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After leading their teams to last year's World Series, Justin Verlander and Buster Posey cashed in just hours apart on Friday.
The All-Star pitcher and MVP catcher were guaranteed nearly US$350 million in contracts by the Tigers and Giants, a sure sign of the baseball times: Teams are awash with revenue from TV and high-priced tickets.
Verlander, an American League MVP and Cy Young Award winner for Detroit, agreed to a US$180 million, seven-year deal with the Tigers that is the richest for a pitcher and prevents him from becoming a free agent after next year's season.
Posey, the batting champion who led San Francisco to a pair of World Series titles in the last three years, received a US$167 million, nine-year deal from the Giants. The catcher could not have gone on the market until after the 2016 season.
"Contracts like that that you're seeing are a product of really strong revenue growth in the industry," said Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of economics and league affairs.
And the spending might not be done yet.
Clayton Kershaw, who can go free after next year's season, could get a new deal from the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 2011 National League Cy Young winner said he would not talk about contracts during the season; the Dodgers would want to hold off announcing any agreement until after opening day, so that it would not add to their luxury tax bill this year.
Where is all the money coming from?
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig expects revenue to top US$8 billion for the first time this year.
"It's quite a story when you think back in 1992 it was US$1.2 billion," he said this week. "We've come a long way. It's a manifestation of how popular this sport is in every way."
Major League Baseball (MLB) last year agreed to eight-year contracts with News Corp's Fox and with Turner Sports that run from next year to 2021, and increase average annual revenue from about US$500 million to about US$800 million. ESPN and MLB reached a deal covering next year to 2021 that hikes the average yearly payment from about US$360 million to approximately US$700 million.
Then there are big-money local deals. The Dodgers are creating a cable network with Time Warner Cable that assures the team more than US$7 billion over 25 years. News Corp is paying the Yankees' owners US$500 million as part of a deal that could allow it up to 80 percent ownership of the YES Network.
Teams are rushing to lock up prized players. For the Giants, the homegrown talent is especially valuable.
"When you have your own player, you're successful with your own player, he's test-driven you and you've test-driven him, it takes a lot of the risk out of the business to be able to go forward," Giants CEO Larry Baer said.
"It also makes forming your team a lot easier because you know the plusses and minuses. In Buster's case, there aren't a lot of minuses. You know who these guys are, you know some of the X factors. A lot of times when you get a free agent, you don't know the X factors, whether it's work ethic or character. So, I think it's going to be a continuing trend that teams try to lock up their own players as much as possible," he said.
Earlier this week, St Louis gave pitcher Adam Wainwright a US$97.5 million deal covering next year to 2018 that raises his guaranteed income to US$109.5 million over the next six seasons. At a lower level, Arizona is nearing agreement with Paul Goldschmidt on a US$32 million, five-year contract that would run from next year to 2018. The first baseman has less than one-and-a-half years in the big leagues.


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The Manhattan Transfer has been performing on and off as a group since the late 1960s and have featured a variety of different members. One of the high points of the group's career was having two of their songs featured in the classic Tom Hanks film, "A League of Their Own," in 1992. More recently, The Manhattan Transfer announced that they would be releasing an album of unreleased songs to mark their 40th anniversary together. Now The Manhattan Transfer is hitting the road for shows in Pennsylvania and California, among others and GoTickets can help you find the best seats to any of their upcoming performances.


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The official name of the event at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks this weekend is the Philadelphia Boat Show. But, the word "Show" is crossed out on the event's website and is replaced with the word "Sale."
So, it doesn't take much imagination to figure out what you can expect at the expansive show which is running now through March 10 at the exhibition hall in western Montgomery County.
The show features an extensive collection of the latest models of motor yachts, sport fishermen boats, express yachts, cruisers and sport boats. It is a well-attended event that unofficially kicks off the area's boating season.
Visitors to the show will be able to get generous deals on all leftover models from last season. Those who are looking for the new season's models will have an advantage by shopping early and having the widest selection. There will be hundreds of boats on display including watercraft of all types, all styles and all price ranges.
Many of the top boat manufacturers will be participating, including War Eagle, Steiger Craft, Polarkraft Aluminum Boats, Tidewater, Yamaha Wave Runners, Sea Ray, Four Winns, Regal, SouthWind, Triumph, SeaDoo Personal Watercraft, Master Craft, BostonWhaler, Carolina Skiff, Evinrude E-Tec Outboards, Stingray, Bayliner, Sylvan Pontoons, Bentley, Honda Outboards and Key West Skiffs .
The show will offer a wide array of attractions for boating enthusiasts including a sales area featuring boating supplies, books, clothing, marine financial and insurance services, electronic navigational devices and engines.
As a tribute and expression of appreciation, free admission is being offered to all police, fire, EMS and military personnel (and one guest) in the area that are able to show a valid ID at the show office.
What: 2013 Philadelphia Boat Show
When: Now through March 10; noon-8 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday
Where: Greater Philadelphia ExpoCenter, 100 Station Avenue, Oaks
Tickets: Adults, $9; youth (ages 13-17), $2; children (under 12), free
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SIOUX CITY and ORANGE CITY, Iowa -- Devotion is key in this part of the state, its most conservative corner. And, just two days before Republican caucusgoers cast the first votes of the 2012 presidential election, devotion to Rick Santorum here seems to run deep.
"He's a true conservative," said Beth Goethschius, of Sioux City, one of about 150 or so people, who packed into The Daily Grind coffee shop in downtown Sioux City to hear Santorum speak.
"He is the most consistent conservative," said Dale Nystrom, a physician from Hawarden, who was among about 200 people, who filled chairs, leaned against walls, and backed up the stairs of the basement of a bank around the corner from "Bibles for Missions" and off the town square of rural Orange City, about an hour north of Sioux City.
Nystrom and his wife Lynette signed up this week to be Santorum precinct captains.
"He's a hard worker," said Lynette, who said she's been with Santorum since August and convinced her husband, who liked Rep. Michele Bachmann and then Newt Gingrich, to get on board. "I talked him out of it," Lynette said with a smile and a laugh. Dale smirked and nodded in agreement.
At Santorum's events very few were undecided. Most had their minds made up -- and they were with the former Pennsylvania senator. If that's any indication, then Santorum's scuffed-up shoe leather campaigning over the past year, which has taken him to all 99 counties, has paid dividends. If he has, in fact, locked up religious conservatives, who made up 60% of GOP caucusgoers in 2008, he could be on the cusp of pulling off a meteoric upset.
Of the other candidates making a play for evangelicals, voters here in the Northwestern part of the state, said they liked Bachmann, but didn't view her as electable or of presidential timber. And few, except one 18-year-old, first-time caucusgoer, even mentioned Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
In 2008, Mitt Romney actually won Woodbury County, where the population center Sioux City is. In an event there yesterday, Romney was well received. But in Sioux County, where Orange City is located, Mike Huckabee ran up the score winning 53% of the vote. Romney finished third (behind John McCain) with just 14%.
At both Santorum events, religion was evident. In Sioux City several Santorum lines were greeted with "Amens." In Orange City, a pastor introduced him with a prayer. He called it an "honor to pray for Rick Santorum," who is "standing for righteousness even when it's not popular. ... We commit him to you, Lord."
Mary Clark, also of Sioux City, said she made up her mind to caucus for Santorum "a couple days ago." "He's a conservative," Clark said, noting that she had seen all of the candidates in person. Santorum, more than the other candidates, she said, seemed to be able to express how his experience in Washington would be helpful. She believed he could get things done.
Ryan Beardshear, 30, of Sioux City, also cited Santorum's experience. "He has a proven track record of experience," Beardshear said. He said he had been with Bachmann, but now his "mind is made up" to go with Santorum. "He's a better fit," Beardshear said. "It's not a canned speech" with Santorum.
Myrtie Demarest and husband Gaylen drove 40 miles from Cushing, Iowa, to hear Santorum speak in Sioux City. They also said they liked what they heard.
"He has conviction," Myrtie said. "He's not ashamed."
But they also like Bachmann and don't have their minds fully made up.
"They're real close," Gaylen said. Asked what would make up his mind, looking down, he paused, then said, "We're going to pray about it."
For Rick Fetterman, there's no question.
"I'm fully decided," said Fetterman, 50, who works at a nearby Holiday Inn, but said he is finishing up studies to be an evangelical minister at Sioux Land Christian College. "I believe 100 percent in Rick Santorum."
Fetterman said he, too, liked Bachmann, but the endorsement of a local pastor made up his mind. Plus, Bachmann's slide in the polls, he said, made this clear to him: "I don't think the people of America are ready to put a woman in office."
Several voters said they made up their minds in the last few days. Most said they had also really liked Herman Cain but he's no longer an option. They also liked Bachmann. And some said Newt Gingrich.
April Buysman, of Orange City, said Santorum had "more hold of the facts" than Bachmann.
Jerry Goedhart, of Orange City, said of Santorum, "He's more genuine. He comes down to your meetings. He doesn't stand above anyone."
"He's like a regular person," said Carolyn Goedhart, Jerry's wife.
Dale Nystrom said he didn't think Bachmann "had what it took to stand up to liberals." Santorum, on the other hand, won as a conservative in a blue state, he said.
Many said they had liked Gingrich and thought he might be the best to debate Obama. But the word repeated over and over with voters about why they're no longer with Gingrich: "baggage."
Gingrich has been pummeled on air here in the Hawkeye State with negative ads. One analysis by the Campaign Media Analysis Group said 45 percent of ads that have run were negative against Gingrich. Many admitted to seeing the ads, but didn't believe they had an impact on them.
"Santorum has less baggage," said Gene Nitzschkie, of Sioux City. "I know a lot of what's said about Newt in those ads is B.S., but…."
Lynette Nystrom said she didn't trust Gingrich's "impulsivity." "I wouldn't want him to have his finger on the red button," she said.
Most voters cited "core convictions" when talking about Santorum, and they believe he "shares my beliefs."
A few said they were still undecided -- leaning toward Santorum, but also considering Romney. Santorum "believes what I believe," said Sue Conaway, of Orange City. But she also believes Romney could win the presidency.
To a person here -- unlike at other events for Romney and Perry First Read attended this week -- they all said they would caucus. And that conflict between shared values and electability could well decide the outcome of the caucuses.


