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BLACKSBURG, Va. (Nov. 11, 2011) – The ETSU men's basketball team will open its 2011-12 regular season Saturday at 2 p.m., as the Buccaneers take to the road to face Atlantic Coast Conference foe Virginia Tech inside the Cassell Coliseum.
The game will air live on radio thanks to the Buccaneer Sports Network, and fans will also be able to watch the game via live video stream courtesy of ESPN3.
The Bucs, who have enjoyed two lop-sided exhibition wins so far this season, will hope to have the services of key contributors such as senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), junior guard Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) and junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.). That trio missed the Bucs last exhibition game against Carson-Newman, and has been limited in practice this week.
ETSU, coming off a 24-win season in 2010-11, will return to Johnson City and open the home portion of their schedule on Tuesday, Nov. 15, when they host traditional rival Appalachian State. Game time is set for 7 p.m.
For more on Saturday's game with the Hokies, click on the game notes link to the right or read the game notes below.
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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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While posting its highest RPI since the 2003-04 season, head coach Murry Bartow led the ETSU men's basketball team to another successful season in 2010-11, a campaign that included 24 wins and ultimately ended with a run to the semifinals of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament … Led by seniors such as Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) and all-conference performer Micah Williams (Manchester), the Bucs enjoyed impressive road wins at Atlantic 10 Conference member Dayton and Southeastern Conference foe Mississippi State, while also finishing second in the A-Sun Conference standings … Along with Smith and Williams, fellow senior Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) continued to impress fans with his high-flying dunks, which twice landed him as the No. 1 play of the day on ESPN's SportsCenter and earned him a spot in the national slam dunk championships … Unfortunately for the Bucs, Smith, Williams and Tubbs have departed, leaving the team with the unenviable task of having to replace over 42 points of offensive production from a year ago – equal to 60 percent of the team's scoring in 2010-11 … The Bucs will begin looking for those offensive numbers from returning starters such as senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) and senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.), while senior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) – a 2010 A-Sun all-conference and all-tournament performer – will return to the floor after taking a medical redshirt season a year ago … Other returning players looking to improve their production will include junior guards Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) and Jarvis Jones (Memphis), junior forwards J.C. Ward (Marietta) and Lukas Poderis (Tampa), and redshirt freshman point guard Ryan Woumn (Lynn, Mass.) … The Bucs have also added a talented recruiting class that includes three true freshman and one junior college transfer … As opposed to last season – when the team returned a bevy of talented and experienced players – the younger and more inexperienced Buccaneers will face more questions than usual this season when they take the floor to open the 2011-12 campaign at Virginia Tech on Nov. 12.
The series versus Virginia Tech
The Bucs are 3-13 all-time against the Hokies, having lost in the last meeting between the two schools back in 2001 ... That last meeting was an 81-75 Virginia Tech victory, but the Bucs had won the previous two meetings in 1998 and 1999.
Last time out against Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG, Va. (Dec, 18, 2000) -- Virginia Tech defeated East Tennessee State, 81-75, in overtime in men's basketball action at Cassell Coliseum. ... Tech, on the strength of 6-of-9 shooting from the line in the extra period, outscored the Bucs, 14-8 in overtime. ETSU opened the game on a 10-0 run, before Tech ended the first half with a 34-14 run to take a 38-33 lead into the intermission. ... ETSU scored the first seven points of the second half, before Tech took a 67-62 lead with 1:05 remaining in regulation. ETSU scored the final five points to tie the score at 67-67 on a lay-up by Adrian Meeks with :30 remaining. The Hokies were unable to score in the final half minute of regulation to send the game to overtime.... In the extra period, ETSU jumped out to a two-point lead, but Tech took the lead on a three-pointer by Brian Chase. The Bucs were able to tie the game twice in overtime, but Tech took the lead for good, 75-72, on Chase's second three-pointer in overtime. Tech made four-of-its-last-five free throw attempts in overtime to secure the win. ... Carlton Carter and Carlos Dixon, each with 14 points and eight rebounds, led the Hokies. It was Carter's first game for Virginia Tech, after transferring from the University of Colorado. Meeks and D.J. McDuffie each had 16 points to lead the Bucs.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 5, 2011) – A relentless full-court defense and solid shooting from beyond the 3-point line helped power the ETSU men's basketball team to a decisive 87-59 win over Carson-Newman in exhibition basketball action Saturday afternoon inside the ETSU-MSHA Athletic Center. ... The Buccaneers were forced to play their final preseason game shorthanded, as senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), junior guard Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) and junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) all sat out with injuries. However, ETSU made up for those absences by forcing 24 turnovers and getting double-figure scoring from four other players. ... Senior post Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) finished with a double-double thanks to his 19-point, 12-rebound effort, while junior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) also posted a 19-point game. In addition, junior guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) netted 17 points and dished out seven assists, while freshman guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa) scored 14 points in his ETSU debut. ... For the game, the Bucs out-rebounded the Eagles 44-27 and enjoyed a 20-7 advantage on points off turnovers. In addition, ETSU shot 41 percent from 3-point range, while holding C-N to just 38 percent from the floor and 25 percent from beyond the arc. ... In the first half, the Bucs poured on the defensive pressure while also hitting from beyond the 3-point arc, roaring out to a quick 19-3 advantage in the opening minutes and ultimately building a sizeable 49-21 lead at the break. ... ETSU forced 14 turnovers and grabbed six steals in the first 20 minutes, while also shooting 43 percent (9-of-21) from 3-point range and 83 percent (10-of-12) from the charity stripe. ... Jones and Cooley both netted 13 points apiece before the break, hitting on a strong 6-of-11 shots from 3-point range. ... After the break, the Bucs kept up the pressure on and never let the Eagles cut into their halftime advantage.
Carson-Newman was led by Antoine Davis with a game-high 20 points, while Jared Johnson and Kennedy Eubanks scored 12 and 11 points, respectively. ... The Bucs will return to action next Saturday at 2 p.m., when they open their 2011-12 regular season slate with a trip to Blacksburg, Va., to take on Atlantic Coast Conference foe Virginia Tech.
On their way to 1,000 points
As they begin their seniors seasons, ETSU's trio of Isiah Brown, Adam Sollazzo and Tommy Hubbard are all eying the 1,000 point mark for their careers. When the season begins on Nov. 12 against Virginia Tech, this is where each stands:
Isiah Brown........................................................................ 798 points
Tommy Hubbard ........................................................... 573 points
Adam Sollazzo ................................................................ 568 points
To reach 1,000, the three would have to average the following during the regular season:
Isiah Brown..................................................... 7.0 points per game
Tommy Hubbard....................................... 14.7 points per game
Adam Sollazzo............................................ 14.8 points per game
Block party for Brown
With a block in last season's finale against Iona, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new school record for blocks in a single season, swatting away a total of 71 shots on the year ... For his career, he now stands fifth on the all-time list at 141, but just 43 blocks behind the program's all-time leader Zakee Wadood ... In addition to those marks, Brown's six-block performance against Belmont last year also matched the program's single-game record ... At the time, Brown joined six other ETSU players who have had six-block games, including former standouts Brad Nuckles, Eryk Thomas, Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood, Greg Dennis and Greg Hamlin.
Getting to the free throw line a key for the Bucs
In recent years, the Bucs have focused on playing stingy defense, but also driving to the basket on offense and trying to get "tough" points thanks to fouls ... One way for the ETSU coaching staff to determine how successful the Bucs have been is charting free throw attempts and makes ... Well if this statistic is a true indicator, then the Bucs are doing just as the coaches would like ... Last season, ETSU set a school record for free throw attempts, putting up a total of 856 free tosses ... The Bucs also made their share of those attempts, ranking second on the all-time list with 580 makes ... The 2010-11 edition of the Bucs came up just nine makes short of the all-time record, held by the 1991-92 Bucs at 589.
Bucs add to postseason resume
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... it was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.
Home Sweet Dome ... against non-conference teams
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 143-45 overall inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 77 percent ... But when looking at the past 10 years, the Bucs are an even more impressive 42-4 against non-conference opponents ... Last year, the Bucs went 13-2 at the Dome.
ETSU "only" A-Sun team picked among
nation's best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball – marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 – the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors … The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, 11 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other major programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.
Bartow gets wins No. 250 overall and 150 at ETSU;
ranks among best coaches in last five years
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.


