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Gentle nose with smoky, grapevine notes, dried bay leaves, mint, and some soil tones. Bright and fresh in the mouth yet quite fruity, with lots of fresh raspberry fruit and modest suggestions of vanilla, herbs, and woodsy spice. This is really nice little glass of Pinot, balanced and complex with all the sweet fruit a Pinot should have, backed up by a slightly stiff structure. The finish shows really nice length and subtle complexity, with a hint of sweetness on the finale, but more than enough acidity to keep this balanced. 88pts
Cheap Pinot Noir
10 Top Wines - $16 or Less
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Hi Gregory - how do you define cheap? What price range? Also, which point system are you using? Thx.
My favorite cheap pinot noir is Bouchard Aîné & Fils, Vin de Pays, 13% abv. It costs $9-$10 on the east coast but, would still be a good value at $14. I don't think you can get much cheaper than that.
Well, i this case under $16 a bottle. For other wines that might be more or less. I'm using a visceral 100 point system that has many influences, the peer group for example.
I use this system primarily because people want this level of specificity in wine reviews. I don't believe that there is a particularly compelling consistency associated with reviewing wines this way. All of the wines listed above are good values and represent a range of successful styles of Pinot.
Some I would buy, others I wouldn't, but that's just my personal response to these wines. I try and provide enough information in the written review for each wine so that people can look past the scores and begin to understand the nature and character of each wine.
Perfect, thanks Gregory - I understand the approach. Have you tried the Mark West PN from California? Under 10 bucks so maybe it would go in the "really cheap" category!
Parducci makes an very nice pinot noir for under $12. It is the "house pinot noir" for Ruth's Chris Steakhouses.
Great timing, I've been wondering about this very topic recently. Thanks, Greg, for putting this together.
I agree with ssigaud. Mark West PN is good. I Love A to Z PN too!
Where are the New York and Canadian Pinot Noirs?
It's at the upper end of the price scale (about $14 "club price" at Safeway, but I'd add Rodney Strong RRV. Never relly liked the Mirassou
I've tasted several of these, and they certainly belong in the "value-priced" category. But there are two more continents that make both excellent and "value-priced" Pinots - South America (esp Chile) and Australasia (think New Zealand). How about a second 10 from these countries?
Hard to beat 'La Crema' for $15.89 at Costco...more at other locations.
PS-try hybrid Pinot Noir, by Peltierstation $7 a bottle... "pound to pound" one of the best wines in the market :)
Would have been great to see prices. I know the range is under $16, but a little more definition would makes this more interesting. Thanks.
I hear about the prices, but they range so wildly that when I listed them in the past I got more comments about the wine being either significantly more or less expensive than the price that I listed. I can go with MSRP, but the fact of the matter is that many MSRPs of these wines are well over $16.
It's a catcha 22. Great title for en email that there.
Greg, lots of useful info, as usual.
Not to flog a dead horse, but I honestly think this info would be more easily accessible, handy and easier-to-get-through-all-of-it if it was in the old article format rather than slideshow. Some subjects are optimal in slide show format, but others not. Just too much of a p-i-t-as_ to wade all the way through the slides....
I had a great PN while in Christchurch, NZ this summer (the week before the big earthquake)--Mt. Difficulty Roaring Meg Pinot Noir. So good we went back to the same restaraunt the next night and had it again. Not cheap, but oh so good.
Had a Tamar Ridge PN from Tasmania ,Australia recently. Great value at
Indian Creek PN from Idaho. Pulling some tastey wines from that little vinyard...the PN is one of them. About $12
Eveyone I know likes Mark West... I do NOT. I don't know why, I just DON'T. I have a very specific palate for pinot, and there are only a handful that fit so far. I need to taste more.... I tend to like Sonoma coast pinot, and I like, what CA wineries call, a "barnyard" nose.. almost like manure... sounds nasty, but the wines are usually great. I like an almost clear, true red, no purple, but a symphony of flavors, not watery. Guess I am finicky, just like that tiny little grape is :-)
Can this article (or others from this website) be printed without going page after page?
I found three of these wines at LCBO in Toronto. I am going to give them a try. Greg, how would you say they fare against the great Pinots of France and Russian River Valley?
Mark West Pinot
Recently had Block Nine was great .Cono sur is always consistently good.Sebastiani vineyard Pinot noir was a favorite that I loved for its rich dense flavors. Havent had it recently though.
First time blogger!. Please try some Mornington Peninsula Pinots from Victoria, Australia......Very much on the rise.
How about the $9.99 VINI Pinot Noir 2009 from the Danube River Plains region in Bulgaria?
...does somebody really think that there are a lot of pinot noir vineyard in Sicily....(Feudo Arancio Winery belogs To Mezzocorona Group)
Concannon PN is a great buy and the bottle is bulletproof.
I would like to submit the word 'cheap' in the annoying wine words post. Classic misuse: The title of this post. The correct word should be inexpensive.
For us Californians, Mark West is swill. Try the Costco Kirkland Russian River Pinot for $13.00...try it in a blind taste test. I did and it blew the others away!
does Mark West add grape juice to their pinot noir??
I hate to blow-up the bubble, that there exists a good Pinot Noir under a price point of say, $20.00. If so, I for one, haven't found it. There does seem to be a following for Cameron Hughes Wines, various Pinot Noir, but they start at $18.00. I can't comment on them, as I have yet to taste one, but I'm in the process of having three examples from 2007, 2008 and 2009 vintages delivered shortly. I'll be sure to post a comment then. However, at $19.99/bottle, I really enjoy the 2007 and 2008 Pellegrini, Olivet Lane Vineyard, Estate Bottled, Russian River Valley, Pinot Noir. Purchased at Costco. Oh, by the way Greg, the Pellegrini is 'Estate Grown, Produced and Bottled.
Just tasted Pinot Noir at Twomey in Sonoma County. I thought the 2008 Russian River Pinot was exceptional!
I had a Pinot Noir called The Naked Grape. Very good and only $9.00!!
Have you tried Meiomi by Bel Glos? Wonderful with chicken or turkey.
Price range: $19-23.
Cheap is $4.99 $10.00 is inexpensive. Anyone try Crane Lake Pinot Noir 2009 ?
Back in the 70's, their was a winery called "Sonoma Winery" They had the richest deepest Pinot I have ever had. Does any one remember and know who the winemaker was? This was around 1972, to 1976. Yah, I know, but I thought I would ask.
If you are looking for a good Pinot Noir at a reasonable price you should look for New Zealand brands. Excellent Pinots at reasonable prices.
As a novice asking for advice, I didn't see any Pinots from Oregon listed. Any suggestions for a modestly priced Oregon Pinot.


