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GENOA – Hinckley-Big Rock boys basketball coach Bill Sambrookes wasn't going to understate how big Tuesday's 51-40 victory over Genoa-Kingston was for his team.
The Royals (13-3) got off to a quick start, leading by eight points at the end of the first quarter, and did a good job of not letting the Cogs (10-6) back into the contest, holding a comfortable lead throughout the fourth quarter.
After his team's win, Sambrookes called the victory possibly the biggest one of the year, to this point, for H-BR.
"I think it's a huge win. We've had a tough road since about the middle of December. Some really tough opponents," Sambrookes said. " ... I know Corey [Jenkins]. He has his kids playing hard and I knew they were going to come after us. I think this is a huge win. This game is as big as any game we've had so far this year, in my eyes."
The Royals, a Class 1A school, were going up against a Class 3A team, on the road no less. Senior guard Jared Madden had 12 points for H-BR, and talked about how Sambrookes has been preaching defense lately. Madden and the Royals really got after it Tuesday, holding G-K to 40 points.
"Genoa's a really good school," he said. "Some quick guards, good shooters too. I think it showed how far our defense has come this year."
In order to stop H-BR's strong guard play, the Cogs concentrated on causing problems for the Royals on the perimeter, making players like Madden and Bernie Conley, who finished with nine points, work on the offensive end.
However, H-BR had no problem getting the ball inside. Zach Michels finished with 11 points for the Royals, often causing problems in the post. Off the bench, senior 6-5 forward Nick Gentry had eight points in the second half for H-BR.
"We knew Michels could play down there, he uses his body well," Jenkins said. " They're an experienced team, there's a reason they've played three years on varsity, some of these kids on his team."
In the first half, it was Michels who did the damage down low for the Royals, before Gentry took over in the second. Gentry's play surprised Jenkins and impressed Sambrookes.
"Nick I just thought played an outstanding second half," Sambrookes said. " …Those inside looks help us on the perimeter. A lot of that was how tough G-K was playing on the outside."
Adam Price led the Cogs with 12 points. Tommy Lucca finished with 10.


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Another advantage of this approach would be that all the word processors could use the same (or a very similar) filter to and from other non-*nix software. Sounds like a good idea to me.
BTW, doesn't Open Office use a compressed XML file to store it's documents? I thought I read something about Word2K using XML as well, but I could be wrong there. All that being said to say this: Isn't one of the promises of XML supposed to be improved sharing of data? This could be a good use...
No, this is an apalling design, and it's the same flaw from which gnumeric suffers:
By all means use a compressed save format, but don't just gzip XML, a tar file or some other standard format. Every application should have it's own unique file format header, that's easily parsable by file(1). Otherwise, we're headed down the windows road, where the only way to identify a file is by its extension, and that's somewhere I really don't want to go. I'd be quite happy if gnumeric/kword used a header to say "the following block in this file is N bytes long and is a zlib compressed XML reqpresentation of the data". But just using gzip plain sucks.leto% file blah.gnumeric
blah.gnumeric: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Aug 3 16:20:22 2000, os: Unix
leto% file blah.kwd
blah.kwd: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970, os: Unix
Whoever sends or points at a
.doc file more than likely has the capability to create a more useful version of the document. Simply state that the document should be published in a file format that is actually standardized upon.
This is all well and good (and I used to do it myself at school, where I am more or less justified in demanding that stuff be available to Unix users). However, using linux at work is very different. If everyone you work with is using some MS crap, the only way you can reasonably expect people to let you keep using linux is if you don't cause any hassle for anybody else. This means converting the docs yourself, either using your owm copy of MS Word (which was installed on the partition of your disk that you shrank to make room for a linux or BSD system
I was in that position last summer, and I had to use Wine (for Lotus Notes, which is actually an interesting program), and boot into windoze every now and then to use excel. Lotus Notes mostly works with wine, and has an excel and word viewer, so that saved some rebooting. Converters like antiword are also useful. I sent stuff to other people in HTML format or just ASCII email, since the stuff I had to write was only stuff like short reports on technical stuff. I would have pulled out LaTeX and made a PDF if necessary.
#define X(x,y) x##y
Well, if you exclude, ANSI, the ISO, and all the other public standards making bodies from "anyone", maybe.I think what a lot of people fail to realize is that Microsoft has just as much right as anyone else to set standards.
So there would be 3 different efforts still, but they would share knowledge with each other.
So what will they do when MS.net is up and open and people are using that?
Just imagine MS having access to your internal internet....
I don't want a lot, I just want it all!
Flame away, I have a hose!
C/C++/Java whatever. Doesn't it make sense to make something like a document transformer into a small CORBA service, talk XML for the result document and then we don't have the non-sensical language wars. I don't need to know that the document tranform was coded in language X. I just want it to work dammit.
You're right. What I'm imagining is similar to what happened when the IBM PC BIOS was reverse-engineered: once we have very good compatibility, we can set the new standard. People (avg office-worker people) are sick of Word's Feature-itis anyway, and wouldn't it be compelling for a company to get to stop paying for Office entirely -- and just use, oh, AbiWord? Fast, efficient, does what you want it to, compatible with the Word everyone uses (95, 97), and free.
Not to mention: I really have doubts about companies wanting to store their documents on Microsoft servers across the internet, which is what MS is apparently planning.
Side note: never thought about this before, but just imagine: with the DMCA, reverse-engineering the IBM BIOS would be illegal, wouldn't it? No PC clones! I have to admit, sometimes I'm only inches from becoming a Libertarian.
But imagine the threat to Microsoft if any of them -- muchless all of them -- could import and export MS Word documents perfectly.
What a world it could be, Microsoft-free.
Yeah, imagine what a horrible world it would be if everyone used the same format and we could interchange documents without any problems.
Uh, only if we're all using the same very latest version of Word on the same very latest version of Windows, on the same Microsoft-approved Intel-supplied hardware -- and then we get to play a big game of Simon Says -- "Microsoft says: okay everybody, time to upgrade, please enter your credit card number here."
I think what a lot of people fail to realize is that Microsoft has just as much right as anyone else to set standards.
The problem is that their "standards" follow the form of "here's our magic new standard format, it'll sorta do most of what you need, but only if you use it with our software. Don't bother trying to figure out the details of the format, because we'll change it at our whim, every so often, just to make sure that no one else's software will work with it. Even older versions of our own software won't work the the latest format, so everyone in your company will have to upgrade."
Microsoft doesn't have standards, they have proprietary formats. They don't want to promote and use open standards, they want to own the "standards". If they were willing/able to play well with others, they wouldn't be as hated as they are today.
said that they could not do a library, because they user C or C++ and different technologies
Why not just make a standalone app as a filter. It could accept word documents in, and output an XML formatted document and jpg images for images embedded in word. The XML doc could be an open standard, parseable by all open source word processors.
Most commonly used to parse (unambiguous computer) languages, but a word file is alot less complicated then a language I can assure you
Odds are against you. Corel sells WordPerfect for money; if AbiWord and the rest become viable contenders, who wants to spend the money for WordPerfect? It is arguably in Corel's best interest for all the free word processors to have lousy filters for as long as possible.
How are the WordPerfect filters? If they suck, then Corel could rationally join the filter crew, since good filters would then benefit Corel as much as anyone else. At least in that scenario there is some clear benefit to Corel.
Of course, if the decision is made by a stereotypical boss figure, Corel will mind its own fish and stay out. Why do something new and different? Could be risky. Continuing to do the same thing is always seen as safe.
I like it. This nicely end-runs the problem of library compatability for C++/C/whatever. And under Linux, at least, firing up a new process is fast, and you only run the import filter when opening a new document, so there would be no issues with speed.
Why should you need it? Word has always been able to read an RTF. So if you write a document, export in RTF and send it to a Word-addicted coworker, he should be able to import it into Word with no problems.
The problem is that then he will want to send you back the modified document. If he used full-power Word (e.g. using the change bars to hilight the changes), even if he is willing to convert the doc back in RTF, lots of fomatting info will be lost.
Which shows that there is a silver lining in black clouds, afterall.
That would be indeed a thread, as not even MS is able do open a
CHeers, Peter
Am I the only Slashdoter here who knows that KWord has been using XML as it's native format since the beginning?
Well, abiword is also using XML to save data. Just open an abiword file, it's not even compressed!
Note: There is also a gzipped abiword format, I am not talking about that
In the old days (windows days) every application semmed to be ablt to "talk to" and "incorperate with" each other.
Later I found the true way. There came Linux and after a painful 6 months I was able to do most of my job on the command line. The applications were still coorperating with each other. Oh, yes there was X, too with ugly but "coorperating" motif applications.
Then the dark side of the code emerged. We were all bound with project who do not like each other and all duplicating efforts. (see: KDE, GNOME and 80 million media players). I was unable to undestand all the *.desktop and *.nautilus horrors.
At last the sun starts to shine again. People start to realize that choices are good (vi/emacs/rhide) but code duplication (KDE/GNOME) and uncoorperation is not (*.desktop, *.nautilus).
I only wonder when the Moz/Konqi was will be over.
I wonder if the recent propaganda assault by Microsoft is drawing the open source/free software community closer? There have been a spate of these "new cooperation" stories lately. Perhaps differences in philosophy and direction start to seem pretty minor when Microsoft conspicuously brings its ion cannons to bear...
It's hard to do anything with TeX except run it, which renders output. This loses the document structure. The same is true of PostScript.