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Gluten-Free Menus: February 18
Last week, I discovered that other foodie bloggers are reading what I'm reading. I just finished a fiction jag (during which I read Pevear and Volohkonsky's new and fabulous translation of War and Peace--I highly recommend this version, which is far superior to any previous translations) a few weeks ago and picked up Michael Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food.
Sally over at Aprovechar mentioned that she's reading it, too, and that she was somewhat disappointed with the book (its scope is much less than that of his previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, which I also hardily recommend). I wasn't exactly disappointed, but the book seemed less full of new ideas and more full of somewhat extended ideas from OD. The book can be summed up by his mantra: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
In any case, it's very well researched and documented, and I found myself at our local library on Friday checking out some of the books he cites, notably Marian Nestle's What to Eat and Food Politics. What to Eat is a look at our supermarkets and the politics that goes into what is available for us to buy and how it's labeled. I'm both horrified and fascinated by the statistics and anecdotes she recounted: almost 70% of Danimals yogurt is sugar; the USDA routinely tries to weaken rules governing organics and is only stopped (some of the time) by hundreds of thousands of letters from consumers; farmed salmon can have double the fat and saturated fat as wild salmon (not to mention all of those artificial dyes--how many times must I have exclaimed over food coloring on a platter?).
So, while we have very high quality yogurt produced locally, I was interested to find out exactly how difficult making my own would be. Hence my forays into yogurt-making. I'll keep you posted.
Here's our menus for this week:
Sunday: Indian-style savory mashed sweet potatoes (from Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites), curried lentil-carrot salad, pineapple-apple chutney
Monday: Pumpkin-Chicken Enchiladas, sauteed kale
Tuesday: Enchiladas, Take Two!
Wednesday: Mezza with olives, hummus, labneh, pita, and roasted squash
Thursday: We're out of the house...
Friday: Red Lentil-Apricot Soup, kale, challah
Saturday: Friday leftovers
Need healthy snacks or desserts? Try these gluten-free chickpea crackers--I've made them several times and am never disappointed. They're also a great use of Bob's Red Mill All-Purp GF flour, if, like me, you can't stand the beany taste it imparts to everything. Also, try Karina's Mint Chocolate Cookies. I adapted them to be lower in fat and to be completely whole grain very easily: use equal parts brown rice, teff, corn, and sorghum flours in place of her flours, and replace half of the oil with applesauce. Instead of mixing the chocolate chips into the cookies, I melted them, added a little mint extract, and dipped the cookies. Almost like Thin Mints!
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- Sally Parrott Ashbrook said...
What To Eat is the next book on my nightstand! We are on the same track. :D
I did glean some useful insights out of In Defense of Food; I just didn't enjoy it as much as The Omnivore's Dilemma.
- February 18, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- kevin said...
I eagerly await the yogurt posts! It's something I've thought about doing myself, particularly since moving and not being able to find my favorite brand any more.
- February 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM
- Sea said...
Ooh, mashed Indian Sweet Potatoes! I might have to find that cookbook and try it. Not that I have any shortage of cookbooks already, haha. Sounds very good, though.
- February 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- Gluten Free in the Greens said...
Sally: I agree with you about the new Pollan book. I'm loving What to Eat!
Kevin: The yogurt and cheese both turned out great, and they were really easy. I might test a few more methods (apparently, you can just leave it in the oven on low or on the counter overnight) before I give a verdict.
Sea: I read once that most people only cook a very small number of recipes from any one cookbook they own. That's probably true for me for most of my cookbooks, but I actually counted in the Moosewood Low Fat Favs after reading that. I've made something like a third of the recipes and with one or two exceptions they've all been great.
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Rangers target three more signings
Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp wants to sign two midfielders and a striker before the transfer window closes.
Rangers have so far added four new recruits to the squad but Redknapp has been left short after players were released and last year's loanees returned to their parent clubs.
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Redknapp has already signed Steven Caulker and Jordon Mutch from Cardiff, Rio Ferdinand from Manchester United and Mauricio Isla on loan from Juventus.
"We need to get a couple more in, we're short in some areas," Redknapp said.
"I've got three central midfield players -- Joey Barton, Alejandro Faurlin and Karl Henry -- when you need six midfield players really at this level.
"So we're looking to get one or two midfielders in and maybe a front man as well because we need a bit of cover there. You need four strikers in an ideal world."
Redknapp added: "If you look at the whole squad with everyone fit we've got 18 or 19 outfield players and that includes one or two lads who couldn't get in the squad last year."
Rangers used the loan system to their advantage last season in the Championship as the likes of Tom Carroll, Niko Kranjcar and Ravel Morrison all made significant contributions.
"We'll probably use the loan system again. Maybe we'll buy one and loan a couple," Redknapp said after QPR were beaten 1-0 by Hull at Loftus Road on Saturday.
"I think the chairman is close to doing a couple of deals today, I'm hoping he is.
"I spoke to him before the game and he's confident he'll get another couple that I'm after."
The future of Loic Remy, who came close to joining Liverpool earlier in the transfer window, is still uncertain.
The French forward is keen to leave Loftus Road but is waiting to be approached by a club who can challenge for a Champions League spot.
"He's got a buy-out clause which is a problem, because if someone comes in and offers the money you lose him," Redknapp said.
"If he goes you're looking for two strikers, which isn't easy to find, but if he's going to leave QPR, it's got to be to a big club -- a top-seven club I would think.
"He didn't want to go back to Newcastle which is a massive club, so unless it's a club in the top seven I don't think he'll go."
One player who does look set to leave is goalkeeper Julio Cesar.
The 34-year-old, who joined Rangers in August 2012, was due to hold talks with Benfica over the weekend with a view to completing a transfer.
Redknapp's side will be looking to bounce back from their opening day defeat when they travel to Tottenham on Sunday.
The fixture means a return to White Hart Lane for Redknapp, who was sacked by Spurs in June 2012.
"It's a tough game but I'm looking forward to going back there," Redknapp said.
"They'll be strong this year. With the money they spent last year they've got to be pushing for the top four."
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Authorities say a clerical error led to the release of a Lenoir man who was supposed to remain in prison while awaiting trial on a murder charge.
Lenoir Police Chief Scott Brown told the News-Topic of Lenoir (http://bit.ly/1fMuomF ) that 37-year-old Michael Whisnant was arrested without incident Friday night at his father's home, just a few hours after he was mistakenly released from the Avery County Jail.
Brown says Whisnant's release was a clerical error, but he didn't have details.
Investigators say Whisnant killed his girlfriend, whose body was found wrapped in a comforter at the home he shared with his mother in April. He was already on house arrest awaiting trial after police say he broke his girlfriend's jaw with a hammer in 2011.


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Unions mull endorsement options
Illinois union leaders are reportedly mulling several options about what to do in the governor's race. But the only thing the leaders appear to agree on so far is that anti-union Republican gazillionaire Bruce Rauner cannot be allowed to win.
Some union honchos are looking at endorsing a candidate in the Republican primary. State Sen. Kirk Dillard, for instance, already has strong support from the Operating Engineers, a union that is now even more opposed to Rauner since the candidate's endorsement by the strongly anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors group. Other unions have also taken keen notice of that endorsement.
Surprisingly enough, Dillard is also being looked at by some public employee unions. They're hoping that he'll be a "no" vote on pension reform. Dillard told the Kankakee Daily Journal several days ago that he wants employees to pay more into the system and wants a later retirement age, neither of which appear to be in the cards at the moment. Dillard would know what was going on behind the scenes with the pension reform conference committee because his running mate, Rep. Jil Tracy, sits on the committee.
However he chooses to explain it, a "no" vote on pension reform could bring him closer to a possible union nod. Then again, Dillard told the Sun-Times last week that he had always supported pension reform and denied rumors that he was planning to vote against the bill. But even a pension bill "yes" vote will not, in and of itself, prevent some unions from endorsing Dillard.
Dillard's campaign has struggled to raise money, barely able to meet its expenses (if that), so a labor endorsement would bring in much needed dollars. Unions have backed Dillard in the past, to the tune of $400,000 from public employee unions alone during his career. They know he's a social conservative (he was endorsed last week by noted figures on the far right like Phyllis Schlafly and Penny Pullen), but they feel they can at least get a fair hearing from him.
Treasurer Dan Rutherford has tried to reach out to labor, particularly on the pension issue. He has attempted to steer away from taking a hard public line on pension reform, urging compromise. But Rutherford doesn't have much history with the unions, so he'll have to work very hard to woo labor leaders if he wants their support. Dillard speaks their language while Rutherford is more of an unknown quantity. Rutherford's campaign has far more money on hand than Dillard's, but nowhere near enough to compete with Rauner.
Still, does any candidate really want organized labor's support in a Republican gubernatorial primary? If you'll recall, a Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll conducted Aug. 21 found that a whopping 80 percent of likely GOP primary voters said they'd be less inclined to vote for a Republican candidate for governor "who received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from public employee unions."
So, others in organized labor are strenuously arguing against any endorsement at all, believing today's Republican Party voters are so hostile to labor's interests that overt support for a preferred union candidate would almost surely result in a political death sentence and result in a host of unknown, uncontrollable possibilities.
That particular faction is arguing hard for an all-out assault on Rauner during the primary. None of the other candidates would be nearly as hostile to labor's interest as Rauner would be, goes the reasoning.
An all-out TV advertising assault on Rauner could knock him out of contention. There's a thick opposition research book on Rauner, but his association with Democrats like Mayor Rahm Emanuel would be just as enormously toxic for GOP primary voters as public employee campaign contributions (83 percent less likely to support, according to an August Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll).
However, some labor leaders say that Gov. Pat Quinn has been moving to the opinion that running against Rauner might not be so horrible after all. Despite Rauner's potential to spend tens of millions of dollars next year, some Quinn backers think Rauner's background gives them enough ammunition to thump him.
Yeah, well Rauner has enough of a personal fortune to stay on the air from now through next November without a break. His ads are already focused on painting Quinn as the bad guy, and that theme will only intensify if he wins the GOP primary. He could bury Quinn before the governor has a chance to bury him.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.


