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FloorFolio creates a brand by offering solutions
[Edison, N.J.] Many people look at 2007 to 2008 as the beginning of what came to be known as the Great Recession. Michael Freedman, however, sees things a little differently.
During a time when countless other companies were closing up shop, Freedman started FloorFolio. And while the CEO will jest about what a risk it was to take on the venture during one of the biggest economic downturns, Freedman has grown FloorFolio consistently over the past seven years at a rate now of 65 percent per year.
Freedman attributes part of his company's success to his team's ability to view the industry as a whole, a perspective he gained from an early start in the industry — he was 24 — with positions in distribution, then at a flooring contractor and finally in manufacturing. That broad view serves him well as president of his own manufacturing company. "Because I come from a diverse background across the industry, I understand the troubles the distributor has and the pains that contracting has. We're all about meeting niches and meeting needs," said Freedman.
At the core of FloorFolio's success is its ability to customize any job — approximately 50 percent to 60 percent of FloorFolio's business is custom work. And with over 200 SKUs, each available in either sheet vinyl or luxury vinyl tile (LVT), the design flexibilities and capabilities are vast.
"We have never dropped a product. We'll continue to refine the line and add colors, but we'll never drop it. So if a customer comes to us 10 years from now, we'll still do it for them," said Freedman. "And if a customer calls us asking for something specific, I've told our customer service that they can never say no," he said. Not only can a customer call up saying they like a particular visual but want it in some other size or in LVT instead of sheet, FloorFolio will make it happen for them, "and for not a penny more to do so," he said.
In fact, Freedman believes that his fair pricing strategy across all of FloorFolio's products is integral to his company's success — no small feat for such a highly customizable product line. Each visual, from wood looks to tile looks to the company's premium Seascapes collection, is priced the same.
"We like being able to say that we offer premium products at competitive prices," he said. "We have customers that we ship millions of feet of material to who can do business with a lot bigger companies than we are and they can buy it at a better price than we can sell it for.
They do business with us because when they can call us and say, 'We really need help with a specific order,' and we'll find a way to get it done."
Partnership support
Bringing to market a quality product made with pure virgin materials combined with having the right retail partners and the right professional contractors installing the products are what Freedman said has given FloorFolio the ability to work all together to resolve problems.
"Because of that we have had zero claims," he stated.
And while some of the larger manufacturers take into consideration the feedback of customers, few take the step to actually make it happen on the factory floor. FloorFolio is allotted that flexibility because its business is built around meeting the niches of its customers. "We want to support the people who support us, and we are blessed by the people we design for," said Freedman. "For example, we do a lot in the student housing sector. We're doing Princeton right now and just finished Drexel. Our Timber line came about because the designer came to us and said we need a modern rustic visual look. We gave them about 300 different looks for this product, and they chose a light brown rustic. While we were doing that, another customer came in asking for a darker brown rustic and so we made that for them. Then we added some other popular colors and that's how we built the line, around our customer's requests."
In order to nourish the type of personal customer relationships that FloorFolio bases its business around, the ways in which the company brings products to market needed to adapt. "We have one distributor left," Freedman explained. "We don't have true distributors anymore because we learned early on that we are in a segment of the business that is very aggressive so we need to be able to communicate directly with our customers. The reality is we're not big enough to get the time that we need out of a major distributor." He added that in dealing directly with its customers, FloorFolio is able to be more flexible and adjust its products in a way that fits the company's custom business model.
Request back into sheet
While the industry has its eyes turned to the influx of LVT, FloorFolio's customers requested that the company launch new heterogeneous sheet goods. "Our customers needed sheet vinyl, so we did it. There's a niche that's not being met for a quality product," said Freedman. "And honestly, I'm grateful that I did. Because everyone is focusing on the LVT, there seems to be less and less people focusing on sheet, so what better time to pick up what other people are putting down. They're going right, so we're going left."
Along with its decision to widen its focus back onto sheet, as well as LVT, was FloorFolio's decision to go "all in." In the past, FloorFolio had partnerships with those who would dictate how the product would be made. Although the company had influence over those decisions, the whole process is now 100 percent controlled by FloorFolio. "Now, we create the designs, we own the rollers to create the patterns and textures, we own it all. So when this product goes down the production line in our partner facility in China, from top to bottom it's ours," he said.
Freedman explained that while the company is not "recreating the wheel" with its new introductions, it is bringing a higher quality level than the typical heterogeneous sheet product. One issue FloorFolio wanted to address with its new line was sheet vinyl's susceptibility to showing subfloor irregularities. "For Nature's Way sheet vinyl, we introduced a medium texture, something that can't trap a lot of dirt and something that will reduce maintenance. We've worked with a lot of our customers and they felt that if we made it a little bit thicker than normal sheet that it would hide some of the subfloor irregularities, so we did," said Freedman, adding that the new line would be available in 2.2mm instead of the typical 2mm.
Transition and expansion
As FloorFolio continues to experience consistent growth and its product lines continue to expand, Freedman said that space was becoming an issue, but that the need for expansion was a problem he was happy to have.
The company has now expanded to a warehouse in Texas and has recently announced plans to expand its headquarters in Edison, N.J. "We do a lot of our business in Texas, and the freight costs are going to continue to climb. We just finally got to the point where we needed to be able to supply on a more local basis. We built the facility and it's my goal that five years from now that building will be an exact duplicate of our headquarters," he said.
With the growth of FloorFolio, Freedman has worn numerous hats, acting not only as the president/ CEO but also as the principal designer, customer service rep, sales rep and still has his hands in all parts of his business. But, he said, one of the major tasks he took on this year was dealing with his own transition.
"Now the company is not just me anymore, and as much as it pains me, I'm proud to say I've become more of a president and the success of my company is really the people around me," Freedman said. "I have personal relationships with some of the largest flooring contractors, but now they need to be handled by the right people that can handle them. So if you asked me what was the hardest thing I had to deal with this year, that would be it." He added that FloorFolio has now become a brand, and the whole vision and direction the company has taken goes into driving that brand.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Court proceedings for Devin Wayne Fuller, 19, 3567 Franklin St., Bellaire will continue through summer, and a trial date could be set for February. He will next appear before Solovan during a pre-trial conference set for July 12.
He and Brandon Michael Phelps, 20, 1281 Birch St., Bellaire, are charged with four counts of aggravated murder, committed in the course of rape, of aggravated burglary, of burglary and of trespassing. Each count carries a death penalty specification. Both face two additional counts of trespassing. The crimes are alleged to have taken place June 29-30. The victim, Lydia Ashworth, was found dead in her home.
Fuller appeared before Belmont Common Pleas Court Judge John M. Solovan II on a status conference to review the collection, examination and sharing of evidence.
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Devin Wayne Fuller, accused of the murder of a Bellaire woman, appears in court with attorneys Kirk McVay and William Mooney. The court process could extend through summer, with a trial set for 2014.
Prosecutor Chris Berhalter reported the sharing of lab reports with defense.
Defense Attorneys Kirk McVay and William Mooney reported that consulting psychologist and investigators are continuing their work. Analysis could extend into August. More time could be needed, depending on the results and demand for further examination of the findings.
"We are moving forward. Unfortunately it's not as fast as anyone who's involved in this cast would want it to proceed," Berhalter said. He added that any capital case is an exacting process that will be reviewed by state and federal courts in years to come. "We have to make sure that everything that is done is done properly."
He acknowledged the frustrations of the victim's family.
"It's unfortunate that it does take this long to proceed forward, and I can't imagine how difficult it is on the victim's family. However, you're dealing with a case that does involve a extensive amount of laboratory work, as well as a case that involves anywhere between 40 to 70 motions filed by the defendant that have to be addressed."
Bond remains at $1 million.
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The NSW Rural Fire Service has an excellent fire map.
Sadly the most serious one is right near us:
ALERT LEVEL: Emergency Warning
LOCATION: Running South and East of Mount Forest Road. Approximately 12km East of Cooma and 12km south of Numeralla
COUNCIL AREA: Cooma-Monaro
STATUS: Out of Control
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The 5 Most Insane Rescue Missions That Actually Worked
#2. Rescued by Way of Mundane Golf Stats
The Crisis:
On April 2, 1972, Iceal "Gene" Hambleton, an intelligence analyst, was aboard a plane used to jam North Vietnamese Communist Army (NVA) radar. While over enemy territory, anti-aircraft missiles knocked his plane out of the sky. Luckily, Hambleton was able to bail out before the craft exploded. Less luckily, his bailout landed him in front of a huge army of NVA regulars in the process of launching one of the biggest North Vietnamese offensives into South Vietnam.
And they were coming for him -- the enemy found out he was an intelligence analyst, which meant he'd be a very high value POW. Fortunately for Hambleton, he had pretty extensive knowledge of something else ... the game of golf.
"On second thought, we don't want him any more."
