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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jun 2007 22:44 UTC
As was to be expected, the Longhorn Reloaded team has been shut down by Microsoft. "It is with sad news that I have to inform you that today due to a cesit and decist letter we recived from Microsoft we are no longer able to provide you with a download link to Longhorn Reloaded. It deeply saddens me that although Microsoft hknew about this project for many months they only issued us with this notice a few days after we started to distribute the iso via torrents and ftp server."
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RE[2]: Hmm...
by dnstest on Tue 26th Jun 2007 05:56 UTC in reply to "RE: Hmm..."
All these guys did was edit a few resource files to put "LONG HORN IS RELOADED GUYS" all over Explorer.
I saw no functional improvement, nothing. It was a few nostalgic people with big ideas and small skills.
Exactly, I didn't get the point. It didn't appear that they did much of anything. My guess is this project would have disappeared on its own, regardless of what MS did. What were they going to do with a piece of closed-source, beta-quality software???


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Online Law Schools / Re: Online Law Grad Denied Admission in Georgia...« on: July 20, 2010, 03:51:27 PM »
Screw it, go to SCUPS.
Plus, yeah dude we know you're talking about yourself in the third person. It is so tiresome to have school recruiters pretend to be students on this board. Yeah, I see you.....
Third person, recruiter...? Another Cooley feminine hygiene product.

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Weakness in US gasoline futures weighed on oil prices o n W ednesday after data showed a sharp rise in US refined products inventories, while disappointing euro zone and US economic data hurt sentiment about energy demand.
Helping lift crude from the lows were a bounce back into positive territory by stocks on Wall Street, Middle East turmoil and a remark by US President Barack Obama to business leaders that a budget deal was possible within about a week if Republicans compromise on taxes.
But it was not enough to offset pressure from the euro, which slipped from a seven week high after a disappointing Spanish bond auction and on weak euro zone economic data.
Euro zone retail sales fell 1.2 per cent in October from September, the biggest drop since April, the EU's statistics office Eurostat said on Wednesday, worse than the 0.1 per cent fall forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.
"It's a stalemate. There was some hopeful data from the US last week and positive noise from China (this week), but Europe's a big worry," said Richard Langkemper, an analyst at Argos North Sea Group in Rotterdam.
Brent January crude fell 53 cents to $US109.31 a barrel by 1:06 p.m. EST (1806 GMT), having fallen as low as $US108.65. The session peak of $US110.57 was a penny below the 50-day moving average.
US January crude was down 30 cents at $US88.20 a barrel, having swung from $US87.46 to $US89.05. That price trajectory took crude futures either side of the 50-day moving average of $US88.43.
US gasoline futures fell more than 1 per cent, while heating oil was down only about 0.2 per cent.
US private-sector employers added 118,000 jobs in November, shy of economists' expectations, a report by a payrolls processor showed.. Tepid private-sector hiring could portend disappointing demand for petroleum products.
The government's report on US November nonfarm payrolls is due on Friday.
US oil inventories
While US crude oil inventories fell more than forecast last week, refined product stocks increased far more than expected as refinery runs jumped, data from the Energy Information Administration showed on Wednesday.
US inventories of gasoline last week swelled by the most in a week since September 2001, as refinery utilization jumped 2 per centage points.
"The report is solidly bearish and a welcomed development for consumers," said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital in New York.
"The spike in gasoline inventories clears any of the remaining concerns about supplies from Hurricane Sandy.
"The decline in crude oil inventories, while not small, is a footnote to this report, as gasoline prices will continue to be pressured lower as supplies continue to trend higher," he added.
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And before you go....don't forget to make plans to join us for our new release party tonight; the fun takes place over in our member company forums on Splitcoaststampers. We'll have great fellowship with crafty friends, challenges, and a prize drawing! The excitement starts at 8:00 PM EST.
I had so much fun playing with this release that I have tons of cards made, so I am going to share one with you here and then a couple more on my personal blog :)....
This sweet card is for all of you who have been under the weather lately (my household included). The set I used is called Thoughtful Rhubarb. I paired the image with some lovely papers from the Love Story pad by Fancy Pants. I used the sketch I am hosting at SCS this week as well as this week's fabulous SNSS Inspiration Challenge image.
I've been having a lot of fun with my sewing machine lately, so I added some machine stitching around the main panel and the image panel. I used the Heart Scallop Die to add a pop of Kraft under the ribbon. The little heart on the sentiment banner is actually from the Heart Scallop Die, too :). I LOVE that....you'll see me getting double duty out of that die set quite frequently :).
Ok, so here's the rest of the blog hop line-up....
Wendy Jordan (our February guest)
Don't forget, the entire February release is available in the store right now; you can order the stamps individually or at a discounted bundle price!
Ok, enjoy the hop and I'll see you tonight at the party :)!!


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Linked by nfeske on Thu 29th Nov 2012 17:38 UTC
With the just released version 12.11, the developers of the Genode OS Framework are celebrating the break-through to execute the entire build system based on GCC 4.7.2 within their genuine operating-system environment. The new release gets accompanied with new audio drivers from the Open Sound System project, extended support for OMAP4, and numerous stability and performance improvements concerning the underlying kernel platforms.
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RE: congratulations!
by fithisux on Thu 29th Nov 2012 20:26 UTC in reply to "congratulations!"
RE[2]: congratulations!
by nfeske on Fri 30th Nov 2012 10:04 in reply to "RE: congratulations!"
Thank you for the cheering. ;-) We will definitely keep up the work.
@robin Great to see a life sign of you! I was already wondering a bit if you got safe back home, or if we might have alienated you for some reason? Btw, now that gcc-4.7.2 is default, maybe it is a good time to look at gcc-go again?


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Midfielder Juan Mata struck an 87th-minute winner as Chelsea won 1-0 at champions-elect Manchester United on Sunday to reclaim third place in the Premier League and tighten their grip on a UEFA Champions League spot.
A lackluster game at Old Trafford was drifting toward a goalless draw when Mata collected a pass from Oscar and dispatched a low shot that took a deflection off Phil Jones on its way into the bottom-right corner.
Mata's goal means that Chelsea will now go into tomorrow's crunch clash against Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge with a three-point lead over their London rivals, who are bidding to crash into the top four.
Arsenal are sandwiched between the pair in fourth, a point behind Chelsea, having played a game more.
United had rightback Rafael da Silva sent off late on and although their lead over second-placed Manchester City remains 13 points, they have failed to win in two games since clinching their 20th league title.
United manager Alex Ferguson conceded his side "weren't good enough," but he felt Rafael had been reacting to an elbow from David Luiz when he was sent off by referee Howard Webb.
"He was elbowed. He retaliated and the player who retaliates always gets the bigger penalty," Ferguson told Sky Sports. "David Luiz elbowed him twice, but Rafael was rash and shouldn't have retaliated."
United made five changes from the side that drew 1-1 at Arsenal the previous weekend, with Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney and goalkeeper David de Gea among the players dropping to the bench.
Chelsea were missing Eden Hazard due to a calf strain and made four changes from their Europa League semi-final second-leg success against Basel on Thursday last week.
The visitors made a bright start, with United goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard touching a shot from Oscar onto the post and Demba Ba curling a shot wide from the left.
United came to life slowly and did not pose a threat until late in the first half, when Robin van Persie diverting a glorious Ryan Giggs pass wide and then headed straight at Petr Cech from Nemanja Vidic's cross.
The second half was similarly underwhelming, with Frank Lampard blazing over for Chelsea and United substitute Rooney heading over the bar at the other end.
Mata finally settled things with three minutes to play with a low shot that nicked off Jones and trundled past Lindegaard, before Rafael was sent off for kicking out at countryman Luiz.
Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez was reluctant to discuss Rafael's red card.