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Life clung to Joe Yourshaw, even as he reached for death.
He was 93 and ruined by diabetes. His heart and kidneys were failing. Arthritis barbed his joints and bones. Jailed in the husk of a good life gone to seed, all that was left to settle was when he would be released.
In February, the retired contractor, husband and father from Pottsville saw a way out, and asked his daughter, Barbara Mancini, 57, of Philadelphia, to hand him a bottle of legally prescribed morphine. He downed much of it and drifted to a deep sleep. A hospice nurse found him unresponsive and called 911.
Barbara, who is also a nurse, told police and paramedics her dad did not want to be revived. That should have been unnecessary, considering he had enrolled himself in hospice, choosing to die on his own terms in his own home.
They took Joe to the hospital. He recovered from the overdose, but died four days later. The hospice nurse and police said Barbara confessed to assisting her father's suicide, which she has since denied. She was criminally charged and could spend 10 years in prison if convicted.
Due to a conflict of interest in the county prosecutor's office, the case was kicked to the office of state Attorney General Kathleen Kane. A gag order imposed by a Schuylkill County judge has stifled comment from the involved parties, but the case has ignited overdue debate about whether the state has any business deciding the timing and terms of any individual's final exit.
Considering her recent refusal to defend the state's ugly, unconstitutional ban on gay marriage and tight resources in her office, Ms. Kane is under increasing pressure to drop this case. She should do so not for political expedience, but because putting Barbara Mancini on trial would be cruel and futile.
The jury without a few people who have sat helpless as a loved one suffered a tardy death does not exist. Pain is a universal chord. All but the hardest among us are hard-wired to soothe it. Jurors in this case would also hear from Joe Yourshaw's widow, who stands by her daughter. And remember that Joe rebounded from his overdose. Can anyone say beyond a reasonable doubt that the morphine caused his death?
A conviction in this case seems next to impossible, and would not serve justice.
Of course, there will always be those who demand blood for blood when they have no skin in the game. The Misery Lobby - fools and liars who exploit suffering for profit and political gain - warns that unless Barbara Mancini is punished, we will toboggan down a slippery slope to state-sanctioned euthanasia of the elderly, sick and disabled. Such self-righteous cynicism is easily spat by those whose selfishness and fear of death affords them the delusion that one can't be too long for this world.
There are tight corners where the laws, rules, beliefs and sensibilities that govern daily life are overruled by the hard facts of the moment. I believe Barbara Mancini found herself in such a place with the man who paced the hospital halls the day she was born, taught her to ride a bike, cheered at her graduations, screened the boys who came to date her and danced at her wedding.
In a hard moment passed in a tight corner, he asked her for mercy. It was the only hope he had, and all she had left to give.
CHRIS KELLY, the Times-Tribune columnist, fears intrusive government more than death. Contact the writer: firstname.lastname@example.com, @cjkink on Twitter


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I think moderators jumped the gun here. It is a fair point to make that the commenter voted with his wallet.
nVidia's drivers have been the reason I've consistently purchased their products. On any OS, ATi/AMD have been consistently buggy and useless.
He believes in high standards, but never goes out-of-bounds into silly land.
Why, exactly?
- AMD's open driver is in *awesome* shape in latest 3.13, 3.12 brought the biggest improvements.
- AMD has been invested millions in open projects like Gallium3D, Mesa, etc to improve their drivers.
- AMD has been released specs for their hardware since 2006.
Then its good enough for me too. So "Thumbs up!" Nvidia!
Another factor that might be pushing vendors to provide information to open source developers and/or publishing open source drivers is the fallout from the Snowden revelations.
People worldwide have awakened to the possibility that malware may be imbedded in closed drivers and firmware (including closed "binary blobs" embedded in open-source drivers). Indeed, it WAS imbedded in some - and sold as a feature. (Example: Intel's AMT, early versions of which lived in and ran from the Ethernet interface firmwar
Hey, I'm a Nouveau developer and I had a chance to discuss with an nvidia engineer @ FOSDEM. This collaboration is strictly limited to Tegra and on the kernel side (at least for the moment).
There is some overlap with the desktop cards (mostly Kepler family) which will allow us to benefit of this collaboration in more than the SoC world. This is however very interesting and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it will pan out!
It's not news that nVidia will never be able to release full information on their legacy lines. They're encumbered by having got into bed with Microsoft. They tied their cards closely to DirectX and they'll never escape. The Tegra product is a wholly separate line not tainted by that relationship.
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Russia Sends Warships to Syria for Possible Evacuation
Russia Sends Warships to Syria for Possible Evacuation
Russia sent warships to the Mediterranean to prepare a potential evacuation of its citizens from Syria, a Russian news agency said on Tuesday, a sign President Bashar al-Assad's key ally is worried about rebel advances that now threaten even the capital.
Moscow acted a day after insurgents waging a 21-month-old uprising obtained a possible springboard for a thrust into Damascus by seizing the Yarmouk Palestinian camp just 2 miles from the heart of the city, activists said.
The anti-Assad opposition has posted significant military and diplomatic gains in recent weeks, capturing a series of army installations across Syria and securing formal recognition from Western and Arab states for its new coalition.
Assad's pivotal allies have largely stood behind him. But Russia, his main arms supplier, appeared to waver this week with contradictory statements repeating opposition to Assad stepping down and airing concerns about a possible rebel victory.
Russia's Interfax news agency quoted unnamed naval sources on Tuesday as saying that two assault ships, a tanker and an escort vessel had left a Baltic port for the Mediterranean Sea, where Russia has a port in Syria's coastal city of Tartus.


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Colorado Avalanche have grabbed plenty of headlines by matching the best start in franchise history.
However, Patrick Roy's squad is now dealing with some unwanted attention.
Roy will try to prevent goaltender Semyon Varlamov's off-the-ice troubles from becoming a distraction in Dallas on Friday night when the Avs go for a fifth straight victory in a meeting with the Stars.
Colorado improved to 10-1-0 on the season with last Sunday's 3-2 victory over the visiting Winnipeg Jets. Matt Duchene scored his ninth goal of the season -- tied for third most in the league -- in the first period before Jan Hejda and Paul Stastny erased a one-goal deficit with third-period tallies.
The rally allowed the Avs to match the best start in franchise history, a 10-1-0 beginning to the 1994-95 campaign by the Quebec Nordiques.
"We came in here tonight, and although we were behind, we knew we wouldn't lose this game. We had the belief and we got the job done," said Duchene, who has four goals in his past five games.
Semyon Varlamov made 23 saves in the win, improving to 7-1-0 with a 1.76 goals against average in eight starts this season.
However, the 25-year-old Russian found himself in the headlines during the week when he was arrested on domestic violence-related charges.
Varlamov turned himself into police on Wednesday evening and is accused of assaulting his girlfriend, kicking her in the chest and dragging her by the hair. He spent Wednesday night in jail before standing before a judge on Thursday morning and was granted permission to travel with the team while also having a restraining order imposed.
Varlamov was scheduled to start tonight's game, but Roy would not commit to that plan on Thursday.
"We're just going to do exactly like we've been doing all along. We're going to take it one day at a time. We're going to focus on Dallas tomorrow," said Roy, whose club is 5-0-0 on the road this season and hosts Montreal on Saturday.
The play of backup netminder Jean-Sebastien Giguere may make Roy's decision a bit easier as he has won all three of his starts this season while posting a 0.67 GAA and two shutouts.
Giguere is 16-20-3 with a tie and 2.72 GAA in his career versus the Stars, while Varlamov is 2-3-2 with a 3.68 GAA in seven meetings.
The fallout from Varlamov's arrest overshadowed a trade made by the Avs on Thursday as they dealt forward Steve Downie to Philadelphia for Max Talbot.
Talbot registered one goal and an assist in 11 games with the Flyers this season and is expected to boost a penalty-kill unit that already ranks first in the NHL at 92.3 percent.
"Talbot has won a Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh. He's a great penalty killer. We feel he's going to bring a lot of depth to our team," said Roy.
The Stars are back in action after having a three-game point streak (2-0-1) snapped with Tuesday's 2-1 setback to the Canadiens. Cody Eakin had the lone goal and Kari Lehtonen gave up a pair of goals on 24 shots.
Dallas was shooting for back-to-back wins after having won in Buffalo the previous night.
"It was a hard-fought game," said Dallas head coach Lindy Ruff. "I thought we did a good job killing off their power plays, we had a couple of late opportunities point blank. They did a great job of being in shot lanes and blocking shots. It's probably a game we could have come out of here with points."
Dallas fell to 3-5-1 in its last nine games.
Lehtonen is 8-3-1 with a 2.50 GAA in his career versus the Avalanche, who have lost three of their last four in Dallas but did notch a 3-2 home win over the club on Oct. 15.
Varlamov made 39 saves and Duchene scored twice for Colorado.
Eakin had a goal for the Stars and backup netminder Dan Ellis made 23 saves as Lehtonen missed the game with a lower-body injury.


