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No pressure: Stockton returns to play in dad's house
SALT LAKE CITY - As they head along Stockton Drive, up to the arena with a statue of NBA legend John Stockton outside while his jersey hangs from the rafters inside, there won't be any pressure to perform on any of the Gonzaga Bulldogs.
Especially on Zags Guard David Stockton, John's son.
A lot of the Zags said this month it's an honor to be No. 1 and an honor to be a one seed. For the younger Stockton, it's an honor -- and some pressure -- to play on his dad's old home court.
When you walk around the Energy Solutions Arena for a while you'll notice giant posters of new Jazz basketball players but you can only find two who've been immortalized.
"He wasn't the go to guy, he was the give-to guy. He was incredible," John Emmerich said. Emmerich does maintenance on the grounds at the arena. He said that no one was more deserving than John Stockton for the accolades he's received from the community.Stockton vo
"I don't know what happened to him here, but somebody lit a fire under him, I mean he was good every day," Emmerich said.
The roadway, the statue, the retired Utah Jazz #12 jersey, all of the accolades from his NBA career aside, John Stockton might argue that one of his greatest accomplishments will take to the court he once played on Thursday.
"Definitely a super cool opportunity, but you know, I really can't describe it. It's awesome," David Stockton said.
David was born in Salt Lake City and said he's happy to be back, to be on the court his dad dominated for years.
"I love this place. This is one of my homes," he said.
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Three-Pointers: Lakers hide flaws with aggressive defense against Hornets
By Rob Mahoney
The Lakers used defensive pressure to break open a tight game after halftime and coasted past the Hornets 103-87 on Wednesday in New Orleans. Los Angeles scored the first 13 points of the third quarter and outscored New Orleans 30-16 in the period to pull away for its second road victory in seven games. Kobe Bryant also made history in the rout, becoming the youngest player to reach 30,000 points.
• The halftime break offered the Lakers an opportunity to gather themselves and reinforce their specific goals for the game. Among those goals was the victimization of the hapless Hornets. Not many New Orleans players are confident ball-handlers or passers, making the team very vulnerable to swarms of pressure from unexpected directions. Bryant (who had three steals and thrived in transition en route to 29 points) was particularly effective in attacking Hornets players from their blind side, sometimes streaking all the way across the court in his attempts to swipe the ball away. Against most opponents, that kind of gamble would result in the Lakers' getting burned with a quick pass-out and an open shot. But on this occasion, players such as guards Austin Rivers and Roger Mason Jr. -- who were already pressured by their own defenders -- struggled to identify Bryant's gambit before it was too late.
Ultimately, it was the ripple effects of that heavy pressure that doomed the Hornets' offense. New Orleans' turnover numbers (12 overall, which on a per-possession basis is actually better than its season average) weren't at all damning, but the Lakers regularly derailed its play progression by flocking as a team toward the ball. On a given possession, a Metta World Peace tip, the ensuing bobble and a Dwight Howard hedge later, and the shot clock had already begun to close in on the Hornets -- forcing them into rushed execution and difficult attempts. New Orleans handled that pressure well in spots, but simply failed to do so consistently against an opponent committed to disrupting its passes and dribbles with active hands.
• Just because the Lakers were able to get some mileage out of aggressive play on the ball doesn't mean that their defensive woes have somehow been solved. The Lakers held New Orleans to just 97.8 points per 100 possessions and a 45.3 effective field goal percentage, but they also ceded wide open dunk and layup opportunities throughout the first half on rudimentary pick-and-roll sets. They also gave up 31 points on 21 shots to Ryan Anderson, who was the beneficiary of many of the Hornets' swing passes.
The Lakers' back-line rotations are still a mess, but the Hornets' lack of competent shot creation allowed L.A. to take its chances on the perimeter and survive the risk implicit in its style of play. New Orleans has been surprisingly decent on offense this year, having entered the game ranked 13th in points scored per possession. But the Hornets' personnel allows for only a fairly simple approach, particularly with Anthony Davis and Eric Gordon out of the lineup. Coach Monty Williams has his team running its pet play actions well, but executing simple sets reliably shouldn't soon be confused with resilient offense. At the moment, the Hornets' arsenal is dependable -- it just isn't particularly adaptable. Such is inevitable when the entire machine hinges on Greivis Vasquez, who put together a solid 16 points, nine assists and five rebounds but can't well carry the creative load of an entire team when the Lakers are coming at him in waves. • Pairing Howard (18 points) with Antawn Jamison (15 points) in the Lakers' frontcourt (as was necessary with Pau Gasol's missing his second straight game with knee tendinitis) poses some pretty substantial defensive problems, but there's no question that it gives L.A. the opportunity to respond to overloads against Howard more quickly. Once an opponent commits to a double team (as the Hornets had to do at times, given Howard's advantage in the post against Robin Lopez, Lance Thomas and Anderson), the ball zooms to an open shooter before the opponent can fully adapt. It's a simplistic method of exploiting strong-side pressure, but a consistently effective one. Without having to worry about Gasol's placement, the Lakers are able to simply work between several solid perimeter options until the opponent's perimeter scrambling gives way to an open attempt. That not only opens up shots for the Lakers' role players but also by extension makes everything simpler for Howard. An open Jamison three-pointer might make an opponent like the Hornets think twice before doubling or, worse, hesitate in its double and get caught defending no one at all. That gives Howard either a wide open passing lane or a straightforward one-on-one scoring opportunity, in which he almost always has the upper hand.


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He is only four months old, but royal baby Prince George has already been named a fashion icon and the most powerful person in London, England.
The prince, whose official name is Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, is the first child of Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge. His eagerly awaited birth in July was greeted with celebrations all over the world. As the first royal baby born in the age of social media, his birth was announced via the Royal Palace's twitter and Facebook accounts as well as in the traditional way—a proclamation placed in front of the Royal Palace.
Prince George already has a clear path to power. Under England's monarch system, he is third in line for the English throne. The only two people ahead of him are Prince William and William's father, Prince Charles. Prince George will surely face intense media attention throughout his life, and people are already talking about what kind of king he will be.
Previous royal babies have been raised largely by nannies and governesses, but Kate and William have pledged a more hands-on approach to parenting. As the modern face of the royal family, Kate and William are seen as young and approachable. They have already broken with some royal parenting traditions. George's christening in October was a low-key event attended by only a small group of family and close friends, unlike the large affairs traditionally held for royal infants.
