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admin. Kitchen Design. October 09th , 2017.
What you add to your kitchen is just like how you will build the mood or expression of the kitchen design. Therefore, when you are planning on improving your kitchen design, you can add an awesome part such as kitchen islands. Kitchen island is an important component to add more storage, additional seating or table and many more. That is why you need to be more careful in picking the kitchen island in the market because of so many expressions, designs, details, and accents.
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Today, when most people are busy with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc., they are also missing out on something. The social media simply cannot compare with the forums.
- First of all, here you have an archive of in depth discussions and a wealth of information from fans, not just people commenting things that are posted on the official social media. Besides, the social media is typically a victim of spam posts from people that do not care, or not interested at all.
- Secondly, forums are based on the topics; the topic is what is important, not who you are, or your social profile.
- And the third thing is, when you come back to a forum after a break, the discussion goes on, not just disappearing down the news line.
The forum is also a good place to seek information and ask people questions on specific topics,
something that is very difficult to do on social media like Facebook and Twitter. It does not work that way.
Here you have everything, discussions, photos, videos and news.
Without the forums, we would actually give everything in the hands of Google and Facebook.
The forums are a bit like vinyl, underrated and thought to be disappearing. You don't know what you have until it is gone. I hope future generations appreciate this living library of topics.
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Soyer, Alexis. The Modern Housewife, or Menagere Comprising nearly One Thousand Receipts for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and those for the Nursery and Sick Room; with Minute Directions for Family Management in all its Branches. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1880. p 32
"53. CHILDREN'S DIET FOR THE DAY. - Bread and milk for breakfast at eight; the dinner at one, which was composed as follows throughout the week: roast mutton and apple pudding, roast beef and currant pudding, baked apples; boiled mutton with turnips, after which rice or vermicelli pudding; occasionally a little salt beef, with suet dumplings, plain and with currants in them, or pease pudding; or if unwell, a little veal or chicken-broth, or beef-tea ( the receipts for which will be found in the series Comforts for Invalids)."


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KWin release notes for KDE4.0
KWin, the standard KDE window manager, in KDE4.0 ships with the first version of built-in support for compositing, making it also a compositing manager. This allows KWin to provide advanced graphical effects, like for example with Compiz, while also providing all the features from previous KDE releases (such as very good intergration with the rest of KDE, advanced configurability, focus stealing prevention, well-tested window manager, robust handling of misbehaving applications/toolkits, etc.). Unlike Compiz, KWin still functions even when no system support for compositing is available, with only compositing features not being available in such case.
Previous KWin versions in later KDE3.x releases included a standalone compositing manager called kompmgr, based on the xcompmgr compositing manager. Kompmgr was only loosely tied with KWin, used only XRender for rendering and provided only basic features like transparency, shadows and fade in/out animations. Compositing manager in KWin in KDE4.0 is integrated with the rest of KWin, can use either OpenGL or XRender for rendering and has a framework for compositing effects, all these allowing KWin to provide a much wider range of features.
Note, however, that compositing support in KWin in KDE4.0 is still considered experimental, for several reasons. System support for compositing is often being problematic (various bugs in X, drivers or other parts of the system), manual configuration of X may be required for proper results (see below), some applications may not be prepared and work well with compositing, the performance may not be adequate, and other problems. Also, while KWin's compositing support is considered usable and reasonably stable, it is relatively new code and has been tested only on a limited range of hardware.
Therefore, compositing support in KWin is disabled by default, and needs to be explicitly enabled. If there will be any problems, you can disable it again (see below for troubleshooting) and report a bug with all relevant information about the problem.
Compositing support is enabled in KWin's configuration. Press Alt+F3 and select 'Configure Window Behavior'. In the configuration module, select page 'Desktop Effects' and enable checkbox 'Enable desktop effects'. After accepting the changes, a dialog with a timeout will appear, asking to confirm enabling of compositing support. If you do not confirm within the timeout, compositing support will be disabled again, therefore, if enabling compositing triggers any problems, it should be sufficient to wait several seconds before the changes are reverted. Note that after enabling or disabling compositing it is recommended to restart your KDE session in order to ensure that all applications detect the change.
If you cannot enable desktop effects, it may be because either your KDE is not built with necessary support, or more probably because your system is not capable of providing compositing support. See file COMPOSITE_HOWTO for some instructions on setting up your system. Note that there may be other factors affecting whether you do or do not have compositing support.
A quick overview of features provided by compositing manager in KWin:
There are more features that are not enabled by default and need to be explicitly enabled in the configuration.
There are various videos showing various compositing features of KWin. For example, search for 'kwin_composite' at youtube.com (please keep in mind that many of those windows are old and show testing or demo effects).
Just like with older KWin versions it is possible to use KWin also with other desktop environments or even as a standalone window manager, as long as required KDE libraries are installed. Please note that KWin is a pure window manager and does not provide a panel or handle desktop background like some window managers do. KWin's compositing features work in the standalone mode, with some functionality missing (because of missing taskbar, for example), and, while this has not been tested, it is expected that compositing features will work also when running in other desktop environments, possibly with some functionality missing again. Reports on using KWin with other desktop environments are welcome.
Compositing internally works by redirecting window drawing to offscreen memory and composing it on the screen in an additional drawing pass. This means that in general composited desktop on average has worse performance that non-composited desktop (although in some cases it may perform better, be that real improvement or just perceived one due to animations, better synchronization or similar factors). For example, binding window pixmaps to OpenGL textures (that is, preparing window contents for drawing) can be a relatively costly operation with large windows, making things like animations in Plasma desktop window or page scrolling in a maximized browser window jerky. Heavy system load can also cause the compositing manager not repaint often enough, resulting in lagging or jerky screen redrawing.
KWin in KDE4.0 is also relatively new code and has not been extensively optimized yet, therefore its performance may not be in some areas comparable with performance of other compositing managers. In such cases performance should be improved with newer versions.
Note that current XRender implementations (in X/drivers) often perform rather poorly and therefore the OpenGL mode usually should have much better performance. See below for notes on XRender mode.
Tip: Performance/smoothness with nVidia cards: Smoothness of KWin rendering can be improved by setting env.variable KWIN_NVIDIA_HACK to 1 (e.g. append 'export KWIN_NVIDIA_HACK=1' to your ~/.profile file). This sets '__GL_YIELD=NOTHING' for KWin, letting KWin use more CPU time for OpenGL operations, however at the expense of affecting performance of other applications. This is therefore disabled by default. This setting may be removed in the future if the negative impact becomes insignificant. See section 'OPENGL YIELD BEHAVIOR' in README.txt for nVidia cards.
As already said, compositing support in KWin is considered usable and reasonably stable, but due to several reasons it may not work properly for you.
If there are any problems with compositing support, the simplest option is to disable it again. KWin will normally continue functioning, only not providing compositing features. If you cannot normally turn off compositing support (for example because the screen is corrupted), you can turn it off using one of these ways:
You will probably need to switch to text mode or start failsafe session from KDM to be able to perform this.
See file COMPOSITE_HOWTO for some issues with various graphics cards.
It is possible to use XRender for compositing instead of the default OpenGL. XRender mode in general has less features, however at the moment it is also considered unstable - it has not received as much testing as OpenGL mode, some features may be incomplete and it is recommended to use the OpenGL mode if possible. Also note that current XRender implementations (in X/drivers) often perform rather poorly.
KWin provides support for writing compositing effects that may be loaded into KWin as plugins. These effects communicate with KWin core using C++ API specially designed for this purpose, making effects not directly dependent on KWin core and changes in it.
At the time of the KDE4.0 release, since compositing support is still under heavy development, this API is considered unstable and subject to change. If you write your own effect plugin, you may need to recompile it after KWin update. KWin will however detect incompatible versions and will not load such plugins (automatic, you do not need to provide any code for it). As the compositing support will become more stabilized, this API will be kept backwards and binary compatible, just like with other KDE libraries.
At the time of the KDE4.0 release, API for compositing effects is unfortunately only sparsely documented. Developers interested in writing compositing effects for KWin are suggested to use source code of effects shipped with KWin (the Howto effect in test/ directory as the starting point) and/or ask on the KWin mailing list.
Links to various KWin-related documents are available at techbase.kde.org .
It is possible to use Compiz instead of KWin with KDE, however KWin remains the default window manager. The option of replacing KWin with Compiz had been evaluated before work on compositing features of KWin started and the conclusion was, in short, that it would lead to a lot of work and duplicated effort.
To answer in more detail, several technical things need to be explained. Both KWin and Compiz are a combined window manager and compositing manager. Window manager functionality takes care of all aspects of handling windows, such as their placement, selecting the active one as so on. This functionality is crucial for a desktop - without a window manager it would be very difficult to perform most operations with windows. Compositing manager functionality, on the other hand, can be considered optional - while it brings many new features, it is still possible very well to use a desktop (such as with KWin in KDE3).
The reasons to add compositing support to KWin instead of using Compiz include:
1) Compiz at the present time is very likely the most advanced compositing manager with many features, with a headstart when compared with KWin, however, this cannot be said about Compiz as the window manager, where KWin has the advantage of being a much more tested codebase, providing more stable, well-tested and robust window manager, with many features. Given that, as said above, window manager functionality is considered to be more important, it would be unwise to force all KDE users to a change that would likely mean regressions in many aspects.
These regressions would include lesser integration with KDE, visual and behavioral changes (the 'KDE window decorator' shipped with Compiz only mimics the look of KWin's decorations, but does not provide the same functionality, even the Alt+F3 popup menu visibly differs), possible introduction of problems that have already been fixed in KWin, missing features that have already been implemented in KWin, and so on. Developing, testing and bugfixing a window manager can be a very demanding work and repeating all the work done on KWin again for Compiz would presumably require a lot of effort. As such, claims that KWin is 'reinventing the wheel' are missing the point, since Compiz, being a relatively new window manager, is reinventing at least as much, if not more, from other window managers including KWin,
Also, given that there can be only one window manager and one compositing manager at a time, there would not be possibly a way to remedy these problems by somehow running Compiz and KWin together.
2) Compiz currently does not work at all when compositing is not possible, thus requiring a fallback window manager for such case. This in practice would mean that KDE developers would be required to work on improving Compiz and would have to keep KWin at least for maintenance as the fallback for Compiz, thus having two window managers for KDE. Besides the developer work of taking care of two window managers this would also bring many user problems resulting from two different window managers, with differences in the look and feel, feature sets and bugs.
It should be also noted that Metacity, GNOME's window manager, has not been dropped in favour of Compiz either, but is still, to our knowledge, under development and adding compositing features to it is a work in progress.
This option was considered in the past as well. After examination of Compiz code the conclusion was that this is technically almost impossible. Compiz plugins appear to be merely parts of Compiz that are separated from its core, but which still heavily depend on it - there are even plugins that appear to copy and paste parts of Compiz core and modify it. Making it possible to use such plugins from KWin would essentially require KWin to become Compiz.
There can be different ideas about what better means, but regardless of that, the main aim of KWin is not to replace Compiz. Many users have asked for compositing support in KDE, and, as explained in 'Why not Compiz?', the best way to achieve that is considered to be adding compositing support to KWin. KWin aims to provide compositing support, focusing on providing useful compositing features and basic visual effects, while keeping its other strengths.


