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During this NBA season, Nuggets writer Benjamin Hochman will sample the best burgers in each city, documenting his excellent adventure (bogus journey?) of savoring bliss on a bun.
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HOUSTON — "Are you here for the quilting convention?"
This was asked by the woman at the hotel front desk, and I promptly became tongue-tied, for several reasons:
1. There's a quilting convention this weekend?
2. They have conventions for quilting?
3. Do I – the shaggy haired, unshaven 30-year-old man – look like I'm here for the friggin' quilting convention?
I explained to the nice lady that, no, in fact, I'm not a quilter – though, perhaps one day my writing will make the pages of The Quilter, which is "The Number One Quilt Pattern Magazine," according to, yes, The Quilter magazine.
The lady went on to explain that, apparently, this International Quilt Market/Festival is a big deal here. We got to talking, and she soon confided in me that these quilters, well, are actually pretty demanding divas. It made me wonder who was the LeBron of quilters – perhaps the folks from Patchalot Patterns? A Graceful Stitch? Bits 'N Pieces? (Just a few of the hundreds of groups who cloaked Houston this weekend). Also, I wonder if the handful of NBA-fan quilters make silly references to "stop stitchin' ? "
But this is not the National Blanket Adventure; it's the National Burger Adventure, so I put any quilting aspirations to bed (boooooo!) and headed to the Polk Street Pub for some Texas-sized indigestion.
My challenge – the Certified Angus Beef Pavilion Burger, which is $14.99 of deliciousness (I imagined that Microsoft Word would have underlined "deliciousness" in red, but apparently it's an actual word, unlike previous feeble attempts, be it "amazingness," the George Karl favorite "teamness" or "Aunt Janet Nessness" (used to describe someone behaving like my aunt, Janet Ness).
This burger featured avocado, a fried egg, roasted bell peppers, brie cheese, mushrooms and bacon, not to mention the old standbys — lettuce, tomato and onions.
At the Polk Street Pub, a five-minute walk from the Houston Rockets' Toyota Center, some folks were dressed in Halloween costumes, notably my waitress, who was Snow White (it would have awesome if, instead, she had dressed like Snow, the Caucasian Canadian rapper who duped us in 1992 into, somehow, liking the song "Informer" … a licky boom-boom now".
Among the patrons at Polk Street Pub was a particular gentleman wearing the most-hideous shirt ever sewn, though I don't think he was dressed up for Halloween as A Guy In The Most-Hideous Shirt Ever Sewn.
My stomach was a growling. It was a combination of the fact that I hadn't eaten all day –and the sickness in my stomach while watching my alma mater Missouri loses at Nebraska (Today, tailback Roy Helu Jr. walked across Nebraska's campus, dragging a Missouri cornerback grasped to his ankle).
Snow White brought out the burger, which was the length of Jay Leno's chin. Held up by a six-inch toothpick, this burger was daunting – if accomplished, it would be the tallest thing I ever ate. But even before the first bite, I was perplexed on just how to actually attack the burger. With two hands and a prayer, I went after this thing.
It was amazingness. It was really good piece of burger, cooked medium, and though the burger was hearty, it didn't over-dominate the other flavors. Each chew provided a different combo of taste, say, avocado-burger-egg … or brie-burger-bell pepper … innumerable combinations (like in one of those math problems I always got wrong in high school).
I'll tell you, though, during the burger-biting, the surprise taste was the roasted bell pepper. I've never really had much of an opinion of bell peppers — no offense, bell peppers. But during this burger, the bell peppers stood out among the big boys, be it the mushrooms or avocado or bacon. It was like the 1991 Atlanta Braves – on a team with slugger David Justice, 30-30 man Ron Gant and league MVP Terry Pendleton, little Mark Lemke hit friggin' .417 in the World Series and had a walk-off, extra-inning hit, to boot.
As for the burger — inexplicably, I ate the whole thing. Quilt that!
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This dish is one of the few Spanish influenced recipes that my mom learned to make from my South American-blooded dad's mom when they married. It's also the only dish that she continued to cook after they divorced. My mom (who grew up eating platefuls of roast pork and plain boiled cabbage) would tell me stories of how she'd make the trip to these special ethnic grocery stores tucked under the subway tracks to stock up on all the exotic essentials: cilantro, garbanzo beans, peppers, plantains. Apparently cilantro was exotic in the 1970s.
I've never really paid attention to the origins of this recipe, and I've always considered it authentic Hispanic cuisine in my family. But after cooking professionally for some time, close inspection of the components brought up questions. Italian sausage? Canned tomato sauce with chickpeas and green olives? The best was when I Googled the recipe and the results included, "Puerto Rican brown rice with olives and chickpeas." (Dad, do we need to have a talk?) However it originated, I've come to the conclusion that my grandmother's recipe was slight hodgepodge of ethnicities from the melting pot that is New York City, and that easy to find ingredients (Italian sausage) were adapted.
To recreate this hearty rice dish, I stayed mostly true to what I remember. That meant cooking a sofrito of green peppers, olives, and garlic. Next, I added Italian sausage (it's delicious in this) and lots of cilantro. I then dumped the green olives into the rice, tucked in the pre-browned chicken, and let it all cook. For the extra family touch of flavoring, I sprinkled in a dash of adobo seasoning. We always served a tomato-chickpea gravy on the side. Though my family would literally heat the chickpeas in a pot with a can of tomato sauce and call it a day (if we were lucky, more olives would be tossed in), I tried to kick it up a notch by puréeing whole (canned) tomatoes and flavoring the sauce with cilantro. The final results? It was ridiculously delicious and my kitchen filled with all the Spanish aromas that I remembered as a child. My dad would be proud.
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ALAMEDA — The Raiders released their list of prospective free agents who will be available to the highest bidder on March 12 unless they are signed by the club before then.
Included among the 17 unrestricted free agents is defensive tackle Richard Seymour, whose last contract negotiation voided the 2013 season. Seymour will miss his seventh consecutive game on Sunday with a hamstring strain.
Nine players who will start Sunday against the Carolina Panthers are ticketed for unrestricted free agency: offensive lineman Khalif Barnes, defensive tackle Desmond Bryant, guard Cooper Carlisle, middle linebacker Omar Gaither, free safety Matt Giordano, punter Shane Lechler, tight end Brandon Myers, defensive end Matt Shaughnessy and linebacker Philip Wheeler.
Others are defensive end Andre Carter, running back Mike Goodson, wide receiver Derek Hagan, cornerback Joselio Hanson, quarterback Matt Leinart, safety Mike Mitchell and cornerback Shawntae Spencer.
