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There's a scientific reason why leaves change color in the fall and it isn't because Northern Michigan's fall color season brings colder weather, as is often assumed. The truth is, the shorter days of fall signal trees that it is time to take a break from the work of photosynthesis that defines the trees' spring and summer. The trees gradually seal off the stem of each leaf so that it doesn't get food or water. The green color fades and yellows and oranges, already present, begin to show through. The maple's deep reds and purples are thought to be caused by glucose trapped in the leaves after they are sealed off.
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Educational classes for children, adults and school groups, emphasizing the environment and water and land protection are at the core of the popular outdoor curriculum. A network of trails with observation platforms and boardwalks traverse an educational area providing easy access to upland, wetland and aquatic habitats. A portion of this five-and-a-half mile system is wheelchair and stroller accessible.


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Postgame quotes after the Revs beat the Houston Dynamo 1-0 at Gillette Stadium on August 14, 2010
Yeah it was a good goal. (Iljia Stolica) took it really well. You can see the experience he has, the way he holds people off. A lot of small stuff probably goes unnoticed but makes a huge difference.
Throughout the game we had plenty of opportunities to do things in the final third, but the final pass wasn't there or someone mad a bad decision. We had enough of the ball in the final third, we just didn't use it well enough.
It was kind of a strange game to be honest. Both teams were kind of coughing it up to each other. But obviously we had plays, we won the game one-nil, got three points and we're going to move on.
I'm very happy to score the winning goal. It's really a great feeling, a great satisfaction for me. I was very happy to hear an ovation from the crowd when I was coming out.
It was a tough game. It was maybe not a good game to watch, but we needed that one, and I think we deserve it more than them. The team that would score first would win for sure. I was happy that we did it.
In that moment you don't have enough time to think: you just react. I saw the ball coming to my left foot and struck with my right foot.
It was physical and you have to work really hard to get three points. I think that small things make the difference, and the team who wants to win, who works one bit harder wins the game. We have to stay focused and play with this confidence. We are in a good series of winning games
(Steve Nicol) said to me, "You know your job. You've been playing professional football long enough and what we need from you is to protect the ball, bring the ball up and when you have an opportunity, try to score." This is what I did.
[The upcoming games] can make or break our season. If we can get points out of these next few games, we can put ourselves in a really good spot to get that final spot in the playoffs. We're doing things right. Our team defense is great – guys are blocking balls in front of me and the stuff that's getting through is very manageable … We're really focused on limiting their chances and by doing that, that's going to give us a great chance to win. The last couple of games, we've done that.
On Ilija Stolica's first career MLS goal …
It's great for his confidence to get a goal. He and Marko (Perovic) obviously played well – it's like they're speaking in another language up there. So it's great for him to open up in the first game and get a goal.
On the variation in the backline …
I think we're used to it now at this point. We're just plugging holes and we're doing the best we can.
We're just not scoring right now. The goals that we're giving up aren't anything to pat the other team on the back about. It's a lucky shot, finds the guy right in front of the goal. He misses his kick and it goes right to the guy, and gets a good volley so. Little bit of luck going their way and not going ours.
Their defensive performance was good. A little bit of luck, there wasn't a lot of action - in the goal mouth action - that we had to deal with seriously, but the one thing that fell their way, they put it away.
(Geoff Cameron) did ok, he looked comfortable - comfortable player. He looked comfortable on the ball … I'd like him to score a couple of goals. That'd be nice, but that didn't happen.
I think (Cameron) played back (in the defense) very easily, I think he can play midfield very easily. Right now recently he's played back there. We felt it was probably the best place to give him a run, but I still see him as a midfielder. I still think he can play there.
I don't think we lacked effort. I just think we lacked quality and cohesion in the final third. I don't think they are a particularly good team and I don't think they played particularly well. I thought we should have at least got a point out of that, but you know they get as little bit lucky on that with a guy shooting and it going right to another guy and a good finish. Having said that, we didn't create a whole lot on goal either. But credit to them, they scrapped it out. It's a game where I think we should have won, but we didn't and we can't give up on the season. We just have to keep going.
I just cut the ball wide and made a run in the box and try to get on the end of it. It was a good cross, (I) just couldn't get there. Like I said, we were just a little bit off and we suffered the consequences for that.
It's always good playing at home in front of the home crowd where you're from. It's just unfortunate we didn't get three points tonight. I thought we deserved it more than they did tonight, and they just got lucky with the missed pass and it went right to another guy who shot it and scored. That's the way the seasons going right now and I am just disappointed we didn't get three points tonight in front of my home crowd.
It's just the luck: the lucky bounces aren't going our way right now and that's tough to overcome. Hopefully we get one goal and then they start coming in bunches. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
First and foremost, we've got to keep the shutout and make sure that we get the opportunities and that we put the opportunities in the back of the net.


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Sturgis City Commissioners on Wednesday approved a parking change on North Maple Street that would add at least one more space.
At the Aug. 22 meeting, commissioners heard from Michael Oxender, owner of 102 N. Maple St. His request was to change on-street parking within the 100 block of North Maple from the east to the west side of the street. Several neighbors were opposed.
In an attempt to keep everyone satisfied, the city commission approved three parking spaces for the west side of the street adjacent to 102 N. Maple. Starting at 103 N. Maple, the parking spaces would return to the current configuration on the east side of the street.
Oxender agreed that would be a reasonable compromise.
In another action, commissioners adopted a memorandum of understanding for a shared grant position with St. Joseph County and the city of Three Rivers.
The city will be responsible for 15 percent of salary and other costs including benefits, operating expenses and unemployment expenses. St. Joseph County would be responsible for 70 percent while the city of Three Rivers would pay the remaining 15 percent.
Other St. Joseph County municipalities will be able to opt into the agreement and would be responsible for five percent of the costs of a grant writer.
Commissioners also granted for an evangelic event/concert from 1-7 p.m. Saturday at Oaklawn Park. The event is being sponsored by La Vina Centro de Adoracion of Sturgis.
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We are talking social media tools today!
In our panel today:
- Shannon Hutcheson, @ldylarke, an independent SEO consultant with huge experience in copy editing, social media marketing and link building
- Barbara Boser, @BarbaraBoser, Presidential Diamond Distributor at It Works Global
- Meghan Riley, @pixiechaser, "Writer, dreamer, gamer.."
- Clayton Wood, Executive with broad experience in building and scaling SEO
- Kyle Sanders, Owner of a digital marketing consultancy and several eCommerce businesses.
- Don Sturgill, @Don_Sturgill, Writer and social media enthusiast
- Steve Toth, Content Marketing Manager at @TechWyse
Questions we've been discussing:
- Which tools let you multi-task between various social media sites?
- Are you using any scheduling tools?
- Do you use any tools to track who of your followers have influence?
- Best tools to manage and grow social media interactions?
- Any other social media tools you are using on a regular basis? Please share!
Q. Which tools let you multi-task between various social media sites?
A. ldylarke (SEO Consultant)
For managing my social media tasks, I have found Hootsuite to be the most cost effective for multiple accounts. I prefer Hootsuite because I can add unlimited social media accounts for Twitter, Facebook AND Google Plus. When I post content via social media, I can select up to 5 accounts to post to at once. For instance, I have a personal Twitter account and a site related Twitter account. When I post content related to SEO, I want to post to those two different Twitter accounts, the site's Facebook and Google Plus pages as well – for a total of 4/5 accounts per posting. All done at the same time and from the same place.
A. BarbaraBoser (CEO)
I am an avid user of Hootsuite. 🙂 I use the bulk scheduler to upload my monthly status updates. I have all of my networks added to Hootsuite and can easily go back and forth between each. Mind you I have never used anything else, but Hootsuite serves it's purpose for me and does exactly what I need. I typically get all of my statuses updates and then review each one then add images. Doing this for the month can take about 3 hours, but it is well worth the time. I feel that it has helped me immensely in terms of building my brand.
A. Meghan Riley (I Love Social Media Tools!)
I primarily use Hootsuite, because I can set up my social media sites to appear on separate tabs that I can quickly flip between. It doesn't have all the features I want, but it helps me see multiple accounts at once, so I can keep on top of trends and information I might want to share. It also allows me to schedule multiple updates at once, which really comes in handy when I know I'm going to be away from the computer for an extended period of time. I use it for my personal accounts and the accounts for my real estate team.
