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There was no bigger story this week than the MLS arrival of Thierry Henry, but you already knew that. And you probably also know that Henry – who appeared Thursday for the first time at a press conference at Red Bull Arena – left fans wanting when it was learned he'll travel this weekend but won't suit up for the Red Bulls against Columbus.
Talk about a magic act. Make a world-class player appear, but then leave him behind the curtain? Of course, he'll be playing soon enough, but The Weekender couldn't help wondering what other magic tricks are out there this weekend to discover.
New York Red Bulls at Columbus Crew (Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET, Direct Kick)
The disappearing act is magic's most deceptive trick. But that's just what fans got from their new hero Henry, who won't fill out the roster in the marquee matchup of the weekend. Henry's understandably slated to make his debut next week in a friendly against Tottenham, meaning the Red Bulls will have to face the Crew for Eastern Conference bragging rights with – sigh – the date they actually brought to the dance. And that's been more than good enough for Hans Backe's boys, but remember that 3-1 hurting the Crew put on back at Red Bull Arena in May? The Red Bulls certainly do.
Tottenham Hotspur at San Jose Earthquakes (Saturday, 4 p.m. ET, ESPN)
The toughest magic trick in San Jose would be making tickets to this one appear out of thin air. Getting into Buck Shaw Stadium for this afternoon tilt has proven wonderfully tough, thanks to Bay Area fans furiously scooping up tickets in anticipation for one of the summer's most underrated friendlies. Fewer than 100 tickets remained on Friday morning for this match, which is big enough, in fact, for ESPN to swoop in, drop some video trucks on the lawn and beam it out on the mother ship.
Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas (Saturday, 8:30 p.m. ET, Direct Kick)
Want some scoring magic? Look no further than Jeff Cunningham, who has won the Golden Boot for both clubs in this matchup and is still the only player to win the award for two different sides. But even a red-hot Cunningham (if, in fact, he were red-hot) might not help against this RSL defense, which hasn't allowed a goal since Brigham Young's boys broke ground in Salt Lake City. This is the premier matchup out West and would be the game of the weekend if not for Crew-RBNY, with both FCD and RSL carrying impressive unbeaten streaks into Pizza Hut Park.
At the Theater: Inception
The trailers for this new Christopher Nolan mindbender made The Weekender a little irritated, and we weren't alone. The Atlantic recently ran a poll asking readers if the foghorn-laden music from the film's trailers was more annoying than a vuvuzela: the vuvuzela defended its honor, predictably. Evidently the latest from the director of The Dark Knight and Memento is all about dream invasion and has something to do with Leonardo DiCaprio, but let's be real. The effects seem like pure blockbuster magic. It's been a sleepy summer at the box office, and this one could at least provide a wake-up call for what popcorn flicks should look like.
Bookmark: No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
The magic act here? Simply surviving one of the most devastating climbing accidents in recent memory. Released late last month, this book from New York Times reporter Graham Bowley chronicles the lives and untimely deaths of 11 climbers in August 2008 on none other than K2, the deadliest mountain in the world. Adventure books are a dime a dozen in an era when everyone's looking to keep up with Jon Krakauer, but this one is worth its salt.
In Concert: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago)
There is no better reappearing act this weekend than this one, as Jon Spencer takes the stage on Saturday at Union Park. There was no one better at grimy blues-rock-punk in the 1990s and early aughts, but where have they gone? They've been working on side projects and rarely touring as a group since 2004, the last time they released a studio album. Festivals like Pitchfork are rarely about the headliners – Modest Mouse and LCD Soundsystem, in this case – and more about who rocked the undercard. These guys are proven contenders. Get there if you can.


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Bachchans raise Rs.2.5 million for charity
Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan
The Bachchan clan raised a whopping Rs.25 lakh (Rs.2.5 million) for a charity through sale of special paintings, based on interpretations of Amitabh Bachchan, and a book, which was unveiled to mark the superstar's 70th birthday.On Amitabh's 70th birthday celebrations in October 2012, a special art exhibition was held with 70 paintings from leading artists from all over India. A book titled "B70", commemorating the special paintings, was also launched.The proceeds from the sale was Saturday given to charity organisation Plan India for their Girl Child Campaign, it was announced in the presence of Amitabh, Jaya, Abhishek and Aishwarya."Whatever we have got after selling all the books, has been given to Plan India. In future, no matter how many books are sold, after deducting the tax, the entire money will be given to Plan India," Jaya told reporters at Bachchans' office Janak.Granddaughter Aaradhya was missing from the event."I was just telling Aishwarya it didn't occur to me before, we would have got Aaradhya and she would have given the cheque," said Jaya.Amitabh says he and his wife Jaya have never believed in discrimination."I have always believed there is no difference between a male and female child. I have said it on many forums, and I say it here again. I have a son and a daughter and whatever little we have, will be equally divided," he said."That is my personal belief and that is the belief of Jaya too. I feel we never had any discrimination between a girl child or a boy. They have equal place in our lives," added Amitabh.They have a daughter named Shweta Nanda, and their son Abhishek is a popular actor.Amitabh's birthday on October 11 has been declared as International Day of the Girl Child by the United Nations. However, Abhishek says children should be loved and taken care of always - irrespective of any day."Our family feels that there should not be just one day we should celebrate as Girl Child Day. It is a good thing that October 11 will be for the girl child, but we feel they should be loved and taken care of everyday," said Abhishek.Aishwarya, who has scaled immense success in her field, said: "It is the birthright of every child to be enabled and empowered in life... we collectively feel attention needs to be given to every child irrespective of what gender it belongs to."Click on, for exclusive snaps from Bachchans' press conference.© Varinder Chawla

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Before & After: Kim's East-to-West Kitchen Remodel
In the fall of 2008 Kim Johnson, co-author of the popular blog Desire to Inspire, remodeled her kitchen in collaboration with Greentea Design, a Toronto-based company. Greentea Design carries a very unique line of Asian-inspired cabinetry, which served as the the design inspiration for the whole remodel. The end result is pretty stunning. See below for more:
Kim chronicles the entire remodel process on her blog, but you can also read details on the Planning, Demolition and Installation, and the Finished Kitchen on Greentea's company blog. The total cost for the renovation start to finish was $32,110. A detailed breakdown can be found here.
Related: How Much Did Your Kitchen Renovation Cost?
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GREENVILLE, Ill.-- The GC Baseball team could not top Webster and fell 6-1 to the SLIAC Powerhouse.
The game was tied at 0-0 until the third inning when Webster earned two runs to get on the scoreboard. The Gorlocks added another run in the fourth, two more in the fifth, and a final run in the eighth to secure the 6-1 win. Greenville's only run came in the seventh inning when Cole Lawson rounded home plate.
GC finished the game with 5 hits in their 31 at bats. Tyler Pilcher hit a double for the Panthers that sent Lawson home in the bottom of the seventh. Pilcher had Greenville's only RBI in the game.
Derek Reckmann was credited with the loss. He faced 38 batters and allowed 8 hits and 6 runs in the 7.2 innings he pitched. CJ Opp and Jason Collingwood were on the mound for GC. Opp faced 2 batters and allowed 1 hit and Collingwood faced 3 and did not allow any hits.
The Panthers record now stands at 8-19 (5-11 SLIAC). The team will play again on Thursday, April 25 in a double-header at Prinicipa.