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Here is some information about charmingdate. Check the reviews and make your decision if you are seeking a good and true dating platform to find a Russian or Ukraine wife.
CharmingDate Reviews On The Site
As a Russian dating site, it was established in 2004. It has two other sister sites with Chinese dating site ChnLove set up in 1998 and Thai and Vietnamese dating site idateasia in 2004. It is a dating platform for singles to meet Russian girls and Ukrainian girls for love and marriage.
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DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. -- Bright plum-tomato sauce, puddles of melted mozzarella, a perfectly charred crust … does life get any better with the perfect slice in front of you? We think not.
Who Has Westchester's Most DVlicious Pizza?
Johnny's Pizzeria, Mount Vernon
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What Makes It Good: Pizza is taken seriously, starting with the dough. "My dough is my obsession," said Chef David DiBari. "It's my nemesis, my passion, the thing that controls my emotions, how I interact with other humans and how I sleep at night. Basically, if you love something let it kill you, and that's what I'm willing to go through to create The Parlor's pizzas."
The oven -- brought in from southern Italy -- is another point of pride, making the aroma that wafts through the restaurant as intoxicating as the pizza.
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Lady Bisons still in ninth at A-Sun Championship
April 11, 2006
The Lady Bisons golf team closed outthe second round with a ninth place finish in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships in Orlando, Fla.
The second round was played Tuesday afternoon. The Lady Bisons shot a second round 348 to finish at 701 for the two-rounds. Campbell University led after two rounds with a score of 622 (312-310).
Ashlee Catlin led the Lady Bisons with a 173 (87-86) for 32nd place.
Callie Rice tied for 33rd with a 174 (86-88) followed by Marie Fillers in 36th place with a 175 (89-86) and Liz Austin in a tie for 38th with a score of 181 (93-88). Brie Rowdon shot a first round 91, but withdrew during the second round.


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Phone Ho
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|Phone Ho
Port Tudor, the location of this mission.
|The Lost and Damned
|Thomas Stubbs
|Rival Politician
|Alderney, Liberty City
Phone Ho is one of the Stubbs' Dirty Laundry side missions in The Lost and Damned, given to Johnny Klebitz by Thomas Stubbs.
Stubbs asks Johnny to go to the Red Light District in Port Tudor and get a photo of a fellow politician his and a hooker. Once you arrive at an alleyway near the district climb on the roof of the Port Tudor Weapons Depot. Once on the roof, Stubbs will call you and inform you that he is driving a red Cognoscenti. After a minute or so, the politician will arrive. Wait until the hooker starts talking to him and when that happens, quickly snap the photo. If done right, send it to Stubbs and drive away. After that just get off the roof and drive away and a little while later you will receive your payment and a call to Stubbs.
Stubbs wants you to snap a photo of a fellow politician picking up prostitutes.
Grab a vehicle and get to the alley near the red light district. Once you arrive, you'll be told to get up to the roof for a good view. Head into the alley and up the steps, then climb on the wooden box and pull yourself up onto the roof. Stand in the mission marker and Johnny will call Stubbs. He tells you that the person he wants you to photograph is driving a red Cognoscenti.
After a minute or so, the politician will arrive. Wait until the hooker is talking to him, then snap a photo. If you did it right, you'll be able to send it to Stubbs. After a short while, the car will drive off and you'll receive your payment.


