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You want Handbag????
Trip Start
May 31, 2007
Trip End
Jun 11, 2007
Well we both have a bit of a cold. I cannot imagine why as we have only been kind to our bodies the last week hahaha. This morning we felt a little rough and as we headed out we walked a little slower, but soon we were experiencing one of our best days and the tired feeling faded away.
Before I describe our day, I will tell you about "The Drowsy Chaperone". This play is at the Marquis Theatre (mom, this is the one where we saw Annie Get your Gun). The musical is about a lonely man who is listening to a 1920's Broadway album soundtrack and there in his swuite the play comes alive with him narrating and commenting on the quality of the scene, acting and songs, sometime positively and sometimes trashing it, but always in a very humorous way. This show is primarily for comedy. Not a deep plot and not flashiness of effects etc like Wicked. As a comedy it was wonderful but we both enjoyed Wicked more. We still think this one was great too but preferred Wicked.
So back to today.
We headed to Chinatown. This is the largest population of Chinese outside of China. It is huge and growing very fast. I went over some historic sights with Korinne as this is part of old New York and a lot has gone on here. As of a few years ago conterfit handbags like Gucci and watches like Rolex were sold openly. It was illegal then too but now they have really cracked down on this illegal activity. Chinatown has a history of it's own illegal organized crime. Police cracking down on sales has only moved this activity out of sight. So very very often we were approached and asked the question of the day in a low voice, "You want handbag?" . Koriine was unsure to say yes but I said I had read that it was relatively safe to go with them. Then we were in the back of a small shop when a man asked us "You want handbag?". Koriine said yes this time and soon a panel in the wall was moved and we were in behind the store in a hidden room full of designer handbags. Well Korinne found 2 she liked a Prada and a Gucci bag. And the bidding began hahahahah. We got them to half there original offer. Was that a deal??? Who knows and likely not but they are very nice bags. So this set a precedent. We were offered to see watches etc. Eventually I got myself a watch and we each got some nice perfume at about 1/5th the department store cost. I did the bartering and it always came down to us walking out the store and then they would take my offer. It was fun.
We went for Dim Sum at Jing Fong a large Dim Sum palace in Chinatown. Again we were in the minority. In fact out of the entire restaurant which had at least 200 patrons we were the only white people. You sit at large communal tables and carts come around and you do your best to point or communicate what you want. Some English is spoken but not much. We were able to communicate "no seafood" so all was good. The food we ate was extremely unique and a new taste experience to anything we have eaten before. We each had our favorite and had lots off food for only $16 total.
We walked by little Italy which is really one street with Italian restaurants for tourists as Chinatown now surrounds it. I had a cannoli from Ferraras. They make the best in the world!
We headed into SoHo (named for the area SOuth of Houston). This area was once the Garment District with sweatshops and then designer garment factories. Then as artisits realized they could get large well lit lofts for painting and selling their art . As NY does the success of Soho caused the rents to rise and the artists to leave but the area was popular and has become a shopping mecca for mostly upscale chains like MEXX, Prada, American Outfitters, Timberland and more but splashed in among them are some great little and not so little stores. We shopped the area pretty thoroughly. We bought a clock by an artist that is pretyy unique for in our front room. This clock was purchased to remember my Grandmother that recently passed away. At the same store they sold animation cells. Korinne turned down the salesmen who offered her a signed Pepe le Pew for $1500 and and Willie Coyote for $795. It was not even a consideration at that price but we looked. We saw one cell in there for $16500. Korinne did find some cheap fake jewelry and I was glad because she just can't find any cheap jewelry on this trip hahahahahaha. The buildings in the area are some of my favorite with cast rion fascades and rock streets (not true cobblestone but similar). See pictures
We KEPT walking and headed into Greenwich Village. This Artistic area around the NYU and Washington Square Park. This area has some great cache and is fun to walk in. We walked by the Triangle shirt and pant building. This historic building was a sweat shop for women in 1911. The request for fire safety and other safety features were denied. A fire broke out and the fire department could not help them and 146 Garment workers jumped to there death or were burnt to death. This horrible seen was well documented as many reporters witnessed the event. It was the catalyst for the unionization of the garment industry, safety standards were made law and enforced, child labour laws being created and women given rights in the work force. A huge tragedy that changed the north American labour scene forever.
Parking in this City is an issue. Here is a parking lot that has an electronic car stacker. Very cool. The second pictures is typical parking rates.
We walked through Washington Park it was full of people and buskers. Here is one that I really enjoyed. Very talented.
We bought some really tasty peanut butter at the peanut butter company. They make peanut butter only meals. Yes peanut butter and jelly etc. Mostly sandwhiches but we bought there peanut butter.
We ate some pizza at Ray's Pizza. There are a million versions of Ray's Pizza and this fact is a bit of a joke on Seinfeld and the movie Elf. It can be confusing which is the real original Ray's. Santa in Elf said it was this one. It may be but the pie was very ordinary and not near as good as the other one we had. Good but nothing special. So maybe being the first Ray's does not make it the best.
We decided the subway was unnecessary and walked all the way home to Chelsea. We walked a long way today again.
It is 7pm here and we are considering going to the Brooklyn Bridge tonight to walk it in the dark and see the lights but are tired. So I will let you know tomorrow if we did.
Until then take care
Vaughn and Korinne

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Carving a tomb required a team of stonemasons supervised by a master builder or architect, who designed the project to the owner's liking. Sometimes the work started at the top--often more than 100 feet up--and proceeded down to the ground. Another process involved two teams carving simultaneously, one from the top and the other from the bottom.
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by Staff Writer / Dallas StarsFRISCO, Tex. -- The Dallas Stars announced today the National Hockey League club's local television schedule for the 2010-11 regular season. All 82 games will be televised in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market and, for the first time ever, all will be offered in high-definition.
FOX Sports Southwest returns for its 18th season of carrying Stars telecasts, with 62 regular season games scheduled to be shown on the network. Twelve of these games will be shown on FOX Sports Southwest Plus, the network's alternate channel which is carried by participating cable and satellite providers. Specific channel information for individual carriers will be announced at a later date.
FOX Sports Southwest provides quality local sports programming to over 10 million cable and satellite TV subscribers in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and parts of New Mexico. The Stars' regular season opener on Friday, Oct. 8 at New Jersey is featured on the FOX Sports Southwest schedule, as well as the club's home opener on Oct. 14 vs. Detroit.
FOX Sports Southwest's comprehensive coverage includes "Stars Live" pre and postgame shows before and after every game, a weekly "Stars Insider" magazine show, and interview and documentary specials airing throughout the season.
Seventeen games will be broadcast locally over the air on TXA 21, which enters its first season of a four-year agreement to televise Stars games. Stars broadcasts on TXA 21 will air primarily on Saturday nights, beginning on Oct. 9 when Dallas visits the NY Islanders. Stars games on TXA 21 will include 30-minute pre and post-game coverage.
The Stars join an extensive sports lineup on TXA 21, including Texas Rangers Friday Night Baseball, Dallas Mavericks basketball, as well as Big 12 sports, SEC football and the High School Football Game of the Week. If it's local sports in Dallas/Fort Worth, it must be 21 (www.txa21tv.com).
VERSUS will exclusively televise three Stars contests: Monday, Nov. 29 at Carolina; Monday, Jan. 17 vs. Los Angeles; and Tuesday, Feb. 22 vs. New Jersey. VERSUS is the exclusive national cable home for the National Hockey League.
