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Blackhawks open camp ducking word 'dynasty'by Brian Hedger / Chicago Blackhawks
|Any and all dynasty talk is extremely premature, insist the Blackhawks (Chase Agnello-Dean / Chicago Blackhawks).
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- It was fitting, in a way, that training camp for the Chicago Blackhawks started Wednesday at the University of Notre Dame's Compton Family Ice Arena.
As players completed their annual physical tests, there across the vast parking lot was Notre Dame Stadium, where the Fighting Irish spend fall Saturdays trying to live up to their storied history and tradition.
If anybody knows that feeling, it ought to be the Blackhawks.
After winning the Stanley Cup for the second time in four seasons, the reigning NHL champions come into the 2013-14 season looking for more, and this time they've got the whole "Stanley Cup hangover" notion in the crosshairs.
"You get asked those questions a lot, about the 'Stanley Cup hangover,' but we're looking at it in a positive way," defenseman Duncan Keith said the day before camp officially opens. "We're looking at it as a challenge to get off to a good start, and I think everybody on our team is excited about the opportunity that's ahead of us … this start of the season, to come out flying and show that we're ready to play."
As they get ready to tackle that challenge, the rest of the hockey world looks at them and wonders the same thing: Is this a hockey dynasty in the making?
The Blackhawks don't want anything to do with that kind of talk, at least not right now, but the more they try to deflect the "d-word," the more it sounds like it's written on a dry-erase board somewhere inside United Center.
"It's important for [general manager Stan Bowman] to send that message, and for [coach Joel Quenneville] to send that message, that the chapter on the 2013 Stanley Cup championship team … that chapter is closed," Blackhawks president and CEO John McDonough said Wednesday at a press conference to announce a contract extension for Bowman. "It's time to move forward. I'm very proud of our organization, but we're not satisfied with where we are. We're not close to being satisfied. We need to get a lot better."
A lot better? Seriously?
"I know that sounds absurd in the face of two Stanley Cup championships in four years, but this is an organization with lofty expectations," McDonough said. "There are not a lot of easy days at the United Center, as Stan can attest, but it's all for the sake of our organization getting better every day."
The media will start throwing around the "d-word" if the Blackhawks again rise to the top, but you won't hear it from them. You will, however, hear the team talk about keeping the focus narrow. It's how they dominated so thoroughly last season and how they plan to improve each year for the foreseeable future. Things stack up favorably on paper too.
This season, Chicago will have a roster that's not very different from the one that needed six games to defeat the Boston Bruins in the 2013 Stanley Cup Final. It will again be led by their core group of stars, headlined by captain Jonathan Toews, Marian Hossa, Patrick Kane and Patrick Sharp.
Call them the Blackhawks' "Four Horsemen," in keeping with the Notre Dame motif.
Chicago did lose a few pieces in the offseason -- center Dave Bolland and forwards Michael Frolik and Viktor Stalberg -- but it's a team powered by stars in their prime. Unlike 2010-11, the Blackhawks have a wealth of highly rated prospects vying for supporting roles plus an impressive collection of unheralded-but-dependable veterans.
Bowman signed Quenneville, goalie Corey Crawford, forward Bryan Bickell and defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson to contract extensions this summer. The GM is keeping the band together because it's the key component of his blueprint for success.
"I'm not really good at defining the word 'dynasty,'" Bowman said. "We're striving to be a team that's competing for the Cup every year. We want to sustain this level of success not just for this season or next season, but for a number of seasons. Ultimately time will tell, but we're just getting started here."
In other words, they'd like to become a full-fledged hockey dynasty, even if they don't put it in those terms. The addition of a hard salary cap in 2005-06 was supposed to even the playing field among the NHL's 30 teams, and it did, but there are always exceptions. Bowman's Blackhawks are that exception, at least to date.
They've not only survived the major roster overhaul that followed the 2010 title, but they've set themselves up nicely for the immediate future and long term. Should they become the first NHL team since the Detroit Red Wings in 1998 and 1999 to repeat as Stanley Cup champion, the debate will end.
The Blackhawks will be crowned a "dynasty" whether they acknowledge it or not. And there's really no reason to think they can't repeat.
After doling out the contract extensions of this summer, Bowman turned his focus toward the elephants in the room, Toews and Kane, each with a contract that expires after next season. Bowman boldly told the team's website they would certainly be retained and didn't back down from that prediction Wednesday.
Why such confidence?
"They want to win," Bowman said. "They want to win next year and the year after and I could make a commitment to them that that's our focus from year to year. The specifics of all the details, that's all something that you can get caught up in, but when you find two talents like that, that are quality people, there's no doubt that you're going to make it work."
In the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season, the Blackhawks played 71 games to win the Cup, 33 fewer than in 2010. Theoretically, their legs should be pretty fresh. Their drive is the lone concern after a very short summer, but Quenneville didn't sound worried.
"These guys … they love to win and they want to be the best they can be," Quenneville said. "They have that ability to make people around them want that same type of an appetite. Guys who have been around the room or are coming into the room, they all look up to these guys in the right way … [seeing] these guys never accepting just being good enough. They want to be the best."
Perhaps even a dynasty.


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If you're not familiar with the Droid Razr it's a very thin Android phone that packs a powerful 1.2GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM along with 16GB of storage and it comes with an additional 16GB card. It also has a 540x960 4.3" display. This review covers a little bit of everything about it. One thing that's noteworthy is apparently the Droid Razr has better battery life than any other LTE Android phone. The reviewer also said the call quality was "really good", better than he is used to, and he doesn't mind the UI that Moto put on this thing adding that it has some nice features - much improved from the old Blur that so many people hated. On the downside he didn't love the Super AMOLED Advanced qHD display.
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BWWWWAHAHAHA- Can you say HOT HOT HOT! Yikes guys, we are in the middle of a freaking heat wave that is killing me- or melting me actually. It's sooo hard sitting here when it's 40C+ and the portable aircon I have just takes the edge off of that and not by much. As the song say's "slip sliding away"- ROTF!
This came from Jenni during the week, and it's about as true as it gets!