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Classic Country On Air Talent
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Country music has always been a part of my life. My dad listened to country music on the car radio and we watched every country music special on TV. I loved watching The Buck Owens Show because they were always wearing flashy duds and singing cool songs. I loved the TV specials and movies including The Johnny Cash specials, Eddy Arnold Specials, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The CMA Award Show, Urban Cowboy and others. The movie that really helped shaped my musical passion was "Hey Good Looking" The story of Hank Williams Senior. Of course from 1967 who could forget "Hillbillies In A Haunted House"? Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion.
Remember 8 Track Stereos in cars? My dad had two 8 Tracks; the Best of Buck Owens and The best of Merle Haggard. As a child I sang along with those 8 Tracks until I knew every word of every song. My parents took me to Nashville when I was 12 to see a show at the Grand Ole Opry where I saw Whispering Bill Anderson and others. What a huge impression that made on me too. The mother church of country music.
I got into country radio in 1977 while still in high school and its the only format I've ever worked. I'm sharing this with you because I want you to know I love this music as much as you do and have a deep appreciation for the history of our country music. I would bet like you, It's part of the fabric of our personalities. As I get older, I seem to relate to the lyrics even more.
It's a happy accident that I'm in radio. In college I was lucky enough to have a scholarship with the music/theater department and was studying to be a recording engineer. My dad worked for NASA making sure the astronauts could talk back to mission control, so I've been around sound equipment all my life.
One day I visited the on campus radio station to drop off some music that I had just recorded. The manager pulled me aside and asked if I had ever considered being on the radio and I said NO! But he offered to PAY me and so....my radio career started! It's still kinda crazy that I get paid to do something I love!
I love all kinds of music, but have a special place in my heart for Classic Country. I think I know the words to every song I play. Probably my personal favorites are the Outlaws! Folks like Willie, Kris, Waylon! I joke often about how Patsy Cline music is the best to sing when you are doing Karaoke. I say that, because I know first hand, it's a crowd pleaser and no matter where you go, folks sing along with you! Dolly and Merle will always be my two favorite writers and Gene Watson, is by far, my favorite honky-tonk singer.
In my free time, I love movies that are worth two hours of my time, play guitar, enjoy 5k runs, coloring outside the lines and hitting things....softballs, tennis balls, etc. Oh, and in the last year, I've enjoyed shooting things! Going to Ladies Night at the gun range is one of my greatest pleasures! I often bring my targets to the studio. Let's just say, no one messes with me.
The first '45 that I ever owned was, "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean and the first song I ever played on the radio was, "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard. I am Classic Country through and through and I love radio. My father told me not to be a DJ because I would starve. (His brother was a DJ and...did starve a few times) At first I listened to him but I had the bug and eventually started my radio career. The first job in radio that I experienced was taking the station out of tape automation and playing the broadcast of network football...you know, playing the local commercials and identifications. Simple enough but believe me I could mess even that up. Eventually I further paid my dues by doing six hour overnight shifts and sometimes doing two six hour weekend shifts back to back...cause I loved it so much. So here I am now on your radio, still playing country music and I still get to play "Big Bad John" and "Mama Tried." I have two boys that live in Nashville so I get to go to Music City USA often and do the tourist thing just like everyone. I love my job. I love playing Classic Country music...most of the songs I grew up in radio, playing as current songs through the years.
Ten-year-old boys dream, and this one wrote a letter to a radio icon at the time, much to the amusement of friends and family. The laughing stopped and the dream began as I stood in my driveway and opened up a return letter from Arthur Godfrey. He told me to stay in school, work hard and pay attention the voice inside me. He had given some good advise to Patsy Cline on his Talent Scouts show, so I took it to heart.
I've always loved music, and my earliest hero was Rick Nelson, who was inspired by Hank Williams, so my country roots were growing. I did form a trio with my brother Rick and a friend, and after some touring and making a demo tape, our manager told us Capitol Records was interested in signing us! Turns out, Uncle Sam was also interested in signing this singing Lieutenant Leary, commissioned out of college, and so I won an all expense paid Southeast Asian vacation to Chu Lai, Viet Nam! How could I refuse?
I have been privileged to share the airwaves across the country with a number of fine stations, and it all comes down to this. If I can bring the music to life for you, introduce you to the thoughts and voices of these great Classic Country artists, and maybe inspire just one more ten-year-old boy, like my heroes did for me, I've had a good day on the radio!
Dee was born a music lover! Her mother was a big country fan and had a beat up old second-hand guitar that Dee loved to strum on whenever she had the chance. She grew up on Loretta Lynn, Bobbie Gentry, Lynn Anderson, Charley Pride and Charlie Rich. As a teen, Dee also spent a lot of time listening to Casey Kasum's Top 40 Countdown every Sunday night. It was clear music and radio were her "things" as she learned to play the guitar for real, as well as the piano, and worked as a DJ and news reporter on her college campus radio station, KAIR, at the University of Colorado. After graduation, she made a detour into the legal field. She spent several years as a paralegal, but kept one foot in music as lead singer for a local country cover band, Sagewind. She got back to her first loves of music and radio shortly after and she's been happily playing the tunes since 2002. When she's not playing country classics, Dee spends time with her other love, her 11-year-old cocker spaniel, Larry. The two of them make a great pack!


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Johnny Depp laid down guitar lines for Aerosmith's new album, Music From Another Dimension, earlier this year, and he also jammed with the bad boys during a gig at the Hollywood Bowl in August. Now, it seems Depp is becoming a regular part of Aerosmith's arsenal, as the famed actor took the stage with Steven Tyler and company during their Los Angeles show earlier this week, according to E!
Depp joined Aerosmith for "Stop Messin' Around" and a cover of The Beatle's "Come Together."
Aerosmith aren't Depp's only musical comrades. He has also jammed on stage with Alice Cooper and Tom Petty.
What do you think of Johnny Depp's guitar skills? Let us know in the comments section below!


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I am trying to install xandros (the free edition) onto a Pc that I have previously installed Suse 9.3 (and 9.2) sucessfully.
The CD boots fine, and gets to the point where it is "reading CD-ROM data", and it hangs.
I ran it under "custom" and the error message clearly fingers the CD-ROM reading (CMD timeout, etc), however as previous installations have worked fine, I can't see why this one should fail.
I have also tried burning another CD, and it still fails.
I have disabled ACPI in the bios, but it still didn't work.
The CD is on the slave port of the primary IDE bus, and is seen properly by the bios.
Any ideas?


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Just wild guessing into the blue (and not daring to try myself ) - perhaps that svg bug...? 'Finance' sounds like there could be used svg graphics. And my knowledge of such stuff is so tiny that this is all that comes to mind
I tried all links and work fine to me, not system freeze or crash, with K-Meleon 1.5.4.
PIV 1.7 GHz, XP SP3, 512 MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Are you tried with other browsers; Firefox,
Thanks for all your answers: It's the same problem experienced by w98 users described in the the "Crash report Thread".
In this thread it was found that it happened under certain screen definition setups. I could verify that by changing my screen definition and the problem disapeared. Unfortunately I can't keep this screen definition for obvious reason.
Flash has never given me any trouble and was disabled anyway. On other browsers everything is fine including FF and IE.
The only thing that I see other than that is svg.
How do I disable that?
OK I saved a local copy of the page on my HD and the local copy crashed too.
Then I tested by removing some pictures from the local folder and tested again:
GIF pictures are freezing KM.
JPG and PNG don't.
I don't know what's so special with these gif's. They open normaly in a picture viewer or in IE.
I don't know if it's all the gif's or only certain gif's or only gif's while on this page. But I hope this helps.


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We were invited to two parties on the snowy Saturday after this white Christmas.
We were invited to two parties on the snowy Saturday after this white Christmas.
Because so many people had called up and said they did not want to take the risk of driving in the storm, one host postponed the gathering for a day. The other posted a message on Facebook saying that the party was still on but they would understand if people stayed home.
We decided to be brave. Even if we got stranded somewhere on our 5.4-mile trip, despite all-wheel drive and more cumulative years of winter driving experience than anybody should calculate, the wine and appetizers would make a fine and festive survival kit.
I was prepared for an adventure, not a dull drive in a modest storm. I've had to handle much worse conditions with much less formidable equipment — like that VW bug with no defroster or snow tires during a winter in Vermont — over many more miles with many more hills many more times than I can remember.
So how come everybody panicked? Blame it on the Weather Channel and its local TV clones.
Northeast Braces for Storm! Orange County Buried Under 5 Inches!
Five inches? Not that long ago, nobody would have noticed. Now, that's enough for Channel 2 to send the mobile van up to Central Valley for a live report from the scene of the disaster.
I understand why they do this. Nobody wants a headline saying "Storm is no big deal." Instead, those weather people build up our expectations and then if we happen to wake up to a dusting instead of an avalanche, they say we dodged a bullet but then warn that we might not be so lucky the next time.
Sit through enough of these and you might start to question the judgment of people whose first priority is finding enough interesting weather to fill 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Once those doubts set in, Chicken Little turns into the Boy Who Cried Wolf. An honest if mistaken tendency to see a disaster where there is none leads people to believe that they can't believe what they are hearing.
What makes this so odd is the genuine and believable opportunity that these zealots are missing. We really do have some 24-hour-a-day environmental disasters confronting us, courtesy of global warming. We have 100- or 500-year storms in back-to-back years, providing an even bigger story that comes in two very reportable parts: What to do to prevent these environmental changes and what to do to minimize damage while we wait for those preventive measures to take effect.
A steady diet of real and scary weather facts — charting the rise of carbon dioxide levels, counting the record number of days between snowfall in Chicago and rainfall in San Antonio — might satisfy these meteorological urges while whipping up enthusiasm to do something more worthwhile than going out to top off the tank and pick up an extra quart of milk.


