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With up to 24-bit/96k* recording and on-board high-fidelity A/D conversion for both Lightning and 30-pin iOS devices**, your i-XY recordings are rich, smooth and accurate.
** The latest version of RØDE Rec requires iOS 8+, which is unsupported by iPhone 4.
This results in immersive and true-to-life stereo recordings, captured in incredibly high detail.
The RØDEGrip is a multi-purpose mounting solution for the Apple iPhone 5, iPhone 5s (RØDEGrip5), iPhone 5c (RØDEGrip 5c), iPhone 4 and 4S (RØDEGrip4) that allows for both hand-held and camera mounted operation of the i-XY.
Constructed from durable, high-quality ABS plastics, it folds down into a small, portable form factor for ease of transport.
The SC2 is a high-quality shielded 3.5mm TRS patch cable. It is ideal for connecting the output of an iOS device using an i-XY to a DSLR or video camera for capturing scratch audio to camera while the iPhone records the broadcast-quality track.
The cable extends from 170mm to up to 400mm, and features right-angle connectors for ergonomic use.
The RØDE iClamp is a heavy-duty clamp designed to provide additional support for your i-XY (30-pin) during high movement usage with an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S.
The 30-pin version of the i-XY (iXY-30) is compatible with iPhone® 4S, iPhone® 4, iPad® (3rd generation) and iPad® 2. **
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"One glance, and you know what this is - plug it into your iPhone (or iPad or iPod Touch), and record in stereo. No cables. No external power supply. Plus, excellent quality mic capsules, and it even has its own built-in A/D converter! Simple, easy, and useful… Before now, I never considered using my iPhone to record a show or anything beyond a simple voice memo or a roughed-out musical idea. Now I will be carrying the i-XY (in the included protective zip case) with me everywhere I go."
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"Want a studio-quality, stereo mic for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch? This is it."
Resolution Magazine
"RØDE has recently developed a reputation for making the right tools for the job at a good price, and these two well-thought out packages won't disappoint. The i-XY improves audio on the iPhone beyond what most people thought was possible."
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"With the advent of iThings and apps came the expectation that pretty much anything you could run on them or plug into them would be cheap and cheerful. But to make the best possible use of their 24-bit, 96kHz recording capabilities, you need a good microphone, which is where the RØDE i-XY comes in… For normal speech recording and sources such as acoustic guitar, the background noise is acceptably low, so there should be no problem recording band rehersals or other loud sources. The i-XY sounds good, works as it should do, and as an alternative to buying a separate flash recorder, it makes a lot of sense."
"In the new world of social media where everything is nearly instantaneous, the i-XY delivers professional quality instantly. And again, I usually avoid referencing price points in reviews, but in this instance, it bears noting that the cost of this set-up is quite reasonable considering the quality and flexibility, coming in at just under the $200 mark. Whether it's to record song ideas, capture a one-on-one interview, or even create any type of foley or sound effects on-the-fly, the i-XY is a cool little powerhouse device, and I'm sure you'll be impressed."
Canadian Musician
"Immediately out of the box its clear that Rode has brought the proverbial gun to a knife fight. The i-XY is unquestionably one of the most professional looking iThings to plug in to the 30 pin dock of an iOS device… When it comes high quality field recording for iOS devices RØDE brings their A-Game with the i-XY. They've managed to package high quality hardware with a clever and complete recording application that in our opinion negates the need to carry around a separate field recording device."
The Modern Vocalist
"RØDE has a knack for over-delivering. i-XY is a case in point. While for some manufacturers the iDevices are just another opportunity to graft a few bucks from the general public with adjunct plastic bits 'n' bobs. RØDE has really bought into the design story of Apple's devices and designed an accessory that would even satisfy Jonny Ives' aesthetic sensibilities. The combo of -iXY and RØDE REC is far more formidable than a phone 'accessory' and an app should be… RØDE's on a winner with these two."
Audio Technology Magazine
"RØDE's i-XY microphone for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is a fantastic way to boost the quality of audio recordings. If you record your university lectures, do any interview work, or want a cheap way to boost your YouTube voice-overs, this is a reasonably cheap way to get good audio with the convenience of your smartphone. 4/5"
Good Gear Guide
"The RØDE i-XY really shines as portable recording gear due to its sheer versatility. The included windshield and carrying case were welcome additions adding to the convenience of using the device on a daily basis for creative pursuits. In short, the RØDE i-XY offers a compelling end to end portable recording solution ready for both today's digital professionals as well as audio recording hobbyists."


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Rays rally to tip Red SoxBy The Sports Xchange
September 12. 2013 11:30PM
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays reversed their recent skid on Thursday night, engineering a late rally to beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 at Tropicana Field.
The Rays had lost five of their past six games as the Red Sox padded their lead in the American League East. Boston's lead now stands at 8 1/2 games, and Tampa Bay moved within two games of the Texas Rangers for the first AL wild-card spot.
After losing what Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon referred to as the "battle of inches" the past two nights, the game swung in the Rays' favor with two outs in the eighth inning and Evan Longoria on second base.
Rookie Wil Myers hit a fly ball that dropped just inside the foul line in right field. A few inches to the right and it would have fallen foul. A little farther to the left and it might have been caught. Instead, it found fair territory and brought home the tiebreaking run.
The Rays missed an opportunity to pad their lead in the fifth and it came back to haunt them as the Red Sox erased a two-run deficit in the sixth with an opposite-field home run by David Ortiz and Stephen Drew's tying RBI double.
The Rays came to life in the second inning against Red Sox starter Jake Peavy. Longoria drilled a leadoff triple to right field and scored on Myers' single up the middle, giving the Rays their first lead of the series.
Tampa Bay made it 2-0 in the third when David DeJesus walked and scored on James Loney's double off the right-field wall.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia pulled the Red Sox within one run in the fourth, snapping his 0-for-21 skid with a solo homer to right field. But Desmond Jennings answered for the Rays in the bottom of the fourth with a solo shot to left, matching a career high with his 13th homer this season.
NOTES: Rays C Jose Molina was not with the team as he traveled to St. Louis to be with his mother, Gladys, who was recovering from a surgical procedure. Molina is expected to rejoin the Rays on Friday in Minnesota.

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We all know by now that there's more to dads than the stereotype of the stoic father. This papa made us laugh (and made our stomachs drop along with his) in this video with his daughter, taken on what some YouTube commenters identified as the Screaming Swing amusement park ride.
"Hold on, Dad!"
<Cue terrified screams>
The best part? Despite his fears, this dad hangs out for a second go-round, much to the delight of his daughter.
We can totally see this duo coming back for more thrills over the years, like this adult father-daughter pair.
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Welcome to Alpine Inn in Anaheim, California. Stay with us and enjoy the sounds, sights, and magic of Disneyland – whose front gate is just around the corner from us. If you are in town for business, Anaheim Convention Center is right across the street, or if you are here for pleasure, the new GardenWalk shopping center is just steps away.
Regardless of your reason for visiting Anaheim, you will find yourself centrally located and within reach of top vacation spots, fine and casual dining, and gift shops galore. If you plan to stay awhile, you will find our location is only a 5-minute drive east of the Angel's Stadium and west of Knott's Berry Farm. A 30-minute drive north will lead you to the luxurious Los Angeles, or 30-minutes south will lead you to a scenic drive along the open Pacific Ocean to Huntington Beach, Newport, and Dana Point. After a full day on the town, come back and be assured that Alpine Inn's staff is here to provide you friendly and efficient service. Along with the highest-standard of care, the hotel features the cleanest single to family-occupancy rooms, a heated swimming pool, self-parking, and complimentary breakfast and high-speed Internet access in our Business Lounge.
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The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
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America's economy is in shambles . . . Its citizens are terrified and dissatisfied . . . Could it all have been planned by a secret elite one hundred years ago?
The New World Order. Hitler referred to it in his diaries. President George H. W. Bush foretold of it in his speeches. Formed by a secretive global elite, the group seeking this new order has taken hold of the nation—and perhaps the world. Its influence pervades every aspect of American society, from the products we buy at the grocery store to the topics of evening news programs. But could it also be true that the New World Order caused one of the greatest financial catastrophes of our time?
Bestselling author and legendary conspiracy researcher Jim Marrs has yet again exposed information that the mainstream corporate media has refused to report, unearthing the lies to expose the insidious alliances that make up a secret world. In the explosive The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Marrs digs beneath the media noise surrounding the financial bailouts of 2008 and 2009 while exploring the back rooms and shadowy deals of our nation's past to craft a frightening history that no one else is brave enough to tell.
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In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Marrs, the New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of The Fourth Reich, offers a terrifying proposition: that the current economic collapse has been engineered by a tyrannous government and multinational corporations determined to enslave us. Read The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy and find out how the New World Order, man-made diseases, and zombie banks are destroying America.