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To support or defend by argument; to recommend publicly. An individual who presents or argues another's case; one who gives legal advice and pleads the cause of another before a court or tribunal; a counselor. A person admitted to the Practice of Law who advises clients of their legal rights and argues their cases in court.
advocate(Counselor), noun adviser, apologist, attorney-at-law, barrister, champion, counsel learned in the law, counselor-at-law, defender, friend at court, friend in court, interagent, interceder, interlocutor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediite agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interventionist, interventor, jurisconsult, jurist, justifier, lawyer, learned counsel, legal adviser, legal practitioner, legal representative, legate, legist, maintainer, man of law, medium, member of the legal profession, mover, negotiator, one called to the bar, paraclete, patron, patronus, pleader, proctor, prompter, protector, seconder, solicitor, spokesman, spokeswoman, suasor, upholder, votary
advocate(Espouser), noun abettor, adherent, auctor, backer, champion, countenancer, defender, exponent, expounder, favorer, maintainer, partisan, patron, promoter, propagandist, propagator, proponent, seconder, sectary, spokesman, spokeswoman, support, supporter, sympathizer, upholder, votary
Associated concepts: advocate the abolishment of the death sentence, advocate the commission of a crime, advocate the overthrow of government
advocateverb advise, allege in support, approve, argue for, assert, back, champion, commend, consent, connend for, counsel, defend, endorse, espouse, exhort, favor, give advice, plead for, plead in favor of, plead one's case, plead one's cause, prescribe, promote, prompt, propose, propound, recommend, sanction, second, speak in favor of, suadere, subscribe to, suggest, support, uphold, urge
Associated concepts: advocate the commission of a crime, advocate the overthrow of government
See also: abet, abettor, accept, adhere, admonish, advance, advise, amicus curiae, apologist, approve, assistant, attest, attorney, authorize, avow, backer, barrister, benefactor, certify, claim, coactor, colleague, conduit, corroborate, council, counsel, counselor, countenance, defend, direct, disciple, embrace, espouse, esquire, exhort, favor, foster, incite, indorse, instruct, intermediary, jurist, lawyer, maintain, organize, partisan, pass, patron, petition, plead, plenipotentiary, posit, prescribe, pressure, proctor, profess, promise, promote, promoter, proponent, propose, propound, side, special interest, spokesman, sponsor, subscribe, sustain, uphold, urge
advocatein Scotland, a member of the faculty of advocates. (Note, however, that in Aberdeen solicitors call themselves advocates.) An advocate is the Scottish equivalent of a BARRISTER. Advocates have the exclusive right to represent parties in the higher courts, subject, since legislation first introduced in 1990, to the provision that a SOLICITOR ADVOCATE is allowed to appear in these courts as well. The Faculty is a self-regulating body dating from the early 16th century. Its head is the elected Dean of Faculty. He is assisted by a Council.
Training and education involves an LLB degree and a diploma in legal practice. The aspiring advocate breaks off the period of traineeship in a solicitor's office and then spends a period of pupillage, assisting and learning from his pupil master. Specialized court skills training is given. The entrant has to be elected at the end of the process.
The professional code of the advocate is similar to that of the barrister, involving an obligation to act for any client willing to pay the necessary fee. The barrister's immunity for negligence having been departed from, it may reasonably be assumed that advocates will now be liable for their negligence in Scotland.
Advocates do not practise in chambers; rather they are independent. They do arrange to have one clerk act for a number of advocates. Although the advocate's fee is legally an honorarium and not recoverable through the courts, the Faculty established Faculty Services Ltd, which acts as a debt collector for members and provides them with general office services.
ADVOCATE, civil and ecclesiastical law. 1. An officer who maintains or de
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the common law.
2. Lord Advocate. An, officer of state in Scotland, appointed by the king, to advise about the making and executing the law, to prosecute capital crimes, &c.
3. College or faculty of advocates. A college consisting of 180 persons, appointed to plead in. all actions before the lords of sessions.
4. Church or ecclesiastical advocates. Pleaders appointed by the church to maintain its rights.
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Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently.
She has squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is introducing them to her young children, who are savoring the volumes with their mother's childhood scribblings inside. "Why would you give your kids a fake experience when you can give them the real experience?" said the Baltimore mother of two.
Keller is on one side of the new reading war: e-book or traditional hardback. It is a debate more relevant than ever as e-readers saturate the marketplace. Amazon, for example, reported that it sold 4 million Kindles in December alone. Sales of print books declined by about 9 percent last year, although juvenile fiction didn't slip as much as adult fiction, according to Nielsen BookScan.
Even as children have more exposure at home to e-readers, the American Academy of Pediatrics discourages screen time for children younger than 2. The academy says that unstructured play time is better for brain development and that young children who use electronic media extensively are at risk for delays in language development once they start school.
Many tech-savvy families and teachers remain wedded to the old-fashioned book for the youngest children. They believe it offers children a link to the past, an object that can be touched, smelled, even chewed on and taken into the bathtub.
But others say that the e-readers may eventually prove to be an inexpensive tool to open up the world of books to young children who might live in an area far from a library or not have a house full of books.
"I don't see any drawbacks to it," said Anthony Japzon, principal of Medfield Heights Elementary and Middle School in Baltimore. "The little kids are getting exposed" to technology earlier and earlier, he said.
Rodgers Forge Elementary School kindergarten teacher Deborah Hughey compares reading an e-book to seeing a picture of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of sunflowers rather than the real painting with its three-dimensional feel.
"For the young reader, you can't beat the book with the big pages and the beautiful illustrations and the snuggling up with Mom to read a story. I don't know if you get the same visceral pleasure you would get from the book," she said.
Even though her kindergartners could be considered digital natives, Hughey still finds that students can be impulsive and don't always have the ability to flip from one digital or computer page to another without help. She prefers to keep guiding them with her oversize books.
But Hughey said she is ready to accept the new technology that is invading homes and schools. She encourages her students to read the language all around them in the world. "If it is an iPad or a Kindle, or a sign in the grocery store, it is all reading. It is all good practice. … I would say it doesn't matter what you read, just practice," Hughey said.
The way a child learns to read can be an important element in building relationships in families, according to Holly Kreider, director of programs at Raising A Reader, a nonprofit in Mountain View, Calif.
Kreider said digital and physical books can coexist on a child's bookshelf, but physical books promote more family engagement and shared reading between a parent and a child. Talking about the book with an adult will begin to lead the discussion to what children see and hear. "I don't want to throw that out and replace it with an e-reader," she said.
In addition, she points out that some research indicates that exposure to light from a screen within a half-hour before bedtime can interrupt a sleep cycle.
Japzon sees nothing wrong with reading to young children on an e-reader and believes they could be a great advantage for some of his students who do not come from middle- or upper-middle-class families.
When he walks into a home where there are only two plastic chairs in the living room and mattresses on the floor in the bedrooms, he said, he knows the family probably cannot afford a lot of books. He wonders if getting an e-reader into the hands of those children might expose them to more literature than sending home a few books.
"If you are trying to get a kid to read, get a child excited about reading, then it doesn't matter whether it is an e-reader or a book," Japzon said. If children aren't exposed to a lot of books, then it is harder for them to learn to read, he said.
Carl D. Howe, research director at Yankee Group, a market research firm in Boston, envisions a kind of reverse digital divide in the years ahead. Children of more affluent families will have lots of picture books and hardback books with illustrations, while children from lower-income families will read mostly from e-readers.
Once the cost of an e-reader comes down to the price of buying a couple of hardback books, he said, more low-income families will be able to afford an e-reader.
Howe believes both forms of reading are useful for small children.
"The way you should expose children to reading is through real books," he said. But he added, "There is an immediacy that a tablet brings to a child that is very engaging and may create more interest in books."
Even Wendy Bronfin, senior director of children's digital projects at Barnes & Noble, doesn't believe parents should give up on physical books for their children. "When we are talking about kids between zero and 5," she said, they should be able to pick up the physical book and learn what it is like. "They need to know ... book literacy."
"Most parents are using digital picture books as a supplement to an actual library," she said. Her company is trying to make digital picture books authentic, she said, by putting the images next to the words, as they would appear in the printed version. "We aren't here to change the nature of books."
However, Barnes & Noble is making some books interactive so that children can touch an image on the e-reader and it will move. The company's e-reader, called Nook, also has narration, which Bronfin said is handy for parents who have read "Fancy Nancy" over and over, and want to take a break. And parents and grandparents can now pre-record themselves reading a book to a child, which the child can play back as narration.
"I think there is a big romance in reading digital books to children," Bronfin said.
JoAnn Fruchtman, the owner of the Children's Bookstore in Roland Park, couldn't disagree more. "I strongly believe that children should have real books," she said, adding that children need the sensory experience that a book provides.
