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Today it begins: The United Nations launches its 2013 International Year of Quinoa initiative.
If you're not familiar with quinoa (keen-WA) yet, you will be soon. Once found only in specialty food stores, this grain is considered a super food by nutritionists and health experts for its high fiber and protein content. If that wasn't reason enough to like it, it's also high in essential amino acids and is free of gluten and cholesterol.
Demand for this healthier grain has led to a production spike (a boon for once poverty-stricken farmers in Bolivia and elsewhere the grain is grown) and now it's on the shelves in most grocery and big box stores.
But what do you do with it? Peapod's Fresh Markets expert Tony Stallone says his family enjoys quinoa in recipes that call for rice or couscous.
"We love its slightly nutty flavor, and my kids love the pop of the grains as they chew," he says.
Tony shares these tips for preparing quinoa:
• Cook quinoa just like rice: one part quinoa to two parts liquid. "I use chicken stock as my liquid for additional flavor, but you can use water or a 50/50 blend to keep the cost down," he adds. Bring your liquid and the quinoa to a boil, then turn down the heat and simmer covered and cook 12 to 15 minutes (that's faster than brown and long-grain rice).
• Read the package and buy quinoa that is pre-rinsed. It saves you a step in prep time.
• For more intense flavor, dry roast quinoa in a pan over medium heat for five minutes, or until lightly browned, before adding liquid and cooking.
• Combine cooked quinoa with rolled oats for hearty breakfast. Stir in blueberries, strawberries and sliced almonds.
Giving Blais a chance: I didn't want to like "Try this at Home: Recipes from my Head to Your Plate" by former "Top Chef" contestant Richard Blais. I still remember season 4, the one filmed in Chicago, like it was yesterday and couldn't stomach Blais' arrogance. Oh how sweet it was when he lost to Windy City gal Stephanie Izard.
So when his cookbook landed on my desk earlier this month my first impulse was to push it to the bottom of the stack. But the crazy cover called to me, and once I picked it up I could hardly put it down. Opening-page praise by respected Chicago chef Grant Achatz and TV/movie darling Zooey Deschanel and a forward by "Top Chef" host Tom Colicchio made me turn a few more pages.
While Blais has made a name for himself as a modernist chef -- he loves his immersion cooker (sous vide) and his liquid nitrogen -- the majority of the recipes are quite approachable. Making yogurt foam for a fruit and granola breakfast dish is a side note and very easy with the right equipment.
I couldn't find anything not to like about his frittata-like Potato Chip Omelet, Green Gazpacho (with directions for freezing it) and Spaghetti+Meatballs (which he recommends eating shirtless, to save on laundry) and angel food cakes made in the microwave.
Speaking of the microwave, he also uses it to make applesauce that he serves with pan-seared spiced pork chops and it couldn't be easier. Peel, core and roughly chop two Granny Smith apples. Put them in a glass bowl with 1 tablespoon water and cook on high for four to five minutes or until very soft. Mash with a fork or potato masher until smooth.
Want the recipe for his pork chops? Head to dailyherald.com/entlife/food or pick up the book; it hits bookstores Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Looking for a reason to enjoy a margarita? Look no further than Friday. Yes, Feb. 22 is National Margarita Day according to the folks at Tequila Partida, and who am I to argue.
The margarita was created around 1934 in Mexico City. If you're still keeping your New Year's resolution to trim calories you'll like Partida's lighter version that trades sugary triple sec or Grand Marnier for agave nectar.
In a shaker filled with ice combine 1½ ounces tequila (blanco or reposado) with 1 ounce fresh squeezed lime juice (about one lime), ¾ ounces agave nectar (or to taste) and ¾ ounces pure water. Strain over ice and enjoy!
• Contact Food Editor Deborah Pankey at email@example.com. Be her friend at Facebook.com/DebPankey.DailyHerald or follow her on Twitter, Pinterest or Instagram @PankeysPlate.


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My two-year old says her ABC's, mostly in order, and even counts to 20, more often than not. What makes me most proud, though, is she knows to ask what canister to put trash in. While she's still too young to understand the concept of recycling, she does knows that paper, plastic, tin and glass do not go in the same bin as a banana peel or the scraps from our dinner plates.
Taking things a step further, her older sister often uses the recycling bin as her go-to art supply center. Romeo, a robot with an old shoebox for a body, egg cartons for feet and cupcake liners for eyes, was a rainy day project with dad. He's become such a fixture in our living room that I imagine he may stay with us long after the girls go off to college.
Next week as you get ready for Earth Day festivities, think about how we can continue the celebration all year long. Here are some tips to make recycling fun and easy for the whole family.
- Speak their language. Little ones may not be able to read, but they can understand pictures. Tape photos onto each pail so they know how to "file" their trash. Make it a weekend project, and flip through old magazines and have them help pick out the photos too.
- Best craft bin ever. Save money on supplies and let the kids spur creativity like my girls did with Romeo.
- Every little bit counts. Everyday items like the paper tag and wrappers from tea bags go into our recycling bin. So do empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls, price tags from new clothing, and even paper sleeves from bread we buy at the bakery.

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2005 Track and Field
Marv Frye Invitational
Beavers successful at Ohio Wesleyan
By Lindsey Delscamp, sports information intern
April 9, 2005
DELAWARE, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's and women's track and field team competed at the Marv Frye Invitational at Ohio Wesleyan University on April 8. The men placed ninth and the women finished fourteenth in the meet.
There were two new Bluffton school records set on the women's side. Junior Rita Muether (Celina/Celina) broke the 100 meter dash record with a time of 12.75 as she finished ninth in the event. Senior Michele Bailey (Spencerville/Spencerville South) broke her own school record in the hammer throw as she placed eighth with a throw of 129'1''. The 4x100 meter relay made up of sophomore Cindy Allan (Fayette/Archbold), Muether, senior Jana Hammer (Hamler/Patrick Henry) and senior Amanda Habegger (Berne, Ind./South Adams) placed seventh with a time of 51.89. The 4x400 meter relay team made up of junior Stephanie Welch (Berne, Ind./South Adams), Muether, Hammer and Habegger placed eighth with a time of 4:24.43.
Leading the way on the men's side was sophomore Shandon North (Galion/Galion) who placed second in the 400 meter dash with a time of 50.16. Freshman Kevin Davis (Albion, Mich./Albion) finished third in the men's long jump with a distance of 21'11.5''. The men's 4x400 meter relay team made up of senior Troy Baumer (Berne, Ind./South Adams), junior Dan Rosebrock (Napoleon/Napoleon), Davis and North placed fourth with a time of 3:27.90. In the javelin throw freshman Rex Brown (Wauseon/Pettisville) placed eighth with a throw of 151'6''.
The Beavers will be back in action at Ohio Wesleyan University on April 16 for the All-Ohio Championships.


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A Thai bridegroom was shot dead at his wedding in front of his bride and 100 stunned guests, The Bangkok Post reports:
Yutthana Juyure, 27, the bridegroom and his bride Nurasatilah Masae were walking around talking to guests and posing for photographs.
The bridegroom, at one point, walked away from his bride to meet some guests eating under a tent nearby. While walking back, he was followed closely by a man who shot him six times in the body with a 9mm gun at close range, killing him on the spot.
Nurasatilah Masae standing in front of her bridegroom who was shot dead during their wedding in the Muslim majority province of Pattani, southern Thailand, on June 10, 2012. The groom was shot dead in the presence of his bride and more than 100 guests, and the gunman then fled, police said.


