish.
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maverick is not without issuse - my once flawless macbook now has three times has the blurred screen of death.
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Apple has acknowledged many problems with the new MacBooks hanging and crashing as well.
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I have a mid-2010 white plastic MacBook with 4GB of RAM, the last of that kind they made that wasn't a MB Pro or MB Air, and thank goodness it's running Mavericks perfectly. The battery lasts a lot longer, among other improvements.
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[bold]This squiggly line should worry Apple[/bold]
"This is Apple's last decade in one line," writes Dan Frommer. "Technically, it's a smoothed graph of Apple's year-over-year revenue growth from September, 2003, through September, 2013. But the reason I left out all identifying symbols and values is that this is supposed to represent something less tangible — excitement about Apple. This feeling, while rising and falling as the iPod, Mac, iPhone, and iPad generated a lot of interest — not to mention sales and profits — seems to have lately settled into a slump."
Other fun statistics: Mac OS X 10.8 has approximately 3.31% of the OS market share as of September 2013. ALL Mac OS X 10.x versions combined are around 7.6% market share.
After just one year, Windows 8 has a 7.6% market share, and after just two weeks, Windows 8.1 is closing in on 2% market share.
Windows 7 has 46.4% of the market share.
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[quote]lol @ people who'll be flocking to by this shit. I hope it has so many glitches, it's my only wish.
My only wish is for you to stop being jealous.
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I got mine it is dropped
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Did you break it, when you dropped it?
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A waste of money. You don't need another gadget, people.
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And, you don't?
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I just got the iPad Air. Love it. Smaller (but not the screen), and lighter.
But i don't notice any improvement in graphics. Maybe I don't watch enough tv or movies to really notice.
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I love the plural queen freakout on this thread. Classic DL.
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Got the new nexus 7 never looked back - sold my ipad 4 but it was free anyway (came with my car lol).
ever since Mavericks my MBP 13 is slooo to reboot and will crash (never crashed - ever before this).
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I upgraded to one from the iPad 2 and love it. My only quibble is that, because of the smaller footprint, it requires a new smart cover. There is no grey smart cover for the iPad Air; apart from the bright Skittle color palette they've introduced this year, the only other option is black, which is harder to keep looking clean than my old grey cover.
It's also a bummer that there's no dock. I enjoyed propping my iPad 2 up on a dock.
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I just took delivery of a new iPad mini with retina display on Wednesday. It replaces a first gen Mini that I bought in May (at $50 discount from Staples). I think I can sell that one for close to what I paid for it.
So far I can't notice a huge difference in speed with the A7 chip, but the screen is a massive improvement. Text is just so much easier to read now. I love the form factor and lightness of the Mini, it's really the better one to buy vs the Air now that they share the same hardware specs. Apparently the Minis are in short supply so if you want one better order it now. I placed my order the day they became available.
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Google made the Nexus 5 official a few days ago, although this was not intended to happen. On September 3, Google accidentally revealed its upcoming flagship smartphone. A completely new Nexus phone can be spotted in the Android KitKat unveiling video, with the LG logo on its back visible as well.
More than the above, a new device known as LG D820 appeared at FCC, its specifications matching most of the Nexus 5 rumors we heard so far. The handset features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, a 4.96-inch Full HD IPS display, 13 MP camera and measures 5.1X2.7 inches.
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Sam Shepard's plays are famously all about man as a caged animal, prowling and brooding around his enclosure (usually a North American domicile), eventually tearing it apart like an untrained puppy suffering from separation anxiety. He is a man's man's writer, the lone wolf in the wilderness that so many young males fantasize about—even, it often seems, Shepard himself.
As his most famous work, one of Shepard's Family Trilogy, True West is a great example: two brothers, Hollywood screenwriter Austin (Mike Ross) and the petty-thieving vagabond Lee (Stuart Hughes), somehow end up house-sitting for their mother while she's on vacation in Alaska (though only Austin was asked to do so). It's clear in the script that both men make solo trips outside the walls of their mother's suburban home, but we never see them apart from each other. That's because Lee and Austin are two halves of the same man. In fact, it's common for the two main actors to alternate the roles throughout a run of the show.