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Defiance storms back from 17-point deficit to stun St. Marys 27-23
ST. MARYS — Defiance quarterback Will Batt refused to let his team lay down when the Bulldogs found themselves down by 17 points to St. Marys midway through the third quarter on Friday night.
"I got into my team," said Batt, who rushed for three touchdowns. "I told them this is my senior year and we're not losing this game. We're winning out. I just got on them."
The Bulldogs responded, handing St. Marys the latest gut-punching loss in an 0-7 season that's had so many close calls.
Defiance scored all of its 27 points in the second half and stormed back from a 17-point deficit for a stunning 27-23 win over the Roughriders on Friday night at Skip Baughman Stadium on Hall of Fame night. Batt escaped the pocket and scurried in untouched from 18 yards out with 1:35 left in the game to give Defiance its first lead of the game.
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"We had some seniors step up and start getting in people's faces," Defiance head coach Jerry Buti said. "Will Batt stood out. He just wasn't on the offense. He was giving the defense the business, so they stepped up their play. We didn't take these guys lightly. When you're 3-3 you don't take anyone lightly. We know what a hornet's nest it is down here."
St. Marys head coach Greg Phillips had to console heartbroken players in the locker room in Cook Gymnasium after the latest setback.
"We're looking for answers," Phillips said. "There's no magic. We're being tested. Our kids are fighting really hard. I know it's about wins and losses and that's really important. But we have a lot of great kids. When we get through this — not if, when we get through this — they're going to be better for it."
Trailing 23-20 with three minutes left in the game, Defiance stopped St. Marys on a fourth and one at the Defiance 33 yard line for a four-yard loss. The stout interior of the Defiance defensive line threw St. Marys quarterback Isaac Fitzgerald for a four-yard loss, setting up the Bulldog offense for the game-winning drive.
"That was the biggest stop of the game," Buti said. "Our kids really got after them in there. It was all effort."
St. Marys didn't get the play blocked and missed a chance to run out the clock. "We had an 8 sweep called and it was there," Phillips said. "Two guys ran in the opposite direction. We had the exact play we wanted. It was the play Patrick Obringer ran on his long run earlier in the drive. Two guys ran the opposite way and there was a collision in the backfield."
Defiance then drove the 67 yards in less than a minute and a half. Batt hit Zach Hale on an acrobatic leaping catch over the perfect coverage of St. Mary's Chase Roop for 25 yards to get down to the St. Marys 29.
"We made them bite up and then we went deep," Batt said about the second half.
On third and 10 from the 29, Batt connected with Colton Relyea on a 12-yard completion on the right sideline to move the chains to set up Batt's dramatic game-winning run.
Buti and Defiance have beaten St. Marys five straight times and have won the last four times the teams have met at Skip Baughman Stadium.
Buti was mystified as to how St. Marys hasn't won a game yet.
"They are unexplainable, how they're 0-7," Buti said. "You turn on the tape and you don't think St. Marys is 0-7. I give them all the credit in the world and their coaches all the credit in the world for getting them to play that hard. It's amazing."
The Roughriders appeared to be in complete control of the game up 23-6 after Jared Knous scored on a slithering 19-yard touchdown with 5:10 left in the third quarter. Knous finished the game with 119 yards rushing on 13 carries with two touchdowns. He also caught seven passes for 73 yards.
St. Marys attacked Defiance on the edges, away from their three big, strong interior linemen. "We kept running outside, tried to get them a little tired and then punch them up the middle once in a while. They're strong inside. That was our plan to run jet, similar to what we ran against Celina. It was working. We were moving the ball."
St. Marys then got Defiance on a three-and-out and was going to have the ball and a three-possession lead. Instead, the punt hit a Roughrider on the shoulder pad and Defiance fell on the ball at the St. Marys 18-yard line.
Six plays later on a fourth and goal from the one yard line, Batt escaped the pocket and dove to the left pylon for a touchdown with 1:36 left in the third quarter. St. Marys' lead was cut down to 23-13.
Defiance's Austin Hancock scored four plays into the fourth quarter on a 15-yard pass from Batt to draw to within 23-20 with 10:55 left in the game.
After St. Marys' ensuing drive stalled, Defiance's Wes Detter returned Quinn Zaerr's punt 65 yards down to the St. Marys 10 yard line. But St. Marys defensive back Logan Maze on a third and goal from the 10 yard line made a shoestring catch at the four yard line for an interception to keep Defiance out of the end zone.
Taking over at their own four with 6:39 left, the Roughrider offense picked up an important first down on third and 10 when Patrick Obringer took the ball off right tackle and zoomed down the right side for 54 yards before the Defiance defensive backs chased him down at the Defiance 42 yard line. But St. Marys could not get another first down, being stumped on the gamechanging fourth and one.
"It's not all X's and O's all the time," Buti said. "Sometimes it's effort."
The Riders had control of the game for most of the way.
St. Marys led 10-0 at the half, punching in a touchdown in the final seconds of the first half.
St. Marys converted a fourth and two at the Defiance 21-yard line. Fitzgerald faked the handoff and found Quinn Zaerr wide open on pop pass to the right center of the field. The big tight end carried two Bulldog defenders to the three yard line. Isaac Fitzgerald bulldozed his way in from two yards out on a third and goal with 13 seconds left in the half. It capped a no-huddle wing-t drive that went 72 yards in 13 plays in 3:45.
Clayton Trogdlon nailed a 37-yard field goal in the first quarter to put the Riders up 3-0 to cap St. Marys' long, clock-eating first offensive drive. The Riders attacked the big Defiance front seven at the edges with sweeps, St. Marys drove 46 yards in 14 plays, keeping Defiance's spread offense off the field for 6 minutes and 51 seconds.
St. Marys' defense pitched a shutout in the first half holding Defiance to just 46 yards of total offense in the first half. St. Marys outgained Defiance 363-256 in total yards of offense.
The Roughriders had two big sacks of Batt in the first half. Dilllon Lininger chased him down early in the second quarter. Later in the second, Trent Wale corralled the 6-1,190-pound QB for a 15-yard sack that forced a fourth down and set up St. Marys late second quarter touchdown drive.
St. Marys opened the second half with a 41-yard Jared Knous touchdown run to go up 16-0.
Defiance responded with Batt's first touchdown run of the game on a first and goal from the one-yard line that was set up by a 44-yard pass play to Detter. St. Marys led 16-6 with 9:09 left in the third quarter.
Defiance played without leading wideout Trey Guilliam.

