text: When All Else Fails, Try Selling Your NES for $35,000Owen Good7/15/10 9:30pmFiled to: halpeBayAuctionNesRetroNintendoCharity283EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Several months back, a rare NES game sold for more than $40,000. It's not one of the 42 games offered along with an NES in this eBay lot but you know what is? The eternal thanks of the seller. Calling it the "Best Original NES Bundle Package on eBay," seller ronald3868 says it's going for the super generous price of thirty-five large because "I am down on my luck need to pay bills living pay check to pay check." Advertisement Advertisement Further, it is "the only thing I can say I own 100%. to some a nes system could mean nothing but to me its priceless. I hate to part with it but i need the money."ronald3868 promises to "show you my bills and credit report to verify" his dire straits, "and I will give proof that the bills got paid." He also wants to, if possible, personally hand the goods to the winner and express his thanks.Could be a scam, could be a publicity hound. Who knows. But as someone who's hung around plenty of Public Storages, magistrate offices, shitty apartment complexes, payday loan shopfronts, bus stations and free clinics - not to mention Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum for A's day games - and as a guy who's had neighbors try to pawn all sorts of hardware, porn, weapons and bullshit to me on the 29th of the month, this appeal does ring of the plaintive honesty you hear from people who just can't get out of their own way. Good luck to him, and anyone contributing. If This Sells For $35,000, I Will Sh*t Myself [Hot Blooded Gaming]Reply283 repliesLeave a reply


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Ray Astamendi and Kelsey McNair have a lot in common. Not only are they both brewers, but they're both plying their trade in North Park and both jumped to the industry like Mario clearing a barrel on a downhill trajectory. It's while working on pixilated interactive software and brewing on a recreational level that they first made each other's acquaintance.
It happened at a local meeting of homebrew club, QUAFF (Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity) in 2006. They talked brewing, became fast friends, and remain big fans of each other to this day. Nowadays, Astamendi is busy churning out quality beers from a former 30th Street automotive repair facility at Fall Brewing Company, while McNair is building out his long-awaited North Park Beer Co. just a mile away on University Avenue.
Astamendi recently invited McNair into Fall's brewhouse to craft a beer to celebrate his friend securing a location after many years of searching. The release of this commemorative quaff was timed for this week, which not coincidentally, is when the American Homebrewers Association's annual National Homebrewers Conference will be held at Mission Valley's Town and Country Resort. The beer debuted Monday and will also be served today at the NHC welcome reception and The Brewing Network's 10th anniversary celebration on Broadway Pier.
A session India pale ale called Moscoe—a portmanteau based off the hop varieties, Mosaic and Simcoe—the beer comes in at a svelte 3.8% alcohol-by-volume. Astamendi called it "a pungent beast of a little beer," while McNair calls it "very crushable" with "piney, oily dankness upfront, juicy-fruit throughout and some strawberry undertones in the background." Balanced yet vibrant, it provides a nice opportunity for both North Parkers to show amateur brewers from across the country what they're all about.
On an uncommonly sweltering Friday night in Balboa Park, the San Diego History Center (SDHC) hosted an uncommon event: Homebrew Happy Hour. This event was part of the History Happy Hour series held at the ongoing Bottled & Kegged: San Diego's Craft Brew Culture exhibit.
Homebrew Happy Hour was a collaborative effort between SDHC's Matthew Schiff and Nicole George and club organizer Stan Sisson, who gathered members from clubs including QuAFF, Mash Heads, Foam On The Brain, Society of Barley Engineers, and North County Homebrewers Association.
If you're wondering why homebrewers were highlighted at an exhibit mostly featuring commercial breweries, it's because San Diego's brewing success derives straight from its homebrew roots. AleSmith's owner Peter Zien, for example, is a former president of QuAFF.
Homebrewers provide local brewers with indispensable help in tasting rooms through honest feedback, troubleshooting when there are issues, and also giving plenty of support when something is brewed well. Homebrewers are able to push the envelope, not worried about big losses in materials and time, and they keep commercial brewers on their toes. Most of the pros in San Diego started at home and some pros run small homebrew pilot batches in order to hone their more creative and delightfully strange batches.
For these reasons, the late August event had completely sold out more than a week prior, and the excitement was palpable in the sultry air. Over 200 attendees filled the SDHC ready to sample a plethora of small batch artisan tipples from many of San Diego's most talented homebrewers.
When attendees entered the large space, the perimeter of which was laced with homebrewers serving at jockey box stations, they seemed a bit timid and overwhelmed. Those feelings dissipated upon getting their first drink. I saw their eyes light right up as I handed them beer; the first drink was met with "This is really good! Did you brew this?"
As people slowly circumnavigated the museum rooms, they got more adventurous. Noses really got stuck deep into the tasting glasses, and the full sensory experience of a well-crafted brew was achieved with the help of posted signs at each station that described the beers' stats: OG (original gravity), FG (final gravity), ABV (alcohol by volume), IBUs (international bitterness units), and SRM (standard reference method for beer color). This kept everyone engaged and would often help spark conversations with the brewers on hand.
"What's a beer engine?"
"What's a mead?"
"I've never heard of (insert beer style). What's it like?"
There was plenty for everyone to explore as they walked around the museum with a beer in hand.
Harold Gulbransen demonstrated how mouthfeel can alter the way a beer is perceived by serving an American Pale Ale on cask, nitro, and CO2. Liz and Curtis Chism poured a refreshing Saison. Chris Banker presented his excellent Black Currant Cider. George Thornton offered a well-balanced Belgian Amber. Mary Anne Bixby's passion flower buckwheat honey mead was mind-blowing. Kelsey McNair threw down with his Hop Fu, an IPA that brings home a new medal and ribbon every week it seems. Jenny and Eric DuRose had a toasty malt Steam Beer that showed the lineage of the style. There was so much on tap: ESB, Wet Hopped IPA, Coconut Brown, Kolsch Style, Calypso IPA, and Mocha Porter to name some.
As the night went on I was happy to see people sharing the contents of their glasses. They advised other attendees — both those they'd come with as well as new friends they made on the night — on what to try before the event was over.
What made the party even more fun was that it was my birthday, and hey, what better way to spend it than sharing beer with friends and geeking out with my extended brewing family. I got the opportunity to serve my Sir Maxwell English Mild on a beer engine. I did an impromptu pairing with some figs from my tree at home, topped with slivers of Noord Hollander cheese. I also poured my Vanishing Cookie Oatmeal Stout infused with Madagascar Vanilla Bean and a custom blend of Sumatra Volkopi Blue & El Salvador El Naranjo Coffee. I broke out some vanilla ice cream and served these as floats towards the tail end of the event.
Everyone who attended really enjoyed themselves and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic. Here are some quotes I heard and overheard:
"This beer tastes like my favorite IPA, but three times better."
"I've never heard of an English Mild. Can I try it?"
"I usually hate ciders, but I'm lovin' this one."
"This pairing is delicious."
"Somebody told me that this was the beer to try."
"I've never had a mead before tonight. It's awesome!"
"This IPA is amazeballs."
The Homebrew Happy Hour could not have run smoother. In fact, it was so successful there's been talk of another one happening down the road.
Who knows, maybe homebrewing just might catch on in San Diego? Ha!
Bottled & Kegged: San Diego's Craft Brew Culture opened April 6, 2013 and will run to January 20, 2014. The upcoming History Happy Hour on Friday, September 27 will see Dr. Chris White discussing how yeast plays a big role in the flavor of beer. Then on Friday, November 1 Stone Brewing Co. will help kick off San Diego Beer Week with the last History Happy Hour. For tickets to these events, visit this link.