"I didn't see the incident and I didn't see any replay," Benitez said.
Everton remain on course to finish above Liverpool for a second consecutive season after holding their city rivals to a 0-0 draw in a scrappy Merseyside derby at Anfield earlier in the day.
Liverpool's best chance saw a goalbound effort from man-of-the-match Steven Gerrard cleared by Everton defender Sylvain Distin, who had a goal contentiously disallowed at the other end.
It meant Reds stalwart Jamie Carragher failed to finish on the winning side in his 30th and final Merseyside derby.
"I don't want to be a whinging manager, but we scored a legitimate goal today. It should have counted," Everton manager David Moyes said.
Gerrard thought he had put Liverpool ahead in the second half, but after rounding goalkeeper Tim Howard he saw his shot cleared off the line by Distin.


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Mimosa adds files to archive cocktail
Archive's dusty old barn is shaken to foundations
Mimosa, an email archiving software company, is adding file archiving to its NearPoint product, this way striking out on a unified archiving strategy.
Once upon a time data protection meant backup to tape. Those simple times seem a long time ago now, with tape backup's front-end restore role and back-end archive role both under sustained attack from hard-drive based products. Disk-based backup, together with virtual tape libraries (VTL), has revolutionised the former backup role of saving files in case they were inadvertently deleted. Now you can continuously protect files and restore them to any point in time.
Disk-based archiving has spread like wildfire for email. There are also products for images, particularly in healthcare with X-rays and formal PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) products. There are enterprise content management (ECM) products such as Documentum, which archive files, unstructured or semi-structured data and have developed from enterprise document management systems.
We also have search, indexing, compliance and legal discovery products, such as Recommind, Autonomy-Zantaz, and Kazeon's Information Server. What we are seeing here is the coming together of various archive content silos and the layering across them of archive platform services to ingest data into a repository, index it, search it, extract subsets for compliance or legal discovery, and provide policy-driven retention services.
Archive stack
You can conceive of an archive stack comprising four layers:
- Data-creation source such as email, PowerPoint, Word, a blog, etc.
- Archive ingest software such as NearPoint which captures data and puts it into a repository,
- Platform services to generate meta data on the content, single-instance or de-dupe it, search it, obtain and apply retention policies, and manage any storage tiering,
- Storage hardware meaning hard drives, optical disks, and tape.
Mimosa fizzing
Public and private-sector organisations are drowning in a sea of data, and its volumes are rising unstoppably as they are loath to throw anything away and virtually every content-creating activity gets digitised. Mimosa has grown furiously as its customers adopt email archiving so as to tame the Exchange elephant.
UK MD Brian Bennett says the privately-held, 200-person company now has 525 customers, up from 300 a year ago. In the first quarter of this year it revenues were more than the whole of 2007. In the second quarter it doubled 2007 revenues, and it's on track to grow its business 300 percent this year. Guessing, its turnover must now be in the $20m-$50m range - Mimosa isn't saying.
Scott Whitney, Mimosa's product management VP, says NearPoint v3.5 will add file archiving from Windows' file shares, with other sources posibly added later. A Mimosa agent will crawl the file share looking for files that meet user-set policies defining things like file size, creation date, time since last access, and zap files that meet the criteria into the archive, leaving a stub behind if so desired. Once a file is archived it stays archived, with no 'ping-pong' as a user accesses the archive copy, causing a restore and then a re-archive once it stays unaccessed for enough time.
Files are single-instanced with any file archive candidate compared to previously archived files and email attachments. That means an old PowerPoint, already archived as an email attachment, won't take up fresh space in the repository. Instead there will just be a pointer to the existing entry.
Mimosa is using Stellent technology which means that the new NearPoint product will know of 300 filetypes and can search them properly. The product will have content monitoring capability to alert sysadmins if outbound material contains user-defined sensitive data, and it will have an existing eDiscovery capability applied to it as well.
A software development kit (SDK) will be made available to developers so that more specialised applications can have data ingested, indexed, searched, extracted or managed by the NearPoint archive.
What about de-duplicating an archive? Conceptually, de-duping file data in an archive is just de-duping data. But crawling through a de-duped archive to detect data you can safely throw away is something that will take a huge amount of CPU time and must needs be done with fanatical care.
Say there is a de-duped data element which is referenced by 10,000 pointers. If the element is deleted then 10,000 references to it are lost too. So the retention crawler must understand de-dupe element pointers and these must have their own unique metadata and retention criteria. Each one is a virtual archive file and must be treated as such by the retention crawler.
As archives grow in size they will hold billions of objects, the majority of which will have been de-duped down to pointers. Trawling these for deletion candidates will be a vital task.
Mimosa has deals with Plasmon and Data Domain to support their storage products. It is possible that de-duplication will move up the archive layer from storage hardware to archive platform services. Alternatively, we may see combinations of archive platform services and storage hardware emerging as single products.
The disk technology revolution sweeping through archiving is causing tectonic shifts amongst the suppliers of storage, email, backup software, data protection vendors, compliance, legal hold, eDiscovery, enterprise content management and document management products and services. What NearPoint is doing is sure to be replicated by other archive product suppliers as they react to the forces of convergence and unification sweeping the backup-to-tape-is-everything cobwebs from archiving's dusty old barn. ®
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text: On the same line of thought as My Wesley's post...for other working cavi parents, how do you handle only being home for a limited period at lunch? I go to work around 8:15. My husband leaves for work around 11 and I'm able to come home for a bit at lunch. I work 15 minutes from home, so in order to leave enough time to get there and back in an hour, I only have 25-30 with Gracie at lunch. The first thing we do after I take her out of her crate is go outside to potty. We usually go out one other time right before I leave. I also try to play with her to some extent, but am always concerned that I'll get her too worked up before putting her back in the crate...seems unfair to get her all woken up and ready to play more before putting her back to bed for the afternoon. So, I guess I'm asking what kind of games you play in that short interval that would stimulate but not over-stimulate?


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Extension > Food > Food safety > Preserving and preparing > Meat and fish > Freeze or can wild game
Meat and fish
Freeze or can wild game
Eight steps to freeze wild game meat
- Trim fat to reduce strong flavor changes that may occur during freezer storage.
- Divide the meat into meal-size quantities.
- To prevent freezer burn, use moisture/vapor-proof wrap, such as heavily waxed freezer wrap, laminated freezer wrap, heavy-duty aluminum foil or plastic freezer storage bags. DO NOT use garbage bags.
- Press out all of the air before sealing.
- Label packages with contents and date.
- Avoid overloading the freezer. Freeze only the amount that will become solidly frozen within 24 hours.
- Place packages in freezer to allow air to circulate for quick cooling and freezing.
- Recommended storage times for wild game held at zero degrees F:
- Ground game meat — 2 to 3 months
- Roasts and Steaks — 8 to 12 months
- Stew Meat — 2 to 3 months
Canning wild game: safety first
- Do not can wild game unless you use a pressure canner.
- Can fresh meat within 2 days, or freeze it to can it later.
- To can frozen meat, thaw in the refrigerator until most of the ice crystals have disappeared.
- Low acid foods, such as meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, should never be canned using the water-bath method.
- Pressure and adequate time are necessary to produce safe canned meat.
- Process at the correct pressure according to altitude. In Minnesota follow processing directions for 1001-2000 feet.
- Use current, researched based food preservation resources (1994 or later).
How to can meat, strips, cubes, or chunks (bear, beef, lamb, pork, veal, deer, elk)
Choose quality-chilled meat. Remove excess fat. Soak strong-flavored game for 1 hour in brine water containing 1 tablespoon of salt per quart and rinse. Remove large bones. Cut into 1-inch wide strips, cubes, or chunks.