"You can feel a book, you can smell a book. You can even chew a book," she said, adding that she doesn't see a lot of use of digital books among her clients.
As the owner of an iPad and a Kindle, Kelly Emerson is fully engaged in new technology, but the mother of three is very much a traditionalist when it comes to reading to her young boys.
She wants her children to know the pleasure of picking out a book from the shelf, turning it over in their hands and snuggling with an adult as they read, turn the pages and discuss it. She wants them to know the concrete meaning of a beginning, a middle and an end to a book. She doesn't like the idea that the cadence and rhythm of language would be interrupted by a child pointing to animate a character on an iPad.
"I want their [first] experience of books to be books," said Emerson, whose children go to the Waldorf School, which tries to minimizes the use of technology in the early years.
Recently, she delighted in finding a book with a sticky note attached on which her child had written: "read again."


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As the calendar flips to 2014, it's time to start thinking about the baseball season that grows closer by the day.
Here are thoughts on the American League West, composed while listening to Beyonce's new self-titled album. Why Beyonce for the American League West? Well, Beyonce is from Houston, so it's a natural. Plus, it will be nice to say something positive about Houston in a baseball column.
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Actually, that's not entirely fair. The album begins with the song "Pretty Hurts" and the first words are, "Miss Third Ward, your first question: What is your aspiration in life?" Beyonce answers, "Oh, my aspiration in life would be to be happy." That is also true of the Astros. It's just aspiration right now, because Houston is involved in a long-term rebuilding project.
This is a team that lost 111 games in 2013, so you could say there's nowhere to go but up, but that would be a lie because we know that the 1962 Mets lost 120 games and the 2003 Tigers lost 119. The Tigers are most instructive here, because three years later, they were in the World Series. Part of that was because Ivan Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame candidate around the peak of his career, showed up as a free agent in 2004 and expedited the turnaround with both his talent and the mere fact that he was a free agent willing to go to Detroit. More talent followed after that.
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The Astros don't have an Ivan Rodriguez this year. They have right-hander Scott Feldman on a three-year, $30 million contract, and a new center fielder acquired via trade in Dexter Fowler. What the Astros do have is a loaded farm system headlined by the past two No. 1 overall draft picks, shortstop Carlos Correa and right-hander Mark Appel, plus sluggers Jonathan Singleton and George Springer.
So, for now, "shine a light on whatever's worst," because the Astros are pretty much bound for another last-place finish in 2014. But when Beyonce asks, "are you happy with yourself?" Houston can say yes, because there is an actual plan in place here and legitimate reason to believe in the future, and that goes into the second Beyonce track, "Haunted," and the young voice that proclaims, "I love you, Houston."
If there's a haunted team in the AL West, it's the Rangers, who have ended the past three years on the wrong end of winner-moves-on, loser-goes-home games. There was Game 7 of the 2011 World Series, the American League wild card game in 2012, and the one-game playoff against the Rays in October to get to the wild card game.
Texas has responded by trading for Prince Fielder and signing Shin-Soo Choo. Fielder's addition cost Ian Kinsler, but that freed the Rangers to install Jurickson Profar as their starting second baseman in a double-play combination with Elvis Andrus that figures to make ground balls exceedingly difficult to get through the infield. Choo means that Nelson Cruz won't be back in Texas, but that's fine because Fielder takes on the slugger role and Choo is an upgrade in the outfield and for his on-base ability.
"You must be on to me," Beyonce sings, but it's hard to say that anyone is on to the Rangers. This is a team without a real perceptible weakness and no reason not to expect a fifth straight 90-win season.
"Drunk in Love" features Jay-Z, and, well, hello Seattle Mariners and Mr. Carter's client, Robinson Cano. Seattle has not been to the playoffs since 2001, and as the offseason goes on, there is no indication that the Mariners will be much better in 2014 than they were in 2013. Cano is a star, for sure, but, "if I do say so myself," as Jay-Z sings, there have not been the necessary upgrades around him to create a contender.
The Mariners signed Corey Hart and traded for Logan Morrison, but those additions came at the cost of two of Seattle's most productive hitters in 2013, Raul Ibanez and Kendrys Morales. The rotation is strong, led by Felix Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma, with top prospects Taijuan Walker and James Paxton ready to contribute at the major league level, but where are the runs going to come from?
You can love Cano all you want, but the rest of Seattle's offseason has been a drunk stumble to this point. Is there any objective way to see the Mariners as better than the Rangers now? The A's? The Angels?
Okay, maybe the Angels. "Solve the riddle," Beyonce sings in "Blow." It's actually not that difficult. It has to do with Albert Pujols playing 99 games in 2013, Josh Hamilton posting a .739 OPS, Jered Weaver making only 24 starts, and Jerome Williams being the only starter other than C.J. Wilson to make as many as 25 starts. That's a good recipe for a 78-84 season.
For the Angels, "turn the cherry out" might be a nice suggestion about getting rid of their hideous red alternate jerseys with the red lettering. The only worse alternate jersey in baseball is the Braves' navy-on-navy look. Whatever the Angels wear, though, they should look better in 2014 just based on players performing to their capabilities — unless Hamilton and Pujols really are shells of their former selves. If that's the case, given their contracts, things in Anaheim are going to be very bad for a very long time, regardless of how otherworldly Mike Trout might be.
On "No Angel," Beyonce goes up in pitch to start singing, "Baby, put your arms around me, tell me I'm a problem." If there's a problem with the Oakland A's, it's hard to see what it is. The names might not be flashy, because they hardly ever are, but after a brief post-Moneyball hiccup when everyone caught on to on-base percentage as a market inefficiency and the market corrected itself, Billy Beane is back up to his old tricks.
The new Oakland recipe features one key component of the old one: a strong rotation with Sonny Gray, A.J. Griffin, Jarrod Parker, Dan Straily, and free agent addition Scott Kazmir. There's no true ace, but all five starters could be a No. 2 or No. 3. It's not dissimilar from the way the Atlanta Braves go about things these days, and while the A's don't have Craig Kimbrel in their bullpen, they do have as much of a stockpile of quality relief arms as anyone in baseball, with new additions Jim Johnson and Luke Gregerson offsetting the departure of Grant Balfour in free agency.
If it seems strange that the defending division champions are the last team discussed here, that's just how the A's are — under the radar until they beat you. Oakland's lineup fits this theory well. Is Josh Donaldson going to have another 148 OPS+ season? Maybe not, but there's not a real weak spot. On-base percentage remains a key, and the A's were third in the American League in drawing walks in 2013. There are runners on base constantly, and generally, Oakland is good at putting balls in the air to make things happen. The A's grounded into the fourth-fewest double plays in the American League this past season.
It sets up as another good duel at the top of the division between Oakland and Texas, with the Angels lurking should things break their way. In Beyonce's "Partition," there is a duel for her musical soul — bass beats dropping over clubby rhymes, then a transition into a sexy, slinking croon that comes back into a blend with the first part. "I just wanna be a girl you like, the kind of girl you like," she sings. There is no reason to worry about it, and whoever comes out on top in the AL West will be a team to like watching, even if it's the Angels doing the French part of "Partition."