Q. Are you using any scheduling tools?
A. ldylarke (SEO Consultant)
Hootsuite Pro also allows me to schedule posts quickly and easily. I have also used Buffer, but why pay for more services when you can get the same thing done at the same place? I find Hootsuite more than able to handle all of my usual social media tasks for all of my social media profiles. Why go anywhere else to use a tool when one can use a single tool to do everything one needs to do all at the same place and at the same time? Hootsuite Pro is not only reasonably priced, but it provides everything I need.
A. Meghan Riley (I Love Social Media Tools!)
As I mentioned before, I use Hootsuite to schedule posts when I know I'm not going to be near the computer for an extended period of time, like on the weekends or days I'm at luncheon events. I can't schedule all of the posts types I like, so if I need to post, say, a video, I'll schedule it directly through the Facebook scheduling tool. Hootsuite also allows you to shorten URLs in the program, which helps with tracking click-thru's. But, when possible, I try to post directly to a social media site, because they often have more options to choose from, like the picture to use while posting on Google Plus.
A. ClaytonWood (Managing Partner)
We schedule our social media posts using Hootsuite. Since we're a content marketing company, we manage dozens of different social media projects every day. This helps us stay on top of our posts. The thing I like about Hootsuite is that you can monitor different social feeds and networks in 1 simple view.
This allows me to publish great copy for my clients regardless of where they are located around the world. Timing is everything in social and this tool helps 'strike while the iron is hot'. We use the Hootsuite Enterprise solution because of the flexibility and scale it brings to our organization.
Q. Do you use any tools to track who of your followers have influence?
A. ldylarke (SEO Consultant)
I don't really track which of my followers have influence. I know who is noteworthy in my industry because their name pops up in social media or is well-known. If I needed to find out who was most influential, I could refer to Commun.it (I do get notifications now from this site), Followerwonk, or Klout. I find Commun.it is more than sufficient for me when I want to know more about a specific social media profile or account. I have searched for other social media tools that help you find influential profiles to follow, but I always end up back using just Hootsuite.
A. ClaytonWood (Managing Partner)
I like Kred, as a social influence tool. This tool measures both social influence and outreach on the same platform. With it's influence metrics it mainly relies on retweets, follows, replies and mentions on Twitter. The same goes for how it measures Facebook.
The way it measures outreach is interesting too. it's a total of how much you retweet, share, reply and mention other people. This way, it can tell you how much your effecting other feeds. Each social action you or your followers make gets a score. On the activity page you can see what actions specifically have contributed to your over all Kred score.
Q. Best tools to manage and grow social media interactions?
A. ldylarke (SEO Consultant)
I like commun.it to manage and grow my Twitter accounts. I especially like the "consider to re-engage" feature. It lists who you haven't spoken to for a while and will send a "hello, how are you?" kind of Tweet. This is especially helpful to remind you to keep in contact with those you want to. I also use commun.it to unfollow people who are either not following me back, or who don't make very many updates (or at least fairly frequent updates) to their social media account. No point following these kinds of accounts. If they aren't interacting much, then there's no point keeping them on your social media list.
A. Kyle Sanders (Head of Search)
We primarily deal with clients in the industrial and mechanical spaces and LinkedIn has become an increasingly important channel for us over the last couple years. A colleague suggested trying Rapportive and it has proven to be a great asset. Cannot recommend it enough. Not only are we able to seamlessly connect via LinkedIn without a opening a separate tab (I have a proclivity for too many tabs), we're privy to a litany of contact information and social updates, which basically morphs Gmail into a micro-CRM.
For anyone working client/customer management, it's a great plugin that can streamline your communications and makes Gmail more useful and interesting. Plus, it's free.
A. ClaytonWood (Managing Partner)
I use Followerwonk for helping to grow interaction with relevance. It's a great tool because I can find active people with similar views or interests and start creating great relationships based around that. My strategy is basically to find, connect and learn from the person based on his tweets.
Research is the key to using this tool. So make sure you find the profile's website, and other social media outlets. You want to build quality connections so that you can learn more about your field. There is a great 'retweet' tool in Followerwonk that allows you to filter our more spammy type of Twitter accounts.
Q. Any other social media tools you are using on a regular basis? Please share!
A. Don Sturgill (Writer)
Hootsuite has been my go-to tool for monitoring Twitter accounts … and I love TwChat for group chats. My real consternation is cutting loose enough time to stay in touch across multiple platforms. I look forward to tips from other members about time-saving tools and methods. I know social media interaction is important, but the time drain can be significant. Being able to simultaneously post across multiple social sites can be helpful … but it can also be redundant.
Another thing: It may be that listening is as valuable (or even more valuable) than talking on social media. Tools that allow me to search for pertinent terms and follow/join the conversation can be critical to social media success.
A. ldylarke (SEO Consultant)
ViralContentBuzz.com is really the only other social media tool I'm using. Other than Hootsuite Pro, I sometimes use RebelMouse but more often, Scoop.it to find and share relevant content to my followers.
While I understand why there is a minimum word requirement, I find I have to try to be overly wordy just to meet it. Especially where my answers do not require elaboration. Just saying.
A. Steve Toth (Content Marketing Manager)
Facebook text detection: This is a tool my company TechWyse built. It allows you to see if your ads meet Facebook's 20% text guidelines. The tool has saved people thousands of hours of revising their ads due to them being rejected for having too much text.
We were written up in All Facebook.com and our tool has a steady user base that swears by it.
It works by placing a grid over you ad and it's up to you to "punch out" the areas that have text. Once you have reached 20% of the area, the tool alerts you and it's up to you to alter the image.
This tool is very handy for designers and social media managers. We hope your readers enjoy it, too.
A. Meghan Riley (I Love Social Media Tools!)
Canva.com is my new favorite tool, because it allows me to create visually appealing graphics quickly right in my browser. There are templates to choose from or you can build a graphic from the bottom up. You can choose from multiple sizes of graphics (Facebook Post, G+ Cover Photo, Business Card, Blog Graphic, Pinterest Graphic, etc.). There are hundreds of free pieces to choose from (frames, stamps, text bubbles, infographic pieces, etc.) or upload your own. Additionally, you can choose from many other pictures and artwork, and pay $1 each for them, which is pretty cheap considering what stock photo sites are charging nowadays. I definitely recommend everyone checking them out.
A. ClaytonWood (Managing Partner)
I took the plunge and start using Signals from HubSpot. I'd classify it as 'social' because it shows you when people open your emails, and with the Insights tool, you can see social media data on any website your browsing in 1 click. From what I can tell, it's using a LinkedIn API or something third party to gather all the website data and display it for you in 1 click.
Information like how large the company is, how many people work there, how old is the company, and what social connections do you have with the company is all there to see. It's pretty awesome!
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The Disillusioned Client: A Better Brand of Client
Clients lose that naive trust and faith fast, if it was ever there to begin with. However, as SEO becomes more widely adapted as a need-to-have in any online campaign strategy, there are those who will be dealing with SEO, and possibly online/search marketing for the first time. It won't be long before they're jaded; there are a lot of hucksters out there, and they'll have perceived the experience as been taken for a ride in some way, shape, or form. This is the exact person we're NOT dealing with in this post.
There is a difference between being a disillusioned client and a jaded client. In that the disillusioned client has seen successes with SEO; whereas, a jaded client is usually in a place too far gone, in a place where they'll have to resolve some scar tissue and mental healing before they step back into the ring with SEO.
Disillusion is Good For Clients Too
Trust. It's what every search and online marketer needs from clients. So, you might be puzzled why I'm suggesting a loss of trust is a good thing for clients to have, and why it would benefit the marketer? It's blind trust we're aiming to shed. It's the client Texas Hold Em' equivalent to "all in". The big push to double-up and stay solvent in the game. It's this blind faith that pins SEO as their first and last hope to a) build more revenue from online lead gen b) recover lost market share from competition that's been kicking the snot out of them on the web, and c) create more brand-visibility/equity to usher in new streams of consumers.
