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Location: Columbus, OH
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:41 am
Post subject: 8017 Darth Vader's TIE Fighter (Exclusive Anniversary Ed)
OMG it Rocks!
Christmas came early at our local Toys R Us. I picked this set up today and built it when I got home.
The Box:
Love the throwback/retro graphics on the box. But on closer inspection, all the character toons have been updated. Perhaps Greg H. worked some of his magic on that one?
The front and sides feature a fairly neat 10 year anniversary circular logo with Vader drawn in the now famous black chrome that we are hearing about from Europe. Exclusive Anniversary Edition is written in the red border on the bottom.
I also like the retro sized box instead of the flat ones we've been getting lately. Exactly the same size as the
7140 X-wing
box from 1999.
One unusual thing is that while this box has the taped down flaps that weve gotten used to over the past couple years, there are no tab and slot cut outs to keep it closed. The end of the box simply flaps around once you open it.
Also, since we are talking about retro touches, it would have been nice if they tossed in a tray to build from like in the 1999 sets. But I guess those days are long gone
The Pieces:
251 Pieces for $29.99 is pretty standard these days. Lots of large parts including the large
¼ circle parts
weve seen in a few other sets recently.
No printed parts are contained in the set. (EDIT: Oops! I forgot about the printed 1 x 2 computer tile.) Instead it comes with a small sticker sheet to cover 4 different 2 x 2 tiles. One nice thing about the stickers is that they are a completely new graphic design different from the usual Imperial stickers. Not sure if Lego is starting a precedence with the new stickers, but I would not mind seeing them again.
We also get the usual printed TIE window shell and radar dish for the top. There is only a single computer tile attached to the floor for a control surface (not even a plain 2 x 4 brick to raise it up). Seems that Lego really wasn't trying with that one.
Another nice addition is 2 each of the regular and inverted
4 x 4 triple wedges
. We havent seen those in a star wars set in a while.
The biggest disappointment is the light saber hilt. Its not chrome. Instead it is painted silver like the IG-88 droid and some of the 1 x 1 round plates from a few years ago. I predict the silver paint will rub off after a few uses.
The Build:
The build was pretty straightforward. Im glad it was a bit different from the past model TIE fighters. But then again, there are only so many possible ways to get it done. The wing sections are exactly like past models, but with grey accents.
The model is built in 4 sections (plus the 2 wings for a total of 6) that snap together with technic pins, but are then re-enforced with plates for stability.
The construction using the wedges is a bit confusing at first. There seem to be some missing parts, but it all ends up working out in the end. The large 1/4 circle parts reduce the complexity but pay off by making the model look pretty good. There are also two flick fire missiles that have technic firing mechanisms contained in a separate section.
Darth Vader has the new printing from the 10188 Death Star set. Love the new details on the body. No black chrome figures.
Perhaps we, in the US, will be getting a chance at a black chrome Vader later in the year.
If you havent figured it out by the pictures, the TIE looks great with the new gray accents. It seems a bit more compact than previous incarnations of the TIE advanced. I need to dig out some old sets for comparison. In the meantime, get yer swooshing arms ready, this one has huge potential! The model is very stable once it's built.
The missile shooting levers work fairly well, but still only shot the missiles a few inches. Its also well integrated into the model. In an odd twist I like, the missiles have black 1 x 1 round plate tips instead of the usual trans-red cones. It blends in better with the finished model and almost gives a stealth appearance.
The cockpit hinge mechanism is well integrated into the model and seems to be much sturdier than previous TIE fighters.
Darth Vaders light saber clips to the bottom of the model for convenient storage.
There is also a brief attempt at greebles on the rear deck for a nice finishing touch.
So heres the ratings:
for having an updated variety in a TIE set
since the new Vader Rocks, but there is only one fig in this set where previous TIES had two.
because this set has the most detail of any previous non-UCS TIE
Very swooshable with some other great features.
Typical for Lego lately, but not outstanding.
Its a great set, but not perfect. I would recommend this to a friend or a member at FBTB.
Pictures will be coming as soon as I can dig out my camera...
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:49 am
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Only $30 for this set? Was expecting it to be more, not too bad
Great review, maybe I'll pick this one up too
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Location: Somewhere near Cleveland, OH
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:49 pm
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Awesome review
. Although I do have the 10131 Tie Collection with Vader's Blue and Black Tie Advanced, this set looks amazing, and it's a Anniversary Edition. I will definately pick this set up when I can find one.
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Location: City of Evil, Canada
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:12 pm
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This is probably one of the only sets of next year's lineup that I will really want to get (since it's not Clone Wars)
Nice Review, and you lucky bum for finding this set early
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:03 am
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DestructiveDelirium wrote:
This is probably one of the only sets of next year's lineup that I will really want to get (since it's not Clone Wars)
Nice Review, and you lucky bum for finding this set early
I agree with what DD said. I went to my TRU yesturday and there wasn't even a spot for it. Good review, and yes, I wish there was another fig, but I think that the new Vader almost makes up for it.
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Joined: 14 Nov 2006
Location: Ontario
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:11 am
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Set Review # 8017: Darth Vader's TIE Fighter
Lego.com Info:
NOT ON LEGO.COM yet. :Wah:
My Opinion:
(WARNING: I specialize in ship building so Im very hard on TLC.)
OMG! Look it's Vader AGAIN! That's like the 15th set that has him! Back of the ship is squared off a little and looks like it has no engine.
This TIE actually looks like the color of the ones from the movies. Blue TIEs! Did anyone see a blue TIE in EP 4-6? Well here's the break down. Easy build, new stickers, new light saber hilt color, 2 flick fire missiles (You'll shoot your eye out!), & 2 large 1/4 circle molded pieces (that have to be good for something).
Parts: 8/10
Minifigures: 4/10
Detail: 7/10
Playability: 10/10
Price to parts: 8/10
Availability: 6/10 (Hard to find right now.)
Swoosh ability: 8/10
Overall rating: 9/10
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:16 pm
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Rook wrote:
Blue TIEs! Did anyone see a blue TIE in EP 4-6?
Great review! Thanks!
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Location: Brooklyn, NYC
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:42 pm
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I was always sort of hoping when they started doing TIEs again that they'd do them in sand blue. But the gray fits Vader's ship better anyway.
As for the illustrated character logo, since they updated it, why did they keep the characters yellow?
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Location: Los Angeles, California
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:25 pm
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Yes! Finally a TIE advanced that's not UCS and is actually fairly accurate in shape. The old one looks like crap compared to this one, and I like the grey that is used in place of blue. I guess Lego learned something when they made the UCS TIE Advanced. Kinda reminds me how Lego changed the snowspeeder, Y-wing, X-wing, A-wing, and etc from grey to white. I actually thought grey looked better and more movie accurate because the ships in the movie don't look white at all (or have I not been looking closely enough)
I hope to pick this one up sometime because I don't have a TIE advanced yet. New vader torso makes me happy.
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El Jefe
Joined: 13 Dec 2008
Location: Vineland, NJ
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:01 am
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I really like this set. The grey looks a lot better then the blue on this ship. For some reason, I don't think grey would look as good on the other TIE models.
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Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:39 pm
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Actually, the TIEs were planned to be straight blue, but limitations in bluescreen meant they had to be made gray (The same with the X-wing being red--in the novelization it was "Blue Squadron".). You'll notice that TIE bomber is blueish--as advances in computer effects were made, the TIEs became more blue. But LEGO's TIEs were made blue as per creative license.
In some ways, the grey sucks because all it matches is the UCS.
For some reason, I always have a bad feeling about things.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:51 am
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I like that there is only one instruction book.
The grey looks interesting. I built so many blue Tie Fighter in the last 4 years, it's a nice change
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:24 am
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I picked this set up today and have to agree with the review: This is a very nice set. It didn't take very long for me to build, as its assembly was very straight forward. The only thing that bothered me was the price. For 251 pcs, this should have been $25 instead of $30, but hey, at least I'm not Canadian. Oh, and I'm glad I don't have to pay Canadian prices either.
One thing that I felt should have been mentioned were the new
1x2 plates with the clip on the end pieces
. With this piece combined with
this piece
released last year, we finally have suitable replacements for the old and discontinued
. (No, the click hinges are NOT suitable replacements for said parts. Those parts allowed for a much larger range of motion which is now possible again.)
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:04 pm
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Well if you think about it, 251 pieces for $30 is actually not that bad. Consider the TIE Bomber set released many years ago. It's also a TIE ship, but had fewer pieces than this new TIE advanced. The price of that was also $30, so to me, it seems like a reasonable price for this new one.
I do have the old TIE Bomber and I must say that it was worth the $30. This new Vader's TIE looks even better, IMO.
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:08 pm
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Agreed, $30 for this set isn't bad. Now if it was $40 or more, that is getting too much.
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:02 pm
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There are already two sets that are getting too much: those two being the ahsoka's starfighter and vulture droid and count dooku's solar sailer. The AAT is close, but the minifigs are nice
I think that this is probably one of the best value sets that has come out this year (not counting the battle packs) The other set I can think of is the republic attack shuttle. And strangely enough, there is still no Star Wars set that has come out in 2009 that exceeds the 10 cents per piece ratio.
But anyways, enough about the prices, I just think this set is so nice. It looks more movie-accurate than before, and I like the use of grey than blue.
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I got it last night, nice, fun build and for once it's not blue. Price seems pretty reasonable, and it's availability is ok. About 6 of them at Wal-Mart. One thing I don't like, is the wings wobble just like the old ones.
Oh, signatures are so over rated. =D
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Analysis: Hilliard played extensively with Tony Sparano in Miami, mostly as either a fullback or as a halfback in two back sets. He's more of a versatile hybrid fullback rather than your John Conner-style pure blocking back, only tipping the scales at 228 pounds. However, he only handled the ball 21 times last year (five catches, 16 carries). Some may think this could spell the end of the line for John Conner, who was injured again in last week's game. However, maybe Sparano is planning to run more three back sets and put two backs in the backfield on passing downs rather than relying on their tight ends to pass block. Hilliard was most recently with the Patriots, but only saw action on nine snaps.
Turner's release is surprising for two reasons, the first being that it came before Clyde Gates and the second being that the Jets only currently have three healthy receivers (Gates, Chaz Schilens and Jeremy Kerley) - although Stephen Hill is expected back soon. However, he did struggle on Sunday and he's a guy who has been on and off the roster several times in his Jets career, so this is nothing new.