For over a year, a film crew headed by director and producer Sheldon Kaplan has quietly moved throughout the San Diego brewing industry. Now, the film, titled "Suds County USA", is in post production. I was lucky enough to be among the first to get a sneak peak at a MCA-I Mixer event on Wednesday August 24th at Mission Brewery. Along with tremendous amounts of professional skill, the full feature on our hometown brews has had its fair share of luck. I met Sheldon after sparking up a conversation with Mission's Director of Sales & Marketing Mike Mellow. He joined our conversation and I was able to garnish an incredible amount of information on the upcoming film.
Speaking through a clear but foreign accent, Sheldon is a South African native and a self-described Hollywood burnout. He found himself in San Diego for a friends wedding during the mid 90s. His wife-to-be was present only to chauffeur another wedding goer, and the two met by chance while the reception concluded. He's been in town ever since, opting to work at Seau's cigar room as a change of pace from the Los Angeles lifestyle. His interest in local beer started when he met Skip Virgilio delivering a keg of AleSmith's beer to Seau's in 1996.
After months of dedicated research, Sheldon is an expert on our local beer community. He considers himself a historian on San Diego Beer, and with excited eyes he describes the luck of timing with his movie in regards to modern local beer history. Referring to the start of 2011, "We started filming at a time of rapid expansion in the local industry," he explains. "As we got deeper into this, we realized that there was a real chance of losing some of this San Diegan history if someone didn't start documenting. I felt a strong sense of responsibility."
Also by chance, Sheldon met Mission Brewery owner Dan Selis just as he was picking up the keys for the then-undeveloped L St. location. In this, Sheldon saw opportunity, and collected time lapse photos that document the evolution of the East Village brewery over the months of construction.
Throughout this entire process, the crew of Suds County USA has grown twice. I asked Sheldon if he felt overwhelmed to the point of breaking. "Never. I'm a tenacious mother****er."
Switching gears, I asked a deceptively tough question: What is the essence of a craft brewery? Mike chimes in, "Putting beer first, above profits." Good answer.
Next question, poised to Mike and Sheldon: What's the essence of a San Diegan craft brewery? "Homebrewers are the key to craft brewing in general" Mike stated. He emphasized the close connection between homebrewers and pro brewers in regards to the success of the local brewing community. "It's much easier to be creative and perfect a recipe with five gallon batches." He continues, "when you homebrew for fun, you can try anything." Indeed, many professional San Diegan brewers have ties to local homebrew clubs. For example, AleSmith's Peter Zien was president of QUAFF; North County Homebrewers Association's founder Rob Esposito is now helping revive the historic Aztec Brewing Company; and CHUG, a new homebrew club, now fields Derek Freese as brewer at the very new Monkey Paw brewpub in Downtown.
After much discussion, it was time for the presentation to begin. Seats were arranged to the East of Mission's brewhouse, between palates of kegs and boxes of Mission beer on one side, and the fermentation tanks on the other. A projector was aimed at a screen, and in front of it Sheldon took his place after a brief introduction by MCA-I. In about half an hour, Sheldon explained San Diegan brewing history from the late 1800s to modern times. Then, the dimming of the lights announced what we all came for: the first look at Suds.
I was impressed with what I saw. The production quality was top notch, and the clip was a preview-style hodgepodge of various interviews and moments captured by Sheldon and his team. Things moved quickly, but I saw Chuck Silva, Skip Virgilio, Chris Cramer, Greg Koch, Tom Nickel, Vince Marsaglia, Vinnie Cilurzio, and more. The narrative weaved by the interviews was strictly San Diegan. To say it left me wanting more is an understatement. I estimate that the preview was around 90 seconds. The movie is still, after all, on the editing table.
Suds County USA was filmed by an all-volunteer film crew, and the narration of the movie is by Kevin Murphy (of MST3K fame). Suds will be released to DVD, and Sheldon describes that "this movie was made for the small screen." We'll keep you posted as we hear more.

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ePublishing Week in Brief – December 23rd to 28th, 2012
ePublishing Week in Brief – December 23rd to 28th, 2012
Legal Issues in Self-Publishing: What Authors Need to Know
Self-publishing continues its exponential growth. More and more authors are choosing this route for presenting their work to the public, encouraged by impressive success stories, including accounts by bestselling writers who have moved over from traditional publishing to take advantage of greater profits and better control of their works.
But there is one domain that self-published authors rarely think about, which mainstream publishers have traditionally managed: legal issues.
If you self-publish, you are the publisher and thus assume all the legal responsibilities. At first this might seem frightening. But it doesn't have to be, as I discovered in my interview with Paul Rapp, an attorney who specializes in intellectual property rights in Monterey, Mass. and teaches Art & Entertainment Law and Copyright Law at Albany (N.Y.) Law School. He also discusses copyright issues in publishing on Vox Pop on Northeast Public Radio.
Rapp says he is working increasingly with self-publishers and self-published authors. He cited the prominent legal issues that authors should pay attention to: The use of images, quotes, and other materials from copyrighted works, the use of public domain works, the amount of a published works that can be quoted, portrayals of real people in fictional works, the standards for portraying famous and non-famous persons, portrayals of real people in non-fictional works, and the importance of copyright registration.
E-Books Destroying Traditional Publishing? The Story's Not That Simple
Publishers are finding that flexible pricing on e-books can help bring in new readers.
Publishers are finding that flexible pricing on e-books can help bring in new readers.
What counts as a book these days, in a world of Kindles, Nooks and iPads — and eager talk about new platforms and distribution methods?
Traditional publishers are traveling a long and confusing road into the digital future. To begin with, here's the conventional wisdom about publishing: E-books are destroying the business model.
People expect them to be cheaper than physical books, and that drives down prices. But the story's not that simple. For one thing, digital publishers have the same problem that record labels do: piracy. And there's just not the same stigma attached to pirating an e-book as there is to holding up a Barnes & Noble.
It turns out, though, that some publishers are doing pretty well despite the piracy problem. "We've had an incredible year," says Sourcebooks President Dominique Raccah. "Last year was the best year in the company's history. This year we beat that, which I didn't think was even possible." Raccah adds that her company is doing well because of digital publishing, not in spite of it. "It's been an amazing ride," she says.
Change Is The Only Constant In Today's Publishing Industry
Penguin and Random House, two of the biggest players in publishing, announced in October that they would merge. (AFP/Getty Images)
The publishing industry has been in flux for years. First chain stores, then Amazon, then e-books — many forces have combined to create dramatic change in the traditional publishing model.
Mike Shatzkin is the founder and CEO of the publishing industry consulting firm Idea Logical. He says one of the biggest changes happening in publishing right now is the planned merger of two of the biggest players in the field, Penguin and Random House — with whispers of further mergers to come.
Already, there's a lot of debate about what that kind of consolidation will mean for the industry. Shatzkin tells NPR's Audie Cornish that the size of the merged company will give it the clout — and the backlist — to create book sales anywhere it wants to. Even the corner drugstore might have a real bookstore — filled, of course, exclusively with Penguin and Random House titles, not just a rack of pulp paperbacks.
"Another way they might create additional distribution is through a subscription, e-book subscription service," he says. "Before Random and Penguin merged, no single publisher would have had enough of the most commercial titles to make something like that work. They might. So they may be able to create distribution channels that are extra, compared to what we have now, and proprietary, in that other publishers won't be able to get at them."
