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Sideshow Collectibles' line of 12" Star Wars figures has quickly cast itself into focus, despite the line having yet to ship 1 single piece. Since November of last year, Sideshow has made 4 fantastic-looking 12" figures available for preorder, and with a 5th due at the end of this week the pace of the preorder reveals seems to be picking up. Each figure has been made available in regular format and a Sideshow Exclusive limited edition, making for 8 total figure preorders so far:
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Lazard Capital semiconductor analyst Daniel Amir today reiterated a Buy rating on shares of Intel (INTC), writing that the chances of the company becoming a contract chip maker for Apple (AAPL) are more likely than they have in past.
Based on our recent checks across the supply channel, we highlight the impact and reasons why a widely anticipated deal with Apple as a potential foundry customer is becoming more likely," writes Amir.
Among the factors Amir includes are newly installed CEO Brian Krzanich being more open to the prospect of Apple as a foundry customer; having the technology edge in manufacturing over contract foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM); having some excess capacity in new factories that will be rolling out in the next two years; and having already dedicated resources to contract work for other large customers.
Apple is Samsung Electronics's (005930KS) biggest customer for contract chip manufacture, which manufactures the A-series chips that Apple designs and puts in its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Those parts rely on designs from ARM Holdings (ARMH), which supplies all of Intel's enemies, rather than Intel's traditional "X86" microprocessor instruction set, which has made the prospect of Intel contracting to Apple a controversial one for Intel. But Intel can improve EPS if it lures away some of that Samsung business, writes Amir:
With Apple being one of the largest consumers of foundry capacity, we analyze the impact if Intel were to secure Apple as a customer. Currently, Apple uses Samsung as its fab, where it accounts for ~90% of Samsung's foundry revenue, or ~$3.85B in FY12. Based on our assumptions for iPhone and iPad units (expected to grow ~20% Y/Y), we believe the potential revenue impact for Intel could be $2.97B in with an incremental $0.14 of EPS in 2015E (assuming 50% of Apple's business).
On Krzanich, who took over from Paul Otellini last month, he "was previously the company's COO and has extensive manufacturing and technology expertise," notes Amir. "Krzanich has taken steps to reorganize the company early into his tenure, showing his willingness to make changes."
Adds Amir, "We believe the company [Intel] has recently created a division dedicated to support large customers such as Apple, with the possibility of converting these customers to a foundry business in the future."
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That looks very cool! I have always wondered about a project like this I'm not sure what to do with the files on your github though, are they visual studio files? Can't see anything for the arduinoThanks for sharing!
Fantastic! What I've always wanted hehe. However, which are the requirements for it to work? I downloaded the files from the /bin folder and it crashes upon start. I'm at work so I don't have my arduino board here, does it crash because of that? Thanks a lot for your effort,
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President Obama has made good on his pledge to begin drawing down American forces in Afghanistan, but his stated strategy is unlikely to lead to a successful withdrawal.
Mr. Obama announced last week that 10,000 troops would come home by December and another 23,000 by next summer. By 2014, he confidently proclaimed, "the Afghan people will be responsible for their own security."
Administration hawks, largely in the military, are uneasy; they had wanted to go slower, so as to safeguard recent gains made against the Taliban. Administration doves, largely in the White House, are disappointed; they had wanted to pull back faster, seeing the killing of Osama bin Laden as an ideal opportunity to get out.
The president split the difference, suggesting that he was charting a "centered course." But he has actually once again evaded the fundamental choice between accepting the costs of staying and the risks of leaving.
What he needs is a strategy for getting out without turning a retreat into a rout — and he would be wise to borrow one from the last American administration to extricate itself from a thankless, seemingly endless counterinsurgency in a remote and strategically marginal region. Mr. Obama should ask himself, in short: What would Nixon do?
Richard M. Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, tried to manage the risks of exiting the Vietnam War by masking their withdrawal with deliberate deception and aggressive covering fire. They almost succeeded — and if tried again in today's more favorable environment, their strategy would most likely work.
The Nixonian approach has its costs: it would generate charges of lying, escalation and betrayal. And embracing it would require the president to display a deftness and a tough-mindedness he has rarely shown. But it could also provide the ticket home. Indeed, Mr. Obama's best option is to repeat Mr. Nixon's Vietnam endgame and hope for a different outcome — to get 1973, one might say, without having it followed by 1975.


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Mathematical Surveys and Monographs
2013; 336 pp; hardcover
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Lie Superalgebras and Enveloping Algebras - Ian M Musson
Unipotent and Nilpotent Classes in Simple Algebraic Groups and Lie Algebras - Martin W Liebeck and Gary M Seitz
Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras in the BGG Category \(\mathscr {O}\) - James E Humphreys
Gradings are ubiquitous in the theory of Lie algebras, from the root space decomposition of a complex semisimple Lie algebra relative to a Cartan subalgebra to the beautiful Dempwolff decomposition of \(E_8\) as a direct sum of thirty-one Cartan subalgebras. This monograph is a self-contained exposition of the classification of gradings by arbitrary groups on classical simple Lie algebras over algebraically closed fields of characteristic not equal to 2 as well as on some nonclassical simple Lie algebras in positive characteristic. Other important algebras also enter the stage: matrix algebras, the octonions, and the Albert algebra. Most of the presented results are recent and have not yet appeared in book form. This work can be used as a textbook for graduate students or as a reference for researchers in Lie theory and neighboring areas.
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I just picked up Transformers More Than Meets The Eye Aramada #2 today. Ive only briefly flipped thru it but it looks like it continues with the excellent drawings and interesting character bios.
I just picked up Transformers More Than Meets The Eye Aramada #2 today. Ive only briefly flipped thru it but it looks like it continues with the excellent drawings and interesting character bios.
Good Traders/Sellers: Cameo, Darth Cruel, Sith Killer 99, JJReason, icatch9, ChasingJediDogma, AT-AT Man, JediMasterGuyute, Brainiak76, JangoFett96, njscollectibles, Vulcantouch, AC Pin, TheDarthVader, msjedi, DarthQuack, Roojay
I picked that up also. I liked it. It was kind of a downer, but how could it not be, considering it is "The End."Originally Posted by Sentinel18725
I picked up Star Wars Republic #63. Not bad, but I'm sick of Quinlin Vos.
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Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
I stopped by the shop as I was "in that neck of the woods". Picked up only 2 books from last week: Uncanny 442 and New X-Men 155, both by Chuck Austen, and both first part stories which will bridge the gap into the "Reloaded" stuff next month.
I also got:
Planetary 19
Pulse 1
Squadron Supreme 9
Also managed to find a copy of GI Joe Reloaded #1 that I set aside for payday. Good stuff, as I thought I'd missed it. Now, if I can find that first issue of Bendis' "Secret War", I'll be up to speed.
I picked up:
Ghostbusters #1
Hulk #70
Ultimate spider-man #56
Wolverine: The End #3
I'm anxious to see how ultimate spider-man works out and i'm REALLY giddy to see how this new Ghostbusters comic pans out. It's only, oh, 2 months late?!!?