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Today's Meditation
Read Luke 15:11-32
Love never fails.
-1 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV)
My mom and dad were hard workers and took delight in sending my sister and me to college. But I wasted the opportunity. I did not want my parents to know, but the day came when the truth was made known to them.
They reminded me of the Bible story about the prodigal son and his loving father. Luke 15:20 says that the prodigal's father "ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him." What makes this verse so amazing is that the father gave this unfailing love to the son who had earlier said to him, "Give me my share of the estate" -- essentially "I wish you were dead." Daily the father watched for this son's return, and then he acted with unfailing love.
Unfailing love always looks for reconciliation. Enduring love quickly offers forgiveness and mercy, which lead to unity and wholeness. The father's enduring love resulted in restoration for the returning prodigal. The father said, "Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet," reinstating his son to a place of honor in the family.
My parents' love and support never failed as I reorganized my life. This is the love God has for each of us, every day.
Michael D. Smith
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Prayer: Thank you, God, for your enduring, unfailing love. Help us to be instruments of restoration for those who have wandered from you. Amen.
Thought for the Day: We serve the God of forgiveness and mercy.
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Dogs with Horner's can lose muscle tension in the face-- Simon's eyeball would sort of fall back into the socket, which made him look a little scary-- and he required artificial tears on occasion. From what I understand, though, some dogs will go slack and look like they've had a stroke (as Simon did), then after a while, the reverse happens and you see what Suzanne mentioned-- the tightening of the muscles. They sort of swing one way or the other or both.
But the bottom line is that it's a neurological condition where they lose muscular control in the face. The good news is that it's not painful for them (at least that's what I was told, and Simon never seemed bothered). I just had to warn visitors that he was not a zombie dog.


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In the Land of the Gruyère Cheese, The Giger Museum Seems an Oddity: Fans of the "Alien" movies will be pleased to know that the Museum H R Giger is in Gruyères. This Giger Museum is home to the permanent collection of the works of H.R. Giger, the award winning Swiss designer of Ridley … [Read more...]
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Postal Service to end Saturday mail deliveryBy MICHAEL MUSKAL
Los Angeles Times
February 06. 2013 8:33AM
Material prepared for a Wednesday news conference by Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe says that Postal Service market research and other research has indicated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the agency to reduce costs.
"The Postal Service is advancing an important new approach to delivery that reflects the strong growth of our package business and responds to the financial realities resulting from America's changing mailing habits," Donahoe said. "We developed this approach by working with our customers to understand their delivery needs and by identifying creative ways to generate significant cost savings."
The Postal Service contends that it has the authority to cut back service, though some in Congress insist that lawmakers have the final word. In any case, the announcement is expected to move the issue to a front burner.
The proposal comes as the agency has closed post offices and changed procedures to try to stem its hemorrhaging of billions of dollars in recent years. More people have been turning to alternatives to traditional mail service, including electronic tools such as email and outside competitors such as FedEx, both of which have seriously cut into the Postal Service's erstwhile monopoly.
Congress in recent years has prohibited the Postal Service from dropping Saturday mail delivery, but the initial response to Wednesday's announcement was more accepting of what might be inevitable.
"This common-sense reform would save the Postal Service more than $2 billion annually," two top Republicans, Rep. Darrell Issa of California and Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, said in a statement.
"In his recent inaugural address, President Obama spoke about the need to find real solutions to our nation's problems.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chaired by Issa, agreed that action was needed, but questioned whether the Postal Service could act alone.


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Rivals.com ranking: Four stars, 37 (position, wide receiver)
Other schools of interest: UCLA (committed), Oregon State, Northwestern, Stanford, Oregon
Of note: Caught 54 passes for 1,042 yards and 15 touchdowns as a senior. Sacramento Bee All-Metro first team. Father starred at Nevada, and later played for the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles.
What they're saying: "Uses his size and long arms to gain separation. Is never going to be a guy who just runs by people, but his height and leaping ability give him huge value on the deep ball. … Shows very good hand-eye coordination and focus in one-on-one matchups." — ESPN.com


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Rectal Prolapse Surgery
Topic Overview
Surgeons can repair a complete rectal prolapse. They make a cut through the abdomen or the perineum.
- In abdominal surgery, the surgeon makes a cut in the abdomen. He or she may secure part of the large intestine or the rectum, or both, to the inside of the abdominal cavity with sutures or a piece of mesh (rectopexy). This surgery can restore a natural shape to the large intestine. The surgeon may also remove part of the large intestine and sew the ends together. Other conditions that may be present (such as a rectocele or prolapsed uterus) can also be repaired. Depending on the type of problems present, the surgeon may make a large, single cut (open surgery) or may make several small cuts along with using an instrument with a small camera that allows the surgeon to see inside the body (laparoscopic surgery). Rectal prolapse will come back in fewer than 1 out of 10 people who have this surgery.footnote 1
- In perineal surgery, the surgeon goes through the perineum or anus. This type of surgery does not stress the body as much as other types of surgery. But it is more likely that prolapse will occur again. It is most often used for frail, older adults who have other serious medical problems. It does not correct the condition that is causing the prolapse and can lead to problems with constipation or blockage. People who have this type of surgery may need frequent laxatives or enemas. Rectal prolapse will come back in about 1 to 3 out of every 10 people who have this surgery.footnote 1
If the surrounding tissue is no longer holding part of large intestine in the correct position, your surgeon may have to remove part of the intestine and then reattach it to the rectum.
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Milestone signals shift in chamber from past sessions
For the first time since he introduced the measure in 2008, Rep. Doug Holder had a chance to present his bill to ban texting while driving to a House committee.
The result was a unanimous 13-0 vote from the House Transportation and Highway Safety Subcommittee on Thursday, signaling the growing momentum for Florida to join the overwhelming majority of states that have some type of texting and driving prohibition.
A similar bill (SB 52) is moving through the Senate, where it has already won approval in two committees.
But Thursday's action by a House panel was a legislative milestone for the texting issue, which Holder, R-Venice, took up at the urging of his wife, who had been moved by a texting accident in New York state that took the lives of five young women who had just graduated from high school.
"It's tremendous," Holder said after the meeting about the vote. "To finally be able to present for the first time was truly an honor."
Holder and others credited the shift in the House leadership attitude to House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, and Rep. Daniel Davis, R-Jacksonville, who chairs the House transportation panel.
In his closing appeal on the bill (HB 13), Holder told the House subcommittee that there were plenty of statistics to show the link between banning texting and driving and roadway safety.
"At the end of the day, (the statistics) only prove that this is common sense. This is a no-brainer type of bill," he said. "We're losing lives on the road every single day."
Holder's bill — which he sponsored along with Rep. Ray Pilon, R-Sarasota — drew the praise of Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, who led the legislative fight for nearly a decade to strengthen the state's seat belt law.
Slosberg said over the past few years it has been "very tough" to win legislative approval for public safety bills. "It's a new day in the state of Florida," he said.
He also said he had thought about trying to amend Holder's bill to make it stronger — such as changing it from a secondary violation to a primary violation. But he said it was not worth the risk that such provisions could derail the bill.
"Something has to be done in Florida to stop this mass epidemic," Slosberg said.
Like Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, the Senate sponsor of the texting and driving ban, Holder said the legislation is aimed at younger drivers.
"The most important part of this whole thing is to be able to empower parents and drivers ed teachers to tell their students and children that texting while driving in Florida is illegal," Holder said.
Holder's bill heads to the House Civil Justice Subcommittee. It also faces a hearing in the Economic Affairs Committee before it can reach the House floor.
The bill is identical to the Senate measure. First-time violations carry a $30 fine, which rise to $60 for a second offense, plus court costs.
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AZiO Levetron GM533U Gaming Mouse Review
AZiO Levetron GM533U Gaming Mouse Introduction:
AZiO has graced my desk with a bunch of gaming peripherals recently. It was the Levetron Mech5 and Levetron GM-5000 mouse you last saw from me, and today you'll get a peek at another AZiO Levetron member: the GM533U Gaming mouse, which isn't the last item from the goodie bag either. The GM533U has a bit of a different appearance than the GM-5000 you may have liked, and it also comes in at a higher price at just under the $50 mark. However, the Levetron GM533U comes with a little more for the money. It has weights for adjusting the mouse feel, programmable macros/buttons, and actual software to change such settings. The GM533U comes in the popular red and black color scheme with subtle red lighting and a braided cable – will this be your next mouse?
AZiO Levetron GM533U Gaming Mouse Closer Look:
The Levetron GM533U comes in rather "standard mouse" packing if there ever was such a thing. It has a paper printed outer box that gives the appeal of a metal casing with screws holding it together (a little like the Levetron Mech5 keyboard). The mouse is nearly completely visible as it peeks through the vacuum formed bubble. The front of the package shows off the Windows 7 compatibility, USB Plug'n'Play features, and the three-year limited warranty. The back of the box lists the features and specifications in eight different languages represented by an accompanying country flag. Either way, pulling it all out of the box reveals a very different mouse with what I consider an old school driver/software CD (and thankfully yes, AZiO does have the install available for download at its website).
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This time, the late game heartbreak belonged to the New England Patriots and wide left turned into just right.
Rookie kicker Justin Tucker barely kept a 27-yard field goal inside the right upright as time expired to give the Ravens a frantic 31-30 comeback victory Sunday night in front of an announced 71,269 at M&T Bank Stadium.
"What would be a better story than the one you saw?," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said.
Trailing by nine points with seven minutes, 29 seconds to play, Joe Flacco threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Torrey Smith with 4:01 left, and the Ravens' fifth-year quarterback then led another drive in the final two minutes to set up Tucker for the game winner.
Just eight months after Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal at Gillette Stadium that would have likely sent the AFC championship game against the Patriots into overtime, Tucker converted, giving the Ravens the victory. Twice they erased double-digit victories in the game.