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hi all,
I'm a first year university student and I'm trying to find a good research paper topic for my educational psychology class.
I'm very interested in ESL and definitely planning on looking at something within this 'field,' but I don't know what topics there are that have enough research based sources. I was originally planning on working on something about the lexical approach to language teaching, but I've been snooping around the internet as well as my university library's database and I'm not convinced that there's been very much research done on this subject. Does anybody know of any approaches/methods etc. within ESL or SLA teaching that have had a significant amount of research done on them? I need to come up with a specific topic and have at least 10 reserach based sources.
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In the upscale market, Infiniti plans to unveil a two-seat sports hybrid at the Geneva auto show in March, Mercedes-Benz is getting into the act with a 526-horsepower, super-electric called the SLS AMG E-Cell and the Times says Porsche is working on a 730-horsepower plug-in 918 Spyder hybrid capable of 198 mph while getting 70 mpg.
That dream sports hybrid will cost more than $800,000.
The king of the plug-ins right now is the 2012 Mitsubishi i -- an egg-shaped $29,125 electric car rated by the U.S. EPA at 126 miles per gallon (equivalent) on the highway and 99 mpg in the city. But that vehicle -- named "Greenist" by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy -- is rated at just 63 horsepower with a range of 62 miles and top speed of 81 mph.
The Honda Civic Natural Gas tied with the 2012 Nissan Leaf electric for second on the group's "Greenist Vehicle" list, followed by the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, Smart fortwo, Scion iQ, Honda Civic Hybrid, Lexus CT 200h, Toyota Camry Hybrid, Honda CR-Z and the Toyota Yaris.
Other traditional fuel-sippers include the 2012 Volkswagen Golf/Jetta diesel and the near-twin 2012 Hyundai Accent and 2012 Kia Rio, that get an identical 30 mpg city/40 mph highway and 34 mpg in combined driving with a manual transmission.
Plug-in electric driver seeks "charging opportunity"
Owners of the all-electric Nissan Leaf and plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt are making use of the more than 2,400 charging stations nationwide, even though Volt drivers can rely on a gasoline engine to help recharge their batteries.
As a matter of principle, many drivers of hybrids prefer to run on batteries as long as possible and drivers of all-electrics have no choice. The payoff is motoring for pennies a mile as opposed to paying $3.60 per gallon of gas to go 25 or so miles on the highway.
"A charging station is great as long as it's part of your destination," Rob Peterson, a spokesman for General Motors Volt, told the Chicago Tribune. But a Volt owner said it doesn't make sense to drive miles out of the way to sit at a charging station for an hour or two.
Nearly 80 percent of plug-in electric owners charged their vehicles at home.
The Volt owner had traded in his $38,000 all-electric Nissan Leaf because running the heater in the frigid Chicago winter significantly drained battery power and reduced mileage per charge.
That's a lesson learned by early adopters of plug-in electrics who comprise less than 1 percent of total vehicle buyers. Automotive industry watcher Edmunds.com said hybrids made up just 2.46 percent of the overall car market.
"We're in the covered-wagon days of this industry," senior analyst Michelle Krebs told the Tribune. "We're in a pioneer time."
But recharging a Leaf is roughly equivalent to using a clothes dryer or two hair dryers at the same time -- and electricity is cheaper when you use it overnight.
"One vehicle's demand can be [the equivalent of the electric load] anywhere up from three quarters of a house up to three houses," a spokesman for Project Get Ready, an initiative of the Rocky Mountain Institute, told U.S. News & World Report.
Chrysler says 'no thanks' to loan
Chrysler, which once said it needed a federal energy loan to retool for hybrid and electric vehicles, has changed its mind.
Chrysler earlier this month dropped its request for less than $3.5 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy, saying it can come up with competitive, fuel-efficient vehicles without a government loan.
"The Department of Energy's proposed terms were very restrictive and compliance would have negatively affected our operational flexibility," the Auburn Hills, Mich., automaker said in a statement.
Chrysler posted a $183 million profit in 2011 -- it's first year in the black since 2005.
The federal government has awarded $9.1 billion in loans to automakers -- $5.9 billion to Ford, $1.4 billion to Nissan and $529 million to California start-up Fisker Automotive Inc. -- under a $25 billion Energy Department loan program funded during the George W. Bush administration.


