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"Weak minded"? "Heart of a champion"? Why? Because you don't like his postgame press conferences where he's told to say nothing just like his head coach and GM?
Mark Sanchez' turnovers happen for a simple reason that everyone likes to overlook- he's trying to make a play while running for his life. And when you don't have playmaking receivers and you instead have a porous offensive line, it's all over anyway.
Mark Sanchez is a symptom, not the problem.
many of this so called comebacks had to be combeacks because Sanchez turnovers and bad play put the team in a hole in the first place
He no longer was getting good protection. He no longer had reliable receivers. He no longer had a running game. Didn't see it back when Tannenbaum made the decisions, but there was no gas in the tank for the two older guys and Hunter fell to pieces.
That Ravens game looks like something significant, but the Jets went 6-3 thereafter and were sitting at 8-5 with 3 to play. It wasn't a single event but rather the slow erosion of the WR's and RB's at the end of last season combined with the brutal miscalculation of offensive talent at the start of this season that ruined Mark Sanchez.
That is why, again, I am in the court of letting Mark get another season with a proper offensive coordinator and proper weapons. Mark's undoing coincided precisely when all his skill players aged and/or were cut. That's not coincidence in my book. Not like he failed with the same set of guys he succeeded with. The need to stack this defense cost us all the money/picks/focus needed to stack the offense. Mark is a symptom of a bigger problem.
He was drafted to be a franchise QB in a system that doesn't depend on the vertical game. If Ryan needed the second-coming of Dan Marino, he never would have been drafted. Period.
Rex Ryan waited too long to pull the plug. Rex Ryan can't coach his way out of a paper bag. Rex Ryan is coaching to save his job, you'll see him do a lot of desperate and silly things this month, the McElroy move being the first of many.
If Rex Ryan were such a great head coach, he wouldn't need to "light a spark" in the 3rd quarter of a game at home against a lousy western team 10 days after being humiliated on a national holiday. Rex Ryan can't motivate his players. That's the Jets problem stretching back to late 2009 to this very day.
See, after they lost back to back AFCCG's they made the playoffs two more times before fading to losing records and oblivion. For us, the fade was more like a cliff.
It also bears stating that we weren't some strong dynasty of any sort. Lucky to get to 9-7 the first time, very fortunate to get to 11-5 the next. What we were was a great playoff team. We've always been a lousy regular season team.
You get a narrow window to do something in the NFL, ours closed. Many reasons why, but it did. Everything we do now has to be geared towards 2015 when Brady and Belichick are gone and maybe, just maybe, our new head coach will be worth a damn.
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29th in completion percentage 54.8%
23 Jason Campbell
24 Kyle Orton
25 Donovan McNabb
26 Matt Cassel
27 Ryan Fitzpatrick
28 Kerry Collins
29 Mark Sanchez
30 Jimmy Clausen
31 Derek Anderson
26th in yards per attempt 6.49 yards
23 Matt Hasselbeck
24 Chad Henne
25 Kerry Collins
26 Mark Sanchez
27 Matt Ryan
28 Shaun Hill
29 Derek Anderson
27th ranked QB rating with 75.3
24 Donovan McNabb
25 Sam Bradford
26 Chad Henne
27 Mark Sanchez
28 Matt Hasselbeck
29 Brett Favre
30 Derek Anderson
Football outsiders stats placed him 22nd http://footballoutsiders.com/stats/qb2010
Besides the 4th quarter comeback statistic, by any other metric Sanchez wasn't even an average staring QB in 2010 despite the talent surrounding him.
That's what we saw out of Sanchez in 2010; he flashed that same style. It was reasonable to expect growth. But something went wrong. The team got worse. We know that. He got worse. Chicken? Egg?
We'll never know.
I felt that way last year, but this year, it looks more careless. The fumbles, in particular. He's in his 4th year as a pro QB, and he's absolutely lousy at securing the football when he's being hit. That's bad coaching and/or poor personal discipline.
Also, some of the interceptions have been unforced, and his pocket awareness has declined precipitously. He looks scared back there, seems to have lost his ability to step away from pressure.
Perhaps the Jets molded him into these traits, but they are still his traits.
We didn't score a TD in the entire preseason. We knew we had significant problems at WR, RB, and OL to go along with a banged-up TE and no depth at any offensive position way back in July.
Not sure why the current state of the Jets offense is a shock to anyone.
The real shock is that the supposed "best defense ever....best group of players I've been around including the 2000 Ravens" is WORSE than last year.
The real shock is that our "best special teams coach who ever lived" is WORSE than ever in his history.
The real shock is that Tim Tebow is a bust and did nothing but hurt our quarterback and slow down our offense.
The real shock is how bad Tony Sparano is at offensive coordination.
The real shock is that our "best mind in the game, seeing a sleep specialist, having leadership conferences, I've changed" head coach is coaching WORSE than he has since he's been here.
But no, everyone wants to talk about Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Mark Sanchez.
Enough. Our QB is a lousy head case. Check. Got it. Let's talk about the real problems now. Being in denial and thinking the only issue is the quarterback gets us nowhere.
@ Denver: Jets tied at 10-10 in second half as defense allows a long drive for a TD to make it 17-10 Broncos. Jets tie it again at 17-17 and defense again allows long drive for a FG to fall behind 20-17 with 3:55 to go. Mark Sanchez comes down the field, LT scores with a minute left, Jets win 24-17.
Houston: Jets up 23-7 in the 4th quarter, defense gives up 2 TD's and 2 FG's in under 12 minutes wind up down 27-23 with under a minute to go. Sanchez leads a :45 second drive and hits the game winning TD with :10 seconds left.
@ Cleveland: Jets up 20-13 with 2:42 left, the defense lets Colt McCoy go 90 yards to tie it. Sanchez wins it in OT to Holmes.
I don't know, you tell me. What world are YOU watching the games in? Maybe your broadcasts come in from the rest of the world, eh?
Sar, please explain to me how you used to term "deliberately" in the correct sense:
Your back is to the wall. I will retract my use of the word "agenda" if you just admit you are playing verbal bullying games, and have lost wrt to Sanchez.If you drew up a strategy to deliberately f-ck up your first round franchise quarterback after watching him go 4-2 in the playoffs, you couldn't have executed it any better if you tried.
How about we just stop making excuses for him, the number one reason Mark Sanchez is screwed up is.....Mark Sanchez.


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Gabe Finger, an intern at the Daily Caller was sent to the WH press briefing today. In a polite, respectful tone, the young man (who states his age is 16) asked for comment on the safety and security of George Zimmerman and his family:
Because of the death threats being received by George Zimmerman and his parents, is the President going to take any action for his security, or are they on their own?
The gathered corporate Liberal media laughed, dismissing the young man. It only became an issue when others outside the Beltway Bubble began praising the young man for asking the question that speaks to the manufactured cultural divide on this issue that emanated from the White House itself, that the fauxrage machine got activated and they felt the need to circle the wagons and excoriate this young man and the Daily Caller for disrepecting the White House by sending an intern to cover the daily Kabuki theatre that is now Jay Carneys Press Briefing Room.
WASHINGTON White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed a question Wednesday regarding the safety of George Zimmerman and his parents as ridiculous.
Asked by The Daily Caller during the daily press briefing whether the president intends to take any action to protect the Zimmermans in light of the many death threats the family has received Carney laughed and said, Well, I think I would refer you to Florida authorities. Im not aware of that story. But, you know, the president has called for echoing the statements of Trayvon Martins family for calm and reflection in the wake of the verdict. And that continues to be his position. He certainly would oppose any violence.
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Healy's tough love steels Wade
Some tough love from Ian Healy has spurred Matthew Wade on to go "up a level" ahead of Australia's one-day clash with Sri Lanka at the Gabba on Friday.
Wade admitted it was tempting to be "grumpy" after hearing Healy's criticism of his technique behind the stumps this summer on Melbourne radio last week.
Australian team-mate David Warner had even gone into bat for Wade, describing Healy's comments as "a bit sad".
However, Wade said he had not only cleared the air with the ex-Test keeper but flew up to Brisbane ahead of the team on Tuesday to work on problem areas with Healy.
"I suppose it would have been easy for me to get grumpy about it but I took it on board and tried to work on a few things," Wade said in Brisbane on Wednesday.
"I took it as constructive (criticism) to be honest.
"I flew up a couple of hours earlier yesterday and went and had a coffee with him and had a catch.
"I just went through a few different bits and pieces."
