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Thursday, June 19, 2014
Little Tangles Challenge #39- Watercolor
Hello! Today I'm back with the latest challenge over at Little Tangles. I thought it would be fun to create a challenge all about watercolor. It's all the rage right now so I decided to jump on the bandwagon...
Distress Inks with some water. After all the layers were completely dry, I went back in with a stencil, a blending tool , and some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to add the pattern.
THIS set with silver embossing powder. I also flicked on some Pewter Perfect Pearls to the card base for some shine.
I hope you can play along. Click HERE for more info. and to see the other design team member's awesome cards. Thanks for stopping by!
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This weekend, so-called adults will have awkward high school reunions all across America. We asked you for your worst high school reunion horror stories. We're publishing our favorites during the holiday. Here's one, from a reader who wants his name withheld.
I went to high school in an at-the-time exurban area outside Houston. I had a steady GF throughout, and due to our academic prowess and friends within the jockocracy we were among the best circle at the school. In my eyes, the most spectacular girl in school was an all-state volleyball player and all-around wonderful girl we'll call "J." She had a very steady BF who was rugged and handsome, a hunting/fishing type of redneck common in the area.
By the time of my 10th reunion, I'd broken up with my HS GF, who was unable to escape the rural side of exurbia while I was drawn towards the urban aspects of life. It was an amicable parting, but that's not especially relevant here. As with many of you, when thinking about my 10th reunion, I wanted very much to impress my classmates. I'd been dating an attractive girl from Australia, casually. I decided to invite her to the reunion, so I wouldn't look like a loser. I can also tell you that I had filled out nicely since HS and was not unattractive.
I can tell you the rest of the story, if you haven't guessed it. At the reunion, "J" was there unattached. She had married her BF and then they got divorced due to the whole drinking/fighting thing. And there's more. "J" was an exceptional student, and she'd gone on to get her Master's degree in the same scientific field as I studied. A Master's for a girl from our area was unheard of. And she was teaching the subject in HS (I was teaching in a local university).
And, she confided in me, during an alone moment when my date had slipped away to the restroom, that I was handsome and she's always liked me, a lot. Again, bear in mind we are talking Amazonia perfection here—six feet tall, blonde hair, blue eyes—the works. After the reunion, I literally marked my calendar for 60 days. I was going to call her after an appropriate period of time to chat her up. I didn't want to call right away because I wanted her to think my date and I were a bit serious so she wouldn't think I was a cad. So, 60 days later, I eagerly called her. And, she informed me she had just met someone and they were beginning to see each other. And, the rest of the story is, she would go on to marry the guy and they are presumably living happily ever after. To this day, the lack of self-confidence heading into that reunion is the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life.
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Personal computing discussed
Moderators: renee, Dposcorp, SpotTheCat
Turkina wrote:I don't know what is worse - the fact that I was disappointed by the kind of "racks" pictured, or the fact that I was expecting them to be server racks in the first place.
Turkina wrote:I don't know what is worse - the fact that I was disappointed by the kind of "racks" pictured, or the fact that I was expecting them to be server racks in the first place.
shaq_mobile wrote:bottom pic is awesome
TheEmrys wrote:shaq_mobile wrote:bottom pic is awesome
Thanks, its my favorite.
etilena wrote:was sort of expecting server racks as well.
it's great that you were excited to get up early to go photograph wildlife, wish I had access to that near where I lived.
for the first 2 pictures, the exposure would have been a bit difficult to get right due to the extreme contrast between the bright sunlight falling on the grass and the dark shadows. if you shot RAW, you can sort of blend the two back to make the contrast less obvious. for the second picture, focus is on the grass in front of the deer(?), you might want to try playing around with individual focus areas on your camera, only because DSLRs with the larger sensor provide a greater depth of field, it's easy to get out of focus if that's not your intended subject. 3rd picture has great composition, love that you get eye contact, small issue with the picture being underexposed. you can compensate quickly for that on aperture priority using exposure compensation, say +1 EV to brighten up the subject. you may need to boost ISO a bit to compensate for the reduced shutter speed.
i know it sounds rather technical but hope this helps.
ludi wrote:Since you got the focus target correct in Pic #3 and chose a good depth of field, it has a lot of RAW post-processing potential. Add brightness, shift the color temperature to something a bit warmer, and then increase the saturation slightly and it will jump right off the screen.
Airmantharp wrote:The Sony sensor, on-body IS and auto-focus well at work!
I find shooting at 300mm to be a challenge in and of itself worthy in comparison to rifle marksmanship; a steady hand goes a long way, IS or not.
Airmantharp wrote:Wildlife is definitely on my list; as is the hiking involved, when I have time and find a partner, of course .
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Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
July 18, 2011
One look at the most recent naval update maps shows that in addition to global insolvency (courtesy of the broke European dominoes and a potentially technically broke US), a UK on the verge of a parliamentary scandal courtesy of a media baron whose empire is crumbling, and not to mention yet another downward inflection point in the global economic slowdown courtesy of the end of QE2 and no replacement yet, market watchers may have to start factoring in geopolitical risk yet again.
While the fact that Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, and now Turkey, are ever more increasingly on edge is apparently something Mr. Market has managed to internalize, when it comes to geopolitics everyone stops to listen when renewed Iran-Israel rumblings reappear. Which may just be the case.
As the most recently updated naval map from Stratfor demonstrates, the CVN 77 G.H.W. Bush has just entered the Persian Gulf, the first time a US aircraft carrier has passed through the Straits of Hormuz in months. What is also notable is that the LHD 5 Bataan amphibious warfare ship has just weighed anchor right next to Libya: this is odd since the coast of Tripoli had been left unattended for many weeks by US attack ships. And topping it all off is that a third aircraft carrier, the CVN 73, is sailing west from the South China seas, potentially with a target next to CVN 76 Ronald Reagan which is the second carrier in the Straits of Hormuz area.
Three carriers in proximity to Iran would be extremely troubling, yet fit perfectly with the story of CIA veteran Robert Baer, the man played by George Clooney in Syriana, who as Al Jazeera reports, appeared on KPFK Los Angeles, warning that Israeli PM Netanyahu is "likely to ignite a war with Iran in the very near future."
It gets worse: "Masters asked Baer why the US military is not mobilising to stop this war from happening. Baer responded that the military is opposed, as is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who used his influence to thwart an Israeli attack during the Bush and Obama administrations.
But he's gone now and "there is a warning order inside the Pentagon" to prepare for war." The punchline: "There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] … and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also hoping to draw the United States into the conflict", Baer explained." For the betting public out there, an September CL call may not be the dumbest trade possible…
First, the naval update per Stratfor:
And, courtesy of Al Jazeera and Haaretz, the full take from Robert Baer:
Earlier this week, Robert Baer appeared on the provocative KPFK Los Angeles show Background Briefing, hosted by Ian Masters. It was there that he predicted that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is likely to ignite a war with Iran in the very near future.
Robert Baer has had a storied career, including a stint in Iraq in the 1990s where he organised opposition to Saddam Hussein. (He was recalled after being accused of trying to organise Saddam's assassination.) Upon his retirement, he received a top decoration for meritorious service.
Baer is no ordinary CIA operative. George Clooney won an Oscar for playing a character based on Baer in the film Syriana (Baer also wrote the book).
He obviously won't name many of his sources in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere, but the few he has named are all Israeli security figures who have publically warned that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are hell-bent on war.
Most former Mossad chiefs wary of Netanyahu
Baer was especially impressed by the unprecedented warning about Netanyahu's plans by former Mossad chief Meir Dagan. Dagan left the Israeli intelligence agency in September 2010. Two months ago, he predicted that Israel would attack and said that doing so would be "the stupidest thing" he could imagine. According to Haaretz:
When asked about what would happen in the aftermath of an Israeli attack Dagan said that: "It will be followed by a war with Iran. It is the kind of thing where we know how it starts, but not how it will end."
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The Iranians have the capability to fire rockets at Israel for a period of months, and Hizbollah could fire tens of thousands of grad rockets and hundreds of long-range missiles, he said.
According to Ben Caspit of the Israeli daily Maariv, Dagan's blasts at Israel's political leadership are significant not only because Mossad chiefs, in office or retired, traditionally have kept their lips sealed, but also because Dagan is very conservative on security matters.
Caspit writes that Dagan is "one of the most rightwing militant people ever born here. … When this man says that the leadership has no vision and is irresponsible, we should stop sleeping soundly at night".
Dagan describes the current Israeli government as "dangerous and irresponsible" and views speaking out against Netanyahu as his patriotic duty.
And his abhorrence of Netanyahu is not uncommon in the Israeli security establishment. Accordingto Think Progress, citing the Forward newspaper, 12 of the 18 living ex-chiefs of Israel's two security agencies (Mossad and Shin Bet), are "either actively opposing Netanyahu's stances or have spoken out against them". Of the remaining six, two are current ministers in Netanyahu government, leaving a grand total of four out of 18 who independently support the prime minister.
In short, while Congress dutifully gives Netanyahu 29 standing ovations, the Israelis who know the most about both Netanyahu and Israel's strategic situation think he is a dangerous disaster.
But according to Baer, we ain't seen nothing yet.
There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] … and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also hoping to draw the United States into the conflict", Baer explained.
The Israeli air force would attack "Natanz and other nuclear facilities to degrade their capabilities. The Iranians will strike back where they can: Basra, Baghdad", he said, and even Afghanistan. Then the United States would jump into the fight with attacks on Iranian targets. "Our special forces are already looking at Iranian targets in Iraq and across the border [in Iran] which we would strike. What we're facing here is an escalation, rather than a planned out-and-out war. It's a nightmare scenario. We don't have enough troops in the Middle East to fight a war like that." Baer added, "I think we are looking into the abyss".
Another US war?
Masters asked Baer why the US military is not mobilising to stop this war from happening. Baer responded that the military is opposed, as is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who used his influence to thwart an Israeli attack during the Bush and Obama administrations. But he's gone now and "there is a warning order inside the Pentagon" to prepare for war.
It should be noted that the Iranian regime is quite capable of triggering a war with the United States through some combination of colossal stupidity and sheer hatred. In fact, as Baer explained, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard would welcome a war. They are "paranoid". They are "worried about … what's happening to their country economically, in terms of the oil embargo and other sanctions". And they are worried about a population that increasingly despises the regime.
They need an external enemy. Because we are leaving Iraq, it's Israel. But in order to make this threat believable, they would love an attack on their nuclear facilities, love to go to war in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and Iraq and hit us where they could. Their defense is asymmetrical. We can take out all of their armored units. It's of little difference to them, same with their surface-to-air missile sites. It would make little difference because they would use terrorism. They would do serious damage to our fleet in the Gulf.
Given all that, is it possible that the United States would allow Israel to attack when the president knows we would be forced to join the war on Israel's side?
"The president is up for re-election next year," Blair pointed out, and Israel is "truly out of control".
What happens when you see 100 F-16's approaching Iraq and there is a call to the White House [from Netanyahu] that says "We're going in, we're at war with Iran"? What does the President of the United States do? He has little influence over Bibi Netanyahu. … We can't stop him. And he knows it.
It's a pretty frightening scenario, made infinitely more so by the fact that top Israelis (who have heard Netanyahu's thinking from Netanyahu himself) also see the future the same way. Those Israelis deserve a world of credit for sounding the warning bell loudly enough that we would hear it and do something about it – although it's impossible to know if the people who matter are paying attention.
Actually, only one person matters: the US president. If Israel bombed Iran tomorrow, Congress would forget all about their partisan differences and run, not walk, to the House and Senate floors to endorse the attack and call for unstinting support for Israel. That is what Congress always does, and will always do so long as the lobby (and the donors it directs) are the key players in making our Middle East policies.
And who knows what Obama would do? So far, he has not exactly distinguished himself when it comes to standing up to Netanyahu.
But an Israeli attack on Iran would be different. It would endanger countless Americans (in the region and here at home, too). It would kill off any economic recovery by causing oil prices to skyrocket. It would engulf us in another Middle East war. And it would threaten the existence of the state of Israel.
This is something the president needs to focus on instead of being forced to nickel and dime with the likes of Representative Eric Cantor and Senator Mitch McConnell. How incredible that these two, and their right-wing allies, have our government tied in knots in their incessant effort to elevate themselves by destroying the President of the United States. It is sickening.
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Exciting days with the release of SharePoint 2013 beta. First thing i noticed on a setup on one of my servers, is that you do no longer see the option to sign in as a different user. Apparently the link is either missing or has willingly been removed from the UI. A little comparison with a SP2010 environment shows that the actual link for signing in as a different user is /_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true.
Fortunately the link still works in SP2013, which might make me believe that the link has just been forgotten adn will probably be back in the RTM release. If not, I guess the very first customization a lot of customers will ask for is to have the button back in the User menu.