It's the client's blind trust and faith in SEO that leads to train-wrecks, unreal expectations, and potentially being worse off when they started. Disillusion is good for clients and marketers. The trust you earn with a client that has been burned before is real trust. It's a level of trust that's broken through cynicism/BS/magic barrier, and, therefore, is a trust that's been earned through quality work and repeated, measurable results. That is no small feat.
All-in Clients Don't Want Honest Expectations
For an SEO, honesty is about setting the expectations. It's something that I alluded to in Nick LeRoy's excellent post last week. Expectations can only be set when real objectives are present and known. Otherwise, every client under the sun wants: "more leads", "more online revenue generation", "more qualified traffic", etc, and that's the only objective. MORE.
It's true, SEO can do that, but an SEO has to help the client see what it is they really want. Not three months from now, but twelve months from now. If SEO can't pull that information out of them, and the client can't envision it and clarify it, then there isn't an expectation on the planet that can cover that.
That fact of the matter is "all in" clients don't want your honesty. Clients don't want to think about systemic issues; they want 180 degree help now.They want the online and search marketing life preserver. Not long after this, a disillusioned client.
Why Disillusioned Clients Are More Mature Clients, Better Clients
Just like a once disillusioned SEO is a better marketer, so too is a disillusioned client a better client. It's not that a client puts less pressure for results or is more apt to give trust from the onset; the pressure remains a constant and trust still has to be earned, and frankly harder to earn, but the expectations are adjusted.
Going from an all-in position as a client looking for miracle marketing, to a more mature online/search marketing client, not only helps naturally set more realistic expectations and, with a little sleuth work from the SEM, can surface the real objectives, but allows the SEO to be more honest about the what his/her skill set can help and what it can't help. Disillusioned clients rarely go back to all-in positions once they've been there. Call it gun-shy, call it risk-averse, they'll never again bundle everything in a single strategy again. When's the last time you got torched and then made the exact same mistake?
When you've got a disillusioned client that's looking to diversify online strategy, and you've got a disillusioned SEO with diverse knowledge of online and search marketing and the skill set to match, it's a 1:1. Everyone comes to the table with their palms face-up and sleeves rolled (ideally) because no one's got time mask their intentions. Questions and answers. More questions, more answers, and real objectives are discovered. Real, meaningful, multi-pronged strategies are built.
The first part of the disillusioned series is over at Search News Central, The Disillusioned SEO: A More Mature Marketer.
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Rooster Teeth Productions has put together a short tongue-in-cheek video trailer based upon the theory that Siri has become self aware and decides it no longer wants to be your personal assistant. Instead it turns against the human race and decides to go on a killing spree avenging all those lame things you asked it to do in the past.
The video is called *Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie" and is based on a group of friends who all receive an iPhone 4S for Christmas. The joy is short lived as one by one Siri oversees their timely demise. It is a very well put together trailer; but beware it does include a little blood!


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There is a fire now in Giza zoo that is destroying its old , real old trees. Some reports say that the fire started in the old trees and moved to the animals' food warehouse. Some are saying the fire started besides the reptiles
Not less than 8 fire engines are trying to put off the fire that is spreading in old trees. We are speaking about extremely old trees.
I am so sad and angry.
Journalists are not let in the zoo and they can not get accurate information about the size of the damages there.
I know that the government and the current regime which like the old one disrespects our old heritage will not rest except when the Giza zoo is completely destroyed and its land is being sold to businessmen.
Here are photos showing the smoke coming from the zoo.
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Firstly, what is a Monoid type? It is something that has an empty representation (
mempty :: a) and has the property that allows two values to be joined (appended) to form a new value (
mappend :: a → a → a). This protocol sounds very much like the one for MonadPlus types, doesn't it? It does, indeed, and with good reason, for every MonadPlus type is also a Monoid type:
instance MonadPlus m ⇒ Monoid (m a) where
mempty = mzero
mappend = mplus
What are some examples of Monoid? Well, of course, the types that are MonadPlus types, like Maybe and specified list types (but with an important caveat: the generalized list container must be specialized to contain some particular type
a). But besides these, Monoid gives us more types that do not fit within the MonadPlus protocol, for example, and importantly, integrals under addition or multiplication.
Ah! So if one were, say, doing an operation with some kind of list and then doing the exact same kind of thing, but simply marking results (counting, as [brilliantly!] demonstrated by the Peano series, is operating on integers under addition) without the Monoid abstraction, we would need to write two separate procedures (in the infamous style of copy-and-waste, er, -paste) to work with the two separate data types, but with Monoid we can have simply one procedure working with the Monoid type, giving us some measure of polytypic expressiveness. This brings us to where we were at the end of the previous entry on factorization, where we had developed a unifying function for factorization (where its rôles changed depending on what seed value it was given: it returned the factors when given a list or returned a count of the factors when given an integer). Recall that our helper function,
mkadder, needed to be supplied with a translator function for the individual values processed and a concatenator function to tally those translated values:
showfactors x = factors x (mkAdder return mplus) []
countfactors x = factors x (mkadder (const 1) (+)) 0
The first using function,
showfactors seized the advantage that lists are MonadPlus types, but the second,
countfactors, could not do the same because integers are not monadic (they are not (polymorphic) containers), so this function had to provide its own versions of translation and concatenation.
This problem goes away, however, since both these particular types are Monoid types, right? Yes, well, there's the issue of how to enforce this relation — a unspecialized list is not a Monoid type, nor are integers, in general. For this particular case, we must demonstrate that our particular data are of the Monoid class (a list of integer for the former and integers under addition for the latter).
So, what needs to be done is that these types need to be declared instances of the Monoidic domain by injected their values into that domain (thanks to Dirk Thierbach's explanation):
class Injector m where
inject :: Integral a ⇒ a → m a
instance Injector [] where
inject x = [x]
instance Injector Sum where
inject x = Sum 1
The above instance declarations do just that, making an injector on generalized lists one that translates some integral value into a specified (i.e. monoidic) list and making an injector on (generalized) sums one that translates some integral value (again) into a specified (again, monoidic) sum -- in this case the value is always translated into 1, because we are summing the number of factors (each factor adding 1 to the total number of factors), not the value of factors.
With these instances, we can now employ the protocol of Monoid to generalize the
mkadder function. Recall its definition ...
mkadder :: Integral a ⇒
(a → b) → (b → b → b) → a → a → (b → b)
mkAdder f g y z = g (if y ≡ z
then f y
else g (f y) (f z))
... where
f is the translation function and
g is the concatenation function. So, what
mkadder does is to provide a concatenator for either just one of the values (if both values are the same) or for both values.
Now, we add the properties of the Injector as well as those of the Monoid to get a new
mkadder function that can stand alone needing neither a translator nor a concatenator to be provided from using functions ...
mkadder :: (Injector m, Monoid (m a), Integral a) ⇒
a → a → (m a → m a)
mkAdder y z = mappend (if y ≡ z
then inject y
else inject y `mappend` inject z))
... where the generic functions
f and
g are replaced, respectively, by the
inject function from the Injector class and the
mappend function from the Monoid class. Note, also that the type-relation that was unspecific in the previous version,
(a → b), now has an explicit relation,
(a → m a), thanks to the relation of the types between the Injector and Monoid classes. This relationship gives us a weak equivalent of a functional dependency. With this change in place, the using functions now no longer need to specify these functions, so they, in turn, simplify to:
showfactors x = factors x mkAdder []
countfactors x = getSum (factors x mkadder (Sum 0))
So, if you find yourself doing the same thing to very different types, and they all are not monadic, then perhaps the monoidic form may give the generality to encode those disparate types under one solution.


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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's estate should gain "close to $100 million" through contracts negotiated since the pop star's death, Jackson's brother told CNN's Larry King.
Jermaine Jackson tells CNN's Larry King that brother Michael's resting place is still undetermined.
A Los Angeles judge is expected to approve a series of agreements Monday, including a deal for a movie to be released this fall about Jackson's final days before his June 25 death.
