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Jan. 22, 2014
Auburn coach Gus Malzahn says he and his team are looking to a bright future (USA Today Photo)
By Phillip Marshall
MOBILE, Ala. - Gus Malzahn dropped by Senior Bowl practice at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on Wednesday to offer a salute to the past, but his focus was firmly on the future.
Malzahn and wide receivers coach Dameyune Craig stopped to see defensive end Dee Ford, cornerback Chris Davis, fullback Jay Prosch and kicker Cody Parkey, players who helped Auburn get to the BCS Championship Game and will play in Saturday's Senior Bowl.
When they left, they returned to the recruiting trail. Signing Day is but two weeks away.
The Tigers finished 12-2, won the Southeastern Conference championship and finished No. 2 in the final polls. Malzahn and his staff must replace some of the key players, including those who Malzahn came to see.
"We are hoping we have quality depth in those positions," Malzahn said. "This spring will be really good for us to see where they are. Our players are excited. Our coaches are excited to coach them. I can't wait for spring ball."
For the first time in his career, Malzahn won't have to replace the starting quarterback. Nick Marshall will return for his senior season and second as the starter.
"We are really looking forward to having our quarterback back in the spring, and having Jeremy Johnson, too," Malzahn said. "We are excited about both of them."
Offseason workouts with strength and conditioning coach Ryan Russell are under way, and picking up steam. It was at this time last season, Auburn players say, that the drive to the championship game began.
"The team is excited to get back to working out," Malzahn said. "Coach Russell is excited. It's kind of putting last year behind us and moving forward. We want to try to build on the foundation that was laid this past year. Our guys are a year into the program. The guys are excited about getting out there and working out. That's exciting to me."
Malzahn said recruiting has gone well from the start and continues to go well.
"Anytime you have success, recruiting is obviously easier," Malzahn said. "It's been a good year. We just have to finish it."
Phillip Marshall is a Senior Writer for AuburnTigers.com. Follow Marshall on Twitter:

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This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=2/3, Sex=1/3, Mature Content=2/3. Travel the trail in Apocalyptic Path: Trail of Fears. This survival adventure game, inspired by the classic Oregon Trail, will take you on a journey across the apocalyptic wastes of the United States in search of a mysterious utopia on the East Coast of Florida. Do you have what it takes to lead your team to safe harbor in Cape Canaveral?
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text: Not sure if this has been mentioned but the irony of playing the Browns, who beat us a few years back and signalled the decline of what was our promising Texans team - is pretty cool. Especially since, in my opinion, this is a make or break game if we are talking about playoffs. A victory for the Browns really gives them a great position for the wildcard and would probably knock us out of contention, a victory for us puts us seriously on the map and serves notice to Tennessee that we are coming to them on Dec 2nd as a playoff contender and not just a rival.


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The former Moore boy toy and present love of 'That 70's Show' co-star Mila Kunis, cites irreconcilable differences and does not list a date that the couple separated.
Moore said last year that she was ending her marriage to her unfaithful husband, but she never filed a petition, unlike Kutcher who signed the document Friday, hours before it was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Yahoo! News reports that Kutcher's filing does not indicate that the couple has a prenuptial agreement.
According to TMZ, the actor waited so long to give Moore a chance to file first. Apparently, he decided a year was long enough for her to save face.
"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton," Moore said in November 2011.
"As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life."
Kutcher later took to Twitter to make a statement: "I will forever cherish the time I spent with Demi. Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail. Love and Light, AK."
The 'One and a Half Men' star is ready for a battle, as he's already hired celeb divorce attorney Laura Wasser. A source familiar with the matter revealed that Kutcher pulled the plug for Kunis, who he has become "very very serious" with.
"Demi was the one who was refusing to file anything," a source told reporters. "Mila was getting upset that Ashton was still stuck in this situation. The Miami partying didn't help. The main reason he left was that she was and he held on this whole time to be nice to her. He wanted her to get help."
The source went further, adding that a patient Kunis, who has been dating Kutcher for eight months, finally wanted Kutcher to make a move.
"They're very serious so like any girlfriend she doesn't want him to be attached anymore," the source revealed. "Demi's been very upset about Mila because she's younger and she always suspected something was going on with them."
The former couple married in September 2005 and until recently didn't hide their relations, communicating with each other and fans on the social networking site Twitter. After their split, the actress changed her name on the site from @mrskutcher to @justdemi.
Moore and Kutcher made headlines last year, when they announced their breakup after a six year marriage amid reports that Kutcher cheated.
The actress, who is now 50, was reportedly "jealous" over Kutcher's new romance with Kunis.
"Her friends aren't convinced she's all better," a source told earlier. One source claimed she was "jealous and frustrated," while another said, "What was humiliating was having her husband cheat on her in such a public way."
Moore was married twice previously, the first time to singer Freddy Moore and then to film star Bruce Willis, with whom she has three children. They divorced in 2000.


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Las Vegas, NV, United States, 2011/06/29 - Reno attorney being recognized by Nevada Justice Association.
Attorney Matthew Sharp is being named Nevadas 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Nevada Justice Association (NJA) this week. The NJA is a non-profit consumer rights organization dedicated to improving the civil justice system. It will recognize Sharp at its annual gala Tuesday, June 28, in Reno and Thursday, June 30, in Las Vegas.
Sharp is a fifth-generation Nevadan and has been practicing law since 1992. He holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and received his law degree from the University of Arizona.
When there is work to be done, Matthew Sharp is the first lawyer to roll up his sleeves and begin the tasks at hand, said Gerald Gillock, an attorney who nominated Sharp for the award along with attorney Neil Galatz. That is true whether he is dealing with legislative reform, trial preparation, appellant briefing or any other aspect of the legal profession that protects and furthers the rights of consumers and other injured persons.
A long-standing member of the NJA, Sharp has served the organization as president twice and continues to serve as an NJA governor and as co-chair of the Legislative Steering Committee.
In addition to his recognition as Trial Lawyer of the Year, Sharp was named a Mountain States Super Lawyer in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and a Nevada Super Lawyer in 2008.
Matt is a champion of consumers rights, directing his efforts toward making sure that the insurance industry is held accountable for their obligations to policy holders and the people who are injured as a result of negligence, said Gillock. His decorum in the courtroom has been applauded by the judiciary. He has been successful over the years in obtaining significant verdicts in his cases and he is always willing to assist counsel.
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"Yes, it's a huge distraction and casts a completely unnecessary dark cloud over the company and its products. They could be building an honest reputation for good products at attractive prices. Instead, the merits of their products tend to get overshadowed by questions about corporate integrity."
It could be that we're all a bit dim and that offering a quality product at a "deep discount" under a wildly inflated retail price is the stuff of marketing genius, but I don't think so. At best it's a short-term strategy that may induce a flurry of sales among a gullible minority, but the anglers I know are a discerning group who are quick to share opinions, so it's a safe wager that in the end it will do the brand more harm than good. Probably already has. So...I don't see it as a question about integrity but rather intelligence.
All of that said, I'm in the market for a quality, modestly priced, tough-ass 8-weight for use in the Everglades and on Andros, and—beyond the TFO Axiom and possibly the Redington Predator—the Albright EXT has my attention. I'd be obliged to anyone who can share their experiences and/or opinions on that specific rod. And I acknowledge that, after my diatribe above, an Albright product making my short list might be proof that there's genius at play in their maligned promotional approach, after all.
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Verizon's Inspire Her Mind Ad Goes Viral
Verizon's recent advertising campaign InspireHerMind, focused on encouraging girls to pursue science and math, has recently gone viral and received over 1.3 million views since its launch in early June.