Now Beyonce informs us at the start of "Jealous" that she's in her penthouse half-naked, and cooked this meal naked. I'm not entirely sure why someone might throw on a robe after making chicken cacciatore in the nude, but c'est la vie, I suppose. Beyonce continues getting dressed, and, "filling up this skirt, I look damn good, I ain't lost it." Well, Raul Ibanez turns 42 in June, and he's joining the Angels after a season with the Mariners in which he hit 29 home runs. That's a fine way for Los Angeles to replace some of the power lost when Mark Trumbo was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The two pitchers acquired in the Trumbo deal, Hector Santiago and Tyler Skaggs, should fill out the back end of the rotation, behind Weaver, Wilson, and hard-throwing Garrett Richards. The Angels' other big addition this winter is third baseman David Freese, acquired from the Cardinals for Peter Bourjos, who simply did not have a place to play in Anaheim.
Freese, who hit 20 homers in 2012 and nine this past season, is another hitter the Angels need to perform to his resume in 2014 after a disappointing 2013. It's going to be a very interesting season there, because who knows whether to expect the 84-loss team or the one that was so widely projected to be headed to the World Series a year ago.
"Rocket" is a song in which Beyonce devotes six and a half minutes to sex, from foreplay to orgasm to cuddling. The imagery is tremendously explicit and explicitly tremendous. It's amazing. Play it over a highlight montage of Trout, and he won't just win the MVP in 2014, the MVP will have Mike Trout's babies. Yes, the MVP is an inanimate object. Yes, that's how purely sexual the song is, all rockets and waterfalls.
Trout is the same age now that Beyonce was when Dangerously In Love came out and she sang the national anthem at Super Bowl XXXVIII. Can you even imagine that what's happened up to now with Trout is the Destiny's Child phase of his career? It's mind-boggling.
Drake is singing on "Mine," and Drake is pretty hit or miss. In this case, as with everything else on this album so far, it's a hit. After the raw energy of "Rocket," the song is a bit of a comedown, but only in the way that Adrian Beltre hitting behind Prince Fielder would be. There are three players in the major leagues who have hit 30 or more home runs each of the past three seasons — Miguel Cabrera, Jay Bruce and Beltre. That's it. I say this as someone who's been guilty of underrating Beltre in the past — that's done now. Beltre will be 35 in April, and by the time he's done, he could well be a Hall of Famer. So, what the heck happened to him for those years in Seattle?
Also, what the heck is audio from the Challenger disaster doing on Beyonce's "XO" here? It's actually a quite beautiful song, and with lyrics like "you better kiss me before our time has run out," the nod to mortality makes sense, but it's an odd choice. There's another old audio clip before "Flawless," as Beyonce and the other members of Girl's Tyme are introduced. That song starts off sounding like it's the lost track from Kanye West's "Yeezus," but then Beyonce starts singing, and, well, it still sounds like the lost track from Yeezus, just with Beyonce singing. It's kind of like how Yoenis Cespedes fits the A's. The Home Run Derby champion is the only player in the lineup who got to Oakland with any kind of ballyhoo, but he really just has his place on the team and functions just fine as an important cog in the lineup, not the leading star. Beyonce and Girl's Tyme lose on Star Search.
Seriously, who on the A's scares an opposing pitcher? Cespedes is there, Donaldson is there, Josh Reddick, Brandon Moss, Nate Freiman, Coco Crisp, Jed Lowrie. There's nothing scary about dealing with the Oakland lineup, but there's no soft landing for a pitcher. I was at Game 4 of the division series in Detroit, a game that Oakland lost 8-6, and it was striking how the order would just turn itself over from inning to inning — the flip side to not having a lineup with a blowaway star is that there is danger around every corner. There's nobody you're surprised to see hit a bases-clearing double.
That's the opposite of the Mariners. If Cano, Hart, Morrison, or Kyle Seager doesn't hurt you, it's not tough to navigate through the rest of the lineup. The problem for the Mariners is that even adding one more bat before the season doesn't make too much of a difference. "The laws of the world tell us what goes sky and what falls," Beyonce sings on "Superpower." In Seattle, where there is a lot of room in the outfield, too many things that go sky wind up falling in front of the fence, which does not portend particularly well for a player like Hart, who took an incentive-heavy contract after missing all of 2013 due to knee surgeries. It's a strange place to try to rebuild value as a right-handed slugger.
"Heaven" is the penultimate song on "Beyonce," and it's slow and haunting and sad. "Go on, go home," Beyonce sings in the funereal tune, and then comes "Blue," the song featuring Beyonce's daughter. The past, followed by the future, and right on back to Houston, where the Astros eventually will drop a tour de force on the rest of baseball the way that Beyonce did to the music world with this album. The question is whether, when the Astros do it, it will also be a surprise. If it's in 2014, it certainly will be.


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Joined: 11 Oct 2017
Posts: 6
Posted: Thu 12 Oct 2017, 05:48
Post subject: Frugal boot from sdb partition, using Grub4Dos
Has anybody else had this problem. When I boot xerus64-8.3.1 from a fresh boot it sticks on the line creating zram. However, when booted from a reboot from any other distro on the the thumb-drive, it boots flawlessly. I've tried several xerus64 installations, i.e full and frugal, but does the same thing every time.
Many thanks for any advice or solutions on the matter.
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Posts: 151
Location: England
Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2017, 08:36
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How did you install it.
What format is your partition you installed to.
my grub
title Quirky Xerus64 8.3 frugal in sdb1 dir xer648v3
uuid DA72-4947
kernel /xer648v3/vmlinuz rw
initrd /xer648v3/initrd.q
I dont know if you need rootwait added.
vmlinuz rootwait rw
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Posts: 6
Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 06:09
Post subject:
Thanks for your response Philh.
Standard installation from DVD iso image
Partition format ext2
Grub supplied by Xerus during installation, cut and paste into Grub4dos, two options supplied, used both:
title Quirky Xerus64 8.3 frugal in sdb7 dir xerus64-8.3
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /xerus64-8.3/initrd.q
kernel /xerus64-8.3/vmlinuz rootwait rw
initrd /xerus64-8.3/initrd.q
title Quirky Xerus64 8.3 frugal in sdb7 dir xerus64-8.3
uuid 15187091-8ec2-4191-9d71-3d1d63a285de
kernel /xerus64-8.3/vmlinuz rw
initrd /xerus64-8.3/initrd.q
Both of these setups will boot on reboot from another puppy.
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Posts: 151
Location: England
Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 10:42
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If you look in /boot/initrd-tree you could check the install_specs match your installation.
Maybe copy the Q_ID to your xerus64-8.3 folder though it shouldnt need it.
Have you tried a different usb port.
My flash drive is fairly slow but it boots ok.
Maybe try adding qfix=fsck to the kernel line.
But apart from that I dont know.
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Posts: 267
Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 18:29
Post subject: Re: Frugal boot from sdb partition, using Grub4Dos
ab12 wrote:
When I boot xerus64-8.3.1 from a fresh boot it sticks on the line creating zram.
Similar problem appeared when I moved Quirky Xerus frugal installation to another partition.
1. Old location
Hard drive, sda3, vfat
grub4dos menu.lst | Boot succeed
title Quirky Xerus64 8.3, sda3, qx6483
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /qx6483/initrd.q
kernel /qx6483/vmlinuz rootwait rw
initrd /qx6483/initrd.q
2. New location
Hard drive, sda5, vfat
a) grub4dos menu.lst | Boot process stops at creating zram
title Quirky Xerus64 8.3, sda5, qx6483
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /qx6483/initrd.q
kernel /qx6483/vmlinuz rootwait rw
initrd /qx6483/initrd.q
b) grub4dos menu.lst |
Boot succeed
title Quirky Xerus 8.3, sda5, 0EE6-55A0, qx6483
uuid 0EE6-55A0
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /qx6483/initrd.q
kernel /qx6483/vmlinuz install_specs=UUID=0EE6-55A0:vfat:qx6483
initrd /qx6483/initrd.q
Determining boot partition's UUID
# blkid /dev/sda3
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Quirky" UUID="0EE6-55A0" TYPE="vfat"
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Posted: Thu 19 Oct 2017, 03:08
Post subject:
Thanks for your responses. Tried them all, but no luck!