The newest royal is also sparking retail sales. The swaddling blanket he was photographed in after his birth immediately sold out in stores nationwide, and look-alike gowns of his christening outfit have also been big sellers. Fans can now even purchase a life-size "Baby George" doll.
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Nearly 18,000 people wrote the government over the summer and fall to protest arcane new rules that may kill off the iconic Smith Brothers Dairy, as well as two other family-owned Northwest milk farms. But that eye-popping opposition from the public had no effect on the U.S. Department of Agriculture.01/04/2006
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This is what I was thinking and it's similar to what a Local Vet told me. Said that unless you're training hard daily you should just feed normal healthy food.
Feeding him Hi-Performance and then sitting him in a Dog Box in a blind for a few hours could be the equivalent of giving your kid skittles and then telling him to sit still and be quiet.


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A chemical makes neurons turn on and off with light beams
Fenella Saunders
As visual creatures, we have a long-standing convention to associate illumination with understanding—for example, we say that "a light dawned" when we finally get a concept. But the cells with which we actually do our thinking are always in darkness and usually have no need for luminance. However, some kind of photochemical control is actually very useful for scientists who are trying to figure out exactly how neurons work and what systems they influence. A light beam is non-invasive, precise and relatively harmless to cells, causing little disruption to their normal processes.
There are ways to make neurons photoreactive, but they involve the introduction and expression of foreign genes, which can be slow or give non-uniform results. Such methods also don't work in some systems and can disrupt others, sometimes inhibiting the very functions that are the goal of the endeavor. A group of molecular biologists and chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Richard H. Kramer, have now created a photosensitive compound that attaches to cells by purely chemical means, eliminating the need for genetic engineering. On top of that, their mechanism may also be useful in working around certain types of blindness.
Kramer and his colleagues focused on potassium channels, small pores in cellular membranes that control the excitability of neurons. When sending a signal, a neuron releases ions into the synapse, or gap between connected nerve cells, and these ions are then picked up by the potassium channels on the receiving cell, signaling it to fire. Thus, gaining control of the potassium channel confers the ability to decide whether or not a neuron will work.
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they created a molecule dubbed a photoswitchable affinity label, consisting of a long tether with a protein-binding group on one end and an electrophilic group at the other. The electrophilic group anchors to an amino acid on the outside edge of the potassium channel, whereas the protein-binding group acts like a plug on the channel opening. "When this blocker is in place, the potassium physically cannot get through," Kramer says. To attach the label, the researchers simply bathe cells in a solution containing the molecule.
The tether part of the label is a molecule called azobenzene, which is a photoisomer, meaning that its physical shape, but not its chemical composition, changes when it is exposed to light. It is normally in its long form, and it will also quickly restore itself to this shape when it is exposed to long-wavelength light—around 500 nanometers, or in the blue-green range. However, when the molecule is hit with a shorter wavelength—around 380 nanometers, or the violet range—it bends. "The light adds energy to the system that breaks a double bond and reforms the molecule in a different configuration with a kink in it," explains Kramer.
So, in a neuron with such a label attached, when hit with violet light, the tether bends, the plug pops out of the potassium channel, and the nerve cell can fire. Shine a blue-green light on it and the tether will stretch back out, again blocking the potassium channel and silencing the cell. Once toggled on or off in this fashion, the label will stay put for extended periods, so it does not need to be continuously illuminated. The switching can be done repeatedly without damage to the label or the cell, giving the neuron persistent sensitivity to light. The exact response time depends on the intensity of the beam, but it is in the range of hundreds of milliseconds. "The greater the light intensity, the greater the probability that one of these molecules is going to get hit by a photon of the right wavelength," Kramer says.
Kramer and his colleagues tested the mechanism in single cells and in slices of brain tissue, demonstrating that the light will penetrate to cells below the surface. "There are people developing microendoscopy, which uses light from an optical fiber to image very deep structures in the brain, down to single-cell resolution," Kramer says. "We might be able to use something like that to regulate neurons deep in the brain."
The researchers showed that they could control the signaling in neurons that regulate the heartbeat of leeches, cells in which gene expression has been difficult to achieve. Such results indicate that the labels could also be used to influence endocrine functions or vascular contraction. The group is now working on labels that may control other signaling channels in cells.
But Kramer is most excited about the possibility of using the labels to help restore sight. "There are disorders where kids go blind over time because they lose their rods and cones progressively over the first decade of life, and once they're gone there's no bringing them back, so far. As it stands now the photoreceptors are absolutely required for vision," he says. "So the long-term hope is that something like the compounds we've developed might be able to restore sight using cells that aren't normally light sensitive." It could be possible to substitute for the retina's rods and cones with nerve cells downstream in the vision process that do not normally pick up photons, but could be induced to do so through this labeling process. Kramer and his group have done tests on whole, damaged retinas from mice that model human degenerative vision diseases, and found that these photoblind cells can be made to fire when labels are added to them.
The next step will be to see if treating cells in a blind animal causes behavior changes, indicating that the nerve signals are being successfully translated into sight. If the method ever does end up being used successfully in humans, it may require some way to continuously deliver the labels. The proteins on the surface of potassium channels that bind the labels are turned over on a regular basis, so photochemical control may only last so long without renewal. "We do know it remains very stably associated with the channel for up to 24 hours, and the neurons in which they find themselves stay sensitive to light," Kramer says. "It's not clear if the molecule is being broken down or if the protein target is getting turned over, but the duration may be quite different depending on what tissue or what part of the cell you're looking at. Ion channels turn over rapidly in the cell body but maybe not so much so in the axons."
Still, the biggest advantage of using these labels in the retina, Kramer notes, is that it's an area of the body where there's no difficulty getting photons to the tissue. "Light gets to the retina, so it's the one part of the nervous system that's naturally exposed to light."
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As you know by reading the blog, I am a fan of gear. I like to play around with gear, test it, try it, and change it often. There are pieces of gear that I love and pieces of gear that I am always looking for the newer, better, more efficient, or just cool. Lately I have been in a few discussions about some gear like knives and stoves. What is significant about these discussions is the idea that for a lot of Scouters there is little knowledge about what is allowed, what is not, and what is out there to show to your Scouts as gear choices.
Take a look at all the old Field books and Hand books, Peek into the Boy Scout catalogs, it's all the same stuff. All the old-time tested and true gear. It all works well and is super reliable. I don't have a problem with any of it, but just because it has always been there and done that way does not make it the only or best way to do it.
