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Approval of 'birds and the bees act' sought by three NC senators
Three state senators are hoping their idea for the "birds and the bees act" will win support in the state legislature.
That's the short title of a law proposed by Wesley Meredith, Brent Jackson and Tamara Barringer, all Republicans.
Its subject matter isn't what you might think.
The long title is more cumbersome and less titillating. It runs 34 words: "An act to clarify the authority of local governments to adopt ordinances related to bee hives and to require the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study strategies for protecting and supporting pollinators."
If passed, the bill would stop counties, cities and towns from adopting ordinances that prohibit anyone from owning or possessing five or fewer bee hives.
Many towns regulate the number of bee hives. Cary, for example, has a sliding scale allowing from two to eight hives depending on lot size. The city of Raleigh's ordinance says a maximum of two bee hives are permitted.
The proposed law would also require the agriculture department's study to look at ways to "increase habitat for pollinators, including birds and insects," on farmland, transportation rights-of-way and utility easements across North Carolina.
Bees play a crucial role in helping plants and crops reproduce through pollination.
Government agencies and university researchers have been expressing concern about a decline in honey bees and other pollinators.
Bee losses are attributed to a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder in which bees abandon their hives. The Natural Resources Defense Council says that, without bees, many plants and food crops would die off and it has urged policymakers to act.
A spokesman for the state's agriculture department said the bill wasn't sought by the department.
Jeff Warren, an aide to Senate leader Phil Berger, came up with the bill's title, according to Jackson, a watermelon farmer whose district east of Raleigh includes major farming operations, and Barringer, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill who lives in Cary. Meredith is a landscaping company owner from Fayetteville.
"He claims he was simply trying to top the Opossum Right-To-Work Act, which he also named," Jackson said.
If they'd named it the "allow five or fewer bee hive act," or the "increase habitat for pollinators" act, you probably wouldn't be reading about it right now.


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Supervisors considering changes to Castle's name
For more than 50 years, the now-decommissioned Castle Air Force Base has borne the name of a World War II pilot who gave his life to spare civilians.
The commercial airport that's there today has kept the honorific.
But that could soon change.
The Y word is coming.
As Merced County continues its effort to redevelop the former base, county officials are considering a name change for Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center.
They're hoping the move will help garner international recognition for Castle, which is slated to provide passenger flights by 2008.
For the past several months, Castle officials have been vacuuming input from consultants and commercial airlines on how to market the airport better. It boasts, for example, the sixth-longest runway in California. "They all say the same thing," said John Fowler, who is overseeing the base's redevelopment. "We need a name that's recognizable throughout California and throughout the world."
Although a final decision has yet to be made, Castle officials are floating two ideas for the new name. And both involve the most famous Y word in the Valley.
Central California Yosemite Airport and Merced County Yosemite Airport. "In Central California, there is only one internationally recognized destination, and that's Yosemite," said Fowler.
Under its current name, Fowler said most people outside the Central Valley can't place Castle, or even Merced County, on a map. Several other nearby airports are already using Yosemite for its international resonance, including the Fresno Yosemite Airport, the Mariposa Yosemite Airport and the Mammoth Yosemite Airport.
Castle was named for Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Castle, who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for brave acts over Belgium in 1944. Under attack by German pilots, Castle chose to go down with his plane instead of bailing to safety -- a decision that military officials said undoubtedly saved the lives of civilians below.
Castle officials say only the airport's name will change; the former base, now known as the Castle Commerce Center, will retain the general's name, as will the site's air museum. And Castle officials say that regardless of what name is chosen, the general will remain linked to the airport.
Officially, the airport's title would be followed by "Brigadier General Frederick W. Castle Field." (For example, under the first name suggestion, the airport's title would read, Central California Yosemite Airport -- Brigadier General Frederick W. Castle Field.)
Still, critics say a change to any name that doesn't begin with Castle is a slight to the base's heritage. "It's been Castle for as long as I've been in this community," said County Supervisor Deidre Kelsey. "I guess I'm not ready to let go of the old name. And when the name is that long, the Castle part will just get left off."
Others criticize the name-change plans for different reasons. Jim Price, vice president of Gemini Flight Support, said any change will impose substantial economic impacts for his company. Price said that Gemini, which provides support services such as fuel and catering to planes flying into Castle, has spent a lot of time and money marketing itself under the current name. "It's ludicrous to say a name change is going to bring more business," said Price. "For us, all this is going to do is confuse our customers and undo all the marketing efforts we've already made."
County officials disagree. "The experts tell us that this is the best way to go," said county spokesman Mark Hendrickson. "We want Castle to be successful. We want to create more jobs and opportunity, and that's what this boils down to."
Supervisor Mike Nelson, whose district includes Castle, said he supports calling the airport the Central California Yosemite Airport. "I think we can change the name and still honor the base's heritage," he said. Nelson added that he's received phone calls and e-mails from constituents both for and against the change.
The Board of Supervisors, which will ultimately decide Castle's new name, was presented with the two suggestions on Sept. 25. The board is now gathering input from the public and from businesses located at Castle. A decision is expected in a few weeks.
Since 2000, the county has been working to redevelop the 1,900-acre former Air Force base. Over that time, it's spent more than $17 million to turn Castle into a commercially viable airport. Several cargo airlines now fly to and from Castle, as well as local flight schools.
In January, Castle reopened its air traffic control tower. County officials say they expect to begin construction on a two-gate passenger terminal in the coming months. The airport has yet to contract with a passenger airline.
Reporter Corinne Reillycan be reached at 209-385-2477 or email@example.com.


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I never charge for acting in films, says Shah Rukh Khan
According to an Indian news agency, Shah Rukh Khan made the statement during an interview at a television show.
Shah Rukh Khan said, "I never take money for acting in films. I only charge fees for endorsements, for events and live shows. I only tell producers to pay me whatever they wish, if the films do well (at the box office)."
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Love letter to a toddler
It isn't because I had nothing to do on the eve of your 18 month birthday that I looked up the word "toddler" in the dictionary and found the meaning to be disproportionate to the event in real life. It said that a toddler is someone who toddles, a young child learning to walk. I think that this is equivalent to saying that water is wet – sorely lacking in the rich and finely wrought details that embody the idea.
If I was going to define toddler I would include particulars like the definitive way you've been letting us know when you are finished with a specific toy or food these days – and of course, like with all things there is room for refinement here – a screechy cry, and then vehement head shaking followed by throwing that particular item on the floor will not always be acceptable forms of expressing your censure. And just on a side note, your Dad spent a lot of time and effort making those chicken nuggets, meatballs and perogies you so easily brush off of your highchair without so much as a courtesy nibble. You have no idea the lengths to which he went to puree the vegetables he concealed within them. I, for one, thought they were delicious. I'm just saying – would it kill you to take one bite just to humour him??
