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In the opinion of most listeners, it was both. But while the 3020's relatively low-powered amplifier (conservatively rated at 20Wpc into 8 ohms) limited it to driving small, efficient loudspeakers, its remarkably fine-sounding preamp section, complete with a decent moving-magnet phono stage, inspired many buyers to eventually add a more powerful outboard amp and go the biamp route—or, given the 3020's low price, to ignore the NAD's power amp altogether. Consumer demand led NAD to later release the preamp section on its own, as the bargain-basement-priced 1020.
NAD was able to achieve such high performance at such low prices by avoiding the high capitalization costs involved in building a factory to produce its products. Instead, it had them manufactured to its specifications in existing factories in Taiwan. While this arrangement is commonplace today, back then it was unusual, even radical.
The M3 dual-mono integrated amplifier, one of NAD's new "Masters Series" products, appears to be the company's latest attempt to produce another two-channel classic, this time one combining excellent build quality with cutting-edge electronic engineering, 21st-century remote-control ergonomics, and high-end sound. Like the 3020, the M3 is the product of NAD's director of advanced development, Björn Erik Edvardson, and Asian manufacturing expertise, this time in the People's Republic of China. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Unlike the 20Wpc 3020, which was inexpensive and looked it, the 180Wpc M3 costs much more than many entry-level two-channel integrateds. Even so, its build quality seems that of a product costing many times its $2799 price. The chassis is made of 2mm-thick milled steel plates, the front panel of extruded aluminum and diecast zinc. Feet of aluminum and silicone rubber help isolate the circuit boards from vibrations. Line-level connections are made via gold-plated, chassis-mounted RCA jacks. The finish comprises a brownish powder coating and an advanced automotive paint; these, along with the chassis' smoothly rounded contours and heatsinks, give the M3 a coherent, understated beauty that's rarely achieved in audio at any price.
Digital nerve system, analog musculature
With six pairs of single-ended and one pair of balanced inputs, the M3 offers enough versatility for almost anyone's audio system. Two sets of speaker output terminals are provided on the roomy, cleanly laid out rear panel, each using those annoying Euro-spec plastic-protected connectors—fine for banana plugs, pins, or bare wire, not so fine for audiophile-grade speaker cables, most of which are terminated with spade lugs.
The simplicity of the M3's front panel hides a versatile, feature-packed preamplifier section with seven custom-namable inputs (including a balanced XLR), electronically activated bass, treble, and "Spectral Tilt" controls, dual-mono, stereo, mono left and mono right modes, a balance control, independent source selection for a second zone, and two preamp outs, one of which features a selectable biamp mode with built-in 40, 60, 80, and 100Hz low-pass analog filtering for use with a satellite/subwoofer system.
Dominated by a large, fluorescent display, the front panel includes a row of small pushbuttons labeled Listen (input selection), Record/Z2, Mode, Balance, Tone, Bi-Amp, and Speakers. A single large knob controls not only the volume, in continuous 0.5dB steps over a range of –77.5dB to +10.0dB, but setup as well. While using the Listen button requires you to scroll through the entire list of inputs to reach the one you want, large pushbuttons on the remote provide direct access.
According to NAD, all of this versatility and control come at no sonic price. Level adjustments (volume, balance, tone) are accomplished using digitally switched 1% resistors. Sources are switched via precision sealed reed relays similar to the ones McIntosh uses in its top-of-the-line C1000 preamp. NAD says that, along with ensuring precise control, use of these technologies means that all actual switching and adjusting components can be located optimally within the circuit, and that the analog signal doesn't need to be routed to the front panel's "virtual" controls. Careful circuit layout, short signal paths, miniature surface-mount components, and multilayered circuit boards all help contribute to NAD's claim of "infinitesimal levels of noise and distortion."
The preamp section is an all-discrete design using low-noise, high-impedance JFET buffer amps at the input and proprietary high-current, low-output-impedance, class-A gain modules. The claimed result is wide dynamic headroom, high output current, and a signal/noise ratio in excess of 100dB (IHF). The balanced XLR line input uses identical JFET buffers that feed a discrete differential amp claimed to yield common-mode rejection in excess of 80dB.
The dual-mono amplifier's power supply features custom-wound Holmgren toroidal transformers, separate unregulated and discrete-regulated supplies for various stages of the circuit, high-current rectifiers, and low-ESR (effective series resistance) filter capacitors. An independent power supply is used for the display and digital functions to help keep noise to a minimum.


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Peanut Butter and Jam, sitting in a tree. This classic combo has our vanilla cupcake, filled with fresh local strawberry jam (fresh, as in they made it last week) topped with a super fluffy, salty peanut butter buttercream. Sprinkled with chopped peanuts and a coarse sugar and sea salt.
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Over the course of this past school year, I have shared carefully-worded anecdotes about the trials and tribulations of the youngsters in my life who are struggling with their impending graduation. That date is less than one month away at this point, and those of us on educational teams teaching these young adults are focused almost exclusively on getting them out the door in one piece, so to speak. The challenges that come with being a high-functioning autistic adult only become more prevalent with age—or if they do not increase in number, then surely the same cannot be said for intensity. The stakes are as high as they're likely to get.
Students in my little corner of the world have spent the better part of the first two decades of their lives in educational settings, and now, as the song says, the end is near. As such, perhaps some advice from one older but by no means wiser is in order! Based on the struggles I have borne witness to in the past nine months, I would venture to say that the art of listening is one that perhaps has not been adequately developed by many of my students. My fellow teachers and I have spent countless hours talking to certain young people—almost all seniors who are now weeks from graduation—and are left with the distinct sense that we would have been just as well off to find a brick wall and bang our heads against it. In the focus of my department—Career Education, teaching employability skills—we target communication, to be sure. But I don't know that we have spent nearly enough time addressing the art of being an active listener. And now, with the second week in June coming up fast, time's up. With 30 or so school days to go before my students don their caps and gowns, it may very well be too late to start seeing what can be done to fine-tune this vital skill before that walk down the aisle towards the diploma.
Listening, really listening, seems to involve shutting off the running commentary in the brain. I cannot help but wonder how much useful information and advice I have missed in my 20-something years of adulthood because I was so busy allowing my rigid, all-or-nothing mental focus push out any chance of letting new (or not-so-new) and probably very useful information and advice seep in through the cracks. In my humble experience, we on the "higher-functioning" end of the autism spectrum spend an awful lot of time shoring up our defenses. We can't possibly be actively listening to advice when we are busy planning counter-arguments. For me, actively listening has truly come to mean shutting down that running commentary for as long as I possibly can, because I know now how much useful, probably in some cases life-altering, information I have walled out in the interest of protecting myself against the world. I believe that's what is going on for some of my students this spring. The thoughts of what comes next are so completely overwhelming that they protect themselves by not allowing the reality to seep through the cracks. But the stakes are too high to keep shoring up those defenses. As adults, the need to listen and take to heart the wisdom of those who have gone before, the wisdom of those who care about us, and in some cases, love us, is paramount for success on any meaningful level. I wish I had understood that 20 years ago, just as I wish I had understood how not being able to listen when it came to conversations about my own well-being was only hurting myself.
