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Three times in the first four sets, David Ferrer faced the prospect of being ousted of the Australian Open by a fellow Spaniard who'd never beaten him in a dozen competitive matches.
The No. 4-seeded Ferrer survived once in the third set and twice in the fourth when No. 10 Nicolas Almagro was serving for the match, but held firm and finally advanced to his fourth semifinal in six Grand Slam events with a 4-6, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4), 6-2 win on Tuesday.
"It was (a) miracle I won this match, I think," Ferrer said. "I tried to fight every point, that's my game. I always to fight."
Almagro dominated the first two sets and was serving for the match in the third when Ferrer bounced back, breaking in the crucial 10th game and then breaking his Davis Cup teammate again.
The fourth set featured eight service breaks, and Ferrer finally took control in a tiebreaker to force a fifth set.
Almagro has played 33 consecutive majors, but never reached a semifinal. This was his first Grand Slam quarterfinal on any surface other than clay — he reached three quarterfinals at the French — and he really took the match to Ferrer, the leading Spaniard in the tournament with the absence of 11-time major winner Rafael Nadal.
Almagro hurt his upper left leg late in the fourth set and needed a medical timeout before the fifth. After holding serve in a long game to open the fifth set, he quickly wilted after the first break.
On the last point, he hit a service return back into play and had already started strolling to the net as Ferrer prepared to hit the winner.
As he left the court, he gave his compatriot a friendly pat on the back as Ferrer packed his bag on the courtside chairs, then left Rod Laver Arena.
"In the important moments, I played more consistent in my game," he said. "Of course, in the next round, the semifinals, I need to play my best tennis, better than today."
He will next play either Novak Djokovic, who is bidding for a third consecutive Australian title — unprecedented in the Open era — or No. 5 Tomas Berdych. Ferrer has played four semifinals in Grand Slams and lost them all.
Li Na had an easier time as the first woman moving to the semifinals.
The sixth-seeded Li advanced to her third Australian Open semifinals in four years with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Agnieszka Radwanska, which ended the Polish player's 13-match winning streak.
"She's a tough player. I was feeling today against a wall," said Li, who lost the 2011 Australian Open final to Kim Clijsters only months before her Grand Slam breakthrough at the French Open.
"She can hit everywhere, but without a mistake. I was feeling just very tough. You have to focus on every shot. Not every point, every shot."
Li will play the winner of Tuesday's later all-Russian quarterfinal between No. 2-ranked Maria Sharapova, who conceded only five games in her first four matches at Melbourne Park, and Ekaterina Makarova.
"At least now I'm in the semis," Li said. Sharapova, "has to play, so... Right? Now I can start now to enjoy my day. She has to fight, yeah. So that's better."
The quarterfinals on the other half of the draw will feature American teenager Sloane Stephens against Serena Williams, who is aiming for a third consecutive major title, and defending champion Victoria Azarenka against two-time major winner Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Stephens has heard a lot of advice from Serena Williams. Pointers on her groundstrokes, and even on her grunts.
It's been mostly gentle encouragement, occasionally spiced with headline-making comments from Williams, who has predicted the 19-year-old American will one day top the women's rankings.
As Stephens learned earlier this month, though, it's one thing to play with Williams, another to play against the 15-time Grand Slam champion.
With a comeback 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 win over Bojana Jovanovski on Monday, Stephens qualified for her first quarterfinal at a major tournament. Williams has already played at that level 34 times.
"It will be tough, obviously. It's quarters of a Grand Slam," Stephens said. "There won't be that, like, first time, 'Oh, my God, I'm playing Serena.' That's kind of out of the window now. So that's good."
Williams and defending champion Victoria Azarenka advanced Monday, losing just four games between them against Russian rivals. Williams beat No. 14 Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-0, and Azarenka defeated Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-1.
On the men's side, No. 2 Roger Federer and U.S. Open champion Andy Murray stayed on course for a semifinal in their half of the draw.
Federer won 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2 over big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic, advancing to the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam for the 35th consecutive time, while Murray took advantage of Gilles Simon's fatigue for a 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 victory.
Federer will face 2008 Australian finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat friend and fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Murray, who ended a 76-year drought for British men in Grand Slam tournaments with a win at the U.S. Open, will next play unseeded Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.