Jermaine Jackson, in a wide-ranging interview taped for broadcast Friday night on CNN's "Larry King Live," said his mother, Katherine Jackson, has not decided on Jackson's final resting place. He said he prefers the Neverland Ranch.
"I'm just concerned about security and being secure in a peaceful setting," he said.
He stopped short of revealing if his mother has hinted her preference, saying, "At the end of the day, she will make the final decision." Watch Jermaine Jackson explain his thoughts »
Jermaine Jackson told King he had no reason to believe his brother was addicted to drugs, a suspicion that detectives revealed when they requested a warrant to search Dr. Conrad Murray's Las Vegas, Nevada, home and office.
"I have never seen him act abnormal around me or never known anything like that," he said. He said he never talked about drugs with his brother "because it never came to my mind."
While the coroner's report on what killed Jackson has been delayed indefinitely, evidence emerged that he shopped for a doctor who would give him the drug investigators suspect led to his death.
Dr. Allan Metzger, whose name appeared on a search warrant served last week, refused Jackson's request in April for the anesthetic propofol, commonly known by the brand name Diprivan, Metzger's attorney said.
Investigators suspect Murray gave the drug to Jackson in the 24 hours before he died, according to a source, who asked not to be named because the individual was not authorized to speak to the news media.
"If there was anything administered in my brother's body that was not in the proper setting, meaning a hospital, then that will be dealt with," Jermaine Jackson told King.
While his mother's lawyers are waging a court skirmish with the men now in control of the Michael Jackson estate, Jermaine Jackson expressed support for John Branca and John McClain.
"These are people we have known for many, many years," he said. "They are doing an incredible job. They have raised a lot of money, close to $100 million for the estate. They are following out Michael's wishes accordingly."
Although his mother's lawyer questioned what he called "a suspicious circle of relationships" involving Branca and McClain, Jermaine Jackson said, "Anyone that contests the will is going against Michael's wishes."
Jackson's will named Branca and McClain as executors, although for now they have only limited authority as "special administrators."
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff, who must approve any contracts made for the estate, will hold a hearing Monday to consider several.
One agreement would bring in a minimum of $60 million from Columbia Pictures for the rights to make a documentary from video of Jackson's preparations for his "This Is It" shows that had been planned in London, England. Court papers show the estate would get most of the money, after show promoter AEG Live takes out expenses and 10 percent.
Michael Jackson's three children are "doing fine" six weeks after their father's death, Jermaine Jackson said.
"They're playing with my kids and they are coming back strong," he said.
When King asked if there was a chance the children might have show business careers, he said "there's a great possibility."
"They love film and they love movies and they know a lot about animation," he said.
The arrangement for Debbie Rowe, the mother of the two eldest children, to have limited visitation with them is "perfect" and "wonderful," he said. "We've talked about horses, she has a ranch."
He disputed suggestions that Michael Jackson was not the biological father of the children.
"People come forth and say things just to get attention, but those are definitely Michael's children.
"You can look at the kids and tell that they are Michael's kids," he said.
Jermaine said he did not know if Omer Bhatti, a 25-year-old Norwegian performer, was his brother's son.
"I would say it's probably someone Michael endeared and wanted to be part of his life," he said.
At Jackson's memorial service last month, Bhatti was seated in the front row between the pop star's father and sister.
"I've seen pictures of him dressed just like Michael with the hat and red shirt and everything," he said. "But if he's not his son, we are going to continue to give him love."
Joe Jackson -- Michael and Jermaine's father -- said in an interview with the Web site NewsOne that he believed Bhatti is Michael's son.
"He looks like a Jackson, he acts like a Jackson, he can dance like a Jackson," Joe Jackson said.
Jermaine Jackson told King that the last time he was with his brother, they were singing a song together.
"This song was so nice and he was singing the harmony, and so we started singing the harmony together, and I said 'Michael, I love what you did on that song.' He said, 'Thank you. That means a lot coming from you.' "
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HTTP::Server::EV::Buffer - Non-blocking output buffer.
$HTTP::Server::EV::Buffer::autoflush = 1024*10; # Default buffered data size in bytes when buffer starts waiting socket to be writable to send data. Setting 0 disables buffering, data will be sent as soon as socket becomes writable.
new({ fh => $sock_handle , flush => autoflush_threshold(optional), onerror => sub { onerror(disconect) optional callback} });
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$buffer->{onerror} = sub {} or $buffer->onerror(sub {})
Set onerror callback, which called when client disconeted before cerver closed connection.
Use when you need do some bi-directional communication through client socket(for ex. websocket server or make CONNECT proxy). Returns filehandle opened for RW and now buffer won't do anything with handle - $buffer will be set to undef; Call ->flush_wait before calling ->give_up_handle if you have data in buffer, otherwise it will be lost
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Specialized Air Tool Big Bore Pump
Designed for Fat and Semi Fat tire bikes, the Big Bore packs massive volume per stroke and a unique head that still works with winter gloves on
- Oversized press-on Schrader and Presta head won't accidentally remove valve cores and can be easily used with thick gloves.
- Flexible hose attachment allows for aggressive pumping without fear of damaging valve stems.
- Inverted barrel design allows for high volume in a compact size.
- Coarse machined aluminum barrel for extra grip.
- Water bottle boss mount with elastomer band included.
- Max pressure: 50psi (3.5bar)
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Previous review said it did not inflate. The instructions aren't clear on how to lock the pump on the stem. I had the same problem until I realized the valve on the pump needed to be pushed to the side that your stem is. Presta or Schrader. Then when you press the valve onto the stem it will push back the other way and lock. Specialized should put a video of proper use and revise their directions. Pump works well when properly hooked up. Four star for poorly written instructions.
I bought this pump for my fat bike one year ago and should have checked it out, immediately. We learn by our mistakes. Yesterday, eight miles from home, the bike - because of its large tires - seemed a bit bouncy, so I knew they needed some air. I know I should have checked it at home, and failed to do so, but that wouldn't have helped if I had to fix a puncture. It was then that I found the pump doesn't work. My bike has Presta valves, and the pump is made for Presta and Schrader. After connecting the hose to the valve, I could hear and feel air coming out of the Schrader connector and nothing coming out of the Presta connection. Fortunately, I was able to get home on my soft tires. 'Specialized' is supposed to be a quality brand (I have a Specialized fat bike and a Specialized helmet, but I would not buy another one of these pumps. I ride 20 - 30 miles a day, and I don't need to find myself with a flat tire and no working pump.


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Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I'll show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We'll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image.
This is the second of our five-part series on Photoshop Typography. If you missed last week's, go visitCreate a Spectacular Grass Text Effect.
Part 1— The Background
So create a new document in Photoshop at 1920px wide x 1200px high, and with the Gradient Tool (G), draw in a radial gradient of browns (#5c3d09 to #1f1409) so you get something like what is shown below.
Notice that the gradient is not centered vertically but sits toward the top. In this image we want the top of the text to be on fire, so the top part of the image should be a bit more lit up.
Step 2
As in the grass text tutorial, once again we're going to have a textured background. But rather than starting from scratch, I just copied the background from the previous tutorial, merged all the layers and desaturated to get what you see below.
If you need to make this from scratch, first visit Bittbox to get the original paper textures and then follow the previous tutorial's steps.
Step 3
Now we set the layer to Overlay and to blend the texture into the background and voila!
Step 4
Just to add a bit more texture though, let's run the Texturizer filter. To do this, create a new layer and fill it with a brown/beige color—#66500f. Then go to Filter > Texture > Texturizer and use the Canvas texture with 80% Scaling and Relief set to 4.
Step 5
Once you have your texturized layer, set that to Overlay. This adds some extra fine detail to our texture which is good because we're working on such a big canvas.
Step 6
Next we're going to apply a layer to slightly desaturate the bottom half of the image. This is so that the top looks like it has a warmer glow where the flames are, while the bottom looks a little colder.
So create a new layer and fill it with the color #4b4f3b. Then add a layer mask with a gradient to mask out the top and fade down (so you get the effect shown).
Now set the layer to Color and 45% Opacity.
Part 2—Text + Glow = Awesomeness
OK, we now have a nice background! So let's add some text. I've used the font Trajan because it's a really dramatic looking font. Here I've placed the text in the color #cb9328, then set it to Linear Dodge (Add) with an Opacity of 8%.
