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Bayfield visitors are showing an increasing interest in patronizing lodgings and businesses that are operating in an eco-friendly manner. Pinehurst Inn is very proud to provide premiere eco-friendly lodging. But how do potential visitors know whether the lodging they are considering is truly operating in a sustainable manner?
According to Eco-Green Hotel there are basic areas to probe including energy usage, sourcing of food and supplies and more. This is a good start. Those businesses that truly have sustainable operations will typically have this information on their website and be ready to share more detailed information when asked.
Travelers in Wisconsin can also learn about Wisconsin-based travel industry by checking out Travel Green Wisconsin, a tourism based certification program that rates the level of sustainable operations with a numerical rating system. Pinehurst Inn is pleased to have the highest score in the state as of this writing with a score of 140 points. And as of this writing, Bayfield has 40 Travel Green certified businesses. Bayfield and Pinehurst Inn are clearly great examples of eco-friendly tourism businesses and eco-friendly community.

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PHILADELPHIA — A Roman Catholic priest and ex-teacher charged with sexually assaulting an altar boy won't testify, and the trial will soon move to closing arguments.
The case hinges on the credibility of the accuser, a 24-year-old policeman's son and longtime heroin addict.
His accounts of being raped in about 1999 by the Rev. Charles Engelhardt, teacher Bernard Shero and a now-defrocked priest have changed significantly over time.
A church social worker has testified that the accuser initially said he'd been violently attacked for hours by one man, punched by another, and tied up by a third.
But jurors heard none of those details when the accuser testified last week.
Engelhardt and Shero have decided Thursday not to take the stand.
The accuser's complaint led to last year's landmark conviction of a church official, Monsignor William Lynn, for child endangerment.


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Brash Update #2: Hardening Rustler Slash Drive Shafts
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Wabtec will provide its Vital Electronic Train Management System (V-ETMS®), including its Commlink® and Train TraxTM products, for 109 cab cars and locomotives. In addition, Wabtec will provide back office engineering and systems integration support, as well as enhanced locomotive simulators.
The project represents the first use of interoperable PTC equipment in the transit industry under the U.S. Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, and Metrolink's goal is to have PTC implemented system-wide by the end of 2012, three years ahead of the federal mandate. The Metrolink system will be fully interoperable with PTC systems being implemented by Class 1 railroads.
"We're pleased to be working with Metrolink, Parsons and other industry suppliers on this important project," said Albert J. Neupaver, Wabtec's president and chief executive officer. "As PTC technology is deployed by other transit agencies around the U.S. over the next several years, Wabtec expects to play a significant role in the process."


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This scarf would have deserved a sunny day for picture taking, but there's no sun at all. It's like Narnia here!
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Celtic Waves Scarf finished!
This scarf would have deserved a sunny day for picture taking, but there's no sun at all. It's like Narnia here!
14 comments:
- Debi said...
It's absolutely beautiful Monika! Love that colorway!
- November 12, 2006 8:34 p.m.
Beautiful. Don't you just love that feather and fan pattern? It can even make dishcloth yarn look good. Of course that sea silk is yummy! I really enjoy your projects on your blog. Hope your canine baby is feeling better soon.
- November 12, 2006 9:14 p.m.
happy belated birthday, dear monika!
42- you are but a baby!
have a good year to come.
knitting bigger garments is fun, and a challenge! i wish you'd come to our circle at mary's yarns in unionville. we would certainly encourage and support AND you would inspire us with all your lovely knitting.
the scarf is gorgeous!
- November 12, 2006 9:51 p.m.
- jenneke said...
Beautifull colorway. Can only imagine how it will look in the sunlight. Great work on the socks too.
- November 13, 2006 3:23 a.m.
- Pat said...
Your Celtic Waves scarf is so so pretty. I really want to try some of that sea silk it looks luscious. No colds or flu for you this winter after absorbing all those wonderful sea vitamins. (Even though you hate blocking, you sure do a good job - those points are perfect!)
- November 13, 2006 8:55 a.m.
- Chrissy said...
I love the scarf! It always amazes me how versatile the sea silk is
- November 13, 2006 12:21 p.m.
- Petra said...
Wunderschön. Ich bin total begeistert von dem Schal.
LG Petra
- November 13, 2006 3:16 p.m.
- Connie said...
Your Sea Silk scarf is fantastic. I hate blocking too! But it's so worth it to get something like you've got!
- November 13, 2006 3:34 p.m.
- Martina said...
Wow and wonderful! The Pansy socks are great too! Glad to hear Sam is doing well!
- November 13, 2006 4:40 p.m.
- Violiknit said...
That is a beautiful scarf! The colors are great and they fit the pattern beautifully.
- November 13, 2006 7:34 p.m.
- Martina said...
I just noticed Sea Silk and Waves go together! I am sometimes easily amused!
- November 14, 2006 11:27 a.m.
- Melissa said...
Gorgeous! I love it!
- November 14, 2006 2:58 p.m.
- monica said...
the scarf is BEAUTIFUL!!!
- November 14, 2006 5:00 p.m.
- Dipsy D. said...
My gosh, this is beautiful! What a gorgeous colorway, and the pattern is just perfect too! And so are your socks from the previous entry - I'm totally stunned by the amazing work you're doing!
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Friday, January 28, 2011
In General awards and honors 1.28.11
Michael R. Jaff, DO, medical director of the MGH Vascular Center, has been named chairman of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Devices Dispute Resolution Panel. The role of this committee is to act as an unbiased group in resolving complex or contested issues surrounding the application of commercial sponsors for FDA approval of a device.
Tracy Batchelor, MD, MPH, executive director of the Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, received the Adult Clinical Research Award at the Society for Neuro-Oncology's 15th annual scientific meeting in Montreal. The award, co-sponsored by the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the National Brain Tumor Society, recognizes the best clinical research abstract submitted to the meeting. Batchelor presented the results from an international, randomized trial of a novel anti-angiogenic agent at the meeting.
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February 5, 2013 > Need Help in Coping with 'Restless Legs Syndrome'?
New Support Group Starting in February at Washington Hospital
It's the end of a long day. You are more than ready to get a good night's sleep. After you finally doze off, though, you wake up with a "creepy-crawly, itchy, burning" sensation in your legs that disrupts your slumber and seizes you with an uncontrollable urge to move your legs.Sound familiar?"Restless legs syndrome - also called RLS - is a disorder that may lead to serious sleep deprivation that can result in daytime sleepiness or fatigue," says Dr. Nitun Verma, a specialist in sleep medicine and medical director of Washington Township Center for Sleep Disorders. "People with RLS have uncomfortable sensations in their legs - and in some cases, their arms - that create an irresistible urge to move their limbs," he explains. "Only about 20 percent of RLS sufferers describe the sensations as 'painful.' More often, people say they experience sensations that are itchy, creeping, crawling, throbbing, tingling, gnawing or burning. I've even had patients who said it felt like they had soda water bubbling in the veins in their legs. While the sensations can occur during the daytime, they are most common at night after you have been lying down. People with RLS who can't sleep at night are the ones who suffer the most."The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that RLS may affect up to 10 percent of the U.S. population."That is a huge number of people who may need help with controlling their symptoms of RLS," Dr. Verma observes. "When we researched the resources for people who suffer from RLS, we discovered there were no support groups for RLS in the Bay Area. The nearest group is in Sacramento. So we decided it was time to offer a support group here at Washington Hospital."The first meeting of the Restless Legs Syndrome Support Group is scheduled for Tuesday, February 19 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The gathering will be held in the Conrad E. Anderson, M.D., Auditorium in the Washington West Building located at 2500 Mowry Avenue in Fremont."RLS is not yet fully understood, but it seems to be a neurological condition - more of a nerve issue than a muscle issue," says Dr. Verma. "Most often, RLS occurs in people who are older, but we've seen it even in 5-year-olds. It's an 'equal-opportunity' disorder that affects both men and women, although some studies indicate women may be slightly more likely to develop RLS. In some cases, RLS appears to run in families, especially when the condition starts at an early age. There currently is a lot of research being conducted to identify the causes of RLS."Dr. Verma, who is co-author of a discussion of restless legs syndrome in the online British medical journal "Epocrates," notes that while RLS is not a life-threatening disorder, it can significantly diminish a person's quality of life."Many people who have the symptoms of RLS don't bother to see a doctor because they assume that nothing can be done," he says. "Other times, they will go to the drug store seeking over-the-counter medications to treat their symptoms. Even those people who do see a doctor about their symptoms may not get the help they need because not all doctors are familiar with the condition. Instead, they might get prescriptions for sleep medications or muscle relaxants and keep trying medications that don't work."The first step in treating RLS, according to Dr. Verma, is to avoid substances that may be contributing to or aggravating the problem, including alcohol, caffeine and tobacco."You also should review all your medications with your doctor to see if any of those drugs could be part of the problem," he says. "Some sleep medications, anti-nausea drugs, allergy medicines with antihistamines, and anti-depressants have been shown to make RLS worse. "Your doctor also should provide proper treatment for any underlying medical condition that might be contributing to your symptoms - such as iron deficiency, diabetes, kidney disease, thyroid problems or Parkinson's disease," he adds. "It's also important to note that up to 26 percent of women who are pregnant may develop symptoms of RLS, but those usually go away on their own after the baby is delivered."Dr. Verma suggests a variety of other self-help treatments that may be useful in relieving RLS symptoms:* Massaging your legs with either your hands or a vibrating massage tool before you go to sleep.* Applying hot or cold compresses to affected limbs.* Taking a hot or cool bath, perhaps in a jetted tub.* Follow a regular exercise program - moderate exercise often helps, although overly strenuous exercise may aggravate symptoms.* Try to reduce the stress in your life, possibly with techniques such as yoga or meditation.For moderate to severe RLS symptoms that do not improve with lifestyle changes and self-help treatments - or that become increasingly worse - a doctor may prescribe various medications that could help. "If you are suffering from symptoms of RLS, you are definitely not alone," Dr. Verma emphasizes. "We hope this new support group will help people with RLS discover new ways to cope with this sometimes-debilitating disorder so they don't lose any more sleep over it."In addition to treating RLS, the Washington Township Center for Sleep Disorders can help people with other sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleepwalking and sleep disruptions related to menopause.To register for the Restless Legs Syndrome Support Group session on February 19, call (510) 744-6726. For more information about Washington Township Center for Sleep Disorders, visit www.washingtonsleep.com. To read Dr. Verma's discussion of restless legs syndrome in the British medical journal "Epocrates," please visit https://online.epocrates.com/u/291165/Restless+legs+syndrome.


