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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The pilots aboard the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco relied on automatic equipment - an auto-throttle system - to maintain airspeed and did not realize the plane was flying too slowly until it was just 200 feet (60 meters) above the ground, the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.
In her third detailed briefing on Saturday's crash that killed two Chinese passengers and injured more than 180 other people, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman also said two flight attendants were ejected from the plane after its tail hit a seawall in front of the runway and was torn off. Both were found injured but alive on the side of the runway.
Hersman said many questions remained about the incident. The South Korean airline's flight crew members were not tested for drugs or alcohol after the crash, a requirement for pilots of U.S.-based carriers involved in accidents, she said.
The accounts given to investigators by the pilots, as relayed by Hersman, confirmed information from the plane's flight data recorder that showed the plane was traveling 25 percent below its target airspeed as it came in for landing.
While she has declined to speculate on the cause of the crash, much of the information released by the NTSB suggests pilot error as a main focus of the investigation.
The pilot in charge of landing the plane on Saturday was in training on the 777 and was roughly halfway through the process, while seated next to him was a co-pilot on his first flight as an instructor. Both were experienced pilots, although they had not flown together before, Hersman said.
"At about 500 feet, he realized that they were low," Hersman told reporters, referring to the instructor pilot's account of the failed last-second attempts to avoid Saturday's disaster. "Between 500 and 200 feet (150 and 60 meters), they had a lateral deviation and they were low. They were trying to correct at that point."
Referring to the instructor pilot, she said it was not until 200 feet that "he recognized the auto-throttles were not maintaining speed" and tried to abort the landing. Hersman had previously said that the plane had been at an altitude of 200 feet 16 seconds before crashing.
Three of the four pilots on board were in the cabin during the landing, although only two could see the runway, Hersman said, citing the interviews by investigators with the crew.
Hersman said an examination of the wreckage showed that the auto-throttle was "armed," but it was not clear if it had been properly engaged or had somehow failed before the plane slowed to a near-stall and hit the ground. "We need to understand a little better" how the auto-throttle is used, she said.
"They had set speed at 137 knots (158 mph), and he assumed that the auto-throttles were maintaining speed," Hersman said of the instructor pilot.
She noted that the pilots were responsible for maintaining airspeed.
"We have a flying pilot and two other pilots in the cockpit and they have a monitoring function," she said. "One of the critical things that needs to be monitored on an approach to landing is speed. So we need to understand what was going on in the cockpit and also what was going on with the aircraft."
The world's largest pilots union rebuked the NTSB for its handling of the crash investigation, saying the agency had released too much information too quickly, which could lead to wrong conclusions and compromise safety.
Releasing data from the flight's black boxes without full investigative information for context "has fueled rampant speculation" about the cause of the crash, the Air Line Pilots Association International said in a statement.
Hersman rejected the criticism. "We work for the traveling public," she said. "We feel it is important to show our work."
Aviation consultant Hans Weber, the president of TECOP International, Inc., said the accident may revive a long-running debate over whether pilots' increasing reliance on automated flight systems has taken a toll on their "hand-flying" skills.
Maintaining proper airspeed and altitude is "the most basic responsibility of the pilot, like breathing in and out," Weber said. But it could be the case, he added, that "pilots are paying attention to the computer rather than paying attention to the fundamentals."
Hersman did not comment on whether anyone in addition to the two flight attendants was ejected from the plane, though the two teenage Chinese students who died were found outside the aircraft. One of them may have been run over by an emergency vehicle, San Francisco fire department officials have said, but the local coroner has not yet released autopsy results showing the cause of death.
Asiana Airlines Chief Executive Yoon Young-doo arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday to meet with U.S. investigators, Asiana staff and survivors of the crash.
Hersman also confirmed witness accounts that at least one emergency escape chute had deployed inside the aircraft, trapping a flight attendant. The pilot who was sitting in the cabin worked to free her, Hersman said.
"I saw a leg sticking out between the slide and the wall. It kept moving," passenger Eugene Rah said in an interview on Monday. He said he and a man he believed was a crew member struggled to free her, adding: "He was asking me if I had anything sharp, but these days nobody can be on board with anything sharp."
She was eventually freed and hospitalized with serious injuries, Rah said.
Additional reporting by Kristina Cooke and Alwyn Scott; Writing by Jonathan Weber, Editing by Peter Henderson and Will Dunham


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Things got a little hot for one funny car driver Friday when their 8,000 horsepower funny car exploded during 4-wide Nationals qualifying in Charlotte, NC.
As you can see from this wild video footage Funny Car Driver Matt Hagan was going about 260 mph when his drag car went up in a ball of flames at the 4 lane Zmax Dragway.
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Ripton resident Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org, a global grassroots movement working to solve the climate change crisis, and Shumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. The award-winning journalist has spent more than two decades writing about global warming.
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ADDISON COUNTY — In addition to the contested races for seats in the Vermont House of Representatives, voters in several Addison County towns returned incumbent lawmakers to the House in three uncontested elections.
Winning two-year terms representing the two-seat Addison-1 district were Democratic Reps. Paul Ralston and Betty Nuovo of Middlebury. Also, Democratic Reps. Michael Fisher and David Sharpe won re-election in Addison-4 (Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton and Starksboro).
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It will take weeks to digest the political implications of Tuesday's stunning national elections, but if you had to sum it up in a word, that word might be "inclusive."
On the whole, the proposed Bristol town plan is one town residents should pass. We congratulate the Planning Commission and the Bristol selectboard for working through a litany of issues and, after eight years and a rejection of the previous town plan, proposing a plan the public can finally support.
In the race for president, set aside everything you know about the two candidates for a moment and reflect on the country you want to live in. Is it a country whose foundation is to strengthen the whole, or to strengthen the individual? Is it a country willing to help those less fortunate or do all Americans fend for themselves? Is it a country that employs a tax policy that seeks to spread wealth, or is it a country that favors a growing gap between rich and poor?
VERGENNES — Residents of the five Addison Northwest Supervisory Union towns on Tuesday will decide whether to support a $6.5 million bond that will fund repairs and major upgrades to Vergennes Union High School.
The biggest ticket items are improvements to the school's auditorium, installation of a track and an artificial turf playing field, upgrades to the kitchen and cafeteria, and roof repairs to several areas of the building.
BRISTOL — After eight years of debate, discussion and discord, the Bristol Town Plan will be on the ballot and back in the voters' hands on Election Day, Nov. 6. The Bristol Planning Commission and the Bristol selectboard, which added 42 changes to the draft given to them by the planning commission based on input from public hearings, unanimously approved the latest version.
MIDDLEBURY — A group of Addison County Democrats is logging some substantial travel miles to make New Hampshire a little bluer in advance of the Nov. 6 general election, hoping to deliver what some see as a toss-up state into the column of President Barack Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Election Day should be a national holiday simply to encourage as many American citizens as possible to make it to the polls and vote. Why not? Certainly it's a more important day than, say, Columbus Day. Ideally, voters would use at least part of the day to make a final review of the candidates. Everyone knows something about the presidential race, but a good many Americans don't know much about some of the state offices or the differences between the candidates for their state legislatures.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch are overwhelming favorites to be re-elected next week. These two candidates may get more votes than anyone else listed on the ballot, including President Obama and Gov. Shumlin. Sanders could be the top vote-getter in Vermont, with about 70 percent of the vote, with Welch not far behind in the mid-60 percent range.
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Book list In reviewing Tales of Burning Love (1996), we observed that "the power of narrative and the salvation of love have always been Erdrich's quintessential themes." Those themes remain crucial to her latest novel, but here they only sporadically shine through a cloudy sky: "History is grief and no passion is complete without its jealous backdrop." In her characteristically swirling narrative style, Erdrich tells the story of two intertwined Ojibwa families, the Roys and the Shawanos, and the fiery love that scars their souls and inhibits their freedom. We hear many voices in these overlapping and interconnected stories, jumping in time and place from a cavalryman who bayonets an Indian woman and then saves an infant girl to a reservation dog who avoids the soup pot and becomes a canine Greek chorus, but the axis around which the entire cast rotates is an event, not a person: when a smooth-talking trader abducts (or maybe just entices) a beguilingly beautiful woman from a powwow and takes her with him to Minneapolis, a tremor is felt on the mythic seismograph, echoing the past and foreshadowing the future. Some readers may have difficulty with the narrative jumps and the rich overlay of magic realism, but for those willing to slowly immerse themselves in this nonlinear world as one soaks in a hot bath, the rewards are many. Erdrich's image-rich prose seduces the reader just as her trader lures his Antelope Wife and as the other lovers across generations forge their connections ("His low, vibrant voice sank down the front of Mary's dress"). And while it is those passionate connections that again provide salvation for Erdrich's storm-tossed characters, we feel equally the power of connections to constrain, to keep Antelope Wife from stretching the horizon. --Bill Ott
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Library Journal Erdrich suffuses Minneapolis with Native American spirit.