The Insane Rescue:
A SEAL team sent in on foot to rescue Hambleton quickly realized that Vietnamese intelligence was listening to their radio communications. You can immediately see the problem this would cause with staging a rescue -- telling Hambleton where to wait for a chopper would mean half the North Vietnamese army would also be waiting in that spot.
"Surprise! Tank party!"
On the fly, the Special Forces developed what must have been the most boring special code ever with Hambleton, based on his extensive knowledge of golf courses. That's right, all that useless bullshit you have stuffed in your head could save your life some day!
Nah, we're totally kidding; algebra is useless.
Transmissions would use golf terms and Hambleton's encyclopedic knowledge of distances to the green from famous courses. An example transmission would read, "You're going to play 18 holes and you're going to get in the Swanee and make like Esther Williams and Charlie the Tuna. The round starts on No. 1 at Tucson National." How did the NVA not figure that out?
For six more days, Hambleton scrambled around the NVA-infected jungle, moving from "green" to "green." Although he mostly escaped detection, at one point he came upon a surprised Vietnamese man who attacked him with a knife. Hambleton was able to "neutralize" his attacker. So you could say that fate gave Hambleton ... a mulligan. Man, this golf code shit is easy.
"There's one ball in play and one in the bunker. Also, I may need an ambulance."
The rescue of Iceal "Gene" Hambleton (Call sign Bat 21 Bravo) from behind enemy lines was the largest, longest and most complex search-and-rescue operation during the entire Vietnam War, and it was all possible because of one man's Rain Man-like knowledge of golf.
#1. Ross Perot Goes A-Team on Iran
The Crisis:
The Iran of the 1970s wasn't at all like the Iran we know today. The ruling government was massively corrupt, the citizens were threatening to rise up and all involved parties basically blamed the United States for their troubles. OK, so we take that first sentence back.
This guy's name is probably Bahmoud Bhmadinejad.
Unsurprisingly, American corporations doing business in Iran were popular targets for aggression. Two executives working for U.S.-based electronics firm EDS, Bill Gaylord and Paul Chiapparone, learned that the hard way when they were taken into custody on trumped up (probably) bribery charges and thrown in jail on December 28, 1978.
Fortunately, their employer was this 5'6" tower of badassery ...
Yep, that's former presidential hopeful and all-around adorable crazy old man Ross Perot, and he does not take kindly to his employees being taken into custody. After lobbying the American and Iranian governments to free his captured executives to no avail, Ross Perot did what any of us would do: He used his network of old military buddies to form a strike team with the intent of freeing the hostages without any government help.
We're going to repeat that last part again with added emphasis, just so it sinks in: Ross Perot used his network of old military buddies to form a strike team with the intent of freeing the hostages without any government help.
Tuesday night at Perot's local Waffle House.
Perot managed to gain entry into Iran by posing as a journalist, at which point he immediately decided cover stories are for bitches and went straight to the Iranian government to give them one last chance to remedy the situation before things got awesome. They ignored his demands. Things got awesome.
While Perot was negotiating in Iran, 60-year-old Colonel Arthur D. "Bull" Simons, a shadowy operative who was already famous for leading a number of raids and assaults while serving with the American Special Forces, was assembling a team of men and smuggling them into Iran. But first, they spent a few weeks storming a mock-up of the Tehran prison where the EDS executives were being held. How did they know what the prison looked like? Ross Perot cased the joint, that's how.
Dramatization (may be inaccurate).
When they arrived in Iran, all their weeks of practicing the raid on the Tehran prison mock-up went to shit. The Americans had been moved to Qasr Prison, one of Tehran's largest and best fortified jails. Faced with the prospect of having the entire mission go down in flames, Perot and company again did what any of us would do in that situation. Shit their pants and flee the country, you ask? No, instead they had an Iranian EDS employee named Rashid start a freaking riot and lead the ensuing mob right to Qasr Prison. There, Rashid stoked the crowd's anger until they stormed the prison and freed all of the inmates.
"Sometimes your government are complete assholes, and that makes me think unkind things about your culture! ATTACK!"
At that point, Colonel "Bull" Simons moved in, swooped up the two executives and proceeded to get everyone out of the country. The team used Rashid as a guide and quickly made their way to Turkey, where they boarded a plane and bid adieu to the total chaos that Iran was turning into.
From start to finish, the entire operation took less than two months. Meanwhile, the Iran hostage crisis erupted shortly thereafter and dragged on for an excruciating 444 days. Damn. Are we sure Ross Perot shouldn't have been president?
The guy's got some moves.
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A keen but unknown observer of the sexes once said, �The difference between the way women look at men and the way men look at women is like the difference between throwing a bullet and shooting it.�
Perhaps this is true of men who watch the members of Durango�s Mataholla Moon Belly Dance Troupe perform, but when their significant others are present, you�d never know it, said belly dancer Amanda Aung. She said men are more likely to study their shoes than watch the dancers if watching the show with their wives or girlfriends.
The troupe put on one of its semi-regular stage shows Friday at the Abbey Theatre. Aung, and other dancers, said women in the audience, especially those older than 50, are far more enthusiastic and vocal at their performances than are the men.
�I think (they men) don�t quite know how to react to it because it�s like, �well, I know I�m not supposed to get out dollar bills,�� Aung said.
Mataholla Moon came by its name about 10 years ago by combining the first syllables of the names of its founding members. It�s one of several belly dance troupes in Durango. Members range in age from ladies in their early 30s through 60.
That Mataholla Moon gets such strong reactions from women at its performances is no surprise to members Tanya Lawyer and Tara Kiene, who said the original purpose of belly dancing was not to seduce men but rather to celebrate womanhood.
�Belly dancers usually dance for other women, not for men,� Lawyer said.
Kiene added: �That�s really a Western overlay and interpretation.
Belly dancing has continually changed over time as it spread from the Middle East through Europe, borrowing from the dance traditions of those areas. Kiene said Mataholla Moon and other troupes infuse traditional styles with more modern American influences such as hip-hop and jazz.
The celebration of womanhood takes on various meanings for the members of Mataholla Moon. For Aung, the mother of two young children, the moves they practice, which accentuate the hips, belly and chest, are a celebration of what it means to be a mother.
�We cradle them in our hips when we carry them and feed them from our breasts,� Aung said, noting these same movements can also help in childbirth because it strengthens the abdominal muscles.
Other members, including Lisa Smith, said they enjoy the pageantry of their practices and performance.
�What other art form can you do where you get dressed up, put on makeup, put on all this awesome jewelry and gorgeous clothing ... and you get to exercise too?� Smith asked.
Marty Ragle, 60, said she enjoys the friendship and acceptance she has received from the younger members of the group, all of whom she has known for years.
�It�s great for me to have these women as friends because it keeps me young,� Ragle said.
�She�s a hot 60-year-old,� Lawyer said.


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STEUBENVILLE - Lately, Marie Zumpano's noticed more and more former students dropping by Neighborhood House with their own kids in tow.
"That's when you know you're making a difference, when they grow up and bring their children to you and say they don't want their kids with anybody but you," said Zumpano, director of the nonprofit child care service. "And it happens a lot."
Incorporated in 1937, Neighborhood House was created as a place for immigrants to learn English and take naturalization classes so they could become U.S. citizens. In the 1960s, however, it became the first licensed day care center in Jefferson County, providing affordable child care services for children ages 18 months to 15 years. Zumpano said they're currently trying to get certified to care for 12-month-olds as well.
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HAVING FUN — Jaleyss Scales, 8, from left, and Kinsey Tucker, 5, and Delaney Tucker, 3, enjoy some play time at Neighborhood House in Steubenville. Neighborhood House, a United Way of Jefferson County agency, offers affordable child care to parents who otherwise might not be able to afford it. Neighborhood House Director Marie Zumpano says about 95 percent of the clients qualify for government-assisted child care. - Linda Harris
"We're on our second generation now," she said. "Many of our kids now are kids of our kids."
Neighborhood House is located at 423 South St. and is one of 19 member agencies of the United Way of Jefferson County, which is currently working toward a $440,000 campaign goal for 2013. Last year, Neighborhood House was allotted $8,000 from United Way.
"It's a lot of money for us," Zumpano said. "Last year, we actually spent $14,500 on occupancy alone - that's things like groceries and utilities. That's what we operate on, grant money and the generosity of people."
Neighborhood House serves children from a variety of circumstances, many of them while their parents work or are in school. Zumpano said about 95 percent of their clients qualify for government-assisted childcare, which means they pay a small monthly co-pay.
The program is currently licensed to handle up to 45 children, though at the moment they have about 30 children coming to them regularly for some portion of the day, and everything from lesson plans to physical activity, math, science, language arts and socialization is closely regulated by the state.
"We really can't cut staff, because we have to follow very strict staff-to-child ratio," she said. "But we have to serve breakfast, hot lunch and afternoon snacks, and it all has to meet nutritional standards."
Zumpano said the program couldn't function without United Way's help.