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by Tyler Peck, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. –The Georgia College soccer team (7-6-1, 4-3-1 PBC) hung on to a spot inside the top-10 of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Southeast Regional Poll.
The Bobcats dropped a spot to eighth in the poll after losing to Peach Belt Conference (PBC) foes UNC Pembroke and Columbus State University.
GC is one of five PBC schools in the NSCAA Regional Rankings. Armstrong Atlantic and Columbus State continue to hold the top two spots, respectively for the third-straight week. UNC Pembroke moved up two spots to third while North Georgia fell three slots to seventh.
The 'Cats are on the road tonight (Wednesday, Oct. 27) against USC Aiken at 7 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/GCSUBobcats and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Submission + - Researchers develop genuine 3D camera (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: Cameras that can shoot 3D images are nothing new, but they don't really capture three dimensional moments at all — they actually record images in stereoscopic format, using two 2D images to create the illusion of depth. These photos and videos certainly offer a departure from their conventional two dimensional counterparts, but if you shift your view point, the picture remains the same. Researchers from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) hope to change all that with the development of a strange-looking camera that snaps 360 degrees of simultaneous images and then reconstructs the images in 3D.


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Saturday, May 13, 2006
I Smell Sequel
Former American Idol champ Kelly Clarkson went for a ride as well but we were unsure how she faired. Turns out...not so good. Clarkson needed an air sick bag and, by her own admission, "I felt so bad, because they had to clean up the plane."
We also learned Clarkson is a big Longhorn fan who reportedly needled Stoops during the pre-flight briefing. No word yet if Stoops and other members of his staff responded by singing "You've Lost That Loving Feeling."
7 comments:
- Boomer Sooner said...
thanks for putting Coach Bob Stoops the #1 college coach in America and Coach of the #1 OKLAHOMA SOONERS on your cover.
- May 12, 2006 8:44 PM
- Yost said...
Just showing the love, Boomer.
- May 12, 2006 9:53 PM
Good show MichiganZone, Hey, how about a home and home
- May 12, 2006 11:43 PM
- Yost said...
Boy, how awesome would that be? I would love to see Michigan, instead of playing ND each and every year, play a different traditional power each Sept (Ok, UGA, Florida, etc) in a home and home. THAT would be awesome.
- May 12, 2006 11:58 PM
- Jeremie said...
I flew in an F-4 once on a mild ride and almost blew chunks. Then again, flying in the back of a C-130 cargo plane with a chute strapped to your back isn't too comfortable on the tummy either.
- May 13, 2006 11:42 AM
- Yost said...
How the heck have you been?
- May 13, 2006 12:58 PM
- Jeremie said...
Lol, busy as crap. The facist regime known as school has been keeping WG any myself from living in a sane manner lately. But otherwise just fine...
- May 13, 2006 2:01 PM


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Samsung Ships Hybrid Hard Drives 118
writertype writes "ExtremeTech reports that Samsung has become the first company to begin shipping hybrid hard drives as discussed last fall on Slashdot. (Some photos here.) Unfortunately, there's no word yet (beyond 'soon') on when retail shipments will begin, or when (or if) 3.5-inch models will be available. Note that these hybrid drives are different than the ReadyBoost USB flash drives optimized for Vista; hybrid drives contain a smaller amount of flash, and work as a write cache for your notebook drive, extending battery life."


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Fayetteville Middle School is making it easier for area gifted students who want to nurture their academic talents by becoming an official EXPLORE testing site through the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP).
Duke TIP gives fourth, fifth and sixth grade students who are in the top five percent of their grade level the opportunity to gain recognition for their academic achievements, have access to online enrichment opportunities, receive exclusive publications and have contact with gifted education consultants, among other benefits. Additionally, the program allows these gifted students to take the EXPLORE test, an eighth-grade level assessment developed by ACT which provides additional insights into academic abilities.
In the past, local students had to travel as far as Murfreesboro or Nashville to take the test. With FMS being approved as an official site now, students in area schools systems are able to stay close to home.
"It's been a lot of work getting it started," said Kim Brewer, counselor at Fayetteville Middle School, who spearheaded the effort to gain site approval. "The process has taken four months, if not longer, to get to this point, but we wanted to make it more convenient for our parents and students … Our kids will be more comfortable in our school."
The testing center is not just for FMS students, but for any area student registered for the EXPLORE test who wants to test closer to home.
Eagin Evans, counselor at Highland Rim School who administers the Duke TIP there, joined Brewer in the effort and will act as a proctor when the first EXPLORE test is administered Saturday. Penny Monks, assistant principal of FMS, also provided much assistance and will serve as room supervisor, administering the test.
"We all just worked together," Brewer said of the team effort. "Penny Monks has been invaluable, as well as Eagin Evans at Highland Rim."
Parents of FMS students involved in the Duke TIP have been very involved and supportive of the TIP program, which is in its second year at FMS, Brewer said, noting 43 students are currently involved at her school.
"The parents of our students have been just wonderful," the counselor said. "My hat goes off to these parents for continuing to work as hard as they do."
The FMS testing center can handle up to 80 students for the EXPLORE test, although officials do not expect that many for the first test date this weekend – "I think it is definitely small enough to not make them (the students) feel overwhelmed," Brewer said. "We want it to be a very friendly and inviting place."
Parents of students taking the EXPLORE test are welcome to remain on site during the testing period to enjoy coffee and doughnuts in the school's library.
As an added benefit from FMS becoming a testing site, Brewer anticipates more gifted students will participate in the program next year as they hear from their peers about the rewards of the Duke TIP and the ease of the test-taking process. Parents interested in learning more about the Duke TIP or the EXPLORE test can visit www.tip.duke.edu for details.


