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No Republican can win a statewide election without capturing at least 40 percent of the vote in Hennepin County. And with the Minneapolis population rising, no GOP candidate can do that without winning at least 30 percent of the city's vote.
This political math lesson came my way after making the rounds among a cadre of never-say-die Mill City Republican activists. It's a bit of a stretch. Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the last Republican to win a statewide election, did indeed take 40.6 percent of the Hennepin County vote, but only 19.8 percent in Minneapolis.
But there's something to the claim that growth is making Minneapolis more important in statewide elections. If Republican Tom Emmer in 2010 had matched Pawlenty's share of the city's vote, he still would have been about 5,000 votes short of defeating Gov. Mark Dayton. As it was, Emmer garnered just 16.6 percent in the city, and lost statewide by 8,770 votes.
This numerical exercise came to mind last week as I scooted to hear a mayoral campaign pitch by Cam Winton — a candidate who lets it slip now and then that he's a Republican.
It says much about the status of Republicans in Minneapolis that Winton has filed for mayor not with the label of his preferred party but as the "independent responsible inclusive" candidate. Republicans haven't bothered to endorse city candidates lately — not that Winton is asking them to, mind you. The last endorsed Republican to serve on the Minneapolis City Council was "independent" Denny Schulstad, who retired in 1997.
Winton's arm's-length connection to the GOP also says something about him. The 34-year-old attorney and renewable-energy businessman may be a political newcomer, but he's got some of the moves of a pro.
For example, he knows that when a Republican speaks at the home of someone named Dayton (Vanessa, not Gov. Mark), he does well to emphasize his DFL connections. Winton's include his wife, DFL convention delegate Emily Pryor Winton, and his mother-in-law, DFL Senate District 48 chair Laurie Pryor. His campaign treasurer is 2008 DFL Third District congressional candidate Ashwin Madia.
Winton volunteered that he's at odds with the state Republican Party on same-sex marriage. That's also a smart move when standing in the legislative district that registered the largest "Vote No" percentage in the state on the 2012 same-sex-marriage ban — a whopping 86.3 percent.
He professed that his role in the GOP has been "to try to reclaim the Republican Party as a place for people to be fiscally responsible and socially inclusive."
But does he want to play a party-building role as mayor, as proponents of that 30-percent analysis fervently hope he does? I think the body language I saw when I asked can fairly be called a flinch.
"No, that's certainly not my job. That's a distant 15th in things I care about," Winton said. "My priorities are jobs, essential services and world-class education. That's a lot more important than any party." He's campaigning on streamlined business regulation, beefed-up police and infrastructure, and mayoral appointments to the city's school board.
But a moment later, he allowed: "If a side effect is that I catalyze a brand of Republicanism that is socially inclusive and fiscally responsible, sure, great, fantastic."
That last response is closer to what some long-suffering city GOP stalwarts are hoping for from Winton.
"He could be the young rallying figure," said Andy Gildea, a former GOP staffer for the Minnesota House. "He and Chris Fields [the 2012 GOP U.S. House candidate in the Fifth District] are the sparks that could get things going again."
Lyall Schwarzkopf, a former GOP gubernatorial chief of staff who also once represented Minneapolis in the state House, agrees that Winton's candidacy represents a revitalization opportunity — but only if he wins. "He's a very moderate person, and would appeal to a lot of people out of the '60s and '70s" — the last heyday of Minneapolis Republicanism, Schwarzkopf noted.
They also see that something else the state GOP platform opposes — ranked-choice voting — could be a boon for Winton. He could win if he's able to stay close to the first-place vote leaders in the city's wild 35-way mayoral race, and is also able to garner the lion's share of second- and third-place choices of voters backing also-ran candidates.
That's a very long shot, made imaginable only by the DFL's inability to coalesce and endorse a candidate for mayor. The DFL is a behemoth in Minneapolis, seemingly unthreatened by the earnest Green Party (which, with one City Council and one Park Board member, comes closer than the GOP to being the city's second party) and assorted other collectives. But that does not mean the city DFL is a well-discliplined machine. Winton described the DFL as "engaged in a circular firing squad" this year, with Betsy Hodges, Mark Andrew, Don Samuels, Jackie Cherryhomes and a few others in the mayoral running.
Gildea and Schwarzkopf naturally see Winton's candidacy through optimistic eyes. They've had little to be hopeful about in city politics. In Schwarzkopf's telling, the surge of Ron Paul-loving libertarians into state party ranks has been a setback for the party in his city, which he once represented in the Minnesota House. Libertarian ideas "scare people," he said. That stands to reason in a place where less government looks likely to mean reduced safety, weaker schools, weedier parks and fewer transit options.
It will take a different Republican message to score in Minneapolis and give the city something that more nearly represents two-party democracy. That's been true for a long time. What's changing is that some Republicans are seeing that the future of two-party democracy in Minnesota is likely to increasingly depend on whether it can be revived in Minneapolis.
Lori Sturdevant is a Star Tribune editorial writer and columnist. She is at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A winner was selected from 265 designs submitted by 80 freelance designers.
Ville Fluide stands for Fluid City in english. The service will be a revolutionary way to use huge availabilities existing in private cars where 80% of trips are made with an alone driver in its car. It will use advanced GPS and cellular technologies to make the trip matches possible in real-time.
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Looking for a logo applicable for the web site, business cards etc. Logo should be simple and straightforward to understand. Following concepts and ideas should/could be carried by the design :
- sustainable development and greenhouse gases savings
- dynamic carpooling or ridesharing
- trust between riders
- service applicable to everybody, very simple to use, intuitive
- based on mobile device, cellular technologies, GPS
- incitative : drivers get money to lift other people
- community enabler : people will meet each other by the way of the service. It is a sort of RideFriendFinder
- Green color should appear, but not exclusively
- A car representation is strongly wished, but abstract evocations are possible.
- A driver and one or more passengers, or a suggested representation of 2 or more people traveling together.
- Logo should be recognizable from a long distance, as we expect to put a stickers on subscriber's cars in order for passenger to find them in a easy way. This means probably that the logo should be graphically quite simple. Using flashy contrasted colors may also help to recognize it from far away.
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I've moved the seed starting setup inside the house now. It was just too cold in the garage. It took a while for me to do it as it seemed so final to change my daughter's room. And with one change after another it's time to move on.
So before we are even close to seed starting time-indoors at least, more on that later, it's onward and upward time!
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I tried this out on the videos we have on Densho's YouTube channel and found auto-time to work surprisingly well. The fact that I was able to quickly take advantage of Google's new auto-time technology is a testament to Densho's process to transcribe completely every video interview as they are captured. Because we have the full transcription available I could easily use Google's auto-time to insert the time-coding data.
Auto-time doesn't do a flawless job but it comes pretty close. Fortunately, YouTube allows you to download the generated time-coded file to make corrections or for use in other ways.