NBC Sports (KXAS-TV, Channel 5 in Dallas-Ft. Worth) has the option to choose from two games on the Dallas Stars local TV schedule during the spring. First introduced in 2007, the NHL on NBC will feature flexible scheduling for regular season dates on the network. NBC will have nearly two weeks in advance of a particular weekend to select which games will air. No matter what NBC decides on possibly picking up Dallas contests, all 82 Stars games will be televised locally in Dallas-Ft. Worth.
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Road to the IGF: Richard Hofmeier's
Cart Life
January 18, 2013 | By Mike Rose
January 18, 2013 | By Mike Rose
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Richard Hofmeier's
Cart Life
was originally released in May 2011, and for a good while it drifted along without all that much attention.
This was a huge shame, because the retail simulation title is as brilliant as it is deep. You play as an entrepreneur who is looking to start a business, while also making sure other areas of his or her life are kept in order.
After sprucing certain areas of the title up and gaining a little more player traction, Hofmeier decided to fire it IGF-ward in 2012 --
with incredible results
. Not only has the game been nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, but it's also up for the Narrative and Nuovo awards.
As part of Gamasutra's Road to the IGF series, Hofmeier discusses the long and arduous path that
Cart Life
has taken -- finally receiving a happy ending after many months of worry.
What is your background in making games?
You know, I don't have any background in games to speak of. The tools and scripting languages have become so easy to use that somebody like me could just pick them up and go.
So, in an attempt to better answer, I'll say that seeing people like Yahtzee Crowshaw and Cactus making games on their own was a revelation to me, and I wanted to take part. It feels silly to say so, since the gates have been torn down for years now, but the idea that I could just jump right in was very inspiring.
What development tools did you use to create
Cart Life
, and why?
I sketched out the game on the backs of tax documents first, and then used whatever was cheap and nearby to make it into a videogame. Specifically, a cheap machine with Windows XP, a pirated Photoshop (which I only paid for recently), and a games toolset called AGS which is free and easy to learn.
But AGS is so built as to make Sierra / Lucasarts-style adventure games, so getting
Cart Life
out of it was a little troublesome and, you know, time-consumptive. For most of the music, I simply asked the composers by email - they seemed to be trying to accomplish the same things I was, after all - and to my astonishment, they said yes. For the sounds, I gutted a Gameboy and NES - the act of scrapping them for parts felt intensely appropriate for this game.
How long have you been working on the game?
Well, I usually answer this question by remarking on how I gave myself a deadline of 30 days to make it, and didn't finish it for three years. But I'm too interested in this question to respond only with that.
See, it finally hit the airwaves in May of 2011, so there's a question of
Cart Life
's eligibility in this year's IGF. Now I'll admit, I just regarded the $100 submission fee as a gamble and left it up to the judges or committee or whomever to decide whether it's allowed or not. But my thoughts go like this: the proposition that IGF makes is kind of inherited from movie and music award ceremonies, which (seem?) to have more specific eligibility requirements.
But, of course, video games will never be movies or music, and one of their many differences is that they generally take longer to make. Hell, I'm still making
Cart Life
(mainly fixing bugs, but occasionally adding content). If that sounds like a bullshit excuse, it's because I really don't know. Maybe it's because
Cart Life
wasn't really downloaded or discussed very much until January 2012.
How did you come up with the concept?
I wanted to make as realistic a game as I could. Sometimes I hear about how the larger game-playing audience is maturing, but I don't buy it. I wanted a game like this when I was a kid - I wanted to learn how to live.
Games were, and still are, the best way to do it. Although this game fails in pretty much every way I'd imagined it succeeding, people seem to appreciate the attempt - probably because this kind of game still needs to be made well.
I know from playing the game, and talking to other people who have played it, that it's fair to describe
Cart Life
as "difficult to get into" - it personally took me a few goes before I really "got it". Do you worry that this will put some people off, or is this kind of barrier necessary to really pull someone firmly into your game's world?
Sure, it's not for everybody. I try to lie about it, I say it's like
with lattes. But it's getting harder to convince people, now that folks are discussing it so openly.
Some players quit halfway and still get something good out of it, but the rewards are at the bottom and you have to dig. Digging's more fun when you have an audience, and in
Cart Life
nobody cares enough to watch you work.
The game has been around for a while now - I remember playing it back in 2011. Why do you think it has taken this long for the game to gain traction and be so widely recognized?
Hell, that's tough to answer. I never would've anticipated this. I mean it. Down in my heart, I'm still suspicious when people say they like it - I know that's stupid, but I can't help it.
Cart Life
's weird, toilsome, boring, it's barely seaworthy, etc. So, you can imagine how good it feels when somebody finds it worth enduring the shortcomings to understand the tender parts. On a scale as big as IGF, it's simply incomprehensible. I'll never understand it, but I know to be grateful.
What have you done to
Cart Life
since its original release, and which additions have gelled the best with players?
Its original release was literally unplayable - it was missing a file in the download, so it wouldn't run. Other than that, it really hasn't changed much outside of fixed bugs. The non-bugfix improvements I'm making tend to be tiny, hardly noticeable things which hopefully culminate in a more stimulating playthrough. Waiting at the bus stop instead of departing immediately, for example.
Are there any elements that you've experimented with that just flat out didn't worked with your vision?
Sure. It's hard to say, but I'd guess that more than half of the content I made for the game had to be pared away at some point. Mostly weird-but-true things which were irredeemably implausible.
There was a fourth playable character, a hot dog vendor, who I cut out. Some of the stores are closed off, there was an airport location. There was a system wherein your cart, news kiosk or coffee stand would get a review in the daily newspaper, but it seemed a little trite so it's gone. Hell, lots of stuff.
Have you played any of the other IGF entries? Any games you particularly enjoyed?
How long a response will you accept for this question? There are only a few that I don't have the hardware to play, yet. Steam tells me that I've played seven hours of
Thirty Flights of Loving
, which is funny because most things have to be killed to be dissected.
Thirty Flights
even attempts its own autopsy via a "commentary mode" playthrough, and yet it remains a mysterious and lively dance partner.
has that kind of audacity too, of course - plainly declaring its own material state and even its intentions, but that electricity doesn't fade. I keep thinking that it'll be less effective for me, but each time I show it to somebody new, it's more snappy and more sincere and, moreso than probably any other game on your list, is unwilling to overstay its welcome.
For the same reason, I'm a little mournful of both
Goblet Grotto
Frog Fractions
, because their rewards are compromised in being elevated. The fantasy of both is that every game could do their special things - but you have to wake up from them before sharing them.
So, in
Thomas Was Alone
, there's a story atop a story adjacent to these clever puzzles. At first, I resisted its appeal and just chewed through the puzzlery because I thought, "What makes the author think that his characterizing fantasy play with these geometric shapes would be any better than what us players would come up with on our own?"
I felt like a kid sitting in the kitchen, playing with refrigerator magnets and there was a teacher trespassing in my kitchen, telling me how to play. It's not until you're halfway done eating the game that the larger rewards come into view, so this contentious, layered romance suddenly becomes resonant with each layer of the story, the puzzles, the game and you. It's so great.
Analogue: A Hate Story
does something similar, in that its initial identity is a paperwork job: read diaries of long-dead people, then connect the dots. But its more alive than it seems, and it ultimately comes to reveal its players to themselves.
