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Legal experts weigh in on latest motion filed for Zachary Holly
Court documents filed on Jan. 17 showed attorneys asked for a mental evaluation because prosecutors want the death penalty.
"In a case where they're asking for the death penalty you would like to think everyone is doing the best job they can to get it right," said Michael Dodson, a lawyer with Nolan, Caddell, & Reynolds.
"You don't want to be in a situation where you left something on the table and your client could be executed,"said Dodson.
Dodson is not associated with this case, but has defended men in capital murder trials before.
"As far as mental evaluations go, you want to file this because you want to make sure you protected your client's rights, you've done everything you can for them," said Dodson.
Dodson said the mental evaluation aims to find out two things: whether Holly understands what he's been accused of and if he's able to help with his own defense.
"If the defendant can't do either one of those then they're not competent to stand trial. If you don't understand what you've done, you're not competent to stand trial. If you do theoretically understand what you've done, but you can't assist in your own defense, well you're not competent to stand trial,"said Dodson.
According to court documents, if the motion is granted, Holly will go to the state hospital for 30 days.
"They check for to see if there's different things wrong. They check to see if someone's trying to be deceptive. You can't just go to the state hospital and act like there's something wrong with you, they have ways, the test is designed to find that," said Dodson.
The judge in this case has not heard this motion yet.

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Patent Troll Says Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'
from the a-well-thought-out-shakedown deptJust as some in the copyright trolling business are lowering their settlement fees, but making it up in volume, it appears there's a similar effort under way on the patent trolling side of the world. The Patent Examiner blog has the incredible story of Innovatio IP, a patent troll that recently acquired a portfolio of patents that its lawyers (what, you think there are any employees?) appear to believe cover pretty much any WiFi implementation. They've been suing coffee shops, grocery stores, restaurants and hotels first -- including Caribou Coffee, Cosi, Panera Bread Co, certain Marriotts, Best Westerns, Comfort Inns and more.
There are various interesting things in the article worth commenting on. First is the smaller settlements/making it up in volume technique. While its initial lawsuits against coffee shops and restaurants did focus on the central corporations, with the hotels, Innovatio appears to be focusing on individual franchisees. Yes, the small businesses who own individual hotels and probably have no idea how to deal with a patent infringement lawsuit -- all because they dared to offer WiFi somewhere in their hotels. To make it "easy" of course, Innovatio's lawyers will let them settle for between $2,300 and $5,000. In almost every case, that's going to be cheaper than hiring a lawyer to just get started dealing with this -- which I'm sure is exactly what Innovatio intends.
The company is represented by the infamous law firm of Niro, Haller & Niro, which is the firm that originally inspired the term "patent troll." The lawyer representing the company, Matthew McAndrews, seems to imply that the company believes the patents cover everyone who has a home WiFi setup, but they don't plan to go after such folks right now, for "strategic" reasons:
"Innovatio has made a strategic and business judgment at this stage that it doesn't intend to pursue [lawsuits on the basis of] residential use of WiFi," McAndrews said during a phone conversation last week.And while that certainly could change, you may be relieved (or probably not) to learn that McAndrews does not "perceive" such a "strategic" decision will change. However, later in the article, he seems to indicate otherwise:
Ultimately, he said, Innovatio's "plan is to license this portfolio to the fullest extent possible. That would include anyone who's wireless networking."And then there's this:
"We want you to continue to use this technology, we just want our client to get his due share," McAndrews said. "This is not a seat-of-the-pants, fly-by-night shakedown."I guess he means this is a well-planned, well-financed shakedown that's going to stick around for a while. Lovely.
At least there is some firepower arguing against Innovatio. After its first round of lawsuits, Motorola and Cisco went to court, asking for a declaratory judgment that its WiFi products do not infringe... and that Innovatio's patents are invalid. Hopefully that comes to pass or WiFi may get a hell of a lot more expensive.


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Volume 78 / Number 6 – July 9 – 15, 2008
West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since 1933
Artists aren't sold on new vendors bill, residents, too
By Albert Amateau
Swarms of street vendors, legal and illegal, have been an issue for years in Downtown Manhattan neighborhoods, particularly in Soho and along Canal St. Vendors have also been the subject of criticism in Battery Park and, after 9/11, near the World Trade Center site.
In a renewed response to the problem, City Councilmember Alan Gerson, whose district includes Soho and part of Chinatown, has proposed legislation that he hopes will straighten out the tangle of existing vendor regulations.
"We need to make our laws clearer so that vendors can earn an honest living while co-existing with the pedestrians with whom they share our streets," Gerson said. "Our sidewalks cannot be an obstacle course that daunts pedestrian movement and creates hazardous conditions.
"This is a reasonable effort to keep our sidewalks safe and livable and at the same time allow vendors to make a living."
Gerson expects the City Council to hold hearings in the fall on the package of legislation by various councilmembers that would implement the proposed changes. The proposal would modify existing rules but not replace them. The measure would cover food and produce vendors, general-merchandise vendors, special preferences that exist for disabled veterans and the category of artists and vendors of material covered under the First Amendment — who zealously guard their right under the law to operate without any permits or licenses.
The proposal would establish rules for sharing vending space, the placement of vending stands and marking curbside vending space with paint or signs, in some cases authorizing a lottery wherever the Department Consumer Affairs or the police deem it necessary — with preference for First Amendment material and veterans. The proposal would also clearly spell out the art and First Amendment material that can be sold by vendors without a license.
But advocates for artist and First Amendment vendors are strongly against the proposals. Their response: "Enforce the existing law instead of imposing new laws."
"Ludicrous," was the word Robert Lederman used. Lederman is president of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Resistance To Illegal State Tactics), an organization of artist street vendors, and the plaintiff in several lawsuits that resulted in the doctrine that First Amendment vendors do not have to be licensed — and that visual art is also protected free speech under the First Amendment as far as vending rules are concerned.
"A huge negative," said Lawrence White, who sold his dance photos on the streets of Soho for 10 years. "The positive parts do not outweigh the bad — the proposed lottery, the displacement of legal vendors, the reclassification of artwork and space restrictions would cause serious harm to vendors," he said.
White contends that the main problem is that the police and other agencies are unwilling or unable to enforce rules against the illegal vendors — unlicensed merchandise vendors and vendors who falsely claim to sell First Amendment-privileged items but who sell "bootleg" items that infringe copyrights.
Meanwhile, White said, police — with the help of private agents for trademark luxury manufacturers — make periodic sweeps of merchants who sell counterfeit pricey brands of watches and handbags. But "artists are totally left out of the protection of the law," White said.
Lederman said his group does not believe artists should have no restrictions at all on where to display and sell their work.
"There are 60 pages of existing rules about where no one can sell anything," he said. "No vending within 20 feet of a doorway, for example. You can go out and see any number of illegal vendors within 10 feet of a doorway," he noted.
"Preposterous," said Sean Sweeney, president of the Soho Alliance and a longtime critic of street vending, who nonetheless dismissed Gerson's initiative.
"There are laws on the books that are enforceable, but police don't enforce them," Sweeney said. The alliance back in 1999 was able to get Prince and Spring Sts. between Broadway and West Broadway declared a no-vendor zone on Saturdays and Sundays, Sweeney said.
"Legal, illegal — you're not supposed to sell anything there during that time," Sweeney said. "They kept it clear for a while, but after 2001 the peddlers came back and they're still there. What good are new laws when you don't enforce the ones that exist? Enforcement first before new legislation," he said.
Sweeney recalled he was at a recent meeting where Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly were the featured speakers and he asked them when the city would get rid of the peddlers in Soho.
"Bloomberg got involved in another conversation and Kelly said, 'Wouldn't you rather get rid of the murderers?' I told him there were no murderers in Soho," Sweeney recalled.
"I don't think it will ever get passed," Sweeney predicted of the Gerson proposal.
However, the councilmember insists his proposal goes a long way to improving enforcement. One section calls for the Police Department to increase the size of its vendor task force and create distinct units for denser vending areas, including Community Boards 1, 2 and 3, which together cover the area between the Battery and 14th St. The expanded task force would target efforts to end vending of stolen and counterfeit merchandise. The proposal also calls for training the appropriate city agency and the expanded vendor task force to identify counterfeit artwork or artwork sold in violation of copyright law, "the eradication of which shall be an integral mission of the vendor task force."
Gerson's proposal for a periodic lottery to assign vendor spaces was a special target of criticism by Lederman, who said it was enforceable only by licensing artist vendors or First Amendment vendors.
The proposal's definition of First Amendment item includes religious material; written, audio or visual material, whether original or not; and artwork, whether original or not, including painting, photography, sculpture, calligraphy, collages or other depictions, representations or designs.
Nevertheless, the proposal says that no item would qualify for First Amendment protection if the medium used for transmittal or depiction of the message serves a "non-incidental functional purpose unrelated to the content of the message."
Lederman said the functional purpose exclusion would be very troublesome.
"The line between function and content is very thin and great museum curators can't separate them," he said. "What if you're making reproductions of ancient Greek vases? What if you are a potter?"
The Gerson initiative also lays out penalties for violation of rules on placement of vending stands or vending practices. For a third violation, any vendor license would be suspended for six months; in cases of First Amendment vendors, their right to vend could be suspended for six months for a second violation, and suspended for an additional six months for subsequent repeated offenses.
"I've never heard of losing the right of free expression for an offense," Lederman said, "It's ludicrous."
The proposal also would expand vendor opportunities and empower the Department of Small Business Services to work with community boards to develop self-sustaining vendor markets, specifically within Council District 1 — Gerson's district, which covers Lower Manhattan, the Lower East Side, Soho, Chinatown, Little Italy and the South Village. Those potential vendor markets would include one or more of the glass-enclosed pavilions planned for the East River esplanade, the New York City Transit site at Houston and Lafayette Sts., the open areas near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, unused parts of Sara Roosevelt Park, a site at Lispenard St. near Canal St. and other locations.
"It's not a perfect plan," Gerson said. "There's still room for improvement and change. That is what City Council hearings are for."


