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Nov 4 2009 8:00P House of Blues New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 5 2009 8:00P Club Downunder Tallahassee, Florida
Nov 6 2009 8:00 PRevolution Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Nov 7 2009 6:00P XXX-mas with Peaches @ Park Ave. CD's (In-Store Appearance) Orlando, Florida
Nov 7 2009 8:00P Club Firestone Orlando, Florida
Nov 9 2009 8:00P Center Stage Theater Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 10 2009 8:00P The Valarium Knoxville, Tennessee
Nov 11 2009 8:00P Orange Peel Asheville, North Carolina
Nov 12 2009 8:00P Sonar Baltimore, Maryland
Nov 13 2009 8:00P TLA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 14 2009 8:00P Terminal 5 New York, New York
Nov 16 2009 8:00P The Paradise Boston, Massachusetts
Nov 17 2009 8:00P Metropolis Montreal, Quebec
Nov 18 2009 8:00P Phoenix Concert Theater Toronto, Ontario
Nov 20 2009 8:00P Metro Chicago, Illinois
Nov 21 2009 8:00P Turner Hall Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nov 24 2009 8:00P Showbox Music Club Seattle, Washington
Nov 25 2009 8:00P The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia
Nov 26 2009 8:00P Wonder Ballroom Portland, Oregon
Nov 27 2009 8:00P The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, California
Nov 28 2009 8:00P The Wiltern Los Angeles, California
Dec 10 2009 8:00P Paradiso Amsterdam
Dec 11 2009 8:00P La Bataclan Paris
Dec 12 2009 8:00P Paard Den Haag
Dec 13 2009 8:00P Koko London
Dec 15 2009 8:00P Stollwerck Koln
Dec 16 2009 8:00P Columbiahalle Berlin
Dec 17 2009 8:00P Trix Antwerp
Dec 19 2009 8:00P La Cartonnerie Reims
I first heard of Peaches through the Victoria's Secret fashion show.
They start playing her AA XXX at 3:06
Friday, November 6:
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Peaches
My favorite Peaches song/video is "Boys Wanna Be Her". I had it favorited on Youtube until it was taken down.
Art Basel 2009
Thursday December 3rd
Broken Hearts Club from Berlin @ Bar 721...
PEACHES performing LIVE!
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Address 721 Lincoln Lane South Beach
This bitch can GET IT
hmm...i only know the song "operate" from mean girls. i should probably check out more of her stuff.
Damn! My cool headbanging smiley disappeared.
Peaches Christ Superstar set to go
Canadian electro-rapper Peaches is going ahead with her solo performance of Jesus Christ Superstar next week in Berlin after a battle over rights with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
Peaches is the stage name of Merrill Beth Nisker, a former teacher turned musician who was named electronic artist of the year at the 2010 Indie Awards last week in Toronto. She is currently based in Berlin and plans to stage her Peaches Christ Superstar performance there next week.
Though she is notorious for her wild on-stage persona and sexually explicit lyrics, Peaches swears she's not being ironic in her approach to the 1971 musical.
"I'm a fan of Jesus Christ Superstar. I think it's fantastic music, I think the story is timeless," she told CBC's cultural affairs show Q on Friday.
"It would just be straight-up singing of the album. I just want people to have a chance to enjoy the music, very stripped down."
Jesus Christ Superstar, written by Lloyd Webber and Rice, is a rock musical that tells the story of Christ from the entry into Jerusalem to his crucifixion.
Peaches said she has been preparing her voice for the performance, in which she'd play everyone from Mary Magdalene to Jesus Christ and Pilate. She planned to perform at Berlin's Hebbel Theatre with expat Chilly Gonzales accompanying on piano. But plans for the show hit a snag when the Hebbel Theatre applied for music rights to the work and a German rights authority said no.
"They decided, 'This is a production and we don't like the way you're doing it. It's unconventional; it's not the way it's supposed to be done,'" she said.
Peaches said she doesn't know if the problem was her reputation as a raunchy rocker or if the rights holder just wanted more money.
She decided to fight back in public, tackling the issue with a tweet that said "Peaches Christ Superstar crucified before opening night."
That got a lot of attention, including articles in Britain's Guardian, the New York Times and the Berlin newspapers.
"In 48 hours it was all over the place. It made its way to Tim Rice's office. They called the Hebbel Theatre and said 'This is way too much bad press. Just let her put it on,'" she said.
The show will go ahead March 25-27 in Berlin, and Peaches is looking for opportunities to tour it in Canada.
She released the album I Feel Cream last year and her single from that effort, Talk to Me, still has the edge associated with one of rock's bad girls.
But she said Peaches Christ Superstar is going to be unadorned singing.
"I'm not going to be climbing the walls or getting into these crazy costumes. It's all going to be about my voice, and bringing the emotion through my voice," she said.
"It will be challenging for me and for the audience. It definitely is a risk.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2...#ixzz0jUYZ27wr
Peaches - Turn It On (Franz Ferdinand Cover)
CAZWELL & PEACHES "Unzip Me"
Peaches - Burst
Moullinex & Peaches - Maniac
The Phenomenal Handclap Band & Peaches - Walk The Night
Peaches Extravaganza!
01 Close Up [ft. Kim Gordon]
02 Rub
03 Dick in the Air
04 Pickles
05 Sick in the Head
06 Free Drink Ticket
07 How You Like My Cut
08 Vaginoplasty [ft. Simonne Jones]
09 Light in Places
10 Dumb Fuck
11 I Mean Something [ft. Feist]
Peaches' self-directed video for "Light in Places", which features UK performance artist/aerialist Empress Stah and her pioneering "laser butt plug" show.
Since 2009's I Feel Cream, Peaches has been expanding her artistic horizons, appearing in productions including Peaches Christ Superstar, her one-woman take on Jesus Christ Superstar, and Peaches Does Herself, a futuristic rock opera about her rise to fame. Now, she's announced a new album, Rub, recorded last year in L.A. with Vice Cooler. It's out September 25 on I U She Music via INgrooves, and there's a North American tour to support it. Check the dates and album tracklist below.
Guests on the LP include Peaches' longtime collaborator Feist, who sings on "I Mean Something", and Kim Gordon, who speak-sings a hook on "Close Up", as Gordon revealed on Marc Maron's podcast earlier this year.
Ahead of the record, Peaches will also release What Else Is In The Teaches Of Peaches, a photo book with Holger Talinski, documenting her extracurricular work over the last decade. That includes the leading role in a Berlin production of L'Orfeo, Monteverdi's 17th-Century opera; collaborations with Yoko Ono, Le Tigre, and R.E.M; and the theater productions mentioned above. That's out in June via Akashic Books.