This needn't be true, though. Since you have the TeX source, you should be able to come up with an output method for TeX which will output to, say, an Abiword doc, and simply outputs the information for the document structure along with the text and so on, rather than generating, uh, whatever it generates. Is that PostScript? The same is true of Ghostscript and PostScript. I'm not saying it'd be trivial, or that I could do it, but it's certainly possible.
Also; Why do libraries? Unix gives us STDIN and STDOUT for a reason. Just make any filter an executable. If you're filtering a document, and not a stream, you don't lose anything by that methodology, and the added beneficial side effect is that you end up with executables which anyone can use in any project, from a shell script to C++ to Java...
Of course they have a right to propose standards for everyone to use. The trouble is, what they call a "standard" is usually a moving target.
Every standard is a moving target. HTML, Unicode, TCP/IP, everything evolves.
Well, if you exclude, ANSI, the ISO, and all the other public standards making bodies from "anyone", maybe.
Think about what you're saying. Do you really want to wait for ANSI or ISO to set a standard before any software can be written? Should WordPerfect have told ANSI that they were about to release a word processor in 1985 that had such and so features, and then let them get back to them on a standard format before they implemented those features?
Or Netscape -- people have criticized them for extending HTML, but how much longer would things have taken if they had waited for some committee to take years to set a standard, rather than going ahead and implemented https?
When it comes to technologies, particularly software technologies, it is often best for standards bodies to be reactive rather than proactive. A good example is Standard C, when the standards bodies formalized existing practice.
Microsoft is often criticized for "embrace and extend", but every company does it. Because you often have to extend a standard in order to implement new features that simply don't work within the existing framework. Again, see Netscape/HTML.
I love AbiWord for reading MS Word documents and writing quick letters, etc. I think it's a great program, and it reads the Microsoft
For one reason or another, I can't get WordPerfect 8, the personal edition available for download, to install on my Linux box. Perhaps it doesn't like Mandrake 8, maybe it's my own ineptitude (I've been running Linux as my primary OS for about 4 months now), but it just won't cooperate. I wouldn't mind purchasing WP Office 2000 for Linux, but if I can't get WP8 to install, that tells me that WP2000 might suffer from the same problems. Given the average return policy of most software stores (i.e., no returns once it's open), I'm extremely hesitant to spend upwards of $100 on software that may or may not work on my machine. But I've been using Word Perfect for over 12 years now, and need WP file support. Right now, the only way I can get it is by booting my Windows partition and using WP2k for Windows.
So developers, if you're listening, Word support is great, but don't forget about those of us who haven't used Microsoft (at least for word processing) for a long time!
- Stealth Dave
Oh, and I know someone it going to protest by saying that WordPerfect can save to
I didn't know Word sucked at importing WP so much. Luckily I've didn't have to import anything from WP to Word on my Mac when I bought it because the only
What KWord and that need are filters for other formats, paticularily WordPerfect 6-10. The thing about WordPerfect is that once you get WP6's format working you can open WP7, WP8, WP9 and WP10 because Corel never changes the format, unlike MS.
Without this my Dad can't switch to KWord or anything else (doubt he would want to though, he like WP8 too much) because he is an Auto Teacher and he has about 10 years worth of tests and stuff in WP format dating back to WP 5.1 on a 286 and DOS 5.1. (I remember that 286. Orange and black monitor. Those were the good old days.
While it would be possible to convert them all to RTF or something, he has hundreds and hundreds of files it won't be easy or fast.
What RedHat and others can to focus on is telling the Average Consumer that Windows XP is violating their privacy, among other things. Every few days I tell my dad about Windows XP's evil features (Such as Hardware ID stuff) and he considers switching to Macs or Linux more and more. But again the biggest thing keeping him back is lack of ANY WordPerfect format compatibility. (Minus WP it's self). The biggest thing keeping me form switching from my Mac and Word is lack of good consistant GUI.
I should stop rambling on and sum my post up: WordPerfect compatibility is important too!
What is the difference between LaTeX and XML? Aren't both specialized subsets of SGML?
Does anyone have any links?
One thing I will give XML, you could specify your WP as conforming to a given DTD version then as people add more features to the DTD you can release a new version of the WP that has support for the DTD features. This would drive the market in a feature oriented way without breaking much. Plus if it's in XML you can verify the ducument is well formed even if you couldn't edit or display some advanced tag. Of course the ultimate is that your WP would be a big component manager and you could 'plugin' new document features when a new DTD is approved.
Final comment - Isn't WordPerfect based on customized version of TeX?
If you define "rich" as being a millionaire, you'd need twenty million
Incedentally, WordPerfect Office 2000 works fine on my Mandrake 8 box and it's wonderful. WP8 is sufferent from some serious bitrot, and it relies on some really old libraries that haven't been shipped with any Linux distro I've used in the last 2 years.
StarOffice 5.1/5.2 will import WP documents, but they don't do any exporting, I'm afraid.
A file ending in
.doc IS a word document...
If I had a nickle for every
A preamble embedded in the file is a better way to go and even better is to use some sort of universally recognized structure like XML or TLV. Either way, file browsers can read the first few bytes of the file and find out what it really is, instead of trying to guess based on the extension.
As far as compressed files are concerned, 'file' already has a '-z' flag to make it look inside compressed files. This should be expanded to to include gzip'd files etc.
By the way, Microsoft is moving towards embedding information with their CLI Metadata.
Loose bits sink chips.

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Poppy Mitchell is a celebrity in the HD Universe appearing in The Ballad of Gay Tony and Grand Theft Auto V.
The Ballad of Gay Tony
Poppy is a VIP who frequents Maisonette 9. She is a beloved actress in the romantic comedy genre, Luis Lopez calling her "America's favorite daughter", who is trying to keep her wild nightclub life private (possibly a parody of Lindsay Lohan or Miley Cyrus). She tells Luis that her manager insists on her cleaning up her act, as she was allegedly caught sexting and it has slightly damaged her career.
In Club Management, paparazzi crowd rounds the club in order to get photo coverage of her latest trip to the club. She had apparently discretely finished group sex in the VIP room (the following The Celebinator blog picture reveals she changed clothes, as well as writing about it) when she wished to exit the club without paparazzi bothering her. Luis drives a fire engine to the doors and uses the fire hose to scare off the photographers, who scatter once sprayed. Poppy then gets a lift in the fire truck to the hotel where she was staying, The Hotel on Luddite East. Like many girls in the nightlife scene, Poppy had sex with Luis in the VIP room after hours.
Grand Theft Auto V
Poppy Mitchell is seen in a photograph posted by Redwood Cigarettes on their Lifeinvader page as a pseudo-endorsement for their Redwood 120's.
GTA V website's section "Sightseeing and Celebrity" includes an article about Poppy Mitchell, in the fictional magazine StarsTalk. It reads that on the Weazel News Morning Show, Mitchell blamed the liberal media and rival actress Lacy Jonas among others for waging a smear campaign against her. Because she has a tween fanbase, she insists that she is a drug-free virgin. She sports a promise ring as of GTA V, despite privately admitting to sexual relations with Luis Fernando Lopez in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
In Paparazzo - The Sex Tape, Franklin Clinton and Beverly infiltrate a hotel and film her having anal sex with another 24-year-old "teen" star named Justin (she states that she is 21). Poppy catches Franklin, and chases after him in her Rapid GT.
Franklin is later tasked to follow Poppy in a high-speed chase with the police, and photograph her being arrested for driving under the influence. She drives a pink Cognoscenti Cabrio with the license plate P0PPYMI5 in this mission; the vehicle can be stolen afterward and saved in a garage.


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I had the exact same thought and googled magnetic jacks:
Molex Magnetic Modular Jacks incorporate wire-wound components (magnetics) in standard RJ45 jacks. These integrated magnetics, resistors and/or capacitors filter common-mode noise to provide signal integrity, protect PHY chips, provide DC isolation and offer low-mode conversion.
I'm assuming that's the case here, and the magnets are providing filtering (given the cable's got a predominantly plastic and copper end it's not going to do much to hold it in place).
I'm assuming that's the case here, and the magnets are providing filtering (given the cable's got a predominantly plastic and copper end it's not going to do much to hold it in place).
They're not magnets. They're tiny transformers and inductors that magnetically couple the signals while providing 1.5 kV DC isolation and some filtering against common-mode disturbances.
Ah yes, that makes much more sense. Magnetics isn't a term I knew.
isolation transfomers.
had they said that, yeah, you want that in ethernet. products that omit that (popcorn hour, cough cough) have ruined NICs and bad performance for noise.
in audio (spdif) you also want pulse transformers. same idea.
They're not magnets. They're tiny transformers and inductors that magnetically couple the signals while providing 1.5 kV DC isolation and some filtering against common-mode disturbances.
Ahhh! ELECTRO-Magnetics. I wonder why that got left off.
Conditions the signal, like the little donuts on monitor cables.
You are right - I probably chose a poor example since the donuts aren't magnets. Still, like the cable ferrites, the magnets in the connectors condition the signal off-board to free up space.
As I stated in the other, non-annointed article and posted here [slashdot.org], the magnetics are actually tiny transformers used to convert from differential to single-ended signals and to isolate. Additionally center taps can be used for PoE.
"The magnetics in question aren't to hold the connector in like those in a Mac power cord, but rather the tiny transformers that are required for Ethernet differential signal isolation/transformation."
Some controller IC's require magnetics on the PHY side in order to work at all. Others will work without magnetics, but only if short cables are used.
