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David Montague is chief executive at L&Q
"Government should realign housing and welfare policy"
Six years ago, as the world tipped into recession, we faced two choices: wait for the money to come back, or take responsibility for our own future. We chose the latter option.
Six years on we have grown from 50,000 to 70,000 homes. Our development programme has grown from 5,000 to 12,000 homes. We lost government grant income of around £100,000 for every home we built, but we replaced it with profits from building homes for sale and by reducing our management costs. Our annual surplus now supports a £2bn development programme, half of which is for affordable rent, and none of which is dependent on government grants. If the government grant returns we will increase our development programme.
Is there more we can do? Yes, plenty, and we will. We can be more efficient. We can be more entrepreneurial. We can provide more support to our residents. We can create powerful new partnerships with local authorities. And we can build more homes.
But there is plenty the government can do to help too. They can realign housing and welfare policy; they can identify enough public land to meet the next 10 years' housing needs; and they can expand their bond guarantee programme to fund it. Housing associations can and will rise to the challenge. We always do. But we can do a lot more with a little help.
Paul High is executive director at Orbit Homes.
"Local authorities need to make planning decisions faster"
We've managed to continue to build due to the substantial amount of funding we had in place before 2008. Since then we have managed to keep our funding streams flowing by thinking of new ways to secure additional income, most notably our £100m funding facility with Pricoa, and began building market sale properties in 2009. We were also dealt a good hand from the HCA and attracted funding for our 2011-15 affordable homes programme.
To aid housebuilding we need to see local authorities playing their part by committing to quicker planning decisions and allocating more land for development. A consistent set of national building standards would also help as standards that differ from region to region can be problematic as well as costly for the housebuilder. Changing designs and materials to meet local and special standards reduces the economies of scale otherwise available – less than ideal in the current climate. We have robust plans in place to achieve our target of building 12,000 new homes by the year 2020 as well as providing a full range of home rental and ownership options to optimise housing choice for current and new customers.
Ann Santry is chief executive at Sovereign Housing
"Equal building standards will level the playing field"
Our business plan provides the right foundation and we have worked hard to define our development strategy and build up an experienced team with a reputation for delivery. Strong relationships with local authorities and the commercial world are essential.
Our operating environment has changed dramatically in recent years and all housing associations have to carefully assess the risk of funding more affordable homes for their communities. The most important change that would help us continue to grow our development programme is to secure subsidy through planning gain, discounted land and/or capital grants. We also need to compete on a level playing field with developers and so support the National Housing Federation and Chartered Institute of Housing in calling for equal building standards for grant-funded housing.
Finally, the development model for housing associations requires increasing amounts of debt, so a commitment from government to keep paying housing benefit direct to landlords would help reduce the revenue risk and continue to attract the investment we need to provide these much-needed new homes.
David Bennett is group chief executive at Sanctuary Housing
"Current grant rates do not create a sustainable business model"
The delivery of 5,000 homes between 2011 and March 2015 is no mean feat, but our years of being a major developer have taught us much.
Rather than subcontract work out, Sanctuary has established a skilled development team who are now used by other housing providers as well, including those in our development consortium.
We focus on four key principles: building strong partnerships, whether with the contractor, local authority, or design team; having clear contractor frameworks in place; engaging early on to identify and overcome obstacles quickly; and focusing on our goals, which are to create and sustain long-term employment through new jobs and training opportunities, and build well-designed homes.
Undoubtedly there are ways to improve the current development programme – being less prescriptive about the time frame so we don't all go out to tender at the same time, or relaxing planning requirements for local authorities are just two that would help improve the supply of housing. However the main issues are that current grant rates do not create a sustainable business model and not all housing providers have the skills or inclination to use their asset base to foster further development.
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Hello all, I need to prepare a Music Video for broadcast and Music Choice needs Closed Captions added to it.
I've searched for answers online and have come up with no real answers. Just encounters with shockingly over-priced software for what seems would be a relatively painless procedure.
I run Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe After Effects.
Thank you!
If you've already looked into the indexes in your manuals and none of them mention closed captioning, and I assume you have. Then you may need to look into hiring a professional service. So far as closed captioning being something simple to do, I beg to differ. Closed captions are encoded into the vertical blanking bar of analogue video. And even though you are doing digital editing, the signal that goes to a viewer is an analogue signal. Since my roots are in linear video production, I know how tube cameras generate the vertical blanking interval. And for the closed captioning we put on county government meetings, it was done with an analogue device downstream of the switcher, just before entering the modulator for delivery to the headend.
So closed captioning on an NLE has to be placed by a program that has access & control over the vertical blanking interval, which I don't think digital video even has. Until it is converted to a composite signal, there would be no need to create a vertical blanking interval inside the digital file. But since I've seen players with CC options, so there must be a way for it to be stored in the digital file. But I'm sure you'd need specialized software to make unique vertical blanking intervals.
And there's the expense. It is very specialized software, with a very small market. Just to break even it would have to be quite expensive. So you are most likely to make it a reasonable expense by shopping around for someone to do it for you. I'd check with your local professional video equipment suppliers to find who can do closed captioning in your area.
Good luck. And thank the government for requiring closed captions on music programming.
Thank you very much.
I think I will have to outsource this one. lol.
I had to do the same thing to put a video I shot on Fuse. I outsourced too and used a company who CC'd my video and they did everything. All I did was email them the video and they sent me a track back that had the cc info all on it. I'd recommend them.
It's easy to produce CC in the digital domain. Bots don't get it, even if theyr'e Google's.
With all due respect for the seniority and experience of the person who wrote about the difficulty of producing CC for video, OK, it was difficult, but as far as analogue goes -- it's gone.
Producing true and accurate closed-captioning for video is as easy as 3.14
1) Transcribe truly and accurately the spoken dialogue.
2) Drag and drop the "right" amount of text in sync with the speaker(s).
3) Preview it.
You're done.
It's easy, yet, it requires a human. Bots -- however well data-fed they are -- don't get it.
Alan at VerbatimIT
Check Sony Vegas again. I believe that from version 9 and up it has the ability to add Line 21 closed captions. I know for certain that Vegas 10 will output a .scc file with any video that you've added captions to.
I've used (and am using) this process, so feel free to PM me for more help/details.
Our company does Closed Captioning for these types of project. We are cheaper than those other guys and we always use 100% American labor.
Check us out!
If you're using Pro 12, here's a great tutorrail on how to do it.
If it's an ealier version, try this link.
There's a free white paper on the Sony site titled Captioning in Vegas Pro 10 at http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/whitepapers

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Red rain: Fire retardant use at 10-year high
Redmond Air Center use at all-time record
REDMOND, Ore. - Fire retardant use is at an-all time high at the Redmond Air Center. There are two reasons for it. This fire season is particularly intense and newer planes can fuel faster and have bigger tanks.
The 10-year average is around 700,000 gallons of retardant. This year, the air center has already used 721,000 gallons -- a number that wouldn't be that impressive if there weren't at least two months of fire season left.