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(my emphasis)I want to point out that still to this day, the police has not given us one single hint on what content on the site has been containing child porn - and the things we have filtered out has been proven not to be child porn either.
Considering the comments you made today and on the prvious story, the idea of you writing a "balanced third party article" is ludicrous.
And since you've used Google to find these torrents, why don't you extend your campaign to them? By plugging the terms into Google, I can immediately find hundreds of sites with the same links. Is every indexing site, web or torrent, supposed to send new links to you for approval before they make
Since the article you linked to is in Swedish, how would I know? And you wonder why a summary, by Mr Anonymous, or a random blog in a foreign language wasn't published?
Not quite. I said "the idea of you writing a 'balanced third party article' is ludicrous". it still is, I'm afraid.
Anyway, there's no point in us feuding. You obviously have a deep hatred for anything that smacks of kiddie porn. I understand the feeling, but it's exactly this feeling which is being exploited by parties who want to attack TPB. I see no good at all being done for the subjects of these mysterious photos (mysteriou
kopimi - Y-day 23:40
when searching for child porn the moderators found a lot of spam, false torrent descriptions and other stuff. it's therefor they got deleted.
the admins _suspended_ some torrents that where questionable but they are back if they where correctly described or such.
users are deleted all the time when they spam or put up spyware/virus and so on.
So, they searched for child porn, didn't find
I admire your courageous efforts to go out on a limb and commit yourself to such a controversial stance.
According to some comments in the blog, their admins checked a lot of torrrents some had claimed to be CP. They didn't find any of that, but did find other crap, like viruses, falsely labelled files, duplicates, etc and so they did remove those.
I have to say if one did want to trade CP, you would be competely insane to do it via a publc torrent indexing site. As far as I can see, the worst anyone has found is child models -- young kids wearing clothes, posing in a way some might find provocative, but no more so than in a JC Penney catalog. Sure, some are using it for sexaul gratification, but you could say the same about zucchinis and no one tries to ban them.
By referring to a file that was supposedly removed the Swedish police can say that they did their job correctly and remove the black mark they put next to The Pirate Bay's name without having to backtrack or publicly apologise in any way.
That's probably right, but perhaps there is a bit more to it. Perhaps it is in the interests of law enforcement agencies for there to be sites like The Pirate Bay in order to track, profile and investigate potential offenders. A bit like a 'raise the flag and shoot whoever salutes' trick. It wasn't, after all, their job to stop software piracy, copyright infringement or anything else other than child porn.
I would imagine it's actually rather difficult to infiltrate a group of individuals which does not me
So whomever it was that decided to put TPB on that list, has in fact _increased_ the distribution of child porn.
Perhaps that was the point?
If you claim that they're being delisted because of child pornography, and then the masses decides to revolt against that by uploading gigabytes of child porn, you just validated your original (false at the onset) assertion. Now they CAN take TPB down, because they are, in fact, a party to distributing child pornography.
But as TPB removes it, they'll have to then
File sharing was criminalized as soon as Newsweek published the first article describing what it was to the computer illiterate. I reasoned along the same lines as you're reasoning when they shut down Napster (oh, boy, now the file-sharers are going to create an underground, untraceable network), but it never materialized. If it didn't happen then, it's not going to happen now (not that I'm a big
To make things perfectly clear - we don't host any content. And I have never seen child porn on the bay. Our moderators work on all the reports we receive from the public and they contact ECPAT or other organisations if they found suspicious stuff. The police has never contacted us in any aspect regarding child porn!
To make things perfectly clear - we don't host any content. And I have never seen child porn on the bay.
"We have a police[policy] to not remove torrents. We have however reported the ten or so suspected child porn torrents to the police..."
The 2 are not mutually exclusive. One states he has not seen any child porn, the other states that they have forwarded 10 or so suspected child porn torrents to the police. If they haven't received any confirmations on those 10, then there's no confirmed child porn o
Okaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy. So the guy from the 'pirate party' is now trying to defend a website full of copyrighted material because "to attack our freedom to share copies of spiderman 3, is to encourage paedophiles".
You completely missed what he did say in your efforts to rush forward with what you wanted him to say.
What he said is that forcing file sharing to go underground is going to accelerate the development of tools that make said file sharing harder to trace. If child porn is the government's larger concern as they claim it is, then they should recognize that those same tools will be used by those priority targets which will make catching them tougher. It is true, but not a good argument.
As far as your
I don't respect people who take other peoples hard work, distribute it, and make advertising revenue from doing so.
Technically, TPB doesn't distribute, It provides a forum for others to distribute. The people distributing aren't making money from advertising. They are paying for their own bandwidth, so you could even argue that they are losing money. The advertising on the Pirate Bay's site is so they can afford to run the site, servers aren't free you know.
Plus, have you thought through their argument?
Yes, let me break it down for you.
In the beginning, there was Napster. Napster and other "p2p" sites weren't really peer-to-peer. they were "facilitated peer-to-p
People were predicting over here [slashdot.org] this would be the excuse they'd use to take TPB down. Nice to see your government's scumbaggery is so predictable.
In a related story, reader paulraps writes "Sweden's Justice Department is backing a new proposal that would enable copyright holders to find out the identities of people illegally sharing their material on the Internet."
I find this pretty sick... Isn't the point of having law enforcement do this because they are supposed to uphold certain legal standards? Sure, they may still not always do, but besides that. What if the copyright holder happens to be someone like Hell's Angels and they legally get your ide
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Was there anything as brilliant as the company that advertised their cell phone was unbreakable, and a reporter broke the screen in 20 seconds with the CEO standing next to him. That was hilarious.
You practically saw the value of the company drop to zero, given how the CEO looked at the end of the interview.
From the article it sounds like the app is basically a wifi only VOIP app. There are LOTS of those in the app store, and there always have been. Apple has apparently even decided to allow VOIP over 3G now, and some apps that do that, in the store.
They might kill it for the interface all right. That was a stupid move, copying Apple's interface exactly.
Connectify (turns your laptop into a hotspot)
I thought it was
The only way I know of cor the so-called "vampire draw" to be "100% eliminated" is through a mechanical switch. Any circuit that detects the presence of a device on the other end must necessarily draw power from somewhere, and the device sure isn't going to provide it over USB. That's a violation of the spec. AFAIK, the USB device doesn't output any signal on the wire until interrogated by the host.
And even if you got past that somehow, you would still have some sort of trickle power available to power the power-switching circuit itself.
So basically the only way I can imagine this working is if they did something like putting a microswitch inside the USB connector, which is fine as long as you remember to unplug the cable at night, but that's hardly any different than unplugging the charger. You're just moving the problem a little farther down.
Am I missing something, or are these claims exaggerated somewhat?
So basically the only way I can imagine this working is if they did something like putting a microswitch inside the USB connector, which is fine as long as you remember to unplug the cable at night, but that's hardly any different than unplugging the charger.
Actually that's hugely different. Instead of having to take the secondary action of unplugging the charger after unplugging the phone, detaching the phone cuts the charger out completely. One action, instead of two.
If this is what they're doing, it's pr
If this is what they're doing, it's pretty smart.
And should have been made common place well over a decade ago.
Only if the phone has a built-in USB connector. For most phones, you have to unplug the phone from the cable and the cable from the brick, which is not significantly different from unplugging the phone from the cable and the brick from the wall.
I can't find a site that actually details how it works, etc. It's certainly entirely possible for a charger that is already active (power is flowing through it) to shut itself off, mechanically (a relais will do) once current draw drops below a particular level - this would make it shut itself off when the device is fully powered as well (presuming it's not using the charging power source as its main power supply while connected).
The problem is - once it -is- shut off, you can't just connect a device again
Perhaps they use a wooden or stake or silver bullets or something. Or maybe they use garlic. I know! It must be solar-powered!
They could store some power while it's charging things and use that to turn it off. Say a big capacitor - which is holding the output at +5, with the +5 shutting things down by biasing the gate of a FET or IGBT. Nothing but leakage currents (which can be too small to measure) until the charge finally leaks away and it turns on long enough to reestablish it.
Or it can charge its own internal battery when it's charging something else and shut down its draw for months at a time. (Of course this takes the "va
Seriously, Skype already offers WiFi calls for a lot less, and works well. I used it recently overseas via free hotel WiFi and it worked great. It's a lot cheaper if you don't want a Skype in number. Vonage has a plan as well but costs a lot more. Both are Wifi only, unless you have a jailbroken iPhone. The question is will Apple allow VOIP via 3G; if so I think the current crop of VOIP apps will quickly add that feature, making Line2Talk yet another me too app without the name recognition of the bigge
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More and more runners and skiers have begun to discover snowshoeing as a form of optional winter training. Conversely, manufacturers have begun to produce shoes designed for running in snow as opposed to crossing deep drifts. Snowshoe races have begun to attract runners and cross-country skiers in the northern states. Many of the better ski stores now carry snowshoes, but if you're an endurance athlete, make sure that you purchase narrow shoes suitable for moving fast. If the salesperson doesn't know what you're talking about, find another store.
Ski resorts lately have begun to provide snowshoeing tours for their guests, both skiers and those who do not ski. During a recent visit to Crested Butte in Colorado, my wife Rose and I signed up for such a tour with three of our grandchildren: Kyle, Wesley and Angela. Renting snowshoes, we rode the lift up to the top of one of the downhill runs, then followed a trail that wound through the woods back to the base. Winter Park is another Colorado resort that offers guided snowshoe tours. We snowshoed there several years earlier. After we got off the lift, we disappeared into the woods and, despite the presence of downhill trails nearby, we might have been miles from civilization. Snowshoeing provides a unique experience for guests who might otherwise skip the downhill slopes. And it's fun if you're a cross-country skier as well.
Once you get the snowshoes on your feet, you'll be surprised how easy it is to walk or run on them. The learning curve for a fit person is about 30 seconds. Just start walking or running. No expensive lessons necessary. You can wear boots, but I just wear my regular running shoes. The best kind to wear are those designed for running on trails, since they usually offer more protection, including a tight fit around the ankle so snow can't get in. You may bang your ankles until you get used to the movements. If so, use ankle pads.
Barney and Janis Klecker are two runners who run regularly on snowshoes, and at one time, Barney manufactured snowshoes. Barney once set an American record for 50 miles; Janis won the 1992 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. The trials were held midwinter in Houston, so much of her pre-race training was on snowshoes. One advantage of wearing snowshoes is that there is little impact. Barney and Janis found that they could do a hard snowshoe run and come back the following day and run hard on the roads. In fact, after one summer stress fracture, Janis rehabbed by running on snowshoes on the golf course.
I'll don snowshoes on occasions when there is snow, but snow that is not much fun to ski on. If the snow is deep untracked, I'll use my snowshoes to beat down a track so I can return later with skis. When warm days and freezing nights turns trails to mush or makes them icy and hazardous, I'll switch to snowshoes for my aerobic fix.
But perhaps the greatest advantage of snowshoes for anybody--runner or skier--is that it allows you access into parts of the woods into which you might not otherwise be able to penetrate. At the Indiana Dunes State Park near Chesterton, Indiana, if you wander much more than 50 meters off the marked trails, you can easily become disorientated and lost. But if lost on snowshoes, you simply retrace your tracks. And there are areas, because of hills coupled with dense vegetation (trees and bushes), that may resist the efforts of even the best back-country skiers to penetrate. On a pair of snowshoes, however, you can go almost anywhere.
Plus snowshoeing is a lot of fun.
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Colonel Kurzen was a level 40 human found in The Stockpile in Kurzen's Compound in Stranglethorn Vale.
Originally a noble and talented soldier from Stormwind, he led an expedition from Stormwind to Stranglethorn Vale. Unfortunately, sometime during the expedition he fell victim to foul magic; his mind becoming possessed by Mai'Zoth, a powerful Ogre mage of local Mosh'ogg Ogre clan, seeking to use Kurzen and his men for their own deeds.
Although the majority of Kurzen's men still follow their leader, a small group of his men, troubled by this sudden change in Kurzen, rebelled and estalished their own group at the Rebel Camp. Unlike Kurzen's force, the rebels loyalties still lie with Stormwind. Lieutenant Doren, leader of the rebels wants Kurzen's head to bring an end to his madness.
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Colonel Kurzen is killed by his own forces within the Stockpile. For crimes of "weakness" he was flung from the tower at the Compound.
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- Colonel Kurzen is a reference to Apocalypse Now. Kurzen, who has gone "insane" and has an army to fight for him from a small, hidden compound, parallels Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando. The two Colonels' backstories are very similar. It is, by extension, a reference to Kurtz from Heart of Darkness, the Joseph Conrad novella upon which Apocalypse Now is based.


