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HENRY — Forrest R. Koenen Jr., 65, of Henry passed away Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria following a short courageous battle with leukemia.
He was born on Dec. 17, 1946, in Spring Valley to Forrest R. "Bob" and Sophie Koenen. He graduated from St. Bede Academy in 1965 and also attended Illinois Valley Community College before entering the Navy in 1966. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1966 to 1972 during the Vietnam War and was in the Gulf of Tonkin aboard the USS Oriskany. He graduated from Western Illinois University in 1974 and completed advanced degrees at Northern Illinois University and Illinois State University. For 30 years he was involved in education and finally became superintendent at Ohio, Ill., retiring in 2005. He married Linda Goebel on Aug. 2, 1993, in Lacon. He was a member of St. Louis Catholic Church. He was a sports fanatic, enjoyed running, NASCAR and golf. He was a former Starved Rock Runner and coached basketball and golf. He was also a member of the Henry American Legion.
Survivors include his parents; his wife Linda; two children, Matthew Robert (Allissa) Koenen of Minnesota and Marla Maubach of Buda; and three grandchildren, Eliott Koenen, and Colton and Mallory Maubach-Williams.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Louis Catholic Church, Princeton, with Father Jeffrey Stirniman officiating. Burial will be private and at a later date.
The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Norberg Memorial Home in Princeton.
Memorials may be directed to St. Jude Children's Hospital.
Online condolences may be left at www.norbergfh.com.
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HENRY — Forrest R. Koenen Jr., 65, of Henry passed away Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria following a short courageous battle with leukemia.


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When Jake Layman first arrived at King Philip Regional High School, the only noise around the boys' basketball program was the bounce of the ball.
The school hadn't won a game in two years. Its losing streak was more than 40 games long.
Layman did his best to be honest with himself.
"I really didn't think our team was going to be any good at all," he said. "It was just not a good atmosphere around basketball."
As it happened, Sean McInnis had just taken the head coaching job. He had done his share of hoops whispering before. He had rebuilt the girls' program at Weston.
Aside from a few passing glances during a couple of youth league games, though, McInnis never had seen Layman play.
The first day, McInnis met with the freshmen, which included Layman, and the upperclassmen. They made a promise to each other.
"We just made the commitment to each other that we're going to turn this thing around and we're going to make sure that we're going to see this to the end," said McInnis.
There wasn't a 'voila!' moment. They still struggled that first season, but they clung to the possibility of changing the basketball culture at King Philip.
"Jake was one of those people reminding us, 'Hey, we made this deal, we're going to stick to it. We're going to turn this around,' " McInnis said.
Layman did it even though he had options. Other schools knocked at his door, telling him how much greener their grass was. He didn't listen.
"When prep schools were calling and everybody else was calling, Jake fell back on his morals and said, 'No, you know what, we're going to stick together, we're going to turn this program around,' " said McInnis.
By the time Layman left last year, King Philip had gone from 40 straight losses to a team that won 35 games his last two seasons, making trips to the state tournament and filling the gym with locals.
"People were showing up two hours before game time to watch these kids play," McInnis said.
Among those people were scouts, who ended up with Norfolk on their radar because of Layman, the 6-foot-9-inch all-star wingman who scored more than 1,700 points and emerged as one of the top recruits in the country.
By his senior season, Layman went from having had to pick a program up from the rubble to being able to pick from some of the top programs in the country.
In the end, he chose the University of Maryland, and when the Terrapins (fresh off an upset of then-No. 2 Duke) come to Conte Forum Tuesday night to face Boston College, it will be more than just a close-to-homecoming for Layman. He'll be proof of an entire program's turnaround.
"Jake is a special kid," McInnis said. "Jake's importance really reached out farther than the basketball court. Jake is a special student-athlete that comes along once in a lifetime. What he's done for this community and this program and this school is tremendous."
Layman is allergic to the spotlight. While he was at King Philip, McInnis said, Layman was just a small-town kid disguised as a big-time recruit. It hasn't changed since he got to College Park.
"You would not know that Jake is a Division 1 basketball player," McInnis said. "Jake is always making sure that he pushes the spotlight on others, he's always making sure he takes care of everybody but himself."
Layman spent last summer as a face in the crowd of college talent on USA Basketball's under-18 national team. Some of those players, including Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon, he'd eventually see when he got to Maryland.
"It was the best experience I could ask for," Layman said. "I learned just how athletic the college level would be."
As soon as he arrived at College Park, he was made aware of lofty expectations as quickly as he was given a new nickname (Sunshine, after the quarterback from Remember the Titans).
He's had his highs (a 20-point breakout against Virginia Tech last month) and his lows (falling out of the rotation in a four-minute night against Stony Brook), but he's averaging 9.5 points his past four games, feeling as comfortable as he has all season.
"Coming in, it took some time to adjust, but now I think I'm there and I'm playing to my level now," Layman said. "I knew it was going to be hard coming in to adjust, but for me, it was just work as hard as I could, get prepared for every game. I know that each game there's an amazing player on each team, so it's a hard task every game."
Maryland coach Mark Turgeon also has found the most comfortable approach when it comes to dealing with Layman, going from the heavy hand to more positive reinforcement.
"It took time, and then I realized that you can't scream and yell at Jake a lot," said Turgeon. "You need to be a positive influence on him. And we've hit that approach. I'm sure he still thinks [they yell at him], which I'm sure I do at times. Just try to handle him a little bit better, giving him confidence.
"The thing about Jake is Jake brings it every day. It's not like Jake wasn't trying hard or took a day off or had a bad attitude. He's a very humble kid and just continued to work hard. Those guys are fun to work with, and you know, his upside is huge.
"He's really come a long ways and he helped us [by playing] a tremendous amount of minutes the other night against Duke and will play a lot of minutes as we move forward. I think he gets just a little bit better every day that we are able to coach him."
When Layman left for Maryland, McInnis left, too, off to find another fixer-upper. He didn't go far. He took the job as King Philip's girls' coach.
But the boys' team is still churning. In fact, there's another Layman on the roster, Jimmy, and the buzz is that he's as good, if not better, than his older brother.
Jimmy's been to a couple of Jake's games in College Park. He'll be at Conte Forum Tuesday night. And when Jake thinks back four years ago and remembers that struggling program, he realizes that was the point.
"The program wasn't even a program before we got there, it was just a basketball team," Layman said. "Now it's a program people want to be a part of. That's what's great to see."Julian Benbow can be reached at email@example.com.

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Senior wide receiver Malachi Dupre (River Ridge, La./John Curtis) was presented his honorary game jersey during the American Family Insurance Selection Tour for the 2014 Under Armour All-America High School Football Game at John Curtis Christian High School in River Ridge, La. Tuesday. The event was part of the three-month selection tour for the Under Armour All-America Game.
Dupre, a three-sport star at John Curtis, is one of 90 players selected to compete in the seventh annual Under Armour All-America Game, a nationally televised all-star game spotlighting the country's top high school seniors. The 2014 Under Armour All-America Game is set for 4 p.m. ET Jan. 2 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., and will be televised on ESPN.
"I want to thank all of y'all for supporting me today," Dupre said. "Just thank you Under Armour for the opportunity to play in this game. I know there are so many high school players in the country that work hard, but being selected to play in this game is a huge honor and I'm appreciative for it. I'm blessed, and thank you Coach J.T. [Curtis] for teaching me so many life lessons and things."
For Dupre, the road to be an Under Armour all-star selection wasn't an easy one.
"It's wasn't the best road…I wasn't the best player in football, basketball or track," Dupre said. "I always could jump, I always was pretty fast and athletic, but I never had skills. I probably started developing skills my freshman or sophomore year. I know a lot of it is God just blessed with me the talents because I just grew so much."