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BEL AIR, Md. — A Maryland woman has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl who lived with her and her boyfriend.
Thirty-year-old Angeline Feazelle, of Jarrettsville, was sentenced Wednesday in Harford County Circuit Court. She had been convicted in January of a continuing course of child abuse and two other offenses.
Prosecutors say the girl was 5 and 6 years old when she lived with Feazelle and her boyfriend, Jeremy "Shane" Cochran. The child reported the abuse in 2008 and was removed from the home.
Feazelle and Cochran were charged last year after the girl was able to give more information about the abuse.
Cochran was sentenced to 80 years in prison last month for the abuse.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Marc Trestman's coaching odyssey, which drifted across the NFL map and into Canada, could bring him back to the Browns.
A person familiar with the situation said the Browns interviewed Trestman, the current coach of the CFL's Montreal Alouettes and a former assistant with Cleveland, for their head coaching vacancy on Tuesday.
Trestman interviewed with the Chicago Bears for eight hours Monday night and arrived at the Browns' facility in suburban Berea late Tuesday morning, said the person who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the search. He is the fifth known candidate to interview with the Browns, seeking their sixth fulltime coach since 1999 after firing Pat Shurmur last week.
Trestman was the Browns' quarterbacks coach in 1988 and their offensive coordinator in 1989, when Cleveland appeared in its third AFC title game in four years with quarterback Bernie Kosar. Trestman has extensive background as an NFL assistant, working with eight teams, most recently Miami in 2004.
Trestman has spent the past five seasons with Montreal, leading the Alouettes to two Grey Cup titles. The 56-year-old is under contract through 2016, but the club will allow him to leave for an NFL job if he's offered.
He has worked as an offensive coordinator with San Francisco, Arizona and Oakland. The Raiders went to the Super Bowl at the end of the 2002 season in the offense Trestman geared for QB Rich Gannon.
In recent years, Trestman has worked as a consultant in the NFL and in the offseason helped develop young quarterbacks, including Cleveland's Brandon Weeden, whose future with the Browns will be determined by the club's next coach.
"Marc is an extremely knowledgeable football mind and with his obvious success everywhere he has been proves that he knows how to develop and teach quarterbacks," Weeden said in a testimonial on Trestman's website.
The Browns are not commenting on any of their interviews or candidates.
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner are in the second week of their search. They've interviewed several coaching candidates and are expected to meet with more this week. Trestman's interview was the first to take place in Cleveland.
Haslam and Banner are expected to interview Indianapolis offensive coordinator Bruce Arians in the next few days. Arians, who like Trestman previously worked in Cleveland, was released from a Baltimore hospital on Monday after he became ill before the Colts' 24-9 playoff loss to the Ravens. ESPN reported Tuesday night that Arians was in an Indianapolis hospital for treatment of an inner infection.
Arians was the Browns' offensive coordinator under Butch Davis from 2001-03. Arians, too, has had success working with young quarterbacks. He helped groom Ben Roethlisberger into a Super Bowl winner with Pittsburgh, and this season mentored rookie Andrew Luck as the Colts went on a surprising run to the postseason.
It's not known if the Browns have received permission to speak with Arians.
Haslam and Banner conducted several interviews last week in Arizona. They spent the most significant amount of time with Chip Kelly, who after entertaining overtures from at least three teams decided to return to Oregon. The Browns also interviewed former Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt, Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton, former Syracuse coach Doug Marrone, who was hired by Buffalo, and Penn State's Bill O'Brien.
If the team was even thinking about contacting Nick Saban about their vacancy, Alabama's coach made it clear the NFL is in his past — not his future.
With their search seeming to stall, the Browns may have considered calling Saban, who coached the Miami Dolphins for two years before taking over the Crimson Tide's program. However, fresh off winning his third national title in four years, the 61-year-old Saban reiterated that he's content at Alabama and outlined several reasons why he prefers to coach in college.
Saban worked as an assistant in Cleveland under Bill Belichick, and there has long been speculation he might one day return to the Browns. He did his best to end that discussion for good during a news conference the morning after Alabama's 42-14 throttling of Notre Dame in the BCS title game.
Saban bristled while addressing speculation that he would take another turn in the pros.
"I didn't feel like I could impact the team the same way that I can as a college coach in terms of affecting people's lives personally, helping them develop careers by graduating from school, off the field, by helping develop them as football players," Saban said. "And there's a lot of self gratification in all that, all right?
"So I kind of learned through that experience that maybe this is where I belong, and I'm really happy and at peace with all that. So no matter how many times I say that, y'all don't believe it, so I don't even know why I keep talking about it."
As soon as they hire the coach, Haslam and Banner will focus on bringing in a new general manager or player personnel director. GM Tom Heckert was fired last week.
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Is that it?
Have you played text Pac-Man? "You are in a hallway, there are floating balls at waist height to the east and west, in the distance your hear what you think are ghosts."
Does Pac-Man have a waist?
Does Pac-Man have a waist?
In the same way most americans have one (sorry, couldn't resist).
Now I want to play the Pac-Man text adventure. I bet it could be made fun.
Is that it?
No, in some countries the second part is censored. You might not have discovered how he later discovered how he had amazing powers over women and his incredible steamy sex sessions. I will never forget those pictures.
Is that it?
Indeed. Such rooms are part of the standard guided tours at nuclear facilities. And you do see Cerenkov radiation with your own eyes. Of course the water is enough to shield you.
Now if he had jumped into the "pool" and took a swim, that would have been a story!
Not sure whether BMRR or HFBR were water-moderated, but I'd bet it was the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor [bnl.gov]. A bunch of beautiful glowing stuff at the bottom of a deep pool of water is a common configuration for a research reactor used for the production of medical isotopes.
storage of spent fuel is also done in pools with borated water of course. The answer to Bruce's question is that his parent wasn't doing his job. The danger to Bruce even had he swam & dived ten foot deep in the pool was zero (divers even go into flooded cavity with reactor head open during refueling). He should be thankful he got to see the pretty blue glow with complete safety.
Still wimpy compared to Technocrat, Bruce, you don't allow comments there. You want a site with traffic again you'll have
Based on the description, it sounds like that reactor had pressurized coolant.
I think Bruce might be looking at the past through the lens of today. In the 60s, nuclear plants and labs had a couple of security guards to protect from theft and whatnot. They didn't carry guns. Unless there were secret things going on, these places weren't heavily guarded. Nuclear power wasn't considered a security issue. Nor were airports, train stations, etc.
Lots of universities had research reactors (a few still do). They had no more security than some bored grad students working in the outer lab. If it was an open house even they would have been too busy to look after every wandering kid.
Lots of universities had research reactors (a few still do). They had no more security than some bored grad students working in the outer lab. If it was an open house even they would have been too busy to look after every wandering kid.
When I was in high school we did a tour of university's research reactor, and like you said, the only people there were a few grad students and an operator (or maybe he was a professor?) - no armed guards, no fancy security systems, we just had to sign in with the student at the front desk. We weren't allowed in the room that had the reactor pool,but we could see it (and the blue Cherenkov Radiation glow) through a large thick glassed window. They said that the water was sufficient to contain the radiation but they didn't want many people in the reactor room since any contaminants in the water could become radioactive.
We were standing in the room that had the door to the reactor room, so I don't think it would have been hard for a kid to accidentally gain access to the reactor room if someone inadvertently left the door open or didn't pull it closed after they left the room.
But at the time, the coolest thing in the building was the remote manipulator arms they used for working with radioactive materials. After playing with those arms, I decided I was going to have a career in nuclear science. Though somehow I ended up in IT instead.
I've got you beat: They let us walk THROUGH the reactor in either the 6th or 7th grade as part of one of those summer-school programs. It was on the local military base (not long before the glorious (Clinton? Bush?) era base closures happened. A town with 5+ bases, two of them AFBs, all closed and sold off to commercial interests...).
Still, one of the most awesome memories of my early life.
A cyclotron is a circular particle accelerator, not a nuclear reactor.
I suppose you could define a cyclotron as a nuclear reactor, but thatâ(TM)s rather unusual.
You got shafted... When I toured the Ward Lab at Cornell (during one of the last 2-3 years of its operation before it got shut down), we did get to stand at the top of the pool and look down.
And you're right - even in 1999, there was, at most, a badge-swipe lock on the door.
"They would be dead before getting out the door with it."
My initial reaction to this is "this isn't Hollywood, where two 9mm bullets makes a car explode." Radiation in fatal doses takes at leas hours and usually days or weeks to kill you. If it's extremely high it could give you a pounding headache, dizzy, very sick to your stomach, or possibly even pass out. But if you got to that point quickly you'd have been many times over the fatal dose. A high enough dose of xrays can knock you unconscious, but even that requires a more energetic source than decay.
Basically what I'm saying is radiation poisoning isn't instant. All but the most intense exposure will simply write your death sentence. It will take at least many hours to play out and actually stop you from breathing. You could probably swim down and grab a rod and try to muscle it to the surface. (it's very dense) By the time you got to the surface you might even be starting to show signs of blistering on your hand that is holding the rod, but even that is more likely to be in the 10 minute range. The heat the rod is producing without the water cooling it would probably be more of a bother for you. If it was radioactive enough, you'd be a dead man walking, but walking for sure, for awhile. (and setting off every radiation alarm you got near on your way out the door with the rod) Oh, and it might be messing with your vision when you got close to the rods. Some of the people that were cleaning up at chernobyl got their skin tingling and got to see the "fairy lights" sparkling around them, which had nothing to do with actual sparkles around them, it was messing with their nervous system at that point. A lot of those people died, a good chunk of them 2-20 weeks later.
There are multiple ways radiation can kill you on several different time scales. You can't just give a "typical" number, because it depends on the does. Weaker doses that mess up your ability to regenerate blood can take weeks to kill you, higher doses that stop you from being able to absorb nutrients from food can kill you in several days. Damage to the nervous system can be from days to hours or less depending on the dose.
And remember, one of the potential reasons to have research reactor is to genera
Dose from an unshielded spent fuel bundle (or research reactor) is far greater than other typical sources - on the order of 50,000 to 1,000,000 R/hr. These kinds of doses can be instantly fatal. An HP tech explained to me once that if you placed a spent fuel bundle on a football field, and ran towards it as fast as you could, you would drop dead before you could touch it. If you swam to the bottom of a research reactor to try to touch the fuel you would most certainly become incapacitated by the time you got close enough to touch it.
An HP tech explained to me once that if you placed a spent fuel bundle on a football field, and ran towards it as fast as you could, you would drop dead before you could touch it.
And that is complete BS btw. See subject.
MOST of the damage radiation does effectively fires a shotgun through your DNA, causing your cells to be unable to synthesize critical proteins and of course divide. Cells don't manufacture proteins the moment they need them, they keep a surplus. That's why even strong radiation isn't ins
Bingo. I can recall being in the research reactor at U Mo in Columbia in the early 1970's. People forget how accessible facilities were before 9/11 . Apparently we're so used to the Police State that we've created that it's pretty much taken for granted.
Which is a great pity. The less accessible cool research is for our children, the less interested our children will be in becoming cool researchers. Big Bang Theory and Mohawk Guy nonwithstanding.
Back in 2006 I walked directly through Heathrow without ever being checked. Jetlagged all to hell I took a side door, dressed in a business suit and looking authoritative, zombied my way through a maze of corridors and past a desk of men staring intently at a monitor, before finding my way outside the airport.
On a subsequent trip, confused about the flight, I asked a man with a submachine gun the route to my gate, went there immediately, got there before the security team, and sat down watching every other passenger being frisked and scanned. The security guard was even there, someone pointed me out and obviously asked him a question, he shook his head no.
The more things change, eh?
In the late 70s I was doing yard work for an oceanographer and biologist down the road from me. We hopped in the truck one day because he had to go to the Graduate School of Oceanography in Saunderstown RI, which was literally a mile away, to get some stuff he was working on.
The URI GSO has a research reactor. We just walked in, he did his stuff, and we left. No guards, nothing. Not even a receptionist especially on a Saturday. ID? On a 13 year old kid? You kidding?
I used to live in Mountain View, CA. when I was a teen. A friend and I used to ride our bicycles out on the levies that abounded along the southern San Francisco Bay--commonly know as the "Baylands"--often following the wooden catwalks that stretched for miles over the water surfaces that the levies partitioned off. The top of these levies were used as security roads around the eastern side of Moffet Field and Nasa's Ames Research Center.
We soon realized that as long as we bypassed a security check-point near the north end of the base, using the catwalks, that once we were beyond the security roads on the levee, nobody gave us a second glance. I guess they assumed we were military kids or something, because we were able to ride our bicycles right past the tarmac by going through an open gate in the security fence--only once did anyone say anything to us and that was to tell us that we were supposed to walk our bikes when we were inside the hangars. We spent many hours wandering around those hangars that summer. Ames had the neatest stuff--helicopters with wings, jets with VTO rotors, a helicopter with no windshield (mind you, this was the early 80's--I'd never heard of a "drone" before), models of every sort lined up for wind-tunnel testing, etc. We once went out there in the middle of a hot, summer night and watched a large jet take off (judging by the lights and noise) and barely caught sight of a totally silent aircraft follow it off the ground less then 3 seconds behind the first, this second aircraft only being visible by virtue of creating a silhouette against the brightly lit Bay-Area sky--otherwise it was totally silent and had zero lighting. Not sure why they'd be doing so, but it looked like they were towing another aircraft under cover of darkness. Pretty exciting, especially for a kid.
I somehow don't think that one could stroll into that place as easily these days. Lucky we didn't get shot.
You can still see the characteristic and beautiful Cherenkov radiation at the research reactor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison [wisc.edu]. I've seen it a number of times.
Up until recently, it contained 1400 pounds of highly-enriched (weapons grade) U-235 in 58-pound bundles. It is in a building across from a 7-level parking ramp and an 80,000-person football stadium.
There are a number of such "Research and Test Reactors" [nrc.gov] around the US.
A 2005 ABC News report [go.com] found:
- "No guards. No metal detectors. Bags were brought into the reactor room. Doors to the building are open during the day, and no IDs are required for entry."
- "The building was undergoing major renovation, and construction workers, large trucks and building materials surrounded the rear exterior."
- "The university Web site includes a 'virtual tour' and detailed photos, descriptions and diagrams of the reactor, the fuel elements and the control room. The reactor manager informed the Fellows that tours had to be scheduled three weeks in advance and that a locked door with a window view of the reactor was the closest they could get. But a friendly professor told the Fellows about a basement entry to the reactor room, where a reactor operator opened the door and let the Fellows photograph the reactor from the doorway. Two other operators allowed the Fellows to come inside carrying their tote bags, and briefly take photographs about 15 feet from the reactor's base. No campus security ever approached the Fellows."
An 2004 New York Times report [nytimes.com] found:
- "[UWNR's] fuel is weapons-grade uranium. If it were stolen, experts say, it could give terrorists or criminals a major head start on an atomic bomb."
- "[...] out of concern that the uranium might be turned into bomb fuel, the Department of Energy has spent millions of dollars to develop lower-grade fuel and convert scores of reactors to run on it. [...] But the six campus reactors in this country are not among them."
- "Campus reactors have far less security than places where the government keeps bomb-grade uranium, and they may have foreign students of unknown political sympathies."
- "[...] the fuel now in the campus reactors is dangerously radioactive, making it hard to handle. [...] however, that highly enriched uranium was an easier fuel from which to build a bomb than is plutonium."
- "The reactor operators are paid $10.50 an hour. They recently got a raise to that level [...] because someone discovered that campus file clerks were paid more than the reactor operators.
- "[...] the current fuel load will last about 108 years at current rates of use."
"The truck is the real threat. You want to make sure the truck stays away 250 feet minimum." - Ronald Timm, Former Department of Energy security analyst
Here, the primary entrance to a major parking ramp is about 50 feet away.
Also, it's not like it's really a mystery what he saw at BNL. There have only been so many reactors there [bnl.gov] in the last 60 years. It's odd, beautiful, and I suppose comparatively rare for a person to see, but it's not a big deal.
This explains Bruce's Open Source super powers.
It's like peter parker but instead of a spider, its a pool of radioactive cherenkov radiation.
I knew it!
Some radiation is in fact radioactive. In particular neutron radiation can undergo beta decay.
Cerenkov radiation, however is stable.
While free neutrons are unstable, unless they are flying through empty space you would not notice. The mean lifetime of a neutron bouncing around matter before being absorbed is on the order of microseconds, while the half-life is 10 minutes.
Thats the whole story? I was sort of expecting more. Well, to the final question of that rather short article. It was most likely the area where they kept their spent fuel bundles. I know in some nuclear power plants, the spent fuel bundles have to be kept in a pool of water for a number of years until their half life is met, and they can be transfered to a dry storage facility. Normally the "pool" is not guarded or locked due to personel constantly going in and out, but there is radiation checks that are done upon exiting the area, also you wear a device for monitoring your radiation dose.
As for the blue glow, you can read all about it on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation [wikipedia.org]
I can assume that you have not been in a commercial plant. The spent fuel pool is a locked room inside the vital area and is key card access controlled. The fuel is not being kept there because it is too radioactive. It is being stored there until decay heat becomes manageable. The area is typically monitored by area radiation monitors (ARM) and you will typically have a self reading dosimeter (MG,SAIC, or similar ) as well as a TLD (thermo-luminescent dosimeter) for record purposes. You may or may not
Q: What do Bruce Perens and an 82-year old nun have in common?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/02/1952221/82-year-old-nun-breaks-into-nuclear-facility-contractors-blamed [slashdot.org]
Whoever submitted this is either Bruce himself, or some blog reading whore. Nothing more than a "me too" attention whoring. The editors should be ashamed of themselves.
Whoever submitted this
Bruce Perens writes
But hey, be pissed if you like, I thought it was an interesting story and I'm glad he posted it. I think you're taking Slashdot a bit too seriously.
Q: What do Bruce Perens and an 82-year old nun have in common?
Both are creatures of habit?
Both are virgins, of course.
Q: What do Bruce Perens and an 82-year old nun have in common?
Both are creatures of habit?
You can kiss a nun once or twice, but don't get into the habit.
A PWR fuel assembly weighs about 1400 lbs, a BWR one about 360 to 700 lbs. (several standard sizes). The fuel pellets are inside zircaloy rods. no kid is going to dive down that deep and yank anything.
Both PWR and BWR usually have a closed, preasure proof lid (hence the name PWR) that prevents jumping in and swiming. Your parent poster was either describing a spent fuel pool or a completly different reactor configuration.
He's probably talking about a TRIGA. Far less fuel/lighter fuel, but it's still gonna be a bitch to swim down and remove it. If you fall in, drowning is a bigger worry than radiation.
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This was not "News For Nerds", it was "the ramblings of a guy on the internet".
I think Bruce Perens has done enough for computing that he's considered more than "a guy on the internet."
It was news to me.
If you managed to find a browser to post that complaint, that doesn't contain code he was involved with in one way or another, consider me impressed.
As I've stated below, I know who he is, but why should that even matter? This was about as newsworthy as RNS tweeting what he ate for breakfast or Miguel de Icaza blurting somewhere that he's on his way to Ecuador for some R&R.
His contributions to FOSS don't make him above a bit of criticizm or someone poking fun at a post on his blog.
Not sure if your trolling or ignorant, but will give the benefit of the doubt. Bruce PerensBio [perens.com].
I know exactly who Bruce is. Doesn't negate the fact that this was not "News", and it's STILL the ramblings of a guy (Bruce Perens, male = guy) on the internet (his blog = on the internet).
Meanwhile this triggered a really interesting discussion with a lot of informative posts. Good enough for me.
Lived in Chattanooga for a while "back when"; school trips sometimes went out to Oak Ridge. Souvenirs included a dime in a little case, and it was "fun" to watch a Geiger counter react to it.
Doesn't surprise me that Bruce could get near a non-weapons reactor.
"Pictures, or it didn't happen":
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/medalsmementoes/dimes.htm [orau.org]
They tore down the old Atomic Energy Museum (wood framed, with white siding and a dark gray asphalt shingle roof), and built a more modern, concrete one, which they call the American Museum of Science and Energy. http://amse.org/ [amse.org]
They don't do the dimes anymore. As it originally worked, you actually dropped your own dime into a slot and watched it get irradiated and then put in a thin metal case about the size of a quarter, with a plastic front cover that the rest of the case was crimped around to hold it
Sounds like he was in Maniac Mansion, not a licensed nuclear facility. Dr. Fred's security seemed to consist of two disembodied tentacles and an ornery nurse.
Fred never did a good job of keeping people away from that pool.
My father was the fix-it-all man in 1957 when I was 10 years old. One day he was fixing an X-Ray machine, and after he fixed it he showed me how heart heart beats, which was fascinating. I watched it for about a minute. Innocent days.
that's so cute and horrifying at the same time.
There is a pile of material at the bottom of the pool, and a blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in the water around it.
You cannot take that item.
You have:
You cannot go that way.
Sorry, I don't know what you mean.
You have jumped into the pool.
You have died from radiation poisoning.
At some of these research reactors, you can pull the rods out of the reactor shortly after criticality and take your measurements with the fuel rod in your hand.
Individual research reactor loads may or may not be particularly dangerous- you can have a radiation well above background level, but far below the rate required to cause health issues.
However, a recently irradiated fuel assembly from a power reactor will kill you in short order*, if not shielded by a lot of water.
As for the young Mr. Peren's misadventure, these places are built for adults with the security clearance and knowledge required to get into the facility in the first place. These knowledgable, responsible adults may then escort visitors on arranged tours.
A visitor can be shown (more or less) whatever their escort has access too. The escort's duty is to keep the visitors out of trouble while showing them around. It seems as though Bruce's escort was a bit negligent (and knew it, from the student's displeasure.)
*perversely, the high radiation level of a used fuel assembly is a bit of a security feature. You can't steal something that will kill you before you can get out the door.
When I was a 3rd grader on a field trip, circa 1965, we went to LA's Griffith Observatory where there was (and is) a 500,000 voltTesla coil [youtube.com], behind a glass door and maybe four feet high. Part of the tour was (and no longer is) being able to feel the zap from the coil.
I remember being asked to climb the activated Tesla coil and refusing. To this day I don't know if the teacher was serious, or what if anything would have resulted if I had climbed the sucker.
are the most unsafe place you can imagine. I worked in a lab where a small accelerator building was attached. All doors were unlocked an unsupervised (only the "tritium" room where most radioactive sample were stored) was locked. The rest was only locked/with alarms when the accelerator was running. Some (quite small, but highly active) source used for the lab courses were (in a pile of shielding material), essentially open around the clock; and that was in the mid-90s. Everybody who knew where these were could just go in the building, enter the room and take them (if you are stupid enough....). In the same building i opened a shelf (which had no warning signs) and suddenly found contaminated tools (which were marked).
If we had an open day, and the hand of a four year old would have been small enough to insert into the hole into which the samples were let down by a rod to activate them, also something bad could have happened.
At least fore radioactive stuff there was a mandatory handling lesson, and standard procedures. What really annoys me is when it comes to chemicals in science labs. You would be surprised how much radioation it takes to result in the same increase in cancer rate as for certain chemicals commonly used; which is exactly the reason why industry either banned these or is using them with very good precautions and good working equipment, while in sciene any untrained grad student just uses these without gloves.
I agree that even on a 'open door' day a door with seriously radioactive material in an large accellerator facility should be locked, but its easy for me to imagine that its not. I believe that the biggest problem is "build a fence around the facility and we know everybody inside" method. That worked in the last century during normal operation (some other person would be spotted quite reliably), but on open door days it obviously does not work and i seriously doubt it works with the current fluctuation of inhabitants of a scientific building.
After one or two years in science, the first thing which i did when entering a new working space in an unknown area was to clean the table very carefully and look in all drawers on my desk. (and radioactivity was the least of my concerns....).
Your family name isn't Clouseau by any chance?
(Before 9/11) I went on a tour of the University of Maryland TRIGA training reactor (picture looking into core [umd.edu]), and yes you could see the Cherenkov radiation at the bottom of the pool when the reactor was running.
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Tetris is turning 30, and to celebrate, the iconic puzzle game brand invites game fans to meet up on June 6, the official anniversary date. Meet up planners can register the time and location for their June 6 event at meetup.com/tetris30, with a Meetup.com account, and invite friends and community to come together and celebrate all-things Tetris.
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|Surveying the neighborhood 1:40 pm.
|August 27, 2010. Warm and sunny, yesterday in New York. Waiting to hail a cab on my corner, I watched some of my neighbors loading up their SUVs, heading off for the last week of summer.
Quick cab ride down to 57th and Fifth. The avenue sidewalks, however, were filled with tourists. How could I tell? Lots of adults with young children as well as people taking pictures of themselves in front of the Trump tower as well as Tiffany. And people speaking to each other in French and German.
Lunch at Michael's which was especially quiet for that restaurant midday. Not surprised; Steve Millington, the GM, had told me on Monday that this was historically (at Michael's anyway) a very quiet week.
We are about to head into the last week of summer as we know it and as the kids know it. It has been an easy summer for a lot of us city dwellers (and probably elsewhere), because of the relentlessly hot weather.
This week's NYSD HOUSE visits LuAnn de Lesseps, aka the Countess at her new apartment on Riverside Drive. I haven't read the interview at the time of this writing (I usually don't see it until we go online with it, as it's written and produced by Sian Ballen, Lesley Hauge and Jeff Hirsch). These are some of my favorite interviews anywhere. You could say that's because they're on NYSD, but to me it's because they're always interesting or intriguing , and usually I know very little about the subjects until I read it.
There is a quality about her – maybe it's just physical – that reminds me of Pat Loud, the wife and mother on the "original" reality television show – "An American Family" documentary that debuted in 1973 and followed the day-to-day of a family in Santa Barbara by the name of Loud. However much of that that may have been staged, it most definitely was real (and riveting).
You saw this family evolve in the way families naturally do. The eldest son Lance came out, on television and eventually the mother, and also the couple, Pat and Bill, separated and divorced.
I don't recall any histrionics like you might see on today's "reality" shows. Lance eventually moved to New York where he was a popular figure in the late 70s, as did his mother Pat who became a literary agent. The 12-part series had a profound impact because in one way or another their issues were our issues, and so it was compelling to see them deal with it all.
Watching the Louds being followed around their house by a camera was interesting even if they had nothing to say to each other, and often what they did say was "nothing," just as it is in any household in real life with families completely familiar with each other's presence.
Today's "reality" Housewives shows, of course, are not like that. The little I've seen of them seem like grown women (and occasionally men) vying for attention and apparently adoring the camera. When I first met LuAnn de Lesseps she told me she wanted to pursue an acting career and this show is no doubt an actualization of that pursuit.
"I love love love it," was how she put it.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because it's so much fun watching them make asses of themselves," was her immediate answer, adding, "It's hysterical."
My friend, incidentally, is not an insensitive woman, nor is she unkind in her assessment of others. She sees the show for what it is – entertainment meant to amuse. Of course the entertainment is people striving and in strife. So really it's a spectator sport. Maybe the 21st century equivalent of what the Gladiators were to the audience of ancient Rome. Or the Christians and the lions. Nevertheless, it's been a boon to television and a lot of employed people.
The Pat and Bill Loud family, as I recall, were, even under stress, not unkind to each other although they had a healthy dose of Sturm und drang that was enough to leave you troubled. And the end it wasn't a Hollywood version of life but the real thing. Lance in New York had a moment of celebrity but eventually died, age 50 of AIDS, looked after by his loving mother.
The last I read, Pat and Bill, though divorced, were living together again in Los Angeles. The denouement of their "series" is not surprising to those of us who watched it because they obviously were people who cared about and loved each other. This was "reality" in the concept of "an American family," circa 1970s. Today's "reality," it seems is an entirely different story made cohesive by lawyers, agents and producers. Very little love lost there, right folks?
Dr. Mahl's resemblance to the TV star is great enough that he's been mistaken for him on more than one occasion by actual friends of Larry David. Once, for example, while driving in a convertible with the top down on Further Lane in East Hampton, he passed Jerry Seinfeld who got off the bicycle he was riding and held up his arms as if to ask why "Larry" wasn't stopping for him.
Another time Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder, walking together on the Upper East Side together, stopped and knocked on the window of a Japanese restaurant where Mahl was eating, to wave hello. Another time, while vacationing in Aruba, a family passed by his large palapa and were overheard saying that "it figures that Larry David would get the largest hut."
Limo drivers, people in restaurants, airline passengers, often try to strike up conversations with the "star" who isn't. Often when he denies he's Larry David, they don't believe him and think he's just trying to be anonymous.
Recently Dr. Mahl's daughter Jen, who works at the Carlton Hotel on Madison Avenue, called her dad to tell him that Larry David, the real Larry David was going to be there filming an episode of "Curb," and that he should try to meet him. And so he did. Whattaya think?