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Senior Advocate of the SCI, T R Adhyarujina has recently written (an abridged form of his speech at the Bombay High Court) in the Hindu about the disturbing trends in judicial activism by the Supreme Court of India.
His argument is interesting and I mostly agree with what he is saying about how the court is slowly usurping the role of an elected government in a constitutional democracy. Mr. Andhyarujina is known for his criticism of excessive judicial activism in the country (for example, this article in the Indian Express). It is perhaps the debilitating helplessness with the lack of governance in India that a common person feels when he/she considers repetitive invocation of the SCI's 'supervisory' powers. Also, the fact that the government at least listens (has to listen, fearing contempt proceedings!) to the edicts of the courts adds to the SCI and other courts' criticism for judicial activism.
I have written previously about how the SCI has been over-enthusiastic in disposing certain matters before it. What is interesting is that certain judges are more predisposed to being activist, and an analysis as to what makes a judge an activist judge is something that requires deeper study.

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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small software startup in silicon valley with an ambition to change the world of enterprise networking (the ethernet kind).
Our product is broken down in to a series of different projects, many of which are open source. Beacon, the subject of this design brief, is our premier open source product.
Beacon is a truly innovative product, and just as importantly is considered to be a new standard of engineering craftsmanship in our area. The codebase underneath (if you like that kind of thing) is clean, minimalist and elegant. It is intended to be a shining light in the community of open source engineers who work with us to show the path of high quality engineering.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The first time the Yale women's ice hockey team played No. 4 Cornell this year, the Big Red had to fend off an upset bid with a third-period goal for a 3-2 win. Friday night's rematch was not as close. Three first-period goals enabled the Big Red to eliminate any chance of late-game drama. Cornell eventually finished with a 5-0 win. Sophomore goalie Jaimie Leonoff made 36 saves.
Leonoff made some spectacular saves in the first period, including a quick reaction with her left leg to deny a shot from defenseman Laura Fortino three minutes in, and another kick save on forward Monika Leck with just over two minutes to play. But the Big Red's onslaught of 19 shots in the period proved too tough. Cornell (15-4-0, 11-2-0 ECAC Hockey) went on top when Leck followed up her own shot and defenseman Lauriane Rougeau tapped the puck in as it neared the goal line at the 5:51 mark. Defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi then scored on a deflection at 12:48, and less than five minutes later defenseman Cassandra Poudrier scored to make it 3-0. Yale had just five shots for the period, and the Bulldogs had none during their lone power play.
Yale (3-16-1, 2-10-1 ECAC Hockey) had one of its best chances to score midway through the second period when junior Paige Decker put a shot on net and the rebound nearly trickled over the line before being cleared away. The Big Red almost got a goal in similar fashion later in the period. Leonoff made a save on Brianne Jenner, but the rebound floated dangerously through the crease. Junior forward Ashley Dunbar eventually scooped it up and skated away with it.
Leonoff made another quick reaction for a save late in the period, kicking aside a shot from high in the slot by forward Emily Fulton with 90 seconds left. But forward Brianne Jenner's goal at 19:29 made it 5-0 heading into the second intermission.
The third period was scoreless, including a 5-on-3 penalty kill by Yale. Cornell's Lauren Slebodnick finished with 13 saves for the shut out.
Yale hosts Colgate Saturday at 4:00 p.m. in the annual "White Out for Mandi" game that is a fundraiser for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation. The game, in memory of Mandi Schwartz '10 (1988-2011), includes a special presentation of ECAC Hockey's Mandi Schwartz Award for 2011-12 to Yale's Aleca Hughes '12, who started the foundation. In addition, NHL player PK Subban is scheduled to appear and sign autographs to support the fundraiser.
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A tornado in 1963 blew through Cullman, Ala., and toppled a big pine tree in the Ave Maria Grotto at St. Bernard Abbey. It crushed the model of the Tower of Babel, one of more than 100 miniature grottos, churches and monuments Brother Joseph Zoettl had built at the Benedictine monastery.
Brother Zoettl had died two years before the storm, so who was going to repair the damage?
"Call Leo," someone said. "He can rebuild it."
Leo Schwaiger, now 88, was a stonemason laying cut stone for the abbey church and had known Brother Joseph while he was a student at one of the Benedictine schools.
Schwaiger did the repairs and, as he put it, "I've been doing the work here ever since."
Some days that means blowing leaves off the sidewalks of the 4-acre site where visitors come either looking for inspiration or because it's on the National Register of Historic Places. Other days, it means repairing or rebuilding the monk's creations, or building his own.
"There's always something to do," Schwaiger said. "The weather takes a toll on the little buildings, and ... they just crumble."
Brother Joseph came to the monastery in 1892 and, because of a deformity of his back, was unable to become a priest. He was assigned to the abbey's "power house" where he shoveled coal.
To break the boredom, he began working creatively with cement and constructed a miniature church. Many more sacred structures followed. When a train filled with quarried marble overturned in 1933, the owner donated the crushed contents to the abbey.
Brother Joseph used the pieces inside the Ave Maria Grotto — the namesake and focal point for his growing collection of reproductions. His last piece was a basilica in Lourdes, France, completed in 1958 when he was 80.
A documentary based on the life of Brother Joseph, produced by Red Clay Pictures, was released in October.
The grotto is still a work in progress for Schwaiger, beginning with his replica of a California mission church, and including, among others, the Gate of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, and the Basilica of Czestochowa in Poland, which he dedicated to Pope John Paul II.
An Irish visitor asked him about building a replica of the basilica of Knock in Ireland, but Schwaiger wasn't familiar with it. The visitor later sent photos from which Schwaiger could work.
"He came back the next year with his family," Schwaiger said. "I asked him, 'How close am I?' and he stuck his thumb in the air and said, 'Right on!'"
Schwaiger also makes secular pieces, but overall, the grotto's replicas are reminders of sacred places that inspire meditation and prayer.
"If Brother Joseph's and my work combined can inspire one person to seek God," Schwaiger said, "then all this work is worth it."
Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller writes from Pennsylvania.
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The human body is made up of fat, lean tissue (muscles and organs), bones, and water. After age 30, the people tend to lose lean tissue. Your muscles, liver, kidney, and other organs may lose some of their cells. This process of muscle loss is called atrophy. Bones may lose some of their minerals and become less dense (a condition called osteopenia, or at its later
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The tendency to become shorter occurs among all races and both sexes. Height loss is related to aging changes in the bones, muscles, and joints. People typically lose about 1 cm (0.4 inches) every 10 years after age 40. Height loss is even more rapid after age 70. You may lose a total of 1 to 3 inches in height as you age. You can help prevent loss of height by following a healthy diet, staying physically active, and preventing and treating bone loss (osteoporosis).
Less muscle in the legs muscle and stiffer joints can make moving around harder. Excess body fat and changes in body shape also affect your balance making falls more likely.
Changes in total body weight vary for men and woman. Men often gain weight until about age 55, and then begin to lose weight later in life. This may be related to a drop in the male sex hormone testosterone. Women usually gain weight until age 65, and then begin to lose weight. Weight loss in later life occurs in part because lean muscle tissue is replaced with fat. Diet and exercise habits can play a large role in a person's weight changes over life.
Your lifestyle choices affect how quickly the aging process takes place. Some things you can do to reduce age-related body changes are:
- Get regular exercise.
- Eat a healthy diet that includes fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and optimal amounts of healthy fats.
- Limit your alcohol use.
- Avoid tobacco products and illicit drugs.


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The Muslim expansion continued throughout the sixth and into the seventh century. In 711 the Berber Tarik invaded and rapidly conquered Visigothic Spain. Famously by 733 the Muslims reached Poitiers in France. There a battle, more significant to westerners than Muslims, halted the Muslim advance. In truth by that stage Islam was at its limits of military expansion. Tarik gave his name to "Jabal (mount of) Tarik" or, as we say, Gibraltar. In 712 Tarik's lord, Musa ibn-Mosseyr, joined the attack. Within seven years the conquest of the peninsula was complete. It became one of the centers of Moslem civilization, and the Umayyad caliphate of Cordova reached a peak of glory in the tenth century. Spain, called "al-Andulus" by Muslims remained was at least partially under Muslim control until 1492 when Granada was conquered by Ferdinand and Isabella.