The nation's top-ranked wide receiver is looking forward to measuring himself against the best prospects in his class in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
"I'm ready to compete and have fun with the guys during game week," Dupre said. "The Under Armour All-American game is going to be the measuring stick for everyone going to play college football next year, because we're the best guys in the country right now."
Along with being the top wide receiver, the 6-foot-3, 187-pound Dupre is the No. 26 ranked prospect overall. He is considering LSU, UCLA, Alabama, Florida State, and others.


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Monday, September 17, 2007
Are Michigan Fans the Most Bipolar in America?
How else can you explain the regular, rapid and wild mood swings of your typical Michigan fan?
Last November, Michigan was 11-0, the #2 team in the country and a whisker away from playing for the National Title with a team that few gave any chance before the season started and most preseason polls had pegged in the mid teens. In fact, the team was so good in the eyes of its supporters back then that, even after losing to Ohio State in their season finale, a vast majority of Michigan fans - including yours truly - argued until they were (maize and) blue in the face Michigan still should be in the BCS title game.
Two and a half games of ugly football later (the Rose Bowl was 3-3 at halftime, if I recall), a vast number of the maize and blue (not always) faithful were ready to storm Schembechler Hall and throw head coach Lloyd Carr and his entire staff out a window onto State Street. Others were not-so-secretly hoping the team would go 0-12 and TMZ.com would discover Carr operated an underground sex club in Dexter in order to hasten his removal.
Ah, the life of being a Michigan fan.
You know, I'm starting to believe there's something genetic inside each of us that doesn't allow us to fully enjoy our successes while immediately believing without a shadow of a doubt that the sky is falling if we don't go undefeated each season and win the national title. Hell, maybe it's because we have had so much success over the years, our perspective is out of whack.
Think about it -- Michigan hasn't had a losing season since 1968. Not one. Zero. Zip. Nada. But you'd never know that from talking to most Michigan fans. You'd think we've been suffering through the college football wilderness the last 40 years ala Rutgers (minus the boorish behavior).
And let me just be clear: the losses to Ohio State and the recent bowl game stumbles suck giant ass. And the start to this season, well, just read our posts on The Debacle to understand our mindset during this crisis. All bad. All of it.
And yet...
I'm starting to believe again. One victory over quite possibly the worst football team ever to wear the Irish colors and I think this Michigan team could win the rest of their games and end up in the Rose Bowl.
I know, I know, call me a crazy son of a bitch (or worse if you're a Buckeye fan). And no, I don't take drugs.
But tell me I'm the only one who's had that glimmer of maize and blue hope. If you out there in cyberville reading this (instead of working like you should be) are a lifelong Michigan fan as I am, tell me the following nutty thought hasn't flashed through your brain once since Saturday: "Damn, if Michigan can somehow get past Penn State this weekend, the schedule softens a bit, we'll have a little confidence, the Big 10 is down this year and..."
Yep. You know what I'm talking about, right?
Naturally, if we get smoked by Penn State, the bitching will start right here on this site (along with plenty of pictures of semi-naked co-eds to ease the pain). Michigan will suck again and the process will start all over.
But right now, I'm starting to believe. Let the ride begin anew.
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- CrimeNotes said...
When we were up 24-0 and 31-0 on Saturday, the gerontocracy around me in the stands was bitching that we were running too much.
This fan base will never be happy. For a school where jangling keys and the kind of polite applause learned at August National are considered wild cheering, people sure seem eager to call for blood when it's directed at our own guys. I used to consider the tense reserve part of Michigan's charm, but I wonder if the last two weeks' hysteria (not so much here, but at a lot of outlets) could even be a liability for the program. Carr's not getting fired, but if he were, the replacements we'd want aren't going to take a job where they get publicly shredded for going 9-3 (re-review recent coaching searches as Neb., ND, 'Bama).
I'm not as optimistic about the rest of the season (ND was too lame to take much comfort) but 8-4 seems plausible, especially in light of what's happening in the rest of the conference.
- September 17, 2007 2:54 AM
- Michael said...
As an OSU fan I hope you lose to PSU this weekend, but not b/c the idea of a Michigan win is unthinkable to me. I simply want to see the scantily clad coeds.
In all seriousness, congrats on the Domer thrashing and we'll see you in November.
- September 17, 2007 9:47 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
(Cue O.J. whistling "If I only had a…)
Aren't we being generous? One win and the Emerald City is in sight. Toto would be so proud.
Let's see what the Wicked Witch of Happy Valley thinks about it.
- September 17, 2007 9:51 AM
- Killing My Liver said...
Agreed. ND is horrible. UM played very well, against a lowly opponent. Let's hope the momentum carries over when UM plays a real defense and a semblance of an offensive line. Things aren't coming up roses just yet, but one win is one more than UM had last week. I'll take it.
- September 17, 2007 9:58 AM
- Sparky Duck said...
Amazingly, Wolverine fans sound just like the college version of Philadelphia Eagle fans
- September 17, 2007 10:04 AM
- Sgt. Wolverine said...
I also sat behind a grumpy fan complaining about play calling ... in the fourth quarter, when we were up 38-0. He was yelling angrily like we were down 3. I was tempted to smack him on the head with my helmet.
- September 17, 2007 11:50 AM
- Killing My Liver said...
Much class was shown by running the ball on 4th as to not run it up. Although, it would have been nic e to see Mallett launch a few downfield.
- September 17, 2007 12:10 PM
- glassyarddog said...
I'm with you, Yost. I had the same exact, twisted, sickening stream of conciousness this morning about the Maize and Blue.
I guess I'm heartened by JoePa being owned by Lloyd, similar to the tOSU fans thoughts about Lloyd being owned by The Vest.
- September 17, 2007 2:30 PM
- BP said...
I think ND fans and Michigan fans are pretty similar. Look at what the fans are saying, up 38-0 with a first time starter at QB in and they want more passing? That's just not realistic.
Although Mallett looked pretty good from what I saw.
- September 17, 2007 2:32 PM
- buckeyemama said...
I don't know... I'm a Buckeye and I suffer from a eerily similar problem. I remember REALLY struggling with my disease during the tenure of Cooper...
The first game we lost after having won the National Championship... I forgot what it felt like to lose. It sucked. I mean, come on... we couldn't win forever... but man, I hated that feeling.
- September 17, 2007 6:25 PM
- Katie said...
I could get real theoritcal about this topic. My field of study is death and dying (yeah, I am a riot at parties) part of what is going on is an effort for immortality, the Michigan program has a long history, over one hundred years.....believing in a program that will be here long after we are gone, gives us some feeling of immortality, and to have it threatened by a loss to a D-II school was pretty damn scary, so it only makes sense that when we see them play good (even if it was against a team that didn't actually show up to play) that we have that euphoric feeling that part of us will live on again. (Sorry...I know you would prefer a naked girl link but since I moved away from my kids I have been able to keep the porn off my computer :o) Peace Out and Go BLUE!
- September 17, 2007 11:06 PM
- Merrick 561 said...
Most Bipolar in America? If you're speaking about only the NCAA then about the only people who can give us a run for our money is Duke and UNC in basketball, and possibly USC in the future if they ever fall from the heavens (cough cough).
Now onward being a Philadelphia fan of the pro circuit I might argue that we/they are the most bipolar in America except we're so accustomed to losing that even when we just miss the big one or the playoffs we're like..well theres always next year.
Also, not to knit pick, I just hear this misstatement of fact soo much it's driving me crazy. App. St. is not Division II, they are Division I-AA (yeah I refuse to lower myself to the "politically correct" standards of whatever it's new name is.)