text: UMW News BureauThe Montana State University-Northern Lights hit some key three point shots late in the second half and defeated the University of Montana Western Bulldogs 63-55 in Havre Saturday night. By Lowell Peterson The Montana State University-Northern Lights hit some key three point shots late in the second half and defeated the University of Montana Western Bulldogs 63-55 in Havre Saturday night. The Lights (2-0) and Bulldogs (3-0) entered the game with perfect records in Frontier Conference play and the game was expected to be a battle to the finish. Montana Western entered the game averaging 77 points a game and MSU-Northern 74.4. Defensively, Montana Western was giving up 70.2 points a game and the Lights were tops in the conference at 56.4 points a game allowed. Defense proved to be the key factor on the night for both teams. The Bulldogs were held to 22 points under their season average and the Lights scored 11 less points than their season average. The biggest offensive factor in the game was the Light's three point shooting. Northern made six of fifteen threes in the first half to the Bulldogs' one of five and took a 30-27 lead into the halftime break. The second half continued to be a fierce battle with the Lights building a lead and the Bulldogs battling back to get within two points on several occasions. With the game still up for grabs late in the second half, Shaun Tatarka and Devin Jackson each hit a long-range three pointer to give the Lights enough of a cushion to hold on for the victory. Brandon Brown was the lone offensive force and only player to score in double figures for the Bulldogs. Brown finished with 28 points but also took over half of his team's field goal attempts (24 of 46). Kyle Erickson and Bridger Chambers each scored eight points, both making four of five field goal attempts, and Tyler Hurley finished with seven points. As a team Montana Western shot .478 (22-46) from the field, .273 (3-11) on three pointers and .667 (8-12) from the free throw line. The Lights had three players score in double figures. Jackson scored 13 points and Joe Simpson had 12 points and seven rebounds. LaVon Myers scored 11, netting all of his points from the free throw line (11-11). Tatarka hit three shots from long range for nine points. Northern was .444 (20-45) from the field, .370 (10-27) from beyond the three point line and .867 (13-15) on free throws. MSU-Northern (3-0, 18-2) took over the top spot in the conference. Montana Western dropped to 3-1 in the conference and 15-5 overall. The Bulldogs next game will be against the Montana Tech Orediggers in the HPER Complex in Butte, Mont. on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. The Orediggers are tied with Lewis-Clark State for fourth place in the conference at 2-2 and have a 10-5 overall record on the season.