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
New Comics(3/30/04)
Avengers/JLA 4
Batman 625
GIJoe Reloaded 1
GIJoe 28
Pulse 2
Punisher 4
Superman 203
Transformers GIJoe 6
Ultimates 13
New Comics(4/7/04)
Amazing Spidey 506
Captain America/Falcon 2
MK 4 1, 2, and 3
Punisher: The End
Supreme Power 9
Thanos 9
Transformers War Within Dark Ages 2
(New) X-Men 155
Uncanny X-Men 442
New Comics(4/14/04)
Captain America 25
Hulk 70
New Mutants 11
1602 8
MK Spider-Man 1
Teen Titans 10
Teen Titans Go! 1
Whew! Lots of books there. Lots of endings, JLA/Avengers, Broken City, TF/GIJoe, Ultimates,1602, Turner's Superman run...too much to comment on today. But I'll be back with some thoughts later on.
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PHONE BOOK Written by Bendis. Art by Jim Lee. Total copies sold: 15 billion.
"Comic Collecting. Miss a decade, miss a lot."
That IS a lot of comics. Good luck with Tony and Sal, I'm sure they'll be by your place later on this week to collect......
Yesterday, I picked up
Star Wars Tales # 19
Spider-man #1
Tales is usually a fun read, whether it's an Infinities story or not. They do have their stinkers though. A couple of good ones this issue, like the "Breakfast Club" parody and "Into the Great Unknown" were kinda cool. My biggest problem with Tales is that many of the stories are too short.
As for Spider-man, it's the first Spidey comic I've purchased in years. I've always liked Spidey. but never got into his comics. The art was the main reason I picked it up - the Green Goblin looks really cool in there. Marvel Knights should be a good direction for Spidey.
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I got the latest Clone Wars Comic! YEAH!
Today i got Ultimate Spidey 57 and Hulk 71.
ULT spidey- This was a FANTASTIC ISSUE!!! Great to see Parker at Doc Ock's mercy and i'm hella curious how he escaped...but the kicker was: Gwen found Peters Spider-Man outfit!!! It'll be great to see how things unravel with this discovery!!
Hulk was very good with a nice quarrel between Iron Man and Hulk. I LOVE the last page where Hulk has that sniper in his hand about to crush him. It'll be nuts to see where the story goes after Jones leaves. Cheers!
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New Comics(4/20/04)
SuperBat 9
Cable Deadpool 2 ( Ya think Wade is peeved he's second billed?)
Batman Gotham Knights 52
New Mutants 12
Robin 125
Daredevil 59
New X-Men 156
Uncanny X-Men 443
SuperBat. Turner's run on this title is awesome! And his Kara? Va va va voooooom!
Cable Deadpool. Hilarity ensues everytime Nate dispatches Wade by telekinetically exploding the back of his skull off. And dear lord in heaven, Liefeld is bringing X-Force back....somebody bring me my steel toed boots.
Gotham Knights. Another banger issue. I like how the villains get as much "screentime" as Bats. And that Joker is certifiable ain't he? WOW! (circle finger around ear...)
New Mutants. The final issue ( or so I thought) wrapped up things nicely. But ( ugh) the cover of Mutant Academy has them all in uniforms. NOOOO!
Robin. So long Tim. Hello Steph.
Daredevil. Ha. In the newest Wizard, Quesada came right out and said Bendis was Marvel's most valuable asset. Daredevil is why. I can't belives they killed the FBI guy. He was kinda cool.
New/Uncanny. Austen and Larroca wrap up the X-Universe before the reload. Decent issues. Chuck really gave Lorna her comeuppance.
New Comics(4/27/04)
Daredevil:Father 1
Transformers G1 V3 4
Ultimate Six 7
GIJoe Reload 2
Superman 204
Punisher 5
Avengers 496
Batman 626
Hulk 71
New Mutants 13
X-Treme X-Men 46
Ultimate Fantastic Superb Wondrous Adroitly Curiously Strong Four 5
Green Lantern 176
Father. Quesada draws DD so barrel chested, I thought maybe he was a logger by day instead of a lawyer. Nice set up. Reminds me of the classic MWOF sereies by Miller and Romita JR. Hey! What ever happened to the little girl in that series that Matt was training. I bet shes all grown up by now. Can anyone say female Daredevil??
Transformers. Omega Supreme!! Rock!!! I could actually follow this issue. Can anyone tell me where Optimus is?
Ultimate Six. Other than sowing the seeds for Ultimate Harry to be the new Ultimate GG, this was kind of a weak ending.
GIJOE. As much as it pains me, seeing as how it was GIJoe that got me collecting again last year, this and the regular series are getting weaker every month and they are on my chopping block. There is nothing fresh about this series.
Superman. JIM LEE!!!! JIM LEEE!!!!! And a confusing "Hey we'll tell you the ending before the beginning" setup where Lois is...gone ( and Clark is Catholic apparently.)
Punisher. Ennis kicks it hardcore. My fave comic on the racks right now ( and not just because of the movie). The MAX imprint fits Frank like a glove. And Micro's back, which is cool. Lots of cussing and violence.
MK 4. Uhhhh....the Fantastic Three go camping in Jersey. What a cool book.
Avengers. I really, really like the idea that Kelsey can't tell her family who she is because her children are so much more important to her than being CapBrit. It's like the ultimate sacrifice. It's too bad Marvel feels the need to cancel and restart this series. I think tossing Bendis on board would kick up sales regardless of the issue number.
Batman. Thank goodness a decent non Azzarello story line with Penguin AND Scarecrow. But I miss Loeb and Lee. ( sniffle)
JLA. If Claremont and Byrne are TRYING to do retro, then this kitsch is allright. But what I think is happening is these two legendary titans are both pulling on opposite ends of the creative rope and were getting mediocrity right down the center. And the exclamation points on the covers make me want to slap...somebody.
Hulk. Deodato's back ( before he takes on Amazing Spidey...a Deodato drawn MJ? Bring it on!!!) considering both Hulk and Iron Man were in this, it was alittle weak. A cool cover thoough.
New Mutants. Okay the REAL final issue mixes the new group, but more importantly, rounds up the original NMs for a nice final send off before the Reload. It was very very cool, to see how all of these characters have grown and changed, but I was alittle dissappointed that noone mentioned Doug, or Illyana, or Warlock. Maybe a conversation at their gravesite or something.
Extreme. Hey, it was the last issue...
Ultimate Four. Nostalgia reigns supreme as the Fantastic Three ( Ben,Reed, and Johhny) take on a giant monster wreaking havoc through downtown NYC Ala the cover of FF #1. I hate it when the coolest books come to the last page too quickly because I always have to wait a friggin month to find out what happenes next.
Green Lantern. I just found out that after this stroy arc is done, the book gets cancelled and thay are BRINGING BACK HAL JORDAN. NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Why oh why can't a SINGLE, SOLITARY CHARACTER in comics STAY DEAD?!?!?! Yeah, Hal was the coolest GL, but the fact that DC had the balls to turn him looney and then have his best friend kill him with an arrow was uber dramatic. Heaven forfend they stick to their guns about an editorial decision.
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PHONE BOOK Written by Bendis. Art by Jim Lee. Total copies sold: 15 billion.