The Stanley Parable
does this, too - it's a game that's secretly about games. It moves in to kiss you exactly when you thought it was just a plaything. I love them both.
I played
Super Space ----
at Indiecade, and it's absurd and hilarious, but again, deeper than it seems. Amid the sloppy slapstick, there's the core fact that you have to cooperate with your competitors, constantly. Just when this contradiction starts to resonate beyond the game and into every single aspect of life, the game explodes with a million volts of honey and you're laughing shellshocked with your enemies. Agh, it's so good. I guess there are superficial comparisons to be made here to
Super Hexagon
, but instead your enemy is the meat you're made of - that you're not fast enough, you don't learn, etc. So, it doesn't do as much for me, but then again I was the kind of kid who only played
for the music.
showed at GDC last year as well as Indiecade, and it must be a privilege to have played it twice, though some of the magic is lost as the curtain wears thin. It's such a smart concept for a game - I'm glad it's out there, in the world. Games invading theatres is such a turn-on for a so many people. I absolutely can't wait to see what wallFour do next.
I'm trying to, but can't fathom what it must be like to play
Hotline Miami
as one's first Cactus game. I really cherish all he's done, so I'm staring at every nuance thinking, "Nice." As though I have any reason to feel pride on his behalf. Blood and bombast almost never do it for me, but the scope of these things are never disavowed in a Cactus game - the slickness of the production is, itself, an audacious transgression. That music especially.
Hotline Miami
's like a distilled post-mortal priapism in a victim run-down by a gleaming sportscar.
I've got a lot more
Bientot l'ete
to soak up in the next few days, so ask me then (if I haven't convinced you otherwise, yet). Either way, I'd hope that Tale of Tales' ongoing romantic bravery is at least admirable to their many hateful detractors. It's not just some fleeting provocation, there's real love here. And real craft.
Michael Brough has expressed surprise that
was nominated over his other entries, but hell, where you stop? He would've filled up a whole category (or two) if I spoke for this year's judging panel. Don't you just love that totally unearned sense of pride you get when games you love finally get their overdue recognition? As Nicolai Troshinsky tweeted: "Can't wait for the Steam pop-up informing me that my friends are playing
every day!"
Being a fan, I email "interview"ed Jake Elliott about
Balloon Diaspora
a good while ago, and in one of his responses, he wrote, "The fantasy of
Balloon Diaspora
is that the player is telling the story." It feels relevant to suggest that fans of
Kentucky Route Zero
take a walk through Cardboard Computer's earlier games before the ink dries on their hands. I'm hesitant to say more, because
's rewards (like those of
Frog Fractions, Goblet Grotto
, and many others) are fragile and best known first-hand.
What do you think of the current state of the indie scene?
Don't ask me! I'm suspicious of the fact that a scene exists at all - the surrounding language is bound to collapse. (Certain questions ["What IS indie?" "What classifies as a 'game'?" "Is 'indie community' an oxymoron?" "Are games art?"] are so circular, or so like fractals in their infinite depth, that discussion seems to have stopped. But these problems haven't simply gone away - they're still unresolved and increasingly consequential.)
I love my "indie scene" friends like family, but ultimately I want to see profound, comprehensive changes of these whole systems: Indie ain't a genre, and the number of people making a game, or how a game's development was sustained, can't classify it.
Just, you know, how good is it? Fuck genres, fuck marketing shortcuts. Game by game, how good? All that matters happens between the glowing rectangular box and the player. That said, it seems to me that the people currently best able and most interested in this reevaluation currently get classified as "indie" and a game like
Cart Life
wouldn't have survived if people didn't take pleasure in its discovery. So, hell, I just don't have an answer for you.
Oh, and
Johann Sebastian Joust
doesn't even employ a glowing rectangular box, so you know what I mean.
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About a half-mile long, this bridge connects Abu Dhabi Island to the mainland. The shape is a sine wave, a series of undulating curves that soar almost 200 feet above the water. From the perspective of motorists on the structure's eight-lane highway, the massive steel waves form a parade of spectacular monuments. From shore, the bridge looks like a futuristic roller coaster, all speed and drama.


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Asmir Begovic, Emir Spahic, Miralem Pjanic, Edin Dzeko, Vedad Ibisevic
Safet Susic (since 03/03/2013)
Population: 3.8 million
Area: 51,209 sq km
Capital: Sarajevo
Currency: Mark
Federation: Bosnia-Herzegovina Football Federation founded in 1992 affiliated to FIFA in 1996 and to Uefa in 1998
Registered players: 69,040
Kit colours: All white
Team nickname: Zmajevi (Dragons)
World Cup record: None
European Championships appearances: 0
European Championships record: None
How they qualified for FIFA World Cup 2014: Won group G with 25pts ahead of Greece on 25pts, Slovakia 13, Lithuania 11, Latvia 8 and Liechstenstein 2, with 8 wins 1 draw, 1 defeat, 30 goals for and 6 against
Top clubs: Zeljeznicar Sarajevo, Borac Banja Luka, Celik Zenica
Bosnia-Herzegovina feel their task is already complete having merely qualified for their first international finals, meaning the Dragons (the Zmajevi) can go out and play at Brazil 2014 without pressure.
Bosnia won independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1992 and had come close twice previously to making the cut only to lose in the play-offs against Portugal for both the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012.
It was a close call again this time as Bosnia beat Lithuania 1-0 in their last match to finish level top on points with Greece in group G.
A better goal difference of 24 to Greece's eight thanks to some heavy victories secured them direct qualification and sent the nation's ardent soccer fans into seventh heaven.
This offensive style of play mirrors the vision of their coach Safet Susic, a former international with Yugoslavia.
"We always play like that (attacking). I wouldn't know how to set up one of these teams with seven defensive players in it waiting for the odd counter-attack. That's not football as I see it."
Bosnia landed in a weak qualifying group as other than Greece, neither Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia nor Liechtenstein gave them a real run and in fact they only conceded 6 goals during the qualifiers.
Bosnia's dazzling strength is the power of its forwards. In Edin Dzeko they possess a veritable battering ram of a striker and it was not only the ten goals he got in qualifying but the manner with which he went after those goals that would strike fear into opposition defences.
Vedad Ibesevic also slammed home eight goals as Bosnia won eight of their ten games, drawing in Greece and losing at home to Slovakia.
Bosnia's Stoke City 'keeper Asmir Begovic is well regarded as is the national captain Emir Spahic, 33, and who plays at Bayer Leverkusen.
The deep lying playmaker is Miralem Pjanic, a 24-year-old who plies his trade at AS Roma. He is backed up by veteran of Bayern Munich Zvjezdan Misimovic, who now plays out in China however with Guizhou Renhe.
All this gives vague hope of national reconciliation to a country riven with ethnic tension, with battle scars still livid from the civil war featuring years of snipers stationed in the hills around Sarajevo.
Roughly 40 percent of the population of Bosnia is Muslim, 30 percent Serb and 15 percent Croat, with the rest from other ethnic backgrounds.
Most of the players in the national team are Muslims, with a sprinkling of the other two ethnicities, leading most Serbs and Croats to consider it a "Muslim" team.
