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Padres place Richard on DL, activate Ross
San Diego, CA – The San Diego Padres placed pitcher Clayton Richard on the 15-day disabled list on Sunday, while activating Tyson Ross from the 15-day DL.
Richard is suffering from an intestinal virus. He last pitched in Saturday's 8-1 loss against the Diamondbacks, allowing seven runs -- five earned -- on seven hits and four walks over 3 2/3 innings.
In six starts this season, Richard is 0-4 with an 8.54 ERA and has walked 17 batters in just 26 1/3 innings.
Ross was placed on the disabled list on April 18 with a left shoulder subluxation. Acquired in a trade from the Oakland Athletics this offseason, the right-hander is 0-1 with a 3.86 ERA and 12 strikeouts in three starts.
The 26-year-old will be available to pitch in relief for Sunday's game against the Diamondbacks.

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Berman and Braga
A.K.A. the great Satan, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga are the damned souls responsible for the abominations known as Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis. The franchise's current dead state is largely blamed on their incompetence.
Ups and Downs
Rick Berman is credited with improving the later years of TNG, which was particularly insipid during the early seasons that were heavily controlled by Gene Roddenberry. The perceived quality improvements from the later years of TNG were not carried over to Voyager and Enterprise, which are widely panned for having stupid plots and stupid plot devices.
Brannon Braga has had ups and downs in Trek, writing intriguing, mind-twisting episodes for TNG, but also writing the utter crap of "Threshold".
Final Analysis
Brannon and Braga are the the targets of much ridicule among many Star Trek fans, although fanatical Trektards continued metaphorically[1] sucking their dicks, no matter how bad their work became. Rick Berman has on more then one occasion claimed that he was the hand picked successor of Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry. Not matter how you look at those claims they seem rather suspect and a bit ego stroking.


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Police reports: Worried for her mom
Editor's note: The following excerpts were taken from Eagle County law enforcement officers and police reports.GYPSUM, Colorado – A 25-year-old woman called deputies on May 6 to report that her 45-year-old mother was intoxicated and violating her probation.The daughter said her mother was not supposed to drink alcohol and had removed her ankle monitor a couple of weeks ago. She added that her mother has cirrhosis, a liver disease, and keeps drinking even though she knows she will die if she doesn't stop.Officers went to the mother's home in Gypsum and knocked on the door. A man's voice said to come in. The deputies entered and saw the woman lying on the couch with her husband.She and her husband were both intoxicated, and she didn't want to speak to or cooperate with the officers. She said she wasn't going anywhere and grabbed onto her husband, who urged her to cooperate and tried to distance himself from her.One of the deputies pulled the woman to her feet and she kicked the other deputy, knocking off his glasses. The officers then put her face down on the floor, wrestled her into handcuffs and sat her on the lawn outside, where she continued to scream at them. The woman was arrested for assault and obstruction of a peace officer, resisting arrest, violating a restraining order and failing to appear in court. Her legs were restrained on the way to jail to keep her from kicking out a window of the patrol car.
GYPSUM, Colorado – A deputy responded to a noise complaint about a party at a residence on Valley Road in Gypsum on May 5.The 32-year-old resident agreed to quiet down the party, but a second complaint from a different neighbor was made shortly after. The officer returned and warned the hostess more bluntly that she would be cited if she didn't correct the problem.The officer walked away and waited to see if the noise quieted. The music did, but loud voices could still be heard for a while. One of the voices was the hostess making a crude remark about the deputy.A while later, a third complaint came in from another neighbor. The deputy returned and cited the woman for violating Gypsum's noise ordinance.
GYPSUM, Colorado – A Gypsum resident suspects someone entered her home on Sunny Avenue the afternoon of May 7. She said she left the house around noon and the kitchen window was only open a couple of inches. When she came home hours later, the window was wide open. A spare key and two gold rings worth $150 each were missing.
EDWARDS, Colorado – On May 8, an Edwards resident reported that a man was rummaging cars parked on Flat Top Street.The suspect was wearing all black except for white lettering on the back of a T-shirt.Deputies investigated and found several cars that appeared to have been entered. Only two car owners reported any thefts from their vehicles, which included an iPod and sunglasses.
GYPSUM, Colorado – An empty foreclosed home on First Street in Gypsum was broken into and vandalized on April 22. Things inside the house were burnt and broken, and paintballs had been shot off inside.Someone broke into the house again between May 4 and 8. The homeowner said someone broke the extra lock he placed on the door after the first break-in.
EAGLE-VAIL, Colorado – A deputy stopped a car on Interstate 70 in Eagle-Vail on May 14 because the car's license plate was obscured.When he contacted the 31-year-old driver, the man's breath smelled of alcohol and his driver's license was under a revoked status. The man said his lawyer was appealing the ruling and admitted he had two drinks at a pool party earlier.The officer asked him to perform voluntary roadside tests and he agreed. The deputy noted that the man displayed symptoms of different drugs. He asked the man if he would submit to a blood test.The man said he smoked marijuana a couple of days ago and would need to speak to a lawyer first. The deputy said he had to choose if he would submit to a blood test before he could consult a lawyer. The man agreed to the test.Meanwhile, a search of his truck turned up two containers of marijuana, open alcohol containers, a glass marijuana pipe and a small, white pill cut in half.The man was cited for DUI/DUID, open container, possession of less than two ounces of marijuana and paraphernalia, an improperly attached license plate and driving while his license was revoked.
DOTSERO, Colorado – A deputy stopped a 23-year-old man on Interstate 70 in Dotsero after seeing his car weave in its lane on May 14.The man identified himself with a false Mexican driver's license. He said he was visiting a friend in St. Louis, Mo., and going back to Phoenix. He also said the car belonged to his friend but he couldn't provide a name or phone number.Officers asked to search the car, and the man agreed. He then admitted his real name and said he had driven illegal aliens to Missouri and Florida. He was previously arrested in Minnesota and deported twice, most recently a year ago.The deputies took him to jail for possessing a forged instrument, criminal impersonation, driving without a valid license and failing to drive in a single lane.
• An Eagle woman called police May 15 to report her cellphone had been stolen. The woman said she left her iPhone on the grass next to the bike path along Seventh Street while she and a friend took off for a run. When they returned, the phone was gone. The woman and her friend attempted to use a Find My Phone application to locate the missing cell and the phone showed up in the Bull Run area. Police were unable to locate anyone in the vicinity, and the woman contacted AT&T to stop her service and lock her phone.• A car was damaged on April 12 while it was parked on Price Lane in Gypsum. A tail light was broken, and there were scratches around it on the fender. The owner suspected a child riding a bicycle had accidentally crashed into it, since he often saw kids riding bikes in the area and the damage occurred that morning. The damage was estimated to cost $500.• The back window of a car was shot out with a BB gun around April 19 while it was parked in an Edwards trailer park. The window is estimated to cost $250 to replace.• An unlocked car had items stolen from it while it was parked on Spring Circle in Gypsum between April 20 and 21. A set of lock picks in a black zipper case and a flashlight were taken.• Money was stolen from a car parked in front of the Eagle County Animal Shelter on April 24. A wallet with $200 cash had been removed from a purse in the car. The cash was taken, and the wallet was left on the dash.• A group of people fired paintballs at a home in a Dotsero trailer park on April 27.• A large rock was thrown through the windshield of a car parked in the lot of an Edwards apartment complex between April 29 and 30. The damage is estimated to cost $200.• A rock was thrown through the side window of a car parked at the Wolcott Park and Ride the night of May 4. The car appeared to have been rummaged but nothing was stolen. Damage is estimated to cost $250.