Hot pack
Precook meat until rare by roasting, stewing, or browning in a small amount of fat. Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart to the jar, if desired. Loosely pack jars with pieces and add boiling broth, meat drippings, water; or tomato juices (especially with wild game) leaving 1-inch headspace, then pressure can.
Raw pack
Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart to the jar, if desired. Loosely pack jars with raw meat pieces, leaving 1-inch headspace. Do not add liquid. Adjust lids and process.
Recommended process times for Minnesota
- Dial-gauge pressure canner
Pints — 75 minutes @ 11 PSI
Quarts — 90 minutes @ 11 PSI
- Weighted-gauge pressure canner
Pints — 75 minutes @ 15 PSI
Quarts — 90 minutes @ 15 PSI
- Schafer, W., Canning basics series, University of Minnesota Extension, 2011.
- Cutter. C. Proper processing of wild game & fish, Penn State, 2002.
- So easy to preserve, 2014. University of Georgia
Related resources
- Gamey flavor and cooking venison
- Cooking big game venison meat safely
- Parasites and wild game venison
- Pressure canning process video — National Center for Home Food Preservation
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When I'm in fitness/workout mode, my general supplement routine is:
Morning, pre-breakfast: Pro-Sculpt (aminos, CLA,)
Breakfast: MegaMen Sport multi vitamin/mineral/herbal 1/2 serving (1 tablet), with food
Afternoon: Garcinia Cambogia, 1 chew square
Post-workout: Whey protein recovery shake. I use Amplified Recovery Protein XR
I'm trying to cut back on the stimulant drinks like Nitrics and TurboTeas (both of which I like), and have found that I generally have enough energy as long as I can get a 10-15 minute power nap in the early evening.
I drink a lot of water throughout the day.
The MegaMen and whey recovery also do wonders for me with easing joint discomfort.
A typical week of workouts would be:
Sunday: Upper body w/ weights for about 40 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of Tae Kwon Do or 30 minute power walk
Monday: Legs, followed by 20 minutes of Tae Kwon Do or 30 minute power walk
Tuesday: Tae Kwon Do class
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: TKD class or upper body/ power walk
Friday: Off
Saturday: TKD class or off


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York conservation officials are investigating several beverage distributors who they suspect of skirting the state's bottle deposit law.
Department of Environmental Conservation Deputy Commissioner Anne Reynolds tells state legislators the criminal probes involve "trans-shipping," where distributors buy bottles in other states that don't require nickel deposits and then sell them to retailers in New York.
Reynolds says the practice gives the distributors an illegal advantage over competitors that charge for the deposit, while also reducing state revenue.
The DEC is working with the state attorney general and county prosecutors. Reynolds says there are about a dozen investigations now under way.
Tax officials are also contacting companies that have not filed required reports.


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Church presents upcoming activities
- March 23: Trio of the Americas concert at 2 p.m., featuring violinist James Rapp, cellist Jose Alfredo Mazariegos and pianist William Dawson. It is open to the public, with no admission fee. Also at the concert, composer and pianist William Dawson will showcase "River Suite," which is based on songs pertaining to rivers, such as the Suwanne River. For information, call the church at (239) 694-2444.
- April 4: Fish fry from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The dinner includes a large portion of deep fried fish, baked or green beans, cole slaw, hush puppies and dessert. Iced tea, lemonade or coffee will be available. Cost is $10 per person; children under 12 are $5, with a half portion of fish. Carry out meals are available. For information, call the church at (239) 694-2444.
Buckingham Presbyterian Church is at 4241 Buckingham Road in Fort Myers. For details, visit: www.buckinghampc.org.


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Last week, Thierry Henry -- all-time top scorer for Arsenal and the France national team, winner of the World Cup, European Championship, Confederations Cup, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Ligue 1, Premier League, FA Cup, La Liga, Copa Del Rey, and dozens of individual accolades -- scored an excellent overhead kick for the New York Red Bulls against the Montreal Impact, finishing off a corner swung in by Juninho Pernambucano, the Brazilian set-piece magician best known as the creative force behind Lyon's seven consecutive Ligue 1 titles.
Neither of these extremes is wholly representative of Major League Soccer at its respective point in time. What is important to note is that it would be unthinkable to switch them. Players with the pedigrees of Henry and Juninho would have steered a wide berth around the 1996 MLS, a league still four years away from the pleasure of watching Lothar Matthaus score no goals in 16 games, just as any contemporary team attempting to field a player who split his time with a gig on network television would be laughed out of the stadium.
In 1996, attracting a player like Vancouver's Nigel Reo-Coker, a 28-year-old with serious Premier League experience, would have been seen as a huge coup. In 2013, he's a smart signing with a salary that's barely upper middle class in MLS terms.
By just about every metric, MLS has improved its standing. Over the last 18 seasons, attendances have trended higher and higher, player salaries have trended higher and higher (a slight dip this season in total wages can largely be put down to the loss of David Beckham and the "loss" of Rafael Marquez), and the payouts from sponsorships and TV contracts have gotten bigger and bigger.
But soccer isn't about shirt sponsors and ticket sales. At least not yet, not entirely. It's about the 22 men on the field (likely to be 21 if Steven Lenhart is involved), their technical ability, their tactical awareness, their physical prowess. MLS has huge ambitions -- Commissioner Don Garber wants to make it one of the top leagues in the world over the next decade -- and a high quality of play (and therefore a high quality of entertainment) is a huge component of that growth.
Chris Klein spent the whole of his 13-season career in MLS and made 23 appearances for the United States men's national team.
"No question," Klein told Goal when asked about whether the league has improved its on-field product. "The standard of our play is definitely improving. I think you're seeing it in how we compete. I think that the players that we have are certainly better than they've ever been.
"I think the young players we're starting to see are going to be better than they've ever been. I know that we're seeing that in LA."
It's an easy claim to make for Klein, an MLS lifer who oversees the league's marquee franchise. That sort of talk takes on an entirely new level of importance when it's echoed by those who might consider MLS a rival for regional dominance.
"MLS is growing, definitely it's growing, year after year," Felix Fernandez, the former Atlante and Mexico keeper and current co-host of Republica Deportiva on Univision, told Goal. "The real level comes out when MLS teams play Mexican teams in the CONCACAF Champions League. Normally Mexican teams beat MLS teams in the CONCACAF Champions League, but now we can report a lift from Seattle. It's getting better and better.
"MLS is improving year after year and it's getting tougher for the Mexican teams. There's a gap, there's still a gap. How big or how small, I don't know. What I know is that MLS is improving year after year. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years a MLS team wins the CONCACAF Champions League."
Victor Manuel Vucetich knows a thing or two about continental dominance. His Monterrey team has won the CONCACAF Champions League in each of the last three seasons.
"They are certainly worthy rivals," Vucetich said in a press conference. "That distance has shrunk.
"We follow this league because of the merits of the league. The pure quality of the sport is already showing."
As more and more big names come and contribute to MLS, and as the league continues to churn out more and more young stars and export them to Europe, MLS's place in world soccer has grown. But at least one MLS veteran is wary of the effect rapid over-expansion could have on the quality of play. This is the first year since 2006 that the number of MLS teams has not increased. Seven new clubs came into the league in a six-year span between 2007 and 2012.
"It's gone up and down," recently retired midfielder Peter Vagenas, who spent the whole of his 13-year pro career in MLS, told Goal. "Up and down. Maybe you can categorize it as personal development. When I first came into the league maybe there were fewer teams, fewer jobs.
"I don't want to say watered down, because the league now is getting better and better, but there was a time teams started to expand that maybe it got a little watered down. Obviously there were more jobs."
Despite his concerns, Vagenas is encouraged by the technical improvement in the league's newer additions.
"When I came into the league there were literally 18 spots on each team. Imagine if you were to cut the league down to 18 people per team. But at the moment in my opinion it's getting better and better, the last couple of years, it's getting better and better.