So as I like to say when trying to get the attention of the group: Okay ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, time to be grown-ups! Like it or not, there is pomp and circumstance in your immediate future, and if you can take the time to figure out what we mean when we say "Listen" then life will be so much less-complicated—dare I actually say, easier?—than you could ever imagine.
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The Canadian dollar is the official currency of Canada. For a brief time in October 2007, the Canadian dollar became slightly more valuable than the American dollar for the first time since 1976.[1] The increase in the value of the Canadian dollar is in part due to a decrease in the value of the American dollar, and in part because of Canada's strong economic performance.
The Canadian federal government has consistently run large, net surpluses of tax revenues over expenditures since 1998, and is paying down their national debt (currently still at 457 billion Canadian dollars). The value of the economy also grows because of their wealth of natural resources, including oil and minerals. This appreciation of the dollar has caused difficulties for the manufacturing areas of the economy. The Canadian dollar has stayed relatively steady against the euro and other major currencies, while the US dollar has fallen.[2]
A Canadian one dollar coin is commonly known as a "loonie" because the reverse side of the coin features an image of a loon.
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Wysocki improved dramatically in the 3,000m during the 2010 season and ran a personal best of 8:49.32 at the Big West Challenge...Also competed in the 5,000m and ran a season best of 15:29.32 at the Cal Poly Dual meet...His best 10,000m time of the season was 32:44.35 at the Cal/Nevada Championship where he earned 11th overall.
Wysocki competed in the 10,000m at Conference and took 17th with a time of 32:16.30...Earlier in the season he ran 32:17.25 to take eighth at Cal/Nevada...Ran a seasonal best in the 5000m of 15:20.04 at the Ben Brown Invitational.
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Was named to the All-Southwestern League second team upon the conclusion of the 2007 cross country season...Held personal bests of 4:32.3 in the 1600m, 9:52 in the 3200m, and 15:27 on a three mile cross country course...Was Great Oak's distance runner of the year upon the conclusion of the 2007 track season...Was an AP Scholar With Honor and math student of the year at Great Oak.
Wysocki is majoring in mechanical engineering and hopes to work in robotics someday...Interested in computers, technology, and cars...Fan of NASCAR and baseball; his favorite driver is Jeff Gordon and favorite baseball team is the Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim...His mom is a former Olympian who took sixth in the 800m and eighth in the 1500m at the '84 Olympics. She also took seventh at the '95 World Championships with a 1500m personal best of 4:00.18...His dad was sixth in the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials at 10,000m and was a World XC Team member...Has a brother who was adopted from Russia in Feb. 2003.
Collegiate Career Bests 10,000m - 32:16.30 (Big West Conference Championships, 5/15/2009) 5000m - 15:20.04 (Ben Brown Invitational, 3/7/2009) 3000m - 8:49.32 (Big West Challenge, 4/9/2010)


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I just purchased a newer C1000 off of ebay a few days ago. It arrived today, everything is in pristine condition. The person didn't use it much so they said, and I'd believe it. It even had the new smell to it. Plastic still on it etc. Anyways. I booted it up, it ran great. I played with it for a while, it was running Cacko 1.23.
I decided I wanted to put PdaXrom on it, So I downloaded the files like usual, Went to the flash menu, battery and power cables plugged in. Proceed to flash to pdaxrom, It errors and reboots to Cacko. I didn't run the updater, So i went and got the Update from the PdaXrom side, powered up the unit.
Ran the update, it said too reboot whilst holding the ok button, so i power it off, I loaded the files back onto the CF card, and went to power up the unit.. And now, It's completely unresponsive, it's pretty dead. I've changed batteries, push the power button, waited I get nothing. I've let it sit with out the batteries for several minutes, try to turn it back on. I get nothing.
There is no longer a charge light the unit is just totally blank and it's not showing any signs of life what so ever. I'm really frustrated, I've never had this problem before with other Z's. And the first day I get my new one it's like it's gone for good. Is there any resolution or did I kill it?
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If he's not guilty, then why the attorney?
If he's not guilty, then why 16 references to him in documents obtained from the HGH clinic?
The Yankees are on the hook for $114 million over the next five years. Rodriguez has been injured and on a downhill slide for several seasons. To think he'll rebound into a prolific slugger again is naïve.
Rodriguez admitted using steroids from 2001-2003, but said he never used them with the Yankees or prior to those dates. He had, however, repeatedly denied using them before his confession.
His credibility and believability has long been shot that he'll never be given the benefit of doubt.
It is easy to say the Yankees made a stupid signing – they should have let him walk when they had the chance – but in fairness they have an argument in claiming they were defrauded.
There seems to be enough evidence to connect Rodriguez to PEDs after his admission. The Yankees extended Rodriguez because they knew the value of him on YES chasing the all-time home run record. In his prime, Rodriguez would have been worth it to them.
However, Rodriguez's body is breaking down and it isn't a reach to suggest steroid usage is a contributing factor. If he used HGH while with the Yankees then they aren't getting the real thing.
That raises an interesting question: What is the real thing with Rodriguez?
We can't assume it was the Seattle years any longer. We can't assume it was his early years with the Yankees. I can't believe it was just a lapse in judgment while in Texas.
What I believe is Rodriguez misled a lot of people, including the Yankees when they signed him. It will be costly, but so is paying off Rodriguez over the next five years and getting nothing.
They must challenge the validity of his contract and attempt to void it, or if nothing else, negotiate a buy out. They need to play hardball.
If they do nothing, Rodriguez will get paid this season (although the Yankees could recoup some of his salary with insurance). Should Rodriguez stay, he will be stung by the booing and it will impact his production. But, he doesn't care if it doesn't impact his paycheck.
Through the years the Yankees made several mistakes with Rodriguez. They shouldn't compound them by not acting now.


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I just heard about the "Lesbian ad" for JcPenney. And the "One Million Moms" group commenting on it, that it's wrong for someone to be displaying that for something that's pretty popular. I'd just like to say that I'm disgusted. The fact that this is the world I live in, the one I represent, the one […]
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It's hard to believe that Hanukkah is basically here already. I don't know about you, but I'm still finishing up shopping for my friends and family! Thankfully, though, the perfect Hanukkah dinner is a no-brainer. This is one holiday that's all about ease. With kids running around and family to entertain, the last thing you want to do is put together a crazy complicated meal. It's much more fun to spend your time telling the story of Hanukkah, spinning the dreidel, or let's be honest, opening presents!
Which is why we've rounded up 5 delicious components for the perfect Hanukkah dinner, all which can be made in under 2 hours. Starting with the kugel, of course:
1. Noodle kugel: Kugel is a staple in my household around the holidays, and it's a total cinch to make. Plus, you can make it sweet or salty, add raisins, or whatever other little treats your heart desires.
2. Whole baked chicken: An easy addition to the Hanukkah table, a baked chicken is something both kids and adults generally can agree on. This simple chicken recipe from The Pioneer Woman will give you juicy, tender chicken in under an hour and a half.