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Monday, October 29, 2007
Inaugural Post: Mexican Medley
Hello! By which we of course mean, hello, look at that food. Welcome to the very first post of Café VegNews, the very first blog by VegNews Magazine. Everyone here is so excited to share our daily staff lunches with the world, just like the proud food-parents we are!
Ok, we'll try and limit the gratuitous exclamation points, but really, this is thrilling. Here at the VNHQ we all sit down to lunch together every day, and enjoy phenomenal meals prepared right here in the office by a designated staffer. Of course, everything we serve here is vegan, because that's how we do lunch in these parts. And so, without further ado, to the food!
The Chefs: Colleen and Elizabeth
The Menu: Holy moly Mexican food (though today we went sin molé). Sure, sometimes tossing a can of diced tomatoes into the rice cooker will get the job done for Spanish rice, but not when Colleen's cooking. Diced orange bell peppers, sautéed onions, paprika, garlic, cumin, and just a touch of red pepper flakes made this a savory specialty. Moving clockwise around the plate you'll see a superb sauté of summer squash, black beans, and tomatoes. Totally traditional? No. Completely eaten within minutes? Yes. For toppings we scooped on the roasted corn dip (or "corndiment" as its creator, Chef Ben Adams, would say) and finished off with just a dab of vegan garlic mayo. Toasty corn tortillas and a fresh, decidedly non-Mexican salad of mixed baby greens, yellow bell peppers, baby tomatoes, and soy bleu cheese in a basalmic vinaigrette rounded out this feast.
The Goods: Colleen just returned from a few days in Mexico. If lunches like this are what she brings back from vacation, we'll be shipping her around the world shortly.
11 comments:
- Thomas said...
Damn you! I'm stuck in an airport and this makes me want mexican food! And I'd like to see the airport restaurant serving corndiment....
- October 29, 2007 at 3:01 PM
- mel said...
I'm jealous of vegan staff lunches. Hire me, please!
- October 29, 2007 at 3:48 PM
- jess (of Get Sconed!) said...
cute stuff!
- October 29, 2007 at 3:50 PM
- Paul Russell said...
Are there any left-overs ?
- October 29, 2007 at 4:28 PM
- Notmilkman said...
Suggestion to improve your Mexican
food: I learned this one from Paul Prudhomme, the Cajun chef. When cooking Mexican food, the addition of at least three different types of peppers is the difference between the very good and the superb. I always stock a few jalapeno peppers just for such occasions.
- October 29, 2007 at 5:24 PM
- ak1drland said...
If only all workplaces had lunches so tantalizing.
- October 29, 2007 at 11:09 PM
and when will these lunches be open to the public?
- October 30, 2007 at 10:01 AM
- Vegan_Noodle said...
Hmmm, I must convince my coworkers to do this as well....oh, but wait, none of them are vegan!! You are so lucky? Can I come work for VegNews? I promise I'll do my share of cooking (and not sure what else...;-)
- November 6, 2007 at 12:27 PM
- Dilip said...
Welcome to blogging! I'm glad to see VegNews here. I also returned recently from (New) Mexico and have been integrating some chile sauce and other ideas into my cooking over at dilipdinner.blogspot.com (3 1/2 years with no repeat vegan dinners for my wife!). Welcome and keep up the great work - Colleen has a great reputation as a cook!
- November 6, 2007 at 12:57 PM
- Melisser; the Urban Housewife said...
WOW! Not only does that look delicious, but I'm floored at the thought of tasty staff lunches! Charge admission, I'll come by!
- November 9, 2007 at 3:53 PM
- Veggie said...
That Mexican food looks so amazing, just like a restaurant.
- March 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM


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Creature Shock on CD-i
>> Monday, May 1, 2006
If you have followed the updates on The Black Moon Project you didn't miss the cheat codes we gave you about Creature Shock a while ago. Quite exclusive they were as nobody was aware of these CD-i cheats! When only recently we talked with the original CD-i coder of Creature Shock a lot of interesting facts about this game showed up. It's time to share.
Argonaut Software was under a publishing agreement with Virgin Interactive Entertainment. Argonaut was an independent developer so they always used to use publishers to take their products to the market. When Virgin was contracted a 3 cd-I game deal, a Creature Shock conversion was on top of that list.
The CD-i project was assigned to only one person: Martin Piper. Creature Shock was the first game he completed after he joined Argonaut. 11 Years later, in October 2004, Argonaut had to close its doors because they ran out of money.
To get the ball rolling we only had to citate the back of the CD-i boxart: "It took Argonaut three years to cram this Double CD full of stunningly rendered 3D environments…." Three years? What happened there?
"You are right, the more than three years development time indicates there were problems.
The biggest and first problem was trying to fit a PC game that used a lot of virtual memory onto a console with much less memory. For this in implemented a cached compressed file system to allow me to read in data, even while MPEG was playing, to allow me to render lots of frames of different sprites if required or have access to lots of data whenever I needed it.
The second was the difference in processing speed compared between the PC and CD-i versions, with CD-i being much slower in terms of processing and very much slower in terms of memory bandwidth. Luckily the most intensive part was the motion video which (thank God!) the CD-i had extra hardware to deal with that problem. The next most CPU/memory intensive part were the sprites. On the PC 2D graphics are generally stored as pixel data and memory copied onto the frame buffer. On the CD-i this wouldn't work because the CPU and memory were too slow to keep on copying all this memory around, even using dirty rectangles didn't help much. So the 2D scaled and non-scaled sprites used a special technique called binary compiling to make sure they were drawn at a good speed on the CD-i. This involves taking the pixel data and passing it through a tool which generates 680xx machine code. The resulting machine code stores the exact minimum amount of pixel data required to the frame buffer without needing to do all the wasteful memory copying.
The third problem were the tools supplied with the development kit because Creature Shock used a lot of small video clips. Unfortunately I tried using the standard tools to create the CD and quickly found we ran out of space due to the tools adding two seconds of blank data between each clip. So I had to create my own tools that would reduce this gap to a couple of sectors and change my MPEG playback code to emulate the gap in the CD data instead. This worked because the CD-i allowed the incoming CD data to be accessed through a ring buffer. That said it was a miracle Creature Shock didn't use more CDs than it did!
Another problem was the asset data processes. We had many gigabytes of raw data to convert to MPEG video streams and I remember we were sending out many CDs to Philips to get them encoded. These days gigabytes of data doesn't seem like much but back then the biggest hard drive in the building was only two gigabytes and weighed like a huge brick!
The problem that took the longest to resolve was a small hardware bug that was found in some MPEG cards for some revisions of the CD-i hardware. I remember one time a couple of Philips engineers came over with their hardware debugging kit and after a while we eventually found the problem. In the end I worked around the bug by detecting the failure and resetting the hardware.
The 3D interactive bits had to be cut, there was no way the Cd-i was ever going to render that in real time. So we actually created some extra MPEG assets for the CD-i version to fill in the gaps in the story....
I also remember having early discussions with some technical people at Philips about custom access to the MPEG hardware. I wanted to use the DSP chip (by standards back then it was fast!) to draw my own dynamically generated graphics and possibly even 3D. But as you probably know with the MPEG hardware changing so much there wasn't an easy way to guarantee hardware access at that level from the CD-i....
There was a possibility the game got cancelled as well when I first calculated the game video data wouldn't fit on 2 CDs, but that problem got solved. Since the team was small (and cheap) the project was able to keep going for years. I don't think it ever broke even though"
When reading this list of problems, didn't the whole CD-i create bad blood in you?
"Not at all, I actually loved working on the little machine because in some ways it reminded me of my old Amiga programming days. You see, I'm the typical games programmer. I was born in 1973 and by the age of eight I was starting to programme the family computer, a ZX81. By the time I was 16 I had completed my first commercial game for the Commodore 64 and was already selling software libraries and technical articles to magazines. I got my lucky break at Argonaut when an employee spotted my work at a computer show in London. He said "write off to here we'll interview you." I got the job and then moved across the country, leaving home was tough as it was my first time away from my parents. But I loved the work, imagine a load of other people who have the same interest in programming as I have. This working environment proved to be a great learning experience and when the CD-i project started my knowledge of 680xx meant I was picked to do the job. The rest, as they say, is history. "
Another Argonaut game on cd-I release lists, was Alien Odyssey. Do you know if this game ever was in development?
"It would have been nice to use the engine for CD-i Alien Odyssey but that conversion project didn't really start. I actually started the Sega Saturn conversion but that was also cancelled after a month, we had a new bigger project to work on. I assume this was why Argonaut/Virgin moved away from CD-i because technology wise it was being eclipsed by the newer consoles from Sega, Sony and Nintendo. To stay in the race Philips needed a much newer machine, but they didn't deliver. History is littered with the cases of old consoles."
Who else was responsible for the CD-i development at Argonaut?
"I was the conversion programmer and Paul Saunders was the asset controller who organised the rendering and compression of the MPEG assets. That was the team. (only two people!) The PC version had a larger team, but the CD-i version just used the PC assets as much as possible."
Ofcourse, we highly thank Martin for his contribution and especially his work on Creature Shock which is easily one of the best games available on CD-i.