"The funding we get from United Way is vital," she said. "We've received that money because we're a non profit. All our funding goes to food, supplies and utilities - there's no profit here."
United Way Executive Director Beth Rupert-Warren said Neighborhood House provides a "safe, nurturing, loving environment for children in our community."
"Neighborhood House provides a great service," she said. "It's been in our community for years, and it meets the needs of so many families."


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The Art Program of the The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Gianna Volpe, MFA, Artist in Residence
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: January 10, 2002
The Art program was built on the fundamental belief that our lives are enriched by taking time to explore experiences which awaken the human spirit. Artmaking encourages vision, hope and imagination, all of which foster the healing process. The program seeks to honor each patient as a unique individual whose expressions and communications are to be nurtured, validated and respected.
Rhoads 7: The Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
The Bone Marrow Transplant Unit has served as the foundation for establishing the Art Program in the last four years. As the Artist in Residence I work one-on-one with patients at their bedside or in small groups in the family lounge.
I introduce artmaking as an alternative language for self-expression and visualization. I engage the patient at any level they wish to participate in the creative process. The program is designed with the "non-artist" in mind and appeals to a wide variety of sensibilities by offering many different kind of materials for experimentation. I function as both matchmaker and midwife to their experience. I help to establish connections to the possibilities for expressions and help "birth" the artwork from them. The nature of the unit has provided for a special intimacy between the patients and myself due to the length of the average patient stay, approximately thirty days. The program also impacts the friends and families of each patient in a profoundly positive way by engendering artistic collaborations between the patient and family member and stimulating communication and a sense of wonder. Overall there is a tremendous sense of accomplishment, satisfaction and stress relief experienced by those who participate in the program. The presence of the program creates a unique opportunity for personal growth for both artist and patient, and also by extension, the caregivers on the unit, thereby having the artmaking xperience directly impact the hospital environment positively.
Anecdotal accounts are generally the best way to express the quality of exchange that I am describing. A particularly memorable example of the impact the Art Program has had occurred with a woman named Nancy. Nancy's lymphoma became terminal and as her condition deteriorated, she asked if there was something I could help her make for her two daughters. Even though her strength was extremely limited and she was oftentimes too weak to work for more than a few minutes at a time, we worked together to create watercolor cards, knowing it was the last time she would be giving her children something from her. She shared with me that it gave her great joy and peace to be able to do this for them after months of hospitalization. She had not felt productive because she could no longer function as caregiver to her daughters, and this simple act of creating artwork for them created a remarkable sense of satisfaction that was evident to staff and family alike.
One evening as I was thinking about Nancy, I wondered what else I could possibly do to be of service. The idea came to me to offer my ability as an artist to make a cast of her hands. I approached both Nancy and her husband about it and the idea was received with much interest and wonder. It required a group effort and a delicate orchestration of elements to achieve the cast. Nancy's husband held her in his arms so her hands could be positioned for casting. Nancy and I had much discussion beforehand about the significance of hand positions and what she wanted them to look like. She finally chose a modified prayer position, a softer and more naturalistic version of the familiar praying hands. I unveiled the mold on the hospital tray with Nancy and her family looking on. The wonder and amazement was childlike, as each in turn marveled at the texture of the skin and exactness of the fingernails, to the gracefulness of the gesture and the simple beauty of the hands that had shown love to every person in that room.
Nancy died not long after that day, and her family has shared with me many times since how precious that sculpture is for them. For all of us her hands were both an embodiment of her spirit and a representation of her transition. The process of artmaking facilitated everyone's ability to accept this necessary transformation of Nancy's body to spirit. It served to strengthen and unite us collectively, it helped to transform loss into passage.
Nancy's experience illustrates the quality of exchange that is possible working one-on-one on the Rhoads 7 unit. The small group gatherings in the family lounge are usually of a different nature. I attempt to create a warm, supportive social environment. The lounge becomes a meeting place for patients who look forward to the afternoon art classes and often make "dates" to meet each other at certain times. I have been told time and time again that the Art Program provides the only reason to get themselves up and out of their rooms. Given the length of their stay, this alone is a significant factor to their wellbeing. I also play music during the afternoon group sessions and have found that even when patients are not feeling up to sitting at the table to make art, they simply enjoy being present in the lounge watching others and listening to the music. Frequently I'll encourage storytelling to the music while we are all present working or relaxing. It creates lots of vivid imagery and communications, which in turn inspires the imagination, which then encourages creativity. They report how refreshing it is to see all the art materials and projects being made and enjoy listening to the music. I believe that when the staff witnesses patients in this context it strongly encourages an emphasis of the patient as a whole being, rather than the focus accentuating the disease. Quite naturally, it creates the same perspective in the patients themselves. An active sense of community is generated by the program's presence.
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The 6 Most (Certifiably) Insane Tales of Rock Star Behavior
We expect our rock stars to be a little crazy. Sex, drugs and trashed hotel rooms are all part of the rocking package.
But even in the crazy-ass world these artists live in, sometimes there's an incident that makes everybody stop and say, "Dude."
For instance...
#6. Prince Assaults Sinead O'Connor ... For Cursing
In the early 90s, Sinead O'Connor scored a massive hit with her cover of the Prince-penned "Nothing Compares To You." Sorry, that should probably read "Nothing Compares 2 U." We are talking about Prince after all. At any rate, according to O'Connor, His Purpleness was less than thrilled with her decision to cover the song since he was already planning to give it to a female protege of his, perhaps in exchange for a series of unthinkable sex acts.
When he met with Sinead to discuss the situation, things got a bit out of hand. And by "out of hand" we mean "they got in a goddamned fistfight."
It started with Prince berating the shorn-locked singer for, of all things, cursing in interviews. She replied with a diplomatic and sympathetic "go fuck yourself." At that point, O'Connor claims Prince became physically threatening, or at least to the extent Prince can physically threaten anyone.
At that point the two went at it, in what was probably the most effeminate fistfight of all time. Prince used his fists, O'Connor used loogies. "All I could do was spit. I spat on him quite a bit," she said. Classy! Not that beating women is any classier, but seriously, how would you feel if you were robbed of the chance to pass one of your most enduring tunes onto one of your talented proteges? Imagine the possibilities!
Oh, shit!
#5. Ozzy Osbourne Impresses Record Execs... By Biting the Head Off a Dove
That Ozzy Osbourne once bit the head off a bat is old news. To the credit of his sanity, he apparently didn't know it was a real bat. Plus, he was in Des Moines, Iowa at the time. When you're spending an evening in a place like Iowa, you find your fun however you can.
A slightly less famous incident happened at CBS Records' Los Angeles office shortly after Ozzy left Black Sabbath to embark on a solo career. Sensing that CBS was not overly interested in her husband or his music, Sharon Osbourne decided it would be a good idea for Ozzy to show up at a meeting with CBS executives with a couple of live doves in pockets. The idea was that he would release them into the air when he walked in. And who wouldn't be impressed by having a couple of albino birds hurled into the air at their place of employment?
But Ozzy, ever the showman, decided that instead of releasing the doves, he would take one out of his pocket and delightfully bite its head off as CBS employees looked on in horror. According to an eyewitness, the reaction was an understandably stunned silence followed by Ozzy being hastily removed from the room, presumably while little spurts of blood shot from the bird's ragged neck stump.
This is the kind of story that, over the years, becomes so shrouded in legend that people start to question whether it is even true, us included. But, admittedly, this picture of Ozzy Osbourne biting off the head of a dove while shocked record execs look on is pretty damning evidence.
#4. Carlos Santana Gives All Glory to... Metatron?
It's not unusual these days for an artist to score a huge album and, in later interviews, give all the credit for their success to God. Ok, it's not unusual for rappers and R&B singers at least. But in a 1999 interview with Rolling Stone, Carlos Santana awesomely took things a step further.
Those skeptics among us would be tempted to credit the success of the album largely to the fact that it consisted mostly of Carlos playing guitar on songs that, otherwise, didn't resemble Santana songs in the least. But when asked about the inspiration for his comeback album Supernatural (of course) Carlos credited a mystical spirit named Metatron.
In Carlos' own words:
"I know it sounds New Age... but in my meditation, this entity - which is called Metatron - he said, 'we want to hook you back to the radio airwave frequency. We want you to reach junior high schools, high schools and universities. Once you reach them - because we are going to connect you with the best artists of the day, then we want you to present them a new menu. Let them know that they are themselves, multidimensional spirits with enormous possibilities and opportunities. We want you to present them with a new form of existence that transcends religion, politics or the modus operandi of education today'"
Alrighty then!
He also went on to say, "Metatron is the architect of physical life. Because of him, we can French-kiss, we can hug, we can get a hot dog, wiggle our toe." Well, we do certainly dig hot dogs. And we like a god who may possibly be a Transformer. Then again ... Metatron claimed the album would feature "the best artists of the day." This would be an album that featured both Rob Thomas and Everlast.