Fire retardant is the red substance dropped from air tankers onto wildland fires. It can be used in dry forms or, when mixed with water. is a slick, watery substance. The Redmond Air Center uses the second form.
It is a vital part of fighting fires.
"I was on a large fire last year, and we had a crew of about 20 stuck on a mountain," Darrell Bohannan, air tank manager, said Wednesday.
The only way to get them out safely was to drop retardant on the area. That allowed them a safe path to retreat from the flames.
One misconception about the substance is that it puts out fires. Bohannan said that's not the case. Retardant is used to lower the intensity of the blaze. That allows crews to get in there and work in a safer environment.
"It's just a good tool all the way around," Bohannan said.
Planes can hold up to 4,000 gallons of retardant, and the Redmond Air Center can fill these tanks in a matter of minutes. However, the substance isn't cheap.
"Around $1.60 to $2.00 a gallon," Bohannan said.
It can be as expensive as $3 earlier in the season.
Quite a bit has been used so far, and with a couple months of fire season left, there is likely more to go.


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text: well my V just went in to the dealership and they replaced two front tires, sway bars, endlinks, shocks, and motor mounts (yayyyy warranty!). after 10 days with a 2010 DTS i was itching to get back into my V. i also drove my mothers 05' STS during this time and realized how amazingly tight her steering was. when i got back in my V, and on the highway, i noticed i have amost an inch of play in the steering wheen before the car will start to turn. any ideas what could be causing this? theres no way you're gonna tell me the STS has tighter handling than a CTS-V.... :thepan:


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Fur and individuality are in; skin-tight clothes and neon are out.
She later criticized the media on Twitter for focusing on her skin-tight white Glavis minidress.
We were all dressed in skin-tight, tiny Azzedine dresses that were the big hit of the moment.
The yellowish-green or faded apple-green coat; the skin-tight trousers of any color you choose.
He looked back at the image of Stanton, a black-clad figure in a flexible, tough, skin-tight suit.
He began nervously brushing the pine-needles from his skin-tight trousers, with dirty hands.
She wore a short tailored skirt which ignored the ugly, skin-tight convention of the current fashion.
The sound was like the beating of a skin-tight drumhead by the fists of a jungle savage.
He ran his fingers along Roger's spine, feeling the bones one by one through the skin-tight jungle suit.
I took off my suit, hung it in a handy locker, showing that all I had on underneath was my skin-tight "union suit."


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11 Jul 2006, 01:42pm by P. Ryan Wilson
The supplemental draft is this Thursday and the biggest name on the board is Virginia's Ahmad Brooks. He's had some off-field issues, but a lot of teams need help at linebacker and Brooks could end up going as high as the second round. NFL.com's Gil Brandt has the details on some of the other players likely to get (supplementally) drafted.
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10 Jul 2006, 07:21pm by P. Ryan Wilson
After watching the World Cup, Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner has a question: Why doesn't the N.F.L. have a third place consolation game prior to the Super Bowl? Injuries and motivation are two reasons that immediately come to mind, but you'd think monentary considerations would help mitigate such concerns. Either way, something interesting to think about.
168 comments, Last at 14 Jul 2006, 1:57am by Ben
10 Jul 2006, 10:03am by P. Ryan Wilson
The USA Today has a nice feature on Eric Mangini, the latest branch on the Belichick coaching tree.
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Somebody should explain to Broncos punter Todd Sauerbrun exactly what "banned substance" means.
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06 Jul 2006, 08:15pm by P. Ryan Wilson
Every Day Should Be Saturday is a college football blog and here's a great post about the intricacies of the offensive line: "As part of our ongoing football education, we realized that we had a particularly gaping hole in our understanding of how the game is played position-wise: the offensive line.
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Peter King says if he were commissioner, among other things, he'd make Sunday Ticket available to the masses and expand the season to 18 games.
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06 Jul 2006, 03:48pm by Michael David Smith
Paul Zimmerman discusses whether Terrell Davis belongs in the Hall of Fame in this week's mailbag. When Davis tore his ACL, I remember telling a friend, "I don't care if he never plays another down. He's a Hall of Famer." I no longer feel that way, though, for two reasons:
1. I was always impressed with Davis's playoff numbers, but the more research I do, the less inclined I am to believe that playing well in big games is as meaningful a measure of an individual player's greatness as most people think it is.
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06 Jul 2006, 12:03pm by Aaron Schatz
Herm Edwards wants to run the ball 500 to 550 times this year. That sounds like a lot more than it actually is -- even though running backs rarely hit 400 carries, there were eight teams that topped 500 carries last year. But you get to that number because you can give 100 carries to guys like Ladell Betts, Maurice Morris, and Marion Barber. Edwards is absolutely right that he can't overuse Larry Johnson, and that creates a problem, because if Priest Holmes is not healthy, the backups in Kansas City are awful.
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In looking at wide receivers having success in their second-year and beyond, Pat Kirwan makes it simple: 75-7-20-50. That's 75 receptions, seven touchdowns, 20 receptions over 20 yards, and move the chains at least 50 times. Using Kirwan's dataset (n=7), if players can put up these numbers in year two then they're well on their way to a solid career. This can't be good news for Reggie Williams.
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Eric Moneypenny has a couple of fun little articles over at FOXSports.com about the supplemental draft. The link here goes to the top five, with Bernie Kosar at number one. Moneypenny makes a good point by including both Chargers DT Jamal Williams and Panthers OL Mike Wahle on his "Best" list. I know that a lot of people -- including this website, at times -- have made the mistake of referring to these players as undrafted, but they weren't undrafted. They were two very smart supplemental picks by the Chargers and Packers in 1998.
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Microsoft and Tasktop partnering to contribute code enhancement to Eclipse on Windows 7
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So I might be moving to California and my GF and i would be making the x-country drive to move our stuff.
Lets hear some suggestions for what type of car/truck would make for an interesting hauler.
No matter what is picked, it will probably be towing a small u-haul trailer and maybe roof storage. And it would also need to be something we could drive around for awhile until we find a suitable car to cruise around LA in.
So far I was thinking about...
Mini Bus
It's quirky, but I figure with the seats removed we'd have plenty of space to pack stuff into. And it'd be nice to have something we could stand up in when the thing is parked.
They're frickin' huge. But I'd think the MPG are probably crap.
Seems pretty logical and multi purpose enough for what we'd need for the move and the x-country drive. But I highly doubt I'd find one that runs well enough to make the journey and not empty the coffers.
So it's a box truck, it'd probably make the trip find. However I don't know if the cab would be comfortable enough for the 2 of us and our dog. And I don't know if I'd want to cruise around LA in on for an longer than I'd need to.
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Coming back to the ABC lyrics from yesterday, I decided to think more about the line: "If you judge a book by the cover / Then you'd judge the look by the lover."
Maybe some of our college graduates (who studied logic) can correct me if I'm off a bit, but here's what I think is going on: I decided it's actually not much of a logic problem. It's actually illogical.