And speaking of my opinion, I'm not sure that you are old enough to be graduating into the Toddler Room at daycare this week. I mean if we go back to the dictionary definition of this point in your life, how can they justify moving you to a class with one less educator if you are just learning to toddle???
On the other hand they just might know what they're talking about because their cribs have high enough sides to prevent you from climbing out. This issue has recently come to our attention at home – something else missing from Webster's scant definition of toddler-hood. You are now sleeping in a big boy bed because last week we noticed that you are a monkey-climber and can balance your entire little body on the ledge of the crib making it possible for you to break your little neck which panicked me to the point where my worst fears flashed before my eyes and I had to sit down just to catch my breath but not before I demanded that your Dad take down one of the sides that very minute.
And so Deaglan it isn't that I'm frustrated with all of these recent changes that just happen to coincide with this first rite-of-passage (which hasn't been properly defined by Webster's Dictionary if you ask me), the one they say is when a child first learns to leave the safety and comfort of his primary caregivers. It's just that I'm watching you grow taller, stronger, smarter, braver, definitely and heartbreakingly cuter and my worry (and this is most likely just first-time-mother anxiety in me) is this. That you may someday outgrow me.
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oh yes. He's at the age where they do something marvelous just about every day! Enjoy!ReplyDelete
Yes, this is the marvelous age. You are very conscientious and alert to your child's changes and growth. That is good parenting!
Maybe only to the point that he pats you on the head like big boy does, but he still s loves and needs me. :DReplyDelete
Kim, some day he will be angry you published this. Then some day, later, he will so love you the more for it. Just a guess, but...ReplyDelete
Uh oh, you have a monkey climber on your hands now :) Deaglan's adventurous side will soon be emerging big time. I feel for you and Shaune when he decides to let the food "fly" off the table. I remember those clean up days. I'm sure that Deaglan is going to live out his toddler days to the fullest!! Hold on and enjoy the ride. Remember that Deaglan will never outgrow his love for you and Shaune.ReplyDelete
I don't think he will ever outgrow you. There will always be a special place in his heart for you no matter how old he is. This is a wonderful and fun age.ReplyDelete
what a beautiful letter. You are so articulate! I love reading your blog.ReplyDelete
Toddlerhood is alot of fun. Enjoy it while it lasts.......I can't seem to remember it much with Jacob and Allie,....crazy huh? time just flies....
Ahhhh toddlerhood. It's so fun to watch their personalities start to emerge. Good times ahead.ReplyDelete
Oh, Kim, I am so there with you in your statements to your little one. I could change the name and send this note to my little one.ReplyDelete
I can especially relate to the crib thing. This weekend T Rex learned how to get out of his crib - 18 1/2 months old. It's like he crossed into a new realm of toddlerness!
I did the exact thing you did - immediately took down one of the sides to the crib and we are now shopping for a twin bed. So glad to know some one else is paranoid like I am!
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This blog was so honest and sweet that I teared up.- jtReplyDelete
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ooooooooooh!!! your post is so humorous and so heartfelt, all in one. you write so well, and you are such a great mom. your son is so very lucky!ReplyDelete
and webster's pretty much blew the definition of toddler. hahahahah. so funny! :)
Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it doesn't last long!ReplyDelete
Oh Kim, I love this post. You are such a great Mom!!! And, it is so true that dictionary is Whack!!! (I just may have dated myself on that one) :) Well, all I can say is let the fun begin. Each day is so much fun-the learning for him and for you. Honey, I wish I could list all of the things that you are going to face but that is impossible. The key is to go with your gut instincts-you two will grow together. :)ReplyDelete
BTW, I was teaching some Spanish-speaking adults recently and needed a translator. The translator looked at me and said, "we don't have a word for toddler". Can you believe it? Go figure...


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What can you do to prepare your skin for a treatment?
Question: I'm really confused about prepping my skin before the peel or skin needling. I've read a lot here about it but honestly, I'm not getting it. Do I need to prep for a week, a day or an hour before you perform a peel on me? And what exactly do I need to do?
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- Medical grade skin peels and medical facials dissolve ionic bonds to loosen dead skin cells, which facilities hydration and penetration of active ingredients. It also helps to stimulate collagen in the dermis.
- Skin needling improves elasticity, collagen production, elastin synthesis, skin's texture and tone.
Medi-facials, peels and skin needling work best on skin that has been prepared adequately over a period of 1 to 3 weeks
By preparing your skin you are creating the perfect canvas for us to work on and you will:
- Avoid unwanted side effects (eg hyper-pigmentation)
- Shorten recovery time your skin needs after the procedure
- Get a better, quicker result – prepared skin will repair and rebuild itself a lot faster
Preparation for a skin treatment depends mainly on the type of skin and treatment.
- If you have dark skin, skin pigmentation is possible, particularly after some peels and skin needling. Pre-treatment regimen may include Retinol and White Balance to help minimize the possibility of post treatment hyperpigmentation, make your procedure more uniform, and decrease your downtime.
- Fair-skinned people may not need to be treated before peeling. However, prepping skin before skin needling will achieve a significantly better result.
- Anti-Acne procedures prepping may include specialised cleanser with Salicyllic acid, Retinol, BlueAOX etc.
As a general rule, you should follow the pre-treatment regimen for 1-3 weeks. Some procedures may require down time. Here are a few things you should know about some procedures:
- It may look worse than it'll feel. If skin is inflamed, it usually improves very rapidly in the first day or two after the procedure.
- Some people develop swelling, but it will diminish fairly rapidly in the first few days.
- Peels can be uncomfortable for a few days, and the peeled area may look unsightly from day 4 post peel. If this happens we have a solution, ask your therapist
- Stop all vigorous physical activity – there is no need to irritate skin by overworking your sweat glands
- Expect Full recovery in 5-10 days
- Speed up the healing process by applying recommended skin care serum post treatment
- Ensure sun protection/avoidance and continue with "white balance" for post-inflammatory pigmentation if it is a concern
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Eggs Baked in Tomato Sauce
This recipe was inspired by a traditional Italian preparation of eggs baked in tomato sauce, uova in purgatorio. When baked in individual ramekins, it becomes an impressive brunch dish. The eggs cook in less than 15 minutes in a Cuisinart steam oven, as directed below. If using a conventional oven, preheat to 350°F and bake the eggs for about 15 minutes.
