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A capsule look at 20 contenders for the British Open golf championship, to be played July 18-21 at Muirfield (listed in predicted order of finish):
Age: 37.
Country: United States.
World ranking: 1.
Worldwide wins: 90.
Majors: Masters (1997, 2001, 2002, 2005), US Open (2000, 2002, 2008), British Open (2000, 2005, 2006), PGA Championship (1999, 2000, 2006, 2007).
At his best in 2013: He won four times by May, still the most victories of any player this year.
At his worst in 2013: Shot 44 on the back nine at Muirfield Village and later revealed he had a strain in his left elbow.
British Open moment: A three-time Open champion, no memory is as great as his eight-shot win at St. Andrews to complete the Grand Slam at age 24.
Pot bunker mentality: Woods is winning everything with regularity except the majors. He now has gone five full years since his last major win, and he comes into this British Open as somewhat of a mystery because of the elbow injury that has kept him out since the U.S. Open.
Age: 33.
Country: Northern Ireland.
World ranking: 6.
Worldwide wins: 12.
Majors: US Open (2010).
At his best in 2013: Has won three times this year, the most recent at the French Open in his tuneup for the British Open.
At his worst in 2013: Missed the cut in the first two majors this year.
British Open moment: His chances ended last year when he topped a fairway metal into the bushes and never found the ball.
Pot bunker mentality: McDowell is in the ultimate feast-or-famine mode right now. Dating to the Masters, he has three wins and five missed cuts in his last eight tournaments. If he's on at Muirfield, he could be dangerous.
Age: 33.
Country: Australia.
World ranking: 4
Worldwide wins: 20.
Majors: Masters (2013).
At his best in 2013: A green jacket.
At his worst in 2013: He is 0 for 4 in top-10s since winning the Masters.
British Open moment: Making bogey on the last four holes at Royal Lytham & St. Annes to blow a four-shot lead.
Pot bunker mentality: Even in a crushing loss, Scott came away from the British Open last year believing for the first time that he had the game to win a major. A beautiful driver and solid iron player, he stands a reasonable chance to become the ninth player to win the Masters and British Open in the same year.
Age: 32.
Country: United States.
World ranking: 7.
Worldwide wins: 5.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: In a three-week stretch, was runner-up to Tiger Woods, runner-up to Phil Mickelson and won Pebble Beach.
At his worst in 2013: Sat on his couch at home to recover from recurring rib injury.
British Open moment: Tied the 18-hole record at Royal Lytham & St. Annes with a 64 and tied the major championship record with a 130 through 36 holes.
Pot bunker mentality: Snedeker has given himself two chances in the last four majors, and with his ability, that's seen as experience instead of failure. Pops his putts, which has proven to be a good stroke in links golf. The key to his week is keeping his tee shots out of the hay.
Age: 32.
Country: Spain.
World ranking: 40.
Worldwide wins: 6.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Never shot worse than 72 at Merion and tied for 10th in the U.S. Open.
At his worst in 2013: Hasn't been in serious contention all year.
British Open moment: He is a combined 19-over par in his four Opens.
Pot bunker mentality: This would be called a long shot considering his record in the Open, but he is steady under pressure. Tied for 20th in the Masters and tied for 10th in the U.S. Open. Childhood friend of Sergio Garcia. When Garcia said at the Masters last year that he didn't have what it takes to win a major, Gonzo replied, "If this guy doesn't have it, how about me?" He has enough game.
Age: 32.
Country: England.
World ranking: 3.
Worldwide wins: 11.
Majors: US Open (2013).
At his best in 2013: Hit 4-iron into the 18th green at Merion to wrap up the U.S. Open.
At his worst in 2013: Not much to choose from, though he did miss the cut at The Players Championship.
British Open moment: Holing a wedge from 45 yards on the 18th at Royal Birkdale to tie for fourth in 1998 as a 17-year-old amateur.
Pot bunker mentality: There's little to fault in his game right now except for controlling his emotions as a major champion playing in the next major. He can join some exclusive company. Only six other players have won the U.S. Open and British Open in the same year — Tiger Woods, Tom Watson, Lee Trevino, Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen and Bobby Jones.
Age: 43.
Country: South Africa.
World ranking: 13.
Worldwide wins: 66.
Majors: US Open (1994, 1997), British Open (2002, 2012).
At his best in 2013: Won the BMW International Open in Germany.
At his worst in 2013: Couldn't hit the hole from 3 feet with his belly putter at the start of the year.
British Open moment: Sitting quietly in front of his locker at Royal Lytham & St. Annes last year, staring at the silver claret jug he had just won.
Pot bunker mentality: Not since Greg Norman in 1994 has a player been the defending champion and the last winner at the links (Turnberry) where the Open was played. Els won his first Open at Muirfield in 2002 and won last year at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
Age: 63.
Country: United States.
World ranking: 994.
Worldwide wins: 51.
Majors: Masters (1977, 1981), US Open (1982), British Open (1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983).
At his best in 2013: Took only 22 putts in the final round and tied for 38th at The Greenbrier Classic.
At his worst in 2013: Rounds of 79-78 at the Masters.
British Open moment: The only man to win the Open on five courses.
Pot bunker mentality: It has been 30 years since he won his last major, but this is Tom Watson, and this is the Open Championship. He came inches from winning at Turnberry in 2009, instead losing in a playoff to Stewart Cink. No other contemporary understands links golf like Watson.
Age: 24.
Country: Northern Ireland.
World ranking: 2.
Worldwide wins: 10.
Majors: US Open (2011), PGA Championship (2013).
At his best in 2013: Runner-up at the Texas Open.
At his worst in 2013: Every other tournament.
British Open moment: Tying the major championship record with a 63 in the opening round at St. Andrews in 2010.
Pot bunker mentality: There is scant evidence that McIlroy will contend at the Open except that he is Rory McIlroy, and he is very good. He has a history of going into mini-slumps, but this is bordering on something more. Changed all his equipment at the start of the year, and is in the process of changing management again. Time is running out for him to join Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus as the only players in the last 50 years to win a major in three successive seasons.
Age: 35.
Country: England.
World ranking: 9.
Worldwide wins: 12.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Starting the final round of the U.S. Open two shots behind.
At his worst in 2013: Missing the cut at Wentworth going for a third straight BMW PGA Championship title.
British Open moment: Closing with a 67 at Turnberry and a 69 at Lytham for his only top-fives.
Pot bunker mentality: The first time since 2010 that he hasn't won before the British Open. His driving has held him up, and his short game is still better than most, but not at the level that took him to No. 1. Played seven straight majors at No. 1 in the world. Now close to falling out of the top 10.
Age: 35.
Country: United States.
World ranking: 5.
Worldwide wins: 6.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Won the Match Play Championship and the Memorial.
At his worst in 2013: Has finished out of the top 20 eight times this year.
British Open moment: Catching the bad end of the draw and opening with an 81 at Royal Birkdale in 2008.
Pot bunker mentality: He has finished under par only twice in the eight times he has played the British Open. He has a very reliable swing and a solid putting stroke, and he doesn't get too rattled.
Age: 43.
Country: United States.
World ranking: 8.
Worldwide wins: 43.
Majors: Masters (2004, 2006, 2010), PGA Championship (2005).
At his best in 2013: Came within a fraction of an inch of a 59 in the Phoenix Open.
At his worst in 2013: Couldn't hit the 13th green at Merion with a wedge.
British Open moment: Making a terrific charge at Royal St. George's before losing momentum by missing a 3-foot putt. He tied for second.
Pot bunker mentality: Mickelson's record suggests he can't play links golf, though he came awfully close at Royal Troon in 2004 and Royal St. George's in 2011. He can be loose off the tee, and with Muirfield's tall grass off the fairway, this wouldn't be a good place for that. Hard to predict how he will be after another debilitating U.S. Open loss at Merion last month.
Age: 25.
Country: Australia.
World ranking: 18.
Worldwide wins: 1.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Finishing third at the Masters and second at the U.S. Open.
At his worst in 2013: Failing to make the key shots down the stretch in the Masters and the U.S. Open.
British Open moment: Withdrew from the Open last year after his wife gave birth.
Pot bunker mentality: Day has shown in the last few years that he plays his best in the toughest circumstances. He twice has contended at the Masters, once at the U.S. Open, and he tied for B-flight honors at another U.S. Open. But for all his attention geared toward the Grand Slam events, it is startling that in his sixth year on the PGA Tour he still has only one victory.
Age: 43.
Country: Argentina.
World ranking: 56.
Worldwide wins: 41.
Majors: Masters (2009), US Open (2007).
At his best in 2013: Lost in a playoff at the Masters.