3. Potato latkes: Who DIDN'T grow up eating latkes on Hanukkah? Recently, I've loved making sweet potato latkes instead, but the classic white potato latkes are, well, just that: classic. Instead of shredding the potatoes yourself, simply buy the pre-shredded frozen ones at the store for a MUCH easier experience. Trust me, it makes a world of difference.
4. Roasted vegetables: I myself am into something a little sweet, like Martha Stewart's carrots with honey and ginger. No matter what vegetable you choose for your holiday meal, don't make it difficult. Stick to a steamed or pan-sauteed option for an easy addition to your dinner table.
5. Rugelach: Of course, no meal is complete without a sweet finish, and once Hanukkah rolls around -- that perfect treat is rugelach. This yummy rug recipe from Ina Garten is simple to make. The only catch: make sure you prepare the dough earlier in the day since it needs an hour to sit in the fridge.
What do you make for dinner on Hanukkah? How will you be celebrating this year?


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I have owned E-MU samplers for years and have figured this out for the emax, emax II, EIII, EIIIxs/xp, but on the newer ESI4000 I simply cannot figure out how to do this or find if it is even possible to do. I have read the manual from front to back and haven't seen any mention of it. Any help would be great!


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A Thanksgiving Rant, Don't Be Such A Turkey
I've been reading articles all week about how to "cope" with Thanksgiving. I don't get it. This is by far the coolest -and warmest- holiday of the year.
Thanksgiving is a paid day or two off from work and school. It's secular, non-dressy, no gifts are even involved.
The whole purpose is comfort: hanging out with friends and loved ones, eating delicious food, watching television for hours, taking long naps. Coming home. Or going someplace fun.
And, if you're lucky, spending quality time counting your blessings.
Plus, a bonus for those who care about such things: a whole weekend to shop til you drop.
What other country would think up such a great holiday? And what other country would try harder to screw up such a good thing?
Psychic Shock
But there they are, the ubiquitous articles on how to protect your delicate ego from interfering family members.
"How to get through a visit with your parents ... or your children." (Man up! Woman up! It's one day for cryin out loud).
"How to manage a meal next to creepy Uncle Bud." (Stab his wandering hands with a fork and apologize profusely). "How to refrain from flipping off annoying Aunt Sylvia." (Say something you know will please her or -if she's annoying beyond redemption- go ahead and piss her off).
"How to shut the kids up." Um, I mean, "How to keep the kids busy and involved." (Turn this over to the older kids or younger couples. Tell them it's a rule and/or good practice).
Then of course there's the media frenzy with "news "reports braying about nightmareish Thanksgiving travel and crowded stores.
I have some advice for those who buy into such cynical pandering to the greedy, neurotic and disenfranchised among us: Get over yourselves! Stop kvetching! Oy vey, Enjoy already! (Okay, sorry, for a minute there I made Thanksgiving a Jewish holiday).
Younger complainers: if you can wait days in line for concert tickets, iPhones and X-Boxes, surely you can spend a few hours in an airport, train station or car to bring joy to those who love you more than any rock star ever will.
Grown children: Stop whining about schlepping to Mom and Dad's house. Remember. these are the people who spent time, effort, money and countless sleepless nights helping you make it to adulthood.
If they didn't, or were abusive, mean, nasty, horrible parents, don't go near them! You're an adult, you have the power now. Use it without guilt and with my blessing.
But if they did their best, give them the love and respect they've earned. Show up, bring something, smile, help with the cooking and the dishes. Appreciate how lucky you are to have a family and a place to call home.
Couples: Stop arguing over whose side of the family to visit and which mother will pile on the most guilt if you don't. Remind yourselves and your parents that doing so pulls you apart.
If they love you, they should encourage you to respect each other. Try to please each other. Make your own decisions. And refine your ability to share.
If that doesn't work, use the big guns. Remind them that too many people have no families, homes or food on Thanksgiving or any other day.
Say you will pick a side to visit this year and donate money to a shelter in the other side's name. Then promise to switch visits next year.
If economics are involved, make the best plan you can, be gracious, firm and loving. Don't let yourself be bullied. It's your relationship, not theirs.
Never ever ever use your children as holiday leverage. Do not involve them in a power struggle over who loves who more. Work out a holiday schedule responsive to YOUR CHILDREN, not your personal grievances.
You are giving them memories. Will they need a shrink or learn to create a loving Thanksgiving themselves?
Assist/send/let them go to the other parent without guilt, anger or anything but a big smile and a "Have a great time!"
If you're a real class act (and, well, a little passive-aggressive), help them make something scrumptious to take along.
Reality Check
There's only one thing that should be really hard to handle at Thanksgiving: the empty chairs of loved ones -- unable to come, far away or gone for good.
How trivial to whine about your family's "dysfunctional issues" when others are spending Thanksgiving at a child's hospital bedside. In their own hospital bed. Trying to connect to or from Iraq and Afghanistan. Or bereft and alone.
Give Thanks
Do yourself a favor. Drop the anti-Thanksgiving attitude. Count your blessings for the things you have ... and the things I hope you never have to face.
Then take another moment to remember -and if possible, help- those for whom Thanksgiving is only another day of pain, or a painful reminder of loved ones missing and missed.
If you can't do that, then you're just a big turkey.
PS You'd also do well to remember there are those who might be dreading dealing with you. Help them get over it. You'll thank me.
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving! Or else.
Now, go. Eat. Drink. Enjoy.
On a special note, we're giving thanks our Jersey Shore family's house was spared and donating to those less fortunate. We so grateful for the cease fire in the Middle East and praying for a lasting peace. We welcome three Israeli nieces and families to our table here in Philly this Thanksgiving. For a brief time, all they'll have to fear are bellies bursting, not bombs. Thank g-d.
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Life Science: Session 2
Childrens Ideas about Classifying Living Things
Below are common ideas children in grades K-6 have about this topic, compiled from research on children's ideas about science (see the Session 2 Children's Ideas Bibliography). For each idea, consider why a child would be likely to believe this and what evidence might refute it.
1. Animals are large, furry, four-legged land mammals.
Children often start with this narrow definition of the concept "animal" because of the vertebrate examples that are most familiar to them: pets and zoo specimens. Animals also include birds, snakes, frogs, fish, insects, snails, worms, starfish, jellyfish, etc. Hide Response
2. Fish, snails, whales, and robins are not subsets of "animal" but parallel categories.
If children hold a narrow definition of the concept "animal" (i.e., large, furry, and four-legged), then it is reasonable that life forms that don't fit their definition are considered to be parallel categories, even though they are animals. Using scientific criteria–animals are multicellular, their cells have a nucleus, their cells don't have cell walls, and they must ingest food–their definition of animal can be broadened. Hide Response
3. People are not animals.
The idea that people aren't animals is likely to arise because children have previously applied the term to animals other than human beings, such as pets and zoo specimens. Humans do fit the scientific definition of an animal: they are multicellular, their cells have a nucleus, their cells lack cell walls, and they must ingest food. Hide Response
4. Plants are small green things.
This is a narrow definition of the concept "plant" that may arise because children have more direct experience with plants of this nature, such as household and garden plants. Tall trees, bushy shrubs, and woody vines all share the same defining features of small, green plants: they are multicellular, their cells have a nucleus, their cells have cell walls, and they make their own food. Hide Response
5. Seeds, fruits, vegetables, and flowers are not plants.
Children may not consider parts of a plant to fit the definition of a plant. However, the characteristics that classify something as a plant apply equally to the whole and its parts. Parts, attached or detached, aren't classified into distinct groups. Hide Response
6. When children use words like "insect," "fish," "amphibian," and "moss," they are thinking of more extensive groups than those defined scientifically.