The video is narrated by MAKER Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, and tells the story of a young girl as she grows up and learns from the interactions with her family. From words like "pretty" and "princess" to labeling her experiments as "messes," the language used discourages her from exploring her curiosity in math and science. Ultimately the spot asks the viewer to change the conversation from being solely about being 'pretty' to being 'pretty brilliant'.
Outlets like Slate, Huffington Post, AdWeek and more have commended the ad for highlighting how the small words and everyday tendencies of parents can have a lasting effect on young girls. They call the campaign "thought-provoking," "important" and "a blast of refreshing cool air."
Verizon launched the provocative multi-platform campaign to change the conversation around girls and STEM and focus on ways to involve more young women in the STEM fields. The campaign's messaging is built on the insight that the number of women interested in STEM drops significantly between childhood and adulthood and that a majority of the future's jobs will require STEM experience. By reaching audiences via television, digital, and social media, the initiative aims to encourage young girls to break those gender barriers and pursue a path towards a career in STEM.
Beyond the narrator, other MAKERS in STEM are also getting involved with the #InspireHerMind movement. Astronaut Mae Jamison, CEO Linda Alvarado, Google exec Susan Wojcicki and social entrepreneur Marika Shioiri-Clark are all featured on the campaign homepage. http://www.verizon.com/powerfulanswers/inspirehermind/
Check out the spot here and join the conversation on social media with #InspireHerMind and #STEM. Help MAKERS and Verizon encourage girls to believe in their own brilliance and build a brighter future - because what we say to young girls can make a difference.


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Shrimp and Ham Jambalaya
6 servings
1 pound raw shrimp
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup diced onion
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup diced green pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 (16-ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 tablespoon minced flat-leaf parsley
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme or 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 to 1 cup chicken broth
1 cup uncooked long-grain rice
1/2 pound lean ham, preferably country ham, chopped
Bring 1 1/2 quarts of water to a boil. Add shrimp and cook until just barely pink, about 3 minutes. Drain and cool, then peel and set aside.
Heat oil in a 6-quart pot with a lid over medium heat. Add onion, celery and green pepper. Cover and saute until softened, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and cook 2 to 3 minutes longer. Drain tomatoes, saving juice, and add tomatoes to vegetables along with parsley, thyme, salt, pepper and cayenne. Stir well and cook a few minutes.
Combine drained tomato juice with Worcestershire and enough broth to make 2 cups. Add to pot and bring to a boil. Add rice. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. Remove cover, stir well and add shrimp and ham. Cover and cook 5 to 10 minutes, until shrimp and ham are heated through. Serve.
Per serving: 369 calories, 14 g fat, 29 g protein, 31 g carbohydrates, 141 mg cholesterol, 1,623 mg sodium, 1.4 g dietary fiber.
(Adapted from "Southern Food" by John Egerton, University of North Carolina Press)


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It's a lo-cal edition of 'Lunch' today. After all, you can't expect to indulge in a diet rich in celebs and boldface names every week. We've spoiled you, I know. (By the way, if you're looking to chat with some big-time media mavens and news makers, don't miss the first TVNewser Summit on March 10.) After settling in at the bar, I went searching for tasty tidbits and found some of the regulars ready to serve up some interesting morsels. Men's Health honcho David Zinczenko, who was praised in Keith Kelly's column in today's New York Post as "a winner" and "the face" of Rodale, returned to the dining room after a long absence. "I've been having a lot more lunches at my desk," Dave told me. Fresh off a round of appearances for his latest Eat This, Not That blockbuster book, Dave was lunching with Michael Caruso, the former editor-in-chief of Men's Journal now with OpenGate Capital, the equity fund that recently bought TV Guide. No one multitasks like Dave, who was thrilled to show me the April issues of Men's Health and its increasingly successful sister, Women's Health, which boasts its first-ever beauty 'flip cover.' Dave is thrilled with new-ish hire Michele Promaulayko as editor for Women's Health and was singing her praises with what she'd done with her first issue. "She's already a star," says Dave.
As luck would have it, Michele was right across the room lunching with The Food Network's Giada De Laurentiis so I went over and introduced myself. Michele told me she was "thrilled" to be with the title, and we chatted about the always interesting experience of interviewing and shooting celebs and dished over what makes for a great fashion story. I told her I loved the piece on dressing for work. It looked terrific and oh-so-chic. We both agreed service has its place, but the pictures have to dazzle. And in her premiere issue, they do. "Fashion cred is important," Michele told me. You've got it.
At the bar, there was plenty of conversation among Michael McCarty and his staff about the design for the new label for the upcoming release of his 2005 Pinot Noir from The Malibu Vineyard Rambla Pacifico. It's his first since replanting in 2000 (in case you were wondering). We cast our vote to stay with the classic but modern look of the 2004 label. Sommelier Seth Liebman tells me the talk also turned to wine yesterday when Jack Kliger, an avid collector, wanted to enjoy a glass of 1970 Les Forts de Latour and didn't want the rest of the bottle of the impressive vintage to go to waste, so he graciously offered some to director Stephen Daldry. Cheers!
Here's the rundown on today's crowd:
1. Steve Rubenstein presiding over a table of movers and shakers including Marty Bandier
2. Peter Brown with another distinguished gent (Update: That distinguished gent was New York Daily News editor-in-chief and deputy publisher Martin Dunn)
3. 'Mayor' Joe Armstrong and Lisa Caputo
4. David Zinczenko and Michael Caruso
5. Stan Shuman
6. Most of 'The Imber Gang': Dr. Gerald Imber, Jerry Della Femina and Andy Bergman
8. I stopped by to chat with my pals Felicia Taylor and Kim Vernon, two women of substance and style. These fab fashionistas were "talking business" and we wound up discussing how New Yorkers are having to think more carefully about how to best produce and promote the charity events that fill so many fabulous folks' social calendars. We all agreed these days, a great deal of decorum and sensitivity is needed. Scaling back over-the-top decor and all the bells and whistles is the right thing to do, says Felicia, so that the maximum amount of dollars raised goes to the worthiest of causes. And, says Kim, black tie isn't always the best way to go. Challenging times require innovative thinking — and these ladies are sure to lend the voice of reason to any cause they choose to support.
11. Hearst high priestess Ellen Levine (looking ab fab in a black dress accessorized with a killer purple belt) with Sid Holt.
12. Andy Stein toting an old-school black and white composition notebook.
14. Producer Stanley Jaffe and an unidentified blonde gal
16. Lorna Graevs
17. Michele Promaulayko and Giada De Laurentiis
18. The always-dapper Randall Jones with Jackie Leo (loved the boots!)
20. Freddie Friedman
21. Spinmeister Stu Zakim dining with Entertainment Weekly flack Barrie Gordon. Stu, who is always so great about keeping us up to date at the goings on at Showtime stopped by to chat with me at the bar. I told him I was looking forward to the series finale of The L Word airing this Sunday. (If you missed my wide-ranging conversation with series creator Ilene Chaiken for mediabistro.com's So What Do You Do? series, check it out here). Stu is keeping busy these days getting ready for the highly anticipated Nurse Jackie starring Edie Falco. The series premieres on June 8. We can't wait…
23. Imax's Rob Gelfand
24. Lisa Shallet
25. Anthony Grillo
27. Beauty Fashion's George Ledes with Kevin Madden (Give our best to Chris!)
Faces in the crowd: The lovely Brooke Hayward lunching solo at the bar because her date, New York Social Diary's David Patrick Columbia was feeling a bit under the weather. Feel Better! In case you didn't know, there's a cool photo of Miss Brooke hanging in the men's room. I've never seen it, you understand, but I've heard all about it.
