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FSU stakes claim to nation's best team after dismantling Clemson
CLEMSON, S.C. — Deep down they still talk about the lost decade, that desperate and deflating stretch of mediocrity that lapped the defining 10-year mark two seasons ago.
Even when they were standing on that stage last December in Charlotte, all smiles and accepting the ACC Championship trophy, they still weren't the Florida State of old.
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They knew it, and so did everyone else.
"We weren't who we wanted to be," FSU wideout Rashad Greene said this spring.
They are now.
These are your 'Noles of old, ladies and gentlemen. Big and bad and pumped and poised and stomping all over this big moment of the college football season.
The only thing a 51-14 emasculation of Clemson lacked was Neon Deion himself, standing at the bottom of The Hill before the game like he did in 1988 when the aura of all those dominating FSU teams was first built, daring Tigers players to come down and take their beating.
As it was, this wipeout ended with the most points scored against Clemson in Death Valley history—and the visiting team's fans storming the field for their own little party of a couple thousand.
Fast-forward six months to the latest assessment from Greene: "We're definitely the best team in the country. I don't put us second to none."
They've waited 12 long years for this; a college football lifetime of sorts. Three full recruiting classes—four years per class—have known FSU as nothing but good not great; steady not spectacular.
Now there's this: FSU is better on the line of scrimmage, has better skill players, has better coaching, than anyone this side of Alabama. Looking for a team that can stand toe to toe with the mighty Tide and not flinch? Here's your group.
Look, I've seen Alabama outlast Texas A&M and play no one else. I've watched Ohio State play a Pop Warner schedule, and nearly lose to Northwestern.
I've watched Oregon and Baylor roll up ridiculous numbers against teams that offer little resistance. There is no one—not even Alabama—playing better this season than Florida State.
"When we play our best," says FSU freshman phenom quarterback Jameis Winston, "we're hard to beat."
Finally, the connection to the past they've waited so long to capture.
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How many FSU teams over the lost decade proudly proclaimed this year would be different, then folded like a cheap pup tent in inexplicable losses to Wake Forest, or NC State or any other team FSU had no business losing to year after year.
Prior to this season, the Seminoles lost as double-digit favorites five times in three years under Jimbo Fisher, further underscoring this program's lost years. Only this offseason, after losing an unthinkable 11 players to the NFL Draft, something strange happened: FSU got closer as a team.
While most teams were using spring practice as a tune-up before the grind of fall camp, FSU was pushing through with precision and persistence and developing a killer instinct that plays out in games like these. It was then that an NFL scout told me that of all the teams he'd seen, FSU is the team closest to Alabama in terms of sheer size and talent.
"Grown ass men," he said.
After FSU destroyed Clemson in the biggest game ever here, that statement couldn't have been more clear—both physically and mentally. How many teams lose that many elite players to the draft, and get better?
How many teams lose that many upperclassmen, and find more leadership, more desire to embrace the past instead of running from it—or acting like you've already caught it?
"Those are big expectations to live up to here," said FSU safety Lamarcus Joyner. "A lot of pressure. But we've got guys who want that burden on their backs; guys who want to make the play when you need it."
At some point in this beauty pageant of a demolition derby we call the annual BCS race, you must take a step back and watch. Watch teams; watch how they play and how they react to success and adversity.
Ohio State isn't getting any closer to FSU than Clemson did. Nor is Baylor. Frankly, if FSU played like it did on this chilly night in upstate South Carolina, Oregon and Alabama aren't getting it done, either.
We've looked for years for the team that could dethrone Alabama and the SEC. Who would've imagined it would be Florida State, the team of all-talk no-walk for more than a decade, rising up and playing like FSU of the past.
It was so dominating and so destructive, you could have sworn it was the 2000 'Noles running around Death Valley with 28-year-old Chris Weinke throwing darts all over the joint. Instead it was 19-year-old redshirt freshman Jameis Winston, who is so good and so young after just six career starts, the only question lingering is why in the world didn't Fisher play him last year instead of dealing with the roller-coaster that was EJ Manuel?
And if you don't think that's the 400-pound elephant in the room, listen to Joyner explain the maturation of his quarterback now:
"He was making throws on the scout team last year as a true freshman that EJ was just developing as a senior," Joyner said.
All Winston did Saturday night was throw for 444 yards and three touchdowns, and add a short touchdown run while calmly leading FSU into a trap of a madhouse. It was deafening and Winston was making his first road start against a ranked team, and before you know it, he threw a 72-yard touchdown pass to Greene to put FSU up 24-7 and end all hope for Clemson.
"We weren't playing noise, man," said Winston, who has led FSU to two wins against ranked teams this fall by a combined 114-14. "We were playing Clemson."
When you've got a star who makes it look easy; when you've got a leader who is unflappable, these top 10 fistfights don't look so daunting. Just like more than a decade ago, when the FSU of old played its best when it mattered most.
These 'Noles look more and more like those FSU teams with every game they play. They're mean and nasty on the lines of scrimmage, and they're fast and athletic at the skill positions on offense and in the back seven on defense.
At one point during the three hours of agony for a packed and juiced Memorial Stadium, a microcosm of what FSU has finally become under Fisher played out with sweet simplicity. Winston threw a basic flat pass to tight end Nick O'Leary, who turned up field and ran over Clemson safety Travis Blanks—punctuating the play with a get-out-of-my-way forearm shiver.
Three plays later, Winston did what he does best: when the play breaks down, he makes everything better, scrambling for a 4-yard touchdown and a 34-point lead that began to empty the stadium.
I ask you, what team does that sound like?
Want a true example of what Florida State has become under Jimbo Fisher? Look no further than Alabama under Nick Saban.
An assistant under Saban in the early 2000s at LSU, Fisher built this FSU program with the specs given to him from Saban. It begins with winning on the recruiting trail, and ends with physically and mentally developing players.
Fisher beat his mentor for some of the very key players on his roster, including Winston, defensive tackle Timmy Jernigan and defensive end Mario Edwards. You get players, and then you fold them into your organization—and if all goes well, it develops into a unique, unrivaled chemistry and attitude that becomes the fabric of a program.
Manuel proclaimed last year that "next year is this year," in reference to FSU's much-mocked mantra while season after season ticked away over the lost decade.
Next year really is this year this time around.
"I love coaching this team," Fisher said. "If we keep taking care of our business, people will see."
They already do.


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The Sundance 2014 selections for the U.S. Dramatic Competition have officially been announced. These films all have various unique storylines and focus on different aspects of the genre. From this list of selected films, there are six that are already generating a lot of buzz.
The first film that is gaining attention stars Kristen Stewart and is currently titled Camp X-Ray. Stewart plays a soldier who has been stationed to work at Guantanamo Bay. However, while working there she befriends an Muslim inmate. This could be a breakthrough role for Stewart's transition back into dramatic films and definitely one to watch for.
The other films that are generating early buzz include Life After Beth starring Aubrey Plaza and Dan DeHaan, The Skeleton Twins starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, and Low Down starring John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, Lena Headey, and Peter Dinklage.
Plus, Cold in July starring Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard, and God's Pocket starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro, and Christina Hendricks are also generating early buzz. Read more details about these films on Yahoo! Movies and The Wrap.
Here is the full list of films selected for the 2014 Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition:
Camp X-Ray
Cold in July
Dear White People Fishing Without Nets
God's Pocket
Happy Christmas
Infinitely Polar Bear
Jamie Marks Is Dead
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Life After Beth
Low Down
The Skeleton Twins
The Sleepwalker
Song One
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival will be held in Park City, Utah, from January 16 to 26. What do you think of these films that have been selected for this portion of the festival? What do you think of the casts involved in these projects?