- September 18, 2007 12:28 AM


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Even if you live in a city, in a major market, the odds of there being any competition are almost nil.
for better or worse, the cable guys are now the internet guys.
That's why the governments should split those companies in two: ISP and TV/media providers. Otherwise, their TV/media half will just try to choke its own ISP half. With dinosaurs at the head of the cable companies, we already see it happening every day. They still firmly believe that "Internet" is just "interactive digital cable".
The cable ISPs that charge less for a TV plus Internet bundle than for Internet alone are part of the problem.
Not true. Internet+TV should cost less than internet alone, because it costs less for them to provide it. Cable TV shows are already sent over the cable, so the marginal cost of providing you with cable TV is precisely zero. But they get advertising money from the commercials, and they kick back some of that to their customers in the form of a discount. Basically, they are indirectly paying you to watch their ads.
Cable TV shows are already sent over the cable, so the marginal cost of providing you with cable TV is precisely zero.
I thought cable companies had to pay "retransmission consent" (that is, royalties) per subscriber to the networks.
First, thanks for citing my previous posts.
Second, the claim "Internet + TV is cheaper than Internet by itself" was referring to a plan that included only basic cable (the channels you'd get with an antenna). Any plan that included the likes of ESPN and TNT would be more expensive than Internet-only (or at least, I sure would hope so!).
Third, Comcast's offerings have improved this year: last year I was at $40/month for Internet + basic cable ($37 once I found out that they were supposed to be giving me a di
Exactly! Comcast has to pay NBC/Universal (owned by Comcast) money for their content! It all makes perfect sense.
basic TV used to clear QAM on just about all systems and so the basic TV fee was kind of part of Internet on it's own. But when you buy tv it's lower as part of the promo price
The cable ISPs that charge less for a TV plus Internet bundle than for Internet alone are part of the problem.
Yup. We were paying $135/month for a particular tier of Comcast's cable + internet service. We looked at going internet only, but for basically the same price ($70/month) we got internet, broadcast channels and HBO (and Discovery, but who cares). And it keeps my wife happy because she wants to watch all those cop and hospital dramas.
What's really maddening is how we got to $135 in the first place. It wasn't that long ago that our cable bill was closer to $80 for that same level of service. But Comcast kept
But I have toyed with the idea of testing T-Mobile's unlimited data plan in its place - if the Comcast price creep continues unabated, I might actually do it.
You might have a fixed wireless broadband provider in your area.
That would be the best and cheapest option.
T-Mobile's "unlimited" is actually unlimited 2G + 1/3/5 GB of tethered 4G.
The hotspot/table plans are unlimited 2G + 1/3/5/7/9/11 GB of tethered 4G.
/I happen to live too far away for DSL and in a fixed wireless coverage gap, so I'm stuck with Cable.
I think they believe that "Internet" is a gathering tool for gleaning information about the customer. The changes people see them making to ISP and TV access is strictly so usage data is added directly into data correlation processes.
Most shows are available online via Netflix, prime, on demand, etc...
Not until years later, after which they're already irrelevant for water cooler socialization. Besides, good luck getting sports this way with the maze of blackout policies that the leagues impose.
On demand TV is nice, but I wish there were some nice (Chrome compatible) channels available (Discovery, SyFi, History, etc). Sometimes just tuning to a channel and letting it run with whatever is on is enjoyable. And I'd be willing to pay a bit more a month for it as well, what I'm not willing to do is pay $40-80 a month for a over a hundred channels that I'll never watch just to get the dozen or so that I do when I can get most of what I want with Hulu/Netflix subscriptions for less than $20 a month (th
That's all we're basing this declaration on? That feels like it would fall within the margin of error for one of these reports.
If it were not for the fact that my wife is a sports nut, I would have cut the cable long ago. As time goes on, the quality of the programming slides further and further downhill. Undoubtedly driven by the need to create cheaper and cheaper content.
Sports kind of ticks me off. Virtually everyone with cable has to pay for some of it, and yet if you *never* watch sports you still subsidize those who do want to watch it. My feeling is that sports is in a sort of bubble - costs have just risen too far, and
It will not be too much longer until programs such as "Ow! My Balls" would be the most popular programs on television.
Given shows like America's Funniest Home Videos and Ridiculousness, I'd say that ship has long since sailed.
TNT and others still have good non sports shows
if it does Comcast will just lower the cap and even if they do X2 cell it will still be low and make buying TV seem like a good deal.
Different protocol.
Comcast is the new Ford circa 1930, you can have any color Model T as long as its black.
That they can do more than TV: Phone, Internet, etc. Imagine if they couldn't. They would be dead!
... it's noise.
More accurate to say, 'the number of people with broadband subscribers now approximately equals
Very sadly, I know that I will shortly hear someone in the workplace trumpetinng the
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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With the win, Union (33-2) advances to Saturday's quarterfinal matchup with Biola (Calif.) at 8 p.m. EST. Biola upset Langston (Texas) 73-58 earlier in the day.
Union held the Gold Nuggets (26-9) to 20 points below their season scoring average. Xavier managed just seven field goals in each half to produce a season-low 43 points.
The Gold Nuggets shot 30.4 percent (14-of-46) from the field, including just five of 19 from beyond the three-point arc.
Union had difficulties at time on offense as well as the Bulldogs connected on just 38.8 percent (19-of-46) shooting. Despite its overall shooting struggles, Union connected on seven out of 16 threes for 43.8 percent.
Xavier could not have started the game any better, sprinting out of the gates to a 13-1 lead. In fact, the Gold Nuggets did not allow a Union field goal until Adenike Dawodu scored with 12:16 left in the half.
The Xavier hot start quickly subsided as Union outscored the Gold Nuggets 16-2 over the next 5:33 to take a 19-15 lead with just under seven minutes left in the half.
The Bulldogs extended their lead to as many nine points in the latter stages of the half before finally leading 29-21 at the break.
In the second half, Union dominated from nearly start to finish.
After Xavier had cut the Bulldogs' lead to 32-26 early in the second half, Union used a 14-2 run and never looked back on the way to its 17th straight win.
Four Bulldogs recorded double figures led by Shelby Ashcraft with 14 points. Lavanda Ross recorded her fifth double-double of the season with 13 points and 13 rebounds, while Amy Philamlee and LaTesa McLaughlin scored 11 and 10 points, respectively.
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PARKING meters in the Newcastle CBD went blank yesterday, pleasing visitors and business owners but potentially creating problems in some corners of the city.
The Newcastle Herald reported on Saturday that Newcastle City Council's two-hour free parking trial would instead become a free-for-all, requiring all meters to be switched off.
The confused council will hold an extraordinary meeting tomorrow for councillors to clarify the intent of the trial. Lord Mayor Jeff McCloy has also lodged a rescission motion to be discussed on December 19.
Potential problems raised in recent days include the estimated cost to the city of about $700,000, which could increase now meters have been turned off in four, eight and 10 hour parking zones.
Impacts will also be felt in areas like Newcastle East, where parking machines are an important tool in managing the area.
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The trial, proposed by councillors Lisa Tierney (Liberal) and Michael Osborne (Greens), was designed to support businesses by encouraging people into the city.
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The moment a murder suspect overpowered a detective in a Jackson, Miss., police station and fatally shot him before taking his own life was captured on video, according to a report.
Authorities have video of the final interaction between Det. Eric Smith, 40, who was shot by suspect Jeremy Powell, 23, in an interrogation room at police headquarters, a source told The Associated Press.
Powell, who was arrested as a suspect connected to a murder, was being interrogated by Smith in a third floor interrogation room Thursday evening.