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Posted: Sat 16 Dec 2017, 17:25
Post subject: data loss while running quirky xerus 8.3 final
Subject description: unexpected reaction to choosing the save shutdown option
unsure whether this thread is still active, I would like to put up for discussion the following issue
Running Quirky Xerus 8.3 final (frugal installation on an ext4 formatted partition), I wanted to download the recent Xenialpup64-7.5-uefi.iso, as well as the Xenialpup32-7.5-uefi.iso. Confused by the fact that the download-manager unexpectedly disappeared while downloading, I repeatedly restarted the download of Xenialpup32-7.5-uefi.iso, and finally realised that several download processes had been interrupted or were running simultaneously. In order to avoid corrupted data transfer, I decided to stop downloading, deleted the notifications in the download manager protocol and shot down Quirky Xerus 8.3, choosing the 'save' option.
To my surprise, next booting resulted in the QuickSetup first-run screen! All previous settings had disappeared. The QuirkyXerus64-8,3 folder and its sub-folders were still present, but the PPM showed no more entries (all previously downloaded pets and all the related data were lost!).
Any suggestion? Can anybody explain this reaction? Which was the relevant faulty manipulation that caused the data loss? Is there an unrecognised security risk?
thank you for feedback
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Posts: 267
Posted: Sun 17 Dec 2017, 17:40
Post subject: Re: data loss while running quirky xerus 8.3 final
Subject description: unexpected reaction to choosing the save shutdown option
lp-dolittle wrote:
Any suggestion? Can anybody explain this reaction? Which was the relevant faulty manipulation that caused the data loss? Is there an unrecognised security risk?
At first I would:
1. Check the size of free memory
2. Check the size of free space on the download destination drive
3. Try to download by using different download manager or browser
From my experience, Quirky Xerus 8.3 is one of the most reliable systems that I ever use.
I really like the option not to save a session if anything goes wrong.
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Posts: 140
Posted: Mon 18 Dec 2017, 06:58
Post subject:
Thank you, Leon, for your response.
My actual problem is/was not the download. There was enough space, everything ok. My question relates to the data loss. I cannot figure out which of my manipulations made the installed pets (inclusive the related data) disappear. I do not know how to evoke this effect if I wanted to do it intentionally.
What happened in the mentioned situation (cancelled download after deletion of the fully or partially downloaded new iso-files) when I shot down Quirky Xerus 8.3 using the save option? Why did my manipulations affect the PPM?
kind regards
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Thu 08 Feb 2018, 21:56
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Quirky Xerus x86_64 version 8.4 is out!
Blog announcement here:
Have fune!
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Posts: 3715
Location: Ontario Canada
Posted: Fri 09 Feb 2018, 03:51
Post subject: Quirky Xerus 8.4 for x86_64, released Feb. 9, 2018
I installed to a 32gb SDHC card:
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Fri 9 Feb 2018 on Quirky Xerus64 8.4 Linux 4.14.17 x86_64
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation ION VGA (rev b1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP79 Board - hornet-0 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.18.4
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (373x231 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: ION/integrated/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.106
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
Core 0: @1599 1: @1599 2: @1599 3: @1599 MHz
I needed to use NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.106.run --no-unified-memory to
get the proprietary driver to compile.
That's it so far,
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Posts: 267
Posted: Fri 09 Feb 2018, 19:52
Post subject: Quirky Xerus 8.4 for x86_64, released Feb. 9, 2018
Hello Barry,
Congratulations and thank you very much for another Quirky.
I made a manual frugal install of Quirky 8.4 to USB flash drive by keeping a savefile from Quirky 8.3 and everything works perfectly.
Thank you for upgrading a kernel. Version 4.14.17 is patched against Meltdown vulnerability according to
For me Quirky 8.3 was "the lucky build" that I was searching for to replace my previous distro for everyday use, fast and rock solid Dpup Wheezy 126.96.36.199 created back in 2013 by forum member pemasu.
Every new release that I tried, that was created after Dpup Wheezy 22.214.171.124 and based on Woof-CE toolkit, had a bug that obviously became a feature and is a show stopper for my frugal installs on vfat and fat32 partitions.
The bug was described in 2015 by forum member "keyboard".
Quirky became a distro that we, old fans of manual frugal install was waiting for, because:
- Work at flash speed even on older computers.
- Saving session is optional.
- Having no worries about a savefile running out of space.
- Having just one single savefile with no need for additional sfs files.
- I can installed it and booted even from 1 GB Canyon USB flash drive made back in 2006, with enough additional free space for save data out of the savefile on one single vfat partition.
- Hard disk can be spinned down to minimize the power use and heat generated by the hard disk.
- It works from every computer I had a chance to install to, from more then 10 years old laptops to newer ones like Gigabyte BRIX Mini-PC.
- It is compatibile with Ubuntu Xerus Xenial Repositories and security updates with Long Term Support.
This distro is really a pleasure to use.
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Posts: 1192
Location: UK
Posted: Sat 10 Feb 2018, 12:44
Post subject: Quirky Xerus 8.4 for x86_64, released Feb. 9, 2018
Subject description: Initial test
Hi Barry,
Thanks for 8.4 which seems to improve upon 8.3 and is very responsive with a low memory footprint.
The 8GB image was installed to a 32GB USB3 stick using using 7-Zip and Win32diskimager in Win10.
In addition to the upgrades mentioned above by @Leon I have witnessed no ethernet connection
problems caused by the link detection & DHCP changes in earlier kernels.
A couple of minor issues that have been reported previously, do however persist:
An error is logged due to the now unneeded presence of <Include>/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal</Include>
A possible issue for NVIDIA/nouveau users was the lack of Direct Rendering - i.e. hardware acceleration.
That was also evident in Chrome which I subsequently installed and was resolved using PKGget Package Manager
to install the MESA VDPAU acceleration drivers:
mesa-vdpau-drivers_17.2.4|Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
libllvm5.0_5.0-3|Modular compiler and toolchain technologies runtime library
Volume level is not preserved across reboots and always defaults to zero. That is a pain if running an
automatic startup sound and/or an Internet connection alarm as I do.
The script /etc/init.d/aumix is strange in that the comments at lines 17 & 18 state that it does not work
with alsa but the body of the script seems to have disabled provision to do so.