Digital platforms are another big trend right now — websites where authors can publish their work and connect with their readers. Shatzkin says children's publishers have been making good use of platforms. "For example, Scholastic, which has fabulous reach into schools, through teachers, is creating an e-book reading platform called Storia," he says.
Storia will be a complete environment, providing services for the purchase and reading of e-books and tools for parents and teachers to oversee their kids' reading. "So if a parent or teacher get a kid reading on Storia, you're not going to be able to get a book to that kid except through Storia. And Storia's not the only platform of its kind … and what that means is that power transfers to the platform owner from the individual title or author."
Crowdfunding Books: The Latest Publishing Industry Trend
Traditional book publishers are struggling to stay relevant in a constantly changing industry. The rise of e-books and self-publishing has continued to have a strong impact in the publishing world, and now crowdfunding is the latest trend to join them. More authors are discovering the potential of crowdfunding as a tool to help them raise money to write and publish their books. Authr.com offers an easy to use platform exclusively for writers who are interested in gathering funds for their book projects and marketing their books once published.
A recent survey of a Self Publishing Books website found that 1.5 million books are estimated to be in print in theUnited Stateswhile 81 percent of the population would like to write a book. But success stories in the traditional publishing industry are reserved mostly for established authors and celebrities, and the daily struggles of thousands of lesser known writers and aspiring authors often remain hidden. As the book industry continues to change, more people are turning to self-publishing, and 78 percent of the books sold are already from small presses or self-published. Nevertheless, many writers still struggle to find the necessary support to write and publish a book.
Authr.com is one site that offers a platform for writers who are interested in crowdfunding their book projects. After creating a profile, writers can request funding from the public and present their book ideas. Then, the donations can be used during the writing and publishing process. The writer keeps all of these funds raised and Authr.com does not take any percentage of the monies collected during the campaigns. The platform also allows writers to convert their pages to sales forms where fans can pre-order the books. Marketing and promotion are built into the platform.
Publishing: The Road Ahead
With the closing of Spin Magazine's print edition alongside the failure of the print edition of Newsweek (not to mention the shuttering of countless newspapers and magazines around the world) you'd be hard-pressed to say that publishing – particularly in the news space – is doing well.
Add in the merger of Penguin and Random House – a Napster-esque move designed to stave off the vagaries of a non-collusive market – and you've got an even bleaker picture.
In short, after centuries of progress, the old method of transmitting information via the printed page – not to mention the publisher's tendency to control content with an iron fist – is crumbling. In its place we have an entirely new system and regime, one ruled less by a central authority – the editors, publishers, and printers of yore – and now ruled by the mob.
That's not a bad thing. It lets people publish books that would have never seen a printing press and it gives an organization with seemingly bottomless resources – Amazon – the ability to define the rules to which all others must cleave. This new media has laid a book store chain low, bleeding publishers nearly dry in the process, and it has changed the way we consume media from a slow meal savored over time to an experience more akin to grazing or, more precisely, a bit of sushi on the go.
Here are my predictions for publishing this year. I love books and I hope not many come true, but we shall see.
You will stop buying paper books and magazines. If you're here reading this, you've already stopped buying books. If you haven't, you will. I got one book for Christmas this year, Building Stories by Chris Ware. We also bought some print editions for the kids. But a year from now? I doubt the Christmas list will even be on paper.
ComiXology Unveils New Content From Its Self-Publishing Portal
Following the completion of its initial private beta, 14 new titles are now available from comiXology Submit, the digital comic platform's new self-publishing portal. The new comics releases, which include Too Much Coffee Man Favorites by Shannon Wheeler, are something of a herald of what's to come from comiXology, as it "…aims to help comic book creators worldwide monetize their self-published works through comiXology's digital comics platform available across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web."
Here's how ComiXology breaks down its basic Submit guidelines in its latest press release:
Those interested in being contacted when comiXology Submit becomes open to the public – from self-publishers with one or more comics and graphic novels, to webcomic creators, and even to creators with a short one-shot comic – can enter their contact information at submit.comixology.com.
Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/12/26/comixology-submit-/#ixzz2GKD0idr5
Has Self-Publishing Come of Age?
Many people think of self-publishing as a new phenomenon, being resorted to by frustrated authors who haven't been able to land a contract with a traditional publisher. However, as I point out in my eBook, The Plan that Launched a Thousand Books, self-publishing is not just for unknown writers and it's not something new.
Self-publishing is a viable option for many, and presents a variety of new marketing and publishing options that writers didn't have access to before. While you'll forgo the advance that traditional publishers may give you, you'll see a greater share of the royalties. Instead of a 10-15% advance (and potentially nothing more after that), you'll see an on-going 30-70% of royalties from a self-published book.
But, keep in mind, that as a self-publisher, you are responsible for everything related to the book. That includes, at a minimum, cover design, editing, formatting, layout, proofing, publishing, marketing and publicity.
On December 9, 2012, CBS Sunday Morning ran the following video segment about self-publishing.
Given how accessible self-publishing options are these days, how do you decide which way to go or if you should publish at all?
Read more at http://www.business2community.com/books/has-self-publishing-come-of-age-0359305#z8R8CBDi3faUTzS6.99
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This is a piece I wrote for the Guardian in response to the S&P threatened downgrade of the Eurozone's 'core' economies. The Guardian wanted a maximum of 600 words, delivered in a short time, so this was written hurriedly, and in the back of taxis ferrying me to TV stations. For this reason I have made a few changes this morning:
So European politicians want to shoot the messengers? Sure, ratings agencies haven't always been reliable, decent or honest. And sure, like Eurozone politicians Standard & Poor is just following events, not shaping them.
But on this occasion S&P's analysis, if not their solution, is right. Credit Crunch 2.0 is fast accelerating and squeezing life out of the real economy. The global (not just Eurozone) banking system faces insolvency. This private financial crisis impacts disastrously on the real global economy, and incidentally on the Eurozone.
But politicians – in the Eurozone and elsewhere – are not fixing the broken global banking system.


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Arianna Aerie is on her way to Maseru Children's Village in Lesotho, Africa, and has invited all of us along. Aerie will keeping an online journal entitled "The world beyond my window: My Africa Diary," to be posted and updated weekly on the Global Ministries website.
Monthly summaries also will appear in United Church News.
Aerie is going to Africa to see first-hand what she couldn't see beyond the TV, newspapers and internet reports. She's going to investigate the world beyond her window.
A graduate of the Rod Serling School of Fine Arts at Binghamton (N.Y.) High School with a focus in music and theater, she attended Oberlin College for two years before deciding that some time off from academia was in order.
She has spent the past four months working in a group home for adults with mental disabilities as a direct care professional. Throughout her time there, Aeire served as friend, teacher and cheerleader for eight women, helping them with everyday tasks and promoting the greatest amount of independence possible for the residents.
Aerie is excited and anxious about her trip to Africa, and she welcomes you along as she gets a new perspective on what it means to be a global citizen.
Learn more
You can follow Aerie's journey by visiting the Global Ministries website at www.globalministries.org/diary/index.
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Bedroom makeovers inspire challenged kids
As she watched a 2011 episode of ABC-TV's "Secret Millionaire" about a struggling Tennessee nonprofit that performed magical bedroom makeovers for medically challenged children, Denise Sutherland thought to herself, "I could do that."
She shared the concept with her daughter Shana. They asked relatives who, like them, live in San Clemente and Capistrano Beach, to pitch in. The family organized an Orange County chapter of Special Spaces, a growing group that has enhanced the lives of children from San Juan Capistrano, Camp Pendleton, Norco and Newport Beach.