If the Raspberry Pi circuit was designed such that the magnetics are responsible for 'pulling up' the output stages to the positive supply, then the Ethernet function simply would not have worked at all without magnetics in the connectors.
BTW, 'magnetics' is a very common term in the field of electronics. It typically applies to inductors, transformers, and fe
also see http://www.molex.com/mx_upload/family/magnetic_modular_jacks/hypejak.pdf [molex.com]
Does it not need the little tab anymore (that always breaks off)?
That's someothing that's always bugged me. Of course you're going to need mini or submini jacks in a very small device like a transistor radio or an iPod, but I could never figure out why they didn't use RCA jacks in PCs. Not that RCA jacks don't sometimes fail. Heck, they could have used 1/4 inch jacks in PCs, I've yet to see one of those fail, even in a heavily used environment like a guitar amplifier.
The big problem with RCA jacks is that they are not keyed. You can insert any RCA jack into any RCA Jill. Sometimes that's not an issue, others, well, good designers know that it's best not to let end users think much.
I have only dabbled in electronics, but I don't care for the term "magnetics" (nor I have ever heard it before). I would think "inductor" would be a better term. Anyone who actually knows what they're talking about care to illuminate what the difference is between "magnetics" and inductors?
Magnetics != Magnets. These are the Ethernet transformer coils that are missing.
From the Raspi forums :
"It doesn't mean no network connection at all on all devices, but this board has been designed for a magnetic jack. The magnetic bits mean better signal integrity, better filtering and shorter transmission distances for data."
"Magnetics refers to the presence of transformers and chokes which are used to isolate the Ethernet wires from the RaspPi's power supply. and each other and probably to reduce high-frequency noise. Without them you would effectively tie the RX and TX signals together and probably turn the entire network into an aerial for Radio 2 reception."
"Without them you would effectively tie the RX and TX signals together and probably turn the entire network into an aerial for Radio 2 reception."
I have no idea what this means. How is this possible?
I have no idea what this means. How is this possible?
I guess because you didn't study properly at school...
"Without them you would effectively tie the RX and TX signals together and probably turn the entire network into an aerial for Radio 2 reception."
I disagree with the first part of this. Ethernet works off differential signals and the transformer does a good job of removing the common mode signals (non differential) coming down the wire. Without the magnetics the common mode signals (such as DC, mains interference, Radio 2 transmissions) picked up by a potentially long ethernet lead will turn up at the input to the ethernet phy (receiver) chip. This may or may not be enough to stop it from work
Its a joke. I think the fault makes the whole ethernet cable into, effectively, a dangling wire, and the only use of a dangling wire is as an aerial. Possibly connecting tx and rx makes it into a loop of sorts, and thus a loop antenna.
Without the intervening transformer, the TX- and RX- lines would be tied together at ground on the device. In the diagram below, the differential RX+/- and TX+/- signals are turned into single-ended RX and TX by the transformers. Removing the transformers connects RX- and TX- to ground, which is a Bad Thing(tm).
Radio 2: UK radio station broadcasting crap music for housewives.
At least the forums are holding up now with new hardware
They also crucially provide center taps to provide a path for DC currents from the transmitter to ground and to give the receive signal the correct common mode level. Also because of the aforementioned center taps the pinouts of a jack with integrated magnetics will almost certainly differer from a plain jack.
http://www.smsc.com/media/Downloads_Public/lan9000/9512_sch.pdf [smsc.com]
(that is a reference design for the lan chip the Pi guys are using)
So without the correct magnetics things are unlikely to work at all.
The magnetics in question aren't to hold the connector in like those in a Mac power cord, but rather the tiny transformers [molex.com] that are required for Ethernet differential signal isolation/transformation.
It would have been more informative to call the internal circuitry "filters" rather than "magnetics," which is conceptually more accurate.
That said, this has to be great advertising for Molex.
They're not just filters, they're transformers that (as a result of their inductance and capacitance characteristics) also act as filters. I chose molex simply because they were first on the search and seemed informative.
They've been called 'magnetics' in this context for quite a while - I guess it's a bit of an industry standard. They also have cute terms like PHY and MAC.
I think many people, me included, have been expecting something like this to happen. As said in the article, this is a relatively minor bump in the road that was practically inevitable and they seem to be handling it as well as could be expected.
I suspect they'll get a bit of flack over the "4 day" thing... however they would have gotten a lot of flack if they came out with some information that turned out to be incorrect. I guess they could have come out saying "there is a minor pro
Someone in China (the same guys that did the mistake in the first place, which most mentions have assumed to be a deliberate cost-saving measure rather than a true accident) has to receive those units back, hand-unsolder 10,000 connectors and hand-solder 10,000 correct connectors back into place before then packaging them up and sending them back to the UK.
Where, still, as far as we know, there's been no tests of functionality other than networking (i.e. they haven't seen if similar issues affect the other ports like the display, etc.). And then someone has to test a good portion of them again before sending them onto the suppliers.
Meanwhile, they have to source a supply of 100,000's of the proper connectors for future runs, which they are just starting now. And hope that the network WAS the only problem.
In effect, they did no actual testing of the actual device functionality ("it'll all just work if the factory did their job") until the entire first batch was opened in the UK. The testing in the manufacturing facility was purely electronic and COMPLETELY missed this problem (surprise, surprise). And immediately upon opening them here, they spotted a problem, which took FOUR DAYS to isolate (and was isolated only because they were baffled and broke one of the connectors open and happened to spot the difference) and now it all has to be sent back for more work.
That's a mite more than a "minor bump". Not irreconcilable, but certainly not a bump. More like a hard jolt with metal grinding. I sincerely hope it doesn't turn into another OP, but given that we've gone from "No preorders" to well, pre-orders, and a full launch to, well, we'll tell you when we have a working device in the same country as our distributors, the slippery slope has certainly started. Of course they can recover the situation. The question is, what other mistakes have they made in their supply chain of making 10,000 bare PCB's with components (something that happens thousand-fold times every day).
Quotesdfrom the forum
''Jamesh is right – they sent us test units which *did* have the right part on before they moved to a larger batch. "
I hate to stereotype, but this is quite typical for China. You need to watch them closely or they will cut corners whenever possible.
They probably wont be sending them back. They will probably be recycled.
I'd have bet on supply problems.
Always innovating, geekphone, and other manufacturers other than pandora had similar problems.
A new company might overlook some details ending up in delays, the factories might be giving priority to big clients and go out of their way to not displease them, or maybe open hardware running open software is the #1 enemy for the modern models of marketing which rely on planned obsolescence.
We ought to look whether startup hardware companies selling cheap closed stuff go on withou
Bye Bye, my Raspberry Pi,
I thought that I might buy you,
but the warehouse was dry,
those good old boys say just wait one more month,
but you keep running into delays,
yeah, you keep running into delays.
Did you see the other recent post? There was a mistaken mass email by Farnell about pushing back orders.
That was bad. Bad rhyming, bad meter. Try this one.
Bye Bye, mister Raspberry Pi,
Ain't as heavy as a Chevy
but the warehouse was dry.
those good old boys, they just want one more try,
If I don't get one I think I will cry,
If I don't get one I think I will cry.
Shame.. or having to hand desolder/resolder 10,000 of these damn things.
or having to hand desolder/resolder 10,000 of these damn things.
These connectors are nearly impossible to remove. Two large shield tabs + 8 (or more) through hole pins... It might be cheaper to scrap the batch.
I'm amazed that this was allowed to happen. Mightily unprofessional. You never assemble a large production run of anything until the same people assemble a hundred boards from the same kit and then you personally test those 100 boards. Then they are returned as "approved" samples, and any deviati
They advertise the hell out of their product, then they predictably can't deliver, then they silence any and all criticism on their forum (because not being all positive is "bad attitude", and they don't allow that), then another disaster strikes. I guess it's called karma.
If you order now, you're going to get a delivery estimate about 3 months from now. Their mailing list had more than 100000 subscribers, and Liz Banhammer has the audacity to claim surprise when demand exceeds the initial 10000 batch.
Still good value?
What about when the returns start flooding in because a 1 cent component failed when a 2 cent one might have soldiered on? Budgeted for handling that?
I know these guys are amateurs, but do they really need to keep demonstrating it?
Why do you assume that the same mistake - or one like it - would NOT have been made if the boards were assembled in the west? Since western wage rates are so much higher than chinese ones if this error had been made in a british or american plant it would probably be cheaper to simply crush the whole batch and start again,
Then instead of a 1 month delay, you'd be waiting 6 months - or never, since the RPi foundation would have gone bust as it was banking on the sales of these units.
This sort of thing is precisely why the standard Slashdot rant of "all they did was put x, y and z together, this isn't innovating!" is so much silliness. It's not easy to mass produce things. It takes planning and more planning. It takes money and more money than you planned on because some small aspect of Murphy's law is going to pop up and rip your balls off.
It's why the Motorola Xooms of the world come with stupid little missing bits and even why our fearless denizen of perfection, Apple, still screw
How many people are killing themselves trying to keep up production with the demand for Raspberry Pi.
From TFA:
It's actually very hard to tell unless you look at the insides of the part,
Yep, that should do the job. Certainly a lot easier to get hold of than an X-Ray machine...
"Firstly, the schedule for manufacture for every UK business we approached was between 12 and 14 weeks (compared to a 3-4 week turnaround in the Far East)."
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509 [raspberrypi.org]
[Posted on January 10th, 8.5 weeks ago - and manufacturing had already started at that point].
I guess UK manufacturing wouldn't have been much slower, after all.