The line is: if you judge "object 1" by "impression of object 1" then you'll judge the "impression of object 2" by the "object 2"
Assuming "the look" refers to "your first impression of the lover," or "the exterior of the lover that gives you an impression," the logical version of the line would be: "If you judge a book by the cover, then you'd judge the lover by the look".
Unfortunately, this line doesn't sound nor sing very well, so ABC changed the wording. Artistic license, I guess.
Just like "Are we human, or are we dancer."
Or even "Isn't it ironic…like ray-yee-yain on your wedding day."
It doesn't have to make sense! I forgot to mention: even though this song is ridiculous and illogical, I still love it, HAHAHA!


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Wednesday new DNA tests conducted at the request of the Orthodox Church had confirmed that the exhumed remains of Nicholas II, the country's murdered last czar, and his wife, were genuine.
The statement brings closer the possibility that the entire Romanov family -- who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 -- could be laid to rest together with the purported remains of Alexei and Maria, two of the czar's five children, also interred in St Petersburg with the others for the first time.
The church, which canonized the slain family in 2000, has been pushing for extra proof that the remains of Nicholas, whose Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for 300 years, are bona fide, a precondition for Alexei and Maria to be buried.
It has also asked for more tests to check that the purported remains of the two children, found only in 2007, are genuine.
Forensic experts from Russia's Investigative Committee exhumed the remains of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra in September, taking DNA samples that had not previously been analyzed.
Those samples corresponded with earlier findings and showed that the remains were genuine, the committee said in a statement.
"These samples revealed heteroplasmy -- a rare genetic mutation that was present in (earlier) samples of Nicholas II," it said.
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text: Generations of families packed the statehouse on Friday as a way to appreciate their elders.It's part of the Maine Health Care Association's 11th Annual Remember ME program.Maine Residents ranging from 61 to 107 years old are recognized for their accomplishments prior to living in an assisted living facility.This year, 34 people received the honor, ranging from war veterans to teachers. The CEO of the Health Care Association, Rick Erb, said this is one of his favorite events of the year. "We look forward to the grandchildren and great-grandchild taking a day off from school to see what their elder family members were doing."First Lady Ann LePage also attended the event and said "It just makes me proud to be living in Maine. Mainers are great people. They take care of one another and this is a testament to that."LePage took pictures with each of the recipients and their family members as they received the award.


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Water Heater Constantly Failing/Replaced
Good Afternoon Everyone! I hope we can get some advice, it's kind of a long story. I'll try to start from the beginning but may be off by a month or two.
Last May 2011, the water heater that came with the house shut off and would not light. This old model was before the "sealed combustion chambers". We had a plumber come in and he described it as when he was able to create an ignition there was a big flame and believe he mentioned deterioration. Well, solution was a brand new water heater. It was purchased and installed by Home Depot and everything was fine again...till about three weeks later.
Late May 2011 - Found ourselves with no water and when we checked the water heater the pilot light was completely out. We couldn't even get it to light again, but could vaguely see the "lighter" charge up. Also, the window of the chamber was completely fogged up. So we contacted Home Depot and eventually a replacement water heater was provided and installed, with modifications to the vent.
Here's where it really sucks...we went through this round three times. Three brand new water heaters. The new one would last, then die a few weeks later. We've had the gas supply tested, was good. Contacted the manufacturer which had little thought, but did recommended a "separate plumber" from Home Depot contracted.
August 2011 - A symptom we did notice pretty consistently prior to a water heater dieing was "the window would fog up". Once the water heater died, it would be completely fogged up. When we noticed slight fogging, we contacted a new plumber to assist us. He opened the chamber and found tons of white powder on the burning plate and up inside the water heater where it vents. He wasn't sure what it was. But he cleaned it out and wiped the window cleaned. He re-did the vent stack towards the top - *didn't like how the previous person had done it* and checked for suction or draft from the vent opening. Also, the burner is sometimes a sporadic violent rotation between blue and orange/yellow.
April 2012 - Almost a year since the original water heater died.
So anyway, it started to fog ever so slightly, but it never died these past several months. However, today I noticed the window was much foggier and I'm starting to worry. Anyway, I've been searching about this "white powder" and "venting" and noticed the following forum post:
Then it dawned on me, shortly before the original water heater died...our roof along with three neighboring units was replaced. Could something they have done be the whole cause of the water heaters failing? And what can we do to get this fixed permanently. We were going to contact the plumber again, but is this powder the key to our issue and if it is...how we explain to them what this is or even how to identify it? Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you for everyone's time!
White Powder - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/...4-01162931.jpg
Fogged Window - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/...4-01162957.jpg Scorch-marks on right-side
Fogged Window - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/...4-01162953.jpg
How big is the inside of your chimney, is it lined? What size was the old water heater(BTU wise), and what BTU is the furnace. Looks like they may both vent to the same chimney. Also, whee does the combustion air come fro for them?
Hot water tanks have turned from a once every 11 year install & forget em into what the manufactures are now calling a high maintenance appliance.
My sympathies.
White powder and moisture in the HWT is a sign that either the combustion or the venting is too cool. This can be because your gas system is not equiped to handle all your appliances, the tank or venting is in an uninsulated enviornment, the venting is over sized or you have negative house air pressure pulling the products of combustion back down the vent when the main burners turn off.
Since you've had multiple tanks & plumbers not finding out what the problem is...
Get a manometer test done on the gas for the HWT for 20 minutes while the other house gas appliances are also firing. Do this test with all the doors and windows closed and the clothes dryer or exhaust fans running.
Watch for a change to the main HWT burner flame color or shape towards the end of the test.
Nobody's going to want to do a 20 Minute manometer full fire test but unless he can find an alternative problem that he's prepared to stand behind...
This will show your guy if the system is under fired or if the house has a negative air pressure issue.
You didn't state where you live in your profile but if you're in a cooler climate part of the problem could be your chimney. It appears that all of your failures have been during the warmer months when your furnace would not be operating so the chimney would be cooler than it is in the winter when the furnace is running. Even though the draft of the water heater was tested that was only one time in one set of conditions. Based on everything else I certainly think your chimney should be where you start looking!
Thank you for all the replies, sorry have been busy last several days. Actually, after seeing the first reply I did record all the BTUs from the furnace, water heaters, and dryer...but then lost the paper. I'll have to record it all again.
Again, thank you for all of your responses. I feel better that might actually be able to help my room mate get this taken care of. Will check back after I check out the chimney size, lining, etc.
Furnace -> Input: 75,000 BTU
Water Header -> Input: 36,000 BTU
Dryer -> Input: 22,000B BTU
Furance/Water Heater Vents Combine:
Furnace/Water Heater Vent Basement/1st Floor:
Combined Vent coming up in wall - The wall in the back belongs to the next town home unit. Think this goes as far down as the divided between 1st/2nd floor.
