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According to the Wall Street Journal, the upcoming PlayStation 4 will be able to stream older PS3 games. Last year, Sony acquired game streaming company Gakai for $380 million, and many have since speculated what Sony would do with the Gakai technology.
Since the PlayStation 4 is rumored to be built using a significantly different architecture than the PS3, backwards compatibility might be an issue. Therefore, a streaming option sounds like the perfect solution: steam PS3 games on the PS4. And in the process, Sony will no doubt make a buck or two.
The PlayStation 4 streaming service might be included in the paid PlayStation Plus subscription, although we wouldn't be surprised if Sony charges an additional premium to stream PS3 games.
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January 15, 2013
On January 18, Kirk Rohle '12 was honored with the NCAA's Award of Valor as part of the annual NCAA Honors Celebration in Dallas. The award is given to a collegiate athlete who shows courageous action and noteworthy bravery. It has only been given out 14 times in the last 38 years.
"Rohle, a running back, followed offensive lineman Rogers for years as he cleared paths and created gaps for Rohle to dart through. On Jan. 25, 2012, Rohle darted faster than ever - and this time it was Rohle who made sure Rogers knew where to go. The student residence that the pair shared caught fire in the middle of the night, and when all of the inhabitants had exited to safety, Rohle realized Rogers was still inside. Rohle stormed back into the house, and suffered severe burns trying to save his friend. Both would be able to escape." - NBC 12
The first story on Rohle and Rogers by Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter Randy Hallmann (H-SC '70) was voted overall top story and the top news story of 2012 by Times-Dispatch readers. Hallman's follow-up story: "H-SC pair moves on after fire ordeal"

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Enhancements Offered On The New E-Class Cabriolet And Coupe
The Cabriolet and the Coupe of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class was given a facelift recently, giving it features that enhance both performance and safety. The Cabriolet and the Coupe are considered one of the preferred vehicles among executives. They combine the latest technology with first-class comfort without compromising performance. The latest E-Class Cabriolet and Coupe feature LED headlamps, air intakes integrated into the new front bumpers, sports grille, LED tail lights, and chrome-look trims. The classic features of the Coupe are still present in the latest variant of the luxury vehicle. The Cabriolet features retractable side windows and the classic soft top that call to mind memories of the past models… Continue Reading »


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Town Hall on 74th Avenue OPD SWAT Raid and Mehserle's Change of Venue Motion, 10/3/09: audio
Reverend Gordon Humphreys of Olivet Church introduced this week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant. Then Minister Keith Muhammad asks, Why do we meet? Why not just wait for court proceedings? Because we have to press BART and the DA for justice. We cannot take the fight lightly because we are taking on a champion. David vs Goliath. What is justice? RIghting of historical wrongs. Courts want people to roll over and not fight, like in the case of of JR Valrey.
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Minister Keith discusses the venue change motion filed by Johannes Mehserle to move the trial out of Alameda county, and he notes that it has historical revisionism, with history of Black Panther Party (former DA Tom Orloff failed to convict Huey Newton twice) and knowing what issues the mention of Black Panthers raises. Motion says Blacks can't be fair jurors but if Blacks couldn't be fair, the U.S. would have been burned down a long time ago. The notion that Black people can't be fair jurors is an insult and a lie. Current case in Chicago of a Black man killing another Black man on video and the arrest for that was made right away. Mehserle's defense attorney Rains is trying to taint the view of the current judge. Minister Keith called for activists to gather at 11:30am Tuesday, October 6th, to speak at noon, just before Mehserle's change of venue motion is to be heard. Rain's problem is not the judge, or the jury, but his client Mehserle and what in did, instigated by other BART officers Domenici and Woffinden. New DA O'Malley should consider if Pirone needs to be charged. BART needs to fire him. Emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss reports from NOBLE and Meyers Nave. Should BART have police with part-time Board overseeing lethal force? 51% of officers wish they didn't work for BART in NOBLE poll. BART police are demoralized. Who wants them armed on trains? Rider poll wanted officers on trains but BART cops don't want to deal with people. Unarmed escorts could make people feel safer in parking lots rather than armed officers. NOBLE didn't answer question well about if BART needs police force. NOBLE didn't resolve question if BART needs SWAT team. Show up Tuesday at 11:30am at court house for family of Oscar Grant and we the people who love justice. Opposition to venue change motion to be posted at http://www.indybay.org/oscargrant tonight -- 17 pages. There's no precedent that "we" would be unfair, but there's hundreds of years of precedent of courts being unfair to us. We don't want the court house torn down or physical confrontations with police, but we've seen police taunting protesters at previous demos. Mehserle and Pirone were the violent ones. 100% of victims at BART were Black, even if BART police kept no records as per NOBLE on racial profiling or other police actions. We are looking to be serious and stand up for truth on Tuesday. Chip Johnson of the SF Chronicle wants a venue change, and why is he the voice against justice? He ought to be ashamed of himself. Chip ought to come to the Town Hall and we'll try him here for treason. Opposition motion to venue change filed by DA declares we can't know about fairness issue until seating of a jury, but Rains argues that no African Americans can be fair without even calling any. Image of justice is a woman with blindfold and scale. Female capacity for fairness, but even she has to be blindfolded. Race, religion, etc should not be a factor. Rains has been granted about every delay he's wanted. Even with 995 attempt to delay due to witness illness. Judge gave few extra days. He tells a story about Lie and Truth going skinny dipping. Lie took Truth's clothes and put them on and ran off with Lie's clothes, so naked Truth was chasing after a well-dressed Lie. Rains can't be serious that Black American has been unfair to white cops.
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Cephus Johnson says that the adversary we are up against: Goliath, Pharoah, Nebuchadnezzar. I stand on the word of God. Not afraid of change of venue. I believe we can win this. I don't want a change of venue, but justice will be served even if the trial is moved. I see justice coming. It may not come in the form I want, but it will come.
He says he had a meeting with Alameda prosecutor Stein on Thursday. Only 13% of Alameda is Black. Change of venue usually happens when 75% or greater have opinion, but only 45% of Alameda has made up their minds. Keep the faith. Blast emails to friends to attend Tuesday. And show up at Rock, Scissors, Paper on Friday, October 16th, for a special evening focused on Oscar Grant III with family speaking and a memorial video shown.
There were prayers for DA Orloff to go -- and he's gone. Chief Gee to go -- he's almost gone. NOBLE report is in.
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Minister Keith introduces Robbie by mentioning the latest OPD SWAT action on 74th Avenue in Oakland on September 25th.
Robbie, from Just Cause Oakland, standing for housing rights, speaks about pressuring banks to be accountable to residents at 74th Avenue. Just Cause got banks to give free rent for three weeks and to pay for damages by police to fix up.
One of the residents, Tanisia Margaret, says that his time, in the second raid of the apartment building (the first was in March when Lovelle Mixon and four OPD officers died), it effected more residents with kicked in doors and tear gas. People thrown out for 13 hours, treating residents like criminals. The Red Cross was called for help but they fed the cops and cops didn't allow them to come closer to apartment building to help residents. People were choking on the remains of the tear gas upon return to the building. No explanation was offered for why tear gas was in some apartments that were torn up. OPD said they were traumatized and so they were replaced with Alameda County Sheriffs on the scene but residents go not relief with no access to their food and babies' diapers. I don't hate the police, but they hate me. Corporate news people couldn't even stand the smell in the building the next day. She had to get a letter from a doctor because her newborn couldn't breathe in the apartment. There needs to be justice. No evacuation the first time with bullets flying everywhere. We didn't complain the first time because of the loss of life, but now we've got a foreclosure hanging over the building and police don't care. Nothing that's happened in the building is the fault of residents. Police say go back, it's safe. The police should pay for relocation -- they have a fund for that. Police didn't notify residents last time, and this time they had bullhorns but only made announcement just before tear gas released.
Minister Keith Muhammad notes that we need to do for self. We need our own hot line and can't wait for the Red Cross.
Tanisia says that the cops vandalized refrigerators and took a shit in toilets. Just now have police cleaned up the blood from the first incident.
Minister Keith points out that most of OPD don't live here and look like us.
Tanisia adds that after the first incident, cops showed up out front of the apartment building in the middle of the night with paddy wagons and proceeded to smash the memorial for Lovelle Mixon in front of the building.
Minister Keith reminds everyone to come for the 1pm hearing on Tuesday, dignified and honorable.