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To investors of Bankers Petroleum Ltd. , the company has burned through all its chances.
The Calgary oil company, which has assets in Albania, has struggled in recent years to meet targets set by management and the market lost patience Monday after Bankers disappointed investors with poor production results. The stock closed at $2.29 a share, down $1.16 or nearly 34 per cent, on the Toronto Stock Exchange, despite respectable financial results.
Bankers' woes are tied to operational failures and broken production promises. Energy investors are no longer satisfied with large reserves. Instead, they insist on drilling success, a standard that threatens oil and gas companies across the board as investors search for safe places to put their money during global financial turmoil.
Bankers hoped to expand its production by 30 per cent in 2012, aiming to churn out about 15,500 barrels of oil a day. The company produced 13,279 barrels a day in the first quarter, down from 13,399 in the previous quarter. Bankers is now "likely" to slash its production goals, said Abby Badwi, the company's chief executive officer.
"It has been embarrassing," he said. "Talking is not going to be sufficient now because we've talked before and we have not delivered on what we've said we would do."
Bankers suffered from execution problems in the Patos-Marinza oil field. It has drilled about 150 horizontal wells since taking over the zone, and about 15 to 20 of those have had water problems, while liners in 15 more have failed, Mr. Badwi said. Some of the liners, for example, are unable to withstand the tectonic conditions, or are failing because of pumping and pressure problems. These troubles, he said, can be fixed. The company can repair the liners with higher-quality steel, for example. He estimates it will cost between $200,000 and $300,000 per well to solve the problems.
In addition to its new wells, Bankers has revived about 300 vertical wells in the oil field.
The company will provide more precise cost estimates and further explain what went wrong at an investor meeting June 4.
The high volume of shares that traded hands Monday indicates institutional investors were the ones bailing on the company. This came despite Bankers handing in first-quarter results that came with bright spots. Its so-called netbacks per barrel reached $44.24 (U.S.) a barrel, up from $37.22 in the same quarter last year. Netbacks is a metric used in the oil and gas industry to reflect the amount of money companies receive for their products after royalties, production expenses and transportation. The improved netbacks, however, were not enough to pacify frustrated investors.
"This is a [management]team that was already in the penalty box and they delivered a result that was below expectations again and for sure ... a few people are capitulating on this stock and saying 'there's really no reason to own it,' " said David Popowich, a Calgary-based analyst at Macquarie Group. "They are going to get out of it at any price."
Bankers' profit rang in at $7.76-million or 31 cents a share in the quarter, down 31 per cent from $11.21-million or 46 cents in the same frame in 2011. Its operating profit, however, totalled $53.47-million, up 34 per cent from $39.83-million.