Combined Vent in Attic - comes away from shared wall horizontally at an upward angle about 5 feet - then goes vertical again
Combined Vent in Attic - A bit of white crusty stuff along the vertical seam:
Probably have a draft problem. Could be too much draft, pulling the flame away from the burner too far, causing it too burn cool, and then moisture drips back into the water heater, an d steams/vaporizes, and eventually corrodes over the pilot and or burner. may need a barometeric damper installed.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
March Paranormal and Fantasy Event: A Past and a Future by Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz
Stories included in A Past and a Future are:
1. Flight of the Roc
What would you do if your master told you to collect a roc's egg? Would you be willing to climb a mountain and climb into the nest? And, what would happen if the egg you collected hatched?
2. Blurred Vengeance
Temur's father is murdered, and he must have revenge. Will his journey to honor his father's death bring him what he wants, or will it destroy him and his village?
3. Who Will Heal the Healer
Marzan teaches Niane to control the winds, but what about the winds of fate? Will Niane be able to save her mentor when the underworld comes to claim him?
4. Ashley of Ashland
Ashley, a young magician covets his brother's fiance, but what are her feelings? Is his brother fit to rule the kingdom or is he a brutal womanizer? Can Ashley's magic be enough to save him and his true love?
5. The Watcher
Zerelda lives in a world of women. Her function is to obey and not have feelings. She watches for the one who comes from afar. When he comes to impregnate her ruler, will they find a forbidden love instead?
6. Enchantress
Merlin knows his fate, but he is unable to stand against it when Viviane enchants him. Will his powers be stronger than hers, or will he find himself a victim of love?
She is from this world. He is from another. A dragon draws them together. Will she look beyond his pointed ears and see the man of her dreams? Will she fear the dragon or embrace him?
8. Heshe
Lyda runs from her abusive stepfather, hiding her sex from the world. Her rescuer has a secret of his own. Will they both find happiness or will their pursuers stop them before they find their paradise?
9. The Baby Makers
How far would you go to get a baby if you can't conceive on your own? Would you accept a clone? Would you fight for that's child's rights in a world unprepared for it?
10. 3-D Pictures
Avery's boss thought he was crazy, but was he? When he stared into the 3-D picture, he saw a land others couldn't see. When Elvina emerges from the picture to tell him of his true heritage, will he join her in the picture or accept the doctor's diagnosis?
11. Screen Saver
Clancy is used to strange people. His boss represents them. But when the bullets start flying, will the screen saver really save him?
12. Isolation
The world has died, except for small pockets of isolated communities. The rich can afford to live isolated from the poor who die daily from bad air, poisoned water, and uncontrolled diseases. But what if you are tired of the isolation? What if you wanted to find somewhere to be free? Would you take the chance?
13. Love in a Different Hue
Chiri's father is a scientist. He invents artificial life. Her husband married her for her money and access to her father. What should she do when the artificial life her father has created looks better to her than her husband?
14. Down So Low The Ground Looks Like Up
Sylvan is sensitive to others feelings. It drives her crazy, so she drinks to dull the pain. But does she also drink because she harbors a secret? Will Dev, the police officer who finds her, rescue her from her demons?
15. Rebels With a Cause
Kids will be kids even in the future where people wear a uniform colored to their profession. Juvenile offenders receive an implant so they can be tracked without being housed in a facility. Shahleena is bored with her existence. Will volunteering to help these juvenile offenders help her or help them?
16. Clockworks
John lives in Structured. His ancestors came from Upheaval. On a whim, he decides to visit, only to find the chaos of Upheaval is more than he can handle. Unfortunately, he cannot leave fast enough. What will happen to him when he finds the clocks are all set to different times?
Read an excerpt from "Ashley of Ashland"
Ashley, younger son of Brandon, Duke of Ashland, sat brooding in front of the fire. Although it was late spring, the stone castle was drafty and always cold. Deep in thought, he tried to ignore the gaiety around him, as party guests frolicked and made merry. A spark from the fire fell on his blue silk hose, and he flicked it away angrily. He sat up straighter on his chair and adjusted his dark blue brocade jacket. He noticed a small smudge spot on one of the white lace cuffs protruding from the right sleeve. He rubbed at it absently, but that only pushed the soot deeper into the fabric.
Ashley glanced back over his shoulder. A small group of musicians, gaily dressed in green and gold brocade, played a rollicking dance tune. Dancers of all ages bobbed, swayed, curtseyed and bowed to each other as their feet flashed through the intricate dance steps. Serving girls wove among the dancers, tankards of
ale and goblets of wine balanced on their huge trays. Ashley sighed and turned back to his fire; he had never managed to conquer those dance steps.
Ashley picked up a poker leaning against the stonework and shoved it into the pile of burning logs. The flames danced higher, the sparks flying like tiny fairy lights. Ashley sighed and looked back over his shoulder again. Princess Thalia danced with his brother, Gerand. Her small blond head was thrown back in laughter, her cheeks lit with a rosy glow. She was dressed in a low-cut, lime-green brocade dress, the full skirt trimmed in the finest ermine. Around her neck flashed a choker of emeralds and diamonds. Woven into her hair were strings of pearls. Gerand's tall muscular frame, topped by his head of thick, black hair, created a stark contrast to the small plump princess as he propelled her around the dance floor in an intricate maneuver. Ashley sighed again. Thalia was so lovely, if only he had been born first, she'd be pledged to him, not his older brother.
Ashley stirred the logs while muttering under his breath. A rainbow of colors flickered, and suddenly an image of Princess Thalia appeared, hovering in the huge fireplace. Several more words created Ashley's image standing alongside Thalia's. When a hand touched Ashley's shoulder lightly, it startled him. The images
flickered and disappeared.
"Impressive, Ashley of Ashland," Thalia's soft voice murmured.
Ashley spun around quickly, a blush coloring his pudgy cheeks. "Good evening, Princess. I thought I was alone." Ashley stood and bowed, his eyes never leaving Thalia's face.
"You were. I just came to see if my future brother-in-law would like to dance with me?" Thalia's cheeks dimpled slightly as she smiled, extending her hand.
Read the reviews!
"Ms. Ehrenkranz makes every word count. Dialogue comes across with an authentic voice of the times; no matter whose voice or what era of time. She portrays her scenes using colorful sensory scales, pulling me along for an entertaining and extraordinary adventurous ride.
Ms. Ehrenkranz's characters reveal unique personalities, each set apart from another, each strong in their own right.
I find a delightful story in every one I read, and highly recommend this book to anyone who loves short, thoughtful stories, ending in a way that leaves a smile on your face. The kind of smile saying, 'Yea, that was a great story.'"
--Kay Dee
For reviews of specific stories, visit Penny's website.
http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.yolasite.com. Her writing blog is located at http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.blogspot.com/
Her anthology A Past and A Future, and her YA chapbook, Dragon Sight are available at GenreMall. Love Delivery and Lady-in-Waiting are coming in 2011 from MuseItUp Publishing. Her MG novel, Ghost for Rent, published by Hardshell Word Factory, is available on Amazon and Fictionwise. Funny Dog, Boo's Bad Day, and Many Colored Coats, all picture books, and Ghost for Lunch, a sequel, are schedule for publication with 4RV.