"We heard that shots had been fired," Jackson Police Chief Rebecca Coleman told ABC News' Jackson affiliate, WAPT-TV. "Upon our arrival, we found the suspect is deceased and we have a police officer deceased."
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"Over the next days and weeks, the Jackson Police Department and the Smith family are going to need for us to bond together. They're going to need for us to support them like never before," Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson told reporters.
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Title to Property, Title to Marriage: The Social Foundation of Adverse Possession and Common Law Marriage, 42 Val. U. L. Rev. 461 (2008)
Justice and Truth in Political Discourse, 36 Loy.U.Chi. L.J. 519 (2005) [article]
Torrens and Recording: Land Title Assurance in the Computer Age, 18 William Mitchell L.Rev. 61 (1992)
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We may never know why our headphones get so knotted in our pockets, but THETA is a permanent solution to this habitual and extremely aggravating enigma.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 22, 2013
Cephius LLC, a product design company focused on innovation, announced the debut of THETA, a modern response to the ubiquitous problem of unruly headphone cords. THETA's simple circular design provides a sleek solution to this common issue, and doubles as a convenient smartphone stand. The device hooks onto bags or workout armbands and fits comfortably in pants pockets, offering tangled headphone stress relief craved by music lovers, fitness enthusiasts and techies alike.
"I was complaining to my wife one day about my ridiculously twisted headphones, and said 'Someone has to figure this out.' She looked at me and responded, 'Well, why don't you?'" said Founder and Inventor, Daniel Paul. "So, I did just that. And in solving my own tangled headphone problem, I was able to create a solution for everyone."
THETA is not only functional and versatile, but it is the first product of its kind to participate in the same aesthetic category as the devices for which it is made. The gadget is uniquely designed to be equally useful and visually appealing, putting THETA in both tech and industrial design classes.
The cord management solution is designed, manufactured, packaged, assembled and fulfilled in the United States, making it a distinct product in the market. Sustaining U.S. manufacturing and creating jobs has been one of Cephius LLC's guiding principles, in addition to creating practical, well-designed products.
"THETA is unique in that it doesn't just temporarily put aside the issue or offer a 'homemade' solution," said Paul. "Pulling tangled headphones out of your bag is like pulling out a chore, and we're ready to put an end to that once and for all. We may never know why our headphones get so knotted in our pockets, but THETA is a permanent solution to this habitual and extremely aggravating enigma."
Life is better untangled.
For more information on THETA and its evolution, visit http://www.buytheta.com.
About Cephius LLC
Founded in 2010, Cephius LLC's mission is to provide design-inspired solutions to the world's common problems. Cephius LLC is a privately held company headquartered in Chicago, IL. For more information regarding Cephius LLC, please call 312.972.4485 or visit BuyTheta.com.


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Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Dragonslayer
Just some ideas that are flying in my head currently. It's been a long time since I did a cel-style poster... kinda miss it.
Posted by Remy 'Eisu' Mokhtar at 8:50 PM
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4 comments:
- Dangerism said...
Or so I thought. XP
- November 12, 2007 2:06 PM
HO WOW! That is awesome maaaaaan!!
- November 22, 2007 9:02 PM
- Vishal said...
Woah! I love your art style. I'm an aspiring cartoonist (but my parents are dead set against me learning animation and stuff). I was wondering how you go about coloring your pictures. And the drawing, is it all handdrawn with pencil and scanned? Or by graphic pen? And the coloring- are there any tutorials or something I can use to learn?
- April 02, 2008 12:12 AM
- Vishal D. Murthy said...
I use two blogs:
Could you advise me whether I should buy a graphic pad (as I cant find any here in Sabah) and could you give me some idea as to where I can lean to color the drawings like that?
- April 02, 2008 12:14 AM
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Salem, NH, school board backs security upgrades
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SALEM, N.H. (AP) -- The school board in Salem, N.H., is supporting a plan to install $105,000 worth of buzzers, monitors, cameras, intercoms and other security upgrades at its schools in response to the mass shooting at a Connecticut school last month.
Superintendent Michael Delahanty says he's hoping the upgrades will be installed starting next month.
The Eagle-Tribune reports the board's decision comes after nearly 100 residents turned out a public forum on school security earlier this month. The forum was organized following the shootings Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people were killed.


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three. "Favorite smile…"
Yes, honey. No matter what number of smiles you see every day, the individual you worth most will at all times be your fave.
four. "Be cherished in the precise means…"
You have to point out how a lot you worth the individual.
5. "My world flips after I see you…"
That's how I superbly really feel everytime you take a look at the eyes of the individual you're keen on most.
6. "You reside in my thoughts…"
You are valued not solely in my coronary heart but in addition in my thoughts.
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It is certainly horrible to overlook somebody so that you simply want to kiss him all day.
eight. "You are my house…"
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9. "Keep holding my hand…"
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Finding the precise individual is the most effective factor that may ever occur to you.
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There's a sense that certainly envelopes your coronary heart if you find yourself in love.
13. "I want to get up subsequent to you…"
If you're keen on somebody, you'd at all times want to be with that individual — hugging, kissing — you're keen on him a lot!
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Love the individual you worth most, it doesn't matter what he/she was and what he/she goes to be.
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A flower as a remembrance? You certainly take into consideration your accomplice on a regular basis.
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The individual you're keen on will settle for you even throughout your ugliest day.
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22. "My soul and his are the identical…"
23. "Can I borrow a kiss?"
French kiss? That's extra enjoyable, certainly!
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Love wants no purpose and calculation as a result of in the event you love him/her,
26. "Let your guards down… Love with no regrets…"
We really feel comfy about no matter we do with the individual we love.
27. "You are my dependancy…"
An dependancy, a blessed feeling you get if you take a look at the individual you're keen on most.
28. "One of us is within the fallacious place…"
Wishing to be with the individual you're keen on most, evening and day… Sooner or later, it is going to be believable so long as you retain the love ignited.
29. "If we wait till we're prepared…"
Sometimes, we get that feeling of uncertainty, so get a grip and just be sure you let the individual you're keen on really feel valued always.
30. "I fell for you earlier than I spotted I did…"
Sometimes, we fall in love with out even realizing that we truly already did.
31. "I wish to sleep with you…"
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33. "Sometimes you meet an individual and also you simply click on…"
That feeling if you really feel comfy hanging out with an individual. No pretensions in any respect!
34. "I'm fortunate to like you…"
Found the one you're keen on? You are certainly fortunate!
35. "How fortunate I'm to have one thing that makes saying goodbye so onerous…"
It's certainly so onerous to let go of somebody you deeply worth.
36. "I wanna be the woman who makes your dangerous days higher…"
Be that woman who'll make his dangerous days higher in each side.
37. "The fact? I such as you…"
You love an individual due to the littlest and grandest particulars of her/his character.
38. "You are the primary and very last thing on my thoughts…"
Start and finish the day desirous about the one who makes your days price residing.
39. "I didn't plan on falling in love with you…"
Sometimes, we fall in like to an individual with out even realizing the way it occurred.
40. "I'm who I'm due to you…"
Every want and dream comes true as soon as we discover the one who will make our days higher.
41. "Compliment individuals…"
No one's excellent, keep in mind that. However, it's important to at all times take a look at their strengths, not their weaknesses.
42. "Your voice provides me butterflies…"
That flying butterflies you're feeling inside your abdomen at any time when you might be together with your accomplice — heaven!
43. "I'm hooked on you…"
Addiction is not only on one thing that we style or maintain. We additionally get hooked on an individual's with and expertise.
44. "I promise you that if I say I really like you, I imply it."
Saying i really like you shouldn't simply be due to a behavior however as a result of that's what we really really feel.