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Sometimes when you get a scab, it will stay there for a while. Then, when it lifts, the skin is lighter and never returns to original color. If you want to achieve a lighter skin tone, can this be done with Chemical peels?
Can Deep Chemical Peels Reveal the Lighter Skin Underneath?
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Not exactly
Deep chemical peels can act that way. They do tend to cause depigmentation. That is, the part of the skin that creates brown pigment is decreased causing the skin to become lighter. This would depend on many factors.
Chemical peels
Ideally chemical peels are used to bring out even skin complexion. The goal is not to lighten the skin. However, it does not mean that this can not be achieved. The deeper the peel depth the more likely hyper-pigmentation will occur early on. This will likely go on to become hypo-pigmented.
Lighter Skin with Chemical Peels
yes, it can be done with Phenol peels. However, you have to remember it is going to be permanent and there is risk of uneven lightening. You should first try lightening creams like Triluma to see if that helps you enough. If it is not enough then you can inquire about chemical peels for lightening.
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Chemical peels don't exactly reveal lighter skin
Dear Zoozoo
A scab forms on the skin after a full thickness injury to the skin. When the scab falls off the exposed skin has been largely replaced by new collagen that forms a scar and it is white because there are no pigment cells in the scar. Scars tend to stay white for ever.
This is precisely the result that we are looking to prevent with a chemical peel or a laser skin resurfacing. The goal is to injure the skin to stimulate the repair process. However, the depth of injury is controlled and the healing process is managed to avoid scab formation and stimulate full thickness regeneration of the skin. Done properly, there will be improvement in skin color by virtue of the turn over of the skin elements and removal of sun spots and other dyschromias. Certain extremely deep peels will produce a so-called porcelain white skin. This is generally a very unnatural change in skin color and texture that is considered for older individuals who habitually wear foundation and need profound skin tightening. For younger individuals, this type of skin change is usually highly undesirable and best avoided by limiting the depth of the chemical peel.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Sales of specialty medicines are shifting toward hospitals and specialty pharmacies and away from independent physician owned-and-operated clinics, according to a report released Tuesday by HDMA's non-profit research foundation, The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research.
The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research, the foundation of the Healthcare Distribution Management Association, announced the appointment of three directors to its board: including Gregory Drew, president of Value Drug; Peyton Howell, president of global sourcing and manufacturer relations at AmerisourceBergen; and, Kirk Kaminsky, SVP operations of McKesson Specialty Health.
The president of Shoppers Food and Pharmacy will transition to a new role, parent company Supervalu announced Tuesday.


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Measuring The Cost of Unreliability
EP Editorial Staff | October 1, 1998
A practical tool that allows managers to quickly understand the value of reliability and how reliability impacts profit.
Not long ago, reliability was considered engineering alchemy, an "Alice in Wonderland" science. Today, reliability is being treated as a true engineering discipline. It is such a popular term that it has given birth to an entire industry that has produced countless titles on the subject. Several professional societies have been founded and the lecture circuit is full of reliability engineers promising to decode the science of reliability.
Reliability and its design methodology have had a long and fruitful existence. They were employed in the 1940s and 1950s to design complex systems and measure risk in exotic military projects. In the 1960s, reliability tools were refined and became a base alloy in the program that saw Neil Armstrong place the first of what was to be many footprints on the moon. The 1970s brought with it the golden age of commercial nuclear power production. During this period, reliability stood as a silent sentinel to reactor design and associated safety systems design. Over the past two decades, reliability has made and continues to make its mark as a successful design characteristic in any process, system, or component.
Somewhere during the past 20 years, perhaps when words like Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Challenger filled the headlines, the expectations of industrial and manufacturing process plants were reordered and owners began to view their investments with a highly demanding economical eye. This is not to say that economics was never the top order of the day, but the emphasis and the associated costs placed on environmental protection, process safety management, worker health, and plant availability sounded the wake-up call. This forced owners and managers to look at new ways to keep their plants profitable. It was then that the forgotten stepchild known as maintenance was given the recognition it deserved. If keeping the plant running and profitable were the kingdom, maintenance would need to be the keys to that kingdom.
Over a 30-year period, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) would develop a strategic framework for addressing process failures using the civil airline industry as its teacher. John Moubray and his book Reliability-centered Maintenance (Industrial Press, New York, 1992) broke new ground by developing a systematic approach to understanding and preventing failure.
This book introduced the most revered of the maintenance acronyms—RCM—into the lexicon of maintenance and, almost single-handedly, produced some of the most sweeping changes in how equipment reliability was viewed within the maintenance function. RCM was shown to be a series of well researched and executed processes that promised a greater understanding of why things fail and, more importantly, how to take measures to prevent the consequences of failures.
A major problem with implementation of the RCM process is that it is often applied far too broadly to yield practical results, and the price for such a protracted endeavor is typically far more than an organization with serious equipment reliability issues can bear. (Moubray notes that "the quickest and biggest short-term returns are usually achieved when RCM is applied to assets or processes suffering from intractable problems which have serious consequences.")
What is needed is a practical tool to allow managers to quickly understand the value of reliability and how reliability impacts profit. In 1993, H. Paul Barringer, a Houston-based reliability consultant, realized the difficulty of making the RCM process work and posed the question: "Can your plant afford a reliability improvement program?"
Barringer observed that few, if any, organizations could afford to employ the entire RCM process without first understanding how unreliability affects the bottom line.
Fortunately a practical reliability tool can be extracted from Moubray, Barringer, and the past 30 years of experience and research, and we will not need rocket scientists to use it in a cost-effective manner.
Defining reliability
Reliability is most commonly defined as the probability of equipment or a process to function without failure, when operated correctly, for a given period of time, under stated conditions. Simply put, the fewer equipment or process failures a plant sustains, the more reliable the plant.
In searching for a single-word definition, reliability is dependability. Many industries have the additional burden of ensuring that plant reliability is kept in the forefront of day-to-day operations. Employee safety, public approval, and demonstrated environmental safeguards lie at the very core of an industry's existence.
The accident at Three Mile Island power plant is stark testimony that reliability, when used as a design characteristic, works. If Reactor-2 was designed without inherent stability and reliability, chances are you would be using a candle to read this article.
Thinking of reliability as an engineering problem, one can imagine a team of engineers searching for better equipment designs and working out solutions to eliminate weak points within system processes. When considering reliability from a business aspect, the focus shifts away from reliability and toward the financial issue of controlling the cost of unreliability. Quantifying reliability in this way sets the stage for the examination of operating risks when monetary values are included. Measuring the reliability of industrial processes and equipment by quantifying the cost of unreliability places reliability under the more-recognizable banner of business impact.
It is not a difficult thought process that leads us to the conclusion that higher plant reliability lies in the ability to reduce equipment failure costs. The motivation for a plant to improve reliability by addressing unreliability is clear: Reduce equipment failures, reduce costs due to unreliability, and generate more profit. It is under this preamble that a sound business commitment to plant reliability begins to step out of the shadows and take shape.
Measuring reliability
We have now defined reliability as a plant engineering characteristic, and, more importantly, defined it in terms of business impact. In order to improve reliability, we first must understand the very nature of its measurement—failure.
Moubray defines failure as "the inability of any asset to fulfil a function to a standard of performance which is acceptable to the user." This is the definition that we will use, but we will move the definition vertically.
