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The Ross Valley Sanitary District has known for a long time that its sewer system is old and failing. Its recent history of sizable sewage spills is an unpleasant reminder.
In addition, the district has been slapped with costly fines by the state San Francisco Bay Water Regional Quality Control Board, the agency assigned to stem pollution.
Ross Valley is an easy target for the state board, which has ordered the agency to make diligent progress in fixing known leaks.
But years of political stumbles have stood in the way of the district cleaning up its act.
Last week's 4-1 vote approving a five-year rate increase is an important step in the right direction — toward upgrading sewer pipes to anti-pollution levels, which should be the goal of anyone who cares about the environment.
The new rates are designed to be raised by as much as 6 percent per year. Besides addressing the task of repairing broken pipes and seams, the rate increase also adjusts charges to reflect household or business water usage, which is a more accurate representation of use of the sewer system.
Ultimately, this is a big rate increase, but the test is implementing it in pieces to help ratepayers handle rising costs. It is a big rate increase for a big job — estimated to cost more than $60 million.
For years, district officials have been aware of the need to fix its aging and crumbling sewer lines.
Originally, the board had hoped sale of its Larkspur Landing property would generate enough revenue to cover a lot of the cost. But the sale went sour and ate up several million dollars in legal expenses. The district still owns the land and faces a multi-million-dollar task of cleaning up pollutants on the site. Ratepayers have urged the district to scale back possible development potential — and, likely, the property's value.
Meanwhile, the district went through a political overhaul; unnecessary political and legal battling with neighboring public agencies; a budget shortfall that required it to get a loan from the county; and the resignation and arrest of its general manager, who is in county jail awaiting trial for embezzlement of public funds.
District ratepayers are right to be frustrated over past boards' inaction or costly mistakes.
But that does not minimize the community's important responsibility to fix porous problems with its sewer system.
The state board has taken the district's political and legal mishaps into account and has been patient. Weather this year has been on the district's side as the dry winter has helped reduce the potential for spills.
But the state shouldn't be expected to look the other way when the district's own inspections have identified numerous problems with broken or long-missing pipes in 200 miles of underground lines, many of which are 50 to 100 years old.
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That's less than 1 percent of the ballots mailed to eligible voters.
Director Pamela Meigs had supported the rate increase and balked at the last minute. But she said she was ultimately swayed by the public-health importance of the job.
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David Byrne at Bonnaroo in Manchester Tennessee, 2004.
If you listen to music too soon after reading David Byrne's new book, How Music Works, especially Chapter 5 (how recording studios shape what we hear), Chapter 6 (how collaborations shape what we hear), and Chapter 7 (how recording budgets shape what we hear)—you might be in for a disorienting experience, like watching a magic show after you've been taught all the tricks.
I happened to put on Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel, an album I've enjoyed repeatedly over the past few months. Suddenly, instead of the songs I'd come to know by heart, with their minimalist but emotionally brutal stabs at self-analysis that it took Apple seven years to complete, I heard an assembly of parts. I became obsessed with microphone placement and where each song was recorded, debated whether I was hearing an upright piano or an electronic keyboard, tried to picture the number of musicians, imagined Apple's writing process (words first? music first? spread out over seven years or in spurts?), and wondered what it cost to make something sound so expensive yet so lean.
When I reached for Love This Giant, Byrne's just-released collaboration with chamber-pop singer and multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark—better known as St. Vincent—the wondering got even worse. I could barely focus on the album's punchy musical geometry of warm swaggering horns and icy, snapping beats, a difficult mix of contrasts that works its way under your skin. Who wrote what, and were the two artists ever in the same room? Did they split the advance? Was there an advance? If not, how did they hire producer John Congleton?
I went to the album's website. Sure enough, all these questions are addressed by Byrne, with detail-packed answers that added to the obsessive-compulsive disorder that had now become my listening experience:
The writing was truly collaborative: sometimes Annie would send me some synthesized versions of brass or guitar riffs and I would arrange them a bit and write a tune and words over them; other times this process would be reversed and I would send some musical ideas to Annie for her to write over. This material would get passed back and forth—each of us adding and elaborating on it. There are songs on which one of us sang on the demo and the other ended up singing the finished version.
How Music Works is full of this kind of detailed deconstruction. A personal and scholarly reflection on music as a social, technological, and economic product (with a bibliography that ranges from Jane Jacobs to The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America to E.O. Wilson), the book also reveals the intellectual blueprint and techniques behind Byrne's career. Since becoming a fixture at the Bowery club CBGB in the late 1970s, as the lead singer and songwriter for art-rock experimentalists Talking Heads, Byrne has grown into one of music's most tireless polymaths. He's made a documentary on Afro-Brazilian religion, cut a concept album about Imelda Marcos with Fatboy Slim, written a book about bicycling, and played the pipes and girders of New York's Battery Maritime Building like a musical instrument in a 2008 installation. Which is to say he's been a post-genre guy from the jump, a sly cartographer of the invisible paths linking punk clubs to art galleries and avant-garde dance to Nuyorican salsa and Brazilian pop.
Byrne's approach to music has always been studied, not in the quote-the-right-sources-for-a-good-grade sort of way but in the stay-up-all-night-devouring sort of way. Intense musical homeschooling runs throughout How Music Works, just as it did through the landmark Talking Heads' albums (Talking Heads: 77, More Songs About Buildings and Food), Byrne's later hit-and-miss solo projects (Rei Momo, Feelings), and his noteworthy collaborations with British producer Brian Eno. Byrne's first effort with Eno, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, a 1981 attempt to make field recordings "based on an imaginary culture," was assembled as a pastiche of samples before the advent of digital sampling. Their second album collaboration, 2008's Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, came together over e-mail. Byrne has been at this for a long time, in other words, and his playful approach to change makes him a cheerful guide through the musical upheavals of the aughts. The book is free of the artistic nostalgia and generational backlash that could easily befall someone who made his first major-label album 35 years ago.
Talking Heads: 77, Byrne tells us, was recorded with each member of the band in isolation, wearing headphones in order to hear the others (he calls it "by and large a miserable experience"). If the recording didn't capture the raw energy of the band's early CBGB shows, it set a stylistic precedent. Talking Heads was not just any art-rock band: It was, Byrne writes, "minimalist or conceptual art with an R&B beat." The group's follow-up, More Songs about Buildings and Food, was recorded live in the studio, while Fear of Music was captured in the band's loft by a mobile studio parked on the street below. Changing the technique changed the sound; the less isolated the musicians, the more alive and loose the recording tended to be. Of one song from Fear of Music, "Drugs," Byrne writes, "We had initially recorded a fairly straightforward backing track that seemed a bit conventional, so we began to mute some of the instruments, sometimes just silencing specific notes." Then Byrne added recordings of koala grunts and snorts, "an arc-like melody created using an echo machine," and a guitar solo built from parts of other guitar solos. When it was time for the vocals, he went for a jog around the studio to sound out of breath.