"It's always been a fast, physical league. The technique and the quality of the player, the skill of the soccer player is starting to catch up. We've always been very good athletically, but we're starting to catch up."
Klein boils the situation down into one simple argument: progress.
"I don't think you can argue the fact that the standard of MLS is higher than it's ever been," he told Goal. "We're moving forward at the pace that we need to move forward."
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quote:Originally posted by SkdzzzAnother newer version of G-Tool (probably not official):BEWARE, I have NOT tested this release yet!!!I will give it a try as I do not use compass at all.
quote:6. How to do push log feature.6.1. Short click compass key on the WBT-100, the GPS LED will grows on GREEN, and turn off after about 1 sec. later. That means mark a special point.6.2. Long push and hold the compass key on the WBT-100, the GPS LED will grows on GREEN, please hold push until the green LED turn off. That means creat a new trajectory.


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HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth equestrian team hosted and took third place at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) Regional Championship held at Morton Farm Saturday.
Alexa Dixon and Helena Witte will both be moving on to the Zone I Championship Show next Saturday at Mount Holyoke following top-2 finishes in Hanover.
Dixon was first in Intermediate Flat, while Witte took second in Novice Fences. In addition, Dixon was third in Intermediate Fences with Witte placing sixth in Novice Flat.
Courtnie Crutchfield just missed out on moving on, as she was third in Walk Trot. Tasha Bock was fourth in Walk Trot Canter, followed by Rochele Brown in fifth.
Abby Franklin claimed fifth in Novice Flat and Janna Wandzilak competed in Intermediate Flat, but did not place in the event.
A total of 11 schools competed at the Big Green's home venue of Morton Farm with New Hampshire taking the top spot. Vermont was second, finishing just ahead of Dartmouth in the team standings.
If Dixon and Witte can earn top-2 finishes next week at Zones, they will advance to the National Championship Show in Harrisburg, Pa., on May 2-5 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex.


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Being an Only Child Won't Harm Social Skills: Study
MONDAY, Aug. 16 -- Boys and girls who grow up without siblings are no less capable of developing good social skills than those raised with brothers and sisters, new research indicates.
The observations stem from an analysis involving more than 13,000 middle school and high school students conducted by a team of researchers at Ohio State University.
"I don't think anyone has to be concerned that if you don't have siblings, you won't learn the social skills you need to get along with other students in high school," study co-author Donna Bobbitt-Zeher, an assistant professor of sociology on OSU's Marion campus, said in a news release from the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Together with OSU colleague Douglas Downey, Bobbit-Zeher is slated to present the findings Monday at the ASA annual meeting in Atlanta.
Interest in the question of how siblings might affect socialization skills has been growing in recent years, the authors noted, with an earlier study by Downey suggesting that kindergarten-aged kids fare better if they grow up with siblings.
"As family sizes get smaller in industrialized countries, there is concern about what it might mean for society as more children grow up without brothers and sisters," Bobbit-Zeher said. "The fear is that they may be losing something by not learning social skills through interacting with siblings."
The current effort used interview data collected by the National Study of Adolescent Health (ADD Health) that concerned children in grades 7 through 12 who were enrolled at more than 100 schools across the United States between 1994 and 1995.
The interviews were used to assess popularity by asking the kids to list up to five male and five female friends, and then tallying the number of "votes" each participant got overall.
The authors found that students were "nominated" an average of five times by their peers, and that voting was not influenced by the presence of siblings, irrespective of gender or whether sibling status (full, step, half, or adopted). Parental age, race and socio-economic status also appeared to have no impact on the question of siblings and social skill development.
"In every combination we tested, siblings had no impact on how popular a student was among peers," Bobbit-Zeher noted.
The authors theorize that even without siblings to help them learn interactive skills, children can avail themselves of the lessons of the schoolyard.
"Kids interact in school, they're participating in extracurricular activities, and theyre socializing in and out of school," observed Bobbit-Zeher. "Anyone who didn't have that peer interaction at home with siblings gets a lot of opportunities to develop social skills as they go through school."
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When tech companies compete, the consumer wins because of more choices in the market.
And when tech companies do not compete, the consumer becomes a slave to lock-in and 'the share holders bottom line'
And when tech companies do not compete, the consumer becomes a slave to lock-in and 'the share holders bottom line'
Of course, this does not hold for google.
But will current android apps with this port? In other words, are apps interpreted or binary?
If they are binary, then google has to make sure developers make a universal binary, like apple did with their PPC->intel transistion.... or this effort will be DOA.
But will current android apps with this port? In other words, are apps interpreted or binary?
If they are binary, then google has to make sure developers make a universal binary, like apple did with their PPC->intel transistion.... or this effort will be DOA.
Most apps should work. It's just Java, after all!
The ones that need porting are things that have native code in them. In which case they need to be recompiled. Not sure if there exists a universal binary format for Android to support this though, but I'm assuming it's regular ELF at the lowlevel so there's a chance.
There's also MIPS android as well - MIPS wants to get back into the phone game. Would be interesting to see a triple architecture binary...
Most apps should work. It's just Java, after all!
More accurately, its a Java Virtual Machine. So long as the hardware runs the VM, most applications should not have a problem.
It's not exactly that either. You enter Java - or at least, a language that has the Java syntax, not sure they can call it Java since it isn't J2ME or J2SE. What you get out to actually run on your phone isn't Java bytecode, but Dalvik bytecode.
Dalvik bytecode is portable, too, so it shouldn't be a problem for most apps. But there is also the Native Development Kit, which almost no one talks about... I guess stuff written in that won't be portable.
At a recent speech, Steve Jobs quotes Nielsen US smartphone market share numbers. RIM 35%, iPhone 28%, Windows Mobile 19%, Android 9%.
Now there are good and not-so-good market researchers, but Nielsen is considered pretty prestigious. And 19% market share for Windows Mobile is a lot bigger than 9%.
Browsing traffic is a much better indicator. We've had "smart phones" with Windows CE and its descendants for ages.
I guess this is a reponse to Meego 1.0 coming out for netbooks as a free download. I don't think meego will amount to much, but if it creates enough competition to push android ahead, that'll be cool.
Still... regarding Android on x86, I'd really prefer to see an ARM/OMAP-3 release, to run on N900s etc. There's a hack available now, but device drivers are still an issue.
More importantly... what's the status of Marketplace on this "port"? Is marketplace now open for anyone to use if they install Android? If not, this port will be useless, except as a dev platform or an interesting proof of concept.
Oh, wow. I read this as Google is porting android. Intel porting android is a much more interesting bit of news. Either Intel is so big that they have multiple departments with the same goal, and completely contradictory strategies, or they've decided that Meego is crap already, and are abandoning it for Android.
Or perhaps Intel is a company with more than a dozen employees, and is able to do more than one thing at a time.
It doesn't always have to be Dilbert-style "Battlin' Business Units", but there's no reason why the left hand can't work on something different than the right hand is.
yes - companies can do more than one thing at once - however, business units are always in contention with eachother.
everyone's issues are the most prominent/most profitable/biggest money savers and thus should deserve immediate attention. that's how every business unit feels.
Why would you say that?
Perhaps the goal, and always has since the beginning of Intel, is to sell more devices with Intel hardware, and they think Android on top of Meego will help get them to that goal? Perhaps they don't have ports for everything is because they don't QUITE have the manpower to pull that off.
Why would you say that?
Because mobile phones are no longer just phones, or even just smartphones. They're becoming full-blown operating systems, which require long-term investment and long lifespans to be fully realised. As a result, people expect to see belief and commitment on the part of the companies pushing those operating systems. You can do that for one OS, but you can't hedge your bets and promote two completely different systems, like they're both the future you believe in and plan to create.
Apple seems to be doing alright splitting their attention between Mac OS X and iPhone OS, although I did see gripes from some of their customers after their last developer conference regarding Mac OS X being treated as an afterthought. Yet the next Mac or i will likely still presell hundred of thousands of units sight-unseen.
That's because OS X and iPhone have different markets. Note, however, that they're fundamentally the same OS underneath, allowing Apple to push similar development skills, and to combine the two as soon as devices fully converge.
Oh, wow. I read this as Google is porting android. Intel porting android is a much more interesting bit of news. Either Intel is so big that they have multiple departments with the same goal, and completely contradictory strategies, or they've decided that Meego is crap already, and are abandoning it for Android.
Or, they've done what any sufficiently large organization does
Intel wants to increase the market for all of their products. They're not going to let a little ideology about which is better stand in the way of generating money. There's a lot of hoopla surrounding mobile computing, and they don't want to get left behind.
Large companies frequently want to have it both ways. You 'or' isn't an 'xor' -- 'a or b' can actually be both.
Microft wants lock-in.
Sony hardware meant for music playback is pretty much as open as they get (nvm Ogg/etc. stuff, that's a niche). One other part of Sony would only like to change that, it seems.
Generally they are one of the best examples of how such companies are far from monolithic. Some divisions and their products are great; some...meh.
Damn straight. Intel is a company that has always served multiple niches. Just as some people prefer Symbian, iPhoneOS, and Windows Mobiles, others will choose from Android and Meego. Smart move on their part to leave the all-in on a single platform strategy to other companies.
Oh, wow. I read this as Google is porting android. Intel porting android is a much more interesting bit of news. Either Intel is so big that they have multiple departments with the same goal, and completely contradictory strategies, or they've decided that Meego is crap already, and are abandoning it for Android.
Hmm, I think it's more like, Intel is "afraid" of ARM processors, and wants to be an alternative for a device, no matter the OS. I bet they'd be porting iPhone OS to Intel if it was open... Also it doesn't sound too good for Intel imago-wise, if they aren't an option for both Android and Meego, but ARM is.
Also, Intel involvement with Android is quite different from their involvement with Meego, as far as I can see. So I don't think this tells anything about Intel-Meego, one way or another.
Once you factor Google's ChromeOS in too, it starts to look even more incestuous.
Of course not all that surprising from Intel's perspective. They make their money from x86 chips, not selling software; they don't care what OS you run, as long as it runs on their hardware. If that means splashing a little cash on porting all the popular OSs to their hardware, I'm sure it's probably worth it for them.
I personally prefer the direction Intel was going with Moblin/Meego to Android. I wonder if this means Intel is going to leave Meego development up to Nokia?
However, I wonder when there'll be first Android VM for Meego... Obviously with Android App Store support, or wouldn't be all that useful. Shouldn't be too hard, now should it?
I was wondering the same thing ("MeeGo is now on Nokia's hands")
Well, one thing, this could be Intel cheating Nokia after Nokia cheated Intel porting MeeGo to ARM processors (or so it seems, from what I read somewhere.)
Well, one thing, this could be Intel cheating Nokia after Nokia cheated Intel porting MeeGo to ARM processors (or so it seems, from what I read somewhere.)
Cheated? Somebody expected them to abandon their nxx0 users and hardware on Maemo?
"Cheated"? MeeGo/Maemo is available on ARM since inception, Intel knew perfectly well what they're getting into.
And anyway, Symbian is the powerhouse on which Nokia will ride for a long time; MeeGo is a quite periphery project / expect experimentation and some shifts in direction.
In terms of performance per Watt, the Core i7 family beats ARM significantly, last I checked. In terms of idle performance, the ARM tears it up, of course, coming in at a quarter watt versus about ten times that for the Core 2 Duo. The Atom, in turn, slaughters comparable ARM CPUs in idle power, with comparable performance-per-watt, but has lower total performance-per-clock, IIRC.
What does this tell us? Maximizing battery performance of a device depends on expected load. For a device that's idle most o
I can image an ARM in a "laptop". Because I'm using one right now in my iPad, which replaced the laptop I used to carry around. I looked at the number of times I actually need a full computer and it's not often anymore. I've gone from being a Geek to a more "typical" user. So far I have great battery life and plenty of power for email, skype, iWork, and websurfing. And with docking stations at home and the office I have a full keyboard when I have to write longer email messages or type up a proposal in
What does this tell us? It tells us you need to compare apples to oranges.
Compare a ARM SoC to a x86 processor and all its support chips.
But what about an Atom SoC with integrated controllers (ie no support chips - at least none you'd not find on an ARM device) like the newest Atom offerings? You know, the Mooreland that doesn't have a PCI bus and competes favorably (middle of the field) against all the current smartphones with comparable specs (Apple's iPad and iPhone; Snapdragon, etc.)
ARM has been in laptops previously:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm [alwaysinnovating.com] (btw, this came out last year)
Seems to work fine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snlp1yTmeyM&feature=related [youtube.com]
In terms of performance per Watt, the Core i7 family beats ARM significantly, last I checked. In terms of idle performance, the ARM tears it up, of course, coming in at a quarter watt versus about ten times that for the Core 2 Duo. The Atom, in turn, slaughters comparable ARM CPUs in idle power, with comparable performance-per-watt, but has lower total performance-per-clock, IIRC.
Bizarro world, apparently. I just searched for the DMIPS/mW figures for a Core i7 and an ARM Cortex A8. Guess what, the first clue is that the Core i7 is listed in DMIPS/Watt. A Core i7 is about 1DMIPS/mW, while a Cortex A8 is about 16DMIPS/mW. The ARMs are an order of magnitude more efficient. I didn't really have to search - it's common knowledge in the industry and it's always funny seeing Slashdot articles and posts which haven't got this yet.
The Atom is still nowhere near: about 2DMIPS/mW. Even that sucks for idle consumption compared to pretty much anything ARM even from 5 years ago. Most ARM SoCs made for a portable device idle - and we're talking total system with background processing here - somewhere between 5-50mW depending on whether you're talking about an MP3 player or a big tablet. The clue, as always, is that Intel stuff is talked about in Watts, not milliwatts.
Basically the only thing Intel CPUs are better at is peak performance, and by a large margin. Not performance/watt. Not idling. Atom, when we're talking complete system, doesn't even have a peak performance advantage compared to Cortex-A9 based SoCs. And all that peak in an Core i7 goes to waste because you just don't need it for the target devices.
Sorry, I was looking at performance-per-clock and thinking performance-per-watt. I retract that part of my comment. Idle performance, though, is better on Atom (if my numbers are right), assuming you ignore the rest of the chipset. (As you're no doubt aware, the Atom chipset power consumption is still embarrassingly high, but at least it has gone down from a couple of years ago by a large margin.)
For a device that's idle most of the time (e.g. a phone), go with Atom
Utter rubbish. ARM idle power consumption is measured in microwatts, and has always been leagues more efficient of anything that an x86 core can do. If Atom is so good, why aren't there any phones based on Atom?
Depends on which ARM chip you're talking about. The Cortex A8, if my numbers are right, idles at about a quarter watt. The Atom idle consumption is about 0.01W, more than an order of magnitude lower. Maybe my numbers are wrong---the manufacturers really try their hardest to avoid giving numbers that are in any way comparable across product lines....
As for why there aren't any phones based on Atom, I'm guessing that's more inertia than anything else. Why bother to port your OS and apps to a different CPU
The Cortex A8, if my numbers are right, idles at about a quarter watt
I don't think that can be right, the numbers don't add up.
My HTC Desire has a 1400mAh 3.7v battery in it, which means there's 5.18Wh in a perfect battery. Even if we assumed that the only power consumption is the battery (ignoring the radio or other electronics), the maximum possible battery life wouldn't even get you though a day.
5.18 / 0.25 = 20.72 hours
Admittedly the phone has a Snapdragon which is only 'similar' to a Cortex, but the maths is suggesting that 0.25W must be out by an order of magnitude.
5.18 / 0.25 = 20.72 hours
You're on the right track there but it isn't quite that
cut and dry. A 5 Whr battery, yes, will run a 5 watt load for
an hour. Thing is, it will actually run a 2.5 watt load for
a bit more than 2 hours and so on. As the wattage gets lower
and lower, it will run for more and more than you would expect
just from the Whr rating itself. It gets pretty significant
the lower and lower the draw is and
I have been running Android 1.6 on an old eeepc 701 for quite a while now, thanks to the good folks over at android-x86.org [android-x86.org]. Android is quite well suited to a low power, small screen machine like the 701.
Also, consider this: When running the android bowser, more and more sites default to a mobile version. I've found that the mobile versions of many sites are preferable to the full versions. I suspect this is at least partly to do with the mobile interface being streamlined.
Given all the OS swings that the OLPC project has gone through, maybe they should be thinking of Android, too.
Funny you should mention that. According to Negroponte, XO-3 will most likely use Adroid. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/one-laptop-per-child-android-meet-dr-negroponte/3976 [zdnet.com]
Android for x86 -> x86 based tablets
ChromeOS -> netbooks
Well... http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-factors/tablet [chromium.org]
... Is Microsoft's tablet/small device OS?
Yes, there are "tablet" versions of Windows ever since XP, but where is the small, lightweight, finger friendly OS for tablets?
I brought this very fact up earlier in another post with regards to Microsoft's ability for growth here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1695766&cid=32667752 [slashdot.org]
Fine, we've got a computer on every desktop as Bill Gates dreamed, and Microsoft has 90 percent of the market, since the late 1990s. When this happened, the question to have been asked was "Now What?" Apparently nobody asked, not in 10 years, at least. They got soft. Complacent.
Vaporware and demo products don't count. I had someone honestly tell me that KIN was not meant to be profitable, or even good. What? Is this what softies actually believe?
Microsoft: Google is eating your lunch. Apple is eating your lunch. Every mobile device maker is eating your lunch.
Oh well. That's like telling the same thing to IBM in 1980s when the clone makers started making "IBM Compatible" PCs. IBM didn't listen then, and Microsoft won't listen now. The King never listens when he's been told he's naked.
MS put self-imposed limits on what they want to view as their market anyway. 90%, sure; but that means a little over 1 billion PCs. A far cry from what mobile market is accomplishing.
I'm more excited about ARM-based tablets, for their current advantage in battery life...
This advantage seems to have gone away, more or less. ARM chips use less power because they're RISC, which means fewer transistors. And guess what? Intel's low-power Atom is also RISC (the complex x86 instruction set is emulated using "micro-ops") and seems to do OK with power consumption. My own Atom-based Netbook can make a battery last all day.
This advantage seems to have gone away, more or less.
My own Atom-based Netbook can make a battery last all day.
Check this out. [liliputing.com] Standby time 180 hours. And by standby time, they mean the screen is off. Not "standby" as it is normally meant on regular desktops and laptops whereas the whole thing is off. The advantage there is instant on, not 1 second on, not 2. Instant. And while the screen is off, it can still be doing something. Checking your email, updating your rss feeds, whatever it would normally be doing. Basically, it's a continuous run device like a cell phone. And it's silent. And it generates lit
Atoms aren't even on the same planet when it comes to power efficiency as ARM.
Nonsense. This is no longer true. Don't get me wrong - ARM still has a sizable lead, but to claim they're "not even on the same planet" is simply untrue. You would see at least same neighborhood batter life out of a well made Moorestown Atom based netbook with the same capabilities running the same OS.
I think you misunderstand what "standby time" means. It definitely does not mean the screen is off but the rest of the system is active — you don't save that much power just by switching off the backlight! It appears to be equivalent to Windows Hybrid Sleep [mydigitallife.info], which also supports 1-second resumes. I don't use it myself, because Windows 7 can resume from plain hibernate mode (which uses no power at all) in 5 seconds, and draining the battery, even by such small amounts, is not worth saving 4 seconds.
ATOM still sucks big time in performance/watt compared to a Cortex A8 or Cortex A9, heck the Cortex A9 is overall faster than any Atom offering.
It will be interesting that we see by the end of the year beginning of next year phones that are faster than the Atom based Netbooks, both in graphics performance and processor performance.
(Most of not all phones currently sold are Cortex A8 based)
"Most of not all phones currently sold are Cortex A8 based"
Far from it. Large part of smartphones, yes, but even there certainly not "most" - Symbian has close to half of sales, and they are all ARM11 (I guess this might change in a year at the earliest - Symbian^4 basically breaks binary compatibility anyway, and with Cortex A5 available...). I don't think Blackberries are very different; and that's already much more than half.
But yeah, ARM has still a bright future. Heck, if one takes a closer look at the
Nowadays almost all chips perform way better (or way way better) than they need to for the application at hand. If an Atom chip and an ARM chip consume the same amount of power and are both performing well enough, it doesn't matter if the ARM chip gives you more cycles per watt — it just means that the ARM chip has more cycles to waste.
ARM chips dominate cell phones for the same reason x86 chips dominate PCs: they grabbed a dominant market share early on. It says nothing about the superiority of one v
It does not say anything about the superiority that ARM dominates but if you look at the raw numbers and general performance numbers also performance per watt numbers than you can see why no one really switches over from ARM to Intel in the non netbook space where Windows compatibility is a non issue.
Arm simply has the better overall architecture. Atoms and generally also is cheaper.
As soon as you count out the we need windows factor from any archtecture, Intel has lost the game with X86 everywhere. The arc
More fragmentation. Just what we needed.
Oh, wait. Fragmentation. The connotations are disturbing...
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DURHAM -- The Center for Family Business at the University of New Hampshire will launch its next Leadership Development Program Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The Leadership Development Program assists the next generation to assume greater leadership roles in their family businesses. Attendees develop confidence, plan for the future, learn to apply new management skills to company projects and build a peer network of support.
The eight-session program meets once a month for full-day work sessions. For additional information about the 2012-2013 program and dates of the work sessions, visit http://www.familybusiness.unh.edu/leadership.html.
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Speakers will cover the following topics: market strategies for direct sales and emerging market; branding; markets and consumers' trends, preferences and characteristics; food safety, how fish and local woods fit into local market; putting the farm business on the digital map, and social media.
The workshop is offered by the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension and co-sponsored by the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA), USDA Farm Service Agency and the NH Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food. It will be held on Wednesday, October 31, 12:30 – 6:00 p.m., at the Portsmouth Country Club in Greenland. Early bird registration is $15.00.
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After every Baltimore Ravens victory, Ryan Chell and I take to the airwaves on "The Nasty Purple Postgame Show" on AM1570 WNST.net to offer "Pats on the Ass" to players who have done something to deserve the honor.
We give pats to two defensive players, two offensive players and one "Wild Card"-either another offensive or defensive player, a Special Teams player or a coach. We offer a "Pat on Both Cheeks" to someone who stands out, our version of a "Player of the Game." Ryan & I select five different players to receive pats.
Here are our "Pats on the Ass" following the Ravens' 20-14 victory over the Cleveland Browns at M&T Bank Stadium…
Glenn Clark's Pats…
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4. Vonta Leach
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Perry Township trustees approved the purchase of four battery-operated ambulance cots.
Perry Township Trustees
Tuesday, Nov. 12 meeting
KEY ACTION Approved the purchase of four battery-operated ambulance cots at a cost of $67,491. Trustees also authorized four seven-year warranty plans for the cots at a cost of $18,848.