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 1 Tbs. chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 4 eggs
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- 1/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Oil four 5-oz. ramekins. Put 2 Tbs. tomato sauce and a pinch of parsley into each ramekin; reserve the remaining parsley for garnish. Break an egg into each ramekin.
Place the ramekins on the baking tray of a Cuisinart steam oven. Position a rack in the lower rung of the steam oven. Transfer the tray to the oven. Turn the oven to the bake/steam setting at 250°F according to the manufacturer's instructions. Bake for 12 minutes. Check the ramekins; if the egg whites have not set, return the ramekins to the oven and bake for 2 to 3 minutes more.
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Davis Cup Painting
Autographed by John Isner, Jack Sock and the Bryan Brothers.
On July 11, 2016 the scholar athletes of Portland Tennis & Education participated in the Davis Cup Family Night - as part of the week long festivities that took place leading up to the 2016 US Davis Cup - where they got to meet the US Davis Cup Team and this painting was the product of that meet and greet.
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WALTHAM, Mass. – Paced by a 12th place performance in foil from sophomore Brie Maurer (Fredericksburg, Va.), Wellesley College fencing closed out the 2017-18 season with a strong showing on Sunday at the 2018 NCAA Northeast Regional. This year's regional was hosted by Brandeis University at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.
Maurer finished just six places shy of matching Hannah Braaten's ('11) program best regional performance in foil while making her run to the final pool. Sunday's regional consisted of four rounds of elimination pools in each weapon. After going 4-0 with a +19 touch ratio in the opening round, Maurer turned in a 3-3 (+2) record in Round #2 to advance to Round #3. Maurer then went 3-3 with an even touch ratio to grab the 12th and final spot in Round #4. Maurer's day ended with a 1-10 record in the grueling 11-bout final round pool, earning the sophomore 12th place and 2nd among fencers from Division III schools.
Also competing in foil, first year Lucille Tsao (Succasunna, N.J.) took 33rd and senior Taylor Hood (Lexington, Ky.) finished in 37th place. Tsao was 3-1 (+7) in the opening round before going 1-5 (-20) to end the day in Round #2. Hood failed to advance out of the opening round, going 2-2 (-1) in her pool.
First year Lauren Park (Wayne, N.J.) was the top Wellesley finisher in sabre, taking 17th overall and 4th among competitors from Division III institutions. Park's day came to an end with a 1-5 (-11) record in Round #3, but not before she went 4-0 (+11) in Round #1 and 3-3 (even) in Round #2 to finish inside the top-20.
Making her third regional appearance, junior Meg Harney (Wilmette, Ill.) added a 28th place finish in sabre, while senior Madeleine Barowsky (Framingham, Mass.) was 42nd in her fourth and final regional appearance. Harney finished 3-7 (-10) overall, while Barowsky finished the day 1-3 (-8).
First year Julia Calventus-Coveney (Barcelona, Spain) concluded an outstanding rookie season with an 18th place finish in epee. Calventus-Coveney was an undefeated 4-0 (+13) in Round #1. She then finished 4-2 (+1) in Round #2 to earn a spot in the final 21. Her season then came to an end in Round #3 after posting a 2-4 (-11) mark. Calventus-Coveney was the top epee fencer for the Blue as classmate Corinne Wilklow (Fairfield, Conn.) finished 45th and senior Hannah Schmidt (Oshkosh, Wis.) took 47th. Both Wilklow and Schmidt were winless in the opening round.
Wellesley College fencing finished the 2017-18 season with 20 wins in team competitions, the most wins for the Blue since the 2010-11 season. Wellesley added a 3rd place finish at the annual NEIFC Championships before advancing nine fencers to this year's NCAA regional, the most for the program since the 2013-14 season.


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HGCA investment aims to help update nutrient management recommendations
22nd Aug 2013
HGCA is investing £700,000 in research to help update nutrient management recommendations.
Commencing this autumn and focusing on nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sulphur (S), the four research projects are being conducted by ADAS in collaboration with 12 industry partners who will contribute a further £250,000 cash/in-kind funding.
James Holmes, Research Manager for crop nutrition at HGCA, stated: "The Fertiliser Manual (RB209) is a crucial source of information. But as farming practices move on, it is essential that nutrient management recommendations keep pace with change. This new work will play a valuable role in updating nutrient management information."
The first project extends current research to help growers maintain an appropriate level of P in the soil.
Mr Holmes said: "In the last 30 years, fewer fields have received P treatment as growers take 'P holidays'. This, together with the increasing cost of P fertilisers and environmental pressures, has stimulated a lot of debate on the management of P.
"Recent research has shown how P management may need to be adapted in certain soils and has confirmed that growers running down soil P to below Olsen P Index 2 could be approaching a 'cliff edge' of P deficiency and risk not achieving optimum yields, especially when conditions are less than ideal."
The new research will refine understanding of critical soil P levels and how to satisfy crop demand across a range of soil types, which could include applying 'fresh P' during the season.
"The use of fresh P applications is particularly interesting and HGCA work has already demonstrated that fresh P fertiliser can be effective in raising winter wheat and oilseed rape yields in plots below Olsen P Index 2. Further P-response trials will be conducted on farms to calculate when fresh P applications could be beneficial," commented Mr Holmes.
Two further projects will focus on the management of N.
Mr Holmes said: "Current recommendations for N management are based on averages which fail to adequately reflect the diversity in soil types and the large variations in actual field nutrient requirements. There is also increasing evidence that N is being under-applied on some farms."
In the first N project, a series of on-farm trials will be set up to test a novel 'strip trial' approach, where a standard N rate is applied along with 50kg/ha more and 50kg/ha less applied N to alternate tramlines.
Allison Grundy, from GrowHow, one of the project's industry partners, commented: "We are supporting this work with soil analysis and helping growers to set up strip trials. We will help develop a robust data set to produce a better picture of N variability and the proportion of fields that require more or less N fertiliser than predicted by RB209."
The second N project will look at the N requirements for winter barley.
Mr Holmes said: "RB209 recommendations for winter barley have not been updated for around 30 years and varieties have changed significantly over that period.
"This project will review N management data and conduct experiments on application rate and timing for two-row, six-row and hybrid winter barley varieties."
The final project takes a look at S management.
Mr Holmes said: "The recent HGCA 'yield plateau' work found that many winter wheat and oilseed rape crops may not be receiving enough S and this could be limiting yield.
"This new research will extend S-response trials, as well as quantify the S supply from applications of manures and biosolids.
Dr Pete Berry, principal research scientist at ADAS, concluded: "The nutrient research projects have been designed with RB209 in mind. The projects, which will deliver findings over the next five years, will be made available to Defra to assist with future revisions of RB209."