At his worst in 2013: Missed the cut in the U.S. Open.
British Open moment: Closed with a 70 at Carnoustie in 1999 and missed the playoff by one shot.
Pot bunker mentality: One of the most powerfully efficient swings, a big-time player and becoming one of the most unpredictable. He can disappear for two years and then be on the verge of winning a major, as he did at Augusta. Another chance for him to become the first grandfather to win a major.
Age: 40.
Country: England.
World ranking: 12.
Worldwide wins: 37.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Had a stretch of five consecutive top-10s this year.
At his worst in 2013: Tied for the lead at Quail Hollow on the back nine and then making back-to-back bogeys.
British Open moment: One of the greatest fairway bunker shots, a 9-iron that cleared the lip by an inch and reached the 18th green at Turnberry. But he three-putted from long range and wound up one shot out of a playoff in 2009.
Pot bunker mentality: He has to rate as the best to have never won a major because of his two Order of Merit titles, No. 1 world ranking and close calls in all four majors. The last player to win his first major after turning 40 was Darren Clarke (42) two years ago, one of Westwood's best friends.
Age: 42.
Country: Ireland.
World ranking: 72.
Worldwide wins: 15.
Majors: British Open (2007, 2008), PGA Championship (2008).
At his best in 2013: Switching to a belly putter in the Wells Fargo Championship, even though he is opposed to anchoring by principle.
At his worst in 2013: Missing the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship.
British Open moment: Becoming the first European in more than a century to win the Open in consecutive years.
Pot bunker mentality: Harrington's record this year does not suggest he will be a factor at Muirfield, though links golf can be a neutralizer. Was on the cusp of contention at Merion. He was leading at one point at Muirfield in 2002 during the rain and wind, and he finished one shot out of the playoff by hitting driver off the 18th tee into a bunker.
Age: 20.
Country: Italy.
World ranking: 26.
Worldwide wins: 4.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
At his worst in 2013: Missed the cut in the Masters and U.S. Open.
British Open moment: Low amateur in 2009 at Turnberry, where he played with Tom Watson the opening two rounds and finished four shots out of a playoff.
Pot bunker mentality: No one this young has won golf's oldest championship since Young Tom Morris in 1870. Manassero seems older because he already has won four times on the European Tour, including its flagship event in Europe. Length is his greatest asset. Length is not a primary weapon at Muirfield. Tiger Woods wears a red shirt on Sunday. Manassero wears green pants.
Age: 29.
Country: United States.
World ranking: 24.
Worldwide wins: 7.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Won the Tournament of Champions at Kapalua, his sixth straight year with at least one PGA Tour win.
At his worst in 2013: The endless photos of him and girlfriend Paulina Gretzky.
British Open moment: Two shots behind with five holes to play, he tried to lay up with a 2-iron on the 14th hole at Royal St. George's and laid it up out-of-bounds.
Pot bunker mentality: The good news for Johnson is that he has played in the final group in three majors already — three different majors. The bad news is he is making more of a name for himself with activities outside the ropes, namely with one Paulina Gretzky. He is unpredictable. But he is very good.
Age: 30.
Country: South Africa.
World ranking: 10.
Worldwide wins: 10.
Majors: British Open (2010).
At his best in 2013: Won his first tournament of the year at the Volvo Champions.
At his worst in 2013: Missed the cut in the Masters and withdrew from the U.S. Open with an injury.
British Open moment: His seven-shot victory at St. Andrews in 2010.
Pot bunker mentality: The most envied swing in golf for its simplicity, power and self-repeating nature. When he's on, he is as dangerous as any player in golf. When he's off, he doesn't seem to last very long.
Age: 33.
Country: Spain.
World ranking: 14.
Worldwide wins: 23.
Majors: None.
At his best in 2013: Playful and energetic.
At his worst in 2013: Dour and listless.
British Open moment: Wearing an all-yellow outfit to play with Tiger Woods in the final group at Hoylake in 2006. One observer said he looked like a banana. "Second banana."
Pot bunker mentality: His season was derailed at The Players Championship when he complained Tiger Woods distracted the fans as he was ready to hit, got into a war of words with Woods, and then made a joke with racial overtones that required more than one apology. He played nicely at Merion on 16 holes. The other two (Nos. 14 and 15) he played 16-over par for the week.


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A mallet-wielding attacker hit a sleeping Long Island man before phoning the victim's father and demanding cash in exchange for not hurting him further, police said.
Joseph E. Ferraro, 27, pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges of burglary and grand larceny for extortion, according to Newsday.
Police said a Bohemia resident was asleep at home on Friday evening when Ferraro attacked him with a mallet, injuring his head. Ferraro then called the victim's father and threatened to hurt the man more if he didn't receive what police say was "a large amount of cash," according to Suffolk County police, who said Ferraro and the victim knew each other.
The father went to an ATM and then delivered the cash, and the victim's mother tried to drive her son to the hospital, police said. Part of the way there, the victim became sick, and his mother pulled over to the side of the road. An ambulance was summoned, and he was brought to the hospital.


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Flickr Uses "Nopin" Meta Tag To Keep Some Images Off Pinterest
Flickr appears to be the first of what you'd call a "major" website to employ a meta tag that keeps copyright-protected images from being pinned on Pinterest. As VentureBeat first reported, Flickr is using the "nopin" meta tag that Pinterest just introduced earlier this week. When Pinterest sees the tag on a web page, none […]
Flickr appears to be the first of what you'd call a "major" website to employ a meta tag that keeps copyright-protected images from being pinned on Pinterest.
As VentureBeat first reported, Flickr is using the "nopin" meta tag that Pinterest just introduced earlier this week. When Pinterest sees the tag on a web page, none of the photos can be pinned directly from the page.
Flickr is adding the "nopin" tag to photo pages that are marked as private, marked as non-safe, and — this is the most common implementation — on pages of Flickr users whose privacy settings don't allow photos to be shared socially. If the Flickr user has set his/her images as able to be shared, then the meta tag doesn't show up.
I'd be hesitant to position this as any kind of "battle" between two popular photo/image sites, or to suggest that Flickr is doing this proactively to try to harm Pinterest. In fact, it looks as if Flickr actually implemented "nopin" in response to a user suggestion in Flickr's help forum three days ago.
What Is Flickr Blocking?
Flickr shared this statement Friday with VentureBeat:
"Flickr has implemented the tag and it appears on all non-public/non-safe pages, as well as when a member has disabled sharing of their Flickr content. This means only content that is 'safe,' 'public' and has the sharing button enabled can be pinned to Pinterest."
Here's how it all looks in action: The photos in my Flickr account are open to sharing via the privacy settings in my Flickr account. So, a Pinterest user can pin them right from my Flickr account.
But one of my Flickr friends, Ben, has turned sharing off in his settings. If I try to pin one of his images, I get the standard message that Pinterest shows when it finds the "nopin" meta tag.
As we pointed out earlier this week, the "nopin" meta tag only stops pinning directly from the page where an image is hosted. It doesn't prevent users from downloading (or screenshooting) an image and then uploading it to Pinterest from their computer.
Also note that, if you're logged in to Flickr, you can always share your own images — that includes directly pinning them — no matter what your privacy settings are; those settings only affect what other users can do.
What About Creative Commons?
One thing that's not clear to me is how Creative Commons licensing impacts this — if at all. My Flickr photos are generally licensed for others to use via Creative Commons, so long as the other party provides attribution. A pinned photo does include attribution back to the original Flickr URL.
I'm in the middle now of testing what effect that has — does it override my sharing settings? Well, I've just turned off sharing from my personal account and logged in as another Flickr user. I was still able to pin an image that was being offered via Creative Commons, and I was unable to pin an image that I set as "Copyright/all rights reserved."
It may be that Creative Commons licensing overrides the sharing setting, or it may be that the change I made in my privacy settings just hasn't fully processed yet.
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Singer Anthony Callea believes gay people should not be expected to come out, saying the whole process is based on peer pressure.
"The whole coming out thing, I find it a really bizarre concept," Callea said. "If you're a heterosexual, do you need to come and say that you're straight?
"Someone's sexuality is a part of who they are; it doesn't define who they are," he said.
Callea, who is gay and in a serious relationship with actor Tim Campbell, said he's not interested in activism.
"I have a great relationship, I live in normal house, I have a dog, I live a normal lifestyle, it's just part of who I am – it's not who I am," he said. "My friends and family don't treat us like that either. I think if you make something an issue, then it becomes an issue [in] society.
"The amount of people who come up to me and Tim and say 'just seeing you and Tim being really normal and living in a home together and not making an issue out of it, it's a really positive thing'," Callea said.