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Here's what Chiquita, NFL football and golf have in common
When you think of Chiquita you think of bananas – and the wonderful Chiquita Banana TV commercial from yesteryear.
Those well acquainted with Chiquita International Brands Inc. are also reminded of its subsidiary, Fresh Express of Salinas, Calif., especially this time of year when the Fresh Express Classic at TPC Stonebrae was played last week.
All of the above have been especially on the minds of the staff here at The Rose Hotel because Fresh Express personnel and guests had exclusive use of our property for a couple of days during the golf tournament, and they played the golf relationship to the hilt – using the hotel's parking garage to set up their own mini golf tournament with a putting green, and a virtual driving range in the parking lot.
Anthony Munoz – Hall of Fame pro football player and one of the greatest offensive linemen in NFL history – was among the guests.
This year's Fresh Express Classic was played April 14-17 at the picturesque TPC Stonebrae course in the hills of Hayward, and was won by Daniel Chopra after heavy fog rolled into the Bay Area and forced cancellation of the final round of play. The 37-year old Chopra had posted a course-record 61 in the tournament's third round to reach a 12-under 198, one stroke better than Luke List and Russell Knox.
The strong field of 156 included Australian Mathew Goggin, who won the Nationwide Panama event on Feb. 27, and PGA Tour winners Jason Gore, Steve Pate and Jim Carter.
The tournament was preceded by the Jerry Rice Charity Pro-Am.
All the fun and competition was for a good cause. The Fresh Express Classic is not just another professional golf tournament, it's a community event operated by the PGA Tour and orchestrated by more than 500 volunteers. This year's tournament goal was to generate more than $250,000 for San Francisco Bay Area charities and non-profit organizations. The Fresh Express Classic has a commitment to donate 100 percent of the tournament's net proceeds back to local non-profit organizations, including Pro Football Hall of Fame member Jerry Rice's own 127 Foundation.
Though we're not much on the golf course, Rose Hotel staffers were glad to have played a role in this year's tournament.


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Discussion in 'General MMA discussion' started by KZUFCchamp2013, Dec 21, 2012.
Solid fight IMO, I think Stout takes it but I'm happy to see Fodor get a shot in the ufc
Well how nice of him. I got Fodor.
Being honest, I'm not really excited
I'm glad that the lower-level SF guys are getting their chance in the UFC. I think Stout wins this one though.
It has been a long time coming! The fans have been clamoring for the russian GOAT, but Vladim Finkelstein and those "crazy Russians" have held up the deal from getting signed!
lol when I first heard this I thought it was Fedor and I was confused why he is fighting a lightweight
He took the loss to Dan Hendersoon hard, and hired Mike Dolce.... His frame is similar to Gray Maynard's
The Strikefroce invasion has officially begun! Seems like everyday a Strikeforce fighter has been assigned to a UFC Card. The UFC is probaly happy they have the added Strikeforce Fighters to plug into their Cards now.
Couldnt Agree More. Im glad that established fighters are filling up the cards instead of all this TUF bumbs.
Lol I like how anyone in SF who hasn't fought for a belt is one of their "lower-level" fighters. I think Caros can make this an extremely tough fight for Sam with the rough patch he has been in his last few fights. If he doesn't come in with a "must-win" gameplan, then it could be a long night for Stout.
Was I saying to you about that most fighters out of tuf are sub par and tuf is dated and served its purpose ?
yeah gotta agree some of these SF fighter's are pretty solid can't wait to see who comes over and who dosen't
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Skip to comments.14 Years Later, Mystery Still Remains in the Death of Vince Foster
Posted on 07/22/2007 4:36:02 AM PDT by GFritsch
14 yers ago today, on July 20, 1993, the body of Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was found in a Virginia park, next to a civil war cannon, with an unidentified revolver lodged in the right hand. Vincent Foster died of a small-caliber gunshot wound to his head.
Vince Foster was not only deputy White House counsel but also the personal attorney to Bill and Hillary Clinton. On the night of Fosters death, top Clinton aides made a frantic effort to enter and remove documents from his West Wing office. In the days that followed, federal investigators were stymied in their investigation of Fosters office and strange death.
The following happened within weeks of his death. Vince Foster finally files the missing Whitewater tax returns. On July 19, FBI director William Sessions is fired. Clinton personally orders him by phone to turn in his FBI property and leave headquarters.
That evening, Clinton security aide Jerry Parks' wife Jane says she overhears a heated telephone conversation with Vince Foster in which her husband says, "You can't give Hillary those files, they've got my name all over them."
On July 20, Clinton names Louis Freeh as Sessions' successor.
That same day, the FBI raids David Hale's Little Rock office and seizes documents including those relating to Capital-Management.
Just hours after the search warrant authorizing the raid is signed by a federal magistrate in Little Rock, Vince Foster apparently drives to Ft. Marcy Park.
Foster was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head in Ft. Marcy Park. His unoccupied car, a 1989 Honda, was found in the park's parking lot. Several witnesses - before and after the arrival of the park police - have claimed they saw a briefcase in Foster's car.
A so-called suicide note was found in an office briefcase that had been searched and found to be empty after Fosters death. The note was torn into 27 pieces. Yet an FBI examination found no trace of Fosters fingerprints on the note and three independent handwriting experts determined that Foster's suicide note, was a forgery.
The Raid of Vince Fosters Office While the U.S. Park Police studied the body, Foster's office at the White House was being looted.
Secret Service agent Henry O' Neill watched as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carried boxes of papers out of Vincent Foster's office before the Park Police showed up to seal it, yet the official identification of Vincent Foster's body by Craig Livingstone did not take place until 10PM!
Another Secret Serviceman saw Craig Livingston remove items from Vincent Foster's office in violation of the official seal. Witnesses also saw Bernard Nussbaum in Foster's office as well. Three witnesses noted that Patsy Thomason, director of the White House's Office of Administration, was desperate to find the combination to Vincent Foster's safe. Ms. Thomason finally opened the safe, apparently with the help of a special "MIG" technical team signed into the White House in the late hours. Two envelopes reported to be in the safe by Foster's secretary Deborah Gorham, addressed to Janet Reno and to William Kennedy III, were never seen again. When asked the next day regarding rumors of the safe opening, Mack McLarty told reporters Foster's office did not even have a safe, a claim immediately shot down by former occupants of that office.
The next day, when the Park Police arrived for the official search of Vincent Foster's office, they were shocked to learn that Nussbaum, Thomason and Williams had entered the office. Conflicts channeled through Janet Reno's Department of Justice resulted in the Park Police merely sitting outside Foster's office while Bernard Nussbaum continued his own search of Foster's office. During this search, he opened and upended Vincent Foster's briefcase, showing it to be empty. Three days later, it would be claimed that this same briefcase was where the torn up suicide note was discovered.
The boxes of documents removed from Foster's office by Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, were taken to the private residence area of the White House! Eventually, only 54 pages emerged.
One set of billing records, under subpoena for two years, and thought to have originated in Foster's office, turned up unexpectedly in the private quarters of the White House, with Hillary's fingerprints on them.
So, who ordered the office looting?
Bill Clinton was unavailable, being on camera with Larry King. But Hillary Clinton, who had only the day before diverted her planned return to Washington D.C. to Little Rock, was on the phone from Little Rock to someone at the White House in the moments before the looting took place.
The death of Vince Foster is very unsettling. There is an amazing amount of inconsistent information surrounding his death, the investigation and the autopsy. And, of course, his close relationship with Hillary was intriguing. Many books have claimed that the two were lovers for several years.
To date, several unanswered questions still remain. What did the White House know and when did they know it? Another question: If Foster was not identified as a White House official until at least an hour and a half after police arrived, why were police officers associated with an elite federal unit on the scene within 45 minutes? Evidence suggests that White House officials were informed of Foster's death, at least an hour before they claim to have been initially notified.
The FBI never officially investigated the case but simply signed off on the Park Police "probe." The bureau had little choice.
Later, Robert Fiske, selected by Clintons counsel Bernie Nussbaum and Janet Reno, quickly confirmed the Park Police probe as a suicide. Yet, no fewer than three of the paramedics on the scene indicated in reports or testimony that the crime scene was consistent with a murder scene, not a suicide.
? A careful FBI microscopic investigation of Fosters shoes found not a trace of soil or grass stains on them, though he supposedly walked several hundred yards through wooded Fort Marcy Park to where his body was found. [Years later, Starrs investigation found plenty of soil and grass stains. Rodriguez charged that the shoes were tampered with to produce such "evidence."]
? Foster was found with little blood around his body and despite claims that he fired the gun into his mouth, practically no blood was found on the front of his shirt.
? Foster was found with a 1913 revolver no one in his family could claim, with two serial numbers, made from the parts of three or more guns. None of Fosters fingerprints were found on the gun. The bullet that supposedly killed Foster was never found, despite intensive searches.
? The first witness to find the body insisted that there had been no gun near the body. The memory in Foster's pager had been erased. Critical evidence began to vanish. Many witnesses were harassed. Others were simply ignored. There were even suggestions that the body had been moved, and a Secret Service memo surfaced which reported that Foster's body had been found in his car! The official reports were self-contradictory.
? All of the X-rays taken during the autopsy are missing. Complete crime scene photos dont exist. The Park Police said all the photos were "accidentally" overexposed. A series of close-up Polaroids, which Favish is suing for, remain.
? A briefcase in the car of Vincent Foster was removed after U.S. Park Police arrived at his death scene. The briefcase, which may have carried important documents, was never listed on official evidence reports compiled by park police who conducted the first investigation into the White House deputy counsel's death.