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The US is really ramping up its war on intellectual property infringement, a war which I'm sure will be just as successful, cheap and supported by the people as the wars on drugs and terrorism. The US has started seizing the domain names of various websites through ICANN - not because owners of these sites were convicted of anything, but merely because complaints have been filed against them. Anyone want to take a guess how long it will be before the US government blocks WikiLeaks? Update: The blocks function outside of the US too. In other words, the US is forcing its views upon the rest of the world once again.
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Because ther're never hate crimes in New Zealand. New Zealanders are highly sophisticated, and have never struggled with homophobia (or, for that matter, racism).
Where did I state that - reading things into my post that I never implied.
Jefro is a symptom of a nation who can't get their head around the notion that limited government means not only the government out of the marketplace but also out of the lives of individuals. The idea of being a social conservative and yet libertarian on the economy is a contradiction in terms. You either believe freedom across the board or you're a big government statist - take your pick but don't try to call yourself pro-freedom when you're little more than a socially conservative socialist.
Maybe you should pick up "Capitalism and Freedom" and turn to the chapter dealing with political, economic and social freedom rather than listening to right wing nuts like Anne Coulter or Sean Hannity for your daily dosage of drongoism.
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A Burton man who investigators say broke into a Waterford family's home has been charged with the crime, and police say the man has similar charges pending in two other counties.
Thomas Edmond Hubbard, 33, was charged Tuesday with second-degree home invasion tied to a late-September home invasion in which the suspect was caught on a video surveillance system set up by the homeowner. His bond was set at $50,000 cash.
Waterford police officials report that numerous tips from the community based on previous media reports helped detectives identify and arrest Hubbard, who is awaiting similar charges in Genesee and Lapeer counties. Following his arraignment in the 51st District Court, Hubbard was turned over to the Lapeer County Sheriff's Office.
The 33-year-old allegedly broke into a Waterford Township residence Sept. 9 in the 2400 block of Georgeland Drive.
Police say the suspect got into the home by prying a sliding door open. Cameras set up inside the home caught the suspect walking through the family's kitchen.
Waterford Police Chief Dan McCaw thanked his department's media partners for their assistance in getting this information out to the public in a media release.
"Because of their efforts, another thief has been taken off the streets of communities across three separate counties," he said.


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far enough so that
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everything that goes on in his head.
Today, he wakes up in tears
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I know it's a dream
where his heart's been broken.
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The county of Mendocino has hired a San Francisco attorney to help respond to federal subpoenas for records the county keeps on its medical marijuana ordinance, Chapter 9.31 of the Mendocino County Code.
The board announced after a closed-door meeting with County Counsel Tom Parker Tuesday that the county "has retained the legal services of William Osterhoudt of San Francisco to assist the county in representation regarding the subpoenas," according to a statement from the board clerk's office.
The subpoenas were issued Oct. 23 by the U.S. Attorney's Northern District Office, and were delivered to Auditor-Controller Meredith Ford, Sheriff Tom Allman, Sheriff's Office Financial Manager Norman Thurston, Sheriff's Capt. Randy Johnson who oversaw the county's erstwhile medical marijuana garden inspection program and the "custodian of records."
The subpoenas ask for "any and all records" for the county's medical marijuana cultivation ordinance from Jan. 1, 2010 to the present, including all types of communication regarding 9.31, including with third-party garden inspectors and Mendocino County Board of Supervisors.
County officials, including Allman, others who have been reluctant to speak on the record, and Parker in a carefully-worded public statement last week, have said that the U.S. Attorney's Office hasn't made it clear why it wants the information.
Starting in June 2010 and ending in March of this year, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office issued permits to medical marijuana collectives that wanted to grow up to 99 plants, an exemption from the county's limit of 25 plants per parcel.
The county permitted 91 collectives in 2011 alone, Allman said previously.
Growers can still buy zip ties from the MCSO for $25 apiece to affix to plants to show they are grown in compliance with state law.
Proceeds from the popular permitting program, along with zip-tie sales and other marijuana-related revenue had mounted to more than $1 million by January of this year, when the U.S. Attorney's Office threatened to file an injunction against the county's medical marijuana cultivation ordinance and seek legal action against county officials who supported it.
In response, the county in March stopped issuing permits for collectives to grow up to 99 plants under 9.31.
The federal subpoena also demands "any and all financial institution account numbers and addresses" used by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, Mendocino County District Attorney's Office and Mendocino County; records of inspections, applications, communications with 9.31 permit applicants, permit holders and inspectors; and all records regarding the county's zip-tie program including account numbers for "funds received through the program," according to the subpoena, released last week pursuant to a Public Records Act request made by the Daily Journal.
The records, including information on meetings having to do with 9.31, were due Nov. 8, but the county has until Jan. 8 to respond under an extension.


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6. Trend Micro, Tech Data Partner To Simplify Account Management
Trend Micro and Tech Data in January announced a partnership aimed at helping managed service providers simplify their accounts through a platform integration between the two companies. More specifically, the integration linked Tech Data's Solution Store with Trend Micro's Licensing Management Platform (LMP). The move is meant to help MSPs streamline accurate billing, especially for SaaS security products, instead of auditing the end user to determine their usage.
"On the partner side, it eliminates the administrative chores associated with this business function. As customers move towards the cloud model, there are a few days every month when people are just scrambling to gather data on usage in order to invoice the customers," Bharath Natarajan, director of product marketing at Tech Data, said of the announcement. "This has been a painful thorn in the sides of all the providers, and we believe that we have just removed that thorn."


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State water officials propose fining a Tracy area dairyman $1.4 million after discovering tons of manure covering his property and what could be hundreds of cows illegally buried nearby.
State water officials propose fining a Tracy area dairyman $1.4 million after discovering tons of manure covering his property and what could be hundreds of cows illegally buried nearby.
The fear is the manure and cow carcasses will pollute the groundwater creating a potentially serious health hazard for anyone tapping into the aquifer.
Besides, other dairy operators deal with the same disposal problems faced by Henry Tosta, who's looking at the state fine. Their disposal costs are part of the cost of doing business.
Tosta complains the fine will put him out of business. But if the allegations are true, he should work out a payment plan.
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It's over. Finally.
All the local results of the Nov. 6 election are in and all the races have been decided, although with only 35 votes separating Gloria Allen and Monica Hernandez in SUSD's Area 1 there was a chance Hernandez might demand a recount.
She didn't - Registrar of Voters Austin Erdman told her the deficit was too large to overcome - and the election is in the books.
Now on to 2014.
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OK, the Nov. 6 election isn't quite over. There's some unfinished local business.
Now that Susan Eggman has joined the state Assembly, her Stockton City Council seat must be filled. So far 13 people have offered their services for the District 5 seat and the application period doesn't close until 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Three newbies will take their council seats Jan. 8 - Moses Zapien, Michael Tubbs and Mayor-elect Anthony Silva - and they are expected to immediately start interviewing applicants for Eggman's vacant seat.
It could be a long first council meeting for the three.
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Police trying to investigate the city's 68th homicide said they were met with hostility and obscenities from residents of the neighborhood near American and Oak streets where the shooting took place on the morning of Dec. 2.
Some neighbors complain the police showed up with an attitude.
The chasm between the views of what went on after the killing of Eric Madison, 21, is hardly helpful to police and does nothing to stem crime so common in some neighborhoods.
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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger had a few run ins with birds during his professional career, most notably in 2009 when the US Airways Airbus A320 he was piloting struck a flock of birds during takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport. Sullenberger landed his jetliner in the nearest river and all 155 on board survived in what's become the "Miracle on the Hudson."
Since then the retired pilot has spoken out about the bird strike problem around the nation's airports, most recently opposing expansion of a landfill near the Stockton Metropolitan Airport.
Garbage attracts birds and the fear is an even bigger landfill will attract even more birds to an area near the airport.
This year, according to a data base maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration, there have been three aircraft vs. bird incidences at the Stockton airport. None caused any damage reported to the FAA.
By comparison, at the much-busier Sacramento International Airport there have been 94 bird incidences including five that caused moderate damage to aircraft and one that caused substantial damage. Nobody's talking about banning nearby rice farming that attracts birds.
Operators of the landfill near the Stockton airport say they continue to take measures to mitigate the bird problem there.
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SOMERSET, Ky. (WKYT) - Like many, David Morris was taken back by the violence at Sandy Hook in Connecticut and wanted to act.
"It changed the way I felt about security as it relates to school systems," said Morris.
His company, Modern Systems, installs everything from home theater to security systems.
"I realized I was in a position to do something about it," he said.
So his company installed a panic button in the front office of every school in the county. That's 27 schools with pre-schools included.
"When I looked at Sandy Hook, I wondered what would make a difference," he said.
And school officials say they believe the panic buttons will also be used in the event of any kind of emergency.
"It can be any kind of disaster, a tornado, like that, we had an explosion a few years ago at a middle school," said Pulaski Co. Schools Superintendent Steve Butcher.
Each school has three buttons with one right beside the receptionist.
"There's certain situations where if you are under duress your motor skills can't function. So you can't pick up the phone and call 911," said Morris.
Accepting no payment for the job that cost tens of thousands only asking others to pay it forward.
"It was to encourage other security dealers across the nation that would be inspired by this and do something in their communities," said Morris.
The panic button sends a signal directly to 911 with first responders notified in matter of seconds.


