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I use an external hard drive to record from my tv.
I plug it into my pc and I see the largest file (recordings) being the SRF files.
But I have other formats on there too which some say will help you in the process of playing them on pc.
I am a noob, as my name implies.
I downloaded drmdecrypt-1.0-win and opened the read me file, but then it got too technical and hard for me.
I need somebody to explain the process to me like I'm an 8 year old.
SRF to be played on PC? I have all the other files too, please help
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Word on the street is starting to trickle in that the popular music was not licensed:
* John Lennon's "Imagine" was definitely used without permission. The Lennon estate + EMI are suing. (See Reuters, 4/23 (link from pharyngula); the NYT, 4/24; and Paste Magazine. (I can just picture the graphic on The Daily Show: "Ono you di'n't!")
* I'm also hearing that The Killers ("Personal Jesus") didn't authorize. (See comments on earlier posts.) … And now I'm hearing that they did authorize, but were duped into doing so. See the playlist.
Updates as available.
4/28 update: It looks to me as if copyright infringement was at least anticipated and planned for, and the case that the copyright infringement was an intentional gambit by Premise Media to inspire litigation is considerably stronger: Check out this press release by Premise. They're trumpeting the litigation, and note that they reference it as litigation by the "beloved Yoko Ono." Tapping into popular dislike of Yoko Ono — which had significant racist and sexist over-, under-, and in-the-middle-tones — Premise Media continues to demonstrate that they are a class act. Their behavior reflects on the religion they profess and promote, of course.
Other discussions on the issue:
* metamagician
* Lippard Blog


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Bloomberg urges mayors to press Congress on guns
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants the nation's mayors to pressure members of Congress to support President Barack Obama's gun violence proposals and take their cue from the hardball tactics often used by the gun lobby.
Bloomberg said in a speech Friday to the U.S. Conference of Mayors that mayors remain on the front lines and deal with gun violence on a daily basis, often comforting families of shooting victims. The billionaire said mayors need to band together and make clear that members of Congress could lose their jobs if they don't support tougher gun laws.
"We need to tell our members of Congress that they've got to stand up for sensible gun laws, and if they do that, we will stand up for them, and if they don't we will stand up for whoever runs against them. Because that's exactly what the NRA is trying to do," Bloomberg said.
"The NRA says, 'You don't support us, we're going to make you lose your job. We're going to support your opponent.' Well, we can do exactly the same thing," he said.
Bloomberg urged his fellow mayors to mobilize behind a sweeping set of proposals offered by Obama after last month's deadly shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The big-city mayor, who leads Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has often used his own money to push gun-control causes.
"We need every mayor to go to their congressman and their congresswoman and their senators and say we've got a problem in our city, and you're the one who is responsible if that problem continues," Bloomberg said.
He said the National Rifle Association and members of the gun lobby's ability to influence elections is "vastly overblown," noting that the NRA had tried to unseat Obama during the 2012 and failed. "I think you'll find they weren't terribly successful at doing that," he said, days before Obama's Inauguration.
Obama's plan faces uncertain prospects in Congress, where lawmakers have been hesitant to support tougher gun laws in recent years. The issue of gun control has been a major topic during the three-day meeting of the national mayors' organization.
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PEORIA - State Sen. David Koehler is proposing legislation that would legalize civil unions in Illinois and entitle unmarried couples - including those of the same sex - to the same protections and benefits currently afforded to traditional married couples.
"This is going to be controversial because people are going to try to get all other kinds of issues about the morality of being gay," said Koehler, D-Peoria, of the proposed Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act. "I hope that can stay to the sideline, because that's not the full intent of this bill. This bill is merely to recognize there are long-term committed relationships that right now do not have the law behind them."
In addition to benefiting same-sex couples, the bill also would allow civil unions among opposite-sex couples who do not want to be married. Benefits would allow couples to participate in health-care decisions for their partner, in decisions regarding the remains of a deceased partner and would give them legal backing to settle estates, among other rights.
Senate Bill 2436 was assigned to the Senate Judiciary Civil Law Committee on Wednesday. The bill first was introduced in the House last year by state Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, and although it has passed out of committee has not advanced for full floor debate.
Although New Jersey, Vermont and Connecticut all recognize civil unions, only Massachusetts provides for gay marriages.
The legislation has its detractors and likely will face a long battle. David Smith, executive director of the conservative group Illinois Family Institute, called it "just another attempt to pass counterfeit marriage in Illinois."
"Government recognition of homosexual relationships will undermine our society, our culture and our faith, and it will threaten religious liberty. It will pit gay rights against religious freedom," said Smith, whose group is actively lobbying against the bill.
The bill states that two adults who enter a civil union and are at least 18 years old are entitled to all of the same legal obligations, responsibilities, protections and benefits that are afforded to spouses. The state would certify the civil union, which also could be dissolved under existing laws, similar to divorce proceedings.
Illinois also would recognize same sex marriages and civil unions from other states as civil unions here, according to the legislation.
"This would allow couples and partners to engage in a civil union so they would have those same kinds of legal rights," Koehler said. "I think this helps to create more stability in relationships, which I think is something as a society we would want to promote."
The Family Institute spearheaded a petition drive in 2006 for a non-binding referendum asking voters if they wanted to amend the state Constitution to ban gay marriage. However, state election officials determined there were not enough valid signatures to take the issue to voters.
"If we can take some of the emotion out of this and deal with it as pretty straight-forward issues of justice and trying to extend rights, then I think we can be successful in this," Koehler said.


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Cab Driver Charged With Raping Passenger May Be Linked To Second Attack
Police have arrested a yellow cab driver who they say raped a passenger at knifepoint in Brooklyn last spring, and sources say he may be charged with a second attack that took place in the fall. Gurmeet Singh, 40, of Queens was arrested on Monday and now faces charges including rape, robbery, assault and sex abuse. Police say Singh picked up a 26-year-old woman on May 6 in Williamsburg and allegedly attacked her in the back seat of the cab. The woman, who had been drinking and fell asleep in the cab, woke up during the assault and found she had a knife to her throat. She was then abandoned in Downtown Manhattan, where she contacted police. Read More: NY1
Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
First, Mayor Bloomberg went after smoking in public places. Then trans-fats, salt and sugary drinks. Now Bloomberg — known for sipping fine wine and downing a cold beer from time to time — wants to crack down on alcohol sales to curb excessive drinking, according to a provocative planning document obtained by The Post. The city Health Department's far-reaching Partnership for a Healthier New York City initiatives proposes to slash the number of establishments in the city that sell booze. Community "transformation" grants provided under President Obama's health-care law would help bankroll the effort. Read More: New York Post
JFK Terminal 4 expansion on schedule
After a smooth takeoff, the $1.2 billion project to expand a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFKIAT) is on track — with no foreseeable delays to its arrival destination date. Improvements to Terminal 4 — the Delta Airlines terminal, which officials say serves 10 million international passengers a year — have been underway for the past year. Upon completion in May 2013, fliers can expect to see a new mechanized baggage screening system — which officials say will expedite the process — a centralized security system on the terminal's new fourth floor, as well as nine additional gates and a 1,500 linear foot passenger bridge to connect Terminals 2 and 4. Read More: Queens Courier
Beyoncé & Jay-Z's $1.5M in 'Blue' gifts
What to get the baby that has everything — even more. Beyoncé and Jay-Z's baby girl, Blue, has been lavished with more than $1.5 million in gifts, from a golden rocking horse to a "fantasy" crib fit for Cinderella. Blue Ivy Carter — the music world's smallest diva — left Lenox Hill Hospital yesterday in the arms of her famous parents for home, where she'll enjoy the priciest swag this side of Buckingham Palace. When she gets bigger, baby Blue will rock on a solid-gold, handmade horse from Japanese jeweler Ginza Tanaka that Jay-Z bought for $600,000. Read More: New York Post
Sparano to replace Schottenheimer as Jets offensive coordinator
Jets fans won't have offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to kick around anymore. The Jets announced last night Schottenheimer informed them he would not return for next season. It seems unlikely he would just walk away from the two years and $3.2 million left on his contract, so it appears the two sides worked out an agreement for him to walk away instead of getting fired. Former Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano, according to a source, will replace Schottenheimer. Read More: New York Post
Genovese wiseguy Anthony Romanello lucks out, cops to gambling rap with feds
A Genovese geezer hit the daily double Tuesday, pleading guilty to illegal gambling and winning permission from a federal judge to hang out with a mobbed-up pal who runs the famed Parkside Restaurant in Queens. Reputed capo Anthony (Rom) Romanello, 74, got lucky when a cooperating witness for the feds had a heart attack over the weekend while prosecutors were prepping him for the gangster's trial, which was to begin this week. Read More: Daily News


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Seventh Circuit Rules: States May Restrict Broadcasting of Publicly Sponsored Sporting Events
August 25th, 2011 by Alicia Calzada and tagged Access, copyright, first amendment, Legal, national press photographers association, news industry, newspapers, photography, photojournalism, sports, video, WIAA
In a long awaited ruling, the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday held that the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) was within its rights to grant exclusive broadcast rights to a private commercial vendor and to charge news organizations a fee for the right to broadcast games. The court held that such arrangements do not run afoul of the First Amendment.