The reward is the kids' reactions. "They have such beautiful spirits," Sutherland said. "They just want to do things that other children do and they can't. The reward is that they are so excited when they see their room. You walk away knowing that for that time, that family has something that doesn't have to do with medical or doctors or ailments."
Helping kids is personal for Sutherland, who as a teen had seen her 14-year-old brother suffer a blood clot that eventually claimed his life at 34. "For 20 years we were in and out of hospitals," she said. "Every moment is special. I realize what the child is going through ... what the family is going through ... I was that family."
It's sort of like ABC-TV's "Extreme Makeover, Home Edition, on a very small scale, Sutherland said. "We interview the child and say, 'What is your dream? They can say anything they want. They tell us what they like, what their favorite colors are, and then we make it happen."
A typical makeover costs about $4,000, but the crew tries to bring down the cost by getting components of the project donated. "We raise money any way we can, through private donations, people sending checks," Sutherland said. There are benefit events and collaborations with the two other California chapters of Special Spaces.
"I had one lady last summer hold a jewelry party in her home," Sutherland said.
In Nov., 2011, 10-year-old Morgan Johnson, a cystic fibrosis patient, chose a surf shack. Special Spaces learned about him from Sutherland's cousin Dixie Tucker, a manicurist who was chatting about Special Spaces in the salon. Someone overheard.
The group asked the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce to seek out a deserving family at Camp Pendleton. The chamber located Marleigh Melucci, a girl with Sydenhams chorea (once known as scarlet fever). In March, 2012, a Hello Kitty room suddenly appeared. "There is nobody there during the remodel," Shana Sutherland said. "When they come home from a day away, the door is closed. We tell them, ok, everybody open the door! There's always excitement. Tears. Shock. It's nice. Lots of smiles."
In Marleigh's case, "You should have heard her squeal," Sutherland recalled. "Only 8-year-old girls can make that sound. It made us cry. It was so joyful."
Angel Santos, a Norco 10-year-old afflicted with cancer a third time, chose a soccer theme, the World Cup, in January. And in late February, Shira Strongin, 13, of Newport Beach, received a two-day room makeover that allows her to revel in her music even though she just underwent spinal surgery and no longer can dance.
"We turned what her mom was hoping to be a dance studio into a recording studio so she can do her music," Shana said. Special Spaces found her through an Orange County vocal coach helping organize a benefit concert. "Shira was one of her students ... she had to do vocal lessons through Skype because she was too sick to go to lessons in person," Shana said.
Volunteers and donors gather at specialspacesorangecounty.org and on Facebook. The Sutherlands are about to interview their next client, a 14-year-old Moreno Valley girl who has a feeding tube and multiple digestive challenges. Next up – a Mission Viejo 10-year-old with seizures.
"It has been a huge blessing in my life to be able to help a child that is going through such an adult-type challenge," Shana said, "to create a space that is fun that they can enjoy. It's not only helping the child but helping the family."
On Feb. 21 the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce honored Denise Sutherland as San Clemente's 2012 Citizen of the Year, saluting Special Spaces' deeds. Sutherland, a resident of Capistrano Beach, is office manager for Randy Liebig Plumbing in San Clemente. Daughter Shana, a San Clemente resident, is a dental assistant with Dr. Allan Schultz in San Clemente.
Five questions for Barbara Granoff, Shira's mother:
Q. What has Special Spaces' bedroom makeover meant to your daughter and to your family?
A. We were all touched by the time, energy, compassion and love that was shown to Shira and that was put into making her room absolutely perfect. This room gives Shira a wonderful space to hang out with friends and to make music.
Q. How did you connect with Special Spaces?
A. Shira's voice teacher nominated Shira because Shira has had to miss so many lessons because of her medical challenges. Her wonderful voice teacher, Lynn, thought it would be great for Shira to have a music room where she could make music as well as to be able to Skype lessons when she wasn't feeling well enough to leave home.
Q. What will the recording studio do for Shira?
A. It will nurture her passion for singing and song writing. It is a wonderful creative outlet for her to be able to have at home.
Q. What was the reaction when you opened the door?
A. Truly unbelievable. (Shira: "Incredible ... a perfect space.")
Q. What message do you have for the community?
A. To hear a child who struggles daily with horrific medical challenges say "I feel so blessed" says it all. Our family will be forever grateful to each of the Special Spaces volunteers who gave of their time and talents to create such a truly Special Space for my very wonderful daughter. This amazing organization is truly the silver lining in the dark cloud.
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Maritime and Science Technology (MAST) Academy is one of Miami's best public schools. Each year, the magnet on the Rickenbacker Causeway draws 560 inner-city and under-privileged kids from across Dade and turns them into aspiring doctors, scientists, and engineers. ;Now, however, cash-strapped Miami-Dade County Public Schools appears ready to sell that small-school soul for $9 million.
That's how much the Village of Key Biscayne is offering towards an expansion project in exchange for sending 1,100 of its students to MAST. The plan would triple the size of the school, skirt its lottery system, and cost the county at least another $9 million. Parents, teachers, and former students tell New Times that they hate the idea, but the School Board appears ready to pass it tomorrow night anyway.
"I can't believe they are going to turn over the school to the affluent residents of Key Biscayne in return for $9 million," says former student Dan Wehking. "It will really destroy what MAST is all about."
Wehking, an attorney, says he first heard about the plan over the weekend via Facebook. "I haven't heard anybody say it's a good idea," he says. "Everyone who hears about this has been upset about it."
Miami-Dade Public Schools says that the expansion won't hurt the quality of education on offer at MAST, but it will reduce overcrowding in Key Biscayne schools.
Under the proposal, the high school will be tripled in size. It will continue to draw the same number (560) of students from around Miami-Dade, but because it will now be open to middle school students, the number of Miami-based students per year will likely drop. That means increased competition for the school, which already runs on a lottery system.
At the same time as competition increases for Miami students, no less than 1,100 middle and high school students will be selected from Key Biscayne as part of the agreement.
In return, Key Biscayne will provide $18 million in financing for the school expansion, including a $9 million contribution and another $9 million in loans to the county. It's unclear what will happen if things go over budget.
If approved, the first phase will begin this fall. Up to 10 "portable units" will be dropped on "an open green space area" near the school to house the new students, according to the agenda item.
Parents, teachers, and students have all been blindsided by the news. Most of them didn't learn about the massive changes until late last week, after the official school year had already ended. And those who spoke to New Times all said the plan seemed more like a shotgun wedding between a broke county and a rich island than a sound school strategy.
"This is not an issue of overcrowding," said Michael Bax, the father of a MAST student, in a letter to the School Board that he shared with New Times. "It is a desire to have a local school for a particular prosperous district that has failed through timely planning to deliver one in the past."
Even Joseph Zawodny, a chemistry teacher who helped found MAST back in 1990, says that the expansion is a bad idea.
"This is not right," says the 66-year-old, who retired last year but still helps out at the school three times a week. "There are kids that I know that have to travel two hours to get to MAST. Now all of a sudden we are going to become a sort of community school for kids from Key Biscayne, all for the donation of $9 million?"
Zawodny says MAST grew out of something called the Inner City Marine Project, which was designed to expose underprivileged kids to the wonders of oceanography. "Kids from Overtown lived three miles away and didn't even know that there was an ocean," he says. They would arrive asking if it was true that the sea was salty, but leave four years later on the path to becoming scientists.