Musa Ibn Nosseyr sent his son Merwan to Tangiers, to wage a holy war upon her coast. Having, then, exerted himself together with his friends, he returned, leaving to Tarik Ibn Amru the command of his army which amounted to 1,700. Others say that 12,000 Berbers besides 16 Arabs were with Tarik: but that is false. It is also said that Musa Ibn Nosseyr marched out of Ifrikiya [Africa] upon an expedition into Tangiers, and that he was the first governor who entered Tangiers, where parts of the Berber tribes Botr and Beranes resided. These bad not vet submitted themselves. When he approached Tangiers, be scattered his light troops. On the arrival of his cavalry in the nearest province of Sus, he subdued its inhabitants, and made them prisoners, they yielding him obedience. And he gave them a governor whose conduct was agreeable to them. He sent Ibn Beshr Ibn Abi Artah to a citadel, three days' journey from the town of Cairwan. Having taken the former, he made prisoners of the children, and plundered the treasury. The citadel was called Beshr, by which name it is known to this day. Afterwards Musa deposed the viceroy whom be bad placed over Tangiers, and appointed Tarik Ibn Zeiyad governor. He, then, returned to Cairwan, Tarik with his female slave of the name Umm-Hakim setting out for Tangiers. Tarik remained some time in this district, waging a holy war. This was in the year 92. The governor of the straits between this district and Andalus was a foreigner called Ilyan, Lord of Septa. He was also the governor of a town called Alchadra, situated on the same side of the straits of Andalus as Tangiers. Ilyan was a subject of Roderic, the Lord of Andalus [i.e. king of Spain], who used to reside in Toledo. Tarik put himself in communication with Ilyan, and treated him kindly, until they made peace with each other. Ilyan had sent one of his daughters to Roderic, the Lord of Andalus, for her improvement and education; but she became pregnant by him. Ilyan having heard of this, said, I see for him no other punishment or recompense, than that I should bring the Arabs against him. He sent to Tarik, saying, I will bring thee to Andalus; Tarik being at that time in Tlemsen, and Musa Ibn Nossevr in Cairwan. But Tarik said I cannot trust thee until thou send me a hostage. So be sent his two daughters, having no other children. Tarik allowed them to remain in Tlemsen, guarding them closely. After that Tarik went to Ilyan who - was in Septa on the straits. The latter rejoicing at his coming, said, I will bring thee to Andalus. But there was a mountain called the mountain of Tarik between the two landing places, that is, between Septa and Andalus. When the evening came, Ilyan brought him the vessels, in which he made him embark for that landing-place, where he concealed himself during the day, and in the evening sent back the vessels to bring over the rest of his companions. So they embarked for the landing-place, none of them being left behind: whereas the people of Andalus did not observe them, thinking that the vessels crossing and recrossing were similar to the trading vessels which for their benefit plied backwards and forwards. Tarik was in the last division which went across. He proceeded to his companions, Ilyan together with the merchants that were with him being left behind in Alchadra, in order that be might the better encourage his companions and countrymen. The news of Tarik and of those who were with him, as well as of the place where they were, reached the people of Andalus. Tarik, going along with his companions, marched over a bridge of mountains to a town called Cartagena. He went in the direction of Cordova. Having passed by an island in the sea, he left behind his female slave of the name of Umm-Hakim, and with her a division of his troops. That island was then called Umm-Hakim. When the Moslems settled in the island, they found no other inhabitants there, than vinedressers. They made them prisoners. After that they took one of the vinedressers, slaughtered him, cut him in pieces, and boiled him, while the rest of his companions looked on. They had also boiled meat in other cauldrons. When the meat was cooked, they threw away the flesh of that man which they had boiled; no one knowing that it was thrown away: and they ate the meat which theh had boiled, while the rest of the vinedressers were spectators. These did not doubt but that the Moslems ate the flesh of their companion; the rest being afterwards sent away informed the people of Andalus that the Moslems feed on human flesh, acquainting them with what had been done to the vinedresser.
As Abd-Errahman has related to us on the authority of his father Abd-Allah lbn Abd-El-Hakem, and of Hisham Ibn Ishaak: There was a house in Andalus, the door of which was secured with padlocks, and on which every new king of the country placed a padlock of his own, until the accession to power of the king against whom the Moslems marched. They therefore begged him to place a padlock on it, as the kings before him were wont to do. But he refused saying, I will place nothing on it, until I shall have known what is inside; he then ordered it to be opened; but behold inside were portraits of the Arabs, and a letter in which it was written: "When this door shall be opened, these people will invade this country."
When Tarik landed, soldiers from Cordova came to meet him; and seeing the small number of his companions they despised him on that account. They then fought. The battle with Tarik was severe. They were routed, and he did not cease from the slaughter of them till they reached the town of Cordova. When Roderic heard of this, he came to their rescue from Toledo. They then fought in a place of the name of Shedunia, in a valley which is called this day the valley of Umm-Hakim [on July 11, 711, at the mouth of the Barbate river]. They fought a severe battle; but God, mighty and great, killed Roderic and his companions. Mugheyth Errumi, a slave of Welid, was then the commander of Tarik's cavalry. Mugheyth Errumi went in the direction of Cordova, Tarik passing over to Toledo. He, then, entered it, and asked for the table, having nothing else to occupy himself. This, as the men of the Bible relate, was the table of Suleyman Ibn Dawid, may the blessing of God be upon him.
As Abd Errahman has related to us on the authority of Yahva Ibn Bukeir, and the latter on the authority of Leyth Ibn Sad: Andalus having been conquered for Musa Ibn Nosseyr, he took from it the table of Suleyman Ibn Dawid, and the crown. Tarik was told that the table - was in a citadel called Faras, two days' journey from Toledo, and the governor of this citadel was a nephew of Roderic. Tarik, then, wrote to him, promising safetv both for himself and family. The nephew descended from the citadel, and Tarik fulfilled his promise with reference to his safety. Tarik said to him, deliver the table, and he delivered it to him. On this table were gold and silver, the like of which one bad not seen. Tarik, then, took off one of its legs together with the pearls and the gold it contained, and fixed to it a similar leg. The table was valued at two hundred thousand dinars, on account of the pearls that were on it. He took up the pearls, the armour, the gold, the silver, and the vases which he had with him, and found that quantity of spoils, the like of which one had not seen. He collected all that. Afterwards he returned to Cordova, and having stopped there, he wrote to Musa Ibn Nossevr informing him of the conquest of Andalus, and of the spoils which he had found. Musa then wrote to Welid Abd Ed-Malik' informing him of that, and throwing himself upon his mercy. Musa wrote to Tarik ordering him not to leave Cordova until he should come to him. And he reprimanded him very severely. Afterwards Musa Ibn Nosseyr set out for Andalus, in Rajab of the year 93, taking with him the chiefs of the Arabs, the commanders, and the leaders of the Berbers to Andalus. He set out being angry with Tarik, and took with him Habib Ibn Abi Ubeida Elfihri, and left the government of Cairwan to his son Abd Allah who was his eldest son. He then passed through Alchadra, and afterwards went over to Cordova. Tarik then met him, and tried to satisfv him, saving: "I am merely thy slave, this conquest is thine." Musa collected of the monev a sum, which exceeded all description. Tarik delivered to him all that he had plundered.
note: The selection above is from the History of the Conquest of Spain by the Egyptian Ibn Abd-el-Hakem (d. 870 or 871 ), who also wrote a history of Egypt. He mixes myths and fact in his account, which was written a century and a half after the events it describes.