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Please join KLRU's Overheard with Evan Smith for an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Date: Tuesday, December 17
Time: 5:30pm (Doors open at 5:00pm)
Location: KLRU's Studio 6A (map).
RSVP: The event is free but an RSVP is required. Sorry this event is now at capacity.
Neil deGrasse Tyson holds the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium. He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University and his PhD from Columbia University in Astrophysics. He hosted NOVA ScienceNow on PBS for 5 seasons. In 2001, Tyson was appointed to serve on a commission to study the US Aerospace Industry by President George W. Bush and again in 2004 on a commission referred to as the "Moon, Mars, and Beyond" commission. He has been awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and received eighteen honorary doctorates. Currently Tyson is working to reboot Carl Sagan's series COSMOS to air in spring of 2014. He is in town for an event at the Paramount Theatre.
We hope you'll be there as Overheard with Evan Smith begins a fourth season of great conversation with fascinating people, always on the news and always with a sense of humor. The show features in-depth interviews with a mix of guests from politics, the arts, literature, journalism, business, sports and more, and reaches PBS viewers from California to Florida. We'd love to see you in the studio for the interview, and for a chance to join the audience Q&A after the interview. Watch interviews and Q&A segments at klru.org/overheard


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I'm going to guess people are a lot more familiar with Catholicism than Heathenry, so why not educate about every religion and not just one?
Today's word: oathbreaker
An oathbreaker is someone who swears allegiance to a family, deity, or other symbolic entity, and then violates the terms of that allegiance. Or, it's someone who pledges to do something, and then knowingly fails to do so.
Examples would be saying prayers or going through ceremonies to declare oneself a devotee of a religion, then repeatedly breaking the tenets of that religion, such as being hateful, spiteful, or catty after joining a faith which puts stress on loving one's fellow man. Or, pledging to make some sort of personal sacrifice or habit change, giving something up for a month, or ignoring something that bothers you, then turning around and continuing the habit in secret, or continuing to interact with whatever was supposed to be ignored.
In Heathenry, being an oathbreaker is the foulest thing a person can be. It surpasses murder and stealing. An oathbreaker is someone completely undeserving of respect or even common courtesy, and they, along with liars, are considered the only people who will not find peace in the afterlife. A murder or theft can be justified, while oathbreaking is a sign of a much deeper flaw within a person's very nature.
Breaking an oath is one of the most difficult crimes to recompense. There is no simple monetary value or act of kindness that will alleviate the chasm of mistrust it creates, not just with the people or thing to whom the oath was made, but to all the other people who witness the act.
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ST. MARY'S CITY, MD – The York College women's swimming team, officially began the 2010 Capital Athletic Conference swimming championships Friday evening at St. Mary's College of Maryland. The Spartans smashed three school records in just the first day of competition including a pair of relay events.
York's best finish, one of their two record-breaking relays, came in the 400 intermediate medley – where an individual best was also established. The relay saw the Spartans shatter the previous 400 IM relay time with a 4:13.64 – crushing the previous time by over three full seconds – while finishing fourth overall. Heather MacLennan (Galena, Md./St. Mark's) led off the event with a great backstroke leg, as her split time broke York's previous best in the 100 backstroke. Freshman Alex Minsky (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) swam a quality breaststroke before Liz Grey (Bensalem, Pa./Nazareth Academy) put on a strong performance in the butterfly. Chelsea Ross (Paoli, Pa./PA Cyber) anchored the relay with a quick 100 freestyle.
The Green and White began the Championships in fine fashion as the Spartans broke the school's 200 freestyle relay record. Ashley Stanton (Columbia, Md./Hammond), Grey, Ross, and MacLennan swam through each 50-yard leg to record a time of 1:42.75, breaking the previous best by 1.07 seconds.
Molly Wasik (York, Pa./Spring Grove) turned in York's best individual finish as she secured eighth in the 200 IM. The senior posted a 2:19.68 to nab the top-ten time.
Stanton and Grey registered two more top tens, both coming in the 50 freestyle. Stanton, a Spartan senior this year, notched a 25.81 in the sprint event as Grey finished just behind her teammate with a 26.09.
Michaela Guild (Laurel, Md./St. Vincent Pallotti) recorded a 5:35.10 in the 500 freestyle to take 11th for the Green and White.
After five women's events, the Spartans currently sit in fourth-place overall with 98 points to their credit.
The CAC Championships resume Saturday morning with the preliminaries of the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, and 100 backstroke.
CAC Championships - Day 1 Results
Official CAC Championships Site
Photo: Chelsea Ross, Heather MacLennan, Liz Grey, and Ashley Stanton after their record-setting swim in the 200 freestyle relay


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Jesus, what a circus over there...
If you choose to delve further, you're going to have to suggest improper relationships between Kraft and Goodell, and a whole lot of other improprieties otherwise non-investigated by a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
It's cool, 9-11 "truthers" find lots of inconsistencies and improprieties by the federal government too. The stakes are extremely high, best to throw everything under the bridge before the government gets exposed. Amirite?
Jesus, what a circus over there...
Regardless of Specter's preceived motives from you Pats homers, one simple question that remains unanswered today, why did the commissioner feel it necessary to destroy the evidence before any objective third party could review it? Imagine if that was the case during the current inquiries into the IRS or NSA? Destruction of evidence is aka "obstruction of justice."
What we all know, outiside of NE region, the destruction of the tapes was to protect the NFL from admitting that Spygate gave NE an unfair advantage in its championships runs under Belicheat. Spin it however you wish. It makes absolutely no sense why the commissioner's quick decision to destroy the tapes does not warrant a comprehensive review from a 3rd party. Of course, the investigation can only go so far when the evidence was destroyed.
In addition, the NFL had every motive to put this cheating scandal behind them given the numerous cheating scandals at the time that were receiving tremendous media coverage -- MLB, NBA, Olympics, etc., just to name a few. The last thing the NFL wanted to do was get drawn into the mix given the sport's popularity and exposure.
Lol that cockky bstard prob thought back in 05 he would easily be winning more in coming years..so " here take it" Now he realizes Brady on decline, welker out continuous chokes in playoffs, he wants last ring he will ever win back
I just want one single SpyGater to tell us all what he believes were on the tapes that were destroyed. Go ahead. The podium is yours.
Glaser still has his copies of the tapes. This has been discussed ad infinitum, but here goes. Goodell, as new commissioners, was embarrassed by the leak of the tape, so he knee jerked and destroyed them. Small minded haters point to that as a cover up and favor to the Pats, when in fact, it was possibly the worst thing he could have done as doubts will always exist. Until, at least, Jay Glaser releases HIS copies of those same tapes.
The Walsh tapes were shown to anyone who wanted to watch. The press got bored with what they were watching, which was exactly like the leaked original footage; time, down, distance, two or three coaches giving signals, and the play, with an occasional zoom into a cheerleader's ass.
But don't let THOSE facts get in the way of your tired, simple, yet extremely hopeful, argument.
And I could not care less weather Specter was a Steelers fan or Eagles fan. Maybe he was both. He's certainly had it out for the NFL for decades. He once threatened to try to pull the NFL antitrust exemption when the Eagles dumped Terrel Owens. During Spygate, his beef was that the NFL wanted to charge his #1 contributor, Comcast, too much money for it's new NFL Network. His second largest contributor? Comcast's Legal Firm.
Gimme a break.
Again, thanks for reminding me how stupid/ignorant you NE trolls/homers really are. I have better things to do with my remaining time for the weekend than talking to an idiot.
LMFAO, my answers are repetitive and tired, whereas your lame old accusations are unique and fresh. I forgot how much hard work it is pretending to be a lawyer.
This is about as timely as Rex's foot video and swingers ad.
See, I can claim grandiose conspiracies on a large national scale, too!
Seriously, you are beyond an idiot. I can't believe society gives you an opportunity to practice law (so you say) while you come here and spew this bile in your spare time.


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A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives yesterday voted 416-6 in favor of passing a bill proposed by Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC-10) to enforce a deadline on JOBS Act legislation signed into law last year.
"To cultivate a stronger economy, we have to build a more vibrant marketplace for our startups and entrepreneurs, which is what this legislation is all about," said Congressman McHenry. "It's critical that the SEC finally start to implement the JOBS Act -- a bipartisan bill that was signed into law more than a year ago. Small businesses and entrepreneurs are starving for capital, and this legislation simply sets a firm deadline for the SEC to get its job done."
Specifically, H.R. 701 requires the SEC to implement Title IV of the JOBS Act by October 31. Title IV requires the SEC to adopt or amend regulations that encourage capital formation for small businesses through a currently under-used provision of securities law known as Regulation A.
The House originally passed Title IV of the JOBS Act to help small businesses with wide bipartisan support, 421-1.
Source: http://mchenry.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=334578