Addressing only the issue of the broadcasting of the entire event, the court held that a sporting event was a "performance" and the right to broadcast an event in it's entirety is a proprietary right that a governmental entity may exercise. The case, WIAA v. Gannett began when The Appleton Post-Crescent, a Gannett newspaper, broadcasted several state championship football games online in their entirety, believing that it was within their First Amendment right to do so. The WIAA sued.
The court first rejected the notion that this case was a copyright case and then proceeded to make intellectual property analogies to the sporting events, repeatedly calling the sporting events "performances," (performances are protected by copyright) and comparing sporting events to concerts, plays and patents, all of which have protectable intellectual property elements. No court has ever held that a sporting event is a copyrightable performance, and this court did not either. A sporting event is not a work of authorship like a concert or a play. While the court fell short of explicitly holding that a sporting event has intellectual property rights, it basically upheld the assertion of intellectual-property-like rights by the WIAA (while insisting that no intellectual property rights were involved). The underlying basis for the court's holding was the Supreme Court case of Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard, which held that a television station misappropriated the property of a human cannonball performer by broadcasting the performance in its entirety.
A bright spot in the ruling is that the Seventh Circuit rejected the lower court's finding that sports reporting deserves less First Amendment protection than political reporting, and held that "[t]here is no basis for a rule that makes the press's right to coverage depend on the purported value of the object of their coverage." This is a win for the First Amendment.
Importantly, the ruling is limited to the single issue of whether or not the media has a First Amendment right to broadcast an entire event sponsored by a state actor. But the reasoning is broad enough to be interpreted to support a multitude of restrictions. For example, within the restrictions imposed by the WIAA under the exclusive broadcast agreement, news organizations don't have a right to "live blog" the events. The court took no issue with that aspect of the exclusive agreement, leaving the live blog restrictions in tact.
The court specifically didn't address issues in the conflict related to still photography, such as reprint sale restrictions, because they were not raised by the parties on appeal.
It will not be surprising if this case is followed by further restrictions on coverage of government events. The fear is that municipalities and sports associations alike may interpret this ruling to mean that a city can sponsor a public event and then restrict who may broadcast the event. This ruling could extend to restrictions on broadcasting parades, marathons, and city-sponsored festivals. Several years ago a Los Angeles District Court ruled that the city could not grant exclusive rights to an "official" television station.
The result is a disappointment to the NPPA, which joined several other news organizations in filing an amicus brief in support of the newspaper last year.
The entire Seventh Circuit ruling can be found here: WIAA v. Gannett Seventh Circuit Opinion, No. 10-2627
An extensive legal article that I wrote on the issue can be found here:
An earlier NPPA article on the conflict can be found here.
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Lightning Minor Pro Preview: Defensemen
The Syracuse Crunch will open training camp on September 28 with more talent than they originally expected. The NHL lockout forced the postponement of the Lightning's training camp and subsequently meant all prospects and young NHLers expected to start the year in Tampa will now start the year in the AHL.
Lost in this situation is the opportunity to have out-of-nowhere stories like Cory Conacher or Brett Connolly last year or perhaps most famously, Dmitri Afanasenkov in 2003.
While that's bad news for the Tampa Bay media and fans, it's good news for the Syracuse fan base, who at this point is like a kid with a birthday the day after Christmas. Not only does a championship team show up at their arena's front door, now they get a significant upgrade in talent to a team that was already expected to compete for a championship.
This is also good news for the Florida Everblades – another team coming off a championship – as they'll get the players pushed down from Syracuse.
The question is who?
Here's a look at the latest minor pro organizational roster of the Tampa Bay Lightning and some notes and predictions for each player, broken down by position.
Today: Defensemen
IN: Dmitry Korobov, Daniel Milan, Jared Nightingale, Matt Taormina
OUT: Mike Kostka, Scott Jackson
Keith Aulie, age 23, 6'6" 217 pounds
Acquired: Trade with Toronto
BP Rank: 14
Last season: Coming from Tampa Bay to Norfolk last year prior to the playoffs, a lot was expected of Aulie, though he could only manage limited minutes until injuries let him into the top-6. While he was shaky in Tampa and started out the same in Norfolk, his play improved each round of the playoffs and his stay-at-home, simple game was effective for what Norfolk needed. He finished with six points and plus-7 in 18 playoff games. He was not used as much as other defensemen who had been a part of the club longer, and Aulie saw special teams play only on the penalty kill.
This season: Aulie was a lock for Tampa because of waiver considerations, so in order to play for Syracuse he will have to be signed to an AHL contract. The Tampa Bay Times reported this is inevitable should the lockout extend into the Crunch's season. Aulie will be a big part of the Crunch, providing a defensive presence the team lost when Scott Jackson was not re-signed. Once the lockout is over, he'll return to Tampa, likely as a No.6, 7, or 8 defenseman.
Prediction: Syracuse until the lockout ends
Mark Barberio, age 22, 6'1" 200 pounds
Acquired: A 2008 sixth round pick by the Lightning out of QMJHL Moncton
BP Rank: 7
Last season: Barberio put a skyscraper on top of the solid foundation he built in his first professional year, finishing as the AHL's best defensemen and its top-scoring blueliner. He wasn't as dominant in the playoffs as his points-per-game average dropped from .77 in the regular season to .50. He also finished a team-worst minus-2 for Norfolk in the playoffs.
This season: Due to one-way contracts, it would have taken a colossal effort by Barberio to make the Lightning out of camp. He may end up at the Forum later in the season and is a big part of the Lightning's future. Offensive defensemen always seem to get the "bad defensively" tag, mostly because their offense overshadows their defense. Although Barberio has to keep working on his own-zone play, it's serviceable for the NHL. A few years ago Barberio would have been a lock to start the season in Tampa at his current development level, but under Yzerman's patient approach his opportunity will depend on 1) an open spot and 2) what player type is needed.
Prediction: Syracuse with a cup of coffee in Tampa by the end of the year
J. P. Cote, age 30, 6'2" 210 pounds
Acquired: AHL Contract
Last season: Cote was plucked out of the ECHL by Norfolk GM Julien BriseBois and Cote proved to be a steadying veteran influence on the young Ads club. The son of former Quebec Nordique Alain Cote tied for the team lead in playoff plus/minus with a plus-14 rating. Prior to the playoffs he accumulated 26 points for Norfolk in the regular season. His influence on and off the ice earned him a 2-year AHL contract with Syracuse this past offseason.