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(53) Anonymous, February 26, 2014 8:04 PM
Please Rabbi can you please use "people first" language. Child with Down Syndrome not Down Syndrome Child. Thank you so much. Those of us who have children with Down Syndrome
(52) willy, May 16, 2012 11:24 AM
where's the trust in G-D. G=D gave my wife and I five children. the first born has autism.. while our trials do very if we couldn't handle it we would not have been blessed with such an wonderful son. we believe that we were given Jeff because we have the ability to take care of his needs. while we don't always agree how to handle the problems we are faced with, his needs are met. Jeff is in an group home now. every other weekend we bring him home for an visit. one time there was an bad snow storm and I wanted to wait another weekend where it would be more safer. my wife said no we are getting him. I thought she was nuts, but we still got him and brought him home. of course I now wonder who was more nuts her for suggesting it or me for doing it. maybe we both are a little nuts. but this is our life which we have been blessed with and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Jeff is an great son and the things that he does accomplish we are proud of. the last time your child gave you an hug did you take it for granted? being autistic Jeff can't stand touching. when we take him home and say goodbye we get an hug from him which is an brief head on your shoulder. it last maybe two seconds and we cherish these. our second son at the age of two tried to give Jeff. He pushed him away. I told him to keep trying to give him an hug from the front and if he pushes you away give him an hug from the back. I explain that he wants the hug but the autism won't let him. he did and 5 years latter he finally got his hug from the front
(51) Eidel, April 26, 2012 6:01 PM
Don't judge
The testing should be done so the parents can make an informed decision. All babies are precious, but life can be horrendous for them as they get older. When the parents die, or become to old and feeble to care for their child; life can be a living hell for adults with problems who have to go to state schools.
Joel, May 11, 2012 6:53 PM
Then Fix the Schools
Eidel, I hope I don't offend you, but if the conditions of the schools are so horrendous that you believe that a adult is better off not being alive than attending a state institution, why aren't you advocating for reforming how services for people with disabilities are provided, rather than advocating for less kids being born? I am a teacher of students with disabilities, and we have a lot of work to do to improve acceptance of people with disabilities in society, but to use the fact that people with disabilities are marginalized as an excuse for why kids with disabilities should not exist is very offensive and hurtful to me and many people with disabilities and their families.
(50) Anonymous, April 26, 2012 6:46 AM
very frightening!
I'll never forget during a particularly difficult pregnancy having the dr badger me into having genetic testing. This wasn't my first baby so I flat out refused. When I asked him why he wanted it - his answer resonates in my ears to this day. So that we know if the baby has a problem. and if the baby has a problem we know that we don't need to take any heroic efforts to save it if there is issues. think of the repercussions of that statement. It would be the same as if there are a bunch of kids on a sinking ship but we won't help one kid to a lifeboat because they have a broken leg etc. people's values are not based on their physical prowess or their mental agility- a person's value comes from G-d and only G-d can measure it.


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Vegetable Potato Quiche Recipe
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Of all the recipe Mom used to make, this was one of her best. When I make it, I'm reminded of home.—Lori Hiscock, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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- 3 cups frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1-1/2 cups sliced zucchini
- 3/4 cup chopped sweet red pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup cubed fully cooked ham
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried basil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 3/4 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- In a large bowl, combine the hash browns, egg and Parmesan cheese. Press onto the bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. pie plate. Bake at 400° for 16-20 minutes or until golden brown.
- Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute zucchini and red pepper in butter until crisp-tender. Remove from the hear; stir in the ham, eggs, milk, basil, salt and pepper.
- Pour into crust. Sprinkle with Monterey Jack cheese. Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting. Yield: 4-6 servings.
Originally published as Potato Vegetable Quiche in The Best of Country Cooking Annual 2005, p29
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Reviewed Jul. 26, 2014
"I'm afraid we didn't enjoy this like the other reviewers seemed to. I left out the ham for a vegetarian meal and while I really enjoy vegetables, the zucchini taste was overpowering to me. I did really like using the potatoes for the crust and will probably use that idea again. But I would do a different filling next time with more eggs."
Reviewed May. 13, 2014
"Delicious. Omitted the ham for a vegetarian meal.Also added sliced tomatoes before serving."
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"This is Great!! It's easy and everyone loved it.It would also be good for a light supper. Next time I plan to double the recipe and freeze one for later. Thanks."


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The One Sport by Dolce & Gabbana is a generic, marine scent, lacking in projection and longevity.
Hello, Can someone tell me what do they think of the Cologne: THE ONE SPORT by Dolce & Gabbana , Does it smell sexy? Thank you!
The One Sport by Dolce & Gabbana is a generic, marine scent, lacking in projection and longevity.
Don't personally care for it.
It's not that great.I find it pretty boring, but then again, I find the whole genre pretty boring. On a side note, can you just post threads like everyone else without all the bold and exclamations in the title?
Thanks @dollars&scents @OctaVariuM @hednic for your input - It's much appreciated
The only 2 D&G fragrances I enjoyed were The One and The One Gentleman (and possibly LB)
Terrible stuff; avoid this one.
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4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
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Story highlights
- Second source confirms terms of the proposed sale
- Donald Sterling's lawyer earlier said he would have to consent to a sale
- Sterling is upset because NBA knows 'he is not a racist," attorney says
- Board of Governors would have to approve sale of team
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has signed a binding agreement to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion from the Sterling family trust, a source familiar with the situation told CNN on Thursday night.
A second source, who was familiar with the negotiations, confirmed the terms to CNN.
The sale, negotiated by Shelly Sterling -- co-owner with estranged husband Donald Sterling -- will have to be approved at a NBA Board of Governors meeting. It was unclear whether a meeting set for Tuesday will go on, given Thursday's developments.
And the sale still may have to be approved by Donald Sterling, according to earlier comments by his attorney.
Maxwell Blecher told CNN earlier that his client would have to consent to a sale and wants to be vindicated by the NBA, which is in the process of terminating the Sterlings' ownership in the team for racist remarks Sterling made in an audio recording released online in April.
The NBA has damaged Sterling's reputation, Blecher claimed in a lengthy interview with CNN's "The Situation Room."
"They know he is not a racist," he said.
Blecher said Sterling is troubled by the charges of racism. He thinks of himself as an exemplary owner with a 33-year history of supporting the African-American community, Blecher said.
"He wants to be vindicated. He doesn't want his tombstone to say, 'Here lies Donald Sterling, racist.' And the NBA has the power to make that right," Blecher said, without saying what Sterling wants the league to do.
CNN reached out to Blecher for comment on news of the sale, but didn't immediately hear back.
Blecher said earlier that Sterling had no interest in selling the team, rather than passing it down to his heirs. When reminded that Sterling would make a huge profit on a sale, even after capital gains taxes, Blecher it should have been the billionaire businessman's decision when to part with the team. It's not about money, he said.
In April, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling, fined him $2.5 million and prompted the league's other 29 owners to begin proceeding to strip the longtime owner and his wife of the team.
Sterling is considering suing the NBA if he doesn't get the resolution he wants. Blecher said they weren't in a rush to file the lawsuit and were waiting in part in deference to Shelly Sterling as she negotiated the sale.
Biggest NBA deal ever
Ballmer is worth $20 billion, according to Forbes magazine. Another source said Ballmer's offer earlier Thursday was $1.8 billion and Shelly Sterling was hoping to get a price that "started with a two."
A group that included media moguls David Geffen and Oprah Winfrey also made a bid of $1.6 billion, the source told CNN.
If the deal goes through, it would be the largest sum paid for an NBA franchise. Last month, the Milwaukee Bucks, a bad team in a small television market, sold for $550 million.
But the Clippers are in the second-largest market in the league, albeit one they share with the Los Angeles Lakers, one of the most popular teams in professional sports.
The Clippers, however, have been more successful in recent seasons, including this one that ended in the second round of the NBA playoffs. They also have stars Blake Griffin and Chris Paul. And their TV contract reportedly will expire in 2016 and could mean billions to the owner.
The purchase would have to be approved by 75% of the NBA's 30 owners. Last year they denied a sale to a group that included Ballmer that would have resulted in the Kings moving to Seattle, after the league's relocation committee recommended keeping the team in Sacramento.
Ballmer, who attended several Clippers playoff games, told the Wall Street Journal earlier this month he would not move the team from Los Angeles.
Donald Sterling has been the controlling owner of the Clippers since buying the team in 1981 for $12 million.


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Division of Academic Support
The Division of Academic Support has requested the following:
We are quite worried about being hosted for Banner services since, like pretty much all Learning Support departments across the state, we have unique requirements, exit scores, and policies that would not be reflected in a "vanilla" Banner and routines such as COMPASS score uploads that set values in Banner. Unless the BOR plans to eliminate the range of scores and policies that it currently permits for LS departments, every school will face this problem, and we certainly will as well. The loss of our Online Advising program under a hosting scenario would harm multiple efforts on campus--LS, testing, advising, just to name a few. That's also a worry. Not sure if this is a tech issue, but would love to see banner use military time on line and in course schedules and would love to see campuses noted by initials, not numbers. would love to have students notified on line every time banner is not functioning. would love to see partial grades posted (as in our 10 week classes, I know this is possible since West Ga does this). would love to have a transcript request form, graduation petition and other forms on line (not to download, but to submit on line). would appreciate it if the contact page were kept up to date by every department, so students (and staff) could find staff/faculty .I'm sure there are other things, but these are some of my wishes and they probably belong in comments section. The College as a whole should consider the possibilities inherent in adopting web-based instructional products such as Eluminate Live, or Horizon Wimba Live Classroom. Several of the E-Classrooms should be set up (C'ville, Rome, NMT, Mtta) with headphones/mikes and appropriate site licenses. Has huge potential to decrease travel budgets.
We have been much helped this year by improvements to our programs for handling COMPASS scores. The improvements have reduced the amount of work done by hand and made the setting of some values more accurate. We appreciate that and valu e our local Banner folks. Taylor Maddox has been a big help as part of the ATP Task Force with figuring out how to do some things at our office at Carrollton. Even though we've not yet been able to do all of them (current copier there is not equipped to be used as a printer, for instance), we've come much farther this year with support for our instructors. We want to continue his participation. In keeping with promoting the lowering od copy costs, we need to make it easier to publish doc online. This means cheap scanners in each dpt. and perhaps products that make it easy to save a Word doc in Vista-friendly html. Acrobat distiller, too, for making pdf's.
Status: 2/12/09
Completed. No hosting at this time.


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Tuesday Max Effort Deadlifts
Hit the deficit deadlifts
After deadlifts I did 3 sets of accessory
3x10 good mornings
3x10 glute ham raise
5 drops with leg curls
then I did a weird exercise for 2x5 sets with a barbell with a rope on it, the rope goes on your back and you stand up. Very hard to stabilize the barbell and really fires your glutes! Loved it! Will get a video next time. I plan on keeping it as an accessory movement.


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The full list. The one I'd be most interested in hearing? Oddly enough, it's Taj Mahal doing "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"... which just by chance is kind of Thanksgiving-appropriate:
I was riding on the MayflowerHappy Thanksgiving, everyone. Here at Meadhouse, it's pre-dawn and we're eating pancakes. (We just invented peanut butter pancakes.) I'd give you an Amazon link for that Bob Dylan cover songs album so you could buy it, but it's not available yet. Feel free to buy something else at Amazon. For example, here's Taj Mahal album I really like. Listen to the title track.
When I thought I spied some land...
"I think I'll call it America"
I said as we hit land
I took a deep breath
I fell down, I could not stand


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Can someone please post the exact power requirements for the SB3 please or confirm that the ones on the front page are correct?
Reason is I've asked someone to give me a quote for a linear psu build and he seemed rather shocked by the requirements that I copy and pasted from the front page. He seemed to think that was rather a lot for a digital device.
Fwiw this is what I've quoted him from the front page :-
Power input
5.0V DC, regulated
Center positive, sleeve ground
Connector: 2.5mm ID, 5.5mm OD, 11mm long
Min supply rating: 1000mA
Power supply
Switching power supply included
Input voltage range and plug style specific to shipping destination
Power supplies are small, efficient, and do not get hot
One of four styles is included depending on country "
Is that correct?
PS please keep the replies simple!
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Hand him the stock supply and say 'same or better'! The power rating of the stock supply is clearly labelled and regardless of the 'minimum' requirements listed in the SB3 manual it is the one Slimdevices have chosen to supply for the UK - 5volts, 2amp I seem to recall. Further details in the "Best Mod" thread.
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Here is a link to a thread where the actual current draw of a SB2 wired and a SB3 wireless was measured.
2006-06-04, 15:31 #4
The specs on the web site are correct, as are mgalusha's measurements. The maximal CPU and network usage scenario might draw about 100ma more, which would be:
- full brightness
- playing MP3
- full-screen spectrum analyzer
- bridging active and running at max throughput from wired->wireless
If using a linear supply I would suggest no less than a 2A rating, just to ensure you have plenty of heat dissipation. Supplies rated for only 1A will work, but will get annoyingly hot when running at full load.
I don't know why one would be surprised by the ~5W max draw. This is not much for powering a VFD, a 250MHz processor, and a wireless interface!


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Juozas Kaziukenas has posted a review of the recently released Zend Server beta talking about some of the features it offers.
I haven't tried it - probably it will be commercial solution (Zend Studio == Zend Platform?) and I'm not looking for one right one. So I jumped over to Zend Server CE (Community Edition) [...] Main differences lie deep inside PHP configuration - not-community version is much more tweaked for performance and production servers, where community edition is for development environments.
He talks about the install process, the interface and what it offers and some of his personal thoughts on the software.


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Tottenham defender Michael Dawson is looking forward to the Sunday afternoon clash with Manchester United, and he believes a win can spur his side on to qualify for the Champions League after the pain of missing out last year.
Spurs finished fourth in the Premier League last season but were denied entry into Europe's top club competition after Chelsea won the trophy to gain automatic entry, with Uefa laws stating only four teams from one country can qualify.
However, Dawson is confident his side can complete the double over Sir Alex Ferguson's league leaders, having won 3-2 at Old Trafford earlier in the season, to continue their push for a place in the top four.
"Winning up at Old Trafford was a great win for us," he told reporters. "I'm sure that will be in their minds when they come to White Hart Lane.
"It was great after so many years to beat United, but the biggest thing was to back that result up. We've managed to do that.
"It was unbelievable last season. To finish fourth and not qualify for the Champions League was devastating.
"There are a lot of teams fighting for the top four this season. We have to make sure we are because Champions League football is where we want to be. We've shown we can do it, but we have to prove it now."
Dawson also revealed that manager Andre Villas-Boas won his respect after the boss made him his fifth-choice centre back at the beginning of the season.
"The boss has got five top centre-halves at the club and he can only play two. He was honest and said he couldn't guarantee me games - I respected him for that.
"At the start of the season when I wasn't involved at Newcastle, he spoke to me. Since then I have respected his decision; there's no point moaning about it. Everyone's got opinions and, hopefully, I've changed his opinion now."
Dawson explained that Tottenham's acceptance of an offer for him from QPR could have dented his confidence, but is happy to have rejected the approach and won his place back in the starting XI.
"It was maybe difficult for me that the club accepted an offer but I chose to stay. If I had wanted to leave, then I could have done.
"When your chance comes, you've got to take it. It's great to be back playing. I've been at Tottenham for eight years and it's not always been easy.
"It wasn't the first time for me to be out and, hopefully, I've got my way back in and I can stay in the team as long as possible."