45. "God gave you to me…"
Always be grateful to God. He really is aware of what you want most — and that's an exquisite accomplice!
46. "An ideal marriage…"
Never let go of your accomplice, even when there are hindrances. You should at all times struggle for one another.
47. "Still staying…"
Never let go of the individual you're keen on regardless of his/her imperfections.
48. "Proving your love…"
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Jul 2013 11:14 UTC
I was in the running for a new Android phone, and I was quite dead set on getting a Nexus 4 - however, there was another phone in the running: the OPPO Find 5, a smrtphone with lots of positive reviews, but from a small manufacturer. The point that made me choose the Find 5 over the Nexus 4? OPPO actively supports the ROM community by giving away free phones, and boasts support for CyanogenMod, Paranoid Android, and an AOSP ROM, and obviously, rooting is easy. OPPO also updates its own firmware/ROM twice per month with new features, which is a far cry from the big boys. If you're looking for a new Android phone, you might want to consider looking beyond the established players as well, and support a company who works closely with the community - something the big player still need to learn properly. Once the device arrives on my doorstep, I'll be sure to tell you all about it, and if it lives up to the hype. It is, after all, from a relatively unknown company, so I am taking a risk here. I am a little bit nervous. But hey, if none of us takes the risk, we'll be stuck with the big players forever.
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Talking about alternatives
by pedlo on Fri 12th Jul 2013 23:08 UTC
Talking about alternatives, I'm having lots of satisfaction with an Asus Padfone Infinity.
The specs are really high level and together with its station it's a very nice piece of engineering.
Don't know about community support from Asus, but they have just a few Android devices to focus on and I already received about 3 updates in the month I've been owning it.


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Faced with a predicted water supply shortage between 2018 and 2020, Brevard City Council took a major step Monday toward putting a future water intake on the French Broad River, the only source large enough to meet its future thirst.
By a 5-0 vote, council authorized city staff to begin drafting a watershed ordinance that the state requires in order to begin the process of reclassifying waters as a drinking water source. The vote doesn't commit the city to any specific intake site, councilmen stressed.
Councilman Charlie Landreth compared the move to taking a driver's education course before you're issued a license to get behind the wheel.
"The state doesn't care what kind of car you drive or where you go," he said. "They just want you, for starters, to take the driver's education and pass the test. I just want to reiterate…this is step that is a precursor, but it doesn't commit us to any future decisions in the process."
"No matter what happens, the consensus is we're going to run out of water," said Councilman Rodney Locks, who threw his support behind the ordinance but had to leave the work session before the vote. "If we don't do something, we can't grow."
Council has been exploring water capacity issues since a 2012 consultant's study calculated the city needed at least 5 million gallons a day to meet predicted population growth and full build-out of 1,200 residential lots already on the books.
The city's current water treatment plant on Cathey's Creek is capable of treating about 2.2 mgd, said City Utilities Director Jay Johnston. Consultants think the city's water system will hit capacity around 2020, but city staff looked at scenarios in which supplies could be "unable to reliably meet demand" by 2018 or 2019.
Given the city's importance to county growth and economic development, the city needs to bring Transylvania County commissioners in on the discussion, Mayor Jimmy Harris said.
"Because the best time to become a partner is in the beginning," Harris said. "If it's their desire to look at other developable properties that require utility services, this would be the time to do it, and we would want to know what their needs are, if they want to be a partner with us."
Currently, the county lacks its own public utilities, relying on those of Rosman and Brevard, along with private providers.
Looking at a model that included the full build-out of Brevard and its extraterritorial jurisdiction, engineers found the city would need 5 mgd of water just to service the 11,106 new residences and 4.7 million square feet of commercial space allowed under current zoning.
Planning Director Josh Freeman told council that zoning essentially promises developers that adequate water supplies are there to support allowable densities, and "we have to back it up with our level of service."
He pointed out the city has already committed 600,000 gallons per day to Davidson River Village, a mixed-use development planned for the former Ecusta paper mill site. Those kind of "codified" commitments reinforce the need to look at the French Broad as a 5 mgd water source, he said.
Engineering and environmental studies will pinpoint where an intake would best go, Johnston said, but city staff has analyzed several examples on the French Broad, including one near the Davidson River confluence, one off Wilson Road and one at Hap Simpson Park.
Each would produce adequate water, he said, but all would require a watershed ordinance that protected 10 river miles upstream of the intake from pollution. That means the county would either have to jointly develop an ordinance with the city or create its own watershed ordinance for it to fly.
State regulations would allow 2 dwelling units per acre in the protected watershed – greater than most existing county developments, Johnston said – and higher density options with engineered stormwater controls. Those would only apply to new construction, he said, not existing development.
The first half-mile upstream of the intake would require a 10-foot agricultural buffer and no new landfills, Johnston said.
Locks said people tend to get "hung up on examples" of where the intake might go, but emphasized the city is years away from making that decision and has multiple alternatives, including the Davidson River (though that would produce only 3.4 mgd, city staff said.)
"My point is I think we should go ahead, and I think the fact that we can tell the engineers what alternatives to look at will eliminate some of the fears," Locks said.
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Brevard prepares to tap river if needed
Faced with a predicted water supply shortage between 2018 and 2020, Brevard City Council took a major step Monday toward putting a future water intake on the French Broad River, the only source large enough to meet its future thirst.


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WORCESTER � State Sen. Harriette L. Chandler was joined by 1st Worcester District challengers Sean M. Maher and William Feegbeh for a debate Tuesday evening sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Held one week before the Sept. 9 Democratic primary, the hour-long event at the Worcester Public Library featured 10 prepared questions as well as several from the audience.
Ms. Chandler says her top issues include health care, transportation, jobs and economic development. She believes her education, experience and ability to bring people together make her a natural choice for re-election.
Mr. Maher, a longtime city employee and union president, says he is a regular man who knows the struggles of working people, and he seeks to restore "common sense" to state government. Mr. Feegbeh, who has previously run for state representative and mayor of Worcester, said his focus is jobs and public safety and said he wants to change the dynamic at the Statehouse.
Mr. Maher and Ms. Chandler do not see eye to eye on what constitutes fighting for Central Massachusetts' share of state resources.
Speaking about a $1.1 billion bond recently approved for the Boston Convention Center, Mr. Maher said, "The place is booming. They've got money coming out of their ears. The return to the Greater Worcester area is insignificant," he said, implying that Ms. Chandler has not fought hard enough to bring economic initiatives to the city.
"Let's talk about what I've done for Worcester," Ms. Chandler said, citing $200 million-plus for myriad Massachusetts School Building Authority investments. She cited more than $55 million for school projects elsewhere in her district, in addition to current efforts for three new high schools in Worcester.
Ms. Chandler said it wasn't for lack of trying that Worcester did not get money for downtown.
"A bond, you have to pay back. Let's not ever forget that. A bond needs to have a revenue stream. Our problem was we didn't have a revenue stream. And everybody tried the budget, everybody tried the bond bill. The mayor, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, (City Manager) Ed Augustus. My colleagues in the delegation. We tried everything, and the answer still was, 'No revenue stream, no money,' " she said.
On the issue of a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cut through northern Massachusetts en route to Canada, Ms. Chandler said she has real concerns but did not discount it wholesale.
"I'm an environmentalist. This is a very long pipeline. This comes from fracking. I can raise a lot of questions; I wish I had more answers ... I'm not sure I want to see a line that might end up selling natural gas in Canada to some other country somewhere else," she said.
Mr. Maher offered unequivocal opposition.
"I do not support it. I do not support fracking," he said, pointing to concerns about its effects on the public drinking water supply.
Mr. Feegbeh said he supported the pipeline.