We'd have to say we're non-believers, Santana.


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The Michigan IT community's guiding principles include the aims to "adopt common technology foundations" and to "seek and use common methodologies and standards."
ITS and other campus unit IT service providers are beginning to adopt shared processes and tools that are rooted in industry best practices and which will help create a more integrated service management environment at the University of Michigan.
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Religions address some of the most interesting and compelling questions in human life:
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- Why are we here, and how should we then live?
- Who are we as a people, and who do we want to be?
The study of religion explores human understandings of these key issues from diverse places and cultures as they develop across changing circumstances and in encounter with each other. A key feature of the identities of individuals and communities, religions have tremendous power and impact on our personal lives and our local, national and global communities. With their divergent worldviews, moral codes, and conceptions of the life's meaning and purpose and the crucial roles religion plays in history, politics, law, the arts and so much more, understanding religion and developing interreligious literacy is an essential requirement for living productive and ethical lives as global citizens in our world today.
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My question is whether there are any characterizations of non-wellfounded models of set theory. A wellfounded model is one that does not have any \epsilon-descending infinite sequences. I'm not asking about models that satisfy ZF-Foundation, but rather ones that satisfy ZF, but are not wellfounded in V. For example, taking the ultrapower by an ultrafilter which is not countably complete produces such a model.
I would assume that the reason one does not work with non-wellfounded models is the inability to collapse them, and therefore the inability to study their structure in relation to V. And perhaps there is a theorem which says that "anything is possible" when it comes to these models, and therefore it's a hopeless cause to understand them.


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When you're entering a dungenon and it shows "Random dungeon name First Level", does that mean there is a second and/or third level as well? I'm pretty sure I go through the entire dungeon but don't see a second level on a lot of them.
All dungeons that have "Level x" in the name will have at least 2 levels.
Random dungeons that have "Level x" will always have only 2 levels (and normally a resplendent chest on the second level), while story dungeons (like the crater in act 3, or the Cathedral in act 1) can have more (I think 4 might be the highest).
As Mr.Smooth already said, there are always at least 2 levels on a dungeon with "Level x" in the Name. But not every Dungeon have this in the name, for example the Caverns of the Graveyard on Act 1.
You can ensure that you reached the last level of a random dungeon when there is a stone to port you back to the entrance of the dungeon (I don't know at the moment what they are called.)
The entry to the second level might be in some hidden path, be sure there isn't a little dark spot on the map when you don't find it the first time.


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What's the maximum amount of time for primary fermentation, assuming the beer is going straight to bottles next? Will it over ferment and then fail to carbonate, if left too long in a carboy?
It takes three to nine days for yeast to ferment a typical wort. After yeast consumes all the available food (or produces too much toxic alcohol) it goes into a dormant stage, flocculates and drops out of suspension. At this point it does not produce alcohol or CO2. Priming sugar is used to give the yeast a little more fuel so they will wake up and carbonate the bottle. This means that you can not over-ferment your beer.
I do not transfer my beer from primary. You can leave them for months with little flavor impact.
I've had beers in the primary bucket for as long as a 5 weeks (busy, lazy, whatever), and never had a carbonation problem in bottles or kegs, upon addition of priming sugar. There will always be live yeast hanging around. Never had real problems with off-flavors from sitting on the trub for too long either.
I don't think there are any hard-and-fast rules, but I do try to get it into the secondary in 1-2 weeks, if it's a big beer. For a regular session beer, it goes to bottling/kegging after 4-5 days anyway, as soon as fermentation is done.
I had one batch in the primary for about 3 months and it turned out great. I was worried something "wrong" would happen but everything tasted great with no off flavors or anything out of the ordinary.
I have had mine in there for 3 weeks probably max. I tend to follow the 1-2-3 rule and that's 1 in the primary - 2 in the secondary and 3 in the bottles.
The yeast don't "die" they just go dormant so when you add some fuel (ie sugar) they will get active again until they have burned that up and thus carbonate the beer.
The only real reason I even move to a secondary is out of probably an unfounded fear of off flavors from the beer sitting on all those proteins etc, but to be honest it's probably not really necessary. It's more of me just wanting to mess with it and not having the patience to leave it alone for 2-3 weeks haha.
@ Hokiesguy95: your beer was not a failure because of excess time in primary (three days by your count), that would have nothing to do with soapy, unpleasant flavors. It would take WAY longer than ten days to produce any sort of soapy flavors from yeast autolysis.
The old advice of getting the beer out of primary as quickly as possible is antiquated and need not be repeated ever again. Just because there are no visible signs of fermentation does not mean the yeast is finished working; even with absolutely zero airlock activity the yeast are still cleaning up the byproducts of fermentation (including acetaldehyde and diacetyl), and allowing proper time for this work to be done will result in a more refined beer.
My fermentation process is a 21 day primary (under controlled temperatures), and then straight into a serving keg or bottle for most beers and into a lagering vessel for any lagering or long-term aging (barleywines, etc.). This extended primary has only resulted in much better beer, not worse, and no off-flavors or undesirable yeast byproducts. Oh, and some ribbons to boot. :)
I left a cider in primary for 1 year... it turned out dry, crisp, and tart. Definitely no autolysis, socks, meat flavors there, nothing for it to hide behind.
Best sanitation practices and healthy yeast let my beers sit in primary for many months. As I tend to over pitch, the extra time is not wasted by our single cell friends. Crystal clear (I stopped using secondaries some years back) and no off flavors. Sorry, I don't know how this would affect bottling as I haven't done that in over 30 years. Agree, great yeast is out there, grow it up if need be before pitching. Or just get a growler full of it from from your local micro-brewery.
I've read where there is a risk of adding some off flavors if you let your beer sit in the primary fermenter too long. Typically when you see that there isn't any bubbling or activity for a day then consider racking to a secondary or going to the bottling bucket and add priming sugar. Or if you don't want to worry about bottle conditioning, consider kegging your beer and force CO2 into it. No worries about carbonation then.
If you're using a fresh yeast is should be fine. If you're reusing yeast in the carboy and you're on your third cycle and you leave your beer in the primary on a huge 4 month old cow pie then you're certainly risking some off trooby flavors.
I do not understand how people have left their beer in primary for more than 7 - 9 days. My first ever attempt was a failure because I left it in primary for 10 days. It was an Amber Ale and it ended up being very soapy tasting and unpleasant. Could possibly be the style was not meant for longer, but I would not recommend leaving in primary once fermentation has ended and one should transfer to secondary if they are going to age or condition it before bottling.
The real problem with leaving beer in primary for too long isn't the yeast, it's the hops. If you're dry-hopping, leaving the hops in the fermenter for too long can cause vegetal or grassy off-flavors. If you're not dry-hopping, then I don't think there is a problem. I've left several batches in primary for a couple of months and haven't noticed any ill effects.
I have never had a beer ferment out in 3 days or even a week, mine take typically about 2 months regardless of time of year or beer type. I am not sure if anyone else has this going on, my beers are clear once kegged and appreciated by all who drink it. When I started brewing I realised it was a patience game, I have 7 30Litre fermenters and 1 60Litre fermenter. I either brew from kits, or from tins of malt extract and boil adding 4 hop additions; 1 at beginning; 1 at 40 mins; 1 at 50 mins and 1 at 55 mins. Either way they sit in primary for a minimum of 2 months before being bottled or kegged.
Dark Belgian strong primary 90 days straight to bottle let sit for six months... wishing I'd done a double or triple batch! If everything was sanitized properly long ferments at controlled temps are great!


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Flight Forecast: What Travelers Should Expect Next Year
When you arrive at the airport and board your flights next year, you'll likely see more Wi-Fi, more seats with extra legroom, more lie-flat beds, a more speedy security process and, of course, more fees.
Also coming in 2013 are more new aircraft and major airport overhauls, as most airlines are now making profits and raising their capital spending. United Airlines, for example, says it will spruce up neglected airport facilities, such as Washington Dulles International, and add new seats and bigger overhead storage bins to aircraft. New procedures aimed at speeding up boarding are in the works at United, too.
"In 2013, you will start seeing a lot of product development," United Chief Executive Jeff Smisek told a gathering of frequent fliers last month. "We have to catch up for many years of underinvesting."
Delta Air Lines DAL -1.55 % will complete the first phase of a massive rebuilding of its international Terminal 4 at New York's Kennedy Airport next year and move flights out of outdated Terminal 3. It will also launch a new partnership with Virgin Atlantic Airways offering more options for getting to London and beyond. AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, still restructuring in bankruptcy court, will roll out more new planes in 2013, and maybe even a new company if a merger with US Airways Group—being studied and negotiated by executives of both companies, plus labor unions and creditors—comes to pass.