We shall define failure as the loss or reduction in performance of a system, process, or piece of equipment that causes a loss or reduction in the ability of the plant to meet a consumer demand. This definition focuses attention on the systems vital to making the plant profitable, while the standard definition could lead some people to believe that all equipment is equal. The loss of a pawn in a game of chess does not represent the loss of the game. It is a calculated risk taken in a strategic effort to win the game and it is, after all, a pawn. In other words, the probability of meeting consumer demand has been increased as equipment within a process is evaluated based on its impact to the financial health of the company.
Mathematically, reliability is the probability of any production-interrupting failure occurring over a given future time interval and is stated as:
R = e -lt
R = Reliability
e = 2.71828 ···, the base of natural logarithms
l = Failure rate, the reciprocal of mean time between failure or 1/MTBF
t = Given time interval for which prediction is sought
For the purpose of calculating the cost of unreliability of industrial equipment, mean time between failure (MTBF) can be defined as the time interval of the study divided by the number of production-interrupting failure events recorded during the study.
The good, the bad, and the ugly
We have defined reliability (the good) as requiring the measurement of failure (the bad). There remains only one obstacle to putting the above equation to work. We must glean failure data from industries that do not understand how to accumulate coherent equipment failure data for the purpose of relating it to cost (the ugly).
Plant engineers and maintenance practitioners typically maintain that good failure data does not exist, or would require extraordinary effort to secure. This is simply not true. Failure data exists all around them in varying degrees of usefulness. Many plants have been accruing failure data under the guise of operating logs, work orders, environmental reports, etc. The force that drives the paradigm is that plant management does not see the data as a tool to solve problems and as a result rarely treats or analyzes the data in an economical manner. This is punctuated by the fact that operators, maintenance personnel, supervisors, and managers fail to acquire data in a manner conducive to analysis.
The net result is a vast bank of quite useful information, haphazardly recorded and poorly structured. When equipment or process failures cause enough of a financial concern to warrant study, engineers can look forward to hours of sifting piles of incoherent data in search of an answer.
Substantial amounts of failure data exist in various places awaiting use for improving the reliability of processes and equipment. Start with common sense data now, then couple it with a progressive data recovery program. With these elements in place, the road to an integrated and structured maintenance management program that recognizes plant reliability as its mission will no longer be elusive.
Acquiring failure data
Robert Abernethy in his book, The New Weinbull Handbook (self-published, North Palm Beach, FL, 1996), maintains that acquiring equipment failure data has three basic requirements:
- A clear definition of failure.
- The definition of an unambiguous time origin.
- The definition of a scale to measure the passage of time.
He goes on to explain that commercial businesses require the addition of two elements:
- A measurement defining the cost of the failure.
- A method by which data can be analyzed.
In order to illustrate this concept, we need to get back to basics. It is a common philosophy (especially among investors) that the mission of the maintenance component of any facility is to keep the plant producing. In other words, protect the investment.
This translates well into the mission of reliability and gives us our newest characteristic: protect the integrity of the process. It can only follow that plant processes are maintained by protecting system function and system functions are protected by maintaining equipment.
In order to establish a beachhead for reliability improvement, we need to define failure in terms of the overall mission. For ease of illustration, we shall consider the primary loop, the secondary loop, and the power transmission stages of power generation in a nuclear power plant as the three high-level processes under which failure has the greatest financial impact.
In order to hold the study to an unambiguous time interval, we shall fix the time for each process with consideration to quality of failure data available for that time interval, then normalize the failure rate.
The time interval calculation assumes that the plant runs 24 hours per day, 365 days per year or 8760 hours per year. The number of failures was counted for the time interval to calculate the MTBF. Failure rate is calculated by taking the reciprocal of MTBF.
With the failure rates known, we can determine the production time lost from the failures and begin to determine the cost of unreliability.
In our example, we have established the three critical processes in making a power plant financially feasible. The criticality of the systems and equipment that make up these processes carries its own weight with regard to personnel and environmental safety. In understanding the financial ramifications of unreliability, it is important that the average corrective time for failures be determined for the purpose of estimating process downtime. This total average downtime equates to lost production time and, consequently, lost revenue.
In order to prove the value of this tool, the worth of its assumptions must be addressed. The most salient assumption must be that there is some net worth in examining the power generation process from the highest level. The purpose of a commercial power plant is not to answer the question: Are we smart enough to tame a nuclear fusion reaction in populated areas while not managing to render a 700-square-mile area inhabitable for 1.6 million years? The purpose is to supply electricity to the local grid for economic profit without rendering a 700-square-mile area inhabitable for 1.6 million years, even when individual equipment fails. Again, back to our chess game. We play, even though we know that individual pieces will be lost in pursuit of winning the game. Costs due to reliability quantify the losses expected from playing the game.
It also must be assumed that the number of failures in any given time interval will generally follow true to history. Unless some extraordinary effort is taken, the number of failures will not change. Corrective repair times will remain relatively constant for the same reason.
To make the translations to the cost of unreliability there is a question that needs to be answered. Should the costs of scheduled outages be included in the cost of unreliability?
Absolutely, for two reasons: For an investor, the plant is in failure mode, and the plant has been skewered with a double-edged sword, buried to the hilt. It is not on the local power grid making money and it is spending money rapidly to renew its assets. These facts must be accepted when placing a dollar value on a plant.
Assuming that 10 megawatts of electrical capacity translates into $5 million of potential gross profit, a nuclear power plant rated at 1200 electrical megawatts of output will yield a gross margin of $600 million per year or $68,493.15 per hour. When this loss is multiplied by the lost time due to failure, the hammer of unreliability is felt hard upon the anvil of business impact. The blacksmith takes another stroke when the cost of maintenance is added to gross margin loss.
Here we have represented the primary loop as a $25,000 per hour maintenance cost burden, the secondary loop as a $15,000 per hour cost burden, and the power transmission loop as an $8,500 per hour cost burden. These maintenance costs take into account the price of working with radioactive materials, additional personnel training and equipment, and the cost of returning the plant to full power operations. When the lost time due to the failure of the process is put into financial terms, it becomes apparent the cost of unreliability represents a substantial burden on the economic feasibility of the plant.
From this data model, two highly revealing values can be calculated—annual plant availability (the time that the plant has the opportunity to make money) and plant reliability (the probability that the plant will cost money).
Availability = Uptime
Total Time = 8760 – 78 = 99.1 percent
R = e -lt
R = e -(399.55 x 10-6 x 8760) = 0.031
= 3.01 percent
These numbers speak volumes. These calculations show that while the plant is generally available to produce electricity, it has only a 3 percent probability of meeting a year-long operational commitment without incurring a forced outage or reduction in power generation. The price for this plant reliability comes to $6.8 million. This is the cost of unreliability.
It is easy to see why many power organizations publish quarterly plant availability reports to their boards of directors showing availability to be high while complaining that the price of maintenance continues to be excessive. The real truth of the matter is that owners are spending inordinate amounts of money to pay for a number that, when taken alone, means little to the bottom line.
We have presented a practical and simple tool for understanding why reliability is a vital ingredient of plant operations and maintenance. What started as an esoteric term for design engineers has become a signpost pointing the way to the high country. Knowing the cost of unreliability and where, within the context of process criticality, these costs are incurred will allow plant management to address and prioritize process failure issues, knowing the financial impact to their plant. MT
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An unarmed driver was shot and killed in a burst of 27 police bullets on Interstate 80 early today, after leading officers on a 15-mile chase and then ramming two patrol cars that had pinned his car against an embankment, the authorities said.