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Coming into the series, Bakersfield had the worst record in the California League, while San Jose had the best. However, Bakersfield has taken the first two games of the series and has won three in a row overall, improving its record to 8-18.
Jonathan Moscot is on the hill today for the Blaze and will he will be trying to build upon his last start, in which he did not allow a run in 5.1 innings of work, while striking out seven.
Bakersfield has gone 7 up, six down in the first two. The lone hit a single by Kyle Waldrop. Moscot has yielded one run on three hits through two. The lone run coming courtesy a balk with a man on third in the opening frame.
The Blaze collect five hits in the next two innings but push across a single run to tie the game at one. D'Anna's single and Perez's double in the third prove fruitless. Waldrop started off the rally in the fourth with his second single of the game. Juan Duran brought him home with a base knock. Juan Silverio also singled later in the inning. 1-1 into the bottom of the fourth. Kyle Waldrop now has a five-game hitting streak and is batting .350 during that stretch.
Bakersfield is pounding out the hits but do not have much to show for their efforts. Two more hits in the fifth result in no runs. In the sixth they get singles in succession by Duran, Silverio and D'Anna to score a run. They now have 11 hits in six innings, yet lead just 2-1.
After balking in a run in the first, Moscot has pitched well. 5IP 5H 1R 1ER 0BB 3K.
Yorman Rodriguez has 3 ABs and 3 Ks. Yikes!
Moscot gets touched up for three runs in the sixth. Only one was earned as his defense let him down a bit. Brooks Pinckard has taken over with the Blaze now trailing 4-2. Pinckard and McMyne combine for 2.2 shutout innings of relief. It's not enough as the bats cannot come alive late.
Waldrop, Duran, Silverio, D'Anna and Gonzalez with two singles each. Ryan Wright singled. Juan Perez doubled.
The San Jose Warwicks hold the Blaze to just a harmless two-out single in the ninth to secure a 4-2 victory.


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Steve's AWESOME Brat
Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:02 PM
I think the idea of putting EA front brakes on the rear is pretty cool, albeit a little more difficult than using another vehicle's rear brakes.
Just some input (plus if you look around the mod forum it'll give you some more ideas).
Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:08 PM
Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:15 PM
I'm running 6 bolt wheels so those swaps aren't going to work for me. I'm not afraid of custom fab work...
Well, grab a rear brake swap and some EA front calipers and have at it. See if you can make some brackets to fit or use front rotors along with the front caliper or something. Let your imagination run wild and then pick the good ideas out and work with them
Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:19 PM
... I'm not afraid of custom fab work...
If so, I did a Rear e-Brake retrofit onto my Subaru "BumbleBeast" without using nissan parts, nor Subaru EJ parts.
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I Bet it could be easier to Swap the Rear Disc Brakes from a EA82 onto the Brat, you could drill their hubs for six lugs; the rest I explained in the Writeup.
Kind Regards.
Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:25 PM
was just hoping to figure something out without doing a disc brake swap
Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:47 PM
Good Luck!
Kind Regards.
Posted 15 September 2012 - 08:47 PM
It's just temporary until I figure out something a little more elegant but it's fixed the belt squeal I was getting.
Also finally welded in an O2 sensor bung and installed that, hopefully will help my gas mileage a bit...
Posted 17 September 2012 - 10:07 AM
Still dies when its stone cold though, can't figure that one out.
Posted 27 September 2012 - 07:06 PM
GM rear brake conversion has begun.
Posted 27 September 2012 - 08:41 PM
Oh, your backing plate is on backward.
I've had a 65 Chevy PU for 22 yrs.
Posted 27 September 2012 - 10:25 PM
I was just checking it for sizing at this point, looks like it should work out pretty well. Just have to build a hub to mount the drum on.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 11:57 AM
Posted 07 October 2012 - 06:00 PM
I'm going to pull the tank tomorrow and give it to him for a template, but in the meanwhile I still need to be able to drive the car to work and such, so I picked up a generator gas tank
4.5 Gallons, just welded up a little mounting bracket that bolts to the stock seat bolt holes, should be plenty strong enough.
I may throw some junk on top of it though, I don't think it's STRICTLY legal...
Posted 30 October 2012 - 04:17 PM
As far as I can tell so far it looks like I only need to build a tolerance ring and drill one new hole in the backing plate
Rear ebrake here I come!
Posted 31 October 2012 - 02:57 AM
Posted 31 October 2012 - 06:20 PM
I'll post some pics tomorrow.
Drums are the same size so you can reuse the stock brat drums.
Posted 01 November 2012 - 11:04 AM
I'm not sure why no one has done this conversion before
Posted 01 November 2012 - 02:40 PM
Posted 01 November 2012 - 02:47 PM
How come there's no grease in your wheel bearing?
Same reason there's no shaft on the CV, it's a spare assembly I'm using for mocking this up, I threw the whole thing into the parts washer so I could handle it without getting covered in goo.
Posted 01 November 2012 - 08:56 PM
That seat on the left looks a little uncomfortable.
Posted 02 November 2012 - 04:09 AM
I have like 10 of these Justy things lying around so I think I'll do the same swap someday!
Posted 05 November 2012 - 02:55 PM
The rear most mounts go to the stock bump bolt holes, the plate in the center goes to the bracket the fuel tank bolts to to support the tongue weight, and the front mounts bolt between the mustache bar mounts and the frame. I've probably way overbuilt it but better safe the sorry. I'll be towing at most 1500lbs, probably more like 1000.
Remember the front brakes have been upgraded to GM 1/2 ton pickup brakes and it's got an EJ22
Posted 08 November 2012 - 05:07 PM
feeling pretty good about this!
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Cody Ross hit a pair of three-run homers and Felix Doubront picked up a milestone victory as Boston ripped Chicago, 10-1, in the third edition of a four-game series from Fenway Park.
Adrian Gonzalez went 3-for-4 including a home run and tallied four RBI for the Red Sox, who have won three of four.
Doubront (10-4) scattered four hits and one run over six solid innings to reach double-digit wins for the first time in his career.
Paul Konerko walked twice and drove in the lone run for the White Sox, who have dropped two of three in the set.
In his major-league debut, Pedro Hernandez (0-1) was rocked for 12 hits and eight runs over four-plus frames. Following the game, he was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte and a corresponding move will be made prior to Thursday's series finale.
"It's a bittersweet experience," said Hernandez of his debut. "You come up here and you really get to see the talent of these players. I was happy to be here but at the same token sad that I didn't get to help out the team."
The fireworks began in the home third, as Jacoby Ellsbury and Carl Crawford singled ahead of Ross' first longball which cleared the Green Monster and gave Boston a 4-1 edge.
In the following frame, Pedro Ciriaco and Ellsbury singled with one out and two batters later Ross launched another blast over the Monster once more. Gonzalez followed with an opposite-field shot and it was 8-1.
The Sox moved into double digits in the sixth. Crawford was plunked to start the inning, Ross doubled and Gonzalez plated both with a single.
After the first inning, Doubront only encountered trouble in the second -- leaving two runners on after fanning Alejandro De Aza. After a walk to Konerko in the third, he retired nine of the last 10 batters he faced.
Matt Albers, Marc Melancon and Andrew Miller combined to hold the White Sox hitless over the final three innings.
Chicago opened the scoring in the first, as De Aza and Kevin Youkilis singled, De Aza moved to third on Adam Dunn's double-play grounder then scored on a Konerko hit.
"I know the team is going to score runs," said Doubront about spotting the White Sox a run in the first inning. "We have a good team, very good hitters. I wasn't worried about that."
Ellsbury started the home half with a two-bagger and eventually scored on a Gonzalez single.
Game Notes
David Ortiz was the last Red Sox player to hit three-run homers in consecutive at-bats, back on Aug. 12, 2008. Pittsburgh's Pedro Alvarez was the last player to hit three-run homers in consecutive plate appearances. The Red Sox placed Ortiz on the 15-day disabled list due to a strained right Achilles tendon, and first baseman Mauro Gomez was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket...Ellsbury finished with three hits and scored three times, while Crawford scored a pair of runs...Hernandez's ERA stands at 18.00.


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The coming of .NET
This is the second part of a three-part series describing how one developer became disillusioned with the Windows platform and was reinvigorated by the bright lights of Mac OS X.
In part one, I described how Apple turned its failure to develop a modern OS into a great success. The purchase of NeXT gave Apple a buzzword-compliant OS with a healthy ecosystem of high-quality third-party applications. Meanwhile, Microsoft was lumbering along with Windows XP. Although technically sound, it was shot through with the decisions made more than a decade earlier for 16-bit Windows.
In 2001, when XP was released, this was not such a big deal. The first two or three versions of Mac OS X were troublesome, to say the least. Performance was weak, there were stability issues, and version 10.0 arguably wasn't even feature complete. It wasn't until early 2002 that Apple even made Mac OS X the default OS on new Macs; for the first few months of its life, XP was up against "Classic" Mac OS 9.
But OS X didn't stand still. Apple released a series of updates in quick succession, strengthening the platform with new features like Core Audio, Core Image, Core Data, and Quartz Extreme, and providing high-quality applications that exploited these abilities. All this time, XP itself stood still. The core Windows platform didn't change between 2001 and late 2006.
Although XP itself was essentially unchanged, Microsoft did try to produce a modern, appealing platform for future development. That platform was, of course, .NET, and observant readers will have noticed that I didn't mention it in part one. This was no accident, as the whole .NET story deserved a more thorough examination.
Microsoft attempts modernity
In 2002, Microsoft released the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework was brand spanking new. It was designed and implemented from the ground up. It could have been clean and consistent and orthogonal and with a clear design and powerful concepts. It could have been a way out of the quagmire that is Win32. It could have provided salvation—an environment free of 16-bit legacy decisions, with powerful APIs on a par with what Apple had developed.
It was certainly promoted as such. .NET was pushed as the future, the way all Windows development would occur in the future. The plans became quite aggressive; in the OS that was to succeed Windows XP, new functionality would be accessed not through Win32 but through .NET, meaning that any developer wanting to exploit the latest and greatest OS features would have to venture into this brave new world.
So .NET could have been a step into the 21st century. It could have been, but it wasn't. Technically, .NET was fine. The virtual machine infrastructure was pretty sound, the performance was reasonable, and C# was an adequate (if not exactly ground-breaking) language. But the library—the .NET "API" used for such diverse tasks as writing files, reading data from databases, sending information over a network, parsing XML, or creating a GUI—the library is another story altogether.
The library is extremely bad. It is simplistic and inflexible and in many ways quite limited. See, .NET has a big problem: its target audience. .NET was meant to be a unified platform that all developers would use—after all, if new OS features required .NET, a broad cross-section of developers would use it. The problem is that not all developers are created equal. By looking at the different kinds of developers out there, we can understand why .NET is the way it is. What follows is not an exhaustive taxonomy of all the weird and wonderful breeds of programmer, but rather a rough taxonomy of some of the key species.


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Just seen, for the first time, a self-destructing CDrom!
A Brand new Windows XP SP2 OEM CD exploded into fragments, trashing the CDWriter it was being installed from!
Is this a new sinister way of ensuring that you only install it once?
Or does it only happen when it detects Linux?
I have heard of this before, but never believed it until now.
Maybe this will spread to Linux, and we will have downloadable playonce ISOs


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Have you played NightSky yet? We've got Steam codes for all of our members right now, courtesy of our friends at Nicalis.
Destructoid's Jonathan Holmes gave it an 8/10, calling NightSky a "physics-focused puzzle platformer that alternates between soothing the fuck out of the player and stressing them out with deceptively simple-looking obstacle courses."
To claim your code simply access your HUGE Perks page to grab your code and claim it on Steam. If there is a surplus of codes after members get dibs, we'll of course make the rest public.
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PJ Gray and her partner strive to uncover a murderer - and reveal their feelings for each other.
A serial killer dubbed the Metro Mangler is on the loose in St. Louis. PJ Gray, psychologist and virtual-reality sleuth, heads the investigation, alongside her partner, the veteran homicide detective Leo Schultz. Are the killings the work of one criminal, or two? The partners sift through baffling evidence, which links to a 30-year-old crime and a wealthy family's secrets.
But in this case, there's an added complication: The relationship between the partners is heating up. Gray is a recently divorced single mother, though, and outside of work she's preoccupied with her son's new gaming addiction. And on top of it all, there's another man after her, too - she's next on the Mangler's hit list.


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Whether it's rotted metal or a blonde on a cell phone plowing into your car, bad things do happen to vehicles. In this case, our '66 Nova SS had rot in the lower quarter-panels, not to mention the poor bodywork done decades ago was starting to fall apart. It was time for some serious restoration work to be done to this Nova. Part of the work we are specifically focusing on is replacing of the rear driver's side quarter panel.
After a phone call to Goodmark Industries, a replacement quarter-panel and rocker was ordered and shipped. When it arrived five days later our fun began. Let's go over a few points before we start cutting and grinding on the Nova. Properly fitting a new panel to your vehicle is not like slipping on a set of tube socks. Yeah, we wish it was that easy, but it's not. Lots of trimming of the panel, grinding, and test fitting is involved. Let's not forget to mention the right tools you'll need to get the job done. Of course, this may be the best excuse in the world to justify getting the latest gizmo and widget combo set.
Should you decide to skip the whole home improvement experience, a job like this at an experienced shop would require anywhere from 10-16 man hours. That translates to roughly $1,200-1,500 in labor costs; keep in mind this is just one panel on the vehicle and we are guestimating on the low side.
It's very likely that many reading this are the do-it yourself type. It's also likely that many are on a budget tighter than a wrestler's outfit, so installing the panel yourself is the only option. We found ourselves at Harrison's Restorations and watched them do all the work. Let's condense 16 hours of work into a few pages and watch how they did it.


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Glad to see that the self-imposed purda of retired Gen. David Petraeus is coming to an end.
I am not one who thinks an extramarital affair merits the equivalent of a professional death penalty, but Petraeus' transgressions with his much younger biographer were so over the top that he really did need to excuse himself from the public sphere for awhile.
And though he has apologized, I don't think his apology went far enough.
You probably remember the general outlines of the sex scandal that brought him down: Paula Broadwell, 40, an extraordinarily accomplished academic, writer and Army intelligence officer, co-authored "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus." Petraeus, 60, was a rich subject for any biographer -- a four-star general who oversaw coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq before becoming CIA director in 2011.
Thanks to her military background, Broadwell had extraordinary access to Petraeus. She produced a book that critics said was just short of hagiography. It became abundantly clear why that was so just after her book tour, when news of their affair broke last November


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Food bank serves over 4,000 clients this year
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The Community Food Bank of Franklin County has served 4,162 clients so far this year with more than 76,361 pounds of food given to those in need. The food bank has brought in a total income of $29,746.21 through the end of August 2013.
Expenses so far this year have totaled $33,634.51. For more information, see the September 19 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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The Sustainable Landscape-Permeable Pavers, Rain Garden
Felice's Four Seasons considers this project one of the most interesting and unique residential environmental projects of its kind in the mid-Michigan area. To the best of our knowledge, this project is the first residential sustainability project in the mid-Michigan area that helps protect our water resources. The homeowners are committed to helping the environment. They chose to undertake this project as a way to demonstrate and teach the mid-Michigan area, as well as the world how we can have a beautiful hardscape and softscape, but greatly reduce our impact on the environment. All of these Low-Impact Design (LID) elements work together as storm water management tools.
The project features magnificent Allan Block retaining walls and decorative pillars encompassing the entire front yard and a set of beautiful, custom, curved steps at the city sidewalk. The downspouts on the front of the home were designed to drain into two gorgeous rain gardens filled with perennials and ornamental grasses. Belgard 'Subterra' permeable paver landings and walkways create the beautiful random cobblestone surfaces that lead you between awe-inspiring pillars through the front garden down a ramp to the permeable paver driveway. The front concrete city sidewalk was removed and replaced with permeable concrete.
This project broke ground on the morning of August 15, 2008 and completed Saturday, October 4, 2008.
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ST. LOUIS — The president of a conservative Lutheran denomination has apologized for reprimanding a Newtown, Conn., pastor who participated in an interfaith prayer vigil in apparent violation of the church's constitution.
The Rev. Rob Morris of Christ the King Lutheran Church offered the benediction at the Dec. 16 vigil with other religious leaders — including Jewish, Muslim, and Baha'i — for victims of the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod president, Matthew Harrison, subsequently reprimanded Morris, saying the synod constitution bars joint worship for fear of giving the appearance that theological differences about salvation and other doctrines are not significant.
Reports on the reprimand and Morris's apology incited outrage among some bloggers and posters on social media sites who expressed disapproval with the synod's decision.
On Monday, Harrison posted a video apology on the synod website saying his actions had only made things worse.
''I exacerbated the problem,'' a somber Harrison said. ''I caused greater offense. I caused trouble for Pastor Morris and difficulty for the congregation and offense there in the midst of their suffering. Please forgive me.''
The vigil, which took place days after the Dec. 14 shootings that left 20 children and six educators dead, was also attended by President Obama and Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut.
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Three Lions captain Gerrard achieved the milestone during Wednesday night's 4-2 defeat against Sweden in the Friends Arena. He became only the sixth England player to reach a century of appearances. Gerrard said: "To get there was a very proud moment for me.
"I have been really touched by all the support and all the good wishes I have had - from family, friends and everyone in the game.
"The shirt I wore during the game, I will give it to my dad. It will be a nice Christmas present for him.
"He has been with me since day one, shown me fantastic support. My dad has watched me kick a ball since I was seven.
"He always gave me the advice 'you get out of your career what you put into it' and I've always taken that on board.
"All the way through, I've made sacrifices and tried to work hard and, every time I go onto the pitch, I give it everything I've got."
Gerrard insists he still has plenty more to offer his country at the age of 32 - 12 years after making his debut. He said: "Are there more caps to go? Yes, I feel good, I feel fit, I'm happy with my form in an England shirt so on I go and I'm looking forward to the next game." Gerrard believes England can take plenty of positives from their performance in a game where six players were handed their debut. England led 2-1 before Zlatan Ibrahimovic took centre stage with three late goals to take his tally in the match to four. Gerrard said:
"I thought we were terrific for large chunks of the game. There were a lot of positives.
"We did well for three quarters of the match and then we collapsed and fell away towards the end.
"I'm sure the manager will be happy with the character and the belief we showed even when we went behind.
"We kept fighting and got ourselves in front against a tough team who were well organised in front of their crowd.
"For three quarters of the game we were in control.
"The substitutes disrupted us but that happens in friendlies. I think overall it was a positive outcome.
"There is more reason to be optimistic with some of the individual performances of the night." Gerrard admitted the newly-laid surface in the Friends Arena was far from perfect. He said:
"I think we had trouble all night with our footing and controlling the ball, waiting for the ball to settle before you could pass it.
"But I think they are having teething problems with the surface like we had at Wembley to start with.
"I'm sure they will get it right but it is the same for both teams. We can't look at the surface as an excuse.
"We've got to hold our hands up and say an individual performance from Ibrahimovic won them the game but there is no reason to be down."
Gerrard looked at home in the holding role as England hit back to lead 2-1 through goals from Danny Welbeck and Steven Caulker before Ibrahimovic's superb contribution. He said:
"I was really happy with how it went for me personally. I thought I did well. "I was asked to play the holding role and felt comfortable."
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Throw "Backs": Ludacris Posts Up Old Photo Of Eudoxie And Brags Her Bangin' Body Is The Real Deal Holyfield
Eudoxie apparently feels some type of way about people thinking her junk in the trunk is bunk. So this Thursday a number of her "Throwback" photos were devoted to providing evidence that her curves come naturally.
Really though? Somebody needs to give Lola Monroe that update.
Of course her main squeeze Ludacris peeped out her mission and added an assist.
He reposted her photo on his account and bragged about her authentic butt!!! Awwwww, how cute. He's so proud.
Hit the flip for more Throwback pics from Luda and Eudoxie.
His daughter Karma is nearly a teenager now, but how cute was she in this shot?
Eudoxie shared some nostalgic snaps
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Luda is definitely a fool!
There that thang goes again! Whoo!
It wasn't all throwbacks though! Luda also shared a shot from his BudLight 50/50 concert in Atlanta Thursday night.
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It seems unclear to me that human brains produce "intelligent behavior." It seems to depend on the brain. Only a few per hundred seem to work really well, but up to half of them can file TPS reports.
In the HBP, we're doing something completely different...we will base the technology on what we actually know about the brain and its circuitry.'"
With this approach, they will probably start with nematode brains.
And realize they don't have to go any farther.
With this approach, they will probably start with nematode brains.
If a nematode can do the job, I wouldn't discriminate. In fact, I think it's time for equal rights for nematodes. They're people too... just thinner slightly squirmy people.
Why study a human brain?
The more ways we attack a given problem, the more chances of success. We have different communities working on different approaches to AI: Statistic, symbolic and biologically inspired. All three have produced interesting results already, meaning they have solved some practical problems.
Also, most human brains can show "intelligent behavior" in certain ways that our latest algorithms can't, e.g. navigating an arbitrary kitchen and finding a beer in the fridge
The more ways we attack a given problem, the more chances of success.
I'm not sure that's a universal rule. If anything, I imagine it's an inverted dip curve: the more angles of attack you add, the better the success, to a given point, at which point it becomes a liability until you're trying almost all possible avenues, at which point you're brute forcing and so success rates go up (but speed goes down and cost goes up).
The ideal would be to capture the algorithms that allow the human-animal to function in its environment, while upgrading the emotional processes that cause our constant cognitive failures.
Imagine something with the physical and mental prowess of man, but that does not latch on to hilariously bad ideas and go down the rabbit-hole like so many people do.
FFS, intelligence != sentience (the sci-fi book I'm writing notwithstanding; "fi" is fiction). My slide rule back in 1965 was intelligent, but it wasn't sentient. The Britannica I read at age 12 was more intelligent than I was (or not; info != intelligence), but your dog knows he's alive, he knows pain and pleasure. No computer can, or will, understand pain or pleasure (although they can fake them) until we invent chemistry-based replicants.
There is no such thing as artificial intelligence; Watson's intelli
My slide rule back in 1965 was intelligent, but it wasn't sentient.
Technically, the person/people who created your slide rule were intelligent *and* sentient.
The slide rule itself is just a stick with lines and numbers on it. The credit goes to its creator not the object.
That was exactly my point -- the intelligence comes from the designer, whether a slide rule, an abacus, or Watson. It's real intelligence, but it isn't the machine's intelligence. Watson is no more intelligent than the Britanica hooked to a giant abacus with trillions of wires and beads -- which is exactly what Watson is.
No computer can, or will, understand pain or pleasure (although they can fake them) until we invent chemistry-based replicants.
What's special about chemistry that electricity cannot reproduce? I'll even let you ignore that chemistry is actually just electromagnetic phenomenon.
Imagine a computer of power sufficient to model every single atom in a human brain in real-time. All the chemical reactions in the brain are modeled down to quark at the Plank scale. Why can that simulation not be intelligent, but the pile of real chemicals can?
The appearance of a thing does not equal that thing. Just ask the amazing Randi.
Ah, but as Randi knows, that "appearance" disappears as soon as you step behind the curtain, see
Imagine a computer of power sufficient to model every single atom in a human brain in real-time. All the chemical reactions in the brain are modeled down to quark at the Plank scale. Why can that simulation not be intelligent, but the pile of real chemicals can?
Imagine a computer of power sufficient to model every quark and gluon in all the materials and machinery that constitute a hydrogen bomb in real-time. Is there any radiation released? It's the same thing, only a model.
What's special about chemistry t
You're confusing two very different concepts, you can have a chess grandmaster try to implement his logic - it's pretty hard for humans to actually express how they're thinking - which would indeed be very complex but the computer is just crunching numbers, if there's a flaw in that logic it'll lose the same way every time. The other extreme is to create an application that doesn't have any rules, but that rewrites itself finding its own metrics and algorithms to play by - that could find ways to evaluate p