Further information on the projects is available here.
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In Evening Air, the second album from Baltimores Future Islands, seems at first to be an odd assemblage of elements that shouldnt click into a satisfying whole. Some of the albums tempos brood, others are borne toward the dancefloor, and all are topped by Samuel T. Herrings impassioned, sometimes wrenching vocals. While its not hard to find comparisons for specific components of Future Islands sound, its much more difficult to pin down the end result or how it actually works. One things for sure: it does work. In Evening Air is a moody, propulsive, eccentric album that has a way of getting stuck sideways in your mind. And its likely that the tension created by its disparate elements is what makes it so enduring.
The albums opener, Walking Through That Door, pits a simple, clearly defined rhythm against swooning Technicolor keyboards. The fragility of the melody is striking: they sound as though theyre fraying or fracturing as theyre being played, like the act of listening will cause them to unwind. The rhythms steadiness -- the solidity of the basslines and the consistency of the drums -- bolsters things, providing some guarantee that everything wont implode, that the groups more ecstatic tendencies wont disrupt the pop-song structures in which they work.
Their pop song-craft does have a way of standing out: Tin Man and Swept Inside (the most traditionally post-punk number on here, but also one of the albums most captivating) each prompt a flurry of sympathetic motion even as their idiosyncrasies help them to endure beyond an initial encounter. This isnt to say that this is Future Islands defining statement; nothing on In Evening Air quite achieves the slow-burning power of the title track to their In the Fall EP. But as a distillation of Future Islands textured, unpredictable approach to pop, its a fine starting point.
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Tijny wrote:Do you have a video of my disconnection-lolcrash-ragequit incident from stage 9 I believe?
Wokinger wrote:We should make a new rule: if sb gets disconnected he has reduced his stage time by time he lost.
I'm not sure I understand correctly - how do you measure how much time is lost by the disconnection?Wokinger wrote:We should make a new rule: if sb gets disconnected he has reduced his stage time by time he lost.
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Tijny wrote:I'm not sure I understand correctly - how do you measure how much time is lost by the disconnection?Wokinger wrote:We should make a new rule: if sb gets disconnected he has reduced his stage time by time he lost.
Tijny wrote:Maybe a better rule would be to drop everyone's worst result: i.e. determine in which stage they lost the most time to the winner (percentage-wise), and give them the same time as the winner there.
Wokinger wrote:Time from the moment your car stopped after disconnection to the moment you connect again. It would be possible once or twice per rally. In that way you won't have advantage if you diconnect by yourself after error.
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> so horrible problems..
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> i thought i had the right zoom, but this was ridiculous
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> yeah, i got disconnected once too, but..i got lucky there
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> 1.1 before, 1.2 last race, now 1.3
Message: 1. Wokinger 3:28.719
Message: 6. [x] Mike Nike + 8.667
Message: <power79> damn its hard to drive close to another car. And I had to do it for half the stage.
Message: <power79> what a trap. Flew over the rocks mile into the desert. and thousand other mistakes.
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> ...I flew over the stones and there was nothing I could do about it
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> lol @ high zoom @ multiple stones part LOTTERY xD
Message: 1. [x] Mike Nike 6:38.175
Message: 6. [+] Tinjovic + 3.913
Message: 8. power79 +10.360
Message: <Wokinger> sad Tijny
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> hmm..and i was was mad losing 3 sec bumping in a spot i shouldnt have...poor tijny :E
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> ...and then I got disconnected again
Message: <Wokinger> and I saw bmw going off-road..
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> well, gotta aim for podium now
Message: <power79> and again i drove almost whole stage next to another car
Message: 1. Wokinger 7:45.543
Message: 10. [+] Tinjovic +43.774
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> I jumped on top of pawlew and found myself offroad because of that
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> other than that, pretty good race
Message: 1. [+] Tinjovic 5:57.158
Message: 2. Wokinger + 5.077
Message: <power79> again. first close driving with szymek and then with mike. damn its hard.
Message: 1. Wokinger 10:48.531
Message: 2. [x] Mike Nike + 0.605
Message: OVERALL RESULTS:
Message: 1. [x] Mike Nike 52:36.033
Message: 2. Wokinger + 0.516
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> :D omg what a laughflash thx to Tijny :D...and a well placed ragequit joke xD
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> hmm?
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> why laugh flash?
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> the crash in the bridge
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> 1-2 sec before end
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> hilarious
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> eh?
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> I think I was disconnected there
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> oh okay
Message: <[+] Tinjovic> overall gap seems impossibly small now :D
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> tijny too fast..
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> 70min of cup 0.1s to 2nd <3 nice
Message: STAGE RESULTS:
Message: 1. [+] Tinjovic 5:14.143
Message: 2. [x] Mike Nike + 4.019
Message: 3. Wokinger + 4.676
Message: OVERALL RESULTS:
Message: 1. [x] Mike Nike 1:10:57.110
Message: 2. Wokinger + 0.126
Message: <[x] Mike Nike> ech..thx to zoom: jump into stone offroad. STUCK. had to drive bw in deep sand to get free :E
Message: STAGE RESULTS:
Message: 1. [+] Tinjovic 6:09.658
Message: 2. Szymek + 7.117
Message: 5. [x] Mike Nike +10.510
Message: 6. Wokinger +11.407
Message: OVERALL RESULTS:
Message: 1. [x] Mike Nike 1:17:17.278
Message: 2. Wokinger + 1.023
Message: STAGE RESULTS:
Message: 1. [+] Tinjovic 5:10.415
Message: 2. [x] Mike Nike + 2.818
Message: 3. Wokinger + 6.666
Message: OVERALL RESULTS:
Message: 1. [x] Mike Nike 1:22:30.511
Message: 2. Wokinger + 4.871
Message: 3. [+] Tinjovic +14.242
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'A poet should have been sent instead': The total solar eclipse was hard to describe
A dear friend, Ben Stephens of Morro Bay, was a husband and father with a graduate degree from Cal Poly in marine biology and commercial fisheries.
He was one of the smartest people I've ever met who never embellished anything and was blessed with a heart of gold. He left us way too early after a courageous battle with cancer. He once told me about a total eclipse he witnessed in Baja California in 1991, and I was awestruck by his story.
If you ever get a chance to see a total eclipse, you will remember it forever, he said.
With those words, I was determined to see one if I ever had the chance. Last week, I rented a minivan and drove north solo toward Salem, Oregon. My wife, Trish, my daughter, Chloe, and son, Sean, had to either teach or attend their first day of class on the day of Monday's total solar eclipse.