BWWWAHAHAHA- *giggle 1 for today*
And to top the heat my internet is just not playing with either- Gosh it's more off than on and I keep having to borrow Deon's portable wireless. Enverge did promise to send someone out about three weeks ago.................mmmmmmmm, well lets just say service in this place SUCKS! I'm still waiting- and they phoned again today to say they will be here by 11am-- well it's now 11.20am and nothing yet.
Plus a few other things have happened the last few days to put a little "pressure" on this girls shoulders- so when I got this this morning I just killed myself laughing... (take it for what it is) - I think it's PERFECT! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Seriously- I'm PRINTING it and it's going in my office! BWWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Thanks Charmaine- you made my day.
Ok, enough yakking and down to some serious business ;-)
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I got to work with the talented Mariella - my good ol Italian designing friend Laitha's Designs ( http://www.laitha.com) on a Vintage Style CU Collab Grab Bag.. (image linked)
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A HUGE mega "Vintage styled" CU collab Grab Bag with the talented Laitha's Designs.
Filled to the brim with 8 brand new products at one VERY LOW price.
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Grab all 8 of these products for less than $6 (limited time only!)
Check it out HERE in my store at Sugar Hill Co. http://www.sugarhillco.com/shop/Vintage-Collab-Grab-Bag/
I Also have some NEW goodies up in my Sugar Hill Co store today- 20%-25% off.
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And I was going through some of my stuff ( doing my spring cleaning - lol) and came across all of my Colour Challenge Posting Gifts from 09-11 ( WOW!) and thought I would "resurrect them" as some blog freebies for you. This one was in Dec 2009.
I have used a bit in the Vintage CU Collab bag and my new CU goodies up today, to add some things to it too ;-)
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PS- keep tuned next week as I have some really exciting things happening over DSD and of course it's this "ol girls" Bday coming up too--- WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and I'm just HOPING it's going to RAIN soon! lol
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Warning: This idea has been niggling around in my head for for a while now so I mostly just wanted to "get it out of my system" and dump it here. I might be over thinking this or reinventing the wheel or maybe I'm just on the wrong track. Nothing to do with 3D printing either of course (except you could build it using 3D build parts and similar construction methods) but I think there is a bit of overlap in interest in photovoltaics and 3D printing and in kinematics from this forum especially (:
Solar panels can be 30% more effective if they track the sun in a single axis, or 36% if they track in two axis. But solar tracking is somewhat expensive. So I'd love to get some feedback or ideas on this idea:
A solar tracker that takes a single axis input but maps this movement to a curved path of the panels face instead of a linear one. A simple one axis solar tracker mounted on a single rotating axis would describe a linear path across the sky, not a curved one (You would still loose some efficiency between winter or summer because of the change in inclination but not as much).
Also the tracking is done via spectra lines (or rope resistant to UV and weather) so you would only need a single motor and no gears or linear joints.
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At the start of each season you could manually change the height of one joint of the panel mount to account for change in latitude height of the sun. Of course this requires roof access and maybe it's just enough to optimize for winter only, since it's then that you get the least overall solar energy and you spend the most energy on heating, light and staying indoors (computer). Over a single day, since you have a battery for mornings and evenings, optimizing for the least available energy might be optimal already.
Or maybe with an array of 5 or more panels the additional cost for a cleverly designed two axis tracking system might be negligible? Or maybe just group enough panels into a single plane?
Linear joints vs rotational joints, cost, maintenance, cleaning dirt.
Tangling of lines when panels tilt? Safety during strong winds?
Balance design for panel density with tracking space (max power), costs for tracking, economic and environmental costs of additional panels, and equalized power availability during morning / evening with tracking.
No sensors needed: system only needs to know the date. Adjustments for latitude and orientation to south need to be done mechanically, e.g. lengthen or shorten the arms of the tracking system to match the right date.
Personally I'm thinking about a flat roof surface to mount the solar panels (container home) but ideally it should work for slanted roofs as well.
A single motor and spectra line could drive a linear array of solar panels all at once. Environmental costs of parts should be kept low.


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"I look for objects that were destined to some mundane existence and give them new purpose through my sculptures." -Michael Ulman
A few months ago I was surfing the web for an image. It had to be something unusual, a hot rod, with a touch of post apocalypse. It needed to be just right to set the tone for an article I was writing. Not only did I find that image, I found something else worthy of sharing!
Behold "Gone Postal", from the imagination of Michael Ulman.
Michael is an artist and sculptor living in Massachusetts. His passion to create was instilled at a young age while helping his father weld scraps of metal into sculptures twice his size. He also has an obsession for motorcycles, both in his life and his work. Indeed, prior to Gone Postal most of his creations were two wheeled. But as it is written, there is a time and a season for everything!
If you look carefully at this hot rod, you will see the shape of a US Mailbox, or at least part of one. When I initially saw the photos the scale of this sculpture was not apparent to me. I presumed the hot rod was probably a couple of feet long. Way off. It is actually five feet long. The actual dimensions are 60 X 32 x 17 inches.
With rat rods all the rage now days it seems that Gone Postal captures both the essence of a hot rod and possibly some of the philosophy of a rat rod. The natural patina of the body and frame elements fit well with the rat rod philosophy. Even more fitting is the idea of utilizing what's at your disposal, so to speak.
I have always been intrigued that a object such as a car can project soul and energy. Indeed, that is part of the pleasure of owning a hot rod - the emotion that is evoked by simply gazing upon it. Certainly this sculpture evokes similar emotions. But in addition to the lines and shapes, the fun of looking at this sculpture is figuring out what all the parts are (or what all the parts were). And one could spend hours doing just that!
For those of us who enjoy seeing the progression of a build you are in luck. Michael was kind enough to allow Motorfoot to publish some images by photographer Justin Craig Roth showing the stages of fabrication.
Prior to Gone Postal, most of Michael's creative thoughts were focused on motorcycles. "After making seven plus motorcycles I was anxious to build a Hot Rod" Michael said. "With the engine being the prominent feature in my work the motor had to be exposed. The classic, and most sought after is the 32' coupe, it's the one you picture when you think Hot Rod."
Michael started building Gone Postal in 2002 and completed the work in 2006.
Early on in the four year build Michael recognized the similarities in the shapes of the top of a mailbox and the back of a 32' coupe. "The scale was a perfect size."