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- A three-minute flurry early in the
second half proved to be the difference as Tennessee Tech shook off
a sluggish first half and a scrappy Tennessee Wesleyan squad to
capture a 75-42 non-conference women's basketball victory Saturday
evening in Eblen Center.
After wedging open the contest with a 13-2 run to begin the second period, the Golden Eagles settled down and pulled away for the 33-point win.
Tech improved to 4-0, the team's best start since 1992, and remained the only unbeaten team in the Ohio Valley Conference. Tennessee Wesleyan, an NAIA opponent from Chattanooga, stayed above .500 with a 4-3 overall record following the loss.
Up just five points at the intermission, Tech opened the second half with a 13-2 run to pry open a tight contest and build a double-digit lead. Tech got a couple of baskets in the run by junior post Brittany Darling (shown in photo), a 3-pointer from sophomore Kellie Cook, and layups by junior Tacarra Hayes and freshmen Candace Parson and Molly Heady.
From there, Tech slowly added to its advantage and held the visiting Lady Bulldogs to just 16 second half points. Tennessee Wesleyan was held to 22.7 percent shooting (5-for-22) in the second half.
"The post players needed to show up in the second half," Darling
said. "We didn't get many rebounds in the first half, and we knew
we had to come out strong and pick it up."
Four Golden Eagles reached double figures in the scoring column, topped by Darling with 12 points and eight rebounds in just 11 minutes of action. Glidden and Jordan added 11 points each and Heady finished with 10.
Amy Jo Castor was the leader for Tennessee Wesleyan with eight points and four rebounds, while Heather Gibson added seven points and four rebounds. Rochelle Davidson, playing in her hometown after prepping at Cookeville High School, added five points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots
After beginning the game by nailing six of their first eight
shots during the opening six minutes to build a 16-9 lead, the
Golden Eagles hit a cold spell midway in the first half. Tech was
just 2-for-19 from the field during the next nine minutes, and
Tennessee Wesleyan hung close. Tech's lead was trimmed to four
points with 5:38 remaining, 21-17, on a layup by Davidson.
Freshman Candace Parson hit a jumper in the lane and sophomore Katherine Barker entered the game and quickly hit a driving layup, and suddenly the Golden Eagles had regained control with an eight-point advantage. The lead grew to nine points, 28-19, after Jordan poured through a 3-pointer with three minutes left in the half.
Tech's largest lead of the first half was an 11-point edge, 30-19, on two free throws by Rachel Glidden, but Gibson knocked down a 3-pointer with two minutes left to cut it back to single digits. Tech was on top by five, 31-26, at halftime.
Tech improved from 31.4 percent first half shooting to connect on 45.9 percent (17-for-37) in the second half, finishing the game with a 38.9 mark from the field. Tech had a 48-36 edge in rebounds and forced 27 Bulldog turnovers
On Monday night, the Golden Eagles will participate in the
Cookeville Christmas Parade, then return to action on Wednesday
when they play the second game of a doubleheader in Eblen Center.
Following the men's encounter with SIU-Edwardsville at 6 p.m., the
Golden Eagle women will host arch-rival Middle Tennessee at 8
Tickets for the game, as well as 2010-11 season tickets, are on sale at the Athletic Ticket Office in Eblen Center or by calling (931) 372-3940.


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Looking not unlike a polar bear cub, this slumbering pup is caught on camera having a blast of the night terrors.
Wriggling on his owner's lap, he whimpers, whines, yowls and snuggles even closer to his toy.
There's not much else to be said about this, but it does raise the point, is it actually illegal to be this cute?
If you haven't already exploded with the sheer adorableness of it all, check out our video slideshow below of puppy stampedes.


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A Midsummer Night's Dream : Work information
- Composers
- (Jacob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jane Glover (Conductor)
This work
- Work name
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Work number
- Op. 61
- Key
- n/a
- Genre
- Composed
- 1842-00-00 02:00:00
This recording
- Label
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Producer
- Alan Peters
- Engineer
- Dick Lewzey
- Recording date
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The overture and incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream has deservedly become Mendelssohn's most popular work. The overture, written in 1826 when the composer was just seventeen, provided the musical source and inspiration for the later incidental music, commissioned by the King of Prussia in 1843.
There are many delightful moments in this work: the brilliance of the overture is easily seen and, in supplying many of the themes used in the rest of the music, firmly anchors the work; the beautiful Nocturne, the rumbustous Dance of the Clowns and the shimmering Scherzo are also delightful individual miniatures. The most famous movement is, of course, the Wedding March.
Mendelssohn managed to unify music written seventeen years apart in a remarkably beautiful and simple way. That he also demonstrated his gift for the dramatic in this work places A Midsummer Night's Dream at the very pinnacle of Mendelssohn's achievements.
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(Jacob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn
One of the leading German composers of the 1830s and 40s, Felix Mendelssohn's music is often cited as evidence of the growing tension between musical Classicism and Romanticism in the post-Beethoven generation.
Described by Schumann as the 'Mozart of the 19th century', his style, fully formed by the age of 20, combines Mozartean grace with the drama of Beethoven and the complexity of J S Bach. Many of his orchestral, choral and chamber works are firmly established in the repertoire, and he remains a popular figure with concert-goers.
Born the son of a Jewish banker in Hamburg on 3 February 1809 and secretly baptized into the Protestant faith, Mendelssohn's early musical education was supervised by his mother. Along with his talented sister Fanny, he displayed remarkable ability on a number of instruments and as a composer.
At the age of 12 he had already written, and seen performed, a fully produced Singspiel and had composed numerous works in other genres. A solid general education and trips around Europe exposed him to new literary and musical influences to build on his knowledge of Bach, Mozart and Haydn, and by 1825 he had written his first masterpiece, the String Octet. This was followed in 1826 by another remarkable work, the Midsummer Night's Dream overture, pointing to his love for Shakespeare.
Following the study of legal history, geography and aesthetics at the University of Berlin, Mendelssohn embarked in 1829 on a musical tour of Italy, France and England, meeting Goethe along the way. While in Britain he undertook a walking tour of Scotland where the Symphony No. 3 and Hebrides overture were conceived. Indeed, Mendelssohn was a frequent visitor to England throughout the rest of his career.
In 1833, Mendelssohn was offered a position as Düsselfdorf music director. His energies were devoted to reviving the oratorios of Haydn and Handel, having already presented a revival performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1829. This no doubt prompted him to begin his own oratorio, St Paul in 1834.
A move to Leipzig occurred in 1835, where Mendelssohn served as municipal music director and conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Over the next 12 years, he turned this orchestra into one of Europe's most prestigious ensembles.
International fame was secured in 1836 by his decision to direct the 18th Niederrheinisches Musikfest in Dusseldorf; shortly after he married Cécile Jeanrenaud, daughter of a Huguenot minister. A time of personal and professional happiness, Mendelssohn was constantly in demand to conduct the major music festivals of Europe.
In September 1841 he was appointed Kapellmeister to Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, and charged with the task of trying to revive Berlin's musical life. Mendelssohn's duties were never clear and he continued to return to Leipzig to conduct, eventually resigning the Berlin position in September 1844. Meanwhile his Leipzig efforts had helped found a new Conservatory and won him an honorary citizenship of the city.
The last years were dominated by the composition and performance of his great oratorio, Elijah . However in 1847, returning to Frankfurt from England, Mendelssohn was shattered to hear of Fanny's death. Mendlessohn's own demise was not far off either and, after suffering a number of strokes, he died on 4 November 1847 and was buried next to his beloved sister.
Mourned internationally, his reputation suffered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries due to the anti-Semitic views of Wagner and, later, the Nazis who banned his music. However, in recent years, the quality and attractiveness of his music has won him a loyal following among concert-goers.
Related Composers: Schubert, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Weber, J S Bach, Handel


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The Estherville Lincoln Central High School Music Department under the direction of Mrs. Laura Giebler and Mr. Steve Bradburn will host its annual Spring Concert on Sunday, April 28 at 2 p.m. in the Roosevelt Auditorium. There will be performances by vocal ensembles, treble choir, varsity choir, concert band and instrumental soloists.
Admission is $5 for adults and $4 for students (K-12). Patrons of the Fine Arts, workers and senior citizen passes and student activity tickets will be accepted.


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Dynamic Healthcare names Michael Grabko CEO
A growing home medical equipment business based in West Hanover Township has named Michael Grabko its new CEO.
Grabko assumed the role at Dynamic Healthcare Services Inc. on March 24; previously, he was senior vice president at Univita Health Inc., the largest administrator of long-term-care insurance in the United States.
DHS is a portfolio company of GMH Ventures LLC, a private equity group headquartered in Newtown Square. Formed in 2000 as the parent company to Central Medical Equipment of Harrisburg and East Suburban Medical Supply of Pittsburgh, DMH provides home medical equipment, respiratory therapy products and services, and complex rehabilitation products and services.
DHS has increased its staff to more than 120 employees with facilities throughout Pennsylvania and North Jersey with acquisitions in the past few years. GMH Ventures said in a news release that it is actively seeking to acquire other companies in the home and durable medical equipment marketplace within the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast region.
"During this unique and transformative period in health care, there is no better person to lead DHS than Mike Grabko," Michael Holloway, president of GMH Ventures and board member of DHS, said in a news release. "Mike's 30 plus years of experience in health care comprises a unique blend of traditional home health services, including DME, with cutting edge strategies on how to deliver such services in the new health care environment."
Terry Luft, who was previously CEO of DHS and now serves as its vice chairman, said he couldn't be happier to have Grabko join the growing DHS family of companies "at this critical stage of our growth."
"He brings a keen understanding of the industry and how we got to where we are today," Grabko said. "More importantly, he has been instrumental in developing novel relationships with providers and payors, designed to succeed in the future framework of health care in the United States. The board and I are excited to work with Mike in driving DHS to a leadership position in the industry."
Grabko began his career in a variety of operational and financial positions in the health care industry and led to his co-founding of a rehabilitation company in 1995. He later served as vice president of operations at Apria Healthcare and later as an area vice president and corporate vice president at Air Products Healthcare.
Most recently, according to DHS, Grabko led the expansion of Univita Health into nine states and served as a key member of the management team that doubled revenue to more than $200 million. He also was instrumental in developing networks with more than 2,000 providers and utilizing multiple operating model structures to serve multiple constituencies, including insurance companies, referral sources and patients.
"I am extremely excited to be a part of the DHS management team that recognizes the growth potential opportunities in this ever changing Home healthcare environment," Grabko said. "We at DHS will look to position the company as a leader in the current geography we occupy, but with a vision for the expansion into new and profitable markets, products, acquisitions, and contracts."