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|Yes, he's been on CNN too.
From the viewpoint of the Geneva Conventions, civilians must be protected no matter where they live.
From an ethical and legal viewpoint, there is no difference between shooting a rocket into the middle of a community and blowing yourself up in the middle of a community.
Swisher, however, subscribes to the opinion that not only do Israeli civilians who live in Judea and Samaria have no protections under Geneva, but that Hamas has the obligation to attack them. For Swisher, Hamas' suicide attack spree during the intifada was not only acceptable, but a right!
In other words, a correspondent for a major news organization is openly advocating the murder, by Hamas, of a half million Jews. And he claims that Palestinian terrorists have the right to kill them, under a fictional idea of "legitimate resistance."
Swisher, in one small tweet, shows the world that he is ignorant of international law, a bigot against Jews, and a supporter of terrorism.
In fact, given that Swisher clearly accepts the Hamas terrorist definition of the human right to kill Jews, it is entirely possible that he also accepts Hamas' view that all of Israel is "occupied."
Which means that Swisher really wants to see the murder of six million Jews. And he will defend Hamas' attempts to kill as many of them as they can.
This should be beyond the pale even for Al Jazeera.
Beyond that, this hateful bigot has appeared on CNN. He has written for The Nation and The Guardian as well as fringe sites like Electronic Intifada.
Readers may want to ask other Hamas apologists online whether they agree with Swisher's views of the right to kill Jewish women and children, and ask The Guardian and The Nation if they think that such a person should be writing for them.


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Dessy Di Lauro is a singer-songwriter to take seriously. The soulful vocalist, born and raised in Montreal, has just released a noteworthy EP, Say Hep keep reading »
This past week has not only been a great one for music, but also tons of videos from some of our favorite artists. Check out below for some must-see media from Robert Glasper & Derrick Hodge, Christian Sands & Kris Bowers, and Ric'key Pageot & Dessy Di Lauro!
With roots in the late 19th and early 20th century, Ragtime became a hit with audiences for its "ragged rhythms" and danceability, finding its first notoriety in the black communities of St. Louis and New Orleans where the polyrhythmic patterns were first fusing their way into popular American music. For pianist and musical director Ric'key Pageot and enticing songstress Dessy Di Lauro, this is exactly where they wanted to begin their journey in fusing the popular American music of today with something with a little more substance.