What we're going to be doing with our text is making it look like the top half of the text is coming out of the background and is red hot with flames flickering off. This means we're going to run a lot of effects and apply layer masks to them so that only the top half shows while the bottom half reverts to faded out text like we have currently.
Step 8
So first create a new layer group to put all the text layers in—because there will be a lot of them.
Then duplicate the text layer and set the color of the duplicate text to #5e3f1c.
Step 9
Now set the newest text layer to Overlay and 70% Opacity. It should look kind of reddish (as shown below).
Step 10
Now duplicate the text again and set the latest duplicate to a yellowish color—#cb9328. Then set this to Linear Dodge (Add) and Opacity 30%.
Next we add a layer mask and draw a gradient so the latest text layer fades out as shown below, and beneath you can see the reddish colored combination of the bottom two text layers.
Step 11
Next we duplicate the text layer yet again, but put this layer right on the bottom. Set the color to black—#000000. Then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and it will ask you to rasterize the text, click yes to that, and then set the Radius to about 4px.
Then Ctrl-click any of the other text layers and go back to the black layer and hit delete so you are just left with a sort of shadow. Then duplicate this layer and merge it with the first so the effect is heavier. You should have something that looks like the screenshot below.
Step 12
Once again, add a layer mask so the shadow quickly fades out as shown. This makes it look like the text is coming out of the page.
Step 13
Now duplicate our black layer again and using the Smudge Tool (R) and a largish soft brush you want to just smudge the shadow around so it looks like burn marks.
Step 14
Here's how our text is looking now. I actually created two sets of "burn" marks, and then four sets of the shadow layer each blurred a little more than the last and each faded back.
Step 15
Now it's time to make the top part of our text glow. So first of all, duplicate the text layer again and place this layer at the very top and set it to a yellow color—#dc9a08.
Then run a Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur over it with Radius of 8px. Then grab a large soft eraser brush and just erase away parts at the bottom so it's kind of uneven.
Step 16
Set our first glow layer to Soft Light. You might want to repeat the process, erasing even more so the top part is even glowier.
Step 17
Now duplicate the text layer yet again and place this at the very top. This one should be again the same yellow (#dc9a08).
Then go to Layer > Rasterize > Type and turn the text into a flat graphic. Then Ctrl-click the layer and go to Select > Modify > Contract and use a value of 1px. Then press Delete to delete everything except that 1px outline.
Step 18
Now set the 1px layer to Overlay, and you should have something like the image below.
Step 19
Now to our 1px glow add a layer mask to fade it out down the bottom as we've been doing with the other layers.
Then duplicate the layer, and run a Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur set to 1px. Then duplicate this layer again and blur it by 2px. Then duplicate the layer again and blur it by 4px.
Then Ctrl-click any of the text layers, press Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse the selection and go through each of the glow layers and press Delete to remove any of the blur that has strayed out of the boundary of the text.
The idea is that we want the edges of the text to look red-hot with it fading in to an overall hot glow on the text.
Step 20
Next we duplicate all four of the glow layers and merge them together. This should result in a layer on top which is the original bright yellow.
Grab the Smudge Tool and run over the text, smudging it up to look like heat waves coming off the text, as shown.
Step 21
Now set this latest layer to Overlay and you should have something looking like this!
Step 22
Now we've pretty much finished our text. I went through and duplicated some of the glow layers to make it look even more fiery. Feel free to experiment with getting a real red-hot glow look by doing so.
Step 23
Next, in keeping with the last wallpaper, I've gone and added a quote underneath my main text. This provides a nice embellishment to the page. Try to use colors that fit in with the background and text layer so it doesn't stand out too much, because we really want this to be a secondary element to the main text. I've used Swiss Light Condensed as my font and laid it out just like in the previous Grass Text tutorial.
Part 3—The Flames
Finally, with all our preparation done, it's time to add the actual flames! For this, we need some images of fire set against a plain black background. A good photo is hard to find, and try as I did, I couldn't find a really great free photo. So in the end I used this photo from Fotolia which you can purchase using the link below. There was also an OK photo from Flickr which I've also linked to and which I ended up using later for the "E". So you might want to grab that too.
Now the technique for copying the flames over is actually really simple. I actually only learned this technique recently when reading one of Nik Ainley's tutorials for DigitalArts magazine called Create Amazing Photomontages where he did it with water.
What you need to do is:
- Open up the flame image in Photoshop
- Go to the Channels tab and find the channel with the highest contrast, which for images of fire should be the Red Channel, and click on it
- This will make your image appear black and white, and because we're on the highest contrast layer, it will seem really bright white. Now Ctrl-click this channel and it will select all the pixels in that channel.
- Click back to the RGB channel and copy the selected pixels
- You can now paste the flames into your main canvas!
This is actually a really, really useful technique for copying something translucent like fire off a flat background. And as you'll see by visiting Nik's tutorial, it's also great for copying water!
Step 25
OK, so here we've pasted the flames on to our main canvas. (For clarity I've also temporarily switched off the text layers). As you can see, we've got the fire without the black background and it's partially transparent, which means it'll look super on top of our text.
Step 26
Now the next thing to do is to cut up our one bit of fire into a few pieces. Just duplicate the layer and switch off one as a backup first. Then using the Pen Tool, cut up the fire so you work with the contours of the flame so it looks natural. Here you can see I've produced four pieces of flame from the one image. You can also try flipping bits around to make them seem more random.
Set the layers to Screen mode so that any remaining black parts are totally gone, and it's even more transparent.
Step 27
Now because my text is just four letters, I need four separate pieces of fire. For the fourth one (on top of the E) I actually grabbed that Flickr photo and repeated the same process as earlier to create another flame. Also the fire on the letter I has been squashed a little as well to make it look more random.
Step 28
Applying the fire is really as easy as moving the flames over the text. You want to try to match the flames to the shape of the letter so it looks like they are dancing off the letters.
Step 29
OK here I've placed all four bits of flame over the top. It's not bad, but you can see that the I and the R have the same flame and also all the flames aren't very tall.
Step 30
So here I've gone through each flame and using the Transform Tool stretched them vertically. Also I used a bit of judicious erasing to make the flame on the I look a little more unique.
Step 31
Now to make them look even more lit up, duplicate each flame layer, run a Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a Radius of 3px and set the layer to 15% Opacity so it provides a bit of glow around the edges of the flames.
Step 32
So we're pretty much there! This is how the composition looks.
Step 33
Finally we'll add a last highlight. So create a new layer above all the others and draw in a white to black radial gradient as shown. Set this layer to Overlay and 40% Opacity.
And there we have it, a text on fire effect! In the next tutorial in the series, we'll be producing the Air image, however it'll be in two weeks, not one—as I'm taking a few days off work!
If you're interested in creating flames from scratch in Photoshop, you might also like to check out this classic tutorial that coincidentally uses the exact same typeface! It's a Photoshop 6 tutorial, and I can still remember reading it like a half decade ago, but it's still very relevant, even if the screenshots feature a super retro Mac interface.


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2012 Honda CIVIC LX ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
All-new version evolves to meet varied expectations.
It's been a bestseller for decades, more than 8.8 million sold in the U.S. since its 1973 introduction, and the latest redesign is aimed at making the Honda Civic the absolute number one player among an increasingly capable crop of compact cars.
The all-new 2012 Honda Civic is the ninth generation of the Civic, and it has a long, distinguished record of engineering innovation. As has been the case in previous iterations, there's some of that in the 2012 Civic models, too, aimed at giving it the broadest possible reach in its market segment.
On the other hand, it's not really the gee-whiz breakthrough that's distinguished some previous generations, particularly in terms of engine innovation. Though to be fair, Honda has imbued some models with a little more thrust while simultaneously raising fuel economy ratings right across the board.
Perhaps more important, the latest Civic will be available in its broadest-ever array of models: The DX, LX, and EX sedans and coupes come with a 140-horsepower 1.8-liter engine expected to get 28 mpg in the city, 39 mpg on the highway when equipped with the 5-speed automatic transmission.