Be forewarned, with its session re-enactments—plus copious historical research dipping back to Johannes Kepler on music and the solar system—all this can get a bit CSI: David Byrne. But the point of Byrne's musical forensics is not to be a spoiler. His enthusiasm for the art's power and wonder is there on every page. "We're fascinated and drawn to stuff that science can't explain," he writes, "and music both touches on and emanates from those mysteries. It reconnects us to that lost time of enchantment." Byrne just wants to debunk any lingering belief in musical genius—the fantasy that songs fall in a burst of divine inspiration from the sky directly onto our iPods. He spends more than 50 pages following technology's impact on music from the days of Edison cylinders to MP3s; he compares the effects of the architectural designs of CBGB, La Scala, Bayreuth Festival Theatre, and Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville. On the question of what music is and what it's become, Byrne toes a nonjudgmental line. Is the future to be found in old-school song craft or in the randomly generated melody moods of The Buddha Machine? "I like a good story," he concludes, "And I also like staring at the sea."
Byrne's career straddles the era of the music industry's old centrist major-label regime and its recent digital fragmentation into crowds of self-financed amateurs. As a working musician, he's been figuring out as he goes along how to stay creative and pay the bills. The book's most revealing section, and the most helpful for aspiring musicians funding albums through Kickstarter, is his accounting of what it's cost him to make his music (there are so many graphs and pie charts, you almost expect to see his 2011 tax returns on the next page). After surveying the most commonly pursued business models, he walks us through budgets on a pair of recent projects: 2004's Grown Backwards (a royalty deal) and 2008's collaboration with Eno (self-distributed online). The two albums sold almost exactly the same number of units, but the latter garnered nearly five times the profit.
But who wants to think about a Quicken spreadsheet when we can listen to an album? Love This Giant, Byrne's long-distance collaboration with St. Vincent, glows with the melding of pop confection and aesthetic idiosyncrasy both artists are known for. I like the beats that pump like pistons, the way St. Vincent stutters the phrase "ice age" across a valley of loneliness, the way Byrne drolly narrates a dinner party ("Harry's gonna get some appetizers") as if it's happening on a dance floor in the middle of a forest, and the way the horns on "The One Who Broke Your Heart" sound like they are dying to meet the merengue that gave birth to them. I don't care all that much about what it cost to make—I care how it makes me feel and how, if for just three minutes, it alters the way I move through the world.
For all of the analysis in How Music Works, you can tell that music's power to inhabit our lives unpredictably is what still matters most to Byrne as well. Openness, curiosity, and the unexpected inspiration of a cross-cultural encounter have energized his work since the beginning. Japanese Noh theater inspired him to design the oversize business suit that became a visual staple of Talking Heads live shows. Japanese street dance styles were channeled in the convulsive moves Toni Basil choreographed for the band's iconic '80s MTV video of "Once in a Lifetime." Beijing Opera star William Chow gave Byrne performance tips ("Tell the audience what you're going to do, and then do it") before Talking Heads and director Jonathan Demme filmed the tour that became the famous Stop Making Sense documentary. The progression of those shows—an empty stage, gradually filling in with the gear and musicians needed for each successive song—grew more and more "codified," as Byrne puts it, driven by improvisations that were anticipated by the band and telegraphed to the audience right before they happened.
All music may be born of, and ultimately tied to, the conditions that produce it, but Byrne also reminds us that music will always aspire to go beyond conditions—"Outside of Space and Time," to borrow the dream and the title of Love This Giant's final track. This may be the best song to listen to while you read How Music Works. Delicately framed by a regal brass fanfare, Byrne and St. Vincent sing of secret places and shaky galactic ladders over a heartbreaking melody the Righteous Brothers would have killed for. You'll be thinking about the mechanics of how it ended up in your ear, without sacrificing the magic of the unknown.


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'Ranger's ranger' keeps on rangering
If the draft hadn't swept Joe Haralson from Houston to Vietnam so long ago, he still might drive a Dr Pepper truck.
But maybe not. Getting to know him, it's clear he was destined to take another road in life.
"I was one of many in those days," he said of being drafted. "I got a draft notice, reported, and the rest was history."
It is a history that quietly weaves through more lives, deaths and crimes than most, and taken him to the darkest corners of Texas.
At 62, Haralson is the longest-serving member of the Texas Rangers. He has no desire to retire any time soon from the legendary 150-officer force born as Texas rebelled against Mexico.
After leaving the Army, where he was awarded a Bronze Star, Haralson became a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper.
Nine years later in 1981, he became a ranger. He's been based in Texas City near Houston ever since, and worked in about 35 counties.
The famous ranger badge, still to this day made from old Mexican coins, was pinned to his chest when his current boss was in diapers.
"He doesn't need much supervising," said Lt. Jason Taylor, who concedes that Haralson could have had his job a long time ago, if he'd wanted it. "He bleeds integrity."
Haralson is considered by many to be a "ranger's ranger," in the state's most elite crime-fighting team.
He has worked more cases than he could count.
"And some of the cases you remember are the unsolved cases that you don't even like to talk about," he said.
He points to the Galveston County killing fields, going back to the 1980s, in which women's remains were found, but not identified, and other women from the area disappeared and were never found.
Haralson is a sniper, hypnotist, head of the state's SWAT team, and a founding member of Ranger Recon, an elite team that deploys to the U.S.-Mexico border to target drug smugglers.
He volunteers for just about everything nowadays, trains hard, stays lean, and still can run with officers half his age. He credits rangers before him, as well as his parents, for shaping him.
Despite being held out by his peers as a "ranger's ranger," he said he wouldn't put himself atop such a list.
He generally keeps a low profile, and genuinely doesn't see his career as interesting enough to warrant a reporter's interest.
"I'm too dull," Haralson insisted in his deep voice and thick Texas accent over morning coffee at a Cracker Barrel in Baytown.
Haralson was wearing the cowboy hat and boots, as well as khaki pants, shirt and tie that are the Ranger calling card.
Whether it's freezing or 100 degrees, he keeps his collar buttoned, sleeves down, and holds a demeanor commanding respect.
Jobs' duties expanding
On this morning, he shared news with another state officer at the table.
A DPS helicopter found the missing body of a man who a week earlier jumped off the causeway bridge which connects Galveston to the rest of the mainland.
It was just another example of cooperation to get a job done, he said.
"I have never been involved in (a case) at any level, where I was the only investigator or policeman that contributed to the solution of those cases," he said. "I saw a sign at somebody's office, something they had framed: None of us is as smart as all of us."
A chief mission of the rangers is to assist police that don't have the resources or expertise they need, but in recent years the job has expanded to include investigating public corruption and guarding the border as well as protecting dignitaries.