Healy criticised Wade's "elementary mistakes" during the summer Tests, after the keeper fluffed some chances, namely off spinner Nathan Lyon which let centurions Graeme Smith and Faf du Plessis help South Africa secure a second-Test draw in Adelaide.
"I rang him straight away and had a chat to him about it. He was a bit disappointed about what had been written and said," Wade said.
"I am sure he will call me up next time and deliver it straight to me.
"(But) he is one of the greatest keepers who has ever played. His feedback is always welcome."
Extra motivation
It was not just Healy's thoughts that have motivated Wade ahead of game three against Sri Lanka.
Wade said it was time to step up his game as he neared his one year anniversary in the national set-up.
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"From this point onwards I will look to go up a level."
Wade has been brought back into the one-day squad along with captain Michael Clarke and star batsman David Warner as part of the Australian selectors' controversial rotation policy.
Wade claimed their inclusion "wouldn't have (made) much of a difference" in their last game, Sunday's eight-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in Adelaide.
He denied he was "looking over his shoulder" with ex-Test keeper Brad Haddin also in the squad, albeit on the sideline resting a hamstring complaint.
However Wade joked that opener Phil Hughes was now a threat to him as well, after Hughes filled in behind the stumps for the injured Haddin in Adelaide.
"He said to me just then at breakfast he might take my spot," Wade joked.
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But where can I buy these cheap lighting systems? If they're cheap enough for a yurt, I can probably get a payment plan.
A lot of the work is being done by http://www.lightingafrica.org/ [lightingafrica.org] and you can look at the member list there. It's pretty unwieldy, since Africa is a giant continent, but the article itself mentions at least two companies:
http://www.fireflyledlight.com/ [fireflyledlight.com]
http://www.huskpowersystems.com/ [huskpowersystems.com]
A 4W LED will produce approx the same amount of light as a 4.5 - 5W CFL bulb or a 15 - 20W incandescent bulb, in other words, enough to stop you tripping over things when you go to the bathroom at night, but not really any use for anything more than that.
Not correct. A 25 watt CFL is about the same amount of light as a 60 watt incandescant. A 4 watt LED is roughly the same; LEDs are about as much more efficient than CFLs as CFLs are as incandescents.
CFLs and LEDs are about the same (unless you want to use only green LEDs): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy#Examples_2 [wikipedia.org]
I'm not sure I agree on your efficiency there. I have replaced 60+W incandescents with the curly CFLs that used something like 15W and am now replacing THOSE with LED that use 8W and are rated as "40W replacements". Except that they produce as much or more light than the CFL in the right fixture! In one case in particular the change in brightness was striking and a very large improvement.
I am using the $30 Sylvania "Ultra LED" lights which are new and part of their High Performance Series. Lowes, in the US, sells these cheaper than anyone I've found BTW. In a "can" fixture in the ceiling in my bathroom they proved to light instantly as compared to the slow glow curlies and to provide MORE light. In the light fixtures on my porch however they proved too directional and created bad shadows. In my normal bathroom sconces they work awesome and in my nightstand lamp they also work great. Used in a freestanding torch sort of light they threw too sharp a shadow line as most of the light went up and not out. I have yet to find one of either CFL or LEF that can replace a single bright 100W incandescent in a ceiling fan I have.
I have begun using some other LEDs in a pendant fixture that used to use incandescent and it's working okay but not as well as the Sylvania bulbs. The LED is a much whiter\bluer light than CFL in my experience so far but they are WAY cooler and use way less juice. The cost is a bit rude but so far they seem to be holding up very well - for the price they had better.
In any case for efficiency I'd argue on the side of LED over CFL for sure based on my experience. Perhaps if I wasn't driving them from 120v mains that wouldn't be the case and I realize that in the case of running them off of a battery they aren't using 120v. I'd still argue for LED though since they are much less fragile!
What I'd really like to know is how well the Sylvania Ultra LED floods work. The price of admission has been too high for me to try them yet but if they work well I have several 150Watt floods I'd LOVE to dump! These are on motion sensors and swapping them so high in the air would be a chore but the overall cost savings long term might be worth it if someone could vouch that they don't suck
I looked at LED bulbs here http://www.clasohlson.co.uk/product/category.aspx?category=light+bulbs:LEDs&id=88601375&_path=251882;85177594;88601372;88601375 [clasohlson.co.uk]
CFL bulbs here http://www.clasohlson.co.uk/product/category.aspx?category=light+bulbs:energy+saving+bulbs&id=88601373&_path=251882;85177594;88601372;88601373 [clasohlson.co.uk]
and incandescents here
http://www.clasohlson.co.uk/product/category.aspx?category=light+bulbs:incandescent+bulbs&id=88601377&_path=251882;85177594;88601372;88601377 [clasohlson.co.uk]
Never hurts, but do keep in mind when discussing mercury that simply smashing the CFLs upon EOL (not recommended btw) releases less mercury than would be released by a coal-fired powerplant powering incandescent lights over the same time period. Just something to think about - a lot of people really bring the hate to CFLs over that concern.
A 4W LED will produce approx the same amount of light as a 4.5 - 5W CFL bulb or a 15 - 20W incandescent bulb, in other words, enough to stop you tripping over things when you go to the bathroom at night, but not really any use for anything more than that.
I recently purchased some 7W LEDs GU10 Halogen replacements and was told, over the phone, that the conversion factor you should use is 8x. Now they are installed, I'd say that seems a reasonable rule of thumb.
The real reason poverty is so rampant in Africa, however, is not the lack of after-sundown lighting, it's the rampant corruption, preventing anything worthwhile from getting done without copious bribes to numerous officials and people of 'importance'.
Extending education time is laudable, but without addressing the foremost cause of the retardation of development, it's not going to make that big a difference whilst corruption is so widespread and entrenched.
A 4W LED will produce approx the same amount of light as a 4.5 - 5W CFL bulb or a 15 - 20W incandescent bulb, in other words, enough to stop you tripping over things when you go to the bathroom at night, but not really any use for anything more than that.
I don't know what a yurt is, but I'm guessing it doesn't have a bathroom.
You can buy one at Ikea for twenty bucks, and they will give another one to Unicef.
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/about_ikea/our_responsibility/ikea_social_initiative/sunnan_lamp_campaign.html [ikea.com]
A yurt is essentially a surface biogas chamber. Owing mainly to the yak milk they drink all year long.
"I keep seeing these stories about how some poor sod is able to light his house with HE solar lights. But that is kind of trivial."
Really? Turn off all your lights and leave them that way as an experiment.
I hate to break it to you but torches aren't as convenient as the ones in Minecraft (although real-world gamma isn't as screwed up as MC's).
The West had oil lamps long before gas lamps but that didn't stop the brighter but differently-dangerous gas lights from replacing oil lamps. It didn't take long for the much brighter AND safer electric light to replace gas lights.
Any sort of combustion based light (or heat) source is going to give off soot and smoke and carries the risk of easily setting things on fire. None of those are healthy for humans. They also give off limited amounts of light while consuming relatively expensive fuel (do you use the fuel for light or for cooking?).
Clean energy for cooking would probably better than lighting but lighting takes a lot less energy than cooking so if you've only got a handful of watts to work with lighting is the obvious choice.
Especially if you live in a place where you can broil something by putting it in a tinfoil U or black box at noon...
Solar ovens work great in most of the 3rd world and provide essentially free energy for cooking on most days. Sadly they don't seem as well known as solar panels and LEDs.
I suppose of the problems is securing your food while you're gone for the day. Don't want to come home to a nicely fed neighbor and an empty oven.
If you RFTA, it is saving him the money he used to spend fueling his kerosene lamp, and it is more environmentally friendly, and he can recharge his new cell phone with it, which was the main reason for getting the thing.
RTFA is a crime on Slashdot
Reminds me of the "No-Kero"(sene) initiative, for providing solar-powered lamps to poor homes. While it doesn't provide an option to charge your cellphones, it does help eliminate Kerosene-related problems. Also, they are in a single handy, sturdy package, unlike the rather complex solar setup described in the article. They have been installed in places like Kenya and donated to the flood-affected areas of Pakistan.
The current problem is how to mass produce these to avail econo
No. Lighting is the first thing that these poor people need. With lighting they get an extra 4 to 6 hours in a day where they can effectively work in their home without the fuel costs that traditional lighting involves. Like the article said, one woman with the lights noticed her children had dramatically improved grades because they had the opportunity to study at home.
But... but... didn't you know? The only barrier to affluence in Africa is the tragic dearth of blenders and powersaws! Every day, you hear it in the villages and in the countryside, the yearning for a Black and Decker...