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Pope Benedict: Be Open to Voice of God, the Voice of Love
The Holy Father's Sept. 9 Angelus address.
Pope Benedict XVI says that the public ministry of Jesus Christ is encapsulated in one "small but very important" Aramaic word: Ephphatha."
"'Ephphatha – be opened,' sums up Christ's entire mission," said the Pope in his midday Angelus address Sept. 9.
"He became man so that man, made inwardly deaf and dumb by sin, would become able to hear the voice of God, the voice of love speaking to his heart, and learn to speak in the language of love, to communicate with God and with others," the Pope explained.
Speaking to several thousand pilgrims gathered at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict dwelt upon the Sunday reading from the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus cures a deaf man in the non-Jewish area known as the Decapolis, between the coast of Tyre and Sidon and Galilee.
"Jesus took him aside, touched his ears and tongue, and then, looking up to the heavens, with a deep sigh said, 'Ephphatha,' which means, 'Be opened.' And immediately the man began to hear and speak fluently," the Pope summarized.
The Pope observed that the "closure of man" and his "isolation" are not solely dependent on the sensory organs.
"There is an inner closing, which covers the deepest core of the person, what the Bible calls the 'heart'," said the Pope. "That is what Jesus came to 'open,' to liberate, to enable us to fully live our relationship with God and with others."
It is for this reason, he said, that the word and gesture of Ephphatha is included in the rite of baptism, when the priest touches the mouth and ears of the newly baptized.
"Through baptism, the human person begins, so to speak, to 'breathe' the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus had invoked from Father with that deep breath to heal the deaf and dumb man."
Pope Benedict drew his comments to a close by turning to the example of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, who was always fully "open" to the will of her Son, given that "her heart is constantly listening to his word."
Prayed the Pope: "May her maternal intercession help us to experience every day, in faith, the miracle of Ephphatha, to live in communion with God and with others."


