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Goods Home
I have recently released the webshop Goods Home. As stated in the previous post, this webshop sells furniture and home products to the private sector. We have suppliers like Pedrali and Calligaris, which are really prestigious Italien furniture producers, usually seen at the Milano fair. Other suppliers inlclude Rydéns, Bellalite, Dualit, Global, Merx, and our very own Goods Collection. I am really proud to be such a big part of this new project. I hope it goes well and gets off it's feet soon.
I have recently been trying out some SEO techniques such as link exchange, hoping this will produce some more traffic. Below you will see a screen dump of the site, click on the link to view the website personally.


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It's almost time for the 2013 WitOut Awards for Philadelphia Comedy! As we get closer to the show, we'll be rolling out a series of posts to help you get more acquainted with this year's nominees. Read all about 'em, and then be sure to get your tickets for the big event on January 13th at World Cafe Live!
The nominees for Best New Act are:
A mix of improv veterans and fresh faces, Philly Improv Theater House Team Davenger likes its improv lean and gamey. Performing the classic Harold format, they attack the stage with emotion, intellect, and a strong sense of mischief.
Maggy Keegan
Dan Corkery
Hilary Kissinger
Nicholas Mirra
Alex Newman
Cait O'Driscoll
Kevin Pettit
Jessica Snow
Max Sittenfield
Brian Rumble
Hot Dish
Hot Dish features well-seasoned performers eager to satisfy audiences who hunger for funny, intelligent, ensemble-based improv comedy. Sometimes spicy, sometimes rich and indulgent, always comedically delicious.
Steve Kleinedler
Chris Calletta
Corin Wells
Emily Davis
Jim Burns
Martha Cooney
Maureen Costello
Sue Jahani
Gathering talent from the improv, sketch, stand-up and theater worlds, The Flat Earth debuted in 2012 as Philly Improv Theater's first house sketch team. Their sketch revue show had a five-night run at the Philly Fringe Festival, a two-night encore at the Shubin Theater, and received great praise from audience members they asked in the lobby afterwards.
Director: Paul Triggiani
Head Writer: Steve Swan
Vincent DiCostanzo
Luke Field
Sean Landis
Jess Ross
Matt Schmid
Adam Siry
Jacqueline Baker
Jim Grammond
Brent Knobloch
Rich Lee
Jess Ross
Molly Silverman
Harry Watermeier
American Breakfast debuted at Sketch Up or Shut Up in February 2012. Between then and now, they performed irregularly at the Theme Show and were invited to perform at ManiParty, at Camp Woods Plus and at the Shubin Theater. The name reflects their love of this country and its morning-specific food items. They are Sean Landis, Eric Steele, Peter Rambo and Nora Redman.
Peter Rambo
Sean Landis
Eric Steele
Nora Redman
Daring Daulton is a sketch duo who have been performing in Philadelphia since March of 2012. Both members have a background in film and screenwriting, drawing influences from filmmakers like the Coen brothers, PT Anderson and sketch shows like the Kids in the Hall and Mr. Show. As such, Daring Daulton's largely character-driven sketches can best be identified by their dark subject matter, absurdist elements and meticulous dialogue.
Trevor Cunnion
Joe Paolucci

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Preservation Boards
Review Board Quick Link
2014 Review Board Meetings
All meetings are at Indiana Government Center, 302 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis. All meetings start at 1:30 PM.
- Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - Conference Room 1 & 2
Certificate of Approval deadline: December 13, 2013, 4:45 pm
- Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - Conference Room A
Certificate of Approval deadline: March 14, 2014, 4:45 pm
- Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - Conference Room A
Certificate of Approval deadline: June 13, 2014, 4:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - Conference Room A
Certificate of Approval deadline: September 12, 2014, 4:45 pm
Members of the Indiana
Historic Preservation Review Board
The DHPA staff provides administrative and logistical support for the activities of the Historic Preservation Review Board. This board has responsibility for issues concerning the state's historic and cultural resources.
Historic Preservation Review Board
The Indiana Historic Preservation Review Board is the committee that makes decisions on a number of preservation-related issues and provides public oversight to the programmatic and regulatory activities of the DHPA. For example, the Board officially nominates Indiana properties to the National Register of Historic Places. Once the Board approves an application and it is signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer, it is a "nomination" that can be sent to Washington to be considered by the Keeper of the Register. The Board also approves funding recommendations for the federal matching grant program, and considers applications for certificates of approval for state-funded projects that will alter, demolish, or remove historic properties.
The Board members are appointed by the governor for three-year terms. Five members are appointed for their expertise in either archaeology, architecture, architectural history, or history. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources, Indiana's SHPO, serves as the Board's Chair. The Board also includes and benefits from the DHPA division director and three citizen members whose interest and activities in historic preservation have gained recognition.
Members Include:
Cameron F. Clark, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Indiana's State Historic Preservation Officer, serves as the chairman of the Review Board. He was appointed as the director of the DNR by Gov. Pence in 2013 after two years as DNR's chief legal counsel. He has a law degree from Indiana University and an undergraduate degree in economics from Vanderbilt.
Jim Corridan is Indiana State Archivist, Director of the Indiana Archives and Records Administration (IARA), and Deputy State Librarian focusing on statewide services and outreach. Previously, Jim was president of The Corridan Group, a management consulting firm, and served as executive vice president of the Sigma Pi Educational Foundation. While living in Vincennes, he served on the executive committee of the Vincennes/Knox Preservation Foundation and on the committees that successfully restored the Hack & Simon office building and the Dale House, both in Vincennes. Jim is the president-elect of the Council of State Archivists, and chairs the Council's State Electronic Records Initiative.
Daniel Kloc is a 1987 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Architecture degree, and has been a resident of the Indianapolis area for 23 years where he has participated in numerous professional and community activities. Daniel is currently a Facility Architect with St. Vincent Health in Indianapolis, serving 19 health care ministries throughout the state of Indiana. Daniel is a past-president and current member of the American Institute of Architects Indianapolis Chapter, and a member of both the American Society for Healthcare Engineering and the Indiana Society for Healthcare Engineering.
Joshua D. Palmer AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, is the principal/owner for Myszak + Palmer. Prior to joining Myszak + Palmer, Joshua was a design team leader with Gresham, Smith and Partners (Nashville, Tennessee) with the area of expertise of healthcare and corporate architecture. Upon joining Myszak+Palmer, he broadened his areas of expertise to educational, corporate, municipal, financial, religious, and historic renovation projects. Joshua received his degree in architecture from the College of Architecture & Design, University of Tennessee.
Beth McCord is the Indiana Branch Manager and a Principal Investigator in archaeology for Gray & Pape, Inc. in Indianapolis. She received an MA in Anthropology from Ball State University in 1994. During her career, Ms. McCord has received many federal and state grants, authored published articles and technical reports and presented her research to a variety of audiences. Her research interests include Midwestern prehistory, Woodland settlement, Early and Middle Woodland earthworks and ceramics. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Indiana Archaeology Council.


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I'm Dan, I'm 28 and from Southampton, UK.
I'm literally just starting out in Java. Not sure where it will lead me, but one of my goals lies in Android app development.
I've just done the "Hello World" programme, so this kind of gives you a view of where I'm at!! lol
Be kind and understanding of any idiotic questions I may ask.


