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Court stops Utah gay marriages — The Supreme Court on Monday morning put on hold a federal judge's decision striking down Utah's ban on same-sex marriage, thus stopping a wave of such marriages across the state. The Court's order reinstates the state ban and will keep it intact until after a federal appeals court has ruled on it.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Block Gay Marriage in Utah During Appeal of Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday blocked further same-sex marriages in Utah while state officials appeal a decision allowing such unions. — The terse order, from the full court, issued a stay "pending final disposition" …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Crack Cocaine Limbo — President Obama earned a rare moment of bipartisan acclaim last month when he commuted the sentences of eight long-serving federal prisoners. Their crack cocaine offenses had resulted in the harsh penalties mandated by a sentencing formula that Congress repudiated when it passed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Halts Utah Same-Sex Couples' Marriages While Case Is Appealed
Supreme Court Halts Utah Same-Sex Couples' Marriages While Case Is Appealed
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Breaking: High court puts same-sex marriage on hold in Utah
Breaking: High court puts same-sex marriage on hold in Utah
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Supreme Court Puts Utah Same-Sex Marriage on Hold
Supreme Court Puts Utah Same-Sex Marriage on Hold
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Same-sex marriage opponents call for an uprising
Same-sex marriage opponents call for an uprising
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First on CNN: Liz Cheney to abandon Senate bid — New York (CNN) — Liz Cheney, whose upstart bid to unseat Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi sparked a round of warfare in the Republican Party and even within her own family, is dropping out of the Senate primary, sources told CNN late Sunday.
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Alexander Burns / Politico: Liz Cheney withdrawal caps months of turmoil
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Liz Cheney quits Senate campaign to oust Mike Enzi: cites "serious health issues" in family
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Cheney drops Senate bid against Enzi in Wyoming
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John Gallagher / Queerty: Now That She Dissed Her Sister, Liz Cheney Decides To End Her Senate Campaign
Nick Goroff / Americans Against the Tea Party: BREAKING: Liz Cheney Abandons Wyoming Senate Campaign
Scared Monkeys: Liz Cheney Dropping Out of GOP Senate Bid in Wyoming Against Enzi Citing Family Health Issues
Chuck Todd / NBCNews: Liz Cheney drops Wyoming Senate bid
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: Report: Liz Cheney Dropping Senate Bid
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Liz Cheney Is Already Abandoning Her Senate Run
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post: The Fix: Liz Cheney's problem? She never figured out why she was running.
Tony Ortega / The Raw Story: Liz Cheney dropping Wyoming senate bid: CNN
Liz Cheney: 'I have decided to discontinue my campaign' — Liz Cheney is ending her campaign for Senate in Wyoming, the Republican announced in a statement early Monday morning. — Citing health concerns in her family, Cheney said the issues arising prompted her to end her GOP primary challenge to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.).
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: Liz Cheney Goes Home to Washington
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: DIZZY MISS LIZZIE
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Liz Cheney To Drop Out Of Wyoming Senate Race
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo: Pro-Enzi Super PAC Dissolves After Cheney Ends 'Fool's Errand' Campaign
Harold Maass / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: January 6, 2014
Lee Enterprises / Casper Star-Tribune: Reports: Liz Cheney to drop out of Senate race
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Liz Cheney dropping out of Wyoming Senate race
Liz Cheney dropping out of Wyoming Senate race
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Rachel's Show — MSNBC, the left-leaning cable-news network, has settled on one solution to its recent problems. It now has an executive reviewing scripts before they go on the air. The role, which has fallen to Rich Stockwell, a former executive producer of The Ed Show and Countdown …
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Former MSNBC Employee: Rachel Maddow "Actually Not That Interested In Reality, Most Ideological Person I Have Met"...
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The Agony of Frank Luntz — Frank Luntz does not want the buffet. We are on the top floor of the Capitol Hill Club, the members-only Republican hangout a block from the Capitol, where a meaty smell is emanating from steam trays. Today's main course is ham, and Luntz shakes his head.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
HILLARY CLINTON'S SHADOW CAMPAIGN — Early last summer in her Georgian-style home near Washington's Embassy Row, Hillary Clinton met with a handful of aides for a detailed presentation on preparing for a 2016 presidential campaign. — Three officials from the Democratic consulting firm …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo: Report: Hillary Clinton Met With Strategists About Possible 2016 Run
Dan Merica / CNN: Pro-Hillary PAC rents Clinton's 2008 campaign email list
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Hillary Clinton Campaign Rents Email List to Pro-Hillary Super PAC
Hillary Clinton Campaign Rents Email List to Pro-Hillary Super PAC
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Unemployment insurance extension lacks GOP support — A bipartisan plan to once again provide federal unemployment insurance for more than 1 million Americans appears to be falling short of the Republican support needed to clear a key procedural vote scheduled for Monday evening in the Senate.
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I'm Suing Over ObamaCare Exemptions for Congress — If the president wants to change the health-care law, he must ask Congress to do it. — On Monday, Jan. 6, I am filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to make Congress live by the letter of the health-care law it imposed on the rest of America.
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DeBlasio's Horse-Drawn Carriage Ban: Is It Really About Campaign Cash? — Mayor Bill de Blasio's promise to ban New York City's iconic horse-drawn carriages could backfire, exposing what the newly-elected mayor's critics suggest is a corruption scandal masquerading as an animal-rights crusade.
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Bob Schieffer Calls Out Peggy Noonan For Smearing De Blasio As A 'former Sandinista'
Bob Schieffer Calls Out Peggy Noonan For Smearing De Blasio As A 'former Sandinista'
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Peggy Noonan backtracks on calling De Blasio a " former Sandinista"
One Of The Steubenville Rapists Has Been Freed After 9 Months — Ma'lik Richmond, one of the two young football players who was found "delinquent" of having raped a young girl in Steubenville, OH, last year, has been freed from his sentence at a juvenile detention facility.
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Sam Webb / Daily Mail:
Feeling glum? Well it is Blue Monday: Rain, debt and divorce make it worst day of the year — You've finished all the mince pies, the weather is terrible, Christmas ended up being horribly expensive and most of us are back to the daily grind. — So it wouldn't come as a surprise if you had started to feel down in the dumps.
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Koch-backed political coalition, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012 — The political network spearheaded by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch has expanded into a far-reaching operation of unrivaled complexity, built around a maze of groups that cloaks its donors …
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RNC winter meeting to make time for anti-abortion rights rally — Washington (CNN) - The Republican National Committee will free up a couple of hours during its winter meeting this January so members can attend the annual March for Life in Washington, CNN confirmed Monday.
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The Cleantech Crash — Despite billions invested by the U.S. government in so-called "Cleantech" energy, Washington and Silicon Valley have little to show for it — The following is a script from "The Cleantech Crash" which aired on Jan. 5, 2014. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Oscar Cahén, Part 5: Cahén, Illustrator and Abstract Painter
Cahén avoided rough work in order to preserve the spontaneity of the first attempt:
"I do many sketches before starting a painting, but in my illustrations I rarely make such preliminary drawings. In fact, much to the dismay of art directors, my "roughs" are usually so sketchy that I can't make them out myself. What I do is to start my finished drawing with a hard pencil right on the board, then I ink in the final design and erase the pencil marks which made up the initial draft. Thus, by eliminating first roughs, I feel I am able to retain in the completed illustrations the full quality of the initial enthusiasm. As for media used, I mix my techniques as subject or purpose dictates…."
It is interesting that of the very few sketches that are preserved, each shows a different style and medium.