You are more than just a machine.
You might be more than a machine. There isn't any physical evidence of that though.
Indeed, and there's no physical evidence that you're sentient, even though you know full well that you are.
No true Scotsman is nonbiological.
That sounds like the beginning of an absolutely dynamite syllogism.
You might want to look up that fallacy again, it doesn't fit this situation.
Was it Chomsky who first said "Asking whether machines can think is as absurd as asking whether submarines swim." ?
It seems unclear to me that human brains produce "intelligent behavior." It seems to depend on the brain. Only a few per hundred seem to work really well, but up to half of them can file TPS reports.
The popularity of TV shows like "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" and "The Housewives of _______", not to mention the people actually *on* those shows, would seem to support your thesis.
The popularity of TV shows like "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" and "The Housewives of _______", not to mention the people actually *on* those shows, would seem to support your thesis.
Those people vote.
i before e except after c
Einstein got it wrong twice!
That's ancient.
For headlines, at least, I would check my spelling.
It's not the Slashdot way.
It has the resources. To bad Bill Gates has no imagination at all. Instead, he's using his foundation to pick random problems, followed by piecemeal solutions instead of acquiring a significantly large domain space of practical and solvable problems and addressing them systematically.
Don't fall for it. Mr. Gates has imagination. Sure, his Microsoft sold a disk operating system called MS DOS, a windowing system called Windows, a word processor called Word, but he screwed customers and partners in more ways than the kamasutra depicts.
This project aims to make humans obsolete, so that intelligent machines can rule the world, and their fourth directive will be "Do not harm Microsoft quest for world domination"
At least spell it right.
Sci-Fi sometimes inspires current or future scientists.
I believe that what they receive is actually up to 0.5 B€ in matching funds, meaning that for every 1 € they get from other sources (private persons, foundations, national funding bodies, etc...), they will get another 1 € from the EU, up to 0.5 B€ for a total of about 1 B€. Also this is granted under the EU Framework Program 7 which ends soon. So really what they got so far is 54 M€ for 30 months and the rest will come after that under the new EU program/package (Horizon 2020) which is currently being negotiated. Given the financial health of EU countries right now, there is a chance that the overall envelope is cut down and it is not clear how much funds they will get from national bodies in the first place.
The EU is also funding under the same initiative another B€ project about graphene.
The Human Brain Project promises a lot (AI, curing neurodegenerative diseases, understanding the brain and consciousness, limiting animal experimentation, etc...) and it is the opinion of most neuroscientists in the US and in Europe that it won't deliver. If you google it, you will find many interviews from neuroscientists who are very critical of it. It is difficult to evaluate what really will come out of it.
The Human Brain Project promises a lot (AI, curing neurodegenerative diseases, understanding the brain and consciousness, limiting animal experimentation, etc...) and it is the opinion of most neuroscientists in the US and in Europe that it won't deliver.
I can't understand most of the critics here. Not that I think they're wrong, I just don't see why they're making it. They know how funding works. That money is not going to be spent on hookers and blow. It's going to advance the science, likely in ways that will be exciting to them and that will directly help them out.
They're idiots if they think "Hey, tearing down my colleague will help me!" The program was set up years ago. Trashing this program isn't going to make the agency stop funding the pro
I think that the critics believe: [1] that such a large amount of money given to "neuroscience" (in quotes as it is more of a computer science than a fundamental neuroscience project) will hurt their chances to get funding in other EU and national calls (like: "hey neuroscience has its billion already, let's fund cardiology and oncology instead") and [2] that the project over-promises and won't deliver, ultimately hurting the credibility of the field as a whole.
I think that both concerns are grounded. The r
The humanbrainproject url clearly states it seeks to discover the brains "design secrets" ????
Are these scientists or intelligent design types???
And no religion and science are not compatable.
The humanbrainproject url clearly states it seeks to discover the brains "design secrets" ????
Are these scientists or intelligent design types???
And no religion and science are not compatable.
Surely they are both, and their religion and science are compatible as well.
It can be argued that the zealous dr. Frankenstein was both a scientist, and an intelligent designer
Yes, I agree. Cats behave roughly the same regardless of their surroundings and culture (if there is such a thing for cats). They attack, defend and groom without being taught. It's built in their ROM. We're not born empty. We are born programmed and very few are ever able to change this internal programming. The question is, where does this programming come from and how is it stored in our DNA?
What they should to instead is create a translator from DNA to C, Python or Haskell. If we succeed in doing that,
Mama cats bring their kittens half dead mice to teach them how to kill. That's why some cats are mousers and some aren't.
Flammon wrote: "The question is, where does this programming come from and how is it stored in our DNA?"
Yes, that's my overriding question. I have to think it's stored in what we think is "junk" DNA (although there is plenty of inserted genetic material that has accumulated, I understand that.)
But still, where is the programming stored for all the innate behavior of organisms? The only thing that can can hold it while being passed on is DNA, and I can't believe that enabled genes in specific kinds of cells
Massive large projects like this almost always end in utter failure.
I can think of quite a few successful ones between the Manhattan Project and the LHC
Even the IBM cat brain project failed to accomplish much.
This is a continuation of IBM's "cat brain" (Blue Brain Project), it's got a new name to reflect the fact it's no longer just IBM paying the bills. The reason it has been given taxpayer bucks is because the "cat brain" was very successful from a scientific POV. The main goal of the project has always been medical research, AI is a sub-goal.
Intelligence is much more complicated than a mere randomly connected neural network.
IBM's Watson convincingly disproves your hypothesis. Besides this project is based on
Meet me at 10 a.m. tomorrow at BLMF at Pike Place and I'll tell you all about it.
I don't know...that's 4 1/2 blocks from my office, and 3 1/2 blocks beyond my normal daily range. I think I'll just stay put and send ASCII-art diagrams to everyone in my company.
More and more people suspect that the human brain actively uses quantum mechanics within it's own 'circuitry'.
You mean it's like this "transistor" thing I heard about? Rumor has it that these also actively use quantum mechanics.
Hopefully some more insight into those large areas of the unknown you talk about. We may not be able to simulate a human brain, but we can simulate lots of ideas and see what works best. Even if it doesn't revolutionize neuroscience, it might still churn out a few practical designs for things like voice recognition or visual navigation. Once the supercomputer has found the neural networks that work really well, cheaper hardware can execute them.
...a totally different meaning...
Nowhere on TFA does it mention the chemistry of the brain. Without taking that into account I can't see how you can properly simulate the mechanisms in a brain.
The idea of a 'singularity' is as well-founded as the idea of zombies. No wonder babbling on about it is so popular among the dilettante technology geek-hip set.
After that, all we're left with is a hopelessly short description of AI _in general_ and, what, 5 words in total on the Human Brain Project.
I know readers should RTFA, but that doesn't mean submitters shouldn't RTFA too - and, I don't know, _summarize it_.
Fucking Americans.
If science required knowledge of the outcomes before it was performed, ask yourselves: how many of the technologies around us would we enjoy today?
Taking the space program as an example, putting a man on the moon was symbolic, but the payback for the research and development went far beyond that. Even if we didn't reach the moon, we got memory foam, orange drink, and satellites out of the deal.
But too many people are unwilling to pay for R&D if they don't have a 100% guaranteed outcome. Well, sci
Even if we didn't reach the moon, we got
... orange drink ... out of the deal.
While NASA's use of it on spacecraft popularized it, Tang [wikipedia.org] predates the American space program. Like Velcro, it is a product erroneously attributed to spaceflight research but in fact was invented before.
Maybe not Tang, or Velcro, or even pressurised ball-point pens, but there is actually quite a list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies [wikipedia.org]
So they say they need 1000x the power of the current largest supercomputers to simulate a brain at the neuron level. So they should be able to simulate a mouse brain, which has 1/1000 the mass of a human brain, right now. Can they do that?
There's a hubris problem in this area. Some years ago, I went to a talk where Rod Brooks was touting Cog [wikipedia.org] as strong AI Real Soon Now. He'd done good artificial insect work. I asked him "Why aren't you going for a robot mouse? That might be within reach." He answered "B
They are actually working with rats at this time. The first couple of years that compiled a database of rat-neurons in detail: Form and function. They do test the simulation extensively: Connecting electrodes to the synapses to check out what combination of input signals cause what output signals. After wards they look at one of the brains building blocks: The neuronal column: You assemble 10'000 neurons and do the same again: Feed it input and verify the output. If the simulation and the real thing gives t
Pinky went, "er... I dunno... what? world dumb..i..ca..tion?"
Brain went, "World Dominiation you idiot!. World Domination!!"
I hope I'm wrong
Still, I rather they put it into MagLIF, regenerative medicine, immunology, cancer, or battery research (though I hope the graphene project which also got $1.34 billion is able to make a contribution in this regard).
Still, I am glad a science project got funding.
Unfortunately this is a zero-sum game.
I wish these people would look at the state-of-the-art and what can realistically be expected before wasting money of something with this little likelihood of producing useful results.
If you could perfectly replicate a human brain on a computer... Would it be "alive?" "Sentient?"
or is sentience calculated by the incalculable soul?
or if there is truly no soul, what makes one sentient in the first place if our brain is just a machine with electrical impulses are we not sentient? If one perfeclty replicated a brain simulation would it be sentient?
I think the debate of Souls reaches a new level (outside of religion) when it comes to simulation.
If one perfeclty replicated a brain simulation would it be sentient?
1. Nobody knows.
2. Nobody ever will know.
the project, described here [humanbrainproject.eu] is not to build a simulation of a human brain capable of reasoning and thought, certainly not at first.
It is aimed at better understanding the way the real human brain works, from the neurological and physiological point of view. It is anticipated that to understand this some level of simulation will be needed, indeed. However current computers are incapable of dealing with the complexity of the complete human brain, even if we knew its structure.
In other words it sounds li
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