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Ultrasone IQ
"I went to shop for upgrade from my beloved Westone 4. Didn't bother to get custom. Aiming around $500-1000 options Audition candidates 1. Ultrasone IQ $730 2. AKG K3003 $1,140 3. Sennheiser IE800 $ 660 4. Aurisonics ASG-2 $653 5. Heir Audio IEM 5.0+ $ 690 Here are the mini review of IQ and versus of the other candidates. ..." --darkinners
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This side-by-side method can be very effective for persuasive writing. You have your opposition's point of view right in front of you, so you can easily disprove it if you have enough evidence to support your own claims. Alternatives to a list could include web diagrams. Using these, you start with the main topic in the center and "branch out" to more specific areas. You have the chance to be creative at this stage, so you might want to play a little by using colored markers or even 3-dimensional building toys to draw, map out, and "build" your paper.
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The end is in sight! Time to wrap up your paper.
Take a little time to let your readers down easy. For an essay about Hamlet, you may choose to summarize a few of your most salient points and end with a general statement. But, as with the introduction, you may want to be more creative. Perhaps you could offer an alternate ending, or theorize how a modern jury would view Hamlet. For other types of writing, you may want to elicit some sort of response from your reader. For instance, if you're writing about the dangers of rabies, you may ask your readers to make sure their pets are immunized.Back to Top
Don't Do This!
Scenario: This 7-page paper is worth 60% of your grade and it's due in two hours! Panic! You only have five pages. If you're like most of us, you'll be tempted to try one or several of the following tricks to pad your paper:
- Increasing the font size
- Changing the font to Veranda or some other huge typeface
- Increasing the margins
- Using extra spacing
- Repeating information in different words
- Saying the same thing more than once but in another way (case in point)
These visual cues scream, "I didn't complete the assignment, but I want it to look that way. Maybe you won't notice." Your professor will notice. So how can you meet the requirement without these tricks? Well, sorry to say, if it really is due in two hours, you are pretty much out of luck. Hand in your five pages and see what happens. With some careful planning, however, you can avoid this scenario entirely. Take a look at the getting started section for tips on planning your paper. If you find that you come up a little short, try adding another main point to your essay. Read some outside sources for inspiration. Don't forget, you can always come to the Writing Center for some more suggestions.Back to Top
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Passive Voice
You may have been taught to avoid the passive voice at all costs. Most of the
time, this is good advice. Consider the following example:
Active: John threw the ball to Mary.
Passive: The ball was thrown to Mary by John.
Obviously, the active voice creates a clearer picture in the reader's mind in that example. But now consider this:
Active: His girlfriend's reaction to the news shocked Thomas.
Passive: Thomas was shocked by his girlfriend's reaction to the news.
In this example, the passive voice may be the better choice for two reasons:
1) The subject, "his girlfriend's reaction to the news", is long, forcing the reader to remember at least four pieces of information before even reaching the verb, "shocked".
2) This depends entirely on the rest of the piece, but the passive voice implies that the important part of the sentence is not the girlfriend's reaction, but how it affected Thomas. By using the passive voice wisely, you can control the flow of sentences and their emphasis.
Parallel Structure
This is one of the simplest ways of maintaining clarity in your discussion,
and it is simple to achieve. Simply make sure that words in a series are from
the same part of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.):
Parallel: Asbestos, cigarette smoke, and radon all cause lung cancer.
Not parallel: Asbestos, smoking cigarettes, and radon all cause lung cancer.
Parallel: In the summer, I enjoy swimming, bike riding, and painting.
Not parallel: In the summer, I enjoy swimming, bike riding, and to paint.
Use of First Person
You may also have heard that the first person (I, me, we, us, etc.) has no place in formal writing. This can be true sometimes, but it is more a matter of opinion and personal style. For instance, if you have strong feelings about a piece of literature, you might very well want to say, "My first reaction to this piece was total disbelief," and then support your statement with reasons why this was the case. On the other hand, be careful that your use of first person does not weaken your argument. Consider the following:
- I believe Hamlet is mad. It seems to me that he speaks in circles, and he admits to seeing a ghost. I think this is evidence that he is not in his right mind.
- Hamlet is mad. He speaks in circles and admits to seeing a ghost. This is evidence that he is not in his right mind.
Have conviction in your opinions! The first example tiptoes around the real meaning that the author wants to express. By adding unnecessary words like "I think" or "my opinion is," you are not only making your sentences longer and more wordy, you are also watering down your argument. The second example seems stronger because the author comes right out and says what he means, without making excuses like, "well, this is just what I think." Also, keep in mind that what you say in your paper is obviously your opinion. After all, you're the one writing it.Back to Top


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Educators caution parents about kids using Snapchat
LA CROSSE, Wis. - As social media becomes more and more a part of children's lives, it can be hard for parents to keep up with the changes.
Now there's a new social media app rising in popularity among kids.
Snapchat is kind of like texting but with a twist.
It's only a little more than a year old, but its quickly making it's way up to the popularity of Facebook and Twitter.
Educators in La Crosse say there are some things adults, especially parents, need to know about it.
"I thought it was really cool to be able to send pictures and talk to people that way," said Tes Kirschbaum, a seventh grader at Longfellow Middle School.18523026
Kirschbaum and many of her classmates are now using something called Snapchat -- a fun new social media tool to stay connected.
"I like being able to see the people's faces and you can draw on the screen little pictures with the colors, and send them to all your friends so they know what you're doing and they can send back pictures and you know what they're doing," said Kirschbaum.
How Snapchat works is people can take a picture or record a message using the app to send to their friends. The person receiving the message has a set amount of seconds to view the message before it "self-destructs" but once they're gone, are they really gone?
Seventh grade teacher Jeanne Halderson said that's the million dollar question that could lead to some negative consequences.
"It's a good way to bully kids if you want to bully someone," said Halderson. "You can just snap pictures and send it to them and there's really no way to prove that you're doing it. You can (also) take pictures of yourself in uncompromising situations. I think that also kids tend to throw caution into the wind a little bit because they do know that it will disappear."
But even with the idea that a message could just simply disappear, Halderson said there are ways to see them again.
"I do know that if you sent me something and you gave me a few seconds, I could get a screen shot off my iPhone and I could have it and capture it for myself," said Halderson. "So just because you send it to someone and it disappears on your phone, doesn't mean that you can't actually take a photo of it and who knows what happens after that."
Halderson suggests that if children join a social media site that parents should too.
That way, parents can become familiar with the potential pitfalls.
She also said parents should start talking to children about social media sites at an early age.
By about fifth grade, roughly half the students are using some sort of social media site.
Halderson also said she doesn't see the school changing or creating new rules for Snapchat yet.
As of right now social media is not on any of the computers or other electronic devices at the school and students can get in trouble if they use their personal devices for social media during school hours.
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Thank goodness, Holland opposed the PERS changes
Thanks to Rep. Holland for his support of the state retirees and future retirees concerning proposed retirement system changes by Sen. Nancy Collins.
i have expressed my feelings about this to her and I sincerely hope that other retirees will do the same before it is too late.
I am the beneficiary of a state employee. My husband, Wayne Gaines, served as sheriff of Union County for three terms. This was back in the day when the salary for this office was not nearly as attractive as today. He was proud and honored to serve his county. He also looked forward to retirement and to the retirement benefit he had been promised by our great state of Mississippi.
He did retire and was so very thankful for his modest check each month but really appreciated the cost of living adjustment that he received in December. Wayne died on the 29th of July, 2012. Thank goodness, he had cared enough for his family, to see that his benefits would continue to be paid to me.