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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. - In the nearly eight months that have passed since the conclusion of the 2011 PG WWBA Underclass World Championship and the first day of the 2012 Perfect Game Rocky Mountain Showcase, Trevor Courtney made the decision to ramp up his schedule considerably.
Courtney, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound third baseman/first baseman and a newly minted senior-to-be at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Fla., made the trip two-thirds of the way across the country with his father, Greg, to be in attendance at the inaugural PG Rocky Mountain Showcase
As wind gusts possibly approaching 50 mph buffeted Tom McCollum Field at Cherry Creek High School Saturday afternoon, Courtney probably wished he were back home in Florida. Or maybe not.
"It's nice being out here," Courtney said, speaking as the state of Florida's only representative at the event and just before the wind really began gaining momentum. "It's like 102 (degrees) back home. It's different out here."
Which leads to the question: Why was Courtney here in the first place?
Courtney could have held off a week and requested invitations to either the 2012 Sunshine East Showcase or 2012 National Academic Showcase - he carries a 3.7 GPA - being held concurrently in Fort Myers, Fla., June 2-3. Instead, he was in the southwest Denver suburbs over the Memorial Day weekend competing with and against a group of youngsters primarily from Colorado.
"I'm going to be playing all summer and I thought it would be a good idea to come out here before I really started getting into the swing of things," Courtney said. "It was a good time for me to come out here because I just finished school, and I have some other things going on during those (Florida showcases). I plan to do more of these in the future so this first one is definitely a good way to get a start on things."
Greg Courtney was watching the batting practice workout session early Saturday afternoon, and seemed pleased to be watching his son perform at 5,200 feet instead of at sea level. In Dad's mind, this was an important next step.
"We're out here trying to be seen by people in this region and you have to travel and get out here to be seen," Greg said. "This is what parents do. Follow their kids around and try to help them live their dreams."
Trevor Courtney previously played at only one other PG event before this weekend, the aforementioned 2011 WWBA Underclass World. Look for that event list to increase nearly 10-fold in the coming months.
He is definitely not going to be lacking for exposure this summer. He has signed on to play for Marucci Elite and head coach Chad Raley, the premier organization that won both the PG WWBA World Championship and PG WWBA Underclass World Championship in 2011.
Courtney will be playing with Marucci Elite in several PG WWBA and PG BCS Finals tournaments this summer while also playing alongside many of the most highly regarded prospects in the country.
"That should be a great experience for me," Courtney said. "I've played travel ball for long time but this is my first time to play for Marucci, so I'm excited about it."
While Marucci Elite was winning the Underclass World, Courtney was playing for IMG Academies at the same event in Fort Myers. Courtney could count among his teammates right-hander/shortstop Carmon Varga, and the No. 6-ranked national prospect in the class of 2014 who has committed to Florida, and 1B/3B/RHP Brett Hanewich, a top-100 prospect in the class of 2013 who has committed to Stanford.
The young men who attend IMG Academies attend classes from 7:30 a.m. until noon every day, eat a little lunch and head out to practice every day at 1:30 p.m.
"I love it. It's a baseball player's dream down there; it's ridiculous," Courtney said.
Since this was his first dance at a showcase, it's safe to assume Courtney came into the event with more questions than expectations. And that's to be expected.
"I didn't know what to expect, really, but it's really been a great experience so far," Courtney said shortly after completing his BP session. "There is a lot of exposure here (and) it seems like there's always scouts at every event; I've looked on the internet and I've seen that there are scouts at every one. And the website (www.perfectgame.org) really puts your name out there and lets coaches see your name."
Courtney has not committed to a college yet. He's hoping five months of wearing a Marucci Elite uniform will start stirring the pot a little bit.
"I'm going to try to really bear down this summer and find somewhere that I'm interested in and somewhere that's interested in me," he said. "I want to find somewhere that's a good fit for me and try to make that decision."
As for the father, he's just enjoying the ride. Even when that ride takes them more than halfway across the country to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains.
"It's a lot of fun for everybody," Greg said. "It's fun for him to meet different people and see different parts of the United States, traveling here and there. He's going to be busy this summer and we're looking forward to it. It's going to be a lot of games, but that's what he loves - playing baseball."


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JON STEWART of "The Daily Show" poked fun at Marin's touchy-feely, peace and love reputation one night this week, making Marin a laugh line in a bit on gun control in the wake of the Newtown school shootings.
"Finally everyone from the NRA to the Marin County Kumbaya Patrol is ready to talk about gun violence, although, to be fair, the Kumbaya Patrol has been ready for quite some time now," he cracked on Tuesday night's show.
The next day, Iron Springs Brewery in Fairfax saw Marin's national exposure as a chance to have some fun with its customers, posting on its Facebook page an offer of complimentary fries to "anyone from the Marin County Kumbaya Patrol from noon to 4 today."
Of course the brewery didn't have to worry about a run on fries because there really wasn't a Marin County Kumbaya Patrol. But there would be soon enough.
After one of his friends was refused free fries, Adam Ladwig, a 32-year-old San Rafael accountant, created a Marin County Kumbaya Patrol Facebook group page that became an instant hit.
"I thought it would be funny," he said. "The next thing I knew there were like 300 people in the group."
That went so well that he created a public Marin Kumbaya Patrol Facebook page, posting on the header: "If you live in Marin County, or just wish you did, this is the place to share the love. Don't be afraid to laugh at yourself while you're at it."
He topped the page off with the widely seen photo of a bunch of West Marin women spelling "No War" with their naked bodies. That page quickly had more than 100 friends posting comments like this one from JD Gimzek: "Fantastic! When is the Hot Tubs with a View tour?"
It's become so popular that Ladwig added four other administrators to help him monitor it and keep it going.
"I created it as kind of a farce, but it seems to have touched some sort of nerve," he said. "I don't know where all these people are coming from."
A Marin transplant, Ladwig admits to experiencing some culture shock after moving here from Chicago three years ago. It took him awhile to get used to what he calls "the very emotive California way of being."
"People have no problem expressing their love for each other and things like that," he said. "You just don't hear stuff like that where I'm from."
But he's adjusted nicely. As he did the interview for this story on his cellphone, he was walking from his office to Whole Foods, carrying a reusable grocery bag.
He's also become an activist with the Marin County Bicycle Coalition, is on the board of the newly formed Marin Trail Stewards and has done free tax work for the Canal Alliance.
"I really do think this is a great community," he said. "If there was a real Kumbaya Patrol I might be in it. The biggest problem with Marin is that there are so many people doing good here that it gets a little competitive and people start getting overly self-righteous about their own causes. So it's kind of cool to have some fun with that. But even with its little pratfalls, Marin's a great place to be."
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maunaloa wrote:Did anyone pre-order an ASUS Padfone? I'll be in Beautiful Bitan early in May and plan to make the pilgramage to Guanghua to buy one. The Qualcom Snapdragon S4 is only dual core, but it outperforms the Nvidia Tegra quadcore! (Anandtech.com) I love the Russian doll phone within a tablet that docks to keyboard... each with a shared battery. A new class of machine, beyond Apple, but no plans to release it Stateside.
The Padfone is a 4.3-inch smartphone featuring Qualcomm Inc.'s dual-core 1.5 GHz processor and a powerful 8-megapixel camera. It can be combined with a 10.1-inch tablet and a keyboard dock to provide the integrated functions of a phone, a pad and a notebook. The bundled phone and tablet station is being sold in Taiwan at NT$25,901 (US$888), while the standalone 4.3-inch smartphone will carry a price tag of NT$17,990, according to the company. "It sees the convergence of the three key products (notebook, smartphone and tablet) in the industry, and has strong products to compete in all three areas," said Kirk Yang, an analyst at Barclays Capital in Hong Kong, in a note released Tuesday. Despite Asustek's optimism, it may be difficult for the Taiwanese PC vendor to compete against handset giants like Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., because the smartphone market seems to be moving toward a two-horse race
Noodles77 wrote:Apologies for the aside, but how much is the transformer Prime in Taiwan. I'm moving to Taipei in July and don't know whether I'm better off buying it here or waiting to get it in Taiwan if there's a significant price difference. Thanks
ceevee369 wrote:I'd LOVE to buy / test the Padfone as it is very innovative and specs look good (on paper)
Not sure If I will be as happy as using my iPad3 with my iPhone 4S running as hotspot point.
Was never happy on Android despite having bought / tested around 7-10 devices in the last 3 years.
Looking forward to hear first takes on the Padphone
PapaAzucar wrote:Noodles77 wrote:Apologies for the aside, but how much is the transformer Prime in Taiwan. I'm moving to Taipei in July and don't know whether I'm better off buying it here or waiting to get it in Taiwan if there's a significant price difference. Thanks
If I were you, I would get the good electronics in the US like the iPad or Transformer. BTW, Asus already has Transformer TF300 coming out, which is the version after the Prime (TF201). The Prime (TF201) had a hardware problem with the GPS, and Asus offered an external dongle as the solution. A bit inconvenient, but still usable. The TF300 is also cheaper.
http://arun-review.blogspot.com/2012/04 ... s-eee.html
Icon wrote:That is the thing. I see everyone and their mother -heck, the car park guy was happily watching a movie in his iPad last night- using Apple stuff. I think it is still horribly expensive, but the Android stuff is not that far behind price wise. The problem I see is having everything under one system: if you buy iPad then you need to have iPhone then you need a Mac. I already have a nice Asus laptop, if I can get an Android device, I can share stuff among them seamlessly -I think. If I mix stuff, I fear that, for instance, the magazine subscription that is for Android stuff will not read in iPad or something.
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51s' Nanita slugs three home runs08/19/2012 3:06 AM ET
By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com
In his 10 years in professional baseball, Ricardo Nanita has done quite a bit. Three different organizations. Two All-Star games. A stint in Mexico. Four two-homer games.
Until Saturday night, he'd never recorded a three-homer game.
Nanita slugged a two-run blast and a pair of solo shots, adding a double and driving in four runs to power Triple-A Las Vegas to a 10-4 triumph over Sacramento.
The Blue Jays farmhand has six homers in his last six games, an unprecedented power surge for a player who had a .428 slugging percentage in 3,884 Minor League plate appearances.
"I've been playing more this month, I get to play every day, and I've been working in the cage [with my coaches]. They want me to drive the ball, so you just try to get better as a player," he said. "For a lot of people, it's different; some hit singles, others hit extra bases. I'm just trying to be productive."
Nanita attributed one of the most productive stretches of his career to getting more playing time. Between a rash of injuries in Toronto and the trades the Blue Jays completed before the July 31 deadline, an everyday role opened up for the 31-year-old outfielder.
Before this month, the most at-bats he had in a 30-day stretch was 72. A little over midway through August, he's already up to 64. And Nanita's taking full advantage, hitting .359 with eight homers, 19 RBIs, a .377 on-base percentage and .781 slugging percentage in 16 games this month.
Overall, he's batting .318 with 11 homers and 51 RBIs.
"It's been a tough year. We had many players that were playing ahead of me, and I was patient," the native of the Dominican Republic said. "I got my time to play when they made a lot of trades, called some people up, and I started playing every day, taking advantage of it.
"It's not always easy. But you try to have a good attitude, be patient, and it's paying off now. That's just part of the game. The only thing you can control is giving your 100 percent every time out."
The 11 homers match the career high Nanita set last season, which he split between Las Vegas and Double-A New Hampshire. He became the second member of the 51s to record a three-homer game this year, joining Moises Sierra, who did it on June 1 at Tucson.
Producing while playing regularly, Nanita is making a case to earn his first cup of coffee in the big leagues after a decade in the Minors. He said it'd be a dream come true, but that he planned to let things work themselves out.
"I've never played in the big leagues before, I don't know if I'm going to have that or not," he said. "I just play it one day at a time and if it comes to me, amen. I can't control anything.
"That is my dream. I've been playing for 10 years. I just try to keep pushing, keep on going. Never quit. So I hope one day I can see my dream come true."
On Saturday, Jonathan Diaz also homered for the 51s, while Tuffy Gosewich went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs.