Before children learn the scientific definitions for different groups of organisms, the definitions may be more loosely applied. All things that look like insects are insects, for example, or all things that swim in water are fish. Once children are introduced to more precise scientific definitions, they can use them to determine examples from non-examples.Hide Response
7. Very young children do not classify groups systematically and may use different criteria for every member of a group.
Children may recognize that a group of organisms are all fish, for example, but they may place one individual in the group because it swims in water, another because it has fins, another because it has gills, and so on. As they are encouraged to look at one characteristic only and "test" each object for the presence of this characteristic, they can begin to learn to classify systematically. Hide Response
8. Classification categories are thought of as separate "bins," not as subsets of other categories.
The classification schemes with which most children are familiar involve "exclusive" categories, meaning that groups do not share members. Biological classification is built around hierarchical classification, in which one larger group includes smaller groups, with each smaller group including smaller groups, and so on. The criteria used to classify something into a larger group apply to all of the groups that it contains. For example, all animals ingest food. Fish, birds, and mammals are different groups of animals, but as animals, they all ingest food. Birds have feathers. Sparrows and hawks are different groups of birds, but as birds, they all have feathers. The criteria used to classify into groups on the same level (e.g., different vertebrate groups or different types of birds) is when distinguishing features come into play. Children may benefit from direct instruction that contrasts exclusive classification with hierarchical classification. Hide Response
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I will start this by acknowledging that there are those of us photographers that have a "different" agenda to their craft or hobby, if you will.
That being said:
One of the more lamentable aspects of SONY's DSLR/DSLT photography was the company's incredible lack of response to the outcry of their customers for what the customer wanted in their camera. Instead, what we got was what SONY thought they should have in their camera and thus, three to four or even more years of effectively "wasted effort" with 3D experimental nonsense, instead of really addressing the still unaddressed "new" direction in flash and camera control technology.
If SONY had adopted and integrated RF (radio-frequency-technology), our cameras could have been out of our hands, on a tripod, and a truly reliable, responsive part of our craft (or hobby), instead of the limited IR (Infra-Red) unreliable one it still is, to this day.
Personally, I do not get it. This has been and continues to be the glaring "weak spot" in having a professional-level photographic-system controller-camera. If SONY wanted to set the pace in doing something meaningful, it was not in 3D-still photography. It should be in solid electronic flash and remote-control of the entire photographic system. THIS is a truly meaningful advancement of the art for everyone. 3-D has been and continues to be a "segment" or faction. Point in fact, even the theaters do not carry a 3-D version of a current movie for more than a week. Perhaps, if the cost were the same as "normal" movies, it might have had a chance, but with the need to purchase completely new-technology to appreciate it at home, in this day and age of no fiscal or personal financial growth… I hardly think so and the general public is bearing out that fact of modern life.
Even the Digital Photography School and training I attended paid 3-D Technologies no mind in their teaching or training. Not even a small portion of a class was dedicated to it. If you wanted to learn about it, you were on your own and still are. You have to have a viable market… and it is just not there.
Of course, there are those who say, "Well, who uses flash… and remote control?"
I contend: "A heck of a lot more than are still using 3-D!"
We need to get back to the basics of still photography and quit flying off on tangents of popularity. We are losing time… which translates into loss of imaging. I find that important. What say you?


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Health news : UK families face court fight over GSK diabetes drug
British families seeking compensation for damage caused by GlaxoSmithKline's now-withdrawn diabetes drug Avandia face a lengthy court battle, despite the company agreeing to settle similar U.S. cases.
Manchester-based law firm Express Solicitors said on Wednesday it had commenced high court proceedings in four cases against GSK over the way it developed and marketed Avandia.
The law firm, which has a further 15 cases on its books, said it believed it was the first to commence proceedings against the drugmaker over Avandia in British courts.
European authorities decided to pull Avandia from the market in September 2010 after it was linked to increased heart risks. It is still approved for a limited number of patients in the United States.
In the wake of the safety scandal, GSK paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle litigation over Avandia in the United States.
In Britain, however, where the legal system has historically seen smaller compensation payments, it is planning a fight.
Express said GSK had indicated to the court it was ready to spend 600,000 pounds ($945,000) defending one of the cases, despite the fact the actual claim was worth a fraction of this amount.
"Even though a settlement was reached in the U.S. to settle lawsuits, it seems GSK wishes to put up a fight in the UK as indicated in correspondence pre-proceedings," Express lawyer Daniel Slade said.
Avandia was first introduced into Britain in 2000 for people with type 2 diabetes who no longer responded adequately to older diabetes medicines. Express said many thousands of patients took the drug and many families could be eligible for compensation for death or harm caused to a relative.
"We have every sympathy for people with health complications associated with diabetes and those who care for them. Unfortunately, we are unable to comment on individual legal cases," a GSK spokesman said.
"We continue to believe that the company acted appropriately and responsibly in its management of Avandia."
(Reporting by Ben Hirschler; Editing by Dan Lalor)
source : http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/30/us-glaxosmithkline-avandia-britain-idUSBRE90T0MB20130130


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by Paula M. Riley
On a sunny spring day in April, a large family came to Our Mother of Consolation Catholic Church for the baptism of Emma Jane Lyons. From the outside, it seemed like the standard christening, complete with the baby dressed in white, eager parents, extended family members and a member of the clergy.
Upon closer examination, it was clear that this was not just another baptism. Rather, it was a moment stolen from a storybook about family connections.
As 4-month-old Emma Jane was carried down the main aisle of the old church in Chestnut Hill, she followed the same path that her parents, grandparents and great grandparents took when they got married. Both sets of Emma Jane's grandparents were married at OMC Church.
Emma Jane is the 14th great grandchild to lifelong Chestnut Hill resident Pat Leaming and her late husband, Bax, who were married Nov. 3, 1951. Sixty-one years later, on that same day, in a church in Richmond, Va., their son Frank was ordained a deacon of the Catholic Church.
An alumnus of Our Mother of Consolation parish school, Frank Leaming went on to attend La Salle College High School and St. Joseph's University. He moved to Virginia and worked for the Department of Defense for three decades. During this time, he and his wife were heavily involved in their church community. They served multiple roles in the parish and at home, were foster parents for 30 years to more than 100 children.
Why pursue the diaconate in his retirement?