As anyone who has been left to maintain a household alone knows, expenses for one are almost as much as for two. There is also less income due to the loss of one Social Security income combined with the fact that insurance, taxes, and general expenses continue to skyrocket.
Please continue to fight for an elected Board of Trustees and no freezes on COLA. Thank you!
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Joy Randall's Top-five tips for vampire hunters:
©2003 Marthe Arends (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers
"Female lead too stupid to live"
A smarter, more mature female lead. I read/listened to some immature, idiotic female characters before but Joy takes the cake.
Emma Galvin or Kristine Hvam. They're both awesome.
It was a fun story.
The best friend Roxy was also really annoying.
Say something about yourself!
"Great Friendship and Romance"
Listened for Fun (Audible)
Tracking Books Read Review (Short)
Overall Rating: 3.75
Story Rating: 3.50
Character Rating: 4.00
Audio Rating: 4.00 (Not Part of the Overall Rating)
First Thought when Finished: A Girl's Guide to Vampires was a fun read and my favorite part was the friendship between Roxy and Joy!
Overall Thoughts: Fun! Fun! Fun! This is one of those reads that I had zero expectations going in and ended up really surprised how much I enjoyed the characters. I loved the friendship between Roxy and Joy and the chemistry between Raphael and Joy was hawt! I thought the story took awhile to get going but the second half really took off. I will check out more from this series. The epilogue was hilarious and perfect for Roxy's voice.
Audio Thoughts:
Narrated By Karen White / Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
I like Karen White's narration. She is excellent at bringing to life fun, spunky leading ladies. She did a great job with Joy and Roxy!
Final Thoughts: Will have to work book 2 into my book budget!
Sassy dialogue, humor, and a great reader are important to me.
"Must be Able to Laugh Out loud"
if you need laughs in your life, this is the book. You must be doing something that enables you to have the time to laugh out loud. This a light listen with core romance and mystery.
Humor and whit are the gifts Ms MacAlister brings to her stories...these are not FSOG type
material, just good old story telling that will make you laugh
Joy, her name tells the why. Her side kick made for a lot of laughs as well. If you want a complicated story, this is not for you. If you want to get an up lift in your attitude by listening to a core romance, this maybe for you.
I have purchase most of Ms White recordings as she has such a rich range and reading speed that captures written good humor. I found the MacAlister stories by hunting down what Ms White reads. Her US series are a lot of fun. Enjoy
yes, when Joy feels she is more important, than letting our hero keep his secret
Bad story, bad reading, really terrible. Kept thinking it would get better.... it didn't.
"Witty, fun and entertaining"
I love to read - but it is a pleasure to listen to a story that has a good plot, romance, intrigue and makes you laugh out loud.
CJ Dante! Handsome 900 year old dark one with a conscious first and Roxy, the life long best friend who tells it like it is!
When Joy and Rafael realize he didn't enter her mind or visit her early I the evening.
Time weighs heavy for the Dark One....and then... beloved.
"Maybe it was Katie's first "stab" at writing"
Smarmy lead guy with antiquated language "Baby" this and "Baby" that. Really idiotic leading female whom all the men in the story inexplicably fall head over heels for. One lonely vampire almost as an after-thought? This is a Vampire story. Where are the sexy Dark Ones?
This book is nowhere near the level of the books later in the Dark Ones series. I really enjoy Katie MacAlister. I think her writing is irreverent and down right laugh out loud funny. Maybe this book was written before she really developed her style.
If you've never read the Dark Ones before, start with a newer one. (I started with Zen and the Art of Vampire, because that was what Audible had before the first three were re-issued.) Then come back and get the first ones just so you can find out how some of the characters end up with their beloveds.
"THIS is Not the Katie MacAlister we know!!!"
I first started listening to Ms MacAlister with the "Dragon Series". I thirsted for each book as it came out. Always pleased with the product, I came back time and again for more. Those series (Green, Silver, Light, Black, etc.) were witty in dialogue, well characterized in number of distinct personalities, broad in storyline and worthy of the public acclaim that they achieved.
Then, having no more in that series to read, I started with some of her "other" Vampire books only a few of which were carried by Audible (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Fang, etc.) and found the surprisingly good as well.
When these 3 books came out in 2013, I was so eager to feed my habit that I did not even listen to a sample of the books, I just purchased them. These books, apparently all in the "Dark Ones" series (but neither labeled nor numbered that way except for this first book) are little more than formulaic with flat characters, shabby storylines and a blind of overly descriptive sex scenes that neither arouse nor deceive the listener into believing that this is up to the previous Ms MacAlister's writings. If these were her first works, I could allow that, as a beginner, she could in time grow to be the KM we all know. However, that is not the case and it appears that these works are merely trying to "cash in" on her previous legacy.
Needless to say I will not be following this series.
"NOT a Vampire Romance!!!"
It's a VAMPIRE book and the vampire is not even one of two main charaters!
The premise of the series is supposed to be a vampire finding his one true mate. Except that's NOT what happens. It felt like a waste of time and money when you expect to get a vampire romance, and then don't get that!
I liked her performance fine.
If I could play editor, this book wouldn't have gone in this direction at all, or would have been returned to be rewritten.
If you name a book A Girl's Guide to Vampires, I expect one of the two main characters to BE a vampire.
"A Girl's Guide to Murder"
The cover of the book is misleading.You THINK you will be reading a book on a"Vampires" romance but evidently that was just to tease you into getting the book with the"actual"Vampire in it(Christian Dante).Still,was a great story & the narrator did a great job doing the character's voices & giving them Life BUT it seemed to get hokey there towards the ending & it was dissapointing to me to find out that Raphiel's secret was that he was basically a spy & not a Vampire or some other paranormal creature.I kept hoping something odd would surface about him but it never did.But like I said,still a fun read,not what I expected though.
As an artist busy with my hands and eyes I had to give up reading. Then audio books came into my life and I am back to over 200 books a yr.
"Can't believe this was written by Katie MacAlister"
To start with better narration. It was so slow and draggy that after I passed half way in the book I sped up the narration that only helped a little bit. The story dragged on WAY to long.
No. I still love that genre and I even love most of Katie MacAlister's books and own many. Some I have read over and over.
The narration was way to slow extending the length of the book. It is totally unbelievable that Joy and Roxie could have actually been friends most of their lives. Each of them are portrayed as very annoying and they have no common values, ideas or anything to connect them as such BFFs. Karen White does a very good job with the actual voices, but for goodness sake she shouldn't have stretched out all of the dialog and descriptions and I could have done without the snobby way she made Joy sound. I don't expect all main female characters be someone I would want for a BFF...but it sure would be good if I didn't dislike her enough to hope that she would end up as a corpse also.
I could see a purpose for all of the characters actually. Just wish that they could all have been less annoying.
I love Katie MacAlister's other books. But this one definitely isn't up to her best. Also, I have read other books narrated by Karen White and she can do a better job than what was accomplished in this book, but she definitely isn't up to par with Barbara Rosenblat. I really wanted to read it to the end, but just couldn't handle listening to Karen White's voice any more or put up with the Joy and Roxie characters any more as she portrays them.