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5 Places To Look For Your Brand's Story - 07/17/2012 (RT @BrandSquare: 5 Places To Look For Your #Brand's Story http://t.co/39Ush3XY #branding #storytelling...)...
Not sure how to get started in crafting your brand story? Here's a piece by Jim Signorelli with 5 tips on where to starting looking for the qualities and elements you want your brand story to embody. And don't forget his last tip -- ask your customers!
Start answering the questions Jim poses and it will make crafting and sharing your brand story much easier -- and just remember -- your brand story is made up of a set of stories that you get to share and tell, IMHO.
The creation of a 'grand narrative' -- a mono-story -- that reflects ALL you are about is passe and not as workable as in the past. We are moving away from the 'grand narrative' notion to the understanding of the power of sets of micro-stories -- even in marketing. This article really does not address this issue, so just keep this in the back of your mind as you are digging for your stories.
There is value in distilling these stories down to a workable few. So dig into these 5 places, have fun, and see what you come up with!
This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it


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This is American Bulldog conformation, but the working events are all breeds
I'm going on Saturday
Beast of the East 09' SCHEDULE
$15 ABRA registration fee if not already ABRA registered (bring registration certificate from another registry, photo and pedigree)
$20 Conformation fee/ per show
$20 Beast of The East/ Biggest Baddest Bi-otch class
$15 APA Weight Pull
Friday May 15th, 2009
Meet and Greet – Red Roof Inn
Saturday May 16th, 2009
SWK/NWDA Working Events All Day
8:00 AM APA Weight Pull Weigh in 9:00 AM Registration opens and APA Weight Pull Weigh In begins
10:00 AM APA Weight Pull (Rails) Judge Phil Kanakis
12:00 PM Conformation Show Begins (Judges Terry Aguas (HKB) & James DePaolo (CruLuv))
2:30 PM Puppy Fun Match 3:00 PM Driviest Puppy 3:30 PM Beast of the East/Baddest Bi-otch Competition
Sunday May 17th, 2009
SWK/NWDA Working Events All Day
10:00 AM Registration opens and
8:00 APA Weight Pull Weigh In begins
9:00 AM APA Weight Pull (Rails) Judge Phil Kanakis
11:00 AM Conformation Show Begins (Judges Terry Aguas (HKB) & James DePaolo (CruLuv))
Shows over!!
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Beast of the East 09
Date: 5/16/2009
Location: Medford, NJ
Surface / Format: Rails/Carpet/MWPP
Event Organizer: Dk's Bulldogs
Chief Judge: Phil Kanakis
Prize(s): Ribbons & Trophies
Weigh-ins: 8:00am
Start Time: 10:0am
Fees: $15.00 per dog
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Avedisian, Reed, RIPTA celebrate new van for Warwick's Transwick
"We have a brand new bus, and we have Mayor Avedisian and Senator Reed to thank for that new bus," Meg Underwood, the director of the Pilgrim Senior Center, said Thursday afternoon to more than 40 happy center members.
Mayor Scott Avedisian and Senator Jack Reed, along with representatives from the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and staffers from the city's Senior Services Division, were on hand, as each of them helped in securing funds for a handicapped accessible van for Warwick's Transwick senior transportation program. They gathered for a brief speaking event and ribbon cutting in front of the 16-passenger van that can accommodate two wheelchairs.
While the city paid $16,000 for the van, Reed secured funds for RIPTA through the Federal Transit Authority for its purchase. The city received $60,000 in aid.
Additionally, RIPTA was able to partner with not only Warwick, but also Johnston, Pawtucket, North Providence and Woonsocket to help municipalities obtain Transwick vans and/or buses at low costs.
"We're very thankful to Senator Reed for going out there and identifying the federal grants that were necessary for us to get this bus," Avedisian said, also expressing thanks to RIPTA. "It's not every day that we can buy a bus of this magnitude for $16,000. It's a great win for the city of Warwick."
Avedisian went on to say that Underwood and her staff are "great advocates" for seniors, and that they are always pushing for new vehicles. Reed also praised Underwood for her ability to provide seniors with a safe environment at the center, and commended the Transwick system and it's drivers.
"She's emblematic of all the good people that have worked in this senior center," he said of Underwood, noting that Transwick drivers are more than just chauffeurs; "they are fellow shoppers, councilors, and I think a couple of them are comedians, too. They keep the seniors laughing and entertained."
Avedisian also spoke of the importance of Transwick. The program provides seniors and adults with disabilities with inexpensive transportation to accomplish everyday activities, including grocery and retail shopping, doctor appointments, banking and more.
"In nearly 30 years, Transwick has grown from providing basic bus services to becoming a program of great opportunities for seniors and adults with disabilities to maintain independence and also to enjoy recreational trips," Avedisian said, noting that thousands of seniors use the Transwick program each year.
Center members Bea Faiola, 84, and Joann Cushing, 66, who regularly ride the bus, were asked to help Avedisian and Reed snip the ribbon. They also expressed their excitement for the bus.
"I think it's wonderful because we needed a new one," said Faiola, who rides the bus to the center everyday from her home in Buttonwoods. She's been visiting the center for various activities like singing and dancing for 11 years. "It's a coin to come here and a coin to go back. What's that cost? A dollar? That's cheap."
Cushing has also been visiting the center for more than a decade for two and three times a week. She agrees that the bus is great.
"I have MS, so I'm not able to drive," she said. "Transwick has been my lifeline in getting out of the house. There are so many activities here – exercising, cards, movies – it certainly beats sitting at home."
And while she doesn't ride the bus, center member Rita Cerenne, 65, was happy for her friends who do.
"It's fantastic," she said. "There are people that can use it."
Underwood said the van is vital to seniors, as they rely on it to run errands, and also for a social life. With the budget being as tight as it is, the gift of a new bus is a blessing.
"We have so many riders that depend on this service," Underwood said. "They would really be at a loss if they didn't have Transwick. Some seniors don't have family and they are living alone. This is their family; we are their family."


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Tony Parker led six Spurs in double figures with 17 points while also dishing out seven assists as San Antonio routed the Houston Rockets, 114-92, on Friday.
Tim Duncan, Gary Neal, Manu Ginobili and Patty Mills added 12 points apiece, with Duncan also contributing 12 rebounds in San Antonio's third straight win and its eighth victory in nine games.
Tiago Splitter rounded out the Spurs' double-digit scorers with 15 points.
"I thought we moved the ball with great pace offensively. I really liked the way they shared the ball and moved the ball in that regard," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.
James Harden scored 29 points to pace the Rockets, who have dropped their last six road games. Patrick Patterson and Toney Douglas each contributed 10 points in defeat.
Parker led the way with eight points as the Spurs opened the game with a 12-2 run.
Harden answered with a personal 11-2 push to get the Rockets back within one, but they could not take the lead and trailed, 29-21, heading into the second quarter.
San Antonio again raced out of the gate in the second, starting the frame with an 11-3 swing to jump ahead, 40-24.
The Rockets would trail by double digits from there until an 8-0 run brought them within, 48-39, with about three minutes left in the half, on a Patterson jumper.
The Spurs, however, scored nine of the second quarter's final 15 points to take a 57-45 advantage into the break.
Houston was not able to cut its deficit to single figures again until Harden netted seven straight points around a Duncan jumper before stealing an errant Danny Green pass and feeding Jeremy Lin for a breakaway layup, making it a 66-58 game with 7 1/2 minutes left in the third quarter.
But the remainder of the frame belonged to the Spurs, who scored the next 15 points to run out to an 81-58 lead and used a 68.4 percent shooting performance in the third quarter to carry an 87-66 advantage into the fourth.
San Antonio's bench stretched its lead up to as much as 33 in the fourth as the Spurs cruised to the victory.
"They're a very good team, especially at home. They did a good job of moving the ball," Harden said about San Antonio. "We knew they were going to pass the ball. It was just a matter of us really locking down and trying to stay on one page defensively."
Game Notes
The Spurs have won seven of the last 10 meetings between the teams and six straight in San Antonio ... The Spurs shot 55.2 percent from the floor in the game while holding Houston to just 38.9 percent shooting ,,, Lin finished with four points on 2-of-9 shooting ... San Antonio held a 50-37 advantage on the glass and a 60-38 edge in points in the paint.


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I'm currently trying to export data from an sql table to a CSV file using classic asp, this has worked absolutely fine except one column partdesc has several commas in which causes the import to CSV to start a new column, however I actually want the data to be in the same column when exporting. Is there away to replace these using the replace function either on the SQL Select statement or when I write the lines to the CSV file.
SQL select statement
"SELECT partmaster.partnum, partmaster.partdesc, stock.stloc FROM efacdb.dbo.partmaster INNER JOIN efacdb.dbo.stock ON partmaster.partnum = stock.stocknum WHERE partmaster.partdesc NOT LIKE 'PG50%' AND NOT (partmaster.partnum LIKE 'CITYLINK%' OR partmaster.partnum LIKE 'CWO%' OR partmaster.partnum LIKE 'FWC%' OR partmaster.partnum LIKE 'FWD%' OR partmaster.partnum LIKE 'RECORDED%' OR partmaster.partnum LIKE 'UPSEX%' OR partmaster.partnum LIKE 'UPSSTD%')"
ASP write line
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Aunt Jenny, who reminds us:
I'm telling you - Spry cakes are lighter cakes!
Found in "Stories" by Katherine Mansfield. Published by Vintage Books, 1956.
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I'm telling you - Spry cakes are lighter cakes!
I love everything about this one. So cute.
I love old advertisements! I like the price on the book too, really fun stuff!
This is so great---both the Spry ad and the paperback cover art. Lovely.
This is making me hungry. Another great find!
I love this ! Great find ! I love the high resolution image !Thanks so much !
Other great bits of Spry ad copy:
"Spry is so white, I just know it's purer."
Recipes "so digestible, even a child can eat 'em."
MMM, digestible!
Wait, where's the recipe????
No recipe to be found. Perhaps I'll find it in another book.


