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Discussion in 'Football Forum' started by Twisted_Woody, Aug 13, 2009.
Since you have editing permission can you give me an example of their use?
Alright, I'm being quoted now!
Go back to Alan's page and see what I've done with your first mention of Ruud Van Nistelrooy...you can now click on his name to be taken to his profile...Like on Wikipedia
Second this.
Also all the lads on here who shag supermodels on a regular basis will also say he wasn't fit to grace the shirt blah blah blah. Please recognise we can't all shag supermodels,and not all of our team are superstars. We need good squad players as well.
Total admiration for his dedication and desire to succeed at United. I called his signing a year before he joined us, knowing that he has that United will. Circumstances did not go to his favor, due to the Rooney signing, injury, midfield experiment (which I thought was justified) but you can never overlook the fact that he was dedicated to give a 110% performance every time he had our shirt on.
We had hard time replacing Keane. Djemba and Kleberson were shit. Alan was miles better than either of them, even when the DM was not his original position. So you can see how his talent allowed him to adapt to the new position. Was not stellar, but had it been not for the injury, he might have gotten much better at it.
Cheers. I see what you do there. (See what I did there?).
Ironically I wrote the RVN one as well.
I edit Wikipedia, so I know a lot of advanced stuff like templates, if anyone wants help.
Hey Brad
Smith > Rooney
Lets see you avoid the cafe now you dramatic tart.
Love it !!!
He turned quite poor alarmingly fast after he left us.
While he was here I always thought he linked up really well with Rooney.
Was shite for us.
No goals for Newcastle yet.
1 goal in about 5 years. Shocking.
The best striker to partner Wayne Rooney..bar none. You could see the chemistry flowing between these two..
I'm hoping to see Smudge back in the EPL next year..
Smith did a fantastic job for us.
He stood up to the backlash of his boyhood club to play for us.
Will always have my respect for that.
He wrecked his career for our cause. I will always respect him for that.
He was a big bag of wank.
Not helped by Fergie's bizarre decision to play him centre mid when the poor lad clearly had neither the brains nor the skill to play there.
But a big bag of wank nevertheless.
Oh, and he looked like Lesley fecking Ash.
loved himm
Will never ever understand the stupidity of trying to turn smith into a keano. Doesn't mean a player can run around and put himself about means he can be a box-to-box centre mid like keano.
Will never forget his display against Chelsea, and the second (or was it third) against Roma.
That would have been the second.
He did his best for us and was obviously popular - the Smudger shirts proved that.
Generally played out of position, he always tried and never complained.
Doesn't deserve to be slagged off.
Quality player for us. Didn't like him at all before he came to us but Fergie sorted his attitude out and he grew on me. He was a real trier, like Tevez but not a complete dick.
he's at his level now.
Well said Livvie
It's quite sad to be honest.
He was fecking shit.
not enough talent Imo but second to no one when it comes to committment. And maybe that s why he got injured his fair share of injuries - including one at anfield when the ambulance was attacked by some scouse scum
Apart from the chelsea game, he played his best football for us in the early days as a striker. he clearly lacked pace but made up for it with some good finishes - unfortunately there wasn t enough of those
I liked him a lot. Like someone already said he left his boyhood club for us and went about his job as if he wasn't from Leeds. He tried his heart out even if the ability wasn't there you have to respect him for his effort alone.
United (Rooney's signing) wrecked his career.
Resembles your posting
utterly clueless
Less talented than a Kevin Davies...he played at his best during the Leeds time
Bit of a cult heroe amongst fanboys on here but was ultimately a flop.
He'd run through a brick wall for us - just that it was better to pass instead!
Was never very good but we'll never forget the heart and guts he put into the team even if he never convinced anyone of his ability. Getting applauded by Liverpool fans after literally putting his body on the line really says it all.
Will also never forget how he led the line so well against Roma.
He set the tone that alright
Started well, scored goals as a striker. Didn't get into the team anymore with Saha, Ruud and Rooney. Bossed the midfield vs Chelsea, the new coming of Roy Keane, horrific injury vs 'pool and everything turned sour.
Spot on.
Some clueless twats on this site - really.
Theres more and more of them around at the moment
Has been told he can/will leave the Toon this summer
should go back to leeds.
his level.
Never liked him, didn't understand why we bought him.
He tried his best for us, just wasn't good enough although being played in midfield was bizzare. Just shows how poor we were for that couple of seasons tbh.
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Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Molasses-Almond Cookies
I can go months without making cookies most of the year, but when it's December I feel that cookie-making urge For the last few holiday seasons I've been experimenting with making more carb-conscious cookies, and although I'm not really a baker, I'm getting better at looking at a recipe and figuring out how to adapt it.
This recipe for Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Molasses-Almond Cookies was adapted from a cookie in the Bob's Red Mill Baking Book that used whole wheat flour. I subbed an approved sweetener for sugar and used trans-fat free margarine instead of butter to make these cookies more diet friendly. (Coconut oil would also be a good choice.) I also switched out some of the flour for almond flour for a slightly different texture and a more nutritious cookie.
Cream together the butter, margarine, or coconut oil with the sweetener of your choice. Combine white whole wheat flour, whole wheat pastry flour, almond flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, and ground allspice. Add half the flour mixture to the sweetener/fat mixture with half the molasses and beat to combine, then add the other half of flour and molasses and beat again to combine. Chill one hour.
Scoop out a heaping tablespoon of dough, smash it down until it's flat, and bake cookies at 350F/180C about 14-16 minutes. Let cool 20-30 minutes.
Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Molasses-Almond Cookies
6 T margarine. butter, or coconut oil (use trans-fat free margarine or coconut oil for the South Beach diet)
4 T Stevia-in-the-Raw Granulated Sweetener, Splenda, or sugar (use Stevia or Splenda for the South Beach Diet)
1/2 cup white whole wheat flour
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup almond flour (I use Honeyville Almond flour, which is made in Utah)
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon (I use Vietnamese Cassia Cinnamon from The Spice House)
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. ground allspice
1/3 cup molasses (not blackstrap molasses, unless you want a stronger molasses flavor)
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
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Only Willie Remains: Rest Well, Duke Snider
Sad news today, as Hall of Famer Duke Snider has passed away at 84. I am too young to have seen Snider play, his career having ended in 1964, but what I can say is that I have often replayed a snippet of video I have from an old Mets highlights video showing him parking one at the Polo Grounds during his 1963 sojourn with the second-year expansion team: though on his way out of the majors, Snider still had a beautiful left-handed swing.