Hillary Clinton was trying to gain leverage over her husband, possibly in relation to future divorce proceedings. It is possible Mrs. Clinton wanted to get to the bottom of persistent rumours about her husband's philandering before subjecting herself and her daughter to the media glare of a presidential campaign. At the time, Mrs Clinton and Vince Foster were partners at the Rose Law firm.
Did Hillary Clinton have an affair with Little Rock lawyer Vincent Foster? According to retired Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson, "There is no doubt in my mind that there was a long, ongoing sexual relationship between Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster."
Patterson, who guarded the Clintons for more than six years, made the new disclosures on the audiotape set "More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed"
Patterson said that on one occasion, at a birthday party for Hillary Clinton, he saw Foster touch Hillary in private areas of the body twice. Patterson said his belief about Hillary and Vince was formed after years of observation during the frequent meetings between the two, when Bill was out of town, and the stories of other troopers.
Patterson gives eyewitness details of several occasions upon which he saw Vince and Hillary in compromising situations.
On the day of Vince Fosters death, Patterson said he learned about the death before the Park Police even found Fosters body and hours before the White House said they were informed. Pattersons information, corroborated by another trooper, exposes a cover-up bigger than Watergate.
A case arose from an overall conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with federal investigations into the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent W. Foster.
Patrick Knowlton was in Ft. Marcy Park the afternoon that Vincent Foster died. What Knowlton saw and what happened to him afterwards is one of the most disturbing stories of the whole Clinton saga. You can read the testimony here
Miguel Rodriguez was a prosecutor on the staff of Kenneth Starr. His attempts to uncover the truth in the Vincent Foster death case were repeatedly foiled, and he was the subject of planted stories undermining his credibility and implying that he was unstable. Rodriguez eventually resigned.
After learning of Fosters death, Jane Parks, the wife of Jerry Parks claims that her husband said, "I'm a dead man". Parks had collected detailed data on Clinton's sexual escapades, including pictures and dates. His wife claims federal agents subsequently removed his files and computer, and that Bill Clinton still owed him $81,000.
(Note. Two months later, Jerry Parks is found murdered gangland-style )
And...I've always thought it was all those secured FBI files that made Senators do things they normally wouldn't have on behalf of whatever the Clintons wanted.
The People President Clinton Didn't Have to Pardon...
Because They're All Dead-
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit ...
The fact that the most disgusting, despicable woman in the history of The United States of America is running for the presidency is testament.
Thanks for posting.
Which clearly makes both of them perfect Demoncratic candidates for the Presidency.
The Vince Foster saga is just one of many Clinton criminal acts and who knows how many criminal acts never saw the light of day?
The Foster crime is almost in plain sight and it still gets buried by the MSM and DC cowards are covering their own,
The dems love to justify the Clinton crime wave called his Presidency, as political acts rather than criminal acts all the while they accuse Bush of criminal acts well with in his preview as CIC and head of the Executive branch
It will be very interesting if she really gets into the Oval Office and how quickly she grabs power above and beyond her office by Executive decree.
My one knock against Bush besides the his immigration stand is his abuse of the Executive decree setting precedent for who ever follows in his footsteps.
Hillary and the dems can justify about anything now by decree by simply pointing out they are just following in Bush footsteps
I can see it now.. angry white man kills first black president. Investigation into assasination cancelled by Herself, with no mention in papers or msm.
ping for later reading. Very interesting.
Thanks for the link, lots of names.. people who knew too much or opponents of the clintons have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.
I remember asking on another message board when the patriot act came in.. are you guys comfortable with Hillary having these powers? The answer was, well we have to make sure she doesn't win. I thought then and think now, ruh oh!
From the foster home...
I had that one in my old bookmarks
Considering, I believe Hillary was the driving force behind the Waco Massacre, just imagine what will happen when she has the legal legitimate powers based on the patriot act with the political backing of dems and support of the MSM.
What happened at Waco was an illegal abuse of government and military power, now she will be only a few steps away from doing something similar with the support of the American people, well the liberal ones at least.
The only facts I researched on Foster was the gun stuff and this article has it all wrong. The gun was Vince Foster's father's revolver.
There as also a controversy involving a "silver" gun and a "black" gun. That was easily disputed since there was mention of two guns. The gun found at Fort Macy and a "silver" gun that Mrs. Foster noticed being packed as Mr. Foster was leaving for D.C.
It's possible. The thumb is inserted into the trigger guard and the rest of the fingers hold the grip. Anything involving the firearm points to a suicide. I haven't researched anything else involving this case other than the firearm and the ballistics.
ping for later read
Would you talk if you did?
What is undoubtedly true is that Foster was a Clinton insider from the Arkansas days and knew or had hard evidence of the Clinton's shady deals with Whitewater etc. Moving his body to the obscure park also gave Clinton operatives time to scour Foster's office and remove all incriminating evidence.
As for Foster's reported dalliance with Hillary, I would conclude this was possibly true. Bill's well documented stormy relationship with Hillary and frequent affairs would certainly give credence to Hillary looking good times elsewhere. The Clinton's are both products of the radical 1970s when free love was accepted behavior and I'm sure Hillary in her younger days had her share of affairs, even when living with Bill.
Someone must know Craig Livingston's whereabouts. Can you imagine what info he must be hiding under threat from the Beast?
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OSEC Congressional Testimony
Testimony of Robert Reich Secretary of Labor Before the Committee on Finance United States Senate [06/15/94]
Executive Summary
The Administration is determined to take all necessary steps to keep the pensions of workers and retirees safe and secure. The Retirement Protection Act is a comprehensive, balanced, and reasonable approach to the serious problem of pension underfunding that could threaten retirement security.
Most pension plans are well funded, but there is serious underfunding in certain industries. Underfunding doubled in the last six years, climbing to $53 billion in 1992. This presents an unacceptable risk for workers and retirees, particularly the 1.2 million people in plans of financially troubled companies. If their plans should terminate, they may lose benefits not covered by the PBGC guarantee. These underfunded plans also pose a risk to the PBGC, where the deficit now approaches $2.9 billion. Current law is not working.
Recent additional contributions by companies are not a cure. Pension underfunding is a chronic problem that will not go away without strong legal reform.
This legislation will strengthen our defined benefit pension system and improve PBGC's ability to protect it. At the same time, these reforms have been carefully crafted to be affordable. The Act will protect the pension benefits of American workers and retirees, while at the same time allow companies to continue in business, provide jobs, and contribute to the economy.
Now is the time to enact the pension reforms of the Retirement Protection Act. The growing trends in underfunding and the PBGC deficit are clear and irrefutable - and must be reversed. It is simple common sense to deal with these problems while they are still manageable. The forward movement in the economy presents us with a special opportunity to put our pension system on a sound footing.
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
I am pleased to appear before you today to discuss the Administration's pension reforms to assure retirement security for America's workers and retirees. This is indeed the time for reform.
When this Administration came to office, we heard the concerns that had been raised about the health of the pension system. I immediately appointed a high-level interagency Task Force to take a hard, careful look at the issue of benefit protection. The group worked intensively through 1993, defining the dimensions of the problem and the most effective way to address it.
We in the Administration are determined to take all necessary steps to keep the pensions of workers and retirees safe and secure. The Administration's legislative package, the Retirement Protection Act, is a comprehensive, balanced, and reasonable approach to the serious problem of pension underfunding that could threaten retirement security.
My message is simple. We should reform the system now. Our solutions, if pursued now, are reasonable and affordable. If we wait, the medicine that will be necessary will only be harder to swallow. The forward movement in the economy presents us with a special opportunity to put our pension system on a sound footing.
Mr. Chairman, this Committee has consistently led the way in assuring a sound retirement system for our nation's workers. Your leadership on this most important legislation is invaluable.
We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the anchor of our private pension system. In those 20 years, the private pension system has become a true American success story. Thanks to ERISA, millions of hard-working Americans have gained pension coverage, and those who were already covered have found that the promise of a benefit upon retirement has become a reality.
The PBGC plays an important role in safeguarding the nation's retirement system. The mainstay of our private retirement system is the defined benefit pension plan, the kind that offers set benefits to workers. The agency stands behind the promises of defined benefit plans and assures that most benefits will be paid to the workers who depend on them. It guarantees the benefits of 41 million workers and retirees in more than 65,000 pension plans. Today more than 346,000 people rely upon PBGC for their pensions. Those who are in our trust will continue to receive their benefits. For them as well as for others, we must keep the PBGC on a sound footing.
Most of the pension plans insured by the PBGC are well funded. The retirement system is a strong one, but there are growing chinks in the armor. Underfunding of pensions is persistent. In the last few years, underfunding has nearly doubled - from $27 billion in 1987 to $53 billion in 1992. This chronic underfunding can undermine our retirement system.
It is important to note that underfunding is concentrated in a few industries such as steel, automobile, tire manufacturing, and airlines.
Underfunding poses an unnecessary and unacceptable risk for workers and retirees. If their plans should terminate, they may lose benefits not covered by the PBGC guarantee.
These underfunded plans also pose a risk to the PBGC. PBGC's deficit now approaches $2.9 billion, and it is moving us in a direction that could have significant consequences. Indeed, the deficit has doubled in the last five years. At the same time, the insurance program - with more than $8 billion in assets - is not in immediate danger. Because PBGC's payments are spread out over many years, it can continue paying benefits for a long time. So long as chronic underfunding persists, however, the long-term health of the nation's pension system - and the insurance program that protects it - is uncertain.
