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Hi guys,
Just want to leverage your collective experience and knowledge on surround sound systems. I'm looking to get a fairly high quality surround sound package (receiver/blue-ray player and 5.1+ speakers), hopefully in the $3,000 range (so no Bang & Olufsen recommendations please). I'd like front & center speakers that can be wall mounted. I will use the system for probably 70% listening to music / 30% TV/movies. Any suggestions? |
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Start with a universal blue ray player!
oppo has 2 very highly rated and they are compared to players costing thousands. With the money you save you can invest in the remainder of your system. Onkyo has terrific stuff, AVR receiver is what you want then I see axiom speakers are rated high and not too costly. also at www.newegg.com are martin logans and other good selctions. Be sure the receiver you choose is matched in power with speakers, impedence also( ohms) www.oppodigital.com |
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Thanks. I've heard from multiple sources to go with an Onkyo receiver.
Was also told to check out SVS and Emotiva speakers. |
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Onkyo/Integra and Denon are my 2 picks. I very much love Aperion Speakers, but not the best fit for wall mounting. They can be, but they are a bit large.
The Onkyo TX-NR809 for around $750 shipped is a great receiver at a great price IMO.. The Onkyo TX-NR5900 is top shelf for about $1700.. http://www.accessories4less.com/make...twork-R/1.html If floor standers are out and you are looking for a nice compact 5.1 system that can be wall mounted, these Def Tech 800's have great sound for their compact design. Teamed up with the 809, you will have a very nice set up for under $2 G's... http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Tec...9412712&sr=1-7 Or theses KEF's may be a nice clean wall mount look and sound (especially if your TV is wall mounted). http://www.amazon.com/KEF-T305-Home-...413101&sr=1-13 And Oppo for your BD player all the way.. The BDP-93 is around $500.. http://www.amazon.com/OPPO-BDP-93-Un...9413475&sr=1-1
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Considering wall mouts is a requirement I 2nd Bigglow's suggestoin of Defintive Technology Speakers and the TX-NR809 Receiver from Onkyo is a very nice receiver and a good value for your $$. I needed to have speakers off the ground( i.e. wall mount) due to dogs and wasn't thrilled about what I saw in traditional wall mounts so I built small shelves (out of stained wood planks and pewter brackets - looks nice IMO and passed the WAF) to place my speakers on which opened up the entire arena of 'bookshelf' speakers allowing me to audiotion Bowers and Wilkins 600 series as well as several other and what I eventually chose - Paradigms (I love my paradigms and wouldn't trade them for the world - they pretty much sold me -now I am a Paradigm guy for life)
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Oblio- good to see you posting again! It has been a few years but here is my best recollection: I live in one city and work in another so I had visited 2 'high end boutique' HT stores, one in each city (unfortunately the economy has closed one since then). Neither had both B+W and Paradigm so a direcxt A/B side by side wasn't done - I listened at one store all AM and then went and spent the afternoon at another store. A colleague of mine had a full B+W nautilus setup I listened to frequently so I was very interested in Bowers wilkins and paradigm due to Loves2watch (RIP) reccomendation. Altogether I listened to Focal, Def Tech, Boston, Klipsch, Aperion, Paradigm, Martin Logan and a few other esoteric brands. Wanting bookshelf size I narrowed to B+W and Paradigm as stated. My recollections are that both were very close : Bowers & Wilkins 600 series was better in the bass and lows while Paradigm was IMO better through the mid-range and highs (B+W very close at the very high end as well) I also recall the sound stages as being different - Bowers Wilkins was a fuller/wider soundstage while Paradigms while not as wide seemed more precise in regard to instrument placement/definition.) Note - Paradigms were auditioned on an integra AVR while Bowers and wilkins was using Anthem pre-pro and amp. It was very close to a toss-up but the paradigms cost 3/5 of what the B+w cost which mattered to me being a newcomer to 'high end audio' at that point (Value was very important) I am also really a big fan of clear vibrant mid-range (especially with a lot of bluegrass listening and jam bands don't always have a lot of deep bass and I have a HSU VTF-2 12" sub to really kick out the lows). Another factor (but could have been dealer blowing smoke out his ass) was that one of the dealers told me that since B+W had recently moved the 600 plant to china (which was true) that he felt the build quality had suffered (The ones I auditioned were English factory built and did indeed have a better build quality than the paradigms I auditioned although the Paradigm Reference line had higher build qualities). After considering it all I went with Paradigm (cost was probably a big factor at the time). After getting them home and hetting them broken in I have never doubted my decision I have been thrilled. For the money (and maybe even for more) I couldn't be happierand have been thrilled with my system every day. I have Ttitan Monitors (originally titans were in the performance line but the name was popular so they dropped the titan name from the performance line and moved it to the monitor line - same 'name' but not the same speaker redubbed Titan monitors - they are huge for bookshelf with a 6 1/2 in woofer and so didn't sell as well as the next size down the mini-monitor with 5 in woofer that was more traditionally sized so the Titan monitor has been d/c as the innards were essentially the same as their floorstanders only in a more compact mdf and veneered cabinet). There have been a few changes to the Paradigm line-up and today I would look at the Paradigm SE edition which is essentially a hybrid of the Paradigm monitor and Paradigm Reference line with a little nicer cabinetry and smoothed out lines vs sharp corners. The Paradigm SE line isn't quite as efficient as the monitor lines version5 and version6 IIRC 95db vs 92 but still very good efficiency. All Paradigm lines are timbre matched to each other btw. Cinema,monitor,SE (special edition),studio,millenia, etc. I go back and listen to the new ones as they come in. I would reccomend giving SE a listen- I think you would like them. As far as magnepan - talk to Stew he has a set of magnepan planars.
my brother in law the following year did a 7.1 B+W set-up all in wall and spent waaaaaay to much IMO
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Album Rating: 3.7 | Sound OffGood review. This album was a cool surprise.