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Publishers Weekly "Family stories repeat themselves in patterns and waves, generation to generation, across blood and time." Erdrich (Love Medicine, etc.) embroiders this theme in a sensuous novel that brings her back to the material she knows best, the emotionally dislocated lives of Native Americans who try to adhere to the tribal ways while yielding to the lure of the general culture. In a beautifully articulated tale of intertwined relationships among succeeding generations, she tells the story of the Roy and the Shawano families and their "colliding histories and destinies." The narrative begins like a fever dream with a U.S. cavalry attack on an Ojibwa village, the death of an old woman who utters a fateful word, the inadvertent kidnapping of a baby and a mother's heartbreaking quest. The descendants of the white soldier who takes the baby and of the bereaved Ojibwa mother are connected by a potent mix of tragedy, farce and mystical revelation. As time passes, there is another kidnapping, the death of a child and a suicide. Fates are determined by a necklace of blue beads, a length of sweetheart calico and a recipe for blitzkuchen. Though the saga is animated by obsessional love, mysterious disappearances, mythic legends and personal frailties, Erdrich also works in a comic vein. There's a dog who tells dirty jokes and a naked wife whose anniversary surprise has an audience. Throughout, Erdrich emphasizes the paradoxes of everyday life: braided grandmas who follow traditional ways and speak the old language also wear eyeliner and sneakers. In each generation, men and women are bewitched by love, lust and longing; they are slaves to drink, to carefully guarded secrets or to the mesmerizing power of hope. Though the plot sometimes bogs down from an overload of emotional complications, the novel ultimately celebrates the courage of following one's ordained path in the universe and meeting the challenges of fate. It is an assured example of Erdrich's storytelling skills. (Apr.)
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PBI Media agriculture magazine, The Corn & Soybean Digest, has announced the 2006 edition of a fantasy grain marketing contest called MarketMaxx. MarketMaxx is a free, Web-based marketing simulation game that allows corn and soybean growers to gain experience using marketing tools in real-world conditions without the real-world risk of losing money as they learn.
Players submit trades online using cash, futures and options markets and receive account reports, leader scoreboards and expert advice via a password-protected Web site and e-newsletter. Participants will be given a simulated value of 100,000 bushels of corn and 50,000 bushels of soybeans to trade during the contest.
The sponsors of MarketMaxx are Massey Ferguson and Syngenta Crop Protection.
Farmers who wish to know more about MarketMaxx can go to MarketMaxx.net. The Web site contains information about the contest and a tutorial to help farmers understand the various grain-marketing strategies that can be employed. Farmers can register to play now, but actual trades cannot be made until after Jan. 1, 2006. Trades can be made until Oct. 31, 2006, when the contest ends.
The contest will end with awards, including a Grand Prize Corn Winner and a Grand Prize Soybean Winner.
Prizes also will be awarded to those who finish second in the corn and soybean categories.
The Grand Prize Corn Winner will receive a year's use (not to exceed 100 separator hours) of a Massey Ferguson MF 9000 Self-Propelled combine.
The Grand Prize Soybean winner receives his choice of a year's use (not to exceed 250 hours) of any Massey Ferguson tractor in the 7400 or 8400 series.
"MarketMaxx is a fun, educational, real-life marketing simulation contest for qualified corn and soybean growers," said Greg Frey, group publisher. "During the contest, growers will use futures, options, forward pricing and cash market tools to see how these tactics might help them maximize their net income in real-life situations."
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Lauren Kennedy played in nine games, making three starts after coming back from her second knee injury... She recorded four shots, two of which were on goal... Her consistent hard work set a great example for the team... She will return as a strong leader next season.
Kennedy played in one game as a freshman...She recorded two shots.
Lauren Kennedy attended Esperanza High School...Played for John King at Esperanza...As a senior, Kennedy had nine goals and 10 assists...She led the team in scoring in her freshman and junior seasons...As a freshman, she had 15 goals and 11 assists for 41 points and as a junior, she tallied 16 goals and nine assists for 41 points...Helped Esperanza to Sunset League titles as a freshman and junior and was named First Team All-Sunset league both years...Kennedy missed her sophomore campaign with a knee injury...Following her junior season, she was also named All-Orange County...At the club level, Kennedy played with Slammers F.C. and was coached by Walid Khoury...Helped Slammers F.C. to three consecutive Surf Cups and two Nation-States titles in 2006-07...In 2008, Kennedy's team was a State Finalist and went on to win Regionals...Helped her team to qualify for the 2008 National Championships where they finished third...Was part of the Cal South ODP pool and Cal South State Tam from 2003-05...Scored the winning goal to help her ODP team win the Regional title in 2004.
Kennedy was born September 29, 1990 in Placentia, Calif....Favorite sports teams include Manchester United and the Los Angeles Lakers...Her most memorable sports moment was winning regionals in 2008...Favorite movies include How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, My Best Friend's Girl, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall...Favorite novels include The Notebook and Someone Like You...Hobbies include drawing and photography...Favorite athlete is soccer player Leo Messi...Hopes to major in communication studies at UCSB...The daughter of Rick and Linda Kennedy.
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If the weather holds, Catonsville will play in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association's Class 4A semifinal game for the first time in 15 years tonight.
"I'm so excited for my team, so eager to get on the field and play, it feels like the night before Christmas," Catonsville coach Lindsey Springer said. "We're as prepared as we're ever going to be."
The Comets, 12-3 and the No. 1 seed in the Class 4A North region, face No. 2-seeded Walter Johnson (13-1), from the 4A West region at Franklin High School at 7 p.m. The winner advances to the 6:30 p.m. state championship game Saturday at Washington College. They will play the winner of the No. 2 South River/Blake semifinal, which will be played at 5 p.m. tonight, also at Franklin.
Catonsville has been working to get to this point since Springer arrived at the school five years ago. She points to the growth of the Catonsville Recreation and Parks field hockey program that keeps her players playing and improving in the offseason, as well as the individual talent exhibited by her players, for the team's rise.
"Many of my players have been playing together since they were freshmen," Springer said. "And they've been working really hard. They're very united and have a strong bond. And their determination has been a huge factor.
Hereford coach Tammy Mundie said she was impressed by Catonsville in an early season game.
"We had a really good game," said Mundie, whose team is undefeated and plays in the 3A semifinal Wednesday at Broadneck. "Athlete for athlete they're a very strong, talented team."
Leading the forward attack is junior Brooke Stevens, who scored the team's two goals in the Comets' 2-1 region final victory over Dulaney, sophomores Emma Clark and Catherine Sweeney and senior Grace Campbell.
A senior-dominated midfield of Maddie Hunt, Kendall Law and Rachel Saks works the transition from defense to offense and back again. And in the back, captain Kelly Reyman directs the defense and senior Maggie Whelley takes charge when she senses it's time.
"Kelly and Maggie feed off each other," Springer said. "They are both calm and cool in the back, which is exactly what you need."
Both help sophomore goalie Venessa Tracy build confidence and protect the goal.
"Venessa is still being fine tuned," Springer said. "But she had a phenomenal defensive game against Dulaney and is really the reason we won."
Now, they're trying to go where only one Catonsville team, the 1988 finalists, has ever been.
"This team is not only physically prepared, its mentally and emotionally ready," Springer said. "At this point, you can't do anything more physically, it's all about the mental and emotional state. We're going in to this game ready to play."


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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Dedexer in Softpedia
Wow, I got an e-mail that dedexer 1.5 got included into Softpedia. The funny thing is that it got included into the Mac development tool section. I have already got a number of questions from Android developers working on Mac. Is it so that Mac is a favourite platform for Android developers or is it just my fortune? Any opinions?
Posted by Gabor Paller at 10:21 PM
5 comments:
- Kevin McDonagh said...
I wish it were the preffered platform! I think the majority of us use some flavour of Linux. Myself I swear by OSX.
- August 29, 2009 at 1:44 AM
I absolutely can agree with Kevin!
- September 11, 2009 at 2:28 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
OK, two devoted votes for Mac platform. :-)
- September 12, 2009 at 9:03 PM
- Dimitar Dimitrov said...
In the environment I work, a lot of the Android developers use Macs, because they are part of Mobile departments of their companies and they usually work with iPhone SDK also.
I fall in this category also :)
- September 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- JonasBeckman said...
And I absolutely agree with Theo.
You may be on to something here. :-)
- September 27, 2009 at 8:52 PM
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Whats so great about getting away by yourself (aside for being able to watch an entire movie on the plane and just needing one carry on which consisted of my hand bag) is being able to take a step out of your life and look at it from the outside.
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Yesterday's Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial supporting an increase in the minimum wage in Minnesota to $7.00 deserves much more attention. The Star Tribune editorial plays into a Democratic effort that seeks to use the Democratic majority in the Minnesota Senate to roll House Republicans (holding a tenuous majority) and present Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty with the unpalatable alternative of signing or vetoing the bill. I wrote about the editorial in "Faith and economics at the Star Tribune." The only thing the editorial gets right is the scent of weakness that it picks up on the Republican side.