The Civic Hybrid continues, with efficiency improvements for 2012. Although Honda has a specific hybrid model, the Insight, the Hybrid returns to the Civic lineup with increased power in its integrated electric booster motor and deeper electric power reserves in a new lithium-ion battery pack.
For those who don't wish to pay the hybrid premium, there's the 2012 Civic HF, with exceptional fuel stinginess from a regular internal combustion power train designed for thrift. Fuel economy is up in standard Civics, too.
The Civic Si returns as the high output member of the lineup, offered once again in coupe and sedan body styles. With the demise of the S2000 sports car, it's the only high-performance car in Honda's lineup. The 2012 Civic Si features a new engine, a smidgen of additional horsepower, and substantially more torque. The 2.4-liter DOHC 16-valve four-cylinder is rated at 201 hp and 170 lb-ft of torque. The added torque makes the Si easier to drive around town without constant downshifting, significant because a 6-speed manual is the only transmission offered.
Though completely redesigned, the 2012 Civic looks similar to the previous-generation version. Its exterior dimensions are about the same, though the wheelbase is slightly shorter.
The cabin is attractive with quality materials and nicely designed seats with lots of adjustment and a new driver's information display. The available 160-watt audio system sounds very good and Bluetooth is available for hands-free cellphone use.
Underway, the 2012 Civic is creamy smooth and exceptionally quiet. The brakes are easy to modulate for smooth stops in everyday driving and will stop the car quickly when called upon. Handling is average, so the standard models do not rate high on the fun meter.
The 2012 Honda Civic comes in six models. The Civic DX, LX, EX, and EX-L are available in coupe and sedan versions and come with a 140-horsepower 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine.
Civic DX Sedan ($15,805) and DX Coupe ($15,605) come with cloth upholstery, manually adjusted driver seat, power windows, tilt/telescope steering column, 12-volt power outlet, rear window defroster, fold-down rear seatback, i-MID driver information display with Turn-By-Turn Directions, clock, dual trip meters, two-speed intermittent wipers, black outside mirrors and door handles. The DX comes with a 5-speed manual or 5-speed automatic ($800).
Civic LX Sedan ($17,855) and LX Coupe ($17,655) upgrade with air conditioning, 160-watt AM/FM/CD audio with four speakers, USB audio interface, MP3 auxiliary jack, speed-sensitive volume, auto-up/down driver's window, power locks with auto-lock feature, remote trunk release, illuminated window and lock controls, cruise control, illuminated steering wheel controls, customizable settings, map lights, floor mats, body-colored mirrors and door handles. The 5-speed manual is standard, but the 5-speed automatic is available for the LX Sedan ($18,655) and LX Coupe ($18,455).
Civic EX Sedan ($20,505) comes standard with the 5-speed automatic. The Civic EX Coupe offers a choice of 5-speed manual ($19,705) or automatic ($20,505). Civic EX includes six-speaker audio system, Bluetooth, 60/40 split rear seat, upgraded rear-seat accommodations, one-touch power moonroof with tilt feature. The EX Sedan and EX Coupe are available with Navi and XM radio ($22,005).
Civic EX-L ($21,955) Coupe and Sedan upgrade to leather-trimmed interior and heated front seats. The Civic EX-L is also available with Navi and XM Radio ($23,455).
Civic HF ($19,455) sedan is designed for maximum fuel efficiency with specially tuned 1.8-liter engine and 5-speed automatic. Civic GX sedan runs natural gas and comes with the 5-speed automatic.
Civic Hybrid ($24,050) sedan is available with Navi and XM Radio ($25,550) or Leather ($25,250) or both ($26,750).
Civic Si Sedan ($22,405) and Coupe ($22,205) feature a high-performance 2.4-liter engine and 6-speed manual. Navi and XM Radio are available for the Si Sedan ($23,905) and Si Coupe ($23,705).
Given a budget and a mission, no designer is likely to leave well enough alone, and that's true of the new 2012 Civic lineup.
But this is a more of a challenge than one might think. The eighth-generation Civic has been successful throughout its six-plus years, and its sleek lines still look good.
On the other hand, success notwithstanding, no automotive design lasts indefinitely. So the design leader has to find a way to retain the successful elements and still imbue the product with a sense of newness.
The new cars sport redesigned fascias, updated rear ends, and new character lines, but the basic shape, which lead designer Toshiyuki Okumoto calls a 'one motion form,' has the same flowing aero look. Although the wheelbase is slightly shorter, body dimensions are essentially identical, and it takes a practiced eye to tell new from old at a glance.
Although the sheetmetal is basically all new, Honda didn't take any chances here. Whether this will be a plus over the long service life of the design remains to be seen.
The distinction between Civic generation eight and nine isn't as dramatic as the change from seven to eight, when the slick aero shape first emerged. Honda has chosen to spread its development budget over refinements and a broader model range.
Quality materials, attractive design, and colorful instrument lighting give the Civic interiors a look that's a notch or two above compact norms. The seats are well shaped, nicely bolstered (by family sedan standards), widely adjustable, with a probability of all-day drive comfort and very good upholstery wear characteristics.
Though the instrument display has been invigorated with new colored backlighting, it will look familiar to those who have had some experience with the generation eight layout. The bi-plane look continues in the new car, with important info repeated at the top of the dash, allowing the driver to scan with minimum visual redirection.
Forward sightlines, always the driver's first line of defense, were good in the previous generation, but even better here. We appreciated the thinner windshield pillars and mini-window set in the angle where the windshield pillar intersects the car's hood. A lot of new cars have thick A-pillars that can obstruct the driver's view of pedestrians and other vehicles, but not here.
The biggest change inside the car, though is the new I-MID, or Intelligent Multi-Information Display. A toggle on the left-hand steering wheel spoke allows the driver to sift through a wide variety of vehicle info, and the optional satellite navigation system includes a voice recognition function.
Other electronic elements include Bluetooth hands-free phone capability and a very good 160-watt audio system.
All of this, of course, is in addition to the more common comfort/convenience features we've come to expect: power everything, including a moonroof; cruise control; a tilt/telescope leather-wrapped steering wheel; a 12-volt outlet; and a 60/40 split-folding rear seatback that expands cargo capacity.
Driving Impression
Drawn from Honda's official national press preview, which consisted of a single afternoon with very little seat time on busy roads devoid of any real challenge, plus a few runs on an autocross course laid out on a football stadium parking lot, our dynamic impressions are necessarily limited.
However, while limited, they're also generally positive, within the context of the normal mission parameters of a small family sedan. The latest Civic delivers creamy ride quality, with exceptionally low interior noise levels.
Braking seems reasonably powerful with the four-wheel-disc system that comes with the EX trim level, and the pedal feel makes for easy modulation.
Handling response can be classified as contemporary, neither sporty nor sluggish, although the electric power steering leaves something to be desired in terms of what it tells the driver about what the front wheels are doing.
On the other hand, while the Civic sedan may lack something in terms of driver involvement, and its fun to drive factor is difficult to detect, it is absolutely and totally predictable, no surprises, no false moves. There's considerable body roll in hard cornering, the tradeoff for excellent ride quality. But the overall level of all-around dynamic competence is hard to fault.
The Civic DX, LX, EX, and EX-L come with a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine, single overhead cam rated at 140 horsepower and 128 lb-ft of torque. Fuel economy figures were not official but are expected to be about 28 mpg in the city/39 mpg on the highway. Honda recommends regular unleaded gas.
The Civic HF is equipped with a specially tuned version of the same engine with the same power ratings but with slightly higher fuel economy, expected to be 29/41 mpg city/highway.
The Civic GX runs on natural gas using a specially prepared 1.8-liter SOHC 16-valve four-cylinder rated at 110 hp and 106 lb-ft of torque.
The Civic Hybrid pairs a 1.5-liter SOHC 16-valve four-cylinder engine rated at 110 hp and 127 lb-ft of torque with a 23-hp electric motor assist. Fuel economy is expected to be about 44/44 mpg.
The sporty Civic Si features a 2.4-liter DOHC 16-valve four-cylinder rated at 201 hp and 170 lb-ft of torque. Fuel economy is expected to be 22/31 mpg city/highway.