Chambers County District Attorney Cheryl Leick is awed by Haralson.
"I started calling him, 'Gus,' from 'Lonesome Dove,'" she said of the novel.
"His character is a retired Texas Ranger from the Old West days, who is tall and a badass, and has a booming voice, and always has a story to tell," she continued. "What is so funny about Joe is he is not a braggart or anything.
"He is very humble. He is not one to try and make you think he is a badass, he just is. "
'Do it'
Haralson's job has found him masked by face paint while lying in the mud along the Rio Grande or sneaking up on a pot farm hidden in the chigger-infested Piney Woods.
"I don't know if I enjoy it, but it is something that somebody has to do.
"I was ashamed that they had to draft me into the Army and maybe as a result of that, I volunteer for everything," he said. "My daddy, that was his deal: don't stand by and let somebody else do it. Do it."
It was a lesson he was taught splitting firewood as growing up in East Texas.
"When we split it with an ax, if I would pick the easy pieces, the good, straight grained wood, my daddy would say, 'No, walk up there and split the knots.'"
He passed the lesson on to his own four sons, which include a retired Green Beret, a state trooper and two in construction.
Maj. Freeman Martin, commander of the Texas Ranger company that's based in Houston and includes Texas City, said Haralson has almost more years in the rangers — 33 — than the youngest serving ranger has in life.
"He is one of those guys who has always had a command presence," Martin said. "His demeanor."
Haralson can recall the tiniest details about his career, and like many in law enforcement, he has stared down murderers, kidnappers, rapists, escaped convicts and other criminals.
Haralson's personnel file is filled with letters noting his role in crimes major and minor. Among them is a letter from German mother Evelin Kostler who graciously thanked him for helping find her daughter who was kidnapped and hidden for years by her American father.
Among the many criminals he'll never forget is Timothy Lane Gribble.
"I lived and breathed that case for a little while," he said.
A jury convicted Gribble in less than an hour for the 1987 strangulation of Elizabeth Jones who was a manager on the NASA shuttle project and lived alone in Clear Lake Shores.
Gribble worked on her roof. He led Haralson and a Galveston sheriff's deputy to a field off I-45, near League City, where he dumped her body.
Haralson said he still thinks about Jones when he drives past the spot.
Retire? No
Haralson has no plans to retire, as unlike some other law-enforcement agencies, there's no age limit for rangers as long as he passes a fitness test.
"When I am not contributing, I'm gone," he said. "I hope I'm wise enough to recognize it when it comes."
Haralson credits the draft notice he got while working in Galena Park in west Houston for a new life.
"I guess it changed everything," he said. "Who knows what would have happened? I might be the president of Dr Pepper right now."


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1. Steve
2. 22/m/wa
3. Nicknamed the Hobbit
4. FMA enough said
1. Anh
2. 15/m/hanoi
3. i didn't talk to anyone in my class for 4 years (100% true)
4. starcraft
1. Jon
2. 16/Male/Virginia
3. I like to build Gundam Models, and I like to do random Stuff that makes people laugh
4. Dragon Ball Z and Chanell Surfing
I own and live for the Nintendo DS Lite
I started anime on Toonami with Gundam Wing. So far I'm watching Mai Hime on CR and own a few animes myself.
Hi well I am new here of course or I would not be typing this I hope :)
Any way who am I well
1. Dan
2. 33*OLD*/M/Washington State (not the capital)
3. Interesting hmm well I am old and I watch anime isn't that interesting enough? hmm
something else maybe I live a tech/computer life, 24/7 hookup what I can I say I hate to be disconnected. PDA, Cel, Laptop, Computer, Linked Handhelds, Email of every kind, what's my email pick one I probably have it (I am an email junky although I only use 6 or 7 emails) I have domains that I pay for but I alway get sidetracked and forget to put up sites on them, www.cloverlief.com is an example. It is still the default (needs to put up a page) page. So I guess I get sidetracked easily, I have been exploring online chat for the heck of it, (I know IRC but I am talking non IRC chat) I have an account on IMVU I use it off and on but mostly update my page and send messages back and forth I rarely end up with the time to get on when anyone else is on eg the middle of the night. Go figure. Um I guess you have figured out I switch subjects alot by now.
4. I love sushi, Blue fin (med or high fat) and Sweet Shrimp (I love the way they fry the heads mmm mmm good) are my favorites, I am currently learning japanese (slowly, though not because I have trouble but lack of motivation since my learning partner was my ex-girlfriend) if anyone want to be a learning partner online or needs one maybe I can work something out to remotivate myself :)
Well that should give you all a start I already just wrote a book I don't think you want a novel
1. Johnathon "Phillip" Darrke
2. 19 / Unkown... nah I'm Male / Chicago
3. I apparently love putting holes in my head, and I don't mean earring holes.
4. Stumbled upon anime one day and have loved it ever since.
1.Darkstar is wat im nown as on the internet i'll tell people my real name once i grt to now them.
2.im 15 and i live in New Zealand
3.I lve to read and i can't live without my computer.
4.i luv 2 play starcraft, Diablo 2,tekken 5, all final fantasy games but mostly 8 and 10
oh yah i almost fogot i am female most people get shocked when is say i luv tekken which i find weird
im rambling so enough is enough is enough!!
tell me WHERE u get banana stroodle...
1.Elliot "Karok" Solomon
3.I have a manga collection thats getting to big!!! but my anime collection is almost nothing!
4.One of my friends was watching Naruto (which i didnt like really...) so i found a few of my own. Detective Conan, Yakitate Japan!!, Tsubasa and XXXHolic (so on....)
Im also a fan of the final fanta s y series, mainly 7 and 9, also a fan of starcraft!
Finnaly using CR again
1)Sheepy (Long stoy, don't bother )
3) I can play piano, and like jazz...
4) WOLFS RAIN ROCKS , best anime ever man, oh and FMA, I jut getting into anime though
1. Tuomas
2. 18/m/Finland
3. I'm a clubber / raver \o/
4. My brother and I began to watch NGE when it first appeared on the internet in some long forgotten codec years ago (~1998 or so). The quality of them were absolutely horrible, but we still enjoyed them quite alot. From there it kinda slowly snowballed and now I'm kinda a wnb-otaku.
So hello everyone, nice to meet'cha :]
1. Aska-su 'Crystal'
3. umm....i like my shoes?
4. Well it happened a long time ago, my brother used to watch Sailor Moon (yes yes My brother) And since at the time i didn't have school...well I just kind of watched it with him..at the time i didn't know it was anime..and so yea..
So yea. ^__^ I like making new friends...i like chatting...etc.
1. Qhooskae!
3. Mental Defiecency!!!! (twitch)
4. I watch way too much tv.
Interesting Fact: I don't actually have TV. We have a gamecube, but no cable. That is why I joined this site.