My primary concern was the ever-present threat of clouds. But after checking the surface charts and models, most of Oregon was forecast to remain clear, except along the immediate coastline where low marine clouds would persist. On my journey north on Interstate 5, I encountered heavy smoke from numerous wildfires that obscured the sky, which made me a little worried. The smoke got thicker north of Ashland but slowly dissipated by the time I reached Eugene. Farther north, Salem was clear.
Since all the hotel rooms were booked months in advance, I decided to sleep at the Santiam River Rest Area along the Santiam River about 10 miles south of Salem. This location turned out to be on the centerline of the moon's shadow path as it crossed the United States and was next to an expansive field.
As fictitious motivational speaker Matt Foley, played by Chris Farley in the famous Saturday Night Live skits, said: "I was living in a van down by the river."
The rest stop became full with eclipse chasers by Sunday night. Despite hundreds of visitors, the semi-independent state agency, Oregon Travel Experience, kept the facility safe and extraordinarily clean. They even made sure the streetlights wouldn't come on at the peak of the eclipse.
We all came together as strangers; parked next to me was Dave in another minivan, who traveled south from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Michael, who made the trek from Los Angeles in a white Honda S2000 roadster. I noticed that the vast majority of the cars had California license plates, but there were visitors from across the world.
As I've written before, stargazing sometimes can seem a little uneventful without a telescope. It takes a lot of patience.
This certainly was not case Monday. On the morning of the eclipse, the sky turned bright, and photographers quickly set up their tripods. As the moon started to obscure the sun, I could hear the crow of roosters from a farm nearby, but the buzz of honeybees went quiet as the air temperature rapidly dropped about 10 degrees.
To the west, a dark shadow of the moon's umbra approached at approximately 2,000 mph; it resembled a dark band of clouds with heavy rain. In an instant, totality arrived, and we were all plunged into darkness as we removed our solar eclipse glasses.
To the south and north, I could see sunrise and sunset at the same time. The planet Venus could be seen. Above us, a black hole developed in the sky, and the sun's corona shined much brighter than I ever imagined. For those two minutes of totality, the sun's atmosphere was glorious. To me, the corona looked like strings of bright liquid-crystal white gently pulsating outward.
In the 1997 movie "Contact," Jodie Foster's character, astronomer Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, said there are no words to describe her experience and a poet should have been sent instead. I felt the same way.
If you didn't make it to this month's total solar eclipse, the next North America occurrence will transpire on April 8, 2024. That total eclipse will reach the west coast of Mexico a little south of the Baja Peninsula and travel northeastward across Mexico into Texas and across the country into Maine. The duration of totality will be over four minutes long, twice as long as this month's event.
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HAPPY SPRING! -Love, Denver.
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It should be noticed by Watches.InfoNIAC.com that in the course of the Omega effective Watchmaker Wanted campaign Greg Williams succeeded in creating a photograph of George Clooney, wearing a lab coat and a loupe. It happened to be a source of inspiration for the creators of the aforementioned images.
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- Page 1 Brother MFC-490CW Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Review
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Brother's print speed claims are as preposterous as always on their inkjet machines. The company claims 33ppm for black print and 27ppm for colour, both in draft mode. Very few pages will be printed in draft mode and in normal print mode we saw a maximum of 3.0ppm when printing black pages and just 2.4ppm when printing colour. That's around a tenth of the rated speeds.
A single page colour copy took 42 seconds and a five-page, black-text copy from the ADF took 1:53. Neither of these speeds is particularly impressive, but for short-run jobs they may be acceptable. Copying documents from the ADF didn't work too well, as we had sheets being fed out of the ADF and catching on ones already sitting in the output tray, pushing them onto the desk.
15 x 10cm photo prints took on average of 1:40, except when using 'highest' print mode, which took over twice as long. Photo mode is, in any case, little different from highest mode, except in the quality of shadow detail. This is poor in both modes, but in photo mode virtually all detail bleeds to black.
Other aspects of photo print are better, with natural colours, smooth gradations in shade and sharp foreground detail. Colour graphics print on plain paper is rather pallid and is much more so when you produce a copy from a printed original. Scan quality is very similar to what you get when you copy. Black text print is reasonable, though not as densely black as from some of the competition.
The standard-yield cartridges gives poorer page costs than with the high-yield ones in the more expensive machine and we calculate an ISO black text page will cost just over 3.4p, while an ISO colour page comes in at 9.3p. These costs are a little on the high side, but by less than one penny per page in both cases.
Overall, the MFC-490CW looks like a better deal to us than the MFC-990CW. Although it can only use standard-yield cartridges and has no answering device or portable phone, you can buy both of these separately for less than the difference in price between the two machines.
The print quality and speed of these Brother all-in-ones isn't up to what Canon or HP routinely produce, but they're probably adequate for home and sole-trader business tasks. The convenience of wireless connection, the widescreen LCD display and the comparatively small footprint all work in the MFC-490CW's favour, as a true multifunction device for home and small business.
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Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro. Knopf. 240pp, $25.00.
Were it not for the fact that Kazuo Ishiguro's six novels all share a fundamental concern with the way that people actively create the self they present to the world—expressed in each novel through tight first-person narration—it would be easy to think of him as two different writers struggling within one body. The first of those writers is a careful, understated realist, observing society and the attempts of flawed, frequently repressed individuals to find a place for themselves within it; think of a slightly less buttoned-down Henry James. The second is far stranger, influenced by Kafka and maybe even Proust, and he writes of individuals whose own self-deceptions, self-denials, and blind spots warp their understanding of the world to the point where we, the readers, can't even be sure that what they're describing bears any resemblance to reality. Though the separation isn't nearly so clean as such a classification scheme implies—there are interesting overlaps and resonances between the two approaches—it's nonetheless instructive to consider the differences they reveal.
The former writer, far better known and more widely appreciated, is most clearly exemplified by Ishiguro's most popular novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), which beautifully tells the story of the controlled emotional life of a head servant in an English country house as World War II approaches. That Ishiguro is also on display in An Artist of the Floating World (1986), which focuses on a guilt-ridden Japanese artist in the years after the war. Both these novels slowly reveal a meticulously calibrated consciousness, with which Ishiguro always plays a double game, here and there letting us perceive just a bit more about the narrators' feelings and lives than they are willing to acknowledge even to themselves; the meaning of a whole novel can turn on a word, an endearment, a phrase accidentally let slip that reveals far more than the narrator intended, or perhaps even understood.