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Coal Mining: Background
The coal mining industry provides the biggest source of campaign dollars within the mining industry, and has supported Republicans in each of the past 13 election cycles.
In the 2012 cycle, the industry peaked with $15.3 million in total contributions. That figure decreased to $11 million in the 2014 nonpresidential election. Companies involved in coal mining gave Democrats a mere 4 percent of their donations in this election cycle, an unprecedented low.
Not surprisingly, most of the industry's money comes from Kentucky and West Virginia, its traditional home. Top contributors include Alliance Resource Partners, L.P.-- one of the largest coal producers in the United States -- which gave $4.8 million in 2014. Murray Energy Corp. -- the largest underground mining company in America - was also a big donor with a $1.4 million total. Both companies have been at the top of the contributor list since 2008.
Some industry favorites include Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio); Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who hails from Kentucky and sits on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; and West Virginia's Rep. Shelley Moore Capito who plays a role in the House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Indeed, environmental issues are a huge headache for the mining industry as coal is the biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions that are a primary cause of climate change. In mid-2015, the Obama administration is expected to finalize new rules limiting carbon emissions from new and existing power plants; that will be a major blow for coal, which is still the single biggest source of power in the U.S., and the mining industry has lobbied Congress to try to stop the rules from taking effect. McConnell and other Republicans have claimed that Obama and others who want to limit CO2 emissions are waging a "war on coal."
In the 2014 election cycle, the industry spent $9.8 million on lobbying. Top lobbyers include Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources, the largest and second-largest coal producers in the United States respectively. They have lobbied on the Coal Miner Employment Act and the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
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solis needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 27 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
We need two banners should include action and updated icons (no action on icons). One for summer and one for fall. Plus the icon redesign. Must include flash or animated gifs or action in the banner.
monarchy on the solis site
Solis Logo http://soliscompany.com/nb/solis_1.eps
We need two banners... should include action. We want to update (http://soliscompany.com/nb/monarchy10.gif) the current summer banner and add a fall version - fall preview monarchy pre book only at solis... with a two new banners (one for summer and one for fall) including action and highlighting the amazing design work from Monarchy. Should have a call to action to buy or shop, monarchy brand and images, solis exclusive and co branding.
monarchy corp site ... for feel and logo and such.. http://www.monarchycollection.com/
monarchy summer product... http://store.soliscompany.com/mosucomosuco1.html (ok to use these pic and graphics)
monarchy fall - http://store.soliscompany.com/mofameprprsa.html (can use hoodies and such too off this link http://store.soliscompany.com/mohocomoho1.html
monarchy runway links and ideas....
we want to replace the monarchy category icons on this page http://store.soliscompany.com/mocl.html ... should be the same size or smaller.... should match the banners.
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must include a co-branding with solis and our logo too.
should be same size or a bit shorter in height .... same length.
Need to use the new solis logo. - Solis Logo http://soliscompany.com/nb/solis_1.eps ....... http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.…_187718738
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There's plenty of upside to being wealthy, and at least one downside: At higher incomes, the IRS shuts you out of some of the biggest benefits of individual retirement accounts.
There's plenty of upside to being wealthy, and at least one downside: At higher incomes, the IRS shuts you out of some of the biggest benefits of individual retirement accounts.
Specifically, if your modified adjusted gross income this year is more than $199,000 as a married tax filer or more than $135,000 as a single filer, you're not eligible to contribute to a Roth IRA.
And assuming you or your spouse has a retirement plan like a 401(k) at work " and higher-income workers often do " �you also aren't eligible to deduct contributions to a traditional IRA at those income levels.
So what's a six-figure earner to do? Turns out the traditional IRA contributions you don't deduct can be just as valuable.Enter the nondeductible IRA
The traditional IRA doesn't technically have income limits for eligibility like the Roth IRA. But if you're covered by a retirement plan at work and you earn too much to contribute to a Roth IRA, you also earn too much to deduct your contributions to a traditional IRA.
� See the full IRA eligibility and income limits here
That leaves you with that workplace plan " which you should absolutely take advantage of, especially if your employer offers matching dollars " �and the nondeductible IRA.
The name gives it away: A nondeductible IRA is a traditional IRA for which you don't deduct your contributions. On the surface, that makes it sound like any old taxable investment account. But it isn't, for one big reason: While there's no tax benefit for making contributions, any investment returns you earn in the account will be tax-deferred until you take distributions in retirement.
At that point, you'll pay taxes on investment gains just like with a standard traditional IRA. But unlike a standard account, the money you contributed comes out without taxes, because you didn't take a deduction when you put it in.The real benefit of a nondeductible IRA
Tax-deferral of investment earnings is a perk, sure. But taking those earnings tax-free is better " �and by jumping through a few hoops, you can achieve that with the help of a nondeductible IRA.
How? By converting the money in a nondeductible IRA to a Roth IRA. This is a move you can execute with relative ease, even if you earn too much to be otherwise eligible for the Roth account. It's called a backdoor Roth IRA, and it's not nearly as sinister as it sounds.
In fact, it's IRS-approved and something Joe Wirbick, a certified financial planner and founder of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, financial planning firm Sequinox, pretty much universally recommends. 'It would be a huge mistake not to convert,' Wirbick says.
When you make contributions to a Roth, you do it with after-tax dollars. When you convert nondeductible IRA contributions to a Roth, you're converting after-tax dollars, too. And once that conversion is complete, any investment growth within the account can be pulled out as a qualified distribution tax-free.
The benefit of that can't be overstated, particularly now when taxes are low: Unlike a traditional IRA, you're not kicking taxes on investment growth down the road, when they are likely to be higher. You're avoiding them completely.
'If you put money into a nondeductible IRA and you don't convert it, all the earnings are tax-deferred. Why would you want to pay taxes later?' Wirbick says. 'In my practice, I would say 95% of the people I meet never retire to a lower tax bracket. So why not pay taxes today and live tax-free in retirement?'Converting a nondeductible IRA into a Roth IRA
The best way to convert the money in a nondeductible IRA into a Roth IRA is quickly, Wirbick says. That's because a Roth IRA conversion does have a tricky area: It requires paying taxes on any untaxed money before it lands in the Roth account.
Your nondeductible contributions have already been taxed, so they're clear. But any investment growth is not.