Unfortunately finding a donor mailbox is not as easy as one would expect. "The frustrating part" Michael said "was acquiring a mailbox with out evoking the wrath of the FBI or Homeland Security. At the time my brother's girlfriend's mother, who worked at a post office put me in touch with the right person. He had access to the damaged mailboxes. The mailbox was given to me on condition that I removed the paint and photographed the cut box."
So where does Michael come up with the many parts that make up his sculptures? "My friends and acquaintances tend to donate parts. Sometimes people just drop things off on the studio porch. Other times people read about what we do (me and my dad) and make a call to bring over things they think we'll like. Also there are times when I'll buy parts at a flea market, I've learned not to tell some vendors what I do with the item. If they knew that it was for art or would be cut apart, they won't sell it to me."
Since Gone Postal Michael has been busy working on a few more four wheeled creations. He just finished a 1960's slingshot dragster featuring a blown Hemi with NOS. Also in the works is a salt flat hot rod and a Supercharged flathead going into a sedan body, and a turbocharged plane. If it has an engine, Michael interested! Although Michael hasn't mentioned it, I can see him venturing into the realm of steam engine transport too!
Michael's studio is in Roslindale MA and you can visit by appointment. Michael also commissions sculptures and accepts donations of interesting 'junk' parts.
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As surprising as it may seem, considering I'm a dietitian and nutrition editor of EatingWell Magazine, my preferred variety of milk is the chocolate kind, especially after a workout. It delivers the mix of protein and carbohydrate our bodies need to recover energy supplies after an intense workout.
But at the grocery store, my choices don't just stop at plain versus chocolate milk. There's also fat content to consider and milk labeled organic, RBST-free and lactose-free. And beyond the grocery store, there's the raw milk versus pasteurized milk debate. With so many choices, how do you know which one you should buy? This guide will help you cut through the confusion.
—Brierley Wright, M.S., R.D., EatingWell Nutrition Editor
Consider whole milk—which delivers 150 calories and 8 grams fat (5 grams saturated) per cup—a once-in-a-while treat. Nutrition experts recommend drinking low-fat (1%) milk (100 calories, 2.5 grams fat) or nonfat milk (80 calories, 0.5 gram fat) to limit intake of the saturated fats that boost risk of heart disease. Infants under age 2, however, who need extra fat to support a developing brain, should drink whole milk.
And don't be fooled: reduced-fat (2%) milk is not a low-fat food. One cup has 5 grams fat, 3 of them the saturated kind. You won't miss out on milk's nutritional boons when you opt for low-fat or nonfat milk (sometimes called "skim"): per cup, all varieties deliver about one-third of the recommended daily value for calcium and at least 20 percent of the daily value for riboflavin, phosphorus and vitamin D.
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Polls suggest people associate organic milk with superior nutrition, better treatment of animals and a healthier planet. But there's no evidence that organic milk is more nutritious. While preliminary research has suggested that grass-fed cows produce milk with more vitamin E and heart-healthy omega-3 fats than cows fed grains, organic standards don't require that cows be solely grass-fed. (Farmers must use organic fertilizers and pesticides and may not give cows preventive antibiotics or supplemental growth hormones; animals must have access to the outdoors year-round and at least 120 days per year of grazing.)
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The claim "rBST-free" indicates milk produced without using the artificial growth hormone recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST. Giving this hormone to a cow boosts its milk production by about five quarts per day. Some consumers believe that treating cows with the supplemental hormone is inhumane, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains that treating cows with rBST does not harm the animals—or significantly affect the hormone content of milk. In fact, all milks—even from cows not treated with rBST—contain naturally-occurring hormones. Note: All organic milks are rBST-free, but not all rBST-free milks are organic (i.e., farmers may use pesticides, fertilizers, etc.).
This type of milk is basically regular cow's milk minus lactose, the natural sugar in milk. It provides all the same healthful nutrients (e.g., protein and calcium), just not the sugar that stokes digestive problems for up to 50 million Americans.
During pasteurization, milk is heated to high temperatures (>161°F) then rapidly cooled to kill harmful bacteria, including salmonella, E.coli 0157:H7 and listeria. While raw-milk enthusiasts claim heating milk destroys its natural enzymes and beneficial bacteria, studies show that the nutritional differences between pasteurized and raw milk are slight. What's more, public health experts warn that drinking raw milk is like playing Russian roulette. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that raw milk accounted for 1,007 illnesses and two deaths between 1998 and 2005. And when USDA scientists collected raw milk samples from 861 farms in 21 states, nearly a quarter of them contained bacteria linked to human illness, including 5 percent that tested positive for Listeria—a bacterium that results in a foodborne illness, listeriosis, and has a 30 percent mortality rate.
Don't have a cow: milk can come from many sources. Though you may drink these plant-based milks in place of what Elsie produces, "Technically, these drinks aren't really milk," says Catherine W. Donnelly, Ph.D., of the University of Vermont. Regardless, here's a milk/"milk" comparison* per cup.
*Data reflects a sample of 20 readily available milks/"milks." For plant-based "milks," we included only plain varieties—both sweetened and unsweetened, when available.
80-150 calories (nonfat to whole), 0.5-8 g fat, 0-5 g saturated fat, 8-9 g protein, 12-13 g carbohydrate, 0 g fiber, 30% DV calcium, 25% DV vitamin D
Nutrition notes: One cup provides a third of the recommended daily dose for calcium and 16% of the daily value for protein. It's a good source of vitamin D (through fortification) and phosphorus, which build strong bones, as well as the B vitamin riboflavin.
90-150 calories (nonfat to whole), 2.5-8 g fat, 1.5-5 g saturated fat, 7-8 g protein, 9-12 g carbohydrates, 0 g fiber, 30% DV calcium, up to 30% DV vitamin D
Nutrition notes: Like cow's milk, goat's milk contains lactose, just a tad less. Many suggest that people who are allergic to cow's milk can tolerate goat's milk, but immunologists often advise those allergic to cow's milk to avoid goat's milk, too, because of cross-reactivity risks.
