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SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Mike Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga, has announced that he has been appointed vice chairman of the Assembly Committees on Banking and Finance, and Labor and Employment for the 2012-14 legislative session by Assembly Speaker John A. P?rez.
"I am honored to be appointed these vice chair positions," Morrell said. "Our state is facing a critical time and with my experience in both of these areas I am committed to providing bipartisan solutions that aim to protect Inland Empire taxpayers, protect homeowners, and create jobs for our region."
The Assembly Committee on Banking and Finance addresses the issues of financial institutions, real property finance, and corporate securities law, while the Committee on Labor and Employment deals with discrimination, unemployment, Cal-OSHA, employment development and public job programs.
As vice chairman of these committees, Morrell will help review legislation related to these subject areas.
"As a small-business owner for 25 years, Mike Morrell knows firsthand the challenges facing entrepreneurs in California to create jobs. He will fight for common-sense reforms on the Banking and Finance committee to make our state a more attractive place to invest, especially in areas such as the Inland Empire where unemployment is higher than the state average," said Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway, of Tulare.
Morrell represents the 40th Assembly District in California Legislature, which includes Redlands, Highland, Loma Linda, and portions of San Bernardino and Rancho Cucamonga.

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Dan Casara wasn't supposed to walk again, let alone play golf.
But he got that chance on a bigger stage than he ever thought possible Wednesday.
Casara was one of two pro-am partners of Keegan Bradley at the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., who were double amputees playing on prosthetic legs.
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Canal Fulton's Justin Lower, a Northwest High School and Malone University graduate, shot a hole-in-one Thursday in the first round of the Web.com Tour's Cleveland Open.
Playing the 151-yard, par-3 16th hole (his seventh hole) at Lakewood Country Club in Westlake, Lower called his 8-iron shot "just the perfect swing."
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An eagle putt by Ben Curtis at the 15th hole that missed by just a few inches might have made his day more exciting, but the Kent resident was encouraged by his tie for sixth in the Memorial Tournament, his best finish in 12 appearances.
The former Kent State All-America and 2003 British Open champion got to 10-under par on Sunday, but a bogey at 18 left him at 9-under 279. It earned him $215,450, nearly surpassing his season earnings of $241,759 coming in.
Curtis had missed the cut in his last four events, with his previous best finish a tie for 12th at the Shell Houston Open. It was his first top 10 since he tied for second at the 2012 Players Championship.
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A Son Who Easily Cries
My 8-year-old son easily cries over very simple things like broken toys, small scratches or when he gets teased by his siblings. He does this at home and any other places, like he cannot control it. We feel that he might be embarrassing himself when he does this. How can we address this?
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Some children are very sensitive, and it can be a very good thing. I have a son who did not like me to play very low notes on the piano when he was young. He was and always has been my most sensitive child (he is 19 years old now).
This son is also the most sensitive to all of his family members. He is careful to keep peace and will always be the first to offer to help. If I ask him to do something, he does it cheerfully (unlike my other son who has a much stronger temperament and balks at just about everything).
My 19 year old is the sweetest college student you've ever seen. Just yesterday he had an opportunity to go to a meeting at the 4 year University he wants to transfer to next year. He had never been on that campus, and the campus is very large. My husband arranged for him to meet up with a successful business owner in the area, who had graduated from this University many years ago.
My son was so very excited for the opportunity to actually get to tour the campus with an alumni. But here's what I want you to see... My son sent this person a note which started like this... "Words cannot express how very thankful I am that you are willing to take time out of your personal schedule to meet with me and show me around campus..." The person who was meeting with him was very impressed with the note, as my son probably showed more sincere (from the heart) gratitude then most typical 19 year olds would.
Your son probably has this gift as well (and it is a gift). To be able to experience things deeply and express them deeply too. Please don't stifle this or tease him about it, and be sure that you talk to your other children about it too.
The world needs more men who are sensitive and caring. The fact that your son cries over broken toys or small scratches indicates that he values things on a deep level. He cares deeply. Some day, his wife and children will greatly appreciate this in him.
Please make sure that your whole family understands the 4 different personalities and see if you can figure out which personality fits each person in your family. There may be 2 personalities that a person exhibits, but usually one is more dominant than the other.
Feel free to post back here if you'd like to discuss it more. I'll be curious to find out which personality you think each person in your family has.
And to answer your question about how to address your son's ability to show his emotions... I would just give him a hug and let him know that you are sorry.
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Hi Kate,
I am so touched at how you made me understand that it is a gift why my son behaves this way. He really is a sensitive boy but truly is the sweetest!
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I thought I'd add that my 19 year old son (who is the most sensitive in the family) took on a part time job at the preschool where our oldest daughter works. This will not be the line of work he will be going into after he graduates, but the preschool is on campus and works with his school schedule. It's an ideal situation for him. The teachers LOVE having him in their classroom, and so do the children. He is so caring and loves to play with the children. His caring temperament benefits him well in that job.
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Hi Kate,
Thank you for sharing this. Your son sounds really caring and sweet. hope my son grows up to be like him too.
15th July 2013 09:52 PM #6
Hi momofthree,
I'm so glad that you have had some reassuring advice from Kate.
Sometimes just sharing our experiences as mums and dads can help others.
Everyone is different and I agree that sensitivity is a beautiful quality to have. Whilst my son is only two I am already aware that he is more sensitive that his peers. He is wonderfully intune with others - unlike most toddlers he loves to share and he has shown little sibling rivalry (he can often be seen stroking his younger brother on the head).
Is your son able to communicate how he has been feeling after he gets upset? Perhaps it would help him to talk through stories about characters who feel sad/ upset/ angry at different times - it is normal and ok to feel like this at times.
Best wishes to you and your son,


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East Lansing, MI (SportsNetwork.com) - With their spot in the Big Ten Conference Championship Game assured, the 13th-ranked Michigan State Spartans close the curtain on the 2013 regular season with a home game against the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Minnesota is heading to the postseason after winning eight of its first 11 games, but the team is coming off a 20-7 loss to No. 16 Wisconsin in frigid Minneapolis last weekend. The loss ended a four-game win streak for coach Jerry Kill's club, was the 10th straight in the series with the Badgers, and kept Paul Bunyan's Axe in Madison for at least one more year.
Michigan State is 10-1 on the season, and its perfect 7-0 league ledger gave it the Legends Division title outright for the second time in the last three years. The Spartans are in the midst of a seven-game win streak, with last week's 30-6 triumph over Northwestern being the latest.
Coach Mark Dantonio had nothing by praise for his team following the win over the Wildcats.
"I want to congratulate our football team. Ten wins. Legends [Division] champions and as we go forward it's exciting times. We've talked about there being moments that we'd remember for the rest of our lives and I think that's what is happening for us so we just need to continue and press on."
Michigan State owns a 28-17 lead in the all-time series with Minnesota, and the Spartans have won each of the last three meetings.
The Golden Gophers were stymied at virtually every turn in last Saturday's loss to Wisconsin, as they finished with only 185 yards of total offense (102 rushing, 83 passing). Philip Nelson completed just 7-of-23 passes, and no receiver had more than two catches. David Cobb was high man on the ground, but he managed just 68 yards on 17 carries.
The Minnesota defense permitted 324 total yards while holding the Badgers to 4-of-16 success on third-down conversion attempts. Antonio Johnson paced the Gophers with 10 tackles, eight of which were solo efforts, and Aaron Hill scored the only points of the game for UM, taking an interception back 39 yards for a TD at the beginning of the second quarter.
Cobb has really been the lone bright spot on an otherwise pedestrian Minnesota offense this season, as he has rushed for 1,010 yards and seven TDs. He averages better than five yards per carry in helping the Gophers churn out 207.9 ypg on the ground. The team's passing attack results in only 143.4 ypg, with Nelson completing only 53.4 percent of his throws for 1,211 yards, nine TDs, but only four interceptions.
The Minnesota defense has been the primary reason the teams has achieved the vast majority of its goals this season, as foe are scoring just 23.1 ppg in gaining 375.6 ypg (151.5 ypg rushing, 224.1 ypg passing). Damien Wilson leads the unit with 65 tackles, while Theiren Cockran has 6.5 of the team's meager 15 sacks, and Aaron Hill has two of its nine picks.
Connor Cook threw for a career-high 293 yards and two TDs, while Jeremy Langford ran for 150 yards and two scores to lead Michigan State to victory against Northwestern last weekend. When the dust had settled, the Spartans had piled 464 yards of total offense, compared to just 319 for the Wildcats. Bennie Fowler certainly made the most of his two catches on the day, taking one of them 87 yards for a score near the end of the first half.
Michigan State's top-rated defense stood tall against the run last week, allowing only 80 net yards, and the unit got solid efforts from a host of individuals, not the least of which were Darqueze Dennard (nine tackles, one INT) and Kurtis Drummond (two INTs).
Much like Cobb for Minnesota, MSU's Langford has been the one consistent performer on the offense, earning 1,076 yards and a Big Ten-best 15 TDs on the ground, helping the team as a whole generate 186.6 ypg rushing and 385.3 ypg in all. Cook has thrown for nearly 2,000 yards with 16 TDs and only three INTs, while three guys, led by Macgarrett Kings have at least 30 receptions.
The Spartans are tops in the nation in total defense (236.6 ypg), with their effort against the run (59.4 ypg) also ranking it No. 1. The unit's effort against the pass (177.3 ypg) isn't anything to sneeze at, and guys like Drummond (71 tackles, four INTs), Denicos Allen (70 tackles, 13 TFL, five sacks), Dennard (47 tackles, four INTs) and Shilique Calhoun (25 tackles, 11 TFL, 6.5 sacks, 17 QB Hurries) have shined the brightest.