Sources: Yahoo! Movies and The Wrap


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i watched the king's speech this weekend and unsurprisingly loved every minute of it. colin firth is as good (great) as everyone says he…
i watched the young victoria again this weekend and started googling myself into a bit of a royal frenzy, reading about her history as well as all her successors. i particularly liked looking at pics of the very dapper king george vi (aka prince albert, queen elizabeth the second's father)
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A forex swap is a commission or rollover interest charged by a broker for extending a trader's position overnight. This is the reason why most traders refuse to prolong a deal until the next day.
How to calculate a currency swap? For instance, a trader wants to keep a position open until the day to follow. In this case, he has to pay a commission or swap for extending a position overnight. A currency swap is calculated on the basis of a differential between interest rates. Let's take an example. NZD 1.75% – USD 0.5% = 1.25%. This differential should be divided by 365 days, thus we get a percentage value which has to be paid.
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Recently, forex swap-free accounts or Islamic accounts have been introduced in the forex market. Traders do not have to pay a commission for using such accounts. In other words, a broker does not debit any money from an Islamic account for an overnight position on any currency pair. So, a trading result will depend only on exchange rates in a particular time frame. Forex swap-free accounts are targeted primarily at the Muslims who are not allowed to trade using long-term strategies by Islamic law. Indeed, payment of interest like a swap is prohibited by Shariah law. Besides, such accounts are used on trading platforms which operate without adjustment for swaps.


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Apple Wireless Keyboard
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This is not your Apple Extended Keyboard II, the mythical input device some Mac Graybeards swear resulted in a mini-orgasm with each key pressed, nor is it the IBM Model M Keyboard, which is said to have been used by God to create the universe. This keyboard, the Apple Wireless Keyboard, is the future.
Apple Wireless Keyboard, Batteries, Useless User Guide
Normally, unboxing an Apple product is both a minimalistic and vaguely pornographic experience: the removal of one layer of packaging leading inexorably to the next, ending in personal technology ecstasy. Unfortunately, unboxing the Apple Wireless Keyboard is less like watching an iPod striptease, and more like just putting your hand in the box. As usual package waste is minimal, though, not that it will matter to the freaks at Greenpeace.
It is in the unsheathing of the Apple Wireless Keyboard that I am filled with a sense of destiny. Holding it aloft, there is a sense of weightlessness and balance, the razor thin edge of brushed aluminum slicing though air like it is... air. More objectively, it's a keyboard.
Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Graybeard Keyboard
In size and shape, the Apple Wireless Keyboard makes the previous generation appear ungainly and inelegant, a dated kludge of a keyboard. But keyboards are for typing (that's why they have keys), and the first thing you notice about the Apple Wireless Keyboard is the lack of keys. You can be sure that Steve Jobs will receive "hundreds" of emails from irate accountants, programmers, and pro tool users over the lack of keypad and associated editing keys. Don't expect credit at the Apple Store this time. Apple has chosen not only to physically remove the keypad, but there is not even a numlock among the function keys to enable a virtual keypad. Instead, the function keys have new controls and a new layout, one that is matched on the new wired keyboard too.
Media Keys and Volume Keys
Personally, I welcome the dedicated control keys for applications like iTunes and QuickTime, but the dedicated controls are the default, not the function keys. Though this can be changed in the System Preferences, you then lose single button access to all the controls, including volume and brightness. However, those making use of the media keys will be pleased at the attention to detail in their usefulness. The keyboard "knows" what programs are running and "remembers" the last program that used the Media Keys, meaning it can easily be used for iTunes most of the time, and QuickTime or Front Row some of the time.
Brightness, Expose, Dashboard, and the Future
For those who don't use Dashboard or Exposé, Apple has decided that you will be looking at those icons until at least the next revision of keyboards. Perhaps in the future the two remaining keys will get their own features, like toggling virtual desktops or something.
Apple Wireless Keyboard modifier key layout
A more stylistic change takes us back to the "Happy Mac" controversy of 2002. Then, the familiar startup icon for the Mac was replaced with an apple. Now, the apple has been removed from the Command key, the word "command" mercifully added for the benefit of tech support folks, professional or familial, who will never again hear "What Command key? You mean the Apple key?"
Sadly not the modifier key layout
Unfortunately, foolish consistency is not only the hobgoblin of small minds, but at least some keyboard designers at Apple as well. In making the Apple Wireless Keyboard more like a laptop keyboard, the layout for the modifier keys was taken as is, as is being without a Control Key on the right. There is also the issue of key spacing, though that is something of an illusion. Previous, keys were beveled, but starting with the MacBook, rectangular keys were introduced that made the spacing obvious to the eye. The keys are definitely flatter, though. Having looked over the keyboard, it's time to install it. This being an Apple product, that should be intuitive, right?
Keyboard Left: Battery Compartment, Keyboard Right: Power Switch, Status Light
Intuitively, the first step was to install the batteries, a process that reinforced the perception that the industrial designers at Apple are indeed visionary. The cylindrical compartment at the rear seamlessly blends function into form, raising the back of the keyboard and housing the batteries.
Bluetooth System Preferences and Apple Wireless Keyboard
Once you put the batteries in and press the power button on the Apple Wireless Keyboard, the power indicator—invisible until pressing the power switch—lights green for a few seconds before vanishing. A dialog box then appears in OS X notifying you of a new Bluetooth device and asking you if you want to set it up. Answering affirmative runs the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Selecting keyboard causes a visual keypad to appear, allowing you to enter the numbers for pairing the device using a mouse, in case you don't have another keyboard set up. Once that's done, Software Update runs automatically, notifying you of the requisite drivers needed, in this case for the media keys. Of course, the update doesn't require a restart—it just works!
That's the fantasy. The reality is that you need either the useless User Guide or know the drill.
System Requirements
- Mac computer with Bluetooth
- Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
- Keyboard Software Update
- Existing keyboard and mouse for initial setup
- Three AA batteries (included)
- Batteries
- Bluetooth Setup Assistant
- Pairing
- Software Update
- Restart
Low Battery Indicator, Connectivity Indicator
Besides a setup process that reminds me of Windows, I found another annoyance related to establishing Bluetooth communication. My wireless Mighty Mouse temporarily "forgets" the Tracking setting, moving very, very slowly for ten seconds or so when the keyboard is first recognized, and every time it is turned on after being turned off. I found this to be the situation with both a Core Duo iMac and a PowerBook G4, though admittedly it could be related to my setup—sure. More objectively and positively, there are little touches that you expect from Apple appear when your battery is low and when you turn the keyboard off. Even if you don't have the Bluetooth Menuling shown, when batteries run low, it appears and flashes in the Menubar. Anyone who must deal with the insufferable balloons in the Windows Taskbar will appreciate the right way to notify the user of system events.
As for Windows, the Apple Wireless Keyboard works fine with virtualization, appearing as a "Standard 101/102-Key" keyboard for Windows XP. I, like many, many others, am not running Vista yet, but I'm sure it works fine (right?). As for how, the Apple Wireless Keyboard itself "works" in daily usage, that question is best answered in relation to the keyboard it is replacing.