Digging: Believer - 1 of 5
Thanks man. Yeah, it's a really fun release, while still being serious when necessary. What are your favorite songs here?
Album Rating: 3.7 | Sound OffI don't even know. I just throw it on and let it play.
This is the craziest shit I've seen on a guitar in a while!
The guitar playing is definitely insane and the guy is a beast but most of the songwriting is just dull as hell. There are brief moments where the songs are fantastic, but the transitions are poor and copy & pasted across songs
i watched the first video and he's really fun to watch and he makes Tosin look sort of lame. the impression i got from that song is that this would be a fun listen but little more than that. i'll have to get this though.
Album Rating: 3.0The guitar playing is definitely insane and the guy is a beast but most of the songwriting is just dull as hell. [2]
Digging: GoldLink - At What Cost
Album Rating: 4.0fuck yea venezuela
Yeah tosin still writes better music
Album Rating: 4.0Been following this guy for the past 2 years. His playing is amazing at times. It's just he isn't that good of a creative songwriter. While clearly most great 6-8 string guitarists can't hold a candle to him when it comes to playing a double neck 14 string guitar. The difference is they make more creative music. This is only his first album, so I'm sure he is gonna find his "style" and creative spot. So many strings, so little time.
I've known about this guy for a couple years now yet the same still holds (and multiple people have mentioned it): his songwriting is poor. There isn't much cohesion to his songs, it's just a bunch of cool phrases pasted together to form a "song". He's a brilliant musician though, and the songwriting doesn't stop me from enjoying his stuff. Anyway, I've got this preordered and I'm looking forward to hearing the full thing.
Album Rating: 3.0Sounds cool. Does Marco Minneman play drums on this?
I should feel proud that this is from Venezuela but that cover would lead me to believe this is terrible
Shit this sounds like a cross between Dillinger and Primus. Gonna have to get on this. Great review.
One look at the cover is enough to suggest that this is exactly the kind of guitar album I hate. Still I might give it a listen, maybe it'll surprise me.
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Album Rating: 3.7 | Sound OffPeople are complaining about songwriting, but I think this is pretty cool. The description, "Shit this sounds like a cross between Dillinger and Primus," is pretty accurate.
Album Rating: 2.5Most of the songs are too long to keep me interested. Some of it is really good but he throws so many ideas, which are no doubt creative, but they don't flow well together. It's kinda a jumbled mess of showing off and trying to be Animals as Leaders with a fancy guitar.
"It's kinda a jumbled mess of showing off and trying to be Animals as Leaders with a fancy guitar." "There isn't much cohesion to his songs, it's just a bunch of cool phrases pasted together to form a "song"" "It's just he isn't that good of a creative songwriter." these comments sum it up. dude reminds me of my friend -- he can play guitar like a god, but can't write a song to save his life
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But one critical tendency gives me pause: the narrowed ascription of what middle-class life means in postwar America. There is a particular critical readings (such as McNiven's argument about architecture in Ray and Sirk, or for that matter Fassbinder's reworking of All that Heaven Allows) that reads Douglas Sirk as a critical commentary on television in middle-class life.
Fine as it goes, only Sirk was not alone in critiquing television. It seems that the middle class – or certain fractions of it and the mainstream culture addressed to it – loved to see TV as a problem. This is true in a social problem film like Face in the Crowd, which centers thematically on the corrupting role of mass media on the public sphere. But it is elsewhere, too, as in The Last Hurrah (John Ford, 1958), the cinema looks at television and sees it as lacking.
The bemusement at televisual political marketing comes from the novel, but I think the film version does something different than the literary source. In the book, the prime axis of difference is between the mass mediated and the unmediated, between marketed politics and retail politics. In the movie, the prime axis is between TV artifice and (implied) cinematic reality. TV becomes a problem not because it replaces an unmediated sociality but because it is crasser and inferior to movies.


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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: There...no, not there.Yes, there!
Age: 25
My thoughts on the Sternritters:
1) Ikkaku with a Mohawk 2) Yami with a beard and more hair 3) ??? 4) A grandpa 5) A cutey 6) Weird Woman 7) Another fucking pretty boy. I hope Ichigo goes Hollow in Hueco Mundo and own that shithead already. |
2012-05-30, 10:35 | Link #26 | |
Depends a lot on the person's endurance, luck etc. There is no contradiction.
2012-05-30, 10:45 | Link #27 |
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Something relatively interesting happened for once. Kudos Kubo.