"I keep seeing these stories.."
If you'd actually _read_ the fucking stories, you'd know that torches don't grow on trees, or more accurately that all the trees have already been removed for torches. Lanterns need fuel, available only after several hours of traveling and paying up several middlemen and they burn toddlers and risk burning the whole house or village down.
The saved fuel pays for the LED systems.
Lanterns need fuel, available only after several hours of traveling and paying up several middlemen and they burn toddlers and risk burning the whole house or village down.
Wait, wait... They burn toddlers in Kenya for fuel? Man that's harsh
They are useful amounts of powers. Lighting and communications (i.e., power for mobile or radio) are the most useful things that need electricity.
Don't underestimate the importance of having interior light after sundown. In many villages, it is impossible to do any reading or studying since there is no artificial light.
I don't understand. Why don't they just switch from e-ink readers to LCD tablets?
"I don't understand. Why don't they just switch from e-ink readers to LCD tablets?"
We'll call that comment the "Marie Antoinette response".
Woop de doo, poor people in impoverished countries can now spend their entire savings purchasing the solar panels needed to light a few rooms when it's not cloudy outside.
Still doesn't change the fact that, by disallowing them to use the massive amounts of coal under their feet, we're disallowing them to build infrastructure and means of production so that they can accumulate capital. They need to be more than plain consumers to bring themselves up to our standards of living, and for that they need cheap, p
Infrastructure requires stability, something that is lacking in those areas.
...of you, to not know about the central problem of development we've been discovering since the 1960's. By the 90's, it was accepted wisdom and changes slowly began to be made, despite all the money to be made from selling them hydroelectric dams.
You see, attempting to catapult unready societies into the late industrial revolution from a 1700's-era starting point kept failing and failing and failing. Books like "The Road to Hell" by aid professional Michael Maren and "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins brought out how so much of that "aid" was to benefit the givers, not the receivers. Perkins was particularly damning about hydroelectric dams and power stations being built all over the world with "aid" money all those loans that went into default. It was a straightforward recipe:
(1) Bogus economic study of how the country would blossom and prosper if only they had power, a market would explode as soon as it was available, and the national or World Bank loan would be paid back in years. (Perkins' job - he goes over it in detail for Ecuador and Indonesia).
(2) Local "400 families" get extravagant cuts of the action, of course, and they approve the deal, being also the government.
(3) Dam is built, Western engineering firms do well, 400 families do well, local people are bumped off the reservoir land, sometimes at gunpoint, etc.
(4) No market actually arises, country wasn't ready after all, loan goes into default.
(5) People of country end up with higher taxes and lower services for about 40 years to pay back World Bank and IMF.
High capital investments come with high risk. You can substitute "coal-fired" for "hydroelectric" if you like, it actually makes it worse since you now have to develop TWO major plants - a coal mine and a power station - with a populace that has trouble keeping a local chlorine-drip 1-man water treatment plant running reliably.
We built up to a massively centralized economy with small numbers of very large stations and plants and factories and so forth for power and materiel production, only after more than a century of slowly scaling up from very small distributed ones. We thought we could take them straight to Big Industry, and we were wrong. And it was not an "honest mistake"; the decision to try that at all was highly affected by the profits to be made just attempting it, because others had to pay the price for the error.
I agree. The thing I find so funny is how the write up claims this trend is now "exploding".
I remember reading about small bio gas setups in India in the 80s and maybe the 70s. Small solar lights? Yes leds make that a lot more practical.
But to be honest large dams do tend to do more than just make power. They can help with seasonal flooding and with irrigation.
The can also cause other eco problems as well so they are not all sunshine and bunnies.
Your "exploding' in the 70's and 80's was like the "explosive growth" of Apple II computer sales, into the hundreds of thousands, then, gasp Millions, at the same time. The exponential was slower for this than computers, though. We are now up to the start of the "explosive" growth of the IBM PC DOS era when the cheap clones hit, mid-80's. Still to come: the "explosive" growth after Win95 and the Internet made everybody get one. I'm predicting that for post-2015 when the LED's have really dropped in pr
But biogas systems have not changed in a very long time. The pick up on these really seems to be too slow and I would love to know the reason why.
Solar plus LEDs make perfect sense but biogas?
Heck a BBC sitcom from from the 70s involved a couple with a biogas powered generator in the basment!
I think it was called the Goode Life.
And community hydropower dates back to the local mills all over New England and I believe England.
I think some of that comes down to "zero maintenance" vs "any maintenance". Not a knock on the customers overseas; customers here run their appliances into the ground all the time, if they are "any maintenance".
Solar panels are also being used to sterilize drinking water, cook, and even more exciting - provide refrigeration. Many batches of vaccines in the past have gone bad because of lack of refrigeration. Refrigeration also helps to preserve
Still doesn't change the fact that, by disallowing them to use the massive amounts of coal under their feet, we're disallowing them to build infrastructure and means of production so that they can accumulate capital.
How does a single village build a coal-fired power plant?
How does a rural community accumulate capital if they can only accomplish tasks during daylight hours -- and then can only accomplish enough to maintain a subsistence agricultural lifestyle?
Except as others have pointed out, this yields two incredibly important things:
1. More available hours to work. This means improved education (more time to study) and increased productivity.
2. More reliable communications - the solar power system allows villagers to charge cellular telephones and radios.
These things will improve the villagers abilities to do things for themselves rather than rely on aid dollars. Education and productivity produce wealth, not coal plants built by foreigners. With educatio
by disallowing them to use the massive amounts of coal under their feet, we're disallowing them to build infrastructure and means of production so that they can accumulate capital.
Bad idea for some obvious reasons and some not so obvious reasons, such as:
- To maintain infrastructure, you need social stability and other supporting infrastructure.
- To make use of infrastructure, you need a society ready to take advantage of that infrastructure.
- Various climate reasons
- Big business vs. little people. In less developed regions, the small people usually have very little say. This is the little people empowering themselves.
They need factories, not tea lights.
I'm not so sure about that. For the moment, cheap tea ligh
I suspect this also will help reduce population growth, with people able to do also other things after dark. And this isn't meant just as a joke.
Also, condoms are easier to use when there's light, for that theoretical group of people who do know what they are, do have them, are actually willing to use them, but do not have enough light to put them on.
Sorry I had to.
"You leapfrog over the need for fixed lines," said Adam Kendall, head of the sub-Saharan Africa power practice for McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm. "Renewable energy becomes more and more important in less and less developed markets."
Much like wireless "leapfrogged" the need for a heavy infrastructure.
Yet while these off-grid systems have proved their worth, the lack of an effective distribution network or a reliable way of financing the start-up costs has prevented them from becoming more widespread.
" 'mini' hydroelectric dams that can harness the power of a local river for an entire village"
These 'mini' hydroelectric dams can destroy an entire migrating fish fauna because of the power for a village. The migrating fish tend to be the staple food for the neighboring villagers, too...
America and Europe have long since understood the , but can afford building fish ladders.
Not to speak of all the stagnant water, which harbor bilharzia and malaria. Don't forget the rotten acidic waters it produces which ero
Why is this a big deal? I have seen a few posts here that don't understand this, that don't understand why someone has to use up DAYS of time to charge a phone, why kerosene isn't good enough etc. The best was the guy who thinks solar is crap because his big dollar system only runs a few lights, a TV, computer, and bummer can't run the stove. Seriously?!
READ THIS! -> http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50799 [expeditionportal.com]
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Sometimes the poorest of the poor lead the way. Adoption of efficient lighting methods reminds me of the tendency of slum dwellers to recycle every item almost endlessly. One pair of pants may be used by three kids growing up. No beer can is safe in the trash from the poor scavenging for aluminum. Folks who are better off lack motivation.
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Remember this is a Zonk story.
It is a allegation that stalker may possibly use the same assets as are used in HL2 or D3, and an assumption that they did not pay for the rights to use these (through purchasing the same developer tools, or simply paying eachother off).
Good ol Zonk, posting a story that is not just an assumption, but an assumption of an assumption.
The game IS buggy. And it does have its flaws. And the plot isn't as coherent as I would like. However, it is the FEEL of the game that keeps me playing it. That, and it is also refreshingly challenging. I'm hoping the developer keeps improving. Hopefully they've learned from making S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and we'll get a well-polished, bug free, and more coherent sequel.
Agreed on all counts. They successfully capture the atmosphere of a damaged world full of damaged people and animals, both via aesthetics as well as through gameplay.
I didn't care for the actual storyline, but I really liked the implied storyline (basically, what you think is going on for most of the game). And the intended storyline didn't get in the way.
Frankly, I haven't been this engaged by a game in a long, long time.
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Blood Brothers (Bath - tour)
For those who may not know it, the show tells the story of the Johnstone twins born in Liverpool somewhere in the 1950's. Their mother, beautifully played by Maureen Nolan, already has several children, no money and her husband has just walked out on them. She doesn't know how she's going to cope.
She tells all this to the lady she cleans for – Mrs Lyons, played by Paula Tappenden who lives in a big house with her husband but cannot have children although she desperately wants them. She suggests to Mrs Johnstone that when the babies are born, she takes one of them and passes it off as her own. Her husband played by Tim Churchill is away and will return just after the babies are born so will never know that the child is not his. Reluctantly Mrs Johnstone agrees.
Mrs Lyons is adamant that the two boys should never meet, but fate is too strong and the two meet and become "Blood Brothers" – they have no idea that they are really brothers. We watch the children growing up and there are some delightful scenes between the two boys – Mickey played by Sean Jones and Eddie played by Mark Hutchinson. The two, acting as children, along with their best friend Linda played by Olivia Sloyan are completely believable, and very funny at times.
Marti Pellow, who plays the Narrator, is excellent, keeping the plot moving along, and even manages a good attempt at a Liverpool accent!
The story is very poignant, and the cast are brilliant. They well deserve the standing ovation they gain at the end of the show.
The music and lyrics, also written by Russell, is both infectious and moving, from the catchy "Marilyn Monroe" to the lively and hopeful "Bright New Day" and the haunting "Tell Me It's Not True". The songs are beautifully accompanied by the musicians led by musical director Kelvin Towse.
The set, designed by Andy Walmsely is fantastic – capturing the spirit of the back streets of Liverpool and contrasting it with the big house owned by Mr & Mrs Lyons. The lighting designed by Mark Howett is excellent and enhances the feel and flavour to the scenes.
The whole is skillfully directed by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright, and they seem to have got all the ingredients together to create a memorable show.
This is an amazing evening's entertainment.


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Briar March, who has an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University, has made and directed a number of films including "There Once Was An Island," which screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2010, and has received over 20 international awards.
Her latest documentary film, Smoke Songs, about the Navajo punk rock band Blackfire, was a national finalist for the Student Academy Awards in the US. It is playing this week at the current New Zealand International Film Festival alongside Neil Young Journeys.
March is making a new narrative short film at the moment.
March and her business partner, Lyn Collie, Digital Media Producer at the University of Auckland Business School, are joint directors of On the Level Productions. Back in the country for just a few weeks, March is now at a crossroads for how she will make a living as a film maker in New Zealand and continue growing her business.
Briar March: At this point it looks like there are several routes I could take my filmmaking career. I could work as a freelance director/editor, build up our production company and find more work through that, or teach. I think that each direction has its pros and cons, but it is pretty difficult to make a living entirely off one's creative projects alone, unless they are completely funded, and or guaranteed to make money in back-end sales.
In most cases, it's about finding the right balance, between making work and filling in the gaps when your work isn't always making you money!
During my degree I completed four short films. This was a very useful process to go through as with the short medium you have to be very concise about what you want to say and this ultimately refines your story telling ability. However in the long run I am most interested in creating feature length films, both fiction and documentary. I really enjoy the way a long form project can sit with you for a while, and grow and develop over time.
The US experience
Over the three years I spent in the States I gained some very useful perspectives on how filmmakers there are navigating the complex task of balancing their creative work with the need to earn a living. I was fortunate to become a member of a New Day Films. This is a filmmaker-run distribution company that markets documentaries to the educational sector in the States. It has been running for over 40 years and has over 100 filmmaker members.
After joining the co-op I was surprised to see that some films that were produced as long as 15 years ago are still bringing in sales. I had never thought of my films having this kind of life span, and I realised that there are still markets that I haven't completely explored with my work that could actually bring in money and make my work a little more sustainable.
Not only this, the experience of being part of a collective that is democratically run with other like-minded individuals, has been extremely educational and inspiring. I have been tossing around the idea with some friends as to whether a similar collective model could be developed here.
The NZ scene
On the Level Productions could offer a variety of services, from freelance editing and directing, doing web promotions for companies, to our own film making. I am just conscious that I don't want to be sucked into a comfortable 9-5 job so my film making goes on the back burner. I want to keep making films, that is what drives me.
At the moment I am editing the trailer for the Alyx Duncan's film, The Red House which is screening at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
In terms of New Zealand as a place to make films, I think that it's worth looking further afield than just what New Zealand can offer us in terms of funding. I think Doc NZ has made a conscious effort of bringing together international funders and organisations from overseas to help kiwi filmmakers be more connected with other markets which is great.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Brad Keselowski held off Kyle Busch on one late restart, and Jimmie Johnson on another. Doing it a third time was just too much to ask during a tense closing sequence at Texas Motor Speedway.
It was Johnson who won that final frantic battle to the finish line, holding steady as Keselowski slammed into the side of his car. Keselowski took it all the way to the edge — refusing, though, to cross a line and wreck the competition — and Johnson never blinked.
The five-time champion nudged ahead, got some separation and pulled away for the win. Johnson now holds a seven-point lead over Keselowski in the standings with two races remaining in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Those three restarts over the closing 19 laps on Sunday will go down as some of the most memorable racing of the Chase. It also saved a race that would have been memorable for being largely forgettable up to that point.
It took over 3 hours Sunday to get to the good stuff, and it's clearly not cutting it with fans. ESPN drew a 2.5 overnight rating, down 11 percent from a 2.8 in 2011.
Texas owner Bruton Smith alluded to the issues this weekend, when he said NASCAR needs to work at "making the racing more exciting."
"I think we can do better and we need to work at it diligently and make what we bring to the public better," said Smith, who suggested slowing the cars by 10-15 mph to increase rubbing between competitors, and smaller fuel tanks to force more frequent pit stops.
Because, Smith said, races with long green-flag runs that are decided by fuel mileage are "boring, boring, boring."
And that's what Sunday was shaping up to be as Johnson, who started from the pole, shot out of the gates and jumped out to a sizeable lead.
He led the first 48 laps, stopped for gas and tires, then led 51 more laps before NASCAR called its first caution of the race, for debris. In fact, of the nine cautions on Sunday, five of them were for debris.
And one of them may have set the tone for the finish that had everyone talking on Monday.
Keselowski was leading with Johnson in third when NASCAR called caution for debris 58 laps from the scheduled finish and teams in various stages of fuel-mileage strategy. Keselowski went on to pit road as the leader, but locked up his brakes and slid deep into his stall, a miscue that dropped him to eighth when he got back onto the track.
Cautions breed cautions, and there were three more ahead. It set the sequence for Keselowski to take two tires during the final pit stops when everyone else took four tires so he could reclaim the lead, then try to hold off the field over those three final restarts.
After successfully getting past Busch on the first restart, Johnson cried foul and argued Keselowski had gone too early.
"Come on, NASCAR," Johnson complained over his radio. "Look at the tape."
Ironically, it was Johnson who many believe went early on the third and final restart, the one that got him past Keselowski for the victory. But NASCAR made no call in either case, reiterating Monday neither case warranted a penalty.
Keselowski was ticked about something after the race, when he radioed to his Penske Racing crew: "Good job everybody. Can't do anything about it when somebody is handed the race time after time."
Hard to tell if he meant the debris caution that changed his strategy or the restart that Johnson won, because he was softer in his post-race interviews.
"I knew I wasn't going to be able to execute every restart and Jimmie did a great job on the last one," he said. "I had to choose between wrecking him and winning the race and it didn't seem right to wreck him."


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We're now in early April and plenty has cleared up in lining up the 2011 draft class since the spring season began in February.
Unless this is the first article you've read on the draft this spring, you've probably heard that the 2011 draft class has an extraordinary amount of top flight pitching talent.
One of the historical rules of the draft is that college pitching trumps all other positions when it comes to where most teams want to spend their first round money. It would surprise no one if six college pitchers went among the first 10 selections and it's easy to create a scenario where seven or even eight are picked before Houston's pick in the 11th slot. The talent pool has plenty of quantity to go with quality and teams will be both surprised and pleased with some of the arm
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McPHERSON, Kan. (AP) Amid a faltering U.S. economy, McPherson has more jobs than people to do them in this city where farmland and oil fields blend with industry.
Even during the Great Depression jobs were available in McPherson County, where oil was being discovered. Today, the McPherson Industrial Development Co. is poised to survive another national economic turmoil.
The development group's executive director, Marvin Peters, says the community is plotting now to find more workers. Close to 30 percent of the community's workers come from outside the county.
McPherson is a community of about 14,000 people that boasts more than 56 industries.
More than 50 years ago, civic leaders realized that agriculture and oil wouldn't be enough to sustain the city in the future and founded McPherson Industrial Development.


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I am looking forward to getting LXF70, which contains two distributions I wish to try out.
I have been using Red Hat/Fedora Core distributions since December 1998 (starting with Red Hat 5.0), and have gotten Fedora Core 3 to run on my Compaq/HP Deskpro EP/SB series machine fairly well.
This machine has a 20GB hard drive, 128MB system RAM, Voodoo 3 video card, a Lite-On DVD-ROM, a HP CD Writer+ 8200, and connected to it are a HP PSC1110, Deskjet 656C, and Epson Stylus Color 660 printers.
I got Fedora Core 3 running well by enabling 32-bit disk access on the hard drive, and by configuring the boot process to run only what I need.
Issues I have with the distros are:
1. Should I try Fedora Core 4 on this machine, or should I use the Debian 3.1 instead?
2. The HPLIP software needed to utilize the PSC1110 is compiled from source, as is the Bluefish HTML editor, Digikam, and Kile (LaTeX editor). Do these distributions provide what I need to successfully compile these packages from source?
3. Since the LXF70 is double-sided, is there going to be a problem reading the DVD?


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Redd receives positive review from EDC Board
On Tuesday afternoon, the Borger Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors performed their annual review for Borger EDC CEO Dan Redd during the board's October meeting.The EDC Board gave Redd a positive report, which extended his contract for another year. Redd has served as the EDC CEO for five years and will enter his sixth.During Tuesday's meeting, the EDC Board approved entering a contract with Leading EDG to assist entrepreneurs and small businesses in the Borger area.Spencer McElhannon of Leading EDG has worked with the Borger EDC and the communities of Pampa and Perryton assisting local entrepreneurs and small businesses in the Borger area for over two years as part of the Entrepreneurial Alliance.The EDC's agreement with Leading EDG will be to provide many of the same services the Entrepreneurial Alliance provided, with McElhannon saying Leading EDG will be able to better serve the needs of each individual community. McElhannon told the EDC Board the money provided to Leading EDG will be used for the communities it will assist. McElhannon added he believes the new agreement will allow him and the facilitators in other communities the ability to find out what are the specific needs of the particular communities and develop the right plan to meet those needs.In his presentation to the EDC Board, McElhannon explained that too often a broad approach is used to try to help new businesses in a community. However the needs and what will work in Borger is not necessarily going to work in communities like Pampa, Big Spring, or Lamesa.


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Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert hailed the "world-class" finishing of two goal hero Christian Benteke but felt his overall game was not up to standard during the 3-2 win at Swindon in the Capital One Cup.
The Belgian international scored an injury-time winner to earn Villa a quarter-final spot for the third time in four seasons.
Benteke and Gabriel Agbonlahor had given Villa a 2-0 lead before Robins substitute Miles Storey's brace looked to have forced the game into extra-time before Benteke struck for the second time. Lambert said: "Benteke has had a quality start (at Villa) but his game wasn't up to my standards."
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Kovačić among Inter's four new arrivals
Thursday 31 January 2013
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Mateo Kovačić said it was "a dream" to have left GNK Dinamo Zagreb for FC Internazionale Milano, who also signed Zdravko Kuzmanović, Ezequiel Schelotto and Juan Pablo Carrizo.
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FC Internazionale Milano have secured the signings of midfielders Zdravko Kuzmanović and Mateo Kovačić, winger Ezequiel Schelotto and goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo.
Serbian international Kuzmanović joins from VfB Stuttgart for a reported fee of €2m, signing a contract which ties him to Inter until 2017. The 25-year-old former FC Basel 1893 midfielder returns to Serie A having scored three goals in 70 Serie A games for ACF Fiorentina between 2007 and 2009. "I'm glad to be joining a great side like Inter," he said. "I look forward to meeting my new team-mates."
Kovačić, 18, arrives from GNK Dinamo Zagreb for a fee that could reportedly rise to €15m. He appeared in all six of Dinamo's UEFA Champions League group stage games this season. The Croatian Under-21 international has penned a contract until 2017 with the Nerazzurri. "It's a dream for me," he said. "I will do everything to make our fans happy."
Schelotto, meanwhile, comes in from Atalanta BC for around €3.5m plus Marko Livaja, scorer of four UEFA Europa League goals this term. Inter, however, have retained 50% of the Croatian striker's playing licence. Schelotto, a 23-year-old right winger, formerly at AC Cesena and Calcio Catania, made his Azzurri debut in August, figuring as a substitute in a 2-1 friendly defeat of England.
Inter have also recruited goalkeeper Carrizo from S.S. Lazio on a two-year deal. The 28-year-old will deputise for Samir Handanovič after Luca Castellazzi suffered a shoulder injury.


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Saturday, February 04, 2006
Passing English?
It seems like Coach English had the same idea, though it appears that his promotion will not take place. Today's Chicago Tribune has an article stating that English has been offered the secondary coach position with the Chicago Bears. The article explains that English, who reportedly has also interviewed for secondary coach job with the Detroit Lions, "spent Friday gauging his chances of becoming defensive coordinator at Michigan. One source said that when Michigan offered only the chance of becoming co-defensive coordinator, he (English) told Bears officials it was down to Chicago and Detroit."
In addition to his solid reputation as a defensive assistant, English is known for being one of the Michigan staff's top recruiters, and was credited this week for his critical role in attracting one of the nation's top safeties, Jonas Mouton from Venice (CA) High School.
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- Benny Friedman said...
If this article is true, I'm going to be really pissed off. It implies that we're happy w/ Herrman and all the talk about making changes was just that - talk.
English is a rising star and if we let him go because of our loyalty to Herrman, I'm afraid that the day where we'll be looking back fondly on 7-5 seasons will be coming really soon.
- February 04, 2006 4:09 PM
- swindlerjackson said...
Lloyd Carr is a f'ing idiot. We just lost our best recruiter and Loeffler, our 2nd best, is next.
- February 05, 2006 10:04 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
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- February 06, 2006 1:35 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
I don't think this is what we all had in mind when all those coaching change rumors began after the Alamo Bowl.
Instead of increasing the responsibilities of the more competent coaches and maybe even letting go the guys in charge of the routinely weak areas, we get one of the promising coaches recognizing the glass ceiling and bolting for the NFL while the perpetual poor performers stay in place or move up.
- February 06, 2006 1:44 PM
- IC said...
To follow up on Swindler's comment above re. Scot Loeffler is this from an article in Saturday's Detroit Free Press:
"And quarterbacks coach Scot Loeffler is expected to interview for the same position with the New England Patriots, a U-M source said. Loeffler is close to Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, dating to their days as teammates at Michigan."
- February 07, 2006 12:32 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
IC, does that article really say that Loeffler and Brady are dating? Wait, I guess I misread it.
- February 07, 2006 12:35 AM
- surrounded in columbus said...
something even more amazing in today's Detroit News. the article explains the upheaval in the coaching staff pretty well, but i couldn't believe what they had to say about Herrmann:
"Rumors of his demotion have been greatly exaggerated. Rumors that Herrmann has been talking to NFL teams are true, however.
NFL coaches, apparently, are smitten by what they consider to be Herrmann's defensive genius and his elaborate schemes that sometimes are difficult to translate to the college game.
Herrmann's future is up in the air as he weighs NFL options."
they also go on to say that English (who has been very careful to say he has NOT signed w/ the Bears yet) could be persuaded to stay IF he's offered the DC job. (read the whole article = http://detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060207/SPORTS0201/602070343/1131 )
i honestly don't know which baffles me more- that Lloyd is thinking about keeping Herrmann or that people in the NFL think he's a defensive genious? maybe they're all sniffing glue...
- February 07, 2006 11:58 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
I saw the story and am just as flabbergasted as you.
I keep picturing that Road Runner cartoon with Herrmann in the role of Wile E. Coyote saying, "Jim Herrmann, Defensive Genius" just before be obliterated by Vince Young/Troy Smith/Gary Russell/Darius Walker--pick a player--in the role of the Road Runner.
PS: There should be a seperate post on this article coming soon.
- February 07, 2006 12:34 PM
- Yost said...
Yeah, SiC, UNREAL!
Look for Baggy's post tomorrow on the subject.
- February 07, 2006 12:35 PM
- IC said...
Though the article says English is "gone" I am encouraged by the amount of time it is taking for him to announce a decision regarding the offer from the Bears. The most plausible reason for the delay is his hope of becoming our d-coordinator.
Re. Herrmann's "defensive genius": The explanation can be found in the article, specifically, "his elaborate schemes ...are difficult to translate to the college game." Think about it: in the pros, having a defense passively stay back and hope to hang on to a slim lead is more likely to work because the clock doesn't stop after first downs.
Herrmann's a genius, NFL. Better get him NOW!
- February 07, 2006 2:44 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
I still think a genius, an honest to goodness real genius, will run defensive schemes appropriate to his players abilities and the rules of the game he's engaged in.
But, if the NFL wants to think he's a defensive genius--by all means guys--Jim Herrmann's a defensive genius. He just needs some professional athletes to show the world what he can really do. Seriously! We're talking Chicago Bears circa 1985, here. Better grab him now before your divisional rival does.
- February 07, 2006 3:30 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Sorry, IC. According to the Ann Arbor News, English signed with the Bears on Monday (http://www.mlive.com/sportsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/sports-16/1139343551156900.xml&storylist=michigansports).
- February 07, 2006 3:45 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
it actually all makes sense now. i constantly bitch that our defense is inconsistent from season to season and complain that Carr keeps Herrmann around from season to season. but now i get it-
Herrmann's a genius at putting together complex, pro style defenses. that's why Lloyd keeps him around- Carr understands how good it looks on paper and how good it is when it works. unfortunately, it's too complex for college and he can't carry it off from one year to the next.
it makes sense- the west coast offense is one of the most successful pro schemes in the last 20 years. however, no one (until callaghan at nebraska) has tried to run it in college because it is considered too complex for college players to learn w/ the limited practice time and turning over the whole team every 4 years.
the same probably applies to Herrmann's defenses. once the kids learn the scheme and mature w/ it, it's very effective. that's why about every 2-4 years we have a really good, even dominating defense ('97, '01', and '03 ended w/ the M defense ranked in the top 12 or higher).
unfortunately, it's either so damned complex to learn or so dependent on the personnel, Herrmann can't maintain performance from one season to the next, and when the scheme doesn't work, it really doesn't work.
now as a practical matter, BPD hit it right on the head- what good is something if no one can make it work? what good is a "brilliant" scheme that only works one season out of 4? we'd be better off w/ something less brilliant but more consistent.
assuming the News is correct- going to the pros would be the best thing for everyone, including Herrmann.
- February 07, 2006 5:00 PM


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Legislators dilemma
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The village of Uniopolis could experience a legislative problem with the new year — with four seats open and only one person running, they will not have a quorum to pass legislation or to even appoint councilors.
They also may not have a mayor since the current mayor is not running and not enough votes exist for councilors to appoint a new council president, who would then become acting mayor.
Uniopolis Village Council members Elaine Wenning and David Kohlreiser both hold unexpired seats and will retain their positions in 2014. However, four seats and Mayor Greg Ritchie's term are expiring at the end of the year. Only one person, Marilyn Fleck, a current member of council, filed for re-election.
Based on regulations as set forth in the Ohio Revised Code, it appears the village may set a precedent in Ohio. Ritchie, who served as the president of council, was voted by fellow councilors to serve as mayor last December after Mayor Bill Rolston resigned the post. Ohio Revised Code allows for the president of council to move into the position to finish an expired term. However, the term is expiring and Ritchie is not seeking the post, nor did any other village resident file to serve as mayor.
This would leave the village with three councilors, including Kohlreiser, who now serves as village president. However, Kohlreiser will be ineligible to move into the position of mayor. State law restricts the council president from moving into the mayor's spot only to fill unexpired terms or terms where an elected mayor fails to take office.
Even if Kohlreiser was eligible, council may not be able to appoint him mayor. Councilors select president of council for 2014 at its organizational meeting in January, but they may not be able to this. Since council will have only three sitting members out of six positions, they will not have the members needed to have a quorum to elect or president or take any action at all.
ORC does give county central committees the ability to appoint vacated political positions, but only in partisan positions. Uniopolis council seats are non-partisan.
Village Solicitor Bob Fitzgerald said he was unaware of a solution and referred calls to the Auglaize County Board of Elections, who in turn referred to the Secretary of State's office.
While problems with filling legislative positions for council and mayor seats have arose numerous times in the past, representatives at Secretary of State John Husted's office said they were unaware of a comparable predicament the village of Uniopolis now finds itself in.
Husted's office said local elections were not within their jurisdiction and referred the matter to Auglaize County Edwin Pierce.
Pierce said since the village is incorporated, it did not fall within his jurisdiction. With no mayor, and no way to appoint council members or a president, the village may be in a position with no legislative answer.
The one answer for the village would appear to be someone filing as a write-in for either the mayor's seat or a council seat.
In either case, sitting councilors may then be in position to fix the problem. With someone filing for mayor, the mayor could appoint someone to a council position to give the council its minimum four members needed for a quorum. If someone filed for a council seat, the council could then appoint a president, who could in turn become the de facto mayor and fill that seat.
However, the deadline to file as a write-in is 4 p.m. Monday and according to Board of Elections officials. None yet has filed.
Fleck and Ritchie said the were unaware of anyone who is considering filing before the deadline.
Fleck commented on the lack of interest.
"The people that have complained in the past, I don't feel they should complain," Fleck said. "If you don't want the village to dissolve, then come you council."
A petition to dissolve the village's corporation status and be absorbed into the township was narrowly defeated last November. The issue is on the ballot again this year, along with three separate tax levies to help replace funds lost due to budget cuts at the state level.
"As it appears to be right now, we won't be able to vote," Fleck said. "We can't even hold a meeting."


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This post seems to be more about writing in general. The first step in all writing is writing. Just get something down. Brainstorm. Even if I write something on a computer, if I want it to be good I print out my first draft double or even triple-spaced. The I revise with a pencil in hand, far away from my computer. That's when the real work happens.
Truman Capote had that legendary dis of Jack Kerouac ("this isn't writing it's typing!"), and even controlling for his bitchiness he was absolutely correct. I feel like we loose an important creative moment in not putting pen to paper at some point in the process. Writing long-hand involves a very different skill-set than tapping. Word processing makes writing too easy and this has had a negative impact on the quality of writing: words difficult to produce are necessarily well-chosen ones.


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Patching OpenBSDby Jacek Artymiak
Welcome back!
OpenBSD 3.2 is with us, and it's time to upgrade our systems to the latest release. As usual, it is strongly suggested that you install the latest release on a spare machine, apply patches, and test it until you are happy with what the OpenBSD gang gave us. Only then you should upgrade and patch the production machine. But how do you patch OpenBSD?
Patching is something that any OpenBSD administrator ought to do as soon as patches are available, because leaving your system unpatched is simply asking for trouble. OpenBSD and OpenSSH have recently become targets for hackers looking for new fields to explore, and we all need to be on guard.
How Do I Know That a Patch Has Been Released?
If you are not yet subscribed to the announce and security-announce mailing lists, do it now. Assuming that your machine is properly configured, and can send and receive mail, you can subscribe to these lists from the command line:
$ echo 'subscribe announce' | mail firstname.lastname@example.com
$ echo 'subscribe security-announce' | mail firstname.lastname@example.com
If you would rather receive mail on a different machine, send the following
message to
subscribe announce
subscribe security-announce
(If you are curious to know what other mailing lists are available on
the openbsd.org server, use
echo 'lists' | mail
email@example.com; for help on using
echo 'help' | mail firstname.lastname@example.com)
Also in Securing Small Networks with OpenBSD:
Changes in pf: Packet Filtering
Downloading Files from Behind the Firewall
Subscribing to these list will help you track patches released from the moment you subscribe, but you also need to check if there were any patches released before you subscribed. Also, the announcements are just that -- announcements; you need to download the patches yourself. The list of patches for the current and previous releases of OpenBSD can be found on the OpenBSD errata page.
Note that the OpenBSD team only supports the current and the previous releases of the system. For example, after OpenBSD 3.2 was released, patches are only issued for OpenBSD 3.1 and 3.2, but not for OpenBSD 3.0 or earlier releases. Also remember to apply patches in the same order in which they are issued.
To apply patches, you will need access to the sources of the OpenBSD release you installed on your machine. These are the sources that have been used to build that release of OpenBSD, not the CURRENT sources held in CVS. Strictly speaking, they are in CVS, but extracting them from there would take the uninitiated users too much time and effort.
Where Are the Sources?
The official archives of sources for each release are available on the
original OpenBSD CD-ROMs
or on-line from many OpenBSD FTP
mirror servers. If you are downloading them with
they are always available in the top directory for the release you are
using. For OpenBSD 3.2, descend into
pub/OpenBSD/3.2 and
download these files:
(Please use the FTP mirror at a location closest to you to save bandwidth.)
Next, move the source archives to the
$ sudo mv ./XF4.tar.gz /usr/src
$ sudo mv ./ports.tar.gz /usr/src
$ sudo mv ./src.tar.gz /usr/src
$ sudo mv ./srcsys.tar.gz /usr/src
$ cd /usr/src
and unpack them with:
$ sudo tar -zxvf *.tar.gz
Where Are the Patches?
Once you have the OpenBSD sources, you will need to download the
patches. The latest set of patches is always available on the FTP mirror servers in the
subdirectories of the
pub/OpenBSD/patches directory. For
example, if you are looking for patches for OpenBSD 3.1, you will find
them in
pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.1. Download the
3.1.tar.gz archive into your home directory and unpack
$ tar -zxvf 3.1.tar.gz
You will now have a directory named 3.1 with the following subdirectories:
Out of these subdirectories, only three are of interest to us:
common (contains patches for all hardware platforms),
ports (contains patches for the ports collection, applicable
to all hardware platforms), and the subdirectory containing patches
applicable to the hardware platform you use. For Intel x86 machines, we
need the patches from
How Do I Apply Patches?
Every patch comes with detailed instructions on how you should apply it, so the first step is reading them:
$ less /home/joe/3.1/common/004_sshbsdauth.patch
Fix a bug in the BSD_AUTH access control handling
Apply by doing:
cd /usr/src
patch -p0 < 004_sshbsdauth.patch
cd usr.bin/ssh
make obj
make cleandir
make depend
make && make install
As you can see, we are told to change the present working directory to
/usr/src and apply that patch:
$ sudo patch -p0 < /home/joe/3.1/common/004_sshbsdauth.patch
Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
|Fix a bug in the BSD_AUTH access control handling
|Apply by doing:
| cd /usr/src
| patch -p0 < 004_sshbsdauth.patch
| cd usr.bin/ssh
| make obj
| make cleandir
| make depend
| make && make install
|Index: usr.bin/ssh/auth.c
|RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c,v
|retrieving revision 1.41
|diff -u -r1.41 auth.c
|--- usr.bin/ssh/auth.c 19 Mar 2002 15:31:47 -0000 1.41
|+++ usr.bin/ssh/auth.c 22 May 2002 20:28:25 -0000
Patching file usr.bin/ssh/auth.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 410.
$ ...
What happens next depends on the commands listed in the Apply by
doing: section. In case of
004_sshbsdauth.patch for OpenBSD
3.1 shown above, we need to execute some additional commands to create new
binaries from patched sources:
$ cd usr.bin/ssh
$ sudo make obj
$ sudo make cleandir
$ sudo make depend
$ sudo make && make install
Now we need to stop all
sshd processes and
restart them to make sure that the system and users use new binaries. (If the
patch contains additional instructions, obey them.) Once we are happy that
everything is working fine, we can copy new binaries to the production
How do we know which binaries have been modified? The output from
make install contains a list of binaries and other files
changed during compilation. Make a list of their locations, ownership,
and access rights. Then use
scp to copy them to the
production machine. (You may have to copy them to a temporary location.)
Then log onto the production machine, become superuser with
su, replace old binaries with the new ones, and restart the
relevant processes. (You must stop them first; merely restarting them
kill -HUP may not be enough.) A system reboot is not
out of place in case of more extensive changes. Of course, it needs to be
done at times when it will cause the least inconvenience to users. Use
your judgment to decide what needs to be done and when best to do it.
When Not to Patch?
You do not have to apply all patches. Patches issued for hardware platforms you do not use or for ports you do not install can be ignored. All others ought to be applied as soon as you learn about them.
Until next time.
Jacek Artymiak started his adventure with computers in 1986 with Sinclair ZX Spectrum. He's been using various commercial and Open Source Unix systems since 1991. Today, Jacek runs devGuide.net, writes and teaches about Open Source software and security, and tries to make things happen.
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Elizabeth Freeland, as the wife of Robert Roberts, was my husband's 4th great grandmother. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Nancy Freeland. Elizabeth was born 23 April 1779 in Maryland and died 30 May 1862 in Greene County, Pennsylvania. In my RootsMagic database I had entered her birth and death years, but the inscription on her headstone gave me the actual dates, as it gives her death date and age at time of death.
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In another thread there was a comment about drag and I thought I'd open a toipic about a subtext within the subject of 'Drag'. This is about drag with dry flies so let's stick with that. Now there's 'drag' that is obvious to the sight. You know, you make the cast, the fly lands, the fly or the line gets grabbed by the current and you see the tippet and/or fly as it is pulled along creating the obvious 'drag'. You may describe it differently but you know what I mean.
Then there's the drag that's been and being called 'Micro-Drag' by some. As it has been explained in theory, this drag is supposedly invisible to the fisherman's eye but is nonetheless seen by the fish. Therefore, that micro-drag has a negative effect of the fly on that particular cast.
So, I ask you, is this a b.s. theory or what? Really, how are you to determine if micro-drag is there and correct it if you can't see it? I can just hear some fisherman as he/she is talking to a bunch of others about this. Conversation goes: "The water was clear and I could see that I was getting great floats over the rising trout but they ignored my offering(s). Good casts, good patterns and sizes that matched the several insects that I saw. The only thing I screwed up on was I must have had 'micro-drag' because of the slight current. I didn't see any but that must have been the problem."
My response might be, 'Maybe you were seeing the wrong insects and using the wrong pattern. As described by Swisher/Richards(?) there may have been a 'masking hatch'. Or maybe the fish were hitting emergers or subsurface nymphs that you couldn't see? Did you try to seine the water? Did you evaluate the type of rise? In other words - did you do the things you have some control over, or are you accepting a theory that relies on no possible observation and an excuse or mind game for failure?


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Wahaj Tells Story of Tears
After her debut in the series al Qadar al Mahtoum (Incumbent Destiny) which was aired during last Ramadhan, the Kuwaiti writer Wahaj is embarking on her second TV series Lil Domooa' Kissah (Tears Have Story) which will be shot in the middle of next month under the direction of Mohammed Daham al Shammari.
Costarring in the series are Mohammed al Mansour, Merriam al Ghadhban, Hasan al Mansour, Ahlam Mohammed from Bahrain, Basem A'bdel Amir, Saudi singer Sara and Elham.
"Every character in the series has a drama line characterized by courage through shedding light on many problems faced by the gulf society and raised in a way and vision different from the drama raised before," producer Basem A'bdel Amir told the Kuwaiti daily al Rai al A'm.
He added that he would play a role as an actor in the series and shooting the film would probably take place in a gulf state in addition to selecting Greece or Turkey.
"Sheikh Dua'ij al Khalifa al Sabah will write the introduction and conclusion of the series while the composer Misha'l al Urooj will compose the cadences which will be sung by a known woman's voice which will come as a surprise," added A'bdel Amir -- Albawaba.com


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For Immediate Release:
November 30, 2012
Insurance Commissioner Responds to Concerns About Anti-Fraud Unit
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak issued the following statement in response to reported concerns about the department's Anti-Fraud Unit.
"I'm happy to address any concerns people may have. I am very proud about what our Anti-Fraud Unit is doing, especially since it doesn't come at taxpayer expense. The Unit includes former OSBI agents, Tulsa homicide detectives, and other long-time law enforcement veterans. They are some of the most experienced criminal investigators in the state of Oklahoma. They investigate serious crimes including embezzlement, exploitation of the elderly and fraud. We've had cases where victims lost their life savings. We helped track that individual all the way to Florida where he was arrested. Our investigators also respond to natural disaster scenes, looking for unscrupulous contractors and making sure vulnerable consumers aren't victimized for a second time. Protecting Oklahomans is my top priority. I will do whatever I can to keep them and my investigators safe. The best part about the Anti-Fraud Unit is that it's funded by fines, penalties and multi-state settlements, not taxpayer dollars."
Facts about the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID)
Today several current and former lawmakers voiced support for the Anti-Fraud Unit.
Sen. Bill Brown, R - Tulsa
"I support the Insurance Department's fraud efforts 100 percent. People need to understand that insurance crime is serious. Those behind it stand to lose a lot of money if they're found out, so they can be very dangerous. We have to do all we can to protect our law enforcement officers, including the members of the Oklahoma Insurance Department's Anti-Fraud Unit."
Larry Derryberry - Counsel for the Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Assoc., Former Attorney General
"The Oklahoma Insurance Department Fraud Unit has been given the task of protecting the policyholders and citizens of Oklahoma who are too often victimized by criminal behavior. The task of the fraud officers can be very dangerous given the nature of those who may face stiff penalties for their actions, including imprisonment. We have seen tragic stories of violence arising from enforcement efforts of officers in Louisiana. We don't want to see that repeated in Oklahoma. It seems logical and smart that the officers be trained, certified and outfitted like every other officer of the law. From a financial standpoint, insurance fraud increases insurance costs of Oklahoma citizens and businesses. The citizens deserve dedicated enforcement of the insurance laws."
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelan
"I certainly support any actions that other states' insurance departments take, including those taken by Commissioner Doak in Oklahoma, to increase the level of personal safety for their fraud investigators. Louisiana was sadly alerted to the fatal dangers facing insurance fraud investigators when we lost two of our exemplary investigators last year while on a simple investigation. Since then we have revised our internal procedures and added an additional level of threat recognition awareness training for our fraud investigators and I plan to ask the Louisiana Legislature in the upcoming session to arm some of our investigators. I hope that no other lives will be lost in this vital activity of states' insurance departments, due to a lack of personal safety for the investigators."
About the Oklahoma Insurance Department
The Oklahoma Insurance Department, an agency of the State of Oklahoma, is responsible for the education and protection of the insurance-buying public and for oversight of the insurance industry in the state.
For more information contact:
Kelly Collins
(405) 522-0683


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Soon, Black Bear Stout, Copperhead Amber and other Hendersonville-made beers will begin flowing from taps across North Carolina as Southern Appalachian Brewery has signed on with a wholesaler that will make its beers available statewide for the first time.
Soon, Black Bear Stout, Copperhead Amber and other Hendersonville-made beers will begin flowing from taps across North Carolina as Southern Appalachian Brewery has signed on with a wholesaler that will make its beers available statewide for the first time.
Last week Greensboro-based Freedom Beverage made its first keg pickup from the brewery on Locust Street in the Historic Seventh Avenue District, just short of three years after the husband-and-wife team of Andy and Kelly Cubbin moved their brewing operation from Fletcher and added a tasting room inside the same space.
It is part of an overall plan to expand and diversify the business in 2014 to meet demand and keep pace with Western North Carolina's bubbling craft beer industry.
SAB produced 750 barrels of beer in 2013, about 95 percent of which was sold in the tasting room. The rest was delivered by Andy Cubbin himself to accounts in Hendersonville and Waynesville – a time-consuming endeavor that took him away from brewing and other responsibilities.
With the new deal, SAB plans to double production this year.
"It's very difficult to self-distribute, even though it's legal in our great state," Andy Cubbin said. "Whether you have a couple employees and a couple of trucks, or whether you pay (the same percent of your budget) to your distributor that has a couple dozen trucks and couple dozen employees, it's going to cost what it's going to cost and there are a lot of benefits with using a distributor. Most people I talk to that have gone with a distributor say, 'I can't believe we were doing this ourselves for so long.'"
Greg Leone, beer brand manager for Freedom Beverage, said his company is a "true, 100 percent craft-beer house" that prefers to carry small, "boutique" brands and grow them slowly. SAB was attractive, he said, because it's an established brewery with a strong product line and smart business approach of growing slowly.
"I've heard great things," Leone said. "I just tried the Black Bear Stout and the IPA and they were both very good. I think their price point is right in line and I've heard nothing but good things up there in the mountains. That's really what we needed and was really kind of our goal, to get somebody up that way because the support up there for local breweries is so strong."
According to Leone, Freedom will focus most of SAB's distribution initially to Western North Carolina, with a handful of kegs allocated to accounts in major markets such as Charlotte, Raleigh and Wilmington.
"So they've got a little bit (of exposure) around the state right now," Leone said. "I don't know much we'll be able to get out (to those places); it just depends how much Asheville and Hendersonville and all that area eats up, and then whatever is left we'll haul out for some other people to get some cracks at it. We'll grow with him and keep an eye on things and make sure his local area is taken care of first."
More taps coming soon
While SAB's larger tanks will be devoted to its core brands to meet distribution orders, a new 15-gallon pilot brewing system will allow Andy Cubbin to experiment and produce small, "one-off" batches of specialty beers for the tasting room.
The Cubbins plan to add six new taps soon, which will double selection for customers and include a couple of rare, Belgian-style guest brews.
"We've been doing this for about seven years, and seeing the difference in (the WNC beer industry) in those seven years is huge," Andy Cubbin said. "When we started in Hendersonville, we only had three beers and that was going to be our startup, but seven years ago you could get by with a few products. Now, with all of the breweries in Asheville kind of stepping up their game – Wicked Weed, of course, is the example with 20-something beers on at any one time – and that's what people are expecting now. That's kind of the new face of craft breweries, especially when you've got a market like North Carolina and Western North Carolina."
He also plans to capitalize on another trend in craft brewing – barrel-aged beers – with a new wood program including whiskey barrels from Kentucky for beers such as Imperial Stout and California wine barrels for Belgian-style wild/sour beer production.
The barrel-aged beers will be stored in "The Cave," a walled-off culvert on SAB's property formerly used by the old Coca-Cola plant that operated there. SAB also plans to acquire significant additional space behind the brewery to be used as a warehouse and for further barrel-aging, and Andy Cubbin said "I definitely see us" eventually packaging his beer in 22-ounce or 750-milliliter specialty bottles.
Other goals for 2014 include expanding SAB's entertainment lineup and adding a music stage and covered seating area for its popular outdoor space.


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Third Annual Neuroscience, Behavior, and Health Research Forum Held Jan. 18-19
- 01-17-2013
- By Jennifer Nachbur
The Neuroscience, Behavior, and Health (NBH) Transdisciplinary Research Initiative at the University of Vermont (UVM), the UVM Neuroscience Graduate Program and the Vermont Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience presented the third annual NBH Research Forum January 18 and 19, 2013 in the Grand Maple Ballroom of the Davis Center at UVM.
"The Forum is designed to promote cross‐disciplinary research and collaboration in investigating behavior and its underlying neurobiology as a major factor affecting human health, disease, and disability by providing avenue for disseminating new research findings and discussion," says Rae Nishi, Ph.D., UVM professor of neurological sciences, director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program and director of the NBH Initiative.
The research forum began with a poster session at 4 p.m. on Friday, January 18, followed by a keynote lecture, titled "Rethinking Stress Biology," at 5 p.m. James Herman, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience and director of the Laboratory of Stress Neurobiology at the University of Cincinnati, delivered the keynote. His laboratory studies how brain circuits get modified by stress and how this leads to disorders such as depression and hypertension.
On Saturday, January 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., faculty members and graduate students delivered scientific poster presentations and short talks on current research in neuroscience and behavior. More than170 people attended the forum, including faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Participants came from Dartmouth College, McGill University and HEC Montreal, in addition to UVM. To promote public outreach, students from area high schools served as judges at the event, evaluating graduate students' ability to explain their research clearly to a non‐neuroscientist.
Information and registration information.
About the Neuroscience, Behavior and Health Initiative
The Neuroscience, Behavior and Health (NBH) Initiative focuses on understanding the development and fundamental basis of human behaviors that are linked to health and disease — a research challenge that spans fields from molecular biology and genetics to behavior, rehabilitation, and education. Research in NBH is directed towards studying preventable diseases and disabilities, informing policies, and strategic investments that create healthier communities and decrease costs of treatment and mitigation. UVM NBH director is Rae Nishi, PhD, professor of neurological sciences and Steering Committee members include: vice-chair: Stephen Higgins, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology; vice-chair: Mark Bouton, Ph.D., professor of psychology; Timothy Stickle. Ph.D., associate professor of psychology; Brian Flynn, Ph.D., professor emeritus of family medicine and professor of psychiatry; Sharon Henry, Ph.D., professor of rehabilitation and movement science; tech transfer liaison: Kerry Swift, M.S., interim director of the Office of Technology Commercialization; central administration liaison: Cindy Forehand, Ph.D., associate dean, Graduate College, and professor of neurological sciences.