'There's no rule for how long you have to leave [the money] in there,' Wirbick explains. 'But if you get lucky and it starts growing rapidly, when you do the conversion you'll have to pay taxes on that growth.'
That's not a huge issue, but it does simplify things to make your entire year's contribution at once and then convert that amount. (The maximum IRA contribution in 2018 is $5,500, or $6,500 if you're 50 or older.) You can typically leave the nondeductible IRA open if you want to pull this maneuver again next year, though check to ensure your account provider doesn't require a minimum balance.
Most brokerages will help you with the conversion, and report to you any tax you'll owe. But you should still keep track of any gains and contributions on your own, and consult with a tax advisor to ensure you've reported nondeductible contributions and completed the conversion correctly.
� How to convert to a Roth IRA in three steps
Finally, know that this is a move you can't take back " �beginning in 2018, you can't reverse a conversion. But Wirbick thinks it's unlikely you'll want to.
After this year's $1.5 trillion tax cut, he says, 'Taxes are on sale. Take advantage.'
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No matter what your little girl is interested in, you are sure to find an invitation to suit her perfectly. In this section you'll find lots of flirty, fun and, of course, pink invites that are great for a girl's birthday party. With a wide variety of color schemes you're sure to find one that matches your parties themes, as well as bright envelopes on some that will catch your guest's eye before they even open it.
There are shaped invitations as well as flat cards that have fun wiggling elements to add a touch of flare. We also have lots of splashy water and pool themes to help guests keep the date for your pool party when you send out any of our swimming pool party invitations.
There are all kinds of girls on these cards so no matter what your special little one might look like, you can pick the perfect one to compliment her. The girls on these birthday invitations range from gymnasts and ballerinas all the way to the more fantastical mermaids and fairy princesses. In this section you will find cards great for a sleepover, a tea party, or even a day at the spa. These are perfect for any birthday party, whether it be her first one or if she's moving into her teenage years. There are both fill-in invitations as well as blank printable ones that you can customize.


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Finding the Best Daycare for Your Child
Finding the Best Daycare for Your Child
Daycare for your children may be a fact of life if both you and your partner work.
It's important to find day care that fits your child's and your family's needs. You can either hire a sitter to come to your home. Or you can enroll your child in a day-care center. These centers can be in a commercial space or in another person's home.
Things to think about
Before you make a decision on a daycare center (or another daycare situation), here are a few things to consider:
Be sure the center has a state license. Ask about accreditation.
Research to see if the center has had any violations within the last 5 years.
Make sure the staff is certified in CPR.
Look for good staff-to-child ratios and check that the caregivers are certified. A good ratio might be 1 adult per 3 children under 1 year old. Or it might be 1 adult per 7 children 3 years old, or 1 adult per 8 children 4 and 5 years old.
Be sure discipline doesn't involve isolation, humiliation, or intimidation. Make sure the center's discipline policies agree with yours.
Be certain the center has a specific diaper-changing area, with a sink, separated from the rest of the facility. Watch to see that staff members wash their hands at the right times like after diaper changes and before snacks or meals.
Be sure the center was planned with children's safety in mind. Outdoor play areas should be protected with materials that can take impact.
Make sure the center's food and drink meet your child's dietary needs. Snacks and naps should be on a schedule. If your child has any food allergies, make sure the staff members know how to keep your child's snacks separate and free from contamination with foods that could make your child sick.
Ask about policies for special cases like when your child is sick or when you're stuck at work late.
Ask if they have current parent references you can contact.
Sleep safety guidelines
If you have an infant, make sure the center follows guidelines to reduce the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sleep-related deaths.
These guidelines include:
Placing your baby on his or her back during nap time or while sleeping
Using a firm sleep surface
Keeping soft objects and loose bedding out of the crib
Making sure vaccines are up to date
Offering the child a pacifier at nap time
Not letting the child get overheated
Keeping your child away from tobacco smoke, alcohol, and illegal drugs
March 21, 2017
Starting Out Healthy magazine
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TendersLounge needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
TendersLounge is a blog for hockey goalies. The idea is modeled after the Hot Stove Lounge which used to be in the old Maple Leaf Gardens. It was a place where reporters, coaches and players were able to have off-the-record conversations in a casual bar atmosphere.
Our audience is goalies and hockey fans who are interested in goalies. They range in age from 10 to 75. Most are located in the US and Canada but also come from European countries.
Looking for something that conveys:
- goalies
- hockey
- casual lounge atmosphere
If you think of an old-school lounge w/ high backed, red leather benches and a martini glass on the neon sign outside, that's the idea I want to convey.
The idea in my head is a different font for "Tenders" and "Lounge", with Tenders being a script and Lounge being art deco and/or neon. If you think of a scripted capital "T" I'd like to see what that looks like w/ a goalie stick forming the base of the T and a scriptive ~ topping it off. (does that make sense?)
this isn't EXACTLY what i have in mind for the goalie stick T but it should give you a good idea:
just imagine a horizontal line across the top to form a T
Colors: open to ideas here. not in love w/ the black/orange/yellow combo currently on tenderslounge.com. NO green, purple or pink!
image file: from what i see in WP i need a 760x140 jpeg. but i also need a high res version i can use for printing and on t-shirts.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 flameout leaves commercial satellite in wrong orbit
ISS cargo on track, private sector customer looking blue
The Falcon 9 rocket from upstart rocket firm SpaceX, which lifted off yesterday with supplies for the International Space Station, will deliver those supplies successfully following loss of an engine during launch. However a commercial satellite which was also aboard the rocket has been placed into a lower orbit than planned as a result of the mishap.
As we previously reported, the nine-engined Falcon first stage suffered an engine failure as it climbed towards space, with launch video giving the impression that one of the Merlin rockets had lost its nozzle. The Falcon is designed to carry out its mission even having lost an engine, and the flight path was duly adjusted. The Dragon capsule with supplies for the International Space Station was successfully sent on its way and is expected to reach the ISS without trouble.
However the rocket also carried a satellite belonging to sat-tracking firm Orbcomm. The plan was that after the Dragon had departed from the Falcon second stage, the second stage would fire again and place the Orbcomm bird into its intended orbit.
Unfortunately it appears that the engine loss earlier in the flight meant that by the time the Dragon was released the Falcon could no longer conduct the necessary second burn due to flight-safety constraints intended to protect the ISS. Orbcomm said in a statement issued last night:
Due to an anomaly on one of the Falcon 9's first stage engines, the rocket did not comply with a pre-planned International Space Station (ISS) safety gate to allow it to execute the second burn. For this reason, the OG2 prototype satellite was deployed into an orbit that was lower than intended.
It would appear that had the planned burn taken place, the Falcon second stage, the satellite, or other parts of the launch stack might have wound up on a flight path which would have potentially endangered the ISS and the 'nauts living aboard it.
Orbcomm says it is investigating the possibility of getting its satellite into the right place using its own onboard propulsion. Even if this can be achieved, however, it will be unsatisfactory as a satellite's own fuel must be sparingly eked out over its operational lifespan to maintain it in orbit. Using up a lot of it before even beginning operations is liable to mean a short working life for the Orbcomm bird.