Many readers wrote with excellent points on the subject. The Star Tribune editorial is extraordinarily misleading for such a short piece, but is otherwise par for course at the Star Tribune. Here are a couple of considerations overlooked in the editorial.
The editorial refers to fourteen other states including Oregon and Washington as having already raised their minimum wage. I took a look at Oregon. The minimum wage in Oregon is $7.25 as of January 1, 2004, and is adjusted annually for inflation by a calculation using the U.S. City Average Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for All Items.
The current federal minimum wage is $5.15. Oregon's minimun wage was raised in stages beginning in January 1997. It was raised from $5.50 to $6.00 in 1998 and $6.50 in 1999. The raises in the minimum wage roughly coincided with a long period of stagnation in job growth. In 2004, job growth made a slight recovery after more than three years of stagnation. Before 2004, Oregon had held the highest or second highest unemployment rate in the country for 41 months. See the January 14, 2005 AP story "Oregon unemployment rate drops to 6.8 percent." It would be nice if the Star Tribune had provided some context to its encouragement of Minnesota's emulation of Oregon.
The Star Tribune editorial implies that raising the minimum wage is a good method of reducing destitution among the poorest workers. Put to one side the fact that the editorial passes over in silence the effect of the earned income tax credit, which by itself belies the point of the editorial. The Star Tribune fails to provide any information to substantiate the implication of its editorial, and in fact it appears to be erroneous.
The Employment Policies Institute has calculated the average family income of employees who would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage based on Census Bureau Data (click here). According to the EPI breakdown (based on 2003 data), the average family income of Minnesota's destitute minimum wage workers is…$57,421. Funny that the Star Tribune didn't get around to entertaining this consideration in its editorial either.
There is much more to be said on the subject, but my last point this morning is political. It's time for a gut check on the part of Minnesota Republicans.
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To call this new Kiir-Machar government as being made up of former "enemies" is an understatement. Without any doubt, this is still the same SPLM 'comrades' government made up of self-preserving, remorseless and immoral criminals and killers who are very much adept at mutating and recycling themselves back into these lucrative positions of leadership mainly because they shared the similar commonalities.
Verily, the road ahead for the new Kiir-Machar (SPLM-IG and SPLM-IO) is already heavily mined by mutual disagreements, obfuscations, dilly-dallying and endemic paralysis which will again end up in mutual self-destruction and another gargantuan disappointment for our people and the international community helping the new nation.
Once more, in their duplicitous and long political lives, Machar, Lam Akol, Lado Gore, Deng Alor, Taban Gai, et al…, have all come back, once again, to their degenerate SPLM political party and its dysfunctional government under their same incompetent leader, Kiir Mayardit.
South Sudan has within a historic world-record time become the most ungovernable country in East Africa not because of its patient and long-suffering people but principally due its so-called miscreant SPLM leaders that incorporates all of you, so-called SPLM In-and-Opposed to Government.
What's really new or different this time in this SPLM/A new political marriage? For the second, third and God knows how many times, most of you all have been shamefully labelled as thieves and traitors; almost all of you were at one point, publicly dismissed, imprisoned and disgraced from this anarchic and archaic monstrosity called the SPLM/A by none other your Great Satan, Kiir Mayardit himself.
But again and again, like some Satanic incarnations, most of you, despite the imprisonment, near death-misses and public embarrassment, you all shamelessly have silently capitulated and crawled on your knees back to your 'Almighty Devil' Mayardit.
Poignantly, according to the latest analysis by "The Sentry.org," South Sudan (presumably both SPLM's) elites, after assuming power in 2005, "have built a kleptocratic regime that controls all sectors of the economy, and have squandered a historic chance for the development of a functional state. These predatory economic networks play a central role in the current civil war, because much of the conflict is driven by (SPLM) elites trying to re-negotiate their share of the politico-economic power balance through violence."
The Report "acknowledges that the (Machar's) rebels were also part of this kleptocratic system in the past, and are more likely to be involved again in the event of a negotiated settlement."
The above assessment is absolutely indisputable, you had the privilege to once again 're-negotiate' yourselves back into the politico-economic realm through a war that future generations of South Sudanese will furiously debate whether it was really necessary as a first alternative.
During your collective involvement pre-2013 political disengagement from Kiir's government, EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU, whilst in the Kiir's cabinet, illicitly benefited in one or multiple ways in the on-going massive corruption, either indirectly or directly.
IF ANYONE OF YOU WAS EVER CLEANER THAN YOUR ALMIGHTY KIIR, WHY HASN'T ANYONE OF YOU COME FORWARD AND POINT THE FINGER ON KIIR HIMSELF or OTHERS OF YOUR COMRADES WHO ARE UNASHAMEDLY AND LAVISHLY WALLOWING IN THEIR ILL-BEGOTTEN RICHES AS THOUSANDS ARE DYING OF HUNGER AND DISEASES RIGHT NOW ACROSS THE NATION?
In a rare show of honesty, President Kiir in 2012 shocked the nation by revealing that 75 of his officials had stolen a whooping 4 billion dollars but he stopped short of naming a single individual. Then all of you were in the government and top suspects. Why hasn't Machar or anyone of you in the opposing SPLM come out and name somebody or all in the SPLM in government who are the suspects, just for political expediency?
Regardless, in the public opinion of most South Sudan, now wallowing in poverty and hunger, they know you are completely involved in the corruption and you are suspects till the end.
Interestingly, your Almighty Godfather, Kiir Mayardit and his clown/vice, Wani-Igga, repeatedly and publicly have exposed the ONLY alleged 30 million dollar theft by Pagan Amum, (money given by Sudan's el Bashir to build your Juba party headquarters), the now reappointed secretary-general of your party, who's most unlikely to return to Juba because of the embarrassment, intimidation and threat of prosecution.
Your collective silence on and about the past or current corruption is a duplicitous conspiracy to save your own skins and to reassure the Satanic Kiir that you all agree not to rock the boat, a deliberate capitulation to ensure and guarantee your self-preservation even when one of your comrades, Pagan Amum, is being publicly crucified.
Further, it's apparently indisputable that the recurrence of conflicts within your degenerate SPLM party and the dysfunctional governments shuffled and reshuffled by your almighty Kiir basically stemmed from the unending, long-running competition among you, the ruling elites, for more power and profits.
Interestingly, Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba, the most leading SPLM ideologue, frankly attributed all the past and present national problems to what he called 'the SPLM original sin,' and that the shortcomings of the Kiir's Government of South Sudan (GOSS) are wholly pegged on the SPLM, the rot began in the SPLM and there is no way the SPLM leadership can escape responsibility for this cataclysmic failure.
Now surprisingly back once again as a minister in this Satanic government, Dr. Nyaba also once wrote that his ruling SPLM had drastically "cost the people of South Sudan more than 10 years of missed development opportunities," and he clearly attributed this to the "ideology of these SPLM leaders as informed and shaped by their ethnic environment as the SPLM liberation ideology surely failed to penetrate this ossified jieeng ethnic ideology."
In the most simplified deduction, therefore, the SPLM liberation ideology was subverted by and subsumed into the jieeng ethnic ideology; all other ethnic groups in South Sudan were, as a matter of fact, naively and inadvertently perpetuating jieeng supremacy and domination as now so clearly apparent.
The question is: Why are you so maniacally obsessed with your collective reincarnation back into this dysfunctional government and your degenerate SPLM party and its severely fractured and ill-famed military wing, the SPLA?
Isn't this what Dr. Adwok Nyaba himself had once described that "Kiir survived by the malice of fate?"
Momentarily, the current tenuous peace will probably be effected under the JMEC monitoring but at the expense of any justice and accountability on a butch of very disagreeable and disingenuous 'comrades-cum-leaders' of an archaic, diabolical and self-destructive organization known as the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army, aka SPLM/A.
More infamously remembered for its historical episodes of horrendous and abominable murders, rapes and human rights abuses, practically every member of this SPLM/A without exception has contributed to the stigmatization of citizens of the nation by their collective criminality.
Thus, with this so-called peace accord, these criminals and murderers, be it president Salva Kiir, Riek Machar, Lam Akol, Taban Gai, Deng, Deng Alor… et al, are soon back to business as usual.
South Sudanese must be painfully reminded that right from the first existence of the criminal SPLM/A in 1983, its founder, John Garang, accompanied by those of president Kiir, Kuol Manyang, Malong and others, without any provocation launched the infamous Bilpham, Ethiopia, attack on the already existent Anya Nya liberation movement, mercilessly eliminating those heroes like Gai Tut, Akot Atem and many others.
Again, more infamously, when the same Riek Machar and Lam Akol launched their internal rebellion in 1991 against mainstream SPLM of Garang, thousands and thousands of South Sudanese were murdered and brutalized by either side, this reign of terrorism continued until their reintegration into the SPLM/A.