In one way, the SlimTouch is better than the Apple Wireless Keyboard, that being the integrated touchpad. While the Apple Wireless Keyboard works with Front Row using the Arrow Keys and Media Keys, the lack of a touchpad makes it ill-suited for daily use with an HTPC. The SlimTouch also does not have white keys, something Apple did not take the opportunity to fix with the new keyboards. This means purchasing a few Magic Erasers from Mr. Clean is a good idea. The Magic Eraser does not—at least on my Apple Wireless Keyboard—erase the letters, but does appear to restore the keys to their unboxed whiteness. Setting aside an issue of input preference and obsessive cleanliness, the Apple Wireless Keyboard bests the SlimTouch in several ways.
The Apple Wireless Keyboard benefits from a better keyboard layout, has dedicated media keys, is even smaller and lighter than the SlimTouch, and while the SlimTouch keys are quiet, the Apple Wireless Keyboard is nearly silent. The Apple Wireless Keyboard also uses Bluetooth, meaning it can wake the computer from sleep, and it does not need an RF receiver blocking a USB port. In terms of connectivity, there is no difference in range, nor does either keyboard drop keys, but the Apple Wireless Keyboard suffers no lag for the first key pressed after a period of non-use—very nice. Battery life is still an unknown for the Apple Wireless Keyboard, but like the SlimTouch it's a good idea to have an extra set of rechargeable batteries. If it isn't obvious, I prefer the Apple Wireless Keyboard to the SlimTouch, but is it the better keyboard?
The most subjective aspect of a keyboard review—and one that is largely worthless unless the reader is a twin or clone of the author—is how it feels. Having disclaimed that, the Apple Wireless Keyboard feels good. I find the keys to be responsive, but then as my wife says—occasionally screams—I have a very light touch. However, the Apple Wireless Keyboard is probably not for someone with sausage fingers and/or poor motor skills. Regarding ergonomics, the keyboard is flat, not curved, not adjustable, the keys flat, not beveled, short strokes the norm, tactile response lacking compared to buckling springs and mechanical switches. Some will say this does not a real keyboard make, but does it matter?
If the layout change and the removal of the keypad doesn't make it obvious, laptops are the future. By moving toward design unity, Apple is once again getting ahead of the curve. As with every transition, a small minority will hate the change, but you really should at least try hating it in person first. You need to try the Apple Wireless Keyboard, or USB version, at a local Apple Store—where you will likely be disgusted by how filthy the keys are—but at least you will know.
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I give the Apple Wireless Keyboard 4 infinities out of a possible 5. Evolution is an imperfect process, but add a touchpad and the future might just achieve perfection.


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English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE PRS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian in 1932.
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- In the great head-end which has been mostly darkness springs up myriads of twinkling stationary lights and myriads of trains of moving lights of many different directions. It is as though activity from one of those local places which continued restless in the darkened main-mass suddenly spread far and wide and invaded all. The great topmost sheet of the mass, that where hardly a light had twinkled or moved, becomes now a sparkling field of rhythmic flashing points with trains of traveling sparks hurrying hither and thither. The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns. Now as the waking body rouses, subpatterns of this great harmony of activity stretch down into the unlit tracks of the stalk-piece of the scheme. Strings of flashing and travelling sparks engage the lengths of it. This means that the body is up and rises to meet its waking day.
- Man On His Nature (1942), p. 178
- The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.
- As quoted in the article The Human Brain — Three Pounds of Mystery, in The Watchtower magazine (15 July 1978)


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ARE WE HEADED FOR A CAPITAL SHORTAGE? by Dr. WILLIAM C. FREUND, Vice President and Chief Economist, The New York Stock Exchange Given the gradual pace of recovery, today's economic news has tended to alleviate our worries about the adequacy of capital investment. However, unless serious attention is given to the problems of capital formation in the economy, today's " g o o d " economic news may be replaced not too far down the road by news of renewed inflation, reduced rates of economic growth, and insufficient new jobs for our growing labor force. To be sure, the near-term business outlook is encouraging. The economic recovery is showing considerable internal energy. The momentum of expansion is solid, and well-founded. And few economists doubt the upturn will last more than a year, despite recent slowdowns. Is The Present Recovery Sound? Consumer outlays have spearheaded the economic recovery. Automobile sales promise to total close to 10 million in 1976, with imports down and domestic output up. Retail sales are also holding up, and consumer confidence is likely to receive another shot in the arm with a tax cut early this year. Moreover, recent moderation in consumer spending encourages the belief that the expansion will avoid excesses, thereby prolonging its duration. In the meantime, retail, wholesale, and manufacturing inventories have had to be replenished in order to keep pace with sales, while the inventory sales ratio shows a need for greater production to maintain adequate supplies. The housing sector has not only turned up, but is beginning to show considerable vigor. It seems reasonable to expect that total new housing starts in 1976 will reach well over 1.5 million. Inflation should hover around 6 percent for the beginning of this calendar year. Although the GNP price deflator came in just under 4 percent during the first quarter of 1976, this low rate will probably not be repeated soon. One reason is that the decline in wholesale food prices of a year ago is not likely to continue; the consumer price index also indicates a 6 percent inflation rate. Interest rates, short-term, may move upward in early 1977, as bank loans rise to finance increased short-term demands and as the Federal Reserve System tries to maintain an even-keel posture. Long-term rates will probably not show any marked increase. The reason for moderate long-term credit demands by the corporate sector is that profits are expected to rise 25 to 30 percent in 1976, and perhaps another 10 to 15 percent in 1977. Retained earnings will thus provide financial resources which would otherwise have to be supplied externally. Of course, any serious heating up of inflation will be reflected in long-term interest rates, but this development is not anticipated for the coming year. New plant and equipment spending is sluggish compared to the relatively optimistic trends in consumer spending, inventory accumulation, housing, inflation, and interest rates. While capital investments typically lag behind business cycle turns, the lag is generally no more than six months. The economy is now more than a year beyond the low point of the recession, however, and capital spending has yet to show a marked improvement. According to a Commerce Department survey taken in April and May, business planned to spend $121.03 billion on plant and equipment in 1976. While this is a 7.3 percent gain over 1975, it represents only an 0.8 percent rise in "real" capital spending after stripping away the effects of inflation. This is considerably below the increases in real growth that hovered around 5 percent following the recession periods of 1957-58 and 1960-61, and around 2 percent following the recessions of 1953-54 and 1970-71. This apparent stagnation in real business spending is disconcerting to economists, since 1976 was expected to be a "boom" year for capital goods industries. While a further rise in capital investment is expected in 1977, a prolonged sluggishness in investment activity could dampen prospects for a sustained recovery over the next few years. Indeed, unless capital spending rises more vigorously, bottlenecks and selected shortages will begin to appear, thus intensifying inflationary pressures. What are America's Capital Needs? While the near-term economic outlook is bullish, there are growing fears among a number of economists concerning the long-run growth of the economy. Will there be, for example, major capital shortages in the decade ahead— similar to the credit crunches of 1966 and 1969 and the extreme capital stringency in 1973-74? To corporate financial officers, those periods of capital shortage were not an abstract economic projection. Only the biggest and best-rated firms were able to obtain funds 6
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Are we headed for a capital shortage?
Freund, William C.
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To create our Iced Teal Fine Merino DK yarn, we source the finest 100% Merino wool. Then we spin it in our own mill in Yorkshire using decades of experience. The result is a seductively warm shade of teal. Rich in colour, handle and heritage and luxuriously soft to the touch. Machine Washable at 30°C.