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So I see random threads here and there but I was wondering what everyone has been playing recently.
For me:
Warframe Beta: Ninja space aliens in space doing ninja-y stuff. Its a 3rd person Shooter/hack&slash where you're an alien ninja doing missions. Kinda of grindy but there's a lot of missions to do your stuff levels up if you use it. You have a Long range weapon, Pistol, and Melee weapon and a "Warframe" suit that has up to 4 differing abilities. Its fun so far, also I think JJ Abrams is on board because Lenflare/Blooms abound.
Tera:Rising - Told wife to try it and she told me to play to, She likes it made me go buy a retail copy for founder status now that its FTP. I'm not liking it to much, seems really easy I lvled a Warrior to 15 haven't died and came close maybe once. Just seems easy if you have played something like DMC/God of war and know how to dodge. Also the amount of Loli is creepy.
Ni No Kuni: Kinda got bored, I like Jrpgs but hate the ton of summons thing because I always wonder if I doin' it right (like leveling the right types or feeding them the right stats stuff like that) So far its a good game just ugh.
Planetside 2: Shoot things (from very far away when I can) get Xp. Big fights, but has a few crushing issues for me atm. The draw distance changes depending on how many people are near you and I play a sniper with a Longshot (NC) with a 12x zoom. I constantly watch people vanish while in my sights and it just ruins it for me. Also my character is a smoker like me and cant hold his breath to steady his weapon sway for more than like 3 seconds.
Othergames when I'm in the mood. I havent found anything that seems to demand all my time or sucks me in, more like Hmm what do I feel like tonight. I downloaded Path of Exile (Final Diablo Fantasy 7x10) to try out but haven't got around to loading into the game atm.
If you play any of those games my handle is (Warframe) Zackavious, (Planetside2) Zackav NC-Connery Server, (TERA)Xain - The PVE server starting with an A. Otherwise PSN: Zackavious, Steam: Beanx (Invader Zim avatar).
In othernews anyone use Raptr? I had Joph check it out, it seems interesting Its a social network/Xfire like program that tracks your games across all platforms/PC gametime played, and puts it on your Profile page. Like this.
One of the main reasons I found it interesting is it can track your PSN, Xbox360, Steam,WoW accounts and put it all in one place. Break down the games you play at the most, track achievements, etc. The desktop app has all the Im built into it (Like Trillian) so you can have all your contacts in one place (MSN,Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, PSN, Xbox F-list, Steam, FB Chat) and chat with them. (PSN redirects you to the Playstation website that allows you msg people on PSN).
It has an Ingame overlay, like Steam, where it will take you directly to the "community" for that game where people are talking about it posting pictures etc (not fullscreen just a small box) has a Built in Web browser, seems like a lite android type web browser so you could check stuff without exiting the game. Supposedly they are adding Video capture functions sooner or later.
Its a neat little package, mainly I use it to cut down on the need for multiple IM programs, and Game tracking.
Also they have "rewards" sometimes developers with give out gifts you can get by playing there game til a certain threshhold is met. They were giving mounts in Rift if you played for a bit before time on the deal expired, they were also giving away free copies of the game, and free upgrades to the new expansion back when it was semi relevant (2 or so months ago) Like this one here.
Idk something to consider or something, its interesting, neat program . Some people might like it. God I feel like a shill for hyping it this much but figured some people may haven't of heard of it. Also the Desktop app is optional, as any sort of Facebook/Twitter integration.
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Residence hall designed for connections, efficiency
Pacific Universitys new dorm will maximize social space
Right now, visitors need hard hats and orange vests to get into Pacific Universitys newest residence hall.
But by August, students will be carting pieces of home into a newly finished 60,000-square-foot building - likely through the main entrance and up the grand staircase, which according to project architect Joren Bass, will be wide enough to stand and chat on.
The chat-friendly stair width is just one of many details designed to promote gathering, meeting and socializing, from the spacious kitchens and lounges to window seats in hallways and study tables in the laundry rooms.
It used to be just about housing students, but now a big part of what goes into a residence hall is about central spaces to get students out of their rooms, said Bass. Your first two years, its all about socialization and your last two years are about retention because people who are socializing and connecting with other people and the campus are more likely to stay in school and do better.
At a university where students often praise the small size for the close relationships it fosters but chide it for the stunted social activity compared to larger universities chances to mingle, large and small, will help create the college experience many high schoolers dream about.
In order to ensure the residence hall will be finished by July 31, Bass said, the project is on an aggressive schedule with as many as 130 workers on site at a time, from both Mahlum Architects and Walsh Construction.
Similar projects usually take about six to nine months to design and a year to construct, said Bass, who worked on Pacifics Gilbert and Burlingham halls, the newest housing buildings. The new halls design and construction, however, will be completed in about a year total.
Freshmen and sophomores benefitting from the speedy assembly will likely not even notice many of the stylish attributes helping facilitate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.
Bass said view-killers like pipes, plumbing and vents are largely hidden within the construction. We want to keep the building looking as clean as possible.
The heat recovery ventilation system saves energy by exchanging heat between inbound and outbound air, he said.
And windows are placed throughout the structure to make use of daylight and help students feel less enclosed while walking through corridors.
Whether youre in a hallway or lounge or kitchen, students will always be able to look and see daylight, Bass said.
Room heaters automatically turn off when windows open, an energy-saving measure absent in older buildings such as the adjacent Clark Hall, built in 1966, where theres no adjustability with old boiler system heaters, Bass said.
The four-story structure will house 200 students and will support the increase of Pacifics undergraduate population of 1,783 to 2,000 by 2020.
The new residence hall sets the groundwork for future campus housing, and could complement a mirroring dormitory on the grassy lawn to the north that would allow for a courtyard between the two, if the need ever arose.
We hope to deliver a building with the bones to last 100 years, Bass said.


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30 Aug Eddie Van Halen Has Emergency Surgery! Japan Tour Postponed
This tour was supposed to last a few years and with the band getting tired out and now Eddie Van Halen's emergency surgery, it now appears it really will last a few years.
Eddie Van Halen had successful emergency surgery for a severe bout of diverticulitis. That is quite painful.
There is no further surgery needed but Eddie will be recovering for the next 4-6 months.
The Japanese leg of the tour will now take place in 2013.
We wish Eddie and speedy recovery. We hope the pain subsides soon.-DocFB
Diagnosis: Below is video from the rehearsal show at The Forum earlier this year.