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Don't Do It!
Why Speculation Hurts
A couple of things from the last few days created a convergence that I felt I couldn't ignore. I'd recently discovered one of those fabulous internet time-wasters, a place called The Drawing Board.
I've been enjoying the artwork and comments posted there, but was shocked (in a bad way) to discover in their classified section, this ad.
That same day, while flipping through my new collection of 1952/53 AD&SN magazines, I came across the article at left. Whattaya know, even half a century ago, when illustration was a much more respected profession than it is today, there were "clients" of the sort who had so little regard for artists, they expected us to work for free.
I was going to go on a tirade about this, but I found this fantastic article on the subject by a writer I greatly respect, Mark Evanier, thanks to one of the posters at The Drawing Board - thanks Cedric.
Everyone who makes their living with their creativity, whether illustrator, designer, art director, -whatever - whether new to the field or seasoned vet, should read this well-written article and take it to heart.
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I'd definetly remember Sergio Aragones' words on that bastard, i mean c'mon its original art dumdum!!ReplyDelete
This is a challenging and vexing topic, Leif. My favorite essay on the subject is a tough minded but funny essay by Dan Pelavin, who writes that only the people who truly love and need to create should ever get involved with this crazy field:ReplyDelete
Illustration as a career is most successfully pursued by those to whom no other option is acceptable. It takes that kind of motivation to overcome the inevitable and constant stream of obstacles. Some frankness about the nature of the illustration market and the people an illustrator will have to work for would go a long way in discouraging all but the most foolhardy and desperate from pursuing this glamorous and enviable career. Every illustration student should know that even the most brilliant art director, say one who can dial an entire phone number including area code without having to look it up again, actually believes he could do your job if he wasn't so busy.
For the full essay, check out www.pelavin.com/edill.html
Thanks for that link, David... I seem to remember reading it some time ago, but it deserves rereading ... and rereading and rereading until we have all memorized it.ReplyDelete
As for the topic of doing spec work, I don't find it challenging or vexing. I find it quite straightforward if one considers it in terms of an analogy like this:
Go to the supermarket. Load up about a hundred dollars worth of groceries. At the checkout, tell them you'd like to take all this food home for free and eat it, and if you enjoy it, you might come back and pay for the next batch. See how far you get.
See? Neither challenging nor vexing!
Bingo, my friend. Thanks for this post! You got me all riled up and I posted on it too!ReplyDelete
ps: that's PRECISELY the analogy I always use!ReplyDelete
What I find amazing, is that some illustrators would rather spend their "valuable" time spent on some person's free job instead of using that "creative time" spent on their own personal projects, which at the end will pay longer in fringe benefits! Let's face it: in 28 years of illustrations, I have never heard of a "client's job" being more interesting than anything, any of us can come up with given a choice!ReplyDelete
Leif, I agree there is nothing challenging or vexing about diagnosing the problem. The challenging and vexing part is coming up with the right prescription to cure it! I sincerely hope every illustrator out there takes you at your word.ReplyDelete
In addition, illustrators can join and support the Illustrators Partnership of America-- a lot of good people doing good work in this area.
I did not have to face this problem as an illustrator, but as a lawyer I spent many years on the board of an organization that provided free legal services to artists struggling with this quandary, and my law firm also donated its time to help start the IPA, so I have looked this problem in the teeth. Illustrators have to position themselves so they are not arguing against human nature and technology-- two formidable and heartless opponents.
Ah, I see what you mean, David. Yes indeed, that is a problem we have all wrestled with. Its not exclusively the domain of the young, inexperienced illustrator either, no doubt we all have war-stories of closing our eyes and stepping off that particular cliff.ReplyDelete
But at least if we talk about it, share our experiences, we might move a few artists to at least consider the pitfalls of doing spec.
As always, I appreciate your knowledgable input! :-)
i love this blog!ReplyDelete
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Let's discuss the modern way to write an essay https://essaydragon.com/blog/essay-about-yourself. What do you think?ReplyDelete


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Concluding with Joyce Rupp
A quick thanks to all the women who contributed guest blog post on our prompt: "How do you keep the faith as a woman in the church?"
The response was tremendous, and we look forward to continuing to hear from you in our comments and in future guest blog post opportunities. We had women from their 20s to their 80s contributing—some of them cradle Catholics and others who joined the church later in life. Everyone from people without parish homes to nuns—mothers, ministers, theologians, writers, readers—shared their perspectives.
And yet, common themes could be read in the posts: Community support and parish life, concern for the poor, prayer and spirituality, hope for the future, the example of those who have gone before us—especially Mary and other saints—and mostly significantly God's grace keeps women in the church.
Thank you all for sharing your hopeful perspectives and we hope that the conversation continues beyond January. You can continue to see all 20-plus posts at http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/categories/faithful-women.
With serendipitous timing, we recently stumbled upon Joyce Rupp's acceptance speech upon receiving the 2004 U.S. Catholic Award. I've taken out the acceptance speech parts (thanking various people), and essentially what is left is Rupp's answer to the question of how she keeps the faith. To conclude this project, read her speech: "Pregnant with possibility."