Colour: Blue
Fibre: Fine Merino
Length: 120 m (131 yrds)
Required Crochet Hook Size: 4mm,US G/6
Required Needle Size: 4mm,US 6
Standard Weight: 3 Light
Tension: 22 sts x 30 rows per 10cm (4in) square
Thickness: dk
Yarn Weight: 50g (1.8oz)
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A Google executive said that Google doesn't need retail stores to succeed, despite rumors that the tech titan is developing a chain of storefronts.
Andy Rubin, Google's Android chief, told reporters that consumers need brick-and-mortar stores less because they rely on friends' advice or reviews, according to AllThingsD. "They don't have to go in the store and feel it anymore," Rubin said.
Rubin also said that the products are still too young to think about placement in storefronts -- which is kind of a weird thing to say, especially since that never stopped Apple. Every launch of their new device was treated as a celebration of excess.
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Rubin was also clear when asked about Google's retail store plans. "Google has no plans and we have nothing to announce," he said.
The rumor of Google retail stores began last week, when 9to5 Google said it received news from an anonymous sources. The report indicated that Google was opening the store primarily to see its Google Glass device.
Whether or not Google opens its own standalone stores or expands them in other chains, what Rubin says is incorrect. Even those who bought the first iPhone and iPads had the opportunity to look at it before forking over the money.


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Libya: Show of support for Gaddafi in Sirte
"I'm very happy for this President Muammar Gaddafi - I love Africa," said Ismail Abdullah. "Muammar Gaddafi is very good for everybody black in Africa."
[Global: Libya]
Sirte is Col Gaddafi's hometown. It's also his heartland. For this reason, the Libyan government invited us to have a look.
It wanted to show us that - in this part of the country at least - the leader still has plenty of support.
The six-hour drive from Tripoli to Sirte was a chance to see what life is like in the parts of Libya which are controlled by the government. Official guides (or minders) drove us in a minibus - firstly along the coastal road, then south into the desert in order to avoid the rebel-held city of Misrata.
Our drive took us past watermelon stands and herds of camels. We passed more than a dozen makeshift military checkpoints along the way - sometimes little more than a couple of soldiers guarding a few bricks laid across the road.
None of the soldiers we came across looked particularly anxious. We saw no sign of any rebels. The ease of the journey was noticeable. There was no sense of siege.
Green brigade
In fact, it was often hard to tell that this is a country at war. The only obvious reminders were the long queues for petrol in Tripoli. One line next to the main coastal road stretched for about a kilometre. Many of the cars were empty - suggesting that the drivers believed that the wait for petrol would be extremely long.
We arrived in Sirte in time for an early evening rally in support of Col Gaddafi. Several thousand people gathered in the centre of the city. Many wore green baseball caps or waved green flags (green is the colour of those who support the colonel).
One young boy sat on the curb and diligently coloured his right forearm with a green felt-tip pen."Write the truth now," one man told us. "Hundreds of thousands of people," he said, pointing towards the crowd.
Many demonstrators carried pictures of Col Gaddafi. Behind the stage, there was a picture of a young man who had been killed in the past few months of conflict. "He is a martyr," another man told me approvingly.
'Judgement Day'
The rally included an audio message from the leader himself. "There will be no talks between me and them [the rebels] until Judgement Day," Gaddafi's voice told the crowd, to cheers.
There is little sign of siege or impending defeat "I'm here to support Gaddafi because Nato just wants the oil," said Hamed Abel Asha. "This war is only for changing the government to get the oil."
"I'm very happy for this President Muammar Gaddafi - I love Africa," said Ismail Abdullah. "Muammar Gaddafi is very good for everybody black in Africa."
The demonstration ended with celebratory gunfire and fireworks. It was a chance for some of the colonel's younger supporters to try out their still-developing shooting skills.
One teenager standing beneath a block of flats fired a volley of shots from an AK47 into the air. He was immediately accosted by a man who was annoyed that the shots had been fired so close to his children. The teenager took a few steps down the street, fired off another shot, realised that he had run out of ammunition, and walked away.
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RE: Nosort parallel dml uses TEMP tablespaceHi!
Btw, I did a little testing with PARALLEL 2, and yes it seems to be a parallel slave communications issue, despite the segments show type "SORT". When i traced sorting with 10032 & 10033, I saw sort segment allocation, but no real sorting occurring. When I compared first rows in source table with target one, I saw that when in source table I had rows (1,2,3,4,5,6,7), then in beginning of target table, I had (1,3,5,7,etc..). That means I had only one session reading data (query coordinator), which then evenly distributed data to it's slaves.
You should include PARALLEL hint to your select statement as well, with same number of slaves (in addition to insert +append one), that way PX can work parallel_to_parallel way, thus for each producing (query) slave there is a consuming slave and data doesn't have to be distributed or splitted from one source to several queues (like with parallel_from_serial). That way no data is intermediately stored to temporary segments. This worked for me, but since PX is a complex mechanism, you might see different results.
It could be that parallel slaves are passing intermediate results using TEMP tablespace for some reason. (When table queues are full in some cases or smth like that). It can depend on parallel execution plan as well (whether it's parallel_to_parallel or parallel_to_serial data distribution).
If you used only /*+ APPEND */ without parallel, then operations were done serially by one session only, thus no intermediate result passing between slaves (using table queues) were needed.
You might want to post your question to comp.databases.oracle.server newsgroup, I've seen Jonathan Lewis answering more advanced performance related questions there.
I'm even more confused now.
TEMP ran out of space at 20GB - I'm only inserting 12.2GB!
So I kicked it off again with the hint just as /*+ APPEND */ and it completed successfully in 1/6th the time to failure of the parallel insert.
-----Original Message----- From: Turner, Adrian A SITI-ITPSIE Sent: 16 September 2003 15:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Nosort parallel dml uses TEMP tablespace Apologies if this has been covered before but metalink is not clear on the reasons behind it.... The database is running version 9204 EE on WinNT Sp6; and the statement is a parallel direct load into partitioned table selecting from a 12.2GB source table. ALTER SESSION ENABLE PARALLEL DML ; INSERT /*+ APPEND PARALLEL(TRANSACTION_NEW,4) */ INTO TRANSACTION_NEW (select * from TRANSACTIONS); I'm seeing segments created in the temp tablespace (from v$sort_usage) Sess# User Name TABLESPACE CONTENTS ext BLOCKS SZ_MB ----- --------- ------------------------------- --------- -------- ---------- ---------- 9 SYS TEMP2 TEMPORARY 1629 208512 1629 11 SYS TEMP2 TEMPORARY 1629 208512 1629 12 SYS TEMP2 TEMPORARY 1629 208512 1629 13 SYS TEMP2 TEMPORARY 1629 208512 1629 I've enough space and it'll finish by tomorrow morning which is the deadline but does anyone know why TEMP is required and what the end to end process is? I would have expected to have seen temporary segments created, but in the partitions own tablespace. It doesnt seem optimal to me. Thanks in advance for your help, Regards, Adrian
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Two for one: great music plus the life of a talented, tormented man
Lost Highway, at Infinity Theatre gives two exceptional entertainments at once. First, we are treated to great music from a bygone era, authentically presented with superb musicianship. Then, within that broad framework, we see the life of a talented, tormented man. Lost Highway is far more than a musical revue.
In his day, Hank Williams was the superstar of country music or, as it was then known, Hillbilly Music. (Full disclosure: I grew up in that era; you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing Hillbilly Music. As often as not, it was ol' Hank twanging away.)