DISCUSSION Fire Chief Mark Martin said the department's fleet of cots is about 10 years old and in constant need of repair.
No preventive maintenance plan was put in the place for the cots, he said, and it's becoming harder to purchase replacement parts to fix them.
The new cots have battery-operated hydraulic lifts which allow for the cots to be lowered and raised with the touch of a button, Martin said.
The fire department, he said, received a safety grant of $25,934 from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation to help pay for the cots. The township's share will be $41,557.
Martin said over the past four years, $200,000 in workers compensation claims have been filed by fire department personnel because of injuries that occurred while lifting or lowering the cots.
"There is now way to quanitate the injuries it will prevent but you can see what we have spent in four years (for claims)," Martin said.
The cots, he said, are capable of lifting 700 pounds.
Martin noted he will still need to purchase a new cot for the backup ambulance and he is considering purchasing a bariatric cot to accommodate larger patients.
Right now, the township uses mutual aid with Jackson Township, which has a bariatric cot.
"People are not getting lighter," Martin said. "There are several individuals in the township who are over 700 pounds and we run on them routinely."
A standard cot costs about $8,000, Martin added.
Martin said the preventive maintenance and warranty plan will cover the cost of annual maintenance and replacement costs. It will also replace batteries, which are about $400 each.
"Part of the issue with the old cots is there was no preventive maintenance," he said. "Taking care of these cots will extend the cots beyond the seven years."
OTHER ACTION Approved a one-year agreement with Emergitech to provide maintenance for the township police department's record management software at cost of $$4,957.
• Approved a memorandum of understanding with the University of Akron for the township's participation in the Stark County OVI Task Force. Police Chief Mike Pomesky said the agreement allows township police officers to work sobriety checkpoints and receive reimbursement for their work.
• Learned no one bid to demolish three township properties. Zoning officer Scott Weckbacher said the qualified contractors were scared off by the Dec. 31 deadline to complete the project. Moving Ohio Forward will reimburse the township half of its costs to demolish the properties, he said. The deadline to demolish the properties has been pushed back to May 31 and once that deadline is confirmed in writing, the township will rebid the project.
• Accepted $700 in donations for the Perry Township Bicentennial.
• Set a public hearing for 7 p.m. Dec. 3 regarding a street lighting district at 12th and Sippo Streets SW. Fiscal officer Joe Schlegel said three street lights at a cost of $10 each per month. The district would include 11 parcels and cost $16.36 every six months or $32.72 per year per parcel.
UP NEXT: Meets at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 at the administrative office, 3111 Hilton St. NW.


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Day-After Digest: Game 5 (Lightning 5, Flyers 1)
Part game recap, analysis and scouting report, the Day-After Digest appears after every Lightning game.
The Rundown
The Lightning got off to a rocky start falling behind at the tail end of the game's opening shift but after seeing Vincent Lecavalier drop his mitts and go toe-to-toe with Flyers defenseman Luke Schenn and surviving four-minutes down a man after B.J. Crombeen was charged with three minors on the same shift and only drew a single penalty, Tampa Bay took control, seizing a 3-1 lead heading into the second period. The Flyers regrouped in the middle frame, earning two additional power plays and peppering Lindback with eleven shots while mostly holding the Lightning offense in check, but were unable to convert any chances. Tampa Bay scored early in and nearly midway through the third period to put the game out of reach and leave the visiting bench and their supporters in the crowd stunned.
"After the emotion came down, our players stayed focused for the rest of the game," Boucher said.
The Lightning got plenty of production out of their key forwards as Vinny Lecavalier, Teddy Purcell and Steven Stamkos all scored and Marty St. Louis racked up four assists. Purcell tied the game late in the first period when he skated into a feed from Stamkos, who, trying to find Purcell, took a quick pass in tight space from St. Louis in the slot, wheeled around and sent the puck into open space towards the right hash. Lecavalier cranked a vintage one-timer from the left circle high that beat Leighton high to extend the Lightning's lead to 3-1. Eric Brewer and Victor Hedman, who's been much more decisive about and aggressive in heading up ice to lead or join rushes than he has been in seasons past, also scored for Tampa Bay. Boucher touched on this progression in Hedman's play, crediting the presence of Carle and Salo as relieving some of the pressure on both the young defender and the vet Brewer, suggesting that they particularly allow Hedman some "freedom" before clarifying that when Hedman is making reads, he's now "not as scared to see the opening and take advantage of it."
"We're a very, very different team. We're big now, we're tough and we're committed to defense," Boucher said before elaborating, "You add that to our offense and it certainly makes for something positive right now."
Aside from allowing a bad angle goal when Sean Couturier sent a "shot" from the boards near the goalline to his right than snuck in between his skate and the post just 0:59 in, Anders Lindback managed to keep his composure and was otherwise superb tonight. He stopped the remaining twenty-four shots he faced, including high-quality scoring chances that came from a few odd-man rushes and several attempts from prime real estate. In particular, it was a sprawling left pad save on Matt Read nearly midway through the first with the Flyers still on the power play that seemed to turn momentum in the Lightning's favor.
"At some point he just shuts the door," Boucher said in praise of the young Swede, adding, "That's the mark of good goaltenders. He battles, he's got talent, has an amazing attitude and never gets nervous. That's a good mix."
With Boucher opting to skate twelve forwards and six defensemen, Dana Tyrell was back in the lineup at the expense of Marc-Andre Bergeron. Brendan Mikkelson and P.C. Labrie were the other scratches. Despite not playing since last Monday's away tilt against the Islanders, Labrie was in high spirits and eager to share how excited he is to be a part of the big club and eagerly awaits his next opportunity. He made sure to mention how refreshed he feels after playing nearly half of a season with Syracuse, adding that the short training camp helped him re-focus and boosted his confidence since he wasn't able to display what is such a big part of his game: hitting and fighting. He also touched on how being called up and sticking with the Lightning has provided the opportunity to learn from B.J. Crombeen, whom the young forward says he watches intently during games to soak in and learn as much as he can from the veteran grinder.
Prospect Watch
Game Stats
Season Stats
Aulie's transformation from tentative liability to a confident young NHLer has been the quieter prospect storyline to start this season but tonight Aulie stole the show by logging rock-solid minutes during which he was largely unnoticeable for all the right reasons. He did stand out, in a good way, a couple of times. In the first period, Aulie decisively stepped up and successfully prevented a Flyers zone exit, won the puck ensuing puck battle along the boards and threw the puck at Leighton. Then, late in the game with the score already overwhelmingly in Tampa Bay's favor, Aulie drifted back into his own end, but shallowly, instead of trying to level the puck carrier with a big hit. As the Flyers forward cut to the middle, Aulie tracked him and, in anticipation of a shot that soon followed, dropped down to take up as much of the shooting lane as possible. The puck hit him square on and, after absorbing the impact, he calmly gathered and steered it out of the zone. This effort garnered him specific mention by Boucher in his post-game remarks.
Game Stats
Season Stats
Conacher took a back seat tonight as he failed to register a point for the first time in his NHL career but still put his wheels on display leading several rushes and hustling back to disrupt opposing zone entries. Conacher's best chances came on two odd-man breaks during which he had the puck on his stick and led the rush but he tried, on both occasions, unsuccessfully to feather passes through an opposing defender to a teammate.
Best of Boucher
"I know the guys wanted to retaliate and show Vinny they were gonna have his back but the reality is...scoring a goal hurts [the opponent] a lot more than anything else."