Speedier Security Screening
Some of the biggest changes of the year for travelers may come at the Transportation Security Administration. TSA is pushing to expand the ranks of "trusted travelers" in 2013, and Administrator John Pistole says the agency will study new ways to get people enrolled in the "PreCheck" expedited-screening program. This moves travelers who have undergone background checks and finger printing into "old-fashioned" screening lanes where you can leave your shoes and jacket on, leave your laptop and liquids in your bag and walk through a metal detector rather than a body scanner.
TSA rolled PreCheck out to 35 airports in 2012 and screened its five millionth person earlier this month. After piloting and testing the system, "our goal is to expand PreCheck more broadly," Mr. Pistole said.
TSA anticipates more than doubling the number of travelers it will screen through PreCheck lanes, reaching an average of one million a month, by making it easier for people to enroll and by expanding the service to international flights instead of the current domestic-only.
Today, travelers can get into PreCheck by enrolling in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service's "Global Entry" program, which costs $100 for a five-year enrollment and by itself is a huge advantage for frequent travelers. With Global Entry, you go with your passport to a kiosk to re-enter the U.S. from abroad and avoid long lines at passport control and Customs inspection. To join, you have to fill out a lengthy form online and go with your passport for an in-person interview with a CBP agent at a major airport.
Mr. Pistole said TSA will study a kind of "Global Entry-lite" program in 2013 with a reduced fee and abbreviated enrollment process to get into PreCheck only, perhaps enticing people without passports, for example. TSA is also looking at allowing private vendors handle the vetting of trusted travelers, based on TSA criteria. A pilot program could start later in 2013, Mr. Pistole said. So far, PreCheck lanes are often underused. TSA wants more travelers in the program to not only better use PreCheck lanes but also to let screeners in regular lanes focus more on people who haven't undergone background checks.
More Wi-Fi, New Fees
Travelers will find Wi-Fi available on a growing number of flights. Delta already has Wi-Fi across its entire fleet and American will complete installation of Wi-Fi on board airplanes in 2013. United will get close to half of its fleet equipped with Wi-Fi. Southwest will hit 75% of its fleet equipped by the end of January, and may roll out video on demand on board flights in 2013 if testing under way now goes well, a spokesman said. JetBlue JBLU -2.03 % is just getting started: Its first Wi-Fi equipped plane will fly in the first quarter of 2013.
Wi-Fi is just one way airlines are trying to get customers to spend more while traveling. American will roll out rows of seats with extra legroom in 2013 available free to top-level frequent fliers but at a cost of $8 to $118 per flight for others. United has sold "Economy Plus" seats for years. Delta rolled out extra room in coach seats last year.
Be sure to contact your airline if you have to cancel your flight. Southwest has announced it will add a "no-show" fee, charging customers who don't call to cancel before departure a fee. Southwest, which doesn't charge change fees on tickets, hasn't said how much the no-show fee will be.
More Scrutiny of X-rays
The National Academy of Sciences will take on another issue of concern for travelers: The safety of body-scanner X-ray machines. The NAS is undertaking a study to make sure the radiation emitted by the machines is safe. The timetable for the study, requested by Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) hasn't been set yet and the machines remain in use. "I believe they are as safe as can be based on prior studies," Mr. Pistole said.
The study will look at "backscatter" X-ray scanners made by Rapiscan Systems, a unit of OSI Systems Inc., OSIS -0.40 % which are largely used at smaller airports and resemble two large blue boxes that travelers stand between. No radiation safety concerns have been raised about millimeter-wave scanners, which are large, round, glass enclosures.
More Profit
World-wide, 2013 should be a good year for airlines. The International Air Transport Association estimates carriers globally to earn an estimated $8.4 billion in 2013, up from about $6.7 billion this year.
Yet, by the standards of just about any other industry, that represents puny profits: a net margin of just 1% in 2012 and 1.3% in 2013. Passenger demand will expand by 4.5% next year, IATA predicts.
Possible Service Declines
Smaller cities could see a continued decline in service as airlines move away from 50-seat regional jets—which have been expensive to fly with fuel prices high—and replace them with 70- and 90-seat regional jets. Those planes may prove too large to sustain some flights to small cities.
Big airlines also are likely to see large numbers of pilots retire in 2013 as pilots who would have faced mandatory federal retirement at age 60 five years ago now are bumping up against age 65 mandatory retirement. That may move pilots up from regional airlines to bigger carriers, leaving a shortage of pilots at feeder carriers.
More Beds and New Planes
Next year, United, Delta and American all will make lie-flat beds, previously seen only on international flights, on cross-country domestic flights.
Travelers will also see the Boeing Co. BA 0.49 % 787 Dreamliner on a lot more routes to and from the U.S. The new plane is built with composite materials rather than aluminum, allowing more-comfortable cabin pressure and slightly higher onboard humidity.
It will fly routes such as Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles and Denver to Tokyo; Houston to London, Amsterdam and Lagos; plus Lima-Los Angeles, L.A.-Shanghai and Chicago-Warsaw.
New Look at American
As it tries to restructure, American also says it will unveil a new livery and logo for its fleet. The current unpainted aluminum with red, white and blue stripes dates back to the 1960s—the oldest livery still in use by a major U.S. airline.
American began leaving planes unpainted because it liked the shiny silver look, which became known as the "silver bird." Former CEO Robert Crandall kept it because paint adds several hundred pounds of weight, using more fuel. But now American's 787 Dreamliners and several Airbus planes on order have composite surfaces that must be painted.
A Boeing 777-300 was recently delivered to American with an all-gray tail with no logo. That plane, scheduled to begin flying passenger service in January, is likely to be the first with the new livery.
Even if American merges with US Airways, executives from US Airways have said they favor keeping the American Airlines name.
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Ferris State University will make reasonable accommodations for students who are absent from the University in observance of religious holidays. It is the responsibility of the student to notify the faculty in writing during the first week of the semester of their intention to be absent from class on their day(s) of religious observance. Upon formal notification, the faculty will excuse the student from the class, labs, clinics for the holiday(s) and allow the student to make up missed exams; however, the student is responsible for completion of all missed work within a reasonable time as determined by the faculty.
Requests for absence to participate in religious activities, other than recognized religious holidays, are not recognized by the University as excused absences. The student may present such a request to the faculty during the first week of the semester and the faculty may approve such an absence at his or her discretion. If the instructor approves the absence, the student is responsible for completion of all missed work within a reasonable time as determined by the faculty.
If a student disagrees with the faculty member's determination, the student may make a written appeal to the dean of the student's college. The decision of the dean is final.


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BELL COUNTY (February 1, 2013)—A Central Texas man and his teenage son were arrested and charged Friday after an hours-long search for a possible shooting victim.
Richard Chrisner, 41, and his son Keegan, 19, were arrested early Friday morning after a search for the teenager who authorities believed had shot himself and then fled from a home at 17120 Leon-Moody Road.
The search started after two 911 calls.
Coryell County authorities received a report of a man with a gun at 7:29 p.m. and three minutes later Bell County received a call from the home on Leon-Moody Road reported that the teenager shot himself and fled, authorities said Friday.
Deputies spent several hours searching the area, with guns drawn, trying to find the teenager and A Department of Public Safety helicopter from Waco was enlisted to help in the search.
Bell County deputies found the teenager a little before midnight and discovered he had not been shot.
He was arrested at the scene, as was his father.
The teenager was charged with assault causing injury to a family member and evading arrest or detention.
The assault charge stems from an incident in which the teenager's grandfather was struck, authorities said Friday.
His bonds total $5,000.
His father was charged with driving while intoxicated and was released from jail after posting a $1,500 bond.


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The Lie derivative of a function $V:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}$ along the trajectories of the dynamical system $\dot{x}=f(x)$, with $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ and $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^n$, is defined as [H.K.Khalil, Nonlinear Systems, Prentice Hall editions, 3rd edition, ISBN: 0-13-067389-7, London 2002, p.114,509-510]: $$ \dot{V}(x)=\frac{\partial V}{\partial x}\cdot f(x) $$ Using this formula and assuming that $V(x)=\frac{1}{2}x'Px$ (with $P$ symmetric) and $f(x)=Ax$ we have: $$ \dot{V}(x)=\frac{\partial V}{\partial x}\cdot f(x)=x'PAx $$ However, this is wrong. The correct answer follows this derivation: $$ \dot{V}(x)=\frac{d}{dt}V(x)=\frac{d}{dt}(x'Px)=\frac{1}{2}(\dot{x}'Px+x'P\dot{x}) $$ we now substitute $\dot{x}=Ax$ to get: $$ \dot{V}(x)=\frac{1}{2}x'(A'P+PA)x $$
So I have a series of questions:
- What is wrong with the first approach?
- Why don't we denote $\frac{\partial V}{\partial x}$ simply as $\frac{dV}{dx}$ since $V$ is a function of a single variable - namely $x$.
- What is the utility of the first formula? an example?


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The Bowling Green City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to overhaul the way the city constructs its budget, at least for this year.