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Tech Tuesday: How Apple's Latest Software Updates Will Make Your Life Even Easier
June 3, 2014
Lots of news coming out of San Francisco yesterday as Apple revealed major software improvements and new features. While you'll have to explore the home automation and HealthKit announcements on your own, here's a quick look at a few key software features that we think might be useful to pro photographers.
Both iOS and OS X operating systems have been updated to iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite (available later this year), redesigned and include an expanded version of iCloud. In addition to seemingly simpler and more convenient user interfaces, Apple has brought mobile and desktop devices more in sync so you can send and receive iMessages, SMS messages and iPhone calls on your Mac. When your iOS device and Mac are in physical proximity, projects can be started on one device and using what Apple aptly calls "Handoff," finished on the other device.
Working with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, iCloud Drive can sync your documents and photos—and changes you've made—across devices. The new Family Sharing and Photo Library, although more consumer-oriented by name, can be used to share and collaborate with team members from your studio. The new iCloud Drive is a little like Dropbox. The first 5GB of storage is free but it only costs $0.99 a month for an additional 20GB; other storage plans are available as well.
If you shoot with your iPhone, capture and the Photos app have been updated to include options such as timelapse and more advanced editing features. And, every adjustment is updated across devices.
For OS X Yosemite, the fresh version of Notification Center will help keep you on top of your schedule. And Finder includes a drag-and-drop option to transfer images and documents to iCloud.
Spotlight has been updated across devices as well, with far-reaching capabilities that not only dig into your hard drive for files but can recommend the closest sushi place for lunch.
Interested Mac users can participate in Apple's OS X Yosemite beta program, which is open to the first million people who sign up. When I last checked, there were still spaces available and I'm really tempted to participate (using my old, secondary Macbook Pro). Be sure to back up your entire system, though; it's a Beta and we all know what that implies whenever you're testing early software.