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When the fresh matsutake mushrooms arrived at the Forbes Wild Foods office in Toronto, Meaghan Lynch rushed to open the box. The valuable pine mushroom, loved by manybut particularly by the Japanese, who will pay more than $100 for a good onehad been harvested in northern Quebec for the first time.
Inside were the most beautiful specimens she'd ever seen. "Perfectly clean, soft, no bruising. They weren't soggy," Lynch said. "I opened them and said, 'Look at these.'" And the smell? "Sweet."
Lynch then called the chefs who were waiting for news of the matsutakes' arrival and promptly sold out of the more than ten kilos she received that first day.
The matsutake is just one of many hard-to-find products harvested from the Canadian wilderness and sold by Forbes Wild Foods. Founded by Jonathan Forbes, the business started back in the late 1990s when Forbes realized that no one knew what he was talking about when he told them of the chokecherries he'd picked or the beechnuts he was eating. "If you asked people what are Canadian wild foods, you'd be lucky to get more than wild rice, maple syrup, and blueberries," he said.
Nowadays, Forbes also sells pawpaws and wild leeks, both indigenous to southern Ontario. These are scarce (pawpaws more so than leeks) because human development has taken over their native habitat. But Forbes also sells foods that Canadians simply have forgotten how to eat, like woodland lobster mushrooms that really do taste like their marine namesake and that the Ojibwe used to pick. Saskatoon berries whose bushes cover vast swaths of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Cattail hearts and shoots that grow wild in wetlands and marshes across the country.
By bringing these foods out of the wilderness, Forbes is offering a different view of the Canadian backwoods. He's reminding us that the wild has an intrinsic valuethat it is an ecosystem and a place to find delicious food, not just a great expanse of nothingness.
Forbes was raised a forager. His mother, a nurse, was happiest when eating a plate of wild mushrooms she'd found in the woods. They would go out together and harvest wild ginger that they would candy, or pick chokecherries to make wine. The family lived at the eastern edge of Toronto in the 1950s, not too far from farmland and the shore of Lake Ontario, where he could collect wild raspberries or catch smelt on the beaches. When his family bought a farm where they'd head for long periods, his knowledge of the foods in the wilderness grew even more.
Then Toronto's urban growth replaced wild habitat with 1960s housing developments and suburban strip malls. The waters where he used to catch smelt became too polluted to fish in. The foods were lost. "It wasn't 'til years later that I realized how divorced from the land people are that they don't know what you can do with it," he said.
When Forbes started the company, he had to teach his clientele, which included chefs, what to do with the novel ingredients. So he introduced them to products like birch syrup, made by boiling the sap of the paper birch, and today many restaurants use the syrup for desserts and drinks as well as in savory dishes. The public likes his foods too. He sells his products at farmers' markets and also to buyers in Germany and the United States.
Now his interest in developing a wild foods industry in Canada has gone beyond his own business. Forbes traveled north to pick the matsutake mushrooms as part of a trip to research the feasibility of an annual First Nations mushroom harvest in northern Ontario and Quebec, near James Bay. For six weeks, he lived in the jack pine forest, training locals to identify mushrooms in the hope that they can turn the wild foods around them into economic opportunity.
While he'd heard rumors that the mushroom grew in the area, no one knew for sure. But they were right. During his stay, the group harvested a whopping 700 kilograms of matsutakes, which is not easy because the mushroom must be picked with care. The stem is wiggled out of the earth while the picker brushes away sand and ash to keep the mushroom's gills free of detritus. The matsutakes were either sent by air to Montreal, from which they were bussed to Forbes's headquarters in Toronto, or dried in a contraption the foragers rigged themselves and then bagged to be sold later.
The matsutake might not replace the cremini at the supermarket any time soon, but thanks to Forbes, Canadian wild foods are slowly moving into the spotlight.
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While the debate and the mystery regarding a possible bailout of China's solar giant Suntech is still going on, the latest news is that the founder and the CEO of Suntech reportedly face legal actions from the China government! According to reports from China Daily, The Australian, and the Sydney Morning Herald, the founder, Shi Zhengrong, and CEO, David King, have been prevented from leaving China. But Shi is an Australian citizen. Therefore, according to the report from the Sydney Morning Herald, a spokesperson from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian government said Shi has not been barred from leaving China.
China Daily added that earlier media reports have claimed the Suntech founder has been doing suspicious transactions such as having Suntech procure solar materials from a polysilicon firm under his name.
The reports about the travel ban come after Suntech's announcements regarding its China-based subsidiary, Wuxi Suntech, entering into insolvency and restructuring due to a petition filed by eight China-based banks. The local court in Wuxi, China, where Suntech is headquartered, accepted the petition on March 21.
Despite the possibility of legal actions against its top executives, the China government is likely to bail out the solar giant. It is too big to fail. Suntech is a solar module maker that partners with solar cell, wafer, and polysilicon firms around the world. The livelihood of many depends on Suntech, not to mention international investors. Suntech is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but the firm is registered in the Caymen Islands while its assets are in China, said a report from Reuters. In addition, Suntech employs around 200,000 people around the world.
Wuxi Guolian, a holding company owned by the Wuxi government, is reportedly THE ONE that is most likely to take over Suntech. However, oddly, Reuters reported that a spokesperson from the government-owned firm said he had no information on any plans regarding a bailout for Suntech. The report continued with the person stating that if there is any news regarding the restructuring of Suntech, it will be released through Wuxi Guolian. So, is there a bailout for the solar giant? Who knows.
The relationships between the local businesses and the government in China often take place behind closed doors, or through "back doors." International investors are probably not the top priority for the China government; the local banks are. According to China-based media Xinhua, Suntech owed nine China-based banks up to CNY7.1 billion (US$1.14 billion) as of the end of February. Maybe after the bailout by Wuxi Guolian, Suntech will be able to return to production and gradually pay off its debts. But there is also a possibility that the firm will not get the bailout and collapse, possibly causing unemployment and social unrest in China. But, on the bright side, if the China government refuses to bail out Suntech, it might gain a bargaining chip to ask Europe to abolish its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-based firms. So who knows? The fate of Suntech may change the fate of a lot of people.


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Wet and cold weather has put corn back near the highs again. May corn finished 25 ¼ cents higher at $7.62 ½, May beans finished 9 cents higher at $13.89 ½, and May wheat finished 26 ½ cents higher at $8.26.
The market is still watching the forecast and planting progress reports very closely for direction. Just like last week, when the extended forecast improves we could see a quick drop from profit taking. Currently we are at 9 percent planted for corn and 6 percent planted in spring wheat. The average estimate for corn's planting progress was at 13% so the market may view this as favorable on tonight's session since we came in below expectations. The 5 year average planting pace for corn at this time is 23 percent and 25 percent for spring wheat.
The winter wheat crop condition has continued to come in poorly. This week the very poor category gained 2 percent taking away from average/good. The KC contract was up 26 ½ cents today. May KC Wheat has now rallied a dollar since April 15th and continued crop deterioration has fueled the fire.
Tuesday morning at 7:30am Stats Canada will release their planted acreage report. The expectations are to see an increase in overall acreage from last year.
For now we will be watching the forecast for any major changes. I wouldn't be surprised to see more upside potential until the weather turns. The Fed is hosting a news conference on Wednesday afternoon and may create some volatility in the outside markets. This is something to watch but weather will still be the most likely market mover.
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The following is an announcement from Library and Archives Canada:
Ottawa, December 9, 2010 — Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the launch of a new online database, "Medals, Honours and Awards".
Through this online database, researchers can access more than 113,000 references to medal registers, citation cards and records of various military awards. In addition to archival references, this research tool includes digitized images of some medal registers.
The database is available at:
Thursday, 9 December 2010
LAC adds "Medals, Honours and Awards" database
The following is an announcement from Library and Archives Canada:
2 comments:
"records of various military awards." Does not "military" include navy and air force? This database appears to contain only army data. If this is all that LAC has, can it make this clear, and also provide links to the rest of the military data about Medals, Honours and Awards.
- 10 December, 2010 10:18
Further to my comment of 10 December, 2010:
On the page linked to by this post, click 'Search Help'. (There are two of these, one in the text and another at the left of the text. Use either one.)
In the resulting page at the end of the first section on records see this:
"With a few rare exceptions, the Citation Cards relate only to the Canadian Army. For the Air Force and Navy, consult the links at the end of this page under Other Resources."
'Other Resources' is itself a link which leads to a list of links, two of which are for the Air Force, and the Navy.
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Marinated with homemade Jimbaran beach sauce from Bali Island recipe. Skewered & grilled. Served with vegetables and kerupuk udang ( shrimp cracker)
Madura Island Chicken Sate ( 4-5 ) $18.50
A rich moist chocolate cake baked with bourbon and kahlua. Topped with whipped cream and drizzled with kahlua and sprinkled with chocolate shavings.
And were we glad we did. Amazing - the best chocolate cake I've ever had in a restaurant! I shared it with John and wish I hadn't!!! :-)
So - my recommendation - head to the Hideaway for dinner and then jaunt down to Gajah and have some cake on the patio - you won't be sorry!
I have to also say - it wasn't cheap - I mean - we each spent about $35 on dinner...
My rating? The meal gets 2 stars and the cake gets 4!!!!


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Survey: Automotive Engineers See Stronger Regulations on the Horizon
Carole Davies248-583-8112E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Survey: Automotive Engineers See Stronger Regulations on the Horizon
DuPont Emphasizes Materials-Based Science Solutions to Help Conserve Fuel, Lower Emissions
TROY, Mich., Aug. 7, 2013 – With automotive regulations governing fuel economy and CO2 emissions being discussed in Europe and the United States, nearly half of automotive engineers predict those regulations will strengthen, according to a WardsAuto and DuPont survey conducted in late July. Only 8 percent predict regulations will relax, primarily due to economic and cost issues, and one-fourth expect no change, the results show. (See chart "Automotive Engineers Predict Regulation Review Will Strengthen Fuel Economy, CO2 Emission Regulations".)
The survey results also show the value for lightweighting vehicles to help meet targets is increasing, and that every system in the vehicle is a candidate for reduced mass. (See chart "Automotive Lightweighting Continues to Grow in Value".)
"Fuel and emission standards throughout the world are driving significant changes in vehicle design," said DuPont Performance Polymers President Diane H. Gulyas. "There are multiple solutions simultaneously getting into the market and the industry must continue to work in harmony to develop low emission, fuel-efficient vehicles that consumers want to drive."
Now in its third year, the annual survey with WardsAuto was conducted as the European Union delayed a vote to adopt stringent 2020 emission regulations. This uncertainty, coupled with the mid-term evaluation process built into the 2017-2025 U.S. regulations, stimulated a survey asking subscribers to weigh in on the outcome and whether their companies are reacting to uncertainties. More than 1,300 subscribers to leading industry publication WardsAuto responded to the survey (see PDF file "WardsAuto World Industry Study Report (2013)"). Forty three percent say there are no changes, 36 percent say there are some or many changes in the development pipeline (see chart "Regulation Reviews Have Impacted Some Current Vehicle Programs").
While last year's respondents gave aluminum a slight edge over plastics and composites as the material that can best help them meet regulations, respondents today are looking at all materials in the portfolio (see chart "Automotive Engineers See All Materials Helping Meet Fuel Economy Requirements").
In 2011 surveys with the Society of Automotive Engineers and WardsAuto the automotive engineering community revealed that materials are critical to a product's success, yet most said they were not confident that today's materials portfolio would help them meet CAFÉ regulations.
"We've seen a variety of materials-based solutions introduced in the past couple years," said Mike Day, DuPont Automotive Performance Polymers development director in North America. "And development activity with the automakers is intensifying, especially related to new composite and multi-material solutions that deliver the strength and stiffness needed for performance and safety."
Last month DuPont highlighted a developmental composite technology called DuPont™ Vizilon® in a PSA Peugeot Citroen side-impact door beam. This developmental thermoplastic composite technology showed a 40 percent weight reduction compared to ultra-high strength (UHHS) steel and absorbed more energy than metal and short glass-fibre polymer beams to pass the PSA Peugeot Citroën's crash test.
"Speed is critical," said Day "but not at the expense of performance and safety. We believe that close collaboration on these new technologies is more important than ever before. Each of us brings to the table a deep knowledge and different perspective. The synergy experienced when we converge is the catalyst that sparks the breakthrough."
Diverse Technologies Fuel Automotive Efforts
Lightweighting is core to meeting new standards and one that is growing in value, according to more than 60 percent of respondents. Further, when asked which systems are the most likely targets – all ranked relatively equally. "The results reflect that every system, every component throughout the vehicle is a candidate for weight savings," said Day. "This is a great time to incorporate plastics early in the design stage since there are many more opportunities to integrate functions for significant mass and cost savings."
In addition to lightweighting, the industry continues to optimize the internal-combustion engine, develop hybrid and electric vehicles and adopt alternative fuels. For its part, DuPont offers advanced materials to help reduce mass and improve efficiency; battery chemistries and materials for more efficient electric-powered vehicles; and has collaborated to develop low global warming potential refrigerants for vehicles and biofuels manufactured from non-food based cellulosic resources.
"The challenges facing the automotive community are so significant and global that they must be attacked from multiple angles simultaneously, tapping into global teams for support and fresh ideas," Gulyas added.
About the Survey
The WardsAuto survey was sponsored by DuPont and conducted by Paramount Research, Coralville, Iowa. Forty-three percent of the 1,300 respondents indicate they work for system, component or parts manufacturers; 24 percent work for an automaker; and the balance work for engine or engine-service companies. Nearly half the respondents say they work in engineering, R&D or in quality/reliability. Sixteen percent work in management and the remainder represent manufacturing, purchasing or other field.
DuPont offers more than 100 materials and product families for the global automotive industry. Through its global application development network, DuPont Automotive is committed to collaborating with customers throughout the value chain to develop new products, materials, components and systems that help reduce dependence on fossil fuels and protect people and the environment.
WardsAuto World Industry Study pdf
DuPont (NYSE: DD) has been bringing world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace in the form of innovative products, materials, and services since 1802. The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment. For additional information about DuPont and its commitment to inclusive innovation, please visit www.dupont.com.


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Hello and Welcome to another Brown Sugar Challenge!!
Thank you to all who participated in last weeks challenge! All of the entries were great.
We encourage you all to play along this week. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword BSCB-54 (eg. splitcoaststampers, paper craft planet, etc.)
This week our theme is: Anything Goes
Rick St. Dennis is happy to award one winner her choice of 2 digital stamps.
Bugaboo is happy to award one winner her choice of 7 digital stamps.


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Having a suspension bike is useless if you're not getting out of it what you should. So before you just hop on and start pedaling, take a moment to set your suspension right. It's easy. Really. Here are the four key measurements that will put the right bounce in your bottom—and take the bottom out of your bounce.
RELATED: Yes, You Are Fast Enough for Full-Suspension Mountain Bikes
•What It Is: Setting suspension to match a rider's weight. If your shock or fork's pressure is too low for your weight, you may bottom out on bumps. If it's too high, you'll barely notice that you have any travel; set it just right, and you'll get the most from your suspension.
•Set It Up: If you have an air fork or shock, you'll set the preload by pumping air into it with a special pump. Coil-sprung suspension uses controls to compress the spring and set proper pressure. Check the side of the shock or fork, or your owner's manual, for pressure/weight guidelines. It's important to start with a spring that's correct for your weight. Most coil-sprung bikes come with a spring ideal for a 160-190-pound rider.
•What It Is: The amount your suspension moves when you initially sit your butt on the saddle. You want your sag to match the type of riding you do. For example, an XC rider wants relatively little sag for efficiency, whereas downhillers and freeriders need more sag in order to suck up bigger bumps. Your manual will have a list of suggested settings for your style.
•Set It Up: Place a zip-tie on the fork stanchion—the part that travels up and down—and one on the shaft of the shock. Have a buddy support your bike so you can sit on it in a normal riding position—feet on the pedals and with all your weight on the bike. Carefully get off the bike and measure the amount each zip-tie moved from its original spot. This is your sag (typically it will be about one-third of your travel). Adjust it according to your bike's manual.
•What It Is: The time it takes for your suspension to slow a downward force.
•Set It Up: Starting with the control knob completely open (counterclockwise), you adjust compression by turning the knob clockwise. Turn the knob too much and your suspension will take too long to go through all of its travel. Turn it too little and your suspension will bottom out on small bumps. Experiment to find the sweet spot that best matches your riding style and terrain.
•What It Is: The speed at which the suspension comes back to full travel after it's compressed.
•Set It Up: Though rebound is a preference thing, in general you want your suspension to rebound as fast as it can without the shock topping out or feeling too springy. Set it slow and the suspension can't extend back into its travel before you hit the next bump, resulting in a harsh ride. Set it fast and your bike will bounce like a pogo stick. To adjust, use the clearly marked control on your fork or shock.


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Summer 2010
Design + music = magic
various designers
Sleeve style
The scene creates the style, and sleeves tell us what their contents sound like, but what next?
Something magical happens when we experience great music accompanied by great visual art, especially when both come out of a contemporary explosion of sub-cultural innovation. The best popular music packaging has always been created by just this kind of magic, the emotional charge you get when you pick up a twelve-inch single that not only promises a fantastic new listening experience but is already speaking in a strange new visual dialect, an irresistible invitation to explore.
Watching an emerging musical genre simultaneously create its own aesthetic is part of the fascination of popular music's evolution. This is often a collective process, without individual authorship: the hip-hop graffiti style, the scrappily photocopied punk look and the Day-Glo hoodies of New Rave are examples where, although key individuals have played a role, the scene itself has created most of the aesthetic. When applied to a sleeve the power is self-evident: what the records look like tells you what they sound like.
Traditional 'product' is going the way of the dinosaur. I buy vinyl and record it digitally, which means I can search for it by name and listen to it on my iPod or computer – functionality I cannot do without. Having played the record once, I file it away forever. Insane.
But I need an aesthetic engagement with the artists I love. If I'm buying music digitally I want some kind of 'record sleeve' equivalent. Frankly, a line of text and a postage-stamp-sized image derived from a redundant real-world product doesn't cut it.
How will the next generation of designers and musicians create much needed innovation in experiencing and interacting with music online? How is this collaborative model going to play out once data-heavy content can be delivered instantaneously to your hardware of choice? Where's the magic going to come from?
I've seen plenty of 'interactive videos' and generic visualisers but I've yet to experience the same level of excitement I get from videos or sleeves from any digital music packaging I've seen. The new iTunes 'LP' format could be a start. And at the time of writing, the prospect of Tom Hingston working with Flat Nose George's extra interactive content for the Chemical Brothers' new album Further (see p.24) is positively mouthwatering. However I've always felt that true innovation first emerges from the underground.
Perhaps we will have to wait until we (or the technology companies) finally settle on a standard for home hardware that truly integrates a Web connection with a screen-based entertainment device. Or maybe an iPad explosion will be the catalyst. In any case, it feels like a huge gap in the design landscape waiting to be filled and I can't wait to (a) experience it and (b) explore it. See you in the future!
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Crystal Rock Audigier Gossip
Crystal Rock Audigier gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Ebola`s apprentice
Someone sent me a link to this last week: a new strain of Ebola virus was identified near the Ugandan border … the virus is cleverly mutating. Just like Hollywood Ebola Paris Hilton. Its legacy will live on, promising the spread of her disease indefinitely, gathering disciples in her black hole vagina, and a long list of victims waiting to be destroyed. Full Story


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kaus needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Please read the design brief for details
$50 bonus included for entry which stops contest
Thats Gambling
Slots - Casino - Poker - Sportsbook
Desired Color Scheme:
I am leaving this open for creativity .
Accepted File Formats:
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This site will havea wide selection of gambling topics from poker, casinos, slots and sportsbooking. I am looking for a clean, brandable logo that is sleek. I would preferably like to stay away from the gambling cliche of images such as poker chips or dice. The design of the site will look like this
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In a frantic 911 call from Jovan Belcher's home following the murder of his girlfriend Kassandra Perkins, the linebacker's mom can be heard pleading with his girlfriend to stay alive.
Inside linebacker Jovan Belcher #59 of the Kansas City Chiefs wathces from the sideliens during his final game against the Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium on Nov. 25, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.
While Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher was en route to Arrowhead Stadium early Saturday, about to kill himself, his mother placed a frantic 911 call to authorities during which she can be heard begging his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, not to die from her wounds.
"She's still breathing, but barely," Cheryl Shepherd, Belcher's mother, told the 911 dispatcher Saturday morning, in a call released by the Kansas City Fire Department on Tuesday. "Please hurry. I don't know how many times he got her. They were arguing."
As a dispatcher tells her help is on the way, Shepherd yells, "Kasandra, stay with me, the ambulance is on the way, you hear me? You hear me? Kasandra! Hey! Stay with me!"
Belcher, 25, and Perkins, 22, lived together with their three-month-old daughter, Zoey, and Belcher's mother, Shepherd. The murder-suicide was described in detail by The Kansas City Star, which reported that the couple had been arguing over their relationship and finances.
On Saturday morning, Belcher allegedly shot Perkins, kissed her and Zoey, then headed to the team's practice facility, where he thanked his coached and fired a single shot in his head, saying, "I can't be here," according to sources.
In the 911 call released Tuesday, a baby can be heard crying in the background while Shepherd speaks with the dispatcher.
"Okay, listen ma'am, is she awake?" the dispatcher asks.
"Just barely, she's just barely open," Shepherd responds.
"Can she hear what you're saying?"
"Yes, she is moving when I talk to her. Please, God," Shepherd says.
"Okay. Is she bleeding?" the dispatcher asks.
"Yes, she is," Shepherd says, as the baby began to cry.
"Where is she bleeding from?"
"I can't tell, in the back, it looks like it," Shepherd tells her, anxiety rising in her voice.
A second dispatcher from the Kansas City Police Department then gets on the line and asks Shepherd where her son is.
"He left," Shepherd says. "Please just get this ambulance here. Please."
Police arrived at the couple's home at about 7:50 a.m. Saturday morning to find Perkins' body on the floor of the master bathroom with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a police incident report.
Hours before the shooting, police found Belcher sleeping in his car outside an apartment complex about 10 miles away from his and Perkins' home. He told officers he was at the apartment to visit a woman he said was his girlfriend, but that she wasn't home. Belcher then made a phone call and a woman let him into the building, The Associated Press reported.
It's not clear who the woman was.
Belcher and Perkins had been living apart recently but got back together by Thanksgiving, friend Brianne York told The Associated Press.
Belcher's mother has been given temporary custody of the child.
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We are open to the designer's creativity as far as colors / styles are concerned. Once the contest gets going, our feedback should help narrow the focus for all designers who participate.
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'Dragon Tattoo' travel: How to see Stockholm like Stieg Larsson
Two artist-photographers have traced the footsteps of Stieg Larsson's crime-beating heroes to create a travel book with a Millennium series hook.
The travelogue "Tattoos Hornets Fire," produced in conjunction with VisitSweden, isn't a traditional, broad-view travel guide.
Instead, it shows readers where to eat like Larsson and live like Lisbeth Salander, the fictional protagonist of the writer's "Dragon Tattoo" novels.
Known artistically as the Hilton Brothers, Americans Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg present a grungy and dreamy Sweden centered on the Swedish novelist Larsson's three novels: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest."
"Our travel book is not a Fodor's guide and it is beyond Lonely Planet," says Makos.
"We don't want to do a usual travel book. We want to do it like our usual artwork. So we came up with this idea of a hybrid travelogue inspired by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series."
The book combines the visual aspects of the trilogy -- the protagonists' houses, the police headquarters, tattoo parlors -- with the things the artists encountered during their time in Sweden -- the national pastry, the Princess Cake, an open-air museum and Swedes.
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Mikael Blomkvist's apartment
Mikael Blomkvist, the protagonist of the Millennium series, lived in an 1888 building on 9 Fiskargatan.
The photographers captured the apartment in black and white.
Mikael Blomkvist's apartment, 9 Fiskargatan
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified this apartment as that of Lisbeth Salander. The error was due to miscommunication between CNN and the photographers. Thanks to our eagle-eyed readers for alerting us to the mistake.
Stieg Larsson's favorite café
Stieg Larsson's love of grilled cheese sandwiches and coffee was reflected in his characters' staple meal.
The photographers were introduced to Larsson's favorite coffee shop, Mellqvist Kaffebar.
So how was the food?
"To be honest, Stieg Larsson did not eat well," says Makos. "The cheese sandwich was too dry but the coffee is good."
Mellqvist coffee bar, 78 Hornsgatan
View from Mikael Blomkvist's apartment
The photographers captured the view from the attic apartment where Stieg Larsson housed Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist in his novels.
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The location that may have inspired 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'
A collection of dried flowers at the Stockholm City Museum resembles the ones illustrated in Larsson's first book.
Dried flowers comprise an important clue to the mystery central to "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."
The museum offers a Stieg Larsson Millennium tour every Saturday, which visits various locations associated with the books and films.
Ryssgården, Slussen, Stockholm; open Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; +46 (0)8 508 31 600; www.stadsmuseum.stockholm.se
Skansen, open-air museum
"Skansen is like New York's Central Park, but everything is from the 1700s, original houses and people dressed in style back a century," says Makos.
Though nothing to do with the novels, here the artists met a hardware-store owner who had his whole shop relocated to Skansen.
Djurgårdsslätten 49-51, 115 21 Stockholm; +46 8442 8000; main entrance opens 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; www.skansen.se
Parlans, Swing-era confectionery
"We bumped into a beautiful toffee shop in Stockholm. The women were in beautiful 1940s clothing and the shop was playing swing music," says Solberg.
"There is even a monthly swing dance club like what people did in the 1940s. Everything is so over the top and the toffee is buttery and delicious."
Nytorgsgatan 38, 116 40 Stockholm; open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday noon-4 p.m.; www.parlanskonfektyr.se
Philosophical tattoo parlor
The photographers begin their guide with a spread of a man getting tattooed in this tattoo parlor.
"The Swedes have such an interesting take on this idea of tattooing and body modification," says Solberg.
"It is very different from the American tattoo parlors which often have an underground, subculture feeling. But in Stockholm, the body modification parlor and tattoo parlor are academic and philosophical."
Östermalm, the elegant neighborhood
Getting further away from the main locations in the series, the photographers came to Östermalm, a picturesque part of the city.
The artists write in the book: "Stately Strandvägen Street runs along the Baltic Sea, aligned with Linden trees and stunning late-nineteenth-century facades and lavish doorways."
Landmarks in the district include the 17th-century Crown Bakery, which now houses the Stockholm Music Museum, the Royal Dramatic Theater and numerous restaurants and bars.
"Tattoos Hornets Fire: The Millennium Sweden" by Christopher Makos & Paul Solberg is available at bookstores now. Copyright © 2012, published by Glitterati Incorporated. www.Glitteratiincorporated.com


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I finished the single player solo yesterday on Heroic. I expected the game to be good, but I was very surprised with the situations in the game. The combat is solid as usual, and you get some really awesome situations and encounters that I don't remember in the other Halo games. I expected this to be an "soldier's story", and while they definitely do that the game does have incredibly epic moments.
The achievements are fun and not tedious. I'm looking to do coop on Legendary, let me know if anyone's down for it.
Agreed, this game is excellent, well worth going to the midnight opening for.
I`m also looking to do Legendary on co-op, so if you see me online send me a message or invite or something.
Also, for most of my friends on live ODST is their first experience of Halo, consequently, they are not that good. We have played Firefight a few times but it always ends up with me dragging the team through each wave etc. If anyone here is looking for people to do firefight or would just like to help me out, send me a friend request or something. Cheers.
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A new friend of mine made this veggie chili for a holiday potluck I attended in December. The chili was sooo good that I emailed her to get the recipe and try it out myself. Turns out she doesn't really follow a recipe, but kind of makes it up as she goes. However she was happy to give me a list of the ingredients and approximate amounts. I made some slight adjustments when I made it for dinner last night, but I'm very happy with how it turned out. It was delicious.
Vegetarian Chili
One Chopped Red Bell Pepper
One Chopped Green Bell Pepper
One Chopped Yellow Bell Pepper
One Hot Pepper (Jalapeno)
One can black beans (drained)
One can pinto (great if you can find them already in chili sauce) –
Tempeh (cut into cubes)
One large can of whole tomatoes (I used chopped tomatoes)
One small can of tomato paste – for thickness (I only added a few spoonfuls)
Chili Powder – (I used a teaspoon)
Cayenne Pepper – (I used a couple shakes)
You can throw this all into the crockpot and let it cook throughout the day. I didn't have time for that since I didn't start dinner til 5, so I put it into a large pot. I cooked it on the stovetop over medium-high heat for about 30 to 40 minutes, until the peppers softened.
I found the chili to be quite thick, so I added in a cup of water at the end to thin it out.
We garnished it with plain yogurt and shredded cheese, however this could easily be a vegan recipe without the garnishes. 🙂
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The Trailhead 6 has been discontinued. If you're looking for something new, check out the best three-season tents for 2020.
Historic Range: $212.73-$429.00
Reviewers Paid: $250.00-$350.00
I've camped my whole life and this is by far the best…
Source: bought it new
I've camped my whole life and this is by far the best tent I've used. It has held up in high winds and rain storms without any problems. It easily accommodates my family of four.
This tent has been a grave disappointment. It cost…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: About 600 euros
This tent has been a grave disappointment. It cost a lot of money and we have thrown it away after 5 years because of the constant problems.
- "Relatively" easy to erect
- Numerous - see text
Forced to buy a footprint after one year's use because the floor leaked wherever anything was stood down on it — it was reproofed under guarantee but we didn't trust it.
Very draughty in cold weather: I expect a 3-season tent to go down close to freezing without excessive discomfort but this one didn't. Regular re-proofing failed to stop intermittent leaks and this is a tent on which water sits for hours and takes ages to dry. The vestibule sides sit too high off the ground and rain splashes with mud anything stored there. I agree that the colour is drab.
Worst of all, last week when we put it up the flysheet must have snagged on something (perhaps a pole not totally pushed together) and when we tightened it it tore, a tear that then ran for about ten inches. We had repair tape with us which did a temporary job but this May (2013) is the coldest and wettest in Italy for 200 years and the repair remained a weak point for leaks. It also leaked in other places although we re-proofed it last summer.
So on our 8th successive annual May camping trip to Tuscany and Umbria we dumped the tent, saving a few useful bits like the floor, which we cut out for use in the new Italian tent, a Nova Mistral 5, which we bought in Tuscany last weekend on a day of 24-hour rain. It's brilliant, with useful space, sealed and draught-free bedrooms and a fabric from which water runs off and dries rapidly. It's a three-hoop tunnel tent, like the little Swedish Hilleberg tent weighing just over a kilogram (the Mistral is of course much heavier) that we use for trekking.
We said goodbye to the Trailhead with no regrets!
I have to say I'm a bit nonplussed by the other reviews…
Design: 3 season family dome
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: easy, clearly marked poles/sleeves
Weight: 28 lbs
Price Paid: $350
I have to say I'm a bit nonplussed by the other reviews here so far. I've owned a North Face Nebula for 10 years and the overall quality is very high for both tents. The floor material is exactly the same in both Nebula and T6 and I've never had a problem with my dogs (large lab and small terrier) ripping the floor in either one. I can only assume that user was unlucky.
I'm not sure if they mentioned using the footprint or not, but like most tents the floor is only a heavy proofed nylon and always needs something else underneath it. I don't use manufacturer footprints myself, finding them to be expensive for what they are. Instead I buy a good heavy duty tarp and cut it down - much stronger. Yes its heavy, but the T6 is only ever going to be a car camper.
As for the design, I have no issues with the color. In fact I have to say it makes a nice change. Its visible but not obnoxious and not too hot on a summer morning. I like the pass through doors, great for ventilation, and the design is such that its easy to get in and out in the rain without dribbling water off your jacket into the inner tent.
The tent also goes up so fast, even in the rain its not a big problem and I can put it up solo while my wife keeps the toddlers busy "helping" with other things. The poles/sleeves are clearly marked. We love the dividers and the kids (3 and 5) love having their "own room".
Space is excellent, but it comes with a price - you need a big area to set this sucker up. A concern for future trips is that we'll get to a campground and find the designated platform is too small, but we have yet to have that happen. The size also means the tent is quite heavy, but the packaging design is superb - everything fits easily into a specially designed duffle bag, much better than fighting it into those too-small sausage bags.
We've only had the tent 3 months so I can't say much about longterm durability, but I give this one very high marks for utility and design. I'm hoping that it will be as reliable and durable as our trusty pre-children Nebula has been and I see nothing to suggest otherwise.
This is a great family camping tent, I'd buy it again even if it was bright pink (although my daughter would prefer that!) and I had to pay full price (we got this one from REI using a 20% off coupon).
Last year after searching just about every tent on…
Design: three season
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: harder than I thought
Weight: 26lbs
Last year after searching just about every tent on the internet, I decided to purchase a North Face Trailhead 6 man tent. I was very happy to have made the purchase at first especially because it was a North Face tent.
After I set the tent up at a campground in Northern Quebec Canada, I must say I was very disappointed at the color which was a sand color. When I was in the tent I didn't feel like I wanted to be in it just because of the drab color. It actually was depressing even on a sunny day. I must say that if I had the choice I would return the tent and buy one that is more cheerful in color. I should have looked into the color more carefully before my purchase but unfortunately it was marked down (I know why) and was not returnable.
I have been camping for many years now (car/canoe) and have been in previous tents which I felt happy in. I know that I am not alone when commenting about this as friends have also mentioned it. My suggestion would be to provide a more cheerful color as stupid as that may sound for 2009. I spent almost 500 Canadian dollars on a tent I don't want to be in.
Other than the color,the tent seems to be fine. Why can't The North Face design this tent in a nice blue or brighter color other than the two drab colors available?
Setup is easy, and matching footprint fits together…
Design: three-season
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: possible with one person, but two recommended
Price Paid: $250
Setup is easy, and matching footprint fits together very nicely. The interior space is awesome for a 6 man tent; It will sleep 6 people comfortably. Ventilation is good across the doors, but with the rail fly on and not taught via the additional guy ropes, ventilation via the side windows is blocked. The rain fly blocks sunlight very well, which keeps the tent cooler in the morning rising sun. The vestibules are very well designed, and can be rolled up very easily.
The big problem in my case: the interior floor tore during first, and last, use. It was most likely the dog, but then the dog has been in 3 other tents and never ripped the floor. So, I have to conclude that the floor on this tent is a severe weakness.
Tough fabric, rainproof, excellent stitching, classy…
Design: 3-season freestanding, 5poles
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: set up easy when floor left without pegs while pitching
Weight: over 20 pounds with pegs and poles
Price Paid: $300
Tough fabric, rainproof, excellent stitching, classy room dividers, lots of ventilation, good headroom for averaged sized adult even in front vestibule, big enough to sleep six, lots of storage and hooks, poles average strength (bent some in high winds), pegs provided too short for many soils, dull greenish tan color inside, nicer light tan color for the full coverage fly, four guy ropes (could have more because tent catches lots of wind).


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Prior reflects on career, transitions to front office
Former All-Star embraces challenge, will begin scouting at all levels
PEORIA, Ariz. -- It essentially took one conversation to persuade Padres assistant general manager A.J. Hinch that Mark Prior had not only moved on from his star-crossed career, but that he was prepared to embrace the challenge of working in the team's front office.
"What I've noticed from him, and I bet that he was like this as a player, is he really buys in to whatever he's doing at that time," Hinch said. "He's all in. His curiosity in how the [front office] engine operates can't be overstated."
There was something else that resonated with Hinch.
"I love the fact that Mark wants to work," Hinch said.
Prior, who retired from baseball last fall, has been on the job with the Padres for several months as an assistant in the team's baseball operations department.
Prior has done so with little-to-no fanfare, which is perfectly fine with him. He doesn't have an office and doesn't want one. He eschewed the title of "special assistant," like others have had bestowed upon them after stepping away from the game and into a team's front office.
He's an assistant, period. And he's there to work.
"I don't want to say it's a floating job, but it's a chance for me to learn all aspects of the operation away from the field," Prior said. "I know what goes on there on the field and with the coaches, but I've never really had an understanding of what happens in the office and behind the scenes."
After spending the better part of 12 years either pitching or trying to work his way back from a variety of injuries to his right shoulder and arm, Prior, 33, officially stepped away from the game after last season and stepped into another opportunity -- one that, like pitching, has presented its own challenges.
Consider it total immersion into baseball operations.
"Hopefully it's a little bit of everything," Prior said. "Amateur coverage, college guys. I will do some high school games, pro coverage, I'll see our affiliates, shadow some guys here in games and the back fields and generally get an idea of how the system works.
"So far, it's been great for me. I'm having a lot of fun learning."
And it's far different from his previous life in baseball, one that saw Prior win 18 games with the Cubs as a 22-year-old in 2003, when he finished third in the National League Cy Young Award vote. But he fractured his elbow in '05, when he was hit by a line drive and then eventually needed reconstructive surgery in '07 on his right shoulder for a torn labrum, rotator cuff and anterior capsule.
A year later, after he signed a Minor League deal with the Padres, Prior -- who is a San Diego native -- needed surgery, this time after tearing his shoulder capsule yet again.
Yet, Prior kept trying to pitch, though it wasn't for the expressed intent of reaching the big leagues again. He pitched for the independent league Orange County Flyers. He had had Minor League stints with the Rangers, Yankees, Red Sox and Reds as well.
"After my stint here, I didn't want to have any regrets and wanted to do everything that I could to get back. Forget the big leagues ... I just wanted to get back on the field in general. I made some progress, but it really came down to a physical thing," Prior said.
Prior made seven appearances last summer with the Reds' Triple-A affiliate in Louisville before finally shutting it down.
"I was throwing the ball pretty decently, but I hurt my arm again and wasn't feeling great at the end of summer. I put a soft deadline on it and realized that if there was a time to make a transition, it was better to do it then, as opposed to getting all the way here in the spring, realize it and then have to sit around all year," Prior said.
Enter the Padres, Prior's hometown team. General manager Josh Byrnes reached out to him in August and he eventually joined the team in December, in time to be involved with the team during the Winter Meetings in Orlando.
"What's kind of been an eye-opener for me is the amount of players the guys in baseball operations can easily recall," Prior said. "As a player, you are in your own bubble and you know your team. But the guys in baseball ops have a rolodex of players in their heads that they can easily recall."
"I sat in the back of the room at the Winter Meetings and they're throwing out these scenarios about all these players. I couldn't believe it."
The Padres aren't being coy about throwing as much as they can at Prior, who has spent time in Arizona sitting with Hinch, Byrnes and assistant general manager Josh Stein during games.
"He's drawn to learn as many facets of the front office as he can," Hinch said. "We are going to give it to him, too. It will entail everything from going to a high school game to scout a player, not knowing a thing about the player. He'll learn the rules we have to account for, the timing of the decisions we make, how the Draft is formed, how the Major League roster is whittled down to 25.
"I think he's curious about all of it."
This is not to say, of course, that Prior hasn't denied himself a moment of reflection from time to time about his previous life in baseball.
"I think now that I've been done and taken a step back, I can look back on it and remember the good times," Prior said. "I think we get wrapped up so much in wins, losses and everything else that we can lose sight of a lot of the benefits the game provides.
"I have been able to travel the world, live in some great cities, play at the highest level of this sport, and I've been to the lowest level, too. It taught me things as a person. I went through a stretch where things were really negative with injuries and stuff. But, for me, it was, 'How do you keep rolling on? How do you come out of it on the back end?' That's the decision you have to make. Are you going to dwell on it ... or move on from it?"
That wasn't something Prior was always equipped to do, he said.
"One of the things I think you have to do in this game is look in the mirror and really take ownership of who you are," Prior said. "For me, the injuries kept happening consecutively and that made me edgy. I think this is more of who I really am. Eventually, everyone gets knocked down. At first, I didn't respond the best way that I probably could. But that's life. You learn from your mistakes."
He's much happier now, and his new job gives Prior the chance to spend more time with his family: his wife, Heather, and their three children, Amanda, Caitlin and Matthew.
"I can't complain," Prior said the other day, watching Padres' pitchers throw in the bullpen area at the team's Spring Training facility. "It is 70 degrees here in Arizona and I'm here walking around watching these guys do something special."


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Living in Pleasant Ridge we have a few interesting dining choices: Molly Malones, Gas Light, Loving Cafe, PR Chili, Emanu, Rasheeda's (and probably something else I'm forgetting).
This is on Montgomery - right across from PR Chili. It used to be Emanu before they moved down half a block to their beautiful new space. I've been wanting to stop since it opened and finally - just did it.
The location is very small and we were dirty from yard work so we went for takeout instead...
I've heard about the chicken so we went for that. I got dark meat with yams & mac & cheese. The chicken - delicious. The yams were good and plentiful but I couldn't finish them all. The mac & cheese was definitely homemade and better than most.
Larry went for the white meat with the butter roasted potatoes and beans. We both got cornbread. The beans came in a to-go cup and were delicious! Maybe my favorite thing about the whole meal.
We also got some wings and our other piece of cornbread. The cornbread was really great too - not the "yellow" kind I'm used to - not quite as sweet but really great.
We both enjoyed the meal very much and they have specials on different days of the week - Sundays is Jerk Duck and I gotta try that very soon!
Honestly we weren't expecting much but we were pleasantly surprised. The meals (2 piece chicken, 2 sides & cornbread) were $8 each - not bad for home cooking!
One thing to note - because it's so small - they don't have much of a staff. They told us 10 minutes and we got there and waited for another 5. I wasn't real sure they knew I was there since nobody came out - but then magically - Rasheeda (I'm guessing) came out with bags of food for myself and the other waiting customers...
Why Should You Go? Home cooking for $8/meal - sounds good to me?! Plus its a different flavor completely than KFC or the like...


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Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 by the NBA on Wednesday for using a derogatory gay term in frustration over a referee's call.
Famous Apologies and Nonapologies
"Kobe Bryant's comment during last night's game was offensive and inexcusable," NBA Commissioner David Stern told the Associated Press. "While I'm fully aware that basketball is an emotional game, such a distasteful term should never be tolerated. ... Kobe and everyone associated with the NBA know that insensitive or derogatory comments are not acceptable and have no place in our game or society."
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Bryant said Wednesday that what appeared to be a slur aimed at a referee during Tuesday night's game "should not be taken literally."
"My actions were out of frustration during the heat of the game, period,'' the Lakers all-star guard said. "The words expressed do not reflect my feelings towards the gay and lesbian communities and were not meant to offend anyone."
Television coverage of the Lakers-Spurs game showed Bryant storming to the bench after referee Bennie Adams whistled him for a technical foul in the third quarter of the game at Staples Center. Bryant punched a chair, threw a towel, then yelled at Adams.
Audio did not pick up Bryant's words, but TNT announcer Steve Kerr noted, "You might want to take the cameras off of him right now, for the children watching from home."
A league official told ESPNLosAngeles.com that video from the game "is under review" by the NBA.
The Human Rights Campaign applauded Kobe's apology.
In a statement, HRC president Joe Solmonese called it a "teachable moment." He said Kobe told him "it's never ok to degrade or tease, and that he understands how his words could unfortunately give the wrong impression that this is appropriate conduct."
LA beat San Antonio, 102-93.


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For many people, dreams of an early retirement are fading, if not blacked out.
The reality is that a lot of folks will still be working well into their senior years – if they can. A retirement survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that 70 percent workers said they plan to work for pay even after they retire. And the age at which workers expect to retire continues to rise.
"The vision of people 50-plus spending their retirement years gardening, golfing and lounging on the beach is out," says Kerry Hannon, who writes the Great Jobs for Retirees column for AARP.
But there's a difference in the people who say they will continue working in retirement. Hannon notes that they aren't retirees looking for part-time supplemental work or to stave off boredom.
"What's different now is that baby boomers are either continuing to work much longer or approaching work not as an afterthought but as a pillar of their 'retirement' plans," she writes in this month's Color of Money Book Club selection, "Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work that Keeps You Happy and Healthy … and Pays the Bills" (Wiley, $18.95).
Yes, there are financial reasons to stay put in your job if you're 50 or older. You may need to continue building your savings, Hannon says.
However, she writes, studies show that for people over 50, it's also important to be engaged and stay engaged.
"Work gives us a sense of purpose, feeling connected and needed. It makes us feel relevant. It's hard to pin a precise paycheck on that, but it's real."
Hannon has spent her adult lifetime becoming an expert in career transition and retirement issues. She is a contributing editor for Forbes magazine and writes the Second Verse column aimed at boomers for Forbes.com. She used to work as a reporter and personal finance columnist for USA Today.
Now in her early 50s, she's talking from experience. She uses other people's experiences to also make the case for good and fulfilling retirement jobs that pay the bills. She encourages encore careers in which you pursue something different from your current employment. An example she cites is a high school assistant superintendent who became a personal fitness trainer.
There are two parts to the book. The first provides employment ideas -- 10 chapters worth -- from seasonal and part-time jobs to those that ride the age wave, the latter involving opportunities catering to the 50 and over crowd. For instance, you might consider being a health care/patient advocate, a position that helps people navigate the complex medical system such as deciphering and correcting billing errors or helping people contest insurance coverage rejections. The pay for this job can range from $15 to $50 an hour. Or how about helping the boomers who want to downsize or relocate by becoming a move manager. Typical clients are relocating to smaller homes or apartments or retirement communities. You could make from $30 to $75 an hour.
"There is something here for everyone, a virtual smorgasbord," Hannon writes. "You'll discover plenty of ideas to spur your imagination about how you can make the most of your talents to create work that, well, works for you."
In addition to a job description, Hannon provides average pay information, hours, qualifications needed and job-hunting tips. The pay-range figures in part come from Labor Department data.
In the second half of the book, you'll find advice on using social media to job hunt, how to volunteer your way to a job, how to become your own boss and ways to conquer your fear of making a career change.
Someone once suggested to me that the American dream shouldn't be to stop working when you retire. Work for life, he said. I thought he was loopy. I've looked forward to the rest and relief from constant deadlines. But then I realized that I probably will never stop working. I like being a productive part of something -- and getting a regular paycheck. Let Hannon help you find work that keeps you healthy, happy and paid.
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In short, even with the fix in the latest GHC, Haskell is still incapable of providing a dictionary (mutable or immutable) that is competitively efficient.
Haskell's hash tables were 32× slower than alternatives like C++ and .NET with GHC 6.10. That was partly due to a performance bug in the GHC garbage collector that was fixed for GHC 6.12.2. But Simon Marlow's results there show only a 5× performance improvement which still leaves Haskell's hash tables many times slower than most alternatives.
Purely functional alternatives are also much slower than a decent hash table. For example, Haskell's
IntMap is 10× slower than .NET's hash table.
Using F# 2010 and the latest Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 (released yesterday!) with GHC 6.12.3 on this 2.0GHz E5405 Xeon running 32-bit Windows Vista to insert 20M int->int bindings into an empty hash table we find that Haskell is still 29× slower than F# in real time and over 200× slower in terms of CPU time because the Haskell burns all cores:
GHC 6.12.3 Data.HashTable: 42.8s (new!) .NET hash table: 1.47s
Provided you run only short-lived microbenchmarks you can disable the GHC garbage collector as Don Stewart suggests above. By asking for a nursery generation so large that this particular program will never fill it, he brought the time for the Haskell hash table down to only 1.5s here. However, this completely undermines the whole point of having a nursery generation and will massively degrade the performance of other code because freshly allocated values will now always be cold in the cache (which is why the nursery generation is typically the size of the L2 cache, orders of magnitude smaller than this).


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Macedonia's Civil Service Commission meets in January of each year for its annual meeting. Thereafter, the Commission meets only as needed.
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At least one single-serving cereal box snuck through. While ushers and security at TD Garden were instructed to confiscate all Honey Nut Cheerios-related paraphernalia — from boxes to signs — one container did pop up on the Jumbotron during Thursday night's Celtics-Knicks game.
But one box of cereal doesn't make for a hostile crowd, which was what the Knicks expected given the words exchanged between Kevin Garnett and Carmelo Anthony — including a widely reported off-color remark featuring the cereal and Anthony's wife — during and after their game Jan. 7 at Madison Square Garden.
Nor does it make for renewed hostilities between Garnett and Anthony, the latter of whom helped up Garnett after the Celtic fell in the third quarter.
"There's no grudges between myself and KG," said Anthony.
"Whatever happened, it happened. It's over with. We spoke about that. It's over with. I don't hold grudges, anything like that. He fell, I helped him up."
Anthony could afford to be generous with his words. His team, after all, notched an 89-86 win, with Anthony contributing 28 points and nine rebounds. It was the Knicks' first win in Boston since 2006.
But it didn't start well for the Knicks star. He scored 13 points in the first half, but made just 4 of 13 shots, as the Celtics continuously double-teamed him. In the second half, Anthony made 7 of 15, and one particularly notable pass.
That came out of yet another double team. Anthony found Jason Kidd, who in turn gave the ball to J.R. Smith. Smith made just 3 of 16 shots, but one was impeccably timed. He hit a 3-pointer to give the Knicks an 89-84 lead with 1:11 remaining.
"It was easy," Anthony said. "You see the double team, swing, swing. It was just a matter of guys making shot, and J.R. made that big three for us."
Celtics coach Doc Rivers was generally happy with the way his team defended Anthony, saying, "I mean, 11 for 28 for Carmelo. If you told me that before the game, I would've taken it."
"I thought he responded well," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said of Anthony. "He took some tough shots, but you've got to stay in the moment. Melo just didn't let things get to him.
"I thought Melo was solid from beginning to end, even though he didn't shoot that well. He was still playing great in the moment."
And while Anthony — and the rest of the Knicks — anticipated having to block out a difficult environment, he didn't find that to be the case. Perhaps it was because of the cereal-related taunts intercepted by security.
"It was kind of quiet today, for the most part," Anthony said. "I was expecting the boos, a real hostile environment tonight. But it was cool for the most part."
He, too, was cool.
As teammate Tyson Chandler said, "He responded exactly like he was supposed to. The best way to get some give-back is by getting a big three, do it especially in a place where we haven't won in a long time."
Not that Anthony had to contend with as much as he expected. There was no difficulty with Garnett, not much from the crowd, either. As he said, the pregame hype was "overrated."
"I think people just blew it up for no reason," Anthony said. "They were kind of just waiting to see what was going to happen. But it's sports. That's what happens in sports."
There were no tense moments, nothing to splash across the New York tabloids. Other than the fact, of course, that the Knicks came out with the win, helping their hold on the top spot in the Atlantic Division and serving the Celtics with their fifth straight loss.
"The whole night was kind of satisfying to me, just to win in this building," Anthony said.
"It's been a long time coming for a game like this, for a win here. I wasn't looking forward to any one-on-one matchups with myself and Garnett. Just like any other game, if a big switches off on me, my thing is to go past him, try to make something happen."
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As Rodney Erickson struggles with the most important decision ever in the history of Penn State, we're left to wonder when will foursquare tear down its Joe Paterno Statue check-in. As everyone knows, the foursquare page has become the symbol of this social media statuary controversy and emotions are running high.
The board of trustees for foursquare is aware of both sides of the debate and are hesitant to offend either. One source with knowledge of the gchats between foursquare founders has said "Seriously? There's a fucking Joe Paterno Statue check-in?" Another source said "Who in their right mind would waste time checking in to a statue?" and "Should we just close up shop, has this social experiment gone too far?"
All valid questions.