A Past and A Future
Ghost for Rent
Dragon Sight
Love Delivery, coming August, 2011
Lady-in-Waiting, coming November, 2011
Funny Dog, coming May, 2012
Ghost for Lunch, coming September, 2013
Many Colored Coats, coming October, 2014
Boo's Bad Day, coming June, 2015
You can also visit Penny online at:
6 comments:
- Ellen said...
Wow these sound great especially The Watcher. Thanks for sharing!
- March 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Morgan Mandel said...
Great excerpt! Great descriptions. That's something I need to practice on. It's one of my writing weaknesses.
Morgan Mandel
- March 2, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Molly said...
Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing, Cheryl!
- March 2, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Kate Dolan said...
Wow! What an awesome collection. Sounds like a lot of fun (and maybe something to make you think a little, too)
- March 2, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- Penny Ehrenkranz said...
Cheryl, I posted a comment earlier, but it doesn't seem to be here. Not sure what happened. I wanted to thank you for hosting me today and the great post.
Ellen, Morgan, Molly and Kate, thank you all for stopping by and commenting. If you like the excerpt, I hope you'll take a chance and read the entire collection. I would love to hear your thoughts if you do.
- March 2, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- Tribute Books Mama said...
Great books, thanks! for sharing.
- March 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM


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Bailey, A.D., III and Stern, R. A. and Bellan, P. M. (1993) Measurement of coherent drift-wave ion-fluid velocity field when ion dynamics are stochastic. Physical Review Letters, 71 (19). pp. 3123-3126. ISSN 0031-9007. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:BAIprl93
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In order to test the validity of the fluid drift approximation when ion dynamics are stochastic, the time-dependent ion-fluid velocity field in a coherent, drift-Alfvén wave has been measured in Caltech's Encore tokamak using plasma planar laser induced fluorescence. Many measured parameters of the wave are well described by the drift approximation above a threshold for stochastic ion dynamics, including the flow pattern in the single measured component of the ion-fluid velocity field. Surprisingly, the theory fails at a fundamental level by predicting flow speeds 10 times larger than those measured (‖umax‖≊10^5 cm/s).
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" Brand: Orla Kiely / Product Type: Bottle "
These bottles are fantastic for taking on a days adventure! Useful for the gym, the park, a day trip, work or just to have handy in the car for when you have a thirst. They don't leak, hold a decent amount of liquid and come in a variety of fantastic designs. The screw cap is very sturdy and tightly screws on, meaning you can pop in your bag and not worry about a leak, something I have not found to be the case with other, similar drink containers. The bottle is also light weight which is a bonus, as when filled up with liquid, it doesn't weigh your bag down. They wash well, and I have dishwashed mine extensively with no damage to the print. The Orla Kiely design in particular is most eye catching. The stem print version comes in two colours, the olive and the pink. They come with a rubber clip which is handy to attach to a bag, a pushchair or a gym machine. I found mine in tk maxx where they had a range of them for just £3.99 which is a bargain on the RRP.
When I read about the Wottle on this very site, I wanted one. Call me shallow but I will admit that the main attraction was the Orla Kiely connection - I love her designs. The Wottle is, after all, nothing much more than a printed water bottle, but having bought one I'm really pleased I saw it here and it's been my constant handbag companion since I bought it a few months ago.
The Wottle, which I bought for £4.99 from Robert Dyas (it's £7 or more elsewhere) is a 500ml container, what you can't tell from the picture is that it is a slightly flattened bottle. It's a joint Kiely-Brita water filter project, designed to cut down waste from one use only bottles. I don't have a Brita water filter but do have access to filtered water from my fridge and have found since owning and cherishing this I have been less likely to buy water when out and about. You could of course fill it straight from the tap!
There's nothing fancy (bar the lovely typical Kiely print), about this bottle. It has a screw top, and nice wide opening for easy filling and a rubbery carry handle which can be attached two ways, either as in the picture or looped over the lid. The flattened design means it fits nicely in bags, more importantly to me it has never ever leaked (having two children I've had more than my fair share of water bottle leaks in handbag disasters), and it's pretty easy to drink from. Personally I don't really like those sport bottle tops which always remind me of a baby's bottle - nothing that fancy here.
It's good to know that the plastic is made from recycled and recyclable plastic, and this item was made in the UK - how refreshing is that?! It's made of HDPE, which is apparently a safer kind of plastic for water bottles, and is dishwasher safe.
Like I said since I bought mine I've been using it constantly. I find that there's no funny plastic taste to the water I drink from it, and that bar a few scratches on the printed design it has worn well. It's indispensable on hot Summer days when I fill it up with ice and water I find the water stays chilled for quite a long time as the plastic it is made of is quite thick. I'm not sure quite how necessary the plastic carry handle is to the overall design but bar this I'm pretty pleased with my dooyoo-inspired purchase.
Yes this is "just" a bottle, and you could undoubtedly buy a cheaper one and use it in just the same way, but this little bit of plastic is a little bit of designer plastic, and I personally love it. Sometimes it's nice to buy things that you just "want" rather than "need", and this bottle started out in this category but has proved to be a simple way of upping my water intake and reducing the amount of plastic I waste in one fell swoop. For that reason I totally recommend this wottle, silly name and simpleness notwithstanding, it's just a great little piece of design.
~*~* So what is a Wottle when its at home? *~*~
It is, according to its makers, the 'world's first designer reuseable water bottle'. Though I doubt this claim holds much water (*groan* - no pun intended!), the Wottle is a funky little solution to the plastic water bottle problem.
The Wottle is the brainchild of Brita, the water filtration experts, and Orla Kiely, the much-loved Irish-born designer and has been designed as the environmentally-conscious, water-drinking consumer's answer to having to repeatedly buy plastic mineral water bottles or refill these (not very hygienic and prone to leaking!).
~*~* Why should we care about the Wottle? *~*~
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few decades or so, you will know that awareness of environmental policy, issues and our impact on our environment has become key, particularly in the areas of recycling and the limited environmental resources we have. Globally, our consumption of plastic and plastic materials is roughly 100 million tonnes annually, with the UK using around 5 million tonnes a year alone.
Plastic itself is not naturally biodegradable - it doesn't disappear into the earth without a trace - but rather it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces through wind and water erosion and photo-degradation (being broken down by the sun). Scientists have found, in the oceans, flecks of plastic the same size as plankton - a scary thought when you consider the food chains and ecosystems that might be affected. One of the most common uses of plastics is in mineral water bottles - these, together with plastic carrier bags - are one of the main culprits in plastic pollution. Indeed, according to the UK, a terrifying four out of five plastic water bottles end up on landfill sites - not rotting away and disappearing, but remaining in the earth.