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Bikers from across the state were in Tallahassee Monday asking lawmakers for safer roads.
ABATE Florida is supporting legislation for mandatory jail time for drivers who kill a biker in a wreck.
They also support a ban on texting while driving.
However, while Abate says the Senate is sympathetic to their legislative agenda, bills to ban texting and increase penalties for drives who kill bikers are being held up in the House.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Independence Day Fun
KSAL Staff - July 4, 2016 10:20 pm
It started with a patriotic set of songs with the Salina Municipal Band and, and it ended with a spectacular fireworks display. In between, Bill Fekas prepared 5,000 hotdogs.
From fun in the park, to food, fellowship, and fireworks, Salina let freedom ring on Monday.
For the 41st year in a row Salina celebrated an old fashioned 4th of July in the park. Oakdale Park was the place to be for an afternoon of fun and games at the Parks and Recreation Department's 40th annual Play Day in the Park.
There were old fashioned games and activities like sack races, tug of war, tic tac toe, parachute, and much more. There was also face painting for the kids.
A favorite for many was the free food. Free hot dogs, watermelon, ice cream, and soft drinks were served.
Play Day in the Park also featured continuous live entertainment on the Eric Stein Stage. The Salina Municpal Band got things started, and then everything from jugglers to dancers and twirlers entertained.
The fun moved in the evening to the East Crawford Recreation Area for the Skyfire fireworks spectacular. Salina favorites the Soul Preachers performed a free concert prior to the fireworks show.
For the sixth year in a row most fireworks were legal in Salina. Many people took advantage of cool weather both Sunday and Monday nights. Numerous fireworks could be heard, and seen lighting up the sky both nights.
Family and friends gathered on lawns and in neighborhoods throughout town enjoying fellowship, fun, and fireworks.
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Australians have a great affection for their cars. The Australian new vehicle market is truly thrilled with the launch of some mind blowing new Mitsubishi Brisbane car models that are geared with some outrageous attributes. They can easily charm the car lovers all across the globe. Mitsubishi is a renowned automotive brand that has created a buzz in the automotive market with its latest flagships. They are designed by the expert engineers of the industry who use the latest techno-gadgets and cutting edge technology to come up with something unique for the customers.
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Gigabit Ethernet switch/routers offer blazing performance in basic configurations, but enabling a feature called link aggregation causes some devices' throughput to tank, latency to leap, failover to falter and quality of service to quit.
the major finding of an evaluation of these devices conducted by Network World Global Test Alliance member Network Test. Teaming with test equipment maker Spirent Communications, we pounded high-end switch/routers from Cisco, Extreme Networks and Nortel Networks with traffic representing more than 14,000 hosts - just the kind of loads these boxes might handle at the core of corporate backbone networks.
Foundry Networks and Avaya originally agreed to participate in our test, but failed to show up in the lab. Alcatel and Enterasys refused our invitation.
All these devices adequately move packets through one Gigabit Ethernet interface at a time. Gigabit Ethernet offers a fat pipe, but even that isn't enough for some enterprise networks.
Vendors say the way to burn through these bandwidth bottlenecks is link aggregation or "trunking," a means of combining up to eight interfaces to form a single, larger virtual pipe.
It's a good idea, but our results suggest there's still work to complete. In assessing basic trunking, failover and QoS capabilities, we found that link aggregation introduced as many problems as it solved. In the worst cases, configurations that worked flawlessly with single interfaces wouldn't work at all when we tried to repeat tests using trunking.
That's not to say our results were all bad news. Cisco's Catalyst 6509 handled most link aggregation tests far better than the other boxes. Some of the 6509's results with two trunks defined were better than with one. Our results suggest Cisco's device is up to the task of delivering vast amounts of bandwidth on corporate backbones, even with advanced features such as QoS enabled. While not all the 6509's numbers were perfect, the Cisco device easily earned the Network World Class award in this round of testing.
It wasn't as pretty a picture for the Extreme and Nortel switch/routers, which were plagued by performance gremlins in many trunking tests. The line-rate throughput normally seen in Extreme's devices plunged as low as 10% of line rate in some tests.
Nortel's boxes delivered generally satisfactory results in the tests completed, but couldn't complete other tests because features such as multiple concurrent trunks and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) failover aren't supported.
First things first
We conducted four sets of tests: baselines, link aggregation, failover and QoS capabilities.
Baseline tests tell us about a device's basic packet-handling capabilities. In these baselines (see how we did it, page 58), we measured throughput, latency, jitter and packet sequencing.
The first measurement was throughput. Even when forwarding 64-byte packets - the most stressful condition - nearly all the test runs were perfect on the products tested with no packet loss when handling line-rate traffic. The exception is the Cisco 6509, which dropped about 6,000 packets at line rate (out of an offered load of nearly three billion packets). We backed off the load to 99.9% of line rate and the 6509 didn't drop any.
While we expected equally rosy results with large packets, that wasn't the case. In the 64-port configuration, Extreme's Black Diamond couldn't forward loads any higher than 94.6% without loss. Nortel's result is missing in action - we saw packet loss at line rate. Cisco's 6509 forwarded large packets at line rate without any loss.
The throughput numbers don't tell the whole story about packet loss. Cisco and Nortel brought in new 16-port Gigabit Ethernet line cards. Both vendors' cards are blocking, which means they can't forward line-rate traffic on all ports without packet loss.
In Cisco's case, the new card is nonblocking on up to 10 ports, while the threshold for Nortel's new card is eight ports. Both vendors achieved good numbers in this test by supplying enough cards so that they didn't need to use every port of every line card.
Both vendors noted that few production networks run at line rate. While this is true, there are other factors that make this argument dubious.
For example, TCP-based applications, which constitute 90% of all IP traffic, inherently try to use all available capacity for any data transfer. Thus, any time TCP connections try to concurrently move data on more than eight or 10 ports, blocking will occur. The network may still appear to be lightly loaded because most network management equipment samples utilization over some period of time.
What sampling techniques miss is that blocking will prevent a group of instantaneous bursts from using the maximum capacity of the wire. Thus, the instantaneous forwarding rates for these devices will be well below line rate.
The waiting game
Delay-related metrics, such as latency and jitter, are just as important for delay-sensitive applications such as voice over IP or videoconferencing. Latency and jitter should be low and constant to avoid choppy application performance.
Fortunately, latency was a complete nonissue in our tests. Even the highest figures - around 100 microseconds for Cisco and Nortel in the 32-port mesh tests - are an order of magnitude below the point where the delay would disrupt any application.