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For Craven County residents Bobby and Ava Vincent, the end of the federal government shutdown meant a chance to keep their plans for a little camping in the Croatan National Forest.
For Craven County residents Bobby and Ava Vincent, the end of the federal government shutdown meant a chance to keep their plans for a little camping in the Croatan National Forest.
The couple headed to Cedar Point Recreation area campsite off the White Oak River in neighboring Carteret County Thursday as national forest facilities reopened to the public.
�We had reservations before the shutdown and (Thursday) was the last day we had reserved. We came out so we wouldn�t lose it and decided to stay Friday and Saturday,� said Bobby Vincent.
Everything worked out for the Vincents, and they�ll be reimbursed for the reserved days they couldn�t use; but they are glad for others that the shutdown has ended.
�I�m retired and it didn�t really affect me, but it affected a lot of people,� he said.
The shutdown, which began on Oct. 1, left hundreds of local federal employees out of work and without pay. Nearly two hours before a deadline that would have prevented the United States from borrowing money, Congress and President Obama came to a budget agreement.
While only a temporary solution, the House and Senate will continue budget negotiations in order to come to a lasting agreement prior to their new deadline of Jan. 15.
No comment was available Thursday from base officials, but nearly all of its employees were back at work last week. On Oct. 7 more than 99 percent of furloughed workers on base were recalled to work and promised pay, according to the Navy Civilian Human Resources website. It was not determined whether retroactive pay will be approved from the time the furloughs began.
For the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service, the end of the shutdown meant the reopening of popular attractions and recreation areas in Eastern North Carolina and back to work for national park service employees.
And that was just fine with Wouter Ketel, a member of the management staff at Cape Lookout National Seashore.
Ketel was one of the 41 permanent and temporary employees furloughed during the 16-day shutdown.
He was glad to be back to routine and equally pleased to have the park back open to visitors
�We want the park open; that�s what we�re here for,� he said.
Cape Lookout National Seashore employees were back at work early Thursday morning in order to re-open the park�s facilities.
�All park facilities that are normally open this time of year are back open to visitors,� Ketel said.
While lighthouse climbing has ended for the season, the keeper�s quarters and visitor�s center are open. The reservation system for the cabin camps on Core Banks, popular among fishermen, is operating and work was under way to bring back the volunteers who staff Portsmouth Village
Croatan National Forest is also back in business.
As of Thursday morning, camping sites, hiking trails and all other facilities within the national forest were again open to the public.
�We�re in the process of re-opening facilities and employees are back at work,� said Stevin Westcott, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service and the national forests in North Carolina, which includes the Croatan National Forest. The approximately 200 federal forest service employees in North Carolina have returned to work.
Carol Lohr, executive director of the Crystal Coast Tourism Development Authority, said Cape Lookout National Seashore and Croatan National Forest are major attractions in the area and during the shutdown there were visitors who inquired about seeing the wild horse herd at Shackleford Banks and going surf fishing at the Cape.
She said it is fortunate that the area has many other alternative attractions that visitors could enjoy, but they are glad to have the facilities back open.
�Maybe this won�t happen again,� she said.
Ketel said they are glad to be welcoming visitors again and that local businesses, such as ferry operators who transport vehicles and pedestrians to the islands, can resume operations.
�The parks have a big impact on the local economy and having the park closed for 16 days meant it was closed to our partners and businesses,� he said. �We are looking forward to having the park back open.�
For the National Weather Service offices in the area, there was less of an impact.
Forecast and warning coordination remained operational during the shutdown, and meteorologists remained on duty at the forecast offices in Newport and Wilmington.
At health departments in Onslow and Carteret counties, the end of the government shutdown will hopefully mean the return to stable funding for the federally-funded Women, Infant, Child (WIC) program beyond October.
Due to the government shutdown, the issuance of WIC vouchers was suspended Oct. 8 due to a lack of sufficient funds. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced funds to continue the WIC vouchers through October.
With the shutdown now over, health department officials said they hope that regular funding will be restored before November.
Information was not available from Onslow Memorial Hospital and Carteret General Hospital on receiving payments for Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare with the end of the shutdown.
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Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Bros examine Attack of the Cybermen on region 2 DVD: 'Excellent!'
Ah, the early eighties—Thatcher was giving the unions a good shoeing and corporate avarice was just starting to rear its ugly head. Despite these ominous signs of the times, there was one thing that kids up and down the land could be sure of— Doctor Who would be there to whisk them away for about half an hour every week…
…until the production decided to extend the running time of episodes to just over forty-four minutes, meaning that although each story ran for more or less the same length, it allowed for greater story and character development, as the absence of a cliff-hanger at the twenty-five minute mark meant that characters and situations did not need to be reiterated.
Series twenty two kicked off with something that would possibly be seen as a 'slam-dunk' in terms of winning over sceptical fans—bringing back the Cybermen! This action comes only second to having a Dalek story in terms of cynical ways of boosting ratings, but it's easy to forgive this, as they throw pretty much everything into Attack of the Cybermen to make it work.
The story opens in London, 1985, with the TARDIS intercepting a distress call—the Doctor never has been one to let such a cry for help pass him by and he decides to investigate. It is eventually established that the Doctor is being used in an elaborate plan by an old adversary, Lytton, whom he last encountered in Resurrection of the Daleks, but Lytton is the least of his troubles when the Doctor and Peri realise that there are bigger things afoot than just the seemingly petty plans of a London criminal…
Those of us old enough to have grown up in the eighties will find the sequence where one of the gang goes into a phone box, whilst being in possession of plastic explosives uncomfortably reminiscent of the way the IRA used to operate, and with recent events, this might cause one or two nervous shifts in seats during a screening.
When the first episode screened back in '85, at school the next day, Doctor Who was a hot topic of conversation, and not just because the Cybermen were back. The ingenious use of Halley's Comet in the storyline (even though it's a bit like their plans to destroy the world in Earthshock) provoked intense debate: why did the Doctor pronounce the name as Hal-lee's Comet rather than Hay-lee's Comet, as every school-kid knows to be correct.
Here's a little tip if you want to keep harmony in a relationship: if your partner likes the show—in spite of an all-consuming hatred of Billie Piper—it's not a good idea to get an opportunistic freeze-frame of Nicola Bryant and ask her 'why can't the new companions have tits like that?'
Obviously Brian Glover is another example of JNT's misguided idea of casting names to provide higher ratings among the disinterested, but the man with nowt-taken-out ends up being a nice addition to the story. OK, there are instances where he can be somewhat out of place, but he's much better here than his next—and significantly more expensive—slice of Sci-Fi: Alien 3. His delivery of the name 'Mr Lytton' is very similar to that of 'Mr Clemens', but don't let that put you off. It's impossible to estimate how many times we quoted his line 'get-ting-a-bit-rough, is-it?' after watching the show…
One of the things which is both a source of pleasure and annoyance in New-Who is the name-dropping of past enemies, but this has mainly been used as cynical spit-lube for adversaries which are being brought back into the show at some point. We get a bit of that here, but there is also mention of previous assistants. These days, it's all calculated, but in Attack of the Cybermen, it is nicely used to remind viewers that there was a regeneration only recently, and that the new Doctor is still trying to get over it.
Baker shows that there were more strings to his bow than the majority of people would have you believe, and one of these was his physicality. Terrence Dicks once described him as 'a bull of a man', but Baker pulls off some very graceful moves, especially when dealing with a couple of very suspicious police officers. Ol' Colin is the George Lazenby of Doctor Who, the only actor to thoroughly convince that he could take care of business when needed, whose term was cut unfairly cut short, and was cruelly underrated by the public.
We've gone on record as saying that we can't stand the current incarnation of the Cybermen—the campy ones in New-Who—so any chance to see the original ones (apart from the crap examples in Revenge…) is a real pleasure for us. The characters are individuals, not a set of drones who march in unison as though all are listening to YMCA on their Ear-Pods—and of course, hearing David Banks once again saying 'Excellent' brings a smile to the lips.
There are many instances in the show's history where the end-of-episode cliff-hanger comes across as artificial, as though merely thrown together and dropped in the right place because it's expected:
Barbara has a run in her tights: "Eeeeyyyyyowwnnnngggg…ooh-wah-ooohhhh".
Tegan has just got an entire Dalek stuck in her mouth. An entire Dalek, for God's sake! Cue theme!
OK, so maybe we're exaggerating a little with the last one, but you get the idea.
With a story essentially running for four parts but with only one cliff-hanger, it had better be a bloody good one, and it is. The first is that it comes as a complete surprise to find the Cybermen inside the TARDIS, but having them about to shoot Peri dead is the icing on the cake. Bryant screams a shriek which perfectly leaves the audience thinking that she's going to be dead by the next episode. Perfectly done all round.
The above paragraph highlights another example of how the State of Grace goes flying out the window once again when the Cybermen and the eighties are thrown together. Maybe it's because the breaking of such a rule inadvertently caused the death of Adric in Earthshock, so it's possible that this uncertainty is what makes you think Peri is going the way of Katarina, etc. Or maybe we are just making excuses…?
The sewer scenes highlight something which always bugs us in the visual medium, and this is where lights are used (be them torches or flashlights) in supposedly dark environments, in spite of everything being perfectly lit. This occurs more in TV shows, as it is cheaper to just to throw a little less light on the sets and almost have actors pretend with torches.
We all know that running-times of stories were messed about with for the sake of saving the Beeb a few pennies, but it was another dispute about pay which stopped them from a real coup… or should that be Koo? Yep, royal-humper and Star Wars drop-out Koo Stark was brought in to play Rost, but it wasn't the Cryon makeup that made her walk out, but a bust up about her fee. Pennies were pinched and another piece of star-casting blew up in JNT's face.
With the recent news, you can't help but have some of the past brought to mind when watching Attack of the Cybermen. When Mondas was destroyed, they Cybermen were displaced, settling on Telos and making it their homeland. The native Cryons are furious at the Cybermen marching over their world, plotting acts of terrorism to either drive them out or finish them off. There are other parallels to the Troubles, but we'll let viewers pick them out for themselves.
When imprisoned Cryon Flast appeared for the first time, the words: 'Jesus, look at the tits on that one!' did echo around the room, but when the end credits rolled, it came as no surprise: it's Faith Brown. It had slipped from the memory that she was in it, and this is a testament to her abilities that she was able to be so transparent in the role and not draw attention to herself. Another is that she's the only person in the world to make Thatcher seem boneable.
The Cryons are bewitchingly polarizing in their design, with a crystalline beauty sharply contrasted with the driving force to kill and destroy their oppressors. Their makeup is especially noteworthy, and comes across as what the designers were hoping for back when they were working on the Atlantian Fish People in The Underwater Menace[i/]. Full credit should be given for the idea to use lenses in order to make their eyes bigger, giving them a more other-worldly feel, light years away from Neo-Trek's usual 'forehead variation' technique.
Speaking of the Cryons, it brings a smile that their species live by the words: 'We shall survive', as this declaration is prominent in Tomb of the Cybermen, to which this story is a sequel. The Cryons' use of it establish them as the polar opposite to the Cybermen, the fully organic flip-side, both warring over the same planet with an identical will to stay maintain their respective races.