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"What can we do, what do we need to do, to improve our differentiation?"And add this. (via Neil Perkin)
"Everyone sat inside... organisations has the leverage to transform the model of the business they are in. When they try, the temptation is for the business to wrap such ideas in short-term ROI, judge it by existing rules, implement it through an existing structure, make it fit an existing process. You don't manage innovation. You need to get the organisation, with all that process, all that hierarchy, all those assumptions, out of the waySprinkle in some of this. (Via Chris Carfi)
"There is a transformational thought, a "transforming idea," and a point at which the group "gets it" and starts to gel in the new world."And... do not relax.


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Just days before Apple was set to release the highly anticipated iPhone 5, security researchers demonstrated a hack they said allowed them to pilfer the address book, photos, videos, and browsing history from the iPhone 4S.
The exploit—disclosed at a hacker contest that also successfully hijacked a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone running Google's Android operating system—works on a developer version of iOS 6, according to ZDNet. That means it likely works against the iPhone 5 that was scheduled for release on Friday. It also works against current versions of Apple's iPad and iPod Touch devices.
"We specifically chose this one because it was present in iOS 6 which means the new iPhone coming out will be vulnerable to this attack," Joost Pol, CEO of Certified Secure and one of the contest winners, told ZDNet's Ryan Naraine. The winner of a $30,000 prize at the mobile Pwn2Own contest, being held at the EUSecWest security conference in Amsterdam, went on to say that while he believes iPhones are the most secure smartphone on the market, "no one should be doing anything of value on their mobile phone."
It took about three weeks for Pol and colleague Daan Keuper to identify the vulnerability and write a reliable exploit.
The iPhone hack was accompanied by an Android exploit that successfully penetrated the Galaxy S3 running Android 4.0.4. According to a blog post published by MWR Labs (the company that spawned the winning attack), it used a new feature known as Near Field Communication to upload a malicious file to the device. The file was then able to bypass security mitigations including address space layout randomization, data execution prevention, and application sandboxing so it could eventually execute. The same attack could be executed through other vectors, such as malicious websites or e-mail attachments.
Now in its sixth year, Pwn2Own is a vivid reminder that virtually any device can be commandeered by a skilled hacker with enough determination. More coverage of the contest from IDG is here and here.


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|1958 Explorer bass at We Buy Guitars
Roger "Jellyroll" Troy ordered a brand new Gibson Explorer Bass through Dodds Jewerly and Music. But Jellyroll never came back to pick up his bass.
1958 was the year that Gibson introduced the Explorer and the Flying Vee. Both instruments bodies were made of korina wood.
The prototypes were made of mahogany and it was just too heavy, so Gibson opted for the much lighter korina wood. The necks were also made of mahogany.
The Explorer bass came with a humbucking pickup that came to be known as a "Mudbucker". It also had a baritone switch similar to the one found on a Gibson EB-2. This switch activated a large capacitor.
Two of the original Explorers were produced with a natural finish, while the third was sunburst.
|Wayne Bullock with '58 Explorer Bass and Lonnie Mack with '58 Flying Vee
It was Cincinnati musician Wayne Bullock that finally purchased the bass from Dodds Music and in 1962 he was playing it in the same group in which Lonnie Mack was the guitarist. It is rumored that Jellyroll Troy eventually purchased a 1958 sunburst Explorer bass.
|Author Robb Lawrence
When Robb Lawrence bought it, the Explorer logo was missing and the scars on the headstock were filled in with putty and painted black. It was worse for wear since it was an actual gigging instrument that had made its rounds to all the greater Cincinnati nightspots.
|Randy Jo Hobbs
We Buy Guitars, which was run by Friedman's brother Richard. The bass spent a few years there.
|Tom Wittrock
In late 1984 the bass was purchased by a Texas guitar collector named Tony Dukes. He used it in some "fancy" shows with his band "The International Aces." He also took it to guitar shows.
He nick-named the bass, "Hoss."
Al Helm, the former manager of Sound Vibrations in Corpus Christi Texas has some knowledge about the bass.
He says, a replica of the bass was featured in a guitar calendar put together by Tony Duke around 1983. Mr. Helms goes on to say that a Cadillac dealer named Byron Goad loved the looks of the bass, but thought the sound was too muddy.
Explorer bass similar to it from the Gibson custom shop. Goad wanted a korina neck on this bass instead of the usual mahogany. He also wanted the 'lady slipper' headstock, but Gibson had lost the template. His request was that the tuners be in a row instead of the way they were on the original. Goad finally received it a year after his request. It set him back around $2,000.
Mr. Goad ran into financial difficulty and sold his custom shop Explorer bass. Tony Dukes passed away in 2013. Roger Jellyroll Troy no longer has his Explorer bass. He passed away in 1991.
Guitar Afficienado Magazine featured a column in which Rick Neilsen talks about the 1958 Gibson Explorer guitar that he purchased from George Gruhn. He brought the guitar to a Texas Guitar Show and was offered $75,000 cash on the spot.
|Auctioned at Skinners $611K
He goes on to say that another 1963 Explorer guitar sold for $611,000.
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That guitar sold for $134,500.
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Since only three Explorer bass guitars were built in 1958, can you imagine what price they would command?
Unfortunately there are no videos with the 1958 Gibson Explorer Bass. Even more unfortunate is the fact no one knows what happened to the Explorer bass known as "Hoss".
So here a few videos that go along with the article.
The first is Dan Schear (who provided all the information about the 1958 Explorer Bass) sitting in with the Gradual Taylor Band in 1999.
This next one is the original Lonnie Mack recording of Wham with Wayne Bullock on bass.
Get your guitars out and wail along with Lonnie!


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Pornchai Mittongtare
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- Makes 6 servings
- Celery Root Puree
- 2 pounds celery root (celeriac), peeled, cut into 2-inch cubes
- 5 cups whole milk
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- Ground white pepper
- Lentils
- 3 bacon slices, chopped
- 1/4 cup 1/8-inch cubes peeled carrots
- 1/4 cup chopped shallots
- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary
- 1 1/2 cups dried lentils
- 3 cups water
- 1 teaspoon butter
- Pork
- 1/2 cup honey
- 6 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 2 1/2 pounds pork tenderloins
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3/4 cup low-salt chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon cold butter
- For celery root puree:
- Bring celery root and milk to boil in heavy large saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered until celery root is very tender, about 20 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer celery root to processor. Add 1/2 cup hot milk. Puree until very smooth. Blend in butter and lemon juice. Season with salt and white pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
- For lentils:
- Sauté bacon in medium saucepan over medium-high heat until crisp, about 3 minutes. Add carrots, shallots, and rosemary; sauté until shallots begin to soften, about 1 minute. Add lentils and 3 cups water; bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered until lentils are tender and liquid has nearly evaporated, about 35 minutes. Stir in butter. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.)
- For pork:
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Whisk first 4 ingredients in bowl. Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper. Heat oil in large ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Add pork; sauté until brown on all sides, about 6 minutes total. Brush pork with honey mixture. Transfer skillet to oven; roast pork 10 minutes. Turn pork over and brush with honey mixture. Roast until thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 145°F, about 10 minutes longer. Transfer pork to work surface; tent with foil (temperature will increase 5 degrees).
- Add broth and remaining honey mixture to same skillet. Boil over high heat until sauce is reduced to 3/4 cup, about 5 minutes. Strain sauce into small bowl. Return sauce to skillet. Whisk in butter. Season with salt and pepper.
- Rewarm celery root puree and lentils. Cut pork crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Place 1/2 cup celery root puree in center of each of 6 plates. Using back of spoon, make indentation in puree. Spoon 1/2 cup lentils into indentation on each plate. Arrange pork slices atop lentils and drizzle with sauce.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories826
- Carbohydrates80 g(27%)
- Fat29 g(45%)
- Protein63 g(125%)
- Saturated Fat13 g(63%)
- Sodium458 mg(19%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber9 g(36%)
- Monounsaturated Fat10 g
- Cholesterol170 mg(57%)


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This question, is a slightly different disguise (see below), came up in discussions of this question about equitable partitions
A $0,1$ vector in $\mathbb{Z}^n$ is any vector with all entries $0$ and $1$ (at least one of each.) This excludes (for temporary convenience) the all ones vector $\mathbf{1}.$
Q: Given a set of $k+1$ vectors in $\mathbb{Z}^n$, one being $\mathbf{1}$, How difficult is it to determine if there is a (rational) linear combination which is a $0,1$ vector?
It would be equivalent to say that we have a set of $k$ integer vectors such the $n$ entries of each vector sum to $0.$ We wonder if there is a linear combination having only two distinct entries.
In the context of the earlier question the $k$ vectors might be a basis for a certain eigenspace of (the adjacency matrix of) a given regular graph. A linear combination with only two distinct entries would indicate an intersetig two cell partition of the vertices of the graph. If the graph is connected then the largest eigenvalue is the common degree. Then the $k+1$ vector form of the question deals with a basis for the span of two eigenspaces.