While SpaceX can justly plume itself on the resilience of the Falcon 9 - which is the only rocket now flying able to carry on with a mission after suffering a first-stage engine failure during launch - the rocket firm can't claim that the launch was fully successful. ®
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To find the best Indian entertainment, browse the profiles of entertainers in your area. Most entertainers will have photos and videos of past performances so that you can get a feel for what they offer. If possible, read through reviews posted by past clients. Reviews are a great way to see an artist's professionalism as well as the many events they've been a part of. When you've found the performer you'd like to book, make sure to provide them as many details about your event as possible. That way, they can give you a quote that's customized specifically for you. Discuss important details such as guest numbers, performance space, power supply, scheduled breaks, and any unique aspect of your event. When you and the entertainer have come to an agreement, put all the specifics in writing to avoid miscommunications. With GigSalad, booking entertainment is easy! You can browse through media-rich profiles, get free quotes, and securely book your preferred performer all on one simple platform. Every booking is covered by our Worry-Free Guarantee, so sit back, relax, and enjoy your event!
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When Fiat took over Chrysler there were premonitions of culture clashes between the be-sweatered Italians and their off-the-Kohls-rack American counterparts. And then Fiat's maestro Sergio Marchionne brought out his hand-picked team of booth professionals and everyone realized the Italians are just like us.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The LaDainian Tomlinson saga ended happily for both sides. After two months of uncertainty about his future, L.T. remains the face of the San Diego Chargers. The star running back agreed to a renegotiated deal that gives the team salary cap relief, the Chargers confirmed Tuesday night.
Financial terms weren't immediately available for the three-year contract for Tomlinson, the 2006 NFL MVP.
"I love San Diego and being a part of this team with my teammates," Tomlinson said in a statement released by the team. "My No. 1 priority was to stay here in San Diego. I truly believe this is the place that gives me the best chance to be successful and win a championship. I want to finish the job we started when I got here eight years ago. My heart has always been in San Diego. I couldn't imagine putting on another uniform."
A news conference was scheduled for Wednesday morning.
General manager A.J. Smith, who came under fire in late January for mocking a statement Tomlinson made about wanting to stay in San Diego, sounded relieved that the process was over.
I'm just very happy that he's back," Smith told The Associated Press. "The way I'm looking at it, L.T. has helped us on the field and now he's gone a step further and he's helped us off the field.
"I felt comfortable that it had a chance," Smith said. "We wanted him back, he wanted to come back. Everything was as smooth as it can be in negotiations."
Team president Dean Spanos knew how important this deal was.
"This is a good day for the Chargers and for Chargers fans," Spanos said in a statement. "It was important to me to get this done so L.T. could continue his career here in San Diego where he means so much to our team, our fans and our community. The alternative was just unthinkable. He belongs in San Diego."
Tomlinson had been due $24 million over the next three seasons, including $6,725,000 in 2009. His salary cap number would have been $8.8 million in 2009, including a prorated share of the signing bonus from his 2004 contract.
Tomlinson was slowed during the regular season with a toe injury, then hurt his groin in the season finale. He was forced out of an overtime playoff win against the Indianapolis Colts and sat out against the Steelers, the first game he'd missed due to injury in his brilliant eight-year career.
It was the second straight year his postseason was cut short by injury. That, coupled with the fact Tomlinson turns 30 this summer, raised questions about how long he would be a Charger. The team said it needed salary cap relief in order to sign other players to contract extensions, and it zeroed in on Tomlinson's deal.
While his 1,110 yards rushing were the lowest of his brilliant eight-year career, Tomlinson still finished fourth in the AFC and 10th in the NFL.
The new deal came three weeks after the Chargers put the non-exclusive franchise tag on Darren Sproles, virtually assuring the speedy little running back/returner will be back next season. If Sproles and the Chargers don't negotiate a long-term deal, he'll make $6.62 million next year.
Smith wouldn't divulge the rengotiated terms. Tomlinson's deal, signed in 2004, was heavily backloaded, with salaries of $8 million in 2010 and $9,275,000 in 2011, the deal's final year.
Players often receive a bonus for agreeing to lower their salaries in renegotiations. There also had been speculation a new deal would include incentives.
"We have cap relief, and now we have the opportunity over the next couple of years to address some things we'd like to get done," Smith said. "I'm just glad this has passed by and we can move on with a lot of things we need to do."
Smith would like to see Tomlinson's career culminate with a long-sought Super Bowl title.
"It would be a really, really wonderful way to cap it off for a great player," Smith said. "We know he's a Hall of Famer waiting to go. All I know is he's done everything he can on his end, and I need to pick up my end of the deal and get it done.
"I know what he's done over the years, and obviously we've got to help him, too," Smith said. "We need to shore up that front line and establish a dependable ground game."
This saga has had a few twists and turns.
Smith was livid that the severity of Tomlinson's groin injury was revealed several hours before the playoff game against the Colts, leading him to call out the player and his agent, Tom Condon.
Tomlinson, long the franchise's most brutally honest employee, confirmed he had a detached tendon in his groin while the team said only that he had a strained groin.
In late January, Smith mocked a statement Tomlinson posted on his Web site, in which he said he wanted to stay in San Diego, mimicking the star's comments practically word for word. Smith later said he regretted making the comment.
Tomlinson was voted the NFL MVP in 2006, when he set league records with 31 touchdowns - 28 rushing - and 186 points. He also won the first of two straight league rushing titles with a career-high 1,815 yards.
A five-time Pro Bowler, Tomlinson owns or shares 28 team records. The NFL's 14th all-time leading rusher with 11,760 yards, he ranks second all-time in rushing touchdowns (126) and is s tied for fourth in total touchdowns (141).
He was the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2006 for his work in the community.
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Item: The moon moves away from the earth about 1.5 inches a year. In 6,000 years, the moon would have moved only 750 feet. In a billion years, those 1.5 inches a year would move the moon out 23,674.24 miles. A moon moving away at that distance would have a tremendous impact here on earth. Science says that the universe is 4.5 billion years old–meaning that the moon would have moved 106,534.09 miles away from earth (half its current distance) if the rate were constant.
Item: Small planets with weak gravity retain some atmosphere in contravention to accepted theories. In an old universe, those planets should be atmosphere free by this time. This is an indication that these planets are still very young.
Here a planet very close to its sun should have burned up completely in 4.5 billion years. The fact that it hasn't could be explained by a young universe–but this alternative apparently does not occur to the scientists scratching their heads.
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Completing an orbit in less than an Earth day, planet Wasp-18b should have burned up, according to accepted theory
By John Johnson Jr.
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August 27, 2009
Scientists have discovered a planet that shouldn't exist. The finding, they say, could alter our understanding of orbital dynamics, a field considered pretty well settled since the time of astronomer Johannes Kepler 400 years ago.