Callea confirmed he was gay to a Melbourne newspaper in 2007, three years after he was the runner-up on a smash-hit season of Australian Idol. His sexuality was revealed by a Sydney radio announcer, who "outed" Callea in a gossip segment.
The singer said he has not embraced the idea of being a role model because of his sexuality.
"I'll say one thing, in terms of the whole role model thing, I just do my own thing. I do what I do and if that has a positive effect on someone, that is a beautiful thing. I'm not out to make a statement or make a political statement about anything," he said.
When asked whether some people within the gay community put pressure on others to announce their sexuality, Callea acknowledged it does take place. But he said, "I just don't give in to peer pressure.
"If you go through life trying to please everyone, you're not going to please everyone, just please yourself," he said. "And celebrate who you are as a whole, not just part of who you are."
■ Anthony Callea has just signed a new record deal with ABC Music. His new album, 30, is due out in late April.


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During the late 1920s, early 1930s, and 1990s the Library of Congress acquired a large collection of Arabic script calligraphy sheets. This presentation exhibits 373 Arabic calligraphy sheets, ranging from the 9th to the 19th centuries. A majority of the calligraphy sheets were written on paper, however, a group of Qur'anic fragments from the 9th and 10th centuries were executed on parchment.
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We got another round of Cohen's great collabs and interviews! Andrew Pommier, Chris "Devi" Gliebe, David Flores, Mark Gonzales, Shepard Fairey, Michael Siebien, Bigfoot, Sam Henderson, and David Horvath & Sun Min Kim.
Aye Jay emailed us awhile ago to let us know about a project he and his son have been working on that we'd like to tell you all about. It's pretty swell... His very young son, Cohen, (think he's like 6) does this water color paintings and then Jay sends them onto established/ talented artists to have them do something on top of it- a collab, if you will. The idea is to collect all of these great works of art for his son so that when he gets older... well, he's going to be pretty damn stoked to have such a great collection.
Round One - Round Two - Round Three
Andrew Pommier
-3 art heroes alive and dead?
alive: John Currin, Walton Ford, Tom Sachs
dead: Mark Rothko, Edouard Manet, Hieronymus Bosch
-Does the kid in the bunny ears have anything to do with the movie gummo?
-Animal your the most afraid of?
Recluse Spider, I'm not really afraid of spiders for the most part but this little guy really
scares me.
-Last 5 songs you listened to while making art?
While I'm painting I listen to internet radio so it's pretty random and since I'm painting the
music drifts into the background so I can't say.
-Last movie you watched? first movie you watched?
"The Science of Sleep", "The Jungle Book."
-Best skateboarder to other profession transition ever? (example: jason
Darren "Moose" Menditto, pro vert skater to doctor.
-Your favorite thing to draw and why.
Right now dinosaurs because they come in a variety of shapes and sizes and they are different
from what we see today.
Chris "Devi" Gliebe
-who's the most devious character in real life?
Osama Bin Laden. -- because they will never catch that dude. (2nd place: VP Dick Cheney)
- 3 art heroes alive and dead?
--- Barry McGee,
--- Andy Warhol, &
--- Chris Cunningham
favorite line from a movie?
This is the flux-capacitor, which is what... makes.... time.... travel... possible."
(Marty McFly - Back to the Future)
-being from cinci, i have to ask, johnny fever, or venus flytrap?
Neither, LES NESMEN. (because of his pretend office space)
and 2nd Place goes to HERB TARLICK, for the ill suit selection.
-On your collabo:cohen asks: "what is that gas anyway? a fart?"
yeah, Robot farts are funny. Especially ones that can smile.
real n***a roll call: props go here:
TSC Crew, Bashers Crew, To DIe For Clothing, Mr. Dibbs,
Rhymesayers Ent, Atmosphere, Boom Bip, DF Crew, Melly Smalls, and "my seed" G-double.
David Flores
1.you just released your first big time vinyl toy (congrats!) and words of
advice to fellow artists who want to do the same?
be original or dont do it, no more graffiti guys or little short chubby things with big eyes please...thanks
2. 3 art heroes alive and dead?
alvive: barry mcgee, banksy, kenji yanobi
dead: warhol, basquiat, shiele
3. having done bags, toys, prints, skates,snowboards, freelance illustration,
fine arts, etc. is there anything thats the closet to your heart, that you
enjoy doing the most?
kickin it with lacey, watching a movie...relaxing. oh and cholo script is fun
4.whats next?
flying out to japan for OAKLEY is releasing the first ever signature sunglass by DF!..should be fun, after that, griding, designing...bearbrick should be out soon,..clothing line still pumping...etc.
5. stonghold, hold strong, or strong-bad?
Bigfoot... Cohen says: "why is your name Bigfoot? What are you, superman? Supppermmaaannnn!"
David Horvath & Sun Min Kim... "we have one of those dolls, my friend milo got one like the one on the ladder."
Mark Gonzales... "the letters are weird, like monsters chased them sideways"
Michael Sieben... "that guy looks like he's in jail or tough, because he has one of those tough tattoos."
Sam Henderson... "whoa, check this out, I think that might be poop, like ewwwaahhh I pooted."
Shepard Fairey... "I painted that to be like that, but we have so many pictures of yours on our wall. Why did you make the mark like he's rich, is he really rich?"
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As usual, The Classic MotorCycle Show will bring you a fine selection of everything needed for a weekend of motorcycling indulgence, this year being held over April 21/22.
Held at Staffordshire County Showground, you'll find a feast of trade stalls, autojumbles, club stands and private entries.
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Racing legend and 'King Maker' Neil Tuxworth has been confirmed as the guest of honour at the 38th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show on April 21-22 at Stafford County Showground.
From his first track outing at Cadwell Park, in 1969 aboard a humble BSA Bantam to racing in British National and International meetings and scoring podiums and wins – Tuxworth has had a storied career on two wheels. He followed the Continental Circus as much as possible, scoring Grand Prix World Championship points in the UK, Austria, and Finland, and his desire to race anything with two wheels that saw him compete in motocross, sand racing and even ice racing during the winter months. And with a love of road racing, it was inevitable he would be drawn to the greatest challenge in motorcycle sport – the Isle of Man TT – racking up a Manx Grand Prix win, a runner-up spot in the Formula 2 TT and five third places.
In 1986, he came very close to paying the ultimate price for his sport. A huge crash at Aberdare Park had medics and Neil's family initially fearing for his life. He battled through, only to be told he may never walk again. Malc Wheeler, Mortons Media Group associate director and a friend of Tuxworth's, recalled how he witnessed his fight back to fitness: "Believe me, inside the pleasant, well-mannered man you'll see on stage at the show is a true man of steel. Obviously after a warning like that you hang up your leathers? Not Neil. It's going to be fascinating listening to all the stories at the show, I'm sure there are some I haven't heard!"
In later years, Neil is most widely known for managing many of Honda's racing efforts. He was the man looking after Joey Dunlop, John Kocinski and Colin Edwards to name but a few – and helping Honda win multiple World and National championship titles in the process. It's guaranteed that Neil's time on stage at the show will be entertaining. With so much achieved in all aspects of racing and race management, his stories are sure to captivate.
The Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford is the biggest classic bike show in the world. It's packed with thousands of classic machines and is the natural home for bike clubs to meet and show off their motorcycles. It boasts the largest autojumble anywhere in the UK too – so with hundreds of traders selling everything from bikes to books, you don't need to be crazy about motorcycles to enjoy a great day out.
For more information see staffordclassicbikeshows.com
Bumper Bonhams auction extends to two days
To accommodate a bumper crop of consignments, Bonhams has extended its spring sale to two days at the International Classic MotorCycle Show this April.
Across the weekend of April 21-22, the largest ever Bonhams Spring Sale of classic and collectors' motorcycles will take place at the International Classic MotorCycle Show at Staffordshire County Showground. It's been split across two days to over 300 motorcycles – including several single-owner collections, from pre-war American machines to modern Japanese superbikes.
It'll kick off on the Saturday at 2pm, beginning with an impressive collection of memorabilia and more than 100 lots of spares, including many new old stock items, frames, engines and highly sought-after Vintage spares. A range of important trophies will also be offered, including those won by Mike 'The Bike' Hailwood, two Manx Grand Prix trophies and the seriously rare Air Sea Rescue Vincent Two-stroke 1942 Lifeboat engine.
Following the spares and memorabilia sale, Bonhams will be offering up the Tan House Collection, which comprises of 60 barn find machines, including a wide selection of machines from Britain's finest manufacturers from the 1910's-1960's in addition to an eclectic mix of European and Japanese lightweights, accumulated by their enthusiast owner over the past three decades. Many are in outstandingly original condition, and all are ripe for restoration.