As a temporary fix I placed the following simple script in /root/Startup to set a safe level of 55%
# This is /root/Startup/aumixvolfix
# Fix to give some sound volume at boot time - ETP 9th Feb 2018
aumix -v55
Complete list of items so far installed & tested:
flashplayer-18.104.22.168-x86_64|Adobe Flash Player browser plugin and Preferences
ListDD-2.1|List dynamic dependencies
GetLatest64bitChromeVersionWoofQ-MK2.5|Get Latest Chrome Version
lockstate-1.5-x86_64_ETP|CapsLock, NumLock, ScrollLock tray indicator app
google-chrome-stable_current_amd64|Access the Internet (Version 64.0.3282.140 (Official Build) (64-bit))
adwaita-icon-theme_3.18.0|default icon theme of GNOME small subset
humanity-icon-theme_0.6.10.1|Humanity Icon theme
libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9|programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
ubuntu-mono_14.04+16.04.20171116|Ubuntu Mono Icon theme
adwaita-icon-theme-full_3.18.0|default icon theme of GNOME
mesa-vdpau-drivers_17.2.4|Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
libllvm5.0_5.0-3|Modular compiler and toolchain technologies runtime library
libimlib2_1.4.7|image loading rendering saving library
wbar_2.3.4-5|light and fast launch bar
wbar-config_2.3.4-5|GUI tool to configure wbar
libguess1_1.2-1.1|high-speed character set detection library
librubberband2v5_1.8.1|audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library
libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.4+dfsg1|Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsndio6.1_1.1.0-2|Small audio and MIDI framework from OpenBSD runtime libraries
mpv_0.14.0|video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
PupShutdown-3.0|PupShutdown manager
PupSnap-2.6_Scrot-0.8_64Bit|PupSnap screen capture (screenshot)
Thunderbird64_release_channel-52.1.1|Thunderbird mail reader (Updated to 52.6.0)
Firefox64_Quantum_Portable-etp|Firefox Web Browser (58.0.2)
FbBox-5.0_64Bit|FbBox desktop environment
startup_sound-mk3|Provides Startup sound(s) plus Internet connection alarm
Please press F11 to toggle into full-screen then click on link;---
Regards ETP
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Posts: 267
Posted: Sat 10 Feb 2018, 19:17
Post subject: Re: Quirky Xerus 8.4 for x86_64, released Feb. 9, 2018
Subject description: Initial test
ETP wrote:
Volume level is not preserved across reboots and always defaults to zero. That is a pain if running an
automatic startup sound and/or an Internet connection alarm as I do.
I made a patch that solves the problem for frugal install.
Script /usr/sbin/savesession, inserted line 46
[ -f /etc/asound.state ] && alsactl -f /etc/asound.state store && echo alsa saved && sync
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Posts: 155
Location: United States
Posted: Sat 10 Feb 2018, 22:14
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Full install:
inxi -F
System: Host: QUIRKYPC31236 Kernel: 4.14.17 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: JWM git-976 Distro: Quirky 8.4 xerus64
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC v: 0593110000204610000620100 serial: 2CE14809C9
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 17FC v: 10.5A serial: PCKWF2B2E1T20O
Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.1A date: 06/22/2012
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-2430M (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
clock speeds: max: 2401 MHz 1: 818 MHz 2: 850 MHz 3: 876 MHz
4: 801 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.14.17
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 08:2e:5f:7d:89:81
Card-2: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak]
driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: ac:72:89:f7:03:41
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (0.9% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST9500325AS size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 459G used: 4.1G (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 113 Uptime: 3:11 Memory: 116.4/3900.6MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35
Sound state not preserved across boots.
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This does not apply to all apps. For instance Iron browser snaps right open and speeds across the information highway effortlessly.)
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Processes often complete in the background after a period of time and the GUI unfreezes and everything appears normal.
Occasionally a hard reset is required when the GUI freezes.
Although the Iron browser will run very effeciently it will also freeze the GUI during similar circumstances such as download dialogue at mediafire opening and prompting the download location window from the browser while slinging a pop under ad into the mix
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Zombie season's over! As always at Interlagos, it was an entertaining Grand Prix, with some rather surprising results. Behind the Red Bulls, that is. Warning: spoilers.
Except for one minor detail, the 2011 Formula One season's last race at wonderful Interlagos was such a perfect microcosm of every race since that long-ago March day in Melbourne that it could serve as fine kindling for my conspiracy theory that everything in Formula One, down to the smallest detail and every feint of the steering wheel before a Jenson Button pass, is scripted by Bernie Ecclestone in his supervillain hideout built inside a dormant and unmapped volcanic cone in the Southern Ocean. Strike that: a live volcanic cone.
For what constituted the 2011 Formula One season? Our bullet list is here to help:
- Sebastian Vettel breaks a record: check! He qualified on pole for the 15th time in the season, breaking Nigel Mansell's 14 from 1992.
- Jenson Button drives an amazing race: check! He qualified third, lost a place to Fernando Alonso, then came back and passed him to finish third, his 12th podium in the season, three more than in his championship year.
- Lewis Hamilton runs into trouble: check! A failed gearbox put him out of the race after 46 laps, leaving him 5th in the championship and behind his teammate for the first time in his life.
- Mark Webber is outqualified and left behind by the end of the first lap: check! Webber was two-tenths behind Vettel after qualifying, then dropped 1.2 seconds behind by the time lap one was over.
- Fernando Alonso outperforms his Ferrari: check! He finished fourth, after a great pair of back-to-back passes over the race with Jenson Button for third.
- Michael Schumacher disappoints: check! He qualified 10th and finished 15th.
And so on. The one minor detail which prevented this race from becoming a tiny 2011 by itself was the fact that Mark Webber passed Sebastian Vettel for the lead on lap 30, after 25 laps of Vettel nursing a gearbox trouble. It was a strange sort of gearbox trouble. He received repeated and increasingly serious warnings about it over the radio, he kept having to short-shift and use taller gears, but it didn't prevent him from running fastest laps in the second half of the race behind Webber, who finally scored a victory with his RB7, the car Vettel drove to 11 wins. It was quite unlike Ayrton Senna's gearbox trouble here at the 1991 race, when he had to finish the race stuck in sixth gear (think about that). And it all resulted in a bad day of the Sebastian Vettel variety: second place instead of his 22nd win.
After the five-way battle of 2010, it was a rather Schumacher-esque season, with Vettel's championship not in any serious doubt after the first four races. There were great races—Silverstone, Hungary, and, above all, Canada—great fights in the midfield, a great display of alien perfection from the Red Bull team, and a great pair of rookies: Sergio Pérez and Paul di Resta. But it was always a field of 23 humans and one…what do you call a 24-year-old kid with 30 pole positions, 21 Grand Prix wins and two F1 world championships?
Slightly worrisome is the fact that regulations will not change significantly for the next two years, and that Red Bull's technical and driver team will remain in place. It's hard to see how anyone can beat the fourth iteration of a back-to-back championship-winning Adrian Newey car, which must be in the works since June or so. With Sebastian Vettel driving it.
Then again, McLaren and Ferrari can always pull something out of the bag, and then there's the insane talent acquisition at Mercedes over the year, which may result in something magnificent next year. Or not. We'll see. Thanks for coming along for the Crayola-fueled ride, and there's always a next season.
The 2011 Formula One Season in Crayola
Australia | Malaysia | China | Turkey | Spain | Monaco | Canada | Europe | Britain | Germany | Hungary | Belgium | Italy | Singapore | Japan | South Korea | India | Abu Dhabi | Brazil
Guest illustration—in soft pastel instead of Crayola—by Natalie Polgar. Gallery curated by Natalie Polgar. Photography by Paul Gilham/Getty Images, Mark Thompson/Getty Images and Clive Mason/Getty Images.


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Are you wanting AK recivers or something else?
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Anyone have a good Source?
Are you wanting AK recivers or something else?
If you want AKs, do you want flats or bent blanks?
For tools try Harbor Freight, for cheap tools.
Harbor Freight Tools - Quality Tools at the Lowest Prices
I take it you are indicating FAL 80% receivers?
I'd also like to locate a possible source, but as of yet not seen
any trace.
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Theres a 80% receiver on gunbroker along with another auction for a blueprint.
80% FALs are a tough one to finish into a reliable receiver. Many have tried, some have succeeded. Most are now paper weights.
I put ad out on every single gun website and got 4 replys. this was last year, I bought three of the four and sold one. this left me with two, they are both 70% as there are no true 80%. these are difficult for the beginner or even a proficient builder. with time, patience,skill and desire it can be done.
a milling machine helps though I did one without one. beside drills and files you need taps and plans i used the plans floating around and photocopied them to scale and used them as templates. the taps come from companies that sell through grainger. I cut the rails with a dremel. I bought the headspace gauges from brownells. the barrel vise I got from falfiles and the wrench is a flat jaw plumbers wrench.