06-27 Minneapolis, MN Twin Cities Pride
08-29 Austin ,TX Austin Pride
09-07 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival
10-01 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
10-02 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
10-03 San Francisco, CA Mezzanine
10-05 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
10-06 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
10-15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
10-16 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre
10-17 Chicago, IL Metro
10-18 Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Ballroom
10-20 Toronto, Ontario Phoenix Concert Theatre
10-21 Montreal, Quebec Société des Arts
10-23 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
10-24 New York, NY Irving Plaza
10-25 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre
10-26 Washington, DC 930 Club
10-28 Carrboro, NC Cats Cradle
10-29 Atlanta, GA Terminal West
11-04 Houston, TX Numbers
11-06-08 Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest
11-07 Dallas, TX Trees
11-09 Denver, CO The Summit Music Hall
11-10 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
11-11 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl
11-13 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
Peaches, Rub
The electro provocateur returns with Rub, her first studio album in six years. On it, the performance artist and musician — most famous for her incendiary club anthem "Fuck the Pain Away" — continues to ooze sexuality, smash gender barriers, and swear like it's going out of style. (September 25)
Peaches - I Mean Something (featuring Feist)
Peaches - Free Drink Ticket NSFW
Peaches 'Vaginoplasty'
Peaches - Sick in the Head
She has sort of lost some of the "shock appeal" nowadays, but she's still making great things!
Peaches - 'How You Like my Cut- Official Video ft Eisa Jocson


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Im listening to the Bats game and I think I heard the announcer say that Shearn is going to pitch in Korea.
Im listening to the Bats game and I think I heard the announcer say that Shearn is going to pitch in Korea.
Mercker started and Ramon Ramirez is now pitching.
Mercker: 1 Inning, 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BB, 0 K
Ramirez: 2 Innings, 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BB, 3 K
So the question is.... do I wear this tomorrow or not?
Chattanooga underway.
Jordan Smith - 1ip, 1h, 0r, 0bb. Not sure if he struck anyone out. I was on the phone and trying to listen to the game at the same time.
Louisville is tied 1-1 in the 7th
Ramirez: 5 Innings, 4 Hits, 1 Run, 0 BB, 5 Ks
Andy Green hit a solo HR, his 3rd in 2 games, to tie the game up at 1 for the Bats.
Jordan Smith get them 1-2-3 with a strikeout in the 2nd. The K was his first.
Tonys Gutierrez doubled.
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A bloody inmate riot three weeks ago at the biggest U.S.-run detention facility in Iraq has exposed an increasingly hard-core prison population that is confronting U.S. forces with a growing risk of prison violence, according to military officers.
U.S. troops who dealt with the clash tell of a chaotic and threatening situation. They say the extent of violence surprised them. They also say the nonlethal weapons available to them at the time for crowd control proved largely ineffectual.
"What happened here on January 31st has changed the dynamics" of managing such situations, said Maj. Gen. William Brandenburg, who oversees U.S. military detention operations in Iraq and toured the facility last week. "It showed that the prisoners could hurl rocks farther than we could fire nonlethal weapons. It also showed that we have to do a better job of understanding who we have in detention."
Four inmates died and six were injured in the uprising the morning of Jan. 31, the most deaths in a prison disturbance since U.S. forces invaded Iraq two years ago. Frightened guards, some having arrived in Iraq only a month before, tried vainly to quell the rioting, spraying pepper gas and shooting rubberized pellets into throngs of prisoners, according to accounts by troops here.
The clashes spread through five of eight compounds at the sprawling detention facility in the southern Iraqi desert near the Kuwaiti border. Prisoners pelted guards with large stones and makeshift weapons, heaving debris over 15-foot-high metal fences and up at 30-foot-tall guard towers that ring the compounds.
Only after two Army guards in separate towers opened fire with M-16 rifles, killing the inmates, did the violence subside. U.S. officers say the guards acted on their own, with no order to fire. Rules here allow for use of deadly force if soldiers feel endangered.
For the first time since the incident, U.S. authorities allowed a reporter to visit the facility last week and talk with some of those who were involved. The episode remains under criminal investigation by the military, but the interviews yielded many previously unreported details and information about internal concerns.
Detention operations in Iraq have proved a persistent challenge for the U.S. military, which was caught unprepared to fight what has become a relentless insurgency and to deal with thousands of captured suspects. Photos documenting abuse and humiliation of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad in late 2003 surfaced last spring, igniting a public scandal and triggering a series of investigations.
Since then, commanders have tightened controls on U.S. military prison guards and improved conditions for detainees. Plans call for much of the effort involving detentions in Iraq to shift to Camp Bucca, a 100-acre facility developed from scratch to showcase the Army's revised detention methods. But a surge in military operations over the past few months -- and a decision to suspend the release of detainees until after the Iraqi elections on Jan. 30 -- have kept the number of detainees high.
About 3,180 prisoners are now at the Abu Ghraib facility, which has remained the U.S. military's primary interrogation center. Camp Bucca, which has a maximum capacity of 6,000 detainees, is up to about 5,150. Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport, houses about 100 "high-value" detainees. Another 1,300 or so suspected insurgents are being held for initial screenings at military brigade and division levels, according to military figures.
Camp Bucca's Theater Internment Facility is divided into eight compounds, each designed to hold up to about 800 inmates. Tents in which prisoners were housed have given way in many cases to climate-controlled huts built of wood with corrugated metal roofs. Small fields are available for soccer or volleyball games. Hot meals of rice, soup and stew are served.
There had been trouble at Camp Bucca before. In mid-October, fighting broke out between Sunni and Shiite prisoners in a dispute over observance of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month. The Shiites were later placed in a separate compound.
In early December, a protest erupted after two prisoners were sentenced to isolation for an escape attempt. Shouting prisoners, armed with sticks from collapsed tents and shielded by mattresses, threatened to assault. Guards avoided firing and instead dispersed the inmates using extra troops, guard dogs and firetrucks in a show of force.
Trouble of a different sort also drew Camp Bucca into the news recently when the New York Daily News printed photos showing several female soldiers in their underwear wrestling in a mud-filled plastic pool as a small group of men cheered them on. The incident occurred at the camp Oct. 30, and most of the participants were from the 160th Military Police Battalion, an Army Reserve unit that was due to leave the next day. The Army is investigating the incident.
The uprising of Jan. 31 began when U.S. soldiers entered compound No. 5 to search for contraband. A Muslim cleric complained that the soldiers damaged several Korans. Soon, masses of prisoners formed and pressed up against the compound's front fence, chanting and shouting.
"The initial worry was that they would push the fence over and escape," said Air Force Tech. Sgt. Keith Gray, who rushed to the scene with an emergency response force of 15 troops. "We started spraying gas, which pushed back the first row or two. But then they started throwing things."
Using makeshift slingshots, the inmates hurled rocks and chunks of concrete torn from the floors of their huts. They tossed sticks and plastic water bottles filled with sand. They lit plastic bags filled with flammable hand sanitizer.
Prisoners in four other compounds quickly joined in.
Senior Airman Tony Miles, who was manning a tower at compound No. 1, found himself pinned down by the flying debris. "It was chaotic," he recalled. "Stuff was coming from everywhere."
In another tower, Airman 1st Class Eric Coggswell repeatedly shouted in Arabic for the demonstrators to stop. "But they weren't listening," he recounted. "I fired eight shotgun rounds of nonlethal rubber bullets and small rubber pellets. But a lot of the prisoners were using sleeping bags as shields."
Other guards said the inmates appeared to know the limited ranges of the nonlethal shotgun blasts and gas sprays and would withdraw out of range, then rush again toward the perimeters. Their rocks shattered the double-pane glass in the windows of some tower huts.
"It was like an upside-down water fountain, with projectiles spewing into the towers," said Army Capt. Jerry Baird, who supervises the internment facility.