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LONDON, Ont. — Two minuscule bloodstains found in the car and on a gym bag of a man charged with killing eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford contain DNA that can be matched with near certainty to the Ontario schoolgirl, a court heard Wednesday.
Lead forensic investigator Jennifer McLean testified she found the droplets — measuring only a few millimetres each — on the rubber moulding of the rear passenger door of a 2003 Honda Civic and on the bottom of a GoodLife gym bag belonging to the accused, Michael Rafferty.
Both were blood mixtures from at least two or three people.
The likelihood that one of the DNA profiles in the samples coming from someone other than Stafford is a one in a 150 trillion chance for the blood found in the car and one in 28 billion chance for the blood on the bag, McLean explained.
Further tests found that blood, highly probable Rafferty's, also was discovered on the bag found in the car, McLean said.
Rafferty, 31, has pleaded not guilty to abduction, sexual assault causing bodily harm and first-degree murder in the death of the Grade 3 student.
Stafford was last seen April 8, 2009, outside an elementary school in Woodstock, Ont., a city of 35,000 about 120 kilometres west of Toronto.
On July 19, 2009, her remains were found covered in garbage bags and buried under a rock pile in a rural clearing near Mount Forest, Ont.
An autopsy found she died from blunt force trauma to the head, most likely caused by multiple strikes with a hammer.
Two years ago Terri-Lynne McClintic, 21, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison for Stafford's death.
McLean explained that science could never prove exactly who the DNA belongs to with absolute certainty. Once investigators get a match, they can only provide the probability of the profile belonging to someone other than the person it matched for comparison. This is because it is impossible to run these tests against the DNA of everyone in the world, she said.
During this investigation, McLean told the court she and her colleagues at the Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto tested 84 items for DNA matches.
She looked for semen, saliva and blood and then compared it to DNA gathered from Rafferty and McClintic.
Samples of Stafford's DNA, which were taken from a tooth and a hair from a lice comb, also were used during the analysis.
McLean told the court she also found blood, believed to be McClintic's, mixed with semen, which she said likely belonged to Rafferty, on the front passenger seat of the dark blue spray-painted car.
The chances of it not belonging to the two are one in 11 trillion and one in 250 billion respectively, she testified.
Saliva, highly probable, she said, to be Rafferty's also was swabbed from the front driver's seat.
McLean told the court she also tested a number of other items for bodily fluids, including the Hannah Montana T-shirt in which Stafford's remains were found, along with samples from her body but due to the severe decomposition, no matches could be made.
Even the garbage bags used to wrap the girl were in a condition that made it nearly impossible to test it for DNA.
A number of photos of the Honda Civic, which was littered with clothing, shoes, a blanket and water bottles, also were shown to the court Wednesday.
It took forensic investigators nearly two days in May 2009 to remove all the items and to catalogue them at the Ontario Provincial Police facility in Tillsonburg, Ont.
Earlier, Barbara Doupe, an expert in hair and fibre evidence and textile damage assessment, told the court she recovered two blond hairs on a pea coat found in Rafferty's home.
It's unclear whose hair it was.
Doupe testified she also found a 3.5 cm by 0.5 cm piece of fabric in the rear floor of Rafferty's car that was "indistinguishable" from the fabric of a car seat. Scientists could not make any DNA matches on this evidence.
As the Crown's star witness, McClintic told the court last month, Stafford was covered with a black jacket and forced to crouch on the floor of the Honda during the more than two hours it took them to drive to Mount Forest.
McClintic testified that once they got to the rural clearing, she watched Rafferty rape the girl.
This sent her into a rage over her own childhood abuse leading her to use a hammer to fatally strike Stafford in the head, McClintic claimed.
She had also alleged that following the murder, she cut out pieces of the car back seat with a blue utility knife.
A knife missing a blade matching its description was recovered but the vehicle's back seat was never found.
On Wednesday, jurors also heard from Alexis Lane, a former girlfriend and classmate of Rafferty.
The 30-year-old woman said the two were childhood friends when they were both living in Drayton, Ont., a village south of Mount Forest.
"We were all friends," said Lane. "We talked on the phone all the time."
They reconnected in 2009 and dated for several months until April 1 that year — just days before Stafford was abducted.
The last time they saw each other was at the end of March, and she testified that she was driven around in his Honda a number of times.
"Everything was normal — clean," said Lane. She didn't recall the car's back seat missing.
The Crown will continue its case Thursday with more DNA evidence from McLean.


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This one in particular?
I'm intrigued by the description but it ain't cheap.
Go Bruins!!
Go Tigers!!
Go Pistons!!
Go Lions!!
Of course. In fact, over the past 5 years or so it's become the trendy thing to have. Sort of like Gruner Veltliner about 15 years ago.
I'm not sure that one is imported to the US right now. There have been a few tastings organized by the regional marketing group in attempts to find importers and a number of the producers have actually been picked up, so the wines from the area are easier to find.
The wines are a little pricy to my thinking. Many would have had to be around $40 or so on the shelf. The ones people are curious about are made from Savagnin and they're done in a manner similar to a fino sherry, but they're more expensive than a good fino and not quite as good. The interest is mostly the geek factor rather than the quality of the finished wine IMO. They're not fortified like sherry is so the alc levels are a little lower, but they're still pretty much up there.
"The best part is how he said the ENGLISH language. Fine irony. Use American next time."
Thanks Greg. If you don't mind, take a look at the link for this specific one - after reading your comments I'm not sure it is great value, but I am intrigued and would try it if I thought I'd like it even a bit.
Go Bruins!!
Go Tigers!!
Go Pistons!!
Go Lions!!
I haven't tried this particular wine but I have had Vin Jaune before and disliked it to such an extent that I couldn't finish the bottle. I used the remainder in a chicken recipe that was indigenous to the region.It tasted like nothing I'd ever had before or since.
bman, are you a fan of oxidative wines? Is it okay if they are oxidative and dry? If so then go for it. If not, it should be a major pass for you.
Our group had a Jura Chard done in the same style that is half the price if you wanted to try something similar out.
Agreed, I much prefer the fino sherries I've tasted.
I echo the comments of the others Bman. Very oxidative, unique, but not to my liking.
Yes I've had it on a few occasions. I've never felt any urge to purchase it myself, or serve it to anyone I like.
At one particular event the person who brought it spent most of the evening apologizing to everyone for his choice in bottles to bring.
Paul Romero (tlily)- Owner, Winemaker, Parking Attendant
Stefania Wine
So bman, I just looked thru some notes from 2010 and I tasted seven of that producer's wines and not a vin jaune. That winery is a co-op of some 120 growers - not a bad thing per se, and they're one of the larger producers in the region, but their wines weren't as good as some. At least to me. Their vin de paille was even a bit harsh.
Juravinum is another co-op but I found their wines overall a bit more elegant.
Better yet were some of the family operations, a few of them quite new. De la Borde for example, was started in 2003 and Daniel Dugois in 1983. Rolet and Desire Petit have been around for 80 and 60 years respectively.
Domaine Bourdy OTOH, is one of the oldest wine growing families in France, dating to the late 1400s.
Most are pretty hard to find. Puffney however, seems to be all over in NYC. I'd try one of those. But frankly, I like the Jura dry wines better for the most part.
"The best part is how he said the ENGLISH language. Fine irony. Use American next time."
love vin jaune, but just don't drink it enough. actually, tried a '88 Puffeney Vin Jaune on Saturday that was completely thrilling. amazing complexity and nuance to the palate with lots of orchard fruit, roasted nut flavors and spice.
while they aren't cheap as a genre, they're wildly under priced given their quality.
homogeneity is boring
A fascinating world of it's own, either you love it or you hate it.
There is nothing in our intelligence that has not passed by the senses. (Aristoteles)
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Five Things You Need to Know About Virtual Serverby Chris Sanders
Although server virtualization has been around for a long time, it is just now becoming a mainstream practice. The use of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 allows for an easier means of server consolidation, a more manageable security baseline, and a more flexible testing environment. In this article we'll ask and answer five basic questions about the Microsoft Virtual Server platform.
What is Virtual Server?
The first question you may ask is what exactly is Virtual Server? Simply put, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is Microsoft's implementation of a virtual server platform. This is a program that runs on a physical server, and allows you to create several virtual computers (known as virtual machines) that run on it independently. Whereas you typically have only one operating system running on a physical server, a virtual server allows you to have multiple operating systems running simultaneously.
Figure 1. Virtual Server allows multiple operating systems to run independently on one physical machine.
How Can Virtual Server Help You?
Here are the main benefits you can get by using a virtual server:
- Server Consolidation One of the biggest goals of a network administrator is to save money. This is exactly why server consolidation has become such a hot-button topic. Combining the roles of multiple servers into one is a much easier option with a virtual server. Using Virtual Server for a consolidation project makes more efficient use of system resources, provides a single point of centralized management, reduces total cost of ownership, and reduces network complexity.
- Legacy Application Support Unfortunately, sometimes we are bound to older hardware to support legacy applications. Using Virtual Server allows you to combine the role of a legacy application server with more up-to-date hardware by putting the legacy applications on a separate virtual machine.
- More Manageable Security Security is perhaps the biggest concern on any network. When your organization requires the use of servers with multiple roles, segmenting those roles onto different virtual machines on a single physical machine provides a lot more security options. In doing this, you can segment specific services to different network cards and define separate firewall rules for each.
- Excellent Test Environments One of the best things about Virtual Server is that the virtual machines you create can be completely separate from your production network. This means that you can create several virtual machines and even virtual networks that you can use for test purposes. In these virtual environments you can feel free to test new net-centric application and software rollouts without the risk of negative effects on the network.
How Do You Install Virtual Server?
One of the best things about Virtual Server is that it is a free download from Microsoft. Before you can install Virtual Server you will need to download it from the Microsoft Virtual Server page. Virtual Server has some minimal system requirements you will need to review before installation as well, which are viewable at the website. The only other thing you must consider before installation is that Microsoft Internet Information Services must be installed prior to the Virtual Server installation in order to access its administration website. Once you have done all of this, you are ready to install Virtual Server:
- Run the Virtual Server 2005 R2 setup file.
- On the initial screen you can choose to view the program's release notes. Once you have done this, click "Install Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2."
- Read the license agreement. If you agree to its terms, accept them, and click "Next."
- Enter the appropriate user name and company name for your organization and click "Next."
- On the following screen you can choose to completely install Virtual Server or do a custom installation. Choose "Complete" and click "Next."
- The next screen will allow you to change the port for which the IIS administration website for Virtual Server is configured. If you are installing Virtual Server on a Windows 2003 Server host operating system, the default port is 1024. At this portion of setup you can also specify whether the website should run as the currently authenticated user or under the local system account.
- On the following screen, you can specify whether or not you would like the setup program to create exceptions for the administration website in the Windows Firewall. If you do not check this box, you will need to make these changes yourself immediately following setup.
- Finally, click on the "Install" button to copy the application files and complete Virtual Server setup.
Figure 2. Configuring Virtual Server to use Internet Information Services
How Do You Administer Virtual Server?
All administration of your Virtual Server is done through the Virtual Server administration website. The address to reach this site is displayed on the installation summary web page that follows installation. This URL follows a standard format so that if you were to install Virtual Server on a computer named "CorporateVS" using port number 1024, the administration URL would be http://corporatevs:1024/VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe?view=1. You can access this website quickly by either adding the URL to your Favorites, or by accessing it via the Start Menu under Programs > Virtual Server > Virtual Server Administration Web Site.
How Do You Create a Virtual Machine?
After installing Virtual Server you are ready to create your first Virtual Machine. From the administration web page, click "Create" under the Virtual Machine heading. There are several configurable options here, and as you begin to learn more about Virtual Server, you should learn what all of them do. Go ahead and name the virtual machine and configure the options to your liking (or simply accept the defaults) and click the "Create" button.
After this, you will be brought to the status view of the virtual machine you just created. To start it, simply click the thumbnail icon representing the virtual machine. To access the virtual machine, you can click the same thumbnail again to take remote control of the system. At this point you have successfully created your virtual machine and can begin to install your guest operating system on it.
Figure 3. Creating a virtual machine
Although we have covered several things, we have really only scratched the surface of what Virtual Server is and what it is capable of. For more information regarding Virtual Server, check out its Microsoft home page.
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JACKSON (WILX)--Jackson has plans to demolish more than one-hundred homes in the coming months, and has made it very easy for the community to see exactly which homes and buildings are on that list.
City staff worked to put a map together using Google Maps because they wanted to make the interface familiar and easier to navigate for the interested public.
(Click on the link at the bottom of the story to view the map)
The map is broken down by all six wards, and you can zoom in to get a street view of the property. IT shows cost, type, and will soon show the report of condemnation.
It was created to help the city interact with the people of Jackson.
"I think one of the basic questions it makes it easy to answer is where are these houses that (the government) is talking about," said Scott TenBrink, U-M Community Project Manager.
"We want to get that information out in a more visible and intelligible way," said Derek Dobies, Vice Mayor.
By keeping the public informed the map is supposed to encourage more interaction with the city's government.
"The more citizens are engaged the better decisions we can make," said Dobies.
The goal is to have all a 104 homes demolished or fixed up by the end of 2014. The map will be updated as more homes are added and taken away.
"We have budgeted the money, assuming all the properties will be demolished," said newly elected Mayor Jason Smith.
"Text by Tip," where you can report crime anonymous via text is supposed to be the next interactive project in the works for the city of Jackson.