The planet is known as a "hot Jupiter," a gas giant orbiting the star Wasp-18, about 330 light-years from Earth. The planet, Wasp-18b, is so close to the star that it completes a full orbit (its "year") in less than an Earth day, according to the research, which was published in the journal Nature.
Of the more than 370 exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than our sun — discovered so far, this is just the second with such a close orbit.
The problem is that a planet that close should be consumed by its parent star in less than a million years, say the authors at Keele University in Britain. The star Wasp-18 is believed to be about a billion years old, and because stars and the planets around them are thought to form at the same time, Wasp-18b should have been reduced to cinders ages ago.
"This planet should spiral inwards on such a short time scale that the likelihood of seeing it is very low," said Coel Hellier, an astrophysicist at Keele.
"That's a paradox," said Douglas P. Hamilton, an astronomer at the University of Maryland who wrote a commentary accompanying the report. He said there were a variety of possible explanations, none of them very satisfactory.
"It's like going to the scene of the crime and not finding the weapon," he said. "Something's happened, but a key piece of evidence is missing."
One possibility is that Wasp-18, a sunlike, medium-sized star, is a thousand times less energetic than would be expected. That would mean it produces much less friction on the planet than normal.
This orbital drag, which scientists call the "tidal dissipation factor," slows a planet each time it circles its star. Eventually, the planet no longer has enough energy to maintain its position, so it falls into the star and is engulfed.
But if the star's energy is a thousand times less than expected, that would be a big surprise, Hamilton said. It would imply that science doesn't understand the composition and characteristics of sunlike stars as well as it thought it did.
A second possibility is that the planet hasn't been in its current position very long, Hellier said. Wasp-18b could have spiraled inward to its current position over millions of years. It may have been bumped out of its original orbit by another planet, for example.
"However, that does not solve the problem," Hellier said, because the planet's lifetime should still be very short and it would be very unlikely for his team to find it where it did.
The final possibility is that "we're just missing something — there is some property of stars or tides that we just don't understand," Hamilton said.
In our solar system, the closest example of a similar mystery is Mars' moon, Phobos. It orbits Mars at a distance of only about 5,600 miles. (Our moon orbits Earth at 40 times that distance.) Phobos' orbit should cause it to crash into Mars in just 30 million years, a fraction of the 4.5-billion-year age of the solar system.
"Perhaps we really are missing some key bit of physics," Hamilton wrote in his commentary.
An answer could be coming in just a few years. According to Hellier, if the orbit of Wasp-18b really is decaying at the expected rate, the effects should be measurable within the next decade.
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A developer's dream in Kahala
On Friday, the open house pick of the week was a cluster of penthouses being sold by the same owner. I'm wondering if that owner wants to turn around and buy a lot to have eight homes—it's a lucky number, after all. (Click here for details.)
This lot in Kahala is 41,747 square feet with two street frontages: 22nd Avenue and Puu Panini Avenue This property is almost an acre, which is the size of a football field without the end zones. If it looks familiar to you old timers, you may remember it as a pikake farm.
The homes are relatively small: Each one has two or three bedrooms, one bathroom and an average size of about 820 square feet. Three are currently rented, and one is owner occupied.
Since the homes are small, that leaves quite a bit of yard space. The structures are only in fair condition, though, so they're being sold "as is" with the suggestion to rebuild in a manner of ways including a cluster or CPR, adult residential care home, group living facility, church day care or meeting facility. There's enough room to give you lots of development options. In fact, some of the houses aren't really in any condition to have value, but the appropriate documents were pulled to ensure they were on record, so you can rebuild on what is already there if you choose.
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1987 Chevy Suburban - Inside UpgradesPosted in How To on February 1, 2013
As usual I'm going backwards on my progress; I need a new front axle in my CheapBurban project, so I decided to redo the interior. My '87 Suburban started as a low-buck truck for the Cheap Truck Challenge ("CheapBurban," Sept '12) that I brought home for $1,300 and added another $2,012 in upgrades before battling my friends and coworkers at CTC. After the weekend of abuse I had a bent 10-bolt front axle and a major decision to make: Keep the Burb and build it, or find another 10-bolt, swap it in, and sell it? I chose the one that would make a better story, even if it'll cost me more in the long run.
Upgrading the front axle would have been the obvious next step, but I didn't have everything I needed to get that done, so I opted to freshen up the inside. The carpet, seats, and headliner of the big 'Burban were garbage: torn, stained, or just missing. As a beater wheeling rig, that wouldn't bother me, but I have dreams of taking this truck to Baja, Mexico, for a camping, wheeling, exploring trip where I'll be living out of and sleeping in it . Plus, you may have experienced (like me) that your girlfriend or wife (or buddies, for that matter) won't ride in your cesspool of a 4x4 because of how gross it is inside.
The upgrades I made are not Gucci leather and fine Norwegian mohair carpet, but rather simple rugged interior improvements to make it cleaner, comfortable, and useful for two people to go camping. After a few thousand dollars in new parts the Burb is ready for habitation. Next month I'll make it ready for exploration.
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To continue the theme of our CheapBurban build, we will be keeping track of every cost of each upgrade segment. We won't always be going with the cheapest option for the upgrades, (in fact some will be the best options we can find) but we will be printing retail costs for each as of time of print. We don't always run costs as things change and items can often be found at various prices if you shop around, but since we started this build with a cost analysis we thought we'd continue that theme with a list of every part and cost should you want to duplicate these items.
Corbeau Baja low-back seats (x2)...$199.00
Corbeau headrests (x2)...$49.00
Corbeau seat brackets (x2)...$99.00
Corbeau seatbelts (x3)...$24.50
LMC truck headliner...$500.00
Truck-Lite dome lights (x2)...$67.00
Truck-Lite Model 80 cargo lights (x2)...$250.00
Grizzly 60 cooler...$360.00
Rubbermaid water cooler...$35.00
Blazing Needles futon mattress...$100.00
Synergy cargo tie-down 4-pack...$16.00
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Kristen Stewart walked the red carpet at the AFI screening of her film On The Road solo (and stunned in a gorgeous Balenciaga number). But the after party was a different story.
That's because the Twilight actress was joined by none other than boyfriend Robert Pattinson. For the record, Rob didn't walk the carpet and wasn't spotted inside the theater for the movie.
The Audi-sponsored fete was held at the Roosevelt Hotel across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater (where the screening took place) and the couple spent the evening on the Garden Terrace.
So was the night filled with PDA for the newly reunited duo? Not quite.
Early in the night, K.Stew, who traded her red carpet look for a black leather jacket and black tank top, sat by a fire with costar Amy Adams. The two were deep in conversation while Rob, who wore a black jacket and jeans, sat nearby drinking and talking with some other people.
And when Amy left (after giving Kristen a big hug and making her way over to Rob to give him a big hug as well), the couple continued to make their rounds separately. R.Pattz drank a Stella and smoked an electronic cigarette while Kristen moved between groups of people, chatting.