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text: This is so very true. What has been interesting to me is that people I had a good feeling about online, turned out to be just like I had imagined when I met them in person. The people I got bad vibes from, I either never met in person, was snubbed by, or if I did meet them, most of my concerns were legit. But indeed, I have made some wonderful friends here. There is hardly anywhere I can travel where I can't find a helping hand if I need it. I hope that they will expect the same from me when traveling down this way! After years of beating my head against the wall, I just don't post on threads with people I know I can not discourse with in a civilized manner. It would be like stopping to look at the wreck on the highway and get involved with it at the same time.


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Esther Kaplan
Esther Alk Kaplan, died on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, at age 97. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on August 20, 1915, she graduated from Green Bay East High School as valedictorian of her class in 1932 and from the University of Wisconsin with an economics major and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1936. Esther married Louis Kaplan in 1939 and except for the years of World War II lived continuously in Madison both before and after her husband's death in 1994. Louis Kaplan had been the Director of University Libraries. Beginning in 1946, Esther was actively involved in Democratic party politics and in public affairs. She became a devoted and highly knowledgeable financial manager of campaigns, serving as the treasurer in the campaigns of Horace Wilkie (for the U.S. House), Gaylord Nelson (for governor, the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate), Patrick Lucey (for governor), Anthony Earl (for governor), and Shirley Abrahamson (for the state Supreme Court). The legal impeccability of her records was legendary. Esther put her experience in campaign finance to wider use as a member of the Wisconsin State Elections Board from 1974 until 1987. When she left the Board her fellow members unanimously adopted a resolution commending her fairness and impartiality as well as her dedication to public service. Esther also served on the state''s Higher Education Aids Board from 1971 to 1978, and on the Madison Mayor's Ad Hoc Committee on Reapportionment in 1979. When Gaylord Nelson was governor between 1959 and 1963, Esther was his personal secretary and was called the "most powerful woman in Wisconsin politics" by the state's best-known political columnist. Esther's public deeds are not her only legacy. She will also be remembered for her private devotion to her husband and to her friends--especially when they needed help.
Esther is survived by her sister, Ruth Alk Hulbert, of Racine, and many nieces and nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews, among them Anita Krasno (Dan Hobson) of Madison, as well as great grand nieces and nephews.
At her request, there will be no memorial service.
As Esther was a great supporter and fan of local theater, memorial donations to the Madison Savoyards, Forward Theater Company or similar organization would be appreciated.
The family would like to extend thanks to the dedicated staff of Segoe Gardens for their wonderful care of Esther over the past several years and especially at the end.


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So at last, after a rather sleepless weekend, libmng 0.9.2 finds it way to the net. I should thank rillian for helping out and being patient with my gross ignorance of certain things. This is my first open-source project and first steps on a lot of new stuff: platforms, languages, utilities, portability and such.
I think the recent thread on autoconf/automake/libtool expresses much of what I experienced over the weekend. It's frustrating and doesn't make a very professional appearence. Why would any tool need to copy a load of pre-installed files into ones source-directory to make it work? That seems rather dumb. On the other hand I like the simplicity. But I also decided to leave all (well... all 3 of them) makefiles in place, just in case.
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Ah, blizzard, its just snow!Greater hindrance is the governor banning all traffic on the roads with fines & jail time (except public safety kinds of vehicles - and the media!)
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Duval County's superintendent cuts back on testing
Published: Friday, November 23, 2012 at 7:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 23, 2012 at 7:39 p.m.
JACKSONVILLE — The new superintendent of Duval County schools is cutting out a series of student testing that leave "too little time for learning."
The new policy begins Nov. 26. School officials say the policy won't affect the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests, which are required by the state.
The Florida Times-Union (http://bit.ly/SfdXHn ) reports the district will cut eight other types of testing of students in reading, math and science.
Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says the new policy will make room for another five to 10 days of teaching each school year. Vitti says schools had booked more tests than the calendar could handle.
Teacher's union president Terrie Brady calls the move "a huge step in the right direction."
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I grew up in the UK within walking distance of the river Taw estuary in the South-West of England. Back then the Taw, Torridge and other West Country rivers had consistent runs of Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout (Sea Run Browns). There were also plentiful runs of Bass and Flounders in the summer months with a few cod showing up in late November/December. Bans on net fishing and clean-up operations are having some beneficial effect but it's a slow process.
My early fishing was bait for Bass and Flounders in the Estuary and ocean. Most of my fly-fishing was on stocked reservoirs and later, the lakes of the West of Ireland and the Scottish salmon rivers. I got interested in salt water flyfishing when I picked up Lou Tabory's "Inshore Flyfishing" in a London bookshop. I suggested a trip over to the cape with friends back in '94 but we ended up going to Christmas Island instead. I have only fished fresh water once since!
I relocated here in '95. My first striper outing was on the Merrimak River with Charlie Crew. Then I made a trip to the Cape and have fished there a couple of times each year with Kris Jop. A couple of my old UK fishing friends have also been over to fish the cape. We also make one 'exotic' trip a year - Exuma, Ascension Bay, Baha. This year we're going back to Christmas Island in March.
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By shagging flyballs in BP. A freak injury to say the very least, but to say this is a devastating blow to the Yankees is an understatement.
This would be a very sad end to Mariano's career if this is truly the end. Despite the dislike for the Yankees, Rivera was always a class guy and you knew when #42 emerged from the bullpen, it was game over.
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
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Amen. Like I said several times, he's the only one on the team now and from the original "dynasty core" whom I have the utmost respect for. Never trashed talked anybody, never flaunted his success, he just closed games and did his thing. Even though he has nothing left to prove, I hope he comes back next year just so he can end his career on a positive note, even if it's just for a few appearances. This is no way to end it.
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Finally, Welcome to LiverKick.com
- Written by Dave Walsh
I know what you are thinking, LiverKick.com has been up and running for a solid two weeks now, why now? Well, while LiverKick.com has been live for a few weeks now, it was with minimal fanfare and really, no solid explanation behind the move, concept and what to expect. Now that the MiddleEasy Network has launched, I feel like a weight has been removed from my chest, the gag order removed and the cat is out of the bag.
Our oral history and mission statement follow.
LiverKick.com is, conceptually, the same site that you once knew as Head Kick Legend. HKL was a project that began a few years ago, originally at Total-MMA.com between a few friends. Most of us have moved on to write in a more professional setting, with Iain Liddle being a sports writer in London, Jonathan Snowden who has been my partner in crime for attempted wacky schemes and trolling the world is with BloodyElbow.com and has penned two awesome MMA books, then there was Fraser and myself. Both burnt out on covering MMA as a whole, mainly UFC and the recently-collapsed PRIDE FC, Fraser kind of stopped writing and my writing became snarky, rude and disassociated. I did some work with Snowden in his other ventures (UGO, Heavy.com, briefly CagesideSeats.com) before it dawned that I really only enjoyed talking about K-1 and that it really had a lot of potential with new audiences.
Anyway, I started a kickboxing blog, as I wanted to still write about combat sports, but was sick of doing what everyone else was doing. K-1 Legend was born. It was basically my futile attempt to fill in a gap that major sites were leaving with K-1 coverage, with no connections, just news from Japanese sites. I remembered that Fraser still had a passion for kickboxing and asked him if he wanted to come along, to which he happily obliged. From there things picked up, we were breaking news about shows, covering other promotions and scoring interviews and building relationships within the industry. By November we had moved to SBNation's platform and with the help of Kid Nate, launched HKL. Over the next year it grew, immensely, from a site that was getting 200 hits a day to a lot more than that, which for a niche site with a niche audience was quite shocking.