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Ah yes, and there's also the matter of that global economic meltdown we've been hearing so much about on the news. (Okay, okay, the one I would be hearing about on the news, were it not for the fact that all my knowledge of national affairs comes from what I can glean by watching Oprah.) But even if your employment prospects aren't getting snookered by the liquidity crisis (the term hiring freeze is destined to be part of the spooky campfire tales that graduate students tell their children), odds are you would benefit from some belt-tightening. So, I have some words of wisdom on this front.
1) Make a Spreadsheet: I don't mean to get all Suze Orman on y'all, but financial planning is only path to spiritual wholeness and reconciliation with your estranged father. But seriously, make a spreadsheet, stick to it. I've budgeted myself $45 bucks a month for games and I've stuck to it, I don't think I've missed out on anything.
2) Play Old Games: I loves me some new games. Fresh, topical games. But buying every new release on launch day is a one-way ticket to penuryville (population: you). If this season's ridongculous release schedule has taught us anything, it's that noone has the financial or temporal resources to navigate the release calendar. I've made some tactical forays into the new releases (Fallout 3, LittleBigPlanet, and Rock Band 2 made the cut), but beyond that I've seen that holding off can net big discounts. The big outlets like Gamefly always have too many copies of the AAA titles, and if you hold off for a six months or so you can get these games at 1/3 their cover price .
And those old games aren't getting any less good. They're only getting cheaper. I've been playing Killer 7 the last few weeks; it set me back 8 dollars on ebay. Ditto with Fallout 1&2. If you're at all like me, there's scads of top-shelf titles you've missed out on during their four-month bell curve; odds are that many of them are laying in that pile next to your gaming system already. Summon this pile of shame to mind next time you are within purchasing distance of new games. Imagine that your mind is a deep, still pool of water.
3) eBay, not Gamestop:I can't think of a suitable metaphor for Gamestop's conduct w/r/t the consumer that does not involve sexual assault. Never sell them your games. Gamestop's used-game trade-in business is a racket that would make Jimmy Hoffa blush like a Lousiana débutante. Selling your old games and systems on eBay, on the other hand, is a good deal.
Fellow video game collector, your fetishism is understandable. To this day I remain compulsively attached to nearly every book I own, even the ones I actively despise. (I'm looking in your direction, Tropic of Cancer.) I tell myself I will want to reread them in the future, to but this is patent mauvaise foi. The benefits of self-overcoming in the case of your video game collection fetishism are substantial. Selling off games after you've completed them on eBay goes a long way towards defraying the cost of new stuff. I was intimidated by selling stuff online but the people at eBay have conspired to make it extremely easy. Hit up Staples for some padded envelopes and you're in business.
4) Don't Frequent Places Where you Might Purchase Games: My girlfriend is really into the food industry, and she reads all these books about how food industry conducts psychological warfare on the consumer by subtly manipulating the disposition of products in the supermarket-- the size and shape of the packaging, the placement of the products on the shelves. I am 100% certain that these same scoundrels who embarked on this program of hypnotism-through-product-arrangement have unleashed their reams of empirical research on the arrangement of game stores. Basically don't enter the places unless you have something specific in mind. Idly perusing the shelves gives the mind-control gas time to take effect.
5) Credit Card Debt is Deadly Poison: That is all.


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- Osha: "...just don't understand how you southerners do things."
- Theon Greyjoy: "I'm not a southerner."
- Osha: "You're from south of The Wall: that makes you a 'southerner' to me"
- — Osha and Theon Greyjoy[src]
"Southerner" is a term used in the continent of Westeros, which has different meanings varying by region. For example the Free Folk use the term to refer to everybody who lives south of The Wall, while the Northmen use it to refer to everybody living south of The Neck. The related adjective is "Southern".
"Southerner" is most commonly understood to mean "Andals from south of the Neck", as opposed to being from the North: the region of Westeros north of the Neck which has been ruled by House Stark for thousands of years. While all of Westeros south of the Neck was conquered in the Andal Invasion six thousand years ago, the First Men of the North resisted the advance of the Andals beyond the Neck. Thus the culture and traditions of the First Men remain strong in the North. Particularly, the North is the only one of the Seven Kingdoms where the original religion of the First Men, the Old Gods of the Forest, is still the dominant religion of the Northerners.
In contrast, the Andals and their culture dominate southern Westeros, including their religion, the Faith of the Seven. The concept of Knighthood originated with the Andals and is deeply intertwined with the Faith of the Seven, thus, soldiers from the Stark-held North rarely become knights, because they follow the Old Gods (though on rare occasion, even a devout worshiper of the Old Gods may be knighted by a southern king as a reward for valorous service).
When the Andals invaded southern Westeros, they imposed not only their religion but their language on the peoples they conquered. The "Common Tongue" of the Andals became virtually the only language spoken on the entire continent: even the independent First Men in the North gradually adopted using the language of their Andal neighbors to the south, and in time stopped speaking the Old Tongue of the First Men. In later centuries only some of the more remote wildlings who live beyond the Wall still speak the Old Tongue.
Thus, "southerners", "southern lords", and "southern culture" all generally refer to the Andal-dominated culture of Westeros south of the Neck, typified by knights pledged to the concept of chivalry, and who have a refined, aristocratic court culture. Eddard Stark himself mocks the pageantry of knights in court life, saying that "they strut around like roosters down here" when he arrives in King's Landing in "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things".
The Rhoynar migrated to Dorne a thousand years ago and intermingled with the Andal/First Men mix there, forming the unique "Dornish" culture. However they are generally also included in the term "southerner", as they converted to the Faith of the Seven, and thus have noble courts and knights.
Beyond the Wall
The Free Folk, or wildlings, who live in the lands Beyond the Wall, contend that it is something of a misnomer for the official name of the region ruled by House Stark to be called "the North". It may be the northernmost of "the Seven Kingdoms" but it isn't actually the northernmost land on the continent of Westeros. For the wildlings, including Osha and Craster, everyone south of the Wall is thus a "southerner", even those from the Stark-held lands of "the North".
Iron Islands
The Iron Islands, as always, are an exceptional case. While the Andals did conquer the First Men of the Iron Islands, they subsequently "went native" and adopted the local "ironborn" culture. The ironborn are ethnically composed of the same First Men/Andal mix as most of the rest of Westeros: they are culturally, not ethnically distinct. Other than the new population influx and adopting the language of the Andals, the invasion did not significantly affect them. In the present day, the ironborn generally think of their distinct culture as stretching back without interruption to the Dawn Age, long before the Andals arrived. In particular, the Faith of the Seven found little purchase in the Iron Islands, which continue to worship their own local deity, the Drowned God, as they have since the Dawn Age. Millennia before the Andals arrived in Westeros, the unique location of the ironborn, being separated from the mainland on rocky islands with poor soil and few natural resources, made them develop a radically culture different from the other First Men, based on piracy and raiding.
Due to their unique culture, the Iron Islands are sometimes not included in the general term "southerner". Like the First Men of the North, their religion is different from the Faith of the Seven, so they do not have knights or refined noble courts, even though many of their bloodlines mixed in part with invading Andals. Moreover, geographically, the Iron Islands are separate from the mainland off the west coast, roughly due west of the Neck (or at least, its southern end), and thus physically separate from both "the North" and the southern Andal kingdoms.
Theon Greyjoy directly states in "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things" that he does not consider himself a "southerner", albeit this may be because he is currently living in the North at Winterfell. Even so, the ironborn tend to use the term "southerner" when referring to the Andal kingdoms of the mainland, as if they are a separate group from the ironborn themselves. In contrast, people from the Stark-held North sometimes include the Iron Islands under the umbrella-term "southerner" when they broadly mean "not from The North".
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the term that Northerners call the other Westerosi from south of the Neck is actually "southron" (and the Free Folk call everyone south of the Wall "southron" and "kneeler"). The TV series just uses the more familiar "southerner".
See also
- Southron on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books)
Cultures and Peoples of the Known World
|Sothoryos & isles of the Summer Sea
|Non-Human Races