The two seemed in great spirits the whole night. Kristen was bouncing around during conversation while Rob had his arm around a male pal as he threw his head back laughing.
Finally, a bit after midnight, Kristen was dancing and Rob made his way back to her. They spoke energetically and were playful, with Rob jokingly showing some dance moves of his own.
As for PDA, she patted his chest a few times as they talked and rubbed his head at one point. He whispered in her ear and put his arm around her for a moment.
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Joel2002 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 89 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
The dishtip website helps you figure out what to eat and where to get it. dishtip analyzes millions of web-based reviews, content and photos to suggest the best dishes. dishtip is a 3.0 semantic mashup that also helps you discover exciting dishes based on your search terms. Although the dishtip.com website only went live in November, it has already started to go viral with restaurants across the nation promoting dishtip to their facebook fans and twitter followers. Recent reviews have stated that the dishtip.com is the best site to date for truly discovering great dishes to eat.
Anyone who uses the web (Yelp, Opentable, TripAdvisor) to get suggestions on where to eat.
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As lawmakers negotiated to end the government shutdown over the weekend, top House Republicans discussed releasing details of a report that alleges surveillance abuses by the government.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and House Government and Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), met to talk about what to do with the FISA memo.
"I was horrified. This will shock the conscience of the country when it's released," Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said after reading the memo.
The four-page memo was written by Rep. Nunes alleging the Obama administration misused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA. The report was made available to all House members last week.
"I wrote a letter that 65 of my colleagues signed onto trequest a release of not only the memo, but of supporting documentation," he said.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the memo has "misleading information" and is "full of falsehoods" and "half-truths."
"It's [Rep. Nunes'] latest installment of throwing mud on the FBI in order to give credibility to the president's insane belief that he was spied on," Rep. Himes said.
Conservative lawmakers say the memo shows the FBI abused the FISA law in 2016. Some have raised questions about whether the FBI used the infamous anti-Trump dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign during the transition.
"That question, I think, was answered in there, and I want the American people to see that answer," Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL)
Himes pushes back on that claim.
"There is zero evidence of abuse of the FISA process, there is zero evidence that the FBI relied on political considerations to start the investigation ," he said.
House Republicans calling for the memo to be released, want the Intel Committee to use an obscure rule to go around the regular declassification process. If this rule were used, the president would then decide whether to make the memo public.
"I support Devin Nunes' process he is trying to put in place under the House rules and the committee rules there are steps you take to make that happen. If it comes to a vote, yes, I would vote to release the memo," said Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) who is leading the House Intelligence Committee Russia investigation.
Other lawmakers believe any disclosure would put national security at risk. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), a member of the Intelligence committee cautioned releasing the memo publicly.
"It sets a horrific precedent. It would expose the United States to a great deal of criticism by our allies," she said. "It would create a great deal of reluctance for our intelligence agencies and the FBI to be willing to share with us information, they really must if they are going to provide oversight."
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Indians gathered in their thousands in protests and candlelit vigils to mark the death in a Singapore hospital of a woman beaten and gang raped in New Delhi, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led appeals for calm.
Delhi police will press murder charges against the six men accused of raping the 23-year-old woman and beating her with iron bars in the back of the bus on Dec. 16, spokesman Rajan Bhagat said by phone yesterday. The men may appear in court to be charged as soon as Jan. 3, he said.
Some demonstrators held placards calling for the death penalty for the alleged rapists and improved treatment for women, as they congregated in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Others braved the cold winter's evening in New Delhi to carry candles or meet in quiet prayer. Earlier, crowds heckled Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit near parliament in the capital.
The victim, attacked in a moving bus, "passed away peacefully" early on Dec. 29, with her family and officials from the High Commission of India at her side, according to a statement from Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. She had suffered "serious injuries to her body and brain," he said. Air India has sent a plane to retrieve her remains, said G. Prasada Rao, a spokesman for the carrier.
Police barricaded roads in New Delhi and closed 10 subway stations to keep control over the swelling crowds and prevent a recurrence of earlier, violent demonstrations in the capital. Protests were barred in the capital except at a designated site, Bhagat said in televised comments.
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"We have already seen the emotions and energies this incident has generated," Singh said in an e-mailed statement. "It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channel these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action," he said. It's up to all Indians to "ensure that her death will not have been in vain."
Singh has appointed a retired Delhi High Court judge to investigate the crime and fix lapses in policing. He also pledged to consider tougher penalties for sex crimes after the assault prompted street demonstrations organized through social- media postings. The protesters, who fought water cannons and tear gas on Dec. 22 and Dec. 23, demanded more be done to protect women in the capital and across India.
"The need of the hour is a dispassionate debate and inquiry into the critical changes that are required in societal attitudes," Singh said in his statement yesterday.
Unauthorized Bus
After tricking the woman and her 28-year-old male friend into boarding the unauthorized chartered bus with dark, tinted windows and heavy curtains, the crew of the vehicle and accomplices assaulted the two over a period of about 45 minutes, stripped them and then threw them out.
The woman, a physiotherapy student, whose name can't be revealed under Indian laws, was flown to Singapore for specialist treatment, paid for by the Indian government.
The increased public role of women "is accompanied by growing threats to their safety and security," the prime minister said on Dec. 27. "We must reflect on this problem, which occurs in all states and regions of our country."
Data provided by India's National Crime Records Bureau show about 24,200 cases of rape and 228,650 cases of crimes against women were reported in 2011. United Nations figures show 1.8 cases of rape for every 100,000 in India, compared with 63 in Sweden, 29 in the U.K. and 27 in the U.S. Most instances of rape go unreported in India.
Singh has vowed to hasten prosecution of the accused. The panel led by the former chief justice of the Supreme Court has been asked to rewrite criminal codes to allow harsher penalties to be imposed, including capital punishment in the "rarest of rare" rape cases.
Courts Overburdened
It typically takes years for ordinary Indians to get justice because of a slow-moving legal process and overburdened courts. Long-running trials and lax enforcement of laws have also fueled protests in the nation's capital. About 63,342 cases were pending in the Supreme Court as of July 31, of which 67 percent have been on the roll for more than a year, government data show.
Before last month's execution of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, India last carried out the death penalty in 2004, when a convict was hanged 14 years after he raped and murdered a school girl.
India has about 15 judges for each million of its 1.2 billion people, according to UN data. In China, there are about 159 judges for each million people, while in the U.S. the figure is about 108.


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Adding to the influx of new stores at Victor's Eastview Mall will be be two local businesses serving up food and drinks.
Finger Lakes favorite Three Brothers Winery will open a store at Eastview in September featuring a tasting room and gift shop. Shoppers will be able to sample flights of wine, beer and hard cider, just as they do at the company's three wineries and microbrewery based in Geneva.
The store will include gift items and will host seminars and special events, according to a statement from Eastview Mall.
The second local business expanding to the busy mall is Rochester-based Nathan's Soup and Salad, which will offer soups, salads and breads in the mall's food court beginning in September. Nathan's has been operating since 1980 and the mall store marks the fourth location for the restaurant.