Google also announced "auto-cap" that will generate transcripts automatically. It hasn't been generally released yet but looks like it may be useful for a rough first-pass approximation. It's not quite up to the quality standards we aim for with Densho interviews so we'll no doubt continue with manual transcriptions for some time.
Adding Closed Captions to Densho's videos makes it possible for us to reach an even wider audience including the hearing impaired and even non-English speakers because Google is also working on automatic translation of Closed Captions to other languages. Just imagine, somewhere off in the not-too-distant future, people in every country will be able to enjoy Densho's rich collection of stories in their own language.
In the meantime, I invite you to check out the videos on Densho's YouTube channel, now with Closed Captioning!


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Minneapolis, July 2, 2007—Four Minnesota artists explore the representation of war in two new exhibitions presented by the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Opening August 31, "War Mediated" and "I Will Follow You into the Dark" features new and recent work by Camille Gage, Megan Rye, Justin Newhall, and Megan Vossler. By transforming existing media images or documenting historical re-enactments, these artists ask us to reconsider the images of war we encounter each day through print, online, and broadcast media. The speed with which we receive war images can de-sensitize us and, for many, create a psychological distance from the subject. Here, in these two exhibitions, artists turn visual images into meditations on war and prompt us to examine our relationship to it.
Exhibition-related events include an opening reception on Thursday, August 30, at 7 p.m.; an artist talk with all four artists on Thursday, September 6, at 7 p.m.; and a critics' trialogue on Thursday, September 27, at 7 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.
The first exhibition, "War Mediated," features work by three artists looking at correlations among patriotism, fear, and the filters through which war images are delivered to us.
· Drawing inspiration from Goya's Disasters of War series and the U.S. Army Web site, Megan Vossler's graphite drawings focus on the aftermath of war—the period of displacement when refugees flee their homelands. Vossler's nameless figures file through ambiguous geographies, leaving the viewer to contemplate the universality of these scenes. Vossler is a 2007 recipient of the McKnight Artist Fellowship and a 2005 winner of the Jerome Foundation fellowship.
· Camille Gage pays homage to fallen soldiers in "War Redacted," a series of U.S. government photographs upon which she has painted. Obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the images are of military casualties from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan arriving at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base in flag-covered caskets. Gage blacks out areas of the photos, mirroring censoring techniques used by the government before releasing sensitive documents. Gage's awards include the FORECAST Public Artworks grant and the Intermedia Arts grant.
· Justin Newhall's large, color photographs examine America's need to shape and connect to the past. His latest series, "Axis and Allies," explores the culture and practice of World War II battle re-enactments. Newhall currently teaches photography at the University of Minnesota and the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul. His awards include fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Images from his project Historical Marker: Photographs Along the Lewis and Clark Trail were recently published by Aperture, in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
The second exhibition, "I Will Follow You into the Dark," features work by Megan Rye. Offering a backseat view of the Iraq war, Rye's large-scale paintings trace her brother's experience as a U.S. Marine in Iraq, where he supervised the regional detention facility in Fallujah and transported Iraqi detainees within the Sunni Triangle. Rye's source materials are drawn primarily from more than 2,000 photographs her brother took during his tour of duty. She uses these photos to create paintings that mix abstraction and realism, revealing a personal viewpoint of the daily life of a soldier at war. Many of the paintings depict routine military operations, but the first-person perspective and desert lighting merge beauty with the ominous threat of the unknown. Megan Rye is a 2005 recipient of the Jerome Foundation fellowship and a two-time winner of the Minnesota State Arts Board's artist initiative grant.
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What kid doesn't lust over a mini battery-powered Hummer? But even if they didn't cost more than my own real-life minivan I wouldn't get one because the kids would play with it for all of 15 minutes before boredom set in. Here's what's been successful with my kids--with an emphasis on budget--are there great toys you've discovered?
13. Rescue Heroes The boys loved these guys when they were younger, and I thought the names were a hoot (Willie Stop the police officer and pictured at left is Marshall Law). Perfectly sized for small hands, they stand up easily and come with moving accessories. Most are priced under $10, and I've even got them on sale for $7 with a bonus Rescue Hero cartoon video. Caution: don't get sucked into the big stuff like the aircraft carrier, I got one on sale for $30 (normally $70) and they hardly played with it. It's all about the figures.
12. Fashion Pollys Also a figure toy these are tiny plastic dolls with removable rubber clothes--sounds rather risqué I know, but they're great. Kids love tiny, girls love dressing things and these are perfect. They start at about $3.60 and Disney has a line that has been especially popular with our four year-old that is slightly more expensive (of course). Beware, they do break: heads pop off, normal wear and tear, but they last long enough to get your money's worth and then break, which is a great thing because if toys didn't break once in a while we'd be swimming in them.
11. Paper Airplane Books Spencer and David love their books and fancy paper for making airplanes. Simple, creative, instructive, what more could I want?
10. American Girls If you aren't already familiar with this mega-merchandising nightmare you must have spent the last decade lost in the desert. It's the dolls and the books and the clothes and the accessories and the vacation packages and . . . you get the idea. The dolls are $100 (gasp) and I hear people claim to buy them for their heirloom quality. To me, we buy toys for playing not for passing down so I refuse to pay that much for a doll. However, the stories are great and the girls love them so if she has to have one, go with the mini dolls (less well advertised because they want you to buy the big stuff) which are tiny replicas of the bigger models and come with tiny books. As I said, kids love tiny and though at $20 they're still a rip-off, at least you won't have to take out a second mortgage. Also, Grace used to get the catalog and cut up pictures and paste them on cardstock to make her own paper dolls. It kept her busy for hours. Just a thought . . .
9. Wood box My boys love to rip apart and to build, kind of a yin/yang thing, so we got Spencer a little tool box through Toys to Grow on ($30) and a box of wood pieces to build things with. We replenish the wood box from my Grandpa's garage where he always has pieces laying around. It's for all those MacGyvers-in-training out there.
8. Camping gear With four kids and so many relatives giving gifts it feels like my kids have too many things for their own good so I really enjoy giving them practical stuff such as camping gear. The kids love pretending with it when they're young and using it when they're older. We start with $5 mess kits at Walmart, headlights, rain ponchos, space blankets, camping pillows and camp stools then work up to sleeping bags, air mattresses and back packs. It's practical to have as emergency equipment for your family--you don't want to be caught in a winter power outage in Alaska without emergency gear.
7. Art supplies A Tupperware container filled with new crayons, glue, stencils, glitter, colored pencils, their very own scissors and markers are great for small kids. Older kids love books on how to draw things, drawing paper, pastels, fancy colored pencils, water color paints, even this fabulous easel Costco had on sale last year for $37 (with rebate) which I can't seem to find online now. Kids love creativity and having their own supplies.