There are other water bottles and flasks on the market - the Wottle is not claiming to be the only one - but it is one example of how this problem could be tackled, through encouraging use of reusable plastic products that tackle the throw-away, 'one use' culture.
Being an advocate of the Wottle may also save you a few pennies in the long-term. The Wottle costs around £7.99 while a typical 500ml bottle of Evian (the mineral water of choice for the discerning fashionista, of course) costs around 50p. It would therefore take less than 20 uses to make your money back on the Wottle (which should, with a bit of care and attention, last you for years-worth of refills). It would also mean you've saved the use of 17 plastic water bottles in the process!
The Wottle also helps you avoid the slightly unhygienic practice of using your water bottle and refilling it (as the bottles are not designed for multiple use and, unless you're very good, there is a temptation to not give them a good wash between uses). Some plastics can, over time, leach into the water, which cannot be good for your health.
Nowadays, being environmentally savvy and actively looking for ways to save money and the environment are not only accepted but also pretty cool.
~*~* The design and use of the Wottle *~*~
The Wottle is, simply, a flask with a screw-top lid. The allegiance with Brita is a little random -don't expect some high-tech filtration system embedded into the Wottle! - it is literally a normal bottle.
The Wottle is made of thicker plastic, made of recycled HDPE plastic sourced in Suffolk, UK. The bottle is oval in shape (rather than a traditional cylindrical tube-bottle shape) which makes it quite nice to hold and also means the design on the front of the bottle is quite prominent on the face of the bottle.
The Wottle has a gorgeous distinctive Orla Kieley design on the front, in the lovely leaves and stem design, fading from dark yellow-green at the base to palest cream at the top, against the opaque colourless background of the bottle. The lid is also a bright, almost neon yellow tone to tie the whole piece together. The bottle also has a funky, rubberised strap which can be looped around the neck to create a handy carrying strap - the sparse packaging the Wottle comes in (environmentally conscious to the last!) has some suggestions of the different ways this flexible strap can be tied around the neck (or can be removed totally if you dislike it).
I think the winning feature of the Wottle is the gorgeous, bright, summery design, typical of Orla Kiely's other work. I would say the design is more feminine in nature through the curved leaf shapes, though there is no reason for a man to use the Wottle and appreciate the design too (the yellow-green colours used are definitely unisex). The Wottle would also be perfect for children to take as part of their lunchbox or for teenagers - there is something very 'cool' about the design and shape of the Wottle and would get them drinking more fluids (you don't have to use your Wottle for water of course, though hot liquids would probably not be recommended).
The Wottle weighs just under 100g when empty, so is neat and very light to carry either by hand or in your bag when going to work or elsewhere. The capacity of the Wottle is 500ml, which is comparable to the usual mineral water bottles, but may be a little to small for those people who like having the large, 1.5litre bottles with them at all times, as you will find yourself refilling the Wottle more frequently given its smaller size. However, I've not found this to be a problem and the smaller size means it is more 'handbag-friendly'.
The whole Wottle (with the exception of the plastic lid according to Amazon, although the makers Brita make no reference to this) is dishwasher safe. Alternatively, it can be added to your usual washing up and cleaned with washing up liquid and water in the usual way.
~*~* Where to buy and prices *~*~
The Wottle can be bought from a number of online sites, including Amazon and John Lewis (the latter being pioneer retailers of the product in their stores). The Wottle costs around £7.99, which is a reasonable price and actually far less than I would have expected to pay for an Orla Kiely product.
~*~* The Verdict *~*~
I love my Wottle - from a completely shallow point of view, it looks gorgeous and definitely brightens up my desk far more than a boring mineral water bottle. In addition, the strap is really handy for carrying around by one finger if I've my hands full, a great idea that can be removed if it doesn't appeal. I have found the Wottle doesn't affect the flavour of my water and has been really easy to keep clean (simply hand-washed and left to drain overnight to drip and air-dry). In addition, having such a gorgeous bottle has definitely encouraged me to drink more water, as I'm enjoying the product.
As for negatives, there aren't many at all. I would love if they released the Wottle in different coloured designs (a pink Wottle would be amazing!) and I understand that for some people it is just a silly extravagance, even at £7.99 only, when a mineral water bottle can be refilled too. The slightly elipse-oval shape of the bottle gives a wider design, which may also not appeal to those that like the long, thin style water bottles if you're limited on bag space.
If you're looking for a funky alternative to your usual mineral water bottle, with an environmental conscience, then maybe the Wottle is what you need!


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oil leak on my 2004 SRX
We changed the oil on our 04 srx 3.6 awd. I put in a new oil drain plug thinking the rubber seal
Was bad, but I am still getting drips in drive way. The car has 80,150 miles on it. Can anyone
Please advise me where to look ? The car runs excellent, the only other issue I have had the
exhaust pipes rattles a bit when the car starts.
Thank you
Jim G
- 09-15-13 03:54 AM #2orandaberg Guest
Anyway to get the truck lifted and look underneath. If you have the splash shield you will need to remove that. If your lucky its just could be a loose oil filter or pan gasket. If its the drain plug you may have over tighten the plug(forgot o-ring). I read the 3.6 uses a lot of oil? Maybe all the fill ups with oil have spilt down an accumulated on the shield and is finally dripping.
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Re: oil leak on my 2004 SRX
First I hate oil leaks that make it to the ground!
I'd think if the leak were at the drain plug it would be very noticeable.
Are you sure it's engine oil? Being an AWD the front differential could be a leak source, especially the axle seals. An inspection from the bottom, as recommended by orandaberg would be your best bet. You may get a clue by observing the leak's location on the driveway/garage floor in relationship to where it occurs HOWEVER leaks are like a roof leak. Often it runs from one location to another before it hits the ground.
BTW, item 712 in the graphic was discontinued and you probably don't have it. It's an oil level monitor sensor.
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You have the other oil level monitor, make sure you know how to use it
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- America's Health Care
- Hillary Clinton and the DNC force gender quotas on every state in the union for Philadelphia 2016 nomination
- Independent Candidate Carlson attacks Clinton's gender-quota strategy in 2016 Presidential election
- Race equity under assault in higher education
- The 2016 independent voters awakening - Free and fair elections to clean out big party Congress to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
ISSUE #5 Fixing the Budget and Ending the Recession
"Collett says we're a post-racial society,
but we still don't have just equal opportunity.
Red, white and yellow, black, tan, and white,
We've got to pull together to make it alright." Link to Steve Carlson rap video.