Commissioner Brian Strow introduced the "Zero-budget" resolution, which will require every organization that receives city funding (including city government departments) to present a priority list and explain why each projects should receive funding.
Historically, the city builds a new budget by adding a standard % raise to the previous year's budget for each department.
"Think it's a good idea because it helps the city prioritize its spending. Rather than just spending money on things because that's the way we've always done it, we look at each individual item and say "what is this item doing to benefit the city?" said Strow.
"It'll be more work, but we'll get it done," said City Manager Chuck Coates. Coates and Chief Financial Officer Davis Cooper will meet with Dr. Strow next week to hammer out specifics of the new approach before the city begins its budget planning in earnest in February. The new zero-based budget will go into effect in fiscal year 2006, which begins July 1.


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Kubuntu 14.04 LTS Beta 2 (Trusty Tahr) Is Out and Based on KDE 4.13 Beta 1
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Friday will be recognized as Gold Star Wives Day. This is a day proclaimed by the president to honor and recognize Gold Star Wives, people who have lost a spouse in military service to the nation, according to Diana Pitts with Honor and Remember of Kansas.
Survivor Outreach Services at Fort Leavenworth will be hosting a luncheon Friday at the Frontier Conference Center. During the lunch, around 12:45 p.m., there will be an Honor and Remember flag presentation to Amber Harrison-Mena-Martini, the Gold Star spouse of Sgt. Ralph Mena, the last casualty of the Iraq War from Kansas.
Honor and Remember is an organization that works to get the Honor and Remember flag flying as a national symbol of remembrance for fallen military heroes, according to Pitts.
To date, 15 states have adopted the flag. Kansas was the 10th, adopting it March 8, 2012. Missouri was the 13th, adopting it May 17, 2012. Part of the organization's mission is to place a personalized Honor and Remember flag in the hands of every Gold Star family in the nation. Since March 17, 2012, the Kansas Honor and Remember chapter has presented 25 personalized flags with 13 already scheduled and sponsored for this year.
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A Salina man has pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in the beating death of a toddler.
The Salina Journal reports (http://bit.ly/tvowuM ) that 28-year-old Antonio M. Brown Sr. pleaded no contest Wednesday in Saline County court to first-degree murder during commission of a felony. Brown also pleaded no contest to two counts of child abuse in connection with the 2011 beating death of 14-month-old Clayden Lee Urbanek.
Saline County District Judge Rene Young set sentencing for Feb. 12.
The child's mother, 21-year-old Brittney Betzold, was sentenced earlier this month to about 13 years in prison for second-degree murder and for not intervening to stop Brown from abusing the child before his death.
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The Pratt Greenback volleyball team traveled to Ulysses on Saturday to compete in the 4A Substate.
For the fourth consecutive season, the Lady Frogs came home with a second place trophy, and no trip to state.
The 26-10 Greenbacks were the second-seeded team behind the hometown Ulysses Tigers. Pratt's first opponent was the Larned Indians-the seventh seed. The girl's wasted no time in getting to the semi-finals, defeating Larned in two sets, 25-9, 25-11.
The second round would pit the Greenbacks against the Colby Eagles. The Eagles sported a very tall and athletic group of upper-classmen.
The experience the Pratt team gathered by playing an aggressive schedule paid off.
Once again, the Pratt team took down their opponents in straight sets, 25-16, 25-19 to make it to the finals for the fourth consecutive year.
They would meet Buhler, who also plays in a tough league. The Crusaders had just beaten the top-seeded Tigers in straight sets.
The finals would be a classic battle. After the Greenbacks shook off some early match adrenaline, they settled in to play as they had most of the day-consistent and with a great amount of heart.
Buhler took the first set 25-23 in a hard-fought battle and had the Pratt girls down big in the second set.
With a show of courage and heart, the Green and Gold fought back, winning the second set 25-23, setting up a third and deciding set.
The Crusaders sprinted to an 8-4 lead and looked like they had the momentum to go all the way, but once again,
Pratt fought back. In a back and forth battle that could've gone either way, Buhler's senior experience provided the last push they would need winning the last set 26-24 and ending the Greenbacks dream of making it to state for the first time in twenty years.
The Lady Greenbacks ended an outstanding season with a 28-11 record. The girls want to thank all those who came out and supported them this season.
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This week's interview is with Mary Anne Carson, of Santa Cruz County Bank 's Arts Collaborative outreach program talking about artist Manuel Santana or Manny as he was most commonly known. Manny passed away at the age of 81 in July of 2008 leaving behind a legacy of community activistism, both through his art and his many contributions to the culture of the Central Coast. Mary Anne along with Manny's daughter Angelina have put together a county wide retrospective of his work entitled 'Viva Santana'. 'Viva Santana' opened last week in the banks 5 branches and will host the opening reception on June 4th from 5:30 – 7.
In 2008 shortly after Manny passed away Mary Anne opened the county wide 'All Santana' show. 5 years later with the help of Angelina Santana 'Viva Santana' includes many works never seen before.
Viva Santana came about when Mary Anne and Angelina discussed the idea of showing a range of Manny's that spanned from his college years to his latest works in 2008
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SRL88's Career - Pre-Season - 2019/20 - Aston Villa FC
A mixed pre-season, but we had a lot of players who came into the club and had to get used to our system so Im not to worried. The league is the most important thing!!!
We played alright, but Arsenal are a class above us and made it show in the result. Still, we hold our heards high.
Alex Olexade-Chamberlain - £3m - Had him on loan last season and although he started averagely, he upped his performances and constantly hit the 7.1 mark so I thought he was worth a perminant deal.
Andy O'Connell - £10m - A big money signing but worth it. £10m is a snip for a youngster with his quality. A brilliant replacement for Gutierrez.
Anes Arnautovic - £1.2m - What a great looking goalkeeper. Only at 2* and has a 5* potential. Cant wait to see this lad reach his maximum potential.
Angel Di Maria - Loan - A shrewd loan signing. Will add quality to our side.
John Obi Mikel - Loan - Provides experience to the DM position and will help aid Gilian in his development.
Jon Kempin - £2.5m - Our new number one and replacement for Brad Guzan. Really pleased to have brought him in.
Julien Gay - Loan - Youngster who I sent on loan to Bristol City. One for the future.
Mxolisi Mbambo - £2.6m - A player who I managed at Blackpool and was fantastic. When they were relegated I had to snap him up for a cut price.
Ricky van Wolfswinkel - Loan - I wanted Jordan Rhodes but I had already filled my domestic loans up so I opted for Ricky.
Rob Wilson - £2m - Signed from Liverpool. Probably 3rd choice but will hopefully be a quality signing
Yao Diabate - £3.6m - Had to sign him. You cant beat an African defender on FM. Class act.
Scott McGhee - Loan - Brought in on loan with an agreed fee. Has a lot of potential.
So a lot of transfer activity. Really pleased with the players we brought in and we got some fantastic deals for the outbound players, none more so than Gutierrez.
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Some quality bought in there, hope it ends up with a good season this year.
Some great signings Andy O'Connell looks a very good buy.
Just read through the whole topic, great entertainment. Though I think you paid way too much for O'Connell. With such low decisions, passing, teamwork and finishing, I would never pay 10m for him. Still you've earned your right to even burn money for what you've done to Villa financially so it's not a big deal, hope he does wonders
Some good signings made,good luck for the new season
Good luck for the new season. You've done some solid business in the transfer market, so it's looking good for making Villa a top-six side again
SRL88's Career - August 2019 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
A decent start to the season. A tense performance against Everton but a deserved win. We won it narrowly and you could tell there were nerves, especially from the new boys. A nice finish from James McCarthy got us off to the perfect start to the season. We followed this up with an entertaining affair at Upton Park, taking the lead twice but unable to hold on. Overall though, Im pleased with how we have started.
So we have qualified for the Group Stages of the Europa League. Dont read to much into the scorelines because over the two legs we had over 50 shots at goal to their 10. Our finishing let us down though. Still, Im really pleased that we're in the Group Phase of this years competition.
Had to put the Community Shield result in with pre-season if you wish to look.
Nice work getting into the Europa league group stages, bad luck in the Community shield though.
Decent start in the league too. Keep it up.
Nice looking group stage,you should get top two but will need to play to your best to make sure.Also a decent start which is made better by West Brom and Birmingham right down there
good luck in Europa league
Just to let you know that my Internet has run out so there wont be any updates until Sunday when I get it back on .
Bad times
Decent looking group draw there - must be looking to go deep into the competition now. Good luck!
I wish internet was free
No updates? Bad times
You should be able to top that group
SRL88's Career - September 2019 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
A really tough month for us which started badly, but we ended it brilliantly. We played alright away to Man Utd despite finding ourselves 2-0 down at half time. We played much better in the second half and although we probably didnt deserve a result, we had our chances to get back into it. Against Arsenal we started like a house on fire with signing of the season so far Andy O'Connell scoring after just 4 minutes, but Arsenal dominated from then on. I had a tiny bit of hope going into the Chelsea game because they had been playing poor under manager Didier Drogba and we played really well and deserved our 2-0 win.