Two state troopers and two local officers fired the barrage, and at least four of their bullets hit the driver, Stanton L. Crew, 31, of Morristown, as he tried to manuever his 1985 blue Camaro past a New Jersey State Police car parked behind him and a Parsippany patrol car angled in front of him, said the Morris County Prosecutor, John B. Dangler. Mr. Crew was killed; a 21-year-old passenger, Adrienne L. Hart, also of Morristown, suffered a superficial leg wound and was treated at Morristown Hospital and released.
Mr. Dangler declined during a news conference here to offer an opinion on the amount of police gunfire. Asked if he considered 27 gunshots excessive, Mr. Dangler said: ''I wouldn't even want to speculate on that. All I can tell you and assure you is there'll be a thorough investigation of this.''
The four officers who shot into the car were identified as State Troopers Robert Parry and Eliecer Ayala, Officer Michael Doyle of the Parsipanny Police Department and Officer William Underwood of the Denville Police Department.
Mr. Crew was black. Three of the four officers involved in the shooting are white; Trooper Ayala is Hispanic.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Dangler dismissed any notion that the chase and shooting were linked to racial profiling. State troopers have been accused of singling out minority drivers based on their skin color, especially since troopers shot at four young black and Hispanic men on the New Jersey Turnpike in April 1998.
Mr. Dangler noted, for example, that Ms. Hart, the passenger, was white.
''I see no racial motives whatsoever,'' Mr. Dangler said. ''I see nothing racial in this incident at all.''
He said the officers involved in the chase and stop had said they were frightened by the incident, particularly after Mr. Crew's car was stopped and he continued to drive it, forward then backward, in an apparent effort to get around the patrol cars and drive up the embankment to escape.
''All the officers we have interviewed felt the same fear,'' Mr. Dangler said. ''They had to make split-second decisions.''
Under the New Jersey Attorney General's guidelines on the police use of deadly force, officers are permitted to fire their weapons if they believe their lives or the lives of others are in danger.
Mr. Dangler said that Mr. Crew nearly struck Troopers Parry and Ayala as they walked behind his car while he was driving it back and forth between the two police cars on the embankment. ''They were in fear of their lives because of the erratic driving of this vehicle,'' Mr. Dangler said. ''We know he definitely intended to hit the various vehicles.''
Yet Mr. Dangler stopped short of calling the shootings justified. He said he had not yet decided whether to ask a grand jury to consider possible criminal charges against the four officers who shot into the car.
Mr. Dangler said the passenger, Ms. Hart, had been drinking at a bar in Dover before calling Mr. Crew for a ride home sometime before 1:30 A.M. Wednesday. He said Mr. Crew's driver's license had been suspended recently because his car insurance had lapsed. Nonetheless, the prosecutor said, he went to get Ms. Hart.
A Dover policeman, Barry Young, saw the car on Mount Hope Avenue in Dover and began following it because it was proceeding in an ''erratic manner,'' Mr. Dangler said. He added that Officer Young thought the driver might be intoxicated.
Mr. Dangler said investigators still had not learned where Mr. Crew had been in the hours before he picked up Ms. Hart. He said toxicological tests would be conducted to determine if Mr. Crew had been drinking or taking drugs.
According to the state police, Mr. Crew increased his speed after Officer Young activated the overhead lights on his car. When he reached Interstate 80, he headed eastbound, driving even faster, with Officer Young still in pursuit, the police said. Officer Young sent a radio message for assistance, and a patrol car from Denville, another from Parsipanny-Troy Hills and two from the state police joined the chase on the Interstate. At times, speeds reached 70 to 80 miles per hour, the state police said.
After driving about 10 miles, Mr. Crew swerved onto the Interstate's grassy median, turned around, and started heading west on the highway, with the four police vehicles still in pursuit, the authorities said.
At one point Mr. Crew's car bumped one of the police cars, Mr. Dangler said. But neither went out of control.
Mr. Dangler said that Ms. Hart told the police that during the chase she asked Mr. Crew to stop. She told investigators that Mr. Crew said he could not stop because his car was uninsured and he could not afford to pay the fines for that violation, the prosecutor said.
The westbound leg of the chase lasted for about five miles, until the Parsippany police car and one of the state police cars managed to force Mr. Crew's car onto the shoulder of the road and then hem it against the embankment. As Mr. Crew started moving his car forward and backward in an effort to escape, one of the troopers fired several bullets into a rear tire, Mr. Dangler said. Three bullets pierced the car just above the right rear tire. And the right rear window of the Parsippany patrol car was shattered, apparently by gunfire.
Investigators and the cars remained on the scene throughout the morning rush hour, creating traffic jams in the westbound lanes of I-80 that at one point stretched for 10 miles.
At noon, soon after a medical examiner ordered Mr. Crew's body removed from the car, a cluster of 17 little yellow flags -- each marking the site of a bullet casing -- fluttered on the embankment as drivers whizzed past. Mr. Crew's death left friends and neighbors grief-stricken and bitter.
Erin McMahon, 24, a friend, emerged in tears early this evening from Mr. Crew's two-story stucco and yellow shingle home on Mount Airy Place in Morristown. Ms. McMahon said that she and Mr. Crew had once worked together for a security company in Wayne, N.J. She said Mr. Crew had always dreamed of becoming a police officer but never managed to get a law enforcement job because of his weight -- about 300 pounds, neighbors said.
''He was friends with every Morristown cop,'' she said. ''He was the nicest, sweetest, most gentle person I ever knew and the straightest person I ever knew -- no drinking, drugs, not anything.''
A 29-year-old neighbor, David Gilliham, said: ''I'm mad because somebody I grew up with and knew got killed. But I'm also mad because these guys are supposed to be trained to handle this in a benign way. Twenty-seven shots? That kid's never been in trouble, ever.''
Mr. Crew lived with his mother, Lily, and had recently begun working part time selling computers, friends said. Before taking the sales job, he had worked as a waiter at Jimmy's All-American Bar and Grill in Morristown for two years. The assistant manager, Jonathan DeFelice, said Mr. Crew often had dinner there with his mother.
''He was a great employee,'' Mr. DeFelice said. ''He was one of the most honest people I ever met.''Continue reading the main story


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Vehicle Overview from Kelley Blue Book
KBB.com 2009 MINI Cooper Overview
For the 2002 model year, BMW relaunched the MINI brand with the Cooper and Cooper S in the American market. It was redesigned for 2007, and both generations have earned rave reviews for go-kart-like driving dynamics, an efficient hatchback package and exemplary fuel economy. While the MINI Cooper strengthened America's acceptance of small cars, it was simply too small for many buyers, prompting the introduction last year of the 2008 MINI Cooper Clubman. As with other MINIs, the Clubman is offered in base and turbocharged S models, but an additional nine and a half inches adds much-needed rear-seat room and cargo space. The Clubman's competitors include the Chrysler PT Cruiser, Volkswagen Rabbit, Mazda MAZDA3 and Audi A3.
The MINI brand's reputation for go-kart-like driving dynamics has not been compromised due to the Clubman's larger size. If you're worried that the Clubman won't put a smile on your face, don't be.
The MINI Cooper S Clubman features large wheels and a sport-tuned suspension that contribute to a hard ride on pockmarked roads. Try the S before you buy, especially if you live in an area where roads tend to be rougher. Also, a small dealer network limits sales and servicing options, a real problem for buyers in more rural states.
The 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman and Cooper Clubman S now offer the option of Dynamic Traction Control (DTC), which is a sportier version of MINI's stability control program. Also new for 2009 is a 160 mph speedometer and available Smartphone prep package, a rear roof spoiler and factory installed roof rails (cannot be ordered together).
