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The Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center presented the 4th Annual Festival of Trees from Nov 16th through Dec 8th. The 13 participating Non –Profits decorated the gently used trees with their themes. Quite a few trees had goodies attached such as coffee cards, jackets, tickets to Kenai River Brown Bear hockey games, wall quilts, and Grant Aviation tickets. Over the past 3 weeks, the trees were up for bid via silent auction or awarded a winner via the stocking raffle. Winners were announced at the closing reception Dec 8th and 2-year-old Charlotte Scanlon of Kenai assisted Kenai Chamber executive director Johna Beech in drawing the winners of the raffle trees. "It was so great to win a tree. I didn't have to unpack any decorations the guys from SBS brought the tree to my house and it was instantly Christmas with no muss or fuss plus knowing I helped the Food Bank made it even more like Christmas; the season of giving and receiving," said Penny Furnish of Stewart Title and past Kenai Chamber president.
During the closing reception, the Non-profits were given an opportunity to speak about their mission and the services they provide to the community, while the 50 some folks who turned out for the event enjoyed hot coffee or cider with cookies. The sounds of the season were provided by the Kenai Central High School band under the direction of Debra Sonart. "Spenard Builders Supply of Kenai generously donated their time and manpower to delivering these decorated trees to the winners. That is one of the great things about the Festival of Trees; the winner gets the tree, still decorated, in plenty of time to enjoy it for the Christmas Season. This year's tree auction brought in over $2,000 that will be split 50% with the Non-profit and 50% to KCCVC. Thanks to all who participated in this holiday giving and receiving tradition," said Johna Beech. This year's participating non-profit organizations were: Pi Chapter Beta Sigma Phi, Skyview Swim Team, KCCVC Saturday Market, Kenai Peninsula 4-H, Horses & Livestock Unlimited 4-H, American Legion, Kenai River Brown Bears, Regroup Reuse Recycle, Matti's Farm, Kenai Watershed Forum, Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, Peninsula Art Guild and the Kenai Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center.


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Timo Tolkki's Avalon
The Land Of New Hope
June 2013
Released: 2013, Frontiers Records
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviewer: Waspman
It's been five years since Timo Tolkki officially left Stratovarius, and in that time he's kept busy with projects of varying quality. It's safe to say that most fans looked down on his SAANA – WARRIOR OF LIGHT project, and Revolution Renaissance hardly set the world afire with their two albums. I was impressed, however, with the vitality shown by his last band, Symfonia. IN PARADISIUM featured a great pairing with Andre Matos and contained some Tolkki's best song writing in years. It's really too bad that band has, apparently, been put to rest. Now he's back with the first part of a trilogy in his new metal opera saga. I'm not going to go into the "coincidences" or somewhat questionable intentions that have been floated about this project, but I know that after the success of Symfonia I was excited to hear what Mr. Tolkki had in store.
THE LAND OF NEW HOPE is a post-apocalyptic tale, featuring the usual assortment of guests that you tend to get in these types of projects. The lead vocalists are Rob Rock and Elize Ryd who handle the majority of the work; although Sharon Den Adel and Michael Kiske (who apparently still doesn't hate heavy metal enough to stay away) take the lead on one song each. Notably, the album features keyboard contributions from Jens Johansson, in what's as close to a reunion of the "classic" Stratovarius lineup as we're ever going to get. All in all, it's an impressive cast of musicians.
Musically, this is exactly what you would want to hear from Timo Tolkki – speedy power metal with lots of keyboards and orchestration, powerful vocals, and tear-jerking (ahem…) ballads. Of course my favorites are the fast anthems, so "To the Edge of the Earth" and "We Will Find a Way" stand out to the most, especially with Rob Rock's excellent vocals. However, Elize Ryd does spectacular work on her featured songs, notably the mid-paced "Enshrined In My Memory" and the stand-out ballad of the album, "I'll Sing You Home". Michael Kiske only appears on the title track and it makes you wish he would just give in and make a true power metal album. Those are just the highlights, but there's honestly not a song here that I dislike.
I've been listening to this album almost non-stop for a month now and I still can't get enough of it. Tolkki's been on a roll the last couple of years and this is perhaps his best moment. I eagerly await parts two and three!
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1. Avalanche Anthem
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Gaining more power from a proven combination can be tricky. It's easy to do too much, forgetting that "bigger is better" isn't always true.In this case, we were looking to extract more power-and faster e.t.'s-from the 11:1, 358ci solid flat-tappet small-block in Matt Daeseleer's '70 Chevelle. The car had a best run of 12.68 at 110 mph going into the project, so it was no slouch, and we certainly didn't want to mess up a good thing. Fortunately for all involved, we didn't. Moving more air through this motor with a set of big, 235cc runner Motown 23-degree cylinder heads, teamed with a bump in cam specs via a set of Scorpion 1.6:1 rocker arms, proved to be exactly a formula our test subject liked-especially at the track.
Daeseleer's A-body is set up for heavy breathing. It was fitted with a set of World Products Sportsman II iron heads-still certainly a good head, and these had been massively ported. The carb is a 750 Mighty Demon, the intake a Super Victor with a 2-inch spacer, and the Hooker headers have big 1 3/4-inch primaries. The Ultradyne solid cam spec'd out, with 1.5:1 rocker in place, at 0.588/0.583-inch lift on the intake/exhaust, 276 degrees of duration on both sides, and an aggressive 106-degree lobe separation angle. In other words, this is a strip/street combo rather than vice versa.
We did what you should do: called up World, described our combo, and asked for advice. We were a bit surprised at the recommendation they gave us, which turned out to be a set of Motown 23-degree aluminum lungs with 235cc runners. Those seemed awfully big for a "mere" 358. On the other hand, we were looking to improve an already aggressive combo, so we needed to move more air; that we were starting with a set of heavily modified heads in a car that sees most of its duty at the track led the World team to this conclusion, so we went forward.
After making baseline pulls on the Mustang chassis dyno at the Source Interlink Tech Center, it was out with the old and in with the new. Installing the new Motown 23-degree heads was relatively straightforward, but there are a couple wrinkles to keep in mind. One is that these heads require offset rocker arms on the intake side due to the longer length intake valves and big ports. Since the 1.5:1 rockers Daeseleer had on his car weren't going to work, we called up Scorpion for a set of its 0.150-inch-offset Race Series rockers. While we were at it, we decided to amplify our cam specs by stepping up to a 1.6:1 ratio.
For this project, circumstances dictated that we order our Motown 23-degreees in bare form-World also sent us the appropriate springs for the solid flat-tappet cam in our subject 358, along with 7/16-inch studs and guideplates. We completed the package with Manley valves, oil seals, spring locators, retainers, and locks, all installed by Alan Bessant at the conveniently close BEP Performance Center. Manley also provided us with the correct pushrods, after we installed the heads and used a checker tool to determine the length needed. It was 7.900 inches, 0.100 inch longer than where we started.
Other than that, the only snag in the fabric was that these heads are wider than the Sportsman II's, so installing the driver-side headers around the steering shaft was an adventure. It required some finagling, as in removing the shaft and loosening up the headers, but with patience it can be done. With 13/4-inch headers like Daeseleer runs, we also had to disconnect the neutral lock linkage that runs from the steering column to the frame then over to the transmission. We'll seek a solution to that later and check to make sure we're not in gear before turning the key for now
Which led us back to the dyno for our "after" runs. Long story short, we gained power-16 hp at peak, along with a nominal 4 lb-ft of torque. The important thing here is that while we did lose some horsepower and torque between 3,900 and 4,300 rpm, the new combo leaped back ahead at that point and stayed there. At the top end, peak power happened 500 rpm later, at 6,000 rpm, and stayed strong post-peak, still making 320 hp at 6,200 rpm. At the track, this translated to the car's typical 1.80 60-foot times, while the stronger top end lopped three-tenths off the Chevelle's e.t, bringing it in at 12.35 at 111 mph. It's a nice gain, with power happening where this car wants to run at the track. In this case, bigger is better.
Quick Notes
What We Did
Swapped out the ported Sportsman II heads in a '70 Chevelle in favor of a set of 235cc Motown 23-degree aluminum lungs and Scorpion 1.6 rocker arms.
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We picked up more horsepower and torque and ran a three-tenths-better e.t.
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Two years ago the big question was, how would Northern Illinois replace Chandler Harnish?
When Harnish, now on the Indianapolis Colts practice squad, finished his Huskies career, it seemed like a tall task.
Harnish left big shoes to fill after the 2011 season. He was a four-year starter for the Huskies and won the 2011 Mid-American Conference MVP award before being taken by Indianapolis with the final pick of the 2012 NFL Draft, becoming "Mr. Irrelevant." He set 30 school records in DeKalb.
Jordan Lynch was the answer to that question, and then some. Lynch, who will play his final college game in today's Poinsettia Bowl, has won the past two Vern Smith Leadership Awards as the MAC MVP. He finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 2012 and took third this season.
Harnish, who watched Lynch work for three seasons, isn't exactly shocked.
"Everybody could tell this kid was primed for success," Harnish told the Daily Chronicle. "Now, I didn't know he was going to be as excellent as he has been. I knew he'd be a great leader, tough kid."
Tonight, when Lynch takes the field at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, it most likely will be the end of an era in NIU history.
A very, very good era. A quality one that hasn't been seen in the MAC since Chad Pennington and Byron Leftwich at Marshall in the early 2000s.
Although Harnish was a starter for four seasons, the Lynch era very easily could have started earlier than it did, according to Harnish.
In 2010, DeMarcus Grady started NIU's season opener at Iowa State. After he threw three interceptions, Harnish, who sat out the spring of 2010 with a knee injury and was in a battle for the starting spot during camp, took over for the Huskies' home opener against North Dakota.
Harnish didn't realize it at the time, but while talking with former NIU quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski, who now holds the same position at Minnesota, after the end of his career, Harnish found out there was a chance Lynch was going to take the reigns if Harnish were to falter that week.
NIU won, 22-15, with Harnish throwing for 146 yards and a touchdown and running for another 178 yards and a score.
"[Zebrowski] said there was a lot riding on that start. If I didn't play well, they were probably going to move on to Jordan, and that would have been the end of my career," Harnish said. "I'm glad I didn't know that because I'm glad I didn't put too much pressure on myself."
The rest is history.
Harnish helped lead NIU to the MAC Championship Game in 2010 and was behind center in 2011 when NIU won its first conference title since 1983.
Lynch got his chance, helping the Huskies to the Orange Bowl in 2012 and to the brink of another BCS bowl berth this year before the upset loss against Bowling Green in the MAC title game.
And, Lynch was groomed in 2010 and 2011. The coaching staff just wanted to get Lynch on the field, so he would spell Harnish at times. Lynch ran for 362 yards and three touchdowns in 2010 and 246 yards and three scores in 2011. In the GoDaddy.com Bowl in January of 2012, Lynch led the Huskies on a go-ahead touchdown drive when Harnish was out with an injury, finishing it off with a 3-yard score.
Harnish admits that he's a player who never wants to come out of the game. But, when the staff decided to use Lynch, he had no problem with it because of the type of person Lynch is.
"Jordan would always come in and be very successful," Harnish said. "As a coach, it's not hard to put him in the game sometimes because he makes plays. When his time came to take over the team he ran with it."
When Lynch was on the sideline, on the practice field, in the weight room or the film room, he was able to sit back and learn from Harnish.
"Just his leadership skills on and off the field," Lynch said. "He was always doing the right thing. He really helped me out, just the ins and outs of things."
Even though Lynch was plenty talented enough to start, Harnish said there never was a problem in their relationship.
"We never wavered. We were always very close, supportive of each other," Harnish said. "We always had a great time, a lot of laughs."
During Harnish's freshman year in 2007, he learned from Dan Nicholson and Ryan Morris. Harnish said players will follow the veterans and upper classmen as long as they respect them. Harnish respected the players ahead of him, and it was the same with Lynch and Harnish.
"I flocked to [Nicholson]; I learned from him," Harnish said. "He's an NIU Huskie at heart, too. A lot of the credit has to go to those guys before us."
Harnish said Lynch was always "great" about everything when he was the backup. He said Lynch's entire class never called themselves backups. They were always the "1.5s."
Now, Lynch is helping to groom the next Huskies quarterback. He's been working with sophomore Matt McIntosh and redshirt freshman Drew Hare, who have been studying under him this season while waiting for their chance. Both have gotten some playing time in blowout games this season.
"Just being there for those guys. Watching extra film with them," Lynch said. "If they have questions, just be there, because [Harnish] was there for me and it really helped out."
How can one of them replace Lynch? Replacing a player who was just voted the third-best player in the country is a tough thing to do.
At the same time, two seasons ago, everyone had those same questions about Lynch replacing Harnish.