For "A Cage for the Birdman" Cahén coated his board with thick white paint, then drew over that with black ink. There is no white paint over the black...
Maclean's, 1954
... to make white highlights Oscar literally carved away black ink in cross-contours to reveal the white beneath, shaping the forms as a sculptor would.
"A Cage for the Birdman" also affords us an opportunity to examine Oscar Cahén's formidable mastery of the art of spot colour printing. There are only four inks—cyan, magenta, yellow, and black—used to create secondary colours green, brown, purple, and orange. The fact that all four process colours were used indicates that Cahén could have submitted full colour art. Instead, he used flat spot colours to intentionally achieve a desired effect. The final illustration is not simply black and white art with some hues thrown in for fun—it is colour artwork, designed that way from the start and rendered using the ink and press as the "paint" and "brush."
Oscar Cahén developed his aesthetic repertoire through illustration in technical and iconographic ways, reflecting on the relationship between the verbal, the non-verbal, and the visual. He then switched hats and allowed that internalized knowledge to come out in a different way in abstract painting, as a member of the Toronto collective of abstract artists called Painters 11. Unlike for his illustrations, Cahén made rough drawings for his abstract paintings and reworked them over and over.
Subjective Image
Railroad Yard
Expressing non-verbal feeling in the visual was always uppermost in Cahén's intentions as an illustrator; abstraction simply stripped away the nameable, verbal layer to leave behind that lurking pure sense. Art theorist Meyer Schapiro has said that the New York abstract expressionists didn't care about communicating with an audience. As an expert in visual communication, Cahén differed from them in that he knew quite well that even unfamiliar symbols were not devoid of meaning, and he asserted that his paintings were "a search for faith, and an escape from loneliness through communication."
New Liberty, 1949
We don't know where this image appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives.
From oral histories and a few speeches that were luckily recorded, we know that Cahén had more influence on his peers in the graphic arts than almost any other Canadian illustrator up to at least 1960. In art director Stan Furnival's estimation:
"There isn't any doubt that he was the greatest single force in Canadian illustration since Jefferys. He revitalized the whole business of illustration in Canada and encouraged a lot of good people to stay here and work here. He brought an academic art training to his illustrations—which, combined with a sense of freedom and vitality, radically changed a tight slick Americanized attitude almost overnight."
We don't know where this image appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives.
Original art for a Maclean's cover
Tom Hodgson, a Painters 11 member and friend of Oscar's, wrote:
"Oscar Cahén was the major impact in two areas, advertising and painting... Nothing even close to his impact has happened since... for many people, Oscar was their beginning."
* The first exhibition of Oscar Cahén's illustration since his lifetime will be shown in New York at Illustration House in October 2011 (opening night Oct. 1). With Roger Reed, I have written a full colour catalogue with an essay and over 60 images. In this series of posts about Cahén, I will introduce him and feature some artwork that will not appear in the show, catalogue, or websites. The tearsheets and originals here are from Oscar Cahén's estate, courtesy of his son Michael Cahén at The Cahén Archives ~ Jaleen Grove
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A lot of Cahen's tighter work reminds me a good bit of the Swedish illustrator and artist Carl Larson.Very straightforward, warm and whimsical.ReplyDelete
Geez Louise, Cahen was excellent!ReplyDelete
Very nice!
I like those people in winter clothes, surrounded by cool/cold works in the art museum (with the Alexander Calder mobile hanging above them).ReplyDelete
All of them looking at the one warm colored, sunny picture.
So artistically comic!
I like all the other Cahén illustrations as well. Powerful man!
Great images shared and interesting blog. This art work is difficult to find. Nice work putting them together Grove. If you like paintings, you can find one gallery of abstract paintings with purpose at https://andoreza.com/ReplyDelete


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The former host of Animal Planet's "Wild Recon" show has been sentenced to two years probation along with 200 hours of community service after pleading guilty in connection with illegal sales of endangered lizards.
Donald Schultz's sentencing came Monday after he pleaded guilty on Nov. 13 as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors in federal court. He admitted to selling two endangered Iranian desert monitor lizards to an undercover agent, violating the Endangered Species Act.
Schultz was also ordered to pay $9,000 in fines per the agreement.
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He told NBC4 last year that he kept the lizards as pets, but decided to sell them because he was moving.
"Someone contacted me and asked to buy them from me," he said. "In retrospect, it was a stupid thing to do. I had no idea it was against the law."
The lizards, which are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, were sold for $2,500 each by Schultz.
On the day of his plea agreement he posted a message to fans on Twitter.
"My apologies to anyone I've disappointed. I intend to use this opportunity to do more, work harder & let my actions speak louder than my words," it read.
The once popular host's case was investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department, according to the District Attorney's Office.


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By Ashesh
UWB Guest Blog
The elite group of Nepal includes people from different ethnic groups and various places. The richest people in Nepal are still from Madhesi, Newar, Thakali and Thakuri groups, apart from Bahun-Chhetri. Likewise , based on access to land, government services and education, elites of different ethnic groups are far ahead of an average Nepali person.
Some handful elite families from various ethnic groups and castes were privileged to study in high quality English-medium schools and renowned educational institutions abroad. They benefited the most from the Rana and Panchayat regimes and continued to do so in democratic times. Today, they are the most influential class in Kathmandu with deep political and financial interests. In the past couple of decades, they have coined a jargon "hill upper caste ruling elites" to pose as advocate for marginalized people as they saw movements targeted against them.
The "progressive elites" have become successful in creating an illusion among foreigners that these poor and rural folks are the 'demonic ruling elites' of Nepal and they, the real elites who benefited the most from the Nepali state since centuries, are the agents of change and progress.
Read: Madhesi Groups Have the Highest Representation in Government Jobs
This coinage has successfully helped them shield themselves from the rights-based movements by creating a "new" enemy. In their narrative, the oppressors are the 'hill upper caste ruling elites' while oppressed are the marginalized ethnic, regional communities. And they 'courageously' side with the marginalized ones to attack the 'hill upper caste ruling elites', euphemism for the poor and rural Bahuns and Chhetris.
This is a letter to all these Kathmandu elites to remind them who they are and that there are many out there who don't believe the narrative that they have been selling.
Dear Kathmandu elites,
- Given that you and your families are part of feudal ruling elite class, you may think all Bahun-Chhetri enjoyed similar privilege. But hard facts like HDI figures and other research show there are many poor Bahun-Chhetri people. People of diverse communities have enjoyed more access and privilege from the Nepali state.
Continue reading How Kathmandu Elites Capture Nepal's Progressive and Political Agenda


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Officials are raising the volcano warning level on the Big Island of Hawaii from orange to red. The upgrade means an eruption with significant emission of ash is likely to be eminent. It comes as a massive ash cloud grows in the sky, causing health officials to issue warnings for people to avoid excessive exposure to ash, especially those with respiratory issues. Hawaii Volcano Observatory confirmed a new fissure opened Tuesday, bringing the number to 19 since the Kilauea volcano first erupted nearly two weeks ago.
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One of the greatest summer pleasures is catching a professional baseball game. There's something thrilling about watching a pro throw a shutout or leap for a line drive. As it turns out, baseball and power equipment have something in common.
In both, virtuosity is admirable, but there's also a strong case to be made for versatility. For every Roger Clemens, there's a Tim Wakefield, the multipurpose knuckleballer who has been boosting the Boston Red Sox's production since 1995. For every excavator and backhoe loader, there's the jack-of-all-trades utility loader.
Perhaps one of the most compelling reasons to choose a utility loader is its ability to outpace human labor on several critical tasks. With the labor shortage that's currently crippling the green industry, this can be a big productivity booster. And though the name and lack of bulk associated with power equipment can be deceiving, these machines are more than capable of hard labor. Up to four-cylinder engines, nearly 100hp in the upper limits and a range of attachments mean that you can dig, grade, trench, haul and grind with the best of them. You may be able to take on a greater range of jobs than you could before. Even better, these machines are relatively easy to operate, which cuts down on training.
The trick is navigating the sea of choices from the many manufacturers. Some of the biggest names in the industry are in on the action, so how do you pick the machine that's right for you? Luckily, there are a few guidelines that can help. Whether you're interested in a skid steer loader, mini skid steer, compact utility loader or mini-loader, here's what you need to know to narrow down the choices.
Know thyself
Every contractor is different, just like every job is different. You must figure out what balance of size and power is appropriate for the work that you perform. "Choose something that meets your needs," advises Matt Bland, owner of Bland Landscaping Company, Inc., in Apex, North Carolina. "For example, we use a ride-on mini skid steer for enhancement work because it's lightweight, mobile and performs multiple functions." "Lift capacity and width are the two main factors," adds Craig Qualls, general manager for Dynamic Equipment Corporation in Pacoima, California. If you take a lot of residential and/or small commercial jobs and need to squeeze through gates and tight alcoves, you probably can get by with a smaller machine with less horsepower. Among the different models of these machines, width can range from 3' to more than 6', while heights generally fall between 5' and 7'. If you pour concrete or haul rocks and bricks, a larger machine with a bigger bucket might be a better bet.
Lift capacity determines how heavy of a load the machine can handle and how high it will reach. This will affect the size of the machine. So if you need to load trucks or carry heavy materials, you may have to compromise your maneuverability in small spaces. Maximum lift height can vary from 3' to 12', with most models averaging somewhere between 8' and 10'. And remember that whatever you purchase will need to be transported to jobsites.
Decide how you roll
Utility loaders are either wheeled or tracked. Each option presents some advantages and disadvantages, depending on the conditions in which you will be working and the type of work. Tracked units provide increased traction and lower ground pressure, which results in better flotation. Therefore, less damage occurs to the surface and soil compaction is reduced. It means less time spent on worksite restoration and no flat tires.
"A tracked unit allows the owner to operate in wetter conditions," said Neil Borenstein, senior marketing manager, Toro Sitework Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
For contractors who work throughout the year on established lawns, a tracked utility loader may be the better choice. But that doesn't mean tracks are for everyone, says Matt Collins, a product manager for Ditch Witch in Perry, Oklahoma. "There's more to maintain: bearings, sprockets, rollers, etc. Contractors need to take this into consideration when evaluating tracks versus tires."
Tires also offer benefits and drawbacks. For one, they work well on a variety of surfaces and are well suited for lifting and loading tasks. Articulation on some loaders allows for turning without ripping the turf. This left or right motion is controlled by the steering cylinders. Because the rear wheels follow in the same tracks as front wheels, they don't skid. However, they can't counter-rotate like other skid steer loaders.
Some units with tires are smaller, meaning that they can work in smaller spaces and eat up less space on a trailer. Collins adds, "Tired units can cost less and require less maintenance than tracked loaders." If you do choose tires, consider the areas you typically service. In boggy, wet areas you might need a wider tire, whereas if you'll be working in rocky areas with lots of sharp objects, a solid pneumatic tire becomes important. Choosing the appropriate setup can extend the life of your tires.
Walking tall is just as good as easy riding
Do you want to walk behind or ride on the unit? The answer may seem obvious on the surface, but how the utility loader is used will dictate what will be easiest for the operator. If the machine will be operated continuously, the operator will be more comfortable riding. On the other hand, if your workers are performing other tasks, they can walk with less effort than repeatedly climbing on and off the machine.
Insist on having your cake and eating it, too? Some manufacturers offer a choice: platform or no platform. The platform can be attached to the frame for use in wet conditions, and easily detached when it is no longer needed.
There's also a considerable price difference between the two options, as well as differences in functionality. "A walk-behind unit is better for small areas," says Qualls. "It won't lift as much or as high." Ride-ons may have more lifting capacity. Considering that you could wind up paying $15,000 more for a ride-on unit if you really need a walk behind, this is an important consideration.
Be a smooth operator
While the utility loader's versatility could be exalted for days, the potential for increased productivity is diminished if the unit is uncomfortable or difficult to operate. "Simplicity is imperative," says Product Specialist Group Manager Joel Powell with Volvo Construction Equipment in Asheville, North Carolina. "Simplicity translates into productivity and safety. We have to make our skid steers easy to learn for a wide variety of potential operators."
Many manufacturers boast ergonomically-designed controls. However, evaluating the ease of use includes testing the controls for an extended period of time. If operating the machine wears your employees out, chances are that the end-of-day cleanup is going to take longer, too. This can snowball into reduced productivity throughout the week.
During testing, ask yourself if the controls can be reached without much effort. Do they strain the operator's arms and legs? How long can the machine be used before fatigue sets in? Is the steering responsive? Remember that the noise level and vibration can also negatively affect the comfort level. Also, if the utility loader is operated from a cab, visibility can affect the operator's ability to use the equipment.
Who will be operating your equipment should be factored into your decision. Will it be a seasonal employee who doesn't have experience swapping out attachments or someone who has used these machines for years? While the popular opinion seems to be that the operation isn't difficult to pick up, every employer knows the value of training employees about how to properly use equipment.
Don't get too attached
To the multitude of hydraulic attachments, that is. From a cold planer to a brush cutter to a stump grinder, you name the job and chances are there's a work tool to complete it. But while the temptation to purchase "just in case" may be great, you know realistically that only certain tools will make you more profitable in the long run. Buckets, pallet forks, trenchers, augers and cutter heads are more common for landscaping. Remember to verify that the attachments you need are available for the model that you buy.
Another way to approach the issue is to "put the cart before the horse," as Powell suggests. "Look at what needs to be done first; then match the attachment to the job." If funds are limited, it might be a good idea to buy only those attachments that can be used for as many jobs as possible. Then, if you need another tool in the future for a special project, you can pick it up from the nearest rental house or dealer. Should the need for that tool become more frequent, there's still the option to purchase it at a later date.
Avoid machines that are difficult to maintain
As when purchasing any piece of equipment, you want to consider the ease of preventative care and maintenance. If the utility loader is difficult to maintain, for either you or whomever performs maintenance, you'll just end up sinking more money and time into the machine than it may be worth.
Although maintenance shouldn't vary considerably from one manufacturer to the next, you do want a unit with easy-to-access components and a simple design, if you're going to be doing repairs in-house. Choose a model that you feel comfortable with. Your daily checks should be quick and easy. You don't want changing a filter to become an all-day event.
Make a deal
The right dealer (or manufacturer) should be willing to help you find a financing option and payment schedule that you're comfortable with. If you already have a relationship with a dealer in your area, see if it carries utility loaders. Ask what types of attachments are available for you to rent.
The dealer should be attentive and honest. Not listening to your needs or returning your calls could be indicative of the type of ongoing relationship you would have with the dealer. Poor customer service just isn't worth the hassle. Qualls suggests that contractors first talk to other people in the industry who have bought from the same dealer. "Every dealer will claim to be the biggest and the best," he warns.
Bland agrees. "We look for someone who will have solutions for our problems and who is willing to stand behind the machine, even outside of the warranty if something should have been fixed."