The faultless musical numbers are alone worth the price of admission. Every number is true to the original Hank Williams rendition — so close that I looked for signs of lip-synching — Not! Every tune (21 of them) has the audience clapping in unison. I especially liked Your Cheating Heart, Jambalaya and Hey, Good Lookin', although I hasten to add that these are personal likes for every song is as good as every other.
The arc of Williams' tragic life is intermingled with the music in such a way that audience emotions are played with as on a rollercoaster ride. That, together with fine acting, makes this play exceptional, for Jason Petty is as close the real Hank Williams as it is possible to be.
The sheer joy of the musical performance gives way to pity as we watch the collapse of a great talent.
So for comic relief, we are treated to corny banter of the kind that was de rigeur on country music radio stations.
Player 1: "My wife says I'm the most handsome man she's ever seen."
Player 2: "I didn't know your wife was blind."
Not so funny here on paper, but stated rapid fire with other corny-isms, it is.
Hank's dominating mother supported his musical career, which started when he was 13. He quickly caught the eye, and the ear, of Nashville music executives, and his career took off. But there was darkness in Hank's life: He was born with spina bifida and became addicted to alcohol and painkillers. He often showed up drunk onstage, and colleagues found it increasingly difficult to work with him. Along the way, he married Audrey, a lady of limited talent who was sure that she had the makings of a superstar. Hank gave her a chance onstage, then fired her. Hank's mama had a tense relationship with Audrey, with Hank stuck in the middle between mama and wife.
Hank Williams died at age 29 in the back seat of a powder blue Cadillac.
All this, and more, is captured on stage. Every performer gives a sterling performance, with Jason Petty as the standout core of the play. Imagine the practice that went into developing the Hank Williams persona. Petty even looks like Williams. The band comprises three kinds of guitar, a fiddle and a standup bass, all played by consummate musicians who are also convincing actors.
Audrey Womble gives a fine performance of wife Audrey, a naïve wannabe who nevertheless has Hank's best interests at heart. Mama is played by Becky Barta, who shows what tough means as she does her best to keep her wayward son in line.
Infinity Theatre has found the perfect venue for its productions. The theater is roomy with excellent acoustics perfect for a musical production. With shows of this caliber, Infinity Theatre will be around for a long time.
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Put Will Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will, in the hands of the junior corps of Twin Beach Players and what do you get? A celebration performed by actors who seem to be playing for the joy of it. The Players' uninhibited festival of uncertain purpose may be just what Shakespeare had in mind.
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Q: I have been cleaning my filter pads once a week with a garden hose because they are filled with gunk all the time. This doesn't seem normal. How often should I be cleaning my filter pads? – Tonie of Massachusetts
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The Purpose of Filter Pads
Filter pads (or other filter media) contain a large amount of surface area. This surface area within time will grow increasing amounts of beneficial bacteria. This beneficial bacteria (also called nitrifying bacteria) will break down ammonia from fish waste into nitrates. Also, some customers mistakenly believe this beneficial bacteria is "gunk" and will unfortunately clean it off having to have the beneficial bacteria start over again!
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If the "gunk" on your filter pads becomes over abundant and restricts water flow from your pump, only then would it be necessary to clean them. Usually when this is the case, it has a buildup of other debris besides beneficial bacteria. To properly clean the filter pads I suggest to take a bucket of water from your water garden and dip the filter pad into the bucket knocking off any debris and leaving the "gunk". I DO NOT recommend using tap water from your garden hose to do this because the water contains heavy metals or chlorine that will kill off the beneficial bacteria on your filter pads. After cleaning your filter pads or if you accidentally used tap water to clean them, you can use PL Gel. PL Gel is like injecting beneficial bacteria directly into your filter pad. PL Gel will reduce bacteria start-up time by up to 80%. I have found it to be very successful.
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Where's all the Emirati cuisine?
In the cultural and culinary melting pot of the United Arab Emirates, travelers can chow on everything from French to Japanese, kimchi to ceviche.
But despite the UAE's deserved reputation as a culinary capital, one thing is lacking -- Emirati food.
Blame all those expats. They now account for more than 75% of the country's population, even outnumbering locals 11 to 1 by some estimates.
Those numbers are reflected in restaurants in UAE cities –- from Zuma to Hakkasan, trendy gastronomic brands dominate, as do celebrity chef places from the likes of Gary Rhodes, Pierre Gagnaire and Nobu.
Add to the mix great backstreet eateries serving the best Indian food this side of Madras and you can eat from the tables of almost every continent.
More on CNN: 7 of the best Emirati restaurants in Dubai
"Emirati restaurants being so scarce did strike me as odd at one time," says British expat John Thatcher, a UAE resident for nine years.
"But after asking a few questions and discovering that all Arabic food is pretty much the same it no longer surprises me, especially as less than 20 percent of the population is local and there's more chance of attracting tourists by building an outsized mall than stuffing a lamb's arse with rice."
Still, what few realize is the UAE has a cuisine all its own, one that dates back thousands of years.
Even if it's not easy to find, I want a taste of it: harees, madhroobah, mahshi (this is where the sheep comes in), the kind of food Bedouin tribes ate back when the Burj Khalifa was still a mirage.
The kind of food that today remains largely locked up in Emirati homes.
No Emirati chefs means no Emirati restaurants
My best shot at tasting the real thing is to find an Emirati chef.
I sift through the handful of advertised restaurants and find just one: Ali Ebdowa, or "Chef Ali" as he's best known. He's a man of legend –- no one I speak to has actually seen him.
Beneath the gargantuan gold dome of Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace, I walk into Mezlai -- billed as "the first Emirati restaurant in the UAE" -- and am ushered into a hot kitchen by Chef Ali himself. Like a riveting episode of "Hell's Kitchen," there are lots of men in chef whites shouting what sound like Arabic insults at each other.
A bit stocky, with short hair, glasses and a welcoming smile, Chef Ali is friendly and talkative.
"You are Emirati?" I ask Chef Ali.
"Absolutely," he nods, hoisting a whole lamb onto the steel counter beside me by way of proving the point.
"Why are there so few Emirati restaurants in Dubai and Abu Dhabi?" I ask.
"There are no Emirati restaurants because there are no Emirati chefs," Chef Ali replies, adding that the lack of local chefs comes down to culture.
While the Western world may obsess over the latest creations of their top chefs, Emiratis -- men especially –- are reluctant to follow cooking on a professional level.
"Emirati people are shy of this job," says Ali.
"Some men I know, they cook at home but will say to me, 'No, I don't cook.' I say, 'I'm challenging you.' He says, 'No I don't cook, even an egg I don't do.' He thinks this is good, he thinks it's to be proud of … some people they feel shame, they say 'Even tea I don't do.'"
More on CNN: Ultimate Dubai stopover guide
Hotels would not take the local
Rather than be annoyed at this, Ali is amused. He learned to cook in the military, so few consider his talent a point of emasculation.
"I am an army man, and I like the food I learned from my mother," he tells me, eyes on the lamb carcass.
Still, Emirati stereotypes have been a hurdle for Ali.
"I feel I have something, but so many hotels would not (employ) 'the local,'" he says. "They think I want a big salary, that I would not work … It was difficult."
Ali toughed out the job search and landed posts at Jumeirah Emirates Towers and the Burj Al Arab.
"I was the only Emirati in the whole of Jumeirah," he says. "I worked with 95 nationalities."
The real thing
So what is true Emirati food?
"The food is the food," says Ali. "Machbous is machbous [spiced meat with rice], mahshi is mahshi [stuffed cabbage] with meats, rice, chicken and spices ... spices are very, very important. Ours are like Indian spices, but everyone has his own style."