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The founder of the University of Kentucky's Center for Green Marketing to speak at Xavier
Robert Dahlstrom was a Fulbright scholar at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo | March 10, 2010
Xavier University alumnus Robert Dahlstrom is making a presentation about green marketing curricula, conducting environmental marketing research, fostering sustainability efforts in the community and the relationship between the firm and the environment.
The free discussion, co-sponsored by Xavier's Department of Marketing and Sustainability Committee, is open to the public. It takes place at 3:30 p.m. today, Friday, March 12, in Kelley Auditorium in Xavier's Alter Hall.
Dahlstrom is the founding director of the Von Allmen Center for Green Marketing in the Gatton College of Business at the University of Kentucky. He is also Bloomfield Endowed Professor of Marketing in the Gatton College. He received his bachelor's degree from Xavier and his PhD from the University of Cincinnati. He has been a visiting professor and a Fulbright scholar at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, has taught in Austria and Greece, and is widely published in business journals. His book, "Green Marketing Management," is being published later this year.
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Coskata Inc. grows many microbes in how, in its efforts to find natural bacteria that optimally produce ethanol. These little guys are the key to Coskata's new method. Its current generation features high efficiency, live in-gas in an aerobic environment, and reproduce naturally.
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GM and Coskata partner to bring transform the way ethanol is mass produced
At the General Motors section of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) at Detroit, the biggest news wasn't cars -- it was fuel. GM unveiled and detailed its efforts to take Ethanol from a impractical technology into a viable alternative energy strategy. Not too long ago it looked like the end of ethanol fuel, with advent of a
hungry microbial hydrogen production research effort
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biggest current downside of current ethanol infrastructure
is simply its source; current ethanol can
only be produced using the chemical breakdown of sugar-laden crops
, such as corn and sugar cane. This makes ethanol more expensive and extremely agriculture dependent. Most U.S. experts agree that the amount of land needed to grow enough sugar crops to power the nation's vehicles would be prohibitive. Microbial hydrogen currently has ethanol trumped on this count, as it can use anything from crop waste to household table scraps as a source of hydrogen.
Ethanol is down, but certainly not out. An advanced new approach, dubbed "cellulosic ethanol production," developed by
Coskata Inc.
located in Warrenville, Illinois promises to make ethanol cheaply and efficiently from virtually anything organic-based. The long list of possible sources include used tires, crop waste, sewage, household kitchen waste, yard waste etc.
GM, inspired by Coskata's innovation, announced a major partnership with firm last night. GM reportedly looked into as many as sixteen ethanol startups offering different processes, and picked Coskata as the winner. GM invested a small amount of equity to cement the relationship, and both firms are aggressively moving ahead to bring the technology to the market.
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Lutz went on to detail how instead of enzymes -- which are tricky to mass produce and prohibitively expensive -- GM turned to nature. GM's approach starts rather traditionally by putting the various organic waste materials, such as tires, crops, crop waste and yard waste into a grinder. The remaining powder is then exposed to plasma, which causes the organic powder to ferment, releasing carbon-chain gas. It rises into the air where natural anaerobic bacteria eats the gas molecules and excretes ethanol and water vapor. This mixture then rises, and travels through a series of tubes with a separating membrane. The yield is pure water and pure ethanol.
"The bacteria are from nature so no patent was needed. And they reproduce on their own," Lutz explained, excitedly. The process, Lutz elaborated, is a down-to earth approach that does not use designer organisms or chemicals. Further it eliminates many steps in traditional or enzymatic processing, including the need for a centrifuge or still.
The process trumps traditional production in efficiency. Less than a third as much water is needed to produce a gallon of ethanol, which makes the process more affordable and easier to implement. Further an analysis of the process conducted at Argone National Laboratory reveals that for every unit of energy Coskata uses, it creates approximately 7.7 times as much energy, a ratio well above current tradition ethanol production.
Lutz emphasizes the importance of reducing reliance on foreign energy via ethanol fuel. He also explained that the move will take GM and other auto makers "out of the firing line" of accusations that they contribute to everything from "out-of-control global warming, to funding terrorism."
GM plans to aggressively fund Coskata and deploy the technology. While many alternative energy research technologies languish in the development phase, GM announced that a pilot plant will begin producing fuel before the close of 2008. By 2011 a full scale plant will come online, capable of producing 50 to 100 million gallons of ethanol a year. Such a plant would almost amount to 1% of the world's total ethanol production, including ethanol used for industrial sources.
The price per gallon to produce the fuel is approximately $1 per gallon, but Lutz stated that with Coskata profits, shipping, taxes, storage, and a retailer's cut, the fuel would likely raise the price to a still very affordable $2 per gallon.
Lutz said that while such a fuel would be very attractive to the consumer, the big hold up is the oil companies. He points out that while GM has sold 6 million flex-fuel vehicles in the U.S. capable of using ethanol, less than 1% of pumps in the U.S. are ethanol-equipped.
Will GM's new advanced ethanol process win out over hydrogen fuel cells and other efforts? With promises of mass production by the end of the year, and $2 per gallon fuel costs that don't dip into American agriculture, Coskata and GM might end up in the spotlight a lot in 2008.
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yea its like saying '' fuck skate borders, they ruin good railings and can flip s peice of wood around,big woop'' just reterded
yea its like saying '' fuck skate borders, they ruin good railings and can flip s peice of wood around,big woop'' just reterded
eh oh well you win some you loose some, but really you jave to think about it.
They do way more destruction then we do.
but whatever
Not THAT much more damage..
But, saying that "Throwing a piece of metal around oh well" In a sarcastic attitude is what was dumb..
ok ok my bad ;-)
lol I snapped my popwar two days ago just got a new girl I like it. It has tons of pop, more then my popwar and my other girl. woo.
I swear its only the myspace like posers that ramble on about 'pop' in a deck....
No pressure or anything...
I don't skate nemore but I was all about the girl decks Or blanks if I had no money
haha there really is such thing as pop, and I'm just trying to get this thread going you know other then arguing with bikers.
i'm gettin my girl in the mail tuesday...
cant wait to get into skatin everyday again
graffiti is pretty cool.
im skating a zero right now, it's alright.. my friend owed me money so he gave me a complete lol, pretty sweet
popwar WAS the shit, it went under though.. bankrupt yo
i'd rather live than live forever
i'd post vids of me skating from youtube but they have my full name on em. so i dunno if that'd be so smart.
i just got new royals........cause my old ones were worn down to shit
I just got kennyandersons audios, a new chocolate (day of the dead) deck, shorty's basic hardware, royals they are baby blue and purple, clear autobons that are purple, reds bearings and MOB grip tape
I do not do graffiti. Anything I post is not done by me regardless of what my post says. I do not condone illegal activities.
so it seems everyones got the gear
whats everyones best trick
i've started skating again after like 4 months of brake or so
so for now its ollie over manhole lol
graffiti is pretty cool.
best trick is probably a back double kick.. simple but im not that great so whatever..
i mostly use my skate to get me from place to place until i get my lisence.. 7 months!
i'd rather live than live forever
Nollie tre flip revert on a pyramid.
or kick flip a 10 stair
I do not do graffiti. Anything I post is not done by me regardless of what my post says. I do not condone illegal activities.
My best trick is probably switch pressure ghettobird (hardflip body varial) on flat. I love switch and nollie pressure in skate because almost no one can do it. My favorite trick is benihanas though out of a bank, but I'm not very good at tranny.
Fucking yeah.
Well some fucking donkey has got mud all over my fucking wheels for fuck fucking sake.
ye im ridn a blank wit kerry gets turcks blank wheels lucky barrings wit new etnies Sebastiens, ones wit the head phoneeess
yeeee haaha
Dirty styles.
Causeing Mayham.
wanna get a new chocolate or enjoi deck, yeye
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Charles from Olivet, MI writes:
A number of years ago, we put my mother's diary on floppy discs using IBM Display Write. Is there any way to convert these floppies to a Microsoft program that will read them?
Hi, Charles. That's a great question that prompted me to go out and do some research, because the Display Writer, IBM's old word processing machine, has been out of my mind since the last time that I used one in the eighties.
Here's what my research has told me: The Display Writer saved files in one of several formats; .rtf, .doc, .fft, .rft or .dca. The good news is that if the files are saved in .rtf or .doc format, then Notepad, Wordpad, Word and Open Office Writer should be able to open them. They won't maintain the formatting, though, and may have some junk (that's a technical term) that you may have to delete, but you won't have to recreate the entire document.
If they are in one of the other file formats, then there are a couple of things that you can try. The easiest test to see if you'll be able to open them without converting them would be to try to open them in Notepad. Notepad is your best bet because it basically reads the straight ASCII text without any formatting. In order to try this, open your notepad and click "file" then "open" like you would any document. Then you have to play around a little. First, change the file type in the lower right hand corner from .txt to "all files."
Next, I'm going to suggest that you change the encoding. But before you do that, try whatever the default on yours is (mine is Ansi, but I don't know if that's universal).
If your default doesn't work, then try opening it with the other encoding types and see what happens. If this works, you will have a LOT of junk to clear out, and you'll still have to reformat it.
If either of these methods work, save it as a text document and open it in Word or Open Office Writer to do your formatting.
There is one more trick that you can try if neither of these work, and that is to use the Microsoft file converter. Instructions for that can be found here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office-2003-resource-kit/office-converter-pack-HA001151358.aspx.
Hopefully this helps.
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Cash Money Records releasing Paris Hilton's long-awaited sophomore album
People have been complaining about the unknown whereabouts of Beyonce's elusive fifth studio album since the Super Bowl, but the wait for Bey's next disc is nothing compared to the saga of Paris Hilton's sophomore album. The follow up to 2006′s Paris (which shifted 200,000 copies in the States and actually managed to produce a genuine hit in "Stars Are Blind") was first "finished" way back in 2008, but here we are, half way through 2013, and the album is still nowhere to be seen.
In the past five years, Hilton's dropped a few random songs here and there (like the Afrojack-produced "Last Night" and the legendary "Drunk Text"), and last year she even launched an ill-fated career as a DJ. Every so often, she usually tells some random reporter that her new album is "coming soon," before slinking back to her busy life.
The latest update in the search for Hilton's musical comeback comes from showbiz reporter, Roger Friedman, who bumped into the original Kim Kardashian at a party in France (where else?). According to Friedman, Paris talked about the sound of her sophomore effort ("It's a lot different than my first album," she said. "It's really going to be house music."), revealed that she's returning to DJing with a residency in Ibiza this summer, and most interesting of all, said that her new album will be released through Birdman's Cash Money records.
Does this mean that Hilton has officially joined the Young Money / Cash Money family? We don't know, but she did recently star as a jewel thief in Rich Gang's hilariously great "Tapout" music video, right alongside Nicki Minaj, Lil' Wayne, Birdman, and Christina Milian.
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'"You may have not liked his production, but he was our centerman down the stretch the last 10, 12 games, and he was a big part of why we got (to the postseason)," Ruff said about Boyes. "And if we didn't have him, we would've been pretty thin in the middle of the ice. … We asked him to play a position he hadn't played in a couple of years. I thought he did a good job for us."'
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Proposition 34 looks like a pretty straightforward decision for voters compared to other propositions that come with complicated legal and financial analyses.
Should the state execute people found guilty of murder with aggravating circumstances, or should the death penalty be replaced by life in prison without possibility of parole?
But the question comes with a lot of emotional triggers for Californians on both sides of the issue. Voters have become increasingly frustrated by the inability of the state to carry out executions, and the huge backlog of convicted murders awaiting execution on death row is a constant torment to victims' families.
Prop. 34 would repeal the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without possibility of parole. As of Oct. 5, there were 726 inmates on death row, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
There's also the high cost the state and counties bear for legal actions associated with the death penalty.
"Having been in criminal justice for over 30 years, most of that time at San Quentin State Prison, I know how much money we have wasted on the death penalty," said Jeanne Woodford, a former warden of San Quentin who presided over four executions. "It is an illusion in this state. ... Since 1978 we've carried out 13 executions. We've spent $4 billion on the death penalty. The death penalty is far more expensive than if these individuals had life in prison without possibility of parole."
Most polls show Prop. 34 is unlikely to succeed. In a poll released Sept. 27 by the California Business Roundtable and Pepperdine University, 39.6 percent of voters support Proposition 34, while 49.3 percent opposed it.
A Sept. 29 USC Dornsife/LA Times poll had Proposition 34 trailing, with only 38 percent support.
Peter DeMarco, a spokesman for No on 34, said the race is likely to get closer as the election nears.
The Proposition 34 effort is well-funded, and its supporters include some of the most influential names in California, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Roman Catholic Bishop Gerald Barnesof the Diocese of San Bernardino.
Prop. 34 would apply retroactively to existing death sentences and directs $100 million to law enforcement agencies to investigate homicide and rape cases, according to the California Secretary of State's Office.
About 900 people have been sentenced to death in California since the current death penalty law was enacted in 1978, according to the death penalty initiative statute. Of those who have not been executed, 83 have died of natural causes or suicide, 75 had their sentences reduced, and 726 are now on death row, most still in appeal.
In 2006, a federal judge halted California executions out of concern the drug injection method might violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Backers of Proposition 34 had raised about $5.6 million as of late September. The No on 34 campaign had $245,000. Prop. 34's opposition includes the district attorneys of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties and many law enforcement groups.
"Death is the appropriate penalty now in our Constitution for certain offenses," L.A. County DA Steve Cooley said. "Baby killers, cop killers and serial killers make up the majority of people on death row. They've committed absolutely atrocious crimes."
Cooley said the death penalty should not be abolished, but should be implemented with executions in some cases that have dragged on through the appeals process for 25 years.
Mike Ramos, DA for San Bernardino County, called Proposition 34 an attack on victims' rights and the families who have lost loved ones by the actions of some of the "most horrendous killers in the nation that we have sitting on death row."
"This is probably, since I've been elected DA in 2003, the most important initiative that we need to oppose," said Ramos.
"We cannot allow 700-plus death row inmates to be placed back into the general population as lifers, so they can enjoy TV, read their magazines, their newspapers, books and visit family members as the wife of a peace officer gets to go down to the cemetery," said Ramos.
But Woodford argues that's not the reality of life in prison without possibility of parole.
"That just doesn't recognize the realities of death row," she said. "On death row the inmates are single celled. They get to stay in their cell and watch TV all day and read the newspapers and magazines that are often sent to them by their legal teams, which they have for life.
"Less than 10 percent of death row inmates work," she said. "They can be out on the exercise yard for up to six hours a day. They're allowed to have visiting seven days a week."
However, inmates serving life without possibility are doubled celled. They are required work five days a week at least six hours a day. They pay restitution to the victims' compensation fund, she said.
"That is holding them accountable in some way," she said.
Carlos Moreno, a former justice of the California Supreme Court, voted to uphold 200 death sentences while on the court and says each of the convicted defendants "richly deserved to die," according to the Yes on 34 website. But he supports Prop. 34, saying "there's no chance California's death penalty can ever be fixed. The millions wasted on this broken system would be much better spent keeping teachers, police and firefighters on their jobs."
But Kermit Alexander, a star football player for UCLA and from 1963 to 1969 with the San Francisco 49ers, takes a more personal view in his opposition to repealing the death penalty. His mother, sister and two nephews, age 8 and 13, were murdered Aug. 31, 1984, in South Los Angeles during a home invasion by members of the Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips. The intended victims lived two doors away.
"I had four members of my family murdered by a criminal who had gone to the wrong house, as it turned out," Alexander said. "He's been sitting on death row for 30 years. He's exhausted all of his appeals and should have been gone a long time ago.
"I was raised to be accountable for my actions, and the state's not doing that with its citizens," he said. "Those who are accountable for specific murders should be taken care of." They should not be allowed to linger and have appeals and all kind of delays.
"That only tortures the families that they murdered."
Proposition 34YES means: No offenders could be sentenced to death under state law. Offenders who are currently under a sentence of death would be resentenced to life without the possibility of parole. The state would provide a total of $100 million in grants to local law enforcement agencies over the next four years.
NO means: Certain offenders convicted of murder could continue to be sentenced to death. The status of offenders currently under a sentence of death would not change. The state would not be required to provide local law enforcement agencies with additional grant funding.
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Greater Cleveland Sports Awards shines positive light on area
(CLEVELAND) – It was the most memorable night in Cleveland sports, as it seems to be every year. The Greater Cleveland Sports Commission hosted the 14th annual Greater Cleveland Sports Awards at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel on Thursday evening.
The awards ceremony reflects on the best in Cleveland sports be it the three professional teams in town the Browns, Indians and Cavaliers as well as individuals on a pro and amateur level.
Dinner was followed by the awards presentation hosted by Ohio State legend and NFL Hall of Famer Chris Carter.
The Greater Cleveland Sports Awards awarded the High School Athlete of the Year, the Amateur Athlete of the Year, the Collegiate Athlete of the Year and the Professional Athlete of the Year. Along with those the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar and the Courage Award was given to Westlake competitive cheerleader Molly Miller.
Some of the individuals recognized included Cavaliers All-Star Kyrie Irving, Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon and PGA golfer Jason Dufner. Collegiate athletes that were recognized during the Greater Cleveland Sports Awards included Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook, Ohio State cornerback Doran Grant and University of Akron basketball player Rachel Tecca.
Other "celebrities" on hand included Indians manager Terry Francona, former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett and Browns quarterback Brian Hoyer.
On WTAM 1100 that evening Bob Frantz and Andre Knott hosted "Sportsline" backstage talking to everyone honored that night.
During the ceremony, the Cleveland Cavaliers announced that Irving will be the Eastern Conference starting point guard.
- Nick Camino


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If you like serrations, you'll really appreciate our exclusive pattern. It features groups of very small, sharply pointed teeth separated by wide, shallow arcs so it will rip smoothly yet very aggressively through a wide variety of tough fibrous materials without snagging or hanging up.
The Voyager® Series also offers all the other latest refinements in lock-back construction including lightning quick, one-handed opening, state of the art mechanical fasteners, massively oversized pivot pins that are fully adjustable and properly hardened, and dual stainless steel pocket clips for ambidextrous carry and deployment.
The Grivory handles feature 6061 heat treated aluminum liners for the utmost in strength and stiffness and are ergonomically designed to afford a wide array of grip options including the palm reinforced forward grip for which they are particularly well suited.
Grivory is unparalleled as a handle material as it is considerably stronger than Zytel® and, when deeply textured, offers a terrific non-slip grip. As an added bonus, it's impervious to moisture and won't crack, warp or shrink and remains remarkably resistant to abrasion or discoloration.
As tools these lightweight, super sharp knives are appropriate in almost any environment from hunting and camping to hiking and general utility chores. They can also readily fill specialty functions such as a boat or river knife, chute knife or police/military and survival/rescue applications.
- Item Number: 29TXTH
- Name: Voyager X Lg. Tanto Point 50/50 Edge
- Blade Length: 5 1/2"
- Blade Thickness: 4 mm
- Overall Length: 12 1/4"
- Steel: Japanese AUS 8A Stainless w/ Stone Wash Finish
- Weight: 7.7 oz (Approx)
- Handle: 6 3/4" Long Grivory
- Pocket Clip: Stainless Pocket / Belt Clip
- Made in Taiwan
UPC Code: 705442008569
A very widely used EDC steel, AUS-8 can take a very nice edge while also maintaining moderate edge holding and corrosion resistance properties.
The lockback system has been used for many decades. It can usually be found on the knife spine and it provides a strong lockup that will wear well.
Includes a pocket clip for easy accessibility and a more secure carry.
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Lovely in Lace
Alicia Keys is best known for her anthemic female empowerment ballads, but her fearlessness extends all the way to her daring red carpet style. After rising to fame in the early 2000s with her hit songs "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," Keys quickly established herself as one of the decade's most fashion-forward vocal talents. In honor of her being named one of ELLE's Women in Music, we look back at her top fashion looks.
Here, Keys walks the red carpet at the 55th Grammy Awards in a black cutout dress by Azzedine Alaïa.
The musician sports a backless Michael Kors gown for her performance at the Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC.
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Executive Lounge
The two lounge areas of the hotel are located adjacent to each other and serve as pre-reception rooms for the Barony Suite; however, they can also be used as conference or banqueting suites in their own right. Much like the Barony Suite, the Lounge can be divided into two separate rooms; the Executive Lounge, and Lounge One.
The Executive Lounge is situated next to Barony Two Suite and acts as the pre-reception area for that room. The Executive Lounge is suitable for up to 80 delegates theatre style and 50 guests as a banqueting set up. The room is bright, with natural daylight and guests can make use of the rooms unlimited free Wi-Fi.
Tariff: £275 per dayBack to conferences and banqueting
Key Facts
- 80 capacity (theatre style)
- 50 capacity (banquet)
- 84 square metres
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xTV (Apple TV take 1 replica/clone) skin is in the XBMC Skinning Project's SVN - Printable Version
+- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv)
+-- Forum: Support (/forumdisplay.php?fid=33)
+--- Forum: Skins Support (/forumdisplay.php?fid=67)
+---- Forum: AppTV (/forumdisplay.php?fid=76)
+---- Thread: xTV (Apple TV take 1 replica/clone) skin is in the XBMC Skinning Project's SVN (/showthread.php?tid=24617)
xTV (Apple TV take 1 replica/clone) skin is in the XBMC Skinning Project's SVN - CHI3f - 2007-02-02 20:09
So after many hours of work we have finally decided that it is ready for the public. This is still very much a work in progress so don't expect perfection, we are all very new to making skins.
The skin is available for download through the XBMC Skinning Project SVN. Just use this in a SVN client to download it http://xboxmediacenter.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xboxmediacenter/xTV/
I hope everyone enjoys it.
- .malde - 2007-02-02 20:53
this is nuts!
keep up the great work
will be checking the repository regularly from now on
- Striker - 2007-02-02 22:57
I don't know why, but the xtv skin looks different on my tv than in that screenshot.
The overall font size is a lot smaller. Most is almost unreadable (RRS feed, sub menu texts, etc)
- Striker - 2007-02-02 22:59
Its also not as bright white and the letters of a lot of words are touching each other.
BTW I'm on PAL 16:9 28" crt tv
- jmarshall - 2007-02-03 00:21
Don't use XPR fonts if you can avoid it (no I haven't checked out the skin)
- CHI3f - 2007-02-03 01:10
We are using a ttf font.
And about the font size in 16x9, I just made the <aspect> wrong. We have it fixed I am just not at home to upload it. Neither one of us that work on the code in the skin have a widescreen tv so it was a little hard work on it.
- Ayala - 2007-02-03 04:44
CHI3f Wrote:We are using a ttf font.
aren't you using the PC environment?
- Loaded Gun - 2007-02-04 08:55
what is the default size for movies, music, and apps in list view please.
- C-Quel - 2007-02-04 13:52
This is coming along nicely... kudos
- Gamester17 - 2007-02-04 14:57
theDeviL Wrote:aren't you using the PC environment?@CHI3f, yes CHI3f, you and your team should really utilize the XBMC GUI Win32 PC Development Environment for skinners & python developers (link) to help with your skinning, that is what it is for. It will allow you to test and compare PAL 4:3, PAL 16:9, NTSC 4:3, NTSC 16:9 with overscan compensation and 720p and 1080i HDTV resolutions.
- jarod71 - 2007-02-04 19:50
what xml do i need to edit to make the font a little larger in 16x9 480p?
- Jezz_X - 2007-02-04 20:21
font.xml in the NTSC 16x9 dir unless your doing 4x3 480p
- jarod71 - 2007-02-04 20:38
which font number is it or do i change em all?
- Jezz_X - 2007-02-05 03:41
probably all I have no idea really guess it depends on which one you want to change
- jarod71 - 2007-02-05 06:03
I will play with it and post my results....


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How Enterprise Mobility is Changing the Workforce
Today the world has over 3.5 billion people with Internet access, and for the first time, the number of mobile technology users exceeds the number of fixed access (read desktop) users.
Today the world has over 3.5 billion people with Internet access, and for the first time, the number of mobile technology users exceeds the number of fixed access (read desktop) users.
In an environment where cloud-based technology increasingly plays a role in businesses of all kinds, the way that IT and business users source and consume services is rapidly evolving. To address this evolution, we developed the concept of Cloud X.0 as the explanation and solution for hosted VoIP communications.
Thanks to the smart device explosion of the past few years, the way customers interact with the companies is also rapidly changing.
Customer experience is a key differentiator in today's ultra-competitive environment. More than ever, that experience is shaped and delivered through digital interactions, such as SMS, email, web chat, social media, and web self-service.
In a world of mobile and cloud technologies, enterprises can redesign their business processes with tools like embedded communications. For the mobile workforce, seamless real time communications tools bring data and analysis together to enhance both customer and worker experience.
Mitel and Mavenir have combined to pursue a unique vision of communications industry convergence and to provide business critical voice and high value business collaboration services across Mobile and Enterprise networks.
Just as you should go through and clean out your desk periodically (so that's where that user manual for the old printer went!), you should also take a good look at your business' communications tools to clean out, consolidate and reduce costs where possible.
Leveraging Cloud and Mobile Technology to Improve Eldercare
We asked ten experts for tales of customer experience gone wrong—and learned some valuable lessons
Changes in the interplay between technology, location, culture and business are transforming where, when and how we work.


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I never realized I had an accent until I left SW PA. We pronounced Powell and pow; Howell-how; Cowell-cow; cot-caught and many more the same. As you can guess I married a Powell and he was forever trying to get me to say Pow-ell. Never worked.
Anyone else have that problem?
Powell-Pow; Howell-How; Cowell-Cow
A forum for discussing US dialects (accents).
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It is one of our endearing foibles as human beings that we never realize that we have an accent. Everyone in the world does, but when many around you have the same accent it is easy to forget that the accent is there.
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Arnold School study: Better health 1 more reason for degree
Margaret M. Lamb. email@example.com, 03-777-5400
Better health in midlife might be a matter of degrees.
According to a study led by Dr. Katrina Walsemann of the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, attaining at least a bachelor's degree after 25 years of age is associated with better midlife health.
The results appear in the "American Journal of Public Health." The study examined whether attaining a higher educational degree after 25 years of age was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and better self-rated health than not attaining a higher educational degree.
The researchers analyzed data from 7,179 people who were part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a nationally representative sample of individuals who were 14 to 21 years old in 1979.
Researchers found that among respondents with no degree, a high school diploma, or a post-high school certificate at age 25, attaining at least a bachelor's degree by midlife was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and better self-rated health at midlife when compared with respondents who did not attain a higher degree by midlife, said Walsemann, an assistant professor in the Arnold School's Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior.


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Look, Think, Imagine, ConnectRegistration begins in September of each year. Register early as programs fill quickly; a minimum minimum of two weeks notice is required when making your appointment.
Plan your visit with these 5 easy steps
Step 1: Pick your Museum lesson topic. Step 2: Have your information ready: lesson topic(s), number of students, several possible dates and times, lunch plans. Step 3: Make your reservation: call or request online >> Step 4: Prep your students for their Museum lesson: find online resources such as previsit lessons and an orientation video, or visit the Wachovia Education Resource Center in person to borrow posters, DVDs, and other teaching materials. Step 5: Prep yourself for your Museum lesson: use the complimentary Educator Pass we send with your confirmation letter to visit.
Look. Learn. Discover.
School Group Visits at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtWatch Video >>
Guided tours: Tuesday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Unguided tours: Tuesday–Friday, noon–5:00 p.m.
Unguided tours: Tuesday–Friday, noon–5:00 p.m.
Student Admission Fees (due upon arrival)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Preschool program: $90 per class
K–12 programs: Philadelphia public and charter schools free
Philadelphia private and parochial schools $5 per student
All other schools $7 per student
Rodin Museum
Guided tours: same as rates for Philadelphia Museum of Art
Unguided tours: $5 per person
No students may tour the Museum unchaperoned. Student behavior in the Museum is the responsibility of the chaperones from your school. Please make sure all chaperones understand and are sympathetic to the Museum rules and regulations. All required chaperones are admitted free.
Please note: The Museum cannot accommodate more than the required number of chaperones on a guided tour.
- Preschool: 1 adult per 5 students
- Grades K-12: 1 adult per 10 students
Please note: The Museum cannot accommodate more than the required number of chaperones on a guided tour.
All Museum programs are available to all students. Please inform the Museum of any special needs that your students may have when making your reservation. For those with physical disabilities, the Museum offers an accessible entrance, parking, elevators, and lunch and restroom facilities. Touch Tours are offered for students who are visually impaired and a wireless sound-enhancement system for those who are hearing impaired. Sign language interpreters are also available upon advance request.
Lunch Facilities
Brown-bag lunch facilities are available for K–12. Facilities are limited so reserve space when scheduling your visit.
School groups are permitted to shop in the main Museum Store. They may enter the store in groups of ten with a chaperone.
Educator's Pass
One free-admission educator's pass will be sent to teachers with a confirmed booking. Please use this pass to visit the Museum in preparation for your class's visit.
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your scheduled lesson time. Buses will be directed by Security to the appropriate parking space upon arrival. Student Center staff will welcome your group and escort you to the Great Stair Hall where your lesson will begin. Groups will be admitted at their scheduled arrival time; late arrivals will result in shortened lessons. Groups intending to self-tour before their lesson will be admitted after groups with earlier appointments.
For more information, please contact The Division of Education by phone at 215-684-7580, by fax at 215-236-4063, or by e-mail at .


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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Pitching in big-market Los Angeles is not what worries Zack Greinke.
"The thing that I was always worried about throughout is not so much this," he said Friday, "but when I go home in the offseason I don't want people following me around or everywhere I go people talking to me and stuff.
"The last season with Milwaukee and this offseason and going back to Orlando, people have talked to me a little bit more, but I guess I've gotten kind of used to dealing with people recognizing me and talking to me."
That's what social anxiety disorder is: Orlando can be more terrifying than Los Angeles.
According to the Mayo Clinic website, social anxiety disorder is a chronic mental health condition in which "everyday interactions cause irrational anxiety, fear, self-consciousness and embarrassment."
Greinke has had the condition since before he entered high school.
The pitcher hasn't addressed the topic since his first spring training with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2011. Maybe his silence the past two years have allowed those crude theories to foment, in Anaheim last summer and now in Los Angeles: The more people surrounding him, the harder it is to pitch.
Apparently that's not how it works.
"I never had a problem with people watching me," Greinke said. "That's never bothered me. That might bother people but that's never bothered me at all. I don't want them looking at me in my house."
The concern over how social anxiety disorder affects Greinke in Los Angeles is not a fear of the unknown. It's the fear that he will do what he did to the Kansas City Royals in 2006, when he left the team in spring training to seek treatment for the disorder. He didn't return for seven months.
The Dodgers have invested $159 million in the right-hander over the next six years, making a seven-month absence one the team cannot - or at least, shouldn't have to - afford.
Greinke says his social anxiety disorder hasn't caused a problem since 2007.
"There was about a week, week and a half where I had some struggles," he said. "I haven't really had a problem since then. I got on a weird routine with my medicine (Zoloft) and I think that's what triggered my problems, but beside that it's been good."
When he was still a free agent in December, Greinke met with manager Don Mattingly and general manager Ned Colletti - notably, without an agent. He managed to convince his future bosses that social anxiety disorder wouldn't be a problem if he signed with the Dodgers.
"It didn't feel like it was going to be anything that's going to be tough to deal with," Mattingly said. "He was honest and upfront with us about how he deals with it. It just seems like such a non-issue that it never became even something we worry about."
Greinke, an admittedly bad liar, is honest about a lot of things.
"I don't want to talk about nothing or less than nothing," he said. "If it's something important, I'm fine with it, but if it's `hey Zack, how was your day?' My day was good. That's going to be my answer.
"I don't know how it gets any deeper than that. Does someone ask that and they actually tell them how their day went, what really happens? I have no interest in that."
On whether he plays baseball for fun: "It's just like a good challenge, want to see what you can accomplish. I don't really play for fun. I play to see how good I can be. That's kind of how I think of it."
On whether it was hard to admit the reason he left the Royals for seven months:
"I'm not ashamed of anything. When I broke my rib playing basketball, I could have said whatever, but the mistakes I make I want to pay the consequences I kind of deserve for them."
Greinke is also a baseball junkie who researched the Dodgers' farm system before signing his contract. After signing, Greinke correctly predicted that he would not be the highest-paid right-handed pitcher for long - this week Felix Hernandez had his contract with the Seattle Mariners extended for $175 million.
But for all his knowledge and talent, Greinke is not the substance of T-shirts or catchphrases. In his 2011 interview in Milwaukee, Greinke said that fans can be "annoying" for demanding autographs and time from players. Yet he still has attended team fan fests here and in Milwaukee - a contradiction on the surface of a man who can't be judged on the surface.
Another apparent contradiction about Greinke: He can be chatty with his teammates, Mattingly said.
"I think it's just a non-issue as far as chemistry," the manager said. "I think he's going to fit in fine with guys. It takes all types, it really does. You learn that over the years. Some guys are going to be funny, some guys are going to be loud, some guys are going to be quiet. There's just different guys."
And then there's Zack Greinke.


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Another Saturday Night
Amid the recent — and completely minor — hubbub around politics injected into Linux User Group discussions on the Berkeley LUG mailing list, it's interesting to see how FOSS and GNU/Linux can bring people of different political stripes together.
Exhibit A: Ken Starks and me.
Ken and I put together Lindependence 2008, an effort that brought Linux and FOSS to Felton, California, through a series of miniature GNU/Linux and FOSS expos at the Felton Presbyterian Church hall in July of 2008. Various distros — Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu and Debian, to name four — had tables set up at Lindependence, as well as FOSS programs like OpenOffice.org. Representatives from each of the distros and programs had representatives on hand, and the idea was to convert the town to Linux and FOSS.
Ken, a Texan, is an Operation Desert Storm vet and as Rebublican as you can get; a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. Those who know me know that I'm an unapologetic lefty no longer affiliated with any political party, and many of you are already tired of hearing me tell of my Green Party candidacy for statewide office in California (for those who aren't keeping score at home: In 2006, I was the Green candidate for Insurance Commissioner and got the most votes of any Green statewide that year — 270,218 votes, 3.2 percent).
But recently, I was looking at some clips from video that a San Francisco filmmaker, the Digital Tipping Point's Christian Einfeldt, shot on Lindependence 2008 featuring Ken and me, and thinking about how despite our differences, those of different political views can work together for FOSS and GNU/Linux, even though each is approaching it from different directions — ranging from either from a purely libertarian (small "l" to describe the philosophy, not the capital "L" political party) perspective to from the anti-corporate, anarchist (in the true sense of the word) paradigm.
[Ken and I, of course, fall somewhere in between, far from either end, of both extremes.]
In watching some of the clips that Christian had shot at Lindepdence 2008, I found one where I said something to the effect that I would never talk to Ken if it weren't for our shared passion for FOSS and Linux, as he would say (GNU/Linux as I would say), because of our political differences.
I'd like to publicly take that back.
Thanks to this experience, I have since been convinced that you can work across political divisions to achieve a common goal, i.e., Linux and FOSS adoption, and as a result I welcome the opportunity to work with those with whom I may not share a political philosophy.
Despite our political differences, Ken and I worked well in getting Lindependence 2008 going. Further, I'm proud to serve on the board of a project that Ken chairs, the HeliOS Project, which provides Linux-based computers to underprivileged kids in the Austin, Texas, area.
In conclusion, there's a lesson to be learned here, for the observant.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
August 14, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Hell yes!
FOSS transcends all boundaries, barriers, and other attempts at division.
Except for that KDE/Gnome thing. But that might be Ken's fault.
Having about 20 years as an ExPat I enjoy my ability to converse with
friends from many countries. We learn to respect each other through
our Linux travails and the sharing of knowledge. Those that I have had
contact with for several years now know my view (weird) on things other
then Open Source. Guess what, being a die hard Linuxtarian is more
important to them than any other baggage I am lugging.
But Ken and Larry? Go to some kind of Linux Fest or Linux convention,
you will see all kinds, I do mean all kinds. No blood shed, except for the
afore mentioned Gnome/KDE stuff. Larry and Ken are good people.
They work for what they believe in.


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AddictedMMA: What is it that has reignited the hunger to compete again then Ian? Youre a legend within UK MMA, you run a successful gym with some top fighters being churned out and youve nothing to prove to anyone anymore. I guess that the fighters spirit inside never dies.
Ian: Thats exactly it, my spirit will never die. You see some of todays fighters talking about how they train three times a week and want to become champions. I find it insulting that thinking you can become a champion from training three days a week. I'm old, retired and still train harder than them.
I also like to push myself, have a goal, an aim in life. Now that I have a goal, I will push myself to the limits and get ready for war. I will always have that mentality no matter how old I get.......
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Morgan Clare opened its doors on The Grove, next to Bettys, to the public last Wednesday, bringing five new jobs to the town.
The shop first opened in Harrogate in 1997 and over the years has gained a loyal following.
Director Elaine Wilkinson said they were looking to expand and when the Ilkley site came up they had to take it.
She said: "Morgan Clare is well known for its range of luxury brands and importantly, its welcoming store and customer focussed team.
"It was important to find the right environment to continue this ethos and when the site on The Grove became available, it was too good an opportunity to miss.
"Ilkley is a beautiful town with a similar vibe to Harrogate and it seemed the perfect place for our next stage.
"The feedback at our opening has been so positive and we're really looking forward to becoming established here."
She added: "Among the designers we stock are J Brand jeans to statement dresses from Peter Pilotto and Mary Katrantzou through to classic tailoring from Stella McCartney, plus shoes and bags from Alexander McQueen, Lanvin and Alexander Wang."


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I'm gunna have to ban someone get my rep up up or some shit!
just kiddin i'm not a cunt..
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Do you pay for your alt.binaries access? I just use torrents (completely legal ones obviously) as I don't download all that much.
I do, $11 a month unlimited usage...lovely
I do think a few providers do give you limited usenet access free with the package - you just have to ask - most though only offer around 7 days retention so you have to grab stuff as soon as its upped really. Ideal for TV etc.
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Some fruities that go to my school.
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the 4 dudes wearing fape from top to bottom always give me good laugh.
ive seen this guy in soho before...and to my knowledge he was with this baaaaddddd bitch...but hes a fucking herb though, i acutally laughed at him in his face, and couldnt stop
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nike forces, beaters for baseball
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Wool introduced the silo and its inhabitants. Shift told the story of their making. Dust will chronicle their undoing. Welcome to the underground.
©2013 Hugh Howey (P)2013 Hugh Howey
"Highly Recommended!"
This was a thought provoking trilogy, which built on itself really well from book one through to the end of this book; expanding not only on the characters but also on the scope of view the reader is given of their world. I Highly Recommend the whole trilogy! Narration was excellent.
Well, I finally finished the trilogy. If you have read my other reviews of books in this series, you know I have had a long term love hate relationship with these stories. I wanted very much to be totally engrossed in this final installment but, once more, it fell short.
There was a lot of meandering that suddenly rushed at break neck speed to an ending that I saw coming for many chapters. I figured it would end the way it did from the first book honestly, but I had hoped Howey would somehow pull it out of the fire at the end. What actually happened was a rather pedantic ending to a very good concept.
Other reviewers have said it felt like he turned a short story into a trilogy. In fact, that's *exactly* what he did. I don't fault him for trying to flesh out his concept at all- it just wasn't necessary. Shift was completely redundant (completely). This book could have been condensed into 4 or 5 hours tacked onto the end of Wool. That would have made an exceptionally compelling book with a much bigger impact.
I know my reviews of Howey's work always come out sounding very negative; I genuinely wish that wasn't the case. I cared about the characters and he made the Silos come alive in a micro-cosmic way. It was beautifully written, most of the time. It was exactly what my rating suggests: an average book that was generally entertaining but wasn't earth shattering in any sense.
I'm glad I finished it, but I don't think it would be high on my list of recommendations to potential listeners. As always, this is just opinion and your mileage may vary.
"Meanders, then races to a satisfying conclusion"
I'd guess most folks who read Wool and Shift are going to want to read Dust whether or not it's great so I don't think it needs a big review. Short and sweet - Dust isn't as well written as Shift, but it did provide a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. My recommendation is a definite, "Go For It"; you'll get your Audible credit's worth with this one.
A little longer and less sweet, I was somewhat disappointed in Dust partly because Shift was so good. Shift was a big step up from Wool in pacing, plotting, and great prose so I had expectations that Howey would continue that trend in Dust and the book would be at least as good as Shift or maybe better. Dust is better written than Wool, but it doesn't have the sustained narrative tension of Shift.
Shift ends with Juliette threatening Silo 1 so I expected Dust to begin fast and furious with that conflict. Instead, Dust begins with Juliette totally focused on rescuing the Silo 17 survivors to the point of dereliction of her mayoral duties. Her people have lost faith in her (no real explanation for that) so much of the book is treading familiar ground; a visionary who doesn't communicate well trying to lead a bunch of stampeding sheep type people. In addition, we get some updates and further development of Solo and the Silo17 children, but I found much of that more irritating than interesting. The dialogue for those characters makes them sound naive and gullible, but I think they would be tougher and more "silo-smart" for having made it on their own for so long. There are also several sections given over to Elise's (the 7 year old Silo 17 survivor) pursuit of a puppy and a weird religious cult and their rituals. Both of these subplots really lead nowhere and slow the overall plot progression. (And, really, neither the girl nor any adults around her can figure out that they need to put a leash on that dog?)
On the other hand, I loved the Silo 1 sections of the book and the further character development of Charlotte (Donald's sister) was great. After some stumbling about a bit through the first half of the book, the second half is tighter and more interesting and when the final resolution comes, it's over almost too fast. I had the sense that given more time and editing, Howey could have made this conclusion really great. As it is, there are some dangling plot points and Dust doesn't have the grace of Shift, but it is still a very good read and it definitely provides a satisfying end to the trilogy. It also leaves the door WIDE open for sequels...
Audible listeners have the added benefit of narration by Tim Gerard Reynolds. The more I hear this guy, the more I like him. His voice keeps me plugged in even when a book gets a little slow. Overall, I recommend the whole Silo Saga Trilogy and I think Hugh Howey has great potential to keep us entertained for many years.
"It could all so easily have gone wrong"
Juliette of Silo 18 succeeds in uncovering the digger she learned about from the silo schematics and having her people dig through to Silo 17 to rescue the people she found there. Things are looking up.
On the other hand, things start to go wrong again in Silo 1 when Senator Thurman comes back, almost literally, from the dead and finds out what has been going on.
In this final installment of the Silo Saga, Silo 18 falls, and the only reason any of its people survive is the connection they have just made to Silo 17. But after a very few days, it becomes obvious that trying to make a real life in Silo 17 with the few people they have left will be next to impossible. Juliet proposes another bold move.
Meanwhile, Donald and Charlotte, having flown a drone far enough outside the area of the silos to see green grass and blue sky, are hard at work on a plan to bring down Silo 1 so that the other silos will have a chance to survive without the meddling people and computers of Silo 1. It's a race to the finish as to who will survive and who will be destroyed.
An excellent conclusion to an excellent series. It could all so easily have gone wrong...
"Slow start to a (mostly) satisfying ending"
The last book in the 'Silo' Trilogy.
It starts out slow enough, and only really builds interest about half-way through. It wraps up the Silo trilogy in such a way that was somewhat predictable, and allows for another book to follow (if the movie options aren't immediately forthcoming).
This was the weakest of the three books, and also the most confusing storyline.
"okay ending to a mixed-bag series"
It's clear that Wool, Shift & Dust are the end product of a short story that got stretched beyond its natural length. The premise was so flimsy and ill-conceived that it could not support the weight of so much exploration.
This ending did give some resolution to the plot and to the characters (most of them, not all). You won't find any big surprises here. The story plays out the way it had too.
Ultimately I feel that this entire series was a waste of time. It could all have been told in one book. The second in the series didn't even have to exist, and this one was way longer than it had to be.
Post-apocalyptic sci-fi is my favorite genre, so the fact that I was bored nearly the entire time came as a bit of a shock. I guess I just never got over how stupid the setting was, or the fact that the author based the entire premise on an arms race that wouldn't have had a stalemate any different that the nuclear arms race (mutually assured destruction, anyone?).
The scope of the building of the silos was too big for us to believe that the architect wouldn't have been a need-to-know person, so that entire character was silly. I also can't believe that a small handful of people could have orchestrated the whole thing, or that at the end of the day, they could have nuked the planet.
The story drags on through 3 books, and feels just as claustrophobic as the silos. The author could have been braver and let us explore the world outside... but again, this was a short story, with little thought given to anything outside of the teeny tiny slice of the world we see.
The books weren't horrible. Well, Shift was, but Wool and Dust weren't. I guess I'm going to give this a middle-of-the-road rating. Had I known what I was getting into, I never would have picked up the series. It's just not worth the time. It doesn't leave you with anything to think about. It's just a silly, flat story.
"Fine Conclusion of Silo Series"
I was unimpressed with Wool, the first book of this series then was quite surprised and impressed by the second book Shift. Dust is not quite as good as Shift but is much better than Wool. The characters are all interesting, the prose is good, and the story is satisfying. I don't think Wool was worth reading and I think just starting with Shift would be a better experience. There is not a lot of science in this science fiction, it is a novel dystopian environment to explore the ideas of conformity & control, freedom & destiny, and time & death. Dust starts somewhat slowly, then builds to an interesting level and ends just a bit too quickly. Dust does not maintain the tension that Shift did, but was still quite worth the listen. The narration, as in Shift, was excellent.
"Very entertaining dystopian trilogy"
Yes. Anyone who enjoys speculative, scifi, or dystopian fiction would enjoy this trilogy. Beginning with "Wool" the second book is "Shift" and "Dust" wraps up the silo series. While "Wool" could stand alone, the series is not complete without reading all three. But they aren't too long and never boring. Read the books in ORDER there are spoilers!

People are born, live, and die in an underground silo. For them, this is the world and the outside is deadly and always has been. They've been in the silo for as long as anyone can remember, longer. They are the only ones, the gods built the silo and provided for their every need. It's a grim existence, but they don't know that. They tow the line and live by the rules, if they don't, they are sent outside to "clean"—wipe the lens on the video camera that confirms that they are safe inside, and the world out there is not.

Those selected to clean do not come back. And the video feed shows that they die, most within minutes and within sight. There are powerful incentives to obey the laws of the silo, and yet there are a few who rebel—and die, until one brave young woman who comes back in from a cleaning.

What will she find out? Who really built the silo? And, why?

"Wool" introduces the world of the Silo. "Shift" let's us know there is more to this world than the inhabitants know about, gives us a look at the creators, and their diabolical motivations. "Dust" puts the inhabitants in more peril than they can believe, and finally resolves it in a twist that is both unexpected, and a little bit predictable, but satisfying.

There will be a movie(s). But don't wait for that, you'll enjoy the story as it is.
Better than Divergent, not quite as good as the Hunger Games. Definitely worth the time and credits!
He does a good job with the book, but I felt like a female narrator would have been better at least for the sections where the point of view was a female—which is more than half of the book and series.
What if the world was ended, on purpose, by the powers that be? What if you were the only one who knew—could you convince others? What if your lives depended on it?
Hugh Howey had a tendency especially in the first book and some in the second, to overuse the word, "palms". (34 times in Wool!) He could have picked some synonyms. The reason this became very noticeable was Tim Reynold's pronunciation—he said it like "pams." The use of the word grew less as the books went on, but it bugged me.

I did notice that the writing got better and better with each book. And, it wasn't bad to start with. It's no wonder Howey has picked up the support of a publisher for his print work, and he's a smart guy for hanging on to the ebooks and audio as a self-publisher! Congratulations on a job well done!

I'll be watching for new books from Hugh Howey.
"Long, depressing story that ends well"
I would recommend it to anyone who likes dark, thought-provoking SciFi.
The story compares favorably to the classic Philip Wylie book about a post-nuclear-apocalypse and a small group of people living in a bunker -- I believe that book is called "Triumph". It made an impression - I still remember it well 50 years after reading it. I'll remember the story from this Silo trilogy years from now as well.
The performance was not up to snuff. The story's narrator Donald was supposed to be from the American South, so it was jarring every time to hear an obvious Yankee accent simply mis-pronounce words like "palm" as "pam". His rendition of women's voices was lacking. . I've listened to a lot of Audible books -- while not the worst, Mr. Reynolds was in the bottom five percentile. I will avoid books read by Mr. Reynolds in the future.
No. The first two books are just too depressing to sit through all at once -- this book is the culmination of the trilogy started with Wool, and continued in Shift. I had to take those books in small doses. Had the trilogy not ended well I would have canceled Mr. Howey off my list of authors to read/listen to. However, the end book delivers.
"Fantastic Read, Great Ending to an Amazing Saga"
I really enjoyed this novel. It was an awesome conclusion to all of the fantastic storytelling and great characters Hugh Howey has given us with Wool and Shift. It was all over far earlier than I would have liked it to be, but then I was dreading finishing this book even as I started the first chapter. It probably went by so fast too because I was enjoying it so much. I didn't want the Silo Saga to end because I have had such a great experience surviving with its characters for some time now. Wool is still my favorite but I enjoyed reading Dust much more than Shift. While shift did a great job of revealing to me how this crazy world came into being Dust returned to having more dramatic and exciting things happen in the story like Wool. There were a lot of scenes that were very gripping and kept me glued to my iPod to hear each and every new word.

I won't give anything away but I will say when I read the ending I was so happy to be with those characters in that historical moment for them and for their world. It was really moving and I was smiling the whole time I read it. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for every character though, and I really enjoyed seeing characters I have come to love go through more intense and trying situations.

I felt that Hugh did a good job of ending his series and keeping a good balance with all of the characters and silos in the story. By the time you're reading this book there are many characters and silos Hugh had to juggle to finish out his awesome saga. It didn't feel like that though. Yes there was a log of switching between silos and characters, but everytime the viewpoint character or setting switch I was just instantly right with them or right there that it never felt like a big back and forth. It just felt like one cohesive and awesome story. I highly recommend this book. I loved it.
"This fantastic series will become a sci-fi classic"
Dust did not disappoint. This is a "must-listen" for anyone who has followed Hugh Howey's "Wool" series.
Although "Dust" can stand on its own as a story, listening first to the other two books in the series ("Wool" and "Shift") will make "Dust" even more enjoyable.
The science fiction I usually enjoy the most is that which is plausible. The idea that a small group of people can presume to determine the fate of the human race is frighteningly plausible, as is the manner in which the people in the stories deal with the resultant challenges.
Buried deep within underground silos for hundreds of years, how they overcome the decisions of that small group that dictated the fate of humanity is fascinating and engrossing throughout the series.
How the people of the silos overcame the fallacies that had controlled them and held them beneath ground for hundreds of years was a fascinating and exciting ending; some of the situations expected, some quite surprising.
This series is now among my all-time favorite science fiction. I found it impossible to choose a "best book" of the three. While each book builds from the previous series of events, every one of them has a subtly different focus and is an exciting listen unto itself.
Tim Gerard Reynolds is one type of reader I most enjoy. He has a nice voice and portrays the story clearly, without imposing his personality onto it. I felt he read the story the way I would, or the way Howey meant it to be read.
Would I recommend this audio-book to others? Absolutely!!! I would even recommend it to friends who don't generally follow science fiction.
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Just putting it out there!!!
I read soooo many posts, tweets etc about SAFE MMA and testing for PEDs. SAFE MMA is a medical project. PEDs is a regulatory issue more than a medical issue.
PEDs dont just 'show up' in blood screening - there are thousands of things that can be tested for in bloods. You have to specifically test for things in order to identify them
To effectively test for PEDs is a small fortune...about £3000 for 1 fighter through VADA. this process doesnt warn people about when they are to be tested they just turn up. they go to very complicated lengths to combat the very clever doctors who are trying to help athletes cheat.
One thing I will say though is that if fighters, coaches, gym, managers and promotions get on baord with SAFE MMA then we will have a better chance of introducing PED testing. You dont get to drive a F1 car in a grand prix on a provisional license! lets get people tested for harmful diseases and assessed for potentially harmful medical conditions first and maybe then we can get to PED testing.
Soemtimes theres this worrying air of 'who cares about blood diseases and detached retinas, whats really important is who's juicing'. Cheating is wrong but catching HIV is life threatening.
Good luck to BAMMA, Cage Warriors and all their fighters this weekend who have embraced SAFE MMA.


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