At a few recent Boy Scout break outs at round table we have talked about gear and gear alternatives. Much of the discussion focusing on stoves and knives. As discussed in my recent post "The Great Knife Debate", it amazes me that many Scouters just do not know the rules. They perpetuate a rule that does not exist for what ever reason, but the net result is not the safety of the Scout, but a lack of exposure to new and different ways of doing the same old thing. The same can be said for alcohol stoves. The BSA has prohibited the use of "Homemade" stoves. And I can see that the BSA does not want some Scout to get hurt because his leaders failed to train him on how to do it right. But the use of alcohol stoves in general is not prohibited. Manufactured of purchased stoves are not prohibited and I am glad for that. I exclusively use an alcohol stove and scouts in my troop are using them also. I teach them how and make sure they do it right. There is nothing unsafe about them, well, they are about as unsafe as using an MSR Whisperlite. It comes down to training them to use it correctly. Stores like REI and many online outdoor outfitter are selling alcohol stoves. And the fact is you can use them to cook anything.
I can bake, fry, simmer, and of course boil water with them. Here is the point. They are an alternative way to do the same old thing. Camping, Cooking, sleeping in a shelter, whether that is a tent, a tarp, or a bivy sack is all the same. Camping is camping. There are many methods and ways to go about it, but in the end it's all the same.
You also know that I am a big fan of wood stoves (like the Solo Stove). They are a great way to cook. It takes a little skill and you can absolutely cook anything with them. I have had Scouters tell me that one can not use them because you can't turn them off. Huh? What? First Class Requirement 4 e states; On one camp out, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement 4a. In the most previous edition of the Boy Scout handbook Second Class requirement 2g required the Scout to; On one camp out, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the food pyramid. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
So in one edition of the hand book, we have decided to dumb down the Scouting experience not make it a requirement to cook over an open fire, but it's a choice. But it's still there and it always has been. But in checking the Guide to Safe Scouting I can't find anywhere that suggests wood stoves are prohibited or cooking over an open flame is prohibited because you can't put it out. You see, to me that is just a way for Scouters to impose a rule that is not there when it comes to gear.
There are lots of great gear alternatives out there. Allow your Scouts to explore them.
Many of the Scouts in my troop are moving to camping under tarps. Some are using you standard 10X10 Wal Mart tarp, while most are going to good camping tarps. SilNylon tarps that are light and easy to put up. Some even have built-in doors and can be pitched between trees or using their trekking poles. I love the idea that the Scouts are exploring different gear and ways to camp. It keeps it fun and exciting for them.
I suppose the bottom line is that there are many options out there, as a Scouter you should gain an understanding and knowledge of that gear and not push it aside just because you don't like it.
We had this same debate during the 2010 National Jamboree. Many 'older Scouters' did not like the idea of allowing the Scouts to bring and use "Electronics". There was a misconceptions that electronics are not allowed in Scouting. No where is this found in writing. I allowed the Scouts of my Jamboree Troop to bring their "electronics". Cell phones, Ipods, and of course cameras. I wanted them to be able to communicate with me and other Scouts, I wanted to be able to shoot a text to the troop when I needed to make quick contact with them. I wanted the Senior Patrol Leader to be able to get everyone on the bus on time and sent group texts to better communicate with his Troop. We established "No ear bid zones" Touring at Arlington National Cemetery for example was a No Ear Bud zone. Sitting on the bus for two hours however was not. As long as the Scouts obeyed the rules, I allowed them to use the electronics.
The same goes for their gear. As long as they use it as intended, be it a stove, knife, or any other piece of gear, I allow and encourage them to try new things.
This is a big part of the adventure of Scouting.
Get to know some new gear. Pick something to try with your Scouts. Try something new.
Allow the adventure of Scouting to happen.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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A simple website do integrate with my IoT project
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My IoT project is about using the arduino uno and temperature sensor to monitor a garden. Complementary to the temperature data, we would like to also obtain humidity data via a free weather API.
The user will be able to access the website, choose a specie of plant and verify the current temperature measured by the local sensor and also humidity obtained from the web. For the selected plant the website will also provide the range of accepted temperature and humidity. If possible, it would be nice to show the measured temperature and humidity over time in 2 graphs.
We are making just a prototype and not a real product. So we don't need to care about things like multiple users/devices and about reliability of the content.
Basically you need to:
1) from x to x time(maybe 5 minutes) extract the temperature data that will be located in a website running in our IoT device. this website will be a html page only containing the phrase "temperature = XX". There are libraries like html5lib and BeautifulSoup for python that can do that easily. We will provide you later with the IP address for this page.
2) Also from x to x minutes, collect humidity data from the internet(whenever and however you prefer). Please collect from data from the city "Sao Paulo, Brazil".
3) Take the current time, temperature and humidity and insert in a database.
4) this database(preferably in MySQL) will contain 2 tables: one table with those 3 columns(time, temperature and humidity). And another table with 5 columns(plant species name, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, minimum humidity, maximum humidity).
5) Creating a responsive website(focused mostly for smartphone users) that has 3 sections:
1) "Introduction": contains a big picture, a title("iGarden"), a random description(space for about 30-50 words).
2) "Device" : Contain the status of the device(online or offline, depending if the server could connect to the IP address or not). Also has the last measured temperature(in celsius) and humidity(in %). Also contains the 2 graphs of temperature and humidity over time. In the same screen the user will be able to select a plant species through a select box. After a plant is selected, the screen will show the min. and max. temperature and humidity for that plant. If the last measured temperature or humidity are out of the range for that plant, the website will display a "warning" text.
3) "Recommendation". Based on the last measured temperature and humidity, it will display a list of plants which has compatible(inside range) temperatures and humidity.
1)For the database, you can fill second table with random data of plants.
2)For the website, you can use free and common templates. We don't need anything fancy, something like those one-page theme templates of bootstrap([url removed, login to view]) would be more than sufficient.
3) We don't have a preference for the backend/frontend frameworks used. Maybe Django or PHP in conjunction with something like bootstrap are good. But you can choose whatever you think it is easier/cheaper.
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Last year saw no shift in fundamentals. Then why was the ISO so willing to be deceived?
Last summer, on May 22, the power market across the Western United States and Canada saw a one-time shift in market economics roughly equivalent to the removal of 8,000 megawatts of generation that cannot easily be explained by changes in the fundamentals of electricity markets. Hydroelectric streamflow was about average on the West Coast. Loads were somewhat higher, but California peaks actually registered lower than those in 1998 and 1999. Why this shift in wholesale prices by a factor of five?