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MIL's a martyr-- and hubby is, too
Hi, Carolyn:
My husband's 49-year-old brother has advanced cirrhosis. The prognosis sounds pretty grim. My mother-in-law, who is taking care of him and trying to make his apartment habitable (apparently it is disgusting), is adamant that my husband not go help. She's taking all the burden on herself, and doesn't even want her own husband to know how much she is doing for her son.
This is a normal dynamic for this family – nobody ever speaks the truth about what they need and want. Do we overrule her and tell her my husband is coming up to help, which ultimately I think she would appreciate, or do we respect her repeatedly stated wishes?
For what it's worth, I think he should just go; my husband is not certain. This martyr-syndrome, "Oh no, we don't want to be a burden" thing drives me nuts. It's part of Every. Single. Interaction. So that could be coloring my view of this ...
– Anonymous
How sad. It sounds as if these unspoken truths are claiming their victims.
And I can see why your husband has doubts. When you trust them, or lack sufficient knowledge to trust or not, then it's important to take people at their word. It's a combination of showing respect for others' stated wishes and going with what you know.
But when "what you know" is that you can't take certain people at their word, because their word is subject to any number of ulterior motives and years of lousy emotional patterns, then you're in a bind. Taking Mom and Brother– I'm lumping them on the Family Plan here– at their word when you're confident they're not being truthful can feel like enabling, and yet going against their word can feel like disrespect for competent, if unhealthy, adults.
If your husband felt strongly that one of these options was the right one, then he'd be right to make that choice, whichever it was.
Since he's conflicted, he'll need to find his answer somewhere other than his mother's words, and where better to look than his own conscience?
If he feels he belongs at his brother's side, then that's where he needs to go, and he can place credit for his decision where it belongs. "Mom, I know you told me not to come help, but I'm not doing this for you – I'm doing it for myself."
Not only would that be the truth, but it has the bonus of being a gift-wrapped delivery to his family's sense of martyrdom. Manipulative, yes, but in a spoonful-of-sugar kind of way.
Recently I was asked to be the maid of honor in a wedding. The bride sent me potential bridesmaid dresses on the day of my birthday and forgot about my birthday. In this day and age of social media she would have seen other people wishing me happy birthday, and so totally forgot. Am I right to be a bit upset?
Sure, if you're 8. Otherwise you'd be right to recognize her as a friend who obviously thinks a lot of you, and brush this off as her missing a beat, as I'm sure you do with her sometimes. There's also: "Dresses?! On my birthday! You shouldn't have." State your needs, don't test people on them.
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Study After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Banquet of Cleopatra (from Palazzo Labia), 1760-61
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Abbe Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non.
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Hon. Irwin Laughlin, Meridian House, Washington, D.C., by descent to his daughter;
Mrs. Hubert Chanler, Geneso, New York (sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1959, lot 17, to);
[Maggs Brothers, Ltd., London].
Private Collection.
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Sorry, Angus. People are still watching Two and a Half Men.Days after a video surfaced of Angus T. Jones calling his hit sitcom "filth" and urging fans not to watch it, Men matched its season high Thursday with 13.8 million viewers and a 4.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic. Men was the only show of CBS' lineup not to dip. The Big Bang Theory (17.1 million, 5.4) was still the night's ...
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WICHITA, KS -- Genesis Health Clubs recently opened its seventh club in the state of Kansas and its first in Emporia, KS.
Genesis will remodel the 10,000-square-foot space in downtown Emporia formerly known as Walburns Fitness and Wellness and add about 6,000 square feet over the next five or six months, Genesis owner Rodney Steven II says. A cycling studio, locker and steam rooms, and an expanded cardio area and weight room are part of the remodeling plan. Twelve to 15 employees will be added to the club, which officially opened as Genesis on Monday.
Steven bought the club from Kenny Walburn, who started the club in 1979, and his son and daughter-in-law, Brian and Frannie Walburn. The Walburns will retain a minority interest in the property, Steven says. Brian Walburn will serve as the general manager of the club.
"This is a great market to expand in," Steven says. "The Walburns wanted to really grow the club to the next level to offer Emporia the best in health and fitness."
With no major fitness club chain in the Emporia area, Genesis Health Clubs' two main competitors are Emporia Fitness and the Emporia State University Student Recreation Center.
Genesis also has four clubs in the Wichita area plus one each in Salina, KS, and Hutchinson, KS. Steven says he is looking at other markets for further expansion.


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The HP BTM combination machine consists of a crusher, splitter and pulveriser all in one. The machine has been designed with maximum operator safety and ergonomics in mind. The operator is not required to bend, lift product or climb stairs to operate the system.
The crusher can accept up to 15 kg samples with a maximum particle size of 50 mm. The output from the crusher can be adjusted to produce a product of -3 mm, and it is possible with some ores to achieve - 2 mm.
Samples are loaded manually, then the flap closes and the cycle starts. The sample is weighed internally in the machine to obtain the sample mass required for the splitter. The sample is then transported up the lift and entered into the crusher.
The crusher reduces the sample to the desired output particle size. A flow sensor determines when the crushing cycle is complete. On completion of the crushing cycle the crusher is cleaned, ready for the next sample. The product from the crusher can be made available to the operator if required. This position is also where previously crushed samples can be added into the system for pulverising should this option be needed. In essence the pulveriser and crusher can operate independently of each other for maximum flexibility.
The product from the crusher is conveyed automatically to a linear splitter that splits out a portion for pulverising and a waste portion. The integrated linear splitter can be set to produce an accurate split from 300 g up to 1.2 kg as required. The maximum mass is dependent on product density. The waste portion can be collected in a calico or plastic bag or alternatively a transfer pipe can be moved into the discharge position which will allow the product to fall through into a waste removal system.
Should the crushed portion require milling, it is automatically transferred from the splitter to the pulveriser. The pulveriser first weighs the sample to confirm that the splitter operated correctly, and if the mass is not within the expected range then the operator is alerted to this fact. If the mass falls within the expected range, the sample is pulverised according to the parameters set and then presented to the operator on the conveyor belt at an ergonomic height.
Multiple samples can be accumulated on the belts to minimise the amount of operator interaction required.
Technical Specifications
Sample size: <50 mm
Sample mass: <15 kg
Achievable crushed grain size: Nominally -3 mm
Achievable milled grain size: Nominally -75 µm
Splitting ratio: Variable
Dimensions: 2410 x 2000 x 2160 mm
Weight: ≈2970 kg
Power requirements: 400 V, 3 Phase, 50 Hz
Power consumption: ≈15 kVA
Compressed air requirements: 5 bar – 10 bar
Compressed air consumption: 1500 L/sample


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Decorating the bed side of our large window for Christmas was a no brainer (which is good because I feel no brainer this time of year). A customer and friend made this quilt top out of Winter's Lane and we asked if we could display it. We all love it!
This fabric line has been crazy popular. We have a few fat quarter bundles left and a wee bit of yardage.
The line came with a panel and that is what Jenele made the pillow out of. The poinsettia pillow is a project from a few Christmas windows ago. Anyone else have to look up ow to spell poinsettia? Every time for me.
Another reason we love this quilt so much is the pattern. We found out what it was an ordered the book. I can just picture this scrappy.
Jenele also made this garland using the panel. You could sew these rectangles on a plain card an make your own Christmas cards.
Many of my projects can't be shown until after Christmas. I am now officially behind on my sewing deadlines. How about you?
Run, don't walk, over to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it up Friday. Her Scrap Vortex is amazing.