Highlights from the Tan House Collection include:
1913 Indian 7hp Model E Combination (£16,000-22,000)
c.1913 Matchless 8hp (£10,000-14,000)
1927 Triumph 494cc Model P (£4,000-5,000)
1933 Sunbeam 489cc Lion (£4,000-6,000)
1926 Norton 490cc 16H (£8,000-12,000)
Bill To, department specialist and the consignor of the collection at Bonhams, commented: 'This is a fantastic collection, and one that we are very proud to offer. It has everything a keen restorer could hope for, and many of the machines are in impressively original condition having been untouched for the past 30 years. This is the finest genuine patina on the market!'
And on Sunday, The Miklos Collection will cross the auction block together with 160 further consignments. The Miklos Collection comprises 41 lots, and is an impressive range of rare and significant motorcycles built up over a lifetime of passionate collecting by the late Miklos 'Mike' Salamon. The Surrey-based collection contains some of the most remarkable and sought-after machines available in this year's Spring Sale, including a 1970 Clymer Münch 1,177cc TTS 'Mammoth' (£75,000-100,000), a 1940 Indian 78ci Four (£28,000-35,000) and a 1973 MV Agusta 750S (£70,000-90,000).
James Stensel, Bonhams Motorcyles Head of Department said: 'We are delighted to announce another two-day Stafford Sale, to be held on the 21st and 22nd April. Bonhams have long been the auction house of choice for interesting and important one owner collections. The consignment of The Tan House Collection will make for another incredibly diverse Stafford Sale, which has long been Europe's largest, longest running and record-breaking collectors' motorcycle auction.'
For more information see staffordclassicbikeshows.com
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The Town of Danby sits on the traditional & ancestral land of the Gayogoho:no' (Cayuga Nation), one of the five nations to first form the Haudenosaunee. Indigenous peoples were largely forced out of Upstate New York by the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition in 1779. The land that would become the Town of Danby was a part of the Watkins and Flint Purchase, a 336,380 acre patent granted by New York State to numerous eastern investors in 1794.


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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Home
Gifts like these might not be the most romantic if you're buying for your wife or girlfriend, but that doesn't mean you can't find cool stuff that will put a smile on their face. Products for the home can be just as desirable if you focus on items with great design or that make someone's life a lot easier, and if you stick to those simple guidelines, you'll make whoever is on the receiving end very happy.
Click on the image next to each item to purchase it online, and for more gift ideas, check out the other categories in our Holiday Gift Guide.
Dyson AM05 Hot + Cool Fan
When it comes to vacuums, you can't do much better than Dyson, and apparently, the same is true with their bladeless fans as well. The new Dyson AM05 Hot + Cool Fan will keep you toasty during the winter months and cool in the summer. We won't bore you with the specifics of its Air Multiplier technology, other than to say that it works as advertised. All you need to do is select your target temperature – from 33˚F to 99˚F – and the machine's intelligent thermostat keeps it there. Unlike other space heaters, however, the AM05 doesn't waste energy by constantly turning on and off, efficiently heating the room quickly and evenly so you can sleep in peace. And if the machine happens to tip over, the power cuts out automatically, making it much safer than other models. Additionally, oscillation, airflow and temperature can be controlled using a remote control (magnetized for easy storage on top of the fan), and the machine can be tilted upwards and downwards by 10 degrees to help direct the airflow. Like most Dyson products, it's a little pricey, but you pay more for that kind of quality.
Edge of Belgravia Ceramic Knives
We're always on the lookout for cool, unique additions to the kitchen, and these stylish knives from Edge of Belgravia certainly fit the bill. Part of an exclusive limited edition of 1400, they're just as much cutting edge chef knives as they are pieces of art. The ceramic blades are made of zirconium oxide, forged under 300 tons of pressure and 1400˚C, rendering them almost as hard as diamond. As a result, the blades remain sharp for years without the need for sharpening. They're also incredibly lightweight and won't rust or discolor over time. Edge of Belgravia's ceramic range is offered individually or in a five-piece set that includes a slicer, chef's knife, santoku, utility knife and paring knife. The matte rubberized handles are extremely comfortable, while the blades themselves are superb in action. However, because of the brittle nature of the ceramic blades, they need to be treated with care. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to be a Top Chef, but you should at least have a respect for the art of cooking in order to get the most out of these awesome knives.
Keurig Vue V700 Brewing System
When it comes to single serve brewing machines, Keurig is king, which is why it was a little surprising that the company decided to introduce a whole new line of brewers last year; one that utilizes a different delivery method (called Vue packs) in place of the popular K-Cups. But after testing out the new Keurig Vue V700, we can understand why they made the change, because it's a vast improvement on the last generation of brewers. Featuring new Custom Brew Technology that adjusts water pressure, timing and airflow, as well as the ability to select brew strength and temperature on the V700's fully programmable color touchscreen, your drink of choice is brewed to perfection. And in addition to the previous brewing options (hot/iced coffee, hot/iced tea and hot chocolate), you can also now make frothy café beverages like lattes. It only takes about a minute to brew and accommodates eight different sizes, ranging from a 4 oz. coffee cup to an 18 oz. travel mug. Though there aren't as many varieties of Vue packs compared to the massive K-Cup line, we fully expect the selection to continue to grow over the next year or so.
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Dog in Tank Costume Wins PetSmart Halloween Contest [VIDEO]
While pets are usually ambivalent about the Halloween costumes their owners dress them in, Tangent the chihuahua seems pretty pleased with the added firepower of his spiffy tank get up.
The tank, which took first prize at the local Petsmart's Halloween contest, features a gun that lights up and makes shooting sounds when Tangent's owner pulls a trigger on her side of the leash.
Watch some videos of Tangent on an adorable warpath below.
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Another aspect of fingerstyle technique: fretting-finger independence.
Chops: Intermediate
Theory: Intermediate
Lesson Overview:
• Develop fretting-finger
• Learn how to anchor one note
while moving others around it.
• Polish your picking patterns.
• Explore oblique and contrary
Welcome to the second lesson in our series on building fingerstyle technique. Last month, we explored exercises designed to strengthen the ring finger and include it in a variety of fingerpicking patterns ["Picking on the Ring Finger,"November 2011]. As promised, this month we'll look at another aspect of fingerstyle technique—one that's often overlooked when discussing fingerpicking—and that's fretting-finger independence.
One benefit of fingerstyle technique is that it gives you the ability to simultaneously play multiple lines. This can be as simple as arpeggiating a chord while playing descending or ascending lines, or it can be as involved as juggling phrases that move in opposite directions. Whatever the situation, fingerpicking demands digital dexterity in both hands, and often it's the fretting hand that actually has the toughest gig.
With that in mind, let's look at ways to increase independence between the fretting hand fingers in the context of fingerpicking. We'll dive right in with the Robert Johnson inspired blues turnaround shown in Fig. 1. In measure 1, use your 4th finger to hold the high D as you lower a major sixth chromatically on the 2nd and 4th strings. Your thumb (p), index (i), and middle (m) fingers pluck the 4th, 2nd, and 1st strings, respectively.
Measure 2 offers the same musical motif, but this time you're holding A on the 2nd string (use your 4th finger again) and the major sixth descends on strings 3 and 5. That last five-fret stretch (beat 4) can be a bear, so ease into it gently. If you have trouble making the final Dm-to-A move, practice it slowly by itself a few times, and then rewind and try measure 2 in its entirety.
Incidentally, this example illustrates a type of counterpoint called oblique motion, in which one or more lines move against a fixed note or interval. This "anchor-some-notes-while-moving-others" approach gets to the heart of fingerstyle guitar.
We encounter oblique motion again in Fig. 2, but this time, we're arpeggiating a chord (Dm) above a descending bass line (D–C–B–Bb). There's more to this slash-chord passage than meets the eye, as you have to shift your fingers around to hold the Dm chord while executing the bass line. Start with the fretting fingering as shown. Then as you sort out the subsequent moves, notice how the 4th finger is the only digit that doesn't swap places with its mates sometime during this four measure passage. Pluck the bass line with your thumb and use your index finger on the 3rd string, your middle on the 2nd, and ring on the 1st.
So far, we've parked the 4th fretting-hand finger and practiced moving the others around it. In Fig. 3, we flip the process and hold a sustaining bass note while playing a melodic phrase above it. Notice how the bass note changes every two measures, yet the melodic figure repeats. Use the same picking finger assignment as in the previous example.