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Tidemark Comes Out of Stealth With Funding from Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz
It has been a little more than a year since word went around that Andreessen Horowitz had invested $6.3 million in a mysterious stealth start-up called Proferi. Today that company is coming out of stealth with a new name: Tidemark.
It also got a new round of funding, including an investment from Greylock Partners, that brings its total capital raised so far to $11 million. Also joining Tidemark's board are Peter Currie, president of Currie Capital; and Phil Wilmington, former co-president of PeopleSoft and the CEO of OutlookSoft. Both have joined Tidemark's board of directors. Also on the board are Aneel Bhusri, co-CEO at Workday and a Greylock Partner; and Ben Horowitz, partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
Tidemark is building what it calls an Enterprise Performance Management application — all in the cloud — but it is also built from the ground up with mobile applications in mind. I had lunch with CEO Christian Gheorghe last week, and I have to say that what he described to me sounded, at first, a lot like what I've heard from lots of other companies wanting to give business leaders useful, up-to-the-minute business information they can act on.
Too often in business intelligence and analytics, projects fail to deliver, Gheorghe says, because they're good at showing data but lousy in leading to action. "They give you a lot of information, but the next step is what to do about it," he says. "What are the courses of action I can take, how do I react to what's happening?"
And maybe this sounds familiar: Data from one application that you'd like to use is tricky to move over into another. "We call it the alt-tab syndrome," Gheorghe says. "You have to alt-tab between applications, some of which were built before the Internet, back in the client-server era."
Lots of the existing business intelligence tools are old, not designed to be mobile or to handle volatility in the markets, and they don't deal well with unstructured data, which everyone seems to want to get a handle on these days.
Gheorghe spent five years and change at SAP, including a stint as its CTO, by way of its acquisition of OutlookSoft. He then spent about nine months as Greylock's Entrepreneur in Residence. During that time, he realized a perfect storm was happening: If you had to build the business of analytics from scratch, it would solve the problem of making you both cloud-ready and mobile, but also ready to handle mountains of big data. "We found a lot of pain in the core analytic processes that companies had spent a lot of money trying to solve," he says. Pain like that creates an opportunity for the one who can make it go away.
Tidemark aims to deliver real-time metrics information that has been adjusted for risk and which takes into account all the various strategic, financial and operational forecasting a business does. "There are so many things that the consumer-side companies have done with big data like Facebook and Zynga, but nothing like that has happened in the enterprise," he says. "Basically they're still using things that are drilling down and across in grids that no one uses, and dashboards that are two weeks behind."
Tidemark is launching three applications: Metrics Management and Management Reporting, which aims to answer not the "what's happening?" question about a business but "why is it happening?"; Enterprise Planning, the classic budgeting, forecasting and analysis functions; and Profitability Monitoring by product, customer and channel — essentially where you're making and losing money.
The company has also teamed up with three partners: SnapLogic has hooked up with Tidemark to integrate data in the cloud. And since you can't seem to do anything in big data these days without using some version of Hadoop, the open source big data platform, Tidemark says it has signed up with Cloudera, which sells its own tricked-out version of Hadoop; and VMware, whose vCloud will run Tidemark's cloud.
Gheorghe's backstory is interesting. He escaped communist Romania in the late 1980s, but what moved him to leave wasn't entirely political. He was involved in the trade of bootleg cassette tapes and heard Pink Floyd's "The Wall." As a product of the evil West, it was forbidden under the regime of Nicolai Ceaușescu. Gheorghe decided there was no way that a country that produced such music could be all that bad. So off he went.
It was of course more complicated than that, but the anecdote serves as a pretty good metaphor for what Gheorge is trying to do with Tidemark, Horowitz says. Yes, there are an awful lot of companies that seek to use the cloud to provide business intelligence. "There's a lot of new things out there, including Salesforce.com, Successfactors, any of them, they're new but they bring a lot of the old software paradigms with them," he says. "None of them have been a complete re-think. But Christian has really done it. It's ironic that he was the one who could get his mind out of the old paradigm, having been in it for the last 15 years."


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Space Exploration Technologies is vying to be the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station, and its mission got off to a successful start with a launch this morning.
A Dragon spacecraft launched from the company's launch pad at Cape Canaveral at 3:44 a.m. Tuesday. It will soon begin a series of tests in space to determine if it can indeed dock with the space station.
Officials with the company, known as SpaceX, said the launch was a successful first step regardless of what happens later in the mission.
"We obviously have to go through a number of steps to berth with the Space Station, but everything is looking really good and I think I would count today as a success no matter what happens with the rest of the mission," SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk said in a press conference after the launch. "This mission heralds the dawn of a new era of space exploration, one in which there is a significant commercial space element."
If possible, the Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the space station on Friday. It would then provide the space station with supplies and load on return cargo before leaving for Earth on May 31. The spacecraft is not manned.
The federal space program is depending on the success of SpaceX and a competitor developing its own rockets, Orbital Sciences, according to the Orlando Sentinel's coverage of the launch, which you can find in the related items to the left. NASA is seeking to use the private companies to shuttle cargo to the space station.
If the mission is successful, SpaceX could immediately become contractor for NASA, the agency's Deputy Administrator Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration Operations, told the Sentinel.
While SpaceX's mission is based out of its control center in Hawthorne, Calif., the Dragon spacecraft will also be supported from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. Mission managers at Goddard are monitoring the health and status of communications with the spacecraft and various points here on Earth, said Jim Bangerter, network director for human space flight.
"We have been working with SpaceX for three or four years to develop the communications procedures that they are going to need during their mission," Bangerter said. That is something NASA agreed to provide in exchange for SpaceX hauling half a ton of food, laptop computers, spacecraft parts and other cargo, he said.


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A Waukesha County man accused of sexual assault after meeting a teen through a dating app will be sentenced Monday.
Daniel Schmidt, 21, was charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy at a Hales Corners park. The two met through the online dating app Skout, which has since been shut down. He faces sexual assault charges in Milwaukee County and will stand trial.
Days after being charged, investigators searched his Waukesha home and discovered graphic photos and a series of texts related to child pornography. He was then charged in Waukesha County with 13 felony counts of possession of child pornography.
Schmidt pleaded guilty to the pornography charges and will be sentenced Monday afternoon.
His trial in Milwaukee County is set to begin in February 2013.


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As both Jane Finette and I have shared we've been looking at how we can engage with even more of our 400 million users and in meaningful ways. The first step was to open a line of communication with our users via a mainstream newsletter and to assess our main participation channels.
Next up is to lower the barrier for participation and make it easier for people to find ways to help without having to hunt around. If you've walked through a setup on a social application such as TripIt or Facebook lately you'll know that one of the first things you're asked to do is ask people to join. While this does truly enhance your experience with the product and create your social graph (did I say that?!), it also spreads the word, conveniently.
Without going that far, we thought about how challenging it is for people to find ways to pitch in and spread Firefox outside of simply telling their friends. This is nothing to sniff at — Firefox has reaped the benefits of word of mouth over the years. However, we wanted to make it super easy for people who like Firefox to get involved and have just rolled out a new participation page. This even impacted the name. We steered away from "Get Involved" which often implies volunteering or more time commitment.
The concept is to highlight three super easy calls-to-action and offer a sharing capability. We're using Facebook and Twitter off the bat. In terms of immediate next steps, we're working to get this integrated more with mozilla.com and the product experience. For instance, we're working on a snippet for the Firefox start page, and the first run and what's new pages. I'd also like to see it in different languages and it would be interesting to develop a tool that would surface opportunities based on your interests, time and skill.
In addition to the participation page, we've rolled out our new Army of Awesome. Every day, thousands of people tweet their Firefox questions. We wanted to set up a lightweight way for them to get answers right away from fellow Firefox users. So working with our awesome Support team we kicked off a program to encourage people to respond to others on Twitter. My intrepid colleague William Reynolds has a great write up on our thinking.
Want to help? Please share any ideas you might have for the participation page below, share it around and of course, join the Army of Awesome!


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I have a directory of files with the pattern:
I want to remove the
"some_number." part from all the files. How to do that?
There are a few commands in my head:
Map, etc. But I don't know how to chain them together to achieve the task.
Thanks in advance.


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These are the games BYU needs to win if they are going to find a place in the evolving college football landscape as an independent. Texas had a running defense that had no answers for BYU's ground game, allowing 550 yards on the ground. BYU used that to their advantage in a 40-21 victory against the Longhorns.
While this was an impressive outing by BYU, it was a tremendously disappointing performance for Texas. BYU lost the only two turnovers on the night but managed to put up 679 yards of offense to pound Texas, leaving some to wonder just what a program like Baylor may do to the Longhorns when the two meet later this season (regular season finale, to be exact). For Texas, this was a game to just try to forget and turn the page as they hit the bus to head to the airport going home.
BYU is known for their quarterback lineage of course, and Taysom Hill had another memorable night despite significant struggles passing the football. Hill was just 9-of-26 for 129 yards but he did his damage on the ground. Hill rushed for 259 yards and three touchdowns. Jamaal Williams also had a solid night with 178 rushing yards. BYU's star linebacker, Kyle Van Noy, also had an active night to lead an aggressive BYU defensive effort against the visiting Longhorns.
Texas had their offense take a hit when Daje Johnson had to leave the game with a left ankle injury after just two rushes for four yards. Quarterback David Ash played most of the game, completing 19 of 31 passes for 251 yards and two touchdowns before being taken out of the game with an apparent head injury. No matter who was on the field for the Texas offense though, this loss was largely due to an ineffective defense and it was not even close.
Texas hosts Ole Miss next week and will have to start finding something that works on defense. The Rebels are off to a 2-0 start and will be looking for some revenge after losing to the Longhorns last season. Ole Miss has some young players already finding their roles in this program and if Texas struggles on defense again they could easily fall victim at home to the SEC visitors.
BYU takes a week off before getting back on the field, and the next one is a big one. BYU hosts rival Utah, with the Utes off to a 2-0 start as they head in to Pac 12 play with a home game next week against Oregon State. BYU has some other intriguing match-ups on the schedule in 2013, with Utah State, Boise State, Wisconsin and Notre Dame before the season is over.