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DaleC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
We need a creative logo that helps create a proffessional brand for our company to both australian design agencies and corporate clients. It must look good on black or white, and we are looking for a clever use of shape and color for a logo. As we do not have any branding in place, you will in effect be creating the entire branding for our rapidly growing company!
We need a creative logo that helps create a proffessional brand for our company to both australian design agencies and corporate clients. It must look good on black or white, and we also appreciate clever use of shape and color in a logo.
However you may find that you can create a logo just with the name itself which could be quite good.
We are a team of some of Australias best developers, and we create internet applications for companies like the one we are using now! We usually take projects that are so complex that other compainies have turned them down.
The name elab we chose because a science labratory is usually creating complex things, and a labratory also gives the thought of things outside the square being accomplished.
However we are not creative in an artistic sense so thats where you come in! Help us make a brand that will stand out in corporate australia, and will even attract design agencies to work with us. We will also have much more work coming in the pipeline, so the talented designers that submit designs in this competition will be noted for further work.
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Update on Academic and Financial Planning
POSTED ON: March 5, 2013
I am pleased to announce that the Full Faculty of The School of Art at The Cooper Union voted earlier today to adopt the proposals submitted to the President and presented to The Board of Trustees on December 5, 2012.
The language of the vote follows:
The Faculty of The School of Art votes to endorse the vote taken by the Full-time faculty on Feb. 28, 2013, which was forwarded to the Dean of the School of Art, the President, and the Board of Trustees, and votes to adopt the attached proposals.
The Art School's report, along with those of the other schools, will be reviewed by the full Board at the Board meeting tomorrow. The Board will also consider other options to ensure financial sustainability while also building a future characterized by academic excellence and a distinctive vision. As I have indicated in my previous memo, the details surrounding all major decisions will be announced later in the month; however, the Board will issue a memo following the Board meeting to communicate the decisions that are made on March 6th.


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CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. Through our community-based efforts focused on empowering women, we work to improve basic education, prevent the spread of disease, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters.


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Publisher: Ivan R Dee
Publisher Place: Chicago
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Description: 277 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: A legend of improvisational theater, Del Close is best known for discovering and cultivating the talents of John Belushi, Chris Farley, Bill Murray, Mike Meyers, and countless other comedy giants. He was resident director of Chicago's famed Second City and "house metaphysician" for "Saturday Night Live," a talent in his own right, and one of the brightest and wackiest theater gurus ever. Jeff Griggs was a student of Close's at the ImprovOlympic in Chicago when he was asked to help the aging mentor (often in ill health) by driving him around the city on his weekly errands. The two developed a volatile friendship that shocked, angered, and amused both of them"and produced this hilarious and ultimately endearing chronicle of Close's last years. With all the elements of a picaresque novel, Guru captures Close at his zaniest but also shows him in theatrical situations that confirm his genius in conceptualizing and directing improvisational theater. Between comic episodes, Jeff Griggs gives the reader the essentials of Close's biography: his childhood in Kansas, early years as an actor, countercultural exploits in the 1960s (he toured with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and designed light shows for the Grateful Dead), years with the Compass Players and then with Second City, and continuing experimentation with every drug imaginable, which pretty much cost him his health and ultimately his life. He was comedian, director, teacher, writer, actor, poet, fire-eater, junkie, and philosopher. "Being a really good actor does not necessarily guarantee that you will be a very good improviser," Close liked to say. "Being an actual, complete, hopeless, wretched geek in real life doesn't disqualify you from being a solid improviser, either." He approached improv the same way he conducted his life"in bizarre, dark, and dangerous fashion. Guru captures it.


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There's a special something about the first Corvette that made a lasting impression on you. Maybe it was the combination of color scheme and styled body lines. Maybe it was an exhaust note that turned your head and had you saying Wow for the next month.
in the case of Kim Ian Madsen, owner of this '60 big-brake fuelie, it's the car his father wrenched on while it was ruling the road courses and hill climbs of the East Coast during the '60s.
Kim's father, Doug Madsen, was a mechanic at Konners Chevrolet in Caldwell, New Jersey, and it was there that salesman Bob Wasserman ordered the car you see here. "He ordered this car as a demo for himself, then he sold it to Steve Elfenbein, who actually wanted a red one," says Kim. Steve, who was an engineer at Bell Labs, was looking for a car to go racing with on weekends. When he saw this one in early 1961, he decided not to wait the six to eight weeks (or more) for a specially ordered red one. Kim says, "He settled for Horizon Blue because he wanted to get racing.
Under the factory colors, this '60 had the RPO 687 big-brake and RPO 579D 290hp, fuel-injected 283, as well as a Borg-Warner T-10 four-speed and a 4.11-geared, Posi-traction-equipped rearend, a radio, and heater (the latter two not typically ordered on big-brake cars). But unlike the later-production '60 big-brake cars, this very-early-production '60 also received the '59 Vette's competition suspension package, with shorter front coil springs and five-leaf bundles on each side in back.
Steve got it ready-with the help of Kim's dad, who was the only mechanic that worked on the car-for the road courses and hill climbs that made up the East Coast sports-car racing scene back then. From the first race, Steve ran up front and finished up front. In 128 races and hill climbs, the car won 73 times, placed second in 21 events, came home third 18 times, and only four times did it fail to finish!
In 1966, it was the first production car to break the one-minute barrier on the Giant's Despair hill climb in Pennsylvania, and it was a perennial SCCA Regional champion during its racing days against some very notable competition. "Elfenbein wasn't a Yenko or a Donahue, but he raced against them and won," says Kim. "And my father was right in the thick of it." He also raced-and won-while competing with drivers such as Ed Lowther, John Morton, Tony Fucchi, Al Loquasto, Harold Keck, Oscar Koveleski, and many more.
Still fairly early in its racing career, one major change was made to the '60. The original fuel-injected 283 was replaced by another small-block wearing Rochester fuel injection. This one-a '62-vintage 327-put out more than the 360 hp that Chevrolet rated it at. One reason is the fuel-injection system itself, which got some help from a noted Chevy tuner and racer. "That 327 has a Bill Thomas-modified plenum [on top of the fuel-injection system]. The power-to-weight ratio was pretty phenomenal," says Kim.
Following the '66 season, the '60 was parked when Steve got a new Z/28 Camaro to race, and it didn't see a race track again until its last year of competition: 1971. Then, it sat in Steve's garage, waiting to be restored-a wait that took nearly two decades.
In 1989, Steve decided the time was right to restore his '60 Vette and turn it into a streetable driver. He enlisted the only mechanic he'd ever had work on it, Doug Madsen, to do the restoration at Madsen's restoration shop.
One question that had been on Steve's mind for years was finally answered: what color should this car really be? "Steve had a blue race car. He set out to do certain things with it. he did everything he wanted to do with it as a race car, and he was done racing it," says Kim. "Now he wanted to enjoy it as a street car, and he always wanted a red one. He agonized long and hard over it, and he decided to paint the car red."
In its new color scheme, the '60 was a driver and show-goer for Steve, who brought it with him when he moved from the East Coast to Arizona.
Unfortunately, in 2004, he passed away, and about a year later, Kim bought it from his daughter-bringing the car full circle back to its original mechanic's family. It had been parked for quite some time before Kim got it, so he brought it into his Corvette Restoration AZ shop in Tempe, Arizona, and gave it a resto freshening that resulted in the '60 looking the way you see it here. He also acquired just about every item relating to its history. He says, "When I bought the car, I got boxes and boxes with it, including every trophy, all the dash plaques-hundreds of those-all the sterling-silver bowls [that it won], plus all the newspaper and magazine articles about the car."
During its time in Kim's shop, he had a question on his mind as big as the blue-or-red question that Steve had: Should he keep the 327 that was already in the car, or should he seek out a correct '60-vintage 283 block and build it into a replacement for the car's original fuelie powerplant? Says Kim, "I thought about going back to original with it, but that [327] was what the car raced with. That was the motor that it won most of its awards with." Kim adds that he has no plans to build a 283 for it. "This is what the car is and was. I would be foolish to try to go find an original 283 block and put the car back to stock because the car was a race car. This is what it was raced with. At least the powertrain is as-raced, which I feel is more valuable than as-born-with. This is the car the way people remember it."
As for those who are still seeking that dream Vette in a barn or other hideaway somewhere, Kim says to keep looking for them. "They're still out there! as the owner of Corvette Restoration AZ, I am amazed at the phone calls that I get, and I go and pull Corvettes out from behind houses or uncover them in a garage. It's amazing what's still out there." He cites an original-owner '67 roadster that's owned by the Commanding General of the Arizona National Guard, which was stored near his shop, and that he just brought in for a restoration. "He bought it brand-new; it's in original unrestored condition. We dragged it out of his house, brought it to my shop, dropped the tank, and found the sticker, which I gave to him to preserve. Now we're doing a restoration on it. Isn't that something?"
So, how does it drive? "It's a thrill! It's a handful. It's a man's car," says Kim, who took the RPO 687 quick-steering adapter off because it was just too much for him. "It's extremely powerful. My license plate says XCELR8 because that car is all about accelerating. I have respect for what Steve Elfenbein did with that car, how he tossed it around. He must have been fearless!"
And another chapter in Corvette history is rediscovered and restored just like Kim's big-brake '60 fuelie.
Data File '60 Corvette
Owned by Kim Ian Madsen, Mesa, ArizonaRestored (1989) by Madsen Auto Restoration, Mine Hill, New Jersey (Doug Madsen and Kim's late father and brother Scott); (2004) by Corvette Restoration AZ, Tempe, Arizona
Current engine produces hp/torque well above Chevrolet's published figures