"When selecting a loader, don't evaluate only the dealer but also the manufacturer," said Borenstein. "Does the manufacturer have a history of standing behind their warranty? Does the manufacturer have parts in stock? Do they have a parts management and ordering system that enables the shipment of parts within 24 hours? These questions should play an important part in your decision of which piece of equipment you should purchase."
Ask your dealer about servicing—will you need to bring the unit into the shop, or will someone come pick it up? Does the dealer lend the same or similar models while yours is being serviced?
This can go a long way towards eliminating costly downtime. If your local dealer will perform maintenance, check to make sure it stocks a range of parts and has trained technicians who can make repairs quickly and reliably.
Try before you buy
"Demo the units," suggests Bland. "When we're looking at buying a new machine, we take it around to a few jobs and even keep it for a few months. We can evaluate the reliability and whether people in the field like the machine."
Remember, you can always rent a machine or an attachment to familiarize yourself with different brands and functionalities before you make a purchase. This allows you to try without commitment.
Above all, take your time when making a purchasing decision. A utility loader should add to your productivity, not subtract from your bottom line. "A loader can help you better manage your time and be more efficient. It shows up to work every day and works all day," says Collins. Find one of these "employees of the year" and you'll be ahead of the game.


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Rosberg led Jenson Button across the line by 20.6s as the Mercedes driver bucked the trend by nursing his tyres to make a two-stop strategy work. The gap could have been closer but for a 9.7s final pit stop for Button, which robbed the amassed crowds of a potential grandstand finish. The victory marked Mercedes' first victory since the 1955 Italian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber passed Sebastian Vettel in the final three laps to secure third and fourth as the defending champion struggled towards the end of the race on a 24 lap-old set of tyres and had to settle for fifth. Romain Grosjean secured a solid sixth place after his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen dropped 10 places between laps 48 and 50 on old tyres and eventually slipped out of the points.
Mercedes' day was slightly tainted by Michael Schumacher retiring with a loose front wheel after his first pit stop, but it was all smiles in the team's garage as Rosberg crossed the line. There was extra satisfaction as the W03 defied its critics, who had argued before the race that that it would not look after its tyres. In the end, however, cool temperatures meant Rosberg appeared to be the most comfortable on the old tyres after he stopped on laps 13 and 34 without his pace dropping significantly.
The two McLarens behind him both three-stopped, but starting from sixth and seventh meant they would always struggle to close the gap. Button got a good start and was running third early in the race before making pit stops on laps 11, 24 and 39, which should have left him on tyres five laps younger than Rosberg's and in a position to attack the Mercedes. However, a sticking rear wheel nut at his final stop dropped him back into the tight pack of cars behind Rosberg and he lost crucial time.
Apart from Rosberg, Vettel was the highest-placed two-stopper after starting from 11th on the grid and running as high as second with six laps to go. He finished just a second ahead of Grosjean, who was also on a two-stop strategy, after starting 10th on the grid. The two Williamses also looked after their tyres to finish line-astern in seventh and eighth, with Bruno Senna leading Pastor Maldonado across the line by 1.1s.
Fernando Alonso started where he finished, in ninth, but could have been higher placed had it not been for a poorly-judged overtaking move on Maldonado that forced him wide on lap 43 and back to 11th place. He managed to make back two places but has now lost his lead in the drivers' championship to the McLaren drivers with Hamilton on top.
Kamui Kobayashi took the final point in tenth after a slow getaway dropped him from third on the grid to seventh at start. He dropped further positions on a three-stop strategy, but the fact that Sergio Perez on a two-stop strategy finished directly behind him proved that Sauber was struggling for race pace all afternoon.
Paul di Resta was the highest-placed Force India in 12th and finished directly ahead of Felipe Massa, who again failed to score a point. Raikkonen eventually finished 14th after his tyre difficulties towards the end of the race.


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My first born turned ten yesterday. I've been in some serious denial. I'm not old enough to have a ten year old, right??
He's grown into such a capable, kind, and smart kid. His dad and I really depend on him. He mows the lawn, he loves to help his dad build stuff, and he is even handy around the house. He enjoys sports, and is incredibly competitive. He usually decides to cheer for the team that his dad is routing against. He loves his younger sisters and brother, and watches out for them.
Happy Birthday, Big Brother. We love you.
p.s. He designed his own cake. He wanted a rectangle covered with chocolate, and a football in the middle. I made the football and lettering with marshmallow fondant.
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- KJ@letsgoflyakite said...
Happy Birthday! You've been a mum for a decade, I bet the day you became one is a fresh today as then. Blessings to all of you!
- 07 January, 2011 10:53
- Diane said...
Happy b'day to your young man Ÿ That snow is amazing... living in Louisiana we don't see much of the white stuff Ü
- 07 January, 2011 11:10
- Tasha said...
Happy Birhtday! It looks like he loved his cake :)
- 07 January, 2011 12:50
- Melissa said...
Happy Birthday to your 'old' boy. ;) I love the first photo!!
- 07 January, 2011 13:49
- SkinnyMeg said...
What a great kid! Happy Birthday, that cake looks delish :)
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- Sarah @ Modern Country Style said...
My eldest son turned ten last year. I felt exactly the same! Your son sounds lovely. You must be really proud of him.....and I bet he is of you too!
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- Naturally Carol said...
I think birthdays mean more to 'mum' than anybody...'cos we have a totally different take on the actual birth day. Love those snow photos!
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- Tiffany said...
Sweet words for him on his birthday! I can't believe he mows the lawn, can he come over and teach my kiddos. Enjoy your days with him Mom...they grow so fast.
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Sounds like a fantastic young man, Chris. I've never thought about it, but I guess ten would hit mom kind of hard. Hang in there:)
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- Apryl said...
Our boys seem a lot alike if he wanted a football on his cake! My boy that is 8 is obsessed with football! So cute! I can't believe you have a 10 year old, but then again, I guess you ARE old enough for it, right? How nice to catch up a bit on your family through your blog...love it!
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I'm a bugophobe. I'm one of those people who, upon seeing a cockroach crawling around inside my home, will make mental preparations to simply wall off the room and never speak of it again. I once slept on my couch because I couldn't bring myself to address the issue of the tiny spider crawling across my bedroom ceiling one night back in my 20s.
I'm not unsympathetic to insects, spiders, and all their many-legged, stinging, buzzing, biting, or crawling friends. I just want them to stay on the far side of my door — and just over the property line on my quarter-acre city lot would be even better still.
So it was into this mindset that, in the middle of the last decade, the news of a mysterious vanishing of honeybee colonies was absorbed. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) was decimating bee populations all across North America, and no one knew why. Drought? Pesticides? Cellphone towers? Parasites? GMO pollen? Urban sprawl?
I read voraciously about bees and CCD for several years. The alarm the media was sounding was accurate — many of the commercial migratory beekeeping operations that provide vital pollination services to crops all around America were suffering huge losses over the winter, with devastated beekeepers sometimes finding hives with just a few hundred dazed workers and the colony's queen wandering aimlessly about, too far gone to save.
Over a few years of reading, the picture of CCD began to look a little clearer to me. As I discovered urban beekeeping websites and read through the hobbyist sections on beekeeping forums, it seemed more and more like whatever factor or factors were causing CCD, bees in the city were largely isolated from it.
As the middle decade moved toward the end of the decade, this bugophobe began to understand that if she wanted to be part of the solution to the decline of honeybees, she needed to step beyond her comfort zone and welcome a bunch of stinging insects to her backyard. This was not the easiest decision the bugophobe had ever reached.