The rice is sunflower yellow (dyed with orange saffron milk), shark meat is bathed in blood-red sauce (tomato braised), UAE chicken is yellow-tinged (more spice) and sides include "camel milk mash."
Everything is hearty.
Ali shows me how he's revived an Emirati cooking tradition and sends a lamb shoulder, wrapped in banana leaves, to be slow-cooked in an earthen hole -- or, in this case, a special oven masquerading as a hole.
Ali says another reason Emirati cuisine been sidelined in favor of foreign cuisine is the Emirati family tradition of sometimes eating with the hands, with many plates, all together at one time.
As for the future, though a wave of young Emirati chefs seems unlikely, it's worth noting that Ali has seven children of his own.
When asked if there's a budding chef among them, he smiles.
"One," Chef Ali replies.
For now, that's enough to keep a tradition alive.
Gallery: World's largest natural flower garden opens in Dubai
Where to eat Emirati cuisine in the UAE
Al Fanar Restaurant, Dubai Festival City Mall, Dubai; +971 4 232 9966; www.alfanarrestaurant.com
Al Hadheerah, Bab Al Shams Desert & Spa Resort, Dubailand; +971 4 809 6194; meydanhotels.com/babalshams
Al Makan, Souk Madinat, Jumeirah, Dubai; +971 4 368 6593; www.jumeirah.com
Local House, Bur Dubai, Dubai; +971 4 354 0705; www.localhousedubai.com
Mezlai, Emirates Palace, West Corniche Road, Abu Dhabi; +971 2 690 7999; www.kempinski.com
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With a life-saving infusion of Chinese cash on deck, Saab's ready to return to its beloved, idiosyncratic self. These pictures, nicked from a fundraising presentation earlier this year, give some outline to its brighter future.
Saab gave a PowerPoint presentation to the Swedish National Debt Office in January of this year in one of its many attempts to secure vitally-needed kroner. Although the meeting's materials were heavily redacted to protect industry secrets before being archived, someone neglected to black out the visuals. Three stills have been made public by major Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. (Note: Link is to original article written in Swedish.)
The most eye-catching shot is the above rendering of the new 9-3, the company's volume backbone and a model that must immediately do well if Saab is to endure. Styled by Pininfarina alum Jason Castriota, it's a decisive rejection of the GM-induced blandness that doomed the previous 9-3 to forgettability. The graininess of the scan does nothing to obscure the fact that it's a four-door hatchback, a familiar form for the company — and that shape could be nothing but a Saab.
Perhaps more important is the strategic timeline. The company is now obviously a few years behind the schedule as laid out, but the three-pronged product strategy still seems to promise the eagerly awaited neo-96 alongside the proposed 9-3 and recent 9-4X.
Major patience is still essential for Saab fans as the situation progresses, but if the company's new Chinese owners can keep the faith there is reason to believe.


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NFL teams have no time to sulk after brutal Black Monday
- 7 coaches and 5 general managers were fired Monday, most ever on a Black Monday
- Teams have already begun scrambling to fill vacancies, setting up interviews with desired candidates
Norv Turner received a note last week from Josh Whitman, a former player for the San Diego Chargers and now the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.
Whitman played only one season under Turner, in 2001, when Turner was the offensive coordinator, but Whitman wanted to thank him for everything he'd done for him.
"On the bottom of it he said, 'you changed my life,'" Turner told reporters Monday during his final press conference after being fired by the Chargers. "And that's what you're trying to do as a coach."
WHO'S OUT?:Track Monday's coach and GM firing?
BELL:The coldest Black Monday ever?
They call it "Black Monday" in the NFL. There's breathless speculation and posturing leading up to it, and a race to report the news. There are fans hoping for the news their coach gets fired, with the Chargers' faithful using the hashtag #FireNorv on Twitter for a long time now. But behind all of the names scrolling across the bottom of the screen or popping up on Twitter feeds are human beings who just lost their dream jobs.
Well-paid human beings who just lost dream jobs many would love to hold for just one day? Absolutely. But men who now face uncertain futures and must think about uprooting their families to follow them elsewhere.
There were seven coaches and five general managers who lost their jobs in the most active Black Monday ever, with more to come for sure.
SCHEDULE:Who's your team playing in 2013?
"Today is, every year, my least favorite day in the National Football League," said Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, who fired Andy Reid. "For 14 years, I (have been) at home watching teams have to make changes with their head coaches. They work so hard at it, and every year for 14 years I sit there and I feel for many of them who I know quite well. Several of them have worked in this building and you just feel for them.
"Today we're in that position, and this is the first time in 14 years that (it's been) the case."
Reid was the second coach to be fired Monday morning, shortly after the Cleveland Browns let go of Pat Shurmur. Then, word broke the Kansas City Chiefs had parted with Romeo Crennel, the Buffalo Bills fired Chan Gailey, the Chicago Bears fired Lovie Smith, Turner was let go, and finally the Arizona Cardinals fired Ken Whisenhunt.
LURIE:What led to Andy Reid's downfall?
Even though it had been rumored for weeks new Bears general manager Phil Emery might fire Smith, it was a shock to many, including some angry Bears players.
"I'm going to go home and get away from football right now," Devin Hester said while also criticizing the fans and media for calling for Smith's firing. "I don't even know if I want to play again, man."
The day began with the first general manager being fired when the Jacksonville Jaguars let go of Gene Smith. After that, the Browns announced Tom Heckert would not be retained, Mike Tannenbaum paid for his mistakes with Mark Sanchez, Santonio Holmes and Tim Tebow when he was fired by the New York Jets, and a pair of GMs were let go along with their coaches – A.J. Smith (Chargers) and Rod Graves (Cardinals).
Tannenbaum spoke to the players and cried while doing so.
"I appreciate that it is rare for someone to stay with one organization with such a wide range of responsibilities for so many years," said Tannenbaum, a former cap guy who joined the organization in 1997. "My time with the Jets will always be special to me and my family, and it has prepared me well for whatever comes next."
In words he also told the players, Tannenbaum added, "There are champions on this team that haven't been crowned yet."
While it was a sad day for those who lost their jobs, the flip side is there are now more openings after one day than ever before. And already the scrambling has begun:
-- The Cardinals said they will interview Reid, as well as Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy. Look for current Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton to get an interview as well, and not just as a Rooney Rule requirement.
-- The Bears also will interview McCoy, per FoxSports.com. ESPN Chicago says the Bears will bring in Atlanta Falcons special teams coordinator Keith Armstrong. And a source told USA TODAY Sports Monday that Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan will meet with Chicago.
-- Rumblings are the Buffalo Bills could be interested in bringing in Whisenhunt. And it could make financial sense for the small-market Bills because Whisenhunt is owed $5.5 million from Arizona in 2013 with no offset language in the contract. That means the Cardinals owe Whisenhunt the difference between what he makes and that $5.5 million marker. The Bills could come in with a low offer for Whisenhunt, who won't like the quarterback situation in Buffalo but could overlook that hurdle.
-- The New York Jets will interview San Francisco 49ers director of player personnel Tom Gamble, as first reported by ESPN. Gamble is also drawing interest from the Jacksonville Jaguars and San Diego Chargers. Meanwhile, another hot name is Marc Ross. The Giants' director of college scouting has been a candidate for the Panthers for a while. Now, the Jets are also looking to talk to him, as are the Chargers.