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In a world of MP3 players where the iPod is king, and all rivals have to scrabble at its feet for scraps, the HiFiMAN HM-601 doesn't play by the rules. Bravely battling against the norm, it's big, it's bulky and it will only fit in your pocket because buying it will lessen the amount of notes and coins you need to carry around with you - it costs around £170 at today's conversion rates. Yet it's still a good choice for a small proportion of the population, because it sounds rather marvellous.
The HiFiMAN HM-601 looks like a device from another age. If you forget the colour screen for a second, you could easily fool yourself into thinking it was released back in 2001 alongside the Creative DAP Jukebox and first-gen iPod. If you remember those days, like us, it may hold a certain charm. But next to players like the Cowon J3 and Sony NWZ-A866, it can seem rather an anachronism.
It's made of gunmetal grey glossy plastic and is adorned with some industrial-style physical controls. There's a 4-way navigational D-pad and three sliders, which act as the power switch, hold toggle and mute mode selector. They're all made of plastic rather than metal, but have a solid action that's rare in these days of touchscreen operation.
The plastic construction helps to keep the weight down too. At 26.5mm thick, the HM-601 is much chunkier than obvious rivals like the iPod Classic, but at 163g (according to our measurements although HiFiMAN claims a whopping 200g) it's not much heavier than the opposition.
This very reasonable weight is partly down to the type of memory it uses. There's just 8GB of internal storage, which is flash memory - rather than a hard drive zapped in from 2001. What makes this relatively small storage fine in our eyes is that the HM-601 offers a full-size SD card slot - that gaping hole on its left side. This lets you expand that 8GB by up to 32GB, giving a maximum storage potential of 40GB. Full-size SD cards are much handier to keep as a "library" of a larger music collection than their smaller relatives.
While microSDs are on the road to ubiquity, now featuring in the vast majority of phones, they're horribly easy to lose, and horribly hard to effectively label. Keeping a small library of larger SD cards is a much more attractive proposition. Once again, the HM-601 has us brimming with retro nostalgia - keeping music on physical media, how quaint.
The volume control feels similarly antiquated, using a dial with numbers etched into it rather than any on-screen notification of the level. This is down to the internal circuitry of the HM-601 taking precedence over such flim-flam considerations as user interface, but like the crucial and highly unusual "low gain/high gain" switch by the SD slot, it's a clue that this isn't a player for folks teetering on the edge of buying an iPod Nano.
Another clue is the 3.5mm line-level output, which sits up top right next to the 3.5mm headphone jack. This gives you an additional audio output that circumvents the volume control - perfect for hooking up to a hi-fi, for example. It's not so much an MP3 player as an "audio source".
If you have a good local dealer: which has good return policy (30 Days No Question Ask Guarantee); which takes care of customers post sales. You are so very curious, and you don't mind "No EQ", basically one sound. Then, give it a try.
Why I said that? The build quality has been (still is) a big problem. In China, some had gone through three replacements; it was not pleasant, but the company is man enough standing up for their products. However, if you lived in another country (without a good local dealer), can you image shipping cost, custom clearance, fee and duty? Not to mention your time and your frustration. Some head-fi members can't hear big difference between Hifiman and other well-EQed players (roll-off the treble, that is the key.) Truth is, every player has its own sound signature; believe your ears, that's what matters most.
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Description | Two oral history interviews, totaling 167 minutes, conducted with Bennett, Edward M. (#1), Washington State College/University History. Topics include: Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1961-present. History department - students, courses, faculty, and facilities. Focus of departmental change, 1961-85. Praise for WSU's graduate program. Social atmosphere of Pullman. Personal hobbies. Private and professional associations and activities. Athletics at WSU. Student protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Administrative response to students. Violence on WSU campus. Mascots and student identity. Salary inequities. Performance of three WSU administrations. Second interview: Professional career at WSU, 1961-present. History department - courses, work load, research, faculty, character of department, and students. Experience as Faculty Athletic Representative to the Pacific 10 Athletic Conference. Importance of athletics in generating alumni financial support and identification. Why Bennett came to WSU and reasons for staying. |
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Date: 1950-51
Media: oil and crayon on essex board with plaster ground
Size: 43.5 x 121.6 cm
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A refugee from Poland, Herman spent the decade 1944-54 in Ystradgynlais where he painted his best-known works of mining themes. This is a study for his greatest painting, the monumental Miners, executed for the Pavillion of Minerals of the Island at the 1951 Festival of Britain. The artist began with the figure with an upraised arm at the left, only subsequently making narrative sense of its pose by incorporating it with a group of singers.


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Police prevent people from looting shops "See, they are brutal we done nothing wrong"
Police prevent people from looting shops "See, they are brutal we done nothing wrong"
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According to radio news, someone has just been stabbed. According to personal news, my dad has decided to go and check on my cousin's house in enfield (they're in portugal)
I support the police more the more the rioters act like assholes.
Apparently this could affect the Spurs match next week, not confirmed though.
Daily Mail posted:
More like "We demand justice that may or may not be necessary for the potential crimes that may or may not have been committed by the cops"
Some person on the news who lives (lived?) in it said that all the floors inside have gone and its just a massive shell now.
Sky news just said that the bullet found in the police officer's radio, was police issue, so I don't know what to think at the moment.
Dad's back, says that there were gangs everywhere he looked.
Police issue bullet? What type of weapons would a police officer normally carry?
How's your cousin's house?
It's fine, all the bad stuff is happening just on the other side of enfield
That's good to hear then....Just a shame about the Krispy Kreme.
This is a good twitter feed to keep an eye on:
That could mean anything, I haven't kept up on what the armed police in London carry but I assume they use 9mm pistols which I would further assume aren't that hard to get hold of so I think this is just sky news being terrible.
Maybe the police have to use specific ammo, like NATO have NATO rounds
9mm/45acp are the standard NATO/Military/Police round so i'd assume that.
Depends on the department's constable (or some other high-rank official) but they are generally 9mm pistols (glock 17s, 26s or the Sig Sauer P226) for the armed officers. Also, armed officers may carry tasers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_police_firearms)
I've only seen them once or twice but from what i saw both times they were using a MP5
Oh yeah, I was just referring to the pistols. It's generally the MP5.
Hey, property will be cheap!
Trust me, it gangs in general. You'll also find it in white English gangs, Mexican gangs, Italian gangs, Somalian gangs, Japanese gangs and pretty much every other country. Gangs do this shit.
These riots are getting wild. First Tottenham, then Enfield and Brixton. There is talk of coming to riot westfield but no one seems brave enough to try and riot in west.
They won't touch the west, the'd be cut off as soon as they entered.
Fucking ghetto chavs everywhere. Shitting themselves when the cop comes. Pathetic and sad.
I saw a video of rioters lining up just too steal from JD.
Also I saw one where they we're trying on the shoes before stealing them.
It's pretty funny if you go to Mark Duggan "defend groups" you will find names like, Chris'tedz Poole, Durelle Ching, Chloe Charliejaydee Gee, Bianca Suarve Lopez, Gwenn Magiikal Boss, Chris'tedz Poole.
I didn't know the uk had ghetto names.
Wow so a bunch of Tottenhamers are shitting their pants because a guy got killed?
Bloody hell, Tottenham stop being dumbfucks.
I just watched Tottenham play a football match, they were on fire!
What are the idiots rioting over? Justice?
Man shoots at police, police shoots back, man dies. Fair enough.
I've seen them quite a few times, always with either an MP5 variant, or a G36/36C.
I love the idea of this, It's now just one big, orkish, roving band of chaos and terror.