Before this, the production team had taken the unusual step in having Colin Baker's first full story as the finale to Peter Davidson's last season—what should have been a fun way of getting the audience to see the new Doctor in action and have them salivating for more seemed to backfire because Baker's first story, [i]The Twin Dilemma—apart from being generally loathed by Doctor Who fans—depicted the newly-regenerated Doctor as a dangerously unstable individual who tries to kill companion Peri. Davidson was a popular Doctor and his departure was doubtless heartbreaking for some fans, but watching the Doctor transform from the Wet Vet into a curly-perm-sporting homicidal psychopath was probably a step too far for some and got Baker off on the wrong foot.
We'll not beat about the bush here—we're big fans of Colin Baker. He was an actor brought into Doctor Who at the start of a difficult time for the show; Baker tried to make the best of scripts that were usually either lacklustre or plain lousy. To further confound matters, Baker was also saddled with a garish, multi-coloured costume that could quite comfortably slip into the description of 'sartorial vomit'—this detracted from Baker's intention to have his Doctor as one that just slips quietly into the background of a situation and eventually comes to the fore; such was the ghastliness of his outfit that it was quite impossible for him to do this.
Colin Baker brought an air of authority to the role that hadn't been seen for quite a while—there are numerous echoes of previous Doctors in his portrayal, but there was something also totally unique that has not been seen since. There is more than a smidge of William Hartnell's cantankerous Doctor, more than a pinch of Jon Pertwee's pompous Doctor and a soupcon of Tom Baker's commanding aloofness, but Colin Baker's Doctor was also arrogant, self-aggrandising and almost vain. As for what Colin Baker took from Peter Davidson—well, they both have a nice smile…
Maurice Colbourne is great as Lytton, building on the work he had done in Resurrection of the Daleks and fleshing him out in unexpected ways. Lytton comes across as the villainous rogue through most of the story, until an unexpected revelation during the second episode forces the viewer (and the Doctor) to reassess opinions on the man.
David Banks is as good as ever as the Cyber-Leader, but whilst it is nice to see Michael Kilgarriff back as the Cyber-Controller, this is offset by the fact that the passage of time has seen an increase on the size of his waistline, leading him to be referred to amongst Doctor Who fans as the Fat-Controller. Kilgarriff's portly frame detracts from the menace of the character, as it invites viewers to ask 'who ate all the cyber-pies and microchips?' It is true that deciding to bring back the Cyber-Controller also diminishes the power and effect of Banks' Cyber-Leader, as having the black-handled head honcho taking orders from what is—in Cyberman terms—a fat, bald, impotent old man is pretty demeaning; one must wonder if the Cyber-Controller planned to buy himself a high-performance sports car when he left Telos…
Not unlike the Cyber-Controller, Attack of the Cybermen is overstuffed—there are so many references to other Doctor Who stories— The Tenth Planet, Tomb of the Cybermen, Resurrection of the Daleks, even An Unearthly Child—along with a large number of characters and storytelling cul-de-sacs that it is danger of burning itself out and confusing the audience, but it just manages to get away with it.
It is quite remarkable how Attack of the Cybermen polarises fan opinion—many think that it pretty much sums up what it wrong with the Baker era (or possibly looking at it from a broader perspective, then entire John Nathan-Turner period), others think that it's an entertaining romp that throws in everything into the mix to ensure that the Sixth Doctor's first full season got underway with a bang.
The first episode is wonderful—Colin Baker's Doctor is firmly established as a likeable character, with Nicola Bryant on-hand to puncture his pomposity when necessary; it's arguable that the two of them make for the best combination of Doctor and companion in the show's history, but as the action moves to the planet Telos, things cease to flow nicely and end up congealing into something of a sticky mess. However, the climax sees the redemption of one character and leaves the Doctor wondering how he could get certain things very wrong.
It was also nice to have the Doctor finally get around to repairing the Chameleon Circuit in the TARDIS, allowing it to change its appearance to suit the surroundings upon its materialisation. The TARDIS appears in various forms, demonstrating what it really could do, but ultimately they made the right decision in just having this as a temporary measure because the blue police box is probably the most iconic aspect of the show.
Although the exterior of the planet Telos is obviously a quarry, the production tried to disguise it by bleaching out the colour to make it look more like a barren alien landscape. It works quite well, as it gives the impression of some other-worldly environment—perhaps after the blatant ribbing given to the Doctor and his companion landing in quarries in The Hand of Fear, it was just as well that they decided to make an attempt to conceal the nature of the location.
Sewers have always worked well in creating suspense and the subterranean scenes in Attack of the Cybermen are no exception—the low level of lighting really helps to create a palpable sense of tension and dread; it's true that there's nothing here that could equal the scene in the Patrick Troughton story The Invasion where a emotionally-crazed Cyberman lurches through a sewer, there still some great moments in Attack. Ironically enough, this was going to be a follow-up to the aforementioned The Invasion, with the return of the Cyber Director, originally to be found in a London garage, presumably discovered by some Cockney wide-boy in his lock-up.
When dealing with Doctor Who and sewers, you still expect a rather dodgy animatronic rat to menace the unsuspecting mob rather than Cybermen, although such an unconvincing mechanical beastie could be considered an apt metaphor when it comes to trying to remaster material shot on videotape in low-light. Apparently during the restoration work, the team discovered that there was a problem with the black levels, but this has been corrected this and the results are wonderful.
Once the action switches to above-ground, there is a very pleasing aesthetic which makes you feel as though you are watching an episode of Minder, with villains travelling around London in Ford cars as barrow-boy dialogue is bandied about. It's a fairly safe bet that the original film elements vanished into the mists of time long ago, but the guys at the Restoration Team have done a great job with the film sequences, looking brighter and more colourful than ever before.
The usual restoration work has been undertaken on the mono audio, with the theme music providing a nice amount of punch and Malcolm Clarke's partially-recycled themes from Earthshock also sound most pleasing.
Audio Commentary[i/]: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Terry Molloy (Russell) and Sarah Berger (Rost) are all on-hand to voice their thoughts on [i]Attack of the Cybermen as it rolls before their eyes. Baker and Bryant are old-hands at this and are as amusing as always, with Molloy chiming in with some interesting little factoids about the shoot every now and again before being ushered out at the end of the first episode to make way for Berger, who also proves to be engaging and knowledgeable about the production. Colin Baker's commentaries are always fun and informative and the one for Attack of the Cybermen is no exception.
Isolated Score: This gives the viewer to watch the story with just Malcolm Clarke's compositions. His work divides fandom (much like the story in general), but it's pleasing to have the option to listen to the score unmolested.
The Cold War: This twenty-seven minute documentary is a nice little look at the genesis of Attack of the Cybermen, featuring interviews with most of the principles. Colin Baker opens it nicely by recounting the general fan reaction to his debut story, The Twin Dilemma[i/], being 'crap'. This documentary also clears up the mystery concerning the authorship of the script, with the fictitious Paula Moore turning out to be Eric Saward (who used the name of a friend of his to cover up the fact that he, as script editor, wasn't supposed to commission himself to write a script); excitable uber-fan Ian Levine, who has also taken partial credit for the story, is interviewed, but we wonder if he would have agreed to be interviewed if he knew how he was going to come across in this documentary? Director Matthew Robinson is also interviewed in his adopted home of Cambodia and contributes some interesting anecdotes.
[i]The Cyber Story: This takes a look at the history of the Cybermen, charting their origins from the dressed-up-out-of-the-kitchen-drawer look in The Tenth Planet, through to the campy-looking ones in New-Who. This is a fun romp, with plenty of clips of Mondas' most infamous sons, but it could have been a little longer, as some incarnations are almost mentioned in passing.
Human Cyborg: Though it might be of interest to some, this might be one of the dullest features ever produced for a Doctor Who story, as Professor Kevin Warwick is interviewed about his role in the advancement of cybernetics. The Prof isn't exactly the most interesting interviewee in the world and this extra was watched in a room with several people, most of whom started losing the will to live after two minutes of Warwick's dry delivery.
The Cyber Generations: This is a pleasing little extra, showing various images of the Cybermen during their continuing refinement process, accompanied by appropriate music from the stories.
Photo Gallery: Eight minutes of publicity stills are presented along with Malcolm Clarke's score for the story. Some nice images are included—it's also good to see some shots of the quarry shoot that haven't been bleached out.
Trails & Continuity: Just as you'd expect—some nice vintage announcements for the show and a frightening look at just how the Beeb used to market their shows.
Production Subtitles: As per usual, engage this option and the viewer will be bombard with more facts and trivia about than the production than you will ever need. There are one or two little slip-ups, but the sheer volume of information more than makes up for these.
PDF: There are a couple of nice PDF items in here, including the usual Radio Times listing for Attack of the Cybermen (along with the RT listing for The Invasion because it was overlooking in that story's DVD release) and there is also an article from Cyberman co-creator Kit Pedlar that was published in a 1969 edition of The Listener magazine.
Attack of the Cybermen could be looked upon as the equivalent of a greasy cheeseburger—it hits the spot, it's pretty satisfying, but you start to question the whole thing not long after you've eaten it. The first episode rattles along nicely, with sterling performances from all concerned—even though the second half is a complete mess, there's still enough goodwill and a surprising conclusion that will keep fans watching. To quote the Cyber-Leader: 'Excellent'.
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Aw, c'mon - we put in one for your viewing pleasure! When they get around to releasing The Twin Dillema, we'll be sure to put in more of them...
It IS a fun story, but falls apart shortly into the second episode. Baker & Bryant are as good as ever, though.
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Is that the infamous cleavage shot with the regeneration? I love that scene :D.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Patrick Sharp scored two goals for Chicago, and the Blackhawks ratcheted up their defense, putting the Minnesota Wild on the brink of elimination with a 3-0 victory Tuesday night.
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The Wild had another goalie get hurt when Josh Harding's injury forced Darcy Kuemper into action after the first intermission. Sharp scored on Chicago's first shot at the rookie 62 seconds into the second period.
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A season that started with Andrew Ference being rewarded for his leadership with an alternate captain's 'A' he wore in home games for the first half of the season and on the road in the second half, unfolded with Ference paying back the Bruins by being as solid an all-around player as you can find considering his age, experience and pay grade.
Ference continued to be the guy most likely to jump an opponent for an egregious act against a teammate. And he stayed healthy while not losing any of his ruggedness.
More impressive, he posted his highest point total in six years and scored more goals this season than in the previous four seasons combined. Although his idea of rewarding a chain to the playoff player of the game didn't get a chance to catch on, Ference was rarely a weak link in the Bruins' efforts in 2011-12.
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Highlight: Just 3:01 into the third period of game in New Jersey Jan. 19, Ference scored the tying goal on a slap shot from the left point. He then drew a hooking penalty on David Clarkson that set up Nathan Horton's game-winning power-play goal later in the stanza.
Lowlight: After the Devils game, Ference's season took a little dip. First his shove on New York's Ryan McDonagh Jan. 21 against the Rangers ruined a positive game (1-1-2, plus-2) for Ference and brought on a three-game suspension from the NHL. Then he returned after those three games and endured an ugly night in Carolina, as he was minus-2 in 17:19 of ice time and committed a big turnover on a Tuomo Ruutu goal in a 3-0 loss to the Hurricanes Feb. 2.
Playoff recap: Ference scored a key goal in the Bruins' season-saving Game 6 win. His fairly to play the puck after a Patrice Bergeron faceoff win, however, led to Nicklas Backstrom's Game 2 overtime goal. Still, considering the matchups and the tightness of the series, Ference was strong in the postseason.
Grade: A. Ference gave everything he had all season long and continued to personify the Bruins' approach of playing tough and smart while also utilizing skill.
Carnac predicts … the arrival of prospects and possibly one veteran from outside the organization might allow Ference to play the regular season and the playoffs as one of the best third-pair defensemen in the league. Of course, his friendly cap hit could also make him trade bait if Boston's blue line gets too crowded.