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WHILE Australian banks are still talking up the prospects of cross-selling non-bank products to their millions of customers in Britain, the strategy is decidedly on the nose.
Britain's banking industry faces a £13 billion ($19.9 billion) bill for the past mis-selling of payment protection insurance. More than a decade ago, British banks and credit card issuers thought they could make a lot of money cross-selling insurance to people taking out mortgages and credit cards.
However, since a review of the sector, rules have been tightened and backdated, and consumer advocacy groups have been encouraging consumers to seek compensation if they believe they had had no legitimate need for the product or had been wrongly excluded from making a claim. Not surprisingly, in a tough economic climate, thousands believe they have been mistreated. And, just as in Australia, a complaint to the ombudsman commonly results in a finding in the consumer's favour.
The amount so far set aside by 14 British banks, building societies and credit card companies stands at just short of £13 billion, making it the biggest mis-selling scandal in Britain ever.
The biggest bill is being shouldered by the Lloyds banking group, at just under £5.3 billion. National Australia Bank's besieged Yorkshire and Clydesdale subsidiaries have reportedly booked more than £100 million in provisions against the mis-selling of these products. A Melbourne-based spokeswoman was unable to comment.
Meanwhile another mis-selling problem is brewing in Britain over the sale of interest rate swaps to small business customers.
Such cross-sell nightmares are encouraging British banks to return to what they are supposedly good at: the extension of loans and the management of deposits.
It's a very different story back in Australia, where diversification in an environment of subdued credit growth is all the go.
For the most part, the banks have traditionally shied away from general insurance and investment banking.
But it's a different story in wealth management, where our major banks are gearing up for a fight to the death, having spent billions buying up the sector over the past decade or so.
The idea is that as net interest margins continue to fall they should look to build fee income from growing superannuation and discretionary investment balances.
ANZ recently launched its Smart Choice retail superannuation product, seemingly at a significantly lower margin than the current offering of competitors AMP and Westpac's BT.
ANZ says it wants its wealth management and private banking operations to make a material contribution to the total profit and market value of the bank from the less than 7 per cent it contributes at present.
It also wants to double the number of its salaried financial planners from 300 to 600 over the next two years.
"Our focus is to increase and scale our salaried planners so we can control the end-to-end consumer experience and better serve ANZ's customer base," said Joyce Phillips, ANZ's new head of global wealth and private banking division.
The bank has admitted that so far it had done a poor job of cross-selling wealth products to its 3.7 million customers.
The heads of the bigger independent wealth managers have always insisted that banks have never represented much competition.
One reason is that banks have typically targeted a mass affluent segment that is of little interest to independent players targeting the high net worth segment.
But there are other reasons. As a former chief executive of AXA Asia Pacific used to say: "People hate banks". In other words, consumers deal with banks because they have to, not because they want to. Traditionally customers have preferred to show their bank as little of their financial affairs as possible.
To make matters worse, big banks have never been able to retain wealth management staff or develop the sales culture required to sell, for instance, life insurance, which requires a very different culture to what is involved in extending credit.
Return on equity of the major banks from wealth management has nearly always been substandard. For instance, ANZ's is less than 10 per cent. And each has blown millions on failed IT projects.
Despite the impact of the Future of Financial Advice regime, affluent Australian investors will continue to gravitate to independent, specialist wealth managers, especially if these companies can offer some benefits of scale. Quality financial advisers will rarely align themselves with a big bank.
NB, big four: British banks' cross-selling days are over
WHILE Australian banks are still talking up the prospects of cross-selling non-bank products to their millions of customers in Britain, the strategy is decidedly on the nose.
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Also let's not pretend that killing civilians that are standing next to rocket launchers is the same as launching rockets randomly into a civilian population. It's just not the same.
Lastly, it's the Palestinian families that are at far greater risk. I grabbed this from an article posted 3 hours ago
Google says there are 1,657,155 people living in Gaza. And 7,765,700 living in Israel. That means a civilian in Gaza is 156+ times more likely to be killed in Gaza than in Israel ( (100+/1,657,155) / (3/7,765,700) ).Growing civilian toll
Overall, the offensive that began Wednesday killed 100 Palestinians, including 53 civilians, and wounded some 840 people, including 225 children, Gaza heath official Ashraf al-Kidra said.
On the Israeli side, three civilians have died from Palestinian rocket fire and dozens have been wounded. A rocket-defence system has intercepted hundreds of rockets bound for populated areas.
I don't understand how you can equate the two.


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Othello Senecharles performs in Cultural Park Theatre's current production of "A Chorus Line," which opens today. Show times are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with 3 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday. The show, being staged by the Creative Theater Workshop, runs through July 7. For tickets or information, call the box office at 772-5862 or visit culturalparktheater.com or creativetheaterworkshop.com. Cultural Park Theatre is at 528 Cultural Park Blvd. More photos are available online at: cu.cape-coral-daily-breeze.com.
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Real Talk: What Toddlers Love About Themselves
When I heard about Outer Beauty week, my first instinct was to tell you all about my awesome legs. I mean, I'm 5'9" and it's alllll leg. I've always felt pretty fortunate about that. Then Jen told me that everyone likes my daughter and her friends way more than me. So we thought that you'd like to hear what the little girls all love about themselves.
First, I let them choose their incognito names. We decided that they would all be one of the 12 dancing princesses, the Barbie version. Then, we sat down to talk about how beautiful we are. The general consensus is that we're all extraordinarily pretty. Seriously, this was an awesome group! I think groups of women should probably have more of these conversations, because the girls and I felt great after our's. Since I was dealing with youngsters, I reminded them first that they were all beautiful! Then I asked what they love about their beautiful selves. [ITPGallery]


