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Asack Turkey Farm
166 South St., West Bridgewater
For turkey pickup only
Asack Turkey Farm
& Dairy Bar
235 North Main St., West Bridgewater
Winter hours: Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
When you step out of your car at Asack Turkey Farm, a family-owned operation that has been in existence since 1930, the white-feathered New Holland turkeys (unlike wild turkeys, domesticated turkeys are bred to have white feathers) run to the front of their pens to greet you, chattering noisily. Most likely, they're expecting to be fed.
Otherwise, the South Street location is typically quiet, and a sign on the farmhouse door directs visitors to the nearby farm store on North Main Street.
If you're looking for a fresh, local turkey to be the star of your Thanksgiving dinner, you can head to Asack next week to buy one. They'll be available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Nov. 19 and 20, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 21 at the South Street location, on a first-come, first-served basis.
An uncooked whole turkey will run you $3.60 per pound, and the turkeys range from 14 to 28 pounds. (The farm will also sell fresh turkeys around Christmas.)
While a fresh turkey will probably cost more than a supermarket bird, the payoff is worth it. By buying a turkey close to home, you're supporting a local business and the environment. When a turkey doesn't have to travel, it needs less packaging and saves on fossil fuels used for transportation. And if that's not enough, think of all the time you'll save not having to thaw a turkey, which can take days depending on the size.
Moreover, because Asack's turkeys are grain-fed and allowed to forage outdoors, they eat a more natural diet of grasses and insects, which contributes to their flavor.
Kimberly Barter, who has been with Asack's since 1989, notes the turkey skin's white (not yellow) color and clean, nutty flavor. The turkeys are not injected with anything during processing, and this, along with how the turkeys are raised, fed, and cared for, makes for a quality bird.
For those who want their turkey on a smaller scale, and right now, the farm store on North Main Street, with its adjacent dairy bar, offers lunch items ranging from turkey sandwiches to turkey soup, turkey pies to bake at home, and Richardson's ice cream.
The turkey pocket ($6.25), an oversize half pita generously packed with layers of white turkey meat, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and mayonnaise, is the popular choice, based on overhearing other people's orders. And after one bite, it's no surprise why. The turkey tastes fresh and is incredibly moist. And the sage-scented stuffing and tart-sweet cranberry sauce conjure up Thanksgiving memories. The stuffing and cranberry sauce tend to make their way to the bottom of the pita, though, so the distribution of meat and sides is a little off, but the sandwich is delicious all the same.
There's also a turkey salad pocket ($6) and the TLT (turkey, lettuce, tomato) pocket ($6.25) for those who want to forgo the Thanksgiving sides. The Italiano ($6.50), one of three panini offered, is a pressed sandwich with a more manageable amount of turkey, topped with pesto mayonnaise, roasted red peppers, basil, and provolone cheese on Scala bread.
Turkey soup can be ordered by the cup ($4) and consumed warm on the spot or can be bought frozen and brought home to heat up for dinner ($6 per quart).
Also in the freezer case are all-white-meat or white-and-dark-meat turkey pies in a range of sizes. The pies tend to go quickly: They're delivered on Wednesdays and the case can get pretty low by the weekend.
Whether you need a quick turkey fix in the form of soup, sandwich, or pie, or you want to get the whole bird on the table for your Thanksgiving dinner, Asack Turkey Farm is the place to go.


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Packers draft UCLA DE Datone Jones at No. 26
Credit: The Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Datone Jones didn't need a debriefing. The former UCLA defensive end already knew all about the Green Bay Packers and the guy who, years ago, played his position best.
Talk about a good way to introduce himself to his new fan base. Jones brought up Reggie White unprompted in describing his relentless style of play.
The Packers selected Jones with the 26th pick in the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday night, addressing one of their positions in greatest need of an upgrade with a 6-foot-4, 280-pound player who can move all over the line and has a penchant for making big plays behind it.
Jones had 19 tackles for loss and 6½ sacks for UCLA in a breakout season in 2012 as a fifth-year senior. With an athletic build and a basketball background, the lifelong Los Angeles native didn't start playing football until his sophomore season at Compton High School. He sat out the 2010 season because of a broken foot but bounced back from the injury. He even received UCLA's Captain Don Brown Award for the team's most improved player.
On a conference call with reporters, Jones said he actually rooted for the Packers (plus the New York Giants) growing up. He admired White, the late Pro Football Hall of Fame pass rusher, from afar.
"Reggie White played one way: with maniacal effort and just with complete hunger, no matter who he lined up against," said Jones, who described the excitement he felt when he saw his name next to the Packers on his TV screen: "I almost fainted, man. This is like a dream come true."
Jones has a combination of quickness and strength that should give Green Bay a valuable run-stopper and pass-rusher up front, an area of weakness exposed down the stretch last season. General manager Ted Thompson praised the versatility of Jones, who will wear No. 95. Jones was the fourth defensive end taken, thanks in part to a splurge on offensive linemen around the league, and enticing enough to steer Thompson away from his past penchant for trading down for more middle-round picks.
"We were pretty surprised the opportunity was there," Thompson said.
Defensive coordinator Dom Capers spoke highly of his athleticism and acceleration off the snap. Jones isn't hefty enough to play nose tackle on a regular basis, but he can ably move to the inside spot on obvious passing downs, when the Packers use their nickel or dime defenses. Capers also suggested Jones could play the outside linebacker spot in certain situations.
"It's become more of a space game," Capers said. "Any time you're spread out and you're going to cover space, the quicker and faster you are, the better you're going to be, probably."
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers used Twitter to welcome Jones to Wisconsin shortly after the pick was made.
"Bring your warmest jacket," Rodgers tweeted. "Winter is coming."
Jones said he actually played in five snowy games in his career.
"It never bothered me," he said, adding: "I just can't wait. I'm playing with a great team."
With their 3-4 defense, the down linemen for the Packers aren't as central to the scheme as in a 4-3 system, like when White, Gilbert Brown, Santana Dotson and Sean Jones dominated up front during their 1996 Super Bowl season. That doesn't mean the Packers could afford to ignore this position group, though. Far from it. That much became painfully clear to the front office, coaches, players and fans last fall and once winter arrived.
They were 26th out of 32 in the NFL last season in yards allowed per rushing attempt at 4.5. In two December games against rival Minnesota, league MVP award winner Adrian Peterson totaled 409 yards to help the Vikings split those crucial matchups. The Packers got in his way a little better in their playoff game at Lambeau Field, though an early deficit forced the Vikings away from their standard plan of pounding Peterson into the line.
But then came San Francisco. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick ran the read option all over the Packers and their front seven, running for two touchdowns and 181 yards, a quarterback record for a playoff game. Frank Gore tacked on 119 more yards.
Nose tackle B.J. Raji, a first-round pick in 2009, has entered the final year of his contract. Left end Ryan Pickett, also in the last season of his deal, will be 34 in October. Right end Jerel Worthy, a second-round draft pick last year, suffered a major knee injury in the regular season finale and is months away from being ready to play again.
Other ends C.J. Wilson, Mike Neal and Mike Daniels, all draft picks between 2010 and 2012, haven't done much yet to distinguish themselves from the pack. Nose tackle Johnny Jolly was recently signed to see if he can recover from drug problems to help strengthen the middle, but he hasn't played since 2009.
"I like the whole group," Thompson said, adding: "Our veterans will determine the fate of our team, but adding another good athlete, got a little bit more speed. Trying to add a little more speed to the defense, we think is a good idea."
The Packers entered this draft, the ninth under Thompson, with eight picks. They have the 55th and 88th overall selections in the second and third rounds on Friday night.


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When she shows up for work, Megan is shocked to see a 1961 GMC Carryall in the center of the shop, but her first customer of the day is the car's owner Lonnie Poole. Lonnie wants Alan and his crew to give the car a special make-over so he can auction the vehicle to benefit the Boy Scouts. The employees at Muscle Car Workout have a deadline on this one, so disassembly begins immediately. The Cutlass gets some attention from the body men while they scramble to get the '70 Cuda back to its owner in South Florida.
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Gallery: The Best Fashion Models Of 2011
Okay, we promise this is our last 2011 round-up (it is, after all, 2012). We've already sifted through the best red carpet looks of last year, its most controversial advertisements, the best and worst dressed and the most annoying… now we must celebrate all of its best fashion models. This year saw Karlie Kloss shoot for the title of supermodel, Crystal Renn land her first (and much-deserved) Vogue cover, the startling debut of Saskia de Brauw, the rise of Arizona Muse, the continuing reign of Freja Beha Erichsen and the all-out domination of Andrej Pejic. Check out these and more of the year's top models, then tell us your favorite below.
(Ed. Note: honorable mentions include Lara Stone, Liu Wen, Raquel Zimmermann, Candice Swanepoel, Kasia Struss and newcomer Kati Nescher)
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RIP Hideki Irabu
I'm sure most people know the news by now: former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu was found dead, an apparent suicide by hanging. I hadn't heard anything about it, but a friend asked me "Where's your Irabu piece?" and I had no idea what he was talking about. So I googled him, and I discovered the shocking news.
It's funny: I vaguely remember watching baseball in 1998 and 1999, I was like 5 or 6 then, yet I don't have any memory whatsoever of Hideki Irabu. Even so, this is a tragedy that really saddens me. No one wants to hear these kinds of stories. And even though I didn't have a special connection with Irabu and never saw him play, Irabu was once a Yankee and will always be part of the Yankees family – which is my family too – so this news is very upsetting.
RIP, Hideki.
In his Yankees days, Irabu never lived up to the great expectations people had of him. Even so, he was a pretty influential guy, helping to break the ice for other Japanese players.
I feel like most Japanese players that come to America are a little disappointing. Dice-K was a big waste of money, Akinori Iwamura and Kaz Matsui were never that great, and let's not forget Kei Igawa of the
New York Yankees Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees. When the Red Sox signed Dice-K, the Yankees got Igawa. As much of a disappointment as Dice-K was, Igawa was 10 times worse. He could never do it in the Bigs for the Yanks. But even though he sucked, I just couldn't hate him. He seemed like a really nice guy, and I always laughed at how he'd always be running around Yankee stadium. My family and I joked that if he didn't make it as a pitcher, the Yanks could use him as a pinch runner!
The best Japanese players I've had the honor of watching are definitely Ichiro Suzuki, whose rookie card is one of my most prized cards, and Hideki Matsui, who won the 2009 World Series for my guys. These guys were legit superstars. They were even better that I expected. I think maybe I've held all Japanese players to standards that were just too high – Ichiro is one of the best players to have EVER played baseball in the Majors, in my mind he's a no-doubt first ballot HOF – so is it really fair to expect all Japanese players to be like Ichiro?
It's always exciting to hear about international signings. Even if the players don't always live up to expectations, it's still fun. Baseball has come such a long way, and it is truly a global game now. I hope its popularity continues to grow around the world. It's such a wonderful game, why should it only be America's pastime?
With the trade deadline ticking closer, I'm wondering what, if anything, my Yanks will do. I heard rumors involving Hiroki Kuroda…we'll see what happens!


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Using motion capture room for strippers is just badass.
Well, You know what they say. It's better to have motion captured strippers and lost, than to have never motion captured strippers at all...
I bet it's not so badass sitting at the unemployment office wishing you had actually WORKED ON THE DAMN GAME instead of wasting time.
Read TFA. It wasn't TnA that caused it to fail, it was good old fashioned feature creep, applied to the damn engine underneath.
A project where they are motion capturing strippers, no wonder the project has got nowhere! Probably the most uncovered women these 'nerds' have seen in their life. Why would they want to stop that?!
Presumably Grand Theft Auto IV's developers mo-capped strippers, and that shipped.
He's been keeping this stunt up for months. And now I could really go for a pizza.
Dude, that was the third iteration of Duke Nukem and it lacked much that the side scrollers had. My favorite part of DN1 (a squeaky little side scroller that used the PC speaker for sound) and DN2 (similar to 1 but better 2D graphics and used the PC's sound card) was shooting the Energizer Bunny.
George Broussard used to post at Planet Crap almost daily shortly after DN3D came out. He said there were 35,000 people that registered DN1, which had been released as shareware.
I was one of the 35k. It was twenty bucks well spent! I think I picked up DN2 at K-Mart.
Developers spending a decade in a career holding pattern for below market salary with 'profit sharing' incentives, no real project deadlines, a motion capture room apparently used to capture the motion of strippers
Really, that's just too easy. Can't you at least make it a challenge to get +5 Funny???
Oh well, here goes... Sounds like my job, but without the strippers.
Now the game is cancelled, can they at least release the data from the motion-captured strippers ?
Yeah. I'd like a copy of the assets of those assets.
Developers spending a decade in a career holding pattern for below market salary with 'profit sharing' incentives, no real project deadlines, a motion capture room apparently used to capture the motion of strippers.
I'd work for below market salary just to be able to work with no deadlines, let alone the free strippers in the office.
They weren't all free, most were tied up or in handcuffs.
I'd prefer working well above market salary. Strippers can be bought with cash, ya know?
Interesting note in the article also was
Normally, game developers don't have much cash. Like rock bands seeking a label to help pay for the cost of recording an album, game developers usually find a publisher to give them an advance in exchange for a big slice of the profits.
Since people usually complain about music labels being evil, would game developers survive without publishers that pay their costs? Sure, indie's do, but look at what happened to 3D Realms too, and they even financed lots from their own past revenues.
I think the point to that statement was that getting the money up front usually tied the artist (game or music) in to deliver on someone elses' timeline, which in this case is what DNF needed more than anything else since even a stream of crappy, poorly selling titles would have been better than, well, nothing.
It highlights the cautionary tale that DNF has become: don't let a mountain of cash take your eye off the development process that usually ends when the investors tighten the leash and say its time to start paying back, since that part is only avoidable if you want to fade into oblivion with nothing to show for it.
Oddly enough, there were two "OMG this is taking forever" titles.
The other one was Daikatana. The much-maligned Daikatana actually was released. It went through one engine switch, similar to DNF (Quake to Quake II) because the Quake II engine offered it more to work with. It was "Feature-locked" in mid-1999, as the Wired article suggests that DNF should have been several times, and then worked on to finish and release.
Unfortunately, it was beat to the market by Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 (November and De
Since people usually complain about music labels being evil, would game developers survive without publishers that pay their costs?
Apples vs oranges. The fact that record companies give advances to artists isn't what's evil. Ripping off those artists, suing their best customers, and DRM is what's evil about record companies.
Also, the record companies are no longer needed. In the past it was indeed prohibitively expensive to make a record, but the cost od digital recording has dropped to the point that recor
so you are this guy [yfrog.com]?
And I'm all out of money.
They never released it because the opposition kept getting better? If they could retain the great humour that went into the Duke3D, they would not need the latest and greatest in 3D gaming. It should stand alone.
Duke Nukem 3D was pretty average technically, but who cares when it is so funny and engaging. The saga of Duke Nukem Forever reminds me of how George Lucas discovered CGI, but forgot script writing. Just because something is pretty doesn't mean to say that it is good.
Just because something is pretty doesn't mean to say that it is good.
+1 Avatar reference
Besides, they could have put a blank CD-R in each of the game cases and we all know it would have sold millions world-wide on its debut. They could have broken even with no effort at all.
Free/open-source software has a lot of these. As an open-source developer myself, I can understand why. One issue is that a lot of open-source projects are started by young naive people who do not realize how much time and effort it really takes to make a software program. Probably over half of the projects on Sourceforge fall under this category. One example is MooDNS [sourceforge.net], a DNS server that stopped development around the time the developer realized what a pain in the butt DNS compression is.
Another way open-source projects get abandoned is when other software that does the same thing comes along. For example, the GNU Hurd [gnu.org] never became production-ready because Linux came along and was good enough that the perceived need for Hurd development went away.
Other projects that stop development are projects where the developers stop going to school and get real jobs, and no longer have time to devote to an open-source project. One example of this is the Y Window System [wikipedia.org]
For all of the advantages of Free software, one issue is that, without, by and large, the developers being paid money, there is not nearly as much motivation to get something finished, so a lot of projects become vaporware.
Closer to home, I've told myself for years I would have a thread-free version of a recursive resolver for my own MaraDNS. I finally started writing the code in late 2007. Around the end of 2007, I had a working basic non-recursive cache. The project was put on hold in 2008 while I got out of the Slashdot-posting basement and looked for a girlfriend. I finally got one around the end of 2008, and was able to spend 2009 adding a lot of features to the code, making a lot of releases of the code.
Well, around September of 2009, I got burnt out. Too much work for too little (almost no) pay. I stopped doing major development on the recursive code at that point, but have a really nice non-recursive cache with most of the foundation needed to make it a recursive cache. I do want to get back in to the project; but it's a lot of work and having a few thank you emails doesn't feel like enough compensation at times, especially when the other half of the emails are people asking me to implement their favorite pet feature for fun and for free, or asking for free email support. I finally put a plug on that nonsense by making it extremely clear that I only answer private email for people willing to pay me. Here are some of my rants I blogged about [blogspot.com]. I do get the occasional "you made this nice DNS server, we would like to hire you" email, but haven't gotten a job from that yet.
I do want to finish up the recursive code, and put closure on my DNS server project, but I just haven't gotten myself in the "develop free software" mindset again.
Maybe it's time to stop goofing around on Slashdot and finish up the code.
The project was put on hold in 2008 while I got out of the Slashdot-posting basement and looked for a girlfriend. I finally got one around the end of 2008,
Wow... phrased like that, getting a girlfriend is like a side quest in the RPG of your life.
If only the real-life girlfriend quest was as easy as finding a girl with a giant exclamation point over her head.
It can be... But then it's a real pain in the ass 'cause she starts talking and you've got to keep pressing the A button to skip over it.
I'll work on an open source project when my lawyer and my doctor start providing free consultations.
at some point common sense will tell you that this project isn't going anywhere and your job may be in trouble and maybe i should look for another job? it's like all the dot coms from 10 years ago where people drank the kool aid and thought that investors will just keep feeding them more money to have fun at the office even though there is no profit and no one has any idea how to make a profit
read the article
"By August 2006, at least seven people had left — nearly half the team... "
Well, two points:
1) The work environment, when they were hemorrhaging money, was probably really, really fun. Free food, free drinks, office full of toys.
2) Despite that, the team *did* start defecting after a few years.
... I saw him yesterday in Avatar.
It's one of the most treasured running gags on
And now, it's gone. We have to find a new idiom for something that will be released bundled with $current_topic_considered_vaporware.
Tycho said it best, "...there are lessons about what makes for good play still bottled up in Duke Nukem 3D, lessons haven't truly informed the last thirteen years of industry progress." If anything at all comes from the DNF fiasco, I hope that some younger gamers (and developers!) go back and give D3D a playthrough.
Maybe it's not as great as we remember but it sure as hell deserved a better fate than it got.
It sounds like, from the article, Broussard never really got the concept of iterative development. It sounds like 4 or times they had a game *almost* done, and then scrapped it. Why? I mean, on the one hand, I do understand the idea of not releasing crap that dilutes your 'name brand', but the article author seems to have indicated that every time they demo'ed their 'current' generation of tech, the crowd was wowed.
In the 10 years from 1998-2008 they could have released 4 or 5 great games, each one getting better than the last. Each one making some revenue to help you fund the next version. I've come to appreciate that developing software isn't a destination, it's a journey. Make a new version, give yourself a well-defined, finite set of new features, develop them, sell that version, then start working on the next version which adds all the cool features you just weren't able to work into the last version, but wished you had.
One of the points in the article was that they scrapped the Quake II engine for Unreal, because Q2 just couldn't render the outside deserts around Las Vegas the way they wanted. I think, faced with the same problem, I would have just said, "No outside levels in this version - if we can't make them look decent, don't make them at all; we'll do it in the next version" - although, possibly I could see that one reboot as being necessary - probably the game would have been really missing something if there were no outdoor environments. So, I could see that change could have been necessary, switching to Unreal, but once they switched, they should have committed to shipping *a* game based on that engine, and only worried about changing up engines once they started work on the *next* game, after shipping DNF.
Well, at least young'uns like me can learn from 3DR's mistake.
reminds me of someone i know that bought all the electronics as soon as they came out. think when DVD first came out and players cost $1000.
in the 1990's he refused to buy a computer because he said he was waiting for his ultimate one to be available
The problem is, every time you reboot with a new engine, you raise expectations, and make no mistake expectations for this game were massively high from the very beginning. It's a hugely self-defeating cycle to tell a bunch of ultra-hyped users that the current gaming engines just don't do your game justice so you're switching to the latest bleeding edge engine, no way they could ever have released a game that lived up to its own hype. They would have been far better to release an average game, take the hit on the brand and then build on it for the next version (and by all accounts if they'd released at any time the game would have been more than average anyway, DN3D was never about graphics, they were superceded shortly after its initial release, it was about pure, unadulterated but often adult-based FPS fun).
Sounds like the guy at the top just cared too much about his baby - should have backed away and left it with a project manager.
Well, at least young'uns like me can learn from 3DR's mistake.
Too bad 3DR didn't learn from the long history of software management blunders, as recorded in, e.g., The Mythical Man-Month. The blunders made by the DNF team read like a table of contents for that book. In particular, mindlessly adding employees to help speed things up in the endgame is usually a recipe for further delay.
Also, if you're aiming for the technically most advanced game out there, using the engine some other guys developed to do it seems like a questionable strategy at best. It's sad. It m
I wonder what happened to all these "90% finished" versions - whether they were just trashed outright and lost entirely, or there are a few still kicking around in a repository somewhere. A micro-scale version of the DNF 'pattern' played out for the original D3D too (partly-finish the game, then scrap it and head in a new direction), but they actually released the partly-finished lame version because the curious D3D fanatics were clamoring for it (google for 'lameduke' if it still exists anywhere). It had a
Developer 1 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 2 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 3 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 4 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 5 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 6 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Scrum Master : We have sprint review coming up...
Developer 2 : So, we have 500 hours of capacity, and 0 tasks burned...
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eDuke32 [eduke32.com] is an open sourced Duke Nukem 3D project. It needs the Duke Nukem 3D game data files to work, and if you lost your Duke CD they can sell you a copy for $5.99. It works with Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX, but only the Windows version is compiled, you have to compile the Linux and Mac OSX versions; although they claim to have a link to precompiled Mac OSX files.
It is not Duke Nukem Forever but it has some advanced features and a link to Dukeworld to get fan made content creation and new maps and levels to keep you playing Duke Nukem almost forever. It can support resolutions the original couldn't and fixes a lot of game killing bugs the DOS version suffered from.
Not that I have any riches right now, but one day I might.
So just to beg the question, how much would the rights to Duke Nukem Cost?
I can see alot more than just a video game in 10 years, when Duke's status has all but been tarnished, where he will once again rise to the top of the entertainment industry. I see a new Video game, a completely original blockbuster trilogy, and his face and silly slogans slapped on every lunchbox from here to Taiwan.
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't mind someone milk
That article is missing a LOT of facts. Until the lawsuit is settled, you won't know the full story.
Which naturally got the "Well how could you even know?" response, to which he responded [shacknews.com]:
I was the producer at take two on dnf. So yes. Yes I know the real story. This article has a few things that are blatantly false, and others that are assumptions from people who weren't there.
Granted this is from someone who used to work at Take Two, which is the company somewhat demonized in the article, so there may be some bias in play there, but it sounds like some of the stuff in this article may just be flat wrong.
That said, this article is probably the best it can be under the circumstances, given that no one can really talk too much about it because of the lawsuit.
Apparently, they really were working on DNF all this time. I thought for sure it was just a joke on the industry and a way to drum up publicity every couple of years while they worked/published real titles.
I haven't really been following this; so I read TFA.
Two things leap to mind:
1. The sequel always sucks. He should have realized from the outset that you do a sequel to cash in. Shovel that sequel! There really is no other way. Even if the sequel was actually just as good or slightly better, it will always suck because it can't duplicate the effect of seing a blockbuster for the first time. Note, this is not true if the original was not a blockbuster or particularly popular. A movie/game example doesn't leap to mind; but think of any cover of a Bob Dylan song. At any rate, the psychology of sequel reception seems readily apparent to me, and I suspect to just about anybody. How could they not see that?
2. At what point should they have realized that there was another model available besides "ship finished product"? I'm referring to the "perpetual beta" model of Google, or a subscripion model, or perhaps giving free upgrades for a couple years after the game came out.
Finally, wow! 12 years at a failed project??? That's just staggering but I bet it's not a record. The record probably comes from the defense industry and may or may not be classified.
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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In a wide-ranging discussion with Pedro Echevarria, Washington Journal's producer and host, Huntley discussed why the half-century old law that created a way for Americans to protect their most pristine wildlands for future generations is more important than ever.
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The Evansville & Western agreement provides for substantial wage increases with full back-pay, certification pay for conductors and engineers, freezes health care insurance contributions, preserves cost-of-living adjustments and improves working conditions and seniority moves.
The Iowa Interstate agreement provides for wage increases, a boost in the meal allowance, plus improvements in vacation provisions, working conditions and allowances. Also established is a seniority maintenance provision and covered employees will gain coverage under the UTU National Health and Welfare Plan, as well as the national dental and vision plans.
Evansville & Western operates some 124 route miles between Evansville, Ind., and Owkawville, Ill., with a branch to Mt. Vernon, Ind. Iowa Interstate operates almost 600 route miles between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Chicago, with a branch to Peoria, Ill., and connects with all major North American rail systems.


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Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs. Tizen offers an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device.
The Tizen project resides within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group. The Technical Steering Group is the primary decision-making body for the open source project, with a focus on platform development and delivery, along with the formation of working groups to support device verticals.
The Tizen Association has been formed to guide the industry role of Tizen, including gathering of requirements, identification and facilitation of service models, and overall industry marketing and education.
Tizen provides a robust and flexible environment for application developers, based on HTML5. With HTML5's robust capabilities and cross platform flexibility, it is rapidly becoming the preferred development environment for mobile apps and services. The Tizen SDK and API allow developers to use HTML5 and related web technologies to write applications that run across multiple device segments.
And Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] says:
Market Releases
As of February 2013 there were no announcements either from Samsung or Intel about market releases of Tizen on actual devices. Unofficial disclosures typically come from Samsung officials at conferences. Allegedly, the first devices were planned to hit the market in second half of 2012.[13]. It was then clarified that first quarter of 2013 is not a date of actual product launch but demonstration at Mobile World Congress.[14] Tizen Devices made by Samsung would ship later in 2013 but the exact date has not been disclosed.[15]
A possible cause of delay is Samsung's transition to Bada on top of Linux as a base for the operating system. A Samsung employee involved in the project explained on the project's mailing list the he had not enough permission or knowledge to disclose plans regarding the future of the platform, pointing to the committee of executives in Tizen Association.[16]
Licensing Model
Presented originally as an open source operating system, Tizen 2 has complicated licensing model. Its SDK contains is based on many open source components[7] while the entire SDK has been published under a non-open-source Samsung's licence[8].
The operating system itself is consisted of a many open source components. A number of components internally developed by Samsung (e.g. boot animation, calendar, task manager, music player applications) are however released under the Flora License which is most likely incompatible with requirements of the Open Source Initiative.
Apparently most Slashdotters are now incapable of using a browser themselves and lack basic reasoning skills, thus are incapable of discovering this information for themselves.
It does not say if they also plan to keep the development truly open, I hope they do.
No, they don't.
You may not load or install any of the Tizen SDK onto mobile phones or any other devices, except a personal computer...
Tizen SDK License [tizen.org]
They've chosen the JavaME path in that regard, [sarcasm] a real successful plan to emulate. [/sarcasm]
It seems to me that they're going after the feature phone market with this.
In other words, you'll be able to get the phone for free, but you'll have to pay $4.99 every time you want a new ringtone.
For the desktop, as long as the EFL and E17 are funded and kept FOSS I don't care.
For the mobile, I just don't care. HTML5 means I get to keep the real code on the server and push content as I see fit while only providing client access using their SDK. They might as well mandate it FOSS and in JavaScript since I won't be bothering implementing anything more complex than a database query in there anyhow...
This is no more restrictive than Visual Studio. They keep control over the libraries while I keep my cod
I really don't see the problem here.
Not seeing a problem is fine. I'm not seeing a benefit here. Why would I want to involve myself with another niche OS guaranteed to never approach the market share of Android or, probably, even Windows Phone?
Not seeing a problem is fine. I'm not seeing a benefit here. Why would I want to involve myself with another niche OS guaranteed to never approach the market share of Android or, probably, even Windows Phone?
You should check out the Firefox OS phone, it has no market-share either.
But at least, those guys allow you to install it on phones.
Also, (I unfortunately can't find the link at the moment, but it was on the Tizen mailing lists a few months ago) - While Samsung technically has "partners" in the Tizen project, the reality is, "We are Samsung, we do what we want."
Aaaah - found the link - https://lists.tizen.org/pipermail/general/2012-October/001061.html [tizen.org]
Also, apparently their kernel repo has commit history obliterated - https://lists.tizen.org/pipermail/product-dev/2012-November/000100.html [tizen.org]
On the opposite end, Android as Google envisions i
All those SDK/OS releases are cool. However for end consumers to use it, we do need devices that support it...
As Intel and Samsung are major backers, it will likely be supported on things like the Nexus 4, Galaxy S2/3, and the Intel Orange phone.
Tizen is also seriously targeting the automotive market [tizen.org]. The old carputer concept has been reborn under the initialism "IVI", for "In Vehicle Infotainment", and lots of ODMs seem to be interested in getting a piece. IVI industry types are the major backers of big kernel changes like the controversial new AF_BUS [lwn.net].
AF_BUS is completely optional and mostly only a multicast optimization. Nothing that the current D-Bus libraries and daemon can't do for years.
A real advance for D-Bus would be a proper _synchronous_ implementation of the D-Bus into the libglib instead of the actual bloated multithread implementation that can hang in futex. I hit this problem from years in multiple embedded systems. It rare but when it's happen, the product freeze and the customer is unhappy.
Funky license [tizen.org]
In all fairness, the Android SDK license [android.com] isn't a bed of roses, either:
- 3.3) You may not use the SDK for any purpose not expressly permitted by this License Agreement. Except to the extent required by applicable third party licenses, you may not: (a) copy (except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK; or (b) load any part of the SDK onto a mobile handset or any other hardware device except a pe
Heh, you're right!
*sigh* I hope Slackware will make a mobile OS some day.
Tizen came from meego came from moblin came from intel ripping everything non-intel-specific out of Linux and slapping a pretty interface on it (OpenGL ES, maybe?) Unfortunately they never took the time to make moblin stable and then they abandoned it and joined meego and took their toys over there, where presumably they threw away half of what intel did and then sat on it and did nothing (they had a GUI-less release once, whee!) and then they brought out Tizen for some new devices which were capable of running more powerful systems, but abandoned the original Atoms which are the platforms that actually need a lightweight Linux.
I'm having trouble telling if there are any images for anything people actually own, and it doesn't look like it...
The Moblin alpha and beta releases booted in about 5 seconds, on a single-core Atom netbook, to a full linux desktop.
The alpha was mostly Fedora packages, the beta had a surprisingly sensible UI for the class of devices it was targeting, and would have done well for tablets, I think.
I wish that I knew how to make my computers do that again. You may talk about instant booting from ROM, but show me any combination of modern hardware and software that approaches the speeds of Moblin.
"It's not about booting fas [lwn.net]
I read somewhere that the original reason Intel was behind Meego was that Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor. However, in the tablet market, most vendors went w/ XP, and the few that tried any type of Linux abandoned it.
Since then, Intel abandoned Meego in favor of Tizen, but I've never figured what its goal is? As far as the tablet market goes, Android has pretty much taken over, and anyone else is a me-too there. Heck, even Microsoft can't get momentum behi
The Moblin alpha and beta releases booted in about 5 seconds, on a single-core Atom netbook, to a full linux desktop.
That wasn't my experience, but then I don't have SSD. It didn't boot that fast from a SD card either, but they do tend to be slow. On my desktop PC the POST takes dramatically longer than the actual boot, as I do have a SSD, and I also have six storage devices which have to be slowly enumerated.
I read a little of the on-line doco, and noticed that the "native development" system supports C++ but not exceptions. So two-phase object initialisation is a requirement and try/except is out, and a bunch of standard APIs can't be used. There was also something about restrictions on C use, should you prefer that, but also missing some standard library functions. That's not too surprising, but I suspect that the C++ restriction is going to make porting code from existing sources painful. I dimly remembe
Not just that, the API they use for developing native applications is EFL. You know, the API from Enlightenment, the immensely popular X11 window manager. It's all pure C. That will be an ecosystem developers will flock to en masse!
Tizen joins Blackberry 10, Firefox OS, webOS, and Windows 8 in saying "Write HTML5 apps for our platform". Unfortunately these are all also-ran platforms, but it does make it easier for PhoneGap [wikipedia.org] to target them along with turning HTML5 into Android and iOS native apps.
So where are these HTML5 apps? I don't want to have to connect to a a web site and hand over my personal details to maintain a list or edit a photo in my browser. I should be able to try out any application in my browser, and if I like it "pin it" to run locally. I hoped FLOSS developers would step up and develop these, but they seem stuck in the 90s arguing irrelevancies like GTK vs. Qt and Python vs. C++.
Instead there are hundreds of thousands of "apps" that are nothing more than HTML5 packaged a certain way, all dumped into a few needlessly platform-specific App stores.. It's a travesty of the principles of the web, and for no good reason. At least Mozilla has the right vision [mozilla.org]:
The Mozilla Open Web Apps project proposes some small additions to existing sites to turn them into apps that run in a rich, fun, and powerful computing environment. These apps run on desktop browsers and mobile devices, and are easier for a user to discover and launch than Web sites. They have access to a growing set of novel features, such as synchronizing across all of a user's devices.
...The only thing you have to do to create a Web app from a Web site is to add an app manifest. This is a JSON file that describes your app, including its name, its icons, and a human-readable description.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt debuted her new blonde look while visiting The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, but she flaunted her gold waves again while promoting her upcoming A Pea in the Pod clothing line, L by Jennifer Love Hewitt, on Tuesday.
"I was just inside with the baby and I felt like I was ready for a change," she explained. "As Giuliana Rancic says, I wanted to get my 'momjo' back! I got my mojo back, I wanted my 'momjo.'"
New mum @TheReal_Jlh is honest and open about the struggle to lose baby weight http://t.co/c7rNeESfLR pic.twitter.com/a19KgVa6pp" E! Online UK (@EOnlineUK) April 2, 2014
In a separate interview at the event, Hewitt opened up to E! News about her struggles losing all the weight she gained during her pregnancy and how clothes have helped her feel better about it.
"I wasn't sure where I was going to fall and what was going to happen and how I was going to feel. It just feels great to sort of be honest about the fact that it is tough and these clothes make it a little easier, make me feel beautiful," she said.
Hewitt is currently married to her Client List co-star Brian Hallisay. The two wed last year after announcing they were engaged and expecting their first child in June 2013.


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Greenwood electrical inspector suspended; may have conducted work in Kent County
The Delaware state Board of Electrical Examiners voted on Nov. 6 to issue a cease and desist order to Raymond L. Vincent and his electrical inspection business, the National Code Inspection Agency of Greenwood.
The action resulted from a Division of Professional Regulation investigation that determined Vincent unlawfully continued performing electrical inspections after his license expired on June 30, 2013.
DPR's investigation also revealed Vincent provided false information regarding his criminal history and failed to disclose four felony convictions on his license application.
The attorney general's formal complaint also notes that on April 19, 2011, Vincent was criminally charged for unlicensed electrical inspections in Maryland.
Any electrical inspections conducted in Delaware by Vincent or the National Code Inspection Agency after June 30, 2013, are invalid.
A list of licensed electrical inspection agencies may be found at dpr.delaware.gov.


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MORE than 600 women have pledged to join a breastfeeding protest at Martin Place on Monday morning over comments made by Channel Seven's Sunrise presenter David Koch.
The women will gather outside Sunrise's studios in response to Koch saying it was ''fair enough'' a Queensland mother Liana Webster was forced to leave a public pool in Bribie Island for breastfeeding.
''I totally agree with breastfeeding in public but I think you have to be a bit classy about it,'' Koch said last Friday on the program.
Indignant mothers and breastfeeding advocates joined a Facebook group, ''Sunrise Nurse-In'', to promote public breastfeeding.
A Channel Seven spokeswoman said organisers of the event were invited to debate the issue with Koch on Sunrise at 8.10am. ''Kochie is not shying away from his stance,'' she said. ''He has no issue with breastfeeding in public but he thinks it should be done more discreetly.''
On Sunday afternoon, 614 women had accepted an invitation to converge on Martin Place at 7am. Another 272 had registered as ''maybes''.
A Redfern mother, Ash Zuko, 28, created the event with Amy Ahearn after meeting on a parenting forum.
''The more breastfeeding is hidden away and promoted as being something unnatural that should be done behind closed doors, the more young women are going to think it's something they shouldn't do or they should be embarrassed about doing,'' Ms Zuko told Fairfax.
She said the nurse-in was not intended to be an anti-Koch event but a peaceful movement to show there was no shame in public breastfeeding.
In response to the social media backlash, Koch took to Twitter to clarify his comments.
''Women should be able to breast feed in public. I have 2 breast feeding daughters at the moment,'' he wrote. ''But I don't think it's unreasonable to expect breast feeding in public is done discreetly. I think that's just a common courtesy to others.''


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10 U.S. Code § 2637 - Transportation in certain areas outside the United States
The Secretary of Defense may authorize the commander of a unified combatant command to use Government owned or leased vehicles to provide transportation in an area outside the United States for members of the uniformed services and Federal civilian employees under the jurisdiction of that commander, and for the dependents of such members and employees, if the commander determines that public or private transportation in such area is unsafe or not available. Such transportation shall be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.
A prior section 2637, added Pub. L. 98–525, title VI, § 614(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2540, related to use of passenger motor vehicles of United States for transportation between residences and places of work of senior defense officials, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–550, § 2(a)(1), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3070.
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Forum Post: The Life And Times Of The 'Factually Inaccurate'
Posted 4 years ago on June 16, 2013, 1:06 p.m. EST by bigdog187
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HERE'S THE THING: Really late yesterday evening I was on Twitter, and having a back in forth with several journalists about this article BECAUSE the other day my wife, Florha, made some comments on The Huffington Post specifically geared toward and coupling well with this article. Those comments were removed by Huffington Post BECAUSE: This comment has been removed. Most comments are removed because of an attack or insult on another user or public figure. Please see the guidelines here if you're not sure why this comment was removed.
HERE, BY THE WAY, ARE HER COMMENTS: "Inside Microsoft, some called it "Hoovering" – not after the vacuum cleaner, but after J. Edgar Hoover, the first FBI director, who gathered dirt on countless Americans". Hoover gathered countless amounts of information and CREATED FALSE information on countless Black Americans, mainly!!!!! The development of the COINTELPRO program was supposed to combat " counter terrorism " here in America. The COINTELPRO group focused mainly on Black Americans while EMPLOYING and IGNORING KKK like groups as well as the mafia groups of that time. The IRS gave these hate groups 501 C 4 tax exempt statues as though terrorizing Black Americans was & is one of the social imperatives of the United States government resulting in the greater good for all America's peoples. SO, then, can I assume that this NSA surveillance program, today, which is" Hoover like" is and has been doing the same thing as Hoover's COINTELPRO program of yesterday? COINTELPRO needs to get investigated and decommissioned..."
The kicker is, and back to my back and forth on twitter with the journalists. The Associated Press was the originator of this article based on retorts to more recent postings from Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. According to the AP on Twitter someone from The Obama Administration, they did not identify who of course, but someone from The Obama Administration ordered the article corrected or taken down altogether BECAUSE it was quote, "full of factually inaccurate information" end quote, close quote. The AP folded and removed altogether the article. That set off an all be it quiet chain reaction BECAUSE Huffington Post, shortly thereafter removed the very same article altogether, BUT and not before removing my wife's comments altogether as well.
YET and still in all The Huffington Post comes right back the very next day and post the very same article, BUT on a much more broader perspective, and in the mean time mums the word over at AP. I might just add since the fall out from Edward Snowden both Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman of Washington Post Politics, the other reporter who broke The Edward Snowden Story have been Fast & Furious with follow up stories on this and other related stories.
ITS a funny thing, to me at least, that AP would fold, Huffington Post would fold and then try and come back via their posting and save face and Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman would play tag via social media all BECAUSE Barack Obama and Company don't like something said or done by others. WAS IT NOT them and theirs who said, "If you see something, say something"? Edward Snowden saw something SO he said something. My wife tried to expound on that and because somebody got offended BECAUSE those concerned took them up on their offering the truth is yet still removed from US, from WE THE PEOPLE, and in the end that's all that matters THE TRUTH and WE THE PEOPLE having uninhibited and uninterrupted access to the truth! The War on Terror is over, Usama Bin Laden is Dead and GM is alive and well, is it not? SO what's the problem with access to on the how, what, where, when, why and how of exactly how you did it?


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By Don Davis
Minnesota's senior congressional Republican shows little optimism that massive automatic federal spending cuts can be avoided.
"My expectation is that we will see the cuts take effect," U.S. Rep. John Kline told reporters Monday after meeting with legislators in the Minnesota Capitol.
Kline cited a report that shows if Washington politicians allow the cuts, more than 4,600 Minnesotans in defense-related jobs will be out of work. He did not have figures for how many others could be affected.
The automatic cuts, known as sequestration, are scheduled to hit next month. The cuts would come if Congress and President Barack Obama cannot agree on a fix to federal budget problems.
Kline, who represents an area south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, said the chances of sequestration are "better than even." The odds are worse than he expected two months ago.
"We are not getting any viable alternatives," Kline said.
"Minnesotans will feel it," Kline added, but less than many other states since there are fewer military-related businesses than elsewhere.
The federal sequestration law gives Congress and Obama no flexibility in where budget cuts would come.
Beyond the cuts, Congress and Obama must decide on how to deal on a federal budget, which expired last Oct. 1 but has received temporary extensions. Without a new budget extension, a government shutdown could occur next month.
A third problem comes late this spring or early summer, when the federal government will bump up against the country's debt limit. That will force politicians to decide whether to increase the limit.
Americans do not understand the seriousness of the situation, Kline said. "It is very, very complicated."
Obama said earlier this month that lots of private and public jobs are at risk.
"There is no reason that the jobs of thousands of Americans who work in national security or education or clean energy, not to mention the growth of the entire economy, should be put in jeopardy just because folks in Washington couldn't come together to eliminate a few special interest tax loopholes or government programs that we agree need some reform," he said.
Republicans say Obama got his way at the end of 2012 when federal officials agreed to let some taxes increase while keeping George W. Bush-era tax cuts to remain for many Americans. GOP members of Congress say they will not agree to further tax increases Obama and other Democrats seek to help reduce the federal debt.
The White House says Americans whose jobs are not threatened still would feel a sequester's impact. For instance, the country's meat supply could dry up because the federal cuts would suspend meat inspectors' jobs.
Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, a Stillwater, Minn., native said the president is working on ways to trim $4 trillion of federal debt in the next 10 years after eliminating an estimated $2.5 trillion over that same period.
"He's ready to do another $1.5 trillion to get up to the $4 trillion target that economists across the country tell us is needed to stabilize the debt over the next 10 years," McDonough said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
In discussions about the federal budget, Kline said, some in Congress show an interest in providing the administration and Congress some flexibility to decide what would be cut in sequestration. Without any changes, the cuts are automatic and federal officials would have no ability to decide specifically what is cut.


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2 Italian soldiers won't return to India for trial
2 Italian soldiers won't return to India for trial
Mar. 11, 2013
ROME (AP) — Two Italian marines facing murder charges in India won't be returned there for trial, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The sailors, who were part of an anti-piracy military security team, are accused of fatally shooting two Indian fishermen aboard a cargo ship whom they believed were pirates in February 2012.
India allowed the sailors, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, to travel to Italy last month to vote in a national election and they were scheduled to return to Indian custody after Easter. The men had similarly been allowed to return home over the Christmas holidays.
But the ministry said in a statement Monday that India's decision to try the pair there would violate their rights, in particular the principle of immunity for foreign state actors, and they would not go back.
The ministry said it would be open to international mediation in the case.
The long fight over the marines' fate has strained ties between India and Italy, with Rome saying that they should be tried in an Italian court and that the shooting happened in international waters, which India disputes.
The Indian Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the men should be tried by a special court to be set up by the central government in consultation with the chief justice. The decision removed the case from the jurisdiction of the southern state of Kerala, near where the shooting took place.
The Italian statement said Italy's ambassador in New Delhi has informed the Indian government of its decision.


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Found this at an Estate sale, Beautiful heavy beaded bag. The label on the inside says: Guaranteed Handmade Tokoyo.
Question: does anyone know how or where to get vintage bags cleaned? The interior silk linings needs to be cleaned, but I am hesitant to touch it or take it to a local dry cleaners- afraid that it might get ruined.


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Inventory of the Ralph M. Brody Papers, 1959-1981
Inventory of the Ralph M. Brody Papers, 1959-1981
Collection number: MS 86/2Water Resources Collections and Archives
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
- Water Resources Collections and Archives
- Orbach Science Library, Room 118
- PO Box 5900
- University of California, Riverside
- Riverside, CA 92517-5900
- Phone: (951) 827-2934
- Fax: (951) 827-6378
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- URL: http://library.ucr.edu/wrca
- Processed by:
- Water Resources Collections and Archives staff
- Date Completed:
- 1986
Activities and workload--[includes request for complete and updated information on duties of the department, and how it will expand if the Burns-Porter Act is enacted]---1959.
Feasibility reports--[Includes feasibility reports on the Burns-Porter Act, a bond issue which authorized more than one-billion dollars for water resource development in California]---1959.
Policy Issues--Senate Bill 1106--[Burns-Porter Water Resource Development Act]---1959.
Task Force--Natural Resources--Western States Democratic Conference--[Policy issues surrounding California Water Resource Development]---1960.
Legal Opinions--Burns-Porter Act---1960.
California Water Commission--miscellaneous. [Meetings, February-August]--1961.
California Water Commission--Miscellaneous--[Meetings, August-December]---1961.
Placer County Water Agency--[Applications for non-appropriated water]---1961.
San Joaquin County--Stockton and East San Joaquin Water Conservation District--Calaveras County--Application--[New Hogan Dam Development--storage and direct diversion of Calaveras River water]---1961.
Opinion of Attorney General Stanley Mosk re: State Water Rights Board and the California Water Commission---1961.
Byrne Act--[Instructions for applicants under the Act]---1961.
Department of Water Resources--contract with the Metro-politan Water District--Southern California---1960.
Bond Issue--Burns-Porter---1960.
California Water Commission--Miscellaneous--[Meetings, January-July]---1962.
[Speech by Attorney General Stanley Mosk]-- Problems of Federal and State Relationships in the field of California Water Law---1962.
State Water Bond Act--State Water Program--State Water Service Contracts---1962.
Public Law 85-500. [Water Supply Act of 1958--applications relating to California]--1962.
Department of Water Resources--Financial study-- Program for Financing and Constructing State Water Facilities---1962.
Burns-Porter Act--Resolutions, arguments pro and con---1960.
California Water Commission--Bulletin #76-- Development of Delta Water Facilities---1963.
Resources Agency of California--Legislation---1963.
California Water Commission--SBllll--Water Resources Planning Act---1963.
California Water Commission--Litigation---1963.
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California--Water Supply contract---1963.
California Water Commission--Basin Plan Approach---1963.
California Framework Plan---1964.
Appropriations and flood control---1964.
California Water Commission--Nevada Irrigation District---1964.
California Water Commission--Pope Ranch application---1964.
Sacramento River and Delta Water Association v. California Water Commission [case #] 126921--Sacramento County Superior Court---1964.
California Department of Water Resources--William E. Warne, Director--Correspondence---1964.
California Water Commission--Davis-Grunsky Act--#1 of 2---1964.
California Water Commission--Davis-Grunsky Act--#2 of 2---1965.
California Water Commission--Power---1964.
North Coastal Area Investigation---1964.
Regional Water Plan---1964.
Area Allocations--Proposed Policies---1964.
California Water Commission--Correspondence--#1 of 2---1964.
California Water Commission--Correspondence--#2 of 2---1964.
Auburn-Folsom South Unit of the Central Valley Project---1965.
State Water Quality Control Board meeting---1965.
Fish and Wildlife---1965.
Flood Plain Zoning---1965.
State Water Project---1965.
California Water Commission--Legislation---1965.
California Water Commission--[Hearings on modified plan for financing the Burns-Porter Act]---1963.
Burns-Porter Act--Opinions---1959, 1960.
Burns-Porter Act--Legislative history---[many dates, none predominate].
San Luis Project--Legislative history---[many dates, none predominate].
[Speech]-- Trends-and the lack of them-in Water Resources Development---1962.
International Utilities, Inc.--Correspondence---1962.
Rights of Way--1950-1966. [Inclusive, some years missing]
Bonneville Power Study---1959.
Minutes--Pacific Coast Power Coordinating Committee---1959.
Pacific Northwest-California Power Intertie---1959.
Bonneville-California Intertie---1959, 1960.
Brody--Personal--Southern California Edison Company---1962.
Legal Proceedings--Yellowjacket, etc.---1962.
Preference Legislation---1962, 1963.
Drafts of Contracts--Lease agreement for Bonneville Power Administration and International Utilities---1963.
Eminent Domain---1963.
International Utilities, Inc.--Correspondence [January-May]---1963.
Contract File---1963.
Proposals for construction of the intertie---1964.
Federal Intertie---1964.
International Utilities, Inc.--Correspondence---1964.
Miscellaneous charts, surveys, articles---1931-1949.
Colorado River Board---1944-1952.
Colorado River--miscellaneous---1960.
Arizona v. California---1962, 1963.
Ivanhoe Validation---[many dates, none predominate].
Ivanhoe Irrigation District--miscellaneous---1960.
Ivanhoe Irrigation Dictrict--Briefs, judgments, correspondence---1957.
General correspondence, opinions, legal interpretation---various dates [none predominate].
Excess Lands--opinions---1946.
Excess Lands--Appraisal procedure---1947-1951.
Acreage limitation contracts---not dated.
Excess Lands/Acreage Limitation---1967.
Excess Land/Acreage Limitation---undated material.
Excess Land/Unjust Enrichment---1959.
Excess Land--Suit brought by various landowners against the United States with regard to disposition of and payment for lands deemed in excess of the 160-acre limitation--as demanded by the U.S. Department of the Interior---1981.
Madera Irrigation District--Contract providing for transport of water---1963.
[Calaveras County Water District]--Chronological Index of Historical Events Pertinent to CCWD Planning---1958-1966.
Georgetown Public Utilities District vs. Sacramento Municipal Utilities District [file 1]---miscellaneous dates.
Georgetown Public Utilities District vs. Sacramento Municipal Utilities District [file 2]---miscellaneous dates.
Button Willow Improvement District--[Contract with the Federal Bureau of Reclamation for a small reclamation project]---1970.
Santa Clara Valley Water District--[Contract with the Federal Bureau of Reclamation pertaining to the Central Valley Project [file 1]---1974.
Santa Clara Valley Water District--[Contract with the Federal Bureau of Reclamation pertaining to the Central Valley Project [file 2]---1974.
Pond-Poso Improvement District--[Contract with the Federal Bureau of Reclamation pertaining to a loan for a small reclamation project]---1973.
Coachella County Water District--[Water contract]---1948.
Santa Barbara Water Agency--[Litigation]---1952.
Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District--[Legislation]---1967.
North Kern Water Storage District--Water Spreading Agreement---1947.
Contra Costa Water Storage District--[Kings River]---1946-1950.
Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District--Ralph M. Brody, Personal---June 1974-October 1974.
Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District--Ralph M. Brody, Personal---March 1975-May 1975.
Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District--Ralph M. Brody, Personal---May 1975-September 1975.
Monterey County Flood Control and Water Conservation District--[Facsimile of a bill introduced in the California Legislature to create a special Monterey Peninsula Water Management District]---1977.
Irrigation District Association of California--General---miscellaneous dates, none predominate.
South Fork agreement -- Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District, Kings River Water Association, & Lower Kings River Association, July 10, 1947
San Benito Correspondence---Miscellaneous dates up to 1970.
Contracts--Drafts of--[file 1]---1971.
Contracts--Drafts of--[file 2]---1971.
Contracts--Drafts of--[file 3]---1971.
Ralph M. Brody--Personal---1971-1974.
Drafts #7 and 8--Water service contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation---1972.
Correspondence--[Includes map of the District]---1972.
Engineer's Reports--Numbers 32-58---miscellaneous dates.
Engineer's Reports--Numbers 59-71---miscellaneous dates.
Miscellaneous correspondence---1973.
Ralph M. Brody--Personal---January 1975-January 1976.
Ralph M. Brody--Personal---February 1976.
Drafts of contracts--correspondence---miscellaneous dates.
Draft Master Plan Report--San Felipe Project---1976. [more extensive draft---1977. ]
Draft of contract with the District and the United States Bureau of Reclamation---1971.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---30 April 1975.
Agenda for doard of directors meeting---28 May 1975.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---25 June 1975.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---30 July 1975.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---25 February 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---31 March 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---26 May 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---30 June 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---25 August 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---30 October 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---24 November 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---22 December 1976.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---26 January 1977.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---30 March 1977.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---27 April 1977.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---25 May 1977.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---29 June 1977.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---31 August 1977.
Agenda for board of directors meeting---28 September 1977.
Preliminary contracts between the San Benito Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the United States Bureau of Reclamation---1975-1977.
Loan application for San Felipe Division distribution facilities---1979.
Proposals for pricing San Felipe water to users---1976-1977.
Engineers reports from Creegan and D'Angelo regarding aspects of San Felipe Division and water distribution---1976.
Transcript of public hearing to establish a zone 6 in San Benito water service area--to be served by water from the San Felipe Division---1976.
Correspondence re: San Felipe project & percolation of San Felipe water---1973-1977.
Water Resources Advisory Committee-Fresno County---1962.
Central Fresno Water and Liquid Waste Program---1969.
Ralph M. Brody--Personal---1974.
Spheres of Influence for the District---1975.
Ralph M. Brody--Personal---April 1975-[March 1976].
Northeast Fresno Groundwater Study---1976.
Correspondence--San Joaquin River---1934.
Speech file---1970.
Speech file--copies of speeches---miscellaneous dates.
California Water Development Council---1957, 1958 [some material undated].
Federal-State Water Rights---undated.
Personal--Governor [Brown, Sr.]---miscellaneous dates.
Speech file---1974.
[Personal]--Pilibos, Steve---undated.
[Personal]--Biographical sketch, clippings, congratulatory letters, photographs---miscellaneous dates.
Flood Control Act of 1944 [and regulations]---1944.
Letter of resignation written to Westlands Water District employees---1977.
[Article written for Western Water]-- What's Really Happening in Westlands---1976.
Lead article about his tenure as Manager/Chief Counsel for the Westlands Water District appearing in California Journal---[September] 1976.
From North to South: The Feather River Project and Other Legislative Struggles in the 1950s by Harvey P. Grody, appearing in Southern California Quarterly---[Fall] 1978.
Photographs--Phi Beta Delta Grad Club reunion--[legal fraternity]---1969.
[Report on]-- The California State Water Project: Development: Description: Current Conflicts by John MacLeod MacDiarmid--[with cover letter and request for Brody's comments]---1977.
Westlands testimony--Sacramento Power Hearing---1960.
Contract Negotiations--Central Valley Project---1962, 1963.
Auburn-Folsom Unit---1963, 1969.
Potential Groundwater supplies in the Eastern portion of the District---1963.
Program Plans and Estimates for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Construction of the Westlands Water District Distribution System--Central Valley Project---1963.
Legislative activity with reference to the District or the Central Valley Project---miscellaneous dates, mostly 1968-1973.
Contract with Ralph M. Brody for services rendered---1970.
Recordable contract land sales---1975-1977.
San Luis Unit [Water allocation for the District]---1976-1977.
Irrigation problems and concerns within the District---1976-1977.
Federal Bureau of Reclamation Policy regarding water distribution---1976.
Distribution System---1976.
Excess lands controversy---1976.
Crop Report---1976.
Preliminary Draft of the San Luis Task Force--San Luis Project--State Water Project---1977.
[Papers on] damage to the District's farm economy as a result of the 1976 drought---1976, 1977.
1963 water service contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation--questions and concerns---1978.
Small Scale Farming in the Westlands: A Rural Land Appraisal--[pamphlet published by UC Davis]---1977.
Review of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's water rate policies and procedures---1978.
Facts and Figures---1978.
Rate methodology study conducted by Ernst and Ernst to determine U.S. Bureau of Reclamation fairness to the District---1979.
Water service contract drafts between the District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation---1979.
Proposal for repayment of the San Luis Project and the San Luis Drain---1980, 1981.
[Paper] Proposed Method for Resolving Disputes Between the United States and the Westlands Water District---1980.
Legal opinion regarding the U.S. government's proposed changes in water service contract to the District---1980.
Agricultural Water Allocation Regulations--[As set forth by the U.S. Department of the Interior]---1981.
[Speech]--- West lands Water District past, present and future---1969.


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Feb. 19, 2005
FRESNO, Calif. -
On a blustery afternoon in Fresno, sophomore starter Michael Martin picked up his first win of the season for UC Santa Barbara, going the distance as the Gauchos topped Fresno State 5-3. Seniors Chris Malec and Matt Wilkerson led UCSB's offensive attack with two RBI apiece.
Fresno State scored the first run in the game after David Gomez led off the second inning with a double, his fourth of the year. The Bulldogs went to a little small ball, as Nick Moresi laid down a sacrifice bunt to move Gomez to third, and a grounder from Christian Vitters gave Gomez the run after a close play at the plate.
UCSB answered back in the third, scoring two runs off of Fresno State starter Matt Garza. The Gauchos placed runners on first and second, and after a wild pitch to advance the pair a base apiece, Matt Wilkerson hit a two-run single to give UCSB the lead. Those were the only runs that Garza would surrender, in what was his best start of the season, going 5.0 innings while striking out six Gaucho batters and giving up just those two runs.
The Bulldogs answered back in the fourth to tie the ballgame back up at two, manufacturing another run with groundouts and a Nick Moresi single after freshman Steve Susdorf hit a leadoff single, one of his two hits for the game. Susdorf would finish the day hitting 2-3 with a walk and two runs scored.
After getting the first two outs in the sixth, Brandon Miller walked junior right fielder Matt Stevens and got senior center fielder Matt Emerick to hit a flyball to left, but Susdorf misplayed the ball and UCSB went on to have a big inning. The next batter third baseman David Figoni would single to left field and drive in Stevens. Figoni would take second on a passed ball. Malec made the Bulldogs pay for their two out error by hitting a single, driving in both Emerick and Figoni. Those runs proved to be enough as UCSB held of Fresno State for the second day in a row.
Michael Martin had his best outing of the 2005 season, picking up the win in a complete game. Aside from pitching the full nine, Martin allowed three runs while striking out four, giving up six hits and walking just one Fresno batter.
Fresno State and UCSB close out their series tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m., in the third game at Beiden Field. Two rightie's will face off against each other, as Santa Barbara's Andy Graham (2-0,, 1.50 ERA) takes on Fresno State's Doug Fister (0-1, 5.23 ERA).


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SQL-like language holds promise of NoSQL database interoperability
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – CouchConf San Francisco – July 29, 2011 –Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, and SQLite, maker of the world's most widely deployed SQL database engine, today announced the release into the public domain of a jointly developed NoSQL query language. Unstructured Data Query Language, or UnQL (pronounced "Uncle"), is a collaborative effort to bring a familiar and standardized data definition and manipulation language to the NoSQL domain. Both Couchbase and SQLite have committed to delivering products that embody the language. Available at www.unqlspec.org, further development of the language is open to participation from users, vendors and the academic community.
News Highlights:
- UnQL is SQL-like in syntax, providing familiarity for application developers who grew up with that language, while providing additional capabilities to allow for selection and manipulation of complex document structures.
- Damien Katz, Couchbase founder and inventor of CouchDB, the most widely deployed NoSQL database engine and D. Richard Hipp, inventor of SQLite, the most widely deployed SQL database engine led the initial efforts on UnQL. Both are committed to the implementation of UnQL in forthcoming product releases.
- Selecting and operating on self-describing documents without a rigidly defined schema requires expressiveness unavailable in today's SQL database solutions. With UnQL, developers get the structured table format of the relational database model plus the added flexibility of the NoSQL schema-free design.
Supporting Quotes:
- Damien Katz, Couchbase CTO and creator of CouchDB: "The work we've done on UnQL has been very gratifying. UnQL stems from our belief that a common query language is necessary to drive NoSQL adoption in the same way SQL drove adoption in the relational database market. I look forward to continuing my work alongside SQLite to push this new language forward."
- D. Richard Hipp, inventor of SQLite: "Relational database technology – and the SQL query language – have served us very well for over forty years, but modern applications require far more flexibility at the data layer than those of generations past. UnQL builds upon our experience with SQL, supplementing that language with syntax and concepts appropriate for the unstructured, self-describing data formats of post-modern applications."
- Erik Meijer, Partner Architect, Microsoft: "One of the main arguments in our recent CACM article on coSQL was the industry needs a common query language and data model to feed the ecosystem for key-value stores. The UnQL language presents an important practical next step in this process. We are looking forward to working with Couchbase and other industry leaders in the NoSQL space on taking the design to the next level."
- Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst, RedMonk: "One of the primary use cases for non-relational databases is the storage and retrieval of unstructured information. What's been lacking has been a standardized interface to this data, an unstructured equivalent to SQL. UnQL aims to address precisely this problem."
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Blizzard has just announced that they're stripping the auction houses from Diablo III, effective on March 18, 2014
Only took them 2 years! The only reason they are shutting it down is because the well is dry, 100 mill is now 2.50$ no more money to be made for Blizzard. They made their money now its time to actually make the game good.
I wish the console version had the same loot system. Is it not easier to get look on the consoles verses the pc? Isn't the pc version more in line with the d2, that's what I wish.
This doesn't feel as good as it should. Maybe I'm subconsciously weary of what Blizzard is gonna f*ck up next. Can we finally do away with that DRM? Rubber-banding on single player is something I still can't get over. AH is being torn down on March 2014? At this pace we should be getting the D3 originally we wanted in mid 2016.
I sat here in shock when I read the title....
Clicked the article thinking it must be fake.... NOPE!
The gold all those botters have made will be worthless muahahahahahahahaha!


text: One yr ago my husband rescued 2 feral kittens. we have two house cats ruby jane 7and roo also7 . roo is a very large male who lost his front paws ann his left ear ,they are both sweeties. the male kitten who now 17mo was easy. he move in the house in jan. everything went great ,wll maybe not at first but ok now. today we brought Xena the warrior cat into the house.she is avery tough little cookie. she has spent 12 adys in 70ft pine tree without food or water. live in and out our garage for the past 16mos.she is now in my spareroom howling the other cats are sitting at the door. we live in the northwest and it get very cold. my husband spent last winter sitting in the col garage with her . we need advice . anyone help.