Investigations are underway at the federal and state levels, but one thing already is clear: A large amount of the blame can be laid at the feet of the California Independent System Operator. The ISO's complex and secretive operations have provided a petri dish for collusive behavior.
This shift had an enormous impact on prices throughout the region. Statistical estimates through July 31 indicate that higher prices cost consumers at least 9.48 cents per kilowatt-hour during on-peak periods, and 3.3 cents per kilowatt-hour at off-peak times. Given these extraordinary events, many are asking a simple but confounding question:
After May 22, a number of explanations were put forward to explain why prices had increased so markedly. Favorite explanations argued that the price spike was due to shifts in natural gas prices, the runoff on the Columbia River, and increases in loads.
Yet almost all explanations for the price spike based on supply and demand concerns turn out to be exaggerated. Hydro conditions were average in 2000, peak loads (only ISO peak loads are currently available) were lower in 2000 than in 1999 and 1998. Gas prices were higher-considerably so-but that would explain only a portion of the price changes. Overall capacity margins appeared sufficient to meet loads across the region. In fact, one can readily see how ordinary the summer was-in terms of load, fuel prices, and hydro generation-by a casual look at the de facto competitive bulk power market that has been operating in the Pacific Northwest for the last 20-odd years.
All in All, An Ordinary Year
Twenty years of competitive markets?
Yes, in a very real sense, organized competitive bulk power markets got their start on the West Coast some 20 years ago, in 1980, with the passage of the Pacific Northwest Regional Power Act. That date marks a watershed in Western power markets-when the Bonneville Power Administration turned away from its historical practice of simply allocating its hydroelectric surplus, and began an active marketing program to implement the new law.
Just as we see today, California and the Pacific Northwest soon began fighting over the appropriate price for this marketed hydro surplus. This conflict was resolved only when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the Western States Power Pool as an experiment in 1987, and later granted its final OK in 1991. These actions effectively recognized the status quo as it had existed since 1980-an unregulated bulk power market where prices largely were governed by the cost of the
Price Spike Tsunami: How Market Power Soaked California
Last year saw no shift in fundamentals. Then why was the ISO so willing to be deceived?
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The BikeSauce has found a location, and is planning a fundraising party!
First things first… in case you haven't heard of BikeSauce yet – here's a quick intro:
BikeSauce is a new DIY bike shop in the east end of Toronto
This will be a place where you can fix your bicycle using our tools and recycled or new parts. If you dont know how to fix it, our volunteers will be there to help you. It will also be a social space where you can come and meet with your neighbours and figure out how to improve our city.
That's right… you've probably heard of the BikePirates… well now that DIY spirit is coming to Toronto's East End, specifically to the Broadview and Queen area, in mid-April!
They are looking for mechanic help at the moment:
We're looking for experienced mechanics to build bikes – every Wednesday night and Saturday and Sunday 12-5.
If you can build up a bike out of used and new parts, come out and give us a hand!
We're working out of our temporary space in Kensington Market. Turn down the alley between the TD machine and Essence of Life (at the Kensington and St. Andrews intersection). There is a garage on your right – just give a pound on the garage door!
I went by their work space in Kensington last week to say hi and take some photos for you:
There are plans for a fundraising party (BikeSauce is a registered non-profit) in early April. I'll share details here on this blog for you soon.


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He has been working on Internet projects with companies from South Africa, Spain, Germany, US, England, Portugal. Currently living in Lisbon he makes sure that Acquia's cloud servers are working and clients are happy during GMT. Prior to Acquia he headed the Internet team at the biggest classifieds newspaper in Portugal, where the "nodes" started to grow within!
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First off, thanks to Juro for putting this all together. Thanks to the Estey Bros. For the great chow (& the lower GI-series from the chilli). Also, thanks for the Friday night trip to The Race that was great. Also, thanks to Randy, Bruce & John for sharing their expertise, advice, and stories with us.
The Saturday South Beach trip started around 6:20 with a SW wind that was already kicking up. After being dropped off we walked over to the Ocean side & I hooked up with a nice 25" fighter on my third cast. After landing the fish & releasing it, it was promptly devoured by a huge seal. From there we headed over to the cove side & started fishing the dropping tide. Chuck hooked up with a real nice fish (34"), which took a real nice run. Next, Juro hooked up with a 32"er and I got some photos of the fight & the fish, but he broke off just as Juro reached for the leader, D'OH. Then another hookup & breakoff. Shortly after a pup seal swam by & popped up about 4' from our feet, so we decided to move on. We headed South to fish the big bar that shoots out perpendicular to the beach front. Roop & BigCat (AKA Ladder-Man) were already working the area, Al, Juro & I joined in. We casted for some time, but nothing happened, so we headed back to the North. Al & I work our way back towards Chuck; he hooked up several times. When we got to him, he said he was dragging a crab pattern, then proceeded to hook up again! The wind started kicking up even more & things slowed for a while. Everyone seemed to go off on their own to try to find the honey-hole. I went where Chuck was fishing, because he was the magnet. I switched to the QD line, because the wind was really blowing & the fish seemed to be in the deeper channels. Just as I was getting to the frustration point of thinking about taking an earlier shuttle back, Wham, a real rod bender. With the bend in the rod & my wrist, I was thinking keeper. Chuck proceeded to take some pictures (thanks), when low & behold, not a keeper but a 6+ lb blue; what a fight. After removing my destroyed clouser, I put on Juro's transparent sandeel clouser & proceeded to hookup & land a nice 22" striper; now I'm happy again.
Also, JimW was nearby & got some pictures; thanks man, I hope they come out.
All in all, it was a great day. Because of the strong winds it was not "Classic" flats fishing. I personally did not see any fish on the flats, but I think about ½ of our group did.
Got to meet some more people whom I only knew by name, but not by face, Roop, JayC, Diane, BigCat, Rich & MikeP.
I think we deserve an award for the most slovenly camp site in Nickerson. We where the wildlife magnet.
I forgot to grab my disposable camera for developing this morning, but I'll get it in ASAP. Juro, how did that other shot of your fish come out? I hope it was worth the wader-sprint down the beach!
Once again, a great group effort made for yet another successful Clave. My lower body is sore from all of the walking/wading & my upper body is sore from all of the casting/landing, but it's a GOOD kind of sore!
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- Clear the air.
Take the smoke-free pledge. Choose not to smoke in your home and do not permit others to do so. Small children are especially vulnerable to the health effects of secondhand smoke. Choose to smoke outside, if you must smoke. Moving to another room or opening a window is not enough to protect your children.