Army Pvt. 1st Class Christopher Cole described the prisoners as moving in waves around the perimeter of his compound, aiming at one tower and then another.
"When they were in front of my tower, there were so many rocks being thrown that I couldn't do anything except crouch in back of the tower hut until they passed," he said. "But then my nonlethal shots wouldn't reach them."
The rioting lasted about an hour, ending soon after word spread that several inmates had been hit with deadly bullets in compound No. 5.
U.S. commanders now suspect the uprising was planned, although the purpose remains unclear. Some here suspect it was meant to protest the Iraqi elections, which had been held the previous day. Others say they believe it was designed to test the guards' responses.
Under U.S. military rules, none of the prisoners could be interviewed for this article.
Senior officers here defended the decision by the two military policemen -- both sergeants -- to fire the deadly shots.
"That is a judgment call for the MPs to make," said Lt. Col. Tim Houser, commander of the 105th Military Police Battalion, which has charge of Camp Bucca. "They felt there was potential for loss of life or grievous bodily injury."
Brandenburg, the commander of detention operations in Iraq, said he sees no need to revise the rules governing use of force by U.S. military guards. But he has directed officers here to ensure that all guards understand the rules.
About half the guards belong to Houser's Army National Guard battalion and have been on duty in Iraq for nearly four months. The others belong to an Air Force security unit, the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, which arrived in January.
Commanders also have provided guards with new nonlethal guns that shoot longer-range, plastic projectiles. In addition, the camp has received a new 1,000-gallon firetruck whose spray can be used against rioting inmates.
Brandenburg has ordered more cameras installed at all compounds to intensify surveillance, and he has instructed officers here to do more to gather intelligence on the prison population.
"You can't do enough to figure out who the bad guys are," he told the senior staff at a meeting last week. "We're detaining a harder-core crowd, and so the approach has to be more prison-like. We've got to get very good at this to get ahead of it."
A new maximum-security facility with segregated metal cells is being built at the camp. Brandenburg said it should help set the troublemakers apart.
The guards here say the Jan. 31 riot has made them more vigilant.
"I learned that things can get bad in a hurry, so don't be complacent," Coggswell said.
Added Spec. Kevin Plemmons, a guard in compound No. 4: "Really, you can't trust these guys at all. You have to be on your toes."


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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Magnolia Swap Card Kit
I just love this paper! I received this kit from round 3 of the Magnolia Kit swap. This one was put together by Deb :) When I saw the pumpkins in the paper I just had to use my Tilda with pumpkin image! The kit has the most adorable vampire stamp though, it is a Hanglar & Stanglar image and I used it immediately after this card. It came out adorable and I will post it next.
Back to this card! So I am trying to use the paper without covering it up too much and last week's sketch challenge on splitcoast worked real well for this. The ribbon is perfect too! I had the pumpkin button and cut the shank off plus I stamped the pumpkin on the lower left side from my friend Yvonne's wonderful collection. I colored everything with SU markers and then outlined the pumpkins with Smooch Ink in the color "pumpkin". That stuff is so sparkly, love it! The sentiment is also from Yvonne - I stamped it then used the Spellbinders fancy tag but I cut the swirly ends off as they didn't seem to work with the style of this card. So there we have it! I will post vampire card tomorrow. Thanks for looking!
7 comments:
- Deb (dcorder) said...
Ooo...I love what you did with the paper! The image threw me for a minute. Can't wait to see what you do with the mini vampire! :D
- October 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM
- Jacque said...
Lori!! What a darling card!!! The papers are lovely and all of the details you have used are soooooooo darling!!! Little Tilda is colored beautifully!! Great job...hugs..Jacque
- October 16, 2009 at 10:17 AM
This turned out terrific! That is awesome paper and you put everything together so well!
- October 16, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- Kathy said...
Love it! The fence is perfect behind Tilda. Your coloring looks fantastic.
- October 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- lenalmt said...
Lori what a darling card I love her brown shoes!!! Perfect!
SCS tackertwosome
- October 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- Cheryl said...
That is a sweet card, Lori! Love it!
- October 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- Jessica G. said...
Adorable card, Lori, and I'm so impressed that you are actually using the kits instead of hoarding them (like me!). You are inspiring me to dust off my kits, too!!
- October 19, 2009 at 12:01 AM


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Alcoa to pay $384 million in fines to settle foreign bribery investigations
Alcoa Inc. will pay $384 million to settle two federal cases in which it was accused of bribing government officials in the Middle East to maintain a key source of business.
The investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice found that officials representing Alcoa, which has its North American rolled products factory in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, paid more than $110 million in corrupt payments to officials in Bahrain with influence over contract negotiations between Alcoa and a major, government-operated aluminum plant.
Alcoa will pay a total of $384 million in fines to settle both cases, according to the SEC.
The global aluminum producer based in Pittsburgh said the Department of Justice is bringing no direct charges against the company. Alcoa World Alumina, a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc., agreed to plead guilty on one count of violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The company will pay $223 million to the Department of Justice and will pay the SEC $161 million in fines over a four-year period to settle the claims.
According to the SEC, company subsidiaries used a London-based consultant with "connections to Bahrain's royal family" to funnel payments to keep Alcoa as a supplier for the plant.
"Alcoa lacked sufficient internal controls to prevent and detect the bribes, which were improperly recorded in Alcoa's books and records as legitimate commissions or sales to a distributor," according to an SEC news release.
Alcoa noted that neither the SEC nor the Department of Justice found that any company employee knowingly engaged in the "conduct at issue," and both government organizations credited Alcoa with cooperating with both investigations.
"As the beneficiary of a long-running bribery scheme perpetrated by a closely controlled subsidiary, Alcoa is liable and must be held responsible," said George Canellos, co-director of the SEC Enforcement Division. "It is critical that companies assess their supply chains and determine that their business relationships have legitimate purposes."
There is expected to be court approval on the Department of Justice deal today, according to Alcoa.
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Giants coach Tom Coughlin was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct late in the first half of Sunday night's preseason game, and although Coughlin yelled at referee Ed Hochuli on his way into the locker room at halftime, Coughlin admitted after the game that the penalty was his own fault.
The flag came because Coughlin left the bench area to get the officials' attention to let them know that he wanted to call a timeout. Coughlin says he knows the officials have been instructed not to allow coaches to run onto the field.
"I'm taking full responsibility for that, I was wrong," Coughlin said. "I was out on the field too many times. They warned me about that, but in that situation, you're told by the officials to go ahead and come down if you need to take a timeout when the clock is running out, but that didn't happen."
Former NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira said that coaches leaving the bench area is a point of emphasis this season, so Coughlin won't be the last coach to get such a flag. At least Coughlin learned his lesson in the preseason, not the regular season.


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ROCK ISLAND, Ill.-- The GC men's cross country team raced to a 18th finish out of 35 team that competed Friday. Josh Dees lead the Panther pack with a time of 26:13.5.
Dees crossed the finish line first for Greenville, with a 5:17 mile pace. He came in 32nd out of the 491 runners.
Also scoring points for Greenville were Bryant Simpson, Leo Smith-Butler, Nathan Allyn, and Daniel Ellenberg. These men came in 64th, 128th, 137th, and 167th respectively.