During Snider's career and after, much was made of two environmental factors that worked in his favor. First, he was the sole left-handed slugger in a lineup of right-handed hitters—think of the championship '55 Dodgers. There were Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, and Carl Furillo, all righties. Only switch-hitter Junior Gilliam and light-hitting outfielder Sandy Amoros got in many swings from the left side. As such, opposing managers tended to shuffle their lefties out of the way whenever the Dodgers came to town, granting Snider more at-bats with a platoon advantage than he would otherwise have seen. The other advantage he had in his favor was tiny Ebbets Field; Mickey Mantle once said that had he played there he would have hit a thousand home runs. He wasn't joking and he probably wasn't exaggerating either.
As for the first claim, it's pretty clear that it was accurate. The Duke of Flatbush had just 916 Plate Appearances against lefties versus 6445 against right-handers, and he hit just .259/.324/.437 against them as compared to .303/.393/.566 against righties. Conversely, the home field advantage was exaggerated. Snider definitely benefitted, but he was a good hitter everywhere. Put in another park, he would no longer have been compared directly with Mays and Mantle, but he probably would have been a Hall of Famer anyway—hitting .287/.369/.511 (his career road rates) as a center fielder tends to get you noticed, as does leading the majors in home runs for an entire decade. From 1950-1959, Snider blasted 326 home runs, 16 more than Gil Hodges, the only other player to paste more than 300 during those years (Mantle was fourth with 280, Mays seventh with 250).
Willie, Mickey, and the Duke were together as regulars in New York for just four seasons, 1954 to 1957 (thank you, US military). Here is how the trio measured up in those years according to BP's WARP, as well as for their careers:
No shame in being third in that crowd. Snider burned out faster than his two contemporaries due to some chronic knee injuries and the relocation of the Dodgers to the L.A. Coliseum, a track-and-field stadium with the right field line ending in Utah. Still, on a park-adjusted basis he was still quite strong for several years after the move, hitting .292/.385/.523 in a much tougher offensive environment.
It's worth noting that Snider was a great World Series performer, hitting .286/.351/.594 in six series/36 games, all of this coming after an embarrassing rookie effort in 1949 in which he tried to crush every pitch he saw and ended up going 3-for-21 with eight strikeouts. He twice hit four home runs in once series, the second time coming in the Dodgers' sole winning World Series effort against the Yankees. That progress in the postseason is testament to one of Snider's best qualities: he was capable of learning. When he made the majors as a raw 20-year-old right out of the military, he took just three walks in 89 PAs, and Branch Rickey worried that he would never learn the strike zone. Though never as patient as Mantle, with some tutoring from Hall of Famer George Sisler, Snider became more selective and finished his career averaging 70 walks per 154 games.
Perhaps most importantly, he faced one of the great tests in baseball history and passed it—when Dixie Walker circulated a petition in the Dodgers' clubhouse that insisted that Robinson not be added to the roster, Snider refused to sign. In fact, he called Robinson his boyhood idol, having seen him, years before, playing baseball, football, and running track. He wasn't going to deny so great a talent on the basis of something so petty and irrelevant as skin color.
Snider was known as a cranky guy during his career, someone who had to be reminded to hustle occasionally. Still, he came through when it counted, both on and off the field, and that's plenty to say about any person, ballplayer or not. Today we celebrate a great career and mourn the loss of a man. Our condolences to the friends and family of Edwin "Duke" Snider.
Steven Goldman is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Outstanding piece, Steven. The Duke was neither as engaging nor as interesting as Mays and Mantle, so while he finishes third in pure talent, he unfortunately finishes a very distant third in public interest. You've composed a very good tribute to an outstanding player.
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We need the ability to switch tabs Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I really like the idea here. However, when I tried TF the tab bar vanished making it impossible to switch tabs. Although it is nice to be able to watch a video while doing something ELSE it would be much more helpful if we could start a video in one tab and switch to other tabs with a video going too. That capability would bring it up to 5 full stars.
Also, I would have written first but there is no contact information listed. Anyways, good luck and happy holidays.
Thanks for taking the time to write a review
I do agree. I actually spent quite some time working on a version which opened the existing tab out to another window, partly for the reason you mention and also so the user could choose to have the window stay on top of others. Currently the window is just resized and all tabs etc. are hidden.
However this change made a surprisingly big difference to the complexity of the code. Then I found out that the 'always on top' function wouldn't work on Mac or Linux, so I rolled back to the current behaviour to keep things simple. I'd assumed that after the first use the user would see that it's best to open a new window for videos/TellyFit and surf in another (as that's what I do myself).
I've wondered if it would bother people and have been waiting for feedback to help me decide if it's worth the effort to change or if it's a non-issue. I rely on this site for feedback and yours is the first to mention the issue (and I appreciate it), I'll wait until I've heard more but if it seems that this would make a difference I will be happy to change it in a future version. So if anybody else is reading this and has an opinion please let me know.
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A suspect is on the loose after ramming a Tempe Police officer head on with his vehicle and fleeing late Thursday night.The incident occurred around 11 p.m. after a Tempe police officer witnessed a man standing outside of a silver Corvette and urinating near the entrance of the Hardy Police Substation. The officer activated the overhead lights on his marked police car, which led to the suspect jumping back into his vehicle and accelerating into the front of the police unit.The suspect then spun around and headed northbound on Hardy Drive at a high rate of speed.Attempts to pursue and locate the vehicle were unsuccessful.The officer reported no injuries, and the damage to his patrol vehicle did not appear to be extensive.Tempe detectives are investigating this incident as aggravated assault against a police officer.
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The Police Records Bureau is responsible for processing and maintaining the integrity of all police reports, traffic citations, and criminal complaints that officers generate each year. The Alarm unit is housed in the Bureau. The Bureau is staffed by Police Records Technicians (PRT), Lead Police Records Technicians, a Records Supervisor and a Records Manager. The Records Bureau is part of the Support Services Unit and is overseen by the Support Services Commander.
The Records Bureau is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday thru Friday. The Records Bureau phone number is (916) 478-8170. For phone calls after hours, a voice message system is available. All messages will be returned on the next business day.
The Records Bureau is a good source of general department information. Please feel free to call the Records Bureau for any questions, Records staff will be happy to answer questions or direct callers to the correct department.
One task that consumes significant PRT time is the reproduction of official police reports as requested by citizens, District Attorneys, private attorneys, law enforcement, and insurance companies. Release of information from a police department triggers an elaborate matrix of both departmental and state regulations that specify exactly what information may be released, to whom, and under what circumstances.
PRT's must follow guidelines set forth by the "California Public Records Act" and adhere strictly to Government, Evidence, Labor and Civil codes when releasing reports. A PRT will process written requests within ten working days or the requesting party will be notified by mail if the request cannot be fulfilled.
A new Alarm Permit application will need to be completed and returned to the Elk Grove Police Department. You may bring the application in to our service center during regular office hours (Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) or you may mail your application to:
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Effective December 1, 2006, the Elk Grove Police Department began tracking and billing for false alarms. Each year, alarm users are allowed two (2) free false alarms, with each false alarm thereafter alarm users will be billed consecutively.
New Alarm Permits must be filed with the Police Department within 15 days of installation/ activation. Anyone with an alarm system in their home or business, whether it is monitored by an alarm company or "self" monitored, is required to have a valid Alarm Permit.
The Alarm Bureau will renew Alarm Permits every three (3) years. There will be no renewal fee as long as the permit is renewed prior to it's expiration date. The alarm user will receive expiration notification in time for renewal.
Multiple false alarms in one calendar day shall be counted as one alarm for the purpose of assessing fees.
If you have any questions, or require more information, please contact the Alarm Bureau at (916) 478-8155.
A person who receives a traffic citation may contest it by going to the court he/she is cited to (listed on the citation) and posting bail (paying the amount of the citation). After the person has posted bail, the court clerk will assign a court date. On the specified date, the person will be able to plead his/her case before a judge and question the officer. If the judge rules in the person's favor, the bail they posted will be refunded. Find complete information at the Superior Court Traffic webpage.
In Sacramento, you may also contact:
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Telephone: (916) 875-7800
Hours: 8:30 - 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday (excluding court holidays)
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Citizens may pay parking fines in person at the Police Department Service Center, or by mailing fees to:
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Recession Proof Your Pilates
In tough financial times, we all start to trim the fat off our budget. When the monetary trimming comes from your fitness life, be careful. Exercise helps relieve the stress that accompanies uncertain times. Pilates, a mind body exercise, works as a great mental distraction while you're working out, but it can be expensive. Here are a few ideas on how to recession proof your commitment to Pilates.
- There are so many great Pilates DVDs out there, and here are my reviews of some so you can read about them before you buy. NetFlix has almost 2,000 Pilates titles available for rental.
- Speaking of free . . . you can check out my Pilates videos if you need a refresher on the basics.
- Double up! If you have been taking private one-on-one sessions, ask your trainer if she has a client with similar ability who wants to share a session. Duets are generally 40 percent cheaper than privates. Who knows? You might make a permanent exercise buddy.
I have two other suggestions, so
- Group classes are a great way to do Pilates for the fraction of a cost of a private session. Rather than dropping in a class, buy a class card or a series. Purchasing a class package makes each class less expensive.
- Create a home practice. Joseph Pilates said that 20 minutes of his method a day was enough to change your body and make you stronger. Invest in some small props like a magic circle or even some Therabands to create resistance for strength training.
If you have any suggestions on recession proofing your Pilates please share them below.


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Opportunity in Market Failure
As an addition to an earlier post Social Impact and Profit, I want to point to a recent paper by Stanford's James Phills who takes a closer look at the role of the social entrepreneur in the marketplace.
In Social Entrepreneurs: Correcting Market Failures, Phills writes:
At times, when a market failure affected a population's access to food, shelter, clothing, medical care, or other basic necessities, charitable organizations also got involved. However, private businesses were rarely called upon (or expected) to respond to breakdowns in efficient market operations by modifying their behaviors in a free-market system. However, a new class of actors has recently gained recognition. These individuals often found and manage organizations drawing on innovative ideas, using entrepreneurial skills, and leveraging market principles, but with one important difference from traditional entrepreneurs they prioritize social impact over the creation of wealth.
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Rewind: This Week's Buzz
Rewind: This Week's Buzz
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has a new release date! Also, did you know there's going to be a Harry Potter theme park in 2009?
- Looking for great new musicians? Emily King is an artist to watch.
- If you could pick a cast of modern actors for the 1989 classic Heathers, who would you choose?
- This week, "House" and "Shear Genius" had their season finales. What did you think of them?
- Judd Apatow: a) is everywhere, b) was the original writer/creator of "Freaks and Geeks," which I highly recommend, c) is the writer/director of Knocked Up, which I recommend even more, and d) did a hilarious promo for Knocked Up that features the funny and adorable Michael Cera.
- The New Pornographers and Sufjan Stephens have some great songs going on right now.
- Who are the Top Ten Ladies of Summer? Funny you should ask!
- As far as summer TV shows go, both "Traveler" and "Starter Wife" got off to pretty good starts. I've also put together a rundown for when all the summer TV shows begin, for your convenience.


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I performed a new installation of Pathworks v6.0b for Advanced Server. I configured it to use the TCPIP transport. When I start the server, the PWRK$KNBDAEMON process starts and then stops. The applicable log tells me that there was a port binding fail ure. ADMIN commands come back with error get server information, network path not located. Do you have any ideas on this problem?
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Gigabyte X79 UD7 review @ Guru3D
Published: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 | Posted By: Dennis
What is orange and black and difficult to find? Yep you guessed it the Gigabyte X79 UD7 motherboard designed for the enthusiast in all of us.