Driving It:
The feel behind the wheel is unmistakably MINI. The steering is quick and responsive, the brakes are easy to modulate and provide worry-free stops and, though it's the largest MINI, the Clubman still feels light and nimble. The S model has a sport suspension, and even-stiffer settings are offered with the S model's Sport package. The stiffer suspensions result in more ride firmness, but the Clubman's longer wheelbase makes it less punishing than the hard-riding hatchback. Most drivers will find the base engine to be adequate, but enthusiasts will appreciate the extra power of the S model, as its turbocharged engine offers its peak torque from 1,600 to 5,000 rpm, which keeps ready power on tap in just about all circumstances. Base model or S, the Clubman will put a smile on your face every time you drive it.
Sport Button
The Clubman is naturally sporty, but the Sport button adds another measure of excitement. Press the button and throttle response becomes more aggressive and the steering gets quicker; automatic-transmission models also get a performance-oriented shift program that holds gears longer. The Sport button makes a fun car even more fun.
Club Door
The Clubman's passenger-side rear access door, which MINI calls a "Club Door," eases rear seat entry and exit. The extra length that makes the Club Door possible also makes the rear seat comfortable for two and adds useful rear cargo space.
Vehicle Details:
The Clubman's avant-garde interior features quality materials in an odd control layout that places the tachometer on the steering column and a large round speedometer and many of the controls in the center of the dash. Front seat occupants have plenty of room – even for large folk – and the rear seat is a hospitable place for two adults. The second-row seatbacks are split 60/40 and fold to create a flat load floor and provide 32.8 cubic feet of cargo volume, which is 37 percent more than the MINI Cooper hardtop. The Clubman's split rear doors provide easy access to the cargo area and its extra rear-seat room and cargo space are compelling reasons to choose it over the normal-configuration MINI.
The Clubman is identical to other MINIs from the front bumper to the back of the front doors. On the passenger side it has a small rear "Club Door" to provide access to the back seat. Of the 9.4 inches of added length, 6.3 inches are found behind the rear wheels, but the wheels still look as if they're pushed to the corners. At the back, the Clubman has split rear "barn" doors inspired by the Austin Countryman and MINI Traveler of the 1960s. S models add a black mesh front grille, a front hood scoop, larger wheels, a chrome gas cap and dual exhaust.
The base Clubman's standard features include air conditioning, leatherette upholstery, tilt and telescoping steering wheel, AM/FM/CD stereo with auxiliary input jack, power windows, locks and doors, a cooled glovebox and P175/65R15 tires on alloy wheels. The S model adds sport seats, fog lamps, sport suspension and P195/55R16 tires. Safety features include dual front airbags, seat-mounted front side airbags, side-curtain airbags, a tire-pressure monitoring system, anti-lock brakes with electronic brakeforce distribution and brake assist, traction control, electronic stability control and brake cornering control. Hill Start Assist is standard with manual transmission models. All MINIs have free maintenance for three years/36,000 miles.
The 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman can be personalized with numerous paint and interior trim options. Tech options include a universal garage door opener, HD Radio, a Bluetooth cell phone link, MINI's Comfort Access keyless starting, xenon headlights, SIRIUS Satellite Radio and a navigation system. Luxury items include heated front seats, panoramic sunroof, automatic climate control and three types of leather upholstery. A sport suspension, sport seats, Dynamic Traction Control and 16- or 17-inch wheels are available for performance enthusiasts.
Both models have 1.6-liter in-line four-cylinder engines. Power in the base Clubman is adequate for most needs. The engine is peppier than its 118-horsepower figure would indicate and the power feels useful over 3,000 rpm. The turbocharged S model puts out 172 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque (192 pound-feet is available in short bursts via turbo overboost). There is very little turbo lag, making for smooth in-town driving. Both engines work well with the automatic transmission and the S model's paddle shifters are easy to use. The smooth-shifting six-speed manual offers enhanced driver interaction and lets you wring more out of the MINI's powerplant.
1.6-liter in-line 4
118 horsepower @ 6000 rpm
114 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4250 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 28/37 (manual), 25/34 (automatic)
1.6-liter turbocharged in-line 4
172 horsepower @ 5500 rpm
177 lb.-ft. of torque @ 1600-5000 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 26/34 (manual), 23/32 (automatic)
Pricing Notes:
The 2009 MINI Cooper Clubman starts with a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of around $21,000, about $2,000 more than a MINI Cooper hatchback, and can top out at more than $36,000. The MINI Cooper S Clubman starts with an MSRP just under $24,500 and can be optioned to approach $41,000. Like the hatchback, we expect our New Car Blue Book values to reflect real-world transaction prices right around MSRP. The Clubman costs more than many other small cars, but it is expected to retain above-average resale values just like other MINI models.


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Tarrant County TXGenWeb
Early Probate Records
Estate of Seaborn Gilmore, Deceased
|Petition of F. D. Gilmore, administrator of the estate of Seburn Gilmore,
dec'd, for order to sell property, for cash, at the late residence of decedent.
There are no funds in the estate to pay the following claims which has been
approved and allowed, the same being the expenses of last sickness of decedent
and burial expenses and probable expense of administration, to wit: Dr. W.
P. Burts acct for $23.00: E. M. Mitchel acct for coffin, 28.00: probable
expense of administration, 100.00: and Dr. C. M. Peak acct, 46.90. Filed
May 1867.
Report of sale of personal property on February 8 at late resident of decendent. Buyers were: C. M. Gilmore; Jas Thomas; Lee York; S. Anderson: A. D. Price; Pauline Fish; J. A. Walker; and W. B. Tucker. Filed Feb. 24, 1868.
Report of sale of personal property in obedience to an order of the court on 27 May 1868 - for cash. Buyers were: S. Gilmore; Mrs. York; Hedges; J. M. Townsend; Y. F. Shelton; M. B. Loyd; L. Anderson; Filed May 28, 1868.
J. H. Thomas and J. T. Greear report additional inventory of one Bay horse. Filed 27 May 1868.
Report of administrator, F. D. Gilmore. Filed June 29, 1868. Reference is made to the inventory filed Jan. 16, 1868, and the additional inv. filed May 27. One 4 year old horse died; one mare and colt died. She refers to stock taken by heirs at approved value.
Half of Ferry boat taken by him in lieu of allowance for first years support; household and kitchen property allowed as exempted property, etc, and 200 acres land (exempted). Adm'r has paid C. M. Peak, E. M. Mitchell, B. C. Bedford, W. F. Burts [W.P. Burts], S. J. Darcy, G. Nancy, and cash allowance of heirs.
Notice that final account of administrator of estate of S. Gilmore, deceased, has been filed in District Court, Tarrant County. Settlement of estate will be heard at March term 1871.
Report and Affidavit of M. Gilmore. Filed 15 March 1871. "Report and final
acct of Caroline M. Gilmore, Guardian of the property of Martha E. Gilmore
as follows Amount of money paid to me by the administrator of S. Gilmore
dec'd $250 which was allowed her for the first years support, which your
Reporter has paid over to said ward as here shown to the Court by her receipt,
said ward having arrived to the age of 21 years, the same being all the personal
Effeect belong to said minor, said minor own 320 acres of Land which has
also [been] turned over to her...." S/ Miskwa Gilmore.