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BOSTON — While it flew under the radar during the Bruins run to the 2011 Stanley Cup championship, the organization relieved Rob Murray of his duties as head coach of the Providence (AHL) farm club in the spring.
General manager Peter Chiarelli said today that he expects to make a hire for that position later this week and that assistant coach Bruce Cassidy is a candidate for the position.
"He is a candidate and I would expect probably mid-week to have that staff in place. There are other candidates we've interviewed and we've been, it's been kind of ongoing … so we're actually pretty close to getting something done and I would anticipate it getting done no later than mid-week."


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I woke up this morning to get a Twitter mention and early Christmas greeting from @Strobist that my portrait of Annie Leibovitz is on the new cover of Spanish Esquire. That's an awesome Christmas present, and my first Esquire cover as well.
Big thank you's go out to Redux Pictures (Lori Reese and Jesi Bevis, who tirelessly represent my stock archive and editorial assignments) and Esquire.
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McCLAVE - The Class 2A County Line Rivals picked up their ninth win of the season against the Class 1A Eads Eagles on Tuesday, but it didn't come easy.
County Line co-coaches Dave Eastin and Terry Weber saw the Rivals blow an 8-2 lead after five innings as the Eagles rallied to tie the game at 8-8 in the top of the seventh.
The Rivals, however, were able came through in the bottom of the seventh on a game-winning hit by freshman Steven Weber to chalk up a thrilling 9-8 victory.
"It was a good high school game," said Coach Eastin. "Their coach (Billy Koehler) is a good friend of mine and a terrific coach. So, I enjoy it when we get to play a game against each other. Anytime you play his team they're going to fight tooth and nail and they kept battling and battling. "
Both teams started with freshman pitchers on the mound and they did well.
Christian Delamastra got the starting nod for County Line while Steven Wilson toed the rubber for Eads.
Dellamastra went 5 1/3 innings and gave up six runs (four earned) on eight hits. He had 10 strike outs and one walk.
He was relieved by older brother Kenny who earned the victory.
Wilson went three innings for the Eagles. He faced 13 batters and gave up one run on two hits with one strike out and three walks.
Coach Koehler used four other pitchers in relief.
After a scoreless first inning, Eads scored a pair of runs in the top of the second on an RBI single by Jaxon Crawford and an RBI double by Brad Johnson that scored Crawford for a 2-0 lead.
County Line made it 2-1 in the bottom of the third and scored a run on a sacrifice fly by Weber.
"The Wilson kid pretty much shut us down for three innings," said Eastin. "But then we got the bats going a little bit."
Marc Solis, a sophomore, went to the mound for Eads in the bottom of the fourth inning.
The Rivals jump on him for three runs on five hits to take a 4-2 lead.
The three runs came on an RBI single by Kolby Brubacher, a fielder's choice on a hit by Luis Lopez, and an RBI single by Caden Eastin.
Eads was shutout for the third straight inning when Dellamaestra retired the Eagles in order with three straight strike outs in the top of the fifth.
In the bottom of the fifth, County Line struck for four runs to build an 8-2 advantage.
Solis ran into problems when he gave up a single to Gabe Salazar and then issued walks to Cole Smith and C. Delamaestra to load the bases.
After a visit to the mound, Eads made another pitching change and brought in Crawford, another freshman.
He issued a walk to Abe Salazar to bring in a run. Brubacher then came to bat and ripped a sharp ground ball between first and second base for a two-run single to bring the score to 7-2.
With Lopez at the plate, a balk by Crawford allowed Salazar to cross the plate for the fourth run of the innings.
The Rivals looked to do more damage when Lopez was hit by a pitch and an out later K. Delamaestra singled to load the bases for a second time in the inning.
With Weber coming to bat, the Eagles made another pitching change and brought in Blaine Winder.
Winder got his team out the jam to retire the next two batters.
"Even though we were ahead 8-2, it was kind of an ominious feeling for me," said Coach Eastin. "I felt we should have gotten more runs when we had the bases loaded."
Eastin's feeling were right.
In the top of the sixth, Eads chipped away to score for four runs to cut the deficit to 8-6 and then manufactured two runs in the top of the seventh to deadlock the game at 8-8.
In the sixth, C. Delamaestra gave up back-to-back singles to Fowler and Tyler Rouse. After a strike out, Winder drove in a run and Crawford followed with a grounder up the middle for a two-run single to make it 8-5.
County Line then made a pitching change with K. Delamaestra going to the mound.
After Caine Farmer reached on a bunt, a passed ball to Brad Johnson advanced the runners to second and third. Johnson then connected on a fly ball to center field for an RBI single to cut theRivals' lead to 8-6.
Delamaestra avoided any further damage when he retired the next two batters on a stirke out and ground out (pitcher to first).
In the bottom of sixth, Cole Smith and C. Delamaestra reached on a pair of singles to lead off the inning. But they were left stranded when Winder wiggled off the hook with a fly out and a double play.
Heading into the top of the seventh, Eads drove in a pair of runs to knot the score at 8-8.
The Eagles led off the inning with back-to-back singles from Fowler and Rouse. Wth Winder at the plate, a wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third. Winder then hit a ground ball to Weber at shortstop and was safe on the throw as Fowler scored on the play.
With runners at first and third, Delamaestra struck out the next two batters he faced and all the Rivals needed was one more out to end the game.
That didn't happen when Farmer hit a ground ball to second baseman Abe Salazar. His routine throw to first base resulted in an errory to allow the tying run to score. The Rivals got out of the inning with a strike out.
Going into the bottom of the inning, Eads made a pitching change and brought in their ace Tyler Rouse.
Rouse struck out the first batter he faced in Lopez, but then issued critical walks to Eastin and K. Delamaestra.
Weber then came to bat and came through for the Rivals when he slapped a ground ball between first and second that allowed Eastin to score the winning run to the delight of his teammates and coaches.
"Obviously, I'm happy that we came out on the winning end of it but it could have gone either way," Coach Eastin said. "It was good for us to be in a close game like that because it was something that we needed."
County Line, now 9-3, returns to action on Saturday, April 19 when they travel to face a Sante Fe League doubleheader with the neighborhood Las Animas Trojans at 10 a.m.
Las Animas is a team that the Rivals have yet to beat heading into their fourth year in the league.
Eads, 4-8, will host a pair of District 3 games with Manzanola on Thursday, April 17 and tBaca County on Tuesday, April 22 at 3:00 p.m.
The Eagles led the district standings with a 3-0 record.
County Line 9, Eads 8
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Kennifer has been a staple in the Crimson lineup throughout her
four years in Cambridge (photo Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's water polo team hosts Hartwick Tuesday at 7 p.m. during the team's Senior Day. Seniors Lizzie Abbott, Devan Kennifer, Shannon Purcell and Monica Zdrojewski will be honored in a ceremony before the contest.
The Class of 2012
The seniors have compiled a 53-55 record thus far at Harvard, including a 17-15 mark last season, the program's first season over .500 in six years. This year's Crimson is poised to finish with another winning record for the team's first back-to-back winning seasons since 2004 and 2005.