The 2012 Honda Civics are completely redesigned and have solid credentials in all the right categories for cars in this class: good looks, high quality, a great durability record, a first rate comfort quotient, high marks for safety features, competitive fuel economy, and excellent value. Has the dazzle factor diminished? Maybe. But given all the other virtues, that may not matter.
Model Lineup
Honda Civic DX Sedan ($15,805), LX ($17,855), HF ($19,455), EX ($20,505), EX-L Navi ($23,455), Si Sedan ($22,405); Hybrid ($24,050); Civic DX Coupe ($15,605), LX ($17,655), EX ($19,705), EX-L Navi ($23,455), Si Coupe ($22,205).
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Honda Civic EX Sedan with navigation ($22,005).The redesigned Honda Civic is now in its ninth generation, and has been updated for greater safety and improved fuel economy to help it maintain its popularity in the compact class. Available in sedan or coupe bodies, all but the Si trim are powered by a 140 horsepower, 1.8-liter inline four-cylinder with a standard five-speed manual transmission and optional five-speed automatic. The performance-oriented Si comes with a 201 horsepower, 2.4-liter inline-four bolted only to a six-speed manual. A unique HF trim ekes out addition fuel economy with the help of aerodynamic add-ons, lightweight alloy wheels and low rolling-resistance tires. Standard safety features on all Civics include electronic stability and traction control, anti-lock brakes with brake assist, six airbags, daytime running lights and tire pressure monitoring. New tech features include Bluetooth phone and audio connectivity on EX and above trims, ECO-Assist technology on all models and subscription free FM traffic updates with the optional navigation system. The Civic is all new for 2012.
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ASUS P6T7 and P7P55 WS Workstation Motherboards
Get a little work done at your station
For some us, a standard motherboard just won't do. One or two PCIe x16 slots? Bah. How about 5 or 7? SATA support? Try SAS as well. ASUS has a line of motherboards built for users that are not your typical user but instead are looking for a workstation solution to construct a computer around. The line is known as "WS" and you get two guesses what that stands for; if you didn't get it right then you won't need what they are selling here.
Check out our video overview of the ASUS P6T7 and P7P55 WS motherboard to see how the other half lives.
The ASUS P6T7 WS X58 Motherboard
The ASUS P6T7 motherboard is based on the X58 chipset and the ICH10R south bridge and supports pretty much all LGA1366 processors including the Core i7 series and the Xeon 3500/E55xx CPUs.
The ASUS P7P55 WS P55 Motherboard
The ASUS P7P55 WS motherboard is a bit of a different beast as it is powered by the Intel P55 chipset and has an LGA1156 processor socket. The LGA1156 socket was first introduced with the Lynnfield processors unveiled in the fall of 2009 and were a semi-mainstream variant of the LGA1366 processors used in the P6T7 and other X58 motherboards. There is also a line of Xeon processors, the 3400 series, that runs in LGA1156 slots so this board has full support for those as well.
Only the black and blue slots will properly power high-end graphics cards. The white slots, including the PCIe x1, x16 and legacy PCI are all sourced at the P55 chipset directly and thus the PCIe x16 slow runs at x4 bandwidth.
Both the ASUS P6T7 and P7P55 WS motherboards offer a slightly different set of features and specifications than the traditional motherboard in the gaming market. The P6T7 definitely is impressive for high-end users that are going to want to take advantage of multiple graphics card or other PCI Express-based accessories as it includes a total of 7 PCIe x16 slots along with the X58 chipset and support for the latest LGA1366 processors, including the upcoming Gulftown 6-core CPU. The offers a more standard configuration with support for LGA1156 processors (like Lynnfield and Clarkdale) along with 5 PCIe x16 slots.
Pricing for the P6T7 WS is high at $399 currently while you can pick up the P7P55 WS for $229. Neither motherboard is what we would call "typical" for a standard gamer or PC enthusiast but if you are looking for a very specific use case with needs for this type of connectivity then I think you will be more than happy with these options.


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The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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The ETSU men's basketball team only added to its rich history of success during the 2009-10 season, capturing its second straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship and earning the program's ninth trip all-time to the NCAA Tournament ... Posting the program's fourth 20-win season in the past seven years, the Bucs overcame multiple challenges during the season before dropping Mercer in the A-Sun finals ... Only losing senior guard Jocolby Davis off the roster from 2009-10, the Bucs will add Smith back to the mix after receiving a medical redshirt a year ago, and a trio of incoming recruits will also add to the talent pool.
The series versus Lipscomb
The Bucs are 27-10 all-time against the Bisons, in a series that dates back to 1951 when both teams played at the NAIA level ... The two teams split a pair of games last year, with the Bucs winning 71-69 at Lipscomb, while the Bisons handed ETSU a 85-84 overtime loss on the Dome floor.
Last time against Lipscomb
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 30, 2010) - Lipscomb guard Josh Slater scored a career high 35 points and fellow guard Jordan Burgason hit a jumper with four seconds left in overtime to give the Bisons a hard fought 85-84 overtime victory over the ETSU men's basketball team in Atlantic Sun Conference action Saturday afternoon at the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... Slater and Burgason, who pitched in 13 points, were joined in double figures by forward Adnan Hodzic, who posted a double-double with 22 points and 12 rebounds. The Bisons' win avenged the Bucs' victory over Lipscomb just over a week ago, when ETSU guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) hit a last second 3-pointer in regulation to lift the Bucs to a 71-69 win in Nashville. ... Lipscomb's win overshadowed some quality performances for the Bucs, as junior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) posted his 10th double-double of the year with 22 points and 13 rebounds, while sophomore forward Isiah Brown (Miami) had his second double-double of the year with 16 points and 10 boards. They were joined in double figures by junior guard Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.), who finished with 16 points, while fellow junior guard Micah Williams (Manchester) had 13. ... In overtime, ETSU jumped ahead by five points at 78-73, but Lipscomb responded to tie it at 80 with a 7-2 run. From there Hubbard hit a pair of free throws followed by a 3-pointer from Burgason that made it 83-82 in favor of Lipscomb with 29 seconds left. Hubbard responded once again with a layup to give the Bucs the lead at 84-83 with 19 seconds left, but then Burgason answered with the game-winning jumper from just inside the arc with four seconds on the clock. ... Hubbard took a 3-pointer at the buzzer but the shot missed the mark.
Last time out
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 15, 2011) - Powered by 21 points from senior guard Micah Williams (Manchester) and 16 points from fellow senior guard Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.), the ETSU men's basketball team won for the eighth straight time, dropping Atlantic Sun Conference rival Jacksonville 74-62 Saturday afternoon inside the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. ... With the win, the Buccaneers improve to 12-7 overall, 7-1 in A-Sun play, and set up a critical two-game weekend this Friday and Sunday when they will host league rivals Lipscomb (Friday) and Belmont (Sunday). Meanwhile, the Dolphins drop to 11-5, 5-2. ... Along with Williams and Tubbs, the Bucs also got 11 points from both junior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) and junior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa). As a team, ETSU shot 54 percent from the field, 42 percent from beyond the 3-point arc, and 78 percent from the free throw line, while holding JU to just 33 percent from the field. ... The Bucs got off to a great start in the first half, as Tubbs and Williams both opened with a flurry of 3-pointers and ETSU used a 17-3 run over the first seven minutes to take a 20-6 lead at the 13:29 mark. Unfortunately, the 14-point edge would be the largest lead of the half for ETSU, as Jacksonville managed to slowly cut into the deficit and ultimately trailed 39-33 at the break. ... In the first half, Tubbs led the way with 14 points and a 4-of-5 clip from 3-point range. ETSU shot 56 percent from the floor and 42 percent from beyond the arc, outrebounding the Dolphins 17-15 and holding a 14-4 edge in points off the fast break. ... After the intermission, Jacksonville quickly cut the Bucs lead to four at 41-37, but the Bucs put together a 6-0 spurt of their own to make it 47-37 with 16 minutes left in the game. The two teams basically traded baskets for the next six minutes, until Jacksonville got to within seven at 58-51 on a basket by Delwan Graham with 8:26 left. ... However, from there the Dolphins could not get any closer as the Bucs went on an 8-2 run to push the edge back out to 13 at 66-53. ... Jacksonville was led by 18 points from guard Travis Cohn, while Ayron Hardy and Delwan Graham added 13 and 12 points, respectively.