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Clinical study shows new IVF Weight Loss/Mobility Plus Formulas help overweight pets attain better body composition
The Iams Veterinary Formulas (IVF) weight loss diets have recently been upgraded with increased protein (from chicken) to support muscle mass, added chondroprotectives for healthy joints, and added fructooligosaccharides (FOS) for intestinal health. A recent clinical study reported here shows the e. cacy of the upgraded IVF weight loss diets in optimizing body composition and body weight in overweight dogs and cats.
The studyIn this in-home study, overweight and obese dogs and cats (with a body condition score [BCS] of 4 or 5 out of 5) were fed the appropriate IVF Weight Loss/Mobility Plus dry formula for 16 weeks.* The pets were fed amounts intended for phased, gradual weight loss. The 17 dogs and 26 cats were client-owned, otherwise healthy adult pets recruited by a private veterinary clinic. Each animal acted as its own control.
Feeding IVF Weight Loss/Mobility Plus resulted in a significant reduction in body weight (P < 0.05) and a signifi cant reduction in BCS for both dogs and cats. In just four months,
This study provides evidence that feeding IVF Weight Loss/Mobility Plus can help overweight and obese dogs and cats become lighter and leaner. These reduced fat diets with added L-carnitine were e. ective in achieving safe loss of body weight and body fat, while sparing muscle tissue loss. In fact, increased levels of high-quality animal protein should help to support an increase in percent lean mass for both dogs and cats even while they were losing weight. By reducing physical stress on joints, supporting muscle mass, and providing purifi ed chondroprotective nutrients, these diets should help pets achieve healthy mobility with weight loss.
When feeding individual patients for weight loss, veterinarians should consider calculated feeding portions, including recommendations from the diet's manufacturer, as a starting point. Be aware that you may need to adjust food amounts to reach the patient's optimal body condition. Scheduling frequent weigh-ins and promptly altering feeding amounts when you notice weight plateaus can ensure a more rapid return to a healthy weight.


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Day 3 of the King Of The Wind event in Weymouth went off. Read on for the full report...
Already named Big Monday on the schedule, expectations were high, and the day certainly delivered.
Not just big in action but also in names turning up to show their support for the event. Nick Dempsey, Olympic bronze medallist and Ross Williams, Formula World Champion and number one UK rider on the PWA World Tour both in waves and slalom, found themselves watching on as spotlights lit up the bay during the night tow-in super session supported by Red Bull.
With a 9am skippers meeting the day got off to a prompt start. Unusual north-easterlies filled the harbour but provided some nice small ramps for the competitors to launch off of as they spun through their heats. Rick Jendrusch showed one of the most impressive performances as he fought his way back through a number of heats and dispatched of some world class talent on the way. In one heat he managed to land over 15 moves in the 7 minute time frame and sail in with dry hair. Taking home a well deserved fourth place, Jendrusch found his form in this competition and will certainly be a force to be reckoned with in the next years.
Despite this it was Davy Scheffers who really stole the limelight during the day time as he not only secured the win for 2012 Centaur King of the Wind but also the title for the 2012 European Freestyle Pro Tour. A double win for the new European Freestyle Champion within the shores of Weymouth where the Olympic Games saw so many other champions crowned there this summer.
The legacy continues!
And so it did, right on into the night. The competitors relocated to the Weymouth Town beach for a tow-in show to remember. As fireworks were ablaze and a bonfire roared over 15,000 spectators filled the beach that evening. Perfectly timed, the finest European freestylers hit the water as the masses arrived, by the final runs the town was watching on as Austrian tow-in weapon Max Mattisek launched into an explosive and perfect double funnel diablo to take first place and a large chunk of the prize money that was up for grabs. Matissek also shone this week as he made his way into the top 10 for the event and finished 7th in the final EFPT rankings.
A special mention to Andy 'Bubble' Chambers who re-instated himself as the UK freestyle champion just over two weeks ago. He found himself standing in second place on the podium after landing a clean, ankle dry culo in the shallow Atlantic waters. Right in front of the judges, they were suitably impressed to award him the position and he too went home with a healthy chunk of the prize money.
On into the night.
For the competitors and fans of windsurfing, Globalshots laid on a party to remember in the Lazy Lizard. Covered in fluro paint and wrapped to the hilt in glow sticks everyone came together and celebrated not just their results but an epic finale to the tour. Check out plenty more photos from the night and the entire day on facebook.com/globalshots
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This picture reproduces a newspaper clipping that reports the fiftieth reunion of the 1934 class from Mineral Wells High School. It was published in the Mineral Wells Index on June 28, 1984.
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Handwritten notes on this old newspaper clipping indicate that it was given by M. J. Graham to A. F. Weaver, and correctly reports that the church structure burned August 25, 1908. The article erroneously states that it burned July 4, 1914. The article appears to have been published in the Mineral Wells Index. The caption reads: "Crowd attends dedication of the wooden church as it nears completion in the summer of 1896, when the edifice was dedicated to the Lord and mankind. On July 4th, 1914, the church was destroyed by one of the most disastrous fires in the history of Mineral Wells, when 34 residences and hotels, for two blocks east and west, and four blocks north--from Hubbard St. to NW 4th Street--burned. Every place from Hubbard north to 4th Street except the Tygrett home. "The present church was constructed some two years after the wooden church burned, on the same site--the corner NW 2nd Street and NW 4th Avenue. Perhaps some of the youngsters in the picture are living in the community today [2013]. Picture made available by M. J. Graham from his file of papers and pictures on the history of Presbyterianism in this community. "Until the present domed brick church was completed, the Presbyterians held Sunday School and church on the lower floor of the Odd Fellow Building in the 200 block on North Oak." The domed brick church mentioned in the article was built in 1909, (at a cost of $15,000, according to the El Paso Morning Times of 1909) and was replaced by a third church at this location in the 1980's due to structural deterioration. Please note: The picture in this article has been slightly cropped from it's original form, which is also in the A. F. Weaver Collection with the title [First Presbyterian Church in 1896]. The date of this article is unknown.
Remember the Good Old Times Back in 1906-1907 [Newspaper Article]2006-08-08T19:51:43-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16310/

A "Mineral Wells Index" newspaper article, dated 1933, it is titled: "Remember the Good Old Days Back in 1906-1907", showing two views of Elmhurst Park. One view shows an automobile and streetcar at the entrance; and the other shows the casino located in the park, with the lake in the foreground.