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A Movie That Plays Like a Play
If you Google "Lincoln" and "talky," you'll get about two million matches, very few of which are referring to the Gettysburg Address. Whether they liked it or not, pretty much everybody who has seen Steven Spielberg's biopic seems to think that it's…well, kind of wordy. In an age when the average length of time between explosions in big-budget Hollywood movies has been officially computed (by me, anyway) to be 26.4 seconds, that's an attribute sufficiently surprising to inspire near-universal comment.
For those of us who see more plays than films, though, it's no surprise at all. The script of "Lincoln" is by Tony Kushner, the author of "Angels in America," who is not a screenwriter by trade but a playwright. Plays are talky by definition, and Mr. Kushner's plays are really talky, right down to the titles. His last one, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures," ran for three hours and 40 minutes, 15% longer than an average production of "King Lear." Small wonder, then, that "Lincoln" should have been word-oriented, not picture-oriented. Had it been otherwise, I would have dropped dead from sheer astonishment.
The only thing that surprised me about "Lincoln" is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that "Lincoln" is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay. Yes, Mr. Spielberg tarted it up with "Gone With the Wind"-style crowd scenes and snippets of "Saving Private Ryan"-type carnage, but for the most part he seems to have taken what Mr. Kushner gave him and run with it. John Podhoretz, who reviewed "Lincoln" for the Weekly Standard, a political journal, called it "a drawing-room political drama." That's right on the nose, since virtually everything of consequence that happens in "Lincoln" could just as easily have happened on a stage.
In scene after scene, the characters sit in a room talking politics, and no attempt is made to leaven their conversations with action of any kind. What's more, the talk is essential, since the subject of the film, the congressional debate over the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in America, will be all but unintelligible to viewers who don't know the history of the Civil War going in. But Messrs. Spielberg and Kushner operated on the assumption that what Lincoln and his colleagues have to say is so inherently interesting that the audience will listen to it—and their assumption was correct.
While I've been skeptical about most of Mr. Kushner's plays, I'm delighted that he and his famous collaborator have succeeded in persuading large numbers of Americans to sit still and listen to a movie. The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be "talky" has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.
Part of the problem, I suspect, is that film critics tend as a group to favor movies whose fundamental impetus is visual, not verbal. (This theoretical position goes all the way back to the days of silent films, when it was widely believed that the best movies were the ones with the fewest title cards.) Such folk worship Alfred Hitchcock, and can be counted on to do lascivious back-flips over any film that contains at least one scene with no dialogue.
I love Hitchcock, but I'm more inclined to agree with Whit Stillman, the maker of such brilliantly brainy cinematic comedies of manners as "Damsels in Distress" and "Metropolitan," who once complained to me in an interview about just such critics: "They seem to forget that we've been making sound films ever since the '20s. Talk is incredibly important…. What's the charm of a buddy comedy? Just to see two guys shooting bullets? It's what the two guys say to each other that matters."
I hasten to add that Mr. Stillman wasn't talking about the one-liners with which big-budget screenwriters are now required, seemingly by statute, to salt their scripts. He was talking about good old-fashioned dialogue, the stuff plays are made of—and many of the best movies ever made, from "The Rules of the Game" to "Pulp Fiction," have been almost entirely dialogue-driven. Modern-day dialogue-oriented writer-directors like Mr. Stillman and John Sayles ("Passion Fish," "Lone Star") may not be cinematically fashionable, but their films are involving in a way that no you're-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat bloodfest can ever hope to be, and it is their dialogue that makes them so.
As for "Lincoln," I see no downside whatsoever to the amazing-but-true fact that millions of people have gone and are going to see a big-budget movie that requires them to sit, listen and pay close attention to what's being said—and neither do the bean-counters. Maybe Honest Abe was right after all about the better angels of our nature. Who knew that an endlessly chatty movie devoid of naked ladies and car chases could become a box-office smash?
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CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Democrats on Capitol Hill released IRS e-mails Wednesday that show what was going through the minds of agency officials and tax law specialists trying to determine whether Tea Party organizations and other groups qualified for tax-exempt status. Among the groups under the IRS microscope was the Cincinnati 9/12 Project, which did not respond to FOX19's request for comment.
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He still believes the questions the IRS asked groups like his were inappropriate. Some Tea Party leaders say the IRS wanted to know what books they've read, whom they support politically, and what was discussed at their gatherings.
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Do you know anyone who suffers from an ailment known as immediate familiarity syndrome (IFS)? It's when a person you just met talks to you as though they've known you for years. More often than not, it tends to be spontaneously communicable, causing others to let their guard down and say things they normally wouldn't upon a first meeting. As a journalist, and sufferer, this comes in pretty handy. But for people sitting across the table, there is a real danger to open up and then wonder what had just happened. I only bring this up because I recently had breakfast with a Playboy Playmate. No, seriously. Former Playboy Playmate Julie Clarke met me for breakfast at Dolly's Produce in Bonita Springs (note to self: try to make "French toast and Playmates" a weekly thing)...
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The struggle to keep a man interested
Most have been there: gotten through date number one or even two, only to have this guy suddenly enter the witness relocation program. For whatever reason, he slipped the hook and swam away without so much as a "Thanks for the worm." I hear it all the time. In fact, the majority of the women I run into in Southwest Florida ask me what they need to do to keep a guy interested. I tell them there are two major issues at play here: men in general have the attention span of gnats; and men in SWFL have a lot of options and want to play the field, so convincing them to settle down with you (or ask for date number four) can take effort. Such was the case when a group of ladies congregating at the bar area of Capital Grille recently came to a disheartening conclusion: men like young. My...
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[The Sims and Expansions - Install FAQ]
Created By: Matt - a.k.a Croft237
The one thing people have trouble with The Sims most, is installing items,
EPs, etc. into the game. So hopefully this new guide will help you through
some of that process. It's really not that difficult. It can just eat up a
lot of your time.
EPs (EXPANSION PACKS)
As you may or may not know, you can buy what's called an "expansion pack" for
the original Sims game that allows you to add more exciting features like,
pets (unleashed), downtown lots (hot date), and have parties like it's 1999
(house party). I'm sure a lot of you have heard or seen these "expansion
packs" in stores. The newest being Makin' Magic
Since you HAVE to have the original Sims game for the EPs to function, you
also really need to buy them IN ORDER if you're going to get the expansions.
If not, installing them out of order may cause damage to your game (check the
manual about it for more information). Now it's alright to buy whichever you
want, just make sure you install them in the order that they came out. Here's
the complete list.
The Sims - I think we all know what this ones about...
The Sims: Living Large (Living it Up) - Adds new functions, objects,
interactions with The Sims, more jobs and plenty of new action to the game.
The Sims: House Party - Adds mostly objects and skins with some new
interactions to host a party theme at your Sims home.
The Sims: Hot Date - Adds and entirely new section to The Sims...Downtown!
Why stay at home when you can go out?
The Sims: Vacation (On Holiday) - Want to get away from work? Then just go on
vacation, this one mostly brings objects and interactions for going on a
vacation. You can visit an assortment of different types of places
(mountains, camps, beaches, etc.)
The Sims: Unleashed - Adds a surprising new addition to the game. Pets! Also
adds some new interactions and objects to the game, like working a garden.
There's also a completely new neighborhood/downtown setup to your
The Sims: Superstar - You can be come a famous superstar! This expansion lets
you actually have a "job" that you can go and work at. Go to the new studio
town and build up your status by taking up singing, or telling jokes in a
comedy club. Then go home and practice your lines for being a sitcom actor on
the side.
The Sims: Makin' Magic - Why watch Harry Potter when you can join in on the
fun? With this expansion it's all about becoming the neighborhood witch or
wizard. This adds many new interactions, and fun situations to The Sims game.
Here's an example of what to do if you bought living large, and Makin' Magic
only. Since you already have the original game installed (if not, reinstall
it FIRST). Then you need to install living large next. Why? Living Large was
the first expansion in the series to come out. If you were to install it out
of order, than some of the interactions and objects from a later expansion
might cause your game to have severe problems. Afterwards since Makin' Magic
is the last expansion to come out, you need to install it LAST. If you
decided to buy the House Party expansion pack later, then you would have to
uninstall ALL the games and reinstall them in order so that they run
properly. So then you would install them in this order. The Sims, The Sims:
LL, The Sims: HP, The Sims: VC, The Sims: UL, and lastly The Sims: MM. If you
plan to get them all eventually anyway, it's better to buy them in order than
to pick favorites. It'll save you the pain of having to reinstall them all
every time you buy an older expansion first.
(If you're having problems installing the game or any of its expansions, see
the troubleshooting section of this guide.)
This aspect of the game is by far the best. You can download just about
anything for your game, whether it being a skin, wall, floor, house, or
object. If you're getting bored with the game, then this is the way to go.
You can find some of the most interesting objects on the net for your game,
including ones that do new things. Here are some sites to get your started.
What to look for - Every site you come to, you'll always want to look for one
thing, the requirements For instance, at www.7deadlysims.com, every time you
click an object a popup will show up for you to download. When it's finished
loading, a picture of the object, along with some stats will show. In the
middle is a box. If the box is empty then it means that particular object
only requires The Sims to run. If the box has an expansion logo in it that
means that particular object requires that expansion to run. Not all sites
uses logos, but most will have some sort of text or notification telling you
which objects require what expansions. If you see no logos or text, that just
means that every object on that site, UNLESS NOTED can work with the original
Sims game.
Now that you know what to look for, let's get down to the ACTUAL downloading
and installing. You'll need a program called WinZip to extract all the Sims
files you download, please head over to. www.winzip.com and download the
program. Once you've downloaded WinZip and installed the software, all you
have to do is click the zip files you downloaded. When you get the zip open
make sure you read the "read me" file that looks like a little notepad first.
The read-me file is very important, as it'll explain where to put the files
you need to use in the game. Once you've found out where to put the files,
simply highlight, and right click the file and press the "extract to" button.
Find the folder the read-me file told you to install it to, and press
the "extract" button. Easy, isn't it? Now close WinZip and delete the zip
file you downloaded, don't worry, you don't need it anymore.
Here's a list of folders to put the type of downloads into.
C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Gamedata\Objects
C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Gamedata\UserObjects
*NOTE* There are two differences between the USER objects folder and the
regular objects folder.
Regular Objects Folder - If you put your objects here you can organize your
downloads into different folders. After downloading a few hundred objects
you'll really want to do this when you have to find a particular something in
the game. Instead of doing it by what TYPE of object they are, I organize
them by site. That way I can always remember where I got them from if I need
to ask any questions, or I have problems with downloads.
User Objects Folder - For some odd reason you're not allowed to make sub
folders in here. So you can't organize your objects. That's the bad side. The
good side is, is that this folder is SAFER download wise. Since objects
are "cloned" from original objects that maxis made, some ID numbers might
have accidentally been set as the same as a number already in your game,
either by maxis or another fan-site. Somehow this folder prevents that object
from causing any mix-ups if there is a problem with the ID number.
Although the User objects folder may be safer, I've used the regular folder
ever since I bought my game when it first came out. I've never had any
problems with them. Although, since I've only downloaded a total of around
1500 objects if you plan to go any higher then it might be safer to actually
use the other. The more objects you have, the higher the chance you'll get of
an ID number being the same as another one on a site you downloaded.
C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Gamedata\Skins
C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Gamedata\Walls
C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Gamedata\Floors
If your game or expansion(s) aren't installing at all, they might need what's
called a "patch." Patches are simply fixes for your game to fix corrupt or
bad files. To fix the problem you can head over to www.thesims.com and find
some of the patches for the separate expansions in the "get cool section" of
the site. Please take your time, and read carefully.
From time to time, you may encounter a problem with your game, which is
caused by a bad skin, object, wall, floor or other texture file. This can
cause your game to crash, or make some of the elements in the game appear
odd. This program can simply be addressed by heading over to www.thesims.com
and downloading a program called "Sims File Cop" in the get cool stuff
This program will find all your bad files a.k.a textures and quarantine them
to a folder for you. *NOTE* File Cop DOES NOT find or remove bad object files
(although it may pickup bad object textures), downtown lots or house files.
If you've downloaded a recent object or house file that's causing trouble,
simply go back to the last one you've downloaded and delete it from one of
your maxis folders. If the game continues to crash even after you've run
file cop and deleted the last few things you've downloaded, simply just
reinstall your game(s).
If you're still having problems you can check the maxis support page here -
If you're getting tired of frequently listening to that awful lounge music,
or you just want something new other than the in game stereo then maybe it's
time for a change. First find the MP3 music file on your computer, once
you've gathered a song or two just right click and copy, or create a
shortcut. Now simply go into your maxis folder where I've directed (see
below), and paste your copy or shortcut into the different types of radio
station folders. *NOTE* it's really not a good idea to put more than 3 or 4
songs into the game. If you put too many it can cause your game to crash or
run REALLY slow.
C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Music\Stations\....
Now just load up your game, and have a Sim turn on the station where you put
your music in, and voila! You're all done. Now you can listen to your
favorite music on your stereo.
Now that you've installed your new expansion, added some new
objects/skins/walls/floors and put your favorite music in the game, it's time
to actually STOP reading the FAQ and play your game. Have some fun and don't
forget to stop playing for awhile and visit the boards too. :) This game is
TOO addicting, it's like crack but worse.