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text: Steward leads improving Houston pass rush By Doug Smock November 15, 2012 Story Share Marshall quarterback Rakeem Cato and offensive coordinator Bill Legg have learned to expect the unexpected from opposing defenses. Every week, minor wrinkles or a major overhaul is coming.What, when and how often is what keeps the Thundering Herd offense on its toes. For instance, consider this: Would Houston, the Herd's opponent this week, see the success Alabama-Birmingham had by dropping eight defenders and copy it?"Anything is possible," Legg said.Indeed. And when the Cougars take on the Herd at noon Saturday in a bowl-elimination bout at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, they could throw anything and everything at Cato and company. But there are two good bets:n Houston will blitz, probably more than anybody the Herd has faced;n Cato will do well to identify No. 42, linebacker Phillip Steward.Steward has become the bell cow of the Cougars' defense, tying for the Conference USA lead in sacks (nine) and tackles for loss (16) and leading by himself in forced fumbles (five). He is fourth in C-USA with 104 tackles and second on his team with six quarterback hurries and two interceptions.With standouts Sammy Brown and Marcus McGraw moved on, Steward was the bet to lead the defense. And the 6-foot, 223-pound senior from Missouri City, Texas, will do his damage from anywhere. "He's their adjusting linebacker," Legg said. "What they do with him is moving him all over the place. He could be out in the alley and blitz [look] and play in coverage, he can be out in the alley and sneak in and blitz, and then when they go to their nickel and their dime package, they move him in the box."He's a 'Sam' linebacker sometimes, a 'Will' linebacker sometimes, a 'Mike' linebacker sometimes; he's a good athlete. We played against them last year, and he was strictly a stand-up outside linebacker who was on the line of scrimmage."The other thing they do, they have a pass rush package where he becomes a defensive end. It's hard to know where he he's going to be from play to play, to be quite honest with you."With Steward leading the way, Houston has 29 sacks and 23 turnovers gained, both second in Conference USA. But most of the Cougars' defensive stats aren't so shiny. They are 11th in the league in total defense (474.2), dead last in passing yards against (276.0) and ninth in scoring defense (37.1). They are the second worst in the most red-zone touchdowns allowed (32), largely because they're second worst in red-zone drives allowed (51).Louisiana Tech roughed up the Cougars for 598 total yards in a 56-49 slugfest, East Carolina piled up 550 in a 48-24 win and Tulsa gained 505 last week in a 41-7 rout."We've had a lot of injuries," Steward said. "That's something we've had to cope with." Legg is looking harder at the last two games, because the personnel is much different from when Houston played Louisiana Tech on Sept. 8. He points out that the starting line has been overhauled and the safeties and nickel back have changed. Add in a substitution for D.J. Hayden, the cornerback who suffered a near-fatal injury in practice last week.Apparently, those Cougars are coming after the passer more. A lot more, factoring into that sack total."The last four games, their overall percentage is more than 50 percent blitz. That's pretty high," Legg said. "Usually teams that are relatively big blitz teams are 35, 37 [percent]. They're a very aggressive group, which is totally opposite from what they were a year ago."Legg is looking for a much better game from his offense, which was held to a season-low 337 yards last week. He said the adjustment to UAB's scheme wasn't easy, but much of his team's first-half problems were simpler.They just didn't play very well, he said."The thing is, UAB had shown that, so we had worked against it a little bit," Legg said. "Now, where they changed is they changed how they did their drop-eight coverage. It was a little bit different than what they had shown prior to the game. You had seen them go to drop-eight in every game [but] not every play, and not with that 'double robber' coverage that they ran against us. "You had seen variations of drop-eight in every game, and we worked it in preparation all week. We did not execute well at all, first half. We block an odd front every single week, because everybody at some point plays it. We work on our run game vs. an odd front, we work on our pass game vs. an odd front and we just did not react well."Rest assured, the Herd offense will have to react to something different from the Cougars, and do it better.Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130 or email@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 2 New leaders begin to emerge for Marshall football 3 Former State Police captain now chief in Winfield 4 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 5 Rod Run and Doo Wop brings classic cars, music to Boulevard for 12th year WVC volleyball tournament results, pairings Previous Story High school football playoff roundup: No. 4 Robert C. Byrd knocks off Bluefield Next Story


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Losing Your Ego, Losing Your Halo
(for context, see my prior posts on Information Poisoning and Identity Detox/Info-Detox)
So, why is it that we give away our essence, exchanging the original for a copy? The answer is complex, nuanced, and case-specific, but here's a bird's-eye view of the problem.
You see, the brain translates life into information. Some of the information that we receive has nothing to do with us. We either ignore it or file it away for future use. But some of the information feels personally relevant. So, we examine it and hoard what's useful. The information that we keep becomes our ego, our self-concept.