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Commerce – Dr. Deborrah Hebert has been named the new Assistant Vice-President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students for A&M-Commerce. Hebert is currently the Dean of Student Life at Angelo State University, a position she has held for the last 9 years. Before that, she spent seven years as the Assistant Dean of Student Life for Southeastern Louisiana University.
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(CNN) -- Congressional investigators are accusing the General Services Administration of violating its employee gift limit with rewards of iPods, digital cameras and other electronics, just as a video emerged of a lavish conference that shows employees drinking and making jokes about wasteful spending.
The video, first obtained by The Huffington Post on Friday, offered a glimpse inside the agency's $820,000 conference in Las Vegas. An administration official confirmed the authenticity of the video and provided a copy to CNN.
Reports of the lavish conference have prompted taxpayer outrage, embarrassed the administration and put a spotlight on the wasteful spending by the agency that acts as a real estate agency for the federal government.
"These videos reinforce once again the complete lack of judgment exhibited during the 2010 Western Regions Conference," said Greg Mecher, a GSA spokesman. "Our agency continues to be appalled by this indefensible behavior, and we are taking every step possible to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again."
The latest news comes just days after the Office of the Inspector General documented massive overspending by the GSA. The fallout from the report's revelations has sparked a congressional investigation and seen the GSA chief step down, two other employees fired and a number of others suspended.
On Friday, Republican investigators for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said the GSA's Public Buildings Service developed an employee incentive program known as the "Hats Off Store" that spent nearly $500,000 on gifts -- from iPods to GPS devices -- that vastly exceeded its $99 per-gift limit.
They also said accounting for the gifts as well as the justification for giving them were lacking or inconsistent, according to a statement released by Rep. Jeff Denham, R-California, chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, and Rep. John Mica, R-Florida, chairman of the transportation committee.
GSA chief resigns in spending flap
GSA boss resigns over lavish seminar While the investigation found the GSA's massive spending began in 2007 under the Bush administration and continued under the current leadership, Republican congressmen leading the investigation have hammered President Barack Obama over the allegations.
"More and more information is coming out about the total lack of accountability and outrageous spending habits of the General Services Administration," Denham said in the statement.
Denham accused the administration of treating taxpayer dollars "like their own private slush fund."
Meanwhile, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-California, has accused the White House of sitting on the IG's findings about the GSA for 11 months. The administration has dismissed Issa's claims, saying the investigation followed proper procedures.
The allegations Friday by Denham and Mica, and the video are likely to inflame the political divide.
The video shows employees at the GSA's 2010 Western Regions Conference in Las Vegas putting on magic shows and singing Frank Sinatra songs.
In one clip, a person dressed as a clown talks about making work more difficult for others.
"Government, if you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions," the clown warns the audience.
The reports of overspending have prompted a bipartisan reaction, with Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, the chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, saying she will hold hearings on the GSA findings next week.


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The Nintendo Network may also offer digital distribution of retail games. Nintendo has no set launch date for this feature, but notes that the "concept was built into the design of the Nintendo 3DS," and will be built into the Wii U as well. Finally, the Nintendo Network will also provide downloadable content and add-ons. Square Enix's Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy will be the first game to provide DLC on the 3DS; additional songs can be purchased after release. Nintendo has reiterated that its own DLC strategy will somehow be different from that of its competitors. The company has promised not to nickle and dime consumers with microtransactions, a popular business model for many freemium games. "Please note that Nintendo, as a software maker, does not plan to deploy businesses where our consumers cannot know in advance which item will appear as the result of their payment and they have to repeat the payments and, before they know it, they end up spending a huge amount of money in order to obtain the items they originally wanted to purchase."
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Queens Park Rangers' Joey Barton describes Marseille move as a great decision
Joey Barton has no regrets over his loan to Marseille as reports continue to suggest the move could become permanent.
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The midfielder is on loan in France from Queens Park Rangers, who have indicated they may be prepared to sell their former captain after he was issued with a 12-match domestic ban.
Barton has himself admitted he would stay with Marseille if possible and he is certainly enjoying life with the Ligue 1 club.
"Coming to Marseille is one of the best decisions I've taken," he said. "I'm very happy to be here."
Marseille sit level on points with big-spending and star-studded Paris Saint Germain at the top of Ligue 1 with a game in hand and Barton thinks the title is not out of the question this season.
He said: "PSG have a great team with good players. With their financial strength who can say they won't spend another billion pounds in January?
"They have the means to do that. At Marseille we've got to take each game as it comes. We don't have a large squad.
"If we finish in front of PSG then that would be great. I came here to have a great season. Any team finishing in front of PSG will have had a good season."