Ms. Chandler and Mr. Maher's response about smart meters were similar.
"I do not support the smart meter program for a host of reasons," Mr. Maher said. "I believe it's really based on who uses electricity most during peak hours so they can bill you differently. Hackers could break into the system. These are troubling things to me before we even get to the health issues."
One area in which the candidates sharply disagreed involved Mr. Maher's assertion that there are laws that apply to citizens and not lawmakers.
"There's a lot of anger, distrust, of our elected officials ... I would not support any legislation that would apply to citizens that would not apply to those who govern us," he said.
"I don't know what my opponent is talking about," Ms. Chandler said. "I don't know of any legislation that affects one group of people and not another."
"There are things that have gone on," Mr. Maher replied. "A lot of serious pension abuses by elected officials throughout the commonwealth."
"I don't think you can say something like that so broadly if you can't point out specific examples," Ms. Chandler said.
Speaking of pensions, Mr. Maher feels strongly that state employees making more than $170,000 do not belong in the public pension system.
He said public pensions were never meant for high earners, who he would like to see pay into Social Security instead.
"The top 10 pensions in the state in 2009 were worth $1.92 million. How is that sustainable? If the commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Board of Education, the city of Worcester can afford to pay those wages, they can afford to pay Social Security on those wages," he said. "The unfunded liability that's growing in the commonwealth is that money."
"I have a simple answer for this," Ms. Chandler said. "The answer is that Jan. 2, 2011, we put a cap on the state pension issue, and the cap is that the maximum salary that can be used for a pension is $166,400. Anybody who came in after Jan. 2, 2011, that is the cap. That is 65 percent of the federal cap. The unfunded liability is not the result of these high salaries. It's really the result that before the 1980s we had a continual pay-as-you-go approach, and we weren't paying as we went.
"I hate to see retirement funding be talked about in terms of Social Security vs. pension plans," Ms. Chandler said. "People need retirement. We need to attract the best people we can to government service. It's awfully hard to attract people if we don't give them a pension. If you're talking about the working man and woman, they have to have that security."
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I know I want to pay $6,500 dollars for a laptop with a 5" screen!
Damn, I don't know how this company possibly could have gone out of business with idiots like that. OLEDs aren't *that* great. Take a look at your cell phone and ask yourself if you want that in a monitor. Mine has screen burn in and flickers if I look at it out of the corner of my eye. (Sure, they may have resolved these issues, but they don't look better than, say, an LED TV).
tech evolves over time; it may very well be that future advances will drive the cost down, iron out a few of the bugs and possibly change your mind. these OLEDs are incredibly efficient and can be used to make thin flexible displays.
I doubt that the final price is about a device with a 5" OLED screen, I think the final price is about having a collector's item, a rare prototype. As rare as it is, I would think it would fetch a much higher price.
I wouldn't know, I don't have a device with OLED. I don't typically use devices out of the corner of my eye. I'm pretty sure fading issues have been addressed, a screen made today is going to be a lot better than that made even two years ago. I doubt that an OLED and an LED TV would be comparable, because the LED TV you're thinking about is only LED backlit, it would still be LCD based and as such, still be pretty limited in real contrast ratio.
it has to be rare and desirable to be a collector's item. I don't think the "Sony iPod" my friend bought back from Taiwan will be able to sell that high, even though it's pretty rare.
I don't think OQO is rare and desirable enough to demand 6.5K. Someone who is paying this amount of money either has a very specific reason to do so I think.
An OQO is pretty rare. They were expensive computers in their day, and still have the distinction as the smallest complete x86-compatible PC ever made. (You can get pico-ITC boards smaller than an OQO, but you'll need to add storage, RAM, screen and power...). Heck, you could make it the smallest Hackintosh in the world.
The OQO 02+ is considered very desirable as it upgrades several annoying components on the OQO 02 - the CPU is better (Intel Atom vs. Via C7). The OLED version had more RAM (2GB vs 1GB), and the SSD as an option. The "normal" OQO 02+ (the one that went for $4.5k) qualified for the Microsoft XP Home license too (the netbook discounted cost).
Either way, they were also the cheapest OQOs if they were released, with the OLED one starting around $1.5k. Upgrade to an SSD and you'd have a pocketable PC that you could do iTunes, VLC, full desktop Ubuntu, VMWare, Visual Studio, what have you. Or hell, why argue about Flash support, when you can run full Firefox with flash?
I have an 02, and wanted to buy an 02+. But given OQO is out of business these days, oh well. I won't part with that much cash for an unsupported piece of equipment I intend to use. All I can hope for is the upcoming Archos 9 (running Windows 7) will be small enough to be hand-carried. But pocketing a
I have an 02, and wanted to buy an 02+. But given OQO is out of business these days, oh well. I won't part with that much cash for an unsupported piece of equipment I intend to use. All I can hope for is the upcoming Archos 9 (running Windows 7) will be small enough to be hand-carried. But pocketing a[[[NO CARRIER
With connectivity like that, I can definitely see why you'd want to replace your 02 with an 02+.
I don't think the "Sony iPod" my friend bought back from Taiwan will be able to sell that high, even though it's pretty rare.
Did the person who sold your friend the rare Sony iPod also offer genuine Rolex watches?
I doubt that the final price is about a device with a 5" OLED screen, I think the final price is about having a collector's item, a rare prototype. As rare as it is, I would think it would fetch a much higher price.
Rare != Desirable. For an item to fetch a higher price than its normal counterparts, it needs both components.
Lots of rare things out there that aren't desirable. Also, the brand isn't that big. This also isn't a major milestone tech item. The first iPod(s) (by serial number, not just model),
the LED TV you're thinking about is only LED backlit
Wow, I hadn't looked into it. I'd assumed this wonderful new LED TV I'd heard about was, you know, an LED TV -- not an LED backlit LCD TV. Talk about false advertising, I hope they get slapped for that.
I know I want to pay $6,500 dollars for a laptop with a 5" screen!
Me too! I heard it plays WoW!
That there may not be enough idiots willing to pay high prices for it. You don't make enough money to stay in business selling only a few systems, even if you can get ridiculous prices for them.
Same kind of deal with the Voodoo 5 6000. There were a few people out there willing to spend ungodly amounts to have a special card, but not enough.
The only way you can have a company that survives on a market like that is if you have extremely low overhead. If you don't really do any R&D, then sure you can deal
For my money, I'd rather have one of IBM's Power6 systems. The least expensive one is only about $5.5k, less than the OQO.
I'm sure they're just dying to get into that huge market that OQO failed to make any money in.
I guess it just turns out they priced them wrong... shoot, they've got the market for $6500 laptops cornered.
Don't like to nitpick? What are you doing on Slashdot then? Keep up the good work, I say!
And whilst we're about it:
the only PC for sale to include an OLED
A PC with a single organic light-emitting diode? Of what interest is that?
"OLED" != "OLED Display"
Yay pedantry!
You must work for NASA - this is metric money, not imperial. Got to be careful with those conversions, you never know when one might accidentally cause a probe to slam into Mars at high speed.
Its no DIY project. the board for the 02+ is 11+ layers, try and do that on your own.
If it were a sandwich, it would make Dagwood proud.
I use my OQO all the time. It was becoming irritating constantly hauling laptops and equipment all the time to client sits, and I decided to settle on the OQO due to its form factor. The extended battery gave me plenty of power for all day use, and since it could run any OS I wanted (linux, xp, etc.) I could run all the apps I needed.
I runn Visual Studio, SQL Server, IIS, all my dev tools without a problem and if I need a bigger design environment I either shrink the screen down, or (most of the time) jus
... if it were cheap enough. Seriously. OQOs, despite all their limitations and faults, were *awesome* if you wanted what they had to offer. I don't think they had entirely the wrong idea with their product, they were just a) ahead of their time and b) too expensive.