Over time, we get used to this information about us and begin to identify with it. For example, you get a few As in a graduate-level math class and you feel tempted to conclude: "I am a math whiz." Or, say, you grow up in a coal-mining town, identifying with its ethos of honesty and hard work, and then run for a political office as "a son of a coal-miner," on a mandate of what-you-see-is-what-you-get transparency.
One way or another, we all – up to a point – wrap ourselves in our informational and autobiographical resumes like togas until they cake on like second skin. But life, nevertheless, continues. Things change. And new informational inputs eventually challenge our self-concept; you finally get a B on a math test and your self-coronated math-whiz title suddenly needs a revision; or a sensation-hungry tabloid finally data-mines something shady on the goody-too-shoes, what-you-see-is-what-you-get son-of-a-coal-miner and another political ascent nosedives.
One way or another we all lose our info-halo (informational halo), our ego-halo.
Our usual way of dealing with information we don't like is to ignore it, to question its validity, to question the validity of its source, or to counter it with other information. We get pretty stressed out trying to protect the old information about who and what we are. We go to bat protecting our image, our reputation, our self-view, our ego while all along forgetting that what we're protecting is just information. We lose sight of a rather basic fact that we, ourselves, are not the information that we are protecting.
The point isn't about disregarding or dismissing negative information. Chances are you already have these information-filtering self-defense skills. There is a different path, the path of dis-identifying from information altogether. What you have here is an opportunity to draw a boundary between you and the information about you.
Once you latch on to a certain set of ideas about who and what you are, you end up identifying with this information. And as this information becomes your identity, you lose sight of your essential self. Identity detox isn't the dry-cleaning of identity. It's not a reputation mop-up. It's not a do-it-yourself image-management project or a self-esteem tune-up.
Identity Detox is a process of liberating you (your essential self) from the information about you (from your informational ego).
Adapted from Lotus Effect (Pavel Somov, 2010)
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Somov, P. (2012). Losing Your Ego, Losing Your Halo. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 26, 2017, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2012/06/losing-your-ego-losing-your-halo/


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Bristol Motor Speedway is adding some country music to its Wednesday, August 20 lineup. Following the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' UNOH 200 presented by ZLOOP (8 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1), country star Dierks Bentley will perform a full-length concert at the track.
In addition to Truck Series race, the combined NASCAR Whelen Modified and Whelen Southern Modified tours will run the Bush's Beans 150 earlier in the evening on the .533-mile track.
Bentley is currently on the road headlining his 2014 Riser Tour. He released Riser earlier this year and it features the hit songs "I Hold On" and "Drunk on a Plane."
"Racing fans are some of the best and loudest fans anywhere," Bentley said in a release. "We've been out all summer on the Riser Tour having the time of our lives, so getting to swing by Bristol to hang with all the race fans is an added bonus."
The country star is no stranger to NASCAR. He was at the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Banquet in Las Vegas, where he performed and introduced Dale Earnhardt Jr.
He also performed a pre-race concert before the 2013 Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Bentley is a big NASCAR fan and counts Sprint Cup Series drivers Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne among his friends in the sport.
In a pre-race press conference, Bentley discussed how he got hooked on NASCAR.
"I think the more you follow NASCAR, the more you get into it, the more you just kind of root for a great race. ... When you first get into the sport, you have one (driver) that kind of brings you in. Now, a lot of guys out there I am pulling for. "
Bentley also said then that "somewhere down the road", he'd love to get in a stock car.
The Bristol Motor Speedway action kicks off August 20 and continues on with the Nationwide Series Food City 300 (August 22, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) and the Sprint Cup Series Irwin Tools Night Race (August 23, 7:30 p.m. ET, ABC).
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Joan Jett is a beloved muse for Italian designers this fashion cycle. Case in point: Frankie Morello's latest collection delivered enough Rock 'n' Roll notes and Joan Jett references to please her die-hard fans. But that was just a veneer; the line-up was as much about high-octane color as it was about tough, cutting-edge looks. Who else showed leather knee pads? Florescent orange fur trims? Regardless, the line-up was much more tame once focusing on individual pieces. It demonstrated a good sportswear handling.