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Ashley Stuart was your typical teen. She was raised in a single parent home by her mother. She had a good life growing up, but made some choices that created obstacles for her future education.
While attending McQueen High School, she reached a point where she almost didn't graduate. She wanted to give up, but no one would let her, including her school counselor, vice principal and her mother. Through strength and perseverance, she overcame her obstacles and realized the importance of her education.
Ashley received her high school diploma and decided to fulfill her dreams and go to college. Just a few short weeks later, on June 25, 2007, she was killed in a senseless car crash.
Her mother, Kris, says she realized how difficult it is to help a child pursue higher education, when he or she isn't a perfect student. She decided to create the "Ashley's Second Chance" scholarship fund, to give other students the opportunities Ashley never had.
On Thursday, October 25th, from 4:30-9:00 pm, all Applebee's Restaurants in Reno, Sparks, Carson City and Lake Tahoe, will donate 15% of all food sales to "Ashley's Second Chance." The fund will give an area student the opportunity to fulfill his or her dreams of higher education, and receive a much needed second chance at life.
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You thought the day would never come, and it still hasn't quite yet, but Black Mesa now has a release date. After eight years of development, the fan remake of Half-Life in the Source engine will be released on September 14. Except it won't be quite complete; the team is still working on expanding HL's reviled Xen section and plans to release it later.
Come September 14, we should--in theory, if they really mean it this time--be able to return to the Black Mesa complex, project lead 'cman2k' announced on the mod's forum. The mod recreates Valve's classic FPS with all the polygons, shaders, particles, and gratuitous physics objects we expect from the Source Engine.
It's not an exact remake, mind. The team is adding extra touches like new lines of dialogue, while Xen will be far from the unpleasant little ending section we all know and hate when it arrives.
"Xen is going to basically be a complete game in its own right, it's not going to be just an epilogue to the game; more of a whole new chapter," lead developer 'Raminator' explained. "It'll be pretty well expanded." Work on Xen is already underway and the team hopes to finish it "in a reasonable timeframe," so hopefully we won't need to wait until the year 2020.
cman2k added, "We believe this is a great way to provide a complete-feeling 8-10 hour experience with a solid ending, make our fans happy and help us make the best overall game possible."
The soundtrack is now available for your listening and purchasing pleasure.
Check out this leaked video for a recent-ish look at Black Mesa's 'On a Rail' chapter, including its curious intentionally cheesy voice-acting.


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The Man in the Chicken Suit
When the PawSox arrived at McCoy Stadium in darkness for a 4:30 am bus to the airport on Saturday morning, Joe Nelson was ready and waiting . . . in a chicken suit.
The 35-year-old veteran put on the full costume and hid before jumping out and shocking his sleepy teammates. The "chicken man" provided an early morning jolt – and laugh – that even the strongest cup of coffee could never administer.
Unfortunately, an even bigger shock was still to come.
Pawtucket dropped the opening game of its 8-game road trip on Saturday when Fernando Cabrera blew a 2-run lead in the bottom of the 9th inning in a 7-6 loss to the Gwinnett Braves. After retiring the first batter he faced, Cabrera allowed four straight singles followed by a pair of walks to give the Braves a dramatic win.
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It was the second blown save in four days for Cabrera who is off to a rocky start in 2010. After posting a 1.71 ERA and going 22-for-22 in save chances last season, Fernando is 0-3 with a 9.00 ERA in his first 10 outings this year. He has already allowed 9 earned runs after giving up 10 ER all of last season with Pawtucket.
The loss was especially painful because the PawSox had the lead all night after getting off to the following start:
Josh Reddick tripled.
Daniel Nava doubled to make it 1-0.
Angel Sanchez singled.
Tug Hulett tripled to make it 3-0.
Aaron Bates walked.
Lars Anderson singled to make it 4-0.
Six straight batters reached base before Jorge Jimenez was retired for the game's first out. Jorge made up for that with a 2-run single in the 6th inning that gave Pawtucket a 6-3 lead.
Unfortunately, the PawSox simply do not score after the 6th inning. Of their 101 runs this season, only 7 have come from the 7th inning on.
Before Cabrera's rough inning, Joe Nelson had a terrific outing as he pitched 1.2 hitless and scoreless innings with 3 strikeouts and Joe has not allowed an earned run in his last seven appearances.
He did not enter any of those games wearing the chicken suit.
But rumor has it that the suit made the trip to Georgia. It's possible that a certain highly-touted prospect that recently made his Triple-A debut could be forced to wear it at some point on his first Pawtucket road trip.
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Hello Niuman.
The PawSox added an infielder on Saturday as Boston acquired 25-year-old Niuman Romero from the Cleveland Indians for cash. Romero played for Torey Lovullo in Columbus last year before earning a September promotion to Cleveland where he batted .143 (2-for-14) in 10 games.
According to Lovullo, Romero is an excellent defensive shortstop who is versatile enough to play any infield position. He gives Pawtucket infield depth after Kevin Frandsen was claimed on waivers by the Los Angeles Angels.
To make room for Niuman on the PawSox roster, outfielder Matt Sheely was sent to Double-A Portland.
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I sat next to Torey Lovullo on a flight from Boston to Philadelphia on Saturday and learned a tremendous tidbit about him.
The PawSox manager was in the crowd at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on November 6, 1993 when the "Fan Man" tried to land in the ring in the middle of a heavyweight championship fight between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe (you can see the video here).
Torey says he and a buddy were sitting about 15 rows from the ring when his friend pointed out the "Fan Man" while he was still high in the air. But they didn't realize his goal was to land in the ring, and they forgot about him until the "Fan Man" crashed into the ropes.
Fox Sports Net ranked it as the #1 "Most Outrageous Sports Moment".
And Torey Lovullo was there.
I told him that it tops my Tiger Woods story.
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The PawSox will look to bounce back from Saturday's loss as they face the Braves on Sunday afternoon at 2:05. I hope you'll join me for radio coverage beginning with the pre-game show at 1:50 on the PawSox radio network and pawsox.com.
I'm going solo in this series as Steve Hyder is being recognized as the co-Sportscaster of the Year in the state of Rhode Island along with my Cox Sports colleague Steve McDonald. Congrats to two great friends and broadcasters!
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I would stop chipping in to help pay for his portion, when someone says, oh we need $20.00 more to cover his portion, that's a great time to say "I'm afaraid that won't be possible", I am no longer able to cover SS's portion of events/costs. Others in your social circle may admire your spine of EHELL approved steel and follow your lead.
What your social group is doing is enabling this person's behaviour. There is no excuse for it and it is unacceptable. Does he have a personality disorder or a disability of some sort, because otherwise there is no way you should be putting up with this and even then he should be expected to behave in a reasonable manner. Does he have an email address by which you could make it clear that his attendance is on your terms (for your social event) and that in future you will not contribute towards his activities. I would send a copy to every member, then its up to them to follow through as you have.
LeveeWoman, she used the word "or"--that automatically says that the two things being mentioned are NOT the same thing. It is the absolute opposite of "equating" them.I don't think that touchiness is really warranted here.(though personally, I would consider a personality disorder to be a type of disability. A mental or emotional disability. Something that interferes with someone's ability to function in the normal, optimum manner.)
OP here...thanks to everyone. I have been caving in too long so it is good to see that my outrage is justified and my decision to stand strong and no longer be mooched off of easier to stick with. I plan on attempting to avoid him at the party but if he insists on talking I will make things very clear using willynilly's line of thought.Toots your post was a real eye opener. Ironically he has stolen from people...literally took money and things from purses and houses and we all made excuses and simply held onto our purses and hid valuables. Why oh why have I put up with this for so long.Rusty you are absolutely right we are enabling him and I will no longer do it.Lifeonpluto I hope if it comes to me being perceived as the " mean" one I will give more people courage to stand up.Many people in the group are seeing his actions for what they are. For some reason everyone, including myself, bought into the "I'm the victem" act and it had gone too far.i think I need to rethink through my thoughts of not being able to kick him out of the social circle. I guess everything is possible. Sometimes it is hard to see clearly when you are in the middle of it. Maybe the group will break apart but maybe that won't be so bad, the people I really want to be with will be there for me. I have seen that when we don't stand up to him the whole group suffers. All of our activities and events have been scaled down because of him and they are not as fun. If someone wants to continue to associate with him that is their problem.
I'd refuse to pitch in extra to cover him, share with him if he didn't contribute or invite him to the events I hosted.
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Black Parrot writes: Not as a source, but as a destination. From the third edition (December 2009) of Russell & Norvig's popular AI textbook: 'The Encyclopedia of AI (Shapiro, 1992) contains survey articles on almost every topic in AI, as does Wikipedia. These Articles usually provide a good entry point into the research literature on each topic.' Has Wikipedia passed a milestone of respectability?