I met a chap at Linux Kongress in Hamburg who was running Linux on his OQO (the original one). He was able to demonstrate his x86 Linux development project on it. It was capable of VGA output, so he was able to run his presentation from it too. And it was small enough to fit in a (large-ish) pocket. The promise of a palmtop fulfilled, in a way. It doesn't matter that it's underpowered - so are netbooks and those are plenty popular.
A netbook-based OQO-like device would totally rock. I'm sure modern technology is up to the task of putting together a *cheap* device in an OQO-alike form-factor. If one were available at a reasonable price (i.e. a bit cheaper or about the same price as a netbook) I'd be very interested in picking one up. Media player, internet browser, ebook reader, running full desktop software. Plug in a keyboard and screen if you need to do anything serious on it - the market also should be capable of producing a docking station with laptop screen + keyboard with a DVI cable on, so that you can carry it around in a laptop case to supplement your palmtop device if you anticipate doing more serious browsing or typing.
The closest things to this that I currently see in development are the OpenPandora (http://openpandora.org), which isn't PC compatible but is pocketable and has a mini keyboard, clamshell design, runs Linux. And the new Intel MID chipset, which may not (?) be PC-compatible from what I've heard but will be x86-based and therefore able to run normal PC software for any OS that can boot on it in the first place. These should give us some of what we want - but hopefully some enterprising company will see the potential for a true netbook-based OQO-alike.
It's a horrible form factor concept. It only makes sense if you 1) are wedded to an x86 desktop OS, and 2) must have thumb typing. This is the case for very, very few people. Most people are better off with either 1) a netbook for your desktop OS, or 2) a smartphone for thumb typing.
Getting both in one device costs $$ for a reason: tiny market, no economy of scale.
Horrible for many, useful for others - it depends on price and on what you need it for. I'd use it whilst away from my desk at home and whilst traveling. Most people wouldn't want one but there could still be enough to be a market.
I would not want it enough to pay through the nose for it (a la OQO) - but if they had netbookish pricing they'd have my attention. Basically the same hardware, so seems possible. My own netbook has such a small keyboard that I'd want to bring an external keyboard anyhow - and
Shoving marginally laptop class computing resources into a palmtop with a thumb keyboard and a dinky, even if cool OLED screen is just stoopid. Either ya have to go bigger and be a netbook, or smaller and be a phone. This OQO concept was a tinker's wet dream, wishing for a market.
When the state of the art gets to the point where a laptop class CPU can operate in a compact mobile phone-sized format there might be some potential for a few vertical markets.. Beowulf cluster in a briefcase anyone?.... Beuler?
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I went outside with Bear, the super-sized chocolate lab who was staying with us for the weekend, and it was immediately apparent that we had different goals. My plan was to collect some firewood and bring it inside. Bear may not have had any plans ahead of time, but as soon as he saw the stacks and stacks of firewood, he developed an idea based on his response to seeing the wood pile. His response was, "So many toys, so little time," and his idea was apparently to enjoy as many sticks as possible.
As I pulled my first log off the pile, Bear did the same, choosing a small piece that was intended to be used in starting the fire. I tossed mine in the canvas log carrier, Bear took his over to an undisturbed patch of snow and began to chew on it. I interrupted my wood collecting for a game of fetch with Bear. I tossed his stick over and over, and each time, he dug it out of the powdery snow. Every once in a while, he would deposit the stick by my feet, but instead of waiting for me to throw it, he went to the wood pile to select a new, presumably better, stick. This went on until I decided to go back to my original collecting duties.
Soon I decided that it would be fun to take a picture of Bear removing a stick from the pile, and this is when it became clear that we were working at cross purposes. Bear was busy chewing on a couple of his favorite new sticks, but I was cold and ready to go inside. Rather than wait until the next time he decided to select a new stick, I attempted to hurry things along.
Multiple times, I attempted to chuck a stick of the size he seemed to prefer onto the pile so that he would retrieve it and I could capture that moment with my camera. Each time, he caught the stick in mid-air, which was quite an impressive feat, but no good for my wish to photograph him removing a stick from the wood pile. After the first couple of attempts, I looked around to see my husband standing inside by the nearby sliding glass doors laughing. I joined him in finding it hilarious, and laughed, too. (I rarely fail to recognize when I am caught in the act of being ridiculous.)
I decided to wait until Bear was good and ready to choose a stick according to his own schedule, and that's when I was able to photograph him with his selection. Have you ever been trying to get something done and found that since your dog thought it was a just a game, it took you far longer to accomplish?


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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
"Line Backer Evangalism"
So I check it out. I mean, Benny and I are always looking for additional outlets that might be right for our material here at the MZone.
Poking around, I find a parody of the the Sir Mix-A-Lot song, "Baby Got Back" called "Baby Got Bible," another parody of the Mac vs. PC ads and a rant posted by someone called SoldierInGodsArmy called "Christians don't use circular logic!!!" (yes, with three exclamation points) showing some guy wearing all black - including a black ski mask - that makes it look like one of those all-too-familiar terrorist videos.
But What Would Jesus View? Well, if he's a sports fan...
Remember the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker commercials (which were actually based on a short film)? Check out "Line Backer Evangalism" below (which, based on the spelling of linebacker, was apparently made by Christian who isn't exactly a huge football fan. And based on the spelling of evangelism, not much of an evangelist either).
Unfortunately, the biggest sin of the clip is...it's not funny. The Lord should really look into hiring an editor as hell to me would be having to watch that video over and over again for all eternity.
8 comments:
- Zen Wizard said...
I would rather be a Christian than a Christ Follower, because it is more important to shave and wear a suit than it is to be a five-o'clock shadowed, "hoodie" wearer who knows what day it is.
- March 21, 2007 11:07 AM
- Michael said...
- March 21, 2007 12:31 PM
- MGoBlue93 said...
The problem is the people who put their faith in man instead of God... Ann Coulter, Tom Delay, Ted Haggard, James Dobson (two of my favorite neighbors here in Colorado Springs)... those clowns have nothing to do with faith. But their impact, things like "Jesus Camp" and "God Tube", are unfortunately far reaching.
BTW, I'd like to second Michael's "What????????"
- March 21, 2007 1:16 PM
- Brad Coe said...
Awesome clip. Sometimes I think this is what the world really needs in real life. lol
- March 21, 2007 2:36 PM
- Go Blue Gabe said...
Man, I don't care what you guys say. "Baby got Bible" is ten times better than "Franklin Couneeeee."
- March 21, 2007 9:59 PM
"Baby got Bible" guy is wearing a Toledo Mud Hens shirt.
- March 21, 2007 10:57 PM
Godtube is an absolute blast. I watched a documentary about Satanism that explained how the Knights Templar and those dirty Masons were the spreaders of satanism (never mind that the Knights Templar were dispatched by the Pope and fought for Jerusalem during the Crusades; never mind that George Washington and most of the founding fathers were Masons), went 'undercover' in a mosque to discover that Muslims hate gay people just as much as Christians, and watched the painfully unfunny Christ Line Backer, who will knock the shit out of you if you don't accept Jesus into your heart.
Are we SURE that this whole 'Godtube' thing is a good idea? The unintentional comedy factor is pretty high, but I get the feeling that's not the goal here.
- March 22, 2007 3:19 AM
I just hope Chabad doesn't get any ideas... As a Jew, I'm comfortable enough with just having Tony Danza!