The past few seasons may have been tumultuous for Salvatore Ferragamo, but that's a thing of the past now. It's always nice to see a collection that is well conceived and beautifully executed. This womenswear line-up, based on menswear tailoring and military uniform, is able to grasp and realize femininity from this seemingly strong and silent man behind the fashion mirror. The tailoring, especially with the leathers and furs, including the broadtail, is particularly impressive. The ability to create softness within an overwhelmingly black collection is a work of art in and of itself. Bravo!
Whereas Ferragamo played down color, Aquilano.Rimondi embraced it. This duo's latest collection is a Renaissance master painter's delight. Many of its fabrics referenced Italian Renaissance paintings, yet managed to remain contemporary. The garment cuts were impeccable as were the material choices. The collection read much more alta moda than sportswear from start to finish. It shows that Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi are true masters in their own rights.
The Versus' collection glamorized the Londoner youth angst of Camden. The line-up wasn't truly punk, grunge, nor rock, but instead a polished mélange of all the aforementioned. It was also much more relaxed than the Versace show we saw a few days ago. Versus is, as a rule, younger and a little more freehand in its approach and handling. The punk notes came with the t-shirt slicing combined with mesh, the grunge in the layered styling, and rock with the leather pants and chubby fur jackets.
The Philipp Plein collection was certainly broad, and then some… there was even some menswear thrown into the mix. He delivered so many looks in this collection that it felt a little like a fashion parade. The line-up was pure sportswear injected with humor and a strong Rock n' Roll visual vocabulary… but a very Italian one. The humor came in the form of appliqué/intarsia fur pieces, and a few mirroring knitted pieces. Philipp Plein loves his furs and isn't afraid to shown it.
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The Burning Hell 'People' (album stream)
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We previously heard the nostalgically rocking, densely lyrical opening cut "Grown-Ups." Elsewhere, the album takes an upbeat turn on "Holidaymakers" and the crunchy "Amateur Rappers," while "Barbarians" is laced with wah-wah-assisted psychedelia and "Travel Writers" is a hushed ballad.
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A crash in which a man was hospitalised caused long tailbacks for nearly two hours on the A3 this morning.
The 65 year old was taken to St George's Hospital, Tooting, with neck and shoulder injuries after his motorcycle collided with a car on the Hook Road junction of the A3 at 8.15am.
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THE organisers of Witney's first weekend chess congress in October hope it will further help to put the town on the chess map and boost local businesses.
The event will be staged at Cokethorpe School, near Ducklington, on Saturday, October 19, and Sunday, October 20. Entries are already starting to come in.
Witney Chess Club's own young star Marcus Harvey, the top under-18 player in the UK, has confirmed his appearance, and the club's top-rated player, Grandmaster Peter Wells, is also hoping to enter.
Both players competed in this month's British Championships in Torquay, where Mr Wells finished in an impressive joint fifth place.
A chess congress is an open event that often attracts players from near and far. They compete in a range of levels, according to their ability.
The only other weekend congress currently running in Oxfordshire is the Kidlington Congress, the 37th edition of which takes place next February.
Oxford University also used to run a congress on a regular basis until its demise three years ago.
There is also an Oxfordshire Junior Chess Congress, which will is at Magdalen College School, Oxford, this year.
Witney Chess Club is also staging a one-day rapidplay tournament at The Batt Primary School on Sunday, September 29, which could attract 60 players.
But staging a weekend congress puts the club in a new league, and treasurer Mike Truran said there should be spin-off benefits for the town.
"There will be players from outside the area coming to the congress who will stay in Witney, which will be good for hotels and Witney restaurant Hackett's will provide the catering," he said.
"We're very grateful to Cokethorpe School for staging the event in their new refectory."