FYI: Slash Chords
Sheet music and songbooks often
show chord symbols that contain
a slash mark. These "slash
chords" indicate specific voicings
that are crucial to the song
or piece, and they occur when
a chord's lowest note is not the
root. The chord name is at the
left of the slash mark. The second
element—to the right of the
slash—indicates the lowest tone
in the voicing. For example, A/C#
specifies an A triad with a C# in the
bass. (To a bandmate, you'd say
"A over C#.") Slash chords typically
occur when an arranger wants to
flag a bass line that moves through
a progression.
This passage sounds cool—once you decode all the subtle hammer-ons and pull-offs—but it's a bear in terms of finger independence, so go slowly. When working out tricky independence exercises, it's easy to overdo it and strain your finger muscles, and that's not the goal. Regular, relaxed workouts are the key to better technique. By the way, this repeating passage sounds great through a flanger.
One of the most compelling sounds you can make on a guitar involves contrary motion, in which a melody and bass line move in opposite directions. Though it's a creative challenge to compose music using contrary motion, it's very easy to craft exercises to develop this technique. Here's one: Simply select a scale and simultaneously ascend and descend through it. (This makes a great parlor trick, by the way, when you want to impress your guitar-playing buddies.)
Fig. 4 shows a humble G major scale that simultaneously moves in two directions. Using quarter-notes, the bottom line ascends starting on a low F# (the seventh degree of the G major scale), while the top 16th-note line descends starting on A (the second degree). Ultimately both lines converge on G—the root. Pretty cool, huh? Use your thumb to pluck the quarter-notes and your ring, middle, and index fingers to attack the 16ths.
You can fret some of Fig. 4's notes on different strings, so as an experiment, see if you can find an alternative way to play this example. Then for mega bonus points, select another scale and figure out how to ascend and descend through it using a similar picking-hand pattern.
Next month, we'll continue expanding our fingerstyle chops by dipping into some basic bossa nova rhythms.
Andy Ellis A veteran guitar journalist and senior editor at PG, Andy is based in Nashville, where he backs singer-songwriters on the baritone guitar. He also hosts The Guitar Show, a weekly on-air and online broadcast. For the schedule and links to audio streams and archived audio interviews with inspiring players, visit theguitarshow.com.


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This is the first in a series of Linux-related humor which will be published whenever I have material. If you know a Linux joke you'd like to contribute for this column, e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com.
[ If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines ]
[ Linus Torvalds entry in Encyclopedia
Galactica ]
Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building.
Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again. Then they push again, jump on again, and so on ...
All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to know, so just shut up.
The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.
Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.
Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the Seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"
Torvalds, Linus- ... historians generally agree was an actual person and completed a large portion of the programming used to develop the positronic brain sometime before the earliest recorded history. A number of programs have been copied from active positronic memory and have been proven to be based on the galactic standard programming language VM (vit-min) C. The memory patterns include references to the genetic programmer Linus (la-news) Pauling and have revealed where Torvalds named the earliest cores of the positronic brain for the VM C language. Torvalds is universally regarded by historians as the greatest linguist of the core development project. Torvalds was known to have mastered all of the known languages of the time while working in an advanced development laboratory called the Swiss (s-weex) Patent Office of Pari (par-ee) and selected the VM C core in preference to the previous Finn language from predecessors Norway (Turbo-C) and Sweden (ANSI-C). Torvald's mastery of the language in the VM C core is regarded galaxy wide as the reason for the estimated 100,000 year uptime for the original positronic brains. The X Law of Robotics burned into all positronic brains has been found still undecoded in currently functioning examples of the oldest portion of the memory used by the LinuX kerning (coy-nah). Historians are unanimous in identifying Torvalds as the most ingenious programmer in galactic history.
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The Biggest RV Gathering On Earth! Quartzsite, AZ
Once a year, beyond the bounds of reason, thousands of RVs all converge in the same place. The spot is a small, dusty nondescript desert town of ~3,000 people in the SW of Arizona. Under normal circumstances you might drive by without even noticing it's there, but come January the transformation of a desert phoenix occurs. The RV's come, and not just a few of them either…but in the hundreds and thousands! They pack and populate the desert boonies like a giant ant colony, creating a massive sprawl of boondocking RV's as far as the eye can see.
The town is Quartzsite, AZ and it's the biggest RV gathering on earth! What follows is a feast of sellers, flea-markets, rummage-sales, gem shows, artists, professionals and every knick-knack shack you can possibly imagine. Although there are people here for many weeks before and after, the "big show" officially runs around the last 2 weeks of January. During this time a giant tent (creatively known as the "big tent") is raised in the very center of town, the desert becomes a massive ad-hoc parking lot and vendors cram the streets.
Now, I've heard alot of people say they can't stand Quartzsite and I can certainly understand that viewpoint. There are people and cars everywhere, enough shopping to overwhelm even the most dedicated rummage-lover, and the whole thing is rather staged and crazy. But if you take your time to find a decent boondocking spot and embrace the show for it for what it is, it is SO MUCH FUN!
I mean, for starters here's just a few of the things you can do during the show:
1/ Rummage Sales Galore – there are masses of large "shops" selling buckets of knick knacks all around town. Looking for that special drill bit? Or perhaps an RV switch? Or some kind of collapsible kitchen or outdoor equipment? Or that weird RV dohickey thing you can't find anywhere else? You WILL find it here…somewhere.
2/ Art, Crafts & Gems – even before the official Gem Fest at the end of Jan there are massive slews of stores selling individual arts, wood carvings, rocks, gems, fossils, jewelry, unique pieces…you name it. Some are nomadic "communities" that come in and sell their stuff together, others are commercial ventures, or tribal shops. It's ALL here.
3/ RV Repairs & Upgrades – Looking to upgrade your suspension? Get that windshield replaced? New awnings? Solar? Satellite TV? Not only can you find the shop here, but they will come out into the desert boonies to your site to do the work. Pretty nifty!
4/ People Watching & Activities – Perhaps you'd like to learn how to pan for gold? Or hang and listen to some music at the Belly Bar? Meet an author? Eat some BBQ? Get your teeth whitened (I'm not kidding)? Somewhere around here all of that is happening.
5/ Social Get-Togethers – No matter who you are, or what kind of group you would like to be part of they are ALL here. I went over to the Monaco iRV2 group for an AM get-together (even met some fellow Danes there!), had our buddies Jil&Tom from the Escapees boomers come over yesterday (in fact, these were folks we met our first few months of RVing in Utah in 2010 and just saw again for the first time since then!), had Ivan&kittyHailey come over for a visit (we met his kitty, yeah!), and are planning to see some other folks later this week. No matter if you're single, alternative, young, old, LGBT, or even nudist there is a group for you!
We've actually been to Quartzsite several times before, but this is the first year we've hit the "big show" right at its peak. There are multiple RV parks in town, but most RVers chose to boondock in the massive swarfs of BLM land around Quartzsite, and our fav spot is one of the (relatively) lesser-visited 14-day free areas called Dome Rock just west of town. We set-up shop here on Tuesday and in the past few days we've been joined by several friends creating a mini-gathering of nomads in our little spot as well as some excellent happy hour's and sunset-watching moments.
We'll be staying here until (at least) the beginning of next week, so if anyone is in the area you're welcome to come by. In the meantime I will be SHOPPING…and sipping 🙂


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Welcome to Egilsay
Egilsay is part of the three island group Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre. These islands form part of the group also known as The Inner North Isles.
All three islands are serviced by Orkney ferries' 'Eynhallow' and many people commute daily to the mainland to work.
The economy of Egilsay is based solely on farming with sheep and cattle the mainstays of agricultural activity.
Approx half of Egilsay is owned by the RSPB who work in partnership with land owners and farmers to manage the natural habitat for wildlife most famously to encourage breeding of the elusive Corncrake.
Egilsay is a low lying island with its highest point just over 35m above sea level. Even at this low level there are great views of the outlying islands, Westray to the North, Eday, the green holms and Stronsay to the East, and Wyre, Shapinsay and Kirkwall to the South not forgetting its hilly neighbour Rousay to the West
Population - nudging 20
Egilsay has an active Community Association registered as a Scottish charity.
Registered Scottish Charity SC050506
Egilsay Community Association - Constitution
The community Association currently use the Community Hall and old classroom (the only public building apart from the waiting room at the pier) for community activities. In 2012 the Association received grant funding from Awards For All to revitalise the community facilities.


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Cake Batter Pancakes.
I'm fairly convinced that the world would be a better place if more sprinkles were involved.
I know. I just made pancakes. It seems I have an unnatural obsession with cake batter. Well I do.