So I had been talking with Zeus a bit, and he is a man of his word. He talked about doing something "big" with MiddleEasy and if we'd be interested. I dismissed it as idle talk, but of course if it made sense, sure. The time came, and actually the circumstances did line up, so Fraser and myself decided to give the MiddleEasy Network a shot. We bring with us the same team we had as before, Fraser Coffeen and myself at the helm, Traveler/tlele (oooh, mysterious!) with his Muay Thai knowledge, Tim Koskuba for his Japanese MMA knowledge, Brian Mayes whenever he wakes up from his holiday coma and some special guests that have always been good friends.
We as always, will aim to provide the absolute best coverage of kickboxing in the english speaking world that we possibly can. Use our deep network of contacts and friends we've made along the way to ensure that if there is something you want to know about kickboxing, you come here. If there is something you feel is missing or you feel that you can provide and you aren't seeing, there is a comments section and contact form at the bottom of every page, we'd love to hear from you.


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Two Rides Home: A BlogHer11 Recap, More or Less
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Back in April, a few of us DadCentricians went to New Orleans to represent the patriarchy at a little shindig called the Mom2.0 Summit. I wrote a recap of that experience here, and if you read it, you may remember that I was very excited to have met a bunch of my imaginary friends in real life, spoken on a panel, and talked about blogging nonstop for 3 days.
While Mom2.0 Summit is no mere Tupperware party, the annual BlogHer conference is what I like to call the Mother Of All Mommyblogging Conferences, or MOAMC, and this year it drew somewhere around 3,000 attendees.
This year, BlogHer was held in San Diego, America's Finest City (fact!), where three of us DadCentricians (the boss, The Didactic Pirate, and me) happen to live. So it was a no-brainer that I would attend. And I did. We three dudes from the Daygo (that's what gangsta dads call San Diego) met up with Two Busy, Whit, and TheMuskrat, and kind of did the same thing we did in New Orleans. Except we weren't on any panels. And some of the guys brought their wives. (To a mommyblogging conference! Imagine!) And instead of bunking with a bunch of grubby dadbloggers after the nightly debauchery that's standard for all mommyblogging conferences, I went home to my family. So, as I was saying, the experience was almost nothing like Mom2.0 Summit.
I believe that The Muskrat will soon be contributing a recap that will focus on the poignant and inspirational experiences of the conference, so I would simply like to share a couple memorable interactions I had with some fellow dadbloggers while riding home after the evening's activities.
On Friday, The Didactic Pirate and I found ourselves waiting for a cab we were to share after the legendary Sparklecorn party, a mainstay of BlogHer. No regular cabs were available, what with the bars closing and all their patrons spilling out onto the streets; so we got a bellhop to magically summon a so-called "Limo Van," whose driver deigned to take us common folk back to our hovels.
The Limo Van was an '86 Ford Econoline with exhaust leaks and no functioning seatbelts. But what we two journeyman dadbloggers were about to learn made the risks we assumed in stepping into that rustbucket worth every penny.
Turns out the driver was a very wise philosopher, with much to say about the evils of society and the dangers to children that lurk in the shadows of even America's Finest City.
As The Didactic Pirate slammed the door and searched in vain for a seatbelt, the driver began to speak. Very loudly. He would continue his monologue, with occasional polite interjections from his passengers, for the next fifteen minutes, as he lurched between full-throttle and full-brake.
Driver: You ain't gonna puke in my van, are ya?
Me: Um...nope. Yeah. Pretty sure. No puking.
Didactic Pirate: No. I'm good. No puking here either.
Driver: Good. There's always some asshole puking in my van. Every goddamn weekend. Night like tonight...bars lettin' out...sure some asshole's gonna puke in my van. Or do some other stupid shit.
Me: Yeah. Those assholes--they really can be...
Driver: Guy gets in here the other night, coupla guys, they get in here and start fuckin' around with my garment bag, open it up and start messin' with my shirt. I say, guys, stop messin' with my shirt. I say, you're not being very respectful to my clothes. Assholes keep messin' around, get my shirt dirty, I think all right, I'm gonna kick these guys asses. You know?
Didactic Pirate: Sure. Yeah.
Me: Oh yeah. Course.
Driver: Right? So I just get 'em to where they're goin', collect the fare, then smack the one guy around. His buddy says "What are you doin'? Why you hit him?" And I say, "'Cause he's an asshole." Another time this guy keeps talkin' shit, you know? Won't shut up. So you know what I do?
Me: You beat him up?
Driver: Naaah...I didn't beat him up. I hardly ever have to beat anybody up. I just jack slapped him in the gut and popped him in the jaw a couple times. What an asshole. Just waited for him to pay and then slapped him around a little.
Look at all these bitches with their titties hangin' out. Buncha assholes. Another time...
(Time passes)
...then the guy says, "Why'd you hit me?" and I say, hey--I got a shotgun in the back and a crowbar next to my seat, asshole. What do you want me to grab?
I got a kid, you know? I don't take her around here, don't want her seein' all these bitches with their titties hanging out.
Me: How old is she?
Driver: My daughter? She's five.
Didactic Pirate: Aw, that's such a great age. Kindergarten. Off to school...
Driver: Well...I don't know, you know? I was surprised about her school. I go over there and half the teachers have their titties hanging out all over the place. I mean, I don't want my kid to see that. That's why I live out in the country. I want to protect my kid...
Didactic Pirate: Of course! That's all any of us are trying to do: to protect our ki...
Driver: All right. Where d'ya want me to go? Turn here?
Me: You know, you can just let me off at the light here. I can walk the last couple blocks and you can just drive him home.
Driver: Nah...you don't wanna do that. I tell ya--this neighborhood. Some people are all right, but then you got your assholes too. Crackheads and pimps, whores. Bitches with their titties hanging out. Won't cost you nothin' to go right to your door.
Me: Okay...well, then...to my door I guess.
(Van Stops, I try to get out as fast as I can)
Driver: Hey! I like you guys! You're all right. Good guys. Polite.
Didactic Pirate: Thanks.
Driver: I'm gonna give you my card.
Me: Thanks
As I fumble for my keys, the driver performs a loud three-point turn on my quiet street. As he peels out toward The Didactic Pirate's hideout, I can hear his voice over the engine's roar: "These assholes here don't have no respect..."
On Saturday night, after the Aiming Low and CheesburgHer parties, I was standing at the curb in front of the Marriot once again, holding my printer under my arm (I don't have an iPad), and hoping to catch a regular cab--something in a nice yellow or orange sedan.
As I waited, the two young phenoms of the dad-o-sphere, Charlie and Andy of How to Be a Dad, kindly offered to drop me off at my house on their way back home to L.A., since, as I disingenuously explained to them, it was right on the way. Although they fell for my ruse about the location of my house in relation to the City of Angels, they are no dummies when it comes to social media currency. We bargained for an undisclosed sum of retweets, facebook likes, and blog links in exchange for the ride.