"I felt a call to do more, but was unsure what it meant," Frank said.
Together with friends, Frank became involved with the Cursillo Movement, a way to grow in Christian community through sustained prayer, sharing and study. From this experience, Frank and a few friends decided to enter the diaconate program.
"I felt like we were enlisting in the Army together," Frank said.
After four years of study, Frank obtained his Master's Degree in theology. In his capacity as deacon he organizes liturgies, serves on the altar during Mass and performs baptisms and marriages. He explains that the deacon role in the Catholic Mass is purposeful and is included at specific points in the service to reflect the deacon's role as having one foot in the community and one foot in the ordained.
Returning to Philadelphia for Emma Jane's baptism was special for Frank. He was accompanied by seven of his eight siblings and their children and grandchildren. Both Frank's mother, Pat, and his older brother Jack described him as always having been "good."
"When we (siblings) were younger, we'd come together and talk about all the trouble we got into, but not Frank," said Frank's older brother Jack Leaming. "He was always the good one, always 'Mr. Steady.' We weren't at all surprised he became a deacon."
All the Leaming children have wonderful memories of their years attending OMC School and their days in Chestnut Hill. Seven of the Leaming children still live in the area and every Sunday, at 9 a.m. Mass, Pat is accompanied by her grandchild and great grandchildren.
Sunday's baptism was a reunion for many. Joining the celebration were Pat and Ted Bahner, close friends of Pat and Bax Leaming. Pat Bahner tells the story of how she met Pat Leaming.
"I was waiting for the trolley car at Abington Avenue and Pat drives up in her car and asks me if I was going to church," she said. "I had never seen her before, but when I replied 'yes,' she told me to 'hop in,' and we have been friends ever since."
The Bahners raised six children and sent them to OMC as well. After spending 10 years in South Jersey, they have relocated to the area and are thrilled to celebrate special occasions with old friends.
In speaking with family members at the baptism, they told many stories of the Leaming family's connection to OMC and Chestnut Hill. The stories, however, don't end with the Leamings.
Emma Jane's mother, Maryjane, tells an endearing account of meeting her husband, Pat Leaming's grandson Jim Lyons III, when they were 12 years old on the swim team at Sunny Willow Swim Club. A teacher in Upper Dublin, Maryjane said, "My students just love to hear that story."
Her husband Jim recalls that when they got married in 2008, the renovation of the OMC Church had just been completed.
"It's ironic, but when my grandparents got married here there was scaffolding – a renovation was just beginning, and when we got married, one had just completed," he said.
On this sunny April day, the scaffolding was gone, and Deacon Frank, with Emma Jane's 2-year-old sister Beatrice (named for her great-great-grandmother) standing beside him, invited Jim to carry Emma Jane to his family members. They each traced the sign of the cross on her head.
Bright light shone through the church's awesome stained glass windows, and, once again, a family member was created in the special place the Leaming's call OMC.


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LeopardLetang wrote:i enjoy using blockbuster's $20+ month deal to keep one game out. i used to use gamefly, but prefer to get a new game immediately if i want it.
renting fable II right now. might have to buy fallout and far cry though. can rent gears though i'm not that into it. still haven't played bioshock though i've had it forever. someone convince me to finally play that darn game
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In order to assess the impact of the recession on the big computer companies, Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil recently released a report discussing the average selling price from number of companies. Fortune has some analysis of the report, which suggests that Apple is still (successfully) selling a more expensive mix of products than PC makers, despite economic conditions.
Apple has had a high average selling price compared to the rest of the industry for quite some time now—no surprise there. Even so, Gottheil reports that Apple's average selling price for the fourth calendar quarter has dropped 8.1 percent year-on-year. He believes the change is due to the introduction of a cheaper polycarbonate MacBook and an aluminum MacBook that competes more directly with the MacBook Pro.
Apple's 8.1 percent decrease looks pretty good, though, when compared to the industry as a whole—the industry has seen its average selling price drop by 13 percent year-on-year. PC selling prices have been declining for a while now, although Gottheil claims that the "bottom dropped out" this past quarter. Netbooks are part of the reason manufacturers' average prices are dropping, and Gottheil feels that Apple will ultimately offer some kind of netbook (of course, he's an analyst). Or, at the very least, he believes Apple will lower prices if the recession continues, although I suspect that won't happen for a while yet.


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Diane Jessup wrote:OK, I've put my flak jacket on!
Yup, I BOUGHT a dog.
Yup, I BOUGHT a dog from unhealth tested stock.
Yup, I BOUGHT a dog from unhealth tested stock from a game dog breeder.
But, you go where you gotta go, you do whatcha gotta do. Boom, done, finished.
My reasons are my own, my plans are my own. But the puppy? She is too cute not to show off!
Here is Havoc, at 12 weeks.
I picked her up in LA at the airport on Thursday. She is from Bert Sorrell's x-wife Joanie (a very nice person to deal with, I might ad) at Tatonka Kennels. I have been waiting a long time for a pup with a pedigree close to Dirk's, but better angulation. This pup has been a long time coming. Black and tan? Yeah, well, you take what you get in the world of performance dogs! It is kinda cute!
Her sire is 38 pounds, and mom in the 40's, so she will be a nice size. Well, let the screaming begin! :roll:


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Metallica's New Stage Effects Compiled in Explosive New Video
Metallica's eight-night stand at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City has just gotten underway, but fan-made videos are already starting to leak out that reveal the elaborate stage show the band has created for the tour. One industrious fan has taken the best special effects from those videos and compiled them into one clip.
The video, which runs eight minutes and 30 seconds, even captures the stunt the band pulled on Saturday night, where a stagehand caught fire and another fell from a lighting rig as the stage collapsed. The staged "accident" first appeared on their 1998 concert DVD, 'Cunning Stunts.' Watch for it at the 0:51 mark of this video.
The band has promised that their new show, which takes place on a 140' x 50' stage, will contain elements from all the stage designs they've used during their legendary career. Giant statues are both created and brought down, and there's fire. Lots and lots of fire. Oh, and explosions.
After they finish up in Mexico City, Metallica will head to their hometown of San Francisco for the Outside Lands Festival. The band hopes to have a new album out in 2014.
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Carol Brady was not going to wear an apron….Everyone wanted to be a Partridge….June Cleaver wore heels for a reason….and "Mrs. C" knows how to get what she wants! In honor of Mother's Day, the Archive of American Television highlights quotes and clips from 10 interviewees best-known for their roles as iconic sitcom TV moms.
Jane Wyatt on playing Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best
I did understand wife and mother because I was a wife and mother. Margaret was much nicer than me. I can say that. But then she had all her lines written for her. I was much more independent than she was. She was a very nice person, I enjoyed playing her. And, she had a wonderful rapport with her children.
Barbara Billingsley on playing June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver
Some people think she was namby-pamby. But no, she used to get teed off with the children. She didn't always refer to the father as far as punishing is concerned. She was a loving, happy, stay-at-home mom, which I think is great. I'm not for every woman having to be out in the workplace. I had two children at home and I was working. But I think the one that stays home, if she's doing a good job, it is the best job she'll ever have, the most important.