- March 23, 2007 3:20 AM


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Unfortunately that is not true. Many "broadband" connections are definitely not insanely fast, and at least here in Finland the upload speeds of most connections are so pathetic that the problems mentioned in the article are very easily observed.Browsing speed is already insanely fast to the point where if you blink you miss the loading on most connections these day.
Do advertisements "know" when they are adblocked?
I didn't think so. I mean, the main host doesn't know when a request is made from your browser to the ad-server, and the ad-server obviously doesn't know that a connection was NOT made to it just now.
Nonetheless, this site [ations.net] seems to know that their google ads have been blocked.
With Adblock Plus active, in place of the ads, they put an image with "Thank you! For blocking our ads!".
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Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
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By default, IE allows only two outstanding connections per hostname when talking to HTTP/1.1 servers or eight-ish outstanding connections total. Firefox has similar limits.
If your users regularly load a dozen or more uncached or uncachable objects per page load, consider evenly spreading those objects over four hostnames. Due to browser oddness, this usually means your users can have 4x as many outstanding connections to you.
From RFC 2616, section 8.1.4:
Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy.
It's not a browser quirk, it's specified behavior.
I feel that 10-20 is a much more realistic figure now. I haven't seen many webmasters complaining about FasterFox.
At the end you have just one pipe to push that data even if you have say 100 connections.
By still having one pipe with certain capacity (i.e. bandwidth) but increasing amount of connections, you're wasting your bandwidth for maintenance of multiple connections.
Also you're wasting the resources of the server for the same reason.
At the end, you're slowing yourself down.
Yes, there are scenarios where using for example 4 connections as opposed to just 1 yields better download performance but AFAIK almost al
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I've done some benchmarks and measurements in the past which will never be made public (I work for Yahoo!). And the most important bits in those have been CSS and Scripts. A lot of performance has been squeezed out of the HTTP layers (akamai, Expires headers), but not enough attention has been paid to the render section of the experience. You could possibly reproduce the benchmarks with a php script which does a sleep() for a few seconds to introduce delays at various points and with a weekend to waste [dotgnu.info].
The page does not start rendering till the last CSS stream is completed, which means if your css has @import url() entries, the delay before render increases (until that file is pulled & parsed too). It really pays to have the quickest load for the css data over anything else - because without it, all you'll get it a blank page for a while.
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Why to have 2 np plugins at all? KM uses any of two - one in system folder or one in KM's own.
I think 'internal' npswf may be useful for portable version while any instance which is permanently in place on the hdd (no matter installed into system or portable like my Twin) works beautiful with system-wide installed flash.
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Quality for the 1977-D Kennedy Half Dollars seems to get better this year. As examples in MS66 and MS67 are much easier to obtain than in previous years. There is even 1 known example graded PCGS MS68. However, known examples in MS66 and higher are still somewhat scarce with less than 200 examples confirmed by PCGS in these grade ranges. Therefore, any example in MS66 or higher is considered a great find.
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Although I live nowhere near, I found the story compelling. I was drawn to the photos of plastic bottles plaguing the bay while a pair of ducks floated through the mess. Focusing on a photo of a dead catfish, I learned that shellfish numbers have been declining because of the destruction of seagrass habitats. "The bay today has become the ecological equivalent of a morbidly obese person, force-fed nitrogen and phosphorus," the article read. From that point on, my whole way of thinking about our world's environment changed.
I recognized how our world is in danger. I had always pictured the earth to be a wonderland with perfect habitats of luscious plants and animals. But I now realized that this world is not as perfect as I thought. In recent news, I learned that the Yangtze River in the People's Republic of China contains carcinogenic heavy metals. Meanwhile, factories in Azerbaijan release large amounts of detergents and pesticides into the air. In my own local St. Lucie River, pollution has caused thousands of dead fish to be washed up on shore. Regardless of your political party, ethnic group, or religion, this is not morally acceptable.
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As the weather warms up and a long, California summer sets in, outdoor meals become quite appealing. Some fans of the form go all the way and create a fully separate, outdoor kitchen. Kitchen remodels tend to be big jobs, however, so most people prefer to just do one, indoors. But that doesn't mean one has to ignore the al fresco. Take a look at our kitchen makeover challenge, for example, where one family made a breakfast nook with a 90-degree sliding door, opening two adjoining walls to the outside.
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"Usually the kitchen is connected to the outside with a sliding door, but it's not fully integrated," Key explains. "They don't use materials to make it flow to the outside. So one of the ways you do that is to put slate tile on the floor of the house, and continue that outside, so they feel more connected."
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I seen this somewhere, maybe even here. Here goes, for people who go offroad or traverse non paved roads and have gotten stuck, trying to use the gas and the clutch and the brake all at the same time can be alittle difficult. Here it is, this dude, again I don't know where this is from, took the rear brake cable assembly from his kids mountain bike, and mounted it to the shifter on his car to make a hand operated throttle control. Here's how he did it. He took the brake lever and the cable, but not the rear caliper assembly from the bicycle, and he fed the cable end through the fire wall using the same route the existing throttle cable follows and attached the cable end to the end where the throttle attaches. He then took the lever operated end and mounted it to his shifter arm, just underneath the shifter knob. He used the clamp that attaches the lever to the mountain bikes handle bars and then with a little modification he tightened it down. He said that when he's stuck or his foot gets tired he uses the hand throotle drive, and he said since the cable assemble operates on a spring with the tensile strength just enough to return the throttle to idle, he does'nt worry about the car getting away from him. Has any one ever heard or tried this? I drive my Subie on the average of 200 miles a day with my job and all and was thinking manual cruise control HMMMN........ Cannon
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Has anybody ever tried this offroad modification?
Started by Guest_Cannon_* , Oct 05 1999 12:02 PM
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Posted 05 October 1999 - 12:02 PM
#2 Guest_JimN_*
Posted 05 October 1999 - 12:09 PM
My brother was telling me abou tthis the other day and I was thinking of doing it myself but using a bike gear change level not a brake lever. As for the safety of it no idea until I try it out.
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Posted 05 October 1999 - 10:24 PM
Sounds like a cheap cruze control if you can get it to stay put. LOL
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Posted 06 October 1999 - 09:44 PM
I thought about the gear change lever, I don't know if it would be strong enough to hold the constant cable pressure. I don't know know safe the whole thing is. I would hate to cruise down the road with the cheap cruise control in full effect and wind up running into the back of some Chevy. Being able to release the cable tension in a hurry is good. I thought that maybe a lawn mover throttle cable thing would probably work better for cheap cruise control. I might trry this thing. Cannon
Posted 23 July 2010 - 08:01 AM
its more commonly called a rev throttle, over hear at least. they use it for on board air to keep the compressor spinning fast, or for crawling wit low revs in 1st gear. im yet to do it in my suby but im thinking for the off road car i will
Posted 23 July 2010 - 08:19 AM
my buddy did that on his 85 Yota EFI extended cab solid front axle crawler.
So when you are crawling and bumping rocks, can not keep bumoing the skinny pedal on the big jarring bumps.
So when you are crawling and bumping rocks, can not keep bumoing the skinny pedal on the big jarring bumps.
Posted 23 July 2010 - 02:15 PM
isn't this how people with out use of their legs drive cars? I swear I have seen cars retrofitted to be driven with only use of hands. auto transmission only I think.
Posted 24 July 2010 - 06:11 AM
to an extent willson, but the effect is to lift and hold the revs. disabled peoples cars are made to act as a normal throttle, almost like a motorbike. when you take your hand off it spins back and goes to idle.
when this device is set it just keeps the revs a little higher than idle so you can crawl or run air equipment or just to warm the car up.
when this device is set it just keeps the revs a little higher than idle so you can crawl or run air equipment or just to warm the car up.
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