As on the previous night, I learned volumes on my ride home, and for the half-hour we sat in the car in front of my neighbor's house, shouting over each other the way passionate artists do. Mostly I learned that these guys are legit, and have bypassed some of the traditional channels for blogging success; not by chicanery, but through hard work, innovation, and dedication that borders on obsession. No, scratch that--there are no borders involved. These guys are completely ate up with this shit. They are, in the words of Andy (assembled completely out of context by me) "Super-charged heroes who cure cancer and destroy charlatans with truth and dildos."
We're even-Steven now, right guys?


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#24 - Gone but not forgotten
Got the Concept Luke and Concept R2/3PO from a friend who went to Celebration today. Looks good. She also got me a coin and 4 holographic cards. That was nice. No TAC 3 this morning in my area of the San Gabriel Valley. I really just want the Concept Chewbacca.
Galactic Barn Burner
Just a heads up for the few SSGers from the San Gabriel area: Pico Rivera and Commerce Targets already had TAC 3. Only Vaders and a mashed up Jawa and Luke left among both. Baldwin Park Target must have stocked Saga Legends late yesterday. So did Rosemead because I found the two clone troopers(AOTC and ROTS). Only got the AOTC one, to open.
Quite a bit of Vintage in the area stores. Got two snowtroopers from Baldwin Park Wal-mart(unfortunately, the only ones). Pico Rivera Target had 3 snowtroopers. I got one, left other two. Well, actually, did a half-assed stash job on one, but it's strictly a short term, one day stash, so PM me if you plan on hauling your butt over there within a day and you don't live too far from there.
Galactic Barn Burner
Hello everyone. I just received a rather interesting email from our friends at Hasbro:
Dear Customer:
Recently you purchased a "Star Wars Ralph McQuarrie Signature Series Concept
Luke Skywalker Figure with Collector Coin" using the Hasbro Friends & Family
promotion code. As advertised, this item was not eligible for use with that
To remedy this situation, we will remove the discount from this item, apply any
additional shipping charges that may apply, and ship your order on June 11,
If this remedy is not acceptable please call our customer service center at
1-800-408-0052 by June 9, 2007 to cancel your order. If we do not hear from
you, we will assume that you have agreed to the changes noted. We regret any
inconvenience this may have caused.
Please do not reply back to this e-mail message as this e-mail address is used
for outbound messages only.
Now, when I purchased this I did not see anything about the discount not being available. Anyone else have some light to shed on this. Cheers.
Nope...I didn't see that advertised anywhere either. Sucks bigtime!
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
I don't remember being told there were restrictions. That's really bad customer service- if their computer allowed it, they shouldn't override it.
Galactic Barn Burner
would anyone going to SDCC be able to help me out with a Mattel JLU exclusive?
i have a mixed bag of emotions that it's Shayera/Ray as i've been waiting for it to come out since late last year. it should be part of the regular releases and yet because of some oversight by Mattel, it's a con exclusive??? on the other hand, i really want the Shayera (and am even working on a custom of it.)
i finally got around to opening those free packs of the pocketmodel TCG from CIV. they look like they could be fun but actually they suck...as i was putting one of the TIE Fighters together, the tabs to attach the panels broke off.


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I thought a nice "gee the web works" story would round out the evening nicely.
I arrived in San Francisco today only to discover that I'd left my mobile phone charger at home.
To my inexplicable delight the sequence: verizonwireless.com, store locator, mapblast, address, address, address, "oh, that one's walking distance from my hotel" worked exactly like it's supposed to.
A fifteen minute walk and $40 bucks and I have a new charger. Total time about 45 minutes. Sweet. Well, except for the 40 bucks part maybe. It would have been cheaper to remember to bring it with me.


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Got this quote from the Sun-Sentinel. I would not be too worried about this, it will get consdidered.
And to those that think it does not matter.....Well IMO it does. Maybe not for you, but to a whole lot of other people. Restaurant and bar owners and their employees see more business, hotels and their employees, and so on and so on. Then those people have more money to spend and the state and city and the county collected more in taxes to spend on other things. I just get so sick of people calling this corporate welfare. There is a cost-benefit relief that the governments will see, (increased hotel taxes) this is an investment. More business=more taxes.
"At a meeting last week, House Speaker Will Weatherford, with Senate President Don Gaetz in agreement, said that he would like all proposals to assist sports teams be considered at one time. Among the other bills being considered by the Legislature is one that would make a proposed Orlando soccer stadium eligible for state money."


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The term is derived from the Latin textilis and the French texere, meaning "to weave," and it originally referred only to woven fabrics. It has, however, come to include fabrics produced by other methods. Thus, threads, cords, ropes, braids, lace, embroidery, nets, and fabrics made by weaving, knitting, bonding, felting, or tufting are textiles. Some definitions of the term textile would also include those products obtained by the papermaking principle that have many of the properties associated with conventional fabrics.
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gps 4/21/2013
very nice
Good Value for the Money 6/22/2012
The screen size and clarity are good. Though the GUI differs from Garmin, I found it easy to learn. Voice recognition for entering destinations and basic commands was a nice to have, as was the Bluetooth for wireless phones. Have used the GPS on a number of short and long trips without issue. Nice having the traffic feature, though I'm not yet sure in general how accurate it really is...more than once I was advised of slow-downs that did not exist.
The unit preformed well 5/14/2012
I found the unit to be somewhat easy to use. The start up information could have been more user friendly. I think the price of the unit was very good with all the the items and options provided.
Tom Tom 4/2/2012Steve Ngo from Houston, TX 77080
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The logic at my fingertips
Guile log is an exploration of logic programming where one can choose to maintain the state in a stack or on a translation list like in kanren. Actually guile-log contains an implementation of the kanren interface that are as fast or faster as the original kanren distribution compiled on chicken ( a scheme environment).
The bad thing is that one need to track the state in more advanced application for which a state which is a combination of a mutual structure and the old cons list. Also this means some overhead and makes things complicated!
The good part is that one can combine the speed of the stack based solution found for example in gprolog with the generality and thread friendly solution that kanren provides.
If one like to just stick to the kanren approach one can take advantage to the stack in many ways which makes the coding experience richer. The basic principle is that you get a notion of going back and forth in time between different states and this walk can be traced to understand more about the program and enable some features
One of the features is to code with meta global variables (my naming). They behave as global variables with respect to computation e.g. storing values over backtracking cycles which means that one can enter sub backtracking regions that need to store for example a list of all results and use that list
as a value. The meta comes from the fact that these variables will behave as normal stack variables / kanren variables in the higher level backtracking where the list of results are used. Also when storing the state and restoring the state these variables will follow and be restored correctly.
Guile log is therefor ideal to use in an interactive proof solver for example because you can work from the guile prompt all the time and have all of guile log and guile scheme at your fingertips and e.g. be able store states try a branch go back, go forth and so on.
maybe one day I will port the coq prover to guile-log or something similar.
Aschm! not a cold just a combination of assembler and scheme
But most of my current time has been on hacking on the internals of guile. Wingo has started coding on a new VM for guile based on a register layout e.g. using local variable index in stead of pop and push to get and set local variable data. I on the other hand have ported SBCL's assembler (see aschm on gitorious) and implemented translations of the original VM and the new RTL VM to native code. Quite fun indeed and can show the speed benefits and overhead of using this.
maybe you can by a factor of 2x going to the RTL VM and another 3x compiling to native. To note here is that much of the overhead comes from the fact that all operations usually have some overhead, for example trying looping around and summing an incrementor e.g. calculating 1 + 2 + 3 ... would mean maybe 250Million additions per seconds for nativly compiled version. This is adding guile fixnums and there is some overhead of managing these datatypes, also the RTL feature is transfered to the native one as well e.g. the natively compiled code does not use the registers as much as one can do.