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With its latest range of Freeview equipped LCD IDTVs, manufacturer Cello Electronics has given users the option of recording and timeshifting TV to inserted SD cards. The format is cheap (you can buy 16GB cards online for less than £20) while having the benefit of enabling easy transfer of recordings to the numerous computers with compatible card readers. Twin tuners enable the TV to record two channels at the same time, but you'll need two SD cards to make this happen.
The other noteworthy inclusion to the Cello C3298FR is a side-mounted DVD player, but this bare-bones effort stops short of offering desirable features such as upscaling.
Read more: Fiio X5 III (3rd Gen) DAP
The set has 'budget' looks. There's no hard disk inside, so why's it so bulky? It comes with a pedestal stand or can be wall-mounted (no bracket is supplied).
Hit-and-miss EPG recording
On the right-hand side is the DVD drive slot, which is surrounded by operating buttons. A separate row of buttons covers the main TV functions. Rear connectors comprise twin SD card slots, a CI slot and twin HDMI inputs and component inputs for HD. These are joined by two Scarts, S-video and a VGA PC input. Phonos are provided for hooking up to external speakers.
The remote design is familiar from other kit we've tested recently. It has a rubberised feel and adequately labelled buttons arranged in an accessible pseudo-Sky fashion. But jabbing coloured buttons in a bid to start a recording via the EPG proved very hit and miss. A button is included for accessing BBC iPlayer but this feature is not supported on these particular sets.
The seven-day EPG feels unfinished. Overlaid on the current channel and occupying two-thirds of the screen, it shows a grid of data for five channels at a time (you can toggle between TV and radio) which is skippable day by day. But the details in the grid are so cramped that programme names are only partly displayed. Only when you select them does the full title appear at the bottom of the EPG. You can't view synopses from the guide either and it's very slow to fill with data. Synopses can be viewed from the programme info banner but this doesn't let you see what's on other channels without switching channel first.
There's no capacity for external recording but you can record while in standby or while watching a DVD or something from an externally connected source. You can record by hitting 'record' or via the EPG, but there are no Freeview+ features such as series linking. You can record two channels at once, or one while watching (but not timeshifting) another. You can't record radio channels.
The SD card slots are colour-coded red and green with buttons on the remote to match. A coloured icon appears onscreen to tell you to which you're recording to. You can view a list of recordings scheduled for each SD card and add buffers either side. You can't watch a recording from the start while still in progress.
Recordings stored on each card are displayed in list format with selections shown in a preview window. They can be fast-forwarded and rewound at up to 20x normal speed. Recordings are stored in their native MPEG-2 format (playable in Windows Media Player) equating to 1.7GB an hour, so high-capacity cards are a must.
Using a Class 4 8GB card, audio and picture quality of recordings was much the same as that of the source.
The TV's display capabilities are lacklustre. A resolution of 1,366 x 768 limits it to displaying HD video in 720p or 1080i. Pictures from the digital tuner all exhibit slight fuzziness and contrast levels are generally poor.
Overly bright colours are a problem whether watching TV, a DVD from the internal drive or a Blu-ray disc from a connected player. HD pictures from the latter looked sharp enough, but the tweakable (but basic) display settings still tend to generate a very hot colour palette – explosions in our Man On Fire test disc were excessively orange.
Audio from the 10W speakers is reasonable, but it lacks punch during action sequences and music can sound a tad muddy. Considering the DVD playback, it's a shame that no digital audio output is provided.
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Insect-A-Kill 22 fly killer Fly Light Trap expert advice and more at do it your self pest control-- your online source for do it yourself fly killer, electric fly killer & fruit flies traps supplies.
People all around the world used to eliminate goes as well as other bugs with a fly swatter. However, the querry is still whether you can still use it these days.
For you who aren't acquainted with it, this swatter is a hand-held program for swatting goes and bugs. This fly monster program is compact, versatile, and usually made of components like plastic or nasty and connected to a cable or nasty manage. It contains one small rectangle-shaped piece which is around 4 inches large or 10 inches large wide and the manage which is about 2 toes or 0.61 measures in size.
Way back in the summertime season of 1905, Might was extremely suffering from an insurgence of goes. This triggered the propagate of several illnesses. Dr. Samuel Crumbine who was a participant of the Might Health Panel developed the phrase fly swatter through a bulletins released. It is said that he had his creativity from a Topeka Competitive softball game.
In reaction to his calls, Honest H.Rose, an excellent trainer developed the "fly bat" and taking cue from him, Dr. Crumbine developed the fly swatter in its present type that's used to eliminate goes by swatting them.
The piece of this fly monster is developed with the air vents which allow you for doing fast activity through the air, getting nearer to a fast traveling by air focus on quickly. The other reason is because the goes can quickly recognize strong things going towards them due to change in the air demand.
The air vents program allows the air demand to stay fixed and creates its activity hard to be recognized fast. By the time this pest is able to lastly recognize it, it is too close and that is how it allows eliminate this traveling by air pest with less attempt.
However, now, this program grows to digital fly swatter which provides more benefits to eliminate goes. This particular program also creates it become one of the most used resources to eliminate traveling by air bugs until these days.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corp., Madison, Wis., recently filed its proposed 2009-2013 Energy Efficiency Plan (EEP) with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB). The proposed EEP includes a commitment of approximately $400 million to electric and natural gas energy efficiency customer programs over the next five years.
IPL's proposed EEP includes programs for residential, agricultural, commercial, and industrial electric and natural gas customers. It also offers many of the cash rebate and energy audit programs currently offered by IPL. The company expects to receive an IUB decision on the plan in the fourth quarter of 2008. Additional information on the EEP is available by calling (800) 723-7635 or visiting Alliant's Web site. www.alliantenergy.com