Witney Chess Congress will comprise four main sections, catering for players of various strengths and will have a prize fund of more than £1,300.
The organisers are hoping for about 100 entries from Oxfordshire and beyond.
With its base at Ducklington Village Hall, after a move from Langdale Hall, the club has gone from strength to strength.
Last year it was named by the English Chess Federation as the top club in the country.
The club has a strong base of young players, who won the junior national chess league last year with Cumnor Chess Club.
For the past two years Witney's first team has won Oxfordshire's league and cup double, lifting the Oxfordshire Chess Association first division title and the Frank Wood Shield.
The club now has a pool of over 40 adult and junior players.
For more information about the Witney Chess Congress and the club, see witneychess.co.uk


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Gahanna Police Want Help Identifying Gas Station Robber
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Gahanna police are asking for help identifying a man accused of assaulting a gas station clerk and robbing the store on Sunday.
According to police, a man entered the Shell gas station, located at 4733 Morse Road, at about 10 a.m.
As the female employee bent down behind the counter to prepare the cash drawer for her shift, the man went behind the counter and struck the employee.
The man stole cash from the register and fled toward a service road behind the business and got into a silver or gray car, according to a witness.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call police at 614-342-4240.
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Rick Antonson, author of Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street tells us some stories on this adventure through the famous road.
Mules, hotels, and stuck in mud adventures are only some of the topics that arise when talking to him about his book.
Rick Antonson is President & CEO of Tourism Vancouver, which represents over 1,000 member businesses and is responsible for the market development of Metro Vancouver as a convention, incentive, and leisure travel destination. Rick is a former book publisher, and train company executive.
As a travel industry leader, Rick served as an ambassador for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. He has been on the boards of the Pacific Asia Travel Association based in Bangkok, Vancouver Community College, and on the Advisory Council for Simon Fraser University's Urban Studies Program. In the recent past he also chaired the Board of Directors for book publisher Douglas & McIntyre; was chair of Destination Marketing Association International based in Washington, DC, and a founding board member of the Canadian Tourism Commission. He is Vice President of the Board of Directors for Pacific Coast Public Television.
He is a co-author of Slumach's Gold, In Search of a Legend. In 2008, Dundurn Publishing of Toronto published his third book, To Timbuktu for a Haircut; A Journey Through West Africa.
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Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Works too hard, would never have written this ad, so we wrote it for her. Spunky redhead has head for business, eye for art, heart for God. An all-American beauty. Needs a good man!When the nineteen-year-old twins who work at Bonny Fairley's fine craft gallery place a personal ad in the paper on her behalf, Bonny is mortified. A personal ad? She's not that desperate! Then the ex-husband who'd abandoned her shows up in town vowing to win back her heart--and Bonny starts returning calls and making dates as if her life, not to mention her happiness, depended on it. What better way than finding herself a boyfriend to prove to Timothy that she's over him for good?What she doesn't count on is a lovable mutt named Cleo and the busybody townfolk of Pilchuck, Washington--most of whom believe that Bonny really ought to give her ex a second chance. And after a string of hilarious, harrowing dates, Bonny herself begins to wonder.When all is said and done--will it be all over for Timothy? Or all over for Bonny's heart?
- Dewey Decimal: 813.54
Book Details
- Physical Description: 5.5"x8.2"x0.7"; 0.5 lb; 256 pages
- Edition Info: Paperback; 2000-02-15
- Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States
- Literature & Fiction -- Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction -- Women's Fiction -- Divorce
- Religion & Spirituality -- Christianity -- Literature & Fiction -- Fiction
- Religion & Spirituality -- Christianity -- Literature & Fiction -- Romance
- Religion & Spirituality -- Christianity -- Evangelism -- Missions & Missionary Work
- Religion & Spirituality -- Fiction -- Romance
- Romance -- General
- Romance -- Historical -- Regency
- Romance -- Contemporary -- General
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