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March 13th, 2016
RESTAURANTS OFFER TASTING PLATES FOR $5 ON THURSDAY NIGHTS IN MARCH! Join us in Estes Park every Thursday night in March for a town-wide dine around event! Dozens of restaurants all throughout The Village will offer a $5 tasting plate from 4:30pm – 7:30pm with a different menu each week. Stop by two or three restaurants each week to see friends, join in the fun, and taste great food from all different restaurants! Starting March 1, come by Grandma's Mountain Cookies to pick up a punch card, or view the list of participating restaurants below!
The Wild Rose – in the Church Shops at 157 W Elkhorn Ave.(970) 586-2806
Grandmas Mountain Cookies – 217 W Elkhorn Ave. (970) 577-0967
El Mex Cal Mexican Restaurant – 160 1st St. 970) 586-4377
Smokin' Daves BBQ & Taphouse – 820 Moraine Ave.(970) 577-7427
Estes Park Pie Shop (You Need Pie!)- 509 Big Thompson Ave. (970)577-7437
Peppers Mexican Grill – 401 E. Elkhorn Ave. (970) 577-0032
Mountain Strong Restaurant – 361 S St Vrain Ave (970) 586-9001
Chelitos Mexican Restaurant – Park Place Mall Downtown (top)145 E Elkhorn Ave(970) 586-0886


text: Mr. Wolfe, the Scottish Christmas Walk Weekend has traditionally been the first weekend in December for years and is sponsored by The Campagna Center – not the city as many citizens believe. The parade and all events surrounding the weekend are entirely planned by volunteers, the Junior Friends of the Campagna Center, to raise money for The Campagna Center. While the parade weekend is early in the Christmas season, the time and effort that these ladies put into the weekend is enormous and the event cannot be planned to specific dates due to Advent or any other timing concern. If you would like to have more input into the parade and planning of the weekend, please feel free to contact The Campagna Center to volunteer. The Campagna Center and Junior Friends are always in need of community support. Your feedback is appreciated. Happy New Year.


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Evidence is steadily mounting that genetic factors play an important role in many cases of Parkinson's disease (PD). In a study published February 2, 2011, online in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland report a new mammalian model for studying a specific gene mutation commonly found in PD sufferers, opening the door to new drugs to fight the malady.
"This is a great step forward toward a more comprehensive understanding of how the disease works, and how it can be diagnosed and treated," explains neuroscientist and EPFL President Patrick Aebischer, lead author of the study.
PD is a common neurodegenerative disease that greatly reduces quality of life and costs the United States around 23 billion dollars a year. Until now, researchers have encountered difficulty in reproducing PD pathology in animals because of an incomplete understanding of the disease.
Recently, a mutation of the gene coding for LRRK2, a large enzyme in the brain, has emerged as the most prevalent genetic cause of PD (genetics are implicated in about 10 percent of all PD cases). When the enzyme is mutated, it becomes hyperactive, causing the death of vulnerable neurons and leading to a reduction in levels of the brain neurotransmistter dopamine. This decrease in dopamine eventually triggers the symptoms characteristic of Parkinson's, such as tremors, instability, impaired movement, and later stage dementia.
Now, with funding from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Aebischer and his team in the Neurodegenerative Studies Laboratory at EPFL, have successfully introduced mutant LRRK2 enzyme into one hemisphere of a rat brain, resulting in the same PD manifestations that occur in humans in one side of the rodent's body. To do this, the researchers spent two years producing and optimizing a viral vector to deliver mutated, LRRK2 coding DNA into the rat brain. LRRK2 is a large and complicated enzyme and designing a vector capable of transporting its extremely long genetic code was no small feat.
The new animal model developed by EPFL is sure to benefit future Parkinson's research. The fact that LRRK2 is an enzymea catalyzing protein involved in chemical reactionsmakes it drug accessible and therefore of specific interest to researchers looking for neuroprotective strategies, or pharmaceutical treatments that halt or slow disease progression by protecting vulnerable neurons. Armed with the LRRK2 model, new pharmaceuticals that inhibit the hyper-activity of the enzyme could one day prevent the destructive chain of events that leads to neurodegeneration and devastation in many with PD.
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Since so much focus is on Suter/Parise, I thought a new thread might be warranted. Rumors, speculations, etc. welcomed
If they want to play together, their teams are limited. Do you think any team can land both?
I'm hoping for Suter. Rumor has it that Poile is getting impatient with Suter not giving him an answer, so he may have burnt that bridge.
I could see Parise going to the Pens to play with Crosby. I just hope he realizes Sid is probably one good hit from being the next Lindros.


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Majesty in the midst of the mundane. He looks like anything but a king. His face is prunish red. His cry, though strong and healthy, is still the helpless and piercing cry of a baby. He is absolutely dependent upon Mary for his well-being.
Holiness in the filth of sheep manure and sweat. Divinity entering the world on the floor of a stable, through the womb of a teenager, and in the presence of a mere carpenter. God had come near Travel back in time and relive Christ the Son of God becoming man.
In this stunning work, Max Lucado views the Savior who walked among us through a distinctly human lens. He speaks plainly to those of us who prefer to keep Jesus otherworldly, distant, and predictable: "Don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out." Through vivid word pictures, come with Max as he brings to life the most important event in history . . . when "God Came Near."


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Dragon's lady: From Mexican retirement to java on Preston
After working as a chiropractor in Charlottesville for many years, Kem Spaulding retired to Mexico with her mother.
"I lived there for four years," she says. "I loved Mexico. It was so beautiful. But it wasn't enough. I asked myself what was more important, a new vista or being around people who know you?"
Spaulding also discovered that she did not like not working. But what could she do? She had given up her practice and didn't want to return to the profession anyway.
She decided to come back to Charlottesville and find out. Her mother stayed in Mexico.
Sitting in a local coffee house, which she would not name, the answer came to her.
Spaulding was an unlikely coffee-house owner. For starters, she didn't drink coffee or know how to make it. And as a health professional, she had spent years telling people not to drink too much of it. However, back in the 1970s she had owned two health food stores.
"But I liked the comfort and coziness of a place like the Tea Bazaar," she says. "I wanted to create a place where people and groups could meet in a tranquil, comfortable space."
So last June, Java Dragon in the Preston Plaza was born.
Spaulding says a friend came up with the name, and she immediately took to it.
"I'm into Asian culture, and I'm a Buddhist, and the dragon fire roasts the beans!" she laughs.
Since its opening, business at Java Dragon has been up and down, Spaulding says.
"We have to be found," she says.
When you do locate Java Dragon, you'll find a brightly lit space with a kind of living room area, a dining room area, and stools near a counter. Plus, you'll find vibrant artwork on the wall.
"First Fridays have been very successful for us," she says. "We always have a new exhibit on the walls."
Local groups and clubs have found the place attractive as well, gathering in the comfortable 'living room" area for meetings. Spaulding, a self-described political junkie, is also open to the idea of hosting politicians and political functions.
Having finally learned how to make a cup of coffee, she gets her beans locally from Trager Brothers, and her chocolates and teas are all organic. The shop offers pastries, too, but Spaulding says she tries not to stock anything too sugary.
While she's now in the coffee business– and the creating-a-comfortable-space business– her healthcare background still seeps through.
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Concerts: High Rock Outfitters offers concerts weekly at its 13 S. Main St. venue. Upcoming concerts include: N.C.-based bluegrass band Town Mountain, 9 p.m. Friday. If Birds Could Fly will open the show, $10; Jeff Hale and Friends, Saturday, $8; Jeff Sipe Trio, 9 p.m., Tuesday, $5; The Broadcast, 9 p.m., Feb. 15, $10; Brushfire Stankgrass, Feb. 16, $5; The Deluge with Possum Jenkins, 9 p.m., Feb. 22, $8; Tiny Boxes, Feb. 23, $5; Songcraft Live featuring Aaron Wood and The Honey Dewdrops, Feb. 28. Call 248-4444 or visit www.highrockoutfitters for tickets.
Music: "Then Sings My Soul" will be performed from 6 to 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Gee Auditorium on the Davidson County Community College campus, celebrating DCCC's 50th anniversary. It will feature the rich musical history of America, including spirituals and popular Broadway songs.
Symphony: The N.C. Symphony will perform March 23 at the Edward C. Smith Civic Center, 217 S. Main St. with resident conductor William Henry Curry. For tickets, call 242-2783.
Play: "The Vagina Monologues," by Eve Ensler, will be performed at 11 a.m. March 28 and April 4, at 7 p.m. April 5 and at 3 p.m. April 6 in Gee Auditorium at Davidson County Community College. The play celebrates female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. The performance includes excerpts produced by students in an American Women's Studies course.
Speaker: The April Campus Speaker Series at Davidson County Community College features Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss as they present their side of the story portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film "The Social Network" from 11 a.m. to noon April 3 in the Conference Center.
Theater: Hanesbrands Theatre will present "The Magistrate" starring John Lithgow as part of The National Theatre Live in HD series at 8 p.m.7:30 p.m. Monday. The Hanesbrands Theatre at The Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts is at 209 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem. Tickets for the National Theatre Live in HD screenings are $15 for students and $18 for adults and can be purchased by calling the Hanesbrands Theatre Box Office at 747-1414 or through the Hanesbrands Theatre website at www.hanesbrandstheatre.org.
Presidents Day event: In celebration of Presidents Day, Old Salem Museums & Gardens is holding a day of hands-on activities and demonstrations suitable for the whole family from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Feb. 16. Activities include learning about presidential punch and Washington's visit to Salem (Salem Tavern Museum); discussion of the 1832 celebration of Washington's 100th birthday (Salem Tavern Barn); participating in a mock election, learn about the election of 1840 and listen to patriotic music (Vogler House); making and tasting Washington's favorite food: hoecakes (Single Brothers' Workshop); witnessing the reading of General Orders 32: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (St. Philips Heritage Center); and more. The cost is included in an Old Salem Museums & Gardens All-In-One Ticket, which is $21 for adults and $10 for ages 6-16. Tickets can be purchased online at oldsalem.org or at the Visitor Center at 900 Old Salem Road.