A solid win over Bolton set up a 4th Round tie against Wigan.
Always used to get the big teams in a row but 6 points out of 12 isn't bad at all especially with a win at Stamford Bridge to boot.
Tough month but you did well against Chelsea and high flying Sunderland!
good result against Chleski there. Good to see United beating you though hahahahaha
As you can see, I am going to be doing 2 updates with every month due to not being able to add more screenshots per post. Just keeping you all informed and you can have a look.
Very tough month but did very well to get 6 points out of it and a good start to the Europa League.
Read the entire 9 pages You done a great job at Darlington and Blackpool and now with Aston Villa.
Looking forward to more updates!!
SRL88's Career - October 2019 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
A quiet month in terms of league fixtures. Im becomming slightly frustrated with things at the minute because we always manage to start brightly but take our foot off the pedal and let teams back into it. We took a 2-0 lead against Blackburn but let them go 4-2 up before giving ourselves a chance with a late goal to make it 4-3. Leicester was another case of the same thing because we were 2-1 up until the 92nd minute but gave away another lead to cost us 3pts.
Another solid win in the Carling Cup as we moved into the Quater-Finals and set up a tie against Huddersfield.
Last edited by SRL88; 05-02-2012 at 15:37.
SRL88's Career - November 2019 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
A very annoying start to November. We were leading 3-1 against Stoke but threw it away, and then we went to Anfield which saw by far the worst result I have ever had. We also took a 1-0 lead in that game, but Liverpool blitzed us and we were deservidly thumped. I wasnt happy for obvious reasons because we had lost so many points from winning positions and held a team meeting after the Liverpool game. It worked as we won our next game against West Brom 1-0 and then went to The City of Manchester Stadium and came away with a fantastic 2-0 win to leave us sat in mid-table.
A solid win at Huddersfield in the Quater-Final see's us move into the League Cup Semi-Final to face fellow Midlands side Wolves.
Last edited by SRL88; 05-02-2012 at 15:47.
Great cup tie against Wolves, one for the fans.
Good luck against them
SRL88's Career - December 2019 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
A very congested Christmas period which saw us remain unbeaten and shoot us up the table. There were a few annoying draws there, but it was nice to not see a red dot on the fixture list. We started off with a hard fought win over Spurs before we threw away another lead against Wolves in the first of our trilogy of draws. We entered the annoying period of 3 games in 6 days and managed to win all 3 games with solid wins over Forest, Swansea and bitter rivals Birmingham.
Job done in Europe as we remained unbeaten in our final two games to top the group and qualify for the knockout rounds where we were drawn against holders Betis. If we manage to get through that tie we will face either PSV or Rangers.
Last edited by SRL88; 05-02-2012 at 16:00.
I can delete my comment if you want it reserved
SRL88's Career - January 2020 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
We started the New Year off with a shocking start at Goodison but got back on track nicely with a comfortable win over West Ham. We entered the period of the big boys again and put in a great shift against Man Utd and picked up a massive win. We put another good display in against Arsenal but luck wasnt on our side and they won 1-0 but still find ourselves not to far off the Champions League places.
A tough game against my former club and they had a real go at us. We managed to scrape a 3-2 win and set up a 4th Round tie against Nottingham Forest.
Last edited by SRL88; 05-02-2012 at 16:24.
January 2020 - Continued
Brilliant!!! Just brilliant. We battled our way past Wolves to reach the League Cup Final, my second Cup Final since taking charge at Villa. Im absolutely delighted with the outcome and we really deserved it. Our opponents?? Of course, the team who I beat in the FA Cup Final, Leicester.
Transfers - In
Andy Carroll - £13.25m - Overpaid? Probably yeah, but I needed someone who was different. All our strikers are poachers and I wanted someone who I could mix our play up with and Andy fits the bill perfectly.
Alvin Arrondel - £3.1m - Probably not the greatest centre half in the world, but we have been quite annoying in the way we concede goals as players seem to switch off and this guy has high concentration levels which is one of the main reasons I signed him.
Jose Manuel Aguayo - £1.8m - A nice player brought in for a small fee. Will need time to settle, but adds class to the midfield.
Vaclav Kadlec - Loan - Transfer listed at Man Utd so I snapped him up straight away till the end of the season.
Transfers - Out
I sent a couple of players out on loan for first team experience. Mango was voicing concerns over wanting to leave and Mrcela has been average, so when Newcastle came in with a decent bid I accepted.
Last edited by SRL88; 05-02-2012 at 16:26.
What a great month December was if only a couple of those draws were wins you would be flying. Were they close games or did either team deserve to win the drawn matches?
Another cup final awaits! Well done, and good luck against Leicester
Great write-up SRL, look forward to the next one, Aguayo looks a great player.
Nice size stadium now.
League Cup Final
First Half
We started the game strongly and really went at Leicester, creating a few opportunities in the first 5 minutes without converting. Whilst attacking Leicester in the 19th minute they hit us on the break. A long ball over the top had Daniel Sturridge running onto it. He pulled the ball to the edge of the area for Danijel Tot to slide into the back of the net. 1-0 Leicester. The big talking point of the first half however came in the 32nd minute when Andy Carroll was shown a straight red card for a two footed challenge. The players were livid as four of the surrounded the referee. Nothing changed and it remained 1-0 at half time.
We were left in a really tough spot. 1-0 down to a pretty decent Leicester side and we only had 10 men. No target man, so I had to change things around a little. I made us play shorter and quicker passing to try and get our lone front man in behind.
Second Half
We started the second half much like the first, but this time made it count. We won a free-kick on the right hand side and the ball in landed perfectly on the head of Alvin Arrondel who powered home a header to even things up. We didnt sit back and kept on pushing. Despite having 10 men, we were by far the better side and had numerous chances to take the lead. As time wore on our legs began to fade. We had played at such a high tempo to get back into the game that we were weiry. Following a poor corner Leicester again hit us on the break. As they flooded forward we couldnt handle their pace and the ball found its way to Daniel Sturridge on the left hand side of the box. He dinked passed a defender and scored at the near post to make it Leicester 2, Aston Villa 1 in the 93rd minute. We had no time left to go back up the other end and score and our dreams of lifting another trophy were over.
Full Time
Leicester 2-1 Aston Villa
A hard scoreline to take, especially with them scoring so late on. The sending off was the difference. Was it deserved? I will never know but the players were angry. Still, we done well to reach another Final, its just a shame it didnt end like the last one.
Unlucky in the final dude, late goals are hard to take especially in a match like that.
Unlucky to lose in the final Not bad position to be in the league. Hopefully you'll get more income from increasing the stadium to 51K.
In a good position in the league and hopefully the players can forget about the painful loss in the final.Also a good size stadium to have,maybe good news in the future.
SRL88's Career - February/March 2020 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
A fantastic run of form by us which has us hot on Liverpool's heels for a Champions League spot. Just two games which we failed to win over February and March, but by no means a massive problem as we got good draws against Chelsea and Liverpool. Vaclav Kadlec had a brilliant run of form infront of goal and I hope it continues. Brilliant wins against Blackburn and away to Sunderland were followed with us getting revenge on Leicester with a solid 1-0 win. Our excellent couple of months was capped off with an amazing 7-0 win away to West Brom.
We continue to defend our FA Cup crown but it could easily have been over. We were down to 9 men against Nottingham Forest after 6 minutes of the home tie but we battled brilliantly to take the game to a replay. We were heading for the next round until a 91st minute goal from them took the tie to extra time. Our extra levels of fitness showed and we took advantage to win the tie 5-2. That set up a tie against Bolton who we breezed past before beating Blackburn 2-1 with 10 men as we moved into yet another Semi-Final where we will face Sunderland.
Last edited by SRL88; 05-02-2012 at 20:54.
February/March 2020 - Continued
So our run in the League Cup ended in defeat in the Final as Leicester got revenge on us for our emphatic FA Cup Final victory last season. We had to play 70 minutes of the match with 10 men and it took an injury time goal in the second half for them to win the tie.
Our run also ended in the Europa League against PSV. We had to rely on penalties to knock holders Real Betis out but PSV were to strong for us and we went out without to much of fight.
Last edited by SRL88; 05-02-2012 at 20:58.
Going well at Villa, really good in the league and a good result at forest considering the circumstances! Keep it up mate
Unlucky losing the final in the 93rd minute but you've made some great progress in the league
Bad luck in the cup final, at least you're still going well in the league.
Andy Carroll- I hope you fined him heavily for his sending off!
Shame to see you go out in Europa League
Any chance of letting me copy your layout?
Leverkusen spend more money on playerwages then Dortmund, well well.