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Feb. 14, 2014
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Behind six no-hit innings from opening day starter Luke Weaver and a four-hit barrage from DJ Stewart, No. 5 Florida State (1-0) began the 2014 season with a 13-2 victory over Niagara (0-1) Friday evening in front of an outstanding crowd of 5,756 on Mike Martin Field inside Dick Howser Stadium.
"That was a good opener," head coach Mike Martin said. "Niagara did a tremendous job in the fact that they haven't been out (side). You could see that they weren't quite ready but at the same time we took advantage of some mistakes and my hats off to our guys for getting it down. I am very proud of our ball club. We got some timely hitting tonight."
Five Seminoles recorded multiple hits in the win led by Stewart who set a career-high with four hits on a pair of doubles and two singles. Josh Delph went 2-for-3 with a walk from the leadoff spot with two doubles, two runs scored and an RBI, while Brett Knief and Jose Brizuela each registered two hits in the win.
"DJ is one heck of an athlete," added Martin. "He is a guy that is turning into an outstanding leader. He got more hits tonight than I used to get in a week. He had one heck of a night."
Weaver (1-0) picked up where he left from a season ago working 6.0 strong innings against the Purple Eagles in his first career opening day start. After walking Anthony Firenzi on four pitches to open the game, Weaver retired the next 16 batters in a row. Geoff Seto would snap the streak after reaching on a throwing error with one out in the sixth. But Weaver responded with a strikeout and then picked off Seto at first to retire the side.
"I can't say enough about how Luke pitched," said Martin. "No hitters are something that you just don't think about until you get to the fifth inning. But we knew that he was only going to go close to 90 pitches. Luke was scheduled to throw no more than 90 tonight."
The DeLand, Fla., native finished the game with seven strikeouts and left after the sixth inning throwing 89 pitches.
Florida State would give Weaver all the run support he would need after just the first inning when Delph led off the inning with a double down the line in left and scored two batters later on a double to center by Stewart to give the Noles the early 1-0 lead.
The Garnet and Gold extended their lead to 3-0 in the third thanks to back-to-back RBI singles by Knief and Brizuela.
Stewart opened FSU's two-run fifth with his second double of the evening. The sophomore from Yulee, Fla., came around to score two batters later on a Brizuela double down the line in right. Brizuela then stole third and scored on John Nogowski's sac-fly to center to give the Seminoles a five-run cushion.
Niagara's first hit of the game came with one out in the seventh when Michael Fuhrman dropped a double down the line in right off Billy Strode. The hit would open the door for a pair of runs as the Purple Eagles cut the deficit to 5-2.
Niagara had the bases loaded with just one out in the seventh when Gage Smith came on and struck out Pavel Chavez-Rusova before picking off Greg Rodgers at second to end the threat. On the pickoff play, Rodgers was caught in a run down between second and third allowing Joel Klock to score the second run of the inning.
The Seminoles broke open a three-run lead thanks to eight runs over the seventh and eighth innings. FSU answered Niagara's two runs in the top of the seventh with five runs in the bottom half to take a 10-2 lead. Delph drew a bases loaded walk, while Justin Gonzalez drove in two runs with a single to left for his first hit of the season. The senior captain finished the game with a run scored and two walks in six plate appearances.
FSU added three more runs in the eighth on an RBI groundout by Gage West and a two-run single to right center by Lee Howard for his first career hit.
Also picking up their first career hits on Friday night were freshmen Hank Truluck and Ben DeLuzio. Casey Smit registered a pinch hit single in the seventh and reached base for a second time in the eighth when he was hit by a pitch.
Niagara would be held to just the two runs in the game as Smith and Brandon Johnson kept the Purple Eagles off the scoreboard over the final 2.2 innings.
Smith worked 1.2 shutout innings with a strikeout, while Brandon Johnson gave up a hit and a walk in an inning of work in the ninth.
Niagara's Jordan Schwartz (0-1) took the loss after giving up five run on nine hits in 5.2 innings as the junior right hander struck out three and walked three.
With the win, Florida State has now won 16 straight games on opening day improving to 59-7-1 all-time.
The Seminoles and Purple Eagles will turn right around for game two of the three-game series on Saturday, February 15 at 2:00 p.m. Junior left hander Brandon Leibrandt will be on the mound for FSU and will be opposed by senior right hander Drew Fittry.
Saturday's game will air live over the internet on Seminoles.com All-Access, while fans can also listen to the game live on the All-Access player. Locally, fans can listen to the game on 100.7 FM. As always, Seminole fans can follow the Noles on twitter @FSU_Baseball and remember to like the Seminoles on Facebook (www.facebook.com/FSUBaseball). Live stats for Saturday's game will be available via gametracker.


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Sidewalk sale days start today
PLYMOUTH — Downtown merchants will have specials today, Friday, and Saturday for the Chamber of Commerce's "Old Fashion Days" sidewalk sale.
"It's our fall sidewalk sale," said Betty Glaub-Gibbs of the Chamber. "It's called old fashion days because it's been called that forever…we've asked store (employees) to dress up according to an era…from the 1980s and back."
Stores that will be offering sidewalk specials include: Floor Store & More, City Center News & Books, Na Rie Simple Treasures, Kings Jewelry, Yoder's Sports Center, Treat's Squire Shop, and Harriet's Closet.
Treat's will be having a pulled pork fundraiser for the Plymouth High School Music Department Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bruce's "Big Grill" BBQ will offer a pulled pork sandwich with BBQ beans and cole slaw for $7.
The monthly Second Friday event also hosted by the Chamber is this weekend as well.
"We are really trying to start pulling in the culture (for Second Friday events), because I think it's the culture that brings people downtown," said Glaub-Gibbs.
To that end, LifePlex Dance Academy dancers will be performing in the street between Centier Bank and the Marshall County Historical Museum. Heartland Artists Gallery will also have art displayed in the street, and a caricature artist will be on hand.
Glaub-Gibbs said she's not sure how many stores will participate in the "dressing up" part of Old Fashion Days, but the Chamber is trying to bring the custom back.
One store that will participate is Rock On 109 Boutique.
"We (store employees) will be dressing in the disco style, and we will have a giveaway of a rhinestone 'bling' bracelet," said Cammy Jones of Rock On 109 Boutique.
Downtown merchants will be open until 8 p.m. Friday.
Glaub-Gibbs said that Second Fridays are planned out until the end of the year.
"October will be more of a fall theme with pumpkin decorating, in November we will have a chili cook-off between merchants, and December is the Christmas tree lighting — which will be bigger and better than ever," said Glaub-Gibbs.
She said businesses will be offering in-store refreshments, and children will have the opportunity to visit Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Marshall County Historical Museum.