Underfunding will not disappear of its own accord. Much of the build-up in underfunding is due to too much flexibility in our funding rules for those who wish to minimize contributions. Some employers, in fact, operating within the framework of current law, have been able to take contribution holidays even though their plans are severely underfunded. Underfunding will continue unless we close the avenues for companies to legally avoid their funding responsibilities.
In recent weeks, there has been positive news on pension funding. With encouragement from the PBGC, some companies have announced their intention to make additional pension contributions. This is to be applauded. Additional intermittent contributions will help, but they do not assure a cure. Underfunding is chronic and persistent, and it will continue unless there is systematic legal reform.
Now is the time to enact the pension reforms of the Retirement Protection Act. The growing trends in underfunding and the PBGC deficit are clear and irrefutable - and must be reversed. It is simple common sense to deal with these problems while they are still manageable. We cannot stand by and watch while the situation worsens.
The Retirement Protection Act is the product of a task force I established last year to address the concerns about benefit security and the PBGC. The comprehensive reforms we propose would mandate faster and more certain funding and would guarantee increased contributions to underfunded pension plans. If enacted, this legislation will eliminate the problem of chronic underfunding.
The legislation is designed to fix only what is broken. Fully funded plans would not be affected by our major reforms.
These reforms are carefully crafted to be affordable. The Act will protect the pension benefits of American workers and retirees, while at the same time allowing companies to continue in business, provide jobs, and contribute to the economy.
Strengthening the funding rules is the heart of our reform package. Current law permits as long as 30 years in some instances for companies to fund promised benefits. Given business realities, that is simply too long. We accelerate contributions to underfunded plans and eliminate the wiggle room that employers now have to avoid funding their plans. This should result in most new benefits being funded over five to seven years.
It is especially important that we require companies with underfunded plans to use realistic actuarial assumptions in determining funding. Companies with large amounts of underfunding have taken liberties with the flexibility now in the law to take contribution holidays.
At the same time, we want companies to move forward with their business. Thus, we have included in the legislation a special transition rule to protect employers from extraordinary increases in their annual contributions for up to seven years.
PBGC Compliance Authority
Stronger funding rules will not solve the whole problem. All too often we have seen companies undertake business transactions that endanger pension promises. For instance, a healthy corporation might sell off a subsidiary in poor health with an underfunded pension plan. Breaking the corporate tie can cut off the plan's only source of funding.
The reforms would give the PBGC the tools to enforce the law effectively and to assure that large employers remain responsible for their pension promises. Our proposals would require companies with large underfunded plans to provide PBGC with advance notice of certain transactions. When these transactions threaten the long-term health of pensions, PBGC would be allowed to apply to the federal courts for meaningful remedies. The proposals are carefully tailored to assure the continued pace of corporate transactions.
To further encourage better funding, we propose to phase out the cap on the variable rate premium paid by sponsors of underfunded plans. Plans that pose the greatest risk should pay their fair share. Companies with 80 percent of the underfunding now pay only a quarter of PBGC's total premium income. Under this proposal, they would pay half.
Participant Assistance
Finally, we will require employers with underfunded plans to provide their workers - in plain language - an explanation of their underfunded pension plan and the limits of PBGC's guarantee. Workers have every right to know whether their pensions are at risk. Only then can they make informed choices about their retirement and their future.
This is a strong, integrated package, carefully crafted to solve an identifiable problem. We need these reforms because current law simply is not working. Pension underfunding has swollen substantially since 1987, and the legal loopholes are putting retirees and the American taxpayer at risk. The Retirement Protection Act takes a firm, balanced approach that will strengthen our defined benefit pension system and improve PBGC's ability to protect it. The reforms will help assure funding of all vested benefits within 15 years and, based on prior PBGC experience, are forecast to eliminate PBGC's deficit within 10 years.
The time to fix the retirement system is now. This can only be done with this Committee's leadership. The Administration stands ready to work with Congress to expedite passage of this important legislation.


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In the end, the catbird won the battle of the blueberries.
For whatever unknown-to-me confluence of meteorological circumstances, 2012 has shaped up to be a great year for the native high-bush blueberry bushes that grow at the edge of the swamps near our house. I noticed the pale-green young berries late last month, and watched closely as they neared ripeness.
So too did a catbird or two, which I could hear unseen in the brush issuing warning cries when I lingered near the patch. The calls seemed to say, "Be gone. These are mine."
Time being what it is in the busy season at The Star, and with three children at home, there was little chance I would get to the berries. Yet one morning before the day got too hot, I put on long sleeves and boots and picked about half a pint's worth. I put my precious haul on the kitchen counter, a mistake, because I had to shoo off Lisa as she reached for a handful.
Regular readers may remember that it is about this time of the year that I begin to write about making jams, jellies, or preserves. Long ago, as I have said before, I gave up on making large batches of any one variety. Instead, I try to put up a jar or three of what comes into season as it comes into season.
So far, the shelf reserved for such things has a couple of jars of strawberry jam on it and a couple of sweet-pickled summer squash. Later will come beach plum jelly, wild grape jelly, black raspberry preserves, and, later still, canned tomatoes.
The blueberries, though I managed to cook them into jam on Saturday morning before shuttling off our eldest child to camp, will not take their place on the shelf. The few ounces of goodness they produced when boiled up with an equal weight of sugar are destined for immediate consumption.There will be none to follow.
By the time I made it back to the patch to pick anew, the catbird had stripped the branches bare.


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And the Queen agrees.
Before you go, here's an update of the things recently added to our Tag Sale page. Frequent re-decorators ring a bell?
I bought this scrumptious fabric from Shannon on a whim thinking I would change out my coral drapes for some greenies, but sadly the green doesn't go with my ceiling paint. So I have 5 yards of this cotton velvet to offer at an even more discounted price. I bought it for $30/yard but I'm willing to part with it at $20/yard. SOLD
Green is all the rage this year since Pantone marked Emerald as the Color of the Year for 2013. I was super inspired by these pics.
Also for sale are three glass globe pendant lights (hardwired). I originally purchased these from One Kings Lane and had them on our Tag Sale for $75/each but I need to get rid of them so I bumped them down to $45/each. Brand new! SOLD
Looky here! This super cool graffic wool Danish runner didn't work out for one of our client projects, so we're offering it at $400. Brand new!
Let me know if you are interested in anything, I might be willing to make a deal. :) Bethany [dot] Brower [at] gmail [dot] com.


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NEWARK — The Federal Aviation Administration says a United Airlines Boeing 787 flying from London to Houston was diverted to Newark because of a low engine oil indicator.
The FAA says United Airlines Flight 125 landed safely at 2:10 p.m. Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City.
Two days earlier, a United Boeing 787 en route to Tokyo from Denver was diverted to Seattle because of what the airline described as an oil filter issue.
United put its 787s back in service only one month ago.
In April, the government told airlines they could begin flying the new aircraft as soon as they revamped the problematic battery systems. The planes had been grounded for three months.
The FAA said it will look into the latest incident.
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Here is a code book question. Maybe a good laugh too. I live in New York State. I have a builder friend who is installing two propane fireplaces in his McMansion. He wants to install a return in the ceiling above said fireplaces and use his air handler in manual to circulate the 'free' heat throughout the house. Now keep in mind that there is 1 A/H for each of 2 floors and the A/H primary purpose is for A/C. I suggested that installing a hydro coil or a resistive heating element would be more economical, practical and safer than trying to Rube Goldberg this idea and try and capture the heat. Also, he is telling me that he wants to install a 14x30 register, (on the first floor) slap in a 7" flex and run this thing up a wall to the return, in the attic. Also making some kind of monster return so that it also feeds the 2 upstairs air handlers to put some heat up stairs as well. I understand what he is trying to do, but I don't think that it is practical, necessary or viable economically with all the work that is involved when weighed in with the expense versus benefits.
I think that the guy has a good idea, just not practial in my opinion or experiance.


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The Truckman GLS Hardtop for the Toyota Hilux is an opening bulkhead window of the Truckman Hardtop variation. This cab high top is made to be flush with your Toyota Hilux cab, therefore giving the appearance of being a continuation and the paint is colour coded to the Hilux Kielder Green paint codes which only complements the look further.
The Truckman GLS Hardtop for Toyota Hilux Features:
The Truckman GLS's opening bulkhead window allows maximum ventilation in the bed of the Toyota Hilux along with its sliding side windows and the tinted glass shields the load of your Toyota Hilux from view.
The Hardtop's automatic interior light illuminates the load of the Toyota Hilux when the tailgate door is opened. The GLS' vinyl lining helps to prevent condensation, working well alongside the heated rear screen feature.
The Truckman GLS's remote central locking for the tailgate works with the Toyota Hilux's key fob. This allows for the tailgate of the hardtop to be locked along with the doors of your Toyota Hilux and all wiring and fitting instructions are supplied.
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Facts and Myths About Chocolate
- MYTH: Chocolate raises cholesterol – No, studies support that dark chocolate can actually lower bad cholesterol when consumed in moderation.
- MYTH: Chocolate is high in caffeine – No, the average bar of chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine as a decaffeinated cup of coffee
- MYTH: Chocolate causes Acne – There is no scientific evidence to substantiate validity for this myth.
- MYTH: Chocolate is bad for you – No, chocolate is actually a great part of a healthy diet, as it is rich in antioxidants, which are shown to decrease the risk of heart disease and even slow aging. Dark chocolate is especially known to contain many health beneficial compounds.