It is believed that more South Sudanese have been killed and severely traumatized by you, the SPLM/A leaders, Garang, Kiir, Machar, Lam…. et al, than by our erstwhile enemies, the jellaba Arab North Sudanese.
The current national circulation of the propaganda and euphoria of so-called heroes and peace is a falsification of the reality, what have president Kiir and Rebel Riak Machar seriously accomplished? Where is justice for those South Sudanese needlessly murdered by Kiir and Machar?
It's only in South Sudan, a nation and a people the SPLM/A has so much traumatized, that criminals freely recycle and reincarnate themselves back into power without repentance, remorse or prosecution.
South Sudan is admittedly a failed state and an outlaw state that has in a stupendous world record time gone through the infamous combined 'somalization' and 'Rwanda genocidal traumatization by its rebels-turned-leaders and with their return, the nation's and people's future is once more in the balance.
So, very soon, our murderers and thieves, Kiir, Machar, Lam, Taban, Manyang, Alor and all the infamous SPLM/A comrades will be unashamedly back into the top national leadership and once again recklessly and irresponsibly steering the nation's ship into another calamity.
Dr. Lual Deng, another SPLM ideologue now sorrily relegated to a mere 'SPLM headquarters office-boy,' was rightly suspicious of President Kiir's choice to replace the dead Garang and of Kiir's inherent inability to leadership, by writing down that, "..the development of the promised land (South Sudan) is a different mission that requires a different leader, and we expect divine intervention in this respect…."
Has God really not abandoned South Sudan when priests, bishops, archbishops, deacons are immorally cohabiting with those ruling sinners of South Sudan, attending their ostentatious parties and dinners and even blessing the exotic foods, whiskies and beers while the majority of Juba residents are barely eating one meal a day?
Again, Dr. Lual Deng, Ph.D., further opined that, "A government that murders its own people has no moral basis or legitimacy to govern whatsoever," in his book, 'The Power of Creative Reasoning.' He was directly referring to the Kiir Juba junta but sadly, this supposedly top SPLM intellectual, has been mysteriously sucked into this monstrosity, in spite of his hitherto vociferous writings against president Kiir failed and corrupt leadership, perhaps the tribal force known as 'jieengism' is more powerful than nationalism, as he's unscrupulously abetting what he once called the "sclerotic management in the SPLM bureaucracy."
In conclusion, from 1983 to 2013, most of you have again and again deliberately, conjointly or duplicitiously involved in the deadly and cyclical episodes of political and ethnic, as well personal rivalries in which innocent citizens have needlessly perished.
The conclusion reached by experts is correct: You, "the country's elites have built a kleptocratic regime that controls all sectors of the economy, and have squandered a historic chance for the development of a functional state."
Since independence, South Sudan has been controlled by a small, rotating set of elites who move seamlessly between positions in government and the frontlines of the rebellion, as political situations change.
TheSentry.org report ends by the conclusion that, "only reforming and forcing the South Sudanese state to actually serve its people, instead of its leaders, can the country actually move towards a more sustainable peace."
There must be some accountability and transitional justice, these SPLM/A murderers can't be simply allowed to evade justice for their habitual acts of criminality. END


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Acclimate (ac·cli·mate): "To become accustomed to a new climate or to new conditions. Also to harden off a plant."
Acclimating blueberry plants helps to avoid stress to new plants and transplants. It is our strong recommendation for plants that are leafed out and not dormant. Most of our blueberry plants arrive to you potted with tender new growth, since they were grown in the controlled environment of our greenhouses. This tender new growth can be sensitive to things like direct sunlight and sudden changes in temperature, so acclimating blueberry plants to their new environment will help provide them with a great start.
Things that may cause injury to tender new growth in transplants:
These conditions are more likely to occur during early spring, but can be expected during different times of year in different areas. Here are a few steps we recommend you follow to acclimate (or harden off) your blueberry plants before planting outdoors:
1. Upon arrival, keep blueberry plants in the pots they arrived in and place them in a sheltered, shady spot outdoors — like on a back porch. Leave them there for 3-4 hours and gradually increase the time spent outside by 1-2 hours per day. Bring them back indoors each night.
2. After 2-3 days of this acclimation process, begin transitioning the blueberry plants from their shaded spot to one that provides some morning sun. Return them to the shade in the afternoon. If this conflicts with your schedule, try moving the plants to an area that receives filtered sunlight instead, which is less intense than direct sun. Be sure still to bring them indoors again overnight.
3. After 7-10 days, and if the weather conditions are right, your blueberry plants are ready for planting in a permanent location. For best results, try to plant tender plants on a cloudy day.
Please note: these are general recommendations. Your particular growing environment might require a slight variation on these guidelines, since some plants can take more time (or less time) than others to harden off. Factors like the current year's weather, individual plants, and your location can affect the acclimation process.
The best way to succeed is to plan before you plant. Let's discuss location: Do you know where you want to plant your new berry plant? Avoid many future problems by considering all aspects of the planting spot, such as:
Is a pollinator variety present? Cross-pollination by a different variety, of the same type of plant, is key to the success of many plants. In most cases, its absence is why the plant doesn't bear fruit or produces poorly. Most berry plants are self-pollinating, but for a larger fruit and crop plant more than one variety.
Your plant would love a sunny place with well-drained, fertile soil. But it will be quite satisfied with six to eight hours of sunlight. Good drainage is required to keep your plant "happy." If your soil has high clay content, use our Coco-Fiber Potting Medium or add one-third peat to the soil at planting time. We do not recommend planting berries in heavy, pure clay soils.
Even if your yard isn't the most ideal location, take heart. Most berries are very adaptable and respond well to fertilizers, so they can get along well even where the soil is nutritionally poor. Just steer clear of sites with extremely heavy soils or very poor drainage.
Once you've found out about fruit growing goodness firsthand, you'll want to expand your home orchard. It's important to plan so that the future growth areas will be ready when you are.
Few things are as delicious as homegrown blueberries, and the success of your harvest begins right with the planting site and method. For maximum growth and yields later on, give your plants the best foundation possible.
Before you plant, check your soil pH. This can be done by contacting your local County Extension Office for information about soil testing in your area, or purchase one of our digital meters for quick and accurate results. Ideally, your blueberries need a soil pH between 4.5-5.5, but below 6.5 will work. To amend your soil, use a soil acidifier. Steer clear of soils that are extremely heavy or very poorly drained.
Growing blueberries in a container is ideal for patios, decks or porches.
Preparing your soil before you plant will greatly improve your plant's performance and promote healthy, vigorous growth. It is a good idea to have your soil tested to determine if it is lacking in any essential minerals and nutrients. This can be done through your County Extension Office or with one of our digital meters.
The goal of soil preparation is to replenish vital minerals and nutrients, as well as break up and loosen any compacted soil.
Soil preparation can be done at any time that the ground is not too wet or frozen. Your trees may be planted even when temperatures are quite cool. If a hard frost is expected, it is advisable to delay planting for a while until temperatures become more moderate. Generally, as long as your soil is workable, it is fine to plant.
Your lawn can provide you with ideal organic materials such as grass clippings and shredded leaves. Not only will the grass and leaves break down to provide soil nutrients, but they will help loosen the soil as well. You can gather these in the fall with spring planting in mind.
Adding organic materials, such as our Coco-Fiber Potting Medium and compost will improve most every soil type. Organic materials bind sandy soil particles so they retain moisture and nutrients better. They also break apart clay and silt particles, so that water can infiltrate and roots can spread.
Fertilizing is an excellent way to replenish the natural nutrients in your plant's soil. We recommend a solution of Stark® Blueberry Special Fertilizer, which is specifically formulated for blueberries.
Every plant has the future potential for disease and insect damage. Factors such as location and weather will play a part in which issues your plants encounters. If available, disease-resistant varieties are the best option for easy care; and for all types of plants, proper maintenance (such as watering, pruning, spraying, weeding, and cleanup) can help keep most insects and diseases at bay.
Usually on bark of young twigs and branches, encrusted with small (1/16") hard, circular, scaly raised bumps with yellow centers, may also be on fruit. Sap feeding weakens the tree.
Wilted tip on plants indicates a possibility of a little borer. If it breaks off readily, and is hollow, prune back branch until no longer hollow. Burn all pruning.
Pale yellow or 'dirty' green worms. Leaves are rolled and webbed together where insects feed. Eventually becomes skeletonized.
Gray, hairy mold decays blossoms, green and ripening fruit as well as harvested fruit.
Bladder type enlargements of all or part of a leaf, white or pink and soft, turning brown and hard with age. Seldom serious, but in wet seasons in the south, the number of galls can be quite high, hand pick and destroy. This is more of a problem in the south.
Whitish-gray powdery mold or felt like patches on buds, young leaves and twigs. Leaves may be crinkle and curl upward. Over winters in fallen leaves.
Young growing tips wilt and dry just before blossoming. Fruits are yellowish, firm, leathery, turn dark and mummify.