This season: Cote may wear a letter on his jersey this year for the Crunch. He is a coach's dream and is part of Jon Cooper's philosophy that teaching prospects comes from veteran players as much as the coaches. He could serve as the seventh or eighth defenseman on the club if needed.
Prediction: Syracuse
Radko Gudas, age 22, 6'0" 205 pounds
Acquired: A 2010 third round pick by the Lightning out of WHL Everett
BP Rank: 11
Last season: Gudas turned the proverbial corner in his development, becoming a rock in the defensive end for Norfolk. There are opponents who have permanent bruises from his hits and men around the world continue to try to emulate his playoff beard to no avail.
This season: Like Barberio, Gudas had an outside chance to make the Lightning out of camp, but there simply doesn't/didn't look to be room for him with all the one-way contracts held by Lightning defensemen. He will be a top pair defenseman for Syracuse to start the year, and he could be in Tampa at some point depending on a roster spot and if the Lightning need a defenseman with offense (Barberio) or physical own-zone play (Gudas). Like an opposing forward, keep your eyes on Gudas.
Prediction: Syracuse with a cup of coffee in Tampa by the end of the year
Dmitry Korobov, age 23, 6'3" 230 pounds
Acquired: Signed as a free agent out of KHL Minsk in August 2012
BP Rank: N/A (signed after supplementary rankings; will be included in first rankings of the new season)
Last season: Korobov, who was courted by the Lightning a year ago, signed with the Bolts after completing his second season with Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. Korobov, a promising young defenseman with good size and two-way ability, had 11 points in 39 games last year. He had three assists in seven games at the 2012 World Championships, playing against NHLers and other European professionals.
This season: Korobov was likely slated for Syracuse anyway, so starting the year in New York shouldn't be much of a disappointment for him. He is expected to be part of the Crunch top-7 and how much ice time he earns depends on how quickly he learns the North American game. His game should translate well to the smaller ice surface. It's hard to see a scenario where he falls to ECHL Florida, though Aulie moving to the Crunch could push him out of the top-6. Crunch coach Jon Cooper frequently played seven defensemen last season while with Norfolk.
Prediction: Syracuse
Charles Landry, age 21, 6'1" 187 pounds
Acquired: Signed as a free agent out of QMJHL Montreal in September 2010
BP Rank: Not ranked
Last season: After being injured by a Richard Panik hit in a drill during Lightning camp, Landry split his rookie pro season between AHL Norfolk (23 games) and ECHL Florida (36). Due to a depleted forward rank in Norfolk, he even saw some time at winger near the end of the year. He returned to Florida for the playoffs and helped the 'Blades win the Kelly Cup, notching a goal and two assists in 11 playoff games.
This season: Landry, one of only three right-handed defensemen as options for Syracuse (with Gudas and Nightingale), provides the Crunch with defensive depth and potential two-way ability. Step one for Landry will likely be solidifying his game in Florida. He should earn more minutes with the Everblades this year, especially if he's put on weight during the offseason. Landry had two more years on his entry-level contract and has to be entrenched in Syracuse by the time that ends in order to stay in the organization.
Prediction: Florida, with spot duty in Syracuse as needed
Daniel Milan, age 20, 6'2" 200
Acquired: Signed as a free agent out of QMJHL Moncton in September 2011
BP Rank: Not ranked
Last season: Milan was a surprise signing midway through training camp last year before being sent back to Moncton of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He was coming off an impressive rookie season for the Wildcats with 38 points in 68 games. Despite his offense, Lightning GM Steve Yzerman said he was signed for his defense. It's a good thing, because Milan's offense disappeared last year for Moncton and then for Victoriaville after he was traded prior to the playoffs. He only managed 11 points in 62 games, which had to be below expectations for the Lightning brass.
This season: Milan will go to Syracuse for camp, then likely start his professional career with ECHL Florida. He has good size and compete-level and should start the climb up the organizational ladder as the years progress. He's a determined individual who is willing to put in the work to make it happen.
Prediction: Florida, with emergency recalls to Syracuse if needed
Jared Nightingale, age 29, 6'3" 205 pounds
Acquired: AHL contract
Last season: Nightingale, a former tryout player for the Springfield Falcons under the Lightning's watch, played for AHL Connecticut last year, putting up 10 points and 110 penalty minutes. That was about half as much as the year before when he had 204 minutes of feeling shame in the box for the Whale/Wolfpack.
This season: Nightingale was signed by the Crunch to provide size, leadership, and some muscle should it be needed. The Lightning's philosophy is fighters have to be able to play regular shifts, but Nightingale is more of a defensive defenseman who can fight. With Aulie being sent down, that could push Nightingale to the press box as a healthy scratch. Right now Nightingale looks to be the eighth defenseman.
Prediction: Syracuse, though as a healthy scratch on occasion
Evan Oberg, age 24, 6'0" 191
Acquired: Trade with Florida
BP Rank: 21
Last season: Oberg traveled back and forth from Tampa to Norfolk so many times he was on every flight attendant's Christmas card list. The constant availability to Tampa proved valuable, however, as it allowed the Lightning to keep prized prospects Barberio and Gudas in Norfolk while Oberg, a seasoned minor-league pro, served as roster insurance for the Lightning. When he did play in Tampa, he played well. He played a simpler game with the Lightning than he did in Norfolk, when he was prone to errors veterans shouldn't make – especially in the playoffs.
This season: Oberg will start in Syracuse on a minor league contract to avoid waivers, but could find himself making trips to Tampa should the need arise after the lockout. A lot depends on his game and the developing games of Barberio and Gudas. Oberg is more of a do-it-all type who the Lightning don't mind having watch games from the pressbox, thereby leaving Barberio and Gudas on the ice in the AHL. His spot on the organizational ladder above Barberio and Gudas may be coming to an end.
Prediction: Syracuse, with spot duty in Tampa as needed
Matt Taormina, age 25, 5'9" 190 pounds
Acquired: Signed as an unrestricted free agent by the Lightning in July 2012
BP Rank: Graduated prospect
Last season: Taormina played 30 games for the New Jersey Devils, scoring a goal and adding six assists. He played 33 games for AHL Albany, putting up 16 points.
This season: Taormina is expected to help ease the loss of Mike Kostka, who signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs, especially on the power play. He is expected to sign a minor league contract to avoid waivers like Aulie and Oberg. He can also help fill the Marc-Andre Bergeron role in Tampa with his offensive abilities on the power play if needed. Taormina should thrive in Jon Cooper's system.
Prediction: Syracuse with spot duty in Tampa as needed
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Vandana (tiwari) Sharma-Black Fan Light Fixture Set Illumination and Visual Interest in a Space
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Interview with Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : The Inspiration was the Brain Cell and it's transmitters .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : Illumination of the key areas of a space and to keep a visual flow .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : To be bought by a light fixture manufacturer, so it can be produced .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : took about 2 weeks .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : It seemed unique to me. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : I would like this design to bought by a light fixture manufacturer .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : I challenged myself to explore into an unknown zone to create something unique. But it was pretty intuitive and effortless. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : May be, Karim Rashid .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : Public spaces' Interiors .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : It's shape and form is rather uniquely refreshing .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : As these light fixtures were a proposed design for a building named Black Fan. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : Sketch up and Photoshop. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : The double headed wall scones and unusual mix of materials like plastic with crystals .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : I conceived and created the design for the light fixtures and the cafe, and then for the final presentation purposes, cad drawings were produced by my partner Nataliya Demarco. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : 3D modeling in Google Sketchup was a breeze. My salute to technology .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : N/A .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : The Challenge remains....as it needs to be physically produced. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : Great feedback from local Architects and designers .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : I found out that I am good designer after all with universal appeal .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Vandana (tiwari) Sharma : NO .