Interview clip: Barbara Billingsley on June Cleaver's wardrobe, high-heels, and pearls
Marion Ross on playing 50s mom Marion "Mrs. C." Cunningham on Happy Days
Between my childhood in Minnesota, and the 50's, it's easy for me to relate to the kind of woman who gets everything she wants, but in a very charming, feminine way, because it's just easier! That's kind of the way I was raised and that's what I saw in my own childhood how women love their husbands and protects her husband from the children. "Be good to your father." He's the head of the family, but he really isn't, of course. She is the head of the family. But that's the artifice. This is all pre-women's lib. Now, I still think it's a kind of a handy way to get things done. We conceal our strength.
Florence Henderson on playing Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch
I know that there were certain things that I brought to the role. I think it was my experience as a young parent and the fact that I understood kids. I felt close to them. I was really the only one on the set that was married, that had children and an ongoing relationship…. I would never wear an apron. I wanted to wear sexy nightgowns. I wanted to make her as human as possible.
Interview clip: Florence Henderson on playing Carol Brady
Mary Tyler Moore on playing Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show
The sponsors had a good deal more to say back then. We had to sleep in twin beds even though we were a married couple. We had to wear pajamas with the little pockets and a shirt. We were not allowed to say pregnant. You had to say "expecting a child" or "expecting a baby." The big objection was the pants that I wore in The Dick Van Dyke Show. I had seen too many housewives on television who were vacuuming in high heels and a floral printed frock. I said, wait a minute, that's not the way it really is and I wanted to be real. I wanted to represent something of me. And I was married and a mother, and I've walked around barefoot as I still do, and wore pants. So I brought that to the show. I also brought my sense of honesty, my sense of truth.
Diahann Carroll on playing single-mother Julia Baker on Julia
On television, Julia was the first non-conventional, educated, single mother who was outspoken. She dated. She raised her child…But no Black male was the argument. No father. No image for the children to relate to a father. That was a very loud criticism. It's not that Julia and her son didn't talk about situations. It may not have been his life, but we did talk about situations. Also, mother dated, and we brought the male into the house to say hello to the son. And, usually it was another professional Black that the young man was exposed to. So, I think that as we look back, that we're very proud of that, that piece of work. It represented a new thought. It represented something that was subject to a great deal of criticism.
Interview clip: Diahann Carroll discusses Julia
Jean Stapleton on her favorite Edith Bunker "mother" moment on All in the Family
The anniversary episode was one was one of my favorites. Edith was to give marital advice to her daughter. That was great. She and Gloria felt that they should have a mother and daughter talk now that Gloria's getting married. So of course Edith said nothing. Gloria supplied all of the issues and answered them while Edith would nod in approval "yes, yes of course." Edith was very, very shy, very timid about discussing such things. It is very funny and very much in character.
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Shirley Jones on being TV music group mom Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family
She was a working mom, but wanted her children to have values. The show business thing was secondary. And they made a point of that, because the first couple of shows, the pilot in particular, they were dealing very much with the show-business angle, "where are we going to perform? Let's rehearse every day." And finally [producer] Bob Claver said, "we're going to tone down the show business angle. We're going to make them real people. We're going to have stories about teenage sweethearts in school, and we're going to have stories about Shirley maybe dating one of the local guys. There will always be a song, but the show won't be built around that performance." I think that helped because it made us real people. And it also got every teenager in America thinking that they could do this. "We can go to school and we can have a band. And we can get a bus." The sad part is that every once in a while, I would find some young 16, 15, 14-year-old, sitting on my lawn, just off a bus from Iowa or Michigan or someplace, saying, "I've come to be in The Partridge Family. I can play the instrument." They'd literally run away from home. I just had to tell them the truth and say, "listen, this is a television show. We don't have a band. It's all make-believe."
Interview clip: Shirley Jones on Shirley Partridge
Phylicia Rashad on playing Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show
She had a very normal relationship. She understood the difference in all their personalities. It was a very loving relationship, and there was discipline. She was very, very patient, but very disciplined. She understood the value of discipline. And they, as parents, understood the importance of being on the same page with those people.
Interview clip: Phylicia Rashad on working on The Cosby Show
Patricia Heaton on playing Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
Debra's a horrible homemaker, that was what was so wonderful about her is that she couldn't cook, and a lot of times with the kids it was just like "whatever." I think there's a whole movement in our country since Martha Stewart came on the scene of being a perfect and making every small daily task a work of art, which there's some benefit to trying to lift the mundane out of its mundaneness and making it something because every act of care that you do for your family is actually sort of a sacred thing. But when you're packing a lunch every morning, you're not going to cut the sandwich into smiley shapes and starfish, you just throw in that prepackaged crap in their bag and stick it in their backpack. So, I think she tried, but she was like every mom that has it up to here with everything. …But I think she was a good mother, yeah, definitely.
Interview clip: Patricia Heaton discusses the Everybody Loves Raymond family dynamic
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It couldn't have gotten any closer. By a margin that was officially recorded as "two feet," the varsity eight from New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy nipped Mount St. Joseph at the finish line in the June 17 final of the Henley Women's Regatta.
After arriving in England on Tuesday, June 12, the MSJ Magic won their opening race on Saturday afternoon, a quarterfinal against a British crew based just a few minutes away from historic Henley on Thames. On Sunday morning, the Mount knocked off U.S. Northwest regional champion Green Lake (Seattle, Wash.) to advance to the championship against Phillips Exeter that afternoon.
On the narrow Thames course, the racing is done in a rare one-on-one format, and Mount St. Joe varsity coach Mike McKenna described the final contest as "epic." He noted that the official announcer, calling the race from a motor launch, said there had seldom been anything like it.
"They were never separated by more than a couple seats all the way down the course," McKenna related. "It was very unusual, because normally someone blinks when you're having a match race and they're really going at it. It was a tough one to lose, but the kids knew it was something special and they were excited to have been involved in a race like that."
Out of all the eights events, including several collegiate categories, the winning time in the Exeter/Mount showdown made it the second-fastest final of the 2012 regatta.
The varsity eight's line-up of rowers was the same as it's been for most of the spring season: (stroke to bow) Dana Lerro, Julie McGlynn, Katie O'Connell, Darian DiCianno, Dana Zielinski, Emily Carbone, Rose Ehrlich, and Kiera McCloy. There was a change in the coxswain's seat, though. McKenna explained that a family emergency prevented senior veteran Erin McElroy from making the trip, and Mary Raggazino filled in. A junior, Raggazino had coxed the Mount lightweight eight in the major stateside regattas this spring.
"I was fully confident in Mary; she was a very positive contributor," Coach McKenna said. "We were fortunate to have her ready to step in."
Henley was positively the last high school regatta for everyone but McCloy and Raggazino. They're rising seniors, while their boatmates are all newly-minted 2012 graduates. The Mount, which raced at Henley in 2006 and 2009 but never reached the finals, brought along a second eight on this year's trip, as well as a four.