- MYTH: Chocolate is chemically addictive – Based on scientific research, there is no pharmacological effect on the body which can result in a chemical addiction.
- FACT : Chocolate makes you feel good – Chocolate contains a chemical called phenyl thylamine that gives you a sense of euphoria, as it causes the release of specific pleasure inducing neurotransmitters.
- MYTH: Chocolate causes migraine headaches – There is no evidence of it, however if chocolate is a trigger food for headaches, you should omit it from your diet as with any other suspects.
How is chocolate made?
Here is a short clip explaining the production of chocolate :
Chocolate has a wonderful history and has captured our hearts since we became aware of its existence. With little negative health effects associated with it and a supreme taste, why not treat yourself with some of our fine Belgian Chocolates!


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Baseball Gets A New Look
GREENSBORO – On the day the North Carolina A&T baseball team's 2013 season came to an end with an 11-5 loss to Bethune-Cookman at the MEAC tournament on May 17, the starting lineup was center fielder Brandon Wilkerson, first baseman Kelvin Freeman, shortstop Luke Tendler, designated hitter Cameron Jergens, third baseman Mark Nales, left fielder Dairio Little, right fielder Dylan Hipp, catcher Stefan Jordan and second baseman Jevoanny Tolentino.
When the Aggies open the 2014 season, which will likely be on Feb. 15 instead of 14 because of inclement weather, their lineup will look very different. After witnessing the Aggies' 5.87 ERA and 129 errors – 54 more than their opponents – third-year head coach Joel Sanchez knew the team needed some fixes.
"Pitching and defense were the two areas where we definitely wanted to improve," said Sanchez. "But overall, as a whole, we were trying to upgrade at every level, every position. I think we have done that for the most part. We still don't have the depth we need. But overall, we have improved."
All five infielders will be different from what fans saw in 2013. Freshman Kyle Clary will start at third base. Next to him at shortstop will be another freshman in Timothy Ravare. Ravare played third and second base in high school, but Sanchez said the Los Angeles native earned the position during the fall.
Second base will be manned by junior college transfer Brandon Mitchell, while Jergens will go from DH to first baseman, replacing MLB draftee Kelvin Freeman. Junior college transfer Lester Salcedo will be behind the plate. He has the ability to gun down a team's base stealing attempts with a shutdown arm, according to Sanchez.
"Every year is different," said Sanchez about signing junior college transfers. "It all depends on where your shortcomings are. If you have an older group that's been around and can handle it, then you bring in freshmen. If you have an older group that's not been able to handle it, then you bring in junior college guys.
Every year is going to be different. We wanted to bring in some experienced junior college guys because we're looking to win right now. But we do have some freshmen who are going to play some key roles."
There will be some familiarity in the outfield. Tendler, an All-American senior, will go from being an infielder to play right field in 2014. Wilkerson, who had 85 putouts without an error last season, will go to left field while junior college transfer Ryan Hill will man center field.
"We brought in our type of player so to speak," said Sanchez. "We think it will be a scrappier bunch that's got more hustle. We're hoping the defense will be an upgrade, and we think we'll be a better baseball team fundamentally than we were the last couple of years."
Offensively, the Aggies relied on the power of Freeman, the 2013 MEAC Player of the Year. Freeman hit 16 of the Aggies 23 home runs, and his 59 RBI was 24 percent of A&T's run production in 2013. There will be more balance to A&T's offense this season, says Sanchez. A main component of that offense will still be Tendler, however.
Tendler is a career .350 hitter with 17 home runs, 142 RBI, 55 doubles and 17 triples. He has played several different positions in the infield and he has hit at the top, middle and bottom of the Aggies lineup.
"He is a hard-nosed kid, and he has always done what we've asked him to do," said Sanchez. "He's athletic enough to play anywhere. He's a scrapper who swings the bat well from the left side."
Jergens was also a big bat in the lineup last season. He was second on the team with 35 RBI. He also hit .294 with 10 doubles. The Aggies also have depth in the outfield with the return of Micah Carmony from Tommy John surgery. Bo McMillan drove in 13 runs last season and Dylan Hipp was tied for the team lead with 17 steals.
On the mound, the Aggies will turn to senior right-hander Tyler Boone to be the staff's ace on the weekends. Boone posted a 4-5 record, 43 strikeouts, 21 walks and a 3.78 ERA in 81 innings pitched. The other two weekend pitchers to open the season are junior college transfers Charles Cantrell (Saturdays) and Mitchell McQueen (Sundays). JUCO transfers Luke McCreesh and Brian Poag could also figure in the mix. There could also be a chance for Tendler to pick up some relief innings.
"You've got to go out there and throw strikes and give your defense a chance," said Sanchez. "The bottom line is you can't walk guys. Make them swing the bat. Make them put the ball in play and hope your defense makes plays for you."
The Aggies open the season at home against Temple with the rotation of Boone, Cantrell and McQueen. In fact, the Aggies first 11 games are at home, including a weekend series against archrival and conference foe N.C. Central March 1-3. There are a few things Sanchez wants to see by the time those first wave of home games are complete.
"We want to be able to establish a group of guys who can be our everyday guys," said Sanchez. "Defensively, we're hoping we can stick the regulars out there and they can have a set role. We want to be able to go into conference play knowing we've got a group of guys on the mound each weekend that we can truly depend on. At that point, we'll have a group of guys on the bench who can fill certain roles as needed because we've established our starting group."


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Florian was born in Austria in the 4th century about 250 A.D. in Cetium (now in Austria). The St. Florian commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on May 4th, was an officer of the Roman army. He advanced in the ranks and occupied a high administrative post in Noricum, now part of Austria. The saint suffered "death for the Faith" in the days of Diocletian. Although he became an officer of the Roman army, he didn't observe a "don't ask, don't tell" policy and confessed to his Christianity in anti-Christian times.
His legendary "Acts" state that he gave himself up at Lorch to the soldiers of Aquilinus, and the governor of Lorch, when they were rounding up the Christians. The Emperor Diocletian was shocked to learn that Florian did not carry out his orders to persecute all Christians in the area, and, thus, was sentenced to death by fire. Standing on the funeral pyre, Florian is reputed to have challenged the Roman soldiers to light the fire, saying "If you do, I will climb to heaven on the flames." Apprehensive to his words, instead of burning Florian, he was flogged and flayed after making the bold confession. He was twice scourged, half-flayed alive, set on fire, and finally thrown into the river Enns with a stone around his neck. His body was recovered by a pious woman, and he was buried honorably.
About 600 years later, sometime between 900-955, a monastery was erected near Florian's tomb, and subsequently the village of St. Florian grew up around it. His body, recovered and was eventually removed to the Augustinian Abbey of St. Florian, near Linz. St. Florian was adopted as patron saint of Poland after Pope Lucius III, in 1138, consented to the request of King Casimir of Poland and to the Bishop of Cracow, to send relics of Florian to that country. Since that time, St. Florian has been regarded as a patron of Poland as well as of Linz, Upper Austria and of firemen. Soon after, a person was saved from a fire by invoking St. Florian's name. Since then, Florian has been invoked against fire and has generally been regarded in most countries as the patron saint of the fire service.
Florian is associated with brewers because of a legendary incident in which he miraculously stopped a fire with a single pitcher of water. He is often depicted holding a pitcher. Florian is also the patron of chimney sweeps, Austria, Poland and soap boilers.
There has been popular devotion to St. Florian in many parts of central Europe, and the tradition as to his martyrdom, not far from the spot where the Enns flows into the Danube, is ancient and reliable. Many miracles of healing are attributed to his intercession and he is invoked as a powerful protector in danger from fire, and floods and against drowning. His feast day is May 4th.


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Frontieres: The Fantasia International Co-Production Market
In its inaugural 2012 edition, Frontières presented 14 projects, as well as 10 Off-Frontières projects, ailing from Quebec and Canada, the USA, Mexico, France, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
For its second edition, Frontières has curated a dozen standout genre film projects by filmmakers hailing from Canada, the United States and Europe. These projects will be featured in the co-production market, where the attached filmmakers and producers will be given a chance to meet with international producers, sales agents and distributors looking for projects to get involved with.
The Off-Frontières section will also make its return, to highlight a limited number of additional projects in a wider range of development stages. This selection should also allow for the inclusion of more Canadian and American projects, although international projects are also welcome.
To participate in Frontières, the selected projects had to be market premieres with a completed script and needed to be applicable to an international co-production environment where there is ideally be a Canadian production element (either in terms of production location, cast or crew, or post-production). They have a domestic producer attached, although some exceptions have bern made for exceptional talents looking to find a new producer. The Off-Frontières selection will allow for the inclusion of projects that did not fit all of these guidelines. The market is open to both seasoned directors and directors proposing their first feature film project. The directors are residents of either Canada, the United States or a European country.The Frontière line-up of projects has now been selected. They feature an exciting array of filmmakers, from gifted newcomers to world-renowned maestros, coupled with numerous established international producers. The selection of the second edition of the Frontières International Co-Production Market will consist of the 25 projects.