The Crimson (12-9, 4-1 CWPA Southern Division) has won three straight games to clinch the No. 2 seed at the CWPA Southern Division Championship. Harvard has taken down division foes Brown, 7-5, Mercyhurst, 10-4, and George Washington, 18-12, during its current three-game streak and also owns a division win over Bucknell, 13-8, this season. In Harvard's last game, the Crimson scored 18 goals, its biggest offensive outburst of the season, to top George Washington. The Crimson used a balance scoring attack in the game, as four players netted hat tricks. Aisha Price, Lizzie Abbott and Devan Kennifer each scored four times and Shannon Purcell added three goals.
The Hawks (23-9, 3-3 CWPA Western Division) have won four of its last five and sits in fourth place of the CWPA Western Division. Four players lead Hartwick with 40 or more goals this season including Lisa Bass (49), Sasha Freeborn (48), Jemma Dendy Young (45) and Kamila Zakirova (42). Hayley Cox has started 20 games in goal, while allowing 9.82 goals per game.
Series History
Hartwick leads the all-time series against Harvard, 27-1. The Crimson won the first meeting between the two schools, 7-5, in 2001, but the Hawks have rattled off 27 straight victories since.
Up Next
Harvard will play in the 'B' bracket at the CWPA Southern Division Championship where it will take on Mercyhurst and Brown April 14. The winner of the 'B' bracket will face the winner of the 'A' bracket in the Southern Division title game April 15.
Senior Day Caps Home Schedule for Women's Water Polo
Kennifer has been a staple in the Crimson lineup throughout her
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(Muddled mess of a movie)
After enjoying a superb production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," I had to sit through two hours and 10 minutes of one of the most confusing movies I've ever seen.
The premise is simple: Shakespeare didn't write Hamlet, or any of the plays attributed to him. The problem is that this movie is one big muddled mess. The only salvation is Vanessa Redgrave's portrayal of Queen Elizabeth.
The theory is that the Earl of Oxford wrote the plays for political reasons. He wanted playwright Ben Johnson to put his name on the plays, but Johnson resisted.
William Shakespeare, who is portrayed as a terrible actor and a drunk, seizes the opportunity for fame and fortune and quickly becomes the darling of the English theatre.
That is all well and good, except that the author jerks us around in time and space to the point that we don't know who is who, what is what, where and when we are....and why.
History is distorted, characters all look alike, and much of the movie is played in shadows. Shakespeare buff's will be confused and everyone else will be overwhelmed...or underwhelmed.
Rated PG-13, with some violence. If the movie does anything, it will turn off the younger folks to Shakespeare.


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Trojans Fall to Cougars, 60-53
Feb. 3, 2012
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Brock Motum scored 26 points to lead Washington State past Southern California 60-53 Thursday night.
Motum was hot from the onset, scoring 11 of the Cougars' (12-10, 4-6) first 16 points. WSU led 30-24 at halftime.
Southern California (6-17, 1-9) put together a 14-4 run midway through the second half, cutting the Cougars' lead to 49-45 with 6:42 remaining, but WSU went 4 of 5 at the free throw line during a minute-long span to go up 56-45 with 3:38 left.
Motum accounted for WSU's final two points when he grabbed a defensive rebound and was immediately fouled, proceeding to hit both foul shots. Motum was the only Cougar player to finish in double figures.
USC had three players notch double figures with Greg Allen leading with 17 points. Garrett Jackson added 15 and Byron Wesley finished with 12.


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Thread: Best Mac Racing Sim to Date
07-15-2008, 01:01 PM #1Best Mac Racing Sim to Date
For ages we mac users would curse ourselves for not having a decent "car racing" game. Something that felt and looked REAL. Nascar? Ford Racing 2? Those were about as close as they'd get. But still not close enough.
Until now.
Introducing Colin McRae Rally Mac. Probably THE best racing sim you'll ever play native in OS X! When I first saw this on the shelves of the iStudio at Siam Paragon here in Bangkok I was like "wow... the graphics on the packaging look pretty impressive". Wait till you play the game! The graphics are even better appreciated in the game itself. And the performance. Oooh the performance. Rocks. Speed. Good FPS even on a 3-year old iMac G5 with an ATI Radeon 9600 and just 128mb VRAM.
Now of course it IS "just" the 2005 PC port of Colin McRae rally, but still this game is perhaps the best racing sim -- graphics wise, performance wise and game-play wise for Mac OS X. Yeah, so for those of you who have the luxury of a macbook or mac pro are probably already playing the PC version of Colin McRae DIRT which boasts superior graphics to this one, but let's not get ahead of ourselves -- so for this review I won't be mentioning CMR DIRT any further.
Ok, so what exactly is the game about?
It's rally racing. Note that rally racing is much different from street racing or NASCAR though. In rally racing you race against yourself -- against time, rather than other cars on the same track. You also race against traction -- racing on loose gravel is much different than racing on a speedway or tarmac. In rally racing learning to drift is a must for turning, and slowing down for control IS not an option. It's a requirement.
Colin McRae allows you to select a pretty wide variety of cars. You don't even need to play and finish cups to unlock all these cars (you can cheat). 4WD cars are one of the meanest. They're fast. Horribly fast. In certain tracks they're even too fast for their own good. For this reason, having a steering wheel with pedals is a good way to control your throttle.
I was so hooked on the game that's exactly what I did. I got the wheel-of-wheels, the Logitech G25 racing wheel. Although Colin McRae doesn't support the 900 degrees of turning that the wheel supports, it's still a great wheel with real leather. No need for me to do a further review of the G25 though... there are enough already on the web and the hype is all true!
You can see a video of me playing Colin McRae Rally with my G25 racing wheel here:
Anyways the other cars you can select are 2WD, Super 2WD, AWD, 4x4 Pickups, Classics (including the Mini Cooper and the new Volkswagen Beetle RSI) and Type B cars.
Although 4WD cars are one of the meanest, the Type B cars are definitely THE meanest. They're so powerful that they're almost uncontrollable (for me). Still trying to get the hang of Type B cars. They sure don't look very modern for their makes, but they're definitely more powerful than any of the other cars. Use at your own risk.
What would rally racing be without the ability to damage your car? We're not just talking about wearing out tires until they get wobbly and eventually explode (they do though!) or simple damage penalties that most other games put in place despite-still-having-a-shiny-clean-body. In Colin McRae, your car gets damaged. Very damaged. This damage ranges from dirt accumulating on your windscreen (forcing the wipers to go on), to small paint scratches, to dents, large dents, loss of your bumper, loss of your cooling system, loss of engine integrity, smashed glass panels, popped-and-scraping wheels and other nuances like loosing your headlights or tail lights. Damage is all there. And It does have an impact on your cars steering, suspension etc.
Damage counts most when you're playing the rally career mode and winning Shield events and Cups. If your car is damaged, you'll need to fix it up, given a set amount of time to spend for repairs. Any additional fixes done past the given time will incite a time penalty in your next race. So drive safely.
You can select from 8 different stages from 9 different countries in the game -- from the dry Australian dirt to the slippery iced roads of Sweden. That's 73 stages all-in-all! But that's not all -- there are additional special stages that you can unlock and test your wheels on as well. Race is clear morning weather, or snow/rain overcasts with your headlights glaring.
GRAPHICS, GAMEPLAY and REQUIREMENTS
This is perhaps the best-balanced game that delivers well on 2005 mac hardware (it is a 2005 game in reality). However, it doesn't support the Intel GMA chipsets. So sorry Macbook and Mac Mini users. On my 2.0Ghz 2GB RAM 20" iMac G5 with an ATI Radeon 9600 (128MB) I can run the game at full 1680x1050 resolution -- oddly this is actually better for game performance as I've found that although lower resolutions give higher framerates, they also make the game hiccup more. So I play with Z buffering set to 16, Redraw distance at 4, and everything else off or on the lowest. In turn the graphics are still better than what any other racing sim on the mac has to offer. TIP: Turning off post-processing effects makes the game look better without ugly blurs.
The game also supports vibration and force feedback controllers.
The game has 3 modes: A quick race mode, a career mode, and a Championships mode. I'd stick to the quick race rallies mode for a while.
I would recommend this game to anyone with a flat-panel iMac and above. If you really want to get serious, buy a racing wheel to go with it. The MOMO Force Feedback would suit perfectly, as there are no features the game doesn't support. Force feedback is supported for steering wheels and vibration is supported on gamepads with vibration. Having a wheel makes the game more serious, and I find that this is where the "first person view"/bonnet view works best. If you use a gamepad, the 2nd person/outside car views make the game more enjoyable and less tense to play.
Now if only they can port Colin McRae DIRT on the mac!!
LINKS and VIDEOS
Too see the game in action, follow these links:
Australia Box Hill Demo (best time: 3.16.19) (download)
G25 Game Preview (YouTube)
How to Smash a Car (YouTube)
Note: This is a review that I've posted on some other forums back when I got the game. Just thought I'd share it here. Unfortunately, my iMac's dead and I have to wait for my macbook pro next month before I can play this game again ****... me without my mac...
looks nice. too bad it would never play on my macbook.
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Even though it's a year or so old, I have been seriously thinking about giving TIR (Total Immersion Racing) a test-go. It looks fabulous, runs native OS X, and seems to have the depth I'm looking for, with the arcade-style rush that I miss so badly. I'll post more when I break down and buy it in a few days."Of all the things I've ever lost, I think I miss my mind the most." -- Calvin
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Italian Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policy offers support to FAO
06 March, 2012, Rome - Italian Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policy, Mario Catania welcomed FAO's new Director-General José Graziano da Silva during their first official meeting on 6 March 2012.
Graziano da Silva outlined his programme for FAO's future work, including the renewed attention to increasing world food production as a crucial pathway to eliminating hunger, a geographic priority in Africa and the need of decentralization for a stronger FAO at the local level.
The Minister offered full support to the proposals and said that Italy could provide expertise and research also at the technical level, despite overall budgetary constraints. The two agreed to step up cooperation at the technical level.
Catania also invited the Director-General to attend the Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre event in Turin in October 2012 and discussed participation in the World Expo 2015, to be held in Milan.


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It's summer and Santa Barbara is filled with events, visitors, and great sites. One of my favorite things to do during the summer (well, all year round) is hiking. Santa Barbara has hiking trails of all levels. One of my favorites leads you up to Inspiration Point. The trailhead is found off of Foothill Road in the northern part of the city. It starts off with a narrow paved walkway, and up into a trail shaded by trees. In the middle of the hike, there is a great creek to stop off at and enjoy a smal snack. Then you head up into a switchback trail to the very top. The trail itself takes a few hours there and back. It's a great one to take in the afternoon, and maybe even around dusk during the summer months. I've done it once in the dark, and flashlights are essential for that hike (we forgot ours, not a good idea).
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LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga.--The Panthers traveled to Georgia to take on Covenant College and after a 2-0 halftime lead, GC fell to the Scots 3-2 in overtime.
The first half of the game was all Greenville. In the 4th minute of the game, GC's Sean McQuillan headed a throw-in from Robert Wright, putting the ball in the back of the net and bringing the game's score to 1-0 Greenville. Sixteen minutes later, GC got another goal when Spencer Pulliam passed the ball to Wright who scored the second goal of the game. This brought GC up 2-0 and it stayed there heading into halftime.
In the second half, it was Covenant's turn to take control. In the game's 60th minute, Hunter Harrison scored off of an assist from David Taaffe. In the 72nd minute, Greenville gave up a foul in the box and Covenant's Chris Pifer finished the PK to bring the game to a 2-2 tie.
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IGN;The War Z misses the mark at almost everything it does. It's rife with bugs and other tech issues, and the large amount of guns has turned it into a place where meaningful player interactions rarely occur. It needs a lot of work to become something that feels like a proper release, and is in dire need of the slew of promised features to make it more than rarely entertaining. This is a prime example of a game that oversells and underdelivers.
Irrefutably a Worst Game of the Year 2013 Early Contender and most probable victor.
(Although, statistically speaking, the game was released fall 2012. But, considering the majority of "GOTY Awards" had been decided upon, and due to this games horrendous gameplay, it would be shameful to exclude it from this years nominations... )
I can't imagine how someone dies by hackers or campers comes back to that game 4 hours later. I seriously can't wait to play for a game where dying is common. Not four hours at least.


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The MBA and MBP are both fine machines. My wife get's a computer that works most of the time. I get a computer with a bash shell on which I can do my thing. Neither have shown any tendency to falls apart, unlike every Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and HP we've had.
The MBA and MBP are both fine machines. My wife get's a computer that works most of the time. I get a computer with a bash shell on which I can do my thing. Neither have shown any tendency to falls apart, unlike every Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and HP we've had.
Absolutely, And you have to give up the smooth and functional OSX interface for the freaked out Metro disaster, and the unintuitive controls.
The thing that looks right about the construction of the current Mac books is that the monolithic aluminium case doesn't have any flappy bits to fall off. Why other manufacturers do not do something similar is beyond me.
I forgot to mention a Sony laptop. That also failed. The bottom panel came off, the disk failed and the CD drive failed. So I can't install linux on it because the CD isn't working and it won't boot linux from a flash drive, presumably because of something stupid Sony did. So it's dead and I
Inspirion 1720 is going strong after 7 years of non stop usage and it runs flawlessly with Linux Mint 14/Mate. Only thing I replaced was to put in a SSD and I spilt a full glass of beer on the KB which eventually need to be replaced. So does that make Dell's as good as your Mac's?
In 'good' condition... they're worth more than that on Craigslist...
The funny thing is, MBA's even early models are still worth a pretty dime second hand (usually 50-80% of purchase price based on condition and age), Surface Pro's won't fetch more than 1/3 of their purchase price.
That's because people don't understand there's more than one model and if they do they don't understand how to tell them apart or what the benefits of a new model are.
What this tells me is that Microsoft has given up trying to promote the Surface as a tablet. It's a laptop that happens to have a detachable keyboard. Note that they didn't even try to offer a trade-in of ipads for the surface, which would be a more reasonable comparison if the surface was successful as a tablet. The ipad is a different use case, and Microsoft just doesn't play well in that space.
"And you can get a keyboard for it, and OF COURSE, it runs Microsoft Office"
'Cause THAT'S what people do with tablets...
No, the mere fact that Microsoft built the Surface tablets demonstrates they don't have the foggiest idea what tablets are used for.
"And you can get a keyboard for it, and OF COURSE, it runs Microsoft Office"
'Cause THAT'S what people do with tablets...