6. Puzzles These are very popular. The young kids start with the 24 piece varieties, work up to 60, then 100. Now the boys love these puzzles from Tamagami that are colorful and interesting to look at and are hard enough to keep them occupied for many many MANY hours. Big bonus. They retail for about $7. If your kids aren't into puzzles, try sitting down and doing one with them, get them started with the border, hand them all the pieces for a specific area. They'll catch on and get into it.
5. Kid Knex This is another toy for younger children, the big colorful pieces are fun to put together, they come with buggy eyes and feet and are great for making tiny rocket ships. The price is right, most sets are under $15. They have Knex toys for older children (age 7-ish) and then for older children (10+) too. We have two different sets and the Kid Knex got more play time than the older kid set.
4. Books on tape My kids love having a child-sized portable tape recorder and books with tapes. They'll carry them around from room to room, listening to their favorite stories. Favorites include the Curious George series, anything Disney, Nice New Neighbors by Aliki and Bill Peet stories.
3. Dishes and pots and pans A big Tupperware container with dishes, wooden spoons, cookie cutters and teapots is her favorite toy. Kid Connection at Wal-Mart has reasonable prices (usually under $10) for various kitchen sets such as a toaster/blender combo or a stove top that really lights up and makes sizzling sounds. Now does it also make an authentic burning smell?
2. Games: Loot, Memory, Battleship, Clue, Monopoly The best games are cheap and have been around for ages. The children probably play chess more than anything but every once in a while I'll see a new card game that they like, like Loot Uno or Labyrinth. I just found a Pirates of the Caribbean version of Life which the boys will love. The original was fine, but with a pirate theme I see great possibilities.
1. Legos What could I say about Legos that hasn't already been said? Don't buy Legos. They're outrageously expensive. Go with Mega Bloks, a cheaper knockoff. You may find a Mega Bloks set that's expensive, like this Pirates of the Caribbean set (once again, thanks to Disney merchandising) but the basic sets are reasonable like this one.
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Christmas Toys My Kids Love
What kid doesn't lust over a mini battery-powered Hummer? But even if they didn't cost more than my own real-life minivan I wouldn't get one because the kids would play with it for all of 15 minutes before boredom set in. Here's what's been successful with my kids--with an emphasis on budget--are there great toys you've discovered?
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26 comments:
- Izzy said...
We're currently in the midst of an American Girl doll fixation. I had told her she would have to earn one but her grandma up and bought her one. Now it's all the accessories which are sooo expensive. Fortunately, Grandma doesn't think $68 for a brass bead and bedspread are too much to spend. I will say, however, that compared to Bratz and MyScene dolls, AG stuff is so wholesome and age-appropriate. In that respect, it's worth it's weight in gold.
- scribbit said...
True, you can't measure the value of a doll that doesn't look like a prostitute, right? Nowadays they are rarer than you'd think. Love the American Girl stuff, just not the price.
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- Gattina said...
OMG ! What a lot of toys, half of them I never heard about !
- Carmen said...
i wondered what the kids were into these days. :)
- Sanni said...
Thanks for sharing this very entertaining TT! A Buzz Lightyear for me, please =)
Happy TT from Germany,
- Anonymous said...
great list! My daughter loves American Girl too.. I do too actually.
- Kukka-Maria said...
We LOVED playing with dishes when we were kids! Funny how I hate dealing with dishes now.
Heirloom dolls in little girls' hands. Funny. Plan on having their hair all fuzzed out in about 2 days. :)
- Tug said...
KNEX & Legos...oh yes! I should own stock - LOL.
Happy TT!
- Barbara H. said...
My youngest loved Rescue Heroes and paper airplane books and games. Unfortunately we didn't have any girls to explore American Girls stuff with.
- Barbara H. said...
Oops -- for some reason my link didn;t work. My TT is favorite old movies.
- scribbit said...
My kids have all loved Playhut tents and tunnels. You definately can spend a fortune, but some are under $30. There's something about hiding out in a tent, or crawling through a tunnel and if you throw in a flashlight, you'll have them occupied for hours. Ethan has never been interested in Legos much, but loves K'Nex. LIttle People have also been very popular in my house. They're so cute and fit nicely in their hands and never wear out. We even have some of the older ones, which they love to stick on their finger tips.
Isabel isn't quite into American Girl yet, but loves the catalogs. However, I'm nervous because they have that line of dolls now that are supposed to be "modern day" girls. They arent' too slutty, but I'm really nervous that American Girl won't be able to resist making a prostitute doll.
- Carinne said...
OOps, sorry, I accidentally posted it as Michelle - don't know how that happened. The previous post was from me.
- Anonymous said...
Having no kids, I only have to shop for nieces and nephews.
So, when I went shopping for Legos (yes, beat me now) for a family member, I was surprised to have the following conversation with a nameless toy store employee:
ME: Hi! Do you have any Legos starter sets for UNDER $80?
Geoffrey the Giraffe: NO! (Laughing)
One would think that they were making enough money from their $40 admissions at LegoLand in San Diego to give these things away.
Happy TT!
- scribbit said...
Legos, ounce for ounce, are more expensive than most precious metals I would bet. And the way my boys lose them I won't buy the expensive stuff, unless it's the tiny party-favor $2 packs. Those can be fun for stockings.
- Haley-O said...
Great gift ideas there! Thanks for the tips. :) the monkey LOVES her toy dishes -- especially her toy cutlery, which we discovered makes great real cutlery for her.... ;)
- local girl said...
My daughter loves Polly Pockets. She has some cool clothes, too! I just wish they weren't so small. We keep losing the shoes!
- Di said...
I miss those days! Everything on my kids' (11 & 13) lists is electronic and costs over $100. I think it's making me miss Teletubbies and Lego!
- Susan said...
the camping gear one brought back huge memories - my dad had lots of old army and boy scout stuff (like mess kits and gear belts, etc.) that I LOVED strapping on or packing into a make-shift saddle bag to play with on our farm when I was little - I would disappear in the pastures for entire days playing Jane West with all my gear -- thanks for the trip down memory lane and thanks for all the comments on my blog over the weeks when I've been out of circulation a bit :) great TT!
- Julie said...
Thanks for the helpful Christmas shopping ideas. We love K'nex around here almost as much as Legos. I'll have to check out the younger version K'nex sets.
Hooray for the old Little People! My favorite toy growing up. Luckily I saved a few.
- KarenW said...
My son has always been a huge lego fan. He still is at age 15. Yes, they are expensive!
- Lisa-Marie said...
Hey - I'm a frustated Mom at the prices of American Girl too. I love the doll just not the prices. I got so frustrated I started my own company to provide alternatives for American Girl clothes, furniture and accessories. For example our Brass Bed and bedspread cost $34.50 - HALF of what AG charges. Please visit us at http://www.dollsclothes-emilyrose.com.
- Anonymous said...
Great list! I love the things you picked and it gave me some great ideas for gifts. I have a little boy who is obsessed with "dinner shows" on the Food Network who would love one of those Kid's Connections sets. I will be heading over there with the money from grandma tonight. I should also restock his craft supplies. What great ideas!