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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Most of Brad Keselowski's team didn't know the woman in the red coat who appeared on the No. 2 pit box for the Chase for the Sprint Cup opener.
"I think (crew chief) Paul Wolfe knew who she was, but the other people thought she was maybe a sponsor who maybe got the wrong seat," Roger Penske told USA TODAY Sports with a chuckle. "I think they knew at the end of the next week who she was."
Everyone knows the identity of the mystery woman now.
At the request of her husband, Kathy Penske has become a weekly fixture on Keselowski's pit box since his victory at Chicagoland Speedway. She was there Sunday for the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway as Keselowski took a 20-point lead over Jimmie Johnson into the season finale.
KEZ PLAN: Beer, tweeting for points leader
"She'd been at other races before, but in the Chase this year, she wanted to support the team and support me," Roger Penske said. "(Chicagoland) was the start of it, and once she got in, she hasn't gotten off the box. It's been great.
"I told her she has to wear that red coat. That's her lucky charm. It's been terrific that she wants to be there."
ESPN analyst Rusty Wallace, who drove for Penske Racing from 1991 to 2005, said it isn't surprising that Penske would keep his spouse stationed atop the box.
"They have some mojo going on,and I know Roger," Wallace said. "When something's working, he says,'Keep doing it. Keep doing it.' Until that car wrecks and falls off the track,she's going to be on that pit box."
But does she actually like racing?
"Oh yeah, but I think she thinks I do too much of it," Penske said with a laugh. "She'd rather have me playing golf with her on the weekends than at the racetrack, but it's been in my blood so long, it's hard to get it out."


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Pilots deliver dog to new owner in Grand
The first ever air-delivery of a rescue animal to Grand County took place on Oct. 12, to deliver an 11-week old puppy to a Grand County resident from a high-kill shelter in Utah.
His new owners Shea Murphy and Matt Bowen, of the Granby area, named the tri-colored border collie mix puppy Jed and say he is adjusting well to his new home.
"He is still a crazy little puppy," Murphy said. "But at 12 weeks old he is already starting to get house trained."
Jed also has Murphy's 4 year-old son Tucker to chase around the house.
The puppy was flown into Granby through the Pilots N' Paws program, a volunteer based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing air transportation to rescue animals in need.
Mountain Pet Rescue, a local nonprofit that is dedicated to finding homes for pets in need, located the puppy, which was being held at an overcrowded, high-kill shelter in Utah.
Mountain Pet Rescue was formed in 2012 by Sybil Miller, when she saw a need to provide mountain communities with a wider range of options when adopting dogs.
"Everyone up here loves their dogs," Miller said. "But the Granby shelter didn't have that many dogs available for adoption."
The concept for Mountain Pet Rescue originally started to cater to Grand County but has spread to include all of the State of Colorado and even sets up adoptions for out-of-state now.
"We have found homes for around 450 dogs this year," Miller said.
While the rescue organization focuses mainly on helping to find local rescue dogs homes, including dogs at the Granby animal shelter, they occasionally find dogs out-of-state that are very well suited to live in Colorado.
Many other states have a high number of dogs without homes that overcrowd shelters, which then have to euthanize the dogs to create space. Pet lovers cann call Miller at 970-281-7381 to discuss becoming a foster parent or to begin to apply to adopt a pet. They regularly update their Facebook page with dogs they have for adoption. Visit Mountain Pet Rescue's website at mountainpetrescue.org to view adoptable dogs.
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Daniel Carter's first public appearance since his fatherhood tweet delivered a battle between the rugby scribes and the fluffy social media types.
The All Black five-eighths scraped his chair a bit as the inquiries ping-ponged from one set of questioners to another about his fitness and the baby's gender.
Neither was confirmed. The lower calf-Achilles tendon area on Carter's right leg let him train lightly in London and while he was keen to play, he wouldn't unless he felt fully fit.
The plan was to get through training, which he did at about 50 per cent horsepower with a full inquiry today to determine if he will suit up for the All Blacks' final test against England on Sunday.
Carter kicked a bit but nothing much to give any clue about his involvement in the last test on tour although he offered an encouraging outlook.
"I'm pretty confident to be honest," he said. "Some positive thinking for the last game of the year and I want to be part of it so the week for me is doing whatever I can to keep myself positioned to play.
"I'm going to be smart about my decision."
He was also pretty chirpy about his other big news, information he and wife Honor had kept to themselves for some months until they let loose on Twitter.
He was very excited about fatherhood, though he and his wife had kept that news quiet because they were pretty private people.
Privacy and Twitter go together, do they? However, with guestimates the baby is due about March-April, Carter and his wife must have been busy juggling schedules around the Super rugby playoffs time.
Apparently there had been congratulatory messages from the Prime Minister, texts and emails from many others, then Carter was moved back to rugby and inquiries about the leg injuries which have removed him from four tests this season.
It was frustrating because he felt in good nick. He was unsure whether the issues came because he was loading his right side more after surgery to repair his Achilles and groin injuries on his left peg.
Thoughts of a sabbatical were not on his immediate agenda but if he felt he was struggling mentally to stay refreshed, he would invoke that clause in his contract.
So far he felt fine. If anything, the All Blacks had sharpened their focus since the World Cup triumph, to buck the trend of winners following it with average seasons.
Carter had been surprised, given England's success at the 2003 World Cup and their resources, that they hadn't had another victory against the All Backs since that same year.
They had shown patches since then but had lacked consistency.
"Talent is not an issue, they can beat any side on their day," Carter warned, before he got some more baby inquiries.
He didn't know what gender the baby was and conceded he or she would probably have sporting ability.
There was no word about a webcam at the Carter birth, plans for a national naming competition or a contract with a television channel for live updates and footage, but there's sure to be a flurry of magazine bidding for the first baby pics and words from the parents.