It's what they did with the MBAs they're trading in, and it's what people can do with a tablet that isn't just an electronic etch-a-sketch.
It's sad that people are carrying around devices with multicore CPUs, several GB ram and storage, wifi and HD screens, and they still have to say "sorry, I can't -- I didn't bring my computer"
That's OK, I don't know what tablets are for either.
Microsoft has given up trying to promote the Surface as a
... saleable machine. Rather than dumping their excess, in public view of shareholders, they are now even more willing to take a more substantial loss, so long as they can still claim X millions of units sold . Better than tossing them like with the Surface RT. Shareholders will likely complain if they try that one again.
Yeah, Microsoft is now going for portable business integration. You can manage them with Active Directory - I just added one.
We are looking to go more portable at work but we don't want to have a laptop and a tablet for every user. Picked up one of the new Surface 3 devices and while it looks like it will integrate nicely for our day-to-day use at work, I don't like it enough to have one at home for personal use. It's actually got some well thought out ideas in the device.
Given that an iPad can cost $1k now (256GB storage, same as this Surface Pro 3 I'm testing) It's not too far-fetched in price in my opinion, seeing as you can do more with it and aren't constrained to the App or Play store. Doesn't mean I'd buy one for personal use, though. Once the docks are released I can see potential for it replacing some of our old workstations.
Note that they didn't even try to offer a trade-in of ipads for the surface, which would be a more reasonable comparison if the surface was successful as a tablet
if they tried to pull THAT, they would have a crapton of people with older ipads trading them in. They'd be buried alive. A lot of iPad2's are out of warranty, and that's about the time schools and others consider an upgrade.
They're MS... they're big, and could take the hit, but it definitely would sting.
The surface though is more of a laptop try
> and MS isn't offering as much as the machines could get you on craigslist.
I did not know that, not being an Apple user (except for a couple G4s for Adobe products back in the day). Microsoft is so screwed.
> Trade-ins for the competition's gear are a "try to pull people off the fence onto your side" maneuver, but the problem is it's only going to attract people that have already decided they didn't like their new mac, so it won't really serve its intended purpose.
*especially* since, the Apple consu
*especially* since, the Apple consumer is not your average consumer. Apple consumers love Apple products because (at least in part) they are Apple products. Microsoft isn't going to deter too many people from that mindset.
Another really huge part is that Apple at least so far has not tried to foist a tub of crap like Windows 8 on their customers, and had their shills call them stupid when they didn't like it. Even Mavericks, which had some birthing pains - at least people could use it coompetently from day one, and it's ended up being great.
The Surface Pro has always been marketed as a laptop replacement, not as just a tablet. This doesn't suddenly change anything.
I think that might to a certain extent be rewriting history. How soon we forget, all of those commercials and all that marketing when the Surface first came out.
They'll do anything to pick them up cheaply, even trade some unwanted Surface 3's for some!
Jokes aside (and please don't mod for flamebait, it's sarcasm above, downmod for a bad joke if anything)
I don't think will go much. You're assuming that someone values their $1000+ dollar MacBook Air at $650 and values the Surface at something worth the discount. Considering the amount of work you'd have to do to migrate (either Windows to Mac, or Mac to Windows) you have to think about 200-300 realistically for swapping costs. Makes good headlines (as we see here) but won't help much.
You'll need $200/y for just an Office (Office365) and simple photo/music management suite (Adobe CC), which is included in every purchase of a Mac.
You lost me where I somehow need an Adobe CC subscription...
Office 2013, non-cloud is $140-220 depending on version, and I'm pretty sure Office doesn't come with a Mac for free either.
Non-Office office suites are available for free.
Wait, Apple's come with a perpetual Office subscription and Adobe's CC application? Damn, that is a good deal. Unless, of course, you mean Apple's free knock-offs of Office and Adobe's photo group, in which case the only advantage is that they're bundled instead of having to download one of the half-dozen free alternatives available for Windows.
Considering the amount of work you'd have to do to migrate (either Windows to Mac, or Mac to Windows) you have to think about 200-300 realistically for swapping costs. Makes good headlines (as we see here) but won't help much.
I suspect they are targeting Mac users who have never seen the Metro interface, or whatever they are calling it these days. W8 got my wife to stop using her computer until I installed Mint on it.
I'm a programmer. I've written GUI code, I've written a device driver that shipped in a commercial UNIX kernel. I've used Windows since 3.1 days (WindowsForWorkgroupsForTheWin!). I've even debugged and configured Windows Vista in Chinese even though I can't read it - I was able to get someone to translate the occasional dialog box.
I can not understand Win8. When my sister asks me to help configure something on her Win8 laptop, I struggle with the UI as if I'm some rookie coming from some stoneage tribe.
I hate hate hate hate Windows 8.
Oh good. I am not alone. I've seen some of the most arcane interfaces on this planet, some of them not seen by more than a handful of people altogether, so arcane and mysterious that its name shall not be spoken. GUIs that made you beg for a CLI, for you knew that even if you had to memorize all the commands and had no -? to aid you, it could not possibly take more than a fraction of the time you'd need to get behind the twisted logic of the GUI in front of you. I cursed them, but I mastered them all, in little time.
Metro is a mystery. It simply has no rhyme or reason to it. It fucking makes no sense AT ALL. No matter what you want to do, applying sense and logic is the wrong way to do something. Usually you find your way around by pondering "Now, what would be the LEAST intuitive way to do something?", and usually you shall be rewarded with a solution.
If you offered me the choice "Metro or..." my answer, before you are done with the sentence, is "the other one". Even if you end in "or a stone tablet".
I can not understand Win8. When my sister asks me to help configure something on her Win8 laptop, I struggle with the UI as if I'm some rookie coming from some stoneage tribe.
I hate hate hate hate Windows 8.
When the simplest functions require you to go to the internet to find out how to do them. My virgin W8 experience wasdoing a websearch on how to shutdown, and there were lots of hits. If we have problems trying to figure how to shut the computer down, there is something drastically wrong.
Already I have told all the groups I support now that I will not support W8. They go MetroSexual, and they have to get new free help.
This is so true. And the feedback has been like this and has been so consistent for so long... I can't understand why Microsoft hasn't already reversed course on some of this madness. I mean, are they TRYING to give Apple market share? Because it's working. I still use a PC desktop much of the time, but my new laptop is a Mac, and I really like it. I never thought I would go Mac. And when Yosemite comes out this fall, it will integrate more fully with my phone and my tablet. Now, when it comes time f
Windows 8 takes everything you thought you knew about Windows, kills it, rapes it, buries it, digs it up, rapes it again, sets it on fire, and props up the corpse with rusty coat-hangers in the form of a rude gesture.
Strangely, I still love my Surface Pro, but it is despite Windows 8, not because of it. I think for a certain niche it's a sensible machine, but admittedly that niche is awfully narrow.
To get one of the trade in Mac Book Air (s) ??
I am sure ebay is full of cheap damaged Macbooks which power on and don't have screen cracks or water damage. Buy for less than $650, resell Surface, profit!
"While supplies last." That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
That's not supplies of Surface Pro 3 which is likely infinite for all intents and purposes, but supplies of "goodwill" from the "benevolent corporate ruler" Microsoft. After all, it takes goodwill to buy a competitor's product - even if it is at a significant discount and even if it is only for credits towards purchase of your own product.
Look at it this way. Now that they've found the Atari 2600 ET cartridges in a New Mexico landfill, there's plenty of room for all the Surfaces (all variants) that Microsoft can't sell.
It's amusing watching the mighty Redmond Emperor with his clothes off; a whole product line and who knows how much R&D and marketing cash dumped into it, that almost no one actually fucking wants. It's so bad that they can't even get their OEM network to build the fucking things and they have to put them under their own br
"While supplies last." That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
Aren't the Zunes still waving that flag?
So I wasn't the only one who thought that sounds like one of those home order TV shows? "But call now, supplies are limited!"
(only a billion and a half left...)
Not the only time that happened, it seems.
A local store had a "guess the product and win it" competition. They do this from time to time, with various promotions they get. It's a bit of an event every time and usually people flock to the store to stare at the blown up pics that hang out everywhere to guess the product. I sometimes go there for the kick to see what's going on and whether I can find out what it is, sometimes it's quite tricky. They usually take a pic of a corner that could be anything (ever t
If anyone did take them up on the offer I'd be amazed.
Awesome. Thanks for that.
Make it 2 of your top of the line surface 3 pros and I will do it. Because you need to make it a sweet deal for me to jump to a platform known to have issues and very very low adoption rate.
I'll give you $5 for your $20 bill!
I think I'm going to like this new MS CEO...
Seriously. I love the MacBook Air I got a couple of years ago. The thing works very well, and even runs the occasional VMWare Fusion image of Windows 7 I need to run occasionally off of a portable thunderbolt drive. On a whim I got one of the earlier Surface tablets when the wife and I were in Vegas and they had a Kiosk where they were practically giving them away - but for the life of me still cannot use it for anything truly productive.
Trade in a MacBook Air for a surface?! Sorry Microsoft. You've been a day late and a dollar short ever since Ballmer pissed on the idea of tablets and smartphones and Apple smoked you and ate you for breakfast. Apple would have to skullf**k a small, disabled child onstage during their next keynote to even _think_ of falling behind enough for you to catch up to relevancy.
Microsoft - As long as I can virtualize your OS, take a snapshot and rollback when your OS takes a dive and run it all on a machine that, you know, _works_ I won't buy another piece of hardware branded by you. Ever.
And as another poster mentioned, "While supplies last." Really? Wow, even with Steve "Developers Developers Developers" Ballmer gone, you _still_ have a great sense of humor.
Here recently I run by the store on the way home to pick up some milk. Was in a rush and left my Surface Pro on the front seat, in plain view.
When I came out, I discovered someone had broken into my car and left three more Surface Pro's
Oooh... If I hadn't posted already you'd have had a mod point!
That's consistent with the observation that people litter where they notice others have littered before.
Microsoft wants Apple users to trade their laptops for Microsoft tablets. How thick are they?
Next up: Microsoft wants you to trade your Playstation 4 in for an Xbox One and only offers you a 200$ rebate for for it, too.
Gosh, why not? I can see someone looking at their MBA saying, "It works perfectly, has a great OS, awesome battery life, and does everything I could ask for and does it fast. I need to dump this for a barely functional device with an actively antagonistic OS sold by a company unable to secure a wet paper bag or make software that works acceptably. All this for far less battery life and far more money. I wish I had 2 MBAs to trade in!",
Back to the real world....
Did I mention that the day after the S3's release I was at a press event on a bus full of journalists. Anand has his S3 and in less than 24 hours it broke. The entire bus full of tech journos all concluded it was better that way.
That said, some people do like it. Microsoft traded in an absolute monopoly lock on the desktop to cater to 10% of their base. Clever that MS management, clever.
I currently have a Surface Pro2 with Ubuntu running. It is my first non-Apple computer in more than 10 years. Which I bought reluctantly when my previous MacBook died and did not like any of the current out-dated models.
For the most part, everything in Ubuntu runs great on the Surface Pro2, except Wi-Fi which is flaky due to sucky proprietary Marvell drivers.
In any case, it is now my primary work computer, and I am very happy with it, although I do really like the newer Surface Pro3 with larger screen and
You would need to give me an equivalent tables plus at least 100 dollar so I can rebuy apps.
The non-RT surface was never a tablet competitor.
Virtually all the software people run on x86 is primarily designed for desktop use, and the gap between it and tablet universe's UI and software base progress is widening, not shrinking.
Apple killed them for two reasons - Apple understood the fundamental difference between how consumers use tablets and computers and catered to each market appropriately (rather than a half-assed worst-of-both-worlds one-size-fits-all attempt at both)... and (with the relativel
Think of it as trading your new hope for a phantom menace.
...Ford is offering a rebate on a new Fiesta (with power locks and windows!) for anybody willing to trade in their Tesla Model S.
From what I can tell from the commercials, Surface users repeatedly take the keyboard off and put it back on in order to make cool snapping sounds.
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- Nov 6:
- Jim Bostron, Brian Baker will serve on board
- Terry McAlister re-elected as Fort Morgan mayor
- Bond issue for Fort Morgan Middle School grant passes
- David Keller, Todd Schneider, Derek Gerken join Fort Morgan school board
- Colorado voters approve new taxes on recreational marijuana
- Kevin Lindell wins seat on City Council
- Voters reject big tax hike, school finance measure Amendment 66
- Oct 30:
- Only 25% of ballots received in Morgan County
- Oct 29:
- Incumbent Castoe running unopposed
- Oct 25:
- Bringing a teacher's perspective
- Oct 24:
- Three vying for one Fort Morgan City Council seat
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- Oct 21:
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- Oct 18:
- Facts of Amendment 66 disputed
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Voter registration
To confirm your registration or to register to vote, visit govotecolordo.com by Oct. 28.
The ballots for the 2013 Morgan County coordinated election go into the mail today.
The Morgan County Clerk and Recorder's Election Office mailed 13,432 ballots to the county's registered and active voters.
All voters in the county will recieve ballots by mail. Ballots may be returned to the election office at 231 Ensign St., Fort Morgan, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday now until Election Day, Nov. 5; 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Nov. 2 or 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Nov. 5.
Oct. 28 is the last day that voters will be able to register to vote or change their registration to be able to vote in this year's election. This may be done in person at the election office or online at govotecolorado.com.
In Fort Morgan, the ballot includes five candidates for School Board — David Keller, Derek Gerken, George Saiter, Carissa Marler and Todd Schneider — there are three seats up for election on the board; candidates for mayor — Jack Darnell and Terry McAlister; and city council candidates — Christine Castoe, who is running unopposed in Ward 1; Damon Mussman, who is running unopposed in Ward 2; and Scott Bryan, Stuart Crespin and Kevin Lindell in Ward 3.
Also appearing on the ballots is the Fort Morgan Schools bond question, issue 3A, which would meet the district's matching requirement for a Colorado B.E.S.T. grant that would build a new middle school, along with money to make infrastructure repairs at other Fort Morgan Schools.
State ballot issue, Amendment 66, appears on all ballots and would provide additional funding to Colorado's public schools through a tax increase.
All ballots must be returned to the Morgan County Clerk and Recorders office, 231 Ensign St., Fort Morgan, by 7 p.m. Nov. 5 to be counted in the election.
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