From Ibn Abd-el-Hakem, History of the Conqziest of Spain, trans. by John Harris Jones (Gottingen, W. Fr. Kaestner, 1858), pp. 18-22
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The new Yaskawa Motoman RM2-series slim-line Ferris Wheel positioner models have a 17% smaller width than standard positioners and are available with 755 kg (RM2-755SL) and 1,255 kg (RM2-1255SL) payload capacities. The overall positioner width is only 1 m wider than the part span (standard lengths are 2 and 3 meters); this results in a robotic welding work cell footprint that is only 1 m wider than the part. The positioner can rotate parts up to 1.3 m diameter. The 755 kg and 1,255 kg capacity models support mechanized automotive part fixtures and many construction machinery parts. A new extra-large capacity Ferris Wheel positioner was designed to provide a higher payload (two models) and turning diameters in a reduced profile. The new models feature a 1,555 kg (RM2-1555) and 2,355 kg (RM2-2355) payload capacities. These larger scale positioners are suitable for truck exhaust assemblies or heavy agriculture/construction machinery components, and they have a turning diameter capacity of 1,524 mm (60 in) and 1,778 mm (70 in) with standard part spans of 3 or 4 meters. The Ferris Wheel positioner provides two trunnion axes on each side of a major "Sweep" axis. All three axes are servo-driven, saving cycle time by allowing parts to turn into position while the trunnion stations rotate over/under the sweep axis. Motion of the trunnion in front of the robot(s) can be coordinated to the robot(s) to make circumferential welds while the part rotates. The load station can be "jogged" by the operator to an ergonomic position or to facilitate part tracking. The positioners include air and DeviceNet service to each side of the positioner and feature the patented MotoMount fixture mounting system. They were designed to be compliant with the updated version of the Robotic Safety Standard (ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012).
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Twilight-Belgium (Press Release) Belga Films is pleased to announce the arrival in Belgium of Robert Pattinson and Ashley Greene Wednesday, October 26, 2011. The two actors will be at Square in Brussels at an exclusive event reserved for fans of the Twilight. Twilight 4: Revelation - Part 1 released in cinemas in Belgium on November 16. Twilight 4: Revelation - Part 1, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), surrounded by their loved ones face the consequences of their union, after their wedding night, and sudden unexpected birth of a child going to mess up in a strange way the behavior of Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). The last episode, Twilight Revelation Chapter 4 Part 2, released in November 2012 in Belgium.
_iwry_ More info for the fan event in Belgium : It'll start at 6pm but the tickets can't be bought. Your only chance is to win in one of the different contests that will take place soon on the Belgian media. But for the others, a red carpet will take place just before the event.
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Trans Murder Monitoring Project
At present, the Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project is systematically monitoring, collecting and analysing reports of homicides of trans people worldwide.
The Trans Murder Monitoring project started in April 2009 as a cooperation between Transgender Europe (TGEU) and the academic online magazine Liminalis – A Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance. With the involvement of the editorial team of Liminalis, the TMM became a pilot project of Transgender Europe's "Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide" research project in September 2009.
The preliminary results were published in July 2009 on the TGEU-website and in the 2009 issue of Liminalis. An update of these results was presented on the TGEU-website on the International Day of Trans Remembrance in November 2009.
Further updates of the results will be published on this website two to three times a year.
When using the data presented by the Trans Murder Monitoring project, please note that the data presented is not comprehensive, for the reasons outlined below, and can only provide a glimpse into a reality which is undoubtedly much worse than the numbers suggest:
1.) The collected data shows only those cases which have been reported. There is no data and no estimates available for the unreported cases.
2.) The data presented here does not include all reported cases worldwide, but only those,that can be found -- with some effort -- on the Internet. Reports from local newspapers that have no web presence are missing.
3.) Due to the dozens of languages used in the Internet, the variety of terms used to denote trans people, and the myriad numbers of web pages to search through, it is simply not possible to find all reports shown on the Internet.
4.) Finding reports of murdered trans persons in particular is also problematic, as not all trans people who are murdered are identified as trans.
Please also note that the Trans Murder Monitoring project is reporting all kinds of murders of trans people. The classification of the murder of a trans person as a hate crime is often difficult, due to a lack of information in the reports as well as the lack of national monitoring systems. Although the brutal violence and other circumstances in reported cases suggest that quite a lot of them -- even most or almost all cases -- are transphobic hate crimes (according to the TvT research projects' classification) or crimes related to specific situations that trans people have to face in some countries (e.g., being forced to do sex work to earn one's living due to discrimination in employment), in this first stage of presenting the results, they are classified simply as reports of murdered trans persons.
In the following discussion, the results of the Trans Murder Monitoring project are presented in form of reports, name lists, tables, and maps. The reports provide context information on the monitoring and reporting of murders of trans persons, and summarize the results. The name lists present the names and some details about the deaths of the otherwise anonymously reported trans murder victims. These lists are specially compiled for the annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance (see below). The tables present statistics on the world region, country, date of death, location and cause of death, and the age and profession of the victims. The maps illustrate the worldwide scale of the reports of murdered trans persons.
The tables and maps produced based on this research data prove, in vividly graphic form, that murders of trans people do occur in all six world regions.
As the TvT research team regularly updates and evaluates the TMM results, we present all results here in chronological order starting with the latest update.
TMM results interim update July/August 2010
TMM results update January/February 2010
First preliminary TMM results July 2009
Although the members of the TvT research team wish that such research were unnecessary (because no trans people were murdered), we would appreciate contributions of reports of murdered trans people, transphobic murders and transphobic violence in general from countries in the six world regions. Therefore, the TvT research team is requesting that networks, organizations and individuals send reports of murdered trans people to research[at]transrespect-transphobia.org and that they participate in this ongoing monitoring and research project, in order that the necessary data can be gathered to improve the situation of trans people worldwide.
When reporting cases of murdered trans people, please give as many details as possible, e.g., the name of the victim (using, if known, the chosen name of the victim), the victim's age and profession, and, if known, the victim's self-definition (e.g. travesti, transwoman, FTM, genderqueer, etc.) or the local/indigenous term (e.g. muxé, kathoey, etc.), the date (day, month, year) and the place (state, city/town, street/public place/home, etc.) where the murder took place, as well as the cause of death (e.g. gunshot, stabbing, strangulation, etc.) and the source of information. Furthermore, when possible, it would be very helpful if you could provide a context for the murder, as well as an indication of how the murder was treated judicially (investigation, classification as hate or bias crime, prosecution of the perpetrator, etc.).
If you wish to refer to this section, please use the following citation format: TvT research project (2010). Trans Murder Monitoring, "Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide" (TvT) project website: www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en/tvt-project/tmm-results.htm
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Climate change, dirty air plague Yellowstone
By The Associated Press
JACKSON, Wyo. – A recent report says the air quality in Yellowstone National Park's is getting worse.
The Natural Resource Vital Signs report measures park health based on the condition of 25 natural resources in 2010. It was authored by Yellowstone National Park.
Temperature, precipitation, snowpack and stream flow are all within normal ranges.
But the study finds indications that the growing season in the park has been starting earlier and getting longer.
Biologists say the longer summer season allows pine beetles to reproduce more than once, and warmer temperatures mean fewer deep freezes to kill them. Many white-bark pine trees have died from beetles and blister rust.
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Pictured: Alex Meyer received the Harold S Ulen and Phil
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PRINCETON, N.J. – The men's swimming and diving team placed second at the 2010 Ivy League Championships, hosted by Princeton at DeNunzio Pool. Harvard totaled 1,341.5 points over the three days of competition, second only to Princeton's total of 1,552.5 as the Tigers captured their 19th overall league title.
The Crimson maintained its stronghold in the distance events, as Alex Meyer took the title in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:01.87, nearly nine seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. Blake Lewkowitz took third in the event with a time of 9:10.87. Robert Newell followed with a third-place finish in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:47.09 and Jordan Diekema took eighth in the event with a 1:52.07 result. Justin Davidson and Owen Wurzbacher finished fifth and eighth, respectively, in the 200 breaststroke.
Niall Janney placed third in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:49.12, and was followed closely by teammate Nicholas Tan who placed fifth with a 1:49.98 final time.
Meyer was given two awards at the end of the meet as he received the Harold S Ulen Award (career high point swimmer) and the Phil Moriarty Award (meet high point swimmer). Michael Stanton, who took the title in both the three-meter and one-meter diving competitions, received the Karl B Michael Award, given to the top-scoring diver at the meet.
Next on the schedule for Harvard are the NCAA Zone A Diving competition March 12-14 in Piscataway, N.J. The NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships take place March 25-27 in Columbus, Ohio.
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A 55-year-old Bowers Beach man, Frank S. Eicherly, recently was cited for numerous fishing violations on the Delaware Bay.
A 55-year-old Bowers Beach man recently was cited for numerous fishing violations on the Delaware Bay.
Frank S. Eicherly is charged with 50 counts of no ghost panel on commercial fish pots, which is a means of escape for fish if a pot is lost or abandoned, 50 counts of improperly marked commercial fish pots and one count of illegally potting for finfish within the boundaries of an artificial reef.
Eicherly was cited by Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Natural Resources Police and Division of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Agents on June 25.
Eicherly pleaded guilty in Justice of the Peace Court 3 in Georgetown to five counts each of no ghost panel on commercial fish pots and improperly marked commercial fish pots, and to the charge for illegally potting for finfish in the boundaries of an artificial reef. He was fined $1,200 and placed on two years of criminal probation, DNREC officials said.


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Just Opened – Sarasota Museum of Art
By Debra Robinson | January 22, 2013
Historic Sarasota High welcomes the Sarasota Museum of Art and
Renowned Stick Sculpture Artist Patrick Dougherty!!!
We've been waiting and waiting for the new Sarasota Museum of Art aka
SMOA to open in old Sarasota High School building. For years driving
by the historic school we've peeked over to see how far up the 'fund
raising thermometer' has shot up. I've always wanted the chance to
peek inside this beautiful school which very much resembles my school
in Ohio. We're now seeing big progress in the creation of our future
art museum and there's all kinds of activity
going on…
As in classic Sarasota style, there's been a kickoff to the new
museum. Renowned Stick Sculpture Artist Patrick Dougherty has been
invited to spend 3 weeks in Sarasota to drum up awareness. He's been
creating a massive structure of crepe myrtle branches and twigs at the
entrance to our new SMOA. An enthusiastic group of volunteers has
been commissioned to work on the sculpture. At the same time docents
are performing tours of the first floor unveiling the plans for our
new community art center. Guess who has been a frequent visitor?
Yes, me..
I took a tour of the 'works in progress' and school and was it ever
informative. There was an opening Bash which sold out with 650
tickets in record time… It appears everyones excited for
what our Sarasota art community has in store!
As for our visiting artist, Patrick Dougherty has been constructing
his twig and stick installations nationally for decades. He resides
in North Carolina but travels alot to places of interest to create his
site specific structures. It's been quite interesting to watch the
project come together and it's clear to see he's drawn much attention
to the grounds of historic Sarasota High. Thank you Patrick!
As for the future of SMOA, 22 million is needed to start the actual
project and so far over 15 million has been raised. Construction
cannot start until the goal has been met and Patrick has us well on
our way. The Ringling College of Art and Design will spearhead all
operations of our new Sarasota gem.. Along with the new museum there
will be classrooms for continuing studies that will be open to the
public! There will also be studios for resident artists. I was
lucky enough to get a special sneak peek of the new building scale
Like building a nest, the stick sculpture is seemingly parallel to all
the hard work that has gone into bringing a wonderful new art resource
to our community. Maybe I enjoy this because my passion and
livelihood is helping nice folks find a nest in Sarasota! Stop by and
visit, you'll be happy you did! To read more about this project visit
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Mayor Don Wesely today named a new Hometown Security Study Committee to examine the City's public safety services, including the Police and Fire Departments and 911 Center. Mayor Wesely and the City Council worked together to form the 15-member committee to be chaired by Stan Heng, former Adjutant General of Nebraska who served in the Nebraska National Guard for 45 years before retiring.
"We are very pleased to have someone of General Heng's experience to chair this important committee," said Mayor Wesely. "It is essential to make sure that as the City grows, our public safety services continue to keep our citizens safe."
"I am pleased to serve the community in this capacity," said General Heng. "It is an innovative approach to involve citizens by creating this committee. This model of involvement could be used all over the country."
Representing the public on the committee are Carol Brown, Jeff Fortenberry, Jim Geist, Craig Madsen, Don Marti and Oscar Rios Pohirieth (brief biographies follow this release). The Lincoln City Council will be represented by Annette McRoy and Ken Svoboda. Commissioner Larry Hudkins will represent the Lancaster County Board. Major Guy F. Moon will represent the National Guard. City and County officials on the committee are Police Chief Tom Casady, Fire Chief Mike Spadt, 911 Services Director Julie Righter, Health Director Bruce Dart and Emergency Services Manager Doug Ahlberg.
The committee is charged with determining the public safety needs in Lincoln, the options to deal with those needs and the best financial plan for the City to address the issue.
Wesely said the growth of the City has stretched the resources of the Police and Fire Departments and the 911 Center to protect the city. Since 1990, the City has grown by almost 16 square miles and more than 34,000 new residents. Using the national standard of 1.5 public safety employees for every 1,000 people, both the Police and Fire Departments fall short. Currently the Police Department has about 1.3 employees for every 1,000 citizens, and the Fire Department has about 1.1 employees for every 1,000 citizens.
The Police Department has identified the need for about 36 additional officers. The Fire Department has projected that to respond to the growth of the City, two additional fire stations would provide adequate City coverage for about the next eight to ten years. The two new fire stations would add 42 to 55 additional fire fighters. In addition, the 911 Center has identified the need to add one full-time dispatcher work station. To staff one additional work station on a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week basis requires hiring five additional 911 operators. In total, the departments have identified a need for 83 to 96 additional full-time public safety employees.
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NWSB Vancouver Canucks Insider usual preview isn't so usual this time. With the trade for Zack Kassian and Marc-Andre Gragnani from the Buffalo Sabres and of Cody Hodgson's return Saturday night on Hockey Night In Canada, Josh delves into the most controversial topic in Vancouver Canucks nation as we speak. What was Mike Gillis thinking is what Josh asks. What can you do to show your disdain towards the trade?
Game 66 Sabres vs. Canucks: Let Gillis Have It
March 2, 2012 By Josh Hall
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VIDEO: Meet the Judges of ABC's THE TASTE
Below, meet the judges of ABC's new alternitive series THE TASTE - no-holds barred chef Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef/author Ludovic Lefebvre and chef/restaurateur Brian Malarkey. The series airs Tuesdays at 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET.
One blind spoonful could change everything, on the all new series, "The Taste." . An exhilarating new one-hour cooking competition, "The Taste" puts 16 culinary competitors -- pro chefs to home cooks -- to the fire when four of the world's most notable masters of the food world judge their creations based on a blind taste test. In this pressure-packed contest, the taste in a single spoonful can catapult a contender to the top or send him packing.
Each of the four culinary superstars and "Taste" mentors - Bourdain, Lawson, Lefebvre and Malarkey - will coach a team of four competing pro and amateur cooks chosen from a nationwide casting call, as they vie to create the best tasting dish in a state of the art kitchen. In each episode, the groups will face team and individual challenges with a variety of culinary themes through several elimination rounds. At the end of each episode, the mentors will have to judge the competitors' dishes blind, with no knowledge of whose creation they're sampling, what they're eating, how it was prepared or whom they could be sending home.
"The Taste" is from Kinetic Content and is executive-produced by Chris Coelen, Matilda Zoltowski, Emma Conway, Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson. BrIan Smith is the director.


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A leading clinical chemistry organization has created an annual award in Prof. Eugene Rogers' name to be given to a young clinical laboratory scientist. It gives aspiring scientists an opportunity to compete in a poster presentation and win a monetary travel award to present research findings at the National American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) meeting.
"Gene Rogers is a respected and an outstanding mentor to UMass students," said Mark Kellogg, associate director of clinical chemistry at Boston Children's Hospital and assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School. At events, I see Gene quietly nudging students to speak up and mingle with the professionals in attendance, and he brings up topics that allow the students to lead a conversation. While I sometimes do not recall the main speaker at these annual events, I always recall the students and their stories."
Mentor and Leader to Students
As chair of the Clinical Laboratories and Nutritional Sciences Department, Eugene Rogers has been actively involved in the education of future laboratory professionals, in and out of the classroom, for more than 30 years. Aaron Stella, who first took undergraduate clinical chemistry classes with Rogers in 2007, worked as a teaching assistant and laboratory instructor under the guidance of Rogers and has since graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees. He is currently enrolled in the University's biomedical engineering and biotechnology Ph.D. program with Rogers as his adviser. "Prof. Rogers constantly tells me that I must become an expert in the content that I study and research," says Stella, who also works at Mayo Medical Laboratories New England in Andover. "He intentionally has me struggle with challenges to develop my critical thinking skills. Because of the quality training he has given me, he has shaped me as a professional like no other person has ever done."
Beyond the classroom, he encourages students to get involved with the Northeast Section of the AACC, a society of laboratory professionals, physicians and research scientists that helps students network with leaders in their field, learn about cutting-edge projects and sharpen their presentation skills.
The Section's Board of Directors calls upon Rogers regularly in his role as 'Friend of the Board' to provide consultation and input. He organizes the annual Laboratory Science Student Night where as many as 20 senior medical laboratory science students from the University are supported by the section to attend the annual November dinner and presentation meeting.
"The board realized that the recruitment of young laboratory scientists into this specialty area would provide unique opportunities that would help pave the way for new young clinical chemists," said Rogers.
Last year, Rogers suggested that the board expand student opportunities by adding an event where young professionals – including his UMass Lowell students – could present posters on their research projects. The Northeast Section board decided that the winner of the annual competition would receive a travel award to present their research at the AACC national meeting. The naming of the Eugene J. Rogers Travel Award reflects Rogers' long-term dedication to student education and advancement in the field of clinical chemistry.
"Gene offered to provide initial funds for the award and this immediately motivated other organization members and industry partners to donate," says Kellogg. "This reaction has put the event on solid financial footing, guaranteeing its' future."
Early in Rogers' medical laboratory science career, he managed a clinical chemistry laboratory in a hospital where he realized the important role practicing clinical chemists play in the detection, monitoring and treatment of disease.
"By working closely with the Northeast Section of the AACC, I am able to facilitate the connection between students and the profession that I have found so rewarding," says Rogers. "I felt that this link to the profession for young student laboratory scientists had been missing in my career and I am grateful that the local board sees value in this program and continues to provide support."
Kellogg attests to Rogers' influence, saying "His dedication to involve students in the professional organization is infectious and the members of Northeast Section of the AACC look forward to these student events each year."


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PCmods RheoBus V1 vs. CaseEtc F 403
Modding/Small Mods by richbastard @ 2002-04-01
Head 2 Head comparison of these high quality Rheobuses!
Modding/Small Mods by richbastard @ 2002-04-01
Head 2 Head comparison of these high quality Rheobuses!
As overclocking becomes more and more popular, people start to add multiple high performance 120mm fans and screaming deltas to achieve the most out of their system. However, the massive cooling is normally only needed when the system is stressed, so you don't want to be confronted with +40dBa when you're just surfing around. There are two solutions for this: a baybus or a rheobus. A baybus only has some plain switches which allow you to switch your fan on & off. More advanced baybuses use switches with 3 positions: off/7V/12V. Even the more advanced baybuses are fairly easy and cheap to make on your own. A rheobus however is far more complicated: it allows you to use a fan at any voltage between 0 and 12 volt... well a perfect rheobus would. :)
The competitors:
PCmods rheobus (left on pic above) is a well-known and respected competitor. The one I'm testing is version 1.0, but I saw they made some changes on the looks and named it V2, the inside however, remained exactly the same. Their package includes a manual, 4 knobs, a wrench to attach the knobs, a front template to drill the holes, a molex Y splitter and of course the rheobus itself.
Their competitor: the CaseEtc Maelstrom (right). A little cheaper, but on first sight it measures up to PCmods Rheobus... or doesn't it? Their package includes exactly the same.
The contents of the Maelstrom package.
Thanks to the front template the installation is mere child's play. You just attach it to a spare 5 1/2" bay, start drilling and it's done. PCmod's template is equipped with some sticky goo, which assures you that the template will stay on its place while drilling the holes. The Maelstrom included some rubber bands to insure it will stay on its place... but I doubt it would (pic below). I strongly prefer PCmods' way.
not the most secure way to attach a template...
The Maelstrom has a more compact design, which is neat but it makes it a bit harder to attach the wires to the unit.


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Hartford Bests Lake Region to Win 12-U Ripken Championship
BARTON–Hunter Perkins struck out 16 batters, including setting down the side in order by way of the K three times, as Hartford defeated Lake Region 9-2 to win the Vermont State 12-U Cal Ripken championship on Sunday afternoon.Lake Region coach Shawn Perron was extremely proud of his team's efforts in the loss."I thought it was a well rounded effort," said the coach. "I thought our bats did what I expected them to do, and our defense was awesome. Defense is what kept us in this entire game."For the full story, see the Express on Monday, 7-8-13.


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When it comes to next-gen super materials, graphene is incredible stuff – it can be six times lighter than steel, two times harder, and 10 times stronger in terms of tensile strength – and now researchers at Rice University have figured out a way to literally bake it from a box of Girl Scout cookies. A group of graduate students led by chemist James Tour recently teamed up with a Houston Girl Scout troop 25080 to perform the feat using a single box of Trefoil cookies — which could potentially yield $15 billion dollars worth of graphene.
The Rice University experiment was designed to illustrate that graphene can be produced from practically any material that contains carbon — including grass, polystyrene plastic, solid waste, and even ordinary table sugar, as the team proved last year. According to the researchers, a single sheet of graphene made from a box of shortbread cookies would be large enough to cover 30 football fields.
To transform the shortbread cookies into graphene the team placed them upon a piece of copper foil and baked them at over 1,900 degrees in an argon and hydrogen gas-fueled oven. As the cookies disintegrated, a thin layer of graphene formed on one side of the foil, while other residues were filtered out to the other side.
Graphene exhibits remarkable material properties – in addition to its extraordinary tensile strength and light weight, it is also exceptionally conductive. These characteristics make it a sought-after material for applications ranging from solar panels and ultracapacitors to next-gen LED lights and storage systems for fuel cell cars. The only problem is the exorbitant price it fetches – $250 per two-inch square – and the specialized processes and machinery required to produce it. Tour expects the cost to drop significantly as systems are developed to manufacture it in bulk.


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The public is invited to the 29th annual Fun Run/Walk - Zoo Day Saturday, May 26 at the Lincoln Children's Zoo, 1222 S. 27th St. The event is sponsored by Lincoln Fire and Rescue (LFR), the Lincoln Children's Zoo, HyVee, Wayne's Body Shop and radio stations 92.9 The Eagle and 96 KX.
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I think you need to read chos dbyings mdzod, chapter 5, a little more carefully:Jax wrote:Namdrol... Sem is tsal ( or rolpa if you prefer) All of the display is "equally" the play or ornament of the Base.Namdrol wrote:So pompous elephants of ati would maintain, unable to distinquish sems from rtsal.Jax wrote:
Perhaps the Great Perfection IS the imputations and the populating by the intellect with dualisms... As opposed from being separate from or prior to?
In Ati these days, conceited elephants [claim]
the mass of discursive concepts is awakened mind (bodhicitta);
this confusion is a dimension of complete darkness,
a hindrance to the meaning of the natural great perfection.
Thus, the energy of compassion moves from self-originated wisdom, that cognition arisen towards an object is called "play arising from energy". That [cognition] is not self-originated wisdom because of the difference between the existence and non-existence of the object and because if there is no connection with the method, affliction and action leading to existence are generated, and because the nature of conceptuality and discursivess never transcends samsara.


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Action-hero wonder boy Shia LaBeouf has put aside childish things—the late-night car wrecks, the weaving around Hollywood nightspots for the pleasure of TMZ—and gotten serious about his career. You might even say a little obsessive. Hence, his intense turn as a stock-possessed trader in this month's Wall Street sequel. And what should a guy like that wear? Clean, trim suits like these that no one would ever mistake for Gordon Gekko's
When Shia LaBeouf flipped his Ford F-150 at the intersection of La Brea and Fountain, the last thing on his mind was the price of soybeans. That was in 2008, before he discovered soybean futures and the redemptive powers of free-market capitalism, when Shia LaBeouf was just your regular 22-year-old Spielberg-anointed former child actor who graduated from prepubescent Disney Channel comedies to blowing up robots and making out with Megan Fox for a living. Then he wrecked his truck—at 3 A.M., with someone else's girlfriend in the passenger seat—and nearly screwed it all up. The cops smelled alcohol on his breath, and the snickering blogs smelled fresh-faced Hollywood flameout. It's all so familiar, as pat and predictable as anything this town is capable of churning out. So you can be forgiven for not giving a shit about that old Shia LaBeouf, because the old Shia LaBeouf didn't really give a shit about himself, either. "I don't know that I respected myself then," he says of life before the crash. "I wasn't really appreciating things."
The standard rich-and-famous contract comes with many fine provisions—power, money, girls—but not much in the way of perspective. After the accident, Shia was in a dark lonely place. He was spotted wandering around his neighborhood wearing a paper bag over his head and a plastic bag wrapped around the hand he'd mangled in the wreck. "Until recently, time off has been a very dangerous period for me," he says. "Because it's like, my God, I can have anything? Really?"
What he has now is a chili-cheese dog and a story to tell. We're somewhere in Sherman Oaks, in the Valley, sitting on wooden bleachers outside a hot-dog shack called the Infield. He's dressed to go unnoticed, in a denim jacket, T-shirt, and Transformers cap pulled low over sleepy eyes.
"I'm not some AA angel preaching bullshit," he says, "but I have changed."
When he regained consciousness the morning after the crash, Shia found his father and Jon Voight (whom he'd grown close to on the set of his first movie, Holes) sitting by his hospital bed. "You're hooked up onto this heroin bag," he says, "and you've got Jon Voight _Coming Home_ing it in the room, arguing about John McCain with your father, who's tripping out. I had two weeks before I had to get back to work on Transformers 2. Two weeks of sitting in that hospital room thinking: Fuck. I'd be watching the news, and they'd play my car crash, and every once in a while Kim Kardashian's sister would jump on TV and preach to me from the red carpet about how to live my fucking life. And I'm so upset, man. I'm so angry. Because this accident was not caused by me. I got hit. I had a green. This fucker ran a red light. And he flipped my truck, and he shoveled it on my hand. And my fingers are in the street…"
Your fingers are in the—?
"They're in the street, they're off, they're under the truck door, man. This is fake, dude," he says, lifting his newly reconstructed hand. "This is hip bone and the skin that was left over. Let me show you."
He peels off a bandage that looks like a beer cozy made for a fake finger and bangs it hard against the bench. His middle finger looks and feels like a bent twig wrapped in tight rubber, and it sounds like a pencil drummed against a school desk. Shia's ring finger has a long dark scar running down the length of it.
"The thing is, all the bad things that have happened to me have been self-inflicted," Shia says. He drops some French fries, retrieves them from the filthy hot-dog-stand floor, eats them, continues to talk.
"Nobody's caused me harm. It's always been me in destruction-derby mode. Yes, I was drinking, and yes, I said no to the Breathalyzer—though I never got charged with drunk driving. Bad luck, bad thinking, bad actions, bad situation. But it's something that had to happen to me."
Unlike his hand, his Ford couldn't be salvaged, but he held on to the truck's door that had crushed his fingers. It's now mounted at his dad's house as a memento mori.
He says it stands as a reminder. "It's the wow-how-quick-it-disappears door. It's the wake-up door."
But wake up and do…what exactly?
For a while he was at loose ends, lost, and losing his mind little by little. He'd been a working actor for more than a decade. He'd survived his what-does-it-all-mean brush with mortality. What he needed now was something to care about. So when Oliver Stone called, Shia figured he'd found not just a challenging role but a lifeline.
"I knew the meeting had to be about Wall Street," Shia explains. "So I go down to the Schwab office in Encino. I can't drive, so I walk three miles down that way—" He uses a chili-cheese dog, his second, to point west on Ventura. He showed up without an appointment, told the receptionist he needed to prepare himself for the Wall Street sequel, and asked to see someone who could teach him everything he needed to know about finance—which was everything—and as soon as possible, please.
They sent him to financial consultant Osman Khan. "Brilliant guy," Shia says. Some time later, Shia got his hands on a prep handbook for the Series 7 exam that, he says, "became my bible."
That afternoon, he gave Khan twenty grand to open an account, and he's been trading ever since. "It's still my favorite hobby," Shia says. "I trade in my bors now. I'm up early for the markets. I'm real-time all day long." He loves the game and the thrill and the nerves of the market; and the market, it seems, loves him right back. As of the morning of our lunch, Shia says his online Schwab Active Trading account had grown to close to $450,000.*
Shia's call to capitalism came just when he was looking for something to throw himself into. He didn't need a job. Jobs he'd had since age 11, when he started doing stand-up in comedy clubs to burn energy and earn a little cash. At 14 he landed a gig on the Disney show Even Stevens and was supporting his family before he was shaving. He charmed his way through such disparate stuff as Will Smith's I, Robot and the Project Greenlight-incubated The Battle of Shaker Heights. Then Steven Spielberg bestowed on him career-making roles in DreamWorks' Disturbia and Michael Bay's billion-dollar Transformers franchise, and finally the part of sidekick/son of Indiana Jones himself. Somehow Shia had glided over the awkward years and made that rare smooth transition from likable dork to bankable Everydude. In Oliver Stone, he found a director who could take him on, engage him psychologically, and push him to the place he felt he needed to go.
To inhabit the role of Jake Moore, the hedge-fund trader engaged to Gordon Gekko's daughter and the upstart at the center of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Shia moved to New York with his Series 7 textbook in his backpack. "I cleared my life to make this movie," he says now. "My past life did not follow me to New York. I created a whole new existence." He shaved, bought a suit, embedded himself on trading floors, and talked to everyone he could. His tutors in this new world were power players like James Chanos, the billionaire short-seller who called the Enron collapse; John Paulson, who made billions on the subprime-mortgage crash; and Nouriel Roubini, the NYU economist affectionately known as Dr. Doom. Much has changed since the Wall Street of the first movie. The stakes, as the world has been so rudely reminded, are exponentially higher now. There's a new breed of greed, representing far more money than Gordon Gekko ever dreamed of wringing out of poor BlueStar Airlines.
The Street, or what was left of it, was ready for its sequel.
John Thomas financial is a brokerage firm you've probably never heard of. Tommy Belesis, the company's dapper and gregarious CEO, looks like Lex Luthor in pinstripes and runs a high-energy ship of 300 traders. There's a life-imitating-the-'80s quality to Belesis's work environment. "We have 43,000 square feet," he says. "You walk in here, and there are guys in three-piece suits, no-facial-hair policy, everyone looking professional, on the phones from six in the morning until ten at night—a real trading floor similar to what it was when they did the first Wall Street." Belesis figures he has hired and trained close to a thousand traders over the years. He claims that Shia is a natural. "I'd absolutely hire him and seat him right next to me," he says. "He'd be a top trader. "
Shia knew that learning the business was the only way to make himself credible. "The most important thing with these guys is confidence," he says. "And as an actor, when you're going heads-up with the biggest dudes around, then the only way for me to get that self-confidence was to become more astute than anybody else on-set."
"He went beyond the pale, so to speak," Stone says of his star's will to learn. "Most actors sort of let it go after they start shooting, but even on his off days he would go back to the trading firms. It was a treat to have that young energy there, that hunger to make movies."
"I'd never seen anything like this shit," Shia says of the trading floors, the money, the personalities involved. "I thought my life was pretty wild. I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world. I've been on the cover of GQ! But then I met these guys, and it's humbling. It's the most sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll atmosphere that exists on the planet. I was hanging out with some wild human beings." At some of the firms where he did research, he found himself remarkably close to the action. "I was sitting right next to guys on a Tuesday, trading a million dollars, and on Friday they got arrested for wild things."
If there are trading desks in lower Manhattan manned by aging dudes who modeled their careers after Wall Street, then for three months of shooting last summer the same territory was occupied by a troupe of seasoned actors trying to will themselves into the hearts and minds of actual Wall Street players. Between takes Shia and Oliver debated the value of gold. Shia and Josh Brolin, who plays sinister hedge-fund manager Bretton James, traded tips and insults and daily PL reports. "Every night on top of rehearsals and script work, on top of my personal trading, I've got Brolin talking mad trash via text, psychological shit. We'd pop off at each other all the time. He would say, 'What the fuck do you know? You were in Transformers.' "
The goal wasn't to turn actors into day traders but to bypass easy stereotypes—the cutthroat capitalists, the greed-is-good Gekkos—and, by close examination, create a fuller, more compelling portrait of a broken system. For all his reputation as a stoker of controversy, over the years Oliver Stone has shown extraordinary skill in putting a granular, emotional, human face on charged moments of history. Which helps explain why Shia hasn't fallen in line with the current vogue for populist rage against the financial sector and its excesses. "It's easy to villainize these guys with the big paychecks," he says. "But they're not all bad. I'm a pretty left-wing character, and I come from whatever collar is lower than blue. But meeting these guys really opened my mind a lot. I've never seen people with more drive and determination in my life."