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Hawaiian Dinner Rolls Recipe
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- 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, undrained
- 1/4 cup warm pineapple juice (70° to 80°)
- 1/4 cup water (70° to 80°)
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1/4 cup nonfat dry milk powder
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3-1/4 cups bread flour
- 2-1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- In bread machine pan, place the first 10 ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select dough setting (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1-2 tablespoons of water or flour if needed). Just before final kneading (your machine may audibly signal this), add coconut.
- When cycle is complete, turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes. Divide into 15 portions; roll each into a ball. Place in a greased 13x9-in. baking pan.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place for 45 minutes or until doubled. Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Yield: 15 rolls.
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"I made these for Thanksgiving dinner and everyone liked them. I followed suggestions from other reviewers and will make these again using their suggestions! I used 1/2 cup pineapple juice (no water), 4 1/2 c. flour, and left out the coconut as my family doesn't like the coconut texture. The rolls took awhile to make but were well worth the wait! I used the extras for turkey mini sandwiches the next day :) Excellent recipe--a keeper for sure!"
"Great texture. Could barely discern the pineapple, so next time will eliminate the water and add 1/2C pineapple juice. I also added 1 extra cup of flour and left out the coconut as my hubby hates coconut. Great!"
"These turned out well. The coconut and pineapple were not strong flavors at all. Like others, I had to add more flour."
"I may try to make this recipe again adding more flour. The dough was way too soft and they came out more like biscuits. I served with rootbeer pulled pork and the flavor was good with them, however, I didn't like the texture."
"These are wonderful rolls and I'll definitely be making them to go with our ham for Easter dinner."
"these are lovely rolls but need to add more flour any where to 4 - 4 1/2 cups other then that they are very good"
"These are the best rolls I've ever made. I didn't add the cocunut as I 'm not wild about it. I did have to add an extra cup of flour as they were mixing. But they came out wonderful. Sharled with friends and they loved them also. Will make over and over again. Nancy"
"We love these rolls. The only difference when I make is I have to add almost a whole cup more of flower but they always turn out great. I have pureed the pineapple before and that was good too if you don't want the chunks in there. Thanks for a great recipe!!"
"The best dinner roll I've found to date. These are excellent, just what I was looking for!"
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The city of Mt. Pleasant has started its grid street and cross connection project designed to alleviate Mission Street traffic congestion.
The first cross connection under development is a grid street that will run south of the Sears and Sherwin Williams plaza, connecting East Campus Drive to Mission Street.
�That�s really the first one that we�re working on,� Bill Mrdeza, community services and economic development director said. �We have an engineering firm on board right now.�
Mrdeza said the project will be funded through Mt. Pleasant�s Mission Street Downtown Development Authority funds, and the city has been working with the property owner to gain land access to create the easement.
The connection will be a two-lane street with 10-foot lanes, Mrdeza said.
The side street is still in its design phase, so the final plan has not yet been pinned down exactly, he said.
Mrdeza said the city is working to target areas of opportunity, and is talking with property owners who are interested in helping with the process.
�As property owners are interested in making cross connections, and we have the financial resources to help incent those to happen, we will begin to look at where (cross connections) were recommended ... and start working on the next one after this first grid street,� Mrdeza said.
Other proposed cross connections include a cross connection between Appian Way and Fairfield Drive, and a cross connection between Isabella Bank and the rebuild of the Mission Mall.
�We�re trying to alleviate some of the congestion Mission Street experiences by providing access to businesses in a way that shoppers and patrons to stores don�t have to enter Mission to go a block or two, and then get off at their next exit,� Mrdeza said.
Some of these connections would be easy, he said.
However, the city must have a property owner�s permission to perform any kind of work on their property.
Even if some connections make sense, Mrdeza said, the city does not have any jurisdiction to remove barriers or construct easements without property owner permission.
�The number one location that city staff have heard time and again in terms of a place that would be a natural location is exactly between the JCPenney/Target properties,� Mrdeza said. �We have to politely explain that we would love to see that happen if that was the desire of the two property owners to move in that direction.�
Target spokesperson Erika Winkels said she has not heard from Mt. Pleasant store leadership that there has ever been a request to have the fence removed.
�To be perfectly honest, anybody that I�ve talked to isn�t aware of any request to remove a fence,� she said.
Agree Realty Corporation, the Farmington Hills-based real estate corporation that owns the Central Michigan Commons shopping center, which houses JCPenney, could not be reached for comment.
Winkels said that if a request is ever put forward, the best contact would be the direct store on Bluegrass Road.
Randi Shaffer is a reporter at the Morning Sun. She can be reached at 989-779-6059, firstname.lastname@example.com or on Facebook at facebook.com/randi.shaffer.


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919191 (03-03-2013),OnBaseMachine (03-04-2013)
The closest you get is some arbitrary pitch count or innings increase. We are told numerous things about usage that can be disputed and are really just ignored. Like how Prior was never nearly as effective after 2003 (false), how no pitchers "today" would ever have innings increased like Prior did (false) or how guys like Webb, Johan and Peavy were treated properly and Arroyo was abused (maybe "true", but didn't really work out as anticipated).
I think it is pretty much common sense that more usage equals more wear and tear. But to try and assign specific blame to usage, mechanics or something else is pretty reckless. For every guy who was "abused" and eventually broke down we can likely find several who were "abused" and didn't break down, were babied and eventually broke down or broke down before ever getting the opportunity to get "abused".
I agree, it is prudent to be careful with pitching. Without a doubt. But to make claims about numbers of innings, pitches, etc is a stretch.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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For an introductory explanation of why pitch counts and innings limits have become common practice I would recommend Baseball Between the Numbers by Baseball Prospectus. There are many, many more studies on the subject available on FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus' website and pretty much any other sabermetric resource on the market.
Teams have been using innings limits in baseball for 30+ years, so this is nothing new. For a century it was standard practice for pitchers to throw 300 or even 400 innings per year. Here is a list of the league leaders in innings pitched per season. Eventually teams realized that pitchers performed much, much better when they were not worked so hard. In baseball history there have been 826 times where a pitcher threw 300+ innings in a single season. Know when the last time a pitcher hurled 300+ innings was? Steve Carlton way back in 1980, 33 years ago. It has been 25 years since a pitcher threw even 275 innings. Even before sabermetrics, people began to realize that a pitcher was much less effective as his pitch counts rose during a game. They also saw that players tended to get injured or have their performance suffer after a long game with a lot of pitches thrown.
Mark Prior had a 179 ERA+ in 2003 (one of the top 100 pitching performances in baseball history). His ERA+ in 2004 was only 110, which is a HUGE dropoff. His ERA+ in 2005 was only 120. He was still an above-average pitcher, but he was nowhere near the elite superstar he was in 2003. In 2006 his ERA+ was 65 and he only lasted 43 innings and then his career was over. So it is very clear that Mark Prior was never nearly as effective after 2003 despite your assertions to the contrary.
Pitchers today are not worked as hard as Mark Prior was in 2003. It is extremely rare for a pitcher to exceed 120 pitches in a game on a regular basis. It is also very uncommon to see pitchers get drastic increases in innings, especially when they are young. Once in a while it happens, but not nearly as often or to the same degree that used to be commonplace. This is one major reason why pitching is better across the board in today's game. Pitchers are more effective and throw harder than they ever have, largely because their arms are healthier and stronger because they are taken care of much better.
We can debate over exactly what the limits should be, but it isn't really debatable that limits are necessary and effective.
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Uhhh Baker is the reason why he is where he is. Probably not the best idea lol.That just tells me that Mark Prior doesn't understand what happened to him all of these years later.
Again...my argument isn't that pitch counts and usage limits are dumb. Quite the contrary It's more about how trying to link a specific 10 start stretch or even one season to an injury while ignoring everything else. Including human nature.
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Sports Illustrated published a short story about Prior signing to play with the Reds HERE. It sounds like his main issue has been control in the minors in recent seasons.
"I think were starting to get to the point where people are starting to get tired of this stretch of ball, Votto said. I think something needs to start changing and start going in a different direction. Im going to do my part to help make that change.
Anyone have any idea when he will get to throw this spring?
Assuming 5-7 starts lost to the change in rotation size would reduce inning load from 30 to 50 innings per season without even getting into pitch counts.
For every Koufax there was a Willie Davis, for every Marichal a Hal Lanier, in the span of 1963-1968 there were 36 regulars in MLB who had over 150 games played and a slugging percentage less than .400 and a on base percentage less than .300. in the years of 1953-1958 there were 4. The game had swung drastically to the other end of the spectrum in the years between 1953 and 1968, glove men with little on base skills or pop were all over the place, among them was perhaps the most wonderful outmaker of all, Hal Lanier.
Lanier came to the dish 1075 times in the 67-68 seasons and made an astonishing 871 outs, thats an out 76% of the time he batted. Of the 212 hits that he had 16% were extra bases, none home runs.
Laniers 1968 season produced the worst secondary average (The formula is (TB-H+BB+SB)/AB) in the history of the modern game, with his 1969 and 1967 season taking slots 3 and 4.
Meanwhile his teammate Juan Marichal was starting 64 games, piling up 528 innings pitched going 40-19 with a 2.56 era.
Ying and Yang I guess
If Ray Oyler had been just a little bit better, he could have qualified as being far worse than even Hal Lanier. If that makes any sense.
sorry we're boring
Any word from the Reds on whether they'll start him or put him in the pen?
League-wide innings reductions were not a by-product of switching to a five-man rotation, the opposite is true. Five man rotations were a by-product of teams wanting to reduce the workload of their pitchers.
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I suppose you'd have fit right in in Germany circa WWII.
Should we march in the streets? Organize a letter writing campaign? Print out a copy of the article and FedEx it to someone who is on trial for illegal sharing of music to use as a defense and hope that the court won't notice that the CEO admitted that his kids downloaded rather than shared music? Maybe we, or as many of us as would fit, hide in his bushes until he leaves for work in the morning and hit him with the face with a pie?
I don't know, maybe all of them.
Or maybe none.
Maybe it won't matter because it is going to be difficult to get enough people together who are fired up enough over the moral inconsistency found in the children of an RIAA company CEO downloading music while the RIAA prosecutes people who share music. I would guess that you will have a hard time getting very many people to pay attention to you long enough to even explain the situation to them, and without a large number of people getting involved neither Warner nor the RIAA nor the AP is going to care. Not while they have actual atrocities to report.
The only thing that will get attention is the thing no one seems to be able to do: Stop buying what Warner sells. Despite all the dander that geeks get up over **AA antics they do not seem to be able to prevent themselves from consuming their content, either by pirating it or by standing in line to see their movies, buy their games, consoles, music, etc.
There's a difference between being apathetic and choosing your battles. Am I upset that the CEO is showing blatant favoritism? Of course. Am I outraged to protest? Nope.
Let's just say that shouting and pointing fingers at how someone in power is using that power in unfair ways to minor effect (namely, if his kids got sued, they'd get the same "deal" as everyone else and the RIAA would make an additional $3,000 or so) is fairly unproductive.
Now, if I were someone who was being sued for downloading music, then I would have my lawyer get me off the hook on the technicality of the CEO's kids. That would serve two purposes: I would be free to go and make the RIAA pay my legal fees, and the matter would get very public attention (more so than Slashdot alone can provide).
On the other hand, if I'm sued for uploading music, that's a different story. He never claimed his kids were uploading music and it's fairly well-known that the RIAA doesn't really care about downloads if they can stop the uploaders there will be nothing left for others to download.
So again, you have to pick your fights and this is a very small one indeed to get too ruffled about. I'm much more concerned about corporate and political misbehaving that results in massive harm or damage to people in the U.S. and around the world. Everyone can take the high horse and say if they were king, they'd never bend the rules to help their own family and friends but most people would be lying when placed a real situation.
suing the people that are the suppliers for the downloaders
Do you have any idea at all how peer-to-peer networks work? Every downloader is an uploader as well.
There's nothing clever, fiendishly or otherwise, about their plan. It's really stupidly simple: sue enough people so that word gets around that if you download music, you'll be sued. Then people will (theoretically) stop downloading music.
The problem with their stupidly simple plan is that it's not working. Why? Among other reasons:
I'm sorry, but "clever" is not an adjective that I would apply to any company associated with the **AA. Fiendish? Yeah, I can live with that one.
Is that where they put that stupid frog?
(Of course this is off topic. So is the topic.)
The "Stern Talking-To" department.
If a band, regardless of popular, has made music that they like and have copied, they owe the band a good faith effort to pay for the music. What's so hard about that?
Because I made the copy and shared it. Thats good advertising. The right thing to do would be to compensate me for my time and effort. I think 1% of all future ticket sales is enough. I shouldn't have to come after the band for the money, they should do the right thing and send me the cut. Anything else is just dishonest.
See how this is all just points of view? Sad that money makes the "moral" point of view.
BTW: for this reason I only listen to and
As for me, I have to snicker that an industry that has so thoroughly attacked Judao-Christian morality is finally reaping the socialist entitlement mentality whirlwind that it has sewn.
Did we go and redefine socialist already? Because I don't think that word means what you think it means.
The most common complaints about the music biz are just the opposite. The commercialization of music, the willingness to do anything to make a buck, the aggressive marketing hype, the overpriced CDs, the glorification
Speaking in tautologies is one of the surest indicators that what's being said is dogma/indoctrination rather than reason.
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A Death Sentence?
Bye Bye, 1st Place 😦
I had a bad feeling about last night's game before it started. But when Mark Teixeira hit his MONSTER 2-run home run in the first, I was beginning to think otherwise.
My mistake.
I should have known better, considering the funk the offense has been in lately. You would think that getting on the board right away is a good thing. But the last few times the Yankees scored in the first inning, they LOST! Miserably. And last night was no different. I think 1st inning home runs are a death sentence for the Yanks.
Once the Blue Jays went ahead in the 4th, I became too disgusted to watch. I knew where this game was going: The Blue Jays would keep scoring, and their runs would be unanswered by the Yankees.
My Dad, whose TV remote-takeovers usually drive me up a wall, failed to disrupt me. He flipped the channel down to TCM to watch The Magnificent Seven, which is the typical thing that would make me go insane and scream at him to put the game back: It's an old movie, and a western nonetheless, that I have no interest in whatsoever. And there are no handsome young men in it. For me, it's boring.
But no. Last night was different. And I think my Dad was surprised that I didn't put up a fight about changing it back to the game. Instead, I sat there in despair, just thinking about what was wrong with my Yankees. And I was thinking about how those pesky Rays were probably winning. Again, I was right.
Every once in awhile, when my Dad thought something funny happened in the movie, he would laugh, and then look over at me to see if I laughed too. He didn't know I wasn't watching, but how would he? I looked like I was watching. I was sitting there staring at the screen while a bunch of cowboys did their thing. But my mind was in another place. I was too upset to even be angry. I was more sad than mad this time. I didn't even throw my shoe like I usually do when the Yankees play badly. No. I just sat there, wondering how this could happen to my sweet Yankees.
I didn't want to make my Dad feel bad, so when he laughed I smiled, even though I didn't know what was funny.
The Yankees need to start playing better, because this is getting unhealthy for me. I was actually IN the room while my Dad watched a western. Something is seriously wrong with me, and I don't like it. And these nightmarish thoughts of the Rays, the RAYS, in first place, above my Yankees…I don't even know what to say. That ugly uppity Upton (lol! an alliteration!) and those guys above my Yankees…yucky.
I can't help it, but I'm panicking. Should I be panicking? I mean, it's their first 3-game losing streak since June 16-18. 3 games is the longest losing streak they have had all year. That's not that bad, right? They are bound to break out of is sooner or later (preferably sooner).
Who am I kidding? Of COURSE they will get hot again. They have to. The team is too good to stay stinky for long. They have to win. They have a Championship to defend. It's a long season…and although we all like to think our teams are invincible, they are not. Slumps and stinky streaks happen – sometimes so badly that you don't even recognize your team anymore. But when it's all said and done, I think I know where my Yankees will be…


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The Big Picture: The Big Picture of Boston
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why do i have visuals of turning on the international news to scenes of multiple cosplayers being arrested on top of buildings. i will be disappointed now if it doesnt happen
Yeah, Boston! Hometown represent! Go Sox, Go Pats!
Good tour Bob and I love your accent, don't have one myself although my dad does. I went to the Museum of Science all the time as a kid and I actually have a picture and video of me being lifted up in a cage for the Van De Graaf generator to shock. Its actually pretty sick, I need to find it. Wish I could go to PAX this year but I'm poor and busy so I have no such luck.
It looks like a lovely city, thanks for the little tour Bob. Since I don't have much money and it would cost a lot to travel there, I won't be heading to Pax any time soon :(
I suspect most people at Pax East will be too busy being at PAX East to even see this video...
lol Hey bob you think that free T-rex statute is cool go to Drumheller Alberta Canada. they have statues like that on every street corner, no really and there one where you can climb up into its mouth and see all of the badlands surrounding the city.
Ok, what is the big deal with PAX Prime/East? I just don't get it. Both had about 70,000 attendees in 2011 (the most recent year I can get the stats from) whereas New York Comic Con had over 105,000 the same year. NYCC is the sister con for San Diego Comic Con (which is *the* Con), is way bigger than PAX, is held in a better city, and yet it gets hardly any attention anywhere. What's the deal with that?
P.S. - Red Sox suck. GO YANKEES!!
Thanks for the video, Bob! Boston is a wonderful city. You made me realize how much I miss the couple of summers I spent there.
Are you allowed to go to the children's museum if you are not a child or if you do not have children?
I ask because that place looks fun.
Very nice video, Bob. I get having that hometown pride when something you like is in town, like the GDC at San Francisco. I liked that joke on Assassin's Creed cosplayers. "Don't climb on the historic buildings!"
captcha: how likely do you feel that you might get shingles
"We have found the last Van Gogh, it is in Boston, commence operation Retrieve Lost Ear"
I expected Bob to be more portly. Also Boston looks allot like Amsterdam public transport wise. A bit less complex though with basically straight lines going everywhere from a central point.
How droll to see the lower class cities play at public transportation! They even have a Silver line instead of a Grey line. How the peasantry can be so upliftingly optimistic about common things.
More live-Bob during Big Picture, less echo during live-Bob and I think we got a good (fully optional) addiotion to the show, assuming it isn't too much extra-work.
A public service announcement addendum to this video: If you are not from the area, avoid getting on the purple commuter rail trains. These can lead you to areas outside of Interstate 495, which is where civilization ends until you reach New York, Chicago, Toronto, or Montreal. For reference: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Interstate_495_Massachusetts.png
Is it just me, or was his accent very noticeable in this episode?
Sorry all I got was a jumble of scenes from The Departed and Dropkick Murphys played just a bit too loud...
For anyone who cares:
Here is the folk song Bob was referencing. On a related note, Kingston Trio was effing awesome, and more people should listen to them.
I only spent a weekend in Boston and this really makes me want to back and check out some of the things I missed. I did walk the freedom trail and tried to take one of the walking tours but within 3 minutes my British-ness started to come out and I had to leave before the guide stabbed me.
In all though I really like the city and was impressed with the T, really easy to navigate.
I think that's the point, in an episode about Boston he's allowed to sound like a Bostonian.
I would like further episodes about Boston, this episode has been Bob at his best.
What, no mention of Cambridge at all? Bob, I'm disappointed in you.
I actually heard the song that Charlie is from. He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston. He's the man that never returned. He stays alive by eating sandwiches his wife hands him through the train's window. Why she doesn't give him the five cents he needs to get off, I don't know.
I've been to Boston and a tour of Fenway Park was the coolest thing I did there. Like, it was seriously awesome.
Wow... Bob looks a lot less cool than he sounds...
at least he has a face.......... >.>
OT: I was literally mindblown by this video Bob. Not because of what it contained (I couldn't careless about Boston... total waste of a video, never do something like this unless it actually has something to do with anything relevant), but because I FINALLY GOT TO SEE YOU!
Obviously that statue is there to celebrate Leif Erikson Day
You are blurry. Focus! (Actually, I think you accidentally have the background in focus and not you, I managed to do this on a fashion parade shoot yesterday, it is annoying since I lost a lot of good photos.)
I have heard quite a lot about Boston due to some people I know who live there. Watch out for a man in leather with matching bright-flourescent hair and beard, he will rip on you unmercilessly. Also wears a ski mask that is known to make cars crash on the road when he is a pedestrian.
A bit disappointed about the New England Aquarium, you will not be able to see "the guts of a turtal" http://www.kibo.com/photos/aquarium/
Some more tourist attractions
Sticking your arm up to the elbow into ET figurines at the Children's Museum
From the Boston Science Museum, the dude who runs the lightning generator used to rant about things "not being science"
Ask Don Sakland for a tour of the Boston Public Library
The Combat Zone is not really that big any more unfortunately (Chinatown area)
I've never been super interested in PAX, but now I really wanna go to Boston.
I remember Yahtzee once talked about how weird it was when Bob spoke outside of his presentation voice. Now I see why. You're voice is great and everything, I just need to get used to the actual voice and face behind the fabled Movie Bob.
Man, I really loved this Boston Bob-centric big picture episode (say that ten times fast!). I've always wanted to see the aquarium and the Gardens but knowing some of the other attractions just makes me want to visit more. My bestie does live in Mass. I wonder just how close to Boston she is..... hmmm
Great episode Bob, love the sarcastic humor, very my style.
I love how Bob's way of talking about the city and it's people make seem like nobody has any idea of what they're doing when they change something in the city "we made a statue in case of this... but never happened so we have a statue :D" Which just adds to how much I've wanted to visit Boston.
Yeah yeah that's all good but..
What about the ladies of Boston? Are they really ugly as the movie 'TED' says?
I've been really curious about that after watching the movie.
Boston seems like a pretty cool place to hang out though, with my Lakers jersey and Dodgers cap on.
So wait wait, hold on. in the 19th century, a bunch of people decided they might possibly find remnants of Norse settlements on the shores of Boston, so a bunch of Norwegians suggested they build a statue. Of an Icelander....
Oh America, will you ever change?
Boston seems like a nice big-small city...
I keep getting suprised about people mentioning never seeing his face. He does do two other web shows where his face is always on screen. "Game Overthinker" and "Overbytes"
I just watched this whole episode despite the fact that I'll probably never go to Boston, because MovieBob's accent is AWESOME!
Oh yah! Oh yah! Harda! Harda!
Edit: Seems like alot of people haven't seen Bob before, well there's more of him on the escapist expo vids, he even did a mario dance in one of them. Don't know if you can still find them on the website though.
Good rundown Bob. I live in New Hampshire, but I always loved visiting Boston. I've been to the science museum and aquarium more times than I can count. Mostly because at least once a year schools up here take a trip down and visit the place.
You also get this strange sense of how old everything is down there. I mean, it's not that strange, I do live in NH which is about as old. I guess there's a greater appreciation for history there, probably because Boston was the biggest city in the country during the Revolution.
PS: Faneuil Hall probably has some of the best food I've eaten in Boston.
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Suarez has started the 2012-13 season in scintillating form and leads the Premier League goalscoring charts having struck 10 times already.
His fine displays have led to speculation that Manchester City could make a bid in the New Year, but Werner insists that under no circumstances will the Uruguayan leave Anfield.
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"We made a long-term contract with him in the summer and we are going to see a lot of his play at Liverpool."
Werner is also confident that Brendan Rodgers will be able to add to his squad in the upcoming window after the club was criticised for its lack of arrivals over the summer.
"Our intention is to strengthen but actions will speak louder than words," he added. "That is certainly our intention though.
"We know that January is a challenging time and I don't want to say we've got X or Y player, but hopefully the fans will be pleased with what we do accomplish.
"I don't want to say more than I've said in that it is our intention to strengthen the squad. But our intention is to deliver is our priority."