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Good book, Kelvin, though not Hitch's best. One suspects he had a lot on his mind when writing it.
Currently reading "HITCH 22."
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@DavidW -- IMO, god is Not Great is the best place to start. In fact, if you have Audible, I highly recommend the audio version. It's unabridged, and read by Mr. Hitchens himself. Lovely.
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I've always liked his passion and unforgiving attacks on religion as a subject.
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Five Cars You'd Notice at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show
The annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit is the largest event of its kind, with journalists from around the world flocking in to see all the latest products from the global automakers. Of course, what makes this show so huge are the dozens and dozens of grocery getters and mommy cars on display. So just as you would, we cruised right past all that boring stuff and lasered in on the latest gearhead machinery.
The biggest news on the enthusiast scene in Detroit was the introduction of the 2015 Corvette Z06. Breaking tradition, this latest Z06 sports a supercharger, and while the output ratings are not yet formalized, Chevy is promising better than 625 horsepower when the car hits the showrooms early in 2015. Transmission choices include a seven-speed manual and the brand-new 8L90 eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters.
Sharing the stage with the Z06 was the latest factory Corvette racer, the C7.R, which will run in the new United SportsCar Championship and at LeMans. The high-tech racer has an all-new aluminum chassis that's 40 percent stiffer, as it steps up against its latest competition in endurance racing, the factory SRT Viper.
Speaking of Vipers: The centerpiece of the Chrysler exhibit was a stunning 2014 Viper GTS with hypnotizing satin gunmetal paint. Now in its fifth design generation, the Viper now boasts 640 hp from its venerable LA-based V10, and the car now sports enough convenience features to be considered almost civilized. Almost.
Fresh from its global media launch a month earlier, the 2015 Mustang was on display at Detroit in two versions, GT coupe and convertible. But to be honest, what really tugged at our heartstrings was the original 1962 Mustang I prototype. Priceless and irreplaceable, the petite two-place sports car seldom leaves its permanent nest at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, and it constantly drew an adoring crowd at the entrance of the Ford exhibit.


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Here's a rare treat for you - a pasta recipe! You might remember that I'm really not the biggest fan of pasta and tend to only cook it for my husband who is not as fussy as I am. Although tasty, I must admit that even this dish was mainly demolished by him and not me. Regardless, I wanted to try making a dairy-free (and vegan) lasagne and this turned out surprisingly well.
The trick is to use a lot of mushrooms for a hearty result. You could even use more than I did, up to, say 700 grams. Add flavour with capers, olives, sundried tomatoes and (dried or fresh) herbs and use wholemeal lasagne sheets for a nuttier flavour.
Mushroom Lasagne
(serves 4-6)
olive oil for the pan
1 onion, finely diced
1 clove garlic, grated
3 small carrots, finely diced
500g mixed mushrooms (button, shiitake, portobello), sliced
2 tins diced tomatoes
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons French capers
olives, sundried tomatoes, optional
olives, sundried tomatoes, optional
salt, pepper, to taste
1 teaspoon paprika
grated nutmeg
fresh or dried herbs (rosemary, thyme, oregano), optional
fresh or dried herbs (rosemary, thyme, oregano), optional
300-500ml vegetable stock
300g silken firm tofu
pepper to taste
2-3 tablespoons plain flour
100-150ml cold water
wholemeal lasagne sheets
1. Heat oil in a large pan and add onion, garlic and carrots. Cook for a few minutes, then add mushrooms. Cook for a further 3-4 minutes and add rest of the ingredients. Leave to simmer on low heat for about half an hour.
2. Bring vegetable stock to a boil in a medium sized pot. Use a hand blender to blend in the tofu. Season with pepper. Whisk flour with cold water and stir into the stock. Stir until the sauce thickens, then remove from the heat.
3. Preheat oven to 200C and grease a baking dish with olive oil.
4. To assemble the lasagne, spoon some of the tomato sauce on the bottom of the dish. Add a layer of lasagne sheets, then some of the white sauce, tomato sauce and more lasagne sheets. Continue for a few layers. Finish off with a layer of white sauce and tomato sauce. Bake for 40-45 minutes and leave to cool for at least half an hour before serving.


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New Fairfield football player runs for his life
New Fairfield star survived brush with death, but mistakes still haunt him
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NEW FAIRFIELD -- Joe Pacheco, the New Fairfield High School tailback whose dynamic running rejuvenated the program, spent Thanksgiving morning catching up with family, his attention drifting occasionally to the smartphone he was using to track his would-be coronation.
There was another New Fairfield running back piling up rushing yards at Rebels Stadium. Pacheco's yards. The ones that had transformed him from an unknown senior with zero varsity experience to the state's presumptive rushing champion, a lock to set the South-West Conference's single-season record provided he stayed healthy. And provided -- a much bigger if -- he stayed out of his own way.
Thanksgiving morning meant Pacheco failed.
Some 20 relatives had gathered at his grandparents' house -- many of them driving from Maryland -- to witness the crowning moment of a spectacular season before they cut into their turkey. Pacheco had amassed 2,001 rushing yards (tops in the state through Week 9), 21 rushing touchdowns (tied for fourth) and more broken tackles than opposing coaches care to count.
Then, needing 155 more yards -- a distance he can span in three carries -- to break a 30-year-old school record that would also serve as the new SWC mark, Pacheco fumbled. At the 1-yard line. A handful of players consumed alcohol before the Rebels' final practice. Pacheco owned the mistake.
It cost him the title, the record and a cherished win over a bitter rival. Memories can't be texted.
"I saw a picture of the team after the game," Pacheco says. "It really killed me that I wasn't in there."
New Fairfield athletic director Jay Greenberg confirmed this was a single misstep in an otherwise spotless season, calling Pacheco "a great kid." The New Fairfield coaches, who left him the option to attend the game but advised he stay home to avoid swarms of questions, remain hopeful Pacheco will play in college.
Though doubters will say this reeked of a return to Pacheco's past. Tackles hadn't stopped him, but a distaste for classes sure did. And when football was taken away, he found other highs. A move to Texas to be with his dad didn't help. A drug bust and a stint in juvenile detention soon followed.
The kid, not 18 for a couple more weeks, was always ticking toward self-destruction.
But not this season.
Not since the crash that gave him the scar, etched into his hairline where doctors removed a fragment of shattered skull and patched it with a swatch of metal.
Not with this support team, led by the former coach who put a roof over his head and a boot to his backside, the mother who knew she had to let go of her struggling son to get him back, and the honors student he started dating a year ago who convinced him he could make it in the classroom.
Pacheco still has the skull fragment, which doctors gave him as a reminder that only football was pronounced dead in that operating room. He proved that diagnosis wrong.
Now, denied history at its doorstep, Pacheco has more proving to do. Two seasons remain -- indoor and outdoor track -- to shatter records and shift perceptions.
"I let myself get off-guard," Pacheco says. "When I found out I couldn't play, it shattered me. (The record) was really my chance to show everyone that doubted me that I could be someone great."
The terrain is painful, but it isn't new. Joe Pacheco will once again run for his life.
Get home
At around 4 a.m., on July 24, 2011, Pacheco awakes to the drip-drip-dripping of rain inside his sister Samantha's uncovered convertible.
He and a friend had scored a bottle of booze and taken a joyride to Sail Harbor, one of New Fairfield's many lakeside neighborhoods with scenic views and swooping roads dotted with speed bumps.
Pacheco wasn't carrying so much as a learner's permit, nor did he have Sam's permission. She wouldn't know the car was gone. "Take it out, take it back, no damage done," Pacheco says with a knowing laugh.