-- And the hot name continues to be Oregon's Chip Kelly. Lurie's saying he's looking for an innovative coach who's ahead of the game and knows where the league is trending. If that's not a public plea for Kelly, we don't know what it is. Lurie can expect a fight on that one from the Cleveland Browns and CEO Joe Banner, the Eagles' former president. Dirk Koetter, the Atlanta Falcons' offensive coordinator, is one of the Eagles' other targets. FoxSports.com reported Falcons defensive coordinator Mike Nolan also will meet with the Eagles.
-- The one name that's yet to be tied to a specific job is perhaps the biggest of all: Jon Gruden. There was a report early in the day the former Raiders and Bucs coach would accept invites to interview. But a person informed of Gruden's thinking, speaking to USA TODAY Sports on condition of anonymity because Gruden hasn't commented on his interest in returning to the NFL, said the ESPN commentator is currently planning to remain in that role. It's unclear if that will change at some point in the near future.
As always, there's a lot of change and movement, as there was on this Black Monday.


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Another lesson today will be dedicated to the awesome people of the Mexican culture. Today we will learn "how to draw a Sombrero step by step". This tutorial seriously reminds me of Nacho Libre. That movie has to be one of my favorite movies that Jack Black has acted in. One of my favorite parts would have to be the part when he's eating the watermelon and Ramses smashes his head into it. My whole family cracked out laughing. Anywho, let's talk about the tutorial. This skull design would have to be one of my most colorful designs. The maracas were inspired by crossbones. The hat is obviously the hat that resembles a cowboy hat. I was a bit tired when I came up with this design as well. Right now, I want to tell you how much time this tutorial took me and the color scheme I chose. The colors were obviously based on the colors of the natural Mexican cultures. The overall drawing took me about three hours to sketch, ink, and color. I tried making this drawing simpler for the novice artists. If you have any difficulty with this, please tell me how you made out with it. "Drawing a Sombrero" can be easy. If you don't want to draw the skull or the maracas, leave it out and just draw the hat. You could possibly add the hat atop of the maracas if you want. Anyways folks, I have to leave now, my time is running low. Thanks for viewing and have fun with drawing this art!
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Young professionals weigh in: My experience starting a business in Tahoe
Special to the Tribune
I was born and raised in this beautiful place and I am so lucky to call it home. My family has been doing business here for more than 100 years and, just recently, I was able to start a business of my own with the help of my family and the open arms of the community. I never really thought that I would start my own business – it was the last thing I saw myself doing.
My decision to launch Tahoe Production House was driven by the realization that Lake Tahoe was lacking in a full-service production facility, which is a staple in big cities. Since opening its doors, TPH has worked on numerous video, photography and sound projects as well as marketing services for a range of clients. Opening a business here in Tahoe has had its challenges, but also has brought me tons of opportunity.
I will be the first to admit that I had no idea what I was doing when I started my business. I didn't even know the process of getting my business license. Looking back, I wouldn't have it any other way. I have learned so much just by doing and experimenting, getting advice and help from my family and friends. What is working, what isn't? Those are daily questions for me. I encourage anyone who has a dream of starting something to just go for it. It's scary, fun, hard and the best thing you will ever do. I am only in my second year of business and, if I fail, at least I can say I tried. My biggest piece of advice is to talk to people in the same business, write a business plan, ask hard questions, and don't be afraid to try something new and different. Business is an ever-evolving and changing thing. Your business plan will never be done, and the business you thought you started will be different in five years.
A major contributor to the success my business has seen can be attributed to my involvement in the community through the Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce, the Boys and Girls Club, and the nonprofit organization Tahoe Regional Young Professionals. All of these organizations provide tools for local business owners and are a great source of creating network connections. I have received many new clients through my involvement with these organizations and would recommend community involvement to all business owners, especially start-up business owners. Tahoe needs fresh ideas and fresh businesses if we are going to evolve into the next generation of Tahoe enthusiasts.
All of this has been the best time of my life. I love being here in Tahoe, I love being a business owner, and I love being involved in the community. I can only wish the same level of enthusiasm for all young people who have a dream of investing in the Tahoe community.
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I've got two logos for two separate companies that I want to take parts of to create something new. I'd like something minimal but that still has a feel of the old logos.
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I'm starting a new company that combines both current companies and the services we offer. So what I'm trying to do is show that the company has grown and changed from what people knew before. The flip side is that I still want some brand recognition from existing clients of both companies, tricky huh!
Universally Connecting deals in video streaming, communication consulting and life coaching.
The logo will initially be designed for a new website but will also be used on business cards, letterheads, etc.
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Peterbilt Hot Rod Truck - Piss'd Off Pete'
Randy Grubb's Bare-Metal Bruiser
If you're much of a gearhead, you've probably heard the name Randy Grubb. Randy is half of the "Blastolene Brothers," a demented duo of metal artists and custom coachbuilders who love to do things differently, and by "differently" we mean "gigantically." Randy and his fellow craftsman and hot-rod zealot Michael Leeds have teamed up for a handful of high-profile and large-scale projects, including the Blastolene Special and Big Bertha, both gloriously oversized roadsters with monstrous V-12 engines pulled from a Seagraves fire truck and a Patton tank, respectively. While each vehicle was built in separate states, Randy's in Grant's Pass, Oregon, and Michael's in Santa Cruz, California, the two builders shared their talents and techniques to create vehicles that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.
With Randy's V-12 affliction and his propensity for building overscaled customs, it's no wonder he ended up choosing a Peterbilt. Of course, looking at the finished product it makes perfect sense, but it takes someone with the right eye to spot the potential in a gargantuan truck cab. Taking a look at the truck it's easy to see the resemblance to an early '30s coupe, but it took Randy 3,000 hours of work over an 18 month period to get it that way. Randy chopped the Peterbilt's aluminum cab five inches in the rear and eight in the front for the right rake before new aluminum was formed and riveted in place, just like the original, but much cooler. Additional metal work was necessary to align the chop, including leaning the center post of the windshield back and contouring the bottom of the windshield opening to match the cowl. Up front, the Peterbilt 351 grille already had the nice, narrow width Randy was looking for, it just needed to be sectioned by 10 1/2 inches.
The majority of the truck's interior is Spartan bare aluminum, but the hand-tooled leather-wrapped bomber seats and saddle bags mounted on each door from GR Leather Products in Rogue River, Oregon, add a dose of color and texture. The only other adornment you'll find in the cab is a full set of Stewart Warner gauges in a Hollywood dash. Even the steering wheel and shifter knob for the four-speed Allison transmission are bare aluminum.
If you've ever seen the chassis of one of these Peterbilts, you'd quickly realize it doesn't have the aesthetics or the geometry for a custom, chopped-top hot-rod. To solve the problem, Randy built a custom chassis for the Pete' using 3x6-inch, 1/4-inch-wall tubing. The frame had to hold up the abuse of the massive, 4,500-pound engine Randy had in store for it, so it is beefy in all the right places. For example, the front crossmember is solid 1 1/8-inch plate, not tubing. The front suspension is made up of a GMC I-beam, a 7,000-pound-rated GMC leaf spring mounted transversely, and a set of radius rods. Randy couldn't find a chrome shop that would smooth his narrowed front axle, so he spent hours prepping them for the nickel plating that gives the metal a characteristic glow. Randy worked with Baer brakes to get enough stopping power and to assure that everything would fit with his drag racer-inspired 20-inch spindle-mount 12-spoke wheels that he had custom machined from two 375-pound blocks of billet aluminum. The rear is just as sturdy, with a narrowed, centered, nickel-plated Rockwell axle filled with 2.67:1 gears. The axle rides on 1/4 elliptical leaf springs that slide on bushings on the axle, and a triangulated four-link. Since the rear axle was a little more common, off-the-shelf semi Bendix brakes were used.