Looking back, we can see that the second, more unpredictable Ishiguro has also been present in some form from the start of his career: his debut novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), which is told by a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing, subtly works against its realistic surface until by the end our faith in the narrator has been completely undermined—while our sympathy, and our even our pity, has only grown. But it wasn't until The Unconsoled (1995), a frustrating, flawed, but remarkably compelling doorstop of a novel, that we saw what this other Ishiguro was really capable of: where his previous novels had been masterpieces of concision and clarity, The Unconsoled is, intentionally, a rambling mess, a relentlessly repetitive journey through one of one of those nightmares where we're constantly nagged by a sense of important tasks left undone. As an amnesiac pianist named Ryder wanders through a nameless Central European city, unsure about his relationship to the people he meets, let alone the obligations he's taken on, Ishiguro forces us again and again to confront Ryder's lack of understanding and his—and thus our—impotence in the face of a rebarbative and mysterious world.
The Unconsoled was published near the end of my undergraduate years, and a favorite professor and I discussed it at length. (She said, only half joking, that she washed her hair a dozen times in the course of reading it: overwhelmed again and again, that was the only way she could clear her head enough to allow her to return to Ishiguro's world. The novel does have that sort of effect.) Neither of us was entirely sure what Ishiguro was trying to do with the book, but nevertheless we were impressed, even astonished, by this unexpected change in his writing—and we both wondered, worried, even, where he might go from there. Not to make too great a claim for the book, but like Finnegans Wake it seemed to represent an end rather than a beginning, a playing out of an ultimately sterile—if fascinating—logic. To move forward as a writer, Ishiguro would have to figure out a way to reconcile this more complicated, experimental style with his earlier, more obviously controlled writing—to do otherwise would risk incomprehensibility on the one hand, stasis on the other.
And with his next novel, it seemed that he understood that: for much of its length When We Were Orphans (2000) appears to be at least somewhat in the vein of Ishiguro's more realistic fiction. If his narrator—a self-described famous detective in 1930s England who is haunted by the loss of his parents years ago in war-torn China—is perhaps a bit more obviously damaged and unreliable than earlier characters, the trappings of the mystery genre with which Ishiguro dresses the story succeed brilliantly in distracting the reader enough that we don't realize how far gone the narrator is until he returns to China and his fragile psyche collapses, taking every hint of external reality with it. It's a dramatic and unsettling novel, but it's also unsatisfying: its two halves, rather than being united by the disintegrating consciousness of the narrator, remain in an awkward tension that ultimately spirals out of control, and the expectations raised by the realistic beginning are neither fully realized nor fully confounded.
It's perhaps understandable that Ishiguro followed When We Were Orphans with his most conventional novel since The Remains of the Day. Never Let Me Go (2005), despite some sci-fi trappings (and even a brief descent into memorable gothic imagery near the end) remains essentially a realistic novel, focused on the stunted emotional understanding of a young woman who slowly discovers the reasons she is condemned to second-class citizenship. In its close tracking of the narrator's efforts to construct a self that can fit into the limited place the world is willing to allow her, the novel harks back to the precision and clarity of Ishiguro's first novels, and it was extremely well received, being named, for example, by Time magazine as one of the hundred best novels published since the founding of the magazine. But as someone who still sees in The Unconsoled a breathtaking expansion of Ishiguro's powers, I couldn't help but be disappointed at its failure to break out of its self-imposed form; it may be churlish to be frustrated by a well-made book by a smart, talented writer simply because he's already shown a mastery of this approach, but that's what I felt, and it's what I still feel four years later when I return to the book.
All of which makes Ishiguro's newest book, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, particularly interesting. A collection of short stories by an established novelist can't help but feel like a stopgap—or at best a transitional volume, something to keep a writer's name in front of readers in the years between major works. But in the case of Ishiguro, who works slowly, the book can't help but take on more importance: despite the fact that he's been publishing for nearly thirty years, his output remains relatively slim, so any additions to his oeuvre are worth attending to.
Befitting that importance, Nocturnes feels not so much transitional as oppositional, a working out of Ishiguro's two narrative approaches in shorter form. Ishiguro has explained that its five stories—all of which feature music or musicians in prominent roles—were conceived as a single, multi-part work; what's fascinating about that is that from story to story Ishiguro moves between his realist mode and his more subjective, even fantastic approach—and, in the stories "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Nocturne," for the first time he successfully marries the two. As we've come to expect from Ishiguro, all five stories are first-person accounts, tightly constrained by the consciousness and perceptions of their narrators. Characters recur, and the narrative voice, even as its owner changes, retains a certain casual, colloquial, even awkward tone that will be familiar to readers of Never Let Me Go while the voice differs less than one might expect from story to story, its mimicry of the patterns and habits of thought remains convincing within each story nonetheless.
Despite—or perhaps in a reflection of—the tension inherent in Ishiguro's exploration of his two modes, the structure of the book feels carefully planned, with stories gaining in resonance from the way they seem to comment on their neighbors, as well as by their place in the overall order. The stories that bookend the volume, told by a jobbing guitarist in Venice, are straightforward and beautiful, pitting the promise of music (and thus art in general) against the disappointments and compromises of daily life. Unusually for Ishiguro, they are mostly about people other than the narrator, who for the most part watches others and attempts to figure out their motivations. The resulting stories are closer to Henry James or Edith Wharton than anything Ishiguro's written since The Remains of the Day; ignore the colloquial tone of this opening passage from "Crooner" and see if it doesn't read like a set-up for a classic story from an age less skeptical of realist technique:
The morning I spotted Tony Gardner sitting among the tourists, spring was just arriving here in Venice. We'd completed our first full week outside in the piazza—a relief, let me tell you, after all those stuffy hours performing from the back of the cafe getting in the way of customers wanting to use the staircase. There was quite a breeze that morning, and our brand-new marquee was flapping all around us, but we were all feeling a little bit brighter and fresher, and I guess it showed in our music.
Those two stories are clear and straightforward, throwing into relief Ishiguro's recurrent concern with our ability to deny our deepest feelings to ourselves, as well as, in the latter, the question of how to define and value creativity and artistry—and how they then define us as people—propositions that Ishiguro addressed explicitly in Never Let Me Go. The first time I read them, I thought them too simple, even half-formed, but the second time through they were powerful and convincing, "Crooner" even unexpectedly moving.
The middle story, "Malvern Hills," is also entirely in a realist mode: a self-involved young singer-songwriter moves in with his sister for the summer, grudgingly working in her cafe in exchange for room and board. Despite some nice evocations of the beauty of the tourist-beset hills, it's a more awkward story than "Crooner" or "The Cellists," focusing more on the occasional eruptions of underlying resentment and misapprehension that we've seen before from Ishiguro's characters, and while the narrator's conflicts with his sister and brother-in-law are convincing, his casual encounters with a couple of Swiss tourists feel half-formed, and the story only half resolves, like a song that doesn't end on the tonic.