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They go with:
1. RHP Zack Wheeler
2. SS Gavin Cecchini
3. OF Brandon Nimmo
4. RHP Luis Mateo
5. RHP Rafael Montero
6. 3B/2B Wilmer Flores
7. RHP Michael Fulmer
8. RHP Jeurys Familia
9. RHP Domingo Tapia
10. RHP Cory Mazzoni
Their write up is here. Scouting reports for subscribers are here. Matt Eddy will talk about the list at 1:30.
In terms of comments, I think it's clear that Wheeler is the clear number one, by a healthy margin.
Nimmo, Cecchini and Flores are the top three position players in the system. They all have fairly different profiles in terms of whether they will contribute offensively and defensively, and I still have Flores the highest of the three off his AA performance in 2012 and his proximity to the big leagues, but I would not fight the rationale for ranking either of the other two above him too strongly given his defensive limitations.
Pitchers. Oh boy. I just cannot rank Luis Mateo that high. There's a big fastball there certainly, but his size and delivery scream reliever to me.
Finally, there's the omission Jacob deGrom. Many of the scouts who watched the Gnats this year liked him more than Fulmer and Tapia. Yes, he's old, but the arm is real.


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I used Gentoo's live ebuilds to install Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5's master branches. After some... several... ok, many hours compiling things Plasma 5 was installed and then I had my first surprise: I need kwallet 4 installed to import my secrets into kwallet 5, but I had uninstalled it before start compiling Plasma 5. Solution: compile kwallet 4 :-/ and try again. However, it was not that simple.
I used to use kwallet 4.14.2 (Gentoo's unstable version) but I installed 4.12.5 (Gentoo's stable version) without kdepimlibs installed. There are two problems with what I did: 1. kwallet uses a different file format when compiled with kdepimlibs installed. Since it was not installed kwallet 4 failed to open my wallet with "Unsupported file format version" error. Desperation started growing into my heart (my secrets, my precious secrets...). Looking at kwallet's source code (I love open source programs for allowing me to do that) I noticed that I needed to recompile it against kdepimlibs. So I did and... it did not work, the same "Unsupported file format version" error message appeared. 2. Looking into kwallet's git log I noticed that the file format's version changed between kwallet 4.12.5 and 4.14.2. I recompiled kwallet 4.14.2 and then kwallet 5 was able to import my old wallet :-). Tip of the day: do not uninstall Plasma 4 before importing your wallet. For Gentoo users that be a problem since akonadi-server's ebuild is configured to prevent compiling both qt4 and qt5 versions and akonadi-server is a dependency to compile kdepimlibs. I had to force (emerge --nodeps) Gentoo to compile kdelibs, akonadi-server, kdepimlibs and kwallet ebuilds to solve this problem.
With my wallet imported I though I had finished with that. However, Google Chrome did not list/show any of my secrets. The problem: Chrome uses the old dbus names org.kde.kwalletd and /modules/kwalletd instead of org.kde.kwalletd5 and /modules/kwalletd5. At least for now I decided to recompile kwallet 5 to use the old names, it works. Maybe we should add a command line option to make kwallet5 to also register those old names for backward compatibility.
After configuring my personal options in systemsettings my Plasma 5 desktop looks as productive as my old Plasma 4 desktop, which by the way I completely removed after fixing the kwallet issue. I still miss some applications such as Amarok, Digikam, Superkaramba (I created four applets for it that I would like to keep using). Two others, kdialog and polkit-kde-agent, are already ported to Plasma 5 but there is no ebuild for then, so I created the ebuilds and installed them.
polkit-kde-agent is necessary to allow Plasma NM to read secrets from system connections, which are stored in NetworkManager. It is a important program not only for me but for anybody that uses Plasma NM. After compiling it it did not work at first (always crashing). I had to apply this patch from reviewboard to fix the crashes.
To replace Amarok I recompiled Vlc to enable its qt plugin, which is already ported to Qt5 but Vlc compilation system insisted in using Qt4's include and libs even though it detected Qt5. For that reason when g++ tried to find QtWidgets' includes it failed. QtWidgets does not exist in Qt4. My solution was to export those two variables before compiling Vlc:
export QT_CFLAGS=$(pkg-config Qt5Widgets --cflags)
export QT_LIBS=$(pkg-config Qt5Widgets --libs
export QT_LIBS=$(pkg-config Qt5Widgets --libs
Sorry to the bashism in the line aboves, but it makes things shorter :-P
Vlc works, but crashes everytime it quits, not a big problem except that it never saves may playlist :-/ I still can press Ctrl+1 to make it load the first directory in the recent used list. I had to tweak my qdbus script to make my global shortcuts for play previous/pause/play next song to work with Vlc. Now it works almost as Amarok, except for the fancy features such as tablatures, lyrics, playlist sorting that I used to use from time to time. For the time being it will suffice. By the way, what is happening (or not happening) with Amarok? The lastest release was more than a year ago. Will it be ported to Plasma 5? Is there a Plasma 5 replacement for it?
One feature I missed since yesterday was the hability to select "shutdown computer" from leave dialog. Being the one that ported the old QWidget based shutdown dialog to Qml I expected the new dialog to be located in /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/themes/default, but now it is located in /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/logout/Logout.qml. Plasma 4's shutdown dialog theme is still in /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/themes/. After digging into ksmserver and libkworkspace's source codes I figured out that using kwrapper5 with ksmserver prevents shutdown and restart buttons from appearing in the shutdown dialog. The problem is that org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.CanStop always return false when ksmserver is started through kwrapper5. I had to edit startkde script to do not use kwrapper5. OBS: I am using sddm and consolekit.
There are some random crashes here in there, but Plasma 5 is usable for what I need. Now I am ready to start fixing Plasma 5 issues :-)


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Durable Goods Orders Surge 22.6% in July
Underlying Gauges of Demand Indicate Strong Momentum in Broad Business Spending
WASHINGTON—Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods jumped to a record in July thanks to a surge in aircraft purchases, while underlying measures indicated broad momentum for business spending.
Purchases of durable goods—products such as airplanes, cars and heavy machinery designed to last at least three years—rose a seasonally adjusted 22.6% to $300.1 billion in July from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That was the sharpest increase and highest level in records going back to 1992....