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This Mediterranean-style home, located in Memorial at 8607 Pasture View Lane, is perfect for entertaining and is full of luxurious amenities with clean, white finishes. It is listed at $2.8 million and has five bedrooms with five full bathrooms. Find the listing here.
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Who would've thought that a comic book named Cowboys & Aliens will end up being one of the most anticipated tentpole films for the Summer of 2011. It's a fun little book from Platinum Studios created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley with the artwork done by one Luciano Lima. The premise of the comic book is literally about cowboys and aliens. With the latter attempting to enslave humanity during the 1870's and starting with the Wild West. In their plans for world conquest are a band of cowboys and Indians who band together despite their many conflicts and issues to combat a shared and greater threat.
The film was announced prior to the release of Favreau's Iron Man 2 and was a surprising one. Many insiders thought he was a shoo-in to helm the planned Avengers film for Marvel, but instead he chose this project instead.
To say that Cowboys & Aliens steamrolled into production with so many heavyweights behind it would be an understatement. Favreau was already in the director's chair and producing the project behind the scenes were giants of the industry like Steven Spielberg, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. The cast roped in for the film was also quite impressive with Daniel Craig taking on the lead role with Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Clancy Brown, Keith Carridine, Walton Goggins and Paul Dano supporting Craig.
The very first teaser trailer has been released and could be seen above. While the trailer only shows only a little bit it does confirm that it will have cowboys and, from the brief glancing images, aliens. Cowboys & Aliens has a tentative release date of July 29, 2011 and joins other comic book-based films for that summer like Thor, Captain America and Green Lantern.
It will be interesting to see if Favreau keeps the bulk of the books storyline in the film or will he just loosely base the story on the books. One thing for sure, he and his crew have a tall order to try and tell this story and do it well enough that it stands out amongst the many comic book blockbusters and sequels set to appear in the same season. This film could be a real fun, action-adventure or it could easily turn into the second coming of Wild, Wild West. Here's to hoping it's the former and not the latter.


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And this is from November.
Photographer Bea Ahbeck is proof that you need not to be tall to be Swedish nor have dark hair to be smart. She's both.
Unfortunately for us at The Argus, however, The Tiniest Viking is the latest to get thrown overboard in the shipwreck that is the news business.
Her layoff was made official Friday.
It's a big loss. Bea's tough as nails: both at the Argus poker table, where she finished many a close seconds, and out in the field.
We worked Sundays together in 2006, and I remember one time she climbed to the edge of a cliff to get the best possible picture of a hang glider who had crashed below.
That autumn was Stakeout Sunday. Nearly every week between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Fremont cops were doing some kind of SWAT operation usually with a crazy person trapped inside of a house. We'd sneak around barriers and peak over fences looking for better views, often during critical junctures of NY Giants games that I was missing.
Here are some of the types of photos that will be missing from the paper now that she's gone.
There's the artistic shots, like this during a project in Africa:
We also won't have her web productions, including this really funny one about peacocks in Union City.
But Bea's still around. She actually lives in Fremont, and, in case you're in the market, I hear she's a super great wedding photographer.
As for the Argus, we still have an excellent photographer based out of Fremont, and others have come down to help out when he's not around. And, if they can't make it down here, fear not, I have a Cannon four megapixel sharpshooter, and I'm not afraid to use it.
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Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
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Based on My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy
With its poignant story and catchy Caribbean flavored score, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND JR. is a feast for the heart, mind, and soul. The highly original and theatrical Caribbean adaptation of the popular fairy tale The Little Mermaid garnered eight Tony nominations for its Broadway run, including Best Musical, Book and Score.
In almost non-stop song and dance, the show tells the story of Ti Moune, a peasant girl who rescues and falls in love with Daniel, a wealthy boy from the other side of her island. When Daniel is returned to his people, the fantastical gods who rule the island guide Ti Moune on a quest to test the strength of her love against the powerful forces of prejudice, hatred and death. Its catchy, contemporary, and Caribbean-flavored score by the Tony® Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (RAGTIME and the animated film Anastasia) includes tender ballads and rousing celebratory numbers.


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== Hardware ==
== Hardware ==
On the board of this USB 2.0 video capture device there is on the front side a green LED, the STK1160 USB Bridge and a SAA7113 video processing chip and on the back side a AC97 audio chip (this chip is missing on the 8000 Hz audio models of this device).
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== Drivers ==
Revision as of 10:39, 7 August 2012
This article covers all the devices which are based on the STK1160 chip
Many but not all of these devices are branded as Easycap.
Althought this device is sold with different names and labels, in many forums and blogs this device is called EasyCAP DC60
How to identify your device
When lsusb reports the following output you have an STK1160 based video capture card:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e1:0408 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd STK1160 Video Capture Device
On the board of this USB 2.0 video capture device there is on the front side a green LED, the STK1160 USB Bridge and a SAA7113 compatible video processing chip (silan sc8113) and on the back side a AC97 audio chip (this chip is missing on the 8000 Hz audio models of this device).
eaysycap driver
The easycap driver is part of the current kernel (since 2.6.38) and supports all the features of the STK1160 based devices but has some limitations (framedropping, stability, sound issues).
stk1160 driver
The stk1160 driver is the successor of the easycap driver. It supports video capturing and audio capturing via ALSA. This driver doesn't suffer from the limitations of the easycap driver but is still under development. It is intended that the stk1160 module will replace the easycap module in one of the next kernel releases.
Source code for kernel 3.2: [1]
Installation instructions: [2]
These stk1160 based models of the video capture device are known and supported by the drivers. All models do have the same device USB ID 05e1:0408.
- Model 001 with input cables labelled CVBS, S-VIDEO, AUDIO(L), AUDIO(R) and 48000 Hz audio (AC'97 audio)
- Model 002 with 4 yellow input cables labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and an white unlabelled audio (8000 Hz)
- Model 001m with input cables labelled CVBS, S-VIDEO, AUDIO(L), AUDIO(R) and 8000 Hz audio (microphone audio)
(Obviously this device has the board of Model 002 but the cables of Model 001)
Identify the audiotype of your device
Video channels
From the two or four video cables on the device only one (!) can be used at the same time. If you have more than one camera, it is possible to switch in the capturing program from one channel to the other.
Short linux driver history
In early 2010 Mike Thomas started to develop a driver for the stk1160 based video capture device which is sold as EasyCAP DC60. Since the driver has been added to the kernel release in November 2011 Mike Thomas stopped his development and support of the easycapdriver.