Extreme's Black Diamond earns bragging rights with the lowest single latency number we recorded, just 5.9 microseconds with short packets in our eight-port test. However, Nortel's Passport exhibited less variation in moving from eight to 32 to 64 ports, and it achieved the lowest average latency of 11.8 microseconds with short packets across all tests.
As expected, latency rose for long packets, but not by much. Extreme again bagged the lowest single latency measurement with 27 microseconds in an eight-port configuration. Cisco's 6509 was the most consistent across all three configurations, achieving the lowest average latency of 60.3 microseconds with long packets.
Jitter - the amount of variation in latency - also turned out to be low and consistent, for the most part. Nortel was the leader, posting jitter of 16.7 microseconds or less in all the 64-byte tests, and 101.6 microseconds or less in the tests with 1,518-byte packets.
Curiously, the Cisco and Extreme switch/routers posted higher jitter than average latency in at least one of the tests with 64-byte packets. The most prominent example is Cisco's 6509 with 32 ports, with jitter of 211 microseconds, which was more than double the average latency.
Jitter needs to climb into the millisecond range before having a noticeable impact on application performance. There is one case in which these numbers could be significant - in a large network comprising many switch/routers. Latency and jitter are cumulative.
A network of 100 switch/routers each adding 200 microseconds of delay will experience at least 20 milliseconds of delay. In that range, application performance could easily suffer.
The final event in our baseline tests checked for out-of-sequence packets. A device that reorders packets can be disruptive to connection-oriented protocols such as TCP, which rely on sequence numbers to verify delivery.
Fortunately, none of the switch/routers have a problem in this area, with only one exception, as all 14.5 billion packets forwarded in our baseline tests arrived in the same order. The exception was Extreme's Black Diamond handling 1,518-byte packets in the 32-port configuration. In that test, the Black Diamond reordered 27 of the 148 million packets it handled.
Jinxed links
Link aggregation, also known as load sharing, inverse multiplexing and trunking, lets network managers boost bandwidth on switch-to-switch connections by dedicating up to eight interfaces into one "virtual pipe." All the ports in the trunk share a single IP address, simplifying device management. Aggregated links also add redundancy.
Trunking introduces some downsides. As our test results show, aggregating multiple interfaces into a single link will degrade throughput and latency.
The vendors say their devices use complex algorithms to allocate trunking resources, but it seems these algorithms aren't as highly optimized as those that handle packets from single ports.
We saw big differences between the products in our single-trunk tests. First, no vendor achieved line-rate throughput, so trunking introduces at least some performance degradation. Second, Cisco's 6509 produced the paradoxical result of forwarding short packets at a higher rate without loss than long ones. This is counterintuitive because, everything else being equal, long packets should be much easier for the device to handle.
Link aggregation introduces two new variables to how a switch/router operates.
The switch/router is now charged with scheduling packets to get on the trunk and determining which physical interface within the trunk will carry the packets. Some algorithms take longer to make these decisions for long packets than for short ones.
That's what we saw with Cisco's 6509, which achieved throughput near line rate with short packets, but hit just 93.6% of line rate with long packets.
Extreme's Black Diamond got the short-long order right, but that was little consolation because the switch's throughput with short packets was an anemic 36% of line rate. The Black Diamond offered users a choice of three packet-handling algorithms for trunking: round robin, port-based and address-based. If you experiment with different combinations of these, you'll find the best results come when you use the round-robin algorithm for the backplane and the port-based algorithm for the trunk.
Nortel's Passport 8610 achieved respectable throughput with short and long packets, giving it the best overall showing in the single-trunk test.
It was another story altogether for the test with dual trunks.
The Passport 8610 doesn't support this capability, while Cisco and Extreme support multiple concurrent trunks. Cisco's 6509 handled two trunks better than one, with throughput numbers around 99% of line rate for short and long packets. Conversely, Extreme's Black Diamond suffered more with two trunks than with one. In the worst case, its throughput with short packets is just 10%. Even with long packets, throughput was just 62% of line rate.
Trunking also has an impact on latency (see link aggregation baseline latency graphic, page 54). Cisco's delay with short packets tripled over its 64-port baseline result, and it shot up fivefold in the dual-trunk test with long packets.
Extreme's latency for long packets over dual trunks increased even more over the baselines, by 1,200%. These numbers are below the threshold where they'd disrupt application performance, but again, latency is cumulative over multiple hops - put enough trunks between client and server, and performance could suffer.
We also examined how switch/routers handled the addition or loss of a port from an active trunk. Ideally, a change such as this should have little impact.
In practice, two of the three switch/routers showed significant differences in forwarding rates when the trunk configuration changed.
Nortel's Passport 8610 produced the most consistency in this test (see adding and removing ports from a trunk, below). However, Cisco's 6509 and Extreme's Black Diamond forwarded more packets when we added ports and fewer packets when we subtracted ports. This suggests the Cisco and Extreme devices respond faster to trunk configuration changes than the Nortel switch. Which is better, more consistency or higher peaks and lower troughs? You need to make your own trade-offs between predictability and speed.
Our failover test examined how quickly the switch/routers moved traffic onto a secondary link on the loss of a primary circuit.
The two most popular failover mechanisms are the Layer 2 spanning tree protocol and a feature of Layer 3 OSPF called equal cost multipath (ECMP).
Spanning tree is known for its glacial cutover times. Even on Gigabit Ethernet links, it can take 60 seconds or more for traffic to begin flowing over a back-up link. For these tests, we asked vendors to use OSPF ECMP instead.
We ran the failover test in two configurations: Once with a single link between chassis, and again with an eight-port trunk between boxes.
Extreme's Black Diamond posted the best and worst results here (see failover times graphic, above right). With just one Gigabit Ethernet link between the chassis, the Black Diamond cut over to the secondary link in just 0.31 seconds. But the Black Diamond struggled with the aggregated link, registering a cutover time of 2.53 seconds.
Cisco's 6509 produced nearly identical results with one link or eight between the boxes, taking only more than half a second in both cases. Nortel's single-link cutover of 0.51 seconds edged out Cisco's time, but its device doesn't yet support ECMP failover for trunks.
Class struggle
To see how well these devices prioritize traffic when congestion strikes, we set up a test involving three classes of traffic and two chassis connected over a congested link. First, we offered the three classes of traffic in one ratio (1-to-10-to-10 for the high-, medium-, and low-priority flows, respectively) and asked vendors to deliver the classes of traffic in a different ratio (2-to-12-to-7).