"He is a doctor of human manipulation," Shia says of Oliver Stone. He means it as a compliment.
What's required of an actor on an Oliver Stone set isn't quite acting, at least not as it's commonly understood. Rather, the point is to let Oliver Stone push and shape and needle you by whatever means necessary so that he can capture on-camera the emotions, the human show, he's looking for.
"One of the first things you do with Oliver," Shia says, "is you start talking about your personal life. You give it all to him at the beginning, and then he has these strings with which he can fuck with you. He regurgitates this stuff at inopportune moments. He will just come up and whisper a phrase in your ear, sing a song, mention something about your dad, and—pow!—it puts you in a different world."
"We'd be on the street, and Oliver would just say, 'Go to that bar, get fucked-up, and come back.' I'd walk over, get smashed, and go back to work. He would really fuck with me when I was smashed. I get aggressive when I'm smashed, and he'd film that. He would just open you up completely, make you fucking naked—and then call, 'Action.' "
Michael Douglas arrived on-set already opened up by real-life trauma. His firstborn son, Cameron, had been arrested for trafficking cocaine and crystal meth and faces a long prison term. "Michael Douglas was an open wound on the set," Shia says. "That dude is in pain. He was emotional putty on the set. A struggling man. We filmed a struggling man."
This time around, Douglas's character, Gekko, finds himself less a master of the universe than a stranger, fresh from prison and shunned by his daughter, Winnie, played by the British actress Carey Mulligan, whom Shia is now dating.
Stone and Douglas wrestled all the time on-set, says Shia. "That is their process. They fucking go at it like rams, all day long, every day. They know that they feed off each other in a way that they don't get with anybody else they work with, but they fucking hate each other."
The reason it all works, Shia figures, what allows these people to operate together at this collectively heightened, emotionally raw state for such a period of time, is the confidence that the director is not going home until he gets his version of the truth. "That does something to your mind," Shia says. "I've never been so confident in my life, coming out of the darkest moment in my life. I've experienced things I've never seen on a set before. Finishing a scene and having the entire crew clap. We were making Godfather II out there. That takes a director with unwavering discipline, the balls and the wherewithal to shut everybody the fuck up and go after a vision. To micromanage everybody's insanity to accomplish one goal."
"Did you talk to Oliver?" Shia asks, almost shyly. "What did he say?"
He said you had a "nuclear energy," I tell him.
"You feel that nuclear energy right now?" He squints at me with a halfhearted, goofy hard-guy look. "Shia's in that tender, beautiful moment," Stone told me, "where he's growing out of the home and into his own life. He's a complicated individual. There's a lot of clay there to work with. He's not simple. You pay a price if you go to work at 13. There are things you can use that are just rich, including sadness and pain."
Back in Sherman Oaks, Shia is debating the wisdom of a fourth hot dog but decides against it. "When the oil starts to seep out of the cheese," he explains, "I'm out."
We walk across the street to the Up in Smoke Hookah Lounge, mostly because it is there and empty. Shia is training for a marathon and prepping for the physical stress of a third Transformers, which will begin shooting in a couple of months. He's up to fifteen miles and has given up cigarettes, but some grape-plum hookah smoke doesn't strike him as a problem. I ask him if he and Stone hit it off from the start.
"There's a testing period," Shia says.
What's he looking for?
"A man."
For Shia the question now is where to point that electric energy next, what to do with his postcrash wisdom. Though he's careful to avoid saying anything disparaging about the prospect of filming another Transformers, it's clear that it's something of a comedown after the all-in psychological engagement of Wall Street.
"Transformers is my last corporate obligation," he says. The experience of filming the two movies could hardly be more different. "With Mike [Transformers director Michael Bay] it's like a Groundlings improv ercise in the middle of a volcano." He's looking forward to it, but he's apprehensive about returning to a role that he says is more athlete than actor. After that—who knows? "I'm not going to work for money, because I'm rich, so there's no point. Now I just get to have fun. I get to make movies that I'm really hungry to make."
One project he was hungry to do—one that he thought was set but then fell apart—is The Promised Land, which was reportedly to star Shia and Ryan Gosling and was to be directed by The Road director John Hillcoat. Nick Cave wrote the script, which, as Shia puts it, "is about a bunch of drunks and illicit liquor dealing—GoodFellas in the woods."
Shia's disappointment over the unraveling of the project led to a break with his agents at William Morris Endeavor, and for a while he announced he'd go agentless. He eventually came in from the cold and signed on with CAA. Still, he says, he refuses to make the rounds of studio meetings where shit scripts are peddled as gold and good ones go unmade. He recalls a pitch meeting at Paramount. "I'm there with my manager and the head of the studio, the head of production, heads of marketing. It's a business meeting, and the proposed idea is something called Fuck Buddies. You could lose your mind."
He goes to fewer pitch meetings these days. Instead, he and Emile Hirsch are reading plays in Emile's living room, looking for a theater project to try. He's happier and feeling saner than he was a year ago, and this is due in part to his comfortable relationship with Carey Mulligan, though he'd prefer not to talk about it if he can. "I never really had anything in my life that was off-limits," he says, visibly trying to control his natural inclination to share, to think out loud, to let his voice run free. "But with this, just out of respect, I just don't want to fuck around. She's an unbelievably thought-provoking actress, the most talented actress I've ever met in my life, by leaps and bounds. Neither one of us are fame whores. It works out. It's not like we're the premiere couple; we're not the red-carpet king and queen."
The hookah guy refills the pipe and leans in to mention that there's a black BMW SUV parked across the street, inside of which is a guy taking pictures of the back of Shia's head.
Part of Shia's new trouble-avoidance plan means breaking ties with the old anti-Hollywood crew he used to run with. "My war stories are crazy, man," Shia says. "We'd just go to house parties and get in brawls. That was my crowd, this Valley Armenian gang-ridden Toonerville-Mexican-Mafia thing. But there's no way I could hang out with the same people and sustain this path. I'm not willing to trade in feeding my family for fuck-around time with Joey the head case."
Not that he's gone soft. I mention that the photographer is still parked across the street, lurking, snapping photos. "Should we go over and do the rest of the interview in his car?" Shia suggests.
So we do; we run across traffic on Ventura, and before the photographer can pull away we slip into the backseat of the BMW. He's a lumpy, awkward man with gigantic camera lenses filling the car. He works for a British outfit called Splash and admits that he'd been following Carey Mulligan all day. "Your girlfriend went to the gym this morning, and I was hoping she'd show up here." So much for the sanctity of their private lives.
"You ever feel like a weirdo?" Shia asks, riled but doing his best to stay calm, like someone struggling to remember his mantra.
Shia says he needed something drastic, the violent shake-up of a car accident, to deliver him to a mellower place.
"I don't think I would have got here otherwise," he says of the wreck and the work that followed. "You have to be a genius to learn from other people's mistakes, and I'm not one of those guys. I'm just not one of those guys."
*Naturally, we were skeptical of this, but we're far too principled to ask Osman Khan to fax us Shia's account statement. Still, the anecdotal evidence is compelling. When I mentioned to a casting-agent friend in New York that I was profiling Shia for the magazine, she announced, unprompted: "I've never met him, but I love Shia. His manager is a friend of mine and called me to tell me Shia was hot on a stock and we had to buy it now. Then he called back when Shia said to sell. I made $10,000 on that stock. I love that kid." Here are a few of Shia's recommendations: Buy Apple before it splits, and grow some balls and short gold at 120. After our interview, he texted me: "Oil will rally rest of year. Look at IOC. IOC's momentum is major, and it will surprise to the upside."


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TMC wrote:migya wrote:TMC wrote:migya wrote: Boykins would be nice but for 2 million a season at the most
I doubt he'll settle for less than $4...
Don't know what team would offer him that, especially since he is a backup PG
Hey, that's a backup salary. Most starters are around 7-9 million (or more for real stars like Baron or Nash).
That's a usual 6th-7th man salary. Boykins will have to be signed by a team that sees him as their 1st or 2nd guy off the bench pretty much and the Knicks are one of the only teams that come to mind that pay that and over. Over 80% of a team's salary is paid to the starters