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For decades, Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a democrat socialist, has been a top vote getter in Orleans County, one of the more conservative counties in Vermont. Through random phone calls and man-on-the-street interviews, the Chronicle set out to find out who supports Senator Sanders, and who doesn't, and why.
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Colonoscopy concerns
I just had a colonoscopy. The doctor told me that the found some polyps. I have a few concerns: There was no biopsy taken. When I questioned the doctor, she said that because Iâm only 50 and donât have a family history of colon cancer, it wasnât necessary. Iâm worried that there was no biopsy done and that the polyps were just left there. Arenât some polyps pre-cancerous? How is this determined (I thought it was a biopsy). Am I being overly concerned if I get a second opinion? Iâm worried because my insurance wonât pay for another colonoscopy for 10 years.
Some polyps are not felt to carry any risk for turning into cancer, whereas others (called adenomas) are a type that it is believed may potentially turn into cancer over a period of years. Although the appearance of a polyp can suggest that it is an adenoma, the only way at the present time to determine whether a polyp is an adenoma is to remove it and send it to be examined under the microscope by pathology.
There are various ways to remove polyps during colonoscopy depending on their size and shape — for small polyps, biopsies are done in which the tissue is torn off using forceps; for larger polyps, a wire loop called a snare is often used to snip off the polyp. You may want to obtain a copy of the actual procedure report and have it reviewed by your primary care provider to confirm that no samples at all were sent to pathology. If such is the case, it would be reasonable to get an opinion from a gastroenterologist.
In general, we do try to remove polyps when we find them because we cannot typically tell just by looking whether they are adenomas or not, but rarely there are extenuating circumstances under which polyps are not removed. In response to the comment that you are only 50 with no family history, the reason we start screening for colon cancer with colonoscopy at age 50 in people without a family history is because age is a risk factor for colorectal cancer.
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Official Tire of the IndyCar Series enters multi-year agreement
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 20, 2013 – Green Savoree St. Petersburg LLC (GSSP) announced today it will join forces with Firestone for the opening race of the 2014 IndyCar Series season – the newly-titled Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations and GSSP, the promoter of the downtown waterfront event, entered a multi-year agreement as entitlement sponsor, beginning with the race on March 28-30, 2014.
"Firestone has been a first-rate sponsor of our event for the past nine years, and we can only express gratitude for having a partner who understands the value of our event," said Tim Ramsberger, President of the newly christened Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. "It speaks volumes about Firestone and what we have built with all of our partners in our wonderful community."
General public tickets for the 2014 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will go on sale Dec. 1. All tickets will be available online at gpstpete.com or by calling 877-283-5385.
"Motorsports is an integral part of the Firestone brand marketing efforts and the entitlement sponsorship of the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg aligns perfectly with our plans," said Lisa Boggs, Director of Bridgestone Americas Motorsports. "Our commitment to the race is a reflection of our longstanding relationship with Green Savoree and the terrific St. Petersburg community and fans. We are proud to have the Firestone name on this outstanding event."
Firestone has been the Official Tire of the IndyCar Series since 2002 and is the only tire to compete in every event since the league's formation in 1996. In addition to the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, which will celebrate its 10-year anniversary in March, Firestone also serves as the title sponsor for the Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway.
For more information on Firestone Racing, visit firestonetire.com/racing, follow @FirestoneRacing on Twitter or like Firestone Tires on Facebook. To learn more about the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, visit gpstpete.com, like its Facebook page at facebook.com/GPSTPETE or follow the event on Twitter, @GPSTPETE, #GPSTPETE.
About Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations: Nashville, Tenn.-based Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) is a business unit of Bridgestone Americas, Inc., whose parent company, Bridgestone Corporation, is the world's largest tire and rubber company. Reporting into the BATO business unit are the company's Latin American tire operations; the U.S. and Canadian consumer tire businesses; the U.S. and Canadian commercial tire businesses; and Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC, which operates the largest network of company-owned automotive service providers in the world. BATO develops, manufactures and markets Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand tires. The business unit is focused on retail, wholesale and original equipment markets, supplying passenger, light truck, commercial vehicle, off road, motorcycle, agricultural and other tires, as well as retreads, to its customers in the Americas.
About the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg: The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg is run on a 1.8-mile, 14-turn waterfront circuit that includes a combination of adjacent downtown streets circling Pioneer Park, the DukeEnergy Center for the Arts, the Salvador Dali Museum and extending onto the runways at Albert Whitted Airport, which overlook the Tampa Bay and picturesque St. Petersburg Harbor and Marina.