Nathan's will offer their typical fare, including "famous" soup and cheese bread, as well as adding new salads and unique breakfast options.
A third local business, Mark's Pizzeria, previously announced it will open a store in the mall's food court in September as well.
Last year more than a dozen new stores opened at Eastview Mall, many of which were first to the Rochester and Upstate New York markets, including Brooks Brothers, Michael Kors, Vera Bradley, and Von Maur.


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The first thing I did was to go and have breakfast in Cafe Slavia, which Petra had pointed out to me the day before. It doesn't really look much from the outside but it has an incredibly evocative interior. From there I walked back across the Legii bridge to the Lesser Town and walked up towards the castle, stopping to look in the sumptuous Church of St Nicholas.
I reached the castle via Nerudova Street, which is very pretty and very steep, cobbled and lined with shops and restaurants, still sporting their old signs - most of them in painted plaster set into the walls.
The castle was much busier than it had been the evening before and for the first time I felt like a tourist, in among all the other tourists. The castle isn't really like an English castle, but instead it is a complex of buildings - many of them huge - including the famous St Vitus's Cathedral that appears in almost every view of Prague.
I bought a 'quick visit' ticket that allowed me access to the cathedral (although I discovered I had to pay extra to take photos). It doesn't quite live up to the exterior but it has lots of quirky details, huge flying silver angels above the tomb of St John Nepomuk and some very nice stained glass, some of which is my Alphonse Mucha.
The castle also houses a beautiful Romanesque church - St George's Basilica. This was so so restful after the extravegances of the Baroque churches. The interior is lovely with some nice frescos.
The castle also houses the famous Golden Lane, once home to alchemists and, for a while, Franz Kafka. The tiny houses are little museums and shops now, each a different colour. It is a magnet for tourists of course. I had been asked several times to take photo of couples - I think having a large camera round my neck makes me look like I know what I'm doing - so I wasn't surprised when two Japanese schoolgirls asked if it was OK to take a photograph. I happily agreed, only to discover that they didn't want me to take a photo of them, they wanted to take a photo of one of them standing with me. I think the fact that I was wearing a black suit and coat, a tie and black trilby hat was enough.
After looking at the view, I walked down the Old Castle Steps, across Nánusûv bridge and into the Jewish Quarter - the Josefov. I had been here already with Petra but I was determined to see the Jewish Cemetery if nothing else.
I bought a ticket allowing me into all the synagogues and the cemetery and after looking in the Ceremonial Hall and the Klausen Synagogue, I wandered over to the famous Staranova Synagoga - the Old-New Synagogue - which must have the most unprepossessing doorway ever. I walked past it twice and when I did finally open it, it creaked and scraped the ground as though it hadn't been used in a century.
The Old-New Synagogue is a lovely building. It is very old and reminded me of St George's Basilica at the Castle. This may be explained by the fact that it was built for the Jews by gentiles. It is in effect Gothic, with ribbed vaulting and so on - but it is also a very different kind of space with a totally different layout.
The Golem was still supposed to be in the genizah of the Old-New Synagogue - though of course many have looked (including, according to Richard, Terry Pratchett when he visited Prague). The guide at the synagogue said she had a theory about the Golem and I was expecting to hear that she thought it was a story that was meant to be more symbolic, when she told me that she thought that the Golem would have been broken and forgotten about in the genizah, then buried in one of the periodic clear-outs. She thought the Golem was buried in the Jewish Cemetery.
I had a late lunch in Bakehouse Praha on V. Kolkovné near the fittingly odd Franz Kafka monument, and very good it was too. I had not been inundated with either fruit nor vegetables since I arrived in Prague and it was nice to have a salad.
After lunch I visited the Spanish Synagogue, which is as different from the Old-New Synagogue as it is possible to be. It was built in the 1850s and seems like the equivelant of one of those English opulent Victorian Gothic churches, with every surface covered in pattern. It is a spectacular interior, for sure, but I preferred the quietude of the Old-New Synagogue
I set off back to the Old Town and found myself at the clock tower as the hour was about to strike. I joined the rest of the tourists as rain began to fall and watched the show for the second time. Light was fading and I proceeded to lose all sense of direction and actually ended up walking in a complete circle, ending up back in the Old Town Square when I was sure I was heading for the river.
I just had enough time to have a browse in the wonderful secondhand bookshop I'd been into with Richard before heading back to my hotel. On the way back I heard shouting and watched with other bemused passers by as a woman strode along the wet pavements, shouting at the top of her voice. What she was shouting about, I couldn't say.
At the pedestrian crossing by Cafe Slavia - the crossings tick in Prague, rather than bleep, by the way - I set off across the road to see a car turning right across into the stream of pedestrians. It paused momentarily and then floored the accelerator, the tyres spinning on the wet cobbles, before racing away along the riverside. It was pure luck that it didn't kill someone. It was the only display of aggression I had seen in Prague.
It was dark now, and raining. I checked out of my hotel and David Kočár arrived to drive me to the airport. He was the partner of one of the cast and it was incredibly kind of him, given that the airport is not exactly close and he told me in the car that this had been his second trip there that day, having driven his mother there in the morning. David was yet another young, clever, witty, creative type - a filmmaker this time - and again spoke fluent English.
I saw a lot while I was in Prague, but it was the people I met there who made it such a great experience. I want to thank them all and wish them well in all their endeavours. I hope to be back one day soon.


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- Take Two: Longmont man's medical problem leads to legal run-in
- Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters' owners hope downtown Frederick will become destination
- Take Two: Scott Fraser's work reaches new heights
- Longmont's Crossroads School to move this summer
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- Take Two: Longmont teen teaches music, attends Front Range Community College
- Take Two: Frederick High School's main office hole repaired
- Take Two: Fitness for all ages at Frederick's Xtreme MMA
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- Take Two: Niwot High School mascots dedicated to increasing spirit
- Longmont Surgical Mission's free surgeries help uninsured
- Items from Lafayette outhouse show class differences among home's residents
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- Longmont lawyer Brandon Shaffer plans to stay in city
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- Longmont's long-shot presidential candidate withdrew his bid weeks before Election Day
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BOULDER -- Laura Guy and Laurie Snyder were sharing rides long before the Boulder County Transportation Department launched last month's "Coffee for Carpoolers" promotion.
But Guy, who lives in a north Gunbarrel neighborhood, said she and Snyder, who lives near Jay Road, decided to participate in the program, since their trips to work and back would qualify them for the $10 coffee-shop gift cards the county offered to car-pooling commuters traveling Colo. Highway 119 in March.
"We took advantage of it," said Guy, a librarian at Colorado School of Mines in Golden. "Laurie and I are both coffee drinkers."
Snyder works at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.
"She drives her car half the time and I drive my car half the time," Guy said.