The Magic's "B" eight blended oarswomen who had spent their spring in the JV eight or the lightweight eight. The JV provided juniors Jacqueline James (five seat), Emily Ruddy (three), and Annie Tenzinger (coxswain), and sophomores Maddie Lawn (stroke) and Lauren Matchett (six). The light eight contributed juniors Kait Loftus (seven) and Kate Mirabella (two), and sophomores Michela Karrash (four) and Leah Ramos (bow).
The above video was shot by Exeter. The Exeter team is on the left. Mount St. Joseph is on the right.
The four entered by Mount St. Joe featured Megan Mirabella at coxswain, and rowers (stroke to bow) Caroline Carbone, Gwyn Kieffer, Natalie Simms, and Jocelyn Ziemniak. All are rising juniors except Kieffer, who will be starting her senior year in September.
The same day they arrived in England, the Mounties began to familiarize themselves with their borrowed boats and equipment. The varsity would be racing a new demo eight from an Ontario manufacturer, Hudson Boat Works. One of the other shells was borrowed from a 600-year-old boys' school, Winchester College, where former Mount rower Amanda Chain ('07) now coaches. The Magic soon had their vessels rigged out to their liking, and the varsity's practices were highlighted by some sparring with an Irish crew from University College Dublin.
With Mount St. Joe entering two eights, the total number of boats in that class rose to nine. The MSJ "A" team came into the overseas event as the 2012 Philadelphia City Championships winner, the Stotesbury Cup Regatta gold medalist, and the bronze medalist at the Scholastic Rowing Association of America Championships.
The other two American entries were Phillips Exeter and Green Lake Crew, a club crew from Seattle, Wash. Exeter had finished second at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta, coming in four-and-a-half seconds behind another southern New Hampshire school, St. Paul's, in the finals. At the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships on June 8-10, Mount St. Joe finished one place behind St. Paul's, both in their semifinal race together and in the "B" final.
The Magic had also encountered Green Lake at Youth Nationals, beating the Northwest women in a heat race on the first day of the championships. However, the Green Lake eight had gone on to work its way back into the "A" final, coming in fifth overall while St. Paul's wound up ninth and the Mount, 10th.
All five of the Henley junior eights from the U.K. were single-school crews (as opposed to clubs), and four of them are located within a half-hour's drive from the regatta site. Sir William Borlase Grammar School and Pangbourne College are located just downstream and just upstream from Henley, respectively. Headington School is on the eastern fringe of Oxford City, while Lady Eleanor Holles School sits southwest of London.
Kings School Chester is the exception, hard by the Welsh border and a little to the south of Liverpool on the west coast.
All but Sir William Borlase had been finalists at the UK's 2012 National Schools Regatta, held up in Nottingham on the first weekend of June. In a standard 2000-meter, six-lane final race, Headington finished first, followed by Lady Eleanor Holles and third-place Pangbourne, while Kings School placed sixth.
Sir William had its best rowers racing in smaller vessels throughout the spring, but combined them into an eight for the Women's Henley. The hybrid crew had only a brief stay, falling to the Mount "A" boat by two lengths in one of the quarterfinal races on Saturday afternoon.
In the regatta results, the final margin between the two competitors in each race is listed in full or partial lengths, up to five lengths or so. If the gap is wider than that, the scorers simply inscribe the adverb "easily," and that was the official description of Headington's victory over the Mount "B" boat in the first eights race on Saturday morning. Just a few minutes later, the four entered by the Mount was knocked out in similar fashion by Kingston Grammar School, yet another Thames-side institution, but closer to London. The defending fours champion, Merion Mercy, is a member of the Catholic Academies League along with Mount St. Joseph. The Main Line outfit was the runner-up at Henley this year.
The initial eights race between MSJ "B" and Headington had been a one-off qualifier to determine the eighth quarterfinalist.
Headington went on to defeat Kings School by four-and-a-half lengths as the quarterfinal round got underway, and after the Mount's race with Sir William, the quarters concluded with Green Lake winning "easily" over Lady Eleanor. The fourth quarterfinal contest never took place. Phillips Exeter was ready to go, but Pangbourne College was unwilling, bowing out due to weather conditions that were memorably awful.
"The conditions on Saturday were a freak show," McKenna exclaimed.
"This was my fourth time at Henley, and I've never seen the current anywhere near like it was for the Saturday races. There had been flooding rains for a few weeks, and on that day there were wind gusts up to something like 40 miles per hour. It made it very treacherous to turn and dock, and all that stuff."
The MSJ coach explained that at the very beginning of Mount A's opening race, the winds were largely blocked by small, wooded Temple Island.
"As soon as we got past the island, where there had been some shelter, both crews got moved about 10 feet sideways by the wind. We literally hit the boom [one of the floating wooden poles marking the course], and Dana [Lerro] our stroke, lost her oar for a couple strokes. We were about half-a-length down then, but we were able to recover pretty quickly."
It was on to the semifinals, slotted into Sunday's timetable an hour before noon, with the championship to follow at 3:00 PM. Three of the four surviving crews were American, and the last English ensemble, Headington, succumbed by two lengths to Phillips Exeter. Next, the Magic seized the other berth in the finals, arriving at the finishing post just over three lengths ahead of Green Lake.
"The conditions were reasonable, and that was a pretty straightforward race," McKenna recounted. "We took control and then lengthened the lead as we went down the course."
There was nothing clear-cut about the final race that afternoon. All accounts of the duel emphasized the ferocity of the competition – no quarter given, or expected. Well-versed rowing historian Tom Weil, a former Yale rower and Henley competitor who observed the eights final from the officials' launch, was stirred by intensity and skill exhibited by both crews and pronounced the race one of the best he has seen in 45 years.
At its conclusion, no one could celebrate immediately; an official ruling was needed to determine the winner. It was Exeter.
"If you look at the pictures from the finish line," said McKenna, "you'll see that we were coming into the catch, which is the slowest part of the stroke, and they're finishing, which is where the boat accelerates. If you reverse that cycle, we probably win by a similar margin, that's how close it was. It was a classic, and I left the girls with the thought that it took a great effort by both crews to produce a race like that."
Even though the Magic did not capture the Peabody Cup (the Schools/Junior Eights trophy), their season concluded in a much more satisfying manner than it would have if they'd not made the trip to England. For this group, almost exclusively seniors, the school year began with a hugely successful fall campaign that included a bronze-medal showing at Boston's Head of the Charles Regatta, where the Mount was the top finisher out of all single-school varsity boats.
After a display of dominance at one of the Philly area's major indoor ergometer competitions in February, the Mounties got back on the water and continued to conquer just about every opponent they encountered, right up to their gold-medal race at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta. However, just after crossing the finish line at Stotes, the victors let their attention – and their boat – wander, and their bow struck the Columbia Railroad Bridge a glancing blow.
This incident helped usher in a brief period of malaise for this ordinarily confident cabal. Winning a bronze medal at Scholastic Nationals on Memorial Day Weekend would have constituted a milestone for most schools, but the Mounties had been expecting more of themselves. Two weeks later, they hoped to improve upon the fifth-place finishes fashioned by their 2010 and 2011 MSJ forerunners at the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships, but overeager starts led to sub-par finishes in their last two races of the regatta, and they emerged from this powerful field ranked 10th overall.
The pilgrimage to Henley would be a palliative experience. The Magic left for England just a day after Youth Nationals concluded, and out on the Thames they rediscovered their mojo and turned in a vastly superior performance.
"I was really pleased with it," McKenna said. "The girls were quite disappointed after Youth Nationals, but they bounced back very quickly. What you saw at Henley was much more characteristic of what our crew was capable of."


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Owen Hargreaves has what it takes to force his way back into the England squad, according to Manchester City's chief football operations officer Brian Marwood.
Hargreaves impressed on his City debut, scoring against Birmingham in the Carling Cup. The 30-year-old - once an integral part of the international team under Sven-Goran Eriksson - was released by Manchester United following an injury-plagued spell.
"Everybody is delighted for Owen because it has been well documented the injury problems he has had over recent years," Marwood told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek programme.
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Manchester United striker Michael Owen has accepted he is not part of Fabio Capello's England plans, but insists he will never turn his back on his country. Marwood, 51, feels men with such experience as the former Liverpool and Real Madrid frontman can always offer something.
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Big-spending City moved level with United at the top of the Barclays Premier League yesterday after they beat Everton at Eastlands, and their rivals were held to a draw at Stoke. While Marwood knows full well there is plenty more football to be played, everyone at City feels things are moving in the right direction.
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(Rough translation: Life is like a hot griddle on a stove/You will burn your fingers before you learn how to make bread)
I love poetry spun from life's gritty fabric because not only is it starkly beautiful, but it can be transcendentally wise and gloriously witty.
It is said that Bahinabai, a 19th-century poetess, responded with these lines when her mother-in-law chided her for scalding her hands as she made bhakri, a delicious rustic bread that's eaten in Maharashtra, a sprawling state along India's west coast. Here's the kicker, though: Bahinabai could not read nor write and her poems were all composed verbally, flowing from her eagle-sharp observations of life and nature.
Although she died before her poems were published and before anyone in the wide world knew about her, Bahinabai's poems have become an indelible memory for many like me who grew up speaking Marathi, the language of Maharashtra. I heard her songs, often sanitized into "cleaner" Marathi (she composed in a dialect) but with their essence intact, sung by other singers on radio. I remember, as a child, watching a TV film about her life with images of a very simple but radiant woman singing beautifully as she strained to grind flour in a stone hand-mill.
But most of all I remember those two lines, and I can't help but hum them ever so often. They strike a delightful analogy between the two worlds we live in: the practical world that we all see, share and enjoy/endure each day; and the emotional one, that secretive, sometimes dark place we allow no one but ourselves to visit, but where we also find our strength.
Last night I thought again of Bahinabai and her earthy wisdom as I made Mints' Khandeshi-style methichi bhaji. I don't really know a whole lot about this region along the northwest border of Maharashtra that's famous for its distinctive, fiery, earthy cuisine, but I do remember reading somewhere that Bahinabai was born there.
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I followed the recipe faithfully except one addition– curry leaves. I love these flavorful leaves so much, I am always looking for a chance to add them to whatever I cook up. I toasted the curry leaves along with the green chillies and peanuts, before grinding them up into a paste. We ate the dal with some aloo parathas hot off the griddle. And I used a spatula, so no, I didn't burn my fingers! :).
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There were signs everywhere that something magical happened in Chestnut Hill last weekend. A line of customers at Zipf's Candies, crowded streets, restaurants with long waits, registers ringing and thousands strolling the Avenue.
By all gauges, the Harry Potter Weekend, designed to compliment the Second Annual Philadelphia Brotherly Love Quidditch Cup Tournament at Chestnut Hill College, was a roaring success. More than 2,500 witnessed Chestnut Hill College's Quidditch team win the Cup with a victory over Penn State.
In the business district, an estimated 4,000 came to participate in free Harry Potter-themed events. From Dumbledore's (played by Brendan May) speech at the opening ceremonies on Friday through the costume parade
Sunday afternoon, Chestnut Hill was packed with diehard Harry Potter fans, their friends and parents.They explored stores and restaurants (each renamed based on the Harry Potter books) and enjoyed participating in various activities.
"What's so great is that this weekend gave us something fun that parents and children could do together," said Laura Woods, of Glenside. Although her children opted not to participate in Quidditch 101 at Norwood-Fontbonne, they loved watching 100 kids receive instruction and play with the Chestnut Hill College Quidditch team.
The pairing of the young residents and visitors with college players best illustrated why this weekend was such a success. It was all about partnership.
"We were thrilled to combine resources to bring a weekend of magic and fun to our community," said college president, Sister Carol Jean Vale.
Those who organized the event said they had never before had the key institutions in the area collaborated so well with the commercial district in Chestnut Hill.
"From the college down to Night Kitchen, we were completely united," said Mary Kate May, chair of the Steering Committee.
Visitors and locals enjoyed the Woodmere Art Museum Hay Maze, Harry Potter Scarecrow contest at Morris Arboretum, Wizards Chess at Jenks School and specials at area businesses and restaurants.
"Retailers and restaurants saw a huge upsurge in sales," said Eileen Reilly, Chestnut Hill's retail recruiter.
McNally's was packed at the sold out Pub Crawl, O'Doodles reported a 30 percent increase in sales, Starbucks had its best day ever, and Penzey's Spice and The Antique Gallery enjoyed high sales.
"This event introduced the commercial district to a huge group of customers well beyond the normal trade area," Reilly said.
Gary Krauss came from Veron, N.J. with his 6-year-old daughter, Victoria. He, like many others, had never been to Chestnut Hill before.
"I'm really interested in history and would definitely come back," he said.
Organizers said they were not only surprised by the distance from which people traveled (guests came from Virginia, New York and Pittsburgh ) to attend the weekend's events, it was the sheer volume.
"The numbers absolutely blew us away," May said. "We had no idea that so many families would be traveling from so far to attend our event."
At Defense Against the Dark Arts class, featuring Stagecrafters' actors and the College's Mask & Foil theatre group, 300 kids learned how to cast spells and curses. With wands in the air, children called out spells as they sat on Stagecrafters' side lawn.
Each event drew huge crowds and favorites included the Quidditch Training Camp and Scavenger Hunt which took 225 participants to 10 retailers/restaurants on the Avenue in search of clues.
With representation from the College, CHBA, local retailers, restaurateurs and community volunteers, the event's steering Committee worked collaboratively for eight months preceding the event.
"I can't say enough about the committee," May said. "Each person did the work of five people."
The Business Association was thrilled with the success.
"What an event!…Chestnut Hill shone as the wonderful, magical place that it truly is," said Kate O'Neill of CHBA.
Residents agreed.
"It made me so proud to say that I live in Chestnut Hill," said Teresa Araco Rodgers.
May hopes that this pride remains with residents and that weekend visitors return all year long and at next year's Harry Potter weekend.
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