- Air quality.
Listen to local forecasts for ozone, smog and particulate matter. When levels are high, limit your outdoor activities.
- Rid your house of radon.
Test the level of radon gas in your home with a radon test kit. If the test result is 4pCi/L or higher, takes steps to reduce radon.
- Some household
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- Check for carbon monoxide.
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Texas A&M T Luke Joeckel's arms measured in an inch shorter at the school's pro day on Friday compared to the NFL Combine.
Ohio State CB Gareon Conley will meet with Cleveland police on Monday to discuss the accusation of rape being levied against him.
Miami redshirt freshman QB Jack Allison will transfer.
Draft Analyst's Tony Pauline reports that the Seahawks and Falcons are in discussions to swap first-round picks.
NFL Network's Michael Silver reports that the Browns have discussed trading up with "at least" three teams holding top-eight picks.
Oklahoma DL Charles Walker has been taking Prozac to treat a depression diagnosis.
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports that Ohio State CB Gareon Conley won't attend the NFL Draft.
Ohio State CB Gareon Conley was accused of rape in a police report filed by a Cleveland woman.
Clemson QB Deshaun Watson warned teams against taking UNC's Mitchell Trubisky ahead of him in the 2017 NFL Draft.
A medical report on Washington CB Sidney Jones (Achilles) sent to all 32 teams on Monday lays out a 4-6 month recovery timeline.
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That's what I call it when you finish your project at work 2 hours before you're meant to leave. Fortunately, at the end it seemed stable, though not quite as fast as I'd like.
So - I did it. I won. I didn't think I would, and I almost didn't, but I'm getting fast enough at debugging crashes, deadlocks and other nasty bugbears in Wine that I wasn't thrown when at the last minute I raised the fd limit and found it crashed in yet another way :)
Hopefully I'll be able to do a patch dump next week, so others can benefit from my work even if I don't get a chance to merge it in properly.
Tonight I have to pack - I leave for home tomorrow. I've been putting it off for a while, and now it's 7pm and I've still not started. As you can tell, I'm still putting it off.
Funny how work and play interlocked towards the end. I tried out apbuild today, which is a program that lets you compile the source in such a way that it will run on older glibcs. It's still rather untested, but can do Xlib and Wine (with a bit of encouragement, Wine is hard due to the games it plays with pthreads).
Of course, just after I imported it to CVS (very raw), Hongli discovers an obscure option to ld intended for platforms like BeOS that would let us get around the problems with using the LSB stub libs! ARGH! Well I need to evaluate them to see which is best, now.
We have GUIs for autopackage! Very pretty they are too, one of the nicer installer UIs I've seen for a while. Hongli (foobarwidget) is a really great coder :) There are screenshots in my home directory if you're interested, but I can't be bothered linking right now, as it's all changing so fast. I reckon people will be impressed when we do the next release though.


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MONTEVIDEO 14 May 2009 (APC for APC) – In
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advocating for affordable internet access for all, ICTs and the
environment, building the "information commons" , defending internet
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governance of the internet. Why did APC members prioritise those six
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regional body that will expose the truth about war crimes committed in
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He's been doing the hard stuff for three years now, but never anything like this.
In the small town of Bluestem, a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames, its owner, a man named Judd, trapped inside. There are a lot of reasons to hate him, Flowers discovers. In fact, he concludes, you'd probably have to dig around to find a person who doesn't despise Judd.
And that isn't even why Flowers came to Bluestem. Three weeks before, there'd been another murder, two, in fact, a doctor and his wife, the doctor found propped up in his backyard, both eyes shot out. Flowers knows two things: this wasn't a coincidence, and it had to be personal.
But just how personal is something even he doesn't realize, and may not find out until too late. Because the next victim may be himself.
©2007 John Sandford; (P)2007 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
"Sandford keeps the reader guessing and the pages turning while Flowers displays the kind of cool and folksy charm that might force Davenport to share the spotlight more often." (Publishers Weekly)
"Great winding road of a story"
A real treat, this newest of John Sandford, and I've listened to them all. Full of twists and surprises. I finished and immediately replayed it, to listen for clues and connections I missed the first time around (many!). The narrator doesn't have Richard Ferrone's gravelly voice, but has an effective tone and pace of his own that I got used to within a few minutes. Appropriately, he sounds just like midwesterners I've known, so his characters are convincing and the narration is enjoyable. Yup, a real treat!
"Different hero, but quality Sandford, still"
I'm one of those listeners who buys the Davenport audiobooks the day they are released. So I admit to being a little skeptical - and concerned - when I learned that Sandford would publish a book without Lucas as its main character. Trusting that the author wouldn't completely abandon his loyal base, though, I took a chance on this book and was happily surprised.
For one thing, this is a Lucas Davenport universe. Our favorite detective makes a few phone cameos, and Flowers works for him. The setting is upper mid-west, with all its local flavor.
Flowers is an intriguing character. The son of a preacher, he ponders God each night before he drifts off to sleep and can quote bible verses with the best of 'em, yet he's not really religious, at least not in any outward way. He has an innovative way of trying to solve crimes by writing pseudo-fictional stories which include facsimiles of himself, his suspects, and the victims, basically asking himself, "If I were writing a story about this crime, what would come next? What about this 'story' doesn't make sense?"
But Flowers is also battle-worn, tough, cynical, and funny. His personality is a lot like Lucas's, so again, Davenport readers won't have to do a 180 to get to like the new guy.
Like most folks, I'd be happy if Sandford only wrote Prey books, but if writing Flowers books helps Sandford avoid Prey burnout, I have no problem with reading more about Flowers' adventures.
"A terrific side trip for Sandford fans"
As an avid Lucas Davenport fan and absolute lover of Richard Ferrone's gravelly baritone, I was a little leery of Sandford's last offering. But I absolutely loved it from the bone chilling start to the satisfying finish. Unlike Lucas Davenport, who we all love, but frankly know too well, Virgil Flowers comes into this novel as a vaguely familiar character who we learn to appreciate as the mystery unfolds. A couple of cameos by Davenport make it feel like a familiar Prey sequel. And contrary to some other reviewers, I Thought Eric Conger's narration was simply perfect.
"Good listen"
This is classic John Sandford read (or listen in this case). He uses Det. Virgil Flowers as the protagonist instead of Lucas Davenport, but he has the usual interesting story with lots of bodies and a mystery to boot. Flowers makes an interesting kind of hero and the rural Minnesota ambience is well done. I enjoyed this immensely. Just the kind of thing for a long road trip.