Pinpoint size, many different colors. Found on undersides of leaves. Severe infestations have some silken webbing. Sap feeding causes bronzing of leaves.
They are the size of a pinhead and vary in color depending on the species. Cluster on stems and under leaves, sucking plant juices. Leaves then curl, thicken, yellow and die. Produce large amounts of a liquid waste called "honeydew". Aphid sticky residue becomes growth media for sooty mold.
Small oval insects, color range from pale green to reddish brown or black. Feed by sucking sap, signs of infection discoloration, deformed shoot and stems, curling of leaves and lesions.
Immature bugs are small green, soft-bodied and adults are small (1/4") winged insect that feed on the plant sap. They are surround by a white mass that looks like spit. They suck on the sap, weakening the plants.
Adults are similar to a Cherry Fruit Fly and Apple Maggot. The larvae will tunnel and lay their eggs in fruit, usually in ripe fruit. Prompt harvest is very necessary.
Adult is a metallic green beetle, which skeletonizes leaves. Larvae are a grub, which feeds on turf roots. Check turf product labels for timing of control of grubs. This is more of a problem east of the Mississippi River.
Immature flies are soft-body with tiny legs. Adults are wasp like in general body shape and some have yellow and black markings or are entirely black. Larvae feed on leaves and spin a cocoon when fully grown.
Small insects, less than 1/2" long, with feathery wings, yellow to brown in color. Cause damage if they lay eggs in fruit soon after bloom, scarring the fruit. In summer they feed on new vegetative growth, and damage summer fruit (not usually considered a problem).
Adults are hard-bodied, long snouts, usually dark colored. Feed on leaves, flowers and developing buds. Larvae are white grubs that live inside plant tissue; some live underground and feed on the roots.
Flowers turn brown, new shoots are blackened in center and wither and die. As berries ripen they become cream to pale pink, then tan or whitish gray, then shrivel and harden.
Various colors and similar to aphids this small, active, slender-winged insects are usually found on the underside of leaves. Retard growth, leaves become whitened, stippled or mottled. Tips may wither and die. This insect carries virus of certain very harmful plant diseases.
The fungus thrives in cool, moist conditions. Usually begins on plant debris, weak or inactive plant tissue, than invades healthy plant tissue. Causes spotting and decay of flowers and foliage, tissue becomes soft and watery. Affected parts of plant could wilt and collapse. If humidity remains high a grayish-brown coating and spores develops over the surface of the collapsed tissue.
Good sanitation will help avoid the problem.
Remove and destroy dead leaves, flowers and dead plants.
Water the plants at soil level and not on foliage.
New cankers appear on bark as small circular spots that are red or purple when wet. When they enlarge they become sunken orange to brown areas in the bark. As the cankers age, bark sloughs off exposing wood beneath, or disintegrates exposing fibers that give the area a 'fiddle string' appearance. Cankers usually do not grow larger after first year's growth. Brown spots appear on leaves and fruit. At harvest the fungus can infect the fruit. Fruit lesions are circular, brown and sunken with gray or cream centers (Bull's Eye rot). Disease rarely kills tree, usually confined to small branches and twigs.
Pruning is an important part of proper edible plant care, but many people find the task overwhelming. It doesn't have to be! Keep these things in mind:
Blueberries should be pruned during the winter while the bushes are dormant. In winter, flower buds are easily visible on one-year-old wood and their numbers can be adjusted by pruning to regulate the crop load for the coming year. Blueberries do not need to be pruned in the first year. Pruning should be moderately heavy in the second year.
If vigorous, well-rooted two-year-old plants are set, they do not need cutting back the first year except to remove fruit buds shortly after planting. Pruning should be moderately heavy in the second year to stimulate strong new growth on selected canes. Do not permit plants younger than three years of age to bear more than a cluster or two of fruit, or the onset of the commercially productive period will be delayed. A large bearing area should be established in the shortest possible time.
Make large "shaping cuts" — remove all low-spreading branches and the oldest canes if they are weak, particularly if in the center of the plant. "Head back" the upright "bull shoots" to the desired height to keep the bush from growing too tall. Essentially, you have then automatically selected the remaining, more upright canes to bear your crop next season and the following season.
On the remaining canes, systematically "thin out" the shorter, thinner shoots, leaving enough of the thick shoots to bear the crop and make new growth. Only experience can tell you how many shoots a particular variety of a particular age can carry and still perform well. It is probably better in most instances to prune too lightly than too heavily. Lighter pruning is usually practiced, as the plant grows older because it can carry more "wood" successfully due to a larger root system.
When blueberries are about 8 to 10 years old, they are at their productive peak— but renewal growth has reached a minimum, and production will begin to decline from year to year. To prolong your plant's productivity, renewal pruning is needed. Some provision must be made to revitalize the plant to prolong its productive period.
A good reference book, such as Pruning Made Easy, can answer questions and guide you through the pruning process.
Spraying is important to the survival of your plants. To handle potential diseases and pests, reference the guidelines below to know what you should spray, and when you should use it.
Before you begin, read and follow all instructions on labels.
(DO NOT use on large trees)
Are you ready to enjoy delicious homegrown fruit? Harvest is the time to enjoy the results of your hard work. Keep a few things in consideration as you reap the fruits of your labor: the best time to pick the fruit, and how to store your harvest.
You can start harvesting your berries in the second season. The berry color should be blue or pink depending on the variety. Just because they are blue or pink does not mean they are ripe, they need about 7-10 days to develop fully. Put your picking container underneath a bunch of blueberries and gentle run your hand over the cluster and the ripe berries will fall off. During the ripening season check every day for ripe berries.
Blueberries will keep up to a week in your refrigerator. If not able to use right away put berries on a cookie sheet in a single layer and freeze until firm and then put them in freezer bags to enjoy all year long.
Annual average yield per plant:


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My family and I found the staff at Pine Ridge Condos to be friendly and very helpful. The cabin was very spacious and clean. Christy's Sports shop is located in the same building and made it very convenient to rent our skis and snowboards. The one-block distance to downtown made it easy to walk to the restaurants and shops without having to wait for a bus. Since Pine Ridge is a regular stop for the free bus service, it was very easy to get to the ski lifts from our condo. We will DEFINITELY stay here next year.
Stayed February 2012, traveled with family


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Grab your gun and bring in the cat.
Let's be about it. (Honor Harrington)
I love this ship. I have from the first moment I saw it.
Better the illusions that exalt us, than 10,000 truths. (A. Puskin)
EW: The Expanse: Exclusive intel and first look at fan favorite Bobbie Draper 7/13/16
Better biggerer production stills should become available once Entertainment Weekly's exclusive expires.
Definitely excited for Season 2. Season 1 felt like it cracked open so many doors but we only got a few brief glimpses through each one, hopefully Season 2 will shed some more light on the characters and the setting. I feel like alot of the secondary actors didn't get as much screen time as I would've liked, so I'm very interested in seeing more of Jared Harris' and Chad Coleman's characters and what they've got going on behind closed doors...
"I've always wanted to fight a desperate battle against incredible odds..."
I have to say. I watched the first few episodes and I was not hooked. I actually feel asleep during them. Could be because I was exhausted but... anyway, I didn't get it but more important I hated the advertisement, "Battlestar Galactica meets Game of Thrones." Ugh. I believe that's what bugged me most about it. Also, I had a problem with Miller's motivation to save this rich girl. Was he bored with his current situation? Was he just creepy and wanted to help a hot chick? Was he in it for the money? I felt like it was one of those, "If you only read the book, you'd understand."
So, I skipped this show.
Then, folks started asking me if I had seen "The Expanse"? I responded exactly what you just read above.
FF'd to last month. The Expanse was on Amazon Prime so I gave it another shot. What got me hooked: Shohreh Aghdashloo's performance; the characters, and anything Martian. I especially love Gunny Honey Bunny!! She would so kick my ass oif she heard that (and I would love every moment). It definitely has a Firefly vibe more than Game of Thrones or Battlestar. I still feel there are a lot of winks and nods to the books. Not having read them, I cannot confirm that. That being said, I'm a fan checking it out week-to-week.
I have to say this show benefits from repeated viewings. During the first season I enjoyed the first few episodes, but had not fallen in love with it. Then I saw CQB and the scene at the end where they get on board the Tachi and escaped from the dying Donnager. I was hooked. Going back and rewatching that first season, I really found that I enjoyed it much more than the first time around. Season 2 was even better than season one. I hope this is a show that gets to tell the entire story of the books (which are awesome if you haven't read them) before being cancelled.
I have such mixed feelings...
First let me say that
I love space SciFi. I love space operas.
I love a long in-depth developing story.
I really love the books.
I read all the books twice before Season 1.
It's great to see our heros on screen.
All the actors get their character and make them believable.
And the Roci - love that ship!
There are differences here and there from the book story, but it works well.
The world building is subtle and has so much depth.
The look of it, is spectacular, so cinematic. It's beautiful !!
I hope it won't get cancelled until they get through all the books.