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(10/P16) TRENTON - New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Acting Commissioner Bob Martin today approved the New Jersey Fish and Game Council's 2010 Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy.
"The Council incorporated the latest research and science into its proposed black bear management policy that shows the population is sustainable and growing," Acting Commissioner Martin said. "This growth coincides with an increase in serious bear incidents supporting the need for population control in addition to continued nonlethal management tools including public education and outreach."
The DEP also supports legislation that would increase penalties for people who feed black bears and draw the animals into populated areas.
The most recent black bear population estimate for the portion of New Jersey north of I-80 is approximately 3,400 based on a 2009 DNA study by East Stroudsburg University. The bear population in this area has increased to its current level from an estimate of 500 bears in 1992.
Category I bear incidents, involving black bears exhibiting behavior that is an immediate threat to human safety, or those causing agricultural damage to farmland or property damage over $500, have increased 96 percent from 2006 to 2009. Category I, II and III incidents combined have increased by 130 percent during the same time period.
The Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy's integrated approach to managing black bears includes research and monitoring, non-lethal and lethal control of problem bears, public education on coexisting with bears, law enforcement to reduce conflicts between bears and people, and a controlled hunt.
Over the past 10 years, bear education programs have been presented by the DEP to more than 100,000 people, and more than 3 million pieces of bear education literature have been distributed. This year 31 bear education programs and outreach efforts have been conducted with an additional 21 programs scheduled.
DEP Conservation Officers inspected more than 4,600 residential properties in high bear incident areas and found 98 percent were in compliance with black bear garbage management guidelines. This spring, Conservation Officers will focus enforcement efforts and education outreach on commercial properties in high bear incident areas.
In 2005, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the Council may authorize a black bear hunt only if a hunt is consistent with a comprehensive black bear management policy developed by the Council and approved by the Commissioner. In 2007, the New Jersey Appellate Division required that any comprehensive black bear management policy be adopted in accordance with the New Jersey Administrative Procedure Act.
The proposed plan will now be submitted to the Office of Administrative Law for publication in the April 19 New Jersey Register. Following publication, the public will have 60 days to comment on the proposed policy in writing, and will also have the opportunity to comment during a public hearing on May 11 at 6 p.m., New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State St., Trenton, NJ 08625.
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Leigh Burne wrote:Broooklyn wrote:Bingo! I have always said that, for me, 'The Miracle' is quite a fun and uptempo album; and thus, has remained in my Top 5 from them, for a very long time.musicalprostitute wrote:Yeah, I second that. After some lacklustre albums in the mid 80s, The Miracle just seemed to brim with life and joy and a little madness; they sounded rejuvenated and more alive (ironic, considering Freddie's situation) then they had done in years.icy wrote:I'm going to agree with you guys on this. It's a powerful album all things considered. It suits every human emotion from love, anger, longing, passion...it's all there. I think many of the lyrics hold up today, even if the production is dated. But that's fine by me, l sure love Queen and 80s music.
Dafuq is going on here?
I swear I've mentioned several times on here how I really rate The Miracle and don't agree with the lacklustre reception it normally gets, and no one agreed with me.
Now here's a thread where everyone loves it
When did you bring it up? Genuinely curious because until recently I haven't been posting much, if I missed it, sorry. But no joke, I love the the album. I'd put it I my top five or six Q albums, that's how much I love it. It does get a bad rap by some which isn't deserved. Rain Must Fall isn't just one of my favorite Quee songs, it's one of my favorites from the 80s.


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One day before a bankruptcy court hearing that could provide details regarding the future of Comcast SportsNet Houston, speculation increased today that AT&T is the most likely candidate to submit a bid for the bankrupt Astros-Rockets-Comcast television partnership.
Bloomberg News reported that AT&T is considering a bid for the network, which has been unable to obtain carriage deals with DirecTV, AT&T U-verse, Dish Network or Suddenlink and is seen by fewer than 40 percent of TV households in the 20-county Houston area.
Thursday is the deadline for the network's court-appointed attorneys to submit a plan of reorganization for the network, which has been under bankruptcy court supervision since last September. Comcast attorneys previously speculated that a competitor in the TV marketplace would likely bid for the company, and speculation since last month has focused on AT&T as the most probable bidder.
An AT&T spokesperson last week said the company would not comment on its plans for the Houston Regional Sports Network partnership. Officials with the Rockets and Astros have said they will not comment until Thursday's status conference.
Comcast, which owns about 22.5 percent of the network partnership to about 46.5 percent for the Astros and 31 percent for the Rockets, said earlier this year it would not submit an initial stalking horse bid to buy the network out of bankruptcy.
Even if a reorganization plan potentially involving AT&T is submitted to the court today or tomorrow, that does not mean a quick resolution to the network's carriage issues. Parties can file competing bids beginning Sept. 3 with the court or can submit bids to network attorneys.
New ownership, particularly if it involves AT&T, could result in new carriage agreements for the network, but those would be negotiated separately from the purchase of the network.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Tighter monetary policy in advanced economies could create a bumpy ride for financial markets around the world that central banks may be unable to control, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
The Washington-based IMF, which is charged with preserving global financial stability, said unconventional monetary policies such as the U.S. Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying programs helped restore order and lift global growth in the wake of the financial crisis in 2007-2009.
They also benefited emerging market countries despite some complaints capital inflows would destabilize those economies as investors sought higher returns.
But unwinding these policies may have much more profound negative impacts, especially for countries that received the largest capital inflows.
"As is typical in stretched markets, the bust appears much more abrupt than the boom during which the seeds of financial instability are sown," the IMF said, referring to the risk of sharp reversals of capital flows.
Those risks were evident in an emerging market sell-off that was sparked earlier this year when the Fed starting discussing the possibility of scaling back its bond purchases. The Indian rupee and Turkish lira sunk to record lows against the dollar. Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil also faced pressure.
The Fund declined to specify which countries faced the biggest risks from scaled-back asset purchases, though it said Canada, Korea and Australia would likely fare the best.
Countries that may suffer include those that are particularly exposed to capital outflows or higher U.S. interest rates, and countries that have less money or currency flexibility to weather shocks, the IMF said.
India and Indonesia in particular have more limited policies to deal with the fallout, the Fund warned. And higher interest rates could also squeeze South Africa's economy, although domestic investors may step in if foreign investors withdraw, the IMF said.
The challenge of exiting unconventional policies is compounded by a less predictable relationship between central bank actions and market-set interest rates, given the incredible liquidity pumped into the financial system.
For example, the Fed has just about quadrupled its balance sheet to about $3.7 trillion through a series of three large-scale bond purchase programs.
"The vast excess (bank) reserves created by asset purchases in some countries, as well as the complications from selling such assets, make the exit from unconventional monetary policy more challenging" than a typical tightening of monetary policy, the IMF said.
Market reactions are also difficult to predict due to uncertainty about future policy rates and how asset sales will impact prices, the IMF said.
The IMF said it was also hard to measure when easy money policies would outlast their utility and start creating more problems than they solve. As in previous papers, it warned that an overly long period of bond purchases could encourage more risk-taking, reduce the incentive to implement structural reforms, and undermine central banks' independence if they are seen as financing government debts.
Communication about central banks' plans is key to tamp down market volatility, the Fund said. The Fed and the Bank of England have done a good job of communicating incremental adjustments as the economies in the United States and the United Kingdom recover.
But the Fund said there was room for clearer communication on the Fed's principles for asset sales as well as the risks from exiting too early or too late.


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ATLANTA � Helicopters took to the skies Wednesday to search for stranded drivers while authorities on the ground worked to deliver food, water and gas � or a ride home � to people who were stuck on highways after a winter storm walloped the Deep South.
Students spent the night on buses or at schools, commuters abandoned their cars or idled in them all night and the highways turned into parking lots. The problems started when schools, businesses and government offices all let out at the same time, leading to gridlock. As people waited on the highways, snow accumulated on the ground, the roads froze, cars ran out of gas and tractor-trailers jackknifed. In the chaos, though, there were stories of people bringing hot chocolate or opening up their homes to the stranded.
It wasn�t clear exactly how many people were still stranded on the roads a day after the storm paralyzed the region. And the timing of when things would clear and when the highways would thaw was also uncertain because temperatures were not expected to be above freezing.
�We literally would go 5 feet and sit for two hours,� said Jessica Troy, who along with a co-worker spent more than 16 hours in her car before finally getting home late Wednesday morning.
Their total trip was about 12 miles.
�I slept for an hour and it was not comfortable,� Troy said. �Most people sat the entire night with no food, no water, no bathroom. We saw people who had children. It was a dire situation.�
The rare snowstorm deposited mere inches of snow in Georgia and Alabama, but there were more than 1,000 fender-benders. At least six people died in traffic accidents, including five in Alabama, and four people were killed early Tuesday in a Mississippi mobile home fire blamed on a faulty space heater.
Elsewhere in the South, Virginia�s coast had up to 10 inches of snow, North Carolina had up to 8 inches on parts of the Outer Banks, South Carolina had about 4 inches and highways were shut down in Louisiana.
In Atlanta and Birmingham, thousands of cars lined interstate shoulders, abandoned at the height of the traffic jam. Some sat askew at odd angles, apparently left after crashes. Some commuters pleaded for help via cellphones while still holed up in their cars, while others trudged miles home, abandoning their vehicles outright.
Linda Moore spent 12 hours stuck in her car on Interstate 65 south of Birmingham before a firefighter used a ladder to help her cross the median wall and a shuttle bus took her to a hotel where about 20 other stranded motorists spent the night in a conference room.
�I boohooed a lot,� she said. �It was traumatic. I�m just glad I didn�t have to stay on that Interstate all night, but there are still people out there.�
Some employers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield in Alabama had hundreds of people sleeping in offices overnight. Workers watched movies on their laptops, and office cafeterias gave away food.
Helicopters search for stranded Southern drivers
ATLANTA � Helicopters took to the skies Wednesday to search for stranded drivers while authorities on the ground worked to deliver food, water and gas � or a ride home � to people who were stuck on highways after a winter storm walloped the Deep South.


