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Lydia Ko Wins The McCormack Medal Again. Turning Pro ? October 10 2013
Three Peat, Lydia Ko / Getty Images Teenage Kiwi Lydia Ko has received the McCormack Medal as the world's leading women amateur for a third straight year. The medal was presented by the Royal & Ancient and United States Golf Association on Wednesday. Sixteen year-old Lydia successfully defended the Canadian Women's Open title on the LPGA Tour, then finished runner-up at the Evian Championship, the year's last major. Other highlights include a tie for third in the Australian Women's Open, and tie for 17th in the LPGA Championship. According to reports Lydia will play in the season-ending CME Titleholders in November as a professional. She is already a two-time winner on the LPGA, and hinted at such a move at the Evian Championship last month, where she finished runner-up to Suzann Pettersen. Tina Hyon, Lydia's mother, told Golf Channel on Wednesday that she will play the Titleholders in Naples, Fla., and might even compete in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational the week prior. Lydia will need to receive permission from LPGA commissioner Mike Whan to compete on the LPGA prior to her 18th birthday. The Kiwi sensation will not turn 17 until April 24 next year. She is currently world-ranked No 5.

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A riddle for our times: when is Barbie not a Barbie? Answer: When she's a Blond.
Have we lost you? News broke over the weekend that the latest iteration of Mattel's classic doll is being designed by fashion design duo The Blonds. Dubbed by internet wags as "Drag Queen Barbie," the newest model of Ken's, er, girlfriend will go by the unwieldy name The Blonds Blond Diamond Barbie Doll.
Before you ring up the One Million Moms in a tizzy, take note that details of the new Barbie remain scant. But earliest reports are breathless over the fact that she appears to particularly resemble Phillipe Blond – one of the two designers – who happens to be a cross dresser himself.
Dressed, according to Mattel, in a "stunning silvery mini corset dress—designed by The Blonds themselves—featuring countless sculpted faux gems and a full length faux fox fur," and "silvery jewelry suite and glitter pumps," the doll certainly sounds plenty fabulous.
And for $125, she certainly better be.
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US futures drop as July wholesale prices unchanged
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures fell after the U.S. reported Wednesday that wholesale prices were unchanged in July as energy prices retreated.
Most economists expected a slight increase and the U.S. Federal Reserve, during its most recent meeting, said that inflation persistently below 2 percent could pose risks to the economy.
That overshadowed positive news, including the European Union's emergence from recession.
Dow Jones industrial futures slipped 40 points to 15,371. S&P futures gave up 4.1 points to 1,686.70. Nasdaq futures fell 3.75 points to 3,1,33.25.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that wholesale prices showed no change last month compared with June, when they had risen 0.8 percent. That was the most in nine months.
For the 12 months ending in June, overall consumer prices rose 1.8 percent and core prices 1.6 percent.
Those levels are below the Fed's 2 percent target for inflation.
Also dragging down stocks was the disappointing second-quarter numbers posted by Macy's Wednesday.
U.S. consumers will have a critical part in any full recovery for the U.S. because they drive 70 percent of economic activity.
Macy's lowered its outlook for the year, suggesting to some that many Americans remain worried about jobs and salaries.
Deere & Co., however, rode booming agricultural activity in North and South America during its third quarter and posted a 27 percent jump in profit.
European markets moved in the opposite direction Wednesday after the 17 countries that use the euro saw economic output grow by 0.3 percent in the second quarter. It's the first growth to be recorded since late 2011.
Cisco will post financial results after the closing bell.


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Stockton, CA
Walter E. Haws
April 24, 1919 - December 23, 2012
Walt passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital in Stockton with family
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December 23, 2012, after a brief illness.
Walt was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Springfield, Illinois. He moved to Visalia, California in 1953 and opened a body shop. He eventually moved his family to Pacheco, California, where he began raising cattle and boarding horses. He was very active with his sons, organizing various horse events. For several years he was a judge at the Grand National Horse Show in San Francisco. He was active with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Posse and involved with their Search and Rescue Unit. He also held the position of Captain with the Sheriff's Posse.
Walt joined Operating Engineers Union Local 3 and has been a proud member for 50 years, working for various construction companies building freeways, bridges and overpasses. He retired as Job Superintendent in 1994.
In 1987 he moved into the boating world. He joined Stockton Yacht Club in 1992 where he held various positions including Commodore in 1996. He loved the boating life and recently talked about acquiring another boat.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Edwin and Iva Haws; his sisters Edwina Berry and Jean Najarian. He left behind his sons Terry Haws (Deedre), Robert Haws (Kerri), sisters Snooks Hashman (Don), his grand-daughters Andrea Haws-Kopshever (Tony), Jasilyn Lonero-Gaddy (JD) and grandson Justin Haws, along with numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
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text: When Harvey County voters head to the polls on Nov. 6, they will find an unusual item on the back of their ballots.?The question takes up a large portion of the back of the ballot, filling up about two columns. Though the text is somewhat long and complicated, Harvey County Clerk Joyce Truskett advises voters the item isn�t as confusing as it looks.?The ballot question concerns an amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would allow the Legislature to classify and tax watercraft on a different basis than other property. The ballot item itself won�t change any tax rates � it simply gives lawmakers the power to do so.?�They could do it if they wanted to,� Truskett said.?Currently, most watercraft is valued at market value and assessed at 30 percent. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism and some boat owners and vendors have been pushing for lower tax rates on watercraft.?Truskett said there are some boats in Kansas that are registered in surrounding states, to take advantage of cheaper rates, and this cuts down on the amount of revenue the state receives.?If approved by voters, this amendment would give the Legislature the authority to set up an alternate to fair market value property tax. The new method may be some form of fee structure imposed in lieu of property tax or the Legislature may exempt watercraft all together.?Voters will be asked to vote �yes� or �no� on the amendment. A vote �yes� means you want to permit the Legislature to classify and tax watercraft on a different basis than other property, while voting �no� means you would like the watercraft taxation structure to remain the same.


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On Jan. 28, crews will begin repairing the section of a failed retaining wall along the Sharpes Ferry Bridge.
Work will soon begin on the one casualty of the nearly uneventful 2012 hurricane season.
On Jan. 28, crews will begin repairing the section of a failed retaining wall along the Sharpes Ferry Bridge.
A 250-foot-long piece of the wall collapsed last June after Tropical Storm Debby blew through.
While the bridge itself was not damaged, the state still closed that portion of County Road 314 to traffic for nearly six weeks for safety reasons.
Florida Department of Transportation officials recently announced that local motorists who endured more than a year of snaking around that closed section of CR 314 while the bridge was being built will face another months-long travel slowdown.
CR 314 will remain open over the next few weeks while the initial work on the bridge is under way, but it will be narrowed to a single lane, FDOT spokesman Steve Olson said.
Then, Olson added, there is a "high probability" that the bridge will be closed again as the contractor emerges from the first phase.
Olson said it was unknown at this point how long the bridge might be closed once the fix reaches that stage.
In announcing the work, FDOT officials had said the project is expected to run into the summer.
Olson noted that taxpayers will not be on the hook for the repairs, which include fixing the damaged retaining wall, reinforcing the remaining sections and upgrading the drainage system.
Houston-based Orion Marine Group, the contractor that built the bridge, and C3TS, the South Florida engineering firm that designed it, will hash out the costs, Olson said.
The wall's collapse occurred less than three months after the $8.2 million bridge had opened to traffic.
The new bridge had replaced the 86-year-old iron truss span that had served motorists for decades.
The previous bridge was reinstalled alongside the new one and now serves as a pedestrian crossing over the Ocklawaha River.
Olson said the cause of the collapse was still unknown. FDOT officials and the contractors are still working on a report about the reason for the failure.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis called Wednesday for prayers for 12 Orthodox nuns who were taken by force from their convent in Syria by opposition fighters. Religious officials in the region have said the women were being held against their will, but a Syrian opposition activist said they were merely taken away for their own safety.
Francis didn't call for their release but appealed for prayers from the crowd at the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square.
"I invite everyone to pray for the sisters of the Greek Orthodox monastery of Santa Takla in Maaloula, Syria, who were taken by force by armed men two days ago," he said. "Let us continue to pray and to work together for peace."
The abduction has added to fears that hardline Muslim rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad were increasingly targeting Christians.
Rebels previously kidnapped two bishops and a priest. Syria's minorities, including Christians, have mostly sided with Assad or remained neutral in Syria's civil war, fearing for their fate if the rebels, increasingly dominated by Islamic extremists, come to power. Christians have accused radicals among the rebels of abusing residents and vandalizing churches after taking Christian towns.
A Syrian opposition activist claimed the nuns were taken for their own safety from the convent because of heavy clashes nearby. However, rebels were refusing to provide evidence of the nuns' safety, said the activist, who goes by the name Amer and often reports on rebel activity in the area.
Rebels of the al-Qaida linked Nusra Front took the sisters to the nearby town of Yabroud, where they were placed with a Christian family, he said.
"They are being taken care of," Amer said, adding that his information came from friends close to the rebels holding the nuns.
However, a nun in a nearby convent insisted the women were being held against their will. Stephanie Haddad, deputy of the Greek Orthodox Saidnaya Convent, told The Associated Press that she spoke to the nuns on Tuesday night, from the house in Yabroud.
She said rebels guarding them kept promising they would be released soon, "but nothing in certain."
Syria's Greek Orthodox Patriarch, John Yazigi, pleaded for the release of the women on Tuesday.
Maaloula is a Christian village that rebels recently overran. The town was a major tourist attraction before the conflict began. Some of its residents still speak a version of Aramaic, a language spoken by Jesus.
Albert Aji in Damascus, Diaa Hadid in Beirut and Daniela Petroff at the Vatican contributed to this report.


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It's taken me awhile to figure out Patriots fans.
It's taken me awhile to figure out Patriots fans.
Having had to play psychiatrist to them so many times over the past few years – every time they lose, it seems like Panic City – my conclusion was that, as a group, they just didn't have any appreciation for how good they've got it.
But after watching the Patriots score 108 points in 103 hours, then spending the majority of my post-Thanksgiving hours breaking down the last six seasons of Patriots football (the Wes Welker Era, for lack of a better title), I think I get it.
Patriots fans aren't spoiled.
They're damaged.
They can't quite wrap their heads around what they're seeing. How can a team capable of doing what they did to the Colts and the Jets do things in the postseason like lose decisively to the Jets and Ravens – at home, no less? How can a team that frequently looks like Alabama playing Sam Houston State then go out and lose the Super Bowl to the Giants ... TWICE!?!?!
It's enough to turn any fan a bit crazy. It explains why the fans booed Tom Brady early in the season, why they left the Patriots-Cardinals game in the fourth quarter. It explains why they follow every loss with a flood of calls to sports radio. It explains it all.
You see, by any measure, we are seeing the most dominant run of excellence any NFL football team has ever managed. And we're not talking about the Patriots teams that won three Super Bowls; those teams were incredibly strong, incredibly clutch, very well-balanced – but not dominant.
No, we're talking about the franchise that remade itself as an offensive juggernaut; from the moment Welker and Randy Moss lined up at wideout and Brady went from Mr. Clutch to Mr. Touchdown, this franchise has set a new standard for dominance.
All of the great franchises in league history have had similar hallmarks when they are in the midst of a big run: A lot of easy wins. Very few decisive losses. A winning percentage approaching 80 percent. Dominance in the turnover game.
I hunkered down in the bunker of stat-geekery and came out with a field of 10 great franchises that had spectacular six-year runs. My findings? The Patriots dominated the dominating. They have more 20-point wins, more 30-point wins, more 40-point games, more games with 3-plus turnovers than anyone, and were in the top three in winning percentage, double-digit wins and fewest double-digit losses.
Bill Belichick tried to explain how his team does things like it did on Thursday night against the Jets.
"We go out there on the punt return or kickoff return team and we're always thinking about taking it to the house; trying to execute the play properly, whether it's blocking a punt or a returning a kick, whatever it happens to be, that that play is going to end up in the end zone for us," he said.
"The same thing on a lot of plays offensively or defensively that we're trying to get turnovers, we're trying to make big plays, score on long runs or long passes. We're always thinking about those plays.
"Obviously you're lucky if you get a couple of them a game, but ... those things are always in the back of your mind on every play."
The Thanksgiving night game was a good example of how many ways this team can beat you. They were playing without three offensive starters that are pretty much the best in the business at their position (TE Rob Gronkowski, LG Logan Mankins and RT Sebastian Vollmer), yet they moved effortlessly up and down the field.
They scored on defense and they scored on special teams. Only kicker Stephen Gostkowski failed to join the party, missing a field goal, but he's still on pace to score 162 points this year, which would be the ninth most of all time.
"I thought it was almost impossible to score 35 points in a quarter, but they found a way to do it," Jets coach Rex Ryan said after the game. "You have to give them a ton of credit. That's a great football team. Like I said, they don't need any help, and when you don't protect the football ... 35 points in a quarter is ridiculous."
So, it's agreed. The Patriots are pretty awesome.
But just as no other franchise has ever been this scary good for this long, no franchise has ever put together six such remarkable seasons in succession without picking up a ring (or two, or three) along the way.
Had this run not been preceded in fairly short order by the three Super Bowl titles, Patriots fans would surely be as bitter and confused as Red Sox fans were during the heartbreaking days of Pedro Martinez's prime.
As it is, they are simply befuddled. The shock and awe that their team unleashes on the league has been replaced, in the end, by the shock and awe of an unexpected defeat when it counts.
And here they are again – one of the favorites to win it all as the playoffs come into focus. It's not their last chance, with Brady still in his prime and plenty of good young pieces around him, but you have to wonder how many more peculiar failures in January and February Patriots fans can take.
Jonathan Comey is the sports and features editor for The Standard-Times. Email him at email@example.com.


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Jersey City -
Horse driving, Grainville Fields, Jersey City
Get around
The best way to navigate within Jersey City, as a tourist, is likely by PATH, Taxi, or Light Rail. Most of the major sections of town are serviced by these forms of transport. The bus system is simply too arcane for the short term visitor to come to terms with.
La Isla Nueva - Stop by the "La Nueva Isla Meat Market at 265 Grove Street and say Hello to the proprietor, Oscar. While your there, you can pick up everything from the latest issue of the "Daily News" to a couple of home made 'empanadas'.
Definitely make a stop at the Hard Grove Cafe at Grove Street and Columbus in Downtown Jersey City. It is a Cuban-American diner with great decor (plastic palm trees), great food, great drinks, and decent (but sometimes lacking) service. It is not the fanciest restaurant, but it's more fun than that anyway.
White Mana is by far the best grease pit burger joint.
Get in
By car
From the West take the New Jersey Turnpike to exit 14B or 14C, or take the Pulaski Skyway (Route 1/9) and get off between Tonnelle Ave (for Journal Square and the Heights) or just before the Holland Tunnel for Hamilton Park and downtown. From Manhattan take the first left after exiting the Holland Tunnel, or the Kennedy Blvd exit when coming out of the Lincoln Tunnel.
By Subway
The PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) train runs to Journal Square, Grove Street, Exchange Place, and Pavonia/Newport in Jersey City with connections to Newark, lower Manhattan, midtown Manhattan, and Hoboken. It costs $1.50 each way and is easily the best way to get into town. Travel Time between Downtown Jersey City (Grove Street) and Lower Manhattan (World Trade Center Station) is approximately 6 minutes.
By light rail
The Hudson-Bergen light rail, operated by NJ Transit connects the Jersey City waterfront to Hoboken and Bayonne. Eventually it is planned to extend northward into the suburbs of Bergen County.
By bus
NJ Transit and other operators run buses to the Journal Square bus terminal. For destinations not served by this terminal, check out Newark Bus Terminal and Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.
Downtown Jersey City (DOJO) The historic center of Jersey City, Ward E, is easily explorable on foot. Downtown Jersey City stretches from 18th Street in the North, down to Liberty State Park in the South; and from Baldwin Avenue to the Waterfront. The area is home to several landmarks.
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse The H&M Powerhouse is a Romanesque revival industrial masterpiece built between 1906 and 1908. The Powerhouse was designed by architect John Oakman, an alumnus of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The Powerhouse allowed the operation of the first trans-Hudson subway, the direct predecessor of today's PATH. It ceased operation as a power generating station in 1929, and was officially designated an historic landmark in the 1990s.
Jersey City Hall Completed in 1896, This imposing granite and marble municipal structure was designed by Lewis Broome, who also designed the Trenton Statehouse. A bronze memorial monument by Philip Martiny stands in the small plaza in front of the City Hall entrance. The memorial bears the inscription: "Erected by the People of Hudson County to Commemorate the Valor of the Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Civil War." The statue is of the Goddess of Victory in a seated pose. Although she has lain aside her shield, her hand rests in readiness upon her sword, though she offers the olive branch of peace.
Jersey City Waterfront The Waterfront which delineates the eastern border of Jersey City faces, across the Hudson River, the island of Manhattan. Ferried and Water Taxis depart regularly from the Marina in front of the Goldman Sachs Tower, the tallest building in New Jersey, and the second tallest building in the New York metropolitan area (after the Empire State Building). On the waterfront is a Hyatt Hotel with a restaurant which, although pricey, offers excellent views of New York. Just South of the Hyatt is a waterfront park which extends some 250 meters into the Hudson river and which is an excellent location to fish, play chess, relax, or to take photographs of the Manhattan skyline. Until 2001, this park was directly across from the World Trade Center.
Paulus Hook Between Grand Street and the Morris Canal that Divides Downtown Jersey City from Liberty State Park is an area known as Paulus Hook. Today, Paulus Hook is a charming neighborhood of Brownstone Row Houses with an excellent view of New York city, serviced by a light rail. Originally a small peninsula surrounded by marsh, it connected the mainland by a causeway that was passable only at low tide, and was the main landing point before the revolutionary war for travelers going into Bergen County from New York City, it has since been backfilled and Paulus Hook is no longer a hook. Paulus Hook was the site of British fortifications during the revolution that caused serious problems for the local revolutionary government- it was used as a base for loyalist raids into Bergen County. Major Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee (father of the later confederate General Robert E. Lee) took the fortifications by a night assault carried out during low tide on August 19th, 1779.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - Cranbrook Institute of Science says it is celebrating the holiday season with special opportunities to view its new observatory and wigwam.
The institute says its observatory offers free-with-admission programming that examines the geological, historical and cultural aspects of winter in Michigan, seasonal programming in the planetarium and underwater exploration.
MORE: Up, up and away! Cranbrook gets a makeover
Cranbrook says its new observatory offers access to the only research-grade telescopes regularly open to the public in the Midwest. Three new telescopes, architectural redesign and upgrades in the viewing space, a new dome and direct compatibility with the planetarium create an entirely new experience in celestial studies.
The observatory will be open during expanded hours for daytime tours from Dec. 26-29 from 1 to 4 p.m. Cranbrook says nighttime viewing will be available on Dec. 28 and 29 from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m.
Cranbrook says there is an additional charge for a bat or planetarium program. To preview planetarium programs and learn more, click here.
VIDEO: Cranbrook Institute of Science installs new observatory dome
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Not necessarily mate. I don't think it would be really any different from our current Caprice sold to the US. GM just subsidises the whole affair. How cheap would a stripped out 4 DOOR Cadillac sedan be with a few goodies in it, even call it a BT-1 if they must.
IMHO I think it would be the best sedan AUS Police agencies could get their hands on post 2017.


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JREED wrote:martin wrote:JREED wrote:martin wrote:Knightofoceans wrote:Wow..Biedrins sighting lol
bogut's not too well physically adjusted against/in this high octane game
Huh? Bogut is hurt. This is a loss without him and the Thunder are digging in...
he hasn't been not hurt this season, i guess it just got worse
He sprained it in the 1st quarter. I didn't see it but that's what the commentators said. That's why he isn't out there.
Like I said, game over. The Thunder are just much better. This could be a preview of the 1st round of the playoffs, that is if the Spurs reclaim the 1st seed because we'll be sitting there at the 7th. Either way, it's been a nice season, we have some nice trade pieces and hopefully we'll build on this next season.
yeah, i also read he does not go out for dinner, for his ankle is hurting a lot, all of the time.


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Hometown player Buckner records double-double
The Dodge City Lady Conquistadors picked up their defensive effort Tuesday night in recording a 73-41 rout of Northwest Tech in action at United Wireless Arena.
Freshman post Samantha Herrera scored 15 of her game high 19 points in the first half to lead the offense, while freshman guard Kesha Buckner made all six of her baskets and four free throws to score 16 points in the victory. Buckner, the former Dodge City High star, also had 10 rebounds to record her first collegiate double-double.
"We're going to have to have different people step up every night and tonight, it was Samantha and Kesha," said Dodge City head coach Lucas McDonald. "We don't have anybody who can be the leader every night, so we have to rely on someone coming up big and it's not going to be the same people."
The Lady Conqs' defense allowed only six Lady Maverick points after 11 minutes of play. Northwest Tech was 7-of-29 from the field before intermission. Northwest Tech was 16-of-62 from the field (2-of-13 from 3-point range) in the game in losing their third game to open the season.
It was the defensive effort that McDonald said had gone away from the team in their loss three days earlier to Lamar.
"We played a lot stronger on defense tonight, especially in the first half," McDonald said. "We kind of got a little sloppy in the second half when we were looking at the score. We talked about that we have to maintain our focus on the floor."
Dodge City (2-1) shot 15-of-28 in the first half and led 37-18 at halftime. Buckner, Kelli Tolar and Casey McCauley scored six points apiece in adding to Herrera's play before intermission.
The Lady Conqs continued to dominate the game in the second half, scoring 11 of the first 13 points of the stanza. Dodge City's biggest lead in the second half was 34 points (69-35).
McCauley added eight points and grabbed six rebounds in the victory for Dodge City.
The Lady Conqs' next game is Friday afternoon against Frank Phillips (Texas) in the Garden City Pepsi Classic. Tipoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Dodge City will also play Howard College (Texas) in action Saturday afternoon in Garden City.


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WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Board approved up to $15.9 million for the design phase of the Randall Road widening project, over the objections of opponents who allege the fix is in for a controversial continuous-flow intersection opposed by Lake in the Hills.
In three separate votes early Tuesday afternoon, the County Board granted a $9.1 million contract to TranSystems to design the project, a $1.75 million contract to Mathewson Right of Way Co. to obtain the needed land and $5 million with which to buy it. The funds mostly come from the county and state motor fuel tax, with some coming from the sales tax paid to fund the Regional Transportation Authority.
The votes came after a presentation by the McHenry County Division of Transportation and almost 90 minutes of sometimes contentious debate about the scope of the project, and the "elephant in the room" of the continuous-flow intersection, as Algonquin Village President John Schmitt called it.
The project, which the DOT's latest five-year highway improvement plan prices at $115 million, will widen a 3.5-mile stretch of the congested shopping corridor to six lanes from its start at Ackman Road south to the Kane County line, and add dual left-turn lanes and exclusive right-turn lanes at major signal intersections.
A controversial option would turn Randall Road at Algonquin Road into a continuous-flow intersection, requiring two more sets of lights to start left-turning vehicles several hundred feet before the main intersection.
Schmitt before the debate implored board members not to let the undecided status of the continuous-flow intersection hold up what he called much-needed capacity improvements. He said that business owners have told him they will consider moving over the next decade if the congestion problem is not solved.
"Please allow the process to continue ... we need Randall Road to continue to function," Schmitt said.
Seven County Board members voted against all three resolutions. Opposition was led by the five-member bloc that traditionally votes against large spending packages: Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake, John Hammerand, R-Wonder Lake, Ersel Schuster, R-Woodstock, and Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard. They were joined by members Yvonne Barnes, R-Cary, and Michele Aavang, R-Woodstock.
Kurtz and Barnes said they suspect the continuous-flow intersection, despite being officially undecided, is a foregone conclusion the way the contracts are written. Lake in the Hills, which is on the north side of the intersection, opposes the idea, alleging that a continuous-flow intersection will strangle its businesses on the Randall Road corridor, which accounts for at least 75 percent of its sales tax revenue. Algonquin, on the south side, has not taken a position, although its trustees are publicly split on the concept.
While the decision on whether to go with a continuous-flow intersection is not final, it was announced in November that $10.6 million in federal funding, or about 80 percent of the cost, has been pledged if a continuous-flow intersection is built.
"Nobody can show me anywhere in the contract that the other plans will be developed and pursued," Barnes said.
Kurtz also took aim at $1.1 million set aside in the design contract for public outreach and made an unsuccessful attempt to have it removed. She called the expense unnecessary in a world of Internet and social media and said she suspected it will be used to push for a continuous-flow intersection and "undermine the municipalities."
But board members who eventually won the day Tuesday, like Transportation Committee Chairwoman Anna May Miller, R-Cary, echoed Schmitt's plea to move the entire project forward and not get hung up on the proposed continuous-flow intersection.
"It's a regional problem. It's not just Lake in the Hills, it's not just Algonquin," Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake, said.
Ersel Schuster, R-Woodstock, opposed the project on the more general principle of having to spend taxpayer money to improve a road that county and municipal governments lined with sprawl and curb cuts.
"It's a textbook history of how not to build a community and how not to build a road," Schuster said.
Schuster also took a shot at the campaign contributions that the two companies receiving bids have doled out over the years to County Board members.
Schaumburg-based TranSystems since 2010 has contributed $750 to the campaign coffers of Miller and her husband, Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner Robert Miller, and since 2007 has donated $2,050 to the campaigns of member and former board chairman Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake, according to Illinois State Board of Elections records.
Chicago-based Mathewson has been more generous. Since 2007, it has contributed $8,550 to Koehler, and since 2010 has given $2,000 to the Millers' campaign chest. In 2013, it also donated $250 each to Gottemoller and County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, and $500 to board member and county clerk candidate Nick Provenzano.
Koehler abstained from the Mathewson contract vote because his son, Kris, works for the company.
How they voted
The McHenry County Board voted Tuesday afternoon to spend up to $15.9 million to design the Randall Road widening project and set aside the funds to buy the needed land.
In three votes, board members approved a $9.1 million design contract, a $1.75 million right-of-way contract and $5 million to fund the land purchases.
Voting no all three times were members Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard, John Hammerand, R-Wonder Lake, Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, Ersel Schuster, R-Woodstock, Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake, Michele Aavang, R-Woodstock, and Yvonne Barnes, R-Cary.
Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake, abstained from voting on the right-of-way contract because his son works for the company. Mary McClellan, R-Holiday Hills, who attended the meeting by telephone, only voted for the design contract and missed the two subsequent votes.
Absent Tuesday were James Heisler, R-Crystal Lake, Sandra Fay Salgado, R-McHenry, and Sue Draffkorn, R-Wonder Lake.


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Circa 1926. "Ford car at National Museum." A Model T outside the Smithsonian Institution's main exhibit hall, completed in 1910. Today the building serves as the National Museum of Natural History. National Photo Co. View full size.
South Carolina, 1956. More from this series of pictures on life in the South. Color transparency by Margaret Bourke-White, Life magazine archive. View full size.
More from the South Carolina roadhouse. So far I've found five pictures of these two mixing it up, either wrestling or dancing. The captions don't say anything about what's going on, but the girl seems delighted. Color transparency by Margaret Bourke-White, Life magazine image archive. View full size.
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1956. "Segregation in South Carolina. Separate and unequal recreation facilities." I've looked at hundreds of photos from this assignment and would have to agree -- the white folks in general seem to be having a lot less fun in their hopelessly boring bars, uptight country clubs and over-chlorinated swimming pools. Eventually they got wise. Color transparency by Margaret Bourke-White. View full size.
Washington circa 1921. "Loomis Radio School." Another look at the technical school run by Mary Texanna Loomis. National Photo Company. View full size.


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Well, as if putting the boat up for the year isn't depressing enough, I tore my ACL on Thursday playing basketball (the only thing enjoy as much skiing). I fear that this will make my summer next year very short, in the way of watersports.
I was just curious if anyone has had experiences coming back from this type of injury? How long it took to get back on the water casually, and how much of a set-back was it?
I know the worst thing I could do is come back to early, and I also know everyone heals differently, but I was just looking for other's experiences.
Feel for you. I am wondering myself what's going on with my knee. Sore (more than sore) for 10 days now. Hope I'm going to shake it off. I would say if you know it's torn do the surgery right away and do the rehab right and maybe mid season you could be back???
"One foot in the grave, one foot on the pedal, I was born a rebel" Petty
I had knee surgery a long time ago (before arthroscopic) and it took about 6 months to recover to a point that I could do sports again and about a year till everything was back to pre-surgery condition. I was not consistent with PT though, but getting back into basketball was what built it back up. Arthroscopic recovery is much easier and shorter now.
Do it now and you should be OK for next summer.
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I'm sorry to hear that man.
everyones different, depends on the type of injury, what graft they use, any related damage and how good of condition your in now. if you don't have any cartilage damage your much better off than i was. I tore my snowboarding in february 2010, was messing around on the wakeboarding/wakesurfing by mid-end of season that year.
rehab, rehab, rehab... take it seriously and do 110% of what they tell you. as far as the knee, i'm back as much as i can be but i've also seen people who never bounce back from it: mainly due to the poor training they did after the injury. I would expect about 4 months before you can start wakesurfing, 6 months before wakeboarding and really being back 100%... probably about a year
I would have to agree with everything willyt said. I tore my ACL playing basketball as well in 2008. If you get the surgery done as soon as possible and then start physical therapy right away, you can certainly wake surf by the beginning of the season. The biggest thing I have learned in my three knee surgeries is that it is best to start physical therapy as soon as they will let you. I think my doctor made me wait about 5 days after my ACL surgery. you need to also consider what to do as far as a graft or a cadaver. I believe (and could be wrong) i saw a study about a year ago showing that men under the age of 28 benefited more and recovered quicker from using a graft of their hamstring. Men over 28 recovered quicker and faster using a cadaver. I went the cadaver route and am still very happy with my decision and i was 23 at the time. My knee is as strong as ever.
My last recommendation, is look into acupuncture. I know most people including myself were very skeptical at first. However, after my first two surgeries I did nothing but rehab. On my third which was just a knee scope to remove a piece of cartilage, i did my normal rehab and also had acupuncture 3 times over a month and a half. I saw significantly reduced time to fully reduce the swelling especially in the incision areas where you can have nodules for 6 to 8 months. This was huge and allowed me to recover from March Surgery and wakeboard at the beginning of the season (but it is obviously a different less invasive surgery than a full ACL reconstruction).
Partially tore my ACL & MCL playing some football when I was 18. Took out the loose cartilage during the arthroscopy. Conferred with the doc and decided to strengthen it and rely on that to take care of it. Wore a good brace for about a year. Do anything on it including skiing and snow skiing. Still hurts some, especially when a cold precipitation is coming. I'm told the surgeries now are much better and rehab times are reduced. Still, get back into it slowly.
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Thanks for the input guys. Mine is a complete ACL tear, and a tear in the meniscus. Not worried about the meniscus, I have already had this knee scoped once, so I know what that's like. My Dr. recommended the Hamstring for the graft, so that is likely my plan. The other option I would consider is the Patella tendon which might be a little stronger and overall faster recovery time. Sounds like either one should be a good long-term solution.
Apparently recent studies have shown that strengthening the quad/hamstring and getting full movement in the knee (walking normally) prior to surgery has been shown to make for faster recovery post surgery, so thats the reason for this. I plan on giving PT my all because aside from my wife, my life revolves around basketball and watersports, and know that PT is going to be the quickest and strongest way back.
I am in good shape now and until 4 days ago, played basketball 5 times a week and usually ran on the weekends. I am hoping this will help me in my recovery. If nothing else, without being able to do the stuff I normally enjoy, I will have nothing to do but physical therapy, haha.
I prefer slalom skiing, am getting better at wakeboarding (attempting wake-to-wake 180s as about my only trick), and I am not sure what a surf wake will take behind my 98 205. I have done it once behind a friends Mojo and liked it, so I might just have to invest in some ballast and a surf board this winter/spring and see what I can do. I would probably drink to much on the water if I don't have watersports to do, haha.
Thanks again for everyone's comments.
Do give the PT you all. I broke each ankle and rehabed one right and didn't the first one. Healing time was 1/2 with proper rehab. Good luck. And yes, both ankles done sking.
"One foot in the grave, one foot on the pedal, I was born a rebel" Petty
I had the ACL tear also and I was full speed six months after surgery. Rehab and therapy. Do be lazy but don't over do it.
Sorry to hear about your knee issues... PT before and after surgery will help with the recovery process. Take it easy but push yourself during PT; listen to the doctors & therapist. It's amazing how fast you will be able to put weight on your leg and start walking (using crutches).
I have had a total of 6 knee surgeries to include 3 acl reconstructions (none of these are related to watersports). I have the ACL recons using the patella graft (rt knee 1988), hamstring graft (rt knee 1992) & a cadaver graft (Left knee 2005).
By far the easiest for recovery was the cadaver graft since I only had to focus on the ACL repair and not the graft site. All I can say is the patella graft site hurt.. bad! My doctor says this hamstring graft is now shot but he says that any further repairs would only aggravate the arthritis in the knee and cause more harm than good. I have conditioned the muscles to help keep the knee stable.. I still ski, wake-board and run 3-4 times a week (well what I call running). It's an ongoing battle to keep my knees healthy, I take a lot of Advil to help with inflammation. This afternoon I'm headed to the Othro for the last of a series of 3 shots to help lubricate the knees.. We'll see how well this works out.
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How big is your television? 40"? 50"? A pittance of inches, if you ask us! You see, with these projectors from LG, the WORLD could be your television! All you need to do is hang up a white cloth on the world. Otherwise, it might not look great.
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I have the LG HW350T model. bought it from someone at amazon about 1 year ago for $500. I had to do a bunch of research to figure out the difference between the models. I think that one supports wifi. mine's come with the wifi dongle in the box. pretty nice. if the room is dark enough, a 12' image looks fine. I have a semi-dark room with a 80" screen and it looks great in the daytime. you can't really tell missing the 1080p. if you have blueray, then somewhat you can, but you'll have to look hard. it plays everything (all file formats) I toss it. from old divx format to flv to mkv. can't complain for <$500. the noise is not too bad. I have mine setup on a small tripod.
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What am I missing this looks like a pretty good projector for the $. (LG BX327)
Am I missing something?
Help me push the button.
do these come with new bulbs or is it whatever is in the projector that's what you get? or like the optoma I didn't buy?
superman81284 wrote:do these come with new bulbs or is it whatever is in the projector that's what you get? or like the optoma I didn't buy?
Bulbs on refurbished projectors may have some life on them. The refurbishing party checks the life to make sure there's plenty of hours left (don't know the criteria).
This seems a pretty good deal. Amazon sells it new for $17K, and it is out of production.
The design is unique. Only one lens for two light gates and bulbs, collimated internally to show through the single lens. This eliminates the keystoning with dual projectors. Passive polarization (circular, I think) is also internal, so there is nothing to place in front of the lens.
You would need a reflecting screen to preserve the polarization. This is not a white screen sequential frame DLP.
The 2500 lumens, likely measured at the screen after projection polarization, will be cut 50% by the viewing glasses, but that's still pretty bright.
Even at about 1/3 retail it is out of my price range but $6K is not a bad deal for a 3D projector with the brightness of a dual system.
The only drawback I can see is that the throw ratio is only 1.3:1. That means that it can't be further back from a ten foot wide screen than thirteen feet. If you have a narrow theater space about 20 feet deep, this projector would have to be amidst or over the audience.
ThunderThighs wrote:Bulbs on refurbished projectors may have some life on them. The refurbishing party checks the life to make sure there's plenty of hours left (don't know the criteria).
There is no way to check on the remaining life of a lamp. It could last 5 years or blow tomorrow.
Just as trivia, the headline play on the "LG" meaning "Literally Great", the real meaning of the acronym is "Lucky Goldstar", as Goldstar was the company's name previously, the same that used to sell the cheap TVs in Wal-Mart.
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Pleasant Valley Manor employees have approved financial concessions that are expected to save the county nursing home about $500,000 next year.
Pleasant Valley Manor employees have approved financial concessions that are expected to save the county nursing home about $500,000 next year.
The give-backs, by 265 employees affiliated with AFSCME Council 13, were approved in a vote Tuesday, the Manor's Chief Financial Officer Larry Erickson confirmed Thursday.
He didn't know the margin by which the package — including reducing scheduled 2.5 percent pay raises next year to 1.5 percent and giving up one paid holiday in 2013 — was approved.
"The move is positive, and it's mutually beneficial to the employees and the community and the residents," Erickson said.
Monroe County commissioners sought the concessions as part of an effort to reduce the Snydersville home's annual operating deficit.
Pleasant Valley Manor lost $1 million in each of the past two years, which was covered by a county taxpayer subsidy.
It is on pace to lose more than $1 million in 2012.
The majority Republican commissioners have threatened to sell the home to a private operator unless the county subsidy can be eliminated.
Premier, the management company hired to run the nursing home, is trying to reduce costs in other areas.
Minority Commissioner Suzanne McCool, who wants to keep the nursing home in county hands, and Snydersville businesswoman Rose Schoch are exploring fundraisers for Pleasant Valley Manor.
Union coordinator Theresa Lipko has said AFSCME also will organize benefits.


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Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued the following statement on the selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis.
"The worldwide ministry of Priests for Life is delighted at the selection of Pope Francis and promise him our daily prayers.
Because the work of ending abortion is central to the priorities of the Church, we know we can look forward to continued clear and strong teaching from the Holy Father regarding the rights of the unborn. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the various dicasteries in Rome under the leadership of the new Pope to advance the Culture of Life.
We call on all believers to pray for the new Pope each day, and have provided a prayer at PrayerCampaign.org. At that site, people can also leave their messages of congratulations and pledge of prayers, which we will deliver to the Holy Father's office."


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The heavens opened and the storm waters surged and the bowl began to fill, and our favorite street paraders and piano ticklers and rhythm-and-blues singers and funkateers and trumpeteers were scattered to the winds.
They wondered whether they would ever go home or would want to. For some it was a test of faith. Do you rebuild? Can you afford to? Can you afford not to? Will the future be friendly? Others saw it as an opportunity to reaffirm their trust in the infinite wisdom of the universe.
They are more than musicians. They are healers, and from the Diaspora of musical genius they have come together to heal themselves.
Their stories are told on Treme, the HBO drama that follows a group of New Orleans locals as they pick up the pieces in the months after the levees failed in 2005. Treme is about people who found the grace to return to their silent streets and look beyond the desolation, and believed that their lives were turned upside down for some divine reason.
This special event features a live musical performance by the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band along with special guests: James "Twelve" Andrews ("the satchmo of the ghetto"), trombonist & vocalist Glen David Andrews, and Cyril Neville of the Neville Brothers.


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I will be handling the DYNO competition again this year, and will not be running around tracking people down when it is their turn. I'm not going to try to guess timeslots, so the signup list will be only an ordered list (if you don't want to run in the morning, chose a higher number). Participants (or representative) will be expected to check-in with me (or my designee) at the dyno 1 or 2 cars prior to their slot to ensure that they will be ready. If the participant cannot be ready for their anticipated slot, they must inform the next 2 participants on the list that they are being bumped forward....the delayed participant will be moved behind the 2nd car (example: car 1 is not ready. They inform cars 2 and 3. The new order will be 2,3,1,4,5....). If a participant is more than 5 minutes late for their slot, they will be considered a No-Show and will be moved to the back of the line. If a no-show participant that was moved to the back of the line cannot complete their dyno pulls because the dyno operation time has expired, there will be no refund.
Unless I get help again recording pulls (thanks again for last year Rich), I may not be able to actively record every pull by every car. It will be the participant's responsibility to ensure their dyno numbers get recorded.
I believe we have started around 10:00 am last year, but it might have been a little later. Reply to this thread with the position you want. Currently, there aren't enough people to fill the slots, so if there is a gap the list will be compressed.
The list below is only for people that have already paid to be in the the dyno competition. If everything runs smoothly, it might be possible to add additional cars at the Shootout for a increased cost to be paid at the Shootout.
Registered Dyno Participants:
Ricardo Alfonseca (spot confirmed)
David Clark (spot confirmed)
Michael Inch
Michael Mattix
David Neibert (spot confirmed)
Ira Robinson (spot confirmed)
Jacob Royer (spot confirmed)
James Smith (spot confirmed)
Alan Stewart (spot pencilled in)
Dan Thornsberry (via Sally)
Chris Vining (spot confirmed)
Ken Wagner (spot confirmed)
First: Ira Robinson (Thanks)
2: Ricardo Alfonseca
3: David Neibert
5: Ken Wagner
7: Chris Vining
9: James Smith
10: Alan Stewart (buying you as much time as possible )
11: Jacob Royer (you can arm wrestle Clark if it comes down to that)
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Record your gaming sessions8/30/2012 | Edgar Mutelbrünk
With the new Diamond Multimedia GC1000 you can record your video output from HDMI sources from your favourite gaming consoles HDMI video output. It will probably not work to record blu-ray HDMI output though due to the digital content copy protection built-in most blu-ray players. You can get the device for $139.99.
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It's not unusual to hear an analyst criticize Donovan McNabb.
While many in the national media seem to think that Eagles fans have been too hard on him, most will concede that he has his faults (inaccuracy, never won a Super Bowl, etc.).
But NFL Network's Brian Baldinger recently took aim at McNabb in a way I don't remember seeing during his 11-year career.
Multiple analysts weighed in on the McNabb situation on NFL.com after McNabb was traded to the Redskins. But none had stronger words than Baldinger:
The Eagles should be ecstatic. I view McNabb as a flawed player, and it was never more apparent than in the back-to-back losses to the Cowboys last season. His flaws will never go away. Now, the Eagles get at least two chances to expose the same flaws they've been covering up for 11 years. It works against the Redskins that McNabb is still in the division. Andy Reid can finally stop covering up for one of the most overrated quarterbacks in the history of the game. The Eagles will go to the playoffs. The Redskins will be watching from the golf course.
It's unclear from the article whether his words were part of a TV discussion or whether the site simply was rounding up the opinions of several of its personalities.
Baldinger serves as an analyst for NFL Network and Fox. He played with the Eagles from 1992-93.
Thoughts? Has Reid been covering up for McNabb over the last decade?
Thanks to Bleeding Green Nation for the link.
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The TCMX-602 is another ideal choice for the serious startup chenille embroiderer. Tajima's superbly engineered 2 head automatic chenille machine is perfect for producing everything from Letterman jacket emblems to corporate logo's with up to 6 colors of yarn.
The TCMX-61202 is a 2 head mixed chenille embroidery machine that features 6 colors of chenille and 12 colors of embroidery. If you need a startup machine for high quality multi-media embroidery and chenille products, then this is the choice for you. No more swapping back and forth between machines, now you can get the complete job done in one hooping and one place.
Four heads of chenille sewing power make the TCMX-604 a must-have machine for all medium-size chenille operations. If you are serious about meeting delivery schedules while maintaining the highest level of quality, then this is the machine you need to get the job done right, each and every time.
The TCMX-60912 is a 12 head mixed chenille embroidery machine that features 6 colors of chenille and 9 colors of embroidery. With a wide range of exclusive features and backed by the latest in Tajima technology, its the ideal machine for a shop looking to ramp up their production rate to cash-in on the boom in demand for chenille products. Several other configurations are also available such as 10 and 15 head configurations of this same machine.
Welcome to Tajima's line of "BIG" chenille machines. Designed for the serious production shop, the TCMX-612 is the ideal "BIG" machine to step up to when your mid-range equipment can no longer keep up with the demand. This 12 head, 6 color automatic is a real workhorse designed to run 24/7 without skipping a beat, producing lush high-quality chenille stitches that keep your customers coming back for more. 15, 18 and 20 head versions of this incredible machine are also available.
Brother BAS-342 (Industrial Sewing Machine)
Brother Electronic Controlled Programmable Sewing Machine with Vision Camera System.
Gain a competitive advantage in your marketplace by utilizing the Vision Sewing System's innovative software to automatically sew patches, emblems and other items
to uniforms, athletic apparel, home décor and more — faster and more easily that you ever thought possible.
PAX (Perforation, Sewing, & Embroidery)
The Tajima PAX is able to sew, embroider and perforate leather, Alcantara and laminated hides. Also, in addition to the normal embroidery head, it is equipped with a special punching head to perforate the material put on the frame thanks to punches of a different diameter. Perforating, sewing and embroidery take place without ever moving the material from the worktop. This allows the user to reach unprecedented levels of precision.
TLMX (Heater Wire Series)
An innovative machine designed to apply heated wire technology to many materials and increase production with the many options available.
Application examples include apparel, pipe wrap, electric blankets, heated car seats, steering wheels and much more.
Kornit Breeze
The Kornit Breeze is compact, robust and engineered to combine high-end technology and performance. Engineered specifically for small to mid-sized commercial digital t-shirt printing businesses offering affordable direct-to-garment printing. The Kornit Breeze, like all Kornit printers, include an automatic pretreatment system and an ink degassing system.
Kornit Storm II
The Kornit Storm II is the ideal digital direct to garment printer that answers the need for high-volume production printing businesses. Created to accelerate your production speed and increase volume, users enjoy unparalleled print quality, fast turnarounds and high profitability. The Storm II cost-effectively attains optimum printing results for your custom high-level Direct to Garment production.
Kornit Storm 1000
Ideal for promotional t-shirt printers and mass production printers! The Storm 1000 offers accelerated production speed and volume, unparalleled print quality, fast turnaround and high profitability. Supreme quality and high-speed at low cost. Built for 24/7 operation, Storm 1000 will dramatically boost your print output without sacrificing on quality.
Kornit Storm Hexa
Presenting 7-color direct-to-garment printing solution, the Storm Hexa is ideal for sports and licensing franchises.
By creating brilliant, vivid White + CMYK + Red and Green color combinations, printers can easily reproduce the true colors of sport teams and accurately match corporate logos. Kornit's unique single-step printing solution improves your print quality while reducing your maintenance ink consumption.
The most advanced direct-to-garment textile printers.
Kornit's Storm 1000 and Storm Hexa are the most cutting edge printers in the Storm platform, offering tremendous speed with maximum color combinations. Ink recirculation mechanism reduces the need to purge printing heads, increasing the lifespan of the printing heads, and significantly reducing waste and ink...
Kornit Avalanche
The Kornit Avalanche is the answer to your digital mass-production needs. This industrial printing machine is designed to meet the high-quality, high-speed and low-cost printing demands of the garment printing market. Offering digital garment printers a competitive production edge on smaller runs, the Kornit Avalanche is the optimal digital t-shirt and garment printing machine.
Kornit Avalanche DC Pro
The Kornit Avalanche DC Pro is the version of the Kornit Avalanche that answers the call of the fashion market. With its additional print heads and discharge system, the Kornit Avalanche DC Pro, or DC Pro for short, produces an unprecedented soft-hand never before achieved in digital garment printing. This allows the digital garment printer, for the first time, to successfully enter the fashion industry.
Kornit Avalanche 1000
The industrial engineered Kornit Avalanche 1000 is optimized for your digital mass-production printing needs. As Kornit's fastest industrial t-shirt and garment printer, the Avalanche 1000, or AVK for short, easily surpasses the high-quality, high-speed and low cost printing demands of the garment and textile printing market. It is specifically tailored to ensure supreme print quality, outstanding accuracy and exceptional consistency.
Kornit Avalanche Hexa
The Kornit Avalanche Hexa was specifically developed to meet the color and quality demands of the fashion and sports apparel industry. The Kornit Avalanche HEXA, simply HEXA for short, adds Red and Green to the traditional CMYK print system which increases the Kornit color gamut by 30%; this benefits the color range for the print, fashion and design world. Accurately identify the color needed for sporting, company and promotional materials with the robustly designed high-production industrial printer from Kornit Digital. Extend the available spot color options and far surpass what is possible with the conventional four color CMYK palette.
Kornit Paradigm II
The Kornit Paradigm II is the add-on solution specifically engineered to give screen printers the ability to print digitally on textile. Expand your traditional screen print equipment (Carousal or Oval machine) to become a digital screen printing machine, and reap the benefits. Increase your capability to produce dark garment applications, variable data combinations, complicated four-color processes, spot combinations and pure digital applications for short runs.
Kornit Vulcan
The Kornit Vulcan is Kornit's response to the challenges of mass customization. It was designed to meet the major trend of mass customization, in both cost-efficiency and productivity. Now, screen printers that were struggling with less-profitable jobs will be able to increase their profit by converting to digital printing.
Neopigment Ink
Kornit Digital's innovative and unique chemical solution makes it a leader in the digital textile industry. Based on years of industry experience, our NeoPigment Inks are created in-house specifically for our industrially designed Kornit printers. With just one ink set, you can print on the widest variety of fabric substrates and experience excellent results every time.
Children's Pallet
Kornit Children's Pallet is adjustable, and includes 3 different plates to accommodate image sizes; 11.5"x13", 11.5"x10.2", or 11.5"x7.5".
Dual-Sleeve Pallet
Magnetic dual sleeve pallet for Storm II Models features 2 optional printing areas for both long and short sleeves and printing on both sleeves at once.
Grand Pallet Upgrade Kit
For Storm II Models. Features the largest printing area in the marketplace. Kit includes 2 grand pallets and accessories.
Standard Adult Pallet
The Standard Adult Pallet included with the Kornit Storm II printer is 16"x20". With its hinged upper frame and gas spring, Kornit pallets hold garments securely and are quick and easy to load and unload.
Universal Pallet
Magnetic pallet for the Kornit Storm II features 5 optional printing areas for different media sizes and printing locations.
Adelco DDC-3A
Adelco's 3 Drawer Automatic drying cabinets offer a compact, space saving and economical solution for the curing of Digital and Screen Printed textile inks. Using digitally temperature controlled high velocity airflow for optimum curing. A digital display counts down the preset times of each independent drawer and shows the time remaining.
Adelco Digi-Cure
The Adelco Digi-Cure ushers in a new class of value and technology for curing digitally and screen-printed textiles. Designed to provide maximum curing ability with minimum effect on fabrics, it employs high pressure airflow for optimal curing penetration.
Adelco DDC-6A
The Adelco 6 Drawer Drying Cabinet is a great solution where a conveyor dryer simply won't fit. 6 Drawers allow for production to keep moving without having to wait for an available drawer.
PRO-CURE Conveyor Dryers (Electric)
Adelco dryers have been the only dryers on the market that incorporate oven feed and exit extraction hoods to provide a cleaner working environment and the Pro-cure further increases the efficiency of the extraction units.
DUAL Advanced Curing System
Two Dryers, One Footprint.
Named the "Dual" this unique new dryer model has separate heat chambers, airflow and exhaust for the top and bottom belts on this double belt concept.
This further increases the huge throughput capabilities in both Digital and Conventional print requirements without increasing the size of the dryer.
All Adelco dryers including the New Dual, the Duplex and the standard range of Ecotex Plus dryers are now fitted with internal exhaust hoods over the feed and exit sections of the oven to provide a cleaner working environment without having to add optional extraction hoods and exhaust connections.
EcoTex+ Conveyor Dryers (Gas)
The Ecotex Gas Dryers are an efficient dryer designed with a small footprint in mind. This dryer is the best entry level dryer in the marketplace. Adelco dryers are well insulated which means more heat for maximum energy efficiency.
EcoTex+ Conveyor Dryers (Electric)
The Ecotex+ Electric Dryers are an efficient dryer designed with a small footprint in mind. This dryer is the best entry level dryer in the marketplace. Adelco dryers are well insulated which means more heat for maximum energy efficiency.
DG16 Product Overview - All Levels
Tajima DG16 by Pulse - Creative Personalization.
Unleash your creativity with Tajima DG16 by Pulse
DG16 offers more ways to creatively personalize products than ever before.
Make any design uniquely your own with new fonts, features, stitch settings and editing tools.
All of the industry leading features and functionality you need to succeed are now accessible from your mobile device, changing the way you operate your business. Create, monitor and browse your designs from multiple devices through PulseCloud.
Whether you design from a desktop computer or use the Variable Data WebApp on your tablet to create multiple designs with ease, you'll always be able to access your DG designs with the swipe of a finger.
Composer DG16
Personalization with Lettering and Outlines!
Create customized embroidered text in any shape and style or convert TrueType® fonts to quality satin stitches for beautiful lettering. Add text to merged design files for unlimited design possibilities. Use Draw Fusion with CorelDRAW® (requires separate purchase) to convert vectors intelligently and interactively into exquisite embroidery.
Creator DG16
With the advanced lettering and outline editing features of Composer, plus professional design creation tools, Creator has everything a new embroiderer needs to be successful.
Illustrator Extreme DG16
Illustrator Extreme provides several digitizing approaches, from traditional to more advanced techniques, for creating premium embroidery. Special stitch effects and advanced features give you the tools you need to create beautiful embroidery.
The choice for professional-quality digitizing.
Artist Plus DG16
Artist Plus uses advanced technology to guide you through design creation with precision, speed, and ease. Many decorative stitch effects are included to help you create more expressive embroidery with minimal effort.
Maestro Multimedia DG16
Maestro is the most sophisticated embroidery design package available today. Advanced VBE functions, automated productivity enhancing features, and specialty stitch effects provide the most powerful tools for creating breathtaking designs.
Pulse Autograph
Embroidery Personalization ...
Autograph is an easy and efficient software solution created by Pulse for embroidery personalization. Garments can be personalized in minutes using Autograph's wide selection of fonts, thread charts, templates and editing tools.
Autograph is the perfect embroidery personalization solution for retail businesses.
GraffixPro Studio® (by Pulse)
Designed specifically for Brother Direct to Garment printers, this intuitive design and layout software enables you to create exciting, unique and personalized T-shirt designs in minutes.
By using advanced features like Variable Data and color matching technology, you can turn a single design into a powerful personalization tool. Import names and numbers to generate hundreds of personalized designs automatically, freeing up your time to focus on additional sales. GraffixPro Studio® enables you to profit from small orders by providing professionally personalized products without putting in hours of effort!
PulseID Kiosk
PulseID Kiosk for Digital Print lets your customers skip years of graphic design training to quickly turn basic artwork into an artistic personalized design. PulseKiosk intuitively integrates image creation with personalized text to create a one-of-a-kind decorated garment, which can be sent directly to your digital printer.
PulseID Kiosk simplifies the process from designing a garment through to the printing of the final product. The easy-to-use touch screen interface enables users to quickly create and view a personalized design by selecting from over 200 images and over 40 fonts. Additional images and fonts can be loaded into the system through the administrator window to allow for even more customization options, or your customers can import and personalize their own designs...
Pulse ID Automation
The Hands-free solution to greater profitability!
With Automation you can standardize your critical production processes and eliminate costs associated with manual errors.
PulseID's engines have been designed specifically for high volume personalization creation and offers customizable automation for any apparel decoration business.
Pulse ID Enterprise Networking
Effortless Production Floor Management
PulseID Enterprise Networking provides the essential business intelligence and connectivity you need to boost productivity and manage your production floor. PulseID's robust design downloading solution lets operators pull designs directly from your centralized database using a barcode scanner, while detailed dashboards and reporting systems are available to track the efficiency of individual machines, designs, and operators. The Enterprise Networking solution ensures that your production floor is finely tuned to maximize profitability.
Pulse ID Web Services
Pulse's online print solution is an easy-to-use design and layout platform that enables your customers to create unique and original garments from any browser.
The intuitive user interface is accessible from any device connected to the internet and allows the use to manipulate graphics and text just like advanced graphic programs.
Pulse ID API Toolkit
With the PulseID API toolkit you will be able to produce, manipulate and display personalized designs files on your website!
Tajima Librarian by Pulse
Does your business need a design management solution?
Imagine yourself in this scenario: An important customer is on the phone. They urgently need to re-order a design that was last done 18 months ago. Can you find the design at a moment's notice and email it to the customer for confirmation right away?
With Librarian, you don't need to look through hundreds of folders, disks or books to find the right version of the design. It is available in a few seconds, so you can answer design queries while on the phone!
Embroidery i2 for Adobe® Illustrator®
A revolutionary software plug in that lets you create
embroidery inside the Adobe® Illustrator® graphic program.
Draw or open a vector file, assign a stitch effect, adjust embroidery parameters, and you're ready to sew the
design on the embroidery machine.
Embroidery i2 works on both the Mac* and PC. Creates amazing embroidery, and the stitch quality is flawless. Has a short learning curve, so you're ready to embroider sooner. And, you don't have to struggle with independent software packages or be bothered by vector compatibility issues.
Embroidery i2 is perfect for screen printers, creative
professionals, promotional product companies, and digitizers.


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Following in the footsteps of French Open top seed Maria Sharapova, Wimbledon top seed Ana Ivanovic, who fought off two match points in her second round match against Nathalie Dechy, fell to the Chinese wildcard Zheng Jie today 6-1, 6-4.
"It was a very emotional last couple of weeks for me and it took a bit of a toll," revealed Ivanovic. "I didn't have great preparation."
Zheng performance made Ivanovic the earliest top seed to bow out of Wimbledon since Martina Hingis got booted by Jelena Dokic in 2001. The native of Chengdu, Sichuan, China wore a Nike top with a curved v-neck.
Meanwhile, Ana shed the florally-hemmed Edge Dress after her first round match against Rossana De Los Rios. She then switched to the more sophisticated Edge Polo with its boatneck collar, cap sleeves, and swirly mesh insets.
More: See her white warm-up jacket here.
Buy: adidas Edge Summer Dress, white/mauve, $65; Edge Summer Skort, white and mauve, $45; Edge Summer Polo, $45; Edge Summer Shorts (cute!!), $40.
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text: Permissions appear in TRON 2.0. They can downloaded from archive bins and dump cores. They are used to give the player authority to interact with things (sec rezzers, bridge controls etc.), and to download e-mails, subroutines and more permissions from the archive bins. There can be maximum eight (though levels with eight permissions are extremely rare). Without proper authority the item the player wanted to interact with shall say 'you haven't got enough permissions to do that'. Sometimes (though this is unconfirmed), several highly important terminals activated without proper authorization might cause all nearby sec rezzers to spawn ICPs.


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Hooligan jailed for 16 weeks for goalkeeper attack
A football hooligan was jailed for 16 weeks Monday for
assaulting a goalkeeper during an English league game following an
all-day drinking binge.
Aaron Cawley, a 21-year-old from Cheltenham, told police he was
so intoxicated after drinking a mix of lager, cider and vodka that
he doesn't remember joining a pitch invasion and shoving former
England goalkeeper Chris Kirkland in the face during Sheffield
Wednesday's match against Leeds on Friday.
Cawley, a Leeds fans, pleaded guilty Monday to charges of
assault and entering the field of play when he appeared at
Sheffield Magistrates' Court. He received a six-year banning order
from football grounds – the third time he has been handed such a
Leeds said it will ban Cawley for life from the team's Elland
Road ground once the banning order expires, but felt the sentence
was too lenient.
"While we are pleased to see justice brought so quickly, our
one disappointment is that we feel the sentence could, and should,
have been considerably longer," Leeds said in a statement.
Kirkland, who plays for Wednesday and won his one cap for
England in 2006, needed medical treatment after being knocked to
the ground by Cawley amid violent scenes at Hillsborough, which was
all broadcast live on British television. Kirkland told police it
was like he had been "hit by a ton of bricks."
The Football Association has launched an investigation into the
crowd trouble at the game, which also saw bottles being thrown onto
the pitch and offensive chanting from both sets of fans.
Prosecutors said Cawley, an unemployed laborer, told police
officers he had consumed several cans of lager and three-quarters
of a liter of vodka before he had arrived in Sheffield by train. He
said he then drank as many as 10 pints of cider before the match
Judge Naomi Redhouse was told that Cawley, who has breached his
football banning orders four times, only realized what he had done
when other people told him and he saw himself on TV. He immediately
made contact with police.


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Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) Forfattere "Rose Skaksen, Jan"
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Does Economic Self-Interest MatterMunch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Schroll, Sanne; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people's attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing literature, there are two main contributions of the present paper. First, we develop a more powerful test of the hypothesis that a positive relationship between education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market. Second, we develop an alternative and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters for people's attitudes towards immigration. We find that while the "original" relationship between education and attitudes found in the literature is unlikely to reflect economic self-interest, there is considerable evidence of economic self-interest when using the more direct test. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7517
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Resume: We set up a theoretical model to analyze the implications of coordination of immigration policies among destination countries. The model contains two types of spill-overs between destination countries: A terms of trade externality and a welfare policy externality. We show that while coordination unambiguously increases welfare of the destination countries, the effects on the level of immigration and on the income distribution of natives are ambiguous. Thus, coordination among destination countries does not necessarily solve the global coordination problem of inoptimally low levels of migration. Coordination, Externalities, Immigration Policy, Spill-overs, Terms of Trade, Welfare. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7698
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Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schroll, Sanne; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper, we use data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey to analyze the extent to which differences in average attitudes towards immigration across the EU-15 countries may be explained by differences in socioeconomic characteristics and individually perceived consequences of immigration, using an extension of a decomposition technique developed by Fairlie (2005). We find that despite the significant effects of socioeconomic characteristics on attitudes, differences in the distributions of these characteristics can only explain a modest share of the cross-country variation in average attitudes. A larger part can be explained by differences in perceived consequences of immigration, but the main part is still left unexplained. Apart from providing useful input for policy makers working in the area of immigration policy, this raises a number of questions for further research for which the ESS data can be successfully applied. Attitudes, Immigration, Cross-country differences URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7687
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Er Danskere Specielle?Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Schroll, Sanne; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Denne artikel belyser holdninger til immigration blandt borgere i Danmark og de øvrige EU-15 lande - herunder holdningerne til immigration, der følger af den seneste EU-udvidelse. Det analyseres, hvilke faktorer der ligger til frund for disse holdninger, samt i hvilken udstrækning danskere afviger fra EU-gennemsnittet. Den typiske dansker er lidt mere skeptisk overfor immigration end andre europæere. Danskerne afskiller sig desuden ved, at forholdsvis få forbinder øget immigration med negative konsekvenser for arbejdsmarkedet, men forholdsvis mange forbinder det med højere omkostninger for velfærdsstaten. Når der tages hensyn til opfattelserne af de økonomiske konsekvenser af immigration, kommer Danmark til at fremstå som et væsentligt mere immigrationsskeptisk land, end hvad der kommer til udtryk i de ukorrigerede holdninger. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7564
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Resume: We propose a complementary approach to analyze the impact of immigration on the wages of native workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Denmark for a relatively long time period (1993-2004), we study the consequences of an increased use of immigrants at the most disaggregate level – the workplace. We find that an increase in the share of workers from less developed countries at the workplace has a signifi cantly negative effect on the wages of natives – also when controlling for potential endogeneity using both fi xed effects and IV. The use of immigrants from more developed countries also appears to be correlated with wages. However, these correlations disappear when controlling for unobserved fi rm and worker characteristics and are thus likely to reflect selection rather than a causal effect of these immigrants. Finally, we find a positive impact on the wages of native workers from having Eastern European co-workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7638
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Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper, we show that the welfare implications of immigration which takes place in upturns, and may be partly reversed in downturns, are very different from the implications of immigration usually found in static models. Abstracting from any gains to capital owners and native workers due to complementarities, we find that (especially temporary) immigration may still benefit native workers in a European type of labour market where minimum wages may bind in downturns. However, in the presence of hiring costs, these effects may be reversed. Thus, promoting temporary immigration schemes may lead to adverse consequences if they also increase the costs of hiring foreign labour. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7700
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Konsekvenserne for løn og beskæftigelseMunch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7497
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Omfang, udvikling og konsekvenserMalchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup Jensen, Claus (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7568
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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: While immigration is unlikely to affect the employment of native workers in the long run, employment of immigrants may be associated with significant short-run adjustment costs for native workers as they have to fi nd alternative employment or are temporarily pushed into unemployment. In this paper, we therefore study the impact of immigrants at the workplace on the employment of native co-workers using a rich matched worker-fi rm data set for Denmark. Estimation of a single risk duration model for job spells of native workers shows that job separation rates increase if more immigrants are hired, especially when it comes to immigrants from Eastern Europe and less developed countries (LDCs). Furthermore, in a competing risks duration model, we fi nd that while immigrants from LDCs increase the unemployment risk for native workers, immigrants from Eastern Europe instead increase the job change probability of native workers. Thus, adjustment costs for native workers are more likely in the case where LDC immigrants are hired. Finally, we fi nd that the results only apply for low-skilled native workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7510
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The LMV393-N and LMV339-N are low-voltage (2.7 to 5 V) versions of the dual and quad
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