I say they just get a fuckton of Riot Shield wielding Policemen [Don't know what SWAT is in the UK], and just tear-gas the bastards. If they resist, flashbangs and firehoses. They keep resisting, club em' and cuff em'.
But it was shown that the bullet fired was Police issued. So Mark didn't shoot him. Thus the riot started.
England is one of the only countries that doesn't use watercannons
That was found out after the riots started
That hasn't been confiremd yet. Leave it until the IPCC has conducted their investigation.
Ahh I see, thanks for informing me on that one. Although is that confirmed?
Still though, what was the guy doing walking around with a gun?
Teargas is not used in the UK, nor are stun grenades / flashbangs which IMO is part of the problem. I honestly don't see how you can stop a riot without riot control equipment.
As I said earlier (in another thread maybe) that doesn't mean anything, especially as the report came from Sky news.
"Police issue" could simply be the same calibre as police weapons.


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Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge addresses the complex issues of dialogue and collaboration between Buddhism and science, revealing connections and differences between the two. While assuming no technical background in Buddhism or physics, this book strongly responds to the Dalai Lama's "heartfelt plea" for genuine collaboration between science and Buddhism. The Dalai Lama has written a foreword to the book and the Office of His Holiness will translate it into both Chinese and Tibetan.
In a clear and engaging way, this book shows how the principle of emptiness, the philosophic heart of Tibetan Buddhism, connects intimately to quantum nonlocality and other foundational features of quantum mechanics. Detailed connections between emptiness, modern relativity, and the nature of time are also explored. For Tibetan Buddhists, the profound interconnectedness implied by emptiness demands the practice of universal compassion. Because of the powerful connections between emptiness and modern physics, the book argues that the interconnected worldview of modern physics also encourages universal compassion. Along with these harmonies, the book explores a significant conflict between quantum mechanics and Tibetan Buddhism concerning the role of causality.
The book concludes with a response to the question: "How does this expedition through the heart of modern physics and Tibetan Buddhism - from quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology, to emptiness, compassion, and disintegratedness - apply to today's painfully polarized world?" Despite differences and questions raised, the book's central message is that there is a solid basis for uniting these worldviews. From this basis, the message of universal compassion can accompany the spread of the scientific worldview, stimulating compassionate action in the light of deep understanding - a true union of love and knowledge.
Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics will appeal to a broad audience that includes general readers and undergraduate and graduate students in science and religion courses.
©2008 Vic Mansfield (P)2012 Redwood Audiobooks
"A readable book from which lay people (in either physics or Buddhism) will learn a great deal. Thus the book serves as a very good introduction to the field as a whole." (The Global Spiral)
"Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics doesn't assume knowledge of either system, but takes the reader step by step from basic concepts to more complicated ones, such as the relationship of emptiness/interconnectedness to quantum nonlocality." (Shambhala Sun)
Buddhism has been around some 2500 years but given its focus on living in the present and understanding the socially constructed nature of our realities it is no surprise to find current science rapidly catching up with the wisdom of the Buddha. Thoroughly enlightening.
"Tibetan Buddhism and Science"
More than a basic knowledge of both subjects is needed to not get lost while listening to this book. I am a practicing Buddhist and I found myself going back over many of the sections to grasp the corollaries that Mr Mansfield was getting at. This book takes several and concentrated listenings but well worth the effort.


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WellPoint Inc.'s fourth-quarter net income sank 39 percent as medical claims increased, mostly because of a $50 million hit from the health insurer's Medicare Advantage business. But the company forecast earnings growth in 2012.
The performance led to a rare miss of Wall Street expectations, and WellPoint's full-year earnings outlook also fell short of analyst forecasts. The Indianapolis company's stock, which had mostly climbed so far in 2012, fell Wednesday.
Investors are used to managed-care companies beating expectations handily, so WellPoint's performance will not sit well, Jefferies analyst David Windley said in a research note.
WellPoint, which operates Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in 14 states, said medical claims climbed nearly 10 percent in the quarter to $12.43 billion. In contrast, that expense fell 5 percent in the 2010 quarter. Medical claims are the insurer's largest expense.
WellPoint said the change was driven largely by expenses tied to its Medicare Advantage coverage.
Medicare Advantage plans are privately run, government-subsidized versions of the government's Medicare program for the elderly. WellPoint said it lost $50 million in the quarter and $150 million in 2011 due to a Northern California plan that attracted more customers with a higher risk profile than the insurer expected, because a competitor left the market. Those customers generated more in claims than they provided in premiums.
WellPoint discontinued that plan as of Jan. 1.
"This actually should not repeat at all in 2012," Chief Financial Officer Wayne DeVeydt said.
Overall, WellPoint earned $335.3 million, or 96 cents per share, in the three months that ended Dec. 31. That's down from $548.8 million, or $1.40 per share, in the final quarter of 2010. Adjusted net income, which excludes investment gains, was 99 cents per share.
Operating revenue, which also excludes investment gains, climbed 5.5 percent to $15.18 billion.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected, on average, earnings of $1.12 per share on $15.46 billion in revenue.
WellPoint spokeswoman Kristin Binns also said the insurer faced a tough comparison with its performance in the final quarter of 2010. In that quarter, it recorded a benefit of $315 million because claims left over from previous quarters came in lower than expected. It had no gain like that in the 2011 quarter.
Managed care companies have been buoyed the past few quarters by health care use that has grown at lower-than-expected rates. This trend, which many say is driven by a pullback in consumer spending, has helped companies consistently beat analyst expectations. Analysts have said they expect this trend to continue into 2012.
DeVeydt said health care use did rise in the fourth quarter, but it remained lower than normal, and trends were affected more by the cost of care than the number of people receiving it. In other words, the insurer saw bigger hospital bills rather than more people heading to the hospital.
WellPoint competitor UnitedHealth Group Inc. said last week it expects health care use to increase steadily throughout the new year. UnitedHealth reported a 21 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings, to $1.26 billion, or $1.17 per share.
For 2012, WellPoint expects to earn at least $7.60 per share on about $62.1 billion in operating revenue. Analysts expect earnings of $7.76 per share on $63 billion in revenue. Windley said he expects WellPoint's initial outlook to increase during the year.
WellPoint also said Wednesday that its board approved an increase in its quarterly dividend from 25 cents per share to 28.7 cents. The dividend will be paid in March.
WellPoint shares fell $3.30, or 4.8 percent, to close at $66.10 Wednesday.


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What you're suggesting would work, but consider that your putting all the NAD pre-amp stage electronics in the signal line between your source and your HP amp. If you don't want to go Y adapters (which I don't agree would be a worse option, signal degradation wise), get a simple passive source switch to switch the output of the DAC between your NAD and HP amp. Sound quality, that would be your best bet.
I am not sure it would though? Isn't the tape loop just a passthrough connection?
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Now that we're approaching the end of the Federal Fiscal Year (it ends on September 30), you may be wondering where spending levels for homeless programs stand. Under normal circumstances, the full Senate and House of Representatives would have passed spending bills by now and they would be working to reconcile them. Circumstance have changed.
Do we have cause for hope or alarm? Well, yes and yes. This phase of the appropriations process has in recent years become so contentious and fraught that it has resulted in government shutdowns and a budgetary compromise (sequestration) that everyone agrees was a bad idea to begin with. So it should come as no surprise that the appropriations process for FY 2016 is, for the time being, stalled.