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• The Schedule
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at Cal State Northridge (14-12, 8-6)
at CSUN's Matadome (1,600)
Series record vs. the Matadors – 28-5
Streak – Won 7
Last time out vs. the Matadors – W, 3-0 (11/9/11)
Listen live through KCSB – kcsb.org
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at UC Riverside (7-21, 4-10)
at UCR's Student Rec Pavilion (3,168)
Series record vs. the Highlanders – 41-25
Streak – Lost 2
Last time out vs. the Highlanders – L, 3-2 (10/12/11)
• Movin' On Up
With an impressive 51 digs in just six sets last week – an astounding 8.50 digs per set – senior libero Chelsey Lowe has tallied 586 digs this season, ranking her fourth all-time in single-season UCSB history. Lowe needs just six to pass Maria Reyes' 1989 total, which is third, and could catch her predecessor, Leigh Stephenson, who had 650 digs in 2007 for the school's all-time mark. The Yorba Linda, Calif. native is averaging 5.43 digs per set, ranking her first in the Big West and 21st in the nation.
• Top 10 Talent
As Chelsey Lowe continues her assault on the single-season digs record, she is also inching her way up the career charts at UCSB. With 1,340 career digs in her three seasons as a Gaucho – she transferred from USF before the 2009 season – Lowe ranks eighth all-time in school history after passing Brooke Niles (1999-2002). She needs 93 digs to surpass Erica Menzel (2000-03) and 176 more digs to overcome Emily Hendrickson (2003-06) in Gaucho history.
• They Can Dig It
Speaking of digs, as a team UCSB is averaging 18.01 digs per set, which ranks the Gauchos first in the Big West and 18th nationally in the stat. UCSB also leads the conference in digs per league matches with 19.31. Chelsey Lowe and Leah Sully each rank in the top-10 in the Big West in overall digs, one of just two sets of teammates to do so.
• RPI Report
In the weekly Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) released by the NCAA on Monday, UCSB ranks 53rd in the nation and is second in the conference behind Long Beach (No. 41). UCSB's final four opponents are Cal State Northridge (RPI of 118), UC Riverside (175), San Diego State (94) and TCU (55).
• Double Digit Delight
With a win in either of their final conference matches, the Gauchos will have secured double-digit wins for the third straight season.
• Uno, Dos, Adios
UCSB has won three consecutively scheduled matches by way of sweep, marking the first time the program has done so since winning four in a row from Oct. 24 to Nov. 3 in 2009.
• Double Dipper
In 19 of the Gauchos' 27 matches this season, Leah Sully has recorded a double-double, including in 14 of her last 18 matches. On the season the sophomore from Irvine, Calif. is averaging 2.96 kills and 3.79 digs per set – both ranking second on the team. Sully is also tied for fourth in the conference, with teammate Stacey Schmidt, with her 0.31 ace per set average.
• Lily Lopez: Leading Lady
Senior middle blocker Lily Lopez paces the team with her .338 hitting percentage, ranking her second amongst her conference mates and 71st in the nation. In her past three matches the native of Yorba Linda, Calif. is hitting .471 (28-4-51). On the season Lopez is averaging 2.31 kills per set and 0.81 blocks per set.
• About Schmidt
Two-time All-Big West First Team pick Stacey Schmidt leads the team with her 2.98 kills per set and is second behind Jenna Wilson with her 0.94 blocks per set. She is hitting .289, eighth in the Big West.
• Killin' Kara
In Big West play, sophomore Kara Sherrard leads UCSB with her 3.00 kills per set and has 3.55 digs per set, which is third on the team. Sherrard has posted 11 double-doubles this season – including nine in her last 13 matches – and has recorded double-digit kills in 15 matches this season.
• Helping Hands
Freshman setter Hanna Nielson ranks third in the conference with 10.62 assists per set, which ranks her 64th nationally.


text: No rest for the wicked: Wiggins' next goal is the Olympic time trial race on August 1 in London [EPA]Bradley Wiggins was 120km away from becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France after he outclassed the rest of the bunch in the penultimate stage, a 53.5-km time trial to Chartres on Saturday. Wiggins, who clocked one hour, four minutes and 13 seconds, at 50kph, left his nearest rival, team mate Chris Froome, 1:16 behind, quashing suggestions his compatriot was the stronger rider on this Tour. Froome should be second on the podium on the Champs-Elysees, 3:21 behind his Team Sky leader as the final stage is usually a leisurely ride to the finish line for all but the sprinters. Italian climber Vincenzo Nibali rode a solid time trial, finishing 16th to retain his third place overall, 6:19 behind Wiggins.Big celebration Wiggins, a three-times track cycling Olympic champion, punched the air in joy as he crossed the line as if he had a point to make in this long solitary effort. "I really wanted to finish with a bang. This is the Tour. It doesn't get much bigger than this," he said. After completing his ride, Wiggins rushed to his team bus to embrace Froome and Australia's Mick Rogers, two of the Team Sky riders who have helped him in the race. "We rode this Tour as a unit. I'm very proud of our team work," said Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford. "Our ambition was to win this race within five years and we did it. It might be a surprise to everybody else but it's not a surprise for us," he added. Froome readily accepted defeat. "We saw today he was the strongest. I'm very happy. The goal was to win the Tour with Bradley. We made it. To be second is only a bonus," he said. There was never any doubt about Wiggins's victory on the flat, windswept course from Bonneval as the Briton, sporting a helmet with a Mod roundel, clocked the fastest time at every intermediate check point. "I rode the course in March with Sean Yates and I was trying to envisage then what it would be like riding for the yellow jersey to win the Tour. Here we are end of July, job done almost," Wiggins said. "It was not a lap of honour, but to finish the Tour on what I do best, which is time trialling, is just beautiful," he added. Emotional winSuddenly emotional, Wiggins recalled his past disappointments - a 23rd-place finish in 2010 and the crash which left him with a broken collarbone a year ago. "I then watched Cadel (Evans) win the Tour in Grenoble. I can imagine how he feels now," Wiggins added. Australian Evans finished 52nd on the stage, 5:54 off the pace, and suffered the humiliation of being overtaken by young team mate Tejay Van Garderen, who started three minutes behind him. He will have to settle for seventh overall while 23-year-old American Van Garderen will reach Paris as the best young rider in this Tour in fifth place. "Cadel had a bit of a problem with sickness on this Tour. I still think he has another Tour win in him. If he comes back next year to win it, I'll be around to help him," said Van Garderen. For Wiggins, there will be no time for celebration just yet as his next goal is the Olympic time trial gold medal in London on August 1. "Next goal is the Olympics. It's always been the plan. The Olympics time trial is the next one, so no wine yet," he said. SOURCE: Reuters Sport Cycling Australia France