As for the American Girls, those are outragous. I have a friend whose daughter is into those. She took her to the store in Chicago, is doing a birthday party there, went and took her to the movie, got the doll clothes for Xmas, etc.. It kind of cracked me up at the time. I was making hair bows and selling them to my girlfriends. She actually asked if I could make some that would fit and go with Molly's holiday outfits. Whaaat? I guess I will find out when Emily gets a little older.
Again, thanks for the great ideas!!
- Ballpoint Wren said...
We've got buckets and buckets of legos, and I got 90% of them at garage sales!
Some of them were scuzzy when I picked them up, so when I got home, I put them in one of those lingerie washing bags and send them through the washing machine and dryer. As good as new!
- scribbit said...
Bonnie, you're a genius. I've used the dishwasher to clean some stuff too, but a lingerie bag. That's Noble prize material. :)
- Hebe said...
We've got loads of lego and although it was good at first it has been overtaken by Gameboy and Playstation for my older ones. Lego Duplo though is worth every penny. It lasts for ever and they play with it for years. My kids tend to get another set each Christmas and it just builds up and each child (4 of them) has played with it and loved it.


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|$199 ($179 until October 1, 2008; Bluetooth version $249) / soundmatters.com / 800-698-SOMA
|An extremely compact, amazingly good-sounding powered speaker system for iPods, cell phones, and computers
|• No system so small ever sounded so good • Tiny enough to slip into Paris Hilton's clutch • Bluetooth version for use with cell phones and laptops
|• Sometimes complains when asked to fill a room with sound • No fan of Led Zeppelin
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|• Two 1-in woofer/tweeters • 3 1/4 by 1 1/4-in woofer • Subwoofer output • Internal amp with 4 watts/channel on AC, 2 watts per channel on battery • 5.6 in long, 9 1/2 oz
These days, traveling sucks for everyone, but it's always been hard on the audiophile. Those $10 hotel clock radios tune in about three stations - literally - and they sound so bad they couldn't beat an Edison wax-cylinder phonograph in a double-blind test. You could tote along a portable audio system, but the ones that sound decent take up half a carry-on bag. You could pack headphones, but they get in your way when you're putting yourself together in time for an 8 o'clock breakfast. So you just suffer through another dreary trip, music-free.
With the new Foxl compact powered speaker system, Soundmatters attempts to make traveling easier on the audiophile. The Foxl is a tiny stereo sound system powered by an on-board rechargeable battery, an AC adapter, or a computer's USB port. It has a 3.5mm input jack that connects easily to an iPod, any other portable music player, any cell phone with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, or any laptop computer. The Foxl costs $199, but Soundmatters is offering it for $179 from now until October 1.
It's also available in a $249 version with Bluetooth, which lets it connect wirelessly to any Bluetooth-equipped cell phone or laptop. The Bluetooth version includes a microphone that hides behind the front speaker grille and lets you use the Foxl as a speakerphone.
The Foxl looks like something you'd attach to bicycle handlebars, but it's built like something that came out of the engineering labs of a high-end audio manufacturer such as B&W or Krell. Pick it up and you know right away this is the result of a serious engineering effort. The metal chassis conceals two Twoofers, 1-inch combination woofer/tweeters with powerful neodymium magnets. The Twoofer has more in common with the custom-designed, high-output tweeters in audiophile speakers than it does with the generic 1-inch cone drivers found in most speaker systems of this size.
On the back of the unit, there's a rectangular, flat-diaphragm woofer that's about half the size of a playing card. To wrest deeper bass response from the woofer, Soundmatters added mass to the diaphragm by attaching the lithium-ion rechargeable battery directly to it. There's even a cute name for this contraption: the BassBattery.
Tiny internal digital amplifiers power the system. The company rates their output at 4 watts per channel when powered by the AC adapter, and 2 watts per channel when powered by the battery.
A vented metal "kickstand" in the back lets the unit rest securely atop a table. The package includes a lanyard, a carrying pouch, a 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio cable, and the AC adapter.
The Foxl was created by Soundmatters founder Dr. Godehard Guenther, an ex-NASA engineer who enjoys a reputation among audio manufacturers as a sort of mysterious wizard of sound. Honest-to-goodness, I've actually heard his name mentioned by speaker-company presidents in hushed, awed tones.
With the standard (non-Bluetooth) Foxl I tested, there's almost no setup involved. Plug in your audio source, plug in the AC adapter if you need to, and flip the power switch on the back. Two tiny pushbuttons on the back let you adjust the volume.
If you play bass-heavy material through the Foxl at top volume, the BassBattery can move back and forth violently enough to make the unit scoot around on a smooth tabletop. Soundmatters supplies a little rubber foot that attaches to the metal kickstand to keep the unit in place, but the kickstand won't fold flat when the foot is attached. The scooting wasn't enough of a problem to offset this ergonomic disadvantage, so I jettisoned it. And truth be told, the scooting has emotional benefits for the lonely traveler-it almost makes you feel like you have a little pet with you in your hotel room.
While I was running acoustical measurements on the Foxl, deep bass test tones caused it to scoot right off the top of my 6-foot measuring stand. It fell smack dab onto the stand's 3/4-inch plywood base, but appeared undamaged. I couldn't even find a chip in the paint. I doubt any iPod could survive such a test.
I expect most people will use the Foxl with an iPod or a laptop, but my playmate of choice for the Foxl was my Samsung YP-U3JQG, a portable music player that's about the size of a five-stick pack of Juicy Fruit gum. Like many flash-based MP3 players, the YP-U3JQG incorporates an FM tuner that is vastly superior to the ones built into hotel clock radios. Combine the Foxl with one of these players, and you have a real audio entertainment system you can carry in a pants pocket.


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Death, Dying,
Grief and Mourning
"Death is always the same,
but each man dies in his own way."
McCullers, Clock Without Hands, 1960
in Western
An Anthology by
Adrienne Nater
of Snowden:
Chapter 41
…Snowden was lying on his back on the floor with his
legs stretched out, still burdened cumbersomely by his flak suit,
his flak helmet, his parachute harness and his Mae West. Not far
away on the floor lay the small tail gunner in a dead faint. The
wound Yossarian saw was in the outside of Snowden's thigh, as large
as a football, it seemed. It was impossible to tell where the shreds
of his saturated coverall ended and the ragged flesh began.
There was no morphine in the first-aid kit, no
protection for Snowden against pain but the numbing shock of the
gaping wound itself. The twelve syrettes of morphine had been stolen
from their case and replaced by a cleanly lettered note that said:
"What's good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country. Milo
Minderbinder." Yosarian swore at Milo and held two aspirins out to
ashen lips unable to receive them. But first he hastily drew a
tourniquet around Snowden's thigh because he could not think what
else to do in those first tumultuous moments when his senses were in
turmoil, when he knew he must act competently at once and feared he
might go to pieces completely. Snowden watched him steadily, saying
nothing. No artery was spurting, but Yossarian pretended to absorb
himself entirely into the fashioning of a tourniquet, because
applying a tourniquet was something he did know how to do. He worked
with simulated skill and composure, feeling Snowden's lackluster
gaze resting upon him. He recovered possession of himself before the
tourniquet was finished and loosened it immediately to lessen the
danger of gangrene. His mind was clear now, and he knew how to
proceed. He rummaged through the first-aid kit for scissors.