He worries that the Key Biscayne invasion will turn MAST into an "impersonal factory school." The quality of education might not drop, but the school will lose it's "charisma and character," he says.
"I don't have an axe to grind. I don't have a vendetta," Zawodny insists. "The fact is I put my heart and soul into making that school happen. I saw kids that flourished from nothing. And to see it change like this is not good, it's not fair to the other kids." He argues that if the school has to be expanded, Key Biscayne residents shouldn't get preferential treatment.
The expansion plan will be discussed tomorrow at 5 p.m. at MAST and 7 p.m. at the Key Biscayne Village Council Chambers.
The Miami-Dade School Board will vote on the idea on Wednesday night, but if a statement sent to New Times is any indication, the Faustian bargain is a fait a ccompli:
It is estimated that over 1,000 of the Key Biscayne school-age residents do not currently attend Miami-Dade County public schools. Many parents elect other options for their children because they are not able to enter rigorous public school programs with limited availability of seats, such as MAST Academy. This makes the current proposal an excellent way for our financially challenged school district to better serve the needs of parents and students, expand instructional programs offered at MAST Academy and capture additional FTE revenue. Key Biscayne's willingness to support the project with $18 million worth of financing, including a contribution of $9 million toward construction, shows the Village's commitment to high-quality public education for Key Biscayne residents and highlights its faith in the current administration of Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
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Baldur's Gate 2 Complete
I started this one and it just failed to catch for me. I loved the first game, and then Icewind Dale came out and gave me a more generic AD&D adventure experience, so when this one and it's stricter story based gaming came out I just could not get into it anymore. I wanted a party of generic dudes that would whomp on stuff, not pre-made characters even if they are as cool as Minsc. After a while I had the entire story told to me through various reviews, site comments, complaints, etc. so I never went back and tried to finish it. I may someday since I never really played high level D&D stuff so for seeing the massive spells and multi weapon stuff it might be fun, but as long as they keep giving me Skyrims and Dishonoreds to play it is not going to happen soon I fear.


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Listening to screeds about the Carrying Capacity of Earth, reading about predictions of a rapid die-off of the human species, about how this planet can only maintain habitability for 1,200,000,000 or 1,400,000,000 people, it is impossible to miss the rather obvious tone of puritanical Malthusian glee. A great many extreme environmentalists truly envision the human race as some kind of virulent plague that must be stopped, that must be contained, that must be…
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Anthropogenic Climate Change is real. Accept it. Humankind is pouring billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, that would not be there otherwise. Carbon dioxide traps heat. If you want to prove this for yourself, just conduct the following simple experiment. Take two clear plastic bottles and place a thermometer in each of them. In one, just close the cap, thereby filling the bottle with a sample of our regular old atmosphere. In the…
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Insignificant in a cosmic sense. Utterly irrelevant in any wider context. That we are unimportant in any Universal sense, however, does not mean that what we do is without meaning, without purpose, without grace and beauty and power.
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Is it me or is the offering of Commander Gree just a little shoddy on the paint application?
Check out the toy pics here:
Then compare to the official site:
and you'll see that Hasbro is NOWHERE near how Gree looked in the movie.
Okay let's go over the points of discussion:
• For one notice even the helmet in the picture of the insert for the toy is from the movie and yet (1) the top portion of the helmet on the toy appears to be all green. Yet again the insert it's not. Going to the main site you can see that in fact it's not, (2) the "cheeks" of Gree are white, but the toy's are green. Again the insert in the toy packaging even clearly shows this.
• Chest straps-okay I'm not alone in feeling that Hasbro cheapened out here and painted them instead of sculpting them, but sheesh at least paint them thicker and EVEN!
•Overall green wash-particularly in two areas. The difference from the shoulder armor (dark green) and the lower arm armor (camoflauge and lighter green) is on the toy virtually indistinguishable. The chest part bothers me even more. The niddle part of the chest is the dark green while the rest is the camoflauge pattern. On the toy it's MUCH different. The middle portion is now the olive drab green while the outer parts are BLACK?? WTH is up with that? Once again this is even clear on the insert in the package.
• The legs suffer the same olive drab coloration rather than the light camoflauge that it should be (not to mention no pistolstrap on the left leg!)
All in all I've got to say that Hasbro did a crappy job with the paint apps of this figure. Will I still get him? Yes, but I will heavily modify at least one of him to be movie accurate. That and I'll make some appropriate chest straps and pistol strap.
Dang, I was all excited about this figure, but seeing what's coming out leaves VERY much to be desired. (And that's putting it nicely.)


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Yangon (Myanmar): Saikhom Mirabai Chanu clinched three bronze medals for India on the opening day of the 19th Junior Women Asian Weightlifting Championships. (Agencies) Latest News from Sports News Desk
She lifted 168kg to secure medals in 48kg weight category one each in snatch (74kg), clean and jerk (94kg) and total (168kg). Her compatriot lifter Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu also competed in 48kg and finished fourth.
Mirabai, who got selected for the event after lifting 163kg in the trials, managed an additional five kg more during the main event. Mirabai was fifth in 48 kg weight category in the last edition of the tournament in Pattaya (Thailand).
She clinched gold in the dame category during the seventh National Youth (Girls) Weightlifting Championships held at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh in 2011.


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Aww I cannot wait to see how this turns out! ^^
This might be a while getting done but I like how spazzy her character is! ^^
Even though their costumes are kind of difficult to get, they're extremely pretty! Yeah Kanaria is awesome :3
Hopefully, I'll be able to do a Sugintou sometime so it could be fun :3
I'm hoping to somehow make it or adapt some clothes for it, though that involves me getting good at sewing stuff xD
I hope you do Sugintou, she's an awesome character! And her outfit is gorgeous! I have seen some that you can buy but they can be expensive >_<
I've seen people do Rozen Maiden cosplays and they are usually just excellent to see.
Yeah their costumes would be hard to make XD
She really is! I got drawn to her the first time I saw her actually. Yeah I've looked on ebay and they are pretty expensive. >.<
They really are :3
Well I look forward to seeing yours when it does get done! I have a lot of cosplay plans at the moment, so it will be a bit of a lottery to see which of them actually gets done anytime soon xD
Same to you! I do as well, so I have no idea when I'll get Sugintou done to be honest.
I figure at least by putting them up here I will get around ot them at some point xD
Same with me XD I've got all the ones I want to do written down but I still end up doing a different one!


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Manually deleting replica virtual machines in VMware Horizon View (1008704)
- You cannot remove replica virtual machines associated with desktop pools in View Composer
- Removing source and replica virtual machines associated with desktop pools in View Composer fails
The View Connection Server creates, manages, and deletes linked clones during the View Composer operations. If the Connection Server functions are interrupted, the linked clones create orphaned folders, protected folders and virtual machine objects remaining in the vCenter Server.
Caution: In View Composer 2.0, if a replica folder is unprotected, it cannot be protected again. Use the UnprotectEntity command as a last-resort troubleshooting procedure and exercise caution when running this command.
- 32-bit servers: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View Composer
- 64-bit servers: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware View Composer
Note: In Windows Server 2008 machines, the command prompt must be run as an Administrator or you will receive an error. To accomplish this, Click Start, and type cmd. Hold Ctrl + Shift, and press Enter. User Account Control then confirms the escalated permissions, and you will be running cmd.exe as an Administrator.