What he thought to be rain was actually blood oozing from a gash on his forehead and pooling at his feet, the wound inflicted by the jagged frame of the windshield. He guesses that he was out for 45 seconds. Maybe a minute. His passenger is unharmed.
The car, a smashed hunk of Chrysler Sebring, is tangled in tree trunks some 20 feet from the road it was facing, having spun 180 degrees after skittering off the asphalt and swiping a skinny oak. The authorities would speak gravely of how Pacheco just missed a head-on collision with a telephone pole.
Pacheco had "floored it" to 60 mph into one of those steep bends over the second in a succession of speed bumps. He remembers the shhhhhh of the tires as they locked up on a patch of sand. He also recalls his initial, frenzied thoughts fueled by surging adrenaline.
The first: "How do I get Sam another car?"
The second, considering his rap sheet and the alcohol in his system: "Leave this mess before the cops get here. Get home."
A friend's house is nearby, though when he remembers his gory appearance, Pacheco decides that running the half-mile home is his only option.
And so, pressing a hand to the hole in his head as he tears through the moonlit woods, he runs.
Lots of bad decisions
Tracey Lobraico brought babies into the world at both ends of 1994: Samantha Lee, now a freshman at Central Connecticut State University, was born on Jan. 28; Joseph Anthony, Dec. 13.
She never married Jose Pacheco but she always had help. At first, she raised the children in Taunton, Mass., where they could easily visit their father. But when she moved them to Sherman, to live with her parents, and Jose's job was shipped to Plano, Texas, the visits dwindled.
Tracey worked day and night to give the children whatever they needed, but it wasn't easy. By age 13, Joe -- for whom she's always kept a football scrapbook -- was "running wild" on whatever defense she threw at him.
The marijuana use started early. In seventh grade. And as it continued in high school, where subpar grades were to blame for his condensed freshman season on the junior varsity, ideas about Joe swirled.
As one former teammate puts it, "He was always that kid your parents didn't let you hang out with."
Joe makes the distinction that parents didn't.
"I wasn't a bad kid," he said, "I made bad decisions. Parents didn't look at it that way. ... I felt like a lot of people were criticizing me."
Yet, rather than correct them -- or correct himself -- he fed into the persona, inking his right bicep that year with a favorite rap lyric: Only God Can Judge Me.
The law can, too.
And in Plano, where it was decided, after that tumultuous freshman year, Joe would spend the entirety of his sophomore year with Jose, the law did. Harshly.
Plano East is a big high school in a big city in the state where big is the only size that matters. As an outside linebacker on the JV (there was a better running back, a Division I prospect), Joe's speed and strength were employed to seal the edge for a change. He was exposed to a world-class training program and 2,000-seat stadiums.
The bigness made it easier to blend in. His distaste for books brought another early end to his season. Jose, a bodybuilder, would lift with his son during the day but leave him at night. It was, Joe admits, a bad mix.
"When he would leave for his night shifts, it was just a free-for-all," he said.
In Plano, Joe was busted for intent to sell marijuana, which landed him in a juvenile detention center for a month. Once out, he promptly violated his probation, earning him another month.
Back home, a friend, Dave Tharas, who had coached Joe in Pop Warner, pleaded with Tracey: Get him back here. We'll take care of him.
The plan -- to save Joe, to straighten him out before it would be too late -- was already in motion when the Sebring spun to a halt in the grove of trees that July morning.
`It killed me to let him go'
Once Dave Tharas knew Pacheco was going to make it back from the accident, he readied a pep talk to make him wish he hadn't.
"I got called by one of the football player's fathers. The first thing he told me was that (Joe) was OK," says Tharas, 37, a former Westchester County police officer who is training to become a state trooper. "The second thing was, `Don't kill him when you see him.' He wasn't exactly happy to see me when I showed up at the hospital. He was afraid for his own well-being."
Tharas said the real speech, what Pacheco heard through the bandages wrapped around his head, is not fit for print.
"I would say I'm more of a teddy bear," Tharas said. "Aggravated, I could become more of a mama bear, so to speak. More or less, when I saw him in the hospital, I was a mama bear. Just reiterating to him how lucky he is."
This would be a preview of life at Pacheco's latest address. Tharas had run New Fairfield's Pop Warner program with the same tough-love, fatherly approach for a decade, coaching Pacheco's middle-school team all the way to states one year.
He witnessed in Pacheco an inkling of greatness on both sides of the ball -- "he runs like a deer and a bull at the same time" -- and saw worthwhile traits off the field where others didn't.
Once you play for Tharas, you're family.
"My door is always open," he would tell his players. And with his daughter, Briana, away at college, that door was more open than ever for Pacheco. The offer was extended again.
"It killed me to let him go," said Tracey. "But it's what he needed."
Tharas knows all about growing up before you're ready. He and wife, Kelly, had Briana, 19, when they were 18. Ryan, a talented two-way lineman and one of Pacheco's closest friends, was born a year later.
"I had screwed up a couple of my opportunities as a football player," Tharas said. "I decided I didn't want that to happen to other young kids that I coached."
Pacheco stills sees plenty of Tracey, his grandparents and Sam when she's home. But his home -- for this past year and as many more as he'd like -- is with the Tharases.
There are what Tharas refers to as "bumps in the road," player and coach butting heads the same as they once did on the sideline, but old habits -- the worst ones -- do seem kicked.
"He's done extremely well," Tharas said. "He's walking the line a lot of us laid out for him. And if he steps six inches off, I'm here to kick his foot back on."
The Joe Pacheco show
New Fairfield High's third-year head coach, Anthony Fata, has two sons in the New Fairfield Pop Warner program. Throughout the stirring fall season, he was always coming home to the same questions:
"How did Joe, do? How many touchdowns, Dad?"
But over his trying, Pacheco-less first two seasons, it was Fata pestering Sam Pacheco at the gas station where she worked: "When are we getting your brother back? Is he coming back home?"
"Not to get him when I first got into this program was a big loss," said Fata. "I remember meeting him and seeing a couple workouts and thinking, `Wow, this kid's going to be something else.'"
Fata, too, recognized real change in Pacheco, from "just a kid not getting it," to one of the Rebels' resident elder statesmen, an intensely focused leader.
It was during a weight room session when the Rebels experienced one of those unseen moments that signals a change in a football program's DNA.
Sensing slackers in his midst, Pacheco suddenly halted his own workout, powered down the stereo and bounced a few colorful words off the walls.
"If one kid slacks, it makes the whole team slack," explained Pacheco, who served as the team's primary pre-game fire-breather. "Some kids aren't into the weight room as much as I am and it reflects. You see it in the games."
Pacheco -- at a powerful 5-foot-10 and 195 pounds -- has developed a reputation for show-stopping workouts, learned in Texas and refined here, in two-hour nightly sessions at Prime Time Fitness when he couldn't do much else.
While not cleared for action in time for his junior season (the doctors were monitoring him for symptoms of post-concussion syndrome), Pacheco refused to accept the initial prognosis that he had played his last game.
"During that season, I made it my mission to play senior year," the teen said.
In the film room, the Rebels gathered weekly for re-airings of what Fata dubbed "The Joe Pacheco Show" after Pacheco torched Bunnell for 356 yards and four scores in Week 3.
A year's worth of work was visible on the screen. They saw the sharp cuts. They saw the uncanny vision, gleaned from the hours Pacheco spent watching pro and college games during his recovery.
And they saw speed he didn't have as a freshman, his all-important 40-yard dash time honed to 4.52 seconds (down from 4.8 seconds) with a full, uninterrupted year of track under his belt.
"He just runs viciously," said Fata. "He runs with a sense that he's not going to be stopped. ... We look at each other as coaches and we're just in amazement. You go, `Wow, how did he see that crease? Wow, did you see that first step?' It's just every week there's something (new) you see."