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[Funeral Program for Alma Larremore, February 23, 1979]
Description: Funeral program for Mrs. Alma Larremore, died February 17, 1979. The funeral was held Thursday, February 23, 1979 at Wheatley Heights Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Eddie Cunningham. Funeral arrangements were made through White's Funeral Home and she was buried in Eastview Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: February 23, 1979
Partner: San Antonio Public Library


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I know some may try to bag a Fisher sooner or later so wanted to put this out there. Do not buy from this seller:
Now look at the 3 sits below. The photo card one is one I took a punt on (£12)but together with a friend its down as a fake after more scrutiny. The others are ones he has sold/is selling and you can see they are the same auto.
Now it seems as though he is devised a way of replicating this auto, so please be cautious especially with the books. He claimed to me he got loads of items signed which is quite obviously untrue. I know with TLJ around the corner it may be handy if people are trying to grab a Carrie but please remember this and I hope it can benefit someone and stop people getting ripped off.


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Guests will find that the best airport to travel to is the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Sometimes referred to as Sea-Tac Airport, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has the largest parking garage in the country, which is capable of holding 13,000 cars. This airport is just a quick 25-minute drive to downtown Seattle, where travelers can walk along the waterways of Elliott Bay, take a ferry to spend an afternoon at Bainbridge Island, or browse locally made crafts at the Pike Place Market.
Other perks to flying into Sea-Tac Airport are the many shops and restaurants. Did you forget to pack an important item, or are you hungry after getting off a long flight? Then you can browse shops like the Wishing Stone, Affordable Luxuries, or Discover Puget Sound, or dine in one of the following restaurants: Starbucks, Casa del Agave, or the Dungeness Bay Seafood House. There is also a massage parlor near C Gate, an ATM by N Gate, and Roger's Shoe Shine at D Gate.
The peak season for traveling to Seattle is June to September. That means the best time to visit Seattle and secure a cheap flight is to travel between the months of October and May. Off-season bargains are plentiful and you'll be able to avoid the crowds. In addition, hotel accommodations are available at a discount, as hotels tend to offer cheaper rates in order to fill up their empty rooms.
Since Seattle is a popular vacation destination, there are a total of 23 airlines that fly in and out of the Seattle-Tacoma Airport on a regular basis, including American Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and Delta Air Lines. In fact, more than 30 million passengers use this airport and there are more than 10,000 domestic flights scheduled each week. There are nonstop flights offered at this airport to more than 100 cities around the world, including to China, South Korea, and Canada, although one-stop flights tend to run at a discounted price if you're looking to save a few dollars.
Once you arrive at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, you'll want to get on one of the free shuttle buses that will transport you to the rental car facility. Here you'll find big-name rental car agencies like Hertz, Avis, Alamo, and Budget. Another option that is readily available to travelers are taxi cabs. Also, vacationers can head to the fourth floor of the airport's parking garage in order to take the train.
There are a few attractions in Seattle that set this city apart from the rest. First up is the Seattle Space Needle. You can dine at the SkyCity Restaurant, which makes a complete 360-degree turn once per hour, or enjoy a breathtaking view of the city atop the 520-foot observation deck. The Pacific Science Center offers interactive exhibits for adults and children, and the Woodland Park Zoo offers the chance to feed an elephant. Many of the area's affordable hotels offer a complimentary shuttle service so you don't have to spend a dime on transportation.
Of course, Seattle does have a few other must-see sites that visitors won't want to miss. There is the Northgate Mall for purchasing souvenirs, the Jefferson Park Golf Club for working on your golf swing, and Seattle Mariners games at Safeco Field. The Experience Music Project Museum is the place to go to learn more about pop culture, while the Seattle Great Wheel, one of the world's tallest ferris wheels, gives guests a thrill.
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"With RT-CGM, there's that minute-by-minute decision making that gets enhanced," said Dr. Wolpert. "Being able to review the data, see what the patterns are, and make changes in ones' treatment approach helps as well."
Real-time continuous glucose monitors have been on the diabetes care scene since their FDA approval five years ago. They have proved to be a useful technology for improving diabetes management, and after years on the market, "it was time for a more authoritative position statement about what the role of the technology was in clinical care," Dr. Wolpert said.
Continuous glucose monitors have existed since the late 1990s. Back then, blood glucose levels were recorded and stored over the course of a few days. Patients then needed to download the information to a computer to study the trends in their changing glucose levels, but they didn't get live notifications of the status of their glucose levels as it was happening.
Real-time CGM devices add an extra level of awareness to diabetes care. Patients are notified when their blood glucose drops too low or spikes too high. They can respond immediately, reducing the risk of hyper- or hypoglycemia. The devices also offer the same download-and-review capability available in their predecessors.
The team that created the official guidelines reviewed the results from many studies involving RT-CGM and came up with the following recommendations, which were published by the Endocrine Society in their Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
- They recommend that currently approved RT-CGM devices be considered for use by children (over 8-years old), adolescents, and adults with type 1 diabetes whose A1C levels are below 7 percent to help maintain target levels while reducing the risk of hypoglycemia.
- They also recommend the use of these devices to assist with intensification of diabetes control in children (over 8-years old), adolescents, and adults with Type 1 Diabetes whose A1C levels are at 7 percent or higher, provided they have a history of responsible self-care, and will keep up proper use of the device
- They suggest that the occasional use of short-term CGM monitors could be helpful in keeping track of blood glucose levels when reviewing conditions such as nocturnal hypoglycemia, dawn phenomenon, and post-prandial hyperglycemia; hypoglycemic unawareness; and in patients who have recently made major changes in their care, such as the use of new insulin or the switch to insulin pumps. This suggestion was made for children (over 8-years old), adolescents, and adults.
- They recommend against the use of RT-CGM on its own during treatment in an intensive care unit or in an operating room until more studies are done to asses the technology's accuracy and safety under those conditions.
Patient expectations are crucial to the success of using RT-CGM. The guidelines recommend that patients be well educated about the hurdles that come with being constantly linked to the device. Studies have shown that the "people who had realistic expectations around what the technology promised tended to do better," said Dr. Wolpert. When the patients expected problems, they were less likely to get frustrated and quit when those problems inevitably cropped up.
"It's a new technology, the devices are still relatively rudimentary," said Dr. Wolpert. "They require a certain amount of engagement in terms of troubleshooting to keep them functioning accurately."
It's a trade-off, he said. There may be some occasional annoyance, such as the alarms that sound when glucose shifts too far out of a specified range. But for many, the benefits of knowing even more precisely what is happening in their body will far outweigh the hassles.
To decrease these hassles, Joslin provides plenty of education on how to properly use the devices. The Joslin Clinic hosts classes on how to troubleshoot, interpret the data, and make the right nutrition choices based on readings from the RT-CGM devices.
But the important thing to remember about RT-CGM is that "the technology is not a panacea in and of itself," Dr. Wolpert said. "It doesn't automate diabetes management. The individual still needs to be knowledgeable and engaged. But it provides people with more information, so they can make better decisions."