"Now racial equality, you know it seems right. Red, brown and yellow, black tan and white. We've got to pull together to pull our country through." Link to Steve Carlson video of this song (AOL News)
Carlson: Cut federal role and return activity to states to cut federal debt, spur economic growth
LINK: SEE entire general election debate of White Bear area Chamber of Commerce including all three Congressional candidates
"Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Pres. Abraham Lincoln
Imperative for a balanced budget: An End to Racial Disparities
First and foremost, racial disparities/discrimination in employment and their impact on the budget need to be addressed immediately, and can be. I believe that building strong families has to be the cornerstone of ending racial disparities/discrimination. Materialism cannot do this, only faith in God, that teaches us true values of family and community. Turning against these values is destroying our families and destroying America, and the Democrats are attacking and undermining these values, in our schools, in our legal system, and in our military. They are weakening the United States of America which we fought so hard, and Minnesotans sacrificed to preserve. This attack is folly, and is blowing up our deficits at the federal level. We MUST downsize, and return power to the states. Then you must get involved as voters to carry out these functions effectively in the state of Minnesota, instead of letting Nancy Pelosi and Betty McCollum and Barack Obama do it. I'm talking about the attack on marriage, the attack on the unborn through abortion, the resulting gaps in population so that we cannot support our retirement or aging issues. And now we're going to spend money for the military, not for defense, but to socially engineer with women in combat and gays and lesbians serving and leading our military openly. The next step will be breaking glass ceilings in the military and deciding which unit is the best one for women, or for gays, or different races. That resulting lack of discipline will be dangerous, and expensive. We need to restore our values, as Lincoln said. He said, "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom." By contrast, our Representative Betty McCollum sets the tone for the current Congress by dropping "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. That current Congress needs to be replaced, and we need to set our priorities straight, return powers to the states and carry out Lincoln's proposition that all men are created equal. Black, red, brown, yellow and white men must get equal, quality education in math and science, and access to jobs and capital to rebuild this nation, and our budget will be restored to prosperity. Let's do it now! Now is the time, in 2012, to make these earth-shaking changes.
Then we must let the economy work to create jobs we can fill now, to support the growth of our families. We must combat and eradicate illegal affirmative action programs through through the EEOC and replace them with genuine equal opportunity.
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Secondly, the only effective strategy for the United States, and the 4th Congressional District, to end the recession is to strive to be an engine of growth. If elected I promise not only to vote, but also work effectively across party lines and regardless of any kind of party seniority, to cut earmarks and wasteful federal spending, and push for normalizing credit, fiscal and monetary policy. But we in Minnesota, instead of sitting around waiting for the recession to end, need to fight recession and build now,
• Identifying key industries and markets we can be part of, locally or nationally, or internationally through exports or joint ventures.
• We've got to show that capitalism works by creating jobs here that we can fill now.
• To end the recession, we must get in the lead, and make Minnesota's recession end by our industry, not by monetary or fiscal policy alone.
• Congress must address employment and economic initiatives uniformly, nationally, not by making deals, however well-meaning, with special constituents back home.
Be a Recession-fighter.
Third, we can and must be recession-fighters, and Congress must work with the states and the private sector to help recession-fighters. Recession-fighters are those to respond to economic downturns by retooling and reinvesting to bring back economic growth and job creation. Entrepreneurs are recession-fighters. Congress, together with the SBA and Department of Commerce, and private business and educational institutions, must lead this forcefully and with authority.
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Tracking The Market Like A ProStuart Weiss
Rick Boettcher can rattle on like a seasoned Wall Streeter. He prefers to invest in stocks "with a market cap under $100 million" and "with a p-e multiple less than the earnings growth rate." And his performance? One that a pro would kill for: by his count, a 21% annual rate of return since 1980.
Boettcher, however, is no pro. But the 42-year-old Portland (Ore.) pharmacist treats his six-figure portfolio as a serious business--and even works four 10-hour days a week to leave more time for his investments. He keeps the portfolio at around 20 stocks--it's enough names to provide diversification but not so many that he can't keep track of what's happening with each of them. To save money, he uses a discount stockbroker.
"BY THE GUT." Boettcher lets his computer do the drudge work. With Microsoft Works, an inexpensive software program that includes a spreadsheet, a few keystrokes allow him to spot each stock purchase, its date of purchase, buying price, and commission cost. By updating the prices each day, he can compute the gain or loss on each position and the entire portfolio.
Boettcher also puts his computer to work searching for information. By dialing into Prodigy, an on-line service, he can check for items on companies he's following. But he still finds some investment ideas the low-tech way--in newsletters, newspapers, and magazines.The stocks in Boettcher's portfolio are hardly household names: Frozen Food Express Industries, up 284% over three years; Bowl America, a family-run company that owms a string of bowling centers in Virginia, up 69% over the four years (plus a 3% annual dividend); Jean Phillippe Fragrances, up 244% in about 18 months; and Lattice Semiconductor, a back-from-bankruptcy turnaround, up 340% in a little more than two years. His biggest loser was Floating Point Systems, a now-defunct manufacturer of components for supercomputers. He bought it at 14 in 1986 and finally threw in the towel at 3 in late 1987. His big weakness, Boettcher admits, is that he has never come up with a good system for deciding when to sell stocks. It's all done "by the gut."
PAYING "TUITION". Boettcher got hooked on stocks 20 years ago and, like many others, learned by trial and error. "I got my first tip on Wall Street Week," he recalls, and he is still an aficionado of the show. The stock was Boise Cascade Corp., which he bought in early 1974 and sold the same year at a 15% loss. He later fell prey to a high-pressure broker who talked him into selling uncovered or "naked" options, a highly speculative endeavor. He lost about $5,000--about three-quarters of his investment capital at the time. Says Boettcher: "I paid some tuition there."
Boettcher learned from that experience to stick with a system he understands. But he's always expanding his horizons. He owns 25,000 shares in Air Transport International Inc., a penny stock he bought for 31 that now trades at 50 . He also bought American depositary receipts in Germany's huge Dresdner Bank, which he believes will benefit from the fall of interest rates in Europe. Those stocks are educational plays as well as investments. Says Boettcher: "It's nice to read books, but unless you've got some money at risk, you really don't learn."


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Reminder: Set your clocks one hour forward today for daylight savings.
One other reminder: If you're famous and female, quit taking nude
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If your using Vista you got to run as Administror - the UAC control can cause you problems.
I have not had any probs running the bat file under XP.
Another possibility is to burn BT3 to CD - boot from it then run the makeboot.sh under BT3
Hi all,
My question is: does anyone experienced a comptalibity issue with a usb-key?
I bought myself a 4gb stick / key to put BT3 on it for booting indepently. I followed several tutorials (unrar the iso, copied to the stick, and make the bootinst.bat bootable). I'am using windows for this process. During the process of making the stick bootable, I kept recieving an pop-up error-message in Windows. The error is in the "syslinux.exe" file.
After the process is ending, it indicates that it was succesful and the keys currently is bootable. But none of my computers recognizes the boot-file at start-up. I checked the set-up, but these were okay.
So can there be a comptability problem with the usb key?
Does anybody experience the same during the making of the bootable file using the windows-proces? And how can it be solved?
Feedback is appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
If your using Vista you got to run as Administror - the UAC control can cause you problems.
I have not had any probs running the bat file under XP.