60-130 calories, 2-6 g fat, 0-0.5 g saturated fat, 4-12 g protein, 5-15 g carbohdyrates, 0-4 g fiber, 4-30% DV calcium, up to 30% DV vitamin D
Nutrition notes: Studies link soy's protein and phytoestrogens with a reduced risk of cancer and heart disease. (But when it comes to breast cancer, is soy safe? Find out here.) Choose a soymilk fortified with calcium and vitamin D (30% DV and 25% DV, respectively)—and shake before you pour, as added nutrients can settle to the bottom of the carton.
110-120 calories, 2.5 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 1 g protein, 20-24 g carbohydrate, 0 g fiber, 2-25% DV calcium, up to 25% DV vitamin D
Nutrition notes: Rice milk is lower in protein and higher in carbohydrates than cow's milk and soymilk. It's also a poor natural source of calcium so choose one that's fortified with the mineral.
60-80 calories, 2.5-4.5 g fat, 0-0.5 g saturated fat, 2-9 g protein, 5-11 g carbohydrate, 0-4 g fiber, 20-30% DV calcium, up to 25% DV vitamin D
Nutrition notes: Almond milk is naturally high in calcium. Buy one that's fortified with vitamin D, too, for a nutrition profile similar to cow's milk.
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The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival took place in Dorset on 2-4 May 2014. Our palaeontologists Lil Stevens and Zoe Hughes report back from a weekend of sun, sea, fossils and fun.
Saturday in the festival marquee was a busy one with lots of people queuing to sieve for sharks teeth from Abbey Wood (which they got to keep!).
Charlie Underwood sieving for teeth.
Elsewhere Museum staff were also quite busy. Mark Spencer and the Angela Marmont Centre (AMC) team were talking about seaweed using samples which they had collected from the beach that morning.
Mark Spencer with some of his seaweed.
Emma Bernard's shark measuring activity proved very popular - she had crowds of rapt people hanging onto her every word. People like big Megalodon teeth! Emma has also been busy tweeting for @NHM_FossilFish.
Emma Bernard with her popular shark activity.
Andrew Briscoe and Suzanne Hocking have been teaching people how to extract DNA from strawberries- incredible that this can be done in a marquee on the beach!
Andrew Briscoe and Suzanne Hocking showing us how to extract DNA.
In the rest of the marquee lots of other organisations had some great activities. Zoe Hughes discovered that she walks like a Velociraptor with Plymouth University and that she is as tall as an extinct fossil penguin from Antarctica with the British Antarctic survey.


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Local Love - Filming of the Lord of the Rings in MiddleEarth
In 1999 the tiny settlement of Glenorchy (population 250) swelled with actors, filmmakers and associated staff as movie director Peter Jackson came to town
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Peter Jackson and his crew shoot scenes for The Lord of The Rings, bringing in his wake around 300 people. This was exciting times for locals, a buzz was in the air in hope of starring in his films.
Peter Jackson employed about 300 locals as extras, mainly starring as Orcs. Everyone was paid so well (earning about $200 per day) and it was such fun work that a lot of locals called in "sick" for their regular job so they could work on the film instead. When the films were released there were a lot of locals watching closely to try and spot themselves!
Jackson's respect for nature was evident as he filmed - he went to great lengths to ensure the forest floors were maintained, using cameras on high wires, and only filming for short periods on protected moss so that it could bounce back up again and flourish.
Peter Jackson also used local children for Glenorchy School. When Jackson surveyed Paradise forest for the setting of Lothlórien he found the leaves were not as golden as Tolkien had described in his books, so the crew were asked to vacuum up about 500 leaves and then he asked the children at Glenorchy school to paint them golden, after which he made a big donation to the school. He did things like this all through New Zealand which made him very popular. As the fellowship enters Lothlorien you will notice these golden leaves falling down (the elves catch them).
At Pure Glenorchy Tours, we love to share our local stories and secrets of the filming in The Lord of the Rings to life during, and our guests enjoy the inside insights. For more information, or to join us on a scenic Lord of the Rings tour, visit our website www.pureglenorchy.com


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They still have a long way to go. The new team just put out the second Players Poll as well as added new stuff to the to-do list. They added instanced dungeon and instance raid encounters to the dev cycle but the revision of max group size is upsetting. 4-man groups, 8 man raids. I really enjoyed the 15 man beatdowns but I guess it's another bone for casuals. Hopefully they make the new content challenging for those group sizes.


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Ten tweaks for a new Acer Aspire One
Take charge of Linpus
7. Install VLC
The AA1 comes with a video player app, but it's not the best. VLC is far superior but not available through Package Manager. Linux software archives are called 'repositories', and VLC is missing from the ones pre-programmed by Acer.
Installing with Yum: here we're installing the Nano text editor but VLC's install looks much the same
The VLC website will tell you to use the Livna repository, details of which are included in a .rpm file you can download and install. Once you have, open the terminal as above and type
sudo yum install vlc. You'll be asked some questions along the way, but eventually you'll have VLC installed and ready to play a wider range of video formats than the AA1's Media Master app can.
VLC can be run from the Advanced Menu, or you can add it to the desktop, as above. If you choose the latter, you'll find VLC's .desktop file is down as
livna-vlc.desktop. You can change this to
vlc.desktop using the command line. Type
cd /usr/share/applications then
sudo mv livna-vlc.desktop vlc.desktop to change the file's name.
8. Mount your NAS box
The AA1's Thunar file manager is fine, but it can't access folders on your network. To do so, you need a little command-line trickery. First, click on the My Files icon in the Files section of the desktop then create a new folder called, for instance, NetFolder.
Right-click on the empty space next to the new folder and select 'Open Terminal here' - this is another way of accessing the command line. Type
sudo mount -t cifs //[fileshare IP address]/[fileshare name] NetFolder, filling in the IP address and name with the those of your server or shared folder, minus the square brackets. Hit Enter, and the AA1 may ask you for a username and/or password - these are the magic words that apply to the shared folder not to the AA1.
The Thunar File Manager with an SMB fileshare
Assuming there are no errors - check your network connection and your command-line typing if there are - going back to the File Manager and opening the NetFolder folder will reveal the server's contents. Run VLC, select Open File, navigate to NetFolder and select a video to play over the WLAN.