text: In this documentary-style film, Mathis Wackernagel introduces the Ecological Footprint and, in 30 minutes, paints a picture of our current global situation. Wackernagel explores the implications of ecological deficits and provides examples of how governments, communities and businesses are using the Footprint to help improve their ecological performance. If you are a non-profit organization or are using the film for home use, be sure to ask for the discounted price.


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**Pic above and below is of my stepbrother R.J.'s dog, Maggie. She is a beagle and so super cute......I got to play with her the entire time I was at my Mom's for Thanksgiving.
So, Kory bought some $3 strawberry champagne on his way home from Pete's Garage and drinking 99 cent margaritas with Rebecca......Anyway, SO MUCH better than regular champagne! and only $3! What a freaking bargain! LOL. I had a sip. Yum.
We are now all watching Revenge of the Nerds. One of the best movies of all time. Don't argue with me. I state the truth. And I heart Lamar.


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In Which A Great Artist Is A Douchebag In Real Life
Not Our Architect
by Alex Carnevale
Awesome article by Michael J. Lewis, the noted professor of art history at Williams College, about the biography of Louis Kahn by Carter Wiseman.
Kahn also led a disordered personal life, fathering three children by three women, only one of whom was his wife. The three families were dimly aware of one another; but not until the death of his long-suffering wife were they able to meet. This is what gave My Architect its bittersweet poignancy, as Nathaniel Kahn found in the company of this ad-hoc family and of his father's friends a surrogate for the attention he never received as a child. Were its subject not so famous (or its maker so forgiving), it might have been titled, Lou Kahn, Deadbeat Dad.
Kahn went to Penn, but lied about his origins quite often.
He was indeed born in 1901, the son of a Jewish paymaster in the czarist army—but not on the Baltic island of Saaremaa as he claimed but in the somewhat less romantic venue of the Latvian mainland. Nor was he born Louis Kahn, but rather Leiser-Itze Schmuilowsky, an evidently embarrassing name, unknown until recently, that was changed in 1915, a decade after the family's emigration to Philadelphia.Wiseman is also lamentably incurious about the politics of his subject in the highly politicized decade of the Popular Front. Nothing that in 1933 Kahn designed a monument for Vladimir Lenin, which would have loomed over the harbor in Leningrad, he does not observe how assiduously the architect later effaced that item from his resume. (It was unknown to scholars until discussed by me in 1992.)
Lewis is the master of the sweet putdown. He actually likes Kahn's architecture. I sort of do, too, it reminds me of a bathroom I'd really like to deuce in.
We do not see, for example, the great effect of celebrity on Kahn, especially after the appearance of a 1962 monograph on his work by the architectural historian Vincent Scully. Prior to its appearance, he had been careless with his drawings; afterward, he lovingly and self-consciously signed and dated even the most hurried sketch. His prose, already famously tortuous, now reached heights of metaphysical pretense, as when he pronounced to a 1967 audience in Boston that "I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light."
Exeter library
Lewis' insta-classic survey:
American Art and Architecture.
With others, on the travel sketches of Louis Kahn.
From all evidence, Kahn was a bastard.
By the start of the 1960s, Kahn's architectural language was fully realized, at which point Beyond Time and Style loses its dramatic momentum. As the works of Kahn's late maturity follow in train, Wiseman does justice to the convoluted design history of each but the story is much the same: a laborious gestation period as Kahn subjects his designs to revision after revision—a process that continues even after construction has begun, with dire financial consequences. Invariably, and often after the project has already grown disastrously over budget, Kahn's exasperated clients would assign a manager to rein him in.
Not that Kahn himself made money. To the contrary, he perpetually teetered on the brink of insolvency, and when he died in 1974—in a men's room at New York's Pennsylvania Station—his office was for all intents and purposes bankrupt.
Kahn and his son.
This is a familiar meme - douchebag who creates great art. I know Molly doesn't like Death of a Salesman, but I see it as the male Vagina Monologues. After reading Molly's post, I don't ever want to see it staged again. Bob Creeley was a dick for much of his life. Diane Williams is awesome, we can pretty much assume she's killed someone. Raymond Carver was an alcoholic and could be unpleasant.
Architecture is also impossibly male. Putting these buildings up everywhere is the equivalent of a phallus-measuring contest. Can we please tear down some first? I don't like the Ernst & Young building, let's start there.
Why do I feel like I am now going to be on a CIA watchlist? Sigh.
Alex Carnevale is probably the editor of This Recording. He lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Vanessa Loder and Lisa Abramson created MBA with the vision of teaching women how to create sustainable success through practical solutions to prevent exhaustion, overwhelm and burnout.
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After almost a decade in tech, mobile, media, PR and marketing, and most recently helping transform a start up mobile advertising company into a recognized brand with 100 percent year over year revenue growth, I walked into the office one day and quit my job.
I had gone from being a junior level employee to the youngest and first female on the executive team and had recently been named a woman to watch by the leading trade publication. Everything appeared great on paper, but my job felt meaningless and I knew I was leaving the best of my talents at home every day.
I was so crazy busy trying to achieve success, that I forgot what I was doing it all for. And in a world where busyness is the new black and a sign of prestige, this was surprisingly easy to do.
I felt completely stuck, wanting a change, but not knowing what do to next, a strangely unfamiliar feeling for me.
I was used to always knowing what next step to take to climb higher and higher up the ladder, but now, at the top of the ladder, I looked around and found myself saying "crap, wrong ladder!"
As I had done many times in the past, my linear left brain took over and tried to systematically research, study and prepare my way out of feeling stuck. I starting reading countless personal development books and stumbled upon concepts like mindfulness and self-compassion as well as tools to boost happiness.
I was surprised and excited to learn about the scientifically backed claims that meditation helps reduce stress and can strengthen your connection with your intuition. All of this was intriguing to me, especially as I started to notice that while I was taking great care of my body, running marathons and eating healthfully, I wasn't taking great care of my mind and the stress and anxiety of my career was weighing heavily on me.
After reading nearly all of the recent scientific research around meditation and mindfulness, I decided to give this woo woo stuff a try. I committed myself to starting a meditation practice and decided that I would strive to do four minutes a day, every day.
So what happened in my first meditation session? I felt a sense of panic instead of calm as I tried to quiet my mind. And then I felt intense emptiness that years of being busy had distracted me from feeling. I kept repeating to myself, the research said it was going to help! It said it was going to help! Luckily, the research was right, and meditation got easier over time and more rewarding as I stuck with my short daily practice. I even went on a 10 day silent meditation retreat where we meditated daily from 6am to 9pm. As my intuition strengthened, I was able to reconnect with my lifelong desire to be an entrepreneur, open my eyes to the fears that were holding me back and create new strategies for overcoming these fears.
It was then on a vacation in Hawaii that things started to come together for me, and I realized that vacation is not a location, but actually a state of mind. And with this revelation, I realized I could choose to bring more of this vacation mindset into my daily life.
I kept thinking to myself, what would life look like if I wasn't so stressed, exhausted and busy all the time? Through a combination of meditation, conscious goal setting, affirmations, compassion and gratitude, I was able to personally see an easier, less stressful, and more joyous way of living. This transformation motivated me to become an entrepreneur and dedicate my life to inspiring others to achieve greater success in this entirely new way.
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My whole life I've been an overachiever in the traditional ways: I graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University and upon graduation, I thought about joining the Peace Corps, but instead, I drove myself to take the most prestigious job I could find. I started working in investment banking on Wall Street, putting in really long hours, coming home and drinking a little too much wine or zoning out in front of the television because I felt so drained and exhausted from work. I applied to business school and was accepted to both Harvard and Stanford. I had my whole perfect life planned out.
Then my mom got sick. She was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer. I took time off work to take care of her and then deferred business school one year. After she finished her chemo, she encouraged me to do something for myself before heading off to Stanford, so I followed my heart and went to live in a remote village in Ghana, West Africa, to volunteer as a teacher.
I didn't know it at the time, but that trip changed my life. I ended up raising money to build a school, and my former colleagues from Wall Street helped fund the project. In that moment I knew I wanted to do something to change the world and that people in the business world had the resources to support positive change. But it took me more time to make it a reality.
Upon graduating from Stanford, I was scared to start my own business. I told myself I was scared because of all the debt and expenses I had incurred as a student. I told myself it would be more "responsible" to take a job working in private equity to pay off my loans. I told myself, and everyone else, I'd only stay in that job one year. Those were all lies. It took me over three years to realize that was just the fear—my fear of failure—talking.
I made a lot of money at the private equity firm and was on track to be a partner. Everything looked great on paper, and yet inside, I was unfulfilled and had this nagging feeling that something was missing. But this was the path I'd mapped out for my life. I followed my plan for success perfectly. So why wasn't I happy?
I realized that I'd been following my mind, my ego and my wallet instead of my heart or my intuition. That needed to change, but I was so turned around, I didn't know how to begin to follow my heart.
I started with one question: What is it I really want? That question turned into more questions. I started working with a coach and learned what it means to take responsibility for my life, my happiness and my career.
To me, taking responsibility means asking that question, "What is it I really want?" and not letting the fear stop me. It means making a big commitment to doing whatever it takes to create the change I deeply desire.
So that's what I did. I quit my high-paying job in finance and started my own business. I realized that what I'm most passionate about is supporting other people, especially women, in learning how to take responsibility for THEIR lives. I want everyone to experience the happiness that I've now created in my life. I want everyone to have these tools.
I've made it my life's mission to empower other women. I founded www.vanessaloder.com, a transformation and leadership development business, where I run group coaching programs, retreats and corporate workshops, and offer keynote speaking to support other people who are ready to make this leap, the leap into a life of meaning.
I could have played it safe. Instead, I'm living my dream. It took some scary steps to get here, and it was so worth the journey. So now I ask you, what is it you really want? And what are you willing to do to create it?
Vanessa Loder lives in Lafayette, CA with her husband and two children. She is an acclaimed keynote speaker, corporate wellness facilitator, and works with clients worldwide in her private group coaching programs and retreats. To learn more, visit www.vanessaloder.com or join Vanessa's FREE 15 Day Meditation Challenge HERE.