Actor/director/teacher. Split my time between Beijing and Seattle now. Listen to Audible on the subway and while driving or riding my bike.
"wonderful even the second time around"
I purchased Dark Of The Moon not realizing that I had already read the book previously. Since I almost never reread even very good books, I was disappointed and almost tossed it back on the shelf. Still, having paid good money and all....
As it turned out, even with the drawback of knowing exactly where the book was going, I still had a great time listening. Sandford writes wonderful characters, not just Flowers and Davenport, but all the supporting players. They are sketched deftly with artful details and they are always consistent. In addition, his plots are tightly constructed, and his action sequences remain tense even when you know what the outcome will be. In fact it was a pleasure to be able to pay somewhat closer attention to how the author fashioned the whole story from beginning to end.
I am glad Richard Ferrone did not do this narration. I love his work on the Davenport books, but Flowers needed a voice which was not a constant reminder of Lucas. The reader did a fine job, and Virgil now has a very satisfying vocal persona of his own. I loved the subtle variation in midwestern accent which Conger used to define character, and I never had any problem knowing who was speaking.
"Blooming Good Mystery"
John Sandford trots out a new detective, Virgil Flowers, in the Dark of the Moon. A bit player in one of Sandford's previous Prey books, Flowers holds his own as a down-home, good old boy detective tasked with solving a series of gruesome murders in rural Bluestem, Minnesota. The mystery roars along in typical Sandford fashion while Virgil's romance with the sister of the small town's sheriff heats up. I am no fan of romance novels but the steamy love scene in a secluded swimming hole is, well, hot until a sniper shows up to spoil the fun. While Sandford's usual hero, Lucas Davenport, is a sophisticated and suave solver of crimes, Flowers is more plodding, but no less heroic. Like Lucas in his early appearances, Flowers is a definite Tom Cat with an eye for the ladies. This fast-paced mystery contains one of the finest shoot-outs in modern detective fiction with Flowers coming off as a fearless fighter as he participates in a DEA raid on a drug lab. One of the most engaging features of the novel is the camaraderie among law enforcement types that permeates the book. Sandford has Lucas Davenport make only brief appearances in this outing, appearances in which Davenport generally comes off as annoyed at Flowers for bothering him too early. Still, Sandford has another winner with the Flowers character and I look forward to Virgil's next adventure. Before Sandford pens that one, I'd like to seem him resurrect one of his earliest and greatest crimer solvers, Kidd. Armed with today's staggering technology, a Kidd mystery would be irresistible.
"Really good with just a couple of flaws"
I liked this story a lot. I loved the mystery and the way it kept me guessing right up until the very end, and in this book, I was guessing literally until the last couple of sentences which was a nice twist. I liked getting to know Virgil, I have started listening to the next book.
My experience with any series (books or television) is that the first book or first episode aren't as good as the rest of the series. I've learned to give it time for the character to develop. This series shows a lot of promise.
The narrator was a little too monotone for me. After listening to 17 books read by Dick Hill, I'm a tough critic there.
There were just a couple things that were annoying in the story--I didn't love the part where he is writing a mystery book on the side. I got a little confused each time that happened.
I also didn't find his womanizing charming. I get that for a detective's character to be developed that it needs some flaws, but there were a couple of comments about women that made me go "ewww." Hopefully that part of his character gets down played in future books, or made sexy or something instead.
Really liked it overall.
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Love Virgil Flowers character and the book. John Sandford has done it again. Just as I wait anxiously for the next "Prey" book, I'll be looking forward to the next VF installment.
"good read"
Well paced who-dunit in the Sanford style. I disagree with a previous reviwer and find the narration very good.
I love espionage, legal, and detective thrillers but listen to most genres. Very frequent reviews. No plot spoilers! Please excuse my typos!
"Davenport vs. Flowers"
I listened to Dark of the Moon, the first novel in the Virgil Flowers series, four years ago. Six of the eight Flowers novels an 13 of the 26 Davenport novels are in my Audible library. I have preordered Escape Clause which will be released in a few hours. Although Davenport appears in all of the Flowers novels, I prefer Davenport to Flowers. Like most of John Sandford's books Dark of the Moon is excellent, but Sandford is far from being in the elite group of modern detective writers; he seldom writes 5 star novels. This certainly is not one. Worthwhile? Yes! Special? No!
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The third annual Fristfest spring celebration will run from Thursday, May 1, through Saturday, May 3, with a series of events at the Frist Campus Center .
Fristfest will begin with food, live entertainment and games on the south lawn and north plaza from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on May 1. It continues May 2 with a concert and dance party featuring the Uplifters at 7 p.m. on the south lawn and a party featuring the Beatnuts at 10 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room.
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Many retailers kick off the holiday season with an open house. Downtowns around Northeast Mississippi also throw parties to welcome shoppers. Here are some of the open houses scheduled for this year:
Aberdeen, today
Amory, Nov. 10 & 11 and Dec. 7 & 8
Fulton, today & Dec. 3
Holly Springs, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2
Houston, Nov. 10
New Albany, Nov. 11 and Dec. 7 Sippin' Cider event
Oxford, Nov. 23
Pontotoc, Nov. 18
Ripley, Nov. 11
Saltillo (DB's Floral Design), Nov. 16-17
Starkville, Nov. 18
Tupelo, Nov. 18
West Point, Dec. 3
• Corinth and Okolona already have had their open houses. More regional open houses are scheduled throughout the month. Call your favorite retailers for their dates
TUPELO – Don't be surprised if your favorite store has swapped its Halloween decorations for twinkling Christmas baubles.
Several retailers and downtowns held their holiday open houses Saturday. More are scheduled today and throughout the rest of the month.
"The open house is really the beginning of the season," said Byron Fellows, one of the owners of Mid-South Nursery, which has its 35th open house today.
For shops known for their open houses, such as Mid-South, The Main Attraction and Amory Flowers and Gifts, the process takes all year. They buy their merchandise in January and it comes in during the summer.
Decorating begins weeks before Halloween.
Fellows said Mid-South creates a floor plan to show where everything will go inside the store.
"About this time, we're looking for a shoehorn to expand the store," he said. It's important to think about customer flow and walking space when decorating for the holidays, the retailers said.
Barbara Fleishhacker, owner of The Main Attraction, puts up twinkle lights inside her store but saves room for customers by focusing on decorations for her store windows and exterior.