SRL88's Career - April 2020 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
After a brilliant couple of months in February & March we started off poorly in April with back to back defeats against Wolves & Spurs. We got back on track with a professional display against Fulham and rounded off the month with a solid win over Newcastle to leave us with a great chance of making the Champions League. Its going to be very tight and our run-in compared to Liverpool's are pretty similar, but we have that vital game in hand against Swansea.
Brilliant. For the second season in a row we have reached the FA Cup Final, and our second Final of the season. In what was a pretty tense Semi-Final we managed to beat Sunderland 3-2 to move into the Final where we will meet Chelsea.
Good luck in the final, going to be close for the last Champions League spot!
I was going to post an FA Cup Final update, but the scoreline didnt really result in anything worth a long post about, so I will just post a screenshot for you.
FA Cup Final
An absolutely unbelievable performance. Cup Finals are usually tense affairs but you can throw the rule book out the window on this occassion. The scoreline was a little flattering, but our clinicalness infront of goal was second to none. Rather than post **** loads of information, I will just let you look in amazement .
Wow....just wow
What the ****?
I guess it was an average result at best, Rob Wilson must have played a blinder, great result
That's a ridiculous result! Definitely a perfect storm.
Stunning result! Now to try and take 4th place and cap off a great season.
Cracking result in the Final. Made it look easy. Now if you can just do that in the remaining games of the season.......
Just realised this is the 888th post, maybe i should make a bet at a prominant bookies?!
Holy crap that is epic. Fantastic work
Did they play a goalie :o good win thought keep up the good work
Put a screen up of Rob Wilson please
What?! 8-0 against Chelsea in FA Cup final Superb result SRL88.
SRL88's Career - May 2020 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League
Job done!!! Obviously disappointed with the draw against Birmingham on the final day but it didnt matter because we will be playing Champions League football next season. We brushed aside Nottingham Forest & Swansea without much trouble before putting in a fantastic display in against Man City to clinch a Champions League spot.
Not much more to say on this matter. We destroyed them!!! An excellent achievement to retain the FA Cup.
Not bad finish to the season alongside massive FA Cup win Good luck for next season.
Fantastic work in the league
SRL88's Career - Season Review - 2019/20 - Aston Villa FC
Premier League - Results 1 - Results 2 (4th - Champions League football )
Brilliant season. I couldnt really have wished for more. From taking over with the club struggling in the league and in financial disaray to Champions League football in less than two seasons. Brilliant achievement from the club. We put in some brilliant displays over the course of the season, doing the double over Manchester City, a brilliant win at Stamford Bridge and against Man Utd being stand-outs. As the season wore on it looked more evident that it was going to between us and Liverpool but we held our nerve to clinch a Champions League spot. Such a good season domestically that I came third in the Manager of the Year Award.
Community Shield (Runners-Up)
Season opener and we lost. Arsenal were the better side. Not to bothered.
FA Cup (Winners)
A great achievement to retain the FA Cup. Obviously the stand-out result came in the Final as we destroyed Chelsea 8-0. It could have been much different though. In the 4th Round against Nottingham Forest we went down to 9 men within 6 minutes in the first tie but we put in a battling performance to take things to a replay where our class showed. The only other tough tie we had was against Sunderland in the Semi-Final but we battled through that before our quality result against Chelsea.
League Cup (Runners-Up)
A nice run to the Final in the League Cup which ended with us losing out to the side we beat in last seasons FA Cup Final. It was made harder with us going down to 10 men in the first half, but we battled on and it was more annoying that we lost to a stoppage time goal to lose 2-1.
Europa League (Knocked out in 2nd Knockout Round)
A decent run in the Europa League for us. We topped our group pretty easily before knocking out holders Real Betis. A disappointing performance over the two legs against PSV and we deservidly went out.
Transfers - Finances
A lot of transfer activity both in and out of the club but it made a huge difference. There were some ok players at best in the squad I inherited so they had to move on. The players I brought in were excellent for us. Really pleased with their performances as they were probably the main difference between success and failure this season.
Finances wise, wow!!! Such a remarkable turn around compared to when I took over. I wouldnt have been suprised if we went into administration because of how bad they were but how its changed. The club is now solid financially.
A really good squad we have going here. There will be changes, but the base is there. The wage budget has gone down and we have a lot of good players on smaller wages. Really pleased with the players we have.
My Top 3 Players
Rob Wilson - The clubs new record goalscorer for one season. Obviously not a mass amount of goals in the league but a brilliant signing from the man brought in for £2m from Liverpool.
Anes Arnautovic - Signed as a back-up player due to his age but following an injury to Jon Kempin, I threw this guy in and what a goalkeeper. For his age he is excellent and isnt even at full potential yet. One of my best signings without a doubt.
Andy O'Connell - The clubs big money signing in the summer and he proved his value. Really good winger who put in consistant and excellent performances.
Next Season?Code:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Season | Team | League | Country | League Position | Notes | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2011/12 | Kirklareli Spor | Second Division Group A | Turkey | 5th | Play-Off Quater Finalists | | 2012/13 | Kirklareli Spor | Second Division Group A | Turkey | 3rd | Play-Off Semi Finalists | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2013/14 | Darlington | Blue Square Premier | England | 4th | Play-Off Semi Finalists, FA Trophy Runners-Up, | Appointed in October | | 2014/15 | Darlington | Blue Square Premier | England | 2nd | Promoted via Play-Offs, FA Trophy Runners-Up | | 2015/16 | Darlington | League Two | England | 3rd | Promoted | | 2016/17 | Darlington | League One | England | 5th | Promoted via Play-Offs | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2017/18 | Blackpool | Championship | England | 3rd | Promoted via Play-Off's | | 2018/19 | Blackpool | Premier League | England | - | Resigned in November | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2018/19 | Aston Villa | Premier League | England | 10th | Appointed in November, FA Cup Winners | | 2019/20 | Aston Villa | Premier League | England | 4th | FA Cup Winners, League Cup Runners-Up, | Champions League Qualification |
Brilliant work this season and really looking forward to the challenge of Champions League football. We have already agreed to sign Yaya Sanogo for £4.1m and a couple of 15yo regens so things are already in motion.


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Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?
If it makes any difference, I want to recover a Keepass 2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file.
Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?
If it makes any difference, I want to recover a Keepass 2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file.
TestDisk can sometimes recover recently deleted files.
extundelete is really great if your file system is ext3 or ext4.
Note: extundelete requires you to unmount your drive to work properly (this is a good idea to do ASAP anyway, to avoid potentially overwriting the hopefully-recoverable bytes in the deleted files).
Unmounting the drive on a live system can be tricky... you'll often get the '
The trick to getting around this is to do a 'lazy' unmount:
I have used foremost to recover damaged hard disk both under NTFS (windows), FAT32 (Flash card from a Nokia phone) and ext3 with great results. Command line only, but quite it's easy, something like this:
It will order the recovered files on folders by file-type. Openoffice docs are recovered as zip files. As you need to execute it as root (in order to direct access the hardware), output files are also owned by root, so you will likely need to change their ownership afterwards.
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To recover the directory you can use
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If using secondary internal HD (suspect the same for external HD) for recovered file import (from main HD, where the files originally were), it's necessary to make a directory, into which the files will be put in on secondary HD.
To do it, you need to have BIOS setting for booting from CD first!
1. Start Live Ubuntu Rescue-Remix CD, give command to boot, then when it boots into terminal, check your HDs by command – Code:
Realize what HD is main, and which is secondary, and what partition to check for files and into which to recover them – linux ext3 or Windows NTFS! Mine was Linux. Have enough room on it! (Then you can try to run Photorec ("sudo photorec") and hopefully you'll be able to see all your HDs. I was not that lucky, so I had to make directory and mount sec. HD.)
If alright, terminal prompt simply returns.
If alright, terminal prompt simply returns.
Go thru settings, and only choose file types that you want, otherwise you'll have thousands of files to sift thru!
For more details you may please visit: http:/www..ubuntumanual.org/posts/357/recover-your-deleted-files-in-ubuntu
R-Linux(Recovery studio) is one of the best. I have used this tool many times before. I worked at a company where they used the commercial version, 9/10 times it recovers everything you want. Truly superb application. Saved mine, and friends behinds many times before.
Features (from their website):
R-Linux recover files:
R-Linux Advanced features:
If you deleted some file by accident but still know some strings which were written in that file you can use:
Autopsy and the Sleuthkit tools are great for recovering deleted files, with a user-friendly UI, as well as being available in the repos.
Recently I used ext3grep to recover a large SQLite 3 file that was deleted from an ext3 file system.
I had tried many other undelete tools, all which couldn't recover the file (from a dd image of the disk).
In order to use ext3grep, I needed to download and compile the source. Carefully reading http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html from top to bottom in order to understand how the ext3 file system works and how to use the journal to find where deleted files use to be on the disk was also required.
This is not a simple solution, but very, very powerful. If you're prepared to invest a few hours to study the document and compile the program, it's well worth it.
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