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BlackBerry 7130c / 7130g
Info Photos News Forum 36 Reviews
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This my first pda. I recieved it last October at a BB training class for ATT. Several new PDAs have come out since then but I can't seem to tear myself away from the old reliable 7130.
This phone is definitely a work horse. It does it all. Has an excellent calendar and also task feature (never forget an appointment). It supports various email accts. Sure-type is the best thing ever invented for a cellular phone. Really loud speaker phone which is good for conference calls.
What I like best of all is that its a brick. I've thrown it across the rooms so many times to demonstrate its durability. Which that brings me to a funny story: A week ago I had a customer come in talking about how her alltel phone was so durable (I don't know the model) So I dared her to through it across the room. Lol she looked at me like I was crazy, so I got up and threw my 7130 across the room. The customer was stunned that it was still in perfect condition.
What a Phone!!!
This is my first smart-phone. I am coming off using a Motorola v551 which was a great phone except for the really poor battery life. Which has always been a huge concern for me. First off this phone is really easy for me to use, it doesn't have any bells and whistles like a camera, touchscreen or memory card, but it has what I am looking for; PDA functions and strong battery life. If you're looking for a good attractive sturdy phone then this is the way to go. There are so many new phones on the market that have come out since I bought this phone two months ago Blackjack, Pearl, and the Apple iphone but I really love my BB 7130c. Especially the fact that it weighs the same as my MotoV551 but it does so much more.
Ringer is loud-it's almost embarrassing I have to turn it down. I luv that.
Vibrate setting is so powerful, I almost don't need the ringer.
Battery life is phenomenal 4-5 days.
speaker phone and voice are so loud that I have to turn that down-I luv that too!
Sure-type takes a little getting used to but it is pretty easy.
Screen is awesome nice color.
Reception is great when I get it b/c Cingular, which used to be AT&T was never that strong with signal strength.
Phone is deceptively light, but sturdy, seems like it could last for years, especially with my silicone case.
LED flashing light is REALLY bright. terribly annoying!!!! way too bright what is up with that!!
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Good phone and email device
This has been a great device for me! I switched from an htc 8125 to this because I wanted more of an email device and not all the microsoft options.
pros: The 7130 has great reception with great call quality! I have been in the wireless industry for 4 years and I think this has been my favorite phone for reception. I like the suretype-its just like T9 or predictive txt, and very easy to learn. The screen is awesome (very bright and colorful) and the ringtone are LOUD. One of the biggest changes in this device is the speakerphone. It is very loud and clear.
cons: The device is to big. I know it is smaller than others in the past, but I want something I can put in my pocket. Also, edge is fast, but I want a device that is 3G so I can do more internet surfing.
Overall: I was very happy with this phone, give it a 4/5, I am going to trade in for the pearl, I hope thats a keeper.
Very Pleased. Great Phone.
Great Phone. Everything I wanted in a Phone/PDA. Configuring Email accounts is easy, Making calls is easy, so many different configurations and personalizations, and great service with Cingular (NY).
Loud Ringer
Long Battery Life
USB port
Speaker Phone is loud and clear
Edge is Fast
The phone knows when it's in the holster and changes to "Holster Mode"
And just Sexy
No Camera (although I probably wouldn't use it)
If you want a phone with Cingular and could use it for email, buy this phone. If not, buy the Razr. But this is my favorite in a long time and I am a phone addict.
Incredible phone!
I've owned a lot of different phones from Nokia (1100, 6230, and older TDMA models), Motorola (V551, T720, several Nextels), LG, Kyocera, etc. My number one concern, since this is, after all, a phone, is reception. This is the best phone reception-wise I have ever owned, and I've purchased phones like the Nokia 1100 or 6230 just for their reception.
In addition, it has everytging you could want - the web is great and actually works pretty well, the e-mail is amazing - you'll receive e-mails immediately and it's nothing like getting e-mail on a regular phone. The keyboard takes a small amount of time to get used to, but now I can type really quickly; plus, you have the option of picking each letter as you type. My fiance has the 8700, but I enjoy typing on this much better.
This is my first BlackBerry, and I can't say enough good things about it. Even the calendar is decent. It syncs flawlessly with my Mac using PocketMac, a free program. Although it's not as friendly as a Palm for inputting information, it's close, has excellent e-mail capabilities, gets amazing receotion, and doesn't freeze.
Overall, I couldn't be happier with this phone. It's the most amazing phone I've ever owned. It does so many different things so well. The only negatives are that there's no expandable memory or camera, but those aren't really things I need at this point. If those are things you need, you may want to wait a month or two for the launch of the 8100 "Pearl."
Amazing reception with clear calls
Instant e-mail
Good planner, calendar, memo, notes, addres book
PIN capabilities (instant IM with other BB users)
Not too big
Easy to talk on
Holster settings
Available themes
Hands-free set-up works really well
Syncs with Mac via PocketMac
Good feel in your hand
Lots of 3rd-party software like Google Maps
No camera (if you care)
No expandable memory
Good Job
Like most of us on this website I love phones and this is a winner. I owned the 8700 for 3 days and the treo for 2 days and the 8125 for 8 days (2 separate times) and this phone I am sticking with. Since I own a razor and its hard to change from that phone since its so thin but this is a great replacement to. It and you really get full browser since you can emulate different browsers and if you get mini opera its even better.
If you want a blackberry get this
If you want a smartphone get this
Very happy with 7100/8700 combo
This device is the ultimate blackberry for those capable of learning to use suretype proficiently. Anyone whose switched to predictive text on their phone should have no problem getting used to using it in Blackberry's Suretype format qwerty style. I manage a wireless store and sell quite a few Blackberries every month and have found few devices that are more capable of doing the job they were intended for over the last 6 or 7 years. If you've never tried Blackberry GET ONE! For those who have, GET THIS ONE!
New 7130c is a GO!!
I've owned my BB 7130c for a few days now and I am an experience BB user (7280, 7290,8700c). I was a reluctant at first to switch to the 7130 because of the sure type keypad, but I must say, the transition was a seamless one.
Key Pad - Using the sure type keypad is a a breeze! The phone is able to accurately predict exactly what you're going to type and corrects your punctuation for you.
Form Factor - This BB actually feels like a phone in your hand. It is surprisingly light and is not over whelming to hold at all. Because the body of the phone is thin, you can actually type emails extremely efficiently with one hand!
Sound/Call Quality - The Sound from the ear piece and speaker phone are exceptional. I never have a problem in the car with the widows open, outside with the wind blowing, or in a quiet area hearing my phone right or hearing the other party.
Reception - Reception is also very, very good. In areas around my area that are somewhat spotty, this phone performs beautifully. The EDGE data speed is also very, very good even with a relatively poor signal.
Email - With the newer BB 2.0 software, the BB will actually separate your multiple email accounts from each other. It puts emails from different accounts into separate folders, making it easy to separate business and personal.
To sum up, if you're not sure if you're reluctant to try the sure type keypad don't be. It works as well as it should, and allot better than even I expected and my expectations on BB's are always way beyond reason. This BB compares very favorably to Cingular's 8700c. The ONLY difference that I could really notice is the keypad. Other than that, they operate and perform equally well. This BB is a no brainer for any fan of the 7100 series, and worth a try for everyone else.
*On a side note, starting 6/18/06 Cingular is starting an unlimited personal email package for only $29.99. This will cover all pop3 email and unl web browsing. However, will not support BB enterprise or Lotus Notes.
Amazing. Simply amazing.
I'd like to thank my required data training with Cingular Wireless, because if it weren't for my store manager forcing me to go to the training for this phone, I probably would have never warmed up to a BlackBerry.
I went this route since I started with Cingular/at&t:
-Motorola V3i
-Samsung i607 (BlackJack)
-RIM 8100 Pearl
-Nokia N75
-Motorola V3r
-RIM 8300 Curve
Let's get one thing straight: my 7130 was indestructible. I threw it. Dropped it in orange juice. But it still lived through that. But by that time, the 8100 Pearl came out, and you bet your ass I wanted a BB with a camera. So I switched. Still comparable OS, still the same reliability, only now I have a camera.
Bottom line:
I use e-mail, IM, text and internet. Nothing else impressed me. I like a phone that can keep up with me. The 7130 did, and still does. I praise it so highly because it got me into my Pearl and my Curve. I still use my 7130 to this day too!
I love my Blackberry 7130c!!! You will too!!!
Well, I don't want to sound redundant and repeat everyone else's comments on this phone, so I won't. I'll just tell you that I absolutely love this phone. I use all of its features and everything works seamlessly and easily.
I recently purchased another cell phone for weekend use. Well, I used it for one weekend and went back to my blackberry. I don't need another phone b/c nothing compares to the 7130c.
You won't be disappointed with this phone. Only an idiot would have trouble using it. But an idiot's dog could do it.