So why the mixed feelings?
Something is missing for me, and I can't figure out what.
Still thinking about it.
Grab your gun and bring in the cat.
Let's be about it. (Honor Harrington)
I love this ship. I have from the first moment I saw it.
Better the illusions that exalt us, than 10,000 truths. (A. Puskin)
I am starting to see that come out in season two although I haven't seen it past the first three episodes. For me it's a little bit like Firefly in that I just have an affection for all the characters and that just didn't translate onto the screen in the first season... Make sense or no?
I hope the Expanse makes it a few seasons, it's certainly one of the best things around right now.
"Perverting common wisdom, Nephew, is a mark of all great conspiracies." Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
" ...in Maryland, you can marry your robot." Audra
""What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?" Amos said. "Give 'em a break. It's their first."
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
"I think the world is often like that." "Like what?" "Comic, but only at the right distance."
― Daniel Abraham, The Dragon's Path
Much of the humor is missing.
Also the deep camaraderie.
I think the attempt to make the TV version "dramatic", only makes the crew come across as eternally hostile to each other. Especially the exchanges between Holden and Amos.
And that just ain't in the books.
Nevertheless, still enjoying this immensely.
Grab your gun and bring in the cat.
Let's be about it. (Honor Harrington)
I love this ship. I have from the first moment I saw it.
Better the illusions that exalt us, than 10,000 truths. (A. Puskin)


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What foods are low and safe with potassium … Dr said to avoid potassium
A: While potassium balance is important for muscular function and cardiovascular health, there are some conditions that require the adoption of a low-potassium diet. It's great that you're actively seeking nutritious foods to eat that still allow you to follow your diet! Many fruits and vegetables are low in potassium while offering plenty of other nutrients. Some of them include one serving of:
- Fruits: Apples, apricots, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, cranberries, grapes, peaches, pears, pineapples, plums, raspberries, strawberries, and watermelon.
Vegetables: Asparagus, green beans, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, corn
- cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, peas, water chestnuts, and yellow and zucchini squash.
It's important to remember that almost all foods have some potassium. Consuming more than one serving at a time of these fruits and vegetables can turn a normally low-potassium food into a high-potassium serving of that food. Also, cooking these vegetables in a substantial amount of water and draining them can leech potassium out of vegetables, or cause it to be pulled out into the surrounding water.


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British Downhill Series - 25th/26th August 2012
Brad Mather (our sponsored rider) on the fly at the British Downhill Series at Bringewood, Shropshire. Narrowly missing out on a podium spot after achieving 6th place.
Read his story below...
Event: British Downhill Series - Round 5
Date: 25th & 26th August 2012
Place: Bringewood, Shropshire
Riding: Empire Cycles AP-1
Saturday - Practice.
We arrived at the 5th round of the British Downhill Series at Bringewood, Shropshire. Before practice started I did a brief track walk just to see some changes made for this race, I had raced here earlier in the year so I knew what to expect. Practice started at 9.00 am on the dot and riders were keen to get some early runs in, I started around 10.30 to let the track become a bit clear of the mud, first run I coasted down the track to check it out, the rain overnight had made the ground into ice, dry tyres and wet clay do not mix with plenty of front wheel drift action going on. The track had been widened to open up the opportunity for new lines to give riders some sort of option. I found main line to be quickest and held well all through practice. The track started to dry out and became fast and tacky, Then around 1 oclock it smashed it down, I had just got back to the van before the rain had started, the track was ruined, axle deep ruts and thicker mud developed in less than 10 minutes, so I decided to call it a day with 6 runs in the bag.
Sunday Race day.
Sunday morning was race day, I was keen to get morning practice underway and to do 2 runs, first practice run was to check out the course to see what had happened to the track from Saturday. Luckily the guys from the race had done some well needed track repairing with axle deep rut now dug out and berms rebuilt. The morning went well with 2 practice runs completed and everything running well. Practice finished at 10.30 am and qualifying was underway, I headed up for my run at 1 oclock and was 2nd to last down in expert category, the run did not go how I had planned.
I couldnt get myself into a rhythm and was trying too hard and tiring myself out, as I headed into the second woods I slipped a pedal and cut my shin open. The run didn't end well and I crossed the finish line in a slack position of 20th. I sat down and regained my energy for my race run. I was at the start line for final race runs, the track had dried out and a change of tyres put me on drys for this run. I started off closer to the front of the pack as I qualified a poor position. I set off determined to put an good run together, dry tyres were a good choice and were working well, I had more energy and fell a lot smoother, the run was going well, a couple of mistakes on the open section were I missed a few pedals, but the run was good, sprinting to the finish line I took first place and was in the hot seat for a while. I waited eagerly and was knocked off and in the end got took down to 6th position, I was gutted just missing a podium.
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Sept. 6, 2011
QUINCY, Mass. - With a free kick goal by Juliana Speno in the 56th minute, Eastern Nazarene College (2-1) was able to slip past women's soccer (2-1) by the final score of 1-0 on a cold and rainy Tuesday night at Veterans Stadium.
Speno's goal, which found the far left post, was driven into the box from about 20 yards out. With a wall of Beacon defenders in her way, Speno managed to bend the ball past the defense and with a quick bounce off the turf broke the scoreless draw with just over 33 minutes left in the second half. The deciding goal was the third of the year for Speno, who is currently leading Eastern Nazarene in scoring this season.
Not to be outdone, the Beacons offense also had their chances as well throughout Tuesday's match-up. One of their best opportunities came late in the second half, when freshman Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, MA/West Bridgewater) nearly flicked the ball over Eastern Nazarene goalkeeper Lisa Clark. Clark however managed to deflect the ball wide to preserve the shutout.
Ledin led the Beacons offense with a combined four shots, two of which were on goal. Speno was the top forward for the Lions totaling three shots in the match, including the game-winner.
In total, the Beacons combined for nine shots in the contest, while their non-conference opponent combined for eight. Freshman goalkeeper Dani Perkins (Murrieta, CA/Murrieta Valley) totaled four saves in match. Both teams were extremely physical as they not only battled each other for control of the ball, but the extremely wet turf as well.
Eastern Nazarene held the advantage in corner kicks with three, as compared to UMass Boston's 2.
Women's soccer returns to action next Thursday when they travel to Bridgewater State University for a 7 p.m. non-conference match.


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Shoes Like Pottery
—01. Natural japanese canvas, produced in a kiln.
While you may not always be able to improve upon a classic, you can adapt, develop, and refine it. Thanks to a post on the frequently informative Ready For The House this week, Shoes Like Pottery are now very much on my radar. The company make impeccable canvas and rubber footwear in Japan not too dissimilar from the classic styles produced by BF Goodrich and Converse in years passed. However where these shoes differ is in the manufacturing: each pair is made at the MoonStar factory in Kurume, Japan, where the rubber is attached to the canvas shoe by baking it in a kiln.
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By Cody Willard
We have thousands of Top 5 Apps Lists for all kinds of interests, hobbies and professions at AppConsumer.com. You can search for the best five apps for your own interest, hobby or profession (ie, art, guitarists, football, weight-loss, investment, etc) using the search box below and click through to AppConsumer:
When Softee dropped below $25 and the yield on the stock climbed above ten-year Treasuries yields, hitting nearly 3%, I added Microsoft to the Revolution Investing model portfolio.
It's a far different play than some of my other tech longs, which are much more clearly in all out growth mode and have a much more transparent path to winning the app wars that are changing everything we're doing in this world.
Let's run through the bull and bear cases for Softee here.
Bull points:
- Yield is still paying as much as you get from the ten-year Treasury, even after rallying 10%.
- Huge stockpile of cash, about $40 billion in net cash and will add tens of billions more in the next couple years to that stockpile.
- The stock is cheap trading at less than 10 times next year's new estimates after yesterday's quarter made everybody bump up their numbers.
- The stock is even cheaper if you go ex-cash and subtract the $40 billion from the market cap, and you end up with a P/E of less 8.
- The new Xbox 360 Kinect system is going to be a huge hit for consumers (and will mark the top of the obesity epidemic in this country, as exercise becomes required for even couch potato video gamers). This is the main catalyst for the stock in the next few quarters.
Bear points –
- "Windows Phone Mobile 9187.872 for home users", er, "Windows Phone 7" isn't up to snuff. Why does Softee always roll out products that aren't ready for primetime and make people hate Microsoft products? From the Zune, to the Kin to Windows 7, these products needed more time in the $3 million per day research and development division at Softee. Did you know that Windows 7 phones don't have copy and paste functionality? You can't send videos as MMS messages? Who the hell wants a phone that doesn't have such basic functionalities in 2010? Microsoft Office products barely work on the new Windows 7 and work much better on Android and iPhone. Can you imagine? Sigh.
- The fact Steve Ballmer lets the welfare idiots at Goldman talk him into trying to financially engineer Softee's balance sheet by taking on billions in debt to do stock buy backs is yet another reason to fire that guy. Office Depot's CEO finally got the hook for having destroyed their franchise with debt-fueled stock buybacks.