I honestly hope Kira stays dead and that we start seeing a lot more people get offed. SS is in need of serious number thinning, especially if the Zero Division are going to show up *fingers crossed*, would be a great way to introduce them. While this chapter caught my attention, the new quincy still have a long way to go before I consider them to be noteworthy. As Randrak said, unless they can kill and/or do serious damage to the likes of Byakuya, the Vizards, Ukitake, Shunsui and the old man, they aren't really worth getting excited about. Seriously hoping the HM business gets wrapped up soon, I'm far more interested in seeing SS deal with the invasion (which is looking more like a proper invasion than the one Aizen did -_- ). |
2012-05-30, 11:19 | Link #29 | |
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lets face it, to shake things up this much for first time in god knows how long, I'm now starting to actually get a little exicted at things. Guess I'll say it now, altho I also do adore the girl-with-a-heart-shaped-buckle quite alot but I can't be the only one that thinks it's a female ver of a younger Byakuya? Trap maybe?!!
2012-05-30, 12:19 | Link #30 |
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Location: Arcadia Bay.
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Hopefully Kira is dead (WTF?! Kubo you turning me into a sadist!).
ANOTHER Aizen lookalike - Good Lord I'm going contract Aizenphobia if this goes on >_> There is only ONE thing I'm expecting of these quincies when they fight the Captains - To shut the fuck up and do what they are here to do. I'm absolutely tired of the pointless blathering by the enemies about how powerful they are and shit like that. And yes that girl was cute!!
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hmm...the author just introduces another set of new but not-so important bad guys so the author can extend another 30-40 chapters of battle scenes for each individual captain...
On another thought, I hope SS would lose this one quick so they have no choice but to release Aizen....XD
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Most of the times, bankai is just a power up of shikai, so blocking their most powerful technique-bankai alone would more than enough to do the trick... (assuming quincies are as strong as the captain)
Who knows, remember the days when we complained why Aizen never showed his bankai when he was clearly outmatched? Maybe, contrary to what we believe, kubo might actually plan for all this!! XD
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How Friends Illustrates the Depressing Insularity of Our Lives
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Friends ended less than a decade ago, but it's already a relic of a bygone era — a critically respected network sitcom that enjoyed massive ratings. That's the central irony of the Must-See TV show's legacy: It was one of the last programs to enjoy a national audience before cable and the Internet fully segmented audiences, but the show itself prophesied that fragmentation through its ten-year-long portrait of increasing social segregation.
Friends started out as a somewhat realistic (for network TV) exploration of metropolitan young (white) people, in the same way Roseanne sought to capture (white) working-class Midwestern life. In their original treatment, creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman described the show as a look at "a time in your life when everything's possible," when the future was "more of a question mark." It was a Girls before Girls — Monica and Rachel are 24 when the show begins, just like Lena Dunham's Hannah — but much more optimistic because the economy hadn't yet vomited all over itself after another binge-and-purge cycle. Thus, it's no coincidence that so many of the complaints lodged against Friends — unrealistically expensive lifestyles, pervasive whiteness, youthful frivolity, all that sex — are now being recycled by the anti-Dunham crowd.
Crane and Kauffman contrasted their show against traditional living-room and workplace sitcoms with a then-innovative, now-rote concept. "It's about friendship, because when you're single and in the city, your friends are your family," read the original pitch to NBC. (The peacock execs were apparently so uncomfortable with the idea of a show about twentysomethings that they suggested the creators add a middle-aged man to dole out fatherly advice. Perhaps that explains that NBC also-ran sitcom where Ernest Borgnine played Jonathan Silverman's BFF?) The great achievement of Friends' ten seasons is that Crane, Kauffman, and executive producer Kevin S. Bright convincingly carried the sexy sextet through several life stages: marriage, parenthood, divorce, and the rocky, too-often humiliating road to a fulfilling career.
But as the seasons progressed and its mythology expanded, the show shriveled, folding into itself. At the same time, the storylines became increasingly outlandish — the nadir of the head-scratching plots being Joey and Rachel's doomed romance — yet still somehow more depressingly realistic. The source of these two phenomena lay in the show's illustration that, as doors shut in your face during your twenties, you're not just increasingly penned in professionally, but also personally. The overarching narrative of Friends charts how its characters' lives got smaller and narrower until they could no longer comfortably accommodate their makeshift friend-families — just a spouse and a child or two.
Kauffman articulated the show's ethos of "maturity means friends or children" when she denied rumors of a follow-up to the show earlier this year. "Friends was about that time in your life when your friends are your family," she explained. "Once you have a family, there's no need anymore."
To be fair, most sitcoms function as narrative islands. But from the start, Friends had sociological aspirations, making its observations of life as a post-collegiate lost soul in the big city more significant and purposeful than its time-slot neighbors like Seinfeld and Frasier. And during the early years, there were good reasons for the sextet to stick so closely together.
In the first two seasons, when the show hewed to its slice-of-life ambitions, money was a constant source of anxiety. Friends implied that the high cost of fun made a lot of activities off-limits; its New York was never the playground of luxury and fashion that is Sex and the City's Manhattan, not even for clotheshorse Rachel. Early in the second season, the show had its most explicit episode about income and friendships, where three of the have-not Friends — Phoebe, Rachel, and Joey — balk at their better-earning counterparts' plan to buy Hootie and the Blowfish tickets (heh) for Ross's birthday. Say what you will about the sextet's caffeine addiction — Scientific American certainly did — but those venti mugs probably didn't exceed $5. Since both lattes and talk are cheap, Central Perk kept the Friends together by offering itself as an economic oasis.
The characters mostly take advantage of their urban environs by treating them as one long speed-dating assembly line. Friends relied heavily on the sitcom cliché of the Significant Other of the Week, a plot device that inevitably resulted in the SOW being dumped by the end of the episode, though some lasted a month or two. Especially in the earlier episodes, SOWs were routinely cast off because one of the other Friends disliked them. Over time, the repetition of the SOW storylines served to foster a loyal conformity among the Friends, as well as the creation and enforcement of a particular strand of promiscuous, gay-panicked, white-privileged, yuppie heterosexuality.
The decade-long accumulation of rejected romantic partners eventually turned Friends' New York from a marketplace of possibilities to a menagerie of freaks, thus providing further incentive to stick to the clique. It makes sense that Phoebe, who marries Paul Rudd's Mike in the last season, was the exception to the rule, since she has the most tenuous connection to the rest of the characters. (According to Splitsider, she is also the only character who doesn't share a previous sex partner with any of her Friends.)
By the show's end, having gone through all of white Manhattan, four of the six characters settle down with a mate from within their group. For all the cosmopolitan setting, then, the Friends eschew the romance of urban serendipity for incestuous familiarity. (This also explains the characters' lack of interest in people of other races — or even other boroughs.)
Like a lot of ensemble sitcoms about single characters, Friends eventually becomes a screed against dating. The parade of flawed, unworthy, or just-not-right partners is so long that settling down with (and for) a good friend ultimately seems like the most sensible choice: better the Long Island Princess you know than the one you don't. (The Friends copycat How I Met Your Mother goes even further in this regard by making its protagonist's two decades of dating merely a prelude to his wedded destiny, and explaining away its most promiscuous character's obsession with sex as the product of severe neurosis.)
By the end of its run, the show groups its couples essentially by census bracket. The pairing of Monica with Chandler and Ross with Rachel unite the friends who are the most financially and ethnically similar (Rachel and the Gellar siblings are Jewish; Chandler is the Jew-adjacent kind of goy). Across town, masseuse Phoebe marries musician Mike, her "rightful" partner in anti-bougiedom. Friends has often been accused of being cash-stupid show — e.g., Monica and Rachel live in a huge West Village apartment despite no outward signs of being millionaires — but it's always been a very class-conscious one. Opposites may attract, but familiars breed.
The ultimate sign of the show's tenet of "settling down as settling for who's around" is the reunion of the will-they-now-or-will-they-later couple, Ross and Rachel. It's a pairing that only worked in the early years because of David Schwimmer's hangdog eyes, and the relationship's initial dissolution was rather welcome, not least for bringing out a sarcastic edge and a screechy feistiness in Jennifer Aniston.
Despite the characters' mutual attraction, they were always wrong for each other: Ross deserves a partner who's more intellectually challenging, Rachel one who's more fun. When they create a child and rekindle their romance in the show's last two seasons, their happy ending feels like a tragic death — of adventure, of idealism, of question marks. No longer so young, and yoked together by their kid, they see sense in trying to fall in love again, however many times it didn't work before. Their fate isn't written in the stars; it's dictated by two much more powerful forces: convenience and familiarity.
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Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died Sunday (Feb. 2) in New York at the age of 46. He was greatly appreciated as a person and actor by co-stars and fellow thespians who simply admired him from afar, if the outpouring of celebrity condolences and tributes is any indication.
"Such shocking & sad news. RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman. One of the greatest actors of a generation and a sweet, funny & humble man." — Ricky Gervais
"Philip Seymour Hoffman was the first actor I met after leaving home. His friendship at that time meant more to my life than he ever knew." — Megan Boone
"Philip Seymour Hoffman. This is so unbearably sad." — Tom Hiddleston
"R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman. One of the greats. I did a reading of a movie w him way back when. Couldn't have been nicer." — Josh Malina
"Rest in Peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. You'll always be remembered as one of the greatest in your craft." — the Golden Globes
"We lost one of the greats today. Philip Seymour Hoffman RIP my friend. You will be missed always and forever." — Aaron Paul
"Rest in peace Philip Seymour Hoffman. We who marveled at each of your performances, are grateful and very very sad." — Mia Farrow
"Oh no. What a devastating loss. Philip Seymour Hoffman led the way with integrity and skill. Always improving himself and inspiring others." —Tom Mison
"Philip Seymour Hoffman was a brilliant, talented man. The news this morning is shocking and sad. My heart goes out to his loved ones." — Ellen DeGeneres
"'I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship.' RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman. A great artist." — Anthony Bourdain
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Survivor South Pacific Debuts Tonight [VIDEO]
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Redemption Island will be back as part of this season Survivor. I don't necessarily care about that so much as the chance for a couple of players from the past coming back. It's always more fun to start the season as a fan of somebody rather than having to get to know all the players then pick a favorite. This year "Ozzy" and "Coach (aka "The Dragon Slayer") are back. Ozzy is a killer player and Coach is somewhat of a nutty new age guy that seems to improve as he becomes more media savvy. The two will lead two teams, who if they are smart, will keep them around for a little bit. A good lesson learned from last season is that if you dump your leader early you're going to get killed in competitions, and if you don't dump them at all, they'll win all the money.
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I have invisalign and now i need a root canal. will it effect my invisalign?
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Typically, when my patients are getting a root canal and are in the midst of invisalign treatment, I suggest that they limit, and sometimes stop, their invisalign use while getting the root canal. Once the root canal is finished and the tooth is stabilized, then we restart active invisalign treatment. Usually the root canal tooth requires a large restoration or a crown, and thus the original invisalign trays will not fit over the new restoration.
Thus, we take new impressions and get new invisalign trays which fit over the new resoration on the root canal treated tooth. If the old invisalign trays can fit over the new restoration, then we can proceed with the treatment as is. Some restorative dentists, depending on the stability of the tooth, will put a temporary filling in the tooth, and then we proceed with invisalign and once invisalign treatment is finished, the final restoration on the root canal treated tooth is placed.
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▼▲Wired for Ministry offers practical strategies for integrating technology and ministry while keeping a watchful eye on potential technological pitfalls. Remembering that technology is the medium and not the message, Jewell discusses specific ways that tools such as the Internet, digital video, and music can enhance youth groups, worship services, educational ministries, and evangelism.
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Tell us a little about yourself. I have been ordained for 40 years, have served as pastor in small, medium, and large congregtions. I came to the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in 1999 to build a distance learning program and teach ministry and technology classes.
What was your motivation behind this project? The number one motivation for this and my previous work, "New Tools for a New Century," was to have texts for students that would take persons from the very beginning of understanding technology to practical application of digital tools in every phase of local church ministry.
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Abdullah Ahmed, 10, who suffered burns in a Syrian government airstrike and fled his home with his family, stands outside their tent at a camp for displaced Syrians in the village of Atmeh, Syria, December, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.
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NEW YORK — The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the award for investigative reporting for stories that detailed how Wal-Mart used bribery to expand in Mexico.
The Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was awarded the public service Pulitzer for its reporting on off-duty police officers' reckless driving.
The prize in breaking news photography went to The Associated Press for its coverage of the civil war in Syria. AP Director of Photography Santiago Lyon called the winners — Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen — "some of the bravest and most talented photographers in the world."
A New York-based online nonprofit news organization that covers energy, InsideClimate News, won in the national reporting category for stories on flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines.
The Pulitzers, journalism's highest honor, are given out each year by Columbia University on the recommendation of a board of journalists and others. Each award carries a $10,000 prize except for the public service award, which is a gold medal.
The Times, which has won more Pulitzers than any other news organization, was also honored for international reporting for detailing the business dealings and extreme wealth of relatives of top officials in China's communist party; for explanatory reporting, for a look at the business practices of Apple and other technology companies; and for feature writing, for an account of skiers killed in an avalanche in Washington state.
In their reporting on Wal-Mart, the Times' David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab found that the world's biggest retailer used bribery to get the construction and zoning approvals it needed to build several stores across the country.
The Pulitzer in breaking news reporting went to The Denver Post for its coverage of the shooting at a movie theater last summer in Aurora, Colo., that left 12 people dead.
Cheers erupted in the Post newsroom when word came of the award. Some people teared up and hugged.
"We are part of this community. The tragedy touches us, but we have a job to do," said Kevin Dale, the Post's news director. He added: "It's great to win the prize, but we'd rather win for a different story."
The Star Tribune of Minneapolis captured two Pulitzers: It was honored in the local reporting category for its coverage of a spike in infant deaths in poorly regulated day care centers, and Steve Sack won for editorial cartooning.
The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens won the prize for commentary with his columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics.
In the criticism category, Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post was honored for his essays on art.
The prize for editorial writing went to Tim Nickens and Dan Ruth of the Tampa Bay Times of St. Petersburg, Fla., for a campaign that helped continue fluoridation of the drinking water for the county's 700,000 people.
Tampa Bay Times Editor Neil Brown said that they composed "clear and forceful editorials."
"Tim Nickens and Dan Ruth went to bat for hundreds of thousands of people, many of them poor, who were being deprived a chance at better health," Brown said in a statement. "If we don't do this work, if the Times doesn't speak up, who will?"
Javier Manzano, a freelance photographer, won the feature photography prize for a picture distributed by Agence France-Presse of two Syrian rebel soldiers.


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Navigate with your browser to a product that you want to buy. It helps us if you navigate to the exact product page - not an overview. Click the PriSpy Button in your browser. Click on save and wait for our email. That can take hours, days or weeks. It depends on the shops.
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This year I'm going to attempt a haunted house for my party. There are few things that I still haven't ironed out, but here's the plan.
I'm hoping to actually make 2 trees, but I'll just do one to start. The front gate will have styrofoam posts and then the fence part might be PVC pipes or I might just make a 2-chain fence if time doesn't allow.
The framework on the house face will be styrofoam studs but the part between will be dark gray fabric and I'll draw the wood grain on.
The window will be styrofoam as well and hopefully I'll be able to make 2 of those as well.
here's the path once you get through the front door
my biggest problem is the divider for the maze. I need something about 6' tall and it will run about 30-40ft in all. I haven't decided the best way to go about this. The easiest would be cardboard boxes taped together. It doesn't have to be pretty since it will be dark inside.
I've picked up a few strobe lights, a few black lights, and some orange Halloween lights. I'll use those and try to recycle some of my other Halloween sets inside the haunted house, but first is to make the outside ...
this is a side shot of the stage I'm working with (taken front right corner to back left corner)
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Rick Koval's interest in the outdoors began in the coal region of Wilkes-Barre. As a child, he collected insects, snakes, frogs, fossils and animal bones as he frolicked on the city golf course, as well as on fishing adventures with his dad, Len. It wasn't until he moved to the Poconos, in Thornhurst, that nature's door opened wide.
Rick now lives in Dallas, near his favorite birding hotspot, Harvey's Lake -- the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania.
Nature and its offerings have been an instrumental part of his life; he was a professional fur trapper in his earlier days, nuisance wildlife control agent for the Pennsylvania Game Commission and director of land conservation for North Branch Land Trust. Rick is the resident naturalist for Skytop Lodge, an award-winning writer for the Pocono Record, adjunct biology teacher for Keystone College, environmental educator and wildlife consultant.
He is an avid birder, nature photographer, mushroom and edible plant aficionado and fluorescent mineral collector.
Rick's line of work also includes rare species surveys, environmental consulting, private nature walks, Road Scholar education programs, nature presentations, big tree measuring, writing and photography.
Rick serves on the Pennsylvania Amphibian & Reptile Technical Committee; the Pennsylvania Dragonfly & Damselfly Technical Committee and the Pennsylvania Biological Survey Team. He's the compiler for the Tunkhannock Christmas Bird Count, past compiler for Luzerne County - Pennsylvania Ornithological Society, Council Cup Hawk Watch Site and Breeding Bird Atlas Project. He was the northeast director for the Pennsylvania Timber Rattlesnake Den Site Assessment Project; the northeast regional coordinator for the Pennsylvania Reptile and Amphibian Atlas Project, which he submitted the most records of all participants. Rick's a member of the Eastern Native Tree Society and the Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association, Eastern Federation.
Rick has two sons who embrace nature as well; Dave and Steve both reside in Mountain Top.
Rick is a local television personality. Many of you may have seen him on the popular WNEP TV show "Pennsylvania Outdoor Life" as a field staff naturalist and part-time co-host. He also was featured on several national reality nature shows such as "Teen Adventure" and "Independence USA."
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JOB OPENING: Temporary Family Law Attorney
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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Revised Notice of Job Opening
Staff Attorney/Temporary
Start Date November, 2006
Legal Services for New York City - Brooklyn Branch is seeking a law graduate or attorney to work in its Family Law Unit. The Unit assists and represents indigent clients in divorce, custody, visitation, spousal and child support, domestic violence, abuse and neglect cases.
The position is part time with flexibility should an applicant seek to work a three or four day week and will be for a period of one year from the date of hire. There is a strong likelihood that the position will become permanent. Salary is dependent on experience and pursuant to a Collective Bargaining Agreement, with excellent benefits.
To apply for the position, send a resume, references and a recent writing sample to:
Steven M. Bernstein
Project Director
Legal Services for New York City - Brooklyn Branch
180 Livingston Street, #302
Brooklyn, NY 11201
LEGAL SERVICES FOR NEW YORK CITY is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, gay, Lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and elderly persons are welcome and are encouraged to apply.
Bar Associations and other organizations: We seek and welcome your recommendations for candidates who meet the foregoing qualifications and, in addition, request that you or your organization encourage such candidates to apply.
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Pretty Hoisin
Bring a machete and a bib
By Michael Stabile
I just received a death threat from someone regarding my last review, so I'll tread lightly this time. Not that I could write something about Murray's Glasshouse that would warrant such strong emotion. Perhaps one of the most underrated and unknown restaurants in San Francisco, the Glasshouse rims the Pacific with clever culinary combinations while housed in a starlet-worthy setting. And while I understand why Traci des Jardin would want to employ the clever linguistic twist for her own dining room, Murray's Glasshouse with its wall-to-ceiling view of a lush garden should be named Jardiniere.
And then there's the hoisin sauce--that garlicky sweet and spicy condiment and Chinese food staple that presides over Murray's like a study-hall monitor, corralling disruptive flavors in the name of epicurean unity with only the occasional overbearing result. Between the omnipresent sauce and plants large and fantastical, eating at Murray's could be described as Hoisin, I Shrunk the Diners.
Flora aside, Tony Roma couldn't have created a more delicious baby back rib. And he wouldn't have the wherewithal to use such a gorgeous amounts of hoisin. And where Murray offers hot steaming lemon napkins, Tony would merely have supplied the ubiquitous toxic wet nap.
Even more tender than the ribs was the Australian rack of lamb. While the cabernet hoisin seemed a bit redundant after the fistful of ribs, the macadamia-encrusted lamb was like a savory ice cream cone rolled in sprinkes. So I got to thinking: if lamb is so juicy and pliant because it's from a baby sheep, there's possibly a whole world of culinary marvel that we're missing by not eating our young. A delicious if modest proposal to overpopulation: just add some sauce and we're set. Scrummy!
Hoisin aside, I've been waiting for a restaurant to offer me (appropriately disguised) surf and turf, everyone's favorite Floridian specialty (or at least mine). Leave it to Murray's Glasshouse which, because it's located in the Canterbury Hotel, must make at least one concession to the needs of less refined out-of-town visitors. Fine with me. The grilled filet mignon and lobster-sea scallop medallion was what I've wanted for years but have never had the courage for which to ask. Either the dish is more delicious than I remember or chef Michael Baker has the ability to improve on a combination which is, in itself, perfection. Served alongside is a gingery sweet potato mash which gave the traditionally East Coast dish a decidely Western (or Eastern, depending on how you far you want to go to define "The Rim") flair. And for those who are squeamish diners, it doesn't require eating a baby.
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Explores principles and techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and standard first aid. Training in artificial respiration and artificial circulation by one and two persons, and immediate procedures and standard care for injuries and emergencies are covered. Competency in skills leading to American Red Cross C.P.R. and Standard First Aid Certification.
HSC 1113 - Sexual Violence Dynamics
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This course focuses on understanding the dynamics of sexual violence in all of its forms and the impact on the victims. Through online and on-site activities students will explore how varied oppressions are linked to sexual violence and how culture supports or discourages sexual violence. Students will also learn about the similarities and differences within specific types of sexual violence such as: sexual assault, sexual harassment, child sexual abuse, incest and sexual exploitation. The courses includes developing an understanding of the impact of sexual violence on specific cultures and communities. Students who complete this course of study in combination with Sexual Violence Advocacy and Intervention (Part B) are eligible to become a sexual assault advocate in Minnesota as defined by the Minnesota Department of Justice Programs Crime Victims Services.
HSC 1114 - Sexual Violence Advocacy
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This course focuses on building practical skills and techniques for providing advocacy and crisis intervention with victims of crime; specifically sexual violence. Through on-line and on-site activities students will synthesize their knowledge of advocacy theory with the practice of advocacy skills on the individual and institutional levels. Students will meet and learn from community professionals gaining knowledge in the community's response to sexual assault, specifically the medical and legal response. Students who complete this course of study are eligible to become a sexual assault advocate in Minnesota as defined by the Minnesota Department of Justice Programs Crime Victims Services.
Prerequisite Course: HSC 1113
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HSC 2201 - Nutrition ( VI: Natural Science )
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Introduces the basic principles of nutrition including energy, proteins, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals and water with application to individual diet assessment. Recommendations for meeting the changing nutritional needs throughout the lifecycle. Basic exploration of current food/nutrition issues. Four class hours, independent projects.
Crosslist Course: DFN 2201
HSC 2203 - U.S. Health Care System
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Covers the history and development of the healthcare system in the United States; health in society today; types of healthcare institutions and services, organizational structure, roles of healthcare professionals and functions of hospitals and other health facilities; accountability in healthcare and the role of government in healthcare, introduction to current models of health financing.
Crosslist Course: GER 2203
HSC 2209 - Medical Terminology
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Studies the terminology common to medicine utilizing word elements (prefixes, suffixes and roots) basic for building medical terms and analyzing meanings using a programmed learning format; includes spelling and pronunciation of medical terms.
HSC 2215 - Nutrition for Health/Wellness
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Focuses on how the basic principles of nutrition affect the individual. The role of nutrition in heath promotion and disease prevention is explored.
HSC 2300 - Hatha Yoga
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Practice and implement Hatha Yoga skills according to your individual knowledge and experience. The foundation of this course is the Eight Fold Path of Raja Yoga. The course teaches Hatha Yoga postures, relaxation and yogic breath awareness. It also includes the integration of yogic philosophy, meditation and mindfulness in one's personal life. Students increase flexibility, strength, balance and endurance as well as calmness, centeredness and self-awareness. Special emphasis will be placed on the ethical foundation of the yoga tradition in the Yamas and Niyamas.
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Provides an introduction to the profession of occupational therapy focused on the profession, the practitioner, and practice. The profession includes an overview of occupational therapy, a history of occupational therapy, and trends of the profession. The practitioner identifies educational preparation and certification criteria, organizations within the profession, roles and responsibilities of the practitioner, legal and ethical practice, and skills for therapeutic relationships. The practice of occupational therapy introduces occupational behavior, occupational therapy considerations across the lifespan, evaluation and intervention process, and occupation as intervention. The emphasis is on basic information, beginning skills, and exploration of the profession.
HSC 2777 - Topics in Health Sciences
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Seminar or project for intense group study of a special health-related subject. Participants meet regularly over a period of time equivalent to a standard course. Must be approved by school dean.
HSC 2999 - Independent Study
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Investigates an area of special interest and demonstrate self-direction in study of a problem which exists in health care. Topic must be approved by school dean and student's advisor.
HSC 3020 - Pathophysiology
- 4 cr.
Study of the general mechanisms of disease at the cellular and molecular levels, including abnormalities of fluid distribution, the inflammatory process, abnormal immune mechanisms, and neoplastic disease, followed by an application of the basic principles of pathologic processes to diseases of the neurologic, endocrine, reproductive, hematologic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal and digestive systems. Prerequisite: a completed course in Anatomy/Physiology.
HSC 3101 - Health for All: Global Prspctv ( I: Cultural Diversity, WI: Writing Intensive )
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Explores health as a human concept, profoundly affected by cultural, economic, social, political, scientific, environmental, behavioral and technological factors. Global health involves personal and population health issues, community problems and concerns that transcend national boundaries, and that may best be addressed by cooperative actions. Issues of social justice and peace as they relate to health are explored within a 'Health For All' framework. This course will focus on global health as a human right, multilevel factors affecting health, and the role of individuals, governments and organizations in improving global health. The emphasis of the course is to discover and appreciate all aspects of health.
HSC 3311 - Rel Prspctvs Health Care Ethic ( WI: Writing Intensive )
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Explores a variety of concrete biomedical ethical problems within our society and the healthcare system from a diversity of religious and ethical perspectives. This course examines a number of current issues in healthcare. Attention is given to key principles relevant to healthcare ethics, including autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.
Crosslist Courses: RES 3311, TRS 3311
HSC 3315 - Nutrition for Disease Management
- 2 cr.
This course focuses on the role of nutrition in illness and disease management from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Prerequisite Course: HSC 2215
HSC 3777 - Independent Study
- 0-2 cr.
HSC 4555 - Health Science Leadership
- 2 cr.
HSC 4700 - HSC Interdisciplinary Leadersh
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Focuses on specific leadership strategies of building respect and collaboration among members of health science disciplines through patient/client centered and ethical decision-making approaches. Students will have opportunities to develop skills to function as leaders representing their professions as part of an interdisciplinary team. Additionally, the ATHENS EHR System, which is a state-of-the-art electronic health record, will be used by students in this course to develop their confidence and competence with employing this type of clinical information technology in the practice of their profession. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
HSC 4777 - Topics in Health Sciences
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Studies subjects dealing with healthcare delivery systems in U.S. and/or other countries, such as the philosophy, organization/structure, innovations, benefits, concerns and/or future orientation of the systems. Must be approved by school dean.
HSC 4999 - Independent Study
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Investigates an area of special interest related to a problem existing in health care. Topic must be approved by school dean and student's advisor.


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Beauty and the Beast (The CW) Synopsis and First Picture
| May 17, 2012 at 2:37 PM EDTReady for a tale as old as time? The CW is premiering their take on Beauty and the Beast this October.
The series stars Kristin Kreuk as Detective Catherine Chandler, our beauty. Playing against her as the beast is Vincent Keller, played by Jay Ryan. See that scar on his face? That makes him a beast, aaaagh!
Beauty and the Beast The CW Synopsis
Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. Several years earlier, Catherine witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen. Catherine would have been killed too, but someone – or something – saved her. No one has ever believed her, but she knows it wasn't an animal that attacked the assassins…it was human. Years have passed, and Catherine is a strong, confident, capable police officer, working alongside her equally talented partner, Tess. While investigating a murder, Catherine discovers a clue that leads her to a handsome doctor named Vincent Keller, who was reportedly killed by enemy fire while serving in Afghanistan in 2002. Catherine learns that Vincent is actually still alive and that it was he who saved her many years before. For mysterious reasons that have forced him to live outside of traditional society, Vincent has been in hiding for the past 10 years to guard his secret – when he is enraged, he becomes a terrifying beast, unable to control his super-strength and heightened senses. Catherine agrees to protect his identity in return for any insight he may have into her mother's murder. Thus begins a complex relationship between Catherine and Vincent, who are powerfully drawn to each other yet understand that their connection is extremely dangerous for both of them. – The CW
Beauty and the Beast The CW Cast
The series stars Kristin Kreuk ("Smallville," "Chuck") as Catherine, Jay Ryan ("Terra Nova") as Vincent, Max Brown ("The Tudors," "MI-5") as Evan, Nina Lisandrello ("Nurse Jackie") as Tess, Nicole Gale Anderson ("Make It or Break It") as Heather, Austin Basis ("Life Unexpected") as J.T., and Brian White ("The Shield," "The Cabin in the Woods") as Joe. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is from CBS Television Studios with executive producers Jennifer Levin ("Without A Trace," "Felicity"), Sherri Cooper ("Brothers and Sisters"), Bill Haber ("Rizzoli & Isles," "Thurgood"), Paul J. Witt ("A Better Life") & Tony Thomas ("A Better Life"), Ron Koslow ("Moonlight") and Gary Fleder ("Life Unexpected"). – The CW
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Short Yellow Lights Are Dangerous
In its short history, the NMA Foundation has taken on laser gun accuracy, right to a jury trial for traffic offenses, visual estimation, and vehicle seizure laws.
But now we're tackling our biggest challenge yet: the ticket camera industry and its unabashed exploitation of short yellow light times.
The positive effect of increasing the yellow light time at a troublesome intersection (an increase of one second can reduce violations by 50%) is undisputed by even the most zealous ticket camera supporters.
Several cities have been caught shortening yellow light times to increase ticket camera profits and we think there are more yet to be discovered.
Red-light cameras can only remain profitable at poorly engineered interesections. Once an intersection is fixed, the money dries up quickly. And once the money is gone, the cameras disappear.
We've already seen it happen in North Carolina. After the Courts forced cities to give their profits to local schools, the majority of the ticket camera programs in the state shut down.
Our goal is to properly time the lights in all 370+ cities with red-light cameras and by doing so eliminate this scourge in all fifty states.
We also hope the project results in legislation mandating proper yellow light times. Currently, such legislation is largely non-existent.


text: Build Your Own Arduino Powered Automatic BlindsThorin Klosowski9/28/12 6:00amFiled to: DIYHome AutomationHouseholdarduinoAutomationHome ImprovementTop343EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkOne of the easiest tricks to keeping a house warm (or cool), is to open and close the blinds in time with the sun. Of course, that's only helpful if you're home all the time to do that. Instructables user FreedomToCreate has made an Arduino powered system that opens and closes the blinds on a schedule, based on room temperature, or outdoor light. AdvertisementThe most expensive parts of the project are an Arduino and an Ethernet shield, but everything else is pretty cheap. It's a bit of a complicated set up, but FreedomToCreate's guide has everything you'll need, as well as the code to put on the Arduino. You'll need to tinker a bit to get it to work with your own blinds. As a cheap, automated system to keep your home's temperature right, it's an interesting project.Arduino controlled automated blinds with Web UI | Instructables