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Local Government Bankruptcy
Court-appointed receivership is not a typical remedy for local government financial emergencies. More common in the rest of the country (though prohibited in many states) are Chapter 9 federal bankruptcy proceedings. Still, governments entering bankruptcy are fairly rare, and there have been none in Michigan.
Under Chapter 9, a federal bankruptcy judge has the power to alter or negate the government's debts to vendors and bondholders. In addition, the bankruptcy judge has the power to alter collective bargaining agreements with the government's union workers, as well as the power to modify retiree insurance coverage and accrued pension benefits payable to retired city employees.[20]
The power to amend workers' and retirees accrued pension benefits is prohibited to Michigan governments and state courts by the Michigan Constitution.[21] This power is thus outside the domain of a state-appointed emergency manager or emergency financial manager. In contrast, it is clearly within the purview of federal bankruptcy judges, one of whom recently made substantial cuts to the pension benefits of municipal retirees in the bankrupt city of Central Falls, Rhode Island.[22]
A state can refuse to allow its local governments to participate in Chapter 9.[23] Alternatively, a state can stipulate how a local government can enter bankruptcy and otherwise regulate the municipal bankruptcy process. This is to protect a state's authority to manage its internal affairs free from federal involvement.[24]
In Michigan, Public Act 4 was, as a last resort, the official avenue to a local government bankruptcy, stating "If, in the judgment of the emergency manager, no reasonable alternative to rectifying the financial emergency … exists, then the emergency manager may recommend to the governor and the state treasurer that the local government be authorized to proceed under [federal bankruptcy law]. …"[25] With the suspension of Public Act 4 pending the outcome of Proposal 1, Public Act 72 (Public Act 4's predecessor) is now the avenue to bankruptcy. [*] [26] Note that the legal costs to a government unit of filing and proceeding through federal bankruptcy can be substantial.
While governmental bankruptcy gives a federal judge important powers to limit the government's debt, the court does not assume full control over the local government's affairs. Chapter 9 protects the local government's powers for constitutional reasons, and the law allows the local government to continue to manage its operations during the bankruptcy.[27] Chapter 9 also prevents federal bankruptcy courts from selling the local government's assets.[28]
In contrast, an emergency manager under Public Act 4 or an emergency financial manager under Public Act 72 would expressly be allowed to manage the city's operations and sell assets.[29] If an emergency manager under Public Act 4 were to file for bankruptcy, however, he or she would be empowered by state law to "act exclusively on the local government's behalf."[30] Thus, under Public Act 4, filing for bankruptcy would not return the management of the bankrupt local government back to its elected officials. Under Public Act 72, it is unclear whether the emergency financial manager would be appointed to act on behalf of the local government during Chapter 9 proceedings.[†]
Graphic 1 shows the major unilateral powers available to emergency managers, emergency financial managers, court-appointed receivers and bankruptcy judges in different instances. The unilateral powers available to emergency financial managers under Public Act 72 are similar to those of receivers under a court-appointed receivership (assuming powers like those granted in Ecorse). This is not surprising, since the powers of Public Act 72 and its predecessor, Public Act 101, were fashioned after the powers available to court-appointed receiver in Ecorse.
As noted above, a bankruptcy judge's powers under Chapter 9 are substantially different from those of court-appointed receivers and those of the various managers appointed under state legislation. Also as noted above, the major difference between managers in Public Act 4 and Public Act 72 — the two alternatives available under Proposal 1 — is the power under Public Act 4 to unilaterally modify the terms of a municipality's or school district's collective bargaining agreements with its employee unions. (See Appendix A for a extended list of the differences between the powers available under these two public acts.)
Graphic 1: Major Unilateral Powers Available to Receivers, Bankruptcy Judges and State-Appointed Managers Under Various Authorities
Sources: Robert Daddow, "Ecorse: The Fall and Rise of a Michigan City,"(Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 1992) http://goo.gl/0MkET; Michael W. McConnell and Randal C. Picker, "When Cities Go Broke: A Conceptual Introduction to Municipal Bankruptcy," University of Chicago Law Review, Spring 1993;Public Act 4 of 2011; Public Act 72 of 1990.
Local units of government in Michigan have in the past petitioned the state for permission to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 9 on their own, outside of Public Act 72 or Public Act 4. None of these has been approved. The most recent example came in 2010, when Hamtramck's request for permission to file for bankruptcy without entering emergency financial management was rejected.[31]
Readier access to bankruptcy has been argued as a possible way to remedy local government fiscal stress in Michigan while avoiding the loss of local control that would occur when the state appointed an emergency manager. Bankruptcy is viewed as a wild card in Michigan policy, however, especially for the government's creditors. There is a belief that allowing a local government bankruptcy would spill over into the rest of Michigan's municipal finance, making it more difficult for governments to borrow at low interest rates or even to borrow at all. Moody's — one of the major bond rating agencies — issued a report stating that the removal of the emergency manager law "would be credit negative for distressed local governments."[32]
The overall impact of bankruptcy on local government's ability to borrow from the private market is somewhat theoretical, though. No government in Michigan has ever filed for bankruptcy.
In any event, altering the rules for entering bankruptcy is not part of Proposal 1.[‡] The only possible difference is whether the manager will act on behalf of the local government when it enters federal bankruptcy — the emergency manager clearly would under Public Act 4, while the emergency financial manager's role is unclear under Public Act 72.
[*] While some local governments have asked the state for permission to enter federal bankruptcy proceedings without invoking Public Act 4 or Public Act 72, not one of these requests has been granted.
[†] The relevant provisions, MCL § 141.1222(1) and MCL § 141.1241(3), empower the emergency financial manager to recommend bankruptcy, but say nothing about the government's representative in bankruptcy.
[‡] Note that while the defeat of Proposal 1 would appear to reinstate Public Act 72 of 1990, there has been a legal challenge to this argument. If this challenge succeeds and Public Act 72 is not reinstated, then government units in Michigan would appear to no longer have an avenue to bankruptcy, since that avenue has been provided in the past by Public Act 4 of 2011 and Public Act 72 of 1990.


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As her grandfather sat pleasantly perplexed at her wedding, Lauren Barnes reached into the recesses of her strapless white gown, whipped out her iPhone and accepted her groom's Facebook relationship change to "married."
"Nothing's official," she said, "until it's Facebook official!"
In today's $78-billion-a-year business of getting hitched, those wacky viral videos of whole wedding parties dancing down the aisle seem positively 2009. Social media, mobile tools and online vendors are abundant to offer the happy couple extra fun, savings and convenience, though most of the nation's betrothed aren't ready to completely let go of tradition.
Some send out video save-the-dates, include high-speed scannable "QR" barcodes on invitations, live-stream their ceremonies for far-flung loved ones to watch online, and open their party playlists to let friends and families help choose the tunes.
They invite guests to live tweet the big day using special Twitter keywords, called hashtags, and create interactive seating charts so tablemates can chat online ahead of time.
One couple featured a "guest of the week" on their wedding blog. Another ordered up a cake with an iPad embedded at the base to stream photos at the reception. A third Skyped in a "virtual bridesmaid" who couldn't make it, so she was walked down the aisle by a groomsman via iPad.
For Steve Poland, 31, in Buffalo, N.Y., it was the whole shebang for his Sept. 10 wedding.
"We used the Twitter hashtag `polandwedding,' our nuptials were read from an iPad by our friend, who got ordained online, and our wedding invites were printed by the hip Us.moo.com as postcards that we mailed out. I was really hoping to use Turntable.fm as our music, but it didn't work out," he said.
Oh, and Poland and his wife, Caryn Hallock, spent part of their honeymoon in a Hawaii tree house they found on Airbnb.com.
According to surveys by the magazine sites Brides and The Knot, tech is on the rise in the world of weddings, with 65 percent of couples now setting up special sites to manage RSVPs, stream video of the ceremony and-or reception, and keep guests in the loop.
One in five couples use mobile apps for planning. That includes chasing down vendors, and virtually trying on and locating dresses. Seventeen percent of couples use social media to plan, shop or register for gifts, along with sharing every detail online. About 14 percent to 18 percent of brides buy a dress online, according to Brides.
Nearly 1 in 5 couples go paperless for invitations or save-the-dates. Many of those who have preserved the tradition of paper invites have dispensed with the inserts usually tucked inside envelopes, opting for e-mail or Web tools for RSVPs, maps, and details on destinations or related events.
From proposals on Twitter to Foursquare check-ins from the church or honeymoon, weddings seem ready-made for social media sharing _ or oversharing, depending on whether you're invited.
Alexandra Linhares, 23, is nervous about that.
She just moved to Marietta, Ga., but she's getting married in April back home in Highlands Ranch, Colo. She and fiance Bradley Garritson, 24, are taking care not to gush too much to their hundreds of Facebook friends. Other couples turn off their Facebook walls so premature messages of congrats don't show up before they've announced their engagements.
"There are a lot of people I work with on Facebook and who follow me on Twitter," Linhares said. "We don't want to hurt anybody's feelings."
But apps and online services have saved her life, logistically speaking.
"Since we're planning a wedding from thousands of miles away, we're relying heavily on technology to help us," she said. "We have a private Facebook group that we use to communicate with everyone in our bridal party since we're all in different states and countries."
Linhares found her gown with the help of an app. She and Garritson rely on Skype meetings to interview vendors. They're keeping track of RSVPs on their phones, along with the usual tangle of deadlines. And they're using an app to keep track of their budget. The couple went to the cloud _ for online data storage and sharing _ to maintain a master spreadsheet everyone can access at any time, avoiding the need to push updates around in e-mail.
Such tools can be a godsend, so long as older or not-so-techie folk aren't stranded on the wrong side of the firewall. "But that list of people is shrinking fast," said Anja Winikka, site editor for The Knot.
Brides found that 17 percent of couples register for gifts exclusively online. Sites have popped up making it easier to combine multiple registries into one _ like MyRegistry.com _ and ask for cash at the same time for honeymoons or home repairs.
Cris Stone, 33, will marry Jerry Delp, 44, in San Antonio, Texas, in May.
"I already have a wedding website," she said. "People will be able to watch the wedding via live streaming, though it's only for the ceremony because I consider that the most important part of the wedding."
John Ham, co-founder of Ustream, said about 10,000 weddings have been broadcast live from the site _ Ustreamtv.com _ over the last 12 months. "People want to participate in the moment," he said.
Stone is using DepositaGift.com. It offers a button on her wedding site so people can give cash for the couple's home remodel "without ever worrying about checks or actual cash envelopes," she said.
"It's proven extremely popular so far, and surprisingly not with the younger crowd as we had originally assumed, but with the 40 to 55 set who like not worrying about losing the envelope," Stone said.
She jiggered her Deposit a Gift so people can contribute $25 increments of brick, for instance, or $100 toward the cost of new windows.
Nicole Endres, 25, in Centreville, Va., and fiance Dan Rodriguez, 28, asked for cash, among other gifts, on their wedding website using Honeyfund.com, to help pay for their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic.
"We can transfer it straight from PayPal to our bank account, instead of taking checks to the bank," Endres said.
On invitations, some couples are using the small, square QR codes to lead guests online for additional details, and sharing photos and video on Tumblr, Flickr, Picasa or numerous other fast, free sites.
As for the Barnes and James Williams nuptials held Sept. 3 on the grounds of the Long Beach Art Museum, their officiant and friend Andrew Pachon used an iPad for the ceremony, but that and the Facebook fiddle to "married" was about it in the way of tech flourishes.
Williams and Barnes, a 29-year-old physician from Long Beach, had Pachon explain toward the end of the ceremony that the couple wanted to share the moment with their 400-plus Facebook friends.
Before the ceremony, Williams had sent his bride a Facebook request to change his relationship status to "married to Lauren Barnes." Once they were hitched, she accepted using her iPhone _ at 5:48 p.m. to be exact. There was a flurry of "likes" from gathered guests and the masses in cyberspace.
But not grandpa, who still managed to have a good time.


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A different sort of post today. . .hope you like it. Pictures of the completed Pi tomorrow (or soon, I promise!)
"I've never met you before, but I think I could love you right from the start," my grandmother said to me in the month before her 96th birthday. I had spent 600 miles knitting in the front seat of a pickup truck as we drove to the upper peninsula of Michigan to see her, and I knew that it was more than a probable chance that she wouldn't remember me. I had planned the visit to. . .well, I'm not sure why I planned the visit. I just knew, somehow, that it was important for me to see her.
My Grandma had spent weekends with me as I grew up. Every month or two, she'd come and stay with us when she had time off of work. When she came, my bed became hers, and I'd sleep on the floor of my room. In the winter, she'd trace my hand before I left for school in the morning, and half of a pair of mittens would be knitted for me by the time I came home. In the spring, she'd be using up odds and ends of yarn making granny squares for afghans.
I remember, sometime around third grade, my Grandma put knitting needles in my hands for the first time. She carefully showed me how to make a stitch, and then would knit a row for me when the stitches became too tight on the needles. I would balance the needle under my armpit or between my legs, since I couldn't figure out how to manage holding two sticks and a piece of yarn on my own. Knitting was not, for me, the new yoga. I made tension seem like a death grip. Knitting was not a hobby I'd pursue.
Grandma taught me, too, how to crochet a granny square. My 6 foot, 9 inch father found the granny square blanket (MY granny square blanket) was too short for him to lie under while watching TV. As Grandma crocheted squares to make it longer, my middle school fingers carefully chose rainbows of yarn to make four blocks that were crocheted at a radically different tension than hers, but none-the-less, were the cornerstones of the addition to my afghan. Even today, the 1980's acrylic rainbow squares are easily identified by my eyes as the ones she included in her multi-colored scrap work.
As an adult, I'd visit my Grandma at her home and we'd play scrabble. Her closet would be filled with 30-50 pair of mittens, hats and baby blankets that would be donated to her church mitten drive each winter. She'd pull them out and show me all of the sizes and colors she'd made. I'd usually be donating a large bag of acrylic yarn to her that I'd found at a garage sale so she could make more.
On one visit she said, "Tanya, I've made each of my grandchildren an afghan except you. What colors do you want yours to be? Let's go and pick out the yarn." In addition to the functional items and careful use of scrap yarn, my Grandma made "ripple stitch" afghans.
"Grandma, you made me a granny square afghan," I replied.
"No, I want to make you a GOOD afghan, " My Grandma pushed.
After long conversation, I convinced her that knitting wasn't my thing, but that I remembered learning to crochet with her and that was the type of afghan she could make me if she wanted to make me another. On my next visit, I was presented with a granny square afghan. Grandma's eyes were failing, the traditional black borders were sometimes navy blue, but the work was for me. It reminded me of the time I'd learned to crochet and of the rainbows on the afghan in my cedar chest.
In my mid thirties, the fun fur scarf illness hit. Remembering how to cast on and create a knit stitch from my youth, suddenly, everyone in my life was receiving a scarf for Christmas. Somehow, the tension issues had resolved themselves for me. This "new" craft for me was social, relaxing and SO engaging! I spent hours looking for a pattern for mittens so I could make some "just like Grandma". My Grandma had been moved into a nursing home, and I hadn't seen her for years. I knew she was in the beginning stages of dementia, and I'd probably never get to knit with her or learn the lessons of knitting she could have taught me years ago.
Last month, I sat across the table from her and showed her pictures of my youth. I reminded her who my cousins were and pointed out her children in the pictures from the 70's. I pointed to a picture of her in one of the albums, "I must have been a lot older then," she told me. She enjoyed looking at the photo albums, but kept eyeing the sock I was knitting as we talked.
"That's a nice sock." She said.
"Thanks, Grandma."
"You know I like to knit too."
"I know, Grandma, you taught me to knit when I was a little girl."
"I did?" She asked with surprise, and then turned to the resident sitting next to her and proudly told her, "She says I taught her to knit!"
Grandma showed me her knitting, a small, two inch square that was to be a "scarf for the needy" she told me.
I took a few pictures of us together and had them developed the next morning and carefully wrote the caption, "Mae with granddaughter Tanya, July 2007" at the bottom.
Grandma looked up when I walked in to see her and wanted to know who the pictures were of. She read the caption, but somehow it didn't register that the picture was of her and I. She read the caption again, and we talked for a few moments.
"I'm going home today—back downstate," I said, "I love you Grandma."
"Thank you," she said, struggling for words, "I've never met you before, but I think I could love you right from the start."
It might be that my Grandma has said that before when lost for words to say to others who express affection to her. My Grandmother turned to her knitting as my eyes filled with tears and I left. Her mind had forgotten me, but her fingers remembered the stitch that she'd done for so many years and her garter stitch scarf began to grow. I think I'm going to imagine that her heart remembered me and said exactly that same phrase to me when she laid eyes on me for her very first time in November of 1969.
"I've never met you before, but I think I could love you right from the start."
We meet the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30-8:45 p.m. :: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Guild Meetings — September through May :: Summer Camp — June through August
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Thursday, August 2, 2007
Knitting with Grandma
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4 comments:
My eyes welled with tears as I read your entry today. It's a poem of love to your grandmother. Thank you.
- August 2, 2007 at 3:57:00 PM EDT
What a treasure you are. You and your grandmother are both very lucky ladies to have been blessed with each other. It was a beautiful post.
- August 2, 2007 at 6:27:00 PM EDT
What a wonder love letter, Tanya. That is what it is, a love letter.
- August 3, 2007 at 10:53:00 AM EDT
You touched my heart with this. It brought tears to my eyes, and fellings of love and memories of my grandparents. Thanks Tanya. Kim T.
- August 5, 2007 at 11:40:00 AM EDT
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Zhang carrying Chinese hopes at UFC Macau
If Zhang Tiequan is worried about letting 1.3 billion people down when the UFC makes its debut in China on Saturday, the Mongolian Wolf is showing no sign of it.
Zhang faces Jon Tuck of Guam in the former Portuguese colony of Macau as the world's biggest mixed martial arts promotion tests Chinese waters for the first time.
Rich Franklin and Cung Le headline the card at The Venetian resort hotel in an event that will have a distinctly Asian flavour and is being targeted at viewers in the region, not primarily the United States.
The shaven-headed Zhang told Reuters that fighting in China did bring an element of added pressure but that representing his country in the UFC on Chinese soil was beyond anything he could have imagined as a child.
"Back when I was younger doing Mongolian wrestling I could never have imagined that one day I would be fighting in the biggest MMA event held in China," he said with a broad smile.
"China is the birthplace of all martial arts, but this sport, where all the arts are mixed, is just beginning to take root there. You could say that I'm the first real Chinese mixed martial artist," said Zhang, who transferred from wrestling to the Chinese martial art of sanshou before turning to MMA.
Fighters have shuttled between Hong Kong and Macau to boost awareness of the UFC brand and promote the event, as well as the sport itself in a region that gave the world martial arts movies and stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
At the Venetian's CotaiArena on Friday, long lines of fans waited for autographs from former champion Chuck Liddell, with his trademark Mohawk and tattooed head, while the appearance of 'The Korean Zombie', Jung Chan-sung, before the official weigh-ins had fans scrambling for their cameras.
The presence of the UFC in Macau has also given The Venetian a slightly strange feel ahead of the event, with tipsy wedding guests rubbing shoulders with muscle-bound fight fans in tight, threatening T-shirts in the cavernous casino.
The card is heavy with Asian fighters and the UFC's managing director for Asia, Mark Fischer, said that building "local heroes" was crucial to growing the sport in the region.
"There are 10 fighters from Asia on the card, there's great excitement here around Zhang Tiequan from China and Cung Le from the former Saigon too.
"Plus the 'Stun Gun' (Kim Dong-hyun) is a real challenger at welterweight and Korea is such a growing market for MMA so it's great to have him on."
Cung Le, who fled the former Saigon with his family in a helicopter days before the fall, said fighting in China brought his martial arts career full circle.
"Over here it's all about martial arts, this is where martial arts were born," said Le.


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My husband and I like dining at this casual little American café in the West Portal neighborhood of San Francisco. We've been going there for years, even before we moved to the western side of the city. During weekend brunch service, they grace each table with a plate of freshly baked muffins and homemade jam. My favorite of these muffins is the coffee praline muffin. Maybe I've lived a sheltered life as far as muffins are concerned, but I had never seen or heard of such a muffin. And I certainly have never tasted one like it. Hooked at first bite, I was dying to get my hands on the recipe and make them home. I finally got the recipe from them about 4 years ago. But it wasn't until recently that I finally tried the recipe for the first time. I know, I know, but I've had a huge backlog of recipes to try.
I made a few minor modifications to the original recipe based on what I had in the kitchen. Baking a breakfast muffin shouldn't require making a special trip to the grocery store. I used half and half instead of milk and espresso powder in place of the instant coffee called for in the original recipe. And so the coffee praline muffin became the espresso praline muffin. The muffin itself is not very sweet. The predominant flavor is espresso/coffee. Most of the sweetness will come from the "praline" topping.
Espresso Praline Muffin
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Muffin ingredients:
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1/3 cup finely chopped pecans
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup whole milk or half & half
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp espresso powder
4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
Praline topping ingredients:
2 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp light brown sugar
5 tbsp chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 375F. Butter and flour muffin pan or line with paper cupcake liners.
Make praline topping by combining the sugars and pecans. Set praline topping aside.
In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, pecans and salt. In a small bowl, combine milk, egg, vanilla and espresso powder. Whisk until espresso powder is dissolved.
Add the espresso mixture and the melted butter to the dry ingredients. Mix just until flour is incorporated. Do not over mix the batter.
Set your muffin pan on a rimmed baking sheet. The sheet will catch any topping that might fall off the muffins as they rise in the oven. Fill (to the top) 8 cups of the prepared muffin pan. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of praline on top of each muffin and lightly press the praline into the muffin.
Bake at 375F for 16-18 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes in pan and then remove muffins to cooling rack.
P.S. The word praline can be used to describe different confections. Praline can be almonds or hazelnuts in caramelized sugar or it can be pecans mixed with caramel cream. It can be a shard-like brittle (as in peanut brittle but in this case it would be almonds, hazelnuts or pecans) or a pulverized powder and/or paste. It can also be a Belgian chocolate candy. Praline can even be a homologous sequence alignment tool, but that praline is really the acronym PRALINE and this is just my dorky science self encroaching on my food blogging self. See how confusing it can be?


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Two men, woman face burglary charges in Manchester
October 21. 2013 9:41PM
MANCHESTER — Two men charged with breaking into a Lake Avenue apartment and stealing a large television set and an iPod Touch, and the woman accused of acting as a lookout, were arraigned Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on felony charges.
David Mitchell, 28, of 337 Manchester St., and Robert Ruggiero, 19, who lists the homeless shelter as his address, could enter no plea to felony charges of burglary. They are accused of breaking the glass of a second-floor rear door to an apartment and removing the items.
Elena Picco, 29, of 337 Manchester St., could enter no plea to criminal liability to burglary, for allegedly acting as a lookout with a two- way walkie-talkie.
Police were alerted to the Friday morning burglary by a person who saw suspicious activity involving three people and a vehicle, which left the area shortly after the witness heard glass breaking.
A vehicle matching the description was located in a parking lot at Manchester Pawn on Hollis Street and police said there was a large flat screen TV in the rear hatch of the vehicle.
In court, Picco said: "I'm really sorry." She said since her daughter died two months ago, "I feel I've been on a roller coaster." Mitchell also referred to losing a child, but offered no apology.
Bail for Picco and Mitchell was set at $3,000 cash/surety, with probable cause hearings set for Oct. 29.
A Goffstown police prosecutor was in Circuit Court for the arraignment of Ruggiero on a felony burglary charge that alleges he broke into a Glenwood Drive residence in Goffstown Oct. 15.
Ruggiero's bail is $3,000 cash/surety on the Manchester charge and $10,000 cash/surety on the Goffstown burglary charge. Probable cause hearings were set for Oct. 29 in Manchester and Oct. 30 in Goffstown.
Customer tackled robber
Angelo Kapos marked his 35th birthday Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division, where he was arraigned on felony charges of armed robbery and criminal threatening.
Kapos is accused of using what appeared to be a handgun in an attempt to rob the 7-11 store at 557 Maple St., about 4:45 p.m. Friday.
Kapos allegedly entered the store and approached the clerk, pointing a black handgun at her and demanding money.
Police said a 46-year-old customer was able to tackle Kapos from behind, wrestling him to the floor, where the struggle continued and Kapos allegedly pointed the gun at the customer and threatened to shoot him.
Police said the customer was able to get the gun away from Kapos and hand it to the clerk, detaining Kapos until police arrived.
Kapos complained in court about a proposed $20,000 cash/surety bail, pointing out the gun was a BB gun. He also said he had never failed to appear in court in connection with previous charges, which resulted in convictions that include theft by deception and assault.
Judge William Lyons set bail at $15,000 cash/surety and a probable cause hearing was set for Oct. 29.
Two separate arrests
Police said an ex-girlfriend reported that when she was moving out of the apartment she had shared with Paul MacNeil, 47, at 45 1/2 Jones St., Saturday, he knocked a television set and chair off the porch, breaking them, and shoved her with both hands in the chest, causing her to fall back into a wall and then to the ground. She said he also refused to return her cell phone, which she wanted to use to call police.
Police said MacNeil denied damaging the items, but he was arrested and released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail, scheduled for trial Nov. 21. Bail conditions barred him from contact with the victim, who was moving upstairs in the same building, and barred him from the address.
But the victim reported MacNeil had returned a short time later and he was arrested a second time Saturday, this time charged with stalking and violation of bail conditions. He was arraigned on all the charges Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division, where police prosecutors filed a motion to revoke his bail and have him held until trial Nov. 21. A bail revocation hearing was set for Tuesday morning.
Ex-girlfriend is victim
Police said a city man accused of stalking and attempting to strangle his ex-girlfriend, then burglarizing and trashing her Village Circle Way apartment, had a controlled drug in his possession when he was stopped with stolen property in his backpack.
Kendrick Brown, 22, who lists the homeless shelter as his address, is accused of jumping out from behind a dumpster and confronting his ex-girlfriend, who was with a new boyfriend Saturday night. He's accused of grabbing her by the neck and squeezing until she was unable to breathe, and fighting with her boyfriend.
Brown is also accused of breaking into her apartment early Sunday and trashing it, as well as stealing property belonging to her and her roommate. Police said when he was located, Brown initially gave a false name, but police said he had some of the stolen property in his backpack and had the controlled drug Suboxone in his possession.
Brown could enter no plea to the felony charges of second-degree assault, burglary, receiving stolen property and possession of a controlled drug at his arraignment Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division, so a probable cause hearing was set for Oct. 29. He pleaded innocent to misdemeanors of criminal mischief and stalking and trial was set for Nov. 19. Bail was set at $20,000 cash/surety, with conditions that include not going to the victim's residence and not having contact with her or her roommate.
Accused of stalking
A bail revocation hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division for John Weber, 26, of 452 Pine St., who was arraigned Monday on five stalking charges, five violations of a protective order, and single simple assault and resisting arrest charges. Police said the alleged victim is the maternal grandmother of Weber's daughter and the alleged incidents are related to a custody dispute.
Police prosecutors filed four motions to revoke Weber's bail.
He is accused of threatening the woman in texts, phone calls and in person, when he allegedly assaulted her outside her residence. The initial charges stemmed from a message he left Oct. 1, for which he was released on bail, with trial set for Nov. 6.
But police said Weber continued to contact the woman, threatening her. He's also accused of assaulting her and knocking off her glasses when she went outside to get the newspaper. The resisting arrest charge alleges he struggled with officers seeking to handcuff him during the second arrest, stemming from incidents that allegedly occurred Oct. 16-18.
Weber was out on bail on an unrelated April theft charge, scheduled for a status hearing Nov. 6, when the new incidents allegedly occurred.


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Thanks: I did a image capture of the picture, displayed it, then zoomed in three or four times and sure enough, that is a USB symbol.
Documenting screen-driven systems is difficult. The black bar is at the bottom. On the extreme left side of the bar is the journal activity symbol. To the right of that symbol is the USB symbol. That is what i meant to indicate.
When i get a USB drive the XO can read i will try those other things. As i previously speculated, the disk utility supplied with Mac OS (Leopard) seems to be unable to do a simple "hard format". After i format, even with MS-DOS specified, the disk shows a main folder that identifies as OS X extended, then a sub-folder shows the MS-DOS. Obviously that is a structure that the XO cannot accept. It does this even when i specify one partition then MS-DOS.
If what i just said is entirely true, i should probably "publish" it in the WIKI or perhaps "It's Working, Not Working".
That is one of the problems with this highly structured forum. This conversation may never be seen by someone who would be interested.


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian military official says Iran is ready to help Iraq battle al-Qaida "terrorists" in the neighboring country's Sunni-dominated western Anbar province.
Iraqi troops have been trying to dislodge fighters from the al-Qaida group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant from two key cities the militants overran last week.
Gen. Mohammad Hejazi, deputy chief-of-staff of Iran's army, is quoted by Iranian media on Monday as saying the Islamic Republic can offer "military equipment and advisers" should Baghdad ask for it.
Hejazi says: "Iraq is our friend."
He ruled out sending troops to Iraq.
Fighting in Iraq's Anbar province killed 22 soldiers and 12 civilians, along with an unknown number of militants on Sunday.
Tehran is an ally of the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.


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I'm in the process of building a house and need some advice on the HVAC equipment. Our builder is proposing to use:
Bryant Legacy RN Air Conditioner - 113RNA060-G
Bryant Legacy Li Oil Burner - 369AA036090
We live in Northeast and our electricity prices are some of the hghest in the country. Any help or thoughts on this equipment would be greatly appreciated.


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Competent drunks: Beer not a get-out-of-jail-free cardEDITORIAL
August 30. 2013 12:30AM
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday made sure that a convicted rapist will remain behind bars for the rest of his life. With luck, the court's unanimous rejection of rapist William Decato's absurd legal claim will keep other criminals from wasting the court system's time with similar frivolous challenges.
In 2009, Decato broke into a Manchester woman's home while she was sleeping and sexually assaulted her numerous times over the course of two hours. He argued that because he was too drunk to remember the night in question, he was not competent to stand trial. The trial court rejected the claim, and he appealed. On Wednesday the Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction.
Decato said he had amnesia because he drank 18 beers on the day of the crime. His inability to recall the particulars of the evening made it impossible for him to "communicate facts relevant to possible defenses to his counsel," as the Supreme Court summarized his claim.
But of course the competency test is silent on a defendant's forgetfulness. It addresses his state of mind during the trial, not at the time of the alleged crime. Besides, if intoxication during the commission of a crime were grounds for incompetency to stand trial, we'd have nearly empty prisons. Kudos to the court for its forceful rejection of Decato's ridiculous argument.


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Before I had kids I used to say that I would never plug my children into electronics to keep them quiet. Now our travel check-list goes something like this: "IDs: check! DVD players: check! DVD chargers: check! batteries for headphones: check! everything else: Eh, if we forget anything else we can buy it there…."
You'll notice I didn't include this photo in my post-vacation blissed-out post on Monday. But I feel like in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that part of the reason traveling with my two kids was so easy breezy this time is that they each had their own DVD player and headphones that got flipped on the second we heard that ding. This is something I was dead-set against before having children. Now I rely on it. Is that so bad?
These DVD players and headsets (Alex had the iPad this time so he could play games too) only come out when we're traveling and really only when we're on airplanes (or particularly challenging road trips). But it still feels a little like a cop out. Like I should instead be doing puppet shows and sticker parades and I spy marathons. The thing is, I've tried all that. Nora only recently started caring about TV so every trip prior to this one it was completely on me to keep her entertained (i.e. still and quiet) on airplanes. It was a massive undertaking and it always ended with Nick and me growling at each other and people giving us dirty looks.
Fortunately Nora passed out for about an hour so it wasn't only A Bug's Life that kept her quiet.
I remember airplane and road trips as a kid, playing Mad Libs and writing in my journal and doing those activity pads that have the magic pens. On car rides, we also played our version of The Gong Show (remember that one?) where my sisters and I would each have a turn giving some kind of performance until one of us said GONG! Oh, and another fave was mercy—we'd bend each other's fingers back until we cried, "Mercy!" (Gheesh, my mom probably would have preferred we had a DVD of Family Ties to zone out to.)
The point is, I remember those trips so fondly. We used our imaginations like crazy. We also got yelled at quite a bit, as I recall, but still. It was all part of the experience. And I wonder if my kids will miss out on that because of technology—and how easy it is to flip it on and bask in the quiet. I will also cut myself this slack: My kids are still very young and right now the idea is to keep them from making a scene—once they get a little older (Alex is already way better) they will be more capable of controlling their voices and their excitement and actually playing some tic tac toe or reading books or coloring quietly without eating the crayons (as advanced as Nora is in many ways, she still puts everything in her mouth—"I swallowed it, mom!" is a common phrase around our house).
Oh, and I can honestly say that I don't think I will ever have a DVD player in my car, even though the dealers try to push it on you. I purposely didn't buy a specific model that came with one because I knew we'd wind up using it more than I like. My mom has one in her car and the second the kids get in they ask to watch it. I love talking to my kids in the car. It's some of the best quality time we get because they're strapped in and not distracted by a million toys. And they both love music and we sing along to top-40 fluff that they probably shouldn't be listening to but totally love. I wouldn't want to compromise that just to get some extra quiet time. Though we have had to tell Alex to just take a break from the nonstop talking and look out the window (the kid seriously has no off button).
So, what are your thoughts on these DVD players/ipads/ipods/whatever cool thing I can't think of but I'm sure some of you have, etc.? Do you use them on trips? Airplanes? Cars? All the time? Do you feel conflicted about it? Let's discuss….