In early 2011, flush with a hefty tax return and the zeal of the newly converted, I ordered components for two hives, and two packages of bees from a major bee supplier in South Georgia. I spent the weekends in January, February, and March, nailing and gluing hive boxes and frames and clearing and leveling an out-of-the-way spot not too far from my vegetable garden to be the eventual home of the hives.
I was utterly confident as I went through these preparations. I rehearsed lighting my bee smoker, and wondered whether the "hive tool," a miniature pry bar, was completely necessary. I mean, how strong can bees actually be, right? I didn't invest in a protective bee suit or jacket, or even bee gloves. I figured a veil would keep my eyes safe and I didn't want thick gloves interfering with my nascent but — obviously — profound beekeeping abilities.
This bugophobe may sometimes overestimate herself.
I was at work when I got the call from the post office on a sunny day in May telling me that my bees had arrived. I raced out and rushed through my reverse commute to pick up the wooden-framed, mesh-sided boxes that held my buzzing charges. Just being near them flooded me with adrenaline. I stowed them in my cool basement for the day, sprayed them down with some sugar water like the websites suggested, and returned to a very distracted day at the office.
I'd watched many, many YouTube videos on installing bees, and the process is nothing short of insane if you've never done it — which, of course, I hadn't.
Basically, the "right" way is to pry the wooden lid off your large, brick-shaped package of bees and then lift out a metal can of sugary syrup that the bees have been eating during their journey. Then lift out the special cage that holds the queen. Then invert the open package over the hive the bees are destined to occupy, and knock it sharply against the hive to dump the bees out of it. Then knock it a few more times to shake loose any stragglers.
Right! Okay, so once I had the syrup out and the queen cage (which was covered in bees) set safely aside and a cloud of confused bees was buzzing around me, I realized there was simply no way on God's green Earth that I would be banging this container around and sending other bees skyward to hunt down the giant mammal who was inexplicably ruining their already bad day.
Welcome to the wild world of bugophobic beekeeping, where I've done nearly everything wrong, and somehow — so far — the bees have come through just fine. And I've gotten a lot better at being a beekeeper, and a lot less skittish around them. Before the end of my first beekeeping season, I had invested in "bee armor" — an inexpensive white bee jacket with mesh hood and a good pair of goat skin gloves to minimize the damage to my amateur hands.
Bees, I have learned, are extremely honest creatures. When you handle them well, everything's fine. When you make mistakes, they let you know. Sharply. Painfully. But at long last, I don't feel afraid of them. And I'm extremely proud that by keeping bees in my city yard, I'm helping to maintain a living and productive DNA bank for the honeybee in North America, even if the wild and rural populations end up entirely obliterated.
We still don't know what causes colony collapse disorder, though personally I'm persuaded that systemic pesticides used in commodity agriculture represent, at the very least, the last straw in the life of an affected hive. What continues to be true is that among the many, many challenges facing urban beekeepers and their winged charges, CCD doesn't seem to rank high on the list. So for a small monetary investment, and a handful of hours each month in the warm seasons, I get to be part of solving one of the major dilemmas we're facing today — the loss of pollinators in a world full of people who need to eat.
All I had to do was learn to live with my terror of bugs. But still — show me a cockroach in my living room and I'll show you a great excuse to move.
Stacie Boschma is a freelance writer living in Atlanta. Follow her on Twitter at @staciewrites.
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With one of President Barack Obama's key nominees on the verge of being confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appeared to edge away Wednesday from an idea that some Democrats are calling for: enacting a change in Senate rules to stop filibusters which delay votes on Obama appointees.
During a debate on the Senate floor with Republican Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Reid said, "I'm not saying we're going to change the rules" regarding the filibuster, but argued that the Senate must move faster to confirm Obama nominees.
He accused Republicans of "slow-walking" nominees and bogging them down by submitting hundreds and, in one case, a thousand written questions to the nominee before the confirmation vote could occur.
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Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid speaks after a weekly Senate Democratic caucus meeting May 21, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
McConnell accused Reid of using the threat of a unilateral change in in Senate rules – the so-called "nuclear option" – to create "the majority's own culture of intimidation right here in the Senate."
The roles were reversed back in 2005 when the Republican majority, including McConnell, threatened to use the "nuclear option" to stop Democratic filibusters, supported by Reid at the time, of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
McConnell noted Wednesday that Republicans had agreed to an up-or-down vote on Obama's nomination of Sri Srinivasan to serve on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, with that vote to occur the Tuesday after the Senate returns from its one-week Memorial Day recess.
"Instead the majority leader chose to jam the minority," McConnell complained, accusing the Democrats of "manufacturing a crisis to justify their heavy-handed behavior."
Reid moved on Tuesday to limit debate on Srinivasan and have his confirmation vote Thursday.
McConnell called Srinivasan "a nominee we all agree on.... we like him" and argued that speeding up his nearly certain confirmation was Reid gratuitously using his power.
Srinivasan is crucial because so far in the four and a half years of his presidency, Obama has gotten no one confirmed to that court, which handles most legal challenges to regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and other regulatory bodies and serves as a major stepping stone to the Supreme Court.
In March, Republicans blocked a confirmation vote on another Obama nominee to that court, Caitlin Halligan.
"You have a majority on that court that is wreaking havoc with the country," Reid said, adding that with further GOP delays perhaps the judges on that court will issue more opinions in the next couple of weeks favorable to the Republicans – as that court did in January when it ruled that Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional since he had made them when there was no Senate recess.
Reid also reminisced Wednesday about the agreement that he and other Democrats had struck with Republicans in 2005 on confirming Bush's judicial nominees, an agreement that was made under the threat of the Republicans using the nuclear option.
He said, "We agreed to put some people on the bench that we have regretted since then -- Janice Rogers Brown, Thomas Griffith, Brett Kavanaugh" – all of whom are judges now serving on the D.C. Circuit appeals court.
Awaiting Senate action after the Memorial Day recess are other nominees such as Thomas Perez to be labor secretary, Gina McCarthy to head the EPA, and five Obama nominees to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.
George Kohl, senior director for the Communications Workers of America, a labor union, said he didn't interpret Reid's comment Wednesday as him ruling out any future use of the nuclear option.
For the CWA, the NLRB nominees are crucial. "If they don't get that (floor) vote in July, the Labor Board will cease to function on Aug. 27 when the chairman's term expires. We think that's a crisis for America."
If McConnell doesn't allow a vote on the NLRB nominees, "we think the rules (on ending debate) need to be changed" so the NLRB can protect workers' right, Kohl said.
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Comedy legend Harold Ramis, best known for his role in the hit "Ghostbusters" films, has died. He was 69.
Ramis suffered from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a disease that causes swelling in the blood vessels, and died from complications of the illness surrounded by his family.
"His creativity, compassion, intelligence, humor and spirit will be missed by all who knew and loved him," his agent said in a written statement.
"Ghostbusters co-star Dan Aykroyd went on Facebook to give his condolences.
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Ramis' Hollywood breakthrough came in 1978 when he co-wrote the blockbuster comedy "National Lampoon's Animal House." He went on to co-write "Stripes" (1981), "Ghostbusters" (1984) and "Ghostbusters II" (1989), films in which he also co-starred.
Ramis co-wrote and made his directorial debut with "Caddyshack" (1980), followed by "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983).
He most recently directed episodes of "The Office."
Among his professional honors and awards, Ramis was the recipient of the American Comedy Award, the British Comedy Award, and the BAFTA (British Academy) award for screenwriting.
Ramis is survived by his wife, Erica Mann Ramis, and children Violet Stiel, Julian and Daniel Ramis. He also has two grandchildren.


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ZUG, SWITZERLAND-February 18, 2014-Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) today issued a monthly Fleet Update Summary which includes new contracts, significant changes to existing contracts, and changes in estimated planned out-of-service time of 15 or more days since January 16, 2014. The total value of new contracts since the January 16, 2014 Fleet Status Report is approximately $66 million.
Estimated 2014 out-of-service time increased by a net 150 days, including 91 days primarily associated with customer-requested and substantially reimbursed upgrades on the GSF Galaxy I; and 45 days on the M.G. Hulme, principally for preparation in advance of anticipated contracts.
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Discoverer Seven Seas - Inpex exercised a one-well option offshore Indonesia at a dayrate of $500,000. In addition, the rig was awarded a one-well contract by an undisclosed customer at a dayrate of $400,000.
The company sold the high-specification jackup, GSF Monitor, which was previously held for sale. The details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
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Would you home-school your children and why?
Charles Kaye: "I have two children, and my wife and I are going through this dilemma right now. There's a part of me that would like to home-school them because we can protect them from some of the dangers they would be exposed to and have a better chance to instill our Christian values. But sending them to public school helps prepare them for the real world."
David Kardos: "No. I'm seeing some fairly maladjusted home-schooled children. They are very frequently clinging to their mother's apron later in their lives than they should be."
Eboni Bugg: "If I could financially support it, I would definitely home-school my daughter because I'm more in tune to her learning style. There are lots of cool home- schooling networks for social interaction."


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This is The Virginia Fire and Police Museum, formally known as Steamer Company No. 5, the oldest standing firehouse in Virginia (built in 1849) and now the home of Gallery 5. The building was bought by Tom Robinson thirty years ago when he learned the city was going to tear down the firehouse his father and grandfather had served in; he turned it into the Fire and Police Museum and now daughter Amanda has given it new life as a gallery (the fire museum remains, that and the art gallery share the space). The opening was a lot of FUN, they sold beer all night and from 10:00pm or so had bands.
The art is all on the big second floor space, currently a big selection of art and artists. I'll list my five favorites -
Terry Wolfe - Terry is showing smallish steel and iron sculptures. They look like very old alien land mines, Starship Trooper weapons, that have been discovered and put on display. Very easy to imagine a "click" and a whiiirrr sound as they reactivate. Some of them could be alien idols. Very interesting and strange. Mr. Robinson said he thought that this is the first time Terry has ever shown, which would be surprising because these are the products of a very well-developed sensibility.
Oura Sananikone - Oura has two excellent exuberant paintings. Super busy and grafitti energetic but they don't feel too busy at all. One is a big yellow X on a black ground covered in an almost grid of silver ghosts, pac-man style. The other one features a central torpedo-shaped blue ghost/head on a red ground and exploding with white ghosts and robots from his eyes, nostrils and mouth. All around the whole thing are more black and silver cartoony robots radiating outwards - almost like one of those Indian or Japanese gods with lots of arms and hands holding lots of things. These two are both very good and look great together. Exciting! Oura also has some smaller paintings at Nonesuch he is selling for only $10.00.
Jonathan Lee - These paintings of stenciled female faces over speckled and paint spattered surfaces at first seem cheesy but they held my attention, there is something slightly disturbing about them - cosmic, eighties, and violent. I'm not sure how much I actually like them and why or why not.
Ella Watson - Ella has a bald androgynous empty-glass-eyed and slightly larger than life head in a case. It's red, not bright red but like old red lacquer red. It looks kind of sad or surprised to have it's head cut off and in a case.
Mike Taylor - He has four things in the cases, two scary and creepy masks in the middle with big homemade banjo-type instruments on either side. The masks are more full-on headgear than masks, kind of like African masks, but much darker and scarier. One is made of "dead inner-tubes and lost keys" - a black rubber fetish mask with a beard of keys, also including coat hooks and cowri shells. The other is "leather and found objects" - the whole top is little plastic fetus babies - and some dice. The instruments also have an African feel, like something made a hundred plus years ago, no idea how functional they might be.


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It's a week unlike any other... Oh, okay, with new episodes of most of our favorite shows, it's a week very like many others. But there's also the launch of the new Prisoner, making Sunday the night to tune in.
What better way to start off the week than with a Syfy marathon of Stargate SG-1 running right now, from 8am all the way through to 3pm? Sure, there's that whole "work" thing, but come on. It's Stargate!
Otherwise, your television thrills are limited to an 8pm conflict between new episodes of House on Fox (A teenage girl can't distinguish between fact and fiction "after a wild night out." Am I the only one who feels like this could be either awesome or hideously embarrassing for all involved?) and Heroes on NBC, where Sylar is still trying to take control of Matt's body and Claire has to face off with her father's Sorority Girl Army. And, yes, I did accidentally make that sound more interesting than the actual show. Sorry, everyone.
For those calling in sick, I'd recommend skipping Syfy's Tru Calling marathon (8am through 3pm for those whose love of Dushku overpowers their bad-show gag reflex) and tuning into AMC, which goes dragon crazy with a 12:45 airing of Dragonheart (Dennis Quaid and a dragon voiced by Sean Connery!) followed by a 3pm re-run of Reign of Fire (You could stay tuned for a 5pm Batman Begins and 8pm Terminator 2: Judgment Day as well, if you were feeling particularly lazy).
If you'd rather get a delayed British take on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, then James May On The Moon (BBC America at 8pm) takes Top Gear's Captain Slow and puts him in the driver's seat for an hour long look back at those heady days where men were men and the Moon seemed an obtainable destination.
Otherwise, click over to ABC for the second episode of V and see whether it still feels like FlashForward meets... Well, the old V, really (The official PR for the episode says "A seeker among the Visitors tracks Erica and Father Jack. Chad seeks redemption by investigating the aliens ahead of his next newscast while law enforcers press Erica for information concerning Dale M…").
Thank God for Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel at 9pm. Without their investigation into whether cars will automatically burst into flames after crashing (Surely we have empirical proof that the answer is no already?), I'd have to find some way to pretend that Glee (Fox at 9) was a scifi show just to have something to write about for today. I figured I could always claim that it was set in an alternate reality where people aren't creeped out by Will Schuester trying to rap.
If it's Thursday, then it's time for all the shows to run up against each other again. Sure, you could pretend that the networks aren't showing anything and watch a double bill of Demolition Man and End of Days on AMC (Sly and Arnold! In two of their most underrated - for a reason - movies! It starts at 8pm, if you're tempted), after spending the day watching Syfy's Star Trek: Enterprise marathon (8am through 3pm, as ever), but come on. I know that you can't resist the big shows people are talking about.
On FlashForward (ABC, 8pm), Aaron discovers the truth about his daughter's death, Janis returns to work and Mark and Olivia's martial troubles bring everyone down yet again, man. Things are much more fun over in Mystic Falls where Vampire Diaries (the CW at 8pm) brings a mysterious new teacher, arguments over medallions and, according to the CW, "Damon finally reveals to Stefan the stunning reason he has returned to Mystic Falls." If I watched the show and/or cared, I couldn't wait!