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I saw spiderman today! it was awesome! and of course they're coming out with a third one. Toby McGuire announced it and so did the movie itself.

Go see it everyone! In theaters everywhere. oh, and also it's at Regal Cinemas everywhere. good luck and have fun!

I wanna see Dodgeball but maybe I'll wait.

There were no Jim previews in Spiderman. but there was Catwoman's movie, Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis' movie, The Bourne Supremecy, the Will Smith robot movie, and other stuff but I can't remember them all.

WIll Smith's movie and the new Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis' movie looked like duds. they look sucky. Tim Allen's more so than Will's.

Catwoman and The Bourne Supremacy look awesome! those are the must sees on my list! along with Spiderman 3! can't wait for that one!

Has anyone seen this movie? well, if no one responds to this stupid and pointless post, just delete it. thanks! bye.

Edited by: carreypunkrawker at: 7/4/04 2:34 pm

Spiderman, excellent visual effects!
I just saw this with some of my kids Saturday, the visual effects are awesome. My son started saying the lines as they were being said and I had to ask, "have you seen this before???" Ya (and looks at me as if I should know, OF COURSE HE DID)when Peter Parker fell so hard when he had lost his powers and fell on a car and Peter's back looked like it hurt so much I asked "Have you ever felt like that??" both boys reponded emphatically in unison, unrehursed, Ya!!!!
I still want to see ESOTSM.
The reviews for the Notebook look interesting, I want to see the swan scene, I love anything to do with nature.

Re: Spiderman, excellent visual effects!
My younger sister saw The Notebook with a friend of hers and she said that the audience members were over sixty and that she and her friend were the youngest in the audience. lol. but my sister also said that The Notebook is a tearjerker. So if you go see that, CJ, bring lots and lots of tissues, and don't take the kids. lol. enjoy!

(hope you don't mind me calling you CJ)

Re: Spiderman, excellent visual effects!
I caught spiderman this passed weekend, and I have to admit that this was a much better movie than I expected it to be. After seeing the firs, I remember thinking "forget number 2. There's no way they can top that."...I was wrong.

I think the best parts of the movie were the comedic shots...like the "raindrops keep fallin' on my head" scene...that was classic...and the freeze frame at the end...I laughed good and long...

Anyways, good movie

spiderman 2
This just proves that a sequel can top the original. It went by the comic too. what ever you do for crying out loud do not see white chicks! OH MY GOD THAT WAS TERRIBLE AND skip the terminal too!

Re: spiderman 2
will do, Twigggy, will do. I was skipping them anyways, but I was waiting for someone to tell me that White Chicks and The Terminal were bad.

Skip Dodgeball. That was stupid. Ben Stiller's character was corny. not funny but lame funny. it sucked. anyone here see Dodgeball? What did you think?

My next film that I'll be watching will be The Chronicles of Riddick (hopefully). anyone seen this one yet? if so tell me if you thought it was good or bad.

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