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Cherry Creek North Food and Wine festival rolls into Fillmore Plaza Saturday
Break out the driving loafers and the Hermes Birkins, people – the Cherry Creek North Food and Wine festival lands in the 80206 on Saturday.
This year, 19 restaurants and bars – including Harman's Eat and Drink, Cherry Creek Grill, Mici, and NoRTH – will be serving-up grub, pouring vino and beer and slinging drinks for the Aug. 10 event, which runs from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. at Fillmore Plaza. Tickets are $60, which gets you as much as you can handle of things like Korean pork tacos, tortellini with meatballs in cream sauce, braised short ribs with watermelon salad, pork belly with pickled peaches, gazpacho, BBQ pork and grits, and much more. And of course, unlimited (well, in theory…) pours of vino and beer and slugs of cocktails.
Judges pick a "best in show" and "best culinary presentation," and the lumpen proletariat gets to vote, too, for the category "top taste."
The shindig comes with live music, and a chunk of the proceeds goes to the Cherry Creek Arts Festival's year-round art-education programs.


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In a season of JaVale McGee doing awesome things—intentionally or unintentionally—his latest act is decidedly less so, as an inadvertent elbow decked Kevin Love and sent the Timberwolves star to the hospital with a concussion in the first quarter of last night's bout in Denver.
It comes at a bad time for Minnesota, who are already missing Luke Ridnour with an ankle sprain and ended up losing the game 113-107. The Timberwolves technically aren't eliminated from playoff contention yet according to NBA.com, but the writing's been on the wall for some time in Minneapolis; the saving grace for enjoying the rest of the season was being able to watch Kevin Love play. [Altitude]


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I posted this the night before the Panthers game. I had a feeling. I have a feeling this time, too. I didn't have a feeling before Miami, though I thought we'd win.
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After the pseudo strip-tease surrounding the 2010 Chevy Equinox, we finally get a real look at its newly revised face and we've gotta say, GM must have rediscovered the French curve recently. The Theta platform crossover gets a surprisingly swoopy C-pillar and a very Malibu-like grille, but those headlights offer a more softened approach to the face of Chevrolet. Aside from the new nose and glass, the Equinox is also sporting some rather aggressive, albeit tasteful, fender flares reminiscent of the Mercedes ML. Our spies at KGP have worked up a report on the fresh-faced suvvie which we've seen fit to include below.
Although a single semi-official image has been released of the 2010 Chevy Equinox, GM test teams have continued to run heavily camouflaged prototypes on public roads and even within GM test tracks. That changed today, when a fully uncovered prototype hit one of General Motors' internal test loops—allowing us to get the first spy shots of an unclad Equinox from multiple angles.
We can now confirm the accuracy of the original low-res "release" photo, along with our first uncovered look at the crossover's rear 3/4 view. We can now get a much better feel for the interplay of the C- and D-pillars, and the pleasing chiseled nature of the rear hatch. The tail-lights have some interesting surface development, although from the the side they look a bit like the rear lamps on the Dodge Durango.
On the rear bumper, the dual exhaust tips flank what appears to be a chrome inset to match the similar bit of brightwork visible on the front air-dam of the Equinox in the leaked image.


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I didn't skip school a lot—hardly at all, now that I think about it. After watching this Australian PSA, I am really glad about that.
Now, there's a chance that "Set Yourself Free" could be a fake advert, given that filmmakers Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann are a pair of comedians. The Learn for Life website mentioned on the YouTube page doesn't have anything at all by way of education-focused propaganda, either. Think of it this way, then: if this is a joke, you don't have to feel bad about laughing. If it isn't, then we're all horrible people.
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CAIRO — Secretary of State John F. Kerry released $250 million in badly needed economic assistance for Egypt on Sunday, telling the country's divided political classes that they must make economic and political reforms to qualify for additional U.S. support.
"The United States can and wants to do more," Kerry said in a statement released to reporters shortly after his more than two-hour session with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. About an hour of their time was spent one on one, in what U.S. officials said would be blunt discussions of Egypt's tanking economy and political deadlock.
"When Egypt takes the difficult steps to strengthen its economy and build political unity and justice, we will work with our Congress at home on additional support," Kerry said. "These steps will also unlock much needed private-sector investment and broader financial assistance."
The State Department said Kerry's meeting with the Islamist leader also covered the crisis in Syria and prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The chaotic domestic situation in Egypt has overtaken the traditional American agenda with Egypt, long its most-valued Arab ally and the linchpin of Arab-Israeli peace.
International investment and the revival of tourism, long the mainstay of the Egyptian economy, depend on a truce between Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and secular moderates, and a reduction in street violence that has scared off foreigners.
The visit, part of Kerry's first overseas trip as secretary of state, also was the first by a top American diplomat since Egypt approved a new constitution that is at the heart of the current protests and political deadlock. Morsi's political opponents object both to the Islamic focus of the document and to what they call a ramrod approach to its passage.
Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party called Kerry's visit a good-faith effort to ease the political impasse between the ruling Islamists and the secular opposition. "This is an important visit that we believe is motivated by the U.S. resolve to deal with the legitimate constitutional status quo in Egypt," Morsi spokesman Amr Darrag said.
Although the United States has voiced concerns over the Egyptian constitution approved last year, Kerry had no public criticism of the document on this visit. The constitution replicates some of the centralized power structure built by former president Hosni Mubarak, whose toppling came to symbolize the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions.
Kerry's statement noted that during his two-day visit, he had met with political leaders, business leaders and representatives of non-governmental organizations, who "shared their deep concern about the political course of their country, the need to strengthen human rights protections, justice and the rule of law, and their fundamental anxiety about the economic future of Egypt."
Kerry said he discussed those same issues with Morsi "in a very candid and constructive manner" and that the two talked about the need to ensure that Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections are "free, fair and transparent."
Amid questioning from Congress about Egypt's political instability and the U.S. budget crunch, some $450 million in U.S. aid to Egypt has been frozen on Capitol Hill. . In addition, the International Monetary Fund has held off on loans and debt relief worth more than $4 billion.
Kerry's announcement of aid includes $190 million from the frozen $450 million, following discussions with congressional Republicans who have objected to several of Morsi's policy moves and past statements offensive to Jews. The remaining $260 million from that pot could be freed if Morsi follows through on promised reforms, a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive diplomacy.
Separately, Kerry pledged $60 million for a program to boost economic development. That could increase to $300 million in coming years, Kerry said.


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- Zaphod BeeblebroxAugust 13, 2010 at 9:40 AM
You call that a tractor, Brett? That ain't no tractor. Now _this_ is a tractor. One that's gonna roll RIGHT OVER YOU!ReplyDelete
"I'm pawsitive this big ass truck is compensating for something. But who cares, I'm coach of the Packers"ReplyDelete
Check out the pad level on this beast!ReplyDelete
I told you that we were going to clean things up on the offensive line.ReplyDelete
You can't get these in Hattiesburg.ReplyDelete
- Alex TallitschAugust 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM
I was happy with its performance. Pleased at the effort.ReplyDelete
Now all I need is a pair of crocs and a skanky cheerleader. Mmm, retirement.ReplyDelete
It's a fundamentally sound tractor, but it's been running a little rough. I''l work on it this week and get that cleaned up.ReplyDelete
This is an automatic right? And I can mow the quarter acre lawn with it? SOLD!!ReplyDelete
Why does the shifter smell like Jen Sterger?ReplyDelete
Can I get this in Green and Gold?ReplyDelete
- PackersRSAugust 13, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Ted Thompson: Okay, Mike. Get the little one! Let's show Favre how to moan the lawn!ReplyDelete
- Pashaww!August 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM
The hardest part of operating a working farm is armoralling the tires every morning.ReplyDelete
Wow - this was a huge success! So many good ones to choose from - thanks to everyone who participated.ReplyDelete
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Thanks again - we'll definitely be doing this in the near future!
Good choice - Rich definitely deserves the prize.ReplyDelete
Hey thanks guys! Love the site, and keep up the good work. It's a daily "must" to visit Packer Ranter. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
My best captions are when I'm drunk and Franklin and I were not doubt drunk on Friday. Proud of you Rich, just can't top a caption that bring a visual like that to mind.ReplyDelete
Nice Rich, however i must toss a flag. The rules clearly state "ONLY YOUR FIRST SUBMISSION WILL BE CONSIDERED".ReplyDelete
According to my count the winner was Rich W's second submission.
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Haha - that is a valid flag, but alas, I must flag your flag. We only considered (and choose) Rich W's first comment. Although his second comment was good, too, it was never in the running per the rules like you said.ReplyDelete
Hopefully this is the first in a weekly contest, so I hope you'll be back. Next one's yours, man!


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While this is an obvious financial concern, it's a serious issue if you are interested in going green as well. If you have an older home, you may be losing more energy than you realize due to drafty windows and doors that haven't been replaced in years.
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