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Valley Vet Supply, my name is Francie. How may I help you? These words are repeated many times a day as I answer the phone (sometimes even at home by mistake). You can't imagine the range of products we sell and the questions we are asked. We are beginning to blog..and since I am a one-day-at-a-time type person, I will be sharing one product at a time..(that should be job security). Our business pertains to animals and human health. My goal is to be Dr. Oz of Valley Vet (we are based in Kansas :). I hope you read my blog and say, "I have to try that product!"
My first product is the Mosquito Patch. This is not for your horses or any animal, but for YOU. It's that time of the year for these pesky insects, and it works for gnats and flies too. It is an all natural product, safe for you and your family. I used it on my one-year old granddaughter. The patch goes to work in 2 hours and lasts for over 36 hours. The patch contains Vitamin B1, which the insects don't like the smell of excreted through sweat glands. Would be great for trail riders, small packages will fit easily in your bags.
In closing, did you know it is the female mosquitoes that bite? I hope you check in next week. Francie


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Simply put:
I prefer using surrogate keys because natural keys are by default a subject to change which is a bad behavior for a row identifier.
But let's dig a bit deeper into each key type to see why this is. Here's a little table with column names that tell us what kind of a key each column is.
A surrogate key is a row identifier that has no connection to the data attributes in the row but simply makes the whole row unique. And that property is also the downside of it. Because it has no connection to the data attributes we can have two rows with the exact same data in all columns except the key column. This is usually handled at the application side and is an acceptable downside.
An example of a surrogate key is an integer identity or a GIUD unique identifier. I've never seen another data type being used as a surrogate key successfully. Both have their pros and cons though.
GUID unique identifier
GUID is globally unique 16 byte long data type that can have 2128 different values. This makes it ideal for scenarios with multiple server moving data from one to another like replication.
However for a key 16 bytes is really a lot. This causes less data to be available on a single data page which in turn causes extra IO activity because it has to retrieve more data pages. Another issue about it is that is causes perfect page splits in a clustered index because it has random 100% selectivity in it's entire data type range.
Integer identity
Integer identity is either 4 byte INT with range from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 or 8 byte BIGINT with range from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. In 99.9% of cases this range is split in half because the default setting in SQL Server is to start any integer data type from 0. As this is a surrogate key this makes no sense and there's no reason it shouldn't start from the min value.
It is a small data type which gives it the advantage of having more data in the data pages thus needing less IO for the same amount of data. Unlike the GIUD unique identifier the integer identity has ever increasing 100% selectivity in it's entire data type range. This makes it a perfect candidate for a clustered because it doesn't cause page splits. If it actually is an appropriate candidate for a clustered index is a different matter.
Its downside is that it is not ideal for multi server scenarios although it can be done by using another tinyint column identifying a location and making it a covering row identifier over ID and LocationId columns.
And remember: Never tie any business logic to the surrogate key other than simple CRUD operations.
A natural key is a row identifier composed of data that uniquely describes data using its own attributes. An example of a natural key is social security number or other government issued number.
However this presents a huge problem from the physical database implementation point of view. In most databases a row identifier is usually also the basis for the clustered index and non-clustered indexes. But natural keys are by definition a subject to change. When the clustered index key is changed ALL indexes have to be rebuilt because non-clustered indexes contain the full key of the clustered index. So every time the natural key, which is also a clustered index changes, all indexes have to be rebuilt. And this is not including changing the actual data type or it's size, jut the key value.
At this point someone might say: Yes Mladen you're right about the theory of this but how many times have you seen the Natural key really change? Well so far I've seen it 2 times both with heavy consequences. It was 2 times too many.
Natural Key Fail Case 1:
It was a standard customer, product, order type of application. The key in this case was the 7 char long customer ID. It was a mix of first 3 letters of the customer name plus 4 numbers that also had some business meaning. The company got acquired by another company and a new customer numbering was introduced. Every key in that database had to be changed. Due to fully breaking changes to the database the whole application had to be modified and the store went offline for 3 months loosing the company a lot of profit. All this wouldn't have happened if they had used surrogate keys.
Natural Key Fail Case 2:
This one was even more far reaching. In Slovenia (my home country) we have something called a Tax ID. This is an ID that is unique for companies and individuals so every person and every company has one for tax purposes. Many systems in Slovenia used it as the natural never changing key which sounded like a reasonable thing at the time. And it was so for over 30 years. Applications came and went. But in 2004 Slovenia entered into the European Union. So we had to modify the TaxId to European standards which means that every application using it had to be changed. I know of at least one company that went out of business because of this change. Again had they used a surrogate key the only change would be the length of the TaxId column.
Because of all this I've come to the prefer the surrogate keys in majority of cases.
Hopefully this gives you some insight why surrogates are in my opinion better suited as row identifiers. Although whichever you choose is still a matter of common sense and your business problem. The answer is always "It depends".
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text: I hope everyone has had a nice break for the past two months or so! The expected release date of Tomb is June 20th, so we are going to start raiding again on June 6th to dust off the cobwebs and see what all we need to do to prepare the team for success. Hope to see you all there!


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according to most anime characters, YES!
is today not my day? Take me away, already! I hate suffering from this...
hmm maybe they are just more open with their pervertly likes~~
Yes and i think it's because the Japanese are pretty open about sexuality and I don't know one thing that would be considered as taboo in Japanese society.
Make my life anime
I'm not sure for Japan ! I think it's Russia haha !
i think so too..
`~ at the office , there nothing i can do but sleep here, hoho :3
yes that is true because we had a japanese old man who always likes but and if you stand besides theme they really get the thing... even they there are many people around him its like their hobby or sumthing...
Japan is definitely the most perverted. Proof?
1.Gropers on trains... I mean just how many men/ and women start feeling up strangers they don't even know?
2.Panty Flashers, my own personal experience... how many women would raise their skirts up (on purpose) in front of some guy they don't know???
3.Hentai, need I say more..
4.Ecchi, need I say more...
5.the...um... reproductive organs festival that some of the towns have with all sorts of phalus themed items, sculptures, and... food.
6.The lolicon fetish
7.The panty thieves and sniffing of womens undergarments.
8.The ideology that men should force their way on women and women are just supposed to "accept" it... as depicted in shounen, seinen, shoujo manga, anime etc... Remember Hot Gimmick???
9.Soaplands, nude body soap massages, Host/Hostess bars...
10. Enjou Kosai, and the idea that young school girls can date much older guys.
And after all that, they STILL censor porn LMAO.
A strong advocate for 4day x10 hr work weeks. 3 day weekend!
Yep i agree
I don't think so; and I suspect English-speaking hand-wringing about Japanese "perversity" says a lot more about us than it does about them.
The Japanese are more frank about sexuality than we are. I don't think that makes them the perverts, I think we are. Consider: all of the dirty words in English are body parts or bodily functions. It's craziness if you think about it. Taking the most obvious facts of being alive that we share with every other person who's ever been alive and assigning shame to that... I don't think that's going to sell as well in Japan, where there's a strong tendency towards pragmatism. The same thing goes for the Germans and the Scandinavians: they just aren't as terrified of boobs as we are. Maybe that's some kind of formula, not scared of boobs = extremely well-built cars. France, Britain, Italy... I'm sorry. Sadly, this probably explains the Ford Pinto.
I think it's this kind of matter-of-factness that allows Japanese culture to concentrate on what's really worthwhile; and the export-quality of much of their culture -- at least in my opinion -- is because of that.
Ironically, Japan has the lowest sex rate whilst Greece has the highest sex rate.
Recent studies show South Korea to be the most perverse country. WTF. .____.
What is this, I don't even.
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nope,japan just basically trying to say "we're an open minded country"
I totally agree with that and another poster. I'm pretty damn pervy myself. Got a problem?
It's not bad what I'm searching for, I swear.
Lots of guys are Perverted on earth
and Few girls are perverted earth
Anime Example for the girls: like to looks for images on anime kissing and hugging
(lol I'm perverted for that ONLY about anime NOT real life)
Having had the furtunate chance to visit over 80 countries.. I need to say the most perverted is Pakistan. and Arabs in General, but they hide it very well. IT seems the more an act is restricted or frowned on, the more a people will do it. In the Arab world, Many sexual things are taboo and punishishable by death, for this reason, they have so many closet perves, that come to life once they visit other countries.
I can't really say that they're perverted. I think the biggest difference is that they're not as repressed as the United States. They tend to be a bit more open about certain aspects of sexuality, so it can give off the appearance of being perverted.
The biggest problem I faced in Japan, however, were train gropers. And because I'm a tall (by Japanese standards - I'm 5'4" and a half, without heels - which I wore daily in Japan) girl with (again, Japanese standard) larger breasts, I got groped like no one's business. I also knew how to handle such situations. I do think that a problem is that sex crimes, however, are much more commonplace in Japan, though not often reported. Hell, my roommate's sister was nearly raped, though the guy merely wanted her panties.
Hentai is merely viewed as porn. Tentacle rape and things aren't considered offensive because it is what it is. No one takes it seriously.
In the US, we're a culture that has grown up with the influence of Christianity and started off with varying degrees of Puritanism. Sex is viewed as a dirty, bad thing, and because we like to be 'edgy', we often insert huge amounts of sex into everything.
"I dreamt that I was loved, I woke and found it true, and I thank God on my k...
hmm...-_- i`d probably say yah Japan is the most perverted, you can tell how they encourage it in manga and anime.., don`t want to even think about it though -_-, oh yeah i also saw a poll where people in China, Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou voted for the most perverted country and Japan waz the highest ever it had the most votes out of all the other countries O.o