- Steve Ballmer. Did I mention the need for new leadership at Softee? Only hundreds of times in print and on TV over the last eight years. Bill, I know Stevie is your old bud from college — fire him anyway. The stock would pop 10% over night and be up 50% in six months just off relief of having someone else run this company.
- Kin
- Zune
- Bing – sorry, I know every one wants to call Bing a success, but it ain't. Come on, it's a poor alternative for people who truly hate Google more than they hate Microsoft to use. It's not exactly a total failure like the Kin and the Zune, but it's far from being a success.
- Remember Microsoft Bob? Great use of R&D spending once again…not.
It's not exactly Apple-esque kind of huge annual revenue growth for the last few years with plenty more ahead of it like there is for Apple, right now, huh? But at 8x earnings, you have to be long Softee. They'll pay 3% annually to wait for Ballmer to get fired. And it's decades since the last time Softee was considered an underdog. Wall Street's priced this stock like it's aleady lost every game it's playing, but the underdog here has lots of victories guaranteed — and lots of deferred revenue to help you rest easy about next year's estimates.
The upshot — with its yield, cash balances, and transparent cash flows, Softee's probably got $5 downside and with a reasonable valuation and/or any better-than-expected positives for Kinetic, Windows 7, Bing, etc, Softee's probably got $20 or so upside. Two year time horizon and an upside that's at least four times bigger than your downside risk — stick with MSFT.
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Glendale and Burbank will be well represented at this year's Los Angeles Area Emmys on Saturday with nominations in several categories from local television station and governmental access channels.
The Los Angeles Area Emmys will air at 5:30 p.m., well ahead of the glitzy red-carpet primetime edition, which is scheduled to be broadcast Sept. 23 on ABC.
Below is a list of the local contenders.
ABC 7, Glendale
"Behind the Scenes at Cirque Du Soleil Iris," Local Color category
"Witness: Watts," Crime/Social Issues category
"Witness: American Heroes," Arts and Culture/History category
"Vista L.A.," Informational/Public Affairs Series
"Pay It Forward," Light News Story – Multi-part Report
"Animal Experiments," Medical News Story – Single Report
"Dr. Oz," Medical News Story – Multi-part Report
"Serial Plaintiffs," Investigative Reporting
Reporter David Ono, Outstanding Hard News Reporting, Outstanding Feature Reporting and Outstanding Programming Writer
Jeff MacIntyre, two Outstanding Editor for Programming nominations
NBC 4, Burbank
"Nonstop Foodies from Porto's," Local Color category
"The Filter with Fred Roggin," Informational/Public Affairs Series
"St. Moritz," Entertainment Programming
"The Death of Osama Bin Laden," News Special
"Conrad Murray: The Verdict" and "Seal Beach Massacre," both for Live Coverage of Unscheduled News Event
"Inside Apple's Secret," "Riverside Teen Trapped in Tijuana Brothel" and "Staples Center Toddler Story," all for Serious News Story – Single Report
"9/11 America Remembers," Serious News Story – Multi-part Report
"Blind Children's Center Lights the Way" and "Wi-Fi Hacking," both for Light News Story – Single Report
"Combat Vets & Farming," Light News Story – Multi-part Report
Reporter Mario Solis, Outstanding Sports Reporting
Reporters Ana Garcia and Robert Kovacik, Outstanding Hard News Reporting
Reporter Chuck Henry, Outstanding Feature Reporting
Gayle Galvez, Outstanding Director
Mary Harris, Outstanding News Writer
Sean Browning, Outstanding Videographer
"Today in L.A.," Outstanding Regular Morning Newscast as well as Outstanding Daytime and Evening Newscasts
KCET, Burbank
"Master Chef: Thomas Keller Uncorked," Local Color category
"The Edible Garden: Breaking Ground," Education category
"The Border Between Them," Crime/Social Issues category
"Herbie Hancock: All That's Jazz" and "Rhythm & Passion of Korea," both in Arts and Culture/History category
"The Angel City Jazz Festival: Global Jam," Entertainment Programming
"Meter Madness," Feature Segment
"Show Me The Money: Housing Authority Investigation," Information Segment
KVEA Telemundo 52
Outstanding Daytime and Evening Newscasts
GTV 6, Glendale governmental access
"Rose Bowl: A Century of Roses," Public, Municipal and Operator Produced Cable
The Burbank Channel
"Saving the Wild: The Caucasus Nature Fund," Information Segment
[Update, Aug. 10, 2012: An earlier version of this post should have also stated that producer Peter Musurlian is nominated for "The Burbank Centennial Rose Float."]


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Earlier this month, prime minister John Key recently came out and said he's not against gay marriage, following on from US president Barack Obama announcing his support for it. And last week the local marriage equality movement forged ahead with a punchy new campaign, known simply as WTF?
The WTF campaign, launched at the Q Theatre on Wednesday, is being spearheaded by organisations OUTLine NZ and Rainbow Youth. But more notably, it's backed by the likes of comedian Leigh Hart (aka That Guy), singer Annie Crummer, model and presenter Colin Mathura-Jeffree, broadcaster Tamati Coffey and actor Oliver Driver, plus faces you'll recognise from The Almighty Johnsons and Shorty St.
Yes, it's in-your-face. And that's exactly what it's all about.
"Our campaign exists around outrage – we're upset, we're angry and we're taking a stand. We're a passionate bunch of change makers who are striving to keep up with demand, and to keep serving our communities. But without the funding we might not to be able to carry on," reads the website.
"We're asking you all to take a stand – to be outraged, and make noise. Help us to do the work that needs to be done.
"Nothing like this has ever been attempted in New Zealand, nor has any one campaign rallied as many of our country's top faces under its banner and the support from so many well-known kiwis has encouraged us to speak up even louder for those being discriminated against. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect, so it's time we ask New Zealand WTF?"
Campaigners say WTF can mean "whatever you want to to mean".
WTF also stands for Where's The Funds – you can donate a one-off amount or make regular contributions.
"It's an expression of outrage, and a call to action. WTF is about standing up, not taking no for an answer and demanding change! WTF is a campaign that EVERYONE can get behind – because WTF is about equality, and equality affects us all. Our services have never been more heavily used. And yet… We're unable to secure sustainable funding, we're having to down-size staff, and we're at the risk of not being able to carry on doing the work that we love to do, and need to do."Youtube Video


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abe008 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 866 diseños de 155 diseñadores freelance.
Mark Arbeit and Co
Mark Arbeit and Co is a real estate group that specializing in selling second and vacation homes near the Atlantic city seashore town of Margate, Ventnor and Longport beach area. We use cutting edge marketing technology and are considered leader in the market segment. Ideal Logo must be consistent without our work ethic, convey our uniqueness as out of the box thinkers and ahead of the game plus heavily result driven for our clients.
Our target audience is made up of both men and women, professional and non-professional, who are seeking to purchase or sell second homes or vacation homes in the Margate, Ventnor, Longport, and Atlantic City areas of South Jersey.
Professional looking, easy to remember & Instantly Recognized Logo
Branded Logo + Web Favicon
Attractive to both men and women
Relevancy to the Vacation Homes Real Estate market segment
Ideal logo will portray relevance to the services offered.
Logo to establish brand in the minds of target audience. DO NOT use any box or box type elements in your logo design. NOTE TO LOGO DESIGNERS:
Please DO NOT use commonly associated elements that are standard with real estate websites like images of homes, roof, buildings etc. We are truly "out of the box thinkers", innovators and leaders within the market segment. Hence our logo must convey this thought. Creative design and logo is highly desirable.
Logo must be flexible to be used in print media, tv, billboard display ads, web etc.
Logo Formats: .psd (RGB), .ai (CMYK), .jpg and gif.
Logo must be provided in a zip file format with all the following format listed with all layers, fonts, style setting info and requested data above to included. You must also include a text file detailing logo font PMS color scheme, RBG color scheme and font name used.
Review the detailed Logo Questionnaire and Brief attached.
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saarstol needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 125 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
Tower Paddle Boards designs and develops our own brand of premium stand up paddle boards ("SUP"), sup accessories, and surf wear for SUP enthusiasts worldwide. We have an existing graphical logo of a lifeguard tower, and also a text graphic of the word "tower" which we use on our site http://www.towerpaddleboards.com.
Envision the target market for surfing plus the target market for kayaking plus the target market for exercise equipment. A stand up paddle board is more diverse than a surfboard because you can use it on flat water as well as waves. Thus sensical associations to use here might be water, fitness, paddling, waves, etc.
We're looking for a single letter logo using the letter "T". It will represent "Tower" or "Tower Stand Up Paddle Boards". It should be able to stand alone, or be used in conjunction with the "ower" part of the "Tower" text.
Here are some examples of the type of thing we're looking for:
The T could represent a "tower" or could incorporate a water theme, or a paddling theme, or a wave theme, or a fitness theme, or a combination. It could also just be a really fancy or cool looking "T" font. We'll leave this up to the artists creativity.