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WASHINGTON — US consumers peering over the ''fiscal cliff'' don't like what they see. The Conference Board said Thursday that its consumer confidence index fell for the second straight month, to 65.1, down from 71.5 in November.
The survey showed consumers' outlook for the next six months deteriorated to its lowest since 2011 — a signal to Lynn Franco, the board's director of economic indicators, that consumers are worried about tax hikes and spending cuts that take effect Jan. 1 if the White House and Congress can't reach a budget deal.
The December drop in confidence ''is obvious confirmation that a sudden and serious deterioration in hopes for the future took place in December — presumably reflecting concern about imminent 'fiscal cliff' tax increases,'' said Pierre Ellis, an economist with Decision Economics.
The decline comes as the economy shows signs of improvement elsewhere. A recovery in housing market is looking more sustainable. On Thursday, the government said new-home sales increased in November at the fastest seasonally adjusted annual pace in 2½ years. And the job market has made slow but steady gains in recent months.
But the political wrangling threatens the economy's slow, steady progress. President Obama and House leaders returned to Washington Thursday to resume talks with just days to go before the deadline.
A short fall over the cliff won't push the economy into recession. But most economists expect some tax increases to take effect next year. That could slow economic growth.
While consumers are more worried about where the economy is headed, they were upbeat about current conditions, according to the latest survey. Their assessment of current economic conditions rose this month to the highest level since August 2008.
A key reason for that is gas prices hit a 2012 low of $3.21 a gallon last week.
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Jim James and The Roots to Join Forces in Brooklyn This Summer
Jim James will join The Roots for a special one-night only event at Prospect Park in Brooklyn as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn! series. The concert— which is billed as "State of the Union: An Evening of Collaborative Performances"—will take place on June 19 at the Bandshell stage.
Pre-sale for My Morning Jacket's "Roll Call" fan club will begin at 10am tomorrow, April 17. Fans must register with Roll Call no later than 5pm EST today in order to receive an email with the pre-dale password. Each code will allow the purchases of up to four tickets, and can only be used once.
As previously reported, Jim James performed with The Roots of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (where they are the house band) back in February. James will kick off his solo tour tonight in Louisville, KY. You can check our recent readers interview with James here.


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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Advancing Landscape Genetics
Principal Investigator(s):
Spatial patterns of genetic variation reflect the way in which organisms move through the landscape, providing a means for understanding population connectivity. Landscape genetics is a nascent field that seeks to describe how landscape features such as mountains, streams and roads influence spatial-temporal processes of population genetics, and the ultimate distribution of genetic variation. Whereas traditional ways of estimating population connectivity lack consideration of landscape features; landscape genetics provides the distinct benefit of facilitating tests of the influence of specific landscape variables on dispersal. As a result, landscape genetics holds great promise for ecological research and the development of conservation programs focused on landscape features that facilitate connectivity among populations.
Recent advances in high-throughput collection of genetic data combined with increased availability of GIS-based landscape data have outpaced advances in statistical methods. In response to this need, this Working Group will bring together a diverse group of landscape ecologists, spatial analysts, and population geneticists to:
- Examine the applicability of historic and currently used spatial tools for estimating genetic structure with modern molecular data
- Examine the statistical rigor of each combination of statistic and data to test hypotheses about underlying spatial-temporal processes
- Adapt existing and invent new methods for analyzing modern genomic data in a spatial context
- Develop forums for communicating with a broad spectrum of scientists


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Tuna fish burgers seasoned with onion, garlic, pickles and dill then piled high on buns with bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo. A surprisingly delicious twist on the BLT and the tuna fish sandwich. Worlds collide.
In high school one of my best friends and I would wait all day to eat because, no surprise here, we hated most, if no all of the cafeteria food. We would come home to my house famished and make tuna fish sandwiches and steaming hot sugary cups of tea. After a long, hard, hungry day of school, it tasted like the best thing on earth. Total comfort food.
One would think cooking canned tuna would make it super fishy smelling and tasting but I didn't find that to be the truth. Use a good solid white tuna for these and you shouldn't have that problem.
I love the flavors of dill pickle and dill spice with tuna, they seem to bring out its best. Along with the salty bacon, the crunch of the cool lettuce and the bite of the tomato these are like a flavor party in your mouth.
They make a great option for a meatless burger. I know, I know. Bacon is meat. It's halfway meatless and that has to count for something, right?
Tuna fish burgers seasoned with onion, garlic, pickles and dill then piled high on buns with bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo.
- In a large mixing bowl with a fork combine tuna, bread crumbs, egg, onion, pickles, garlic, mayonnaise, mustard, dill, parsley and black pepper. Refrigerate mixture 20 - 30 minutes.
- Generously grease a large cast iron or non-stick skillet and set over medium heat. Form the tuna mixture into 4 equal size patties. Turn heat down to medium-low and cook 5 - 7 minutes on each side.
- Serve on toasted buns with bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise.
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Hurricane Gustav wasn't as disastrous as feared, but it still did plenty of damage -- and, just a week later, it's hello Hanna, Ike and Josephine.
In times like these, there's likely to be a secondary storm of activity on your phone and in your e-mail inbox -- from con artists asking for money for fake police and fire funds. We all feel grateful when police officers and firefighters put their lives on the line to help us. That's exactly why con artists pose as police officers and firefighters, and ask for money.
Recently I got some insider tips from a guy who had just quit working at one of these dishonest boiler rooms. He told me all the scammers use fake names when they call people on the phone. He said he and his colleagues regularly ignored laws that make it illegal to pose as a police officer or firefighter. He said the head of his operation routinely paid off the receptionist at the local fire department so she would lie and say the group was for real. And he explained that whenever he got a donation by claiming to be collecting money for the police, he would then give the number to a co-worker who would call back and try to get another donation by posing as a firefighter.
Just to make matters more confusing, real police and fire organizations typically use paid professional fundraisers to raise money for them. Even though these professionals are representing the real deal, it can still be a raw deal for you. Whenever there's a middleman that means there's less money for the actual cause. Here's another problem: Sometimes legitimate public safety organizations collect money without guaranteeing that the funds will be used locally. Don't assume that your donation will help the firefighters down the street unless you ask.
Know the Signs
Keep in mind that groups that have nothing to do with police or firefighters can put those words in their names to gain your sympathy. Plus, the fakers can use names very similar to those of real organizations to confuse you.
Scam artists posing as police or firefighters may tell you that you'll receive special treatment if you donate. For example, they may say posting the group's decal in the window of your car will help ward off tickets. Utterly unscrupulous -- and untrue.
If you donate once, you will be bombarded with calls and letters asking you to donate again. The same group may claim it's been a year since you last gave. Or a different group may come calling claiming you've donated in the past. That's because con artists sell their sucker lists to each other.
Do Your Homework
Always ask fundraisers to identify themselves and ask whether they are paid solicitors. Some states require solicitors to provide this information right away.
Ask what percentage of your donation will go to professional solicitors versus what percent will go to the cause.
Find out whether your money will be used locally. If it's important to you, get that guarantee in writing.
Ask the caller for a number you can call back after you've thought about it. Again, shady groups won't want to provide this.
Better yet, ask for the name of the group and look the number up yourself.
Ask solicitors to provide detailed written information explaining how your money will be used. If the group is illegitimate, you'll never receive it and you'll have saved some money.
Keep in mind, just because a group is tax exempt (like a fraternal organization) that doesn't mean your contribution is tax deductible. Ask if it is. If so, get the group's tax ID number and make your check out to the official name of the organization, not a go-between.
Before you give, contact your local police or fire department or the police or fire union to verify whether the solicitors who approached you really are raising money for them. Try to speak to somebody other than the initial receptionist who picks up the phone.
Where to Complain
Usually local police get all fired up about con artists using their name in vain. You can also contact your state attorney general.


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Courtesy of the New York Post, (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Clark Gaines came a long way from Lees-McRae College and Wake Forest University. His NFL career as a Jets fullback last from 1976-82, and four years later he was hired as senior regional director of the NFLPA, where he began an illustrious career that culminated in his promotion in 2008 to assistant executive director.
Gaines retired Tuesday as one of the unsung heroes of his sport, having logged a long list of accomplishments, including: He organized the first NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in 2012; founded the Native Vision program in 1996; coordinated player strikes and organized players' political forums during the 1982 and 1987 strikes; helped galvanize and educate players during the 2011 player lockout; served on the player health and safety committee from 1994–2008; and he coordinated the first field turf survey for players to express their opinions on playing surfaces.


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Charles F. Phillips Jr., the Robert G. Brown Professor of Economics Emeritus at Washington and Lee University, former mayor of Lexington, Va., and longtime summer resident of Menemsha, died Oct. 18, in Lexington. He was 77.
Mr. Phillips taught at Washington and Lee for 44 years, retiring in 2003. He specialized in industrial organization, regulated industries and corporate economics. He focused primarily on governmental regulation of public utilities and was a national expert on the issue, serving as a consultant to numerous regulated businesses and testifying as an expert witness before federal and state regulatory commissions throughout the country.
His book on the subject, The Regulation of Public Utilities: Theory and Practice, was the preferred guide to public utilities in the American economy, both as a classroom textbook and as a reference work for utility executives and regulators. It was originally published in 1984; the third edition was released in 1993.
"This is a great loss for the community as well as the University," said Washington and Lee President Kenneth P. Ruscio. "Not only was Chuck an eminent scholar and a highly regarded teacher, but he was also a tireless public servant. I always marveled at his ability to pursue his scholarly activity and his national consulting work while also serving for 17 years as the mayor of Lexington and holding several other important positions in the community."
Born on Nov. 5, 1934, in Geneva, N.Y., Mr. Phillips received his B.A. in economics from the University of New Hampshire and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.
He joined the Washington and Lee faculty in 1959, choosing to pursue the same career as his father, who had taught economics before serving for 25 years as president of Bates College in Maine. As a testament to how quickly Mr. Phillips became a widely popular faculty member, students dedicated the 1962 yearbook, the Calyx, to him and his faculty colleague, Sidney M.B. Coulling.
Discussing his decision to teach at the undergraduate level, Mr. Phillips once said he made that choice "in large part because of the challenge it offers and also in large part because of the close contact one has with students, seeing them develop over a period of three or four years."
He was named to the Brown Professorship in 1979. He served on virtually all of the University's committees and advised numerous student organizations, including the Williams Investment Society and Beta Theta Pi social fraternity.
In 1979, at the height of his consulting with public utilities, Mr. Phillips estimated that he traveled an average of 65,000 miles a year. In addition to that work, he was appointed in 1971 to a statewide commission that studied the desirability of legalizing parimutuel betting on horse racing in Virginia. A year later, President Richard Nixon appointed him to the Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling. In Virginia, he served more than 20 years on the Republican State Central Committee.
Mr. Phillips was extremely active in the Lexington, Va. community. He served on the Lexington City Council for four years before winning election as mayor in 1971. He served as mayor through 1988 and was responsible for the transformation of the community in many ways, including the revitalization of downtown and an increased emphasis on the richness of Lexington's history. He was also active in the Maury River Senior Center, United Way of Lexington-Rockbridge County, Lexington Presbyterian Church, Historic Lexington Foundation and Valley Program for Aging Services, among numerous other local organizations.
In a 1979 feature article about Mr. Phillips in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the writer suggested that he was undoubtedly the busiest man in Lexington and "must have a twin hiding somewhere to help him keep up with his schedule." Responded Mr. Phillips, "I never planned my life to be so busy; things have just evolved that way. The pace, I hope, will slow down some day. But I like what I'm doing now."
Larry Peppers, the Crawford Family Dean of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, called Mr. Phillips "the rare individual who had the ability to be prolific in all dimensions of his professional and his civic life."
Added Mr. Peppers: "Within the span of a few weeks, I witnessed Chuck testifying before Congress on antitrust policy, working with fraternity members who needed guidance, helping an assistant professor by reviewing a draft of a scholarly manuscript, and assisting a dean to better understand alumni concerns about the University. Chuck's energy and passion for his family, his colleagues and for the University was amazing to behold. We extend our deepest sympathy to Marjorie and to her children."
The recipient of several major honors and awards, Mr. Phillips was active in regional and national organizations, serving as president on three occasions of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international economics honor society. For his academic work, he received the J. Rhodes Foster Award for outstanding contributions to the public utility regulatory process. He received recognition for his community service from the Shenandoah Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, which presented him its Philanthropist Award.
Mr. Phillips is survived by his wife, Marjorie H. (Hancock) Phillips, of Lexington and formerly of Vineyard Haven; one son, Charles (Chip) Phillips, of Richmond, Va.; two daughters, Susan Weber, of Union, Me., and Anne Davey, of Vineyard Haven; one sister, Carol Taylor, of Birmingham, Ala.; and seven grandchildren.
A graveside service was held in Vineyard Haven on Saturday, Nov. 24.


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As the Title says, 2012 Photo Thread. Photo's video's whatever ya got put them up!
NorCal had nice weather the first 18 day of 2012, Super dry and Sunny, leading to the best trail conditions we've had in January in possibly over a decade!
These were taken back on 1/8/12. Salmon Falls trail and Sweetwater Trails ride.
Salmon Falls, Kevin, breaking in his new Ciclon, a very happy boy. See the lighter colored (tan) rocks over the riders shoulders (right side of pic), those are normal under water.

Sherwood on his Chucho leading out the V train, The trail is so dry it was almost dusty.

Yours Truly leading out the troops down to the normally underwater bridge that connects Salmon Falls and Sweetwater trails. That's a 6 Ventana train!
 Photo Cred to Steve
Another benefit to the dry weather and low water levels at Folsom Lake is the exposing of some pre-1954 (Dam construction) trails off the Sweetwater trail. Here Dustin, Kevin and Steve enjoy the normal underwater section of trail.

After the group ride, I went back and captured some more pics of the exposed sections, photo credit to Canon Tymer. He's a patient fellow willing to wait upto 35 seconds and take 7 shots!

Same section, different perspective.

Conditions continued to be insanely nice the following weekend, in fact Sunday's high of 67 degrees was the warmest January daytime reading in 3 decades according to the local news.
Went back to Salmon Falls, solo this time, not many pics, actually no action shots, and just one short 15 second video to chronicle the conditions. But I did have to stop and take a pic of this guy, yep, the first Rattlesnake of the year, I guess the sunshine was just too much for him to pass up. About 3.5' and plenty cranky to have to move!

Ok, I've started it, everybody else pile on!


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Occasionally, I am offered the honour and privilege of acting as a judge at citizenship ceremonies welcoming new Canadian citizens.
I remind them that Canada defines this nation's role as providing peace, order and good government, noting that many of the people came to Canada for those qualities and to get away from places that could not offer them. I talk to them about all the rights and freedoms that Canada offers – free speech, free assembly, etc. etc. But I also tell them that for Canada to continue to function as the kind of country they chose to come to, they must obey the law.
The media is full of horror stories about countries where good governance does not exist and the only ways to try to change the government come at the expense of peace and order. Syria is only one of too many examples of just how quickly and how seriously a country can fail when there is no rule of law and no peaceful way to effect democratic change.
But even as I extol the blessings of the Canadian system to our new citizens, I see more and more evidence that long-term Canadians appear to be ever more willing to throw away the advantages of a peaceful, law-abiding society and to eschew the democratic processes we have for changing our government and our laws.
The Occupy movement is a recent early step down the path to trying to effect change through other than democratic, political and legal means. It pushed the limits of free assembly and free expression. And, by most measures, it was not effective; not least because the Occupy movement and its spokespeople failed to articulate timely, definable goals by which success could be measured.
The environmental movement has, for the most part, been much more successful in defining what it is that it wants to achieve and in informing the public of why they think these goals are necessary. For the most part, within Canada, they have acted within the law and have seen our legal and regulatory structures increasingly take into account environmental factors. Someone from even 30 years ago would be amazed at how much we reduce, reuse and recycle and how much less energy we now need to run our factories and provide light and transportation.
Still, there are some who feel that the changes are not big enough or fast enough. They feel the need for going beyond and outside of the law to civil disobedience. Sierra Club Canada's president, John Bennett, says that his members would like to follow the example of the U.S. Sierra Club and lift the currently existing ban on illegal activities. A decision will be taken at an upcoming meeting. A main target of this civil disobedience would be the proposed oilsands pipeline.
Bill Darnell, Greenpeace founder and longtime environmental activist, told the National Energy Board hearings on the pipeline issues to expect disruptive protests as people band together to "protect the environment that supports us all".
I am all in favour of protecting the environment and being green. Unlike Bill Darnell, I do not own or drive a car. However, while we do need to maintain a viable environment, the environment is not the only thing that supports us. Beyond clean air and water and lots of trees and wildlife, most of us have to earn a living.
Most of the jobs in British Columbia and Western Canada that keep people clothed, housed and fed as well as the taxes that pay for all our government services are tied directly or indirectly to resource extractive industries and the sale of those resources to markets overseas.
The main targets of the foreseen civil disruptions are the proposed means to deliver these resources to markets, whether it is an oil pipeline or an expansion of port facilities in North Vancouver.
In the long run, we can diversify our economic and job base away from resource extraction. In the short run, cutting off our resource markets and industries will reduce jobs and income, cut government revenue and services and deny us the capital with which to diversify our economic base and even to protect our environment.
And ongoing illegal disruptions could, if not controlled, threaten the very peace, order and good governance for which Canada stands.
Troy Media B.C.'s Business columnist Roslyn Kunin is a consulting economist and speaker and can be reached at www.rkunin.com.


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County commissioners hear proposal on Fort Hall ordinance
BLACKFOOT — Bingham County District Attorney Scott Andrew has proposed an ordinance that would be enforceable between Bingham County and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. He presented it to the Bingham County Commissioners Monday.
Andrew's proposed ordinance incorporates Bingham County's existing policies and defers enforcement of P&Z matters, specifically land matters on the reservation, to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.
The county commissioners took Andrew's proposal under advisement. No decision has been made.
Andrew said the need for this proposal was brought to his attention at the June 26 hearing of the Bingham County Planning and Zoning (P&Z) commissioners. At this hearing, Mark EchoHawk, attorney for the Tribes, pointed out there was no mention of the tribe in the proposed final ordinance of the P&Z draft.
"There are special jurisdictional issues on the reservation," Andrew said.
These include limits on the county's jurisdiction regarding land that is part of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Reservation land in Bingham County is zoned agricultural except with the permission of the Fort Hall Land Use Commission.
This would not be a resolution or memorandum of agreement but an ordinance, Andrew said.
"My concern is that a resolution or memorandum of agreement is not legally enforceable and would be inappropriate," he said. "In my opinion, an ordinance would be legally enforceable."


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It's like a Chevelle. It's got the same suspension, same dash, same powerplants, sort of the same look, but it's got a bed. What are we talking about? The El Camino of course. Chevrolet's answer to the Ranchero, these vehicles did a great job of blending the performance of a car with the utility of a light-duty truck. The problem with that is El Caminos got used and abused beyond the normal wear and tear seen by the Chevelles. So regrettably, if this is your project of choice you will have to address things the guy building a Chevelle won't--like anything dealing with the bed.
The issue with Elcos for a long time was the lack of aftermarket support. Yes, anything that crossed over and fit the Chevelle was available, while the Elco-specific stuff has trickled in slowly. Now, Original Parts Group Inc. (OPGI) has finished reproducing one of the highest-wear trim items on the Elco--the bedrail moldings. Years of sliding stuff in and out of the bed usually dings, dents, and scratches these things beyond repair for the normal everyday guy. With the OPGI kits, you can re-trim your bed and make it look factory fresh without needing to know how to use a pick hammer, metal file, or polisher.
OPGI has complete bedrail kits that include all the necessary clips and hardware for the '64-67, '68-72, and '78-87 models. They even sell each piece individually so if you just have one damaged piece, you don't have to buy a bunch of stuff you don't need. We took a trip to the OPGI R&D facility and followed along with the installation of the bedrail kits on both a '69 and an '84 Elko.


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I get the following error when trying to do an update:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ghc: /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/hslogo-16.png exists in filesystem
ghc: /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/synopsis.png exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
How can I solve that? I did not do pacman force, as this may damage my system.
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pacman -Qo /path/to/file will show you which package owns a file, please post the output for those 2 conflicting files.
Booting with apg Openrc, NOT systemd.
Automounting : not needed, i prefer pmount
Aur helpers : makepkg + my own local repo === rarely need them
error: No package owns /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/hslogo-16.png
error: No package owns /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/synopsis.png
That's odd.
Well, solution is straightforward since the conflicting files do not belong to any package :
move those files to a backup location incase you do need them later, then update .
Booting with apg Openrc, NOT systemd.
Automounting : not needed, i prefer pmount
Aur helpers : makepkg + my own local repo === rarely need them
I had the same problem.
I just removed those files and upgrade went fine.
EDIT backup would be better ofcourse, but I didn't do that because I'm pretty sure I don't need these png's
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Worked for me too. Thanks!
Also for me, but it's annoying. Does this count as a bug? It shouldn't be hard to fix. It deserves either an email to the maintainer or a bug report.
Same problem, same solution.
thanks !!!
This was pretty weird. First time I've ran into issues with pacman. I moved the two pngs and it worked fine. Interesting that multiple people are gettng same error.
me too. strange that ghc owns them now, but nothing did before, yet they still existed.
were they possible generated on the fly and not registered as belonging to ghc or what?
same problem here, same solution as well.....;-)
I had the same issue, moving it to a backup location fixed it. Anyone know what caused it?
I also removed the files, then updated. Seems to have went fine.


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We still don't know if Phil Kessel will be among the best players the Boston Bruins have to offer when the 2009-10 season opens. The restricted free agent has yet to put his name on a contract extension and recent media reports quoted his agent as saying the team and the player's camp are far apart.
So while August creeps along toward September and the start of camp, all we can say with certainty is that Kessel is one of the 10 best U.S.-born players in the NHL. Yesterday, Mike Morreale of NHL.com ranked the top 10 best players born on American soil, and Kessel ranked eighth while teammate Tim Thomas ranked No. 2.
About Thomas, Morreale wrote:
"The native of Flint, Mich., took the long path to stardom, spending years in Europe and the minors before finally making it big with the Bruins. In 2008-09, he became only the second Boston goalie in more than 65 years to win the Vezina Trophy while setting high with 36 wins. He finished the regular season as the NHL leader in goals-against average (2.10) and save percentage (.933), and had a 1.85 GAA and .935 save percentage in 11 playoff games."
And on Kessel, Morreale wrote:
"In his third NHL season, Kessel established career highs in goals (36), assists (24) and points (60) in 70 games — becoming the Bruins' first 30-goal scorer since 2005-06. He also had the longest point-scoring streak in the NHL last season, at 18 consecutive games, from Nov. 13 through Dec. 21 (14 goals, 28 points). Kessel also had 6 goals and 11 points in 11 playoff games."
New Jersey winger Zach Parise was picked as the No. 1 U.S.-born player and I cannot argue with that.


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It wasn't as dramatic as Willis Reed's surprising return in Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals, but the unexpected season debut of Kevin Love was what the Minnesota Timberwolves needed.
And the Timberwolves needed it badly.
Love is a rising star in the NBA and respected around the league. His dedication in keeping his body ready for a grueling schedule is beyond reproach and it didn't come as a shock when he broke the third and fourth metacarpal in his right hand doing knuckle push-ups in mid-October, an exercise that has since been banned by head coach Rick Adelman.
The Timberwolves' franchise player and recent gold medal recipient at the London Olympics, Love was a surprise activation in Wednesday's 101-94 loss to the Denver Nuggets in the finale of a three-game homestand (0-3). The attendance of almost 17,000 people received a nice treat before Thanksgiving and watched the centerpiece of the organization put up 34 points and 14 rebounds.
Love played with inspiration in the early going, posting 16 points in the first quarter. It was another day at the office for Love, whose nine-game absence led to a 5-4 record for the Wolves. He wasn't supposed to return for another few weeks and didn't have much time to practice with his teammates.
"I didn't want to make a big deal about it," Love said. "I told my teammates, and they didn't really believe me. Once they saw a jersey in my locker, they believed it was true."
Love didn't miss a beat and played 34:51. The 6-foot-10 sharpshooter drained 12-of-25 shots and struggled a bit from 3-point range, burying only two of his nine attempts. Playing with his shooting hand wrapped, the double-double machine said he would be back as soon as he was cleared by the team's medical staff and was disappointed his team couldn't pull off a win. Love wasn't surprised about his early return and stayed in shape as much as he could.
Running, cutting and weight training for his lower body shouldn't have been a problem while dealing with a hand injury.
Minnesota has lost three in a row and four of five games, and is fortunate to have Love back with a four-game western road trip against the Trail Blazers, Warriors, Kings and Clippers on the horizon. The Timberwolves have split their first four road games of the season and those odds should improve.
Love was asked if the team will be much better with him back and the pending return of point guard Ricky Rubio.
"The biggest thing will be just me getting back into game shape and, you know, knowing that when we have a drought, to play through me," Love said. "I just haven't been there and I think, the hand, it's only been five weeks. When it gets to eight weeks, then hopefully I'll be back to, you know, the real Kevin Love."
If 34 points and 14 rebounds fail to define who the real Kevin Love is, then the rest of the league, especially the Northwest Division, has to be concerned. Love, who did show signs of rust and said his hand was sore after putting up 25 shots, is glad the Timberwolves will get a few more cracks at the division-rival Nuggets because he feels Minnesota was the better team in the recent loss.
"Just being out there, we know we can beat them, and they're a team that we need to beat," Love said. "So we're happy to have a chance to play them a few more times, and I think that more often than not we're going to get those guys."
Denver erased a 17-point deficit to spoil Love's return. Center Nikola Pekovic and guard JJ Barea were back on the floor with Love, and now only the anticipated season debut of Rubio is next. Rubio, of course, tore a knee ligament last season and his loss put a damper on the rest of the campaign, as the Timberwolves missed the playoffs for an eighth straight year.
Love has some new teammates to get adjusted to in forward Andrei Kirilenko, guard Brandon Roy, who unfortunately is dealing with another knee ailment, and little-used forward Josh Howard. Now that Love has returned, minutes for Derrick Williams, Dante Cunningham and Lou Amundson could dwindle.
"We definitely rely on him," Kirilenko said of Love. "He's our leader, but we can't stop playing the game, you know, we have to move more. We have to, you know, get opportunities more, help each other more."
The Wolves have a roster that's good enough to grab the sixth, seventh or even eighth seed in the West barring injury. Love is back, Rubio is on the mend and both Pekovic and Kirilenko have carried the scoring load. The Wolves need to be at full strength to compete with Western heavyweights Memphis, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and both Los Angeles teams to name a few.
It will interesting to see how the Timberwolves jell when all the pieces are in place around Love.


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== General Description ==
== General Description ==
Latest revision as of 14:52, 5 December 2013
Not to be confused with the Broadcom Bigsur.
General Description
PMC-Sierra Big Sur board has the Rm7000 processor with the Xilinx System Controller. The board supports 256MB of memory and is currently supported in Linux 2.4 (RAMDISK) only. This board has been specifically introduced for the printer market. It has a 10/100 Fast Ethernet, one serial port, USB, IDE (PIO) and PCI (32-bit) interface.
Board Issues
The board has couple of issues to begin with:
1. An early version did not support Cached mode. Only Uncached. This has now been fixed
2. The Xilinx Fast Ethernet interface does not support DMA, Interrupts and Rx side length parameter (no way to determine the length of the received packet). As a result, the plan was to finally upgrade the FPGA. For now, the Linux BSP supports IDE and PCI. It requires RAMDISK support.


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DAMN!!! That is a nice ass. And the hot pink undies just make it even hotter!!
I just LOVE how some of the guys wear the goofiest underwear ever. I honestly think they do it on purpose just for the weigh-ins because I doubt these guys wear underwear like this in their regular lives.
Ashley, very, very Hot!
Naked Pic Armir Kahnß
Mat very Hot! Hot Cock!
Hot man, his name is hugo hernan Garay
Nick ist very, very, Hot!
Naked Pics / Video?
It is very surprising boxers all have big dicks and huge testicles. Usually you can also see the beautiful acorn!
Whose ass is it on the right in the plaid underwear? WOWZA!
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.'' - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who's the guy with the blue undies and blue mohawk??
(Blue is my favorite color btw)
great pics Jack keep them coming


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Index in Alexandre Dumas' Novel the Man in the Iron Mask: A Semiotic Analysis
Novel as a literary work can be analyzed by using semiotic analysis. This article aims to analyze the meaning of index found in characterizations in the novel the Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas. This article involved the descriptive qualitative method. The results revealed that there are many causal relations between the index and the characterization of the characters found in that novel. It contained 24 characterizations from eight major and five minor characters that had been representative of this article. From this article, it is obtained more information about the identified characterizations found in the novel and its index analysis that showed its causalities relation between the sign and the object (index and characterization) in a more comprehensive meaning. Since semiotics is the study of signs and novel is a literary work, it is recommended to English literature lecturers and students to enrich knowledge of analyzing literary works through semiotic analysis.
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Local businesses and fishermen involved in the BP claims settlement have until Nov. 1 to decide whether they'll take a settlement payment or pursue legal action against the oil giant.
Local businesses and fishermen involved in the BP claims settlement have until Nov. 1 to decide whether they'll take a settlement payment or pursue legal action against the oil giant.
That's not an ideal timeline, as thousands of would-be claimants have no idea how much they'll be offered as part of the settlement.
BP has committed to paying for the financial hit shrimpers and others suffered in the wake of the 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the months-long spill that followed.
That life-altering blast killed 11 workers and spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, fouling waters and beaches and plunging the tourism, seafood and oilfield industries of this state and others into uncertainty.
A federal drilling ban idled local industry. Fishermen traded their trawls for boom, motoring their boats through water stained with crude and dispersants. Processors watched the national markets and demand for their seafood evaporate as images of oiled beaches, pelicans and sea life hit the nation's airwaves and newspapers.
Some are still struggling to recover from the temporary disruption.
Yet, more than two years after the tragedy, BP still hasn't offered up settlement specifics. It has, however, given those affected a do-or-die deadline that's just three weeks away.
Fishermen and others say it's not fair that they are being forced to make such an important decision without adequate information.
They have a valid point.
Unfortunately, they don't have much choice.
The time has come to decide which path to take.
Those who think they are entitled to claim money can take action now and hope that the offer will be fair. There's a hearing set for Nov. 8 intended to determine just that.
Or they can roll the dice and hire a lawyer.
After two years and several lackluster harvest seasons, most "will be forced" to take the first option, according to Clint Guidry, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association and chairman of Go Fish, an organization that's filed objections to the settlement.
Whether his prediction becomes reality or not remains to be seen.
But one thing is abundantly clear: Decision time is here.
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MACHESNEY PARK (WIFR) -- One near head on collision left three people injured.
Around 12:40 p.m. near Rock Cut State Park, police say one car was headed east on 173 when the driver swerved into another car headed westbound.
The driver at fault told police he was having steering problems just before the accident.
That driver suffered minor leg injuries and refused medical attention while one of their two passengers was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
A female driver in the other vehicle was airlifted to the hospital with a laceration to the head. Her condition is unknown at this time.
ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Around the same time this afternoon, there was another accident at Elm Street and Wyman Street in downtown Rockford.
Police say two cars collided and one crashed into a pole.
That driver is in serious condition and the cause of the crash is still under investigation.


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State Board of Education delay of grant awards causes frustration
By Theresa Harrington
There is no new information today from Sacramento about whether the U.S. Department of Education supports the state's method for prioritizing which districts should be awarded School Improvement Grants.
"The department is still in conversations with the U.S. Department of Education and there's been no word as to what their decision is or rescheduling of a date for the state board to take action," department spokeswoman Maria Lopez told me late this afternoon. "The point of the grant is to get the money to the schools, so it's very important that they act quickly."
The state Board of Education decided to postpone awarding about $311 million in grants Monday, after some trustees and district representatives said the selection process was unfair.
Districts that sought money for all of their lowest-achieving schools were given priority over those that only applied for some of their campuses, according to the state Department of Education recommendation. This means some districts with highly rated applications could be aced out of funding by others with applications that scored lower, but include all low-performing schools.
Here's a breakdown of the recommendations for East Bay schools:
Priority One
San Lorenzo: Score: 96.00.
Requested: $1.6 million. Recommended: $1.6 million
School: Hillside Elem.
Hayward: Score 88.41.
Requested $25 million. Recommended: $10.3 million
Schools: Burbank Elem., Longwood Elem., Tennyson High (funded)
Harder Elem. (not funded)
Priority 2
Mt. Diablo: Score: 97.50
Requested $15.4 million. Recommended: $0
Schools: Bel Air Elem., Shore Acres Elem., Glenbrook Middle School, Rio Vista Elementary
(Schools not included: Meadow Homes Elem. and Oak Grove Middle)
West Contra Costa: Score: 95.50
Requested: $6 million. Recommended: $0
School: Lincoln Elem.
(Schools not included: De Anza High and Helms Middle School)
Oakland: Score: 92.78
Requested: $9.5 million. Recommended: $0
Schools: Elmhurst Community Prep., United for Success Academy and Explore Middle (closing)
(Schools not included: Alliance and ROOTS academies)
As you can see, Mt. Diablo's application scored higher than San Lorenzo's and the West Contra Costa and Oakland district applications were rated more highly than Hayward's. Some trustees and district representatives argued districts shouldn't be penalized for failing to include all their low-performing schools in their applications and should be prioritized by scores alone.
Even though they knew they wouldn't get top priority, they argued, they weren't under the impression the suggestion to include all schools was a mandate that would end up excluding them from receiving awards. Some trustees and members of the public suggested reducing the awards so they could be spread to more districts.
A few trustees seemed especially concerned that the Los Angeles and Oakland districts were not recommended for any funding. Los Angeles representatives argued that if they had included all of their lowest-performing schools, there would be very little money left over for anyone else.
Instead, they said, they chose schools that would benefit the most from reform and submitted applications that were well thought-out.
Confusion over how the grants should be distributed is causing frustration among districts recommended for funding, as well as those that aren't.
Dennis Byas, Superintendent of the San Lorenzo district, wrote in an e-mail today that it appears small districts are undervalued by some.
"I'm not exactly sure when the needs of a school in a smaller school district became less significant than that of a larger school district," he wrote. "Speaking on behalf of many smaller districts; we do not have a problem with the weighing of funds; however we do have serious concerns when the entire process is thrown out because a larger district didn't apply, misapplied or simply doesn't like the results."
He said his community worked extremely hard on its grant application and is still hoping to receive funding before school starts.
"I would suggest that the State Board of Education call for Special Board meeting ASAP and resolve this issue quickly so children don't lose out because of politics," he wrote.
Lopez said the board will likely call a special meeting when the state Department of Education decides whether to amend its recommendations.
Mt. Diablo trustee Gary Eberhart told me today that it makes no sense to require districts to include all of their lowest-performing schools in their applications, if they don't believe it's in their best interests.
"In my opinion, it should be based on the merits of the programs that they're in applying to fund," he said. "So, it would make sense to me that grant dollars be provided to programs that have an action plan that is the highest rated, so that dollars are being spent on programs that are going to be successful."
Eberhart said this is just another example of the state's failure to adequately fund schools.
"It shouldn't be a lottery as to whether a school district is provided dollars," he said. "Our kids need those dollars and to put us at the back of the line is an abomination."
The complete list of recommendations is at http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr10/agenda201008.asp under item 4 in attachment 8.
Do you agree with the state's recommendations?
Posted on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
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STERLING – Mardell Bart, 76, of Sterling, formerly of Dixon, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at her home after a sudden illness. She had worked for the physical therapy department at Lee County Nursing Home in Dixon for more than 40 years before retiring.
She was born March 12, 1936, in Teutopolis, the daughter of Ralph and Cecelia (Ordner) Overbeck. She married Richard "Dick" Bart on April 28, 1956, in Teutopolis. He preceded her in death on May 2, 2007. Mardell was a member of St. Anne Catholic Church in Dixon.
Survivors include two sons, William (Susan) Bart Sr. of Morrison and Daniel (Nancy) Bart of Sunbury, Ohio; two daughters, Cindy (Alan) Duffy of Marengo, Ohio, and Deb (George) Stevenson of Avon Lake, Ohio; 15 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; two sisters, Sister Nadine Overbeck, OSF, of Joliet, and Mary Maksl of Eagan, Minn.; and one brother, Gerald Overbeck of Sterling.
She also was preceded in death by two grandsons; four brothers, Ralph Overbeck Jr., Thomas Overbeck, James Overbeck, and John Overbeck; and one sister, Sister Daniel Marie Rita Overbeck.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m., with a Scripture service at 7:30 p.m., Friday at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon. Prayer service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. at St. Anne Catholic Church, with the Rev. Michael Morrissey officiating. Cremation rites will follow. Burial of cremains will be at a later date at Oakwood Cemetery in Dixon.
Memorials have been established to Dixon Healthcare Center and the American Cancer Society.
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User talk:Jaban
Regarding New Testament epistles
Where there is more than one book in a series (e.g. 1 and 2 and 3 John), I think it wold be beneficial to write about all three in one article ("The Epistles of John"), especially when it comes to debates about authorship.
But as it is now, most of the multi-book articles are barely more than stubs, so to create another stub-sized article to talk about authorship alone seems pointless.
Does anyone have a problem with me simply merging those into single articles?
(1 & 2 Corintians would become "Epistles to the Corinthians", 1 & 2 & 3 John would become "Epistles of John", and so on.)
I only see it as a problem for the fella who wrote the chapter-by-chapter summary of the three Epistles of John. But, if you ask me, that's far too much info anyway. A summary should be a couple of paragraphs per book, with any important points separated into a "Highlights" section. And THAT would work fine merged. --Jaban 01:34, 9 July 2010 (CDT)
Thanks for your feedback.
If I should happen to come up with something worth spreading, by all means I'd be very happy to have it spread! :-)
I was just allowing [my vanity?] to hope that I might be recognised as the originator of the idea. It might come in handy one day. (I know, I know. As likely as a 747 out of a scrapyard...)
It looks as if you have an interesting story to tell, I'll try to read it later today. --BronzeDome 02:50, 10 March 2011 (CST)


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Former North Pole Police Officer Charged With Felonies Related to Witness Tampering and Interference with Official Proceedings
SOA v. William Walter Perry, 3AN-S06-4149 CR
April 25, 2006
Former North Pole Police Officer William Walter Perry** was arrested yesterday, charged with interference with official proceedings, attempted extortion, first degree tampering with a witness and compounding.
The charges arise from an investigation by Alaska State Troopers alleging that, between March and April 2006, Perry attempted to influence a former North Pole police officer from participating as a witness in a DWI trial. At all relevant times during the investigation Officer Perry held a valid certificate from the police standards council.
Perry is scheduled to be arraigned at Anchorage Jail Court today, April 25, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. The penalty for interference with official proceedings carries a maximum jail penalty of ten years. The tampering and attempted extortion charges are also felonies that carry a maximum prison sentence of five years a piece. Compounding is a misdemeanor with a maximum jail time of up to one year.
** The charges in this case are merely an accusation. Defendant William Walter Perry is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
Media Disclaimer: Please be advised that this advisory was distributed as a courtesy for representatives of the media. The Anchorage District Attorney's office will not always be able to provide advanced notice of proceedings of media and/or public interest. Questions should be directed to the contacts provided above or to Mark Morones at (907) 269-6393. For planning purposes, the superior and district court daily calendars are posted online by the end of business of the preceding day. Changes to the trial court calendar are provided on the "Add On" calendar at 10:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. for that calendar day. The superior and district court calendars are located at: http://www.state.ak.us/courts/trialcts.htm#cal.
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New York City in the 1920s is coming to the stage at Oklahoma Christian University in the musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie." The production is part of OC's homecoming weekend and is directed by alumnus Chad Anderson. It will run Nov. 4-6 at 8 p.m. in Hardeman Auditorium on the OC campus.
The show, with a cast of 25, focuses on the story of Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city to start a new life during the Roaring Twenties. This was a time when women were entering the workforce, and the rules of love and social behavior were changing.
"This is the first chance OC has had to produce this show," said theater professor Phil Reagan. "It's an award-winning musical set in the jazzy, flapper days that will be a lot of fun to watch. It's really a wonderful, comic love story."
In Millie's pursuit of marriage for money instead of love, a modern idea in 1922, she meets handsome socialite Jimmy Smith, her striking boss, Trevor Graydon, millionaire heiress Muzzy van Hossmere and the wealthy villain of the story, Mrs. Meers. Each character's influence on Millie has her second-guessing her modern pursuits. The show features a full score of fun songs and peppy dance numbers.
"We have a lot of dance talent in our cast this year," said Anderson, who is serving as director of the homecoming musical for the third year in a row. "That's great because there are some challenging tap numbers in this show."
He added that choreographer and dance instructor Barbara Berard was instrumental in helping the cast learn the tap numbers.
"She had so much work to do, especially at the beginning of rehearsals," Anderson said. "She is a wonderful person to work with, and a great asset to OC."
According to Anderson, the cast's talent level impressed him throughout the rehearsal process.
"Every year I'm excited to work with the talent we have here at OC," he said. "Those who attend this musical will see some very talented people, students who will continue to use that talent once they leave OC."
The leading cast members are mostly upperclassmen from across the country. Millie is played by Kristi Krempges, a senior from Mt. Vernon, Mo. Smith is played by sophomore Brian Wilcox, while Graydon is played by junior Brett Vanderzee, both from Sioux Falls, S.D. Muzzy is played by Courtney Tarpley, a senior from Atlanta, Ga. Meers is played by Laura Bowles, a junior from Fort Gibson, Okla.
Audiences will also see an elaborate set and production.
"There are more wigs in this show than any I've been a part of," Anderson said. "We have an extensive set, and we rented costumes from Music Theater of Wichita. It is a very professional production. Each year we try to raise the bar for the homecoming musical."
Anderson is very active in the theater community in Oklahoma City. He is a former music and theater teacher at Oklahoma Christian Academy and holds a master of performing arts degree from Oklahoma City University. He is also working on his master of fine arts degree in theater from OU.
Tickets are $12, though senior citizens and groups of 20 or more get in for $10. On Thursday night only, OC employees and students receive free admission with a valid ID. To reserve tickets, call 425-5540. The show is appropriate for children age 10 and up.


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