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text: XenForo Template Longford Release Date: June 19, 2007 Studio: HBO Films Packaging/Materials: Standard single-disc DVD case Year: 2006 Rating: TVMA Running Time: 1h33m Video (Feature): 1.78:1 anamorphic Audio (Feature): English 2.0, Spanish 2.0 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Closed Captioned: Feature only MSRP: $26.98 The Feature: 5/5 Frank Longford (Jim Broadbent) is the appointed leader of Britain's House of Lords and considered by some to be the most principled politician in the country. His Catholic faith informs every part of his life, in particular his views on the penal system and those incarcerated. His prisoner reform work has earned him respect and admiration from family and colleagues, though there are some who laugh him off as a naif. The latter opinion of him starts to gain ground and join up with derision and anger when he begins visiting Myra Hindley (Samantha Morton), a convicted child serial killer. Though her partner, Ian Brady (Andy Serkis), received the same life sentence as she, public opinion towards her is particularly intense, perhaps because of her gender and expectations around the "gentler sex." But grieving families and an outraged public have little patience for talk of double standards, and as Longford's campaign for Hindley increases, so does the price paid by his family and career. Filmed for HBO, "Longford" is riveting throughout thanks to excellent work from all players. And though the film deals with controversial issues like the penal system and prisoner rights, it's ultimately more an examination of one man's convictions than a political commentary. It will likely affirm, rather than challenge, viewers' existing beliefs, regardless of which side of the aisle they sit. The performances support the screenplay's evenhanded treatment. Broadbent's multi-layered depiction shows Longford as a man of deep conviction and faith, completely accessible but not without flaws (being too quick to trust perhaps being one of them). Lindsay Duncan as his wife Elizabeth displays a similar level of complexity, making a crucial turning point for her character feel natural and reasonable. Morton's and Serkis's turns are equally compelling, displaying disparate styles but wholly appropriate and natural for their roles. Great performances, solid and seamless direction from Tom Hooper, and a script that never sags make "Longford" recommended viewing. Video Quality: 4/5 The film is correctly framed at 1.78:1 and free of edge halos, dust, dirt and print damage. Black levels and contrast range are very good, with satisfying shadow detail and delineation, though the image as a whole is pretty low in contrast. Colors are muted and certain scenes have an obvious stylistic color cast (e.g. blues in the prisons, warm tones in Longford's home), but it always seems appropriate to the scenes and subject matter. Picture detail is quite good, consistent in both wide and close ups, though there is visible grain at times and signs of compression artifacts. Overall a nice looking transfer. Audio Quality: 3/5 The Dolby Stereo audio track gets the job done in a dialogue-driven film. Though some accents are harder to understand than others, voices are consistently clear and intelligible. Special Features: 4/5 Commentary by Director Tom Hooper and Writer Peter Morgan: Hooper takes the lead through much of the commentary. Not an especially engaging track from the start, there are some long gaps and obvious statements made by the pair. Still, there are enough nuggets to keep most listeners from moving on. "For the Record: Firsthand Accounts of the Moors Murders" Featurette (6m20s): Promotional piece for HBO that includes archival footage, soundbites from cast and crew and clips from the film. Strangely it includes the film's epilogue text, which effectively gives away what happens to the characters. I suppose those responsible figured it was the journey, not the destination, that mattered. Recap The Feature: 5/5 Video Quality: 4/5 Audio Quality: 3/5 Special Features: 4/5 Overall Score (not an average): 4/5 A compelling biopic gets a solid audio and video transfer and a lean set of extras. Don't be surprised if the film is recognized at the next Emmys and Golden Globes. Equipment: Toshiba 42" CRT RPTV fed a 1080i signal over DVI from an Oppo 971 DVD player. Audio evaluation is based on an Onkyo TX-SR575x 5.1 AVR running JBL S26 mains and surrounds, JBL S-Center, and BFD-equalized SVS 20-39 PCi subwoofer.


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We recently asked the finalists for this year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction to choose a passage from their nominated book and write about it. Today we welcome Modris Eksteins, author of Solar Dance. The winner of this year's prize will be announced on November 12.
In June 2009 the journalist Margot Cohen, of the Wall Street Journal, interviewed the Indonesian actor-comedian Butet Kartaredjasa, well known in his homeland for his audacious spoofs on authority and also for his extensive art collection. The latter consists largely of Indonesian work.
"Have you collected any works by foreign artists?" Cohen asks.
"Van Gogh!" the comedian replies, pointing to a copy of Memory of the Garden at Etten. "This is from Canada, where they have a technology of reproduction that I admire very much. Look at these strokes, the texture. If I have any businessmen friends who come over, I put it on the wall to impress them."
"Two years ago," he continues, "the painting was displayed at a local gallery as part of a show of works owned by various collectors. All of Yogya[karta] was amazed – 'Wow, Butet owns a Van Gogh!'"
Solar Dance, a book about our love for Vincent van Gogh, both the man and his art, revolves around the concatenation of surprise, disaster, and ensuing doubt in the years after his death. A backdrop of human calamity, especially the two world wars, was essential to the fabulous success of an artist who had been a miserable failure in his own century. However, a crucial role in the broad revolution that was modernism, and in the promotion of Van Gogh, was played by rogues, fraudsters, and magicians, whose raison d'être was to undermine faith in the world around them. At the end of my story I was faced by a conundrum: How does one end a book wrapped in multiple layers of violence, fraud, and doubt? As a historian I have always been troubled by the notion of a conclusion, to any story. I shiver when publishers and publicists use the adjective "definitive" to describe anything. So, how do you bring a never-ending story to a close? You don't. You point out that it is never-ending, and at the same time you suggest that the issues pervade your own nest.
Excerpted from the book Solar Dance. Copyright © 2012 Modris Eksteins. Used by permission of Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited.


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Relying on every sense but sight to play a sport
Sat, 05 May 2012 22:34:03 GMT —
Imagine playing baseball in the dark. Parents might immediately say it's dangerous, but people across the world are finding out it's just the opposite, even beneficial.
"It's very gratifying for me because I get to play a sport with my son because I never know when or if I TMm ever going to play with my son in sports at all, said Ervin Fulton.
Fulton has been visually impaired since he was ten years old, something that has kept him from enjoying sports with his son, until now.
For the past two years both father and son have been playing beep ball, a version of baseball for the visually impaired that relies on every sense but sight.
"It TMs just such an enjoyment to watch someone that has a handicap be able to do the same thing I can do or even do it better, said head coach James Smith.
Smith's team, the Albany Vipers, played the Atlanta Eclipse earlier this afternoon, getting help from the Albany police AmeriCorps who see this as a great experience.
"Today is important to them to let them know that they're just like everybody else, that there's no difference, said AmeriCorps member, Mercedes Luster.
There was no difference as players without visual impairments wore air-tight blindfolds and learned a lot more than how to play.
"There's so many things you can't see that are benefitting each and every player, and quite frankly, each one of these things benefit the volunteers as well."
Today's game gave both teams a chance to practice for next year's world series which will take place in Columbus.
Byrd hopes to have enough beep ball teams across Georgia to be able to create an all star team to compete for the top honor.
To get involved, visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/Atlanta-Beep-Baseball/184620908230337 or https://www.facebook.com/georgiablindsports#!/pages/Georgia-Blind-Sports-Association/227718920625159 where you can contact Byrd directly.


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EUREKA -- Edward and Linda Van Horn observed their 50th wedding anniversary on June 17, 2012, and will celebrate the occasion at a later date due to current medical challenges.
Linda Caryl Brisbin and Edward Van Horn were married on June 17, 1962, at First Presbyterian Church of Eureka. She has lived in Humboldt County for 60 years and he has lived here for 69 years.
Their children are Gayle Van Horn of Charlotte, N.C., and Lynne Conoboy of Willow Creek. They have 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Van Horn is retired after being the co-owner of Eureka Rubber Stamp Co. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, keeping up with her correspondence, reading and movies.