"I'm cold," Snowden said softly, "I'm cold."
"You're going to be all right, kid," Yossarian
reassured him with a grin. "You're going to be all right."
"I'm cold," Snowden said again in a frail, childlike
voice. "I'm cold."
"There, there," Yossarian said, because he did not
know what else to say. "There, there."
"I'm cold," Snowden whimpered. "I'm cold."
"There, there. There, there."
Yossarian was frightened and moved more swiftly. He
found a pair of scissors at last and began cutting carefully through
Snowden's coveralls high up above the wound, just below the groin.
He cut through the heavy gabardine cloth all the way around the
thigh in a straight line. The tiny tail gunner woke up while
Yossarian was cutting with the scissors, saw him, and fainted again.
Snowden rolled his head to the other side of his neck in order to
stare at Yossarian more directly. A dim, sunken light glowed in his
weak and listless eyes. Yossarian, puzzled, tried not to look at
him. He began cutting downward through the coveralls along the
inside seam. The yawning wound — was that a tube of slimy bone he
saw running deep inside the gory scarlet flowed behind the
twitching, startling fibers of weird muscle? Was dripping blood in
several trickles, like snow melting on eaves, but viscous and red,
already thickening as it dropped. Yossarian kept cutting through the
coveralls to the bottom and peeled open the severed leg of the
garment. It fell to the floor with a plop, exposing the hem of khaki
undershorts that were soaking up blotches of blood on one side as
though in thirst. Yossarian was stunned at how waxen and ghastly
Snowden's bare leg looked, how loathsome, how lifeless and esoteric
the downy, fine curled blond hairs on his odd, white shin and calf.
The wound, he saw now, was not nearly as large as a football, but as
long and wide as his hand, and too raw and deep to see into clearly.
The raw muscles inside twitched like live hamburger meat. A long
sigh of relief escaped slowly through Yossarian's mouth when he saw
that Snowden was not in danger of dying. The blood was already
coagulating inside the wound, and it was simply a matter of
bandaging him up and keeping him calm until the plane landed. He
removed some packets of sulfanilamide from the first-aid kit.
Snowden quivered when Yossarian pressed against him gently to turn
him up slightly on his side.
I hurt you?"
"There, there," Yossarian said. "There, there."
"I'm cold. I'm cold."
"It's starting to hurt me," Snowden cried out with a
plaintive, urgent wince.
Yossarian scrambled through the first-aid kit in
search of morphine again and found only Milo's note and a bottle of
aspirin, He cursed Milo and held two aspirin tablets out to Snowden.
He had no water to offer. Snowden rejected the aspirin with an
almost imperceptible shake of his head. His face was pale and pasty.
Yossarian removed Snowden's flak helmet and lowered his head to the
"I'm cold," Snowden moaned with half-closed eyes.
"I'm cold."
The edges of his mouth were turning blue. Yossarian
was petrified. He wondered whether to pull the rip cord of Snowden's
parachute and cover him with the nylon folds. It was very warm in
the plane. Glancing up unexpectedly, Snowden gave him a wan,
cooperative smile and shifted the position of his hips a bit so that
Yossarian could begin salting the wound with sulfanilamide.
Yossarian worked with renewed confidence and optimism. The plane
bounced hard inside an airpocket, and he remembered with a start
that he had left his own parachute up front in the nose. There was
nothing to be done about that. He poured envelope after envelope of
the white crystalline powder in the bloody oval wound until nothing
red could be seen and then drew a deep, apprehensive breath,
steeling himself with gritted teeth as he touched his bare hands to
the dangling shreds of drying flesh to tuck them up inside the
wound. Quickly he covered the whole wound with a large compress and
jerked his hand away. He smiled nervously when his brief ordeal had
ended. The actual contact with dead flesh had not been nearly as
repulsive as he had anticipated, and he found excuse to caress the
wound with his fingers again and again to convince himself of his
own courage.
… "I'm cold," Snowden moaned. "I'm cold."
"You're going to be all right, kid," Yossarian
assured him, patting his arm comfortingly. "Everything's under
Snowden shook his head feebly. "I'm cold," he
repeated, with eyes as dull and blind as stone. "I'm cold."
"There, there," Yossarian, with growing doubt and
trepidation. "There, there. In a little while we'll be back on the
ground and Doc Daneeka will take care of you."
But Snowden kept shaking his head and pointed at
last, with just the barest movement of his chin, down to his armpit.
Yossarian bent forward to peer and saw a strangely colored stain
seeping through the coverall just above the armhole of Snowden's
flak suit. Yossarian felt his heart stop, then pound so violently he
found it difficult to breathe. Snowden was wounded inside his flak
suit. Yossarian ripped open the snaps of Snowden's flak suit and
heard himself scream wildly as Snowden's insides slithered down to
the floor in a soggy pile and just kept dripping out. A chunk of
flak more than three inches big had shot into his other side just
underneath the arm and blasted all the way through, drawing whole
mottled quarts of Snowden along with it through the gigantic hole in
his ribs it made as it blasted out. Yossarian screamed a second time
and squeezed both hands over his eyes. His teeth were chattering in
horror. He forced himself to look again. Here was God's plenty, all
right, he thought bitterly as he stared — liver, lungs, kidneys,
ribs, stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that
day for lunch. Yossarian hated stewed tomatoes and turned away
dizzily and began to vomit, clutching his burning throat. The tail
gunner woke up while Yossarian was vomiting, saw him, and fainted
Yossarian was limp with exhaustion, pain and despair
when he finished. He turned back weakly to Snowden, whose breath had
grown softer and more rapid, and whose face had grown paler. He
wondered how in the world to begin to save him.
"I'm cold." Snowden whimpered, "I'm cold."
"There, there. Yossarian mumbled mechanically in a
voice too low to be heard. "There, there."
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering
uncontrollable. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he
gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all
over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his
entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a
window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and
he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is
garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
"I'm cold," Snowden said. "I'm cold."
"There, there," said Yossarian. "There, there," He
pulled the rip cord of Snowden's parachute and covered his body with
the white nylon sheets.
"I'm cold."
"There, there."