Another possibility is to burn BT3 to CD - boot from it then run the makeboot.sh under BT3
I feel a kind of silly. The tutorial is so straightforward and although I'm recieving this problem. Well I running windows XP home edition and I have administrator rights.
I'm not dare to do the same in Linux because of the difference in filestructure. If I have to use the shell, I will be sure that I make bootable the correct drive. The danger is there that I will mass up the MBR of the machine in stead of the usb key.
The problem is solved!! I tried another key. That worked although I followed the same process. I think that there is an incomptability issue here.
This thread can be closed!!!
It's working awesome the new BT3. Many thanks to the developpers!!!
Was it a U3 enabled usb drive?
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Barry, I'm not sure of the key that didn't worked, can be an U2 or an U3. I've thowed the package away. But I can tell you that the key that afterall worked, was an U2 enabled key.
Are the U3 enabled keys not working with Backtrack??
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West Virginia gets the coveted prime time spot against Duke in the second regional semifinal on Saturday night, despite Butler being a great Cinderella story, according to USA Today's Michael McCarthy. When the Blue Devils defeated Baylor yesterday evening the decision to show the Duke-West Virginia game in the prime time spot was a no-brainer.
"It's Duke," said CBS executive vice president Mike Aresco, "and they're playing a really good West Virginia team that upset Kentucky."
Saturday's appearance will be West Virginia's 25th national television appearance this year, counting ESPN2 and ESPNU. The Mountaineers have made eight appearances on CBS this season.
Saturday's Duke game will likely be the most viewed West Virginia basketball game since the UNLV game in Morgantown in 1983. If you recall, back then there were not as many options for viewers so the networks had a much greater share of the TV households.
According to last Tuesday's Indianapolis Star, the capacity for Lucas Oil Stadium for this year's Final Four will be 70,000. It is the biggest capacity ever for a basketball game in Indiana and it's the second biggest for a Final Four, behind Detroit's Ford Field last year.
Here are the five biggest crowds West Virginia has played in front of:
Da'Sean Butler will be playing his 40th career game against a nationally ranked opponent on Saturday when the Mountaineers face third-ranked Duke at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Butler has faced 11 nationally ranked teams this year.
In 39 career games against ranked teams, Da'Sean is averaging 16.3 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.
By comparison, All-Americans Jerry West and Hot Rod Hundley faced 11 nationally ranked teams during their WVU playing career; Wil Robinson played against nine ranked teams, Rod Thorn eight and Ron Williams just two.
West Virginia's Da'Sean Butler was named AP second team All-America, it was announced earlier today. The last Mountaineer player to make one of the three AP All-America teams was guard Wil Robinson, who earned third team honors in 1972. Here are West Virginia's AP All-Americans:
First Team
Mark Workman (1952)
Hot Rod Hundley (1957)
Jerry West (1959 and 1960)
Second Team
Rod Hundley (1956)
Lloyd Sharrar (1958)
Rod Thorn (1962)
Da'Sean Butler (2010)
Third Team
Jerry West (1958)
Wil Robinson (1972)
|Da'Sean Butler hoists the East Regional championship trophy over his head following last Saturday's 73-66 win over Kentucky at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
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West Virginia's 73-66 victory over second-ranked Kentucky was the school's 70th against ranked teams. Coach Bob Huggins owns 14 wins over ranked teams during his three-year coaching tenure at WVU, including seven this season.
Da'Sean Butler admitted after the Kentucky game that the first thing he thought about when John Flowers missed those two free throws with 51 seconds left was the Pitt game back on Feb. 12 when the Mountaineers blew a seven-point lead with a minute to go.
"It was just a matter of how we defend," said Butler. "In the Pitt game, when we missed those free throws, if we come down and defend we're fine and that's something that we didn't do."
West Virginia did miss some free throws down the stretch against Kentucky but was able to defend well enough to win by seven.
West Virginia snapped a two-year streak of the Big East tournament champion falling short of the Final Four in NCAA tournament play. Last year, Louisville was knocked out in regional finals by Michigan State and two years ago Pitt lost in the second round to the Spartans. Georgetown reached the Final Four in 2007 where they were eliminated by Ohio State in the national semifinals.
One common trait between West Virginia's 1959 run to the Final Four and this year's run to the national semifinals is the Mountaineers' usage of oddball defenses.
Back in 1959, it was an unorthodox zone press Coach Fred Schaus took from Neal Baisi at West Virginia Tech that helped West Virginia to 14 come-from-behind victories that year, including a 95-92 win over St. Joseph's in the second round of the NCAA tournament. In that game, Schaus put All-American Jerry West at center in the zone press and the Mountaineers erased an 18-point second-half deficit in a matter of just five minutes.
Today, Coach Bob Huggins has successfully borrowed John Beilein's 1-3-1 zone and it has been disruptive in NCAA tournament victories over Missouri, Washington and Kentucky. Against the Wildcats, Huggins stuck to the 1-3-1 more than usual, causing the Wildcats to go 4 of 32 from 3 for the game.
What makes this 1-3-1 so unique is that the point guard is actually in the back near the basket.
"J.D. Collins did it. Darris Nichols did it and so did all of the guards wherever (Beilein) was," said Mazzulla. "You have to have a quarterback leadership mentality to get the other four guys where they need to be because they can't see what is going on behind them. You have to have someone that can kind of communicate it to the rest of the team."
Mazzulla admits there are times when he wonders what he's doing putting his body on 250-pound centers. Last Saturday, Kentucky's DeMarcus Cousins gave Mazzulla a funny look when the two locked up in the paint.
"He said, 'Are you being serious now?' And I said, 'What?' He just looked at me and I said, 'Yeah I'm being serious,'" Mazzulla laughed.
Once, Cousins was so surprised to find Mazzulla guarding him that he traveled trying to make a move to the basket.
There are 11 players remaining from West Virginia's 73-67 upset victory over Duke in the 2008 NCAA tournament. Duke players that appeared in that game at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. include Kyle Singler, Lance Thomas, Brian Zoubek, Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith. West Virginia players who appeared in that game include Da'Sean Butler, Wellington Smith, John Flowers, Cam Thoroughman, Joe Mazzulla and Jonnie West.
Singler and Thomas started for Duke in that game while Butler and Smith earned starts for the Mountaineers.
According to West Virginia University Sports Information Director Bryan Messerly, his office has passed along more than 60 credential requests to the NCAA for this year's Final Four.
I made a call to Eddie Barrett, who handled publicity for West Virginia's last trip to the Final Four in 1959, and he recalled seven making the trip to Louisville: three television stations, three newspapers and play-by-play man Jack Fleming. As a matter of fact, the 1959 championship game against Cal was not televised nationally.
West Virginia University's online store, ShopWVU.com, has experienced a 535 percent increase in total sales for March compared to last year, thanks to the Mountaineers' trip to the Final Four. Folks looking to get their Mountaineer Final Four gear can do so by logging on to http://www.shopwvu.com. A percentage of each sale benefits the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.


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