Looking Ahead
For the middle match of their five-game homestand, the Lightning (4-1-0, 8 PTS) will meet the Panthers (1-4-0, 2 PTS), who haven't won since their season opener, on Tuesday. Florida should be fresh from licking their wounds following the 7-1 drubbing they took at the hands of the Flyers in Sunrise on Saturday. The Panthers have only played twice on the road so far this season but in those two matches have scored just once while allowing a whopping eleven goals against. Florida, which overcame hundreds of man-games lost to injury last season to earn a playoff berth, will enter the match still beset by key injuries up front and on the blueline that seem to be jeopardizing, given such a condensed season, the likelihood of a return trip to the postseason.
Up front, Florida is presently a mess of injuries and non-production. Key cog Kris Versteeg and role players Marcel Goc and Sean Bergenheim, who injured his groin overseas, have yet to play in even a single game and, coupled with the fact that Florida has too many forwards its relies on to provide secondary scoring, like Mike Santorelli, Shawn Matthias, Scottie Upshall and Tomas Kopecky, who have a combined two goals so far. As for the free agent additions, Peter Mueller has tallied two points to date, 39-year old Alex Kovalev has gone scoreless since his three-point effort in season opener and George Parros has done a whole lot of squat while averaging about 6:00 per game. These struggles aside, the Panthers are finally bearing the fruits of general manager Dick Tallon's (or, better, his staff's) labor via the draft as Jonathan Huberdeau (2011 1st rounder), Drew Shore (2009 2nd rounder) and Quinton Howden (2010 1st rounder) have all made their NHL debuts. Howden, though, may be shipped back to AHL San Antonio for more seasoning when Versteeg and Stephen Weiss, who's missed the last two matches, return to the lineup.
Florida's hasn't looked very good on the back end, either. Erik Gudbranson's shoulder isn't right and he's yet to make his season debut and the rest of the defensive corps, which is relying on Brian Campbell to help spark the offense, Ed Jovanovski, Mike Weaver, free-agent signee Filip Kuba and four-year starter Dmitry Kulikov to do the heavy lifting while Michael Caruso, Keaton Ellerby and Tyson Strachan provide depth minutes, is struggling. Campbell has two goals and four points but, so far, the loss of Jason Garrison to free agency is looming large the other defensemen have struggled to contribute much of anything in the way of offense, managing just a combined two assists.
Despite minor rumblings that Florida might have been (or still is?) interested in returning Roberto Luongo to South Florida, the club has stuck with its internal options. With the presumed heir apparent in net, 22-year old former first-round pick, Jacob Markstrom, still waiting in the wings while playing for the AHL affiliate, the Panthers have instead opted to roll with the same tandem that backstopped the franchise last season en route to helping end the ten-season absence from the annual quest for Lord Stanley's trophy: Jose Theodore, who was resurgent last season, and Scott Clemmenson, an effective second option in net throughout his career. Both are in their mid-30's but, though their durability may be question marks, each is generally consistent and reliable so long as the skaters in front of them hold their own and also capable of delivering a gem and stealing a game. At present, it must be viewed as the position of least concern for 2nd-year coach Kevin Dineen.
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The original photo is nice enough, but I thought texture would add more depth and interest.
First thing to do is duplicate your background.
I opened my Flypaper Texture folder and decided that pompeii stucco might be the best one to try first. Choosing which texture goes with each photo is something you learn with practice and experience as texturing is not a "one size fit's all" kind of thing.
Open the texture in photoshop (or your editing programme) then with the move tool selected drag it from the layers palette on top of your image. It doesn't matter if the texture is a different size or shape from your photo, you just resize to fit by using the drag handles on the corners.
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It looks okay but lacks depth, so I had a play with several different textures, you'll find when you're using texture that your delete button will be your best friend as you try out combinations.
Anyway, I finally hit upon using our Bruised Saffron texture at multiply and 37%
Then another layer of Pompeii Stucco at soft light 37%
Almost done, but the colours need a bit of a tweak. So I added an curves adjustment layer by clicking on "Create new fill or adjustment layer" button at the bottom of your layers pallete and selecting curves from the drop down list.
Once the dialogue box opens I played with red, green and blue curves until I got the tone I wanted. A little goes a long way with curves so it pays to be gentle.
And voila! We're done!
And just so you can see a bit better the effect that the texture has had, here's a close-up showing some of the detail.
Of course with different texture choices and opacities it would be quite a different photo, so just treat this is a guide.Any questions or suggestions for future tutorials, drop us a line, or leave a comment.


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Tottenham may not lose Emmanuel Adebayor for the duration of the African Nations Cup after it was reported the striker had "suspended" his international career with Togo.
Adebayor is embroiled in a dispute with the Togolese federation over match bonuses and will not represent the national team, according to a spokesman for the player quoted on South African website supersport.com.
Adebayor's public relations officer Amedodji Blaise told the site: "Togo international and captain Emmanuel Adebayor hereby brings to the notice of the general public that he is suspending his international career with the Togo team. The atmosphere currently prevailing within the Hawks will not help the team achieve its set-out objectives."
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ALLEMAN — The Clarke girls basketball season came to an end here on Saturday, as the Lady Indians lost their Class 3A Region 7 opener to seventh-ranked North Polk, 65-41.
"I knew North Polk was going to be a strong team, but they are even better than I thought," head coach Eric Zoske said. "I had watched five games on film and watched them in person, and I believe that the game they played against us was the best I saw them play. This is simply what teams need to do to advance in tournament time."
Clarke built an early lead, but just as quickly as it built the lead, the lead evaporated as North Polk swung the game in its favor with an 18-8 lead.
"We only turned the ball over one time in this span," Zoske said. "They just kept hitting shots."
The Lady Indians only turned the ball over nine times for the game, battling against North Polk's press. But, Clarke was outrebounded by 18.
Miranda Murphy scored 20 points in the first half for North Polk, but the Lady Indians held her to just two points in the second half. Unfortunately, her twin sister took over the second half.
Devon Carson had a big game in her final game in a Clarke uniform, scoring 16 points with four rebounds. Libby Bemis added nine points and four boards, while Carley Robins netted six points with six rebounds. Maddie Heath scored six and Baylie Balcaen scored four.
"I am very proud of how the girls responded late in the season," Zoske said. "We were 3-13 and neither myself or the girls are used to losing. These seniors had never had a losing season in anything and in 10 years of coaching basketball, I never had a losing record. But we had a couple of heart-to-heart talks and truly came together."
Clarke had six seniors on its roster in Ashley Heston, Delaney May, McKenzi Otto, Bemis, Robins and Carson.
"We had three senior additions this year in Ashley, Delaney and Kenzi," Zoske said. "I'm grateful that they decided to come out for basketball their final year of high school. What Libby, Devon and Carley have taught me over the past two years are lessons that I will remember throughout coaching my entire career, and there is no doubt in my mind that I'm a better coach because of these three seniors."


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Northumberland is a county in North East England, on the England-Scotland border.
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England's most northern and sparsely populated county, Northumberland is a remnant of the ancient kingdom of Northumbria which once covered an area stretching from Edinburgh to Sheffield and the river Mersey.
The area has a very long and bloody history due to its proximity to Scotland and has fallen into Scottish hands at least once as the border has shifted over time. The more populous towns are either market towns (Amble, Hexham, Morpeth) and others are former mining communities (Prudhoe, Ashington).
Northumberland has its own dialect, different from the famous Geordie of Newcastle.
The Northumbrian Pipes are a local folk instrument, similar to the Scottish bagpipe.
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Newcastle International Airport [1] is the nearest airport to Northumberland.
Get around
You generally need a car to get about in Northumberland as it is a rural county. There are some regular bus services on the main routes mainly served by Arriva Northumbria. Bus timetables can be found at Nexus' website for services to and from Tyne and Wear and traveline can help you with other routes. There is a cross-county train service from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, stopping at towns in the Tyne Valley, including Prudhoe, Corbridge, Hexham and Haltwhistle.
Trains from Newcastle stop at Morpeth, Northumberland's county-town.
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