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Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd has just announced the Daihatsu Gran Max, a new light commercial vehicle manufactured at P.T. Astra Daihatsu Motor in Indonesia, aiming to meet the increasing demand in Indonesia for light commercial vehicles.
The Daihatsu Gran Max comes in two body styles, a pick up truck and a minibus. The pick up truck rear can be configured as you wish – in the photos after the jump you will be able to see a classic pick up truck bed as well as a storage box.
The minibus body is the only one in its class with sliding rear doors on both sides. It also has class-leading load capacity.
Powering the Gran Max is either a 1.3 litre DOHC VVT-i or 1.5 litre DOHC VVT-i engine, which should be the 85hp K3-VE and the 107hp 3SZ-VE.
Perhaps this will be offered in Malaysia sometime soon too as a Daihatsu or a Perodua? Perhaps as a Rusa replacement.
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Righteous Youths John and Jacob (James) of Meniugi
The Righteous Youths James and John of Meniugi were brothers by birth, children of the pious couple Isidore and Barbara. They were killed by miscreants (James at three years of age, and John at five years of age).
Between the years 1682-1689 their relics were found incorrupt and were placed in a reliquary at the Trinity church in Meniugi village, Novgorod diocese, on the site of the former Trinity monastery.


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Collins votes to move farm bill out of ag committee
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Congressman Chris Collins (NY-27) voted yesterday to approve the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act of 2013 and move it out of the House Agriculture Committee. The bill was passed by a large, bipartisan vote of 36-10.
"I am proud the committee was able to come together and pass a farm bill that will give American farmers the certainty they need to plan for the future," Congressman Collins said. "Agriculture is critical to the economy of Western New York, and I am proud to have been able to represent the farmers of my district on this important issue."
Congressman Collins also helped secure additional funding for the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI), which provides funding to land grant universities, such as Cornell University, to conduct research on specialty crops. Last year's Farm Bill, which was not passed on the House floor, included $450 million in funding for the SCRI over 10 years. The FARRM Act of 2013 includes $600 million in mandatory funding for the program, which had expired under the current nine-month extension.
Securing funding for the SCRI was important to Congressman Collins as specialty crops farmers across Western New York have consistently cited how critical the ability to conduct research is to their enterprise and industry as it will pioneer new technologies, advanced plant varieties, and help New York farmers generate higher profits.
"New York Farm Bureau is very appreciative of Congressman Chris Collins' commitment to New York's farmers. His support in committee of the 2013 Farm Bill sets the stage to provide a stronger safety net for our dairy and specialty crop farmers who help support their local economies," said Dean Norton, president of New York Farm Bureau.
The legislation also contained major reforms to current U.S. dairy policy. The Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program and Dairy Product Price Support Program have been replaced with a new margin protection program that will better reflect a dairy farmer's real costs by now equating the cost of feed. This program will ensure Western New York dairy farmers get the support they need to meet the market demands.
The program known as the Dairy Market Stabilization Plan or "supply management," which would dictate how much a dairy farmer could produce, was also included in the bill. Congressman Collins supported an amendment that would strike this program after hearing near unanimous opinion from his Agriculture Advisory Board that "supply management" would inflate prices for consumers, restrict dairy industry growth, and burden farmers with additional government intervention.
Similar legislation was completed on Tuesday in the Senate Committee on Agriculture. The Farm Bill will now need to be debated on the House floor.
"I am proud of the Committee's effort to advance a farm bill with significant savings and reforms. We achieve nearly $40 billion in savings by eliminating outdated government programs and reforming others. No other committee in Congress is voluntarily cutting money, in a bipartisan way, from its jurisdiction to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues and the bipartisan nature in which this legislation was written and approved. I look forward to debating the bill on the House floor this summer," said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (OK-3).
Highlights include:
-- FARRM saves nearly $40 billion in mandatory funds, including the immediate sequestration of $6 billion;
-- FARRM repeals or consolidates more than 100 programs;
-- FARRM eliminates direct payments, which farmers received regardless of market conditions;
-- FARRM streamlines and reforms commodity policy while also giving producers a choice in how best to manage risk;
-- FARRM includes the first reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, saving more than $20 billion;
-- FARRM consolidates 23 conservation programs into 13, improving program delivery to producers and saving more than $6 billion;
-- FARRM builds on previous investments to fruit and vegetable production, farmers markets, and local food systems;
-- FARRM includes several regulatory relief measures to help mitigate burdens farmers, ranchers, and rural communities face;


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Hanson's Streak Ends in Game 1 of Doubleheader Sweep; Fortunato Carries Yale Bats
HANOVER, N.H. — The Yale University baseball team was eliminated from contention for the Ivy League's Red Rolfe Division title with a pair of losses at Division leader Dartmouth, 4-3 in seven innings and 5-4 in 12 innings, on Friday afternoon at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on the Dartmouth campus.
With the losses, Yale fell to 9-28-1 overall, 2-12 in Ivy League play. Dartmouth improved to 15-15 overall with the victories, 9-5 in Ivy League play, and took a seven-game lead over Yale in the Rolfe Division with six Ivy League games remaining in the regular season, eliminating Yale from contention for the Rolfe Division title.
Yale sophomore shortstop Cale Hanson entered the weekend with a 34-game on-base streak, but he went 0-for-3 in the opening game to end the streak. In his three at-bats, Hanson struck out in the first inning, grounded into a double play in the third inning, and flied out to right field in the sixth inning.
Sophomore first baseman Kevin Fortunato had two hits and drove in all three of Yale's runs in Game 1, including a solo home run to lead off the second inning, giving Yale a 1-0 lead.
Dartmouth struck for three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to jump out to a 3-1 lead behind a two-run single by Chris O'Dowd and an RBI single by Dustin Selzer.
Yale tied the game at 3-3 with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth inning on a two-run single by Fortunato.
Dartmouth reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the sixth on a two-out RBI single by Jake Carlson that put the Big Green up for good 4-3.
Senior captain Ryan Brenner went 2-for-4 with a run scored in the opener. Jacob Hunter added a hit and a run scored.
In Game 2, Fortunato added three more hits and two more RBIs but it wasn't enough to lift Yale to the win as Dartmouth broke a 4-4 tie with two outs in the bottom of the 12th inning to escape with a 5-4 win that completed the sweep.
Fortunato doubled in a pair of runs in the top of the first inning to give Yale an early 2-0 lead. In total, the sophomore first baseman 5-for-9 with two doubles, a home run and five RBIs to carry the Yale offense.
Trailing 2-0, Dartmouth jumped out to a 4-2 lead with a run in the bottom of the first and three more in the bottom of the second inning. Joe Sclafani scored from third base on a double-play grounder in the first inning. In the second, the Big Green scored its three runs on a two-run triple by David Turnbull and an RBI sacrifice fly by Carlson.
Yale rallied with a run in the fourth inning on an RBI groundout by Josh Scharff that cut the deficit to 4-3 and another run in the sixth on an RBI double by Charlie Neil that tied the game at 4-4.
The teams traded zeroes until Selzer's RBI single with two outs drove in Carlson with the winning run in the bottom of the 12th inning.
After his 0-for-3 outing in Game 1, Hanson went 2-for-6 with a run scored and a stolen base in Game 2. Neil went 3-for-5 with two doubles and an RBI. Yale outhit Dartmouth 14-10 in Game 2.
The two teams will close out the series with a second doubleheader on Saturday at Dartmouth.
Report filed by Jon Erickson Jr., Yale Sports Publicity