At Mid-South, the workers made trees that are narrow at the bottom and wide at the top to make more space for walking.
Items are displayed from the floor to the ceiling and then over people's heads.
Jere Duke, a co-owner of Amory Flowers and Gifts, shoots for a wow factor every year.
"We always try to be better than the year before," she said. "We always try to change it completely."
For the store's 29th open house next weekend, its theme is a gingerbread Christmas.
"We decorate every room," she said, in addition to decorating the store's exterior.
Fleishhacker said it's important to focus on a fun, festive party atmosphere, along with decorations. "I like a party and I like holidays," she said. "I try to get into the spirit because when you have a retail store, it's easy to skip the holiday because you are
helping everyone else."
And the veteran retailers said a shop owner shouldn't judge the event by the amount of sales that day.
"They may come in and look and make purchases afterward," Fellows said. "A lot of people will come in here and you can't see it all at once."
Fleishhacker said people also use the open house to get ideas for their wishlists. They can then tip off a potential gift-giver to the item they want.
The veteran open house hosts also offered the following tips for having a successful event.
Feed customers for free. "I always try to serve what I sell so they can taste what we sell," Duke said. If it is a night event, consider serving adult beverages and snacks. If it is during the day, offer food that will appeal to kids and adults.
And think about Christmas food.
The retailers also said they serve hot cider. And in the years when the weather has been too warm for piping hot cider, Fellows serves his cider over ice or he makes lemonade. Fleishhacker recommends retailers simplify food offerings by using serving pieces and dishes already in their shops.
Some open houses are at night after regular store hours. Some are during the day. And others, such as Tupelo and New Albany, have theirs on Sunday when the stores typically are closed.
"What works for us is having a daytime event that's not a normal shopping day," said Vickie Duke, manager of New Albany's Main Street Association. "It creates a lot of interest." She also is proactive about inviting customers.
MainStreet gathers addresses at each open house and sends a postcard reminder a week before the next holiday open house. Duke also works with retailers to collect addresses of new customers and sends them cards, too.
Retailers also should help spread the word about their party. "Invite your customers and always invite some of your friends to come down," Fleishhacker said. "That way it becomes more of a social."
Remember to sell to the senses. "It needs to smell like Christmas," Jere Duke said.
At her store, they use candles they sell with names like Cinnamon Cider, Eggnog and The Smell of Christmas.
It also needs to sound like Christmas.
Mid-South alternates its tunes, playing instrumentals, classic carols and more modern Christmas songs.
"Know your customer and fit your music to your customer," advised Fellows.
Over the years, Main Attraction has had live music from guitarists, bagpipers and other musicians.
Fleishhacker also embraces her Jewish heritage and plays the dreidel game in the store. The game includes a lively song that interacts with customers. And it's smart to get on Santa's schedule so he can swing by to take pictures with the kids. He'll be at Mid-South today and at Amory Flowers and Gifts on Nov. 10 and 11.
Make sure you are fully staffed for the open house. Focus on staffing areas that back up, like gift-wrapping. Fleishhacker said she has two high school seniors to help with gift wrapping during the open house.
At Mid-South, Fellows has employees assigned to various areas to make sure every nook in the shop is covered.
Have a financial incentive for people to visit during your open house.
Duke at Amory Flowers offers 20 percent off a $25 purchase.
Mid-South promotes three to four specially priced items, such as a Christopher Radko ornament for $20. And Main Attraction does a combination of both, offering discounts throughout the store during the open house along with open-house-only prices on certain items.
In New Albany, the Main Street Association helps by offering door prizes. Vickie Duke said she has tested various door prizes, but the most successful ones have been gift certificates for downtown stores.
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While it may crackle with the same intensity of the Providence-based author's 30 — yes, 30 — previous books, Land's latest has one key difference: it's all true. The man with the gun was the notorious Boston mob boss, Whitey Bulger. The man chained to the chair was an unmasked FBI informant. The book — co-written and narrated by former FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick — is titled Betrayal: Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down. On its official release day January 3, I met Land to discuss the book over sandwiches and coffee at one of his favorite local hangouts, the Wayland Square Diner. The interview is edited and condensed.
TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR PROCESS WORKING WITH FITZPATRICK. He had already written a lot, but it was not coherent. It was a mess and he knows that. But in reading all that, it gave me something to work from. Bob is a cop; he has a cop's mentality. He wrote the profile that nailed Ted Bundy. So he's a brilliant man, but he doesn't think the way a writer does. So, more and more, I would say to him, "Fitz, you're saying this . . . is this the thing that happened, not in 1981, but actually in 1982?" So that was the fun of the book. I'd ask him to tell me more about characters like Jack O'Donovan, the one-eyed, hard-assed [Massachusetts] State Police Chief.
WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN THEY CAUGHT BULGER? We had finished the book literally over a year before. It was with a smaller publisher that put me through six months of legal hell vetting the book with a lawyer who was convinced that it shouldn't be published. So we get the rights to the book back and I was thankful because I said, "This book is going to die a bad death." Two weeks later, at 3:30 in the morning — when the phone rings at 3:30 in the morning, it's never going to be anything good — it was Bob Fitzpatrick telling me, "Jon, they got him. They got Bulger." This was one of the greatest breaks of my career. Everybody said there were too many Bulger books on the market. Now, Bulger gets found, we get the rights back, everybody wants the book.
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That whole rule about not turning your back on royalty also applies to dimming pop stars, which is why that the illustrious X Factor panel of Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, L.A. Reid, and some nobody named Louis Walsh (who was filling in for a conveniently ill Simon Cowell) abruptly left during the Kansas City auditions because one contestant sang with his back to them through his entire performance. Eyewitnesses say that the back-singer was acutely bad anyway and had a really negative attitude, so we can all rest easy knowing that the judges probably didn't overlook one of the great, untamed talents of Kansas City. Then again, we ought to have at least a little empathy for the X Factor hopeful, because how many of us have gotten turned around during a grade school talent show, mistaken sheet music stands for an adoring parental audience because we were horribly nearsighted, and serenaded inanimate objects with a serviceable rendition of "Jingle Bell Rock"? It happens to everyone. [People]
- D'Angelo concluded his global sojourn last night when he made his first U.S. appearance in 12 years at Bonnaroo. Let's all welcome him back and try not to objectify him too hard. [AP]
- Speaking of objectifying male celebrities, some of you might have been fooled by what seemed to be a provocative picture of endangered white lion Anderson Cooper presenting himself. The picture's very clearly a fake, because, while we can all agree from his Michael Phelps vanity segment that Coops is in great shape, it seemed odd that his grey head of hair would sprout out of the neckless body of a twenty-something exhibitionist. [Paula Froelich]
- More objectifying male celebrities, let's see...oh, actor Donald Sutherland was presented with the Commander of Arts award in France on Saturday for his strangely magnetic sexuality in movies like Federico Fellini's Casanova. For further proof of Sutherland's mesmerizing blue eyes, watch Eye of the Needle because it's a pretty m'ok way to spend a Sunday afternoon. [AP]
- It's probably still alright alright alright alright to objectify Matthew McConaughey because the people who put him in movies are pretty much counting on us to keep doing it, but just as long as we all understand that he married longtime girlfriend Camila Alves Saturday night. [E!]