Nater, 2008
2008 Adrienne Nater. All rights reserved.


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Ciao Italia "Polenta with Vegetables/Polenta Con Le Verdure" Master Chef Lucca Paris of Lucca's Mediterranean Cafe in Keene, NH brings a basket full of straight-from the garden veggies and freshly-ground cornmeal to Mary Ann in her Ciao Italia kitchen. Together they make a simple but dramatic Chicory Tart with Onions, Umbrian Style, and then use the freshly-picked eggplant to make a hearty, winter-perfect Eggplant Stew with Polenta Squares. D
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Taste of History "Betsy Ross Sews A Legend" Betsy Ross is one the most celebrated woman in American history. Although there is still controversy around her story and whether she sewed our country's first flag, the details appear to support a woman of great courage who was asked by Gen. Washington to defy the British and secretly give our nation its identity. D
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The Jazzy Vegetarian "Elegant and Easy" Host Laura Theodore, prepares her elegant and easy party menu featuring "Savory Mushroom Stroganoff" served over delicate rotini pasta. On the side, simple "Broccoli with Lemon Sauce" compliments beautifully. "Walnut, Beet, and Tofu Salad' starts off the meal with flair. D
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Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Legumes" Martha sheds light on the wide world of legumes, exploring the many available varieties - from chickpeas to calypso beans - and how to cook them using three different methods: stovetop, oven and pressure cooker. Italian chef and bean aficionado Cesare Casella joins Martha to share some of his own recipes for exceptional bean dishes. D
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Austin City Limits "Spoon" An Austin institution, Spoon tunes up for indie rock to highlight its latest album Transference.G
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Sesame Street "Lifting Snuffy" Zoe choreographed a special dance, "The Dance of the Six Swans," that she would like her friends to perform. She asks everyone to pair up for the 'lift' part of the dance, but they're missing one person, so they ask Alan to join the dancers. He is partnered with Snuffy who says it's been a dream of his to be lifted into the air like a swan. D
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Dinosaur Train "The Forest Fire/The Lost Bird" When a forest fire comes to woods not far from the family nest at Pteranodon Terrace, the family takes the Dinosaur Train to visit a nearby area where a fire has already been, and the Conductor leads the kids on a Nature Tracker hike through the woods to see how new life is growing back - even after the forest fire's devastation. Buddy and Tiny ride the Dinosaur Train for a playdate with their old friend Petey Peteinosaurus, and learn that the train has added a new Aviary Car, for their various flying passengers. Suddenly, they are joined by a lost bird named Judy Jehelornis, who was displaced by the recent forest fires, and can't remember where her home is. D
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Super Why! "The Three Little Pigs: The Return of the Wolf" Pig and his brothers are trying to make a picnic table for their yard, but it all goes terribly wrong! So Super Why and his friends visit the tale of The Three Little Pigs, hoping to find out a little bit about building from the young Poppa Pig. Will they learn how to construct something sturdy, or will the Big Bad Wolf huff, puff and ruin their plans? Educational Objectives: To learn the importance of following instructions. Kids will sing the alphabet, rhyme with ICKS words, and use the power to read to change the story. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "The Lost Egg/Hold On Tight" The Lost Egg - The kids are decorating the tree house for a party. The Cat knows the world's most fantabulous decorator: Stan the bower bird! Stan teaches the kids how to decorate with almost anything--shells, leaves, and pebbles. Now they can have a party in their own fantabulously decorated tree house! Hold on Tight - Nick is trying to hang onto the monkey bars but can't. D
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Wild Kratts "Platypus Cafe" While kayaking in Australia, Martin and Chris encounter one of the world's most unusual creatures, a platypus mother with her eggs. But unscrupulous endangered animal chef, Gourmand, plans on making the platypus eggs his next delicacy. The Wild Kratts team must use the special "sixth sense" of the platypus to save the eggs. D
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Sara's Weeknight Meals "I'm Cheating On You" How does Sara get great food on the table every night with no effort at all? She cheats! Lucky for you. she'll reveal all her tricks and secrets in this episode. She'll show you fast Sticky Buns without the yeast, a way to bake risotto instead of stirring it with Baked Risotto with Red Wine, Sweet Potatoes and Duck Confit and cheaters Wonton Ravioli stuffed with spinach, ricotta and mozzarella. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "South England; Dover to Lands' End" Rick ponders Roman, Norman and Nazi invasions at Land's End. Then, he explores Admiral Nelson's flagship.G
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Song of the Mountains David Holt & the Lightning Bolts; The Roys. D
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK- When was your street plowed?
Stephanie Snider: "Saturday, Sunday, and I think there was one more on Monday. They actually did a good job in my neighborhood."
Michael Opie: "Never. About a week after the snow. I hope it don't come no more."
Michael Bonnet: "It got plowed when the snow stopped. Saturday."
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I don't recall ever hearing or seeing a snow plow on my street, even though I live on a bus route.
One of my neighbors brought in an extremely large 4X4 John Deere tractor from his farm on Saturday and cleared all the sidewalks and the entire street. It had a bucket on the front, and a plow on the rear.
We were probably the first street in the city to have 100% ashpalt and concrete showing. And in short order too.
I live in the new Ryan Home community on Pantops. My street was awful for 3 days following the snow. Maybe my local govt. forgot that we were new in the area? Maybe my community dues are not working too well? Whatever it was, it sucked.
That street was awful from the day Ryan Homes built those ugly boxes along it. Seems more likely that the snow temporarily added a bit of charm.
Oh Mies, sounds like someone is a little green with envy. I am sure if you study hard one day you will be able to afford one.
Nope, I would never trade my classic Victorian era farmhouse for a plastic sided shed.
What a great description of any Ryan Home.
Discoduck, perhaps if you go back to school and study harder you will be able to afford a better home. You are just one step up from a West Virginia double wide.
LOL. Seems like we have usn's some home snobs around these here parts.
Oh silly rabbit and mies, I do not live in one of the "boxes" but I do not try and make myself feel better by demeaning ones that do.
I will put it to you this way. You cannot afford and do never test.
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Javier Mascherano was forced to offer a humbling apology today after being sent off in the most bizarre circumstances imaginable while on international duty with Argentina last night.
In the final minutes of his side's 1-1 draw with Ecuador the Barcelona ace began to kick the driver of the medical kart which was stretchering him off the pitch.
Mascherano apologised and says he only did it because the driver was going to fast and he was close to falling off. Sound bizarre? Well that's because it was.
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The following words are not mine, though I wish they were. My wife found this brief piece, accompanying a picture of the Palins [gag-retch!] picking up their order at Chick-fil-A. I thought the person making this observation did a better than average job of showing off some of the hidden and not-so-hidden things we're supporting when we take ANY action, let alone make a run to the local fast-food joint.
That said, submitted for your approval:
It's funny how people support more pro-gay companies by trying to show their support for a single anti-gay company.
Google, Apple, and Microsoft likely designed the O/S on the smartphone used to take pictures at Chick-fil-A today.
These pictures were likely uploaded (using an Apple, Google, or Microsoft product) to the major social networks, Facebook and Twitter, over one of the major cellular networks, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, or AT&T.
The Customers probably purchased a beverage with their meal, which was provided by Coca-Cola, the only beverage products available at Chick-fil-A.
If they used a credit/debit card to purchase their meal, they more than likely used a Visa, MasterCard, or American Express card.
If they drove there, there is a high probability they used a car produced by Chrysler, Ford, General Motors or Toyota.
What do all these companies, besides, Chick-fil-A have in common? They are all PRO-GAY. So if you want to support the anti-gay bigots, you're better off staying at home doing absolutely nothing. But make sure you aren't using a computer to share your opinions, as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, Alan Turing, was a homosexual.
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Thanks for sharing that, it brought a smile to my face!
Nicely said. The Turing reference is particularly poignant, considering how he was thrown under the proverbial bus by his country after basically helping Britain win World War II.
And how many Christians frequent stores like Target and J.C. Penny, buy online from Amazon, purchase brand items from General Mills and Levi's, brush their teeth with Crest or Colgate, and get their daily Starbucks fix? And for how many of them is Google their default email and Internet search provider? We'll see how far their devotion goes when more companies start coming out in favor of GLBT and marriage equality.
After Procter & Gamble released their gay rights adverts I mused that we'll soon be able to tell the anti-gay crowd by how shabby or poorly washed they'll look. However, chances are that some Christian company will come out with "family-friendly alternatives" (i.e., anti-gay friendly) for necessities: Christian breakfast cereal, Christian toothpaste, Christian laundry detergent, Christian credit cards... well, I could go on and on. But that's the mentality many of them have.
One of Hitchens' fondest wishes was to disassociate faith from virtue. Such action would be at least a step if not several steps in that direction. As more people become freethinkers and christians insulate themselves further from what would become the mainstream, the time might arrive when christianity would be nothing more than a minority cult, rather like Robert Heinlein imagined them in an alternative universe in Job: A Comedy of Justice.
The notable difference would be that they would likely get far better treatment from the majority atheists than atheists got from them when christianity was the supposed default position and majority.
Irony, irony.
W'har do I get me some-o-that thar Jesus Christ brand toothpaste, anti-plaque formula? Jesus will wash away your sins AND whiten teeth!
Available in the personal hygiene section (around the corner from corsets and chastity belts) wherever fine, upstanding, God-fearing, family-friendly, totally-non-homophobic products are sold. Just look for the giant cross, the white picket fence, and the smell of heterosexual desperation.
Got it!
You might have to do without the anti-plaque formula though. That might violate some prohibition in Leviticus. Or something.
That's cool... I don't really believe in plaque anyway. I think plaque may be something cooked up by the liberal media to distract us from socialism.
Or from Obama's birth certificate. And socialism.
I can't stand the smell of heterosexual desperation. I guess I'm a bigot.
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Any correlation between the rising cost of diesel fuel and the introduction of the Challenger TECHStar continuously variable transmission (CVT) may be purely coincidental.
However, that certainly doesn't diminish its timeliness, or benefits owners of TECHStar-equipped Challenger tractors are experiencing.
"The TECHStar transmission was first introduced last year on the MT500B Series tractors as an option to the AutoPower IV 32F X 32R transmission," says Adrian Crisp, general marketing manager for Challenger high-horsepower wheel tractors.
"However, Challenger took productivity and efficiency a step further by making the TECHStar CVT standard equipment on the new MT600B Series, introduced earlier this spring."
Invented and perfected by a Challenger sister brand, the TECHStar CVT is backed by more than 10 years of research, development and production. Today, more than 40,000 of these CVT transmissions are in service worldwide. Using a combination of proven hydrostatic transmission technology with conventional mechanical efficiency, the TECHStar CVT provides the operator with an unsurpassed level of economy and performance through stepless transmission technology.
"By using both its mechanical and hydrostatic capabilities at the same time, the TECHStar CVT not only operates more efficiently, but it does so without preset gear limits," says Crisp. "With stepless variable speed, the operator has access to the power reserves, as well as the speed choices, normally hidden in the areas between gears."
According to Barry O' Shea, sales engineer for Challenger wheel tractors, that alone can make a significant difference in the number of acres covered…and the gallons of fuel consumed in a single day.
"Say, for example, you're able to pull a 30 foot chisel at 6.4 mph with a TECHStar-equipped tractor instead of the 5.7 mph gear limit on a competitive powershift," O'Shea explains. "The difference in speed adds up to an extra 36 acres in a 14-hour day, and that's just one operation on one day. Imagine the potential for fuel savings."
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"Despite its advanced technology, the TECHStar transmission is extremely simple and intuitive to operate," said Crisp. "The operator simply moves the power control lever, located on the left side of the steering column, to select the desired travel direction. This lever also serves as the shuttle control, which, when activated, causes the tractor to automatically slow to a stop, reverse direction and accelerate to the programmed speed shown on the dash display.
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Having kindly been sent a brand new pair of Grey Suede Kurt Geiger heels with instructions I choose to start their Journey with a sticky mess....15 litres of sticky black treacle!
worn with new Levante tights.
Complete submersion through to a warm shower at the end.
Autumn is here and its time to tidy the garden and burn the leaves.....Or Many pairs of High Heels!!
Lk Bennett, Reiss Carvela to name a few of the many pairs that find their way on to the fire...
Not to mention the mud one pair has to encounter!
Having purchased a new outfit for a works do, on my return I decided to try out a new clay beauty treatment I got for Christmas, Still wearing my brand new Ted Baker Patent heels I step into the bath and sit on the Naughty Plank...
In this clip I wear a pair of Brand new Reiss shoe boots sent to me by a good friend. Again out for the day I come across a field with a stream and mud! cant help myself, and in I go!!
Filmed from above and below the surface.
Manolo Blahnik mary Jane stroll
So its a beautiful day and I go for a walk, of course in my Nude patent Mary Jane Manolo's!
through the green meadow, into the thick brown mud! only to come across a stream where I can wash them clean. Well that's the plan!
watch as I play in the stream above and below the surface.
Nude Christian Louboutin river bed stroll.
The sun is still shining so I slip on a pair of Nude Christian Louboutin heels and take a stroll up the stream and into the mud!..filmed above and below the water.
Watch as the heels get destroyed by the stones..
Christian Louboutin mainstream.
The sun is shining the stream is flowing, time to cool my toes...with mud and water!
These beautiful louboutin heels are tested to the max viewed above and below the water.
I am sent a pair of Christian Louboutin heels and asked to take a stroll cross county. In doing so I tackle Stoney tracks muddy fields and a rather smell cow trodden mud pit!
So I borrowed this pair of Christian Louboutin Pigalle 120 heels to go out to dinner in, but the problem is I also had all this treacle to play with...
So I slip on a black top and skirt, fresh stockings and these pretty heels...
In this movie i wear a pair of Stack heel mary Janes.After adding a little warm chocolate things get really messy! inside and out...All finished off with a little hosery ripping.
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All the information gathered so far from the original NGX thread.
Hopefully I didn't miss any of the relevant posts so far.
All the information gathered so far from the original NGX thread.
Hopefully I didn't miss any of the relevant posts so far.
looks like if we use boot select 2 we could boot a bios from SD...assuming we had one handy.
Native hardware or bust.
I imagine getting inside the Ninja Master's SD would be the easiest method. Seems to be a 64MB card, RAW? Tried a few recovery programs and supposedly it has 4 files on it but none can get them out.
I will be following this thread closely. Really hope someone is able to hack the Neo Geo X or at least crack the SD card. If Ninja Master's is only a 64MB card, it would theoretically be possible to load up a much bigger card with multiple games and never need to swap cards. Also hoping someone can come out with a few UI tweaks, the standard one is so basic it hurts.
In the beginning, god created the universe.
This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally regarded as a bad move.
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Took my NGX fully apart, pictures incoming... and a nice surprise
1. You figured out how to output scanlines in perfect 1080p
2. You were able to switch the country code to JPN for blood in Metal Slug
3. Secret debug menu with work memory card saves enabled
4. You were able to get every ROM to work from an SDcard?
OK.. just guessing. :P
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First one is under the battery, nothing much to see there. But on the screen facing side...
So of course I have to pull the microSD card out and see what's on it. My mac and PC both showed nothing (PC wanted to format it). But I found that testdisk program someone mentioned and found this..
There's an internal SD card?! Hahaha, holy fucking awesome. I've got one on the way from best buy
Now I didn't really mess around much as I didn't want to potentially mess up my card. But I put the NGX back together and it's working fine. My "MENU" button seems a little more flush, but I can live with that.
When these systems are available at wal-mart on the shelf, maybe I'll be willing to mess around more since I can go buy a new one and take the broke one back. But hopefully it won't come to that.
I plugged in the NGX via USB to my computer and just found a 1Gig FAT32 partition. I made an image of it using that testscan. Maybe I'll pull the 2gig internal one back out and make an image so I can look around. But I know there are far smarter people than me out there who can make more sense of all this.
That is fantastic! It's only a matter of time, now.
The bios along with the preloaded games must be stored on that internal micro sd making it easily removable, just shows us that tommo wanted us to hack the fuck out of this thing
Fucking A , and nice find man !
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That CPU is already in use in other handhelds running Open Dingux. Long story short, there's already a nice Linux based OS and set of emulators ready to go, someone would just need to recompile the code to suit the LCD driver in the Neo X.
...and OpenDingux has a Neo Geo Pocket emulator.
I'm surrounded by console peasants
Can't believe how easy this is going to be to hack. Someone will have to come up with the boot code and work out the LCD driver, but after that all one would need to do is replace the internal SD card with one that has OpenDingux installed. Heck you could probably come up with a dual boot system and get it to boot from the external SD and keep the original OS intact.
Curious if it would boot up without the Micro sd card or if everything is on thy card.
Crap I would have tried that too. I think I put it together wrong because my thumbstick won't seat as far down as it supposed to. Guess I'll try that tomorrow. By the way, they glued the crap out of the microSD card, it wasn't easy getting it out. It sits in there pretty good, but I could see how a few drops my make it come loose, I don't think the glue was a deterrent.
Wow this is fucking hilarious.
If I can dig up a microSD card, I'll try putting that opendingux on it and see what happens.
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This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally regarded as a bad move.
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It's probably too late for a revision now. It would cost money to change that and go through the testing when this product already works. Not saying it can't happen. Honestly I have no idea what I'm doing. I am no threat to their business model. And if I'm the only one doing this stuff, then we likely won't have a hacked portable.
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To put it nicely, this is nowhere near where the team should be at this point in the season. The teams above (Boston, Tampa Bay, Montreal) are starting to pick up the pace, making it more difficult to rise up the standings later in the season. After a mediocre November that saw the Wings lose FIVE times in a row after regulation, and a current 3-5-2 backslide, the situation is not getting better. The terrible teams in the Metropolitan Division are slowly improving on their terribleness. Mediocrity and laziness are settling in. Everybody's injured. Mike Babcock is probably always angry. Cats and dogs have begun living together.
In all seriousness, the team has not been very good. It would be easy to lean on the reasoning that the injuries make it difficult to win games, especially when the likes of Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, Jimmy Howard, Jonathan Ericsson, Darren Helm, Stephen Weiss, and Daniel DeKeyser have all been out of the lineup at some point due to injuries. Unfortunately, I don't accept this as a valid enough argument for defending the team's awful play. I also don't think it's fair to praise the bevy of talent in Grand Rapids for existing but not delivering wins when they are called up to fill in the roster gaps. Yes, players like Tomas Jurco, Riley Sheahan, and Gustav Nyquist have been very good, but not good enough to turn the (mis)fortunes of the team around. Statistics and potential don't matter at this moment. Wins do, and we need more of them to separate us from the dogfight that is going to take place in March.
So, where is the problem?
Based on the numbers available here, you could make a fantastic case that the Red Wings, as a team, are the definition of average at every possible category with the exception of a few. They rank in the middle at goals per game (18th), goals against per game (13th), 5 on 5 goals for/against efficiency (15th), power play (16th), shots per game (14th), shots against per game (11th), win percentage when trailing first (13th), and winning when outshooting opponents (15th). It gets worse.
The positives from team statistics are surprising. They rank in the top 10 in penalty kill (8th) and faceoff winning percentage (9th). The negatives tell the true tale of the season. They bomb in win percentage when being outshot (23rd), win percentage when scoring 1st (26th!), win percentage when leading after 1 period (25th!), and win percentage when leading after 2 periods (29th!!!).
As a team, the definition of the Red Wings becomes more lucid looking at these numbers. They are in virtually every way a middle of the pack team that is good at killing penalties and winning faceoffs, but are among the league's worst when it comes to holding a lead and maintaining any lead the later the game goes. I recognize that one stats page doesn't tell a story, but is is what the team has been doing so far and hockey is a team sport. I'm not going to dump the team's poor performance on Kyle Quincey, Ken Holland, Dan Cleary's Reanimated Corpse, Jimmy Howard, or the porcelain company responsible for crafting Detroit Red Wing players. As a team, they are not playing well. They can't hold leads. They aren't scoring enough. The Christmas break will help some players get their shit together. Others will be waived. Returning players from injuries have to step up. The veterans on this team need to right the ship. The rookies need to keep playing with intensity and not let up any steam their pro careers have.
I have gone MAD trying to find the right words to describe what the team needs to do moving forward. 2013 wasn't good for Red Wings hockey. Last year's playoffs notwithstanding, I think as a team (and a fanbase) everyone has learned that winning won't come easy anymore and nobody is going to be walking into the playoffs this season. 2014 is a chance to turn around the mediocrity and start driving towards the playoffs instead of sliding sideways with OT losses and shootout losses. There's still plenty of time left on the calendar, let's hope the team uses it and doesn't piss away the reputation the team has fought to withhold the last 22 seasons.