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1. Andreas
2. 19/M/Germany
3. I'm so incredibly average that it can't be normal anymore :P
4. Dunno. I just like them. I always liked cartoons and this is like the japanse equivalent to toons. Just a bit more....."juvenile"? (If I would go "adult" people just would misunderstand it :P)
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2. 15/male/texas
3. Ive learned japanes thanks to anime
4. I started anime with dbz but I really got into it by naruto now I really enjoy bleach


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PHILADELPHIA - They had faceoff professor Claude Giroux ceding that responsibility to faceoff student Scott Hartnell, but due to the locker room agreement never to discuss aches and pains, apparently that had nothing to do with the left hand Giroux was dragging behind him.
They had Jaromir Jagr leaving early with a hip injury, and that was after Jakub Voracek had been planted with a face-first belt courtesy of Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall. And how did that hit sit with the Flyers?
'I wanted to puke,' Danny Briere said.
Instead, the surviving Flyers on the bench sucked some wind and stuck together through a Red Wings storm, holding on behind yet another superb effort by goalie Ilya Bryzgalov for a 3-2 victory that had all the fat-lipped hits and close-lipped words of the common playoff game.
'Speaking for myself, that's OK,' said Max Talbot, whose second-period goal would go down as a game-winner. 'Maybe (the referees) let a couple of things go … but tonight it's a playoff atmosphere a little bit.'
One play that most partial observers inside the packed Wells Fargo Center were incensed to see unpenalized was Kronwall's hit on Voracek, which knocked the fast forward out of the game and resulted in a split lip.
Oh, and left Briere a little queasy.
'You see someone laying on the ice like that … I don't know if the head was targeted or a clean check, but it's still not fun when you see someone on the ice, laying there shaking,' Briere said. 'It was a bad feeling in everyone's stomach.'
Fortunately for the Flyers (37-21-7, 81 points), they found a remedy in a lead over the Red Wings. It was Giroux, who would swear on a stack of books as high as an upper-body injury that his left hand (or wrist) was A-OK, who would put them there.
First, however, it was Bryzgalov allowing a goal on an almost perfect shot by Red Wings sharpshooter Henrik Zetterberg, whose goal at exactly 4 minutes into the game was the fourth time in five games that Bryzgalov was beaten on the opposition's first shot.
Once again, he didn't let it get him down. Rather than explain how, he talked about how his team helped the lead stand up.
'Guys were blocking shots when the puck was in front of the net, and when two players down with injuries, guys stepped up and played more minutes,' Bryzgalov said. 'They played very well.'
Zetterberg's goal would quickly be negated by Voracek, and he received plenty of help from Detroit goalie Joey MacDonald in doing so. That MacDonald was even on the ice was a tribute to how hurtful injuries were to the Red Wings, too.
Six Detroit regulars were MIA, including defensive leader Nicklas Lidstrom, top playmaker Pavel Datsyuk, power forward Todd Bertuzzi and starting goalie Jimmy Howard. The Red Wings were also without defensemen Jakub Kidl and Jonathan Ericsson, which might have been why the Flyers recovered from Zetterberg's goal and spent the rest of the period buzzing MacDonald's net.
The pressure might have gotten to him, because for some reason he left the puck sitting behind his net, allowing Voracek to swoop in, pick it up and fire toward the crease, where it hit MacDonald's leg and rebounded into the net at 13:50 for 1-1.
Then Giroux took advantage of a puck that bounced over the stick of Kronwall. Giroux picked it up and streaked in on a breakaway, nicely deking MacDonald and scoring at 18:11 for a 2-1 Flyers lead.
Giroux pulled a similar play in the second on a penalty kill, streaking down the middle and firing a shot that MacDonald saved, but Talbot was on hand to plant the rebound for a 3-1 lead.
All this and a hurting hand that forced him into taking only two faceoffs? Or not?
'What do you mean?' Giroux said.
Never mind. But know that while Giroux was 0-for-2 in the faceoff circle, Hartnell was 7-for-9. Good support for the no-injury claims. Maybe that's a byproduct of what is starting to look like a turnaround, as the Flyers won their third straight for the first time since December. They also extended a home winning streak against Detroit to seven games, dating to Jan. 1997.
'Guys are very excited.' Giroux said. 'If we can get on a roll here before the playoffs … it should be fun.'
First, though, they needed 37 saves from Bryzgalov to get by the Wings, who brought it to 3-2 in the third on a goal by Johan Franzen, then buzzed the Flyers the rest of the way.
All to no avail. 'The last few games it's been playoff hockey,' Briere said. 'Everybody has been paying attention to the little details. Everybody's been paying the price, everybody's blocking shots and winning battles. Earlier in the season we had trouble closing games out with the lead … it's good see us winning those types of games against good teams.'


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YOUNG businesses across Oxfordshire are being urged to sign up to a major campaign which could give a massive boost to their future prospects.
The Local Business Accelerators (LBA) initiative is launching in the Oxford Mail and its sister titles across the Newsquest Oxfordshire group for a second year following its highly successful debut in 2011.
It will see three of the most promising businesses in the county being offered free advertising for a year along with advice and mentoring from top business experts.
LBA represents a national drive worth £15m across more than 500 local and regional newspapers spearheaded by the Newspaper Society. It is again being backed by Deborah Meaden, a judge on TV's Dragon's Den.
Ms Meaden will then become a mentor and consultant to one lucky business picked from the hundreds of regional winners.
Last year's competition saw three Oxfordshire winners picked from almost 40 young businesses who entered.
They were Banbury-based corporate health monitoring specialists Healthy Performance, Headington building firm Savvy Maintenance and Renovations and Shakespeare's milkshake bar in Oxford city centre.
Savvy Maintenance and Renovations is moving into new offices in Headington following major growth over the last year. It has been working on major playground projects with Oxford City Council and the new site for Ruskin College in Old Headington.
Director Stephen Dunne said: "We are taking on more people, so needed more space and our turnover is now about £700,000 – double that of last year.
"We got a lot of good feedback from the Accelerators campaign and it really helped with our marketing and workload. I would absolutely recommend people enter it as it did us a lot of good."
The judges of the competition will be Mike Jennings, who runs the Jennings business parks across the county, Brendon Cross, managing director of Witney-based STL Communications and Bob Urwin, of Oxford letting agents Martin & Co.
They will work alongside Newsquest Oxfordshire's business editor Andrew Smith to review and shortlist entries before awarding the winners the prize of free advertising and business advice. They will also go on to mentor the winning three businesses.
The campaign has been backed by Prime Minister and Witney MP David Cameron, as well as the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King.
Mr Cameron added: "The Local Business Accelerators campaign has provided tremendous support to fledgling businesses across the country and I am delighted it will be running for a second year.