- Joey Lawrence wants you to objectify him because he danced as a Chippendale Friday night in Vegas. [People]
- Everybody wants to be the first in line to spend $375 retail on Kanye West's new shoes. [E!]
- Mexico City officials are worried that their good citizens will smother Justin Bieber with love, as they expect attendance the FREE! Bieber concert in the city's central plaza to exceed the 200,000 record set by Paul McCartney's May 10 shindig. [AP]
- Brian Soileau, star of two, count 'em, two Lana Del Rey music videos, criticized the singer from the peanut gallery of our modern world that is Twitter for being on drugs like all time. He also had these particularly venomous words for Del Rey about her mystifying music career: "Nothing you do is original, everyone that meets you fucking hates you. Your [sic] a no talent diva. Get a life." Way harsh. Let's hope that at least one faithful grammarian #corrections the shit out of Soileau's "your" mistake. [ONTD]
- Katy Perry could be in the running to play Freddie Mercury's wife Mary Austin in a forthcoming biopic about the late and particularly great singer. [Mirror]
- Lindsay Lohan has insinuated that, while the truck driver she was involved in an accident with is lying about her offering him some hush money, he's probably right to think that the crash was her, or at least her car Herbie's fault — she's claiming that her brakes failed. [TMZ]
- The Jersey Shore streetfighters (read: video game franchise opportunity) officially inaugurated summer with a reportedly "massive" bar fight in Seaside Heights. [Us]
- Vice President Joe Biden also got into the summer spirit by tucking his collared shirt into his khaki shorts and hosting a water gun fight for some little kids. [CNN
- Jazz and blues guitarist Pete Cosey, who recorded with Miles Davis, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters, died in Chicago at 68, leaving the world a far less sonorous place. [AP]
- Tommy Chong revealed that he has prostate cancer and a prescription for some killer bud. [TMZ]
- Shirley MacLaine received the AFI "Lifetime Achievement Award" for having an awesome career. [AP]
- How will America figure out what the fuck is wrong with all its cars now that NPR's Car Talk duo, brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, is hanging up its monkey wrenches forever? The future is full of uncertainty. [AP]


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Schizotypal personality disorder is a mental health condition in which a person has trouble with relationships and disturbances in thought patterns, appearance, and behavior.
Cause of schizotypal personality disorder is unknown. Genes are thought to be involved because this condition is more common in relatives of schizophrenics.
Schizotypal personality disorder should not be confused with schizophrenia. People with schizotypal personality disorder can have odd beliefs and behaviors. But unlike people with schizophrenia, they are not disconnected from reality and usually do not hallucinate. They also do not have delusions.
People with schizotypal personality disorder may be very disturbed. For example, they may also have unusual preoccupations and fears, such as fear of being monitored by government agencies.
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A memorial service for Suzanne Keller, a Princeton professor emeritus of sociology, is planned for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in Betts Auditorium in the School of Architecture.
Keller, who conducted pioneering research on elite life and on community in America, and was the first woman to earn a tenured faculty position at Princeton, died of a stroke Dec. 9 at Mercy Hospital in Miami. She was 83.
The memorial service will feature a lecture titled "Outsiders on the Inside? Women in Power, 1971-2011" by D. Michael Lindsay, an assistant professor of sociology at Rice University who earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 2006 under Keller's guidance.
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I just cued up the scenes on Hoth, when Luke is on the Tauntaun wearing this look it's for less than a minute, and then he pulls his goggles up (which are entirely missing from the second look) and talks into his wrist-comm, and that only lasts a moment, and then the Wampa knocks his scarf and goggles off his hat entirely leaving them to dangle off the side and back of the hat, so this figure is really limited, can't even look like Luke during or after the Wampa attack.
Generic and kinda doofy, not particularly heroic, a bit sickly. It doesn't help that the figure design looks like it has a potbelly from how high they designed the belt line and how the skirt poofs out.I don't know what the hell "blorpy" is supposed to mean, but yeah, sure. It doesn't really look much like Hayden, but none of the figures really do. It's a little longer than it should be - it reminds me somewhat of the Evolutions ROTS mold. It's pretty similar to photos, I guess, but I can live with it. They've only finally been able to start sculpting Luke well within the last couple of years, so I guess Anakin is still gonna be a while.
Yeah, that chiffon-like fabric they use for his cloak is really bothering me these days, it looks badly see-through and it's hard to get to sit flat as well. And then they try to match the sculpted robe on the chest to the very flat, porous cloth skirt, another one that bugs me.
Hasbro jacks the pricing up over and over while talking about how these figures are supposed to be the "ultimate" versions that never need resculpting, so it's hard not to have high expectations for a while... then you realize how absolutely untrue their claims are, where even little stuff like bandana paint and Imperial logos gets done wrong, and eventually one becomes bitter and cautious about stuff like Vader where they've shown such a poor ability to evolve the design along the same pace as other figures, or even increase any quality in design one way or another at all from Vader to Vader. So every little surprise becomes a moment of "hey look, they finally got his helmet to look right, so where's the flaws?" And in this case it's:I guess with all the posts on other forums about how this is one of the greatest Star Wars figures ever made, my expectations might have been too high. Although, I prefer to keep my expectations almost unrealistically high with figures like Vader, because I know that we are going to continue to get new versions of the character. For figures like Kithaba and TVC Evazan, that we will likely NEVER see resculpted for any reason (at least not for 10 years or more), then I tend to be more forgiving of flaws.
- helmet is designed for ESB/ROTJ, not ANH;
- helmet neck is high;
- no way to attach saber to belt;
- cape is a step backwards with no chain;
- soft-goods skirt don't integrate at all with sculpted robe.
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