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Business Description: Esoteric Healthcare Management is a Health System that provides DME products and medical supplies nationwide. All major credit cards are expected as form of payment. Esoteric Healthcare Management provides free shipping to your door for orders over $100.00. Esoteric Healthcare Management has an online store with over 2300 items and accessibility to over 300,000 medical supply items. Special Orders not listed in online inventory may be obtained by contacting Esoteric directly at 844.413.1591. Technical Assistance with the Online Store is offered 24/7. Hours of operation are Monday thru Friday 8am - 5pm central standard time. And closed most major holidays, for a life threating order please email us at email@example.com a representative will respond shortly. Esoteric Healthcare Management also offers a Senior Citizen Discount this may be obtained by contacting us directly.
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Lifenet Alert Systems LLC
Business Description: Low cost, less than $1 a day. Everything included, no extras needed. High quality medical alert systems for seniors and their families. All staff is based in the USA - never outsourced. Free shipping. Free return shipping. Free lifetime replacement service. Peace of mind in your own home. No deposits, no hidden charges. Your rates will never go up. Designed for use in bath and shower. Cancel anytime without penalty. No activation fees. No deposits. No install fees. No setup fees. Additional emails - email@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com & email@example.com. Additional phone numbers - (516) 453-2500 & (800) 676-1100.
JG McGinness Foot Orthotics
Business Description: We at J.G. McGinness take great pride in providing orthopedic bracing and artificial limbs to our patients. The replacement of a lost limb by the custom fabricated prosthesis, or the utilization of a particular type of brace to support and assist a weakened extremity is our specialty. We utilize the most modern and up to date technology in the design and fabrication of your device. We work closely with your physician to formulate the best possible prescription for your particular need.
A Place For Mom
Business Description: A Place For Mom is the nation's largest senior care referral service, providing free assistance to families in search of senior care options. Partnering with over 20,000 senior communities around the country, a place for mom provides easy access to the right type of care for a family's specific needs and budget, assisting over 600,000 families since 2000.
Heavenly Heat Saunas
Business Description: Heavenly Heat Infrared Saunas are made for the chemically sensitive. That means that our infrared saunas create an ideal, safe, and effective detoxification environment for anyone seeking to eliminate toxic substances from their body.
Business Description: Through our Find My Caregiver program, CareFamily matches families with private local caregivers to provide you with exceptional in-home senior care that's more affordable. Unlike traditional agencies that assign caregivers to you, CareFamily empowers you to interview, hire and manage caregivers for your senior loved one – caregivers you feel are the best match! This not only provides you with peace of mind, but also allows your senior loved one to stay independent and remain at home for as long as possible. We offer access to a wide range of professional caregivers including Companion Aides, Personal Care Aides, Certified Nursing Assistants, and more. These caregivers provide hands-on care such as bathing, feeding, dressing, transfer support, light housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, med reminders, transportation, and companionship to participate in the activities your loved one enjoys most. CareFamily's cost of care is also lower than traditional agencies, and even includes an affordable 24-hr Live-in Program. USA Today (May, 2013) states, "Because CareFamily.com is very tech-savvy and automated, its costs are much lower." You can create a free account in just minutes, then connect with a Care Coach to begin the process of hiring a caregiver on your own with expert guidance. We will search our network of rigorously screened caregivers in your area and help you connect with great caregivers for interviews. CareFamily also provides full payroll services, including tax processing for everyone involved to make sure you remain IRS-compliant. We currently provide services in the following states: Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Missouri.
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There's no question that T-Mobile's UnCarrier strategy has shaken up the wireless market. But how long will it take for Verizon Wireless to respond to the pressure?
This is the question I answer in this edition of Ask Maggie. There's a good reason why Verizon has consistently had lower churn rates and higher customer addition rates than its competitors. But the tide may be turning for Big Red, as more and more customers are enticed by T-Mobile's lower prices and seemingly customer-friendly policies.
Verizon feels the heat from T-Mobile
Dear Maggie,
I have been a Verizon Wireless customer for 15 years. I really like the service. I have never had a problem with coverage or dropped calls or anything like that. But the service is expensive. And I'm tired of paying so much. I've been really intrigued by T-Mobile's pricing and special offers. But I am not sure T-Mobile will work where I live. Do you think there is any chance that Verizon will lower its prices, or am I just dreaming?
Frustrated Verizon customer
Dear Frustrated Verizon customer
It is hard to say for certain what Verizon Wireless will do in terms of its pricing. But I don't think that your hopes of it responding to competitive pressure is a pipe dream. The question really is whether its response will be enough to keep you and other tempted customers to stay with Verizon.
Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo acknowledged during the company's fourth quarter conference call that Verizon is "seeing a certain segment of our base" responding to competitive offers. Although he didn't name T-Mobile specifically, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that T-Mobile and its UnCarrier strategy is what's putting pressure on Verizon. The company added 4.4 million new subscribers to its network in 2013 in large part due to its aggressive pricing plans and other offers.
T-Mobile's UnCarrier push, which began in March of last year, has struck a chord with consumers. While pricing is certainly a major factor for why people are choosing T-Mobile, it's not necessarily the only reason this strategy is working. After all, T-Mobile has long been the leader among the major wireless carriers on price. Its prepaid service and postpaid plans have always been less expensive than anything offered by AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
Now, T-Mobile is offering something in addition to low cost: It's listening to its customers. T-Mobile CEO John Legere says this is the key factor in T-Mobile's success. He said the company is finding out customers' "pain points," and it's designing service plans and promotions to knock them down one by one.
For instance, customers don't like contracts; T-Mobile eliminated the contract. They want to upgrade their phones early; T-Mobile offered an early upgrade program. Consumers detest the surprise bill from roaming charges while on a trip; T-Mobile gave customers free international data roaming. Customers are fed up with early termination fees; the company offered to pay those fees for anyone switching to T-Mobile.
The flashy advertising and the company's colorful CEO have helped seal the deal to make people feel like a revolution in wireless is afoot. And to some extent, it is a revolution. Legere and his marketing team have pulled off an amazing stunt by getting loyal customers like you to even consider dropping Verizon.
Somehow T-Mobile has been able to make consumers feel like it's looking out for their well-being. Whether that is true or not, doesn't matter. Customers are starting to flock to T-Mobile. And I honestly believe that Verizon and the rest of the industry will have to respond.
The competitive response to the T-Mobile 'UnCarrier' movement
In fact, we're already starting to see it happen.
AT&T, which has been the target of many of T-Mobile's marketing attacks, has been the quickest to respond. This makes sense given how easy it is to use an unlocked phone from AT&T on T-Mobile's network.
After the launch of T-Mobile's UnCarrier program last spring, AT&T announced an early upgrade program in the summer and then revised that program in December to more closely match what T-Mobile offers. AT&T also introduced a new plan for customers who already own their phones, offering a $15 a month discount on service, much like T-Mobile's no-contract plans. And in an effort to strike back at T-Mobile, AT&T announced earlier this month that it would pay people to leave T-Mobile for AT&T.
Sprint has also attempted to compete against T-Mobile by introducing new plans, such as its Framily Plan. It announced an early upgrade plan, but then cancelled that offer when it introduced the Framily Plan. And then it reintroduced a different offer. In general, Sprint has been less aggressive about matching T-Mobile's initiatives.
Verizon Wireless has been the least reactionary carrier to T-Mobile's moves, which is not surprising. In terms of service reliability and network coverage, Verizon has always had a rock-solid reputation that has far exceeded its competitors. As a result, it's had the lowest churn in the industry for years. And it often leads the market in customer additions. And because of this strong position, Verizon has been able to charge a premium for its services.
Even though T-Mobile has been improving its network, the carrier still doesn't have the coverage that Verizon has. And at the end of the day, that is still the most important thing to a wireless subscriber. My guess is that's why you have been with Verizon for 15 years, even though you have always been able to get a less expensive service from T-Mobile.
Verizon knows this. It knows that it is in a good position in terms of its network coverage and performance. And it doesn't need to be reactionary. Its customers pay more for their service than they do with any other carrier, and the company still manages to keep those customers on its network, and it even adds more than it loses each quarter. Why change?
This is not to say that Verizon's management team is so arrogant to believe that T-Mobile is not a threat at all. As I mentioned earlier, the company's CFO said recently that it's starting to feel the pressure in certain segments of the market. And Verizon's rock-solid network performance has taken a few hits recently, especially in big cities where its 4G LTE network has been overloaded.
So what will it take for Verizon to react? The answer is simple: customer defections.
"As long as Verizon continues to lead the industry in terms of contract additions, they won't have to do anything," said Roger Entner, a principal analyst at Recon Analytics. "But if people are voting with their feet, Verizon will have to move."
I agree. The problem for you is that we aren't at that tipping point yet. In fact for the fourth quarter of 2013, Verizon reported another big quarter for customer additions, adding 1.7 million net new customers.
But it looks like there may be some cracks in Verizon's foundation. My CNET colleague Roger Cheng points out in a story from earlier this week that even with this strong subscriber growth, Verizon may be vulnerable. A more in-depth look at the company's subscriber figures show Verizon's potential weaknesses.
"While the company added 1.4 million net new 4G smartphone customers, it said it added a total of 824,000 total phone customers, suggesting it lost 576,000 basic phone and 3G smartphone customers. AT&T saw a similar phenomenon in the third quarter."
Roger also highlights in his story that Verizon will have to do something in 2014 to protect its base of customers that are upgrading from traditional basic phones or 3G devices to 4G smartphones. There are still a lot of those customers out there. Shammo said on the call that Verizon still has 25.5 million basic phone customers and 24.7 million 3G smartphones on Verizon.
What will Verizon do?
Verizon has already started to react to T-Mobile's moves. Not only has it rolled out its early upgrade program, called Edge, but earlier this week it unveiled a lower-priced option for its Share Everything plan. The new tier of service offers customers unlimited calling, text messaging and 250MB for $60 a month. This entry-level plan is likely designed to entice customers upgrading from a basic phone to a smartphone to stick with Verizon instead going elsewhere for a less expensive service.
Right now it's unclear if this will be enough to keep customers on Verizon's network, especially as T-Mobile offers to pay early termination fees. My guess is that Verizon will continue to harp on its superior network and coverage for as long as it can. And it will react incrementally to T-Mobile's moves.
For example, I don't think Verizon will offer its own ETF payment option to win new customers. And I don't think it will give international roaming away for free. The company has far more business customers who travel than T-Mobile has.
That said, Verizon may try to unbundle the cost of devices from its service plans, as AT&T has done. This could offer existing customers who have long since paid off their devices a reason to stick with the carrier. But again, I don't see Verizon making this move until it's actually hurting in the customer department. And so far, that's not happened.
The bottom line
T-Mobile's aggressive UnCarrier strategy is putting pressure on all the other major carriers, even Verizon. But so far Verizon is the least damaged by T-Mobile's moves.
What this means for consumers is that Verizon will probably start to make some changes to its plans. But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for major savings.
I don't expect Verizon to match T-Mobile move for move. What is more likely to happen is that Verizon will craft its own consumer-friendly-sounding promotions. Whether these promotions will actually save customers money or not depends on how much the company is hurting from the competitive pressure. If AT&T starts picking up customers, as it tries to match T-Mobile's moves, it could exacerbate Verizon's troubles and get the company moving more quickly.
My advice to you is this: If you really are tired of paying Verizon's high prices and you live and work someplace where you can get decent T-Mobile coverage, switch carriers. I wouldn't wait for Verizon.
If T-Mobile doesn't offer great service where you live, you may want to consider AT&T. While its service is still more expensive than T-Mobile's service, it may be a better deal than what you already get with Verizon. And since AT&T also has extensive coverage and a well-performing 4G LTE network, you might be able to get a less expensive service without sacrificing network coverage and performance.
I hope this advice was helpful. Good luck!
Should I take T-Mobile's ETF offer?
Dear Maggie,
My wife is already over at T-Mobile. I have an iPhone 5 16GB already, but I have another nine months left on my AT&T contract. I was thinking about making the switch to T-Mobile, but I'm wondering if I'm better off just paying the early termination fee myself and just using my AT&T iPhone 5. Or would I be better off trading in my phone and letting T-Mobile pay my ETF? What do you think?
Dear Doug,
You'll have to do the math to see how much you still owe on your AT&T contract. But remember that the cost of the ETF is reduced each month of service. And you also have to consider how much it would cost you to replace the iPhone 5 you already have if you go to T-Mobile's network, since T-Mobile requires that you trade in your existing device and buy a new one from T-Mobile when it pays your ETF.
Considering that a new iPhone 5 or iPhone 5S at full price will likely cost you more than $500 and $600 respectively, you are probably better off just keeping your existing phone and paying the AT&T ETF. Then when you're ready for a new smartphone, you can sell your existing iPhone 5 yourself to help defray the cost of a new phone. It's possible that you could get more money selling your iPhone 5 yourself instead of trading it in to T-Mobile, depending on how much effort you're willing to put in to sell your old phone.
You can check one of my previous Ask Maggie columns on this subject to get more details. Good luck!
Ask Maggie is an advice column that answers readers' wireless and broadband questions. The column now appears twice a week on CNET offering readers a double dosage of Ask Maggie's advice. If you have a question, I'd love to hear from you. Please send me an e-mail at maggie dot reardon at cbs dot com. And please put "Ask Maggie" in the subject header. You can also follow me on Facebook on my Ask Maggie page.


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Zuckerberg's Fwd.us Airs New Immigration Pitches
High-tech lobbying group Fwd.us is trying to prod immigration legislation toward the House floor with a pair of new TV ads set to run on national cable TV on Tuesday. The group plans to spend about $250,000, an official said.
The group's ads are just one of several moves by advocates in recent days aimed at persuading House Republicans to put legislation on the floor in June or July, which many see as the last chance to pass anything this year and maybe beyond. On Monday, for instance, a group of business leaders wrote lawmakers asking them to pass immigration legislation.


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Had Lawrence traipsed the Arabian peninsula during the Gulf War rather than the First World War, he may have been able to trade his camel for one of 113 specially made GMC Saudi Syclones like today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate. You could drive one too, but will this truck's price make you say hump that!?
You've surely heard the joke about the fresh recruit to the French Foreign Legion who is stationed out in the Arabian desert. There's very little to do there, and, feeling somewhat bored he asks his superior what the men there do about sex. His better knowingly smiles and points to a camel tied to a post in the middle of the barracks and says that's what it is for. The recruit thanks him for the information and that night quietly slips from his barracks and tiptoes over to the sleeping camel where he proceeds to make sweet camel love to it. This causes the dromedary great panic and it starts braying loudly and foaming at the mouth. So much noise is caused by their non-consensual coupling that the entire fort rushes out to see what could be causing such a disturbance. Coming upon the recruit in the process of defiling the camel, the superior shouts at him what the hell are you doing? "What do you mean?" the recruit yells back, "You told me the camel was for sex! Of course it is, the superior retorts, you get on it and ride into town, that's where the women are!
Such confusion may also be engendered by today's candidate - a 1991 GMC Sonoma Syclone that has a somewhat unusual pedigree. Now, the Sonoma was named after the western-most valley in Northern California's venerable wine country, and the Syclone addendum is an OED ulcerating indication that it is powered by the 4.3-litre Vortec V6, upon which a Mitsubishi TD06-17C turbocharger has been affixed. But this particular S-15 derivation was originally intended for a market where neither wine nor storms are at all common - Saudi Arabia.
The Syclone maintains a wet to dry intercooler, which may have benefitted it in the arid Middle East. Behind the beefy 280-bhp six sits the journeyman 700R4 4-speed slusher and an all-wheel drive system featuring a 35/65 torque split. All that hardware contributed to the standard cab truck's weight, which was a not too portly 3,500-lbs. And, all of this is featured on every 'Clone built, including the Saudi edition.
Contemporary tests of the single-year model noted that it would indeed haul ass as well as about a quarter ton of stuff in the bed - its zero to sixty time clocking in at about four and a half ticks. All of the nearly 3,000 Syclones built were burqa black - the planned '92 would have come in more hues, but were cancelled in preference of the sport ute Typoon. Before that happened, 150 'Clones were knocked out for export markets, including 113 for the oil barons in Saudi Arabia. These Saudi Syclones differed from their U.S. brethren in a small number of ways - they had a much less informative, but a whole lot more metric gauge cluster. Underneath, they gained a resonator in place of their catalytic converter and the O2 sensor was snipped off like it was married to Lorena Bobbit. Lastly, its ECM was remapped to address these emissions omissions and so it could run on leaded gas. As you might imagine, there's an entire web page dedicated to these trucks and those changes - which may be found over here.
Of those 113, it is said (at least by the seller of this one) that 31 made their way back to the U.S., of which this is one. It looks to be in excellent condition and rocks only 65,181 miles - or 104,899 kilometers according to its metric odometer - a goldilocks pleasing not too little and not too much. The boxy first-generation S-15 upon which the Sonoma was based looks about as '80s as you can imagine, but at least the Syclone-specific bodykit doesn't douche it up as it might have. The performance shouldn't seem '80s-like if it's still as strong as when it left the factory, and this 'Clone should be good for thirteen and a half-second quarters and 116-mph top speed runs.
But what the seller is touting as special with this Syclone isn't its performance numbers but its production number - that being one of thirty-one in the U.S. of a one hundred and thirteen trucks in total that were originally shipped to Saudi Arabia. The thing of it is, all the parts of this truck that make it a Saudi Syclone are things you'd probably need to change in order to get it registered in most parts of the U.S.. Catalytic converter missing? Ruh-Roh Raggy. NM8 re-mapped ECM and disconnected O2 sensor? Um, yeah, that'll have to be fixed too. And that speedo and ginormous gas gauge IP? It looks like something out of a cheesy '50s sci-fi movie.
Okay, so it is a Saudi Syclone - which more than anything means that it probably wasn't driven by any women for the early part of its life - but other than that, why would it command a premium over a U.S. born and bred edition? At $16,900 command it does, as there are a number of equally clean 'Clones on the market for fewer riyals. But then, that's up to you and your camel to decide. So, what do you think of this Saudi Syclone's $16,900 price? Is its rarity and uniqueness enough to warrant paying so much? Or, does that price leave you Sheikh-en but not stirred?
You decide!
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Toy industry legend Ted Kiesewetter will be honored at the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association's (ASTRA) Marketplace & Academy with ASTRA's coveted Lifetime Achievement Award. A veteran of nearly forty years in the toy industry, Kiesewetter founded International Playthings Inc. (IPI), now a division of Epoch Company Ltd.
He also supported the industry through his co-founding of Playing for Keeps, which promoted healthy play with products that focus on the features of the child's play rather than the features of the toy. Kiesewetter was an early and consistent supporter of ASTRA and its efforts to promote collaboration and cooperation among manufacturers, retailers, and sales representatives.
ASTRA will present Kiesewetter with the award at its annual awards breakfast and business meeting, which will be held June 9 from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. PT at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix.