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For those footballers blessed with great height, a career blighted by cliche is likely to come as standard.
Rangy-limbed entertainers often find themselves the subject of patronising praise - "good touch for a big man," the most frequently cited, while many register their surprise when gangly keepers drop to the floor to pull off a save, "got down to that well," an all-to-common refrain.
Physical extremes often promote lazy generalisations. Tall strikers are expected to be good in the air, pacy wingers are almost universally wasteful in the final third, while wafer-thin continental breakfast-eating playmakers are unsuited to the hurly-burly English game.
Liverpool have this week been linked with Lacina Traore - a striker of mountainous proportions who presence on the pitch is often greeted by a litiny of such declarations. At 6ft 8in, Traore would share the title of the Premier League's tallest player, and along with Peter Crouch, he would share the anti-big man bias.
The name Traore has garnered cultish status at Anfield, the blundering Djimi Traore a figure gone but not forgotten by the Liverpool faithful.
With a move reportedly under discussion for next season, GMF examines the players Lacina could be looking down upon in the Premier League next season.
Costel Pantilimon - Manchester City - 6ft 8in
A chief rival for the title of world's tallest player Manchester City's back-up keeper stands an impressive 6ft 8in - the exact same height as Traore.
Currently the tallest player in the Premier League, the Romanian international would be forced to share that crown should Traore join the English top flight.
Peter Crouch - Stoke City - 6ft 7in
From figure of fun to feared Premier League frontman, Peter Crouch has developed into one of the most consistent English strikers.
At 6ft 7in, Crouch is one of the tallest players ever to play for England, and the former-Spurs striker has an excellent record for his country - 22 goals in 42 caps.
Brede Hangeland - Fulham - 6ft 6 1/2in
The Norwegian international has proven to be an exceptional Premier League defender, and at 6ft 6 1/2in, Hangeland only concedes a height advantage to Crouch when marking.
Since joining Fulham in 2008, the USA-born defender has made more than 150 Premier League appearances, and has often been linked with a move to one of Europe's top clubs.
Per Mertesacker - Arsenal - 6ft 6in
The Germany international stands at 6ft 6in with a straight back, making the 28-year-old one of the game's tallest players.
Dubbed "the defence pole" by fans in the Bundesliga, Mertesacker moved to the Premier League with Arsenal last summer. And after a shaky start - his slow-motion, limb-flailing trips to the turf often resembled a spider being flushed down the toilet - Mertesacker has now established himself as a top defender.
Petr Cech - Chelsea - 6ft 5in
The 30-year-old Chelsea goalkeeper squeezes into the top five at 6ft 5in - one of a number of players at that height - but Cech gets the nod.
The Czech Republic shot-stopper has been one of the most consistently excellent players in the English top flight since signing from Rennes in 2008.
Outside the Premier League there are even taller players, and at 6ft 10in, Kristof Van Hout is the world's tallest. The 25-year-old goalkeeper currently plays for Belgian first division side Genk, and by all accounts is a pretty imposing prescene between the sticks.
As for the world's tallest outfield player, that would be another northern European. Norwegian striker Tor Hogne Aaroy at 6ft 8 1/2in. The former-Rosenborg forward was prolific for Norwegian second tier outfit Aalesund, earning a move to Japan to play for JEF United in the J League Division 2.
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Chicken, Shrimp and Andouille Jambalaya
A Cajun classic, meal in one pot! Have the hot sauce ready to splash on. Serve with some crusty french bread, a nice crisp salad, and some of your favorite...
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... and they will come.
Half of YouTube is pirate copyright material.
Most people don't care about copyright. The MAFIAA have already lost, no-one gives a shit about their poor bleeding profit margins or abstract concepts of intellectual property.
Anyone want to bet what percentage of traffic is people refreshing the page because the youtube player got stuck again?
Could more people be satisfied with current video offerings or are less people finding useful things to download via file sharing?
Or is it something that's not a false dichotomy? An increase in Netflix, YouTube traffic will result in a decrease in the amount of bittorrent traffic in terms of percent, even if absolute usage remains the same. Likewise, a decrease in bittorrent traffic will lead to higher percentages for Netflix and YouTube. That doesn't indicate (or rule out) a relationship between the two (i.e. leaving bittorrent behind for Netflix) except in that it is a relative measure.
It would be more interesting to know how much time YouTube and Netflix are taking away from normal TV viewing. I find that the amateur documentary type videos on YouTube are better than what the BBC puts out these days, like that Brian Cox twat or Horizon post 1990.
Could more people be satisfied with current video offerings or are less people finding useful things to download via file sharing?
Could be that most download hoarders are finally coming to their senses that out of the 250gigs of MP3s they've downloaded they're really only listening to about 2gigs worth? That's my guess... that and the fact that you can only beat off so many times a year so having 65 days of pr0n doesn't make much sense either.
Or maybe it's people who've gotten sick of downloading 5 gigs worth of an e-book collection for a single book that's about 6 dollars on Amazon.
I know tons of people who've done the bit torrent stockpiling and I've never seen any of them come close to using a double digit percentage of what they've ripped off. It's like the people who get the high end NetFlix package and rip the discs and return them the next day. How many of those discs never get watched? My guess is a ton of them never see the tray of a DVD player.
They would mail you 3 DVDs, then you would rip them, drop them off at the store the next day and they would give you 3 in store rentals for free in exchange, while at the same time mailing you 3 more.
When it first came out, they didn't wait for the in-store rentals to be returned before mailing the next set of discs. They changed that at some point.
So you could get up to 12 movies a week if you were swapping them every 3 days or so.
After a few months, I had several TB of hard drive space full of movies that... frankly weren't likely to ever be watched.
Then Blu-Ray came out, and the quality there was good enough that it made the ripped copies look like crap. I ended up deleting them. That was a LOT of hours of time wasted.
So yea, the idea that I'll have this huge horde ended up being rather silly. Now I just put the PS3 or Ruku on and stream more content than I will ever have time to watch and life is good.
Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu Plus might not be perfect, they each have their own issues, they don't have "everything", but boy, they sure have enough stuff to keep my family busy most of the time.
Posting as AC since I don't want the CISPA to allow a newly minted Ministry Of Copyrights to send their secret police in the near future....
I've stored over a thousand movies either from direct ripping, or downloading good encodes. I have found that on demand (Netflix) does not have a whole lot going in the movie categories. As a result, I have been watching movies again from my archives. I simply refuse to shell out a couple of bucks each time I want to watch something. Fuck them, I paid to see it in the movie theater, I paid to get the DVD copy, how much blood do they want to siphon off me? So, yes, I do store movies to watch them again, or watch them later on with friends and family. Some stuff is just classic.
It just became a way of life to never ever watch the DVD. In fact, the advertisements and POU's pissed me off so fucking much, I had to rip it first. Actually paying for it (Around 30-40% of my collection are purchases) and being told, "No. You can't skip anything here. Sit down. STFU. Watch the previews".
Right after I had the physical medium in hand I put it in my system, fired up DVD Decrypter, and made an image of the disc to be mounted afterwards and played. Plenty of media players like the WD TV Live will play an
I don't feel that any of the time has been wasted at all. My collection is nearing 100 TB. At this point I rarely use Netflix for anything other than watching TV shows. That's it's real value to me. TV shows with no advertisements or overlays. I can wait a year till the last season is available.
The biggest failure of Big Entertainment is continuing this greedy war. My offer still stands. I will pay upwards of $50 a month for on-demand viewing of TV shows with ZERO advertisements of any kind. Any other deal they can go fuck themselves with a cactus.
P.S - I still do a brisk business with the DVDs by mail. After I download a good encode for a movie I queue it up on Netflix and quite often never take it out the package when I receive it. I'm sending them back as quick as I get them. Netflix for me is way to compensate the artists.
I used to have eight 3TB hard drives in my home server, storing all my downloaded and ripped videos.
Back when I started in 2006, it was 1TB drives, then 1.5TB drives (Frys had a deal on them back then, $115!). Then 2TB, then 3TB.
I looked at upgrading to 4TB drives, then something caused me to do the math. All the money spent to keep up with it? I could have just bought most of it on Blu-Ray and been done with it.
My local media storage is down to 6.8TB, I've deleted about 10TB worth in the past few months, waste of time, space, and money.
You know what? I don't miss any of it.
What I did keep was stuff that isn't easy to find on the popular services. I have a number of old war movies and documentaries that aren't on the various services, those I kept. I have the complete rip of 10 seasons of Modern Marvels, that is pretty cool and nice for the kids.
Blockbuster movies? Blah, I can stream those, Amazon Prime Video these days looks darn good on the big TV.
I was doing the same thing with zip.ca up here for a while but stopped after a bit. Zip is another company that is bringing out streaming real soon now (which they have been saying for over 4 years which is why I went to Netflix.ca).
My biggest issue with netflix is they need to have a way of limiting out movies that went straight to DVD. Trying to find a good horror movie that I haven't seen and pretty much all of them are done with HD handi-cams and contain porn-level acting at best.
On a side note, of the
These days torrents are fast, and of course there is Usenet. Some stuff I had to work a little to get I keep, but if I decided I wanted to watch almost any modern movie this evening I could have downloaded before I get home from work.
When the commercial outlets drop something out of existence you want due to low demand, you will thank the so-called 'hoarders'.
If I want to download The Hunger Games, that is easy.
If I want to download some rare TV movie from the 80's, my odds are very low that I'll find it.