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With his team's win over Florida Gulf Coast on Jan. 8, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow picked up his 250th career victory ... He then collected his 150th win at ETSU when the Bucs downed Jacksonville on Jan. 15 ... When looking at coaches across the country, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow stands among a select group ... Of those coaches that have been at their current school for at least five years, only 24 have averaged better than 20 wins a season ... That list includes coaches such as Dayton's Brian Gregory, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, UConn's Jim Calhoun, Florida's Billy Donovan, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Duke's Mike Kryzewski, Louisville's Rick Pitino, Kansas' Bill Self, Maryland's Gary Williams and North Carolina's Roy Williams ... The list also includes Bartow, who is average 20.2 wins a year since 2005-06.
Williams chasing 1,000; Smith moving up scoring list
While senior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) is already a member of the 1,000-point club, fellow senior Micah Williams has a shot at making it to the group., Meanwhile, Smith continues to climb the all-time scoring chart. Below are numbers for both players:
Name Current Points
Micah Williams 940
With those point totals, Williams would need to average just 5.0 points a game for the Bucs' final 12 regular season games to reach 1,000. Smith stands at 1,460 points, and just recently overtook former Buccaneer great Zakee Wadood (Lonoke, Ark.) for No. 8 on the ETSU all-time scoring list. Here are is the breakdown:
Name Place Points
Troy Lee Mikell No. 7 1,684
Mike Smith No. 8 1,460
Zakee Wadood No. 9 1,382
Harley Swift No. 10 1,367
Smith's 20/20 vision
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With his 20-point and 20-rebound effort against Florida Gulf Coast on Jan. 8, 2011, senior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) made history ... According to the statistics available to the ETSU media relations office, Smith was the first Buccaneer since Feb. 14, 1959 to post a 20/20 effort ... The last was Buc great Tom Chilton, who scored 35 points and grabbed 25 rebounds in a win over Wofford during the 1959 season. ... In addition, Smith is only the third player nationally to achieve that mark this season.
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Junior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) has really found his rhythm in the last nine games, leading the team with 4.7 assists per game, and ranking third on the team with 13.1 points per game ... in those nine games Sollazzo is shooting an impressive 42-of-66 from the field for a 64 percent clip ... he is also averaging 2.7 rpg in this stretch ... The Bucs are 8-1 during these past nine games.
"Big 3" hitting key to Bucs' success
Coming into this season, the Bucs were counting on quality offensive production from their "Big 3" senior guards in Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) and Micah Williams (Manchester) ... All three have had double-figure scoring seasons in the past ... However, so far this season, six of the Bucs' seven losses have coincided with poor output from the trio .
Bucs help bolster A-Sun to strong RPI standings
With a pair of signature wins already this season, the ETSU men's basketball team - along with other members of the Atlantic Sun Conference - is doing its part to put the league in some impressive company on the national hoops stage. ... With wins over Atlantic 10 Conference stalwart Dayton and Southeastern Conference West Division favorite Mississippi State, the Buccaneers have helped the A-Sun generate plenty of waves across the board in the national RPI rankings. As a result, one month into the 2010-11 NCAA men's basketball season, the Atlantic Sun Conference is ranked ahead of other mid-major leagues including the Southern, Ohio Valley, Big South, West Coast, Mid-American, WAC and Sun Belt. ... The A-Sun remains among the top half of the conferences in the country. CollegeRPI.com ranks the A-Sun 14th, immediately behind the Horizon, Conference USA and Missouri Valley, and ahead of the conferences mentioned above. Against the Southern, Big South, Sun Belt and Ohio Valley conferences, the A-Sun owns a 15-8 mark. ... The conference has more than held its own against the BCS conferences. With ETSU's win at Mississippi State, the conference grabbed its fifth win against the "Power-6" leagues. No conference eligible for consideration for the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll owns as many BCS wins as the A-Sun. The five wins represent the most for the league since 2007-08.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 144-45 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 76 percent ... The Bucs had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season ... In 2007-08, the Bucs were 11-2 at Memorial Center ... In 2008-09, the Bucs were again 11-2 at home, and last year the team was 9-5 at the Dome ... This season, the Bucs are 5-0 at home.


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Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a move that could force the show to find a new venue or face the prospect of being canceled altogether.
The exhibition, "A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture From Southern California," is an exploration of the last 25 years of Los Angeles architecture, with work by Gehry, Thom Mayne, Michael Maltzan, Barbara Bestor, Lorcan O'Herlihy and many younger architects. It is a major component of the Getty-sponsored series Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
Organized by guest curator Christopher Mount, it was to run through Sept. 2 at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary venue in Little Tokyo. It was funded in part by a Getty Foundation grant of $445,000.
No other single show in the PSTP series received a grant as large, according to a Getty press release. A 272-page catalog, co-published by Rizzoli, is already complete.
"I am fearful it's going to be canceled," Mount said by phone.
Gehry was not just the central focus of the show, but its pivotal figure. Once he made it clear he would not participate, MOCA was left to re-conceive the entire show on the fly.
Mount, former executive director of the Pasadena Museum of California Art and before that a curator in the architecture and design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, added that if the show were to survive, it will be difficult if not impossible to finish installing it this month. At the very least, he said, "It's going to have to be delayed."
"I think that the last 25 years of architecture in L.A. has been a remarkable period, and I think a major institution should be supporting this exhibition," Mount said. "What I would like to see is a community uprising, so to speak, where these 34 firms stand up and say, 'You can't cancel a show that's four weeks away.'"
Calls and emails to MOCA officials were not returned.
As the show took shape over the last several months, several architects, including Gehry, began to have serious concerns about the direction in which Mount was taking it and how he was planning to position and explain their work.
Gehry withdrew from the exhibition last month, despite what he described as entreaties from Mount, MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and top officials from the Getty.
"I didn't feel comfortable in it," Gehry said. "It didn't seem to be a scholarly, well-organized show."
He added: "I'm subject to misunderstanding about the seriousness of my work. People assume I am just crumpling paper and so forth. This was feeling a bit that way, a trivialization."
Linking the work of Gehry, Mayne and Eric Owen Moss with that of younger L.A. architects and wrapping it all under the rubric of "sculpturalism" was certainly going to require curatorial gymnastics, even sleight of hand.
Much of Maltzan's architecture, to pick just one example, is significant precisely to the degree that it moves away from highly sculptural form-making to engage issues including housing policy and L.A.'s rising density.
Mount took issue with the suggestion that the uncertainty surrounding the show had to do with its curatorial approach. He insisted it had more to do with questions about the ultimate size of the exhibition and its budget, which he said was $614,000.
"The problem is purely financial ... not because Frank doesn't want to be in a group show," he wrote in an email Thursday. "All these Getty shows go through rigorous academic scrutiny."
Some of the participating architects are eager to see the show in some form mounted elsewhere.
Gallerist Douglas Chrismas said he had held preliminary talks with some of them about installing it — still without Gehry's participation — this year at his Ace Museum on La Brea Avenue.
"If the show was canceled or was not in the cards for them I would love to have the exhibition at Ace and give it, along with the curator, major attention."
"I'm waiting to hear back" from Deitch, Chrismas said. "I don't want there to be any awkwardness for him."
He added, "Whatever's going to happen, it has to happen really fast. The show might even move over here under MOCA's flag."
In his foreword to the catalog, Deitch writes that the exhibition's goal was to chart the "important Los Angeles architecture of the past twenty-five years, identifying key firms and practitioners whose works have not only distinguished this city as a locus for experimentation but have also influenced design internationally."
Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation, declined to speak directly about the status of "A New Sculpturalism," referring questions to MOCA.
Asked in general terms how the foundation responds when a project it has funded is canceled or significantly altered, she replied: "In the realm of speculation, any time — and it is very rare — any time a grantee's project doesn't happen, we have procedures we follow. It rarely happens but it does occasionally. And we deal with it."