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September 21, 2012
RILEY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT TAKING BACK UNWANTED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ON SEPTEMBER 29th OUTSIDE DILLONS IN THE WESTLOOP SHOPPING CENTER.
Manhattan, KS – On September 29, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Riley County Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your medications for disposal to the Dillons store located in the Westloop Shopping Center. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.
For any questions or additional information please contact Sergeant Brad Jager at 537-2112 ext. 3090.


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The open world zombie survival MMO Rust must be one of those games, where shooting someone will not just freak out the victim, but also the shooter himself, thanks to glitches like this above. Maybe Clayface-physics are Rust's answer to the zombies in DayZ that can walk through walls and floors.
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Living in Asia, you get used to mangled English. It stops being a source of amusement, and you can feel empathy for those trying to express something in another language. Then, every once in a while, you see something that makes you stop and go what. The. Fuck. Today, literally.
The website of the Capital Fitness Club in Guangzhou is amazing. As The Nanfing points out, the website's translations are off—fuckin' way off.
Clicking on the "Group Fuck course" (bwah?), takes you to several different options, including "Fight Fuck," "Pedal Fuck," and OH MY GOODNESS "Barbell Fuck."
If you click on the "Fight fuck" link, you get this picture.
"Barbell fuck" brings up this picture.
Lifting weights in water doesn't sound safe. But thankfully, I don't see much fucking! Here's why: the Chinese character "cao" (操) can mean "fuck" (as in "Fuck your mother"), but it also can mean "to grasp", "to hold", or "to control" and can be translated as "exercise."
So "Group Fuck" is actually "Group Drills", "Fight Fuck" is "Kickboxing", "Barbell Fuck" is "Barbell Exercises", and "Pedal Fuck" is "Step Aerobics". And do you know what mind fuck is?
Capital Club [Official Site via The Nanfang]
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So after seeing the newest comic (which made me laugh my @$$ off btw xD) and searching through that wow-reddit post, I found someone link the old "First to AQ" comic (http://www.darklegacycomics.com/23.html), and noticed that the boat picture was missing! I don't know if it's a glitch/bug or intentional, but I felt that at least those of us who HAVEN'T read that comic yet, it's a worthy addition to the comic and it gave me plenty of lolz every time I read that one
PS: If this wasn't intentional, I am truly sorry, Keydar, for making you have to do effort I hate not being lazy too >.<
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On November 14th, not long after the Arctic 30 had been moved to St Petersburg, Sir Paul McCartney wrote an open letter to Vladimir Putin asking for their release.
"Vladimir, millions of people in dozens of countries would be hugely grateful if you were to intervene to bring about an end to this affair. I understand of course that the Russian courts and the Russian Presidency are separate. Nevertheless I wonder if you may be able to use whatever influence you have to reunite the detainees with their families?"
Back in Kieron's homeland of Devon, the staff of Shebbear College, the school Kieron attended in the village in which he grew up, put on a Murder Mystery play on Friday 15th November. I can personally attest to the success of the event. It was very entertaining as well as raising funds for the campaign.
On Monday 18th November, the first round of detentions hearings began. Australian Colin Russell was the first to appear. He was denied bail, and his detention was extended until Februrary.
"Russell's detention was extended until 24 February after the bail hearing on Monday.
"I haven't done anything wrong. I don't understand the reasons why I've been detained. I've done two months' hard time for nothing. I've done nothing wrong," he reportedly said in court after the decision was read out."
All previous court hearings had resulted in the same treatment for all thirty detainees. This was not a good sign. Kieron's hearing was also on Monday; unlike Colin Russell, however, no decision was reached as the hearing was adjourned due to Kieron and his legal team being unhappy with the appointed translator.
"A bail hearing for jailed journalist Kieron Bryan has been adjourned until Wednesday after problems with a translator at the court in St Petersburg earlier today."
As you can see from this picture from the courtroom on Monday, Kieron has been reunited with his glasses, thanks to his legal team.
The three Russian detainees of course had no such translation problem, and developments in their hearings were certainly encouraging.
"A Russian court has granted bail to three Greenpeace crew members – a doctor, a freelance photographer, and a press officer – all detained since September 24 over the protest at an oil rig in the Barents Sea."
"Relatives of British journalist Kieron Bryon say his lawyer asked for his case to be adjourned until Wednesday.
His father Andy Bryon described the bail application as "very much in the balance".
He said the family found the prospect of another three-month detention "very difficult to accept"."
This Telegraph article includes a picture of Kieron in the cage:
On Tuesday, all of those appearing in court were granted bail.
"A Russian court has granted bail to another seven Greenpeace activists involved in the Arctic oil rig protest.
They are the first foreigners to be become eligible for release from jail while awaiting trial over the action.
It comes after three Russian nationals were freed on Monday."
Before Kieron's hearing on Wednesday, the first of the Arctic 30 left prison on bail.
"A Greenpeace activist was released on bail from a Russian detention facility Wednesday, taking her first steps out of jail since she and a group of fellow campaigners were detained during an Arctic Sea protest almost nine weeks ago."
As we were waiting for Kieron's hearing, some more of the activists were also granted bail.
Some video of Kieron's statements as part of the hearing were released by Greenpeace:
Finally, the decision came. Kieron was granted bail by the court. Immediately after the decision, Sky News were able to talk to him from the cage to get his immediate reaction:
"The first smile I've had for a while."
This decision kicked off another round of the Bryan family's media appearances.
Channel 4:
Kieron's UK lawyer, Robert Brown, also got a mention in the Times (paywall):
More activists were in court on Thursday, and all were granted bail. Kieron's lawyers were hoping to get him freed on Thursday, but were this was not possible due to a technicality.
"Bryan, who was granted bail on Wednesday, was expected to emerge from Pre-Trial Detention Centre No 4 early on Thursday evening, but at the last minute his release was delayed on a technicality. His lawyers said that he was now being "illegally detained" as all the documents were in order, but he was expected to be set free on Friday.
Greenpeace said in a statement that those released on bail had been given their passports back, and would now stay at a "safe place in St Petersburg". Despite not having valid Russian visas, the bailed activists have been given special registration cards that allow them to remain in Russia legally."