"Local newspapers play a vital role in their communities and are uniquely placed to support small businesses, giving them the boost they need to grow, which is good for local areas and good for the economy as a whole.
"I hope more young businesses put themselves forward over the coming months and get involved with this innovative scheme, which rewards entrepreneurship and creative thinking in business."
'Dragon' will mentor winner
One overall star business will be put forward to be in with a chance to gain Dragon's Den star Deborah Meaden as a mentor during 2013.
Ms Meaden said: "With last year's LBA having demonstrated the unique power of local and regional press to provide a meaningful boost to promising young businesses, I'm delighted to be supporting the initiative once again.
"The campaign provided tangible examples of the real contribution that local newspapers can provide to young businesses across many different sectors, accelerating their development.
"Enterprise and entrepreneurism in the local community are more important than ever before and I look forward to finding another young business to mentor and drive forward."
'Support was great shakes'
Amee Thomas of Shakespeare's milkshake bar in Oxford city centre, said: "My mentor Mike Jennings has been a huge support for me over the last year and has always taken the time to be a friend as well as a guide when I've felt overwhelmed with the task of running the business alone.
"I think he has taught me above all that to be a successful entrepreneur you have to learn to take the rough with the smooth, and that keeping the passion for your business alive helps you achieve your goal."
How to get involved
- Businesses aged between one and five years can enter the competition
- If you run such a business, or know anyone who does, and want the chance to receive invaluable business support and advertising space in Newsquest Oxfordshire's titles, visit accelerateme.co.uk for more information and how to enter. Entries close on November 16
- If you want to speak to us about advertising in any Newsquest Oxfordshire publication, please call 01865 425275


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Firing Up Kindle's Basic Web Browser
Think of Kindle's Basic Web as a slimmed-down, stripped-down version of full-featured Web browsers. Basic Web does the basics: it connects to Web sites, lets you click links, and displays images. However, it doesn't show color, it can't execute Flash presentations or Java applets, and it doesn't do streaming audio or video. But it's an excellent tool for looking up information or checking e-mail when you can't get online any other way.
You don't always have to manually start Basic Web. If you click a link from within content you're reading, such as a blog or newspaper, the browser automatically starts up and goes to the link's destination. Or if you search for a word or phrase and click Search Google, Search Wikipedia, or Go to Web from the menu at the bottom of the screen, Basic Web opens and displays information related to the term you're looking for.
If you do need to manually start up Basic Web, follow these steps:
Press the Home button.
Press the Menu button.
Move the five-way controller down until Experimental is underlined and then click.
Move the controller down until Basic Web is underlined and then click.
The Bookmarks page appears, as shown in the following figure. These aren't just bookmarks to pages Amazon thinks you'll want to visit; they're also pages that have been formatted so that they'll look good on the Kindle. To that end, the pages have few images and the content is presented in a simplified format.
When this article was written, Amazon.com was not charging in the U.S. for access to the Web through Whispernet. It seems too good to be true, and indeed, Amazon may charge for Web access in the future.


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The days are numbered for two oxen that have worked the fields at Vermont's Green Mountain College farm for more than a decade.
The Poultney college says the oxen, named Bill and Lou, are being retired because of injury and will be processed into beef products to be served in the college dining hall.
College officials tell the Burlington Free Press that the animals are regarded with affection, but that it's a traditional understanding that cattle working at the farm are turned into beef when their working careers end.
The college farm produces vegetables and animal products for the dining hall and a community-supported agriculture program.
But more than 3-thousand people have signed an online petition started by an animal sanctuary in Springfield asking that oxen be spared.


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China's WeChat Gaining Global Attention
Move over WhatsApp, look out Facebook. China's WeChat could become the world's most popular talk-and-text app. The WSJ's Diana Jou explains how the Chinese-made app combined different social networking functions to build its 300 million user base.
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Hay's Can collection was born when Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec set their mind to reinvigorate the concept of a sofa. They wanted to create a piece of furniture that is practical, elegant and comfortable but also relaxed and simple – a sofa for everyone. The Can sofas and armchairs come flat-packed and are assembled at home, which makes transportation and handling easier. The name Can reassures anyone having doubts about assembling the furniture. Just attach the slender metal legs to the frame, set the canvas on its place and finish off by adding the inviting, plush cushions.
- Manufacturer:
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A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her quirky, uptight, and emotionally unavailable brother's dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch. These opposite siblings have to confront each other and themselves to discover what it means to live in one's own skin, both literally and figuratively. This dramatic and funny film boasts superb performances from an ensemble cast including Rosemarie DeWitt, Josh Pais, Ellen Page, Allison Janney, and Ron Livingston. Striking the perfect balance between levity and sincerity, Touchy Feely explores with sensitivity and honesty the foibles of human nature.
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LOWER POTTSGROVE - Harold G. McCree III, 53, of Pottstown, has been charged with felony retail theft after he allegedly concealed frozen food and drink mixes under his coat at Redner's Warehouse Markets, police said.
On Feb. 5 at 4:10 p.m., store security told police that McCree allegedly put the frozen food and drink mixes under his coat and sweatshirt then tried to walk past the checkout counter without paying for his items, police said.
When McCree was stopped at the door, he tried to dump the items he had and leave, but when he was taken back to the store's offices, he admitted to trying to take the food, police said.
McCree was arraigned in district court and he is being held at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility after he was unable to make $5,000 bail, police said.
Montgomery County Adult Probation has a detainer against McCree because of the arrest, police said.


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Is China's real GDP really growing by 7.6 percent in the second quarter? How would we know? In every country we take the word of the domestic statistical agency. Yet some skepticism attaches to China's word these days.
It is not as though China is being singled out. US energy giant Enron cooked its books. Greece, got help playing hide and seek from the facts using Goldman Sachs' advice, and hid a pile of its debt to join the European Monetary Union. Bankers have long come to mistrust official data when they make lending decisions in the international realm. But how do they pick and choose who to believe?


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The golden Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Israel, covers the place where it is believed the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. For Jews, the Western Wall, foreground, is one of the holiest sites. (Tyrone Beason/Seattle Times/MCT)
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WASHINGTON — Few Americans expect much progress on Middle East peace during President Barack Obama's trip to Israel and the West Bank next week, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
Just 27 percent of voters think that Obama's visit to the Middle East — his first as president — will help restart negotiations between Israel and Palestinians, while 65 percent think it won't help.
Even Democrats have limited expectations of the trip: Forty-three percent said it might help restart talks, while 47 percent said it was unlikely.
Only 12 percent of Republicans said they thought it might help start talks.
The poll also found that most Americans don't think the trip will do anything either to improve or worsen tension in the region.
Two-thirds said the visit wouldn't make any difference.
The poll results come as the White House downplays expectations for any breakthroughs on peace negotiations during the trip, which will begin with Obama's arrival in Israel on Wednesday.