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I seem to recall that two of the most intelligent scientists in human history, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, were both religious.
Both thought they were attempting to figure out the mind of God.
Both thought the universe was so splendid, so spectacular that it could only have been the work of something divine.
Guess they're just "illogical".


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Apr 26, 2013
Hi guys! My band Saving Grace is currently on tour in America for a month and I thought it would be fun to share our experience and show you some cool things we have been doing.
We've been extremely fortunate to have support from some great companies and brands, so I thought first off it would be fun to go through the back line and gear we picked up when we arrived in L.A.
My main touring guitar has been a gold top B.C Rich Mockingbird. Its neck thru, 24 frets, ebony fretboard and loaded with chrome EMGpickups. The guys at BC Rich sent one to our label for me to pick up upon arrival. It looks and sounds amazing! And extremely comfortable to play. The neck profile is exactly the same as my warlock. Not too fat and really comfortable. Its a dream to play.
My 2nd guitar is a custom Moniker telecaster. Now these guys are really interesting! Their website has a guitar builder website that is really fun to use. You can customize pretty much everything you want and they have an incredible 4 week turnaround on all builds! I opted for a tele style body, with a maple fretboard and Seymour Duncan pickups (Hot Rails in the neck and SH6 in the neck) and a red stain with a black burst.
The guys have been really lovely to deal with and the order was processed extremely quickly and smoothly. They were even able to offer a custom artwork design on the pick guard. Very cool!
The Moniker is really nice to play. It looks like a Tele and plays and feels like a Les Paul. It's nicely weighted and the neck profile is nice and round. I'd say its a really nice middle ground between a LP and a Tele. It sounds huge with the high gain pickups we put in it. They were also able to install a coil split switch for me which I am really excited to experiment with when I get home and start recording. It gives me the versatility of a high gain metal guitar and a single coil tele!
Now back home I use an HD500 and an L3M powered monitor. Obviously I couldn't fit that on my carry on luggage so I had a look around at some options and went with a small, easy to travel with option.
My touring rig for this tour is a Randall RG13 preamp, a Line 6 M5 effects pedal and a Line 6 G50 wireless.
The RG13 is really cool. Its a solid state preamp which nods its head slightly to the earlier RG100 heads, but with some more modern twists. It also has a lot of cool functionality; it has a 1w power amp for a low volume output into a speaker, an effects loop and a D.I output with a 4×12 cab and mic emulation. Gives me plenty of options each night!
The M5 gives me the M series effects I'm used to on the HD500 and a global noise gate and tuner. I'm using it for a basic tube screamer boost before the preamp. Nice and compact and a smaller floor area than separate gate/tuner/screamer.
And the G50 is a G50. Completely reliable and dependable digital wireless. Since it's digital I haven't had to worry about different frequencies.
I also picked up a Nady PEM1000 in ear system while I am here. I have Ultimate Ears UE18pros and I wanted to have an IEM option if the venues could accommodate it. I've become really used to using IEMs now and I didn't want to go a whole month without them!
Fortunately our back line on this tour has been great. I can choose from a Riveria Knucklehead, a bias nodded 5150 and a basson 4×12 each night. This ensures I have plenty of tone options each night!
Our home away from home on this tour is Ford Econline 15 passenger E350 and a trailer. We are on tour with two other bands; Arc Of The Covenant and Those Who Fear. Both bands have similar vans and we have been splitting up between the two.
I've got a new found respect for ANY band who tours america fulltime. Touring is hard. Very hard. Our first drive after the LA shows was California to Kansas. 31 hours. Non stop. Oh and before we even got out of California we hit a dust storm in the californian desert and had to stop for an hour because of zero visibility. It was pretty insane. The guy in those whose fear have their home away from home sorted though. Blacked out windows, everyone has their own bench, each row has power outlets and they even have a TV and a PlayStation in the front bench! They have done everything they can to make it more comfy, which is very cool. But its gruelling, for the first week all we did was drive through the night, go straight to venues, load in, play, load out and drive through the night again. We traveled over half of america in just a handful of days.
The two highlights of my guitar nerdery I wanted to highlight with this post is three visits we were lucky to make, one to the schecter head office/custom shop, one to the fender AR office and one to BC rich HQ!
Schecter HQ
Our other guitarist is a Schecter endorsee, so we made a visit as soon as we landed in LA. Their setup is seriously very impressive. They have two huge buildings, one for the offices and one for the custom shop. They even have their own professional recording studio for any of the employees to use and their own photo studio! We got to meet the president of schecter and were given a sneak preview of their new amp range. The cabinets are all built and good to go and were were shown three current prototypes of their amp range.
The custom shop was incredible. I tried to take as many photos as possible but it was a huge honour to be where they cut, assemble and paint their customs. I got to see a sneak preview of the new Gary Holt signature models which look very very metal! It was also very cool to see the that every single guitar that passes through this warehouse (including all factory builds) receives a final inspection from a very large and skilled inspection team. To be honest it looked like a dream job haha. They play brand new guitars all day!
Jackson Guitars Arizona
Our bassist signed an endorsement deal with Jackson guitars so we went and visited their artist relations office to pick up his new JC3 concert bass. The artist relations office is situated in a building that holds AR offices for premier, PRS, Boss, Fender and many more. While we were there we passed Tony Royster Jr, who currently drums for Jay-Z!
This office was small but had some beautiful guitars and gear on the walls! We weren't there for long but I tried to get as many photos as possible.
BC Rich HQ
Last but not least my favorite visit was to BC Rich. The company that owns BC Rich also own a large number of other products, such as Kustom amps and Spector basses. Straight off the bat we got to see and touch Johnny Cash's personal PA system. It was very cool and oozing with mojo!
Being able to visit this HQ was a childhood dream come true for me! I was shown some beautiful hand made BC rich models and also was able to hold a hand made Kerry king signature that was waiting to be shipped out to him. They have their wood work done out in Hypseria California and then final assembly is done at the HQ.
We were also shown were all the Kustom amps are hand wired and assembled. It was a very cool setup!
This post is now probably very picture heavy and long so I'll leave it at that for now. I'll post more about our american culture experience and review some fast food joints with my next post haha. Hope you enjoy the photos!
(more pics in here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92030427@N04/page10/)


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post8534988062857165661..comments2017-05-14T06:17:03.688-07:00Comments on Looking For Detachment: First Snow, 2009Silver Foxhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-86843734299294945682009-10-06T13:41:04.881-07:002009-10-06T13:41:04.881-07:00I feel very lucky - so far!I feel very lucky - so far!ReBecca Fosterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-31942090667589010262009-10-06T12:15:51.453-07:002009-10-06T12:15:51.453-07:00It's another cool day - cold overnight - the s...It's another cool day - cold overnight - the snow has melted up to the 9000+ foot elevation on mountains, except some north-facing slopes. Nice and sunny!

ReBecca, amazing the snow passed you by entirely.

Gaelyn, garden is down! (Except for inner leaves of the kale and the chocolate mint, which will survive any temps - I think.)Silver Foxhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-9096340682238632202009-10-05T21:55:09.928-07:002009-10-05T21:55:09.928-07:00We have lucked out and not had any snow yet!! Than...We have lucked out and not had any snow yet!! Thank goodness! But it is getting colder. I hope it will hold off a few more months here.ReBecca Fosterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-59986019651809157122009-10-05T21:37:20.266-07:002009-10-05T21:37:20.266-07:00So much for the garden huh. It's beautiful to ...So much for the garden huh. It's beautiful to look at, from someplace warm.Gaelynhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-39314315224382481422009-10-05T15:45:39.505-07:002009-10-05T15:45:39.505-07:00Lockwood, I got my Bend news from a former Oregoni...Lockwood, I got my Bend news from a former Oregonian native now in Alaska: 7 inches! Thanks for the link.Silver Foxhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-77004266760732080452009-10-05T15:44:30.063-07:002009-10-05T15:44:30.063-07:00Howard, ours is mostly gone at our elevation (6450...Howard, ours is mostly gone at our elevation (6450 feet) - but not gone above 8000 feet and on north-facing slopes. I love winter!Silver Foxhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-36166209916991424572009-10-05T15:42:30.630-07:002009-10-05T15:42:30.630-07:00Story from The Bend Bulletin. Apparently an all-t...Story from The Bend Bulletin. Apparently an all-time October record.Lockwoodhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-774789808333415212009-10-05T15:37:08.170-07:002009-10-05T15:37:08.170-07:00Looks like you don't gain much advantage by be...Looks like you don't gain much advantage by being a few hundred miles south of my digs. Your first snow coincided exactly with our first snow! Looks like we got a bit less than you did (it's all gone now), though there was a pretty good dump in the mountains, about an hour west of here. Stay warm!

--Howard (Calgary, AB, Canada)email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-38976264263398999352009-10-05T15:32:13.931-07:002009-10-05T15:32:13.931-07:00Lost Geologist, ha! This morning it was 21F here, ...Lost Geologist, ha! This morning it was 21F here, and it was 20-24C where you are. That's a huge difference!Silver Foxhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-75563413679847021232009-10-05T15:30:56.895-07:002009-10-05T15:30:56.895-07:00Lockwood, I hear that Bend - of all places - got a...Lockwood, I hear that Bend - of all places - got a ton of snow, but I didn't write down how much.Silver Foxhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-6902191302216517982009-10-05T13:51:20.565-07:002009-10-05T13:51:20.565-07:00BBbrrr....cold! Here in France on fieldwork the fo...BBbrrr....cold! Here in France on fieldwork the forecast for tomorrow predicts 20 to 24C!Lost Geologisthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693614218792476252.post-28453737581234706532009-10-05T12:40:25.327-07:002009-10-05T12:40:25.327-07:00My two nephews (who live near Toronto, Ontario) so...My two nephews (who live near Toronto, Ontario) somehow discovered this morning that seven inches of snow fell at Mt. Bachelor yesterday; both wrote e-mails to express how jealous they were. Now I have to write back that I'm near sea level, and Mt. Bachelor is at 6000 feet, on the other side of the Cascades. We had some very light mist yesterday, but I'm sure it amounted to only 0.01-0.02 inches.

Very nice and sunny today; I imagine it'll make it over the mountains to Nevada soon. I'm not sure what I'd think about getting first snow in early October... not much, I'm afraid. But the pictures are very nice. I'm happy to enjoy it from a distance.Lockwoodhttp://email@example.com


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Locally sourced body products
A crop of handmade products and beauty lines take a good-for-you/good-for-the-planet approach to beauty, each tied to its own corner of the West:
- Captain Blankenship Rusalka Bath Salts (pictured). Made in S.F. from Pacific sea salt. $20; captainblankenship.com
- Earth Tu Face Face Wash. With California and Oregon organic jojoba, olive oil, and lavender. $48; earthtuface.com
- Juniper Ridge Trail Crew Soap. Fragrances extracted from wild botanicals, using presses and stills in Oakland. $35; juniperridge.com
- Osmia Organics Facial Serum. Made in Carbondale, CO, with chamomile oil from the Northwest. $50; osmiaorganics.com
- House of Matriarch Blackbird Perfume. From aromatics like Northwest conifers and Puget Sound seaweed. $120; matriarch.biz
- Molly Mutt Dog Shampoo. Made in California from local rosemary oil and Idaho peppermint oil. $15; mollymutt.com
- Lotus Wei. This Phoenix-based line is the brainchild of organic alchemist Katie Hess, who infuses flower essences from local blooms for her skin tone–boosting elixirs. lotuswei.com
- Gunilla Skin Alchemy. At her cult San Francisco spa, Gunilla Eisenberg blends essential oils and herbs, mostly from Northern California, for her Gunilla Skin Alchemy line. gunillaskinbutik.com
- Isun Skincare. Bunnie Gulick, founder of Isun Skincare, brings a touch of the mountains to her organic line, with wild herbs foraged near her lab in Colorado's San Juan Range. Although packaged in glass and sustainably sourced, these aren't the hippie tonics sold on card tables at your local farmers' market—they're used in some of the best spas in the West.
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A lot of my clients prefer to not share their homes on the site… which I totally understand. So when I paired up with one of my best friends (& fellow blogger) to complete a room in her new home for the One Room Challenge I was so excited to be able to share the process with you all. It is so fulfilling to be able to create a space for someone & know that they absolutely love every inch of it. That is what has happened in this space.
Obviously, Cassie is a stylish gal. And she has never met a pattern or color that she didn't love or fear to mix. So when we started designing her space I wanted to bring all of this into one room. The catch , or Challenge, on this design was that we were working with numerous generous sponsors & began most of our selections from each of the companies. But I have to say, that looking back I think we would choose the exact same pieces regardless of the products provided.
I strove hard to create a space that didn't necessarily feel new. Which is difficult with 13'x10′ of brand new built ins! By incorporating her existing sofa, coffee table, secretary & accessories we were able to layer a space that feels as if it has been collected & pulled together over the years vs the past six weeks.
Cassie has been the perfect eDesign client as well. Often times potential clients are confused by the entire eDesign process, but when it comes to installing the space, it simply becomes plug & play. Literally, this was the rendering we ended up with as the space inspiration six weeks ago… (with the new art added in)
Identical!! And even better…So bravo Cassie (contractors & the family!) on a picture perfect installation.
I literally jumped up & down when she agreed to go with this gorgeously saturated purple rug… because purple was not one of the colors initially discussed when we spoke at length about the direction of the space. But as soon as I saw it, I knew it belonged in her home. We also originally looked at a gray or charcoal for the custom builtins, but we finally ended on Farrow & Balls Hague Blue in Full Gloss. That gloss people. It deserves a moment all on it's own.
We also wavered on having the sofa in a nook within the shelves, but ended up loving the versatility of a standard built in. Now if she ever wants to switch up the sofa, or rearrange the space she isn't locked into a specific dimension or hole to have to fill.
Cassie was beyond lucky to find the genius behind this custom artwork. Dara Burriss brilliantly brought the colors of this space to life in her unique & absolutely stunning artwork. The vivid hues compliment the space once we saw how it fit into the space, the only place to put it was front & center. She is one to follow! No wonder Neiman Marcus just picked her up!
When choosing the accent colors, I went straight to the rug. For someone else's space, a simple white drapery would have been lovely. But knowing Cassie I suggested we amp up the color a bit & go full on yellow with the drapery. And I am so glad we did! They are a great contrast to the navy built ins & brighten the space up. Ironically, I have commented on her Secretary & the painting above it before they even moved to this house. So when we were deciding what was going to live where, I selfishly knew what I wanted to see. What makes it even sweeter is the fact that her grandmother painted the little lady… I love how art & furniture can instantly tell a story.
Area Rug // Drapery // Chandelier // Buffalo Check Pillow // Leopard Pillow // Arm Chairs // Paint // Art (custom)
Photography: Mary Summers
For more pictures & details for Cassie's new space, head over to her site today. Trust me, I am only showing a taste of the space!!
xo – Kristin
If I had unlimited funds, this is exactly how I would style my living room/sitting room! It's so unique, truly stunning and amazing. This is my favorite color combination of all time! I'm always dying to know what someone would call this style specifically. It's modern but traditional, vintage but contemporary, worldly but classic and almost preppy, expensive and bold but so whimsical…if that makes sense! lol Walking by or sitting in this room would just make me feel so happy every day and that's what great design is about!