Unprotecting a replica in the VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder folder
For View Composer 2.7 and earlier (View 5 and earlier), run this command:
sviconfig -operation=UnprotectEntity -VcUrl=https://VirtualCenter_address/sdk -Username=VirtualCenter_account_name -Password=VirtualCenter_account_password -InventoryPath=/Datacenter_name/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder/Replica_Name -Recursive=true
For View Composer 3.0 (View 5.1), run this command:
sviconfig -operation=UnprotectEntity -DsnName=name_of_DSN -DbUsername=Composer_DSN_User_Name -DbPassword=Composer_DSN_Password -VcUrl=https://vCenter_Server_address/sdk -VcUsername=Domain\User_of_vCenter_Server_account_name -VcPassword=vCenter_Server_account_password -InventoryPath=/Datacenter_name/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder/Replica_Name -Recursive=true
- The sviconfig command parameters are case sensitive.
- Values in italics are variables and must be replaced with your environmental values.
- Values with spaces must be surrounded by double quotes.
For example:
-InventoryPath= "/View Repository/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder"
- The VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder is a special container. The replica virtual machines are not visibly part of this container and the path to the virtual machine for sviconfig will always be /Datacenter_Name/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder/replica-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx, regardless of which Resource Pools or Folders contain the virtual machine.
- If the Datacenter object is not the top level object and is inside a folder, the path must reflect this. For example, /folderName/Datacenter_Name/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder/replica-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.
- In some cases the sviconfig command to unprotect the replica may fail. If this occurs, unprotect the folder containing the replica using the procedure below to unprotecting the replica folder and its contents, and remove the replica. Afterwards use the protectEntity operation to re-protect the folder once you have deleted the orphaned object.
Unprotecting the replica folder, VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder and all the linked clone related objects it contains
For View Composer 2.7 and earlier (View 5 and earlier), run this command:sviconfig -operation=UnprotectEntity -VcUrl=https://my.vc/sdk -Username=User1 -Password=123 -InventoryPath=/Datacenter_name/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder -Recursive=True
sviconfig -operation=UnprotectEntity -DsnName=name_of_DSN -DbUsername=Composer_DSN_User_Name -DbPassword=Composer_DSN_Password -VcUrl=https://vCenter_Server_address/sdk -VcUsername=Domain\User_of_vCenter_Server_account_name -VcPassword=vCenter_Server_account_password -InventoryPath=/Datacenter_name/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder -Recursive=true
- In View Composer 2.5 and later, you can re-protect the VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder using -operation=ProtectEntity
Note: The inventory path is case sensitive. If any part of the path entered in the command line differs from the inventory path, you can receive an Error 11.
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The operation ended successfully |
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Attempting to connect to the wrong database |
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Invalid VirtualCenter administrator credentials were provided |
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An invalid VirtualCenter URL was provided |
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VirtualCenter was unavailable or could not be accessed |
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The specified entity was not found |
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Unknown entity type. Recognized entities are VM and Folder |
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The release operation failed |
Additional Information
- Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 3.x and 4.0 (1008658)
- Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 4.5 and later (2015112)
- Finding and removing unused replica virtual machines in VMware View (2009844)
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The Saab Owners Club does not have it's own public forums however we highly recommend uksaabs.co.uk
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Friday 28th July to Sunday 30th July
Outline Programme
Friday - Vehicles on the show field. Meal at Hatton
Saturday - Show field open to visitors, vehicle displays , trade stands and activities. Evening event with meal and live music.
Sunday - Concours and best car competitions, trade stands, Presentations and awards
We are pleased to announce that booking for 'Saab Fest UK' the Saab Owners Club GB 2017 National Weekend is now online.
You will be able to find the form online HERE.
Come and visit the Saab Owners Club stand at The Practical Classics Restoration & Classic Car Show 2017.
Officially the UK's fastest growing classic car event, over 19,000 enthusiasts attended the 2016 Practical Classics Restoration & Classic Car Show, bringing together all aspects of classic motoring.
Tue Apr 04 @19:30 - 10:00PM West Midlands Saab Monthly Meet |
Wed Apr 05 @08:00 - South West Saab Monthly Meet |
Thu Apr 06 @19:00 - 10:00PM East Anglia Saab Monthly Meet |
Thu Apr 06 @19:30 - 10:00PM Dragon Saab Monthly Meet |
Sun Apr 09 Beds Bucks & Herts Branch - Coventry Transport Museum |
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Many new members to the Club ask the same question - "Who is Erik Carlsson?" I suppose a lot of people who were not around in the 60s have never heard of him even though this giant of a man is often referred to as "Mr SAAB".
Erik was born in 1929 in Trollhattan, Sweden, not far from the SAAB factory, but at that time the factory was only producing aircraft. Erik was 20 when production of the first SAAB cars started. His first passion was motorbikes, he bought a Norton 500 new when he was 18 from Nystrom's where he was working. Pelle Nystrom was the Norton importer for Sweden. At weekends he took part in hillclimbs, motorcross, road racing and, during the winter, ice track racing.
The SAAB Owners Club recognises the importance of the Motorsport heritage of the marque and provides sponsorship to those members of the club who are competing in Motorsport at various levels.
SAAB cars have been competing in motorsport since the early days of production. Many successes were achieved through drivers such as Club President, Erik Carlsson. This success continues today through Club competitors.
Club members are competing in, Historic Road Rallies, Historic Stage Rallies, Classic Runs, Sprints, Hillclimbs and many other forms of the sport.
For more information on the Club activities in Motorsport contact Richard Simpson
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South Yorkshire Saab currently do not have regular meetings but please contact Keith Long for any information of any Saab related events.
Contact: Keith Long
There is no formal Branch currently in operation (largely as a result of the sheer geographical spread of members across this area) and therefore no regular meetings.
Where possible, there is usually an SOC 'presence' at gatherings across the region organised by other clubs, motor museums or advertised on web forums (principally UKSaabs).
The dates known so far for 2017 at which we aim to be represented are:
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I forgot he married, actually. But my point was that he hasn't been in the same relationship for his entire career like Eli has. He's done the rounds.
Chasing skirts all the way to Cabo, instead of concentrating chasing the Super Bowl. I think the fact that Jerry Jones gave his tickets to the players for the NFC Championship before the game was even played misled Romo. He thought he did not have to play and he just needed to show up for the NFC Championship. LOL!
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Incident highlights concerns about federal agency becoming domestic security force
Paul Joseph Watson
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
A TSA agent in Connecticut was charged with harassment after he posed as a cop by flashing his badge at a woman in an attempt to intimidate her into driving faster, an incident that highlights concerns about the TSA becoming a domestic security force.
The woman called police after off-duty TSA worker Donald Eichler, 63, began aggressively tailing her vehicle before flashing his TSA badge at her at around 9:30am yesterday in South Windsor.
"He told police he was upset that the woman was driving slightly below the speed limit on Sullivan Avenue, honked his horn a few times and showed her his TSA badge to try to get her to speed up, according to a release from police," reports NBC Conneticut.
The woman said she felt scared and intimidated by Eichler's behavior, who was subsequently arrested and charged with driving a vehicle to harass or intimidate. His case is set to be heard on August 8 at Manchester Superior Court.
Considered in isolation, the incident appears to be little more than a petty power trip, but when you factor in the documented epidemic of harassment, criminality and abuse that TSA agents have been caught engaging in both on the job and off-duty, it's not surprising that the rollout of an army of TSA agents to provide "security" at every level of American society, from train stations to bus terminals, from highways to high school proms, is stoking concerns that the federal agency is set to become the de facto "civilian national security force" that Barack Obama promised in his pre-election speech.
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As we have documented, TSA grope downs and body scans are now being rolled out ubiquitously as part of the VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) takeover of the country.
The TSA has also announced its intention to expand the VIPR program to include roadside inspections of commercial vehicles, setting up a network of internal checkpoints and rolling out security procedures already active in airports, bus terminals and subway stations to roads and highways across the United States.
These internal checkpoints, run by Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA, involve trucks being scanned with backscatter x-ray devices in the name of "safety" and "counter terrorism".
Last month, the agency conducted a "security exercise" that covered 5,000 miles and three states, illustrating how the TSA is establishing a broad mandate setting itself up as a domestic security force.
The fact that TSA agents like Donald Eichler think they are part of a federal law enforcement arm that can intimidate Americans into obedience even when they're off-duty, like some kind of Gestapo storm trooper, is a damning indictment of the training that the federal agency is giving its employees, and a shocking warning of what kind of individuals are being hired by the TSA to staff their federal security takeover of America.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.


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Come and celebrate Movember at 1233
A shirt signed by motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi, a rescue helicopter simulator experience and a jersey autographed by the Newcastle Jets are among the items being auctioned as part of our gala party at 1233 ABC Newcastle this afternoon to celebrate Movember.
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Our team, the Movocastrians, have cultivated a flourishing crop of moustaches and want to celebrate the efforts of all the locals who've been part of the men's health charity initiative.
The "mo-down" is being held during Paul Bevan's Drive program, from 3pm through till 6pm, and features an auction of items including a surfing experience with Dave Anderson, fishing lessons with Stinker Clarke, a large beach photo donated by Dave, and a private performance by the Christ Church Camerata String Quartet at the event of your choice.
To bid for any of the auction items, just call the station on 1300 33 1233.
To join in the mo-down fun, come along to the 1233 studios at the corner of Wood and Parry Sts, Newcastle West.
Local Mo Bro celebrities will be attending and the Lions Club of Raymond Terrace will be running a charity sausage sizzle, with cold drinks, tea and coffee also available from their van which will be parked out the front of ABC Newcastle.
Former Masterchef contestant Peter Vickery will give a live cooking demonstration, and we'll be holding a charity auction of donated items, giving out prizes for the best mo's, as well as playing Motown music on 1233 across the day.
We're also putting together a moustache gallery for our Facebook page and we'd like to include your best mo pic - please send in a photo via email
Paul is the team captain, who pulled the blokes together to take part in Movember.
After much intense discussion about the team's name, including suggestions such as the "Mo Bros" and the "1233 Mo-sketeers", they settled on the catchy and patriotic "Movocastrians".
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THANK YOU, JOHN is a tribute to John Coltrane.
Producers: Bob Karcy, Jason Lehning, Ethan Eubanks.
Engineers: Dennis Wall, Kent Heckman, Lenny Argese, Jason Standard, Paul Wickliffe.
"My Favorite Things" was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo.
Personnel: Vic Juris (guitar); Joe Cunningham (flute, saxophone); Eddie Monteiro (accordion); Jeff Ellwood (saxophone); David Liebman (soprano saxophone); Joe Ford (alto saxophone); Benny Golson, Bob Mintzer (tenor saxophone); Claudio Roditi, Justin Mullens (trumpet); Dan Fox (trombone); Mike LeDonne, Ted Rosenthal, Billy Taylor (piano); Guilherme Franco, Mark Zubek, Jamey Haddad, Ron Vincent, Steve Johns , Joe Farnsworth (drums).
Recording information: 39th Street Music, NY (11/23/1996-08/29/1997); Avatar Studios, New York, NY (11/23/1996-08/29/1997); Bioya Studios, NJ (11/23/1996-08/29/1997); Red Rock Recording, Saylorsburg, PA (11/23/1996-08/29/1997); Sound On Sound, NY (11/23/1996-08/29/1997).
THANK YOU, JOHN! commemorates the 30th anniversary of John Coltrane's 1967 death with reverent affection. Perhaps recognizing the futility of trying to play like Trane, the sax players resist the temptation to mimic his unique phrasing. Instead, David Liebman's soprano solos on "My Favorite Things" and Bob Mintzer's tenor work on Nova Bossa Nova's excellent "Moment's Notice" salute Coltrane's exploratory zeal by stamping the familiar melodies with their own unique styles.
Billy Taylor and Ted Rosenthal neatly sidestep the issue by performing Coltrane's most famous compositions, "Naima" and "Giant Steps," in the piano trio form, showcasing how brilliantly Coltrane's innovative melodic and harmonic ideas translate to other instruments. The two pieces by Coltrane's childhood friend Benny Golson are perhaps the most affecting, while Red Time's acid-jazz closer "Take the Trane" makes one wonder about the directions in which Coltrane might have moved had he lived.


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Take even a cursory look at the demographic data on financial advisers, and the wealth management industry appears to be at a critical inflection point.
The aging ranks of advisers — almost one-third of U.S. advisers plan to retire in the next 10 years, according to Cerulli Associates Inc. — coupled with a lack of enough new entrants to restock the business, suggest that the industry is headed for a serious labor shortage just as the demand for financial advice from retiring baby boomers is rising.
"The aging of advisers is the most significant challenge facing the profession and every firm in the industry," said Tash Elwyn, president of the private-client group at Raymond James & Associates Inc. "Too many people are exiting the business, and not enough are entering it."
The data are sobering.
The number of advisers in the country fell to 307,623 in 2012, according to data from Cerulli.
That was down 4.4% from 2010 and a staggering 9.4% from 2004, when the company started collecting data on the industry.
The trend will get worse before it gets better.
The average age of advisers in the country is 50.9, up a full year since 2010, and 43% of advisers are over 55, according to Cerulli.
Just 11% are under 35, its data show.
Based on the expected number of retiring advisers, the entrance of new advisers to the industry and the growth in demand for financial advice, consulting firm Moss Adams estimates that the industry will face a shortfall of 238,000 advisers by 2022.
"As the adviser force moves toward retirement, it's going to be a growing challenge for the industry," said Kenton Shirk, an associate director at Cerulli. "In the next five to 10 years, we'll really start to see it."
As dire as the situation seems, and as slowly as firms and solo practitioners appear to be addressing the problem, the industry will evolve to meet the challenge, according to Craig Pfeiffer, chief executive and founder of Advisors Ahead.
"Everybody has at least embraced the problem intellectually," he said.
Mr. Pfeiffer thinks the advisory industry needs to become more like the medical and legal professions, where younger people serve as residents and associate lawyers before becoming full-fledged professionals.
Firms such as his are matching up college graduates interested in financial planning with advisory firms that need them and are willing to foster their career development.
"There is progress being made," Mr. Pfeiffer said.
The progress at large, employee-based firms is mainly in accepting the fact that past recruiting and training practices don't work anymore.
"The graduation rates from wirehouse training programs are dismal," said Tim Welsh, president of consultant Nexus Strategy. "The big firms need a new model to teach young advisers the ropes in the business."
And they seem to be hearing the call. As wirehouses are shifting their orientation to fee-based planning, they also appear to appreciate the need for new training models that offer more support and a clearer career path.
"In the past, we would hire 1,000 people, give them phones and see who made it," said Jason Chandler, head of the Wealth Management Advisor Group at UBS Wealth Management Americas. "We needed to change that."
The Wealth Planning Associate program the firm launched two years ago doubled the length of time that trainees are paid a full salary while studying to be financial planners. They then get aligned with an existing advisory team but continue to draw some salary for two more years.
The other wirehouses are making similar changes to their training programs in the hope of improving their success rate.