THE FRONTIÈRES PROJECTSCASTING THE RUNES (Canada / Germany / USA) Director: Joe Dante (The Hole, Gremlins) Writer: David Tully (Djinn) based on the Short Story by M.R. James Producers: Rob Heydon (Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy) Ecstasy Film, Daniela Tully (Djinn, Kaifeck Murder) Shivertownroad Films, Suzanne Berger (Rookie Blue) Rossetta Media Executive Producer: Tim Smythe (Djinn) FilmWorks Group Cast: Simon Pegg (Star Trek Into Darkness, Paul)
THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (France) Director: Richard Stanley (Dust Devil, Hardware) Writers: Richard Stanley & Scarlett Amaris (L'Autre Monde) based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft
DARK MATTER (Poland) Director: Andrzej Zulawski (Possession, La Femme publique) Writers : Andrzej Zulawski, Laurent Bonzon & Denis Bretin Producer: Marcin Wierzchoslawski (The Mole) Metro Films
FROST ISLAND (UK) Director: Michael Kinirons (first feature) Writer: Mia Ylönen Producer: Katie Holly (Citadel, Jump) Blinder Films
HARRY'S BLONDE (UK) Director / Writer: Caradog James (The Machine) Producer: Julie Baines (Triangle, Creep) Dan Films
THE LIGHTHOUSE (Spain) Writers: David Matamoros & Richard Hobley Producer: David Matamoros (Chrysalis) Zentropa International Spain
LE QUARTIER DES OUBLIÉS (Québec) Director / Writer: Izabel Grondin (first feature) based on a novel by Madeleine Robitaille
OKTOBERFLESH (Germany / USA) Director / Writer: Buddy Giovinazzo (Life is Hot in Cracktown, Combat Shock) Producer: Matthias Georg Nerlich (Manolo) and Christoph Ito Herrmann, Little Kong Films
SCHOOLBOYS IN DISGRACE (USA) Director / Writer: Bobcat Goldthwait (God Bless America, World's Greatest Dad) Producer: Andrew Tenenbaum, Creative Management and Productions Executive Producer: Raymond Douglas Davies Music and Lyrics by Ray Davies, The Kinks
SOUVENIR (Québec) Director / Writer: Alex Epstein (writer Bon Cop Bad Cop) Producer: Anne-Marie Gélinas (Mars et Avril, War Witch) EMA Films
STEALING IS BAD (Canada) Director / Writer: Jason Lapeyre (I Declare War, Cold Blooded) Producer: Randall Okita (Fish In Barrel, Portrait As A Random Act Of Violence)
THE VOID (Canada) Directors / Writers: Steven Kostanski & Jeremy Gillespie (Manborg) Producers: Colin Geddes & Peter Kuplowsky (Manborg) Ultra 8 Films Director of Photography: Karim Hussain (Antiviral, Hobo with a Shotgun)
THE OFF-FRONTIÈRES PROJECTSCANUXPLOITATION (USA) Director: Josh Johnson (Rewind This!)
DEAD MAX (Québec) Director: Patrick Boivin (Bunker) Writer: Randall Lobb Producer: Stéphane Tanguay (Jaloux) Productions Kinesis
EMERALD FALLS (Québec) Director: Boris Rodriguez (Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal) Writer: Phil M. Rosenberg
JUMBO (France) Director/Writer: Zoé Wittock (First Feature) Producer: Anaïs Bertrand (First Feature) Insolence Productions
RÉCLUSION (France) Director: Franck Richard (The Pack) Writers: Franck Richard and Florent Silieri Producer: Fares Ladjimi (The String) Mille et Une Productions
RESERVOIR HILL (New-Zealand) Directors/Producers: David Stubbs & Thomas Robins (Reservoir Hill: Everyone Lies) Writer: Martha Hardy-Ward Producer: Richard Fletcher (Tracker) Liberty Films
SPAWNING GROUND (Canada) Director: Michael Peterson Writers: Kevin Cockle and Michael Peterson Producers: Brendan Hunter (Lloyd the Conqueror), Brenda Lieberman (First Feature) Fresh Dog Productions
SHE WHO MUST BURN (Canada) Director: Larry Kent (The Bitter Ash) Writers : Larry Kent and Shane Twerdun Producer: Andrew Dunbar (First Feature) White Buffalo Films
SUBCULTURE (USA) Directors/Writers/Producers: Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (Dark Feed) The Rasmussen Brothers
THE CAR (Canada) Director/Writer/Producer: Sean McConville (Deadline) Frenzy Films
THE DARKNESS (Mexico) Director: Daniel Castro Zimbrón (Táu) Writers: Daniel Castro Zimbrón, David Pablos and Denis Languérand Producer: Pablo Zimbrón Alva (Táu) Varios Lobos Executive Producers: Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Mayra Espinosa Castro (First Feature) Velarium Arts
THE MORTUARY COLLECTION (USA) Director/Writer: Ryan Spindell (First Feature) Producers: Larry Fessenden (The Innkeepers), Brent Kunkle (Stake Land) Glass Eye Pix
UNKNOWN DELIVERY (Québec) Director/Writer/Producer: Maurice Devereaux (End of the Line) Les Productions Maurice Devereaux
The Fantasia Film MarketBeside the Directors, Screenwriters and Producers of the selected projects, we invite Producers looking for distinctive new projects to become involved with, Sales Agents looking for promising projects to pre-sell, Distributors looking to attach themselves early-on to projects, and Agents looking for new talent to represent to actively participate in the market.
The accreditations are now open . You can apply by contacting Dara Jade Moats, Accreditations Coordinator, at email@example.com. The deadline to be included in the Fantasia Industry Rendez-Vous Market Guide is June 21st, 2013.
THE FUTURE OF FRONTIÈRESWe are proud to announce the expansion of our Frontières International Co-Production Market to the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. Frontières will effectively become a circuit making a bridge between Montreal, in July, and Brussels, in April, respectively starting with their July 2013 and April 2014 editions.
This expansion was made possible by a strategic partnership between Fantasia, BIFFF and Vision-in-Motion that secured funding from the MEDIA Mundus program of the European Commission. Frontières is the only new initiative to be funded by the program this year. MEDIA Mundus supports the cooperation between audiovisual professionals in Europe and the rest of the world. Other events supported by the program include industry initiatives by the Toronto, Berlin, Copenhagen and Buenos Aires film festivals.
The consideration of co-production projects for the Brussels edition of Frontières will begin in November 2013.


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Many the Miles Sara Bareilles
This is a fairly easy piece if you have the capo on the 3rd fret. I would love to hear
I'm new at this.
Capo 3rd fret
G - 3x0003
Am7 - 002010
C - x32010 or (332010 how i like to play it)
[F]E5 [-]- [133211]x22xxx
A5 - x022xx
C5 - x355xx
G C/E Am7 C x2
Verse 1
[G]The[C/E]re's t[Am7]oo man[C]y things that I haven't done yet
There's too many sunsets, I haven't seen
You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down
You would've thought by now, I'd have learned something
G C/E Am7 C x2
Verse 2
[G]I m[C/E]ade up[Am7] my mi[C]nd when I was a young girl
I'd been given this one world, I won't worry it away
Now and again I lost sight of the good life
I get stuck in the l[G]ow [C/E]light
But then [F]love c[C/E]omes in
[G]How far do [C/E]I have to go to [F]get to you?[C/E]
Many the miles[G],[C/E] [Am7]
Many the miles[Am7] [C] Oh, oh
[G]How far do [C/E]I have to go to [G]get to you?[C/E]
Many the miles[G] [G/B] wooo
But send me the miles[C], and i'll be[G] happy t[C/E]o.[Am7] [C]
follow y[G]ou, lov[C/E]e[Am7] [C]
Verse 3 (same as other verses)
I do what I can wherever I end up
To keep giving my good love and spreading it around
Cause I've had my fair share of take care and goodbyes
I've learned how to cry, and I'm better for that
CHORUS (same as above)
Sing how far do I have to go to get to you
Many the miles, many the miles
How far do I have to go to get to you
Many the miles, oooh
Send me the miles and I'll be happy to, yeah
[G] [Em] [Am7] [C]
[G] [C/E] [Am7] [C]
[G] [Em] [Am7] [C]
[G] [Em] [F] [C/E]
Verse 4
[G] [E5]Red letter day; [A5] I'm in[C5] a blue mood
[G]Wishing that blue[E5] would, just [A5]carry me [C5]away
[G] I've been talking to God[C/E],
Don't know if its helping or [Am7]not, but surely[C] somethings got to,
[G] Got to, got to g[C/E]ive, 'cause I can't k[F]eep waiting to[C/E] live
Chorus X2
[G] Theres too [C/E]many things that I haven't don[Am7]e yet[C]
Too many suns[G]ets,[C/E] I ha[Am7]ven't seen
Hope you enjoy!
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Use this lovely and delicate flower headband to decorate your baby and make your baby look more adorable and lovely. This baby headband features elastic band adorned with flower shaped cloth. This headband is well designed for your babies, cuter and more attractive you babies will be!
- Baby flower headband, stylish and exquisite
- Features elastic band embellished with multicolor flower cloth
- Elastic band, comfortable to put on and take off, also, it fits for any babies
- Make your babies cuter and fashionable, it will bring much more compliment to your babies
- Head Circumference: Approx. 32cm / 12.6 inch (unstretched)
- Band Width: Approx. 8.5cm / 3.34 inch
- Flower Diameter: Approx. 9.5cm / 3.74 inch
- Material: Cotton (Knited fabric)
- Color: Colorful flower, light blue band
Package Includes:
- 1 x Headband
Note: Since the size above is measured by hand, the size of the actual item you received could be slightly different from the size above.Meanwhile, please be reminded that due to lighting effects, monitor's brightness / contrast settings etc, there could be some slight differences in the color tone of the pictures and the actual item.