After visiting Israel, the president will visit the West Bank and Jordan.
Obama has said he isn't arriving with a specific peace plan and the White House has suggested that the trip is largely about communicating with the Israeli public, which views the president warily.
Obama told Israeli television this week that he plans to "directly speak to the Israeli people and talk about our unshakeable commitment to Israel, but also to talk about a shared vision for a more prosperous and peaceful future."
Though the president made jump-starting peace talks a priority in his first term, the process largely stalled in 2010.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who'll be along on the trip, suggested at his Senate confirmation hearing in January that the U.S. needed to find a "way forward" to an independent Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel, but there's been no movement.
"There's been really no setup that things are warming up, that both sides are eager to move the talks ahead," said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the poll last week.
"If anything, people see this as an icebreaker rather than a deal maker."
The low-expectations game might work to Obama's advantage, Miringoff noted, if something substantive is achieved.
"From a political standpoint, if expectations are that low, something positive could be seen as fairly noteworthy," he said.
The poll did find that Americans, regardless of political affiliation, are particularly worried about Iran's nuclear program, with 70 percent saying the regime in Tehran is close or very close to becoming a nuclear threat.
Iran is likely to top Obama's agenda as he tries to convince Israelis that the United States would respond with military force should the administration's preferred course of tough sanctions and diplomacy fail.
Obama told Israeli television that the U.S. community thinks that Iran would need "over a year or so...to actually develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don't want to cut it too close."
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The Ten Funniest Name Goofs
Names are tough - there are just so many weird ones out there - so I tend to cut bakers a lot of slack when it comes to misspelling them.
But I'm pretty sure these birthday kids weren't so understanding:
I'm guessing something about this cake is going to rub little Chase the wrong way:
Now this is just cruel:
"Look, Stetson! It's almost like you're part of the family!"
Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!
It was a bittersweet parting.
Of course, not every name goof results in an insult. Some people even come out ahead:
Way, WAY ahead.
It's doubly unfortunate that these polka dots look a lot more "Turdi" than "Trudi":
What a way to go.
Let's hope Violet doesn't live up to her new nick name.
This "cookie bouquet" was for a baby shower. I'll let you spot the problem:
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TitlePa. high court settles shale gas rights question
BodyHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Long-standing case law on the ownership of below-ground minerals and natural gas that has guided the booming natural gas industry since it began exploring the vast Marcellus Shale formation is still in force, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The case raised legal questions about whether natural gas trapped in the thick shale is somehow different than natural gas in different formations, and had the potential to up end some of the leases between property owners and the natural gas industry. But the court sided unanimously with a Susquehanna County couple in ruling that legal precedent going back at least 130 years "remains viable and controlling." The Supreme Court's review was prompted by the lower Superior Court's action in 2011 that suggested that perhaps the precedent set in an 1882 case, Dunham v. Kirkpatrick, could not be used to separate mineral rights from gas rights in instances involving the Marcellus Shale. But the Supreme Court soundly rejected that view, saying that natural gas is not a mineral, regardless of what it is trapped in or what method is used to extract it from the ground. "In our view, neither the Superior Court nor appellees have provided any justification for overruling or limiting the Dunham Rule and its long-standing progeny that have formed the bedrock for innumerable private, real property transactions for nearly two centuries," the court wrote. The case stems from a dispute between John E. and Mary Josephine Butler and a man named Charles Powers and his heirs. The deed for the Butler's 244 acres in Apolacon Township split "minerals and petroleum oils" between the parties in a land deal that originated in 1881. Natural gas rights were not mentioned, so all of the gas should still belong to the property, the Butlers contended. A Susquehanna County judge agreed, citing the Dunham rule. But Powers' heirs appealed, and a Superior Court panel said it could not say with certainty that Powers' heirs have no claim to the gas. Rather, it said, expert testimony helped decide whether the Marcellus Shale is a mineral and whether the gas it holds falls within the deed, prompting the Butlers to seek Supreme Court review. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pa-high-court-settles-shale-gas-rights-question-4460861.php#ixzz2RUxTTial
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In July 2010, the United Nations established the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women. UN Women brings together the four former entities working on gender equality and women's empowerment and will have greater clout to promote these issues. It became operational on January 1, 2011.
Michelle Bachelet, the former Chilean president, leads the agency.
How will this new entity better leverage all existing resources to benefit women? How will UN Women vault the cause of women's equality and empowerment above its current position?
First of all, the establishment of UN Women is historic. This is an opportunity to accelerate the United Nations' ability to help countries in their efforts to achieve gender equality. It will be a dynamic entity and a strong advocate for women and girls at the global, regional, and national levels. UN Women is unique in that it will support the work of member states in their development of global policy on gender equality and will also engage directly in country-level activities to facilitate implementation of such policies. Finally, UN Women will coordinate work on gender equality across the UN system to ensure better coherence and reduce duplication and fragmentation. In the past, there were efforts to coordinate the work on gender equality, but these efforts lacked authority and presence on the ground. The creation of UN Women will give us more political weight.
Why do we need an organization like UN Women? Why does women's participation matter?
I believe that women all over the world are very powerful agents of development, agents of change, peace-builders, and peacekeepers. They are also essential—women are so essential because they have good ideas and proposals and they are hard workers in their communities. When they are given money, they tend to invest it in the children and the families. And I really believe that women have a perspective that can be a positive force, a perspective that they bring to the conversation and to activities in an inclusive way to produce useful and comprehensive outcomes. Half of humanity consists of women, and they suffer the worst in conflict situations, for example. Yet when global policies are made, they are not gender based, so they don't effectively address these problems.
Women really matter. Also, when women are in decision-making positions, at national or local levels or in the UN system, they consider women's concerns and situations more frequently. In the conflict countries, everyone suffers, but women suffer in different ways. So when you think of solving a conflict, you must take into consideration what happens to women or the discussion will not be comprehensive—it will be like a three-legged chair.
What government strategies have been found to effectively improve women's conditions? What successful solutions are out there already?
What is successful is to empower women. It's very difficult otherwise to have progress in other areas. You need that. We will make the social, economic, and political case that demonstrates why women matter. We are developing women's national capacities in different areas. Two areas that have been very important are developing women's economic security and autonomy and building more of their capacities in the political sphere. We provide women support to become leaders and give those already in power better tools so they can perform in a more effective way. Even here in the United States, women hold only 16 percent of seats in Congress. It is well known that in order to really bring about change, you need 30 percent. Globally, women hold an average of 19 percent of political positions, so we are still far from what is desirable.
In most international reports, Muslim-majority nations rank poorly in terms of rights given to women. Will you pursue any specific strategies for improving women's conditions in this area?
We have a mandate that is global. We are not just in developed countries. We will work with women from every region in the world, and they all have different challenges. We will work with Asian and Arab world countries, and I am meeting with the League of Arab States soon. Every region has different traditions and cultures that have to be respected, but, in the meantime, we can work on progress. One of our approaches when we work with community-based women's organizations and with religious leaders is to ask, are there doctrines or principles that are, in fact, in line with these practices that harm women? In some cases, religious leaders say there is nothing in the religion that supports these practices and they have been supportive of stopping them.
We will work with developing nations to provide technical support, but often that is not enough. We have to work within cultural practices and with the communities, women, religious leaders, and traditional leaders to make a change.
When I lived in Chile in 1996, it was a very conservative country for women. So much has changed since then. During your time as health and defense minister, and then as president, what was your signature accomplishment for women?
First of all, globally, having a woman president for the first time in Chile and being the region's first female minister of defense were important. It is essential for women to have role models in high positions. It strengthened the self-esteem of women and encouraged them to believe dreams could be accomplished. Women have said to me, "I can die now because I know that my daughter has a better future." Secondly, being a woman, I could see that social protections were so important for women and the elderly. So we introduced some reforms for them in social security. For example, I gave pensions for housewives to collect when they reached 65 years old, so they did not need to depend on their husbands for everything. Also, for women in the labor force, we understood there was an economy in care. When a child is ill, or you have one parent or elderly person who is ill, or someone has a disability in the family, it is the woman who does not go to work but stays at home and takes care of everyone. It is crucial to keep advancing, but I felt it was critical to develop strong social security reform. I strengthened policies to protect women and developed a network of nurseries and kindergartens and elevated the care of the children, so they will also have better educational opportunities and food. We also presented a lot of laws and bills to Parliament requiring equal salaries for women and men, and made laws regarding the situation of children after divorce, and gave rights to women.
On the symbolic issue, when I had to define my cabinet, I had parity in my cabinet and throughout the government. You could see powerful, clever women as heads of agencies and it showed that women are capable and efficient and not only nice and sympathetic. So we made very concrete changes and we also changed the culture. As my friend said to me recently, if you have a boardroom discussing a new person and that person is a woman, no man would say, "Well, she's not capable enough because she's a woman." That's a huge change in Chile.


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Increased awareness of "non-traditional" business models, like that of Assist2Sell, North America's Leading Discount Real Estate Companysm has spawned a national debate about the differences between "traditional" real estate companies and "discount" real estate companies. People involved in the discussion try to characterize real estate companies as being either "traditional" or "discount." It would be more accurate to differentiate using three categories:
As a "discounter," Assist2Sell is often inaccurately lumped in with the third category, "Limited Service/Discounted Commission." A key difference between Assist2Sell and others in the "discount" real estate space is the level of service. Assist2Sell discovered early on that while sellers love the discounted commission, they still need and want full-service. Assist2Sell franchise offices are full service real estate brokerages staffed by experienced, licensed real estate professionals who are members of the National Association of REALTORS®, as well as state and local REALTOR associations. They take care of everything home sellers need from a real estate company, but charge a lower commission. It's called "Full Service with $avings!"®, "Full Service for Less!"®, and "Results with Savings!"®.
The most obvious difference between Assist2Sell and "traditional" real estate companies lies in the commission structure. Traditional firms typically charge home sellers a high commission that is a percentage of the sale price. (Example: Six percent). Assist-2-Sell offices charge a low, flat fee commission. (Example: As low as $2,995!) They believe that Friends Don't Let Friends Pay 6%®.
With Assist2Sell, home sellers are also given a choice as to how their home is marketed.
As the name implies, the Direct-to-Buyer program markets a home seller's home directly to home buyers. This differs from "traditional" marketing programs that rely primarily on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) to market homes. While the MLS is a powerful marketing tool, it is expensive and not always necessary. Many home sellers prefer the Direct-to-Buyers program because it gives Assist2Sell the opportunity to find a buyer through its own marketing efforts.
This program adds the benefits of the MLS, while still offering home sellers the opportunity to pay only the low, flat fee should the home buyer purchase directly through Assist2Sell. Under this program, a low commission is typically added to the cost. (Example: Three percent) If an MLS agent brings the home buyer, they receive the three percent—Assist2Sell receives only their low, flat fee. If the buyer comes directly to Assist2Sell, the seller pays only the low, flat fee, and not the additional three percent.
Both programs are designed to offer you choices and save you money. Regardless of which program you choose, full-service is always included.
Assist2Sell is a full service discount real estate company. Other companies that discount their commission usually do so by taking away services. If they charge less, they are going to do less.
Some "Limited Service/Discounted Commission" companies charge upfront fees. Others are Internet-based and may only offer placement of the house in the MLS and rely on the MLS-selling broker to handle the entire transaction. While these models do have some appeal, Assist2Sell has found they are not a solution for the majority of home sellers who want and need full-service but don't want to pay a high commission.
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Folks at Airbnb are talking about how some of their longest-tenured colleagues are leaving—including Nick Grandy, Airbnb's very first employee.
Two sources have confirmed Grandy's departure, though his LinkedIn profile still has him at Airbnb. He'd only been there two years.
We don't know Grandy's future plans, but we notice that he had a burst of activity on AngelList, the startup-investing discussion board, in the past month. He's an angel investor in Chart.io.
Ligaya Tichy, formerly Airbnb's global head of community, left this month for Threadflip. She joined in September 2010.
Michael Schaecher, a marketing manager, joined in August 2010 and left this May.
TaskRabbit recently hired Jabu Dayton, who left in June as Airbnb's head of HR. (You can spot Dayton chilling in our photo tour of Airbnb's crazy-cool office.) TaskRabbit confirmed Dayton's hire to Business Insider.
Airbnb did not respond to an email and text message asking for comment.
It's not unusual for the kind of risk-takers who thrive in a startup's early days to leave as the company's headcount grows into the hundreds. Airbnb has just hit that hypergrowth stage especially quickly.
A year ago, Airbnb raised a staggering $112 million from Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, and General Catalyst Partners, and has since expanded worldwide at an astonishingly rapid pace. It just reported having booked 10 million nights in total.
But it's never a good thing for a company to lose early employees, who are often key to maintaining a company's culture.
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The Swatch TTR 3-Star Quiksilver Snow Jam took place this past weekend in Pec pod Snezkou, Czech Republic. Riders stomped big tricks all weekend on the slopestyle setup, but it was Teo Konttinen from Finland who would take home the 3-Star Title, 550 TTR Ranking points and the largest portion of the 12,000 Euro prize purse. 2nd place went to Matti Kinnunen, also from Finland, and local hero and organiser of this event Martin Cernik rounded out the Top 3.
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Friday's qualifications were greeted by snowfall that began the night before, pumping everyone up for the first day of qualifications. Unfortunately, some mild weather and slushy snow made it difficult for the shapers to construct a pristine Kicker, but the riders didn't seem to mind and still threw down some epic 10s and plenty of 7s during the qualification heats.