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I think my seventh grade history teacher must have been Jewish. On the first day of class, she had written on the chalk-board (large enough to take up most of it) the following:
"Those who do not learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it in the future"
At the time, it seemed slightly contrite, but over the years I have truly come to appreciate the truth behind this statement. It is often quoted in many different forms with many different attributions, but the point is always the same. If we do not truly learn from that which has happened in our history, it is sure to occur again.
Judaism has a large focus on remembering. I posted around Yom Ha'Shoa, asking what it means to remember and it got me thinking more over the past month about this topic. Having had many conversations with individuals with varying personal and religious experiences, I wanted to revisit the topic with more reflection and more moments of "remembering" behind us.
Shortly after Yom Ha'Shoa, we celebrate Yom Ha'Zikaron (Israel's Day of Remembrance), which unlike Memorial Day and Veterans Day in the Unites States, is actually observed across the country. They sounds the sirens and observe a moment of silence. Still, I have to ask – is that enough?
Talia has been sharing insights here on the Counting of the Omer, which we do to remember the Biblical commandment to do so, and also in anticipation of the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in Jerusalim, when once again we will be observing the Biblical command of counting the Omer. We take on many of the customs of mourning in this time as well for the same reasons. What do we really remember by engaging in this nightly counting though?
Soon we will celebrate Shavuot, the holiday where we remember receiving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. There is a tradition to stay up all night learning so that you are awake at dawn to read that excerpt from the Torah and show your excitement to receive the commandments. The most common tradition however, is to eat dairy products for Shavuot. This is said to remind us that the Torah provides the ultimate in comfort, nurturing, and love like mother's milk. Also, the Hebrew word for milk (Chalav) has the numeric value of 40, which is how many days Moses stayed on Mount Sinai. So some people say we eat dairy to remember Moses's long stay before bringing the Torah to the community. How many people do you think are really thinking about any of these as they nosh on cheesecake or pry their eyes open to stay awake all night?
We engage in moments of remembering regularly, however, we rarely take the time to look at the reasoning behind it or the situations which led to the need to remember. If we are not able to truly remember that which has happened in the past – even as we actively engage in it – how can we ever hope to change the future? We need to place more emphasis on learning the history. Not only on what happened in the moment, but what lead up to it. If we do not know what was occurring in Germany as Hitler rose to power, we can never hope to understand the climate which allowed such an atrocity to happen. If we do not look at the similarities between the Shoah, Rwanda, and Darfur, we will never learn what can be done to help prevent genocide – since we have learned by now that once it gets started, it is too late to change the momentum of the killing.
I encourage all of you to take a moment to think about your own life – where you came from, what has shaped your family, and what you know now. Does your life take on a different meaning with more ancestral knowledge? Just imagine that impact on a global scale… It is impossible to ignore the need to know more about our history, so that we can ensure it is not repeated.


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The Centennial Ball: May 1, 2010
A Centennial Ball committee planned all the details, including the communications, for this milestone event during the College's Centennial year (2009-2010). A teaser poster and email, a webpage, an on-campus invitation, follow-up informational posters and coasters for Lottie Nelson Dining Hall all were designed to provide information about and to generate excitement for the student event.
The committee also planned the layout and design of the room where the ball was held as well as the menu for the event. On the evening of the ball, the room was magically transformed into separate venues representing four different eras - 1920s, 1950s, 1980s and present. The menu and decor were symbolic of each era.
Grandparents Day: September 22, 2011
This annual event has quickly become a highlight of the fall semester. Each fall, students and employees warmly welcome more than 400 grandparents to Messiah College. Grandparents of Messiah College students have the opportunity to enjoy a variety of activities - attend chapel, have photos taken with their grandchild, tour the residence halls, visit classrooms and tour the beautiful campus.
Messiah College Christmas 2011: December 3, 2011
Brubaker Auditorium goes through an amazing two-day transition from a gymnasium to an elegantly festive room as Messiah prepares to host its annual Messiah College Christmas celebration. This community holiday celebration is hosted by President Kim Phipps and her husband Kelly. Over 400 invited guests enjoy an evening highlighted by the artistic and musical talents of Messiah College students and faculty and a delicious four-course meal prepared by our award-winning Dining Services staff.
To Change the World - McBride: September 12, 2011
Messiah College celebrates the Common Reading Program each year by hosting a public lecture that highlights the chosen common reading text. For 2011-2012, the College invited James McBride, author of the New York Times best-seller, "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother," to campus. McBride's memoir was selected for the third time as Messiah College's required text for all first-year students.


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A Cloudy, Pretentious 'Atlas'
"Cloud Atlas"
PLAY IT NOW: Tom Hanks: Dropping An F-Bomb On Live TV Was The 'Worst Moment Of My Professional Career!'
Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant
Directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Tom Hanks Over The Years
It can be easy to get swept away by a movie that's so challenging and ambitious in its scope that you fail (at least initially) to see how pretentious it really is. But that turns out to be the case with "Cloud Atlas," the existential $102 million epic that's co-directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings - the creative visionaries behind, respectively, "Run Lola Run" and "The Matrix" (both of which came out in 1999).
Based upon David Mitchell's sprawling novel from 2004, "Cloud Atlas" tells six stories that span the course of five centuries. In 1849, an American attorney champions a defiant slave during a sea voyage among the Pacific Islands; in 1936, a famous British composer struggles to finish his defining opus; in 1973, a San Francisco journalist puts her life on the line to expose an industrial scandal; in 2012, a publisher faces unjust imprisonment after achieving his greatest success; in 2144, a genetically engineered worker in New Seoul embraces her destiny; and in the post-apocalyptic 24th Century, a goat herder harbors a crisis of conscience during his fight for survival.
These interwoven stories, told simultaneously, are tied together by the notion that the actions taken in the earlier stories will have ripple effects on the later ones. But despite some fleeting moments, the line that's supposed to connect them is far too thin to hold the 172-minute movie together, and the individual stories - adapted for the screen by Tykwer and the Wachowskis - are too muddled, uneven and, at times, derivative to be remotely engaging or profound on an emotional level. (For example, the story set in New Seoul feels more like a cross between "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix" than the love story that it supposedly is.)
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Halle Berry: From Ohio To Oscar
At least "Cloud Atlas" has better merits as an actor's showcase, with Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Grant and Hugo Weaving playing different characters in each of the six stories. But more than just playing different roles, some of them go one step further to portray characters of different races and genders (the latter of which must have appealed to Lana Wachowski, the co-director previously known as the other Wachowski brother, Larry). The makeup process required for these changes can be a mixed bag, ranging from being too noticeably obvious to so amazingly subtle that the actors go almost unrecognizable through their scenes.
Movies with a provocative scope can range being complete failures like "The Fountain" to divisively mixed like "The Tree of Life" to flat-out brilliant like "Inception." The knee-jerk reaction to qualify "Cloud Atlas" as the latter may be more understandable given its magnitude, but the challenge to tell six complex stories simultaneously pulls the film in so many different directions that it becomes a chore to follow. So while it's admirable in its ambition, it's haphazard in its execution, resulting in a clouded "Atlas" that's quite literally all over the map.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Tom Hanks' $100M Films
Verdict: SKIP IT!
-- Scott Mantz
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That is a nice gun. Always wanted one
I've had a P5 for a few years now, and just took it out to shoot. Not a bad feeling pistol. Not sure if I like it more or less than my P225. I definately prefer the American mag release over the European heel release.
That is a nice gun. Always wanted one
If I ever find a P5C in good condition when I have the cash...