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Earlier this week President Obama released his proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2016, which begins Oct. 1, 2015. The proposal includes strong measures to help communities re-house homeless people and prevent people who are at-risk from becoming homeless. As has become typical over the past several years, however, grave disagreement between the administration and Congress over larger budget issues means a lot of uncertainty for the future of homeless programs. The President's budget presents a feasible best-case-scenario for progress on homelessness. (The worst-case-scenario is decidedly grimmer.) It's based on some commonsense assumptions about homelessness.
It has been an interesting few weeks here in DC, as negotiations over another spending bill dragged on just ahead of yet another government shutdown. In the midst of negotiations, Democrats and Republicans alike expressed their approval over some parts of the bill and dismay over others. But just last week, both houses of Congress passed the $1.1 trillion spending bill for federal programs for fiscal year 2015. President Obama is expected to sign it into law soon.
The good news is that we won't have another government shutdown, and that important Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs held on to the increases in funding they got last year. To do that, the spending bill provides $2.135 billion for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants program. The bad news is that's $271 million less than President Obama requested and that organizations like ours had been advocating for. Funding McKinney at the higher level would have helped us secure 37,000 rent subsidies necessary to meet the goal of ending chronic homelessness by the end of 2016.
That didn't happen. In this post, I want to focus on the impact that I believe we can expect the passage of this spending bill will have on funding for programs that serve people experiencing homelessness, specifically those under HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) and Emergency Solution Grants (ESG) programs, as well as for the Section 8 voucher program.
Congressional appropriations (the official word for "funding") season is in full swing and both Chambers are making significant progress on writing and passing funding legislation for fiscal year (FY) 2015. It's great news that things are moving forward. In fact, the full House has already passed a couple funding bills already and the Senate is close behind. Those of you that follow this process annually with rapt attention know that this is possibly a bigger deal than it sounds.
But what about those bills? Are they any good? Can we do anything about it at this point? The short answers: Not really and absolutely!
The year of sequestration, 2013, may be over, but homeless programs are still waiting for the final hammer to fall when The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announces which Continuum of Care projects will and won't get funded. The impact of Congress's decision to underfund HUD's homelessness programs in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 won't be good for the people served by those programs. And while homeless programs won't face downsizing in FY 2014, their prospects in FY 2015 are far less certain.
Congress provided a healthy increase in funding for homeless assistance in the FY 2014 appropriations bill. Spending for Continuum of Care program won't go down, and we could very well see spending on Emergency Solutions Grants go up. Nevertheless, you can expect HUD to continue encouraging homeless programs to become more efficient by reallocating funding, improving program models, and re-housing more people
But that brings us to FY 2015, which Congress has already begun to work on. It was supposed to be another decent year. The Murray-Ryan budget agreement, which increased discretionary spending above the sequestration amount for 2014, added an additional $2 billion for FY 2015 for nondefense discretionary spending, not much in a nondefense discretionary budget of around $500 billion, but enough for a tiny amount of breathing room.
The first session of the 113th Congress, characterized by gridlock and dysfunction, bears the unfortunate distinction of being the least productive session of Congress in modern times in terms of legislative output.
Clearly, 2013 was a challenging year, though that did not keep homeless advocates across the country from drawing attention to the need for increased federal funding for vital homeless assistance programs in their communities. As we begin the New Year, we would like to take this chance to reflect back on many of the accomplishments of our advocates in 2013, which are particularly impressive in light of the unique challenges they faced.
It looks like 2014 may be a year of recovery. The economy, which for people at the top has already recovered very well, appears to be creating more accessible jobs for people at the bottom. Localities that were battered by sequestration will not, it appears, have to suffer through further cuts in federal support. While big problems that cry out for nation-wide policy solutions will go from the "might-do" list to the "campaign issue" list, many smaller, consensus-based solutions that require some action by the federal government may follow the example of the "small deal" budget agreement reached last month. And there seems, just maybe, to be some emerging consensus that we need to do more about the level of poverty and economic inequality in America, of which homelessness is one of the most shameful results.
This all means that the amazing community of people working to end homelessness in the United States has a decent chance of substantially reducing the number of people living in shelters and on the streets, as was occurring before the Great Recession started. This will require making use of the assets we have – increased knowhow, bipartisan political support, and funding opportunities in some key areas.
For the past several days, media outlets that focus on federal policy have been reporting positive news about the possibility of a "small" budget agreement. Today the story hit the mainstream media, in the form of a New York Times story: Congress Nears Modest Accord on the Budget. The first thing to say about this is that it is not by any means a done deal – while all the incentives seem to be lining up in favor of this kind of agreement, there are an almost infinite number of ways it could go wrong.
That being said, press reports have consistently said this "small deal" would leave out any major tax or entitlement reform. It would consist of a partial roll-back of the sequestration cuts, about evenly split between defense and nondefense spending. For domestic "discretionary" programs like HUD's homelessness and housing programs, the result would be something in between the House and Senate versions from earlier this year, maybe somewhat closer to the lower House version but still in the middle area. Of course, that's just the overall number; the Appropriations Committees would still need to negotiate spending levels for each individual program.
So, besides giving the 24-hour news networks something to gab about and some hilarious jokes – what did the shutdown and resulting negotiations mean? More specifically, what is there impact, if any, on homelessness? This post should provide the basics on what went down and what's next. It's important to emphasize that these are just the basics. You wonks out there probably know there's a lot more intricacies in everything than we can cover in one blog post. We're really just trying to focus on the big stuff that's likely to have an impact on our efforts to end homelessness.
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers help end homelessness. For millions of low-income families and individuals experiencing homelessness who would otherwise be relying on the homeless assistance system, these vouchers provide much-needed low-income housing. In a nation with a severe lack of affordable housing, they are critical. Yet they have been severely underfunded in recent years.
Sequestration in particular took a major toll on the HCV program. Just after implementation of the 5 percent across-the-board cuts in early March, Public Housing Authorities around the country began feeling the pinch. It's likely that your community, or communities near yours, have already been forced to withhold vouchers and halt the process of moving people off their already massive waiting lists.
Now we need to let Congress know that enough is enough – the Housing Choice Voucher program must receive funding increases. That's why last week the Alliance held a webinar with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about the importance of increased funding for the Housing Choice Voucher program and where things currently stand for the program.
After a string of federal fiscal fiascos, people working on budget issues in Washington, DC have had a few months of "regular order." It's unlikely to last, but we wanted to take the opportunity to run through the current state of the big budget and how it's impacting decision-making on homelessness programs. We'll also speculate on where we could go between now and the end of the year. This information will be useful to people who are communicating with their congressional offices about the federal government's role as a partner in ending homelessness.
We are well into fiscal year (FY) 2013, the "Year of Sequestration," but also a year that followed two previous years of harsh cuts to HUD. Homelessness providers have now been hit with the 25 percent cut in Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG), applied in most cases to state and local fiscal years that began on July 1, a few days ago. Later in the year, communities will have to grapple with Continuum of Care applications based on allocations that will be around 7 or 8 percent short of what's necessary to renew all grants at current levels. While the homelessness programs got better treatment than most other HUD programs, they were swept up in the big movement to cut federal discretionary spending. Now we're working on getting that capacity back.