I saw one receiver on sturm the other day its over $100.00 I paid $ 35-40 for mine
my build info is here with pic's I am a little surprised I didn't get a PM on this as all the others who have attempt this have contacted me. there are two others who have done this build but they used a milling machine
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
Why did you have to re-register? Send me a PM and I will try to fix whatever problem you had, if you want to return to just sprat.
Did you happen to find a source for any 0% FAL forgings/castings?
I have milling machine and have a few firearms milling projects queued up (ar15 lower, upper, free float tube, 1911 frame and slide, and M14 receiver) I was hoping I could locate some FAL receiver castings before any sort of restrictions come into place during obama's administration. I have found G3 upper receiver flats that just get pressed into shape, but the rest of the rifle is fairly expensive to put together (~$450 for a FMP kit). So if you could point me in the direction of FAL castings/forgings or a cheaper G3 kit, I'd much apreciate it. Thanks.
If anyone needs sources for those castings I'm working on:
DS arms for ar15 lower and upper
sarco for M14, 1911
The ATF has already banned the Century FAL castings as being "too complete". I don't know why but it might be that they have a magwell and barrel hole. No trigger/hammer pin holes are required as they are in the lower. I remember when Canada used to consider the FAL lower the firearm but now also the upper. All of the fire control parts are in the lower. If the upper didn't hold the magazine I bet the lower would have been the firearm in the US like the AR15. A functional firearm could be made as blow back and no locking shoulder and the top cover isn't required. That means it might be able to fire a round by adding a couple of bolt rail grooves or even less. Anyway the ATF shutdown the FAL castings.
If there's nothing complete on it, just the outline of it, then it should be perfectly legal. I don't need any mag wells pre-cut etc.


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This is a list of other websites that have event calendars, and it also functions as a pretty good list of local venues. Look through our categories to find the type of event you are interested in. If you don't see a venue that you love, or if a link is broken, contact us.
Jump to: Arts / Performance / Music – Educational – Festivals – Galleries – Institutions – Music – Theatre
AS220 :: If you don't know about AS220, then you should, and soon. Get on down to their performance space/gallery/bar/restaurant, where any night of the week you can get open mic, music, theater, dance, an art show, whatever. Also, community darkrooms for photography is available at their Empire Street building (where the performance space is) and a great community print shop for silkscreening and letterpress opened up at the Dreyfus building location (where restaurant Local 121 is).
Yellow Peril Gallery :: Located at The Plant, 60 Valley Street in Providence, Yellow Peril is a gallery concentrating on modern art critiques on popular culture and society from established and emerging artists in the United States and abroad.
SteelYard :: A community space offering classes in metalworking and foundry processes. The Steel Yard is more than a facility; it's an active, diverse community that welcomes and encourages input and participation in their wide array program.
Rhode Island International Film Festival :: The Festival's goal is to recognize achievement and innovation in a variety of filmmaking and storytelling disciplines while providing an opportunity to secure wider distribution. The Festival also actively supports and encourages film preservation and its restoration, thus ensuring future generations of this unique artistic medium.
5 Traverse Gallery :: 5T is a small gallery space off Wickendon Street in Providence, RI, with the two mini-galleries, Inner Space and Outer Space. 5 Traverse connects collectors with Providence and vicinity artists and houses original works in its flat files for public consumption.
Bert Gallery :: Founded in 1985, the gallery's mission is to research, showcase and preserve paintings from the region. BG has organized over a hundred exhibits dedicated to trends and styles embraced by New England artists. These efforts continue with a dedicated exhibition space, the Studio Collection, which offers visitors an opportunity to view the historic inventory and the artists' estates managed by the gallery.
Gallery Z :: Founded in 2001 by photographer Berge Ara Zobian, Gallery Z hosts regular exhibitions of original fine art by local, national, and international artists. Gallery Z is located on Federal Hill, Providence.
Holden Street Gallery :: The Holden Street Gallery is a privately run gallery space committed to promoting art and community on Smith Hill, Providence.
Top Drawer Art Center :: Top Drawer Art Center is a nonprofit visual art center providing art programs for adults with developmental disabilities. 2731 Pawtucket Ave., East Providence, RI 02914. 401.432.7270
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University :: A great, not often thought about space on College Hill that brings in larger touring artists and art shows.
Great Places for Grand Parties :: An event rental guide to historic homes and places that are available to the general public for event rentals. Twenty-three historic places where members of the public can host a special event or meeting in a unique atmosphere, all while supporting the preservation of Rhode Island's cultural heritage. A site amenities key, directory and map allow users to quickly identify venues that fit their specific needs.
RISD Intranet :: For students, alumni, and the public, RISD's own internal site for events, announcements, and a great student classified section.
RISD Museum :: The newly expanded and beautifully modern Museum contains a fabulous collection of ancient, asian, costume decorative arts and more. The new Student Center galleries promise to bring in more contemporary flavors. See the new building here.
JustAnotherScene :: Nice clean site with reviews, listings, and calendar for all six New England states.
LotsofNoise.com :: Just what it sounds like, plus they have a comprehensive calendar of shows in Providence and southern Mass, and a great archive of local music. Maybe the best local Providence music scene site out there right now.
Lupos :: One of the oldest and best music venues in Providence, recently moved out of their best digs (at the Peerless bldg) and into the former Strand Club on Washington St. Site also contains links for the Living Room and Call calendars.
NewEnglandRock :: Complete listing of reviews and events in the NE area.
The Gamm Theater :: The Gamm is a medium-size stage putting on high-quality productions of contemporary playwrights, as well as the occasional classic. Pawtucket, RI.
Mixed Magic Theatre :: A venue located in Hope Artiste Village for intimate shows of new work and genre-mixing performances.
Perishible Theater :: Perishable is located right next to AS220 on Empire Street. Most theatre shows run on the weekends, and mic or improv comedy (resident group Improv Jones) fills in in-between.
Jump to: Arts / Performance / Music – Educational – Festivals – Galleries – Institutions – Music – Theatre
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We're closer to living in a just world, a world where college baseball rain delay antics are front page news and lead SportsCenter. Edgewood College knows what's up: their athletics office put together this video and sent it along. That's the D-III Eagles and the Rockford College Regents engaging in some fun during a rain-shortened doubleheader yesterday afternoon.
All your old favorites are here, like the bobsled, the joust, and the upside-down walk. But points for creativity: Human curling is a nice twist on human bowling, and the five-man "guy using the toilet" is inspired. The announced crowd of 114 got their money's worth.


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Scosiol necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We are starting a 45.000 square feet market, that is in meters, 4.200 meters.
It will have a tent structure, lit and available for business 24/7.
Located next to the farmers market in San Jose Costa Rica.
I will rent out cubicles and or kiosks on a daily basis.
It will have about 200 kiosks.
The question is how do I create an image that suits the latin american audience and or turist audience, to find new , second hand, discontinued, bargain, barter items.
I can have in a kiosk a masseuse.
In another someone that sells hardware.
In another someone that sells Nike look alike shoes.
Customers that are looking for the unusual, the new, the old.
In that same market last week a kiosk had at least 30 trophys of all kinds, next to it, someone had 30 hydraulic jacks.
LP records,
A design that I can emblazon on the tent that I will erect over the market.
What design conveys the idea of market.
It will be the first market that is completely reacheable with the train in the city of San Jose .
Maybe a wagon full of knick knack, to convey the assortment of items available and the fact that is next to the train station.


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We also offer post-recording audio restoration on the media you have transferred. Among them are noise, click, pop and scratch reduction/removal, normalization, equalization, and track splicing (creating one good copy from two bad ones). This service is offered at $40 per half hour of editing time.
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Vinyl Records
Gramophone records, also known as LP, vinyl records, and phonographs are some of the oldest mass produced pre-recorded sound mediums. They were developed in the late 19th century, and was used throughout the world for most of the 20th century. Vinyl records consist of a flat disc, with a groove that is inscribed in a spiral starting from the outer rim of the disc and slowly circles inward as the record finishes. The earlier forms of phonograph records were typically pressed from shellac compounds, and later on contructed from vinyl.
Records were typically differentiated from each other either by the diameter of the record (7in. 10in. 12in.), the RPM or revolutions per minute (33 1/3, 45, 78) or the duration of the recording (LP, EP). The most common format for pre-recorded music that a recording artist would have released would be a 12in. diameter at 33 1/3 RPM, which would yeild about 45 minutes of playback time.
Transfer LP Vinyl Records to CD
Prior to the vinyl LP to CD transfer, your record will be inspected by our audio transfer technician to check for any inconsistancies or damage. Upon coming across a problem with one or more of your records, we will contact you to let you know exactly what the issue is, and how we can go about fixing it. Once the LP to CD transfer is completed, we store your files to our in-house computers. From there, the transferred audio is run through our powerful audio editing tools which allow the vinyl record transfer technician to determine the sound quality of the transfer. If needed, we offer basic audio cleanup services to remove pops, clicks and hiss which are common in older vinyl records. Once the recording is determined to be of optimum quality, it will then be burned to a 100-year archival audio CD and then labeled to your specifications.
LP to CD Transfer Process
Prior to the LP to CD transfer, your media will be inspected by our vinyl record transfer technician to check for any inconsistancies or damage to the tape or vinyl. If we notice something that would prevent the transfer of your LP to CD, we will give you a call to let you know the source of the problem, and if it's repairable. Once the vinyl record to CD order is completed, we store your files to our in-house computers, the audio is run through audio editing software which allows the audio transfer technician to determine the sound quality of the LP to CD transfer. If needed, we offer basic audio cleanup services to remove recording errors or other problems which are common in older analog recordings. Once the recording is determined to be of optimum quality, it will then be burned to a 100-year archival audio CD and then labeled to your specifications.
Keep in mind that audio CDs can hold up to 74 minutes of recording time. For LPs over 74 minutes, we will have to break up the tape onto two CDs in order to process the order. Typically in this event, after the LP audio transfer, we would split the recording evenly in order to fit everything onto the other disc. We can combine or mix your audio in any fashion you choose.
When you bring your LP in for transferring, you have the option to set up what's called "track splits". Track splitting will enable you to skip from one track to another while playing the CD in your CD Player. This is especially useful for LPs with recorded music, as you can switch songs easier than ever before.
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With our basic audio editing services, we can help fix up the minor problems that may be present in your LP recordings. Our audio transfer technicians are trained on a wide variety of methods to remedy audio issues.
- Speed up or slow down your audio. Older vinyl records were often recorded at different speeds. If you have an LP that plays either too fast, or too slow, we can fix this by digitally adjusting the playback speed to the perfect level.
- Remove unwanted sound from recordings – If you had ever wanted to clean up your LP by removing randomly placed blips of static or noise, we can remove any unwanted noises or whole chunks of audio.
- Custom-placed track splitting – We can strategically place track splits anywhere in your recording!
- Remove static hums and hiss from your audio – We can greatly diminish the presence of a static humming or hiss sound that persists throughout your recording. Depending on the quality of the original recording, we can produce some amazing results.
- Pop/Click removal – Older audio generally exhibits some form of degradation such as clicking and popping. This is mostly caused by dust and dirt that has clung onto your record over the years.
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Do your recordings have some audio issues? Our audio restoration service can help to revitalize your old recordings. Our audio restoration technicians are heavily experienced with handling a wide array of older audio recordings with a variety of symptoms. Although often a complicated process, we can usually greatly diminish many common problems associated with older analog media. Please speak to your local audio technician if you have any questions.
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While CDs are the most convenient format for most customers, we can transfer your LP audio into just about any file format you can think of. You can specify bit rate, number of channels as well as hertz for your custom MP3 or WAV file. The default MP3 settings are 320 kilobits per second at 44,100 hertz. If you are bringing in your own flash/hard drive with data on it to store these files, there is a $15 setup fee. There is no fee if your drive does not have data on it or if we've provided the drive for you.
LP Records were known for their legendary cover art. Many great artists and photographers were comissioned to create some of the best album covers in history during the period of vinyl record popularity. At DVD Your Memories we can preserve that special album artwork and print it directly to your disc and CD inserts. Our expert photo scanning technician will carefully scan all aspects of the artwork on premium flatbed scanners and then digitally alter them to fit specifically to your project.
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An independent panel of three industrial design experts judged all entries. Evaluation of the entries was based on appearance, human factors, innovation and technical merits. The awards were featured in the magazine's June issue.


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Not my auction, but a pretty bad ass front hanger on Ebay right now. We discussed this on RBR a few years ago when someone asked what hanger Bart Wellens was running. Now you can buy one. Cool.
Here's a cool pic of Wellens but not a great pic of his gold front cable hanger.
Doesnt look like he's still using it. Maybe he decided to drop a few grams?
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The Fidea Team Ridley X-knights use Shimano ProPilot Bar and Stems and FSA Orbit headsets. The hs has a built in hanger.
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Emailed the seller, this is his reply: "Thanks for the plug. We have gone over to do the masters cross worlds for the past 4 seasons. Not far from the venue, in Kasterlee, is the shop Wellens used to work for as a mechanic, and still gets his bikes worked on at. We make a habit of going in there every year to stock up on stuff that's hard to get. These came around about 2 seasons ago, and were sitting on Bart's bike that he won the worlds on, as well as the one that just happened to have been turned in for service that day! (We just missed seeing him). Last year, we also just missed seeing him drop off his new Ridley that had been painted in the new Belgian Champions colors. It was built and ridden in the world cup in France the very next weekend (Nommay? sp?)and was built with another one of those hangers. I don't know if he's still using them right now, but they were on most, if not all, of his bikes previously. They flex a bit because they are so long, but aren't we all trying to find ways to de-tune our front brakes from the chatter? The front brake still works very well, and the extra length is really great. Thanks, Mark


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Reverse Conducting Data for:
Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 7, No. 2 performed by Rubinstein (1939)
Raw Data
Below are the 20 individual tempo tapping trials for the reverse conducting of this performance. Click on a trial number to view the timing data for a particular trial.
Header information from first trial file:
The individual trials are combined into a single file for analysis in Mathematica:
In order to estimate the time offset of the of the beat tap points in the original audio file, the following tap time data were extracted manually from the original audio file:
Analysis Data
Here is the raw analysis file output from Mathematica:
The raw Mathematica output is then formated into a Humdrum file for eventual linking to the Humdrum **kern data for the score:
The meanings of each column in this file:
The absolute beat times in the music are extracted from pid9049-06.avg and stored in a plain text file. The following data is useful for generating clicktracks for the audio recording of the performance.
Next, the offsets analyzed in Mathematica are added to each individual trial in another combined trial file for use in further analysis of the individual trials. The average values of the data in the following file whould give you the average performance times listed in the above file:
Score Alignment Data
The beat times are first attached to the original score:
Then the times of sub-beats are interpolated from the beat times:
Performance Analysis Data
Finally, the timing information for all individual notes in the score are extracted to a file for use in automatic note identification in an audio file of the performance:
Where the columns represent the following information about a note: