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Like I mentioned yesterday, I felt like I was in a rut for a little while with my Borderlands 2 arsenal. But suddenly, upon starting the first, pirate-themed DLC, I wound up with an embarrassment of great weaponry. When it rains, it pours (bullets).
Among the guns I got was a unique Hyperion sniper rifle (not actually tied to the DLC) that does 1,000 damage (!) and is super shiny looking, to boot. But there's a catch… every time I reload, it lambasts me in a shrill, nagging tone.
"Well at LEAST you stopped SHOOTING for a little while!"
"If you were a better shot, you wouldn't need to reload!"
"You're a bad person."
You can get a sense of the gun in the above video, uploaded by YouTuber Daniel Turnbull. The best thing about this gun, called the "Auditing Morningstar" (??), is that while it's annoying, it's not too annoying to use. Unlike the cursed "Bane" submachine gun, which both makes a hellacious racket when firing and restricts your movement, the Morningstar is actually a great weapon, with that one… minor… caveat.
"Oh great. Now you're wasting ammo!"
Stop judging me, gun! You think you're so great? God!


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Many years ago I wrote a booklet called 'The 7 biggest mistakes that salespeople make and how to stop them losing you sales every week.'
(I was well qualified to write this booklet because I had personally made all 7 of these sales mistakes many, many times.)
My booklet was very basic. It was printed in black and white and had a photocopied cardboard cover that I folded over and stapled together myself.
I gave this short guide to 50 sales managers as a free gift. (Some were clients and others were people I had met but had not yet bought from me.)
12 months later I had a phone call from the training manager of one of the major banks here in New Zealand.
The training manager told me she had read my 7 sales mistakes booklet and liked my ideas. She explained she was looking for sales training material for the bank and wondered if she could meet with me to see what I had.
A week later I showed the training manager and her colleague the various sales training programmes that I had for sale. She looked at all of them and said 'We would like to take all of these programme, do you take Visa?'
I was happy to oblige and within a few minutes we had concluded a large sale.
I then asked the training manager 'how did you get my 7 mistakes booklet?' as I knew I had never given it to them. (And the bank had never been a client.)
She told me that they had found my 7 mistakes booklet in the desk drawer of a bank employee who had since left the bank.
And they had no idea how it got there in the first place.
Now when I think back to this booklet I am actually embarrassed at how poorly presented it was.
However I used it because in my mind it was 'good enough' to start doing something with.
The reason I mention this booklet is that many people think their marketing has to be 'perfect' in every way before they use it.
So I have met business people who have spent many months producing something like the 'perfect' promotional brochure for instance. It has to have the perfect look and image and words etc. And only then will they consider using it.
I think this is a big mistake because in marketing I've learned that some of the things you try will work and many will not.
So I would rather try 10 different marketing strategies in a month that are 'good enough'.
And then discover which ones work well and which ones don't.
(Instead of spending a month making one marketing strategy 'perfect' and then finding out it only gets average or even poor results when I actually get to use it.)
And that's my recommendation in this week's column.
Don't worry about your marketing being 'perfect' before you use it.
Just get into action this week and try something.
I guarantee if you take enough action and try a few different marketing strategies you'll get some good results. And many times 'good enough' is all you need to get started.
If you are looking for marketing strategies to do then email me using either of the email links at the start and end of this column.
Put 'The Marketing Magic Toolkit' in your subject line and tell me the type of business you have.
I'll email you a guide that has 101 different marketing strategies that you can use to improve sales, boost profits and create raving fans for your business.
(It's my free gift to you and all you have to is invest a moment of time and ask me for it. Just make sure you take action before October 31, 2015 to get this free guide.)
Have a great week of taking action.
'The shortest answer is doing.' Lord Herbert
Action Exercise:
Get into action this week and actually use any of the marketing strategies that I've been recommending in any of my previous Herald columns.

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About Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC
Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, a subsidiary of Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T), arranges permanent commercial and multifamily real estate loans; services loan portfolios; and provides asset and portfolio management through its broad investor base that includes insurance companies, CMBS investors, pension fund advisors, commercial banks and capital markets investors, as well as its proprietary lending platform, BB&T Real Estate Funding. The company is a Freddie Mac Optigo℠ lender, a Fannie Mae DUS® lender and an approved FHA MAP and LEAN healthcare lender.
With a current servicing portfolio of $29.5 billion, Grandbridge, an S&P "Strong" rated servicer, services loan portfolios and provides asset and portfolio management nationwide for all capital providers including Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, insurance companies, banks and more than 250 securitizations.
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BB&T is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with $227.7 billion in assets and market capitalization of approximately $35.6 billion, as of March 31, 2018. Building on a long tradition of excellence in community banking, BB&T offers a wide range of financial services including retail and commercial banking, investments, insurance, wealth management, asset management, mortgage, corporate banking, capital markets and specialized lending. Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., the company operates more than 1,800 financial centers in 15 states and Washington, D.C., and is consistently recognized for outstanding client service by Greenwich Associates for small business and middle market banking. More information about BB&T and its full line of products and services is available at BBT.com.
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Before Oscars: Colorado honors new Hall of Famer Tom Massey
"Ninth time is a charm" was how Rep. Tom Massey put his annual push for more muscular film incentives to lure filmmaking –and jobs — to Colorado. Massey said this standing in the frigid morning air a couple hours before introducing House Bill #1286 on Feb. 8.
Tonight, Massey's persistent vision is being honored with the 3rd Annual Governor's Hall of Fame Award presented by the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media at the Denver Film Society's official Oscar party.
"The community respects a person so committed to a principal that he or she is willing to try again and again to get something accomplished," Colorado Film Commissioner Donald Zuckerman wrote in an email.
"Over the years that respect for Tom Massey has grown into deep admiration within Colorado's creative community. This year, there is no one more deserving of the Governor's Award than Tom."
The award is given to an individual "who has made a profound impact in feature films, television, cable, commercials, still photography, interactive media or video game design," Past winners: filmmaker Donna Dewey and former Colorado film commissioner Stephanie Two Eagles the inaugural year. Ken Seagren, owner of Lighting Services, Inc. and the Denver Studio Complex, was last year's inductee.


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I found i need to use square root in a program I am writing.
As it would cause heavy usage and I understood that Math.sqrt is rather heavy duty I looked around for optimized, albeit less accurate, methods but found in the end that Math.sqrt is faster than everything.
I then saw that it is delegated to StrictMath.sqrt with the following comment:
// default impl. delegates to StrictMath
// Note that hardware sqrt instructions
// frequently can be directly used by JITs
// and should be much faster than doing
// Math.sqrt in software.
Does this mean that on my machine it is done in hardware?
Is there a way to know in code if this is so so that I can use the faster alternatives on other machines, where needed?
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Autonetics of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a manufacturing automation specialist, but chief technology officer Chris Wezyk says the specialty is more nuanced than that. The company solves automation challenges by combining off-the-shelf devices in unusual ways, he says. This video shows an example—a pair of digital micrometers mated to a robot in order to provide rapid, accurate measurements of the OD features of a turned workpiece. The robot (from Kawasaki) simply sweeps the length of the part in seconds to let the micrometers (from Micro-Epsilon) obtain thousands of data points in seconds—data that can be used to automatically develop a highly precise CAD model. Software written by Autonetics interprets the measurements, allowing the information to be applied to a follow-up machining pass, among other potential uses.
Mr. Wezyk says the accuracy is better than one might imagine. Robot positioning is precise, but a robot typically is not used for the very finest positioning and measurement applications. In this application, though, the digital micrometer provides for the accuracy in the part's radial axis, while the location of the lathe's spindle face is a known value along the part's axial direction. This value gets used as a reference to compensate for the robot's positioning along the lathe's Z axis. As a result, a quick sweep through just a small Z-axis range is enough to let the robot pick up any precise Z-axis location where the diameter measurement needs to be known.
The same robot can also be used to inspect internal features, he says. To do this, the robot would release the digital micrometer set and pick up another device—probably an array of capacitive plug gages enabling it to measure a range of inner diameters.
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Industry veteran will serve as private banking manager.
Arvest Bank is pleased to announce Stuart Sullivan has been promoted to vice president, private banking manager in its Oklahoma City market.
Sullivan, who offices at the Arvest branch at 1501 W. Edmond Road, joined the bank in 2016. He worked at Bank of Oklahoma from 2009-2016, and at First Security Bank prior to that.
In his new role, Stuart will be responsible for the strategy and operational function of Arvest Private Banking in central Oklahoma. He also is charged with the ongoing development of all Arvest Private Banking associates.
Sullivan earned a bachelor's degree in finance and investment from the University of Arkansas and a master's degree in entrepreneurship from the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City and works with high school freshmen through the YMCA's Y Achiever program. He also serves regularly as a volunteer at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.
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Tavi Gevinson, the precocious teen style maven who's more accomplished than you, started her own fashion blog, Style Rookie, at the age of 11. By the age of 15, she had become a fixture at New York fashion shows, the subject of numerous style profiles and editor-in-chief of her own magazine for teenage girls, Rookie. Now, Gevinson and Rookie mag have launched a Twitter campaign to score an interview with the president of the United States for their popular "Ask a Grown Man" feature.
"Ask a Grown Man" solicits dating advice via web video from respected celebrity men-du-jour. Here's Jon Hamm ("Mad Men") dispensing tips on everything from fashion to farting ("I was under the impression that girls never farted").
Besides Hamm, BJ Novak, Judd Apatow and Paul Rudd have also participated. So why not President Obama?
Using the hashtag #obama4grownman, Rookie employees and readers are calling on the nation's most famous "grown man" to get in on the fun.
.@barackobama ROOKIE WANTS YOU (to answer questions about mean girls and kissing) #obama4grownman twitter.com/RookieMag/stat…— Rookie (@RookieMag) September 18, 2012
. @barackobama You did Reddit, now do Rookie and rule the tubes of the Internet #obama4grownman— meagan (@lattershed) September 18, 2012
Young women need to hear from a feminist man who knows & is raising lovely young women! #obama4grownman @rookiemag— Lara Murphy (@urbanroutine) September 17, 2012
Who run the world, @barackobama? Talk to the most powerful constituency in the US at @rookiemag. #obama4grownman— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) September 17, 2012
in the future, every straw is licorice, every cookie has milk & every president does @rookiemag ask a grown man #obama4grownman @barackobama— waffles+falafels (@wafflesgirls) September 17, 2012
Mr. @barackobama, do us a favor and answer some questions for our pals at @rookiemag! #obama4grownman— Timothy McSweeney (@mcsweeneys) September 17, 2012
@barackobama #obama4grownman YES YOU CAN! @rookiemag— alinakthrina (@alinakthrina) September 19, 2012
Gevinson's own appeal to the president has been retweeted 221 times.
hey @barackobama i know you're busy w/ the "election" or whatever but you should still do an Ask a Grown Man for @rookiemag! #obama4grownman— Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle) September 17, 2012
Though she thinks Obama "would be really good at it," Rookie's editorial director Anaheed Alani told the Guardian she is keeping her expectations low:
"I just decided to start a Twitter campaign to ask Obama to do Ask a Grown Man with no expectations beyond that it would be fun for me and our staff and that it would be funny and that it might get us five new Twitter followers.
While the president himself has yet to respond, Ronnie Cho, the White House's Liaison to Young Americans tweeted, "Moreover, I'm big fan @tavitulle fan.@all_ages @rookiemag"
Though one big movie star reportedly shied away from answering the brutally honest inquiries of teenage girls, Rookie fans figure that Obama, the father of two teen daughters, has had plenty of practice:
Hi @barackobama! Sasha & Malia are lucky enough to hear yr advice on the reg. Share the love with ALL girls via @rookiemag! #obama4grownman— Amy Rose Spiegel (@AmyRosary) September 20, 2012


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Saison (SF) – Fire and Time
This fire started in 2010. A few different leaves were elaborately grilled for striking contrasts in texture. Small smoky bursts stuck to the last pops of caviar. Embers kissed fish with a sudden puff of smoke. Smoky fragrances in light seafood bone broths. Vegetables painted with gradations of carbon across their surfaces. Aged proteins grilled on the primal flame. A slow burn for four years and twenty meals – from pop-up to three stars.
The hearth is inspiration and draw.1 But it does not solely define Saison's identity.
Honoring ingredients has been a Saison dictum since its earliest days. Serve the best ingredients available with the minimum intervention to exact their ideals. This approach is increasingly tied to the idea of place. Each season sees the restaurant getting more local. Farming plots are de rigueur and Saison now has one. Despite the cliche, there is a huge advantage for plucking produce at its prime, hours before serving. Dairy now comes from their own cow – what comparison can be made between fresh raw milk and even the best commercial product? Seafood comes from local waters, using their own boat.
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INDIANOLA, Iowa – Reid Ryan batted away Aaron Eiseler's pass attempt on 4th down with 1:20 left, one of a handful of big plays made by the defense down the stretch, and the Simpson football team held off Central, 14-10 on Saturday.
A 5-foot-9 corner, Ryan had to climb the ladder to knock the ball out of the hands of the 6-foot tall Brendon Boerm on a play that would have resulted in a first down for Central, which was facing 4th-and-17 at their own 37.
Clay Finley and Johnnie Sims set up the long-yardage situation after the tandem sacked Eisler for a 7-yard loss two plays before.
"We all just played really well as a team [defensively]," said Finley, who finished with seven tackles and 1.5 sacks. "We knew what the guy next to us was going to do and we really fed off each other."
Simpson sacked Eisler three times, hurried him twice and broke up four passes in the deciding fourth quarter, which saw Central turn the ball over on downs three times. Sims had 1.5 sacks and two tackles for loss in the span as Simpson tallied seven of its nine tackles for loss in the final 15 minutes.
"Ultimately you have to get people in 2nd or 3rd and long and all of a sudden, your pass rush gets better," head coach Jim Glogowski said.
The Storm (3-2, 1-1 Iowa Conference) held Central to just 217 yards of total offense to notch back-to-back wins in the series for the first time since 1996-97. An overflow crowd enjoyed the win on Simpson's Homecoming and Family Weekend.
Taylor Nelson completed 17 of 27 passes for 171 yards and threw touchdown passes to Mike Kuhn and Jake McCulley, extending his streak of consecutive games with a touchdown pass to 23.
The scoring toss to McCulley came with 12:55 left in the fourth quarter. Trailing 10-7 and facing 3rd and goal from the 2, Nelson ran a gutsy, play-action pass and found the big tight end in the back of the end zone. McCulley –a fifth-year senior who missed all of last year with a knee injury – held on while absorbing hits from a pair of defenders to give Simpson the 14-10 lead.
"That was just a huge individual effort for him to snag that ball," Glogowski said.
The catch was one of two remarkable grabs by McCulley, who also reached behind his body to make a one-handed grab on the home sideline earlier in the drive. He finished with three catches for 33 yards, all coming on the game-winning drive.
Nelson went 3-for-4 and rushed six times for 35 yards during the drive, including the 9-yard scramble that set up the winning score.
"He's our leader and we want the ball in his hands when a play has to be made," Glogowski said of his senior quarterback. "Giving him the ball gives us a chance no matter the down and distance."
Josh Osborn ran for 88 yards and Eiseler threw for 145 yards and a touchdown for the Dutch (2-3, 0-2), who stayed in the game with big plays on special teams. Kevin Sheldon gave Central a 10-7 lead with a 25-yard field goal in the third quarter after Michael Rus recovered a muffed punt at the Simpson 15. Central also blocked a Brian Schaaf field goal attempt in the third quarter.
Simpson came out of the special teams errors relatively unscathed, however. Central managed only three points following the fumbled punt despite great field position and went 3-and-out following the blocked field goal.
"Fortunately for us we were able to overcome it and we rallied and held on defensively at the end," Glogowski said of the special teams mistakes.
Entering the game with the league's top offense, Simpson scored on its first drive of the game when Nelson hooked up with Kuhn from 15 yards out. But three of the next seven possessions ended in punts as the offense failed to sustain a drive longer than 18 yards before the end of the third quarter. Eiseler led Central on a 68-yard drive to end the first half, tossing a 4-yard touchdown pass to Boerm to tie the game 7-7.
Ted Haag led the Simpson defense with nine tackles and a sack.
Simpson kicks off a two-game road trip next week when it travels to Dubuque to face Loras in a 1 p.m. kickoff. The Duhawks (1-4, 0-2) lost to No. 16 Coe 56-0 on Saturday.


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This Earl character is giving me a tropical depression.
Presently a Tropical Storm, he's forecast to become a Cat-1 hurricane later today.
Well it's that time of year folks. St. John as well as the rest of the US and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are officially under a Hurricane Watch, meaning that "Hurricane conditions are possible within the next 36 hours."
Yuck, yuck and more yuck. There's so much to be done and I feel like Maynard G. Krebbs … "WORK!" And I'd rather go snorkeling.
It was such a nice week so far, calm seas, perfect weather. But in the words of my friend from Jost Van Dyke, Foxy Callwood, "such is life."
It's still early though, and a sharp northward turn would be nice.
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Friday, February 21, 2020, 8:00 PM
TESLA is a multi-platinum-selling rock band from Northern California known for their melodic songs and down to earth appeal. Thanks to their die-hard, loyal fan base and their younger generation offspring, TESLA continues to tour to sold-out crowds around the world. TESLA's line-up consists of four of its original members: vocalist Jeff Keith, guitarist Frank Hannon, bassist Brian Wheat, and drummer Troy Luccketta and new guitarist Dave Rude who has brought a new energy and creativity to the band.
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Hours: Monday-Friday: 6:30am-5:30pm
For over fifty years, we've been your friendly neighborhood store for all your painting needs. Cox Paint offers a wide selection of name brand paints, stains, and painting supplies necessary for the successful completion of your work.
With two state-of-the-art color matching computers, we can ensure complete accuracy. Our knowledgeable staff is available to offer you personal service with every aspect of your painting project.
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Sat, Feb 24, 2018
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater
7 S. Calvert Street (at Redwood Street)
Baltimore, MD 21202
By Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by Shirley Basfield Dunlap
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. London, 1833. A legendary actor falls ill while playing Othello. To save the show, the producer hands the role to Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor pursuing a career that is closed to him back home. How will the cast, public, and London critics react? How will history record the revolution taking place in the theatre? In this new, critically acclaimed biographical play, the Shakespearean actor from New York is remembered for his achievements on the bittersweet road to international superstardom 150 years ago.
Red Velvet takes you backstage to witness the drama as Aldridge prepares for his history-making performance of Othello in London. Based on the life of the theatre trailblazer, the award-winning Red Velvet is making its Baltimore debut after wildly popular productions in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and London.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – UMBC senior distance runner Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) broke the school record in the 1,000m run and junior Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion) and sophomore Angelina Oputa (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) also broke into the top-ten as the UMBC track and field team opened 2014 at the Penn State Relays.
Mezebish highlighted a successful day for the Retrievers as senior Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K. Magnet) and junior Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) qualified for the ECAC Championships to be held in Boston in March. For the men, three athletes broke into the top-ten in the school record book.
Already the holder of the number three spot in school history for the 800m, Mezebish snapped the previous school record in the 1,000m by almost two seconds. The senior crossed the line with a time of 2:56.58, finishing ahead of Yasmin Field's record of 2:58.53 set back in 2004. Daly and Oputa also registered career-bests in the event with Daly's time of 2:59.14 sending her to third and Oputa's mark of 3:04.04 moving her up to eighth.
After skipping the season-opening Bison Opener back in December, Jackson made her season debut by placing second in the 60m dash. Her finals time of 7.48 meets the standard for the ECAC meet while she also qualified in the 200m after finishing third in a time of 24.78.
Jones also advanced to the regional meet, crossing the line in the 500m with a time of 1:15.6. In the men's event, Erick Soetje (Clarksville, Md./River Hill) earned a place in the school's top-ten list by crossing the line at the 1:05.71.
The women's 4x400 relay also achieved the ECAC standard as the squad of Jones, freshman Mercedes Tillman (Waldorf, Md./North Point), senior Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Bladensburg), and junior Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) finished with a time of 3:50.42.
Senior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) placed second in the mile with the seventh-best time in school history (4:17.18). Sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) earned a second-place finish in the 3,000m run with a time of 8:30.71, the sixth-fastest in program history. Senior Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley), meanwhile, finished just back in fourth with a time of 8:37.63.
In the 1,000m, sophomore Nick Johnson (Olney, Md./Sherwood) and freshman Rami Phillips (Brandywine, Md./Oxon Hill) earned top-five finishes by placing back-to-back in third and fourth.
Sophomore Caitlyn Davis (Clarksville, Md./River Hill) matched her career-best in the pole vault by clearing 3.00m (9'10.00").
The Retrievers return to competition next week with the Terrapin Invitational in Landover, Md.


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... why not start a group to work towards preserving access. Unless you already have one in which case get involved work to make it a success.
Some ideas for organizing taking from a smorgasboard of old posts appears below.
ideas appear at:
I was looking them over and they are starting to get a bit out of date,
almost four years later. I have inserted some items to make things a bit
more contemporary below:
V. Kiteboarding Clubs and Associations [top]
A. Why are they important?
Kiteboard Clubs and Associations have been formed to promote safety and continued access to beaches and launches for kiteboarding, for competitions, social activities and more. Our numbers are mounting by the month and incidents and accidents are also becoming more frequent. Some launches are imposing restrictions or are thinking about doing so. Associations and clubs act to serve the interests of the kiteboarding community and advocate and negotiate issues important to riders. They provide local leadership and a point of contact for officials that might have concerns regarding this sport. Clubs and Associations distribute and promote safe kiteboarding guidelines to improve safety and to aid in maintaining access.
B. How to form a kiteboarding club?
It is relatively easy to form a kiteboarding club. Start with some goals,
get the word out, discuss local issues and solutions with other riders and
you are on your way. More details follow:
1. Figure out the goals of the club and area of coverage. What problems exist locally? What parties are complaining and to whom? Who are your local leading riders that people look up to? Who are folks in the public sector (lifeguards, rangers, police, fire, EMTs, etc.) that kiteboard or are interested in starting? It would be good to get them onboard with your desire to organize early and to assist those interested in our sport in a big way (free lessons, gear discounts, etc.). Who are the leading figures in the public sector that you need to bring your concerns to in working to preserve access. Are there riders in your area who know these individuals or know people of influence with the folks in the public sector.
2. Have some preliminary casual meetings among riders including some of the leaders. Discuss apparent problems, possible solutions/guidelines/ideas for enforcement and plan a more general meeting for riders.
3. Setup an initial general riders meeting with a fixed date and time.
Circulating a written announcement with a short itinerary would be a good
4. Discuss local issues including launches, problem areas for resolution,
improved procedures and potential local safe kiteboarding guidelines that
are as simplistic as possible but still address the issues. Identify an
individual or a group of riders who will write the local guidelines. Having
a framework of issues and possible solutions can help kick your initial
meeting off to a productive start. If deligation of tasks is in order
figure out what those tasks are, ideal attributes for the delegates carrying
the ball and be prepared to seek volunteers at your meeting(s).
4a. Are there launches to avoid at certain times, always? What are they
and why avoid them? Try to build consensus on these points.
5. Circulate the draft guidelines for comments and modification before
finalizing them. Distribute the final guidelines to the membership. Some
general guideline ideas appear at: http://fksa.org/viewtopic.php?t=478
6. Try to promote awareness of the guidelines and compliance with them.
Encourage members to approach and tactfully discuss the guidelines IN A
GROUP for best effect with other riders and those that might not be
following suitable practices. Work hard not to setup one or two individuals
as "kite cops." It is a thankless job and one prone to burnout and failure.
It is a group need, it should be a group activity, if you want it to work.
If there are hard cases and there often are, talk creatively among
yourselves for ideas and tactics to try.
C. How To Form a Kiteboarding Association
One approach that has been used for the formation of kiteboarding
associations in the USA appears below.
1. Talk with other kiteboarders, kiteboarding retailers, lifeguards and
park rangers about concerns they have about kiteboarders, kiteboarding
access, specific incidents, ongoing problems, etc. Make a list of concerns, potential restrictions and problems to be resolved.
2. Create a website, there are quite a few phpBB blogs popping up all
over in this regard. Post the creation of your group on other existing
kiteboarding lists and spread the word through kiteboarders and kiteboard retailers in your area.
3. One approach includes identifying potential area coordinators (ACs), in your area or state. ACs could be people involved in the kiteboarding business, retailers and instructors as well as other experienced, concerned kiteboarders. Initially the AC volunteers would be responsible for helping to write and comment upon area specific safe kiteboarding guidelines, distributing them to local kiteboarders in their areas, encouraging membership in the kiteboarding group and warning the group in advance of potential kiteboarding access problems. ACs may be individuals already involved with local kiteboarding groups. ACs would be encouraged to form and participate in local kiteboarding chapters of the association. At some point assistant ACs can be designated and committees formed to aid in association goals and functions.
4. Circulate the draft area specific kiteboarding guidelines among the
ACs that address unique local conditions and restrictions. Finalize the
area specific guidelines and post them in the "Files‰ section of the list
5. Solicit volunteers to help with website creation and the services of an
attorney to aid with the formation of a nonprofit corporation. A nonprofit
corporation "may" provide some liability protections to the
leadership/officers of the association.
7. Select directors or officers for the initial non-profit corporation.
Once membership has been built to a sufficient level elections can be held for the continuing designation of officers.
8. Example By-laws and Articles for Incorporation appear in another
file on this site (pending).
9. A nonprofit corporation will aid to the collection of tax free membership
fees and will provide some protection to organization officers by the
"corporate shield‰. A federal tax id number should be obtained. At some point after formation form 1023, Application for Recognition of Exemption should be files (see http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/k1023.pdf). The volunteer services of a CPA or attorney would be helpful in the preparation of this filing.
10. Once the nonprofit corporation has been formed actual paid membership could be sought.
11. Collection of annual dues to permit the formation of a "war chest‰ and
to help to defray costs is encouraged.
12. It will be necessary to obtain a checking account in the name of the
nonprofit entity and a Post Office Box for mail.
13. Promote your organization through competitions, public works, beach
cleanups, kite flying demo days, press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, etc. Encourage ACs to promote interest and participation in your organization with kiteboarding retailers and instructors. Create a kiteboarding instructors database as a service on your groups list on your website.
14. Solicit merchant members such as gear retailers and schools of your
association and club. Good reciprocal relationships can be built where the merchant members can support events and receive good exposure to the riding community.
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Karla Manzur has worked as a translator at the communications center in El Salvador for the past four years.
CFCA-El Salvador holds letter-writing day workshops where translators help CFCA social workers supervise the writing, spelling and legibility in letters written by sponsored children, youth and aging friends.
Karla attended her first letter-writing day workshop in February 2012.
"It changed my way of thinking," Karla said. "When you start working as a translator you don't understand how important a letter is to the sponsors and sponsored relationship. This visit made me realize that we cannot request a child to write a perfect letter."
Translators attend letter-writing day to learn more about the communities where we work and the difficulties the sponsored individuals face when writing letters to their sponsors.
It also allows Karla to discover more about the Salvadoran culture and the lifestyles of people in the United States.
Karla feels like a family member when she translates letters.
Translators have an important role in the communication between sponsors and sponsored friends by strengthening the bonds of friendship between the two.
Being a translator gives Karla the experience of traveling across the world as she translates letters from sponsors.
For Karla, her work is rewarding.
She isn't just translating any document. It is about translating the sponsored members' dreams, wishes and their joy of being sponsored.
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Off the west side Isla San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands, the snorkeling off Isla Lobos is a popular for playful sea lions.The best Isla Lobos snorkeling is off the protected south side. While there are little currents off Isla Lobos, the visibility is only 20-40 feet in the 10-30 foot deep waters.
The snorkeling in the Galapagos Islands is well known for its mar...
Off the west side Isla San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands, the snorkeling off Isla Lobos is a popular for playful sea lions.The best Isla Lobos snorkeling is off the protected south side. While there are little currents off Isla Lobos, the visibility is only 20-40 feet in the 10-30 foot deep waters.
The snorkeling in the Galapagos Islands is well known for its marine life encounters. The entire area is part of the Galapagos Marine Reserve which consists of 13 large islands, 6 smaller islands and 42 islets. While snorkeling in Galapagos Islands, you may encounter diverse marine life including Galapagos penguins, sea turtles, sea lions, marine iguanas, stings rays, manta rays, eels, reef sharks, parrotfish, damselfish, yellow-bellied triggerfish and hawkfish.
The high season for the Galapagos Islands is typically June through August, along with some holidays, though most snorkelers do not consider this to be the best time of year for snorkeling in the Galapagos. The high season just refers to when it is most crowded due to summer vacations. From June through November, the water tends to be cooler necessitating wet suits and resulting in poor water clarity. The warmer waters from December through May offer better water clarity, with the highest clarity of 15m in December and early January.
Overall, the waters around the Galapagos Islands are also known to have strong currents and waves, and not recommended for beginner snorkelers or for children. With that said, the hotter months bring on a general calming of the seas. The warm, wet season from December through May have the calmest seas with February having the calmest sea. This season typically has beautiful mornings followed by short afternoon tropical showers.
The Galapagos Islands are not well known for shore accessed snorkeling dive sites, and it is difficult to get from island to island. Therefore, the best way to enjoy the diverse snorkeling opportunities throughout the Galapagos Marine Reserve is by live-aboard cruise boat tour. The Galapagos National Park that encompasses all the islands limits the maximum cruise ship size to 100 passengers and the smallest yachts typically have 14 minimum passengers. Some cruise tours focus on land sights, so make sure you select a cruise that focuses on the snorkeling sights.
To reach the Galapagos Island snorkeling from Ecuador, you will first need to get to either the Quito international airport in the mountains or the Guayaquil airport (GYE) along the coast. Both are accessible from the USA via Miami or Dallas, depending upon the day of the week and time of year. Most of the international flights arrive in the late afternoon, while the inter-island domestic flights depart early in the day. Therefore, you will need to plan to spend the night in either Quito or Guayaquil. Similarly, on the return, you will need to spend the night again since the inter-island flights arrive in the afternoon and the international flights depart early in the morning.
From Quito or Guayaquil, there are daily flights to either the main Galapagos airport at Isla Baltra on the north end of Santa Cruz or three-day-a-week to Isla San Cristobal airport via TAME Airline or Aerogal Airline. It is a 1.5 hour flight from Guayaquil or 4 hours from Quito. Upon arrival at the airport, all tourists must pay the Galapagos National Park arrival fee of $100USD in cash. Upon departure from Equador, there is an international departure tax from Guayaquil of $26USD cash or from Quito of $41USD cash (it might be included in your international airfare ticket).
The Isla Lobos snorkeling is located about 1 hour boat ride from Puerto Baquerizo.
Overall, Isla Lobos is the 15th most popular snorkel dive spot of all 20 snorkeling dives in Galapagos Islands.
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Martha Stewart Gossip
Martha Stewart gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Girl Sh-t Master Class
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I want to thank the genius producer who put this segment together: it's Ellen and Drew Barrymore cooking with Martha Stewart, who is there to promote her 85th book (!!!!!), Appetizers. Drew has done a cooking segment with Ellen before and continues to expand her lifestyle profile with a makeup line, wine, and sunglasses. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, Friday May 29, 2015
In this morning's intro, Lainey asked what we thought of the Ian Somerhalder asking his fans to back off for the day. But putting him aside, I wonder what it's like for Nikki Reed to constantly be on the periphery of hysteria. She had it with Twilight and Kristen and Rob, and now she's married to someone who inspires that same type of, um, devotion. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, Wednesday May 13, 2015
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Don't Bring a Butter Knife to a Gun Fight
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We've been tracking the White Girl Sh*t version of civil (literally) war between Martha Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow for a couple months now. Martha first fired shots at Gwyneth's acting career and Gwyneth then followed by haughtily brushing her off with a "Watch your back, b*tch" cackle Full Story
Watch the WASP Throne
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Have you been keeping up with Preserve? Right now it's all capes and blossoming life, because Blake Lively is pregnant. Have you heard? This past weekend she made an appearance in New York at Martha Stewart's Made in America event. Martha and Blake go way back, obviously: they are neighbours, and Blake and Ryan Reynold's plantation wedding was featured in Martha Stewart Weddings (well, the dessert table was). Full Story
Giving Gwyneth the eye
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Thought you might like these shots of Martha Stewart at The Today Show this morning with a creepy eye, likely some kind of Halloween costume. Or perhaps sending a message to her nemesis Gwyneth Paltrow in her ongoing petty blonde lady lifestyle-off. I wasn't watching The Today Show. I'm not sure if she was asked about Gwyneth, again, and whether or not she told G to "be quiet", again. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
When rappers are mad at each other, they release diss tracks. When rich white ladies are marking their territory… They release new menus? As you've probably seen, in the current issue of Martha Stewart Living, there's a page called "Conscious Coupling", something about ingredients that work together, and just in time for Thanksgiving, the perfect time to keep mean-girling your lifestyle rival. Read Full Intro
Gwyneth laughs at Martha
A new installment of White Girl Sh-t was released last night. Gwyneth Paltrow made an appearance at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit yesterday for an interview. This just a few days after it was announced that she'd found a new CEO for GOOP: Lisa Gersh, formerly the CEO and President of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia who left that job after less than a year, amid rumours that she and Martha couldn't agree on a vision. Full Story
Who makes the best cupcakes?
My friend Traci Melchor called it Blonde on Blonde Crime on The Social today. I call it White Girl Sh-t. You heard what Martha Stewart said about Gwyneth Paltrow? During an interview with Porter Magazine, Martha was asked about GOOP. Full Story
Martha Stewart to Gwyneth: stay in your lane
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Those are not the words she's saying, Martha Stewart. In fact, the words that are coming out of her mouth, if you saw them in print, would seem supportive. Read these words without the tone… "I haven't eaten at Gwyneth's house and I've never seen how she lives. Full Story


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Whole Body Vibration – Vibra-Trim VT400 Machine Review
Whole Body Vibration exercise enables people to get 1 hours of exercise in 10 minutes. It is so effective that you only need to exercise 3 times a week to see major benefits from your routine. If you have not read our article on this technology please do so here.
Getting the right Whole Body Vibration machine or a good machine from all of the available Whole Body Vibration machines on the market for home is key. There are many things to consider as our first article pointed out. After you have decided on the platforms type getting a machine to meet your goals is important. We looked at the Vibra-Trim VT400 Whole Body Vibration machine.
The VT400 is a very nice Whole Body Vibration machine, this a 7G or under, pivotal/dual vibe machine. This is a very well built Whole Body Vibration machine and is very quiet in its operation. The machine is relatively easy to assemble when it arrives to your home. It ships in 2 boxes and you should have 2 people available to assemble this machine as it is very heavy. One thing nice about this Whole Body Vibration system is that it comes with all of the tools needed to assemble. All of the screws are pre-installed, so no more hunting for the proper sized screw to install a particular part.
The VT400 has 3 internal programs that you can run as a daily routine. It has a manual mode as well. You can even program your own routines using the USB flash drive concept that is provided with your machine. Given that you have 66 speeds available you can target routine by type, massage or wellness for example. The additional supplied resistance bands adds to the amount of different target exercises one can complete using the VT400. Other Whole Body Vibration machines on the market seem to have the issue that the heavier the person… the machines are known to slow down dramatically in its ability to deliver the goods. So in order to get the desire frequency/speed one would have to dial up the setting on the machine in order for it to deliver the power. That does not seem to be the case with the VT400. We had several people try the machine out to test this of differing weights from 110 lbs up to 225 lbs and it seems that this machine holds it own. As stated above this Whole Body Vibration machine is very smooth and quiet in its delivery of power where and when you need it.
Below are the specifications as listed by manufacture:
INPUT VOLTAGE: 110 Volt 60Hz
INPUT POWER: 2 Direct Current motors of 500W and 300W
VIBRATION TYPE: Oscillating, Orbital, and DualVib
SPEED SETTING: Each type of vibration can be set 0 –60 either independently or together
AMPLITUDE : Oscillating: 0 to 10mm / Orbital: 1 to 2mm / DualVib: 1 to 10mm
FREQUENCY: Oscillating: 5 – 30Hz / Orbital: 15 – 40Hz / DualVib: 25 – 50Hz
G FORCE: 2.8 – 7.35 Gs
PROGRAMS: Manual, 3 pre-set & 6 user definable
(USB Flash Drive) LENGTH OF PROGRAMS 1-20min
VIBRATING PLATE SIZE: 20" x 27"
ASSEMBLED SIZE: 23" x 27" x 53"
NET WEIGHT: 126 lbs.
GROSS WEIGHT: 146 LBS For shipping – it is packaged in 2 boxes, 29.5″ x 26″ x 12″ 106#, 57.7″ x 13″ x 12″ 40#
Whole Body Vibration is the perfect addition to your exercise routine. It can be done at home and does not take much time. In fact it is a really fun way to get an hours worth of exercise in 10 minutes, done 3 times a week. The pricing of this machine is in the under $2,000 mark. For this price we received a very nice Whole Body Vibration machine. If you are looking for a Whole Body Vibration machine, under 7G pivotal platform this is a must look for the list and we recommend the product highly. We are giving the Vibra-Trim VT400 Whole Body Vibration a 2011 Editor's Choice Award. There is an excellent guide on Wikipedia you can read about Whole Body Vibration.


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What: A cozy cocktail party celebrating illustrator, photographer, and creative jack-of-all-trades Garance Doré and her latest endeavor: a stationary and gift collection with the Rifle Paper Co.
When: Thursday, March 27th
Where: 168 Bowery in New York City.
Who: A street style photographer's dream, the party drew an It crowd that included Elisa Nalin, Kate Foley, Jenna Lyons, Courtney Crangi, and, of course, Doré's Sartorialist S.O., Scott Schuman.
Why: Guests were treated to a first-look at Doré's collection, a quintessentially French spread of Laduree macaroons and champagne, and the rare sighting of two street style photogs on the other side of the camera.


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ECAC Hockey Live Scoreboard
Game On
Harvard begins its 111th season of men's hockey by facing two ranked league opponents, No. 15 Union Friday and No. 18 Rensselaer Saturday. The opening faceoff for each game is at 7 p.m. at Bright Hockey Center.
Free Tickets (and T-shirts)!
Friday's game is Community Day. Residents of Allston-Brighton and Boston will receive free admission to the game. Present proof of address at the ticket window for your free ticket. The first 250 students in attendance will receive free T-shirts bearing the newly chosen slogan from the Harvard hockey T-shirt slogan contest. Saturday is Kids' Day, with children ages 12 and under gaining free admission.
Follow From Home
Live video of the games is available with a Crimson Central subscription on GoCrimson.com. Free live statistics are also available on GoCrimson. WHRB-FM 95.3 and WHRB.org offer live audio. Brendan Roche and Raafi Aldina will have the call.
In the News
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Noah Welch'05 humble to be back in NHL
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Dominic Moore '03 learns from travels
Laredo Bucks Add Chad Morin '10
Behind the Bench
Former Crimson captain, NCAA Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player and 13-year National Hockey League veteran Ted Donato '91 begins his seventh season as The Robert D. Ziff '88 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Ice Hockey. He owns an 91-89-20 record, three ECAC title-game appearances and two NCAA tournament bids.
Coach Donato on Sweden, Union and RPI
Scroll down to view Ted Donato's interview with WHRB's Brendan Roche.
Last Time Out
Ludvig Rensfeldt scored the game-winning goal on a second-period power play as the Swedish National Under-20 Team defeated Harvard, 2-1, in an exhibition Monday night. Kyle Richter (Calgary, Alta.) made 25 saves and Ryan Grimshaw (Rochester, N.Y.) scored for Harvard. Johan Gustafsson recorded 27 saves for the visitors, as the Crimson owned a 28-27 shots edge.
Alex Fallstrom (Stockholm, Swe.) logged an assist against his countrymen, and Marshall Everson (Edina, Minn.) also added a helper. Harvard held a 27-25 advantage in faceoffs, led by Alex Killorn (Montreal, Que.) with a 9-4 record at the dot and Fallstrom with a 5-2 mark.
League Play Gets Underway
All 12 ECAC Hockey teams begin conference play Friday, while Princeton and Yale kick off the Ivy League season in New Haven, Conn.
For Openers
The Crimson is 80-27-3 all-time in official season openers, including a team-record 18 straight opening wins from 1922-39. This is only the third time in 31 years that Harvard is opening the year against an opponent from outside the Ivy League. One of the two previous occasions came in 1991, when the Crimson started off with a 7-5 win against Union. Harvard opened the 2007-08 season at Clarkson, falling, 2-1.
Harvard has won four of its last six home openers and is 20-10-1 in home openers since the opening of Bright Hockey Center in 1979.
Let's Get It Started
Due to Ivy League schedule restrictions and no games last weekend, Harvard is the last of the 58 NCAA Division I men's hockey teams to begin the 2010-11 season. It is the Crimson's latest start to a season since beginning 1998-99 with a 4-1 loss to Brown on Nov. 6.
Experienced Opponents
As Harvard opens its season, Union and RPI enter the weekend having played eight and seven games, respectively.
A Tradition of Excellence
The Crimson has amassed an all-time record of 1,289-822-112 since skating in its first game in 1898. Harvard, which has played in six of the last nine ECAC title games, is seeking its 14th regularâseason league championship and ninth tournament crown this year. The Crimson has also won 21 Ivy League titles and made 21 NCAA appearances, reaching the Frozen Four 12 times.
Crimson Captains
Harvard is led by senior captains Michael Del Mauro (Watchung, N.J.) and Chris Huxley (Weymouth, Mass.) and assistant Kyle Richter.
Del Mauro, a three-time ECAC AllâAcademic selection, earned the Angier Trophy as the Crimson's most improved player last season. Huxley has played 85 games on the Harvard blue line and registered 25 points over the past three seasons. Richter was the 2008 winner of the Dryden Award as ECAC Hockey's top goalie and holds Harvard records for games (34), starts (34) and minutes (2,023) in a season.
Returning Statistical Leaders
Five of Harvard's top six scorers return from 2009â10. Michael Biega (Montreal, Que.) ranked second on the team with 22 points while logging a team-high 15 assists a year ago. Alex Killorn ranked third on the squad with 20 points and nine goals. Conor Morrison (London, Ont.) is the top returning goal-scorer, having netted 10 goals to go with eight assists. Chris Huxley led Harvard defensemen with 13 points, one fewer than forward Daniel Moriarty (Bienfait, Sask.).
Last Year's Opener
The Crimson began 2009-10 with a 5-3 win at Dartmouth behind two goals and an assist from Alex Killorn and 41 saves from Kyle Richter. Marshall Everson and Daniel Moriarty each notched a goal and an assist.
The Bright Stuff
The Crimson is 57-28â3 (.665) at home under Ted Donato and 279â121-28 (.685) all-time at Bright Hockey Center, which opened in 1979-80.
Road Warriors
Harvard, which opened the 2009-10 season with five straight road games, is playing its final full home weekend of the semester. The Crimson will play its next four games on the road.
Local Legends
Harvard's prolific "Local Line" of Bill Corkery '73, Bob McManama '73 and Dave Hynes '73 will be inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame on Wednesday. McManama, a native of Belmont, Mass., centered left wing Hynes of Cambridge and right wing Corkery of Arlington for each of their three seasons on the Crimson varsity squad. They helped Harvard capture the ECAC title and reach the NCAA semifinals as sophomores in 1970-71 and share the ECAC regular-season crown as seniors in 1972-73.
The Crimson posted a 52-16-3 record in those three years as the members of the Local Line totaled 201 goals and 407 points. At the time of their graduation, McManama and Hynes ranked second and third, respectively, on Harvard's career scoring chart and were tied for second all-time in goals at Harvard.
Scouting the Dutchmen
Union, coming off a third-place ECAC regularâseason finish and trip to the league title game, has lost just once, 2-1 at Alaska Oct. 15. The Dutchmen bounced back the next night with a 4-3 win against Alaska-Anchorage and has since beaten 2010 NCAA semifinalist RIT and tied rival Rensselaer.
Union owns the nation's top power play at 43.2 percent (16 for 37). Adam Presizniuk paces the Dutchmen with 15 points and 10 assists, while Jeremy Welsh has 13 points and a team-high six goals. Keith Kinkaid ranks in the nation's top 10 with both his 1.68 goalsâagainst average and .934 save percentage. Union is coached by former Harvard assistant Nate Leaman.
Harvard vs. Union Series History
Harvard holds a 30-5-3 all-time edge against Union and has lost just twice in the last 18 meetings. Ted Donato is 9-2-1 against the Dutchmen, and the Crimson is 16-2-1 in series meetings at Bright.
Harvard vs. Union in 2009-10
The Crimson swept two games against the nationally ranked Dutchmen. In Schenectady, N.Y., Ryan Carroll (Hackensack, N.J.) made 47 saves to lead Harvard to a 4-1 win over No. 13 Union. Eric Kroshus (Calgary, Alta.) set up Conor Morrison's tying goal and scored the goâahead marker himself in the second period.
In the rematch, Alex Killorn netted two goals and Kyle Richter logged 31 saves in a 4-3 win against the No. 16 Dutchmen. Alex Fallstrom had a goal and an assist in each game against Union.
Scouting the Engineers
Rensselaer enters Friday's game at Dartmouth on a six-game unbeaten streak since a season-opening loss at Colorado College. The Engineers are 3-0 at home, but a neutral-site tie with rival Union left them winless in four games away from Troy, N.Y., entering this weekend.
Chase Polacek is the reigning ECAC Hockey Player of the Year. With three goals and a team-high six assists, he shares this year's team scoring lead with top goal-scorer Tyler Helfrich (four goals, five assists). Allen York began the road trip ranked eighth nationally with a 1.79 goals-against average and 13th with a .934 save percentage.
Harvard vs. Rensselaer Series History
Harvard owns a 45-34-3 lead in the all-time series, which began with a RPI home win in 1951. Ted Donato is 7-4-1 against RPI, but the Crimson is seeking its first series win since Nov. 4, 2008. The Crimson and Engineers have combined for three national titles and have met twice to determine the ECAC champion, a 3-1 RPI win in 1985 and a 3-0 Harvard victory in 1994.
Harvard vs. Rensselaer in 2009-10
Last season's meeting at RPI was a 3-3 tie, with Louis Leblanc '13 forcing overtime by scoring with 2.3 seconds remaining. Alex Killorn and Doug Rogers '10 also had third-period tallies.
In the first five series home games under Ted Donato, the Crimson was 5-0 with four total goals allowed. RPI ended that streak Feb. 12 with a 5-4 comeback win after Harvard scored twice in the first two minutes and the teams totaled six first-period goals. Chase Polacek scored twice for the Engineers, while Conor Morrison led the Crimson with a goal and an assist.
It was the first blemish on Harvard's record in February home games under Donato. The Crimson entered with a 19-0-0 record in such games.
Special Forces
Harvard, which led ECAC Hockey in league penalty killing in 2007-08 and league powerâplay efficiency in 2008-09, ranked in the top half of the league in both categories last season. The Crimson killed penalties at an 80.9-percent rate (89 for 110) in ECAC games and converted 18.9 percent of its power plays (18 for 95).
Playoff Performers
Harvard used a 7-0 edge in third-period goals to pull off a road sweep of Princeton, 4-2 and 3-0, in the first round of the 2010 ECAC Hockey tournament.
Danny Biega (Montreal, Que.) recorded two goals, an assist and a +4 rating in the series, while Michael Del Mauro and Luke Greiner (Faribault, Minn.) had a goal and two assists each. Kyle Richter registered a 37-save shutout in Game 2, as Daniel Moriarty broke a scoreless tie with his third-period goal.
What a Difference a Year Makes
Harvard's opening-night lineup last season featured six freshmen and four sophomores among the 12 forwards. This season, none of the 14 Crimson's forwards has fewer than 22 games of experience. Eight have played at least 40 games. Four of those are seniors with at least 60 games under their belts: Michael Biega (95 games), PierâOlivier Michaud (Mont-Joli, Que.) (71), Matt McCollem (Westford, Mass.) (68) and Michael Del Mauro (63).
Stability Amid Turnover
Harvard lost four defensemen to graduation but returns three who skated in at least 30 of the team's 33 games last season: Danny Biega (32 games), Chris Huxley (32) and Ryan Grimshaw (30).
Dependability Between the Pipes
Kyle Richter and Ryan Carroll have combined to start 92 games in their Harvard careers. Richter owns a .913 save percentage and 2.66 goalsâagainst average in 74 career games (70 starts). Carroll has registered a .921 save percentage and 2.64 goalsâagainst average in 28 games (22 starts). They expect to be pushed this season by freshman Raphael Girard (Saint-Hyacinthe, Que.).
Year In, Year Out
Michael Biega leads Harvard with 22 goals, 33 assists, 55 points and 95 games played in his career. He ranked sixth on the team in scoring as a freshman in 2007-08 (9-7-16), third a year later (6-11-17) and second last season (7-15-22).
Back in the Lineup
Matt McCollem is back on the ice following the first healthy offseason of his collegiate career. He has battled injuries since his freshman season in 2007-08, when he logged 11 points (5â6-11) and a +8 rating over the final 14 games.
Pro Prospects
Danny Biega was the second returning collegiate player selected in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. He was taken with the seventh pick of the third round, the 67th overall selection, by the Carolina Hurricanes. Biega was the first Quebec native to be drafted, making it the second straight year a Harvard player has held that distinction after Louis Leblanc was selected in the 2009 first round by the Montreal Canadiens.
Biega's selection gives the Crimson four NHL draftees on its roster. Alex Fallstrom was chosen in 2009 (Minnesota Wild, fourth round, 116th overall, traded to Boston Bruins), Alex Killorn in 2007 (Tampa Bay Lightning, third round, 77th overall) and Matt McCollem in 2006 (St. Louis Blues, sixth round, 154th overall).
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South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na dominated the competition to win Olympic gold on Thursday, scoring a record-breaking 228.56, more than 18 points higher than her previous world record.
Kim, nicknamed "Queen Yu-na" back home, fulfilled expectations as the reigning favorite going into the competition -- and then some. The 19-year-old champion became the first South Korean to win a medal at a Winter Olympics in a sport other than speedskating.
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"I still can't believe it," Kim said. "I waited a long time for the Olympics, and it feels like a large weight has been lifted off."
After her flawless performance set to Gershwin's "Concerto in F," sweepers were needed – twice – to clear the ice of stuffed toys and flowers. Kim became teary eyed while soaking up the moment.
Next up was Kim's rival, Mao Asada, of Japan. Asada tried her best to challenge for top prize -- landing two triple axels, one in combination with a double toe loop -- but in the end, it wasn't even close. She finished 23 points behind Kim to take silver.
Joannie Rochette, whose mother died suddenly four days ago, delivered another brave performance to earn the bronze, becoming Canada's first women's medalist in the games since Calgary in 1988.
American Mirai Nagasu, 16, also ended strong, rocketing to fourth place from sixth in her first-ever Olympics. U.S. champion Rachael Flatt dropped to seventh.
Still, only on one other occasion since 1952 has the U.S. failed to medal in ladies' figure skating. The other time was 1964, three years after a plane crash wiped out the entire U.S. team on its way to the world championships.
Despite falling short in ice skating on Thursday, Team U.S.A. picked up medals on the slopes and in women's ice hockey.
American skier Bill Demong won gold in the Nordic Combined individual while teammate Johnny Spillane took the silver -- his third of the Vancouver Games.
In men's aerials, America's Jeret "Speedy" Peterson won silver Thursday night on the strength of his patented "Hurricane" jump. Alexei Grishin of Belarus took the gold after landing two clean jumps while China's Liu Zhongqing took bronze.
In a disappointment for the U.S., the women's hockey team fell to a strong Canadian squad after being unable to climb out of a 2-0 hole, and collected the silver medal for their efforts.Canada, bolstered by two first-period goals from Marie-Philip Poulin-Nadeau, won gold for their third consecutive Olympic Games. Finland took the bronze medal after beating Sweden 3-2 in overtime.
The Canadian women celebrated their win by emerging from their locker room about a half hour after the game ended to party on the ice – drinking bottles of champagne and beer and smoking cigars, The Associated Press reported.
Informed of the antics, the IOC said they would investigate.
"I don't think it's a good promotion of sport values," Gilbert Felli, the IOC's executive director of the Olympic Games said.
Also on Thursday, Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany won the women's giant slalom, which concluded after fog and wet conditions had forced the second of two runs to be postponed. American star Lindsey Vonn crashed during her first run on Wednesday and suffered a broken right pinkie finger, but that won't keep her out of Friday's slalom -- the final skiing event of the 2010 Olympics. Her teammate Julia Mancuso, who had to stop her run in the wake of Vonn's fall and was forced to start again, had the third fastest run in Thursday heat of the giant slalom but couldn't overcome Wednesday's disappointment and finished eighth overall.
"I felt I was able to put down a really good second run today," Mancuso said. "It just wasn't enough. ... I was pretty close, but I guess I'll wait for another four years." She said she will skip Friday's slalom, leaving her with two silver medals at these Games.
After 14 days of competition, the Americans have earned 32 medals, leading Germany by six in the standings. Both nations are tied in golds, at eight apiece.


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Woeter needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
We need a decaldesign that will fit perfectly on this supersport bike. It has to look like the decal could have been made by the original manufacturer. Use details from the bike!
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- Maybe a (very) small HONDA logo will look nice as detail
- Keep in mind that the design is for a brand new bike, driven by people in age 18-30
- Size of the decal will be approx. 11 cm (EPS file below)
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- Art may be rasterized, as no rescaling will be needed
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Store opening times at Drake Circus Plymouth may vary. Food will be open later – please check retailer websites for further details. Please note the centre will be closed on Easter Day and Christmas Day.
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Drake Circus car park is situated off Charles Street. It's clearly signposted via the city centre car park messaging system. The postcode for Drake Circus is PL1 1EA.
Drake Circus is a 10 minute walk from the station and there are regular bus services to and from Plymouth train station. Taxi stands can be found at Old Town Street.
Plymouth City Centre is served by Citybus and Stagecoach. All operate in most areas of Devon and Cornwall. There are many bus stops situated on Charles Street, all giving direct access to Drake Circus. Plymouth Coach Station is a 0.3 miles' walk away from the centre. Plymouth also operates a park and ride scheme with car parks at Coypool, Milehouse, and George junction. For more help, contact www.plymouth.gov.uk
ATMs are located on the Lower Mall and at the Food Court
Our car park is open from 6.30am - 1am.
There are 1,270 parking spaces including bays for disabled drivers and parents with children situated on Levels 1, 2 and 3. Please note, disabled spaces are for blue badge holders only and you must display your badge. There is a 2m height restriction for the car park.
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Information Pods featuring live bus timetables and electronic centre guides are located throughout the centre
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LOS ANGELES - Trey Parker and Matt Stone have killed Kenny hundreds of times on "South Park," but the video game based on their popular Comedy Central animated series is still very much alive.
After being delayed for months, Ubisoft revealed Monday during its Electronic Entertainment Expo presentation that "South Park: The Stick of Truth" will be released this holiday season for current-generation PC and consoles. The game's fate was up in the air when original publisher THQ Inc. sold off its assets earlier this year after filing for bankruptcy.
While at the Ubisoft booth Wednesday on the E3 show floor, the creators of the Broadway hit musical "The Book of Mormon" were lighthearted about the game's road to release.
AP: How does it feel to be on the E3 show floor?
Parker: It's funny. We're walking around seeing all this stuff, and then we saw this big (`South Park' sign) and we're like, `Oh, crap.' It's the same feeling I had when we walked around the corner and saw `Book of Mormon' up on Broadway. It's like, `Oh, we're doing this. OK. We better go get to work.'
AP: When is the game coming out now?
Parker: It's starting to look like in the next 10 years it's going to come out. We've been working on it for 26 years now.
AP: How are you bringing your sensibilities to the game?
Stone: The original concept of the game is that it looks like you're in a `South Park' episode. It's funny that it took all this high technology to make it look like the show. It is just the show. It's not a 3-D version or a new look of the show. It just looks like you're in `South Park.' That's been a little tough to pull off with the perspective, being a 2-D show, but that part of it is working really well. The other part of it is we have the map of the town for the first time. You can actually run around South Park, and we actually figured out where all the buildings are in relation to each other. We had never done that before.
AP: You frequently make fun of video games on "South Park," but now we're making one. How's that working?
Stone: We like video games a lot, and the kids in `South Park' love video games, so that's a part of the game itself.
Parker: I always loved role-playing games, so I wanted it to feel like you were the new kid in the town. That's what we talked about from the beginning. Conceptually, we need a new character in town, and it's you. You're the new boy. The dynamics of how you fit in. Are you Cartman's best friend? Are you Kyle's best friend? We knew, from our end, we could do all the writing of that and make it cool.
AP: Did you get a chance to check out the Xbox One or PlayStation 4? What did you think?
Stone: We played a little bit of a Roman game on Xbox and a racing game. They looked great. It's like when you have a baby and you have to get the baby room ready. Pretty soon, I'm going to have to get my room ready for my new Xbox and PS4.
AP: You've lampooned violence in pop culture on "South Park." What do you think about all the violent games here at E3?
Stone: There's still not enough. We want more. We think they should be way more violent.
Parker: Those are my favorite kind of games: killing as much stuff as you can.
AP: Can you kill anyone in your game?
Stone: Yeah, a little bit. It's a different sort of game. It's not going to be like a `Far Cry.'
Parker: We don't have enough pointless killing in it yet, but we're going to try to add that to it.
AP: Do you see "The Stick of Truth" as the beginning of a new gaming franchise?
Stone: If we can get a game out every 15 years, that's what we're doing right now.
Parker: We can basically do three Broadway musicals in the time that we can do one video game, so I don't know if it's the most lucrative business for us, but what is fascinating is how it ties in with the show. We're already starting to see that. Who knows in 10 years, when the game is getting done, what the technology will be or what system it's going to be on.
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Ty's sister got us a year pass to the zoo for Christmas and we were so excited to get out there and start using it so as soon as the weather allowed, which was right before Easter, we were there! This was Mabel's first zoo trip and she was about as excited as any 5 month old would be.
She did really love to see the fish tank... that was probably her favorite.
My poor Lorelai... I am going to have a collection of crack pics until we can find pants that are big enough for her booty but small enough for the rest of her skinny body.
She was chasing this peacock. Ty had 2 peacock's that ran away when he was a boy, so Lorelai thinks every peacock she sees is daddies peacock.
Lorelai was holding Mae's hand as we walked through the zoo and she was telling her all about the things we were seeing. It was very sweet.
So that was our zoo trip... I know you would expect to see pics of animals, but I have about 12 pictures of every animal in that zoo just due to the fact that we have been so many times so this time I only took kiddo pics. And let's be honest, they are cuter than the elephants anyway.


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I tried my hand (excuse the pun) at hand-soldering an SMD chip, and I simply cannot do it. I was wondering what kind of devices there are that can assemble and solder a board for me. I normally use KiCad for designing, and was hoping for something that could grab a chip, place it, and solder it all automatically. Hopefully something that won't cost ten grand or anything like that, I'm doing this as a small-time business venture and can't fit high-end machines into my budget.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm researching my options at this point, but I haven't a clue where to even start.