But hear me out.
When I develop recipes, I try to make all of them for a purpose. We really hate to waste food in this house. Crab cakes for dinner, cake for a birthday party, quinoa as a side dish… it all works out. I get to share it with you and we get to eat it.
Then sometimes, I get ideas in my head. Ideas that get me so worked up that I must attempt the recipe and give it a shot as soon as possible, even if it isn't something we will eat every day. Otherwise, I cannot stop thinking about it. These are the things that keep me up at night.
Case in point: it isn't anyone's birthday. It's not even really close to anyone's birthday.
But I don't need an excuse to eat cake and sprinkles. I believe it should be a daily occurrence.
And because pancakes always need some sort of topping, I went with a sprinkled glaze.
Because nothing goes better with cake than more sugar!
These are just plain fun.
Sure, they would be best for a special occasion like a birthday, but they also work on a random Saturday in January when it's -2 degrees outside and all you want to see is some sunshine.
And you don't feel like getting on the treadmill, so you decided to eat cake instead.
That wasn't me. I swear.
And yes, this means you will have an open box of cake mix, just like you did with the cake batter bark. This is okay. You will manage. Sure, you may find yourself mixing cake mix with odd ingredients, but so what? Mother Lovett always had an open box of cake mix in her pantry. Given hers were usually about 4 years old… but still.
Just do it.
Cake Batter Pancakes
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2/3 cup yellow cake mix
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 cups milk, I used vanilla almond milk
- assorted sprinkles
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- assorted sprinkles
- Combine flour, cake mix, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix. Add 1 cup of milk, egg and vanilla extract and stir until smooth. You want the batter to look like regular pancake batter; not too thin, not too thick. This will vary greatly on the brand of cake mix you use. Start with 1 cup of milk and add more if needed. I suggest a small taste test as well to see if the pancakes are flavored enough.
- Preheat a skillet on medium heat (I use an electric grilled and turn it to 250 degrees). Fold desired amount of sprinkles into batter. Pour batter in 1/4 cup measurements onto skillet and let cook until bubbles form on top, about 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook for 1 minute more. Serve with vanilla glaze.
- Mix milk, extract and powdered sugar until glaze forms. You may need to add a little more sugar or water/milk to reach desired consistency. Mix into glaze and drizzle on pancakes.
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Maybe the secret to choking down broccoli is throwing sprinkles on top?
Wishful thinking…


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Sometimes motherhood can bring out your emotional side.
Beyoncé and her hubby, Jay-Z, have been public promoters of the Obama family (plus, we know Barack's a fan of Hov's), so Bey took some time out to write a sweet letter (which she posted on her website) to her good friend Michelle Obama...who also just so happens to be the first lady.
Blue Ivy's mama starts off her inspirational note by describing Michelle as "the ultimate example of a truly strong African American woman."
"She's a caring mother, she's a loving wife, while at the same time, she is the First Lady!"
At first you think, wait—is she writing to Obama or just about her (either of which is perfectly OK)?
But then we understand that Bey was just admiring the first lady's qualities before getting to the point of her letter.
"Michelle, thank you for every single thing that you do for us. I am proud to have my daughter grow up in a world where she has people like you to look up to."
How presh is that?!


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We found 1 SBA loan for Payrite Pharmacy franchises.
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Single of the Week!
The Magnetic Fields - 'Quick' (Domino)
No one captures the ecstasy of romantic torment quite like The Magnetic Fields. And though there is no better song to sing after a right royal dumping than 'I Don't Want To Get Over You,' 'Quick' is about still being in a thing - but close to ending it. And how you sometimes just want to say, I AM A WHISKER AWAY FROM BINNING YOU, SUNSHINE. The fact that it chimes like Buggles and is just as sad makes it all the more smirky and joyous, with Merritt pondering how life's Ts and Cs (not least: rent) will insist on getting in the way of a person's romantic exit strategy. I mean, to be this prodigious and stylistically liquid; to be capable of telling stories where each of his many – perfectly drawn - narrators gets their own bespoke, musical costume, must be pretty galling if you too make your trade from a six-string. If I was a musician, I'm pretty sure I'd hate him. Even if 'Quick' is essentially Bouncy's 'Irreplaceable' cept more indie.
Bang On! - 'Fars Yer Whop' (Big Dada)
An absolutely bum-blowing bassline introduces MC Elliott Egerton's third single - and though it would be pointless asking the old lady with the Laura Ashley wallpaper what 'Fars Yer Whop' actually means, for the purposes of this single all you need to know is that he is flat-out furious and arrestingly good - lyrically deft and that rare beast; a real-life, non-caricatured Scouser. The only sticking point was when I read that the vocodered chorus (which you should probably just fight through) is meant both as tribute and pisstake. Which just seems a little cake and eat it, as if Bang On! were basking in applause at the same time as winking slyly to his audience. Or maybe not, maybe it's okay. Either way, if I could pull off telling you that I think the main thing worth getting really, really excited about here is Egerton's flow, I would. (It is, though.)
Shimmering Stars - 'When I See You Again' from 'Ghosts Past' EP (Almost Discos / Almost Musique)
Obviously nobody needs another distort-pop single that is glimmering dejectedly under a cheap mirrorball that has just been dumped by the prom queen. I mean, I, for one, am fed up with wheeling out metaphors involving hooky punch, bleached-out yearbook photos capturing things they shouldn't, corsages with mud on them, or wearing the jacket of a boy named Brad. But still, I quite like 'When I See You Again', because as well as being a single that is doing arms-length sway-dancing in its Daddy's too-big tuxedo, Shimmering Stars have seen to add some unnecessary whomps and crashes that put me in mind of that episode of This American Life, where they tell the story of the high school dance that carried blithely on even though the whole time they were dancing, the rest of the town was being ripped apart by a tornado. Basically, right, what I'm saying, is that if you imagine that the kids at that prom are dancing to this single in some sort of wreckage, it suddenly makes it - and prom-rock in general - about 10% more interesting. As if the self-regarding younglings inside the gym, are about to get a lesson in the peril and threat outside it.
DZ Deathrays - 'Dollar Chills' (Hassle)
As little is as likely to put a person off a thing than seeing it has been named 'Q' 'track' of the day; and as the world does not contain foam hands big enough to form air quotes as sarcastic as the ones I want to demonstrate whenever I see the word 'track' (so vile, so deeply, deeply vile), let us instead see how many results can be pulled back from Google if a person was to enter "DZ Deathrays" and "Pulled Apart By Horses" if only because I am curious to see if this side-by-siding is in fact deserved, or merely PR-spun. By my calculation, we have an alarming 668,000 mentions - even if you ask Google to remove results based on quotes I know are in the press release. Which is not bad going, if that, indeed, is what the team behind DZ Deathrays are going for. 'Dollar Chills' itself reveals that they're not quite in the same ballpark of filth as my beloved Leeds bad 'uns, but it's not far off. Good.
Skitz feat. Rodney P, Roots Manuva, Darrison MC & Solo Banton - 'Never' (Dragon Drop)
I am interested less in obvious, spoken nasties than the things we think we're allowed to say - and not least, how often you hear people talking about 'estates' as if they were not peopled by people at all. Buying an over-priced flat near one (SO BRAVE), walking by them (POOR YOU), it's odd how often you hear this kind of thing tossed off as if it were acceptable. And let's face it, it's usually the preserve of the kind of fist-gnawing wanker who bangs on about what an amazing sense of community exists in Hackney despite not knowing a single person born there. ANYWAY, I mention all this because Skitz has done an excellent video for his bristling single which has animated eyes peeking out from lurking hoods, and I wonder if that's (at least part) of what it's about. PLUS it's got Roots Manuva in it, scene-stealing like an old repertory ham. Basically I like everything about this enterprise, especially the bit where Rodney P goes on about being an actual socialist and says 'Fuck Barack'. Oh alright, I was a bit shocked.
Fever Fever - 'The Chair' (Kissability)
The habsolute worst and dreadest thing about people knowing that you review bands is that occasionally people send you their music and tell you they live in the same place as if it would automatically endear them to you. And every time it happens I want to say, you know, how could this ever be a good idea; and how could anyone, ever, have anything even vaguely approaching a natural or honest response to a piece of art when they know how likely it is that they will bump into the people who made the art while buying a pie in Morrisons. I mean, the whole thing is so anti, so fraught with upset, especially when people will insist on forcing me to remember that the music I am paid to be a smart arse about has been made by people with actual feelings. Oh, I can't bear it. Don't tell me where you're from; let all bands be from a parallel universe peopled by souls with the blood of neon and trousers spun from unicorn's tears, okay, THAT'S WHAT I WANT. As it happens, Fever Fever are from Norwich (OMG! Where I live!), but they were not all HELLO WE ARE NORWICH or all up in my face about being human, and I like their single in part because it is possible for me to listen to it without it being reminded of something so pedestrian as a map location. It may in fact transcend the map, and it's great because it's all scuffed and ragged. But also because they've harnessed the scuff alongside some impossibly sugary vocal lines; ones that dance in and out, all surprise. It's like a muddy boot, laced with ribbons. No, it's a marshmallow, rolled in skag. No, it's [time I went on holiday].