Merrill Lynch has hired between 1,200 and 1,500 people for its Practice Management Development program every year since 2008, said Racquel Oden, managing director and head of the development program at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The 43-month program emphasizes "goals-based wealth management" and encourages Merrill Lynch advisers to take on Practice Management Development trainees to assume roles in their practices.
"We've always been committed to an organic growth model, but we've shifted our focus a lot toward teaming," Ms. Oden said. "Who better to groom the next generation than our own financial advisers?"
Teaming theoretically could address both the succession issue for older advisers and new-adviser development. Of course, experienced advisers have to buy into the idea.
To that end, Merrill Lynch and the rest of the big firms are sweetening the incentives they offer older advisers to stay with the firm until they retire and transition their clients to other colleagues.
Registered investment advisers, the fastest-growing channel in the wealth management industry, may have the toughest challenge when it comes to business continuity.
Most RIA firms don't have the resources to identify, train and develop young advisers. And solo practitioners, for the most part, don't have the inclination to try.
Surveys of RIAs by Moss Adams continue to show that only about 30% of RIAs have a succession plan in place for their practice.
The custodians continue to push their client firms to draft a succession plan and prepare for a transition of leadership. Fidelity Investments, Pershing, Schwab Advisor Services and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. are all offering reams of white papers, practice management resources and even financing in some situations for succession transactions.
As a group, however, advisers are still dragging their feet on the issue.
"We've been beating the drum on this with founders [of RIA firms] for years," said Gabriel Garcia, director for Pershing Advisor Solutions.
"They will eventually have to leave their businesses," he said. "The question is whether they have an orderly transition."
As the advice industry approaches this crossroads, two options exist.
The industry can commit to developing a kinder, gentler path for younger people to learn the business and fill the void left by thousands of retiring advisers. Or it can push off the coming crisis for another day — and then another day — ultimately making transitions very rocky for both advisers and their clients.
Andrew Osterland is a freelance writer in New York.


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David DeCristoforo�s blog today is on the same topic I planned to discuss � a look back at 2010. He just beat me to it by a few hours.
Like David, I have no plans to put 2010 down as a very good year, either. I�m guessing the same may be true for you. The economy has just been terrible for a long time now and while there have been a number of positive signs that hint an improvement may be just around the corner, I�m not exactly sure when we�re going to get to that corner.
There were some good things about 2010 for me. I did a number of articles and had two woodworking books come out this year, for example, and got contracts for two more. Sounds like I�m busy � and I am � but books don�t amount to much spendable cash at first (meaning now). Book advances are embarrassingly small, with the real value of a book coming later from the royalties. Unfortunately, it�s too early for royalties just yet, but soon.
On the positive side, although 2010 was my worst year so far this century � and for the last several years of the previous one � I�ve noticed a bit of a turnaround in the year�s waning months due to some additional avenues of work similar to those David describes. These amount to the writing equivalent of the small projects and repair jobs he mentioned: Not what you really want to be doing, but within your talents and abilities. For me that means a lot of work-for-hire hack writing (some, fortunately, about woodworking). While not enjoyable or my main way of making a living, they�re not entirely hateful and do provide a steady and reliable, if minor, income. Combine this with the small items I�ve started making for some galleries lately, and if my regular work stays the same in 2011 as it was in 2010, then that�s enough to tell me that next year will be better than this one.
Sure, the �regular� work part of that equation is key and must hold steady, but I have every reason to expect it to. I�m hopeful for the coming year. More importantly, I�m feeling a bit confident. Not a lot, but a bit.
OK, David and I have each shared our 2010 impressions. How about you?� Putting it bluntly, here are two questions: What was 2010 like for you, and what are your expectations for 2011?
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Derek Sherrod could get a chance early on to prove just how mean he can be.
If there's been one consistent knock against Sherrod, it's his ability to play with a nasty demeanor. Perhaps his gentle off-field personality or his many academic achievements have contributed to that reputation, but whatever the reason, many NFL Draft experts cited that as a concern.
It was apparently of little concern to Green Bay, which drafted the former Mississippi State left tackle with the final pick of the first round on Thursday. Sherrod could very well find a starting role early in his pro career.
"We think it's really good value to get a big man that late in the first round that we feel like can come in and help us," Packers general manager Ted Thompson told the Green Bay Press-Gazette. "Where he's going to play I don't know. But I know this: You can never have too many big men."
Sherrod could initially back up 11-year veteran Chad Clifton at left tackle, or he could wind up at either left guard or right tackle, depending on whether Green Bay's coaches want to move current right tackle Bryan Bulaga, the team's first-round pick a year ago.
Wherever he winds up, Sherrod is anxious to show critics that he has a mean streak.
"I know that it can be interpreted that I don't play with that streak during games, but I understand that I as an offensive lineman I have to be mean and nasty to the guy in front of me," Sherrod said Thursday night. "One of the things that matters to me is when pro teams asked me that question, I turned to football and not off the field because those are two totally different things to me."
Sherrod regularly posted blocking grades of 90 percent or better for MSU, and he was a big reason the Bulldogs were among the SEC's best at running the ball the past two seasons. He also excels in pass protection, and the Packers could use more of that – they allowed 38 sacks last year, too many with a franchise quarterback like Aaron Rodgers back there.
Sherrod feels he can provide that protection.
"I'm definitely looking forward to meeting Aaron Rodgers and I'm basically there to protect him," Sherrod told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "That's what I do, I go in and work hard and make sure that nobody hits the quarterback."
There were some anxious moments Thursday night as the first round wound down without Sherrod's name being called – several other tackles had gone off the board. But then he got a call from the Packers, and the pick was announced shortly after.
Sherrod spoke with Thompson, head coach Mike McCarthy, offensive coordinator Joe Philbin and offensive line coach James Campen.
"It was certainly the case that my parents were much more nervous than I was in the last hour or so," Sherrod said. "I was just sitting in the back laughing and joking with everybody in the room until my phone rang. I was pretty calm because I was sure the call would come eventually."
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I have some USB devices connected to Max 6 on OS X Lion including a Behringer BCF and a couple of M-Audio keyboards.
If I disconnect and re-connect a device, it will stop working. The only way I can get the devices working again without restarting Max is to:
-disconnect device from USB
-send a bang to the midiinfo object
-re-connect the device
-send another bang to the midiinfo object
If I don't bang the midi info object when the device is disconnected, Max wont receive any MIDI information.
I guess the midiinfo object is refreshing something behind the scenes. Does anybody know of a way to refresh all USB/MIDI devices with just one click? I have tried enabling/disabling the devices in the MIDI settings but this doesn't work.
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I cannot even do what you do (OSX Snow Leopard).
I have to restart Max to get a lost port back.
Really? Try connecting a bang to the right inlet of midiinfo, disconnect, hit the bang, reconnect, hit the bang. You shouldn't have to restart max though, with Cubase 6 I can unplug/reconnect devices and they are detected immediately. This is important for me when using the system LIVE just incase something were to happen.
I'm basically trying to make a patch which is as bomb proof as possible and I don't trust little flimsy USB cables. The latest firewire sockets on the MPB is a problem for me also, even with a good quality cable a wiggle or some power interference can occasionally upset the connection. I want a patch whereby if this happens, it can recover without a software restart.
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Working natural gas in storage — the volume readily available to the market — decreased by 81 billion cubic feet in the week ended December 6 to 3,533 Bcf, according to EIA estimates. This is down by 273 Bcf from the same period last year but at the upper end of the five-year historical range.


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