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Review You find me in better spirits compared to my anxious state during last week's experimentation with OS X Lion. A weekend of sanity makes quite a difference. That is, sanity achieved through the cathartic process of a clean instal.
Swipe your fingers sideways across your Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad to slide forward and back between web pages in Safari
The steps leading to this were awkward. The OS X Lion installer is only available as a Mac App Store download to Macs running OS X Snow Leopard, and it commits seppuku upon completion. With some fiddling, I managed to make my own OS X Lion installer DVD, backed up my startup volume, erased it and ran a squeaky clean installation.
Does it need saying? My iMac now runs very happily under OS X Lion.
It does not, however, run as well as it does on the MacBook Pro. This operating system was clearly devised with MacBooks in mind, hence all the clever multi-touch Magic Trackpad gestures that don't work on a - duh! yesterday's technology! - Magic Mouse.
Bah, how can I be expected to read this tiny little web page?
Like many Mac enthusiasts upon discovering this, I considered ordering a £59 Magic Trackpad for my iMac... but of course that's exactly what Apple wants me to do, so I refuse. Flailing around with multi-touch gestures is all very well but trackpads lack the swift accuracy of a mouse pointer, or for that matter a Wacom tablet and stylus.
What I need to do is click on the Full-Screen button and... oh
Wacom sells ex-demo Bamboo tablets for £59, by the way. Despite Apple punishing me for being so shortsighted as to buy a mouse with my iMac, I have warmed to OS X Lion. I have found it to be both stable in use and comfortable to use, and the £21 price is admirably low.


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February 07, 2013
The highly anticipated half-hour African American comedy series –Belle's, co-created and produced by legendary Emmy Award-Winning Producer Ed. Weinberger airs each Friday at 7pm on TV One.
The all star African American cast features Keith David, Elise Neal, Tami Roman, Ella Joyce and Miguel Núñez and introduces Nadja Alaya is an emerging young talent, brings back to television a positive Black family sitcom.
This TV One original scripted series "Belle's," a comedy centered around widower William "Big Bill" Cooper (Keith David) who owns and operates his family's upscale soul food restaurant.
The half-hour series is co-created by Ed. Weinberger who created "The Cosby Show," "Good News," and "Sparks" Black sitcoms that revealed positive experiences of African Americans.
In "Belle's," Bill must deal with his two headstrong daughters: Jill (Elise Neal), the sensible hardworking manager of Belle's who also juggles being a single mom; and Loreta (Tami Roman), a stylish, self-absorbed prima donna whose ambitions alternate between a career in the music business and finding a rich husband. And if working with his daughters isn't challenging enough, Bill must deal with the temperamental chef at Belle's who also happens to be his - thorn-in-the-side sister-in-law, Gladys (Ella Joyce).
Rounding out the family is cousin Maurice (Miguel Núñez), the irresponsible bartender and self-proclaimed ladies' man who is always in hot water; and Jill's savvy tween daughter Pam (Nadja Alaya), who seems to be the only one who has a handle on everyone and everything that happens in the family, and at Belle's. Ultimately she could be the star of the series.
"Belle's" takes a page from sitcoms of an earlier era by tackling hard hitting cultural issues through the prism of comedy and laughter.
In the premiere episode, Jill rents out the restaurant to the Crawford family to host their annual family reunion. Just as the Coopers get ready to celebrate their sudden windfall, Big Bill is tormented to discover the Crawfords' once owned his wife's family during slavery.
Veteran comedic actor Miguel Núñez is executive producer of the series.
"TV One is honored to work with Ed. Weinberger and Miguel Núñez on this new comedy series," said TV One Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Production, Toni Judkins. "Audiences love family comedies, and 'Belle's' has all the perfect ingredients for success, from its award-winning creators, to its amazing and versatile cast, to its relevant, witty storylines."


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Engineer Makes 3D-Printed Key To Open Any Lock
Some German engineers have revealed designs for 3D printing a "bump key" that they say can be used to break into common tumbler style locks. According to the engineers, using nothing but a photo of the lock and some software called Photobump, a working key can be created.
Bump keys are not anything really new, but the ability to produce a lock-specific bump key through 3D printing from a picture of a lock, well that's pretty new. A bump key basically uses some force and some jarring of the lock to move the small pins in the tumbler into the correct position so that the lock will turn.
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It was difficult to decide what was more spectacular at the first-ever Lingenfelter Performance Nationals: the blistering performance of GM engineer Dave Michaels, who ran away with the autocross title while piloting a Thomson Automotive–prepared Grand Sport, or the mind-warping 7.09-second elapsed time laid down by Mark Carlyle in his IRS-suspended, turbocharged Z06. Either way, the enthusiasts in attendance were treated to a show—and history.
The event, held at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, in Norwalk, Ohio, was officially a thank-you to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering's customers, as well as a qualifying event for the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. It was also a respectful homage to the late John Lingenfelter, the drag racer and engine builder who founded the company that is now owned by distant relative Ken Lingenfelter—a detail that is truly more coincidental than familial.
There was also technically a car show during the event, but some nasty weather that blew through ahead of and during the weekend conspired against it. Then again, the storm front brought with it some chilly air and a strong westerly tailwind, which favored every competitor whose front wheels tickled the staging beams—none more so than Mark Carlyle.
We caught up with Carlyle and his crew as they busied themselves preparing the 7-second "street" car on opening day. The Ohio-based racer had already run a personal-best trap speed of 209.88 mph during time trials, and he was looking to eclipse his best e.t. of 7.22, the quickest for an IRS Corvette on record. Shortly after our conversation, his Atomic Orange C6 rolled to the line and shattered that mark with a stunning 7.14. The record for an LS street car, regardless of the suspension or vehicle model, was 7.11—and it was definitely within reach.
The dense, cold air persisted, and Carlyle's Z06 continued to amaze, ripping a 7.11, a 7.10, and finally, on the last day, a 7.09/212-mph blast. The car launched hard and straight, and more significantly, it didn't drop a single part the whole weekend. It was a tremendous display. (Editor's note: Shortly after the LPE event, Carlyle's Z recorded a stunning 6.99/209, making it the first LS-powered car to run 6s on drag radials.)
Dave Michaels' performance was equally impressive in the hotly contested autocross competition. He piloted a late-model Grand Sport upfitted with a few ZR1 components—most notably the carbon brakes—along with a Thomson-built 442-cubic-inch LS7 that cranked out about 700 horsepower. The car literally screamed around the track, emitting a mechanical wail that was two parts NASCAR mixed with one part high-rpm Indy car. We've been following the build-up of the impressive, naturally aspirated powerhouse and will bring it to you soon.
Michaels also drove home with the Grand Champion trophy for the Optima portion of the event, as the multifaceted competition also included points for the car show, a cruise, and dragstrip e.t.'s, where the GS went as quick as 11.38 at 128 mph. There were other great stories from Corvette owners and racers at the track that weekend, some of which we've highlighted in the accompanying photos.
As inaugural events go, the Lingenfelter Performance Nationals set a benchmark that will be tough to beat. We hope to return for the 2013 running to see if those amazing performance feats can be eclipsed.


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Ladybugs are the one kind of bug you don't mind crawling on you. They're cute. They're pretty. And they swarm. They swarm by the tens of millions. I had a personal encounter with a smaller swarm when hiking. Find out about my brush with nature's most adorable fury.
Ladybugs - also known as ladybirds - are not as cute as buttons. They are so cute that clothing manufacturers occasionally make buttons to look like them. That's how adorable they are. When one lands on you, you're supposed to count the spots to see if it brings good luck, but really you just want to gawk at it because it's so pretty. So one day, when I was walking in the woods, in the coastal mountains of California, I was pleased to see a ladybug land on me when I got to a shady clearing. Cute! I waved my arm a little, and it flew off. As I walked on a path through the clearing, I noticed I was surrounded by bushes that had clusters of red berries. When I saw that all kinds of plants around the clearing had the red clusters on it, I thought it must have been a chemical that was sprayed on the plants, or an invasive type of moss or fungus. Then another ladybug landed on my hand.
Every protruding branch was covered with clusters of ladybugs, some many layers thick. I looked around at the bugs, and eventually moved onward. As I moved up the path, the sun moved overhead, so when I got to the next clearing, it was sunny. Everywhere the sun touched there was a swirl of ladybugs. I could see their red shells milling through the air, and on the ground they crawled over the greenery. The path was dusty and bare, so I could walk through without squishing them, but I had to stop several times to pick ladybugs out of my hair, and keep my hand over my mouth to keep from inhaling any of them. I could hear the sound of their wings in the air, and when I got out of the clearing, I shook them off my clothes. For the next half mile up the mountain trail, whenever there was a break in the trees, there were swarms of ladybugs, flying around in the sunlight or clumped by the thousands on shady bushes. I probably walked through a million of them.
Which makes sense, because swarming is what ladybugs do, apparently. I found that out when I went home and looked up why these things were grouped together by the tens of thousands like they were starring in an unfortunate new Alfred Hitchcock film. Although most people only encounter these plucky aphid-eaters in ones and twos, they routinely cluster together in groups that literally blanket the landscape, Biblical-plague-style.
It was pretty on the path. It's not so pretty when it's invading your farm by the tens of millions, as happened in the UK in 2009. Although the farm was an organic one that welcomed the ladybugs since they controlled the aphid population on the grounds, having a carpet of ladybugs to step on and a skin of ladybugs for any farm worker in the fields cannot have been entirely pleasant. The bugs crawl happily into mouths and over eyelids.
And they don't move on. Ladybugs will swarm for as long as the aphid population holds out. Since ladybugs are toxic (hence their redness), birds generally leave them alone. Some will stay on the farm and hibernate under logs and rocks for the winter, waiting to come out in force again in the spring. Others will take flight and head for the mountains. Their flight is a curvy one, since ladybugs will literally stop moving and drop out of the sky when they get below fifty-five degrees, so their flight resembles a roller coaster. Once they get to the mountains, they eat, breed, clump together for warmth, and ride out the fall and winter.
Since there are few areas of California that aren't fairly close to farm land, this cloud of tiny, pretty, black-spotted wings had probably migrated over from a farm and was setting up shop for the winter. Perhaps, though, that stretch of forest was aphid-ridden. I've been back several times in the years since, and while there are almost always huge groups of ladybugs in the clearings of that trail, but none as large as the first year I noticed them. Ladybug populations follow aphid populations; some years are mild and other years end with people sweeping broom-loads of bugs out of their doorway. The bug populations also tend to return to the same areas year after year. People who sell the bugs to farms and to gardeners know special spots in the woods where they gather by the tens of thousands and literally scoop them out and put them in bags.
The bigger-name swarms like locusts and rats tend to be more well-known. It's nice to know that, swarm-of-insects-wise, there are cute and harmless things out there that like to get together. Seeing huge groups of animals is always impressive, but running for your life detracts from the wonder. Of all the things I might have run across in the woods, swarm-wise, I'm lucky I saw the sweetest. Of all the forces of nature I encountered, it's nice to have seen the least-malignant. I'm still glad I didn't ten million of them, though.
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Via Summit Post, SFSU, Telegraph, and the Independent.


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thenobodies80 wrote:Dukasaur wrote:DiM wrote:we haven't even seen tnb80's map gallery get implemented and that was supposedly a sure and easy thing. i mean the guy worked hard to create that and lack didn't even bother to put a link to the gallery somewhere in the browse maps section.
Wow. That blows my mind.
Such a nice resource being squanderered.
Luckily, on this thing I can give you an answer:
The map foundry gallery you can see is not the final version.
I did serveral improvements and actually I have a version 2.0 I will release soon for some community feedback....ehm ehm with community I mean you guys in the foundry since for now it's not promoted on the site.
The good news, Lack want it on the site and we are working together to have it implemented. Actually I'm waiting some inputs from him on a couple of things but we're at a good point with it.
I'm the first to love the idea to have it implemented faster, but Lack has given to me some good feedback and important advice to perform it so I decided to take some time and work with the time I have.
As said I'm almost ready with it and I'll release a version more complete and with more info/better structure soon. For the implementation part, I prefer to discuss with Lack first instead of making a promise about a "when & how" I'm not sure to respect actually.
will there be a sortable list of the maps by such things are total terits, starting terits or special features like winning/losing conditions?


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Connor Cobern of the Saints attempts to leap out of the grasp of Mason Pope of the Longhorns during the first flag football game of the season
last week. The Longhorns won the game 24-14. Youth football games will continue each Saturday through November. For more information, see the Sept. 13 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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