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Conservative radio hosts repeat discredited claim that Obama has not produced valid U.S. birth certificate
Radio hosts Michael Savage, Rick Roberts, and Chris Baker repeated the discredited claim that Sen. Barack Obama has not produced a valid U.S. birth certificate. In fact, the Obama campaign posted a copy of Obama's birth certificate on its "Fight the Smears" website, and reportedly provided the original document to FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship."
Rehashing a long-debunked claim, conservative radio hosts Michael Savage [1], Rick Roberts [2] and Chris Baker [3] each asserted that Sen. Barack Obama has not produced a valid birth certificate proving that he was born in the United States and is therefore eligible to run for president. In broadcasts between October 8 and 10, Roberts, Baker and Savage said, respectively, that Obama's birth certificate "hasn't ... been produced"; that there "has never been a real birth certificate presented" by Obama; and that the birth certificate "that was produced is a forgery." In fact, the Obama campaign posted a copy of Obama's birth certificate [4] on its "Fight the Smears" website, and reportedly provided the original document to the nonpartisan watchdog group FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded in an August 21 post [5] that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship." Further, a Hawaiian Health Department official confirmed [6] to PolitiFact.com that Obama's birth certificate is authentic. Indeed, even the conservative website WorldNetDaily.com reported in an August 23 article [7] that a "WND investigation into Obama's birth certificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic," as Media Matters for America has documented [8].
On the October 9 broadcast of his Minneapolis-based radio show, Baker discussed a lawsuit [9] filed in August by Philip J. Berg, who baselessly charged that Obama was born in Kenya. Baker stated that "when you really start looking into this, there apparently has never been a real birth certificate presented. There's been a certificate, but it's not a birth certificate. ... Just get the damn birth certificate presented and let's move on with our lives."
Savage and guest host Roberts repeatedly questioned Obama's citizenship on the October 8, October 9 and October 10 broadcasts of the nationally syndicated Savage Nation. For instance, Savage falsely claimed that Obama's birth certificate "does not exist, they can't find it in the Hawaii government. It's never been produced. The one that was produced is a forgery." Roberts stated, "[Y]ou're running for the president of the United States, OK? Show them the birth certificate and say, 'OK, here's my birth certificate, get out of my face.' Why hasn't it been produced? Why?"
Additionally, while baselessly stating that Obama has not proven his U.S. citizenship, Savage revived other falsehoods about Obama. He falsely suggested that Obama is a Muslim [10], stating: "How could he not be Muslim if he has a Muslim name? How could he not be Muslim if his father and grandfather were Muslims? How is that possible, when he has no known birth certificate?" Savage also claimed that Jerome Corsi [11], author of The Obama Nation, "went over to Kenya to investigate [Obama's] relatives in Kenya, and he was arrested by the Muslim leader of Kenya because Mr. Corsi uncovered the true birthplace, I believe, of Hussein Obama and the connections that exist between Barack Hussein Obama and this Muslim leader ... "
However, Media Matters has documented that while Corsi recently baselessly claimed that he "came out of Kenya" with "documents" proving that Obama "made a pact with this radical leftist politician Odinga," the only "documents" Corsi has thus far provided -- purported emails listing the contact in his Senate office to work with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga -- do not establish that Obama "made a pact" with Odinga, and they "appear not to have been written by a native English speaker," as the Politico's Ben Smith has noted [12]. Media Matters has also noted [13] that PolitiFact.com [14] wrote on August 20 that Corsi's claim that Obama "openly supported" Odinga during his 2006 bid for the presidency of Kenya is "false," as PolitiFact "scour[ed] the public record for evidence that Obama supported Odinga" and concluded that "Obama has remained neutral in Kenyan politics." Also, contrary to Savage's claim that the "leader" of Kenya is a Muslim, neither Odinga [15] nor Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki [16] are Muslim, according to news reports.
On October 8, Roberts also said: "[I]f you look at some of his policies and his guidelines and certain political agendas and even more than that, certain social agendas at the outset, you know, the similarities are staggering between Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama."
From the October 8 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: So here we are, here we are, here we are, here we are. We're getting ready for the communist takeover of America with a noncitizen at the helm -- I love it. He won't even produce a birth certificate. Don't you love that? Something as basic as Obama's birth certificate now is an issue. I mean, if he's got nothing to hide, show it to me. Doesn't exist. It does not exist, they can't find it in the Hawaii government. It's never been produced. The one that was produced is a forgery. Go to my website, read the story. Who's proposing this notion? Not me. It's a Democrat. A leading Democrat from Pennsylvania is suing the Obama campaign, claiming he's not a citizen.
RICK ROBERTS (guest host): Yeah, he needs to remember, Pete, not that I could tell McCain anything, but it is my opinion. He needs to remember he's fighting not only for a job, he's fighting for this country. Once again, maybe that's too much to ask in one lifetime of any one man, given everything he's gone through. But you're absolutely spot on. Barack Obama is the most dangerous -- and I've said this before and people take exception with it -- but if you look, and I'm not Ph.D. in world history, but I can read -- if you look at world history and you look at Germany when Adolf Hitler was not initially but shortly after he first came on the scene and started making his rise to power as a community organizer, and you look at all the people he surround himself -- himself with, and if you look at some of his policies and his guidelines and certain political agendas and even more than that, certain social agendas at the outset, you know, the similarities are staggering between Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama. You know, sorry, that's the way I feel. I can read and I can look and I can compare and contrast and what I see -- the early, early days of Adolf Hitler and the very early days in this presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the similarities are absolutely staggering. Now, people say you -- you just don't like black men. It has nothing to do with his race, his theology, his point of origin -- which is in question, by the way. You heard Michael talking about that. There is some question, some question as to whether he's even a U.S. citizen and, sorry, that's something you kinda have to have to run for president. And I thought to myself, wouldn't that be something? We'd get a week away from the presidency and all of a sudden we find out he's actually born in Kenya and then taken to Hawaii where a duplicate birth certificate was produced. That -- that -- I don't know -- that'd be great -- that's a TV movie right there.
From the October 9 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: McCain is a genuine war hero. He's suffered for this country. He didn't crack, he has honor, he comes from a great family. We can trust him on national security, we cannot trust him on almost anything else. And that's the problem here. If he was clearly to be trusted on the economy, and to be trusted on the borders, and to be trusted on the onslaught of illegal aliens, we wouldn't even be having this conversation, would we? But we know we can't trust him on those other things. However, the other guy is so off the map, so far off the ken, out of the ken of reality. Obama is an unknown man, may not be a citizen, surrounded by radicals, surrounded by terrorists, that we have no choice.
SAVAGE: As far as this election goes, I vote for McCain on national security issues only, one reason only, which is I trust him with not selling the country down the river to the Islamofascists. I cannot and will not trust the unknown entity called Obama. I will not turn the country over to him. I understand that McCain comes from -- his father and his grandfather, both very, very good American men, both admirals. That's good enough for me. A military family to me is platinum, it is platinum as far as I am concerned. I have no faith in McCain on any other issue. But if I have nothing else, I'll even take that sad old hack. I will never vote for a man who nobody knows who he is. I will never vote for a man who did nothing for his country. I will never vote for a man who creates groups like ACORN, which are registering the dead and unknown. I will never work for a man who has a birth certificate nobody can find. In other words, if you vote for Obama, you're insane.
SAVAGE: Here's another article [17] from the Grand Rapids Press on my website. PBS anchor declares Obama a pseudo -- Obama pseudo controversies really hide racism. Characterizing Obama as Muslim, quote, "is a way to confer otherness on him for those people who are uncomfortable saying they're against him because he's black," says -- says a red diaper doper baby vermin from PBS. Again, it's always the white communists who are stirring up blacks against whites and whites against black. Every time you investigate, you see it's a white liberal or a person who wants a race war in the country, who works for PBS, who will not acknowledge that there are real controversies about Obama. How could he not be Muslim if he has a Muslim name? How could he not be Muslim if his father and grandfather were Muslims? How is that possible, when he has no known birth certificate?
SAVAGE: How about his relatives in Kenya? Mr. [Jerome] Corsi went over to Kenya to investigate his relatives in Kenya, and he was arrested by the Muslim leader of Kenya because Mr. Corsi uncovered the true birthplace, I believe, of Hussein Obama and the connections that exist between Barack Hussein Obama and this Muslim leader, and what this Muslim leader said he would do after this election. And yet McCain says, "Why should I care about this?" Well, as you well know, Obama's first father left him and his mother, and he was a Muslim. And Obama's mother then remarried with her new husband, who was again a Muslim. And yet we're not supposed to say the M-word. Now, as I said to you, I am a believer in all five of the world's religions. As long as they're peace-loving and are pro-American, as far as I'm concerned, all religions are equal. However, what you consider the fact that not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists happen to be Muslim, and that the 19 hijackers that destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were Muslim, mainly from Saudi Arabia, we have a very real obligation to remember that. Never mind that we've been told not to remember it by the -- both party candidates. Never mind that PBS, which should be defunded, tries to embarrass you every time your remember reality. I remember reality.
So the mother remarries and goes to Indonesia with a new husband who is also a Muslim. Barack Hussein Obama is enrolled and reported on the rolls of the Islamic Muslim school he attended under the name Barry Soetoro, S-O-E-T-O-R-O. And when Obama's mother remarried, this new Muslim husband adopted Obama and his name was changed to Barry Mohammed Soetoro legally, through the court system not in America but the court system in Indonesia. However, if you do extensive research, there are no court filings or petitions to the courts of the states of Hawaii and Illinois where this Barack Hussein Obama has his name legally changed to Barry Mohammed Soetoro, so therefore, that there is no court order allowing a name change -- name change, Barrack Hussein Obama, that he's been using, it is an illegal alias for many years. And so, therefore, it's a valid question. There are websites out there that have been filed in federal courts in Philadelphia where a Democrat attorney had to file a federal lawsuit to obtain a simple copy of this alias, Barack Hussein Obama's birth certificate. When in reality, under the Freedom of Information Act, any request made my any citizen to the senator should have been answered and the documents supplied. Especially since this person is not only a federal employee working in a federal agency as a senator but he's preparing under our Constitution which requires birth on U.S. soil, and instead of complying with his request, Barack Hussein Obama, or Hussein, sent his SA to Philadelphia to fight a simple request to show a valid birth certificate. There are websites you can go to read the writ for the attorney and the rationale that Hussein's and the entire DC attorneys gave the federal judge to dismiss this lawsuit. They said that if only one person requested it, it is not a valid issue in clear violation of the actual meaning of the Freedom of Information Act where anyone, anyone by themselves may request any document relating to presidential candidates or even sitting presidents, which includes senators. And so, ladies and gentlemen, we do not even know where Hussein Obama was born, we cannot find a legal birth certificate for him. I believe we are watching one of the greatest frauds in the history of this country unfolding before our eyes, at the same time that the gangsters of Wall Street are melting down our economy. This man may melt down our country altogether.
ROBERTS: The question was asked earlier today by many people in the lamestream media outlets: Is Barack Obama stealing the vote or is it a right-wing conspiracy, another smear? Another smear? Tell me the first smear. Tell me the first smear. Is any of this resonating with the American people? Is -- are the American people getting any of this? I'll tell you, probably not, and I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. First of all, the birth certificate issue. The birth certificate issue. You know the story goes his father moved to Kenya, his mother followed, she was pregnant with him, she didn't like the way Muslim men treated the women, she wanted to go back to Hawaii, she was too far along in her pregnancy, they said, "No, you can't fly." She had the baby in Kenya, then got on a plane with the child back to Hawaii and got a registry of birth. You know, if that's not an issue, if that's not a problem -- you're running for the president of the United States, OK? Show them the birth certificate and say, "OK, here's my birth certificate, get out of my face." Why hasn't it been produced? Why?
From the October 10 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: We're taking a gamble on Barack Hussein Obama. It doesn't matter that he doesn't have a birth certificate. It doesn't matter that he may not be an American citizen. Doesn't matter that he sat in a church for 20 years where a preacher preached the most vile hatred you could imagine -- hatred toward whites, hatred toward America, because that's when he was younger. It doesn't matter that he associates with known terrorists who plotted blowing up the Pentagon and said they didn't do enough -- that doesn't matter because the important thing is that he's a young man who speaks well and can bring about change.
From the October 9 broadcast of KTLK's The Chris Baker Show:
BAKER: According to an investigation by Philip Berg, who has quite a extensive -- he was an assistant attorney general of Pennsylvania, if I'm not mistaken -- I could be, whatever. Assistant attorney general somewhere, which is certainly more attorney general school than I've ever had. So there. Anyway, he says Barack Obama is not a citizen, and now as I've kept up with this story -- and again, just kinda flying around the outside, because when I heard it I thought, "OK, yeah, great, this is what we need, right?" but now when you really start looking into this, there apparently has never been a real birth certificate presented. There's been a certificate, but it's not a birth certificate. And according to Philip Berg, Barack Obama was born in Kenya. And he presents a pretty -- pretty strong case, and I don't know if he's right and I don't know if he's wrong. But I do know that this is an incredibly important issue for a couple of -- a couple of huge reasons. One, I do not want to go through -- if Barack Obama wins the election, I do not want to go into a Barack Obama presidency with a bunch of people running around saying "He's illegitimate. He's not my president. He was selected, not elected. He's not even a citizen. He's not even certified. This whole thing is a fraud" -- I don't need that, OK? I don't need that distraction because the things like this distract us from policy. Now the second part of this is, it's only building suspicion. Now, as I've read about this story, I've read that the Democrat [sic] Party's trying to delay this, they want to keep it out of the courts until after the election -- and listen, here's the deal. Just get the damn birth certificate presented and let's move on with our lives.
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- Talk Radio Network [18], 100.3 KTLK-FM [19]
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- Michael Savage [20], Chris Baker [21], Rick Roberts [22]
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- The Savage Nation [23], The Chris Baker Show [24]
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Adult cocktails in "The Closet Reconfiguration" Episode 19 of Season 6
Howard struggles with whether or not he should open a letter from his father, and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) throw a "grown-up" cocktail party at the apartment, on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, March 14th on the CBS Television Network. Also pictured left to right: Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons Photo: Michael Yarish/Warner Bros. ©2013 Warner Bros. Television. All Rights Reserved


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Cecil Howard Crumby
Cecil Howard Crumby, 72, of Hot Springs passed away Wednesday, October 2, 2013.
Services will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday at Hot Springs Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Dale Crumby officiating.
Visitation will be 1:00 until service time on Saturday
Honorary Pallbearers are nurses and staff at National Park Medical Center; Dr. Michael Mullins, Dr. Siddhar Shah, Dr. Neeray Bharany, Dr. Edward Warren and Dr. Robert Breving.
Arrangements are by Hot Springs Funeral Home.
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Bret Michaels (born Bret Michael Sychak, March 15, 1963) is an American musician, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and reality television personality. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison. Besides his career as lead singer, he has several solo albums to his credit, as well as one chart single. He appeared in the VH1 reality show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and its sequels, and as a judge on the talent show Nashville Star. He was the winning contestant on NBC's reality show Celebrity Apprentice 3.
Michaels was born Bret Michael Sychak, to Wally and Marjorie Sychak, north of Pittsburgh in the city of Butler, Pennsylvania. He has two sisters, Michelle and Nicole. He claims that his parents had originally intended for him to have the middle name "Maverick", after the title character in the popular James Garner TV Western series Maverick. He is of Carpatho-Rusyn descent.
At the age of six he fell ill, and during a three-week stay in the hospital, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.


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The start of the 2013-2014 basketball season for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons is only a few days away. Assistant coach John Wild points out that the fall preseason may be more of a challenge in terms of time to get things done than during the season because of the preparation necessary to get ready. Head coach Greg Brown and Wild are in their second season with the Lady Bisons. Wild found some time to talk with lipscombsports.com in a special version of "Where Are They Now?"
The Lady Bisons open the season with an exhibition game Monday night at Allen Arena against Freed-Hardeman at 6. What do you expect from the team?
"I think we have a chance to be pretty good. We have had the chance to recruit kids that we want to play within our system. Greg does such a good job of trying to get us to understand the type of kids we want to recruit.
"We want to recruit kids who can shoot the ball. I think we have kids who can shoot the ball. We want kids who have a relatively high basketball I.Q. and we have that. We want to recruit kids with a motor who are not only going to play hard, but that are going to cut hard and screen hard and defend hard. And I think we have kids who are skilled.
"That's exciting. The kids we have in this class fit those four areas. I think our team chemistry is really good. I think they understand what their roles are and they accept those roles. Sometimes accepting a role is tough. I think it is going to be fun team to watch."
As a high school coach you won state championships on multiple classification levels and with both girls and boys teams. What made you decide to make the move to come to Lipscomb?
"I knew if I left the high school game it would have to be as close to a perfect situation as possible.
"I thought I had a very good situation at Murfreesboro Riverdale with a solid school system and financial stability. I felt like the administration was solid and supported me. We not only had good players, we had players with a work ethic.
"This was a chance for me to come back to the place where I went to college. No.2, I didn't have to uproot my family.
"I felt like I would be working for a quality coach and a quality person in Greg Brown. It was the chance to come in and help build a program."
What sport did you play at Lipscomb? What years? Who were your coaches?
"From 1986-87 I was a student assistant coach under Don Meyer. I played in 87-88 and 88-89. In 1990 I did my student teaching.
"They recruited me a little my senior year when I was at Greater Atlanta Christian School. When I realized I wasn't going to be offered a scholarship I just decided to come to school at Lipscomb because I had a bunch of friends coming here.
"The spring of my sophomore year I finally realized I wanted to coach and teach. I walked over to Holman House and met with coach Meyer. I told him I wanted to go into education and coaching and I wanted to work with the basketball program in some capacity. I started out working summer camps and then became a student assistant coach.
"I had gone through the summer of 1987 thinking I was going to be a student coach again. The first day of practice I was over in a corner of the gym with John Hudy getting things ready for the start of practice. Coach Meyer came up to me and asked me how much time I had before I was going to graduate. I told him at least two years and probably an extra semester. He gave that famous grunt and said go talk to Chris Snoddy and get some practice gear and be back in five minutes.
"I think he felt like I could fill a role as a player. I was a back-up post kid.
"I was fine being a student assistant coach. I was working for one of the best teachers of basketball that I could have worked for.
"It is the old adage you don't realize how special something it is until it is gone. When I started working with Keith Edwards at Friendship Christian in the 1990s that rear view mirror got larger the first couple of years I was coaching.