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BERLIN -- Hiland coach Tom Gibson says junior pitcher Kendell Borntrager is still learning how to pitch. Based on his past two performances, he's a quick learner.
Borntrager was a walk away from a five-inning perfect game in his last outing against Newcomerstown on Saturday, and on Thursday night against Sandy Valley, he tossed a three-hit shutout at the Cardinals, striking out six and walking a pair as the Hawks ran their record to 12-0 in the Inter-Valley Conference (18-3 overall) with a five-inning 10-0 win at Lehman Field.
"He's a great pitcher who has good stuff," Gibson said, "but he still falls behind too much for our liking. He didn't start throwing breaking balls until the third inning. He threw one changeup in the second inning, and he went to the off-speed in the third and fourth innings.
"When he works ahead in the count, he's a whole different pitcher," Gibson added. "But when he falls behind, that's when he gets in trouble. He's young, but I feel he'll be something special next year. He's doing really good this year. We just want him to get ahead in the count, that's the bottom line."
Jordan Yoder and Justin Wagler provided all the offense Borntrager would need in the first inning. Yoder singled, stole second and scored on a double to left-center by Wagler, who moved up on a wild pitch and scored on an error on a ground ball by Kyle Troyer.
"He is so fast, he forces defenders to make mistakes," Gibson said of Troyer, a senior tri-captain.
The Hawks made it 3-0 in the third when Yoder tripled to straight-away center field and scored on an RBI-single by Todd Ropp.
"Jordan's been on a roll lately. He's seeing the ball so good," Gibson said. "He, along with Todd (Ropp) and Kyle, my three captains, are providing great leadership for this team. If we reach our goal and get to state this year, it will be because of them."
Yoder says a lot of his success has to do with being confident at the plate. He went 2-for-3 and scored three times.
"After each hit, I kind of gain more confidence, and confidence is the main thing," he said. "As a team, everybody is playing with more confidence than we had at the beginning of the year.
"These games right here are stepping stones," Yoder continued. "We want to dominate the IVC, but our goal is to be playing at Huntington Park at the end of the year."
Sandy Valley put together a bit of a rally the fourth inning when Borntrager walked the leadoff man and surrendered a one-out single to right. He induced a pair of infield popups to escape the jam and keep the Cardinals off the board.
The Hawks put the game out of reach with seven runs in the bottom of the fifth, a rally that started when Ropp ripped a double to right-center.
Wagler singled home Ropp, and Zach Coblentz pinch ran for the Hiland catcher. He stole second and went to third when the throw went into center field, and scored on a wild pitch.
Troyer walked, ending the day for Sandy Valley starter Nelson Mozden (4 IP, 7 R, 8 H, 2 BB, 1 K).
Borntrager greeted reliever Tyler Beers with a shot to third that was misplayed for an error, sending Troyer to third. He scored on a wild pitch as well, with Zack Mast, running for the pitcher, taking third.
"I think it's every base runner's job to push the defense and jump on their mistakes and make them pay for them," Troyer said.
Taylor Raber walked. Brandt Miller drove in Mast with sacrifice fly, but Raber was gunned down trying to move up to third.
With two outs, freshman third baseman Chris Kline re-started the rally with a single to center. He stole second and went to third on a passed ball. Zach Lowe and Yoder walked and Ropp followed with an infield single, making it 9-0 Hiland. Wagler got hit by a pitch to force home the 10th run, ending the game.
"Sometimes we start out slow, but by the end of the game, we pick up the intensity," said Ropp after his 3-for-4 effort with two RBIs. "Right now we're starting to play really good baseball, and with tournaments right around the corner, we want to be playing our best baseball at that time."
The Hawks face IVC foe Ridgewood tonight in a make-up game, and begin the tournament on Tuesday, May 13, at 5 p.m., against the Malvern-Bishop Rosecrans winner at Tuscarawas Central Catholic.
Kevin Lynch can be reached at 330-674-5676 or email@example.com.


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|Build date: Wed Feb 23 01:01:33 2011
|Group: System/GUI/GNOME
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* Fri Oct 08 2010 email@example.com - Bump version to 11.4. * Tue Sep 21 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Drop gnome-menus-branding-Hidden.directory: this is needed for the applications.menu file from desktop-data-openSUSE. But it's weird to have the file in a different package. Instead, we'll fix desktop-data-openSUSE to use a file it already ships. * Mon Sep 13 2010 email@example.com - Add gnome-menus-branding-remove-X-SuSE-ControlCenter.patch: this removes the desktop files with X-SuSE-ControlCenter-* categories from the Applications menu. They should just appear in the control center. - Rename gnome-menus-branding.changes to gnome-menus-branding.changes.in. * Sat Jan 16 2010 email@example.com - Merge openSUSE and SLED branding packaging, and generate the packages from the same sources. - Change version to 11.3. - Rename gnome-menus-branding-openSUSE-COPYING to gnome-menus-branding-COPYING, gnome-menus-branding-openSUSE-Hidden.directory to gnome-menus-branding-Hidden.directory and gnome-menus-branding-openSUSE-settings.menu to gnome-menus-brandingsettings.menu. - Make sure to provide the right version of gnome-menus-branding, based on the version of the gnome-menus package. - Remove update-desktop-files BuildRequires. * Thu Jul 30 2009 email@example.com - Update gnome-menus-branding-openSUSE-settings.menu: + make it closer to the gnomecc.menu from upstream + remove usage of old X-Ximian categories that are not in use anymore + remove some of the previously included YaST tools, they don't make sense most of the time there. * Sun Jan 25 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Remove duplicate category in settings.menu - Remove old hack to keep some preferences.menu compatibility file. It should not be needed anymore with the packages we have now. * Tue Nov 04 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Upstream has changed the way settings.menu is used for 2.24, so kill preferences.menu and just use settings.menu now. - Keep preferences.menu as a link to settings.menu, since we don't want to break anything because of this. - Conflicts with other branding providers. - Spec cleanup. * Thu Jul 31 2008 email@example.com - New SuSE package (fate#303889).
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posted by teresa on .
how do you calculte the volume of a single drop of water??
Actually you don't; however, there are some good estimates. Most good burets with ground glass ends will deliver very close to 30 drops/mL. Most good burets with normal tips will deliver very close to 20 drops/mL. Therefore, the volume would be 0.033 to 0.05 mL/drop depending upon the type of buret you have. One of the first things I always suggested my students do was to count the drops in 1 mL using the buret they expected to use for the remainder of the semester, then calculate the volume of one drop. Many counted for 2 mL or 3 mL and took the average. That turns out to be no "guess" but a quantitative measurement.