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By Tiernan Ray
Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are up 22 cents at $422.13 after U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled Apple "conspired to raise the retail prices of e-books," according to a report this morning from Reuters, and said the States are entitled to injunctive relief, for which a damages trial will have to be held.
CNBC's John Fortt a short while ago reported a statement issued to CNBC by the company, saying "Apple did not conspire to fix ebook pricing" and "did nothing wrong."
The company said it "broke Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry." Apple will appeal the judge's ruling, it said.
Also in Apple news this morning, analysts continue to moderate estimates for the smartphone world, including the iPhone citing the apparent slowdown in sales of premium smartphone models.
Canaccord Genuity's Mike Walkley reiterates a Buy rating on Apple stock, but lowers his price target to $530 from $560, writing that "Our June global handset surveys indicated the iPhone 5 remained a top-selling smartphone at essentially all global carriers," but that "Our global handset surveys indicated the iPhone has lost sell-through market share post the launch of the Samsung [Electronics (005930KS)] Galaxy S4." Walkley also cut his estimates for HTC (2498TW) and Nokia (NOK), and cut his price target on chip maker Qualcomm's (QCOM) shares to $84 from $85.
Whatever is ailing the smartphone market, the personal computer market still has it worse. Research firm IHS iSuppli this morning reports that the mobile PC market's shipment volume fell 6.9% in Q2 from Q1, according to the firm's estimates, the worst second-quarter performance in 11 years. Moreover, "2013 has made history as having the poorest performance since 2003, posting a harsh 11.2 percent contraction compared to the same six-month period a year ago."
iSuppli analyst Craig Stice remarked, "More nimble devices like media tablets have taken over among consumers given their ease of use and unique form factor; meanwhile, innovation in PCs has stagnated, and the recent influx of low-cost tablets has further eaten into an already decimated mobile PC space."
"With such dire numbers, many are wondering whether this signifies the start of more record declines for mobile PCs, or if the industry has hit rock-bottom."
Shares of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) are up 74 cents, or 2.9%, at $26.21, after Jim Suva of Citigroup raised his rating on the stock from Sell to Buy, with a $32 price target, double his former target, writing that a survey commissioned of CIOs "reveals a material positive inflection for HP's services (22% of HP sales) which has experienced 5 quarters of negative business share losses" and that "EPS revisions no longer moving lower and may be setting up to actually increase during the next 6 months as investors begin to realize the turnaround in HP Services."
Analysts continue to prognosticate regarding BlackBerry's (BBRY) future, following the company's annual shareholder meeting yesterday during which the company defended a recovery built around handsets and software and services.
Pacific Crest's James Faucette today reiterates an Underperform rating, writing that his "checks" of shipments of the new "Q5" lower-priced handset into the United Kingdom suggest first-week sales may be 10,000 to 15,000 units, lower than initial sell-through of the Z10 model of 50,000 or so. Faucette thinks BlackBerry is at risk of losing shelf space at carriers and retailers.
BlackBerry shares are down 49 cents, or 5%, at $9.15.
Analysts are weighing in on the outlook for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, as the industry trade show, Semicon West, proceeds this week in San Francisco. Needham & Co.'s Vernon Essi writes that the show "started off on a positive note, as most companies expect business to improve in the second half of 2013." He does note, however, that "a number of companies reported extremely low visibility without actual orders for 2H13 on hand. Therefore, we see risks for the back-end loaded shipments to slip into 1Q14,"
Speaking of chips, BlueFin Research Partners's Barry Danaher and Paul Peterson write that chip investors should prepare for disappointment, as their conversations with component suppliers suggest "inventory replenishment almost certainly contributed to the strong growth in the front half of the year. Couple this with sub-seasonal performance in the PC and smartphone markets, and we believe the September quarter is setting up to disappoint investors."
FBN Securities's Shebly Seyrafi was among a couple of analysts offering positive views on EMC (EMC) this morning. Seyrafi reiterated an Outperform rating and raised his price target to $28 from $26, writing that "Our end-of-quarter channel checks on storage came in above expectations. Whereas the months of January and February were on the weak side, there was a notable improvement at the end of March which continued into April and May."
EMC shares are down 7 cents at $24.72.
Needham & CO.'s Laura Martin raised her estimates for Yahoo! slightly for this year, projecting $1.41 in EPS, up from $1.22 previously, and raises her price target to $31 from $26. Yahoo! shares are down 31 cents, 1.2%, at $26.36.
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For the second time in four years, the Chronicle-Independent has been named the best two-to-three times weekly newspaper in the state of South Carolina. The C-I earned first place in the General Excellence category at a luncheon during the S.C. Press Association's annual meeting held Saturday in Columbia.
Lt. Col. Antonio M. Fletcher, a Camden High School graduate, has served in the United State Army for two decades, and has numerous deployments to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.
A tour full of tour guides visited the National Steeplechase Museum in Camden last week with interest in making historically significant Kershaw County a stop on various organized trips.
Team up for PAL baseball
Dr. James D. Smith, D.C., will open his new practice, Camden Clinic of Chiropractic, at 408 E. DeKalb St., Suite D, Camden, Monday.
Restaurant hours for Charlie's on Broad were incorrectly reported in the New Chamber Member Spotlight featured in the Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce publication, The Connection, which was included in Monday's Chronicle-Independent. Charlie's, located at 1035 Broad St. in Camden, is open every day of the week -- Sunday through Saturday -- from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 5 p.m. until the last customer is served.
Every man on the dock had caught fish. One man caught more fish than the limit. The game warden checked around. He asked each man. "Are these your fish?" Of course everybody said it wasn't theirs. Finally the warden turned to a little boy who had been fishing. "Son," he asked, "have you caught any fish?" "No, sir," replied the boy. "I haven't even had a bite all day." "Here!" said the warden. "These must be yours."
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kathleen Parker has left the CNN program "Parker Spitzer," a nightly political talk show that debuted just five months ago.
Q: Who are the two most influential African Americans in your life?
Lance Robinson marched through Camden Feb. 11 on his way to Columbia as part of his Brother to Brother Day March across America. While in Camden, Robinson was presented a plaque by Camden Mayor Jeffrey Graham. He, in turn, presented pins to Camden police and fire chiefs Joe Floyd and John Bowers, respectively. Robinson, a U.S. Marine veteran who served in the 1970s, hopes to visit every state capital in an effort to create a holiday to honor active duty military and veterans as one.
Clemson Extension Agent Tony Melton reminds local vegetable growers of the upcoming commercial vegetable meeting Thursday at the Compass Restaurant near Turbeville. The meeting begins at 10 a.m., includes lunch, and adjourns at 1 p.m. Clemson Extension vegetable specialists Drs. Richard Hassell, Tony Kienath and Powell Smith will be presenters in addition to Melton. If you are considering growing commercial vegetables or small fruits in 2011, this will be an informative event for you.
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