"I realized then that coach Meyer had really had an impact on me. You heard former players talk about it, but I don't think you ever really get a grasp on it until you are actually in the field. The three years I was with him I tried to be as much of a sponge as I could. But it wasn't until I got out and started coaching that I realized the impact he was going to have on me 25 to 30 years down the line."
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"It should have been a win, but it was a loss to Belmont. We were 38-1 and ranked No. 1 in the NAIA. We lost to Belmont in McQuiddy and finished 38-2.
"It was in 1989. It was the night Joe Behling had 58 points. I will never forget what coach Meyer said at halftime. We were down a couple of points and Behling already had 29. The first thing coach Meyer said when he walked in the locker room was not to worry about it because Behling would never get 29 points in a half again And he did.
"It is odd that it is a loss that is my favorite memory. I still have my notebooks in my office. The other day I was looking through the notes from after that game. The first thing I wrote down was `even when they lose, they win'. It is what you take out of that loss and how you apply it to the game that is coming up next or to what is happening in your life that is important."
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"At that time, besides my father, Jack, it was coach Meyer who had the greatest influence on me. Absolutely, as far as the lifetime principles he tried to instill in us as players.
"I think the way he taught the game, and the way he still teaches the game, is better suited for the girls game. The girls' game is a lot more structured. The fundamentals come into play more in the girls' game. I just felt like, when I did make the transition from boys to girls basketball in 1999, that what I learned from coach Meyer was going to pay great dividends.
"The style of play that he teaches has the ability to take the athletic ability out of the game more in the girls' game than in the guys' game. The guys' game is so athletic."
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"It would be hanging out in the dorm with my teammates, particularly during Christmas. Coach Meyer would bring us back early for practice. All of the churches would feed us. They were all so nice and opened their arms for us because of the great job coach Meyer did marketing the program.
"We would sometimes have two--a-days during Christmas break. But we would have seven or eight hours where we were by ourselves in the dorm. I remember all of the tennis ball wars we had. We would use all of the floors of High Rise.
"Philip Hutcheson, Wade Tomlinson and Marcus Bodie would all play. Philip used a trash can top as a shield to block invading tennis balls from me or Rob Brown or whoever it was.
"I remember the time we spent off the court with one another more than I remember the practices and the games. We would go to Atlanta to a Braves game on the weekend. We would go to the ACC basketball tournament. We would go to Burgess Falls in Cookeville and just hang out."
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"Coach Meyer instilled in me that it is not what you teach, it is what you emphasize. You can have all of the knowledge in the world on the subject of coaching basketball, but you have to take that and communicate it and emphasize it to your players.
"Another thing was planning and organizing. The way coach Meyer laid out our program for 12 months of the year gave me a lot of ideas on organizational structure not only for my basketball programs, but for my life in general and my family. There are principles that I try to relay to my kids today.
"Third, there were the lifetime principles - simple things like saying `please' and `thank you'. Everybody picked up trash. There was no pecking order. They were just good, true, solid ideas."
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"I have two - Dr. Lynn Griffith and Dr. Robert Hooper.
"I wasn't the most structured, goal-oriented or visionary person as far as what I wanted to do with my life when I got to Lipscomb. Once I figured out that I wanted to coach and teach coach Griffith gave me some structure about which path to go on and what classes to take.
"I majored in P.E. and minored in history. I was certified to teach history.
"Dr. Hooper and his wife, Virginia, were a Dad and Mother away from home. It was a Pleasantville atmosphere when you were around them. I was in Sigma Chi Delta in my early days. Dr. Hooper was our sponsor. Their house was a place we could go and just relax. They gave me a home away from home.
"In class he tried to teach us some lifetime things too."
Tell us about your family.
"My wife's name is Susan. She is a guidance counselor at Marshall County High School in Lewisburg. There are four children, Slayton and Layne, who are both freshmen at Forrest High School in Chapel Hill. Kazdin is an eighth grade at North Middle School in Winchester. Kaley is an eighth grader at Forrest."
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Welcome to Deepwell Estates Neighborhood Organization. This website is provided as a convenient resource to all DENO members to receive and share information about
our community. It is the residents of Deepwell who make this neighborhood the best place to live in the Coachella Valley. Deepwell is truly one of the best neighborhoods in Palm Springs, and DENO is by far the best neighborhood organization in town! Our 2012 year started out with our well attended yearly meeting in January at the Mizell Center, followed by our very successful February Garage Sale. March celebrated an almost soggy, but well fed Progressive Deepwell.
In April DENO members toured the homes and gardens of five of their neighbors, getting a peek at what's inside those beautiful front doors and behind the walls and hedges. August sizzled with a festive evening party, a tribute to all of us tough enough to endure the summer heat. We ended the year with our ever popular TASTE of Deepwell potluck in November.
Thank you to the DENO board members, to all of those who offered their homes for this year's events—a creative, organized and tasteful bunch!—and to all of our wonderful volunteers who so graciously give their time and energy to help make our neighborhood community so fabulous!


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This scientific visualization presents a flight to a small globular star cluster and a few hundred thousand years of its development. Globular star clusters contain many thousands to millions of stars all orbiting around their common center of gravity. During the flight to and around the globular star cluster, time has been stopped to allow one to examine the structure of the cluster. After arrival, the stars begin their swarming orbits.
The visualization uses data from a simulation that followed the orbits of 6144 stars using the special purpose supercomputer GRAPE-4. This small globular star cluster is simulated in its early stages, with the sample of stars drawn from a zero-age main sequence. Hence, there are many more blue stars than would be found in a typical old globular cluster. The star brightnesses are calculated and calibrated to approximate what the human eye would see. The colors are a bit exaggerated in an attempt to compensate for desaturation during dome projection. For context, the globular cluster is placed within a random star field taken from the Yale Bright Star Catalog. The piece of the simulation shown here covers about 122 thousand years of the star cluster's development. Time passes at a rate of about 2350 years per second, which corresponds to 78 years per frame at 30 frames per second.
Visualization: Frank Summers (STScI);
Simulation: Simon Portegies Zwart (Boston University)
Production: April 23, 2004
Publication: November 28, 2016