Gigabyte X79 UD7Gigabyte as well launched several X79 motherboards like the G1.asassin, the UD3, UD5 and sure .. the UD7. That last one we'll be looking at today. A very complete motherboard I must say, with all kinds of gadgets and fresh looks.
You will see four PCI Express x16 slots, the rest of the expansion options available in the X79-UD7 include three PCIe x1 slots, four SATA 3Gbps ports, as well as a good six SATA 6Gbps ports. The rear I/O bracket shows a pair of USB 3.0 ports and 7.1-channel audio with digital S/PDIF out, but also a special OC button, a CMOS reset switch and much more.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Investors should realize interest rates are going to rise sooner rather than later, and look to adjust their strategies accordingly, fund managers warn, pointing to sectors set to benefit from a recovering economy.
While Europe and Japan mull further stimulus, U.S. markets have slid sideways on uncertainty over economic growth as the Federal Reserve winds back bond purchases.
However, many strategists urge American investors not to reduce exposure to domestic stocks, noting equity returns are usually strong in the lead-up to the first rate hike after easing - expected early next year - then slow with each subsequent rise.
James Investment Research notes U.S. rate rises will stem from a return to more normal levels against a strengthening economic backdrop, after a period of abnormally low rates. Director of Research David James says investing in this environment is markedly different from one where rate rises are used to tame inflation. "The question is not so much when will rates rise, but what is the reason for it?" he said.
As such, he recommends small cap stocks - which have higher exposure to the domestic economy, along with cyclical and technology names. Small caps have underperformed the broader market year-to-date, amid concerns over valuations, after the Russell 2000, rallied 33% in 2013. Several fund managers note that small cap biotechs without cashflow have inflated the overall valuation of the index, with opportunity in other sectors. James acknowledged that small caps may not bounce until the anticipated improvement in second-half economic data - though investors may want to catch any bounce before it occurs.


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I'll leave the "too many choices" part alone,
as I basically agree with hfb.
But I do have to offer another suggestion for the relative success of Maypole and Catalyst. You claimed:
Just look at Maypole, who could never have predicted that the ORM module they chose (Class::DBI) would so suddenly fall out of favourite with developers and suddenly turn Maypole from the cutting edge into a second-tier choice amoung the Perl technorati.
It is notable that its logical successor Catalyst embraced choice and diversity, and so when the Class::DBI debacle occured, it was quite a different story. While maintaining Class::DBI for compatibility, they have switched their default choice to DBIx::Class and have moved on with relatively little negative effect.
I wouldn't claim to know for sure, but I don't think Maypole's choice of Class::DBI has much to do with Maypole's being relatively less popular than Catalyst. My impression, having followed Maypole's initial development, is rather that Simon (Cozens) intended it to be more of a proof-of-principle framework that he worked on while he had funding from TPF. Catalyst got started as a fork of Maypole, after Simon lost interest in it. See for example the list of maintainers of Maypole [cpan.org] to find that Sebastian Riedel maintained Maypole for a while. Until he forked it into Catalyst. If you look in the Changes file of Maypole, you'll also see that several of its contributors are Catalyst developers.
So my conclusion is that the choice of database abstraction layer has little to do with the popularity of Catalyst.
So my conclusion is that the choice of database abstraction layer has little to do with the popularity of Catalyst.
I agree, but here you're refuting a point that Alias didn't make. He didn't say it made Catalyst more popular than Maypole. His point was that, because "Catalyst embraced choice and diversity", they were able to switch "their default choice [of ORM]


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Published: December 10th, 2008 | Tags: Bill Belichick, New England Patriots
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But this winter's edition had a front-page headline, "The New England Patriots' Secret Weapon." And lo and behold, there inside, on page 30, was a four-page feature on "Bill Belichick's voice-in-his ear, football-genius, right-hand man," Ernie Adams.
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See, Peet, that's a VERY different situation from your original statement.
There's a BIG difference between "No viruses, nasties, etc." and "the Mac is specifically hardened against those threats that target Macs."
Actually, I stand by my original statement.
If I say "There is no such thing as a 44 magnum Glock." and it turns out that some guy made three of them in his basement, am I wrong?
Technically, yes. In reality? No.
Have there been viruses written which target the Macintosh? Yes. Do they effect real users? No.
Some day that may change but not today.
The second issue, and current biggest annoyance with the PCs is spyware. In that arena the Mac has an equal, if not greater, advantage.
Oh, and even with that, I find Macs to be way overblown for anything other than graphics development. And I've been using them concurrently with PCs since the late 1980s.
In what way?
They are unquestionably more reliable. I have had one problem in 16 years with a Mac. It was a total failure of a powerbook. Motherboard failure. Apple replaced the ENTIRE computer. They just sent me a box for the old one and shipped me a brand new machine. I am not alone. Mac is the Honda of the computer world, reliability speaking. I have taught people to use both systems. Without exception, people have less trouble learning to use a Mac. I have built PCs and repaired many, I am the unfortunate family troubleshooter. I do NOT get calls from my family members that use Macs. Macs last longer, unquestionably. I have a 350mhz G3 that I still use daily. Is it a scientific machine? Not anymore, but considering that most people do nothing beyond surfing the web and checking email, it is still perfectly capable for 90+% of the time, and it's pushing 10 years old. Find me a 10 year old PC that can be described as "capable".
Oh, and they don't come from the factory with the hard drives filled with junk.
Oh, and the operating system doesn't take 30 gig of the hard drive or demand 1 1/2 gig of memory just to function smoothly.
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We are such a mobile society that many only see their parents infrequently and, usually, during this holiday month. Your folks are getting a little older every day, and there may be some changes in their ability to do various things. Pay attention to some telltale signs including:
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What can you do? Take them for a medical exam, including a physical and neurological visit. Check with their doctor to see if he can arrange for a home health aide through Medicare, Medicaid, the Veteran's Administration, or others to visit regularly, or possibly a day care facility, or a money manager. A local family member, including grandchildren, might be able to visit a couple times a week. A frequent phone call during those other days can help. Some hospitals and schools have volunteer programs for their degrees.
Living alone can be very stressful. A button monitor is very helpful. Another choice might be an alternative living arrangement such as an assisted living arrangement, senior housing, or even a nursing home.