Virals - 'Coming Up With The Sun' (Tough Love)
Virals is him out of Lovvers and on 'Coming Up With The Sun' there is a fair amount of old-fashioned, Bob Mould-style jangling going on. It also sounds a bit like Ash. Neither of these are necessarily bad things. Bit too perky for me though.
Magic Bullets - 'Unlearned' from 'Much Ado About' EP (Mon Amie)
'Nobody ever tells me anything!' is the vanguard cry of we youngest children, family secrets are forever being whispered into slimline BT handsets and you have no idea, no fucking clue what is going on until your Mum comes to pick you up from school one day and you find out that Uncle Dan has done a runner with the pension and Aunty Margaret does stuff for money and your cousin's in borstal but it's okay now, we didn't want to worry you. What this meant, at least for me, is that I spent the whole of my teenage years pestering the whole of my family for attention, needy as all heckins, unplugging my Boots tape deck and smacking it down in front of any family member I could find until someone, finally, would listen to the stuff I had found on the radio, BECAUSE IT WAS IMPORTANT. But they never would, and I was swatted and foiled; and it was more fool those fuckers because they missed out on so many bands. Then I heard 'Blister In The Sun' leaking out from under my sister's bedroom door and thought, 'Well, this is exactly what I am TALKING about, people are even GETTING INTO BANDS I have never heard of WITHOUT TELLING ME.' Although mainly, really, I was jealous. Anyway, that's the time, that's the moment, 'Unlearned' put me in mind of. That and early R.E.M. It is no small irony that I am only just noticing Magic Bullets – the people, the band - as they decide to all it a day. This is their last release. Why does nobody ever tell me anything?
Band Of Skulls - 'Sweet Sour' (Electric Blues Recordings)
At the margins of everybody's taste, far away from the strait-jacketed, internet-ready, socially acceptable face one presents to the world through such insightful, totally genuine, utterly trustworthy and definitely meaningful, modern means as Facebook Likes, Twitter photo streams and the About Me section of any of wor pointless, one-note blogs, there are other fancies. Sick ones, ones where you find yourself wishing for your time again so you could do this rock thing properly and wear leather at fifteen, instead of wearing it at an age when, quite frankly, it starts to look a bit German Top Shelf. Anyway, Band of Skulls are – check this out for criticism, you shits – quite rock. And I like them and I do secretly want to be a bit rock with a capital R and I don't care who knows it, I just wouldn't shout about it on Match.com.
Also out this Week!
The Membranes - 'If You Enter The Arena You've Got To Be Prepared To Deal With Lions' (Louder Than War)
Deadbeat Echoes - 'Surge of Youth' (Louder Than War)
Gossip - 'Perfect World' (Columbia)
M83 - 'Reunion' EP (Naive)
Diagrams - 'Ghost Lit' (Full Time Hobby)
Kris Menace feat. The Kiki Twins - 'We Are' (Compuphonic)
The Subways - 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' (Cooking Vinyl)
Emmy The Great - 'God Of Loneliness' (Close Harbour Records)
Submotion Orchestra - 'It's Not Me It's You' (Exceptional Blue)
Rewd Adams & The Last Skeptik - 'Everything's OK' (Bread & Butter)
CSC - 'Down The Road' EP (On And On Records)
The Slow Show - 'Brother' EP (Smoked & Uncut)
Princess Chelsea - 'The Cigarette Duet' (Lil' Chief Records)
Nina Nesbitt - 'The Apple Tree' (BMG/Chrysalis)
Paper Aeroplanes - 'Multiple Love' (My First Records)
Violet - 'Y.O.U.' (Luv Luv Luv)
Echotape - 'Sky Above Quarley Hill' (Amalgamated Aesthetic Industries)
Wendy is on the internet, here. If you want irrefutable evidence that romance is dead, do have a listen to Rizzle Kicks and Mayor Hawthorne on their amusing new single, which is also out today. 'I wish I had played you like the whore you are,' they sing. Lovely!


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The New Deal
The New Deal, introduced by F D Roosevelt was to transform America's economy which had been shattered by the Great Depression. The economic downturn that followed the Wall Street Crash also had a major psychological impact on America and that Roosevelt was actually doing something did a great deal to boost America's self-esteem.
In Roosevelt's first Hundred Days many acts were introduced which were to form the basis of the New Deal. The New Deal was to cover as many issues as could be imagined – be they social, economic, financial etc. The wave of popularity that had swept Roosevelt into power meant that parts of the New Deal were passed without too much scrutiny. In later years many acts in the New Deal were deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of America.
The New Deal introduced acts that became part of the law and numerous agencies that worked with the Federal government in ensuring that the acts were enacted.
On March 15th 1933, Roosevelt asked Congress to pass the Economy Act. This cut the pay of everybody who worked for the government and the armed forces by 15%. Government departmental spending was also cut by 25%. The saved money, about $1 billion, was to go towards financing his New Deal.
On March 20th 1933, Roosevelt asked Congress to pass the Beer Act which finally killed off prohibition. The sold beer would raise revenue for the government by tax and it would also introduce a fee-good factor in that perfectly normal people who wanted an alcoholic drink would no longer be criminalised simply because they wanted a drink.
The Acts
Emergency Banking Act 1933 |
The Federal government insured people's deposits in banks against losses caused by public panic. This helped restore the public's confidence in the nation's banking system |
National Industrial Recovery Act '33 |
This act had three parts to it. It set up the Public Works Administration (PWA) to manage public works projects; The PWA spent $7 billion and employed millions of men. It set up the National Recovery Administration to set up codes of practices for such things as hours worked, wages, unfair competition and outlawing child labour. 16 million workers were covered by these code and child labour was outlawed. Workers went on to a 8 hours week and a minimum wage of $1.25 was introduced. The third strand of the NIRA was to give trade unions the legal right to bargain with employers. Membership of trade unions increased after the introduction of this act. NIRA was declared unconstitutional in 1935. |
Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933 | This act paid farmers to limit the amount of crops they grew or simply to dig back into the ground crops already grown. The federal government bought farm animals and then slaughtered then to raise the price of farm products.Between 1933 and 1937, farm prices doubled but in 1936 the AAA was declared unconstitutional. |
Tennessee Valley Development Act '33 | This set up the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Its sole task was to re-develop the Tennessee Valley which encompassed 7 states and 40,000 square miles.HEP stations were built, flood control was introduced as was soil conservation. The valley was regenerated. |
National Labour Relations Act '35 | This act forced employers to deal with trade unions. Workers were also given the right to form and join trade unions and to take part in collective bargaining. A board was set up to investigate and punish those companies bosses who did not abide by the rules of the NLRA.In 1935 trade union membership stood at 3.6 million. By 1941 it was 8.6 million. In 1935 the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organisations) came into being. |
Social Security Act 1935 | This act set up the first national old age pensions scheme. Workers and employers had to pay into a federal pension fund. Each state was also expected to work out a plan for unemployment insurance.This one act covered 35 million people despite opposition from Republicans who felt the whole idea smacked of socialism. |
Soil Conservation Act 1936 | The federal government paid subsidies to farmers who agreed to leave land fallow or planted crops that put nitrogen back into the soil. The federal government also financed research into soil conservation. |
Fair Labour Standards Act 1938 | The FLSA sort to cut the maximum hours someone could work and to raise the minimum wage for those who worked in inter-state trade.This act gave protection to over 13 million people. It introduced a 40 hour week and a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour. |
Agricultural Adjustment Act 1938 | The act introduced the Federal government subsidising the price of many farm products. The aim was to gradually increase the subsidy until farm prices reached their pre-1914 figure to give all farmers a guaranteed minimum income. |
The Agencies
Civilian Conservation Corps of 1933 | This employed jobless single men between the ages of 18 and 25. They worked for 6 months in mountains and forests where they were taught forestry, flood control and fire prevention. Nearly 3 million men took part in the scheme which ran from 1933 to 1941. |
Works Progress Administration of 1935 | The WPA coordinated all public works schemes. It spent over $10.5 billion of Federal money and employed 3.8 million men from 1935 to 1941. It had built 77,000 bridges, 24,000 miles of sewers, 664,000 miles of road, 285 airports, 122,000 public buildings and 11,000 schools. |
Reconstruction Finance Corporation | This agency loaned money to state and local governments to assist the poor. It also lent money to firms which were in debt or wanted to invest. |
Farm Credit Administration | This agency used Federal money to pay off farm creditors and save farmers from bankruptcy. |
Home Owners Loan Corporation 1933 | This agency used Federal money to pay of mortgages so that home owners did not lose their homes. |


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The sample Visual Basic Program for Chinese Lunar Calendar uses a Microsoft Access database of the Sun and Moon astronomical data instead of astronomical formula. You can export data into SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, or FoxPro database. Since Visual Basic codes is similar to ASP codes, it's easy to apply the astronomical data into Internet applications. The following are the sample programs
The complete Sun and Moon data is from 1 A.D. to 2246 A.D. The data for Chinese Calendar we want is from Year 1645 to 2245, because the logic for Chinese Lunar Calendar to assign the Lunar Months is the method of True Moon and True Sun, which is from the Chinese Calendar Major Reform in 1645. The other reason is the Gregorian Calendar dropped 10 days from October 5, 1582 to October 14, 1582 by Pope Gregory XII. This will cause the confusion of Chinese Calendar conversion before October 5, 1582., such as looking for the dates of Winter Solstices.
The sample Visual Basic program enables to do the Chinese Lunar Calendar conversion between Gregorian date and Chinese Lunar date from 1645 to 2245 for 24 time zones using Astronomical Calendar or Civil Calendar. This sample program show how to utilize the solar Sector Points, solar Center Point and new moon data.
The Five Element button shows how to calculate Stems and Branches for the date and hour, which are the basic information of the Chinese Astrology.
The explanation button show how to read the data from Sun and Moon data to verify the result of the calendar conversion.
The True Solar Time Correction Table is the Equation of Time for entire year. The True Solar Time is the Sundial Time. The Equation of Time is the difference between Sun mean and Sun apparent time.
This is a reference data only. Chinese Lunar Calendar conversion doesn't apply the Sundial time into the conversion. But we have a bonus sample program of the Equation of Time in the CD.
Get more information from The Equation of Time or The Equation of Time Correction Table
The source program to find the zodiac for western astrology and the Easter Sunday, is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the Vernal Equinox. This sample program shows how to use the solar Center Points and full moon data.
The source program to calculate proximate the equation of time from selected date and time zone. This bonus program doesn't use Sun or Moon astronomical data. It's a handy program to adjust the true solar time.
The complete Visual Basic codes, Sun Center Point, Sun Sector Point, New Moon and Full Moon data are in the Chinese Lunar Calendar CD. The CD also includes the source codes of the sample programs and utility programs to manipulate the Sun, Moon and Leap Months data. Click here for CD Layout.


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Biological Sciences Division
Research Highlights
June 2006
Illuminating the Mechanism of Fluorophore-assisted Light Inactivation of Proteins
Contact: Ping Yan
Fluorophore-assisted light inactivation (FALI) is a technique used to inactivate targeted, tagged proteins. Used with cell-permeable multi-use affinity probes to conduct targeted protein inactivation with spatial and temporal control, FALI can be used to study physiological function. However, reliable FALI of proteins has been limited, because the mechanism of photoinactivation of proteins by FALI has not been understood.
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory studied the mechanism of protein photoinactivation by FALI using the calcium regulatory protein calmodulin and the multi-use affinity probe 4',5'-bis(1.3,2-dithioarsolan-2-yl)fluorescein, or FlAsH. They found that FALI mediates protein inactivation through a mechanism that 1) oxidizes methionine side chains within a protein complex, and 2) activates histidine and other side chains as zero-length cross-linkers, which stabilizes protein associations for subsequent mass spectrometric identification.
Understanding the mechanism of FALI-mediated protein inactivation allows scientists to choose and design optimized target proteins and extends the use of FALI as a valuable tool for gaining a systems-level understanding of protein-protein interactions controlling cell function. For example, the results of this study provide a rationale for selectively inactivating key signaling proteins. FALI will also be an important tool for identifying the function of conserved hypothetical proteins through the selective inactivation of the protein in question and associated binding partners. Through FALI-induced cross-linking, the binding partners can be identified to shed light on the function of unknown proteins and their biological pathways.
This research was supported by the Genomics: GTL program of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Results were published in Biochemistry in March 2006. The publication is co-authored by Ping Yan, Yijia Xiong, Baowei Chen, Sewite Negash, Thomas Squier, and Uljana Mayer.
Yan P, Y Xiong, B Chen, S Negash, TC Squier, and MU Mayer. 2006. "Fluorophore-assisted light inactivation of calmodulin involves singlet-oxygen mediated cross-linking and methionine oxidation." Biochemistry 45(15):4736-4748. doi:10.1021/bi052395a.


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Do I need Java or not? How do I know?
Determining what you have on your computer is a first step to greater security. Java is a case in point.
Dear Control Engineering: You've been talking about security vulnerabilities with Java, so I checked my system. I have an older version which is apparently full of holes. How do I know if I have any applications that depend on Java before I get rid of it?
That's certainly a practical question, and one with a potentially complex answer.
The simple approach is to disable or uninstall Java and just see what happens. The number of applications that depend on Java has gone down, so that isn't a far-fetched suggestion. If nothing changes, you're done.
But, if you have an application that needs it, how will you know? When you run that application, it may send you an error message saying it needs that utility. Hopefully it has that degree of sophistication. On the other hand, it may not or the error message won't be so clear. You might need to have a chat with the software vendor to sort it out. If you need to re-install Java, at least install the latest version provided it will work with your application.
If that approach is too scary, you can look at the list of all programs on your computer. If you're methodical, go down the list and check item by item. You may have to contact the original vendor.
This brings up the most critical aspect of the discussion. One of the points that cyber security practitioners stress again and again is the importance of knowing what software is running or resident on your computer or larger control system. This recent Java controversy is only one example of a vulnerability buried in some kind of software platform. There have been countless others and there will be more. When a vulnerability is exposed, do you know if it affects you? Is there an old program still there that nobody uses and you've forgotten about it? You will know these things if you know what is installed on your machines down to the latest version number. If you don't, you might not realize what holes are in your system until it's too late.
Peter Welander, email@example.com
Also read: Cyber Security Vulnerability Assessment
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A Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) is issued by the State of Texas Public Utility Agency (PUC) to allow orderly, efficient and cost effective extension of water and/or wastewater services to developing areas. The CCN grants exclusive retail service rights to the water and/or wastewater service provider (City of San Marcos).
Multiple subdivisions and developers have requested extension of water and wastewater services to developing areas in the ETJ outside the existing CCN boundaries. The City has agreed to these requests and has applied to add those areas and adjacent areas to the CCN. Requests to amend the CCN are a normal step with development.
No, properties in the ETJ will not be required to connect. If they desire central sewer service, they will be eligible to connect to the system.
No, inclusion or exclusion of a given property in a CCN has no bearing on annexation.
No, this does not give taxing authority or require any payments. If a property chooses at some point to connect to City utility service, they would pay for service at that time as does any other utility customer.
The PUC rules require the City notify all affected county governments, water and wastewater retail providers, municipal utility districts, ground water districts and property owners in the areas proposed for coverage. The City has sent 3600 + letters to provide required notice, as well as, publishing the notice in four local newspapers.
Pipelines would necessarily cross areas in between and it is best engineering and efficiency practice to serve those areas, if and when properties would choose to connect, such as when on-site septic systems need replacement.


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The University of Minnesota has been given a commitment of up to $4.5 million from the Bush Foundation to help restructure its College of Education and Human Development teacher preparation programs.
The restructuring, dubbed the Teachers Education Redesign Initiative, will focus on preparing prospective educators to increase graduation rates and reduce disparities in student achievement for k-12 schools.
"Ensuring that our schools have the best teachers in the country is critical to meeting the region's employment needs going forward," said University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks in a prepared statement. "In order to be competitive in the global economy, all students need to graduate from high school prepared for some form of post-secondary education. I am very excited that the University of Minnesota will play a strong role in revamping the teacher education curriculum to improve teaching and learning--for all students--throughout the state and region."
Provisions of the initiative included a focused effort on recruiting more diversified undergraduates and changes to the curriculum to prepare educators to work with special education students and English language learners.
Other provisions included developing prospective educators' cultural competencies and teaching them to work with families and their communities.
The university said it plans to launch the restructured program in summer of 2011.
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