Back in February, about 900 advocates, practitioners, and officials convened in Seattle for two days of sharing innovative practices and new research on family and youth homelessness at the Alliance's 2013 National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness. These are the keynote remarks delivered by the Alliance's President and CEO Nan Roman at that conference.
While sequestration was only put in place two months ago, already the stories are piling up. Predictably, the news is bad. Take Roger in Fairfax, VA – after 10 years of being homeless, the light at the end of the tunnel was extinguished when the PHA canceled his interview for a Section 8 Voucher due to lack of funds. Or Steven, in Honolulu, HI who fears that this Section 8 Voucher will be taken away and he'll be forced out on the street. Or a resident in El Paso, TX who is now required to make the choice between striking out on his own or moving to the city's far less desirable Public Housing. These heartbreaking stories are not unique. In fact, they're just the tip of the iceberg – there are, and will continue to be, hundreds of stories and thousands of people just like Roger and Steven.
We are already hearing stories from across the country about threats to individuals' and families' Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. From California to Connecticut, people are hearing that they may lose their current housing if their PHAs can't find a way to keep them housed. Families in Iowa have had their recently-issued vouchers rescinded. Hundreds were taken back in New Orleans, too.
In some places, Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) are being forced to raise rents on their residents in order to keep them housed. A housing authority in Indiana notes that even if it requires increased rents, it will likely have to scale back on basic services such as repairs and flood insurance due to sequestration cuts. The Worcester Housing Authority in Massachusetts will be forced to raise rents nearly 4-fold over two years, even after laying off staff people.
Lately, we've been talking a lot about the federal budget. We wrapped up fiscal year (FY) 2013 in mid-March with some good news for HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants: the program received a post-sequestration increase! Shortly after, we released our State of Homelessness in America 2013, and the Administration released its FY 2014 Budget Proposal. In other words, it seems like we've moved past all the talk of the fiscal cliff and sequestration. But have we? The President's Budget Proposal had some great news for HUD – proposing increases to a variety of programs, including, once again, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants. All the funding levels proposed by the President for all federal programs include an important caveat – they assume sequestration will be reversed. Well, OK, but where is that assumption coming from? Can we assume that sequestration was just a blip that's probably going to go away?
The answer, of course, like so many other things related to federal policymaking lately, is that we don't quite know. No one on either side of the aisle will argue that sequestration is good policy. Indiscriminate cuts to virtually all federal programs won't make much of a dent in the federal deficit, and they will most certainly have a negative impact on the operation of many federal programs. But unfortunately, sequestration is a done deal. It went into effect on March 1 and while some programs haven't yet felt the pinch of the 5 percent cut, they no doubt will, with many of those negative impacts being felt as the summer approaches.


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Gardening is one of my many hobbies and this recipe is a great way to use fresh tomatoes. It makes a wonderful light meal, served with crackers or herb-flavored croutons.
40 Recipes for Vegetable Soup
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 4 cups water
- 2-1/2 pounds fresh tomatoes, peeled and chopped
- 2 medium carrots, diced
- 1 celery rib, finely chopped
- 3 chicken bouillon cubes
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/8 teaspoon ground mace
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- In a large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Add remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 40 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Yield: about 8 servings (2 quarts).
Originally published as Tomato Vegetable Soup in Bountiful Harvest Cookbook
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i broke a rear axle in my jeep, which is fairly common, it broke at the usual spot, at the splines, i didnt have the heart to throw it out, i figured i would find a use for it some day, i wish i had a camera and new how to use it, but for now please bear with me. i took the shaft and bolted it to an old brake rotor, then bolted or can be welded, 2 more old rotors to the rotor/axle assembly, so now i have 3 rotors with an axle on them, axle pointing up. scrounge around your shop find a vice, cut and drill apiece of plate for the vice, on the bottom of the plate, make a sleeve that will fit over the axle, weld it to the plate, its best if the sleeve has a hole drilled thru it with a big nut welded over it for a bolt to sinche up on the axle, i just ground a flat spot on the axle so it will stay in position. this is a really simple thing to build, the beauty of it is that the finish height of the vice is about 3 feet, which is the usual height of most welding tables, how many times have you had a job 3x the length of your table, simple, just clamp a stick o angle iron in the vice, now its an extra support for your table. that is why the nut and bolt on the sleeve, to adjust the height, and when done, no need to pick it up, it rolls and if you are concerned that it will topple over, just cut a few short pieces of round stock about 1/2 inch will work and tap them into the cooling slots on the bottom rotor, this will stabilize it.i hope i didnt bore you guys with this, but after i built this thing,it has proved more usefull than i could ever imagine. thanks for your time kevin
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busted dana 44 axle shaft
Sounds like a good use for it, pics would be great!!!at home:
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Life expectancy falls in poorer U.S. counties: study
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Life expectancy may have reached an all-time high for the United States, but it is declining in many poor counties, especially among women, researchers reported on Monday.
Smoking, obesity and high blood pressure are taking the lives of women in Appalachia, Mississippi River states and parts of Texas, a team at Harvard School of Public Health reported.
"There has been increasing disparity in health in the U.S. population for two decades," said Majid Ezzati of the school's department of population and international health, who led the study.
"The people who are worst off are either not getting better or are worse off" than they had been, Ezzati added in a telephone interview.
Last September, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that U.S. life expectancy had risen to almost 78 years in 2005 -- up from 75.8 years in 1995 and 69.6 years in 1955. The United States ranks around 42nd in the world in life expectancy.
The CDC noted that U.S. whites will live longer than blacks, and women longer than men. But Ezzati found many exceptions to this rule.
"Female mortality increased in a large number of counties, primarily because of chronic diseases related to smoking, overweight and obesity, and high blood pressure," the researchers wrote in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine.
Ezzati and colleagues analyzed death rates in all counties of the U.S. states from 1961 to 1999.
Overall U.S. life expectancy increased mostly because of fewer deaths from heart disease, the No. 1 cause of death, and stroke. But by the 1980s, death rates started to head back up in many counties.
"The majority of these counties were in the Deep South, along the Mississippi River, and in Appalachia, extending into the southern portion of the Midwest and into Texas," Ezzati's team wrote.
"The rise in all-cause mortality was caused by an increase in cancers, diabetes, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mostly emphysema), and a reduction in the rate of decline of cardiovascular diseases," they wrote.
"There was also an important influence of HIV/AIDS and homicide among men."
Ezzati said the worst-affected counties had other troubles, such as lower levels of educational achievement.
"One of the questions we are asking is whether our ranking in the world is getting increasingly worse because we are not doing a good job of taking care of the worst-off," Ezzati said.
"To have 20 years of decline for about one out of five American women, it is something that is rather unprecedented," he added. "We are leaving a larger and larger part of the population behind."
While many of the worst-affected counties had a high black population, Ezzati found that white populations in poorer counties fared worse that whites elsewhere, too.
"It exists above and beyond race," he said.
The study is available at http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document& doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050066.
"Life expectancy decline is something that has traditionally been considered a sign that the health and social systems have failed, as has been the case in parts of Africa and Eastern Europe," said Christopher Murray of the University of Washington, who worked on the study.
"The fact that is happening to a large number of Americans should be a sign that the U.S. health system needs serious rethinking."