9pm brings the real reason to wrestle over the remote; Fringe on Fox gives Olivia, Broyles and Peter a new reason to be suspicious of Massive Dynamic when the impossibly shady corporation turn out to be involved in a kidnapping case, but Supernatural (The CW) looks much more fun than even Walter Bishop could provide:
Super fan Becky uses Chuck's phone to trick Sam and Dean into attending a Supernatural fan convention, complete with fans dressed up as Sam and Dean. One of the activities is a live action role-playing game, but things quickly turn sour after a real ghost appears on the scene.
Seriously. How could anyone resist that?
Jericho fans! You have the Syfy marathon of the day (8am through 3pm, which I'm sure you already know by now) to keep you happy during the daylight hours; the rest of us will be watching the original The War Of The Worlds movie on AMC at 10:15am (And avoiding the following Star Trek: Nemesis at 12:15pm, a movie which can best be described by blogger Kevin Church here), instead.
Still, Friday evening starts the weekend off right with the double bill of Batman: The Brave and The Bold ("The Fate of Equinox!" Yes, the exclamation point is part of the title) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (following last week's surprisingly brutal, "Are Jedi really advocating using flame throwers against living beings what the hell?" episode) on Cartoon Network, starting at 7:30pm (Clone Wars is at 8pm, if you have an aversion of Batman. And if you do, then I'm very, very sorry.)
If you're in the mood for MOR dramas teasing the supernatural, then CBS is the place to be tonight, with new episodes of both Ghost Whisperer (8pm, with Jennifer Love Hewitt "pulled into a murder mystery by a real estate power couple" - Yes, this is what people want to watch, apparently) and Medium (9pm, which at least includes a potentially amusing-for-the-wrong-reasons subplot about posting videos of someone on the internet and "getting into trouble") on offer.
The rest of us, we'll be considering Smallville on the CW at 8pm (It features the Wonder Twins! You know you want to), Stargate Universe on Syfy at 9pm (The crew of the Destiny get a message from their future selves from the past. Or something) and Sanctuary on the same channel at 10pm.
If you're not looking forward to Syfy's Ice Twisters at 9pm ("A sci-fi novelist is summoned to help scientists after an experiment in weather manipulation goes awry and produces deadly tornadoes made of ice," apparently), then we'd suggest that AMC's double bill of trilogies is the best way to spend your day. Start with the Mad Max trilogy (Movies starting 1:30, 3:30 and 5:30pm) before a night of The Matrix trilogy (The three movies begin at 8pm, 11pm and 1am on Sunday, respectively). Otherwise, the only thing left is Discovery's Surviving 2012... which is about all the prophecies, and not, sadly, advice on making it through Roland Emmerich's latest.
It's the best night of television this week! Who knew, right? Start things off right with Syfy's latest screening of Serenity at 6:30 before switching over midway through - Hopefully missing Alan Tudyk's least favorite scene ever in the process - to catch the premiere of AMC's brand new take on The Prisoner at 8pm. If Ian McKellan and Jim Caviezel can't bring Patrick McGoohan's classic paranoiafest back to life, I'm going to be very depressed.
Of course, the best way to finish the evening off is coming at midnight, with the latest episode of The Venture Bros on Cartoon Network. Can we all just admit that it's the smartest and funniest show on television already?


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While there may be a lot to like about being a Verizon customer - like coast to coast LTE coverage, for example - there's also a laundry list of things to dislike, too. Close to the top of that list is Verizon's bootloader policy: lock it down tight, to prevent modifications. But, you know just as much as I do, the Android modding community just won't settle for "no, you can't have ROM X on your device."
As such, Verizon's Note II is the newest victim to XDA's freedom fight, with famed hacker Adam Outler ringleading the whole shebang.Read More


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Finally being allowed to take the bus by yourself is great. Suddenly, your range of freedom widens, and downtown and beyond are within your grasp.
The novelty wears off. In adulthood, taking the bus is loathsome. Relying on public transit is the ultimate time-waster, as you stand at the bus stop waiting for it to arrive and, once it does, you sit as it lurches along its route, again waiting for it to arrive.
Wait, wait, wait. Who's got the time for it? Not many. As soon as most people can afford a car, they get one, and say good riddance to the bus.
It isn't at all surprising that MQO Research's MetroView survey, conducted for The Telegram, found a mere four per cent of St. John's area residents take a bus daily, and 90 per cent of residents either never take a bus or take one less than once a month.
Nevertheless, a fast and efficient public transit system is essential, because thousands of people need it to get to work, school or the mall, and once they stop needing it because they managed to scrape together enough money for a used car, someone else will take their place at the bus stop.
But in this era of global warming and heightened awareness of the dangers and destruction wrought by pollution, truly outlandish claims are being made about public transit. According to some adherents, public transit will be urban humanity's salvation, the solution that will kill the selfish and greenhouse gas-spewing car culture that thrives in every metropolis on the planet.
Their goal is laudable. But their expectations for public transit are delusional. It is wishful thinking in the extreme to argue that people will leave their cars at home if only public transit is bigger, faster, more affordable and decorated with pretty poetry.
The evidence to the contrary is massive and irrefutable. Even in cities that have the best public transit systems in the world, millions of people still insist on getting into their cars and driving to work. Why? Because even the best public transit system entails waiting — and waiting for a bus or train is a small portion of your life wasted and stolen.
Experts have studied this, naturally. If only they could convince people to take public transit, a lot of problems — financial as well as environmental — could be solved.
This approach meets with an insurmountable dilemma — you can't convince millions of people to act against their own best interests.
Commuting is a fact of city life. Even little old St. John's has thousands of commuters — "brown-baggers," as some now-forgotten former mayor derisively referred to them.
Telling commuters to park their cars and take the bus or train is essentially telling them, "Waste some of your time."
It doesn't matter if a person's drive to work takes 30 minutes, an hour or two hours — taking public transit instead will inevitably add to that commuting time.
People might have opted for that in the olden days, when time was money. But in our rush, rush, rush, hurry, hurry, hurry culture, time has become even more valuable than money. Thus, in world-class cities — and possibly even in Toronto — where downtown parking is outrageously expensive, people still drive and park, and pay the price to save time.
An upgrade in public transit won't counteract this. London, England, has one of the best subway systems in the world, but millions of people still drive to work. London and some other European cities have become so desperate to combat people wanting to save time that they resorted to banning cars from the city centre.
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The controversial Quarry Creek housing project in Carlsbad, which has been on the drawing board for the better part of a decade, is still not a done deal.
Carlsbad's City Council was supposed to decide the project's fate last week, but voted to continue the discussion tonight.
Regardless of how the council ultimately votes – and we hope a decision will be reached tonight – there are bound to be some unhappy people. The developer, the McMillin Companies, wants nothing less than 656 housing units, spread out across 156 acres, about two-thirds of which was once occupied by a gravel quarry. McMillan insists that even a small reduction in the number of homes would render the project financially infeasible.
Environmentalists prefer no housing at all, but appear willing to accept a limited plan that keeps homes off the undeveloped 56-acre "panhandle." That would leave the builder with 506 homes.
Oceanside city officials, whose roads will bear the brunt of the traffic burden, want the project cut in half, sources tell us.
We urge the council to accept an earlier Planning Commission recommendation to preserve half the panhandle as open space and cut down the total number of homes to 600 – but at the same time strip out some of the design restrictions the commission imposed. McMillan will make money on the project, even with a reduced unit count – home prices are rising again all over San Diego County. But requiring everything to have an Early California look instead of five different architectural styles, as initially proposed, imposes unnecessary restrictions on the builder – and a potential aesthetic blight on the community.