Also on Thursday, a Murmansk court rejected the appeal to release the Arctic Sunrise ship back into Greenpeace custody.
"The Murmansk Regional Court has today rejected an appeal against the arrest of the ship Arctic Sunrise by Russian authorities.
"This is an extremely disappointing ruling. We believe this verdict is in violation of both the Russian Criminal Procedure Code and international law. Cassation procedures are now available under Russian law," said Gerrit-Jan Bolderman, Director of Stichting Phoenix, the ship's owner."
Finally, on Friday morning, Kieron was released. Sky News captured the event on video, including the moment when one misinformed reporter calls him Anthony:
"It's good to be outside and see the sky for the first time for a while. To everyone who's supported me and the rest of the group: Keep fighting, we're not free yet, this is first step. It's a glimmer of justice, but it's not finished."
"He said being imprisoned had been "tough" and that he was looking forward to "a long shower", "never doing another Sudoku puzzle again" and "an improved diet"."
The exact conditions of Kieron's bail have not been released, but it seems he is able to roam St Petersburg, and freely communicate with family and friends.
Meanwhile, Colin Russell, the only one of the thirty to be denied bail, is expecting to be freed within a month.
""He [Russell] is now reasonably confident that there has been a change in strategy by the prosecutors and he'll be freed on bail," Myler told the Guardian. "This is the feeling we got as well from our conversations across town with prosecutors and the Investigative Committee. All the signals we are getting are that Colin will get the same treatment as everyone else.""
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has been speaking about the Arctic Sunrise case, again emphasizing the separation of the executive and judiciary, but also calling Greenpeace's work 'noble':
""I'd like to assure you that the Russian political leadership has no desire to specially interfere in this process. There are certain legal procedures. We cannot interfere in the legal aspect of this case," Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a press conference following his meeting with Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan."
"In reference to the Greenpeace environmentalists, he said: "Are they doing noble work? Yes, it is noble. Did they do the right thing when they climbed the platform? No, it was wrong".
The President emphasized that the state should not be cruel but it must ensure that everyone complied with certain rules. Vladimir Putin also admitted that the state should be lenient."
Also on Friday, the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea reached a conclusion.
"The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea delivered its Order today in the "Arctic Sunrise" case (Kingdom of the Netherlands v. Russian Federation). It ordered that the vessel Arctic Sunrise and all persons detained in connection with the dispute be released and allowed to leave the territory and maritime areas under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation upon the posting of a bond in the amount of 3.6 million euros. "
"The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea today ordered the Russian Federation in a binding ruling to release the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and the 28 activists and two freelance journalists on board upon payment of a EUR 3.6 million bond."
This is a hugely positive development, however Russia has previously indicated that it does not consider the tribunal's decisions to be binding, as it opted out of certain clauses of the UNCLOS. The decision not to appear at the hearing in Hamburg was based on this objection. However, this is not necessarily legitimate (http://www.ejiltalk.org/greenpeace-pirates-and-the-mv-arctic-sunrise/), and, regardless, the fact that a United Nations tribunal has ruled against Russia has enormous international significance.
It's great to see Kieron out of prison, but remember the charges still stand, and, if convicted, he could face a prison sentence. He is only released on bail, with conditions attached. This is not over yet. Let's keep fighting to completely Free Kieron.


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Star and planet tie the knotUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Karen Rehbock, (808) 956-6829
Institute for Astronomy
Astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope on Mauna Kea have announced the discovery of magnetism in a star 50 light-years away. The magnetic field is 100 times weaker than that of a typical refrigerator magnet.
The star, called Tau Bootis, is rather like the sun, except that it is orbited every three days by an enormous planet that is over 1000 times as massive as Earth.
"The star's magnetic field is tied up in knots, possibly because of the influence of its close-in giant planet," said University of Hawaii astronomer Evgenya Shkolnik. "We are all used to the idea of a star influencing conditions on a planet, but it is truly amazing to discover the extent to which planets can influence their stars, in a kind of celestial role reversal."
Shkolnik is a member of an international team led by two French astronomers, Claude Catala of the Observatoire de Paris and Jean-François Donati of Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées. They made the discovery using an extremely sensitive high-resolution spectropolarimeter on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea.
This is the only system known where the planet and star are tidally locked so that one side of the star always sees the same side of the planet. The star and planet both make one rotation, and one orbit, in about 3 days. However, the star's equator is rotating about 20 percent faster than its pole.
Indirect evidence of planet-induced stellar magnetic activity was first reported by team members Shkolnik, David Bohlender (National Research Council of Canada/Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics) and their colleagues in 2005 for two similar stars.
New data scheduled to be collected next spring will map the surface of the star in more detail, contributing additional information to the studies of star-planet interactions.
This discovery is published in a Letter to the journal Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society.
The Paper:
"The magnetic field of the planet-hosting star tau Bootis"
C. Catala, J.-F. Donati, E. Shkolnik, D. Bohlender, E. Alecian
CFHT press release:
The Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets, and the sun. Its faculty and staff are also involved in astronomy education, deep space missions, and in the development and management of the observatories on Haleakala and Mauna Kea.
Established in 1907 and fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the University of Hawaii is the state's sole public system of higher education. The UH System provides an array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and community programs on 10 campuses and through educational, training, and research centers across the state. UH enrolls more than 50,000 students from Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, and around the world.
For more information, visit: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/tauBootis-11-06/


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