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Another Dimension
October 2013
Released: 2012, Inferno Records
Rating: 4.0/5
Reviewer: JP
This month will be reviewing a number of releases on the small, but very cool French label, Inferno Records. There have a decent roster of about 20 bands from around the world that they release on vinyl, Cassette and CD. This month I will be reviewing releases by Axecutor (Brazil) Clenched Fist (Brazil), Death Rides a Horse (Denmark), Elvenstorm (France), Lady Beast (USA), Prime Evil (USA), Rampart (Bulgaria), Razorwyre (New Zealand). Please feel free to enjoy all the reviews in this feature.
In one sense I've felt that the New Zealand Metal scene suffers from some of the same disadvantages as Canada; namely, geographic isolation and small population base. One band that has surmounted these obstacles is Razorwyre. They started the band a few years ago with the unfortunate name of Gaywyre and made the logical change to Razorwyre. ANOTHER DIMENSION is their debut album, which came out in late 2012, and despite a plain name for the album, the album cover art is really cool. They have a cool, spiky logo in 'metal' font as well, so it all looks awesome.
Musically and sonically, Razorwyre is a fantastic slab o' steel. When I listen to ANOTHER DIMENSION I'm transported to back to the days of Noise Records and Banzai Records and bands like Iron Angel, Thrasher and Thrust, when bands dared to dance on the razors edge of Speed, Power and Thrash all in one amped up version of Priest and Maiden. The 10 songs run 42 minutes and every cut is top notch.
The lyrics on ANOTHER DIMENSION are above average with tales of war and glory. The lyrics have a distinct historical slant with songs about WWII (Desert Inferno) and a very cool song called 'The Fort' which is a surviving member of the French Foreign Legion who survived a zombie attack on Fort Louie Philippe in North Africa in 1893. Zombies are Metal. Another absolute highlight track for me is 'Fight Or Be Fucked'. Now, with a title like that you would think the lyrics might not be that deep. Truth be told the song title doesn't really match the story of a pair of snipers. The songs simple pounding beat, soaring vocals and gang chants of 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' are just superb! What takes this cut from good to great is about the 2:45 mark the song switches gear and almost becomes a whole new song with a long-ish slow part, right where a conventional song might have a solo. At the 5:00 minute mark or so the song takes off again and races to the finish line.
The vocals of Z-Chylde are excellent, lots of range, power and high notes as he weaves the aforementioned tales of high adventure. The guitar work of Chris Calavrias is exciting with some good solos as well. Razorwyre have really put out a very special debut and I hope more people get to enjoy this album that should appeal to a wide variety of Metal fans.
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1. The Conjuror (Shaman's Wrath)
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June/July 2002
The Internet allows people to interact with others who share social or sexual interests, or completely reinvent yourself.
Behind your screen name you can bend your gender, talk nasty, check out the action on Web-cam sites, cruise Internet back alleys, download porn, and play out all your sexual fantasies.
Having fantasy sex over the Internet with someone you may never even see in person is called cybersex. And if the Internet doesn't lead to a real-time sexual encounter, it may be the safest safe sex of all.
But cybersex is not without risks and dangers.
Most Avoid AddictionDid you know that there are more than 300,000 adult sites, cybersex sites and chat rooms? According to a well known study, between 80 percent and 90 percent of people who cruise the net for sex don't get hooked. Dr. Al Cooper, a psychologist who teaches at Stanford University, concluded that about 1 percent of the respondents could be classified as true "cybersex compulsives," spending more than 11 hours a week on online sex.
Of 20 million people who visit sex-oriented sites each month, approximately 200,000 people may be using the Internet in a sexually compulsive manner. Women, gay men and other "sexually disenfranchised" groups were particularly at risk for Internet sex addiction.
Researchers found that compulsives have more problems with relationships and jobs than casual visitors of X-rated sites. Research also indicated that 20 percent of men and 12 percent of women use their workplace computer to access online sexual material and that six out of every 100 employees admitted that their work computers were their primary method for accessing online sexual material. According to Robert Weiss, clinical director of the Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles, half of the 125 patients his center treats each week have an Internet component to their compulsive sexual behavior.
It's All in Our HeadsJust what is addiction as it relates to the Internet?
Addiction is more than chemical dependency on drugs and alcohol. It can also be a response to stimulating, pleasure-producing areas of the brain. Our brain circuits are wired so that behaviors needed for our survival, such as eating and sex, are pleasurable. The release of neurotransmitters to the pleasure receptor sites of our brains rewards us. This neuron high can be achieved not only by drugs or alcohol but also by running, meditation, yoga, courting danger, thrill-seeking, or even gambling.
But when it comes to stimulating the brain's pleasure centers, nothing compares to sex. Our sex pleasure circuits serve one of our strongest and most primal needs -- survival of the species! For some people sex can become as compulsive as smoking crack cocaine or using heroin is for others. A generic definition of addiction is a chronic compulsive seeking to engage in a behavior in spite of that behavior leading to life-damaging consequences, including the erosion of self-esteem.
Serious real-world consequences of cybersex can include:
Risk for Infection RisesResults of separate studies found that people who look for sex partners online may be at a higher risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS, than those who meet each other in a more conventional way.
Studies also show that people who sought Internet sex were more likely to have other risk factors for getting sexually transmitted disease. For example, they were more likely to have had an STD previously, and they had more partners than people who didn't look for sex online.
A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta surveyed 856 people who sought HIV testing at the Denver Public Health and Testing Site in Colorado. Nearly one in six said they had logged on to the Web to seek real-time sex partners. Two-thirds of the people in this group had initiated successful sexual contact and one in four had met more than three partners using the Internet.
They also found online sex seekers were more likely to have had a previous STD and had greater numbers of partners than offline clients. Nearly one in three (28.9 percent) of online sex-seekers reported exposure to someone known to be HIV-positive.
A syphilis study conducted in San Francisco reinforced the role of the Internet in sexual risk-taking behavior. While admitting that their findings were not necessarily representative of wider populations, researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association said: "Seeking sex on the Internet may be a potential risk factor for STD/HIV and that these data underscore the need for development of strategies to promote STD/HIV prevention among online seekers."
This is not to imply that there is anything wrong with cybersex. Sex is wonderful, and the Internet is a new fact of modern life. But being aware of the risks and dangers is important.
The Internet allows people to be much more readily consumed by an involvement with sexually explicit materials than they otherwise would be, said David N. Greenfield, head of the Center for Addiction Studies in West Hartford, Conn. If you suspect that you have a problem with Internet sex addiction, a number of avenues are open to you (see "Resources" below).
Recovery from sexual addiction is possible. With help, there's a 70-percent chance of arresting self-destructive behavior.
Sexual Recovery Institute
National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity
Cybersex Chat Addicts Anonymous
Sexaholics Anonymous
Sexual Addicts Anonymous
Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Sexual Recovery Anonymous
Recovering Couples Anonymous
Back to the June/July 2002 issue of Positive Living.
This article was provided by AIDS Project Los Angeles. It is a part of the publication Positive Living.
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Vel Phillips, civil rights pioneer and community activist, will be the honored guest at the October 26 Fall LEO Reception as the first inductee into the UW Law School Trailblazer Walkway.
The purpose of the walkway is to honor those who have made significant contributions to the Law School. Located on the third floor atrium catwalk, the display will provide a visual history of where the school has been and how far we have come.
Vel Phillips, who built a career of "firsts" as both a woman and an African-American in Wisconsin, is truly a trailblazer. In 1951, she became the first African-American woman to obtain a law degree from the University of Wisconsin. She was the first African-American and the first woman elected to Milwaukee's Common Council in 1956. In 1971, she was appointed by Governor Patrick J. Lucey to the Milwaukee County judiciary, becoming the first woman judge in Milwaukee County and the first African-American judge in Wisconsin.
In 1978, Phillips again made history by being the first woman and first African-American elected as the Secretary of State in Wisconsin. She remains the highest-ranking African-American to win state office in Wisconsin.
Today, Vel continues to be a champion of equality in the community and devotes her time and energy to those in the greatest need. In 2006, the Vel Phillips Foundation was created with a purpose of providing scholarships to minority students and grants to organizations that focus on social justice projects, educational initiatives, employment issues and equality in housing.
She will be honored at the Fall LEO Banquet, which will take place Wednesday, October 26, from 4:00 p.m. to 6 p.m. at UW Law School in Lubar Commons, Room 7200.
To RSVP, contact Jini Jasti at 608-263-7906 or email@example.com.
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D.J. Ogilvie did not want just a win for his Lemon Bay High varsity football team in the annual spring game.
The Manta Rays third-year coach wanted a victory for his entire program.
With Ogilvie and offensive coordinator Sean Huber in the huddle calling the plays, Lemon Bay's third-string offense went 80 yards in 15 plays.
Freshman quarterback Jeremy Snook going over from a yard out with 7.7 seconds remaining to give the Manta Rays a 17-14 victory over North Port on Thursday night at Veterans Stadium.
"Everybody knows about their ones and making sure they are ready," said Ogilvie, who had a prearranged agreement to be on the field with the offense in the fourth quarter. "We want to try to make the whole program, 1 through 55, know our offense and know our defense. That was accomplished."
After the Bobcats missed a 41-yard field goal, Lemon Bay converted three third-down plays, including a 27-yard pass from Snook to Rob Blem that put the ball on the North Port 5-yard line. Snook went in two plays later.
"It's great for our program they had success," Ogilvie said of the reserves. "It was a program effort. It wasn't just the ones or the varsity, it's the whole team. I'm very proud of that they stepped in there and did a good job."
North Port, which had only 11 practices leading up to the contest moved up because of Lemon Bay's graduation Friday, had taken a 14-10 lead on the strength of its reserves.
Malik Bryant had 36 yards in a 52-yard drive, including the final 3 with 10:16 left in the fourth quarter to give the Bobcats their first lead of the night at 14-10.
"We didn't use a whole lot," North Port first-year coach Billy Huthman said. "We didn't get in a whole lot. We just tried staying basic.
"We're not using that as an excuse. We've got to fire off a little more. It was like we were waiting for something to happen, instead of making something happen."
The game with no kickoffs or punts was deadlocked at 7 at halftime.
Lemon Bay scored on its fourth possession with Bob Caspolich diving into the end zone from 3 yards out with 4:44 remaining before halftime.
North Port tied it on a 2-yard run by rising senior quarterback Trenton White with less than 2 minutes before intermission.
The Manta Rays broke the deadlock in the third quarter when Haden Hoggarth capped a 15-yard drive with a 41-yard field goal.
"I told them from the first day of spring, play with great effort, 1 through 55," Ogilvie said. "That's all we asked. Everything else we can work on. But if they give us their best effort for 6 seconds, that's what we'll take. From what I saw that was true for the most part."
North Port had the only three turnovers of the game. Austin Saunier and Christian Vanderveer picked off passes and Bryan Borrego recovered a fumble.
"We got everybody in," Huthman said. "I was proud to see some of our young guys to evaluate them."
The Bobcats will return to practice next week, including the Blue-Silver game.
"It's going to be a competition all week," Huthman said. "We'll get a little bit of fire out there and still get to work a lot on developing."