Which leaves us the second and fourth stories, "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Nocturne," the most exciting in the collection, and the most exciting stories I've read this year. Both begin firmly in a realist mode, with clearly flawed narrators spinning somewhat self-justifying accounts of their lives leading up to the events of their stories—but before too long, both veer into truly strange territory. Strictly speaking, "Nocturnes"—which ultimately sees a jazz saxophonist who's undergone plastic surgery for the sake of his career sneaking around a deserted hotel in the middle of the night with a flighty female celebrity, both their heads swathed in bandages—manages to marry the strange and the quotidian the best: it shifts from realist to fabulous (and creepy) and back remarkably smoothly, the modes succeeding in commenting on each other—and their relationship to outside reality—in a way that Ishiguro has never managed before.
That said, it's "Come Rain or Come Shine" that is the true standout. For the first twenty of its fifty pages, it, too, seems like an ordinary, straightforward story: the narrator, an itinerant teacher of English who is clearly too old to still be living such a rootless, hand-to-mouth existence, goes to stay with old friends from college. Though there are indications that, as so often in Ishiguro's work, the narrator is living in the past to an unhealthy degree, refusing to acknowledge the changes that time has wrought, when we learn that he has been invited as part of a misguided, even cruel attempt to patch up his friends' disintegrating marriage, we think we understand the rough pattern the story is likely to take—which makes it all the more surprising when Ishiguro instead plunges into the truly strange. The surprises in the story are a substantial part of its pleasures, so the less said the better, but the deftness with which Ishiguro moves from the world of ordinary human motivations to pathology and comic—yet troubling—absurdity is stunning, as is the resolution of the story, which is unexpectedly calm, kind, and even generous.
An author who can keep you reading—and keep you anticipating his every new work—despite frustrations and disappointments is a rare and satisfying artist. I've not regretted any of the time I've spent reading Ishiguro's work; even the novels that aren't fully satisfying offer much to admire and think about. That makes it all the more exciting to read this collection—and especially those two crucial stories—and get the impression that Ishiguro has made peace with his warring tendencies, and that he finally may see the difficult but rewarding way forward.
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Here's what dealers will find in new HTiB systems at CES:
Audiovox: At least two HTiB systems will be unveiled. They are the $149-suggested DV1201 200-watt DVD-equipped system and the $199 DV1600 350-watt system with digital amplification. Additional details were unavailable.
Infinity: The company's first complete home theater audio package, the $1,099-suggested TAS-1000 Total Audio Solutions system, combines the company's TSS-750 5.1-channel speaker system with a high-performance DVD-receiver. It's due in the spring through distribution channels that will be "slightly broader" than the company's existing channels, which consist of specialty dealers and a single national chain, Circuit City, said sales and marketing VP Eli Harary.
With that distribution in mind, the company will offer a modular active display that can be placed on a gondola or used as part of an end-cap display. It will feature surround speakers suspended from two arms to surround a consumer with speakers, and a 15-inch LCD monitor.
The speaker system includes four two-way satellites, a dedicated center channel and a powered subwoofer employing a 10-inch, side-firing Metal Matrix Diaphragm (MMD) woofer and built-in 150-watt amplifier. The satellites feature a 3.5-inch MMD woofer with 0.75-inch MMD tweeter, and the center features dual 3.5-inch MMD woofers flanking a 0.75-inch MMD tweeter.
The DVD-receiver delivers 5x50-watt output, and incorporates a premium DSP processor and D/A converters to provide high-resolution, dynamic multichannel sound with an expansive, 360-degree soundfield. It is compatible with all popular 5.1-channel surround sound formats such as Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 formats, and includes comprehensive sound tailoring and bass management facilities.
The TAS-1000 ships in the spring.
JBL: The company returns to the video display market with an HTiB system bundled with a 50-inch plasma TV. The Cinema Vision system includes a DVD receiver and speakers at a suggested $15,000, including dealer delivery and setup.
It ships in the spring with an A/V receiver with integrated magazine-type DVD-Audio/Video changer, digital 7x100-watt amplification, wall-mountable speakers that complement the monitor's styling, 10-inch 200-watt subwoofer, and proprietary digital-video connection between the monitor and the DVD-receiver. The receiver incorporates Dolby Pro Logic IIx and Harman Logic 7 surround processing.
JVC: The company is launching its first two HTiBs with Dolby Digital EX and DTS ES, one of which is also JVC's first HTiB with DVD-recorder. That system includes DVD-RAM recording. The other features DVD-Audio/Video player. Both feature separate receivers and separate DVD.
In other introductions, DVD-Audio will turn up for the first time in one microsystem and two minisystems, each sporting two speakers. They mix down multichannel DVD-Audio to two channels but use proprietary 3D Phonic processing to replicate a 5.1-channel soundfield. Other DSP models include dance club, hall, and stadium. They will also be the company's first shelf systems with DVD-Video.
KEF: The speaker maker will launch its first HTiB system, which features a 2.1-channel speaker system that delivers a 5.1-channel soundfield. The KIT100, due in the first quarter at around $1,500, features a DVD-tuner, outboard subwoofer with all system amplification, KEF Uni-Q PointSource L-R speakers, and NXT-developed flat-panel drivers behind the two main speakers to deliver the virtual surround channels. The single-disc DVD-tuner plays MP3 CDs, and the tuner features RDS.
Klipsch: The first HTiB system to be announced with pending THX certification is Klipsch's $4,000-suggested KES-6100, due in May with single-disc universal DVD player and video transcoder, which upconverts all video inputs to component output and downconverts component output to S and composite.
Although the system will downconvert component video, it will only downconvert standard-definition (SD) component outputs from such sources as SD digital cable boxes and DVD players. The HTiB, in turn, would connect to the S-video and composite inputs of such devices as VCRs, PVRs, and DVD-recorders.
It also features Faroudja DCDi processing to upconvert video to 1,080i.
Thanks to wideband high-definition (HD) video switching, consumers need only use a single component video cable from the HTiB to route all SD and HD video sources to an HD display, the company said.
The system's other features include second-zone output, THX Surround EX, DTS ES, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Neo:6, learning remote, and second-zone IR remote.
Panasonic: In the 2004 lineup, the main changes include upgraded cosmetics to integrate better with Panasonic's flat-panel video displays and improved ease of use, achieved in part by adopting larger displays and incorporating direct-access buttons to select a DVD changer's discs. Cosmetic changes include speakers with metal-mesh grilles instead of cloth grilles. The speakers will continue to be silver.
All models feature DVD-Audio/Video player.
A $249 DVD microsystem, like its predecessor, features two speakers and virtual 5.1-channel surround technology for use in secondary rooms. It ships in May. The opening-price DVD-A/V HTiB, the HT670, won't be displayed but will ship in May at $299 to replace an existing $299 DVD-A/V system.
The $349 slim-chassis HT-720 ships in April, and the $399 HT820V with DVD/VCR combi player ships in May. The $499 slim-chassis HT920 ships in May with thin Tall Boy tower speakers that can be mounted on the wall or on chrome poles that adjust speaker height to match the height of a video display.
The current HT1000 with DVD-receiver/RAM recorder and multichannel DVD-Audio playback will continue at $999 MAP with Tall Boy tower speakers.
RCA: The RTD500 HDD-equipped Home Theater Music Jukebox is a less expensive version of the current $699-suggested RTD750 but offers additional features. It's due in June at a suggested $449 if the company goes with a 20GB HDD, the same capacity as the current system.
Both systems make it possible to transfer ripped songs to Lyra portables via a front-panel USB port.
Upgrades will include five-disc DVD-receiver instead of single-disc receiver, jpeg picture viewing, progressive-scan output, and two embedded databases: the GraceNote database of album and song titles and the Loudeye database of more than 250,000 album covers. The embedded databases provide instant disc recognition. The current system taps into the on-line versions of the databases.
Database updates can be downloaded for free via PC, then burned to disc. The disc can be inserted into the HTiB to transfer the updates to the HTiB's firmware. Consumers can also opt to buy a disc burned with the database from RCA.
The new model lacks the Internet radio and home-PNA home-network capabilities of the 750. It wasn't certain whether the 750 would be carried over.
Sherwood: The $349-suggested HTS-6500 consists of a 5x100-watt receiver, five speakers, and a powered subwoofer. The receiver incorporates Dolby Digital, DTS, and Dolby Pro Logic II decoding as well as Dolby Virtual Speaker, which delivers a 5.1-channel soundfield from the main left-right speakers. It also features six-channel direct input for connection to DVD-Audio and SACD players.
The HTS-6500 does not come with a DVD player. "The major retailers we talk to tell us that there are 20-odd million DVD players in the U.S. that are not being used with 5.1-channel receivers," said Sherwood VP Jeff Hipps. " The 6500 is aimed squarely at that group. They have the DVD, now let's see if we can't get them into component-quality 5.1."
The system's two-way satellite speakers feature a 1-inch dome tweeter and 40-inch woofer. The center-channel features D'Appolitto-array drivers. The powered sub features an 8-inch driver and 100-watt amplification.


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Representing an important achievement in the renewable energy industry, solar energy is now said to be the cheapest form of electricity generation in Chile, while solar and wind are both more inexpensive than fossil fuels.
In an industry note, Deutsche Bank writes that in the countrys last tender round, held on October 23, renewables were awarded 100% of the contracts to supply 1,200 GWh of energy to Chiles unregulated customers (i.e. those with a demand for capacity of more than 2 MW). Compared to coal power, which offered up rates of US$85/MWh for electricity generation, three solar PV farms offered between $65 and $68/MWh, while a CSP plus storage project offered rates of $97/MWh.
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Coventry City had to settle for a point against Brentford at the Ricoh Arena after Carl Baker's first half penalty was cancelled out by Harry Forrester's second half leveller.
Baker gave the Sky Blues the advantage with a cool penalty on the stroke of half time but Forrester was just as calm a minute after half time to level up for the visitors.
City boss Steven Pressley rang four changes to the side that lost 4-0 at Walsall on Easter Monday, bringing back Richard Wood after his recovery from a though injury along with Steven Jennings while also handing full league debuts to Callum Wilson and 17-year-old Ryan Haynes.
Although there was plenty of pace and commitment in the opening stages of the game, it took until the 17th minute before a genuine opportunity was carved out and it came for the visitors as Adam Forshaw got to the byline with a bouncing ball that he firing into the ground, looping the ball up over Joe Murphy who could only palm into the path of the waiting Harry Forrester who completely missed the ball with his diving header from ten yards.
Baker fashioned City's first effort at goal after 21 minutes when he collected a short ball in the box from James Bailey and tried to beat his defender before pulling his effort over the bar from 15 yards.
The game burst into life for the Sky Blues two minutes later though when they had three efforts cleared off the line in a matter of seconds, first when a flicked effort from Wilson was stabbed off the line Tony Craig.
Franck Moussa volleyed the loose ball back over the six-yard box where Wilson's header beat 'keeper Simon Moore but not Harlee Dean who scooped the ball away and then Craig was the hero for the Bess again when Steven Jennings' follow-up volley was headed out of the goalmouth.
Brentford then gave the City back four a scare after 33 minutes when a ball over the top down the left from Forrester found Clayton Donaldson who got round Aaron Martin and lifted a ball over Joe Murphy only to see it drift inches wide.
No sooner had the danger passed, the visitors went close again when lofted cross from Forshaw found Jonathan Douglas who headed wide from six yards.
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That momentum continued for City to the point where they took the lead a minutes before the break courtesy of Baker's spot-kick.
A lofted freekick from the right from Cyrus Christie searched out Richard Wood who was hauled down in the area by Harlee Dean, the referee pointing to the spot to allow Baker to step up and notch his 15th goal of the season.
The lead did not last long after the break though as Brentford were level just a minute after the restart.
Donaldson muscled Wood off the ball down the right flank and cut a ball across the City area for the waiting Forrester who applied a calm finish past Murphy to level the score.
The Sky Blues almost got themselves back in front after 51 minutes though when an ambitious 25-yard effort from John Fleck seemed to make for a routine save for Moore only for him to misjudged the bounce of the ball as it bounced off his face and almost into the path of Wilson as it was poked behind.
Moore was required again eight minutes after the hour, this time to stop Baker's free-kick effort from just outside the corner of the Bees' area, Baker curling a low one aimed inside the foot of the near post only for Moore to be equal to it, the last notable effort of a comparatively quiet second half.
Attendance: 10,642 (1,649 away)
Coventry City: Murphy (GK), Christie, Wood, Martin, Haynes, Baker (c), Moussa (McDonald 73), Jennings, Fleck, Bailey (Bell 64), Wilson.
Subs: Dunn (GK), J. Clarke, Thomas, Ball, Edjenguele.
Brentford: Moore (GK), Forshaw, Craig, Dean, Douglas (c), Donaldson, Adeyemi, Hodson (Wright-Phillips 71), Logan, Forrester (Saunders 78), Bidwell.
Subs: Gounet (GK), O'Connor, Trotta, Diagouraga, Reeves.
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