In a perfect world, the entire panhandle would be reserved for open space. But it happens to be private property, and McMillan won't be able to build unless it agrees to maintain any portions that remain undeveloped. That prevents us from having another fiasco like the state-owned Buena Vista Creek Ecological Preserve just west of the panhandle, which has become a dumping ground and homeless camp – and where rusty signs still promise hiking trails in "2009 or 2010."
Oceanside's traffic concerns are certainly a factor, but the proximity of the proposed residential development to Walmart, Albertson's and other stores will undoubtedly cut down on the number of in-and-out trips.
We agree with project proponents who maintain that Quarry Creek, with its clusters of apartments and condos, is a model of smart growth. It provides badly needed, and legally required, affordable housing that otherwise would have to go somewhere else in the city. And it's near virtually every vital service imaginable, from shopping and medical care to freeways and public transportation.
Not everyone's going to be pleased with the outcome, regardless of how the Carlsbad council votes. But we believe the Planning Commission has come up with a fair and just compromise that just needs a few little tweaks.


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Because of course Clarke's played so wonderfully so far, hasn't he?...
Because of course Clarke's played so wonderfully so far, hasn't he?...
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When Clarke will play well you will say its a wrong selection.Originally Posted by Richard
When Clarke will not play well you will say its a wrong selection.
So again I reiterate, your perception can never be wrong, whatever is the scenario.
Spot on there.Originally Posted by marc71178
well he has done ok actually..his innings the other day (despite being dropped on 21) was a real gem, that enabled Australia to really get into a winning position from a position of uncertainty...you could see he was ****ed off to have given a chance and after that he really buckled down and produced the goods..a great knockOriginally Posted by Richard
In India in his first test, under a lot of pressure , he came in with Australia not in the best position and proceeded to win the man of the match award..two matches later, he scored 90 odd and 70 odd
Vs NZ, he came in with Australia 120-4 and scored a quick fire 140..
ok after that he had a bit of a rough trot, but if he continues to play for the next 10 years (which i am sure he will), those 6 or 7 tests will be seen as a mere blip.
he is obviously a very talented player..the selectors saw that in him,and decided to put him in the team..whats the problem
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well then ur in big troubleOriginally Posted by FaaipDeOiad
i was referring to their test side which without mcgrath and warne brings them down from great to decent.Originally Posted by Pratyush
Tendulkar = the most overated player EVER!!
Beckham = the most overated footballer EVER!!
Vassell = the biggest disgrace since rikki clarke!!
this from the guy who thinks Afridi is superman!!!!!Originally Posted by deeps
So the selectors are crap while selecting the test squad because of that reason but they arent that crap while selecting the one day squad!?Originally Posted by tooextracool
nope they are crap in both cases, just that their test side rely a lot more on mcgrath and warne than their ODI side.Originally Posted by Pratyush
The logic you gave for the selectors being crap was no matter what they do, McGrath and Warne will see Australia through.Originally Posted by tooextracool
That explanation does not hold good in one dayers. So I would like to know how the side performs in one dayers apparently despite shocking selectors.
because ODI cricket is more about scoring runs than taking wickets.Originally Posted by Pratyush
and in ponting, martyn, gilchrist, bevan(till he was dropped),symonds, clarke, hussey they have a very formidable lineup.
One thing this rings of is 'selection is a thankless job.' If players perform well, its the talent of the players and not anyc redit of the selectors.Originally Posted by tooextracool
On the other hand if a player performs poorly, the blame is put on selectors immediately.
how are the selectors doing such a brilliant job, when out of all the talent in australia they somehow manage to pick out bracken, williams, watson, hauritz and symonds?Originally Posted by Pratyush
how can a bunch of selectors who drop michael bevan from the ODI side be considered anything other than a bunch of idiots?
what would you say about the indian selectors if they decided to drop tendulkar from the ODI side after 2 bad series?
Just a few examples.Originally Posted by Richard
Accurate bowling combined with good field placing resulting in a restriction of runs and pressure building on the batsman, resulting in the batsman trying to score and getting out.
Short-pitched bowling forcing the batsman to play, eventually resulting in a ball being gloved in the air, or hooked to a fieldsman in the deep.
A ball which goes straight on when it may well be expected to move. McGrath regularly gets wickets in this way.
Obviously, a yorker can quite certainly get wickets without moving off its trajectory if it beats the batsman.
Beating a batsman for pace. Either more pace than could be comfortably played, or less.
There are countless others, but all of those can involve no lateral movement or uneven bounce and also do not rely on poor shots.
It's cold on the outside they say
But the cold leaves you clear while the heat leaves a haze
Well I wouldn't think what I think if I thought it was wrong, now, would I? Duur.Originally Posted by Pratyush
As far as I'm concerned selecting Clarke was wrong and I'm not changing my mind just because he happened to start well.
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Morgan edges Howard in MEAC battle
Bears even record to 5-5 in conference play
Ian Chiles scored 16 points and Morgan State dominated down low in a 53-51 victory over Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference-foe Howard Monday night.
The Bears (8-12, 4-5) won the rebound battle 37-25 and outscored the Bison 30-10 in the paint.
Chiles added seven rebounds and three blocks while Justin Black grabbed eight boards to go with 13 points.
Howard (6-18, 3-7) trailed 26-25 early in the second half, but took a 39-32 lead with 13:14 left on Anton Dickerson's 3-pointer.
Chiles responded with a layup seconds later, and Morgan State ran off 11 consecutive points, including Black's go-ahead tip-in with 6:54 remaining.
Mike Phillips led Howard with 19 points, and Dickerson had 17.
The victory was Morgan State coach Todd Bozeman's 100th in the MEAC, the most by any Bears' coach.
The meeting was the 100th all-time between the schools, with Morgan State holding a 59-41 advantage.


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NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Two dramatic homers by Raul Ibanez, the second coming in the 12th inning Wednesday, gave the New York Yankees a 3-2 division series win over Baltimore.
New York took a 2-1 advantage in the best-of-five AL Division Series and can eliminate the Orioles in Game 4 on Thursday.
The left-handed hitting Ibanez came on as a pinch-hitter for Alex Rodriguez with one out in the bottom of the ninth and the Yankees trailing 2-1.
He launched a 1-0 pitch from Jim Johnson 10 rows deep into the right field seats to tie the game and give Johnson his second blown save of the series. Johnson led the majors in saves this season, but has given up six runs in his three appearances against the Yankees this week.
Ibanez came up again to lead off the 12th against Brian Matusz and hit the first pitch he saw into the second deck in right. Ibanez hit 19 home runs during the regular season, only the second time in the last eight years he had failed to reach 20.
His heroics spoiled a tremendous start for Baltimore's Miguel Gonzalez, who allowed a lone run through seven innings on five hits without a walk and with eight strikeouts.
Two of the hits off Gonzalez came in the third inning when Russell Martin reached on a one-out double and scored on a triple to center by Derek Jeter.
Darren O'Day worked a perfect eighth for the Orioles, but Johnson let it get away in the ninth.
Baltimore's runs came on homers by Ryan Flaherty in the third inning and Manny Machado in the fifth. Both those shots were hit off starter Hiroki Kuroda.
Kuroda worked into the ninth inning and gave up only five hits. He received a standing ovation when he left the mound with one away in the ninth.
Jeter found a ball off his left foot early in the contest and limped throughout the contest before being replaced in the late innings.
The victory went to David Robertson, who did not give up a hit while working both the 11th and 12th innings.
Chris Tillman will start in a must-win situation on Thursday for Baltimore. The Yankees will go with Phil Hughes.