A different path
After the crash more than a year ago, Tracey considered a roadside memorial to what almost happened -- Thank God you're alive, Joey -- so he wouldn't lose sight of his tangle with near-tragedy.
She decided the keepsake from Danbury Hospital, where he was sent for a six-hour emergency surgery after an MRI revealed his skull fracture, was far more effective.
The skull fragment resembles a piece to a jigsaw puzzle, indented in five places where three holes were drilled. It's about two inches in diameter and a quarter-inch thick. Viewing it from the side reveals the bony ridge that put near-fatal pressure on Pacheco's brain.
Tracey had the fragment shellacked and Pacheco will hang it from his rear-view mirror one day, but for now it mostly stays tucked away -- a reminder not just of the crash, but of what preceded it.
"I feel like (my issues were) more self-inflicted," he said in reflection. "I'm a leader. I take blame (for them)."
Presented with the crash-as-cure, hindsight question -- would he be here? -- Pacheco lets a few introspective seconds go before emerging with an answer: No, it wasn't quite a blessing wrapped in a bloody T-shirt. He does have his metal plate to think about. But the ordeal probably did kick him into gear.
"I might not be on this same path," he said.
Today, in the aftermath of his latest stumble, Pacheco's path is still pointed in a positive direction.
While he will never surpass the rushing record of Rich Comizio, who totaled a then-state record of 2,156 yards in 1982, Pacheco has turned his sights on Comizio's school record in the 100-yard dash.
He told him as much when, upon seeing a highlight video, Comizio invited Pacheco to his Greenwich home last week.
Comizio's time is 10.9 seconds. Pacheco's personal best is 11.3. The difference might be doable, Pacheco thinks. And perhaps the dash -- a straight line to glory -- is the ending that fits.
On the football field, Pacheco's carries -- sidewinding bursts that are equal parts brute force and finesse -- imitate life.
On the track, there are no tackles to evade. Just a start and a finish and easy math for measuring greatness.
After a false start, Joe Pacheco is ready to make another run at it.
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Like the blues artists he loved, Green had his own share of despair. A somewhat fragile soul, drugs didn't help matters. His drug of choice was LSD. Turned onto the drug by the infamous Grateful Dead comrade, Owsley Stanley, while playing a date in San Francisco, the Mac were initially hesitant, but eventually dove in head first with Green talking to it like a fish to water. Peter found acid, then found God just as Roky Erickson from the 13 th Elevtors or Syd Barret from the Floyds.
While on tour to promote their third album, 'Then Play On,' things came to a head. "Peter took some more drugs," said Mick Fleetwood in the BBC documentary 'Man Of The World.' "And never really came back from that." Peter was met by a group of people Fleetwood referred to as "the German Jet Set," who whisked Green away to a party following their show.
"It was a hippie commune sort of thing," said Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer. "We arrived there, and Dennis Keane (road manager) comes up to me shaking and says, 'It's so weird, don't go down there. Pete is weirding out big time and the vibes are just horrible.'" Green was already set to leave the band, but this was, as Fleetwood put it, "the final nail in the coffin." Friends say Green was never the same after the Munich incident.
Green left Fleetwood Mac in 1970 and stepped out of the spotlight, but his behavior grew even more erratic while his drug use continued. After a particularly explosive acid trip, Peter said he "started acting strange…strange things started happening." His brother Len added, "he was hearing voices telling him to do nasty things." He began giving his guitars and his money away, and took on a series of odd jobs, including gravedigger. During these years, he spent time in various psychiatric hospitals, at times undergoing electro-shock therapy.
By the mid-'70s, as Fleetwood Mac entered a new, very prosperous era. New fans began to dig through older Mac recordings, and the royalty checks really began to roll in. Green wanted no part of his past, including the money, while trying to lead his new simple life. Frustrated, Green contacted a former Fleetwood Mac manager about his financials. "I phoned up and asked him if he had any money," said Green in 'Man Of The World.' "And he said, 'The accountant's got your money.'"
So in January of 1977, armed with a shotgun he had smuggled in from a trip to Canada, he paid his accountant, David Simmons, a visit and threatened to shoot him. However, the twist here is that Green was not upset about lack of money, but rather was distraught because the royalty checks kept coming. The police were called and Green was arrested and thrown in jail. "I was quite happy in prison, so I thought I'd be alright," Green said. "But they said, 'You failed the psychiatrist test.'"
Green was committed to a mental institution and placed under heavy sedation. He eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia, but after a period of time was released to live with his family, the doctors believing the environment of the hospital was more detrimental than it was helpful.


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Leitrim has announced its own innovative idea to promote the county for the Gathering 2013 by hosting a live Trad session webcast on Tuesday 20th November.
They plan to reach out and interact with the overseas community giving them a taste of Leitrim's traditional music and cultural wealth in their living rooms. Leitrim aims to encourage them to visit Leitrim in 2013 as part of The Gathering and to celebrate Carrick on Shannon's 400th Anniversary.
The event will be broadcast from The Dock in Carrick on Shannon. Musicians performing will include Eleanor Shanley, Donal Lunny, John Carty, and Seamus Begley supported by a host of Leitrim musicians, with former eurovision winner and well known traditional music star Charlie McGettigan acting as host for the evening.
Commenting on the event, Sinead McDermott, Leitrim Tourism said, "We are thrilled to announce this fantastic initiative to promote Leitrim to overseas visitors around the world. It is a unique opportunity to reach out and bring a taste of Leitrim music and culture right into people's living rooms and to remind people how easy it is to access Leitrim from overseas through Ireland West Airport.
"Not only that but as an interactive experience people logging on can take part in the session and also be in with a chance of winning a fantastic holiday to Leitrim in 2013 including flights and accommodation."
Emphasising that this event isn't just for overseas viewers, Charlie McGettigan, Chairperson of Leitrim Gathering explained, "We are encouraging everyone associated with Leitrim to log on and take part, remember every single person living in Leitrim or in the surrounding area can help promote this wonderful event and we encourage people to share these details with their overseas friends via facebook, twitter, websites, email even an old style traditional letter! Everybody can help make Leitrim a must see location for The Gathering and to celebrate Carrick on Shannon 400 in 2013."
The website www.irelandwesttrad.com will not only host live music but will also showcase all the Leitrim attractions and events currently involved with Leitrim Tourism including the upcoming Leitrim Roots Festival which takes place in September 2013.
In advance of the live trad session, Leitrim Tourism are encouraging people to visit the website and register their details and be in with a chance to win a dream holiday to Leitrim with a full package of free flights, overnight 5 star accommodation, river cruises and car hire. The winning entry will be announced live during the webcast on November 20th.
The webcast, a collaboration between Ireland West Airport and Leitrim Tourism, the live Trad Session, will take place between 8pm and 10pm GMT and can be viewed on www.irelandwesttrad.com.
Follow the latest news on Irelandwesttrad on Facebook.
For further information visit the Carrick on Shannon 400 website.


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Calgary, AB – The Western Hockey League announced today the 2011-12 WHL Eastern Conference First and Second All-Star Teams and the Eastern Conference Finalists for the 2012 WHL Awards. The WHL Player of the Year finalists will be announced on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012. The winners of these awards along with the WHL Player of the Year will be announced at the 2012 WHL Awards Luncheon in Calgary, Alberta on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012.
**The WHL will announce the Western Conference All-Stars and Awards Finalists tomorrow Thursday, March 22nd at a press conference in Kamloops launching the 2012 WHL Playoffs.