Finally, there's the engine. Sitting out in the open, for all eyes to see, is a gorgeous 1974 12v-71 Detroit Diesel with two 6-71 superchargers perched atop the valley. For those of you who aren't familiar with the classic diesel engines and superchargers, the "71" in both of their names comes from the displacement of each cylinder, so that the total displacement of the V-12 is 852ci, or 14L. A 6-71 supercharger produces enough air to feed six 71ci cylinders, so naturally this V-12 would need two. In fact, everything underneath the bug catchers, from the superchargers to the oil pan, is stock, albeit much cleaner and more polished than you've ever seen before. The 71-series engines are two-stroke, so the superchargers are a necessity to fill the cylinders with air at just over atmospheric pressure. What isn't stock on the engine is the amazing exhaust. Initially Randy built a set of zoomies to go with the dragster theme, but now he's got a perfectly polished set of 6-into-1 stacks that flow better with the overall look of the truck and boost performance as well. We've heard both versions, and we'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite, as the exhaust from a two-stroke diesel as it revs to 2,800 rpm is like nothing else. It's smooth and balanced, but at the same time brutally powerful, and with a power stroke at every cylinder on every revolution, it sounds that much more angry. Even running practically zero boost, the engine produces nearly 475 hp and 1,200 lb-ft of torque. It's enough to make every gearhead within 1/2-mile perk up and take notice.


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Rolls Royce has planned to release an electric version of their car for some time, but before they do that, they're making a concerted effort to make sure they nail every detail. It is, after all, still a Rolls. So the 102EX, as they're calling their electric car, is a test model that'll tour around, get pushed to the limit and see if it can live up to the name. Right now, the 102EX has a 96cell li-ion battery that holds 71kWh which is only good enough for 125 miles of charge. There's going to be a lot of charging of this pup.
The price of the electric Rolls Royce is expected to be close $1.6 million dollars (3-5 times more expensive than your "normal" Rolls). [Electric Luxury via Daily Mail via Consumerist]


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10 Famous Literary Characters Based on Real People
"Write what you know," they say, so it makes sense that many authors take a good look at friends and family when creating characters for their books.
1. Mark Twain once admitted that he wasn't terribly creative in creating Huckleberry Finn - he based the character almost precisely on his childhood friend Tom Blankenship. From his autobiography:
"In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. His liberties were totally unrestricted. He was the only really independent person—boy or man—in the community, and by consequence he was tranquilly and continuously happy and envied by the rest of us. And as his society was forbidden us by our parents the prohibition trebled and quadrupled its value, and therefore we sought and got more of his society than any other boy's."
Sadly, according to the editor's notes in Twain's posthumous autobiography, Blankenship was repeatedly arrested for theft and died just five years after Huckleberry Finn was published.
2. When Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road, he was really writing about his own cross-country exploits with his Beat Generation buddies. For example, the selfish Dean Moriarty represents Neal Cassady, close pal of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead (among others). In fact, the character's name is Neal in the original On the Road scroll. But that's not the only character Cassady inspired: Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe all took inspiration from Cassady.
The real Neal died at the age of 41 after being found comatose by a railroad track in Guanajunto, Mexico, in 1968.
3. Even as one of the wittiest female characters in literary history, Nora Charles from The Thin Man doesn't hold a candle to her inspiration, Lillian Hellman. Lillian was author Dashiell Hammett's lover for 30 years, but she was also a respected playwright, screenwriter, author and outspoken political activist. Hammett apparently told Hellman that she was the inspiration for his female villains as well.
4. It's almost hard to imagine that the furious and completely insane jilted bride of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations has a flesh-and-blood counterpart. But she does - in fact, there are at least three that might fit the bill.
Real-life Miss Havisham #1: Eliza Emily Donnithorne, an Australian woman who thought she was getting married in 1856. When she was stood up by the groom, she refused to change anything about the house; the wedding feast even sat out until it rotted into non-existence. Legend has it that Donnithorne never left the house again.
Potential Havisham #2: Elizabeth Parker. This Shropshire, England, woman was also jilted on her wedding day and became quite reclusive afterward. Dickins was known to visit Shropshire, and the fact that Miss Parker's house was called Havisham Court seems like it must be more than coincidence.
Havisham the Third: Madame Eliza Jumel, Aaron Burr's second wife. It's said that Jumel may have gone a little crazy in her desperate attempts to break into New York high society; after finally throwing a successful dinner party for Joseph Bonaparte, she supposedly left the banquet and place settings out for decades to commemorate her social acceptance.
5. The wealthy Philomena Guinea of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar was based on Plath's own rich benefactor, Olive Higgins Prouty. Prouty was a novelist probably best known now for Now, Voyager.
6. The modest grave of Elizabeth Pain in Boston's King's Chapel Burying Ground holds a secret if you look at it closely. Some believe the "A" inscribed on the stone shows that she was "whipt with twenty stripes," though it was for the murder of her child, not for adultery. She was found innocent, by the way, but received the punishment anyway - even in death. The damning mark may have served as inspiration for The Scarlet Letter author Nathaniel Hawthorne. There's also a record of one Hester Craford who was severely flogged for "fornication" with a man named John Wedg in 1669. At the very least, Hawthorne may have borrowed her name.
7. As a neighbor of the Alcott family in Concord, Mass., Elizabeth Hoar served as the model for Beth March in Little Women. Hoar was also good friends with Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who liked to call her "Elizabeth the wise."
8. The character of Ford Prefect isn't based on a real-life person, exactly, but a real-life object. Douglas Adams once explained that his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy alien had "skimped a bit on his preparatory research" of Earth and thought he was choosing an inconspicuous name for himself. Adams later explained further, saying that Prefect saw vehicles swarming the streets of our little planet and "had simply mistaken the dominant life form." The Ford Prefect, by the way, was a British car produced from 1938-1961.
9. Yes, Virginia, there really was a Severus Snape, and his name was almost as wizardy: John Nettleship. Nettleship was J.K. Rowling's own teacher, perhaps one she didn't enjoy very much based on this description of Snape:
"Snape is the very sadistic teacher loosely based on a teacher I myself had, I have to say. Children are very aware and we're kidding ourselves if we don't think that they are - that teachers do sometimes abuse their power and this particular teacher does abuse his power. He is not a particularly pleasant person at all."
Nettleship wasn't thrilled with the comparison when he found out about it, saying, "I knew I was a strict teacher but I didn't think I was that bad." He later came to terms with it enough to write a book called Harry Potter's Chepstow about various locations from Rowling's school days that may have inspired people and places from her successful series. Nettleship died of cancer in 2011.
10. Anyone who has had a younger sibling they considered evil can probably relate to Eoin Colfer's inspiration for Artemis Fowl. His little brother, Donal, was "a mischievous mastermind who could get out of any trouble he got into," and seeing a picture of Donal in a dapper first communion suit reminded Colfer of a tiny James Bond villain.
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Police are appealing for information following the theft of four CCTV cameras from a technology company in Chorley.
The cameras, which are understood to have been in use at the time of their theft, have captured very clear images of two men the police would like to speak to in connection with the incident.
The theft happened at around 7.15pm on 30 December at the Chorley Business and Technology Centre on Euxton Lane in Chorley, say police.
Anybody with information can contact police on 101 quoting crime reference SC1700072.