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From family members to close friends, everyone knows someone whose life has been touched by cancer. On Sunday, June 2, 2013, thousands of people around the world will gather to observe the 26th annual National Cancer Survivors Day. Hundreds of communities across the U.S. and abroad will hold celebrations on this day to honor cancer survivors and show that there is life after a cancer diagnosis – and it's worth celebrating.
National Cancer Survivors Day is a cherished annual worldwide celebration of life. It is the one day each year that we pause to honor everyone who is living with a history of cancer – including America's nearly 14 million cancer survivors. "A 'survivor' is anyone living with a history of cancer – from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of life," according to the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation.
NCSD provides an opportunity for cancer survivors to connect with other survivors, celebrate milestones, and recognize the healthcare providers, family, and friends who have supported them along the way. It is a day for cancer survivors to stand together and show the world that life after a cancer diagnosis can be meaningful, productive, and even inspiring.
NCSD activities will be as diverse as the communities where the events are being held and will include parades, carnivals, walks, races, art exhibits, health fairs, inspirational programs, and more. There will be laughter and tears, shouts of joy and moments of quiet reflection, hope for the future and strength to endure today, and maybe even a little music and dancing.
The National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation, administrator for the celebration, is encouraging everyone to participate in their community's event. To locate the one nearest you, check with your local cancer treatment center, hospital, or American Cancer Society office. Or you can host an event of your own. The NCSD website, ncsd.org, has everything you need to plan a successful NCSD celebration.
"When most people hear the word 'cancer,' they automatically think the worst," says Foundation spokesperson, Laura Shipp. "But the truth is that more people are living longer and better quality lives after cancer than ever before. National Cancer Survivors Day is an opportunity for these cancer survivors to come together and celebrate this new reality in cancer survivorship. There is life after cancer. And that's something to celebrate."
NCSD started in the United States in 1987 and is now celebrated worldwide in countries including Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Malaysia, according to Shipp.
The nonprofit National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation provides free guidance, education, and networking support to hundreds of hospitals, support groups, and other cancer-related organizations that host National Cancer Survivors Day events in their communities. The Foundation's primary mission is to bring awareness to the issues of cancer survivorship in order to better the quality of life for cancer survivors.
Cancer survivors may face physical, emotional, social, and financial challenges as a result of their cancer diagnosis and treatment. Many are confronted with limited access to specialists, a lack of information about promising new treatments, inadequate or no insurance, difficulty finding employment, and psychosocial struggles.
"To say that cancer is challenging is an understatement," says Shipp. "But it is a challenge that millions of people – 14 million in the U.S. alone – are overcoming. Though life may not look the same after a cancer diagnosis, these survivors are showing us that life after cancer can be rewarding, exciting, and filled with joy."
The National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation, along with the NCSD 2013 national sponsors Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coping with Cancer magazine, and Lilly USA, LLC, is encouraging a greater commitment to resolving quality of life issues for cancer survivors. "More resources, research, and increased public awareness are needed to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors," says Shipp. "Because of advances in modern medicine, cancer survivors are now living much longer after diagnosis. However, long-term survivorship poses its own unique challenges. We need to do a better job of addressing the hardships survivors face beyond treatment."
Leading up to the event, the Foundation urges everyone – cancer survivors and supporters alike – to spread the message that there is life after cancer, and it's something to celebrate. The following are suggested posts for your social media sites.
On Facebook: You can live a fulfilling life after a cancer diagnosis. Just ask the millions of people who have survived it. Celebrate life on National Cancer Survivors Day - Sunday, June 2. facebook.com/CancerSurvivorsDay
On Twitter: You can live a fulfilling life after cancer. Just ask the millions of people who've survived it. Celebrate life! #NCSD2013 @SurvivorsDay
About the National Sponsors:
The National Sponsors for National Cancer Survivors Day 2013 are:
Bristol-Myers Squibb, bms.com; Coping with Cancer, copingmag.com; and Lilly USA, LLC, lillygrantoffice.com.


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For Brig. Gen. George F. Shepley, serving as military governor of Louisiana meant dealing with military as well as social and political issues.
A number of types of requests and reports crossed his desk -- health needs of soldiers, reports on captured property, troop strength for the occupied territory, soldier behavior, and soldier requests for promotions or endorsement of promotion, among many others.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even a 12-point head start against the Milwaukee Bucks was not nearly enough for the winless Washington Wizards.
Monta Ellis scored 22 points, and the Bucks quickly erased an early deficit before pulling away with a 13-0 run bridging the third and fourth quarters to beat the Wizards 101-91 Friday night, when Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings and Washington's Bradley Beal were ejected in the final minute.
Washington fell to 0-4 despite 22 points from Beal, the No. 3 overall pick in June's NBA draft, and a combined 26 from veterans Trevor Ariza (15) and Emeka Okafor (11), matching their output from the team's first three games.


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Find hotels in Duck Key using the list and search tools below. Search for cheap and discounted hotel and motel rates in or near Duck Key, FL for your upcoming individual or group travel. Discover the most popular Duck Key Florida hotel rooms. Review the Duck Key hotel list below to find the perfect lodging. We also have a map of the Duck Key hotels. Booking 5+ Rooms? Find Duck Key Group Hotel Rates
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This isn't breaking news, but it's worth noting as proof that life is sometimes perfect and always funny: U.S. Olympic hockey teammates Amanda Kessel and Megan Bozek are close friends, roommates and played together at the University of Minnesota.
One goal for tomorrow morning @AmandaKessel8 ... get to the dining hall before 10:05am. #priorities #longline #gamedayfuel #perfectmeal
— Megan Bozek (@meganebozek) February 11, 2014
1 bed or 2 beds in Munich? @AmandaKessel8 pic.twitter.com/fWMW2w0PHv
— Megan Bozek (@meganebozek) February 2, 2014
It's relevant because the friendship between Kessel's brother, Phil, and Tyler Bozak (note the close-but-not-quite spelling) is one of the most weirdly endearing, random plot strands in hockey. They live together, and they're linemates — both, at least potentially, forever. "Bromance" is a terrible word, but …
To call it a running joke would be unkind, but it's at least something their teammates rib them about.
James van Riemsdyk is rooming with Phil Kessel in Sochi. He says he'll send Tyler Bozak videos so that he doesn't miss Phil too much.
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) February 10, 2014
And no, Bozek isn't Kessel's linemate. She's a defenseman.
Good luck to @Bozie42 in the Winter Classic today! #familylove #justkidding
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MAINGEAR is a well known manufacturer of premium gaming machines with innovative cooling and audio/video solutions built inside their in-house developed custom chassis. Not to be outdone, the company is now spreading from the gaming and governmental world into – 4K video production.
MAINGEAR's Quantum SHIFT 4K is a new workstation dedicated to the demands of professionals who live and breathe 4K video (also known as 2160p, Quad HD, 4096×2160 and 3840×2160 resolutions). This system is a result of MAINGEAR expertise combined with the four years of experience of living and breathing the 4K video production here at the BSN Video Production business unit.
The Quantum SHIFT 4K combines the engineering brilliance of SHIFT case and tweaked hardware and software procedures by the MAINGEAR crew, and the real world demands of seasoned video professionals who demand that hardware that "delivers the goods" instead of pointlessly overspeccing the parts which in the end, do not help to increase the productivity.
The system is based on dual liquid-cooled Intel Xeon E5-2600 (or better) processor with up to 16 cores and 32 threads, up to 128GB of DDR3 memory and dedicated hardware for Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve which is becoming a defacto standard in color grading.
The system configuration is quite flexible and targets the workflow demands of professionals. You can install up to two Quadro 4000, 5000 or 6000 boards equipped with 4K panel connectors (DisplayPort), RED Rocket card (one in preliminary configuration) and a Blackmagic DeckLink 4K card. Do note that MAINGEAR does not charge a premium for offering the board – prices for Rocket or DeckLink 4K cards are identical to the ones on the manufacturer websites. In our discussions with Wallace Santos, CEO and Chris Morley, CTO, we were assured that MAINGEAR wants to do their very best in satisfying the demanding customer rather than nicking and diming on each step of the way.
For example, for a coloring system, you can combine two Quadro 4000 boards with a RED Rocket and DeckLink board or combine two Quadro 4000 boards with two RED Rocket boards. In any case, your requirements will be catered to, regardless of your duties being VFX, Color, post etc.
Furthermore, MAINGEAR decided to go for Apple's jugular and offer a 10% discount for Apple Mac users switching to MAINGEAR. Thus, if you are sick and tired of outdated hardware without any Blu-ray support (choose between Reader or Burner), if your heavily paid Final Cut Pro is being upgraded to iMovie Pro, pardon, Final Cut X and if you are really agitated by the last update for Color causing complete system freezes on a $10,000+ Mac Pro, MAINGEAR wants you to give them a chance.
The choice is up to you, but unlike other systems, in creation of this system – real video professionals were involved. Stability and configurability are the paramount of Quantum SHIFT 4K.