Boulder County offered coffee-shop gift-cards to people who shared cars at least four times in March while traveling to work, school, shopping or other destinations along or beyond the Diagonal Highway, which happened to be part of the route used by Guy and Snyder.
The program was part of "the Diagonal Shift," Boulder County's effort to reduce traffic congestion and vehicle emissions on Colo. 119.
Transportation planner Hannah Polow said on Friday that 69 people who contacted and registered with the county completed the car pooling challenge and will receive $10 gift cards for Ziggi's Coffee House or Brewing Market.
Polow said 847 car pool trips were counted in the March program, The most common days participants shared rides were Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with somewhat fewer car-pool trips on Thursdays and Fridays.
"It was pretty successful," Polow said, since the gift-card winners appeared to include people who started car pooling, or did it more often, as well as people who were car pooling already.
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I hung around Taris on the Old Man, just north of Dynamet Hospital, practicing some healing. While I don't typically heal these days, I know that when I run a toon that has that capability, you never know when you'll be pressed into service.
Like this day.
My oldest and I had grouped up, and I was waiting for her to arrive on her Sentinel.* I knew that while she'd been playing MMOs for a while, she was still unfamiliar with certain aspects of the game. This was going to be her first group quest, I figured that if nothing else, this should prove to be an interesting experience.
She appeared with Kira in tow. "Ready to do Fallen Stars?" I asked in group chat.
"Okay. I'll be healing, since nobody else has that spec. Once we buff up we can go."
"What's a buff? That thing you wear on your head in Survivor?"
Hmm. I hadn't expected that. Okay, I guess I'll have to back up and get more basic than what I'd expected. "Buffing is a stats boost," I began. "In some MMOs you can drink or eat and get a buff, and in TOR each class has its own unique buff. Mine is Lucky Shots, and yours is Force something-or-other. When in a group, you can select that buff and everyone will get that buff; it's considered polite to buff up everyone else when grouping up."
Force Might suddenly appeared next to Lucky Shots.
"Good. Okay, let's go."
We moved into the heroic area for Fallen Stars and quickly came upon our first mob. "Look at the boss there," she typed.
"In a heroic you'll see a lot of elites like that. You'll know a real boss when you see it." I scanned the group: one healer, one elite, and one strong melee. "Okay, I'm going to send in Corso to tank, and once he gets going you can attack. We need to get rid of the healer first, and then we can work on the rest."
Corso flew in on his jet pack, and the fight began.
We quickly dispatched the enemy medic, and my oldest moved in on the elite. I would have tried to DPS down the strong melee enemy, but I wasn't going to quibble. I dropped a few medpacks down, but for the most part we DPSed down the mob quickly enough that I didn't need to worry about it. It's saying something about your ability to down a mob when Corso doesn't reach even half health.**
Now that she had the basic method down, we DPSed our way through the area and eventually found ourselves before the ship at the end. "I'm pretty sure that once we touch this the boss will fly in," I typed. "It's been a while since I've done Falling Stars."
"Okay," she replied.
"Here's the thing. This boss will take a while to kill, and bosses have immunity from a lot of CC's."
"CC = Crowd Control. Stuns, interrupts, that sort of thing."
"Oh, that stuff."
"Yeah. Don't bother wasting Focus on those, since they won't work."
"Alright, here we go." I went over and triggered the boss, who flew in for the attack.
Now this was a fight. I was healing so much that Corso lost aggro to me, and since he had no way of getting it back --his abilities were on CD for a while-- I had to grin and bear it. Rule #1 of healing says that you can't heal when you're dead, so I spent a lot of energy healing myself while the boss wailed on me. Good thing that I'd worked with my oldest on using mods and enhancements in gear, because otherwise we'd have wiped.
The boss finally bit it when Corso finally got his aggro abilities back off of CD and I was finally able to get that boss off my back.
"Wooo!" my oldest typed as we entered the final cutscene.
"Yep, that's it."
"Are there any more around?"
"There are some 2+ heroics in the bonus area, but others are 4-man."
"When do you think I'll be ready for a 4-man?"
"We'll see, kid. We'll see."
*She was upstairs on the laptop. From what she informed me later, her brother and sister were watching too, so I really felt on display.
**If you've ever played a smuggler, you know what I'm talking about. Corso is famous for losing most of his health on decently sized mobs, which makes me wonder just how well equipped of a tank he is.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Starting All Over Again
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OMG, I love your stories about adventures with the Mini-Reds... too cute! Also really makes you rethink the things we sometimes take for granted from other players (e.g. knowing what buffing means...)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Shin!Delete
They don't know about these stories, and I prefer to keep it that way. Otherwise, they'd be embarrassed, you know...
But yeah, I had to dial it back a bit to make sure she knew what was expected. Once she figures this out, maybe we'll join an Ops group for a World Boss downing, because when you've got 16-20 people on a side, it's not so critical if you screw up.
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It's been a rough few years for the consumer electronics industry. As the economy and home construction took a nosedive, people spent less than ever on "luxury" items like home theater systems. However, as CEPro editor-in-chief Jason Knott and CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association) director of technology Dave Pedigo, Sr. pointed out yesterday during their keynote address at EH Publishing's online event CEProLIVE!, the prognosis isn't all gloom and doom. Products that offer a good "return on investment," are gaining momentum as consumers look for ways to economize, the two agree. "A/V is still hot, but home control is catching up," says Knott, referring to systems that allow homeowners to automate thermostats, lights and other equipment to operate more efficiently. The statistics prove it. According to a 2010 CEPro survey, custom electronics (CE) pros are spending 20 percent less on home theater equipment but 20 percent more on home control equipment. This purchasing data is a fairly good indication that consumers are starting view home control as a wise investment. In fact, when asked to anticipate the highest growth segments in 2011, CE pros listed high-end control systems, wireless installations, streaming media, and entry-level control systems as the top four.
A few emerging market categories are contributing to the shift, as well, says Pedigo. The proliferation of tablets and IP-based devices are making it easier and more affordable for consumers to have home control, for example. Other markets Pedigo expects will drive the home control market going forward are aging in place technologies, energy management, and telepresence, largely because "they are non-luxury items that can help consumers save money." "There will be large markets, the only question is when."


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MinGW Installation Notes
MinGW may have problems with paths containing spaces, and if not, usually other programs used with MinGW will experience problems with such paths. Thus, we recommend that you do not install MinGW in any location with spaces in the path name reference; i.e. you should avoid installing into any subdirectory of "Program Files" or "My Documents", or the like.
No version numbering convention exists, for MinGW as a whole. Each package has its own version number, and the installer version number does not necessarily reflect the version number of any individual package which it installs.
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Download the latest MinGW-5.x.x.exe installer from sourceforge.net and run the installer. When prompted to choose which package you wish, if unsure or if you have never used MinGW before, we recommend choosing the "current" package (the default option). You will then be able to choose which components you wish to install:
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Manual Installation
As an alternative to the automated installer, you may install MinGW by manually downloading and uncompressing individual components.
Download at least the following (or newer) packages from the MinGW download page:
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