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You're about to get your own business up and running. You've worked out all the basic details and have dotted all your I's and crossed all your T's on the necessary paperwork. You've handled all the setup for your office or storefront. Now you just have to finish one more simple little thing, your business card.
Although it may sound simple, like most things involved in creative graphic services, there are good ways and bad ways to design your business cards. And sometimes, even the smallest things can make all the difference.
Use readable fonts for your text, If the font is also somewhat attractive looking, that is good as well. But readability comes first.
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Fonts that may look interesting but can be difficult to read can be a major turnoff to potential clients/customers.
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MIRVAC has set off alarm bells for the property sector after taking a $273.2 million write-down in its residential business following bad weather and weaker sales.
It brings the tally of write-downs for the group to $980 million over the past five years. The cuts were made from Perth and Queensland apartment projects and land and house packages.
Analysts at CLSA said write-downs in residential businesses would be a "recurring theme" for this reporting season.
But the new chief executive at Mirvac, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, said the impact of the cuts was not expected to change the group's forecast full-year earnings.
Ms Lloyd-Hurwitz reaffirmed that Mirvac remained on track to deliver 2013 earnings per security in line with guidance at 10.7¢ to 10.8¢ and a distribution of 8.5¢ to 8.7¢ per security. Mirvac releases its half-year result next Thursday.
She said the problem projects were now considered in the "old world" and were for sale. "Some of these projects decisions you would not make today, they were made in a different part of the cycle," she said.
"We are very focused on what we do today and how we create value for security holders. I will outline the strategy at next week's results."
The trigger for the cuts was falling prices and sales over the past six months, showing that a recovery was not likely any time soon.
Analysts said the majority of the write-downs were in the apartments sector, with the land impairment focused on one project between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Elsewhere, Australand on Thursday reported a rise in profits of 5 per cent to $142 million for the full year.
The result was marginally ahead of expectations, with analysts saying it reflected an improvement in margins in the residential operations.
Goldman Sachs analyst Peter Zuk said his earnings and price targets for Australand were under review.
Overall, earnings before interest and tax for the residential division were up 16 per cent, in line with guidance, and while sales volumes were down on the previous corresponding period, contracts on hand rose by 24 per cent.
Australand's managing director Bob Johnston said the full-year distribution was 21.5¢ and forecast the same for this year.
He said the results would be skewed to the second half as some residential projects were settled.
GPT made a non-binding and indicative offer in December for Australand's commercial and industrial assets. Mr Johnston declined to comment on whether other parties had approached Australand after the board rejected the GPT offer.
Australand's largest shareholder, CapitaLand, has said its holding is under review.
"We rejected the proposal as it did not adequately compensate security holders for the transaction costs, structural inefficiencies and uncertainty as to the trading value of the residential business," Mr Johnston said.
Mirvac property hit by $273m write-down
MIRVAC has set off alarm bells for the property sector after taking a $273.2 million write-down in its residential business following bad weather and weaker sales.
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