Watch tomorrow's press conference LIVE on www.WHL.ca
The WHL Eastern Conference All-Star Teams are as follows:
Goaltender – Tyler Bunz (St. Albert, AB), Medicine Hat Tigers
Defenceman – Alex Petrovic (Edmonton, AB), Red Deer Rebels
Defenceman – Ryan Pulock (Dauphin, MB), Brandon Wheat Kings
Forward – Emerson Etem (Long Beach, CA), Medicine Hat Tigers*
Forward – Mark Stone (Winnipeg, MB), Brandon Wheat Kings*
Forward – Jordan Weal (North Vancouver, BC), Regina Pats
Goaltender – Nathan Lieuwen (Abottsford, BC), Kootenay Ice
Defenceman – Mark Pysyk (Sherwood Park, AB), Edmonton Oil Kings
Defenceman – Brandon Davidson (Taber, AB), Regina Pats
Forward – Michael St. Croix (Winnipeg, MB), Edmonton Oil Kings
Forward – Max Reinhart (Vancouver, BC), Kootenay Ice
Forward – Michael Ferland (Brandon, MB), Brandon Wheat Kings
*-Indicates unanimous selection
The WHL announced the Eastern Conference Finalists in the following categories.
WHL Rookie of the Year, Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy
Eastern Conference – Sam Reinhart (Vancouver, BC), Kootenay Ice
WHL Goaltender of the Year, Del Wilson Trophy
Eastern Conference – Tyler Bunz (St. Albert, AB), Medicine Hat Tigers
WHL Defenceman of the Year, Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy
Eastern Conference – Alex Petrovic (Edmonton, AB), Red Deer Rebels
WHL Most Sportsmanlike Player of the Year, Brad Hornung Trophy
Eastern Conference – Mark Stone (Winnipeg, MB), Brandon Wheat Kings
WHL Scholastic Player of the Year, Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Memorial Trophy
Eastern Conference – Jimmy Bubnick (Saskatoon, SK), Calgary Hitmen
WHL Coach of the Year, Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy
Eastern Conference – Pat Conacher, Regina Pats
WHL Executive of the Year, Lloyd Saunders Memorial Trophy
Eastern Conference – Bob Green, Edmonton Oil Kings
WHL Humanitarian of the Year, Doug Wickenheiser Memorial Trophy
Eastern Conference – Taylor Vause (Calgary, AB), Swift Current Broncos
WHL Marketing / Business Award
Eastern Conference – Moose Jaw Warriors
WHL Regular Season Champions, Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy
Edmonton Oil Kings: GP – 72 W – 50 L – 15 OTL – 3 SL – 4 Pts – 107
WHL Top Scorer – Bob Clarke Trophy
Brendan Shinnimin – (Winnipeg, MB) Tri-City Americans
GP – 69 G – 58 A – 76 Pts – 134 PIM – 82


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Temperature for March 1964
In March 1964 the average high temperature in Unalakleet, AK was 0.0°F, and this was 18.9°F cooler than the average of 18.9°F. The hottest day in March 1964 was 0 March when the temperature reached 0.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in March is 3.2°F and in 1964 the average overnight temperature was 3.2°F cooler at 0.0°F.


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Hopefully after today's Web Letter, you all have Liberty Wool on the brain...Liberty Wool knits up at 5 stitches to the inch on a US7, making it the perfect machine-washable worsted weight yarn, available in 16 colors and 5 prints. In fact, one of our stores now stocks it as their go-to washable standard! The icing on the cake, however, is the prints. Liberty Prints are stunning multicolored versions that knit up in a rainbow of stripes. The colors range from fin to sophisticated (my favorite is Rainforest, our newest colorway).
Have you seen this gorgeous scarf in Liberty Print? Our friends at Patternfish sent over the link, and I love it! The notches on the edge have a sort of architectural effect, hence the name, "Aldred Scarf", named after the Aldred Building in Montreal, Canada. See the resemblance?
Our friends over at A Really Good Yarn knit up two versions!
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33 comments:
- Headhunter said...
"It's all written down in Lewisham's guidelines for town centres, it just needs developers to stick to them."
...and of course it takes the council to actually enforce rules it itself puts in place. Currently they rarely seem to bother.
- 15 March 2011 at 09:43
- Anonymous said...
And Ladywell Soc pushing for that chunk of Ladywell Rd to be included in the new conservation area, despite the deterioration that had already taken place, has helped to give the planning team more clout with developers.
Next on my wish list for improving the road would be for Corals to do the decent thing and spend money on a good quality renovation of the flats above their premises - it's scandalous the way they have just left them to rot.
Then persuading the owner of the Snack Bar to invest a bit in his property, perhaps adding a separate entrance to the upstairs flat so he can let out the downstairs. Long overdue.
- 15 March 2011 at 10:25
- Headhunter said...
Brockley Road near the station is part of the Brockley conservation area isn't it? Yet just about every shop has metal shutters and neon signs and planners do nothing.... Why would the planners have more concern to enforce a new conservation area in Ladywell and not existing conservation areas?
BTW anyone know what's going on with the pub conversion on Friendly Street? The developer ripped off all the original tiling and replaced the windows with uPVC (in direct contravention of the planning permission that was granted). It was reported here that they were being forced to replace the tiles and windows in comliance with permission they were granted and conservation area guidelines, yet at the moment the building remains stripped back...
- 15 March 2011 at 10:40
- Brockley Nick said...
@HH - re: that (ex) pub, coincidentally I met someone who lives there recently. It's a poor conversion job all round and there's no sign of them putting the tiles back, although they've had the cheek to stick up an advert for their company on the front of the building. Shoddy. Very shoddy.
- 15 March 2011 at 10:44
- Anonymous said...
I'm an eternal optimist, Headhunter! Is the section of Brockley Rd by the station in the conservation area? I know the bit in Ladywell ward (ie St Andrews to Adelaide Ave) isn't (although St Andrews is, I think).
- 15 March 2011 at 10:45
- Brockley Nick said...
@Sue, yes, it is.
- 15 March 2011 at 10:46
- Anonymous said...
Decent paint job.Is it the light because it looks like theres loads of paint on the pavement.
- 15 March 2011 at 11:03
- Anonymous said...
Honor Oak has plenty of neon plastic signs courtesy of upgrades by the mini-marts/ off licences. UGLY and I refuse to shop in them anymore for being visually offensive.
- 15 March 2011 at 12:11
- MikeSE13 said...
I believe thats what clean paving stones look like...
- 15 March 2011 at 12:17
- Ed CPZ said...
Non-compliance has the further effect of introducing a positive feedback system; obvious locally in both driving/parking behaviour and the state of the High Street.
- 15 March 2011 at 12:22
- Anonymous said...
The council only enforces the rules if there is money in it - for the council. Failing that, they have to be lobbied (constantly) by residents - and councillors themselves. It is not enough to just come on a site like this and moan. Get off moaning, lobby, change.
Nick, you are spot on, and you are not just a voice in the wilderness - well done for lobbying.
- 15 March 2011 at 13:47
- patrick1971 said...
I was scrolling down the screen and thinking, "I'm sure that's not the photo I sent Nick!"
- 15 March 2011 at 14:11
- Headhunter said...
OMG, is that pub conversion on Friendly St finished? I assumed it had gone on hold. It looks like they haven't even finished rendering the outside properly! It just looks like unfinished cement! What an eyesore they have produced....
I would like to be an eternal optimist and it's nice to see that this shop in Ladywell has been upgraded properly but the council does not seem to actually ever follow up on things in the planning realm... Forever setting up new conservation areas (Ladywell) without actually bothering much with the existing ones.
- 15 March 2011 at 15:23
- Anonymous said...
@Headhunter I sympathise with your concerns over lack of enforcement of conservation area infringements - I believe there are only one or two officers in the planning conservation team now, and given they have to look at every planning app in conservation areas across Lewisham, as well as related enforcement issues, they are quite thinly stretched. For this very reason, however, Lewisham is not 'forever setting up new conservation areas' - Ladywell Soc fought for years to get the new conservation area set up, and it was only after many years of delays that the Council agreed to it, and then they were keen to keep the area fairly small due to lack of staff to enforce it.
- 15 March 2011 at 18:19
- Anonymous said...
Over the years at various listed buildings in Lewisham alterations have taken place without permission and to be blunt most the public don't give a toss.
By the time the council are aware of the changes it can be 2-3 years after the event.
The managers of a publicly owned building which they knew was Grade 2 listed decided to rip out the original windows without permission.
That was stopped by a passing member of the public and the sash windows were re-installed but windows that were changed to UPVC a few years earlier remain in place.
- 15 March 2011 at 18:43
- Anonymous said...
UPVC!!!! *scream*
- 15 March 2011 at 20:13
- Anonymous said...
I think the Council needs need people. Most of the people there have been sitting on their fat asses for decades.
I would like to see a petition to change the planning department and enforcement office for poor or non existing performance
- 16 March 2011 at 08:35
- rolls eyes said...
yet another opinion plucked from the ether, well done you.
- 16 March 2011 at 09:09
- Anonymous said...
So..doesn't anyone know what the shop is to become or is it a secret?
- 16 March 2011 at 11:59
- Anonymous said...
Mungley's Fried Asparagus
- 16 March 2011 at 12:36
- Anonymous said...
So the question is who do the people at the Council respond to.
In any organization there should be benchmarks and accountability.
Hoping in the localization act to launch first referendum on Council tax reduction fully financed by reduction of Council headcounts.
Secund one performance based carrer with local residents and Councillors involved in their evaluation.
- 16 March 2011 at 13:08
- perplexed said...
No, the question is, what are you on about, anon?
- 16 March 2011 at 13:23
- Eyes still rolling here said...
- You assume that staff apraisals are not done. On what basis?
- Do you believe that the headcount is too large? on what basis? Or that they are paid too much? on what basis?
- Are you Dyslexic?
- referendum? where every resident gets a vote? like an election? Great idea, wonder if it will catch on.
- 16 March 2011 at 13:27
- Mezzer said...
It's ironic that whilst bemoaning accountability, the posts are made as an anon.
- 16 March 2011 at 14:30
- Anonymous said...
Theres loads of UPVC Windows in the conservation area.
- 16 March 2011 at 16:02
- Anonymous said...
@roll eyes yes I am dislexic you racist fat arse. Do you think dislexic should be allowed to write on blogs?
I bet you have had a cousy and secure (do nothing job) at Council.
I speak because I have lived many years in Lewisham, and had few wxperiences.with the Council to tell you most of people there are over paid and for doing nothing.
They only succesful thing they have managed to. Do is building themselved a nice new headquarter. However, shop fronts, and parkings are too difficult and expensive to pursue.it is time for fresh air at the Council, you in front of the line expensive
- 16 March 2011 at 17:47
- Anonymous said...
@roll eyes yes I am dislexic you racist fat arse. Do you think dislexic should be allowed to write on blogs?
I bet you have had a cousy and secure (do nothing job) at Council.
I speak because I have lived many years in Lewisham, and had few wxperiences.with the Council to tell you most of people there are over paid and for doing nothing.
They only succesful thing they have managed to. Do is building themselved a nice new headquarter. However, shop fronts, and parkings are too difficult and expensive to pursue.it is time for fresh air at the Council, you in front of the line expensive
- 16 March 2011 at 17:47
- Eyes rolling while drinking a cup of coffee said...
Gesus! Relacks! I actually have a jolly nice job in the private sector, £55k in case you're wondering. I don't believe that public sector workers are uniformly useless or living high on the hog. No idea what race you are, is that relevant? My parents were immigrants. Looks like the wheels are falling off your argument.
- 16 March 2011 at 17:56
- Anonymous said...
I heard from a member of staff at Geddes that it was going to be a second hand bookshop! Lovely but not sure that would do well.
- 17 March 2011 at 08:14
- Pete said...
Well my father in law is a second hand book obsessive and comes to stay with us nearly every week. He could probably keep this shop going on his own!
- 17 March 2011 at 10:58
- RosieH said...
The refurb has been done really well and I've been waiting to see what it would house. A bookshop would be great.
- 20 May 2011 at 14:18
- Brockley Nick said...
Unless it's a hobby business, I don't see how this survive as a book shop. Bookshops are struggling anyway, and this is too small to be a really good specialist book shop, surely?
- 20 May 2011 at 14:21
- Anonymous said...
Does anyone know if there has been much interest in the old Nightwatch property?
I run a very small event organising business and would be interested. It's a toss up between building an office in my garden or finding somewhere small, cheap, nice and local to Ladywell. This seems to fit the bill nicely.
- 22 May 2011 at 11:06


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Several homes in the Ravenhurst subdivision in Neosho were heavily damaged, but no major injuries or deaths have been reported.
At about 2 p.m. Monday, an unconfirmed small tornado or microburst hit the Neosho area.
The Pump N' Pantry convenience store was destroyed by the storm. Law enforcement officials said store personnel and customers suffered minor injuries. Those in the store sought shelter in one of the coolers right before the storm hit.
Several homes in the Ravenhurst subdivision in Neosho were heavily damaged, but no major injuries or deaths have been reported.
The houses at 397 Ravenwood Circle, 401 Ravenwood Circle, 417 Ravenwood Circle and 445 Ravenwood Circle all had heavy damage from the storm. Damage could be seen at other homes, some with windows missing and others with shingles off roofs or holes in siding.
Rick and Tina Douglas live at 445 Ravenwood Circle. Their home suffered major damage, and Rick Douglas called it a total loss.
Rick Douglas was at home when the storm hit. He said he was watching TV when he looked outside his window and saw the trampoline in the backyard lift off the ground and fly through the air. He was not injured during the storm.
That's when he ran down the hallway to the bathroom, jumped in the bathtub and sought shelter, he said. The roof is near gone from the house, and the front wall leading to a child's bedroom is almost entirely missing.
Lawrence and Christine Evans live at 397 Ravenwood Circle, and moved to Neosho from Arizona in the past year.
The garage of the home is destroyed, and the couple's truck was flipped on its side. The living structure of the home suffered damage, and water is leaking inside.
Lawrence was home at the time of the storm, and jumped under the bed to seek shelter with his dog. He was not injured.
All of those at home during the storm said they did not hear storm sirens and had no warning until the storm hit.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The Penn State board of trustees chairwoman who led the board's efforts to reform university governance and increase transparency after the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal says she won't run for another term.
Karen Peetz says she will remain on the board but will be busy with a new job at Bank of New York Mellon.
Penn State made the announcement Tuesday, days after the bank made Peetz its president effective Jan. 1.
Peetz has been a Penn State trustee since 2010 and took over as chairwoman this past January, not long after Sandusky was arrested.
Sandusky is a former Penn State football assistant coach. He was convicted this summer of abusing several boys but maintains his innocence.
The NCAA levied unprecedented sanctions against the university's football program.


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Bachmann Says She's Not Going Away
MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — Retiring U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann says she isn't going away; she's "just going to a different perch."
The Republican gave the keynote address Friday night during the 6th Congressional District's GOP convention in Monticello. Delegates are expected to endorse their preferred successor Saturday.
The St. Cloud Times reports that Bachmann told the crowd she rarely struggled with a vote in Congress because she knew herself and her district.
Fellow politicians and supporters praised her work, saying she'd be missed.
Bachmann is a leading figure in the tea party movement. She announced last May that her fourth term in Congress would be her last, choosing to leave on her own terms after an 18-month period in which her presidential bid collapsed and she barely managed to retain her House seat.