The hoarders don't keep their entire collections up all the time. That is the great limitation of torrents, you can't really keep 5,000 torrents running all the time.
True, people with obscure collections are not up 24/7, but they at least have a copy safely stored away and it can be returned back to the community pool at some point.
I was a hoarder. For me, I guess what happened was that my broadband capacity finally reached a point in which I feel comfortable with stuff being in the cloud. If I wanted to watch Star Trek six years ago on my 800Kbps connection, I'd have to torrent every episode. Then I'd burn discs because, in case I wanted to watch again, I didn't want to go through the trouble of redownloading everything - it took days. Now Netflix and Youtube mean that a lot of what I want is permanently (and readily, thanks to a 35Mbps connection) available and I have no reason to hoard anymore, so my torrenting has decreased a lot. Steam sales and Humble Bundles also meant I have essentially stopped pirating (except for good titles with annoying DRM, like Bioshock 2) - I just give it a year of two for games to come to a reasonable price and leave my library on the cloud. I think that's what happened to a lot of people - and, in third world countries, quite recently.
Those steam sales are addicting! But you know what? I no longer pirate games. I used to have hundreds and hundreds of games stashed away for the day I *might* play them, and I did play some of them.
I haven't pirated a game in years, just wait a year (sometimes 3 months), Steam will have that $50 game on sale for $20 (or less).
As of this minute, my Steam account has 1,638 games in my "all games list".
I've probably actually played 10% of them, but some o
I don't get digital horders. I have a friend who has TB's and TB's of downloaded crap saved on DVD's and USB Hard drives. Why? He will never watch a fraction of this stuff. All those drives aren't cheap either. I have a $7.99 netflix account and can watch reruns of Star Trek TNG (or thousands of other things) if I feel like it. All at the tip of my fingers 24x7. No need to download 7 season's, and the interface on Netflix is much easier then dicking around with finding an episode you may want to watch
As a "hoarder", I've documented my collection pretty well. I never burn anything to DVD's or USB hard drives. Everything is networked and available to all devices.
It's about saving the really classic stuff. The real jewels of my collection are all the Disney and Looney Tunes cartoons. Stuff that is just not available on market today due their outright greed and insane copyright mentality. Some of the collections like M*A*S*H I ripped direct from the DVDs themselves.
The real value of my collection? At some point in the future the stuff I have, while classic, will not be readily available. My collection, nearing triple digit TB's, will be easily duplicated and shared.
My cartoon collection alone is very hard to come by. My younger relatives love to be able to watch Donald Duck and his nephews. Sadly, Disney being the douchenozzles they are have adamantly refused to share those cartoons with today's children.
I fear you're right. Netflix just keeps dropping older stuff, both from streaming and from DVD. I just don't get it.
I don't want to torrent anything! It's just crazy that no one will take my money to stream me the vast back catalog of titles that have entered the digital domain.
It's time for mandatory licensing of older works. You know what - I'm OK with 100 year copyright if after 10 works fall under some FRAND scheme and all the Netflix's of the world get to stream them for a nominal fee.
FRAND would be the most sane thing to do.
You take world wide distribution digitally at an annual cost of around $100 (adjusting for local economies) and that adds up to a shitload of residuals for the artists. Can you fucking imagine how much money Disney cartoons, The Three Stooges, M*A*S*H, etc. would generate at that volume?
There is so much good content that has been created that is considered classic, cult classic, etc.
Unfortunately, they want to force feed you the newer content at ever increasing rates
FRAND would be the most sane thing to do.
The most sane thing to do would be to restore the original term for Copyright. Life moves faster now, but copyrights expire slower. That is obviously bullshit.
Life moves faster now
Things every generation ever has said.
There's no need to have a short copyright term (though the recent extensions are silly), instead we need to change what copyright means, so that you can't restrict the distribution or prevent derivative works. I see no problem with the creator continuing to profit for a long time from some creative work, and that was never really the problem (except with children who demand all things for free). The problem comes when copyright blocks further creative progress, and th
Could be that most download hoarders are finally coming to their senses that out of the 250gigs of MP3s they've downloaded they're really only listening to about 2gigs worth? That's my guess
Your a fool if you only listen to 2gigs worth of MP3's you'll end up hating all of your favorite songs before the year is out.
In my comment, I said that the services today aren't perfect, they are missing some things (like off-line viewing).
But for most people, they are good enough.
People like you will always exist, that's fine, the fact that most people just pay Netflix $8 a month means that the media companies might actually start ignoring you at some point, rather than fighting a pointless crusade against you (that they can't win).
I agree
Similar theory: the majority of people who are going to torrent already have their libraries full, regardless of how much they're watching said library
TPB is famous enough that anyone even remotely in tune with the internet at large could easily figure out how to download the complete James Bond collection, or whatever they fancy. But once they have that (and the complete Star Trek collection, Game of Thrones, etc) there isn't as much of a glut. Just steadily downloading new stuff as it becomes available.
that and the fact that you can only beat off so many times a year so having 65 days of pr0n doesn't make much sense either.
Challenge accepted.
Or maybe it's people who've gotten sick of downloading 5 gigs worth of an e-book collection for a single book that's about 6 dollars on Amazon.
Actually I think it's the complete opposite, it's the knowledge that yes I'll easily find a torrent that has it and yes the speed will be good, so there's very little reason to hoard it just to have it available or to avoid downloading it again. With the war on piracy it seemed for a while like the good times would come to an end, napster shut down, grokster shut down, winmx shut down, suprnova shut down, grab it now while it's easy because tomorrow it might be harder. With the TPB raid and trial I'd say th
I was indifferent about YouTube until it inexplicably linked itself to my Gmail account and now wants me to create a Google+ page in order to comment on videos. Now, I'd like nothing more to see it go up in flames, like a Tesla that hit some road debris.
I was indifferent about YouTube until it inexplicably linked itself to my Gmail account and now wants me to create a Google+ page in order to comment on videos. Now, I'd like nothing more to see it go up in flames, like a Tesla that hit some road debris.
I compensated for that by deleting my YouTube channel account. I encourage every one else to do the same.
Don't just delete your account. That does nothing.
One of the biggest things that pisses me off is that I had to deal with the absolute suck that is the YouTube API and develop automated content creation and BI platforms that used YouTube. Google (surprise it has something to do with OAUTH) deprecated YouTube API v2. Now you have zero ability to fully automate anything with YouTube.
Why did I have to do this in the first place? Businesses are under the impression t
Sounds like you're logged into gmail when you go to youtube.
Logout [of gmail] first [possibly clearing some cookies] and you'll have no problem. I have a gmail account [but I only access it through POP3/IMAP from thunderbird--thus, it's never logged in] and I don't have the same problem. I did have the same problem one time when I was logged into gmail.
If you'd rather not logout/login on gmail repeatedly, you can create a separate browser profile [Firefox, at least] for youtube, etc.
If you'd rather not logout/login on gmail repeatedly, you can create a separate browser profile [Firefox, at least] for youtube, etc.
Or easier yet, use one browser just for logging into gmail, another browser for other stuff.
Or easier yet, cut the cord to the gmail mothership! There are other webmail products (I'm in the midst of switching to outlook.com). Yahoo and MS may have serve ads, but it's vastly less intrusive than googles omni-present tracking
Out of curiosity, why does it bother you? I consider it a great feature (the single account, not the nagging). I don't imagine it makes much of a difference to Google one way or the other with respect to information collection.
Now? For less than $25 a month, I have Amazon Prime Videos, Netflix, and Hulu Plus. They provide me with, more or less, all the video content I really want. (and more than I could ever watch)
There are shows and movies that come and go from these services that I'd *like* to have, but there is so much to watch, I can't be bothered to pirate them anymore.
So finally the media companies are offering a legal service that is approaching *good enough* status. It isn't perfect and yes, there are features we don't have yet that can be had with a pirate copy, but at some point it gets close enough that my time is worth more than messing with it. For the cost of 2 movie tickets a month, we have endless things to watch (and not nearly enough time to watch them all, my "to watch list keeps growing").
I currently have DirecTV in my home, cost is about $100 a month. I'm not quite ready to ditch it yet (because of my kids, Disney and Nick are popular in my house), but I see that day coming. The few things that we watch that aren't on Prime/Netflix/Hulu can be purchased by the episode most of the time, sooner or later, cable/satellite will be really pointless.
I'm sure for many, that day has already arrived. More and more each year are likely to cut that cord, just as they did with landlines. I cut my landline in 2005 and never looked back, so will it be with DirecTV at some point.
I'll second that. I'm a heavy pirate, and the only stufff I get anymore is new movie releases and TV shows because for some incomprehensible reason, they are delayed reaching those services by weeks to over a year... or for things they don't carry in their catalog; For example, Babylon 5 is not available for instant viewing on Netflix.
For $10 a month, I've been fairly satisfied with the service; I wish the quality was better, but that is a limitation of crappy internet service that everyone in the country d
This really speaks to the Full Retard status of Big Entertainment.
The writing has been on the wall for a long damn time, they just can't see it. Not possible for them I guess.
Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime is a piracy killer. What more proof do they want? If you offer a service at a reasonable price that people actually want.... surprise surprise.. people will pay the money.
I don't pirate nearly as much these days simply because of how easy (and cost effective) the alternative is now.
The price points of these se
Give them a few years, it will be back when WB fails at that.
I'll second that. I'm a heavy pirate, and the only stufff I get anymore is new movie releases and TV shows because for some incomprehensible reason, they are delayed reaching those services by weeks to over a year... or for things they don't carry in their catalog; For example, Babylon 5 is not available for instant viewing on Netflix.
Yeah, that makes no sense at all.
Why not charge $1 to enable a movie early on your streaming account. It will be there eventually for free anyway, and you still only can watch it for as long as you subscribe. So, make it available on release day for $1 more or something like that, and then would-be pirates have to decide whether it is worth futzing with torrents and having to wait an hour or two to start watching it to save $1. Don't make it like pay-per-view where you only get it for the day or whatever
I mostly use piratebay for downloading shows from England. Downton Abbey for my wife is one. Frankly there is more on DirectTV than I'll ever have time to watch. I can't bother streaming anything. My wife DVR's a lot of shows and occasionally I'll sit and watch one with her, mostly cooking shows or the like. Occasionally I'll watch football or baseball. Really if it wasn't for the wife and the grandkids I wouldn't miss any of it much. Game of Thrones and Justified are the only two shows I regularly w
Amazon Prime has all of Downtown Abbey for free...
Amazon Prime is $6.58 a month, cheaper than Netflix, plus you get the benefit of free 2 day shipping with no minimum purchase to boot.
I give Wikipedia a few bucks each year, I'd give such a service some money every year to keep all the old stuff online. It is a benefit to future generations to not lose all of that.
"To be honest, I'll admit that a few years ago, I was a frequent user of The Pirate Bay.
Now? For less than $25 a month, I have Amazon Prime Videos, Netflix, and Hulu Plus."
It's good to be you. 95% of the planet do not have the pleasure, so we have to torrent original movies and series.
As for TFA, streaming needs more bandwidth than peer to peer, who would have thought.
In any case, more than half the planet is more concerned with clean drinking water and electricity, so frankly the whole planet isn't the target.
As for bandwidth, actually Netflix doesn't require as much as you'd think, they have local machines they put in busy ISPs to keep the backbone as clear as possible of video traffic.
https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect [netflix.com]
Netflix will install their server for fre
It won't be long before our fully-purchased representatives finish overturning the last vestiges of Network Neutrality, allowing our Rightful Owners to specify and enforce the proper balance of Internet traffic.
Sounds like you missed this little tidbit. [arstechnica.com]
Sometimes it works great, but there are times I do end up giving up on it.
I can confirm that Netflix and Amazon Prime Video work perfectly, first time, every time, no buffering.
150 meg down, 65 meg up, and thankfully no caps. I VPN my home to my office with it (and keep the files synced between them) and I also backup online with two different services (Crashplan and Backblaze), plus use streaming services every day, I actually don't know what
Happy Comcast customer here.
I can log into their portal and see that I've not been within their 250 "cap" for months, yet I've received no communication from them. The instant I get a letter from them, I start with the alternative that doesn't cap. I'll go back to 5 Mbit DSL if I have to if it comes without caps.
I'd rather give my money to a company that increases profits by serving their customers.
As a long-time Comcast customer it seems to me things are going in the other direction - better! They had a 250GB cap for a while and then gave up on it.
They had a 90GB cap for a while, and then gave up on it! Guess I was a Comcast customer before you. This was before they had a page that would tell you when you went over the cap, and before you could get a front-line employee to tell you what the cap was. The third guy I talked to finally spilled the beans, and I finally stopped getting letters from Comcast when I stopped going over 90. This was probably a decade ago now, my god we've had cable internet a long time and yet where I live now I'm still on a s
Nice that was tossed in there. Screw you.
Is that people are content with watching brainless cat-videos instead of learning something.
Drool... Drool... click.. Drool.
http://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube/ [reddit.com]
PS3 in a drop down fashion are NetFlix, youtube, then of course Amazon instant videos and Red Box
showed up on the last update -4.5.
Flame: Know how time consuming it was to find that reddit link? It used to be a tab on my browser.
Yesterday I updated Opera 12 to version 17. I didn't want to lose the
Opera doesn't have bookmarks anymore, how truly asinine is that? Nor can I disable flash, and much more.
So I don't use Opera after well since forever, but FireFox that auto log's me into a site (for the moment).
and off topic but I'm still hot over it.
Why download a 4GB HD file and have to store, let it sit there for years when you can stream it and forget about it after 'consuming it'. As for youtube videos, no one wants to hold on to that stuff--it's short term memory videos anyway and google stores it for free....
Sure you can take that BT file and store in your cloud, but LIRC lots of cloud storage costs money (since the free account limit you at what, 5GB?).
What's killing P2P file sharing is not the offerings (though the netflix, youtube), but the co
Perhaps there were fewer world of warcraft updates pushed out?
Bittorrent isn't just used for video.
But did consumption go up or did video bit rate go up?
Maybe more people are now selecting "HD" streaming than they used to.
But did consumption go up or did video bit rate go up? Maybe more people are now selecting "HD" streaming than they used to.
And they're probably torrenting higher video bit rates, too.
My money is on the first supposition in the summary being right: The legal services have gotten good enough, and cheap enough, that people have less incentive to reach for illegal torrents.
illegal video downloads used to be of fixed size. Some traction of multiple of CD or DVD media. eg: 350mb, 700mb, 1.4gb, 4.7gb,
It seems lately the sizes have been shrinking, the compression rates are getting higher. A 40 minute TV show is now less than 300mb in "SD" quality.
A year or so ago, they were 350mb
The 700mb quality has also dropped to around 560mb.
And they're probably torrenting higher video bit rates, too.
Not just that, but Netflix is overcompressed as compared to the genuine HD video sources. Torrents have gotten bigger than Netflix streams faster, but Netflix has eclipsed torrents.
I find that hard to believe, half of the time, I can hardly get the vids there to play. Every year it gets worse, it's at a point making me yearn to real player.
Netflix otoh, almost never has issues.
Meanwhile, back in your fiber box...
If you click a few levels through the story, you'll find that the data comes from Sandvine, whose customers are the big telecoms. Considering the battle over net neutrality, I'd say that Sandvine is not a neutral source in this discussion.
I'd like to see data from some other sources on "Netflix and Youtube are half of all Internet traffic".
Not everyone who gets paid by an industry is automatically in its pocket. In this case, they gain nothing by doctoring the report.
Sandvine's numbers are taken as fact by pretty much everyone in the know. When I was in grad school, they were the ones posting the numbers saying that torrents accounted for whatever insane percentage of Internet traffic that they once accounted for (30%+, as I recall), and practically every research paper I read quoted something Sandvine had published at some point. As I recall, the reason they're able to get such accurate numbers is because their customers are the big telecoms, which gives them the sort of access they need to make these assessments. Without that sort of access, the best you could do is get some numbers from large universities, local ISPs, and CDNs. Of those, the first two wouldn't be useful in the least for extrapolating traffic patterns to the population at large, and good luck getting these sorts of numbers from the CDNs.
Look back on Sandvine's historical data and you'll see that they haven't exactly done the entrenched telecoms any favors, since they seem to just tell it like it is, time and again, regardless of what the implications may be.
Meanwhile Bittorrent traffic is down slightly (7.4% from 10%) in Internet traffic compared to last year. Could more people be satisfied with current video offerings or are less people finding useful things to download via file sharing?
Or, could it be that someone doesn't understand percentages? If there are three people in a room, and two are using BitTorrent, that's 67%. If a fourth person walks in, and two people are still using BitTorrent, usage isn't down at all, but the percentage shrank to 50%.
BitTorrent traffic could be shrinking, or it could be holding steady, or it could even be increasing, just not enough for its proportion of total Internet traffic to even remain constant. But you can't tell anything by just looking at percentages of the whole like that.
They're talking about percentage.
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I'll admit that I got a bit spoiled using Angelic Feather on the beta. It just makes questing on foot so much quicker. Whoosh! Whoosh! It's great fun and makes errands between the mailbox and auction house so much more efficient. I have another priest to level to 85 before Mists of Pandaria comes out, so I've been anxiously awaiting patch 5.0.4 to go live so I could level in style. Whoosh!
Anyway, with the existing talent system getting tossed out the window, many of your favorite priest talents are moving around or undergoing changes. Many talents will now take the form of passive abilities granted by your specialization. Some talents will actually remain talents but will now be accessible to all three priest specializations instead of restricted to certain trees. The list after the jump will tell you where many of your talents will have gone after patch 5.0.4 hits. If you don't see a favorite talent of yours, keep reading! It's probably one of the new (well, sort of new) talents.


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Theme Meals
Alyssa Rider
Nutrition Counselor
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Ill.
As part of National Nutrition Month we held a series of nutrition-themed meals in our residence halls. The meals were built around the theme "Go Green. Start with Veggies," which was the theme of our nutrition fair. We also had games and prizes from residence hall dining nutrition assistants. It's a fun way to learn about better nutrition and eating healthy.


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