Mr. Van Horn is retired after being the co-owner of Eureka Rubber Stamp Co. He enjoys playing golf, family activities and movies.


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A Tucson man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault.
Brian Patrick Standley, 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault stemming from a February indictment in which he was accused of firing a gun at two people after a fight. One person received a minor gunshot injury.
Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley told Standley he had to sentence him to consecutive terms because there were two victims. But McGinley said letters in support for Standley and the genuine appearance of remorse convinced him to impose slightly less harsh sentences.
Standley was given five years in prison for each aggravated assault count.


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Meeteor founder and CEO Mamie Kanfer Stewart explains how to make meetings more productive and even more fun.
By Dan Cost on APRIL 13, 2017
In the final episode of this productivity series we take a deep dive into how to prepare for and run better meetings, and some tricks to make sure that what is discussed at a meeting actually gets done. We'll hear from Mamie Kanfer Stewart of Meeteor, Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Cameron Herold the author of Meetings Suck and Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK.
"Meetings are the single biggest productivity problem in business today."
Mamie Kanfer Stewart, founder of Meeteor, talks with us about how to do meetings better. It's not just about being productive, but about getting higher quality work done as a result of that meeting. We all spend hours a week in meetings, and there are some great takeaways in this episode to help us all be a little more productive.
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|05 Jan 2013
Remove XP dual boot
I'm trying to remove a dual boot of XP (the D drive on the screenshot) on a single HD and expand the space for my windows 7 installation. It doesn't seem to be possible to do it directly through disk management.
I have a copy of EasyBCD installed and a copy of the partition wizard bootable CD burned, but I'm not sure how to proceed and it doesn't seem like the kind of thing to mess around with casually.
Alternatively, if that isn't possible, if someone could provide some advice on joining the unallocated space into the C drive, that would be an workable alternative.
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It won`t let you delete it because it is marked active and contains the system files, if you delete it, Windows 7 won`t boot.
If you don`t have a Windows 7 Installation DVD, make a system repair disc before you go any further, you will need it to get 7 booting again.
start>control panel>backup and restore>create system repair disc.
Who installed W7 on a logical drive ? It should be made Primary. ( in my opinion )
Ideally, you want D, the unallocated space and C to be 1 entire Primary partition.
You are wasting speed by having C in the middle of the drive like that.
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Everything I've read say's you must format that partition that has the dual boot up OS on it.
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It won`t let you delete it because it is marked active and contains the system files, if you delete it, Windows 7 won`t boot.
If you don`t have a Windows 7 Installation DVD, make a system repair disc before you go any further, you will need it to get 7 booting again.
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Like I said, windows won`t let you, you`ll have to use Partition Wizard. I recommend doing it with the boot cd.
Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to manage partition directly with partition manager bootable CD.
You will then have to run the repair disc up to 3x to get windows booting again. There should be tutorials on it.
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As your boot files are on D, you must move them to C so that Win7 can boot itself after correctly removing XP by deleting D. But C is Logical which cannot be marked Active to accept the boot files, so you must first convert it to Primary. Here's how:
Boot free Partition Wizard bootable CD, rightclick C to Modify>Set to Primary, click OK.
Rightclick C again to Modify>Set to Active, click OK.
Now click on the HD # to highlight it, from Disk tab select Rebuild MBR, OK, Apply all steps.
Reboot, if Win7 doesn't start then boot into Win7 installer or System Repair Disk to run Startup Repair - Run up to 3 Separate Times until Win7 starts and C wears the System Active Boot flags.
Now you can back up D files, boot into PW CD, rightclick D to Delete, OK, then rightlclick C again to Resize, drag left border all the way to left to take up the deleted D space, OK, Apply. Partition Wizard Resize Partition Video Help. Be prepared to run repairs again after resizing on the boot sector (in about 5% cases).
If there are any other changes you'd now like to make, post back another Disk Mgmt screenshot and tell us which. You can also adjust the size of any partition using the cool new PW Extend function which can take/give from any other partition.
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Autobot032 wrote:I agree that civility and patience should be exercised, here. However, if someone poses the question and they refuse to answer and/or get nasty about it, I think you should start with the booing and cause a scene. Embarrass them, force them to speak about it.
If it were any one of us, we'd be roasted on the spit if we screwed up like this.
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crazymike179011 added a post in a topic what i did in 2010congrats on your son and to a new family.as a father of four they are the greatest event that ever graced my life.get ready for some rough nights followed by a life time of memeries.congrats my children are my greatest acomplishment.
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Some changes need to be made in high school sports. There are 10 CIF sections and all of those sections have to follow the same rules during the season and during the off season, especially when it comes to divisions in state and CIF playoffs.
In San Diego an attempt has been made in several sports to make the playoffs more equitable (or profitable). That is a great idea! But why just in the playoffs? Last season an Open Division was added to the CIFSD section and teams were placed in divisions based on past performances. That hurt the San Diego Section when it got to the state playoffs and will continue to do so.
There are too many teams in the playoffs. Only league champions and teams with winning records should be in the playoffs. The playoffs should be an eight-team bracket like the Open Division was in San Diego this year. Then the finals could be played on a Monday in Qualcomm and no team would have less than a week to prepare for the biggest game in most of the student/athletes' lives.
When we bounce teams up a division in the San Diego Section for the playoffs, that hurts their chances of going to the state playoffs in the division in which they really belong. One team sued last season because it was forced to play above its real state division level. More will come. We are the Sue-nited States.
Ramona is not a Division I team by state standards. Just because Ramona has a good team or season it should not be forced to play up a division. Instead of rewarding excellence we are, in fact, punishing it.
The Southern Section has more schools and places those schools in leagues that are fair. Every division has three leagues, and three teams from two leagues and two teams from one league go to the playoffs. San Diego did that in the past. With league standings determining the playoffs, teams would play practice games to get ready for league play. There was no hurry. Now some teams try to get patsies on their schedule to build up rankings, or the really good teams play good competition to make money at the gate. The North County Conference dictates cross-league opponents in order to keep gate money in the North County.
The conferences have to be changed or done away with all together. Leagues have to be made fair. That can't be done as long as the Grossmont, North County, South Bay and San Diego conferences exist in their present form. I crunched the numbers. What the Southern Section does would work in San Diego on a smaller scale.
One of the major reasons for the present divisions in San Diego is nobody knows what to do with the private schools. Enrollment is not a fair criterion. If a private school draws from more than one school district they have an advantage over a school like Ramona. Come up with a formula that places private schools in a league where they belong. Cathedral Catholic has an excellent athletic program. They are an elite athletic department. The Rock Academy and San Diego Jewish Academy are not.
Basketball has to make some changes. What used to be tournaments have become classics and shootouts in order to play more games. It used to be that tournaments were double elimination or single elimination and they counted as 2 points in scheduling. At one time every team was allowed 20 points. Some genius came up with the idea of having a round robin tournament with pool play, and then elimination in some cases. In other words, teams get six or eight games for 2 points. In a time of trimming budgets, trimming transportation, high gas prices and, worst of all, student/athletes driving to and from games, more home games are needed.
Ramona High's Bulldog basketball team just played its first home game last Friday. It was a 4:30 p.m. game to boot. The Lady Bulldogs have played 15 games and only four home games. Give every team more points and count tournament points by how many games teams are guaranteed. More home games mean more gate, less travel, fewer morning and day games, less time on the road and more time to study. Working parents would get to see more games and support their child's team instead of a tournament host.
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