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This year TheaterJones is attempting to review more local productions of The Nutcracker than ever before, from the smaller ballet schools to the big guns in town, Texas Ballet Theater, and with a few related shows thrown in.
You can start by reading dance critic Cheryl Callon's essay about her history with the ballet as a dancer, here.
Here's a list of the Nutcrackers we've reviewed so far, with the date it was seen for review and reviewer's name. Click on the company name to go to each review:
- Ballet Frontier of Texas at Will Rogers Auditorium, Fort Worth | Nov. 17 | By Cheryl Callon
- Texas Ballet Theater at Winspear Opera House, Dallas | Nov. 23 | By Cheryl Callon
- Kathy Burks Theatre of Puppetry Arts' version of The Nutcracker at Dallas Children's Theater | Nov. 25 | By Mark Lowry
- LakeCities Ballet at Marcus High School, Flower Mound | Nov. 24 | By Cheryl Callon
- Chamberlain Ballet at Eisemann Center for the Performing Arts, Richardson | Nov. 25 | By Cheryl Callon
- Ballet Ensemble of Texas at Irving Arts Center | Nov. 30 | By Cheryl Callon
- Collin County Ballet Theatre at Eisemann Center for the Performing Arts | Nov. 30 | By Katie Dravenstott
- Dallas Ballet Company at Granville Arts Center, Garland | Dec. 1 | By Katie Dravenstott
- Russia's Mariinsky Ballet, shown at movie theaters in 3-D on Dec. 3 | (Viewed on DVD) | By Cheryl Callon
- Dallas Repertoire Ballet at Eisemann Center, Richardson | Dec. 7 | By Katie Dravenstott
- Texas Ballet Theater at Bass Hall, Fort Worth | Dec. 8 | By Margaret Putnam
And here are the productions we still have left to review:
- The Texas Ballet Theater's The Nutty Nutcracker at Bass Hall (Dec. 21)
- Tuzer Ballet at Eisemann Center for the Performing Arts (Dec. 22)
- The Royal Ballet, shown in movie theaters through the Ballet in Cinema series (Dec. 23)
◊ To see listings for more Nutcrackers, type "Nutcracker" into the Find a Performance search bar at the top of this page, and then click the Search button to the right of that gold strip.


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Submission + - First 20-ton mega-mirror finished-off for massive Magellan telescope (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "One of the six giant — 27 feet across, 20 ton — circular mirrors that will be part of the 4,000 sq. ft., Giant Magellan Telescope that ultimately look for stars, galaxies and black holes has been polished and completed — now for the other five. The mirrors will form the heart of the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope, and when complete will provide more than 380 square meters, or 4,000 square feet, of light-collecting area."


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Project Summary
This interchange project will connect Route 101 to the Union Valley Parkway, an east-west arterial street leading from Blosser Road to Highway 101, near the communities of Santa Maria and Orcutt in Santa Barbara County. The purpose of the project is to improve traffic circulation to\from Highway 101, Orcutt, and Santa Maria Airport, and provide congestion relief on the existing regional transportation system.
Project features will include an overcrossing and access ramps at Highway 101, and landscaping.
Project Schedule
- Open House Public Hearing (August 12, 2008)
- Approve Final EIR (May 19, 2009)
- Detailed Design and Right of Way Acquisition (2009-2012)
- Construction: October 2012-2013
- Follow-up Planting at UVP Interchange (2014)
Project Cost
$10.3 million, funded by State and Federal gas taxes, Prop 1B Bond revenues, and Santa Barbara County Measure A
Project Partners
This is a joint project of the City of Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, and Caltrans.


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To those walking into Hamilton County Criminal Court for the first time, Bob Ball's lumbering frame and gruff voice could intimidate.
Each day, as Judge Don Poole worked through the day's docket, talking with lawyers and defendants, Ball kept notes on cases while simultaneously hushing the crowd and looking for those who broke the rules and tried to sneak a peek at their cellphones during court proceedings.
Defendants or family members who showed up late to court and crept meekly to ask Ball about their case got a quick response. "Go out to the hallway," he'd grumble.
But as soon as the judge took a break and left the bench, Ball was quick to tell the crowd, "Now you can talk all you want to."
Over his 32-year career as bailiff, his stern bearing served to keep order in the court and help the confused while his jokes brought laughter to lawyers and court staff.
Ball, 85, retired last week and, his career trajectory, which began in the military in the late 1940s, marks the journey of the archetypal 20th Century American male, a path unlikely for many of those now working.
He grew up the youngest of five children in Tucumcari, N.M., a small town near the stateline with Texas. ter graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Air Force in 1946. Before retiring after 20 years, he rose to the rank of senior master sergeant.
While stationed in Mobile, Ala., he made friends with Master Sgt. Wally West, a Chattanooga native. He came to Chattanooga to visit West and found a lifetime connection.
"Well, I met his sister and I haven't forgave him for that yet," Ball laughs.
This year, he and Liz Ball will celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary.
Along the his trip through life, he had his brush with history. He served 18 months in southern Turkey in the CIA detachment that also included famed U2 spyplane pilot Francis Gary Powers, who made international news when was shot down over the USSR in 1960 before returning to the United States in 1962. During his time serving in Turkey, Ball played poker with the Powers and other airmen during down time and he's quick to note that, while they served together, they were hardly close friends.
After his military stint, Ball and his wife settled in Chattanooga. He started real estate work in 1966 and joined the Masons in 1968. Joining the civic group and later being saved in the church turned his life around, Ball said.
"My wife didn't know I drank until I came home sober one night," he says.
By 1978, Ball had been self-employed in real estate for more than a decade when a fellow Mason called him. Judge Don Moore had served as Hamilton County's last county judge, the head of the county in the old form of government, but that year the government changed from a judge to a county executive.
But Moore had four years left on his term and needed a bailiff. The job didn't have great pay but Ball liked the steady schedule and the people. Coupled with his military retirement check, the bailiff's pay made it work.
When Moore's term ended, Ball received a call from Criminal Court Judge Russell Henson who needed a bailiff. Ball moved over to Henson's courtroom, then later to Judge Stephen Bevil and finally to Poole in 2006.
Each morning during all those years, Liz has made him a ham and cheese sandwich and packed a can of V8 for his lunchtime meal. And each day he spread the newspaper out on the defense table in the quiet, locked courtroom, reading its articles and eating his lunch.
But during Wednesday's lunch, court staff threw him a surprise retirement party. Poole called Ball his friend as judges, lawyers and court staff applauded the octogenarian in a jury room amid candles, balloons and a white sheet cake.
"Some people who work look forward to Friday," Poole said. "Some people who work look forward to Monday. Bob Ball looks forward to Monday, and I know he's going to miss this."


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Homeworld Touch - (by teamPixel, LLC)[Universal]
Fleet Command needs your help...
13 years ago, one of the most legendary sci-fi games was released, and the space RTS genre took a giant leap forward in innovation and fun. Yet, somehow, nearly 10 years later, fans are still waiting for the next installment of the Homeworld franchise. We here at teamPixel, LLC are tired of waiting for the next Homeworld game and would like to rally fans together to bring the franchise back. The THQ bankruptcy has given all of us a massive opportunity to put Homeworld back in the hands of gamers. teamPixel respectfully requests the support of Homeworld fans everywhere in helping us raise funds to acquire the Homeworld franchise from THQ during their bankruptcy. With the franchise in hand, we would be able to pursue 3 initiatives for reviving the series:
- Homeworld on GoG.com and Steam. Easier access for old and new fans alike!
- Homeworld Touch - A legendary game with a modernized interface!
- Homeworld 3. Enough said.
- Interested? Read on to learn what we want to do for fans and how you can help out!
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TRAINING: Well, I still work a full-time job as a professional petroleum engineer for a major oil and gas company; I get to work by 6:45am, work until lunch and typically get in my strength and conditioning work over my lunch break. I finish the day at work around 4:30 and then hit Lovato's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy and work on my ground game with world champion Rafael Lovato Jr. and will rotate striking with BJJ according to what I have coming up. I also work with world-class wrestlers and one of the best stand-up/boxing coaches in the world in Lewis Wood down in Houston as often as I can get down there and before every one of my fights.
Thoughts on opponent, Nick Ring? Nick is a great competitor, obviously with a record of 11-0, but with that being said I think he is a great test for me. He is well-rounded and I am looking to push the pace everywhere this fight goes and show the world my complete game. He is coming off of a controversial win in the UFC and I'm sure he is looking to make a statement, and I am making my debut with the greatest organization in the world and am looking to make a statement, so I believe that this is really going to be a great fight.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I got into MMA when I was in college at the University of Missouri-Rolla. My grandfather was a boxer and I was always captivated by combative sports, and freshman year at college I walked into the Warrior Gym, what I thought was a local boxing gym, to train because I was no longer involved in all of the sports that I had previously been involved in growing up (basketball, football, baseball, and racing motocross). Ken Sparks was a pro boxer making the transition to MMA and the first 6 months in the gym was a weeding out process and I took a beating but loved the competition aspect of it and kept coming back.
What ranks and titles have you held? 2008 Texas – SW Regional Golden Gloves Champion, 2009 Grapplers Quest No-Gi Cruiser Weight Champion, Grapplers Quest No-Gi Absolute Champion, Grapplers Quest Gi –Blue Belt Heavyweight Champion, 2010 IBJJF World Championship – Blue Belt Heavyweight Silver Medalist, IBJJF World No-Gi Championship – Purple Belt Heavyweight Silver Medalist, USBJJF National Championship – Purple Belt Heavyweight Champion
Do you have any heroes? My Grandfather and My coaches – they have all reached the pinnacle of their professions whether it be Rafael Lovato Jr. in BJJ or Lewis Wood in boxing; they motivate and inspire me to push myself to greatness.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It means the world to me; it is the culmination of hard work and sacrifice, and the ability to compete against the best fighters in the world is a dream come true to put my hard work on display for the entire world.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? University of Missouri-Rolla; Bachelors of Science in Petroleum Engineering
What was your job before you started fighting? Petroleum Engineer – still is my day job, I work for one of the Forbes best 100 companies to work.
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Purple Belt in BJJ under Rafael Lovato Jr.
Favorite grappling technique: Any Choke I can slap on you.
Favorite Striking technique: Right Hand
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