Saturday was a picture-perfect day for competition providing riders and spectators with blue-bird skies and comfortable temperatures. The Finnish riders took their super smooth style all the way through to the finals resulting in two Finnish riders in the Top 2 spots.
Teo Konttinen found himself atop the podium after stomping his incredibly clean FS 10 and Matti Kinnunen had to settle for second place after a slightly rough landing on his Cab 10 – a trick that might have given him the title had he landed cleanly. Crowd favourite Martin Cernik took spot number 3, lighting up the spectators with a huge Cab 9 and now sits at TTR World No. 106.
In the evening, organisers held a best trick contest for the leading 20 riders of the Quiksilver Snow Jam, granting the best tricks with 50 Euros cash. All the riders were stoked to earn some extra money for the after-party. The next day the rain fell, thankfully after the competition had ended. Martin Cernik was "stoked that the competition went so well and super happy that it wasn't raining earlier."
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Stop us if you've heard this one before: T-Mobile USA is going to get the iPhone.
According to a new note from Merrill Lynch, "speculation is heightening" that Deutsche Telecom will announce plans to bring the iPhone to T-Mobile at next week's analyst meeting. Deutsche Telecom is the German parent company of T-Mobile.
Philip Elmer DeWitt at Fortune has the Merill Lynch note.
Two days ago we saw a Bloomberg news alert that UBS was reporting T-Mobile would get the iPhone in early 2013. In July, Bernstein said T-Mobile would get the iPhone in 2013.
This is not the first time T-Mobile getting the iPhone speculation has sprung up. It's long been rumored, but never happened. In September T-Mobile's CMO told employees it wasn't getting the iPhone 5 this year.
T-Mobile needs the iPhone because customers are jumping to other carriers that have the iPhone. In February, it lost 700,000 customers because it didn't have the iPhone.
To attract, or keep, customers T-Mobile has told people to buy expensive, unlocked iPhones and use them on its network. That's an unsatisfying, and complicated option.
Selling the iPhone can be expensive for a carrier. Sprint, for instance, had to agree to buy 30.5 million iPhones over the next four, which is roughly equal to a $20 billion investment. T-Mobile has thus far resisted making that sort of investment.
T-Mobile is the fourth largest carrier in the U.S. with 33 million customers. If Apple does sell the iPhone at T-Mobile, Merrill only estimates it sells four million units in 2013, which doesn't have much impact on its overall sales.
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If a recession is looming large in the US, Apple may yet escape its shadow. Although the growth rate for Macs sales appears to be slowing, Gartner recently placed the company in sixth place worldwide for PC sales. Now, DisplaySearch adds a report to the mix, this one on notebook sales, and it's largely good news for Apple.
While PC leaders Dell and HP remained flat, Mac market share jumped four percentage points in North America during the second quarter, breaking into double digits for the first time. This gain came at the expense of Toshiba and Acer, the latter seemingly suffering from the Curse of the Cow: the acquisition of Gateway. Worldwide, Acer is now at 5.5 percent, while Apple has yet to place in the top five. This is unlikely to change anytime soon, as Apple's worldwide market share is estimated at somewhere between 3 and 4 percent. Apple will need to work harder worldwide, though, as China now accounts for a tenth of the laptop market alone, and is growing.
Regarding models of laptops by screen size, the standard portable with displays ranging in size from 13.3 to 16 inches have 88.5 percent of the market. Those with 17-inch and larger displays make up just 7.5 percent. Subnotebooks are also taking a beating. Subnotebooks, displays from 10.4 to 12.1 inches, dropped to just a 4 percent share, and it is suggested that this is because of the rise of the cheap mini-notebook, like the Asus Eee.
This may mean trouble for Apple, as the company does not (yet) have a MacBook mini on the market, unless you count the MacBook Air. Unfortunately, sales of Apple's thinnest laptop with a fat price appear to be slowing, at least according to American Technology Research analyst Shawn Wu via AppleInsider.
"In addition, our supply chain checks indicate a mix shift towards low-end and mid-range Macs as it appears that more affluent consumers may be feeling the effects of a tighter credit environment," he wrote. "MacBook Air sales and build plans appear more modest after more robust levels."
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White House CIO Brook Colangelo has revealed some harrowing details about his first days on the job. Entering the White House along with Barack Obama on Jan. 20, 2009, Colangelo "delivered the first presidential BlackBerry" and mobile devices to other top administration officials. Yet the White House's technology was in such poor shape that for the first 40 days, e-mail was down 23 percent of the time.
On January 26, "Our e-mail servers went down for 21 hours," Colangelo told attendees of the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference in Arizona this week. "In my professional career, there has not been a worst day since or ever."
Three or four more outages followed in those first 40 days. The White House proceeded to replace its e-mail systems and storage area networks, and started staffing its data center 24 hours a day. Uptime improved, but there was still a nine-hour outage in February 2011, taking down e-mail and Internet access, according to Computerworld. Colangelo resorted to faxing updates to Obama while he was on the road.
The 2011 outage spurred the White House to finally open a second data center for disaster recovery. Other modernization efforts included replacing desktops, which were still using floppy disk drives at the time Colangelo came on board. About 82 percent of the White House's technology had reached end of life when Obama's administration began.
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SACRAMENTO, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- An art experiment suggesting McDonald's food doesn't decay has raised eyebrows -- and raised questions about just what's in those Happy Meals, observers say.
A New York photographer left a McDonald's hamburger Happy Meal, complete with a small side order of french fries, sitting on a shelf in her home for more than 18 weeks. Every three days, Sally Davies took a photo of the food.
By day 137, the food looked pretty much the same, KTXL-TV, Sacramento, reported.
Some were quick to assume McDonald's is using preservatives to create the appearance of "fresh" food.
But scientists say preservatives aren't the main reason why the Golden Arches' food won't break down -- it's fat.
Fries and burgers sold by McDonald's are high in fat -- more than 50 percent of the calories found in McDonald's french fries come from fat, the same amount as in the restaurant chain's burgers.
"Anything that is high in fat will be low in moisture," Washington State University Professor Barry Swanson said.
Low moisture on a surface means mold can't grow, which means the food can't decay.
And don't forget the salt.
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The campaign run by Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC) aims to get everybody using energy efficient gas boilers at a low cost or even free for people that qualify.
The change in supplier means a reduction to the starting cost for boiler by £150. The new supplier, Dyson Energy Services, is a Green Deal provider and can give expert advice about being more energy efficient.
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The freephone number 0800 840 7208 and saying "Warm Up Winchester" puts people through to an energy advice centre who can advice on how much money can be saved with a new boiler. Find out more at Badger Farm, Community Centre 9.30-11.30am on Saturday January 25.
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