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by Yaro Starak
Kiyoshi Sasanuma was on top of the Swiss when he met Kazuyuki Momose in the twelfth round. Kazuyuki Momose was in third place.
Game One
The first game was a classic Japanese game of speed Magic. Kazuyuki opened with Cloudskate and Lightbringer. whilst Kiyoshi began with Pygmy Razorback. Kazuyuki attempted to keep the creature rush coming by playing a Seal of Removal and returning his own Cloudskate and recasting it. This kept the Cloudskate in play for a few more attack phases.
It was looking all good for Kazuyuki until Kiyoshi played Latulla, Keldon Overseer and shot off most of his creatures. The game basically finished there, as Kiyoshi played a Lightning Hounds and Kazayuki died a few turns later.
Game Result: Kiyoshi Won
Game Two
The second game's early moments featured a third turn Lightbringer and a fourth turn Charmed Griffin on Kazuyuki's side of the table. Kiyoshi attempted to play a Hunted Wumpus and a Blaster Mage, but they are countered by a well placed Daze and Counterspell respectively. Kiyoshi managed to drop a Scoria Cat without it being countered, which left only the Charmed Griffin to deal with.
Latulla came to play for Kiyoshi, which was used to take down the Griffin. Unfortunately for Kiyoshi the damage had already been done. During the next two turns Kazuyuki played a Cloudskate, Blockade Runner and Rishadan Airship, which was just too much flying for Kiyoshi to deal with.
Game Result: Kazuyuki Won
Game Three
Kazuyuki dropped a first turn Seal of Removal followed by Defiant Falcon and Trenching Steed. Kiyoshi opened with a second turn Pygmy Razorback. Kazuyuki followed up with a Lightbringer and started the beatdown with his Steed and Falcon. Next Kiyoshi attempted to play a Whip Sergeant, but Kazuyuki was quick to Counterspell it. This left the path open for Latulla to be safely played.
The Seal of Removal and Submerge were used to good effect to keep Latulla inactive for a few turns. This allowed the Trenching Steed, Lighbringer and Defiant Falcon to apply maximum beatdown to Kiyoshi. Finally Latulla becomes active, but after some deep thinking and calculations, Kiyoshi determined that he could not win and conceded the game, and the match.
Game Result: Kazuyuki Won
Match Result: Kazuyuki Momose won the match 2-1
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What is AirPlay
What is Airplay®?
AirPlay takes your iTunes experience out of your computer and mobile device and moves it into your home. Using your WiFi network you can stream your music straight from your PC or Mac®, iPhone®, iPad® or iPod touch® to your Apple AirPlay enabled device at the touch of a button. Listen to your favorite song in your car using your iPhone®, leave your car mid song and walk into your home. Using the AirPlay App on your iPhone, select an AirPlay enabled Wireless Speaker or AV Receiver. The AirPlay enabled device will power up automatically and continue your favorite song right where you left off. Walk around your house with your iPhone, when a phone call comes in the music will fade and when the call is over the volume will return.
Wireless entertainment simplified
We're living in a wireless world. Which is good news for music lovers, because it means now, you can wirelessly enjoy your music wherever you are. And since the smartphone has become the most essential wireless device in your day-to-day life, it was only a matter of time before someone introduced a Wi-Fi™ speaker with the broadest smartphone connectivity ever. That someone is Pioneer. And that speaker is our new Wireless Speaker: the most convenient source for bringing high fidelity and powerful bass sound to you anywhere you go.
Pioneer AirPlay Enabled Devices
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I've been running Debian on my SheevaPlug and DockStars since they showed up at my door step. I haven't run into many (if any) applications that weren't compiled for ARM but were for i386 or amd_64.
Sure enough, there's Compbiz [debian.org].
It's bare bones, it's not always pretty, but apt has never failed me. It just works. Sid is almost always more up to date than the latest 'stable' release. They don't hard lock any packages to any release (unlike Ubuntu where if you don't want to go past 10.04, you're either stuck with back ports, adding in additional PPAs or dealing with bugs).
Debian / Ubuntu reminds me of a joke an old Rugby player told me. A young bull and an old bull are sitting up on a hill over looking a valley of sweet cows. The young bull gets excited and says, "Lets run down there and fuck one of those cows!". The old bull quiets him down and says, "Lets walk down there and fuck all of those cows."
What are you talking about? Seriously, you make no sense. First og all, what does apt have to do with this? Apt works the same way on Debian and Ubuntu, on ARM and Intel. So why would you want to mention that?
Then you go on to say that you can always install any package on Debian without considering dependencies. That's obviously bullshit. You can use apt pinning in Debian, just as you can in Ubuntu. But since Ubuntu is supported for much longer periods of time, it makes sense that they don't introduce new
What are you talking about? Seriously, you make no sense. First og all, what does apt have to do with this? Apt works the same way on Debian and Ubuntu, on ARM and Intel. So why would you want to mention that?
He probably meant Debian's package QA/
Then you go on to say that you can always install any package on Debian without considering dependencies.
I don't see where he says anything like that.
That's obviously bullshit. You can use apt pinning in Debian, just as you can in Ubuntu.
He's talking about the releases themselves. Ubuntu picks a major release number of Gnome/KDE/Firefox/LibreOffice/etc, and sticks with it through the entire run of that release. Natty has LibreOffice 3.3.x, and won't ever get LibreOffice 3.4.x in the official channels. Debian, if I'm understanding him right, doesn't force itself to stick with an old branch simply because "that's the version it was released with"
But since Ubuntu is supported for much longer periods of time.
Debian 5.0 (Lenny) was released in February of '09, and will be supported for a little over three years (April '12). Ubuntu supports its regular releases for about a year and a half, desktop LTS for three years, and server LTS for 5 years.
And I really didn't get your joke. You mean Debian is stupid because Ubuntu gets all the cows? I don't agree. Debian is nice. Ubuntu is _really_ nice on ARM. Let's just hope Debian can catch up in that field.
The young bull would reach the cows first, but he'll be too worn out for anything but one quickie. The old bull paces himself, and so has a better experience when he gets there.
Ubuntu is the young bull: it tries so hard to keep pace with the new shiny, but the pressure to release quickly doesn't leave much time for working out the bugs. For days (or even weeks) after every Ubuntu release, it seems like every other Ubuntu-related comment is about how $NEW_VERSION broke something that worked just fine in $OLD_VERSION.
Debian isn't in a rush; it'll upgrade when it is ready, and will be more stable when it does. I was getting pretty antsy about how long sid stayed on KDE 4.4, but it finally moved to 4.6 a few weeks ago. My DE got entirely overhauled, and when it was over...it Just Worked(tm). There were no unresolved dependencies. Nothing was crashing. Compare with Unity.
Debian / Ubuntu reminds me of a joke an old Rugby player told me.
I think that rugby player was Robert Duvall and the movie was Colors. [imdb.com]
Hey, not all of us can have watched every second of TV/Movies ever. Nice to know what it's from. Although I feel like the joke is older than that.
Yes, Unity runs on ARM already. But it uses OpenGL. ARM-based stuff like the PandaBoard tends to only support OpenGL ES because nobody licenses the OpenGL drivers from Imagination Technologies (only OpenGL ES drivers). This Linaro announcement is of note because they've ported Unity 3D to OpenGL ES.
I've been playing around with Ubuntu 11.04 on a PandaBoard for the past few days, and while most software works, there's a decent chunk of software that is either missing from the armel repositories, or if it's t
Back in the day we had reasonably boring X11 interfaces - to date myself I used twm and was pretty happy with it.
Now-a-days the 'future' of both the KDE and Gnome window managers just gives me a headache. Having shit move
all over the screen is annoying, it does not improve my productivity - it reduces the interaction with the computer to
a video game with the goal of 'get your work done!'.
When you're designing UIs, less is more.
* Less movement
* Less jittering icons
* Less mouse-focus auto-magnification
* Less screen flipping and transformation effects
* Less ribbons
* Less blurred and translucent backgrounds
These do look cool but they're not enhancing my 'experience' and they're certainly not helping me get any work done or make a phone call faster.
So quit wasting time with this stuff and go make touch interfaces with some audio feedback so blind people aren't left out on this next generation of handheld technology. Thanks.
Using TWM doesn't date you as much as you think... yes, I've been using Slackware since 2.0 (which really does date me), but I used TWM on one of my laptops as recently as 2009.... I had a login that defaulted to TWM for use in fucking with people... every tab I had open was an instance of xterm, and was running a terminal version of some common GUI tool... emacs, links, irssi, etc..
I used it for messing with people at Starbucks... if people asked what it was, I told them it was a beta of the next version o
... then you would end up with Unity??
My thoughts exactly. Why would I want Unity?
I mistook the article title as being about the Unity 3D [unity3d.com] game development tool, which unfortunately doesn't [unity3d.com] support Linux yet. Unity [ubuntu.com] is a desktop system for Ubuntu which apparently happens to have 3D effects.
It'd be nice if you clarified product names when writing headlines.
Probably just the former. You are onto something though.
Unity3d.com is already a popular game engine
Exactly. What the hell is '3D' doing in a window manager? Are the Ubuntu devs trying to hop on the 3d movie hype bandwagon? It's just sad.
More so that they are now steeling the name of the excellent Unity3D game engine.
It's to distinguish it from "Unity2d" which is Canonical's version of the "fallback" (Gnome2-like) mode from Gnome 3. Unity3d gets accelerated by the 3d rendering parts of your graphics card, while Unity2d is only accelerated by the 2d RENDER extension.
To me it looks like Unity is just "Gnome Shell Lite" but I can't run either one at work, as they both crash when handed a two screen (3 monitor) setup with 16bpp frame buffers by X. E17 works just fine though.
http://unity3d.com/ [unity3d.com] is what I thought this article was all about, imagine my disappointment when discovering some stupid window manager reuses the name.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde


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Shares of U.S. cable companies rose at the end of the week on continued talk that media mogul John Malone is pushing to orchestrate a deal between Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable.
Time Warner Cable's stock advanced 3.9% to $112.48 at the close of trading in New York on Friday, after jumping 4.4% Thursday.
Ever since Malone's Liberty Media acquired a 27% stake in Charter, analysts, investors and financial reporters have speculated that an industry consolidation may be underway, led by the pioneering executive.
PHOTOS: Cable vs. broadcast ratings
But though Wall Street is cheering, it remains to be seen whether Time Warner Cable is on board with the idea. The company has declined to comment publicly on all the talk, and insiders there have indicated there is little enthusiasm for a combination with Charter.
Time Warner Cable isn't the only pay-TV distributor Charter may be eying. Cablevision Systems Corp. has also been mentioned as a potential target. However, Cablevision is tightly controlled by the Dolan family, which could make a sale difficult if they are not on board.
Cablevision shares rose 3.3% to $16.81 Friday, building on Thursday's gain of 5.6%.
The speculation also boosted shares of Comcast Corp. 3.6 % to $41.73 Friday.
Paula Deen staffers rush to her defense on Facebook
'The Heat' will bring firepower to weekend box office
Amazon's open call to filmmakers now includes video submissions
ON LOCATION: People and places behind what's onscreen PHOTOS: Biggest box office flops of 2013 PHOTOS: Celebrity production companies
ON LOCATION: People and places behind what's onscreen
PHOTOS: Biggest box office flops of 2013
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Yes, what Pravda was to the former Soviet Union, the Dispatch is to Tosu*. Which is why I got a chuckle yesterday after reading an email from our pal, Surrounded in Columbus (who, as his screen name indicates, is a Michigan fan living in the belly of the beast). In the wake of Ohio State's 10-7 loss to MSU, he sent us a picture of the front page of Sunday's Dispatch along with the following:
Sorta like "Where's Waldo?", this is "Where's the Buckeye?" headline.
First time in years that the tosu game is NOT a front page story. Quarter inch banner and reference to the sports section? Unheard of.
It's a very quiet morning in Cowtown.
UPDATE: Something tells me the football team will be on the front page tomorrow!


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Starz offers "Spartacus: Vengeance" marathon Saturday
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To get you caught up on the gory bits of Season 2, Starz is airing a five-episode marathon of the bloody epic that is "Spartacus: Vengeance" on Saturday, locally at 7 p.m.
The graphic-novel-style sex-and-violence fest has already been picked up for a third season. The second half of the second season begins Friday, March 2.
The rundown: Liam McIntyre ("The Pacific") in the title role of Spartacus; Lucy Lawless ("Xena: Warrior Princess," "Battlestar Galactica") as Lucretia; Peter Mensah (Avatar, 300, The Incredible Hulk) as Oenomaus – once known as Doctore; Manu Bennett (The Marine, 30 Days of Night), as Crixus; Dustin Clare ("Underbelly," "Satisfaction"), pictured here as Gannicus; Nick E. Tarabay ("Crash," "CSI: Miami") as Ashur; and Katrina Law ("Third Watch") as Mira. This season also brings the return of "Blood and Sand" cast members, Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) as Gaius Cladius Glaber, and his alluring wife Ilithyia (Accidents Happen), played by Viva Bianca. Cynthia Addai-Robinson ("Dirt") joins the cast as Naevia.


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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Dave Bing plans to deliver his annual State of the City address next week as he works to deal with the city's financial crisis.
The mayor's office said the address is set for 7 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Detroit School of Arts.
Bing announced last week that Detroit would close nearly half of its parks and reduce maintenance and other services at dozens of others.
Bing is trying to find as many savings as possible while dealing with a budget deficit of more than $300 million. A review team is expected this month to report the city's fiscal condition to Gov. Rick Snyder, who could appoint an emergency manager if a financial emergency is found.
Bing already has decreased spending, cut jobs and instituted unpaid furlough days.