(Editing by Will Dunham and Philip Barbara)


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Located along the spectacular North Carolina Coast, North Topsail is a 26-mile long barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean. The quiet and beautiful town of North Topsail Beach occupies the north end, one of three communities on the island. It is the smallest town of the three, with a permanent population of under 1,000 residents. With miles and miles of coastline, Onslow County Beach is the main attraction in North Topsail Beach. A wide and long stretch of soft sand with gentle breakers, it is the perfect place for swimming, boogie boarding, and sunbathing. Walk along the wooden observation deck to enjoy a view of the beach from the water, or break out your tackle box to join the local fisherman on the pier. Around North Topsail, the calm waters of the Intracoastal Waterway are great for water sports. While you are here, rent a speedboat to sail over the waves or water ski, or for a more relaxing tour of the region, sign up for a sunset boat cruise.
If you will be spending time on North Topsail Island, be sure to visit the following sights:
- Missiles and More Museum: Located in a historic building and operated by the Historical Society of Topsail Island, this Surf City museum chronicles the region's history
- Surf City Pier: Since 1948, families and vacationers have enjoyed the views from Topsail Island's oldest pier, where you can wander among gift shops or buy bait and tackle for a fishing trip.
- Battleship North Carolina: Climb aboard this 1940s battleship docked off the coast in Wilmington for an interesting look into early 20th century warfare.
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Plan an unforgettable family trip with a vacation rental on North Topsail Beach. For your next getaway, rent an inexpensive and spacious condo with a private pool or hot tub, a beach house with sea views, or a large villa that can easily accommodate the whole family.


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Sack Happy Bills Dismantle Washington
Posted on 31 Oct 2011 by Norm Duhamel.
Buffalo is back atop the AFC East with their 23-0 win against Washington combined with New England's 25-17 loss against Pittsburgh. It was their first regular season win in Toronto since they started the series in 2008. The attendance was up about 1500 from last year, but well short of a sell out. This Toronto series may have given the organization a lot of money, but I am sure glad there is on...
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Posted on 17 Oct 2011 by Norm Duhamel.
If I told you at the beginning of the season that the Buffalo Bills would beat New England, Philadelphia and would be 4-2 going into their bye week you would probably think I was crazy. Well luckily for Bills fans that is all true. Unfortunately for the Bills they are no longer in first place following their 27-24 loss against the New York Giants coupled with the Patriots win against the Cowboy...


text: I Don't See the Queen Drinking From the Tpresso Tea Machine Anytime SoonKat Hannaford1/14/11 10:20amFiled to: TeaTpresso tea machinetea machineTpressoBeverages162EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Here in England, arguments are still raging over whether milk should be added to a cup before the water, or after. There's one thing Blighty is united in, however: national disdain for any machine attempting to manufacture tea. Advertisement After all, we killed the Teasmade. Now, the Chinese—I mean, what do they know about tea?—have cobbled together a Nespresso-alike machine for tea called the Tpresso for "younger consumers who don't have time to brew tea in the traditional way."It uses tea capsules similar to the Nespresso (goooooodbye, planet!), and costs the equivalent of $768. SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT DOLLARS. Advertisement That's£478 to you, Queeny. [Tpresso via WSJ via Treehugger]Reply162 repliesLeave a reply


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Nearly half of the roughly 5,000 people working at Statistics Canada are being warned that their jobs are at risk, suggesting deep cuts are in store for one of the country's most trusted sources of information.
The notices to staff that their employment could be affected by cuts are the second major blow to the organization in recent years, after the Conservative government's 2010 decision to replace the mandatory long-form census with a voluntary one. Canada's chief statistician resigned in protest over the change.
Everyone from the Bank of Canada to academics, economists, marketers, urban planners and public policy researchers use Statistics Canada surveys.
The agency has a shortfall of nearly 10 per cent due to a mix of budget cuts and a plunge in revenue as other federal departments, such as Human Resources and Transport Canada for which it does surveys, face cuts themselves.
"There is no doubt that the cuts can't be absorbed without reducing the amount of information Statistics Canada produces," said Michael Veall, president of the Canadian Economics Association and an economics professor at McMaster University.
Frances Woolley, an economics professor at Carleton University, said she's concerned data collection and processing might be contracted out.
"The great strength of StatCan analysis is that it is non-political and non-partisan - it's analysis that people can trust," she said.
The more than 2,300 notices at Statistics Canada were part of another big wave of internal cuts announced in at least 10 departments, affecting nearly 7,000 government employees under three major unions.
While some public servants were laid off on Monday, most who receive notices will likely remain in the public service once various staffing changes play out.
The March 29 budget indicated that when the cost cutting over the next two years is complete, the government expects to have reduced federal positions by 19,200 and to be saving $5.2-billion a year.
Parks Canada also signalled deep cuts to staff on Monday.
Union leaders said Canadians will see shorter seasons at national parks and historic sites as a result.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) – the largest union of federal public servants – said 1,689 PSAC members at Parks Canada received notices and staff were told that 638 positions will be eliminated.
According to the union, Parks Canada workers whose jobs could be affected include scientists, engineers, technicians, mechanics, carpenters and program managers. Seasonal workers are being told they will work for shorter periods and hours will be reduced.
-At Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 908 PSAC members received notices, including in areas aimed at helping aboriginals and people with disabilities find jobs. The union said the cuts to workforce programs contradict the government's claims it is addressing Canada's labour skills shortages.
-At Transport Canada, union leaders say airport and marine security will be sacrificed as 180 PSAC members received notices. The union said notices were given on Monday to 11 air security inspectors whose work is "double checking" airport security. A Transport Canada official said the cuts are "minor" and will have "no impact" on safety.
-The department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development confirmed it will eliminate 480 positions over the next two years.
- At Library and Archives Canada, 235 PSAC members received notices their jobs could be affected, and 105 positions are expected to be eliminated. Notices also went to 69 employees with the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC).
"These are people that document and archive our history, our heritage and to keep it for future generations. I guess that's not important," PIPSC president Gary Corbett said sarcastically.
At Correctional Services Canada, 17 inmate rights and redress workers received notices. John Edmunds of the Union of Solicitor General Employees warned that prisons become more dangerous when prisoners feel their concerns are not heard.
A spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said an internal review found room to streamline the grievance process. The department is also aiming to better manage "frivolous" grievances from inmates.
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Mini "Album in a Tin" for Father's Day
Hi Everyone
Another quick project to share today as part of my Father's Day posts. I have already shown my Tag Box and Mini Magnets in a Tin.
I am re-using another old tobacco/cigarette tin (seen above) and this time it makes the perfect home for this little square album.
This album is made from a single sheet of 12 inch cardstock paper and makes a great keepsake. I used the Hunt and Gather "Watch" paper which has a wonderfully neutral background, perfect for showcasing some small black and white pictures of the kids.
I love this little print from the paper pad which I have added to with a couple of stamps. The mini chipboard dragonfly is from Dusty Attic.
I love using black and white photos for mini albums as I feel the photos have a lovely simple feel to them - especially when you are printing them this small and they are mounted on quite a neutral background.
I have a few more handmade journals and albums to show using this range - but I wanted to focus on this little book which started out as a 79c notebook from the grocery store.
I covered it in the "Fossick" patterned paper and used the sticker sheet, elements from the paper pad and rubons to decorate.
I stamped each page with a little My Minds Eye stamp I found in the discount section of The Warehouse (it took less than 2 minutes to do all the pages with Stayzon which dried pretty much instantly) which is all that is needed to turn this little 79c book into a fun little gift!
Please post a comment with any questions.
Lowri :-)
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