Another option might be to have your parents live with you. Not only may they be able to help you around the house and babysit, but for the grandchildren might even to get to know them and bond.
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Have a good week.
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The pain that is centered in Sarah Korn's back spreads quickly — a sharp, shooting sensation that can make it difficult for the newly minted North Texas graduate to run.
Suffering from a herniated disc and two bulging discs is quite the dilemma for the longtime member of the Mean Green track and field team.
The senior pole vaulter barrels down a short runway before jerking herself into the air and over a bar typically raised well above the height of a basketball rim before crashing into a foam pit — a process that for her is often painful from start to finish.
The sport has become a passion for Korn, who fought through her injury issues to return for one final year of competition that culminates this week at the Conference USA meet at Holloway Field & Ley Track on the Rice campus in Houston.
"I love pole vaulting, this team and [UNT jumps coach Derek] Mackel," Korn said. "This feels like my family. I didn't want to give that up. Ten years from now, I didn't want to regret not giving 100 percent effort the whole time I was here."
That determination is what led Korn to Fouts Field this week for one or two last sprints down the runway to the pit, where she has spent so much time over the years.
Korn, a short and powerfully built blonde, joked with her teammates and took a few turns perfecting the approach she has refined over the years at UNT, often while suffering in silence.
"She has been really tough," Mackel said. "It's an injury that she has been working through for a long time. There are times when she has no problems and other times when you can tell that her back is hurting. She seems to manage the pain pretty well."
Korn has suffered from plenty of pain over the years. She has undergone about half a dozen injection procedures on her back, including platelet-rich plasma treatments that entail having platelets removed from a blood sample and injected into her back.
Then there are the three knee surgeries she has undergone, the last of which she had last summer.
UNT head coach Carl Sheffield was so concerned about Korn's health that he tried to make her quit last year and eventually had a contract drawn up that would prevent the school from being held liable for any long-term health problems Korn might encounter.
"It was that serious," Sheffield said. "We told her we didn't know what the long-term effects would be and met with our athletic director. Her parents didn't want to take away the opportunity to compete one last year."
In the end, neither did Sheffield after he saw Korn dedicate herself to doing whatever it took to compete, despite the pain and the odds. Korn spent extra time in the gym and with UNT's trainers and sees a pain management doctor regularly.
The payoff is the chance to compete in a season when Korn faces long odds of even placing at the conference meet. UNT moved from the Sun Belt — where Korn finished third at the outdoor championships as a sophomore — to Conference USA this season.
UNT's new league is considered a step up in the world of track and field. Factor in the impact of Korn's injury issues, and she enters this week's meet ranked 13th in the field with a season-best mark of 11 feet, 6 1/4 inches.
"This will give her a chance to finish what she started," said Gary Korn, Sarah's father. "Pound for pound, she's as tough as anyone playing football.
"She won't be coming in first place at the conference meet, but she will be going out on her terms."
A daredevil at heart
Competing as a pole vaulter takes more than just agility and strength. Sheffield and Mackel say it requires athletes who are daredevils and have something of a disregard for their own safety.
When Susan Korn looks back on her daughter's childhood, she can see why Sarah is a perfect fit.
"When she was 3, she was flipping off the couch," Susan Korn said. "I figured we needed to put her into something where they could teach her to do it correctly."
That avenue turned out to be gymnastics.
Korn started out at a local gymnastics center, where she worked out once a week. Before long, Korn was on her way to being a high-level competitor.
Korn was rated as a level 9 to level 10 gymnast by the time she was in high school at Geronimo Navarro and had a chance at earning a scholarship, despite the dwindling number of colleges that sponsor the sport.
An injury that led to one of Korn's knee surgeries changed the course of her career. Korn was on crutches for two months and never really recovered to the point that she could compete again.
She also grew two inches while hobbling around on crutches and not taking the constant bounding that gymnastics requires.
A new avenue opened up around that time.
"There was this track coach at school who was all over my case, saying, 'Oh, you should try pole vaulting. Gymnasts are so good,'" she said. "I thought I was going to compete in college gymnastics and told him to back off, but then once I had that second knee surgery in high school I couldn't come back. It all fell into place. I fell in love with it."
Korn went on to finish second in the 2009 and 2010 Class 2A state meets in the pole vault, a performance that helped land Korn a scholarship at UNT.
A tough college career
Competing in college, especially in track and field, can be a tough road.
There is an indoor season in addition to the traditional outdoor season, not to mention classroom obligations.
UNT has only four seniors on its roster of 57 who are in their fourth season with the Mean Green. Korn being one of them is a surprise to Sheffield because of her injury history and the way she was at times distracted by other elements of college life, including going out with friends.
"Sarah's a great girl but was living the college life instead of doing what it takes to be a college track athlete," Sheffield said. "She didn't have the right lifestyle to be a dedicated athlete."
By the time she finished her junior season, Korn had reached a crossroads.
She had undergone so much, including a knee surgery to remove two floating pieces of cartilage in her knee the size of a fingernail, not to mention all the back procedures.
Korn had worked hard enough to overcome it all but hadn't reached her goal of clearing 12 feet and finished 10th at the Sun Belt meet with a mark of 11-4.
Korn called her father as she walked out of Ansin Sports Complex in Miami last spring.
"I told him I would be back next year," she said.
Korn has been on the comeback trail ever since and took first in the pole vault at the North Texas Classic last month. She has posted a season-high mark of 11-5.
Sheffield and Korn's teammates have seen a change in her as she narrowed her focus and overcame the physical obstacles she faces. Korn is still the outgoing, opinionated and fun-loving person she always has been.
She is just more focused on getting the most out of her track and field career.
"It has been a 180-degree change from years past," fellow UNT pole vaulter Madison Northcutt said. "She has worked so hard this year and is determined to jump high."
Korn's goals have been to clear 12 feet and to finish her career on a high note.
That opportunity will come this week, when Susan Korn will make the trip to Houston to see her daughter compete one last time and put into practice the lessons she started to learn when she first took her daredevil approach to life from the living room couch to the local gymnastics center.
"Growing up, Sarah had gymnastics coaches who always told her, 'That's not good enough. Get up and do it again.' That is what has driven her," Susan Korn said.
Korn always has returned to compete again, even if that meant another surgery or another injection in her back.
This week, she will tear down that familiar runway for the last time, back throbbing, content in the knowledge that she is capitalizing on every last opportunity in her track career.
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Remember when Google announced that they had a super-top-secret technology laboratory that was going to finally invent the exciting future promised to us by Back to the Future Part II, as opposed to the annoyingly smartphone-infested Philip K. Dick-esque future we currently inhabit? Well, the company has finally started to follow through on the promise of Google X, thanks to a just-revealed piece of juicy tech couture. "Project Glass," aka "The Google Glasses," which looks like a fashion-forward version of Geordi La Forge's visor and allows the user to view the world in RoboCop Vision. Using an Augmented Reality system, the glasses basically appear to function as a smartphone-free smartphone. The company just posted a demo video which shows all the fun things you can do with Google Glasses: Receive email, make phone calls, check in to food trucks, take pictures, agree to meet your weird friend Paul at the bookstore, loudly yell out "Where is the music section!?" in the middle of said bookstore, and keep track of exactly how far away from the bookstore Paul is while you're presumably planning to strangle him or something.
You can even serenade your long-distance honey with a sunset ukulele session! In short, every single douchebag you know will be rocking the Google Glasses in about two minutes. Unfortunately for them, Project Glass is nowhere near completion. But it seems like Google is positioning the glasses as a potential gamechanging consumer product. Could be interesting, if the company can actually make the voice-recog software actually work — and by work, I mean "work all the time," not "work only when you speak with perfect diction and you're in a quiet soundproof room." (Looking at you, Siri and Kinect.)
Obviously, this represents just one more step towards the Existential Singularity point, the moment when our society will just agree to start perceiving actual reality as one more virtual reality, BWWAHHHHHH. And, as Gawker points out, the glasses will continue our generation's happy march towards Orwellian dystopia: Google won't just know where you are, they'll know exactly what you're seeing at all times. But there's an easy counterargument to those extremely salient points, and that counterargument is: RoboCop Vision. The end.
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Snapchat has also signed a deal with NBC, the official US broadcaster of the Olympics, and news site BuzzFeed to create a channel on its Discover platform and create content daily from the games.
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Celebrities and sports personalities are taking to Snapchat to share their experiences and their involvement with the Olympics in Rio. This makes it more exciting for users to get on to Snapchat and follow the games, not only through content posted by broadcasters and content creators, but also other people involved in the game.
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Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, P, O Box 22418, Kampala, Uganda
BMC Infect Dis 14:496. 2014..Therefore we conducted this cross-sectional study to assess the prevalence and correlates of cytopenia among adult AIDS patients at initiation of HAART in Uganda...
- Causes of early mortality in HIV-infected TB suspects in an East African referral hospitalRachel Kyeyune
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 55:446-50. 2010..Data on the etiology of fatal respiratory diseases are largely based on autopsy studies. We evaluated causes of pneumonia associated with early mortality among hospitalized HIV-infected patients in Kampala, Uganda...
- The effect of standard dose multivitamin supplementation on disease progression in HIV-infected adults initiating HAART: a randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial in UgandaDavid Guwatudde
School of Public Health, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
BMC Infect Dis 15:348. 2015..We conducted a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial to determine the effect of one recommended daily allowance (RDA) of MV supplementation on disease progression in patients initiating HAART...
- Multivitamin supplementation in HIV infected adults initiating antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: the protocol for a randomized double blinded placebo controlled efficacy trialDavid Guwatudde
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BMC Infect Dis 12:304. 2012..We propose to evaluate the efficacy of a single recommended daily allowance (RDA) of micronutrients (including vitamins B-complex, C, and E) in slowing disease progression among HIV-infected adults receiving HAART in Uganda...
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If your looking for a game with a nice story to it i would recommend this one.
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"Silver Star stands next to Captain Victory as one of Kirby's greatest independent creations — those he gave the greatest thought and attention to," says Alex Ross, renowned artist and noted fan of the medium's classic creators. "It's a key accomplishment of the Kirby: Genesis series to return these characters to visible prominence in the field. Silver Star is Jack Kirby's Superman and Dr. Manhattan all rolled into one."
Thus it makes sense that Silver Star is being spun out of the pages of Kirby: Genesis, Dynamite Entertainment's King Kirby tribute series, into his own solo title from writer Jai Nitz and artist Johnny D. It's the story of Morgan Miller, the first Homo-Geneticus in the world, who has been fighting supervillainy and global threats in secret for 30 years.
Nitz had plenty to say about how excited he is for this project. "I recently saw Grant Morrison at Comic Con in San Diego. He hugged me and asked how the Kirby stuff was going. He did that because he gets it. Of course he does. He just wrote Supergods, a book about the connection between the superheroic stories we tell and ourselves. He knows that no one has ever told superheroic stories better than Jack Kirby. When I say 'ever' I don't mean just in comics. I mean ever. Jack Kirby is in the pantheon alongside Homer and Shakespeare. I get to write Silver Star, the last great Kirby creation. Like our publisher Nick Barrucci said, 'It isn't Kirby and [Joe] Simon, or Kirby and [Stan] Lee, or Kirby and whoever– it's just Kirby.' It's about human potential and the future of superpowers. It's the kind of thing Morrison talks about in his book. It's crazy ideas, unbridled with the needle buried in the red. I want to write comics like that, but I get to jam with Kirby, the greatest master of our medium, from the inception stage. It's great big gobs of fun. Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek are doing the real highwire act by putting all these distinct Kirby creations in the same universe and kicking the dial up to eleven. I'm surrounded by genius. There is a genius scaffold, genius collaborators, genius creators, and genius hugging fans. I'm so happy to be along for the ride I could burst."
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SUGAR LAND, Texas, June 24, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) today announced the alignment of its business activities into business groups designed to drive the Company's next phase of continued long term growth. Effective July 1, 2013, Team's operations will be organized into three business groups, Inspection and Heat Treating Services, Mechanical Services, and Quest Integrity Group. Each business group will be led by a Business Group President, who will report directly to Phil Hawk, Team's Chairman and CEO. The organizational changes are expected to provide greater focus and alignment of resources to address customer needs, enhance execution and improve growth opportunities across the entire organization. Each business group will be supported by their own field service group and technical, commercial, manufacturing, and operations support, where appropriate. The repositioning of Quest Integrity Group within Team reflects both its significant growth since joining the Team family nearly three years ago and Team's commitment to continue expansion of its capabilities and innovative new technologies. Art Victorson, 51, is President, Inspection and Heat Treating Services. Art joined Team in 1997 and most recently served as Senior Vice President, TCM Division. Current revenues for this business group are approximately $375 million. Pete Wallace, 50, is President, Mechanical Services. Pete joined Team in 1988 and most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Current revenues for this business group are approximately $275 million. Jeff Ott, 50, continues as President, Quest Integrity Group, a role he has held since 2007. Current revenues for this group are approximately $60 million. "Team's revenues have grown at more than a 20% compound average growth rate for the last decade. Our expanding business size and scale now enables us to bring more focus, dedicated resources, and technology applications to the attractive future growth opportunities available in each of our business groups," said Phil Hawk, Team's Chairman. "We expect this increased focus to result in enhanced service capabilities and improved support to our customers."
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`We will take back America.' Why? Do we need a larger size?
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had a terrific campaign event in Cedar Rapids this past week, out at the Eastern Iowa Airport. A sick little girl kept me from attending in person, but it looked super on TV.
Unfortunately, Romney had to utter the words that are, to my ears, political fingernails on a chalkboard.
�We will rise to the challenge. We will take back America,� Romney said.
Politicians of all stripes peddle this �take back America� stuff, although Republicans seem to deploy it most. People cheer wildly when they hear it. I cringe every time.
We must take back the country? Why? Where is it? Who has it?
Maybe we left it out on the lawn and one of the neighbor kids swiped it. Perhaps we forgot it in a booth at Chili�s, or in a cubby at day care. Could it be in that coat we haven�t worn since March?
Or, does �take back� mean we�re returning the nation for a bigger size? We have gained some weight.
I was under the impression that the nation remains firmly in the hands of Americans. We have regular elections where citizens elect leaders at various levels, from the presidency to drainage districts. Those Americans, elected by Americans, then fill assorted posts within the bureaucracy, mostly with Americans.
It seems like the whole shooting works is chock full of Americans. You can�t wave a flag in this country without hitting Americans. So unless I missed an alien invasion, I think Mitt's sounding a false alarm.
I guess what politicians such as Romney are really saying is that the nation is in the hands of the wrong type of Americans. He�ll let you, the home viewer, fill in the blanks with your own favorite scapegoats and enemies. Maybe it�s socialists or immigrants or the deadbeat 47 percent or that neighbor whose dog won�t stop barking, whatever you want. Rest assured, if you just vote right, the country will be swiftly ripped from their undeserving grasp and returned to its true and rightful owners.
Who would that be? Why, that handsome devil in the mirror, that�s who.
Problem is, this nation is not a possession that can be taken or wholly owned by anyone, or any faction, group or party. It is a collection of citizens who agree and disagree, sometimes passionately, on many issues, from taxes, health care and entitlements to who has the best barbecue. To suggest that any group can snatch the nation, or that any other Americans must be forced to surrender it simply because of their views and allegiances, is about as un-American an idea as I can imagine. It�s especially absurd when you consider how Americans are free to change their minds as their nation changes. And they do. A lot.
You can win elections. You can command Congress and the White House. You can wield considerable political power and pursue sweeping agendas.
But you�re not taking anything. You�re being allowed, by Americans, to borrow that power. And the Americans who opposed your side this time still have a voice to be heard, ideas that matter and a vote that counts. Eventually, those folks will win, and they don�t get to �take back� the country, either.
Basically, we all have a stake in the success of the nation. And the biggest problem with our politics now is the very popular idea that we should drive that stake it into the heart of our opponents. Replace the hard responsibility of seeking democratic consensus with the easy impulse to vanquish and conquer, and we�ve got even darker days ahead.�And that�s something we all need to think very hard about as we approach what�s likely to be an agonizingly close election.Maybe Romney wins it, or maybe he doesn�t. Either way, no one is taking the country. We all get to keep it. It still looks good on us.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
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Posted by Isabelle Thornton at Monday, June 08, 2009 0 comments
Craftbooking gift
This is a great gift idea. I used a cardboard mini album from Roberts. Black and white pictures, buttons, glitter glue, rubans...of course pretty paper. I spend maybe 15 dollars using coupons and already sales and clearance in stores. Walmart has great cheap stuff that i used too.
Great for a memory gift album too.
Here, was my terrible 2 album. Gift for my husband birthday.
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Eslick Wins Daytona SportBike Race Two at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to Tighten up the Championship Battle LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 18, 2010) -Just when everything was falling into place, the entire apple cart was overturned today in AMA Pro...
Eslick Wins Daytona SportBike Race Two at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to Tighten up the Championship Battle
LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 18, 2010) -Just when everything was falling into place, the entire apple cart was overturned today in AMA Pro Daytona SportBike presented by AMSOIL at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Last year's Daytona SportBike Champion Danny Eslick took a hard-fought victory today and with this year's championship points leader Josh Herrin suffering a dramatic fall on the last lap, Eslick and his GEICO Powersports team have pulled themselves right back into the thick of the championship battle. Herrin and his Team Graves Yamaha team now lead Eslick by only two points, 249-247.
The 21-lap race at Mid-Ohio began somewhat like yesterday's event, with furious action at the front involving yesterday's main cast, Eslick, Herrin, Martin Cardenas (M4 Monster Energy Suzuki), Bobby Fong (DNA Energy Drink Ducati), Herrin's Team Graves Yamaha teammate Tommy Aquino and Team Latus Motors Ducati rider Steve Rapp. These six riders once again made a break and dueled back and forth, exchanging the lead lap after lap, sometimes two or three times per lap. Eslick would lead, Cardenas showed his speed with a nice outside pass into first at the end of the back straight, then Herrin would reassert himself back at the front.
Under partly cloudy but hot and humid conditions, something had to give and it happened as the leaders were finishing the eleventh lap. Coming through the Carousel corner, Cardenas went down and Herrin had to take evasive action, allowing Fong, Rapp and Aquino quickly by. Eslick was in front and didn't really know what happened until after the race but this gave him the break he needed to consolidate his second win of the season and vault him right back into the chase for the championship. In a great display of courage, Cardenas picked up his Suzuki and continued to the finish, and his persistence was rewarded as he ended up fifth at the flag.
Another rider who stayed the course all day was Aquino, who raced hard with Fong, Rapp and Herrin as well and took home a solid fourth place finish. Gathering his second consecutive podium finish was Fong. He has been showing good speed so far this season but this weekend at Mid-Ohio he really showed his great potential with another strong run up front all day. It was only the hard riding of another Ducati rider, Rapp that prevented Fong from another second place. Rapp, who started strong yesterday but ran into some mechanical issues, came back today and contended all the way and took a well deserved second place for his close knit Team Latus Motors team.
In a cruel twist of fate, as Herrin headed into turn six at the end of the long Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course backstraight for the last time, his motorcycle seemed to twitch and the next thing you knew, he was down. Rapp and Fong were quickly by as Herrin struggled to pick up and restart his Yamaha. He did so and to cheers from the appreciative crowd, he slowly rode back around on the damaged bike to post a 19th place finish, thereby scoring two valuable points. P.J. Jacobsen ran well again but was passed on the last lap by Cardenas; Jacobsen still had a solid weekend on his Celtic Racing Suzuki.
Cory West took seventh on his Vesrah Suzuki, Josh Day, the 2009 SuperSport Young Gun East Division Champion ran well again on his Four Feathers Racing Yamaha, finishing eighth. After making a change in his Dunlop tire choice, Fernando Amantini took a nice ninth place finish aboard his Kawasaki followed by Kris Turner in tenth on his Turner Cycle Racing Suzuki.
The AMA Pro Daytona SportBike riders will reassemble next weekend in California for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix. The Daytona SportBikes will race on Sunday, prior to the MotoGP event.
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Driving to Maine
May 28, 2011 – The Homewood Suites had a great breakfast, including oatmeal, dried raisins and cranberries, fresh fruit, yogurt, and sausage/egg/cheese muffins. Their coffee was also a few steps above most hotel coffees.
We were able to quickly get on the road and begin heading north. Our lunch stop was only a few hours away, so we took a few detours. First we stopped at Freeport, Maine. Not only does the town have a cute old main street, but it's also home to L.L. Bean's flagship store. The store is open 24/7, and has been since they "took the locks off the doors" in 1951; that's 60 years of being open around the clock, in a town where (we have a hunch) they used to roll the sidewalks up quite a bit earlier. The mail order catalog has been around since 1912; displays inside the store depict most of the previous catalog covers. We enjoyed browsing, and eventually settled on snagging a few odds and ends, as well as chocolate covered blueberries (yum) and Needhams. These area apparently the Maine version of a Mounds bar, and are definitely much tastier. They're 1"x1"x1/4" blocks of chocolate-covered coconut (and might contain potato…?).
After a stop and a candy snack we continued to our primary destination – Captain's Fresh Idea. Their naked lobster roll (fresh chilled lobster meat served on a toasted, buttered hot dog bun, along with drawn butter and lemon wedges) is definitely "wicked good." They don't skimp on the lobster, either – each 7" long sandwich has the meat from two 1lb lobsters. Tony tried their draught Maine blueberry soda, which was a nice accompaniment. We were feeling almost-satisfied, but Louisa overheard something about a blueberry crumb cake. As we pondered whether to get a slice for the road, we were told it was served warm, topped with vanilla ice cream, blueberry compote and whipped cream. Sold.
After-lunch festivities were a stop at Fort Knox. The fort is by a new suspension bridge, with an observation tower about 430' feet above the water. Despite the fog there were some great views from the bridge. The fort was the most user-friendly fort we've been to. We were told to bring a flashlight (in this case, Tony's cell phone). The light was necessary since you could wander down the passageways where several dozen armed troops could be stationed. There was also space for a few dozen canons… and a wedding party setting up by one of the now-abandoned batteries. We avoided the wedding party, headed down a spiral staircase, through a passageway and along the outside of the fort. Only to discover that a short wall was blocking our way. We hopped the wall, walked down the hillside and congratulated ourselves on finding a "shortcut" out of the fort.
Tonight we're staying at the Ullikana Inn in Henry's room. The room is cute, small but well decorated with stenciling and a skylight. The weather here is drizzly/foggy/misty, in the 50s and windy. The leaves are just starting to pop out, the tulips are in full bloom and the lilacs are just becoming fragrant. We even spotted a few forget-me-nots on our chilly stroll down the ocean walk.
Dinner was a loud but enjoyable experience at Café This Way. We split the Maine seafood spring rolls for an appetizer. Entrees were a grilled ribeye steak with mushrooms/leak/garlic, served with garlic mashed potatoes and green beans, and the Southwest shepherds pie, consisting of pan-fried eggplant, creamed corn (wonderful cream), and chevre whipped potatoes. This restaurant is consistently good, and is our favorite place to eat in Bar Harbor. We finished the evening with some orange herbal tea and chai while we planned for tomorrow.


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Gov. Mark Dayton says he'll make a Vikings stadium deal a priority next year if it doesn't pass this session. Dayton says he's still committed to seeking passage this year but in an interview with MPR News he said he's upset that a financing plan isn't in place yet. He said he wants the Legislature to vote on the measure this session but suggested it will be a priority regardless of the outcome.
"If we don't get it this session, I intend to bring it up next session and I'm optimistic we'll get it then," Dayton said. "I tell people that we'll get it this year or we'll get it next year."
The legislation has been stymied by a failure to get a financing plan in place. Minneapolis city officials are squabbling over whether there's enough support for a plan to build the stadium in that city. Ramsey County officials came forward with another plan today that relies on stadium-related taxes and fees. MPR's Tim Nelson covered that story today and you can read it here.