We plan to use this "T" logo to represent the "Tower" brand in certain suitable instances. It may be used by itself on a t-shirt, or on the nose of a stand up paddle board.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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"Knowledge must come through action." --Sophocles
Mention the name "Wal-Mart" in mixed company and you'll usually get a lot of grumpy, mean looks. Frankly, most folks don't like the giant retailer one bit and for a variety of reasons -- low-paid labor without benefits, heavy reliance on "Made in China" goods, or how they've driven mom and pop stores out of business. Go ahead, pick a problem, and I guarantee you someone is trying to pin it on Wal-Mart.
This isn't to say they are a saintly corporation, now -- far from it. And many of the grievances leveled against the company are true (though maybe not to the extent we see and read about in the mainstream media). But one HUGE thing that gets overlooked by almost everyone is how Wal-Mart is changing the game: Not so much in retailing and logistics anymore -- they're past masters in those areas -- but in their role as motivator for innovation in trucking, specifically in terms of boosting tractor trailer fuel economy while lowering pollution. They are also putting a richly deserved emphasis on the role their drivers play not only in terms of company and vehicle performance but in the community at large.
I got to see this first hand in Dallas a few weeks back when Peterbilt Motors and its sister company Kenworth unveiled prototype hybrid Class 8 tractors -- built in an exclusive partnership with Eaton -- that are being delivered to Wal-Mart for field trials. These are tractors that will one day be able to operate like Toyota's Prius -- humming along on electricity in stop and go urban operations -- while also being able to power HVAC systems for the night without having to idle the diesel engine. And Wal-Mart's been the goad in getting this project off the ground -- without their commitment to buying and testing these trucks, neither Peterbilt nor Kenworth would be doing this. It's just too expensive to gamble on market acceptance these days.
I talked to Tracy Rosser, the former VP-corporate traffic for Wal-Mart, about the company's innovation strategy earlier this year. He's since moved on to a new position, but his insight shows how innovation at this level can still have some big economic payoffs for fleets.
"Our fleet strategy mirrors our corporate and logistics strategies - we need to improve operational efficiency so we can keep costs down to remain competitive in the global market," he explained to me. "We're trying to control more of our freight and get more density in our lanes so we can maximize driver and asset productivity, thus keeping control of our costs."
Rosser pointed to the major efficiency gains Wal-Mart achieved for its private fleet of 7,000 tractors - trucks that haul goods from the company's 39 distribution centers to its 1,075 stores in the U.S. The company originally wanted to improve fleet efficiency by 25% within three years, largely measured by gains in fuel economy. But by getting suggestions from its drivers, switching to new tractor specs, and making operational to its trucking operations pattern, Rosser said those targets were met within just one year.
"In 2006, we added APUs (auxiliary power units) to our vehicles to reduce idling, made aerodynamic improvements to our tractors, switched to more fuel-efficient tires, and had our drivers adopt more fuel efficient practices largely suggested by them, such as progressive shifting," he told me. "We also now turn 96.5% of our trucks at the shipping docks in under two hours. Those changes helped us boost average fleet fuel economy to 7.1 mpg for all except two months last year -- that's how we achieved our efficiency targets."
Rosser noted that Wal-Mart doesn't plan to stop there. "By 2015, we plan to achieve 100% fuel efficiency gains for our fleet," he said. "That will come not only from further improvements to the trucks and operating patterns, but from changes in our packaging as well, which will affect shipment weights."
But it's not just about the numbers either -- that's the other interesting thing about Wal-Mart's trucking presence. For instance, the company has been a huge supporter of Trucker Buddy for almost a decade now, getting its drivers matched up with elementary schools across the country. Sure, a nice PR ploy, some would say. I would note that you'd get more positive exposure -- and keep your drivers focused on driving -- by making a big donation to say the Ronald McDonald House every year. But Wal-Mart realizes that drivers get a lot out of the Trucker Buddy connection, finding it's a win-win for the company, driver, and community alike on a lot of unexpected levels.
"We've been involved now with Trucker Buddy for 10 years and we initially just got involved with it as just another opportunity to connect our people with the communities they live in," Tim Harris, Wal-Mart's regional transportation manager, grocery-western division, told me a few weeks back. "But we're finding that our drivers just get so much out of it. Not only is it inspiring to them, it's changing the image of truck drivers overall in their communities."
Harris said not only are children responding positively to the pen-pal-style relationship Trucker Buddy helps form between drivers and schools, but so are the parents.
"I've gotten letters from countless parents telling me how much of an impact this program had on their child. That makes a difference in terms of how drivers are viewed in their communities and in the public at large," he said to me. "The Trucker Buddy program has impacted one million kids so far and we're happy to keep supporting it any way we can."
It also tells you something that company is willing to sent key executives out into the field to show it's support of such programs, both to the public and to its own drivers. That's how far Wal-Mart is willing to go to change the game in trucking, at least.


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INDIO >> Fans at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival may not have been able to attend church on Friday, but A$AP Ferg made sure devout fans marked Good Friday.
Starting his set right on time at 3:30 p.m. at the Outdoor Theatre, the New York rapper walked on stage as the voice of Samuel L. Jackson blared on the speaker, filling the ears of anxious fans with the religious monologue he made popular in the Quentin Tarantino flick, "Pulp Fiction."
Then he yelled, "hands up" as he got straight into his hits from "Work" and "Shabba" as well as other tracks like "Hood Pope" and "Trap Lord," which may have been his special way to honor the religious day.
The Outdoor Theatre may have not been a church, but A$AP Ferg preached and got the crowd to chant "Trap Lord" as they raised their "prayer hands" on command, to which he said: "Amen."
During his set he brought on A$AP Twelvy for "Wild for the Night" and later had Flatbush Zombies, who had performed earlier in the day, and Skrillex come on stage to dance.
"We gonna get turnt up 'til we get burnt up," he said, later rewarding his energetic crowd with what he called "holy water" – passing bottled water to fans in the front.
Later A$AP Ferg even dove off stage into the crowd, which grew as he continued to perform.
He ended the set with "Cocaine Castle," keeping most of his crowd until the last beat.


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Behind its public face of luminous marble memorials and Capitol Hill politicking, Washington, D.C., leads a wondrously varied life. Musicians trumpet the blues, rock, and jazz at clubs throughout Duke Ellington's hometown. Museums welcome culture-seekers by day, hipsters for after-hours bashes. Ever after "the latest thing," Washingtonians jam hot spots like Estadio, but swear by old reliables, whether that means savoring the blueberry pancakes Saturday mornings at Eastern Market or strolling past the White House at 2am to stop for ale and oysters at Old Ebbitt Grill.
Things to Do
Lively arguments fly in the Capitol's Senate and House chambers, where resolute legislators hash out U.S. laws. A different perspective awaits atop the Washington Monument -- a staggering view of the green-swept Mall and beyond. Every spring, cherry trees erupt in delicate pink and white blossoms, and the town goes mad. Da Vinci's mysterious Ginevra de Benci outstares you in the National Gallery of Art, while Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party reels you in at the Phillips Collection. Glide past stately memorials, stunningly illuminated, on a nighttime Potomac River cruise.
Georgetown=shopping. Fashionistas traipse through the international outposts and homegrown boutiques lining busy M Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Weekends, join locals at the 139-year-old Eastern Market for exuberant bartering with area farmers hawking fresh produce; don't miss the market's famous blueberry pancakes. Shoppers head to U and 14th streets for vintage clothes and inventive housewares.
Eating and Drinking
Washington's restaurants reflect its population: international and always game. Dine at the Penn Quarter's sexy Rasika for imaginative takes on Indian cuisine. Ethiopian? Head to the U Street neighborhood's homey Etete, for heaping plates of spicy stews. Watch power brokers make and break deals at posh steakhouses like Charlie Palmer Steak on Capitol Hill, or follow a trendier crowd to the latest craze, maybe Spanish tapas at Estadio, on 14th Street.
Nightlife and Entertainment
Theater is huge, the options many, and the standards excellent, whether the production is South Pacific at the splendid John F. Kennedy Center or Macbeth at the world-renowned Shakespeare Theatre. Satisfy a yen for straight-ahead jazz at the suitably divey Blues Alley, or for indie sounds at the nationally recognized 9:30 Club. Young urbanistas rule the bar/lounge scene, roosting at mellow pubs like ChurchKey on 14th Street, and hitting the dance floor at Dupont Circle's Eighteenth Street Lounge.


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Seven High-Tech Items You Don't Need Anymore
So the editors at MSN Money came up with a list of seven tech items that the average person doesn't need anymore. Problem is - I still use every single one of these.
How about you?
The short list:
1 Television
2 Telephone Land Line
3 DVD Player
4 Physical Music Collection and Dedicated Player
5 Cable or Satellite TV
6 Desktop Computer
7 Email
For the long-form list, click the link below: